Steelers Chalk Talk - October 28, 2023

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Episode Transcript

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Huddle up, Steelers Nation. It'sTank for Steelers Chalk Talk here in Fox
Sports Net, Wheeling Pittsburgh every Saturdaymorning, coming at you, breaking the
huddle, coming out to the lineof the scrimmage, and talking real Steelers
football talk. Yeah, thanks forjoining me. Hate My co host,
well Mike McMahon, the former NFLquarterback. Well, Mike is still well.

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He's trying to lead his team tothe WPIL championships so as they close
out the regular high school season.Mike's offensive coordinator North Catholic here in Pittsburgh,
So trust me, the man knowsoffense, whether it be high school
or NFL. He played in theleague for the Lions and Eagles. But

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that is neither here nor there.You know, Pittsburgh Steelers coming out hot
in a twenty twenty three season.I mean, this is an unbelievable team.
At four and two. I meanjust the two wins were missteps by
the team. I mean, thisis a juggernaut, both offensively and defensively.
Unbelievable. This team is no doubtgoing to be in well SONNY,

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Las Vegas for the Super Bowl.I hear you, I hear the silence,
I hear the thoughts in your head. At least for those of you
that are being realistic. You're goingto tank an offensive juggernaut super Bowl four

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and two, and we're going tothe super Bowl. That's called facetiousness.
Is facetiousness fiss hnshsns facetiousness. I'mnot real good at math. You'll have
to forgive me. Yeah, Iam being facetious four and two. Now,

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look, Frank Sinatra and Dean markAnd used to run around down there
in Steubenville on occasion having a drinks, you know, because Dean would say,
come on back and meet Mama.We'll have some pasta. Frank,
being a fellow Italian, said,I'll go to Steubenville if you go to
Hoboken and you know, built afew pints there. Dean Martin, Jerry

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Lewis, Frank Sinatra and Steubenville.Why am I bringing that up? Because
they got drunk on occasion, andI must be drunk to say that this
is an offensive juggernaut at four andtwo. It's a joke. I don't
get it. But you know,a win is a win, is a
win is a win. Absolutely amazing. Steelers pull out the victory against the

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Rams, who I thought we're gonnaeviscerate. The Steelers really did well.
They did defensively, they held themand we're going to get to that.
But it was amazing this week tolisten to sports radio stations in the area

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and also Steelers fans. Now,look, I've been doing this for so
long, and you'll have to forgiveme because I think I'm gonna ostracize Ostrich.
You know, that's that tall furrybird that runs real fast and tastes
real good and they make boots outof Ostracize. I'm going to ostracize half

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of you right now. Okay,I listen to what fans say, I
read what you say. In fact, after this week, I mean I
am done re engaging people on Facebook. Don't forget to go to Steelers chok
talk on Facebook and you can giveus feedback. It's really simple. Half

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of you know football. Half ofyou don't know Jack Rabbits. You just
don't. Okay, even if youplay football, you don't know it.
What leads me to this statement isthis the Pittsburgh Ginzer media this week,

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and a lot of fans were like, well, you know, you got
to give credit where credit is due. And Matt Canada came up with a
game winning plan this week. Solet's just lay off Mat Canada and I'm
here you go throw one of mybuddies under the bus. Here, Steve
at the gym. Steve, Imean I was shocked when he said this

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quote. Again. I thought heknew football. Matt Canada ain't that bad.
Matt Canada ain't that bad. Yougot to give credit to do credit
this week? You out of yourminds? Are you out of your minds?
Are you out of your minds?Half of you out there that are

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saying, Matt Canada did an okayjob this week, and you got to
give them some credit. And boy, the offense really, you know,
looked much better this week. Andat four and two we have some hope
and some promise. Let me tellyou something. When your second to last
from the bottom in offense with sixteenhundred total yards compared to the Dolphins,

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and I know they laid an egg, but at thirty two hundred yards,
you ain't going to no super Bowlsix games in. And no matter how
much you right the ship and keepwinning somehow through your defense, defense,
defense, defense, Thank you,TJ. Watt, you ain't going to

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no Super Bowl, And like wetalked earlier in the season, what's your
goals and expectations going into this season? Are you just quite thrilled to don
your black gold, get the familyover, have some Buffalo chicken wings,
get your favorite pizza, and drinkpepsi that's rotten in your guts out from

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the inside. Don't drink pepsi andCoca cola. Drink water with a lemon
in it. If I can giveyou any advice on this show, don't
drink Coca cola and pepsi. You'rekilling yourself. Man. I digress.
To even suggest that there was amodicum of brilliance from Matt Canada is insanity.

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I don't care if they won thegame. I don't now half of
you out there are wearing your blackand gold and getting together on a Sunday
like, hey, we're born two. We won, and some of you
get vicious and you know, don'twant critiqued. Just enjoy the wind.
Matt Canada did a good job.Why are you such a negative naysayer?

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You know why? Because I wantto win a suit Super Bowl. I
want to see the days of yourwhen this team was dominant and respected,
not luckily earning four wins. Luckilyearning four wins? Did Detroit Lions are

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the fourth best offense in the league? Did Detroit Lions? Had I told
you that going into this season,you would have said, oh my god,
no way. So does this offenselook anything like the Miami Dolphins,
the Kansas City Chiefs, the PhiladelphiaEagles, the Bills, the Niners,

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even your Baltimore Ravens, Your BaltimoreRavens. I say that facetiously. Fi
NSS physicious league. Even the Ravensare in the top ten. So I
don't want to hear that. Yougotta give credit where credit's due. We're
not Canada called a good game plan. No he didn't knew he didn't.

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No he didn't, No he didn't. Your defense saved you again. Okay,
your defense saved you again. Larryog gobd in the niece, Hi
Smith, and a guy named wator something. I've never heard of him

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before. And you know who elsesaved you? Kenny Pickett saved you.
George Pickens saved you. Not MattCanada. Not Matt Canada. If Matt
Canada's head was not on a choppingblock right now, he would have not

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altered his offense in the least bit, you'd still be seeing seven jet sweeps
a game, because you know whatthat does is he keeps the yob defense
honest and spreads them out and jetsweeps as a moron. Now, I'm

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gonna stay on the offense for thissegment. Okay, Matt Canada deserves credit.
Let's break this down by position foryour skilled positions. So George Pickens

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had a pretty good game, didn'tHe had a pretty good game. My
goodness of what a game he had. Now, who amongst you doesn't think
no matter what pattern you run GeorgePickens on, that man's gonna catch a

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football, He's gonna catch the football. I mean, he already has five
hundred yards and he's been misused allseason. George Pickens will catch a ball
wherever you throw it to him onthe field. That's called an offensive weapon.

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Suddenly Matt Canada wakes up and goes, you know what, George Dickens.
Instead of just running him down thesidelines and throwing it over his left
shoulder, I'm gonna try to throwhim some slant plays. Let's see if
that works. Yeah, it works. Matt Canada Pickens had some great catches.

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He actually was involved involved with theoffense. I mean, go back
to last year. I mean Iwas calling for Matt Canada's head after four
games last year. It's the videosare there on our YouTube and Facebook.
He couldn't figure out on day onethat George Pickens is a special talent and

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that he could have the He couldhave built the whole offense around him.
Really one dangerous man. You canbuild an offense around tank, yes you
can. You can have him runcrossing routes linebacker depth just behind him,

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which takes the linebackers out of thegame. They gotta worry about George Pickens
crossing in front of their face.You can run him to the post and
attack your safeties. You can messwith the corners all day long. I'm
gonna zigzag you man all day long. I'm gonna get those corners just confused
because George Pickens is either going tothe post, He's going to the out.

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Using George Pickens as an offensive weapondoes so much for you, But
Matt Canada doesn't see that. Hejust wants to run him downfield, throw
it over his shoulder and pray togoodness he picks up sixty yards because his
inept offense up to that point hadn'tgotten anything. I mean, George Pickens

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is a legitimate talent to use thatway, and any offensive coordinator would know
that. So kudos for Mac Canadafiguring out you could run George on slat
patterns and it paid dividends this week, it really did. I mean,

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he's being misused and he has fivehundred yards. Now let's analyze the next
important scenario, running packs again fiftyto fifty with what Steelers Nation sees.
Some of you think Nagy is anabsolute bust a bum, get him out

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of town. That's what some ofyou think. Everybody, yeah, I
mean everybody agrees Jalen Warren is talent, hardcore talent. Well, for you
Unzers, Black and Golders who don'tknow sugar from shinola about football, Naji

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Harris does not stink, does not. Naji Harris is being used well wrongly,
that wrongly. He ain't been usedright. Najie Harris and Jalen Warren
could potentially be the best running backtandem in the NFL if used corectly,

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But you haven't in that offense coordinatorin Matt Canada. Hey, you're listening
to Steelers shalk talk here on FoxSports New Net, Wheeling, Pittsburgh.
Fox Sports Net, Wheeling, Pittsburg, fourteen hundred am. I'm Tank Tantler.
We're talking football every Saturday morning hereon Fox Sports Net Wheeling. So

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I know, know spelling lessons thisweek that Nagy and Warren could be the
best tandem in the league if usedproperly. But no, your offensive coordinator

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hasn't a clue what he's doing.He doesn't see Jim kick Larry Zonker from
the nineteen seventy two Miami Dolphins.A few kids out there don't know who
that is. Google them. Theone two punch kick Zonka Super Bowl.
That's what you have in that backfieldnow, not Matt Canada. He thinks

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you can get Naugy around the edge. He thinks that you can, well,
you can throw it to Noge outof the backfield at the right time.
He thinks Nagy can get around thecorner, especially with a bad offensive

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line. Take two things into effectshere, the size of Nodge and a
bad offensive line. Instead, MattCanada just keeps trying to get him outside.
Now, they're not jet sweeps He'sbeen told to knock that crap off,

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obviously by Mike Tomlin. Now Nagyhas hands. I mean that catch
he makes in a third quarter onthe right sideline in the red zone.
Those feet, his ability to catchthe ball, his athleticism are beautiful.

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Man. You can't teach that stuff. His ability to leap over a tackler
at the right time, right time, right place, right call is amazing.
You can't get Naugy to the outsideon occasion, but not bread and

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butter like Matt Canada does. Yourun Naugy in the A gap beside the
center of the B gap, besidethe guard. You let him get you
those tough yards you want to tryto tackle him. I've stood beside the
man. I'm a big guy myselfplayed left bench at pitt fullback. I

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know what big is, and he'smassive. He's as big as linebackers.
He's as big as some guards inthis league. But it's all muscle.
You run Naugy in the am Bgap, you get those linebackers creeping up.
You get him the two to threeyards on occasion. You get some

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decent blocking, but you're not gonnaget that out of Daniels at right guard.
He might pop for four, five, six. Then you got Jalen
Warren back there. Mister Magic cando anything you want with him. Anything.
You want to run Jalen Warren tothe outside, run him to the
outside, You want to throw screenpasses to him, you can do it.

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Hey, I'm out of time forthis segment. I'm Tank Tantlor.
You're listening to Steelers chalk Talk hereon Fox Sports Netwheeling, Pittsburg, every
Saturday morning. We'll be right back, and I guess we're just gonna keep
rolling about why man Cannon is anoffensive genius and we'd beat the Rams.
Bye bye, Hey, Welcome backto Fox Sports Net, Wheeling, Pittsburgh.

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I'm your host, Tank Tantlor forSteelers chok Talk. We were gonna
do a poodle trimming show. MissusSchmidzenmeyer down there over in Weirton has the
poodle trimming shop, and she calledthe station says, I would love to
do a poodle trimming show with theTank. I think he's just a genius

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as far as poodles are concerned.Unfortunately, Craig Boomer, our station manager,
he'd rather talk about the Steelers asopposed to poodle trimming. So missus
Smithsenhower over there, and I'm reallysorry, ma'am, but I will come
over from two o'clock to three o'clockthis afternoon and we can talk about poodles

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and the trimming and of course theshampoo that should be used with the poodles.
So in the meantime, it's backto Steelers chalk talk as I dissect
the Steelers four and two record andthe awe inspiring victory over the Rams due
to the genius of Matt Canada.Again, it just dismade me this week

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listening to people say, oh,you know, you got to give credit
due to Matt Canada. They wonthat game. It looks show good.
Now I gotta give Matt Canada nocredit. I'll give it to TJ.
Watt, no, Gie Harris andKenny Pickett. Look, Matt Canada,
if his head wasn't on a guillotineplatform, he'd still be running seven jet

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sweeps a game thinking he's an offensivegenius. He's not. Again, we
covered in the first segment George Pickens, who amongst you doesn't think the Big
George will catch any thing you throwat him, And it's taken Matt Canada

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last season in this season to figureit out and finally finally start using George
as a weapon, you know,on crossing patterns, you know, post
patterns, out patterns all over thefield. We'd left off the last segment
talking about Nagy and Waylon Warren.They could be the best one two punch

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in the league if they had aline, if Matt Canada knew what he
was doing. But he doesn't.Again, you saw it with the Rams.
If you think Matt Canada had anythingto do with them winning that game,
you're out of your mind. Youcan't get Naugy around the edge as
a staple of your offense. You'renot gonna do it a B gap maybe

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C gap on occasion. If yourtackles are playing well, I mean,
if George Pickens and Washington and Johnsonhave got the secondary confused, you know

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what Jalen Warren can do. Man, he looked good in fourth quarter getting
that touchdown, unstoppable. There wasa cut to Matt Kennedy going yeah,
let's go, as if he'd doneit. As if he'd done it.
This was sheer talent by Warren,by Kenny Pickett segue. Now the kids

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coming into his own again. Halfof you in Steelers Nation see things one
way. I see it another.I'm not saying Kenny Pickett is Joe Montana,
Dan Marino or even Ben Roethlisberg Gertnot saying that, But I'm saying

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the kids coming into his own alittle bit. He's not a shell shocked
running for his life. The offensiveline has gotten a little bit better than
last year. Got the hell beatout of him last season. He's staying
in the pocket, He's stepping upin the pocket. He has a nice

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ball. Are we forgetting that he'sthe comeback kid? Now? Are we
forgetting that he saved Matt Canada IsBacon against the Ravens and change the play
at the line of scrimmage and MattCanna just sat there bewildered. How dare

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a second year player changed my Thankgoodness, Kenny did? We won the
game so again all over sports TalkFacebook fans this week. You gonna give
my count card for that game plan? No, No, I'll give it
to George Pickens, future Hall ofFamer. Yeah, I said it,

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as long as he doesn't go eightbe crazy. You know. I like
Pickens, I like his testiness,I like his spit, attitude, stupid
penalty this week. I like thatthe kid's twenty one, twenty two years
old. If he doesn't have thatkind of salt and vinegar in his spirit

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and in his veins, I don'twant him on my team. I want
that kind of guy because when hedoes mature a little bit and gets focused
on his goals, future Hall ofFamer question mark for George Pickens. Now,
I want to go into your tightend. Yeah, you're tight end.

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Let's see the old mouth. He'sbeen targeted eight times fifty three yards.
Hum, it ain't too good.Plus he's playing hurt. How do
we see wow on her? Heyward, he hasn't been thrown two ones?
Why ain't he a tight end?Oh? And let's talk about another tight

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end we have, which is goingto highlight the point about Matt Canada not
having any clue of what he's doing. So fire move has been hurt.
Right. Do you remember our thirdround draft pick Darnel Washington, tight end

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out of Georgia. You know NationalChampionship Georgia probably came from a pretty good
team six seven, two seventy.Oh, by the way, he runs
a four six forty. Now,if you don't understand how fast that is.
Once you go get grandma when we'redone with the show today, and

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better one hundred bucks in the backyardthat you can beat are in a race,
which you probably can. You don'teven need to run the race.
Go race, grandma, Okay,forty yard dash. I don't care if
you're twelve years old listening. Idon't care if you are sixty years old.

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There is a ninety nine point ninepercent chance you're gonna smoke. Grandma.
Okay, that's what running a fourto six is like compared to I
don't even care. If you're thebest athlete down there in Steubenville in the
high school team, you ain't sixseven, two seventy running a four to
six. It's called lightning in theNFL. Now, those guys that run

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four two, four to three,they're freaks of nature. They're not from
this planet. Go watch Darnell Washington'stapes from Georgia, and I know what
you're gonna say, College ain't thepros. We'll tell you what hands are
hands. Our hands are hands.Darnell Washington will catch at six foot seven

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anything you throw at him ninety percentof the time. He's been thrown to
once this season for a ten yardcatch. Came against the Texans. Remember
that day. That was a fungame. Matt Canada is a genius.

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You know. We went we weresupposed to beat the Texans and we went
down to Houston and final score thirtyHouston Pittsburgh six by Matt Boswell. Matt
Boswell, my brain's getting fried.Vot Canada point is this. I don't

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want to hear that Matt Canada suddenlygot his act together last week. He
hasn't. The O line's playing alittle better. George Pickens is a potential
Hall of Famer. You got twostud running backs, you got an NFL
young quarterback coming into his own that'sall. That's all. It had nothing

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to do with Matt Canada. Itwas pure talent last week that beat the
Rams. TJ. Watts talent mostlyJalen Warren's talent beat the Rams. George
Pickens beat the Rams, Kenny Pickettbeat the Rams. Naugy beat the Rams,

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not Matt Canada. You're hurting fora tight end right now. And
look, Darnell Washington isn't the greatestblocking tight end in the league. You
know that. But this is apassing league. I get told all the
time, this is a passing league. Well, you know what, I
know. A cat that's six footseven to two seventy that runs a four

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to six a play's tight end foryour Pittsburgh Steelers that ain't even see in
the field right now. This willtell you how smart Matt Canada is.
You can't even give him the repswith the first team to get a look,
to get a look. Hey,you're listening to Steelers chalk Talk here

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on Fox Sports Net, Wheeling,Pittsburgh. I'm Tank Tanlinger. I'm here
every Saturday morning. Sometimes I'm joinedby the former NFL quarterback Mike McMahon.
Pittsburgh guy played for Rutgers, thenwent on to Detroit where he was drafted
and played quarterback, and Philly andMinnesota. Mike knows football. Look again,

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my rant this week is about andit just irritated me. Even my
buddy Steve, who says he knowsfootball, said, well, Mark,
Canada ain't that bad. It ain'tmen at Canada that won that game.
It's TJ Bott big pause there,and the talent that's on this offense.

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Now, look, the offensive linestill stinks at best at best. The
coaching of the offensive line stinks atbest. Roderick Jones needs playing time.

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Broderick Jones needs to play some football. You have a bust at right guard,
James Daniels. We paid this guybig money to come here, big
money to come here, and hestinks he's lousy. Move Roderick Jones to

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right guard. But they won't.They're gonna let that kid sit in,
languish on the bench and not develop. And if all the positions you want
to put somebody at, it's guard. Look at Kendrick Green, what the
Texans did with him. He wassupposed to come here replace Pouncy. It
didn't work out. I could havetold you that. But is he aggressive?

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Is he tough? He's a guard. He's a guard. But Tomlin
and the offensive line coach didn't seethat. They just chalked him up as
oh wow, he's no good.He no Shennery's not gonna be playing in
this league. Well, the samepeople that didn't see that Kendrick Green was

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a guard and didn't see that Dotson, you know, Kevin Dottson, the
bulldozer who now plays for the Ramswho have Super Bowl aspirations, who I'm
sure, said, let's go getKevin Dotson because he sucks, and Steelers
thinks he sucks, and that's thebest thing we could do at guard to

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get to a Super Bowl this yearis to go get Kevin Dotson from Pittsburgh
because he sucks, and obviously Pittsburghknows what they're talking about. Do you
think the Rams would have picked upKevin the bull Blowzer Dotson made him a
starting guard for Stafford in the Ramsthinking, oh, he sucks, but

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we still have Super Bowl aspirations.Yeah, pondered that. Hey, you're
listening to Steelers Chalk Talk here onFox Sports Net, Wheeling, Pittsburgh.
I'm tank here every Saturday morning.Boy, you know, the segments go
so quick. I don't even knowif anybody out there is listening. Are

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you listening? Are you listening?Are you listening? All the ships at
sea and mister and Missus America?Are you listening? This is Orson Wells.
It's Halloween weekend, space aliens.Anybody listening. I'm just having some
old fashion radio fun. Now TheWar of the World's with Orson Wells.

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All right, we'll be right backto Steelers Chalk Talk. That was Orson
Wells from his famous Halloween broadcast Warof the Worlds from nineteen thirty eight.
I think or so the War ofthe World's. I mean, you gotta

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understand something. People didn't have nocell phones and no Internet. They had
no TV. Yes, children,I said that there was a time in
America where there was no TV,just radio. And when Morsmwell started that
broadcast, man, they said,oh, this is a presentation of Mercury
Theater. Have fun. It's gonnabe fun nap. People took it serious.

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Man. They thought space aliens wereattacking. A few people did the
wrong thing. Figured well, insteadof letting the alien eat my kidneys and
my liver and my brain, I'lljust take the quick way out. No
war the World's That's what I'm havingright now. World, the World's my

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world. Tank Tantling are here onSteelers Chalk Talk, Fox Sports Net,
Wheeling every Saturday morning. The Warof the World's. Half of Steelers Nation
is a war of the world's halfof you. Half of you think Kenny
Pitts get stinks and Matt Canada calleda good game last week against the Rams.
The other half of you, likeme, based in reality, know

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that Kenny Pickett's Doesn't Stink and MacCanada had nothing to do with last week's
went over the Rams. When weleft the last segment off, I was
talking about the offense, and itreally seems like the look your defense has
saved you and got you to Foreigntwo. Thank you high Smith against the

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Clowns. Thank you, Joey Porteragainst the Ravens. Thank you, thank
you, thank you. Thank Makesure you're enjoying TJ. Watt. Kids,
I'm telling you, enjoy every snapof TJ Watt. These legends come
and go so quickly. I argueall the time that the greatest off the

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defensive player of all time, thegreatest defensive player, and nobody argues against
it, is Lawrence Taylor LT.I got to interview him once, swear
to goodness it's Super Bowl and Ibegan the interview by asking him what color
underwear he was wearing. And bythe end of the interview, man,
he was like you crazy Tank,I like, you picked me up,

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hugged me. I felt like agrizzly bear was gonna had picked me up,
was gonna eat me. That's howbig Lawrence Taylor is. Do you
know through seven seasons TJ. Watthas the same numbers and has tied some

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of the numbers that Lawrence Taylor achievedafter seven years. Now again, I'm
saying, Lawrence Taylor is recognized handsdown as the greatest defensive player of all
time. Anybody that doesn't see thatclearly. Now, you can argue Joe
Green, Black and Gold all youwant, but it's Lawrence Taylor that was

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a man playing amongst boys. YourTJ Watt, My TJ Watt Steelers Nation's
TV Watt is statistically tied after sevenseasons with Lawrence Taylor. Stacks tackles.

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It's amazing. Don't take TJ forgranted. I know we all know he's
good. But I've made the argumentseveral times amongst sports writers nationally that I
truly believe that behind Lawrence Taylor isTroy Paul Lamalou as the greatest defensive player

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in NFL history. When you throweverything together, that what I want,
what I want, what Tank wants, what coach Tank demands. I need
a team player. No one willever say that, you know, ab
or Terrell Owens were team players.Troy Paula Mala was an unselfish team player,

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heart dedication and I'll not even gettingand into what he did on the
field athletically. These guys come andthey go man so fast. Remember a
guy named le Minefic Mario Lemu,he came, he went, Troy Paulamolo

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came and went. We only gethim for so long. TJ. Watt
is somehow miraculously into seven years andwe're watching Picasso Paint. We're listening to
Mozart composed, We're listening to theBeatles practice Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

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recognized as the greatest rock and rollalbum of all time. This is TJ.
Watt. This is TJ. Watt. He is, without a doubt,
one of the best players in theleague right now. He is,
without a doubt destined to become oneof the greatest Steelers. He already is

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one of the greatest Steelers of alltime right now. And he's not even
he had not even done with hiscareer. I mean, if this guy
stays healthy, TJ. Watt,if he stays healthy throughout his career and
he's already had some problems, he'syour sack leader for the Steelers. And
I love me some James Harrison andJames Harrison better get into the Hall of

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Fame. Don't take TJ for granted. What he does is simply amazing.
Look. NFL guys are obviously reallyreally really really good athletes, and they're
really really really good at their chosenprofession. When his teammates and other guys

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on the sidelines of TJ, Watts, jaws or just hung open at the
things he does, that's a specialguy that stands out from other professionals.
Now, the fact that he droppedinto coverage, broke on the ball,

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intercepted it, and took it downto what was it the form is just
amazing. I mean it was beautiful. I Mean if a coach was watching
that tape and he just thought that, you know, TJ was an outside,
stand up linebacker, he would havesaid, well, played, that's

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how we coached that. That's howwe coached that. What you opened your
hips, you locked on the ball, you locked on the receiver, you
picked it off. Good job there. Well, he's not a stand up
outside inside linebacker either nor but hesure played it towards perfection, didn't he.
It was amazing to see. Ilike this Steelers defense at this point.

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Now, is it lacking. Yeah, is it a little porous at
times? Yeah, thirty points againstthe Texans is porous. It's poor play
and it's porus. If you knowagain, we're having a spelling lesson this
week. Is b O O rI as boris. It means like a

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sieve. You can get right throughit. But an old teammate of mind
at Pitt Tarror Austin is your defensivecoordinator these days. Now. I know
Arrell takes some heat at times.I don't know how much Mike Tomlin lets
him off the hook. I thinkyou're gonna see this defense continue to get

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better this year. I love thenew linebacking corps, Inside line backing corps.
You know, we've gone a longtime since Ryan Shazier went down for
a solid inside linebacker. Do youremember Bostic, the plastic man playing inside

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linebacker? Who is the guy Sherbert, Joe Sherbert, Orange Sherbert they brought
in here. I'm not gonna busttoo much on Devin Bush. He ain't
no inside linebacker. That's Mike Tomlin'sfolly. Now. I don't know what

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Devin Bush is doing out there inSeattle. I like the kid. I
think he's really smart too, buthe's not an inside linebacker. I don't
know if it's Tomlin. I'm sureit is, because Tomlin's got this concept
that inside linebackers aren't built like BrianUrlacker. They're not built like Jack Lambert.

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They got to be little guys.They can run with tight ends and
it's a passing league. Well it'shorse puckey, Okay. Mike Tomlin's theory
that you need these little inside linebackershas not proven out through time. Do
you remember break bordable bull ortles,break barnable bulls Andy Jaguars break borbortals through

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for one hundred and eight yards,and Leonard Fournette ran all over us and
destroyed our Super Bowl dreams. AndSean Spence Spencer something like that came off
the bench, got called from hometo replace God bless hm. Ryan Shazier
weighed one hundred and eighty seven pounds, soaking wet and just got run over

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by Leonard Fournette, and the jackwires knew that. That's Mike Tomlin's coaching.
Finally, somehow we've come up withsome respectable I'm not calling him dick
buckets. Jack Lambert, Lavon Kirkland. But some respectable inside linebacker play these
days, and that's a good thing. That's a good thing to have.

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So this defense under Taro Austin,I'm liking man to Marvin Leal, it's
coming on man. I like MoontTrevius Adams at nose tackle. That's a
large man that moves fast. LarryOgin, Jobi Well, he is paying

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dividends. But it's the inside linebackingcorps of Mark Robinson, Cole Holcomb and
even Alexander contributes on occasion and Robberts. This is the best lineback, inside
linebacking course, stay with me,that we've had around here in a long

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time. I'm not saying there.Dick Buck is Jack Lambert, Lavon Kirkland.
For you kids that don't know whoLevon Kirkland was, go look him
up. He was a beast.He was a beast during plow I mean
a Super Bowl run for the Steelersthat man, if they would have had

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eleven of them, Levon Kirkland couldhave just played, you know, every
single position on defense. He wasthat good. He was called the monster
in the middle. I don't evenremember how big he was, but he
was a big man. Big Manplayed along with Lloyd That was a beast

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of a man. Hey, you'relistening to Steelers Chalk Talk here on Fox
Sports Net Wheel in Pittsburgh. Theshow goes so fast every week. That's
really all the time I have forthis week. So Happy Halloween to everybody.
Don't listen to orsonwell show. It'llfreak you out. You'll think aliens
are really coming. So until nexttime, go Steelers beat the Jaguars.

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We gonna find out, We gonnafind out.