HR 2 - Power Rankings, Bengals Early Preview

Chris and Tom do their Week 11 Power Rankings and then take a quick early look at Cincy.

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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Week eleven is here. It's time for.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
Well length. They don't talk to you first, Kerd though
your voice.

Speaker 3 (00:28):
A truss tree right now, if Week eleven and none
of these teams are.

Speaker 2 (00:33):
She'd be very powerful to me.

Speaker 4 (00:35):
I'm gonna be honest when you rename the segment. Everybody
has at least two losses, mediocre man, put them in
order ranking.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
No, you stop interrupted what I'm talking to you too.

Speaker 3 (00:44):
Everybody has two losses. It's just not a fun thing
to do to rank these teams. I'm sorry, It's just
I'm a little depressed. Okay, I'm headed back to today,
all right. Yeah, I'm sorry about that too. I mean,
it isn't very powerful, and.

Speaker 1 (00:57):
It is hard to do this, Chris, because I'm getting
through like the first three and I'm like, everybody kind
of stinks right now, Like no one is separating this year.
Like last year. You know, we kind of knew Eagles Chiefs.
The Chiefs were never losing last year. They were just
like an undefeated team at this point. Like we knew, right,
the Bravens at this point last year. It was like
we can kind of see.

Speaker 2 (01:17):
The cream of the crop, a cream and the crop you.

Speaker 1 (01:20):
Know what, I mean this year, it's like you think
you know and then the league hits you with a
southpaw left hook out of nowhere, and it's like, well,
back to the drawing board.

Speaker 2 (01:30):
Who's actually good? Well, let's find out who's actually good.

Speaker 1 (01:32):
Over these next couple segments, we start with the teams
that just didn't quite make the cut.

Speaker 2 (01:39):
Number eleven for me is the Baltimore Ravens. Oh, dear God,
they are coming.

Speaker 1 (01:48):
It's not just that they are in the rearview mirror
of the Steelers in an AFC conference where no one
really wants to take it and run with it because.

Speaker 2 (01:57):
We don't really believe in the Patriots and the Colts
in that sense.

Speaker 1 (02:02):
The Ravens are storming up, and it's we said this yesterday, Chris.
It's not just the Steelers that should be worried about
the AFC North. It should be the entire AFC that
should be worried about where this Ravens team fits in.
Number twelve for me is the Green Bay Packers. They're
an embarrassment. They need to grow up. The Eagles didn't
exactly cover themselves in glory, but good lord, green Bay,

(02:22):
your defense has given up in your losses thirteen points,
sixteen points, and ten points, and you lose all three
of those games. Disgusting. Grow up, Jordan Love, you're not
a serious person. Buffalo Bill's number thirteen. They're kind of
not a serious person right now in my eyes. They
need to do a little bit more growing up, to
be honest with you. But also, there's no star on

(02:44):
that team other than Josh Allen. There's no one that
moves the needle other than Josh Allen. They need more
star power. He needs help in the receiving game. He's
not gonna get it because it's already passed the trade deadline.
The Bears are my number fourteen team. They're forcing their
way into this conversation, so you gotta put Bears there.
And the number fifteen is the San Francisco forty nine
ers who got blasted by the Rams this week but
did nothing to shake my confidence on where they kind

(03:05):
of are. They're the eight or seven seed and that's
where they'll land when this is all said and done.

Speaker 4 (03:10):
Okay, mine, very similar to my friend number eleven, the
Baltimore Ravens. They haven't lost a game in a month.
Now I know it's a bio weekend there, but it's
been a literal month. They have a plus forty four
point differential in their last three wins. So you're with
me on their right, I mean yeah, I mean I
got I got to put them in there. Especially Number twelve,
the Buffalo Bills very an inexcusable loss for a Super
Bowl contender, like like, we want to take you seriously.

(03:32):
Loss that makes you go, are you a Super Bowl
k exactly? Like how does that that can't happen? I
mean the Dolphins whatever? The Dolphins are like, they had
just literally given up on the season pretty much, they
publicly by the trade deadline and you that, and all
of a sudden, now the Bills have lost three out
of five. The good newsers they got Tampa Bay this week,
so we can kind of see, although Tampa Bay has
his own little issues going on, but at least you kind

(03:53):
of see they can kind of write the ship and
kind of reassert themselves. They lose this all of a sudden,
then you're losing four out of six, you're really super contender.
Number thirteen, Hey, I I it's like I don't want
to do it, but I mean there's the Corgo Bears
have won six to seven.

Speaker 2 (04:06):
Now they're six and one of the less seven. Man.

Speaker 4 (04:08):
I mean, it's a bunch of crappy teams. They've beaten
and they're usually one score games, but they're one six
to seven a right, I mean, they got to be
in the top half of the league. You win six
out of seven and you sit overall at six and three,
you got to be in the top half of the
league rankings, right, So I gotta put them in there.

Speaker 2 (04:23):
Number four.

Speaker 4 (04:23):
I'm excited about this, number fourteen. This is my this
is one of my favorite the Houston Texans.

Speaker 1 (04:28):
Sneaking up.

Speaker 2 (04:29):
This Houston team.

Speaker 1 (04:30):
I don't know. They still have the Colts twice. They
still play them twice.

Speaker 2 (04:32):
They just won with Davis Mills. They won with Davis Mills.

Speaker 4 (04:35):
They've won, They've won four of their last six and
they're only lost is in their last six games or
to Seattle and Denver.

Speaker 2 (04:41):
I don't know, pary eight and two teams. I mean,
I get it.

Speaker 4 (04:43):
I'm only fourteenth.

Speaker 2 (04:44):
I'm not.

Speaker 4 (04:45):
Yeah, I'm thinking number three. But I mean, like I said,
they have.

Speaker 1 (04:50):
The Colts twice the rest of the season.

Speaker 2 (04:53):
They can still they're breathing, yeah, I mean they're they're
they're you know, there's.

Speaker 1 (04:56):
A pulse there.

Speaker 4 (04:57):
Yes, early in the season we expected to be good.
And the forty nine ers fifteen just so like.

Speaker 1 (05:02):
Me, they are number fifteen. They will be fifteen for
the rest of the year, and they'll be the eight seeds.
They're gonna be the team that just misses.

Speaker 4 (05:08):
Yeah, like emeritus. If they were healthy, they'll be there.
You might notice there's one team missing from that, from
that five that that you you you might, I guess
you could speculate. I still had them coming.

Speaker 1 (05:17):
But the Steelers, well, yes, but that was missing from
mine too. Yeah, I don't know my missing one.

Speaker 2 (05:22):
The Green Bay Packers are not on my top time.
I am so disciplined.

Speaker 1 (05:26):
Yes, yeah there, Yeah, you probably because they need to
grow up, Chris.

Speaker 4 (05:30):
Exactly like I am so dissip It's like they're go
to your room.

Speaker 1 (05:34):
So I'm not mad at them. It's just I picked
you to win the Super Bowl. How are you doing
it like this?

Speaker 2 (05:38):
Exactly? Yes, you're you're making me look bad. Yes. The
defense though, will keep them around. Ye're right.

Speaker 1 (05:44):
They're a team that if they can just figure it
out on offense a little bit, Chris, if they scored
just nineteen points. In every single game that they lost
this year, they would have won them all. And then
the one tie was the forty point game from Dallas
where they got tied at forty forty.

Speaker 2 (06:03):
But anyway, three.

Speaker 1 (06:05):
Losses, the brown scored thirteen, the Panthers scored sixteen, Eagles
scored ten. You held the Eagles to ten points.

Speaker 2 (06:14):
There might be a little bit of a mutiny happening
in that locker room soon.

Speaker 1 (06:17):
That defense is playing like the best defense in football
and they're not getting any wins to show for it.
Now they're in the third place in their division with
a defense like that. All right, let's get into our
top ten. Number ten for me, I did the laser
too early there. I'm sorry it was a premature laser.
Happens the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. There was an on time laser.

(06:41):
The Bucks had a chance to put themselves back on
the radar, like we talked about last week hosting New England.

Speaker 2 (06:46):
New England's so hot right now that they got to
so Hot right.

Speaker 1 (06:49):
Now team of the week, and the Buccaneers didn't play poorly,
just got beat by I think a really good football
team in the New England Patriots. Who I still I
don't believe in yet, but are a very good football team.
Baker Mayfield threw for two seventy three and three touchdowns
like Baker Mayfield was doing Baker Mayfield stuff. Twenty eight
to twenty three is a respectable score a game going

(07:11):
back and forth. That game really broke when Trayvon Henderson
had that huge touchdown run right after the first half.
It put the Patriots up by two scores and they
didn't look back from that point on. But the Buccaneers
had a chance to kind of say, hey, remember us,
we were the darling for the first few weeks. Not
this New England patrioted is Drake Meg. It was me
Baker Mayfield in the Bucks.

Speaker 2 (07:30):
But they weren't able to take that.

Speaker 1 (07:32):
They lose. They're still fine. I know the Panthers are
only a game back now in the division, but you
just don't really figure.

Speaker 4 (07:38):
Yeah, I don't fear, but I mean there's a point
where yeah, there it was one month ago today they
went to five and one.

Speaker 1 (07:44):
Now they're six and four.

Speaker 4 (07:45):
Yeah, and they they've played a month and they've only
won one game and that was against the New Orleans Saints.

Speaker 2 (07:50):
Okay, so yeah, it's and.

Speaker 4 (07:52):
They have the next two games are at Buffalo and
at the Rams, so this could really start, you know.
I yeah, the Panthers, I don't think pants are any good.
But all of a sudden the Bucks here again. You
said they didn't play poorly, but they lost in New England.
They could not play poorly in Buffalo and lose. They
could not play poorly in against the Rams and lose.
They could play decent games and just be beat by

(08:12):
good teams, and they all of a sudden they're staring
at six and five and having to win games just
to make sure they make the playoffs. So yeah, but
I haven't at number ten as well.

Speaker 1 (08:19):
So you want to do the laser thing Buccaneers, Well,
you're never pretty much for a partner. You're not an
excitable guy like that. You're right, that's what these damn
guns from the McKnight road place. They told you about it.
They're so tacky and they're old that they just fire
Willie Nill. You know, you throw them on the table
and they just go off like semi pro and Jackie
Moon through the gun on the table.

Speaker 2 (08:39):
That's right.

Speaker 1 (08:39):
Yeah, it's gonna hit Cornelius. But there's another one that
went off, Oh my goodness, suck all right. Number nine
For me, I'll go with the Los Angeles Chargers here
at number nine, Go Charges Go. I think this team
could be great if it's just had its health, If

(09:01):
it had one of its tackles healthy this year, if
Joe Aalt was still up, I think this team could
make a decent run. I love this team next year.
You know, they're kind of like my circle. This team.
If I could put a future bed in now for
the Super Bowl winner next season, I'm not saying they would,
but it would be a nice value pick. I'd sprinkle
it on them because I love their team build, Chris.
I mean, they have a studded quarterback that's obviously the

(09:23):
most important part. But their insurance policies are outstanding. Slater
and Alt are going to keep Herbert upright for ten
years as long as those two can stay healthy. Now,
they hit a little bit of a speed bump this
year when it comes to those two staying healthy. But
it's hard for me to think the Chargers really do
something this year with those injuries like that is going
to bite them, especially in the playoffs. But they're seven

(09:44):
to three and as much as the Steelers played poorly
in that game, the Chargers went out there and won
a massive kind of swing game when it came to
wildcard implications, playoff implications, without their two starting left tack,
their two starting tackle and with the knowledge that was
the first game that they played, with the knowledge that
all will be done for the entire season. So I

(10:06):
put them at nine. They maybe should be higher. And
I know, you know, you dip into the prognostication and
the you know, reality of what's happening in present time
when you do these power rankings, you know, call him in,
call them b a little bit of both of those things.
But process, it's hard for me to look forward with
the Chargers and see a lot of success just because
of those two injuries, and they're injured elsewhere as well.

(10:27):
So I'll put them at number nine for now. Really
impressive win against the Steelers that pretty much puts them
on a trajectory. Will they will at least make the playoffs.
I don't know how much a playoff run is likely though.

Speaker 2 (10:39):
Yeah, I have a number eight, so but I could
go number eight. Chargers.

Speaker 4 (10:43):
Chargers, they won again, They won three in a row.
They're seven and seven and three, now right, I mean
you got to respect their the resume.

Speaker 1 (10:49):
And there's still three and zer in that division.

Speaker 4 (10:51):
Yeah, yess right, they've they've run the table so far
intern they've did the first three weeks of the season
started that way, So that gives them a buffer zone.
There's a lot of good things going. You're right, it's
hard to be leaving them at some point. I got
I don't care who they beat or what they're you know,
what's their banged up? They are, their records, what the
record is, you gotta respect respect him. Yeah, so I
have a spot above the Kansas City Chiefs right now.

Speaker 2 (11:10):
And so now you know it's did.

Speaker 1 (11:13):
You forget about the Chiefs because they like I don't
want to rent, want to use the eraser and move things.

Speaker 2 (11:17):
Up, moving.

Speaker 1 (11:18):
Look at my nets, you can see them right here
break the fourth. Well, I had to squeeze the Chiefs
in because I did, indeed forget about the chief I
got down to like ten and I was like, oh
my god, the Chiefs. They didn't play.

Speaker 2 (11:26):
I forgot.

Speaker 4 (11:27):
And I'll tell you the truth that I did that
about the Eagles actually, because even though just they played
most recently, but I was like so like, but that's
why I made him ranking.

Speaker 1 (11:35):
I'm like, people don't understand how hard this is. That's
why not everybody can just do a power ranking. It
takes skilled individuals. Like it's like that Jackass movie. The
disclaimer shows up at the top of the screen, warning
these are professionals. Do not try this at home. Do
not try these power rankings at home. Okay, you'll forget
a team and it'll you'll send your mind into a
place that you don't want it to go.

Speaker 2 (11:54):
But anyway, number nine the Chiefs umber nine.

Speaker 1 (11:56):
The Chiefs, yes, well behind the Chargers. Yeah, I just
like I said to speak the Chiefs said they did.
That's what that was part of the They no w.

Speaker 4 (12:02):
Reckon the Chiefs. They beat the Chiefs. They're won three
in a row. The Chiefs lost their most recent game.
The Chiefs were out of side, out of mine this week.
And the Chiefs have an opportunity, as they always do,
and they're playing at Denver this week, right, so they
could put their foot down and say we're still the Chiefs, right,
and if they win that game, you got to you
gotta respect that the Chiefs, haven't you what the Bronco
has been doing so far, and if they lose that game,

(12:23):
then all of a sudden, you're it's still not panic
mode yet because at worst, at worst the same record
as the Ravens who were high on it's trending upward,
but it's at some point though, you know, for the
Chiefs you just don't winning games, right, and they could
very easily lose at denverris because it's not an easy
place to win as Denver, and then all of a
sudden you got the Colts the week after that, so
it starts to get a little bit shaky. So maybe

(12:44):
that's a little bit of my projection. They're putting them
a little bit lower than maybe you could make. I'm
lower than you have them split that way, but we'll see.
If they win this week, I'll bump them up a
bunch of spots. I promise you that.

Speaker 2 (12:54):
Well.

Speaker 1 (12:54):
Speaking of this week, my number eight team is those
Denver Broncos. Massive massive matchup between the Broncos and the Chiefs.
If the Chiefs win that game, you don't say that
they could win the West. Well they could, I'm saying
you don't say that they will win the West just
because of that one result, but it would start to
become a little more likely. Conversely, like you were just saying, partner,

(13:15):
if they beat the Chiefs the Broncos, that I don't
say it kill shots the Chiefs as far as the
playoffs is concerned. But it all but kill shots them
as far as the AFC West is concerned. You'd be eight,
and you'd be nine to two and the Chiefs would
be five and five. So I mean, and then you
have the win in your back pocket against them, Yeah,
it would make things really tough. So that's why you
know the Chiefs are just gonna win yes weekend, right

(13:36):
because they can't lose any game that the Chiefs cannot lose.

Speaker 2 (13:39):
We've seen this this year that Lions game.

Speaker 1 (13:41):
Remember that was a total game that if they lose,
it starts to get real troublesome for the Chiefs. Ho Hum,
beat the Lions? Who cares easy for us? Light work,
Same deal with this one. You lose this game, you know,
playoffs are a little bit dire. The division's pretty much
done for Okay, Well, we're just gonna go ho hum
and beat the Broncos. It doesn't matter. Denver should be
a lot higher than eight on my list. They're higher

(14:03):
on your list. They should be higher online, they should
probably be a top five team. You just can't trust
that offense right now. And that gives me great pause,
because if you're going to engage in you know, ten
to seven rock fights, you know, down the stretch and
come playoff time, it's just a fumble here or a
tip pass here that breaks that game in the favor
of the other team and you're home. You're in Cabo

(14:26):
next week on a game where your defense held a
great offense to ten points. So until that offense and
bow Knicks can start to get some consistency going, I'm
not going to believe in Denver entirely as a contender.

Speaker 4 (14:39):
Yeah, I have a number seven, so this works out well,
we're discussing them.

Speaker 2 (14:42):
We can go on with that.

Speaker 4 (14:43):
And yeah, I mean they've won seven in a row.
I mean, it's wild to think they haven't lost its
mid September. They've won seven games in a row, and
their defense is one of the best in the league.
But just like you just look, I mean, ten to
seven over the Raiders, a thirteen to eleven over the Jets, you.

Speaker 2 (15:01):
Know, they'd be Texans game to eighteen, eighteen to.

Speaker 4 (15:04):
Fifty put the eighteen in their scoreless through three corps
against the Giants. You know, they obviously the fourth quarter happened,
so you give them credit for like to they won
seven in a row. The Jake Browning Bengals with the
Jake Brenning Bengals is like you're talking about the worst
defense in the league and just the worst probably guy
who started games a quarterback this season, the Jake Brenning Bengals.
But those are like probably the easiest the you know,

(15:24):
the Jake Broughton Bennings couldn't beat the Titans or whoever
you say is the worst team in the league. That
that's one of their wins in the resume, and that's fine,
and hey, hey they beat the Eagles on the road,
so you know, it is what it is. But yeah,
it's I don't know, there's something. But again they have
a chance. They know it's at home. But beating the
Chiefs would be eight in a row at that point,

(15:45):
and beating this, you know, the the perennial gorilla in
the division. If you win that game, then I show
a little more respect. So yeah, I feel like they
should be even higher than seven. But at the same time,
you know, it's just something where I mean, I mean
that game, oh that game, that game last week that
we all had to watch ten to seven of.

Speaker 1 (16:05):
The race, the book end last you got the ten
to seven Thursday and the ten to seven Monday night.

Speaker 4 (16:10):
Yeah, but at least the Monday game was was too
good to stakes. So yeah, like the Raiate like you
gotta go to ten seven gangs, the Raiders like I'm
gonna give you at home.

Speaker 2 (16:20):
You know. It's just like that. That's why it's just
like I can't.

Speaker 1 (16:22):
So you got the AFC West all seven, eight, nine,
huh right there in your power rankings, they're all grouped together.

Speaker 2 (16:28):
Yes, I do.

Speaker 1 (16:28):
You're right, a very tight division race there and very
tight Chrisadansky power rankings there. So that brings us to
number six. Is my number seven? Wait, no, I need
my number seven, number seven. I'll tell you these. You
got to be a pro to do this. This is
tough stuff. Number seven for me is the New England Patriots.
This is where I have the Pats checking in. I
gotta be honest with you. I'm so resistant to give

(16:52):
Pat's credit because Boston fans are obnoxious like and they're
starting to be really obnoxious again, and it's just like
you make me just not want to buy. But it's
they're a good team. I mean, I don't want to
say a great team yet, but they're a good team.
Like Rabel's a hell of a coach, and Drake May
is undeniably a very good quarterback that has the potential
to be great, that has the potential to be elite

(17:14):
and become a top five player in this league. I mean,
you can't deny that they haven't achieved that yet, and
some people in Boston probably would like you to think
that's the case. But they are on a trajectory that
any franchise would be jealous of. And I can't believe
it's them they get to do it.

Speaker 4 (17:32):
You're right, yeah, I you know, I wonder if this
is their year or not.

Speaker 2 (17:37):
But it's kind of like it's not their year. They're
not winning the Super Bowl. I promise you that if.

Speaker 4 (17:41):
If you buy stock in it, like I, I will
bring this up.

Speaker 2 (17:44):
Last week.

Speaker 4 (17:44):
Maybe I can't remem if we did or not. Now
I feel like we did, but there was something the
effective if you had you mentioned that next year, right,
if you buy a super Bowl future in the twenty
twenty six season for the Chargers, you might look into
that like twenty twenty eight, like you know, that's that's
sort of certainly far away, but like who has the
best foundation? Maybe going forward? He with a young team
and a young quarterback, you know what I'm saying, Like

(18:06):
it's a ridiculous hypothetical. So wh's them in the twenty
twenty eighth Super Bowl? But at this moment, you know
they might have that in terms at least in terms
of teams that you know, because that point you got
to figure you can't just assume the Chiefs will still.

Speaker 2 (18:17):
Be good whatever.

Speaker 4 (18:18):
Yeah, but again they've they've won seven in a row
as well. I mean, you gotta respect I have them
higher up than you do, because at some point I
guess that I didn't have the Broncos high for winning
seven in a row. But they've been beaten. Beat when
they've been beaten, they beat the Bucks, the team that
we've championed, the Super Bowl contender a few times. They've
beaten the Bills over that stretch. You know, they haven't again,

(18:39):
they haven't lost since mid September against the Pittsburgh Seelers.

Speaker 1 (18:42):
For them, I know, they're just so damn annoying, and
I can't believe that they're kind of back all right.
Number six for me, I have the Kansas City Chiefs.
This is where I have the chefs checking it. I
don't you know, just kind of whatever. They're on their
bye week. They're five and four, but they're waiting in
those wings.

Speaker 2 (19:00):
They will beat the.

Speaker 1 (19:00):
Broncos this weekend, I promise you that, and they will
start to climb back into that division race, but more importantly,
climb into the playoff picture. It is funny to see
them boxed out by Jacksonville right now when you look
at the standings, because they for some reason lost that
game to the Jaguars in Jacksonville and in a game
that should have been a launching point for Jacksonville. They're
one and three since that game against the Chiefs. But uh,

(19:23):
it's just funny to see they're boxed out right now.
That won't last though. They'll they'll catch up. They'll be
in that playoff picture. So I got them at number
six right now.

Speaker 4 (19:30):
I have kind of similar vibes in my number six,
but it's a little different. But the Detroit Lions, Detroit
Lions and numbers, well, they got a will out of you.

Speaker 2 (19:41):
So all right, so not impressed by that commander's way. Yeah,
I mean the commanders are they look like a dumpster fright.

Speaker 1 (19:49):
Hey, let me quick, commanders take Even if Daniels was healthy,
I don't think they'd be that good this year.

Speaker 2 (19:54):
They just don't look like that good.

Speaker 1 (19:55):
Of a game.

Speaker 2 (19:56):
All right.

Speaker 1 (19:56):
Back to the lines.

Speaker 2 (19:57):
Yeah, yeah, we don't need to talk about the bottom
of the power rankings.

Speaker 1 (20:00):
But don't even we don't even do that at all.

Speaker 2 (20:02):
So those are for the real professionals. And so I
could see the Lions.

Speaker 4 (20:06):
The Lions got a chance to you know, use a metaphor,
put their foot in the ground and and uh, you know,
make a cut and turn up field here by they're
at the Eagles, right, so if they win that game
all of a sudden, then you're back to Okay, the
Lions are.

Speaker 2 (20:22):
Well not d pick in the NFC, but you may.

Speaker 4 (20:26):
I gues you could say that though if some people
would probably say, if they win that game and I
have head of the Broncos, that I mean on neutral field,
I took the Lions over the Broncos, right, So I
don't know if I do that for the teams ahead
of them on the Power rankings. They were kind of
just you know, since that that they lost that first
game there four and once. Since then, they've been on
this alternating wins and losses. It's you know, Chiefs, Bucks, Vikings,

(20:48):
and Commanders. They won the Bucks in the community, you know,
roster wise, we believe them to start the season. They
haven't like embarrassed themselves, not even but the Packers. You know,
if we're so down on the Packer the Lions, I
don't feel like there's ever any performance like that. Yeah,
I mean, they should have beaten the Vikings at home.
They shouldn't lose that game. But at the same time,
I don't know, I'm just kind of at that with them.

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But they'll have their opportunity Sunday if they beat the Eagles,
and if they beat the Eagles again, I promise you'll
be moving them up with shovel spots in my rankings.

Speaker 1 (21:16):
We will get to our top five next as the
power continue here on the Steelers Blitz on Steelers Nation Radio,
part of the Steelers Audio Network. Before we get back
into our Power rankings for a week eleven and unveil

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our top five, let's talk about the breaking news of
the NFL world. Chris Brian abel getting fired. He becomes
the second head coach to be fired this year.

Speaker 2 (21:50):
I believe that is correct.

Speaker 1 (21:52):
I'm blanking on who the first one was, but I
do know that there was a coach.

Speaker 2 (21:56):
Out there that was fired, and there's an interim Tennessee.

Speaker 1 (22:00):
It was Tenna Say. I philibustered myself and I figured
it out. It was Brian Callahan at Tennessee. So Dave's
becomes the second coach to get the can and Limes
tight with him like that, I like calling him Dabs,
and then I'm a little befuddled by it. I got
to be honest with you. Now, they have looked really
bad in the past couple of weeks with leads like

(22:22):
Jackson Dart has given them leads and then they've blown
those leads, and I think that was just getting a
little bit frustrating for ownership. But you know, Dabel was
the straw that really stirred this drink to get Jackson Dart.
Like everybody was kind of the reporting around that draft
pick was all pointing towards like this is Brian Dabeles guy,

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Like he made a strong push for him, and like
this is who he wants as his quarterback. And from
all accounts, like Dart was all in on that kind
of marriage too, Like there was a very great relationship
between him and Dabel. Now, maybe that just makes Dabel
a really good quarterbacks coach, right, maybe that just makes
Dabel a good offensive coordinator because there are game day

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decisions that are very poor being made by Dabel from
a head coaching capacity, and that probably leads to blowing
a lot of leads like the Giants have done. I
mean they blew that lead to the Broncos. I mean
that is just one of the worst in history. So,
like there are things that a head coach needs to
be on top of that. Maybe he's not that good
at he is still learning, he is still trying to

(23:27):
grow into but it's undeniable that that man has an
eye for talent and an ability to develop quarterbacks. Josh
Allen I love when people say, well, Brian Dable fixed
Josh Allen.

Speaker 2 (23:39):
Josh Allen fixed Josh Allen. But Brian Dabele was a great.

Speaker 1 (23:43):
Coach to kind of give him tips pointers if you
do this, if you do that, you will be a
more accurate quarterback. Josh Allen had to go out there
and do that stuff you had to go throw through
tire swings or whatever the hell they were doing. But
Dabel was able to be a good sharpa for him.
Fast forward to now, well you've got Jackson Dart and
he comes in to this league and makes an immediate impact,

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And now you have divorced that marriage, and I just
I wonder if you will regret that a little bit
that you had a quarterback and coach tandem that clearly
worked together well and liked working together, and now your
rookie's gonna have to be in the hands of somebody
that's a bit of an unknown.

Speaker 3 (24:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (24:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (24:29):
The timing of it is what, like, why was it
a breaking point? I mean, I guess on face value,
it's just you know, you follow to two and eight,
you lose four in a row, So I guess in
that sense, I sound silly to say why now or what?
The timing seems curious to me, And maybe it was
just sort of like blown lead after blown lead, because
I mean the Bears was this most recent game was
a blown lead. You obviously referenced that just hideous what

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happened to the Broncos.

Speaker 2 (24:55):
But it's just it yeah, it.

Speaker 4 (24:56):
Felt like at least there was some but again, you know,
as much if you see progress, you see a quarterback,
you see the relate whatever it is the offense, you
see some things about that. But at the same time
two and eight, two and eight, I guess, I guess
that's the way. I mean, if this this season ends
up three and fourteen or four and thirteen, you know,
it's what do you Again, though I felt like there

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was some progress there. I felt like you're kind of
the arrow is pointing up for the Giants, but at
the same time, you know the results aren't there. And
I guess, like you talked about, if you if it's
a game day coaching thing, whatever it might be, I mean,
that's all part of it. And at some point it's
just get It's ugly enough that if you're the organization,
I think you just just want to move on and
do something else and see how it works. But now

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Fatar doesn't play this week, you see there moving to
Jameis Winston is.

Speaker 1 (25:43):
Now yeah, which I mean just tells you Like that
interim coach was like, what are we doing with Russell
Wilson here? It's got to be Winston as our backup quarterback.
But I'll offer another theory as to why Brian Dable
got fired. Okay, okay, Jackson Dart has been in the
concussion proto call four times. I don't know if he's
officially been in the protocol four times. He's been evaluated

(26:05):
for four times this year. He's in the protocol currently,
which is why Jameis Winston is on track to start this.

Speaker 2 (26:11):
Week for the Giants.

Speaker 1 (26:12):
So, uh, if I'm ownership, I'm seeing my most valuable asset.
I'm seeing now a lottery ticket that appears to be
worth something. Here we did it. We found the quarterback
of our future, and he's got charisma. You can market
this kid to New York. It's perfect for me as
an owner. But he keeps getting into these three car
pile ups. He never slides, He always puts his shoulder forward.

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He doesn't run smart. I'm not telling him not to run,
because it's part of his game. But you got to
run smarter, man. You got to get out of bounds.
You got to slide.

Speaker 4 (26:45):
You got to know it's a Herbert that big scramble
the other night.

Speaker 1 (26:48):
Slid slid right down, took an easy slide.

Speaker 2 (26:51):
Enough popped you have to be smarter.

Speaker 1 (26:55):
And I wonder if you know that was probably you know,
a talking point when they drafted Dart, you know, training camp, preseason,
we do all the got to start to drill into
Dart to get down, to protect yourself. And then Dart
starts keep happening. He keeps having to go into the

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blue tent to be evaluated for concussions, ownerships, not really
seeing any progress be made there, and you wonder, are
you coaching this guy to get down? Are you trying
to get that out of his game. I'm really connecting
a lot of you know, dots here that probably don't
even exist. But I'm just theorizing if maybe they were like, look,
if you're not gonna do this, if you're not gonna

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commit and make this like kind of priority number one
is to stop getting hit so much, then we got
to go find somebody that's gonna coach that out of
his game, because as electric as he is, he's got
to be on the field. We reference the Grouden interview
with him all the time. But John Gruden said to him,
you're the only guy on the field that can't play

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with a sore right shoulder. Only one it's just a
different kind of thing when it comes to that quarterbacks
and you know what I get at Dart, You're tough.

Speaker 2 (28:06):
You I respect that. I'm sure a ton of other
NFL players respect that too. It's just different at that position.

Speaker 1 (28:13):
Toughness is really needed and great, but smarts has to
come first.

Speaker 2 (28:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (28:19):
And the fact that they gave it to Mike Kafka
as the interim head coach, the former quarterback in the league,
a former quarterbacks coach, the offensive coordinator, and the fact
that he made the move to Winston by the way,
apparently being the head coach, and that he that shows
obviously that I mean Jackson Dart obviously is the is

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the centerpiece of the franchise right now and if they're
going to turn it around, it's going to be because
of him, and he has to be what needs to
be fostered and the nests as I love that term
here in that too. So, I don't you know he
Kafka is a younger guy. I don't know, shame Bowen's
a defensive coordinator. I don't know if he was at
all saw his said coach maybe just obviously one of

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the coordinators.

Speaker 2 (29:02):
And you had it but but I think that that.

Speaker 4 (29:04):
Is telling too, and maybe there is something to that
where they want that kind of continuity in terms of
developing Dart down down the stretch here in this season
and kind of see where you go next season. And
I guess in some ways you can use that to
your advantage. The blessing that they're going to have if
this record continues this way, they're gonna have a top
five pick and they don't need a quarterback, and you

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have leverage there to either get or get you know,
theoretically one of because the quarterbacks are always quote unquote overrated, overdrafted.
You can get maybe the best single player in the
draft if you're drafting you know, fifty, you don't need
a quarterback, and and or you can use the teams
that need team team are a little familiar with that
might be interested in trading for a quarterback this this
coming draft. Anyway, there's other teams that could be that

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the Giants could really if you're you do play this right,
you have your quarterback. Now you have a you know,
you know you can you can really start to maybe
turn things around.

Speaker 1 (29:56):
Titans in the Giants two really bad teams that that
are gonna be willing to trade back because they have
a quarterback. Why am I talking like this?

Speaker 4 (30:07):
I don't know. I can't k voice to that voice.
I can't stop it.

Speaker 1 (30:12):
Let's get back in Lecky all right.

Speaker 2 (30:18):
Top five, I've got a tangent of our power rankings.

Speaker 1 (30:21):
By the way, well, table got fired.

Speaker 2 (30:22):
We gotta talk about a coach getting fired, especially a
New York coach like that. Number five.

Speaker 1 (30:26):
I got the Colts checking in at number five.

Speaker 4 (30:29):
Yes, wow, yes you've been.

Speaker 2 (30:31):
But you didn't mention the Colts yet in yours, so
they have to be coming soon.

Speaker 1 (30:34):
Yeah, just five. Five is pretty low. Yeah, you're on
the other way. I thought you were saying I was
paying too much respect to the Colt.

Speaker 4 (30:41):
Because you've been mister cold from the beginning. You have
week one, you were you foresaw.

Speaker 2 (30:45):
The only of you.

Speaker 1 (30:46):
They only beat the Falcons, Chris, but they're still eating two.

Speaker 2 (30:50):
That's true.

Speaker 1 (30:50):
I did say in week one they will be eight
and two at week eleven. That's a direct quote. I
predicted their record exactly. Not like they might be good
or they're feisty.

Speaker 2 (30:58):
No, I was like, they're going to be a juggernaut.

Speaker 1 (31:00):
Look, number five is number five man, all right, you
don't have to put my feet to the fire on that.

Speaker 2 (31:05):
I still think they're a really good team. I actually
have them ranked.

Speaker 1 (31:08):
My number one team in the AFC spoiler alert at
number five. But that was a huge bounce back performance
from them. They needed it too, and I think more specifically,
Jonathan Taylor needed that too to kind of show, hey,
it was a fluke against the Steelers.

Speaker 2 (31:25):
No, a fluke.

Speaker 1 (31:26):
Steelers did a good job against them, but you know
what I'm saying, that was the that was the outlier,
and I'm gonna make up for it by having an
outlier on the other end of the spectrum.

Speaker 2 (31:33):
In rushed for two hundred and forty four yards.

Speaker 1 (31:36):
Yes, so he's back. He's the offensive player of the year.
There was a little bit of a like a whoa.
James Cook was probably like, hey, not anymore, James Cook.
Now it's Jonathan Taylor's again.

Speaker 2 (31:45):
JSN.

Speaker 1 (31:45):
Maybe that was another one that was probably like, oh,
doors open and not anymore.

Speaker 2 (31:49):
Although he already has one thousand yards receiving this year.

Speaker 1 (31:51):
That's unbelievable. But anyway, Also, you saw that Danny Dimes
has another really good performance when Jonathan Taylor is available
to him to just hand the ball off too thirty
times and run it like when he's the number one threat,
Danny Dimes is able to kind of have the rest
of the offense flow. When the Steelers made it be
on Danny Dimes's shoulders and he failed that first test.

Speaker 2 (32:12):
My number five team, Yes, here's why the Philadelphia Eagles spicy.
I don't know why. I just kind of like shrug
at the Eagles.

Speaker 1 (32:22):
I don't know that they don't lose, they just keep winning.

Speaker 4 (32:25):
Chris, So I keep waiting for like some sort of
like this whole like offense that changes. It seemed like
week to week and goes from airing it out to
not being Barkley redependent. And this offense they can just
go out and lay an egg and score ten points
but then win the game anyway. It's very classic like Eagles,
they're defending super Bowl champs. But I feel like there's,

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you know, the Aj Brown thing earlier that Nick Sirianni
seems just like a ball of just stress is gonna
explode it. I don't know, it's just like it seems
like there's something gonna go wrong. But here there they're
seven and two when they're defending champs and they're beat them.
You know, they have wins against the Packers and the
Bucks and the Rams and the Chiefs, like you know
that probably should have myers. What I'm saying at the

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same time, all season, I feel like something's not right.

Speaker 1 (33:09):
I've never seen a coach, never seen a quarterback criticize
as much where all they do is win. All they
do is win, and they are in the cross here
is always. I got something on the Eagles when I
get to them in a little bit. But my number
four team is the Detroit Lions. That was your number
five team, correct, was Detroit six six. They were right
on the outside.

Speaker 2 (33:26):
We just did five.

Speaker 1 (33:27):
It was the Eagles.

Speaker 2 (33:27):
But number four for me is Detroit.

Speaker 1 (33:31):
They got their revenge against Washington for what happened in
the playoffs last year. I knew that they were going
to run that thing up and that they were not
going to take their foot off the gas, no matter
how wounded Washington was. And people would be like, well,
Jane Daniels wasn't playing, so was it really revenge? Yeah,
it was really revenge. The Lions were hungry for that win,
especially coming off of a loss the week prior, so

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they get the bounce back performance against Washington and now
we get basically armageddon on Sunday Night football this weeks. Eagles.

Speaker 2 (34:01):
Oh baby, that's a fun one.

Speaker 4 (34:05):
Yeah, I mean you have what now we both am
make sure we're both on the same page here. I
think that the the top four teams the NFC play
each other this week this week.

Speaker 2 (34:14):
Yeah, that's correct.

Speaker 4 (34:15):
It's kind of like a round robin almoster It's amazing,
all right? My number four, the New England Patriots.

Speaker 1 (34:21):
Oh my god, this is insanity.

Speaker 4 (34:24):
Would you were yeah, yeah, you you were. You were
like poo pooing them earlier. I'm like, it's like, do
I want to erase it and like yeah, partner, exactly right,
or I don't want to say, you know what on
the table you're wrong?

Speaker 1 (34:35):
You're in on the Patriots now, I mean they've won
seven in a row. Okay, I mean yeah, see now
I got the voice side. It's my incredulity. Is that
The way you say that sounded good to me? It's
showing here because I mean, they what are we doing here?
They've won seven in row.

Speaker 4 (34:49):
They just beat the Tampa Bay Bucks, a team that
me and you have both been probably higher on than
a lot of people, when by any means.

Speaker 2 (34:55):
Should be a is you know, considered a super Bowl.

Speaker 4 (34:57):
But DA haven't lost. Just the Steelers beat them that
seemed like three years ago. Now, that felt like a
game that played everything that's happened this season over that span.
They've also beaten the Bills. You know, they're they're they
I mean, come on, I don't they well deserved number.

Speaker 2 (35:11):
Four in my mind, you're just such a boss. I
hate loss.

Speaker 1 (35:14):
I can't stand it. All right, number three. This is
where I have the Eagles, and here's what I was
going to say about them. Okay, all they do is win.
And those wins are at Kansas City against the Rams, beautiful,
at Tampa Bay, at Minnesota, at Green Bay, sprinkling a
Dallas and the Giants win in there, and that gets
you to seven. Those are some of the more impressive

(35:34):
victories that you're going to get. Their one losses to Denver,
who is an eight and two team, and they lost
to the Giants. That was Jackson Darts kind of you know,
coming out party, and they ran into something there.

Speaker 2 (35:44):
There's a little magic in the air that Thursday Night, Yes,
Thursday Night, wrote you know, division road game.

Speaker 1 (35:48):
Exactly, So that happens. But they win, and they win
against really impressive teams. Your number three team, this is
the Colts. The Colts, Yes, so I mean bats three
and four.

Speaker 2 (36:00):
Yeah, and the top to AFC teams, and.

Speaker 1 (36:03):
It feels like two thousand and nine. That's right, it's
Fayton Manning and well, boy, please don't say that now,
but yeah, and you and I see your point, because
you're right.

Speaker 4 (36:11):
I mean, do I think those teams will beat the
Chiefs or or you know, the Bills. I'm kind of
but you know, in the playoffs. I want to see
them beat them in January. But hey, the resume that
they don't again, they don't lose, all.

Speaker 1 (36:22):
Right, Number two, it's tough Seattle.

Speaker 4 (36:28):
Well, the good news is we know we do. Number
one will be next week, right for both of us
exactly that that's the beautiful part. If we wan't, that'll
be the easiest thing we do next week.

Speaker 1 (36:36):
So you've got Seahawks one. I got Rams one. Yeah,
I mean we got one verse two this week. That's
that's smart. If we were on like an AP or
a BCS committee, that's how you do it. You position
a one verse two matchup in the middle of your season,
get some juice, go in that way.

Speaker 4 (36:49):
Yeah, and you know what if I just Seattle was
my number one last week, I probably you know, honestly,
I probably the Rams are at home. I think they'll
probably win this week. I think the Rams. If I
had to pin me down for a neutral site, I'd probably.

Speaker 2 (37:03):
Go up at the Seattle's defense. They're they're they're mean
and very well said, and they are mean.

Speaker 1 (37:09):
Yes I don't that's the way, but the best attutive
I could have for jerks. But I mean, Ramdom Seahawks
right now, right now are both of our top two.
And they play each other this.

Speaker 2 (37:19):
Week and what's the what's the other? Oh, they play
each other twice over the next six weeks.

Speaker 1 (37:25):
Yeah, they still have to play each other twice. So
this one's in LA, correct.

Speaker 4 (37:28):
Yes, this one's in LA. So that that'll that'll settle that.
But I mean, the Seahawks have won seven to the
last eight, the last two but average twenty three points.
I mean, the Rams have won the last four by
combined eighty two. Like Jesus, you gotta and I.

Speaker 2 (37:41):
Don't care who you're playing.

Speaker 4 (37:42):
And but they you know, they go out with forty
nine Er Staints Jaguars Ravens Rave not the Cooper Rush Ravens, so.

Speaker 2 (37:48):
I get it. But whatever.

Speaker 4 (37:50):
So you went in four in a row by eighty
two points.

Speaker 1 (37:53):
They're for real for me. They are the number one
team in football in my eyes, and they will be
next week for you two because they're beating the Seahawks.
I'm calling it right now. When Chris and I come back,
it is time for Just the Toe, our early week
look ahead at the Steelers upcoming opponent. So we'll talk
some Bengals next. It's time off for Man and Chris
Danski on Steelers Blitz on Steelers Nation Radio, a part

(38:13):
of the Steelers Audio network. Steelers in Bengals Round at
Akroscher Stadium. Steelers fell the first time against Cincinnati thirty
three to thirty one on Thursday Night Football. It is

(38:33):
time now for Chris and I to dip our toes
in the waters of the Cincinnati Bengals waters that we've
already swum in this year for a very significant amount
of time.

Speaker 2 (38:43):
But let's just I just I don't.

Speaker 1 (38:46):
Know how to even start this. So here we go
Just the Toe. Very bad radio by me, right, there.
That's okay, it happens. I fumble every now and again. Off,
let's start with Joe Flacco because he was the one
who torched them last time, well, one of the Bengals
that tore them last time. And Mike Tomlin in his
press conference yesterday said that things are less mystical now

(39:06):
when it comes to Joe Flacco because he's been there
for four games. Coach, it's Joe Flacco. He's been here
since two thousand and six. What do you mean less mystical.
There's nothing mystical about him.

Speaker 4 (39:19):
He's Joe Flacco, literally, the quarterback you face more than
anybody you've faced and has beaten you more than anybody.

Speaker 1 (39:25):
Now. The worries came to Fruition the first meeting. Mike
Tomlin kind of said, you know, Joe Flacco is no
one to you know, scoff at and this is tricky,
and then it proved to be tricky.

Speaker 4 (39:36):
Do you think he has like a voodoo Dolph Andrew
Berry that he just pooks the you know when he's like,
we could be six and three right now because Andrew
Berry traded.

Speaker 1 (39:43):
Do you think he's got a little one too? For
the Ravens I guess he's they signed Snoopuntly off the
practice squad because they took a quarterback from the Browns too.
It was like Brown's just giving everybody quarterbacks to keep
their seasons flow right now.

Speaker 2 (39:54):
But anyway, I digress, I.

Speaker 1 (39:56):
Digressed you, No, I'd digress you. The Joe Flacco, he
was just danking and duncan you to death. Jamar Chase
had almost one hundred and sixty yards receiving Chris, but
no catch went for further than like nineteen yards in
that game. It was a lot of quick stuff. It
was a lot of death by a thousand paper cuts.
So I know this is scarey, but you're gonna have

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to press up on these guys a little bit more
at the line of scrimmage. You're gonna have to maybe
drop back into coverage more and play more zone, muddy
it up at the line of scrimmage than you did
against the Bengals in the first run. And that is
going to open you up to potentially have in them
run down the field a Higgins or a Chase bomb.
But you kind of gotta live with that because if
you don't, they are just going to catch the snap

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and in two seconds, throat it right to Chase on
a slant and he's gonna break fifteen tackles and you're
gonna have the Bengals just move the ball down the
field very consistently that way. So you got to learn
from that first experience. You gave those receivers just way
too much cushion. You gotta be up on those guys.

Speaker 2 (40:57):
You gotta make.

Speaker 1 (40:58):
Sure that Flacco just can't get hit the ball and
quickly chuck it out and not just pressman coverage, not
just up on the last scrimmage, but have.

Speaker 2 (41:06):
What drop back into coverage every now and again.

Speaker 1 (41:09):
Have high Smith drop back the Chargers. When the Steelers
were threatening on the goal line, drop Bud Dupree back
into coverage. Rogers wanted a quick slant there. It was
either to DK or Calvin or maybe a tight end.
If I name everybody on the rest, I'll actually get
to who it was. Maybe too, but he wanted to
hit it. Buds drops back into coverage real quick, and

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Rogers kind of like double clutches and then just kind
of looks around and then throws it in the dirt.
It's an aboorded play. You can do that to Joe
Flacco in this game. Don't always be enamored with having to,
you know, blitz or having to always rush if you're
an edge rusher, you know, I think making things as
muddy as possible in the short passing game is a
huge key here.

Speaker 4 (41:51):
Now, remember it's it was only four weeks ago now,
but the secondary has almost been completely It's certainly been
the personnel that played that game other than Joey Porter,
and I guess the personnel, the actual person jaythan Ramsey
still h there, but there was no Dougar at that
point during that game. The safety and you're gonna miss

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I mean to Shawn Elliott's a good player, obviously, but
the safety trio for that game was Shawn Elliott, Chuck Clark,
and want Thornhill. Okay, and thorn Hill is not here anymore,
Seawan Elliot is not playing. Clark doesn't really seem to
have too much of a role at this point. Darius
Slay played a lot of that that game. He's not
gonna be well, which we assume he's not gonna playing.
I guess I don't want to roll him out yet,
but it'll be more maybe Pierre and maybe maybe it's

(42:35):
not they Samuel the junior will see how that goes.
So having Ramsey back there, maybe that does let you
play a little more up at the line of screw,
you know, play a little more pressed because.

Speaker 1 (42:48):
You're not as worried as the home runs happening.

Speaker 3 (42:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (42:50):
Yeah, that that's a pretty good all people to have
is your last night now. And because they, like you said,
you're getting beat, they're making play anyway, long gains anyway,
so you might as well try to at least thwart
it there. And that's obviously what that flak I want
to do. What generally the teams want to do against
the Steelers overall is the quick passing game that way,

(43:10):
So maybe there is something to that, and you know,
there's reason to believe you can have a different outcome
again because the secondary is going to be almost good
in terms of people in their roles. Where they're at,
it's probably Joey Porter Junior, and then everybody else is
playing different different either different people were different positions.

Speaker 1 (43:26):
Yeah, absolutely, you got two sacks against Flacco in the
first meeting, but they were very low impact sacks. The
other thing I wanted to bring up here in are
just the toe segment before we wrap is make sure
you stop at least the one Chase Okay, Jamar Chase
is going to go off again because he's Jamar Chase.

(43:47):
He's the second leading receiver in football. Just make sure
the other one, Chase Brown, doesn't hurt you like he did.
One hundred and seven carries on eleven carry. One hundred
and seven yards on eleven carries is ridiculous. And I
was become to Matt Williamson last night we were doing
our Advanced Scout podcast. Chris, I was like, I feel
like the Bengals at some point, like after the fifth
or sixth carry, were like surprised that they were able

(44:07):
to run the ball that well. They're just like, oh
my god, Like Chase Brown's actually having himself a game.

Speaker 2 (44:11):
I didn't know that was legal.

Speaker 1 (44:12):
And they lasted the league in rushing. They were still
they were last after that game. They they throw the
ball like sixty six percent of the time. They're like
the most team that throws the ball at the highest percentage,
Like they don't want to run the ball, and they
were just almost forced to because the Steelers were so
poor against it. So, look, you're not going to stop
the one chase, Jamar Chase is unstoppable. But for God's sake,

(44:32):
make sure Chase Brown doesn't go off. Make sure that
it's not a two chase effort against you.

Speaker 4 (44:37):
And that's what that's what the Steelers say every week,
and it's slip server whatever, but it's absolutely true.

Speaker 1 (44:41):
And I don't think it's slip service. I think it's real.
They need to stop the run or else nothing.

Speaker 4 (44:44):
And it actually yeah, And I think that was a
big reason why the other chase, the good chase, the
elite chase, was even more elite against them because they
were able to run the butt set things up even more.

Speaker 1 (44:55):
All right, that I'll do it for us today, back
again tomorrow. We'll keep digging into these Steelers in the
the Bengals. It's such a must win game for Pittsburgh
as they don't want to see the Bengals get life
breathed into them more and they don't want to see
those Ravens potentially catch up completely to them in the division.

Speaker 2 (45:12):
He's Chris A.

Speaker 1 (45:13):
Damskam, Tom Opferman, thanks always for giving us a listen
on the Steelers Blitz on Steelers Nation Radio.

Speaker 2 (45:18):
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