Steelers Preview Show Week 13

Mike, Matt, and Merril lay out how the Steelers can beat the Bills on Sunday.

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
Good evening and welcome to another edition of Steelers Preview
are pre Thanksgiving editions.

Speaker 3 (00:29):
So we're coming at you tonight on a Wednesday.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
Night here on Steelers Nation Radio and your Steelers Flagship
one of two point five dv E. Mike Persuda and
Matt Williamson, Merril Hodge coming up. We're here to set
the Thanksgiving table for the Steelers and the Buffalo Bill
Sunday at Acresure Stadium. Steelers coming off a head scratcher
again thirty one to twenty eight in Chicago, plenty and

(00:55):
alike on both sides of the ball and plenty to uh. Well,
I don't know if you ever saw that scene in
Animal House where John Belushi grabs the beer can and
just smashes.

Speaker 3 (01:04):
It into his head seeing it. Yeah, there was there
was some of that too.

Speaker 4 (01:07):
There were some of that too, no question, Uh what
I wanted.

Speaker 2 (01:11):
To open with tonight, Matt and we will get into
some of the x's and o's and some of the
matchup type of things that we always do.

Speaker 3 (01:21):
But the Buffalo Bills, they're in a weird place to me. Uh,
you know, they're.

Speaker 2 (01:27):
Perceived as this team that's been just not quite good
enough to beat Kansas City in the playoffs, while the
Chiefs have been dominating the NFL for the last six years,
at least on the AFC side.

Speaker 3 (01:38):
Yeah, and uh, I don't think Buffalo is that.

Speaker 2 (01:41):
And and the quarterback Josh Allen is kind of perceived
as Superman, and he's pretty close to that. But rewatching
the Bills Texans game, which was last Thursday night, Buffalo losing,
Alan absorbing a career high eight sacks, and it actually
would have been nine except one time he got hit
from behind and he got knocked forward. He got hit

(02:04):
so hard he got knocked past the line of.

Speaker 3 (02:06):
Scrimage but basically got hit behind the line of script.

Speaker 2 (02:09):
Ye, it was a two yard game, but he was
trying to pull up and throw after flushing and he
got sacked. It didn't go down as a sack, but Matt.
The longer that game went on, I was trying to
find the right word, and they kept the camera kept
zeroing in after one failure after another, and the word
that kept coming to mind was dishoveled. And I don't

(02:30):
know that I've ever seen Josh Allen dishoveled.

Speaker 4 (02:33):
I think that's a good way of putting it now,
As was the case with the Steelers in Cincinnati, I
think road teams on Thursday are a really inaccurate way
to judge a football team, and I think it's very
unfair in the league. It shouldn't even exist in the league.
That being said, you usually don't see Buffalo in that
situation and quarterback aside, and I think he's as good

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as anyone I've basically ever seen.

Speaker 3 (02:57):
I mean, I adore him.

Speaker 4 (02:58):
I'm psyched to talk to Meryl about Allen, and I
think he is superman. I don't think the roster's very good.
I mean, I don't say it's the it's not the
Raiders of the Titans, but it's not a top ten
type of roster. They've been looking for an outside receiver
for years. Really, some stuff on Diggs left haven't been
able to get that. They've invested heavily in, like pass

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rushers like Von Miller, and none of them have really
been the answer. And the defense overall certainly can be had,
I mean, especially in the run game this year. So
I don't think they've done a great job of maximizing
this incredible opportunity they've had for five, six, seven years
with Alan.

Speaker 2 (03:38):
You know your points well taken about the Thursday night
road team, Yeah, yeah, but with Buffalo it also translates
to when they're a weekend road team.

Speaker 3 (03:46):
These these splits are incredibly pretty strong at home.

Speaker 2 (03:50):
Buffalo is five and one on the road, two and
three at home, thirty two and a half points per
game on the road, twenty three point two at home.
Allen completes seventy three point eight percent of his seventy
three point eight percent of his pass to nobody at wide.

Speaker 4 (04:06):
Receivers and no receivers, and tends to be windy in
Buffalo and yeah, yeah, sixty.

Speaker 3 (04:10):
Four point six percent at home.

Speaker 2 (04:12):
Yards per game three sixty four point four, sixty four
point six percent on the road. I should say yards
per game three hundred and eleven point eight at home,
two forty one point eight on the road.

Speaker 4 (04:24):
And we're pretty deep in the season. There's a big
chunk of the here and there.

Speaker 3 (04:28):
I mean, two forty one is not very good. No, right,
you wouldn't think, you know. Yeah, uh, tds to turnovers.

Speaker 2 (04:37):
Twenty one to five at home, seven to six on
the road, and Allan's passer rating one fifteen point nine
at home eighty three point four, which ain't superman.

Speaker 3 (04:47):
No no. On the road.

Speaker 4 (04:49):
Yeah, a lot more mistakes on the road. They interceptions
and yeah.

Speaker 2 (04:53):
Yeah, these guys have lost in Atlanta, they've lost in Miami.

Speaker 4 (04:57):
I think they're highly beatable. I mean, like the Steelers.
They one team's lost four to the last six. Ones
lost four to their last seven. They're on the outside
looking in right now. I never thought that would be
the case with Buffalo. Like in the preseason, I thought
they were the easiest team to predict to win their division,
and they're well outside their division lead right now. I'm

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not sure that they're I mean, they're a playoff caliber
team in a weak AFC right now, but their window
may have shut, you know, I mean, we may never
Bills may never get Super Bowl.

Speaker 2 (05:34):
And here's the funny thing about the sex. It wasn't
jail break blitzes in an all out of sault. Now
seven of the eight four man pressures. Now a lot
of times Houston used a spy linebacker, Aziz l Shaiir.
He was keeping an eye on Alan. There was one
six man pressure where they got to him and just
kind of, yeah, that was a jail break to the pocket.

Speaker 3 (05:56):
They got him even before he could get back.

Speaker 4 (05:57):
And it was mostly will Anderson and Hunter.

Speaker 2 (05:59):
They were crashing the edges and being oh so careful
not to get too deep and give them that passers plan,
and they got internal pressure and he didn't have the
b gap to go run up in there and make
something happen.

Speaker 3 (06:12):
And he just he started running. He was mortal. You know.

Speaker 2 (06:15):
You hit him enough times and they the feet get
a little happy, and you st like you said, start
looking for that escape route because you think you're gonna
need it and it's not there, and then you panic
a little bit.

Speaker 3 (06:25):
And then at the end of the game.

Speaker 2 (06:27):
You're throwing off your back foot and throwing a pick
when you have a chance to win the game.

Speaker 3 (06:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (06:30):
Yeah, again, again, that's not necessarily a Thursday on the
road necessarily thing. Now, I think Houston's probably the best
defense in the league, and if not, it's top three.
But I don't think the Steelers pass rushers are on
a different tier than Houston's. Yeah, I mean, when you
just look at the the four man pressures, I could
see the Steelers doing something similar. And those two tackles,

(06:56):
Brown and Dawkins really good players, and they were not
themselves in this game and got injured and Brown didn't
finish the game. But they're both on the injury report
this year too, this week too.

Speaker 2 (07:05):
You know, they both got nicked up and it's Wednesday.
Injury reports a little early for me. Yeah, yeah, usually
to pay a lot of attention to. But Brown and
Dawkins and two guys you reference, both missed time in
that game. And they brought in a guy by the
name of Ryan Van Demark.

Speaker 3 (07:20):
He played both sides. He on one of the sacks, he.

Speaker 2 (07:24):
Got caught holding and it got declined because the guy.

Speaker 4 (07:27):
Got they took the sack instead.

Speaker 2 (07:29):
I mean, the ability for Allen to protect and you know,
more to that cumulative effecting only one of them was
in the first half, and in the second half they
just started happening and happening, and Matt they happened five.

Speaker 3 (07:43):
Consecutive series to close the game.

Speaker 2 (07:45):
Buffalo's last five series he got dropped, and in the
last two series he got dropped twice.

Speaker 4 (07:52):
I remember the end just being like they got no shot.
Like the longer thing goes, the more the damn is
just burst.

Speaker 2 (07:57):
It was crazy because they ran that crazy play on
fourth and twenty seven from their own thirty the short crosser.
Then they did Dalcan ladder and they got all the
way down into the red zone and Buffalo, Yeah, fourth
and twenty seven with fifty one seconds left, Allen to
Josh Palmer and then Palmer to Cahill here.

Speaker 3 (08:20):
Yeah. Yeah, that was the majority of the play.

Speaker 2 (08:22):
They had a first intend at the Houston twenty six
with forty one seconds remaining. You're down, forced you a
needy touchdown the way. Yeah, like it's time to be
worried if you're the Taxmans. They had a fourth and
one at the Houston seventeen and Dawkins false started. Yeah,
these are losing plays and he's a high end, established veteran,
good player, reliable, you know, right, And then on the

(08:44):
last play it wouldn't counted anyway because the offensive pass
interference was called, but Alan got pressured again. He threw
off his back foot and he had his tight end
Dawson Knox open, didn't throw it to him, tried to
throw it to the middle of the field, that got picked,
was short because he threw off his back foot and
Houston survived it.

Speaker 3 (09:03):
But again, I just there were some fundamental issues.

Speaker 5 (09:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (09:06):
I was just kind of shaking my head, like, who
are these guys. I'm used to watching the Buffalo Bills,
I am not used to seeing this.

Speaker 3 (09:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (09:14):
Yeah, And now I think that team, because of him
and their recent success over the years, could rebound strong,
finish the season really good. But they've had these issues
throughout the year where I mean, he was the MVP
last year and when he was drafted he was kind
of a wild stallion farv type dude where roller coaster,

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a lot of bad a lot of sacks. And last
year he really nipped that out of his game where
he was almost impossible sack, hardly ever turned the ball
over and still was running and making all the big plays.
But especially recently, you're starting to see some of those things.
But I don't even blame him. I blame his surroundings more.
They also in kin Cage's been out there not the same,

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and he's missed the last couple of games.

Speaker 3 (09:57):
You know, It's funny.

Speaker 2 (09:59):
If you wanted to sum this match up up as
simplistically as possible, you could just say, well, the Bills
have Josh Allen and the Steelers don't.

Speaker 3 (10:07):
And that's what they're living on.

Speaker 2 (10:09):
Aaron Rodgers has more touchdown passes and fewer interceptions than
Josh Allen.

Speaker 3 (10:13):
Yeah. Yeah, in some ways he's been more reliable. No no, no, no.

Speaker 4 (10:16):
He does enough ten rushing teams, of course, but I've
never seen anyone produce touchdowns like Josh Allen.

Speaker 3 (10:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (10:20):
I watch football twenty eight of them so far, and
he had six and one game against Tampa. To your
point about so very much in the bounce back ability
and the combustibility, but boy, we just have not seen
it on the road.

Speaker 3 (10:31):
We just have not seen it.

Speaker 4 (10:32):
Yeah, And sometimes it's just this sport is small sample size,
who knows, but it's so stark. I think you have
to pay attention to home roads, fleds.

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Speaker 1 (11:26):
Back to the Steelers Preview show on DV.

Speaker 2 (11:31):
Welcome back, Mike Pursuita and Matt Williamson with you here
on a special Wednesday night edition of Steelers Preview. We're
getting you ready for the Steelers in the Buffalo Bills
Sunday at Acrosser Stadium time out to welcome our factor
back to the show, Merril Hodge joining us. Merril, I
got a lot to ask you, but before we get
to any of that, Happy Thanksgiving.

Speaker 5 (11:52):
Yeah, same to you and everybody listening. Happy Thanksgiving.

Speaker 3 (11:55):
Now regarding the question, now, let's dig in.

Speaker 2 (11:59):
I think you've brought brought this up every episode of
this program, and if not everyone, probably most of them.
The Steelers confounding ability to cover grass when they're in
his zones instead of actual guys who might and in
fact do catch the ball on a regular basis. And
I watched that touchdown the Bear scored to DJ Moore

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the one to put him ahead twenty four to twenty
one in the third quarter last Sunday, and they ran
four verticals against cover three, and the Steelers had Tugger
covering Cole Comet dugger. Excuse me, they had James Pierre
covering the rookie wide receiver number ten Burton Burton, and

(12:47):
that left Jalen Ramsey to pick between two guys, which
is an impossible situation.

Speaker 3 (12:53):
Three covering four is tough.

Speaker 2 (12:54):
Yeah, And while that was happening, Brandon Echols, Joey Porter
Junior Queen and Peyton Wilson all had the twenty yard
line covered Merrill.

Speaker 3 (13:04):
They had it blanketed.

Speaker 2 (13:07):
Nothing was gonna happen on the twenty yard line on
third and six from the Chicago twenty five. Unfortunately, something
happened in the end zone. I know you've been harping
on this stuff all season. What must they do to
fix it?

Speaker 5 (13:23):
Honestly, that's a great question. You know.

Speaker 6 (13:25):
This is where this is where I used to always
get into a lot of discussions at ESPN because people were.

Speaker 5 (13:31):
Like, I can't believe what are the coaches doing? What
are they saying? I whoa WHOA time out? Time out?

Speaker 6 (13:39):
For a second, How do you know this hasn't already
been walked through. They haven't already walked through what the
rules are, what the disciplines are, what you gotta do,
and who's.

Speaker 5 (13:49):
Got to carry who in these zone areas when.

Speaker 6 (13:52):
They line up like a So you're telling me that
didn't take place, Well, okay, if you can't tell me
that didn't take place, and you can't say this is coaching, now,
I gotta believe that you walked through this, you know.

Speaker 5 (14:07):
What has to take place.

Speaker 6 (14:08):
I think I've told this the story that I had
with Tom Coughlin. It was I bet his gain for
I don't know, five or six years and Tom Cofflin
and I sue I know it was like his fifth
or six year in Jacksonville when he started there, and
we had a really good relationship. And one day we
were talking about linebackers and coverage and he's like, man,

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I got the best linebackers in football in coverage.

Speaker 5 (14:35):
If I tell him where to be, they're going to
be there. But they have zero.

Speaker 6 (14:40):
Instincts after that, we will cover the twenty yard LINEFS,
you gotta be at the twenty out on the numbers
based on this formation and they change the formation and
it's not quite aligned like that, they're still going to
be where I told him to be because that's just
not our game. I mean, you need well That's why
I always talk about, like the IQ of a player
is critical in the transition to the NFL.

Speaker 5 (15:03):
I don't care what the position is that IQ like
he's number one for me. Are they an intelligent player?

Speaker 6 (15:09):
Are they somebody who can adapt and instinctively adjust to
what goes on in the game. So that being said,
I just I just can't believe that they said, just
stay here, you.

Speaker 5 (15:22):
Know, just cover this area. There's nobody.

Speaker 6 (15:24):
There's nobody gonna be here, so you're gonna you guys
are gonna do a great job, but we're gonna let's
who cares about the vertical guy? And these I just
can't believe that, you know, and just and then then
it becomes you know, who's the responsible player and the
responsibility of the player now, you know, there's a lot
of examples like that every year. You know, listen the

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big chunk before they got there, though, you know, you
have your two best pass rushers covering a receiver and
a tight end. You know, so schematically that's not the
most favorable, you know. And then then you got really
nobody to rust the quarterback quite honestly, you know, and
he has all the time in the world. And you
can tell that you're outside. Pass rushers are not cover guys.

(16:08):
They just have You could see it look like fish
out of water. It's just not even as not even.

Speaker 5 (16:13):
A contest, you know.

Speaker 6 (16:15):
And I don't know why you do those type of things.
I understand changing things up so you can bring some pressures,
but there was no unique pressure on it. And now
all this comes out in the second half, you know,
like the first half, and none of us existed, Like
they dominated the line of formachs I thought they did,
aside from giving Kata Williams an escape lane one time

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where he got nine yards. That was it actually probably
it from the entire game as far as you know,
keeping him where he doesn't play comfortably. You know, he's
not a comfortable pocket player, yeah, but he's he can
be dangerous when he gets outside the pocket. But they
handled the run, you know, they played cover as well.
They had opportunities for turnovers, you know, and that balls

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him in the chest, I mean. But then the second
half it was just like they got mauled at the
line of scrimmage.

Speaker 5 (17:03):
They were busting them coverages.

Speaker 6 (17:05):
They they were running stuff that didn't make a lot
of sense as far as like if you want to
neutralize somebody, that's not what you probably put. That's not
strength on strength, is what I'm getting. It's like you
gave them opportunities. Because at the end of the day,
our league is about matchups, period. Because we'll get this
on we'll get to this on the offensive side. It

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is about matchups, finding those matchups and exposing those matchups.
And when we put our pass rushers in coverage, they
just worked us over. Maybe they created those any matchups
favorable for them, you know in the NFL, and they
won and they went in. But twenty yard wins are
twenty I mean big big plays in the NFL. Like

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you get twenty yards in the passing, that's a big deal.
You know, you get ten yards in the running, that's
a big deal in the NFL. Those are the things
that you try to avoid, and unfortunately we gave way
too many of those.

Speaker 5 (17:58):
You know, in the second half.

Speaker 4 (18:00):
That I must single him out because he's not the
only problem, and he's not even a full time player.
But I see Malik Harrison in passing situations as a
target of every offensive coordinator.

Speaker 5 (18:11):
Yeah, well, yes, you would.

Speaker 6 (18:13):
You would try to create a match up on him,
and you can find out when they're going to be.

Speaker 5 (18:16):
In man, if he's gonna be on the field, that
is exactly who you go after.

Speaker 4 (18:19):
Yeah, yeah, I mean I understand the value that he
can come downhill and play the run.

Speaker 6 (18:23):
But in today's NFL, yeah, and you're right, But but
you're right, in today's NFL, you've got to play every.

Speaker 5 (18:31):
Day, you know, you just don't have the luxury.

Speaker 6 (18:34):
That's like, you know, the Cleveland Browns were and still
are such a mess is you know, they tried to
do that baseball analytic thing to your point, you can't
every down, you can't replace people, you know, right, you.

Speaker 5 (18:48):
Better on second and chance of this guy. That's what
That's how stupid they were.

Speaker 6 (18:51):
They're literally trying to play like baseball, like oh, or
this is a good third down linebacker, let's put him
in on third day.

Speaker 4 (18:57):
Okay, bring the fore ye yeah yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 5 (19:02):
More.

Speaker 6 (19:02):
It's like it's ridiculous, you know they try to actually
do that. You know that that's exactly what they tried
to do. You know, that's why looking for people, you know, on.

Speaker 5 (19:12):
Both sides of the vault.

Speaker 6 (19:13):
That it just goes back to the saying the more
you can do, you know, the more valuable you are,
the more downs you can play. Then if you play
the run in the past, that combination matters, and if
you don't, they're going to find it like those and
the Steelers.

Speaker 5 (19:29):
Look for it every week.

Speaker 6 (19:30):
You're trying to find matchups, you're trying to find things
that are mismatches. Who where do we where? Where's our strength?
Where's their weakness. Can we get it? Can we get
a matched up, you know, and strategically when you can
get those.

Speaker 5 (19:43):
Which almost almost almost all games come down to those
type of things.

Speaker 6 (19:46):
You know, if it's a clean game to say there's
no turnovers, you know, it usually comes down and the
trenches are really good.

Speaker 5 (19:52):
You know, it's an even game.

Speaker 6 (19:54):
It's about, you know, who can create the best and
the most favorable matchup at some point in the game.

Speaker 2 (20:00):
You know what I'm finding head scratching about to play
the defense of late now. I know, early in the
year they just weren't very good. They made some clutch
plays against the Jets and the turnovers against the Patriots
they needed all of those. But in that Chicago game, Meryll,
I mean they held the Bears way down in terms
of yards rushing. Yeah, you mentioned Caleb Williams a moment ago.

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I thought they did a great job containing him, and
that's not easy to do.

Speaker 4 (20:25):
Sorry to interrupt, but they always do that well. I
mean they contained running, scrambling, running quarterbacks and that's really
applies to Allen and I think a lot of it's
Lamar experience too.

Speaker 2 (20:34):
You know, if you factor in the seven points the
defense scored and take that off the Bears total, they
held them under what they normally scored.

Speaker 3 (20:42):
I mean, they had more plays, they had more time.

Speaker 4 (20:45):
Of possession, They did some good stuff.

Speaker 3 (20:47):
Other than a couple of three just horrific breakdowns, they
were pretty good.

Speaker 4 (20:51):
But you know, they also only seemed to stop the
Bears when Williams would throw an incompletion two.

Speaker 3 (20:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (20:58):
But I mean but he does Yeah, that's true, particularly
from the pocket when you keep him in the point.

Speaker 4 (21:03):
That's part of the strategy.

Speaker 2 (21:04):
They just it was a winnable game, and I don't
think it was a horrible defensive performance. But a couple
three plays on tape, you just what are they doing
out there?

Speaker 3 (21:14):
I don't think they stak is the point, Meryl, Right.

Speaker 5 (21:16):
I completely agree. I completely agree. Listen, it's it.

Speaker 6 (21:21):
You know, listen, you could signal if you just you
could do this all the time. They have a special
teams play where they punk the ball. They got it down.
I think they're inside the ten yard like they down
him the thing and they got.

Speaker 5 (21:32):
A holding on fifteen.

Speaker 6 (21:35):
If you go back and look at the play, it's
somewhat like what I mean, because both guys have their
hands on each other, you know. So he's the gunner,
so he's running down and the guy who's trying.

Speaker 5 (21:47):
To defend him, the Bears guy.

Speaker 6 (21:48):
Both of them kind of have their hands like he's
got his right hand on it, he's got his left
there kind of you know, pushing each other as they're
going down. And all he did is kind of like
pulling back, you know. And they called that for holding.

Speaker 5 (21:59):
All right, they have ever seen that call for holding? Yes,
I guess.

Speaker 6 (22:03):
However, now they got to punt again. They back up
ten yards and now they got on the forty.

Speaker 3 (22:07):
They got thirty yards legal. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (22:10):
Yeah, they didn't get any They didn't get any breaks
with the calls either, not that those decide the games.

Speaker 3 (22:14):
You got to work around. Well that My point is
that was a big one.

Speaker 6 (22:17):
Yeah, well, well shoot, then another one might be bigger
is that you've got Mason Rudolph scrambles massive into the
into almost field goal range and you don't have I'm
telling you that I coached twenty some years ages eight
to eighteen and beyond. Okay, but about fifteen twenty years

(22:41):
and eight to eighteen. One of the most important things
that we worked on is, like you know, formations, line
getting on the line of scrimmage.

Speaker 5 (22:48):
Who's on the line of scrimmage?

Speaker 6 (22:49):
You know, teaching these kids how to line up and
what's a what's a uh, what's a legal formation?

Speaker 5 (22:57):
In the NFL?

Speaker 6 (22:58):
To not line up correctly is one of the most
embarrassing things you could possibly put on your resume.

Speaker 4 (23:05):
Crucial time you the most.

Speaker 5 (23:08):
Actually, I give nineteen credit.

Speaker 6 (23:10):
Nineteen was actually trying to get you know, he just
doesn't seasoned enough, because what he should have done is
just stepped up on over the because fourteen comes over.

Speaker 5 (23:20):
He doesn't line up right. He knows that's wrong. He's
trying to get Mason, Rudolph, you know, his attention, you know.

Speaker 6 (23:25):
Mason doesn't seem and they snapped the ball and it's
too late.

Speaker 5 (23:29):
That's a twenty seven yard penalty. It's seven yards.

Speaker 4 (23:33):
It's probably an unanswerable question, but if Rogers is on
the field, that probably doesn't happen, right, And not that
Rudolph was bad at it, but I mean.

Speaker 3 (23:40):
Well Rogers saw it from the side, screaming on the island, right.

Speaker 6 (23:43):
Yea, yeah, well yeah, there he knows, you know, and
you know, I it's hard to say, but you would
say possible.

Speaker 5 (23:50):
But but okay, but now that.

Speaker 3 (23:52):
You I'm not saying Rudolph's fault, but you know.

Speaker 5 (23:54):
No, no, no, I know I know you're not. But let's
you know what I would say.

Speaker 2 (23:58):
Ultimately, it is Rudolph's fault to recognize if they're in
the right formation.

Speaker 3 (24:02):
It's game weall's fall first and foremost right because he
broke the huddle and he was.

Speaker 2 (24:07):
On the wrong side of the formation, so he's on
the left, so emotion's.

Speaker 3 (24:10):
Right and he doesn't get in the right spot.

Speaker 2 (24:12):
Rudolph's got to notice that and either get him up
or call the time out. I know you don't want
to take it there, but you can't run. You can't
run a play from an illegal formation. You can't snap
the ball. And you know, Meryl, it's funny you mentioned nineteen.
I talked to Calvin Austin about that today because it
looked like I was watching the game on TV back here.

Speaker 3 (24:29):
I wasn't there, but it looked like he.

Speaker 2 (24:30):
Was trying to get gain Well to move up and
he couldn't get his attention, and then he was trying
to gesture with his left hand to roodolphuy, don't snap it.
He said, I should have taken a couple steps forward.

Speaker 5 (24:41):
He goes.

Speaker 3 (24:42):
He goes, I don't know how, he said.

Speaker 2 (24:44):
I don't know how the play would have worked out,
but at least we'd have been in a legal formation,
like it.

Speaker 3 (24:50):
Would it really have changed it that much if he
moved up two feet.

Speaker 5 (24:54):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (24:55):
But that's how that kid takes it on himself. And
I don't think it's on him.

Speaker 5 (25:00):
Yeah, like no, no, no, no, no, no.

Speaker 3 (25:01):
He is. He's as committed as they come.

Speaker 5 (25:06):
I agree. And how many how many years he played?

Speaker 3 (25:09):
Is his third year?

Speaker 5 (25:10):
I believe, okay, thirty? Okay, now.

Speaker 6 (25:14):
I could yeah, I could just tell you this from now.
Maybe in my third year, I probably just get it
right aligned right, because I could tell you this, I
can't tell him. In conversations that I had with quarterbacks
Bubby Neil, Todd Blackledge, Mark Malone, I come out and
I'm like, hey.

Speaker 5 (25:32):
We can't do this, And now I was like, what
do you mean we can't do this? We're in the
wrong formation, and goes, we can't do this now. Occasionally
Bobby he'd be like, f.

Speaker 6 (25:43):
This, call time out, okay, and it sounds like yeah, yeah, yeah,
So people who know Bubby, Okay, that's legitimate.

Speaker 5 (25:50):
And then Bubby comes back.

Speaker 6 (25:51):
He goes, hey, thanks, and then and then and then
other quarterbacks are.

Speaker 5 (25:55):
Like what what they just now anyway, It's just like
we're gonna, We're going anyway.

Speaker 6 (26:04):
So you know, you know, those things happen all the time.
But but I go back to, like, you know, we're
talking about plays in the game and they and these
are not like they beat us.

Speaker 5 (26:16):
They beat us.

Speaker 6 (26:17):
Okay, I can't remember what game it was where they
put oh well, the Bengals the first matchup.

Speaker 5 (26:22):
Their guys beat us at the end on the drive.
They were better than we were. They created the matchup,
they won.

Speaker 7 (26:28):
Okay, you can if you don't like that, But I'm
telling you what, you can deal with that one from
a coaching perspective a lot better than these just dumb
plays that we're not thinking, we're not processing stuff, we're
not execute.

Speaker 6 (26:46):
We're pro players. We're not even executing like pro players.
That's the that's the bare minimum. That's how we're asking.
It's like a pro players shouldn't know how to line up.

Speaker 2 (26:55):
Okay, but I feel you on that, Meryl, But it
also gives me a little bit of because if they're
just better than you, they're better than you, right, Like, then.

Speaker 3 (27:03):
You won't win next week? Yeah right right? I mean
I think that's fixable.

Speaker 2 (27:08):
And I think on offense and defense, I think the
Steelers think, hey, they deserve.

Speaker 3 (27:13):
To be six and five.

Speaker 2 (27:14):
They've deserved some of these losses because of some of
these things we're talking about.

Speaker 3 (27:18):
But I think there's more there.

Speaker 6 (27:20):
Especially Listen, Yeah, I don't want I don't want you.
I'm not coming from Hey, there's no hope here. Everything
we just talked about fixable. Then that gives you hope
right there, Like if I have to.

Speaker 2 (27:31):
Cover Jackson Smith the JIGBA every week, I'm gonna lose
most of those weeks.

Speaker 4 (27:35):
It's not like I can't block anywhere here.

Speaker 3 (27:37):
I can't.

Speaker 2 (27:38):
If all I got to do is line up two
feet ahead of where I was, then then we're good.

Speaker 3 (27:42):
Right the Bills couldn't block, Yeah, right right?

Speaker 5 (27:46):
Hey, do you want some hope? Okay? The team we're
going to play they are almost just like this.

Speaker 6 (27:51):
I actually use like golf is a pretty pretty good
analysis of both of these teams. If it was just
nine holes, there'd be a lot of great golfers out there,
but they put eighteen on there for a reason. Okay,
you we play a half as good as anybody in football, anybody.
It's the second half or those other two quarters that

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are killing us.

Speaker 5 (28:13):
And for whatever reason.

Speaker 6 (28:15):
When we just document a lot of them, most of
them are self inflicted. So you create, you you correct
the self inflicted stuff. Man, Now you put your instead
of a fifty to fifty chance, now you got a
ninety percent chance. And talking about the Bills, I will
tell you this. I've been watching them for There's a

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couple of draft picks that they got that were trigguing to.

Speaker 5 (28:38):
Me, and I'm like, okay, this I'm gonna say.

Speaker 6 (28:40):
It was in the offensive line, and I was like,
I'm going to see how this is going to play
out because I am I'm a quick guy. Okay, yes,
I love speed. I mean, but if you had to
pick one of two skill sets in any position, it
doesn't matter what it is.

Speaker 5 (28:55):
I'd rather have a guy who is.

Speaker 6 (28:57):
Dynamic with his feet, his ability to start, stop, redirect,
then speed.

Speaker 5 (29:01):
If you have a combination, then you have a chance
to be ultimately special.

Speaker 6 (29:05):
But I'd rather have a guy who has who's dynamic,
got dynamics. Ive got dynamic feet versus a guy who
just has speed in his and he doesn't have dynamic feed.
So watching them draft and they're offer be one like
they don't really have dynamic feet, Like none of them
have dynamic feet. If you watched that game against the

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Houston Texans, they got destroyed because of their lack of
ability in.

Speaker 5 (29:32):
Their trenches to move. They just can't move.

Speaker 6 (29:36):
Okay, So that that actually votes well for us because
we got guys that can move, you know, we got people, yes, yeah,
And I'm I mean, I'm just not like, I'm just
I like, I mean, I like the physical mallark, but man,
you just get exposed if you don't have people that
can move with some quickness and they just don't. They're

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alay lined if you studying that as a whole. They
are just not very quick of foot. Their defensive tackles
are just about like.

Speaker 3 (30:11):
Dude.

Speaker 6 (30:11):
Sometimes I'm like, like, if you want to hope for
our defense, watch their defense, watch their tackles.

Speaker 3 (30:18):
Guys in the back ers, like they're just guys.

Speaker 6 (30:20):
And there's the top times you like, boy, he just quit. Man,
I'm talking about the Bills. I mean, he's just he
didn't even try. Man, and the defensive tackle that just
got literally mauled for five yards. I mean he was
coming there like he was on skates, and he he
almost like ducks his head.

Speaker 5 (30:39):
In shame or embarrassing, whatever it is. And I'm like
this body language ain't it either? Like theyn't Those are hard,
hard things.

Speaker 6 (30:49):
To correct, man, I listen from that perspective, I just
ours are correctable. We've already shown you how you could
play the Churches. You stopped on the the best running
game at the time. When then they came into town, like,
nobody's done that to the Colts.

Speaker 5 (31:07):
So they've done that. Shoot, you did it first half
of Chicago.

Speaker 6 (31:10):
You just you fell apart in the second half, you know.
So it's it's there, you know you.

Speaker 2 (31:16):
So they have They've stopped the Colts run and they
contained Caleb Limps.

Speaker 3 (31:22):
Now you got to do both against Buffalo again. Cook
is the But do you have all day?

Speaker 2 (31:30):
Do you have confidence, Merrill that the Steelers can keep
a lid on that Buffalo running game? And I'm talking
about not letting them go for forty five in a touchdown.
You know, these home run ters, that's why their home
run nters. You can stop them eighteen times, and if
the nineteenth one goes in the end zone, what have
you done? Can they keep out and contain and can
they keep a lid on that guy?

Speaker 6 (31:49):
Okay, it requires it all because listen, he got one
on the Texans. You know, I don't know how long
that touchdown run?

Speaker 5 (31:57):
Forty five?

Speaker 6 (31:58):
You know, so he got one on them and they
still want so It isn't like you say, we can
give one up, which you don't want to get anything up,
but we they have the ability to neutralize all aspects
of it. You know, if that runner does get something
on us, you know, more than likely it shouldn't be
the game changer if we're taking care of all those

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other things that that the Texans did do you know,
because the Texans did, they were you know, they were
great on the back end. They had pressure, he couldn't
get he had nowhere to flow football, he had no
time to throw the football for the majority of the game.

Speaker 5 (32:33):
They gave up that one bigger on that.

Speaker 6 (32:35):
That's that's what allowed the Bills to somewhat beat in it.
You have those capabilities if you just clean up what
you're doing wrong and you can control that and you
can change that. I have no I have no question
about that. You know, I haven't seen you know, the
Bills offensively, they they are unique. Like they played I

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can't remember who it was they played most camp.

Speaker 5 (33:00):
Then they came out, we had a game playing with
their tight ends and they just smote Tampa. And then
they lose. The next week. I can't remember who it
was Miami and they came out, Ye it was a Miami. Yeah,
that was a yeah yeah, and then.

Speaker 2 (33:15):
They come Houston was after Tampa. Miami was the week before.

Speaker 6 (33:20):
Okay, so, but they've had these on and off weeks.
The scary part was, okay, this this is the you know,
this is the week obvious say, Okay, don't don't underestimate
a professional if they've been embarrassed and they were embarrassed. Okay,
so so are we, so you know, expect a really
good game.

Speaker 3 (33:35):
Yeah, it's the double embarrassment fact.

Speaker 2 (33:39):
Right coming out to Sunday at Actress here, I don't know,
I got a good feeling mare.

Speaker 3 (33:44):
I don't know why, but I do.

Speaker 5 (33:45):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (33:46):
Maybe because it's Thanksgiving. Uh hopefully we're talking about a
dub next week.

Speaker 5 (33:51):
I hope.

Speaker 6 (33:51):
So listen that they played like they can play for
sixty minutes, not just thirty based on the.

Speaker 5 (33:58):
Issues the Bills have.

Speaker 6 (33:59):
Like there's some things the Bills can't change. Okay, you
can't fix your offens you blind. They they can't say, okay,
let's be quick feet today.

Speaker 5 (34:06):
Then they got who they got. They are who they are.
They can't change that.

Speaker 6 (34:10):
Your tackles, they kind of been like that all year.
You're at your perimeter. Players, they've been like that all year.
They have not changed at all. There were moments. You'll
see moments, but you'll never I'm not. I've yet to
see sixty minutes out of them yet to see that
in their run, defense, perimeter or insight.

Speaker 3 (34:28):
Meryl, Happy Thanksgiving. We'll do it again next week.

Speaker 5 (34:31):
You too, My boye love it Thanksgiving.

Speaker 3 (34:33):
Boys, Meryl Hodge here on. He had a lot to
say tonight. Yeah, man, like most Thursday nights.

Speaker 4 (34:40):
Also true, Matt, and I've got.

Speaker 2 (34:42):
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Speaker 3 (35:01):
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Speaker 3 (35:08):
Boy, I didn't know if we're going to get hot.
You off the phone there and pretty wound up man
the holidays. It is confounding.

Speaker 2 (35:15):
It is you look at this Steelers team, and if
you want to look at something that screams they're no good,
you can find it. And if you want to look
for stuff that says, boy, this team's got a lot
of potential. This team's coming together, you can find that.
And I think I think there's more of the Ladder
than the former.

Speaker 3 (35:31):
I need to especially on defense, but a couple of
the former get your beat.

Speaker 4 (35:34):
Oh yeah, and this league gets too fine?

Speaker 3 (35:37):
Yeah right.

Speaker 4 (35:37):
I mean I could argue if they convert those two
fourth downs that they didn't, maybe they win that game
in Chicago. I mean it was I thought down after
down they were the more consistent team in that game,
but in Chicago was more explosive. And I remember you
talking about this on Monday, that Steelers made too many
big mistakes at the wrong times.

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Speaker 3 (36:02):
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Speaker 2 (36:03):
And again, this is Wednesday, so I'm not really paying
a whole lot of attention to either team's injury or
portporate Anon Rodgers is obviously front and center in the
injury news. Mike Tomlin expressed great optimism in the immediate
aftermath of the Bears game that Rogers would play this week.
Rogers talked to the media today Matt and said that
he hasn't taken a snap yet under center, and he's

(36:25):
going to try that tomorrow. I still think he's gonna play.
Nobody's saying he's gonna play. I think he's gonna play.

Speaker 4 (36:30):
And he didn't do anything on Wednesday though, from what
I understand, correct. Yeah, if he does, don't think it's
that startling. Although he has not been the guy that does.

Speaker 2 (36:39):
The since you asked veteran, he was listed as did
not participate that for what that's worth. But two things
about last Sunday, I was all in favor of playing Rudolph. Yeah,
I don't think Rudolph played poorly, but I'd give him
about a C minus because of the two turnovers and
a couple of deep shots that they.

Speaker 3 (36:59):
Say the deeper throws.

Speaker 4 (37:01):
You got to complete a couple, you know, you can't
be these.

Speaker 3 (37:04):
One might have won right right right.

Speaker 2 (37:06):
You know, they had three really long, well executed drives
where they looked like they were humming.

Speaker 3 (37:10):
And we've been touched on it.

Speaker 4 (37:12):
I thought they ran the ball incredibly well, and I
think the old line, even though speaking of injuries, Broder
Jones out this week that the old lines in the
best place has been all year.

Speaker 2 (37:21):
And the scramble twenty two yards to the fifty, there
would have been two minutes and four seconds left. They
would have had all three of their timeouts, needing a
field goal to tie in a touchdown to win if
not for the illegal formation.

Speaker 3 (37:34):
Yeah, so that's how that's how close they were.

Speaker 6 (37:36):
Go.

Speaker 3 (37:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (37:36):
I did want to ask you about those deep shots
because I hear a lot, and I'm sure you hear
a lot on your various platforms. Everybody, all of a sudden,
the middle of the field is where there's a pot
of gold and free money and immortality.

Speaker 3 (37:50):
When they get one on ones, I think they got
to take them.

Speaker 4 (37:53):
And it's actually one thing I really wanted to talk
to Meryl about. I mean, and he was on a
long time, so we could have kept going to go
to go.

Speaker 2 (37:59):
Even the second play the game. Oh you just run
for eight yards? Well are you gonna run every play?

Speaker 3 (38:04):
Like?

Speaker 6 (38:05):
Hey?

Speaker 2 (38:05):
I want them to run the ball more too, but
I also want them to be explosive, and I don't
want all their.

Speaker 3 (38:10):
Passing yards to be yack. Oh, I know you got
you got guys.

Speaker 2 (38:14):
You believe in outside and they believe in Metcalf, they
believe in Roman Wilson, they believe in Calvin Austin. You
get those guys one on one, you gotta take those shots.
You just got to hit them, mat.

Speaker 4 (38:23):
I got no problems with that stuff. I mean, and
no one should be complaining. They should run the ball more,
I mean on that particular game.

Speaker 3 (38:32):
And when I say hit them, not all of them obviously,
right right, right right, but half of them marks. See,
That's the one thing I wanted to mention with Meryll.
Not necessarily throw in the.

Speaker 4 (38:40):
Middle of field, which they knew very little of, or
why can't they complete deep shots.

Speaker 3 (38:44):
Other than the Friar Moans touchdown.

Speaker 2 (38:46):
But I guess that doesn't count because it's not in
anybody's passing chart because it was in the end zone.

Speaker 3 (38:52):
Where's I going with this though?

Speaker 4 (38:53):
Oh, because in that last segment we were talking about
how well some of the stuff that the Bills are
playing with is not correctable. There are lines not going
to become more explosive, quicker, and I totally agree with that.
Where the Steeler stuff, if you get it right above
the neck and everybody does their job, is certainly more correctable.
But where I wanted to ask him and where I

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have my doubts is I don't know if the wide
receiver position is correctable if I laid out every position
for the Steelers. For the Steelers, well, I'll just let
me answer since Meryl already Yeah, yeah, I'm curious what
you think.

Speaker 3 (39:27):
I mean?

Speaker 2 (39:27):
Roman Wilson was behind this guy and the ball went
out of bounce. Oh, I thought Rudolph receivers m Metcalf
was behind his guy and the ball was under thrown.

Speaker 3 (39:36):
Calvin Austin had he got.

Speaker 2 (39:38):
A DPI on one, but that that didn't get there
that I.

Speaker 3 (39:43):
Thought he threw the ball very poorly deep, and.

Speaker 2 (39:46):
I thought there's times he played really well, that his
scramble was really timely, and he did a great job
manufacturing to play there.

Speaker 3 (39:52):
I thought he would play better. And you take four
deep shots, hit two of them, Hey, you got hit
one or two, you have to take six three.

Speaker 2 (40:01):
I also don't think you're going to be running the
ball as well if you don't ever take.

Speaker 4 (40:05):
Them thousand agree, and you're gonna run into some tougher
defense in Chicago too. Without question, what I meant by
the receiver position there was more big picture. I mean,
I feel, yeah, like, do they win enough one on
one matchups at that position?

Speaker 3 (40:20):
Top the bottom?

Speaker 4 (40:22):
That's my question out Yeah, exactly, But I thinks I'm
not sure where that that positions.

Speaker 3 (40:27):
You know, I keep going back.

Speaker 2 (40:27):
To the New England game where they it was a
tie game and they were in field goal range, but
Rogers went for the throat and with Austin, Yeah, they
both saw what they thought was gonna be one on
one and they took their shot.

Speaker 3 (40:41):
You win or you lose, and out right shoot your shot.
I'm all for all that.

Speaker 4 (40:45):
I'm not saying they're even incapable of that, because there's
a lot of speed at that position, and I do
think they can get behind people, but you cannot or throw.

Speaker 2 (40:51):
The other thing I want to talk to you about
before we get out of here, because you and I
have talked about Buffalo over the years, and this has
usually been the nickel playing this team on the planet right, defense, right,
and the other thing that was unrecognizable in addition to
how to shovel Josh Allen became down in Houston. Uh,
they have changed that nickel thing because they can't stop

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the run and they gotta go five man front now
and they gotta they gotta play heavier box now.

Speaker 4 (41:20):
And they're drafting d Lineman left right and signing Bosa
and so doesn't matter. And Milano looks old to me
and Poyer and.

Speaker 3 (41:31):
Not the same guy.

Speaker 4 (41:32):
Yeah, these guys have been around forever, are past their prime.

Speaker 2 (41:36):
Now, and those are maybe the three guys that epitomize
or personify.

Speaker 3 (41:41):
The Bills this generation defense.

Speaker 2 (41:44):
You hear the name Buffalo Bills, and there's I think
there's a standard in people's mind.

Speaker 3 (41:48):
Yeah, yeah, you hear Poyer here, trenevious White, ye.

Speaker 4 (41:51):
Great player, Milano right, None of those guys are what
they used they're not there used to be and they
haven't replenished it taking well at all. Again, I think
the same thing's true with the receiver position, Like all
their pass catchers are better suited to be slot type dudes,
not outside the number guys, and the defense is kind

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of just lacking talent.

Speaker 3 (42:12):
How about the guy they just signed a receiver.

Speaker 4 (42:14):
Braddy Cooks. He's had a great career. No one's been
traded more times for good stuff in his life than
that guy. I'm not like super disappointed that the Steelers
didn't get him, though. He's also a small, fast guy
that's past his prime. They've been searching forever, and they
traded for Amari Cooper at the trade deadline. They drafted
key On Coleman. At the end of the first round.

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They signed Josh Palmer. None of them have been the
answer really. Kincaid and Shakira been their two only reliable dudes,
and Kincaid hasn't played for a couple of weeks and
had a fumble, and yeah, right or right and both
are more slot ish type, near the football type guys.

Speaker 2 (42:52):
So the Steelers have six games left, two of them
are against the Ravens. One of them's against Buffalo. It's
all still in front of them. I mean, games are great,
even though they've lost four six.

Speaker 3 (43:05):
Do you think they think that or do you think
they're starting to come on glued a little bit? I'm
not sure about that. It's a reference Meryl's old buddy,
Bubby Brister.

Speaker 4 (43:13):
Yeah, I'm leaning towards not becoming unglued or boy this season. Shot.
I think there's a lot of opportunity ahead. I think
there's a lot of talent on the team, especially on defense.
I think the offensive line is coming together. I'm very
optimistic about where the running game is right now. And frankly,
I'm flat out excited to see what Rogers looks like

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after a week of sitting down.

Speaker 3 (43:40):
And again we're not even sure he's going to play now,
but maybe two weeks.

Speaker 2 (43:43):
Whatever it is, I'm I'm anticipating it for whatever reason.

Speaker 3 (43:47):
I just them and that was part of the.

Speaker 2 (43:51):
Play Mason Rudolph in Chicago and give Aeron a standing
eight count, let him Xale get his feet back under him.

Speaker 4 (43:57):
I'm sure the rest of his body is very happy
about it.

Speaker 2 (44:00):
And then attack this final stretch of games here. It's
funny Buffalo's lost four seven. The Steelers have lost four
to six four six.

Speaker 4 (44:07):
Right, these are first place teams not long ago. But
you can't do that in this league. And Buffalo, to me,
is just the roster is deficient, but they've got a
superstar quarterback. The Steelers just can't.

Speaker 3 (44:19):
It's kind of whack them all.

Speaker 4 (44:20):
It's just when one thing goes right, two things go wrong,
and then one thing goes right and one thing goes wrong,
and they just don't put it all together.

Speaker 2 (44:29):
Something's gonna have to give it after sure. I'll say
this in closing. I haven't seen Denver play yet, but
I know Pittsburgh beat New England. I know Pittsburgh beat Indianapolis.
There's not a team out there where I look at
and go, oh my god, they'll never beat those guys.

Speaker 4 (44:44):
And I don't think the Ravens are the team we
thought they would be. Lamar's shell of himself. I'm excited.
I've watched a lot of the Chiefs. I'm excited to
watch them tomorrow too, from start to finish, because they
have problems. I think the AFC is very lackluster, right.

Speaker 3 (44:57):
So this might be a year we're sneaking in. Is
a pretty good thing.

Speaker 4 (45:01):
I would just say one team in the AFC could
get hot and steamroll the rest of the conference.

Speaker 3 (45:06):
That's gonna do it for us.

Speaker 2 (45:07):
Thanks to Justin Miller for keeping the show running as
smoothly as he always does. Thanks to Brian la Martine
of Steelers Nation Radio for coordinating everything from the.

Speaker 3 (45:16):
Top of the mountain.

Speaker 2 (45:18):
Will be back at you again next Thursday as we
get you ready for the Steelers and the Ravens Round one.
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Speaker 3 (45:46):
Good night, everybody,