HR 1 - Stopping The Run, Turning Flacco Over

Chris and Tom break down the Steelers matchup with the Bengals in depth and then get into this weeks Big Ballers

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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Anytime you hear the Steelers defensive players or any of
the coaches talk about their defensive performance in a good
light or a bad light, it very often seems to
gravitate around what did we do against the running game?
Did we have a great defensive performance, Well, let me

(00:25):
tell you why. That's because we had the NFL's leading
rusher to forty five yards. That's what it all stemmed from.
Did we have a bad defensive performance, Well, let me
tell you why. That's because we had one of the
worst running football teams in the NFL put up one
hundred and forty plus yards on us and we lost
to the Bengals. We couldn't stop the run, and it
all stemmed from there. It is a very consistent, you know,

(00:46):
kind of line of thinking that you hear from player
coach when it comes to the good and the bad
evaluations of their defense. And that's where I think it
all comes down to on Sunday, when it comes to
the Steelers getting that win, the payback against the Cincinnati
Bengals in the return game, it's Tom Opperman, It's Chris
Damski on the Steelers Blitz on Steelers Nation Radio, a

(01:09):
part of the Steelers Audio Network Jamar Chase stole the
show in the first meeting Chris no question, twenty three targets,
sixteen catches. It was insane what he was doing out there.
Tie Higgins was really good as well, and then you
had the guy throwing them the ball. That was such
a spectacle there because of Joe Flaccau's forty year old quarterback,
technically his second start as a Bengal, but people seem

(01:30):
to in their minds, I look at that as their
first one. They forget about that Packers game that he
played in in lambeau Field that the Bengals lost before
that Steelers Thursday night game. But anyway, those three kind
of stole the headlines. But the person that stole the game,
the person that won the game, was Chase Brown and
the ability for the Bengals to move the ball on
the ground. Chase gonna get his this Sunday. Okay, he

(01:53):
gets his every single game. Make sure the other Chase
doesn't get his. Make sure Chase Brown looks like Chase
Brown and Chris. I'm not talking about a key being
slowing down the Bengals running game. I'm talking about a
key being eliminating it. Completely. I want to see under
two yards per carry from the other team in this one,
just like the Steelers had done to them against the Colts.

Speaker 2 (02:15):
They are still last in the league and rushing they
were last in the league, I know, beading into when
the Steelers played them, and by a good min they're
last in the league. Yeah, and by the way, who's
thirtieth in the league. We don't want to talk about
that in terms of but if you look at what
they are like, they chase Brown in terms of I

(02:35):
want to try to find the game by a game
here rushing yards for the for the Bengals, and you
have essentially, let's see, they had two good games in
a row against the Jets. The Jet rush for one
hundred and eighty one against the Steelers one forty two.
Other than that, so those two games which were there
two and three games ago for the Bengals, they had
since then they played the Bears only rushed for forty
six yards. They haven't had it. Only had one game

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where they rushed for more than fifty five yards and
that was an eighty five yards against the Lions. Ad
the enough so they've been shut down almost. I mean,
that's fair to say fifty five yards is being shut down, right,
I mean, I think that that's kind of fair. In
their average yards per rush two point h two point eight,
two point five, three point five and then a five
point three or three point four, six point two against
the Steelers, seven point nine against the Jets, and three

(03:19):
point one again. So essentially, game after game after game,
with two exceptions, two and a half exceptions, they have
been unable to run the ball. And that's been you
talk about answering the Steelers anytime you talk to anybody that,
I think that's been so drilled into them over and
literally decades. I think it's been carried on Cam Hayward

(03:40):
is it's just crazy along Cam Hayward's been playing that
he he's a link to the past of James Ferry
or Casey Hampton, Troy Paula Maalou think of the guys
he's been teammates with. That That's one thing we could
talk about that a little bit later. Maybe that Cam
Hayward's gonna move in a second place in the all
time Steelers games played list, But but I do think
that he is part of that, and Mike tom it's
part of that. I think just the natural game of telephone,

(04:03):
no matter who was there that that those guys told
the next guy. You know, those guys were told by
you know, Greg Lloyd and Kevin Green, you know whatever.
It's just there, Jason Gilden, this is how things are done. Yeah,
and it's that that has been so dru from mostly
Dick lebo I think, and they're still I don't know,
I guess Cam's last guy left from Dick Lebou even,
but but you get the idea that that's been such
the emphasis for the Steelers. And again, I bring this

(04:24):
up a lot. This is like my heyday of fandom
and everything was in those the aughts, the os wherever
they would just teams would even try to run the ball.
It would be the first series they would go, uh,
first down, no game, then it minus well I guess
we have to do then. Yeah, that they would make
give a token effort to say they're like, oh okay,
second series that would be it. They wouldn't even they

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just give up even attempting because it wasn't gonna work
at all. And all these you know, top notch running
backs would come in one hundred yard running back and
they had that streak of four seasons or whatever it
was allow I think one hundred yard rusher against them anyway,
So that's been always been part. So that's why I
think they answered the questions that way. Whenever you're talking
about their defense, it's been like, we have to stop
the run. Sarah Austin says that it's the emphasis every day,

(05:07):
and there is, obviously I.

Speaker 1 (05:08):
Was gonna say, I think it's more to that too,
other than just like the this is the fraternity and
this is what our legacy is as we stop the
run here on Steelers defense. But it's just you know,
I think a very basic one oh one thing. You
make a team one dimensional, and the dimension that you
cut off is the easiest dimension. You know, if you
can run the ball five yards to carry, life's gonna

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be pretty sweet for your offense, for your defense because
they're gonna be rested, because you're gonna dominate time of possession.
Things are gonna be easy for your quarterback. That big
play action pass is gonna be there all of a sudden.
It's gonna create layups in the passing game, like everything
is gonna flow off of the running game. It's a
very simple sport. When you really think about it, it
really is like it obviously has complicated, you know, things

(05:53):
to it, wrinkles to it, a package from an offense
that makes a defense have to adjust slightly, and there's
a chess match to it. But at the end of
the day, man like run the football and you're probably
gonna win a lot of football games like that still
hasn't changed. I know that this era is passing the ball,
and you need to have a prolific passing game to
get anywhere in the NFL, But at the same time,

(06:15):
you got to have something very at the very least
reliable in the running game. And it's still a very
welcome thing to have a good to great running game.
Look at the Damn Eagles last year, who just won
the Super Bowl. Team was built on running the football,
a bit of a throwback and they could throw the
ball downfield if they had to, but that's what they
relied on. And even you know, the teams that you

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don't think of, oh, you know, they had a strong
running presence, like the Chiefs when they were winning their
Super Bowls. But Checko was still very good as a
rookie and still very needed in the backfield, like it
is such a necessity is to have that running game still,
and it really is the simplest way to have success

(06:58):
in a football game is to run the football. So
when the Bengals a team that doesn't need much convincing
to abandon the run in the first place, I mean,
they run the ball less than any team in football,
passing at a higher percentage than anyone. They don't need
much convincing. Like your example where back in the day
they would stop him on first down and the teams
would be like, whatever, we're not running on the Steelers anymore.

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The Bengals basically do that currently to every team in football.
Yard there, let's throw it fifty straight times. They don't
need much pushing there. Like I referenced earlier in the week,
it's like in the first matchup, it's almost like they
handle the ball off to Brown five times and they
were surprised. They were like, oh my god, this is working.
We have to run the ball, right. It would be
stupid to not, like we thought, this is not the

(07:41):
way the script run is.

Speaker 2 (07:42):
We gave it up. Now that we have to keep
doing it.

Speaker 1 (07:44):
Like flipping through his play call sheet, He's like, I
have more runs, don't. I have to. I have to
have him somewhere, buried in here, and like they were
almost pleasantly surprised that the ground game was working for them.
A team that doesn't try to run the ball at
all anyway, don't give him another The Bengals play one
dimensional football in their own regard. Don't let them create

(08:04):
a dimension against you, because you did in Week seven
and that just it torched you. Him alone, I think
was the reason why you lost. I could live as
weird as it sounds with Chase and Higgins going off
like they did, I'm fine with that. You make Brown's
performance ten carries for twenty five yards. I think it's

(08:25):
a completely different game.

Speaker 2 (08:27):
A couple of things here. First off, Yeah, the Bengals
as a team, we're talking all three phases, rushing to
all of it. They are a one trick pony, and
it's a pretty damn good trick even with Joe Flacco
of throwing the ball with Chase and Higgins is particularly
Chase and be able to score points in the passing game. Right.
They're running game all around datrocious. I mean them sorry,
Their defense all around tatrocious. Their running game is not

(08:48):
very good, especially so essentially that's what they do and
that's what they do well. But see now, especially now,
we'll see how the Steelers approach this. I don't know
what the game plan is, but if they now with
the two states these they feel like that's all of
a sudden become like a strength of the defense is
having Ramsey and Duggar back. They're kind of out of
nowhere and that might be one of the one of
the best. If they have the too deep safety. We'll

(09:09):
see how they do it. I don't know. I think
obviously they're not going to play press man against the Bengals.
I think they ran through the gamut of ways the
matchup against the Bengals last time, and I don't think
they're going to try to, especially when they're down. You know,
with all they like Pierre and everything else, James Pierre,
but they're not gonna just run them out there. You
know what, man up once go. So in other words,
you're gonna have the more you can stop the running game.

(09:31):
You know, you're whatever it is, five or six guys
bringing it, whatever you want to say it. The safety,
like you talked about, being a simple game when you
get down the five or six guys blocking six guys
against the six or seven in the box. Whatever it is,
those man mono a mono controlling that which way can
push the other way. That's how you can define your
running game. And if the steeers don't have to devote

(09:52):
extra resources, assuming they're playing just simple math, right, if
you're assuming you're playing some level of zone or at
least or even some of help to help against Jamar Chase,
which you're gonna have to in some way or another.
You're not the voting one body to him. I promise
you that.

Speaker 1 (10:05):
And they did in week seven, as much as people
were like, oh, they didn't try. They just did the
same thing over and over and over and over and
over and over and over and over and over and
over again. It was just like WHOA just a groundhog day,
Bill Murray keeps waking up to the same damn song. No,
they tried all the different coverages and all the different
personnels that they could. It just didn't work.

Speaker 2 (10:22):
Yeah, And it's just the the more bodies you have
to devote to that again, whether it be zone and
you could play two high safeties, whether it be just
help double, whatever it is. The more, the more body.
If you could stop the run with your six or
seven men against their six or seven men blocking, and
you don't have to worry about the voting resources of that.
That's more bodies. You have to be able to stop
what their their their biggest problem is is the Bengals.

Speaker 1 (10:43):
You know what, And you're right like the you know,
the four to three stack that they did against the
Colts to help with Jonathan Taylor and that real key
emphasis on the run. There's an emphasis on the run here,
but it should just all be you know, verbal emphasis
and meetings this week and dudes manning up and being
better because that Bengals offensive line is trash and Chase
Brown's not that good of a running back. This is

(11:04):
not Jonathan Taylor, and you have to go through Quinn
Nelson to get to them. Like it's just not the
same thing as that Colt's thing. So like people be, well,
why don't you lean to the four to three a
little bit so you can help slow down that run. No,
you don't need to do that to help slow down
this run. Cam Hayward, just throw some guy to the
side and stop Chase Brown. Derek Harmon, Keany Benn do
the same wat Heismith like, just stop them in the

(11:26):
traditional sense, the three to four stop them up front
without much resources being allocated to do so. You should
just be able to do that as a defensive line.
And to your point, I want to have people contributing
in coverage, not in run support. Run support should be

(11:48):
non existent in this game because it's not needed because
you're stopping the run without needing extra troops to do so.
I don't want to see him Elie Harrison on the
field that much in this game because you shouldn't need
a Malie Harrison on the field in this game to
stop Chase Brown. And I don't want to see him
out there to get exposed in coverage. So you don't
want to go into that kind of four to three stack,

(12:09):
that kind of bigger look help stop the run. Even
though I just laid out to open the show today,
that's the most important thing in my mind is to
stop the run. Just do it. Just do it with
your traditional three man front and then try to devote
as much as you can into coverage. I would drop
the edge rushers back sometimes if I can just muddy

(12:29):
that picture for Joe Flacco in that quick game that
you know he's gonna want to use.

Speaker 2 (12:33):
To your point, the Bengals are by far. They have
the fewest rushing attempts in the NFL this season at
one sixty nine. The next fewest is the Titans at
one to eighty three, and nobody else is even under
two hundred. So that that gives you an idea of
how willing they are, and a lot of it's game situate.
I certainly understand all that when they're when you're when

(12:54):
you're falling behind and things, but they are and they
also obviously are good at throwing the ball. They have
good receivers and blacks whatever reason been the dynamic pass
or since he's since he's joined the Bengals, so they
but they have a track record of being willing to
abandon it or going to abandon it pretty quickly. So
if you can calm us, I say, break their will
with it. But if you on those first in the

(13:16):
first quarter, if you could shut down their run, I
think you might not. You can almost snuff it out
and you don't have to worry about the rest of
the game then, and then you can more devote to
the to the to the weapons, though I mean the
Jamar Chase essentially the weapon in terms of the major,
major flashing light panic problem that you have in terms
of his and what his production's been both overall and
against the Steelers a month ago.

Speaker 1 (13:37):
Yeah, and you know, I want to kind of take
a page out of the Chargers book what we just
saw this past weekend where they really muddied up the
picture for Rogers post snap. Rogers is a superpower at
this current stage of his career. Is that pre snap recognition.

Speaker 2 (13:53):
I know where.

Speaker 1 (13:54):
Everybody's going to be. I can get this ball out quick.
And that's kind of made the offensive line look better
all year because I know where I'm going with it
before the snap even happens. Well, our old buddy Bud
Dupree took it upon himself in that Chargers defense, and
he wasn't the only one. The other drushers were doing
this too to look like I'm gonna rush and then

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uh oh, I just dropped back into coverage real quick.
That slant that you thought that was gonna be there,
that you were gonna throw it right over my head,
Rogers is gonna whiz right by my ear on the
pass rush and hit right DK in the hands nice
five ten yard gain. Oh it's not there anymore. And
you saw it fluster Rodgers sometimes and you saw him
double clutch and have to throw it in the dort.

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Dort had to throw it in the dirt to abort. Honestly,
I can bind two words there to aboard on the play.
I want to see Joe Flacco do that a lot.
You know, maybe you don't get home to Joe Flacco,
but blow up plays in other ways where he has
to just dump it off, throw it out of bounds,
throw it at a running back's feet, decide to live
to fight another day. And I think you'd obviously do

(14:58):
that by taking your bud Dupree, your Watts, your Highsmith's,
your herbigs, and you know, have them shaking and.

Speaker 2 (15:04):
Jittering at the line, snarling like they're gonna.

Speaker 1 (15:06):
Rush, and then just drop right back into coverage and
take that quick stuff away. I think that's a massive,
massive key here, because as much as Jamar Chase torched
the Steelers, we talked about this, I think yesterday or
Wednesday on the show, none of his catches were for
more than nineteen yards down the field. Like it was
all short stuff. Yards after the catch I'll break a tackle.

(15:27):
I'll take a two yard catch and make it a
fifteen yard game like there was nothing, you know, deep ball,
you know, a nice post pattern that went thirty yards
down the field. Like it was all quick stuff with him.
So it's not like, you know, you were just getting
bombed on all game long, and it's like, well, how
are we got to devote a ton of attention to
over the top help? No, you got a muddy that

(15:48):
you know, short to intermediate range in the passing game,
because that's where they were hurting.

Speaker 2 (15:52):
You just looking at it for what again? But I
mean this kind of stuff I do believe in pro
football focus for it's not evaluation, it's it's the charting
plays and coverage. So far, there's been seventy two snaps
combined this year from Seawards edge defenders. They're played in
coverage twenty two by Watch, twenty by her Big, nineteen
from high Smith and nine from Jack Sawyer, two from
Martin Leal and coverage which would have been kind of

(16:14):
funny to see. I wonder who he was covering. But
as a converted defensive lineman, you know, you say these
things every time you talk about it. I picture it
in my head. I think of James Harrison in the
Super Bowl doing that essentially on his own, by the way,
not rushing the paster and dropping a total interception.

Speaker 1 (16:31):
Yeah, improbably exactly what we're talking about here. Kurt Warner
had no idea he was going to be there. Kurt
Warner thought he had a touchdown before the snap happened.

Speaker 2 (16:38):
A savvy quarterback, just like Flax, you know, in terms
of his mind and everything.

Speaker 1 (16:41):
And I used to hear stories to Peyton Manning would
say all the time that you know, he would line
up or Tom Brady would have these stories too, where
like because they talk about defenders that were tough to
play against, they'd break the huddle and Peyton Manning knows
what the defense is supposed to do better than the
defense and he'd come out and he'd be like, Troy's
not where he's supposed to be. Like that would always happen.
Like Brady would be like like why is he there?

(17:01):
Like that is not and he'd be like time about,
that's not your defense, Troy, you were.

Speaker 2 (17:05):
Not supposed to be Phil, I watch more filter than
you do of your defense.

Speaker 1 (17:09):
Dude. Remember Pat McAfee's famous story about the fake punt
that was on or the fake whatever that was on
that he was gonna run against the Steelers, and then
they break the huddle and all of a sudden, there's
Troy in the seagap, Like, why is Troy line up
in the sea gap? Had to call it off? Had
to just boot the ball. So, like, you improvise as
a defense, and you can make Kurt Warners and Aaron

(17:31):
Rodgers's of the world flustered a little bit. That happens
the Brady's in the Mannings of the world. Paul Moller's
not supposed to be there. You can fluster them with improvisation.
I think the same can be said for Joe Flacco,
who isn't even in the same class as any of
those quarterbacks that we just mentioned. Fluster him by doing
some things that, hey, we called this defense. I'm supposed

(17:54):
to do this, well, I bet you Flacco knows I'm
supposed to do this now too. Well what if I
just do this and slide back in the coverage a
little bit? Uh? Oh, Flacco, this Yoshivas little safety blanket's
gone now all of a sudden, I hope you don't
just automatically throw it because I'm taking it the other way, and.

Speaker 2 (18:09):
You know what, I think that I'll tie this into
the you mentioned Earl this week. Would you say, in
terms of the add of what was the segment of
the era? Pointing up on Keanu Betton, however, you oh,
the over achieve over achiever, Yes, overachiever although he wasn't
an overachiever though he wasn't. No, I think I just
like to mention that it was breaking out okay well

(18:30):
either regardless of how we talked about it, which I
shouldn't have said on that Keanu Beten's emergence and sort
of ascended ascension in terms of being a better player,
a better pass rusher, I think you could have more
confidence on getting pass rush from your interior defensive line
that it won't hurt you as much, maybe to drop
one of your edge guys back and covers if you're
talking about that obviously. I mean Cam Hayward's still been disruptive.

(18:52):
I don't know what his sack numbers exactly are, but
how many pat he's battened down passes on a weekly
basis than when we do it twice against the Chargers
last I mean, we haven't seen two it's crazy, you
know what, and I don't. I guess in some ways,
I don't know how to read this, and I almost
feel like I would if I had more time to
do this, like watch a whole game and see where
Derek Harmon is. I don't know where he's at right now.

(19:13):
I don't know the fact that I'm not noticing him
is a good thing or a bad thing. He hasn't
been disruptive in the pass rush. That's kind of more
where you've noticed him, but he's not getting you know,
pushed back or anything like that. I don't know, but
you know, maybe with why Black and him, but especially
with with Benon and with what he's been playing in Heyward.
If you can trust getting a pass rush up the
middle there too, depending on what the play call is,

(19:34):
You're not really painting yourself in where you're you're not
a pass rusher by doing what you're suggesting.

Speaker 1 (19:39):
All Right, we'll keep kind of going down this path
talking about stopping that Bengal offense. It might be foolhardy,
but dang it, Chris and I are going to try
to come up with solutions against an offense that's still
scoring at an insane clip even without Joe Burrow, Christi Damski,
Tom Offer and it's the Steelers Blitz Friday Edition, getting
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(20:01):
You listening to Steelers Nation Radio, part of the Steelers
Audio Network. We talked the entire first segment, or most
of it, about you gotta stop Chase Brown. Okay, it
was very pathetic what he was able to do against
you in this first meeting. The higgins Is and the

(20:23):
Chases of the world, the Jamar Chases of the world
are gonna torch you. They torch everybody. That dude hasn't
torched anybody since your game and before your game. It's
the only time Chase Brown has gone for over one
hundred yards this season. It was his most successful game
all year long. So that can't be the case. That
being said, I'm not saying you just, you know, throw

(20:45):
your hands up and say we have a day off.
In the secondary, he gotta do some things to make
it a little bit more of an uncomfortable go of
it for the Bengals offense, a little bit more of
a battle of attrition for this Bengals offense. The t
Higgins Joey Porter Junior thing. They really like it. I
love the idea of it. If you can just throw
Joey on him, single T Higgins and take him out

(21:09):
of the game. For the most part, that does wonders
as far as now. All the other attention is paid
on Jamar Chase. I think it's a good game plan
that the Steelers have had for a couple of years
now on the Bengals and T Higgins in specific, just
has not worked yet. You know, Joey is too grabby.
He gets a lot of pass interferences called against him
when he's guarding T Higgins. T Higgins has big games anyway.

(21:31):
He had a ninety six yard performance in a touchdown
against the Steelers regardless of the DPIs the game. Last
year he didn't have a big statistical performance, but he
drew like four pass interference penalties or maybe I'm being
a little hyperbolic there, but it was more than one.
And that's an impact for a receiver to draw such
a penalty like that to set the Bengals up at
the goal line sometimes in that game. So it has

(21:54):
been a struggle. Joey's played very strong in these past
couple of games. Though, I thought against the Colts he
was very sticky in coverage. I thought he made a
lot of nice plays on the football to knock it
out of receivers hands. And then against the Choges, you know,
other than Lad McConkie, no other pass catcher really did anything.

(22:17):
And Joey, you know more so, I don't know this
for a fact, but I'm assuming he's on Quinton Johnson
quite a bit in that game. That seems like the
obvious guy that he would take on. He was relatively quiet,
and I think that there has been some positive play
from Joey these past couple of games. Maybe this is
the one that goes in his favor against Higgins. Maybe

(22:39):
this is the you know, three catch thirty yard performance
from Higgins, and Porter does, for the most part a
good to great job of eliminating that one weapon by himself.

Speaker 2 (22:52):
For what it's worth, pff, Joey Porter did not have
a catch against uh in coverage against the Chargers here, yeah,
only targeted twice once on Keenanee, once on Gadson, So
for what that's worth now, I do think there's a
degree And if you remember though, when they played the
Bengals at home the last time, which was in January,
and it was ended up being a meaningless game for

(23:13):
the Steelers, though we didn't know that until kickoff of
that game, because remember the raid that was week eighteen
and the Ravens plit one earlier in the day, So
the Steelers were locked into their their playoff seating essentially,
So I don't know if that was part of the decision.
They put Corey Trice on on Chase a lot that day,
and Chase got his production overall. I mean, it was
certainly not a production type game if you wanted to

(23:34):
Corey Trice. I don't want to talk about Corey Trice,
but I'm just getting that Joey Porter had in terms
of he was more obviously than just by extension, I'm guessing,
was more often on T Higgins during that game, and
he felt a lot better about the game. He talked
about that game leading to the last Bengals game about
how he made sure everybody said, oh, it might be
the yellow gloves and everybody thinks he's grabbing. He said,
I'm gonna wear yeo gloves anyway and show you I'm
not grabbing, all right. It was there kind of like

(23:55):
a spiteful, like screw you guys, I'm not doing this,
And I think he got confident. It's there now. Obviously
the last two times they played in Cincinnati, I don't
even know what the what is it seven flags on
Joey Porter Junior in those two games. So he certainly
is saying the right things. He's an apple didn't fall
from the tree, right, He's going to be portray a
confidence like his dad front. But I don't know if

(24:17):
there's something in his head about that or not, or
at least it's worth discussing, or is there something Are
the Bengals coaches and receivers talking the officials before the
game and say, hey.

Speaker 1 (24:27):
It's Higgins in particular, like starting to get like, hey,
I kind of owned this guy now.

Speaker 2 (24:31):
Yeah, is there something to that? I don't know, but
clearly and it's more emphasized now whatever you think of
Slay and you know Ramsey moving back, I mean, Joey
Porter Junr Is by far, right now at this moment,
the number one corner on the team, the one outside
corner on the team, and is going to be the
most responsible in coverage of anybody. And he's going to
be there. But he's got to be there. I say,

(24:52):
he's got to be their best, second to you know,
you got safety and Ramsey can be their best. But
if he is your best player in the secondary, the
best player of the offense, you can probably gonna win
the game pretty easily. Right, So a lot kind of
rides on that, and a lot of kind of rides
on how you limit Chase. And I don't know. Again,
you're right, I think it's more and put him on
Higgins maybe, but either way, it's a domino effect. It

(25:14):
you know, nothing happens in a vacuum, right, If that's
not working, you need to devote more resource to Higgins
than that freeze up Chase. So I don't know how
you slice it up. You need Porter to have a
good game, and he's coming off a good game by
the eye test. We just verified it by at least
another you know, more quantitative source that I didn't feel that.
I felt like Joey Porter played well against the Chargers.
So if because he's a guy that you know, coming

(25:35):
into the season, we wanted to see ticket out. We
thought last year'd be it, and we thought this year
then could be at it. Instead, it's a it's a
big year for him where we thought. I think I
mentioned he can make a lot of money riding on
this year for him, because he could get a monster
contract if he, you know, proves himself as a number
one corner, and if he kind of languishes and doesn't,
they have to go in another year. You know, who
knows what happens to him in terms of his next contract.

(25:55):
I'm sure I'll get one of some sort, but so
a lot's riding on that. And I mean this would
be especially what happened last time against the Bengals, having
a good game against this team and being because I
think again the Bengals are pretty much a one trick
pony as a team. And if you get a shutdown
corner type performance out of your top corner, whether it's
on even though it's on Higans, they're quoting onuote number

(26:16):
two receiver, and he's a number two receiver and quote unquote, but.

Speaker 1 (26:20):
Actually if your partner, because anywhere else he's a quarting
number one.

Speaker 2 (26:23):
That's what I was trying to get at, is he's
a very He's not your garden variety.

Speaker 1 (26:27):
Yeah, you're going from the other end of the spectrum.
They're not just like this guy they try to make
a number. Yeah, he's a number one that is playing
number two right.

Speaker 2 (26:33):
Now, exactly that. That's the angle I was going with it.
I didn't articulate I got you partner, there you go,
you picked me up. So if that happens, I think,
you know it's put this way. If if Kenny kg
be is paying money to Joey Porter Junior on Monday
after really really good about the fact that the Steelers
won the game.

Speaker 1 (26:49):
Going away, yeah, anybody in the secondary that gets a
performance worthy of Teddy to give out the cash, for
sure would be a surprise, but a pleasant one. So
that leaves Jamar Chase. I think Ramsey's gonna have his
chance at revenge here, not in the aspect of islanding
up on Chase one on one coverage and trying to

(27:13):
pretend like this is twenty fifteen Jacksonville Jaguars Jalen Ramsey again, right,
But from the aspect of maybe it's Pierre. I don't know.
As we do this right now around noon that twelve
thirty ish a Sante Samuel will play in this game

(27:33):
or not. Probably won't even know that until this weekend.

Speaker 2 (27:36):
SA.

Speaker 1 (27:36):
It's like a Saturday announcement that the Steelers like to
put out there, and we've elevated him from the practice
squad or whatever whatever it is. Echoles, if he can
play Slay probably won't clear concussion protocol in time. He's
been in it all week. Whoever the corner is on Chase,
Ramsey's probably gonna be the help almost every time. I

(27:57):
wonder if that's how they'll go about it, where it's like, Okay,
we went out in the off season and we got Ramsey,
and we have this thing in our mind where it's like,
what if we could single cover Chase and Higgins. What
if Joey Porter Junior and Jamar Chase could for the
most part just you know, strap him up man to man.
That would go miles as far as success against that
Bengals offense. And you clearly saw that Jaylen Ramsey's not

(28:21):
capable of doing that in Week one, okay, but still
utilize him against Chase in a different way from the
helper kind of standpoint, being that secondary coverage on Jamar Chase.
I think Ramsey can do a lot of good there,
and I think that Ramsey can get a little bit
of his payback there from what Chase did to him
in the first game. Maybe makes a nice ball, Howking

(28:43):
play wrestles it away from Chase, comes screaming in on coverage,
you know what I mean, Maybe makes a big hit
Early in the game, Flacco hits Chase on a nice
little five yard you know, slammer dig route like they
were doing so much against the Steelers in that first game.
But instead of Chase breaking tackle and taking it for
war yardage, Ramsey boom comes up and sticks them, you
know what I mean, sets a tone that way. So

(29:05):
I think Ramsey's got a good chance of getting his revenge,
just in a little different light this time.

Speaker 2 (29:11):
And I do think the Steelers, because of Dugger and
because of Ramsey playing back, have a better chance of
matching up. I think there was a lot of times
in that game where I was like, why is forty
one chasing t Higt like Peyton Wilson or Patrick Queen.
Somehow the Bengals were getting these matchups in his zone.
I get at all that stuff, but there were But
whatever reason, there was guys making catches in the closest

(29:31):
person to him was a linebacker. These elite receivers they had,
and I think maybe the fact that now you have
Ramsey is kind of a lot more of it. I mean,
he always was a chess piece, and in some ways
you give him mark he was more of a chess
piece then because he played more and more around different spots.
But now I think in terms of being kind of
a wild card, in terms of being a cover guyer
helping out in certain areas and things like that, I

(29:52):
think you're a little maybe better equipped to faith. I mean,
I definitely think figuring out that safety situation. Could remember
that Bengal game, as bad as that was a month ago,
that the safety at that point were what Thornhill and Clark,
I mean, what's what's going on exactly right?

Speaker 1 (30:06):
And one of them is not even on the team anymore.

Speaker 2 (30:08):
You know, one hasn't played in three weeks, and you know,
I mean it was illness that at least played on
significantly deep. He's missed one game for sure, m m.
But you know Pepper's is coming back this week. It
looks like I don't know if that affects anything or not.
I mean that that would be more, you know, in
a passing game. I don't know if that really helps
you out all that much. In terms of what you
put it's just an extra body and whenever your attritions

(30:30):
really hit everything on the secondary right now, and you're
probably gonna have one practice quad corner. And that's something
if Samuel assume, if I had a guess now, I'd say,
as we sit here early Friday afternoon, I would say
sam was not gonna play and that just do.

Speaker 1 (30:45):
You agree with that? And this is part of me.
Chris is just like throw him out there, just tell
him the man up every once in a while. He's
also really good at zone. That's what Matt Williamson is
telling me. I bet you could pick up some zone
concepts pretty early. He's a smart cookie. His dad was
an NFL player, Like he gets it. He grew up
around this.

Speaker 2 (31:00):
See I think mentally he could do it, and it's
like Peoples of Dog. I mean, he literally hasn't played.
I did a football practice. It's a real practice in
fourteen month. It's a good point. That's different from Dougger
Doug the NFL game the five days before and the
mental part. So mentally there's two parts of the mental
aspect of it's a great point. But physically, I mean
a man hasn't played in a football game or a

(31:21):
real NFL practice, a real practice of any sort. I'm
just treating a team at it exactly made this track.
It might especially you know, whatever you say a major
surgery next, you know, his final surgery sounds pretty major
to me.

Speaker 1 (31:33):
I'm an idiot like this. It's like, hey, go man coverage.
So I don't know sure, I haven't played it over
a year. Are you sure about that? The best receiver
in football? I'll try.

Speaker 2 (31:44):
So, he's been working out and every I believe he's
in good shape. But I do think it's probably too
much to ask that quick. But you know, I think
it's because they need somebody, somebody in the practice. I
was gonna call it, yes, I mean, you need an
extra cornerback. They're down to two outside corners right now
in the fifty three that are healthy, assuming slaves not playing,
which that looks, you know, almost certain at this point.

(32:05):
So you need somebody to be there. And it's like,
you know, I don't know if they're like in other words,
Darryl Porter junior, God bless him, undrafted rookie, you know, looks,
you know, did some nice things that camp. I don't
think you want to throw him out there. Yeah, but
then you get as the Border Junior team. I know,
it's kind of funny that the two guy named Porter
Junior is kind of what are the odds of that happening?

Speaker 1 (32:23):
Maybe it'll confuse the Bengals and Joe Flacco sometimes. I
don't know.

Speaker 2 (32:28):
How about this new thing with football with the college
teams put in the punter that's the backup quarterback.

Speaker 1 (32:32):
You see some of this US something you heard about
this USC but.

Speaker 2 (32:36):
Had a fake punt where they changed the roster that
morning and put the backup quarterback again the same number
as the punter, which is legal because they're different units.
So he wounded there to take the fake punt. Nobody
noticed it wasn't the punter. He threw this like dime
pass because he's a freaking backup. He's a quarterback, right,
you know?

Speaker 1 (32:50):
If that's a sign of what a mickey mouse team
that needs to do get next to try to get
some first down.

Speaker 2 (32:55):
I'm not suggesting the Bengals or the Steelers do that,
but it just it just struck with If you talk about.

Speaker 1 (32:59):
USC, I mean, seriously, get out of here with that.
Who are you pit? I mean I start acting like
USC again. All right, hey to do it against Northwestern. Yeah,
let's hold off on the college dock forge. Okay, I
got some more Bengals things I want to talk about,
sir uh flackout. I know you got a couple of
sacks on him the last time. It didn't really affect
him at all. He's getting rid of the ball way

(33:21):
too fast. It's gonna be hard to get home in
this game against him. Get those hands up. Then let's
start batting some balls down right, Let's start tipping some
balls at the line of scrimmage. Let's get into that
that was absent against the Bengals. And for God's sake,
even if you're not getting home, create some chaotic pressure,
because if you don't turn Joe Flacco over for a

(33:43):
second time this year, I'm gonna lose it. Man. I
really am like and it's weird because he was given
turnovers away like they were going out of style when
he was on Cleveland, Like he was throwing so many picks.
So I'm thrown two. Since he's been a Cincinnati Bengal,
he's really kind that's off high and throwing interceptions. I

(34:05):
kind of don't think Joe Flacco's you know, someone that
all of a sudden is just gonna have two interceptions
like he's Matt Stafford for the rest of the season.

Speaker 2 (34:13):
I think he's due.

Speaker 1 (34:14):
So get those hands up. Tip some passes, get sticky
on those receivers as much as you can, try to
make a play on the balls and get the Durang
punch going. In the run game, when Chase Brown gets it,
punch the hell out of that football. He'll put it
on the turf. So you got to get turnovers. I
mean that's just again boiling it down to its most
simplest analysis, one oh one stuff. The Steelers defense is

(34:37):
not anywhere close to as effective when it gets no turnovers.

Speaker 2 (34:42):
So you have to Yeah, and you would think some
of that. I tried to ask Mike tom Went this week.
He didn't understand my questioner, didn't want to answer. I
said you it was the latter. Yeah, pro that in
terms of yes, there were what six takeaways the week
before and then zero this week, but the same you know,
when I went back and my you know, untrained eye
or whatever, you know, Cam Hayward's batting out, there were

(35:03):
three batted balls at the line of scrimmage. You got
the five sacks. You know, you would think it's some
other words, it's the processing. There's results, right, and you
can the results are all that matters. I get it.
But at the same time, you know, sometimes you trustin
Herbert would really good tucking the ball or holding on
the ball or whatever it is, or the quarterback makes
it play whatever it is, or a fumble doesn't fall,
it bounces and bounces. Rctor in linement, what it didn't

(35:25):
happen in this game, but the things like that can happen.
I didn't think, you know, it wasn't like the defense
wasn't disruptive against the Chargers. It wasn't as bad. It
wasn't as if there wasn't a night and day, or
like they got six turnovers and they get zero. That
means they were just completely vanilla. There might have been
a couple of games earlier in the season though it
was the case with the Steelers defense. But I do
think if they do that, and especially you're right the

(35:46):
law of averages. I mean, Flack I was throwing forty
some times a game too. He's gotta throw some picks.
He's just no matter who you are, do you throw
to put the ball in Harmer's way. That often it's
something's gonna happen, especially when you've got a defense that
is so good at tipping balls and rushing the passer,
and you think to get more sacks of that reason,
things like that. That, yeah, I like my chances for
the Steelers to get you know, two plus turnovers or
takeaways in this game.

Speaker 1 (36:07):
One last thing, don't let Yoshavas pick up a big
third down again. I mean, you're so worried about Brown,
He's running all over Higgins Chase and then all of
a sudden, Yoshavas gets the big backbreaking conversion for that offense.
But in all seriousness, don't just be so enamored with
the main talents that you forget about the Yoshivases. You

(36:28):
forget about the no offense, right, the kind of alternate
ones that can still hurt you. So you got to
keep an eye out on them as well. But we're
not going to spend segments talking about how you defend
Yoshivas and Noah Fan. It seems like a bit of
a waste when it comes to talking about the Bengals
and what to do against them. When Chris and I
come back, we will hand out our big ballers for
Steelers and Bengals, and we'll jump on that college couch

(36:50):
talk about the college week in the head. It's a
fun one locally. I don't know if you've heard. We'll
discuss next it's time out for men and Chris and
Dampsky on the Steelers Blitz on Steelers Nation Radio to
the Steelers Audio Network. You don't ever wanna label games

(37:11):
this way, Chris, until like, you get to one of
the last games of the season, but must win for
the Pittsburgh Steelers. Let's go down that cliche road for
about a minute. I kind of view it as one
because I don't think there's gonna be more than one
team coming out of the AFC North. And if you
allow the Ravens, who who do they.

Speaker 2 (37:31):
Play this week?

Speaker 1 (37:32):
By the way, baltimorens Baltimore's they're in Cleveland. Yeah, yes,
So if you allow the Ravens to tie you after
their one in five start without having to actually play you,
I'm gonna have a hard time believing that you're gonna
be able to bounce back and win the AFC North
against them. And furthermore, you breathe some life into the
Bengals when it comes to that AFC North race too,

(37:54):
and they have two wins against you, which means any
tiebreaker scenario that you would find yourself in with since
An goes to Cincinnati.

Speaker 2 (38:01):
So yeah, it's.

Speaker 1 (38:03):
Week eleven, but I'm gonna go ahead and put the
stamp on it. You better win this damn football game.
You must win this football game.

Speaker 2 (38:10):
You lose, it's four to five losses all of a sudden,
which is all the goodwill you had starting out.

Speaker 1 (38:15):
You're five hundred.

Speaker 2 (38:16):
Yeah, yeah, back to five hundred after after the after
the four and one start, and then so you're not
only that you've lost four to five, you fall to
five hundred. You have two of the next three. You're
on the road against winning teams. Well, I guess that's funny.
The Ravens sore on a winning team, by the way.
But actually, yeah, at the Bears. Whatever you think of
the Bears that.

Speaker 1 (38:33):
Winning, I bet you the Bears will be favored in that.

Speaker 2 (38:34):
Gameyeah, I'd say so too, especially especially if you lose
the Bengals. And uh, and the other in the one
in the middle was at home, but it's against the
Buffalo Bills. The AFC favored, So all of a sudden, Yeah,
things gotta gotta potential here to kind of unravel and
get away from me. If you don't win this game.
I still you know, you've got a vision team at
home here, a team that you're objectively better than in
the standings, better than rankings wise, has a backup quarterback.

(38:57):
You know, they're all world player. Like we talked about before,
no team is more built around one player in the
NFL than the Bengals around Joe Burrow. And you already
lost them once in that tense and Flacco has been
been very good. You got to give them credit for
that in terms of I mean, the passing game has
been as good as almost ant the league, I guess
in term production wise, since he's been since he's taken over.

(39:19):
That's just how bad Jake for man they went for.
I mean, think about it. They got the Browns reject
and it completely turned return on their season, but turn
around their passing offense from being completely in caught like
the worst in the league over that three three game span,
whenever it's been great.

Speaker 1 (39:34):
Yeah, Like we referenced earlier in the week, thirty eight
points in a loss to the Jets. Yeah, forty two
points in a lost of the Bears.

Speaker 2 (39:42):
Eighty points two games and you lose them both.

Speaker 1 (39:43):
They're still lighting it up. It's a losable game for
the Steelers. This isn't like easy layup. Thank god, we'll
get to six and four and back on track. How
do they get to six and four on back on track? Well,
they're gonna need some players to step up. They're gonna
need the players to play big games. Dare I say
they're gonna need some big ballas. Yeah, that's prognostic who
those will be on the offensive side of the ball.
Don't you know. Disparage me for this, but I'm gonna

(40:07):
take Pat fryarmoothday. I'm just gonna give myself a win
because he's gonna be a big balla in this game.
Here's some numbers for his career against the Bengals. Pat
Fryermuth as a baby, as a pup in the NFL,
not that impressive. He had a three catch twenty two
yard performance for a touchdown and a four catch forty
yard performance for a touchdown in his rookie season, then

(40:28):
a five catch seventy five yard performance and eight catch
seventy nine yard performance, nine catch, one hundred and twenty
yard performance. He missed the second game in twenty twenty three.
Last year he had six catches for sixty eight yards
in a touchdown, eight catches for eighty five yards in
a touchdown, and this past year five catches, one hundred
and eleven yards and two touchdowns. We don't know what

(40:49):
it is. We talked about it earlier in the week,
but he owns the Bengals, so he's gonna be my
big balla And I'm also going to sprinkle more than
a few nickels, shall I say on any time touchdown
score Pat fryar within this game.

Speaker 2 (41:04):
But almost a quarter of his yardage in the NFL
has coming against the Bengals, six hundred yards of his
twenty four hundred and fifty and more than a quarter
of his touchdowns have coming at six of his twenty
one career touchdowns would come against the Bengals. It's amazing. Yeah,
that that was certainly I you know, it's almost too
too hard to ignore. But I'm gonna go with Jalen

(41:25):
Warren we talked about earlier this week. I just like
to see him. I wrote a little bit about him
here about you know some of how you could some
of his numbers in terms of you know, elusiveness and
breaking tackles and things like that and all the you know,
fancy stats like he's been one of the better running
backs in league win given the chance, and the Steelers
haven't relied him. This is a game where you'd think
you'd want to hold the ball for a while. You

(41:46):
think you hopefully not gonna what have a lead. Everything
should point to, you know what, we didn't use jail
the war enough last week. A lot of chatter about
that this week all around the team, in and in,
inside and out. So I think it's time to make
him a bell cow for a game.

Speaker 1 (41:59):
Maybe on defense, I'm gonna go with two guys. I'm
gonna go with Derek Harmon and Keanu bet because I
need both of them, and Cam Hereward too. But it
Cam's the old stalwart again. They need to themselves as
just a unit of three. Stop Chase Brown, no help,
you know, no run blitzing, nothing like that. Not saying
you don't need that all game, but just those three

(42:21):
up front, Harmon and Bent in particular, stop Chase Brown,
eliminate him again. I'm not talking about slow down. I'm
talking about eight, Nate, I'm talking about ten carries twenty
yards something like that.

Speaker 2 (42:31):
Okay, that works. Yeah, He's only had I think more
than eleven carries once this season. I wanted I was
gonna go with Joey Porterjunia. We spent a whole segment
talking about him. So I'm gonna go to pivot. I'm
gonna pivot a little bit to James Pierre. So many plays,
you know, this is his shall play and a chance
to ball out to be you know, he's been a
spot starter. Like you said, he's been kind of mister
Steeler is kind of a joke that he's played more

(42:52):
than anybody the past six seasons more games for the Steelers,
and it's always been there. He's liked by the special
he's liked, liked by everybody. You know, he's kind of
made him who he is. And when he has played, generally,
generally it's been pretty good. A couple of times he
started and isn't. But this is obviously a big big
in terms of a passing game, spot a big game
for a cornerback to make a stuck spot start in
against the Bengals offense. So I want to see him

(43:14):
ball out.

Speaker 1 (43:15):
Those are a big balls. Let's do a quick trip
to the college couch. Oh yeah, it feels good this
week though, Chris. The Pitt Panthers are the center of
the college football universe. Could you have ever imagined as
a Penn State fan that you would be where you
are right now and the Pitt Panthers would be hosting
game day at week eleven?

Speaker 2 (43:31):
I mean, there was like I pivot back to that
was September twenty seventh, I think was the Saturday whatever
that was in the evening there penns date had a
lead on. If you had told me that, somebody would
have been fired amongst the quote unquote local coaches. Remember now, dude,
Pitt And won a game. It's a power they owe
and seven against.

Speaker 1 (43:45):
Lost to finish the coast.

Speaker 2 (43:47):
Yeah, and had lost all those power and then lost
the West Virginia game and lost the Louisville at that point,
hadn't beat it. You know, it's been eleven months they'd
beaten since the Syracuse game, and they beat a power
conference team and all of a sudden, for the for
what has happened since then, isn't lost and Penn State
doesn't won. It's it's it's remarkable we got this week.
Oh well, if we're talking to points, I'm taking pit
with the points.

Speaker 1 (44:07):
No no, no, the Penn State in the Lions House.

Speaker 2 (44:10):
It's Michig Michigan State, a big micro FirstRand Trophy for
grab Grand Trophy in sixteenth place in the Big Ten
on the line Baby. Three of the three winless teams
in the Big Ten, two of the three Matching Company's lanting.
But by the way, CBS went from doing the top
SEC game every week to getting like the number three
Big Ten game, and now they're putting two, three and

(44:32):
six teams against each other in mid November with Notre.

Speaker 1 (44:36):
Dame in pitt Notre Dame is obviously a very great team.
I think that they are one of the better teams
in the country. I love to jump on the bandwagon
that people always do with them, where they're like they're
overrated and blah blah blah, they shouldn't be rated as high.
Don't get me wrong. I love that stuff.

Speaker 2 (44:52):
I live for it.

Speaker 1 (44:54):
I haven't been the case the previous two years, though,
I've been kind of biting. Like last year when they
got in the playoffs, people were trying to do classic,
you know, by basically when you play them, and I
was like.

Speaker 2 (45:03):
They're really good.

Speaker 1 (45:04):
And then they beat Georgia and it was like they're
really really good and it's like real this time.

Speaker 2 (45:09):
And I feel the same way with Notre Dame this year.

Speaker 1 (45:10):
They lost two really close games Miami Week one, which
they should have won, and then the Texas A and
M game that they lost. I mean, how can you
fault them for losing that by one point? Even though
it was in South Bend, Texas A and M's undefeated
as the number three team in the country right now,
it's a good loss for Notre Dame. I think if
Pitt can do something against the Notre Dame defense, if
Hinschel the quarterback can move the ball, put up points,
des Reed is impactful, they can keep up and make

(45:33):
this a football game. They're not stopping Dremiah Love though,
so I think it comes down to keeping up on
the scoreboard as opposed to, you know, a defensive struggle
breaking out.

Speaker 2 (45:41):
Yeah, and this is where I mean, as much as
he's kind of been an anonymity off to the country,
I'm sure Mason Hinschaw, I mean, if he was a
true freshman quarterback that took over a you know, well that's.

Speaker 1 (45:51):
A cool angle of this game too. Is because cars
a true freshman for now.

Speaker 2 (45:53):
Yeah, it is wild to think. I mean, they're probably not.
I heard Druden says something effective. This is that, you know,
in terms of two true freshmen meet each other, this
is one of the you know you you could go
back pretty far. Probably are It's probably not many interests.
I guess you know what I'm saying. We have two
true freshmen that have been this good, meaning this late
in the season in a ranked on ranked matchup teams
still alive. Yeah, yeah, in terms of that, So pep
believe I can say that, and you're just like, yeah,

(46:14):
when it comes to and that that and here's the thing.
As much as Nardoozy, you know, I think you know
deserves or got criticized for that, he's right in the
fact that this is the kill shot for the not
for Notre Dames playoff hopes.

Speaker 1 (46:26):
Oh no, he was right with what he said. You
just don't say that as a head coach. That's what
I say. Mike of course said that when he came
on with Marcinus. He was like, I say that as
an alert I say, they don't have to win the
game and it doesn't matter, and all they have to
do is beat Georgia Tech in Miami, not you.

Speaker 2 (46:41):
Yeah, so Pitt could still make the But but just
being able to end Notre Dames playoff hopes is there's
gonna be something that fruit.

Speaker 1 (46:50):
That juices would pour down my If Pitt was four
and five right now, I'd be all, if we could
just end it, it would make my season.

Speaker 2 (46:58):
But now you get to five, maybe you beat them
thirteen to nine and knock them out of the playoff.
Dislike that happened in the one game playoff that there
was eighteen years ago.

Speaker 1 (47:07):
There's other games this weekend too, but do they matter
because it's all about pitting Notre Dame. Now Oklahoma and Alabama.
Is your three thirty marquee matchup eleven versus number four.
That's Oklahoma's got a win or else they're done for
USC in Iowa. USC still has an outside chance and
they'll beat Iowa.

Speaker 2 (47:21):
But why would you see that that you think about
us in southern California and Iowa. The game is in
southern California and the forecast is two inches of rain
and and the fifties. Oh, I was gonna be right.

Speaker 1 (47:31):
It might take you said that night game is the
Texas Georgia matchup. Texas will be eliminated effectively if they
lose to Georgia. Georgia probably could afford to take another loss,
although a home loss to Texas would be a pretty
tricky spot for them to rally from. All right, let's
get off this couch and let's get back into some

(47:53):
Steeler talk. We got to talk about the offensive side
of the ball. Spend a ton on the defense. I
think it's going to be on the offence when it
comes to keeping up with the Bengals in this game Sunday,
So we'll talk about them next. It's Tom Opperman and
Chris Damski on Steelers Blitz on Steelers Nation Radio, part
of the Steelers Audio Network.