HR 2- QB Situation, Around the League

Tom and Chris talk about the Steelers current QB situation and break down the rest of the leagues action in Week 11.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:10):
Aaron Rodgers broken wrist. That is what the report is
a very minor fracture in his non throwing wrist. So
I think that is a very important detail. If we're
talking throwing risk, Chris, we could be thinking is this
a month kind of ordeal? Is this a season ending
kind of ordeal with a quarterback of that age? And
it's all rist with Rogers throwing that football, We've talked

(00:31):
about it. He snaps that wrist off and really gets
some extra tight spiral going because of his wrist action.
So good news there that it's the non throwing wrist
and that it is such a minor fracture that you
probably cast that thing up and play on it. Now,
the big thing is the under center. I think when
it comes to this now he can get an air
cast on his hand and gets shot on snaps all

(00:53):
day long. But Rogers likes going under center, and Arthur
Smith's offense likes to have a quarterback that can orchestrate
things from under center from time to time. That's going
to take away from things that they can do if
he can't take a snap, And that I think is
the main worry right now, as well as you know
that just overall pain, discomfort, bothering him in other aspects
of his game. But taking a snap is the issue,

(01:15):
not throwing the football.

Speaker 2 (01:16):
And what's remembered Zach Fayer has been good, but he's missed.

Speaker 1 (01:19):
He's just a really good point.

Speaker 2 (01:20):
Yes, and you need a guy who can catch, unfortunately
or fortunately and yeah, so that's on the walk too.
And remember well Howard you know, and he wasn't the starter,
and who never know if he was would have but
there they wanted to get him in preseason games, right,
so he had a finger and he didn't play in
a game for three months. Now. I get part of
that was this kind of eye r milking that out

(01:41):
as long as it go to keep the roster spot
to a point. But obviously they would have won him
getting the preseason game. That was just a finger. He
couldn't take a snap. So we'll see how this goes.
It seems like people assume it's not that bad, but
I would think until he gets out there and kind
of you know, depending on what kind of apparatus you need,

(02:02):
what kind of encumberment uh on your hand, whether it
be a wrap or a cast, right, yeah, taking snaps
and it's something you think like, oh, you can find
a way around it. But at the same time, you
know that the operation of the snap and everything, and again,
yeah you can catch, you're right, and it's not even
I don't want to throw this all unsafe, right because

(02:23):
it hasn't been terrible. But anytime there's an errand snap,
that's a that happens once a game and you're able.
You can't, you know, make an athletic play to make
a catch on something.

Speaker 1 (02:32):
Yeah, what if that comes to your left side slow,
You're going to reach across with your right hand and
one hand it like your Odell Beckham junior.

Speaker 2 (02:38):
No, yeah, so there there it can be. You know. Again,
it's hard to say right now how bad he is
or what kind of you know, but bad the situation is.
But it just sucks because you're right, it's a left
hand that little it's kind of like the finger with
little Howard.

Speaker 1 (02:52):
It's it's similar. They should not derail anything, but it does.
It's look, we say this grouden thing when it comes
to dart all the time. But when he he was like,
you're the only guy in the field that can't play
with a shore right shoulder. I really butchered that Sally
Seashells Seashore thing there. You're the only guy that can't
play with a sore right shoulder. Well, it's similar thing here, right, Like,

(03:13):
you're the only guy in the game other than maybe
wide receivers that can't play with a tiny broken bone
in your hand.

Speaker 2 (03:21):
And you're not defensive player.

Speaker 1 (03:22):
Oh, if there's a running back, which rut any lineman,
we might even be useful to have a club in
my hand if I'm alignment, just to knock some people around.
The defender. Yeah, you just get that billy club up.
Even the defensive back Richard Sherman played an entire NFC
Championship game with his shoulder out of a socket. Yeah,
and they you don't even still don't even throw it.
It was Rogers. It was Rogers who still wouldn't even
throw the ball towards him when when he was on

(03:43):
the Green Bay Packers. So like almost any other position,
you're still playing with this. It's just oh, it's what
same with Will Howard, almost any other position that rookie's
still taking reps with a broken finger. You just can't
when you're the quarterback. So Rapaport said today on the
NFL Network fifty to fifty is what he puts it.
As far as the game against the Bears, there are

(04:03):
reports that Rogers is really pushing to get back onto
the field. I also saw some reports that Rogers wanted
to get back onto the field in the game on
Sunday and the coaching staff had to kind of hit
him with the whoe, like we're not gonna put you
back out there. Games in control. Defense is playing well,
Mason's good enough to finish this one off. No need
to risk it just to win this game that we're

(04:24):
gonna win anyway. So I don't know if that's true
or not, but I buy it because that's the kind
of guy I think Rogers is. I think he wants
to get back out there. Do you remember that famous
game where I think it was a shoulder injury or
it was a knee injury on Sunday Night Football with
the Packers where he leaves against the Bears at halftime,
and then he comes back in the second half and
he pulls off an amazing comeback against the Bears, and

(04:46):
you could tell he was hopped up on something in
the postgame interview, like he was just not himself. Unbelievable.
Pain he was dealing with, but he comes out and
he gets the wind. There's a track record there for
this being a tough ombre, and I think they'd have
played with a broken a minor broken bone in his
non throwing hand, if this was the AFC Championship, get
a chance to him to get to the super Bowl.

(05:06):
And that's why I think that I believe that there
might have been something like from him saying, hey, I
can go, I can go, I can go, and the
staff saying no. And that's why I got buy into
this week already You're seeing him kind of be like
I can play, Like, let's get me ready for Chicago.
Uh rap. Before putting it at a fifty to fifty proposition,
though I'm leaning more towards we see Mason Rudolph get
his first start officially of the season in Chicago on Sunday.

(05:30):
I just don't know how comfortable Rogers can get with
that kind of a nagging thing in this short amount
of time. And I just don't know how effective his
play is going to be having to deal with that
kind of thing, you know, bothering him all game long.

Speaker 2 (05:46):
Yeah, that's it's just so much nuance in that he
played the one extra snap there after. By all indications
it happened. I guess nobody can. I mean, it has
to be right, that's the play. It happened. It was
he Now. It's also I don't like anybody spot him
on the sideline. I'm assuming a CBS camera would have
seen him on the sideline after where or during the
second half if he was on the sideline, and and

(06:07):
you know, nobody from what I could talk, I certain
spot him postgame and the locker room around or anything
like that. So you at that point, we're kind of wondering.
That's before kind of more information has been kind of
leaking out here more and more. You do wonder where
there's a case to be made or a it's some
of its rationalization or whatever. I'm sure, but you you

(06:29):
could there's there's a degree of something there to say, Okay,
he's forty one years old. He objectively was better in
September than he's been, you know, the first four games
he's been the most recent four games. Maybe there's something
to hey, sit down, there's fatigue here. You know, we
have a good backup, which whether it's a game or
two or whatever, it might be you've already got a

(06:50):
half a game of quality played a Mason Rudolph that
get ready for the stretch drive. What's not what's not
chance either making it worse. Let's not chance like just
that you're one hundred percent of than your hand and
then here is a bad snap or something it creates
a turnover or something in that chance in that way,
I don't know if the hand gets that much better
in a week or two. But it goes back to

(07:12):
what you talked about last segment about Mason Rudolph, that
there is there's not a pressure I don't think right if.

Speaker 1 (07:18):
We don't have to rush Rogers back.

Speaker 2 (07:20):
Yeah, if there was a bad backup there was a
Jake Browning situation going on right now, or or.

Speaker 1 (07:25):
If Will Howard had to play, a rookie had to play,
you want to rush back the veteran. It is such
a great security blanket to have someone like Mason Rudolph
to fall back on. And I think what people do
is they hear me say something like that, and they're like,
you think Mason Rdoff is that good of a quarterback? No,
but I think he's a really good backup quarterback. And

(07:46):
I think you've got to keep your team afloat for
a week two. It's perfect, five, six, seven weeks. I
think things can get a little tricky there. I think
defense is going to start throwing things out of be
able to handle. He doesn't have the superpowers to be
able to handle, and let's be quite honestly, offense around
him is not skilled enough to overcome that kind of deficiency. So,
you know, if this was a season ender, I would
be a little worried about Mason Rudolph in the long run,

(08:07):
not to the point where I'd be like, well, let's
see what the rookies got, but I would say, I
don't know about this. This doesn't look good all of
a sudden, but the fact that I'm looking at this
through the prism of this is probably a one week
thing at most. Hell yeah, he can win a game
in Chicago. I fully believe that, especially if the defense plays,
you know, with an idea in their head of we
got a ball, like we got to be our best

(08:29):
because of Rudolph being in there. We got to pick
him up. Offensive line, running game, we got to pick
him up. And I think you are going to get
that because I think it's a team that's coached that
way that they're like, we will step up in other
areas to pick our quarterback up here.

Speaker 2 (08:42):
And if what you were talking about before the theory
that a it's the second at we defense is playing well,
Rudolph's got this. If that's the mindset in that game,
I think that throughout the course of the continuum of
the seventeen game schedule, I think again, you know the
medicals of this. Can you make it worse? It's an
extra week of healing, make it that much better? Are

(09:05):
you just laying the inevitable with this? How much does
it affect the snap? I mean pretty much? You would
think is there an element it's harder for him to
protect himself. I don't know how often he's using his
hand rady to stiff, you know, against a pass rusher.
I don't think there's really any other element that your
left arm I don't think of affect his mechanics at all.
So you really look at the snap, right, I mean,
if I'm trying to think of any scenario where you

(09:26):
could do that, and how much of a risk? How
much do you up the risk of dropping a snap
or not mishandling something and fumble? How real is that
risk is there? You know again, even like I don't,
I don't believe. I don't think I give Rogers that.
I don't think it's if it's a pain tolerant thing.
I think he played through it. You know, again, everything

(09:48):
to be there. So but so if the evidence of
all this points to that an extra week, the hand
will be that much better after a week. I think
there's a lot to be said here. For again, the Steelers,
no matter what, are gonna be in the first place.
One of the beauties of this is, no matter what happens,
no matter what happens between now and the Baltimore game,
the Steelers are playing a game for first place in

(10:08):
the Baltimore and maybe they there's a scenario where they're
playing for an extend their lead in the division, but
a very worst case to be a game behind the division.
They win that game, that they're in first place, they
have the tiebreaker at that point. Some mainter what happens
December seventh. Right now, because of this win yesterday, the
Steelers are playing four no worse than first place winning
that game in Baltimore. So you can do a lot

(10:29):
of things with that. And again and having a backup
quarterback that you trust. That's one games that played didn't
play poorly. Benning stretch to imagine if you want to
say he wasn't dynamic or whatever, Okay, we can. We
don't need, you know, quibble with it. He certainly didn't
hurt you.

Speaker 1 (10:44):
He was twelve for sixteen for one hundred and twenty
seven yards in a touchdown.

Speaker 2 (10:48):
Yeah, I don't know. Again, maybe this is like our
little circles or what we see. And so like you
talking about Cloll, howould I seela, Well, Mason didn't really
do anything. You just dump put it off. Well, I
mean that's what the whole offense all seas a log, right,
I mean Rogers exactly. So you know a couple of
times he did go down for Like I said, there
was reasons why it didn't work out, not if it's
outside of its control.

Speaker 1 (11:05):
Their halves are identical. Rogers nine for fifteen, one hundred
and sixteen yards a touchdown, Mason twelve for sixteen, one
hundred and twenty seven yards a touchdown. Like, Yeah, Rogers
had a couple fewer incomplete or a couple fewer completions
in a little less yardage. It's basically the same half.
It's the same half football and your accident. I did nothing,
He did nothing while he was out there. I think
he did a great job. And I really wonder why

(11:26):
the offense did kind of look a little smoother when
Rudolph was out there. I wonder if there was maybe
more of a simplification there because it is Mason Rudolph.
He kind of lean into his strengths a little bit more,
and his strengths aren't exactly what Rogers' strengths are. I
don't know what it was. Maybe it was just that
attitude of hey, whoa our starter went down. The team
just got that extra jolt, you know what I mean,

(11:46):
Like we but we all got to step up now.

Speaker 2 (11:47):
I think that's a part of hockey.

Speaker 1 (11:49):
Or yeah, backup goalie comes in, ah man, we really
need to step up our game now, come away with
a win. No offense to Mason, it's just you know,
that's our backup quarterbacks in now. So I think there
was definitely some of that, But it is undeniable that
the offense that was okay again since the in the
first half, great drive, first drive of the game, and
then was rarely kind of stalling out from that point on,

(12:12):
the offense looked a lot smoother when Mason was in there. Now,
funny enough, it only really had two possessions that counted
when Mason was in there, and the last one being
the kneel down in the game's over but first possession
Mason's in there, nice long extended drive, eats up a
ton of clock, kicks a field goal makes it thirteen
to nine. Well, that was thirteen to six. I think, No,

(12:34):
it was thirteen to nine because it was ten nine Cincinnati,
so the field goal made it thirteen to nine. It's
my only win over the weekend for my college team.
And then the Bengals throw the pick six, obviously, so
that makes twenty to nine. Steelers get the ball back
after that, and what does Rudolph in the offense do.
Chris a nice long extended drive, Kenneth Gainwell with a

(12:56):
couple of big plays in the drive, and then finishing
it off with Kenny G's second time down of the game,
Rudolph tossing it to him and him taking it into
the end zone. That's perfect as far as I'm concerned.
I mean, that's perfect offense. It was as smooth as
you could get in the second half, you had two
real possessions and you got ten points on them.

Speaker 2 (13:14):
They were the that that fifteen play drive was the
longest drive of the season for the Sealers in terms
of plays, and that's what. And they have no other
drives of the season more than twelve yards. So there
are two two of their four large longest drives of
the season in terms.

Speaker 1 (13:27):
Of playing in the second half.

Speaker 2 (13:29):
Yes, and the only two drives he actually had the
ball for the other than an heel down at the
end of the game obviously, So yeah, there there was
nothing there. You know, I don't want to and you
haven't really framed it this way, and you know, I'm
sure and you can find anything you want social media,
of course, that people were saying bench Robbert. I'm sure
there are a faction they're saying that this is what.
I'm not willing to get to that level yet and

(13:51):
entertain that quite yet. But I do think, especially especially
if there's any medical reason why, like you said, if
Will Howard is a guy who doesn't take a snap backup,
if sure Sanders was your backup, even if it was
you know, a Jake Brown, whatever, if you didn't trust
your backup we'd be I think this team would be
in full mod like what can we do to his hand?
What snaps can you take will modify the game plan?

(14:12):
We won't go understand whatever they're a witch doctor available, Yes,
there would be all hands on deck to figure out
how to get them on the field and how to
work around whatever. Would you know is hindering him with
his hand and the game plan or whatever. But I don't.
I think you have the luxury, certainly in a short
term situation, and you know without going through all thirty

(14:33):
two rosters and who everybody's backup is. But I don't
there's not many people you would trust better I think
in a short term situation for a game or two
than Mason Rudolph. And like I said, and not that
you play this way and not that at all in
any way you're sacrificing the Bears game or some you know,
the Bills game, whatever it might be. Like I said,
you're still in a situation where if you get to December,
you're going to be playing for the division no matter

(14:55):
what you do. At this point, you got to lead
the division. That if there's a if you had to,
if there's a way that you feel like the hand
will get better. And I would think that a forty
one year old quarterback would be forty two before the
end of the season, that a week or two off
might not be the worst thing in the world going
down the stretch, even for Rogers to make him better.
I think, because I don't know fatigue is a factor,

(15:15):
but objectively he was. He was better the first month
of the season than he has been over the past month.
That's just unavoidable. Fact. Are people adjusted to him, there's
It's not necessarily because of fatigue or whatever it is.
But I think you saw him be a little more
dynamic there. You know, remember how well he's moving.

Speaker 1 (15:32):
Yeah, I thought he looked great in the first half.
I really did like he had some nice nimbleness to him.
I thought he was moving in the part he had
that run Chris. He had that nice little scamper that
he had in that first down, and then he had
that little sly first down signal after he did it.

Speaker 2 (15:43):
I thought when he started what he got up, I thought,
he's gonna discount double check. I was like, we haven't
seen that yet in Pittsburgh. That that's like a play, right,
Does he still have that endorsement, though maybe he doesn't.

Speaker 1 (15:53):
He lostment after he was kind of remember so he
was like mister television and now do you see him
think about it. You don't see him on any commercials anymore.

Speaker 2 (16:01):
That's right. Remember he was gonna be the host of
Jeopardy for a little Yes, he was that. He literally was.

Speaker 1 (16:05):
He was the guest host. Yeah, Patrick Mahomes took his
state farm money.

Speaker 2 (16:09):
That's right, man, that's gonna be. Do you imagine they
meet in the playoffs, although we'll get to that later.

Speaker 1 (16:15):
I guess they will meet in the playoffs and he
will discount tump to check him in Mahomes's face.

Speaker 2 (16:20):
That's what I want to say.

Speaker 1 (16:21):
The Mahomes will spit in his face. Oh, there we go.
That's the second time this year, by the way, that's happened.
I was thinking about that last night. You remember Jalen
Carter got ejected in the first game of the year
for spitting on Dak Prescott.

Speaker 2 (16:31):
Yeah, and that's what so you know, there is that,
But there's real world. Although what's going on here, guys?
Does it affect the Steelers? Who the Bengals get yet
next week? They don't have it. They don't have the
Ravens or anything right that it would be. Does it
affect the Steelers like Jamar Chase by precedent.

Speaker 1 (16:44):
Could be suspended, Yes, because they said that was a
suspension for Jalen Carter missing that entire first game.

Speaker 2 (16:50):
Yeah, so however you wanted to.

Speaker 1 (16:52):
But they obviously Bungles play the Patriots.

Speaker 2 (16:56):
In Sincy, so and I guess at this point the
Steelers gonna are competing with the Patriots for anything. There
was only two games behind the Patriots and have the tiebreaker.
So in theory, you would like the Bengals to beat
the Patriots because this.

Speaker 1 (17:10):
Point in theory, yes you would love that. But regardless
of what where the Patriots are beating bad teams.

Speaker 2 (17:16):
Because if the Steelers get Chase, if the Bengals worth
within a game and the Steers in the division, losing
Chase for a game would be because he'd be worried
about the division.

Speaker 1 (17:23):
Well, I think that should be on the table. I
think Ramsey's gonna get fined. I don't think Ramsey will
get a suspension. I think Chase will get fined for sure,
because they'll go back and look at what he actually did.
I do think his suspension is on the table because
of the president that was set.

Speaker 2 (17:35):
I mean that that's what they the Steelers should get
to choose when the game is and it should be
Thanksgiving against the Ravens.

Speaker 1 (17:41):
No, we need even Thanksgiving against the Ravens.

Speaker 2 (17:43):
Yeah, you don't want that.

Speaker 1 (17:44):
We got up suspend him for some garbage games that
they don't care. They got the Jets still. I know
they already lost to the Jets, but I think that
to kind of put a bow on our conversation here
with Rudolph, the team will not feel that overwhelming sense
of urgency that you've been laying out all segment, where
we got to get Rogers back or we got no

(18:05):
chance against Chicago. Chicago's defense thinks this is another game
where it kind of looks like on paper, you're gonna
have to score some points. But your defense has been
kicking ass lately so and against really good offenses. So
I'm kind of sitting there there like maybe the defense
just steps up again against Chicago. Chicago's a little fugezy too,
if you ask me, Like, I don't really buy into

(18:27):
the Bears right now. I think this is honestly a
perfect game where the Steelers kind of come in and
give them a taste of medicine.

Speaker 2 (18:31):
It's your classic, your theory about water finding level. I mean,
the Bears are the Bears.

Speaker 1 (18:37):
They're gonna be credit free, yes, but the Steelers gonna
be seven and four.

Speaker 2 (18:41):
YEA.

Speaker 1 (18:41):
One of those sounds a lot more believable.

Speaker 2 (18:43):
If you go by that, for sure, because it seems
like the Bears are the Bears are almost almost they're
kind of doing like the light dollar store version of
the Chiefs winning every game by one possession last year
without the pedigree. Yeah, and they're not eleven and or,
but they're they're you know, at that level. They're they're
they're getting Like, I give him credit because I would have,
like I said last week, I would have thought that

(19:05):
Caleb Williams, like I feel like there's something in my mind,
something missing there that he would not be clutch. And
they're actually kind of been this clutch team. So I'll
give him credit for that. But we'll get to I
don't want dip the toe in the toes yet.

Speaker 1 (19:16):
But my point was, you can beat the Bears with Mason.

Speaker 2 (19:19):
Off that quarter exactly, and that's yeah, I feel that way.
It was Tom, it was it was what twenty three
months ago that Mason won the last three games of
the season at the Seahawks, beating at the point a
good Bengals team.

Speaker 1 (19:31):
It was five months ago. I was thinking he just
might be our starting quarterbacks.

Speaker 2 (19:34):
Yes, that's a good point. We had no one else
on the rosters, right, yes, so, and yeah, I don't
you know, he's been a free agency three or four
times now and he never gets a big off. So
it's part of like I kind of submit and say, like,
I don't know if like am I taking crazy pills?
But you know, generally speak, I know the twenty nineteen thing.
And yes, people ran with they tied the Lions, but
by the way the Lions became like just from that

(19:55):
point on, the lines were like been one of the
best teams in foot.

Speaker 1 (19:57):
You're gonna make me rant again, dude. I hate when
and then people keep bringing that up about we've seen
Mason he stinks. He couldn't even beat out Duck Hodges
was like six years ago. He's allowed to get better.
And also it was foolish to not put Mason Rudolph
back in over Duck Hodges back then, like it really was.

Speaker 2 (20:13):
Yeah, I mean, yeah, it was a much better quarterback. Yes,
that proved out all the way around.

Speaker 1 (20:17):
And once they they were going to beat the Jets, Yeah,
Rudolf to get hurt again, and they would have.

Speaker 2 (20:22):
Yeah, they finished eight and eight. They would the probably
would have finished ten and six if Mason doesn't get hurt,
hurt the second time he plays the the RG, the
old RG three, as in he was well, he wasn't
even that old, just wasn't a good He got washed
up quick. But yes, whatever, it was that RG three
game where he outplayed Duck in the regardless what I
thought about twenty nineteen.

Speaker 1 (20:38):
But yes, he's stunk back then. Okay, he's better now
because he's allowed to get better.

Speaker 2 (20:44):
Yes, yes, yeah, go all.

Speaker 1 (20:47):
Right, when we come back, we'll take a look around
the NFL. It was a great week eleven slate, so
we'll dive into all the action and how the league
kind of fell. He's Chris Damskim Tom Up. When you're
listening to the Steelers Blitz on Steelers Nation Radio, part
of the Steelers Audio Network. I thought, for a second, Chris,

(21:09):
the Brownies we're gonna do it. I thought, the Brownies,
we're gonna pay us a favor. It looked dicey for
the Baltimore Ravens in Cleveland, the Browns, who are a
pretty fierce rival for the Ravens too, right, I mean,
you stole our team, I mean, for God's sake. So
they give them a good fight, usually once every game,

(21:31):
or once in the two games they play every season.
The Brownies are usually good for a decent fight against
the Ravens, just like we know the Brownies lately have
been good for a decent fight against US. Right, and
usually one game a year that they played, and then
the other one is usually a controlled game by the Steelers,
but it's usually the one in Cleveland that's tricky. That
was the one in Cleveland for the Ravens last night.

(21:52):
I gotta be honest with you, Chris, and I lie
to you all the time. This is are thing.

Speaker 2 (21:57):
You preface it that way.

Speaker 1 (22:00):
Gabriel doesn't get concussed. I know they win, and I
think Gabriel holds onto that lead. Shouldeor just came in
and completely pooped the bad I mean, the interception that
he threw was abysmal. You're up sixteen to ten, and
you gave the Ravens the ball with like ten yards
ago for the touchdown, and it was a play that
was it was like eight seconds into the play, like
throw it away, mon, don't just force it into the

(22:22):
Ravens lap Rams only got a field goal out of that,
but still, like your defense was playing like they were
trying to win the Super Bowl and then you just
kind of gave him a short field like that against
that offense. That's tough to do. So as much as
the entire football world was like excited for Shador to
come in and before this game, we're kind of chomping,
why are you playing Gabriel? Why are you playing Gabriel?

(22:43):
Come on, no one wants to see Gabriel. Well, Stefanski
was probably like, do you see? Do you see now?
Why I kept playing Dylan Gabriel because I think the
Browns win that game if Gabriel's in there and can
just manage the game, because that's what he's been doing
since becoming the Browns quarterback, is just managing the game.

Speaker 2 (23:01):
Now, what I want to know is, and I don't know,
maybe this is obvious. I'm sorry if I'm doing I'm
trying to look it up here in real time, and
maybe I shouldn't know it maybe this is common knowledge.
Did Tyler Huntley get demoted like Tyler Huntley probably wins
that game for the for the Browns, right.

Speaker 1 (23:17):
Tyler Huntley's on the Ravens, Chris, you remember he won
a game two weeks ago against the Bears Snoop Huntley.
That was an embarrassing thing that you just did. The
Ravens signed Snoop off the Browns practice squad and then
won them again.

Speaker 2 (23:30):
I'm all, I'm all just combobulated. So the Browns lost
all their focuss.

Speaker 1 (23:36):
Focus.

Speaker 2 (23:37):
Yeah, that's what I'm trying to rationalize in some way,
how this how this went down. But it's if it's
at the point where Dylan Gabriel. If think about what
you just said, and you're probably right that the Dylan
losing Dylan Gabriel cost him the game. But let's think
about that. We've we've seen Dylan Gabriel play, We've seen

(23:58):
him pla against see what we play play in that game.
He said, yes, he's not any good, but it's the reason.
It was the key. The key to the game was
losing Dylan Gabriel and they didn't have any other quarters.
That's what I was getting. I was trying to think
who the third string. I just don't have a third
string right now because they.

Speaker 1 (24:11):
Guess it's Bailey ZAPPI still I don't know. I don't
know who the emergency quarterback is. Maybe they don't have any.
But Gabriel was I guess he was an unimpressive seven
for ten. I mean it was only for sixty eight
yards on those seven completions that he had. Gabriel's QBR
was eleven point four at this point in the game
when he went out with a concussion, So I mean
like he was not playing great, but he wasn't turning

(24:33):
the ball over. He was managing the game. He was
completing passes when he had to. He had a seven
seventy percent completion percentage. Sanders comes in with a lead,
and first of all, they'll throw the ball so many times,
sixteen times, and then at the end, I guess they
did have to come back. But four for sixteen, I mean,
dude couldn't hit the broad side of the barn man.

(24:54):
So okay, they had to have Bailey Zappy on their
practice squad, so he probably couldn't have played in that game. Yeah,
probably he wasn't.

Speaker 2 (24:59):
He called up. He wasn't, wasn't, But they made a
decision to put him on the practice squad. They made
a decision to have him. Now, even if you think
you want to get a look at Shador, you would
think that that might be a like to have him
come because i've the rationalization of the should defenders as well.
He came in cold his NFL debut. He didn't get preps. Okay, well, ZAPPI,
so I don't know whatever, who knows that.

Speaker 1 (25:21):
He didn't get any reps? Baker Mayfield three years ago,
got on a plane and flew to Los Angeles, started
two days later for the Rams and won a football game.
Shut up about the prep. Wasn't there. He's been in
the practice facility all year. He's been under this coaching
back it all year. Okay, that's just an excuse that

(25:42):
no one at the NFL gets made for them. Certainly
not Shador. Sanders should be getting that made for him,
the son of the greatest defensive back arguably in this
league's history. You're gonna make him that excuse? Well, he
just wasn't prepps. He didn't get enough snaps. That was
the issue. None of them get enough snaps. Okay, none
of them. Did it's sink or swim time at the level? Boy,
I mean he sunk big time there. Mason Rudolph come

(26:04):
in cold or whatever exactly whatever. He didn't get to
go to the bullpen warm up.

Speaker 2 (26:09):
And then it was like, well he was okay that
final drive four for six? What his rating was like
three point five.

Speaker 1 (26:14):
Ben Roethlisberger back in two thousand and four was getting
all the starting reps and practices before he would. People
don't know that like he was getting. He was so
well prepared to come into that game. People really don't
remember how much they were seeing ahead of time by
making him the fourth string quarterback at one point on
their roster and giving him all those reps so he
would be ready. You're never ready, Okay. That's why it's

(26:36):
such an unfair position. Sometimes. I think we put these
young quarterbacks in because it is like, get out there
and just prove that you belong.

Speaker 2 (26:43):
He got the Raiders next week?

Speaker 1 (26:45):
What if plays and what if he plays Kenny? You
might talk about unwatchable football at some point. Who's gonna
watch the Browns and the Raiders under any circumstances?

Speaker 2 (26:56):
Little pone? Although that being said, if sure starts, we'll
get it'll probably turn in. I'll probably send Jim Nance
there because it'll be the most washed and talked about
game of the week.

Speaker 1 (27:04):
There was also a great screen grab of the Browns
offensive line in this game. Three linemen taking on one
Raven Kyle van Noy. It is still shot just I
mean freight train up the middle. I mean there was
just no one. You could see him smiling in the
picture van Noid because he's like, this is unbelievable. I
got a free shot here. And people were saying, this

(27:25):
is the sabotage I'm talking about Stefanski. Look at the
position he puts his quarterback in. And someone quote tweeting
and it was like, I hate to break this to you,
but guess who has a lot to do with setting
the protection pre snap and who should be blocking who?
And to be fair, that's a lot to put on
a rookie quarterback's plate. Okay, so then your veteran center
for the Cleveland Browns should be doing that and he didn't.

(27:45):
You basically just showed a screenshot of the Browns player
sucking and then decided to be like, well, this is
the coach. No, the player's stunk, the center misread it,
the quarterback misread it. They're blocking the wrong people. They stink.
And I think Evan Stefanski should be given a lot
of credit, should be given his flowers a little bit
here because we are I know, it's just a short
sample size, but in this very short sample size, we

(28:07):
saw why he was so hesitant to increase the role
in Schaudor. He looks like he's not ready to be
in the NFL right before for sixteen.

Speaker 2 (28:13):
I mean, there's no way you can sugarcoate that. And Eve,
if you want to do all that, by the way,
if it's I don't, he's not denied it, right that
Tudor told the Ravens. You imagine if you went to
the Ravens and if you want to say that he's
been the victim of this terrible situation. And if he
was so, you would have had the nest of the
Ravens right and been the backup. And Imre got hurt
this year and then you know what the next guy

(28:34):
was terrible? Uh, Cooper rut Right, didn't they so they
went down.

Speaker 1 (28:37):
Rush was the Ravens quarterback this year?

Speaker 2 (28:39):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (28:39):
Yeah, And he got essentially bench from pactice. Yes, so
it could have.

Speaker 2 (28:43):
He could have been there and probably started a game
under supposedly these great circumstances, and apparently he would have shined.
But he didn't want to go there because he want
to be a backup. So even if you want to
say that that that's that he caused it himself. He
brought it on himself by wanting to go to the
Browns apparently or at that point accepting to go to
the brown Like.

Speaker 1 (29:00):
Just wait until you see how incensed the public is
when Gabriel clears concussion protocol Instefansk announces he's back in
the starting lineup.

Speaker 2 (29:07):
But it's like we saw it now for like in
my mind it was like, okay, now you saw it.

Speaker 1 (29:13):
What that that enough was off four sixty? I don't
get him back in the red shirt him again? Right,
Like this guy needs mental reps, you know, practice reps
in the offseason. He's not ready yet.

Speaker 2 (29:25):
I still, I mean there should be a some kind
of thirty for thirty done on like he was going
to be enough? Was that all I don't understand, Like
there was legit talk and being a top five pick and.

Speaker 1 (29:34):
Now you're wondering, was that really all the character issues.
Was that really all the office field stuff or did
they see stuff on tape that was like, oh hell,
he's not good either.

Speaker 2 (29:42):
The more you dove into it, I don't know, Like
I don't you know he had that good preseason debut
the first game and then what is he got hurt?
He played two preseason games if I'm on correct, But
then a guy just said, Snoopuntley's on the wrong team,
So don't go play my memory. But but you know,
it's like I don't know in some ways, like I said,
going down the stretch here, the Browns is put him
in a game just to put him out there and say, okay,

(30:03):
you know what, we don't need this, Like it's pr
to a point, but you know, okay, because you want
to know the same. But you always want to know
what the young quarterback like if whatever reason, this Steelers season,
what did go had gone sideways? At this point, it's
it's probably there's really no scenario where a candle is
really want to tank here, you know, play Worldhoward a
game just so you know, because you're going this, you
have that that that real world experience or real world

(30:25):
tape to look at and say, okay, we we know
we're quarterback hunting no matter what the draft. I mean
pretty much the lead the steward are pretty much admitted,
which makes sense. Your quarter starting quarterback is forty two
years old in the spring that you're going to you know,
be looking at quarterbacks, whether they for Shore draft what
or not. We'll see. But we put the rookie in
there to see what he does. So in some ways
it's good to have that organizational knowledge in the real

(30:46):
world to get him out there and maybe he does
make one start. But I mean, it's four for sixteen.
Remember that practice club broad receiver we started for the
Broncos or in COVID whenever their whole quarterback room was yes,
I did he think?

Speaker 1 (30:59):
He was.

Speaker 2 (31:01):
Like, I don't know. Four for sixteen is really hard
to do. I don't I don't even know where you know. Okay, please,
please won't make me talk about it already more.

Speaker 1 (31:11):
I could talk about the Shore all day long. I
think it's hilarious it happened to him in that game,
but it's it sucks as a Steeler fan because Gabriel
would have won that game for the Browns and that
would have helped the keep the Ravens back by two
games elsewhere in the AFC. We started in Madrid yesterday
sixteen to thirteen Dolphins winner over the Commanders in overtime.
Are the Dolphins starting to show a little bit of

(31:33):
a pulse? Chris? Do the Dolphins have life? Let me
spell this out for you. So they play the Steelers
on Monday Night Football in a few weeks, right, they
are games between then because they have a buye the
Saints at home the Jets on the road. Are they
going to be six and seven and playing for a
five hundred record when they come to Acrosher Stadium?

Speaker 2 (31:50):
They've won?

Speaker 1 (31:51):
Yes, the answers, Yes, isn't it?

Speaker 2 (31:52):
They've won three out of four. Now they've beat they
have a good win against the Bills. I mean the
Commander seemed dead in the water. I mean, you know,
and the Saints and Jets aren't all of a sudden.
I mean there was a scenario where were thought fire
their coach by now and here they are and all
of a sudden, shouldn't life like?

Speaker 1 (32:09):
Do you think I was just going to say that?
Do you think they're trying to save the coach's job?
Do you think the team likes playing for McDaniel, and
they're like, whoa, our GM just got fired. So people's
heads are on the chopping block. We got to save
McDaniel's life.

Speaker 2 (32:21):
I mean, they were sellers at the deadline, like every
reason points to that. They that the locker room should
just quit on it, you know what I'm saying. And
the fact that they're showing this life whenever they're I mean,
they were one and six, right.

Speaker 1 (32:32):
And he doesn't get fired now right in your eyes,
even if they don't pull off six and seven before
the Steelers game six to seven, I think he saved
this job just by this little spurt and the team,
what you said, clearly not quit it.

Speaker 2 (32:44):
Yeah, they clearly still they respect him. Yeah, the total opposite.
I mean, they could still be losing these games. You
could say, well, they're not quitting, kind of like the
Saints or when whatever they are, like, think has got
something there, Yeah, because it looks like they're fighting for him.
And no, they're not only just fighting for him, they're
they're winning games. I know. I mean the commanders are
with the commanders are, but the good overtime and that
and they're you know, at least I mean the commanders
in that room. You gotta feel like we just from

(33:05):
the NFC Championship last year. You know this is a
bust year. Yeah, but the Dolphins you just feel like
new GM. Like there's there's probably even a new GM.
You gotta fear for almost your judging, and maybe maybe
that's fueling it to a point where I gotta got
I gotta play for myself. But that wouldn't manifest itself
in these like close game, finishing game type things. So there, yeah,
there's not I mean, the narratives kind of flipped on

(33:26):
that all together. It kind of would be if you say,
what you say is if that happens and there's and
they all of a sudden they at that point they'd
won four out of five for how dead they looked
and for how hope was of a situation that was that, Yeah,
that would be Alvius. All of a sudden, the script
flips and it becomes a you know, a masterful is
probably too strong of aware, but but a very good coach.

Speaker 1 (33:49):
It's a resurrection act, that's for sure. I will say this,
even if they are six and seven heading into that
Steelers game on Monday Night football. I said in May April,
whenever the schedule is released. That is the most must
win or excuse me, that is the most obvious win
on the Steelers schedule is Miami up here Monday Night football.
A Steelers never lose on Monday Night Football under Mike

(34:09):
tomlin Bee Miami cold weather? Are you kidding me? That
team is still soft? Okay? I know that that team
still can't go into cold weather environments and play very well.
So I even if they're winning games, they're six and seven,
they have the momentum of trying to play for five hundred.
I just I don't think if I had to bet
my life on any game from here on out, that

(34:30):
the Steelers win. I still look at that Dolphins game.
Is it's just such an easy dub.

Speaker 2 (34:34):
And I'll take the other the angle of that and
say they better like they get, you know, whatever you
want to say about it. If it's a race of
ten wins, them as sure you're in the playoffs, or
effectively assure you're in the playoffs. And I know you
should have higher goals and whatever, but you know, if
you're gonna get to if you lose the Dolphins, right
then all of a sudden things get because you got Buffalo,
you got Baltimore twice, you got the Lions. I don't

(34:55):
have the Lion, but you know, yeah, the Dolphins is
up launching. Yes you need don't worry. If you lose
the Dolphins game, then you're gonna have to really win
a couple games that you're gonna be underdogs in, right.
I mean, yes, it's a little little bit harryer here
in terms of you know, division title playoffs or whatever
you're zooting for.

Speaker 1 (35:12):
Bucks and Bills was the big game in the one
o'clock window running parallel with Steelers Bengals. You think Josh
Allen was a little ticked off after the recent performances
from his team. Comes the first quarterback in NFL history
to throw for three touchdowns and run for three touchdowns
in a single game. And that's kind of how the
Bills have to do it, right, Like when they're playing
this is a playoff caliber opponent that they were playing

(35:34):
here in Tampa Bay. If they're gonna win playoff games,
it's gonna look forty four to thirty two because their
defense cannot stop anything, especially when it comes to running
the football. I mean, who the hell is Tucker for
the Buccaneers. No one knew who that guy was. He
ran for one hundred and six yards two tunies against
the Bills rush defense. It's awful. So that's how it's
gonna have to look, right. It's gonna have to look
like Josh Allen going into the phone booth and coming
out of Superman and winning four straight games on his

(35:55):
back alone to win a super Bowl. And that's tough
to see.

Speaker 2 (35:58):
Yeah, it's crazy because yeah, this is a big win
against a good team and it kind of gets them
right and it makes it feel better about that with
the Patriots that they're there in the division, they're all
that stuff, but in a weird kind of way, and
Josh Allen showed you Superman so and they certainly was.

Speaker 1 (36:15):
He's an m VP candidate again.

Speaker 2 (36:17):
But it also what you just said in a weird
kind of twist away. It makes me feel because it's like,
if you don't get Josh Allen, you could get. You
said to do it four weeks in a row against
quality opponents. It comes January and February, it's like, can
you really depend on that? Because I don't. I'm back
to I mean, their top pass catcher was a guy
named Shavers. So I don't even know, like you could

(36:38):
have told me that Shavers is their is their biggest
weapon right now.

Speaker 1 (36:41):
They they benched Coleman, Yeah, they Coleman. They took a
helmet away from him. I wonder if he's like looking
around like, uh, oh, are they gonna take a helmet
away from me again next week?

Speaker 2 (36:49):
Because exactly, yeah, exactly. It's not like he's been overly
dynamic anyway. But yeah, it's uh but yeah, I mean
it was it was a it was a quality, quality win.
Although we can start to question what's what's we we
at the level of quote, what's wrong with the Bucks yet?

Speaker 1 (37:02):
I mean yeah, because they think they played well against.

Speaker 2 (37:04):
Yeah, and it just ran it and they've they've played
they've played really good teams here.

Speaker 1 (37:08):
Of I mean, like I think Baker did everything to
win that game. Again, he just ran into six touchdowns totally.

Speaker 2 (37:15):
Yeah, and it was a back and forth Yeah, obviously
I wasn't watching it.

Speaker 1 (37:18):
Out is misleading, but it was a one score game
for out most of it.

Speaker 2 (37:22):
And the Bucks have lost three of four, but they've
lost the Lions, Patriots, and Bills. Add up those records.
I mean, the Lions not with I mean, the lines
are six and four now, but those are still come on,
we know about the Lions. Yeah, so they're three three
of the best four teams in the league and so,
but it's not that level yet. But the same time,
the math is starting to catch up with the Bucks
that they're six.

Speaker 1 (37:38):
And four now, right, speaking of math catching up to
a team, we'll get into that in the late window
results next and we'll also look at the Monday night
game Tonight Steelers Butitz on Steelers Nation Radio, part of
the Steelers Audio Network. Tom off From and Chris Damski
working our way through the NFL slate for Week eleven

(37:58):
as we wrap up today's edition of the Steelers Blitz
the opponent next week, Chris for the Steelers. Dumb Bears
beat the Vikings last second field goal in nineteen to seventeen.
Bears usually lose those games. Bears usually get walked off
or doink it off the upright to miss the field
goal that they're trying to attempt to win. Not the

(38:18):
case this year, though, Mister fourth quarter comeback Caleb Williams
the Bears with Ben Johnson. That's the most significant, you know,
culture changing aspect he's brought in. They're a bit of
a clutch team now all of a sudden, as opposed
to the team that usually fumbles the game away.

Speaker 2 (38:32):
Yeah, it's wild how that's changed. And they've played they've
probably have the worst resume. We like if like the
SEC commissioner, this was like, you know, they play in
like a cause they're wins.

Speaker 1 (38:43):
This is Indiana last year. Yeah, players, this year Indiana
is good win the national title last year man Fugazi.

Speaker 2 (38:49):
But I mean their best win might have been that
game yesterday at the at JJ McCarthy. I don't see
at the Vikings because that sounds like, oh okay, I no
at JJ kar Thie right now. And it's like other Vikings.

Speaker 1 (39:02):
Are one and four at home this year too. Everybody's
going in there and beating that.

Speaker 2 (39:05):
It's either that or home to the Cowboys, because you've
got you're the Raiders, Commanders, Saints, Bengals, Giants are their
other wins. And it's like they have once and they
have won seven of eight. You got to recognize it.
You got to give them credit for winning these late games.
But they've come the fourth quarter in what five of them,
they have a one point winning against the Raiders, one
point win against the Commanders, the last minute win against

(39:29):
the Bengals that they were losing, the comeback win against
the Giant. They're down by ten in the fourth court
of the Giants, then they give the last second field
going to beat the Vikings. So but it's part of
me once. I mean, it's a young quarterback of a
first year coach. So you know, I'm sure they're feeling it,
and that's good for them. Maybe they are building something.
But you feel like this is kind of a house
of cars that would collapse, right, And I think it

(39:50):
might collapse this weekend when the Steelers come in there.

Speaker 1 (39:52):
I think Watt and herbig they might just knock that
card house over Jags. Chargers thirty five to six, Jacksonville.
What the hell?

Speaker 2 (40:00):
Yeah, that's thank you, that's that's that's the perfect answer
to that.

Speaker 1 (40:03):
You need for the Jags to go away. And now
they got themselves kind of back on stable ground. They're
six and four again instead of being five and five.
I mean, it's just it was a bad, bad result
for the AFC playoff picture in a hole that the
Chargers allowed the Jags to kind of keep in the race.
Here what the hell? Now the Texans are five and

(40:24):
five too. I mean, this is a nightmare, Chris. It's
all packed up.

Speaker 2 (40:26):
And the Chargers one hundred and thirty five yards? Like
what what? What?

Speaker 1 (40:29):
Did they just give everything to beating the Steelers on
that Sunday night game and they're like, let's get into
the by one and one and who cares what happens
in Jacksonville.

Speaker 2 (40:38):
I mean, I would say Trey lan said the worst
performance of a backup, but even the non short door division,
maybe he did. It's three of eight for thirty seven yards.
Uh was once Herbert, but at that point the game
was over, so you can't even know.

Speaker 1 (40:49):
It took share double the pass attempts to complete just
one more.

Speaker 2 (40:52):
So yeah, yeah, it's yeah. I mean, you can't compete
with the Chader level of ineptitude as a backup.

Speaker 1 (40:58):
So but just to get how's like that? I didn't
see that coming, didn't see that coming.

Speaker 2 (41:01):
That was the game that was the most every week
there's the hashtag NFL what thought, Like, didn't.

Speaker 1 (41:06):
Think the Jags were capable of doing that, of blowing.

Speaker 2 (41:10):
And we just saw and I know there's a bias,
we saw them firsthand. The Chargers look like world you know,
so there's that a little bit. They go on the
road across the country. I don't know, but yeah, that's
part of the best way of porting. I didn't think
the Jags had him to do that. No matter who
the opponent is or what the circumstances were.

Speaker 1 (41:26):
The Rams and the Seahawks were the marquee game of
the day for a five kickoff. I'll say this, I
know the Rams won the game. I think Seattle is
the better team, though, if your quarterback for the Corey interceptions, yeah,
and you lose by two, I mean, I think you're
a better team and you're on the road, and you
were still able to kind of keep that game in
doubt despite Donald having the worst game of his UH

(41:47):
Seattle career so far. But I'm walking away from that
game as a Seattle Seahawk fan, and I'm saying, if
I believe in Sam Donald, and I think that that
is more of the outlier for him now and the
performances we've been getting is more in line of what
we will get moving forward. Honestly, we can beat the Rams.
There's nothing there that intimidated me.

Speaker 2 (42:07):
I agree with everything you said. I mean they were
a two hundred more yards of offense, they obviously would
have won the game. Any sort of balanced takeaway giveaway, however,
does it make you the sustainability of Sam Donald winning
four games in a row?

Speaker 1 (42:23):
And then this does give me pause, like the same
thing can happened last year. I'll tell you what else
worries me. His two worst games recently as a quarterback
have been against the La Rams, the Vikings playoff game
where he completely just crapped the bed, got sacked a
billion times. Get rid of that, as I always famously
referenced Paul Allen, the announcer screaming at him from the booth.

(42:44):
And now this game against the Rams. So maybe it's
just a thing, right, Like, maybe it's just the Rams
and McVeigh have his number. Not a good division to
find yourself in though. If that's the case, now moving forward,
you're gonna have to play those guys twice.

Speaker 2 (42:55):
Yeah, and then they have him, and they got the
Colts and Rams back to back.

Speaker 1 (42:59):
Now leading up the following Seattle's fun this next couple
of weeks, huh.

Speaker 2 (43:04):
Yeah, now, yeah, they're they're coming up. They have their
little they have Titans Viking a couple then, and they're
five days apart, four days apart that they put a
third Thursday Night Seahawks Rams in late December.

Speaker 1 (43:17):
I hate that. Yeah, that's garbage. That is just garbage.
A game like that shouldn't be a short one.

Speaker 2 (43:21):
But it's weird because the Rams win a big game,
beat a rival, and like they want it. But it's like,
in a weird way, like I feel almost less, you
know what I'm saying, because they need all those takeaways.
I mean, the Steelers have lived that life a little
bit too, But it's like Stafford wasn't dynamic against a
really good defense, so I kind of almost feel wre
It's weird, like they played a real close game. They're
two really good teams. I look forward to this game

(43:43):
a lot, and I almost kind of like, I don't
know if I feel any better, but either one of
them chances to the super Bowl.

Speaker 1 (43:48):
I think you kind of walk away feeling a little
better about the defense the team that lost. To be
honest with.

Speaker 2 (43:52):
You, yeah yeah, certainly defensively.

Speaker 1 (43:54):
Yeah, Chiefs Broncos. I'll give it to bon Nicks, man.
I mean I've been doubting you, bro. Two hundred and
ninety five yards. Great comeback in the end of the game.
You were slinging it when it mattered most. You win
twenty two to nineteen, you're going to win the division.
Now the Chargers are seven and four, the Chiefs are
five and five. It would take a bad, bad, bad collapse,

(44:14):
and especially a defense like that. I don't see them
having a bad, bad collapse. So Denver's going to win
that division. They're undefeated at home. If they get home
field advantage, that's going to be tricky for all the
AFC teams to have to go in there. But the Chiefs,
the math is all of a sudden, not math. And
for them now they're five and five, and it don't
get easier, Like they don't all of a sudden get

(44:34):
some lamps. There's the Colts team that's coming into Arrowhead
this week that is going to be tricky for them
to dispose of.

Speaker 2 (44:40):
Yeah, that they fought a five and six, and that's
the thing.

Speaker 1 (44:43):
If they fought a five at six, Oh my god.
Because you talk.

Speaker 2 (44:46):
About resumes and saying the Bears have it now and
this is some much wrap, but I mean their losses
are I mean Eagles, Chargers at the Jags, we saw tough.
That was for a good team the Bills and Broncos
that lose the Colts. You're five and but you're still
at that point, you're still five and six, and you
got ground to make up, and you gotta really go
on a heat or just just to get in into
the tournament.

Speaker 1 (45:06):
As Bill Parcells called it, Lions Eagles, that's the rare
game where both teams set themselves back.

Speaker 2 (45:12):
Yeah, it was.

Speaker 1 (45:13):
I won't say this that the Eagles defense is playing
some other level, other worldly style of football. I mean
that way what they did to Detroit, like Jalen Carter,
see the best player in football on defense like quietly, sneakily, No,
it's Miles Garrett is fifteen freaking sacks.

Speaker 2 (45:29):
Yeah every week. Yeah, it is wild Miles Garrett do it.
But Carter is a very powerful force. It just made
it made the Lions look totally like pedestrian. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (45:40):
Yeah, and that's what they did the package the week before.
So all of a sudden, you know, the Eagles, all
the touch, push, the offense hurts. Can you play quarterback?
And they're just kind of like we're the best defense
of football, Like we're gonna this defense and It's great
because the one seat again in the Rams, Seahawks and
and Eagles are all built on defense.

Speaker 2 (45:57):
Really, I mean, the they have you know, they all
have really good defense. I guess what I'm getting at
and there and if they're building up, but I mean
they're all no, I get what you mean. Yeah, it's
because defense champion. I mean, and if the Packers ever
get right somehow, they mean.

Speaker 1 (46:09):
They're their defense is just as elite.

Speaker 2 (46:10):
He's an interesting just then you get the Bucks. You're
kind of the other.

Speaker 1 (46:13):
Nineteen seventy five and the other. The defense is winning
the championship.

Speaker 2 (46:18):
All right.

Speaker 1 (46:18):
We'll be back on Wednesday, Mike Tomlin press conference tomorrow,
so enjoy that. He's Chris and Dansky. I'm Tom Aferman.
This has been the Steelers Blitz on Steelers Nation Radio,
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