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Speaker 1: This is the Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt Williamson

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

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Drive. I'm Daley. He is Matt Williamson.

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Speaker 1: And it is a well, a non victory Monday for

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Speaker 1: the Steelers after a two straight victory Mondays. They lose

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Speaker 1: to the Baltimore Ravens sixteen to fourteen on on Sunday

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Speaker 1: Matt at the Accuser Stadium. And uh, just so many

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Speaker 1: self inflected wounds that you just couldn't overcome that many mistakes.

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Speaker 1: I mean, obviously there execution defending the run was also

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Speaker 1: poor in their overall physicality. But everyone in the world

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Speaker 1: knows what that game is gonna be. I mean, who

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Speaker 1: wins on special team penalties, turnovers, winning in the margins.

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Speaker 1: And it's pretty clear the Steelers did not win in

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Speaker 1: the margins. You know they did not. Um. Of course,

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Speaker 1: Kenny Pickett injured early in the game, suffered a concussion

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Speaker 1: UM and that left Mitch Robinsky and and I thought

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Speaker 1: Robinsky was effective but got over aggressive. Yeah, I do

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Speaker 1: a postgame podcast and I wrap it up with these

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Speaker 1: are thumbs up guys, thumbs down guys, And I put

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Speaker 1: him thumbs up. Just to talk about him. I thought

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Speaker 1: he played extremely well except except except and he played

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Speaker 1: much differently though. I mean, like when he was replaced

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Speaker 1: by Pickett, boy, he he could he could let it

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Speaker 1: fly more. He's being conservative and this, and I think

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Speaker 1: he said it even in his Prescotters postgame interview, was

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Speaker 1: I was aggressive, maybe too aggressive? Yeah, And finding that

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Speaker 1: balance is key for all these guys. I mean, I

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Speaker 1: think Pickett has a little bit that to deal with

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Speaker 1: as well. But in these gates, it was really start

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Speaker 1: in each direction. Yeah, um, you know, I get you know,

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Speaker 1: you want to score touchdowns. And it was obvious that

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Speaker 1: the Ravens, the closer the Steelers got to the end zone,

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Speaker 1: were very cognizant of Pat Fiarmouth. They knew where he

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Speaker 1: was at on the field, no matter what, um, you know.

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Speaker 1: And it just became a situation that in Firemouth, I

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Speaker 1: don't think was percent healthy in that game. In fact,

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Speaker 1: today at the today at the facility, he was in

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Speaker 1: a walking boot. It's not nothing again, bumps and bruises

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Speaker 1: kind of thing. As Mike Tomlin puts it. He was

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Speaker 1: still well enough to play, but I don't know that

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Speaker 1: they wanted him out there a hundred percent of the

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Speaker 1: snaps based on this, but I didn't know that, to

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Speaker 1: be honest with you, Um, but you somebody else needed

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Speaker 1: to just step forward, and I thought, you know, Deante

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Speaker 1: Johnson made some plays in this game. George Pickens made

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Speaker 1: some plays in this game. Stephen said has made some

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Speaker 1: plays in this game. Um. There was a series there

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Speaker 1: that we talked about that Sims Hamilton's matchup where it

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Speaker 1: looked like they were really targeting that with quick stuff,

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Speaker 1: you know, and that was fine. I had no problem with.

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Speaker 1: And they moved the football, particularly through the air. What

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Speaker 1: they didn't do I I was critical of this in

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Speaker 1: my postgame ten thoughts. Nazi Harris got two carries in

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Speaker 1: the second half, totally, you know, one score football game.

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Speaker 1: I was just on the air with Martin Madden. I

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Speaker 1: said the exact same thing is like, Okay, we can

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Speaker 1: blame the run defense, we can blame the the field

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Speaker 1: goal block. It's certainly the three interceptions, but you're in

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Speaker 1: a tight game, in a physical battle, and you've gotten

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Speaker 1: to this point because you run the football with volume

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Speaker 1: and your power back that needs every touch you can

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Speaker 1: to wear it out the defense and be effective. Gets

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Speaker 1: three touches in the second half, Like I mean, I

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Speaker 1: have a problem with that. Yeah, I I do as well, Um,

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Speaker 1: especially you know early in the game when the Ravens

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Speaker 1: against Picket, when the Ravens got the Steelers in the

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Speaker 1: third and long, they were blitzing. Yeah, yeah, they were.

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Speaker 1: When Traubinsky was in the game, they weren't blitzing anymore. No, no,

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Speaker 1: And so you weren't gonna you were gonna get looks

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Speaker 1: ball in first and second down. They were still makable,

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Speaker 1: and they weren't gonna they weren't gonna overload. And and

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Speaker 1: have you know guys running free at your quarterback because

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Speaker 1: I think they know that Rubinsky's you know, seasoned enough

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Speaker 1: knowing that friar Muth was fighting something. So here was

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Speaker 1: some things I was critical of. Is I'm gonna nerd

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Speaker 1: out with a staff for you real quick. On first

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Speaker 1: and second down. They ran thirty seven snaps on early

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Speaker 1: those thirty seven snaps, friar Muth was thirteen of those.

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Speaker 1: So you're coming out in early downs with one tight

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Speaker 1: I know kind of thing to like, if you're gonna

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Speaker 1: a lot of two man routes out of that situation

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Speaker 1: both of them I think played really well, getting a

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Speaker 1: lot of attention. Then yeah, like I didn't understand that

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Speaker 1: usage like that. Okay, So they had fourteen yards or

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Speaker 1: fourteen carries for fifty two yards rushing in the first half.

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Speaker 1: That's okay, that's a great run to perfectly, that's three

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Speaker 1: point seven yards of carry. Now pick it had sixteen

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Speaker 1: that on on two uh scrambles. But we've been counting

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Speaker 1: at the same in the last two weeks. As that

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Speaker 1: doesn't change anything. The Ravens running backs or quarterbacks run

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Speaker 1: all right, you know, Um Trabisky didn't scramble at all. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I thought found some strange right throwing it well, yeah,

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Speaker 1: he was throwing the ball well. Uh and you know again,

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Speaker 1: Harris got two carries in the second Now, he had

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Speaker 1: ten for thirty two in the first half, but one

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Speaker 1: of those was a one year a touchdown run. That

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Speaker 1: kills your average a little bit. I didn't think he

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Speaker 1: was being ineffective in the first half. No, I didn't

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Speaker 1: think he looked bad or was ineffective. I mean, you

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Speaker 1: knew this thing is a race to thirteen or whatever.

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Speaker 1: Yards per carrying this game didn't matter to me, But

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Speaker 1: you know what I mean. I mean volume mattered to

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Speaker 1: me much more than yards per carry. And they're not

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Speaker 1: an explosive running team on their best day, you know

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Speaker 1: what I mean. But if you can keep giving it

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Speaker 1: a little different. Yeah. I just looked at this after

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Speaker 1: the game. Um. Steelers were four for eight on third

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Speaker 1: downs again for the last five games. Last five games

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Speaker 1: have been at overall the Ravens. Ravens were four yards

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Speaker 1: for play yards per play six point two to five

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Speaker 1: goal drive of the game. Thirteen plays, fifty seven yards

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Speaker 1: and you lost the game. You lost the game. You know,

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Speaker 1: I'm a state nerd obviously and all those things. If

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Speaker 1: by ten, you know, I mean, I mean, but I

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Speaker 1: also read your column and a big thing you stressed

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Speaker 1: from the start was Steelers were not the more physical team.

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Speaker 1: They weren't, you know, they were not. That's what it

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Speaker 1: the finesse team doesn't win. I mean, it's the bully

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Speaker 1: the game. Wow, on nine possessions. They moved the football football,

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Speaker 1: but you can't turn it over against that team. And

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Speaker 1: you can't blame the defense. They were on the field

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Speaker 1: way too many snaps or any of that stuff too

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Speaker 1: I mean they faced run after run of big people

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Speaker 1: hammering them. But another you know, kind of like that

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Speaker 1: it's pretty amazing. Sutton played every snap, but the next

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Speaker 1: They played a ton of snaps with one corner on

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Speaker 1: Edmunds in the box make all over the place. And

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Speaker 1: my point is it wasn't like they were in dime

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Speaker 1: match big people with big people a lot of nose

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Speaker 1: we were saying it was he's like Kim Heywards, a

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Speaker 1: defensive end whose moonlighting is a nose tackle. You know,

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Speaker 1: he doesn't major in it. That's his minor, you know,

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Speaker 1: I mean Lee Owls at d ND minoring it outside linebacker.

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Speaker 1: And he thought they did too much alignment stuff that

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Speaker 1: don't think I asked numerous guys in that lock, what

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Speaker 1: did they do anything exotic that you guys didn't expect? No,

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Speaker 1: said in Heyward said, look even on that last run

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Speaker 1: point in the game, we had seen all that stuff.

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Speaker 1: you saw it all. I mean, you shouldn't be shocked

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Speaker 1: better at it anywhere. But we've talked about this all

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Speaker 1: season long this year, about how power running beats some

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Speaker 1: of these you know, small are packages that that are

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Speaker 1: not even that well, and it made their quarterbacks life

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Speaker 1: easier and by the fourth quarter, it's getting easier. But

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Speaker 1: you got to score points. You got to score point.

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Speaker 1: Here's the thing that narrows the playing field. So if

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Speaker 1: in the second half to go up, yeah, whatever do

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Speaker 1: the Ravens continue running the football to get you run

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Speaker 1: them out, you get them out of that script. Even

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Speaker 1: if Huntley was a quarterback. I mean, making them throw

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Speaker 1: you know, I mean that's what you wanted them to do.

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Speaker 1: And you could never force their hand to play anything

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Speaker 1: And then at that point, now you're playing catch up

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Speaker 1: to a team that wants you to play catch up.

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Speaker 1: That's how they're built to play with the lead. There's

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Speaker 1: a lot to do it. Yeah, and you mix in

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Speaker 1: what I call four turnovers because that block kicks and

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Speaker 1: say four of your possessions, four of your nine possessions

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Speaker 1: in the game ended with you turning the football over

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Speaker 1: to them. Yeah, and if one of them ends up

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Speaker 1: as a field goal, it doesn't guarantee you win. I

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Speaker 1: know that they lost by two, and that would be

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Speaker 1: three points the game. Those different abterfly effect, but I

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Speaker 1: bet more than one of them ends up with three.

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Speaker 1: is Matt Williamson. This is the Drive on Steelers Nation Radio.

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