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

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Speaker 1: on Home of the Black and Gold Steelers Nation Radio.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Drive, I'm Dale Lolly. Matt waves that

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Speaker 1: it's uh well, the day after, the day after, finally over.

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Speaker 1: It's finally over. A week ago we thought that the

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Speaker 1: Steelers and Ravens will be getting ready to play tonight.

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Speaker 1: Exactly one week ago tonight, they finally did get the

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Speaker 1: game in yesterday afternoon. Um, it was just a strange game.

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Speaker 1: Everything about it was weird. I mean even small things

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Speaker 1: like fewer people in the stadium and you know you

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Speaker 1: were there. I mean, I'm sure be different than but

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Speaker 1: when you were watching on it was even more like

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Speaker 1: the first couple of weeks of the season when the

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Speaker 1: Steelers played with no fans in the stadium was less

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Speaker 1: weird than having Yeah, it was like a handful because

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Speaker 1: it felt like even on the air and the announcers

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Speaker 1: were saying like you can hear all their conversations like

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Speaker 1: way to go, Ben, you hear every draw anything out.

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Speaker 1: It was all family members and friends. So I said,

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Speaker 1: I said to the one of the guys sitting next

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Speaker 1: to me in the press box, I'm like, whoa, this

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Speaker 1: would be pretty easy to figure out whose family is

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Speaker 1: who here? Yeah, it just looks for the Yeah, there's

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Speaker 1: a Robert Splane jersey. That's probably. Yeah, that makes a

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Speaker 1: lot of sense because you know, just you hear these

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Speaker 1: random things come out of the state, out of the stands.

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Speaker 1: And obviously it was not a well played game, and

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Speaker 1: we knew Baltimore was depleted a lot of players, but

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Speaker 1: the Steelers didn't have connor to it and Pouncy, you know, like,

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Speaker 1: I think we can't overlook that. The pouncing thing to

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Speaker 1: me was huge because it happened right before the game,

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Speaker 1: it happened on game day, and so now all of

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Speaker 1: a sudden, J. C. Hassen Hour is forced into action.

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Speaker 1: And when you look at that was the Ravens are

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Speaker 1: the absolute worst team for that, for that because of

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Speaker 1: the way they'll bring all the guys up to the

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Speaker 1: line of scrimmage and you got a yeah, you gotta

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Speaker 1: recognize who's coming and who's not coming, and you know,

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Speaker 1: and so you heard Mike Tomlin after the game talking

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Speaker 1: about what we had unblocked guys coming in to stop

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Speaker 1: the run game, Well that was why, right, and frankly

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Speaker 1: I mean he's he's not a great prospect. I mean,

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Speaker 1: he's you know, he's a he's just he's just stop

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Speaker 1: center available and that's the way it works. And you know,

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Speaker 1: a lot of teams have it worse. And obviously the

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Speaker 1: Birdies aren't gonna, uh feel too bad for you. They

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Speaker 1: had a lot of those situations. But even like earlier,

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Speaker 1: there were the blitz early on, he let the one

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Speaker 1: one guy go to his right. He would block it

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Speaker 1: nobody and I think that I think Snell picked up

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Speaker 1: one of the two and then Ben had to make

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Speaker 1: the other guy miss. And you know there's some communication

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Speaker 1: things and but no bad snaps, no bad snaps, right,

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Speaker 1: that was one thing to be concerned about. Certainly not

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Speaker 1: the prettiest of football games, you know. And the Steelers

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Speaker 1: out gained the Ravens in the final numbers. Uh it

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Speaker 1: was four to two nineteen, which sounds dominant enough, but

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Speaker 1: then when you realized that seventy of those two nineteen

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Speaker 1: yards came on one play which wasn't well played by

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Speaker 1: the Steelers. But I mean, just looking at the Steelers

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Speaker 1: d they left a long run to r G three,

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Speaker 1: who was thirty four. It was third nine, and here

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Speaker 1: he took off. He took off, and they didn't play

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Speaker 1: it well and they didn't tackle well. And then the

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Speaker 1: But it was sort of in garbage time. I mean.

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Speaker 1: Other than that, the Ravens didn't move the ball at

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Speaker 1: all at all, and the Steelers moved the ball with

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Speaker 1: of catches here and there, you know, let alone red

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Speaker 1: zone third downs, those type of things. But I thought

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Speaker 1: it was as bad as the Steelers could play, almost

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Speaker 1: and they were fortunate the opponent that they played and

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Speaker 1: it was a really weird game, and everything leading up

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Speaker 1: to it was weird. Um that's not an excuse of

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Speaker 1: four turnovers combined in the in the first quarter. It

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Speaker 1: was sloppy the whole way around. Bad special teams kind

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Speaker 1: I guess from a game that was again delayed three times. Uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, I was listening to the Bill Polly and

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Speaker 1: to be a game sure, and who do we have

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Speaker 1: and all those kind of things. Not going and practice

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Speaker 1: it every day. Um, it's almost like Christmas Eve three

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Speaker 1: times in a row. You know, you're almost run down

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Speaker 1: the steps and then you don't. Let's see what's of

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Speaker 1: the tree. I don't want to use that as an excuse,

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Speaker 1: because it was. I thought it was a very poorly

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Speaker 1: inflicted wounds, you know, things that were not the Ravens doing.

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Speaker 1: But I'm sure it had the factor in. You know,

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Speaker 1: like I rarely as an analyst used words like rusty

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Speaker 1: and they were prepared. They were prepared to prepare, you know, right,

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Speaker 1: there wasn't anything that they did off like. They had

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Speaker 1: was spreading them out right, right, That's what they did.

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Speaker 1: And you want to spread out a team that is

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Speaker 1: depleted up front, right. I think a lot of fans

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Speaker 1: went into this saying, well, you know, they just need

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Speaker 1: to run, run, run the football. That's not what they

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Speaker 1: the game when Benny Snell, I think it's his final

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Speaker 1: He did a lot of work on his own there too,

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Speaker 1: So that was, you know, a positive for sure. And

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Speaker 1: They were they were done shot. Yeah, they were done. Um.

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Speaker 1: in the first drive. It's right there. Roethlisberger throws it

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Speaker 1: at the half, right. I mean Deante basically had a

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Speaker 1: good quarterbacks after a week after game yea. But he

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Speaker 1: has these lapses in concentration where he just drops the football. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: quite frankly, he shouldn't be in the league after watching that,

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Speaker 1: had a couple of runs. That's fine, but you can

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Speaker 1: they could do that with Trace McSorley, right, I'd rather

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Speaker 1: than they probably agreed. I'm not sure mcsorley's any better.

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Speaker 1: But he did complete. You know, he created a long play,

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Speaker 1: don't think you'll see RG three in a roster next year. No,

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Speaker 1: it makes perfect sense. I would draft another athlete though,

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Speaker 1: Mike Tomlin was not happy last night after that game,

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Speaker 1: some of the guys that you know, he thought did

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Speaker 1: Washington two in a row, really because you know, he

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Speaker 1: stats on most teams. Oh, absolutely. And then that third

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Speaker 1: to the Drive on FL. Will we include Matt Winks

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Speaker 1: and Matt and they are just watching the replay here

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Speaker 1: up to that because I think Vince is stout enough

426
00:22:11,640 --> 00:22:14,440
Speaker 1: to he'll set the edge, just set the point, you know,

427
00:22:14,520 --> 00:22:18,199
Speaker 1: he'll set the edge. He's a very good pass rusher.

428
00:22:18,320 --> 00:22:20,639
Speaker 1: I mean more than just a second level blitzer. He

429
00:22:20,720 --> 00:22:23,359
Speaker 1: can rush the passer. I mean not like BI. I

430
00:22:23,440 --> 00:22:26,840
Speaker 1: mean he's any go Through Whitworth or those type of guys.

431
00:22:26,880 --> 00:22:28,359
Speaker 1: But you can do some stunts and things of that

432
00:22:28,480 --> 00:22:30,040
Speaker 1: nature with him, and he has a good feel of

433
00:22:30,760 --> 00:22:33,439
Speaker 1: for that kind of game. And I don't know this answer,

434
00:22:33,560 --> 00:22:36,440
Speaker 1: but I'm assuming high Smith has not dropped into coverage

435
00:22:36,560 --> 00:22:40,240
Speaker 1: a whole lot. He's done some or super comfortable or

436
00:22:40,359 --> 00:22:43,240
Speaker 1: great at it. And I don't want t J Then

437
00:22:43,560 --> 00:22:46,280
Speaker 1: dropping into coverage more because well, that's what teams will

438
00:22:46,320 --> 00:22:49,240
Speaker 1: do to you, is they'll force you, they'll overload. He

439
00:22:49,280 --> 00:22:51,560
Speaker 1: saw it a couple of times yesterday where the they'll motion,

440
00:22:51,640 --> 00:22:54,920
Speaker 1: the guy will start in one thing motion that motion

441
00:22:55,000 --> 00:22:56,680
Speaker 1: the guy over and all of a sudden, t J

442
00:22:56,760 --> 00:22:59,200
Speaker 1: has got to kick out instead of rushing to pass.

443
00:22:59,240 --> 00:23:02,600
Speaker 1: Right now, he's yeah, you know he's in coverage. That's

444
00:23:02,640 --> 00:23:04,520
Speaker 1: what that's what you want. If Williams is the right

445
00:23:04,560 --> 00:23:08,480
Speaker 1: outside linebacker events, I have no problem with him covering

446
00:23:08,520 --> 00:23:11,040
Speaker 1: the flats or you know, the curls, you know those

447
00:23:11,040 --> 00:23:13,840
Speaker 1: type of things too. I mean, as is edge, is

448
00:23:13,920 --> 00:23:18,240
Speaker 1: he an ideal bush Zier type cover guy. No, but

449
00:23:18,440 --> 00:23:21,720
Speaker 1: for an edge guy he hasn't. He has a nice

450
00:23:21,760 --> 00:23:24,760
Speaker 1: feel for that because he's done playing space and play

451
00:23:24,760 --> 00:23:27,320
Speaker 1: in reverse. So I'm not gonna say they'll be fine,

452
00:23:27,440 --> 00:23:32,000
Speaker 1: but it's not disaster disaster, yeah, I mean, now they

453
00:23:32,080 --> 00:23:34,159
Speaker 1: have reached the tipping point where if they lose one

454
00:23:34,240 --> 00:23:37,560
Speaker 1: more of those guys, now you're not really any front

455
00:23:37,600 --> 00:23:40,359
Speaker 1: seven substantial player would be a problem. I don't like

456
00:23:40,440 --> 00:23:42,080
Speaker 1: the d line depth if you were losing of the

457
00:23:42,119 --> 00:23:44,960
Speaker 1: top three. You know, we saw play without to it,

458
00:23:45,200 --> 00:23:49,320
Speaker 1: but that wasn't a great opponent, you know. I mean, so, yeah,

459
00:23:49,600 --> 00:23:52,440
Speaker 1: that's the war of attrition. It is a war of attrition.

460
00:23:52,520 --> 00:23:55,399
Speaker 1: And well, but you're right, Williamson stepping up is something

461
00:23:55,480 --> 00:23:56,840
Speaker 1: you didn't count on. You know what I mean like

462
00:23:57,119 --> 00:23:59,320
Speaker 1: there's something added to the mix. Yeah, at least you've

463
00:23:59,359 --> 00:24:01,440
Speaker 1: got another guy Ei there Can playing that front seven

464
00:24:01,480 --> 00:24:04,240
Speaker 1: who's an NFL player, you know what he is as

465
00:24:04,240 --> 00:24:06,639
Speaker 1: opposed to just getting things taken away from you, you

466
00:24:06,720 --> 00:24:09,600
Speaker 1: added something and that might be that might really pay off. Yeah.

467
00:24:09,600 --> 00:24:12,480
Speaker 1: I'm looking here at the guys who are available currently

468
00:24:13,240 --> 00:24:17,280
Speaker 1: in terms of the types, the edge types, and man,

469
00:24:17,359 --> 00:24:21,840
Speaker 1: it's I mean it's bad. It's not good. There's just

470
00:24:21,960 --> 00:24:26,480
Speaker 1: not a lot there. Um Clay Matthew's name is the

471
00:24:26,560 --> 00:24:32,919
Speaker 1: only one I've heard Matthews is there? Um Brooks read. Yeah,

472
00:24:33,240 --> 00:24:36,160
Speaker 1: you guys, guys of that nature. Um, you know, unless

473
00:24:36,160 --> 00:24:38,200
Speaker 1: you can talk to all sugs out of retirement, you know,

474
00:24:40,280 --> 00:24:43,640
Speaker 1: probably not gonna happen. Yeah, Cameron Wait comes to mind,

475
00:24:43,680 --> 00:24:45,200
Speaker 1: but I don't know if he wants to play football anymore.

476
00:24:45,240 --> 00:24:48,280
Speaker 1: He's retired. Yeahed Um. Just looking at what kind of

477
00:24:48,320 --> 00:24:51,840
Speaker 1: shape or any of those people in Yeah, I mean

478
00:24:51,920 --> 00:24:54,159
Speaker 1: nobody's jumping off that page. You're looking at the huh no,

479
00:24:54,520 --> 00:24:58,880
Speaker 1: I mean you know sam mitcheo. Um, Yeah, right, that's

480
00:24:58,880 --> 00:25:02,280
Speaker 1: what you're looking at. The Those guys are special teamers,

481
00:25:02,520 --> 00:25:04,919
Speaker 1: slash third eyes, even on their best day on their

482
00:25:04,960 --> 00:25:07,080
Speaker 1: best day, and their best days are not there anymore.

483
00:25:07,119 --> 00:25:10,520
Speaker 1: The best days are long long gone. He'll be missed,

484
00:25:10,560 --> 00:25:14,360
Speaker 1: there's no question, um, such as life. I mean, they're

485
00:25:14,359 --> 00:25:16,920
Speaker 1: not the only contending team to lose a couple of

486
00:25:16,960 --> 00:25:19,800
Speaker 1: starters I mean, or nor will they, right, I mean,

487
00:25:19,840 --> 00:25:22,600
Speaker 1: there are gonna be other guys that go down here

488
00:25:22,760 --> 00:25:24,800
Speaker 1: in the last month of the season. Of course, there's

489
00:25:24,840 --> 00:25:27,159
Speaker 1: no fans or butts about that, and every team is

490
00:25:27,200 --> 00:25:31,920
Speaker 1: going to deal with it. Um. But you feel bad,

491
00:25:32,600 --> 00:25:36,720
Speaker 1: as we said, for for Dupree, who's you know, an

492
00:25:36,760 --> 00:25:39,720
Speaker 1: impending free agent, UM, and he's gotten so much better.

493
00:25:39,840 --> 00:25:42,760
Speaker 1: He's gotten so much better. He was, he handled things,

494
00:25:42,800 --> 00:25:46,720
Speaker 1: he played, he played every you know, every snap, played hard. Uh,

495
00:25:46,840 --> 00:25:49,960
Speaker 1: and then to go down like that on a non

496
00:25:50,040 --> 00:25:54,680
Speaker 1: contact injury UM game. Yeah. I mean it's just we

497
00:25:54,800 --> 00:25:57,120
Speaker 1: know that t J doesn't like to play every snap.

498
00:25:57,280 --> 00:25:59,560
Speaker 1: You know, he'll take himself out, stays fresh and obviously

499
00:25:59,600 --> 00:26:01,640
Speaker 1: it works for really well, do you think he does

500
00:26:01,720 --> 00:26:05,119
Speaker 1: that less now? I hope not, or maybe he's I

501
00:26:05,119 --> 00:26:07,720
Speaker 1: don't want to say smarter, but more situational about it.

502
00:26:08,040 --> 00:26:09,480
Speaker 1: I still think, I mean, he's got to play that.

503
00:26:09,640 --> 00:26:11,080
Speaker 1: He's he plays the game. The way he's going to

504
00:26:11,119 --> 00:26:12,840
Speaker 1: play the game. I mean, that's the and I would

505
00:26:12,840 --> 00:26:14,840
Speaker 1: say keep doing what you're doing. I mean, they have

506
00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:17,240
Speaker 1: another great game too. Yeah, I mean they may have to,

507
00:26:17,680 --> 00:26:20,159
Speaker 1: you know, be a little more cognizant of that if

508
00:26:20,200 --> 00:26:23,440
Speaker 1: you're if it's first inten at the you know, the

509
00:26:23,480 --> 00:26:26,600
Speaker 1: opposing twenty they teach a you know, we're gonna leave

510
00:26:26,600 --> 00:26:28,280
Speaker 1: you out here. Let let these guys play a couple

511
00:26:28,320 --> 00:26:29,720
Speaker 1: of snaps and then go in and play in from

512
00:26:29,840 --> 00:26:32,160
Speaker 1: seven and the third quarter, and it seems like it's

513
00:26:32,480 --> 00:26:35,680
Speaker 1: you know, it's not meaningless, that's for sure. And maybe

514
00:26:35,680 --> 00:26:37,560
Speaker 1: he would have played that time nine out of ten,

515
00:26:37,680 --> 00:26:39,879
Speaker 1: but this one, like, yeah, let's be a little smarter.

516
00:26:40,359 --> 00:26:42,440
Speaker 1: I am a little worried about the snap counts for

517
00:26:43,680 --> 00:26:47,639
Speaker 1: to it Hayward wat Yeah, I agree. Um, although you

518
00:26:47,720 --> 00:26:50,560
Speaker 1: know too, it's just gotten the week off, so body

519
00:26:50,560 --> 00:26:52,880
Speaker 1: should feel fresh that, you know, Hayward and the rest

520
00:26:52,920 --> 00:26:55,720
Speaker 1: of the team just got the weekend off, So focus

521
00:26:55,800 --> 00:26:57,439
Speaker 1: on warmly a little more too. I'm not sure how

522
00:26:57,520 --> 00:26:59,320
Speaker 1: he played, to be honest with you, didn't stand out

523
00:26:59,560 --> 00:27:05,000
Speaker 1: positive more negative than me. Curious how he's fitting in. Yeah,

524
00:27:05,119 --> 00:27:08,359
Speaker 1: I think, uh, you know, he's still learning to me

525
00:27:08,560 --> 00:27:11,480
Speaker 1: how to how to fit into this defense because he

526
00:27:11,520 --> 00:27:13,520
Speaker 1: did miss so much. He missed a lot of training camp,

527
00:27:14,200 --> 00:27:18,119
Speaker 1: miss some time early in the season means, so you know,

528
00:27:18,320 --> 00:27:21,320
Speaker 1: I just think that that's work in progress. Um, you know,

529
00:27:21,440 --> 00:27:23,200
Speaker 1: he's you know, if they get to it back, he

530
00:27:23,560 --> 00:27:25,760
Speaker 1: goes back into being a rotational guy, which is where

531
00:27:25,760 --> 00:27:28,600
Speaker 1: he should be at. And you know that that's not

532
00:27:28,720 --> 00:27:30,880
Speaker 1: a bad thing. But uh, you know, I just don't

533
00:27:30,960 --> 00:27:32,600
Speaker 1: know that you can run out and you're not gonna

534
00:27:32,680 --> 00:27:34,840
Speaker 1: run out and get somebody to replace Bud Dupree. That's

535
00:27:34,880 --> 00:27:38,240
Speaker 1: just not gonna happen. It's going it is high Smith.

536
00:27:38,440 --> 00:27:41,119
Speaker 1: That's Highsmith is gonna be the guy. And not that

537
00:27:41,200 --> 00:27:43,200
Speaker 1: he's gonna Wally pip him, but it's it's a great

538
00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:46,320
Speaker 1: opportunity for the kid that's looked good. Yeah, no doubt

539
00:27:46,320 --> 00:27:50,600
Speaker 1: about it. And you know, I think he's got a

540
00:27:50,640 --> 00:27:53,479
Speaker 1: lot of promise. I really thought he'd read shirt all

541
00:27:53,560 --> 00:27:55,159
Speaker 1: year and maybe not even be active on game day,

542
00:27:55,200 --> 00:27:59,120
Speaker 1: but the drafted him and he's far to that for sure. Yeah, absolutely,

543
00:27:59,240 --> 00:28:01,320
Speaker 1: So I wanted to take him on special teams though.

544
00:28:02,119 --> 00:28:04,159
Speaker 1: That's the thing, you know, you I mean, they were

545
00:28:04,240 --> 00:28:06,920
Speaker 1: run like yesterday. I'm looking out there and Benny Snell,

546
00:28:06,960 --> 00:28:09,440
Speaker 1: who's you're starting running back? Is there is running downcovering

547
00:28:09,520 --> 00:28:12,400
Speaker 1: kicks in that game? Is that the Is that really

548
00:28:12,440 --> 00:28:14,680
Speaker 1: what you want to die? I just I know, I

549
00:28:14,760 --> 00:28:16,719
Speaker 1: realized they had they were shorthanded a little bit too

550
00:28:16,760 --> 00:28:19,000
Speaker 1: because of some of the COVID issues. But at the

551
00:28:19,040 --> 00:28:21,200
Speaker 1: same time, yeah, I don't know if I want to

552
00:28:21,240 --> 00:28:23,720
Speaker 1: do that. I mean, if if high Smith and Snell

553
00:28:23,800 --> 00:28:27,159
Speaker 1: were covering kicks or you know, they're pretty valuable at

554
00:28:27,200 --> 00:28:29,320
Speaker 1: this point. At this point, they're very valuable. Yeah, you

555
00:28:29,359 --> 00:28:31,200
Speaker 1: probably don't know this answer, but do you have any

556
00:28:31,320 --> 00:28:36,440
Speaker 1: feel for to it? Poundcy Connor for Monday sounds pretty

557
00:28:36,480 --> 00:28:40,840
Speaker 1: optimistic with two it. Uh, I don't think, hey, we're pounce.

558
00:28:40,960 --> 00:28:43,240
Speaker 1: Probably can. I don't think pounds you can come back

559
00:28:43,280 --> 00:28:45,640
Speaker 1: off unless it's a close contact. And even then he

560
00:28:45,680 --> 00:28:49,760
Speaker 1: would be coming back Monday. Um, I mean, there wouldn't

561
00:28:49,760 --> 00:28:51,800
Speaker 1: be any practice, wouldn't be any practice not to die.

562
00:28:52,360 --> 00:28:55,760
Speaker 1: You know, that's not necess a huge issue for him. Uh,

563
00:28:55,960 --> 00:28:59,760
Speaker 1: Connor would be eligible to come off this weekend if

564
00:28:59,800 --> 00:29:03,680
Speaker 1: he you know, again, if it if it's all clear,

565
00:29:03,720 --> 00:29:05,760
Speaker 1: because he was he went on last Saturday. Well maybe not.

566
00:29:07,360 --> 00:29:10,280
Speaker 1: I don't know the rules on this. What we don't

567
00:29:10,360 --> 00:29:12,800
Speaker 1: know is who's test of positive and who's a close contact.

568
00:29:12,880 --> 00:29:15,000
Speaker 1: That's the problem because they don't they don't have to

569
00:29:15,040 --> 00:29:19,440
Speaker 1: release that. Yeah, but to release the statement yesterday saying

570
00:29:19,480 --> 00:29:21,160
Speaker 1: he's going to be back for the Washington game. So

571
00:29:21,440 --> 00:29:23,920
Speaker 1: that leaves me. Yeah. He also had kind of a

572
00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:27,840
Speaker 1: dumb tweet too, by the way. Well, yeah, but they

573
00:29:27,920 --> 00:29:31,360
Speaker 1: did get bugs back for that game. Um, so he's

574
00:29:31,400 --> 00:29:34,640
Speaker 1: back off of it. Any other injuries of note. Mike

575
00:29:34,680 --> 00:29:37,960
Speaker 1: Tomlin said today that Stephen Nelson went for an m

576
00:29:38,080 --> 00:29:40,400
Speaker 1: r I today on his knee. Uh. He finished the game,

577
00:29:40,440 --> 00:29:42,960
Speaker 1: played the entire game. Um, must have been feeling a

578
00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:45,840
Speaker 1: little something in there. Um, So we'll see what's up

579
00:29:45,880 --> 00:29:48,320
Speaker 1: with that. And well, I tweeted this out a little

580
00:29:48,320 --> 00:29:51,200
Speaker 1: bit earlier before we started the show. Uh. The Steelers

581
00:29:51,240 --> 00:29:54,040
Speaker 1: are allowing a complecent percentage of fifty four point five

582
00:29:54,120 --> 00:29:56,960
Speaker 1: percent this season, which sounds really good. But now it

583
00:29:57,000 --> 00:29:59,520
Speaker 1: sounds really good when you say the next thing, no

584
00:29:59,680 --> 00:30:03,479
Speaker 1: other team in the league isn't less than sixty. There

585
00:30:03,480 --> 00:30:06,320
Speaker 1: are eight percentage points better than the next closest team.

586
00:30:06,480 --> 00:30:09,120
Speaker 1: I mean, that's unbelievable. They had they had the best

587
00:30:09,320 --> 00:30:15,920
Speaker 1: UH or the lowest UM passer rating against. It's seventy

588
00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:21,080
Speaker 1: one in in today's NFL. I don't care who you've played,

589
00:30:21,440 --> 00:30:23,920
Speaker 1: I don't care when you've played him, where you've played them,

590
00:30:24,120 --> 00:30:27,240
Speaker 1: doesn't matter. You're giving up a seventy two games it's eleven. Yeah,

591
00:30:27,880 --> 00:30:31,600
Speaker 1: this is yeah, that's ridiculous. Um, A couple of notes

592
00:30:31,640 --> 00:30:34,360
Speaker 1: of that too, I mean it's non Steeler related. The

593
00:30:34,440 --> 00:30:37,560
Speaker 1: second best team is sixty two percent. Yeah, I mean

594
00:30:37,640 --> 00:30:41,440
Speaker 1: that's you remember when quarterbacks were Well, he's completing six percent.

595
00:30:41,960 --> 00:30:44,360
Speaker 1: He's really good. Yeah. Now, the second best defense in

596
00:30:44,360 --> 00:30:48,240
Speaker 1: the league is sixty two So my hunches those eight

597
00:30:48,280 --> 00:30:51,200
Speaker 1: percentage points from one to two. I bet it's the

598
00:30:51,280 --> 00:30:55,040
Speaker 1: same from like two to oh, no doubt. I mean

599
00:30:55,080 --> 00:30:57,560
Speaker 1: I can well it's probably bait even bigger than that.

600
00:30:57,840 --> 00:30:59,880
Speaker 1: I'm looking at it here and now that the Steelers

601
00:31:00,160 --> 00:31:02,440
Speaker 1: over everyone else. Okay, the worst team is the Jets

602
00:31:02,520 --> 00:31:07,280
Speaker 1: at seventy one percent. That's seventeen percent worse than what

603
00:31:07,400 --> 00:31:10,680
Speaker 1: the Steelers are. Like, So the second best team is

604
00:31:10,760 --> 00:31:13,640
Speaker 1: the Bears at sixty two percent. Steelers are at fifty

605
00:31:13,680 --> 00:31:16,000
Speaker 1: four point five. The Saints are at sixty two point three.

606
00:31:16,240 --> 00:31:20,600
Speaker 1: So who's like, it's seventy. So the Steelers are eight

607
00:31:20,640 --> 00:31:24,400
Speaker 1: percents better than the second team, right, so the second

608
00:31:24,440 --> 00:31:27,320
Speaker 1: teams at sixty two, And we were just saying there, Yeah,

609
00:31:27,680 --> 00:31:30,960
Speaker 1: so whoever's like it's seventy is probably like the thirty

610
00:31:31,160 --> 00:31:33,640
Speaker 1: best team in the league. That would be the Jaguars

611
00:31:33,680 --> 00:31:36,800
Speaker 1: at sixty nine point eight or the Tampa Bay Buccaneers

612
00:31:36,800 --> 00:31:41,600
Speaker 1: at sixty nine point seven. Yeah, I mean, everybody's yeah,

613
00:31:41,840 --> 00:31:45,760
Speaker 1: um yeah, I mean and and you look, you can say, well,

614
00:31:45,800 --> 00:31:48,960
Speaker 1: they just played they just played a really bad team

615
00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:50,880
Speaker 1: throwing in football. But they're giving up a hundred ninety

616
00:31:50,920 --> 00:31:53,160
Speaker 1: three point two yards passing per game. That's number one

617
00:31:53,200 --> 00:31:59,400
Speaker 1: in the league. Oh, by the way, number two is Washington. Yeah,

618
00:31:59,480 --> 00:32:01,400
Speaker 1: they're cover. It is as bad as people think. Either

619
00:32:01,520 --> 00:32:04,200
Speaker 1: they got two young safeties that are okay and they

620
00:32:04,240 --> 00:32:06,480
Speaker 1: can rush the pass, or they're washing d is not

621
00:32:06,640 --> 00:32:08,640
Speaker 1: not bad at all. It's not bad. That's just definitely

622
00:32:08,720 --> 00:32:10,400
Speaker 1: the strength of the team. So we're gonna see those

623
00:32:10,440 --> 00:32:12,120
Speaker 1: two teams. I will say this, they're giving up a

624
00:32:12,120 --> 00:32:15,720
Speaker 1: pass rating of eighty eight point five. So as good

625
00:32:15,760 --> 00:32:19,080
Speaker 1: as you know their defense is, it's far less, far

626
00:32:19,200 --> 00:32:22,440
Speaker 1: or less far less. Yeah, but in terms of completion percentage,

627
00:32:22,480 --> 00:32:25,480
Speaker 1: everybody's far less without it. I mean even in terms

628
00:32:25,520 --> 00:32:28,240
Speaker 1: of passer rating. Uh there at seventy one point five.

629
00:32:28,280 --> 00:32:30,840
Speaker 1: The next closest team is the Rams seventy eight point five.

630
00:32:30,840 --> 00:32:34,600
Speaker 1: There's seven percentage points better than anybody else. So whoever's

631
00:32:36,400 --> 00:32:39,120
Speaker 1: is the same distance from one to two is you know, Wow,

632
00:32:39,680 --> 00:32:43,080
Speaker 1: it's a a massive gap. And they haven't played great teams.

633
00:32:43,120 --> 00:32:45,320
Speaker 1: But I don't want to hear that after eleven games.

634
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Speaker 1: It's eleven games in an NFL season. Yeah, the Saints

635
00:32:48,200 --> 00:32:51,480
Speaker 1: has played a non quarterback, right, Yeah, and I'm sure

636
00:32:51,520 --> 00:32:54,600
Speaker 1: that helped their passer radio absolutely positive of that. Yeah,

637
00:32:54,720 --> 00:32:56,480
Speaker 1: And there's been a lot of injuries of quarterbacks around

638
00:32:56,480 --> 00:32:57,800
Speaker 1: the league. I mean some of the guys Dallas have

639
00:32:57,880 --> 00:32:59,960
Speaker 1: trotted out, and you know, there's a lot of dude

640
00:33:00,040 --> 00:33:04,200
Speaker 1: is that haven't been the Jacksonville crew. I mean, if

641
00:33:04,200 --> 00:33:07,080
Speaker 1: you look at them, if you look at this Washington team, yeah,

642
00:33:07,120 --> 00:33:09,640
Speaker 1: they're they're deep. Past defense has been good. But they

643
00:33:09,680 --> 00:33:15,000
Speaker 1: played Washington twice without Dak, Dallas twice, right, Dallas twice

644
00:33:15,040 --> 00:33:17,200
Speaker 1: without Dak, and they knocked Burrow out of the game

645
00:33:17,360 --> 00:33:21,160
Speaker 1: early in the third quarter. And Finley had thirty passing

646
00:33:21,240 --> 00:33:23,479
Speaker 1: yards the rest of that game. He shouldn't be They

647
00:33:23,720 --> 00:33:25,360
Speaker 1: the Bengals are telling us he shouldn't be in the league.

648
00:33:25,400 --> 00:33:26,960
Speaker 1: They went a whole half without it. They might as

649
00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:29,760
Speaker 1: well played a non quarterback in that game. And some

650
00:33:29,960 --> 00:33:33,120
Speaker 1: defenses got to play against Haskin and not Smith, right,

651
00:33:33,200 --> 00:33:36,240
Speaker 1: you know or even Alan. I mean, like they throw

652
00:33:36,280 --> 00:33:38,520
Speaker 1: the ball better now than they used to. Yeah, for sure.

653
00:33:38,720 --> 00:33:41,760
Speaker 1: But we'll talk more about that game tomorrow because that

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Speaker 1: our last day prep that game. But and then come

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Speaker 1: back Tuesday. Yeah, he is Matt Williamson. I'm Dale Lally.

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

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Speaker 1: We're gonna take a break. We'll be back right after

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Speaker 1: this your tunes about Drive on Home of the Black

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Speaker 1: and Gold Steelers Nation Radio. Welcome back. I'm Dale Lolly

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Speaker 1: years with Matt Williamson and Matt. Usually we do this

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Speaker 1: on Tuesday's because that's when the power rankings usually come

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00:34:37,040 --> 00:34:41,160
Speaker 1: out after the after the week's games. But this is

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Speaker 1: after the week's game. This is after the week's game,

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Speaker 1: So it's power rankings on Thursday for NFL dot Com,

665
00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:50,319
Speaker 1: Dan Kansas and yeah, I mean this was a tough one.

666
00:34:50,760 --> 00:34:53,040
Speaker 1: I texted you that on Sunday. I'm like, we're lucky

667
00:34:53,120 --> 00:34:56,600
Speaker 1: that this week. My goodness. You know, team's winning, teams

668
00:34:56,680 --> 00:35:00,880
Speaker 1: losing just bad. But some things are changed here and

669
00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:04,560
Speaker 1: the Jets are still number thirty two. I think Cincinnati's worse.

670
00:35:06,760 --> 00:35:09,360
Speaker 1: They need a real stinker to prove it. Yeah, you

671
00:35:09,440 --> 00:35:11,800
Speaker 1: know what I mean. But the Jets and the Jags

672
00:35:11,960 --> 00:35:13,840
Speaker 1: kind of play each other, to play teams sort of

673
00:35:13,920 --> 00:35:15,879
Speaker 1: top sort of kind of. Yeah, I mean the low

674
00:35:15,920 --> 00:35:19,000
Speaker 1: bar here, really low bar. I just think that the

675
00:35:19,080 --> 00:35:22,040
Speaker 1: Jets played since he a hundred eleven times, they win

676
00:35:22,120 --> 00:35:24,400
Speaker 1: more than they love. That may manifest itself over the

677
00:35:24,480 --> 00:35:26,759
Speaker 1: course of the rest of the season. But yeah, the

678
00:35:26,840 --> 00:35:31,320
Speaker 1: Jaguars at thirty one, the Bengals at thirty, Um, they weren't.

679
00:35:31,520 --> 00:35:33,680
Speaker 1: They lost nineteen seventeen, so he said, well, they were

680
00:35:33,719 --> 00:35:37,520
Speaker 1: in that game, but they had return for a touchdown.

681
00:35:37,520 --> 00:35:39,600
Speaker 1: They had a return for a touchdown. They might I

682
00:35:39,640 --> 00:35:41,960
Speaker 1: almost forget what happened last week, like it's a long

683
00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:45,160
Speaker 1: time ago, A long time ago. Yeah. Um, they're to

684
00:35:45,280 --> 00:35:47,920
Speaker 1: eight and one. They will not win another game. The

685
00:35:48,040 --> 00:35:50,640
Speaker 1: Lions coming at twenty nine, that's right, had them too.

686
00:35:50,960 --> 00:35:54,239
Speaker 1: They're playing pretty bad and Scott coach fired and maybe

687
00:35:54,280 --> 00:35:56,239
Speaker 1: that reinvigorate. They played the Bears this week, they not

688
00:35:56,320 --> 00:35:57,960
Speaker 1: only did they get the coach fire, they got the

689
00:35:58,239 --> 00:36:01,480
Speaker 1: GM fired too to so I saw there was some

690
00:36:02,560 --> 00:36:05,440
Speaker 1: like for example, Ibron was kind of like celebrating that,

691
00:36:05,600 --> 00:36:08,279
Speaker 1: Like Patricia was not well liked. No, I think a

692
00:36:08,360 --> 00:36:12,279
Speaker 1: lot of players were. And yeah, they may actually be

693
00:36:12,600 --> 00:36:15,080
Speaker 1: Houston esk and play a little better down the stretch.

694
00:36:15,239 --> 00:36:17,160
Speaker 1: Yeah you know who knows? Yeah, I don't. I mean,

695
00:36:17,280 --> 00:36:20,319
Speaker 1: Daryl Bevil's now the interim, but Daryl Bevil is now

696
00:36:20,400 --> 00:36:22,040
Speaker 1: the interim. I don't know much about it. Just be

697
00:36:22,040 --> 00:36:24,279
Speaker 1: additioned by subtraction. They'll get the big bad Wolf. I

698
00:36:24,440 --> 00:36:28,319
Speaker 1: get that guy at of here. The Bears all two

699
00:36:28,400 --> 00:36:31,719
Speaker 1: more sust five and six. They will not win another game.

700
00:36:31,880 --> 00:36:33,520
Speaker 1: I don't know. If their offense is better than the

701
00:36:33,600 --> 00:36:36,480
Speaker 1: Jets or Bengals, they may not win other game either.

702
00:36:36,760 --> 00:36:39,719
Speaker 1: They're bad. They're bad. And now the defense much like

703
00:36:39,840 --> 00:36:41,920
Speaker 1: what happened to the Steelers last year of the year,

704
00:36:42,320 --> 00:36:44,840
Speaker 1: like you hit the saturation point, like we know the

705
00:36:44,920 --> 00:36:47,560
Speaker 1: offense can't score, we're always on the field. Yeah, yeah,

706
00:36:47,880 --> 00:36:49,719
Speaker 1: I'm sure their bodies are breaking down. Even if they

707
00:36:49,760 --> 00:36:51,880
Speaker 1: don't have injuries, it's just a lot of wear. And

708
00:36:51,960 --> 00:36:56,680
Speaker 1: there the Eagles, Now I'm not sure I was that

709
00:36:56,800 --> 00:36:59,600
Speaker 1: rough on them, but they don't beat anybody, and they

710
00:36:59,640 --> 00:37:04,359
Speaker 1: beat them beat themselves. Yeah, are they better than Dallas? Though?

711
00:37:06,200 --> 00:37:11,520
Speaker 1: That whole divisions rough division stinks? Is pretty bad? Uh, Dallas?

712
00:37:13,280 --> 00:37:15,319
Speaker 1: I think I had right in that neighborhood there, three

713
00:37:15,360 --> 00:37:19,920
Speaker 1: and eight, there's yeah, Washington Is the team better than that?

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00:37:20,520 --> 00:37:23,200
Speaker 1: Are they? They've won three in a row, are they?

715
00:37:23,200 --> 00:37:26,960
Speaker 1: Because they lost to the Giants twice? Right, and you

716
00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:28,560
Speaker 1: know you want to start looking at the Okay, they've

717
00:37:28,600 --> 00:37:30,360
Speaker 1: won three and you know, I get it, they have

718
00:37:30,440 --> 00:37:32,839
Speaker 1: one three row, right, I don't mean to have Okay,

719
00:37:32,840 --> 00:37:36,160
Speaker 1: I might have made it up. Um, they're playing better,

720
00:37:36,400 --> 00:37:38,440
Speaker 1: you know, like, Okay, here's what I get their schedule. Here,

721
00:37:38,680 --> 00:37:40,920
Speaker 1: let's see what they've done. They've won two in a row.

722
00:37:41,440 --> 00:37:45,200
Speaker 1: They beat the Bengals and Cowboys. So let's not get

723
00:37:45,320 --> 00:37:48,520
Speaker 1: overly excited here about this. Oh they look good. Yeah?

724
00:37:48,680 --> 00:37:51,600
Speaker 1: Where did they play? I mean, I guess some of

725
00:37:51,640 --> 00:37:54,880
Speaker 1: these teams when the expectations are super low and you

726
00:37:55,520 --> 00:37:57,120
Speaker 1: do a couple of good things. Put it this way

727
00:37:57,840 --> 00:38:02,120
Speaker 1: before beating the Bengals. They lost the Lions and the Giants,

728
00:38:02,440 --> 00:38:05,319
Speaker 1: and the Giants twice and the Cowboys, well, no, they

729
00:38:05,360 --> 00:38:07,200
Speaker 1: beat the Cowboys. They swept the Collete. So they've got

730
00:38:07,280 --> 00:38:09,120
Speaker 1: they've got four wins right now. Two of them are

731
00:38:09,120 --> 00:38:13,160
Speaker 1: against the Cowboys, once against the Bengals, and they beat

732
00:38:13,200 --> 00:38:15,959
Speaker 1: the Eagles in week one. Let's not get carried away

733
00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:19,160
Speaker 1: with how good this Washington team is. That's strong case

734
00:38:19,200 --> 00:38:22,200
Speaker 1: you're making there, because even in Week one we were like, wow,

735
00:38:22,280 --> 00:38:24,319
Speaker 1: that's a big This is like having the argument that, oh,

736
00:38:24,400 --> 00:38:26,600
Speaker 1: b y, you should be in the National Championship. Talk

737
00:38:26,800 --> 00:38:29,520
Speaker 1: who have they beaten and beat and who would they

738
00:38:29,600 --> 00:38:32,719
Speaker 1: beat in the SEC or whatever I hear you're saying.

739
00:38:33,800 --> 00:38:36,000
Speaker 1: I think a lot of its quarterback driven though from me,

740
00:38:36,200 --> 00:38:39,400
Speaker 1: that they're moving the football. Some of the guys that

741
00:38:39,520 --> 00:38:41,680
Speaker 1: they're you know, the Gibsons of the world, look like

742
00:38:41,760 --> 00:38:45,200
Speaker 1: they're better. You say they're the quarterback. It's quarterback related,

743
00:38:45,239 --> 00:38:47,120
Speaker 1: and they're moving the football. In the last two games

744
00:38:47,160 --> 00:38:49,680
Speaker 1: against the Bengals and the Cowboys are thrown for a

745
00:38:49,760 --> 00:38:52,080
Speaker 1: hundred and sixty one yards and a hundred and fifty

746
00:38:52,120 --> 00:38:56,239
Speaker 1: six So come on, is Alex Smith gonna dice up

747
00:38:56,280 --> 00:39:00,400
Speaker 1: the Steelers defense. He made complete passes for two yards.

748
00:39:01,360 --> 00:39:04,440
Speaker 1: It's it's it's r G three yesterday. I'm gonna throw

749
00:39:04,440 --> 00:39:06,919
Speaker 1: a bunch of passes to the to the flat. Maybe

750
00:39:06,960 --> 00:39:09,080
Speaker 1: I'll throw ap I'll throw a couple down the field

751
00:39:09,080 --> 00:39:12,680
Speaker 1: to McLaurin. That's it. He's not gonna he's not gonna

752
00:39:12,680 --> 00:39:15,239
Speaker 1: push the ball down the field. No, no, no, you're

753
00:39:15,280 --> 00:39:18,120
Speaker 1: right about that. Um. Yeah, that's a pretty strong case

754
00:39:18,160 --> 00:39:20,279
Speaker 1: if that's about where they belong. So they've played this year.

755
00:39:20,320 --> 00:39:24,440
Speaker 1: They played the Eagles, lost the Cardinals, lost to the Browns,

756
00:39:25,320 --> 00:39:30,080
Speaker 1: lost to the Ravens, lost to the Rams, lost to

757
00:39:30,200 --> 00:39:34,359
Speaker 1: the Giants twenty to nineteen. Beat the Cowboys after beating

758
00:39:34,360 --> 00:39:35,920
Speaker 1: the Eagles in Week one. That was her second win

759
00:39:36,080 --> 00:39:39,399
Speaker 1: their bye week. Yeah, they come back in their bye week,

760
00:39:39,480 --> 00:39:46,000
Speaker 1: loose to the Giants again, loose to the Lions. Beat

761
00:39:46,040 --> 00:39:49,080
Speaker 1: the Bengals after knocking Burrow out of the game, and

762
00:39:49,320 --> 00:39:52,520
Speaker 1: in that game, it was a close game before that. Uh,

763
00:39:52,560 --> 00:39:55,040
Speaker 1: and then they beat the Cowboys. What I'm really seeing

764
00:39:55,040 --> 00:39:57,400
Speaker 1: there is they lose the good teams. They beat bad teams,

765
00:39:57,800 --> 00:40:01,359
Speaker 1: not all the bad teams they are about. Yeah. Yeah,

766
00:40:01,520 --> 00:40:03,160
Speaker 1: and the Giants have their number, and they have the

767
00:40:03,280 --> 00:40:05,359
Speaker 1: last couple of years. I mean that's how you're You're

768
00:40:05,400 --> 00:40:08,360
Speaker 1: sitting here at four and seven right now. They're not

769
00:40:08,400 --> 00:40:10,879
Speaker 1: a good football team. Just they're not a complete football team.

770
00:40:10,960 --> 00:40:14,000
Speaker 1: The rest of their schedule handy, Yeah, it's uh at

771
00:40:14,080 --> 00:40:17,480
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh at San Francisco, Seattle, Carolina at home, Seattle on

772
00:40:17,520 --> 00:40:20,359
Speaker 1: Carolina at home at Philadelphia. They only get on more

773
00:40:21,200 --> 00:40:23,480
Speaker 1: or none. We're none. We're not beating the Steelers and

774
00:40:23,560 --> 00:40:28,279
Speaker 1: up beating the Seattle. I mean Carolina is a pass

775
00:40:28,880 --> 00:40:31,759
Speaker 1: is a toss up. Uh. And then they probably beat

776
00:40:31,760 --> 00:40:35,359
Speaker 1: the Eagles in the finale, probably even though it's in Philadelphia. Yeah,

777
00:40:35,360 --> 00:40:38,160
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter much anymore. Yeah, I just get back

778
00:40:38,160 --> 00:40:39,840
Speaker 1: to the power ranks real quick. Okay, let's do that.

779
00:40:40,200 --> 00:40:44,439
Speaker 1: We got sidetracked there. We did get side track football team. Um. Yeah,

780
00:40:44,800 --> 00:40:47,080
Speaker 1: and we'll talk more about them. But Giants come in

781
00:40:47,120 --> 00:40:50,560
Speaker 1: a four. Yeah, they're pretty similar four and seven. The

782
00:40:50,680 --> 00:40:53,400
Speaker 1: Broncos at four and seven fall spot to three. They

783
00:40:53,480 --> 00:40:55,200
Speaker 1: were hard for me to rank. I mean, you can't

784
00:40:55,239 --> 00:40:57,240
Speaker 1: just say you're gonna look like that every week. Obviously

785
00:40:57,320 --> 00:40:59,320
Speaker 1: they're to me, they're the same as the as the

786
00:40:59,680 --> 00:41:04,319
Speaker 1: wash and they're in the same like, they'll play it tough,

787
00:41:04,480 --> 00:41:07,080
Speaker 1: but the defense is good, but the offense is just

788
00:41:07,480 --> 00:41:11,960
Speaker 1: it's rough. Yeah. Bad Carolina comes in at the fall

789
00:41:12,239 --> 00:41:16,640
Speaker 1: eight in a row. They fall three spots, um Houston

790
00:41:17,160 --> 00:41:21,279
Speaker 1: up three spots one seven. They're they're a dangerous teams

791
00:41:21,360 --> 00:41:23,279
Speaker 1: are a dangerous team. They have a great quarterback. Yeah.

792
00:41:23,400 --> 00:41:24,719
Speaker 1: And when you have a great question, I mean they

793
00:41:25,000 --> 00:41:27,520
Speaker 1: losing Fuller and Robie hurts them bad. It does it does?

794
00:41:27,560 --> 00:41:30,200
Speaker 1: They they can't get over that. But they weren't going

795
00:41:30,200 --> 00:41:32,920
Speaker 1: anywhere anyway. But they have some nice wins and they

796
00:41:33,000 --> 00:41:36,560
Speaker 1: lost some really good teams. The Chargers fall three spots

797
00:41:36,600 --> 00:41:40,400
Speaker 1: to twenty there three and eight. They're way more talented

798
00:41:40,400 --> 00:41:43,439
Speaker 1: than any team you've mentioned, but they're dysfunctional. But they don't.

799
00:41:43,600 --> 00:41:45,799
Speaker 1: Anthony Lynn is just not a good football coach. They

800
00:41:45,880 --> 00:41:49,920
Speaker 1: played the Patriots this week and he could get fired

801
00:41:49,960 --> 00:41:52,279
Speaker 1: after that game. They lose that game. I think they're

802
00:41:52,280 --> 00:41:54,919
Speaker 1: gonna lose that game. You know. We previewed a little

803
00:41:54,960 --> 00:41:58,640
Speaker 1: bit Patriots Chargers today on I podcast and thought, if

804
00:41:58,719 --> 00:42:03,680
Speaker 1: Belichick had that Charge's roster, maybe right now, as I'm

805
00:42:03,680 --> 00:42:06,960
Speaker 1: supposed to being three and eight massive contender, and I

806
00:42:07,000 --> 00:42:10,120
Speaker 1: guess the lines like one either way or even pick

807
00:42:10,200 --> 00:42:14,000
Speaker 1: the Patriots are gonna win. They're a way worse roster,

808
00:42:14,200 --> 00:42:16,799
Speaker 1: but he'll do it hidden yardage and Stu stuff against

809
00:42:16,840 --> 00:42:19,640
Speaker 1: Herbert too, that will you know, they'll Confuser's definitely gonna win.

810
00:42:20,239 --> 00:42:22,160
Speaker 1: I mean, one of those guys to win unless does

811
00:42:22,280 --> 00:42:24,600
Speaker 1: unless Cam turns the ball over five times, right, I

812
00:42:24,640 --> 00:42:26,560
Speaker 1: mean they're either gonna lose by thirty or they're gonna

813
00:42:26,560 --> 00:42:28,680
Speaker 1: win by a field goal at the end and went

814
00:42:28,719 --> 00:42:31,920
Speaker 1: on hidden yardage and right. San Francisco comes in nineteen

815
00:42:31,960 --> 00:42:34,600
Speaker 1: at five and six. They're a little bit dangerous to me. Yeah,

816
00:42:34,600 --> 00:42:37,080
Speaker 1: they're they're spoiling spots. I think they're a team that

817
00:42:37,440 --> 00:42:40,040
Speaker 1: again much like Houston can they can play with just

818
00:42:40,080 --> 00:42:42,520
Speaker 1: about it. I think they're getting healthier. Atlanta up two

819
00:42:42,560 --> 00:42:45,439
Speaker 1: spots to eighteen. Speaking of those teams, Atlanta is good. Yeah,

820
00:42:45,760 --> 00:42:48,399
Speaker 1: they get some Landa's defenses in a joke like people think, yeah,

821
00:42:48,480 --> 00:42:52,839
Speaker 1: Rahee Morris is doing a good job. Um. Patriots up

822
00:42:52,920 --> 00:42:58,920
Speaker 1: one spot to seventeen, and they're still challenged. H Minnesota

823
00:42:59,000 --> 00:43:01,440
Speaker 1: comes in at sixteen at five and six. They can hang.

824
00:43:01,520 --> 00:43:04,120
Speaker 1: They have a shout. The playoffs still Miami comes in

825
00:43:04,200 --> 00:43:06,440
Speaker 1: at fifteen at seven and four. They're getting exposed a

826
00:43:06,520 --> 00:43:08,600
Speaker 1: little a little bit. Same thing with the number fourteen

827
00:43:08,640 --> 00:43:11,360
Speaker 1: team that's Arizona, Yeah a little bit. Kyler is not

828
00:43:11,440 --> 00:43:13,719
Speaker 1: looking great and then there's not much else there. Same

829
00:43:13,760 --> 00:43:17,520
Speaker 1: thing with the number thirteen team that's Cleveland, right, especially

830
00:43:17,560 --> 00:43:21,239
Speaker 1: Arizona in Miami just a year ago. Similar they're all

831
00:43:21,640 --> 00:43:24,680
Speaker 1: building where I'm not sure Cleveland's building as rapidly as

832
00:43:24,719 --> 00:43:28,760
Speaker 1: those teams. But Cleveland's a good record. Not after they're

833
00:43:28,760 --> 00:43:32,120
Speaker 1: gonna lose this week. Tennessee's gonna run on. The Ravens

834
00:43:32,200 --> 00:43:33,719
Speaker 1: come in at twelve, at six and five. That's what

835
00:43:33,760 --> 00:43:35,960
Speaker 1: I asked where I had them to uh, number eleven

836
00:43:36,080 --> 00:43:38,920
Speaker 1: down three spots the Raiders, Yeah, you had to ding

837
00:43:39,000 --> 00:43:42,080
Speaker 1: them after that performance. The Colts come in at seven

838
00:43:42,120 --> 00:43:45,080
Speaker 1: and four, number ten. It's very similar to mine. More

839
00:43:45,080 --> 00:43:48,920
Speaker 1: I'm thinking about number nine. Tampa Bay falls three spots. Yeah,

840
00:43:49,000 --> 00:43:51,719
Speaker 1: you gotta hurt them. I mean, I'm saying five they've

841
00:43:51,760 --> 00:43:53,840
Speaker 1: lost five games. Every time they play a good defense,

842
00:43:53,880 --> 00:43:56,600
Speaker 1: they lose. Yeah, and Brady does not handle pressure. Well,

843
00:43:57,000 --> 00:43:59,840
Speaker 1: I am a little skeptic or not. I'm curious. Go

844
00:44:00,040 --> 00:44:01,640
Speaker 1: back to the drawing board this late in the year.

845
00:44:01,719 --> 00:44:03,960
Speaker 1: Hopefully they come out and finish the season a little better.

846
00:44:04,160 --> 00:44:07,759
Speaker 1: But it's d Yeah, I agree. Number eight is the

847
00:44:07,920 --> 00:44:11,080
Speaker 1: Rams down four spots. They can hang with anybody, but

848
00:44:11,320 --> 00:44:14,399
Speaker 1: they can lose anybody. Did not play well. They don't

849
00:44:14,400 --> 00:44:16,960
Speaker 1: match up well with San Francisco. No, they don't. Uh.

850
00:44:17,160 --> 00:44:20,480
Speaker 1: Seven is the Bills at eight and three. Okay, I

851
00:44:20,520 --> 00:44:23,600
Speaker 1: don't fear them a lot. They don't do anything special.

852
00:44:24,440 --> 00:44:27,520
Speaker 1: They're a good team though. Uh Titans at six move

853
00:44:27,600 --> 00:44:30,040
Speaker 1: up five spots at eight and three to number six.

854
00:44:30,239 --> 00:44:32,680
Speaker 1: I'd rather play the Bills in the Titans, yeah, because

855
00:44:32,680 --> 00:44:34,239
Speaker 1: you don't have to deal with Derick Kenner. Right. The

856
00:44:34,280 --> 00:44:38,080
Speaker 1: Henry factor can take over a game. Seattle up four

857
00:44:38,120 --> 00:44:40,960
Speaker 1: spots to number five. Yeah. I was torn between them

858
00:44:41,000 --> 00:44:43,080
Speaker 1: and green Bay right in that neighborhood. I think if

859
00:44:43,080 --> 00:44:46,600
Speaker 1: they play green Bay right now, they'll probably win that one.

860
00:44:46,680 --> 00:44:48,839
Speaker 1: I'm super impressed with. It would be a really big

861
00:44:49,400 --> 00:44:52,120
Speaker 1: be a shootout in the half though. Those two quarterbacks

862
00:44:52,320 --> 00:44:56,480
Speaker 1: really carry their franchis. Uh. Number four is green Bay

863
00:44:56,560 --> 00:44:59,040
Speaker 1: up a spot? Yeah, I was torn between those two. Um.

864
00:44:59,480 --> 00:45:01,719
Speaker 1: I just think at Seattle just run all over green Bay.

865
00:45:01,960 --> 00:45:04,680
Speaker 1: Probably Rogers be standing on the sidelines battle. He's getting

866
00:45:04,680 --> 00:45:08,440
Speaker 1: a little better. Roger Green Bays Yeah, three three through.

867
00:45:08,560 --> 00:45:11,680
Speaker 1: While one unchanged that the Saints at three, they weren't

868
00:45:11,680 --> 00:45:13,920
Speaker 1: really tested at all last week. Neither were the Steelers

869
00:45:14,000 --> 00:45:17,600
Speaker 1: at two and then Kansas City at one. I think

870
00:45:17,640 --> 00:45:20,000
Speaker 1: the top three are really easy. The Saints don't have

871
00:45:20,000 --> 00:45:22,960
Speaker 1: a quarterback. It's a bit of an issue. Yeah, I

872
00:45:23,000 --> 00:45:25,440
Speaker 1: mean they're like the Steelers too. I mean they even

873
00:45:25,520 --> 00:45:27,960
Speaker 1: lost in a long time, but boy, they don't have

874
00:45:27,960 --> 00:45:32,279
Speaker 1: a quarterback in the chief could the Chiefs to me?

875
00:45:32,560 --> 00:45:35,720
Speaker 1: I mean their their secondary can be had. I agree.

876
00:45:35,800 --> 00:45:37,800
Speaker 1: And the run defenses are run defense is not so

877
00:45:37,960 --> 00:45:41,200
Speaker 1: I mean they Yeah, the offense is outstanding and they

878
00:45:41,280 --> 00:45:42,920
Speaker 1: did they did a lot of good things last week

879
00:45:42,960 --> 00:45:45,920
Speaker 1: against Tampa Bay still only put up twenty seven points

880
00:45:46,520 --> 00:45:49,000
Speaker 1: in Tampa. I know it was garbage time and all that,

881
00:45:49,120 --> 00:45:51,880
Speaker 1: but they made that a game. It's not like Mahomes

882
00:45:51,920 --> 00:45:54,000
Speaker 1: stopped throwing the football in the fourth quarter. No. No,

883
00:45:54,120 --> 00:45:55,439
Speaker 1: they didn't just come out and say, oh, we're gonna

884
00:45:55,440 --> 00:45:57,319
Speaker 1: sit on the football. They were still trying to score points.

885
00:45:57,360 --> 00:45:59,640
Speaker 1: They just didn't do it. They stopped playing man coverage,

886
00:45:59,640 --> 00:46:02,800
Speaker 1: single and coverage against Tyreek. Okay, throw the ball to

887
00:46:02,920 --> 00:46:05,439
Speaker 1: Kelsey and get your you know, eight yard game or whatever.

888
00:46:05,520 --> 00:46:08,000
Speaker 1: We'll tackle him and live to play again, as opposed

889
00:46:08,000 --> 00:46:10,359
Speaker 1: to giving up the over the top to Tyreke. They're

890
00:46:10,480 --> 00:46:12,840
Speaker 1: they're really good though, but they have holes. They have

891
00:46:13,160 --> 00:46:16,200
Speaker 1: they're not I think every team does, and the Steelers

892
00:46:16,280 --> 00:46:18,359
Speaker 1: holes now a little bit bigger after this last week

893
00:46:18,400 --> 00:46:21,000
Speaker 1: losing bud dupre Yeah, let's say that they had the

894
00:46:21,040 --> 00:46:23,759
Speaker 1: fewest and now there's a little more questions of the

895
00:46:23,800 --> 00:46:27,759
Speaker 1: button bush things or peeking up. We're gonna take another break.

896
00:46:27,800 --> 00:46:30,799
Speaker 1: He is Matt Williamson. I'm Dale Lally. Uh, it will

897
00:46:30,840 --> 00:46:33,480
Speaker 1: be time for the fantasy football focus when we come back.

898
00:46:33,640 --> 00:46:36,880
Speaker 1: No game tonight because that game is moved. That is strange.

899
00:46:37,520 --> 00:46:39,480
Speaker 1: Uh So we'll look at the practice reports from we're

900
00:46:39,480 --> 00:46:40,680
Speaker 1: on the leak. We didn't get a chance to do

901
00:46:40,760 --> 00:46:43,080
Speaker 1: that yesterday because we didn't have a game. So today.

902
00:46:43,440 --> 00:46:47,880
Speaker 1: My wife was really hoping that would have Wednesday, Thursday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday.

903
00:46:48,600 --> 00:46:55,480
Speaker 1: But well, yeah, they yeah, we'll do that right after

904
00:46:55,560 --> 00:47:03,279
Speaker 1: this least. He's the Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt

905
00:47:03,320 --> 00:47:09,400
Speaker 1: Williamson on Home of the Black and Gold Steelers. Nation Radio.

906
00:47:42,760 --> 00:47:45,400
Speaker 1: Welcome back. I'm Dale Lolly here with Matt Williamson. It's

907
00:47:45,440 --> 00:47:48,840
Speaker 1: time for the Fantasy Football Focus. And the first thing

908
00:47:48,920 --> 00:47:51,920
Speaker 1: we're gonna get through here is that Josh Gordon has

909
00:47:51,960 --> 00:47:55,560
Speaker 1: been reinstated by the NFL. I'm not running out to

910
00:47:55,600 --> 00:47:58,560
Speaker 1: pick up Josh Gordon. Um, they flirted with a b.

911
00:47:58,719 --> 00:48:00,440
Speaker 1: It looks like they're trying to add another our weapon

912
00:48:00,560 --> 00:48:04,680
Speaker 1: for the stretcher on. Gordon doesn't look good in five years, No,

913
00:48:04,880 --> 00:48:06,960
Speaker 1: I mean this is two thirteen was a good year.

914
00:48:07,400 --> 00:48:12,719
Speaker 1: I think. Yeah, it's been a long, long, long time ago. Yeah. Uh.

915
00:48:12,960 --> 00:48:17,520
Speaker 1: David Johnson, um back from his concussion, practiced on Thursday.

916
00:48:17,560 --> 00:48:21,480
Speaker 1: He started practicing yesterday. Uh. Offensive coordinated Tim Kelly said

917
00:48:21,520 --> 00:48:25,600
Speaker 1: that Johnson looks great. Um, I think you plug them

918
00:48:25,680 --> 00:48:28,719
Speaker 1: right back into your line kills Duke Johnson Johnson, it does.

919
00:48:29,239 --> 00:48:31,880
Speaker 1: I mean Duke kind of a catch ro a touchdown

920
00:48:31,960 --> 00:48:33,560
Speaker 1: that kind of saved them. But he hasn't been doing

921
00:48:33,719 --> 00:48:36,600
Speaker 1: much as a league guy. I mean, many coaches have

922
00:48:36,680 --> 00:48:38,840
Speaker 1: told us that Duke's a part time player, and some

923
00:48:39,000 --> 00:48:40,719
Speaker 1: of us are a little reluctant to believe it. But

924
00:48:40,880 --> 00:48:43,880
Speaker 1: he's a part time player. He's a part time right. Uh,

925
00:48:44,000 --> 00:48:47,280
Speaker 1: Kenny Golladay with the hip injury did not practice today.

926
00:48:47,880 --> 00:48:49,960
Speaker 1: You wonder this is the time of year when teams

927
00:48:50,040 --> 00:48:54,919
Speaker 1: like that, like mixing Golladay and McCaffrey, Like they teams

928
00:48:54,920 --> 00:48:56,719
Speaker 1: don't shut these guys down. They haven't put them one

929
00:48:56,760 --> 00:48:58,799
Speaker 1: I R yet they don't have a GM right now.

930
00:48:58,880 --> 00:49:02,279
Speaker 1: So I'm like, like the head coach, like does the owner.

931
00:49:02,520 --> 00:49:04,960
Speaker 1: He's a free agent after the year, and if some

932
00:49:05,080 --> 00:49:07,560
Speaker 1: of these guys don't be counting on them that they're

933
00:49:07,560 --> 00:49:09,759
Speaker 1: definitely coming back and they gonna give you everything they got.

934
00:49:09,880 --> 00:49:12,479
Speaker 1: And you know, I mean, like it's a weird time.

935
00:49:12,760 --> 00:49:16,800
Speaker 1: I agree. Uh, Danny Ammondola did practice on Thursday, So

936
00:49:16,920 --> 00:49:21,720
Speaker 1: if holiday is out, Um, who get targets? I guess

937
00:49:21,880 --> 00:49:24,239
Speaker 1: I mean pr D PPR league that type of thing.

938
00:49:25,000 --> 00:49:26,800
Speaker 1: I wouldn't put a lot of stock in them, obviously.

939
00:49:26,920 --> 00:49:30,839
Speaker 1: But uh DeAndre Swift this is yeah, Uh he's out

940
00:49:30,920 --> 00:49:34,280
Speaker 1: of the least concussion Protocol. But he missed Thursday's practice

941
00:49:34,320 --> 00:49:39,640
Speaker 1: with an illness. Oh you don't like to see that. No, no,

942
00:49:40,000 --> 00:49:42,200
Speaker 1: keep an eye on him. But because he's a rookie too,

943
00:49:42,680 --> 00:49:46,000
Speaker 1: and who's the coach and again that's uncertain hasn't played

944
00:49:46,040 --> 00:49:48,680
Speaker 1: in two weeks. Screen has a practice in two weeks,

945
00:49:49,280 --> 00:49:52,200
Speaker 1: also screams he plays and then he plays a quarter

946
00:49:52,360 --> 00:49:56,000
Speaker 1: and he doesn't or the illness could scream covid. Yeah,

947
00:49:56,239 --> 00:49:59,839
Speaker 1: of course, right, he's on the list and I don't know. Yeah,

948
00:50:00,000 --> 00:50:02,319
Speaker 1: the lines are can't be back in the building while

949
00:50:02,320 --> 00:50:07,239
Speaker 1: you're having any kind of see. Yeah, the um A J.

950
00:50:07,400 --> 00:50:10,120
Speaker 1: Brown again not practicing on Thursday with the hip injury.

951
00:50:10,239 --> 00:50:12,400
Speaker 1: That's been an ongoing thing with him all season long.

952
00:50:12,480 --> 00:50:14,680
Speaker 1: So don't get there. Yeah, he's just fighting through it. Yeah.

953
00:50:15,280 --> 00:50:18,280
Speaker 1: H Adam Humphreys with a concussion. He was back practicing

954
00:50:18,360 --> 00:50:23,160
Speaker 1: fully on Thursday, So uh, Daniel Jones with the hamstring

955
00:50:23,280 --> 00:50:25,200
Speaker 1: did not practice. That looks like it's gonna be cult

956
00:50:25,280 --> 00:50:29,800
Speaker 1: McCoy against the Seahawks. It's a great passing matchup, But

957
00:50:30,320 --> 00:50:33,000
Speaker 1: can you start any of your giants with Colt mccoick

958
00:50:34,719 --> 00:50:37,960
Speaker 1: tight end? So lean like Slayton hasn't done much, Shepard

959
00:50:38,000 --> 00:50:39,520
Speaker 1: and Tate haven't done a whole heck of a lot.

960
00:50:39,880 --> 00:50:42,479
Speaker 1: They all vult from each other a little bit. Yeah,

961
00:50:42,800 --> 00:50:45,560
Speaker 1: I agree, was kind of interesting before you got hurt.

962
00:50:45,600 --> 00:50:49,680
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, especially in that game that matchup for him

963
00:50:50,120 --> 00:50:53,200
Speaker 1: Dalvin Cook was limited on Thursday with an ankle injury.

964
00:50:53,520 --> 00:50:57,759
Speaker 1: He expects to play against the Jaguars. That's a great matchup. Yeah,

965
00:50:58,320 --> 00:50:59,600
Speaker 1: I mean they're gonna win that one and gets the

966
00:50:59,640 --> 00:51:01,719
Speaker 1: six and six. Yeah, they're in it. They're not gonna

967
00:51:01,719 --> 00:51:05,400
Speaker 1: shut and down. I imagine back for it too. Uh.

968
00:51:05,520 --> 00:51:09,160
Speaker 1: Deebo Samuel with the hamstring was held out of Thursday's practice.

969
00:51:09,239 --> 00:51:12,719
Speaker 1: Is a precautionary measure, not once you want to see though.

970
00:51:12,719 --> 00:51:15,399
Speaker 1: It's like he's still dealing with this thing, right, Yeah,

971
00:51:15,880 --> 00:51:17,680
Speaker 1: it didn't look like it on the field, and I

972
00:51:17,760 --> 00:51:20,400
Speaker 1: think who's coming back to Yeah, they should be getting

973
00:51:20,400 --> 00:51:24,400
Speaker 1: a little more healthy. Uh. DeAndre Washington with the Dolphins

974
00:51:24,520 --> 00:51:27,680
Speaker 1: did not practice on Thursday with the hamstring injury. Uh.

975
00:51:28,239 --> 00:51:30,600
Speaker 1: The lead guy that's past week. Well, you got a

976
00:51:30,680 --> 00:51:34,080
Speaker 1: list here of Dolphins running backs that you you kind

977
00:51:34,080 --> 00:51:36,280
Speaker 1: of get the idea here. Selvon Akmed but the shoulder

978
00:51:36,320 --> 00:51:39,759
Speaker 1: remained limited at Thursday's practice, and Miles Gaskin has been

979
00:51:39,800 --> 00:51:42,880
Speaker 1: practicing for two weeks. Team has until Saturday afternoon to

980
00:51:42,960 --> 00:51:45,680
Speaker 1: activate him for their Week thirteen game against the Bengals.

981
00:51:45,719 --> 00:51:48,359
Speaker 1: I keep thinking it's about gasking time, and I would

982
00:51:48,400 --> 00:51:50,600
Speaker 1: think he becomes the lead swear like that on the air.

983
00:51:53,200 --> 00:51:55,160
Speaker 1: One thing about that team is they said they tend

984
00:51:55,239 --> 00:51:57,480
Speaker 1: to feature a guy a guy, so if you know

985
00:51:57,560 --> 00:51:59,440
Speaker 1: who it is, it's not Brito. They don't look to

986
00:51:59,480 --> 00:52:02,400
Speaker 1: breed it that way obviously. Yeah, I think asking might

987
00:52:02,440 --> 00:52:05,080
Speaker 1: be a good down the stretch player for you. Could

988
00:52:05,160 --> 00:52:09,600
Speaker 1: be we'll see you know, it's spinning the roulette wheel

989
00:52:09,600 --> 00:52:12,400
Speaker 1: there and okay, where's it gonna land? Uh to a

990
00:52:12,480 --> 00:52:16,440
Speaker 1: tegliavola um with the thumb remain limited in Thursday's practice,

991
00:52:16,480 --> 00:52:19,800
Speaker 1: it's gonna be Fitzpatrick. I assume. Yeah, I mean you

992
00:52:19,920 --> 00:52:22,719
Speaker 1: keep hearing words that two is the starter, but it

993
00:52:22,800 --> 00:52:25,000
Speaker 1: makes no sense. Yeah, they're not gonna rush try together.

994
00:52:26,120 --> 00:52:29,719
Speaker 1: Um Ravens head coach John Harbaugh won't say whether Lamar

995
00:52:29,840 --> 00:52:32,120
Speaker 1: Jackson won't be available for week thirteen or Dallas or not.

996
00:52:32,840 --> 00:52:36,760
Speaker 1: It's not that he won't say he doesn't know. That's

997
00:52:36,760 --> 00:52:39,040
Speaker 1: what people need to understand this about the COVID list.

998
00:52:39,880 --> 00:52:43,880
Speaker 1: Just because you are off the list or eligible to

999
00:52:43,920 --> 00:52:46,319
Speaker 1: come off the list, doesn't mean that you're automatically going

1000
00:52:46,400 --> 00:52:48,960
Speaker 1: to come off the list. That ten day period just

1001
00:52:49,080 --> 00:52:51,640
Speaker 1: means okay, now they're gonna start testing you wanted to,

1002
00:52:51,800 --> 00:52:54,600
Speaker 1: you know, are you still showing signs of the virus?

1003
00:52:54,800 --> 00:52:58,960
Speaker 1: He was positive? You know that, right, Yeah, you're yeah,

1004
00:52:59,000 --> 00:53:01,400
Speaker 1: And so he doesn't know that answer. Yeah, he doesn't know.

1005
00:53:01,680 --> 00:53:03,799
Speaker 1: And we don't know if hope he gets a practice one.

1006
00:53:03,880 --> 00:53:06,280
Speaker 1: We don't know if he's feeling, if he has symptoms.

1007
00:53:07,120 --> 00:53:08,960
Speaker 1: We don't know what's going on with that. No one's

1008
00:53:08,960 --> 00:53:11,520
Speaker 1: gonna tell you. No, they don't have to write, So

1009
00:53:11,640 --> 00:53:13,719
Speaker 1: don't count on him. If he's your fantasy starter, is

1010
00:53:13,760 --> 00:53:19,160
Speaker 1: a guaranteed start against a pickup Fitzpatrick, Yeah, yeah, good

1011
00:53:19,239 --> 00:53:22,040
Speaker 1: luck for that. You could go into you know, if

1012
00:53:22,080 --> 00:53:24,560
Speaker 1: you're going into Sunday and he's still not been activated,

1013
00:53:24,600 --> 00:53:29,799
Speaker 1: you better make plans to have somebody else practice Sunday. Yes,

1014
00:53:30,120 --> 00:53:33,239
Speaker 1: he hasn't. You better have somebody before Sunday. We want

1015
00:53:33,239 --> 00:53:37,759
Speaker 1: to clock kickoffs, right because yeah? Not good? Not good. Uh.

1016
00:53:38,000 --> 00:53:40,840
Speaker 1: Clyde Edwards Hilaire with an illness was held out of

1017
00:53:40,840 --> 00:53:43,440
Speaker 1: practice on Thursday. It would be great for Leed Bell,

1018
00:53:43,920 --> 00:53:47,200
Speaker 1: be fantastic for Levy on Bell, I'm not super impresed

1019
00:53:47,200 --> 00:53:49,280
Speaker 1: with the one of those guys for fantasy at the moment.

1020
00:53:49,800 --> 00:53:51,680
Speaker 1: Bell will at least catch them passes and do some

1021
00:53:51,800 --> 00:53:53,319
Speaker 1: things of that nature. But if you get the other one,

1022
00:53:53,320 --> 00:53:57,880
Speaker 1: other picture, now you've got something. Yeah. Absolutely. Um Julio

1023
00:53:58,040 --> 00:54:01,040
Speaker 1: Jones with the hamstring was downgraded to did not practice

1024
00:54:01,120 --> 00:54:05,319
Speaker 1: Thursday after being limited on Wednesday. That's not good. That's good,

1025
00:54:05,960 --> 00:54:08,600
Speaker 1: and they they absolutely need him. I know. They won

1026
00:54:08,680 --> 00:54:11,000
Speaker 1: big over the Raiders, who they played the Saints this week.

1027
00:54:11,360 --> 00:54:14,040
Speaker 1: Saints this week, that's not good for Matt Ryan. They

1028
00:54:14,080 --> 00:54:16,719
Speaker 1: could win that game. If Julio plays, they can win

1029
00:54:16,800 --> 00:54:19,239
Speaker 1: that game. Yeah, I think so too, But I don't

1030
00:54:19,239 --> 00:54:20,440
Speaker 1: know if they can as long as they can keep

1031
00:54:20,440 --> 00:54:22,680
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan upright, like it's gonna be a problem. Yeah,

1032
00:54:22,680 --> 00:54:25,360
Speaker 1: because they're not gonna run well either. Uh. This is

1033
00:54:25,440 --> 00:54:28,680
Speaker 1: more towards next year. But Joe Burrow underwent the successful

1034
00:54:28,719 --> 00:54:32,640
Speaker 1: surgery on his injured knee yesterday. Uh so the clock

1035
00:54:32,719 --> 00:54:36,400
Speaker 1: now starts ticking on his rehab. So we're December right now.

1036
00:54:36,520 --> 00:54:38,480
Speaker 1: It's not a promise he's there a week one. No,

1037
00:54:39,280 --> 00:54:41,520
Speaker 1: I mean he will not play, and I would think

1038
00:54:41,560 --> 00:54:43,799
Speaker 1: he doesn't play at all in the preseason. I would

1039
00:54:43,800 --> 00:54:47,360
Speaker 1: assume not. Um. Maybe who maybe at the end of

1040
00:54:47,360 --> 00:54:50,120
Speaker 1: September sometime, you finally get him back on the field. Yeah,

1041
00:54:50,680 --> 00:54:53,319
Speaker 1: that's unfortunate. It's such a good player and it's such

1042
00:54:53,320 --> 00:54:56,600
Speaker 1: a key position. First overall, pick and then you wonder

1043
00:54:56,760 --> 00:54:58,400
Speaker 1: and then you wonder if he has that If you

1044
00:54:58,440 --> 00:55:00,799
Speaker 1: remember when like Flacco came back from his knee injury,

1045
00:55:00,800 --> 00:55:02,200
Speaker 1: does he have the yips a little bit? You know,

1046
00:55:02,239 --> 00:55:05,359
Speaker 1: every time somebody says somebody, every time somebody's falling around

1047
00:55:05,400 --> 00:55:07,640
Speaker 1: his feet, he's picking that leg up, you know. Yeah.

1048
00:55:08,000 --> 00:55:10,560
Speaker 1: I mean even even if he is their week one,

1049
00:55:11,080 --> 00:55:13,840
Speaker 1: what's he gonna be like next year? Again, no preseason,

1050
00:55:13,920 --> 00:55:16,640
Speaker 1: like free season, you know, not much work of the team.

1051
00:55:17,200 --> 00:55:19,680
Speaker 1: It's something to monitor. But I'm rooting for him. Uh.

1052
00:55:19,800 --> 00:55:23,960
Speaker 1: Philip Lindsay was limited in Thursday's practice for the Denver Marcos.

1053
00:55:24,080 --> 00:55:29,040
Speaker 1: Yeah it's a good but not at all. Jerry Judy

1054
00:55:29,520 --> 00:55:33,839
Speaker 1: limited today as well. They'll have Drew lock back this week.

1055
00:55:33,920 --> 00:55:37,920
Speaker 1: But I think Judy is startable. Yeah. They're playing the Chiefs.

1056
00:55:37,960 --> 00:55:39,920
Speaker 1: I mean they could, they're gonna have to throw the football.

1057
00:55:40,960 --> 00:55:44,520
Speaker 1: Um IRV Smith with a groin injury was sideline Thursday.

1058
00:55:45,160 --> 00:55:49,360
Speaker 1: Uh be interested in this? Kyle Rudolph No, I like Smith.

1059
00:55:49,480 --> 00:55:52,719
Speaker 1: I don't like Rudolph. Eight targets last week and that

1060
00:55:52,840 --> 00:55:55,480
Speaker 1: was also a dealing out. I don't know that that

1061
00:55:55,640 --> 00:56:00,600
Speaker 1: perfect storms would happen again. Yeah, uh, Young Hoku. That's

1062
00:56:00,600 --> 00:56:03,239
Speaker 1: actually a big deal as a quad injury. But he's

1063
00:56:03,280 --> 00:56:06,320
Speaker 1: expected to play this week. He's the leading kickers almost

1064
00:56:06,400 --> 00:56:08,200
Speaker 1: exactly what I asked, like, I think he's the leading

1065
00:56:08,280 --> 00:56:12,640
Speaker 1: kicker in fantasy this year. Yeah, good for him. I mean,

1066
00:56:13,160 --> 00:56:15,560
Speaker 1: better make sure he plays. But you might you might

1067
00:56:15,600 --> 00:56:19,480
Speaker 1: want to do that. Don't just Pennsylvan. You're lineup though, absolutely. Um.

1068
00:56:23,560 --> 00:56:27,000
Speaker 1: Mike Frabel says that the Titans have to be able

1069
00:56:27,080 --> 00:56:29,960
Speaker 1: to throw the ball to Derrick Henry Moore. We've heard

1070
00:56:30,040 --> 00:56:34,480
Speaker 1: this before. It's not that hard. Yeah, you can do it.

1071
00:56:35,320 --> 00:56:38,640
Speaker 1: He's got twenty six targets this year. That's his career high.

1072
00:56:40,880 --> 00:56:44,360
Speaker 1: I mean that's I think they're telling you that he

1073
00:56:44,400 --> 00:56:47,399
Speaker 1: doesn't catch the ball. Well, well, I mean he's such

1074
00:56:47,440 --> 00:56:51,200
Speaker 1: a stiffs the wrong word. He's such a straight line guy.

1075
00:56:52,000 --> 00:56:55,040
Speaker 1: Route running is coming out of brakes and but still

1076
00:56:55,440 --> 00:56:57,360
Speaker 1: screen him up a little bit. I mean him in

1077
00:56:57,400 --> 00:57:01,040
Speaker 1: that area of the field is a nightmare. What do

1078
00:57:01,120 --> 00:57:03,839
Speaker 1: we make of the Chargers backfield? Now that els back

1079
00:57:05,520 --> 00:57:08,960
Speaker 1: the guy I think the short yardage guy would charge

1080
00:57:09,040 --> 00:57:11,319
Speaker 1: him a little bit. He'd like sixteen targets this week,

1081
00:57:11,560 --> 00:57:13,480
Speaker 1: which is the most event of the season for any

1082
00:57:13,600 --> 00:57:16,400
Speaker 1: running back in the league. Yeah, which was just I'm

1083
00:57:16,440 --> 00:57:18,920
Speaker 1: playing against him and he gets out and catch his nineteen. Yeah,

1084
00:57:19,120 --> 00:57:21,760
Speaker 1: did really didn't do a lot with it, No, he

1085
00:57:21,840 --> 00:57:26,120
Speaker 1: didn't targets. I think cars will go up and I

1086
00:57:26,160 --> 00:57:28,880
Speaker 1: think Herbert's gonna love him, and what rookie quarterback wouldn't

1087
00:57:28,880 --> 00:57:31,680
Speaker 1: love thrown to him. Yeah, it's just they have a

1088
00:57:31,720 --> 00:57:34,560
Speaker 1: lot of weapons though. Yeah, it's a it's a it's

1089
00:57:34,560 --> 00:57:38,600
Speaker 1: a big pie. Nelson Aghilar sidelined with an ankle injury.

1090
00:57:38,720 --> 00:57:41,760
Speaker 1: Keeping on that one. Can you start him? Do you

1091
00:57:41,800 --> 00:57:44,360
Speaker 1: have the Stones? Will start him on Sunday morning? Plan?

1092
00:57:44,440 --> 00:57:47,240
Speaker 1: Did Yets? I mean he's kind of their number one

1093
00:57:47,280 --> 00:57:48,960
Speaker 1: wide out. Yeah, I mean he's the one that you

1094
00:57:49,000 --> 00:57:51,840
Speaker 1: can count on the most. He gets the targets. You know,

1095
00:57:52,120 --> 00:57:54,960
Speaker 1: if you're you know, if you're trying to hit a

1096
00:57:55,040 --> 00:57:56,920
Speaker 1: home run in DFS or something like that, maybe you

1097
00:57:57,000 --> 00:58:01,120
Speaker 1: throw rugs out there, but car still and throwing bombs, No,

1098
00:58:01,440 --> 00:58:03,000
Speaker 1: you know, you probably you're not gonna throw a bunch

1099
00:58:03,040 --> 00:58:05,120
Speaker 1: of bombs against the Jets. They're probably not gonna need to.

1100
00:58:05,800 --> 00:58:09,000
Speaker 1: I think Jacobs is Jacobs was has an an ankle

1101
00:58:09,080 --> 00:58:11,480
Speaker 1: injury that he's dealing with. That there has value If

1102
00:58:11,520 --> 00:58:15,400
Speaker 1: Jacobs is an Absolutely, if you're the Raiders, you're playing

1103
00:58:15,400 --> 00:58:17,320
Speaker 1: the Jets, you might just think, you know what, let's

1104
00:58:17,640 --> 00:58:19,360
Speaker 1: let's take it easy with him this week. Let's sit

1105
00:58:19,440 --> 00:58:21,760
Speaker 1: him out. Book Or should be more than adequate against it.

1106
00:58:21,840 --> 00:58:24,040
Speaker 1: I think that's the approach I would take. Yeah, yeah,

1107
00:58:24,160 --> 00:58:26,080
Speaker 1: as opposed to getting more banged up as hard as

1108
00:58:26,160 --> 00:58:29,480
Speaker 1: Jacob's runs. Yeah, I would have Booker in your on

1109
00:58:29,560 --> 00:58:32,480
Speaker 1: your bench right now and on call. Yeah. I mean,

1110
00:58:32,560 --> 00:58:34,600
Speaker 1: I think that's one that you certainly look at and

1111
00:58:34,600 --> 00:58:38,240
Speaker 1: you go, okay, maybe that's uh one that you want

1112
00:58:38,240 --> 00:58:41,800
Speaker 1: to go with their UM again. No Thursday night game

1113
00:58:41,840 --> 00:58:44,080
Speaker 1: this week, that's gonna That's pretty much it in terms

1114
00:58:44,120 --> 00:58:49,560
Speaker 1: of the UM any mondays in a Tuesday and two

1115
00:58:49,600 --> 00:58:51,680
Speaker 1: teams on by it's not too bad though. Yeah, don't

1116
00:58:51,720 --> 00:58:54,880
Speaker 1: forget that the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Carolina Panthers are

1117
00:58:54,920 --> 00:58:57,960
Speaker 1: on the by this one of fancy relevant dudes. Absolutely, Yeah,

1118
00:58:58,200 --> 00:59:02,120
Speaker 1: and I would imagine McCaffrey's back post by I think so,

1119
00:59:02,680 --> 00:59:05,240
Speaker 1: I guess a bit why rush them, you know, like

1120
00:59:05,640 --> 00:59:07,360
Speaker 1: those kind of things. Like I was saying before, like,

1121
00:59:07,760 --> 00:59:11,680
Speaker 1: if I'm the owner of the Panthers, you know, we

1122
00:59:11,760 --> 00:59:13,720
Speaker 1: don't really need Christian the rest of the year. I

1123
00:59:13,760 --> 00:59:16,040
Speaker 1: don't really need Mixing the rest of the year. You know,

1124
00:59:16,920 --> 00:59:18,680
Speaker 1: you guys aren't winning anything. You're just gonna hurt our

1125
00:59:18,760 --> 00:59:22,360
Speaker 1: draft position of anything at that position. Set him down.

1126
00:59:22,760 --> 00:59:24,600
Speaker 1: Here's one that we didn't get to. A couple of

1127
00:59:24,640 --> 00:59:28,280
Speaker 1: things from yesterday. Jonathan Taylor activated from the COVID list

1128
00:59:28,440 --> 00:59:31,800
Speaker 1: for the cluss. That's a big one. And zach Ertz

1129
00:59:31,840 --> 00:59:39,400
Speaker 1: also activated off even in today's uh tight end fans

1130
00:59:39,440 --> 00:59:42,439
Speaker 1: starved leagues. As it was falling out of my mouth,

1131
00:59:42,480 --> 00:59:44,360
Speaker 1: I was thinking, but are there twelve better one? I mean,

1132
00:59:44,440 --> 00:59:47,760
Speaker 1: Goddard got peppered with targets on and they actually and

1133
00:59:47,800 --> 00:59:50,520
Speaker 1: they actually threw the ball to Richard Rogers too. They did,

1134
00:59:50,800 --> 00:59:53,280
Speaker 1: and he caught a hell mary like when you start

1135
00:59:53,360 --> 00:59:59,800
Speaker 1: ebron over arts. Yeah, probably because he's gonna give you

1136
00:59:59,880 --> 01:00:02,400
Speaker 1: more upside with yardage. But they probably finished with a

1137
01:00:02,480 --> 01:00:05,360
Speaker 1: run the same number of catches, probably probably looking at

1138
01:00:05,400 --> 01:00:08,080
Speaker 1: like four or five catches. And you know, Urson looked

1139
01:00:08,080 --> 01:00:11,120
Speaker 1: great pre injury to me, but he should be fresh now. Yeah,

1140
01:00:11,200 --> 01:00:13,480
Speaker 1: he's never been a super athlete to begin with. He's

1141
01:00:13,560 --> 01:00:15,280
Speaker 1: you know, he's a good open guy, and you know

1142
01:00:15,360 --> 01:00:17,240
Speaker 1: Wentz likes him. He's gonna throw in the football, He's

1143
01:00:17,240 --> 01:00:20,120
Speaker 1: not like he's not gonna more than Actually yeah, getting

1144
01:00:20,160 --> 01:00:22,880
Speaker 1: his will be back to give him some vote of confidence,

1145
01:00:23,400 --> 01:00:27,360
Speaker 1: Wentz looks bad, really bad, really bad, really bad. Uh.

1146
01:00:27,560 --> 01:00:30,440
Speaker 1: Theland Adam Theeland was activated from the COVID list as well. So,

1147
01:00:31,560 --> 01:00:34,440
Speaker 1: um that justin Jefferson, dude, for real, I didn't think

1148
01:00:34,520 --> 01:00:36,480
Speaker 1: he would have a big day with Helen out, you know,

1149
01:00:36,600 --> 01:00:39,800
Speaker 1: just rookie getting a lot of attention didn't matter. Yeah,

1150
01:00:40,720 --> 01:00:42,720
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins is worth it. Two Yeah, I mean the

1151
01:00:42,880 --> 01:00:45,960
Speaker 1: the the rookie receiver has been good this year, really good. Yeah.

1152
01:00:46,040 --> 01:00:48,160
Speaker 1: I mean one of my favorites of Ceedee Lamb and

1153
01:00:48,200 --> 01:00:50,320
Speaker 1: that guy's if you'd had that all year, but would

1154
01:00:50,320 --> 01:00:52,840
Speaker 1: have been talking about him right with Claypool and Jefferson

1155
01:00:52,920 --> 01:00:56,560
Speaker 1: and those guys, and Judy hasn't really benefited from He

1156
01:00:56,680 --> 01:00:59,160
Speaker 1: isn't a great he's not a great quarterback playoff, but

1157
01:00:59,200 --> 01:01:02,280
Speaker 1: it's a really good rookie class. It absolutely is. I

1158
01:01:02,320 --> 01:01:06,720
Speaker 1: haven't seen Reagor yet. Um, you know enough of Reagor yet, Yeah,

1159
01:01:07,120 --> 01:01:10,439
Speaker 1: you're interested in starting Jonathan Taylor this week back? Yeah,

1160
01:01:10,480 --> 01:01:13,040
Speaker 1: I mean I gotta think they have to give it

1161
01:01:13,120 --> 01:01:15,440
Speaker 1: to him. They have to. I mean, how about Dobbins,

1162
01:01:16,040 --> 01:01:19,080
Speaker 1: Speaking of rookies, I'm gonna say yes on that too.

1163
01:01:19,200 --> 01:01:22,000
Speaker 1: Playing the Cowboys. Yeah, yeah, I think he should be.

1164
01:01:22,160 --> 01:01:23,680
Speaker 1: I mean I've been saying this since week one, he

1165
01:01:23,720 --> 01:01:25,960
Speaker 1: should be the lead back, but we saw it. I'm

1166
01:01:26,000 --> 01:01:27,760
Speaker 1: sitting on both of those guys right now with my

1167
01:01:28,560 --> 01:01:32,280
Speaker 1: stinking last place team that I just can't. I mean,

1168
01:01:32,480 --> 01:01:34,440
Speaker 1: I've I think I've given up the most points in

1169
01:01:34,480 --> 01:01:36,520
Speaker 1: the league, and that you're saying you've You've lost a

1170
01:01:36,560 --> 01:01:39,480
Speaker 1: lot of clothes. It's just awful. And I mean it's

1171
01:01:39,560 --> 01:01:41,720
Speaker 1: never been like one thing because I got Dalvin Cook

1172
01:01:41,760 --> 01:01:43,400
Speaker 1: as well, so it's never been like one thing. It's

1173
01:01:43,400 --> 01:01:46,680
Speaker 1: always this guy's out, that guy's out. This. It never

1174
01:01:46,800 --> 01:01:51,800
Speaker 1: comes completely together. It probably will this week, I don't.

1175
01:01:51,880 --> 01:01:54,960
Speaker 1: I think Taylor and Dobbins are both should have very

1176
01:01:55,000 --> 01:01:57,360
Speaker 1: good final months of the season. I'm throwing him out

1177
01:01:57,360 --> 01:01:58,840
Speaker 1: there on Sunday to heck with. I believed him and

1178
01:01:59,240 --> 01:02:00,760
Speaker 1: believed in him at the start of the season. I'm

1179
01:02:00,760 --> 01:02:03,560
Speaker 1: gonna throw him out there and let him roll. What

1180
01:02:03,680 --> 01:02:09,560
Speaker 1: the heck go down swinging? Yeah, anyways, but that's gonna

1181
01:02:09,560 --> 01:02:11,720
Speaker 1: do it for the fantasy football focus. He is Matt Williamson.

1182
01:02:11,800 --> 01:02:14,800
Speaker 1: I am Dale Lolly. Uh, we'll do a little bit more.

1183
01:02:15,120 --> 01:02:16,880
Speaker 1: I'll take a little bit more in depth. Look at

1184
01:02:16,920 --> 01:02:23,000
Speaker 1: this Washington team. Come back right after this your tunes

1185
01:02:23,040 --> 01:02:27,040
Speaker 1: about drive on Home of the Black and Gold Steelers

1186
01:02:27,200 --> 01:02:58,080
Speaker 1: Nation Radio. Welcome back on Dale Lolly here with Matt

1187
01:02:58,160 --> 01:03:02,800
Speaker 1: Williamson and Matt it's a time for your favorite little

1188
01:03:03,200 --> 01:03:05,680
Speaker 1: exercise when you do each week. We're gonna look at

1189
01:03:05,680 --> 01:03:08,880
Speaker 1: the Washington depth chart. Alright, I'm cool with that, Okay,

1190
01:03:09,040 --> 01:03:12,360
Speaker 1: so we'll start off. I'm looking here at the ESPNS

1191
01:03:12,560 --> 01:03:16,800
Speaker 1: depth chart, and uh, they've got Alex Smith obviously as

1192
01:03:16,880 --> 01:03:20,040
Speaker 1: the starting quarterback. He's been okay, but he is what

1193
01:03:20,160 --> 01:03:22,600
Speaker 1: he is. He is what he is. Ben Roethlisberger is better,

1194
01:03:22,720 --> 01:03:26,600
Speaker 1: he absolutely is running back. This one's a little more interesting.

1195
01:03:26,840 --> 01:03:29,600
Speaker 1: They get Antonio Gibson, J D mckissic, Peyton Barber. It's

1196
01:03:29,640 --> 01:03:32,760
Speaker 1: a nice mix of power and speed it is. I

1197
01:03:32,800 --> 01:03:35,760
Speaker 1: think Gibson is gonna be a star. I was really

1198
01:03:37,360 --> 01:03:40,800
Speaker 1: reluctant to buy stock in him early on. I'm in

1199
01:03:40,880 --> 01:03:44,480
Speaker 1: all these dynasty leagues, didn't draft them anywhere. And the

1200
01:03:44,600 --> 01:03:47,560
Speaker 1: more I watched him, I think in the fantasy coaching

1201
01:03:47,640 --> 01:03:51,480
Speaker 1: staff in Memphis looks pretty silly. Right now, we give

1202
01:03:51,480 --> 01:03:54,080
Speaker 1: this guy the ball all the time. He was your

1203
01:03:54,120 --> 01:03:56,560
Speaker 1: best player. Obviously, I think he's gonna be that guy

1204
01:03:56,600 --> 01:03:58,960
Speaker 1: in fantasy that we're talking about is like a late

1205
01:03:59,080 --> 01:04:02,640
Speaker 1: first early game after the summer. I mean, that would

1206
01:04:02,640 --> 01:04:05,520
Speaker 1: be too rich for me. I think it's coming. I'm

1207
01:04:05,520 --> 01:04:08,280
Speaker 1: not saying I'm taking them. There's still something I just

1208
01:04:08,440 --> 01:04:11,600
Speaker 1: learned the position. I just wonder there had to be

1209
01:04:11,720 --> 01:04:15,040
Speaker 1: a reason why they would not give him the football. Memphis. Oh,

1210
01:04:15,080 --> 01:04:18,280
Speaker 1: I'm sure there's reasons, you know, like I wonder how

1211
01:04:18,440 --> 01:04:19,720
Speaker 1: I wonder how smart he is. I don't know. He

1212
01:04:19,800 --> 01:04:21,720
Speaker 1: might be a smartest guy in the world. How well

1213
01:04:21,760 --> 01:04:23,680
Speaker 1: he understands concept or maybe he didn't deal with the

1214
01:04:23,720 --> 01:04:25,440
Speaker 1: coaching staff. Well, I don't know. I don't I don't know.

1215
01:04:25,560 --> 01:04:27,440
Speaker 1: But there's a reason why they would not give him

1216
01:04:27,480 --> 01:04:29,480
Speaker 1: the football. But he's he worried. I thought he'd be

1217
01:04:29,560 --> 01:04:34,600
Speaker 1: Cordorrell Patterson, and I think he's not. He's not that. No. Hester, No,

1218
01:04:34,720 --> 01:04:36,800
Speaker 1: I hear you on that he's dangerous. I like him.

1219
01:04:37,200 --> 01:04:39,720
Speaker 1: I would trade the Steelers backs for him. Yeah, I would.

1220
01:04:40,400 --> 01:04:44,720
Speaker 1: Um the wide receivers, it's Terry McLaurin, Cam Simms, dentrelle

1221
01:04:44,760 --> 01:04:48,640
Speaker 1: inman Um. They got Steven Sims coming off the bend

1222
01:04:48,680 --> 01:04:51,520
Speaker 1: and it's not a good group. This makes sound controversial,

1223
01:04:52,040 --> 01:04:55,000
Speaker 1: and I'm sure McLaren's good. McLaren would be. I would

1224
01:04:55,000 --> 01:04:58,120
Speaker 1: trade any Steeler receiver from mclora. I don't know if

1225
01:04:58,120 --> 01:05:00,880
Speaker 1: I would go there. I mean, he's I think he's

1226
01:05:00,880 --> 01:05:03,320
Speaker 1: a really good player. I don't know that I'm trading,

1227
01:05:03,360 --> 01:05:06,040
Speaker 1: for example, Chase Claypol for him to be hard to trade,

1228
01:05:07,560 --> 01:05:09,040
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. But just because of what

1229
01:05:09,200 --> 01:05:12,320
Speaker 1: he could become, you know. But I would rank McLaurin

1230
01:05:12,440 --> 01:05:14,840
Speaker 1: number one of all the receiver. I mean, I love McLaurin.

1231
01:05:14,880 --> 01:05:17,880
Speaker 1: Coming out last year. I didn't love him like this. No, No,

1232
01:05:17,960 --> 01:05:19,800
Speaker 1: I didn't think he would be this good. But he's

1233
01:05:20,120 --> 01:05:21,920
Speaker 1: really good. I think he's a top ten wide receiver.

1234
01:05:22,120 --> 01:05:24,920
Speaker 1: Interesting little note here, and Mike Tomlin brought this up

1235
01:05:25,000 --> 01:05:29,600
Speaker 1: today that um I Killiar was this team's wide receiver

1236
01:05:29,680 --> 01:05:33,920
Speaker 1: position coach last year. Yeah, so the Steelers may have

1237
01:05:34,040 --> 01:05:38,240
Speaker 1: some little hints and tips changed a little bit. I mean,

1238
01:05:38,360 --> 01:05:41,120
Speaker 1: but you know what McLaren likes and doesn't and those

1239
01:05:41,160 --> 01:05:43,520
Speaker 1: type of things. Yeah. Yeah, so he's really good people,

1240
01:05:43,640 --> 01:05:45,560
Speaker 1: that's what people really. He's a He's a good football player,

1241
01:05:45,600 --> 01:05:47,840
Speaker 1: no doubt about it. He's the best player, is he? Is?

1242
01:05:47,880 --> 01:05:50,680
Speaker 1: He the best of the recent Ohio state wide receivers

1243
01:05:50,720 --> 01:05:54,200
Speaker 1: that will come out? Yeah, who's next? I mean Paris

1244
01:05:54,320 --> 01:06:01,800
Speaker 1: campbell Um coming out this year, Samuel Ammuel. Oh yeah, yeah,

1245
01:06:02,040 --> 01:06:04,320
Speaker 1: and he was probably the least. He was the fourth

1246
01:06:04,400 --> 01:06:06,480
Speaker 1: round pick. Yeah, he was. Of those guys, he was

1247
01:06:06,600 --> 01:06:10,080
Speaker 1: the farthest. You know, he's in the Deonte draft. And

1248
01:06:10,120 --> 01:06:12,760
Speaker 1: everyone makes a big deal about DK Metcalf being this

1249
01:06:13,080 --> 01:06:15,760
Speaker 1: the last pick in the second round, but nobody really

1250
01:06:16,040 --> 01:06:19,320
Speaker 1: lost their mind that McLaurin or Deonte weren't first round,

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01:06:19,600 --> 01:06:22,160
Speaker 1: first second round picks. They went where people thought and Okay,

1252
01:06:22,280 --> 01:06:26,320
Speaker 1: nice pick, you know, but they've been phenomenal. Yeah, I agree. Uh,

1253
01:06:26,440 --> 01:06:30,920
Speaker 1: tight end, it's Logan Thomas, Jeremy Sprinkle Tomorrow, hemingway back.

1254
01:06:32,000 --> 01:06:34,200
Speaker 1: I said before the season there tight end position was

1255
01:06:34,280 --> 01:06:37,240
Speaker 1: the worst position group in the entire league. It's better

1256
01:06:37,360 --> 01:06:40,840
Speaker 1: than that, Logan Thomas is okay, Yeah, he's on the

1257
01:06:40,960 --> 01:06:44,920
Speaker 1: former quarterback. He would still be the Steelers. There's part

1258
01:06:45,000 --> 01:06:46,920
Speaker 1: there's times they could have used them. Yeah, but he

1259
01:06:46,960 --> 01:06:50,680
Speaker 1: would be their three. Yeah, he's more Ebron than Vance,

1260
01:06:51,080 --> 01:06:53,240
Speaker 1: but Ebron is better at Ebron stuff than he is.

1261
01:06:53,680 --> 01:06:58,120
Speaker 1: You know. Um, the offensive line, it's Cornelius Lucas at

1262
01:06:58,200 --> 01:07:02,360
Speaker 1: left tackle, West Schweitzer left guard, Keith Ismael, the rookie

1263
01:07:02,400 --> 01:07:06,160
Speaker 1: you kind of liked him. He's as center, Brandon Schurf

1264
01:07:06,280 --> 01:07:10,240
Speaker 1: at right guard, and Morgan Moses at right tackle. Moses

1265
01:07:10,320 --> 01:07:13,600
Speaker 1: is there with Huville in the wave at the tackle position.

1266
01:07:13,600 --> 01:07:17,320
Speaker 1: They have both have the second longest consecutive games played

1267
01:07:17,360 --> 01:07:21,200
Speaker 1: streak in the NFL each. I didn't know that. Um,

1268
01:07:21,440 --> 01:07:23,280
Speaker 1: it's not as bad a line as it as you

1269
01:07:23,360 --> 01:07:26,360
Speaker 1: kind of mentioned it. They're the Wes Schweitzer's okay, you

1270
01:07:26,400 --> 01:07:27,880
Speaker 1: know what I mean, Like some of these brands aren't

1271
01:07:27,880 --> 01:07:30,280
Speaker 1: household games, but they're okay. You know, I just want

1272
01:07:30,320 --> 01:07:32,120
Speaker 1: to I mean, one of the knocks on Ishmael is

1273
01:07:32,160 --> 01:07:34,160
Speaker 1: that he's you know, still a little light in the

1274
01:07:34,240 --> 01:07:37,480
Speaker 1: in the seat. Um, he may struggle this week. Oh yeah,

1275
01:07:37,560 --> 01:07:39,880
Speaker 1: they all might struggle this week. What's his face the

1276
01:07:40,000 --> 01:07:42,680
Speaker 1: Shraft is a really good player. Moses has been to

1277
01:07:42,800 --> 01:07:46,520
Speaker 1: your point of very solid starting right tackle, all or type.

1278
01:07:46,800 --> 01:07:48,520
Speaker 1: But I expected their line to be worse this year.

1279
01:07:48,560 --> 01:07:51,120
Speaker 1: I thought they have two good ones and three holes. Yeah,

1280
01:07:51,200 --> 01:07:53,920
Speaker 1: it's a little better than that. On the defensive Yeah,

1281
01:07:53,960 --> 01:07:56,280
Speaker 1: I'll take the Steeler line. On the defensive side of things,

1282
01:07:56,600 --> 01:07:59,920
Speaker 1: it's left defensive end is Chase Young. From left to right,

1283
01:08:00,040 --> 01:08:02,800
Speaker 1: it's Jonathan Allen, Deron Payne, Montest Sweat. That's a good

1284
01:08:03,240 --> 01:08:09,120
Speaker 1: defensive People don't realize defensive good defensive front. Yeah, you know, right,

1285
01:08:09,200 --> 01:08:11,120
Speaker 1: they get some guys coming off the bench at you know,

1286
01:08:11,200 --> 01:08:13,360
Speaker 1: Tim Settle is not a bad player, right, you know,

1287
01:08:13,440 --> 01:08:16,840
Speaker 1: they get some guys there um out. But I think

1288
01:08:16,880 --> 01:08:19,200
Speaker 1: it's a conversation. It's close, but I'll the only team

1289
01:08:19,200 --> 01:08:21,000
Speaker 1: I'd even consider it. I think I'll still take the

1290
01:08:21,080 --> 01:08:24,160
Speaker 1: Steelers guys overall, because you still got Whatton Hayward. And

1291
01:08:25,439 --> 01:08:27,680
Speaker 1: I mean it's Chase Young is kind of on that

1292
01:08:27,760 --> 01:08:30,360
Speaker 1: Claypool conversation of I don't know I trade him for

1293
01:08:30,400 --> 01:08:33,559
Speaker 1: anybody if I was Washington, But what's better than him? Yeah?

1294
01:08:33,600 --> 01:08:36,280
Speaker 1: You know, right this minute, what's better than sweat? Oh? Yeah,

1295
01:08:37,200 --> 01:08:39,519
Speaker 1: but they got guys. This is the only one I consider.

1296
01:08:39,680 --> 01:08:43,360
Speaker 1: They're not bad, There's no doubt about that. Uh, it's

1297
01:08:43,400 --> 01:08:46,240
Speaker 1: the linebacker position. Now. Every other week that we've done this,

1298
01:08:46,960 --> 01:08:49,600
Speaker 1: we've taken the other teams off the ball linebackers. I

1299
01:08:49,640 --> 01:08:52,360
Speaker 1: don't know that we could do that this week because

1300
01:08:52,400 --> 01:08:56,840
Speaker 1: it's Kevin, Pierre Lewis and John Bostick with hom and

1301
01:08:56,960 --> 01:08:59,160
Speaker 1: Bostick is kind of like what he was here. He's

1302
01:09:00,040 --> 01:09:03,360
Speaker 1: he's not bad, you know, but he's not the guarantee.

1303
01:09:03,439 --> 01:09:07,800
Speaker 1: The Steelers gonna isolate him on the They saw enough

1304
01:09:07,840 --> 01:09:09,800
Speaker 1: of that a couple of years ago, say all right,

1305
01:09:09,840 --> 01:09:12,599
Speaker 1: he can't do this. Like Washington's first round pick might

1306
01:09:12,640 --> 01:09:14,760
Speaker 1: be Parsons out of Penn State or something like that,

1307
01:09:14,880 --> 01:09:16,759
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like, I bet they address

1308
01:09:16,800 --> 01:09:20,640
Speaker 1: this position. Yeah, I mean the Steelers don't have a

1309
01:09:20,680 --> 01:09:25,200
Speaker 1: great group at the off ball line a little bit. Yeah,

1310
01:09:25,439 --> 01:09:28,280
Speaker 1: but it's better than this group. Gets better than this group. Yeah,

1311
01:09:28,439 --> 01:09:31,640
Speaker 1: I mean I'd rather Vincent Boston. Yeah, so would the

1312
01:09:31,680 --> 01:09:37,559
Speaker 1: Steelers they kept him. Yeah. Uh. The cornerback position, it's

1313
01:09:37,760 --> 01:09:41,800
Speaker 1: Kendall Fuller, not a bad player, Ronald Darby not a

1314
01:09:41,840 --> 01:09:44,000
Speaker 1: bad player. Yeah, the guy's a pedigree and they're Yeah,

1315
01:09:44,360 --> 01:09:47,080
Speaker 1: you got Jimmy Moreland and Fabian Moreau coming off the bench.

1316
01:09:48,120 --> 01:09:51,840
Speaker 1: All right, I prefer the Steelers. Yeah, I think so too.

1317
01:09:51,880 --> 01:09:55,799
Speaker 1: They produce more big plays they do. Hayden and Nelson,

1318
01:09:55,840 --> 01:09:58,080
Speaker 1: I think are a better pair. And we just talked

1319
01:09:58,080 --> 01:09:59,960
Speaker 1: about earlier in the show how they're allowing a fifty

1320
01:10:00,040 --> 01:10:03,519
Speaker 1: four point five. They both benefit from pass rush and

1321
01:10:03,680 --> 01:10:05,880
Speaker 1: you know it's similar. But this this group should as well.

1322
01:10:05,960 --> 01:10:10,640
Speaker 1: And they're nowhere near true true, but there's I mean,

1323
01:10:10,720 --> 01:10:12,759
Speaker 1: that's the upper half of the league group of corners.

1324
01:10:12,800 --> 01:10:14,800
Speaker 1: To me, No, they're they're definitely no doubt about a

1325
01:10:14,840 --> 01:10:17,800
Speaker 1: group at all. The safeties. It's camera and Curl and

1326
01:10:17,960 --> 01:10:21,200
Speaker 1: the chaser Everett. Yeah, I know those guys are like not,

1327
01:10:23,000 --> 01:10:26,599
Speaker 1: but Curl is somebody I want to watch more um

1328
01:10:27,360 --> 01:10:30,320
Speaker 1: landon Collins got hurt. He's you know, he's he's making

1329
01:10:30,360 --> 01:10:32,880
Speaker 1: big money. He's the big in the box pounder. He'll

1330
01:10:32,920 --> 01:10:35,120
Speaker 1: be cutting in the off season. He'll be cutting the offseason.

1331
01:10:35,240 --> 01:10:37,240
Speaker 1: Curl's a good player. Curl does a lot of things.

1332
01:10:37,360 --> 01:10:40,960
Speaker 1: He's an athletic guy, covers the curl really well. Girl

1333
01:10:41,040 --> 01:10:45,800
Speaker 1: defender who's the curl defender? Um and then what's is

1334
01:10:45,840 --> 01:10:49,599
Speaker 1: that the safety. I was thinking there was another guy

1335
01:10:49,720 --> 01:10:51,760
Speaker 1: that they were super high on that they let Sean

1336
01:10:51,840 --> 01:10:54,960
Speaker 1: Davis go and maybe someone got hurt. They're they're free.

1337
01:10:55,320 --> 01:10:58,760
Speaker 1: I need to look into that because they've got the

1338
01:10:58,800 --> 01:11:01,000
Speaker 1: shaver of Everett and Roy Apkey, the kid at a

1339
01:11:01,040 --> 01:11:05,880
Speaker 1: Penn Send athlete. Dude's due, I believe, so I should

1340
01:11:05,920 --> 01:11:09,080
Speaker 1: know that. Can you shoot my alma mater? Um. I'll

1341
01:11:09,080 --> 01:11:11,599
Speaker 1: still like to see those safeties? Yeah, I mean that's

1342
01:11:12,080 --> 01:11:14,400
Speaker 1: but they're not jokes. I'm keep an eye on the curl, dude. No,

1343
01:11:14,479 --> 01:11:17,080
Speaker 1: the defense is The defense is definitely the strength of

1344
01:11:17,120 --> 01:11:20,320
Speaker 1: this team. It's a top ten defense. Yeah, so, I

1345
01:11:20,360 --> 01:11:23,760
Speaker 1: mean they will cause the Steelers some issues to move

1346
01:11:23,800 --> 01:11:25,880
Speaker 1: the ball like they did against Baltimore. Iftimore is a

1347
01:11:25,920 --> 01:11:32,160
Speaker 1: good defense, right, But I also think that Washington's offense

1348
01:11:32,240 --> 01:11:35,040
Speaker 1: is gonna have struggle against the Steelers defense. Sound great,

1349
01:11:35,080 --> 01:11:36,760
Speaker 1: I mean the sideways passing game is not going to

1350
01:11:36,840 --> 01:11:41,679
Speaker 1: work against this defense. And I could see Ben's sackles

1351
01:11:41,760 --> 01:11:45,960
Speaker 1: street coming to an end. Yeah, it's one brought that up.

1352
01:11:46,240 --> 01:11:49,320
Speaker 1: It's a long time. He hasn't been stacked in a month.

1353
01:11:50,120 --> 01:11:52,880
Speaker 1: A month, and they times a game they've averaged. I

1354
01:11:52,920 --> 01:11:55,840
Speaker 1: think like forty five passes over that span. Yeah, per game,

1355
01:11:56,400 --> 01:11:59,320
Speaker 1: it's nuts pretty close to fifty if it's at over

1356
01:11:59,400 --> 01:12:01,599
Speaker 1: four games, but I guess it's longer than four games

1357
01:12:01,640 --> 01:12:04,720
Speaker 1: never mind. Yea, but yeah, he'll probably get sacked in

1358
01:12:04,760 --> 01:12:07,519
Speaker 1: this game, probably probably right. I mean, the ball comes

1359
01:12:07,520 --> 01:12:11,479
Speaker 1: out off a quick Uh. The specialists, it's uh, Dustin

1360
01:12:11,520 --> 01:12:15,600
Speaker 1: Hopkins at the place kicker. He's okay, this isn't my

1361
01:12:15,680 --> 01:12:18,559
Speaker 1: special Triss Way is the punter. He's first I've ever

1362
01:12:18,600 --> 01:12:23,080
Speaker 1: heard of the return guys. They use a big punt yesterday. Yeah,

1363
01:12:23,160 --> 01:12:26,160
Speaker 1: oh huge, probably just flipped the field. Yeah. Um. They

1364
01:12:26,240 --> 01:12:28,920
Speaker 1: use Gibson as the kick returner, which is I wonder

1365
01:12:28,960 --> 01:12:31,840
Speaker 1: if he's exclusively or not. I really know nothing about

1366
01:12:31,840 --> 01:12:34,519
Speaker 1: their special teams. He was a really good kick returner Memphis,

1367
01:12:34,640 --> 01:12:38,240
Speaker 1: no doubt. Yeah, he's their number one back now too right,

1368
01:12:38,320 --> 01:12:40,280
Speaker 1: he don't typically do that with the number one back.

1369
01:12:40,520 --> 01:12:43,800
Speaker 1: But he's a skater, he's just in space. He's dangerous. Yeah. Yeah,

1370
01:12:43,960 --> 01:12:47,639
Speaker 1: he's definitely a guy that you have to account for. Especially.

1371
01:12:47,720 --> 01:12:49,080
Speaker 1: I mean they'll dump the ball off to him and

1372
01:12:49,120 --> 01:12:51,759
Speaker 1: let him run. He'll oh yeah, he'll do some stuff.

1373
01:12:52,080 --> 01:12:54,639
Speaker 1: But I'll take Barry and Boss over there, two kickers.

1374
01:12:55,000 --> 01:12:56,920
Speaker 1: I agree. I think that's that's a win for the

1375
01:12:57,200 --> 01:12:59,320
Speaker 1: Steelers on that one. I'm trying to get the football

1376
01:12:59,360 --> 01:13:02,840
Speaker 1: outsiders up here to see where the difference here. Special stuff.

1377
01:13:02,960 --> 01:13:05,599
Speaker 1: It's just not loading right now, Summers. So we're filling

1378
01:13:05,640 --> 01:13:09,320
Speaker 1: space here with this mindless chatter. I should have done

1379
01:13:09,360 --> 01:13:12,000
Speaker 1: this before you do that. More than people realize, yeah,

1380
01:13:12,479 --> 01:13:16,479
Speaker 1: well they might realize that that's the probably we're not fooling.

1381
01:13:17,479 --> 01:13:19,320
Speaker 1: This thing was just will not load here. But we'll

1382
01:13:19,360 --> 01:13:21,559
Speaker 1: go back over that schedule wh that thing does load.

1383
01:13:21,880 --> 01:13:24,960
Speaker 1: Beat The Eagles lost to the Cardinals, lost to the Browns,

1384
01:13:25,040 --> 01:13:28,240
Speaker 1: lost to the Ravens, lost to the Rams, lost to

1385
01:13:28,320 --> 01:13:32,320
Speaker 1: the Giants. Uh, finally pulled the plug on. That's when

1386
01:13:32,400 --> 01:13:36,839
Speaker 1: Haskins go one. Haskins beat the Cowboys when the Cowboys

1387
01:13:36,920 --> 01:13:41,680
Speaker 1: had just complete Yeah, lost to the Giants, lost to

1388
01:13:41,720 --> 01:13:45,120
Speaker 1: the Lions, beat the Bengals beat the Cowboys. That that

1389
01:13:45,479 --> 01:13:48,240
Speaker 1: doesn't bode well. They're wins. And they got two wins

1390
01:13:48,240 --> 01:13:50,800
Speaker 1: against the Cowboys, one against the Bengals, one against the Eagles.

1391
01:13:50,880 --> 01:13:53,720
Speaker 1: And even that opening the Eagles game, people were I

1392
01:13:53,800 --> 01:13:55,400
Speaker 1: bet they were big dogs. I bet they were eight

1393
01:13:55,479 --> 01:13:58,040
Speaker 1: or nine point Dogs, and then we realized the Eagles

1394
01:13:58,120 --> 01:14:01,680
Speaker 1: can't beat anybody, can't. They couldn't block that front. That

1395
01:14:01,800 --> 01:14:04,400
Speaker 1: was a game Win's got sacked eight times. They just

1396
01:14:04,479 --> 01:14:07,640
Speaker 1: got crushed, crushed it. I mean, that's the that's the

1397
01:14:08,120 --> 01:14:10,800
Speaker 1: big deal. I mean the Steelers not allowing that's kind

1398
01:14:10,800 --> 01:14:13,479
Speaker 1: of the matchup of this game. The more I think about, uh,

1399
01:14:13,800 --> 01:14:16,880
Speaker 1: the Steelers not allowing pressure verse a very good pass

1400
01:14:16,960 --> 01:14:18,960
Speaker 1: rushing front. I mean they've got thirty six sacks their

1401
01:14:19,040 --> 01:14:21,640
Speaker 1: front there, you know, their second from their second in

1402
01:14:21,680 --> 01:14:23,519
Speaker 1: the league to the Steelers and sacks the Steelers have

1403
01:14:23,600 --> 01:14:26,000
Speaker 1: forty one. They have thirty six. Now you could look

1404
01:14:26,040 --> 01:14:27,600
Speaker 1: at that and say, well they they I mean you

1405
01:14:27,640 --> 01:14:30,519
Speaker 1: want people want to crush the Steelers for who they've played?

1406
01:14:31,680 --> 01:14:34,840
Speaker 1: Who the he was washing als twice, Giants even there

1407
01:14:35,120 --> 01:14:41,120
Speaker 1: even their games there against Okay, they played Arizona, Cleveland,

1408
01:14:41,720 --> 01:14:44,960
Speaker 1: m hm, Okay, they played Baltimore in the Rams. These

1409
01:14:44,960 --> 01:14:47,000
Speaker 1: are really that's hit. The rest of their games have

1410
01:14:47,080 --> 01:14:50,639
Speaker 1: been against bad teams. Division is bad and last play schedule.

1411
01:14:51,160 --> 01:14:53,240
Speaker 1: But sweat the four first round pick last year, he

1412
01:14:53,320 --> 01:14:56,559
Speaker 1: had a big Yeah, it really got four or five

1413
01:14:56,640 --> 01:14:59,360
Speaker 1: forty and the Combine trading back in the first round.

1414
01:14:59,400 --> 01:15:02,200
Speaker 1: Form was one those freaks. Pains the first round pick.

1415
01:15:02,280 --> 01:15:05,320
Speaker 1: But the Bama tackles are really good. Alan's a little

1416
01:15:05,360 --> 01:15:10,120
Speaker 1: smaller penetrator, leverage guy, quick off the ball. Pain Pain

1417
01:15:10,160 --> 01:15:11,800
Speaker 1: will be a good Steeler. I mean he's kind of

1418
01:15:12,160 --> 01:15:16,439
Speaker 1: Cam Hayward, powerful, big bodied guy. Yeah, they're I mean,

1419
01:15:16,439 --> 01:15:18,120
Speaker 1: they're gonna have their handsful. There's no doubt about it.

1420
01:15:18,200 --> 01:15:21,880
Speaker 1: And we'll see, you know how healthy that Steelers line is.

1421
01:15:21,960 --> 01:15:24,200
Speaker 1: We did see Chokes a core for the game. Briefly.

1422
01:15:24,600 --> 01:15:27,080
Speaker 1: He came back in. I noticed late in the game

1423
01:15:27,880 --> 01:15:30,519
Speaker 1: Villain the Wuava one of the last places the game.

1424
01:15:30,680 --> 01:15:32,720
Speaker 1: He was the third down conversion run that they had

1425
01:15:33,479 --> 01:15:36,960
Speaker 1: came out shaking his hand his left hand was if

1426
01:15:37,000 --> 01:15:39,120
Speaker 1: you get it pinched in between you know, some helmets

1427
01:15:39,200 --> 01:15:42,000
Speaker 1: or something like that. Yeah, but I mean it didn't

1428
01:15:42,040 --> 01:15:44,760
Speaker 1: shock me. But it seemed like the obvious move that

1429
01:15:44,880 --> 01:15:48,000
Speaker 1: when Chookes went out, Filer bumps back to tackle. Dockston

1430
01:15:48,080 --> 01:15:50,880
Speaker 1: comes in. But that's a feather in the rookies cap.

1431
01:15:50,920 --> 01:15:53,640
Speaker 1: They like him. Yeah, Yeah, I didn't hate that lineup. No,

1432
01:15:54,000 --> 01:15:55,840
Speaker 1: that's I'm not sure it's better or worse. I mean

1433
01:15:57,280 --> 01:16:01,439
Speaker 1: it's good, like get better with palency at center, all

1434
01:16:01,479 --> 01:16:03,040
Speaker 1: of a sudden you got two on tested guys in

1435
01:16:03,080 --> 01:16:05,400
Speaker 1: the middle. I wouldn't want to do that in this game.

1436
01:16:05,439 --> 01:16:09,200
Speaker 1: I game, So yeah, I mean, I don't like that situation.

1437
01:16:09,320 --> 01:16:12,040
Speaker 1: That's not a good matchup. No, certainly not. And and

1438
01:16:12,200 --> 01:16:13,880
Speaker 1: so that's that's one we're gonna have to keep an

1439
01:16:13,920 --> 01:16:17,840
Speaker 1: eye on to see what happens the guy. But that

1440
01:16:17,960 --> 01:16:19,720
Speaker 1: move made sense at the time. But this was the

1441
01:16:20,240 --> 01:16:22,800
Speaker 1: one thing you couldn't overcome, you know. Yeah, right, I

1442
01:16:23,120 --> 01:16:25,479
Speaker 1: hear you on that one. But the football siders not

1443
01:16:25,640 --> 01:16:30,000
Speaker 1: loading here products, So I guess we'll do that. Yeah, well,

1444
01:16:30,200 --> 01:16:32,360
Speaker 1: look at we're gonna take another break. When we come back.

1445
01:16:32,400 --> 01:16:35,599
Speaker 1: We'll hear from Gene Strator. He disrupted on the DV

1446
01:16:35,800 --> 01:16:39,200
Speaker 1: Morning Show earlier today. Usually does that after the week's

1447
01:16:39,240 --> 01:16:42,479
Speaker 1: games have all been completed, and once again that was today.

1448
01:16:42,680 --> 01:16:45,160
Speaker 1: So we'll hear from Gene Strator with the DV Morning

1449
01:16:45,200 --> 01:16:51,880
Speaker 1: Show right after this your Tunes About Drive on Home

1450
01:16:51,960 --> 01:17:34,840
Speaker 1: of the Black and Goal Steelers Nation Radio. Welcome back.

1451
01:17:34,920 --> 01:17:37,599
Speaker 1: I'm Dale Ali here with Matt Williamson and Matt we're

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01:17:37,600 --> 01:17:40,360
Speaker 1: gonna get to Jeane Sterrator here in a minute um.

1453
01:17:40,840 --> 01:17:43,160
Speaker 1: One of the things that did come up in yesterday's game,

1454
01:17:43,240 --> 01:17:46,400
Speaker 1: and John Harbor was complaining about it is he does

1455
01:17:46,520 --> 01:17:50,439
Speaker 1: likes to compline us uh. He felt that Vince Williams

1456
01:17:50,560 --> 01:17:52,920
Speaker 1: late on Gus Edwards too long at the end of

1457
01:17:52,960 --> 01:17:55,320
Speaker 1: the half and that the officials should have stop the

1458
01:17:55,360 --> 01:17:59,320
Speaker 1: clock or throw a throwing a penalty flag there. This

1459
01:17:59,479 --> 01:18:02,360
Speaker 1: is the same guy, I remind people in two thousand sixteen,

1460
01:18:02,400 --> 01:18:05,400
Speaker 1: the end of a game, the Ravens are holding onto

1461
01:18:05,600 --> 01:18:09,040
Speaker 1: a one score lead against the Bengals and you have

1462
01:18:09,120 --> 01:18:13,920
Speaker 1: a fourth down with about twenty seconds left, John Hardball

1463
01:18:14,000 --> 01:18:17,120
Speaker 1: instructed every all of his players on special teams to

1464
01:18:17,320 --> 01:18:20,040
Speaker 1: just grab ahold of the nearest Bengal and hold on

1465
01:18:20,120 --> 01:18:23,720
Speaker 1: to him, don't let go. And then their cook, their

1466
01:18:23,760 --> 01:18:26,160
Speaker 1: punter just ran around for twenty seconds until the clock

1467
01:18:26,280 --> 01:18:31,200
Speaker 1: ran out. Yes, flags flew, but it's a game over right. Yeah.

1468
01:18:31,400 --> 01:18:33,320
Speaker 1: They found some loopholes over the years and some of

1469
01:18:33,360 --> 01:18:36,200
Speaker 1: their formations and things that make me crazy that I

1470
01:18:36,240 --> 01:18:38,360
Speaker 1: think it's a little bit of dirty pool. But what

1471
01:18:38,479 --> 01:18:41,120
Speaker 1: the Steelers did, every team in the league, every team

1472
01:18:41,280 --> 01:18:43,360
Speaker 1: in the league, I would have thrown the flag. Though

1473
01:18:43,520 --> 01:18:45,400
Speaker 1: it was a little longer. It was a little excessive.

1474
01:18:45,800 --> 01:18:48,120
Speaker 1: But the beauty of it from the Steelers perspective is

1475
01:18:48,479 --> 01:18:50,120
Speaker 1: so there has been half a distance to goal. What's

1476
01:18:50,160 --> 01:18:52,600
Speaker 1: that like six inches? Yeah, you were still going to

1477
01:18:52,680 --> 01:18:56,599
Speaker 1: run a play Yeah right, Um they did get a playoff.

1478
01:18:56,680 --> 01:18:58,960
Speaker 1: They rushed it. Now they get to They snapped the

1479
01:18:59,000 --> 01:19:03,280
Speaker 1: ball three seconds left. Here's the thing, it's a twelve

1480
01:19:03,400 --> 01:19:07,360
Speaker 1: seven game. Heartbus should be mad at himself and I

1481
01:19:07,479 --> 01:19:09,479
Speaker 1: keeping the field goal there. Well, his time management before

1482
01:19:09,479 --> 01:19:10,920
Speaker 1: it was horrible. You can run the ball with no

1483
01:19:11,040 --> 01:19:13,240
Speaker 1: time out right, that's the thing. You ran the You

1484
01:19:13,360 --> 01:19:15,679
Speaker 1: ran the football with the place started with twenties seven

1485
01:19:15,760 --> 01:19:18,840
Speaker 1: seconds left, And there's several levels to it that that's

1486
01:19:19,000 --> 01:19:22,040
Speaker 1: terrible clock management. That that's by the book. You don't

1487
01:19:22,160 --> 01:19:24,600
Speaker 1: run it there with time on the clock. I do

1488
01:19:24,720 --> 01:19:26,679
Speaker 1: think it could have been a Steelers lay a game penalty,

1489
01:19:27,080 --> 01:19:29,519
Speaker 1: but that gets called time and everything in the league

1490
01:19:29,560 --> 01:19:32,439
Speaker 1: should do that, including the Ravens. But it was also

1491
01:19:32,960 --> 01:19:37,680
Speaker 1: obvious lack of faith. Absolutely at the very least. I mean,

1492
01:19:37,760 --> 01:19:40,360
Speaker 1: we had seen him have some success running the football.

1493
01:19:40,840 --> 01:19:42,880
Speaker 1: If you're gonna run the football in that situation, why

1494
01:19:42,960 --> 01:19:44,960
Speaker 1: not do it with r G three right or give

1495
01:19:45,040 --> 01:19:46,960
Speaker 1: him an option to pass, but it's not there. Run

1496
01:19:47,080 --> 01:19:48,960
Speaker 1: you know, throw it away at least give you a

1497
01:19:49,080 --> 01:19:51,040
Speaker 1: chance to get out of it with a clock stoppage.

1498
01:19:51,160 --> 01:19:53,280
Speaker 1: You were asking him to make a throw, a touch throw,

1499
01:19:53,720 --> 01:19:55,560
Speaker 1: and he had shown you the entire first half that

1500
01:19:55,600 --> 01:19:57,679
Speaker 1: he couldn't make a touch through, he can't complete pass.

1501
01:19:58,160 --> 01:20:00,400
Speaker 1: And then you know he makes the throw him Patrick

1502
01:20:00,479 --> 01:20:02,559
Speaker 1: comes in and breaks it up to it's to Luke Willison,

1503
01:20:02,640 --> 01:20:05,280
Speaker 1: for God's sakes, And that's what you're going from r

1504
01:20:05,320 --> 01:20:07,280
Speaker 1: g RG three to Luke Wilson, and that's you're hoping

1505
01:20:07,320 --> 01:20:09,479
Speaker 1: to make happen. But yeah, I mean running the ball

1506
01:20:09,520 --> 01:20:11,439
Speaker 1: before that was the crowd. That was the mistake. It

1507
01:20:11,560 --> 01:20:15,120
Speaker 1: was the mistake way for age. Yeah, So he can

1508
01:20:15,160 --> 01:20:17,240
Speaker 1: be as angry as he wants about that. It didn't

1509
01:20:17,280 --> 01:20:20,640
Speaker 1: get called. You made the mistake to begin with. It

1510
01:20:20,720 --> 01:20:23,040
Speaker 1: even started that down and down that road. But absolutely,

1511
01:20:23,280 --> 01:20:26,640
Speaker 1: and that's what that's what Williams should do. Absolutely as

1512
01:20:26,640 --> 01:20:30,040
Speaker 1: long as you can. It's just like you know, hardball

1513
01:20:30,160 --> 01:20:32,280
Speaker 1: was gaming the system. He was delaying as long as

1514
01:20:32,320 --> 01:20:34,920
Speaker 1: he could to get this game in. I heard somebody

1515
01:20:35,000 --> 01:20:37,439
Speaker 1: say it might even been Chris Carter on locked on

1516
01:20:37,560 --> 01:20:41,240
Speaker 1: Steelers say isn't it ironic that he's complaining about delaying

1517
01:20:41,360 --> 01:20:43,920
Speaker 1: something and taking too long for something to happen After

1518
01:20:44,120 --> 01:20:46,680
Speaker 1: this week, I gotta I gotta kick. That's what you do,

1519
01:20:47,000 --> 01:20:49,840
Speaker 1: right right. Yeah. So anyways, but let's hear what the

1520
01:20:49,920 --> 01:20:52,719
Speaker 1: gene strator had to say about the week twelve games.

1521
01:20:52,920 --> 01:20:56,080
Speaker 1: He was on the DV morning show earlier today, and

1522
01:20:56,120 --> 01:20:59,680
Speaker 1: of course, Jean the officiating analyst for CBS Sports and

1523
01:20:59,800 --> 01:21:03,280
Speaker 1: a local resident. I know him well. So let's let's

1524
01:21:03,320 --> 01:21:06,599
Speaker 1: hear what Jean had to say. Gene Sterritor joining us

1525
01:21:06,640 --> 01:21:09,160
Speaker 1: that Gene brought to us by Bett Rivers. Morning, Geene,

1526
01:21:09,160 --> 01:21:14,240
Speaker 1: how are you? Good morning, Ray, Good morning God. We

1527
01:21:14,320 --> 01:21:18,320
Speaker 1: had a delay of of game getting you on here.

1528
01:21:18,960 --> 01:21:21,360
Speaker 1: Uh with a little bit of a broadcasting snappho, But

1529
01:21:21,680 --> 01:21:25,080
Speaker 1: I gotta ask you about that. Ravens claimed that at

1530
01:21:25,120 --> 01:21:26,800
Speaker 1: the end of the half, the Steelers should have been

1531
01:21:26,840 --> 01:21:29,680
Speaker 1: called for delay of game. Now it appears to me

1532
01:21:30,200 --> 01:21:37,599
Speaker 1: they may have a gripe. You've gotten ramming so far

1533
01:21:37,760 --> 01:21:40,160
Speaker 1: to saying the Ravens should have gotten something in a

1534
01:21:40,240 --> 01:21:45,080
Speaker 1: Steel of Raven game that they may have a grape. Yeah,

1535
01:21:45,120 --> 01:21:48,439
Speaker 1: I don't blame them for for crying, all right, explained

1536
01:21:48,479 --> 01:21:52,760
Speaker 1: to us what should have occurred there. Okay, I think

1537
01:21:52,880 --> 01:21:56,439
Speaker 1: Terry McAuley did a pretty good job of it. And look,

1538
01:21:57,040 --> 01:21:59,799
Speaker 1: when you have a situation like that, before the snap

1539
01:21:59,840 --> 01:22:01,720
Speaker 1: of that football, I think there was like twenty six

1540
01:22:01,760 --> 01:22:05,360
Speaker 1: seconds left, officials had a little downtime at that point. Also,

1541
01:22:06,000 --> 01:22:09,720
Speaker 1: you're already thinking about the potential of a play the

1542
01:22:09,840 --> 01:22:13,639
Speaker 1: next play happening inbounds. Baltimore is out of time outs,

1543
01:22:13,680 --> 01:22:17,559
Speaker 1: the clock's gonna run and look Shenanigan's happened, right, I mean,

1544
01:22:17,840 --> 01:22:21,960
Speaker 1: that's not unusual that players lay on their opponents just

1545
01:22:22,160 --> 01:22:25,439
Speaker 1: for a little bit longer in those types of scenarios, right,

1546
01:22:25,520 --> 01:22:27,800
Speaker 1: I mean, so you have to be ahead of that

1547
01:22:28,520 --> 01:22:31,040
Speaker 1: a little bit. Uh so that when that play ends,

1548
01:22:31,080 --> 01:22:32,840
Speaker 1: And if you do watch the officials in the play,

1549
01:22:32,840 --> 01:22:35,000
Speaker 1: if you watch it back, you'll see two or three

1550
01:22:35,000 --> 01:22:38,719
Speaker 1: officials converge in a in a much quicker fashion than normal,

1551
01:22:39,080 --> 01:22:41,920
Speaker 1: So they get themselves into that pal and they are

1552
01:22:42,080 --> 01:22:46,280
Speaker 1: viewing the bat. The part of this that's hard from

1553
01:22:46,280 --> 01:22:49,760
Speaker 1: the officiating window is if you watch the Ravens posture

1554
01:22:49,960 --> 01:22:53,160
Speaker 1: on the field, the players, they don't show this sense

1555
01:22:53,240 --> 01:22:56,120
Speaker 1: of urgency of getting up or someone's holding me the

1556
01:22:56,240 --> 01:23:00,519
Speaker 1: overexaggerated looking at the rest. So if that's not occurring,

1557
01:23:01,560 --> 01:23:05,640
Speaker 1: right and you're in official, what are you gonna now

1558
01:23:05,920 --> 01:23:08,920
Speaker 1: interject yourself as an official say hey, Baltimore wants to

1559
01:23:09,000 --> 01:23:10,680
Speaker 1: get the next playoff. You guys got to get out

1560
01:23:10,680 --> 01:23:14,080
Speaker 1: of the way. No, you're playing with their sporties. There's

1561
01:23:14,400 --> 01:23:17,479
Speaker 1: whatever left in behalf. You have to get back and

1562
01:23:17,560 --> 01:23:20,080
Speaker 1: get set to have another legal snap. I'm not going

1563
01:23:20,160 --> 01:23:23,280
Speaker 1: to coach you through it. Now. If I see, which

1564
01:23:23,360 --> 01:23:26,519
Speaker 1: there was at the end, a little extra downtime there,

1565
01:23:26,680 --> 01:23:28,960
Speaker 1: or a body on a body, then I'm gonna tell

1566
01:23:29,000 --> 01:23:31,360
Speaker 1: him let's go get up, Get up. But I didn't

1567
01:23:31,439 --> 01:23:33,560
Speaker 1: see the urgency that you see in a lot of

1568
01:23:33,680 --> 01:23:37,439
Speaker 1: situations that happened that way that would allow the rest

1569
01:23:37,520 --> 01:23:40,320
Speaker 1: to come in and say, it's blatantly obvious that you

1570
01:23:40,439 --> 01:23:43,040
Speaker 1: were restricting your opponent from getting up. Now, i'm gonna

1571
01:23:43,080 --> 01:23:45,760
Speaker 1: call a delay of game. That's a tight window. So

1572
01:23:46,240 --> 01:23:49,960
Speaker 1: as much as the Steelers probably pull a little Shenanigan there,

1573
01:23:50,880 --> 01:23:53,360
Speaker 1: I didn't think that the Ravens gave the officials that

1574
01:23:53,560 --> 01:23:55,760
Speaker 1: window to say, look, we were all trying to get

1575
01:23:55,880 --> 01:23:59,640
Speaker 1: up and we're egregiously affected. That didn't happen other than

1576
01:23:59,680 --> 01:24:02,200
Speaker 1: coach hardball running. He was in a hurry. You could

1577
01:24:02,240 --> 01:24:04,280
Speaker 1: tell that. I mean he was at the three yard line.

1578
01:24:04,560 --> 01:24:07,160
Speaker 1: The players themselves, if you watched their posture, I didn't

1579
01:24:07,200 --> 01:24:09,640
Speaker 1: think it was. It didn't jump off the screen to

1580
01:24:09,720 --> 01:24:11,439
Speaker 1: me like that. We all knew what was happening, but

1581
01:24:11,560 --> 01:24:14,040
Speaker 1: the players didn't seem too. So you know, I'm not

1582
01:24:14,120 --> 01:24:16,200
Speaker 1: a d ten percent telling you that you run in

1583
01:24:16,240 --> 01:24:18,760
Speaker 1: there and just throw a flag because one player just

1584
01:24:18,920 --> 01:24:22,040
Speaker 1: happened to you know, just small kind of dead with

1585
01:24:22,160 --> 01:24:24,559
Speaker 1: his body on top of somebody that that didn't show

1586
01:24:24,640 --> 01:24:28,680
Speaker 1: to me. So players need to tell the refs when

1587
01:24:28,720 --> 01:24:32,280
Speaker 1: they should make a call. No, you need to turn

1588
01:24:32,360 --> 01:24:34,160
Speaker 1: and look at a ref And I'm trying to get up,

1589
01:24:35,240 --> 01:24:40,400
Speaker 1: And then a lot of sanity naturally follows your holiday

1590
01:24:40,520 --> 01:24:43,400
Speaker 1: cheer in between. As always, you know, it's always fun

1591
01:24:43,439 --> 01:24:46,360
Speaker 1: and entertaining. But uh, you know, I would think so,

1592
01:24:46,560 --> 01:24:49,760
Speaker 1: because if you don't imagine an official running in there

1593
01:24:49,760 --> 01:24:52,479
Speaker 1: and starting to pull bodies off that are just getting

1594
01:24:52,560 --> 01:24:54,360
Speaker 1: up normally and go, hey, get off him. They got

1595
01:24:54,439 --> 01:24:57,080
Speaker 1: to get another play down. You don't do that either.

1596
01:24:57,360 --> 01:25:02,000
Speaker 1: So I don't think the official blew that like to

1597
01:25:02,160 --> 01:25:04,560
Speaker 1: the level of like this was egregiously missed by the

1598
01:25:04,640 --> 01:25:09,080
Speaker 1: officiating staff there, Gene and the Ravens defense. They didn't

1599
01:25:09,120 --> 01:25:10,720
Speaker 1: do that because a lot of those guys had never

1600
01:25:10,840 --> 01:25:14,920
Speaker 1: played NFL football before and never been in an NFL status.

1601
01:25:15,360 --> 01:25:18,760
Speaker 1: They weren't really sure what they were dealing with. But

1602
01:25:19,280 --> 01:25:21,400
Speaker 1: I just want to I want to go way off

1603
01:25:21,479 --> 01:25:24,599
Speaker 1: point here and ask you about a call that has

1604
01:25:24,640 --> 01:25:28,439
Speaker 1: started to irk me every week, and that is when

1605
01:25:28,479 --> 01:25:30,560
Speaker 1: did we get to the point where the defense is

1606
01:25:30,640 --> 01:25:33,920
Speaker 1: not allowed to jump into the neutral zone and get

1607
01:25:34,000 --> 01:25:36,880
Speaker 1: back before the snap? Now the offense just has to

1608
01:25:36,920 --> 01:25:39,200
Speaker 1: reach out and touch someone, and all of a sudden,

1609
01:25:39,200 --> 01:25:40,920
Speaker 1: it's the defense of penalty who thought this was a

1610
01:25:40,960 --> 01:25:45,400
Speaker 1: good idea? You know, uh mighty that that occurred years

1611
01:25:45,439 --> 01:25:49,000
Speaker 1: back when you start having unabated scenarios when we were

1612
01:25:49,120 --> 01:25:52,479
Speaker 1: much more lenient fifteen years ago in not really calling

1613
01:25:52,560 --> 01:25:56,040
Speaker 1: neutral zone and fractions at all. In defensive players then

1614
01:25:56,120 --> 01:26:01,040
Speaker 1: were past their their blocker at the snap and safety

1615
01:26:01,200 --> 01:26:04,000
Speaker 1: became an issue a free shot at quarterback on a

1616
01:26:04,080 --> 01:26:07,200
Speaker 1: blatant off side, So then you had to draw a

1617
01:26:07,280 --> 01:26:09,560
Speaker 1: line and the rule to say, okay, how do we

1618
01:26:09,720 --> 01:26:12,800
Speaker 1: stop this without putting it on the official always to

1619
01:26:12,840 --> 01:26:16,040
Speaker 1: say that's unabated, this is off side, And the truth

1620
01:26:16,120 --> 01:26:18,519
Speaker 1: of it is that the offense knows that within one

1621
01:26:18,560 --> 01:26:21,680
Speaker 1: and a half player positions from the person that's in

1622
01:26:21,720 --> 01:26:25,160
Speaker 1: the neutral zone. If a player that is within one

1623
01:26:25,200 --> 01:26:27,280
Speaker 1: and a half positions of that player that's in the

1624
01:26:27,360 --> 01:26:30,320
Speaker 1: neutral zone react, which is a penalty for a false

1625
01:26:30,360 --> 01:26:34,000
Speaker 1: start and would kill the play. If that occurs, then

1626
01:26:34,080 --> 01:26:36,080
Speaker 1: the onus is on the defense or being in the

1627
01:26:36,200 --> 01:26:39,160
Speaker 1: neutral zone when it happens. And look, we know how

1628
01:26:39,240 --> 01:26:41,840
Speaker 1: this is evolved. It was either a silence not by

1629
01:26:42,160 --> 01:26:44,080
Speaker 1: a center that just not the ball if he felt

1630
01:26:44,120 --> 01:26:45,760
Speaker 1: the defense is in there to get a free play,

1631
01:26:46,280 --> 01:26:48,360
Speaker 1: or you see the lifting of the hands or the

1632
01:26:48,400 --> 01:26:52,559
Speaker 1: automatic false starting point to kill the play. So it's

1633
01:26:52,640 --> 01:26:55,080
Speaker 1: become much more technical when we don't have many free

1634
01:26:55,160 --> 01:26:58,599
Speaker 1: plays anymore because of it, and that's because the offensive

1635
01:26:58,640 --> 01:27:01,240
Speaker 1: linemen have gotten more intel ledge into the rule and

1636
01:27:01,400 --> 01:27:04,559
Speaker 1: just kill the play by creating a dead ball neutral

1637
01:27:04,600 --> 01:27:09,160
Speaker 1: zone interaction. You know, with so few people in the stands,

1638
01:27:09,200 --> 01:27:12,920
Speaker 1: it's very easy to hear, uh, somebody yelling now and

1639
01:27:13,120 --> 01:27:16,040
Speaker 1: we heard that one Steeler fan woman cheering the whole

1640
01:27:16,080 --> 01:27:19,080
Speaker 1: game yesterday, and I'm wondering you know, when you when

1641
01:27:19,080 --> 01:27:22,000
Speaker 1: you're doing high school games and stuff, there's probably incidents

1642
01:27:22,040 --> 01:27:24,720
Speaker 1: that happened between spectators and referees, But once you get

1643
01:27:24,720 --> 01:27:26,400
Speaker 1: to the college and pro level, that's not something that

1644
01:27:26,439 --> 01:27:28,920
Speaker 1: you're ever gonna have to consider. Well, now I'm wondering

1645
01:27:28,960 --> 01:27:31,760
Speaker 1: if it might be what like, would you make a

1646
01:27:31,840 --> 01:27:34,600
Speaker 1: move as a referee to to kick somebody out of

1647
01:27:34,600 --> 01:27:37,240
Speaker 1: the game who's getting on your case, Because if a

1648
01:27:37,320 --> 01:27:39,760
Speaker 1: fan wants to barrel down on a referee right now,

1649
01:27:39,960 --> 01:27:44,680
Speaker 1: they really can't. You can hear it clearly. No, I

1650
01:27:44,800 --> 01:27:48,920
Speaker 1: think it's beautiful thing. I Look, the toughest arenas in

1651
01:27:49,040 --> 01:27:52,040
Speaker 1: basketball to referee were the empty gym's right, I mean

1652
01:27:52,080 --> 01:27:53,880
Speaker 1: when you end up in a half twenty people like

1653
01:27:54,000 --> 01:27:56,280
Speaker 1: you said, you're here, aver, you're here him whispering to

1654
01:27:56,439 --> 01:27:59,479
Speaker 1: his wife. This guy really thinks that, you know, he's

1655
01:27:59,760 --> 01:28:05,519
Speaker 1: really ugly to you know, all that empty gyms, empty stadiums, um,

1656
01:28:06,160 --> 01:28:09,080
Speaker 1: they're much more difficult to officiate because you don't hear

1657
01:28:09,200 --> 01:28:13,120
Speaker 1: just the swell or the roar of dissatisfaction and hatred,

1658
01:28:13,200 --> 01:28:16,160
Speaker 1: which comes out as just an elevated volume. You actually

1659
01:28:16,200 --> 01:28:19,360
Speaker 1: hear the specific So look, it's one of the things

1660
01:28:19,479 --> 01:28:22,080
Speaker 1: much causes my psychologist to make a lot of money.

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01:28:22,200 --> 01:28:25,160
Speaker 1: I kind of enjoyed that. You know, in basketball, I

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01:28:25,240 --> 01:28:28,720
Speaker 1: would base the fan because you can here in basketball,

1663
01:28:28,840 --> 01:28:30,400
Speaker 1: so I would have my back to that fan, and

1664
01:28:30,439 --> 01:28:34,000
Speaker 1: I'd hear him, and after years and years of experience,

1665
01:28:34,040 --> 01:28:36,200
Speaker 1: you knew who he was without even turning around. And

1666
01:28:36,840 --> 01:28:39,800
Speaker 1: and then in the dead ball situation, you would catch

1667
01:28:39,920 --> 01:28:42,559
Speaker 1: him in his b rating and know when he had

1668
01:28:42,600 --> 01:28:45,599
Speaker 1: to take another breath to finish the sentence. And that's

1669
01:28:45,640 --> 01:28:47,519
Speaker 1: when you would lift your head and make immediate eye

1670
01:28:47,560 --> 01:28:52,080
Speaker 1: contact not with him, but with his partner, significant other

1671
01:28:52,360 --> 01:28:55,240
Speaker 1: friends next to him, and just stare at them and

1672
01:28:55,360 --> 01:28:58,479
Speaker 1: just take their head and mouth to that person. You're

1673
01:28:58,520 --> 01:29:03,000
Speaker 1: really with him, aren't you are really spending and then

1674
01:29:03,080 --> 01:29:05,720
Speaker 1: you look back down. So there's an art to that

1675
01:29:06,120 --> 01:29:09,800
Speaker 1: where you instead of taking it as something that you

1676
01:29:09,880 --> 01:29:13,880
Speaker 1: know you're offended by, uh, you spend that and make

1677
01:29:13,960 --> 01:29:17,559
Speaker 1: it an entertaining aspect for you and for the uh

1678
01:29:18,120 --> 01:29:20,879
Speaker 1: you know, the fans in the in the arena or stadium.

1679
01:29:21,040 --> 01:29:23,240
Speaker 1: So that's how you give back to the game in

1680
01:29:23,320 --> 01:29:26,519
Speaker 1: a positive way being hit with a negative. Man, that's

1681
01:29:26,560 --> 01:29:30,840
Speaker 1: how we do this, you know, inofficiated Jean, This is

1682
01:29:31,160 --> 01:29:33,720
Speaker 1: This is probably a stupid question, but that seems to

1683
01:29:33,800 --> 01:29:37,559
Speaker 1: be my lane on the program. Um, this this whole

1684
01:29:37,800 --> 01:29:40,640
Speaker 1: entire matchup, you're gonna be billy, you could be a

1685
01:29:40,720 --> 01:29:46,320
Speaker 1: rough We all have stupid questions. Um, you know, this

1686
01:29:46,439 --> 01:29:49,320
Speaker 1: whole game, this whole matchup was a delay a game.

1687
01:29:49,439 --> 01:29:51,960
Speaker 1: I mean they rescheduled a time and time again, and

1688
01:29:52,240 --> 01:29:54,760
Speaker 1: I was curious if they let you guys know, like,

1689
01:29:55,000 --> 01:29:56,800
Speaker 1: is there a cut off date? Because the day of

1690
01:29:56,880 --> 01:30:01,080
Speaker 1: the game, I was checking Twitter every I don't know,

1691
01:30:01,320 --> 01:30:03,960
Speaker 1: maybe two minutes to check and see if this game

1692
01:30:04,080 --> 01:30:06,720
Speaker 1: was canceled? Is there a cut off day or cut

1693
01:30:06,760 --> 01:30:09,680
Speaker 1: off time where they can push back a game or

1694
01:30:09,720 --> 01:30:14,320
Speaker 1: cancel it? Are all bets off? Because yeah, you know, Bill,

1695
01:30:14,360 --> 01:30:17,800
Speaker 1: that's a great question because I know we're an unstarted territory, right.

1696
01:30:17,880 --> 01:30:19,479
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't think any of this have ever

1697
01:30:19,560 --> 01:30:23,840
Speaker 1: experienced this personally or with sports, so I really can't

1698
01:30:23,880 --> 01:30:27,200
Speaker 1: answer it definitively. It was a five yard file for

1699
01:30:27,360 --> 01:30:30,840
Speaker 1: delay that came very close to being increased to a

1700
01:30:30,960 --> 01:30:34,920
Speaker 1: fifteen yard on sportsmanlike conduct for the entire week. So

1701
01:30:35,439 --> 01:30:38,720
Speaker 1: I think it's just so fluid right now. I think

1702
01:30:38,760 --> 01:30:41,200
Speaker 1: what you really are looking at, though, was the forward thinking.

1703
01:30:41,760 --> 01:30:45,240
Speaker 1: The most important part of this to me from the

1704
01:30:45,280 --> 01:30:48,400
Speaker 1: Steelers window is twelve games and earth, I'm sorry, three

1705
01:30:48,439 --> 01:30:52,080
Speaker 1: games in twelve days, right, I mean looking ahead, they've

1706
01:30:52,120 --> 01:30:54,160
Speaker 1: got to get these in now. The season is is

1707
01:30:54,800 --> 01:30:57,479
Speaker 1: is condensing. We've got to finish these games in this

1708
01:30:57,720 --> 01:31:01,640
Speaker 1: window to get prepared for the season so as we

1709
01:31:01,800 --> 01:31:04,360
Speaker 1: get closer to the end, if we have two or

1710
01:31:04,400 --> 01:31:07,839
Speaker 1: three teams like this, right or these scenarios keep pushing

1711
01:31:07,960 --> 01:31:12,920
Speaker 1: over and forward postseason positioning. There's a lot of other

1712
01:31:13,320 --> 01:31:16,120
Speaker 1: you know, we know what the what what the potential

1713
01:31:16,240 --> 01:31:19,600
Speaker 1: things could happen here as this role. So Wednesday to

1714
01:31:19,720 --> 01:31:22,519
Speaker 1: me was a stretch. I won't lie to you only

1715
01:31:22,600 --> 01:31:25,400
Speaker 1: because you know Wednesday to Monday. Think about it, guys,

1716
01:31:25,720 --> 01:31:28,360
Speaker 1: I mean these guys, whether that game was ugly or

1717
01:31:28,560 --> 01:31:30,920
Speaker 1: fun to watch yesterday, depending on what you want to

1718
01:31:30,960 --> 01:31:33,800
Speaker 1: think about it, it still was NFL football to some

1719
01:31:33,960 --> 01:31:38,040
Speaker 1: extent physically their bodies. After hell, it's Thursday morning, going

1720
01:31:38,120 --> 01:31:41,559
Speaker 1: into Friday and Saturday. I'm just kind of feeling normal again,

1721
01:31:42,160 --> 01:31:44,679
Speaker 1: and we're getting ready now for the next day travel

1722
01:31:44,720 --> 01:31:48,040
Speaker 1: because we're playing Monday. Um, that's why Thursday became an

1723
01:31:48,040 --> 01:31:51,719
Speaker 1: issue years ago, right, so now that starts to squeeze,

1724
01:31:52,240 --> 01:31:55,200
Speaker 1: uh and other things. UM, but to tell you that

1725
01:31:55,280 --> 01:31:57,599
Speaker 1: there's a line in the sand right now, I don't

1726
01:31:57,640 --> 01:31:59,960
Speaker 1: think you can do it. It's it's too fluid in there,

1727
01:32:00,080 --> 01:32:05,120
Speaker 1: too many unexpected uh hurdles ahead of feeling Stator brought

1728
01:32:05,160 --> 01:32:06,880
Speaker 1: to you by Pett Rivers this morning on d V.

1729
01:32:07,240 --> 01:32:09,519
Speaker 1: Thanks as always, Gino. Hope you got rid of all

1730
01:32:09,560 --> 01:32:12,160
Speaker 1: the turkey leftovers, and we'll talk to you next week.

1731
01:32:13,080 --> 01:32:15,880
Speaker 1: You gotta gods, have a wonderful well, four or five days,

1732
01:32:15,920 --> 01:32:20,400
Speaker 1: I'll talk to That was CBS sports officiating analyst Gene

1733
01:32:20,479 --> 01:32:23,759
Speaker 1: Sterator earlier today on the DV Morning Show. With another

1734
01:32:23,840 --> 01:32:25,519
Speaker 1: week in the books as we get ready for Week

1735
01:32:25,600 --> 01:32:28,360
Speaker 1: thirteen of the NFL. Hard to believe since the Steelers

1736
01:32:28,439 --> 01:32:33,479
Speaker 1: just played yesterday. We were just talking Washington and I

1737
01:32:33,840 --> 01:32:35,600
Speaker 1: haven't really even thought of that game yet, you know

1738
01:32:35,640 --> 01:32:37,200
Speaker 1: what I mean, And it's right around the corner. It's

1739
01:32:37,240 --> 01:32:39,720
Speaker 1: gonna be here really soon. Steelers will start practicing for

1740
01:32:39,960 --> 01:32:43,160
Speaker 1: tomorrow tomorrow, right. I hope it doesn't affect them negatively.

1741
01:32:43,320 --> 01:32:45,680
Speaker 1: And you know, but I would think yesterday was a

1742
01:32:45,720 --> 01:32:47,200
Speaker 1: wake up. That's kind of what they Yeah, I mean,

1743
01:32:47,520 --> 01:32:50,200
Speaker 1: they get tomorrow to practice, they get they practice again

1744
01:32:50,240 --> 01:32:54,000
Speaker 1: on Saturday, walk through on Sunday, and then play game

1745
01:32:54,040 --> 01:32:56,200
Speaker 1: on again. I mean it's almost like playing a Thursday

1746
01:32:56,240 --> 01:32:58,599
Speaker 1: game exactly a little bit better because you get an

1747
01:32:58,640 --> 01:33:01,479
Speaker 1: extra day in there, but still home again. So yeah,

1748
01:33:01,800 --> 01:33:04,160
Speaker 1: it's a lot to happen quick. I mean, three games

1749
01:33:04,200 --> 01:33:06,360
Speaker 1: in twelve days. Wonder why they made that one like

1750
01:33:06,479 --> 01:33:08,680
Speaker 1: that and they didn't give the I was thinking, what's

1751
01:33:08,680 --> 01:33:11,280
Speaker 1: the difference between the Ravens and they gave They gave

1752
01:33:11,320 --> 01:33:14,719
Speaker 1: the Ravens the extra day off because Goodell loves the Ravens,

1753
01:33:14,840 --> 01:33:18,360
Speaker 1: right apparently it sure seems that way. Yeah, why what's

1754
01:33:18,360 --> 01:33:20,439
Speaker 1: the difference? Why would they both be Tuesday? Yeah, I

1755
01:33:20,520 --> 01:33:23,040
Speaker 1: don't know. That's a good question, but you know that's

1756
01:33:23,040 --> 01:33:25,280
Speaker 1: going to do it for our show today. So for

1757
01:33:25,439 --> 01:33:28,080
Speaker 1: my partner Matt Williamson for Jacob rect here on site

1758
01:33:28,160 --> 01:33:30,760
Speaker 1: keeping us on the air, I'm Dale Lolly. We thank

1759
01:33:30,800 --> 01:33:33,160
Speaker 1: you for listening to this edition of the Drive on

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01:33:33,280 --> 01:33:34,400
Speaker 1: Steelers Nation Radio.