December 3, 2025 • 20 mins
Pittsburgh Magazine asked its readers to come up with a Pittsburgh theme to the alphabet, so we asked our friend Tad Wissel to do the same but for the Steelers 2025 season.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ville appliance, the Steelers in case anyone has forgotten, just
got run over by Buffalo on Sunday, and the Steelers,
in case anyone's forgotten, got run over by the Ravens
and Derrick Henry last January in the playoffs. So Mike Tomlin,
who clearly hasn't forgotten either one of those things, emphasized
yesterday that they are focusing on run defense as they
(00:23):
get ready. That's good to take on the Ravens in
Baltimore on Sunday. Tomlin called such an approach quote justified
and appropriate.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
I would agree, Yeah, I concur Now.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
How you go about doing that, that's the heart of
the matter. The fixes for the Steelers boiled down to
details such as being in the right gap and to schematics,
many of which were tried last Sunday against the Bills
and very few of which consistently succeeded.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
You got to put a lot of lines in the water. Certainly,
we're looking at strategic global things from a strategy or
a schematic standpoint, but we're also looking at the divisional
labor and the positions that we put players in, how
we adjust and adapt and communicate, particularly when that gets
strained due to player availability or lack thereof.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
And speaking of lack thereof, Derek Harmon's not going to
play really hurts the Steelers.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
That's not.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Patrick Queen is questionable, although I don't know how much
it hurts. I was gonna say, And they went to
Cole Holcombe when Queen got hurt in the Buffalo game.
And there was a time a couple of years ago
when he first got here, when we all thought Cole
Holcombe was a really good player, and now it doesn't
seem to be room for him. Well, maybe this is
his chance to get back in the mix.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
And he should be fully healed from that rebuild, so
ready to ready to lock and load.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
It's not as if the Steelers are incapable stopping to run.
You can check the Indianapolis game, you can check the
Chicago game. But yeah, and they just but it's a
week to week deal in the NFL, and nobody apparently
is more aware of that or endorses that theory more
than Mike Tomlin.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
You know, you'd have to look at each one of
those things individually, the plans, the players available to us,
the schematics of those that we compete against. I think
that's the challenge. And the beautiful thing about this league
is that weekend and week out, Man, you start anew
there're certainly, particularly at this point of the year, some
evidence of who you are and evidence of who your
(02:30):
opponents are. But from a strategy standpoint, you better start
at ground zero. You better build, and that's what we're
in the process of doing today in this week. And
they have to put out a better performance this week,
you know.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
And it's funny the Ravens have beating the Steelers two
games in a row. The Steelers had won four in
a row prior to that, and they have a good
track record historically against Derrick Henry and Lamar Jackson. But
I think everybody still has TSD from that playoffs January,
and in the event there was starting to get over,
it came the Buffalo game and now it's back right.
(03:04):
I mean, it's it's two six and six teams, two
teams with warts, two rivals that usually play a one
score game. I mean, I'm talking like forty times out
of fifty five or something ridiculous. And yet the impending
sense that I get is doom.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
The thing that confounds me is, you know, and Merrill saying,
ultimately it's on the players. You know it's not. There's
only so much scheming you can do, and they're you
know it, The fault lies not a little bit right
with each of them. But ultimately the players have to
make the places. I cannot believe in the life of
me that they were getting blown off the ball and
(03:42):
just handled by the Bills that much when they've done
it against those teams that we've talked about. They've stopped
the run against Jonathan Taylor, they stopped the run against
the dual attack from the Bears. It has to be
guys not doing what they're supposed to do, not that
they don't have the talent to do it, or did they.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Just catch the Colts on a good day when they
weren't doing what they're supposed to do.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Everything up and the Bear. I don't know who knows
it's the NFL man.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
It's really hard to figure week the week, but clearly
this game starts and ends with run defense and with
the Steelers' ability to run the ball against these guys.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
So it's obviously they didn't play last week because they
didn't want that dude to get hurt or something, and
they just well, they just scratched them. He's not playing.
It was not the best option, a healthy scratch of
ten million a year. They drop him, he'll probably get
picked up by somebody.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Well it's a.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Probably O line is the most desperate position and corners
probably second.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
So yeah, but he's he'll get veteran minimum and maybe
some incentives.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
But is the Adam Feeling signing. You have to think
that guy making the intention known like he he wants
to play. I mean MVS has not even sniffed the
lineup yet.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
No, and apparently he's not gonna.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Because they got Feeling correct. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Now MVS is much more of a Mike Williams type
of receiver. Just run down the sideline and if you
can hit him on a deep ball or two's that's
the point. Thelan's a complete, he has been a complete
and actual number two. He could be compared to what
we have.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
Yeah, I mean the problem I have with Calvin Austin
and Roman Wilson is height.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Yes, it's a problem, and they're not necessarily combat catch guys.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
THELAN has always been a guy.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
You get the ball anywhere near him and he's gonna
find a way to catch it. We've all seen it
for years, you know, plays in the back of the
end zone, plays along the sideline. He was playing a
lot early in the season for Minnesota. Is the number
three when Jordan Addison was suspended, and when Addison came back,
then it was Addison, Naylor and Jefferson and that's the
(05:52):
guys they were rolling with. Thelan got scratched last Sunday
when the Vikings played Seattle, and that's when he said, Hey,
if you guys don't need any mind, if I go
somewhere else. This is my last year, right, I'd like
to play whatever football I have left. And they said, sure,
you're all waivers, go for it.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
How quickly can he acclimate? And your guy, I know,
but like there's still a lot to remember. Figure out
five things he can do and tell him to do those.
I mean, this is desperate times. Yeah, you can't keep
going the way they're going with this passing game.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
What's the best way to attack the Ravens defense. I'll
tell you tomorrow. You're watching the film tonight. Yeah, yeah, but.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
I think the best way to attack him is to
run the ball on him and get them worried about
that and then get back to the play action from
under center. That's the key, and there's where your tight
ends come into play. And now everybody comes up for
your tight ends, and now you go downtown.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
Forty two year old Aaron Rodgers celebrating his birthday last
night with a birthday cake brought to him by Ben's Garonic,
all the receivers saying happy birthday to him.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
And then you know, lovely without looking at the tape.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Just philosophically, the best way to attack any defense is
if they give you one.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
On one outside, make them pay for it.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Yeah, because if they're giving you one on one side,
that means they're addressing other things and trying to take
away your running game and your short middle.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
Do you think Rogers has looked uncomfortable in the pockets
since the Chargers game.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
I don't know why. Now they all line at a
bad game against the Chargers, And some of that after
the fact could be attributed to Singamala not being there
and brought up Jones kind of needing Samalu to be respectable,
which when he came back, Jones was respectable.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Now Jones is gone. I don't think Pete was the problem.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
The other night.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
I was gonna say they stick with Pete at left
tackle and you Spencer Anderson is a swing guy still
and bounce him around and put them in formation.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
You know, it's funny. Rogers did the same thing.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
I talked to Rudolph about the sack strip in Chicago.
Remember I was saying, yeah, you should have thrown at
the warn anyway because he's being covered by the defensive tackle.
And Rudolf, well, I should have thrown it away, is
what I should have done. Okay, I get that. You
know it's not third down, it's not fourth down. Live
to fight another day, don't turn it over. Rogers did
the same thing on that sack strip. He went back
(08:12):
when he wanted Initially whatever that was wasn't there. He
stepped up, didn't get rid of it and started going
right like.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
It looked like he went through two or three persons.
Got to go off from your head, man, get rid
of it. It was the first play in the third quarter.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
If we've seen him do that, until he throws the
ball to guy's feet or throws it out, he's not
opposed to giving up a play.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
Doesn't it remind you of Russ trying to do too much?
That these guys get to a point in their career
where they something in them wants to keep fighting, and
then they don't value the live to fight another day
thing where Tom Brady excelled at that these guys are
trying to do too much to prove they can still do.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
It, and Brady excelled at Nickel and Diamond people to death.
Speaker 5 (08:55):
Other than Brady, Rogers is like the throw it away guy,
like the the guy to do it. Like, wow, he
really is taking his medicine here. Everyone should aspire to
be like this. But Yeah, I don't know if it's
because you know the curtain's coming down or what that
you feel like you got to make the play.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Yeah, with Russ he was trying to throw. He got it,
and Setting wanted to throw the deep ball every play
and they just weren't able to protect it and it
was a disaster. Yeah, Rogers has missed some throws. He
acknowledged he missed. He's missing a lot of miss throwman
Wilson on again. He hit one of those early and
it changes the way the defense calls the game and
(09:35):
then that opens stuff up for you. So let's get
real inside baseball here. They got to play better. Man yeah,
I mean, they just got to play better.
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Speaker 4 (13:07):
When you need a lawyer, Oh, buddy, Tad Whistle's hanging
out with us this morning. And you know I was
telling you earlier how the Pittsburgh City Paper is asking
its readers to submit the Pittsburgh Alphabet A Z words
that describe Pittsburgh. So I asked Tad to do the
same thing with this version of the Pittsburgh Steelers, the
twenty twenty five Pittsburgh Steelers and eighth through Z.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Tad Whistle take it away A for adjustments.
Speaker 5 (13:34):
Adjustments, Yes, as in Tomlin, don't make no adjustments.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
B Randy for booing Rennegade. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (13:46):
Was it a bunch of drunk people looking for something
anything to scream about, or an indication of the disconnect
between the powers that be and the HOYPOLOI I don't know.
Seemed like this might have been to let the meat
cake moment, let them listen to sticks. I'm not proud
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of this one. C is for the C word hold
on now, for you know which I find myself screaming
a dozen or so times during these games, making the
Steelers at least partly responsible for my forthcoming d divorce.
(14:28):
He is for the episode after the Chargers game when
I almost got three zero two to the Hangar sports
bar in Coreopolis Peaks and Valleys almost most f Friarmouth.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
I guess.
Speaker 5 (14:48):
I can barely say his name right. It felt like
it took two years to learn how to say that
guy's name. Where are they hiding this dude? It's not
like John hu Smith's getting his touches G for good dudes,
Good dudes, Jalen Warren, good dude, Herbic, A couple others.
Blow it all up, and let's start over with these guys,
(15:11):
we'll get a little place.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
We'll have a cow.
Speaker 5 (15:15):
I'm down on the flat. We're gonna have a field
of our fouth for all the good dudes, and I
will tend to them.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Farmer. Tad. H is for Hell, say the line coach,
we want here in December. Unleash Hell. We're in Hell.
Speaker 5 (15:36):
Get us out of Hell, my least hell. Please Eyes
for irritable bow syndrome after stress eating a pound of
cashews while James Cook and the Bills ran butt naked.
The same corny plays sixty times on the Steelers. Jay
(15:59):
is for one thornhill and otherwise forgettable dude who will
live forever and stealer infamy for a stupid thing that
he said that this defense had a chance to be
the best of all time. It is the Howard Dean
scream of your twenty twenty five Pittsburgh Steelers. Kay is
(16:21):
for kam getting knead in the stomach by Josh Allen.
You're the d lineman, he's the quarterback. You're supposed to
knee him, and not in the stomach, in the groin.
That's how backwards things are right now. Elis for long December,
except there's no reason to believe that maybe this year
(16:43):
will be better than the last. Emma's for Mason, as in,
Mason ain't pulling their asses out of the fire this Christmas,
and for nameless gray faces a once fun Tomlinism that
right now like all Tomlinism. Yeah, oh, offensive line? Why
(17:04):
does our offensive line always suck?
Speaker 2 (17:06):
P Pat Meyer? Pat Myers should be fired because the
offensive line sucks.
Speaker 5 (17:16):
Speaking of underperforming Pats, humus for Queen, we already got
to watch you on Sunday. Seeing you beef with former
stealer backups on Twitter is a new level of aggravation.
We simply do not need log off my man, our
Ravens week oof used to bring such joy.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Feels like this one snuck up on me, but really
I was just dreading it. S is for scheme, the
word use so much this season it no longer means
anything at all.
Speaker 5 (17:51):
Out schemed, over schemed, under schemed, schematics, schemantics, steely mcscheme,
Paul schemes.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Everybody haven't fun and we haven't fun.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Out down.
Speaker 5 (18:07):
To put a bow on the letter s, let's say
so long and Cyonara to scapegoat t Terra Austin, whose
exit interview is going to be a lot like Joe
Peshi's in Goodfellas. It was revenge for Joey Flatto and
a lot of other things. You ugly the wins, the losses,
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the season it V for victories. Look at the rest
of this schedule, show me the victories.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Yeah, not a lot.
Speaker 5 (18:41):
W for wide receiver two, which the Steelers finally solve
with Adam Feelin. Hey, if you're pissed off about them
signing a thirty five year old wide out in what
seems to be his final NFL season, imagine how Adam
Thielen feels.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
While we're talking about reach.
Speaker 5 (19:00):
Why not kick the tires on x Xavier Grimbled Maybe
he's the missing piece of this Arthur Smith offense. One
more tight end really opened the playbook. Why for YOI
used to be a happy exclamation. It's time to start
using YOI in a sad, somber way. YOI double efron
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the YOI finally zee her zillow doom scroll. I use
it as a calming technique. Steelers in the middle of
another second half collapse. I wonder how many bedrooms I
could get if I moved to eighty four.
Speaker 4 (19:44):
There you go, the Pittsburgh Steelers alphabet from Tad Whistle
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Speaker 2 (20:02):
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Ville appliance, the Steelers in case anyone has forgotten, just
got run over by Buffalo on Sunday, and the Steelers,
in case anyone's forgotten, got run over by the Ravens
and Derrick Henry last January in the playoffs. So Mike Tomlin,
who clearly hasn't forgotten either one of those things, emphasized
yesterday that they are focusing on run defense as they
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get ready. That's good to take on the Ravens in
Baltimore on Sunday. Tomlin called such an approach quote justified
and appropriate.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
I would agree, Yeah, I concur Now.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
How you go about doing that, that's the heart of
the matter. The fixes for the Steelers boiled down to
details such as being in the right gap and to schematics,
many of which were tried last Sunday against the Bills
and very few of which consistently succeeded.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
You got to put a lot of lines in the water. Certainly,
we're looking at strategic global things from a strategy or
a schematic standpoint, but we're also looking at the divisional
labor and the positions that we put players in, how
we adjust and adapt and communicate, particularly when that gets
strained due to player availability or lack thereof.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
And speaking of lack thereof, Derek Harmon's not going to
play really hurts the Steelers.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
That's not.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Patrick Queen is questionable, although I don't know how much
it hurts. I was gonna say, And they went to
Cole Holcombe when Queen got hurt in the Buffalo game.
And there was a time a couple of years ago
when he first got here, when we all thought Cole
Holcombe was a really good player, and now it doesn't
seem to be room for him. Well, maybe this is
his chance to get back in the mix.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
And he should be fully healed from that rebuild, so
ready to ready to lock and load.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
It's not as if the Steelers are incapable stopping to run.
You can check the Indianapolis game, you can check the
Chicago game. But yeah, and they just but it's a
week to week deal in the NFL, and nobody apparently
is more aware of that or endorses that theory more
than Mike Tomlin.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
You know, you'd have to look at each one of
those things individually, the plans, the players available to us,
the schematics of those that we compete against. I think
that's the challenge. And the beautiful thing about this league
is that weekend and week out, Man, you start anew
there're certainly, particularly at this point of the year, some
evidence of who you are and evidence of who your
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opponents are. But from a strategy standpoint, you better start
at ground zero. You better build, and that's what we're
in the process of doing today in this week. And
they have to put out a better performance this week,
you know.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
And it's funny the Ravens have beating the Steelers two
games in a row. The Steelers had won four in
a row prior to that, and they have a good
track record historically against Derrick Henry and Lamar Jackson. But
I think everybody still has TSD from that playoffs January,
and in the event there was starting to get over,
it came the Buffalo game and now it's back right.
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I mean, it's it's two six and six teams, two
teams with warts, two rivals that usually play a one
score game. I mean, I'm talking like forty times out
of fifty five or something ridiculous. And yet the impending
sense that I get is doom.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
The thing that confounds me is, you know, and Merrill saying,
ultimately it's on the players. You know it's not. There's
only so much scheming you can do, and they're you
know it, The fault lies not a little bit right
with each of them. But ultimately the players have to
make the places. I cannot believe in the life of
me that they were getting blown off the ball and
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just handled by the Bills that much when they've done
it against those teams that we've talked about. They've stopped
the run against Jonathan Taylor, they stopped the run against
the dual attack from the Bears. It has to be
guys not doing what they're supposed to do, not that
they don't have the talent to do it, or did they.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Just catch the Colts on a good day when they
weren't doing what they're supposed to do.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Everything up and the Bear. I don't know who knows
it's the NFL man.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
It's really hard to figure week the week, but clearly
this game starts and ends with run defense and with
the Steelers' ability to run the ball against these guys.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
So it's obviously they didn't play last week because they
didn't want that dude to get hurt or something, and
they just well, they just scratched them. He's not playing.
It was not the best option, a healthy scratch of
ten million a year. They drop him, he'll probably get
picked up by somebody.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Well it's a.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Probably O line is the most desperate position and corners
probably second.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
So yeah, but he's he'll get veteran minimum and maybe
some incentives.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
But is the Adam Feeling signing. You have to think
that guy making the intention known like he he wants
to play. I mean MVS has not even sniffed the
lineup yet.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
No, and apparently he's not gonna.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Because they got Feeling correct. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Now MVS is much more of a Mike Williams type
of receiver. Just run down the sideline and if you
can hit him on a deep ball or two's that's
the point. Thelan's a complete, he has been a complete
and actual number two. He could be compared to what
we have.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
Yeah, I mean the problem I have with Calvin Austin
and Roman Wilson is height.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Yes, it's a problem, and they're not necessarily combat catch guys.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
THELAN has always been a guy.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
You get the ball anywhere near him and he's gonna
find a way to catch it. We've all seen it
for years, you know, plays in the back of the
end zone, plays along the sideline. He was playing a
lot early in the season for Minnesota. Is the number
three when Jordan Addison was suspended, and when Addison came back,
then it was Addison, Naylor and Jefferson and that's the
(05:52):
guys they were rolling with. Thelan got scratched last Sunday
when the Vikings played Seattle, and that's when he said, Hey,
if you guys don't need any mind, if I go
somewhere else. This is my last year, right, I'd like
to play whatever football I have left. And they said, sure,
you're all waivers, go for it.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
How quickly can he acclimate? And your guy, I know,
but like there's still a lot to remember. Figure out
five things he can do and tell him to do those.
I mean, this is desperate times. Yeah, you can't keep
going the way they're going with this passing game.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
What's the best way to attack the Ravens defense. I'll
tell you tomorrow. You're watching the film tonight. Yeah, yeah, but.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
I think the best way to attack him is to
run the ball on him and get them worried about
that and then get back to the play action from
under center. That's the key, and there's where your tight
ends come into play. And now everybody comes up for
your tight ends, and now you go downtown.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
Forty two year old Aaron Rodgers celebrating his birthday last
night with a birthday cake brought to him by Ben's Garonic,
all the receivers saying happy birthday to him.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
And then you know, lovely without looking at the tape.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Just philosophically, the best way to attack any defense is
if they give you one.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
On one outside, make them pay for it.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Yeah, because if they're giving you one on one side,
that means they're addressing other things and trying to take
away your running game and your short middle.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
Do you think Rogers has looked uncomfortable in the pockets
since the Chargers game.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
I don't know why. Now they all line at a
bad game against the Chargers, And some of that after
the fact could be attributed to Singamala not being there
and brought up Jones kind of needing Samalu to be respectable,
which when he came back, Jones was respectable.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Now Jones is gone. I don't think Pete was the problem.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
The other night.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
I was gonna say they stick with Pete at left
tackle and you Spencer Anderson is a swing guy still
and bounce him around and put them in formation.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
You know, it's funny. Rogers did the same thing.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
I talked to Rudolph about the sack strip in Chicago.
Remember I was saying, yeah, you should have thrown at
the warn anyway because he's being covered by the defensive tackle.
And Rudolf, well, I should have thrown it away, is
what I should have done. Okay, I get that. You
know it's not third down, it's not fourth down. Live
to fight another day, don't turn it over. Rogers did
the same thing on that sack strip. He went back
(08:12):
when he wanted Initially whatever that was wasn't there. He
stepped up, didn't get rid of it and started going
right like.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
It looked like he went through two or three persons.
Got to go off from your head, man, get rid
of it. It was the first play in the third quarter.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
If we've seen him do that, until he throws the
ball to guy's feet or throws it out, he's not
opposed to giving up a play.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
Doesn't it remind you of Russ trying to do too much?
That these guys get to a point in their career
where they something in them wants to keep fighting, and
then they don't value the live to fight another day
thing where Tom Brady excelled at that these guys are
trying to do too much to prove they can still do.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
It, and Brady excelled at Nickel and Diamond people to death.
Speaker 5 (08:55):
Other than Brady, Rogers is like the throw it away guy,
like the the guy to do it. Like, wow, he
really is taking his medicine here. Everyone should aspire to
be like this. But Yeah, I don't know if it's
because you know the curtain's coming down or what that
you feel like you got to make the play.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Yeah, with Russ he was trying to throw. He got it,
and Setting wanted to throw the deep ball every play
and they just weren't able to protect it and it
was a disaster. Yeah, Rogers has missed some throws. He
acknowledged he missed. He's missing a lot of miss throwman
Wilson on again. He hit one of those early and
it changes the way the defense calls the game and
(09:35):
then that opens stuff up for you. So let's get
real inside baseball here. They got to play better. Man yeah,
I mean, they just got to play better.
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So I asked Tad to do that about this Steelers team.
So we'll go over the Pittsburgh Steelers twenty twenty five
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Speaker 4 (13:07):
When you need a lawyer, Oh, buddy, Tad Whistle's hanging
out with us this morning. And you know I was
telling you earlier how the Pittsburgh City Paper is asking
its readers to submit the Pittsburgh Alphabet A Z words
that describe Pittsburgh. So I asked Tad to do the
same thing with this version of the Pittsburgh Steelers, the
twenty twenty five Pittsburgh Steelers and eighth through Z.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Tad Whistle take it away A for adjustments.
Speaker 5 (13:34):
Adjustments, Yes, as in Tomlin, don't make no adjustments.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
B Randy for booing Rennegade. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (13:46):
Was it a bunch of drunk people looking for something
anything to scream about, or an indication of the disconnect
between the powers that be and the HOYPOLOI I don't know.
Seemed like this might have been to let the meat
cake moment, let them listen to sticks. I'm not proud
(14:07):
of this one. C is for the C word hold
on now, for you know which I find myself screaming
a dozen or so times during these games, making the
Steelers at least partly responsible for my forthcoming d divorce.
(14:28):
He is for the episode after the Chargers game when
I almost got three zero two to the Hangar sports
bar in Coreopolis Peaks and Valleys almost most f Friarmouth.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
I guess.
Speaker 5 (14:48):
I can barely say his name right. It felt like
it took two years to learn how to say that
guy's name. Where are they hiding this dude? It's not
like John hu Smith's getting his touches G for good dudes,
Good dudes, Jalen Warren, good dude, Herbic, A couple others.
Blow it all up, and let's start over with these guys,
(15:11):
we'll get a little place.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
We'll have a cow.
Speaker 5 (15:15):
I'm down on the flat. We're gonna have a field
of our fouth for all the good dudes, and I
will tend to them.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Farmer. Tad. H is for Hell, say the line coach,
we want here in December. Unleash Hell. We're in Hell.
Speaker 5 (15:36):
Get us out of Hell, my least hell. Please Eyes
for irritable bow syndrome after stress eating a pound of
cashews while James Cook and the Bills ran butt naked.
The same corny plays sixty times on the Steelers. Jay
(15:59):
is for one thornhill and otherwise forgettable dude who will
live forever and stealer infamy for a stupid thing that
he said that this defense had a chance to be
the best of all time. It is the Howard Dean
scream of your twenty twenty five Pittsburgh Steelers. Kay is
(16:21):
for kam getting knead in the stomach by Josh Allen.
You're the d lineman, he's the quarterback. You're supposed to
knee him, and not in the stomach, in the groin.
That's how backwards things are right now. Elis for long December,
except there's no reason to believe that maybe this year
(16:43):
will be better than the last. Emma's for Mason, as in,
Mason ain't pulling their asses out of the fire this Christmas,
and for nameless gray faces a once fun Tomlinism that
right now like all Tomlinism. Yeah, oh, offensive line? Why
(17:04):
does our offensive line always suck?
Speaker 2 (17:06):
P Pat Meyer? Pat Myers should be fired because the
offensive line sucks.
Speaker 5 (17:16):
Speaking of underperforming Pats, humus for Queen, we already got
to watch you on Sunday. Seeing you beef with former
stealer backups on Twitter is a new level of aggravation.
We simply do not need log off my man, our
Ravens week oof used to bring such joy.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Feels like this one snuck up on me, but really
I was just dreading it. S is for scheme, the
word use so much this season it no longer means
anything at all.
Speaker 5 (17:51):
Out schemed, over schemed, under schemed, schematics, schemantics, steely mcscheme,
Paul schemes.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Everybody haven't fun and we haven't fun.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Out down.
Speaker 5 (18:07):
To put a bow on the letter s, let's say
so long and Cyonara to scapegoat t Terra Austin, whose
exit interview is going to be a lot like Joe
Peshi's in Goodfellas. It was revenge for Joey Flatto and
a lot of other things. You ugly the wins, the losses,
(18:32):
the season it V for victories. Look at the rest
of this schedule, show me the victories.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Yeah, not a lot.
Speaker 5 (18:41):
W for wide receiver two, which the Steelers finally solve
with Adam Feelin. Hey, if you're pissed off about them
signing a thirty five year old wide out in what
seems to be his final NFL season, imagine how Adam
Thielen feels.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
While we're talking about reach.
Speaker 5 (19:00):
Why not kick the tires on x Xavier Grimbled Maybe
he's the missing piece of this Arthur Smith offense. One
more tight end really opened the playbook. Why for YOI
used to be a happy exclamation. It's time to start
using YOI in a sad, somber way. YOI double efron
(19:26):
the YOI finally zee her zillow doom scroll. I use
it as a calming technique. Steelers in the middle of
another second half collapse. I wonder how many bedrooms I
could get if I moved to eighty four.
Speaker 4 (19:44):
There you go, the Pittsburgh Steelers alphabet from Tad Whistle
here on the DBE Morning Show.
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