November 3, 2025 • 38 mins
Rob King joins us live in studio for a power hour to give a full recap of the Steelers 27-20 victory over the Colts.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Gun play action pass looking here comes t J. Watt
from the back end, knocks away the ball. TJ.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Watts got it, He's picked it up. What the strip,
sack and TJ. Watt makes a play. The Steelers desperately needed.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
To turn it over and that turned the game around.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Right there, play the game.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
The author of that play call right here on your
radio home of the Steelers and the Steelers Audio Network,
Rob King joining us now for a power hour Steelers Time.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
I thought no, no, I thought he's going to be
a sack.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
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I thought Jonathan Taylor was going to drive all over
the Steelers defense yesterday. I thought the secondary was going
to get lit up because of all of the injuries
and having to reform the defensive alignment and personnel. And
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Jalen Ramsey's now playing free safety, a guy he just
picked up is going to be strong safety. And we
just got to hope for the best from Sleigh and
JPJ and Eccles slotting and benched well he should have.
But and then yeah, Corey Trice got hurt. She couldn't
that one. We haven't really talked about it, but it's
driving me crazy.
Speaker 5 (01:19):
And lo and behold.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
This ended up being the best defensive performance of the year,
and mostly from the guys down in front, who made
it pretty easy for.
Speaker 6 (01:28):
The guys in the back to do their job. You know,
I never thought of that couplet. Well, I guess it's
a triplet low and behold. I guess that you need
them all, don't you. You can't just low something. I
guess you could behold something?
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Well, is it low like attention exactly?
Speaker 6 (01:45):
Behold is like yeah, yeah. It used to be yo
and behold, yeah, yo and behold.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Right, And then that changed the microphone check one too.
What is this?
Speaker 5 (01:53):
It's just a.
Speaker 7 (01:54):
Classier way of saying shut up and listen, stop, collaborate
and listen. You know, there was a couple things.
Speaker 6 (02:01):
So first of all, you know, in the bigger picture,
the Colts had been the first team in the Super
Bowl Super Bowl era that through nine games had allowed
fewer than ten sacks and fewer than five turnovers.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
And the Steelers sacked them five times and at six turnovers.
Speaker 6 (02:17):
That's amazing. They just dominated the Colts as you guys know.
I mean, I watch every game, every opponent game before
the Steelers play them. So I watched every Colts game
during the course of the week, and I do watch
it on the condensed version. By the way, there could
just there simply would not be enough hours to watch
the three hour tell.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Like that scene in Diner where Steve Gutenberg makes his
wife take the Colts test before they can get married.
If she can't pass, they're not getting married. That's you
every week for our opponent. That's me every week for our opponent.
Max starts to give you the test.
Speaker 6 (02:50):
And so it felt like, and again I don't have
any I didn't have the statistics for this, but it
felt like the Colts did a lot of throwing to
set up the run. Right throw, get a lead, run
the ball, big trouble, and it felt like they were
on the road to trying to do that yesterday, except
they forgot they needed to get the lead, and Taylor
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then as the game went on, became less and less
of an option.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
I mean, he's just a great player, phenomenal runner.
Speaker 6 (03:17):
So I think it's a little bit of the game
situation and a little bit of the job the defense did.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
They did a great job on him.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Now, I equated this earlier to when they closed the
Fort Pitt Tunnel and somehow traffic got easier. Okay, Jalen
Ramsey at safety, he's just such.
Speaker 6 (03:38):
A good player, you know. I mean, he's a great player.
He's going to the Hall of Fame right in all likelihood,
his career is going to wind up with him in
the Hall of Fame. He can play anywhere. He can
play in the slot, he can play outside, he can
play at safety. They have to have him at safety
right now, especially with all the injuries you know, not
only to Sean Elliott, Jabrill Peppers gets hurt this week. Now,
you mentioned about Thornhill Chuck Clark, So they had to
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what else are they gonna do?
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Play with ten guys, They had to put him in.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
The point is we're better off having a less efficient
you know, duo at corners and having him back there.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
It's like Minca with some thud.
Speaker 8 (04:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (04:17):
I think if if that was the case, you wouldn't
have traded Minca, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
I think they want him at corner.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
I know they do.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Right now.
Speaker 6 (04:24):
It's better with him, It's yes, yes, yes, right now,
it's better with him at safety for sure. And Douger
came in and did a great job. You know, Douger's
a he's a he's a thumper, like he's an athletic
guy that can play down in the box, but that's
where he needs to play.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
He's a strong safety.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Isn't it interesting though, that something like that where a
guy comes in and you're not complicating it for him.
You're basically saying, you're playing football in this position, and
we're not throwing anything at you other than basic responsibilities
for somebody playing strong safety right now, communicate with the guys,
have out it, and that guy, first of all, has
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the talent and the ability to come in communicate, ask questions,
figure it out. And they said by the end, he
was pointing stuff out to people and he was acting
like he had been in that defense for a long time.
Does uncomplicating things for this defense help them all across
the board? Like, do you think what they did yesterday
was more complicated than what they've been trying to do
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in the past.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
I don't. I couldn't tell you. I don't know.
Speaker 6 (05:25):
I mean, there were a couple of times when you know,
they had some alignment issues. I was out there counting.
I'm like, I think they only have take.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Dam when Pierre ran on the field and then he
looked back like should I be here? And thankfully they
ran the play and got a cam bat at it down.
Speaker 6 (05:39):
Well, there's also a field goal attempt and I'm counting.
I'm trying to one two, and then the field goal.
I'm like, do they have twelve out there? I was,
and but on the fact that I have to count that,
you know or think about counting that, So I don't
know about the complication.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
I would say this.
Speaker 6 (05:54):
So if we've heard other players say we knew exactly
what Steels are going to do, right, and that's caused
a big uproar in Pittsburgh. They're not doing enough defensively,
so now they simplify it and we're like, there's the answer.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Well wait a minute. Last week it wasn't the answer
because everybody knew what they were gonna do.
Speaker 5 (06:12):
So, yeah, on your one on ones, you got to
win your matchups at the end of the day.
Speaker 8 (06:16):
Right, Yeah.
Speaker 6 (06:17):
I think it's a combination of things like the old
The old thing is, you know, it's it's not the
x's and o's to Jimmy's and Joe's. Okay, well that's
true to some degree, but you still need to be
able to You can't just do what the other team,
you know, is expecting you to do and expect to win.
You cannot out talent. But if you're doing that, you're
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expecting your team to out talent the other team. That's
not possible every week. You can't out talent the other team.
You have to you have to scheme them up as well.
So I understand what you're asking about the simplification, and
and you can probably simplify it and still do some
different things. So I don't know the answer to that.
I just know that you know, for this game it worked.
They overwhelmed them.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Well, the reason I am saying that is that it
seemed to me like there were way less substitutions on
defense yesterday, and you saw Peyton Wilson catch a groove
and have his best.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Game of the year yesterday, phenomenal.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
And because Hei Smith, because of the Hulcomb injury, you know,
you only had so much flexibility. Harrison comes in and
then they play almost like a four to three with
the three inside linebackers all right, keeping the continuity is
what I'm referring to as simple, and I think it
enabled these guys to catch a groove. And you know,
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I don't underplay the the importance of rhythm on defense,
and I think what they had been doing a lot
this year is maybe too much getting a little too
cute and knocking themselves out of the ability to catch
that rhythm.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
That's possible. I mean, it is possible, you know. I
think also, how.
Speaker 5 (07:54):
Many sacks do they have yesterday?
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Five?
Speaker 8 (07:55):
Five?
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Five sacks and six turnovers? Is a monster defensive day? Yeah,
and I monster. Now it can't be the formula for success, right,
you know you need to be the Patriots game.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
You can't. Yeah, you can't expect that. You can't expect
that to happen every week.
Speaker 6 (08:13):
I do think that at some point maybe you look
around and say, okay, well who are our best eleven?
And I have not seen this snap counts, so I
don't know where Derek Harmon and Keanu Benton were. I
thought Kanu Benton played another great game.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Here was the one of Keanu's specials, showing back to passing.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Keanu bent with a sack back inside the twenty yard
line and a fist pumping.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
This crowd is roaring and act for sure.
Speaker 6 (08:37):
He was so good, so good, you know, and he's
got a new career high in sacks already.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
So I mean, if I'm looking at the team with.
Speaker 6 (08:45):
Everybody hurt right and everybody that's not there and Deshaun
Elliott out and I don't again, I didn't see I
didn't see the God, bless you.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Thank you if I don't know what was. But I
just don't feel like.
Speaker 6 (08:59):
I know we're on the air, but that can't pass
without it without a These people don't care about me.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Really, you came through care with a blessing.
Speaker 6 (09:07):
So where we Oh yeah, so a defensive personnel. You know,
I think that you. I think that you know Deshaun Ellie,
Deshaun I listen.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
I can't.
Speaker 6 (09:18):
I don't know how many times I can say it.
I think the world is Shawn Elly dis player. I
think he's just a terrific player.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
You know.
Speaker 6 (09:23):
I was talking to the guys from Baltimore. The said
he was a good player for us, he's better for you.
I mean, he's just been he's just been fantastic.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Leader and hilarious, hilarious on social media.
Speaker 8 (09:33):
Oh yeah, good.
Speaker 6 (09:33):
Yeah, he's he's good stuff all the way out, you know,
so you take him out of the equation, Well, now
you're taking out, you know, a really really good player
and other guys that have been injured and nicked up,
and you know, at some point maybe it's you know,
and I know you want to match up and you
want to get different personnel groupings out there, but maybe
with everybody out this was as simple as man, who's
our best twelve thirteen players? You know, forget that. Let's
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just get him out there as much as we possibly can.
You know, I do know this. I think Derek Harmon's
a really good player. You know, Cameron Hayward's are really
good player. Keanum Benton's a really good player. Those guys
being out there a lot that makes me happy when
I see those three guys.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
When I see three guys with.
Speaker 6 (10:12):
Their hand in the dirt, I'm like, yeah, I like that,
you know, because they'll just and I don't you know,
obvious passing situations or whatever. They could push the pocket
back and I listen. I think any quarterback would tell
you that they you know, we we always pay attention
to those edge guys, and with good reason. Because they
you know, they're they're out there and they're supplying the pressure.
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No quarterback wants a pocket pushed back in their face.
You can't step up and throw. So those I love those,
and I didn't like I said, I haven't seen the snapcounts,
but those guys pushing the pocket back. I thought Cam
was really good. I thought Harmon was really good. I
thought Benton was really good. You know, again, maybe this
was just a case of listen, we've got to throw
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our best out there because we got.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
We have so many injuries and illnesses and other things
on the team.
Speaker 5 (10:57):
I think on that side of the ball, that is appropriate.
I think it's the Joe Flacco effect. He comes to Cincinnati,
they have the best players in the world on the
offensive side of the ball. He doesn't even know the
plays and in three weeks they've scored one hundred and
thirteen points. So oversimplification is it only works if you
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have the horses on that side of the ball, and
on the defensive side of the ball, they have better
players on that side of the ball.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Yeah, I really like their I mean, I like the
personnel they have on defense.
Speaker 8 (11:31):
I really do.
Speaker 6 (11:31):
By the way, has any team this is a calling
Matt Williamson calling Matt Williams. Has any team ever scored
eighty points in back to back games and lost them both?
Speaker 5 (11:41):
No, they since the sixties. That's out there, Okay.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
I was wondering about that.
Speaker 6 (11:46):
I'm like, man, is that could Maybe that's never happened,
but it has happened, lost them both. That's incredible. You know,
in a couple of weeks are going to come here
and they're going to score points. Probably right, you better
get that offense fired up and ready to go. The
other thing too, I think that that has not played
in the defense's favor and which eventually has got to
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be figured out. I think on this team is time
of possession. Now, look, the Colts don't win the time
of possession either. They're they're not.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
A good time top.
Speaker 6 (12:15):
They didntes yesterday, but they're so good. They're so explosive offensively.
You know, it's your defense doesn't have to do huge
amounts of things. Well, I think that it would behoove
this the other's defense. You know, if you want to
shorten your bench, so to speak, if you want to
have your best players out there, they need to be
out there less and that's that's twofold. They have to
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force more three and outs, which they haven't done, and
the offense has got to give them more breaks, which
it hasn't done. I think to truly unlock the best
of what this defense can do week in and week out.
I mean, we saw yesterday the best they can do.
We saw New England the best they can do. But
week in week out it's a little I think you
got to start pushing that time of possession over thirty minutes.
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the Voice of the Steelers, getting set for the West
Coast trip to take on Justin Herbert and the Chargers
Sunday Night Football Primetime after a surprise victory over the Colts.
And I say surprise because I don't think anybody saw
the defensive effort that they got, Mike, if we were
gonna win, it was gonna be forty eight to forty seven.
Speaker 8 (14:55):
Or forty seven minutes a time of possession something. Yeah. Yeah.
I thought if they had any chance, it would take
something really out of character, and instead they just kind
of played it straight up and played better than the
Colts did sports well.
Speaker 5 (15:11):
I mean, it was incredibly out of character for the Colts,
just as far as like how well they've done protecting
Danny Dimes and the ball.
Speaker 8 (15:19):
But it wasn't a gimmick defense or a crazy strategy
or no some sort of completely They weren't Rocky. He
didn't switch the fighting right handed or anything.
Speaker 9 (15:28):
You know.
Speaker 8 (15:29):
They just kind of went out there and said, I
let's go sports that are brought to you by Bridgeville Pliants.
A lot of splash on defense, and that is the
headline generating development from Steelers twenty seven Colts twenty But
it really, first and foremost came down to the basics,
stop the run. That's the Steelers' goal every week on defense.
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Sometimes they do it, sometimes they don't. Yesterday they did
it against an MVP candidate running back in Jonathan Taylor
that was lost on Mike Tomlin.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
I can't say enough about the defensive effort to minimize
the runner. I don't think you slowed that group down
unless you minimize the runner. And we were able to
do that, and I think that's why we were able
to get him in some one dimensional circumstances, create some pressure,
get some sacks, and the turnovers that go along with that.
But it started with minimizing their dynamic runner, and he
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is that. He's dynamic and.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
Kitner you pointed it out.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
The turnovers that they capitalized on put them in a
position where they were going to be able to stop
him because they needed to move the ball and score.
Speaker 6 (16:33):
Yeah, once you got the lead, and then you kind
of minimize what he was able to do.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
He's a great player.
Speaker 6 (16:38):
I mean, he's just a he's you know, and luckily
we didn't see him at his best. If you ever
get a chance to watch him in another game and
see him at his best, he's he's phenomenal to watch.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
He's he's really incredible. He's been healthy.
Speaker 6 (16:49):
He was an MVP front runner, but I don't know
if he's a MVP front runner anymore.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
I changed, Yeah, that might have that might have knocked
him that way. If it's not him, who's who is
it going to be? Right now? Who's your front runner?
Speaker 8 (17:00):
Right now?
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Baker still of mold.
Speaker 5 (17:02):
Dude, you see me play in the last couple of weeks.
Speaker 8 (17:05):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
He kind of choked it yesterday, so I don't know
who's true.
Speaker 6 (17:08):
Patrick Mahomes, you couldn't come on wrong dude with you.
Speaker 5 (17:15):
I got it. I die there you go now, I got.
Speaker 11 (17:18):
It, Patrick Mahomes Drake May just last Sunday against Tennessee,
Taylor had twelve carries for one hundred and fifty three yards,
two rushing touchdowns.
Speaker 8 (17:30):
He averaged twelve point eight per carry. He also had
a receiving touchdown, which was really a nineteen yard rushing
touchdown because it was just one of those in the
backfield push passes, almost looking forward hand off. Yesterday, fourteen
carries for forty five yards, no touchdowns, three point two
per attempt, and h once they got him taken care
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of the rest of it kind of took care of itself.
Speaker 12 (17:55):
I think we just came out and we did what
we know we can do this this week. Came out
and we obviously we stopped the run and that's where
it starts. And then our culture came alive. You know,
we had five turnovers I think sixth So I think
when we do that, man, we're we're an amazing defense.
And so we just got to put more performances like
that together. And I'm confident that we're going to continue
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to stack this and play like this every week from
here on now.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
So we just got to compete to play like that.
Our culture came alive.
Speaker 8 (18:22):
I love that. No, you know, they have those Turnover
Culture t shirts and they give out different colors for
how many you get and all that stuff. I don't
know if they're gonna play like this each in every week,
but definite step in the right direction. I'm I'm convinced
this may be too strong a word, but leaning heavily
to using fewer players in the secondary, even when they're healthy.
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Lease and Ramsey's got to play free safety. I know he's.
I know he's for the time being being like the
rest of the year. Eccles is a good slot. It's
not great, but he's good. And I'd rather have stuff
not breaking down miserably on the back end than if
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I got to give up a little Ramsey around the
ball rushing off the slot. So be it. They got
other guys that can rush.
Speaker 5 (19:14):
I just I agree, especially with the amount of splash
they've given up deep in the middle of the field.
Speaker 8 (19:19):
Just can't have him. Hats off to Kyle Duggar, did
his job. You know, when Elliott comes back. Elliott comes back,
But in the meantime he looks like he can handle that.
And then that The lingering question to me is is
Darius Slay still a starting quarterback moving forward? Either because
of health or ineffectiveness.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
I means, how many times you see him like flailing
at a ball over his head?
Speaker 8 (19:46):
Well, he saw one Thornhill do that against Green Bay
and then you didn't see him no more.
Speaker 5 (19:50):
Yeah, no more wildcat.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Kind of along those lines. I mean, that's self preservation.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
At some point, having Corey Trice back would make that
way easier. Yeah, Well, is he done for like his career?
How did he come back off the injured list?
Speaker 8 (20:07):
He's not been off the injured list. He's in the window,
the twenty one day window. And he suffered an injury
last week and knee injury. I don't know this. He
was limited in practice because of the knee. I don't
think his leg's gonna get amputated or anything, but it's
another nagging failing of his health which seems to happen constantly.
The boat benett oft.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
But did he even have one more than one practice
before he got hurt?
Speaker 8 (20:31):
It was a second.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
And now because he's in the window, he has to
be healthy in time because of the first injury.
Speaker 8 (20:41):
Well, they started. Once you start the twenty.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
One day window, right, you have twenty one days to
get healthy, right.
Speaker 8 (20:46):
You have to be activated at the end of that
window or you're done for the year.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
And the knee injury may keep him from being activated
that I don't know. They can't designate it as a
separate injury.
Speaker 8 (20:56):
I don't know anything about the knee injury. I think
I read that well. Probably really a lot of stuff
that's I believe correct.
Speaker 5 (21:04):
Is there any chance that they trade Sleigh because last
week we had talked about him not practicing for personal reasons.
Maybe a quiet benching, maybe impossible, like shelving him until
they con dish him.
Speaker 8 (21:15):
Yeah, that got my attention, and I think he would
be tradeable. The Ravens just traded Jayi Alexander, who can't
stay healthy and can't play anymore. It's a corner start leg.
But do the Steelers have a better option? If you
play Eckles out there, then who's your who's.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
Your slots at Coles? I don't know who your slot
is because.
Speaker 8 (21:37):
If you move Rams off of free safety, now you
got your back to the don't have a free safety thing.
Speaker 5 (21:42):
Call him Beanie Bishop back up.
Speaker 8 (21:44):
I don't trust him, but it seems like they went
tiny Bishop seemed like the teeny Bishop out of the way,
maybe not to have Beanie be the nickel. Like they
got all these guys who could play nickel instead of Beanie,
but they didn't get enough free safe without Minka. So
I think Ramsey's the natural you know, you know he
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can be a deterrent back there, not necessarily the playmaker,
but that helps too, right, I.
Speaker 5 (22:13):
Mean missing on Thornhill hurts big.
Speaker 8 (22:18):
Yeah, So they still got some stuff to work out.
We'll see if they can work it out. A couple
notes on the Chargers, your next opponent. They beat the
Titans yesterday twenty seven to twenty. They did so despite
giving up a twenty four yard pick six and a
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sixty seven yard punt return for a touchdown. Tennessee also
had six sacks. Left tackle Joe Alt left the game
in the second quarter with an ankle injury. This is
a big, big.
Speaker 5 (22:52):
Deal to like to have lt All.
Speaker 8 (22:57):
He missed three games in the middle of the season
and Arger's lost two of them. Oh, that's huge to
Washington and to Indianapolis.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
I will take it.
Speaker 8 (23:06):
We're season they're having uh Justin Herbert was leading the
league in passing a couple of weeks ago. I don't
know if he still is or not, but uh hardball
wants to run the ball, and even though he's out
of running backs, he still wants to run the ball.
And they've been running it effectively. Yeah, Steelers now all
of a sudden, Hardball also wants to uh illegally tape
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the other teams and steal their signals.
Speaker 6 (23:28):
But they're not caught doing that once. They're not a
Kamani Videll. They'll get Hampton back eventually. But if you
remember daydra Shaan Slater got hurt, they signed into a
massive contract and like the next day he got hurt.
Speaker 8 (23:40):
I think I'd rather have a corps videl.
Speaker 5 (23:43):
I think he's dead.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
He's dead.
Speaker 5 (23:45):
Nagy hurt yep.
Speaker 8 (23:47):
Rest of the year.
Speaker 6 (23:48):
Hampton back, not back for a couple more days. That's
why I think that's part. You know, they still have
a very good receiving corps. Gadsdon looks like he's been
a real fine to tight end for them, and rookie
at his Syracuse I believe three good receivers could.
Speaker 8 (24:01):
Call out of Syracuse. Uh, that's gonna be steel A crowd,
I think after the win yesterday work for me. It
might have been anyway, but sorry, And it will probably
be the type of Steeler crowd that just shows up
to cheer for the Steelers because it'll get to do
it every day. Yeah, it might not be the type
of crowd like yesterday's just shows up.
Speaker 5 (24:20):
Just waiting, go ahead, piss me off one time. You know,
you don't think there'll be a funeral for the defense
and the parking lot of SOFI.
Speaker 8 (24:27):
I don't even that's funny. Yeah, but the boy that
vibe in the stadium, man, he'd been there that you
didn't go yesterday, Bill, No, I didn't.
Speaker 5 (24:35):
I mean I felt the vibe around the stadium. It
was a tailgate that it felt like ominous.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
You could smell it almost like it was like, man, dude,
it was acrid.
Speaker 5 (24:45):
Yeah, that's that's acrid.
Speaker 8 (24:47):
Yeah, ties in line with my smelling an analogy. Yeah, yes, yeah,
it was weird and it turned quick back. I mean
once they started winning day.
Speaker 5 (24:57):
I mean, they go, they start the game going three
and out twice, and then they can't capitalize.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
Taking the muff punt, give up a fake punt.
Speaker 8 (25:06):
Let's just start the game three and out, but take
the ball.
Speaker 5 (25:09):
Okay, so you start the game three like really, I just.
Speaker 13 (25:12):
Want to I just want to point out that everyone's
feeling a little bit better about your Steelers right now,
and maybe take a little walk with me and imagine
that you have the football team that you saw last
night guaranteed to play that way going forward.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
Chargers Sunday night. You're scared.
Speaker 8 (25:33):
Non play like that every game, I'm saying, playing like
that every game.
Speaker 5 (25:38):
Charge scared anybody.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Bengals November sixteenth, Bengals at Akroture, scared of them?
Speaker 8 (25:47):
No, a little bit.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
The Bears November twenty third.
Speaker 5 (25:51):
Listen, this is what you do, and it's kind of
a mistake.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
The Bills, the Bills. I'm scared of the Bills. Ravens
uh huh. I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 8 (26:03):
Did you see any of the Bills Chiefs game? Yeah, yeah,
they're not a pass right, and they were in the
home everybody down.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
I thought we're going Vince Giraldi there. At first, who
was that.
Speaker 5 (26:15):
Clark Griswold at that hotel bar.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
I wanted something that was a little, uh like more
girl from e Banima, But that popped out.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
Then I just went with it. Okay, Yeah, no, no,
it's I missed.
Speaker 8 (26:27):
You know what.
Speaker 5 (26:27):
Fine, you know when Clark put on his white shoes
for the first time and went down to the bar,
That's that's kind of how I felt. I'm ready for anything,
love for sale.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
I am still nervous about.
Speaker 9 (26:39):
I am still nervous about the Bengals because Joe Flacco
still put up for seventy yesterday they lost.
Speaker 5 (26:45):
And off they scored one hundred and thirteen points since
he's been there.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
How about if you're the Browns, you're just like, look at.
Speaker 5 (26:52):
Him, punted on their season with more than ten games
to go.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
Power Hour Steeler Talk with Rob King right now, your
voice at the Pittsburgh steel was brought to you by
clear Viewer Clearview Federal Credit Union. I Uh, buddy, of
mine drove me down to the game and we left late,
and I'm like, oh, dude, we are gonna hit traffic.
Did you none? And I was like, oh, spaghetti O,
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why because that means people aren't down their party in.
I thought there's gonna be five thousand no shows.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
There were. There were some no shows, not many.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
I mean, the attendance doesn't always reflect how many people
actually go in. Right, Okay, sixty six, six hundred and
sixty seven. We were one person away from doing six
six six six.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
But that's pretty good.
Speaker 5 (27:53):
About that performance. Though from the Chef boy Ar defense.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Bill, there was like the parking lots no vibe.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
Like the pregame felt like Mike said, people were coming
not to celebrate. Oh we come, Yeah, we come not
to celebrate you, Caesar, but to bury you.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Well, there was a funeral for the defense.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
I actually hope the players saw that, and I wonder if,
like they knew the Stealer fans were pissed that. I'm
up two minds with that, Like, on one hand, I
think it was funny just all the stuff they did,
but also like, come.
Speaker 5 (28:27):
On, man, I mean I was I was looking for
an angle at the tailgate at the end, and I
came out there and I said, hey, I see a
lot of Colts fans here, and all the Steelers fans
booed them, and I said, you've had a really nice season,
but it all stops today. And everyone went crazy, and
I go, and I know what you guys are thinking,
how can you be this confident? Well I'm not. It's
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called manifesting. That's when you talk something into existence that
you haven't seen before. So if you're thinking that you're
going to throw the ball twenty three times to your
star receiver and he's gonna catch at sixteen of those
times and the sixteenth time he's gonna be wide open,
well I can see how you'd think that, actually, because
that has happened, but not today.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
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seven to twenty victory giving new life to the twenty
five Pittsburgh Steelers and Mike Tomlin has his seat cooled
down considerably. Which twenty five has new life? Well, I'll
enumerate them later. Twenty twenty five Steelers, I meant, but oh, Mike,
(29:43):
both Austin and Tomlin sea cooled down considerably because a
great bounce back from a couple of weeks in which
the defense was the joke of the NFL rob And
there's no I don't think I can take away too
much from the offense yesterday because how much of it
was geared around responding to these turnovers.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
In short fields.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
They did convert it, I don't know how much of
a game plan they were able to execute offensively, because
circumstantially they were in score now mode.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
Like where was their longest drive yesterday? I don't know.
Speaker 6 (30:17):
I think it was it the one before the turnover
in the fire with two point fireman touchdown.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
It might have been. I probably have it here, the
one before that. Yeah, let me look up the drive chart.
Speaker 7 (30:26):
But to your point, they were playing on a short
field all day. Yeah, you know they only had two
hundred and twenty five yards offense or something like that.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
Well, they you know, they do a really good job
and scored twenty seven points of playing to win that game,
like having some adaptability.
Speaker 6 (30:41):
They're not just like look at the Cincinnati Bengals. They're
just going to come out and score scores, scores, scores,
scort scores, scorres the only way they can win. They
can't win any other way. They're one and two trying
to do that. Unfortunately one came against the Steelers. But
you know, when you when you look back at you know,
this mess so so and again, I'm not trying to
rewrite history. I'm just trying to say, this is a weird.
This is so Thursday night, Right, you go out on
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the road. Cincinnati's been doing this everybody now, right, plus
short week on the road, division opponents never good thing, right,
And then I still go back to this.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
I was still thinking they were leading the Packers.
Speaker 6 (31:11):
I mean, it's hard to remember when you were walking back,
you know, feet drag into our cars late Sunday night,
like you know, feeling like the Steelers just got blown out.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
If the Steelers had taken I know, if.
Speaker 6 (31:24):
Ifs and butts blah blah blah, but the Steelers take me,
if they take this second they opening drive in the
second half and march it down the field and score touchdown.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
It's twenty three seven. That game is over. It's over.
Speaker 6 (31:37):
That didn't happen, so I I you know, every game's
got two or three plays that happened here or there.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
The longest drive was fifty six yards.
Speaker 6 (31:44):
Yeah, that was the one before they got to turnover
and the firemanth's touchdown. I don't know, but I mean,
look around the NFL, what do you make of any team?
I'm finally like, okay, the Lions are good. Then they
lose to the Vikings at home, and then I'm like, well, okay,
the Chiefs are they Look, I know that scores at
seven points.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
I did not think this was not a seven point game.
They make that field goal and there's nothing to worry
about at the engine, right, Well, it's it's a weird year, man.
Speaker 6 (32:12):
Just you know, like they say in the NCAA tournament,
survive in advance, survive in advance, and I and it's
that's always true. But this year, I just I every week,
I'm like, who's good? I don't know, I don't know
who the elite teams are?
Speaker 3 (32:25):
Well, and Green Bay losing right, Carolina look dead in
the water a week ago, and I know they didn't
have Bryce Young, but still, man, my goodness, gracious.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
That is your calling guard. I love it.
Speaker 3 (32:39):
Us. We're gonna we're gonna be selling D shirts, My goodness, gracious.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (32:48):
The other one, I get up, people get on me
for like I feel like the oldest man my age
in America.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
I actually says that.
Speaker 5 (32:55):
Would be like, did you just say I'm not during
the broadcast?
Speaker 8 (32:58):
I don't know if I said.
Speaker 3 (32:59):
No.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Really, that's actually a cornerback for Jalen Smith.
Speaker 5 (33:06):
Have you ever dropped Heavens to Betsy on on a broadcast?
Speaker 1 (33:09):
No, I don't think I've ever maybe even dropped that
in real life.
Speaker 5 (33:12):
Really, yeah, well maybe you need to start.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
All right, So now you get a pretty feel good
effort for the defense to hang their hat on. Like
Peyton Wilson said after the game, we can go home
and enjoy Sunday night now and not sit there obsessing
over what went wrong and then focus on the Chargers
for next week.
Speaker 8 (33:29):
That Joe allt injury looms large mic proceuge for them.
It's a big deal. But you know, everybody's got to
deal with that kind of stuff. They're banged up.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
And that's again too. So we talk about the Steelers
and the injuries. No sympathy the Colts.
Speaker 6 (33:41):
By the way, look man, their top three corners from
the beginning of the season, we're all gone. They got
one back yesterday and Jalen Jones, but you know, one
of their starting linebackers out.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
I don't have any sympathy for the Steelers. You're down
to and the and the Steeler shouldn't have any sympathy
for the Chargers. You know, you got to find a
way to win.
Speaker 6 (33:58):
Me you got injuries, you got to find a way
to So look, I understand to Sean Ellie, I understand
that's a big injury, but you gotta find a way
to win.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
You can't.
Speaker 6 (34:04):
Wow, we're injured. So we're gonna no, you can't. And
they responded and they won the game.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
So we'll leave with this one was yesterday a bigger
win for the players or the coaches.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
For the Steelers.
Speaker 6 (34:17):
Oh, for the players, I don't know. I mean, you know, listen,
the Steelers are about stability. I don't know whether any
coaches are in trouble or not.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
In trouble.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
You got, don't. I'm not even talking about for job security.
I'm just talking about for confidence going forward.
Speaker 5 (34:34):
Some of the national noise, some of the local noise.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
And even performance Bill, you know.
Speaker 8 (34:39):
Like Randy to your point, if they last week after
the Packers game, the question to Mike Tomblin was are
you gonna fire troll Austin? If they would have crappy performance,
the question would have been, why are you not firing Terri?
Speaker 1 (34:54):
Right?
Speaker 5 (34:55):
I think it was, and his answer was telling, right,
I don't think.
Speaker 8 (34:59):
Those guys like I don't think Toalvim feels the hot seat.
I really don't know the fans are thinking how they're thinking.
But that was a big game for the coaches. Yeah,
I mean, Plus, you don't want to get in that
Canada situation where there's just a tsunamiti in, a tsunami
of negativity cascading down and it makes it harder to
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do anything positive. It just it just does.
Speaker 5 (35:22):
And it's not just the fans. It was national media
and there were several different and analysts this whole week
leading up to this game saying that this is the
worst Steelers defense they've ever seen.
Speaker 8 (35:33):
And you ask these guys about it, Oh, I don't
pay an attention to the media. Then you have a
game like yesterday and you hear Rogers talk about the defense.
Oh they were getting crushed. They really responded.
Speaker 5 (35:43):
They all know I.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
Don't pay attention to social six seven anyways. But you
know what, all those thirty point games that they've given up,
I mean that that can't happen, you know.
Speaker 6 (35:55):
So that's what's going to happen. Right, that's more of
the business. You give up thirty plus points. I mean
they had that run, remember that three game roam where
they allowed fourteen point seven points per game, right, and
they won three games in a row.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
And we're like, there's the defense.
Speaker 6 (36:09):
Well, I'll tell you what, man, if you give up
thirty points a game, you're gonna hear it.
Speaker 1 (36:13):
It's just that's that's part of the business.
Speaker 3 (36:15):
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Speaker 15 (37:19):
The Steelers defense paved the way to the team's twenty
seven to twenty victory over the Indianapolis Colts in their
number one offense Sunday afternoon at Akroser Stadium. The defense
was all over Colts quarterback Daniel Jones, sacking him five times,
hitting him six more times, and picking him off three times.
Speaker 5 (37:33):
The Steelers got off to a slow.
Speaker 15 (37:35):
Start in the game, and the Colts had a seven
to nothing lead and were driving in the second quarter,
threatening to add on, but then TJ. Watts struck to
provide the jolt that the team needed, strip sacking Daniel
Jones and recovering the fumble. The Steelers offense would capitalize
on the ensuing drive to tie the game, and the
team got rolling from there. Inside linebacker Payton Wilson had
a monster day on that Steelers defense, racking up fourteen
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total tackles, which not only led the Steelers what was
the most in the entire game, and he picked off
Daniel Jones for one of the three interceptions thrown by
Jones on the day. Outside linebacker Jack Sawyer and cornerback
Joey Porter Junior were the recipients of the other two
Jones picks, both of those gentlemen's first of the season
and Sawyer's first interception of his career. The splash plays
returning to the Steelers defense and limiting the NFL's leading rusher,
(38:18):
Jonathan Taylor to just forty five yards on fourteen carries,
were the main factors in the Steelers victory and improving
to five and three on the season. I'm Tom Opferman
with the Steelers Report.
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Experience, the one of a kind
Gun play action pass looking here comes t J. Watt
from the back end, knocks away the ball. TJ.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Watts got it, He's picked it up. What the strip,
sack and TJ. Watt makes a play. The Steelers desperately needed.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
To turn it over and that turned the game around.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Right there, play the game.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
The author of that play call right here on your
radio home of the Steelers and the Steelers Audio Network,
Rob King joining us now for a power hour Steelers Time.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
I thought no, no, I thought he's going to be
a sack.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
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I thought Jonathan Taylor was going to drive all over
the Steelers defense yesterday. I thought the secondary was going
to get lit up because of all of the injuries
and having to reform the defensive alignment and personnel. And
(00:57):
Jalen Ramsey's now playing free safety, a guy he just
picked up is going to be strong safety. And we
just got to hope for the best from Sleigh and
JPJ and Eccles slotting and benched well he should have.
But and then yeah, Corey Trice got hurt. She couldn't
that one. We haven't really talked about it, but it's
driving me crazy.
Speaker 5 (01:19):
And lo and behold.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
This ended up being the best defensive performance of the year,
and mostly from the guys down in front, who made
it pretty easy for.
Speaker 6 (01:28):
The guys in the back to do their job. You know,
I never thought of that couplet. Well, I guess it's
a triplet low and behold. I guess that you need
them all, don't you. You can't just low something. I
guess you could behold something?
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Well, is it low like attention exactly?
Speaker 6 (01:45):
Behold is like yeah, yeah. It used to be yo
and behold, yeah, yo and behold.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Right, And then that changed the microphone check one too.
What is this?
Speaker 5 (01:53):
It's just a.
Speaker 7 (01:54):
Classier way of saying shut up and listen, stop, collaborate
and listen. You know, there was a couple things.
Speaker 6 (02:01):
So first of all, you know, in the bigger picture,
the Colts had been the first team in the Super
Bowl Super Bowl era that through nine games had allowed
fewer than ten sacks and fewer than five turnovers.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
And the Steelers sacked them five times and at six turnovers.
Speaker 6 (02:17):
That's amazing. They just dominated the Colts as you guys know.
I mean, I watch every game, every opponent game before
the Steelers play them. So I watched every Colts game
during the course of the week, and I do watch
it on the condensed version. By the way, there could
just there simply would not be enough hours to watch
the three hour tell.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Like that scene in Diner where Steve Gutenberg makes his
wife take the Colts test before they can get married.
If she can't pass, they're not getting married. That's you
every week for our opponent. That's me every week for our opponent.
Max starts to give you the test.
Speaker 6 (02:50):
And so it felt like, and again I don't have
any I didn't have the statistics for this, but it
felt like the Colts did a lot of throwing to
set up the run. Right throw, get a lead, run
the ball, big trouble, and it felt like they were
on the road to trying to do that yesterday, except
they forgot they needed to get the lead, and Taylor
(03:10):
then as the game went on, became less and less
of an option.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
I mean, he's just a great player, phenomenal runner.
Speaker 6 (03:17):
So I think it's a little bit of the game
situation and a little bit of the job the defense did.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
They did a great job on him.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Now, I equated this earlier to when they closed the
Fort Pitt Tunnel and somehow traffic got easier. Okay, Jalen
Ramsey at safety, he's just such.
Speaker 6 (03:38):
A good player, you know. I mean, he's a great player.
He's going to the Hall of Fame right in all likelihood,
his career is going to wind up with him in
the Hall of Fame. He can play anywhere. He can
play in the slot, he can play outside, he can
play at safety. They have to have him at safety
right now, especially with all the injuries you know, not
only to Sean Elliott, Jabrill Peppers gets hurt this week. Now,
you mentioned about Thornhill Chuck Clark, So they had to
(04:03):
what else are they gonna do?
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Play with ten guys, They had to put him in.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
The point is we're better off having a less efficient
you know, duo at corners and having him back there.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
It's like Minca with some thud.
Speaker 8 (04:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (04:17):
I think if if that was the case, you wouldn't
have traded Minca, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
I think they want him at corner.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
I know they do.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Right now.
Speaker 6 (04:24):
It's better with him, It's yes, yes, yes, right now,
it's better with him at safety for sure. And Douger
came in and did a great job. You know, Douger's
a he's a he's a thumper, like he's an athletic
guy that can play down in the box, but that's
where he needs to play.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
He's a strong safety.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Isn't it interesting though, that something like that where a
guy comes in and you're not complicating it for him.
You're basically saying, you're playing football in this position, and
we're not throwing anything at you other than basic responsibilities
for somebody playing strong safety right now, communicate with the guys,
have out it, and that guy, first of all, has
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the talent and the ability to come in communicate, ask questions,
figure it out. And they said by the end, he
was pointing stuff out to people and he was acting
like he had been in that defense for a long time.
Does uncomplicating things for this defense help them all across
the board? Like, do you think what they did yesterday
was more complicated than what they've been trying to do
(05:22):
in the past.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
I don't. I couldn't tell you. I don't know.
Speaker 6 (05:25):
I mean, there were a couple of times when you know,
they had some alignment issues. I was out there counting.
I'm like, I think they only have take.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Dam when Pierre ran on the field and then he
looked back like should I be here? And thankfully they
ran the play and got a cam bat at it down.
Speaker 6 (05:39):
Well, there's also a field goal attempt and I'm counting.
I'm trying to one two, and then the field goal.
I'm like, do they have twelve out there? I was,
and but on the fact that I have to count that,
you know or think about counting that, So I don't
know about the complication.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
I would say this.
Speaker 6 (05:54):
So if we've heard other players say we knew exactly
what Steels are going to do, right, and that's caused
a big uproar in Pittsburgh. They're not doing enough defensively,
so now they simplify it and we're like, there's the answer.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Well wait a minute. Last week it wasn't the answer
because everybody knew what they were gonna do.
Speaker 5 (06:12):
So, yeah, on your one on ones, you got to
win your matchups at the end of the day.
Speaker 8 (06:16):
Right, Yeah.
Speaker 6 (06:17):
I think it's a combination of things like the old
The old thing is, you know, it's it's not the
x's and o's to Jimmy's and Joe's. Okay, well that's
true to some degree, but you still need to be
able to You can't just do what the other team,
you know, is expecting you to do and expect to win.
You cannot out talent. But if you're doing that, you're
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expecting your team to out talent the other team. That's
not possible every week. You can't out talent the other team.
You have to you have to scheme them up as well.
So I understand what you're asking about the simplification, and
and you can probably simplify it and still do some
different things. So I don't know the answer to that.
I just know that you know, for this game it worked.
They overwhelmed them.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Well, the reason I am saying that is that it
seemed to me like there were way less substitutions on
defense yesterday, and you saw Peyton Wilson catch a groove
and have his best.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Game of the year yesterday, phenomenal.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
And because Hei Smith, because of the Hulcomb injury, you know,
you only had so much flexibility. Harrison comes in and
then they play almost like a four to three with
the three inside linebackers all right, keeping the continuity is
what I'm referring to as simple, and I think it
enabled these guys to catch a groove. And you know,
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I don't underplay the the importance of rhythm on defense,
and I think what they had been doing a lot
this year is maybe too much getting a little too
cute and knocking themselves out of the ability to catch
that rhythm.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
That's possible. I mean, it is possible, you know. I
think also, how.
Speaker 5 (07:54):
Many sacks do they have yesterday?
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Five?
Speaker 8 (07:55):
Five?
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Five sacks and six turnovers? Is a monster defensive day? Yeah,
and I monster. Now it can't be the formula for success, right,
you know you need to be the Patriots game.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
You can't. Yeah, you can't expect that. You can't expect
that to happen every week.
Speaker 6 (08:13):
I do think that at some point maybe you look
around and say, okay, well who are our best eleven?
And I have not seen this snap counts, so I
don't know where Derek Harmon and Keanu Benton were. I
thought Kanu Benton played another great game.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Here was the one of Keanu's specials, showing back to passing.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Keanu bent with a sack back inside the twenty yard
line and a fist pumping.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
This crowd is roaring and act for sure.
Speaker 6 (08:37):
He was so good, so good, you know, and he's
got a new career high in sacks already.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
So I mean, if I'm looking at the team with.
Speaker 6 (08:45):
Everybody hurt right and everybody that's not there and Deshaun
Elliott out and I don't again, I didn't see I
didn't see the God, bless you.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Thank you if I don't know what was. But I
just don't feel like.
Speaker 6 (08:59):
I know we're on the air, but that can't pass
without it without a These people don't care about me.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Really, you came through care with a blessing.
Speaker 6 (09:07):
So where we Oh yeah, so a defensive personnel. You know,
I think that you. I think that you know Deshaun Ellie,
Deshaun I listen.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
I can't.
Speaker 6 (09:18):
I don't know how many times I can say it.
I think the world is Shawn Elly dis player. I
think he's just a terrific player.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
You know.
Speaker 6 (09:23):
I was talking to the guys from Baltimore. The said
he was a good player for us, he's better for you.
I mean, he's just been he's just been fantastic.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Leader and hilarious, hilarious on social media.
Speaker 8 (09:33):
Oh yeah, good.
Speaker 6 (09:33):
Yeah, he's he's good stuff all the way out, you know,
so you take him out of the equation, Well, now
you're taking out, you know, a really really good player
and other guys that have been injured and nicked up,
and you know, at some point maybe it's you know,
and I know you want to match up and you
want to get different personnel groupings out there, but maybe
with everybody out this was as simple as man, who's
our best twelve thirteen players? You know, forget that. Let's
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just get him out there as much as we possibly can.
You know, I do know this. I think Derek Harmon's
a really good player. You know, Cameron Hayward's are really
good player. Keanum Benton's a really good player. Those guys
being out there a lot that makes me happy when
I see those three guys.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
When I see three guys with.
Speaker 6 (10:12):
Their hand in the dirt, I'm like, yeah, I like that,
you know, because they'll just and I don't you know,
obvious passing situations or whatever. They could push the pocket
back and I listen. I think any quarterback would tell
you that they you know, we we always pay attention
to those edge guys, and with good reason. Because they
you know, they're they're out there and they're supplying the pressure.
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No quarterback wants a pocket pushed back in their face.
You can't step up and throw. So those I love those,
and I didn't like I said, I haven't seen the snapcounts,
but those guys pushing the pocket back. I thought Cam
was really good. I thought Harmon was really good. I
thought Benton was really good. You know, again, maybe this
was just a case of listen, we've got to throw
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our best out there because we got.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
We have so many injuries and illnesses and other things
on the team.
Speaker 5 (10:57):
I think on that side of the ball, that is appropriate.
I think it's the Joe Flacco effect. He comes to Cincinnati,
they have the best players in the world on the
offensive side of the ball. He doesn't even know the
plays and in three weeks they've scored one hundred and
thirteen points. So oversimplification is it only works if you
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have the horses on that side of the ball, and
on the defensive side of the ball, they have better
players on that side of the ball.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Yeah, I really like their I mean, I like the
personnel they have on defense.
Speaker 8 (11:31):
I really do.
Speaker 6 (11:31):
By the way, has any team this is a calling
Matt Williamson calling Matt Williams. Has any team ever scored
eighty points in back to back games and lost them both?
Speaker 5 (11:41):
No, they since the sixties. That's out there, Okay.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
I was wondering about that.
Speaker 6 (11:46):
I'm like, man, is that could Maybe that's never happened,
but it has happened, lost them both. That's incredible. You know,
in a couple of weeks are going to come here
and they're going to score points. Probably right, you better
get that offense fired up and ready to go. The
other thing too, I think that that has not played
in the defense's favor and which eventually has got to
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be figured out. I think on this team is time
of possession. Now, look, the Colts don't win the time
of possession either. They're they're not.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
A good time top.
Speaker 6 (12:15):
They didntes yesterday, but they're so good. They're so explosive offensively.
You know, it's your defense doesn't have to do huge
amounts of things. Well, I think that it would behoove
this the other's defense. You know, if you want to
shorten your bench, so to speak, if you want to
have your best players out there, they need to be
out there less and that's that's twofold. They have to
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force more three and outs, which they haven't done, and
the offense has got to give them more breaks, which
it hasn't done. I think to truly unlock the best
of what this defense can do week in and week out.
I mean, we saw yesterday the best they can do.
We saw New England the best they can do. But
week in week out it's a little I think you
got to start pushing that time of possession over thirty minutes.
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Sunday Night Football Primetime after a surprise victory over the Colts.
And I say surprise because I don't think anybody saw
the defensive effort that they got, Mike, if we were
gonna win, it was gonna be forty eight to forty seven.
Speaker 8 (14:55):
Or forty seven minutes a time of possession something. Yeah. Yeah.
I thought if they had any chance, it would take
something really out of character, and instead they just kind
of played it straight up and played better than the
Colts did sports well.
Speaker 5 (15:11):
I mean, it was incredibly out of character for the Colts,
just as far as like how well they've done protecting
Danny Dimes and the ball.
Speaker 8 (15:19):
But it wasn't a gimmick defense or a crazy strategy
or no some sort of completely They weren't Rocky. He
didn't switch the fighting right handed or anything.
Speaker 9 (15:28):
You know.
Speaker 8 (15:29):
They just kind of went out there and said, I
let's go sports that are brought to you by Bridgeville Pliants.
A lot of splash on defense, and that is the
headline generating development from Steelers twenty seven Colts twenty But
it really, first and foremost came down to the basics,
stop the run. That's the Steelers' goal every week on defense.
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Sometimes they do it, sometimes they don't. Yesterday they did
it against an MVP candidate running back in Jonathan Taylor
that was lost on Mike Tomlin.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
I can't say enough about the defensive effort to minimize
the runner. I don't think you slowed that group down
unless you minimize the runner. And we were able to
do that, and I think that's why we were able
to get him in some one dimensional circumstances, create some pressure,
get some sacks, and the turnovers that go along with that.
But it started with minimizing their dynamic runner, and he
(16:23):
is that. He's dynamic and.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
Kitner you pointed it out.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
The turnovers that they capitalized on put them in a
position where they were going to be able to stop
him because they needed to move the ball and score.
Speaker 6 (16:33):
Yeah, once you got the lead, and then you kind
of minimize what he was able to do.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
He's a great player.
Speaker 6 (16:38):
I mean, he's just a he's you know, and luckily
we didn't see him at his best. If you ever
get a chance to watch him in another game and
see him at his best, he's he's phenomenal to watch.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
He's he's really incredible. He's been healthy.
Speaker 6 (16:49):
He was an MVP front runner, but I don't know
if he's a MVP front runner anymore.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
I changed, Yeah, that might have that might have knocked
him that way. If it's not him, who's who is
it going to be? Right now? Who's your front runner?
Speaker 8 (17:00):
Right now?
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Baker still of mold.
Speaker 5 (17:02):
Dude, you see me play in the last couple of weeks.
Speaker 8 (17:05):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
He kind of choked it yesterday, so I don't know
who's true.
Speaker 6 (17:08):
Patrick Mahomes, you couldn't come on wrong dude with you.
Speaker 5 (17:15):
I got it. I die there you go now, I got.
Speaker 11 (17:18):
It, Patrick Mahomes Drake May just last Sunday against Tennessee,
Taylor had twelve carries for one hundred and fifty three yards,
two rushing touchdowns.
Speaker 8 (17:30):
He averaged twelve point eight per carry. He also had
a receiving touchdown, which was really a nineteen yard rushing
touchdown because it was just one of those in the
backfield push passes, almost looking forward hand off. Yesterday, fourteen
carries for forty five yards, no touchdowns, three point two
per attempt, and h once they got him taken care
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of the rest of it kind of took care of itself.
Speaker 12 (17:55):
I think we just came out and we did what
we know we can do this this week. Came out
and we obviously we stopped the run and that's where
it starts. And then our culture came alive. You know,
we had five turnovers I think sixth So I think
when we do that, man, we're we're an amazing defense.
And so we just got to put more performances like
that together. And I'm confident that we're going to continue
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to stack this and play like this every week from
here on now.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
So we just got to compete to play like that.
Our culture came alive.
Speaker 8 (18:22):
I love that. No, you know, they have those Turnover
Culture t shirts and they give out different colors for
how many you get and all that stuff. I don't
know if they're gonna play like this each in every week,
but definite step in the right direction. I'm I'm convinced
this may be too strong a word, but leaning heavily
to using fewer players in the secondary, even when they're healthy.
(18:44):
Lease and Ramsey's got to play free safety. I know he's.
I know he's for the time being being like the
rest of the year. Eccles is a good slot. It's
not great, but he's good. And I'd rather have stuff
not breaking down miserably on the back end than if
(19:06):
I got to give up a little Ramsey around the
ball rushing off the slot. So be it. They got
other guys that can rush.
Speaker 5 (19:14):
I just I agree, especially with the amount of splash
they've given up deep in the middle of the field.
Speaker 8 (19:19):
Just can't have him. Hats off to Kyle Duggar, did
his job. You know, when Elliott comes back. Elliott comes back,
But in the meantime he looks like he can handle that.
And then that The lingering question to me is is
Darius Slay still a starting quarterback moving forward? Either because
of health or ineffectiveness.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
I means, how many times you see him like flailing
at a ball over his head?
Speaker 8 (19:46):
Well, he saw one Thornhill do that against Green Bay
and then you didn't see him no more.
Speaker 5 (19:50):
Yeah, no more wildcat.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Kind of along those lines. I mean, that's self preservation.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
At some point, having Corey Trice back would make that
way easier. Yeah, Well, is he done for like his career?
How did he come back off the injured list?
Speaker 8 (20:07):
He's not been off the injured list. He's in the window,
the twenty one day window. And he suffered an injury
last week and knee injury. I don't know this. He
was limited in practice because of the knee. I don't
think his leg's gonna get amputated or anything, but it's
another nagging failing of his health which seems to happen constantly.
The boat benett oft.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
But did he even have one more than one practice
before he got hurt?
Speaker 8 (20:31):
It was a second.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
And now because he's in the window, he has to
be healthy in time because of the first injury.
Speaker 8 (20:41):
Well, they started. Once you start the twenty.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
One day window, right, you have twenty one days to
get healthy, right.
Speaker 8 (20:46):
You have to be activated at the end of that
window or you're done for the year.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
And the knee injury may keep him from being activated
that I don't know. They can't designate it as a
separate injury.
Speaker 8 (20:56):
I don't know anything about the knee injury. I think
I read that well. Probably really a lot of stuff
that's I believe correct.
Speaker 5 (21:04):
Is there any chance that they trade Sleigh because last
week we had talked about him not practicing for personal reasons.
Maybe a quiet benching, maybe impossible, like shelving him until
they con dish him.
Speaker 8 (21:15):
Yeah, that got my attention, and I think he would
be tradeable. The Ravens just traded Jayi Alexander, who can't
stay healthy and can't play anymore. It's a corner start leg.
But do the Steelers have a better option? If you
play Eckles out there, then who's your who's.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
Your slots at Coles? I don't know who your slot
is because.
Speaker 8 (21:37):
If you move Rams off of free safety, now you
got your back to the don't have a free safety thing.
Speaker 5 (21:42):
Call him Beanie Bishop back up.
Speaker 8 (21:44):
I don't trust him, but it seems like they went
tiny Bishop seemed like the teeny Bishop out of the way,
maybe not to have Beanie be the nickel. Like they
got all these guys who could play nickel instead of Beanie,
but they didn't get enough free safe without Minka. So
I think Ramsey's the natural you know, you know he
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can be a deterrent back there, not necessarily the playmaker,
but that helps too, right, I.
Speaker 5 (22:13):
Mean missing on Thornhill hurts big.
Speaker 8 (22:18):
Yeah, So they still got some stuff to work out.
We'll see if they can work it out. A couple
notes on the Chargers, your next opponent. They beat the
Titans yesterday twenty seven to twenty. They did so despite
giving up a twenty four yard pick six and a
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sixty seven yard punt return for a touchdown. Tennessee also
had six sacks. Left tackle Joe Alt left the game
in the second quarter with an ankle injury. This is
a big, big.
Speaker 5 (22:52):
Deal to like to have lt All.
Speaker 8 (22:57):
He missed three games in the middle of the season
and Arger's lost two of them. Oh, that's huge to
Washington and to Indianapolis.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
I will take it.
Speaker 8 (23:06):
We're season they're having uh Justin Herbert was leading the
league in passing a couple of weeks ago. I don't
know if he still is or not, but uh hardball
wants to run the ball, and even though he's out
of running backs, he still wants to run the ball.
And they've been running it effectively. Yeah, Steelers now all
of a sudden, Hardball also wants to uh illegally tape
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the other teams and steal their signals.
Speaker 6 (23:28):
But they're not caught doing that once. They're not a
Kamani Videll. They'll get Hampton back eventually. But if you
remember daydra Shaan Slater got hurt, they signed into a
massive contract and like the next day he got hurt.
Speaker 8 (23:40):
I think I'd rather have a corps videl.
Speaker 5 (23:43):
I think he's dead.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
He's dead.
Speaker 5 (23:45):
Nagy hurt yep.
Speaker 8 (23:47):
Rest of the year.
Speaker 6 (23:48):
Hampton back, not back for a couple more days. That's
why I think that's part. You know, they still have
a very good receiving corps. Gadsdon looks like he's been
a real fine to tight end for them, and rookie
at his Syracuse I believe three good receivers could.
Speaker 8 (24:01):
Call out of Syracuse. Uh, that's gonna be steel A crowd,
I think after the win yesterday work for me. It
might have been anyway, but sorry, And it will probably
be the type of Steeler crowd that just shows up
to cheer for the Steelers because it'll get to do
it every day. Yeah, it might not be the type
of crowd like yesterday's just shows up.
Speaker 5 (24:20):
Just waiting, go ahead, piss me off one time. You know,
you don't think there'll be a funeral for the defense
and the parking lot of SOFI.
Speaker 8 (24:27):
I don't even that's funny. Yeah, but the boy that
vibe in the stadium, man, he'd been there that you
didn't go yesterday, Bill, No, I didn't.
Speaker 5 (24:35):
I mean I felt the vibe around the stadium. It
was a tailgate that it felt like ominous.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
You could smell it almost like it was like, man, dude,
it was acrid.
Speaker 5 (24:45):
Yeah, that's that's acrid.
Speaker 8 (24:47):
Yeah, ties in line with my smelling an analogy. Yeah, yes, yeah,
it was weird and it turned quick back. I mean
once they started winning day.
Speaker 5 (24:57):
I mean, they go, they start the game going three
and out twice, and then they can't capitalize.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
Taking the muff punt, give up a fake punt.
Speaker 8 (25:06):
Let's just start the game three and out, but take
the ball.
Speaker 5 (25:09):
Okay, so you start the game three like really, I just.
Speaker 13 (25:12):
Want to I just want to point out that everyone's
feeling a little bit better about your Steelers right now,
and maybe take a little walk with me and imagine
that you have the football team that you saw last
night guaranteed to play that way going forward.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
Chargers Sunday night. You're scared.
Speaker 8 (25:33):
Non play like that every game, I'm saying, playing like
that every game.
Speaker 5 (25:38):
Charge scared anybody.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Bengals November sixteenth, Bengals at Akroture, scared of them?
Speaker 8 (25:47):
No, a little bit.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
The Bears November twenty third.
Speaker 5 (25:51):
Listen, this is what you do, and it's kind of
a mistake.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
The Bills, the Bills. I'm scared of the Bills. Ravens
uh huh. I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 8 (26:03):
Did you see any of the Bills Chiefs game? Yeah, yeah,
they're not a pass right, and they were in the
home everybody down.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
I thought we're going Vince Giraldi there. At first, who
was that.
Speaker 5 (26:15):
Clark Griswold at that hotel bar.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
I wanted something that was a little, uh like more
girl from e Banima, But that popped out.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
Then I just went with it. Okay, Yeah, no, no,
it's I missed.
Speaker 8 (26:27):
You know what.
Speaker 5 (26:27):
Fine, you know when Clark put on his white shoes
for the first time and went down to the bar,
That's that's kind of how I felt. I'm ready for anything,
love for sale.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
I am still nervous about.
Speaker 9 (26:39):
I am still nervous about the Bengals because Joe Flacco
still put up for seventy yesterday they lost.
Speaker 5 (26:45):
And off they scored one hundred and thirteen points since
he's been there.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
How about if you're the Browns, you're just like, look at.
Speaker 5 (26:52):
Him, punted on their season with more than ten games
to go.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
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and I'm like, oh, dude, we are gonna hit traffic.
Did you none? And I was like, oh, spaghetti O,
(27:26):
why because that means people aren't down their party in.
I thought there's gonna be five thousand no shows.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
There were. There were some no shows, not many.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
I mean, the attendance doesn't always reflect how many people
actually go in. Right, Okay, sixty six, six hundred and
sixty seven. We were one person away from doing six
six six six.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
But that's pretty good.
Speaker 5 (27:53):
About that performance. Though from the Chef boy Ar defense.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Bill, there was like the parking lots no vibe.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
Like the pregame felt like Mike said, people were coming
not to celebrate. Oh we come, Yeah, we come not
to celebrate you, Caesar, but to bury you.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Well, there was a funeral for the defense.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
I actually hope the players saw that, and I wonder if,
like they knew the Stealer fans were pissed that. I'm
up two minds with that, Like, on one hand, I
think it was funny just all the stuff they did,
but also like, come.
Speaker 5 (28:27):
On, man, I mean I was I was looking for
an angle at the tailgate at the end, and I
came out there and I said, hey, I see a
lot of Colts fans here, and all the Steelers fans
booed them, and I said, you've had a really nice season,
but it all stops today. And everyone went crazy, and
I go, and I know what you guys are thinking,
how can you be this confident? Well I'm not. It's
(28:47):
called manifesting. That's when you talk something into existence that
you haven't seen before. So if you're thinking that you're
going to throw the ball twenty three times to your
star receiver and he's gonna catch at sixteen of those
times and the sixteenth time he's gonna be wide open,
well I can see how you'd think that, actually, because
that has happened, but not today.
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in a power hour of Steeler Talk and the twenty
seven to twenty victory giving new life to the twenty
five Pittsburgh Steelers and Mike Tomlin has his seat cooled
down considerably. Which twenty five has new life? Well, I'll
enumerate them later. Twenty twenty five Steelers, I meant, but oh, Mike,
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both Austin and Tomlin sea cooled down considerably because a
great bounce back from a couple of weeks in which
the defense was the joke of the NFL rob And
there's no I don't think I can take away too
much from the offense yesterday because how much of it
was geared around responding to these turnovers.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
In short fields.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
They did convert it, I don't know how much of
a game plan they were able to execute offensively, because
circumstantially they were in score now mode.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
Like where was their longest drive yesterday? I don't know.
Speaker 6 (30:17):
I think it was it the one before the turnover
in the fire with two point fireman touchdown.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
It might have been. I probably have it here, the
one before that. Yeah, let me look up the drive chart.
Speaker 7 (30:26):
But to your point, they were playing on a short
field all day. Yeah, you know they only had two
hundred and twenty five yards offense or something like that.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
Well, they you know, they do a really good job
and scored twenty seven points of playing to win that game,
like having some adaptability.
Speaker 6 (30:41):
They're not just like look at the Cincinnati Bengals. They're
just going to come out and score scores, scores, scores,
scort scores, scorres the only way they can win. They
can't win any other way. They're one and two trying
to do that. Unfortunately one came against the Steelers. But
you know, when you when you look back at you know,
this mess so so and again, I'm not trying to
rewrite history. I'm just trying to say, this is a weird.
This is so Thursday night, Right, you go out on
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the road. Cincinnati's been doing this everybody now, right, plus
short week on the road, division opponents never good thing, right,
And then I still go back to this.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
I was still thinking they were leading the Packers.
Speaker 6 (31:11):
I mean, it's hard to remember when you were walking back,
you know, feet drag into our cars late Sunday night,
like you know, feeling like the Steelers just got blown out.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
If the Steelers had taken I know, if.
Speaker 6 (31:24):
Ifs and butts blah blah blah, but the Steelers take me,
if they take this second they opening drive in the
second half and march it down the field and score touchdown.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
It's twenty three seven. That game is over. It's over.
Speaker 6 (31:37):
That didn't happen, so I I you know, every game's
got two or three plays that happened here or there.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
The longest drive was fifty six yards.
Speaker 6 (31:44):
Yeah, that was the one before they got to turnover
and the firemanth's touchdown. I don't know, but I mean,
look around the NFL, what do you make of any team?
I'm finally like, okay, the Lions are good. Then they
lose to the Vikings at home, and then I'm like, well, okay,
the Chiefs are they Look, I know that scores at
seven points.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
I did not think this was not a seven point game.
They make that field goal and there's nothing to worry
about at the engine, right, Well, it's it's a weird year, man.
Speaker 6 (32:12):
Just you know, like they say in the NCAA tournament,
survive in advance, survive in advance, and I and it's
that's always true. But this year, I just I every week,
I'm like, who's good? I don't know, I don't know
who the elite teams are?
Speaker 3 (32:25):
Well, and Green Bay losing right, Carolina look dead in
the water a week ago, and I know they didn't
have Bryce Young, but still, man, my goodness, gracious.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
That is your calling guard. I love it.
Speaker 3 (32:39):
Us. We're gonna we're gonna be selling D shirts, My goodness, gracious.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (32:48):
The other one, I get up, people get on me
for like I feel like the oldest man my age
in America.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
I actually says that.
Speaker 5 (32:55):
Would be like, did you just say I'm not during
the broadcast?
Speaker 8 (32:58):
I don't know if I said.
Speaker 3 (32:59):
No.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Really, that's actually a cornerback for Jalen Smith.
Speaker 5 (33:06):
Have you ever dropped Heavens to Betsy on on a broadcast?
Speaker 1 (33:09):
No, I don't think I've ever maybe even dropped that
in real life.
Speaker 5 (33:12):
Really, yeah, well maybe you need to start.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
All right, So now you get a pretty feel good
effort for the defense to hang their hat on. Like
Peyton Wilson said after the game, we can go home
and enjoy Sunday night now and not sit there obsessing
over what went wrong and then focus on the Chargers
for next week.
Speaker 8 (33:29):
That Joe allt injury looms large mic proceuge for them.
It's a big deal. But you know, everybody's got to
deal with that kind of stuff. They're banged up.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
And that's again too. So we talk about the Steelers
and the injuries. No sympathy the Colts.
Speaker 6 (33:41):
By the way, look man, their top three corners from
the beginning of the season, we're all gone. They got
one back yesterday and Jalen Jones, but you know, one
of their starting linebackers out.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
I don't have any sympathy for the Steelers. You're down
to and the and the Steeler shouldn't have any sympathy
for the Chargers. You know, you got to find a
way to win.
Speaker 6 (33:58):
Me you got injuries, you got to find a way
to So look, I understand to Sean Ellie, I understand
that's a big injury, but you gotta find a way
to win.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
You can't.
Speaker 6 (34:04):
Wow, we're injured. So we're gonna no, you can't. And
they responded and they won the game.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
So we'll leave with this one was yesterday a bigger
win for the players or the coaches.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
For the Steelers.
Speaker 6 (34:17):
Oh, for the players, I don't know. I mean, you know, listen,
the Steelers are about stability. I don't know whether any
coaches are in trouble or not.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
In trouble.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
You got, don't. I'm not even talking about for job security.
I'm just talking about for confidence going forward.
Speaker 5 (34:34):
Some of the national noise, some of the local noise.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
And even performance Bill, you know.
Speaker 8 (34:39):
Like Randy to your point, if they last week after
the Packers game, the question to Mike Tomblin was are
you gonna fire troll Austin? If they would have crappy performance,
the question would have been, why are you not firing Terri?
Speaker 1 (34:54):
Right?
Speaker 5 (34:55):
I think it was, and his answer was telling, right,
I don't think.
Speaker 8 (34:59):
Those guys like I don't think Toalvim feels the hot seat.
I really don't know the fans are thinking how they're thinking.
But that was a big game for the coaches. Yeah,
I mean, Plus, you don't want to get in that
Canada situation where there's just a tsunamiti in, a tsunami
of negativity cascading down and it makes it harder to
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do anything positive. It just it just does.
Speaker 5 (35:22):
And it's not just the fans. It was national media
and there were several different and analysts this whole week
leading up to this game saying that this is the
worst Steelers defense they've ever seen.
Speaker 8 (35:33):
And you ask these guys about it, Oh, I don't
pay an attention to the media. Then you have a
game like yesterday and you hear Rogers talk about the defense.
Oh they were getting crushed. They really responded.
Speaker 5 (35:43):
They all know I.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
Don't pay attention to social six seven anyways. But you
know what, all those thirty point games that they've given up,
I mean that that can't happen, you know.
Speaker 6 (35:55):
So that's what's going to happen. Right, that's more of
the business. You give up thirty plus points. I mean
they had that run, remember that three game roam where
they allowed fourteen point seven points per game, right, and
they won three games in a row.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
And we're like, there's the defense.
Speaker 6 (36:09):
Well, I'll tell you what, man, if you give up
thirty points a game, you're gonna hear it.
Speaker 1 (36:13):
It's just that's that's part of the business.
Speaker 3 (36:15):
Thanks to King Or, this half hour of the Power Hour,
Steeler Talk was brought to you by Clearview Federal Credit Union.
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Tomorrow on the program, Charlie Batch, Jean sterretor, Oh, I
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Speaker 8 (36:34):
I oh much.
Speaker 1 (36:35):
I love talking to Jean after weekends like this.
Speaker 3 (36:38):
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Thank you, buddy. Hi, great day, everybody go Steelers.
Speaker 6 (36:47):
I'm finished you stay classy, Pittsburgh.
Speaker 5 (36:50):
Don't touch your face. I got him type Pittsburg.
Speaker 8 (36:53):
Tay baby. For now, you gotta call me Ronald.
Speaker 1 (36:55):
Would you not eat my pants? Ronald?
Speaker 9 (37:00):
Whoa man?
Speaker 1 (37:02):
Why? Gogglehead?
Speaker 14 (37:07):
It's time for the Steelers Daily Report on DVE, brought
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Speaker 15 (37:19):
The Steelers defense paved the way to the team's twenty
seven to twenty victory over the Indianapolis Colts in their
number one offense Sunday afternoon at Akroser Stadium. The defense
was all over Colts quarterback Daniel Jones, sacking him five times,
hitting him six more times, and picking him off three times.
Speaker 5 (37:33):
The Steelers got off to a slow.
Speaker 15 (37:35):
Start in the game, and the Colts had a seven
to nothing lead and were driving in the second quarter,
threatening to add on, but then TJ. Watts struck to
provide the jolt that the team needed, strip sacking Daniel
Jones and recovering the fumble. The Steelers offense would capitalize
on the ensuing drive to tie the game, and the
team got rolling from there. Inside linebacker Payton Wilson had
a monster day on that Steelers defense, racking up fourteen
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total tackles, which not only led the Steelers what was
the most in the entire game, and he picked off
Daniel Jones for one of the three interceptions thrown by
Jones on the day. Outside linebacker Jack Sawyer and cornerback
Joey Porter Junior were the recipients of the other two
Jones picks, both of those gentlemen's first of the season
and Sawyer's first interception of his career. The splash plays
returning to the Steelers defense and limiting the NFL's leading rusher,
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Jonathan Taylor to just forty five yards on fourteen carries,
were the main factors in the Steelers victory and improving
to five and three on the season. I'm Tom Opferman
with the Steelers Report.
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