December 16, 2025 • 38 mins
Tim Benz is impressed by Aaron Rodgers and the offense in back-to-back strong performances.
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Speaker 1 (00:21):
W DV E Pittsburgh and iHeartRadio station guaranteed human.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Help.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
It's bringing pressure, go over the middle. It is complete.
The dk metcap hurls aside.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
One defender stick part of another put into the end
zone for the Pittsburgh.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Steelers touchdown whatever by dk.
Speaker 5 (00:47):
Metcalp tossing Minka aside.
Speaker 6 (00:51):
And getting into the end zone.
Speaker 7 (00:53):
DK And that was the one that really felt like,
all right, we got this one now. Pittsburgh steel win
twenty eight to fifteen. I have to tell you, though,
I do not understand what the hell the Dolphins were
doing in the fourth quarter. That game felt a lot
closer at the end than it should have been. Uh
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and had they actually been trying to hurry up and
save some clock and play like they had a chance
to win, they might have the way the Steelers defense
laid back in prevent there. It is the DV Morning
Show and Randy Bauman here along with Abby Prisoner Joe
Bartneck in studio with this too.
Speaker 6 (01:30):
In a lovely sweater this morning. You look nice and warm.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
Oh thank you. I am very woman. I'm very happy
with the win. Less like could be any happier.
Speaker 7 (01:38):
Yeah, Well, and I do want to talk a little
Penguins with you later, because oh my god.
Speaker 6 (01:42):
I thought the game we're going to turn into a
Penguin game.
Speaker 5 (01:45):
In and there defense, I'm like, oh, dear Lord, can
I have one win this week?
Speaker 6 (01:50):
Yeah? One one win?
Speaker 7 (01:53):
You know that wasn't you know? A defeat? Yank from
the jaws of victory. There's no loser points in the NFL,
so I just wanted to.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Get to it.
Speaker 7 (02:01):
Ended up at twenty two of twenty eight for two
hundred and fifty three yards two touchdowns.
Speaker 6 (02:06):
Last night.
Speaker 7 (02:07):
I didn't think he was that accurate. Aaron Rodgers twenty
three to twenty seven. Aaron Rodgers was brilliant last night
and Kenneth Gainwell dominating eighty yards last night on the
ground for Kenneth Gainwell, and he also had forty six
yards receiving. It was really the tail of the second half,
seven to three. At halftime, the Steelers get the ball
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back and I've been bitching about this all year.
Speaker 5 (02:33):
Come out running the ball, establish the run, don't be
in such a hurry to make a huge dent.
Speaker 6 (02:40):
And what do they do.
Speaker 5 (02:41):
They run the ball five straight times and they set
up that pass to DK touchdown.
Speaker 7 (02:46):
Boom, I'm about that. Yeah, they start rolling at that point, Michael.
Have more on that coming up, as the Steelers get
a much needed victory and go to eight and six
now and head to Detroit this coming Sunday, the Motors City,
which is not going to be an easy one, no doubt.
Hopefully the Steelers will get a little healthier Derek Harmon
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and TJ Wantt not playing last night.
Speaker 6 (03:09):
You know, they pretty much kept eight Chan. I thought
it was I always called him ay chain.
Speaker 7 (03:13):
I thought everyone was calling him a chain, but e Chan,
they kept him somewhat at bay last night. He ended
up with sixty yards rushing sixty seven through the air.
It was scary at the beginning their first run. He
took off like a bat at a hell, Like, oh
my god. Yeah, he was so fast, and then they
kind of slowed down as the game went on, right, Yeah,
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they I just don't understand the Dolphins' strategy at all.
Speaker 6 (03:37):
Last night.
Speaker 7 (03:38):
They stayed in there, and I think the cold actually
did get to Tua. Tua is really bad at at
He holds the ball way too long. He should have
thrown a couple more picks than he did. The Steelers
let a couple get away. He took sacks that he
did not need to take last night. So I don't
feel like, yeah, the Steelers are dominating. I feel like
they beat a bad quarterback and you know, sub freezing
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temperatures last night, a guy who's not really used to
playing that there. I'm not gonna totally pooh pooh the win.
Speaker 5 (04:07):
But I'm also not going to think like, all right,
the Steelers are back.
Speaker 6 (04:10):
I think we're still, you know, a work in progress.
Speaker 7 (04:14):
And we get a w on Sunday that'll go a
long way towards making that Raiders game not or the
Ravens game rather not matter at the end of the year.
Right now, it is shaping up to look like that's
gonna be the game that's for the marbles.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
It was just fun to have offense. Randy just four touchdowns.
I would think when it was seventh three, like we
just can't ever enjoy a game. And then we scored
three more touchdowns. It's like, well, now I can enjoy
a game. I no doubt about it.
Speaker 7 (04:40):
Just the fact that they took that lead and went
up was it twenty eight to three at one point?
Speaker 6 (04:44):
Yes, you know, they did kind of lay back a
little more than I would have wanted it to with
that point. I gotta be honest with you.
Speaker 7 (04:51):
There was thirteen minutes left in the game after John
hu took that one in, and they've got to score
at that point. You know, they're twenty five points ahead.
You need basically, you know, three touchdowns in the field goal.
Speaker 5 (05:06):
It kind of felt like it was getting too close
for comfort for me. I gotta be honest, like, I know,
they never really had pursuit. Was gonna come in here
and go Yeah, they never They never were coming back.
Speaker 6 (05:18):
But I don't know.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
I just had PSD from the weekend, but I only
get that that might have been hit.
Speaker 6 (05:24):
Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
But I just loved how we were throwing the ball downfield,
move down in the middle middle, you know, just not
oh it's third date, We're gonna throw four yards and
hope Gainwell falls forward four yards.
Speaker 6 (05:38):
It was actually what we had a passing attack last night.
Speaker 7 (05:42):
Yeah, And Aaron Rodgers was really methodical. I mean, that
was really his game last night.
Speaker 5 (05:45):
He was really good at twenty three or twenty seven,
like we said, a couple of touchdowns and just kind
of directing the offense around.
Speaker 7 (05:53):
And I thought that Arthur Smith dialed up a nice
one last night. Nice balance, Abby, a nice balance.
Speaker 8 (06:00):
Talents and Aaron being busted up with a bad wrist
and still looking at elite like that at his age,
at his age.
Speaker 6 (06:07):
And this this economy come on.
Speaker 7 (06:10):
He also helped them keep the time of possession on
the Steelers side, and this was one that always, you know,
pisses me off every week, and they did really well.
Speaker 6 (06:21):
Thirty three thirty three.
Speaker 7 (06:23):
Time position of twenty six twenty seven for the Dolphins
Steelers with a big win in freezing cold temperatures. And
kudos to those fans who toughed it out last night. Absolutely,
my god. I mean, if I didn't have to work today,
I would have thought about doing something like that.
Speaker 6 (06:39):
But yeah, I don't know. I got invited. I said
no pretty fast. My toes are cold. I told you once.
My toes are cold. I am inconsolable. Yeah, and it
was cold last night. And Mike Big Daniel.
Speaker 5 (06:55):
I keep rooting for him because I think he's a
fun story in the NFL. I do, But I don't
know how they're going to keep that guy. Trey Aigman
doesn't want them to keep him. No, I like how
Troy goes, well, they just kind of gave up.
Speaker 9 (07:08):
He did.
Speaker 6 (07:09):
He said that flag.
Speaker 5 (07:11):
Yeah, He's like, well, they're tired, they won five in
a row, they feel good about themselves.
Speaker 6 (07:15):
They're done.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
Yeah, but Troy's gotten really good. I don't know what happened.
He hit the I don't give an F button a
long time ago, and it's it's made him so much
better at that job.
Speaker 7 (07:25):
Michael, have more for you. Tim Ben's joining us early.
Gene's sterotor will also weigh in on some of the
calls from last night. I don't know, was there anything
super egregious in the last night's game.
Speaker 6 (07:37):
Not really.
Speaker 8 (07:38):
I mean, Johnny Smith got a penalty that I wrote down,
but he deserved it.
Speaker 6 (07:41):
Yep.
Speaker 7 (07:43):
That's that the rest are too cold to throw flags,
although there was a couple of.
Speaker 5 (07:48):
Them last night the benefit of the Steelers. I didn't think.
Speaker 7 (07:53):
It unnecessary or unfortunately conduct on the Dolphins that extended
that one drive for the Steelers. By the way, Steelers
have to punt there. Again, it was too close for
comfort for me when you were up twenty three.
Speaker 5 (08:06):
But if Steelers have to punt there, if the Dolphins
decided to care, they had time.
Speaker 6 (08:11):
But that was. That was the one. Once they got
that first.
Speaker 5 (08:13):
Down, it was like, all right, yeah, well I thought
uh Porter was handsy as usual, but they didn't call it.
Speaker 6 (08:19):
The one that was in the game was like seven
to three.
Speaker 7 (08:21):
I'm like, they're gonna They didn't call a lot of
holding last night on the offensive line either, so you know,
defensive holding, offensive line holding.
Speaker 6 (08:29):
I think they were just too cold to throw flags
last night. We're warming each other up. Abbey's got a
news update. What's going on?
Speaker 9 (08:35):
New?
Speaker 6 (08:35):
Is this hour brought to you by your neighborhood Ford Store.
Speaker 8 (08:37):
Intervals of clouds and sun and I have thirty seven today.
The current temperature is sixteen degrees So when will the
temperatures begin to warm up? Thankfully, warmer weather is on
the way. Tuesday's high today, as I said, thirty seven.
But Wednesday it sounds like we're gonna get up to
forty two degrees. Thursday is going to be in the
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low fifties, and we'll have some showers, so now we'll
get like, you know, nice soupy wet leftover.
Speaker 6 (09:05):
No, we love that.
Speaker 8 (09:09):
Although the forecast is encouraging, multiple warming centers are open
in Pittsburgh today. That starts at eight am goes until
seven pm. Those are located at those healthy Active living
community centers in Beachview, Greenfield, Homewood, Sheridan.
Speaker 6 (09:24):
And south Side.
Speaker 8 (09:26):
All Right, we are going to get you updated here
on the Rob Reiner Michelle Singer story. Nick Reiner, son
of Rob Reiner and Michelle Singer. Reiner was arrested and
booked on suspicion of murdering his parents, who were found
stabbed in their Los Angeles area home. Nick is in
custody without bail. But this is the wild part of
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the story that's been circulating. The night before Rob and
his wife Michelle were found, apparently they got into this
very loud public argum at Conan O'Brien's Christmas party.
Speaker 6 (10:02):
Did you see this?
Speaker 4 (10:03):
Yes?
Speaker 8 (10:04):
So, sources say that after the argument, which a lot
of people heard, Rob and Michelle left the party, and
people say that Nick's overall vibe a the party was
very creepy. Family sources told TMZ that Michelle had been
telling friends over the last few months that she and
Rob were at their wits end over Nick's mental illness
and drug abuse issues because they quote had tried everything.
Speaker 6 (10:26):
Yeah, it's terrible.
Speaker 7 (10:28):
I mean, it really apparently he was like making a
spectacle of the party. And I read one story that
said he was running up to all of these people
at Conan O'Brien's Christmas party.
Speaker 6 (10:38):
Going are you famous? Are you famous?
Speaker 7 (10:40):
Like you know to Martin Short, you know, like the
dude was clearly not well, and I just I feel
bad for everybody involved with that one. It's the more
you read, the harder it was to comprehend that any
of that went down.
Speaker 5 (10:54):
Nine different stories underneath it on the post just like
it's just insane.
Speaker 6 (10:59):
It's so so sad, so sad. Imagine like the two
other the brother and the sister, like.
Speaker 7 (11:05):
And the sister knew sister, their daughter found Rob and
his wife and she told the police, it's my brother.
He's dangerous, like they she knew immediately what had happened.
I mean, he must have been that spun out. And
it's really weird to watch the interviews that Rob did
with Nick for the movie Charlie's Something.
Speaker 6 (11:26):
I can't remember what it was called now, but Nick
wrote a movie about his rehab experiences, and.
Speaker 7 (11:34):
Rob directed it and pushed it out into the world
for his son, so that he, you know, could maybe
get a start.
Speaker 6 (11:41):
You know, nepotism. You know what they say about nepotism.
Speaker 7 (11:44):
It opens the door, but it doesn't keep you employed,
right right, Well, he just you know, the poor kid
couldn't get a foothold in the business. When I say
poor kid, because I think I mean that that kid
had to be completely tortured to do what he did.
Speaker 5 (11:58):
And I read another thing about the rehabs that the
celebrities send their kids to, and he went to twenty rehabs.
Speaker 7 (12:07):
Oh my god, twenty And it's not like in Malibu.
They don't send them to those, like the big thing
in the celebrity world. Chet Hanks had talked about this.
They send them to these places in Utah where they
get absolutely tortured. And there's people trying to expose all
of these rehab centers that you know, the rich people
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send their kids to, like oh they're spoiled. Well, now
they're really going to learn and it does it just
incalculable damage to them because they, like chet Hanks was
thrown out into the wild like sleeping outside, no tent
and was completely just tortured at a young age. And
then they tell the parents something completely different is.
Speaker 5 (12:47):
Going on and what's really going on that's different than
what I know because I know a bunch of people
that do the Malibu thing.
Speaker 6 (12:54):
That's different.
Speaker 5 (12:55):
The Malibu thing is like I know a lot of
people have done that, and that's what that's in my act.
Speaker 6 (12:59):
And I said, going to rehab, I have a pool.
Speaker 5 (13:01):
Yeah right, No, I mean seriously, And I know and
I know a couple guys have made great livings being
sober coaches. And you just go on vacation with people
to make sure they like, don't do heroin.
Speaker 7 (13:13):
Yeah, which I would love that job. Yeah, it's a
great gig. No, it's not too bad. Yeah, you just
have to be cool, right Yeah, but yeah, just unspeakable tragedy.
That the thing I hate about it, you know, on
top of everything, there's so many things and I like
about it, But when you think of Rob Reiner, now
this is what's gonna come into your mind before all
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of the great movies, and every time you watch one
of those movies, you're gonna think about it.
Speaker 5 (13:39):
It's like a thing where he's had three just incredible
things that he did. Meathead first of all, if he
just did Meathead and then he you never saw him again. Incredible, agreed,
and then he basically greenlit Seinfeld.
Speaker 6 (13:54):
He did is his production company? Oh I didn't, He's
Castle Rock.
Speaker 5 (13:57):
Yeah, Okay, Yeah, they're like he liked that show and
that he kept it going. So I mean probably other
than like Warner Brothers, Bugs, Bundy Cartoons, the most things
I've ever watched in my life. And then you know,
he's like nine movies he directed, which is like he
has three different things that is greater than almost anybody's
like where they maybe best supporting actor, right Hide, the
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best sitcom maybe ever, and then maybe the best run
up directing of the maybe Scorsese, Yes, anyone's ever had. Yeah,
people talked about that triple threat producer, director, actor, and
he was great at all of them. Yeah, And it
was fun like when he would pop up in TV shows,
he would always be very very funny, you know, like
he was in The New Girl, he was in The Bear.
Speaker 6 (14:43):
The Wolf of Wall Street. He like he didn steal
the movie.
Speaker 7 (14:47):
But I mean, you know, because he was only in
a little bit every cne and he's in he was hilarious.
Speaker 6 (14:53):
It's just.
Speaker 7 (14:55):
I mean the more time sort of went on yesterday
and he kept rating about it. The more unthinkable at all.
Was It's just and everybody I talked to was like, God,
I can't believe you know, like it's affecting everybody it is.
Speaker 8 (15:08):
I mean, you've made a good comparison yesterday to like
Phil Harmon the way you were saying, like, no matter what,
with this person's incredible talent and the legacy essentially of
their career, no matter what, you're just always going to
think of just such a preventable and tragic Yeah, and.
Speaker 5 (15:27):
Like Kobe, yeah, yeah, the first thing you think of now, yeah,
but at least that was an accident. Oh yeah, I'm
not Yeah, I know, we're not trying to compare, like, well,
that wasn't that tragic?
Speaker 8 (15:43):
By the way, on that you just saw also that
Billy Crystal and Larry David went and visited.
Speaker 5 (15:49):
Yeah, Billy Crystal was the first person there apparently after
Romy called so he like saw it, saw the crime scene.
Just imagine like how Conin O'Brien feels not to you know,
that'sn't like do you see the fight at your house?
Speaker 6 (16:05):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (16:05):
Yeah, but also this kid had had outbursts at restaurants
in LA and stuff like this has been ongoing. It
wasn't just that was that was one of many explosions
this kid has been having recently.
Speaker 6 (16:19):
I say kid, but he was in his thirties.
Speaker 8 (16:21):
No, but also as a parent, you know when somebody's
kind of like a failure to launch kind of thing.
That is a kind of characterization I think you would
have when you're talking about those rehab places though, Like,
are you kind of saying that the ones that are
more remote and less Malibu. Are you just saying they
were more like boot camp like board schools.
Speaker 5 (16:39):
Yes, there's a whole movement to expose those places.
Speaker 6 (16:44):
And I thought the one.
Speaker 8 (16:46):
Like Paris Hilton was talking about, like remember she had
like a few years ago, she had this whole storyline
that was going that basically said that when she was young,
she was disturbed and they sent her to some kind
of like boarding school that was highly traumatic, and it
was kind of what you're talking.
Speaker 6 (17:07):
Yeah, I mean it might have been. It was pretty
in vogue in Hollywood for a while.
Speaker 5 (17:11):
Wow, Oh your spoiled kid, We're going to do something
that will psychologically screw with you for the rest of
your life.
Speaker 6 (17:17):
And parents think they're doing something good. You gotta be
messed up. It's like Vito's kid in Sopranos, Remember they
did it to him.
Speaker 5 (17:27):
Yeah, but Vito's Veto and you know he's a gangster,
and you.
Speaker 6 (17:31):
Know Rob Ryaner.
Speaker 5 (17:32):
I mean, the kid could have just been quiet and
walked around the sets and lived a great life, you know,
I mean like he really, I mean, like to be
handed that kind of life and just do that. Oh yeah, God,
it's disturbed. I don't know that it's a choice. I
don't know. I just can't believe it's something that a
person is capable of screwing up that bad. I can't
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believe someone would do that to their parents, That's what
I'm saying. Yeah, I mean, it's like it's terrible. All right,
let's talk about something less absolutely heartbreaking.
Speaker 8 (18:01):
Well, because we're up against it, I'll talk about the
same intervals and clouds and sun today and is I
have thirty seven.
Speaker 7 (18:10):
Joe Bartneck hanging in studio with us, Michae will be
in with your sports Mike. I mean again, yeomen's work
from Mike here, as he has pulled the basically an
all night or doing the postgame show on the Steelers
Audio Network, which probably didn't get started until I don't know,
eleven thirty, maybe a little bit later.
Speaker 8 (18:29):
Last night, so I think he says the postgame goes
until like two ooh.
Speaker 7 (18:33):
So he got a couple hours sleep down in the
streets at the Hampton End and he'll be in with
your sports here in just a little bit. Steelers over
the Dolphins last night and a much needed victory twenty
eight point fifteen. And now it's ont Detroit DV. Hey,
it's Randy from the DV morning show. The holidays are
here and this time of year is all about connecting
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with families and loved ones.
Speaker 6 (18:56):
And did you know that.
Speaker 7 (18:57):
For older only continues to dominate on Monday day and night.
And Steelers over the Dolphins last night twenty eight fifteen.
Mike Persuda with your sports here on your radio, home
of the Black and Gold, DVE.
Speaker 10 (19:08):
Sports brought to you by Bridgeville Applied. The Steelers badly
needed a victory over the Dolphins last night. That was
job number one, but second on the list and not
very far behind. Job one was achieving victory in the
way they needed to do it and twenty eight fifteen,
and as it turns out, they checked both boxes.
Speaker 6 (19:31):
Man, we love Monday night football. Mission accomplished.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Certainly we wanted the Engineer victory, but we wanted to
do it in a certain way. That was a high
football team and they had rode the run game over
the last month, so I think they had averaged one
ninety two a game over the last five weeks, and
so we needed to stop the run, and certainly we
need to run the ball in the effort to flip
that component of it. And I think that made the
Engineer and a victory more fluid.
Speaker 6 (19:57):
That it did.
Speaker 10 (19:58):
The Steelers out rushed the Dolphins one thirty five to
sixty three. That's the Steelers team that hasn't really run
the ball consistently all season and a Miami team that
came in averaging one hundred and ninety two yards a
game on the ground during what had been a four
game winning streak. And when you run the ball, you
control the tempo and you also control the clock. It
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was not lost on Aaron Rodgers how important it was
to win time of possession.
Speaker 11 (20:26):
The big stat that's been killing us a lot of
the season is the time possession. And today we had
quadruple fours, so three sorry, quadruple threes. So you know,
obviously up by six and change in that department, which
was really important.
Speaker 6 (20:44):
Yeah, no doubt about it.
Speaker 7 (20:46):
And he was much better, although there were some times
where I thought towards the end of the game where
he could have led even a little more off the clock,
but he seemed cognizant of it. You know, they weren't
snapping the ball with twenty seconds left on the play clock.
Speaker 6 (20:58):
I think they were all cognizant of it.
Speaker 4 (20:59):
You know.
Speaker 10 (21:00):
Colleague Matt Williamson's been harping on this since mid season.
They have been out possessed and out offensive played every game.
Speaker 6 (21:07):
Going into last night.
Speaker 10 (21:08):
I think there was one where they ran the same
number of plays, but that's that was the most non
sustainable thing they had going And Jerry Dulac talked about.
Speaker 6 (21:18):
It this week on our show last week. What was
he on yesterday Monday?
Speaker 10 (21:23):
Yeah, basically the defense had played three more games than
the offense, and he just you can't have that, right.
Speaker 6 (21:30):
Guys are going to start getting hurt. Guys are already
getting hurt, right, especially No TJ No Derek harmon last night.
Speaker 10 (21:36):
And they needed to do it the way they needed
to do it, and for them to be able to
pull that off highly encouraging, as Rogers mentioned, triple quadruple threes,
thirty three minutes, thirty three seconds of possession, and the
Steelers ran sixty two offensive plays to Miami's forty eight.
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And it would have been way more lopsided.
Speaker 6 (22:00):
Uh had the.
Speaker 10 (22:00):
Steelers not just completely taking their foot off the gas
defensively in the fourth quarter when they really did. And uh,
but you know what, they're tired. Yeah, they had a
chance to, so they did. I got no I got
no problems. That game was never in jeopardy.
Speaker 7 (22:14):
It looked like there was a conscious decision from the
Steelers defense there to we won. Yes, it just let's
play some pre event, let's bleed the clock.
Speaker 10 (22:24):
But they also got to think a crappy spot on
a third down play to Warren where replay assists said
he didn't make it.
Speaker 6 (22:31):
He didn't. I thought he did.
Speaker 7 (22:32):
Now they freeze they freezed it. It was like it
was they got it right. Okay, yeah, thank god.
Speaker 10 (22:41):
You know, thank god in a blowout game, somebody was
watching from two states away and moved the ball five freakings.
I'm so happy with the way the NFL is running
its product.
Speaker 7 (22:53):
But I will say a man as as Joe Barnik
was pointing out earlier, Aikman was absolutely destroying McDaniel for
the way that they operated when they were down twenty three.
Speaker 6 (23:04):
There's thirteen minutes left in the game.
Speaker 7 (23:06):
It's very unlikely, but they had a complete lack of
given f and then they score, and then they acted like, well,
you know what, Jesus, if we try, gosh, maybe there
is a chance.
Speaker 6 (23:17):
I mean they're calling time outs at the end of
the game. Yeah, wait, which is it? Which is it?
Did you give up? Or are you trying on side kicks?
Which is it?
Speaker 10 (23:28):
Miami's performance may inspire another nerd boy reference from Rex Ryan.
If he's on top, oh, he's gonna crush him.
Speaker 5 (23:35):
I will say this, though their defense was hitting the
beginning of that game. You could hear the pops and
our running backs like they were into a brick wall.
Speaker 7 (23:46):
Jalen Warren took some major hits last night. I mean Gainwell,
by the way, Gainwell, what a game for him. But
they both took hits, but Jalen Warren in particular, coming
in sick, I had to think, Man, if there's any
dude who's ready to go to bed right now, having
the flu and going out there and getting rocked like
that could not have felt good.
Speaker 10 (24:04):
Yeah, our colleague Missy Matthews. Texting media for the postgame
show last night from the locker room, Warren said that
was the most difficult game he ever had to play,
and he just wanted to go home and sleep for
a day.
Speaker 6 (24:15):
Yeah, which he can do today.
Speaker 10 (24:16):
Yes, And you know he still ended up with over
one hundred total yards one hundred and two total yards,
counting fifty four on kickoff returns. But to your point, game, well,
the player of the game thirteen carries eighty yards and
that thirty eight yard run when he smashed the tackle
huge in the third court. That kind of loosened things
up and led to that second touchdown.
Speaker 6 (24:38):
You know, they got a touchdown at the end of
the first half.
Speaker 10 (24:40):
Yeah, it's the start of the second half, and teams
think that's really big when they can.
Speaker 6 (24:44):
Eat it is really big.
Speaker 7 (24:45):
But they the way they did it, Mike, they came
out running the ball. It's almost like good things happen
when you stick with the run. They ran it.
Speaker 6 (24:54):
All the way down the field and then a play
action touchdown, you know, the first play of the game.
Speaker 10 (25:00):
And I was wondering how they were gonna approach this
because we've all been cognizant at the time of possession
problem and you know, the not running as many offensive
plays problem, but there's also been a scoring points problem
in time. So you know, sometimes you have to Sarrey,
we got to get points and then worry about style
points later. But again, that time of possession thing wasn't
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gonna fix itself, and it wasn't gonna go away unless
they made it go away. And the first play of
the game, Theeland was running down the scene one on one.
He was behind this guy and Rogers threw a checkdown
to Johnny Smith for two yards and I thought, okay,
here we go again. You know, they had success attack.
They woke up in Baltimore in an aggressive posture and
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they were impressive coming out of bed. And here we
go starting with the checkdowns first play of the game.
But they had they had in mind how they wanted
this game to go, and they made it go that way.
Speaker 7 (25:54):
Yeah, And you know, it was until I think the
first touchdown at the end of the first half before
they had converted a third down. They converted three fourth
downs I think before that, so they were being aggressive.
Speaker 6 (26:09):
They weren't living in their fears, and that's what you
have to do.
Speaker 7 (26:12):
I mean, that's what they had to do because they
had to win that game last night. They had to
win that game because what you want to do is
force a scenario where the Ravens game doesn't matter, and
if the Ravens lose to the Patriots, you can make
that happen the Steelers. With a win in Detroit and
a win against the Browns, it's over.
Speaker 6 (26:29):
If Baltimore loses one.
Speaker 7 (26:30):
Ye, if Baltimore and the Patriots is probably it's a
Saturday night game. That's probably the most likely place for
them to lose. Well, they got to play Green Bay too,
who don't have Micae Parsons.
Speaker 10 (26:42):
Okay, they'll still show up, Yeah, still pretty good and
say it's a win.
Speaker 6 (26:46):
I'm just pointing that out.
Speaker 10 (26:47):
But dayah, that would be ideal if they could get
to Baltimore without having that game matter.
Speaker 6 (26:52):
A couple of more injuries last night.
Speaker 10 (26:54):
According to Mike Tomlin, Isaac Sayamalu tricept didn't finish.
Speaker 6 (26:59):
Nick herbig ham strength didn't fin ooh and that one.
Speaker 10 (27:05):
I mean offensive line think's not ideal. But we're starting
to run out of edge guys all of a sudden, Shit,
well soon TJ.
Speaker 6 (27:13):
Watt, Yeah, that's not great.
Speaker 10 (27:17):
Mike Thomas said last night in the post game that
he's sure that what he was in contact with Wat
yesterday and he's sure Wat is excited about getting around
his teammates again sooner rather than later.
Speaker 6 (27:29):
So he's not even around the teammates.
Speaker 10 (27:30):
He didn't say that would be playing with his teammates.
He just said being around a big difference between being
on the south side and being out on the field.
Speaker 6 (27:38):
But we shall see.
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for me.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
Rodger's back fires.
Speaker 4 (29:04):
Over the middle high DK metcalf wide, opening a crossing
pattern right to left and in the Dolphins territory for
twenty two yards to the forty nine yard line.
Speaker 7 (29:13):
That wasn't the playlin I played that line. I wanted
to touchdown and welcome home Mica. Yes, I wanted this one.
Speaker 6 (29:19):
It's bringing pressure throw over the middle. It is complete.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
The DK metcalp pearls aside one defender stick Harmon and
other in the end zone for the Pittsburgh Steelers touchdown.
What an effort by DK metcalf.
Speaker 6 (29:33):
The fact that that was Menca, that was special. And
I got nothing against maca. Don't get me wrong. I
got nothing against macall last night I did.
Speaker 7 (29:42):
Yeah, Tim Benz brought to you by Don's Appliances where
Pittsburgh shops were appliances. Benzi, Uh, that was the offensive
effort we've been waiting for from the Steelers. In terms
of time of possession thirty three thirty three for your
Pittsburgh Steelers.
Speaker 12 (29:59):
Yeah, that was a point I made on a number
of occasions throughout the course of the week lead up
to this game. The Steelers had to stay in the
field and get off the field, as simple as that sounds.
That was their biggest problem going into the game is
that they had the worst play differential in all of
football by I believe minus one hundred snaps. And when
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they came to their defense being on the field, they
had played a you know, significantly more or significantly greater
amount of plays than anybody else in the NFL.
Speaker 9 (30:30):
So time of possession was huge.
Speaker 12 (30:33):
The difference in plays between the two teams narrowing that
gap was huge, and shockingly enough, I did not make
an effort to go over to the Dolphins locker room
to get mink in to comment on that play from
DK Metcalf afterwards, I kind of just let the play
sit there on its own.
Speaker 7 (30:47):
Yeah, with the injuries that they suffered last night, I
wondered what they were going to be able to do defensively.
It was kind of a combination of, you know, they
shut down where they needed to, and also, Tua is
just bad. Tua is really really bad, and he put
them in worse and worse situation. He made bad things
(31:09):
worse for the Dolphins last year.
Speaker 10 (31:10):
I can't believe what his numbers ended up, because if
you just look at the stats, you think this guy
can play.
Speaker 6 (31:15):
It was twenty two to twenty eight or something like that.
But he was terrible.
Speaker 12 (31:18):
Yeah, I felt the same way I wrote about that
this morning. There's a lot of empty calories in his
statistical breakdown from last night.
Speaker 9 (31:28):
I mean, as as.
Speaker 12 (31:31):
Much as you can look at those and roll your
eyes and say, how did he get to those numbers?
If you looked at them, even going into the.
Speaker 9 (31:39):
First possession of the fourth quarter.
Speaker 12 (31:42):
They sort of told the story more about how poor of.
Speaker 9 (31:45):
A game he had.
Speaker 12 (31:47):
But yeah, I mean, passer rating can lie to you.
Total yards for a quarterback and a loss just about
any time can lie to you. But if you just
watched him play, it was ugh the whole night. I mean,
running around in the backfield, throws that had no prayer,
trying to keep plays alive when he should have just
thrown the ball away when he took sacks. How he
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took sacks, I don't know why they didn't just give
the ball to Echen more, try to involve him the
short passing game if they had to, if they felt
like they couldn't run, because I think there was more
there to be had from him if you're Miami, and
there was definitely not more to be had from Tua.
They used him too much as it was. And just
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looking up the final numbers, Yeah, twenty two of twenty
eight two point fifty three, averaging nine yards per throw,
but sacked four times, a passer rating of one thirteen.
Speaker 9 (32:41):
Most of that looks presentable. It was not presentable. He
was not good.
Speaker 7 (32:45):
He was not good, and I don't understand what they
were doing in the second and half. I know, Mike,
you said that game was never in jeopardy for the Steelers.
Speaker 6 (32:55):
Twenty three was over.
Speaker 7 (32:56):
But they didn't even they didn't dry and then they did, Uh, you.
Speaker 5 (33:01):
Know what, let's try it outside kick. Let's call some
timeouts here at the end of the game. Prior to that,
they were they weren't in a hurry up. They weren't
going no huddle. They were just as Troy Aikman said,
waving the white flag.
Speaker 9 (33:16):
Yeah, I thought.
Speaker 12 (33:17):
I didn't realize he had said that until after the game,
but I was thinking it while I was watching it.
Speaker 9 (33:24):
Yeah, how could you not through my head? I can
tell you that much.
Speaker 12 (33:28):
And you know they if they were trying, they would
have involved their running back more. And another guy who
was just absolutely absent for them was Jayalen Waddle. He
only had two catches in twenty six yards. Uh, so
you know, kudos to the Steelers for minimizing his impact.
I know the tight ends got loose, but you know
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there's like a twenty nine yard catch again empty calories
from the backup tight end. Waller had the two touchdowns.
His stat line looks more impactful than what it really was.
All in all, I thought the Steelers defense played well
enough and was a good enough version of itself, especially
without Harmon and Watt.
Speaker 9 (34:07):
You consider those two guys in their absence.
Speaker 12 (34:10):
That was a pretty good effort from them, and a
real good effort from Rogers when it came to using
the middle of the field for a change, some of
his passing numbers over the middle of the field.
Speaker 9 (34:22):
It makes you wonder why they.
Speaker 12 (34:23):
Haven't done that more often in the past, doesn't it,
Because we've all been begging for it and it was there.
And they got some good contributions from new guys too,
like Samuel led the lone turnover of the game with
the interception, MBS caught a touchdown pass. Kenneth Gainwell knew
the team this year. He was really good again with
eighty yards rushing in one hundred assuming forty six yards receiving,
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and of course metcalf at the big game as well,
and that was a great play that you guys played
coming back and had another big catch over the middle
too for a big gain in the game. So there
was a lot to like yesterday and now both teams
in the.
Speaker 9 (35:01):
North basically control their fate.
Speaker 12 (35:03):
You know, if one team wins out, they win it.
If the other team wins out, they win it. It's
probably all going to come down to that game against
each other on what is that January the fourth or
fourth or whatever it's going to be, you know, depending well,
it depends on what they do with the flex scheduling.
Speaker 9 (35:19):
But yeah, that last.
Speaker 7 (35:20):
Weekend, Yeah, you know you mentioned Santa Samuel, who's played
last night because James Pierre was out. It seemed like
some of the bad sacks the two was taken because
the secondary was pretty solid last night. Second half seemed
like there was just some prevent zone coverages that they
were allowing some big tracks of land to remain open.
(35:41):
But when they wanted to keep to uh from finding anybody,
whether there was anybody open or not, and who knows
what two if you would have found them pretty good
in Pierre's stead.
Speaker 6 (35:51):
For Samuel to step up like that last night.
Speaker 12 (35:55):
Yeah, there's a nice interception for him to get. As
he told me afterwards. You know, he grew up twenty
five minutes from hard Rock Stadium, so everybody he knows
as a Dolphin fan.
Speaker 9 (36:06):
He said his whole family was watching.
Speaker 12 (36:08):
And for him to get a pick with everybody watching
him Monday Night football as Dolphins fans, that.
Speaker 9 (36:12):
Meant a lot to him, so he was pretty happy
about that.
Speaker 5 (36:14):
Afterwards, he had me happy with the quarterback and Arthur
Smith last night.
Speaker 6 (36:17):
I mean the offense.
Speaker 7 (36:18):
I think that for the first time I would describe
it as methodical, particularly the way they came out in
the third quarter.
Speaker 12 (36:27):
The third quarter against Buffalo was as bad of a
quarter of football that I've seen them play since that
twenty twenty COVID game against the Browns when they opened
up twenty eight nothing down against Cleveland in front of
fourteen people in the stands. That was as depressing and
down of the fifteen minutes of football as you could
ever see. But the Buffalo third quarter threatened that. Last
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night was the complete opposite. They dominated in the third quarter.
I think Miami wound up with minus twenty yards in
the third quarter and Pittsburgh had two touchdowns on the board.
I think one hundred and sixty three yards of offense.
That was the ultimate switch in they were on the
field and the Dolphins were not.
Speaker 9 (37:11):
They possessed the ball and the Dolphins did not.
Speaker 12 (37:13):
I think they had the ball for eleven of the
fifteen minutes of that third quarter. That's two games in
a row after having the epitome of how batt it
was against the Bills for them to have played at
least well offensively in the third quarter. That was the
case in Baltimore, it was the case last night. And
then the defense matched the effort last night as well
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and got the Dolphins off the field with two third
down sacks. Like you know, we always talked about what
did the sacks really mean for the Steelers when sometimes
they get first or second down sacks and then they
allowed a third and eighteen. Anyway, well, they got the
sacks on third down. Ramsey had one that I'm struggling
to remember who had the other one. It might have
been Camp. It might have been Cam Hayward that had
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the other.
Speaker 6 (37:57):
One in that time in the second half.
Speaker 12 (37:59):
Yeah, yeah, whatever the case was, that the sacks did
the job. They got the punt unit on the field,
and that's when you're supposed to get it done, and
pure passed our situations even without lot.
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Speaker 3 (00:35):
It's bringing pressure, go over the middle. It is complete.
The dk metcap hurls aside.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
One defender stick part of another put into the end
zone for the Pittsburgh.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Steelers touchdown whatever by dk.
Speaker 5 (00:47):
Metcalp tossing Minka aside.
Speaker 6 (00:51):
And getting into the end zone.
Speaker 7 (00:53):
DK And that was the one that really felt like,
all right, we got this one now. Pittsburgh steel win
twenty eight to fifteen. I have to tell you, though,
I do not understand what the hell the Dolphins were
doing in the fourth quarter. That game felt a lot
closer at the end than it should have been. Uh
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and had they actually been trying to hurry up and
save some clock and play like they had a chance
to win, they might have the way the Steelers defense
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Speaker 6 (01:30):
In a lovely sweater this morning. You look nice and warm.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
Oh thank you. I am very woman. I'm very happy
with the win. Less like could be any happier.
Speaker 7 (01:38):
Yeah, Well, and I do want to talk a little
Penguins with you later, because oh my god.
Speaker 6 (01:42):
I thought the game we're going to turn into a
Penguin game.
Speaker 5 (01:45):
In and there defense, I'm like, oh, dear Lord, can
I have one win this week?
Speaker 6 (01:50):
Yeah? One one win?
Speaker 7 (01:53):
You know that wasn't you know? A defeat? Yank from
the jaws of victory. There's no loser points in the NFL,
so I just wanted to.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Get to it.
Speaker 7 (02:01):
Ended up at twenty two of twenty eight for two
hundred and fifty three yards two touchdowns.
Speaker 6 (02:06):
Last night.
Speaker 7 (02:07):
I didn't think he was that accurate. Aaron Rodgers twenty
three to twenty seven. Aaron Rodgers was brilliant last night
and Kenneth Gainwell dominating eighty yards last night on the
ground for Kenneth Gainwell, and he also had forty six
yards receiving. It was really the tail of the second half,
seven to three. At halftime, the Steelers get the ball
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back and I've been bitching about this all year.
Speaker 5 (02:33):
Come out running the ball, establish the run, don't be
in such a hurry to make a huge dent.
Speaker 6 (02:40):
And what do they do.
Speaker 5 (02:41):
They run the ball five straight times and they set
up that pass to DK touchdown.
Speaker 7 (02:46):
Boom, I'm about that. Yeah, they start rolling at that point, Michael.
Have more on that coming up, as the Steelers get
a much needed victory and go to eight and six
now and head to Detroit this coming Sunday, the Motors City,
which is not going to be an easy one, no doubt.
Hopefully the Steelers will get a little healthier Derek Harmon
(03:06):
and TJ Wantt not playing last night.
Speaker 6 (03:09):
You know, they pretty much kept eight Chan. I thought
it was I always called him ay chain.
Speaker 7 (03:13):
I thought everyone was calling him a chain, but e Chan,
they kept him somewhat at bay last night. He ended
up with sixty yards rushing sixty seven through the air.
It was scary at the beginning their first run. He
took off like a bat at a hell, Like, oh
my god. Yeah, he was so fast, and then they
kind of slowed down as the game went on, right, Yeah,
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they I just don't understand the Dolphins' strategy at all.
Speaker 6 (03:37):
Last night.
Speaker 7 (03:38):
They stayed in there, and I think the cold actually
did get to Tua. Tua is really bad at at
He holds the ball way too long. He should have
thrown a couple more picks than he did. The Steelers
let a couple get away. He took sacks that he
did not need to take last night. So I don't
feel like, yeah, the Steelers are dominating. I feel like
they beat a bad quarterback and you know, sub freezing
(04:01):
temperatures last night, a guy who's not really used to
playing that there. I'm not gonna totally pooh pooh the win.
Speaker 5 (04:07):
But I'm also not going to think like, all right,
the Steelers are back.
Speaker 6 (04:10):
I think we're still, you know, a work in progress.
Speaker 7 (04:14):
And we get a w on Sunday that'll go a
long way towards making that Raiders game not or the
Ravens game rather not matter at the end of the year.
Right now, it is shaping up to look like that's
gonna be the game that's for the marbles.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
It was just fun to have offense. Randy just four touchdowns.
I would think when it was seventh three, like we
just can't ever enjoy a game. And then we scored
three more touchdowns. It's like, well, now I can enjoy
a game. I no doubt about it.
Speaker 7 (04:40):
Just the fact that they took that lead and went
up was it twenty eight to three at one point?
Speaker 6 (04:44):
Yes, you know, they did kind of lay back a
little more than I would have wanted it to with
that point. I gotta be honest with you.
Speaker 7 (04:51):
There was thirteen minutes left in the game after John
hu took that one in, and they've got to score
at that point. You know, they're twenty five points ahead.
You need basically, you know, three touchdowns in the field goal.
Speaker 5 (05:06):
It kind of felt like it was getting too close
for comfort for me. I gotta be honest, like, I know,
they never really had pursuit. Was gonna come in here
and go Yeah, they never They never were coming back.
Speaker 6 (05:18):
But I don't know.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
I just had PSD from the weekend, but I only
get that that might have been hit.
Speaker 6 (05:24):
Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
But I just loved how we were throwing the ball downfield,
move down in the middle middle, you know, just not
oh it's third date, We're gonna throw four yards and
hope Gainwell falls forward four yards.
Speaker 6 (05:38):
It was actually what we had a passing attack last night.
Speaker 7 (05:42):
Yeah, And Aaron Rodgers was really methodical. I mean, that
was really his game last night.
Speaker 5 (05:45):
He was really good at twenty three or twenty seven,
like we said, a couple of touchdowns and just kind
of directing the offense around.
Speaker 7 (05:53):
And I thought that Arthur Smith dialed up a nice
one last night. Nice balance, Abby, a nice balance.
Speaker 8 (06:00):
Talents and Aaron being busted up with a bad wrist
and still looking at elite like that at his age,
at his age.
Speaker 6 (06:07):
And this this economy come on.
Speaker 7 (06:10):
He also helped them keep the time of possession on
the Steelers side, and this was one that always, you know,
pisses me off every week, and they did really well.
Speaker 6 (06:21):
Thirty three thirty three.
Speaker 7 (06:23):
Time position of twenty six twenty seven for the Dolphins
Steelers with a big win in freezing cold temperatures. And
kudos to those fans who toughed it out last night. Absolutely,
my god. I mean, if I didn't have to work today,
I would have thought about doing something like that.
Speaker 6 (06:39):
But yeah, I don't know. I got invited. I said
no pretty fast. My toes are cold. I told you once.
My toes are cold. I am inconsolable. Yeah, and it
was cold last night. And Mike Big Daniel.
Speaker 5 (06:55):
I keep rooting for him because I think he's a
fun story in the NFL. I do, But I don't
know how they're going to keep that guy. Trey Aigman
doesn't want them to keep him. No, I like how
Troy goes, well, they just kind of gave up.
Speaker 9 (07:08):
He did.
Speaker 6 (07:09):
He said that flag.
Speaker 5 (07:11):
Yeah, He's like, well, they're tired, they won five in
a row, they feel good about themselves.
Speaker 6 (07:15):
They're done.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
Yeah, but Troy's gotten really good. I don't know what happened.
He hit the I don't give an F button a
long time ago, and it's it's made him so much
better at that job.
Speaker 7 (07:25):
Michael, have more for you. Tim Ben's joining us early.
Gene's sterotor will also weigh in on some of the
calls from last night. I don't know, was there anything
super egregious in the last night's game.
Speaker 6 (07:37):
Not really.
Speaker 8 (07:38):
I mean, Johnny Smith got a penalty that I wrote down,
but he deserved it.
Speaker 6 (07:41):
Yep.
Speaker 7 (07:43):
That's that the rest are too cold to throw flags,
although there was a couple of.
Speaker 5 (07:48):
Them last night the benefit of the Steelers. I didn't think.
Speaker 7 (07:53):
It unnecessary or unfortunately conduct on the Dolphins that extended
that one drive for the Steelers. By the way, Steelers
have to punt there. Again, it was too close for
comfort for me when you were up twenty three.
Speaker 5 (08:06):
But if Steelers have to punt there, if the Dolphins
decided to care, they had time.
Speaker 6 (08:11):
But that was. That was the one. Once they got
that first.
Speaker 5 (08:13):
Down, it was like, all right, yeah, well I thought
uh Porter was handsy as usual, but they didn't call it.
Speaker 6 (08:19):
The one that was in the game was like seven
to three.
Speaker 7 (08:21):
I'm like, they're gonna They didn't call a lot of
holding last night on the offensive line either, so you know,
defensive holding, offensive line holding.
Speaker 6 (08:29):
I think they were just too cold to throw flags
last night. We're warming each other up. Abbey's got a
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Speaker 9 (08:35):
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Speaker 8 (08:37):
Intervals of clouds and sun and I have thirty seven today.
The current temperature is sixteen degrees So when will the
temperatures begin to warm up? Thankfully, warmer weather is on
the way. Tuesday's high today, as I said, thirty seven.
But Wednesday it sounds like we're gonna get up to
forty two degrees. Thursday is going to be in the
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low fifties, and we'll have some showers, so now we'll
get like, you know, nice soupy wet leftover.
Speaker 6 (09:05):
No, we love that.
Speaker 8 (09:09):
Although the forecast is encouraging, multiple warming centers are open
in Pittsburgh today. That starts at eight am goes until
seven pm. Those are located at those healthy Active living
community centers in Beachview, Greenfield, Homewood, Sheridan.
Speaker 6 (09:24):
And south Side.
Speaker 8 (09:26):
All Right, we are going to get you updated here
on the Rob Reiner Michelle Singer story. Nick Reiner, son
of Rob Reiner and Michelle Singer. Reiner was arrested and
booked on suspicion of murdering his parents, who were found
stabbed in their Los Angeles area home. Nick is in
custody without bail. But this is the wild part of
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the story that's been circulating. The night before Rob and
his wife Michelle were found, apparently they got into this
very loud public argum at Conan O'Brien's Christmas party.
Speaker 6 (10:02):
Did you see this?
Speaker 4 (10:03):
Yes?
Speaker 8 (10:04):
So, sources say that after the argument, which a lot
of people heard, Rob and Michelle left the party, and
people say that Nick's overall vibe a the party was
very creepy. Family sources told TMZ that Michelle had been
telling friends over the last few months that she and
Rob were at their wits end over Nick's mental illness
and drug abuse issues because they quote had tried everything.
Speaker 6 (10:26):
Yeah, it's terrible.
Speaker 7 (10:28):
I mean, it really apparently he was like making a
spectacle of the party. And I read one story that
said he was running up to all of these people
at Conan O'Brien's Christmas party.
Speaker 6 (10:38):
Going are you famous? Are you famous?
Speaker 7 (10:40):
Like you know to Martin Short, you know, like the
dude was clearly not well, and I just I feel
bad for everybody involved with that one. It's the more
you read, the harder it was to comprehend that any
of that went down.
Speaker 5 (10:54):
Nine different stories underneath it on the post just like
it's just insane.
Speaker 6 (10:59):
It's so so sad, so sad. Imagine like the two
other the brother and the sister, like.
Speaker 7 (11:05):
And the sister knew sister, their daughter found Rob and
his wife and she told the police, it's my brother.
He's dangerous, like they she knew immediately what had happened.
I mean, he must have been that spun out. And
it's really weird to watch the interviews that Rob did
with Nick for the movie Charlie's Something.
Speaker 6 (11:26):
I can't remember what it was called now, but Nick
wrote a movie about his rehab experiences, and.
Speaker 7 (11:34):
Rob directed it and pushed it out into the world
for his son, so that he, you know, could maybe
get a start.
Speaker 6 (11:41):
You know, nepotism. You know what they say about nepotism.
Speaker 7 (11:44):
It opens the door, but it doesn't keep you employed,
right right, Well, he just you know, the poor kid
couldn't get a foothold in the business. When I say
poor kid, because I think I mean that that kid
had to be completely tortured to do what he did.
Speaker 5 (11:58):
And I read another thing about the rehabs that the
celebrities send their kids to, and he went to twenty rehabs.
Speaker 7 (12:07):
Oh my god, twenty And it's not like in Malibu.
They don't send them to those, like the big thing
in the celebrity world. Chet Hanks had talked about this.
They send them to these places in Utah where they
get absolutely tortured. And there's people trying to expose all
of these rehab centers that you know, the rich people
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send their kids to, like oh they're spoiled. Well, now
they're really going to learn and it does it just
incalculable damage to them because they, like chet Hanks was
thrown out into the wild like sleeping outside, no tent
and was completely just tortured at a young age. And
then they tell the parents something completely different is.
Speaker 5 (12:47):
Going on and what's really going on that's different than
what I know because I know a bunch of people
that do the Malibu thing.
Speaker 6 (12:54):
That's different.
Speaker 5 (12:55):
The Malibu thing is like I know a lot of
people have done that, and that's what that's in my act.
Speaker 6 (12:59):
And I said, going to rehab, I have a pool.
Speaker 5 (13:01):
Yeah right, No, I mean seriously, And I know and
I know a couple guys have made great livings being
sober coaches. And you just go on vacation with people
to make sure they like, don't do heroin.
Speaker 7 (13:13):
Yeah, which I would love that job. Yeah, it's a
great gig. No, it's not too bad. Yeah, you just
have to be cool, right Yeah, but yeah, just unspeakable tragedy.
That the thing I hate about it, you know, on
top of everything, there's so many things and I like
about it, But when you think of Rob Reiner, now
this is what's gonna come into your mind before all
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of the great movies, and every time you watch one
of those movies, you're gonna think about it.
Speaker 5 (13:39):
It's like a thing where he's had three just incredible
things that he did. Meathead first of all, if he
just did Meathead and then he you never saw him again. Incredible, agreed,
and then he basically greenlit Seinfeld.
Speaker 6 (13:54):
He did is his production company? Oh I didn't, He's
Castle Rock.
Speaker 5 (13:57):
Yeah, Okay, Yeah, they're like he liked that show and
that he kept it going. So I mean probably other
than like Warner Brothers, Bugs, Bundy Cartoons, the most things
I've ever watched in my life. And then you know,
he's like nine movies he directed, which is like he
has three different things that is greater than almost anybody's
like where they maybe best supporting actor, right Hide, the
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best sitcom maybe ever, and then maybe the best run
up directing of the maybe Scorsese, Yes, anyone's ever had. Yeah,
people talked about that triple threat producer, director, actor, and
he was great at all of them. Yeah, And it
was fun like when he would pop up in TV shows,
he would always be very very funny, you know, like
he was in The New Girl, he was in The Bear.
Speaker 6 (14:43):
The Wolf of Wall Street. He like he didn steal
the movie.
Speaker 7 (14:47):
But I mean, you know, because he was only in
a little bit every cne and he's in he was hilarious.
Speaker 6 (14:53):
It's just.
Speaker 7 (14:55):
I mean the more time sort of went on yesterday
and he kept rating about it. The more unthinkable at all.
Was It's just and everybody I talked to was like, God,
I can't believe you know, like it's affecting everybody it is.
Speaker 8 (15:08):
I mean, you've made a good comparison yesterday to like
Phil Harmon the way you were saying, like, no matter what,
with this person's incredible talent and the legacy essentially of
their career, no matter what, you're just always going to
think of just such a preventable and tragic Yeah, and.
Speaker 5 (15:27):
Like Kobe, yeah, yeah, the first thing you think of now, yeah,
but at least that was an accident. Oh yeah, I'm
not Yeah, I know, we're not trying to compare, like, well,
that wasn't that tragic?
Speaker 8 (15:43):
By the way, on that you just saw also that
Billy Crystal and Larry David went and visited.
Speaker 5 (15:49):
Yeah, Billy Crystal was the first person there apparently after
Romy called so he like saw it, saw the crime scene.
Just imagine like how Conin O'Brien feels not to you know,
that'sn't like do you see the fight at your house?
Speaker 6 (16:05):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (16:05):
Yeah, but also this kid had had outbursts at restaurants
in LA and stuff like this has been ongoing. It
wasn't just that was that was one of many explosions
this kid has been having recently.
Speaker 6 (16:19):
I say kid, but he was in his thirties.
Speaker 8 (16:21):
No, but also as a parent, you know when somebody's
kind of like a failure to launch kind of thing.
That is a kind of characterization I think you would
have when you're talking about those rehab places though, Like,
are you kind of saying that the ones that are
more remote and less Malibu. Are you just saying they
were more like boot camp like board schools.
Speaker 5 (16:39):
Yes, there's a whole movement to expose those places.
Speaker 6 (16:44):
And I thought the one.
Speaker 8 (16:46):
Like Paris Hilton was talking about, like remember she had
like a few years ago, she had this whole storyline
that was going that basically said that when she was young,
she was disturbed and they sent her to some kind
of like boarding school that was highly traumatic, and it
was kind of what you're talking.
Speaker 6 (17:07):
Yeah, I mean it might have been. It was pretty
in vogue in Hollywood for a while.
Speaker 5 (17:11):
Wow, Oh your spoiled kid, We're going to do something
that will psychologically screw with you for the rest of
your life.
Speaker 6 (17:17):
And parents think they're doing something good. You gotta be
messed up. It's like Vito's kid in Sopranos, Remember they
did it to him.
Speaker 5 (17:27):
Yeah, but Vito's Veto and you know he's a gangster,
and you.
Speaker 6 (17:31):
Know Rob Ryaner.
Speaker 5 (17:32):
I mean, the kid could have just been quiet and
walked around the sets and lived a great life, you know,
I mean like he really, I mean, like to be
handed that kind of life and just do that. Oh yeah, God,
it's disturbed. I don't know that it's a choice. I
don't know. I just can't believe it's something that a
person is capable of screwing up that bad. I can't
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believe someone would do that to their parents, That's what
I'm saying. Yeah, I mean, it's like it's terrible. All right,
let's talk about something less absolutely heartbreaking.
Speaker 8 (18:01):
Well, because we're up against it, I'll talk about the
same intervals and clouds and sun today and is I
have thirty seven.
Speaker 7 (18:10):
Joe Bartneck hanging in studio with us, Michae will be
in with your sports Mike. I mean again, yeomen's work
from Mike here, as he has pulled the basically an
all night or doing the postgame show on the Steelers
Audio Network, which probably didn't get started until I don't know,
eleven thirty, maybe a little bit later.
Speaker 8 (18:29):
Last night, so I think he says the postgame goes
until like two ooh.
Speaker 7 (18:33):
So he got a couple hours sleep down in the
streets at the Hampton End and he'll be in with
your sports here in just a little bit. Steelers over
the Dolphins last night and a much needed victory twenty
eight point fifteen. And now it's ont Detroit DV. Hey,
it's Randy from the DV morning show. The holidays are
here and this time of year is all about connecting
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with families and loved ones.
Speaker 6 (18:56):
And did you know that.
Speaker 7 (18:57):
For older only continues to dominate on Monday day and night.
And Steelers over the Dolphins last night twenty eight fifteen.
Mike Persuda with your sports here on your radio, home
of the Black and Gold, DVE.
Speaker 10 (19:08):
Sports brought to you by Bridgeville Applied. The Steelers badly
needed a victory over the Dolphins last night. That was
job number one, but second on the list and not
very far behind. Job one was achieving victory in the
way they needed to do it and twenty eight fifteen,
and as it turns out, they checked both boxes.
Speaker 6 (19:31):
Man, we love Monday night football. Mission accomplished.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Certainly we wanted the Engineer victory, but we wanted to
do it in a certain way. That was a high
football team and they had rode the run game over
the last month, so I think they had averaged one
ninety two a game over the last five weeks, and
so we needed to stop the run, and certainly we
need to run the ball in the effort to flip
that component of it. And I think that made the
Engineer and a victory more fluid.
Speaker 6 (19:57):
That it did.
Speaker 10 (19:58):
The Steelers out rushed the Dolphins one thirty five to
sixty three. That's the Steelers team that hasn't really run
the ball consistently all season and a Miami team that
came in averaging one hundred and ninety two yards a
game on the ground during what had been a four
game winning streak. And when you run the ball, you
control the tempo and you also control the clock. It
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was not lost on Aaron Rodgers how important it was
to win time of possession.
Speaker 11 (20:26):
The big stat that's been killing us a lot of
the season is the time possession. And today we had
quadruple fours, so three sorry, quadruple threes. So you know,
obviously up by six and change in that department, which
was really important.
Speaker 6 (20:44):
Yeah, no doubt about it.
Speaker 7 (20:46):
And he was much better, although there were some times
where I thought towards the end of the game where
he could have led even a little more off the clock,
but he seemed cognizant of it. You know, they weren't
snapping the ball with twenty seconds left on the play clock.
Speaker 6 (20:58):
I think they were all cognizant of it.
Speaker 4 (20:59):
You know.
Speaker 10 (21:00):
Colleague Matt Williamson's been harping on this since mid season.
They have been out possessed and out offensive played every game.
Speaker 6 (21:07):
Going into last night.
Speaker 10 (21:08):
I think there was one where they ran the same
number of plays, but that's that was the most non
sustainable thing they had going And Jerry Dulac talked about.
Speaker 6 (21:18):
It this week on our show last week. What was
he on yesterday Monday?
Speaker 10 (21:23):
Yeah, basically the defense had played three more games than
the offense, and he just you can't have that, right.
Speaker 6 (21:30):
Guys are going to start getting hurt. Guys are already
getting hurt, right, especially No TJ No Derek harmon last night.
Speaker 10 (21:36):
And they needed to do it the way they needed
to do it, and for them to be able to
pull that off highly encouraging, as Rogers mentioned, triple quadruple threes,
thirty three minutes, thirty three seconds of possession, and the
Steelers ran sixty two offensive plays to Miami's forty eight.
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And it would have been way more lopsided.
Speaker 6 (22:00):
Uh had the.
Speaker 10 (22:00):
Steelers not just completely taking their foot off the gas
defensively in the fourth quarter when they really did. And uh,
but you know what, they're tired. Yeah, they had a
chance to, so they did. I got no I got
no problems. That game was never in jeopardy.
Speaker 7 (22:14):
It looked like there was a conscious decision from the
Steelers defense there to we won. Yes, it just let's
play some pre event, let's bleed the clock.
Speaker 10 (22:24):
But they also got to think a crappy spot on
a third down play to Warren where replay assists said
he didn't make it.
Speaker 6 (22:31):
He didn't. I thought he did.
Speaker 7 (22:32):
Now they freeze they freezed it. It was like it
was they got it right. Okay, yeah, thank god.
Speaker 10 (22:41):
You know, thank god in a blowout game, somebody was
watching from two states away and moved the ball five freakings.
I'm so happy with the way the NFL is running
its product.
Speaker 7 (22:53):
But I will say a man as as Joe Barnik
was pointing out earlier, Aikman was absolutely destroying McDaniel for
the way that they operated when they were down twenty three.
Speaker 6 (23:04):
There's thirteen minutes left in the game.
Speaker 7 (23:06):
It's very unlikely, but they had a complete lack of
given f and then they score, and then they acted like, well,
you know what, Jesus, if we try, gosh, maybe there
is a chance.
Speaker 6 (23:17):
I mean they're calling time outs at the end of
the game. Yeah, wait, which is it? Which is it?
Did you give up? Or are you trying on side kicks?
Which is it?
Speaker 10 (23:28):
Miami's performance may inspire another nerd boy reference from Rex Ryan.
If he's on top, oh, he's gonna crush him.
Speaker 5 (23:35):
I will say this, though their defense was hitting the
beginning of that game. You could hear the pops and
our running backs like they were into a brick wall.
Speaker 7 (23:46):
Jalen Warren took some major hits last night. I mean Gainwell,
by the way, Gainwell, what a game for him. But
they both took hits, but Jalen Warren in particular, coming
in sick, I had to think, Man, if there's any
dude who's ready to go to bed right now, having
the flu and going out there and getting rocked like
that could not have felt good.
Speaker 10 (24:04):
Yeah, our colleague Missy Matthews. Texting media for the postgame
show last night from the locker room, Warren said that
was the most difficult game he ever had to play,
and he just wanted to go home and sleep for
a day.
Speaker 6 (24:15):
Yeah, which he can do today.
Speaker 10 (24:16):
Yes, And you know he still ended up with over
one hundred total yards one hundred and two total yards,
counting fifty four on kickoff returns. But to your point, game, well,
the player of the game thirteen carries eighty yards and
that thirty eight yard run when he smashed the tackle
huge in the third court. That kind of loosened things
up and led to that second touchdown.
Speaker 6 (24:38):
You know, they got a touchdown at the end of
the first half.
Speaker 10 (24:40):
Yeah, it's the start of the second half, and teams
think that's really big when they can.
Speaker 6 (24:44):
Eat it is really big.
Speaker 7 (24:45):
But they the way they did it, Mike, they came
out running the ball. It's almost like good things happen
when you stick with the run. They ran it.
Speaker 6 (24:54):
All the way down the field and then a play
action touchdown, you know, the first play of the game.
Speaker 10 (25:00):
And I was wondering how they were gonna approach this
because we've all been cognizant at the time of possession
problem and you know, the not running as many offensive
plays problem, but there's also been a scoring points problem
in time. So you know, sometimes you have to Sarrey,
we got to get points and then worry about style
points later. But again, that time of possession thing wasn't
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gonna fix itself, and it wasn't gonna go away unless
they made it go away. And the first play of
the game, Theeland was running down the scene one on one.
He was behind this guy and Rogers threw a checkdown
to Johnny Smith for two yards and I thought, okay,
here we go again. You know, they had success attack.
They woke up in Baltimore in an aggressive posture and
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they were impressive coming out of bed. And here we
go starting with the checkdowns first play of the game.
But they had they had in mind how they wanted
this game to go, and they made it go that way.
Speaker 7 (25:54):
Yeah, And you know, it was until I think the
first touchdown at the end of the first half before
they had converted a third down. They converted three fourth
downs I think before that, so they were being aggressive.
Speaker 6 (26:09):
They weren't living in their fears, and that's what you
have to do.
Speaker 7 (26:12):
I mean, that's what they had to do because they
had to win that game last night. They had to
win that game because what you want to do is
force a scenario where the Ravens game doesn't matter, and
if the Ravens lose to the Patriots, you can make
that happen the Steelers. With a win in Detroit and
a win against the Browns, it's over.
Speaker 6 (26:29):
If Baltimore loses one.
Speaker 7 (26:30):
Ye, if Baltimore and the Patriots is probably it's a
Saturday night game. That's probably the most likely place for
them to lose. Well, they got to play Green Bay too,
who don't have Micae Parsons.
Speaker 10 (26:42):
Okay, they'll still show up, Yeah, still pretty good and
say it's a win.
Speaker 6 (26:46):
I'm just pointing that out.
Speaker 10 (26:47):
But dayah, that would be ideal if they could get
to Baltimore without having that game matter.
Speaker 6 (26:52):
A couple of more injuries last night.
Speaker 10 (26:54):
According to Mike Tomlin, Isaac Sayamalu tricept didn't finish.
Speaker 6 (26:59):
Nick herbig ham strength didn't fin ooh and that one.
Speaker 10 (27:05):
I mean offensive line think's not ideal. But we're starting
to run out of edge guys all of a sudden, Shit,
well soon TJ.
Speaker 6 (27:13):
Watt, Yeah, that's not great.
Speaker 10 (27:17):
Mike Thomas said last night in the post game that
he's sure that what he was in contact with Wat
yesterday and he's sure Wat is excited about getting around
his teammates again sooner rather than later.
Speaker 6 (27:29):
So he's not even around the teammates.
Speaker 10 (27:30):
He didn't say that would be playing with his teammates.
He just said being around a big difference between being
on the south side and being out on the field.
Speaker 6 (27:38):
But we shall see.
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Night Football, And this was the play of the night
for me.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
Rodger's back fires.
Speaker 4 (29:04):
Over the middle high DK metcalf wide, opening a crossing
pattern right to left and in the Dolphins territory for
twenty two yards to the forty nine yard line.
Speaker 7 (29:13):
That wasn't the playlin I played that line. I wanted
to touchdown and welcome home Mica. Yes, I wanted this one.
Speaker 6 (29:19):
It's bringing pressure throw over the middle. It is complete.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
The DK metcalp pearls aside one defender stick Harmon and
other in the end zone for the Pittsburgh Steelers touchdown.
What an effort by DK metcalf.
Speaker 6 (29:33):
The fact that that was Menca, that was special. And
I got nothing against maca. Don't get me wrong. I
got nothing against macall last night I did.
Speaker 7 (29:42):
Yeah, Tim Benz brought to you by Don's Appliances where
Pittsburgh shops were appliances. Benzi, Uh, that was the offensive
effort we've been waiting for from the Steelers. In terms
of time of possession thirty three thirty three for your
Pittsburgh Steelers.
Speaker 12 (29:59):
Yeah, that was a point I made on a number
of occasions throughout the course of the week lead up
to this game. The Steelers had to stay in the
field and get off the field, as simple as that sounds.
That was their biggest problem going into the game is
that they had the worst play differential in all of
football by I believe minus one hundred snaps. And when
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they came to their defense being on the field, they
had played a you know, significantly more or significantly greater
amount of plays than anybody else in the NFL.
Speaker 9 (30:30):
So time of possession was huge.
Speaker 12 (30:33):
The difference in plays between the two teams narrowing that
gap was huge, and shockingly enough, I did not make
an effort to go over to the Dolphins locker room
to get mink in to comment on that play from
DK Metcalf afterwards, I kind of just let the play
sit there on its own.
Speaker 7 (30:47):
Yeah, with the injuries that they suffered last night, I
wondered what they were going to be able to do defensively.
It was kind of a combination of, you know, they
shut down where they needed to, and also, Tua is
just bad. Tua is really really bad, and he put
them in worse and worse situation. He made bad things
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worse for the Dolphins last year.
Speaker 10 (31:10):
I can't believe what his numbers ended up, because if
you just look at the stats, you think this guy
can play.
Speaker 6 (31:15):
It was twenty two to twenty eight or something like that.
But he was terrible.
Speaker 12 (31:18):
Yeah, I felt the same way I wrote about that
this morning. There's a lot of empty calories in his
statistical breakdown from last night.
Speaker 9 (31:28):
I mean, as as.
Speaker 12 (31:31):
Much as you can look at those and roll your
eyes and say, how did he get to those numbers?
If you looked at them, even going into the.
Speaker 9 (31:39):
First possession of the fourth quarter.
Speaker 12 (31:42):
They sort of told the story more about how poor of.
Speaker 9 (31:45):
A game he had.
Speaker 12 (31:47):
But yeah, I mean, passer rating can lie to you.
Total yards for a quarterback and a loss just about
any time can lie to you. But if you just
watched him play, it was ugh the whole night. I mean,
running around in the backfield, throws that had no prayer,
trying to keep plays alive when he should have just
thrown the ball away when he took sacks. How he
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took sacks, I don't know why they didn't just give
the ball to Echen more, try to involve him the
short passing game if they had to, if they felt
like they couldn't run, because I think there was more
there to be had from him if you're Miami, and
there was definitely not more to be had from Tua.
They used him too much as it was. And just
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looking up the final numbers, Yeah, twenty two of twenty
eight two point fifty three, averaging nine yards per throw,
but sacked four times, a passer rating of one thirteen.
Speaker 9 (32:41):
Most of that looks presentable. It was not presentable. He
was not good.
Speaker 7 (32:45):
He was not good, and I don't understand what they
were doing in the second and half. I know, Mike,
you said that game was never in jeopardy for the Steelers.
Speaker 6 (32:55):
Twenty three was over.
Speaker 7 (32:56):
But they didn't even they didn't dry and then they did, Uh, you.
Speaker 5 (33:01):
Know what, let's try it outside kick. Let's call some
timeouts here at the end of the game. Prior to that,
they were they weren't in a hurry up. They weren't
going no huddle. They were just as Troy Aikman said,
waving the white flag.
Speaker 9 (33:16):
Yeah, I thought.
Speaker 12 (33:17):
I didn't realize he had said that until after the game,
but I was thinking it while I was watching it.
Speaker 9 (33:24):
Yeah, how could you not through my head? I can
tell you that much.
Speaker 12 (33:28):
And you know they if they were trying, they would
have involved their running back more. And another guy who
was just absolutely absent for them was Jayalen Waddle. He
only had two catches in twenty six yards. Uh, so
you know, kudos to the Steelers for minimizing his impact.
I know the tight ends got loose, but you know
(33:48):
there's like a twenty nine yard catch again empty calories
from the backup tight end. Waller had the two touchdowns.
His stat line looks more impactful than what it really was.
All in all, I thought the Steelers defense played well
enough and was a good enough version of itself, especially
without Harmon and Watt.
Speaker 9 (34:07):
You consider those two guys in their absence.
Speaker 12 (34:10):
That was a pretty good effort from them, and a
real good effort from Rogers when it came to using
the middle of the field for a change, some of
his passing numbers over the middle of the field.
Speaker 9 (34:22):
It makes you wonder why they.
Speaker 12 (34:23):
Haven't done that more often in the past, doesn't it,
Because we've all been begging for it and it was there.
And they got some good contributions from new guys too,
like Samuel led the lone turnover of the game with
the interception, MBS caught a touchdown pass. Kenneth Gainwell knew
the team this year. He was really good again with
eighty yards rushing in one hundred assuming forty six yards receiving,
(34:47):
and of course metcalf at the big game as well,
and that was a great play that you guys played
coming back and had another big catch over the middle
too for a big gain in the game. So there
was a lot to like yesterday and now both teams
in the.
Speaker 9 (35:01):
North basically control their fate.
Speaker 12 (35:03):
You know, if one team wins out, they win it.
If the other team wins out, they win it. It's
probably all going to come down to that game against
each other on what is that January the fourth or
fourth or whatever it's going to be, you know, depending well,
it depends on what they do with the flex scheduling.
Speaker 9 (35:19):
But yeah, that last.
Speaker 7 (35:20):
Weekend, Yeah, you know you mentioned Santa Samuel, who's played
last night because James Pierre was out. It seemed like
some of the bad sacks the two was taken because
the secondary was pretty solid last night. Second half seemed
like there was just some prevent zone coverages that they
were allowing some big tracks of land to remain open.
(35:41):
But when they wanted to keep to uh from finding anybody,
whether there was anybody open or not, and who knows
what two if you would have found them pretty good
in Pierre's stead.
Speaker 6 (35:51):
For Samuel to step up like that last night.
Speaker 12 (35:55):
Yeah, there's a nice interception for him to get. As
he told me afterwards. You know, he grew up twenty
five minutes from hard Rock Stadium, so everybody he knows
as a Dolphin fan.
Speaker 9 (36:06):
He said his whole family was watching.
Speaker 12 (36:08):
And for him to get a pick with everybody watching
him Monday Night football as Dolphins fans, that.
Speaker 9 (36:12):
Meant a lot to him, so he was pretty happy
about that.
Speaker 5 (36:14):
Afterwards, he had me happy with the quarterback and Arthur
Smith last night.
Speaker 6 (36:17):
I mean the offense.
Speaker 7 (36:18):
I think that for the first time I would describe
it as methodical, particularly the way they came out in
the third quarter.
Speaker 12 (36:27):
The third quarter against Buffalo was as bad of a
quarter of football that I've seen them play since that
twenty twenty COVID game against the Browns when they opened
up twenty eight nothing down against Cleveland in front of
fourteen people in the stands. That was as depressing and
down of the fifteen minutes of football as you could
ever see. But the Buffalo third quarter threatened that. Last
(36:50):
night was the complete opposite. They dominated in the third quarter.
I think Miami wound up with minus twenty yards in
the third quarter and Pittsburgh had two touchdowns on the board.
I think one hundred and sixty three yards of offense.
That was the ultimate switch in they were on the
field and the Dolphins were not.
Speaker 9 (37:11):
They possessed the ball and the Dolphins did not.
Speaker 12 (37:13):
I think they had the ball for eleven of the
fifteen minutes of that third quarter. That's two games in
a row after having the epitome of how batt it
was against the Bills for them to have played at
least well offensively in the third quarter. That was the
case in Baltimore, it was the case last night. And
then the defense matched the effort last night as well
(37:35):
and got the Dolphins off the field with two third
down sacks. Like you know, we always talked about what
did the sacks really mean for the Steelers when sometimes
they get first or second down sacks and then they
allowed a third and eighteen. Anyway, well, they got the
sacks on third down. Ramsey had one that I'm struggling
to remember who had the other one. It might have
been Camp. It might have been Cam Hayward that had
(37:56):
the other.
Speaker 6 (37:57):
One in that time in the second half.
Speaker 12 (37:59):
Yeah, yeah, whatever the case was, that the sacks did
the job. They got the punt unit on the field,
and that's when you're supposed to get it done, and
pure passed our situations even without lot.
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