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I cracked this beer.
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Fine.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
I'll turn down Kevin Bacon. I'm not happy about this
week's show. All right, let's do this. Hi everyone, it's
Tank Tantlinger. Welcome to the Steelers Chalk Talk Show. I
are you in a good mood?
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Yeah? Just having some fun, folks.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
But I actually did crack a beer right now to
do this show this week after losing to the Indianapolis Colts.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Here you grab a beer too. What's that missus Smith?
You're driving?
Speaker 4 (01:27):
Okay, we'll hold on to the wheel with your left
hand and drink with your right hand.
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in a second. Why you want to come to the
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I just got that wasn't really a beer. You know,
all kinds of Seltzer junk is coming out these days,
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Speaker 3 (04:36):
Yeah. I won't be finishing this and won't be.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
Drinking anymore happy Dad Seltzer more like puky Dad Seltzer. Ugh. Actually,
I was pretending it was a beer, just you know,
joking and fun, and I actually thought it was one
of those Lacroix bubbly drinks my wife buys.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
I thought that, boy, that's horrible.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
I'm just gonna open up this parking chair for we
who can play Lawrenceville and drink that straight after losing
today Indianapolis Colts, what the hell was that?
Speaker 3 (05:16):
It was pathetic?
Speaker 4 (05:19):
So much to talk about about that game, but I
gotta start with the basics. And I said I wasn't
gonna go down this vein lash this year. I spent
so much personal time on it. I made videos, I
could devote a time to the radio show. I even
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wrote a letter to Art Rooney, I swear to goodness
I did, and I signed a tank from Latrobe. Now
this is where half of you turn off the radio
and the other half.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Go ahead, right, Tank, I get you there is.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
There's no more polarizing issue in the country right now.
And I'm not talking about the Republican candidate for president
and the Democratic candidate for president. I'm talking about no
other polarizing topic other than is Mike Tomlin a great coach?
(06:21):
Or does he need to be fired after seventeen years.
If you listen to the Shoe, you knew I am
not a Mike Tomlin fan. Hence the letter to mister
Rooney last year. Yes, I really did right end up
to God, who I trust more than anybody. Uh huh,
(06:43):
and the show last year, and I wasn't gonna do
it again this year.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
I wasn't.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
I wasn't gonna start on Tomlin anything he did, anything
he said. I was just gonna let like water off
a duck. All right, I'm just ignoring you. If you'd
know the show, you listen to the show. I mean,
I've had my media credentials for the Steelers for years.
Two thousand and eight Super Bowl in Tampa, Yeah, that
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was me in the end zone.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Snuck in the end zone.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
They tried to keep us in a tunnel as the
Steelers were on that game winning driven not the old
tanker blew right by the security guard behind him.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
He's going, hey, there's your convensials.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
And I showed it to him and by the time
he knew it, I was out in the end zone
and boom, Ben throws the perfect pass. Steelers win Super Bowl.
James Harrison is a god. I've had my press credentials
for a long time. Two years ago, I got into
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it with Tomlin about the offensive line and he tried
to humiliate me, not once, but three times during the
press conference. Lucky, I held my Irish back and I
snapped at him.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
He snapped at.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
Me and made the NFL network literally the next day
let off with it. Things got heated in the Pittsburgh
Stealers preass conference just today when a reporter me Tank Tantlinger.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Blah blah blah blah blah. You know, And I went
back the next week. God rest his soul.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
My buddy Stan Saver and was sitting beside me in
that press conference and I hit the reset button. I'm like,
all right, it's his job to be trunculent means difficult
with the media, and so I hit the reset button
and I asked a simple question, and he gave me
one of his smart ass answers, and that was it.
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I was done with Tom and I haven't gone back
to one of his press conferences. Now I still do
have my press credentials. Was on the practice field in
La Trobe, Tomlin, I really do. And again I started
this segment by saying I wasn't gonna spend time on
that clown show this year. Wasn't gonna do it. But
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here we go deja vu all over again. As Yogi
Bearra famously said, your Steelers three to zero showed promise
potential justin fields? Is he the perfect quarterback?
Speaker 3 (09:33):
New? Is he an improvement over Kenny Pickett?
Speaker 4 (09:37):
Vastly with his leg speed and what he can do
to you with his legs and his arm when he's accurate.
The defense led the league for the first three weeks.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Now, look, we all knew.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
This part of the schedule was going to be the
easy part of the schedule. But to the silent observer,
are not so silent, Hey, you're listening to Steelers shok talk.
I'm your host, Randy the Tank tamdlier often joined by
the former NFL quarterback Mike McMahon In fact, you'll here
Mike and I in the show later talking about the
(10:13):
Steelers talking about the defense prior to the Colts game.
I want you to hear the optimism we had, so
I don't want to get into recapping the game. I
won't get into the bad referee. If you go to
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Steelers chalk Talk on Facebook, you'll see a post I
put up about TJ Watt. It is video of the
right tackle for the Colts tackling TJ, holding TJ, wrapping
his arms around him, not just one throughout the game.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
I was wondering where TJ was.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
Look at that video at Steeler's chalk talk on Facebook.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
It's sickening. Are you telling me?
Speaker 4 (11:13):
The lineman, the headlines judge did not see that, not
one of them. Bullpocky. TJ had to have been screaming
into high heaven the personal foul on number thirty nine
of the Pittsburgh Steelers. Shame on him, shame lock him
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in shackles, put him in one of those you know
in England in the old days when they stuck their
head and hands through the thing.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
What the hell was that thing? Called? To embarrass the village? Idiot?
Speaker 4 (11:53):
We shall throw tomatoes at Minka Fitzpatrick. His violation was
so flagrant.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
No, it wasn't.
Speaker 5 (12:01):
Jeane Stertor came on during the broadcast and said he
tried to pull up. That should have been a non call.
Lucky it wasn't targeting. The refs killed the Steelers, but
more so after the game, you're a new leader. Justin
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Fields came out and said, and watch the post. If
you don't believe what I'm saying, watch the Justin Fields
interview after the game.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
We weren't focused when the snap came from Zach Frasier,
the Polar Bear out of West Virginia. I wasn't focused
snap fumble, what happened. We weren't up for it. We
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had a slow start, slow start. Well, did you have
a slow start in Atlanta when Boswell saved you and
the defense saved you?
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Mike Tomlin.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
Then last week, Tomlin was asked in a postgame press conference, coach,
you guys got off to a slow start there offensively
in the first quarter, and Mike Tomlin said, yes, yeah,
we did, and we can't do that. We got off
to a slow start, and you know we can't do that.
(13:42):
You're playing from come behind ball and we can't get
off the slow starts offensively or defensively. Then yesterday, in
classic Tomlin inability to accept any responsibility, when asked about
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the slow start offensively by the team in Indianapolis, he said, well,
slow starts are.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
No big deal. They really don't, you know, have an
effect on a game.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
What, dude, do you buy polar Did you not go
to the pharmacy and take your meds this week? Are
you just laying down more Mike Tomlin horsepucky? I mean,
seventeen years of it, it's.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
Gone on again.
Speaker 6 (14:36):
I didn't want to go down this vein at all
with Tomlin this year. I was gonna avoid ad nauseum.
I mean, seriously, I guess protracted seriousness, ad nauseum.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
Not to talk about Tomlin. But here we are in
week four, a game, and see if this sounds familiar
to you.
Speaker 7 (15:04):
That the Steelers should have won handily with a like
Tomlin says all the time, a rising tide of a team.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Once again dumps a game. They should have lost one.
I'm so pissed. I can't remember they should have won,
not lost.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
Need I go back historically when it really counted that
he didn't get his team focused as justin Fields admitted
that they started slow. Which is important or not important?
Important or not important? Can we get an answer from
Mike Tomlan either way? Definitively two other games he didn't
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get his team up that they were looking past their
upon own it.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
As a couple of the Steelers said yesterday.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
That's on the head coach that you don't overlook the
Indianapolis Coats in Week four.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
It's up to the coach not to let Blake Bortles
and the Jaguars.
Speaker 7 (16:20):
Come into Pittsburgh in the playoffs, in a game in
Pittsburgh with Blake Bortles who can't throw football, and let
Leonard Fournette run all over the place where Bortles flew
through over one hundred yards.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Out go the Steelers from the playoffs. You remember that?
Speaker 4 (16:40):
How about this little doozy your Pittsburgh Steelers start out
the twenty twenty two.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Campaign eleven and oh how helps.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
For your Pittsburgh Steelers. Well, we probably overlooked them. We
didn't get up for it. We got off to a
slow start. Remember when the Browns came to Pittsburgh with
an inferior football team twenty twenty two.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
In the Playoffs. I was at the game.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
The only other depressing time was when Number fourteen and
I won't mention his name in the nineties through the
interception in the NFC Championship game to the Chargers, or
when Number fourteen did to us in Super Bowl thirty
in Phoenix.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Once again, Mike Tomblin has my ire up.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
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You know what an aboo. I've had so many of them,
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Speaker 4 (21:08):
All right, your Pittsburgh Steelers are three to zero and
doing large part. Michael, If you don't have a quarterback,
I don't care how good your defense is, you ain't
winning football games. What say you about the development of
Justin Bills. They kicked him out of Chicago.
Speaker 9 (21:24):
Well, yeah, you know, and actually I thought it.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
Was an awful decision. I'm sure they're regretting that decision.
Speaker 9 (21:30):
Right now too, because Tayley believes is not off to
the right start.
Speaker 8 (21:34):
I thought, justin fields last year, he struggled early in
the year, he get her feeing back to Chicago, and
then I actually thought he played extremely well in the
second half of the season.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
I thought the best bet for Chicago should have kept them.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
However, long define played well, I mean this is it
his legs, his arms, as a little bit.
Speaker 8 (21:52):
Of both, a little bit of everything. Didn't turn the
ball over as much and was making the better decisions.
Now this year, one turnover on the tipped interception was
at the best decision on that throw. You look at
that play, it was a stick route. He was could
have been maybe a half second late. He could have
maybe went to the slant flat side to the other side,
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but he chose a stick. As long as he gets
out quick, it would have been fine. But you know
it was ended up contested, it was tipped picked off.
But you look at him on the year.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
He's seventy four percent in the first game.
Speaker 8 (22:24):
Sixty five percent in the second game, and then seventy
eight percent in the third game.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
That's recipes for success.
Speaker 9 (22:30):
I mean he was one hundred and.
Speaker 8 (22:33):
Fifty yards in the first game with fifty yards rushing,
so you know that happened.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Quarterback. You got to look at that yard just a total,
you know, so you see a guy that's you.
Speaker 8 (22:42):
Know, seventy four percent, but also you got to add
the rushing total there.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
So I don't look at a seventy d and fifty yards.
Speaker 8 (22:49):
I look at seventy four percent two hundred plus yards
as a quarterback because he brings that extra element to
the game. And then you saw it last week or
you know, two weeks ago, sixty five percent.
Speaker 9 (23:00):
But he was again he had another forty yard day rushing.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
He had in this past week.
Speaker 8 (23:07):
He was over two fieldly passing, but you know he
had six yards rushing. So he's always bringing that over
two hundred plus yards offense.
Speaker 9 (23:16):
Whether it be throwing, running, or a combination of book.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
Look, you gotta look back at last season with Kenny
Pickett and goodness forbid, Matt Canada. You know, Kenny Pickett,
I don't know how he's gonna go in Philadelphia, but
he did not have the wheels the legs that Justin
Fields has. So now you have that weapon from your quarterback.
Speaker 8 (23:39):
So that's you know, I actually saw the other day,
someone was on Twitter was complaining about it. Well, you know,
Pickett's numbers are very similar to what Justin Field's numbers.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
Are at, you know, through the first three games, and
you know, I had not seen pickets numbers last year.
Speaker 8 (23:54):
But I will say the response that is, well, if
they're similar Field's nut turner ball or he brings that
extra element up to run. And that's a headache for defense,
especially in the NFL, because you'll come across.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
That too often.
Speaker 8 (24:07):
And I think if the Steelers continue along this path
and they can kind of steal some of the concepts
of the Raven youth with Labar Jackson maybe gets an
hour read in there as well, it's gonna be a
real headache for defenses.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
Well, let's talk about building this offense over the course
of the season. You know, Mike any good coach, he
evaluates every single week what's working, what isn't working, who's
really stepping up this year. So as they build this
offensive unit around Justin Fields, a lot of people are saying, Okay,
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he's a game manager in this current He's.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
Not a takeover a game, win a game.
Speaker 4 (24:44):
The assets he has to work with, how do you
evaluate the running back situation, the wide receiver situation, tight end.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
Then eventually we're gonna talk about this offensive line. Well,
you look at they got. You know, they've got their
big playmaker and Pagase's that's their go to guy.
Speaker 8 (24:59):
That's their go to or he can make all the
combat catches, he can stretch his little Ergeric league.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
He can come underneath.
Speaker 8 (25:05):
Then you've got color under Bullmas or your time out
underneath underneath.
Speaker 4 (25:09):
I actually saw Pickens run.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
A shallow underneath route and I was so happy.
Speaker 4 (25:15):
I jumped up by Italian village pizza posta went all
over the room.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
People said, calm down, Matt Cannona. The only thing he
knew to do was running down a sideline and throwing
jump ball.
Speaker 4 (25:25):
Arthur Smith is already showing himself to be a genius
compared to boys.
Speaker 8 (25:30):
What's more creative, And he's using his player's strengths, you know,
to get the mismatches.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
You know, you can send Pickens Burger whole bit. You
can't bring Learney.
Speaker 8 (25:40):
Then you've got Kelvin Austin, who's the speed start. You've
got Van Jefferson, who's kind of a role player. You've
got those two big tight ends. Both of those guys
can get underneath. You can utilize them in the play
actual pass. You can utilize them chipping and coming out
of the backfield as a checkdown. You've got the two
headed monster with Jayalen Morden and Najie Harrison.
Speaker 9 (25:57):
Dongie Harris is more of your thumper.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
Jalen Warren's more your speedback. But again he comes back
to justin fields and what he can do.
Speaker 8 (26:02):
And I think, you know, people don't think his mechanics appropriate.
Speaker 9 (26:08):
He is when he knows where he's got, he is
at accurate.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
Thrower the football.
Speaker 8 (26:13):
You go back to the but believe it was the
Atlanta game when right before the half he hit the
big little circle while down the field, he pulled up
he threw an absolutely roll for forty yards to the
sideline back across the field.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
So his mechanics are there.
Speaker 9 (26:27):
His thing that he's missing.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
A little bit is his decision making is just.
Speaker 9 (26:31):
A time and he's a little hesitant.
Speaker 8 (26:34):
He sees it, but he wants to see the receiver
turn his eyes.
Speaker 9 (26:38):
And he's got to just trust it. Throw the ball
and his eyes would get around.
Speaker 8 (26:42):
Once he can get that next level the offense will
take us to the next level.
Speaker 9 (26:46):
Now I'm not saying that he can't get there. I
think he will approve.
Speaker 8 (26:49):
With the more reps he gets, the more trusts he gets,
he'll be able to do that.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
And I think this job is hit.
Speaker 9 (26:56):
I don't think.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
Russell Wilson's gonna come.
Speaker 8 (26:59):
In because it takes the Steelers offense and turns.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
Them a little bit more one dimensional.
Speaker 8 (27:06):
But maybe I want to say right now, there's a
little bit more three dimensional because you've got the running.
You've got the running game, you've got to play action pass,
you've got the passing game.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
And then you've got Justin Fields will be run.
Speaker 8 (27:17):
Russell Wilson can run, but he cannot do it the
way the Justin Fields game.
Speaker 9 (27:21):
He can't run some of.
Speaker 8 (27:22):
Those RPOs or you know, even just get out of
that pocket.
Speaker 9 (27:26):
You know the first one of this past week, he's
so quick.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
He came round the corner.
Speaker 8 (27:30):
There was no one there, No one was going to
get them. So he has that ability, he has that
Lamar Jackson ability. So to me, the more he plays,
the more comfortable he gets, he can just kick that
ball a half tick quicker. This offense will take off
a run. And the luxury they have right now.
Speaker 9 (27:50):
Is the defense, the defense being stout and keeping the
games close.
Speaker 8 (27:56):
Obviously that extra weapon too, what they have with Chris
Bogwell kicking, you.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
Know, be able to kick all those field goals, you know,
in the first week, first week, but he won that
game for them. But yeah he did.
Speaker 9 (28:09):
But but the offense was productive. They didn't turn the
football over. The defense was state date.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
They got to put point. I don't want to hear productive.
They play overlay points on the board.
Speaker 8 (28:20):
You're not productive, but they played you put but the
starter all campus from the Wolves and so essentially you
came into the game with your back up, so they
wanted to protect them a little bit. So it was
more of a complimentary game. But you've seen him start
to progress as the season's going, and you know, this
past week he you know, he was seventy eight percent
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with over two hundred yards passing. I mean that's incredible
and so you know, one turnover it was a tip.
But he is going to continue to improve every single week.
Arthur Smith is getting creative with the offense, find mismatches,
fighting the matchups and uh and the defense allows that,
you know, they're not playing. They're not a team playing
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from behind trying to play catch up. They're playing out
in front of their places for football. They're doing. They're
doing exactly what they should be doing to.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
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Speaker 8 (29:14):
Interception last week, I believe we're Uh here's a Nikola
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thank you Tera. This is lovely terror. You can see her.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
Where is she?
Speaker 4 (29:24):
Italian Village Pizza. Come say hi to terror, Get a pizza, pizza,
get out of here. Thanks, See you're fine. That's lovely Terror.
Comes he here at Italian Village Pizza. So I'm gonna
have some pizza. When you tell me why offenses have
problem with this Steelers defense.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
Excuse me, my right, let me review that. Go ahead.
Speaker 4 (29:49):
So while you're talking about why offenses we're having trouble
excuse me with this Steelers defense, I'm gonna eat some
Italian Village Pizza pizza.
Speaker 9 (29:59):
Well, you know you obviously you talk about t J.
Speaker 8 (30:01):
Watt and he's the guy that when you're a quarterback,
when you're the offense, no you're running up and maybe
later when you're coming up and you're going to identify
where he's got.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
In there all the times? Where is t J.
Speaker 8 (30:13):
Watt, Which now you know you've got to get the
back over the chip or you know you're got to
slide to protection that way, which is opening things up
for the second year guy, Nick Herbert, who's doing.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
Some big things. He's just if you work more, Nick,
guy needs to come to the Dalian building beat. So
with Barstow Wall.
Speaker 8 (30:30):
If you looked at if you looked at the in
training camps, you know who is who.
Speaker 9 (30:36):
Is Herbert hanging around at at the end of.
Speaker 4 (30:39):
Practice getting tips from himself?
Speaker 3 (30:44):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (30:45):
Right with that underneath book that Harris James Harris, Harris
Harrisson showing you a.
Speaker 8 (30:50):
Little amount of practice. And so now now you've got
t J. Wall on one side, you've got Herbrick on
the other side. Hey, where you've got all those guys
And then to me the guy that really I mean
those two guys, I mean obviously that Delon is isshuge did.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
The secondary Fige Ford has been dealing good. Jackson's been
doing good. But to me the other guy, Patrick Queen.
Speaker 8 (31:11):
Oh and he's a thumber in Peyton Wills I mean
those two linebacker Peyton Wills.
Speaker 3 (31:17):
Can cover you, yump, he can run.
Speaker 8 (31:19):
He's to me, he's kind of like the modern day
Bryan or elect He's big, he's fast, he can move. Uh,
he's a four or four guy. He can cover you know,
slot receivers, he can cover tight ends. He can come
up and help you. I mean he is takeoff blocks.
He's he's a he's a run support guy.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
But Patrick Queen, I mean every time.
Speaker 9 (31:38):
You see the role play he is around football.
Speaker 4 (31:41):
He likes to hit. Patrick Queen likes to hit people.
And in case you didn't know it, even though James
Daniel was.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
Wearing that that that stupid cap.
Speaker 4 (31:51):
On the sensitivity cap on his head, Patrick Queen is
an old screw like Jack o'lambert did, fuck is.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
He will mock the snot out of you.
Speaker 4 (32:00):
So when you've got this combination of TJ over here,
Cam Hayward looks beautiful, ageless this year now, Mike, it
has been a long dry spot an inside linebacker for
the Steelers. The rookie Peyton Wilson, Oh only an upside
with him? Now you also Eldrin Roberts. He's a thumper
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with Patrick Queen. This defense has not only kept him
in the game, I think it is sustainable, barring injury,
to only get better.
Speaker 8 (32:29):
Yeah, I think Patrick Queen's the guy because I think
what Dad does is for him being around the footbubbing
anytime there's a rough.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
But he is around the football.
Speaker 8 (32:38):
He is all over it, which essentially you don't.
Speaker 3 (32:42):
It allows t J. Watt, allows those edge rushers.
Speaker 8 (32:45):
It's not necessarily they've got to worry about the run games,
but they don't have to worry about it. It has much
when you've got those horset linebackers behind you to clean
it up here.
Speaker 3 (32:56):
I want to now.
Speaker 8 (32:57):
It opens you up in that passion right allows you
to kind of, you know, go full go and take
some chances here and there, take a couple of guessing.
Speaker 9 (33:08):
On the situations and I'm going to try this and
see what happens.
Speaker 4 (33:13):
Well, you know it's sometimes, and Michael tell you this,
especially at the pro level, it's much better if you
don't hear a guy's name at all. He's going to
work every week, he's doing his job. He is solid,
so he's not having anybody criticize him, et cetera, et cetera.
Don't forget about the stalwart Minka Fitzpatrick back there for
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you just because you're not hearing his name, because he's
not making.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
Splash plays yet this season.
Speaker 4 (33:44):
He is a stalwart in that defense right now, which
causes all kinds of problems for the offense.
Speaker 3 (33:50):
Well again, you know, he was a number a former
number one pick. And he also likes me. He's a
pro bowler. I mean he loved him up at support
the d.
Speaker 9 (34:00):
He's a great uh, he's a great center field Jase.
Speaker 8 (34:03):
So again, he's kind of like the stable got him
and him and Kyward.
Speaker 9 (34:09):
You don't hear the names as much, but they're the
they're the two stables. They're the foundation of the vedas
uh T J.
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Speaker 3 (34:41):
Tread It's My I Got Pizza.
Speaker 4 (34:54):
Come in here somewhere from the Italian Village Vizeria en
route twenty it comes see us twenty two to the
point Sunday mornings nine. What are we going air at
tenth or at some point in the mornings on Sundays? Wait,
come see as heroes. I thinks there comes see as.
Speaker 3 (35:10):
You know I'll be.
Speaker 4 (35:11):
I'll be at home, eating the Italian Village pizza and
drinking Mornsville Distilling products. But Tuesday nights we'll be filming
here at seven o'clock.
Speaker 3 (35:20):
You can come get an autograph from Mike McMahon.
Speaker 10 (35:22):
Drinking Saturday morning. You know you don't drink bluddy Mary
on a Sunday morning. You gotta come out with me
on Saturday night. That way you'll meet the Sunday morning. Anyway,
it should be in church the Sunday mornings. I didn't
say it was you.
Speaker 4 (35:35):
I didn't say I wasn't in church drinking the pre sdrinks.
Speaker 3 (35:44):
Home up Steelers Station. It's Tech and Mike for the
Steelers Chalk Talk Show. How do you like our new
dish taking the Village Pizza. That's where we're at. Case
you didn't know, it's lovely. It's lovely. You have pizza
here yet?
Speaker 4 (35:56):
No, but we'll try it here shortly, you know, at
the Italian saved month on to eat the beats a
mind cut, that's what they say. All right, Steelers Nation,
you were off to a three and oho starts. Mike, Look,
we knew this was going to be the easy part
of the schedule.
Speaker 3 (36:11):
The buzz saw is coming down the road.
Speaker 4 (36:15):
So with the new quarterback, Justin Fields Russell Wilson will
get to him later, this is a pretty good position
to be in at three and zero playing some marshmallow teams.
We're going to Indianapolis this week. It's not like they're
Super Bowl contenders.
Speaker 3 (36:30):
It's a good position for the offense to grow in Fields. Well,
it's not. It wasn't a marshmallow the schedule.
Speaker 8 (36:37):
I mean, you faced a good rushing attack with the
Atlantis at a better quarterback Kirk Cousins. Yeah, it's his
starts game back since ago. However, they found they were
way to get a win and then you and then
you face you know, just recently.
Speaker 3 (36:51):
The Chargers with Justin Herbert.
Speaker 8 (36:52):
Yeah he's injured, but they got a great rushing attack
and you know Greg Roman and Jim Harbaugh got that
rushing attack.
Speaker 3 (36:58):
Going that game.
Speaker 8 (37:00):
If Herbert is helping you guys act good. Well, I
think the defense is good. I think that's the key
with this team. And and the other key is not
turning football over. Now, granted there was a tipped interception
in that game, but how.
Speaker 3 (37:16):
But besides that has been over to the over turnover here.
Speaker 8 (37:19):
So we have great defensive play, a good rushing attack,
and no turnovers.
Speaker 3 (37:24):
It's a recipe for success.
Speaker 4 (37:26):
All right, let's talk about this Steelers offensive skill positions.
You know, when I was in camp and Watrove, you know,
it really became apparent to me, Mike.
Speaker 3 (37:36):
Any team would love to.
Speaker 4 (37:38):
Have the one two punch of thunder and lightning in
Naugy Harris and Jalen Moore. George Pickens, I think if
he gets his head on straight, Mike, the Jerry Weiss
work ethic is legendary. If you get that work ethic
going with George Pickens.
Speaker 3 (37:56):
He might have Hall of Fame ring on him. He does.
I mean, you could see.
Speaker 8 (38:00):
It anytime they get that one old match up there
trying to get the ball in his hands, and you
know you can see when he makes those combat for
contested catches.
Speaker 3 (38:10):
You know, ninety percent of the times he's coming out
of football. Every once in a while he has a
little hiccup. He had one drop against the Chargers for
this past week, but other than that, I thought, you know, he's.
Speaker 8 (38:18):
Been doing greaton's he's it kind of cleaned out that
room a little bit. Yeah, so there's no more bad influences.
Speaker 4 (38:26):
There were straight jackets and patting on the wall for
there while it was a mouse, I mean, what a receiver.
Speaker 8 (38:31):
But yeah, but now you know, it seems like there's
been a lot of turnover in the locker room on
the offense side of the football, and it's starting to
look a little bit more team for you and a
little bit more team.
Speaker 3 (38:44):
Light as opposed to a bunch of individuals. You throw
in Austin to that mix.
Speaker 4 (38:49):
Unfortunately, Roman Wilson, I mean, this kid's upside is huge.
That injury in the in the in the preseason out
there in La Trow has kept you off the field.
So potentially you've got a great wide receiving corps, the
running back corps.
Speaker 3 (39:06):
When you look at the tight end situation, who doesn't love.
Speaker 8 (39:09):
The move, well, yeah, you know the move and obviously
everyone sees with the potentials name Steelers Old his potentialis
and they ended up paying.
Speaker 3 (39:17):
This offseason, which was right before the season, which was huge.
Speaker 4 (39:21):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (39:21):
And you know you can see some of the things
that he's doing. He's able to get open one on one.
I think has the offense progresses and they start to trust,
just feels a little bit more they're going to be
able to I guess highlight the fryar with a little
bit more. You see some Parkio stuff. Ye, sometimes he's blocking,
sometimes he's releasing on the darkieos which is huge and
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h and then also don't forget Van Jefferson who.
Speaker 3 (39:47):
He's a qual quality here.
Speaker 8 (39:51):
I'm not surprised because his dad was one of my
receivers and is every receiveent coach in the NFL. Huber
the Lions, and his dad was always doing the dirty work.
Speaker 3 (40:05):
You know.
Speaker 8 (40:06):
He wasn't afraid to get in their block, wasn't afraid
to put his body.
Speaker 3 (40:09):
On the line to make those catches.
Speaker 8 (40:11):
Wasn't the biggest one, the fastest, book, was a technician,
was a pretty player, and you know, raised by a coach,
I see that success.
Speaker 3 (40:20):
I'm not surprised by his success.
Speaker 9 (40:21):
And he's great, he's a he.
Speaker 8 (40:23):
Has that knowledge of a coach's son, and he can
be able to use that knowledge to.
Speaker 3 (40:30):
Get over back to the tight end position.
Speaker 4 (40:33):
And it's gonna hark to your new offensive coordinator and
Arthur Smith.
Speaker 3 (40:37):
You know, if you've not stood beside the beast out
of Georgia, Darnetta Washington.
Speaker 4 (40:43):
This man is six foot seven with nottt fleets on.
Speaker 3 (40:47):
He is a mountain. You go back to the Georgia
tapes when he's down.
Speaker 4 (40:51):
There, he catches anything and everything you throw at him.
You're a form and dn't anybody throw anything at I'm
gonna mention somebody's name, Matt Canada. Don't throw anything at me,
Matt Canada. Kep Washington on the bench last.
Speaker 3 (41:07):
Year, it was almost like he did not know you
could throw to the middle of the field.
Speaker 4 (41:13):
So all these offensive weapons and now you've got this
new offensive coordinator, Mike who at.
Speaker 3 (41:19):
This point, and here's my question to you. I mean,
you played the game with the Lions.
Speaker 4 (41:23):
For the Eagles, the Vikings at quarterback. With a new
situation with Justin Fields now being your predominant quarterback, is
Arthur Smith building this offense one week at a time?
Speaker 3 (41:37):
Will it be the same offense we see in week fourteen.
Speaker 8 (41:40):
Well, it just depends on who the quarterback is, and
I think you do adapt that. You know the play caller.
You're gonna have your base plays, but you're going to
feature the.
Speaker 9 (41:49):
Offense around that quarterback.
Speaker 8 (41:52):
You know, Russell Wilson cannot do some of the things
that Justin Fields can do. And you know Justin Field,
you know, probably can't do some things that Russell Wolfson,
and Russell Wilson.
Speaker 9 (42:01):
Probably has a little bit more anticipatory throwing.
Speaker 3 (42:04):
Justin Fields holds onto it just a.
Speaker 8 (42:06):
Half second too long sometimes, but he's getting the better,
but he doesn't add that.
Speaker 9 (42:10):
Element for the rbos to be able to run for it.
Speaker 8 (42:12):
And now when you have both those tight ends, you
know it was the last week they split both of
them out.
Speaker 3 (42:17):
Who you're gonna cover ones with?
Speaker 8 (42:19):
Covering with the linebacker safety, the other ones covered with
the corner and Washington had seven receptions all last year.
Speaker 3 (42:24):
They throw the back shoulder, faith Good corner even threw
his arms up, like, how am I supposed to defend that? Right?
Speaker 8 (42:28):
It's like running the ball right Shaquille O'Neal against John
Stockton on the low host.
Speaker 3 (42:33):
You just can't defend it. You can't. He's too big
of a body.
Speaker 8 (42:36):
So I think you've got to get creative with your
personnel and with Justin Fields's ability to run the ball
that RPO so they can actually maul that whole left side.
It can just run it, or they can release those guys,
run a little stick, run a flat read the end
and stays up field. We'll hand it off with Najie
Hanner one of the heat crashes. Let's pull it and
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I can either run it no more, I can throw
it only one instant triple option.
Speaker 3 (43:01):
It's not the triple option with the pitch. It's a
triple option throw.
Speaker 4 (43:03):
The fun Imagine if you get those linebackers running out
of there, those corners running out of there, and you
do a slow draw to Jalen Warren, You're gonna eat
you up for twelve yards.
Speaker 3 (43:13):
Yeah, well, I mean that will come.
Speaker 8 (43:17):
But I think as each week goes along, they're gonna
see what each defense with their strends, what their weaknesses are,
and then they're gonna play the Justin Giel strets and
to their personnel strets.
Speaker 4 (43:30):
All right, kitty cats, we're going into Indianapolis this week.
I ain't got no peyton Manning. Who is Alan Mitchi
you're too young. You know who Alan Michi wash you
running back for the cults back at the Johnny United States.
Speaker 3 (43:45):
All right, it's Tank, it's my I got a pizza.
Speaker 4 (43:48):
Come in here somewhere from the Italian Village pizzeria on
Rounte twenty they come see us twenty two to the
point Sunday mornings.
Speaker 3 (43:57):
Nine, What are we going? Are tenth in the mornings
on Sundays?
Speaker 9 (44:01):
Wait, come see as heroes Sundays are come to see us.
Speaker 4 (44:04):
No, I'll be I'll be at home, eating the Italian
Village pizza and drinking. Morrinsville is stilling products. But Tuesday
nights we'll be filming here at seven o'clock. You can
come get an autograph from Mike McMahon.
Speaker 10 (44:15):
Drinking Sunday morning. You don't cheat, buddy, Mary on a
Sunday morning. You gotta come out with me on Saturday night.
That way you'll meet the Sunday morning. Anyway, it should
be in church and Sunday mornings. I didn't say it was.
I didn't say I wasn't in church, drinking the pre streets,
attacking Mike for Steelers chalk talk.
Speaker 4 (44:35):
Huddle Up Steelers Nation, It's Tank for the Italian Village,
Pizza Steelers Chalk Talk Show. Well, it's Friday night nights
here in Latrobe, Pennsylvania.
Speaker 3 (44:45):
You know, I grew up in Lake Trobe.
Speaker 4 (44:47):
It's been many years since I've well played on the
very field behind US Memorial Stadium. Live in Pittsburgh now,
don't get back home that often. But when I come home,
I realize just how beautiful Latrobe is, the rolling mountains
of western Pennsylvania, and it hearkens to a day of
my youth. But your Pittsburgh Steelers will, well, they're going
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to be putting on the pads tonight for the first
what I like to call real live contact of the season.
I want to talk about number forty one for your
Pittsburgh Steelers. Number forty one for your Pittsburgh Steelers.
Speaker 3 (45:25):
Go buy your.
Speaker 4 (45:26):
Forty one jerseys now because you're going to be wearing
them for lots of years to come. Rookie inside linebacker
Peyton Wilson. Peyton Wilson, Well, he came out of North
Carolina State, the Wolfpack. Well a Dick Buckets Award winner.
If you don't know the Buckets Award, if you don't
know who Dick Buckets is, will shame on you, cupcake.
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Peyton Wilson is a Dick Buckets Award winner in a
twenty twenty three season. When you look at his tape
from college, you'll understand why. First of all, six foot four,
two hundred and thirty five pounds of solid muscle. His
numbers at the NFL Combine were even more spectacular.
Speaker 3 (46:07):
You know that kind of frame when you.
Speaker 4 (46:09):
Put four to four speed, which is what he got
at the NFL Combine, four four speed at six foot four,
but cleats on that, that's more like six foot five,
six foot six at two hundred and thirty five pounds.
That is a battering ram. The nice thing about Peyton Wilson, look,
we're early into training camp. I think Friday night lights
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here in Latrow, Pennsylvania is going to really present him
to Steelers Nation.
Speaker 3 (46:39):
He is tall, he is lanky.
Speaker 4 (46:42):
Now I want you to search your memory for well
days of yore in Pittsburgh history, Number fifty eight. Jack Lambert,
many Steelers fans' favorite Steeler of all time. Peyton Wilson
has a long way to go before he could even
sniff Jack Lambert's Jockstrappe where he could even sniff his cleats.
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But here's what I'm trying to say. He's got the
same frame as Jack Lambert. I've been watching him at
Camp Saints Vincent's College. There's two things I really like
about him. Let's start with this. There was another inside
linebacker that just came through well Le Trobe and right
down the road to Seattle and Devin Bush, who ran
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a four four forty consistently. How'd that work out for
Devin Bush, all of five foot ten plus?
Speaker 3 (47:32):
Was Devin Bush?
Speaker 4 (47:33):
His inability to see over the line of scrimmage, His
inability with Devin Bush to take on NFL caliber guards,
tackles and centers just wasn't there. Devin Bush absolutely well
didn't pan out for your Pittsburgh Steelers at six foot four.
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Peyton Wilson not only has the speed, but I've been
watching him take on well the likes of Broderick Jones
Zach Frazier here at Latrobe training camp. And inside linebackerre
has to be smart, has to be intelligent, but he's
got to be able to put his hands in the
chest of those guards, tackles and centers fend off the block.
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From the offensive lineman and get to the line, down
the line of scrimmage to the ball. That's what Peyton
Wilson does do with authority. Look, he doesn't act like
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I cracked this beer.
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Speaker 4 (00:56):
I'll turn down Kevin Bacon. I'm not happy about this
week's show. All right, let's do this. Hi everyone, it's
Tank Tantlinger. Welcome to the Steelers Chalk Talk Show. I
are you in a good mood?
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Yeah? Just having some fun, folks.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
But I actually did crack a beer right now to
do this show this week after losing to the Indianapolis Colts.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Here you grab a beer too. What's that missus Smith?
You're driving?
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Okay, we'll hold on to the wheel with your left
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So much to talk about about that game, but I
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There's no more polarizing issue in the country right now.
And I'm not talking about the Republican candidate for president
and the Democratic candidate for president. I'm talking about no
other polarizing topic other than is Mike Tomlin a great coach?
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Or does he need to be fired after seventeen years.
If you listen to the Shoe, you knew I am
not a Mike Tomlin fan. Hence the letter to mister
Rooney last year. Yes, I really did right end up
to God, who I trust more than anybody. Uh huh,
(06:43):
and the show last year, and I wasn't gonna do
it again this year.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
I wasn't.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
I wasn't gonna start on Tomlin anything he did, anything
he said. I was just gonna let like water off
a duck. All right, I'm just ignoring you. If you'd
know the show, you listen to the show. I mean,
I've had my media credentials for the Steelers for years.
Two thousand and eight Super Bowl in Tampa, Yeah, that
(07:13):
was me in the end zone.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Snuck in the end zone.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
They tried to keep us in a tunnel as the
Steelers were on that game winning driven not the old
tanker blew right by the security guard behind him.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
He's going, hey, there's your convensials.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
And I showed it to him and by the time
he knew it, I was out in the end zone
and boom, Ben throws the perfect pass. Steelers win Super Bowl.
James Harrison is a god. I've had my press credentials
for a long time. Two years ago, I got into
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it with Tomlin about the offensive line and he tried
to humiliate me, not once, but three times during the
press conference. Lucky, I held my Irish back and I
snapped at him.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
He snapped at.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
Me and made the NFL network literally the next day
let off with it. Things got heated in the Pittsburgh
Stealers preass conference just today when a reporter me Tank Tantlinger.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Blah blah blah blah blah. You know, And I went
back the next week. God rest his soul.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
My buddy Stan Saver and was sitting beside me in
that press conference and I hit the reset button. I'm like,
all right, it's his job to be trunculent means difficult
with the media, and so I hit the reset button
and I asked a simple question, and he gave me
one of his smart ass answers, and that was it.
(08:51):
I was done with Tom and I haven't gone back
to one of his press conferences. Now I still do
have my press credentials. Was on the practice field in
La Trobe, Tomlin, I really do. And again I started
this segment by saying I wasn't gonna spend time on
that clown show this year. Wasn't gonna do it. But
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here we go deja vu all over again. As Yogi
Bearra famously said, your Steelers three to zero showed promise
potential justin fields? Is he the perfect quarterback?
Speaker 3 (09:33):
New? Is he an improvement over Kenny Pickett?
Speaker 4 (09:37):
Vastly with his leg speed and what he can do
to you with his legs and his arm when he's accurate.
The defense led the league for the first three weeks.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Now, look, we all knew.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
This part of the schedule was going to be the
easy part of the schedule. But to the silent observer,
are not so silent, Hey, you're listening to Steelers shok talk.
I'm your host, Randy the Tank tamdlier often joined by
the former NFL quarterback Mike McMahon In fact, you'll here
Mike and I in the show later talking about the
(10:13):
Steelers talking about the defense prior to the Colts game.
I want you to hear the optimism we had, so
I don't want to get into recapping the game. I
won't get into the bad referee. If you go to
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Steelers chalk Talk on Facebook, you'll see a post I
put up about TJ Watt. It is video of the
right tackle for the Colts tackling TJ, holding TJ, wrapping
his arms around him, not just one throughout the game.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
I was wondering where TJ was.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
Look at that video at Steeler's chalk talk on Facebook.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
It's sickening. Are you telling me?
Speaker 4 (11:13):
The lineman, the headlines judge did not see that, not
one of them. Bullpocky. TJ had to have been screaming
into high heaven the personal foul on number thirty nine
of the Pittsburgh Steelers. Shame on him, shame lock him
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in shackles, put him in one of those you know
in England in the old days when they stuck their
head and hands through the thing.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
What the hell was that thing? Called? To embarrass the village? Idiot?
Speaker 4 (11:53):
We shall throw tomatoes at Minka Fitzpatrick. His violation was
so flagrant.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
No, it wasn't.
Speaker 5 (12:01):
Jeane Stertor came on during the broadcast and said he
tried to pull up. That should have been a non call.
Lucky it wasn't targeting. The refs killed the Steelers, but
more so after the game, you're a new leader. Justin
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Fields came out and said, and watch the post. If
you don't believe what I'm saying, watch the Justin Fields
interview after the game.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
We weren't focused when the snap came from Zach Frasier,
the Polar Bear out of West Virginia. I wasn't focused
snap fumble, what happened. We weren't up for it. We
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had a slow start, slow start. Well, did you have
a slow start in Atlanta when Boswell saved you and
the defense saved you?
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Mike Tomlin.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
Then last week, Tomlin was asked in a postgame press conference, coach,
you guys got off to a slow start there offensively
in the first quarter, and Mike Tomlin said, yes, yeah,
we did, and we can't do that. We got off
to a slow start, and you know we can't do that.
(13:42):
You're playing from come behind ball and we can't get
off the slow starts offensively or defensively. Then yesterday, in
classic Tomlin inability to accept any responsibility, when asked about
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the slow start offensively by the team in Indianapolis, he said, well,
slow starts are.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
No big deal. They really don't, you know, have an
effect on a game.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
What, dude, do you buy polar Did you not go
to the pharmacy and take your meds this week? Are
you just laying down more Mike Tomlin horsepucky? I mean,
seventeen years of it, it's.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
Gone on again.
Speaker 6 (14:36):
I didn't want to go down this vein at all
with Tomlin this year. I was gonna avoid ad nauseum.
I mean, seriously, I guess protracted seriousness, ad nauseum.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
Not to talk about Tomlin. But here we are in
week four, a game, and see if this sounds familiar
to you.
Speaker 7 (15:04):
That the Steelers should have won handily with a like
Tomlin says all the time, a rising tide of a team.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Once again dumps a game. They should have lost one.
I'm so pissed. I can't remember they should have won,
not lost.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
Need I go back historically when it really counted that
he didn't get his team focused as justin Fields admitted
that they started slow. Which is important or not important?
Important or not important? Can we get an answer from
Mike Tomlan either way? Definitively two other games he didn't
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get his team up that they were looking past their
upon own it.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
As a couple of the Steelers said yesterday.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
That's on the head coach that you don't overlook the
Indianapolis Coats in Week four.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
It's up to the coach not to let Blake Bortles
and the Jaguars.
Speaker 7 (16:20):
Come into Pittsburgh in the playoffs, in a game in
Pittsburgh with Blake Bortles who can't throw football, and let
Leonard Fournette run all over the place where Bortles flew
through over one hundred yards.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Out go the Steelers from the playoffs. You remember that?
Speaker 4 (16:40):
How about this little doozy your Pittsburgh Steelers start out
the twenty twenty two.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Campaign eleven and oh how helps.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
For your Pittsburgh Steelers. Well, we probably overlooked them. We
didn't get up for it. We got off to a
slow start. Remember when the Browns came to Pittsburgh with
an inferior football team twenty twenty two.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
In the Playoffs. I was at the game.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
The only other depressing time was when Number fourteen and
I won't mention his name in the nineties through the
interception in the NFC Championship game to the Chargers, or
when Number fourteen did to us in Super Bowl thirty
in Phoenix.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Once again, Mike Tomblin has my ire up.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
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Speaker 4 (21:08):
All right, your Pittsburgh Steelers are three to zero and
doing large part. Michael, If you don't have a quarterback,
I don't care how good your defense is, you ain't
winning football games. What say you about the development of
Justin Bills. They kicked him out of Chicago.
Speaker 9 (21:24):
Well, yeah, you know, and actually I thought it.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
Was an awful decision. I'm sure they're regretting that decision.
Speaker 9 (21:30):
Right now too, because Tayley believes is not off to
the right start.
Speaker 8 (21:34):
I thought, justin fields last year, he struggled early in
the year, he get her feeing back to Chicago, and
then I actually thought he played extremely well in the
second half of the season.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
I thought the best bet for Chicago should have kept them.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
However, long define played well, I mean this is it
his legs, his arms, as a little bit.
Speaker 8 (21:52):
Of both, a little bit of everything. Didn't turn the
ball over as much and was making the better decisions.
Now this year, one turnover on the tipped interception was
at the best decision on that throw. You look at
that play, it was a stick route. He was could
have been maybe a half second late. He could have
maybe went to the slant flat side to the other side,
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but he chose a stick. As long as he gets
out quick, it would have been fine. But you know
it was ended up contested, it was tipped picked off.
But you look at him on the year.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
He's seventy four percent in the first game.
Speaker 8 (22:24):
Sixty five percent in the second game, and then seventy
eight percent in the third game.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
That's recipes for success.
Speaker 9 (22:30):
I mean he was one hundred and.
Speaker 8 (22:33):
Fifty yards in the first game with fifty yards rushing,
so you know that happened.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Quarterback. You got to look at that yard just a total,
you know, so you see a guy that's you.
Speaker 8 (22:42):
Know, seventy four percent, but also you got to add
the rushing total there.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
So I don't look at a seventy d and fifty yards.
Speaker 8 (22:49):
I look at seventy four percent two hundred plus yards
as a quarterback because he brings that extra element to
the game. And then you saw it last week or
you know, two weeks ago, sixty five percent.
Speaker 9 (23:00):
But he was again he had another forty yard day rushing.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
He had in this past week.
Speaker 8 (23:07):
He was over two fieldly passing, but you know he
had six yards rushing. So he's always bringing that over
two hundred plus yards offense.
Speaker 9 (23:16):
Whether it be throwing, running, or a combination of book.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
Look, you gotta look back at last season with Kenny
Pickett and goodness forbid, Matt Canada. You know, Kenny Pickett,
I don't know how he's gonna go in Philadelphia, but
he did not have the wheels the legs that Justin
Fields has. So now you have that weapon from your quarterback.
Speaker 8 (23:39):
So that's you know, I actually saw the other day,
someone was on Twitter was complaining about it. Well, you know,
Pickett's numbers are very similar to what Justin Field's numbers.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
Are at, you know, through the first three games, and
you know, I had not seen pickets numbers last year.
Speaker 8 (23:54):
But I will say the response that is, well, if
they're similar Field's nut turner ball or he brings that
extra element up to run. And that's a headache for defense,
especially in the NFL, because you'll come across.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
That too often.
Speaker 8 (24:07):
And I think if the Steelers continue along this path
and they can kind of steal some of the concepts
of the Raven youth with Labar Jackson maybe gets an
hour read in there as well, it's gonna be a
real headache for defenses.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
Well, let's talk about building this offense over the course
of the season. You know, Mike any good coach, he
evaluates every single week what's working, what isn't working, who's
really stepping up this year. So as they build this
offensive unit around Justin Fields, a lot of people are saying, Okay,
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he's a game manager in this current He's.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
Not a takeover a game, win a game.
Speaker 4 (24:44):
The assets he has to work with, how do you
evaluate the running back situation, the wide receiver situation, tight end.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
Then eventually we're gonna talk about this offensive line. Well,
you look at they got. You know, they've got their
big playmaker and Pagase's that's their go to guy.
Speaker 8 (24:59):
That's their go to or he can make all the
combat catches, he can stretch his little Ergeric league.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
He can come underneath.
Speaker 8 (25:05):
Then you've got color under Bullmas or your time out
underneath underneath.
Speaker 4 (25:09):
I actually saw Pickens run.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
A shallow underneath route and I was so happy.
Speaker 4 (25:15):
I jumped up by Italian village pizza posta went all
over the room.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
People said, calm down, Matt Cannona. The only thing he
knew to do was running down a sideline and throwing
jump ball.
Speaker 4 (25:25):
Arthur Smith is already showing himself to be a genius
compared to boys.
Speaker 8 (25:30):
What's more creative, And he's using his player's strengths, you know,
to get the mismatches.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
You know, you can send Pickens Burger whole bit. You
can't bring Learney.
Speaker 8 (25:40):
Then you've got Kelvin Austin, who's the speed start. You've
got Van Jefferson, who's kind of a role player. You've
got those two big tight ends. Both of those guys
can get underneath. You can utilize them in the play
actual pass. You can utilize them chipping and coming out
of the backfield as a checkdown. You've got the two
headed monster with Jayalen Morden and Najie Harrison.
Speaker 9 (25:57):
Dongie Harris is more of your thumper.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
Jalen Warren's more your speedback. But again he comes back
to justin fields and what he can do.
Speaker 8 (26:02):
And I think, you know, people don't think his mechanics appropriate.
Speaker 9 (26:08):
He is when he knows where he's got, he is
at accurate.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
Thrower the football.
Speaker 8 (26:13):
You go back to the but believe it was the
Atlanta game when right before the half he hit the
big little circle while down the field, he pulled up
he threw an absolutely roll for forty yards to the
sideline back across the field.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
So his mechanics are there.
Speaker 9 (26:27):
His thing that he's missing.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
A little bit is his decision making is just.
Speaker 9 (26:31):
A time and he's a little hesitant.
Speaker 8 (26:34):
He sees it, but he wants to see the receiver
turn his eyes.
Speaker 9 (26:38):
And he's got to just trust it. Throw the ball
and his eyes would get around.
Speaker 8 (26:42):
Once he can get that next level the offense will
take us to the next level.
Speaker 9 (26:46):
Now I'm not saying that he can't get there. I
think he will approve.
Speaker 8 (26:49):
With the more reps he gets, the more trusts he gets,
he'll be able to do that.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
And I think this job is hit.
Speaker 9 (26:56):
I don't think.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
Russell Wilson's gonna come.
Speaker 8 (26:59):
In because it takes the Steelers offense and turns.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
Them a little bit more one dimensional.
Speaker 8 (27:06):
But maybe I want to say right now, there's a
little bit more three dimensional because you've got the running.
You've got the running game, you've got to play action pass,
you've got the passing game.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
And then you've got Justin Fields will be run.
Speaker 8 (27:17):
Russell Wilson can run, but he cannot do it the
way the Justin Fields game.
Speaker 9 (27:21):
He can't run some of.
Speaker 8 (27:22):
Those RPOs or you know, even just get out of
that pocket.
Speaker 9 (27:26):
You know the first one of this past week, he's
so quick.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
He came round the corner.
Speaker 8 (27:30):
There was no one there, No one was going to
get them. So he has that ability, he has that
Lamar Jackson ability. So to me, the more he plays,
the more comfortable he gets, he can just kick that
ball a half tick quicker. This offense will take off
a run. And the luxury they have right now.
Speaker 9 (27:50):
Is the defense, the defense being stout and keeping the
games close.
Speaker 8 (27:56):
Obviously that extra weapon too, what they have with Chris
Bogwell kicking, you.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
Know, be able to kick all those field goals, you know,
in the first week, first week, but he won that
game for them. But yeah he did.
Speaker 9 (28:09):
But but the offense was productive. They didn't turn the
football over. The defense was state date.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
They got to put point. I don't want to hear productive.
They play overlay points on the board.
Speaker 8 (28:20):
You're not productive, but they played you put but the
starter all campus from the Wolves and so essentially you
came into the game with your back up, so they
wanted to protect them a little bit. So it was
more of a complimentary game. But you've seen him start
to progress as the season's going, and you know, this
past week he you know, he was seventy eight percent
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with over two hundred yards passing. I mean that's incredible
and so you know, one turnover it was a tip.
But he is going to continue to improve every single week.
Arthur Smith is getting creative with the offense, find mismatches,
fighting the matchups and uh and the defense allows that,
you know, they're not playing. They're not a team playing
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from behind trying to play catch up. They're playing out
in front of their places for football. They're doing. They're
doing exactly what they should be doing to.
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Comes he here at Italian Village Pizza. So I'm gonna
have some pizza. When you tell me why offenses have
problem with this Steelers defense.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
Excuse me, my right, let me review that. Go ahead.
Speaker 4 (29:49):
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Speaker 9 (29:59):
Well, you know you obviously you talk about t J.
Speaker 8 (30:01):
Watt and he's the guy that when you're a quarterback,
when you're the offense, no you're running up and maybe
later when you're coming up and you're going to identify
where he's got.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
In there all the times? Where is t J.
Speaker 8 (30:13):
Watt, Which now you know you've got to get the
back over the chip or you know you're got to
slide to protection that way, which is opening things up
for the second year guy, Nick Herbert, who's doing.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
Some big things. He's just if you work more, Nick,
guy needs to come to the Dalian building beat. So
with Barstow Wall.
Speaker 8 (30:30):
If you looked at if you looked at the in
training camps, you know who is who.
Speaker 9 (30:36):
Is Herbert hanging around at at the end of.
Speaker 4 (30:39):
Practice getting tips from himself?
Speaker 3 (30:44):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (30:45):
Right with that underneath book that Harris James Harris, Harris
Harrisson showing you a.
Speaker 8 (30:50):
Little amount of practice. And so now now you've got
t J. Wall on one side, you've got Herbrick on
the other side. Hey, where you've got all those guys
And then to me the guy that really I mean
those two guys, I mean obviously that Delon is isshuge did.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
The secondary Fige Ford has been dealing good. Jackson's been
doing good. But to me the other guy, Patrick Queen.
Speaker 8 (31:11):
Oh and he's a thumber in Peyton Wills I mean
those two linebacker Peyton Wills.
Speaker 3 (31:17):
Can cover you, yump, he can run.
Speaker 8 (31:19):
He's to me, he's kind of like the modern day
Bryan or elect He's big, he's fast, he can move. Uh,
he's a four or four guy. He can cover you know,
slot receivers, he can cover tight ends. He can come
up and help you. I mean he is takeoff blocks.
He's he's a he's a run support guy.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
But Patrick Queen, I mean every time.
Speaker 9 (31:38):
You see the role play he is around football.
Speaker 4 (31:41):
He likes to hit. Patrick Queen likes to hit people.
And in case you didn't know it, even though James
Daniel was.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
Wearing that that that stupid cap.
Speaker 4 (31:51):
On the sensitivity cap on his head, Patrick Queen is
an old screw like Jack o'lambert did, fuck is.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
He will mock the snot out of you.
Speaker 4 (32:00):
So when you've got this combination of TJ over here,
Cam Hayward looks beautiful, ageless this year now, Mike, it
has been a long dry spot an inside linebacker for
the Steelers. The rookie Peyton Wilson, Oh only an upside
with him? Now you also Eldrin Roberts. He's a thumper
(32:21):
with Patrick Queen. This defense has not only kept him
in the game, I think it is sustainable, barring injury,
to only get better.
Speaker 8 (32:29):
Yeah, I think Patrick Queen's the guy because I think
what Dad does is for him being around the footbubbing
anytime there's a rough.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
But he is around the football.
Speaker 8 (32:38):
He is all over it, which essentially you don't.
Speaker 3 (32:42):
It allows t J. Watt, allows those edge rushers.
Speaker 8 (32:45):
It's not necessarily they've got to worry about the run games,
but they don't have to worry about it. It has much
when you've got those horset linebackers behind you to clean
it up here.
Speaker 3 (32:56):
I want to now.
Speaker 8 (32:57):
It opens you up in that passion right allows you
to kind of, you know, go full go and take
some chances here and there, take a couple of guessing.
Speaker 9 (33:08):
On the situations and I'm going to try this and
see what happens.
Speaker 4 (33:13):
Well, you know it's sometimes, and Michael tell you this,
especially at the pro level, it's much better if you
don't hear a guy's name at all. He's going to
work every week, he's doing his job. He is solid,
so he's not having anybody criticize him, et cetera, et cetera.
Don't forget about the stalwart Minka Fitzpatrick back there for
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you just because you're not hearing his name, because he's
not making.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
Splash plays yet this season.
Speaker 4 (33:44):
He is a stalwart in that defense right now, which
causes all kinds of problems for the offense.
Speaker 3 (33:50):
Well again, you know, he was a number a former
number one pick. And he also likes me. He's a
pro bowler. I mean he loved him up at support
the d.
Speaker 9 (34:00):
He's a great uh, he's a great center field Jase.
Speaker 8 (34:03):
So again, he's kind of like the stable got him
and him and Kyward.
Speaker 9 (34:09):
You don't hear the names as much, but they're the
they're the two stables. They're the foundation of the vedas
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and unforgettable.
Speaker 3 (34:41):
Tread It's My I Got Pizza.
Speaker 4 (34:54):
Come in here somewhere from the Italian Village Vizeria en
route twenty it comes see us twenty two to the
point Sunday mornings nine. What are we going air at
tenth or at some point in the mornings on Sundays? Wait,
come see as heroes. I thinks there comes see as.
Speaker 3 (35:10):
You know I'll be.
Speaker 4 (35:11):
I'll be at home, eating the Italian Village pizza and
drinking Mornsville Distilling products. But Tuesday nights we'll be filming
here at seven o'clock.
Speaker 3 (35:20):
You can come get an autograph from Mike McMahon.
Speaker 10 (35:22):
Drinking Saturday morning. You know you don't drink bluddy Mary
on a Sunday morning. You gotta come out with me
on Saturday night. That way you'll meet the Sunday morning. Anyway,
it should be in church the Sunday mornings. I didn't
say it was you.
Speaker 4 (35:35):
I didn't say I wasn't in church drinking the pre sdrinks.
Speaker 3 (35:44):
Home up Steelers Station. It's Tech and Mike for the
Steelers Chalk Talk Show. How do you like our new
dish taking the Village Pizza. That's where we're at. Case
you didn't know, it's lovely. It's lovely. You have pizza
here yet?
Speaker 4 (35:56):
No, but we'll try it here shortly, you know, at
the Italian saved month on to eat the beats a
mind cut, that's what they say. All right, Steelers Nation,
you were off to a three and oho starts. Mike, Look,
we knew this was going to be the easy part
of the schedule.
Speaker 3 (36:11):
The buzz saw is coming down the road.
Speaker 4 (36:15):
So with the new quarterback, Justin Fields Russell Wilson will
get to him later, this is a pretty good position
to be in at three and zero playing some marshmallow teams.
We're going to Indianapolis this week. It's not like they're
Super Bowl contenders.
Speaker 3 (36:30):
It's a good position for the offense to grow in Fields. Well,
it's not. It wasn't a marshmallow the schedule.
Speaker 8 (36:37):
I mean, you faced a good rushing attack with the
Atlantis at a better quarterback Kirk Cousins. Yeah, it's his
starts game back since ago. However, they found they were
way to get a win and then you and then
you face you know, just recently.
Speaker 3 (36:51):
The Chargers with Justin Herbert.
Speaker 8 (36:52):
Yeah he's injured, but they got a great rushing attack
and you know Greg Roman and Jim Harbaugh got that
rushing attack.
Speaker 3 (36:58):
Going that game.
Speaker 8 (37:00):
If Herbert is helping you guys act good. Well, I
think the defense is good. I think that's the key
with this team. And and the other key is not
turning football over. Now, granted there was a tipped interception
in that game, but how.
Speaker 3 (37:16):
But besides that has been over to the over turnover here.
Speaker 8 (37:19):
So we have great defensive play, a good rushing attack,
and no turnovers.
Speaker 3 (37:24):
It's a recipe for success.
Speaker 4 (37:26):
All right, let's talk about this Steelers offensive skill positions.
You know, when I was in camp and Watrove, you know,
it really became apparent to me, Mike.
Speaker 3 (37:36):
Any team would love to.
Speaker 4 (37:38):
Have the one two punch of thunder and lightning in
Naugy Harris and Jalen Moore. George Pickens, I think if
he gets his head on straight, Mike, the Jerry Weiss
work ethic is legendary. If you get that work ethic
going with George Pickens.
Speaker 3 (37:56):
He might have Hall of Fame ring on him. He does.
I mean, you could see.
Speaker 8 (38:00):
It anytime they get that one old match up there
trying to get the ball in his hands, and you
know you can see when he makes those combat for
contested catches.
Speaker 3 (38:10):
You know, ninety percent of the times he's coming out
of football. Every once in a while he has a
little hiccup. He had one drop against the Chargers for
this past week, but other than that, I thought, you know, he's.
Speaker 8 (38:18):
Been doing greaton's he's it kind of cleaned out that
room a little bit. Yeah, so there's no more bad influences.
Speaker 4 (38:26):
There were straight jackets and patting on the wall for
there while it was a mouse, I mean, what a receiver.
Speaker 8 (38:31):
But yeah, but now you know, it seems like there's
been a lot of turnover in the locker room on
the offense side of the football, and it's starting to
look a little bit more team for you and a
little bit more team.
Speaker 3 (38:44):
Light as opposed to a bunch of individuals. You throw
in Austin to that mix.
Speaker 4 (38:49):
Unfortunately, Roman Wilson, I mean, this kid's upside is huge.
That injury in the in the in the preseason out
there in La Trow has kept you off the field.
So potentially you've got a great wide receiving corps, the
running back corps.
Speaker 3 (39:06):
When you look at the tight end situation, who doesn't love.
Speaker 8 (39:09):
The move, well, yeah, you know the move and obviously
everyone sees with the potentials name Steelers Old his potentialis
and they ended up paying.
Speaker 3 (39:17):
This offseason, which was right before the season, which was huge.
Speaker 4 (39:21):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (39:21):
And you know you can see some of the things
that he's doing. He's able to get open one on one.
I think has the offense progresses and they start to trust,
just feels a little bit more they're going to be
able to I guess highlight the fryar with a little
bit more. You see some Parkio stuff. Ye, sometimes he's blocking,
sometimes he's releasing on the darkieos which is huge and
(39:44):
h and then also don't forget Van Jefferson who.
Speaker 3 (39:47):
He's a qual quality here.
Speaker 8 (39:51):
I'm not surprised because his dad was one of my
receivers and is every receiveent coach in the NFL. Huber
the Lions, and his dad was always doing the dirty work.
Speaker 3 (40:05):
You know.
Speaker 8 (40:06):
He wasn't afraid to get in their block, wasn't afraid
to put his body.
Speaker 3 (40:09):
On the line to make those catches.
Speaker 8 (40:11):
Wasn't the biggest one, the fastest, book, was a technician,
was a pretty player, and you know, raised by a coach,
I see that success.
Speaker 3 (40:20):
I'm not surprised by his success.
Speaker 9 (40:21):
And he's great, he's a he.
Speaker 8 (40:23):
Has that knowledge of a coach's son, and he can
be able to use that knowledge to.
Speaker 3 (40:30):
Get over back to the tight end position.
Speaker 4 (40:33):
And it's gonna hark to your new offensive coordinator and
Arthur Smith.
Speaker 3 (40:37):
You know, if you've not stood beside the beast out
of Georgia, Darnetta Washington.
Speaker 4 (40:43):
This man is six foot seven with nottt fleets on.
Speaker 3 (40:47):
He is a mountain. You go back to the Georgia
tapes when he's down.
Speaker 4 (40:51):
There, he catches anything and everything you throw at him.
You're a form and dn't anybody throw anything at I'm
gonna mention somebody's name, Matt Canada. Don't throw anything at me,
Matt Canada. Kep Washington on the bench last.
Speaker 3 (41:07):
Year, it was almost like he did not know you
could throw to the middle of the field.
Speaker 4 (41:13):
So all these offensive weapons and now you've got this
new offensive coordinator, Mike who at.
Speaker 3 (41:19):
This point, and here's my question to you. I mean,
you played the game with the Lions.
Speaker 4 (41:23):
For the Eagles, the Vikings at quarterback. With a new
situation with Justin Fields now being your predominant quarterback, is
Arthur Smith building this offense one week at a time?
Speaker 3 (41:37):
Will it be the same offense we see in week fourteen.
Speaker 8 (41:40):
Well, it just depends on who the quarterback is, and
I think you do adapt that. You know the play caller.
You're gonna have your base plays, but you're going to
feature the.
Speaker 9 (41:49):
Offense around that quarterback.
Speaker 8 (41:52):
You know, Russell Wilson cannot do some of the things
that Justin Fields can do. And you know Justin Field,
you know, probably can't do some things that Russell Wolfson,
and Russell Wilson.
Speaker 9 (42:01):
Probably has a little bit more anticipatory throwing.
Speaker 3 (42:04):
Justin Fields holds onto it just a.
Speaker 8 (42:06):
Half second too long sometimes, but he's getting the better,
but he doesn't add that.
Speaker 9 (42:10):
Element for the rbos to be able to run for it.
Speaker 8 (42:12):
And now when you have both those tight ends, you
know it was the last week they split both of
them out.
Speaker 3 (42:17):
Who you're gonna cover ones with?
Speaker 8 (42:19):
Covering with the linebacker safety, the other ones covered with
the corner and Washington had seven receptions all last year.
Speaker 3 (42:24):
They throw the back shoulder, faith Good corner even threw
his arms up, like, how am I supposed to defend that? Right?
Speaker 8 (42:28):
It's like running the ball right Shaquille O'Neal against John
Stockton on the low host.
Speaker 3 (42:33):
You just can't defend it. You can't. He's too big
of a body.
Speaker 8 (42:36):
So I think you've got to get creative with your
personnel and with Justin Fields's ability to run the ball
that RPO so they can actually maul that whole left side.
It can just run it, or they can release those guys,
run a little stick, run a flat read the end
and stays up field. We'll hand it off with Najie
Hanner one of the heat crashes. Let's pull it and
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I can either run it no more, I can throw
it only one instant triple option.
Speaker 3 (43:01):
It's not the triple option with the pitch. It's a
triple option throw.
Speaker 4 (43:03):
The fun Imagine if you get those linebackers running out
of there, those corners running out of there, and you
do a slow draw to Jalen Warren, You're gonna eat
you up for twelve yards.
Speaker 3 (43:13):
Yeah, well, I mean that will come.
Speaker 8 (43:17):
But I think as each week goes along, they're gonna
see what each defense with their strends, what their weaknesses are,
and then they're gonna play the Justin Giel strets and
to their personnel strets.
Speaker 4 (43:30):
All right, kitty cats, we're going into Indianapolis this week.
I ain't got no peyton Manning. Who is Alan Mitchi
you're too young. You know who Alan Michi wash you
running back for the cults back at the Johnny United States.
Speaker 3 (43:45):
All right, it's Tank, it's my I got a pizza.
Speaker 4 (43:48):
Come in here somewhere from the Italian Village pizzeria on
Rounte twenty they come see us twenty two to the
point Sunday mornings.
Speaker 3 (43:57):
Nine, What are we going? Are tenth in the mornings
on Sundays?
Speaker 9 (44:01):
Wait, come see as heroes Sundays are come to see us.
Speaker 4 (44:04):
No, I'll be I'll be at home, eating the Italian
Village pizza and drinking. Morrinsville is stilling products. But Tuesday
nights we'll be filming here at seven o'clock. You can
come get an autograph from Mike McMahon.
Speaker 10 (44:15):
Drinking Sunday morning. You don't cheat, buddy, Mary on a
Sunday morning. You gotta come out with me on Saturday night.
That way you'll meet the Sunday morning. Anyway, it should
be in church and Sunday mornings. I didn't say it was.
I didn't say I wasn't in church, drinking the pre streets,
attacking Mike for Steelers chalk talk.
Speaker 4 (44:35):
Huddle Up Steelers Nation, It's Tank for the Italian Village,
Pizza Steelers Chalk Talk Show. Well, it's Friday night nights
here in Latrobe, Pennsylvania.
Speaker 3 (44:45):
You know, I grew up in Lake Trobe.
Speaker 4 (44:47):
It's been many years since I've well played on the
very field behind US Memorial Stadium. Live in Pittsburgh now,
don't get back home that often. But when I come home,
I realize just how beautiful Latrobe is, the rolling mountains
of western Pennsylvania, and it hearkens to a day of
my youth. But your Pittsburgh Steelers will, well, they're going
(45:10):
to be putting on the pads tonight for the first
what I like to call real live contact of the season.
I want to talk about number forty one for your
Pittsburgh Steelers. Number forty one for your Pittsburgh Steelers.
Speaker 3 (45:25):
Go buy your.
Speaker 4 (45:26):
Forty one jerseys now because you're going to be wearing
them for lots of years to come. Rookie inside linebacker
Peyton Wilson. Peyton Wilson, Well, he came out of North
Carolina State, the Wolfpack. Well a Dick Buckets Award winner.
If you don't know the Buckets Award, if you don't
know who Dick Buckets is, will shame on you, cupcake.
(45:49):
Peyton Wilson is a Dick Buckets Award winner in a
twenty twenty three season. When you look at his tape
from college, you'll understand why. First of all, six foot four,
two hundred and thirty five pounds of solid muscle. His
numbers at the NFL Combine were even more spectacular.
Speaker 3 (46:07):
You know that kind of frame when you.
Speaker 4 (46:09):
Put four to four speed, which is what he got
at the NFL Combine, four four speed at six foot four,
but cleats on that, that's more like six foot five,
six foot six at two hundred and thirty five pounds.
That is a battering ram. The nice thing about Peyton Wilson, look,
we're early into training camp. I think Friday night lights
(46:33):
here in Latrow, Pennsylvania is going to really present him
to Steelers Nation.
Speaker 3 (46:39):
He is tall, he is lanky.
Speaker 4 (46:42):
Now I want you to search your memory for well
days of yore in Pittsburgh history, Number fifty eight. Jack Lambert,
many Steelers fans' favorite Steeler of all time. Peyton Wilson
has a long way to go before he could even
sniff Jack Lambert's Jockstrappe where he could even sniff his cleats.
(47:03):
But here's what I'm trying to say. He's got the
same frame as Jack Lambert. I've been watching him at
Camp Saints Vincent's College. There's two things I really like
about him. Let's start with this. There was another inside
linebacker that just came through well Le Trobe and right
down the road to Seattle and Devin Bush, who ran
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a four four forty consistently. How'd that work out for
Devin Bush, all of five foot ten plus?
Speaker 3 (47:32):
Was Devin Bush?
Speaker 4 (47:33):
His inability to see over the line of scrimmage, His
inability with Devin Bush to take on NFL caliber guards,
tackles and centers just wasn't there. Devin Bush absolutely well
didn't pan out for your Pittsburgh Steelers at six foot four.
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Peyton Wilson not only has the speed, but I've been
watching him take on well the likes of Broderick Jones
Zach Frazier here at Latrobe training camp. And inside linebackerre
has to be smart, has to be intelligent, but he's
got to be able to put his hands in the
chest of those guards, tackles and centers fend off the block.
(48:14):
From the offensive lineman and get to the line, down
the line of scrimmage to the ball. That's what Peyton
Wilson does do with authority. Look, he doesn't act like
a rookie so far
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