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Speaker 2: Well, Hello, welcome to the Point After on the Steelers
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Speaker 2: Following the Steelers thirteen to six victory over the Denver Broncos,
Speaker 2: the first time since nineteen ninety nine, the Steelers have
Speaker 2: opened with two road games and won them both, So
Speaker 2: kind of nice first two and oh start since twenty
Speaker 2: twenty A lot of things to enjoy about this team.
Speaker 2: Let's get our first reaction, which is brought to you
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Speaker 2: and Wolf. Let's get started with your first reactions about
Speaker 2: this year. There's thirteen to six win.
Speaker 3: You know, it was a tremendous win in mile height, altitude,
Speaker 3: that's what it was. I mean. TJ. Watt said it
Speaker 3: best after the game was over and he was being
Speaker 3: interviewed by Missy Matthews and he said, altitude is a
Speaker 3: real thing. Well, you could tell because they wore down. Look,
Speaker 3: in the first half he had the Steelers offense, they
Speaker 3: were four to six on third down conversions. They were
Speaker 3: zero for seven in the second half. You know, that
Speaker 3: was a killer that allowed Denver to keep hanging around.
Speaker 3: Denver getting mini school yards in the first half and
Speaker 3: then was able to pile on yards in the second
Speaker 3: half and string drives together. So I really believe, and
Speaker 3: having experienced it myself in real time on a couple occasions,
Speaker 3: that the altitude is a real factor and does play
Speaker 3: into that one hundred percent agree.
Speaker 4: And I remember, you know, everyone knows what teams you're
Speaker 4: going to play for a long time. And then the
Speaker 4: schedule release show comes out, there's that big date, and
Speaker 4: immediately the first thing I looked at is, boy, I
Speaker 4: hope they're not going to then for the first couple
Speaker 4: of weeks of the year, and there was week two.
Speaker 4: I mean, because their record in September at home is
Speaker 4: tremendous over the course of their whole franchise, and I
Speaker 4: thought the Steelers were a pretty dominant group on both
Speaker 4: sides of the ball in the first half and kind
Speaker 4: of held on for dear life in the second half.
Speaker 4: And this defense is still really, really good.
Speaker 2: A seventy win total in September in the history of
Speaker 2: the Denver Broncos, which goes back to some lousy teams
Speaker 2: that they had. Obviously some great teams as well, So
Speaker 2: all in all, that's a pretty darn good winning percentage
Speaker 2: at home in the month of September. Well, if one
Speaker 2: of the themes that we had going into this game
Speaker 2: was pick up the blitz and harass Bownicks right right
Speaker 2: almost ry.
Speaker 3: Ryan, and then they came with chess pieces and everything else,
Speaker 3: talking about we got you, you know, the King and Queen,
Speaker 3: pat Queen and so forth. The fact matter exactly in
Speaker 3: the mirror, and we got through Jedi edge Rushers. You know,
Speaker 3: they're Knights, right, you know, and Smith and and DJ WHT.
Speaker 3: But the fact of the matter was Max, Missy and me,
Speaker 3: we're the ponds. But you know again and going over
Speaker 3: the whole thing though, uh, this this was this was
Speaker 3: a hard fought battle, you know, and you had to
Speaker 3: make choices and whether or not you blitz or not
Speaker 3: to steal his blitz more than I thought they would blitz.
Speaker 3: I thought you might want to let let Bnick sit
Speaker 3: back and see can he beat us? Can he beat
Speaker 3: our front four? You know? And they came with a
Speaker 3: few more.
Speaker 2: Couple but it wasn't many.
Speaker 3: It wasn't many. But remember they more than we won, Yes,
Speaker 3: more than we one. Remember they were they were the
Speaker 3: lowest week one, So anything more than that is so
Speaker 3: you know, to me, it was just a nice example
Speaker 3: of what that front fours Front seven capabilities were. And
Speaker 3: then you had some great background stuff. Deshaun Elliott was
Speaker 3: just really good in situations. Man. I loved what he did.
Speaker 3: And then of course those outside ed rushers with you know,
Speaker 3: high Smith and wat my gosh, they gave them guys fits.
Speaker 3: And I got to tell you, I can't believe how
Speaker 3: much they got away with holding. I wish I if
Speaker 3: I if they had the same rules, I'd have never
Speaker 3: gotten caught four times in one game. More flags would
Speaker 3: have been great. More flags. Oh yeah, she'll be there. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it does.
Speaker 2: You know the formality and I kind of alluded to this,
Speaker 2: Uh well, we'll get back to Elliott. I want to
Speaker 2: bring a point I had about high Smith too. But
Speaker 2: you know the formality of you know, we have penalties
Speaker 2: on each team. You know, one is like encroachment. The
Speaker 2: other is the defender took off his helmet and flayed
Speaker 2: the offensive. Offsetting penalties like what? But you know they
Speaker 2: go on this formality and all I can think of
Speaker 2: is in the backyard. I don't care what you call it.
Speaker 2: Offset You have an argument, and what does somebody say,
Speaker 2: do over? All? Right, let's do it over. These are
Speaker 2: do over you know, which is the silliest thing, but
Speaker 2: it is what it is. I mean, obviously, but it
Speaker 2: got to the point where like, oh, every time there
Speaker 2: was a play, there was a.
Speaker 3: Flag, and a lot of big plays changed. Yes, no
Speaker 3: question about it. That's actually a flag happy crew. I
Speaker 3: don't know if you guys knew that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And I think the players recognized it, and defensive
Speaker 4: pass interference was part of the game plan almost And
Speaker 4: I mean, that's not the way you want to watch
Speaker 4: a game.
Speaker 3: No, you know, I didn't go and I might have
Speaker 3: not gone in the game knowing it was a flag
Speaker 3: happy crew, But it didn't take me long to kind
Speaker 3: of figure that one out, figure it out pretty quick.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So Deshaun Elliott and Wolf and I were talking
Speaker 2: about this with Max this morning. He is just a
Speaker 2: really good football player. Now we talked about Dante Jackson
Speaker 2: and Deshaun Elliott. I've seen less of Dante Jackson because
Speaker 2: Deshaun Elliott was in the division, and I just think
Speaker 2: he's I've always thought he's a really good football player.
Speaker 2: He's done nothing to make me think not only is
Speaker 2: he a really good football player, but he might even
Speaker 2: be better than I thought he was coming into Sean Elliott.
Speaker 2: I think he's had two really good.
Speaker 4: Games and real quick, I think Jackson has established himself
Speaker 4: as a really solid number two corner. He was in
Speaker 4: out of the lineup a little bit, got banged up,
Speaker 4: and I thought Trice came in and played really well.
Speaker 4: In addition to the interception. You know, so you didn't
Speaker 4: even notice he was out there in.
Speaker 3: A negative way. But you're right.
Speaker 4: Elliott is like the perfect compliment to Mika. And you
Speaker 4: can tell that he's entrenched in film study, like he
Speaker 4: has a really good understanding of what the offense is
Speaker 4: trying to do.
Speaker 3: Reid's plays really really quickly. He's versatile.
Speaker 4: He can play the slot, he could play in the box,
Speaker 4: he can play too high. He's played some single high
Speaker 4: in his career. So he's a really nice addition.
Speaker 3: And when you put him on one truck like a
Speaker 3: big get blitz, when he blows it up right that
Speaker 3: tackle in the second half one, he practically took the handoff.
Speaker 3: You thought, man, he was in the huddle with them guys. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: I timed it perfectly.
Speaker 2: That was the play I was going to ask him,
Speaker 2: you know, because you could tell the huddle clock was
Speaker 2: going on. I think I may have even called it
Speaker 2: as such. They took so long to get out of
Speaker 2: the huddle. You're looking up three seconds, two seconds. Well
Speaker 2: did Deshaun Elliott know that too? Because him he jumped
Speaker 2: and sure jumped the snap gun. They those huge numbers
Speaker 2: in the end zone right like you could see the
Speaker 2: play clock counting down.
Speaker 3: I wonder.
Speaker 2: I wonder if he just said, hey, listen, they're either
Speaker 2: going to snap it or they're gonna get a penalty,
Speaker 2: so I might as well go, which would be a
Speaker 2: you know, true and also be able to look up
Speaker 2: and see the clock and all those other things. Like
Speaker 2: every once in a while when you see somebody running
Speaker 2: down the field and they look up at the they
Speaker 2: look up and see if there's somebody chased him.
Speaker 3: I love that modern technology. I saw that in Green
Speaker 3: Bay with Troy Paulamala for the first time. It was
Speaker 3: amazing because he took that ball and he's running down
Speaker 3: the field looking at the giant jumbo tron looking to
Speaker 3: see if anybody's gaining on him. I mean, he was
Speaker 3: all by himself, running for about eighty yards. It was amazing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I wanted to bring up Matt I'll
Speaker 2: start with you in this one. I wanted to bring
Speaker 2: up Alex Heismith because in sports there's always the you know,
Speaker 2: the notion and it can go either way. Like I remember,
Speaker 2: I always bring up the example of like Michael Jordan,
Speaker 2: and Michael Jordan retired, everyone was like, well, now Scottie
Speaker 2: Pippen is just going to dominate like he was gonna
Speaker 2: put up Michael Jordan type of numbers because the offense
Speaker 2: is going to flow through him. Right now, he's gonna
Speaker 2: be the guy. Well, with that comes the fact that
Speaker 2: you are now the focal point of the other team's defense.
Speaker 2: You're getting the team's best defender, not Michael Jordan. You're
Speaker 2: getting the double teams, not Michael Jordan. You're getting everybody
Speaker 2: sort of flowing in your direction.
Speaker 3: And not Michael Jordan to help you right exactly things.
Speaker 2: So I would preface this by saying it's not Alex
Speaker 2: Highsmith's fault that TJ. Watt doesn't want to share sacks,
Speaker 2: you know, I mean TJ Watt just gets there first
Speaker 2: because he's t J Watt. But but Alex high Smith
Speaker 2: I think has been very disruptive through two weeks. I mean,
Speaker 2: I don't know. I'm not trying to short tript TJ
Speaker 2: Watt because he's the obvious. We know how great TJ.
Speaker 2: Why He's been unbelievable and should have had. You know,
Speaker 2: he had three sacks last week, two strip sacks, and
Speaker 2: two of them are called back on right one a
Speaker 2: penalty he didn't commit that was called on him and
Speaker 2: the other a face mask that really had nothing to
Speaker 2: do with the play. But when given the opportunity, when
Speaker 2: when what was out, he proved he could step up.
Speaker 2: He had fourteen and a half sacks. Not every guy
Speaker 2: who's the next guy up can be the guy when
Speaker 2: called upon. Some guys are just you know, hey, eight
Speaker 2: sacks and you're gonna be your guy. Like I remember
Speaker 2: Leonard Marshall playing in front of Lawrence Taylor, you know,
Speaker 2: getting his ten sacks a year. Well, you know, everybody's
Speaker 2: double teaming Lawrence Taylor. They're not double teaming Leonard Marshall. Well,
Speaker 2: when the attention went on Alex Highsmith, he rose to
Speaker 2: the challenge. And I just think, I just think he's
Speaker 2: another one. He's just a really good player.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And in a way it reminds me of little
Speaker 4: of Steelers' backfield, Like I think jayalen Orn's tremendous, but
Speaker 4: if you asked him to do nausey Harris stuff, his
Speaker 4: yards per Kerry would drop. You know what I mean,
Speaker 4: You would think, I mean first and ten against eight
Speaker 4: man boxes and things like that, right, not less draws
Speaker 4: on third down or whatever. And many people, including myself,
Speaker 4: have used the batman Robin comparison with Watt and high Smith,
Speaker 4: and people think that's a negative, you know. I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 4: but Robin's a superhero too. He's just not Batman. I mean,
Speaker 4: Batman's you know, the greatest of them all or whatever.
Speaker 4: I mean, he's still a superhero. He's still a phenomenal
Speaker 4: player that every team in the league would love to have.
Speaker 4: And I staid going into that game, Garrett Bowles, a
Speaker 4: left tackle, is a highly overrated player. I don't think
Speaker 4: he's one of the top at his position. He struggled
Speaker 4: in Week one, but I thought they beat up on
Speaker 4: the left side of that line repeatedly. And I also
Speaker 4: thought Benton in the middle was really really good too.
Speaker 3: They'd beat on that line like they were all human pinatas.
Speaker 3: I mean, I kid you not. I was watching Garrett
Speaker 3: Bowles and at one point I thought, is he really
Speaker 3: just trying to He's gonna take some holding calls just
Speaker 3: so maybe he gets sympathy from the referees. Doug Dacon
Speaker 3: used to tell me he did this back in the
Speaker 3: old Cleveland Tackle. He'd said, yeah, I take a couple
Speaker 3: holding calls early on because then the reps leave me
Speaker 3: alone the rest of the they you know, I'm like
Speaker 3: going somehow that never worked for me. I never you know,
Speaker 3: but looking at it, well, I.
Speaker 4: Mean early in Bowl's career, he like led the league
Speaker 4: in holding h three years in a row.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I remember that, you know. I mean this guy here,
Speaker 3: you watch him, he spreads his arms like big bird
Speaker 3: waiting for the for the guy to pass rush and
Speaker 3: then he engulfs him. One on one play when I
Speaker 3: was watching Alex specifically, he spun and he was literally
Speaker 3: engulfed by Garrett Boles. I mean like it was a
Speaker 3: bear hug. And I'm sitting there going, how does that
Speaker 3: not get called? Right?
Speaker 2: It's so obvious when we when we watched James Harrison.
Speaker 2: Of course, James Harrison, you know, had that set low
Speaker 2: center of gravity and came around the edge and it
Speaker 2: just felt like, you know, an offensive lineman would put
Speaker 2: his arm around his neck and kind of hang on
Speaker 2: and but it feels like, you know, if you got
Speaker 2: that arm extended. Now I'm on the radio here, but
Speaker 2: I'm still extending my arm studio, just just to just
Speaker 2: to kind of get the idea here. It would seem
Speaker 2: to be like if that bent back past your torso
Speaker 2: that should be a hold, you know what I mean,
Speaker 2: Like you are no longer like using it to keep
Speaker 2: the guy in front of me by you if.
Speaker 3: Yours are covering the back number, I think that you hold. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't want to sound too homeless, but
Speaker 2: it just feels like both tackles in both weeks got
Speaker 2: away with holding on what and high staff And I
Speaker 2: don't want to sound like I know that comes across
Speaker 2: like a homer. I don't mean to, but it felt
Speaker 2: like some things, especially this last week when so many
Speaker 2: things were being called.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 4: It makes me wonder too, because at the top of
Speaker 4: the league, one of their biggest concerns is scoring keeps
Speaker 4: going down and down and down since the COVID year,
Speaker 4: and all the fantasy football players and all the you know,
Speaker 4: fans that are sort of into it, not like us.
Speaker 4: They want to see, they want to hear, you know,
Speaker 4: points and big plays and those things are down.
Speaker 3: So I wonder are.
Speaker 4: They telling them that, you know, let's let's ease up
Speaker 4: on the holding calls, which doesn't help the Steelers at all. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I mean, when you have a dominant front that hurts
Speaker 4: do more than most teams, they just I just hope
Speaker 4: it's on a theme this year.
Speaker 2: But they still dominated, which is all.
Speaker 3: They still dominate, right, Yeah, there's no doubt.
Speaker 2: Which is a lot of fun. Stealers win by the
Speaker 2: final score of thirteen to six. Still to come, we
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Speaker 2: This back looking looking over the middle of the field
Speaker 2: that's intercepted, and there's Corey Trice in the back of
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Speaker 2: So what did you what did you have to play
Speaker 2: the game?
Speaker 3: There? Let's give Cam Heyward a little credit too.
Speaker 4: I mean, he's coming down downhill with a little bit
Speaker 4: of anger and Nix is definitely eyeball on him and
Speaker 4: dropping his eyes and forcing things. And I mentioned earlier,
Speaker 4: I just sawt Trice played a really good game top
Speaker 4: to bottom. Porter did a number on Sutton for the
Speaker 4: majority of the day as well. Defensive front was strong
Speaker 4: and Nix is very much a work in progress.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, he's exactly right, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: He under pressure, he just folded threw it up there.
Speaker 3: Corey Trice played beautifully, played over the top of underneath
Speaker 3: the coverage of his cover three. You ran a bunch
Speaker 3: off the left side, Corey's on the far side, and
Speaker 3: it was a nice combination of Sutton and Elliott. No,
Speaker 3: what was it Reynolds coming off and one snuck behind
Speaker 3: That would be Sutton snuck behind Maka in the middle
Speaker 3: of it, and he was right along the back of
Speaker 3: the end zone and you had Corey playing the outer
Speaker 3: third on that side, and he was a little bit forward.
Speaker 3: And then they tried to get make his attention by
Speaker 3: Reynolds going on the other side. So you got you
Speaker 3: got set into one side of Mica, you got Reynolds
Speaker 3: to the other side. It's kind of like, now you
Speaker 3: got him in jeopardy, where does he play? And it
Speaker 3: was a beautiful job of Corey to sink back and
Speaker 3: then picked that ball man. It was a nice job.
Speaker 2: Yep Uh praised for his avatar like skills and intelligence
Speaker 2: on the football field. I mean it's a nice combination.
Speaker 2: That's really nice combination.
Speaker 3: Especially for a guy that's what this is a second
Speaker 3: pro game. Ye you know what I mean exactly.
Speaker 2: It's amazing missed all of the preseason last year, well
Speaker 2: the whole season obviously with you.
Speaker 3: You know, these are the when Mike Tomlin points out,
Speaker 3: you know that this is expected. He's a second year guy.
Speaker 3: He went through the program with us last year, and
Speaker 3: this is what Mike's talking about. He'd make He's making
Speaker 3: a jump even though he wasn't any part of the
Speaker 3: program as far as on the field, but he still
Speaker 3: partok in practice, you know, being mentally ready and everything else.
Speaker 3: Film sessions. It's amazing what you can do if you
Speaker 3: are mentally engaged and you know how to do visualization
Speaker 3: and be able to study and stuff like that. It's great.
Speaker 2: And Matt, I think this is again something that Wolf
Speaker 2: and I were talking about earlier with Max is that
Speaker 2: I really liked the depth and I think most of
Speaker 2: us did of the front seven. Yes, you know, you've
Speaker 2: got a guy like herbig who really can't get on
Speaker 2: the field much. Demarvin Leal was tremendous in camp, and
Speaker 2: in camp and in the preseason. He's having hard time
Speaker 2: getting on the field. Your defensive line depth is tremendous,
Speaker 2: so you know, guys are having trouble maybe getting as
Speaker 2: many snaps as they might normally get. The middle linebacker,
Speaker 2: inside linebacker, off the ball, linebacker, whatever you want to call.
Speaker 2: Peyton Wilson is now in there splitting reps and so
Speaker 2: you've got enviable depth. But I think the question mark
Speaker 2: was where would that depth come from in the secondary?
Speaker 2: And Corey Trice is looking like he can be the
Speaker 2: answer to be that next cornerback that you can.
Speaker 3: Utilize and real quick on the depth.
Speaker 4: I was a little shocked and a little critical considering
Speaker 4: the altitude that they didn't have more of a rotation
Speaker 4: with the big people early, you know, I mean, really
Speaker 4: jump into it. But it was a close game and
Speaker 4: TJ didn't come off the field, so you don't put
Speaker 4: somebody on for him, you know what I mean. And
Speaker 4: that being said, I do think Trice is now clearly
Speaker 4: the number three corner, the outside corner, you know. And
Speaker 4: I know that was something they were worried about going
Speaker 4: into camp, and it took a while for it the surface,
Speaker 4: but he's kind of grabbed that role and excelled with
Speaker 4: it yesterday. I still think slot corner is a little
Speaker 4: hairy at the moment, but they have three safeties and
Speaker 4: three outside corners that are all deserving a playing time,
Speaker 4: right and three linebackers.
Speaker 2: You have Beanie Bishop, and then you're kind of waiting
Speaker 2: around for camp Sutton.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think they're just kind of kind of come
Speaker 4: back hoping for you know, dear life, or maybe even
Speaker 4: somebody gets cut around the league you grab or I
Speaker 4: don't know.
Speaker 3: I just think corner he develops more. That's another you know,
Speaker 3: being y.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought he had a really good week, one
Speaker 2: really good week in Atlanta.
Speaker 3: He's and he's a young guy, you know. I mean
Speaker 3: that's that's what you get with the young guys. You
Speaker 3: get the yo yo at times, right, And it's one
Speaker 3: of those things. And hopefully he builds and starts stacking
Speaker 3: some good victories and personal combat up. Well.
Speaker 2: And here's the thing too, and you always see your
Speaker 2: team's own wards the closest and we're gonna get into
Speaker 2: some of those wards here at a moment. But nobody
Speaker 2: has fifty three great players, nobody. Nobody has nine All
Speaker 2: Pro offensive lineman, you know what I mean. And so
Speaker 2: when you look at the Steelers with the O line,
Speaker 2: that is envable depth. Now it's been tested with the
Speaker 2: injuries that they've had, but they get Faltano. Back your thoughts,
Speaker 2: Wolf on what you saw from Platano, and for Broderick
Speaker 2: Jones frustrating. He just has to regroup. Look, he had
Speaker 2: a really fine season a year ago. I think he's
Speaker 2: clearly still part of the Steelers' plans, but that was
Speaker 2: you know, that's a game he's gonna have to learn,
Speaker 2: you know, learn from and then forget, not forget and
Speaker 2: then learn from, but learn from and then probably just
Speaker 2: put in the rear view mirror.
Speaker 3: Huh. Well, first of all, I'm going to say, I
Speaker 3: think back in the seventies, had one year when everybody
Speaker 3: on the Steelers defense went to the Pro Bowl. It
Speaker 3: could be might be something, it was something ridiculous like that,
Speaker 3: but certainly you're never gonna be able to afford that.
Speaker 3: It would sail Or cap Era right anymore, but talking
Speaker 3: specifically about Roderick Jones. Look, I understand what that young
Speaker 3: man went through. I've went through some tough times like
Speaker 3: that myself. You know, you get out there first of all.
Speaker 3: I don't think he's probably not faced a whole lot
Speaker 3: of adversity in his career. You know, he didn't have
Speaker 3: that many starts at Georgia, didn't play all the way
Speaker 3: through in games. You know, this whole thing with ten
Speaker 3: games last year and so forth. You know, it's a
Speaker 3: situation where you're learning on the fly and you're developing,
Speaker 3: and you know you expect to grow and so forth,
Speaker 3: but you got to learn. You learn the most from
Speaker 3: the most adverse situations. You know, it's not like great
Speaker 3: success is always like the best teaching tool. You learn
Speaker 3: a lot about yourself and what you're made of and
Speaker 3: how to get stronger through those adverse times. And I
Speaker 3: think this is a situation where he's just got to
Speaker 3: learn to chill and I got no problems. Look at
Speaker 3: this young guys has got so much. He's got physical
Speaker 3: attributes out of the wazoo. He's gonna be a very
Speaker 3: good player. He's just got to hunker down and focus
Speaker 3: on cleaning up what he needs to clean up. He's
Speaker 3: got that at those attributes, he's got to use them.
Speaker 3: And I just don't let the outside noise get to
Speaker 3: you because when you start hearing those things, that really
Speaker 3: hurts your confidence. I think all it was was a
Speaker 3: matter of confidence. And by the way, one of those
Speaker 3: two holding calls that was that was holding, had nothing
Speaker 3: to do with the splat he put on Zach Allen.
Speaker 3: He flattened Zach Allen on his back, showed him the sky.
Speaker 3: And let me tell you the holding call that was thrown,
Speaker 3: there was nothing about holding that that that created that splat.
Speaker 3: It was just a great block on his part.
Speaker 2: I think the view is still that, you know, if
Speaker 2: you're looking to play GM for the Steelers, it's likely
Speaker 2: Dan Moore is going to head into free agents, see,
Speaker 2: and so you drafted Broderick Jones to be a left tackle.
Speaker 2: So it's likely that if that is what happens, If
Speaker 2: that's what transpires, if Daniel Moore les versus Dan Moore,
Speaker 2: Lee's in free agency, that you know, Broderick Jones is
Speaker 2: your left tackle if Aton is your right tackle, which
Speaker 2: means that they still value him a great, great deal.
Speaker 4: And what's the chances that everyone's just stay healthy for
Speaker 4: the next fifteen and games, right, I mean, you're going
Speaker 4: to be the opportunity, right, exactly, It's already been tested.
Speaker 4: Speaking of Dan Moore, I think he's strung two really
Speaker 4: good games together now. I mean I thought he played
Speaker 4: quite well in this one, and he's getting more and
Speaker 4: more expensive on the open market. Two when you look
Speaker 4: at big picture, more and more. Yeah, I didn't even
Speaker 4: try to. Yeah, and you know you mentioned Wolf too.
Speaker 4: He had a good camp. I think he's getting better.
Speaker 4: I mean, you're allowed to get better in this league.
Speaker 4: I thought for Tanu did quite well in his debut too.
Speaker 4: I mean I thought he had a really good game.
Speaker 4: So these are good problems to have. You know, Broderick
Speaker 4: Jones will get his time, and I'm sure everyone's well,
Speaker 4: he's a buss. They should have picked, you know, shouldn't
Speaker 4: trade up for him. That's way too early.
Speaker 3: But I'll say this about he had a good guy
Speaker 3: to open with because Cooper was going to be right
Speaker 3: in your grill. There's there's no there was nothing about it.
Speaker 3: He's just coming straight line. If you take a ruler
Speaker 3: and draw from where he starts to where he finishes
Speaker 3: pretty much on the same line.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but he's pretty good at it.
Speaker 3: Oh no, Yeah, he got sacks and four hits against Seattle,
Speaker 3: no doubt about it.
Speaker 2: Pretty good at it, but not a lead at it,
Speaker 2: which is what they're gonna face.
Speaker 3: Well, he's a one trick pony, throws the hypnotic guy
Speaker 3: chicks and tries to screw up your timing, that's all.
Speaker 3: But their edge guys pretty decent.
Speaker 2: Because you gave me the hypnotic.
Speaker 3: Guy that used to kill me all the time.
Speaker 2: hYP not a guy I fed is the hypnotic guy at.
Speaker 3: You, and then they'll hesitate. They're like, shake right, Well,
Speaker 3: what happens You sit back on your heels, you know,
Speaker 3: and you're like whoa, and you raise up a little
Speaker 3: bit and all of a sudden they explode into you.
Speaker 3: Think about the fact that, you know, you get slightly
Speaker 3: off balance with one of your good buddies, like Matt
Speaker 3: sitting over there, suddenly hits you right in the chest
Speaker 3: with a two hand shiver right boom. You know, as
Speaker 3: you're all exactly, oh, Matt's devious with that. Watch give
Speaker 3: the hypnotic guy. It's all over.
Speaker 2: Baby, based on just again, because we all love football,
Speaker 2: and football thoughts pop in your head. That's one of
Speaker 2: the things that I absolutely loved about lev Bells are
Speaker 2: running back is that you know he guys would come
Speaker 2: running up on him, and his ability to read what
Speaker 2: they were doing was spectacular if they were even First
Speaker 2: of all, you could break down and you could still
Speaker 2: literally not touch him. Think about that, your defensive back.
Speaker 2: You're coming up to tack him, and he would shake
Speaker 2: you so bad, you would literally not you wouldn't touch
Speaker 2: him right and then and now if you settle like okay,
Speaker 2: he would just run over. He would read it. I
Speaker 2: love that about it.
Speaker 3: What I loved was he he could he could shake
Speaker 3: and bacon a phone booth and three guys with him
Speaker 3: couldn't touch them. It's crazy.
Speaker 2: He might have been like if tag was an Olympic sport,
Speaker 2: he might have been the greatest tag player of all time. Dotball,
Speaker 2: he'd be a great dodgeball player. Not a guy. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna avoid contact eye contact with wolves.
Speaker 3: We can finish the show.
Speaker 2: So uh. The other thing that I thought was was
Speaker 2: was worth noting was whatever George Pickens stats were, They're
Speaker 2: not very impressive, Matt right, But first of all, the Steelers. Again,
Speaker 2: you're going into an environment in which you have a
Speaker 2: quarterback who has a history of being sacked a lot
Speaker 2: and hanging on to the ball. With that has come
Speaker 2: some fumbling issues. You're playing against a team that need
Speaker 2: desperately needs a break probably to beat you. Well, why
Speaker 2: would you play into their hands? So you're not gonna
Speaker 2: throw the ball down the field a ton. Pickens then
Speaker 2: had a I don't remember how long the pass was
Speaker 2: because it was called back, but it had to be
Speaker 2: close to fifty yard completely thought it was fifty one
Speaker 2: called back, call back, So let's add that to his
Speaker 2: total zone obviously, right, was it a thirty eight yard
Speaker 2: it was it was at his interference or was it
Speaker 2: Jefferson's interference that went for thirty eight yards? But you
Speaker 2: could add that onto his total too, Like those are
Speaker 2: yards that don't So my point is that you're gonna
Speaker 2: look at his stats and be like, well, certain got
Speaker 2: and you know he got them. I don't know. I
Speaker 2: don't think that's.
Speaker 3: The way I would look at it, like I think
Speaker 3: I wouldn't.
Speaker 2: I think George Pickens had an impact on this game
Speaker 2: that's going to go beyond the statistics.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and just looking at box scores, you'd be like, boy,
Speaker 4: Fields didn't throw the ball very well and certain shut
Speaker 4: down Pickens.
Speaker 3: The tape doesn't show that.
Speaker 4: Especially with Pickens, I thought he was one of the
Speaker 4: best players on the field. And frankly, you know, if
Speaker 4: you look at Denver, how they're constructed, certain their O
Speaker 4: line and their first round quarterback or like their greatest assets.
Speaker 4: And I wouldn't say they were liabilities, but I thought
Speaker 4: they lost their matchups those things, you know, the things
Speaker 4: I would be worried if I was right now, not
Speaker 4: worried about certained at all.
Speaker 3: He's awesome.
Speaker 4: I just think Pickens is in the process of becoming
Speaker 4: a true star. I think he's really developing very very rapidly.
Speaker 3: Well, let's not forget he had a touchdown brought back. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you know what I mean when he scratched it was
Speaker 3: a heck of a job of getting into the end
Speaker 3: zone with that length, right, you know. And the other
Speaker 3: thing about.
Speaker 2: It too was I forgot about that any point.
Speaker 3: And then the stats stats show the last three regular
Speaker 3: season games of last year and the first game of
Speaker 3: this year, he had seventeen receptions for a total of
Speaker 3: four hundred and eleven yards twenty four yards per catch. Yeah, right,
Speaker 3: I mean that's unbelievable.
Speaker 2: He led the league in yards for receiving last year, right,
Speaker 2: and then when you think about how he started out
Speaker 2: this season, you're not going to get Look, every week
Speaker 2: we're going to talk about the ed rushers for the
Speaker 2: Chargers coming up every week. You're gonna get d rushers
Speaker 2: every single week. Every week, you're gonna get a good receiver.
Speaker 2: But there are probably more Courtland Sutton's than there are
Speaker 2: you know, Justin Jefferson or Jamar Chase is out there. Right,
Speaker 2: You're going to get a good corner, but not every
Speaker 2: corners Patrick Sartan or Patrick Tann or Ajterrell. And he
Speaker 2: did a number on Ajterrell last week, again within the
Speaker 2: confines of how much they were throwing the ball and
Speaker 2: with a flag or two picked up from Cleete Blakeman's crew,
Speaker 2: we'd be saying the same thing about Pickens this week.
Speaker 2: That was my point.
Speaker 3: And think about this too. They didn't even threaten the
Speaker 3: middle of the field last week, right, that's you know
Speaker 3: what I mean. So you're you're taking a huge chunk
Speaker 3: of yardage away from a guy like Pickens, you know,
Speaker 3: by not having them threatening anything on the inside, just
Speaker 3: you know.
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Speaker 2: Nicks back to pass. Nick's under pressure and Nicks goes down.
Speaker 2: It is high Smith who is being held the entire
Speaker 2: way by Garrett Bowles, was able to reach out and
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Speaker 2: volunteer or donate at Pittsburgh Foodbank dot org. I just
Speaker 2: don't understand how that wasn't and they didn't throw a
Speaker 2: flag on that. I mean he was he was like
Speaker 2: he had his arm around his waist and was like
Speaker 2: running after him. I don't understand how that's not call
Speaker 2: the hole. I don't get it.
Speaker 3: You can't believe what I was feeling up in the
Speaker 3: booth that I'm sitting there watching this, going he's got
Speaker 3: a seat belt on him.
Speaker 2: For crying out loud what he doing.
Speaker 3: And again I go back to my era, going I
Speaker 3: need that apology from all the officials for every every
Speaker 3: single butt one. Again, as I've always said, there's one
Speaker 3: that I absolutely earned and it wasn't called. So I
Speaker 3: did get away with one, the worst one, the one
Speaker 3: in the plus. Yeah. So anyhow, I guess it evens out.
Speaker 2: So you know, there's Matt there's gonna be criticism of
Speaker 2: this offense, and their fans already saying, well, it doesn't
Speaker 2: look that much different than the offense that Kenny Pickett
Speaker 2: was running. Right, they're not putting up a lot of points,
Speaker 2: they're not taking a lot of risks. I think at
Speaker 2: this point both those are true. They're not putting up
Speaker 2: a lot of points and a half games points per game,
Speaker 2: and they're not taking a lot of risks. But I
Speaker 2: would say two things. So I don't know what the
Speaker 2: development plan is for fields. They talked about in the offseason,
Speaker 2: wanting to work about him, work with him on his
Speaker 2: footwork within the pocket, you know, climbing the pocket, some
Speaker 2: of these other things. And so you know, if you
Speaker 2: want to develop him with the right way, not the
Speaker 2: expensive winning a game, but also you know you don't
Speaker 2: want to bring up some bad habits under fire in
Speaker 2: game situations. The other thing is is that in both
Speaker 2: of these games you did offensively what was required. Now
Speaker 2: I'd like to see more.
Speaker 3: We'd all like to see.
Speaker 2: The penalties undid the team. But think about this now,
Speaker 2: we talked about this all week. So if you go
Speaker 2: from second and one and then you get a penalty,
Speaker 2: and then you get a stall play, now you're third
Speaker 2: and eleven, Well, what benefit is it for you to
Speaker 2: if you're managing the game to win, which is what
Speaker 2: Mike Tomlin is trying to do. Obviously, what benefit do
Speaker 2: you have of slinging one down the field and giving
Speaker 2: them the opportunity to come up with an interception? Giving
Speaker 2: them the opportunity with their high blitz pressure and a
Speaker 2: loud crowd at in Denver, which puts your offensive line
Speaker 2: at a disadvantage. You know, there're is stripsack away from
Speaker 2: getting some momentum in scoring. Now would you like to
Speaker 2: see more? Of course we want to see more offense.
Speaker 2: But I think that Dave Mike Tomlin has done what
Speaker 2: he's needed to do to come out with two road victories. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and go to two and zero in the season.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you opened the show. I forget when it was,
Speaker 4: But when's the last time his team was two and
Speaker 4: zero without playing.
Speaker 3: A home game yet nineteen ninety nine.
Speaker 4: I mean, that's it's a major accomplishment. Doesn't happen around
Speaker 4: the league very often at all. And say what you
Speaker 4: want about Tomlin, he is a master of knowing what
Speaker 4: it takes to win that specific game with the hand
Speaker 4: he is dealt, and he knows he doesn't have lev, Bell,
Speaker 4: Nab and Ben anymore. So you have to win a
Speaker 4: certain way. And a ten point lead with this Steeler
Speaker 4: defense is massive.
Speaker 3: I mean it really is.
Speaker 4: And you know the feel of the game. You understand
Speaker 4: that there's probably going to be a fatigue factor in
Speaker 4: the fourth quarter, and I think there was on both
Speaker 4: sides of the ball for the Steelers. He's very good
Speaker 4: at not losing games. That's a difference than winning them.
Speaker 4: And how about this, I mean, there were five teams
Speaker 4: yesterday that one without throwing more than twenty passes. The
Speaker 4: Chargers were won, the Steelers are won. They both only
Speaker 4: attempted twenty passes. The Saints were won. They won like
Speaker 4: forty five to seven or whatever it was, and Carr
Speaker 4: attempted like sixteen passes. When you have a team where
Speaker 4: you have you know, behind the eight ball, don't you know?
Speaker 4: Let things get in the way, right.
Speaker 3: What are they?
Speaker 2: Eleven and two? Now? In your last one score game?
Speaker 2: Thirteen one score games, It's something like something like that, right, right,
Speaker 2: continue to win one score games.
Speaker 3: Yep. But think about this. You know, success begets success,
Speaker 3: and big play generally follow big plays. What would have
Speaker 3: happened had there not been the flag on it? On
Speaker 3: Picking's touchdown or the fifty yarder or the interference call.
Speaker 3: I mean you're talking about a fifty yard or a
Speaker 3: thirty what it was a thirty eight yard or something
Speaker 3: on the interference and then it touches. I mean you're
Speaker 3: talking about a lot of yardage and points there. So
Speaker 3: when we say that they're not taking a lot of
Speaker 3: chance as well, the problem is when you took those chances,
Speaker 3: you did you know it could have been well, but
Speaker 3: it was flagged, you know what I mean. So it's
Speaker 3: hard to say that they're not doing enough. I think
Speaker 3: they're doing enough. I think they got to be cleaner, right,
Speaker 3: you got to be cleaner in your play.
Speaker 4: Well, when you think so many new starters in a
Speaker 4: new system and a new quarterback, it's we knew growing
Speaker 4: pains were coming, right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I don't want to compare this team yet
Speaker 2: to say Ben Roethlisberger's rookie season. But when you look
Speaker 2: back at Ben Roethlisberger's rookies reason when he ripped off,
Speaker 2: was it fourteen wins in a row that they sent
Speaker 2: him the last game? I can't remember was a fifteen
Speaker 2: or oh yeah, fifteen he was they were yeah, uh
Speaker 2: yeah when he came in. I think they were right whatever.
Speaker 3: They were fifteen and one, they were fifteen. It was
Speaker 3: fifteen straight way.
Speaker 2: I just didn't remember if he started that last week. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but the Steelers having a clinch anyway, it doesn't really matter, right.
Speaker 2: The point of the matter is the point is that
Speaker 2: they won playing a certain style with a quarterback. You know,
Speaker 2: you look back at it now.
Speaker 4: And attempt played thirteen passes a game.
Speaker 2: He's a Hall of famer. He's a Hall of Fame quarterback.
Speaker 2: He grew into the job right exactly where the shackles
Speaker 2: on him. Yes they were. There were shackles on What
Speaker 2: do you would the team have been just as successful
Speaker 2: or more successful taking the shackles off, I don't know.
Speaker 2: A couple of years later, he led the league in
Speaker 2: the in interceptions and then a couple years later, you know,
Speaker 2: he's winning a super Bowl, you know. So I mean
Speaker 2: I think maybe they brought him along the proper way, right, so,
Speaker 2: but they pretty well, yeah, it worked out, I would exactly.
Speaker 2: I mean, you could always argue these nuances. The fact
Speaker 2: is that's what happened. That's the history of what happened
Speaker 2: and the Steelers in that season. If you're not making
Speaker 2: mistakes and you're not turning them all over, you know.
Speaker 2: And this was where I thought this game was headed,
Speaker 2: which is that ten to nothing turns into thirteen to nothing,
Speaker 2: turns into sixteen to nothing, turns into sixteen to three,
Speaker 2: turns into twenty three to three, as you just wear
Speaker 2: them down and wear them down, and wear them down.
Speaker 2: And I think they were on pace to do that
Speaker 2: except for the penalties. The penalties they're not And again,
Speaker 2: now you go back to other nuances of the game,
Speaker 2: managing to make sure you're putting your team in the
Speaker 2: best possible position to win. And a third and eleven
Speaker 2: strip sack does not help you win the football game.
Speaker 2: Your defense helps you win the football game. So I
Speaker 2: just think maybe cleaning it up, we're going to see
Speaker 2: more out of this offense.
Speaker 3: Again, I go to possession downs four to six in
Speaker 3: the first half, oh for seven and the second right,
Speaker 3: you know, that's that's devastating to.
Speaker 2: All because you're third and long almost all.
Speaker 3: Not only that, think about what you're doing to your defense, right,
Speaker 3: Your defense is sitting there, get their tongues hanging out
Speaker 3: in high altitude, right, you know. I mean, so that's
Speaker 3: a problem. And that grew as the game went along,
Speaker 3: and I got to tell you that was blood and
Speaker 3: guts by the defense, you know at times, I mean
Speaker 3: you could see some of those guys getting really tired.
Speaker 3: And again, knowing myself having experienced it, it's a real thing.
Speaker 3: And when again again we go back to TJ. Altitude
Speaker 3: it's a real thing. We need a T shirt says altitude.
Speaker 3: It's a real thing, you know.
Speaker 2: So, uh, the way that interview went, I don't know
Speaker 2: if you heard the postgame interview, but I think, uh,
Speaker 2: Missy said something like TJ, what would you say about
Speaker 2: this defense?
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 2: And he said watch out? And I'm like, oh, is
Speaker 2: he delivering a message? And it was to watch out
Speaker 2: because there's a oh yeah, it was gonna drip. And
Speaker 2: then he answered the question, so I'm like, oh, it's
Speaker 2: just set a statement.
Speaker 3: Look for h he's a chivalrous young man. Where you go.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he picked up a safe, right, Yeah, it's like baseball.
Speaker 2: He got a sack, you know, two hurries of a save.
Speaker 2: He picked up the game.
Speaker 3: I called him batman before he saved.
Speaker 2: The So, uh so you know we're looking now at
Speaker 2: a team that's two and oh I think it's interesting.
Speaker 2: Uh well, if I'm going to ask your perspective on
Speaker 2: travel before we get into the Chargers talk, because it
Speaker 2: has to do with the chargers. So the start the.
Speaker 3: Charge fact that I'm jammed into the bulwark while you're
Speaker 3: lounging in the aisle seat.
Speaker 2: Travel, So I get a little I get I don't
Speaker 2: want to use the c l A. I don't. I
Speaker 2: don't like to sit in the middle seat or the aisle.
Speaker 4: We heard a little before you walked in the before
Speaker 4: me a little sweaty.
Speaker 3: That's okay.
Speaker 2: But but but now I'm going to wolf right, and
Speaker 2: I didn't know aisle seat man, I actually had to
Speaker 2: sit in the aisle. So that's about how much.
Speaker 3: That's about how to overflow my sitting area. So well,
Speaker 3: so I just I just thought you were going to travel,
Speaker 3: so I no, no, but thank you for thank you
Speaker 3: for throwing me under the bus. I appreciate that.
Speaker 2: So the Chargers are not going back west, They're staying east, right,
Speaker 2: How big of a factor? So they're going to practice
Speaker 2: in North Carolina, spend the week there, then they're gonna
Speaker 2: come up to Pittsburgh. How big of a factor can
Speaker 2: that be? Is to travel west to east? In your
Speaker 2: experience playing against teams that have done that against you,
Speaker 2: is that a difficult way to travel? Is this a
Speaker 2: good move by the trial think?
Speaker 3: Is excellent move? I mean I really hated to do
Speaker 3: anything like that because we've gone out to the West
Speaker 3: Coast to prepare for a playoff game, and that was
Speaker 3: due to you know, weather and stuff like that going
Speaker 3: from the west eat. I mean, you think about it.
Speaker 3: You know, a one o'clock kickoff on the East coast
Speaker 3: is what ten o'clock? Right? Yeah? That many guys want
Speaker 3: to hit somebody at ten o'clock, right. So it's good
Speaker 3: to get adjusted because then you get the kind of
Speaker 3: like the cobwebs out of your gourd, you know, I
Speaker 3: mean you feel when you wake up on game day
Speaker 3: because your time zone is correct. Right, you're ready to go,
Speaker 3: the clock is ticking. But when you're not, when you've
Speaker 3: just buzzed in and then you're sitting around and you're
Speaker 3: trying to fall asleep and it's three in the morning
Speaker 3: and stuff like that, like, eh, you know, it creates
Speaker 3: some issues. No, it's not. It's not overwhelming, but it
Speaker 3: certainly is a step up in their preparation process. I
Speaker 3: would believe that they're more comfortable doing it. I mean,
Speaker 3: it's not like they're doing it for you know, to
Speaker 3: take a vacation, right exactly.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So I wanted to ask you, Matt, I don't
Speaker 2: know how much you've looked forward to the Charger. I
Speaker 2: know you have great now of the league in general.
Speaker 2: So they bring in Jim Harbaugh, who instills already instantly
Speaker 2: because of the name and the credibility, instills them with
Speaker 2: a sense of belief that always makes a team dangerous
Speaker 2: for me. Then you know, some things have happened, and
Speaker 2: I don't want to say anything about what he's done
Speaker 2: alread because they're two and zero, but some things have
Speaker 2: happened that have been beneficial to him in his short
Speaker 2: time as a coach. Joey bos Is healthy. That helps, right,
Speaker 2: that's a big aid. His left tackle, Rashawn Slater, who
Speaker 2: was a Pro Bowl or his rookie year. I missed
Speaker 2: all of last year. He's now healthy. Yeah, And so
Speaker 2: now and then you draft Joe Alt who again they're
Speaker 2: giving the clever nickname Joe Alt delete for what he
Speaker 2: did in Week one against Max Crosby held him without
Speaker 2: a quarterback. I think hurry or anything really way. Yeah,
Speaker 2: So now all of a sudden, you have a monstro
Speaker 2: line JK Dobbins. Everybody's always talked about how talented he was.
Speaker 2: He put up great numbers in Baltimore before he got hurt,
Speaker 2: and he got hurt again. He is now stepped into
Speaker 2: the running back position. So there's some fortune there for
Speaker 2: Jim Harbaugh, right, But there's also a style he brought
Speaker 2: in Greg Roman. This is a style. This is a
Speaker 2: big offensive line. They're really talented, and we talked about
Speaker 2: Atlanta offensive line being one of the better ones in
Speaker 2: the league, Denvers is being probably the most expensive in
Speaker 2: the league when you talk about contracts that are out
Speaker 2: there and have to be paid out. I think this
Speaker 2: line is better than either line they've faced. And I
Speaker 2: think these edge rushers. It kind of eased in with it. Judan,
Speaker 2: in week one you have some eight eight and a
Speaker 2: half kind of sack guys. In week two, well, now
Speaker 2: you got Bosa and Mac with Bud Dupree backing them up.
Speaker 2: So this thought of their pass rush versus our pass rush.
Speaker 2: Are younger tackles versus their younger tackles. This is a
Speaker 2: They're running game versus the Steelers running game.
Speaker 4: There's a lot of similarities there really is. There's two
Speaker 4: head coaches that know how to win this league.
Speaker 3: They're building with an O line.
Speaker 4: They both have first round tackles from recent years that
Speaker 4: are very promising, and the O lines are coming together
Speaker 4: more so in with the Chargers at the moment, he
Speaker 4: inherited a very very good quarterback, which I think is
Speaker 4: why he took the job to begin with. I mean,
Speaker 4: he knew that going in. They have excellent rushers, like
Speaker 4: the Steelers, they run the ball like crazy. I am
Speaker 4: very impressed with their O line thus far. All that
Speaker 4: being said, they're very weak a pass catchers. They're very
Speaker 4: weak up the middle of the defense de tackle and linebacker.
Speaker 4: And they played a Panthers team this past week that
Speaker 4: you can't oh you can't. Breshtong got benched earlier today.
Speaker 4: I mean they officially said we're going to Andy Dalton.
Speaker 4: I mean it's that bad.
Speaker 3: I mean this team is clearly thirty second in the league.
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