November 10, 2022 • 42 mins
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This is the Steelers Preview Show on w d V Pittsburgh,
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Good evening and welcome to another edition of Steelers Preview.
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Mike Pursuita and Matt Williamson with you tonight until eight
o'clock getting ready for the Steelers and the New Orleans
Saints Sunday at Actressure Stadium. We will be joined as
always by Meryl Hodge, the third member of our team.
Merrill always stops by for the second segment and Matt.
Uh A lot to talk about regarding this Saints game.
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But before we start digging into that, I gotta tell
you about a great experience. I just had the Steelers
conducting a media tour of their new Hall of Honor
Museum at Accrasure Stadium that opens tomorrow at eleven am,
open to the public tomorrow, late warning and uh, I
don't know. You don't strike me as an emotional guy. Oh, look,
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there's Joe Namis cleats, there's helmet. If I walk past
Joe Green at the facility, it brings up. So you're
not totally hard. You're not a pure x and no tactician,
but this place is phenomenal. I gotta tell you, I
spent a lot of time in western Pennsylvania growing up,
and the proximity to Canton, Ohio, and my family's over
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the top of session with sports we went. We went
to Canton a lot. Yeah, and this place that the
Steelers are gonna open to the public tomorrow is Pro
Football Hall of Fame. Caliber is really in terms of
it's the display, the variety of I guess you call
them artifacts or you know, memorability is not a strong
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enough for it, because some of the some of the
stuff is really cool. And they went to the obscure,
which I personally as a sports fan, you know, it's
great to watch the highlight of lind Swan making a
double cat to the Super Bowl on the video, but
I like to see stuff that I didn't even know existed,
or something that the highlights an event that I had
forgotten about or didn't think was that important at the time.
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But you give it a second thought, and uh, I
was just blown away. And I can't recommend enough. If
you are a Steeler fan of any intensity or passion,
you're gonna want to check this place out. Uh. Franko.
Harris was down there today along with Steel's president Art
Roooney the second and they both spoke briefly and check
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this out. Franco said he didn't know that the Steelers
once combined with the Chicago Cardinals during World War two
first season, the card Pit season. I didn't know that.
I think if memory serves, card Pit went oh eleven
and one, not a strong year for the card Pit.
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They decided that was a bad idea after one season,
but that these are the kind of things that you
could learn. Yeah, right, And even if you think you
know it all, you don't. And again, uh really, uh
like to go a beautiful place and uh it starts
with about a twelve minute video and you know, as
a kid growing up in the seventies, that stuff still
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gives you chills. I mean, if it's not for those
seventies teams, I don't do what I'm doing for a living.
I mean I absolutely believe that. And you know, I
haven't been there yet, can't wait to go take my
son whoever. But when I was director of football Operations
at Akron, one of the things I set up because
it was within the mileage, was we had our official
visit weekend for recruits. We would take them to dinner
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at the Hall of Fame and it was we were
the only people in the whole building. Yeah, so it
was like it was like, what's the museum one with
with Robin Williams or they're talking to you like we're
the only ones in the whole building at like nine
ten at night, and like on the busts are there,
and like this is super cool. Yeah, I'm gonna suck
for this kind of stuff just because of my love
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of sports and kind of uh get to travel a
lot on the job. I've been at the Packers Museum.
I've been the Yankee Stadium and Monument Park and anywhere
there's something I go check it out. And this is
this is really cool. I'm sure I can hang with
any NFL t s. I don't use that phraseology very often,
but I was just like, wow, is this nice? And
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I know all my out of town relatives that are
from here originally you're gonna when they come back to visit,
they're gonna want to go. You're gonna want to take
the kids, and uh take to take the relatives. And
really we live some pretty cool times. Also, not a
bad time to open such a museum when you're two
and six. Yeah, bring up a little bit. Yeah, this
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is really out of character because he used to be
this good for long, long, long, long long time. Remember
all the good memories. We got the stuff to prove it.
But uh, let's get to the practice participation right away. Yeah,
and I want to start with New Orleans because this
is a three and six football team, the Saints, and
it is banged up. If you saw the game against
Baltimore on Monday night, you saw one guy go out
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after another. Uh now the one kid leading into that game.
I thought they were the team most affected by injuries
all year long. Alonte Taylor of the rookie cornerback left
and then came back against the Ravens. But here's what
the Saints did not have today. Cornerback Marshawn Lattimore, he's
missed the last four games, hasn't practiced this week. Starting
center Eric McCoy injured against the Ravens didn't practice second
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straight day starting guard, and Pete didn't practice second straight day.
He also went out of that Baltimore game early, so
did linebacker Pete Warner, who is really to me one
of the underrated, underrated players in the end of right.
He left it Monday night and he left it on
a cart and he hasn't practiced yet this week. Marcus May,
one of their safety showed up today on the injury
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report abdomen uh. And this does not even include wide
receiver Michael Thomas and cornerback Bradley Roby, who are on
injured reserve. UH. The other wide receiver of note, Jarvis
Landry limited. He hasn't played in five straight games. So
even if he plays, what's he gonna bring. It's it's brutal.
I mean, I mentioned they've been ge hit really, really
hard this year with injuries, and I may note of
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it in the stat pack that I do the snaps
of the receivers and corners. I know it overwhelms you,
but sometime to enjoy what I Okay, right, Um, Lattimore's
their talking, but the other corners they're really struggling for
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a Dabo has been the number two corner, he's kind
of thrust in the number one situation. He hasn't been
particularly good. Um, besides the Larva, the receivers have been
a disaster. The old lines have been shuffling around, and
this goes back to the Drew Brees era. Nobody invested
in no line as much as the Saints, particularly up
the middle. They always put big money into guards, send rs.
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All those guys are high picks and they're not getting
the benefits of it right now, and they're shuffling guys around.
Rui's the former first round pick. He was the guard.
He bumps into center, so they got worse at two spots,
and he was mostly a center at mostly center. Yeah,
and at one of those first round picks he mentioned
the right tackle Ryan Ramchick struggled against the Ravens. For
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a guy who's been at it as long a his career, yeah,
I don't know what. Maybe he's playing hur too and
fighting through something, who knows, but of course he's probably
gonna get what. The left tackle situation hasn't been ideal.
And really, when you look at the offense, it's two guys.
It's a lava who's really impressive and Kamara. I mean,
the rest of the weapons aren't scary. On the Steelers
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side of things, some good news and some bad news.
Chris Boswell didn't practice again today. He was placed on
the reserve injured list and the Steelers act it's activated
safety Damonte CAZy boy, that was a shame. Shame he
got hurt in the preseason. That guy really was looking
like a fit in a five defensive backs, three safety package.
I think that Big Nickels something you're gonna see a
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lot of, which might mean less of spillane and more
things you can do with well, hang on, hang on on,
less of spillane. Because Miles Jack did not practice consecutive
day as well. Now, Mike Tomlin had said on Tuesday
that Jack might be limited, but the way he Tomlin
said it, it sounded like there was a, you know,
a fairly good chance that he would be playing. But
you know he's a bad if he gets one day, fine,
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but right now he hasn't practiced yet this week. Noah
Kello Witherspoon, Uh, he did not practice for second straight
day today. Larry Ogan Job upgraded from did not practice
too limited. I talked to Ogan Job yesterday and he
said the plan is for him to play. Of course,
plans change. Um also Tarrell Austin against the interior that
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Saints O line would be very useful. Tarl Austin, the
Steelers defensive coordinator, speaking with the media today was coordinator
Thursday down on the South Side and he talked about
the anticipated return of t J. Watt. He hasn't been
activated officially yet, it everybody is expecting that to happen.
Austin said that he's not expecting sixty snaps out of
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t J. Watt, who has been hurt since the open Now.
I pointed out to Austin that a couple of years ago,
when Watts out out training or to holding at training
camp where he was at the meetings and working on
his own but not practicing, he still played a ton
of snaps in that opener Buffalo, even though nobody was
anticipating that hard to pull him off the field, and
Austin said, well, it's different. He wasn't coming off an injury.
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He was just observing. This time he's coming off an injury.
But that they will use him, Austin said, wisely, and
hope he impacts the game and get whatever they can
out of him. It sounds like a bit of an undersell,
but fair enough. Uh, Casey looking forward to getting him back.
Austin not sure how, but he said it might not
just be in the three safety thing. He might play
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some regular defense. Austin thinks he's a really good, full
piece of quality. Based on what I saw in training camp.
I would agree a lot off time, though, you know,
you wonder about the rust. And then uh, William Jackson,
the third, that's the one I was most curious, did
not practice again. Back He didn't practice Monday. According to
Chris Damski of Trip Live with Back, missed the last
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three games of his Washington Commander's tender tenure. Excuse me
with a back injury he suffered out October the ninth
against Tennessee. But Tarrell Austin said today, and I'm gonna paraphrase, well,
you'd like to get him on the practice field, but
he's a veteran, he knows how to cover. He's you know,
he's available, he's playing. We're getting him in there, which
to me is more a reflection of the state of
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the union a cornerback than anything else. No exactly glowing
endorsement for Levi and Spoon and that crew. Obviously, I
think something solid. It's funny when Jackson was the one
of the most excited to hear about cause I had
not seen the practice report before we hit record here. Um,
when they traded for Jackson, maybe I was overly optimistic,
but I thought, as soon as he gets to Pittsburgh,
he's gonna be a starting left corner probably, you know.
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I mean, and maybe that was overshooting things, but he
has hasn't practiced as a steeler. I still think he's
better than the guys. They have his forte uh. People
tell you his man to man, can you put him
on a Lava and then everybody else plays something else? Yeah,
I mean he's been around the block and right. Maybe
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disguise your coverage is a little different, but we just
mentioned that a Lava and Kamara are far and away
their best weapons. Even if Landry returns, I don't know
that you want him following, but you know, the people.
The thing people don't think about when like when Rivus
or Dion follows a guy all over the field, is
then the other ten have to adjust if he goes
in motion or whatever. You know. I mean, they're a
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left right team but but he could be if you
could take out the best receivers, Probably an adjustment worth trying,
isn't it. Yeah, it's just not something they do. Hey,
we didn't have to adjust, but we're still running off
the field the extra point teams coming on because the
best receiver just stuck in the end zone from forty
five yards away. Hey, William follow him, you know, and
that's your job for forty snaps. Yeah, I mean, if
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he can go, I would be shot if he doesn't.
But I love that edition, I think. I mean, this
is bold praise, but I think he could have a
Joe Hayden like. See that's I also thought of him
as a starting corner when they made the trade, but
that was more a reflection of the state of the
union of cornerback here. Yeah, I like at William Jackson
and honestly, Matt, I see a guy who's on his
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third team now, a former number one pick, right, I mean,
this is not how great number one picks careers unfold. No,
it isn't. But man, I mean Washington when he became
a free agent leaving Cincinnati, he was highly, highly coveted, right, man,
Washington overpaid. That's all reason left the Bengals. People don't
let good corners go, do they. Well, I don't know
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Cincinnati was real wise in that decision either. They probably
should have franchised him. But Washington they did okay, but
they kind of did the Nam the Awesoma move in
Washington of we're gonna take this zone cover guy and
make him a man, while they did the opposite and
just asked him to play left handed basically, And it's
sort of a dysfunctional environment in Washington anyways. That's kind
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of the Hayden Brown's correlation to Rivera have a pretty
good represent defensive guy. They they're back seven blows coverages
left and right. I mean, they have that crazy front. Four.
I haven't seen him play yet this year. For two
years now, it's been sloppy, pretty respectable front. Yeah, that
first round pixelore and the other thing that gives me pause.
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And maybe you can clear this up for me. Okay,
he's a man guy, but you can't play zone. Isn't
man harder? I mean, well, here's also another misconception. The
league as a whole play zone like two out of
three snaps. You know, the Steelers right now are heavy
and man, they're at like thanks probably um idea. I
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don't think this year because their corners are so bad.
I mean it's they're they're struggling. They played like nine corners,
significant snaps, you know. So they would love to put Lattimore.
We've seen Lattimore on Mike Evans twice a year forever.
I'm that's what they want to do. I just don't
think they have the guys that do it right now.
So so back to the you know, if you can
play man, why can't you play zone question? It's just
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a totally way of seeing the game, passing guys off,
you know, I mean, more thinking and you got this area. Yeah,
you know. The best way I was always was described
to it when I was saying this to me is
like the old Jerome mcginlick can play right wing but
not left wing. Really, he's a Hall of Fame player.
Why can he not do that? It's probably an okay
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defenseman too, Yeah yeah, I mean because he's more talented
everybody out there that I can't comment on. But the
way I was taught it is when I was at pit,
Paul Rhodes, our defense coordinator, was exceptional and just drilled
it into our defensive backs. Man eyes, you know, you're
basically just look at that guy's belt buckle. You don't
care what the other what else is going on around you.
Zone eyes, you have this wide triangle where you're seeing
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the whole field, you know, and paralysis by analysis. Yeah,
I mean, I'm sure everyone can do both, but in
this league, if you're weak in something, you get picked on. Um.
What to expect is brought to you by Brian Patton
and associates. It's all about the benefits. I'd love to
tell you what to expect Sunday, but I don't know
because I don't know if the Steelers can score. And
I'm not being a smart alec. If they could get
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if they could get start getting twenty one points a game,
I think with the reinforcements coming on defense, I think
they can be in every game they play. Uh during
the post, but I don't know what to expect because
I don't know if they're gonna score. Yeah, I agree
with you, I mean, I definitely. I'm still very much
an optimist at the second half of the season will
be noticeably more encouraging than the first half. But I
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don't know where running games coming from. You know, yeah,
that's one major thing. Presumably they're gonna need that, and uh,
as luck would have it, we have a former running
back by him, so we'll talk to Merrill Hodge about
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How's it going to understand you had to play some
go track today. I hope that wasn't two distasteful and
experience for you. That's actually a very good word distasteful.
Let me just tell you this, um, I'm not under
golf has never been look back up first on my
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ever golf in any tournament with the far palmer. The
first time I um I I asked Germany Dawson, you
stood next to me and DEMONTI could play golf. And
keep mind I've never played golf before. I don't know
how to play golf. Bubby Brister asked me to fill
in for him playing this what's called the Cadillac Classic,
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I called dirt. I was like, hey, listen, I need
to have you help me because I watched you in
the backyard chip all the time. So I go. He
go was out of golf, so I said, just need
to help you learn how to golf. He was when
your tournament I go to this weekend. He was, Mary,
I can't learn how to play golf in a week
I'm like, well, we gotta try, okay, So he took
me over to play. He cached me over. It takes
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to be okay. It was. It's one thing I realized
I got a problem. But I'm I'm just assumed that nobody.
Everybody knows, you know, I'm not a good golfer, sweet
of their business expectations. I'm gonna go dressed up like
Payne Stewart and have nickers on him and play Gary
Anderson Aunt Palmer, have the time in my life life
at at PPC Sawgrass too. By the way, Um, I'm
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just gonna leave it, dude, I got eighteen stories for you,
and none of them are good. Um. It was an
absolute it was an absolute train wreck. Now, I never
thought I played golf again. Always that show that I
thought I never played golf again after that. Let me
get um, I think all appallment book he passed away.
There's probably only one guy he didn't like. Here's probably me,
okay because of this tournament. So I just I think.
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So I don't I don't care about golf. I don't
ever want to play golf. But I played golf on occasion,
um periodically. But I got passionate about a few years ago.
I've never played a year around here. Until the last
couple of years, I didn't played a Gulfs. I played
August twice and that that I thought I can never
trump you know, in all in all honesty was like,
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I don't think I never trump Augusta until I came
over to um Cabo and played this course on Um
on the ocean. That was um. I'm telling you it
was breathtaking. Every hole was money. I mean it was.
We're playing forty mile wind. So people who know golf
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the you know that's not one of the hardest things playing.
When she made one, UM two, I can my wife's
correcting me over there. She's my caddy. Okay, so true
caddy is always corrected. Shot eight two Okay, that in
that in those wind conditions. But um, what's her name?
I sent you the um what's your name? Jealous? So
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that the quick cordera cordera Cabos golf course. But if
you ever look it up, I mean it's like half
of the course is built right on the coastline. I
mean you literally every time you tee off your the
ocean is if you take two steps off the tea box,
you're gonna fall in the ocean. Not ain't a lie.
It was the most breathtaking concourse. I mean you four hours,
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it seemed like ten minutes. It went so fast. If
I'm telling it was the most stay I think I
remember I've ever done in golf. The holes were spectacular,
the day was beautiful. Um well, I'm glad you got
to believable. So if you're in the Gulf, you gotta come.
I'm glad you got a chance to get out and
do something fun finally, because you know, usually you just
have your nose to the grindstone and it's work, work, work,
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and you never seem to go anywhere or do anything spectacular.
I break leaves a lot of that. Hey, I listen,
I'm still looking at my I'm still looking at all
my tape. And I watched even though I have very
much the third time, I'm still watching. It takes down
on top of things because you can't let the work go. Well,
let me ask you this. Ryan Dawson said, you can't
learn how to play golf in a week. If your nagy, Harris,
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can you remember how to play running back in a
bye week? You like how I got there? That's what
we call clever transition into radio business. Yeah right right,
that's what they called shifting years. Brother. We learned from
reverse to first went over the third recrusion of a grind.
I'm gonna do this. I can relate to I can
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relate to Niger in the in one aspect of you know,
you come off. So I think he's a true pro.
Let me get let me get the statista. I think
he's a really good professional in the sense if he
wants to get better. One thing I'll tell you about
being a professional. But it's a process. You learn things,
and there's no professional that's immuned to this that you
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try to learn and get better at your craft. And
now I say that because bright after my first year,
I remember, my goal was to get bigger, bigger and stronger.
You know. I came in and I sweared. I felt
like the initial man. You know, I was about two
thirty two. I was just I put all this weight
and I was like, I just I was sluggish. I
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just I wasn't. I wasn't the same player I was
a year before. I didn't feel Now I say that,
and I you know, because na, it looks bigger to me.
I don't listen, that might not be it. It might
have been just the injury. It's only about five pounds.
According to him. Okay, I say, that's really not a lot,
you know. I was. I was a good ten fifteen
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pound difference, and this is nine. It was, you know.
Actually my weight indicated how our year went, Okay, I was.
I was two thirty two when we got the fifty
one to nothing. I was too thirty one. We got
forty two to ten, and then I started losing weight
after that, and then we almost went to the super Bowl.
So um, it was in the Denver playoff game. Actually, um,
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I waited in at two ten before we played the
game then, and I we've already had the wild card
game in Houston, and I waited to a eight sus
fluxiate through two to ten. But I realized then I'll
never I'll never be bigger than that because I can't
play bigger than that. I'm better at two ten than
I am at two thirty, you know. And that's where
I've always stopped coaching. With a big mistake already. How
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much you wait? How much you wait? Okay, listen, I
don't give a ratch to romp. How you much you weigh?
How do you play? That's what matters. Okay. If the
guy is ninety five playing, tell off and he's a
guard and you still think you need to be three
oh ten. You need to check yourself as a coach. Okay,
he's good at two ninety five at your mouth. Okay
he plays well to So stick in here. And you
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got a big bigger you gotta be very now. You
don't have to be bigger. You've got to find all
how you play well? Now you you talk to you
makes you? I mean, um, you know when you have
an injury, especially like a foot, you know those things
can just hinder you. Um, and it can. I've always
believe like the training camp is for a reason, seasons
or for the season. When you play the season the
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seasons you're for the playoffs if you're able to get there,
and if you're injured you have something that hampers you.
I just I can't think recollect anybody who's had a
handstring or a foot or something that's significant and affect
her mobility, your your ability to work and move um
for a period of time that you ever get in
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your proper sequence. I'm just trying. I can't give anybody's
ever seen here. I'm a Rob Woodson. When you come
back after Now that was more rotic and held out.
But even rot I mean, you know, he hadn't playing training.
Came to the training cafter five weeks open the opening
day and he had to go up against Jerry Rice
and he was just not the rob Woods. And we
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would know if he had played five weeks. And that's
the true things like how talented you are. And I
think that, you know, I don't know how much he
played in training camp. I was there a couple of
days and I didn't see him practice much. I just
think that all pains and plays a role in this
Cannaby week help him try to get some of that
seasoning back in that rhythm. Sure it can. They're gonna
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get him back to where maybe he was last year,
Probably not, but I actually it would get him closer.
He's still better than most the skill set he has.
But if I know the one I've known about Nag,
he's not sitting there taking things right. And I'm sure
he's working on the craft and trying to get himself
his right as he could possibly get himself. You know,
I just you know, I just was wondering if Wait
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was a part of it, because he just looks much
bigger than he did last year. But you know that
can be a poster, can be deceptive. You know if
you give five pounds so he can look bigger than
you really are. Meryl. The back on the other side,
Alvin Kamara is one of my absolute favorites of the
last decade or so. Where are you at of him? Well,
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I remember coming out when I was getting those doing
the draft, and um, gosh, that year, there's a lot
of backs that were very similar, umcaffrey. Now here's where McCaffrey.
Here's where McCaffrey edged that there's somebody else. I think
the kid in Minnesota will be honest with you. Yeahs okay,
because Bill Dalalin Cook wasn't quite like these two guys.
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These two guys ranked as similar. Okay, So um, here's
where um McCaffrey had an advantage. He had truly played
in the slot. He had run the problem. He'd run
all the routes that you would expect him to try
to run the NFL, and then he played in the
back trial if he could run um all the runs
you needed to. Although you are gonna make him a
power oh running back. You know you're gonna run outside
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Jos perimeter stuff. You know if you don't want to
beat him up, He's not He's not built like that.
So you knew that about it. So that there's where
his advantage would be is that you see him do it.
You're already comfortable. You know he can do it because
you see it now, Camara, when I saw him at
Tennessee and now I put that in I'm not Bill.
Polly and I had a big argument over this, like
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he didn't like him. Um, Bill, the problem that at
me for saying this, Bill didn't like him. I got
at you to lie, you can't do this, can't do that.
And then I'm sure Bills I thinking as a true
power back, you know, so that's not who you know.
But he was just so food and dynamic, and he
did so many things that you just had you don't
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see every day. When he touched the ball and I
don't care where he touched the ball at um, and
then the way he played, how food he was on
the perimeter. Um, you just felt that you'd have to
feel like, Okay, I could really develop him just because
of his overall mobility and his ability to move and
how I played running back. But um, I love him too.
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And in the meeting room in a draft room if
we can. You know, listen, this is a win win.
You could sit there and argue about both guys and
throw your debates. Either way, you're gonna win with the guy.
But where Kamara has been, um fall head and shoulders
sometimes McCaffrey has, he's been pretty much. He's been healthy
a majority of his career. He hasn't met missile McCaffrey has.
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But he is a dynamic player and he can do everything. Um,
and I want to say everything. I mean he'll stick
his nose in there and block two people. I knocking
his watching him last week, I mean he knock, he
knock into next week, I'll be blitzing. You know, he's
not a liability if you're gonna blitz because sometimes you
do that with those rider backs. He's like to try
to get a bigger linebacker on him, and you think
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that you can get your quarterback, get to the quarterback
through in because you know he's a player. He played,
he wants the balls and he doesn't want to do
that has not him. He will play you every down.
Don't don't think for one second day if he's in
the back up or down, we're gonna blitz and we'll
get there, okay, because he will step up a smack
you Mary. Getting back to Harris, nobody at the Steelers
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questions his desire, his want to, his passion, how much
he cares about his team and his teammates, how hard
he works. Uh, you know they've they've told stories since
he got there about how they have to kick him
out of the facility because he's preparing. If you're the
offensive coordinator and you still believe in this guy, but
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you keep seeing not much on the field, how long
is the leash until you look at the kid Jalen
Warren who has been productive in the fourth quarter of games,
and see if he can be productive in the first. Well. Um,
I'm trying to put myself in a coaching situation like
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that because I've been there. First of all, if I
thought it's just the runner, okay, which is not See,
that's the whole problem. Everybody thinks it's just nausea. Let
me just say this that they've done it. They have
not played up front very well. They've been groquestely inconsistent. Okay, Um,
when Jane has had the run, listen, he's done a
great job and breaking tackle and getting extra rs. You don't.
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What you need to do is a running He's compliment
the office line, but he has been a situation where
they played better up front when he's been in there.
He's also popped a couple of He's popped a couple
of ten yard runs on third and fifteen too, right,
A little circumstances and those are not correct. I know
they're not. You know, normal situations. You know, you catch
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him off guard and a third down thing, so where
he's gotten his run. And I'm not taking anyway because
I love the way he runs. Let me just say this,
and he needs a powerful kid. He makes, he breaks.
I'm going getting to it. I mean what he does,
he's at the officers want, does a good job. He
gives you three off or ten more yards after that,
and that's what a good runner does. You know, Nase
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hasn't really get those, you know when he does, you
see what he does, he complimented just like that. He
founds people's punishes people, um gets extra yards. You know,
at the end of the day, you know, I think
he swapped it. He swapped this role. You're not getting
You're just not going to be any different until these
guys got front to get more consistent at the end
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of the day, that's where it starts to end. I'm
not gonna go in my running back end and create
any type of controversy or or issues. And even consider that.
I'm down on nag to be honest with you, I mean,
because what I see him do. I see him do
every everything he could possibly do. The only thing he
does a little more this year, which I cannot blame him.
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He will create. He tries to or if he doesn't
trust it, so he goes and creates when he shouldn't. Um.
He's done it more this year than he did it
last year. UM, But I understand why. If he can't
try us anything, he can't trust that he's going to
get done. And so it's natural for a runner to
think he's got to create. And that's what he's done
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a little more this year than last year. And that's
nothing I do. I canceling this. You gotta keep trusting
and believing we'll eventually getting done up front and then
we'll have the full compliment of what we need. But
I'm not gonna go, um put the swap guys out,
and you know his production is really not on him.
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It's it's on what we how cool we have been
out front. That's where the production and the problem was. Mary.
What do you see the ripple effects of the Claypool trade.
I mean, do you think there's maybe more twelve personnel,
maybe more what in the game or this target distribution
goes more to Deonte and Pickens. Well, um, I think
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down picking is probably you know, pitches probably becomes more
of a focal point. So that that's I think where
it might funnel too, you know much, and that you
might get a little more you know, twelve to tight
ends one back in there. Um, I don't know how
productive they are with with you know, a fullback in
there and they don't have there are not as productives
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and they don't have as many options. Stems from that, Um,
but I might you might see thee more too tight
end as you know that helps him you run the
game to you know, get a better blocker. Um. You
know they're tried to lose use clite pool as a
blocker and he just you'na do it at the end
of the day. You know, speaking from experience and knowing
how you run blocker or a passtalker I'm would say this,
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it's just being a willing to participants. Okay, you're willingness
to go in there and block people. And when you
don't have that, then you can't. You can't change somebody's mindset.
If they're not tough, they don't want to dig somebody out,
they're not going to do it. And quite who, We're
going to do it regardless of its eyes and put
two hands on somebody and he can be cast of
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a ghost and heart beat, get the disappear. So umb
you guys that can hold big people out and make
things happen. Mary, last thing I got for you, what
kind of difference would a consistent running game make? You know,
they could start grinding out ten yards from the running backs,
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not the quarterback doing read options, and not an endless
succession of jet suite, just a traditional run the ball.
If they could start being effective at that not great effective,
what kind of difference was Let me just say this,
it completely changes the team and the direction they're going.
And it does the one thing that I harp on
I talked about all the time. At the end of
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the day, you have to control the tempo in the
National Football League to win consistently. It has to be done. Yes,
there's gonna be those those games where it doesn't happen
that way, turnovers and crazy things happen. But if you're
gonna win consistently, the ability to run the ball effecting
us once we're talking about not just run the ball,
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you know and get two yards. I mean be effective
and you you can foot damage on it, and you
you will click the defense to ultimately surrender. And what
I say surrender is if you can run the football.
WelCom Philadelphia will asked to year the defense what to
happen when they start run the ball on You have
to take somebody and enter it to enter him to
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the box game. Now you have given somebody in your
secondary up to defend the run. That limits what you
can do coverage wise and limber. It's what you can
do defense defensively. Now from a coordinator perspective, offensively, that
opens That opens Pendora's box for me. Now I know
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he can only run so many things and covering now
I can attack that much easier. And you have a
lot of different options. You have a lot of flexibility
because you handle my run, you have all of your
secondary disposal. You're not given anybody up to the box.
It now helps me called plays, dial up explosive plays
better and limit what you can do as a defense.
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Where we can't run the football, which they haven't been
able to. Let the defense can be whatever they want.
They can change things up, schematically, change things the sky,
things be creative. When you were on the football, you
change the temple of the game. You change the environment
the game. You become the dictator. If they can do that,
and how it permeates all the defense is I like,
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I like that? Never mentioned like I thought to say
this at the end of the day. Whoever, it's the
best defense at the end of this year. You go
back and look at it. In history. On average, this
is usually the number one statistics that is consistent with
a number one defenses. They they play the least amount
of snaps. You put You're right, you play the least
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amount of steps. So how do you do that? You
don't run the football? Does that it gives you that
opportunity to control the temple free up your defense. We
can't we stay on the stane. We take time of possession,
we do all the things that move the field. We
get points. If you're doing most one of those few things.
Every time here in the football you're out on the
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football field with an offense, persons going three and now,
and you just burn thirty seconds because you start to
chuck it all over the place. Wow, what a difference
it makes for your team. It would it would change
the complexity of how this how this team is viewed.
That's how big it would be. Tremendous stuff. Get back
out to quivera lost Cobbos tomorrow, shoot seventy one. I'm
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on a brother, there's always gold. Actually, I'll get the
Hall of honor. You you get a hall of honor.
I was down there today. I won't be there tomorrow.
Heard it's phenomenal. Um. Well, also, you see something I
can't always see the Hall of Honor. That's a that's
extraordinary what they've done there. You're gonna be blown away.
You are going to be blown away. Yeah, I can't Yeah,
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I cannot wait to see this sense a few pictures.
I can't wait to see it on Saturday. So congratulation.
All those guys are gonna be inducted and and and
that have been inducted, and ue you guys this Sunday. Okay,
we'll do Meryl see you guys, take care of go Steelers.
Meryl Hodge and uh boy, he uh had a lot
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Back to what Meryl was talking about, and to me,
it's a very simple breakdown. Uh, you might have had
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this in your extensive no status too small to report
weekly report since one when Alvin Kamara has fewer than
twenty touches the Saints or three and six, you don't
have that, but that adds up. When he gets twenty
or more, they're nine in two in their depleted state,
they're gonna try to hand him the ball. And in
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terms of the passing game, he is Ronald. See him
as a Levy on Belt type line up outside and
run at the run a double move. I might fight
you on that a little bit, especially when Peyton was there.
Not as much of this. Yeah, I think now it's
mostly hey dumping into the flat, get him in space,
bleed through the line, turn around, catch short and run
with it. I mean him versus any of these linebackers.
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The ball is gonna go to him. Yeah, you know
what I mean. But that's the thing. The Ravens were
covering him, Patrick Queen and Rocon Smith. We're on him,
and he caught the ball and they got him on
the ground. Uh. In the running game, first couple of carries,
Merril was talking about wide receivers blocking. Yes, first carry
the game a wide receiver number one, Marquez Callaway, who
probably wouldn't be playing if they were healthy at the
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position spot player. He half asked the block on Marcus Peters.
Peters made the tackle. Second and ten, another receiver to
Marcus Robinson number ten, showed very little interest in blocking
Marlon Humphrey, your cornerback. The other quarterback, Boom down, he
goes after a three yard game. Baltimore's corners were impactful
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in the running game against New Orleans. Yeah, that's a
great call, and that's a great observation. Everyone was focused
on Roquan in that game, but that second area played
really well. That really was not a competitive game. I'm
not sure what to make of the Saints. I don't
know if you watched their game two weeks ago when
they shut out the Raiders, just destroyed the Raiders. I
mean that was not even close to either, and then
this one was the total opposite, which brings me to
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one thing too. In that stat pack Andy Dalton again,
Steelers three and thirteen, I bet it's not great against
the Ravens either. Just a hunch, you know, from the
a f C North days, I think the familiarity with
the Saints quarterback works in Steelers favor. Yeah, there's knowing
what you're up against and actually being able to do
something about it. And I think there are two different things.
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One more thing about Camara. Uh St said one drive
at the end of the first half where they were
able to go hurry up. They got the ball back
with two minutes left, they went down and got a
field goal cut the lead to fourteen to three. That
started with a nine yard Camara run that they actually
got blocked up. They interviewed Dennis Allen, the coach at halftime,
as they do on Monday nights, and he said, quote,
we gotta be able to run the ball, which is
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gonna slow down the rush. That's gonna give us a
lot better chance to operate in the passing game. They
gotta run it. I think the Steelers gotta run it.
Whoever runs it wins a low scoring game. Sunday, I
tend to agree with you. Um, I don't think this
is a great matchup for the Saints, just from a
rest perspective and on the road short week, all the injuries.
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Didn't even mention the turn and overs are the worst
turnover team in the league, so it should be a
good one and Kenny Pickett one of the worst turnover quarterbacks.
That this is the resistible object meeting the movable force.
And your point about you know the offensive to score
points is not lost on me. Gotta score points. Uh.
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Merrill always stops by for the second segment and Matt.
Uh A lot to talk about regarding this Saints game.
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But before we start digging into that, I gotta tell
you about a great experience. I just had the Steelers
conducting a media tour of their new Hall of Honor
Museum at Accrasure Stadium that opens tomorrow at eleven am,
open to the public tomorrow, late warning and uh, I
don't know. You don't strike me as an emotional guy. Oh, look,
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there's Joe Namis cleats, there's helmet. If I walk past
Joe Green at the facility, it brings up. So you're
not totally hard. You're not a pure x and no tactician,
but this place is phenomenal. I gotta tell you, I
spent a lot of time in western Pennsylvania growing up,
and the proximity to Canton, Ohio, and my family's over
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the top of session with sports we went. We went
to Canton a lot. Yeah, and this place that the
Steelers are gonna open to the public tomorrow is Pro
Football Hall of Fame. Caliber is really in terms of
it's the display, the variety of I guess you call
them artifacts or you know, memorability is not a strong
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enough for it, because some of the some of the
stuff is really cool. And they went to the obscure,
which I personally as a sports fan, you know, it's
great to watch the highlight of lind Swan making a
double cat to the Super Bowl on the video, but
I like to see stuff that I didn't even know existed,
or something that the highlights an event that I had
forgotten about or didn't think was that important at the time.
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But you give it a second thought, and uh, I
was just blown away. And I can't recommend enough. If
you are a Steeler fan of any intensity or passion,
you're gonna want to check this place out. Uh. Franko.
Harris was down there today along with Steel's president Art
Roooney the second and they both spoke briefly and check
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this out. Franco said he didn't know that the Steelers
once combined with the Chicago Cardinals during World War two
first season, the card Pit season. I didn't know that.
I think if memory serves, card Pit went oh eleven
and one, not a strong year for the card Pit.
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They decided that was a bad idea after one season,
but that these are the kind of things that you
could learn. Yeah, right, And even if you think you
know it all, you don't. And again, uh really, uh
like to go a beautiful place and uh it starts
with about a twelve minute video and you know, as
a kid growing up in the seventies, that stuff still
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gives you chills. I mean, if it's not for those
seventies teams, I don't do what I'm doing for a living.
I mean I absolutely believe that. And you know, I
haven't been there yet, can't wait to go take my
son whoever. But when I was director of football Operations
at Akron, one of the things I set up because
it was within the mileage, was we had our official
visit weekend for recruits. We would take them to dinner
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at the Hall of Fame and it was we were
the only people in the whole building. Yeah, so it
was like it was like, what's the museum one with
with Robin Williams or they're talking to you like we're
the only ones in the whole building at like nine
ten at night, and like on the busts are there,
and like this is super cool. Yeah, I'm gonna suck
for this kind of stuff just because of my love
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of sports and kind of uh get to travel a
lot on the job. I've been at the Packers Museum.
I've been the Yankee Stadium and Monument Park and anywhere
there's something I go check it out. And this is
this is really cool. I'm sure I can hang with
any NFL t s. I don't use that phraseology very often,
but I was just like, wow, is this nice? And
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I know all my out of town relatives that are
from here originally you're gonna when they come back to visit,
they're gonna want to go. You're gonna want to take
the kids, and uh take to take the relatives. And
really we live some pretty cool times. Also, not a
bad time to open such a museum when you're two
and six. Yeah, bring up a little bit. Yeah, this
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is really out of character because he used to be
this good for long, long, long, long long time. Remember
all the good memories. We got the stuff to prove it.
But uh, let's get to the practice participation right away. Yeah,
and I want to start with New Orleans because this
is a three and six football team, the Saints, and
it is banged up. If you saw the game against
Baltimore on Monday night, you saw one guy go out
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after another. Uh now the one kid leading into that game.
I thought they were the team most affected by injuries
all year long. Alonte Taylor of the rookie cornerback left
and then came back against the Ravens. But here's what
the Saints did not have today. Cornerback Marshawn Lattimore, he's
missed the last four games, hasn't practiced this week. Starting
center Eric McCoy injured against the Ravens didn't practice second
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straight day starting guard, and Pete didn't practice second straight day.
He also went out of that Baltimore game early, so
did linebacker Pete Warner, who is really to me one
of the underrated, underrated players in the end of right.
He left it Monday night and he left it on
a cart and he hasn't practiced yet this week. Marcus May,
one of their safety showed up today on the injury
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report abdomen uh. And this does not even include wide
receiver Michael Thomas and cornerback Bradley Roby, who are on
injured reserve. UH. The other wide receiver of note, Jarvis
Landry limited. He hasn't played in five straight games. So
even if he plays, what's he gonna bring. It's it's brutal.
I mean, I mentioned they've been ge hit really, really
hard this year with injuries, and I may note of
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it in the stat pack that I do the snaps
of the receivers and corners. I know it overwhelms you,
but sometime to enjoy what I Okay, right, Um, Lattimore's
their talking, but the other corners they're really struggling for
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a Dabo has been the number two corner, he's kind
of thrust in the number one situation. He hasn't been
particularly good. Um, besides the Larva, the receivers have been
a disaster. The old lines have been shuffling around, and
this goes back to the Drew Brees era. Nobody invested
in no line as much as the Saints, particularly up
the middle. They always put big money into guards, send rs.
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All those guys are high picks and they're not getting
the benefits of it right now, and they're shuffling guys around.
Rui's the former first round pick. He was the guard.
He bumps into center, so they got worse at two spots,
and he was mostly a center at mostly center. Yeah,
and at one of those first round picks he mentioned
the right tackle Ryan Ramchick struggled against the Ravens. For
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a guy who's been at it as long a his career, yeah,
I don't know what. Maybe he's playing hur too and
fighting through something, who knows, but of course he's probably
gonna get what. The left tackle situation hasn't been ideal.
And really, when you look at the offense, it's two guys.
It's a lava who's really impressive and Kamara. I mean,
the rest of the weapons aren't scary. On the Steelers
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side of things, some good news and some bad news.
Chris Boswell didn't practice again today. He was placed on
the reserve injured list and the Steelers act it's activated
safety Damonte CAZy boy, that was a shame. Shame he
got hurt in the preseason. That guy really was looking
like a fit in a five defensive backs, three safety package.
I think that Big Nickels something you're gonna see a
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lot of, which might mean less of spillane and more
things you can do with well, hang on, hang on on,
less of spillane. Because Miles Jack did not practice consecutive
day as well. Now, Mike Tomlin had said on Tuesday
that Jack might be limited, but the way he Tomlin
said it, it sounded like there was a, you know,
a fairly good chance that he would be playing. But
you know he's a bad if he gets one day, fine,
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but right now he hasn't practiced yet this week. Noah
Kello Witherspoon, Uh, he did not practice for second straight
day today. Larry Ogan Job upgraded from did not practice
too limited. I talked to Ogan Job yesterday and he
said the plan is for him to play. Of course,
plans change. Um also Tarrell Austin against the interior that
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Saints O line would be very useful. Tarl Austin, the
Steelers defensive coordinator, speaking with the media today was coordinator
Thursday down on the South Side and he talked about
the anticipated return of t J. Watt. He hasn't been
activated officially yet, it everybody is expecting that to happen.
Austin said that he's not expecting sixty snaps out of
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t J. Watt, who has been hurt since the open Now.
I pointed out to Austin that a couple of years ago,
when Watts out out training or to holding at training
camp where he was at the meetings and working on
his own but not practicing, he still played a ton
of snaps in that opener Buffalo, even though nobody was
anticipating that hard to pull him off the field, and
Austin said, well, it's different. He wasn't coming off an injury.
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He was just observing. This time he's coming off an injury.
But that they will use him, Austin said, wisely, and
hope he impacts the game and get whatever they can
out of him. It sounds like a bit of an undersell,
but fair enough. Uh, Casey looking forward to getting him back.
Austin not sure how, but he said it might not
just be in the three safety thing. He might play
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some regular defense. Austin thinks he's a really good, full
piece of quality. Based on what I saw in training camp.
I would agree a lot off time, though, you know,
you wonder about the rust. And then uh, William Jackson,
the third, that's the one I was most curious, did
not practice again. Back He didn't practice Monday. According to
Chris Damski of Trip Live with Back, missed the last
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three games of his Washington Commander's tender tenure. Excuse me
with a back injury he suffered out October the ninth
against Tennessee. But Tarrell Austin said today, and I'm gonna paraphrase, well,
you'd like to get him on the practice field, but
he's a veteran, he knows how to cover. He's you know,
he's available, he's playing. We're getting him in there, which
to me is more a reflection of the state of
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the union a cornerback than anything else. No exactly glowing
endorsement for Levi and Spoon and that crew. Obviously, I
think something solid. It's funny when Jackson was the one
of the most excited to hear about cause I had
not seen the practice report before we hit record here. Um,
when they traded for Jackson, maybe I was overly optimistic,
but I thought, as soon as he gets to Pittsburgh,
he's gonna be a starting left corner probably, you know.
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I mean, and maybe that was overshooting things, but he
has hasn't practiced as a steeler. I still think he's
better than the guys. They have his forte uh. People
tell you his man to man, can you put him
on a Lava and then everybody else plays something else? Yeah,
I mean he's been around the block and right. Maybe
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disguise your coverage is a little different, but we just
mentioned that a Lava and Kamara are far and away
their best weapons. Even if Landry returns, I don't know
that you want him following, but you know, the people.
The thing people don't think about when like when Rivus
or Dion follows a guy all over the field, is
then the other ten have to adjust if he goes
in motion or whatever. You know. I mean, they're a
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left right team but but he could be if you
could take out the best receivers, Probably an adjustment worth trying,
isn't it. Yeah, it's just not something they do. Hey,
we didn't have to adjust, but we're still running off
the field the extra point teams coming on because the
best receiver just stuck in the end zone from forty
five yards away. Hey, William follow him, you know, and
that's your job for forty snaps. Yeah, I mean, if
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he can go, I would be shot if he doesn't.
But I love that edition, I think. I mean, this
is bold praise, but I think he could have a
Joe Hayden like. See that's I also thought of him
as a starting corner when they made the trade, but
that was more a reflection of the state of the
union of cornerback here. Yeah, I like at William Jackson
and honestly, Matt, I see a guy who's on his
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third team now, a former number one pick, right, I mean,
this is not how great number one picks careers unfold. No,
it isn't. But man, I mean Washington when he became
a free agent leaving Cincinnati, he was highly, highly coveted, right, man,
Washington overpaid. That's all reason left the Bengals. People don't
let good corners go, do they. Well, I don't know
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Cincinnati was real wise in that decision either. They probably
should have franchised him. But Washington they did okay, but
they kind of did the Nam the Awesoma move in
Washington of we're gonna take this zone cover guy and
make him a man, while they did the opposite and
just asked him to play left handed basically, And it's
sort of a dysfunctional environment in Washington anyways. That's kind
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of the Hayden Brown's correlation to Rivera have a pretty
good represent defensive guy. They they're back seven blows coverages
left and right. I mean, they have that crazy front. Four.
I haven't seen him play yet this year. For two
years now, it's been sloppy, pretty respectable front. Yeah, that
first round pixelore and the other thing that gives me pause.
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And maybe you can clear this up for me. Okay,
he's a man guy, but you can't play zone. Isn't
man harder? I mean, well, here's also another misconception. The
league as a whole play zone like two out of
three snaps. You know, the Steelers right now are heavy
and man, they're at like thanks probably um idea. I
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don't think this year because their corners are so bad.
I mean it's they're they're struggling. They played like nine corners,
significant snaps, you know. So they would love to put Lattimore.
We've seen Lattimore on Mike Evans twice a year forever.
I'm that's what they want to do. I just don't
think they have the guys that do it right now.
So so back to the you know, if you can
play man, why can't you play zone question? It's just
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a totally way of seeing the game, passing guys off,
you know, I mean, more thinking and you got this area. Yeah,
you know. The best way I was always was described
to it when I was saying this to me is
like the old Jerome mcginlick can play right wing but
not left wing. Really, he's a Hall of Fame player.
Why can he not do that? It's probably an okay
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defenseman too, Yeah yeah, I mean because he's more talented
everybody out there that I can't comment on. But the
way I was taught it is when I was at pit,
Paul Rhodes, our defense coordinator, was exceptional and just drilled
it into our defensive backs. Man eyes, you know, you're
basically just look at that guy's belt buckle. You don't
care what the other what else is going on around you.
Zone eyes, you have this wide triangle where you're seeing
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the whole field, you know, and paralysis by analysis. Yeah,
I mean, I'm sure everyone can do both, but in
this league, if you're weak in something, you get picked on. Um.
What to expect is brought to you by Brian Patton
and associates. It's all about the benefits. I'd love to
tell you what to expect Sunday, but I don't know
because I don't know if the Steelers can score. And
I'm not being a smart alec. If they could get
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if they could get start getting twenty one points a game,
I think with the reinforcements coming on defense, I think
they can be in every game they play. Uh during
the post, but I don't know what to expect because
I don't know if they're gonna score. Yeah, I agree
with you, I mean, I definitely. I'm still very much
an optimist at the second half of the season will
be noticeably more encouraging than the first half. But I
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don't know where running games coming from. You know, yeah,
that's one major thing. Presumably they're gonna need that, and uh,
as luck would have it, we have a former running
back by him, so we'll talk to Merrill Hodge about
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of our team to the show, Meryl Hodge and Meryl.
How's it going to understand you had to play some
go track today. I hope that wasn't two distasteful and
experience for you. That's actually a very good word distasteful.
Let me just tell you this, um, I'm not under
golf has never been look back up first on my
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ever golf in any tournament with the far palmer. The
first time I um I I asked Germany Dawson, you
stood next to me and DEMONTI could play golf. And
keep mind I've never played golf before. I don't know
how to play golf. Bubby Brister asked me to fill
in for him playing this what's called the Cadillac Classic,
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I called dirt. I was like, hey, listen, I need
to have you help me because I watched you in
the backyard chip all the time. So I go. He
go was out of golf, so I said, just need
to help you learn how to golf. He was when
your tournament I go to this weekend. He was, Mary,
I can't learn how to play golf in a week
I'm like, well, we gotta try, okay, So he took
me over to play. He cached me over. It takes
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to be okay. It was. It's one thing I realized
I got a problem. But I'm I'm just assumed that nobody.
Everybody knows, you know, I'm not a good golfer, sweet
of their business expectations. I'm gonna go dressed up like
Payne Stewart and have nickers on him and play Gary
Anderson Aunt Palmer, have the time in my life life
at at PPC Sawgrass too. By the way, Um, I'm
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just gonna leave it, dude, I got eighteen stories for you,
and none of them are good. Um. It was an
absolute it was an absolute train wreck. Now, I never
thought I played golf again. Always that show that I
thought I never played golf again after that. Let me
get um, I think all appallment book he passed away.
There's probably only one guy he didn't like. Here's probably me,
okay because of this tournament. So I just I think.
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So I don't I don't care about golf. I don't
ever want to play golf. But I played golf on occasion,
um periodically. But I got passionate about a few years ago.
I've never played a year around here. Until the last
couple of years, I didn't played a Gulfs. I played
August twice and that that I thought I can never
trump you know, in all in all honesty was like,
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I don't think I never trump Augusta until I came
over to um Cabo and played this course on Um
on the ocean. That was um. I'm telling you it
was breathtaking. Every hole was money. I mean it was.
We're playing forty mile wind. So people who know golf
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the you know that's not one of the hardest things playing.
When she made one, UM two, I can my wife's
correcting me over there. She's my caddy. Okay, so true
caddy is always corrected. Shot eight two Okay, that in
that in those wind conditions. But um, what's her name?
I sent you the um what's your name? Jealous? So
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that the quick cordera cordera Cabos golf course. But if
you ever look it up, I mean it's like half
of the course is built right on the coastline. I
mean you literally every time you tee off your the
ocean is if you take two steps off the tea box,
you're gonna fall in the ocean. Not ain't a lie.
It was the most breathtaking concourse. I mean you four hours,
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it seemed like ten minutes. It went so fast. If
I'm telling it was the most stay I think I
remember I've ever done in golf. The holes were spectacular,
the day was beautiful. Um well, I'm glad you got
to believable. So if you're in the Gulf, you gotta come.
I'm glad you got a chance to get out and
do something fun finally, because you know, usually you just
have your nose to the grindstone and it's work, work, work,
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and you never seem to go anywhere or do anything spectacular.
I break leaves a lot of that. Hey, I listen,
I'm still looking at my I'm still looking at all
my tape. And I watched even though I have very
much the third time, I'm still watching. It takes down
on top of things because you can't let the work go. Well,
let me ask you this. Ryan Dawson said, you can't
learn how to play golf in a week. If your nagy, Harris,
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can you remember how to play running back in a
bye week? You like how I got there? That's what
we call clever transition into radio business. Yeah right right,
that's what they called shifting years. Brother. We learned from
reverse to first went over the third recrusion of a grind.
I'm gonna do this. I can relate to I can
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relate to Niger in the in one aspect of you know,
you come off. So I think he's a true pro.
Let me get let me get the statista. I think
he's a really good professional in the sense if he
wants to get better. One thing I'll tell you about
being a professional. But it's a process. You learn things,
and there's no professional that's immuned to this that you
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try to learn and get better at your craft. And
now I say that because bright after my first year,
I remember, my goal was to get bigger, bigger and stronger.
You know. I came in and I sweared. I felt
like the initial man. You know, I was about two
thirty two. I was just I put all this weight
and I was like, I just I was sluggish. I
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just I wasn't. I wasn't the same player I was
a year before. I didn't feel Now I say that,
and I you know, because na, it looks bigger to me.
I don't listen, that might not be it. It might
have been just the injury. It's only about five pounds.
According to him. Okay, I say, that's really not a lot,
you know. I was. I was a good ten fifteen
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pound difference, and this is nine. It was, you know.
Actually my weight indicated how our year went, Okay, I was.
I was two thirty two when we got the fifty
one to nothing. I was too thirty one. We got
forty two to ten, and then I started losing weight
after that, and then we almost went to the super Bowl.
So um, it was in the Denver playoff game. Actually, um,
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I waited in at two ten before we played the
game then, and I we've already had the wild card
game in Houston, and I waited to a eight sus
fluxiate through two to ten. But I realized then I'll
never I'll never be bigger than that because I can't
play bigger than that. I'm better at two ten than
I am at two thirty, you know. And that's where
I've always stopped coaching. With a big mistake already. How
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much you wait? How much you wait? Okay, listen, I
don't give a ratch to romp. How you much you weigh?
How do you play? That's what matters. Okay. If the
guy is ninety five playing, tell off and he's a
guard and you still think you need to be three
oh ten. You need to check yourself as a coach. Okay,
he's good at two ninety five at your mouth. Okay
he plays well to So stick in here. And you
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got a big bigger you gotta be very now. You
don't have to be bigger. You've got to find all
how you play well? Now you you talk to you
makes you? I mean, um, you know when you have
an injury, especially like a foot, you know those things
can just hinder you. Um, and it can. I've always
believe like the training camp is for a reason, seasons
or for the season. When you play the season the
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seasons you're for the playoffs if you're able to get there,
and if you're injured you have something that hampers you.
I just I can't think recollect anybody who's had a
handstring or a foot or something that's significant and affect
her mobility, your your ability to work and move um
for a period of time that you ever get in
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your proper sequence. I'm just trying. I can't give anybody's
ever seen here. I'm a Rob Woodson. When you come
back after Now that was more rotic and held out.
But even rot I mean, you know, he hadn't playing training.
Came to the training cafter five weeks open the opening
day and he had to go up against Jerry Rice
and he was just not the rob Woods. And we
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would know if he had played five weeks. And that's
the true things like how talented you are. And I
think that, you know, I don't know how much he
played in training camp. I was there a couple of
days and I didn't see him practice much. I just
think that all pains and plays a role in this
Cannaby week help him try to get some of that
seasoning back in that rhythm. Sure it can. They're gonna
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get him back to where maybe he was last year,
Probably not, but I actually it would get him closer.
He's still better than most the skill set he has.
But if I know the one I've known about Nag,
he's not sitting there taking things right. And I'm sure
he's working on the craft and trying to get himself
his right as he could possibly get himself. You know,
I just you know, I just was wondering if Wait
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was a part of it, because he just looks much
bigger than he did last year. But you know that
can be a poster, can be deceptive. You know if
you give five pounds so he can look bigger than
you really are. Meryl. The back on the other side,
Alvin Kamara is one of my absolute favorites of the
last decade or so. Where are you at of him? Well,
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I remember coming out when I was getting those doing
the draft, and um, gosh, that year, there's a lot
of backs that were very similar, umcaffrey. Now here's where McCaffrey.
Here's where McCaffrey edged that there's somebody else. I think
the kid in Minnesota will be honest with you. Yeahs okay,
because Bill Dalalin Cook wasn't quite like these two guys.
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These two guys ranked as similar. Okay, So um, here's
where um McCaffrey had an advantage. He had truly played
in the slot. He had run the problem. He'd run
all the routes that you would expect him to try
to run the NFL, and then he played in the
back trial if he could run um all the runs
you needed to. Although you are gonna make him a
power oh running back. You know you're gonna run outside
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Jos perimeter stuff. You know if you don't want to
beat him up, He's not He's not built like that.
So you knew that about it. So that there's where
his advantage would be is that you see him do it.
You're already comfortable. You know he can do it because
you see it now, Camara, when I saw him at
Tennessee and now I put that in I'm not Bill.
Polly and I had a big argument over this, like
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he didn't like him. Um, Bill, the problem that at
me for saying this, Bill didn't like him. I got
at you to lie, you can't do this, can't do that.
And then I'm sure Bills I thinking as a true
power back, you know, so that's not who you know.
But he was just so food and dynamic, and he
did so many things that you just had you don't
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see every day. When he touched the ball and I
don't care where he touched the ball at um, and
then the way he played, how food he was on
the perimeter. Um, you just felt that you'd have to
feel like, Okay, I could really develop him just because
of his overall mobility and his ability to move and
how I played running back. But um, I love him too.
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And in the meeting room in a draft room if
we can. You know, listen, this is a win win.
You could sit there and argue about both guys and
throw your debates. Either way, you're gonna win with the guy.
But where Kamara has been, um fall head and shoulders
sometimes McCaffrey has, he's been pretty much. He's been healthy
a majority of his career. He hasn't met missile McCaffrey has.
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But he is a dynamic player and he can do everything. Um,
and I want to say everything. I mean he'll stick
his nose in there and block two people. I knocking
his watching him last week, I mean he knock, he
knock into next week, I'll be blitzing. You know, he's
not a liability if you're gonna blitz because sometimes you
do that with those rider backs. He's like to try
to get a bigger linebacker on him, and you think
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that you can get your quarterback, get to the quarterback
through in because you know he's a player. He played,
he wants the balls and he doesn't want to do
that has not him. He will play you every down.
Don't don't think for one second day if he's in
the back up or down, we're gonna blitz and we'll
get there, okay, because he will step up a smack
you Mary. Getting back to Harris, nobody at the Steelers
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questions his desire, his want to, his passion, how much
he cares about his team and his teammates, how hard
he works. Uh, you know they've they've told stories since
he got there about how they have to kick him
out of the facility because he's preparing. If you're the
offensive coordinator and you still believe in this guy, but
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you keep seeing not much on the field, how long
is the leash until you look at the kid Jalen
Warren who has been productive in the fourth quarter of games,
and see if he can be productive in the first. Well. Um,
I'm trying to put myself in a coaching situation like
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that because I've been there. First of all, if I
thought it's just the runner, okay, which is not See,
that's the whole problem. Everybody thinks it's just nausea. Let
me just say this that they've done it. They have
not played up front very well. They've been groquestely inconsistent. Okay, Um,
when Jane has had the run, listen, he's done a
great job and breaking tackle and getting extra rs. You don't.
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What you need to do is a running He's compliment
the office line, but he has been a situation where
they played better up front when he's been in there.
He's also popped a couple of He's popped a couple
of ten yard runs on third and fifteen too, right,
A little circumstances and those are not correct. I know
they're not. You know, normal situations. You know, you catch
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him off guard and a third down thing, so where
he's gotten his run. And I'm not taking anyway because
I love the way he runs. Let me just say this,
and he needs a powerful kid. He makes, he breaks.
I'm going getting to it. I mean what he does,
he's at the officers want, does a good job. He
gives you three off or ten more yards after that,
and that's what a good runner does. You know, Nase
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hasn't really get those, you know when he does, you
see what he does, he complimented just like that. He
founds people's punishes people, um gets extra yards. You know,
at the end of the day, you know, I think
he swapped it. He swapped this role. You're not getting
You're just not going to be any different until these
guys got front to get more consistent at the end
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of the day, that's where it starts to end. I'm
not gonna go in my running back end and create
any type of controversy or or issues. And even consider that.
I'm down on nag to be honest with you, I mean,
because what I see him do. I see him do
every everything he could possibly do. The only thing he
does a little more this year, which I cannot blame him.
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He will create. He tries to or if he doesn't
trust it, so he goes and creates when he shouldn't. Um.
He's done it more this year than he did it
last year. UM, But I understand why. If he can't
try us anything, he can't trust that he's going to
get done. And so it's natural for a runner to
think he's got to create. And that's what he's done
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a little more this year than last year. And that's
nothing I do. I canceling this. You gotta keep trusting
and believing we'll eventually getting done up front and then
we'll have the full compliment of what we need. But
I'm not gonna go, um put the swap guys out,
and you know his production is really not on him.
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It's it's on what we how cool we have been
out front. That's where the production and the problem was. Mary.
What do you see the ripple effects of the Claypool trade.
I mean, do you think there's maybe more twelve personnel,
maybe more what in the game or this target distribution
goes more to Deonte and Pickens. Well, um, I think
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down picking is probably you know, pitches probably becomes more
of a focal point. So that that's I think where
it might funnel too, you know much, and that you
might get a little more you know, twelve to tight
ends one back in there. Um, I don't know how
productive they are with with you know, a fullback in
there and they don't have there are not as productives
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and they don't have as many options. Stems from that, Um,
but I might you might see thee more too tight
end as you know that helps him you run the
game to you know, get a better blocker. Um. You
know they're tried to lose use clite pool as a
blocker and he just you'na do it at the end
of the day. You know, speaking from experience and knowing
how you run blocker or a passtalker I'm would say this,
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it's just being a willing to participants. Okay, you're willingness
to go in there and block people. And when you
don't have that, then you can't. You can't change somebody's mindset.
If they're not tough, they don't want to dig somebody out,
they're not going to do it. And quite who, We're
going to do it regardless of its eyes and put
two hands on somebody and he can be cast of
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a ghost and heart beat, get the disappear. So umb
you guys that can hold big people out and make
things happen. Mary, last thing I got for you, what
kind of difference would a consistent running game make? You know,
they could start grinding out ten yards from the running backs,
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not the quarterback doing read options, and not an endless
succession of jet suite, just a traditional run the ball.
If they could start being effective at that not great effective,
what kind of difference was Let me just say this,
it completely changes the team and the direction they're going.
And it does the one thing that I harp on
I talked about all the time. At the end of
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the day, you have to control the tempo in the
National Football League to win consistently. It has to be done. Yes,
there's gonna be those those games where it doesn't happen
that way, turnovers and crazy things happen. But if you're
gonna win consistently, the ability to run the ball effecting
us once we're talking about not just run the ball,
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you know and get two yards. I mean be effective
and you you can foot damage on it, and you
you will click the defense to ultimately surrender. And what
I say surrender is if you can run the football.
WelCom Philadelphia will asked to year the defense what to
happen when they start run the ball on You have
to take somebody and enter it to enter him to
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the box game. Now you have given somebody in your
secondary up to defend the run. That limits what you
can do coverage wise and limber. It's what you can
do defense defensively. Now from a coordinator perspective, offensively, that
opens That opens Pendora's box for me. Now I know
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he can only run so many things and covering now
I can attack that much easier. And you have a
lot of different options. You have a lot of flexibility
because you handle my run, you have all of your
secondary disposal. You're not given anybody up to the box.
It now helps me called plays, dial up explosive plays
better and limit what you can do as a defense.
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Where we can't run the football, which they haven't been
able to. Let the defense can be whatever they want.
They can change things up, schematically, change things the sky,
things be creative. When you were on the football, you
change the temple of the game. You change the environment
the game. You become the dictator. If they can do that,
and how it permeates all the defense is I like,
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I like that? Never mentioned like I thought to say
this at the end of the day. Whoever, it's the
best defense at the end of this year. You go
back and look at it. In history. On average, this
is usually the number one statistics that is consistent with
a number one defenses. They they play the least amount
of snaps. You put You're right, you play the least
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amount of steps. So how do you do that? You
don't run the football? Does that it gives you that
opportunity to control the temple free up your defense. We
can't we stay on the stane. We take time of possession,
we do all the things that move the field. We
get points. If you're doing most one of those few things.
Every time here in the football you're out on the
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football field with an offense, persons going three and now,
and you just burn thirty seconds because you start to
chuck it all over the place. Wow, what a difference
it makes for your team. It would it would change
the complexity of how this how this team is viewed.
That's how big it would be. Tremendous stuff. Get back
out to quivera lost Cobbos tomorrow, shoot seventy one. I'm
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on a brother, there's always gold. Actually, I'll get the
Hall of honor. You you get a hall of honor.
I was down there today. I won't be there tomorrow.
Heard it's phenomenal. Um. Well, also, you see something I
can't always see the Hall of Honor. That's a that's
extraordinary what they've done there. You're gonna be blown away.
You are going to be blown away. Yeah, I can't Yeah,
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I cannot wait to see this sense a few pictures.
I can't wait to see it on Saturday. So congratulation.
All those guys are gonna be inducted and and and
that have been inducted, and ue you guys this Sunday. Okay,
we'll do Meryl see you guys, take care of go Steelers.
Meryl Hodge and uh boy, he uh had a lot
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to say there and every syllable of it was spot on.
And uh we'll touch retouched on a couple of those
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sacks by the Steelers Defense Sunday over or under two
and a half. I'm going over on that one. I
know this whole pitch count for what things sounds great
on a Thursday night. I bet he plays forty or
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fifty snaps He's play, He's getting at least one, and
somebody else is getting a couple more. I'm gonna go
over as well. This week's prize is a signed football,
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two tickets to these Steelers Ravens game on December the eleven.
Back to what Meryl was talking about, and to me,
it's a very simple breakdown. Uh, you might have had
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this in your extensive no status too small to report
weekly report since one when Alvin Kamara has fewer than
twenty touches the Saints or three and six, you don't
have that, but that adds up. When he gets twenty
or more, they're nine in two in their depleted state,
they're gonna try to hand him the ball. And in
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terms of the passing game, he is Ronald. See him
as a Levy on Belt type line up outside and
run at the run a double move. I might fight
you on that a little bit, especially when Peyton was there.
Not as much of this. Yeah, I think now it's
mostly hey dumping into the flat, get him in space,
bleed through the line, turn around, catch short and run
with it. I mean him versus any of these linebackers.
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The ball is gonna go to him. Yeah, you know
what I mean. But that's the thing. The Ravens were
covering him, Patrick Queen and Rocon Smith. We're on him,
and he caught the ball and they got him on
the ground. Uh. In the running game, first couple of carries,
Merril was talking about wide receivers blocking. Yes, first carry
the game a wide receiver number one, Marquez Callaway, who
probably wouldn't be playing if they were healthy at the
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position spot player. He half asked the block on Marcus Peters.
Peters made the tackle. Second and ten, another receiver to
Marcus Robinson number ten, showed very little interest in blocking
Marlon Humphrey, your cornerback. The other quarterback, Boom down, he
goes after a three yard game. Baltimore's corners were impactful
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in the running game against New Orleans. Yeah, that's a
great call, and that's a great observation. Everyone was focused
on Roquan in that game, but that second area played
really well. That really was not a competitive game. I'm
not sure what to make of the Saints. I don't
know if you watched their game two weeks ago when
they shut out the Raiders, just destroyed the Raiders. I
mean that was not even close to either, and then
this one was the total opposite, which brings me to
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one thing too. In that stat pack Andy Dalton again,
Steelers three and thirteen, I bet it's not great against
the Ravens either. Just a hunch, you know, from the
a f C North days, I think the familiarity with
the Saints quarterback works in Steelers favor. Yeah, there's knowing
what you're up against and actually being able to do
something about it. And I think there are two different things.
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One more thing about Camara. Uh St said one drive
at the end of the first half where they were
able to go hurry up. They got the ball back
with two minutes left, they went down and got a
field goal cut the lead to fourteen to three. That
started with a nine yard Camara run that they actually
got blocked up. They interviewed Dennis Allen, the coach at halftime,
as they do on Monday nights, and he said, quote,
we gotta be able to run the ball, which is
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gonna slow down the rush. That's gonna give us a
lot better chance to operate in the passing game. They
gotta run it. I think the Steelers gotta run it.
Whoever runs it wins a low scoring game. Sunday, I
tend to agree with you. Um, I don't think this
is a great matchup for the Saints, just from a
rest perspective and on the road short week, all the injuries.
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Didn't even mention the turn and overs are the worst
turnover team in the league, so it should be a
good one and Kenny Pickett one of the worst turnover quarterbacks.
That this is the resistible object meeting the movable force.
And your point about you know the offensive to score
points is not lost on me. Gotta score points. Uh.
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