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Speaker 1 (00:08):
Steelers approved to five and three with a win over
the Indianapolis Colts. We said all week last week on
the Steelers Blitz, it was gonna have to be done
on the backs of the offense.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
So of course it was done on the backs of
the defense.

Speaker 1 (00:19):
With six takeaways, five sacks of Daniel Jones, an absolute
stuffing of Jonathan Taylor, and that Colts rushing attack. Just
an A plus performance from the defensive side of the ball.
Spent the entire first hour talking about that side of
the ball. On offense, Chris, it wasn't a bad performance.
It was certainly a slow starting performance by the offense.

(00:41):
Some three and outs early had you getting a little
bit worried, right, It was like, oh boy, they're gonna
have to get into this track meet, and if they're
gonna have to keep up with the Colts, they better
start soon because they are really starting to stall out.

Speaker 2 (00:54):
Then TJ.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
Watt gets the strip, sack and fumble recovery in the
offense is able to go on their best drive of
the day to that point, twelve play drive and they
end up getting the ball into the end zone there
to tie the game. Peyton Wilson's play follows. Then they
get the ball on the end zone after that, and
they really didn't look back. So there was timely touchdowns,
not a lot of yardage put up. Didn't run the
football particularly well, but.

Speaker 2 (01:17):
Did enough to get the win.

Speaker 1 (01:18):
And you know, twenty seven points is nothing to scoff
at at the NFL level, and it's two more than
your average on the season heading into that game, so you.

Speaker 2 (01:27):
Know, it's weird.

Speaker 1 (01:28):
It's like kind of like a like a B minus
performance from the offense.

Speaker 2 (01:33):
But I'm not mad at it. I just think it
could have been better in some areas.

Speaker 1 (01:37):
They could have really, they could have really run that
thing up if they would have been a bit more
of a compliment to what the defense was providing them.

Speaker 3 (01:46):
Yeah, Rogers was kind of real open, and you that's
a good leader. He should say that. He should. You know,
the defense gotta be better. We weren't very good today,
and you look at it. There was the longest carry
was eight yards, the longest reception was eighteen yards. So
literally zero explosive plays at least ten on the rusher,
twenty on the receiving to call it a big play
on how you define it, and the yards per carried

(02:08):
really ugly one point seven yards per carry, you got
the two rushing touchdowns. I do think there is a
just like and I'm not excused, but like in the
fourth quarter, just like the defense, I wish that the
stat line looked better. I do think if the Stewers
were trailing or in a tight game, they pretty much
played the fourth quarter offensively, just milk the clock. There

(02:29):
wasn't any needs in it. I mean, you look at
the all year long. Of course, we've talked a lot
about Aaron Rodgers being he was by far two point
one four seconds this game one point seven yards completed
air yard average two point seven yards intended, though his
lowest of the season, the lowest in Week nine by
far in the NFL. But again that was a lot

(02:50):
by design. Whereas they had to lead a lot most
of the game, they didn't need to do anything. They
were getting really short fields, so they were just by
that alone. But you do want to say that if
you get six takeaways, you get the ball six times,
not all of them, of course we're on the on
the plus side of the field, but but if you
get six six takeaways, you almost think you should get

(03:11):
more points. Now they did get twenty four points off
of turnovers, which ties the most under Mike Tomlin since
he's been the coach for the Steelers. So they did
turn those drives into points, and the yards was down
all that. Yeah, definitely felt like there was more proverbial
meat on the bone offensively, but at the same time,
I didn't feel like because again, the game situation was

(03:31):
what it was, there was no reason to really push
it downfield for the large For the most part, those
first three drives are probably, if you're going to criticize
the offense, the the best argument against it are those
first three drives because then obviously they were trailing. Some
of the game's obviously still in question at that point there.
You would like to see some more splashed. I mean,
the DK Metcalf only what one or two catches for

(03:51):
six yards is Yeah, that's that's not that's not not
part of the rock. Yes, yeah, that that can't be.

Speaker 1 (03:58):
And another drop another big, you know, fat in your
face drop.

Speaker 3 (04:02):
Yep, and uh, I mean Johnny went the very first play.
They were the first play of the game, certainly the
first driver, the first first play the game, right, Yeah,
that the John new Smith again, three cats were twenty
five yards from him, and he had a couple that throwly.

Speaker 1 (04:12):
That drop for sure, and wanted disservice to himself, Chris,
because there was right finally Johnny Smith's downfield running right
and everything Rogers leading him into it. You're gonna have
a chance to run up the sideline here, You're gonna
have a chance to take on a safety and maybe
you know, get a little contact, put him in the dirt,
and he forgot the most important part.

Speaker 3 (04:30):
Yeah, especially the way the game that started there, You're like,
oh jeez, that's because again, there was just supposed to be.
I want to say there's some if the season started
you might I mean, Calvin Austin, you could say it
was gonna was gonna take the top off if you
but if you say, I mean were the two best
biggest playmakers in the team on the offense, is supposed
to be Johnny Smith and DK Met.

Speaker 1 (04:49):
Yeah, take the top off wouldn't have been how that
would have looked, But the big explosive would have been
up the seams or kind of what Johnny was doing
when he was coming across the field about fifteen twenty
yards downfield and you just kind of lead him into
it for thirty yards, like, so it was so beautifully
skimmed out there. You know they were working on that
all week. You know, they were in there for the game,
like and Rogers like, I love. Yeah, he's probably thinking,

(05:13):
you know what, let's get John who going, Like, let's
get him going early in the game.

Speaker 2 (05:16):
And John yeah, yeah, help yourself.

Speaker 3 (05:19):
You know that that play in particular in the in
the you know, overall lack of production of those two,
there's there's a lot of justifiable nitpicking we can do
about the offense overall. You're right, though, I'll give him
a pass because like they didn't if they would have
done that whenever they were trailing the game or are
they in the fourth quarter, if there was that type
of when they were in a tie game, whatever it

(05:40):
is they needed to score, they need to do whatever,
I'd be a lot more critical of it. But at
the same time, you know, there wasn't a need to.
But the way the defense was taking the ball away
and giving him short fields and things like that, you know,
I'm willing to overlook a lot of that, and obviously
the wins the win too. But but but they recognize it,
and I think we'd seen the previous couple of games

(06:00):
that the offense is capable of it, and it's like,
you know, the best, and I'm not going to pile
on who I sometimes get accused of piling on too,
But it's like Rogers had, you know, other than the
Seahawks game, probably his worst or at least most middling game.
And his passer rating is still ninety five point three,
which there was a point a couple of seasons ago

(06:22):
where there was no Seawars quarterback putting up ninety five
passer ratings in a game, if you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (06:27):
And he was able to get them in the end
zone and capitalize off of defensive turnovers. Yeah, he wasn't
you know, spectacular by any means. Didn't have an MVP
level performance stat wise, but.

Speaker 3 (06:41):
And we just we've pointed out two drops draft the bat,
and there was you know a couple of throwaways and there,
I mean, how many times did he miss a target
all game? I don't know if he did. Now again,
when you're throwing it only an average three yards on
the field, you better not miss too many targets. But hey,
that's part of the and you know the three sacks,
and I always talking about the quarterback. One of them
was was wasn't an intentional sack, but late in the
game throwing it away is the dumb move there, right,

(07:03):
you run the clock, you take the sack on a
third down. Another one was similarly where it was like
they were it was end of the first half and
they were scoring range there, and again he's not trying
to take the sack there, but it was situationally, is
kind of what happened. You're trying to either get in
the end zone or get the field goal at that point,
so you kind of maybe hold a little longer because
you're not you don't have that long term view of

(07:24):
this drive. We need to keep the chains moving, right,
So overall, you know that goes to the line obviously
as well too. But Rogers, overall, I thought, make overall,
make good decisions. I didn't have a It was an
idynamic game by any stretch of the imagination. But again
I think that you know what you need to win
a game at certain points and outside the first quarter.
I didn't have a problem with really what the offense

(07:44):
was doing or not doing.

Speaker 1 (07:45):
How about Rodgers when he tried to get into the
end zone, tried to get the edge duck in the
head down, Yeah, taking the contact. That was like, Yo,
I love the fact that you're not afraid of contact anymore,
and I've praised you for it all year. Like he's
not a typical forty one year old quarterback where he's
going to away in the pocket because he's afraid of
getting hit. Like he hasn't shown that at all. But
don't do that. I mean that was just way too Yeah,

(08:08):
I mean I don't like that at all. So even
though Johnny Smith dropped that initial pass that really would
have had him probably close to a sixty yard performance,
maybe even more based on what he could have done
yard after the catch on that play.

Speaker 2 (08:20):
The tight ends, Chris, they combined for ninety.

Speaker 1 (08:24):
Five yards of offense between Darnell and Pat Fryarmouth and
Johnny Smith and Pat Friremuth obviously got into the end zone.

Speaker 2 (08:32):
So that's a really good day from your tight end room.

Speaker 1 (08:35):
That was really the That was kind of the wide
receiver one built in the aggregate because dk metcff had
such a non existent day.

Speaker 3 (08:43):
Yeah, and it was there, and like I said, I
thought the touchdown was from Friarmuth was pretty much a
textbook friarmth touchdown. I mean, they what they they brought
up on the broadcast, even the zone killer, and he
found his spot and Rogers threw it behind him. And
I think Rogers, now what we learned about him is
he's he He's very meticulous in what he does. And

(09:05):
there might not there might be other tight ends or
players that you wouldn't have thrown that ball to because
you wouldn't have trusted them to be able to reach
back and get that ball right where it needed to
be in terms of the defense and then fall into
the end zone.

Speaker 1 (09:16):
It was.

Speaker 3 (09:16):
It was sort of a sneaky, beautifully executed play in
terms of and that's what again with all these tight
ends on the roster, and of course those couple of
weeks where Freman kind of disappeared from the offense. I mean,
I know, three touch, three catches of twenty seven yards,
but it just felt like there were more that his
other two catches. They think I both got first downs,
but generally if you're gonna get it, but that kind

(09:37):
of there wasn't any third down catches. I was looking
at all his catches here turn this but yeah, it
was again it's it was enough what they needed. The
Darnell Washington you see every every week. I guess it's
not it shouldn't. I shouldn't make note of it anymore
because we've seen it enough now. But I still sort
of like raised my eyebrows little note like Darnell progressing

(09:58):
as a as a receiver some some of the catches
he made. And it wasn't a huge production day, but
just in terms of his body type and his control
and to be able to get again well thrown balls
that are intentionally maybe thrown behind or maybe not intentionally,
I don't know, and in some of these scenarios and
able to hold onto the ball. Things like that. It
just you see him progress more and more as a

(10:19):
Legit not just like big five fou fomb and thrown
up during the end zone. You know, he's actually like
a weapon now you can have various points in the field.

Speaker 1 (10:27):
I mean he's tight end one. I mean he's the
number one tight end in this offense. It's not it's
now not just in you know, snap count and usage.
It's in the passing game too. Right together, the tight
ends put together a ten catch, ninety five yard, one
touchdown performance on fifteen targets. We have built the Kelsey
in the Gronk in the we frankenstein them together. Yes,

(10:52):
in the aggregate, we have built them up. We have
moneyballed our way to having the one true great tight end.
But in all seriousness, that's kind of what the idea was, right.
It's like, we're going to have all three of these
guys and they together are going to be such a
weapon that can put up a stat line like that
that is commiserate to any you.

Speaker 2 (11:10):
Know, number one option, Any number one option in a
team's passing game that goes ten catches ninety five yards
in a touchdown.

Speaker 1 (11:16):
It's a good day. You know, that's not a failure.
You know that's going to help the team win. That's
what you are probably paying that person, that gentleman to
contribute for. Now, this is three dudes contributing to that.
But you know what I'm saying, it's that position group.
And if you don't have a true number two wide receiver,
what's going to be the option opposite of DK? What
about if DK has a bad game, what about if

(11:37):
DK gets taken out of the game, what'll be.

Speaker 2 (11:39):
The tight end room? And there you go, that was
the case.

Speaker 3 (11:43):
And of course you're playing two or three of them
on the field many times throughout the game. What did
I that there were ninety nine snaps in the tight
ends of whenever the offense overall, And I mean that
you're showing how often they're playing. If you guys up
all the tight ends together, you're showing how often they're
playing whenever. There was only sixty t snap, so you're
averaging one and a half tight ends on the field

(12:03):
for any given moment for a play. So that's how
often they played two or three tight end sets. And
and that's that's what the offense is now. And you're right,
Darnold Washington, he's not just the extra tackle now. He
they're looking to him in the field. They're looking to
him his raw tree. It's it's not just the hack
of shock or whatever. Go up and post up with

(12:23):
what we've seen and that's obviously can be very effective.
And they and on the wide receiver version of that
is DK metcalf and they tried that again. It's the
first time. It didn't work, really, doing the little quick
fade out in the DK and he kind of boxes
out the defenders. The first time. All season in the
end zone. I don't think it worked if you had
such a great touchdown production all season long. But yeah,

(12:43):
to see Darnel and I mean if you get the
one play in the passing game for fire me like that.
You like that and the John New players right there
for him. So if you're gonna we do have to
acknowledge that if that was there, you'd really be talking
about a productive day from the from the tight ends.

Speaker 1 (12:57):
Yeah, I mean they would have an over one hundred
yards and he would have had probab maybe the leading
yardage of the pass catchers of Aaron Rodgers in this game.
Calvin Austin was the one who ended up being that
with fifty six yards. The other thing that I wanted
to touch on when it came to the offense was
the running game. It just wasn't ever able to really
get going. And that's a little bit disappointing because it

(13:21):
had shown such promise in the previous weeks. And not
to say that the Colts are a bad rush defense,
but you just played the Packers, who are or were
the number one rush defense heading into the Steelers Packers
game on Sunday Night Football, and you ran all over
them in the first half of that game. I mean,
I think Jaylen Warren actually had a really good performance.

(13:42):
He only got three carries in the second half. He
couldn't affect the game anymore after halftime. But I thought
you were able to run on a really good defense. Now,
they also just got ran up and down the field
on by Rico Dawell this weekend that Packers defense. So
maybe we need to do some reevaluating on how good
that Packers rush defense is. But still I digress. The
Colts were supposed to be a little bit of a

(14:02):
step down as far as that's concerned, and you just
weren't able to get anything going Warren one point nine.

Speaker 2 (14:09):
Yards per carry.

Speaker 1 (14:11):
And it's not like you abandoned it, right, thirty five passes,
twenty three runs, like you kept trying to run the ball,
and with a lead, in a double digit lead, double
digit a double score lead, you want to, you know,
salt away that clock and control time of possession. But
they just were never able to get anything going on
the ground save the two touchdowns, but they came from

(14:31):
a yard out and then two yards out.

Speaker 3 (14:33):
Yeah, I just looked at eight of his touches were
one yard or less negative or no gain. Now one
of them was a touchdown, so you can't you can't
get any more than one of that and that was
a successful play off course, So yeah, that's again, you know,
especially having the lead, you would think that that would
be something that you would just get volume and get
more than thirty eight rushing yards. Right, It's kind of

(14:53):
crazy to think this team had a seventeen point lead
in the fourth quarter and only to finish the game
with thirty eight rushing yards and even gain well it
was negative. He had that one. That one play was
that Doug what Pratt from the from the Colts that
like read that that was? That was? That was quite
a play. I don't like you remember the pitch to
to gain well and he was there before I caught

(15:13):
the pitch. I'm like, what the heck does happened there? Yeah,
I definitely that play was coming. Wasn't your main Pratt?

Speaker 1 (15:20):
The guy on the Bengals who said, like I could
tell what was happening with Steelers.

Speaker 2 (15:22):
That's what I was. I remember you playing for the
I'm like, I was Canada offense. That wasn't that I could.

Speaker 3 (15:27):
Remember what the Pratt Bengals linebacker controversy was I think
I can played him with some of the old old
school Uh.

Speaker 2 (15:36):
I remember what did Pratt do?

Speaker 3 (15:37):
I think remember roll of decks and go back, and
but I never did google to see what the prob
I remember the Bengals. There was something where the Steelers
probably beat him and he something talked. But no, okay,
now if that's what it was. Yeah, but either way, yeah,
you need it needs to be better. You can't have
one point seven year news flash, you're not going to
go very far.

Speaker 2 (15:57):
The rest of the season and everything again, the progress
that was being made.

Speaker 3 (16:00):
Yeah, that's that is disappointing because you yeah, that was.

Speaker 1 (16:03):
And this was a good opportunity to like go salt
a game away, like just go get a first down
and then another first down and then another first down
and then before you know, we.

Speaker 2 (16:11):
Just ate up nine minutes o'clock.

Speaker 1 (16:12):
It is what I mean, like this was it like, hey,
for a few weeks now you have really started to
run the ball. Well, okay, now's the chance to the opportunity.

Speaker 2 (16:22):
This is when we need to go.

Speaker 1 (16:23):
This is like you know, you've been doing a lot
of training exercises. Now we're going out to sweep the city.
Now we're going out to actually be the vigilante. We
need you to end this game for us, and you
just couldn't rely on it.

Speaker 3 (16:32):
It's like it's like first world problems here. They just
beat a seven and one team and they had a
seventeen point lead them. But it's like, hey, it's like
classic like again it's a one scoring game. Like like
it's like they're gonna blow out the cults here, like
blow up the Mighty Colts.

Speaker 2 (16:43):
It ends up beat a seventh that's deceiving it is.

Speaker 1 (16:46):
I like to think of it more as like a
twenty seven to thirteen. That's how it more felt.

Speaker 3 (16:50):
Right, but warp tized together is if they were able
to run the ball and close the game out, then
all those possessions in the fourth quarter don't happen if
you have a six minute drive where even if you
get a field goal or don't score right about so
that that's what I'm getting at is where having that
you could have closed out the game, you had your
opportunity with a three, three score lead in the fourth quarter,
I guess the team that's when you should just handle

(17:10):
ball off to your running back and just pile up,
you know, let him meet, let him get that good
fantasy day for all his fantasy We got the two ties,
so we did have a good fantasy day. But and
you didn't get that. So that's because that was one
of the more if you as of last seven games
into the season, list of what the most encouraging or
the best parts of the team had been or the
some exceed expectations on the team, I think the running

(17:33):
game slash, the run blocking slash day then Warren was
was right up there and maybe at the top of
the list.

Speaker 1 (17:42):
Again, it does feel a little nitpicky, but it's just
something that I really was optimistic about. Wanted to see
it kind of carry into this Colts game, and you
didn't see that rush offense come to fruition. If you
were a fan of running the football in general, like
if you tune in the NFL games to see some
good old ground and pound, this was not the game

(18:04):
for you. Forty two carries ninety three yards between the
two teams. So they tried to run the ball, both teams.

Speaker 2 (18:10):
They could not. They could not do it.

Speaker 1 (18:11):
Uh, they each averaged together two point two yards. Because
anytime there was a handoff in this game. It was
going for two yards.

Speaker 3 (18:17):
And yeah, nothing right, eight yard carry from Warren and
a nine yard carry from Taylor and that was and
that was that from the from the running game, not
even not even one like at all sort of splash
run play of any sort.

Speaker 2 (18:29):
So yeah, it was there.

Speaker 3 (18:31):
And but you know, Warren did have the two runs
its first two of the season, which kind of surprise.
I mean, you'll obviously it happened. I couldn't think back
to onunks it didn't happen, but I just like, wow,
wearn't isn't a rushing touchdown yet? And he had he
had two in the one game, so he finished the
plays when need being. There were both in their own
little ways for being one and two yard runs, nice
little runs to get to the goal line. You know
they he showed you a classic kind of Jalen Warren

(18:51):
muscle his way, especially the first one in the end zone.
So take it from that, and yeah, you would hope.

Speaker 2 (18:58):
But you know, people they could.

Speaker 3 (19:00):
I mean, the Colts defense isn't it certainly wasn't their strength,
but I mean that is what it is. You won
the football game. You'd like to see the run game
be better, and it has been better. Frankly, even in
some of these losses, some of the games when they're
behigh when they needed to, they were able to run
the ball pretty well. They they wouldn't evenink they'd be
running the ball well sore, running the ball with efficiency.
So move on to next week and see where they

(19:22):
are against the Chargers.

Speaker 2 (19:22):
Run the ball down the Chargers. How about that? I like,
that's what we'll do to the Chargers. All right, we
come back.

Speaker 1 (19:28):
We'll probably actually talk about the Chargers a little bit,
because we'll talk about all the rest of what happened
in the NFL in Week nine, and we'll start with
the Division. Steelers still hold onto that two game lead
when it comes to the AFC NOR thanks to their
win against the Colts.

Speaker 2 (19:42):
He's CHRISA.

Speaker 1 (19:42):
Damskim Tom Opferman. This is the Steelers Blitz on Steelers
Nation Radio, a part of the Steelers Audio Network. Thanks
to the Steelers win against the Colts and some help
from at least one of the other AFC North let's say,

(20:05):
contestants in the sweepstakes for the twenty twenty five Grand
Prize of the Division Championship, they got some help from
the Cincinnati Bengals, so they keep their two game lead
in the North. The Ravens did win on Thursday. We
talked about the game a bit on Friday's episode, So
let's talk about what the heck happened to the Cincinnati Bengals.

Speaker 2 (20:28):
Forty two points. Forty two points and you lose the.

Speaker 1 (20:32):
Game by five, And it was just embarrassing what happened
in that last play where the Bears did just need
a field goal but they had no timeouts left, Chris,
all you had to do because I think Loveless caught
the ball in about the range of what the Bears
kicker can hit, but it was still kind of on

(20:54):
the borderline.

Speaker 2 (20:55):
You bring him down. They're doing the scramble drill.

Speaker 1 (20:58):
They got to spike the ball, you know what I mean,
Like they got to settle everything down and then they
got to get out there and they got to kick
a field goal to try to win the game. And say,
just let him bounce off of you like nothing, and
he just rumbles into the end zone and walks you off.
I mean, it really is an embarrassing performance by that
Bengals defense, and the players on the Bengals offense were
letting them know that in the post game, Jamar Chase

(21:21):
saying like, I don't really want to speak, you know,
out of turn. I don't want a defensive player coming
to me and saying what I've been doing wrong or
something like that. And I was like, wow, that's a
pretty classy way to say that. And then Chase Brown
was flat out just like like, I mean, we got
a score, just get a stop, like you literally just
need to get We have to play complimentary football.

Speaker 2 (21:38):
I don't blame him very much.

Speaker 1 (21:39):
You score forty two points in an NFL game, I mean,
you should be winning those NFL games.

Speaker 2 (21:45):
It's wild.

Speaker 3 (21:46):
I mean, think about the last three games they've played.

Speaker 2 (21:48):
Now.

Speaker 3 (21:48):
They obviously they beat the Steelers, but they've what if
they have now that since Flacco became that started did
he start? He did start the green Bay game, But okay,
we'll give a pass that first week in green Bay.
But if you think, but now, what is that one
hundred and thirteen points in three games and they've lost
two of them? So uh and they had they had leads,

(22:09):
what multi score leads in each of those games too.
They it was that again. Now, I'm not gonna sit
here because I'm in there in the Steelers' locker room
and whenever that fourth quarter of the Bengals and Bears
games going back and forth. But just just following that
from that aspect, getting the notification of the Bengals and

(22:30):
you see what the Bears with that, like, oh, the
Bengals think, okay, like it's still in play that because
if the Bengals went held on there, it was still
very much in play that the game two weeks from
now or now, thirteen days from now, it was gonna
be for first place in the AFC.

Speaker 2 (22:43):
North, right, could have been yeah, yes, I could have
been yes, but all.

Speaker 3 (22:46):
That would taken the Steelers will lose the Chargers and
the Bengals to win their next game, is all and
that that would have been. Then that would have been
next week or in two weeks from now. The Bengals
are off. So that's all I taken, was was that,
But it didn't happen. Obviously. It's just like they're almost
like a character of themselves, that Bengals defense. Right, It's like, yeah,
we know they're bad, but it's like after week.

Speaker 2 (23:08):
It's like they're leaning into it. It's like that for
that game to go.

Speaker 3 (23:11):
That way, that every time you thought the game was
over because the offense like it just they get the ball,
they got like, it's just like they score again.

Speaker 2 (23:21):
They's going. It's just you know.

Speaker 1 (23:23):
Who's the biggest fan of that Bengals defense, the Bears defense,
because my.

Speaker 2 (23:28):
God, you were bad too.

Speaker 1 (23:29):
I mean, you were awful, but no one's talking about
you because your offense was able to pull it out
against that defense. But I guarantee you, internally, the Bears
defenders are kind of looking around each other, like kind
of side on each other and being like, we got
away with one.

Speaker 2 (23:44):
And seventy six yards five to seventy six. Wow, Like
I it's just like I And it's week after week,
I go through for four to seventy.

Speaker 3 (23:53):
I mean it's just like and again the it's like
it happens. I mean, the Steelers give up before it,
but it's just week after or a week after week
after week for these guys. And it says that you
knew going into the season, and like, and I feel
I remember I was in our power.

Speaker 2 (24:09):
I was really high on.

Speaker 3 (24:10):
The Bengals to start the season higher than that I
should clearly higher than I should have been.

Speaker 2 (24:14):
Like obviously Joe Burrow is not doing anything that seventy
But a.

Speaker 3 (24:20):
Major part of my rationale, which stupid rationale for a
lot of reasons. I get it, I thow it, but
was that Okay, they were a winning record team last
year whenever their defense was historically bad. I said, the
defense will be better by accident. Like they're like, it
just can't be worse. It'll just somehow, organically, somehow will
be better.

Speaker 2 (24:38):
And it has gotten worse, so much worse.

Speaker 3 (24:40):
And it's just like the opportunity there for them with Flacco,
they could have won these past couple of games, and
you know, you'd be really I feel like you're cooking
with gas there, Like, look at this offense. Now we're
going to add the best, arguably the best quarterback in
football to it, and well where was gonna out score everybody?
And that's a viable I mean, it's probably not destay
able to get to the super Bowl, but viable to
be anybody in a given day. If you have that
of offense and you have that kind of defense, your

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viable to loot. And as they prove by losing to
the New York Jets, who literally beating nobody else in
the league. But it's like I said, I think especially,
but it's a characterture. It's just so bad, like it's
just like just sort of like it's like it's just real.
It's like it's like fictional. How bad it is.

Speaker 1 (25:17):
They fired their defensive coordinator Luana Morano, butcher that name.

Speaker 2 (25:20):
It's tough fun to say.

Speaker 1 (25:21):
Yeah, he was coordinating that Colts defense against the Steelers
and the Bengals did really nothing else other than that,
and they just kind of shuffled the deck chair as
far as the DC was concerned, and.

Speaker 2 (25:32):
He clearly wasn't the problem.

Speaker 1 (25:33):
And now, Chris, to your point about how you were like, well,
they can't get worse, and they have gotten worse. You're thinking, Wow,
he was like the one holding it together. He was
the one kind of at least making it. I mean,
this is a low, low bar, but like somewhat decently
kind of sort of squint and you can see it
being respectable. And now they're just such a joke. And
you know, he's an Indian. The Colts defense is solid.

(25:55):
You know he's getting a good job done there. And
what does that tell you too? When he gets fired
as a defensive coordinator for one of the worst defenses
in the league last year, but another team snatches them
right up and it's like, I want you to be
our DC. Like that says a lot, I think, And
now it's playing out in a way that kind of
tells you in hindsight, I see why the cults are like,
let's go grab him and boy the Bengals just kind

(26:15):
of sitting on their hands in personnel and just saying like, wow,
we'll just fire the coach and bringing a new coach
that clearly is not working for them, so they go down.

Speaker 2 (26:24):
You can never buy into them rallying because they just
won't win enough games. They'll lose the defensive will games with.

Speaker 1 (26:29):
Three and six now, so that's pretty much dead and
gone as far as they're concerned. The Steelers were a
pretty surprising upset this weekend, but the most surprising has
to be the Panthers going into Lambeau and beating the
Packers sixteen to thirteen. And I gotta be honest with you,
I'm done with the Packers. I'm done with them. I
picked them to win the Super Bowl this year. I
don't remember if I picked them the win. I know

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that they were going to the Super Bowl. It was
Packers Bills. I think was what I had it. I
am done with the Packers. They are not a serious team.
They need to grow up. They need They are the
youngest team in the NFL. The youngest team in the
NFL needs to put on their big boy points. They
need to grow up because they don't take these kind
of games seriously. They always have the letdowns. Browns Panthers.
They come off of big wins. They make huge statements

(27:11):
on national TV. They beat the Lions in Week one,
they arrive, they beat the Steelers on Sunday Night Football.
In Rodgers's game against them, they deny him the chance
of being the quarterback to beat all of the thirty
two franchises to join that fraternity. Jordan Love balls out.
They're the darlings again. Wow, look out for the Packers.
And then they lay an egg on their home field
against the Panthers because it's boring, right, it's Carolina at

(27:31):
one pm. Oh, we'll hohume our way through this game.
But you can't holdme your way against the Panthers.

Speaker 2 (27:36):
They're sneaky.

Speaker 1 (27:37):
They can run the hell out of the football. Yes,
they got blown out by the Bills just a week
prior but clearly that team isn't quitting on their coach.
They're an above five hundred team. They were five hundred
team heading into that game. They had great bounce back,
and you should have recognized early in that game, oh boy,
we're in for a fight. Panthers came to play and
the Packers just never were able to punch back.

Speaker 2 (27:56):
We're never able to get into that game with them.

Speaker 1 (27:58):
So embarrassing performance by the Green Bay Packers and unseerious
performance by the Green Bay Packers. And until you start
to grow up and until you start to you know,
take care of business like you're supposed to do against
teams like that at home, I cannot take you seriously
to run the table and win a Super Bowl.

Speaker 3 (28:13):
And two weeks ago, we had the discussion about Jordan
Love and I think this is kind of where we were.
We're like, is he you know, it's a cliche, the
old Joe, the original Joe Flacco thing, the young Joe
Flacco thing of is he a leite or not? And
it was like, and I think this is what we were
talking about in a roundabout way, like last week he was,
next week he's not a week one against Then you

(28:36):
know Detroit, he was Week two, like, all of a sudden,
the whole entire offense lays an egg now twice against
teams that they should beat, that they should take care
of business against, and that you put up. It's very good, Tom.
I like that they're not serious. They need to grow
they need to grow up.

Speaker 2 (28:52):
As a yes, as the youngest team in the league
and they need to grow up.

Speaker 1 (28:54):
Ye.

Speaker 3 (28:54):
Absolutely, yeah, because these kind of performances just aren't excusable
for the.

Speaker 1 (28:58):
All you have the same and this is a credit
to the Panthers. Don't get me wrong, give the same
amount of wins as the Panthers. Now, Pantas are five
wins and you Green Bay has five wins, and hey,
kudos to Carolina. You know, they're a sneaky team this year.
They're feisty. Rico Daudo if you let him, will run
the hell all over you.

Speaker 2 (29:13):
He's awesome.

Speaker 1 (29:14):
So they're gonna kind of be in the playoff picture.
And they're a team that is, like I said, they're
fighting and they're playing for Dave Canals down there.

Speaker 2 (29:21):
But you're Green Bay. You're a different tier completely. You're
supposed to not have the same amount of wins entering
into November as the Carolina Panthers.

Speaker 3 (29:31):
Yeah, it's it's to delay the and it's not just
they lost those two games. We can say hashtag NFL
or anything happens, but what ten points and thirteen points?
And I get Cleveland. It's a good defense. I understand that,
all right, but it's just like, but you're the Packer.
You lose games thirteen to ten and sixteen to thirteen.
You're two losses this season the two teams that I know.
Carolina is the rec good record and all that, but

(29:53):
what I what would they say? What was my Verbert last?
We went through those like I'm done, I'm no more Panthers.

Speaker 2 (29:58):
No I'm not.

Speaker 3 (29:59):
I can't Panther any more. I'm done. I'm done talking about.

Speaker 2 (30:01):
Not so fast in the playoffs.

Speaker 3 (30:05):
Yeah, they're right there, and the preferre of the playoffs
for sure, and uh it can be a factor. But yeah,
for the Packers, it's right. It's like for me once, okay, whatever,
you know, maybe you had and that wasn't even after
Detroy came. That was up there too. When I was
thinking it was after the week two they lost to Cleveland.
That was Week three they lost to Cleveland, so it
wasn't like a letdown after beating the Lions and that
whole thing where you know, it seemed like they were

(30:27):
you know that the division win and all that. But
so yeah, I'm just disappointing that's doing these power like
there's team that disappoint me. I'm just like, I'm not
gonna father, I'm like, you know what, I'm not even mad.
I'm just disappointing you because you you're better than this.

Speaker 1 (30:41):
It was a bit of a disappointing week as far
as like a power the major shakeup as far as
power rankings were concerned. I can't wait for Wednesday's episode
to really get in the lab and figure out where
these teams are landing. Very scientific, very official. But speaking
of the Lions and defeating the Lions, that's another one
that kind of shook things up with the Vikings going

(31:01):
into Detroit. I was saying on Friday, you know you're
hearing this term soft benching being thrown around when it
comes to JJ McCarthy, like maybe he was healthier than
they let on, and they were kind of just like,
let's just keep playing once as much as we can
and then Wentz gets hurt and he's out for the year,
and it's kind of like it's come on now, our
never time. Like he's in the first round pick, he's healthy, Like,
let's get him out there Detroit, throw him into the fire,

(31:25):
and boy did he thrive. I mean, it's not like
he lit the world on fire. I said fire too
many times. That sounded bad, bad radio. But he played
a really good football game, Chris, and he got a
huge win from Minnesota against the big division rival in
Detroit and allowed the Vikings to keep their hopes alive

(31:46):
for the season. Yeah, I wonder now and I'm sorry,
but even more importantly, allowed the Vikings fans to keep
their hope alive that this guy might be a franchise quarterback.

Speaker 3 (31:54):
Yeah you know, I still it's listen, this is only
literally his third game of his career. Yeah, so I'm mean,
you can't pass any sort of judgment yet. So maybe
that's he comes back from a long, lengthy injury. Is
only his third start ever, so all the little nippick
things I can do and say, Okay, is this really sustainable?
Is like and again I hate I bring him up again,

(32:14):
but I'm not trying to do with this, but like
like talk yourself into it. If you're the Vikings, Oh,
like fourth quarter JJ McCarthy, You remember fourth quarter Kenny
like or something like that. Like you look at his
stat line and you wonder, and that's that happened. Now,
It's happened a couple of times now. And but you know,
again it's only his third start and he was about
for a lengthy time. He's on the road against arguably
the super the NFC favorite depending on one of the certainly,

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and this was the.

Speaker 2 (32:38):
First quarter JJ MacCarthy. He came out of the gates
strong again.

Speaker 3 (32:42):
And and they and as I was pointed out, like
the final play of the game, they trusted him to
salt the game away whenever they could have maybe put it.

Speaker 2 (32:50):
In because really, I mean, what are we doing here? Right?

Speaker 1 (32:53):
You have to if you're picking the guy eleven overall,
you got to trust him to sell games away or else?

Speaker 2 (32:57):
Why did you pick a guy? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (32:58):
And that was especially or the Vikings there you can
follow it. You know, you you saved your season in
some ways there and four, Yeah, you would have been
three and five. And now what you're only a game, Well,
you get no game and a half of fur, but
you got you're you'd let them get away from you
and you're.

Speaker 2 (33:12):
Only one game back in the wind call them now,
But lines in the Packers for the look that.

Speaker 3 (33:16):
That kind of shows what because I was going to
say that if the Lions would have won this game,
it was almost as if the with all apologies to
the Panthers, we keep this and singing our own way
and over again and at the I don't think the
bear seriously either, like the seven.

Speaker 2 (33:31):
I mean, they're five and three there.

Speaker 3 (33:32):
Yeah, I know, I know, but some reason I still
can't like the seven. But I think those seven teams
and the forty nine ers are just so panged up
it's amazing. Still, Yeah, I feel like if the forty
nine ers were healthy, especially any of those seven teams
I could buy you could you could do to me
and say, by stock, this team can get to the
Super Bowl whatever. I could see an argument for all
seven of them to be a good reperence like no,

(33:53):
don't need much to have you know, you obviously have
to pull an upset or two by the bye by
the odds, but all seven of them I believe can
get the Super billion. A representative conference champion type team
that I would believe that could beat whoever the AFC
team is that at that point, it's kind of interesting
how that's so Carolina, Chicago, Minnesota or right there.

Speaker 2 (34:11):
And I guess Dallas, I guess could.

Speaker 3 (34:13):
Crash the party still with those seven. But I don't
know if I see that either. But that's the way.
That's one of the storylines I see is the NFC.
And it could have been the Lions just really putting
their foot down and making sure they were, you know,
in that upper tier, that that seven. Now they're in
the lower tier, that seven. You kind of wonder where
they're at.

Speaker 2 (34:30):
All Right, we come back.

Speaker 1 (34:31):
We're gonna talk about the heavyweight fight yesterday Allen Mahomes round.
I didn't look up how many rounds it was. It
would have been cool, though, if I could have been
dramatic like that right and been like.

Speaker 2 (34:40):
Round twelve, ding ding. Maybe we will. On the break,
He's Kristadamski. I'm Tom Opperman.

Speaker 1 (34:45):
It's the Steelers Blitz on Steelers Nation Radio, part of
the Steelers Audio and Network.

Speaker 2 (34:54):
It's Tom Opferman and Kris.

Speaker 1 (34:55):
Damski back on the Steelers Blitz on Steelers Nation, working
our way through the action from over the weekend around
the NFL, and the big game was obviously the Bills
and the Chiefs the four to twenty five kickoff on CBS.
Bill's victorious twenty eight to twenty one. I think it

(35:16):
is just for the universe to continue to exist in
to play out and for a black hole to not
open up in a rift to happen.

Speaker 2 (35:25):
The Chiefs have to have the ball.

Speaker 1 (35:26):
With a chance to win the game against the Bills
every single time at the end of it, like it's impossible.

Speaker 2 (35:30):
To not have happened.

Speaker 1 (35:31):
When Mahomes hit that first play of that last drive
to I forget who the receiver was, but it got
them to about the Buffalo forty and it made it
like not even like a break of sweat kind of
hail Mary for a quarterback. I was like, oh my god,
if I'm a Buffalo fan in that stadium, I'm just
so nervous.

Speaker 2 (35:48):
The Chiefs had an opportunity.

Speaker 1 (35:50):
They tried to get even more yardage to make it
a little bit even easier on them. I mean, if
you get another chunk play of like twenty yards there, Chris,
and you're at the twenty, it's not Hall Mary anymore,
you're talking about that you can actually draw up and
like schemes that you can actually do to try to
get guys open in the end zone. So things were
getting really really tense there at the end. But the
Bills did something on the very last play of the game,

(36:13):
the final hail Mary heave ho that I'm such a
fan of. They sent pressure.

Speaker 2 (36:17):
They didn't just.

Speaker 1 (36:18):
Let Mahomes kind of wind up and play that pre
event kind of like you're a kid, you know the
game Jackpot in recess where you throw the ball up
in the air jackpot dead or alive, like, and you're
all just waiting there seeing where it's going to land,
trying to compete for it amongst ten twelve people, Like
so many times you see people do that against the hill, Mary,
send six guys, send five guys against the quarterback, get

(36:39):
the quarterback like, and you saw what it did in
the back up, And it was a very smart pressure
where they came from the left side and they made
him roll to his weak side and then he had
to kind of backpedal and throw it off his back foot.

Speaker 2 (36:52):
He couldn't even get it into the end zone.

Speaker 3 (36:53):
Yeah, it was we made the throat with Bobby instead
of being a forty five yard throw in the end zone,
essentially it maybe a fifty five your throw and all
of a sudden, Yeah, and the angle he was at
it was, I mean, you're it's you're kind of opening
yourself up to criticism, I guess if you have I
mean not there's not one on one coverage of course,
but you don't have all those bodies and the it's
not a picket fence per se, but it's it's still

(37:15):
the typical Hill Mary defense. But yeah, it worked, and yeah,
they actually the first attempt did get in the end zone.

Speaker 2 (37:22):
That was a lot. That was the more risky one.

Speaker 3 (37:24):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, and that was kind of like like, oh,
it could happen here because I was thinking the same thing.
That was one of the few. Again, I'm in the
press box, we're all, you know, we're all the game's
on above us, we're all doing our postgame Steeler stuff.

Speaker 2 (37:37):
But we see that and really tell the people what
that is. You're eating pizza?

Speaker 3 (37:41):
Well yeah, I mean that's yeah, I mean that's my
whole job, really watch football and eat pizza. And uh,
but we we had we made sure we were watching
that We're like, oh my god, Homes getting the ball back.

Speaker 1 (37:53):
But then it's like I saw the refreach for his
flag too on our first time area and I was like, don't.

Speaker 2 (37:57):
You do it if?

Speaker 3 (38:00):
And the thing is is like I hate to say it,
and it's like cliche on bosh, but it's like even
if you're a Buffalo fan, it's like, yeah, it's nice win,
but it's like if then happened in January against these guys,
like does it even matter?

Speaker 2 (38:12):
That's exactly. It's just like it's gotta be ral on fulfilled.
It's like, you know, fifty calories, you do it all
the time. He's five.

Speaker 1 (38:18):
Alan is now five and one against Patrick Mahomes in
the regular season. Like you literally always beat the Chiefs.
The regular season game comes around, always win. I bet
on the Bills. I don't know if I actually did
on our thing. I think I did. Actually I took them,
but I did in real life in reality. Not to
say that I don't bet on all the other ones
that I tell you to bet on people out there, but.

Speaker 3 (38:38):
Put your money with your mouth.

Speaker 1 (38:39):
Yeah, literally, I just like they always beat the Chiefs
to the regular season. This one was in Buffalo, was
like it's gonna happen, and it did. Like so to
your point, like for those Buffalo fans, it is a
little bit weird. I bet in the stands they're probably
just like, yeah, like beat the Chiefs, but like you're
doing it doesn't matter because they do this all the time.
Every year we beat him in the regular season and
then he comes back and beats us.

Speaker 3 (39:00):
I mean, there's a point now where the Chiefs there
are real standings implications where they're literally out of the
playoff picture right now.

Speaker 2 (39:06):
They're the eight seed.

Speaker 3 (39:07):
So the Denvers bit, there's a point where they need
wins for that reason because it's gonna get just to
make the playoffs and you're gonna play on the road and
obviously so there are tangible reasons why you need you
wanted that win, but it's also like, yeah, you know, listen,
if you're the Chiefs, you're Chiefs fans. If you're the Bills,
the Bills fans, it's like in the back of your

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mind that ends like everybody's saying, we'll play again in January.

Speaker 2 (39:34):
Could just the odds?

Speaker 3 (39:35):
I mean, well, listen, the Chiefs are making the playoffs.
Forget Like what am I talking about here, like they're
not going to.

Speaker 2 (39:38):
Make the playoffs.

Speaker 3 (39:40):
Yeah, maybe it'll be on the road or whatever.

Speaker 2 (39:42):
But they're good.

Speaker 3 (39:42):
They're the odds are they'll play again somehow, one way
or another and probably be in Buffalo again.

Speaker 2 (39:47):
But it was Buffalo last year. It was Buffalo other.

Speaker 3 (39:50):
Years, and and the and the she still find out
little win. It's it's like, uh, well, wake me up whenever.
It's just crazy because you're the Bills. You're this great
team for year after year here and you just you know,
slayed the dragon. It's been in front of you again
in the regular season. But it's gotta be like, well, yeah,
but it doesn't really matter for because you know, like
do you really feel confident play them? And if you're

(40:11):
a fan at least you know played them in January
at some point. But we'll see how it goes. But yeah,
it was, uh, it is great. I hadn't really thought
of it, and I don't know why. It's very obvious
and very sort of simple. But the whole this is
the Brady Manning thing going.

Speaker 2 (40:26):
On right now. For sure. It's years ago.

Speaker 3 (40:29):
Yeah, where they played them, you know, their division for
divisions and we play once in the regular season. But
just they always when their divisions are always playing every
regular season, and they and it just so happens that
the one is always winning in the playoffs.

Speaker 1 (40:40):
Essentially, it's what's been happening. I did pick the Bills
in our picks, by the way, it was the only
one that I got right as I went one and two.
I am so bad at this. I am now ten
and seventeen on the season. You should if you're if
you're fading me though, I mean you're you're killing You're
one of the best gamblers on the season.

Speaker 2 (40:59):
I'm two right now. We're talking Cats and Bengals. Were
the two picks.

Speaker 3 (41:03):
Have the Bengals both of those I had it covered.

Speaker 2 (41:06):
You had it, Yeah, they were in the back pocket.

Speaker 3 (41:08):
And they both didn't.

Speaker 1 (41:10):
But you kind of it kind of stunked that the
Falcons missed the extra point at that point, because then
you could have had the overtime back door the Patriots.

Speaker 2 (41:17):
I touched down.

Speaker 1 (41:18):
They missed the extra point. Pat's win by one. Uh,
probably because it was fixed.

Speaker 2 (41:22):
No, I'm kidding. You do have the Cowboys.

Speaker 1 (41:25):
Tonight, though, Christopher minus two and a half a week yet, right,
I don't think you have gone on and through.

Speaker 2 (41:31):
Yet I need you desperately to going through.

Speaker 3 (41:32):
Though, staying there quite a This is like the just
the race of the incompetent, one of those like NFC
style seasons were like a seven and nineteen wins or
something worse.

Speaker 1 (41:41):
Yeah, I'm ten and seventeen. You're staring at twelve and
fifteen in the face tonight.

Speaker 3 (41:46):
Oh wow, so I could. I'm not even if I win,
I'm still under five hundred.

Speaker 2 (41:49):
Yes, that's right.

Speaker 1 (41:52):
Ye is the way to definitely describe that before we
get to tonight's game, if we have any thoughts on that. Uh, Seattle,
I think Washington has kind of taken a bit of
a step back this year, and maybe last year was
a bit of a fugezy, a little too big for
their bridges last year.

Speaker 2 (42:07):
I don't think that they're going to be bad. And
now Jaydon Daniels, I mean, that was a terrible.

Speaker 1 (42:10):
Injury last night. We'll see how he can bounce back
from that. But Seattle, I mean, they just keep announcing
themselves as a real team and a real threat when
it comes to this NFL picture. And that was a
statement win on the road against Washington and that NFC
west Man that has become the best division in football
this year. Three teams have six wins.

Speaker 2 (42:30):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (42:30):
Yeah, and yeah that Seahawks game, and I know whatever's
going on with Washington overall, but still a statement to
go on the road and just spank a team, like,
you know, whatever you're talking about scheduling all that and whatever.
I think if you go on the road and win
the NFL and you take a three touchdown lead before
we even notice it, I feel like that game, which
it didn't even like, it wasn't even competitive from the beginning. Yeah,
the Seahawks are a problem for a lot of people.

(42:51):
The Seahawks are going to be a problem for whoever
whoever they play. And you know, it's like I've kind
of put them in the second tier. Maybe for whatever reason,
we got to start acknowledging them. Sam probably with the Donald,
I'm still thinking Jets Sam Donald, or or last two
games of the season last year Viking Sam Donald. And
and that's until he proves otherwise that that's going to

(43:13):
be a narrative in the storyline. And we have a
lot of pressure on him when, when, and if they
do get to the playoffs and if, oh.

Speaker 2 (43:17):
They're going to the playoffs.

Speaker 3 (43:19):
Yeah, I think so too. Yeah, but the number be right,
I guess I'm talking about the seven. There's seven spots,
and like you said, they're only tied for first right
now with I never they're just saying good right on that. Yeah,
and and unless my you know, the aforementioned Bears and Panthers,
it's almost like the top the top seven or are set.
It's a matter of the seed. And that's the thing too,

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is that gets important because all of a sudden, I mean, listener,
halfway through the season, literally anything that nobody's walked into
a seedy any stretch of the imagination. But I mean,
you see scenarios where the Seahawks or you know, can
get to the get to the one seed. I could
be the seven seed. And I guess that's all those teams,
but that that's gonna be. Although you say say that
the Seahawks are the best team in the road, all
of a sudden, out of nowhere, you can't win at home.

Speaker 2 (44:00):
But it's a it's a paradox.

Speaker 3 (44:02):
It's really strange because they have the travel thing going
for them, they have the loud that the twelfth Man thing.
They're supposed to be the one tough is they should
have the split of all teams in the league if
you listened other than in Denver with the altitude thing,
just you know, off the top of your head, who
has the best theoretical home field advantage. Everybody got to
travel a long way to get the Seattle. They literally
they have no short trips.

Speaker 2 (44:20):
No, they came to the East Coast to beat the Steelers.

Speaker 1 (44:23):
They came to the East Coast and beat Washington now,
so it just doesn't matter to them tonight.

Speaker 2 (44:28):
Cowboys Cardinals. Cardinals are done. They're two and five.

Speaker 1 (44:30):
There's no like back against the wall, like we're fighting
for our season with them. But if the Cowboys, there
is four four and one with a win versus three
five and one with a loss. So this is really
a turning point for Dallas. And they're gonna be points scored.

Speaker 2 (44:42):
In this game. I mean we know that has the Cowboys.

Speaker 1 (44:44):
Yeah, so I think that's going for you in your
favorite for them having Cowboys minus two and a half, Chris,
it's like they got to win. They have to win
this game to stay even somewhat afloat for this season.
That's gonna do it for us today. Mike Tomlin press
conference is tomorrow, so there will be no show, but
we will be back on Wednesday. Can't wait to talk
to you. Then he's christ Namscam, Tom Opferman. It's the

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