HR 1 - Offensive Philosophy, Taylor Getting His

Tom and Chris talk about how the Steelers need to shift their mindset to being more of an offensive team.  They talk about dealing with Jonathan Taylor and look at some trade candidates around the league.

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Speaker 1 (00:11):
For years, I mean maybe the entire existence of the franchise.
That's being dramatic. For most of my life, though the
Steelers have relied on their defense to get the job done.
The Steelers have been able to lean on their defense
as the unit, the side of the ball that kind
of carried things for them. Now again, it's not like
the offenses have been just so helpless over the history

(00:34):
of this franchise where they couldn't do anything and they
just put their palms up to the sky, like, please
bail us out. It was always a very very strong compliment. Now,
sometimes there is parts of your franchise, you know, when
you look back at certain eras where the offense was
better than the defense, the defense was astronomically better than
the offense. But when you certainly look at the past,

(00:56):
you know, ten years in that window, ever since the
Killer Bees, and that would be right around the end
of them, it transitioned to the defense once again being
one of the main, if not the main, reason why
you won a lot of football games. You kick field
goals because of that. You punt maybe at the other
team's forty three yard line when you are in four

(01:18):
down territory, but you have a great defense, so you
want to give them that long field, right, you want
to help them out as much as you can. Well,
now in twenty twenty five, there has to be a
philosophical shift. You have got to now pivot towards the offense.
And Mike Tomlin, I've seen you operate when the offense

(01:39):
is your upper hand. You go for two point conversions.
You're aggressive in going for touchdowns and not field goals.
You go for fourth and threes on the opponent's forty
two yard line instead of punting and giving a long field.
It's easy to do that when you had the best
offense in football for like four straight years with the
Killer Bees. But I've seen you operate that way. Now

(02:03):
lately you've had to operate in the way of using
your defense and leaning on them. That has to change,
and that has to change starting this Sunday. They don't
have a chance to win this game unless you embrace
the offense, unless you try to jump on the offense's
back and win something like thirty eight to thirty five,
because there's no slowing down this Colts offense, even if

(02:27):
you have a good to great defense, and you do
not have that he's Chris Adamski. I'm Tom Opferman. This
is the Steelers Blitz on Steelers Dasha Radio, part of
the Steelers Audio Network. Chris, do you agree with me?
But I know you agree with me, because there's no
way anybody in their right mind could go out and say, yeah, well,
you know, I think the defense is going to bounce back,
and I think you should still trust that side of the.

Speaker 2 (02:47):
Momut and man the defense and let a man up
and redeem themselves. Was that that sounds like a good play.
I actually wrote about it. I wrote it. It makes me
feel old now they don't wrote about this ten years ago,
because that was the point you're talking about the killer
Bees kind of coming into effect to be dominant in
the summer twenty fifteen. I had written that between nineteen
ninety three and twenty thirteen. So at twenty one year span,

(03:09):
only twice said the in league rankings, the offense finished
higher than this defense for the Steelers in the NFL rankings,
And they had done it in twenty fourteen, they did
it in twenty fifteen, and they did in twenty eighteen.
Throughout that time, and then see it's also do you
count pointer or yard you can kind of parse through.
This doesn't matter. So we're back to that point now
where essentially generally over the last since that time period,

(03:32):
there might have been once or twice where the yards
of points where were better for the offense than the
defense of the Steelers. But you're right, it's been a
defensive team even going back to think about that offense
had in the seventies Super seventy Steelers had five Hall
of Famers on the offense, yes, said, five Hall of
Famers in the defense, and it was still generally thought
of although by the end of that decade if you

(03:52):
look even the Super Bowls, first one sixteen to six,
the last one one on thirty five to thirty.

Speaker 1 (03:55):
One, if you're winning Super Bowls, you're happy to ok.
It's not like you're not all the two thousand Ravens
right where it's literally no one on offense is doing
anything except for Jamal Lewis and then other than that,
it's all defense. Like the identity has been the Steelers
defense and the steel Curtain in the seventies. But yeah,
five Hall of famers on the offense. There the other
two Super Bowls that they won, the second best iteration

(04:16):
of the Steelers defense that we've seen kind of like
the modern Steel Curtain with the Harrisons and the Woodleies
and the Troy pala Mallers. Right, that was the identity
of those teams. But you had Ben Freakin Roethlisberger, I mean,
had the Bus, you had heinz Ward, you had Santoni.
You need to have a compliment to be that good
of a team. So yeah, you look back, you know,
you oversell it by saying like this is it's all

(04:38):
defense and they honestly they hate playing offense here at Pittsburgh.
Like no, of course that's not the case, but come on, like,
we know what the identity is. People just default into
saying on national TV all the time, well, you know,
the Steelers are gonna play really the elite defense all
the time. Even in the Killer be era, you would
hear that pop up every now and again. So that
is just kind of like it's the default when it
comes to the Steelers, and it's been the correct default

(05:02):
for the past eight seven years. Right now, but you
have to shift your mindset. You have to become an
offensive team now because your offense is better than your defense, and.

Speaker 2 (05:12):
You that being more aggressive, either throwing down the field
you do more aggressive. I know there's been a lot
of talk you brought up yesterday. I didn't realize Sometimes
I get my little cocoon realize how much, how big
of a thing this is people talking about the tom
and opening the press conference talking about the offense, and
then they're right in the defense.

Speaker 1 (05:27):
You didn't have your ear to the streets.

Speaker 2 (05:29):
I didn't. I don't know.

Speaker 1 (05:30):
You've got a finger on the pulse.

Speaker 2 (05:32):
Yes, I must admit my finger was on some other
it was somewhere somewhere it shouldn't have been. I guess
was on the balls. So it but it's it does
show or I think everybody's accepted it now as much
as that got brought up. I mean, look at the
changes they've they've been bringing in trade, uh practice, squad
signing of a veteran guy. There's been chat like they

(05:54):
seem they know right, everybody knows at this point it's
been now a couple of games in a row where
the defense was or it was and yeah, I don't
know if do you. It's like, how much does that
permeate into does that go to Arthur Smith and say
we need to call games more aggressively. We need to
call games thinking more big plays than before. Because if

(06:16):
there's been a criticism of Mike Tomlin and all that,
I mean, you took a breath there. You're very excited
to talk, and I'm sorry I interrupted you.

Speaker 1 (06:22):
It's been that you didn't interrupt.

Speaker 2 (06:25):
You seem very You look like you were about to
make a side distract my breathing of oxygen. How did you?
I didn't want to ruin your You look very excited
to make your point. If there's been a criticism steal
or it's been that they've been to sort of like, oh,
which seat to win games? When Rock fight games every week?
I think that gets brought up a lot, right now,

(06:45):
you would now you don't want, right, I don't think
they have a choice. Really, they can't sit here and
assume that they're going to hold the opponent to ten, thirteen, fifteen,
sixteen points every week. Right?

Speaker 1 (06:56):
Oh you're ready for my point? Now?

Speaker 2 (06:58):
Yes? Please?

Speaker 1 (06:59):
They haven't really had They wouldn't really need to get
that much more aggressive. I agree they should take more
shots downfield, and they should, you know, push the ball
more and get a little bit more aggressive on offense.
As far as you know, going for it more on
fourth downs or not kicking field goals or shooting that
and trying to keep drives alive so you can hopefully
get into the end zone. They need to be more
aggresive in that aspect for sure, But as far as

(07:20):
like pushing the ball down the field and stuff like that, like, yeah,
I feel you and I want to see that. But
like they're scoring points, like even though they're not necessarily
doing that, and Rodgers is quick to get rid of
the ball and they're not really letting things develop downfield much.
They're moving the ball and they're scoring points. Like I know,
there was some moments that stalled out a little bit
against Green Bay, especially in that second half, and you know,

(07:41):
this was kind of garbage, tinye, but they got to
twenty five against a really good defense, and that's nothing
to you know, scoff At Packers have one of the
better defenses in football, and they did fine against it.
I thought they ran the ball well in the first half.
Probably should have kept running it in the second half,
But that's a conversation for maybe another time. You know,
with Mike Tomlin open up out the press conference talking
about the offense, you're ready for me to read a

(08:02):
little bit too much into it now, after you know,
twenty four hours have passed, I'll over forty eight hours
or however many hours they all blend together.

Speaker 2 (08:09):
I do.

Speaker 1 (08:10):
I wonder if you know you come out there and again,
this is reading way too much into this. He probably
just started talking. He didn't really put much thought into
what he was going to say, or like map it
out into like paragraph form and be like, well, this
will lead to this, and then I'll tease this and
come back to it later. He was doing show prep
about his press conference. But maybe he comes out there
and he says, you know, we need to be better
on third down. You know, we need to get to

(08:31):
the red zone. We're more efficient getting into the red zone,
and we need to you know, not settle for field
goals so much, to kind of start to shift that
philosophy a little bit, to say, hey, I know and
you know that the defense was really bad, and you're
gonna ask me a lot of questions here in this
next thirty minutes about it, and we're going to talk
about it. Don't worry. But this is an offensive team now.

(08:54):
So I'm gonna lead off here by being like, hey,
we need to be better on third down. We need
to score, we need to score more because now moving forward,
starting in week nine, the shift and the onus is
going to be on that side of the ball, and
you should kind of come to expect deficiencies from the defense.
So now you got to kind of look at the
offense and really, you know, like we did with the
defense for years, like really grind into them and be like, yeah,

(09:18):
you did good and you score twenty five, but your
third down was really bad and like nitpick almost, because
that's the side of the ball that has to win
games now.

Speaker 2 (09:25):
So I guess what I'm since you brought it up
first and you were saying, He's like, oh, the offense
has been pretty like would what would you? If you're right?
Is it just just an organizational edict and philosophy and
we're an offensive team? Now, Okay, that's it, We're done,
Or like, how do you adjust? I guess because you
could go too ways. You could say from the defensive side, right,
you could say, okay, we know we need to rely

(09:47):
on the offense. Would would then? And I'm just spitballing here.
I'm not saying there's right a wrong answer, of course not.
Would you sort of like play more conservatively on defense, saying,
you know what, we're gonna know we're giving up points,
but we'll just kind of avoid the big quick the
quick plays and which keep things in front of us,
and we know we're gonna give up twenty some points
a game. That's okay as long as it's not thirty
or forty some points a game. And then offensively, so

(10:09):
do you be more aggressive? Aggressive in the play calling,
aggressive in the field goal touchdown things. Gotten a lot
of airplay in the last few days here.

Speaker 1 (10:16):
Definitely the ladder definitely more aggressive as far as that's concerned.
You've got to be more aggressive in the play calling too.
And your offensive line is getting better, right, That has
kind of been a widely accepted narrative that the O
line is improving, that is showing a lot of promise,
So trust them more. Let rogers sit in the pocket
for a little bit longer now, let plays kind of

(10:37):
need to develop more downfield because you have an offensive
line that's getting better, so trust them. So, yeah, you
got to be a little more aggressive in the play
calling as well. And boy, I mean now that you
have to score points this is really a time that
you need more than ever, and you've needed it for
two years now. Another weapon in the passing game, another

(10:59):
legitimate wide receiver in the passing game. Because you're gonna
do this, You're gonna truly do this, and you're gonna
truly shift to being a team that you know, tries
to score in the high twenties as much as you
possibly can. You know, you need more weaponry out there.

Speaker 2 (11:11):
And I also wonder if, and again this is something
that I don't know how much I get it. I mean,
it's true, it got talked about a lot more from
the outside, I think than maybe the whole Like the
offense avoids turnovers. The most important thing in the world
the offense can do is avoid turnovers. That's was the
number one priority that was going to Now I do
think even if that is and was, and everybody wants

(11:35):
to avoid turnovers, clearly, But when you had a rookie
quarterback or a first second year quarterback in a picket
or whoever it was, or you had a what do
you think of justin fields? Was that was the backup?
But it literally was the backup when he was playing
that that obviously lends itself more to a conservative mindset
in that sense. I don't know if Aaron Rodgers, if
that's really He's one of the best of them ever

(11:58):
to do it to avoid interceptions, though he almost if
there was almost a criticism, he almost wouldn't be aggressive
at some points. I think because you wanted to keep
his interception number down. People used to say that, I
don't know if that's true or not. That used to
be from AFAR back when Aaron Rodgers there was just
some guy put in the NFC, and you know, and
I knew who he was, but did you know didn't
follow his career that act closely?

Speaker 1 (12:18):
Yeah, that was an easy criticism to take for a hater.
It's like, but then you'd look that he has like
thirty touchdowns too, you know what I mean, Or he'd
be flirting with forty touchdowns and it's like, well, I
mean he's got to be making some throws.

Speaker 2 (12:29):
Yeah, I wonder, like I mean really, and again, I
don't know, like you think if.

Speaker 1 (12:34):
If that was true, he'd have like ten touchdowns and
two interceptions. Think it's really positive he didn't throw interceptions.
It's somehow turned it. Oh, he's a jerk looking want
three receptions.

Speaker 3 (12:42):
Kind of think it's kind of what I thought as
throwing it away, what an idiot, But it's also was
when you had this unique situation with back to back
Hall of Fame quarterbacks and an organization and the Packers,
and the first one was just mister like, I don't
give a crap buy through interceptions.

Speaker 1 (12:57):
And I'm going to lead the league in touchdowns and
interceptions that my career.

Speaker 2 (13:01):
So maybe that was just the juxtaposition of his successor
was a little different than that way. But regardless, you know,
I don't know then if that's sort of because there
is a mindset if you have really good defense, and
it makes sense that hey, we're it's a one possession
game right now. If we're lay up for a fueld goal,
now we'll be up by by nine or ten, whatever

(13:22):
it is here, we can feel really good, a really
good chance to win this game. Whereas I think right
now you have the mindset of, well, we're only we're
only up by ten right now, Okay, that that that
what we need to be up by fourteen to feel
better about you know, I think that the quarterback and
who knows in those split seconds, but when you're twenty
one year veteran. I think you're able to process all
that and have that big world that the world leave

(13:44):
thirty thousand foot view, and you're making decision at the
same time. It's easier than maybe a younger quarterback maybe
or something like that. But so I don't know. But
I also don't know. And again I'm just kind of
spit firing, spit bawling here with you. Spit firing because
excellent point you brought up is as usual Tom that
what do you do? You hold a team meetings? You

(14:05):
know what, guys, our defense stinks, we're gonna we're gonna really.

Speaker 1 (14:08):
Be aggressed and we have to put it on the nose.

Speaker 2 (14:12):
That way.

Speaker 1 (14:12):
But staff just kind of has to recognize it. They
just have to realize, you know, our decisions makings need
to kind of lean more on the offense. And back
to what you said about what does that kind of
look like. Here's another point of what I think they
need to emphasize. They need to get better at time
of possession. I don't care how that is, but they
just move chains past the ball, be stronger on the
run game, lean on the run game more. I don't
care you gotta hold the ball more. You have to

(14:35):
have the best side of your ball on the field,
the best side of your team on the field more
often than the deficient side. So you know, we used
to say the offense needs to hold on to the
ball more because the defense is getting gassed, right, Like, oh,
the defense is just out there way too long. They
have a great stop, and then it's three and out
and it's like, oh my god, I just barely sat

(14:56):
down and got my helmet off and started looking at
the tablet, and I gotta get right back out there.
So that was always the criticism you'd have with time
of possession, and the crux of the time of possession
problem was like the defense is getting gased. Now it's
I don't want that damn defense on the field. I
just don't want them to have the opportunity to let
points get put up on them, to let yardage get

(15:18):
put up on them. So hey. And also the less
that they're on the field, the fresher and older defense
can be, so that helps. But I just don't want
them out there. I want my offense out there more.
So they gotta improve in time of possession. They're one
of the worst in the league in time of possession.
They need to hold onto the damn football more. And

(15:40):
Jalen Warren is I think the obvious key to that,
that's the kind of one to zho. One way to
hold onto the football is have a lot of success
in the running game. And can you think Chris of
a game recently where they really didn't have success running
the football, Like they've really shown good strides in that area,

(16:01):
and it honestly just comes down to the team kind
of abandoning in it in recent weeks as opposed to
you know, the running backs doing poorly. Ever ever since
Gainwell came in and had to start for Warren in Ireland,
that running game has turned a corner and has been
something that you can really lean on as an offense.

Speaker 2 (16:18):
Yeah, I was just looking that up. And and sometimes
the yards per carry can get a little bit skewed
if there's eight sixty five yard run or something, and
you can but in the.

Speaker 1 (16:28):
Browns yards per car got skewed because Rudolph need like
fifty five times.

Speaker 2 (16:32):
Yeah, so there are that's what happened to actually flock
out against the Steelers two weeks later the week That's
true too.

Speaker 1 (16:38):
It helped the Steelers out.

Speaker 2 (16:40):
Yeah, in terms of their but numbers, but so that
they're at the last previous five games four and a
half yards, three point six seven point four five point
two yards per carry, so.

Speaker 1 (16:48):
That's pretty good. Yeah, and that three point six again
was above four until the knees.

Speaker 2 (16:52):
Yeah, and you're seeing and other than the Cincinnati game
had two long carries by Warren that could but that
was also the game where the outlier in terms of yeah,
they're not going to average seven point four yards per carry.
I'm sorry, you can't expect anybody to do that. So
if that they're in, but that's still you're talking well
over five yards of carry over over a pretty big
sample size there, and there's no way that that number

(17:14):
gets you know, you, is skewed by the two long
carries in Cincinnati. Other than that, you've seen a lot
of those carries with what you want to see ten ten,
fifteen to fifteen. Just looking at their longest carries in
these games ten, ten, ten and eleven, you're getting to
that many ten and eleven yard carries, twelve fifteen yard
carries and that's a good run. So that might be
again arguably the most encouraging sign other than Aaron Rodgers

(17:38):
play being not looking like a forty one year old
or a washed up guy or whatever you want to say,
looking closer to Green Bay Aaron Rodgers than Jets Aaron Rodgers.
Over the course of this season, I think it was
probably the single most encouraging thing for the twenty twenty
five Steelers. Now, obviously, I don't know how far you
can shrapolate that forward going forward, but the running game
and improvement which goes hand in hand obviously with the

(17:58):
offensive line, the offensive line and Jalen Warren showing he
can be and every down back, it is like all
those like I was skeptical all that time people said,
and now it's I don't want to go hindsight and
say they made mistakes, but that people were always saying
Warren should be starting ahead of Naudey Harris. I'm like,
what's back the truck up? Warren's good in his role,
he is what he does, you know whatever. But I mean,

(18:20):
now I look at it. Maybe they were right the
whole time. I don't know. I feel like Warren, look
at him now, he's impressed me as a runner. The
offensive line has been better, So yes, now you have
an offense that has a quarterback who can make the
deep throws, intermediate throws, has a threat in DK metcalf
Is can be a big play machine, and has the
running game too that but I don't know. Again, if

(18:42):
we're going back to being aggressive, how does the run
game kind of fit in that? Now, you want to
possess the ball, you want to be aggressive, you want
to I guess in an ideal world you're holding the
ball and getting long drives. But at the same time,
does that fit into aggressiveness? You know, I don't know.
It's a balancing act and a long way to go
for this offense. There a long route for it to

(19:03):
take to overcome what's going on with the defense. Right now.

Speaker 1 (19:06):
I can't believe he're here. Can't believe it. A week
nine you just did an entire opening segment on offense.
Baby offensive football. The Pittsburgh Steelers in offense, that's their
bread and butter right now. Wow, what a weird season.
But that's why it's the NFL. That's why it's so
much fun to follow. It's very unpredictable. When we come back,
I'm gonna tell you why. The biggest key to stopping
Jonathan Taylor might just be not stopping him at all. Hey,

(19:31):
it's the Steelers Plazer with Chris Dansky and Tom up
from It on Steelers Nation Radio, a part of the
Steelers Audio Network. Chris, you're hoops saying, right, you like basketball?
I mean, you're tall enough, you certainly should.

Speaker 2 (19:48):
My twin sons love basketball. I just watched them well
play run around a six, So I'm not ready to.

Speaker 1 (19:55):
Let didn't ask you if you like watching your twin
sons play basketball. You know, I like you like watching
grown profession else played the sport college player.

Speaker 2 (20:01):
I was offering proof that I enjoyed basketball, that I
would encourage my little kids to play basketball.

Speaker 1 (20:07):
Very good.

Speaker 2 (20:07):
I'm glad I'm agreeing.

Speaker 1 (20:08):
I could have just said yes, yes, exactly, that you
did it.

Speaker 2 (20:11):
God forbody. You want to know a little bit more
about me in a human level.

Speaker 1 (20:14):
That's okay to like, are you an NBA snob? Though
you're one of those guys It's like, I'm a college
troops fan pretty much, Yeah you are. I could tell
the NBA is great. You should give it a chance.
It's awesome basketball. It's basketball at a higher level than college.

Speaker 2 (20:26):
Yeah, Like I saw those twelve steps that Jannis took
the other day.

Speaker 1 (20:29):
But that's basketball, baby, that's offense. I love it. And
everybody's always like, I don't put it through through THEBA. No,
they just make a lot of shots as opposed to
college basketball, whor it's like bricks. We're not talking about.

Speaker 2 (20:40):
The pageant for your college football, but college basketball, you're
gonna poopolo over.

Speaker 1 (20:43):
I love the pageantry of college football. It's the best.
Here's where I'm going with this, yes, please, So the
great mic de Corsi from the Sporting News, you know him,
I know everybody knows, and was on with Mark yesterday
and he brings up this great analogy about how the
Steelers have to treat this game against the Colts. They
got to treat it like it's basketball. And what he
meant by that, and I thought it was so spot on,
is every possession your goal needs to be to score

(21:06):
a touchdown. You need to score and score and score
and score, and you need to treat it like it's basketball.
If you're gonna put it in and then they're gonna
put it in, and then you're gonna put it in,
and then they're gonna put it in and then you're
gonna put it in and they're gonna put.

Speaker 2 (21:18):
It not like Golden State, don't go for three every time? Right?

Speaker 1 (21:22):
Nice, that was good?

Speaker 2 (21:24):
Okay, sorry, correct.

Speaker 1 (21:27):
You gotta dump that ball. You gotta get that ball
into the end zone. So I thought that that was
a very apt comparison. Let me take it a step
further and give you another common theme that you see
when we do basketball. You got a dominant star player, right,
You got all Lebron James in his prime. Sometimes you
just let him get his thirty five points, his ten rebounds,
and his ten assists, but then everybody else only scores

(21:49):
ten or twelve points max. You take everybody else away,
you let him get his, and then you win the
game by minimizing everybody else's impact. I kind of feel
that's how you got to go with Jonathan Taylor here.
Like last week, it was so clear that they put
so many resources into stopping Josh Jacobs, and I don't
blame him after Chase Brown did what he did to

(22:10):
you on the ground, and the entire narrative all week
was what the hell's wrong with the run defense? So
I get it, But the whole game plan was clearly
centered around stopping Jacobs. We stopped Jacobs, we win oops, tuckerkraft,
whack a mold himself up, and he just started dominating
us the entire game. Jonathan Taylor in this game is

(22:31):
the clear number one weapon. Now there are good weapons
to great weapons aside from him, but he's won a
He is the man, so I don't really see how
you can stop him. Just to be quite honest, you
did a good job against Jacobs, but then the backup
running back came in and kind of was able to

(22:53):
salt the game away on the ground for the Green
Bay Packers, averaging about five point one yards per carry.
Your run defense was better, and it was good against Jacobs,
but it wasn't great. Now the Offensive Player of the
Year is coming in now, someone that they're talking about
to potentially be an MVP, the first non quarterback MVP

(23:13):
since twenty twelve, is coming in. He averages over one
hundred yards per game. He has over eight hundred yards
on the season so far, he has fourteen total touchdowns.
You're not stopping him. No one's been able to stop
him so far. It's not gonna start on Sunday afternoon
at Akrosho Stadium, with that defense. So I think you
honestly have to have the mindset here of he gonna

(23:36):
get his like, let him get his one hundred and
twenty yards, he'll find the end zone. If we can
limit him to just one, that'd be God, that'd be beautiful.
But sure give him two. Remember, Chris, we're scoring points
to win this game. So you know, I'm okay given
up two or three touchdowns. In fact, I'm almost assuming
that that will be the case, and you're gonna have
to overcome that. So I'm fine with him doing all
that damage. But take Tyler Warren out of the equation.

(24:00):
Make sure the Pittman's and downs and the pierces don't
hurt you. Turn Danny Dimes over and above all else
torched that Colts defense when your offense is on the field,
take him out in all the other areas, and don't
really worry about Jonathan Taylor. I mean worry about him,
but you know what I mean, Like, don't sit there
and go, ah, man, we gave hip one hundred yards
to Jonathan Taylor.

Speaker 2 (24:18):
We failed.

Speaker 1 (24:20):
No, I let him get his focus on shutting down
everybody else. I think that is the clear and evident
strategy for this game because I don't see a clear
and evident strategy to stop that freak at running back.

Speaker 2 (24:32):
And so I'll take that and I'll look at one
player and maybe it was just because it was again
laugh out loud Titans or whatever, and it was his
best game of the season. But man, like Michael Pittman
looks like you kind of and you look back at
his numbers, he's been a.

Speaker 1 (24:46):
Lot better re like, he is a very he is
very underrated. Yes, he was somebody that I really kind
of off the radar because you never heard about him
in trade talks. But I was like, man, I would
love the Steelers to get him as a number two
wide receiver. He would be just perfect as far as
that role is concerned. And you know, the Colts were
supposed to be bad this year, so like in the offseason,
I was like Pittman, like, why not just target Pittman?

(25:07):
And then you know, I'm kind of thinking by the deadline,
you know, Pittman might be in the equation. No, Pittman's
going to the super Bowl this year, I think with
the Colts.

Speaker 2 (25:14):
And you just see his size and he's fluid man
and some of the like like some of the one
touchdown he had against the Titans look like Randy Moss
like it was I couldn't. I was like, wow, I
can't play. And obviously I've seen him play a bunch
of times, right, I don't know why. It's like maybe
it's like oh, Anthony Richards and throwing him or ancient
Matt Ryan's throwing to home. He starts, yea with all those,
he has one hundred and nine catch season. Only a

(25:35):
couple of years ago that was the quietest one hundred
nine catch season, I feel like, because I was like, really,
I thought, oh, oh, he's I finally getting a good
quarterback play around him. He's gonna have Like, no, he's
not actually not having a career season. He's pretty much
having Other than touchdowns, he already has a career high
in touchdowns are tied for a career career high was
six through eight games. So other than that, though, his
yardage and his catch numbers aren't really pretty much what
he's done throughout his last four seasons of his career.

(25:57):
He is a problem, especially considering for Ah. I guess
I see him as more of a problem right now
after seeing what Jamar Chase and t Higgins did two
weeks ago. And that doesn't even bring up Tyler Warren,
who is going to be a problem because he's pretty much,
you know, Tucker Craft junior or Tucker Craft however you
want to put it. So that's going to be a

(26:19):
problem too. So in that sense, seeing those weapons there
that they have and just knowing kind of the what
the Colts offensive line is too, which which is one
of another not to take anything away anyway from Jhonthan Taylor,
but obviously plays a big factor in why their running
game is so effective. And now you don't have Deshaun

(26:39):
Elliott man, I see what you're saying. Obviously you have
a pick your poison situation going on here.

Speaker 1 (26:46):
Oh yeah, don't get me wrong. Like it's not like
they can easily shut down Tyler Warren and the trio
receivers that they have, but it's easier said to do
that than I think it's said to stop Jonathan Taylor.

Speaker 2 (26:57):
Yeah, and if you can at least again limit the
splash plays against like him, the Chase Brown in thirty
seven yard carry, if you can try to just stop
tackle after five yards, Yeah, if you maybe do that now,
Toshaun Elliott's the was the eraser for that too.

Speaker 1 (27:12):
Yeah, but Douggar's good at that. Yeah, And it's really
not hard to be like, hey, tackle the runner, you
know what I mean, Like you don't have to know
the scheme and the kind of the communication stuff to
do that. And Preppers is good at that too. So yeah,
they got some thumpers. I don't know what they're gonna
do with Harrison Man, like I think I'm just misguided
on how they fee view him. He might his window
might expire if he's not activated on Sunday. He's done
for the year. Correct, this is his third week, I believe.

Speaker 2 (27:34):
Well, twenty one days, the twenty one days is very
important than three weeks. Business day. They could do it
Monday or Tuesday, because I think it was the Monday
of that bye week if if I remember correctly. They
could still do it, in other words, the day after
the game. But it's like, what are we doing then? Why?

Speaker 1 (27:48):
So it's not business days, it's not just practice days.
It's a legitimate twenty one.

Speaker 2 (27:51):
Day, twenty one days, twenty one day window budget. But
you see he started twenty I see what you're saying.
After Sunday started the Monday. Yeah, so they have to
last day. It's a literal like activat him on the roster.
So yes, he could skip this game and still come back.
But it's like, what are we doing? Why would he
skip this game? That's been practicing fool the past three
weeks and you need to stop the run. I was
I didn't understand that because especially there are still they've

(28:13):
been playing with fifty two men on the roster for
the past two spots. Yes, so I thought it was like, well, okay,
it's like it's the race now. Maybe they knew. I
don't know. Now you have more guys going on IRD now,
so there's more roster spots. Although now obviously you have
a trade acquisition and so there's and who knows what's
going on with the MBS thing eventually, So I guess

(28:33):
maybe they were holding those roster spots, but I don't know.
It's easy enough nowadays with the practice squad to get
guys through waivers. I don't think that's that was much
of a concern. But regardless, yeah, I don't know. You
would think although after this game now really the past, well,
Chase Brown was one thing. Now you're back to do
you want. I don't know at this point, you're trying

(28:54):
to give up on coverage linebackers. I feel like, I mean,
it would be different I Milke Harrison was playing and
Tucker Craft was beating Malik Harrison somehow, or those matchups
are being exploited somehow by having a quote unquote and
I hate the pigeonhole guys, but the run stuffing linebackers
lined up against your your elite tight end, and that's
how Kraft was getting a lot of his production. But

(29:14):
obviously they didn't have the run stuffing linebacker even in
the on the roster in uniform for that game, and
it was still So maybe it's the point where whatever
Peyton Wilson said about being the world's best coverage linebacker,
and it wasn't Peyton Wilson every plaguet and beat by
tougher crowd. I'm not blaming him totally for that, but
maybe it's just like, you know what, maybe we should
although now you're bringing extra safety, so there's there's no

(29:35):
there's no simple answer to this, Tom, which is why
there's a whole defensive staff making a lot of money
that has to put this together. But yeah, it's it's a.
I see what you're saying, and I don't disagree, but
it's also kind of scary. It's like Jonathan Taylor, Okay,
we're gonna let him get, you know, on hundred.

Speaker 1 (29:50):
I know, it's weird you have to put I think
you have to you have to do that. I just
don't see any other way that you can come up
with how you're gonna stop him. Like I mean, I
guess they could always him. He could always have a
bad game.

Speaker 2 (30:01):
You know.

Speaker 1 (30:01):
I'm sure he's not going to run for one hundred
yards every week, but it's hard for me to see it,
hard for me to see that this is the week
where that's going to be the case. You mentioned Pittman,
such a big bodied guy. You know that trio of
wide receivers. What's so great about them is they're all
very unique. You got Pittman, who's that bigger guy, like
you said, it almost looks Randy Mossish down the field.
He's got strength. Then you got Pierce who is just

(30:25):
a speed threat, is going to take the top off
of you, deep threat for sure. And then Josh Downs
is their slot and he's someone that you know you'll
get the ball into his hands quick on drag routes,
and him after the catch is very dangerous. He's very shifty,
you know, he's got a little bit of he's not
this player's caliber, but he plays a style like you
think of an ab you know what I mean, where
it's that dangerous ball in his hands after the catch scenario.

(30:48):
And he's a very good route runner. So they're all
very unique, and they're all very different. And that's that's
what you want out of a wide receiver room, right,
You don't want, you know, three carbon copies of the
same guy.

Speaker 2 (30:58):
Yeah, and now that I mean after the only Anthony
h interest in experience, mean, these guys were under underutilized
or their full potential wasn't able to be in which
is part of the reason why I think they kind
of flew under the radars as a group. And I
was particularly I mean the Pittman's obviously the kind of
the headline grabber or the star or whatever. But yeah,
and they're all they all were in that kind of
sweet spot for wide receivers that the Steelers usually the

(31:20):
second and third round picks. They each all three of
those guys or second third round picks. That's another reason
maybe I don't you know we do this. We attached
the first round. We spend so much time thinking about
the draft, looking at the draft, and guys you remember
from the draft, Oh, he's you know, you almost overrate
the first round picks. That makes sense and in the
later round picks they had kind of have to prove
it more to you before you believe that. But they

(31:41):
assembled a wide receiver corps kind of like I said,
the same way the Seelers target to her effort to
a lot of times the second and third round, that
second day draft picks. That was their seer sweet spot
for years and years in terms of getting receivers. And
you see the glut of receivers every year in the draft.
But yeah, that there. There certainly was intention with that
in terms of their skill sets and everything, and that
you're right, that's the way, that's what you want to

(32:01):
receiving core and then you get the elite tight end.
Then in the next year's draft. After those were almost
three or four drafts in a row, at least four
out of six drafts, I think when they got the
assembled there eligible.

Speaker 1 (32:12):
Course, right now, that's the next biggest problem when facing
the offense is the tight end that they have now,
Tyler Warren. He leads all tight ends in receiving yards
right now. So he's tight end one as far as
the NFL is concerned. Where did he go to school?

Speaker 2 (32:27):
I don't know, you don't remember.

Speaker 1 (32:29):
Well, you know what I'm going to give, Penns take
credit here for a second. Okay, yes, so get ready
for that? Do you want to stand up?

Speaker 2 (32:37):
Can I record that? I mean we actually it's a
radio station. Things get recorded.

Speaker 1 (32:42):
All the stuff that we're doing live also gets recorded
to play back later. Yes, you're right, Pennce. They used
him in so many unique ways, you know that. I
mean he was center at some points, right, he was
snapping the ball in some plays, but he was you know,
really schemed up well, and that's something that's psyching and
the Colts are embracing and doing as well, like they're
Warren up. They're using him in a nut. He's not
playing center in the NFL, but you know what I mean,

(33:04):
like they're using him in a lot of unique ways.
He's in the backfield, he's in the slot, he's out
wide like and something that Matt Williams and I were
talking about last night, a countdown to kickoff was. You know,
it's not just that Tyler Warren is an unbelievable ly
skilled player and just on talent alone, he could be
the number one tight end in football for a while.
But Stiching is scheming him up to a place where
he's wide open, like it's layups for Danny Dimes to

(33:28):
get it to that freak at tight end. So it's
not even just like he's winning on pure skill and
he's making all these combat you know, tough catches and
as stiff arming a safety off of him to grab
the ball like he's just in the middle of the
field running wide open. So the scheme around Warren is
outstanding at the NFL level. And I think you have

(33:48):
a coaching staff that you know, knew on draft night
that they wanted that player and that they can do
a lot of things with that player, and really saw
him fit with what they could do, and they're embracing
him and they're using him a lot, and they're having
a lot of fun with him. So yeah, you're letting
Jonathan Taylor get his But the other end of that equation,

(34:09):
if that is the strategy that you employs, you have
to shut down Tyler Warren because two guys can't get theirs.
You can't just let Warren go nuts and Taylor go nuts.
Then all of a sudden they're scoring forty points and
it's tough to keep up with that, So you gotta
shut down Warren. Does Ramsey take on a bigger role
as far as that's concerned. You know, Ramsey, what he
has lost speed wise, he can probably still hang physicality

(34:32):
wise with a bigger body and a tight end and
they don't necessarily have that blazing speed that they can
burn you with. That would also keep Ramsey closer to
the line of scrimmage in that slot kind of role.
If he kind of is the Tyler Warren eraser in
this game, he can help and run support on Jonathan
Taylor that way. So maybe that's the obvious way to
go about it. You're gonna need safeties to step up.

(34:53):
You're gonna need Peyton Wilson, best inside linebacking coverage player
in the world, to play a very big game because
he'll have moments where Warren is on him. You know,
as I just mentioned, the scheme is a big thing
with Warren. They get him open a lot, so it's
an all hands on deck effort. But I do wonder
if maybe Jalen Ramsey is the kind of counter punch
that you tried to deliver to him consistently or as

(35:16):
consistently as possible throughout the sixty minutes of the game.

Speaker 2 (35:19):
Yeah, that's something. Tyler Warren is a it's a tie.
It back to Penn State, which I won't do at
the top. No, but like in over the summertime when
they were ranked number two in the country and I
remember somebody said, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's kind of well,
I'll allow you to have you can enjoy.

Speaker 4 (35:34):
Sorry that was something random, not that, but there was like, hey,
I'll play Devil's advocate here, raise your head and say
Penn State is without their best player on defense last
year unquestionably was the Abdull Carter, and their best player
at offense last year unquestionably was Tyler.

Speaker 1 (35:49):
War We're not doing the Penn State.

Speaker 2 (35:54):
It was people underrating what Tyler Warre was a tight end.
It was getting I mean not legit like when the
High Trophy, but he finished like eighth as a tight end.

Speaker 1 (36:02):
He was one of the best players in college.

Speaker 2 (36:03):
I mean that's hard to do.

Speaker 1 (36:05):
Why did the parents take Colston Lovelace over I was.
It was like one of the things, like are people out.

Speaker 2 (36:10):
It's easy to stay now in hindsight, but like, no,
it was easy back.

Speaker 1 (36:13):
Then to know Tyler Warren was the best tight end.

Speaker 2 (36:15):
Like I felt like there was like in the draft,
you know, the draft knick community was like, well col
till the warden had all the stats, but Colson Loveson
is the real complete, like kind of wear that.

Speaker 1 (36:25):
But coach loves hasn't even played yet, so maybe he'll
be great too. But Warren's the best tight end football
so far, right right away.

Speaker 2 (36:32):
And you know, and the thing is he's not He's
a good blocker. He was known as a good blocker
at Penn State, and that's what he was. That was
his role until his senior or his final season was
he was like the blocking tight end in this tight
end coreker. There was a couple other future NFL tight
ends at that point in the roster. But and just
and you know again, PFF always put the preface whatever,
but it has him as one of the the second
best pass blocking tighten in the NFL and the sixteenth

(36:52):
best run blocking tight end in the NFL, as arguably
the best receiving tight end in the NFL. So that
kind of shows where he is. And yeah, the Ramsey,
you would think that's almost this would be a tailor made.
I don't know, though, I mean, how many times do
you take a dB and have him shadow follow however
you want to put it a tight end? I guess

(37:14):
there's been a lead. I mean, I bet your Tony
Gonzalez back in the day, or Antonio Gates or maybe
Kelsey Reesa. But if Kelsey, you wouldn't do that against
Chiefs because they have so much going on there. But
you would think that would be he could handle that, right,
You would think is not at his whatever his aid,
not being at his at his in his prime. I
guess we've kind of learned. I think, don't do that

(37:36):
with yourmar Chase, right or jeffin Jefferson. Okay, so a
tight end you think he could do and that could
kind of free It's just, man, every time I try
to think the scheme the defense though, it's like, I mean,
there's there's not gonna be a great option, right. Corey
Trice was trying to practice, by the way, I just
when I was cleaning off the all that work, I
put in. I was rip ripping them off, piece by piece,

(37:58):
off off the wheel of a thousand questions. Yes, I
saw a couple that were and I was Beanie Bishop
and Corey Trice. Are they at all worth exploring his options?
Beanie Bishops on the practice squad, Actually Matt Williams and
brought up and Robb HIMPI con I forgot forgot about Beanie.
I don't. I'm not saying he is the answer, but
it's like, at some point we need to turn all

(38:20):
these stones over. As Corey Trice an answer, I don't know.
We saw what happened. The one game he started in
the NFL was against the March Chase and the Bengals
last season, the Regulus season finale. And but so like
he might be. But I mean, I don't think he's
gonna come back this week you started practice. But he
might be a guy against an elite tight end. That
could be an answer. Maybe too so, But just a

(38:40):
couple of guys that internally, if you're looking for changes
or looking for things that might address things, that those
are options when.

Speaker 1 (38:48):
We come back. As the hot stove is heating up
in the NFL, I got some names of big fish.
I'm talking whales that could be on the move. So
we'll talk about those guys. Whales aren't fish. They are.

Speaker 2 (39:01):
You know this. I know you know this. Don't act
like you don't know this.

Speaker 1 (39:04):
He's Chris Adansky on Tome Off. For me, it's the
Steelers Blitz on Steelers Nation Radio. All right, I have
a list in front of my face right now, Chris,
A list compiled by Sports Illustrated of top fifteen trade
candidates that could be on the move before the trade
deadline on Tuesday, November fourth of next week. And play

(39:28):
a little game called trade or nay. Very simple concept.
Do you either trade the guy or nay. I'm not
gonna trade him, all right. Number one on this list
is Max Crosby. He's like the big fish or the
big mammal whale that's out there on the market. I
think the Raiders will trade him, and I have to

(39:49):
imagine that behind the scenes, maybe he's not that kind
of guy, but he's probably calling his age and he's like,
I would like to probably be on a different team
right now. I thought the Raiders were going to be
a lot better than they were. Not playoff team, but
at least a competitive team and they're just so bad.
I think they're gonna have a bit of a fire
sailing boy. I don't know if Pete Carroll has any

(40:09):
inclination of you know, sticking around for a while. But
you saw off Max Crosby and Jacoby Meyer, like you're
gonna get some nice capital in return that you could
really start to build this team back up with.

Speaker 2 (40:20):
Yeah, and you would. Yeah, it seems like that would
kind of run its course. Without knowing exactly Crosby's thoughts
or whatever he does, he does seem like, I mean
just maybe just his appearance, he looks like a raider
right like like in some ways like he's like a
fit to be the be a raider. But it just
seems like the point of his career, where he's at,
where the organization's at right now, where they kind of

(40:41):
found themselves at least, because you're right they I won't
say they went all in on this year, but they
went the veteran route, the veteran coach route for sure,
and Pete Carroll to kind of make like we're gonna
make the playoffs this year was their goal. Or you're
getting the getting the get in the tournament as Bill
Parcels used to say, and then see where it goes
from there. So it would take an organizational shift. But
at the same time, they have to know a reality

(41:02):
and they're not going to make the playoffs this year
and their roster and they're not even really overly competitive
to even be close to the playoffs this year, so
they need to kind of do some sort of reset.
And I mean the quarterback would be part of that.
I'd imagine here at some point, and it would if
they can, if they get the right in season trades.
I never know, is that the best time to trade somebody?
Is it the word? In some ways, you could get

(41:24):
a desperate enough team that it would make sense to
make the end season trade. But then part of me wonders,
if you wait till the offseason until you get Max
a player of Crosby's value, Jakobe Meyers. He's a good player,
but you could.

Speaker 1 (41:37):
Get more in the offseason towards the drafts. Yeah, you're
saying for Max Crosby type, Yes, that's.

Speaker 2 (41:42):
What I would think. But all it takes is one
to be like, you know what, we're a one pass
rusher away to lead.

Speaker 1 (41:46):
Pass rush, Like here's a second round pick.

Speaker 2 (41:48):
Yeah, like Dallas. That's why the rumors about that.

Speaker 1 (41:51):
It would be so funny if they traded for Max Crosby.
I mean, it would be hilarious if they use some
of the picks they got from Michael Parsons to trade
for Max Crosby. It would just be so good. And
then I don't know what the obvious move they would
need to make and what's.

Speaker 2 (42:03):
Their what's Max's contract? Does he need a new contract soon?
Wouldn't be funny. Then if they paid Max Crossey forty
million a year eventually, like it would make what they
could have done. They could have given, could have given
Micaeh Parsons year and a half ago.

Speaker 1 (42:15):
Yeah, all right, Trey hendrickson the Edge from the Bengals,
I'm actually gonna say nay on this one. He's gonna
stay in a Cincinnati Bengal uniform. I think that's a
it's like what thirty million dollars price tag, And you know,
the Bengals aren't picking up anything of that if they
have to whenever that trade happens, So I think he
sticks around in Cincinnati. I think they go through another

(42:36):
kind of you know, maybe round a franchise tag hostage
situation type thing with him in the off season. But
I bet you he's not a Bengal by the start
of next year. But I think he'll finish this season
as a Bengal.

Speaker 2 (42:51):
Yeah again, I don't know. It's it's tricky with these
guys that are that highly regarded in terms of salary
and things.

Speaker 1 (42:58):
Chris said, So I.

Speaker 2 (43:02):
Know what to say that offhand, that sounds funny, But
where yeah, where are the Bengals at right now? The
Bengals had beaten the Jets last week, they would be
in the thick of this division race, right and you.

Speaker 1 (43:12):
Know, they really bottled it there. I mean they literally
saved their season against the Steelers.

Speaker 2 (43:16):
Then, Yeah, right at home and everything. They had it
right in front of them. In terms of I think
even the narrative run the Steelers will be different right now,
knowing that the Steelers might be out of first place
by it by Monday.

Speaker 1 (43:27):
They'd be half a game behind the Steelers. Yeah, just
as many wins as the Steelers.

Speaker 2 (43:30):
No, it's wild to think that. So the Bengal. So
in theory, the Bangal, we're saying the Ravens are alive,
But the Ravens are a better roster overall? Do they
pun on the season if they lose one more game?
They almost have to, right, and then you kind of
but their defense is so bad as it is, and
to give up your best player, but it just seems
like you don't want to. You don't want to go
through that offseason again if you're the Bengals or him, Like, right,

(43:51):
you do want to go through another contract headache.

Speaker 1 (43:54):
I think he's going to go somewhere else, but he'll
finish the season as a Bengal. Jalen Waddle the wide
receiver for the Miami Dolphins. Let's throw Chris Olave in
there too, because other Jacoby Meyer is the one that's
going to get traded, Like, I think that's a done
deal pretty much. He's somewhere else. But these two are
higher class than Jacoby Meyer. These are number one wide receivers.
They're young, number one wide receivers too. You're gonna have

(44:16):
to pay him contracts too. Uh. I think Wattle is
already getting paid. A Lave is going to need to
get paid very soon. I'm gonna go naid On Waddle.
I think I'm gonna go naid On a Lave too,
But I'm I don't know about olave A lave. I
think if the right deal gets out there, I think
the Saints might pull the trigger on that one just

(44:38):
because that contract. Like, but the Dolphins there already paid him,
you know what I mean? Yeah, Like, and yeah, you
might want to getut from under it, but you already
did it. And I think there's an attraction there for
Waddle because you wouldn't have to pay that bonus if
you were the team that trades for him. But with
the Saints and o lave it might just be, you know,
we can pull a parachute here. We don't have to
pay him a second contract, we get some pick picks
recouped back for him, and then we can try again

(44:59):
with another wide receiver.

Speaker 2 (45:00):
Yeah, and the love a for being and he has
fifty two catches already, and that's with what Spencer Rattler
and Nile Tyler shuck and they're the one thing I
wouldn't want.

Speaker 1 (45:08):
I think he's like the most targeted receiver too.

Speaker 2 (45:11):
They probably see I wonder I would think if Shuck
couldn't even beat out Rattler over the preseason in camp,
that there's very little chance that you see him as
You're like the argument to keep him around the biggest art,
one of the biggest arguments would be that you that
you have this rookie quarterback, you want to see how

(45:31):
good he is. You want to you want to you
don't want to just completely rip it down around him
the shreds and have nothing to throw to and you
try to evaluate him. But I don't know if they,
in their heart of hearts, have any belief that Tyler
Shuck's going to be their long term quarterback right now.

Speaker 1 (45:44):
They're drafted a quarterback this year.

Speaker 2 (45:46):
So that there goes that rash out of and if
you have a guy who you gonna have to give
a contract to, you're kind of resetting. Still, you have
an organization, looks like you got a head coach. That's good.
It's almost as better to I don't say get his guys.
When we're talking about person to the wide receiver.

Speaker 1 (46:01):
He would like a lot a lot of guy. But yeah,
I know what you mean, like kind of just rip
the bandit off, restart. Yeah, we start this whole thing.
Some draft capital get that's been one of the stalest teams.

Speaker 2 (46:12):
Since Drew Brees. Yeah, they haven't really recovered.

Speaker 1 (46:15):
From hitting it that hard reset yet.

Speaker 2 (46:16):
Yeah, so if they yeah, kind of do that that
that would be He's kind of your is your highest
profile is your best asset? Depending on I mean at
this point, I mean obviously.

Speaker 1 (46:27):
Because Cam Jordan's probably a little washed and Alvin Kamara
is probably a little past his prime. Yeast as because.

Speaker 2 (46:33):
The young Yeah, those two are older. I don't know.
Those two are kind of like mister saint, both of them,
and they've been I think both are pretty open about wanting.

Speaker 1 (46:40):
To retire, you know, careers.

Speaker 2 (46:44):
Yeah, yeah, so I don't know what the emotional whatever.

Speaker 1 (46:47):
They do down there, the ring of honor whatever.

Speaker 2 (46:49):
Yeah, so I don't know how your recent if there's.

Speaker 1 (46:51):
A the vignettes of honor.

Speaker 2 (46:55):
Like an emotional attach to those guys, are is there
a reason why off the field or whatever that you
wouldn't want to trade those guys? You know what I'm saying.
Olave hasn't reached that statue yet, so I could see
that would be a good good way to replenish your
draft capital.

Speaker 1 (47:08):
Real quick before we go to break. I'll give you
one that's for sure getting traded, and I'll tell you
who's getting traded too. Breese Hall Kansas City Chiefs. I
mean that they can't run the ball. They need help
in the running game. It is scary, but you know
it's gonna happen, Right, It's gonna happen. Breesehall to the
Kansas City Chiefs. That trade is already set in stone.
I expect to see that very soon, very soon. My

(47:29):
sources are telling me that that is right around the corner. Well,
Chris and I come back. We're gonna talk a lot
about Danny Dimes to kick off the next hour, and
we're getting close to Krista midseason Awards. I can't wait.

Speaker 2 (47:38):
We're at week nine.

Speaker 1 (47:39):
I've got my mid season awards for the Steelers. I
got him for the league. This is so exciting. I've
just been on autopilot for these last couple of segments
because I just want to get to that. That is
so close I can taste it. He's Chris Danski, I'm
Tom Oferman. It's the Steelers Buts on Steelers Nation Radio,
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