HR 1 - Steelers Stand Pat, Wheel of 1,000 Questions

Chris and Tom talk about the Steelers not making a deadline move, spin the wheel of 1,000 questions, and recap Coach Tomlins presser yesterday.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:13):
That hot stove was scaled and hot yesterday.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
Oh my god, I was getting burns off of that thing.

Speaker 1 (00:20):
And I've been hyping that up that the NFL had
kind of become the new sport when it came to
the trade deadline, like they were the it sport when
it came to trade deadline day. And boy did that
league deliver again yesterday with just I mean, a whopper
of a blockbuster. Steelers, however, not participating in the hot stove,

(00:42):
elected not to do anything on trade deadline day. Stood
pat weren't the only team to do that. Ask people
around this town for the past twenty four hours you
maybe get that sense that, like everybody else.

Speaker 2 (00:55):
Went and added and you did not.

Speaker 1 (00:58):
Chiefs didn't do anything of made your significance on trade
deadline day. The Bills didn't do anything of significance on
trade deadline day. That one is really surprising to me.
There's another one out there, the Pats. That was the
other big one for me. The Patriots were a team
that kind of looked like, hey might want to add
here a little bit, but they didn't make a splash either.

(01:19):
So it was like Steelers were the only ones that
held their cards and didn't put any of their draft
capital forward to improve their team. And I think that
just means that they think they're good in the areas
that might need improvement.

Speaker 2 (01:34):
Now.

Speaker 1 (01:35):
It's not to say that Omar Khan took the past
couple of days off and he wasn't working the phones
and trying to improve the roster in some areas, but
it was all said and done, prices just didn't work out,
and they clearly didn't feel like they had a desperate
need at wide receiver two at a corner anywhere else
on their roster. It's Tom Offerman and Chris Damski on
the Steelers Blitz on Steelers Nation Radio post trade deadline Tuesday.

(02:00):
Chris and I off base there. That's just the sense
I get like they were working the phones. There's a
report out there that they were in with Jacoby Meyer
and they were thinking about a trade with the Raiders
there and all said and done, didn't want to meet
or exceed what the Jaguar offer was for the wide receiver.
And I think that's because mainly they're comfortable with what

(02:21):
they have in that offense's passing game.

Speaker 3 (02:24):
Yeah, they did make a trade last just last week, right,
now that's the other point I was going to bring
up too.

Speaker 2 (02:29):
It's so it.

Speaker 1 (02:29):
Wasn't as if it was you don't get that dopamine
rush there, right. Oh yeah, trade deadline day.

Speaker 3 (02:34):
That's it's the thing you hit refresh, you know some
of the other sport hockey, when the Penguins are in
the in a race or something, your that day, hitting
and refreshed.

Speaker 2 (02:41):
H yeah, I was doing that yesterday.

Speaker 3 (02:42):
Seeing if something happens at any given moment. But you know,
they made a trade in July June thirty, I think
was when the news broke about the Jayalen Ramsey trade.
They've been sort of aggressive signing these veteran guys to
become available, and you could say whatever. I mean, there's
a reason why some of them, you know, they're just

(03:03):
they're they're not like huge needle movers. I get it,
all right. Some of these trades were the late round swaps,
just like the Dugger trade was. That's kind of what
you're doing at this point. There's unless you're talking a
sauce gardener, right, And I don't think anybody would want to.

Speaker 2 (03:17):
I mean, I don't know.

Speaker 3 (03:18):
I'm sure there are people out there saying trade for
two first round picksre Sauce Gardener.

Speaker 2 (03:21):
I don't think about that.

Speaker 1 (03:23):
I really flinch when I hear that when that take
goes out there, like I get it. Don't get me wrong,
Like he's Sauce Gardener. I mean he's a beat. That's
one of the three most valuable positions. I think in football.
You know, you get your quarterback number one, your tackle
specifically left tackle number two, and then that's shutdown corner.
You can really make the case for being number three.
People will Devil's advocate and be like, well, don't you

(03:44):
need some good wide receivers.

Speaker 2 (03:45):
No, I have that great quarterback.

Speaker 1 (03:46):
As I established already, he'll elevate receivers, and receivers are
kind of growing on trees these days. You need that
shutdown alien outside corner that can just cut off half
the field. And Sauce is that he's arguably the best
corner in football. I love how people are kind of
pointing at his interception numbers. It's like, yeah, because no
one throws him the damn ball.

Speaker 2 (04:04):
Because he's piece everybody.

Speaker 1 (04:08):
We'll get to more into that Sauce trade later, but
you're right, like you don't see you know major swings
like that happening frequently. That's usually just that one big
bomb move and then the rest is late round pick
swaps to add talent.

Speaker 3 (04:24):
So aside from the two Jets trades, and I mean
even Jacoby, I mean, what are we talking fourth and
six right? So two day three draft picks. So I
don't know were there any other trades that even involved
even a day two pick.

Speaker 1 (04:38):
Because Shaheed was a three day three draft picks I
believe correct to Seattle, yeah so and Penning, I don't
think was anything significant from.

Speaker 3 (04:46):
I think that was the charge that was the late
round swap situation, I think, which is about as you know,
minimum as you can go.

Speaker 2 (04:53):
So your deal.

Speaker 3 (04:54):
There were two trades that that involved a one in
eight team with the new coach and a new regime
that that whatever the Jets are, and we say about
the Jets, what you want? So outside the Jets and
the Cowboys, I mean, I don't know. I mean, do
you want to keep your company with Jerry Jones right now?
And whatever their plan is, I don't know. They're they're
throwing around draft picks acquiring guys when they're three, five

(05:16):
and one, right, is that what they're three for three. Yes,
So I don't know if that's, you know, the wide
receiver thing I do, because it's not as if you're
the your trim Listen, let's face it loves Scottie Miller.
But I mean it's not as if you're you're gonna
miss like the the you're cutting somebody off the roster.
Who's really contributed right now?

Speaker 2 (05:37):
Right? What do you have?

Speaker 3 (05:38):
Do you have any catches? You have one catch? I
think all season something like that. I mean, Saronic has
his role on special teams, So there certainly was room
there for an upgrade. Now you could go into the
snaps and the way they use the twelve and the
thirteen personnel so much, and the tight ends take so
many snaps, and you've already had games without Calvin Austin
as it was. And although that's part of that, I
guess the rationale at a receiver is that when your

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guys gets hurt. But the reliance on wide receivers for
the Steelers might be as low of any team in
the league in terms of you're talking, like I said,
snap counts, targets, things of that nature. Now you could
you could gain, of course, you could counter it. I mean,
woul would they be better to Kobe Myers. Yeah, But
I mean there's there's also there are other teams that
could have used a wide receiver to no one went

(06:20):
for I don't have a problem. I didn't make a move.
I mean we could be sitting here talking. There is
a sort of juice to something when they add somebody
and you get as a fan get oh. Especially it's
a skilled position guy. Right, everybody knows everybody's fancy football,
and I don't that guy he can do it. But
you know, I think although I thought it was funny
yesterday Mike Toman doing literally saying boneheaded when referring to

(06:44):
Roman Wilson his fumble. Aside, at least we've seen that
we've seen some signs here the last couple of weeks
that Roman Wilson.

Speaker 2 (06:51):
Is coming to life. Yes, can be part of a
legitimate part of the offense in some ways.

Speaker 3 (06:55):
So, and you know, the Steelers have been pretty aggressive
to the since the summer and even back to free
agency in terms of the deals they made for their team.
A lot of it's been the defense. I get all
those things. They two years in a row, they've been
in this search for this number two receiver.

Speaker 2 (07:11):
That didn't happen.

Speaker 3 (07:12):
But it was Bud this way Tom last year, at
this time, on this very day, or maybe it was
whatever day it was. I guess it's probably this very day,
I think actually November fifth. Regardless they they got her,
they didn't. They did make a trade. They trade a
six round pick, not even like a pick swap. They
traded a actual draft pick for a player who played
eight games for them and made what like ten catches.
Now you could say he made the one play that

(07:32):
won them the game. He literally won them that Washington
game four days after getting acquired or whatever it was.

Speaker 2 (07:38):
Yeah, true, but it didn't come out that.

Speaker 3 (07:40):
Russell Wilson even said that was supposed to be Calvin
mcclvin's out of the game, and so if Austin didn't
get hurt, we might Ever, Mike Williams might have been
a total I want a bust, but a total washout
for a six round pick if it went for that
one play. Because other than that, what did he do
over the So what is it really that would you
feel that much better? Yeah, Mike Williams, he was a
former you know, I don't say star, but he was
a high level guy people recognized in a wide receiver
and the room and all this stuff, and he didn't

(08:01):
make any impact the rest of the other than the one.
He didn't make them one play after that he did nothing.

Speaker 1 (08:05):
And well, I think that's a fair question to ask too.
Kind of what you're going down there is Okay, So
you go out and you get this wide receiver too,
you get the Jacobi Meyer. How does he fit in?
How do they utilize him? How do they maximize him
for a third round pick a fourth and six like
the Jags gave up, Like, how do you make sure
that that's worth it? Whereas you did not get anything

(08:25):
really out of Mike Williams. I guess you can't say
that because again, like you said, he maybe won a game.

Speaker 3 (08:29):
He made a win, and that is part of I
was gonna say it was only because Austin was hurt.
But that's part of the reason why you do add
depth is there.

Speaker 1 (08:35):
You got so he did win you, not solely, but
it made it play for you, So it wasn't a
total wash out there. Wins are incredibly valuable. Uh, you'd
pay so much to just get one in this damn league.
So fine, Definitely worth a sixth round pick as far
as that's concerned. But he didn't do enough for that offense.
He didn't fit into that offense. And I think it's

(08:56):
a fair question to say, Okay, DK's clearly the number
one and they're kind of struggling to get him going
right now. The tight ends and kind of that Frankenstein
monster of a tight end aggregate that they're building. That's
your number two option right now, and that's actually starting
to turn the corner. In the past couple of games
now in Green Bay it kind of dried up slightly,
but that's okay. It's not gonna be every week thing

(09:18):
where they're going off as a unit. But if it's
you know, three out of four weeks that happens, they're
a good number two option. Sometimes a number one option. Great,
that's fine with me. Then you've got Calvin Austin, who's
I mean, I'm sorry that this isn't great analysis, but
he's just Calvin Austin right like he is who he
is now at this point. It's a nice option. And
Roman Wilson coming on a little bit. If he just

(09:40):
you know, can keep the feet on the ground and
not go flying through the air like it's a three
ring circus, So like, where does Jacobe Meyer fit in there?
I would love him to be able to because I
think he's a talent. I think he's more talented than
some of those guys that just listed. But I just question,
you know, how viable that is, Like how would that
w because again, you're not getting enough out of dek

(10:03):
either right now, So now you want to add in
a second wide receiver and you want to try to
kind of have another option in the passing game that
has been not struggling but.

Speaker 2 (10:16):
Kind of.

Speaker 1 (10:18):
Devoid of an identity to this point, the passing game
for the Steelers.

Speaker 3 (10:22):
What I wonder is how different you know, I do
believe that we as outsiders, as media observers, fans overreact
week to week more so than they do in the
building or more of the mark on does or the
organization does.

Speaker 2 (10:39):
We have a.

Speaker 3 (10:39):
Discussion last week and you very smartly positive the offense
should carry this team out to need to be an
offensive team.

Speaker 2 (10:46):
Yeah, that was smart.

Speaker 1 (10:47):
That really aged well.

Speaker 2 (10:48):
I mean at the time it was aged.

Speaker 3 (10:51):
But if if the trade dead Island was last week,
although I see, but that you can go different ways
with that, then you say, well, the defense, the defense's
reinforcements fast stat right now, and they didn't make a
trade for a defender of last year. I remember the
secondary he played almost snaps in his debut and looks
like so far one game in a fantastic addition or
something that can really you know, I don't think it's

(11:13):
a total coincidence. They had their best defensive performance the
day that add and Duggart to the secondary.

Speaker 2 (11:20):
But so do you if they were lost or even
they were lost the Colts?

Speaker 3 (11:25):
Is it like, is it desperate times then we need
to add somebody here or is it more like or
is beating the Colts? I don't even know, Like Tom,
what do you think?

Speaker 2 (11:33):
What?

Speaker 3 (11:33):
I don't know what I think beating the Colts? What
I'm thinking that if you beat the Colts, do you
say yourself, we're a contender. Let's push more chips in
for twenty twenty five. We think we can compete with
the best the AFC. You know what, this might be
a special season. Or is beating the Colts? Say, you
know what, we're not as bad they losing the Colts.
So they've been like we need to push more chips
in because we're not good enough right now. We want

(11:54):
to make sure we're a good by the end of
the season. You know what I'm saying, Like, I'm they'll
making sense here top in terms of my analysis of
what you do is because that's what it comes down to.
You write your future assets for rental for for eight games,
nine games?

Speaker 2 (12:05):
Is it worth it? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (12:06):
Yeah, asking is it worth it? And I gotta be
honest with you, Yeah, I think it would have been
worth it. I think they should have still tried, even
though I just kind of painted that picture of well,
how are you gonna use him, how are you gonna.

Speaker 2 (12:16):
Get the most out of him?

Speaker 1 (12:17):
We'll try to use him, try to get the most
out of him, and the price wasn't steep and by him.
I'm talking about Jacoby because that's kind of the one
that I think everybody seemed like going and looking at
and saying.

Speaker 2 (12:25):
Hm hmm. He was clearly available. I mean that's very obvious.

Speaker 1 (12:29):
Like I saw, you know, like they have those like
you know, Polymarket and like count and like all these
weird off betting sites now where you can bet on
like reality and not just like you know, sports stuff
or other things like that. So I saw that he
was like a ninety nine percent betting chance to get
traded at the trade deadline a couple of weeks ago.
That was the guy that everybody knew as much as

(12:50):
nobody knew Sauce Garner was possibly going to be on
the move, and then Quinn Williams even for that matter,
everybody knew that Jacoby Meyer was available. It seemed like
it was Steelers and Jags, right like, that's what it
kind of boiled down to. And you see that fourth
and sixth round pick that Jacksonville sent to Vegas, four Meyer,
and that's not that steep of a price, especially when

(13:13):
you have some compicks rolling in. I know that that
situation has gotten a little bit more tenuous than we
once thought it would be. You're not going to get
as much, but you're still going to get some, and
you're still keeping all your premium picks. You're still keeping
your first, second, and third round picks. So yeah, I
don't know if maybe you would have been comfortable with
a fourth and a fifth or maybe going a third

(13:33):
and a sixth to kind of outbid the Jags bid,
But I think I would have been able to stomach
that and not have been, you know, opening this microphone, like,
I can't believe they completely mortgaged the future for just
Jacobe Meyer for one year, for nine games.

Speaker 3 (13:48):
It is fascinating because a lot of times in these
hypotheticals they are hypothetical, and if a trade isn't made,
it's very wise of you.

Speaker 2 (13:54):
Hypotheticals are hypothetically.

Speaker 3 (13:56):
I'm full of full of gems. Today we have demonstrated
what the price was. Now you could say, and it's
probably true that the Raiders would make the bet that
the Jaguars have a worst record in the Steelers. So
you take that an edical offer of the Jaguars fourth
and sixth round picks over the Steelers moore than six
round picks. But you still know you could beat the

(14:16):
fourth and sixth round pick somehow, one way or another.
If that's how whatever that would take, whether that be
a third, whether that be a fourth or.

Speaker 2 (14:23):
Fifth, I guess would would be the way you do that.
But and it's like, but the Steelers have.

Speaker 3 (14:32):
All the water receeriers put together, have ninety three targets
in eight games, which is less than twelve a game
going to their wide receivers. Now, again, you could take
this again both ways and say that means they have
I wid receivers aren't good enough, they're not thrown to
the wide receivers, or you could say the wide receivers
are arguably to the Pittsburgh Steelers. It is remarkable Jamar
chases one hundred and seven targets by himself. He has

(14:53):
significantly more targets than every single Steelers wide receiver put
together so far this season, which is just crazy to.

Speaker 2 (14:58):
Think about in that both in terms of now what
you know, what he means to them and what they're
where they're at and they have to throw the ball
every play because they're always behind because their defense can't win. Still, yeah,
they still can't win.

Speaker 3 (15:09):
So I don't know what all it is that, But
so you're looking at less than twelve targets a game
or going to wide receivers right now, and I think,
I mean, we've we've spent shows saying where like they
need to use JONIU.

Speaker 2 (15:21):
Smith more than you use Pat fire Muth more. They
use are not washed.

Speaker 3 (15:23):
We've literally had all segments of voted to all three
of those separate things. So it's not as if there
are you're overlooking. There are spots as long as if
I think they're avoiding the wide receivers because they're not
quote enough quality enough wide receivers. I think that's the
way this offense is. I think you're trying to You're
using so many tight ends and personnel formations, giving them

(15:44):
so many targets. You want to give them more. You
want to get them more involved. You want to get
fired Youth more involved, John to Smith more involved. So
I think there's a calculus there too, when you're talking
about you're not this offense isn't using wide receivers, So
why are we going to devote resources to that position?
Whenever we're obviously using more tight ends, we want to
use the tight ends.

Speaker 1 (16:04):
We want to be that that is our second option,
and maybe we can get more out of the wide
receivers that we do have. Maybe we can use Roman
Wilson Moore. Maybe we can be better with while we're
using Kevin Austin more importantly, maybe we can be better
with how we're using DK Metcalf, because good lord, it's
been like every week I'm like, this is it. This

(16:25):
is the DK game. Ten targets, eight catches, this is it.
And last week was worse than we've seen it all year.
You'd like two catches for like six yards. It was
a very minimal impact in that game. So I mean,
you really could make the argument that, hey, it would
be nice to make that splash and really round out

(16:45):
that receiving room and kind of make the puzzle pieces
all fit together. You got a number one, you got
a number two, you got your threes in Wilson and Austin,
and you got some nice tight ends as well. Like,
that's a really well rounded passing attack now. But I
think you're already kind of forming a well rounded passing
attack if you can get DK going like he needs to,
if Calvin and Wilson, Calvin and Wilson's weird got to

(17:05):
use the first name for one and then a last
name for another. If Austin and Wilson can continue to
round into a really solid kind of Frankenstein number three
ride receiver, and then the tight ends can kind of
pseudo be a number two option in that passing game,
a number two wide receiver, if you will, a Frankenstein
monster of tight ends, Like they're kind of they're moneyballing
it a little bit, like they're kind of building it

(17:27):
in the aggregate we're getting Jeremy Giomb's and we're throwing
them out there. We're gonna try to make up for
Jason with about five other players. Just throw them in there,
just fuse them all together, and you're starting to see
it kind of work. And they couldn't get anything going
on the ground against the Colts. They couldn't get anything
going with DK Metcalf against the Colts. So the tight

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ends acted like a number one option. Ten catches ninety
five yards in a touchdown should have been even more
if Johnny Smith could catch the ball the first pass
of the game. But you feel me right like that's
a number one passing game option. And then you had
Calvin Austin have fifty six yards on top of that.
That's a really good number two option in that game.

Speaker 2 (18:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (18:05):
And Aaron Rodgers, now we haven't talked at all about MVS,
and I get because who.

Speaker 1 (18:10):
Cares, right, this prak squad guy like coach did at
the press conference, he kind of poop pooed that, right,
he really it's practice.

Speaker 2 (18:16):
Let's talk about MVS when he's on the team. How
about that?

Speaker 3 (18:19):
That surprised me because that's usually his his sort of
with that. I don't care how you got here. You
know you can contribute. He didn't say about the undrafted
guys at camp generally speaking, so I.

Speaker 2 (18:26):
Thought I was. I don't know if that's I don't
know if.

Speaker 3 (18:28):
He's trying to downplay there's a method to what it
is in terms of what he does.

Speaker 2 (18:34):
But I mean, I.

Speaker 3 (18:36):
Listen, he's not to Kobe Myers, but he is. He
is somebody who can't add to a wide receiver corp, right.
I mean, let's face it, now, that's not going to
be I get he was available and all that, and
he's not upread. Yes he's not. He's not at this
stage of his career. But he also can be a
playmaker if called upon it.

Speaker 2 (18:52):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (18:52):
I don't think he'll be called upon now. I don't
know if it's just like a reserve and just in case,
you know, break last in case of emergency kind of thing,
or if DK gets hurt or Austin gets hurt again,
maybe he kind of plays a bigger because I don't
know how he find of fits as a depth guy.
Maybe run a couple of plays a game with a
deep thread or something. But it is something I just
want to least mention that because that is a recognizable
name that people know that has made plays with this

(19:14):
current quarterback before in the past.

Speaker 2 (19:15):
That was added to the roster here for the stretch rung.

Speaker 1 (19:18):
We'll keep talking all things trade deadline as we work
our way through these next couple hours of the Steelers
Pits today. But when we come back, it's Wednesday, so
it's time to spin the Wheel of a Thousand Questions.

Speaker 2 (19:30):
Zoo.

Speaker 1 (19:30):
Maybe there will be some trade deadline related questions on
the wheel.

Speaker 2 (19:34):
Only one way to find out. Stay tuned.

Speaker 1 (19:36):
It's the Steelers Blitz with Tom Opferman and Krisadanski on
Steelers Nation Radio, part of the Steelers Audio Network. I've
got a lot of questions, so many that I can't
even sort them out to see which ones I want
to answer first.

Speaker 2 (19:55):
So that's why we break out our trustee Wheel.

Speaker 1 (19:58):
Of a Thousand Questions.

Speaker 2 (20:00):
I like adding a little air of mystery to it
like that. Folloween's over, Tom, you don't need to talk.

Speaker 1 (20:04):
Like it doesn't matter. You can still be mysterious. It is.
It's not exclusive to that holiday, and the wheel is
a very mysterious thing. I never know which way you're
gonna go. But boy, do I know it's the right way,
all right? I got a thousand questions, stayed up all
night writing them. Hands broken. Let's spin the wheel, you know, Chris,
I like a nice spin the first time, nice long,

(20:26):
big one.

Speaker 2 (20:27):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 1 (20:32):
Is Jalen Ramsey and Kyle Duggar your new permanent safety tandem?

Speaker 2 (20:37):
Why don't you take it? Yes? Oh my god, your speechless.

Speaker 1 (20:42):
I've thrown you a curveball right away with a very
obvious and topical question.

Speaker 3 (20:49):
When you're I just because when you're in my job,
you learned not to ask yes or no questions because
you don't want to give yes no answer. And I'm
sure you do not want me to give yes or
no answer. There, I could have said yes, said I'm up. Hey,
he's not the best co host in the world for nothing.

Speaker 1 (21:03):
Right. We can work shopitement where it's just yes or no,
where it's just yes now, but that would be.

Speaker 2 (21:08):
Pretty bad radio. I have to figure out how to
make good.

Speaker 3 (21:10):
So I need to expand on my reason why I
say you saw it. First of all, the production, the
first game, the results, the first game. The defense looked
as good as it has for weeks. In the first game,
with that, and that was on a short period of time.
I think we all acknowledge, or we should acknowledge, maybe
we should not. Maybe not everybody does. But I believe
that Jayden Ramsey is best deployed right now as a safety.

(21:32):
I think he can be a playmaker there. I think
he can he can help you in different ways there.
I think we don't want him as an outside corner
right now if you're the Steelers. So I think that
there's that aspect of it. I think dougger Now, we'll
see how they deploy it. The too high thing. I
don't know if that's sustainable over time or if that's
going to be the matchup, and we'll see if you
have to use them in different ways, in a different

(21:55):
format I guess, or different scheme. We'll see if it
works just as well. Then the other aspect of it is,
I mean we we trot we've seen right, I mean
one Thornhill went from playing every snap a few weeks
ago to playing zero. I mean the Steelers, Yeah, it
put him out there at all, and I think that
that that was that's some of the reasons why they
got Kyle Duggar right to be kind of it there
to put it put it in a nice turn.

Speaker 1 (22:14):
At one point after the game, I was like, was
he here too? He played specials? Okay, he just didn't
play on.

Speaker 3 (22:21):
Defense, literally, not even a snap. So that shows how much.
And if they're doing that, three or four days after
cobbling that together, both both their ends both get Dugger
shows up and and Ramsey because of you know, this
is all that stuff in part, they put him back there.
So I think the only thing that would uh, I
would say foil, but change that would be is if

(22:41):
there is an injury at cornerback or there's a really
really obvious need that you need to make a move
to to somehow, then I don't know what you do,
probably Ramsey to slot and Ekels or whatever am whoever
it is. I guess if there's some sort of personnel
change and these app in a cornerback that you need
to play a rams sort of like the reason why
it was necessity to put them in safety. But I think, hey,
you can't argue with results after one week, I guess
is where I'm going with this.

Speaker 2 (23:02):
You certainly cannot.

Speaker 1 (23:03):
And that's why I would also leave that tandem in
place at least for a week moving forward, and Mike
Tomlin basically said that so much that, Yeah, Ramsey's in
safety now for the foreseeable future.

Speaker 2 (23:12):
I mean a.

Speaker 1 (23:13):
Guy got there on Thursday and played every snap but
won at strong safety. Jalen Ramsey hasn't played that much
safety since he was at Florida State. He had only
played his high percentage of snaps at safety in a
single game before that game was in thirty percent.

Speaker 2 (23:31):
Played eighty three percent of.

Speaker 1 (23:33):
The snaps at safety in that game. That's a massive jump.

Speaker 4 (23:37):
It looked like Douggart has been here all year, looked
like he was here at training camp. Ramsey looks like
he's been playing safety since Florida State. Like it was
really amazing to see how seamless that is. I mean,
that's why you like going out and getting veterans to
kind of fill in when injuries pop up on your roster,
because they're more likely to be able to just jump

(23:58):
on in.

Speaker 1 (24:00):
I hate that I walk myself into this, but they're
more likely to jump on that moving train. And you
saw that happen flawlessly. So yeah, those are my safeties
moving forward. I don't see why it wouldn't be.

Speaker 3 (24:11):
Like I said, keep it simple, stoopid, Like we saw
the secondary of the previous two games with their iteration,
saw the secondary in this game against the literal best
offense in the league by far statistically, and the results, like,
why would you possibly check it out? We'll see, you know,
may revisit in a few weeks, We'll see matchups, things go,
you start getting guys back. Whatever I guess that are,

(24:32):
you can revisit it. Obviously you're not gonna. But I
guess you're asking me that you said permanent, So is
that mean permit the resident and anything could happen between
now and week eighteen, but as of now, you know,
don't don't it ain't broke, don't fix it right now?

Speaker 1 (24:45):
Right No, I completely agree with that, and that's what
my thing would be moving forward. And I also just
like the fact that you don't really have the New
England Patriot cast off safety room where it would have
been like Pepper's and Dugger as your two starting safeties.
Maybe it works, but I don't know.

Speaker 3 (25:04):
You could have the Browns cast off safety room with
Thornhill and Peppers.

Speaker 1 (25:06):
Oh boy, I'm a lot more comfortable wrapping my head
around Dugger and Jalen Ramsey as your safetyes.

Speaker 2 (25:13):
All right, let's give the wheel spin.

Speaker 1 (25:15):
Quick on this fast, fast pitch, the old quick pitch. Yes,
will the Steelers regret not making a move at the
trade deadline?

Speaker 2 (25:27):
Regret?

Speaker 3 (25:30):
I mean if the offense does the offense. There's a
lot hypathetical's a lot of things where the offense need
to carry it can jump. Please, Tom, Yes, I think
you leave me this. This wheel has been left me.

Speaker 1 (25:40):
Uh, I know you're flapping off the next Yes, you
could regret this if DK at half suffers an injury
that is still kind of hanging over this team like
a dark and ominous cloud. If he goes down for
a few weeks, you're kind of cooked because you're Tighten
now become the only real viable option that can carry

(26:03):
your passing game. And you don't know if that's even
you know, a.

Speaker 2 (26:07):
Viable option yet.

Speaker 1 (26:08):
It's had nice progress, but nothing to tell you like
that's a consistent thing that you can keep going back
to the well on. And then you've got Calvin Austin's
and Roman Wilson's and if that were to happen to
marcaz Valdez, Scandling getting elevated from the practice squad to
now try to fill this massive void that I know
isn't producing like a number one, but is still drawing

(26:29):
attention like a number one, is still treated in game
planning by other teams as a number one receiver, and
if you lose that, you just have nobody that can
masquerade as that. Jacobi Meyers could absolutely masquerade as that
for a couple of games if need be, But right
now you're.

Speaker 2 (26:46):
Kind of stuck.

Speaker 1 (26:48):
If we get to the end of the season and
DK Metcalf plays all seventeen games plus the four playoff games,
see what I did there, then whatever, Right, there's no.

Speaker 2 (26:57):
Regreating playoff games. Tom Wow, I love it forgetting the
buy we're kicking.

Speaker 1 (27:01):
We're kicking our feet, We're kicking our feet up on
the wild card weekend. Look, if that plays out, you
won't regret it at all because you never came into that,
you know, circumstance where we had to really stress over
who's going to be our number one option in the
passing game. But if DK goes down, then I think

(27:22):
that is the one spot where you'll be like, man,
I kind of regret not going out there at the
deadline and grabbing a little bit more splash year.

Speaker 2 (27:28):
Of a player at that wide receiver position.

Speaker 3 (27:30):
And no, forget this was just and they're different players
obviously for for a myriad reasons, different circumstances, different quarterback,
different season, YadA, YadA, YadA. But last season it was
sort of under discussed that the that four game losing streak,
it coincided the start of it at least, and the
offense went from scoring a lot of points to scoring
not very many. Was when George when drumbe receiver got

(27:52):
hurt last year. And now that was when they did add.
As we've already mentioned, we talked about Mike Win did
add a wide receiver at the trade deadline, and he
wasn't cable filling in. I think Jacobi Myers definitely was
would be much much more equipped to phil role as
a you know, wide receiver one or wide receiver two,
whatever you need at the at the top, I guess
it'd be wadter receiver one at that point because he
would have probably been promoted a vote or would have

(28:13):
had that stature above Calvin Austin I think in terms
of being a the playmaker or an option and things
like that.

Speaker 2 (28:18):
So yeah, there there's that's.

Speaker 3 (28:21):
One of the we've said that since the beginning of
the season, right that, Okay, we've I've been impressed with
I think Colvin Austin.

Speaker 2 (28:28):
Whenever he's been you know, he's missing some games of course,
the injury.

Speaker 3 (28:31):
He I feel better about him as the number two
wide receiver option now than I did in August. Let's say,
I had a lot of questions about whether that was viable. So,
but that was always the uh, the proverbial uh, the
elephant on the on the backs who said that recently
this there was an elephant on the back reference to somewhere.

Speaker 2 (28:50):
Oh that was about that was.

Speaker 1 (28:51):
Rogers talking about the defense kind of had that building. Yeah,
the elephant with the outside noise and us in the
media media trying to build that. Yeah, had nothing to
do with them not playing very well. I was just
kind of noticing, Hey, defense probably should be playing a
little bit better.

Speaker 2 (29:07):
Huh. It was all us. It was our problems.

Speaker 3 (29:09):
Well, yes, it's always the media creation. But I just
enjoy a good mixed metaphory once in a while, just
to be monkey on the back, elefit in the room.

Speaker 2 (29:16):
I don't know that's uh.

Speaker 3 (29:17):
But regardless of it the elephant on the back of
the Steelers, but receiver corpse from the very beginning was
if DK Metcalf gets hurt. There now we have a
little mini version of that. We was seeing Colvin Austin
could hurt. That was also the secondary concern because you're like,
at that point there was no number two wide receiver
and at least Roman Wilson has shown capable of stepping
in that role. But obviously it's far from ideal for

(29:40):
me there one so yes, that that is that The
insurance there for an injury to DK Metcalf is it's
been moving over this team for months and months and
if at this point, yeah, if he gets hurt, it's
it's it's not a good sign.

Speaker 1 (29:53):
You want to give the wheel spend this time party.

Speaker 2 (29:54):
I can't wait. Limber up there we go nice. I
like you giving a nice build. I don't understand. It's
like a relief pitcher. You know I can get I
go hard that one inning, you know? All right? Do
you mind if I read the question?

Speaker 1 (30:09):
Now?

Speaker 2 (30:09):
Shut up? Please? I'd like a baseball metaphor is over
and over. Yeah, that season's over.

Speaker 1 (30:14):
But will Peyton Wilson be viewed as the number one
inside linebacker at the year's end. Boy, if that performance
on Sunday is going to start to become the norm, Yeah,
he will be. And I don't even know if it's
Patrick Queen's fault because that's just a beastly type of performance.

(30:35):
And again, I don't know if I can say that
will become the norm or that'll start to become the
consistent Peyton Wilson, But he is really starting to come on.
Past couple of weeks have been good. It was it
wasn't like he just kind of dropped out of the
clouds and had that performance. Ever since he got kind
of benched right mid game for Cole Hulcom a couple
of weeks back, he has responded beautifully to that and

(30:57):
has played great football.

Speaker 3 (30:59):
Yeah, I think it's been fair to say even from
the very beginning people might say this talk to say
this is crazy or not. I don't know. I think
it's I think it's true though. Back this is the
two off seasons ago, and what at the spring of
twenty twenty four they acquired both what they signed Patrick
Queen the big contract and drafted Peyton, drafted Payton in
the third round. I think from that even from then

(31:19):
that Wilson has had a higher ceiling and still has
the higher ceiling than Patrick Patrick Queen.

Speaker 2 (31:25):
I think that's that's where we're at.

Speaker 3 (31:26):
Remember Patrick Queen was an All literally a second team
All Pro, only a couple of years ago, two seasons ago,
so he has a pretty high ceiling himself. But Peyton
Wilson was a playmaker, and because he would have been
a higher the two acls and no ligaments or whatever
is going on with his h his cyborg body, that was.

Speaker 2 (31:43):
But he's the fastest still.

Speaker 3 (31:45):
He has the fastest players as a linebacker in the
last what decade and in the history of measuring speed
of linebacker speeding players and uh since twenty sixteen when
they started doing that stuff.

Speaker 2 (31:55):
So he's fast.

Speaker 3 (31:56):
He was a playmaker in college, so he certainly has
that up. And Yeah, if you asked me three or
four weeks ago, I was wondering, you know, I don't know,
maybe he's you know, maybe the size thing.

Speaker 2 (32:05):
Maybe it's just not gonna ever work out, But it
wouldn't shock me per se.

Speaker 3 (32:10):
And I don't know how you measure, because that's gonna
be something I think the rest of this season Queen's
gonna play every snap no matter what, and Wilson will
still come off the field, or maybe at the point
where they both play every single snap.

Speaker 2 (32:18):
I guess that's that's possible, and you could say.

Speaker 3 (32:20):
They're they're kind of co And now he's playing specialty,
he's playing all the special teams, special teams captain, so
he's showing his value to the team for sure. And
he's been durable. If there was questioned about his uh,
all the injuries and everything, that he.

Speaker 1 (32:32):
Has never missed the game in his NFL career. That
was why he fell to the third round. He was
because all the knees, he's not gonna be healthy, had
injury prums at NC State, He had injury prums in
his state early in his career. Was healthy obviously later
in his career because he won Defensive Player of the
Year his last year at NC State. So you can't,
you know, miss half the season and win that award,
especially at NC State. Yeah, yeah, so he was healthy

(32:54):
then and he has never missed a game in his
NFL career. So I mean kudos to the dealer scouting
department and the medical team there that kind of signed
off on that and said, hey, don't worry about this,
don't be concerned about that. You know, take him in
the third round where teams are kind of shying away
from him. We think he's good medical wise, and hey,
knock on wood. Anything can still happen. But so far

(33:15):
they were proven incredibly right. He's been the picture of health,
always available for you.

Speaker 3 (33:20):
Yeah, he's been there, and that day that was the major,
big reason why he fell. You know, maybe there are
still I guess you could say maybe long term concerns
if you have a longer career. I don't know about
all the orthopedics of all that and all the surgeries
and whatnot. But he's been healthy. He's been a playmaker
even when he hasn't been. I think if you look

(33:41):
at the at the games or when he got benched
to it wasn't he was still he wasn't making the
plays like he was his past game. Right, He's not
gonning interceptions every single game, and it's you know he's
gonna be with the situation to would be blitz to
get sacks and things like that. But I think it
was more you know, missed, which you think could be
or a misplays or or missus I'm that type of
thing that maybe get correct out. And I guess you

(34:02):
could talk about his covers. Of course, the big quiote
from his training camp that gets off sited, which is
which is why you probably don't say something like that,
because peoplere gonna remember that and you're gonna bring up
every single time. Now, you're still a linebacker covering sometimes
wide receivers, right, and if you're gonna get beat, that's
gonna happen. Even the best guys get beat. But now
since you say that, you're gonna get brought up every
single time, right, It's almost like now we've almost over

(34:23):
corrected to think, well, he's not as good as covers,
because we every time we does get beat, we notice
it and take note of it because we had that
idea of mine best in the world that he said
at one point. But hey, I said he has a
he has a really high ceiling. And I hate I
probably said I say it way too much. But I
spent the summer. I spent the summer pondering at tom
I sat.

Speaker 1 (34:41):
There for hours now corncob pipe all that.

Speaker 3 (34:44):
And just thinking about that that Peyton Wilson has a
ceiling that it would not shock me at allf he is,
you know, became an all pro at some point, but
it also wouldn't shocked me to all off he lost
his job, which he already did the season at.

Speaker 1 (34:54):
One point, right at one point, you just came bursting
into your house with you if he's gonna be and
she's like, what are you talking about?

Speaker 2 (35:01):
You just reached this nirvana state.

Speaker 1 (35:03):
Not to put that bar that high, but he really
looks like he's starting to establish himself at the NFL,
and it's exciting to see he's a great player. Let's
get another quick one and quick spin here, man.

Speaker 2 (35:18):
I like that.

Speaker 1 (35:18):
Other one is Aaron Rodgers starting to develop a bit
of a problem with smelling salts. Very good question, wheel,
very good question. To close this out on it, I'm
glad someone's asking it. I see this like three or
four times a game now Chris on the TV feed,
and I gotta be honest with you, No, I don't
think he's developing a problem. I love it. It's awesome.
It's like he breaks the huddle and it's just like
bangs one throws it into the dirt. Should we start

(35:39):
doing those before our shows? I can when we get
in here at like noon. Yes, and that's perfect way
to end it there with a yes or no answer.
When we come back, we'll get to our Tomlin Tuesday
Tidbits and takeaways from his press conference yesterday. He is
Chris Adamski, I'm Tom Opperman. It's the Steelers but's on
Steelers Nation Radio, part of the Steelers Hot Network. It's

(36:08):
time for our Tomlin Tuesday Tidbits and takeaways on the
Steelers Blitz with Tom Offerman and Chris Adamski. Chris was
on the scene. He was representing the Steelers Blitz at
the press confers. And you ask questions, you go Chris A.
Damski with the Steelers Blitz here.

Speaker 2 (36:23):
Coach right and everything.

Speaker 1 (36:25):
The tag is my face on it. It's just it's
just a picture of me smiling.

Speaker 2 (36:29):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (36:31):
Let's start with the injury report, kind of the the
basics of our tidbits and takeaways. Scotty Miller Cole Holcomb
out to start the week, could potentially work their way
back into the equation. Scotty Miller, Cole Holcomb is sick.
Well that's a tough illness. This is going into this
week and he's still out, So hope he can get
over that as quickly as possible, But as far as

(36:55):
needing him to come back, I'd like it. But at
the same time, Malik Harrison I think played really well
last week and they did that kind of four to
three look, right, which you want to talk about throwing
something different, Ye, throw a four to three out there
in Pittsburgh.

Speaker 2 (37:09):
That's something different, baby, and it did a really.

Speaker 1 (37:12):
Good job against the Colts, and Harrison I think was
a big part of that. So hey, not saying I
don't want to hold him back. I'm just saying I
don't think you feel any desperation with either of those
two guys being out to start the week, and then
you got Isaac Ciamalu and Jabriel Pepper's working their way
towards return. Now, those are two guys that I would
like back. Dugger and Ramsey are our tandem moving forward
at safety, but playing every snap but one between the

(37:33):
two of them is a little tough to imagine being
a week to week thing. So Peppers I think is
a very good number three option back there, especially with
Elliott on the men.

Speaker 2 (37:42):
So hopefully he gets back and see them all had
to leave the game.

Speaker 1 (37:45):
Surprise. He even played against the Colts. But you know
that pack is just so tough, like I feel like
you're kind of hanging on by a thread sometimes where
it could be just one more bad tweak to that
and see him all this year could be done.

Speaker 3 (37:56):
Yeah, And he's established enough as a veteran and trusted enough,
and that he didn't hardly practice last week, so I
want to imagine he's not going to practice too much
this week. We'll get our first into Reporter of the
week here it's here soon. And but he's as they
approved last week. I was surprised, I kind of I
was like, wow, he's not even on questionable. They gave
me had a limit no practice Wednesday last week, no

(38:17):
practice Thursday, limited Friday, which I get like, as you're
referencing every little rep could could be something that that
that makes it worse. And now in two games in
a road that we had finished. So but luckily, and
we've talked some about Spencer Anderson A lot of times
we talk about you know, he makes a catch and
I love seeing I think more fun than the catch,
even to see him in motion. I think I like
what it when he goes, he goes across the line
and then he goes and just flatten somebody. That's fun

(38:40):
to That's more fun for me to even watch. I
think it's it's like pulling but only but it's more
like obvious because you don't you're out there running by
himself in motion. But he I think he's proven he's
a capable of the discussion in the off season. We
got lots of lots of shows to do around March
and everything about is he the uh, you know, long
term answer to be the starter. But he's certainly a

(39:00):
good six offensive lineman to have that can fill in
and capably for you. I just wonder if there's more
of a how much the jumbo package that gets talked
about a lot for as much as get used, but
they still haven't when Spencer Anders had to move to
left guard, they haven't had anybody else run the jumbo
And whether that's you're missing something in that or not,
or how important that is, it's probably not a huge
deal in the grand scheme. But maybe if now there's

(39:22):
two games in a row, I think you have to
start planning to be, as the coach says, late on
your feet that say, all who might not finish the game.
I think that's just at this point smart until something changes,
until he proves or whatever the heels or or approves
he can get through a full game. At some point
you're gonna have to kind of go into the game
thinking that, you know what, And I don't know if
that even I guess now with the extra they used

(39:44):
to only dress for years and year seven offensive line,
which is crazy to think because you're hearing a couple
of injuries away from like a tight end plan tackle
or something, and now teams generally dress eight offensive lineman,
so it's not as high er. I say to, you know,
maybe get an Andres Pete in there as a get
him a hat on Sunday because you're a little more
worried about the attrition in the old line. But maybe
that's one way you adjust. But and the thing is,

(40:05):
I don't think Sayamala was liability. Whatever is going on,
how whatever pain he's feeling or whether it's just popping
out of place or whatever it is, And there's moments
he has to leave the game, but I don't think
he's getting beat or he's betting run over anything like
that when he is playing.

Speaker 1 (40:17):
So now, so something to monitor with those guys Chuck
Clark also working his way back from illness this week.
We mentioned this earlier in the show, but Mike Tomlin
all but confirmed Ramsey will be playing the safety exclusively,
especially this week, but moving forward I think as well,
and that means what happens with the slot right, what
happens with your corners now? And Brandon Eccles was the

(40:40):
obvious person that he mentioned and said that Eccles, you
did a really good job against Indy in that role.
Then you mentioned James Pierre as well as somebody that
he's looking at to maybe make more contributions as far
as filling into that Nickel role.

Speaker 2 (40:52):
So Eccles and.

Speaker 1 (40:52):
Pierre are certainly the first kind of players out of
the barn when it comes to now sliding into what
Ramsey was doing. And Eccles was signed before Ramsey to
do that to be Beanie Bishop competition. Beanie Bishop not
even on the practice squad, just outright release by the Steelers,
so a tough break for him.

Speaker 2 (41:09):
But Eccles was brought here to do that.

Speaker 1 (41:11):
Now he's going to do that, so I don't worry
about that trickle down effect. But Darius Slay on the
outside is the thing that concerns me. Now, when they're
in base, I'm sure ecles is going to be outside.
You're going to keep Eckles on the field. It's going
to bump into the slot though, And a lot of time,
a lot of the time the chargers are in eleven personnel.
A lot teams like to run out of eleven personnel.

(41:32):
You need to have your nickel package. Sometimes you have
your dime package out on the field. Although with Peyton
Wilson as Austin defense coordinator, Tarol Austin has said, don't
need to go dime as much anymore when you got
somebody like Peyton Wilson in coverage. But I digress, you're
gonna be in nickel a lot. That puts Sleigh outside.
And that's my big concern. As far as the ripple
effect of the Ramsey permanent move to safety.

Speaker 3 (41:52):
Yeah, that's one of the things that we're being honest.
If you look at the the you're starting the level
or however you want you as a starter, now turn
you know the fifteen to play the most on defense
where you're worried about most of them one outside corner
spot and uh, you know my favorite stat about James Pierre, Right,
I think we've talked.

Speaker 2 (42:09):
About on the show.

Speaker 1 (42:10):
I know if I don't know, if I know this,
he is the longest ten years steeling right, he was.

Speaker 2 (42:14):
The longest to me.

Speaker 3 (42:14):
He's misters. He's played more games with the Steelers since
twenty twenty than anybody else. Okay, right, So over the
past six seasons, he's only missed I think two steers
that's when he played for another team for that game
for that one week actually, and he's he's played in
I think he's only missed two games with twenty twenty
and everybody else has either been injured or rived after then.
So it's kind of kind of kind of a quirky
thing undrafted corner back, but they always they've brought him

(42:34):
back now three different times at certain points whenever he
was a free agent or when he left and and
they have a level of trust in him, and he's
he's had games where he's played every single snap, is
an outside corner for them. And you know, he was
undrafted out of was it Central Florida something like that,
but Florida and m one of those Florida International whatever
it was. But the reason he was a higher had

(42:55):
a high pedigree and ended up you know, problem, whatever
it was, went to the lower level, and so he
has a pedigree to do that.

Speaker 2 (43:02):
I always talk about though, with the slave. I mean,
when you're.

Speaker 3 (43:05):
Dealing with a guy like Slag who is a borderline,
you know, Hall of Fame contention, you know, type of guy,
there's a there's a delicateness there.

Speaker 2 (43:12):
I think that that, you know, I don't think you
just replace him.

Speaker 3 (43:15):
And I so I wonder that, and I wonder what
it get to if they decide to replace him. I
don't know that that game, that first drive against the Colts,
I saw a couple of times twenty three was part
of the reason why they're moving on the field. But
after that then I didn't notice it outright and were
flying to sit here and say I watched all twenty
two and focused on twenty three the whole time. Number
twenty three slay the whole time to see if he

(43:36):
was or not. But yeah, I think, if if you
talk about the trade downline, two number two wide receiver
was the thing that they would have targeted most, and
the second thing might have been a number two cornerback
if they did so.

Speaker 1 (43:46):
I agree with that, and I actually would have kind
of been leaning towards the number two corner because you know,
we talked about this all throughout the first hour of
the show, like the usage of a wide receiver too.
You got to question that a little bit when it
comes to how would he fit into this offense. You know,
a corner two would fit into that defense. One last
thing I wanted to bring up about Tomlin's press conference yesterday,
kind of reading the tea leaves here, but he brought

(44:08):
up Kamani Vidal and he brought up Aronde Gatson for
the Chargers as far as their impact in the recent weeks,
and Gatson's been the focal point of the LA Charger
offense through the passing game another tight end. Tight Ends
have been tricky for the Steelers, although they just shut
down the number one tight end in football last week
with Tyler Warren.

Speaker 2 (44:26):
Maybe that's a little.

Speaker 1 (44:27):
Dogger effect, right I was just gonna say, maybe that's
the dugger and that's the Ramsey effect right there, is
taking out that safety. I know Ramsey got a big
pop early in that game, kind of send a message
to Warren. But you got another one this week. I
noticed Mike Tomlins saying that and you have guys like
Lad McConkie and Quinton Johnson and Keenan Allen that you
have to worry about. And I'm not to say that
he didn't mention them at all, but him highlighting Gatson

(44:50):
and Vidal and kind of their contributions, I think that
might be their plan of attack. Obviously, stop the run,
make sure the Chargers can't run the football, and then
make sure that Gatson doesn't hurt you bad.

Speaker 3 (44:59):
Yeah, I mean, it's been It was a we're coming
off a good game for a lot of reasons for
the Steelers defense. Obviously, you feel a lot better now,
but the tight end thing was a major major It
wasn't just Tucker Craft that was that was highlighted. It
certainly that that put it out our front and center.
But there's still the Steelers are up there in terms
of lowing yardage and catches. Even after having a good
game under their belt here for the season. You know

(45:19):
that a Jim Harbaugh team is going.

Speaker 2 (45:21):
To run that football. Yes, we're gonna and you know
they're missing their tackles and we get more into.

Speaker 1 (45:26):
That, so they're still gonna. They're gonna run it even
more because of that yeah.

Speaker 3 (45:29):
Yeah, yeah, so there, and it's proven by the fact
they're on with their third string running back and they're
STI running.

Speaker 1 (45:34):
The're STI running football, and they got to play that
Steelers pass rush, which got their mojo back last week,
got that swagger back. So like, no tackles, pass rush
up our butt all game long. Yeah, we're running the
football in this game, so you got to stop it all.
You got to stop that running game. And Gatson has
like his route share in the past two games is
like ninety one percent the week before and eighty eight
percent the week Like their offense is funneling through Arondez

(45:56):
Gatson junior out out of nowhere all of a sudden,
and he's not a tight end, even though he's listed
as a tight end. He's a big wide receiver out.

Speaker 3 (46:02):
Yeah he even was in college, right, Yeah, and that's
what he what he came out as.

Speaker 2 (46:06):
But so but if you don't, and I just it's kind.

Speaker 3 (46:09):
Of curious because you'd say you can say absorb a
tight end like that if you have your now with
their with their tackle situation, it's kind of like, uh,
but if they're still they're still relying, I'm still using
him and he is a weapon. He can do things
when he is a playmaker. So something to watch for
sure this weekend.

Speaker 1 (46:26):
That'll do do it for Tom on Tuesdays, Tidbits and
takeaways when Chris and I come back.

Speaker 2 (46:31):
Oh baby, it's Power Ranking time.

Speaker 1 (46:34):
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