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Speaker 1: Your tunes about Drive on Home of the Black and

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Speaker 1: Goal Steelers Nation Radio. Welcome back. I'm Dale Lally. He

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Speaker 1: is Matt Williamson, and this is the Drive on Steelers

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Speaker 1: Nation Radio. Steelers falling to two and five with a

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Speaker 1: disappointing sixteen to ten loss on Sunday Night to the

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Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins, UM one and three away from home, and

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Speaker 1: that makes them one and two at home this year.

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Speaker 1: Matt uh ten games left, and you heard Miles Shack

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Speaker 1: after the game talk about how he felt, you know,

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Speaker 1: this team is is is trending in the right direction.

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Speaker 1: He was upbeat about this whole thing. And and our

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Speaker 1: colleague Mike pursued asked him that you're still you're still

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Speaker 1: you know, you still feel good about this season and

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Speaker 1: where it's headed at two and five because we got

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Speaker 1: ten games left, and uh so, I I actually looked

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Speaker 1: at it. So at this point, five of the seven

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Speaker 1: teams that the Steelers have played this year, our five

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Speaker 1: hundred are better. And that's going into the Monday Nights game.

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Speaker 1: It could be five are over five hundred if the

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Speaker 1: Patriots take care of business tonight and beat the beat

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Speaker 1: the Chicago Bears as expected. So five of the five

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Speaker 1: of the seventeen games they've played, we have been against

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Speaker 1: teams who are above five hundred. Okay, I did something similar.

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Speaker 1: I started to fiddle with my stat pack and I

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Speaker 1: just wanted to go back and look at the teams

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Speaker 1: the Eagles played versus teams the Steelers played. And if

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Speaker 1: you look at the record of all seven of the

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Speaker 1: Steelers opponents, there twenty six and twenty one, which is

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Speaker 1: pretty darn good in today's NFL when everyone's five hundred.

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Speaker 1: But the Steelers opponents have outscored their opponents by a

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Speaker 1: hundred and fifty point since year. Buffalo weighs that heavily,

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Speaker 1: but still, I mean, you're consistently playing against teams that

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Speaker 1: are outscoring their opponent in a big, big way, a

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Speaker 1: hundred fifty point different point afferential. You know that's huge. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: In their final ten games, the Steelers will play four

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Speaker 1: teams that currently have a five hundred or better record,

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Speaker 1: So they had six sub five hundred teams left on

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Speaker 1: the schedule, and I don't know if that's enough. I mean,

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Speaker 1: we're not blowing smoke to get you in the postseason. No,

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Speaker 1: that's probably not win some games here. Let's let's get

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Speaker 1: on a little bit of a role. Have some has

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Speaker 1: some positivity around this, Uh, finish off some of these

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Speaker 1: games again a young team, you know there were Ben

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Speaker 1: Roethlisberger was here for so long, Matt that it just

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Speaker 1: became expected that he would do He'll find out, he'll

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Speaker 1: figure out a way to win this down the stretch.

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Speaker 1: I mean I remember writing after his it was I

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Speaker 1: think maybe four or five game into his rookie season,

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Speaker 1: and he led them back. It wasn't really a true

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Speaker 1: comeback comeback in Dallas against the Cowboys. I think he

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Speaker 1: led he left one scoring drive in Dallas, turned to

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Speaker 1: football over, gave the Steelers an easy a short field

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Speaker 1: and they scored there as well, and they came back

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Speaker 1: and won that game in Dallas. But it was Roethlisberger's

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Speaker 1: first career comeback win, Okay, And I made note of

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Speaker 1: it at the time. I'm like, well, this kid has

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Speaker 1: now showed that he can do this. Uh you know

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Speaker 1: that was his fourth start that it was his fourth

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Speaker 1: or fifth start that year. Yeah, be a similar path

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Speaker 1: to the young man we're looking at now. Yeah. The

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Speaker 1: only difference was Roethlisberger was winning those games early. They

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Speaker 1: were they were they were winning and just you know,

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Speaker 1: beating teams. But that's a learning process on how to

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Speaker 1: how to finish off those kind of games at the

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Speaker 1: NFL level. Yeah, oh yeah, And I do think, you know,

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Speaker 1: there's a lot of learning going on here with Picket

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Speaker 1: in particular, but the whole team and a young core

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Speaker 1: around him. I'm sure he's gonna look back at this game.

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Speaker 1: Well already has, but I'm talking like ten years from

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Speaker 1: now and be like, I took my lumps in that one,

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Speaker 1: But boy, I learned a lot, you know, you know

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Speaker 1: when to hold him, when to when to fold him.

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Speaker 1: You know, he probably could have ran late in that

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Speaker 1: drive the ball in for an interception. And I didn't

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Speaker 1: even mind the decision that much. Is if he puts

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Speaker 1: corner of the end zone, it's it's touchdown. Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: it's definitely not picked. You know, nothing negative would have happened.

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Speaker 1: But on the year, guy can catch it right, and

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Speaker 1: he's obviously capable of that next time. You assume he will. Um,

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Speaker 1: But I do think the second half of the season

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Speaker 1: will be very interesting, and that's when I'll start to

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Speaker 1: get critical if I'm not seeing progress, Like if they

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Speaker 1: lose bad to the Eagles, I understand, but after that,

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Speaker 1: I expect noticeable steps in the direction results, points, wins,

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Speaker 1: and joe By. Bush has mentioned them because they're free agents.

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Speaker 1: So are they They look like they're keepers, you know,

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Speaker 1: do you want to are they ase holes or those

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Speaker 1: guys were keeping? But more importantly, of course, is the quarterback.

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Speaker 1: You know, just keep taking steps in the right direction

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Speaker 1: and look like you belong. Yeah, quarterback, the offensive line, um,

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Speaker 1: And is a trajectory headed up? Um? You know, I

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Speaker 1: know a lot of people are down on Deonte's fault.

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Speaker 1: I don't see that the quarterback was like I heard people, well,

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Speaker 1: Deonte was dogging it on that player Claypole tripped, he

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Speaker 1: got tripped. I know, there's a there's this big narrative

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Speaker 1: clay pools on the ground all the time. I mean,

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Speaker 1: that was just a flukey play and again. The pay

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Speaker 1: official that's on the air said that should have been

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Speaker 1: a past interference. I didn't quite see it that way,

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Speaker 1: but anyway, um, flukey play that didn't go your way,

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Speaker 1: that would not have ended up in an interception. I

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Speaker 1: don't have any problem with Fante. I mean, is he

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Speaker 1: playing his best football right now? I don't know. Um,

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Speaker 1: probably not, but he's still a high quality player and

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Speaker 1: he's more of the solution than the answer. Um. I

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Speaker 1: just saw this today. It has pulled up the stealer

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Speaker 1: team stats. Pickings now leads a team in receiving yards

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Speaker 1: by like one or whatever, even though three guys have

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Speaker 1: more targets and catches. By two months from now, he

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Speaker 1: may have a four point four hundred yard league. You know,

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Speaker 1: like we're just scratching the surface with that Guy's what

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Speaker 1: to evolve again with with the evolution of Friarmouth as well. Um,

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Speaker 1: you know again, Naja Harris looking better. I thought he

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Speaker 1: looked as good as he's looked all year. I agree,

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Speaker 1: last night was the closest he's looked to what he

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Speaker 1: had eight interceptions. Going into that game, Matt Miami had one. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: catch the football. Catch the football. I mean we've kind

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Speaker 1: of I don't say he danced around it, but one

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Speaker 1: and he was, you know, a little overwhelmed at times,

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Speaker 1: deciphering the coverage. And you didn't make him pay for it. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: his first game back. He really wasn't that wasn't that impressed.

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Speaker 1: He was became out hot and he wasn't getting hit,

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Speaker 1: you know, so he should have played better than that. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: And I'm sure you know, I know Mike Tomlin immediately

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Speaker 1: said after the game, Hey, we gotta we gotta catch football. U.

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Speaker 1: That's that's something that you know, you get your hands

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Speaker 1: They ended up with five pass defense in the game. Um,

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Speaker 1: you get your hands on five passes, Yeah, you better

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Speaker 1: I mean, none of them are easy, easy plays, but

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Speaker 1: they were all plays to make that The one that

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Speaker 1: They're all plays that those and their plays that those

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Speaker 1: know it's it's thirteen two to uh uh know, it

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Speaker 1: because you're playing for a field goal. Yeah, you'll take

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Speaker 1: the you'll take the field goal. You're gonna trust Boss

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Speaker 1: all day long on a situation like that. Um, you know,

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Speaker 1: two weeks. You should win those games. Yeah, that's that's

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Speaker 1: the thing. And if you can get a couple of takeaways,

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Speaker 1: you would have won those games, especially this one. Um. Again,

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Speaker 1: like I'm an Edmonds fan, I really am. I mentioned

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Speaker 1: absolutely talk extension with him. He impresses me more and

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Speaker 1: more every week. But his style of play was kind

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Speaker 1: about last segment, he was running down the sideline stride

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Speaker 1: for stride with Tyreek Hill, right, I mean you forget that.

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Speaker 1: Everyone just looks at him like, oh he was overdrafted.

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Speaker 1: Well go look at his calm by numbers. Though he

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Speaker 1: he doesn't have great ball skills and he probably won't

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Speaker 1: ever in his career. And one more picked from him

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Speaker 1: or one more picked from Sutton might have been it

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Speaker 1: a little folks, be a little patient. It's gonna be

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