HR 2 - Danny Dimes, Mid-Season Awards

Tom and Chris talk about Daniel Jones turning his career around, and hand out mid season awards for the Steelers and around the league.

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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Chris, I'm starting to notice a little bit of a
theme developing around the NFL where quarterbacks who we think
are really bad aren't that bad. And quarterbacks that the
league and fans have kind of written off and have said,
you know, they're a bust and kind of become a joke.
Not a joke can play. Sam Donald was the example

(00:29):
of that last year, and he is really proving that
to be the case this year in Seattle. I mean,
that's a legit team out there that the Seahawks have.
It's a two horse race now, I think in the
NFC West between them and the Rams. The Niners just
they're two injured. Yeah, they're just gonna fall off.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
A little bit. And the Rams and Seahawks are that
good too. I think it's correct.

Speaker 1 (00:50):
It's also not like the Niners can just kind of
get to nine and eight and hope to win it. No.
Eleven or twelve is probably gonna have to be the win.
Mark that gets that.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
When the AFC South, for instance, throwing something out there,
I think, actually, not.

Speaker 1 (01:00):
This year, buddy, Well that's right what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (01:03):
This year, what are you saying? I'm thinking Jacksonville and Houston,
because I forgot How can I forget about?

Speaker 1 (01:08):
How get up the Colts? You want to forget about
the Colts because of this week? Yes, kind of, but anyway,
so Darnold's proven that, and then this year you have
Daniel Jones kind of doing that same thing and being like,
you know what, I am a first round pick. I
am a top ten pick, and you didn't give me
enough time to really develop, and you didn't aid my

(01:30):
development enough. You you took away my best player. We
went to the playoffs, won a playoff game, and then
you let Saquon go to our division rival. Of course
I fell apart. Of course the team was terrible after that.
Now look at me, I got a Saquon again, and

(01:50):
I'm kicking everybody's ass. So, you know, a lot of
times it really comes down to the place that these
quarterbacks laying as opposed to them being good enough to
be that first round pick. Now, sometimes I think you
are just not good enough to be a first round pick,
justin fields. And I don't mean to pick on you

(02:12):
justin because you had a great game this week and
you beat the Bengals, but you probably shouldn't have been
taken eleventh overall and I don't see you know, you
finally landing with the right team and it all of
a sudden blossoming. Like some of these other guys have
been late bloomers. Gino Smith is another example of this
of a late bloomer in the NFL and that.

Speaker 2 (02:31):
Position, I think a former Jets quarterbacks.

Speaker 1 (02:34):
I know it's the same franchises that seem to cast
them off. Baker Mayfield falls into that category of a
quarterback that was kind of cast off. Now look at
the MVP candidate, and then again it's the Browns. So
you're sensing the trend of the franchises that cast off
their quarterbacks. But a position that.

Speaker 3 (02:51):
Kind of has come to demand immediate results, I think
still requires such a modicum of patience to have some
of these players truly pan out.

Speaker 1 (03:04):
And I think there also has to be an understanding
of it can't. As important as that position is, there's
no Joe Burrows out there that can just make your
team great no matter what, no matter how inept your
franchise is. Like, those are one of ones and they're
very rare to find. But there are quarterbacks that can
be very good and can win you Super Bowls if
you supply a right the good ecosystem around them, if

(03:26):
you lean into their strengths, if you really help to
aid their development, as opposed to kind of being like
I picked you in the first round. You're supposed to,
you know, be rising tide. Come on, go out there
and be that rising tide. Why aren't the boats getting
risen up? Like it's such a fragile thing, I think,
and it's such a hard thing to identify as good
quarterback play and what's going to translate to good quarterback

(03:47):
play in the NFL? And you really just wonder, like
how many times do these guys and these teams just
get given up on so quickly and just say, ah,
he stinks because he threw interceptions earlier in his career.
And then you got to wonder about, like some of
the guys in the past that struggled early in their career,
and if that was the case, and if the leash
was as short as it is now, like what would

(04:09):
some of those guys look like? Like what would some
of those careers have ended up being would they have
gotten the chances to kind of bounce back and to
kind of settle into being quarterback. So I'm sorry that
was a little bit of a tangent there. But you know,
as we're playing Daniel Jones, it's another one of those
examples that's just kind of staring at it in the face.
And I know a lot of people out there are
still kind of holding their breath and saying, well, he's

(04:30):
gonna suck again, and that's gonna be the cult sundoing.
I don't think he's ever gonna really suck again as
long as he's in Indianapolis. Like he might have bad games,
but that dude can play quarterback. I mean, you don't
do what he's doing right now, put up those numbers
if you don't have some ability at this level.

Speaker 2 (04:47):
See I it's a fine line. I get. I'm with
you on a lot of that. I also like we
applauded I don't know. I mean, Kyler Murray's not like
this great quarter but like.

Speaker 1 (05:00):
For a weird person to bring up all of this.

Speaker 2 (05:01):
Okay, Arizona drafted quarterback.

Speaker 1 (05:03):
He that becomes a good quarterback though, is that kind
of you're going.

Speaker 2 (05:07):
Yes, I don't know, he's a number one pick. It's
like you kind of feel like like they're giving him what.
There's a lot of angles of this like they're giving him.
They gave him an extension and all this, they're waiting
for him to kind of blossom. Now, is he not
going to blossom there? If you're the Cardinals, are you
gonna do better? You move on from him. What I
was initially going with, though, is if he was number

(05:29):
one pick the year after they took a quarterback tenth overall,
they took Josh rose in tenth overall, and they quickly
pulled the ripcord on that and he ended up being
he never found that renaissance, right, so they weren't pacing
with Josh Rosen. Now that was the right move. There's
a point where you're kind of banging your head against
the wall with something. Now, Daniel Jones, it's not like

(05:51):
they give up him after two years or three years
or four years. They gave him an extra contract. They
he had him for six seasons. I don't think you
can say the Giants weren't patient. Now you could say
that they failed, if that's the way you want to go,
that's totally reasonable that they failed in building a team
around him, That they failed Daniel Jones, or they just

(06:12):
were incompetent or had it or if not were they're
this era of roster building they did was has not
been good enough, and that's fine, But I don't know,
like I had the feeling, I'm like, what are the
Giants doing They're stick of this is not working. I
mean they they had the one playoff season, but there
were five out of six seasons they they weren't They
weren't good, and Jones wasn't exactly And you know, the

(06:34):
quarterback is gonna get more credit or not whatever, whether
he's more credit or less credit, more credit than he
should when they do well, more blame when the team
doesn't do well. But they were he was one in five,
two and eight as the start of the last two
years for the Giants. Like, I don't think you're obviously
you're started this. This is talking about Daniel Jones coming

(06:54):
to Pittsburgh. He's facing the Steelers this week. That the
Giants are the best example to use that they weren't
patient enough with Daniel Jones. I think that there was
a point where it just wasn't working. And we're seeing
now what Jackson Dart. They seem as if there's been
an adrenaline shot there. Like, I don't think that the
Giants are really at this moment, and maybe they should
because I don't know how sustainable the Dart thing is yet.

(07:15):
But I think that they look at it and their
fans look at it as like, Okay, it was time
to move on. It wasn't working. We're all on Dart
right now. Do you get what I'm saying. So I
don't think it was a bad move by the Giants
to move on from Daniel Jones per se, but I
do think there is a there's too many examples now
in the league that are starting and Geno Smith's having

(07:36):
a bad year, but throwing Geno Smith in there for
the past couple of years he did when he had
been given up by two or three organizations, starting with
the Jets, and you have the Darnel, now you have Mayfield.
Jared Goff wasn't this. Jared Goff was essentially that. I mean,
they traded him for another quarterback. But it's the same
thing where the Rams kind of said we need better,

(07:56):
we're upgrading, we're giving up on the golf situation. They
got it direct upgrade involved in that when they did it.
But the same kind of thing where he was a
former number one overall pick that the Rams remember, Like
John was the name John Woolford or Wafford, Do you
remember that guy? Like they were Sean mcvayh was going
to a quarterback I never heard of to play above
Jared Goff. Now Jared Gox's become perennial Pro Bowl or

(08:17):
another organization. So there's enough examples that you're right. Of
these reclamation quarterbacks, of these high pedigree quarterbacks, they get
their different situation and they blossom that you can't discount that.
Like when the Steelers signed for Bisky, that was kind
of the hope, I oh, number two overall pick that
Steelers can get more out of it. He was in
a bad situation with the Bear as well. No, just
mister Bisky's just mister Bisky, and that's probably gonna happen

(08:37):
more often than not. But it's also worth the swing.
It's the same thing as taking any quarterback in the
first round where the bus rate or at least the
rate of non star franchise quarterback is higher than getting
that guy. But you gotta take your shot, right, You
gotta find it somewhere if you believe in your scouts
and whatever, and you see the skill set that it
can happen. But overall point Daniel Jones, yeah, being he

(09:01):
looks like to me, it's a half a season sample size.
Now he has around him the offensive line as as
we talked about the eligibles, the wide receivers and tight
ends that he can the weapons, and he has obviously
an elite running game. He has a one of the
most respected play calling head coaches in the league. So
things are set up for him there to succeed, and

(09:22):
that's not. You got to give him credit because it
did not succeed at all with Anthony Richardson or Joe
Flacco last year, or matt Old Matt Ryan the year
before that, whatever the other options the Colts have used
the quarterback that haven't worked out, So you got to
give him credit for that. I think he is an
NFL top fifteen to twenty quarterback in the league for sure,
and the Giant but it wasn't gonna wear out the Giants.

(09:43):
I don't think the Giants should be admonished for cutting
the court on that after six seasons.

Speaker 1 (09:50):
Yeah, I don't think that. You know, they had a
total quick trigger on getting rid of Daniel Jones, but
I think the moves that they made around Daniel Jones
kind ofknew the team and Nuke's chances, specifically trading Saquon.
Why not trading but you know what I mean, why
why letting him go? Especially over that what was it?
They got ten million, eleven million dollars from the Eagles.

(10:12):
It wasn't anything, you know, break the bankish, It wasn't crazy.
There was like, ah, we just can't do it, got
out bid. So it was just a poor decision by
an order.

Speaker 2 (10:19):
Want to be there too. That's the crazy.

Speaker 1 (10:21):
Like I could say he wanted to be a giant.

Speaker 2 (10:23):
If Barkley was asking out and saying this isn't and
he would have been totally addressified doing that. The point listen,
we're not winning. I want to win a super Bowl.
Something's not right here. You know, he could have been
been classically about whatever you want to say, like that's
just like I'm you demand of trade. He wanted to
be that. It's so crazy to me looking at that.
A year and a half ago was still the mindset

(10:43):
of running backs are disposable. Nobody paid running backs, nobody
draft running backs high. And that's the pendulum swinging. It's
not to the point yet where running back to the superstars,
give them all the money, you're draft them first overall.
But it's swinging back to now there's value in good
running backs. I mean that that offseason the way played
out we talked about before, Derrick, Henry Barkley, Josh Jacobs

(11:05):
changing teams, Like all the teams that signed free agents
running backs benefited from that. Even Aaron Jones and going
to the Vikings I thought was a good sign. And
now you've seen you know, higher draft picks with John
Robinson having their Jamior Gibbs. So the investments in capitol
and running backs have been paying off here the last
couple of years, and it's kind of changed the mind.

(11:25):
I think the Giants were in that era right there,
we're like, any we're gonna running back anywhere, and uh
but yeah, you wonder if Daniel Jones had that and
if the offensive line, but they tried the offensive line,
they just missed. They missed executed a lot of their
team building over there with with with Joe Shane over
that time when Jones was there.

Speaker 1 (11:46):
Yeah, you know, I don't really want to take it
on the tangent to I, you know, the too critical
eye of what the Giants did in handling him. But
now with Daniel Jones and what the Colts are doing
with him, it's been phenomenal. And again everybody's still kind
of waiting, like I think that's the only shoe left
to drop, right, Like it's the only thing that's kind

(12:07):
of keeping people in their head going like hmm, I
don't know if I believe in the Colts yet because
Daniel Jones is the quarterback. But if Daniel Jones was
just drafted by the Colts, like if he was a rookie,
like a third round pick and Richardson just got beat
out by a third round like almost like a Russell
Wilson is kind of thing, you know what I mean,
It's like, whoa where'd this guy come from? If that
was what was happening right now, Oh my god, everybody

(12:29):
would be like, this guy's going to win the super Bowl.
This is the best quarterback we've ever seen. He's the
next Patrick Mahomes. Like that's how good he's playing right now.
He should be an MVP candidate right now. But you
can't do that. You have what happened in New York
still in your mind and you know that this isn't
just some fresh new thing. This is something that is
kind of trying to do a little bit of a rebranding,
if you will, of his career terrible nickname rebrand in

(12:53):
Indiana Jones, keep Danny Dimes. That needs to survive.

Speaker 2 (12:57):
You could probably angry. I get so mad at it.

Speaker 1 (12:59):
That needs to survive. If the rebrand is Danny Dimes,
you're still Danny Dimes, but it's positive now instead of
like kind of that tongue in cheek Danny Dimes. Now
it's all like serious business. Yeah you're Danny Dimes. You're
dropping dimes on this field, bro.

Speaker 2 (13:10):
But a bigger picture, this is like the fascinating part
about scouting and things, and now nobody can get the draft.
People think they get the draft right. Some teams are,
of course better than others. Some scouts are better than others,
some gms are better than others. But still nobody's one
hundred percent hit rate. And all the money and resources
in time and now media and we watch everybody sees
the film with these college players and free agent players,

(13:31):
and it's hard to so whatever reason player comes up
he doesn't fit, or players that are undrafted player whatever
they are, that become stars, and but we have this
and we've all we all watched Danel Dones, we watched
the Giants stink for a lot of years of Daniel Jones. Right,
It's it's not unreasonable to say be skeptical to a
point that for whatever reason, there's enough of a resume there.

(13:57):
But then you look at but you also have to
evaluate what he's doing now is something clicking now? Is
it the coaching there? Again? Steichen always had that reputation, right,
that's what he was there for, and his reputation was
sort of getting I don't say tarnish, but it was like, okay,
Anthony richard they took a guy third overall that has
all the tools in the world you'd ever want out
of a quarterback, right, and he could have moldered him

(14:17):
like that was scary to think what he could have done,
or somebody coached him. Now, Anthony Richardson, there's obviously something
just missing there in terms of that. But the same
thing with Donald last year, and we went to and
the Donald thing was odd because the last two games
were his outliers, the very last two, the two biggest
games of the season, the last things we saw, So
it was really hard for me because that was obviously
brought up with the Steelers. It was hard for me

(14:39):
to say, yes, the Steelers should commit nine figures to
this guy that we just saw completely lay two eggs.
You know what I'm saying. It was really hard to
get to that point. Now the Seahawks did it and
they're reaping the rewards of it. It was obviously a
risk on some level, and I don't think Donald that
probably did those two games probably did cost him tens
of millions of dollars. Let's face it, like if he
would have won that last game and won a playoff
game or two, and they lost the playoff game where

(15:01):
he got out just to shootout where he you know,
was out played by you know that the Eagles or
whatever it might have been at that point, you know,
how much more could he have made his free agent
where the Vikings have kept him. I don't know, there's
all kind of we're going down in Tandon's all over
the place here now, But but yeah, I mean Donald,
you look at watch Donald too, and there's a lesson
in that. But also like I don't know, there's also

(15:24):
like I like the Rams moving on from golf and
it didn't work. I mean it worked, it worked for them,
but I'm saying Gough was really good. But I go
back to that Cardinals. They drafted a guy ten overall,
and the next year they drafted a guy first overall,
dispatched a guy tenth overall. And now a lot of
teams would said, we have ten overall, pick we're still
gonna foster, We're gonna we're gonna take a guy I
could help him, you know whatever it is a weapon

(15:45):
or the defense or something like that, and make a mistake.
But now I think Josh Rosen was so bad that
anybody made that evaluation pretty.

Speaker 1 (15:52):
Quick, like, wow, yeah, we missed the Yes, cut our
losses as fast as possible. We'll talk more about Daniel
Jones's kind of more of what he brings to the
table for this matchup, specifically tomorrow's show when we really
preview Steelers Colts on our Friday edition of The Blitz.
But up next, Oh, up next. It is mid season
award time, and that's right, we are at week nine.

(16:15):
That means we are at the halfway point of an
eighteen week season. That's how math works. You take the eighteen,
you divide it by two you get a nine. We
are here. We got Steelers midseason awards, we got league
wide midseason awards that we are going to hand out.
That's next. Chris Danski, Tom Opperman on the Steelers Blitz
on Steelers Nation Radio, part of the Steelers Audio Network.

(16:41):
As Week nine starts tonight with the Ravens going to
Miami to take on the Dolphins, we are reaching the
midway point of the NFL season. It's bittersweet. We've had
so many fun memories and moments here before Halloween, and
now we have a full half of the schedule still
to come Halloween. But you know, it means that it's

(17:02):
getting closer to coming to an end. But the exciting
part about today is we get to do the very
very very cliche radio move, call him move. Really, anybody
in the sports media move of mid season awards. Oh,
it's the best. You just look at the calendar, you say,
are we halfway done? Yes? We are. Oh, I can

(17:22):
kill a segment with some awards. I mean, I'm sorry,
we can do a segment with some awards. All right,
let's start with the Steelers. Let's go Steelers specific. Let's
start with our Steelers Offensive Player of the year so far.
This year, for me, I'm gonna have to go Jalen Warren.
Now I'm leaving the quarterback out of it. I'm kind
of treating it like the league treats Offensive Player of

(17:42):
the Year when it comes to the Steelers' lens, where
any quarterbacks don't really win that award. That's kind of
an other position award. But I'm gonna go Warren. Man.
I don't think he's a tailor. I don't think he's
a Josh Jacobs. I don't think he's a Henry. I
don't think he's a Saquon. I don't think he's that
kind of number one back. But I will put my
hand up and say I am wrong you not being
a number one back because I think you can do it.

(18:03):
I think that you do need a nice compliment. Don't
get me wrong. That's how you can be at your peak.
But you can usurp more carries from that number one
back and become that number one back yourself, and it
is working out really well. You're one of the best
running backs without the ball in your hand. I remember
Brian Baldinggger pointed that out a couple of weeks ago,
and it's so spot on. Your pass protection is immaculate.

(18:24):
I mean, there's a few touchdowns that you can point
to that Aaron Rodgers was able to get the ball
off because of a block that you made, Jalen Warren,
So you've been fantastic this year. As much as the
offense has been better, and as much as we just
spent the entire first hour, first segment of our show
today saying the offense has got to be what you
jump on the back of and ride to the finish line,
it's not much to pick from when it comes to

(18:46):
an offensive Player of the Year. So I'm gonna go
with Jalen Warren.

Speaker 2 (18:50):
I have a problem with Jalen Warren. I'm gonna go
with DK Metcalf.

Speaker 1 (18:54):
I think he's the only other.

Speaker 2 (18:55):
Yeah, I don't know, trying to get too cute, but
I don't they're not if there's a standout like offensive lineman,
but that would that would kind of be a too
cute and be that. I don't have one in mind.
So he has more, well more than double the receiving
yards of anybody else on the team. He has more
than double receiving touchdowns of anybody in the team, with
five and nobody else has more than two leads the

(19:17):
Steelers and receptions. I do feel like there's kind of
more meat on the bone with him in terms of
like and I watching it again, that was more of
a I left that game Sunday thinking that he kind
of had that touchdown? Was it in the first half?
Everything runs together in the end zone on the long
play down the left side and they kicked the field
goal the next play. But it was actually a better
play with the dB than I thought. But I feel

(19:38):
like there's been a couple drops and I wish he
had more consistent production. They got on the ball more.
But that being said, it's up and down. I could
you know all the big plays he's made from that
very first drive of the season on the third and
eleven to take the ball and essentially all by himself
get thirteen yards to get a first down out of it,
to the touchdowns he's made where he's done exactly what

(19:58):
a wide receiver that I should do with the blockout,
it seemed like all his touchdowns, while the one touchdown
was eighty, that's a big play. He's had what three
or four touchdowns that have been kind of the post
up play where Rogers thirted to him and to use
his body to shield, and he had one of those
this this past week. So he's been a number one
ride receiver or something the Steelers sorely needed number one

(20:19):
or receiver. His one to fifteen yard penalty notwithstanding, been
a big upgrade in terms of the adult level of
the number one receiver. So he's been I don't have
a problem with Warren, but I'm gonna dk Meca.

Speaker 1 (20:32):
On the defensive side of the ball the defensive player
of the year. This is usually the easier one to pick,
or it's harder because there's so many good options that
you can have. I'm gonna go with somebody who actually
hasn't played that much in the past couple of weeks.
I'm gonna go with Nick Krbig as your defensive player
of the year. Give me another player who's been better
as the defensive player for the Steelers. I mean, he

(20:52):
is the most impactful, He's the best pass rusher as
far as numbers are concerned. Matt Williamson pointed out a
stat last night that you know, when you look at
pressure's per game or the pressure's per game basis right,
you got guys like Micah at the top and the
usual suspects, right and Miles Garrett, and then ninth is

(21:14):
Nick Herbig, except he plays half the snaps from all
those guys, so you strapolate that out his snap's per game.
If he's getting those guys work, ond he's more than
Micah as far as pressures are concerned. He's ninth and
he plays half the snaps, So I think he's been
by far your best, most impactful defensive player. They need
to get him on the field more. I really hope
that's the case against the Colts. But I'm gonna go

(21:35):
with Nick Herbig as my dPOINT.

Speaker 2 (21:36):
And you could tie these two together and follow me here.
Like Jalen Warren, I believe in a lot of people
believed or at least that that was the narrative. Less
is more going too far, But have him in a role.
If you have to play Jayan Warren every down, you
might not like what you see because I think there's
that mindset with Nick herbeing like, well, well, you know what,
that's great. He did not say it, but if he
was past rushing forty times a game or playing sixty

(21:59):
snaps a game, there might be you might be exposed more.
But I think there's there's like it's almost ties into
the quarterback thing where like like, don't be afraid to
to you have somebody he was showing something here. Don't
be afraid to get more opportunity. Yeah, I mean, I'm
gonna also stick with with with Nick Herbig, with we
do our quarter poll and Jayden Ramsey. But these last
couple of games, it's hard to say that, Yeah, I

(22:22):
can't give it to a dB and consistent, Like you
know what if I if Deshaun Elliott hasn't been hurting
out twice, like he's been their most consistent defensive player
I think in terms of when he's been out there,
but he's missed so much time and now he's out unfortunately.
And also you know, just Nick's got a lot more
splashed to him so far. So yeah, we'll see. After
the first game that he didn't play very much and

(22:43):
when high Smith came back, I was like, just one game,
but you know, game situation, game flow happened. But now
it's been two games. Now I am in the camp
of like, you gotta play it more, man, Come on,
what are we doing here?

Speaker 1 (22:53):
You have to play the more. I just don't think
that there's really an excuse for that anymore. Yeah, he
deserves the playing time and hopefully you see that happen
against the Colts. Rookie of the Year for the Steelers.
We're not gonna break this one down into offense and defense.
We're just gonna give it Rookie of the Year. Do
you have a choice? I mean, it kind of just
has to be Derek Harmon, Right, That's what I thought,
unless I'm you know, completely missing the boat and missing

(23:14):
the mark on somebody else. But I just don't say.
I mean, Cayleb Johnson's not playing, and that's your other
top pick. So I mean, I think it's got to
be Harmon.

Speaker 2 (23:20):
I think when we started the season we thought maybe
why blacking at that conversation.

Speaker 1 (23:24):
Harmon's been more impathful than him, Yes, definitely.

Speaker 2 (23:26):
So other than that, I mean, really there's.

Speaker 1 (23:27):
Only Carson Burner on special teams.

Speaker 2 (23:30):
I mean, Keishawn Williams has been a good actually not bad.
Yeah see he's been I keep meaning to, but there's
been so much other stuff that's happened that dash Tomlin,
if it is a performance, not like you're benching Calvin
Austin from returning punts. But with the Keishon Williams looks
so good, so good. One of the jaw boards that
you're trying to shield Austin from hits right now because
he's valuable and he's been hurt. Like I wonder which

(23:52):
which what is a combination of the two. But you
know he looks like a good return man for sure.
I mean, yeah, the only rookies on the roster Caleb
Johnson did isn't playing a lot. Jack Sawyer is playing
but not playing a lot. Carson Bruner has been good
on special teams, but not giving him the Rookie of
the Year. Yes, and why but yeah, so process limination.
But Harmon has been didn't I don't think you've noticed

(24:13):
him too much this past game, But overall yes for
him step, especially of not having much of a preseason
or camp and missing time and being hurt, the way
he stepped on the field does first couple of games
and showed he's definitely a player and definitely the rookie
of the year.

Speaker 1 (24:25):
I mean, he's got eighth best odds for NFL defensive
Rookie of the Year right now. Derek Carmon, I mean,
they are long Long, Yeah, Long, it's there plus three thousands.
I've bet on him, but he's eighth. So yeah, I
think he's obviously the Steelers Rookie of the year. Steeer's MVP.
It's got to be Rogers. I mean it has to be.
I know that's the low hanging fruit. But like man,
I don't know where they'd be or what the hope

(24:47):
would be moving forward if we didn't have him. Like, boy,
that whole thing I did at the open of the
show about leaning on your offense, now that falls so
flat if there's not an Aaron Rodgers's part of your offense.

Speaker 2 (24:56):
So he's the MVP, Yeah, yeah, he's he's been on
the field, off the field, I feel like he's been
better than I think anybody for a forty one year
old could expect. And you know, I guess I got
put it this way I said earlier. He's closer to
He's not clearly not MVP in the league Aaron Rodgers.
Still he's not, you know, all going to be an
All Pro and anything, but he's closer to that than

(25:17):
he is. What do you show with the Jets's past year?
What we what we thought of you was showing from
the Jets, and then you know, then people got to
get to, well, he's better with the Jets last year
than we thought. It was just the Jets stunk, which
I guess there's certainly a case we made for that
seeing the Jets this year if you look at his
numbers from last year. But he's closer to being you know,
and he might make the Pro Bowl. I don't know
without breaking down injuries and all that stuff, and considering

(25:40):
Burrow and Lamar might not make it because they've been hurt.
But regardless, yes, easy pick for MVP.

Speaker 1 (25:46):
The game of the year for the Steelers so far,
I think it's got to be Vikings in Dublin, right,
I mean, that was kind of the high point so
far of the season. Plus you kind of have all
this stuff around it, you know, yeah, you.

Speaker 2 (25:56):
Go, But I think people forget the Jets game had
what six Lee chain.

Speaker 1 (26:00):
That was a great game.

Speaker 2 (26:01):
It was a high scoring game, came down into the line,
I mean, a sixty yard field goal that's exciting, and
then Jalen Ramsey with his hit to end the hit
on Garrett Wilson to end the game. Essentially that was
a you know, if you go buy pure aesthetics in
terms of lead changes, excitement, and you know it was
Opening day. You had the Rogers and Fields. Yeah, the
revenge factor. I forget, it was a long time ago,
and the Jets stink, but it was. It was a

(26:21):
really good game to watch.

Speaker 1 (26:22):
No, that's a good it's a good call. I accept
that mission. I'll go with Vikings, you'll go with the
Steelers and Jets in week one. It was a fantastic game.
And I mean the boss was a sixty yard field
goal to end too. I mean that's just drama there anyway.

Speaker 2 (26:34):
Yeah, and there was a lead. It wasn't field goals
whenever it's a one or two point game or a
lot more because there's always overtime or you over time.
But if you actually it's win or loss, yeah, it's
right there.

Speaker 1 (26:47):
So all right, let's look at the league now. Offensive
player of the Year for the league is Jonathan Taylor,
and Steelers are playing him this week. It is I
think a runaway at this point, and the odds are
so overwhelming, and his favorite.

Speaker 2 (27:00):
He hadn't have got hurt, like he might be up
there still.

Speaker 1 (27:03):
But he was still putting up a lot of yards.

Speaker 2 (27:04):
Yeah, but he'd be. He's like, yeah, he's.

Speaker 1 (27:07):
The third favorite right now. Still he's plus one thousand.

Speaker 2 (27:09):
Yeah, if Taylor, I'm miss playing Devil's Advocate, but he
would have been the only because he was. His numbers
as first three or four games were or whatever it
was until he got hurt, were just oh this world
as a receiver. But I still think because of where
the Colts are that yeah, Taylor would is the favorite
and should.

Speaker 1 (27:25):
Yeah, he's minus two seventy five. He's that overwhelming of
a favorite already. Jackson Smith and Jigba is the second
leading favorite at plus six hundred. There's some value there.
Plus he's having a great year. If the Bengals were better,
Jamar Chase would be up there too. He's catching so
many balls. He's got the second most yards unbelievably in
the NFL, even though he's had such a quarterback issue

(27:46):
this year. So he's definitely in consideration and don't sleep on.
Like the Niners, I think are done because of the
injuries that they have sustained, especially on the defensive side
of the ball. But McCaffrey's kind of reminded everybody, like
I'm a dude in the league still like Christian McCaffrey
is putting up numbers. He is right now the what
was it, the fourth or the third, the fourth betting
favorite behind Poka Nakua to be the offensive Player of

(28:08):
the year. Yeah, I mean, none of these guys are
gonna win, and it's gonna be tailor.

Speaker 2 (28:12):
Yeah. But it's it's funny because you almost feel like
again it's like the the internal clock in my head
for running backs. They're like, oh, well, you know, he's
past his prime or whatever. You know, you do something
like that and don't even consider that he's still the player.

Speaker 1 (28:25):
He is defensive player of the year. I'm gonna go
with Aiden Hutchinson on this one. Hutch has got a
lot of sacks. He's the third betting favorite right now,
so I can get some value if I want to
do that there. Mike is the favorite. Miles Garrett's the
runner up right now as far as the betting odds
is concerned, but he's on a terrible team. I don't
know they'll actually give it to him unless he, like,

(28:46):
you know, breaks the sack record or something like that.
God knock on what. I hope he doesn't do that,
but if he does, he five until this week, then
you kind of have much the pace to do that.
But well then he has ten. Now, yeah, but then
you have to I'll break it.

Speaker 2 (28:59):
I promise you that.

Speaker 1 (29:00):
So you have to look at that. And obviously, if
his numbers are just so overwhelming, you have to take
him into consideration, no matter how bad the Browns are.
But Hutchinson's on a great team. Hutchinson's the best defensive
player on that team. Hutchinson is a badass. He's wrecking
dudes on that defensive line for the Detroit Lions. So
I'm gonna go with Aiden Hutchinson right now as my depoint.

Speaker 2 (29:18):
Well, see, I would you were asking me this, and
I meant to get is our criteria the midway point,
we're projecting who will win it or who would deserve it?

Speaker 1 (29:26):
I who deserves it right now?

Speaker 2 (29:27):
Okay, See if I did that, I was gonna go
with Miles Garrett. And maybe that's Breeches you bias for
the five sac game. But Hutchinson here, follow me here too.
The fact that he's coming back from a significant injury,
I think he'll be even better going forward in the
second half, though obviously Lions will get better and better
record wise, the Browns will go down from there. So
from projecting the winner for the end of the season
as well as.

Speaker 1 (29:48):
You'll go Hutchinson. But right now you got Garrett.

Speaker 2 (29:50):
Yes, that's fair.

Speaker 1 (29:51):
I got Hutchinson right now. I got Hutchinson moving forward too,
all right, Offensive rookie of the Year, I got Tyler
Warren right now and moving forward now. The betting favorite
is Jackson Dart and he's kind of a He's minus
one oh five, so he's a decent favorite right now.
It's boring though, quarterback New York. Oh, just give him
the award. He's playing well, don't get me wrong, But

(30:13):
like Tyler Warren is the best tight end in football
right now. Tyler Wren is the most receiving yards of
any tight end right now. Tyler Warren, aside from Jonathan Taylor,
is a main reason why the Colts offense is as
prolific as it is. I think he is clearly the
offensive rookie of the Year at this point. He's not
even the second favorite. It's a mecca. Abuka is the
second favorite. I actually like like Buka more than Dart,

(30:35):
Like you want to talk to me about like Buka
than I can listen to you, I would power rank
it right now between those three Warren, Egbuka and then Dart.

Speaker 2 (30:42):
Here's like I would go again for me if we're
ducking who I if Chris of Dams's had out these awards,
I would say Tyler Warren. Of course it's not de
penn State, but yeah, I say that. But here's why
I don't think he's gonna win it, because brock Bowers
last year is what Tyler Warren was this year in
terms of production.

Speaker 1 (30:58):
He might even be better. Scheme of things. Brock Bowers
was like the third leading year receiver.

Speaker 2 (31:02):
He was, he was insane and he now Jalen Daniels
what he did.

Speaker 1 (31:06):
Like, that's why it's different than dark because Daniels one
didn't win the division, but he was a you know,
so wild card, yes, and he.

Speaker 2 (31:14):
Was more dynamic and frankly better numbers and just a
better team. So I get it to that degree, and
I guess you could contribute to that. I'm just in
my mind is like if Rock Bauers didn't win the
Rookie year last year, they're never gonna be to a
tight end. Ever, it's kind of mind fair enough. So
it's like it's hard for me to like even when
the season started, thinking and stuff like that, like and
Tyler Warner went him like, well, if Bowers didn't win it,

(31:36):
the tight Ends is not gonna win it with faces.
It's gonna happens at one hundred catches. Well you know,
it's insane. And he didn't get it, which again I understand,
but just kind of underscores how hard it will be
for a tight End to win it. So that's where
I don't think dark. I think darts for better, for worse,
or you know, I don't I don't think. I don't
know Dart's going to sustain what he's doing all year.
So Buka was really really good as first. Now he's

(31:58):
he's some injury injury so that but if he was
on the pace he was on, he was gonna run
away with it as after a week, you know, week
three or four. So if I had to, I'd go
I would give it to Tyler Warren, but I projected
Abook will win it.

Speaker 1 (32:10):
Man Travis Hunter was probably a really popular pick at
the beginning of the year, but that has just not
really paid. Maybe I'll have a strong second half. It
really would take just like a string of like five
games sometimes to like especially at the end of the year,
to kind.

Speaker 2 (32:21):
Of kick high profile guy like rise on him. But
like I was really written for him to be a
candidate for both offensive he could.

Speaker 1 (32:30):
Have won them both Defensive Rookie of the Year. This
is kind of a class, like there's really nobody that
stands out. I guess I would just kind of do
the lazy thing. And the betting favorite is Abdul Carter,
so I'll just pencil him in right now. Is the
defensive Rookie of the Year to this point, and he'll
probably end up being the defensive Rookie of the Year.
And I mean, look at Penn State. I mean they
are just cleaning up on these awards right now.

Speaker 2 (32:51):
But what a fall for Penn State.

Speaker 1 (32:53):
But it's not State fan, But it's not like Abdol
Carter has like gone out there.

Speaker 2 (32:57):
I know, right, yeah, I'm surprised he is the favorite.
But then you look at the other.

Speaker 1 (33:02):
John Campbell's next, then Nick that's a tough name to say.
Carson Schwezinger is a really good linebacker for the Browns.
He just has no chance to win it.

Speaker 2 (33:11):
It's just like the Browns again, So the Browns could
have a couple of kids. The Brown's actually have this
decent rookie class is good. Yeah, up and down. It
like they're not gonna have a Rookie of the Year
on either side necessarily. I guess Judd can can really
volume volt himself into it, I suppose, or at least
can't just see for it. But but yeah, I mean
Carter Carter is half a sack.

Speaker 1 (33:29):
Like. I don't like he's the favorite.

Speaker 2 (33:31):
Yeah, it's just the I don't know much, must be
a week maybe, Okay, Now I see why Derek Harmon
And it's not an insult Derek. I'm just surprised Derek
Harmen was in the top eight or whatever he has.
I could see there's there's just not he first half
of the season. We'll see how it plays now on
the rest of the season in the future, but right now,
defensive rookies aren't exactly putting out shutting out right now.

Speaker 1 (33:52):
Coach of the Year, I think it's got to be
Shane Steike. I mean, yeah, I think Vrabel is the
only other one that I would think of putting there,
and he's got a good case too, But I think
I'm gonna go with Stichen and again, Coach of the
Year is such a weird award because it's not necessarily
like who's the best coach in football right now? It's
your team was supposed to be dog poop and now
it's not.

Speaker 2 (34:12):
Yeah, that's the way it's always been over time.

Speaker 1 (34:14):
That's the metric. And that's why Vaybel and Stikeen are
the two favorites right now because their teams are supposed
to be poop and they're good.

Speaker 2 (34:19):
And why like some of the what are the some
of the great coach, the number one coach, the like
Chuck one or something like that, because they're just like, oh, well,
you're not supposed to So that's what it's like.

Speaker 1 (34:31):
I feel like it's an expectation award.

Speaker 2 (34:33):
Over achieved are starting to get more sophisticated that way,
kind of like now you know, in terms of statistics
and all that. But coach is also by its very nature,
is more subjective to it. So but yeah, you can't
ignore or the Colts are and I think especially right
with stich and being having the reputation of the offensive
reputation he is and everything with Daniel Jones him resurrecting

(34:53):
the career of Daniels. This like last year Kevin O'Connell
resurrected the career of Darnold. I think that's direct, not
if not taking away if you're defensive coach or whatever,
if a quarterback comes and helps your your team take off.
But I think he is a direct direct result of
Daniel Jones' improvement too.

Speaker 1 (35:12):
MVP, just say it, Just say who it is. Just
say it so I don't have to please. I don't
want to say it's Patrick Mahomes. It is, isn't it.

Speaker 2 (35:22):
I mean it. Yeah, he's back to the last month
or so, because it got to the point there where
we're going on over two and a half or two
two and a quarter seasons where he wasn't dynamic Patrick Mahomes.
You know, he wasn't like in terms of stat gaudy stats,
right right, they weren't. Though. He wasn't the the you know,
the forty whatever touchdown by the five hundred yard seam

(35:44):
guy like he was for the first few seasons. He
was a starter, and he thought maybe that he never
gonna be that again, like for whatever reason, just well
one season, okay, aberration too, Okay, he's not gonna beat it.
But now the last like three or four games, he's
back that the Chiefs looked like the best team in football,
his weapons are back. You're depressing me, and it's like
and also and also the fact that Burrow and so

(36:05):
those are two out of the MVP right and Josh
Allen's having maybe his or down. I don't want to
put up worst year, but he's Josh Allen.

Speaker 1 (36:12):
Having a down stretch. The past couple weeks have just
been kind of whatever. Like the Carolina game.

Speaker 2 (36:17):
A number three in the odds right now tied.

Speaker 1 (36:19):
With Josh Allen as far as odds are concerned, So
like he's technically the second leading odds getter as far
as MVP is concerned. And then you got Mahomes at
number one. Mayfield at plus thirteen hundred took a hit,
like really we lose to the lines and looked like
okay on Monday night football and we just abandoned him
already too.

Speaker 2 (36:35):
Well, you always said that you didn't think the voting
that the voting block would was buying in on him.
So now they have good reasons.

Speaker 1 (36:42):
They're one game that they can be like a.

Speaker 2 (36:43):
Total games now. But yeah, but the one game lost.

Speaker 1 (36:46):
Fine against the Saints. But there's nothing you did against
the Saints.

Speaker 2 (36:48):
That numbers wise, he's following. He needs to get the numbers.
If he's going to sneak his way in there, he's
going to have to have the numbers and a good
team season.

Speaker 1 (36:58):
This might be the best thing possible for people to
start starting.

Speaker 2 (37:02):
Indiana Jones is in the top six. I just wanted
to use that to annoy you because I know how
much you hate Indiana Jones for Uh.

Speaker 1 (37:09):
Baker Mayfield, though, I'll have to say this, he might
need people to start doubting him again like he thrives
in the spot like he needs to. He can't be
the MVP favorite. He's got to be the dark horse.
That's That's a good point. You're right and the path
is there, but you're right now. It's like it's like Mahomes.
Something needs to happen, like either injury wise or just

(37:30):
a total collapse, because assuming the Chiefs keep winning, and yeah,
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (37:37):
Maybe I guess Josh out, but I just feel like
right now there's a malaise around the Bills. It's easy
to say when they're five and two and you know whatever,
but uh, from the outside but so offensively at least,
and so man, Drake, what if Drake magas in then
I can't believe he's that that, I guess I not
to say, I don't. You're surprised I didn't have that

(37:58):
on my bingo card in this or that Drake may
would be a finalist for.

Speaker 1 (38:03):
It's a bit shocking. I agree with you there, all right,
a game of the year so far in the NFL.

Speaker 2 (38:08):
I'm gonna stick with the Week one Ravens Bills game.

Speaker 1 (38:12):
That's what I had as my game of the year too.

Speaker 2 (38:13):
Because, like I wish, the Ravens and Bills are having
better and the Bills are five and two. I don't
know why I'm down.

Speaker 1 (38:19):
Both these teams are hosting a playoff game this year.
Don't you worry?

Speaker 2 (38:21):
Opicy there, I see what you that's all right? Well,
I mean so that at Week one, at that point,
they were two the two Super Bowl favorites from the AFC.

Speaker 1 (38:31):
Yeah, remember for the first three quarters, no one was
beating the Ravens. The Raiders are the best tam you've
ever seen in your life.

Speaker 2 (38:36):
And then and that the esthetics of that game and
the comeback and it being Week one and being prime
tired or everybody watching it. There was a lot of
things that happened in that game, and you still have
if you still believe in the teams. There's no question
that was the game of the year.

Speaker 1 (38:49):
I feel like a kid who just unwrapped his last
present on Christmas morning. Now it's over. I have to
wait till the end of the year for the actual awards.
But that's even better than the midseason awards.

Speaker 2 (38:59):
That's a long while because we wait to after the
postseason or not we do.

Speaker 1 (39:02):
We wait till after the postseason.

Speaker 2 (39:03):
That's right, Well, you go along with you what three months?

Speaker 1 (39:06):
That's all right. I'll dangle that carrot out there, all right.
When we come back. Speaking of Ravens in primetime games,
the Ravens are on prime time tonight against the Dolphins.
We'll talk about that and we'll talk about kind of
that state of the AFC North Division as well. Chris
Damski Tom Opperman on the Steelers Blitz on Steelers Nation Radio,
a part of the Steelers Audio Network. Week nine starts

(39:34):
tonight with the Ravens and the Dolphins. You're at the
point now, and I know it made the prediction yesterday
that I think the Ravens will be six and six
and that the Steelers will be six and six when
they meet on December seventh, and that game is going
to be kind of like for all the marbles, like
who will win the division?

Speaker 2 (39:47):
You're depending on him next that day, You're you're going
to walk in like the meme.

Speaker 1 (39:50):
Or the that week's established that.

Speaker 2 (39:54):
Week, Yeah, the Monday after week twelve or.

Speaker 1 (39:57):
Whatever, right exactly. No, I mean, I w happy if
that does happen. I'm not gonna lie. I hope the
Steelers are better than six and six at that point.
I think I'm rooting for me to be wrong in
that aspect. I hope the Ravens are worse than six
and six. And that's kind of what Steelers fans are doing,
and whether you want to admit it or not, like
because you want to just be like, well, we'll just
take cur of our business and that's how we'll win
the North. No, you're watching the Ravens and you're seeing

(40:18):
please lose, like please please like lose a game here?
So do the Dolphins give you much hope tonight? Do
the Dolphins have a chance to maybe make my take
look a little worse? Because they pull an upset against
Baltimore seven and a half point road favorite for the Ravens.
Lamar Jackson is back in this game. The Ravens defense
is getting healthier, Roquand Smith's back. The Dolphins offense is

(40:42):
a weird one though they scored points last week against
a good Falcons defense. Like that is what everybody was
saying about the Falcons heading into the game. They were
a good defense. Actually in Atlanta, they get a lot
of pressure on the quarterback. Well, Tua looked great and
the Dolphins put up a lot of points. So am
I reading too much into the most recent result? By
my I think a little bit, yeah, But I don't know.

(41:03):
I think there's a puncher's chance element to tonight's game.

Speaker 2 (41:06):
Well, but if you're going to play the reading too
much into it now, I get Lamar's coming back, and
that's that's the wild card here, But you're reading too
much in the raven The Ravens resurgence. They beat the Bears,
Oh congratulations. I don't know, like like it's like if
they played this game five days ago would have been
a pair of one in five teams or whatever.

Speaker 1 (41:25):
The Ravens defense, now we're.

Speaker 2 (41:26):
Overrating both teams because they won one game.

Speaker 1 (41:28):
Again, I don't know if I'm the Bears.

Speaker 2 (41:30):
I mean, come on it, like they beat the you know,
the Chiefs and the Packers or whatever.

Speaker 1 (41:34):
I might be overrating the Dolphins a little bit, but
I don't think I'm overrating the Ravens at all. I'm
scared of this team a little bit because I think
that they have such an immense amount of talent that
is starting to get healthy ish now that they're a
serious threat. And that Ravens defense, that's two weeks now
that they've actually played well. They lost to the Rams

(41:54):
before they're by, but it was only seventeen to three.
They only the Rams offense only scored seven points against Baltimore.
If Lamar is playing in that game, I have to
imagine they get to twenty at least as far as
an offense is concerned. So that was a good showing.
And then say what you mean about Caleb Williams. He
didn't look great in that game against Baltimore, but that

(42:15):
Bears offense had been doing some things looking like it
was going to turn a corner. And you have a
good offensive mind and Ben Johnson. They held them to
sixteen points.

Speaker 2 (42:21):
And the Ravens have of a very recent history in
the past of their defense being crappy.

Speaker 1 (42:28):
At the beginning and getting better.

Speaker 2 (42:29):
Yes, so if you have factor to let in, I
get it, trust me. And maybe I'm just trying to
hope that I don't want the Ravens to be good again.
Like it was kind of funny when the Ravens were
going to finish four and thirteen or.

Speaker 1 (42:39):
Whatever get a top five pick.

Speaker 2 (42:40):
Yeah, oh, that wouldn't been funny. Maybe because they seemed
to draft defensive players very well.

Speaker 1 (42:45):
Yeah, they would have taken the next year's defensive of
the year.

Speaker 2 (42:47):
Yeah. Probably. They only drafted in the twenties and they
somehow end up every year with like a Pro Bowl
defensive player. It's amazing. And yeah, their defense stuck the
first five weeks of the season to figure it out.

Speaker 1 (42:55):
I don't know, And it's not going to be a
great defense. I think, Like, don't get me wrong. I'm
not saying, oh, you shut down the Rams and the
Bears your back, You're only gonna give up sixteen points
a game. But I think it's gonna be a defense
that gets better, especially with Roquan Smith back. I mean
he is just kind of the captain of that defense.
He is one of the better inside linebackers in all
of football. So, you know, I think the defense is

(43:17):
gonna be good enough, not great, and definitely the side
of the ball that other teams are going to try
to get and expose. But if Lamar comes back and
is healthy enough, if that hamstring is fine. Before he
got hurt, I know the team was struggling with him
as the quarterback, but he was playing as good of
quarterback play as anyone in the league, if not being
the best quarterback to the point of his injury in

(43:39):
the league. I mean, you're throwing touchdowns and you obviously
know what he can do on the ground. Like, as
long as he's healthy and Henry's healthy, like the offense
isn't really a worry. They'll be able to keep up
in score points with teams. If the defense can just
kind of get okay, then I think they have the
capability to ring up a lot of wins in a row.
Here starting to night against Miami, I just I don't

(44:00):
know what Miami is again, Like I'm kind of in
that world with him. I thought they were as bad
as the Jets and the Titans, but then they just
destroy the Falcons. Maybe the Falcons are that bad. I
don't know, but the.

Speaker 2 (44:09):
NFL, because yeah, the Falcons beat the Bills and look
like they're ascending right after that game that prime time.

Speaker 1 (44:14):
But then the Falcons have also gotten killed by the
Dolphins and they lost. Do you remember the last thirty
to nothing to the Panthers earlier this year? Like so,
I just don't know. These teams at the bottom of
the league are just so hard to get a read on.
And I just think the Ravens.

Speaker 2 (44:26):
Now the Thursday night thing the home team.

Speaker 1 (44:28):
Yeah, I know that yourself. You could talk you something
a little, but the Ravens they have to win. They
know they can't lose anymore.

Speaker 2 (44:33):
And the Ravens are clearly the better team on a
lot of levels, right, I mean, like water look really good.
Wattle is a good receipt, you know to Uh, you've
had this pass with the with the Dolphins where those
little flashes and you think of that, But come on,
what are you doing here?

Speaker 1 (44:47):
I mean though, I think that organization needs to start
it all over. Yeah, you're Daniel out to out. I
might actually lean towards keeping McDaniel over to uh. I
think he's a good offensive mine, but I think I
would clean house completely with Miami. I would just hit
the reset. But there tonight, I think the Ravens are
going to continue to start trending towards being able to
hit the reset button on their season by getting another win,

(45:08):
a win with lamar As. They're starting quarterback. And you
hope that snowball doesn't start rolling downhill. And you know
what the best way to combat that snowball rolling down
hill is, Chris, you win games. If you're the Steelers's
you just if you win games, there's nothing that the
Ravens can do, nothing.

Speaker 2 (45:24):
They can do if you season to win the division.

Speaker 1 (45:27):
That's true. It's two games actually before because they'll beat
the Ravens a couple of times. It will be a
very comfortable March again. That's right, all right, he's Chris
a dam scam. Tom Opferrman, thanks for giving us a
listen today on the Steelers. But we will be back
tomorrow with our Friday edition, really breaking down Steelers colts,
giving out big ballers, all the fun Friday stuff that

(45:47):
we do. Can't wait for that. I am still glowing
over midseason awards today, I am just so excited. I'm
gonna I'm gonna listen to the show over and over
and over again. This has been the Steelers Butitz on
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