Latest / The Steelers Report / HR 1: Patriots 20, Steelers 3 Week 2 Game Recap

Transcript

HR 1: Patriots 20, Steelers 3 Week 2 Game Recap · The Steelers Report

• 0:02
  Speaker 1: The reality is.
• 0:05
  Speaker 2: The detail's not there, and that's on coaching. It starts
• 0:09
  Speaker 2: with me. I'm calling the offense. I have to get
• 0:14
  Speaker 2: the detail better. So if you need someone, fire away,
• 0:18
  Speaker 2: because I felt it on Wednesday and Thursday. I'm a
• 0:20
  Speaker 2: veteran coach. I know better, and I didn't.
• 0:24
  Speaker 3: Do a good job.
• 0:27
  Speaker 4: I've learned you've got to get up quick, number one,
• 0:29
  Speaker 4: so they don't try and send anybody out to get
• 0:31
  Speaker 4: you um yeah that was definitely a shot you know
• 0:36
  Speaker 4: i haven't taken too many of those in my career
• 0:38
  Speaker 4: because usually i have a feeling you know if we're
• 0:41
  Speaker 4: picked up or not picked up um that was a
• 0:43
  Speaker 4: uh lapse in communication obviously this.
• 0:48
  Speaker 5: Is the steelers report with brian batco and ed troop
• 0:52
  Speaker 5: on steelers nation radio a part of the steelers audio network.
• 0:57
  Speaker 3: The Pittsburgh Steelers defense did its job on Sunday, but
• 1:01
  Speaker 3: the offense simply did not. Just three points, another rough
• 1:05
  Speaker 3: day for the offensive line. More pressure on Aaron Rodgers,
• 1:09
  Speaker 3: as you just heard, and only two third-down conversions.
• 1:13
  Speaker 1: On the day.
• 1:14
  Speaker 3: The Steelers are 1-1 after a 20-3 loss in New England,
• 1:19
  Speaker 3: and there's plenty for us to dive into.
• 1:21
  Speaker 1: But, Brian, the Steelers.
• 1:22
  Speaker 3: Have scored just 16 points through the first two games
• 1:25
  Speaker 3: of the season. They were saved by TJ Watt last
• 1:28
  Speaker 3: week in the defense in week one, but on Sunday,
• 1:31
  Speaker 3: there were no savers in New England and Patriots 20,
• 1:35
  Speaker 3: Steelers 3.
• 1:37
  Speaker 6: Yeah, that wasn't pretty.
• 1:38
  Speaker 7: Not a fun trip up to Boston slash Foxborough. It's
• 1:43
  Speaker 7: never really a fun trip for any team, I don't think,
• 1:45
  Speaker 7: because if we were talking about it last week on
• 1:47
  Speaker 7: the show, if you've never been there, I mean, Foxborough
• 1:50
  Speaker 7: is a bit of a hike to and from Boston,
• 1:52
  Speaker 7: and It's a city that's certainly got some traffic.
• 1:55
  Speaker 6: It's not easy getting in.
• 1:56
  Speaker 7: Or out of the town, really, where the Patriots play.
• 2:00
  Speaker 7: And it is sort of charming when you're driving through
• 2:03
  Speaker 7: the neighborhoods to get to Gillette Stadium. But I guess
• 2:07
  Speaker 7: it's one of those NFL road trips that it's OK
• 2:10
  Speaker 7: if you're leaving after a win. But if you're leaving
• 2:13
  Speaker 7: after a loss, especially one like that, it's even worse
• 2:16
  Speaker 7: getting out of Foxborough, Massachusetts and trying to make your
• 2:18
  Speaker 7: way to the airport.
• 2:19
  Speaker 3: Brian and I will get you all set for the
• 2:21
  Speaker 3: Mike McCarthy press conference coming up at 3 o'clock today,
• 2:25
  Speaker 3: live on the south side with Wes Euler and Jerry Dulek.
• 2:28
  Speaker 3: You can hear that right here on Steelers Nation Radio,
• 2:31
  Speaker 3: part of the Steelers Audio Network.
• 2:32
  Speaker 1: But, Brian, I want to start with this.
• 2:34
  Speaker 3: What was the vibe like after this loss 20-3 in
• 2:38
  Speaker 3: New England? You were there, came back with the team
• 2:41
  Speaker 3: as well last evening. Could not have been a fun
• 2:44
  Speaker 3: commute here back to Pittsburgh.
• 2:45
  Speaker 7: No, I mean, I guess the mood of the locker room, Ed,
• 2:48
  Speaker 7: I've been in– a lot of winning road locker rooms.
• 2:50
  Speaker 7: I've been in a lot of losing road locker rooms
• 2:53
  Speaker 7: over the last seven plus years.
• 2:56
  Speaker 6: Guys were ticked off. Don't get me wrong.
• 2:58
  Speaker 7: They want to win them all. Multiple players talked about
• 3:00
  Speaker 7: that after the game. You know, TJ Watt, Nick Herbig,
• 3:03
  Speaker 7: Cam Hayward. They always have kind of that mentality of
• 3:08
  Speaker 7: anytime you lose a game, you are, you're PO'd, for
• 3:12
  Speaker 7: lack of a better term.
• 3:13
  Speaker 6: But it wasn't like overly defensive.
• 3:18
  Speaker 7: Frustrated or beside themselves or anything, because it's, it's early
• 3:21
  Speaker 7: in the season and it's a long season.
• 3:23
  Speaker 6: Yeah. It's week two.
• 3:24
  Speaker 7: Now the NFL is not as long as MLB or
• 3:28
  Speaker 7: NHL or NBA, but certainly starting one-on-one is far from
• 3:33
  Speaker 7: a death knell for your season. Now these, these games
• 3:36
  Speaker 7: matter just as much as the ones in November, December, January.
• 3:40
  Speaker 7: Don't get me wrong, but this was one where it's just, Hey, you,
• 3:44
  Speaker 7: you move on. You hope that you learn some things
• 3:47
  Speaker 7: and you didn't just lose and that you go into
• 3:50
  Speaker 7: a tailspin. I think guys were, no one was panicking
• 3:53
  Speaker 7: is probably the best way to sum it all up,
• 3:56
  Speaker 7: at least not from what I could tell.
• 3:59
  Speaker 6: Also, this is a veteran group.
• 4:00
  Speaker 7: I mean, I think it ended up being the second
• 4:02
  Speaker 7: oldest roster in terms of opening day, right behind the 49ers.
• 4:06
  Speaker 6: So these guys are not going to be, it's not
• 4:10
  Speaker 6: going to be the sky.
• 4:10
  Speaker 7: Is falling, even if everybody wishes they would have played
• 4:13
  Speaker 7: better in New England.
• 4:14
  Speaker 1: And I agree with that.
• 4:16
  Speaker 3: I think the theme today in Steelers Nation, almost 24
• 4:19
  Speaker 3: hours past now.
• 4:20
  Speaker 1: Is calmness.
• 4:21
  Speaker 3: It's only week two. It's early in the season. There's
• 4:24
  Speaker 3: a lot of football left. Now, you can make the
• 4:26
  Speaker 3: argument that it was ugly, especially on offense. But there
• 4:30
  Speaker 3: were some good things that happened yesterday, too. And we're
• 4:32
  Speaker 3: going to get into it all here on the Steelers
• 4:33
  Speaker 3: Report today. Specifically, the defense now, two weeks in a row,
• 4:37
  Speaker 3: played very well. You know, you hold your opponent to
• 4:40
  Speaker 3: 13 points. two weeks to start out brian in the
• 4:43
  Speaker 3: national football league in 2026 it should be enough to
• 4:46
  Speaker 3: get you to victory but when your offense is struggling
• 4:48
  Speaker 3: to run the ball and the offensive line probably played
• 4:51
  Speaker 3: its worst game yesterday in the last two years in my.
• 4:54
  Speaker 7: Opinion and the cool thing about the steelers defense with
• 4:57
  Speaker 7: a lot of these guys who have been around for
• 4:58
  Speaker 7: so long ed and don't get me wrong i'm not
• 5:01
  Speaker 7: trying to be all black and gold glasses here but
• 5:04
  Speaker 7: those guys still aren't satisfied i mean they still think
• 5:06
  Speaker 7: it's it's not enough like they could have gotten more
• 5:09
  Speaker 7: takeaways they could have prevented the one touchdown New England scored.
• 5:13
  Speaker 7: They could have prevented a field goal or two that
• 5:16
  Speaker 7: New England scored.
• 5:17
  Speaker 6: If it were up to Cam.
• 5:18
  Speaker 7: Hayward, he would have run onto the field while Elijah
• 5:21
  Speaker 7: Ponder was returning the fumble for a touchdown and tackled him.
• 5:25
  Speaker 7: So they always feel like unless they pitch a shutout,
• 5:28
  Speaker 7: they could have been better. And they feel like they
• 5:31
  Speaker 7: have the potential to do that each and every week,
• 5:34
  Speaker 7: regardless of opponent. But we all know that that's not realistic.
• 5:37
  Speaker 7: And we all know that The offense isn't really carrying
• 5:41
  Speaker 7: its weight right now for this team through the first
• 5:44
  Speaker 7: two weeks. The offensive line played not up to snuff.
• 5:49
  Speaker 7: I think it was much more of a case of
• 5:52
  Speaker 7: everything else suffered as a result of that. And Mike
• 5:56
  Speaker 7: McCarthy talked about it a lot after the game, how
• 6:00
  Speaker 7: he needs to figure out something to make sure that
• 6:02
  Speaker 7: those protection issues don't continue to bog down this attack,
• 6:06
  Speaker 7: whether that's paring down the playbook or you know he
• 6:11
  Speaker 7: didn't go down the road of personnel changes and I
• 6:13
  Speaker 7: don't know that they're ready for that just yet but
• 6:15
  Speaker 7: that is always an option for any position for any
• 6:19
  Speaker 7: coach for any team so yeah I mean you can't
• 6:21
  Speaker 7: let it continue to fester and make every part of
• 6:26
  Speaker 7: this offense struggle and and work to move the ball
• 6:30
  Speaker 7: and you know establishing the run obviously would go a
• 6:34
  Speaker 7: long way toward not having to drop back 40 sometimes
• 6:37
  Speaker 7: and protect and make sure that all your communication is
• 6:41
  Speaker 7: on its P's and Q's. If you can line up
• 6:43
  Speaker 7: and move someone from point A to point B and
• 6:45
  Speaker 7: put yourself in manageable down and distances, that would cure
• 6:48
  Speaker 7: a lot of ills.
• 6:49
  Speaker 3: They tried to run the ball early in the game,
• 6:51
  Speaker 3: just like they did against the Falcons and found not
• 6:54
  Speaker 3: a lot of success. And, you know, you're two weeks
• 6:56
  Speaker 3: into the season now, and that has to change Brian,
• 6:59
  Speaker 3: because listen, You've covered football a long time, as have I.
• 7:03
  Speaker 1: Our listeners out there right.
• 7:04
  Speaker 3: Now have been around and watched the game of football
• 7:07
  Speaker 3: for a long time, I'm sure. It's an old adage,
• 7:10
  Speaker 3: but it's true. The run game sets up the passing game.
• 7:13
  Speaker 3: When the run game struggles, the passing game will follow
• 7:16
  Speaker 3: and also struggle. So it does not take Vince Lombardi
• 7:20
  Speaker 3: to be here on the airwaves this morning to tell
• 7:22
  Speaker 3: you the Steelers are struggling to run the ball, and
• 7:24
  Speaker 3: they're also struggling to throw the ball because of that.
• 7:26
  Speaker 1: It all starts up front.
• 7:27
  Speaker 3: It all starts with the offensive line. They did not
• 7:30
  Speaker 3: have a good day yesterday. Troy Fontano, Mason McCormick included.
• 7:34
  Speaker 3: Zach Frazier is the only one I'll give a pass
• 7:36
  Speaker 3: to because I didn't really talk about Zach Frazier. And
• 7:38
  Speaker 3: as we said, when you don't talk about an offensive lineman,
• 7:40
  Speaker 3: that's a good thing. He's usually doing his job. Spencer Anderson,
• 7:44
  Speaker 3: not good on that right side. Dylan Cook as well.
• 7:48
  Speaker 3: Is it time to make a change this early in
• 7:50
  Speaker 3: the season? Brock Hoffman is teed up there at right guard.
• 7:54
  Speaker 3: maxi on a chore the first round draft pick i've
• 7:56
  Speaker 3: said many times here on the show with you that
• 7:59
  Speaker 3: i thought by game three or four they would maybe
• 8:01
  Speaker 3: work him into this lineup maybe it's as early as
• 8:04
  Speaker 3: week three this upcoming week against the bangles we shall
• 8:06
  Speaker 3: see i'm.
• 8:07
  Speaker 7: Not there just yet i think this is a classic
• 8:10
  Speaker 7: case of all right that was a miserable performance uh
• 8:13
  Speaker 7: really for everybody and i mean i think even zach
• 8:15
  Speaker 7: frazier had some reps that he'd want back i mean
• 8:18
  Speaker 7: go back and kind of comb through the the tape
• 8:20
  Speaker 7: but uh i don't even know that he was his
• 8:23
  Speaker 7: usual dominant self and uh i think this though is
• 8:26
  Speaker 7: it is a case where hey this was a rough
• 8:29
  Speaker 7: one let's at least give these guys a chance to
• 8:32
  Speaker 7: make the corrections that's early they talk and i'm sure
• 8:34
  Speaker 7: there are going to be some difficult conversations on on
• 8:37
  Speaker 7: the south side today because it's not going to be
• 8:40
  Speaker 7: a fun film review that's for sure and as far
• 8:43
  Speaker 7: as um making changes i mean i'd want to see
• 8:47
  Speaker 7: how the guys can respond first of all um Dylan
• 8:51
  Speaker 7: Cook and Spencer Anderson aren't first-time starters. They have done this.
• 8:56
  Speaker 7: They have a body of work to some extent. The resumes,
• 9:02
  Speaker 7: they aren't long necessarily, but I don't think these were
• 9:06
  Speaker 7: flash-in-the-pan types necessarily. So you can see if there's more
• 9:12
  Speaker 7: meat on the bone here, I think, before you do
• 9:14
  Speaker 7: anything too drastic.
• 9:15
  Speaker 3: See, I'd like to see Brock Hoffman get a chance
• 9:17
  Speaker 3: at right guard for Spencer Anderson. Maybe keep Dylan Cook
• 9:20
  Speaker 3: there a bit longer at right tackle. You're not going
• 9:22
  Speaker 3: to do anything with Fontana. Mason McCormick was actually hurt
• 9:25
  Speaker 3: yesterday a bit too, Brian. I think he came out
• 9:27
  Speaker 3: for a play or two. Came back in, so that's good.
• 9:29
  Speaker 3: He was able to finish the game, but he could
• 9:31
  Speaker 3: have been playing as well, not 100% yesterday. You're not
• 9:34
  Speaker 3: going to do anything on that left side, but that
• 9:36
  Speaker 3: right side definitely needs attention.
• 9:38
  Speaker 1: It is early in the season. It's only week two,
• 9:40
  Speaker 1: so you're right.
• 9:41
  Speaker 3: There's a lot of time left here, and maybe you
• 9:43
  Speaker 3: do give him an opportunity.
• 9:44
  Speaker 2: However.
• 9:45
  Speaker 3: I think that leash should be short for this offensive
• 9:49
  Speaker 3: line going into week three, especially against the Cincinnati Bengals
• 9:52
  Speaker 3: coming into town this upcoming Sunday. Brian, let's talk turning
• 9:56
  Speaker 3: point of the game. Christian Barmore, that strip sack early
• 9:59
  Speaker 3: in the fall.
• 10:00
  Speaker 2: Quarter.
• 10:00
  Speaker 3: The Steelers were only down by 10 at that point.
• 10:03
  Speaker 3: Even though the offense wasn't doing much, they were still alive.
• 10:06
  Speaker 3: And then the offensive line breaks down. Barmore gets the Rodgers.
• 10:10
  Speaker 3: Elijah Ponder takes it 19 yards for six. And it's 20-3.
• 10:15
  Speaker 3: That play turned an ugly 13-3 game into a game
• 10:18
  Speaker 3: that was basically over. Ball game at that point. And
• 10:21
  Speaker 3: the Steelers looked that way when it came out on offense.
• 10:24
  Speaker 3: They were three and out a few times. And then
• 10:25
  Speaker 3: Mason Rudolph came in to finish up the game for
• 10:28
  Speaker 3: the Steelers offense.
• 10:29
  Speaker 7: And on the flip side of us kind of starting
• 10:31
  Speaker 7: today's show by, hey, everyone relax a little bit.
• 10:34
  Speaker 6: Don't panic.
• 10:35
  Speaker 7: It is disconcerting that two of the last three games
• 10:39
  Speaker 7: went the– actually the last two losses for the Steelers–
• 10:42
  Speaker 7: very reminiscent of each other.
• 10:43
  Speaker 6: You know, that Texans wildcard game was one where you're in.
• 10:46
  Speaker 7: The game and it's like, Hey, let's just hang around here,
• 10:49
  Speaker 7: hang around, hang around. And then we'll make enough plays
• 10:51
  Speaker 7: to maybe turn this thing. Well, not only did you
• 10:53
  Speaker 7: not do that, but it completely went the other way
• 10:56
  Speaker 7: on you.
• 10:56
  Speaker 6: And it was like an avalanche, a snowball effect when
• 10:58
  Speaker 6: it got away. It's funny.
• 11:00
  Speaker 3: You mentioned that because when that happened with ponder taking it,
• 11:04
  Speaker 3: for six, you know what I thought of? I thought
• 11:05
  Speaker 3: of the end of that Texans game. That pick six
• 11:08
  Speaker 3: that Aaron Rodgers threw to end that game. I had
• 11:10
  Speaker 3: the same vibe as you just said. And full disclosure,
• 11:14
  Speaker 3: our listeners out there, our fans, and I know there's
• 11:16
  Speaker 3: like three of you, but we didn't talk about that
• 11:19
  Speaker 3: yesterday texting or even this morning when you came in
• 11:22
  Speaker 3: about how we both felt that. But yeah, it was
• 11:25
  Speaker 3: very eerie to that game against the Texans in the
• 11:27
  Speaker 3: wild card game.
• 11:28
  Speaker 6: And if you're going to lose.
• 11:29
  Speaker 7: obviously you'd rather lose close and you'd want it to
• 11:32
  Speaker 7: be one where you felt like you had an opportunity
• 11:33
  Speaker 7: at the end and just.
• 11:35
  Speaker 6: A play here or a play there.
• 11:38
  Speaker 7: You don't want it to, like I said, snowball on
• 11:40
  Speaker 7: you the way that it did in the last two
• 11:42
  Speaker 7: games that the Steelers have lost.
• 11:44
  Speaker 6: So I know there are different seasons.
• 11:46
  Speaker 7: There's a ton that has changed in between the end
• 11:49
  Speaker 7: of the 2026 post season for the Steelers and the
• 11:52
  Speaker 7: start of the 2026 regular season for the Steelers, but
• 11:56
  Speaker 7: elements of it very similar and, Those are things that
• 12:01
  Speaker 7: they're obviously going to have to find ways to make
• 12:03
  Speaker 7: sure that this doesn't keep happening, especially when you play
• 12:06
  Speaker 7: some of the better teams in your own conference.
• 12:08
  Speaker 3: And here's the other thing, and we're trying to make
• 12:09
  Speaker 3: you Steelers Nation feel a bit better here on Monday, right?
• 12:13
  Speaker 1: We're trying to coach you up, if you will.
• 12:15
  Speaker 3: Don't jump to conclusions yet and just throw the 2026
• 12:19
  Speaker 3: season away after one loss. The New England Patriots are
• 12:23
  Speaker 3: the defending AFC Conference champs. We didn't go out yesterday
• 12:26
  Speaker 3: and lose to the Miami Dolphins. No disrespect to the Dolphins,
• 12:29
  Speaker 3: but the Dolphins are the Dolphins, right?
• 12:30
  Speaker 1: The Browns are the Browns. We'll get into that later
• 12:32
  Speaker 1: on this week, I'm sure.
• 12:33
  Speaker 6: Oh, boy.
• 12:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, right? That was quite entertaining yesterday.
• 12:37
  Speaker 3: But the Patriots are not just going to throw the
• 12:41
  Speaker 3: towel in after one week. against the seattle seahawks and
• 12:43
  Speaker 3: come back here in week two and say ah we're
• 12:45
  Speaker 3: good this is a good football team especially defensively you
• 12:48
  Speaker 3: talked about it on the show last week that's secondary
• 12:51
  Speaker 3: might be one of the best in the nfl.
• 12:53
  Speaker 7: And i think what i didn't necessarily anticipate was they
• 12:56
  Speaker 7: caused a lot more havoc up front with dudes who
• 12:59
  Speaker 7: were far from household names i mean cory durden you
• 13:02
  Speaker 7: know he doesn't really jump to your mind when you
• 13:04
  Speaker 7: talk about uh good interior players or or what have you,
• 13:09
  Speaker 7: Elijah Ponder as an edge rusher.
• 13:11
  Speaker 6: I mean, that's not.
• 13:11
  Speaker 7: Exactly the second coming of Max Crosby out there, although
• 13:16
  Speaker 7: maybe he will be, you know, prove, prove me wrong.
• 13:18
  Speaker 7: But yeah, I mean, those guys were, were causing havoc.
• 13:22
  Speaker 7: And I think a lot of it was, you know,
• 13:24
  Speaker 7: really good defensive play calling. And that was a, a
• 13:27
  Speaker 7: tenant of what the Patriots were doing in that playoff
• 13:30
  Speaker 7: run last year, you know, their defensive coordinator, Zach Kerr,
• 13:33
  Speaker 7: and certainly Mike Vrabel as a hand in, in all
• 13:35
  Speaker 7: of that as a defensive background head coach. I mean,
• 13:38
  Speaker 7: they were, they had the right answers to the test
• 13:42
  Speaker 7: when the Steelers tried to throw things their way offensively. And,
• 13:45
  Speaker 7: you know, I do think the rookie from Illinois, I
• 13:48
  Speaker 7: mentioned Gabe Ackes. I mean, Aaron Rogers gave him some
• 13:51
  Speaker 7: praise after that game. So I think he is going
• 13:54
  Speaker 7: to be somebody that you hear from for a while
• 13:55
  Speaker 7: from the Patriots and Milton Williams and Christian Barmore. I mean,
• 13:58
  Speaker 7: those are veterans who pretty consistently disruptive, but it, other
• 14:03
  Speaker 7: than Barmore with the punch out, it was some of
• 14:04
  Speaker 7: those other lesser known players who, who were heard from
• 14:08
  Speaker 7: in this game. They even lost Draymond Jones, their edge rusher,
• 14:11
  Speaker 7: after 18 snaps. So, yeah, I mean, there are going
• 14:14
  Speaker 7: to be other disruptive fronts that the Steelers see, and
• 14:18
  Speaker 7: this offensive line is going to have to be ready
• 14:19
  Speaker 7: for it.
• 14:20
  Speaker 3: I think we all just thought maybe the game in
• 14:23
  Speaker 3: Foxborough yesterday would be a bit closer than what it was.
• 14:26
  Speaker 3: Maybe it wouldn't have been the blow. I'm so choked
• 14:30
  Speaker 3: up about this loss yesterday, I can't speak right now.
• 14:33
  Speaker 3: But just the way it went down, too, especially on offense. Again,
• 14:36
  Speaker 3: defense looked good. They definitely played well enough for them
• 14:39
  Speaker 3: to get this victory here in Week 2, but the
• 14:41
  Speaker 3: offense just sputtered, and they sputtered from the beginning in
• 14:44
  Speaker 3: the first quarter, Brian, all the way through until the
• 14:46
  Speaker 3: end of the game.
• 14:47
  Speaker 6: For sure. Back to the drawing board today.
• 14:50
  Speaker 7: At least Mike McCarthy has been in these shoes many
• 14:52
  Speaker 7: a times with many a franchise and many a year.
• 14:56
  Speaker 7: And he and Rodgers together, I'm sure, have bounced back
• 14:59
  Speaker 7: from adversity such as this.
• 15:00
  Speaker 3: Up next, Brian and I will jump into the player
• 15:02
  Speaker 3: stats from Patriots 20, Steelers 3 in Week 2. And
• 15:06
  Speaker 3: coming up at 2.45, we'll have our three stats to victory.
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: How did that play out here in Week 2?
• 15:12
  Speaker 3: And also coming up at 3 o'clock, it's the Mike
• 15:14
  Speaker 3: McCarthy Press Conference live from the Southside with Wes Euler
• 15:18
  Speaker 3: and Jerry Dulac.
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: Right here on Steelers Nation Radio. I'm Troop.
• 15:22
  Speaker 6: He's back.
• 15:23
  Speaker 3: We'll be back right after this here on the Steelers
• 15:25
  Speaker 3: Report on Steelers Nation Radio, part of the Steelers Audio Network.
• 15:36
  Speaker 8: May play action pass.
• 15:37
  Speaker 4: Back looking.
• 15:38
  Speaker 8: Throws.
• 15:39
  Speaker 2: Lofts. Left.
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: And it's picked off.
• 15:41
  Speaker 9: Intercepted by Patrick Queen at the 10-yard line.
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: Gets to his feet.
• 15:45
  Speaker 9: Wrestled down at the 12.
• 15:47
  Speaker 8: A huge turnover.
• 15:50
  Speaker 5: This is the Steelers report with Brian Batko and Ed
• 15:53
  Speaker 5: Troop on Steelers Nation Radio, a part of the Steelers
• 15:57
  Speaker 5: Audio Network.
• 15:59
  Speaker 3: Pittsburgh Steelers defense definitely shined in week two. Again, three
• 16:03
  Speaker 3: sacks on the day, eight tackle for losses, two takeaways.
• 16:07
  Speaker 3: You just heard the first there from Patrick Queen with
• 16:10
  Speaker 3: the interception. They held New England the four of 12
• 16:15
  Speaker 3: on third down for 33% last week against the Falcons.
• 16:19
  Speaker 3: they only held them to two third down conversions. And
• 16:23
  Speaker 3: they also added seven quarterback hits against Drake May and
• 16:27
  Speaker 3: the Patriots in the 20 to three week to loss.
• 16:30
  Speaker 3: So as we were saying, Brian, on one hand, the
• 16:33
  Speaker 3: offense struggled and they struggled big time, but the defense
• 16:37
  Speaker 3: Patrick Graham's unit two weeks in a row that played
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: pretty well.
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 16:42
  Speaker 7: Now, you know, one negative and TJ watt was, uh,
• 16:46
  Speaker 7: on his soapbox about this after the game, rightfully so.
• 16:49
  Speaker 6: Too many explosive plays given up.
• 16:52
  Speaker 7: And, you know, the Steelers' defense has a way, regardless
• 16:55
  Speaker 7: of who the head coach or the coordinator is, of
• 16:57
  Speaker 7: mitigating this a lot of the times where you bend
• 16:59
  Speaker 7: but don't break and you find a way to get
• 17:01
  Speaker 7: the ball back, whether that's with a sack that moves
• 17:04
  Speaker 7: someone out of field goal range or you strip someone
• 17:07
  Speaker 7: or you pick a pass off. But you'd love to
• 17:10
  Speaker 7: cut down on the amount of big plays allowed where
• 17:14
  Speaker 7: in this one, I mean, it was– Drake made a
• 17:17
  Speaker 7: Romeo Dobbs granted at the end of that third quarter,
• 17:21
  Speaker 7: but 63 yards down the, I think Ray Sean Jenkins
• 17:24
  Speaker 7: just lost him on that play and looked like it. And,
• 17:26
  Speaker 7: you know, Jenkins is someone who long NFL career, but
• 17:31
  Speaker 7: you know, he's kind of here. He was kind of
• 17:33
  Speaker 7: brought in here to be a backup depth safety and
• 17:36
  Speaker 7: Deshaun Elliott goes down. So he's pressed into essentially being a,
• 17:39
  Speaker 7: you know, that fifth starting defensive back. And I mean, you,
• 17:44
  Speaker 7: kind of are what you are at that point. I mean,
• 17:46
  Speaker 7: he's going to make some plays, but then there's probably
• 17:48
  Speaker 7: going to be some plays like that.
• 17:48
  Speaker 6: Every now and again.
• 17:49
  Speaker 7: The touchdown run by Travion Henderson, I mentioned him last week,
• 17:54
  Speaker 7: probably should have mentioned him even more as being that
• 17:56
  Speaker 7: home run hitter. Like, I'm not a Ramondre Stevenson believer, really.
• 18:00
  Speaker 7: I know he's kind of an innings eater for the
• 18:02
  Speaker 7: Patriots offense, and he did have the one where he
• 18:05
  Speaker 7: broke some tackles and, you know, ran for 24 yards,
• 18:08
  Speaker 7: but he also had the fumble. Henderson, to me, is,
• 18:11
  Speaker 7: this isn't New England football, Nation Radio, but I think
• 18:14
  Speaker 7: if the Patriots are going to improve as an offense,
• 18:17
  Speaker 7: more Henderson, less Stevenson would probably.
• 18:19
  Speaker 6: Go a long way for them.
• 18:21
  Speaker 7: The big catch by their rookie tight end, Eli Raritan,
• 18:25
  Speaker 7: over top of Peyton Wilson, I was surprised to see that.
• 18:28
  Speaker 7: I think Peyton Wilson, he needs to make that play
• 18:31
  Speaker 7: more often than not. And then early in the game,
• 18:34
  Speaker 7: this didn't end up being a problem, Hunter Henry, the
• 18:36
  Speaker 7: way he was last year, but Seemed like Jaquan Brisker
• 18:39
  Speaker 7: also just lost him, and he catches that 29-yard pass. So,
• 18:44
  Speaker 7: you know, there were some things to clean up. But, yes,
• 18:46
  Speaker 7: by and large, you know, the Steelers' defense continues to
• 18:51
  Speaker 7: find ways to get the ball back to this offense,
• 18:55
  Speaker 7: keep this.
• 18:55
  Speaker 6: Team in games.
• 18:56
  Speaker 7: And Patrick Graham and all of the different bells and
• 19:01
  Speaker 7: whistles that he has, to me, make this a pretty
• 19:03
  Speaker 7: dangerous group going forward. And it better be, honestly, with
• 19:06
  Speaker 7: the 2-0 Bengals coming in here next.
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: We are leading up to the 3 p.m. Mike McCarthy
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: press conference today on the south side. We'll have live
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: coverage right here on SNR with Wes Shuler and Jerry
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: Dulac at the top of the hour.
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: But until then, you have Double B and myself.
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: We're talking Pittsburgh Steelers defense and Patriots 20, Steelers 3, week.
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: 2 loss for the black and gold. Nick Herbig. Big
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: bounce-back game yesterday.
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: A bit quiet in Week 1 against the Falcons, but yesterday,
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: you can make the argument, Brian, he was their best
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: defensive player. Seven tackles, three tackle for losses, had the
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: forced fumble. Nick Herbig, again, these are the type of
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: performances that you want to see out of Nick Herbig.
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: Didn't see it so much against the Falcons, but TJ Watt,
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: along with Nick Herbig, again.
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: Another big game.
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: Four tackles, a sack and a half, tackle for loss,
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: two quarterback hits, back-to-back games that Watt has had sacks,
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: multiple sacks, and back-to-back games that Alex Highsmith has also
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: gotten on the sack sheet here.
• 20:03
  Speaker 7: And Herbig doesn't even have a sack yet this season,
• 20:05
  Speaker 7: but obviously, like you said, don't let that take away
• 20:08
  Speaker 7: from how much havoc he was wreaking in Foxborough. And
• 20:11
  Speaker 7: I think once they get him, get him going as
• 20:14
  Speaker 7: a pass rusher, I mean, that allow this defense to
• 20:17
  Speaker 7: go to even another level, you know, Tom Offerman and
• 20:20
  Speaker 7: Vince Williams had me on the blitz earlier today. And
• 20:23
  Speaker 7: Vince asked me about her big and the lack of
• 20:26
  Speaker 7: production in the sack department. I'm not worried about it
• 20:29
  Speaker 7: through two games. I still think there are going to
• 20:31
  Speaker 7: be times where, whether it's a well dialed up blitz
• 20:35
  Speaker 7: from him, or it is a true edge rusher snap,
• 20:38
  Speaker 7: he's going to get home and maybe it won't lead
• 20:42
  Speaker 7: all of this off ball stuff in the three outside
• 20:45
  Speaker 7: linebacker package that they're doing with her big, maybe it
• 20:47
  Speaker 7: won't lead to the huge statistical breakout season that some
• 20:51
  Speaker 7: of us were expecting for him. But I think he's
• 20:53
  Speaker 7: going to impact and affect games. And he did that yesterday.
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: Did Vince tell you that he misses us?
• 20:58
  Speaker 7: No, he didn't, but I could see it in his eyes. No,
• 21:01
  Speaker 7: he's doing a, he's doing great over there with Tom
• 21:03
  Speaker 7: and their producer, Gino. It's, It's a well-oiled machine is
• 21:07
  Speaker 7: the Steelers' blitz.
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it sure is.
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: Again, you can catch Vince and Tom each and every
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: day from 10 to 12 right here on Steelers Nation Radio,
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: right before in the locker room with Rob King, along
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: with two other ex-Steelers, of course, with Max Starks also.
• 21:25
  Speaker 6: And Willie Colon.
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: Willie Colon on the offensive line.
• 21:27
  Speaker 7: The O-linemen are going to have a lot to talk
• 21:30
  Speaker 7: about this week.
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: I was going to say, well, you and I, I
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: was going to say, are we the only show without
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: an ex-NFL player?
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: No, you got Wes Shuler and Matt Williamson on the drive.
• 21:37
  Speaker 6: Matt was a scout. He was a scout, yeah.
• 21:40
  Speaker 7: We're the only show without ex-NFL personnel.
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: Well, we give you the fan perspective about that, which
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: right now we're actually probably not giving you the fan perspective.
• 21:48
  Speaker 7: I mean, but, but, Ed, we're the only show with
• 21:53
  Speaker 7: an NFL beat writer.
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: That's right.
• 21:56
  Speaker 8: Correct.
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: And we, that's, that's correct. We got you right here.
• 21:59
  Speaker 6: Double B, which by the way, that's our niche.
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: Steelers. Steelers.com. Brian Bacco.
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: As I was texting him yesterday from Foxborough, he was
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: at Foxborough. I was here in Pittsburgh. He's like, He's
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: getting back to me, and then within five minutes, all
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: of a sudden, I look on Steelers.com, and his game
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: article was up.
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: Right after the game. The game recap.
• 22:17
  Speaker 6: That's what we do.
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: Which some of us appreciate the game book being right
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: at the top of that article.
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: Very accessible for stats.
• 22:25
  Speaker 7: I'm not the one who includes that in there, but
• 22:27
  Speaker 7: some people behind the scenes from the Steelers are always
• 22:30
  Speaker 7: on top of that.
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: Oh, I appreciate it.
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: Just a few other defensive stats, and I also want
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: to hit some offensive stats with you from Week.
• 22:36
  Speaker 6: Two, Brian. Are we sure we want to do that?
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: Well, that's why I led with the defense.
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: Normally we lead with the offensive stats, but we led
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: with the defensive stats today. Cam Hayward, another big game yesterday, too.
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: Three tackles, quarterback hit, and another pass deflection. Captain Cam
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: on that defensive line. That was a big pass deflection, too,
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: at that point in the game yesterday, knocking down that
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: Drake May.
• 22:57
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, three in week one, and now already
• 23:00
  Speaker 7: a fourth in week two.
• 23:01
  Speaker 6: So he's averaging two.
• 23:04
  Speaker 7: Pbus per game from the defensive tackle spot uh it's
• 23:08
  Speaker 7: it's just remarkable uh what cam hayward continues to do
• 23:11
  Speaker 7: the the encore you know it wasn't quite uh what
• 23:16
  Speaker 7: he did in the season opener but obviously quarterbacks are
• 23:19
  Speaker 7: going to have to account for that and i think
• 23:22
  Speaker 7: that was one where um it was may was looking
• 23:25
  Speaker 7: for hunter henry i believe and looked like henry might
• 23:28
  Speaker 7: have been open and had a chance to make a
• 23:30
  Speaker 7: big play there on first and 15 but instead it
• 23:33
  Speaker 7: led to a second down and eventually the Patriots have
• 23:35
  Speaker 7: to settle for a field goal on that series so
• 23:39
  Speaker 7: yes I mean Cam Hayward what I'll be interested to
• 23:42
  Speaker 7: see here Ed with this defense and something that could
• 23:44
  Speaker 7: allow them to to get even better over the course
• 23:46
  Speaker 7: of this season is when this defensive line gets into
• 23:49
  Speaker 7: more of a groove and more of a rhythm I
• 23:50
  Speaker 7: mean Derek Harmon I thought really stepped up and played
• 23:53
  Speaker 7: a lot better in week two very active out there
• 23:55
  Speaker 7: you noticed him and felt him a lot more and
• 23:58
  Speaker 7: just kind of what he does for some reason. In
• 23:59
  Speaker 7: Foxborough last year, he made his NFL debut.
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: That's right.
• 24:02
  Speaker 7: Up there at Gillette Stadium and got his first NFL
• 24:04
  Speaker 7: sack on Drake May.
• 24:06
  Speaker 6: Yesterday, shares a sack.
• 24:07
  Speaker 7: With TJ Watt, where TJ got a paw on him
• 24:11
  Speaker 7: and then Harmon finished it off. And he played 32 snaps,
• 24:15
  Speaker 7: third most behind Cam Hayward and Keanu Benton on the front.
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: Y.A.
• 24:20
  Speaker 6: Black with 20 snaps.
• 24:21
  Speaker 7: And then Sebastian Joseph Day, only seven. So I think
• 24:24
  Speaker 7: there will be weeks where He does a little bit
• 24:27
  Speaker 7: more and gets more involved. I'm still pretty high on
• 24:30
  Speaker 7: this defensive line rotation and what they can do.
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: Derek Harmon leads the Steelers in tackles yesterday with eight
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: total on the day. How about the inside linebacker play?
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: I thought Peyton Wilson, Patrick Queen, both combining for seven
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: tackles on the day. Peyton Wilson also adding a tackle
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: for loss, had that fumble recovery.
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: Patrick Queen had the interception.
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: So both your inside linebackers produced both turnovers yesterday with
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: Queen with that interception and Wilson with the fumble recovery.
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: Also a pass deflection by Queen yesterday. Two games in, Brian,
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: we had some questions about the inside linebackers coming into
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: the season and they weren't.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: Like awful questions. Are they going to drop the ball?
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: But there were some inconsistencies in 2025 with the two
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: of them, but two games in and I think two
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: solid performances.
• 25:15
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I don't think Wilson was quite as excellent as
• 25:19
  Speaker 7: he was in week one, but I think Once those
• 25:23
  Speaker 7: two are both playing at a high clip, you know,
• 25:26
  Speaker 7: that group can continue to stabilize this defense up the middle. And, yeah,
• 25:32
  Speaker 7: that was a sight for sore eyes. Patrick Queen picking
• 25:35
  Speaker 7: off a pass because he's had plenty of opportunities to
• 25:37
  Speaker 7: do that his first two seasons with the Steelers. And,
• 25:39
  Speaker 7: you know, he's been really frustrated that he hasn't made
• 25:42
  Speaker 7: some of those plays yesterday. He made the play, and
• 25:46
  Speaker 7: it probably kept points off the board for the Patriots
• 25:48
  Speaker 7: in that instance. And, you know, if Queen and Wilson–
• 25:51
  Speaker 7: are going to be out there more often than not,
• 25:53
  Speaker 7: which it sure seems like that's going to be the
• 25:55
  Speaker 7: way that Patrick Graham runs this defense, then set it
• 26:00
  Speaker 7: and forget it.
• 26:00
  Speaker 6: You hope that's the way that you feel about these
• 26:02
  Speaker 6: inside linebackers.
• 26:03
  Speaker 7: But some of these, you know, you're going to face
• 26:05
  Speaker 7: some running games too over the course of this season
• 26:08
  Speaker 7: that those guys are going to have to shed blocks,
• 26:12
  Speaker 7: make the right read, get to the ball carrier, and
• 26:14
  Speaker 7: bring them down even beyond what they do in pass coverage.
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: Two games in, and they have not given up a
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: 100-yard rusher. or nor a 100-yard receiver so far through
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: two games. However, they have not faced a Joe Burrow-type
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: offense that they're going to face this upcoming Sunday.
• 26:27
  Speaker 7: Yeah, and the Patriots did run for 136. You know,
• 26:30
  Speaker 7: Henderson with 76, Stevenson with 43, most of that coming
• 26:34
  Speaker 7: on the 124-yard scamper. And Romeo Dobbs did end up
• 26:38
  Speaker 7: with three for 96. So four away from the century mark.
• 26:43
  Speaker 7: I'm sure that Patriots fans liked what they saw out
• 26:45
  Speaker 7: of Dobbs yesterday because he had a really Really rough
• 26:49
  Speaker 7: week one in his debut with New England.
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: Come on, Brian.
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: I'm trying to stretch for some good news from this game.
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: Don't give me those four yards when I'm touting that
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: the defense has not given up a 100-yard receiver or
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: a rusher.
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: That was the good news.
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: We do have to give you the bad news on
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: the offensive side of things. We'll start with Aaron Rodgers,
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: 23 of 39, 187 yards.
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: No touchdowns.
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: Did have the one interception. Also, the strip sack in
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: which he fumbled the ball. Again, the offensive line, not
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: so much on Rodgers, more on the line, not doing
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: good on the pass protection there. Four sacks on the
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: day for Rodgers. He was running for his life quite
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: a bit, Brian. Seven quarterback hits as well. I can
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: go on and on and on.
• 27:29
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 27:29
  Speaker 6: And some of those plays, just he didn't have a prayer.
• 27:32
  Speaker 7: But on some of those, I'm like, I keep coming
• 27:34
  Speaker 7: back to, you know, one of the concerns that I
• 27:36
  Speaker 7: had of this whole conceit of running it back with
• 27:39
  Speaker 7: Aaron Rodgers. When you don't have that quarterback mobility aspect
• 27:44
  Speaker 7: that just kind of And obviously Rogers can recognize that
• 27:48
  Speaker 7: he's one of the smartest quarterbacks to ever live. And
• 27:50
  Speaker 7: he's probably the smartest play in the game right now today.
• 27:53
  Speaker 7: Obviously he can see when it's breaking down in front
• 27:56
  Speaker 7: of them and it's that, Oh crap.
• 27:57
  Speaker 6: Oh crap. Oh crap. We're in trouble. But I just,
• 28:00
  Speaker 6: he's 42.
• 28:01
  Speaker 7: I don't think he has quite the same first step
• 28:03
  Speaker 7: anymore to say this thing's about to fall apart around me.
• 28:06
  Speaker 7: I got to at least try to get away from
• 28:08
  Speaker 7: this guy and maybe take off through a rush lane.
• 28:10
  Speaker 7: Like you're not really going to have that opportunity to,
• 28:14
  Speaker 7: with Rogers. So you need the protection to be better.
• 28:18
  Speaker 7: I'm not breaking any news here, but I do. I
• 28:21
  Speaker 7: am someone just personal preference. I think it really helps
• 28:24
  Speaker 7: to have that get out of jail card with your
• 28:26
  Speaker 7: quarterback's legs from time to time.
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: One thing's for certain, whether you like or dislike Aaron
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: Rogers on or off the field, He is one tough
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: son of a gun. I mean, he got cut almost
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: in half yesterday on that one sequence, and you heard
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: his clip at the beginning of the show, Brian. He
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: bounced right back up, didn't give anybody an opportunity to
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: potentially take him out of the game.
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: He's tough, very tough at 42 years old.
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: I'm not sure a 22-year-old quarterback could survive a hit
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: like that.
• 28:53
  Speaker 7: No, and I mean, just I think part of it, too,
• 28:54
  Speaker 7: is simple luck of the draw or sometimes unluck. I mean,
• 28:59
  Speaker 7: it's such a violent sport, and you know, guys, every
• 29:02
  Speaker 7: time you drop back, you could be subjected to a
• 29:04
  Speaker 7: play like that.
• 29:05
  Speaker 6: And that's, that's why you gotta, you give your credit.
• 29:08
  Speaker 7: The quarterbacks are the most well compensated usually on the field,
• 29:10
  Speaker 7: but they're also the most vulnerable a lot of the times.
• 29:13
  Speaker 6: And it's the blind side for a reason.
• 29:15
  Speaker 7: And yeah, I mean, he even said most of the
• 29:17
  Speaker 7: time he, he feels that pressure can sense that because generally,
• 29:22
  Speaker 7: you know, if you picked up the blitz or not,
• 29:24
  Speaker 7: obviously no one communicated well on that play and it
• 29:27
  Speaker 7: left Aaron.
• 29:28
  Speaker 6: Rogers out to dry.
• 29:29
  Speaker 7: And, uh, Yeah, it's just, you know, sort of the
• 29:34
  Speaker 7: strange way that the cosmos align sometimes in the universe
• 29:37
  Speaker 7: that that could have done some real, real damage to raw.
• 29:40
  Speaker 6: Or any quarterback.
• 29:41
  Speaker 7: But I guess the way that he got hit, he
• 29:43
  Speaker 7: was no worse for the wear. And McCarthy said later
• 29:46
  Speaker 7: that it wasn't an injury thing that Mason Rudolph finished
• 29:49
  Speaker 7: that game. It was just, hey, let's get Rodgers out
• 29:52
  Speaker 7: of harm's way.
• 29:53
  Speaker 6: A little bit. But you just....
• 29:56
  Speaker 7: You breathe a sigh of relief that he got back
• 29:58
  Speaker 7: up from that one and was able to finish it out.
• 30:00
  Speaker 6: His quarterback injuries yesterday.
• 30:02
  Speaker 7: In the NFL were all over the place. Caleb Williams,
• 30:06
  Speaker 7: Jaden Daniels, and obviously Sam Darnold went down in week one.
• 30:10
  Speaker 7: The Steelers avoided disaster there.
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: Rodgers sacked four times yesterday, 14 hurries, seven quarterback hits,
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: and then again, 39 pass attempts, 40 last week in
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: week one. Yep, you do the math there, Brian. That's
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: 79 pass attempts in two weeks. I think you probably
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: want him more in that 25 to 30 pass attempt range.
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: That's a lot of throws for your 42-year-old quarterback.
• 30:34
  Speaker 6: I know.
• 30:34
  Speaker 7: I know Rodgers has said whatever it takes to win
• 30:36
  Speaker 7: the game, but they didn't really even come close to
• 30:38
  Speaker 7: winning that game yesterday, at least not with what they
• 30:40
  Speaker 7: did offensively.
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: One more segment to go for Double B and myself
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: before we give it up to Wes Euler and Jerry Dulac.
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: Coming up at 3 o'clock today, it's the Mike McCarthy
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: Press Conference. But whenever we come back, we are going
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: to jump in to some team stats from Week 2
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: between the Patriots and Steelers and our three stats to victory.
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: How did that turn out? We'll get into that and
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: a bit more here on today's show. It's E and
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: B on the Steelers Report on Steelers Nation Radio, part
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: of the Steelers Audio Network.
• 31:16
  Speaker 8: Play action pass, rolling out to his right. Wants Stevenson
• 31:20
  Speaker 8: back in the left flat, throws it there. It's complete,
• 31:22
  Speaker 8: shakes out of one tackle, shakes out of another, and
• 31:24
  Speaker 8: is finally tracked down by Herbig, but the ball appears
• 31:26
  Speaker 8: to be loose.
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: The Steelers think they have it.
• 31:29
  Speaker 9: Stevenson is a guy with fumbling issues, and the Steelers
• 31:34
  Speaker 9: have recovered. Herbig knocked it loose, and Peyton Wilson has recovered.
• 31:41
  Speaker 5: This is the Steelers report with Brian Batko and Ed
• 31:44
  Speaker 5: Troop on Steelers Nation Radio, a part of the Steelers
• 31:48
  Speaker 5: Audio Network.
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: On the show tomorrow, Tuesday, we will go through our
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: top 10 moments and plays from week two. Brian, we
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: might have just played the majority of them here at
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: today's show. There's not too many good takeaways from yesterday,
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: but that was certainly one of them with Nick Herman.
• 32:05
  Speaker 6: It's going to be tough to get to 10. Absolutely.
• 32:07
  Speaker 7: But yeah, Yeah, I mean, at least Nick Herbig is
• 32:11
  Speaker 7: doing what Nick Herbig does, and he set the tone
• 32:14
  Speaker 7: early in that game. And you could say that the
• 32:16
  Speaker 7: tone didn't hold up, but the defense did play well
• 32:19
  Speaker 7: for the most part. So I still give Herbig credit for,
• 32:22
  Speaker 7: I mean, hey, it reminds me of that Ravens game
• 32:24
  Speaker 7: a year or two ago where he had a punch
• 32:26
  Speaker 7: out on Derrick Henry pretty early.
• 32:28
  Speaker 6: I think, if I'm not mistaken. So he's always ready
• 32:31
  Speaker 6: and raring to go from snap one. Doesn't take him
• 32:34
  Speaker 6: any time to get into the groove.
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: And Peyton Wilson on the other side of that with
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: the fumble recovery. The Steelers do produce two turnovers yesterday,
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: but they also gave the ball up twice. And our
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: three stats to victory each week here on the show
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: that we always like to review, total yards, time of possession,
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: and turnovers. If you win those three, two out of three,
• 32:53
  Speaker 3: you're usually in pretty good shape to win the game.
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: Not always the case, and yesterday's one of those cases.
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: The total yards for the game, the Pats had 327, Brian,
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: to the Steelers, 235. Time of possession, the Steelers actually
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: win time of possession yesterday, 32 minutes, 47 seconds to
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: New England's 27 minutes and 13 seconds, and then turnovers
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: even at two apiece.
• 33:15
  Speaker 7: And they were winning the turnover battle right up until
• 33:17
  Speaker 7: the end where that kind of funky Jeremy Bernard bobble
• 33:20
  Speaker 7: drop right into the hands of the Patriots defender. And yeah,
• 33:25
  Speaker 7: that almost was one of those game scripts that it's like, hey,
• 33:28
  Speaker 7: that's not how it's supposed to go.
• 33:29
  Speaker 6: You controlled the ball. You won the turnover battle.
• 33:33
  Speaker 7: And yet it's obviously going to be difficult to score
• 33:38
  Speaker 7: points and thus win games when your drive chart looks
• 33:42
  Speaker 7: something like, where is it here? Punt, punt, missed field goal, punt, punt,
• 33:47
  Speaker 7: field goal, punt, punt, fumble, punt, pick, punt. I mean,
• 33:51
  Speaker 7: that's just, that's bad ball.
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you can't really describe it much differently than that
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: bad ball. The two best drives of the day for
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: the Steelers came in the first quarter, Brian. Eight plays,
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: 35 yards, but it results in a missed Chris Boswell
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: field goal. And then the second one was later on
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: in the fourth quarter in an 11-play, 75-yard drive. Got
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: down to the Patriots 17, but then the interception occurred.
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: There with the Pittsburgh Steelers.
• 34:18
  Speaker 3: Outside of that, six three-and-outs that you just went through,
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: a lot of those, eight punts, you know, the missed
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: field goal, two turnovers, sloppy, sloppy, sloppy.
• 34:28
  Speaker 6: Poor Cameron Johnston.
• 34:29
  Speaker 7: I mean, last week he's got to take off and
• 34:32
  Speaker 7: run with the ball because of a botched play.
• 34:34
  Speaker 6: This week he's punting it eight times.
• 34:37
  Speaker 7: He's going to be exhausted two weeks into the season,
• 34:39
  Speaker 7: or a month into the season, if this keeps up. But, yeah,
• 34:43
  Speaker 7: I mean, hey, there were– They finally started to move
• 34:47
  Speaker 7: the ball a little in the fourth quarter, and Aaron
• 34:50
  Speaker 7: Rodgers mentioned that that was encouraging, but he's also not
• 34:53
  Speaker 7: sugarcoating it either. I mean, the Patriots were playing softer
• 34:56
  Speaker 7: because the game was pretty well in hand at that point,
• 34:59
  Speaker 7: but the Steelers will take any sort of positive developments
• 35:03
  Speaker 7: that they can get at this point offensively. And for
• 35:08
  Speaker 7: as bleak as it looks at the end of the day,
• 35:10
  Speaker 7: there were some missed opportunities. DK Metcalf dropped over the
• 35:13
  Speaker 7: middle that If he makes that play, maybe we're talking
• 35:16
  Speaker 7: about a different flow to the rest of that one. Obviously, overall,
• 35:24
  Speaker 7: you need to have a much better offensive performance so
• 35:27
  Speaker 7: that you aren't sitting here on Monday morning talking about
• 35:29
  Speaker 7: that razor-thin margin of error where, oh, one drop, if
• 35:34
  Speaker 7: that pass gets completed, maybe we're talking about a different result.
• 35:37
  Speaker 7: I mean, that's just no way to live in the NFL.
• 35:41
  Speaker 7: You can't be living... on margins that small and live
• 35:43
  Speaker 7: to tell about it.
• 35:44
  Speaker 3: We are leading up to the 3 PM Mike McCarthy
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: press conference today from the South side. We will have
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: live coverage here on SNR with Wes Shuler and Jerry
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: Dulac coming up here shortly, but before then Brian and
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: I putting a bow on Patriots 20 Steelers three.
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: I don't think it's probably a bow from a Steeler standpoint.
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: Maybe it's a put that film after you watch it
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: today in the garbage and burn it, do not return
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: to it and hope that we'd never have to see
• 36:08
  Speaker 3: that again here in 2026.
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: Cause, It was ugly, especially on offense. You mentioned Cam Johnston,
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: the punter.
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: I know you and our good friend Bob Labriola, Teresa Varley,
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: with your team there at Steelers.com. Brian picked the Steelers
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: Digest Player of the Week, and I believe, was it
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: TJ Watt yesterday?
• 36:26
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 36:26
  Speaker 6: I believe.
• 36:27
  Speaker 3: You might want to consider Cam Johnston one of these weeks.
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: That's not a good thing, but he's done pretty well
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: from the punting standpoint. He had four last week for
• 36:34
  Speaker 3: an average of 48 yards on the day against the
• 36:36
  Speaker 3: Falcons yesterday. eight punts my goodness you don't want to
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: see that many but he averaged 48 yards again um
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: not too bad so far yeah i mean i don't
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: think we'll ever get to the point where we're hard
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: up enough to to give it to the punter i
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: mean that that would have to be.
• 36:50
  Speaker 7: That would be what like a uh 56 nothing route
• 36:53
  Speaker 7: or something and even then someone probably still did something
• 36:56
  Speaker 7: on offense or defense but yeah i mean hey punting
• 37:00
  Speaker 7: is a part of the game unfortunately and At least
• 37:02
  Speaker 7: Cam Johnston has been very reliable from that standpoint. You
• 37:06
  Speaker 7: don't want him to be reliable. You don't want to
• 37:07
  Speaker 7: have to use him too often. And that's even, you know,
• 37:10
  Speaker 7: the double-edged sword of having a good kicker. You don't
• 37:12
  Speaker 7: want to be sending your kicker out there six or
• 37:14
  Speaker 7: seven times a game. But if you have to, at
• 37:16
  Speaker 7: least you feel confident in someone getting the job done.
• 37:19
  Speaker 3: Steelers offensively against the Falcons in week one were three
• 37:22
  Speaker 3: of 13 on third down at 23%.
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: That did not get better yesterday in New England. The
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: Steelers 2-12.
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: On third down for 16.7%.
• 37:33
  Speaker 7: Yeah, and this third down stuff is troubling, but also
• 37:38
  Speaker 7: you can't always just expect that you're going to pull
• 37:41
  Speaker 7: a rabbit out of your hat on third and seven,
• 37:42
  Speaker 7: third and eight. If you're more productive on the early downs, one,
• 37:48
  Speaker 7: maybe you avoid having so many of those third down conversions,
• 37:52
  Speaker 7: but two, if you are in that situation... Maybe you
• 37:56
  Speaker 7: can plow forward with one. How about this for a
• 37:57
  Speaker 7: silver lining? We saw that Pat Friermuth can get under center,
• 38:01
  Speaker 7: line up, take the direct snap, and run the Pittsburgh
• 38:04
  Speaker 7: plunge the way his buddy Connor Hayward did all last season. And, hey,
• 38:08
  Speaker 7: I mean, we didn't know if Mike McCarthy liked that
• 38:12
  Speaker 7: play or had that play in his playbook. I guess
• 38:14
  Speaker 7: pretty much every coach or offensive coordinator does now in
• 38:17
  Speaker 7: the modern NFL. You're doing yourself a disservice. If you don't,
• 38:21
  Speaker 7: but we didn't know who would be in that role
• 38:24
  Speaker 7: this season necessarily. And now we know that it's Friar
• 38:27
  Speaker 7: Muth and they've got Riley Nowakowski in there pushing him.
• 38:31
  Speaker 7: Never hurts to have big Darnell Washington in there pushing
• 38:33
  Speaker 7: you and Ben Skoranek also getting his hands dirty on
• 38:37
  Speaker 7: that play. So they converted a fourth down with that
• 38:40
  Speaker 7: Friar Muth in the Pittsburgh. The new Pittsburgh plunge is
• 38:43
  Speaker 7: one for one. And there might be pivotal moments the
• 38:46
  Speaker 7: rest of the season where the Steelers need to line
• 38:49
  Speaker 7: up and convert fourth and shorter maybe even at the
• 38:52
  Speaker 7: goal line if you've got Pat Friermuth on your fantasy
• 38:55
  Speaker 7: team I think you love seeing that he has that
• 38:57
  Speaker 7: role on this team because that might get you an
• 38:58
  Speaker 7: easy six points at some point this year I have.
• 39:02
  Speaker 3: Them I picked them up this past week because Brian
• 39:05
  Speaker 3: Bacco told me last week on the show that he's
• 39:07
  Speaker 3: a native of New England which he is and I
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: thought he was gonna have a breakout game didn't do
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: too bad yesterday nothing.
• 39:12
  Speaker 7: Spectacular yeah nobody did on offense but relatively speaking he
• 39:16
  Speaker 7: caught the ball when it was thrown to him and
• 39:18
  Speaker 7: Couldn't quite get one over on his old pal Robert
• 39:21
  Speaker 7: Spillane there down the seam on one of the deep
• 39:24
  Speaker 7: shots that Aaron Rodgers tried. It was good coverage by Spillane,
• 39:26
  Speaker 7: but I don't hate giving Friar Muth an opportunity.
• 39:30
  Speaker 6: For a contested catch there.
• 39:32
  Speaker 3: Four catches for 32 yards yesterday for Muth, including the
• 39:35
  Speaker 3: sneak under center from a rushing standpoint. The Steelers outgained
• 39:40
  Speaker 3: 327 to 235 yesterday. Penalty is not too much of
• 39:42
  Speaker 3: an issue yesterday, Brian, just 5 of 59 for the Steelers.
• 39:45
  Speaker 3: Patriots six of 31 let's talk DK Metcalf because we
• 39:49
  Speaker 3: have to we know about his week one struggles against
• 39:52
  Speaker 3: the Falcons yesterday did not get much better for number
• 39:56
  Speaker 3: four nine targets four catches for only 27 yards at
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: 6.8 yards per reception we know about the 2025 season
• 40:05
  Speaker 3: Brian and you know disappointing from the standpoint that he
• 40:08
  Speaker 3: only had what around 850 yards under 10 touchdowns on
• 40:12
  Speaker 3: the season missed the final two games of the season
• 40:14
  Speaker 3: Didn't have a true number two wide receiver. This year
• 40:17
  Speaker 3: you have Pittman, who was absent yesterday because he was injured.
• 40:20
  Speaker 3: Maybe that hurt the Steelers passing game. But DK Metcalf,
• 40:24
  Speaker 3: 50-50 bag again. I mean, there's sometimes you look at
• 40:27
  Speaker 3: it and, you know, he has to make this huge
• 40:29
  Speaker 3: athletic catch. But other times it's right there, right there
• 40:32
  Speaker 3: to be caught, right there to make a play. And
• 40:34
  Speaker 3: he simply does not come up with that play.
• 40:36
  Speaker 7: It was a very difficult challenge going against Christian Gonzalez.
• 40:40
  Speaker 7: That might be the best corner in the NFL who
• 40:42
  Speaker 7: was on the other side of him.
• 40:43
  Speaker 4: Very true.
• 40:44
  Speaker 7: Patrick Sertan or Derek Stingley but I mean that's no
• 40:48
  Speaker 7: player wants to hear that all these guys believe in
• 40:50
  Speaker 7: themselves and you're never just going to say hey you
• 40:53
  Speaker 7: know that guy's better than me like no I mean
• 40:55
  Speaker 7: that's that's these guys are competitive and DK Metcalf is
• 40:58
  Speaker 7: pretty much second to none when it comes to physicality
• 41:00
  Speaker 7: and just being a physical specimen out there at receiver
• 41:04
  Speaker 7: but he just he needs to execute better and he
• 41:06
  Speaker 7: knows that and I give him credit for standing up
• 41:08
  Speaker 7: there in the locker room afterward and taking questions after
• 41:11
  Speaker 7: what he knows was a below the line performance for him. Again,
• 41:15
  Speaker 7: at least they were able to pepper him a little
• 41:17
  Speaker 7: at the end there, get him going, get him to
• 41:19
  Speaker 7: just see some shots go through the hoop. So, you know,
• 41:24
  Speaker 7: I think you got to try to keep feeding them
• 41:26
  Speaker 7: against Cincinnati because you know that he can be a
• 41:29
  Speaker 7: game breaker and this offense needs some game breaker type players.
• 41:32
  Speaker 7: I mean, Jeremy Bernard, I think it was encouraging to
• 41:34
  Speaker 7: see him step up and be a little bit of
• 41:37
  Speaker 7: a safety valve or, You know, someone who can get
• 41:39
  Speaker 7: open and had the trust of Aaron Rodgers on some
• 41:42
  Speaker 7: of those throws that one drive. He had four receptions
• 41:45
  Speaker 7: on that drive. And, you know, the Patriots were were
• 41:49
  Speaker 7: struggling to contain him. So I think there's better days
• 41:51
  Speaker 7: ahead for Jeremy Bernard, for Roman Wilson and absolutely for
• 41:56
  Speaker 7: DK Metcalf. It's just it's a little bit dark before
• 41:59
  Speaker 7: the dawn right now for him.
• 42:01
  Speaker 3: Jeremy bernard he caught one on christian gonzalez too gonzalez
• 42:04
  Speaker 3: was on coverage on one of this yeah that's right now.
• 42:06
  Speaker 6: One of the few times that he wasn't shadowing dk.
• 42:08
  Speaker 3: He he did slightly push off him a little bit
• 42:11
  Speaker 3: i saw the replay i'm like oh there's a little
• 42:12
  Speaker 3: bit of a shove there you ain't trying that's it
• 42:15
  Speaker 3: he got away with it but it was nice to
• 42:16
  Speaker 3: see jeremy bernard returned to this offense uh really for
• 42:20
  Speaker 3: the first of all he made his first nfl reception yesterday.
• 42:23
  Speaker 7: And that was just a little you know three yard
• 42:24
  Speaker 7: swing pass where it's kind of like that buffalo touchdown
• 42:26
  Speaker 7: where it's like hey let's get him in space get
• 42:28
  Speaker 7: him a chance to make a play.
• 42:29
  Speaker 6: But yeah, then his next one was huge.
• 42:31
  Speaker 7: I mean, it was the first third down conversion for
• 42:33
  Speaker 7: them at that point in the game, and it was
• 42:34
  Speaker 7: their longest play at that point in the game. Jalen
• 42:38
  Speaker 7: Warren just, I mean, continues to be that kind of
• 42:41
  Speaker 7: little engine that could at times when this offense needs it.
• 42:45
  Speaker 7: That's not a short joke. You know, he and I
• 42:46
  Speaker 7: are pretty much seeing eye to eye, so I can't
• 42:48
  Speaker 7: be the one to say that. But there have been
• 42:51
  Speaker 7: so many times these last few years where it's like, hey,
• 42:53
  Speaker 7: nothing's nothing doing on offense. Let's just dump it to
• 42:56
  Speaker 7: 30 and let them make something out of nothing. That's
• 42:58
  Speaker 7: no way to consistently live, but you, you know, that it's,
• 43:02
  Speaker 7: it's good to have that guy on your side.
• 43:04
  Speaker 3: Roman Wilson yesterday targeted six times, five catches for 28 yards. Again,
• 43:09
  Speaker 3: at least from my standpoint, Brian didn't do anything to
• 43:12
  Speaker 3: make me sit there and question Roman Wilson.
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: You know, he was.
• 43:15
  Speaker 3: Part of a receiving group yesterday that, you know, the
• 43:18
  Speaker 3: The biggest number put up on offense was Jeremy Bernard's
• 43:21
  Speaker 3: 35 yards in the air, followed by Pat Fryer's 32.
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: So nobody was knocking down any huge doors yesterday.
• 43:27
  Speaker 3: Jalen Warren, by the way, 34 yards receiving on those
• 43:30
  Speaker 3: two catches that you were talking about just a second ago.
• 43:33
  Speaker 3: But Roman Wilson, I think, you know, hey, two games in,
• 43:36
  Speaker 3: he's sitting there, nothing that we're going to jump up
• 43:38
  Speaker 3: in the air and say he's arrived, but at the
• 43:40
  Speaker 3: same time, better than what we've seen the last couple
• 43:42
  Speaker 3: of years.
• 43:42
  Speaker 7: It's not like he's going out there and, you know,
• 43:44
  Speaker 7: obvious miscommunications with Aaron Rodgers or dropping passes or anything
• 43:48
  Speaker 7: like that. And, you know, maybe we undersold the absence
• 43:52
  Speaker 7: of Michael Pittman Jr. in this game because he did
• 43:55
  Speaker 7: step up and make some big plays in week one
• 43:58
  Speaker 7: when the offense really needed it. Overall, though, I think
• 44:01
  Speaker 7: that you know, Pittman, you, you want him back, but
• 44:05
  Speaker 7: even if say he does have to miss another week
• 44:07
  Speaker 7: and we'll see very soon here, what Mike McCarthy has
• 44:09
  Speaker 7: to say, if anything about the injury report, but I
• 44:11
  Speaker 7: think you can still get by with, with these young
• 44:13
  Speaker 7: receivers and even Ben Skoranek chipped in for some blocking
• 44:18
  Speaker 7: snaps and, you know, caught one pass. I think you
• 44:21
  Speaker 7: can be all right in the short term, but obviously you,
• 44:24
  Speaker 7: you want all your cards on the table and Pittman
• 44:26
  Speaker 7: is someone who got off to a good start in
• 44:27
  Speaker 7: the opener.
• 44:28
  Speaker 3: So hopefully we've done our job ahead of the Mike
• 44:31
  Speaker 3: McCarthy press conference with Steelers Nation out there listening to us,
• 44:34
  Speaker 3: that we've calmed.
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: You down a bit. It's only week two. There's a
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: lot to be done.
• 44:38
  Speaker 3: Listen, the Ravens lost yesterday to the Saints, though I
• 44:41
  Speaker 3: picked the Saints to go from worst to first, so
• 44:43
  Speaker 3: they're backing me up there, right? The Browns won in Tampa.
• 44:47
  Speaker 3: And as we know, the Bengals went down to the
• 44:49
  Speaker 3: Texans and took care of business against Houston, the Steelers'
• 44:51
  Speaker 3: next opponent coming up. But my point is, Brian, the
• 44:54
  Speaker 3: Chargers are 0-2. I mean, there's a lot going on
• 44:57
  Speaker 3: in the NFL just two weeks in. Let's not overreact yet.
• 45:00
  Speaker 7: This is a cliche, but I feel like it's truer
• 45:03
  Speaker 7: now than ever through two weeks.
• 45:05
  Speaker 6: And, you know, we'll see what happens tonight with G-Men
• 45:07
  Speaker 6: at Rams. But it's a week-to-week league.
• 45:10
  Speaker 7: Like, yeah, you're down on things right now after a
• 45:13
  Speaker 7: 20-3 loss to the Patriots, as you have every right
• 45:16
  Speaker 7: to be and should be. But you look at some
• 45:18
  Speaker 7: of the, well, maybe it gets compounded by the fact
• 45:20
  Speaker 7: that the Falcons got their doors blown off completely at
• 45:23
  Speaker 7: home by the Panthers 34-3. Looks like they are not
• 45:26
  Speaker 7: a good football team that the Steelers beat in week one.
• 45:29
  Speaker 7: But so much of this stuff can change week to week.
• 45:31
  Speaker 7: The Texans went out, put up six points. The Bucs
• 45:34
  Speaker 7: are 0-2. The Bears went from 59 points scored to
• 45:37
  Speaker 7: three in a 9-3 loss to the Vikings. So it's really,
• 45:40
  Speaker 7: you know, you got to prepare each week, put a
• 45:43
  Speaker 7: plan together and execute and you'll have a chance.
• 45:46
  Speaker 3: We'll go through our Renegade review tomorrow on Tuesday in
• 45:49
  Speaker 3: and around the NFL after two weeks. And also coming
• 45:53
  Speaker 3: up on Thursday this week are 10 terrible takes, which
• 45:55
  Speaker 3: should be entertaining, Brian.
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: We come off of a loss.
• 45:58
  Speaker 6: Maybe or maybe not. We're maddening.
• 46:00
  Speaker 3: The terrible takes really heats up coming off of a
• 46:03
  Speaker 3: loss rather than a win for some of those hot
• 46:05
  Speaker 3: takes that we take each and every week here on
• 46:08
  Speaker 3: the show.
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: That's going to do it for us for today.
• 46:11
  Speaker 3: We'll be back out with you tomorrow at 2 o'clock
• 46:13
  Speaker 3: for our Fix It Tuesday edition on offense and defense.
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: We'll recap the Mike McCarthy press conference and our.
• 46:19
  Speaker 3: Top 10 moments courtesy of our good friend Rob King
• 46:22
  Speaker 3: and Max Starks from the game in which the Steelers
• 46:26
  Speaker 3: followed the Patriots, as we said, 20-3 in Week 2.
• 46:29
  Speaker 3: Up next, it's the Mike McCarthy Press Conference live from
• 46:32
  Speaker 3: the Southside with Wes Shuler and Jerry Dulac.
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: He's Brian Bacco. I'm Ed Troop.
• 46:36
  Speaker 3: It is the Steelers Report right here on Steelers Nation Radio,
• 46:39
  Speaker 3: part of the Steelers Audio Network.