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Speaker 1: Yeah, less the Drive with Dave Lilly and Matt Williamson

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Speaker 1: on your home of the Black and Gold SNR Steelers

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Speaker 1: Nation Radio. Welcome to the Drive. I'm Dale Ali here

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Speaker 1: with Matt Williamson and Matt uh. Lots of news today

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Speaker 1: around the UH, around this game that the Steelers are

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Speaker 1: gonna play on on Sunday night against the Cleveland Browns.

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Speaker 1: Of course, our ongoing coverage of the Steelers playoff run,

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Speaker 1: I don't even know which ones to get to first

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Speaker 1: because there's so much of it out there, but I

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Speaker 1: guess we'll start with the fact that the UH, the

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Speaker 1: state has decided that it will not allow fans for

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Speaker 1: this game. There's no rhyme or reason for this big

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Speaker 1: building New York opened up Buffalo, like the Bills are

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Speaker 1: gonna have fins in their stadium for the first time

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Speaker 1: all season long when they host their game this weekend.

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Speaker 1: But somehow it's it's somehow unsafe to allow more people

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Speaker 1: And I don't want to get I don't want to

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Speaker 1: get political words, but my god, I mean just stupid

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Speaker 1: and I mean it would make for a better environment,

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Speaker 1: would be everything would be better if there were more,

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Speaker 1: if there were people in there. And I really do

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Speaker 1: two months ago we had it didn't have to be

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Speaker 1: a full stadium. Open it back up to what it

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Speaker 1: was a couple of thousand a month ago. Like like

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Speaker 1: putting people in that stadium again is going to actually,

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Speaker 1: you know, spread the COVID somehow. Now ridiculous, I know,

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Speaker 1: And again it's not worth fighting over and is a

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Speaker 1: political issue apparently, but it impacts the game. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's not fair to the fans who you know, want

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Speaker 1: to get tickets and the bought season tickets and anticipating

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Speaker 1: already bought their tickets. Yet we're making plans ago. All

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Speaker 1: this does. This is what this does. So all know,

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Speaker 1: those fans who were going to go to the game

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Speaker 1: obviously are big fans. They one of these. So what

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Speaker 1: are they gonna do now? They're gonna have Steeler parties

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Speaker 1: parties right right because they can't go to a bar

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Speaker 1: either to watch the game because it's a night game

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Speaker 1: and under our states rules you have to be out

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Speaker 1: of the bar by ten o'clock because apparently COVID spreads

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Speaker 1: more so when a starkouts, Um, so you're forcing people

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Speaker 1: have parties, because there's no way that one that that's

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Speaker 1: not gonna happen, right, come on, rid about the ramifications

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Speaker 1: from anyway, And so it's gonna make for a worse environment.

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Speaker 1: And we got more COVID news. This is the first year,

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Speaker 1: by the way, that UM teams did not in NFL history,

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Speaker 1: that teams did not have a winning record at home.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, right. I saw as of about week fifteen,

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Speaker 1: it was even. It was it was even, well they

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Speaker 1: lost more than than they Yeah, I guess that adds up.

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Speaker 1: I mean, um, I know, like the betters and the

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Speaker 1: bookmakers had a hard time figuring that out early in

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Speaker 1: the year. But the reality was travel doesn't bother these

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Speaker 1: guys much. It's it's fans, you know, I really believe that. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: So you know again, I think I think it's nuts.

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Speaker 1: I think it's crazy. Uh. In the in the decade

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Speaker 1: six point seven percent at the time this year, home

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Speaker 1: teams were one one. What was the difference. That's a

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Speaker 1: big deal. That's a huge deal, huge deal. Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: I'm sure travels kind of hard on their bodies, but

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Speaker 1: I mean, all your fans listening you impact games. Yeah, absolutely,

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Speaker 1: It's just it's what reward do I get for getting

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Speaker 1: that It doesn't mean they're positive, No, they're positive. So wow,

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Speaker 1: So they're out this game in longer. Yes, and they

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Speaker 1: the previous ones when the Browns were testing positive before

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Speaker 1: throwing a football a week long. Now people will get on.

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Speaker 1: Ben Roethlisberger needs to practice Wednesdays, braven Or the Browns

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Speaker 1: you think there's any chance it gets bumped to where

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Speaker 1: Monday night? They can't. They can't. They cannot do that.

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Speaker 1: It upsets the apple cart in terms if the Steelers

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Speaker 1: win it, Yeah, the Steelers play if they win this game,

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Speaker 1: the Bills. The Bills play Saturday. They've already gotten an

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Speaker 1: I think it's I think you gotta play no matter what,

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Speaker 1: move everything back to next week. Now you're the Kansas

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Speaker 1: Sunday that's the that's the window that you have. But

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Speaker 1: that we haven't seen any cases of that happening yet. No,

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Speaker 1: if I'm the Steelers, I'm being you know, after that

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Speaker 1: know none of that. I'll give you a good wave

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Speaker 1: The award is still on, still on, yeah. He if

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Speaker 1: to you by Ford and FedEx. And Matt, I was

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Speaker 1: During the regular season. They were bad, really bad. The

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Speaker 1: defense was outstanding, um, you know, but in the playoffs

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Speaker 1: that year, the Broncos defense for seven turnovers. The Broncos

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Speaker 1: turned it over just three times themselves, and that cleared

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Speaker 1: the game. If you remember that first game that they

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Speaker 1: played that year, because they were the two seed, the

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Speaker 1: first game that they played that year, what did they

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Speaker 1: beat the Steelers sixteen on what turnover? The only turnover

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Speaker 1: in the game. The Steelers are leading thirteen to twelve.

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Speaker 1: There's ten minutes left in the game. At the at

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Speaker 1: the at the Denver thirty four Fitzgerald Tussan fumbles, Broncos recover,

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Speaker 1: they go down and they score. They end up winning

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Speaker 1: the game. If the Steelers go down to score there

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Speaker 1: and it looked like they were going to um, that

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Speaker 1: game might be over. It might be. That's amazing. And

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Speaker 1: the other thing we didn't talk about with turnovers, there's

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Speaker 1: all the obvious, you know, I give you the ball,

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Speaker 1: but you know, in these in these situations which won't

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Speaker 1: happen this week, is the fans. You know, the building changes,

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Speaker 1: you know, oh no doubt, Yeah, I mean positive or negative.

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Speaker 1: You know, it gets quiet or boom, it dis erupts,

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Speaker 1: you know, And that's a big deal, that emotional change.

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Speaker 1: And a lot of these offensive coordinators love to take

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Speaker 1: a shot right after that, absolutely because you got some

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Speaker 1: kind of on the heels. Blood's pumping, and let's let's

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Speaker 1: take a shot and boom and nail then you yeah, right,

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Speaker 1: stick it to him a little bit. I got one

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Speaker 1: here too, because I mentioned Warren Sharp a lot, and

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Speaker 1: he has a couple of indicators that are really indicative

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Speaker 1: of um, you know, predictive and obviously turnovers are far

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Speaker 1: and away number one. Like that hasn't changed. But sack

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Speaker 1: differential is a big one too, which also is a

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Speaker 1: product of Hey, if I'm winning, I come after you

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Speaker 1: with me and those type of things. But one thing

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Speaker 1: I just that you have everyone remembers John Ledgard he

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Speaker 1: moved to the Tampa retweeted him the other day and

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Speaker 1: I just pulled it up. Now he tweets a lot.

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Speaker 1: Does he tweets more than anybody I know in the

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Speaker 1: whole world. Oh my god. I just happened to see

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Speaker 1: this one and thought it was interesting though. But this

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Speaker 1: the first Steere sack differential is awesome this year. But

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Speaker 1: in terms of protection, when you lead the league in

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Speaker 1: sax and you give up the fewest sacks, nobody's gonna

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Speaker 1: do better than that. Actually, the Rams are pretty good too.

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Speaker 1: But here's his tweet is the nine teams that allowed

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Speaker 1: the least amount of sacks this season all made the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: You know, that's all nine. I mean that's a big percentage.

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Speaker 1: And I gotta protect your quarterback. You have to protect

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Speaker 1: your quarterback. And even teams like the Bears in Washington

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Speaker 1: that aren't good. Well, they get after the quarterback, you know,

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Speaker 1: So sack differential is a big deal. And both those sides,

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Speaker 1: just like takeaways, it's a fraction of what takeaways is,

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Speaker 1: but I think it's another one that's worth they're negative,

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Speaker 1: they're negative plays, and it's difficult because especially with the sack.

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Speaker 1: You know, if you get a holding penalty, you don't

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Speaker 1: give up the down right, you know, and it's don't

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Speaker 1: potentially so instead of being you know, instead of being

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Speaker 1: second and twenty, it's still first in twenty. You give

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Speaker 1: up a sack, it's second and seventeen or at second

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Speaker 1: twenty as opposed to first. Quarterback just took a hit.

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Speaker 1: Maybe the all game lose, you know, poor left tackles

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Speaker 1: like yeah, and the T. J. Watts doing his kick. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: the fact that everyone gets wound up. So yeah, it's

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Speaker 1: a big, big deal. Those are game changing plays. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and that's why you know, I wrote about that last week.

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Speaker 1: You know, when you look at the a f C

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Speaker 1: playoff field. Um, again, it goes back to the defenses. Um.

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Speaker 1: The Steelers have by far the best pass rush in

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Speaker 1: the I mean it's not even close. And I'll say

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Speaker 1: this as well. You mentioned some of those teams that

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Speaker 1: gave up the few of sacks. Steelers have played quite

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Speaker 1: a few of those, including Cleveland. They had eight sacks

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Speaker 1: on Baker Mayfield in two games. The Browns give up

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Speaker 1: twenty six sacks all season long. People people say this,

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Speaker 1: this this Brown's defense or this Brown's offensive line is

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Speaker 1: the number one unit in the in the NFL. And

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Speaker 1: you can make that. Art's right there and they got

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Speaker 1: to eight times and hit him thirteen times in two games.

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Speaker 1: Uh said. They played Philip Rivers the week before with

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Speaker 1: another one of the of the preseason number one line.

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Speaker 1: Indianapolis finished second to the Steelers and few of sacks allowed,

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Speaker 1: but twenty one. Steelers got them five times. Yeah, Magic.

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Speaker 1: It's one of those things like, you know, it's great

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Speaker 1: to have Jalen Ramsey or a great corner, but you

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Speaker 1: cannot throw at them, you know. Or you know, but

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Speaker 1: if you have a great pass rush that travels, it

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Speaker 1: travels man and there's no way around it. At some

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Speaker 1: point it's gonna be third and six. Some points were

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Speaker 1: third and seven, you know, And if I can have

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Speaker 1: any I know, the analytics people say draft coverment, cover

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Speaker 1: men are more important to big guys. I don't believe

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Speaker 1: that at all. I don't. You can make again it

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Speaker 1: goes if it's the dick leboth theory that we just

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Speaker 1: want corners that get guys on the ground right, because

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Speaker 1: if we have a great pass rush, they're gonna get

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Speaker 1: the ball out quick, right right, whereas if you have

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Speaker 1: great both are right. But still I want the big

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Speaker 1: But I think it's much more difficult for a great

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Speaker 1: cornerback to play, especially in today's NFL. We talked earlier

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Speaker 1: in the week about all the all the past interference penalties,

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Speaker 1: the defensive holds, those kind of things you get called

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Speaker 1: on these guys. Um, I'm sorry, I'd rather have the

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Speaker 1: better path. I mean, the Ravens have great cornerbacks, they

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Speaker 1: don't have a great pass rush. The Patriots last year,

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Speaker 1: you know where you know, the Steelers and Niners the

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Speaker 1: last two years are built on the front, you know,

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Speaker 1: I mean the Boases and Buckner's and Watts and all

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Speaker 1: those guys. I'd rather build from the front back. I mean,

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Speaker 1: if I'm team building, I think he I think it's

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Speaker 1: easier too. Maybe. Plus, I mean, stopping the run still matter,

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Speaker 1: you usually. I mean I I'd have to look at

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Speaker 1: the hit and miss rate with big guys who can

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Speaker 1: rush the passer as opposed to cornerbacks. But I would

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Speaker 1: be willing to bet that if you rush the passer

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Speaker 1: well in college or you have those traits that translates

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Speaker 1: over to the NFL as opposed to cornerback play, to me,

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Speaker 1: is a lot a lot of that is a scheme

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Speaker 1: oriented in terms of you can scheme around Yeah, okay,

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Speaker 1: well this this guy's he's a great cornerback, but he's

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Speaker 1: a own cornerback. We doesn't fit our scheme as opposed

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Speaker 1: to this guy is a great pass rusher. I don't

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Speaker 1: care what I'm going to do. I don't care what

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Speaker 1: else he does, right, Yeah, if not more. Plus, I

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Speaker 1: think there's also, I don't say an intimidation element, but

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Speaker 1: when Aaron Donald lines up every snap from meeting you

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Speaker 1: away from the quarterback right and you know, like I

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Speaker 1: gotta or Lawrence Taylor's over there, You're getting ready to

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Speaker 1: snap the football and you're looking, okay, wats on my

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Speaker 1: on my you know, okay Wat's over there, Well he

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Speaker 1: Wat's over here this time, I mean your your eyes

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Speaker 1: are gonna go Usually a pretty good idea where that

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Speaker 1: cornerback is gonna be just just misses you three times

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Speaker 1: in a row, and like home, you know, he's hits

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Speaker 1: you three times in a row even though he didn't

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Speaker 1: get to know, Hey, that corner is really scary or

560
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Speaker 1: Ed Reid's really scary in the middle of the field,

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Speaker 1: but he's not right there. I don't have to throw

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Speaker 1: the ball to him. You know, every time I dropped

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Speaker 1: back the past, that guy could hit me, and he does.

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Speaker 1: It's getting old, right, So yeah, I think that is

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Speaker 1: I think that is a factor. And certainly, uh, I

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Speaker 1: think the Steelers believe that as well. If you you

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Speaker 1: look at you know, that front line is a lot

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Speaker 1: of high profile top picks and guys like to I mean,

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Speaker 1: not the two, it's not a high pick, but I

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Speaker 1: mean he's they've developed them pretty well too, and you know,

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Speaker 1: they're doing well there, you know, and historically they were

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Speaker 1: lucky that they got a you know, a lot of

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Speaker 1: third round pick. Edge guys weren't as you know, the

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Speaker 1: Joey Porters and guildenst do that anymore. But the Steelers

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Speaker 1: don't ignore corner as much as they used to. You know,

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Speaker 1: it used to be draft a bunch of fourth rounders

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Speaker 1: developing like Taylor here and there win with pass rush. Again,

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Speaker 1: they didn't put an emphasis on it. I know people

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Speaker 1: looked at deads and other Steelers, don't they never put

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Speaker 1: an emphasis on when when Dick lebo was the defensive coordinator,

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Speaker 1: guys who took the ball away in the secondary, we're

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Speaker 1: not an emphasis. They were the guys who got you know,

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Speaker 1: just if you give up a five yard pass, that's fine.

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Speaker 1: You just get him on and what you we want

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Speaker 1: you to be able to tackle. We'll create big plays

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Speaker 1: with sacks and pressures and sometimes I'll throw you one. Um. No, right,

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Speaker 1: you have to cut corner somewhere corner and you know,

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Speaker 1: to get those guys who take the football way to

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Speaker 1: get Menka Fitzpatrick, to get you know, Patrick Peterson, or

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Speaker 1: you got to draft those guys in the top ten.

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Speaker 1: That's also the problem with elite corners and elite edge rushers.

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Speaker 1: They go quick. Yeah, you know, there's but every draft

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Speaker 1: there's usually more of the pass rushers than there are

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Speaker 1: the cornerbacks. But I would also argue that you'll find

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Speaker 1: some third fourth round corners that are pretty darn good

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Speaker 1: more than you will pass rusher, but they're not usually

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Speaker 1: the Yeah he's really missing something. Yeah, he's really good.

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Speaker 1: But as he has hands like feet, probably I think

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Speaker 1: he's big and he can run and he can cover,

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Speaker 1: but he can't catch. He can't catch, or he's just

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Speaker 1: his own guy, and you'd rather have that than well,

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Speaker 1: he catches everything, but man, he can't cover anybody, or

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Speaker 1: he's not the brightest guy and he forgets a coverage

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Speaker 1: here and there, or you know what I mean, there's

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Speaker 1: something there. Yeah. Uh, we're gonna take another break when

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Speaker 1: we come back, we'll look at the other playoff games.

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Speaker 1: We're on Thursday now, so it's getting close here. Of course,

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Speaker 1: the first games will be played on Saturday, so Matt

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Speaker 1: and I will take a look at those games and

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Speaker 1: the Sunday games right after this are Ongoing coverage're on

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Speaker 1: and Matt. Let's start looking here at this weekend's games.

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Speaker 1: UM's it is a good slate of games. The first game, however,

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Speaker 1: of the weekend is not. That would be the Chicago

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Speaker 1: Bears at New Orleans Saints. Yeah, I think they're in big.

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Speaker 1: I think that's gonna be out of destruction. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: mean it looks like Tomorrow is gonna be back. It

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Speaker 1: looks like Thomas is gonna be back. Um, you know

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Speaker 1: the Bears d is fine, but I think Rokuan Smith

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Speaker 1: is out. Um. We talked about great offensive lines. I

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Speaker 1: think the Saints absolutely have one. Breeze is playing well enough,

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Speaker 1: but I think that Saints these the key. It is, um,

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Speaker 1: the only way that the I could see that the

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Speaker 1: if this game we're in Chicago, I'd feel, you know,

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Speaker 1: maybe a little bit differently about it. Making Drew Brees

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Speaker 1: go outside he's not not very comfortable. Yeah, he'll be

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Speaker 1: very comfortable. I know Khalil Mack is there, but they'll

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Speaker 1: do something to the gate him. Their tackles are really good. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be a big uphill battle. I will say this,

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Speaker 1: and this is something that Bill Barnwell brings up, but

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Speaker 1: last season, three of the four teams favored to win

636
00:35:00,680 --> 00:35:03,880
Speaker 1: in the wild Card round last year lost. Wow, that's

637
00:35:03,880 --> 00:35:07,000
Speaker 1: a little surprising. The favorites not even necessarily room. A

638
00:35:07,080 --> 00:35:08,759
Speaker 1: lot of people say, oh, you know, road teams went on.

639
00:35:09,320 --> 00:35:11,760
Speaker 1: That doesn't shock me as much. A very bad division winner,

640
00:35:11,760 --> 00:35:15,040
Speaker 1: but the favorites lost. Huh, Okay, it does happen that. Yeah,

641
00:35:15,160 --> 00:35:17,320
Speaker 1: I don't see that here though, right. I think Chicago

642
00:35:17,920 --> 00:35:22,640
Speaker 1: loses this one by at least two touchdowns. And the

643
00:35:22,640 --> 00:35:25,560
Speaker 1: Bears offense has come a long way, and some of

644
00:35:25,560 --> 00:35:28,200
Speaker 1: that's real, don't get me reals played well. Drabinsky has

645
00:35:28,239 --> 00:35:31,200
Speaker 1: played well, and Bill Laser's taken over as the offensive

646
00:35:31,200 --> 00:35:33,760
Speaker 1: play caller, and that's exactly when things change. They started

647
00:35:33,840 --> 00:35:36,879
Speaker 1: using David Montgomery more and Montgomery and Robinson are getting

648
00:35:36,880 --> 00:35:38,600
Speaker 1: the ball a lot, which is what you need. What

649
00:35:38,680 --> 00:35:40,160
Speaker 1: you need, you get to get it to your best players.

650
00:35:40,560 --> 00:35:42,719
Speaker 1: And they used to be extremely pass heavy. They're not

651
00:35:42,760 --> 00:35:46,479
Speaker 1: as much anymore. But they also their last five games

652
00:35:46,480 --> 00:35:48,759
Speaker 1: are against junk defenses too, and like this is a

653
00:35:48,840 --> 00:35:51,000
Speaker 1: much better, different test. That's the thing this year, and

654
00:35:51,080 --> 00:35:52,840
Speaker 1: there's so much of that. You know, people were talking

655
00:35:52,880 --> 00:35:55,719
Speaker 1: about that when the Steelers are winning early, well they're

656
00:35:55,719 --> 00:35:57,400
Speaker 1: eleven and oh, but who have they beaten. Well, they

657
00:35:57,400 --> 00:35:59,879
Speaker 1: had that three game stretch where they beat Cleveland ten

658
00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:03,799
Speaker 1: to see in Baltimore all at full strength. Those are

659
00:36:03,880 --> 00:36:07,560
Speaker 1: legit winds, right, and two of those are on the road. Um,

660
00:36:07,600 --> 00:36:10,720
Speaker 1: you know, so, yeah, you beat some cupcakes, but everybody

661
00:36:10,719 --> 00:36:12,879
Speaker 1: in these playoffs has beating the cupcakes. There's a lot

662
00:36:12,920 --> 00:36:15,520
Speaker 1: of them. And especially there's just so many bad defenses. Yeah,

663
00:36:15,560 --> 00:36:18,279
Speaker 1: and that's the thing. There's so many bad defenses. And

664
00:36:18,280 --> 00:36:20,600
Speaker 1: it takes us back to what we talked about, you

665
00:36:20,640 --> 00:36:23,560
Speaker 1: know in the last segment. Steelers have the best defense

666
00:36:23,560 --> 00:36:27,440
Speaker 1: in these playoffs in the FC. If the good defenses

667
00:36:27,440 --> 00:36:31,480
Speaker 1: are all in the NFC, the other good defense and

668
00:36:31,520 --> 00:36:33,600
Speaker 1: the Rams are the I'm sure I should say the

669
00:36:33,680 --> 00:36:35,120
Speaker 1: Saints are one of them. I think they're one of

670
00:36:35,160 --> 00:36:37,600
Speaker 1: the top three. I really think Steelers, Saints, Rams are

671
00:36:37,600 --> 00:36:40,719
Speaker 1: probably the three best defenses in the league. Rams at

672
00:36:41,080 --> 00:36:45,719
Speaker 1: Seahawks for the third might win this game. I don't

673
00:36:45,760 --> 00:36:49,440
Speaker 1: know that they can. If golf is, if golf is not,

674
00:36:49,560 --> 00:36:52,040
Speaker 1: If he's comprom I mean he's it's a it's a

675
00:36:52,040 --> 00:36:55,640
Speaker 1: thumb on his throwing hands. That's massive, it is. I

676
00:36:55,640 --> 00:36:57,680
Speaker 1: don't know if he's a player or not. Yeah, that's

677
00:36:57,680 --> 00:37:01,720
Speaker 1: the thing this is all based on rams uh faith

678
00:37:01,719 --> 00:37:04,080
Speaker 1: in the defense really is why is why I'm taking

679
00:37:04,120 --> 00:37:06,960
Speaker 1: the rams. Russell Wilson and company have not played very

680
00:37:07,000 --> 00:37:09,920
Speaker 1: well the second half of the season, but their defense,

681
00:37:10,320 --> 00:37:12,719
Speaker 1: but their defense has gotten better. Like they both sides

682
00:37:12,719 --> 00:37:14,759
Speaker 1: of the ball have a tail of two seasons. Like

683
00:37:15,080 --> 00:37:17,160
Speaker 1: they threw the ball like crazy, they let Russ cook

684
00:37:17,360 --> 00:37:20,640
Speaker 1: and then halfway through the season they've been running the

685
00:37:20,640 --> 00:37:23,360
Speaker 1: ball like crazy. And the big reason is they're getting

686
00:37:23,400 --> 00:37:25,959
Speaker 1: exclusive too high safeties. They're not allowing the big play

687
00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:28,720
Speaker 1: the DK Metcalf seventy yard ers. But in the meantime,

688
00:37:28,760 --> 00:37:31,200
Speaker 1: their defense got dramatically better from they was like the

689
00:37:31,200 --> 00:37:32,920
Speaker 1: worst d in the league. The problem is for the

690
00:37:33,200 --> 00:37:35,439
Speaker 1: for the for the Seahawks is at their offensive line.

691
00:37:36,120 --> 00:37:39,279
Speaker 1: It's offul is a problem. It's definitely a problem. And

692
00:37:39,480 --> 00:37:42,719
Speaker 1: Ramsey matches up extremely well with Metcalf and he's done

693
00:37:42,719 --> 00:37:45,960
Speaker 1: it twice this year. Well, and they're gonna say eliminated.

694
00:37:46,160 --> 00:37:48,400
Speaker 1: They're another one. They stopped the run with light boxes

695
00:37:48,560 --> 00:37:52,200
Speaker 1: a lot because they have Aaron Donald. Um, I don't

696
00:37:52,200 --> 00:37:53,759
Speaker 1: think there's be hard any points in that game. I

697
00:37:53,800 --> 00:37:57,000
Speaker 1: think it'll be low scoring. But if I mean if

698
00:37:57,040 --> 00:38:01,239
Speaker 1: it's John Woolford. Forget about it. That's asking a lot, right,

699
00:38:01,360 --> 00:38:05,520
Speaker 1: I mean, Wolford versus Wilson and itself is probably enough said. Yeah. Uh.

700
00:38:05,560 --> 00:38:09,279
Speaker 1: The final NFC game of the weekend is Tampa Bay

701
00:38:09,400 --> 00:38:13,399
Speaker 1: at Washington. Alex Smith questionable for this game. I guess

702
00:38:13,680 --> 00:38:20,640
Speaker 1: today at practice the backup uh took the majority of

703
00:38:20,640 --> 00:38:23,600
Speaker 1: the snaps. I would expect, I would expect, yeah, I

704
00:38:23,600 --> 00:38:27,240
Speaker 1: would expect though that Smith at least gives it a go. Um.

705
00:38:27,360 --> 00:38:29,880
Speaker 1: Washington's defense, to me, though, this is a this is

706
00:38:29,880 --> 00:38:32,120
Speaker 1: a big spread in this right, think it's it's like

707
00:38:32,160 --> 00:38:35,200
Speaker 1: a touchdown, It's like seven and a half or something

708
00:38:35,239 --> 00:38:38,319
Speaker 1: like that. But Washington's defense will make tough life tough

709
00:38:38,360 --> 00:38:41,160
Speaker 1: on them. If you look at Brady's games against tough defenses,

710
00:38:41,600 --> 00:38:44,920
Speaker 1: teams that can rush the passer, he has not played well. No,

711
00:38:45,200 --> 00:38:48,560
Speaker 1: the Bucks lost to the Chiefs, which yea most people do. Yeah,

712
00:38:48,680 --> 00:38:50,440
Speaker 1: but there are all their other losses are against the

713
00:38:50,440 --> 00:38:52,719
Speaker 1: best defenses in the league, and he's the best ones

714
00:38:52,760 --> 00:38:54,920
Speaker 1: that they faced. Exactly. They have a good line, but

715
00:38:54,920 --> 00:38:58,960
Speaker 1: it's still I mean, good defenses are their achilles heel,

716
00:38:59,160 --> 00:39:00,960
Speaker 1: and this is a good d fense and Brady will

717
00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:04,560
Speaker 1: still Chuck and duck. Yes, you know, he sees he

718
00:39:04,600 --> 00:39:07,000
Speaker 1: sees the pass rush more I think than any quarterback

719
00:39:07,040 --> 00:39:09,719
Speaker 1: in the league. Yeah, I probably. I mean he I

720
00:39:09,760 --> 00:39:12,080
Speaker 1: mean it's it's a it's a blessing and a curse

721
00:39:12,120 --> 00:39:14,520
Speaker 1: because he feels the rush before it gets there. But

722
00:39:14,600 --> 00:39:16,279
Speaker 1: a lot of times he feels the rush before it

723
00:39:16,280 --> 00:39:18,919
Speaker 1: gets there, and he'll throw the football and just get down.

724
00:39:19,239 --> 00:39:22,000
Speaker 1: And he's adjusted to the Arian system as opposed to

725
00:39:22,200 --> 00:39:24,680
Speaker 1: the Bucks becoming like the Patriots, thinking and Duncan and

726
00:39:24,719 --> 00:39:28,239
Speaker 1: welkering it up so they have longer developing plays. He's

727
00:39:28,239 --> 00:39:30,000
Speaker 1: gonna get hit in this game. I mean they go

728
00:39:30,080 --> 00:39:32,439
Speaker 1: downfield a lot. I just don't know the other side

729
00:39:32,440 --> 00:39:35,239
Speaker 1: of the ball where Washington gets any anything going with

730
00:39:35,239 --> 00:39:37,719
Speaker 1: without Smith. I mean Smith played very poorly. I know

731
00:39:37,800 --> 00:39:41,560
Speaker 1: he's Yeah, I I think he will take care of

732
00:39:41,560 --> 00:39:44,560
Speaker 1: the football. Oh yeah, he will not. He will not

733
00:39:44,600 --> 00:39:47,200
Speaker 1: put the football on danger. But I don't know if

734
00:39:47,239 --> 00:39:49,680
Speaker 1: that adds up to many points against that Buck's defense.

735
00:39:49,719 --> 00:39:53,719
Speaker 1: Although the Buck's defense has not been great group you know,

736
00:39:53,920 --> 00:39:56,640
Speaker 1: the top ones and I think Whites on the COVID list.

737
00:39:56,680 --> 00:39:59,160
Speaker 1: The linebacker had a couple of injuries. Yeah, yeah, they

738
00:39:59,239 --> 00:40:04,200
Speaker 1: I mean agreed and Washington. I have respect for Logan,

739
00:40:04,239 --> 00:40:07,759
Speaker 1: Thomas Gibson, McLaurin, but they got a couple of playmakers

740
00:40:07,760 --> 00:40:10,560
Speaker 1: on the road lines better. Their quarterback plays the worst

741
00:40:10,600 --> 00:40:14,880
Speaker 1: in the in the postseason, well, I mean the ram's questionable,

742
00:40:15,120 --> 00:40:17,640
Speaker 1: but still I just don know where the points come from. Yeah,

743
00:40:17,680 --> 00:40:20,040
Speaker 1: it's gonna be difficult and some things would have to happen,

744
00:40:20,080 --> 00:40:23,480
Speaker 1: but they are at home. Not that that matters. From

745
00:40:23,480 --> 00:40:26,040
Speaker 1: what we talked about the previous uh in the a

746
00:40:26,160 --> 00:40:31,400
Speaker 1: f C games Indianapolis at Buffalo and Culture in trouble,

747
00:40:32,120 --> 00:40:36,840
Speaker 1: A lot, a lot of trouble. Their defense is We

748
00:40:36,840 --> 00:40:40,000
Speaker 1: talked about it when the Steelers played them. Their defensive

749
00:40:40,080 --> 00:40:45,320
Speaker 1: numbers were built on playing a lot of bad football. Um,

750
00:40:45,560 --> 00:40:48,160
Speaker 1: they've been pretty bad lately. When they played tougher Yeah,

751
00:40:48,160 --> 00:40:51,320
Speaker 1: when they played better competition, it's not been good. Um,

752
00:40:51,520 --> 00:40:55,840
Speaker 1: you know they're gonna have their hands full. The Forrest

753
00:40:55,880 --> 00:41:00,600
Speaker 1: Buckner's questionable for that game. That's massive. If he doesn't play,

754
00:41:00,719 --> 00:41:04,640
Speaker 1: he got no chance. No chance. Often referenced Greg Cos

755
00:41:05,000 --> 00:41:06,560
Speaker 1: with a lot of respect for I heard him on

756
00:41:06,640 --> 00:41:09,120
Speaker 1: Ross Tucker's podcast today. He's a really good point that's

757
00:41:09,120 --> 00:41:11,600
Speaker 1: stuck with me is And we noticed this when the

758
00:41:11,600 --> 00:41:14,000
Speaker 1: Steelers played the Colts. They're not a dime defense. I

759
00:41:14,000 --> 00:41:18,000
Speaker 1: mean they they want to play nickel. Rarely do they

760
00:41:18,040 --> 00:41:20,880
Speaker 1: have four corners on the field. The Bills live in

761
00:41:20,880 --> 00:41:23,239
Speaker 1: four receiver sets a lot. Yeah, I mean they have

762
00:41:23,239 --> 00:41:25,880
Speaker 1: a couple injuries a receiver, But the Gabriel davis Is

763
00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:29,439
Speaker 1: and McKenzie's and those guys, I bet they just throw

764
00:41:29,520 --> 00:41:32,400
Speaker 1: like crazy against the Ark against the Colts. Yeah, and

765
00:41:32,440 --> 00:41:34,400
Speaker 1: the Coults will play a lot of zone and you know,

766
00:41:34,880 --> 00:41:38,440
Speaker 1: just they won't. I don't know that they'll give up

767
00:41:38,480 --> 00:41:40,880
Speaker 1: a lot of big passing plays. Probably not, because they

768
00:41:40,920 --> 00:41:43,080
Speaker 1: do play that cover to shell and you know, Allan

769
00:41:43,120 --> 00:41:44,719
Speaker 1: will have to be patient. And you know, maybe he

770
00:41:44,760 --> 00:41:47,200
Speaker 1: doesn't get a ton of yards rushing because they Leonard

771
00:41:47,320 --> 00:41:49,239
Speaker 1: runs well, and that would be their only path of

772
00:41:49,320 --> 00:41:51,279
Speaker 1: victories he make if he makes a couple. He he

773
00:41:51,320 --> 00:41:53,440
Speaker 1: gets antsy and tries to force the ball down the

774
00:41:53,440 --> 00:41:56,160
Speaker 1: field as possible as the young quarterback. But yeah, and

775
00:41:56,200 --> 00:41:57,560
Speaker 1: even the other side of the ball, the Bills d

776
00:41:57,760 --> 00:42:00,520
Speaker 1: has improved. Their numbers were really bad start the year

777
00:42:00,560 --> 00:42:04,040
Speaker 1: and now they're mediocre. And Jonathan Taylor is running great

778
00:42:04,120 --> 00:42:06,560
Speaker 1: and maybe he has a huge game. That's possible in

779
00:42:06,560 --> 00:42:10,160
Speaker 1: my opinion, But I just think the Bill's offenses humming.

780
00:42:10,440 --> 00:42:12,080
Speaker 1: I just think the Bills are a much better team

781
00:42:12,120 --> 00:42:13,799
Speaker 1: if I'm the if I'm the Colts in this game,

782
00:42:13,840 --> 00:42:18,640
Speaker 1: I want Taylor getting carries minimum in this game because

783
00:42:18,680 --> 00:42:20,919
Speaker 1: you're keeping You're keeping Allen standing on the other side

784
00:42:20,920 --> 00:42:23,320
Speaker 1: of the on the sideline. You know, you put together

785
00:42:23,440 --> 00:42:27,080
Speaker 1: some some twelve or third team play scoring drives. Now,

786
00:42:27,120 --> 00:42:29,320
Speaker 1: maybe he does get anty. Well, jeez, I just stood

787
00:42:29,320 --> 00:42:31,640
Speaker 1: over here for fifteen minutes. I gotta gotta gonna make

788
00:42:31,640 --> 00:42:34,720
Speaker 1: something happen. Yeah, I think that's their path to victory. Yeah,

789
00:42:34,960 --> 00:42:37,960
Speaker 1: it's just a tough path. It's a tough path. Rum

790
00:42:38,040 --> 00:42:40,000
Speaker 1: the d has to have to they gonna win. They

791
00:42:40,040 --> 00:42:42,200
Speaker 1: gonna win the turd over battle. Yeah. The game I

792
00:42:42,239 --> 00:42:44,040
Speaker 1: think I want to see the most this weekend is

793
00:42:44,080 --> 00:42:47,200
Speaker 1: Baltimore at Tennessee. Yeah. I think it's gonna be a

794
00:42:47,200 --> 00:42:50,000
Speaker 1: fun one. You have a little rivalry going here. Laterly,

795
00:42:50,040 --> 00:42:51,880
Speaker 1: they don't like each other very much. If you remember

796
00:42:51,920 --> 00:42:54,200
Speaker 1: the last time they played, they had the whole thing

797
00:42:54,239 --> 00:42:57,920
Speaker 1: where Hardball went out and was yelling at the Titaness players,

798
00:42:58,120 --> 00:43:02,000
Speaker 1: and you know, then you Grabel gave it back to

799
00:43:02,080 --> 00:43:04,000
Speaker 1: him when they've you know, still talked about it after

800
00:43:04,000 --> 00:43:08,120
Speaker 1: the game. Um, it's in Tennessee. I don't know if

801
00:43:08,160 --> 00:43:12,160
Speaker 1: I understand exactly why the Ravens are favored necessarily in

802
00:43:12,160 --> 00:43:13,680
Speaker 1: this game. I could see if it was a pick him,

803
00:43:14,320 --> 00:43:17,960
Speaker 1: but I don't know if I'm if if I'm placing

804
00:43:18,000 --> 00:43:20,880
Speaker 1: my hard earned money on this game, I don't know

805
00:43:20,880 --> 00:43:25,560
Speaker 1: if I if I might take the points, I would

806
00:43:25,600 --> 00:43:27,520
Speaker 1: have the Ravens favorite and I'm gonna pick them to win.

807
00:43:28,200 --> 00:43:31,399
Speaker 1: But I'm sure there's a public perception of I don't

808
00:43:31,400 --> 00:43:33,400
Speaker 1: have to look far to see a path to Titans

809
00:43:33,440 --> 00:43:35,680
Speaker 1: victory because the last two times these teams have played,

810
00:43:35,880 --> 00:43:39,600
Speaker 1: the Titans have one. Henry runs for one. They can't

811
00:43:39,640 --> 00:43:42,439
Speaker 1: tackle Henry and they're they're forced to throw and they can't.

812
00:43:42,680 --> 00:43:46,959
Speaker 1: Patrick Queen doesn't solve that, you know, Henry just runs

813
00:43:47,000 --> 00:43:49,279
Speaker 1: over top of him on his way. No, I think

814
00:43:49,320 --> 00:43:52,879
Speaker 1: there's definitely a path to victory. There's I do think

815
00:43:52,880 --> 00:43:55,960
Speaker 1: that back to the public perception. Thing I'm everyone is

816
00:43:56,239 --> 00:43:58,400
Speaker 1: the Ravens are the team nobody wants to meet, you know,

817
00:43:58,440 --> 00:44:00,920
Speaker 1: because they're they've run in full games in a row,

818
00:44:00,960 --> 00:44:03,359
Speaker 1: which is great, and they are playing beat anybody. They

819
00:44:03,400 --> 00:44:05,520
Speaker 1: didn't beat anybody, and they figured some things out and

820
00:44:05,560 --> 00:44:07,880
Speaker 1: there's still a very good team in my opinion, But

821
00:44:08,400 --> 00:44:11,080
Speaker 1: this scream shoot out to me. I mean, there's two

822
00:44:11,080 --> 00:44:13,279
Speaker 1: things to stand out to me in Baltimore's favors. I

823
00:44:13,280 --> 00:44:16,080
Speaker 1: think Tennessee's defense is the worst. It's awful, yeah, but

824
00:44:16,120 --> 00:44:18,480
Speaker 1: they're the biggest problem is don't rush the pastor well, well,

825
00:44:18,520 --> 00:44:22,000
Speaker 1: who cares? They don't throw. Baltimore will be more than

826
00:44:22,000 --> 00:44:23,960
Speaker 1: content to throw up all twenty times in this game. Right,

827
00:44:23,960 --> 00:44:26,080
Speaker 1: The lack of pass rush will not hurt them like

828
00:44:26,120 --> 00:44:29,480
Speaker 1: it will against most teams. For Tennessee, the special team's

829
00:44:29,480 --> 00:44:32,799
Speaker 1: advantage is huge. I mean, if it comes down to

830
00:44:32,840 --> 00:44:36,399
Speaker 1: a kick, Tennessee ain't winning this game, probably, but both

831
00:44:36,440 --> 00:44:38,640
Speaker 1: these offenses could put up points. I mean they do

832
00:44:38,680 --> 00:44:42,640
Speaker 1: it a variety of ways. The thing where I think

833
00:44:42,719 --> 00:44:46,319
Speaker 1: is the difference for me is that if it does

834
00:44:46,400 --> 00:44:48,600
Speaker 1: turn into a shootout where they have to start throwing

835
00:44:48,600 --> 00:44:50,720
Speaker 1: the football, I trust Tanny Hill to throw the football

836
00:44:50,719 --> 00:44:52,480
Speaker 1: a lot more than trust Lamar Jackson. I think that's

837
00:44:52,480 --> 00:44:55,200
Speaker 1: the script Tennessee wants and the opposite of like the Colts,

838
00:44:55,640 --> 00:44:58,840
Speaker 1: because they could come out throwing in this game and

839
00:44:58,880 --> 00:45:00,560
Speaker 1: get a fourteen or twenty one point. I mean, they

840
00:45:00,560 --> 00:45:05,360
Speaker 1: could get up on Baltimore, which we know is the path. Yeah,

841
00:45:05,440 --> 00:45:08,239
Speaker 1: so you know that's something that certainly keep an eye on,

842
00:45:08,320 --> 00:45:10,640
Speaker 1: I think in this game. But I mean, I think

843
00:45:10,640 --> 00:45:12,800
Speaker 1: that the Ravens are going to win. I just wouldn't

844
00:45:12,800 --> 00:45:15,160
Speaker 1: bet it now. I hear you might hear you on that.

845
00:45:15,320 --> 00:45:17,200
Speaker 1: I mean, I have a lot of respect for Tennessee.

846
00:45:17,239 --> 00:45:19,560
Speaker 1: I think they're extremely well coached team, veryble. We'll come

847
00:45:19,600 --> 00:45:23,520
Speaker 1: up with something new, some new kind of Yeah, there'll

848
00:45:23,560 --> 00:45:26,839
Speaker 1: be something there that he comes up with. They'll be aggressive, yea,

849
00:45:27,200 --> 00:45:30,759
Speaker 1: be really aggressive. Yeah. Again, and they don't like each other.

850
00:45:30,880 --> 00:45:32,200
Speaker 1: They don't like each other. Now, that's gonna be a

851
00:45:32,280 --> 00:45:35,200
Speaker 1: very good game. And I think I think I've told

852
00:45:35,280 --> 00:45:38,120
Speaker 1: told you yesterday that the last time they played there

853
00:45:38,200 --> 00:45:41,560
Speaker 1: was close to seven hundred fifty yards offense in fives

854
00:45:41,760 --> 00:45:44,000
Speaker 1: in old game. You know, like it's I think there's

855
00:45:44,000 --> 00:45:47,279
Speaker 1: a chance to be a forty thirty eight type of game. Yeah,

856
00:45:47,360 --> 00:45:50,440
Speaker 1: and who knows in that situation again, you getting you

857
00:45:50,440 --> 00:45:53,080
Speaker 1: get into those type of games and who is the ball? Asked?

858
00:45:53,080 --> 00:45:55,239
Speaker 1: Who has the ball? Asked, and and that's not a

859
00:45:55,239 --> 00:45:57,560
Speaker 1: good uh. You know, if you if you're if you're

860
00:45:57,600 --> 00:45:59,440
Speaker 1: if you're the Titans and it's you know, a tie

861
00:45:59,440 --> 00:46:01,640
Speaker 1: game or your down three and you're driving down the field,

862
00:46:01,719 --> 00:46:04,239
Speaker 1: like can can Baltimore stop? Because their defense is not

863
00:46:04,760 --> 00:46:07,279
Speaker 1: it's not that top tier. Know, everybody thinks, what's the

864
00:46:07,360 --> 00:46:10,400
Speaker 1: Ravens defense? And they do some things. They'll let you,

865
00:46:10,480 --> 00:46:11,960
Speaker 1: and they'll do you know, they'll make you. They'll force

866
00:46:12,000 --> 00:46:14,640
Speaker 1: some some mistakes, but I trust Tanny Hill not to

867
00:46:14,680 --> 00:46:18,040
Speaker 1: make the big mistakes. Hills really good in third down,

868
00:46:18,200 --> 00:46:21,120
Speaker 1: red zone, you know, getting the ball. You have to

869
00:46:21,160 --> 00:46:23,600
Speaker 1: respect Henry on the play action stuff. You just have to.

870
00:46:23,719 --> 00:46:26,120
Speaker 1: And A J. Brown is a stud. I bet they

871
00:46:26,200 --> 00:46:28,680
Speaker 1: hit a couple of big plays against Blitz. Yeah, come

872
00:46:28,680 --> 00:46:30,759
Speaker 1: and get into the play action and hit it over

873
00:46:30,800 --> 00:46:33,000
Speaker 1: the top or a J. Brown gets free. I see

874
00:46:33,000 --> 00:46:35,160
Speaker 1: a Brown having a decent day. That's gonna be a

875
00:46:35,200 --> 00:46:38,120
Speaker 1: fun one. And I just said the Ravens can score

876
00:46:38,120 --> 00:46:39,879
Speaker 1: a lot of points. I mean they've they've proven that.

877
00:46:40,400 --> 00:46:42,040
Speaker 1: But in the back and forth game, you gotta throw

878
00:46:42,040 --> 00:46:44,120
Speaker 1: a little bit, you know, I'm not sure you're gonna

879
00:46:44,160 --> 00:46:46,360
Speaker 1: get into some third nights and things of that nature.

880
00:46:46,680 --> 00:46:48,600
Speaker 1: If it's first one to forty, it's not gonna be

881
00:46:48,640 --> 00:46:51,560
Speaker 1: all on the ground, right. You know. I agree, we've

882
00:46:51,560 --> 00:46:53,759
Speaker 1: been talking a lot about the Steelers and Browns. We

883
00:46:53,760 --> 00:46:55,160
Speaker 1: don't need to talk about that one. But we do

884
00:46:55,239 --> 00:46:57,200
Speaker 1: need to take a break. Okay, we will do that.

885
00:46:57,320 --> 00:46:59,680
Speaker 1: He is Matt Williamson. I'm Dale Lali. You're listening to

886
00:46:59,719 --> 00:47:02,359
Speaker 1: the right here on Steelers Nation Radio. Are coverage here

887
00:47:02,400 --> 00:47:04,960
Speaker 1: in the playoffs, brought to you by Ford and FedEx.

888
00:47:05,200 --> 00:47:08,040
Speaker 1: We'll be back with the Fantasy Football Focus right after this,

889
00:47:14,200 --> 00:47:17,080
Speaker 1: at least. He's the Drive with Daale Lolly and Matt

890
00:47:17,120 --> 00:47:22,360
Speaker 1: Williamson on you home of the Black and Gold Steelers

891
00:47:22,520 --> 00:47:56,040
Speaker 1: Nation Radio. We are back at this time for the

892
00:47:56,080 --> 00:47:59,160
Speaker 1: Fantasy Football Focus, and as we usually do on Thursdays.

893
00:47:59,160 --> 00:48:01,080
Speaker 1: We didn't do this yesterday on Wednesday, but we're gonna

894
00:48:01,080 --> 00:48:02,520
Speaker 1: do it today. We'll go through some of the injuries,

895
00:48:02,880 --> 00:48:05,759
Speaker 1: starting to get some designations for the Saturday games, get

896
00:48:05,760 --> 00:48:08,480
Speaker 1: an idea of who's in and who's out for some

897
00:48:08,520 --> 00:48:12,080
Speaker 1: of these playoff games, or who's questionable, that kind of stuff. UH.

898
00:48:12,120 --> 00:48:16,440
Speaker 1: For New Orleans Taysom Hill, he's dealing with a concussion. Uh.

899
00:48:16,480 --> 00:48:19,160
Speaker 1: He has resumed practicing in full again with the concussion.

900
00:48:19,200 --> 00:48:21,399
Speaker 1: That doesn't mean that he is cleared to play yet,

901
00:48:22,040 --> 00:48:25,560
Speaker 1: but he's trending in that uh um towards playing that

902
00:48:25,560 --> 00:48:28,080
Speaker 1: That game is actually on Sunday, and I said before Saturday,

903
00:48:28,080 --> 00:48:30,360
Speaker 1: that's one of the early games Sunday, So that's a

904
00:48:30,360 --> 00:48:34,040
Speaker 1: good sign for him. Um. Willie sneed for the Ravens

905
00:48:34,640 --> 00:48:39,440
Speaker 1: was limited during Thursday's practice. That's something because I mean

906
00:48:39,520 --> 00:48:41,960
Speaker 1: he's he's the veteran of the group, he's the route runner.

907
00:48:42,600 --> 00:48:44,960
Speaker 1: He's not a great player. Most teams wouldn't miss Willie

908
00:48:44,960 --> 00:48:50,600
Speaker 1: sneed all that much, but he's Ravens. Yeah, yeah, he's

909
00:48:50,640 --> 00:48:53,719
Speaker 1: I think ended up being their third highest catcher and

910
00:48:53,840 --> 00:48:56,319
Speaker 1: third most catches, something along those lines. I would think

911
00:48:56,360 --> 00:49:00,560
Speaker 1: more duvern A then and again rookie and a layoff game.

912
00:49:00,560 --> 00:49:05,560
Speaker 1: That's problematic. There are three receivers of duvernet, Um, Brown

913
00:49:05,960 --> 00:49:09,719
Speaker 1: and Boykin have two years experience. Yeah, you're gonna run

914
00:49:09,719 --> 00:49:12,399
Speaker 1: Dez Bryant out there again, you know, I guess you'll play. Yeah.

915
00:49:13,320 --> 00:49:16,520
Speaker 1: Cam Akers does not have any injury designation going into

916
00:49:16,560 --> 00:49:18,759
Speaker 1: this weekend's game against Seattle. I think he's gonna have

917
00:49:18,800 --> 00:49:19,840
Speaker 1: a I mean I'm not sure if you have a

918
00:49:19,920 --> 00:49:21,960
Speaker 1: big game, but he's gonna have a big role. I

919
00:49:22,000 --> 00:49:24,600
Speaker 1: mean I think if they win, he has a big day. Yeah,

920
00:49:24,719 --> 00:49:26,920
Speaker 1: he has to. Yeah, one of those running backs has

921
00:49:26,960 --> 00:49:28,919
Speaker 1: to have a big day. And I think it Yeah,

922
00:49:28,960 --> 00:49:31,719
Speaker 1: Henderson's Darrell Henderson is on I R. So it's either

923
00:49:31,960 --> 00:49:34,799
Speaker 1: it's either Acres or Brown, and Akers is much more

924
00:49:34,840 --> 00:49:37,000
Speaker 1: talented than Brown. Yeah, I have knock on Brown, but

925
00:49:37,040 --> 00:49:39,240
Speaker 1: you don't. You mentioned last segment too. If Golf plays,

926
00:49:39,600 --> 00:49:42,279
Speaker 1: he's gonna have a finger issue. If he doesn't, then

927
00:49:42,320 --> 00:49:44,080
Speaker 1: you got you know, well, he didn't have a finger

928
00:49:44,120 --> 00:49:49,000
Speaker 1: issue and he's questionable to play in this game. That's

929
00:49:49,040 --> 00:49:54,600
Speaker 1: being healthy is huge for the Rams. Yeah. Um, Goff

930
00:49:54,680 --> 00:50:00,600
Speaker 1: actually had surgery on that thumb on December. Um you

931
00:50:00,640 --> 00:50:05,320
Speaker 1: know yeah. Uh. Sean McVeigh said that Golf is preparing

932
00:50:05,400 --> 00:50:10,439
Speaker 1: himself to play. But man, if you that's tough, that's

933
00:50:11,719 --> 00:50:14,640
Speaker 1: um what's his nash? Remember his name? I thought he

934
00:50:14,680 --> 00:50:17,320
Speaker 1: didn't play horrible, and he made a couple of runs

935
00:50:17,320 --> 00:50:20,080
Speaker 1: here and there, and he made three or four throws.

936
00:50:20,120 --> 00:50:24,680
Speaker 1: But I mean, I mean, needless to say, it's it's

937
00:50:24,680 --> 00:50:27,359
Speaker 1: a problem to scheme around your quarterback to that degree. Yeah,

938
00:50:27,440 --> 00:50:30,759
Speaker 1: I would agree. Mike Evans with the knee is questionable

939
00:50:30,800 --> 00:50:34,000
Speaker 1: for the they can play against the Washington football team. Uh,

940
00:50:34,040 --> 00:50:38,120
Speaker 1: they've labeled him in a game time decision. But he's

941
00:50:38,120 --> 00:50:40,560
Speaker 1: trending in the right direction apparently, good thing. Yeah, I

942
00:50:40,560 --> 00:50:42,840
Speaker 1: got through some practices. The Bucks are eight and a

943
00:50:42,880 --> 00:50:46,600
Speaker 1: half point favorites in that. By the way, UM and

944
00:50:46,840 --> 00:50:49,920
Speaker 1: m r R, according to Bruce Arians revealed no structural

945
00:50:50,000 --> 00:50:52,840
Speaker 1: damage while swelling has been minimal. So there's there's some

946
00:50:52,920 --> 00:50:54,600
Speaker 1: swelling in there, so that's a bit of an issue.

947
00:50:55,280 --> 00:50:58,759
Speaker 1: Would you play him, I mean I would be I

948
00:50:58,800 --> 00:51:02,120
Speaker 1: would be anesty, I devoid him. Yeah, I mean you

949
00:51:02,200 --> 00:51:05,680
Speaker 1: have you have Antonio Brown, you have Chris Godwin. I'm

950
00:51:05,680 --> 00:51:09,359
Speaker 1: gonna play those guys, and Scotty Miller is certainly capable. Yeah,

951
00:51:09,600 --> 00:51:12,879
Speaker 1: their third guy wouldn't be terrible. I might only play Evans, like, hey,

952
00:51:12,880 --> 00:51:14,759
Speaker 1: we're gonna just play on third downs or we're gonna

953
00:51:14,760 --> 00:51:17,080
Speaker 1: do something. We're gonna limit you if you play. Yeah,

954
00:51:17,520 --> 00:51:19,600
Speaker 1: I think you'd be at least on a on a

955
00:51:19,640 --> 00:51:22,240
Speaker 1: snap count, Like he's not running out there for sixty plays.

956
00:51:22,239 --> 00:51:24,359
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not gonna do that, And I guess

957
00:51:24,400 --> 00:51:26,600
Speaker 1: even if he does play, but especially if he doesn't.

958
00:51:27,280 --> 00:51:30,200
Speaker 1: Fantasy wise, I'd be pretty interested in Godwin and Brown. Yeah,

959
00:51:30,239 --> 00:51:32,239
Speaker 1: I would say that stuff. I mean, it is a

960
00:51:32,239 --> 00:51:36,800
Speaker 1: good defense, but they throw a lot and they throw deep. Um.

961
00:51:37,040 --> 00:51:39,920
Speaker 1: Jamal Adams with the shoulder that's a big deal for

962
00:51:39,960 --> 00:51:42,960
Speaker 1: them too, was left off the injury report. He's gonna play,

963
00:51:42,960 --> 00:51:46,400
Speaker 1: so yeah, he's crucial for them if they're gonna run

964
00:51:46,440 --> 00:51:48,640
Speaker 1: the ball time as we think they will the Rams.

965
00:51:49,200 --> 00:51:51,200
Speaker 1: He's an in the box guy, you know. I mean,

966
00:51:51,200 --> 00:51:53,120
Speaker 1: he's the best pass rusher and he's probably the best

967
00:51:53,160 --> 00:51:55,920
Speaker 1: pass rusher does a lot of stuff. He does do

968
00:51:56,040 --> 00:52:00,000
Speaker 1: a lot um. We talked about this before the segments started.

969
00:52:00,400 --> 00:52:04,080
Speaker 1: Donovan People's Jones has yet to resume practicing for the

970
00:52:04,760 --> 00:52:08,320
Speaker 1: for the Browns because the Browns haven't practiced. Part of

971
00:52:08,480 --> 00:52:12,480
Speaker 1: the concussion protocols. He's dealing with a concussion. Part of

972
00:52:12,480 --> 00:52:14,480
Speaker 1: the protocol as we talked about with Taysom Hill, is

973
00:52:14,480 --> 00:52:17,440
Speaker 1: getting back on the practice field to see how you

974
00:52:17,480 --> 00:52:19,920
Speaker 1: feel the next day after you've had some physical activity.

975
00:52:20,480 --> 00:52:24,400
Speaker 1: Their facilities closed down, right, So how are you if

976
00:52:24,400 --> 00:52:27,560
Speaker 1: you're Donovan People Jones, Even if you're feeling great, you

977
00:52:27,600 --> 00:52:29,440
Speaker 1: don't know for sure until you actually get out there

978
00:52:29,480 --> 00:52:31,400
Speaker 1: and undergo some physical activity and you have to be

979
00:52:31,520 --> 00:52:33,920
Speaker 1: checked out by the Browns doctors and the neurologists and

980
00:52:33,920 --> 00:52:36,520
Speaker 1: all that stuff. I don't know how he don't see

981
00:52:36,520 --> 00:52:38,400
Speaker 1: how he plays in this game. I don't either. Now

982
00:52:38,880 --> 00:52:41,360
Speaker 1: you said that before, like you've laid this out several

983
00:52:41,360 --> 00:52:43,280
Speaker 1: times over the last couple of years since his protocol

984
00:52:43,320 --> 00:52:44,640
Speaker 1: has been and you know, you gotta do this, and

985
00:52:44,680 --> 00:52:45,960
Speaker 1: then you got to this, and like you said, one

986
00:52:46,000 --> 00:52:47,360
Speaker 1: of them has got to be going on the field

987
00:52:47,400 --> 00:52:50,600
Speaker 1: at stage two or whatever, you know, step two. And

988
00:52:50,719 --> 00:52:54,719
Speaker 1: I don't know the steps, but um, how does he

989
00:52:54,800 --> 00:52:58,400
Speaker 1: check the boxes? If you're not if your team isn't practicing,

990
00:52:58,440 --> 00:53:02,160
Speaker 1: you can't and some none not only can't your team practice,

991
00:53:02,560 --> 00:53:05,520
Speaker 1: you can't go in the facility facility, right, I mean,

992
00:53:05,560 --> 00:53:07,800
Speaker 1: how do you check any box and moved the next step?

993
00:53:08,360 --> 00:53:11,480
Speaker 1: And no way does the league or doctors say, well,

994
00:53:11,560 --> 00:53:13,040
Speaker 1: you would have passed, you know, I'm like, right, you

995
00:53:13,080 --> 00:53:15,719
Speaker 1: can't can, Yeah, you have to take there's a there's

996
00:53:15,719 --> 00:53:18,440
Speaker 1: a concussion protocol for a reason, it's called the protocol.

997
00:53:18,880 --> 00:53:22,840
Speaker 1: And how times check those boxes? Boy, I mean it's

998
00:53:22,880 --> 00:53:25,839
Speaker 1: pretty tight anyway to play the next week. Absolutely, and

999
00:53:25,920 --> 00:53:28,319
Speaker 1: every day you got everything has to go perfectly well

1000
00:53:28,360 --> 00:53:29,800
Speaker 1: for you to play the next week. And he doesn't

1001
00:53:29,800 --> 00:53:34,640
Speaker 1: take any steps. Um, the Rams activated that Andrew Whitworth

1002
00:53:34,680 --> 00:53:36,680
Speaker 1: from injury preserve. It looks like he's gonna play this week.

1003
00:53:36,719 --> 00:53:38,560
Speaker 1: That's a big get for them. That's a big get,

1004
00:53:38,719 --> 00:53:43,240
Speaker 1: absolutely and much needed. Really good player. I would imagine

1005
00:53:43,239 --> 00:53:44,800
Speaker 1: he did. We don't see any roster or anything. And

1006
00:53:44,960 --> 00:53:47,520
Speaker 1: he's a vet. He knows all the tricks of the trade. Um,

1007
00:53:47,520 --> 00:53:50,719
Speaker 1: Amari Cooper underwent ankle surgery. That's not a playoff thing,

1008
00:53:51,080 --> 00:53:53,000
Speaker 1: but right shows you that he was dealing with something

1009
00:53:53,000 --> 00:53:55,920
Speaker 1: down the stretch. Alan Robinson, how often that happens, you

1010
00:53:56,000 --> 00:53:57,960
Speaker 1: know what I mean? Like nobody knew it and you know, yeah,

1011
00:53:58,200 --> 00:54:02,360
Speaker 1: Allen Robinson with the hamstring was out of Thursday's practice. Um,

1012
00:54:02,400 --> 00:54:06,080
Speaker 1: that's a big one. I didn't know that. I mean,

1013
00:54:06,120 --> 00:54:08,600
Speaker 1: that's you drafted him in your Yeah, I can always

1014
00:54:08,640 --> 00:54:10,520
Speaker 1: go to change it. I might have to do that,

1015
00:54:10,640 --> 00:54:12,680
Speaker 1: but I would keep an eye on that. I would

1016
00:54:12,719 --> 00:54:14,879
Speaker 1: expect him to play, but it must be a little

1017
00:54:14,920 --> 00:54:18,120
Speaker 1: more serious than just you get into the game and

1018
00:54:18,160 --> 00:54:20,160
Speaker 1: all of a sudden he's you know, pulling up in

1019
00:54:20,200 --> 00:54:22,440
Speaker 1: that hammy running down the field. That's not good. That's

1020
00:54:22,440 --> 00:54:23,800
Speaker 1: not good. I think I'm gonna get him out of

1021
00:54:23,800 --> 00:54:26,000
Speaker 1: my lineup. No, no, I think about it. Uh. We

1022
00:54:26,000 --> 00:54:28,200
Speaker 1: haven't talked about the Steelers injury report yet, but Juju

1023
00:54:28,239 --> 00:54:31,000
Speaker 1: Smith Schuster was held out today. Typically he's held out

1024
00:54:31,000 --> 00:54:33,640
Speaker 1: on Wednesdays. That's that knee issue. Wouldn't surprise me if

1025
00:54:33,640 --> 00:54:35,479
Speaker 1: at the end of the season he gets he gets

1026
00:54:35,480 --> 00:54:39,160
Speaker 1: a clean up. Yeah, but he's gonna play. Yeah, I

1027
00:54:39,200 --> 00:54:43,920
Speaker 1: don't think there's any question about that. Um. Taylor Heineke

1028
00:54:44,120 --> 00:54:47,800
Speaker 1: took the majority of first team reps in Thursday's practice

1029
00:54:47,840 --> 00:54:51,719
Speaker 1: for Washington. Yeah, you mentioned that earlier. That's a Saturday game.

1030
00:54:51,760 --> 00:54:56,120
Speaker 1: That's a Saturday game. Alex Smith didn't practice at all yesterday.

1031
00:54:56,600 --> 00:54:58,840
Speaker 1: Today he was what you would call, I guess limited.

1032
00:54:58,840 --> 00:55:01,120
Speaker 1: If Taylor Heineke's taking all the first team and the

1033
00:55:01,160 --> 00:55:03,920
Speaker 1: majority of the first team snaps, yeah, that's a problem.

1034
00:55:04,000 --> 00:55:07,319
Speaker 1: That's problematic, a big broblem. Yeah. You also McLarin in

1035
00:55:07,320 --> 00:55:10,359
Speaker 1: your lad Frank, all right, and I was gonna use

1036
00:55:10,360 --> 00:55:11,719
Speaker 1: those guys up. I think I'm gonna have to make

1037
00:55:11,760 --> 00:55:15,200
Speaker 1: some adjustments. I don't like any of that, Yeah, how

1038
00:55:15,239 --> 00:55:19,120
Speaker 1: about these ones for the Bills. Stefon Diggs with an

1039
00:55:19,120 --> 00:55:22,359
Speaker 1: oblique is questionable against the Colors. I thought he's gonna

1040
00:55:22,400 --> 00:55:25,759
Speaker 1: play though, but Cole Beasley also listed as questionable with

1041
00:55:25,800 --> 00:55:27,920
Speaker 1: that knee. I don't think he is gonna play, at

1042
00:55:28,000 --> 00:55:29,840
Speaker 1: least what I heard people say, and they were, you know,

1043
00:55:30,120 --> 00:55:32,759
Speaker 1: beat reporters and whatnot. And I still think they'll do

1044
00:55:32,800 --> 00:55:35,040
Speaker 1: a lot of for wide and John Brown's back, and

1045
00:55:35,080 --> 00:55:37,840
Speaker 1: they have some have enough guys to do it. But

1046
00:55:38,000 --> 00:55:40,680
Speaker 1: maybe you lean towards the under or you know, I mean,

1047
00:55:40,920 --> 00:55:44,520
Speaker 1: those are big, big deals. The thing about that Colts

1048
00:55:44,560 --> 00:55:48,560
Speaker 1: defense is you attack Rocky a scene, will they will

1049
00:55:48,600 --> 00:55:52,120
Speaker 1: they use Xavier Roads to travel with Stefon Diggs in

1050
00:55:52,120 --> 00:55:55,360
Speaker 1: this game. They generally don't, I don't think, but maybe

1051
00:55:55,400 --> 00:55:57,560
Speaker 1: in this case you would. Maybe in this case you would,

1052
00:55:57,920 --> 00:56:00,440
Speaker 1: especially if Beasley's out. All these things are in towards

1053
00:56:00,480 --> 00:56:02,759
Speaker 1: me thinking maybe John Brown's a nice pick up right now. Yeah,

1054
00:56:02,840 --> 00:56:04,719
Speaker 1: John Brown could be the guy, I mean, but he's

1055
00:56:04,719 --> 00:56:07,759
Speaker 1: somewhat cheap in DFS too, and he's not a super

1056
00:56:07,760 --> 00:56:09,880
Speaker 1: you know, highly sought after guy unless you feel like

1057
00:56:09,880 --> 00:56:12,360
Speaker 1: Isaiah Mackenzie is going to be the guy. In the slot.

1058
00:56:12,800 --> 00:56:14,640
Speaker 1: I think he'll play a lot and he probably we'll

1059
00:56:14,640 --> 00:56:16,040
Speaker 1: get some of this slot stuff. He may even get

1060
00:56:16,040 --> 00:56:18,160
Speaker 1: a carrier too. I mean it's a leap of faith

1061
00:56:18,160 --> 00:56:20,160
Speaker 1: to put him in your fantasy lineup, but I mean

1062
00:56:20,200 --> 00:56:24,880
Speaker 1: he's a deep, deep guy. Yeah. Um, Terry McLaurin with

1063
00:56:24,880 --> 00:56:28,000
Speaker 1: the ankle is questionable against the Bucks. Another reason get

1064
00:56:28,080 --> 00:56:31,839
Speaker 1: him out of Yeah, Um, he's gonna play, but he's

1065
00:56:31,880 --> 00:56:34,880
Speaker 1: nowhere near healthy. And if Alex Smith doesn't play, I

1066
00:56:34,920 --> 00:56:36,600
Speaker 1: don't feel good about that. I don't feel good about

1067
00:56:36,600 --> 00:56:38,640
Speaker 1: that either. Um. I feel like he's going to be

1068
00:56:38,640 --> 00:56:41,120
Speaker 1: one of those posts you know, after the after the

1069
00:56:41,160 --> 00:56:43,160
Speaker 1: season cleaned up. Guys. Well, we just talked about this

1070
00:56:43,200 --> 00:56:45,120
Speaker 1: guy and he is out for this game against the

1071
00:56:45,120 --> 00:56:48,880
Speaker 1: Bills because of a concussion. That's rocky a scene. So

1072
00:56:49,600 --> 00:56:51,719
Speaker 1: he's a starter. He's a starter, but he's also a

1073
00:56:51,719 --> 00:56:55,000
Speaker 1: bad starter. He's not such a great one. But um, yeah,

1074
00:56:55,040 --> 00:56:57,279
Speaker 1: I mean does that that you know I may want

1075
00:56:57,280 --> 00:57:00,239
Speaker 1: to He plays typically on the right outside on the

1076
00:57:00,280 --> 00:57:03,719
Speaker 1: defensive on the quarterbacks right hand side. The Steelers went

1077
00:57:03,760 --> 00:57:07,479
Speaker 1: after him a lot. Everybody went after him a lot. Yes,

1078
00:57:07,920 --> 00:57:09,960
Speaker 1: he has a target on his on his chest for sure.

1079
00:57:11,080 --> 00:57:13,680
Speaker 1: Lean stores, John rounded Me or Door Diggs or whom

1080
00:57:13,760 --> 00:57:17,760
Speaker 1: you know. Yeah, Alan Uh, Antonio Gibson with a toe.

1081
00:57:17,920 --> 00:57:19,960
Speaker 1: That's the same thing he's been dealing with. He's questionable.

1082
00:57:20,000 --> 00:57:22,520
Speaker 1: He's gonna play. I think he's gonna play. Maybe he

1083
00:57:22,560 --> 00:57:24,600
Speaker 1: doesn't have a huge snap count. He didn't last week.

1084
00:57:26,000 --> 00:57:31,200
Speaker 1: Um looking here. Oh h The Titans removed Stephen Guskowski

1085
00:57:31,280 --> 00:57:34,320
Speaker 1: from the reserve COVID list, so they'll have him back playoffs.

1086
00:57:34,320 --> 00:57:36,000
Speaker 1: So at least they've got a kicker who has kicked

1087
00:57:36,000 --> 00:57:43,040
Speaker 1: in some off Yeah, they're they're kicking. Game in general

1088
00:57:43,080 --> 00:57:46,640
Speaker 1: has been question Yeah. We mentioned Derek Abram back for

1089
00:57:46,680 --> 00:57:49,080
Speaker 1: the Steelers. He's been activated from the COVID list. We

1090
00:57:49,280 --> 00:57:50,520
Speaker 1: talked about this, but I think he could have a

1091
00:57:50,520 --> 00:57:53,560
Speaker 1: big game. Oh absolutely, really well for him. Yeah, they're

1092
00:57:53,600 --> 00:57:56,800
Speaker 1: there there. Safeties are all on the COVID list. The

1093
00:57:56,880 --> 00:58:00,960
Speaker 1: linebackers are not good. In coverage live video Today and

1094
00:58:01,000 --> 00:58:03,360
Speaker 1: Mike pursued and I both picked him as our ex facker,

1095
00:58:03,520 --> 00:58:06,760
Speaker 1: you know, coming off the COVID list. I mean that

1096
00:58:06,800 --> 00:58:10,280
Speaker 1: doesn't bother me because he wasn't a positive test. I

1097
00:58:10,280 --> 00:58:12,480
Speaker 1: mean I think he has basically got a bye week. Yeah,

1098
00:58:12,560 --> 00:58:15,800
Speaker 1: I agree I think he could be a major major

1099
00:58:15,880 --> 00:58:18,280
Speaker 1: factor in this in this week. He may be a

1100
00:58:18,320 --> 00:58:22,560
Speaker 1: sleeper fantasy guy too. Yeah. UM, just calling up some

1101
00:58:22,560 --> 00:58:24,439
Speaker 1: some more stuff here. It looks like Kamar is playing.

1102
00:58:24,520 --> 00:58:26,640
Speaker 1: It looks like Michael Thomas is playing. Yeah, I wouldn't

1103
00:58:26,640 --> 00:58:29,520
Speaker 1: feel I got the Rhodo World, the top sixty rankings.

1104
00:58:29,520 --> 00:58:33,720
Speaker 1: We talked about your DFS stuff for for a week

1105
00:58:33,800 --> 00:58:36,200
Speaker 1: one of the playoffs or this is actually for the

1106
00:58:36,360 --> 00:58:40,120
Speaker 1: entire playoffs and their estimated games played. They have Travis

1107
00:58:40,160 --> 00:58:42,600
Speaker 1: Kelsey is the number one player. I get that. I

1108
00:58:42,640 --> 00:58:44,800
Speaker 1: mean there's a big gap between him and tight end

1109
00:58:44,800 --> 00:58:49,160
Speaker 1: to Davante Adams, to Josh Allen. Three. They have Josh Allen.

1110
00:58:49,280 --> 00:58:51,760
Speaker 1: They have Travis Kelsey playing two games in the playoffs.

1111
00:58:51,760 --> 00:58:54,360
Speaker 1: They have Josh Allen playing four. Wow, I would say

1112
00:58:54,320 --> 00:58:56,480
Speaker 1: if it's three that it's about the same. You know,

1113
00:58:56,640 --> 00:58:58,760
Speaker 1: the world thinking that the Bills are going to go

1114
00:58:58,800 --> 00:59:02,280
Speaker 1: to the Super Bowl, Okay, Um, Patrick mahomes is four,

1115
00:59:03,080 --> 00:59:07,440
Speaker 1: Michael Thomas five, Alvin Kamara six, Tyreek Hill seven, Stefon

1116
00:59:07,560 --> 00:59:10,720
Speaker 1: Diggs eight. If Stefon Diggs is gonna play four playoff games,

1117
00:59:11,240 --> 00:59:14,320
Speaker 1: I'm bumping him up ahead. If you if you if

1118
00:59:14,320 --> 00:59:16,360
Speaker 1: you if you go into this and knowing, hey, the

1119
00:59:16,400 --> 00:59:19,960
Speaker 1: Bills are going to the super Bowl, you gotta put

1120
00:59:19,960 --> 00:59:23,320
Speaker 1: Diggs over Hill, then yeah, I would. If they're projecting

1121
00:59:23,360 --> 00:59:26,800
Speaker 1: to have an extra game, Yeah, two extra games? Yeah.

1122
00:59:26,800 --> 00:59:30,440
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers nine, Tom Brady ten. Tom Brady only projected

1123
00:59:30,440 --> 00:59:33,560
Speaker 1: to play two games. Okay, I don't know that i'd

1124
00:59:33,640 --> 00:59:36,120
Speaker 1: have him ten. I'm not sure I'm investing in that.

1125
00:59:36,280 --> 00:59:39,400
Speaker 1: Drew Brees eleven, Aaron Jones twelve. We still haven't got

1126
00:59:39,440 --> 00:59:42,760
Speaker 1: into a stealer yet. Uh, Derrick Henry thirteen. There's Ben

1127
00:59:42,880 --> 00:59:47,040
Speaker 1: Roethlisberger at fifteen, or Derrick Henry at fourteen, Ben Roethlisberger

1128
00:59:47,240 --> 00:59:51,440
Speaker 1: at fifteen. Uh, Mike Evans at sixteen, Ryan tanney Hill

1129
00:59:51,480 --> 00:59:55,040
Speaker 1: at seventeen only projected to play one game many high.

1130
00:59:56,080 --> 00:59:59,000
Speaker 1: How about this one, Russell Wilson at eighteen, He's only

1131
00:59:59,000 --> 01:00:02,919
Speaker 1: projected to play one game their favored though. Yeah at home.

1132
01:00:03,880 --> 01:00:07,600
Speaker 1: Ronald Jones at nineteen, Tyler Lockett at twenty, DK Metcalf

1133
01:00:07,600 --> 01:00:11,000
Speaker 1: at twenty one, Mark Andrews at twenty two. That is

1134
01:00:11,040 --> 01:00:13,320
Speaker 1: tight end two. That's the difference, that's the drop off.

1135
01:00:14,640 --> 01:00:16,120
Speaker 1: I would have Andrews higher than a lot of those

1136
01:00:16,120 --> 01:00:19,680
Speaker 1: guys though, Yeah, yeah, I would too. Chris Carson twenty three,

1137
01:00:19,800 --> 01:00:26,320
Speaker 1: Chris Godwin twenty four, Robert Tanyan, I might have if

1138
01:00:26,360 --> 01:00:28,840
Speaker 1: you think Tanya because they have three games projected for Tanyan.

1139
01:00:29,760 --> 01:00:31,520
Speaker 1: I might have him ranked a little bit higher in

1140
01:00:31,520 --> 01:00:33,680
Speaker 1: this situation because if he's playing three games with the

1141
01:00:33,680 --> 01:00:37,600
Speaker 1: tight end, if he plays three playoff games, he's gonna

1142
01:00:37,600 --> 01:00:40,800
Speaker 1: score two touchdowns get eleven in the regular season. Like,

1143
01:00:40,840 --> 01:00:43,840
Speaker 1: I think I take him over Jared Cook or I

1144
01:00:43,840 --> 01:00:46,320
Speaker 1: mean he'd be my third tight end in the in

1145
01:00:46,360 --> 01:00:49,440
Speaker 1: the playoffs. Wide receiver nine is John Brown or yeah,

1146
01:00:49,520 --> 01:00:52,320
Speaker 1: twenty six and wide receiver nine is John Brown. That's

1147
01:00:52,360 --> 01:00:56,360
Speaker 1: kind of sweet too. Deante Johnson at seven, uh, Emmanuel

1148
01:00:56,360 --> 01:01:00,360
Speaker 1: Sanders at a J. Brown at twenty nine. Because they

1149
01:01:00,360 --> 01:01:03,320
Speaker 1: only think you're gonna play one game, Really, good fantasy players,

1150
01:01:03,600 --> 01:01:05,400
Speaker 1: how many games do you get out of him? Chase

1151
01:01:05,400 --> 01:01:08,479
Speaker 1: Playpool at thirty thirty one? Is Marquise Brown thirty two,

1152
01:01:08,560 --> 01:01:13,560
Speaker 1: Cam Acres thirty three, Clyde Edwards. They're probably rejecting Acres

1153
01:01:13,560 --> 01:01:16,720
Speaker 1: to play two games. Cole Beasley at thirty four, Well,

1154
01:01:16,760 --> 01:01:19,160
Speaker 1: he's not gonna play a week one. Antonio Brown at

1155
01:01:19,160 --> 01:01:22,960
Speaker 1: thirty five that's not bad. Santoni or Sammy Watkins at

1156
01:01:22,960 --> 01:01:26,760
Speaker 1: the thirty six, j K. Dobbins at thirty seven, Allen

1157
01:01:26,840 --> 01:01:31,920
Speaker 1: Lazard at thirty eight, Well they think two games, Yeah,

1158
01:01:32,000 --> 01:01:34,560
Speaker 1: Lottavius Murray at thirty nine, that's a sneaky one. That

1159
01:01:35,080 --> 01:01:37,400
Speaker 1: sneaky one. If it's if you, if you have a budget,

1160
01:01:37,440 --> 01:01:39,680
Speaker 1: if you're a DFS in it. Yeah. Right. In fact,

1161
01:01:39,720 --> 01:01:42,320
Speaker 1: I might start him this week because how even if

1162
01:01:42,360 --> 01:01:44,560
Speaker 1: Kamara plays, how much is he gonna play? He doesn't play.

1163
01:01:44,600 --> 01:01:47,200
Speaker 1: Everything have to begin with they limit him, save him.

1164
01:01:47,480 --> 01:01:49,880
Speaker 1: That's not a bad move move, I mean, because this

1165
01:01:49,920 --> 01:01:51,920
Speaker 1: could be a twenty touch game at Ottavias Murray and

1166
01:01:51,920 --> 01:01:53,480
Speaker 1: you're not gonna get that in any other week out

1167
01:01:53,520 --> 01:01:57,160
Speaker 1: of them. Probably, right, it's interesting. Jared Cook at forty

1168
01:01:57,760 --> 01:02:02,000
Speaker 1: tight end number four, Robert Woods at forty one, Baker

1169
01:02:02,040 --> 01:02:04,520
Speaker 1: Mayfield all the way down at forty two is QB ten.

1170
01:02:05,040 --> 01:02:06,600
Speaker 1: I don't think I want any Browns. I don't want

1171
01:02:06,600 --> 01:02:10,600
Speaker 1: any Browns. Juju Smith Schuster at wide receiver twenty and

1172
01:02:10,680 --> 01:02:15,080
Speaker 1: number forty three, Corey Davis at forty four. Wo Davis

1173
01:02:15,160 --> 01:02:16,600
Speaker 1: a pretty good year for that being that late, well,

1174
01:02:16,680 --> 01:02:20,680
Speaker 1: they're saying one game game. But Jonathan Taylor at forty five.

1175
01:02:22,000 --> 01:02:25,160
Speaker 1: Only think of one game, but right Grunk at forty six,

1176
01:02:26,080 --> 01:02:31,880
Speaker 1: that would be especially if Evans is out just for touchdowns. Um,

1177
01:02:32,520 --> 01:02:37,120
Speaker 1: Philip Rivers at forty seven, QB eleven, Jarvis Landry at

1178
01:02:37,160 --> 01:02:41,320
Speaker 1: forty eight, Wide receiver two, David Montgomery is RB eleven

1179
01:02:41,800 --> 01:02:46,439
Speaker 1: at forty nine. Again, you're getting the Tavius Murray ahead

1180
01:02:46,440 --> 01:02:50,600
Speaker 1: of David Montgomery there because the game's James Conner at one.

1181
01:02:51,000 --> 01:02:53,320
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Allen Robinson. I don't think Landry is a

1182
01:02:53,360 --> 01:02:56,720
Speaker 1: bad Daily pick, especially with Hayden probably be an out. Yeah,

1183
01:02:56,800 --> 01:02:59,360
Speaker 1: I mean if you think, I mean he did okay

1184
01:02:59,440 --> 01:03:02,600
Speaker 1: last week. I'm just thinking he's cheap for dfs. Uh.

1185
01:03:03,280 --> 01:03:07,240
Speaker 1: Allen Robinson is fifty fifty one, is James Conner, I'd

1186
01:03:07,280 --> 01:03:10,240
Speaker 1: be hiring that. Nicole Hardman is fifty two. Nick Chubb

1187
01:03:10,280 --> 01:03:16,280
Speaker 1: at fifty three, that's R Devin Singletary. If you think

1188
01:03:16,280 --> 01:03:19,080
Speaker 1: you're if you think the Bills are going to the

1189
01:03:19,120 --> 01:03:22,520
Speaker 1: Super Bowl, there's no way that in Devin Singletary would

1190
01:03:22,520 --> 01:03:24,840
Speaker 1: play four games was what they're is what they're projecting

1191
01:03:24,840 --> 01:03:28,480
Speaker 1: here as up pretty quick. He can't be RB fourteen, No, right,

1192
01:03:28,560 --> 01:03:30,520
Speaker 1: some of these things don't quite add up, you know,

1193
01:03:30,640 --> 01:03:32,440
Speaker 1: if you really do. You're getting four games out of

1194
01:03:32,480 --> 01:03:35,400
Speaker 1: Devon Singletary, and he's not great on a per game basis.

1195
01:03:35,480 --> 01:03:37,640
Speaker 1: But but if he gets fifty yards, every game's gonna

1196
01:03:37,680 --> 01:03:40,960
Speaker 1: kind have two hundred yards and maybe maybe fifty yards,

1197
01:03:41,000 --> 01:03:43,880
Speaker 1: maybe falls in the end zone once in four games.

1198
01:03:42,960 --> 01:03:46,800
Speaker 1: If talking cumulative here, you yeah, yeah. Eric Ebron is

1199
01:03:46,840 --> 01:03:48,960
Speaker 1: fifty five, he's tight end six. They or to our

1200
01:03:48,960 --> 01:03:50,840
Speaker 1: point that we were talking about there, I might bump

1201
01:03:50,960 --> 01:03:53,200
Speaker 1: him a little higher than that. Mitch Drobiski is QB

1202
01:03:53,320 --> 01:03:56,600
Speaker 1: twelve at fifty six, Terry McLaurin at fifty seven is

1203
01:03:56,640 --> 01:03:59,959
Speaker 1: why did receive her twenty five, Antonio Gibson at fifty

1204
01:04:00,080 --> 01:04:04,120
Speaker 1: eight is running back fifteen, Naim Hines is fifty nine,

1205
01:04:04,200 --> 01:04:08,320
Speaker 1: is running back sixteen, and Jared Goff is QB. That's

1206
01:04:08,320 --> 01:04:13,640
Speaker 1: the top sixty obviously. Yeah. Woman, that's a much different

1207
01:04:13,680 --> 01:04:15,480
Speaker 1: format than the one I'm in, you know, but I

1208
01:04:15,760 --> 01:04:18,400
Speaker 1: like this format better where you draft them and have

1209
01:04:18,480 --> 01:04:20,720
Speaker 1: them the whole duration, so because you're kind of predicting

1210
01:04:20,720 --> 01:04:23,320
Speaker 1: who wins and loses to that point too, it's interesting.

1211
01:04:23,840 --> 01:04:25,360
Speaker 1: I think they're a little light on the Ravens, I

1212
01:04:25,360 --> 01:04:29,200
Speaker 1: mean and the Titans, which you can't be let them both. Yeah,

1213
01:04:30,360 --> 01:04:34,200
Speaker 1: that's game. If you only get one, you lose. But

1214
01:04:34,520 --> 01:04:36,640
Speaker 1: and you know that the winner is likely going to

1215
01:04:36,680 --> 01:04:38,680
Speaker 1: Kansas City. That's the other part of the equation on

1216
01:04:38,720 --> 01:04:40,520
Speaker 1: that one. So even if you get two games on

1217
01:04:40,520 --> 01:04:43,280
Speaker 1: it there, you're gonna get two three. Yeah, that's into

1218
01:04:43,360 --> 01:04:45,800
Speaker 1: relict team. It would be great. But yeah, good point.

1219
01:04:45,960 --> 01:04:49,040
Speaker 1: So anyways, that's it for the Fantasy Football focus. He

1220
01:04:49,120 --> 01:04:51,680
Speaker 1: is Matt Williamson. I'm Dale Lali. You're listening to the

1221
01:04:51,800 --> 01:04:54,480
Speaker 1: Drive here on Steelers Nation Radio. Tomorrow, we'll pick our

1222
01:04:54,560 --> 01:04:57,800
Speaker 1: DFS team for the weekend. We'll do some we'll do that.

1223
01:04:57,880 --> 01:05:00,120
Speaker 1: Our line up last week was a major hit. But

1224
01:05:00,200 --> 01:05:02,200
Speaker 1: I hope you might be on that team. Yeah, it

1225
01:05:02,200 --> 01:05:04,360
Speaker 1: wouldn't be a bad might be on. Yeah, I get

1226
01:05:04,400 --> 01:05:06,040
Speaker 1: some thinking about that one. Yeah, I have to maybe

1227
01:05:06,080 --> 01:05:09,640
Speaker 1: get some cheap play there. But our ongoing coverage here

1228
01:05:09,640 --> 01:05:12,240
Speaker 1: on Steelers Nation Radio, brought to you by Ford and FedEx.

1229
01:05:12,280 --> 01:05:14,800
Speaker 1: We're gonna take a break. We'll be right back after this.

1230
01:05:17,400 --> 01:05:20,960
Speaker 1: Your tunes about Drive on Home of the Black and

1231
01:05:21,040 --> 01:05:49,120
Speaker 1: Goal Steelers Nation Radio. Yeah, yea, welcome back. I'm Dale

1232
01:05:49,160 --> 01:05:51,840
Speaker 1: Hilly here with Matt Williams in our ongoing coverage here

1233
01:05:51,880 --> 01:05:55,960
Speaker 1: on Steelers Nation Radio, brought to you by FedEx and

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01:05:56,080 --> 01:05:59,600
Speaker 1: Ford and Matt. Usually uh in a playoff week, I

1235
01:05:59,640 --> 01:06:03,280
Speaker 1: would not make mention of this um, but Todd mcshape

1236
01:06:03,400 --> 01:06:06,240
Speaker 1: sent out his first uh cock draft prediction, and the

1237
01:06:06,360 --> 01:06:09,480
Speaker 1: draft order has been set, of course, pending the playoffs.

1238
01:06:09,480 --> 01:06:13,120
Speaker 1: That will all change everything here, but his his mock

1239
01:06:13,200 --> 01:06:17,240
Speaker 1: draft is getting some some attention, shall we say, for

1240
01:06:17,280 --> 01:06:20,040
Speaker 1: some of the surprise picks. Yes, And there's two things

1241
01:06:20,040 --> 01:06:21,560
Speaker 1: I want to mention if you want to buzz through it,

1242
01:06:22,240 --> 01:06:25,120
Speaker 1: just because I know Todd, and the second pick I

1243
01:06:25,160 --> 01:06:26,960
Speaker 1: want to talk about to some degree, and then the

1244
01:06:27,000 --> 01:06:30,280
Speaker 1: fifteenth pick, I'm gonna defend him because it's never gonna happen.

1245
01:06:30,280 --> 01:06:32,440
Speaker 1: And I just listened to their podcast yesterday and Mel

1246
01:06:32,560 --> 01:06:34,640
Speaker 1: was making fun of him. When we get to that pick,

1247
01:06:34,680 --> 01:06:38,400
Speaker 1: it's gonna be Todd basically said, I'm not happy with

1248
01:06:38,440 --> 01:06:40,640
Speaker 1: how that went. I'm not It's not gonna happen. In

1249
01:06:40,720 --> 01:06:42,680
Speaker 1: Mel basically like, what are you even doing? That's that's

1250
01:06:42,800 --> 01:06:44,600
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, the kind of regretted it that happens

1251
01:06:44,600 --> 01:06:46,200
Speaker 1: when you get mock drafts. That's right got to do.

1252
01:06:46,440 --> 01:06:49,840
Speaker 1: I hate mock drafts, but he has. Uh. Of course,

1253
01:06:49,920 --> 01:06:52,760
Speaker 1: Jacksonville taking Trevor Lawrence, no surprise there. He has the

1254
01:06:52,840 --> 01:06:55,880
Speaker 1: Jets at number two, taking a penas Sewell, the offensive

1255
01:06:55,920 --> 01:06:57,720
Speaker 1: tackle out of Work And we talked about that last

1256
01:06:57,760 --> 01:07:00,560
Speaker 1: week a little bit, that that could be a possibility

1257
01:07:01,240 --> 01:07:03,600
Speaker 1: for them. That's the one I wanted to discuss because

1258
01:07:04,200 --> 01:07:07,360
Speaker 1: knowing Todd, and he you know, admits this right away.

1259
01:07:07,800 --> 01:07:10,400
Speaker 1: Joe Douglas and him played college football together and they're

1260
01:07:10,480 --> 01:07:13,320
Speaker 1: very good friends. And I don't know that Douglas has

1261
01:07:13,360 --> 01:07:15,960
Speaker 1: told him or even knows yet. Hey, we're not gonna

1262
01:07:16,080 --> 01:07:21,520
Speaker 1: take a quarterback. Nobody knows you're take than It's still early, right,

1263
01:07:21,640 --> 01:07:24,080
Speaker 1: But Todd thinks that they're gonna stick with Donald and

1264
01:07:24,120 --> 01:07:28,600
Speaker 1: either trade that pick or take Seul or one of

1265
01:07:28,600 --> 01:07:30,560
Speaker 1: the top receiver or something like that. He doesn't think

1266
01:07:30,560 --> 01:07:33,560
Speaker 1: they're gonna go quarterback. That Donald is their guy. So

1267
01:07:34,000 --> 01:07:36,320
Speaker 1: that's one case I believe, you know, the people want

1268
01:07:36,320 --> 01:07:40,520
Speaker 1: to know. Number three has Miami via Houston h taking

1269
01:07:40,560 --> 01:07:43,240
Speaker 1: DeVonta Smith, the olide receiver out of Alabama. Per him

1270
01:07:43,280 --> 01:07:46,920
Speaker 1: with Abama can work well, uh, for he has a

1271
01:07:46,960 --> 01:07:50,640
Speaker 1: new second quarterback. He is Zack Wilson from b Y

1272
01:07:50,680 --> 01:07:52,840
Speaker 1: you going to the Falcons. I think at Land almost

1273
01:07:52,880 --> 01:07:58,120
Speaker 1: has to take one out for right. Yeah's old. Yeah,

1274
01:07:58,160 --> 01:07:59,760
Speaker 1: I mean think about a few of the Steelers and

1275
01:07:59,760 --> 01:08:02,800
Speaker 1: if you would the Steelers had the Falcons like year,

1276
01:08:03,280 --> 01:08:05,280
Speaker 1: I think you take a quarterback at four, that's yeah,

1277
01:08:05,320 --> 01:08:08,160
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. That's how you got Roethlisberg. Uh.

1278
01:08:08,200 --> 01:08:12,960
Speaker 1: At five, the Bengals, UH slide down the five and

1279
01:08:13,120 --> 01:08:16,080
Speaker 1: they take for Shawn Slater, the offensive lineman out of Northwestern.

1280
01:08:16,720 --> 01:08:19,360
Speaker 1: They would really want they would want Suel. I don't

1281
01:08:19,360 --> 01:08:20,880
Speaker 1: know if they would. They wouldn't trade up to do

1282
01:08:20,920 --> 01:08:23,840
Speaker 1: it though, it's not their style. It's'll trade up to

1283
01:08:23,840 --> 01:08:27,040
Speaker 1: get an offensive tackle. And I don't think Soul lasted five. Yeah,

1284
01:08:27,040 --> 01:08:29,680
Speaker 1: I don't think so either. Number six he has the

1285
01:08:29,680 --> 01:08:32,479
Speaker 1: Eagles taking Mike A. Parsons, the linebacker at a Penn State.

1286
01:08:33,120 --> 01:08:37,240
Speaker 1: Number seven has UH the Lions taking Jamar Chase, the

1287
01:08:37,280 --> 01:08:39,479
Speaker 1: wide receiver out of l s. U. Golladay is a

1288
01:08:39,479 --> 01:08:42,040
Speaker 1: free agent. Yeah, they could go so many directions. They're

1289
01:08:42,040 --> 01:08:44,040
Speaker 1: a the Lions are. They have a long history of

1290
01:08:44,080 --> 01:08:47,840
Speaker 1: wide receivers taking wide receivers early. That's not working out,

1291
01:08:47,880 --> 01:08:49,280
Speaker 1: so well that that was I don't know if that

1292
01:08:49,280 --> 01:08:51,800
Speaker 1: would go over well real quick, this section of the draft,

1293
01:08:51,840 --> 01:08:55,000
Speaker 1: what is that like? Six, seven, eight, nine. This is

1294
01:08:55,000 --> 01:08:57,200
Speaker 1: where I don't understand why Todd doesn't have a quarterback

1295
01:08:57,200 --> 01:08:59,080
Speaker 1: fall in one of these polls, because there's a handful

1296
01:08:59,080 --> 01:09:01,360
Speaker 1: of teams here that all would insider. Well Carolina at

1297
01:09:01,400 --> 01:09:03,400
Speaker 1: eight he has taken Kyle Pitts, the tight end out

1298
01:09:03,400 --> 01:09:05,800
Speaker 1: of Florida. I think Pitts is a great you know

1299
01:09:05,880 --> 01:09:07,720
Speaker 1: that that would be a great pick. They are not

1300
01:09:07,920 --> 01:09:11,559
Speaker 1: married to Teddy Bridgewater. They're not gonna pass on a quarterback. No, No,

1301
01:09:11,640 --> 01:09:15,559
Speaker 1: Teddy Bridgewater stinks. Yeah, I think so too. Number nine

1302
01:09:16,000 --> 01:09:22,559
Speaker 1: he has the Broncos taking Jeremiah Oosu Quaramoa. Yeah yeah,

1303
01:09:22,640 --> 01:09:26,879
Speaker 1: the inside linebacker and another Dame. He's a smaller safety

1304
01:09:26,880 --> 01:09:29,360
Speaker 1: linebacker and fly all over the field type guy. Uh.

1305
01:09:29,400 --> 01:09:32,840
Speaker 1: Tedy is the Cowboys taking Patrick's certain the second out

1306
01:09:32,840 --> 01:09:37,320
Speaker 1: of aut Alabama. The cornerback. Um, that's the first corner

1307
01:09:37,320 --> 01:09:40,479
Speaker 1: off the board. Corner Him and the V Tech kid

1308
01:09:40,479 --> 01:09:42,920
Speaker 1: are going to compete for the first spot. Eleven is

1309
01:09:43,120 --> 01:09:48,479
Speaker 1: uh the Giants Gregory Rousso, the edge rusher out of

1310
01:09:48,680 --> 01:09:53,160
Speaker 1: Miami Giants. At twelve, as the forty nine is taking

1311
01:09:53,160 --> 01:09:55,600
Speaker 1: the second cornerback off the board, Caleb Farley at a

1312
01:09:55,680 --> 01:10:00,559
Speaker 1: Virginia Tech. Thirteen the Chargers taking Seawan Wade, the cornerback

1313
01:10:00,560 --> 01:10:05,360
Speaker 1: out of Ohio State. Run run on corners here. I

1314
01:10:05,360 --> 01:10:07,280
Speaker 1: mean they could use a corner, but that's what he's

1315
01:10:07,320 --> 01:10:09,240
Speaker 1: I don't think he's worth the thirteenth pick. He may

1316
01:10:09,280 --> 01:10:11,519
Speaker 1: test well, who knows he was on all the list

1317
01:10:11,560 --> 01:10:16,160
Speaker 1: before the season. Right fourteen the Minnesota Vikings taking Christian

1318
01:10:16,200 --> 01:10:19,160
Speaker 1: Derris saw the offensive tackle out of Virginia Tech. That's

1319
01:10:19,200 --> 01:10:22,280
Speaker 1: the third offensive tackle off the board. And then fifteen

1320
01:10:22,320 --> 01:10:24,559
Speaker 1: the third quarterback finally comes off the board to the

1321
01:10:24,560 --> 01:10:27,920
Speaker 1: Patriots justin Fields out of Ohio State. No way that happens,

1322
01:10:27,920 --> 01:10:29,439
Speaker 1: No way that happens, right, And I don't think the

1323
01:10:29,479 --> 01:10:32,280
Speaker 1: audio believes that. Like I said, um, they can see

1324
01:10:32,280 --> 01:10:35,679
Speaker 1: them trade up to six and taking Fields or Wilson. Yeah,

1325
01:10:36,040 --> 01:10:39,120
Speaker 1: they could certainly be a quarterback type of team. How

1326
01:10:39,160 --> 01:10:41,960
Speaker 1: about this little rumor, only you wouldn't call it a rumor,

1327
01:10:42,040 --> 01:10:44,960
Speaker 1: but there's a little bit of buzz that DeShawn Watson

1328
01:10:45,000 --> 01:10:47,360
Speaker 1: once traded now and they said today that he's not.

1329
01:10:47,360 --> 01:10:51,240
Speaker 1: They're not trading well, maybe New England because they just

1330
01:10:51,360 --> 01:10:57,680
Speaker 1: you know, they're not trading town not. Uh. Sixteen is

1331
01:10:57,720 --> 01:11:01,120
Speaker 1: the Arizona Cardinals taking Travis eight In the running back

1332
01:11:01,120 --> 01:11:07,080
Speaker 1: at of Clemson early. Yeah. The Raiders at seventeen taking

1333
01:11:07,160 --> 01:11:11,479
Speaker 1: another wide receiver, Jalen Waddell out of Alabama the same

1334
01:11:11,479 --> 01:11:13,680
Speaker 1: time decision for Monday. He may be back for the

1335
01:11:13,760 --> 01:11:18,200
Speaker 1: National Championship. Another wide receiver at eighteen, Rashad Bateman out

1336
01:11:18,200 --> 01:11:23,160
Speaker 1: of Minnesota, big physical guy. At nineteen, the Washington Football

1337
01:11:23,200 --> 01:11:25,519
Speaker 1: Teau team takes Trey Lance out of North Dakota State,

1338
01:11:25,600 --> 01:11:27,519
Speaker 1: the quarterback he last that long, was all said and

1339
01:11:27,560 --> 01:11:29,519
Speaker 1: done too. Yeah, if I were them, might do that

1340
01:11:29,520 --> 01:11:32,400
Speaker 1: in heartbeat right now. Chicago at twenty takes Elijah more

1341
01:11:32,439 --> 01:11:36,280
Speaker 1: the wide receiver edible Miss smaller, smaller guy. Yeah. Twenty

1342
01:11:36,320 --> 01:11:39,280
Speaker 1: one the Colt steak Mac Jones, the quarterback out of Alabama.

1343
01:11:39,600 --> 01:11:41,680
Speaker 1: That would make some sense, but it wouldn't shock me

1344
01:11:41,720 --> 01:11:45,880
Speaker 1: if they already have Stafford. When starn all your Rivers,

1345
01:11:45,920 --> 01:11:48,679
Speaker 1: I mean, if you're pretty Rivers back, you know it's possible. Yeah.

1346
01:11:48,680 --> 01:11:50,880
Speaker 1: I can see them running back again with Rivers and

1347
01:11:50,920 --> 01:11:54,240
Speaker 1: then drafting a dude. Yeah. Uh. Twenty two of Jacksonville

1348
01:11:54,360 --> 01:11:57,679
Speaker 1: via The Rams take dave On Nixon, the defensive tackle

1349
01:11:57,760 --> 01:12:00,760
Speaker 1: out of Iowa. That's the first defensive tackle. Take it. Yeah,

1350
01:12:00,880 --> 01:12:03,160
Speaker 1: that never happens. It's crazy. And I've seen a lot

1351
01:12:03,160 --> 01:12:04,840
Speaker 1: of marks that don't have any going this year, which

1352
01:12:04,880 --> 01:12:07,479
Speaker 1: is not that won't happen. It won't happen. It's just

1353
01:12:07,520 --> 01:12:11,599
Speaker 1: a valuable position. Uh. Twenty three The Brown steaking Zaven Collins,

1354
01:12:11,640 --> 01:12:14,960
Speaker 1: outside linebacker out of Tulsa. Okay, I mean he's kind

1355
01:12:14,960 --> 01:12:16,479
Speaker 1: of a I think he'd be probably an edge for that.

1356
01:12:16,520 --> 01:12:18,840
Speaker 1: They need some madge yet, Um, I gotta do a

1357
01:12:18,840 --> 01:12:20,320
Speaker 1: little more homework on him. I'm not sure if he's

1358
01:12:20,320 --> 01:12:22,479
Speaker 1: a second level guy or what. I wonder if they

1359
01:12:22,720 --> 01:12:25,519
Speaker 1: could go he's an outside backer, he said, I think

1360
01:12:25,560 --> 01:12:30,920
Speaker 1: he's a ka. I mean Vernon is like young um

1361
01:12:30,960 --> 01:12:34,920
Speaker 1: he and he's a free agent and coming injury. Twenty

1362
01:12:34,960 --> 01:12:39,960
Speaker 1: four The Titan steak Joseph asai um from outside linebacker

1363
01:12:40,040 --> 01:12:45,320
Speaker 1: of Texas. They need saka I mean. Twenty four The

1364
01:12:45,400 --> 01:12:49,720
Speaker 1: Jets vs. Seattle take Chris alve the wide receiver out

1365
01:12:49,720 --> 01:12:53,640
Speaker 1: of Yeah. Makes sense, very very safe pick from what

1366
01:12:53,680 --> 01:12:55,920
Speaker 1: I've seen too. I mean, really good route runner. They

1367
01:12:55,960 --> 01:12:59,240
Speaker 1: need another one the twenty six the Ravens. He is

1368
01:12:59,280 --> 01:13:02,960
Speaker 1: taking Queedy Pay, the defensive ended of Michigan. He's another

1369
01:13:02,960 --> 01:13:06,559
Speaker 1: one of those Michigan guys that highly touted, super good

1370
01:13:06,600 --> 01:13:09,960
Speaker 1: tester eight and a half saxon his last sixteen games

1371
01:13:09,960 --> 01:13:12,640
Speaker 1: in college. Like, I would think a guard would make

1372
01:13:12,640 --> 01:13:15,200
Speaker 1: a lot of sense for the Ravens to um. But

1373
01:13:15,240 --> 01:13:16,960
Speaker 1: if you look at their depth chart, which we can

1374
01:13:17,000 --> 01:13:19,320
Speaker 1: do in the offseason, like all their edge are up

1375
01:13:19,400 --> 01:13:21,680
Speaker 1: for free agents, they're bringing back like nothing and they

1376
01:13:21,680 --> 01:13:24,200
Speaker 1: can't pay I mean, they can't pay them all. Jackson

1377
01:13:24,240 --> 01:13:26,920
Speaker 1: is probably gonna want a new contract this offseason, right

1378
01:13:27,000 --> 01:13:28,840
Speaker 1: right right, you know, they could be really hurting at

1379
01:13:28,840 --> 01:13:32,599
Speaker 1: that position. Twenty seven the Tampa Bay Buccaneers take Christian Bearmore,

1380
01:13:32,720 --> 01:13:34,960
Speaker 1: the defensive tackle of Alabama. He's the one that I

1381
01:13:35,040 --> 01:13:38,040
Speaker 1: mostly seen as the top defensive tackle, but borderline first

1382
01:13:38,080 --> 01:13:41,439
Speaker 1: round type guy. At eight, he has the Steelers taking

1383
01:13:41,600 --> 01:13:45,080
Speaker 1: Nausea Harris running back out of Alabama. I think we're

1384
01:13:45,080 --> 01:13:47,880
Speaker 1: gonna talk about that scenario a lot. We're going to

1385
01:13:47,920 --> 01:13:50,519
Speaker 1: talk about it. There are only three offensive tackles or

1386
01:13:50,560 --> 01:13:53,679
Speaker 1: three offensive lineman period taking taking ahead of this spot.

1387
01:13:54,600 --> 01:13:56,559
Speaker 1: That would be what would intrigue me about this, because

1388
01:13:56,600 --> 01:13:58,320
Speaker 1: you can get a running back in the second round,

1389
01:13:58,320 --> 01:14:00,240
Speaker 1: can you get it? Can you get the third bet

1390
01:14:00,439 --> 01:14:04,400
Speaker 1: offensive tackle or the top guard in the draft in

1391
01:14:04,439 --> 01:14:06,479
Speaker 1: the second round? Probably not. I wouldn't be in the

1392
01:14:06,479 --> 01:14:09,720
Speaker 1: market for a guard. Well, the next pick is why

1393
01:14:09,920 --> 01:14:13,120
Speaker 1: Davis the guard out of Ohio State. I can see that.

1394
01:14:13,280 --> 01:14:15,320
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean people, those people haven't projected as

1395
01:14:15,320 --> 01:14:17,599
Speaker 1: a late first Yeah. I just don't think the Steelers

1396
01:14:17,640 --> 01:14:21,080
Speaker 1: need a guard. Uh. At thirty New Orleans taking Nick

1397
01:14:21,120 --> 01:14:24,840
Speaker 1: Bolton inside linebacker ant of Missouri. Okay. At thirty one,

1398
01:14:25,120 --> 01:14:27,840
Speaker 1: the Green Bay Packers taking Terence Marshall wide receiver out

1399
01:14:27,840 --> 01:14:30,280
Speaker 1: of l s U. He opted out. And at thirty

1400
01:14:30,280 --> 01:14:34,040
Speaker 1: two is the the Chiefs taking Darien Kendrick cornerback out

1401
01:14:34,040 --> 01:14:38,720
Speaker 1: of Clemson. Yeah. I don't think that the Chiefs are

1402
01:14:38,720 --> 01:14:42,479
Speaker 1: gonna be picking thirty second. Feeling about that, I would

1403
01:14:42,520 --> 01:14:44,559
Speaker 1: take the field over the Chiefs. I would take the

1404
01:14:44,600 --> 01:14:47,439
Speaker 1: field over as well. UM. One note just for for

1405
01:14:47,439 --> 01:14:50,679
Speaker 1: Steeler fans, I think if you watch that that National

1406
01:14:50,760 --> 01:14:55,040
Speaker 1: Championship game on Monday, we mentioned j Harris, I think, sermon,

1407
01:14:55,120 --> 01:14:59,000
Speaker 1: the Ohio State running back is probably I'm guessing third

1408
01:14:59,080 --> 01:15:00,800
Speaker 1: rounder I mean, I think he's somebody that could be

1409
01:15:00,840 --> 01:15:04,160
Speaker 1: an equation from Pittsburgh and Bama's left tackle. You didn't

1410
01:15:04,200 --> 01:15:08,200
Speaker 1: mention Leatherwood is potential there too. At the end of

1411
01:15:08,200 --> 01:15:15,479
Speaker 1: the first I'm just looking here at his overall rankings. Um,

1412
01:15:15,680 --> 01:15:17,320
Speaker 1: just see him where he you know, he usually has

1413
01:15:17,320 --> 01:15:20,040
Speaker 1: a top five. Oh, there we go. There's a I'm

1414
01:15:20,080 --> 01:15:23,240
Speaker 1: looking in that range of Uh. There's a tackle out

1415
01:15:23,280 --> 01:15:26,240
Speaker 1: of Texas that they didn't mention that could be in

1416
01:15:26,280 --> 01:15:30,360
Speaker 1: that Steeler neighborhood the Virginia hech Kiddy saw that you

1417
01:15:30,400 --> 01:15:33,320
Speaker 1: did mention. I had never seen him going that early.

1418
01:15:33,360 --> 01:15:37,320
Speaker 1: I've seen him going right around the Steelers neighborhood too. Yeah. Um,

1419
01:15:37,479 --> 01:15:39,080
Speaker 1: And I mean there's a chance E t N would

1420
01:15:39,080 --> 01:15:41,599
Speaker 1: fallow the Steelers too. I don't know if they would

1421
01:15:41,640 --> 01:15:44,400
Speaker 1: prefer Harris or a t N. You get the Tevin

1422
01:15:44,479 --> 01:15:48,880
Speaker 1: Jenkins out of Oklahoma State is a big yeah, six

1423
01:15:48,920 --> 01:15:53,360
Speaker 1: six and a half, three and twenty pounds. You get

1424
01:15:53,400 --> 01:15:57,640
Speaker 1: Samuel caused me from a Texas Texas Texas for a

1425
01:15:57,720 --> 01:16:01,120
Speaker 1: big guy. Um, and you're can Spencer Brown at a

1426
01:16:01,160 --> 01:16:04,720
Speaker 1: Northern Iowa. Is he massive? He's six seven and a

1427
01:16:04,760 --> 01:16:07,880
Speaker 1: half and three pounds. Yeah, I think he's huge looking.

1428
01:16:08,080 --> 01:16:10,320
Speaker 1: So there's some I mean Walker little, there's some guys

1429
01:16:10,320 --> 01:16:12,760
Speaker 1: here in the second round maybe that you look at

1430
01:16:13,120 --> 01:16:15,719
Speaker 1: uh an offensive tackle. What you're not seeing a bunch

1431
01:16:15,760 --> 01:16:19,120
Speaker 1: of their centers. No center markets a little rough and

1432
01:16:19,800 --> 01:16:22,880
Speaker 1: most people have the best center as the Bama guy

1433
01:16:23,240 --> 01:16:28,439
Speaker 1: land Landon Dickerson and he's six five pounds. Yeah, he's huge.

1434
01:16:28,520 --> 01:16:30,639
Speaker 1: I don't know that that that kind of size fits

1435
01:16:30,680 --> 01:16:32,040
Speaker 1: here for what the Steelers like to do with their

1436
01:16:32,400 --> 01:16:34,559
Speaker 1: or with their centers. I don't love six five center. No,

1437
01:16:34,640 --> 01:16:37,280
Speaker 1: I don't love three pounds center. I don't love either

1438
01:16:37,320 --> 01:16:39,160
Speaker 1: in terms of movement or not right. I mean they

1439
01:16:39,520 --> 01:16:41,479
Speaker 1: rave about him there. I think he's a team captain.

1440
01:16:41,600 --> 01:16:44,280
Speaker 1: And he's probably gonna fallow now because he got injured

1441
01:16:44,320 --> 01:16:46,360
Speaker 1: a game or two ago. You know he's not gonna

1442
01:16:46,400 --> 01:16:49,160
Speaker 1: be healthy for workouts. He has Creed Humphrey out of

1443
01:16:49,160 --> 01:16:52,400
Speaker 1: Oklahoma is a second guy. He's a little more six

1444
01:16:52,439 --> 01:16:56,240
Speaker 1: four three fifteen. Is you mentioned the running backs, and yes,

1445
01:16:56,320 --> 01:16:58,320
Speaker 1: you can always find one in the second or third round,

1446
01:16:58,400 --> 01:17:00,240
Speaker 1: but it's not a good running back draft can paired

1447
01:17:00,240 --> 01:17:03,760
Speaker 1: to recent years. Um, there's a dude, Williams that I

1448
01:17:03,840 --> 01:17:07,400
Speaker 1: really like in the Steeler mold from North Carolina. Yeah,

1449
01:17:07,400 --> 01:17:09,600
Speaker 1: those I like the North Carolina Backs. One is a

1450
01:17:09,600 --> 01:17:12,479
Speaker 1: smaller shift of your guy and Williams, Michael Michael Carter

1451
01:17:12,560 --> 01:17:15,120
Speaker 1: is a smaller guy. Williams is the bases and pounder.

1452
01:17:15,160 --> 01:17:19,439
Speaker 1: And you know I heard Marian Barber comparison. Probably a

1453
01:17:19,439 --> 01:17:21,439
Speaker 1: little bit better athlete than Barber. Yeah, those guys are

1454
01:17:21,439 --> 01:17:25,800
Speaker 1: definitely interesting. To keep an eye on the two Carolina Backs.

1455
01:17:25,800 --> 01:17:29,160
Speaker 1: But that's probably late second, late third, probably a third

1456
01:17:29,400 --> 01:17:32,519
Speaker 1: yea for the Steelers. Yeah, and we'll see, you know,

1457
01:17:32,760 --> 01:17:35,280
Speaker 1: they'll they'll be compensatory picks handed out here. The Steeler

1458
01:17:35,280 --> 01:17:38,120
Speaker 1: should get some some play there with that stuff. Yeah,

1459
01:17:38,120 --> 01:17:40,160
Speaker 1: I guess they probably will this yeh. Yeah, they should

1460
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Speaker 1: be in the in the bonus at least one or two.

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Speaker 1: So that's gonna be worth watching. But we're gonna take

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Speaker 1: a break. We come back, we'll finish up talking about

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Speaker 1: the game. For today. Everything is happening here with the

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Speaker 1: Steelers and Browns. He is Matt Williams and I'm Dale Lolli.

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01:17:54,680 --> 01:17:57,040
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Speaker 1: Your tunes about drive on Home of the Black and

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Speaker 1: Goals Steelers Nation Radio. We are back on dallwel here

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01:18:40,720 --> 01:18:43,599
Speaker 1: with Matt Williamson and matthewa Steelers. We mentioned that Juju

1470
01:18:43,640 --> 01:18:47,240
Speaker 1: Smith Schuster did not practice today. He's dealing with that

1471
01:18:47,320 --> 01:18:52,519
Speaker 1: knee that's been really since week one issue. Um, he's

1472
01:18:52,520 --> 01:18:55,760
Speaker 1: still in a pretty productive year. Catches and catches. I

1473
01:18:55,840 --> 01:19:00,200
Speaker 1: mean give him some credit. Uh. Chris Boswell back as

1474
01:19:00,240 --> 01:19:04,360
Speaker 1: a full participant today. That's a right groin injury for him. Uh.

1475
01:19:04,400 --> 01:19:07,160
Speaker 1: Stephen Nelson back with the knee as he was that

1476
01:19:07,200 --> 01:19:09,960
Speaker 1: sat out interday with the knee. Terrell Edmonds again a

1477
01:19:10,000 --> 01:19:12,360
Speaker 1: full participant with that shoulder and not a big deal there.

1478
01:19:12,960 --> 01:19:15,759
Speaker 1: But Tyson and Loui and lou with the ankle back full,

1479
01:19:16,280 --> 01:19:18,759
Speaker 1: as was Vince Williams with the quad. Yeah, that's big.

1480
01:19:19,120 --> 01:19:21,400
Speaker 1: I think Williams is a key contributor this week just

1481
01:19:21,439 --> 01:19:25,599
Speaker 1: in terms of the veteran recognition skills, and Williamson has

1482
01:19:25,640 --> 01:19:29,120
Speaker 1: that too, I mean not biting on play action too much. Um,

1483
01:19:29,160 --> 01:19:31,840
Speaker 1: he's clearly a very good run defender and that that's

1484
01:19:31,840 --> 01:19:34,840
Speaker 1: what the Browns want to do. I think he's a

1485
01:19:34,880 --> 01:19:37,880
Speaker 1: big don't know how much you'll see of Williamson this

1486
01:19:37,880 --> 01:19:42,080
Speaker 1: this week. Williamson, Yeah, Um, you know, the Steelers don't

1487
01:19:42,160 --> 01:19:45,960
Speaker 1: have to list Matt Feiler or Robert Spillane on that

1488
01:19:46,000 --> 01:19:49,800
Speaker 1: injury list because they've not been activated yet. They're actually

1489
01:19:49,840 --> 01:19:54,200
Speaker 1: still on the injured reserve list. But listening to the

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01:19:54,600 --> 01:19:59,040
Speaker 1: two coordinators today, uh, Keith Butler and Randy Feakner, it

1491
01:19:59,160 --> 01:20:02,160
Speaker 1: sure sounds like those two guys are gonna play. And

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01:20:02,200 --> 01:20:04,240
Speaker 1: I expect that if they play, they're going to start

1493
01:20:04,640 --> 01:20:06,920
Speaker 1: I would think. I mean, it sure seems like Filer

1494
01:20:07,840 --> 01:20:10,040
Speaker 1: it sets up to go back to his left guard duties.

1495
01:20:10,040 --> 01:20:12,400
Speaker 1: And we had a little talk about that yesterday and Splane,

1496
01:20:13,560 --> 01:20:16,160
Speaker 1: I give him credit. I mean, he's had a pretty

1497
01:20:16,160 --> 01:20:18,679
Speaker 1: good year. Keith Butler talked when he was asked about

1498
01:20:18,760 --> 01:20:23,320
Speaker 1: Robert Speline. He said, look, um, you know I've I've

1499
01:20:23,360 --> 01:20:25,640
Speaker 1: watched you. You watch Derrick Henry running up and down

1500
01:20:25,720 --> 01:20:28,320
Speaker 1: the field against teams this year, and you see one

1501
01:20:28,360 --> 01:20:31,800
Speaker 1: guy slamming into him and and you know, throwing his

1502
01:20:31,840 --> 01:20:33,760
Speaker 1: body in there and and stopping him cold. And that

1503
01:20:33,800 --> 01:20:39,120
Speaker 1: was Robert Spillane. Yeah. You know, by the way, you

1504
01:20:39,120 --> 01:20:41,679
Speaker 1: didn't stop Nick chubbing some of those situations last week,

1505
01:20:41,760 --> 01:20:44,360
Speaker 1: like you know. I mean he could be there next

1506
01:20:44,920 --> 01:20:47,040
Speaker 1: undrafted free agent and get him for nothing type guy

1507
01:20:47,160 --> 01:20:50,160
Speaker 1: that has a six year career here, you know. Yeah,

1508
01:20:50,200 --> 01:20:52,920
Speaker 1: I mean you line up next to Bush next year

1509
01:20:53,040 --> 01:20:55,080
Speaker 1: or as your third guy in a rotation at least

1510
01:20:55,439 --> 01:20:57,640
Speaker 1: at least he's back as your third guy. You know,

1511
01:20:58,000 --> 01:21:00,200
Speaker 1: he's done enough for that, and he's he's a darn

1512
01:21:00,280 --> 01:21:03,000
Speaker 1: good special teams player that too. Do you think he's

1513
01:21:03,040 --> 01:21:06,800
Speaker 1: more athletic than Williams or Williamson just in terms of

1514
01:21:06,960 --> 01:21:11,200
Speaker 1: range speed? I mean he's not Bush. I mean clearly

1515
01:21:11,200 --> 01:21:14,120
Speaker 1: they're lacking at that. I don't know that he is. Um,

1516
01:21:14,160 --> 01:21:17,960
Speaker 1: I know he's more. He's more athletic than Tyler Medakevich was. Yes, Yeah,

1517
01:21:18,080 --> 01:21:20,559
Speaker 1: I think so too. I think he's probably equal in

1518
01:21:20,640 --> 01:21:24,240
Speaker 1: space to the other two. Yeah, he's he's longer and leaner,

1519
01:21:24,280 --> 01:21:26,840
Speaker 1: and yeah, different types of guys. So it gives you

1520
01:21:26,840 --> 01:21:29,080
Speaker 1: a little bit extra in terms of coverage because of

1521
01:21:29,120 --> 01:21:32,040
Speaker 1: that length, length against tight ends and whatnot to Yeah,

1522
01:21:32,040 --> 01:21:34,640
Speaker 1: that's a good point. Speaking of tight ends. One thing

1523
01:21:34,680 --> 01:21:36,400
Speaker 1: I think that I would do if I were the

1524
01:21:36,400 --> 01:21:40,320
Speaker 1: Browns would be a lot of double and even three

1525
01:21:40,360 --> 01:21:42,639
Speaker 1: tight ends if Briant could play, did we think he's

1526
01:21:42,640 --> 01:21:44,320
Speaker 1: playing or not. I don't think he is. I was

1527
01:21:44,320 --> 01:21:46,040
Speaker 1: thinking that more yesterday before I heard that. I mean,

1528
01:21:46,080 --> 01:21:48,680
Speaker 1: he rushing a rookie back to play him again if

1529
01:21:48,760 --> 01:21:50,720
Speaker 1: you know he's been out with COVID. I mean, they

1530
01:21:50,800 --> 01:21:52,160
Speaker 1: use a lot of tight ends to begin with, but

1531
01:21:52,200 --> 01:21:54,040
Speaker 1: I would even ramp that up and try to get

1532
01:21:54,040 --> 01:21:58,120
Speaker 1: into Joku and Hooper, And I was thinking Brian against

1533
01:21:58,120 --> 01:22:01,240
Speaker 1: heavier Steeler defenders. Know it's just because I think it's

1534
01:22:01,240 --> 01:22:04,439
Speaker 1: a tough time in the passing game. The problem with

1535
01:22:04,479 --> 01:22:06,839
Speaker 1: that is, you know when when you go to a nickel,

1536
01:22:07,720 --> 01:22:09,439
Speaker 1: when you get the Steelers to go to a nickel,

1537
01:22:10,479 --> 01:22:13,519
Speaker 1: you're taking a Lula lu off the field. And Lua

1538
01:22:13,560 --> 01:22:16,600
Speaker 1: louis played very well this year. Are you gonna be

1539
01:22:16,640 --> 01:22:19,240
Speaker 1: able to run the ball as well? When when you've

1540
01:22:19,240 --> 01:22:21,000
Speaker 1: got a Lula Lu Heyward and two it in the

1541
01:22:21,040 --> 01:22:23,479
Speaker 1: game with both of them, you know, with the outside linebacker.

1542
01:22:23,720 --> 01:22:25,800
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know what that answer is.

1543
01:22:25,960 --> 01:22:29,000
Speaker 1: I mean, also when you get nickel though, you get

1544
01:22:29,040 --> 01:22:32,920
Speaker 1: more diverse blitz packages, things like that, you know, hilting

1545
01:22:32,920 --> 01:22:35,080
Speaker 1: and in particular factors in that way. I don't know

1546
01:22:35,120 --> 01:22:36,880
Speaker 1: if there's a good answer to that. Now I know neither.

1547
01:22:36,960 --> 01:22:39,280
Speaker 1: Now that the linebackers are healthy, it's a nice advantage

1548
01:22:39,280 --> 01:22:40,680
Speaker 1: for that. I mean, I think you can get them

1549
01:22:40,680 --> 01:22:44,599
Speaker 1: into nickel package and throw against the linebackers. Yeah, you know,

1550
01:22:44,880 --> 01:22:47,920
Speaker 1: but at the same time, you know you're getting Hilton

1551
01:22:48,000 --> 01:22:49,679
Speaker 1: on the field and you never know when he's gonna

1552
01:22:49,880 --> 01:22:52,880
Speaker 1: come buzzing your quarterback, and their third receiver isn't very good,

1553
01:22:52,920 --> 01:22:55,479
Speaker 1: and then yeah, they get issues there. I know in

1554
01:22:55,520 --> 01:22:59,320
Speaker 1: the game last week and people were, as they always do, commenting, well,

1555
01:22:59,400 --> 01:23:01,240
Speaker 1: how did the steel how did the Browns keep getting

1556
01:23:01,320 --> 01:23:06,760
Speaker 1: a wide receiver matched up on side? Note to what

1557
01:23:06,800 --> 01:23:08,840
Speaker 1: we were just talking about it if the Browns come

1558
01:23:08,840 --> 01:23:12,559
Speaker 1: out in a double tight end package, the Steelers, Yeah,

1559
01:23:12,600 --> 01:23:14,320
Speaker 1: the Steelers are going to put their keep their base

1560
01:23:14,400 --> 01:23:18,280
Speaker 1: defense on the field. The Browns then detach one of

1561
01:23:18,280 --> 01:23:20,559
Speaker 1: those tight ends and put him out wide of the

1562
01:23:21,200 --> 01:23:23,559
Speaker 1: of the wide receiver. You split him out to the

1563
01:23:23,640 --> 01:23:25,800
Speaker 1: to make him put him on the boundary. Now, if

1564
01:23:25,800 --> 01:23:27,720
Speaker 1: you're the Steelers, you say, okay, do we want our

1565
01:23:27,760 --> 01:23:31,200
Speaker 1: linebacker then traveling out with the tight end, and you're

1566
01:23:31,200 --> 01:23:34,200
Speaker 1: also telling the world you're playing man covers then exactly

1567
01:23:34,520 --> 01:23:39,120
Speaker 1: and putting them out of the box. So in that

1568
01:23:39,240 --> 01:23:41,519
Speaker 1: situation you have you trade up for Bush, you split,

1569
01:23:41,600 --> 01:23:43,880
Speaker 1: you split your linebacker out, and he ends up covering

1570
01:23:43,920 --> 01:23:47,439
Speaker 1: a wide receiver who they then throw the ball to. Right.

1571
01:23:47,520 --> 01:23:50,120
Speaker 1: I mean, in a way, there's no answer, right, I mean,

1572
01:23:50,120 --> 01:23:52,960
Speaker 1: they're gonna cover somebody. The Steelers do this by the

1573
01:23:53,000 --> 01:23:55,360
Speaker 1: way to people too. If how how quickly we forget

1574
01:23:55,479 --> 01:23:59,120
Speaker 1: Chase Claypool down the middle of the field against Philadelphia

1575
01:23:59,240 --> 01:24:01,519
Speaker 1: early in the Sea and was that was because Ben

1576
01:24:01,600 --> 01:24:04,160
Speaker 1: Roethlisberger said, oh, if I stack these three guys on

1577
01:24:04,240 --> 01:24:06,479
Speaker 1: this side and put Claypool on the inside, he's going

1578
01:24:06,560 --> 01:24:10,280
Speaker 1: to get the linebacker. Exactly. Somebody has to get the linebacker.

1579
01:24:10,520 --> 01:24:12,800
Speaker 1: That's the value of Bush because when he gets in

1580
01:24:12,840 --> 01:24:16,719
Speaker 1: that bind, as offensive coordinators so often do, that's their job.

1581
01:24:17,240 --> 01:24:19,400
Speaker 1: He can compete a little better. You know, he can

1582
01:24:19,479 --> 01:24:22,519
Speaker 1: run with juju in the world. It's still not perfect.

1583
01:24:22,560 --> 01:24:25,120
Speaker 1: It's still not perfect. But then they run on you.

1584
01:24:25,200 --> 01:24:27,280
Speaker 1: I mean, there's unless you have a whole team of

1585
01:24:27,360 --> 01:24:33,439
Speaker 1: Bushes and Derwin James that can do everything. Would have

1586
01:24:33,520 --> 01:24:35,160
Speaker 1: a better group than most, you know, I mean they're

1587
01:24:35,160 --> 01:24:36,719
Speaker 1: all first round picks on that side of the ball,

1588
01:24:36,760 --> 01:24:39,280
Speaker 1: and you know they have better athleticism than most teams.

1589
01:24:39,320 --> 01:24:41,120
Speaker 1: But it's going to happen. That the thing that the

1590
01:24:41,160 --> 01:24:44,919
Speaker 1: way you defeat that as a defense, she pressure the quarterback.

1591
01:24:45,600 --> 01:24:48,040
Speaker 1: You can't allow that wide receiver or tight end to

1592
01:24:48,080 --> 01:24:50,719
Speaker 1: get down the field on your linebacker. If he's twenty

1593
01:24:50,800 --> 01:24:54,920
Speaker 1: yards down the field, he's probably open. Yeah, And that's

1594
01:24:54,920 --> 01:24:57,559
Speaker 1: where that's the failure in the play. The failure in

1595
01:24:57,560 --> 01:25:00,400
Speaker 1: the play is not getting that matchup because it's going

1596
01:25:00,439 --> 01:25:02,719
Speaker 1: to happen. The failure in the play to defend it

1597
01:25:02,760 --> 01:25:04,360
Speaker 1: is to not get to the quarterback and make him

1598
01:25:04,360 --> 01:25:06,640
Speaker 1: get rid of the ball before he wants to. And

1599
01:25:06,680 --> 01:25:09,120
Speaker 1: then there's like the Kelsey's of the world that are

1600
01:25:09,240 --> 01:25:11,120
Speaker 1: or even like an Ingram who's not a great player.

1601
01:25:11,400 --> 01:25:13,759
Speaker 1: But if they come out and what they call twelve

1602
01:25:13,800 --> 01:25:16,000
Speaker 1: personnel back to tight ends, and one of them is

1603
01:25:16,120 --> 01:25:18,840
Speaker 1: Ingram or Kelsey, well you better be a nickel then, right,

1604
01:25:18,880 --> 01:25:20,759
Speaker 1: you know? Because those the same thing for the Steelers,

1605
01:25:20,760 --> 01:25:23,559
Speaker 1: this same thing when the Browns on the field that

1606
01:25:23,920 --> 01:25:27,920
Speaker 1: you cause that, yeah, there's a defense. But then there's

1607
01:25:28,080 --> 01:25:30,960
Speaker 1: to me, Gronk and Kittle were the ones that have

1608
01:25:30,960 --> 01:25:33,240
Speaker 1: no answers for right, because they're really as good at

1609
01:25:33,240 --> 01:25:36,200
Speaker 1: receivers as the others, and they tremendous blockers, so there's

1610
01:25:36,240 --> 01:25:39,720
Speaker 1: no answer for them. Yeah, I mean it's it's going

1611
01:25:39,760 --> 01:25:42,000
Speaker 1: to there's going to be a time in this game

1612
01:25:42,040 --> 01:25:45,840
Speaker 1: on Sunday where the Browns get a linebacker matched up

1613
01:25:45,840 --> 01:25:48,600
Speaker 1: on one of the Jarvis Landry will have a linebacker

1614
01:25:48,640 --> 01:25:52,280
Speaker 1: on him. Oh yeah, it's gonna havel and everybody's gonna

1615
01:25:52,280 --> 01:25:54,400
Speaker 1: complain about it. Everybody's gonna complain about and so would

1616
01:25:54,439 --> 01:25:57,080
Speaker 1: you do. And I'm sure if you watch whatever the

1617
01:25:57,160 --> 01:25:59,760
Speaker 1: NBA game is on tonight, at some point of guard,

1618
01:26:00,040 --> 01:26:02,200
Speaker 1: but he's gonna switch, yeah, and then they're gonna post

1619
01:26:02,240 --> 01:26:08,840
Speaker 1: him up. And you know that's design and stuff they do. Right. Um.

1620
01:26:09,120 --> 01:26:10,880
Speaker 1: On the Brown side of things, again, this was an

1621
01:26:11,000 --> 01:26:13,320
Speaker 1: estimation because they weren't able to practice now for a

1622
01:26:13,360 --> 01:26:17,960
Speaker 1: second consecutive day. So again, how do you know? You

1623
01:26:18,000 --> 01:26:21,880
Speaker 1: don't know. But they listed Jack Conklin as limited today.

1624
01:26:22,040 --> 01:26:24,599
Speaker 1: He's been fighting something for a while, that's a knee. Uh.

1625
01:26:24,640 --> 01:26:27,320
Speaker 1: They listed Myles Garrett with the shoulder as a full participant.

1626
01:26:27,320 --> 01:26:31,200
Speaker 1: Again these are estimations. Uh. Kendall Lamb with the illness,

1627
01:26:31,360 --> 01:26:34,920
Speaker 1: the backup offensive tackle, was a full participant. Jarvis Landry

1628
01:26:34,960 --> 01:26:37,720
Speaker 1: with the hip a full participant. Donovan People Jones, who

1629
01:26:37,760 --> 01:26:39,599
Speaker 1: we talked about earlier in the show in the fantasy

1630
01:26:39,600 --> 01:26:43,880
Speaker 1: segment with that concussion, did not practice. Um, that seems unlikely.

1631
01:26:43,880 --> 01:26:47,200
Speaker 1: That was good. Yeah, I don't, I don't. Yeah, they

1632
01:26:47,240 --> 01:26:50,200
Speaker 1: used him a lot. Uh. Sheldon Richardson with the neck

1633
01:26:50,520 --> 01:26:53,559
Speaker 1: was listed as limited. U. M. J. Stewart, the cornerback

1634
01:26:53,640 --> 01:26:57,200
Speaker 1: with the calf, was limited. Guard Wyatt Teller with an

1635
01:26:57,240 --> 01:27:01,960
Speaker 1: ankle was limited. Cornerback to Ry Thomas with an abdomen,

1636
01:27:02,040 --> 01:27:04,479
Speaker 1: was a full participant in center. J. C. Trader with

1637
01:27:04,479 --> 01:27:08,400
Speaker 1: the knee listed as limited. My Hunches Teller, I want

1638
01:27:08,439 --> 01:27:10,080
Speaker 1: to talk about the interior of their offensive line just

1639
01:27:10,080 --> 01:27:14,599
Speaker 1: for a minute. I mean, my Hunches Teller and Trader

1640
01:27:15,080 --> 01:27:17,680
Speaker 1: both play. They're playing. They played last week, and you know,

1641
01:27:17,720 --> 01:27:19,439
Speaker 1: you can listen to whatever you want. They didn't. They

1642
01:27:19,479 --> 01:27:22,280
Speaker 1: didn't have a practice today. We know Batonio is out.

1643
01:27:22,880 --> 01:27:24,240
Speaker 1: I should know this aw the top of my head.

1644
01:27:24,280 --> 01:27:27,320
Speaker 1: But I think their backup guard is out too. He is,

1645
01:27:27,479 --> 01:27:29,000
Speaker 1: and I forget who that is off the top of

1646
01:27:29,000 --> 01:27:30,719
Speaker 1: my head, but they're gonna be playing basically a third

1647
01:27:30,720 --> 01:27:34,960
Speaker 1: string guard over Cam Hayward. Uh. Yeah, Nick Harris is

1648
01:27:34,960 --> 01:27:36,599
Speaker 1: the guy that they want to use there, and he's

1649
01:27:36,640 --> 01:27:40,120
Speaker 1: out and even Hubbard's out right, So you're looking at

1650
01:27:40,120 --> 01:27:43,639
Speaker 1: either Blake Hants or Michael Dunne, which I know nothing

1651
01:27:43,640 --> 01:27:45,840
Speaker 1: why they That's why I don't know their names because

1652
01:27:45,880 --> 01:27:47,920
Speaker 1: I know nothing about that unless they want to try

1653
01:27:47,920 --> 01:27:49,920
Speaker 1: to kick Lamb inside and play him in there because

1654
01:27:49,920 --> 01:27:53,000
Speaker 1: he's got more experience. But then you're you're taking a

1655
01:27:53,000 --> 01:27:56,040
Speaker 1: tackle and moving him the I mean, he's a taller guy, right,

1656
01:27:56,200 --> 01:27:58,360
Speaker 1: I mean, Cam's such a good bull rusher, and that's

1657
01:27:58,400 --> 01:28:00,200
Speaker 1: the problem. You know, You're you're not lining him up

1658
01:28:00,200 --> 01:28:03,360
Speaker 1: against Joe Blow from Kokomo, you know, which is what

1659
01:28:03,400 --> 01:28:05,120
Speaker 1: you did last week. You know, if you're playing the

1660
01:28:05,120 --> 01:28:07,240
Speaker 1: Steelers from last week, that's this is not a big deal.

1661
01:28:07,600 --> 01:28:09,960
Speaker 1: You're playing the Steelers from this week. He's gonna block

1662
01:28:10,000 --> 01:28:13,960
Speaker 1: Cam Hayward, which tells me that you would think the

1663
01:28:13,960 --> 01:28:15,639
Speaker 1: Trader is going to be offering a lot of help

1664
01:28:15,680 --> 01:28:19,840
Speaker 1: to that side has to just absolutely hasslers. Everyone raives

1665
01:28:19,880 --> 01:28:21,320
Speaker 1: about Teller and he's a good player and he'll do

1666
01:28:21,360 --> 01:28:24,720
Speaker 1: battle with two it well, I'm sure, but he's either

1667
01:28:24,960 --> 01:28:26,760
Speaker 1: yeah to it's there. There'll be times where two it

1668
01:28:26,800 --> 01:28:29,320
Speaker 1: puts him on skates, and he did it a few

1669
01:28:29,360 --> 01:28:31,719
Speaker 1: times last week and shove him back into the quarterback.

1670
01:28:31,720 --> 01:28:33,639
Speaker 1: I mean to it has its double digit sacks. There's

1671
01:28:33,640 --> 01:28:36,000
Speaker 1: not may people they can say that. And this is

1672
01:28:36,040 --> 01:28:38,839
Speaker 1: again the reason why I don't think if I'm the Browns,

1673
01:28:38,920 --> 01:28:42,000
Speaker 1: I want the Steelers in their base because if I've

1674
01:28:42,040 --> 01:28:44,640
Speaker 1: if they've got yeah, now I've got a Lulu on

1675
01:28:44,680 --> 01:28:47,800
Speaker 1: Trader matched up and I can't help. So if I'm

1676
01:28:47,800 --> 01:28:51,519
Speaker 1: the Browns, I just talked myself into the Browns. I want.

1677
01:28:51,640 --> 01:28:54,240
Speaker 1: I want the nickel on the field. But that means

1678
01:28:54,960 --> 01:28:57,280
Speaker 1: you're putting a lesser skill guy out there, you know,

1679
01:28:57,280 --> 01:29:01,200
Speaker 1: Like if you pick the five best Browns quarterback O lineman,

1680
01:29:01,800 --> 01:29:05,400
Speaker 1: three of them aren't wide outs. Yeah, but it's I'm

1681
01:29:05,439 --> 01:29:07,240
Speaker 1: with you now. I mean, I think getting a Lululu

1682
01:29:07,320 --> 01:29:09,679
Speaker 1: off the nose has a lot of value this week, Yeah,

1683
01:29:09,680 --> 01:29:13,240
Speaker 1: because otherwise Hayward is going to destroy your day because

1684
01:29:13,240 --> 01:29:16,040
Speaker 1: you can't help him as much. Right Absolutely, if they

1685
01:29:16,040 --> 01:29:18,639
Speaker 1: put it, if they put the tackle, a guard cams

1686
01:29:18,680 --> 01:29:20,760
Speaker 1: that get under his path, he'll just pick him up

1687
01:29:21,439 --> 01:29:24,360
Speaker 1: the quarterback and load. Can they do that? Regardless of

1688
01:29:24,520 --> 01:29:26,080
Speaker 1: I don't know who the other guards are what their

1689
01:29:26,120 --> 01:29:28,240
Speaker 1: strengths and weakness. He might be the best bull rusher

1690
01:29:28,240 --> 01:29:31,160
Speaker 1: in the league. Yes, it was about these words. Almost.

1691
01:29:31,320 --> 01:29:36,320
Speaker 1: He is heavy handed, he is strong, and he's resting it. Yeah, exactly.

1692
01:29:36,360 --> 01:29:38,240
Speaker 1: You know he's he was not happy about having to

1693
01:29:38,240 --> 01:29:42,519
Speaker 1: sit last week. Yeah, okay, he wanted to play and

1694
01:29:42,640 --> 01:29:45,680
Speaker 1: so I yeah, be good. Oh, I think he might

1695
01:29:45,720 --> 01:29:47,160
Speaker 1: be the m v P of the team if it

1696
01:29:47,479 --> 01:29:52,200
Speaker 1: was weak. Yeah, you could see. I think about that situation.

1697
01:29:52,320 --> 01:29:54,679
Speaker 1: It could be bowling for quarterbacks. And that's the type

1698
01:29:54,720 --> 01:29:57,519
Speaker 1: that Hayward does not their. Mayfield does not deal with

1699
01:29:57,520 --> 01:29:59,920
Speaker 1: well either pressure in his face because he can't see,

1700
01:30:00,000 --> 01:30:02,720
Speaker 1: and their long guys and disrupt the lanes. And yeah,

1701
01:30:02,760 --> 01:30:04,759
Speaker 1: I think he's it's another reason keep a lu lulu.

1702
01:30:04,800 --> 01:30:07,599
Speaker 1: It's just that that that interior push up the middle

1703
01:30:07,840 --> 01:30:10,240
Speaker 1: right and not being able to see so well, I'm

1704
01:30:10,360 --> 01:30:13,760
Speaker 1: even asking and teams do this anyway. I think it's

1705
01:30:13,760 --> 01:30:17,960
Speaker 1: really important that the edge guys don't rush past the quarterback,

1706
01:30:18,120 --> 01:30:21,320
Speaker 1: even if I'm just gonna talk about that. Ye, Mayfield

1707
01:30:21,439 --> 01:30:26,000
Speaker 1: when he rolls to his right is rolling to throw. Yes,

1708
01:30:26,080 --> 01:30:28,280
Speaker 1: all right, right, right right. Mayfield when he got rolls

1709
01:30:28,320 --> 01:30:31,840
Speaker 1: to his left is looking to run. Yes, he doesn't.

1710
01:30:31,920 --> 01:30:33,519
Speaker 1: He doesn't want to stop. And he said he doesn't.

1711
01:30:33,560 --> 01:30:35,479
Speaker 1: He doesn't stop and he said he don't do that. Yeah,

1712
01:30:35,520 --> 01:30:38,040
Speaker 1: he doesn't. He won't throw back. If he does throw

1713
01:30:38,080 --> 01:30:41,360
Speaker 1: he's throwing back across his body. He doesn't want to

1714
01:30:41,400 --> 01:30:43,519
Speaker 1: do that either. So he's gonna run when he when

1715
01:30:43,560 --> 01:30:45,519
Speaker 1: he breaks to his left. But if you don't let

1716
01:30:45,560 --> 01:30:48,479
Speaker 1: him out, and if that means t J and high Smith,

1717
01:30:49,160 --> 01:30:51,720
Speaker 1: you get a little floor and are a little more

1718
01:30:51,760 --> 01:30:54,240
Speaker 1: conscious of that, he's gonna have a lot of big

1719
01:30:54,280 --> 01:30:58,200
Speaker 1: people and a lot of long arms disrupting himself in

1720
01:30:58,240 --> 01:31:00,120
Speaker 1: the in the that's what he gets past his at

1721
01:31:00,200 --> 01:31:02,080
Speaker 1: it down. That's where he fumbles a lot, and they'll

1722
01:31:02,120 --> 01:31:03,960
Speaker 1: try to move the pocket for him and do this. Yeah,

1723
01:31:04,280 --> 01:31:07,040
Speaker 1: a lot of that. But and also rulling your right

1724
01:31:07,080 --> 01:31:11,800
Speaker 1: means you're rolling towards the basically, you know, um, and yeah,

1725
01:31:12,120 --> 01:31:14,639
Speaker 1: maybe you're you're not blocking hey, you're not double teaming

1726
01:31:14,640 --> 01:31:16,760
Speaker 1: Heyward then too, No, you're probably not. You know, if

1727
01:31:16,800 --> 01:31:18,599
Speaker 1: you're rolling that pocket that way, and if he beats

1728
01:31:18,640 --> 01:31:22,320
Speaker 1: the guy, now you're in trouble. Sure, I mean, I

1729
01:31:22,320 --> 01:31:24,960
Speaker 1: guess that's also Hayden side of the field. Maybe you

1730
01:31:25,000 --> 01:31:26,720
Speaker 1: try to roll right a lot so you don't have

1731
01:31:26,760 --> 01:31:29,280
Speaker 1: to double ham Cam and you can throw at the

1732
01:31:29,360 --> 01:31:32,400
Speaker 1: that corner, but then you're running right into the TJ.

1733
01:31:32,520 --> 01:31:34,920
Speaker 1: And if you beat your guy off the snap, now

1734
01:31:34,960 --> 01:31:37,680
Speaker 1: you've just run into t J exactly and then you're

1735
01:31:37,680 --> 01:31:40,880
Speaker 1: going right at the strength. Wow. Yeah, I think there

1736
01:31:41,000 --> 01:31:43,599
Speaker 1: are a lot of good answers, isn't and you can

1737
01:31:43,640 --> 01:31:45,800
Speaker 1: talk yourself into all of them. Yeah, let's get a

1738
01:31:45,840 --> 01:31:49,280
Speaker 1: Lulu off, Okay, and then then here comes lting. Here

1739
01:31:49,320 --> 01:31:50,920
Speaker 1: comes Hilton on a corner. You know, if you're gonna

1740
01:31:50,920 --> 01:31:52,400
Speaker 1: throw roll to that right side all the time, well

1741
01:31:52,439 --> 01:31:54,400
Speaker 1: here comes Hilton and roll up, you know, blitzing off

1742
01:31:54,400 --> 01:31:56,559
Speaker 1: that right side. My third receiver I'm trotting out there

1743
01:31:56,560 --> 01:32:00,479
Speaker 1: that I'm so excited about. There's no Odell, you know, right. Yeah.

1744
01:32:00,520 --> 01:32:02,519
Speaker 1: The one thing the teams have done against the Steelers

1745
01:32:02,520 --> 01:32:05,880
Speaker 1: when they're doubling what in those kind of situations are

1746
01:32:05,960 --> 01:32:07,640
Speaker 1: they usually have a tight end there to chip or

1747
01:32:07,680 --> 01:32:10,639
Speaker 1: something like that is leaking him out into the flat.

1748
01:32:11,200 --> 01:32:13,000
Speaker 1: And that's that's gotten the Steelers a couple of times

1749
01:32:13,040 --> 01:32:14,880
Speaker 1: there in the last few weeks where they you leak

1750
01:32:14,960 --> 01:32:17,800
Speaker 1: the tight end out. Um. If I'm the Steelers. You know,

1751
01:32:18,840 --> 01:32:21,960
Speaker 1: you can't let that happen. No, but I bet they

1752
01:32:22,720 --> 01:32:24,320
Speaker 1: hit you. I mean I bet they get a first

1753
01:32:24,320 --> 01:32:26,479
Speaker 1: down or two or that and something. You know, it's

1754
01:32:26,479 --> 01:32:29,120
Speaker 1: a tough thing to de fan. It is because you're

1755
01:32:29,160 --> 01:32:31,320
Speaker 1: your line back your linebackers in coverage and then he's

1756
01:32:31,360 --> 01:32:33,920
Speaker 1: gotta he's gotta get get to that sideline quickly. And

1757
01:32:33,960 --> 01:32:36,000
Speaker 1: that's kind of where you miss Bush too. Yeah, like

1758
01:32:36,240 --> 01:32:38,280
Speaker 1: there's been times he shuts that down before it turns

1759
01:32:38,320 --> 01:32:41,160
Speaker 1: into a ten yard game. Yeah, I mean it's closes

1760
01:32:41,200 --> 01:32:44,400
Speaker 1: on and I think Williams and Williamson read it fine.

1761
01:32:44,800 --> 01:32:46,680
Speaker 1: Based don't have the foot speed. You just you just

1762
01:32:46,680 --> 01:32:49,080
Speaker 1: can't vacate the middle of the field though. I mean,

1763
01:32:49,320 --> 01:32:51,040
Speaker 1: oh hey, it's you know, I mean like when the

1764
01:32:51,080 --> 01:32:53,680
Speaker 1: play has been totally diagnosed, the balls in the air,

1765
01:32:53,720 --> 01:32:55,960
Speaker 1: it's headed towards that tight end. If you're in the zone,

1766
01:32:56,000 --> 01:32:58,280
Speaker 1: that's just gonna it's gonna happen. It's gonna happen. If

1767
01:32:58,320 --> 01:33:00,360
Speaker 1: you're a man, demand that it shouldn't happen as much.

1768
01:33:00,439 --> 01:33:03,320
Speaker 1: But it maybe Edmunds creeps down on man coverage against

1769
01:33:03,360 --> 01:33:05,439
Speaker 1: tight ends a little bit more. But such as life,

1770
01:33:05,479 --> 01:33:08,519
Speaker 1: I mean, these are fifty plays we're talking about. I mean,

1771
01:33:08,520 --> 01:33:10,280
Speaker 1: they're not gonna win the game. On would you play

1772
01:33:10,320 --> 01:33:14,240
Speaker 1: more manner zone against against the Browns? Hayden being out

1773
01:33:14,760 --> 01:33:17,880
Speaker 1: doesn't change my opinion a ton, but I lean a

1774
01:33:17,960 --> 01:33:21,479
Speaker 1: little more towards zone because you don't want shove breaking

1775
01:33:21,520 --> 01:33:23,400
Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage. And and you know, all your

1776
01:33:23,439 --> 01:33:27,400
Speaker 1: defensive backs are twenty yards downfield. I don't love the

1777
01:33:27,400 --> 01:33:30,040
Speaker 1: the tight end matchup. Yeah I don't either, you know,

1778
01:33:30,479 --> 01:33:32,560
Speaker 1: but they're all on all their receivers. Don't scare me.

1779
01:33:32,760 --> 01:33:34,160
Speaker 1: I mean, if Edmonds is on the tight ends, I

1780
01:33:34,200 --> 01:33:36,880
Speaker 1: got no problem. But and Baker is a runner, wouldn't

1781
01:33:36,880 --> 01:33:39,960
Speaker 1: prohibit me from playing man? Yeah, I think I mix

1782
01:33:40,000 --> 01:33:42,599
Speaker 1: it up? Yeah, I probably would too. Yeah, even though

1783
01:33:42,600 --> 01:33:45,200
Speaker 1: that I mean, Higgins is kind of a speedster. Yeah,

1784
01:33:45,200 --> 01:33:48,680
Speaker 1: I mean, he's good, bigger guy. But yeah, should be

1785
01:33:49,080 --> 01:33:52,120
Speaker 1: likely to play right, Yeah, Nelson should be fine. So

1786
01:33:52,200 --> 01:33:54,080
Speaker 1: it's gonna be an interesting matchup. I don't know that

1787
01:33:54,080 --> 01:33:56,479
Speaker 1: there are any real good answers for the Browns. And

1788
01:33:56,479 --> 01:34:00,280
Speaker 1: we'll see what kind of static tactician that Alex van

1789
01:34:00,360 --> 01:34:03,360
Speaker 1: Pelt is making in game adjustments those kind of things.

1790
01:34:03,360 --> 01:34:05,280
Speaker 1: But I mean there's a chance that he's gonna throw

1791
01:34:05,360 --> 01:34:08,360
Speaker 1: something at the Steelers they haven't seen. Well, yeah, that's

1792
01:34:08,400 --> 01:34:10,080
Speaker 1: likely to happen. I would think, Yeah, I would be

1793
01:34:10,080 --> 01:34:15,320
Speaker 1: ready for anything. If remember that play we worked on

1794
01:34:15,400 --> 01:34:17,479
Speaker 1: six weeks ago, Let's use it this week. Yeah, he's

1795
01:34:17,479 --> 01:34:20,080
Speaker 1: over there masterminding. You know, he's gonna be calling the plays,

1796
01:34:20,120 --> 01:34:23,320
Speaker 1: but we haven't got the chance to practice it yet. Yeah.

1797
01:34:23,160 --> 01:34:25,200
Speaker 1: That's gonna do it for our show today. We'll be

1798
01:34:25,240 --> 01:34:28,559
Speaker 1: back again tomorrow with our picks, our DFS lineup, all

1799
01:34:28,600 --> 01:34:31,160
Speaker 1: that good stuff, all the final injury report for the

1800
01:34:31,200 --> 01:34:35,080
Speaker 1: week before. My partner Matt Williamson for Jacob here on

1801
01:34:35,240 --> 01:34:37,360
Speaker 1: site keeping us on the air. I'm Dale Lally. We

1802
01:34:37,360 --> 01:34:39,439
Speaker 1: want to thank of course of Fedextion Forward for bringing

1803
01:34:39,520 --> 01:34:41,280
Speaker 1: us this coverage as well, and we want to thank

1804
01:34:41,320 --> 01:34:43,559
Speaker 1: you for listening to this edition of the Drive on

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01:34:43,640 --> 01:34:44,719
Speaker 1: Steelers Nation Radio.