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HR 1: Steelers Hits & Misses: Week 8 · The Steelers Report

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  Speaker 1: This is the Steelers Report with Brian Batko and Ed
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  Speaker 1: Troop on Steelers Nation Radio, a part of the Steelers
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  Speaker 1: Audio Network.
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  Speaker 2: Double B, I'm going to start with this. October 5th, 2003.
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  Speaker 2: Do you know the importance of that date?
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  Speaker 1: No, I.
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  Speaker 3: Don't think I do.
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  Speaker 2: You do not. That was 23 years ago now. Well,
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  Speaker 2: I can take a guess.
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  Speaker 4: Is that the last time the Browns won a regular
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  Speaker 4: season game in Pittsburgh, Ed?
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  Speaker 1: Correct.
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  Speaker 2: We need the bell. Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. 23
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  Speaker 2: years ago. 1988, as you brought up yesterday, that was
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  Speaker 2: the last time that the Cleveland Browns swept the regular
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  Speaker 2: season series against the Pittsburgh Steelers. That was 38 years ago.
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  Speaker 2: You weren't even born yet.
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  Speaker 3: No, I was not.
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  Speaker 4: I was a few years from being born. But, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: at this point, you know, the non-sweep streak is old
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  Speaker 4: enough to be a a father, maybe even a grandfather,
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  Speaker 4: I guess, mathematically and the regular season streaks old enough
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  Speaker 4: to drink. So the Steelers have that going for them.
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  Speaker 4: And yes, they, the Browns did win that wild card.
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  Speaker 3: Game in Pittsburgh.
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  Speaker 4: And you can certainly make the case of that's more
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  Speaker 4: meaningful than many of the games between these two.
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  Speaker 3: But if you remember that was COVID season. So it was,
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  Speaker 3: it was.
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  Speaker 4: Not exactly a primed up Steelers crowd, put a little
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  Speaker 4: asterisk next to that for that reason. So I guess
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  Speaker 4: you could frame it as the Browns haven't won a
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  Speaker 4: game in Pittsburgh in front of a proper crowd, a real, legit,
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  Speaker 4: bona fide Steelers game day atmosphere in 23 years.
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  Speaker 2: And I think the biggest question going into this Sunday
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  Speaker 2: between the 5-2 Cleveland Browns, first place in the AFC
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  Speaker 2: North against the Pittsburgh Steelers, 5-2, also sharing first place
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  Speaker 2: in the AFC North. However, they already beat the Steelers,
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  Speaker 2: did the Browns, so they share first. They have the
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  Speaker 2: tiebreaker right now. That's why it's so important for the
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  Speaker 2: black and gold to get this win. But I think
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  Speaker 2: the biggest question is, Brian, are the Browns for real
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  Speaker 2: for the first seven weeks of the season? We're going
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  Speaker 2: to talk with Ashley Bastock later this week from Cleveland.
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  Speaker 2: We talked to her the first time. She had some
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  Speaker 2: questions about Deshaun Watson and the offense. Interesting to see
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  Speaker 2: now a month later how she feels and what the
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  Speaker 2: vibe in Cleveland is because I would think it's much
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  Speaker 2: like the vibe we get here in Pittsburgh when we
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  Speaker 2: talk about the baseball team, the Pittsburgh Pirates, right? When
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  Speaker 2: they start the month of April or May and they're
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  Speaker 2: in first place, they're off to a hot start. We
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  Speaker 2: pinch ourselves. Is it real? In Cleveland, I'm sure with
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  Speaker 2: the Browns, it's a very similar feeling.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I would think so.
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  Speaker 4: And Todd Munkin giving them a breath of fresh air
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  Speaker 4: as their head coach. They've got some young talent, really
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  Speaker 4: two or three years now worth of building that young nucleus,
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  Speaker 4: which is pretty impressive on both sides of the ball
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  Speaker 4: at this point. Casey Concepcion at his breakout game. last
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  Speaker 4: week against the Titans but still had to go down
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  Speaker 4: to the wire to beat the Titans in Tennessee now
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  Speaker 4: I guess maybe the Titans had a little bit of
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  Speaker 4: momentum after their first win the week prior against the
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  Speaker 4: Colts and Indy but they had a dysfunctional week with
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  Speaker 4: a teammate released for bringing a firearm into the facility
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  Speaker 4: so there's a lot going on with that franchise at
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  Speaker 4: the time and the Browns eked one out down there
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  Speaker 4: but hey it is about finding ways to win in
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  Speaker 4: this league and The Browns have found a way to
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  Speaker 4: win five times. The Steelers have found a way to
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  Speaker 4: win five times. Now the rubber meets the road for
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  Speaker 4: both in a matchup that'll be the last in this
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  Speaker 4: series before the Steelers and Ravens even play once.
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  Speaker 2: The Browns 5-2. They've won two straight. They beat the
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  Speaker 2: Ravens at home. As Brian just said, they went to Tennessee,
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  Speaker 2: won that game last week. Two losses were week one
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  Speaker 2: at Jacksonville and then at the New York Jets in
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  Speaker 2: a rainstorm. They also beat the Bucs, the Panthers, and
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  Speaker 2: of course the Steelers 27-24 on that Thursday night game.
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  Speaker 2: You mentioned the two wide receivers in Casey Concepcion and
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  Speaker 2: Denzel Boston. They are the number one and two rookie
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  Speaker 2: wide receivers. Now, Jeremy Bernard is the number three rookie
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  Speaker 2: wide receiver when it comes to yardage in the NFL,
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  Speaker 2: but Boston and Concepcion have really given this offense a
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  Speaker 2: nice boost. Boston has 20 catches, 372 yards, and three touchdowns. Brian,
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  Speaker 2: Concepcion 30 catches, 315. You mentioned it, too, against the
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  Speaker 2: Titans last week. His breakout game, eight catches for 129 yards. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: and he's shifty after the catch.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, you get the ball in his hands, and
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  Speaker 4: it's impressive what he can do. So the Steelers, you know,
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  Speaker 4: they got hurt by Boston in the first game, and
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  Speaker 4: Jerry Judy pitched in in that first game a little
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  Speaker 4: bit for the Browns. But now they've got Concepcion rolling
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  Speaker 4: a little bit, too. Quinshawn Judkins had a really nice
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  Speaker 4: game in Tennessee, so maybe he's returning to form after
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  Speaker 4: a pretty significant injury ended.
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  Speaker 3: His rookie season. They've got some pieces. Harold Fannin Jr.
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  Speaker 4: the tight end, I think he's been a little bit
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  Speaker 4: more up and down in year two after a sensational
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  Speaker 4: rookie campaign. As Mike McCarthy put it on Monday, not
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  Speaker 4: a lot has changed personnel-wise between these two teams since
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  Speaker 4: the last time they met. You're seeing all sorts of
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  Speaker 4: injuries around the league, but knock on wood, most of
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  Speaker 4: the major players for these two have remained in place. And,
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  Speaker 4: you know, that, that helps with familiarity, obviously, and it
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  Speaker 4: helps the coaching staff get a little bit of a
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  Speaker 4: jumpstart on their next opponent.
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  Speaker 2: Deshaun Watson has thrown for almost 1500 yards, 1,482 in
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  Speaker 2: the seven games, seven touchdowns, three interceptions. That's it. He's
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  Speaker 2: also ran the ball 49 times for 215 yards and
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  Speaker 2: three rushing touchdowns. So he's contributed to 10 touchdowns so
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  Speaker 2: far this season. Look, We talk about it here with
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  Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers, right? If you can protect the football and
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  Speaker 2: you can make an impact during the game from the
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  Speaker 2: quarterback spot, the most important spot on the football field,
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  Speaker 2: you're going to win football games. And Deshaun Watson, a
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  Speaker 2: big reason why they are in this spot at 5-2.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, there was so much tension with that situation
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  Speaker 4: coming into this year. A lot of people wondering not
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  Speaker 4: if but when Shador Sanders would take over.
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  Speaker 3: And that's a name you don't hear much about anymore.
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  Speaker 2: He's still on the team.
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  Speaker 3: He's still on the team.
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  Speaker 4: I think there was actually some speculation or a rumor
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  Speaker 4: out there that he was looking for a trade potentially,
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  Speaker 4: but it's not like he's done much in his NFL
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  Speaker 4: career to even warrant that. At this point, it's Deshaun
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  Speaker 4: Watson's job, for better or worse. The team seems to
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  Speaker 4: be rallying around him a little bit, and you see
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  Speaker 4: some of these post-game victory locker room celebration videos, and
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  Speaker 4: he's the guy for them. Right now, against all odds,
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  Speaker 4: he's managed to stick in that role. And if wins
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  Speaker 4: are a quarterback stat, he's winning games. And this Browns
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  Speaker 4: team is surprisingly, maybe even shockingly, in the mix in
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  Speaker 4: the AFC. Because a lot of the other teams that
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  Speaker 4: we expected to be doormats somewhat to an extent this season, they.
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  Speaker 3: Kind of have been.
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  Speaker 4: The Titans, the Jets, and I was a little higher
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  Speaker 4: on the Titans than most, but it's not really materializing
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  Speaker 4: for them in year two for Cam Ward. But the
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  Speaker 4: Titans are not very good. The Jets are not very good.
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  Speaker 4: The Dolphins are not very good. The Raiders look like
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  Speaker 4: they might be a surprise team. They're kind of settling
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  Speaker 4: back into what we expected them to be. But the
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  Speaker 4: Browns are the one that has taken things, and the
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  Speaker 4: Colts are not very good. The Browns are the one
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  Speaker 4: that has taken the conference by storm, and we'll see
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  Speaker 4: if they can keep it up. But I'm looking for another...
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  Speaker 4: You know, we talked about historic streaks that the Browns
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  Speaker 4: are trying to end against the Steelers. I'm looking for
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  Speaker 4: another one to end this year for the Steelers. And
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  Speaker 4: that's one that, you know, it's water under the bridge
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  Speaker 4: for this season. But did you know, Ed, not so
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  Speaker 4: fun fact, every Steelers team that has ever made the
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  Speaker 4: Super Bowl, let alone won it, won in Cleveland that season.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, boy. Too late now.
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  Speaker 3: It's too late now. Unless, of course, the playoffs, maybe.
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  Speaker 3: That's true.
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  Speaker 4: What if the Browns win the division and you were
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  Speaker 4: to play there now? that would mean that something probably
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  Speaker 4: went wrong this Sunday. So I don't know that I
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  Speaker 4: would sign in blood for that opportunity. But maybe the
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  Speaker 4: Steelers can end that ignominious history. We're getting to the
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  Speaker 4: Uncle Tommy word of the day early today.
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  Speaker 2: And knock that out right off the bat. You know,
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  Speaker 2: when you look at that game in Cleveland on Thursday night, Brian,
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  Speaker 2: one thing the Steelers struggled with in the second and
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  Speaker 2: third quarter was really controlling that defensive front of the
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  Speaker 2: Cleveland Browns. And they have been excellent so far this season.
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  Speaker 2: And that says a lot, considering that they traded Myles
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  Speaker 2: Garrett away in the offseason to the LA Rams. But
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  Speaker 2: Mason Graham, four sacks on the season. Malik Collins, three
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  Speaker 2: and a half sacks. Isaiah McGuire, three sacks. Aiden Huntington.
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  Speaker 2: I was ready to say Hutchinson.
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  Speaker 3: Same name as the field.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Huntington. Two and a half sacks. The four of them,
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  Speaker 2: the two defensive tackles in Graham and Collins, McGuire, Huntington,
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  Speaker 2: the two defensive ends. The four of them, 13 total
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  Speaker 2: sacks in seven games so far this season. Might be
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  Speaker 2: one of the best. We talk about how good the
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  Speaker 2: Steelers defensive front's been playing. They have. But Cleveland has
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  Speaker 2: done a good job, too.
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  Speaker 3: And they traded Myles Garrett. That's it. Isn't that crazy? Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: it was the offseason.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was.
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  Speaker 3: Not even into training camp yet. That speaks volumes. OTA's time.
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  Speaker 3: The whole greater than the sum of its parts.
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  Speaker 4: Their defensive coordinator replaced Jim Schwartz, who was a big
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  Speaker 4: name among DCs. Mike Rudenberg, not really a big name
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  Speaker 4: among NFL DCs, but maybe he should be after this season.
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  Speaker 4: The 44-year-old is dialing it up at the right times
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  Speaker 4: for them. He's coming off a year as defensive pass
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  Speaker 4: game coordinator for the Falcons. But this is his first
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  Speaker 4: time calling a defense, and tough to argue with the
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  Speaker 4: results with what the Browns are doing. And they did
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  Speaker 4: just give up 24 to the Titans.
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  Speaker 3: They did.
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  Speaker 4: Titans ran it all over them. But, yeah, as far
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  Speaker 4: as bringing the pressure and finding a way to make
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  Speaker 4: that work, minus the NFL sack leader in Garrett, credit
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  Speaker 4: to them for players stepping up execution-wise and coaching.
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  Speaker 3: Scheming it up from the booth or the field, wherever
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  Speaker 3: he is.
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  Speaker 2: You know, as I transition from this to our segment
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  Speaker 2: that we do each Wednesday, the Fix It, Get It
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  Speaker 2: Right Wednesday, I also at this point tell you what's
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  Speaker 2: coming up on the show. And I was getting ready
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  Speaker 2: to say we have an exciting show planned for you
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  Speaker 2: today because that's what people say on radio. But if
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  Speaker 2: we do our jobs right, Brian Bacco, every show is
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  Speaker 2: an exciting show for your Uncle Tommy and everyone else. Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 2: But we do have a good one planned for you today.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to have our hits and misses coming up
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  Speaker 2: next here around 220 and 240, one of our favorite
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  Speaker 2: segments of the week. At 3 o'clock today, Chris Carter
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  Speaker 2: from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette will be joining Brian and I,
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  Speaker 2: and we'll wrap up the show on the back half
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  Speaker 2: with our top five power rankings for top five offenses
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  Speaker 2: and defenses so far this season. But fix it, get
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  Speaker 2: it right Wednesday. I have one offense and one defense
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  Speaker 2: for you, Brian Bacco. Offense, third down offense. It's getting better.
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  Speaker 2: They were 10 of 16 on Sunday, 62%. That's the
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  Speaker 2: best they've been all season long. They are now 35
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  Speaker 2: of 92 in seven games, up to 38 percent. They
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  Speaker 2: need to keep improving on third down. Hopefully they can
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  Speaker 2: build off that this week against the Browns.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's been an issue for them all season, obviously.
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  Speaker 4: And Mike McCarthy has made it clear that he's wanted
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  Speaker 4: to emphasize improvement in that area.
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  Speaker 3: And I'll tell you.
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  Speaker 4: What, you know, an underrated play to me in that game, Ed,
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  Speaker 4: and We've talked so much about the stars of it,
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  Speaker 4: from Peyton Wilson to Patrick Queen, Jalen Warren, really the
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  Speaker 4: entire O-line and D-line. But third and six, late in
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  Speaker 4: the third quarter, Steelers are at the Saints 34. So
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  Speaker 4: it's kind of on the brink of Chris Boswell, anybody
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  Speaker 4: field goal range. I mean, would he make it from 52? Yeah, probably.
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  Speaker 4: But you don't really want to take your chances if
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  Speaker 4: you can handle it. The play before, a rare drop
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  Speaker 4: from Pat Friermuth. It was a, when I talk about
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  Speaker 4: the back shoulder throw, it kind of hit his front shoulder.
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  Speaker 4: So I don't know if he didn't turn the right
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  Speaker 4: way or just kind of wasn't expecting the ball to
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  Speaker 4: be placed there or if just, you know, got to
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  Speaker 4: bring that in and nobody catches them all. But Brandon
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  Speaker 4: Smith gets open for a 20-yard completion from Aaron Rodgers
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  Speaker 4: over the middle to convert that third down.
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  Speaker 3: They move the chains.
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  Speaker 4: They don't get touchdown out of that play Aaron Rodgers
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  Speaker 4: was sacked by Chase Young a few plays later but
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  Speaker 4: it does allow them to get that 39 yard Chris
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  Speaker 4: Boswell field goal to get points off of the Peyton
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  Speaker 4: Wilson interception so I just want to give a shout
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  Speaker 4: out to Brandon Smith who's filling in right now he's
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  Speaker 4: had he's had a penalty or two that you you
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  Speaker 4: don't want to see and of course he's not going
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  Speaker 4: to be as involved as DK Metcalf or Jeremy Bernard
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  Speaker 4: but you know made his Steelers debut a week prior
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  Speaker 4: This week played 29 snaps. Or maybe he made his
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  Speaker 4: debut a couple weeks prior. But either way, he's getting
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  Speaker 4: elevated from the practice squad. Didn't make the team out
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  Speaker 4: of preseason in training camp. And never had an NFL
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  Speaker 4: catch until this season. But that was a big one
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  Speaker 4: for him. And it wasn't an easy catch. He had
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  Speaker 4: to go down, go low, and grab it. So great
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  Speaker 4: job by him to get his hands under it. I
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  Speaker 4: think they were looking at it probably for a second
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  Speaker 4: there on the replay, wondering if he caught it. So
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  Speaker 4: that was one third down conversion. But yes, overall.
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  Speaker 3: Great job by the Steelers to improve in that margin.
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  Speaker 2: Hopefully they can build on it this week, as I said,
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  Speaker 2: against the Browns. Now up to 38% on third downs
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  Speaker 2: for the season, 62% this past week. against the Saints.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: One for on defense before we get the break, get
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  Speaker 2: more out of your edge rushers. Two weeks ago, Brian,
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  Speaker 2: I talked about Nick Herbig turning it around. He did
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  Speaker 2: against Tampa Bay last week. I said, get TJ Watt
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  Speaker 2: back on track. He'd been quiet for a few weeks.
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  Speaker 2: He had a big game. So is it, is it
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  Speaker 2: Alex Highsmith's turn this week? Cause he's been, he's been
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  Speaker 2: quiet the last few weeks. I'm going to give you
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  Speaker 2: that name this week. Is it Alex Highsmith's turn on
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  Speaker 2: that edge rusher group to have a big game?
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  Speaker 3: I like where your head is at. I like where
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  Speaker 3: your head is at, Ed.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, Highsmith, it seems like he is due for a
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  Speaker 4: breakout soon. He didn't get to do his Mbappe celebration
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  Speaker 4: that TJ Watt was telling us about that he had
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  Speaker 4: ready for Paris, a French soccer star, Kylian Mbappe.
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  Speaker 3: But maybe it's time.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe he can bust it out this week and the
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  Speaker 4: good vibes from Paris can keep rolling. He'll be facing
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  Speaker 4: Spencer Fano, rookie left tackle from the Browns, who's playing
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  Speaker 4: really well. He's part of that young nucleus that I
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  Speaker 4: mentioned before that has to have Browns fans feeling pretty
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  Speaker 4: good about the future.
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  Speaker 3: But the future doesn't have to be now. The future
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  Speaker 3: can wait.
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  Speaker 4: Alex Highsmith could beat Spencer Fano for a sack or
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  Speaker 4: two this week, and we'd all love to see that.
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  Speaker 4: So he had one TFL, but zero sacks against the
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  Speaker 4: Browns last time around. The only ones came from Peyton
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  Speaker 4: Wilson and TJ in that game. So yeah, it does
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  Speaker 4: feel like it's time for Highsmith to hit one of
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  Speaker 4: those inside spins. Fano doesn't see it coming, but he's
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  Speaker 4: quick on his feet. He's very athletic and nimble for
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  Speaker 4: a left tackle. That'll be a matchup to watch.
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  Speaker 2: Will Alex Highsmith make our misses segment coming up next?
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  Speaker 2: Will Jalen Ramsey, Peyton Wilson, TJ Watt make our hit
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  Speaker 2: part of the misses of the week? We will find
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  Speaker 2: out here. as we continue to march on in our
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  Speaker 2: number one. We'll be back with more right here on
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  Speaker 1: This is the Steelers Report with Brian Batko and Ed
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  Speaker 2: Double B, if you've been watching any of the World Series....
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  Speaker 3: No, I have not.
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  Speaker 4: I did happen to look this morning, though, and see
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  Speaker 4: that it's 3-1. The Rays staved off execution there by
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  Speaker 4: the Brewers. I was in Tampa, you know, the week
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  Speaker 4: prior when they were playing the.
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  Speaker 2: Cleveland.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: So they dispatched to the Guardians, and there was some
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  Speaker 4: interest from the Tampa fans, but I don't know where
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  Speaker 4: they all were watching these games at. But, yeah, obviously
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  Speaker 4: the Brewers were cruising in those first three games. I'm
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  Speaker 4: sure it's tough to come back from down 3-0. Jacob
• 16:03
  Speaker 4: Mizorowski's on the mound tonight for Milwaukee. I do know
• 16:06
  Speaker 4: that name, so I tend to think they can close
• 16:09
  Speaker 4: it out here with him on the bump.
• 16:11
  Speaker 3: But it's always the weird thing, too.
• 16:13
  Speaker 4: I mean, I guess if you're a fan of a
• 16:15
  Speaker 4: team in the World Series, you just want to win it,
• 16:18
  Speaker 4: and you don't want to let the Rays back into
• 16:21
  Speaker 4: the series, make it 3-2. But you'd also probably love
• 16:23
  Speaker 4: to see them win it at home in Milwaukee. That's
• 16:25
  Speaker 4: always more fun.
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: Oh, for sure. You know, interesting statistic because the Brewers
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: up 3-0, Tampa gets that one last night, that in
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: the three major sports, because football doesn't have a best-of series,
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: of course, so you're just looking at the NBA, the NHL,
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: and Major League Baseball that play the best-of series in
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: their championships. The Boston Red Sox are the only Major
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: League Baseball team to come back from 3-0. And hockey's
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: had a handful, just a few, two or three.
• 16:52
  Speaker 3: I think. The NBA, zero.
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: They've never had any team.
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: You're pretty much done if you go down 3-0.
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: Exactly. And I think if the stat I saw this
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: morning was correct, I didn't double-check my work.
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: And the Spurs did, right, this past season?
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: Oh, check it out. Maybe they were wrong.
• 17:09
  Speaker 4: No, I'm not saying the Knicks won the series, obviously,
• 17:12
  Speaker 4: but I think there was a game there where... What
• 17:17
  Speaker 4: was it?
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: Oh, it was 4-1.
• 17:19
  Speaker 4: But my point is, I think it was 3-0, and
• 17:21
  Speaker 4: it was kind of like, all right, even if the Spurs.
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: win a game or two, they're probably not going to
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: complete the comeback.
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: NBA has never had one come back. And I think
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: for the actual championship, because I think when Boston came back,
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: it was against the Yankees back in 2003.
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: I was wrong.
• 17:34
  Speaker 4: It was 2-0 Knicks, and then the Spurs got a win.
• 17:37
  Speaker 4: But then it was 3-1 and then 4-1, and it
• 17:39
  Speaker 4: was over.
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: But I think the Red Sox was against the Yankees
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: in the American League Championship Series. So follow me for
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: a second. When it comes to actual championship series, None
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: in baseball, none in the NBA, and I believe only one,
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: and it was hockey, and I believe it was the
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: Toronto Maple Leafs.
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: Tough to win four games in a row against a
• 17:58
  Speaker 4: good team, and obviously you're going to play good teams
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: in the playoffs, especially the championship of whatever sport we're
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: talking about there.
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: Well, we're not talking about the World Series here on
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: Steelers Nation Radio. We're talking about the Steelers, and they
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: have a big one this week coming up this weekend
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: against the Cleveland Browns. one of the best rivalries in
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: all of sports, right? Browns-Steelers. And this week, it's the
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: first time in a long time, Brian, as we talked
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: about yesterday, and we talked even to open up the
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: show today when we started to dive into the Browns
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: in this matchup this upcoming Sunday. First time in a
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: long time that it's been this important during the regular season. Yesterday, again,
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: I was thinking maybe the mid-' 90s. I know they met
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: in the playoffs back in 1994 at Three River Stadium.
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: and I believe the Steelers swept the Browns. They beat
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: them three times that season, and that was the talk
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: going into that game. It's so hard to beat a
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: team in football three times in one season, and Bill
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: Cowher's Steelers back in 1994 did that. So I'm sure
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: during that season there were some important matchups between the
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: Browns and Steelers, but man, recent memory, I can't cough
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: up one for you that meant this much that will
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: this upcoming weekend.
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I'm just Googling it here, and this
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: tells you how smart but also dumb ai can be
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: at times because there's a paragraph here.
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: That said uh.
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: Well it says first of all it says the last
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: time the steelers and browns met with winning records late
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: in the regular season so at least three games above
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: 500 which they both are right now at five and
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: two was week 16 of 1994 now again that's the
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: regular season obviously they both had winning records to be
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: in the playoffs a few years back but that's not
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: really part of the discussion says, however, they also faced
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: each other earlier this season in Week four october 1
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: 2026 when both teams had winning records browns at three
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: and one steelers at two and two hold on hold
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: on two and two is not a winning record the
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: steelers did not have a winning record at that time
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: google ai overview so yeah take all that with a
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: grain of salt.
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: Well now you gotta tell ai like hey no you're
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: wrong and then it'll apologize to you it'll tell you
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: hey i'm so sorry brian i did not mean to
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: get that wrong for you.
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: Well, for what it's worth, uh, and, and AI, uh,
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: search the other day doing, doing some prep work for
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: the show told me that Russell Wilson was still the
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: quarterback for the Pittsburgh Steelers in 2000, 2026.
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: So there you go on TV.
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: Now, there you go. Go back to the old fashioned,
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: just look it up yourself and, and make that, uh,
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: make that determination. Okay. We're talking hits and misses. One
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: of our favorite segments we do on the show every week.
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: Uh, well, I did tell them they were wrong and
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: they came back with week 11, 2023, uh, Browns were
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: six and three. Steelers were six and three.
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: Okay. Well, there you go. So it was more recent.
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: So that would have been three years.
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: Right. Three years ago. We're both teams? We'll continue to
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: look that up and dive into that. We'll do that.
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: Now we're really down a rabbit hole.
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: During the commercial break, we will get it right.
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: I'm looking it up on the fly right now, but
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: go ahead, Ed.
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: I will start. Well, while you're doing that, I will
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: let everyone know about our first hit of the day,
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: and it's Jalen Warren. His last five games, 472 yards rushing.
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: That's an average of 5.8 yards per carry. He has
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: a touchdown in that span and also three 100-yard rushing games,
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: 100-plus rushing games, I should say. 233 yards receiving, a
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: touchdown there. That's a total of 705 total offensive yards,
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: two total touchdowns on the season. He would be your
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: Steeler MVP if the season ended today, I would think.
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't think it's really even close.
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: Not even debatable.
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: Unless you wanted to make the hipster argument for an
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: offensive lineman, Zach Frazier, somebody like that. Because I think
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: defense has been more of a by-committee approach.
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: You've had T.J.
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: Watt.
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: Starring at times in games, Peyton Wilson most recently, Jalen
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: Ramsey at one point there. But yeah, by and large,
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: Jalen Warren's been the most consistent player on this team, and.
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: Kudos to him.
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: I mean, a lot of people wondering how much of
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: a role he'd have this year or if it would
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: be reduced at all with Rico Dowdle coming in. If anything,
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: his role should only increase because he's just been so
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: darn efficient, and it's like It's like I had this
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: thought watching him on one of those first runs in
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: Paris against the Saints. Like, you know, those weeble wobble
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: things that like you can. Yeah, they're like round at
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: the bottom and they just spin around. That's like that's
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: what it's like trying to tackle Jalen Warren. He's so
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: low to the ground. Yeah, it's it's incredible what he's doing.
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: But yeah, actually, 2023 week 11 Steelers and Browns were
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: both six and three.
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: So how about that? Didn't really remember much of that.
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: Did AI tell you that Russell Wilson was the quarterback then?
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: I'm just kidding.
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: No, Kenny Pickett was the quarterback for the Steelers and
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: Dorian Thompson Robinson was the quarterback for.
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: The Browns and they won in Cleveland on that Sunday afternoon.
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: There's a deep cut. You can get for all those
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: Browns quarterbacks. You're probably gonna come up with a different
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: one for every year.
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: That's when the Steelers swoon started that season. They were
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: really struggling to move the ball, but Jalen Warren had
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: 129 yards on nine carries and a touchdown in that game,
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: including a 74-yard run.
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: Let's go. We like that.
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: That was a hit.
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: That was a hit. We just add that into the
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: mix here. All right, let's get to our first miss
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: of the day. It's the Steelers NFL kick return team.
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: Number 30 in the NFL, averaging just 23.6 yards per return,
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: and number 26 in the NFL for punt returns at
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: 7.5 yards per return. Now, listen, there's been some sparks
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: the last few weeks. I'm not going to dog them completely.
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: I mean, we just had a few nice returns here
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: or there. They just need to be more consistent.
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: And overall, it's it's still not the kind of numbers
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: that you know that you want for your special teams units.
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: And maybe it's to be expected. There's been a lot
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: of change on that front. And right now you don't
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: have Ben Skoranek. He's out with a calf injury. Hopefully
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: he can return sooner than later. But yeah, I mean,
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: we'd all like to see that bumped up a little
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: bit for the Steelers and in all phases, really. You know,
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: as far as Legion goes, I think there's always the
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: chance that he will break one. And then all of
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: a sudden, one long play will bring that average up considerably.
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: But yeah, to this point, hasn't been much room to run.
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: Our next hit, our first hit was about Jalen Warren.
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: So our second hit is about Rico Dattel. Two games
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: back now, 16 total rushes in those two games at
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: Tampa Bay and against the Saints in Paris for 81
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: total rushing yards. nine catches for 54 yards receiving. That's
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: a total of 135 total offensive yards from Rico Dowdle
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: these last two games. When you put those Warren numbers together, Brian,
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: along with what Rico's done, that's 391 total offensive yards
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: the last two games against Tampa Bay and the Saints.
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: Rico and Jalen getting it done together.
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely.
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: And with Dowdle, I mean, he looks pretty spry. You know,
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: it seems like that dislocated toe is... well behind him
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: at this point and thankfully that was the first time
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: this season you really saw him heavily involved through the
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: air I mean he had a couple catches here and
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: there early and then he had I think three for
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: nine the week before against Tampa but six for 45
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: you know he got it done you know on the
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: ground and you know developing at least enough of a
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: rapport with Aaron Rodgers to be targeted as as much
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: as he was but yeah I mean he had three,
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: four of the Steelers' longest 10 plays in that game.
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: You'll take that.
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: Four times he touches the ball, he gets you double-figure yardage.
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: That's nice to see from Dowdle, even if he is
• 25:25
  Speaker 4: going to be more of a compliment than a true
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: 1B to Jalen Warren's 1A. Right now, Jalen Warren's 1A +.
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: Our second miss of the day is involving the protection
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: of Aaron Rodgers. He's been sacked 22 times in the
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: last seven games. He took 29 total of last season, Brian,
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: so he's already at 22 through seven games so far.
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: That was an incredible number when I saw that, and
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: I looked up last year's total, and it was 29
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: for the whole season. On average, he also loses 25
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: yards per game due to sacks. That is second worst
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: in the NFL.
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's one that continues to be frustrating, and the
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: one that when he was sacked on third down and
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: forced the fire drill field goal team to run on,
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: I mean, you can't have that. I mean, that's... That's
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: stuff that can take points off the board if you're
• 26:13
  Speaker 4: not careful there, if you don't have a really good
• 26:16
  Speaker 4: operation on the kicking unit. So, yeah, I mean, it's
• 26:19
  Speaker 4: been up and down with some of the protection. But
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: I think only sometimes is that on the offensive line.
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: Sometimes that's on the quarterback to navigate and manage the pocket.
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: And it does seem like it's happening. And a lot
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: of sacks happen on third down just globally. But it's
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: happening a lot to the Steelers. on third downs where
• 26:38
  Speaker 4: teams are clearly just comfortable to pin their ears back and,
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: and get after him. And there's, you don't have that,
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: that get out of jail free card with the legs
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: until he did late in that game. So we'll, we'll
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: take that one, but you'd like to see either more
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: of that or just, you know, some, some ways around
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: the past protection woes on those possession downs.
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: That was a miss on Aaron Rodgers, so let me
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: get you our third hit and give you a hit
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: on Aaron Rodgers. His last three games, he's thrown for
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: a total of 700 yards passing, six touchdowns, just one interception,
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: and a 67% completion rate, and the Steelers are 3-0
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: in that span.
• 27:15
  Speaker 4: Yeah, Rodgers is, I mean, we knew this coming into
• 27:17
  Speaker 4: the year. He can still throw the heck out of
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: the football, and he's navigating around. I mentioned his pocket navigation. Well,
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: he's got to navigate a receiving core that he wasn't
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: really expecting to be working with this season. You know,
• 27:32
  Speaker 4: I gave a shout out to Brandon Smith previously, but
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: who had Brandon Smith on your bingo card coming into
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: week one? No one, you know, attrition does set in
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: inevitably in the NFL at every position, but by week
• 27:43
  Speaker 4: five or six or whatever it was, Brandon Smith was
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: playing a lot of meaningful snaps as the number three receiver.
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: I know Rogers is confident in them and, and likes
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: them and they go back to their jet stays together, but,
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: that's still a major adjustment for everybody involved in the
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: Steelers past game.
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: And yet they are finding a way to move it
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: through the air for the most part.
• 28:03
  Speaker 4: And he's done a better job lately, taking care of
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: the football through the air. And even early in the season,
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: some of those picks were definitely not on him, but yeah, it's,
• 28:11
  Speaker 4: it's still a hit to me. The, the way he's
• 28:14
  Speaker 4: throwing it, the, you know, the deep shot to DK
• 28:16
  Speaker 4: Metcalf was nice for 51 yards.
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: Be great to see two or three of those.
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: In a game, our next miss. And we, kind of
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: hinted towards this during the opening of the show, involves
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: Alex Highsmith. But I will say this. Two weeks ago,
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: I teed up a miss with Nick Herbig. He turned
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: around and had a big game against Tampa. Last week,
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: I teed up a miss about T.J. Watt being a
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: bit quiet the last few games. He had a huge
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: game against the Saints. So hopefully the same strategy will
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: play for Alex Highsmith. He has three sacks on the season,
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: and they happened in the first two games. None since
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: the last five games, no sacks. Seven total tackles during
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: that span of the last five games. Hopefully, Alex Highsmith
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: can have a big game this week against the Browns.
• 28:56
  Speaker 4: Hopefully, but the Browns last week, now you can argue
• 29:01
  Speaker 4: that this is a fairly impotent Tennessee pass rush, and
• 29:05
  Speaker 4: that's a big reason why they only have one win,
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: but they only got one sack of Deshaun Watson, and
• 29:11
  Speaker 4: it was one where they kind of just pushed him
• 29:12
  Speaker 4: out of bounds, so it wasn't like anybody.
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: got beat on that play.
• 29:16
  Speaker 4: It was actually a zero-yard sack for the Titans in
• 29:19
  Speaker 4: that game. So their offensive line is clearly playing pretty
• 29:22
  Speaker 4: well as a unit. You know, the Steelers saw that
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: in Week 4 up there in Cleveland on Thursday night.
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: That's a group that got remade completely by the front
• 29:32
  Speaker 4: office this season, or this offseason, I should say. And
• 29:36
  Speaker 4: they've done a nice job from Fano, the Royals, left
• 29:40
  Speaker 4: tackle on that side to you know Titus Howard moving
• 29:44
  Speaker 4: in and out on on the other side from guard
• 29:46
  Speaker 4: to tackle but they gave up five sacks the week
• 29:49
  Speaker 4: prior to the Ravens so it can be done they
• 29:51
  Speaker 4: can be had let's see the Steelers have some.
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: More Steelers hits and misses whenever we come back. But first,
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: this is the Steelers Report on SNR, part of the
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: Steelers Audio Network.
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: This is the Steelers Report with Brian Batko and Ed
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: Troop on Steelers Nation Radio, a part of the Steelers
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: Audio Network.
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: Wrapping up our number one here on the Steelers Report.
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: Double B, it was October 1st. for that Thursday night
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: game in Cleveland. Fast forward this Sunday, it'll be November 1st,
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: exactly one month in between the two games.
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that is strange.
• 30:32
  Speaker 4: First of the month, kickoff October with the Browns, kickoff
• 30:37
  Speaker 4: November with the Browns.
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: First of the month, maybe Bone Thugs-N-Harmony should make an appearance. Yeah,
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: I was listening to that. And I actually think they're
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: from Cleveland.
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: They are.
• 30:44
  Speaker 4: They're a Cleveland rap group. Yeah, I think we did
• 30:46
  Speaker 4: talk about that. But yeah, that is sort of a
• 30:49
  Speaker 4: strange thing.
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: And that's the only... There's no more.
• 30:53
  Speaker 4: I mean, they play the Texans on December 6th and
• 30:58
  Speaker 4: the Titans on January 3rd. So this will be the
• 31:01
  Speaker 4: last first-of-the-month game for the Steelers. But, yeah, that's kind
• 31:04
  Speaker 4: of funky that they both came against Cleveland.
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: First one was in Cleveland on October 1st, and now
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: November 1st this Sunday will be at AccuShare Stadium, 1
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: o'clock kickoff.
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: And I'm glad it's 1 o'clock.
• 31:14
  Speaker 4: I know there were people wondering because the Sunday night
• 31:17
  Speaker 4: football game this week has just gotten worse by the game.
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: It's bad.
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: Eagles, Commanders. Not good.
• 31:23
  Speaker 4: Not good. I don't know why they couldn't flex. Well,
• 31:28
  Speaker 4: I guess it might be the same issue with divisional games.
• 31:31
  Speaker 4: Chiefs-Broncos is like the 425 game this week.
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: That should be a good one. That's at mile high.
• 31:37
  Speaker 4: I'd rather watch Falcons-Bucks on Sunday night than Eagles-Commanders.
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: At least the NFC South is kind of a... Entertaining.
• 31:47
  Speaker 4: It's like a yackety-sacks division at the moment. You never
• 31:49
  Speaker 4: really know who's going to be in the lead but
• 31:52
  Speaker 4: hey one of those teams is gonna have to make
• 31:53
  Speaker 4: the postseason and yes those could be some entertaining teams
• 31:56
  Speaker 4: the bucks might be better now with baker mayfield under
• 31:59
  Speaker 4: center vikings lions it's a shame that's but that's another
• 32:01
  Speaker 4: divisional game and then you've got ravens bills i don't
• 32:06
  Speaker 4: know why that couldn't get i mean that'd be a
• 32:08
  Speaker 4: good game to watch in prime time and obviously brown
• 32:11
  Speaker 4: steelers is also a contender for game of the week
• 32:13
  Speaker 4: but staying at one o'clock and i'd I like it
• 32:17
  Speaker 4: from a writing.
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: Standpoint and a media standpoint.
• 32:19
  Speaker 4: Of course, I don't like going to bed at 2
• 32:21
  Speaker 4: or 3 a.m., but kind of stinks for the overall
• 32:24
  Speaker 4: NFL watching fan base that all these good games are
• 32:30
  Speaker 4: at one. And then there's a dog of a game
• 32:32
  Speaker 4: that night.
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: And if they could do you a favor, get out
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: to an early two, three touchdown lead and just maintain it,
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: that would be just fine for Brian Bacco up in
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: the press box on Sunday and for Steeler Nation, for
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: that matter. It's not just about you, Brian. I think
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: all of us would welcome that and not a nail-biter
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: coming down to the wire. that you have to blow
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: up your story and start all over. But hey, if
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: it comes out to be a Steeler victory, it is
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: what it is. We're going through our Steelers hits and
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: misses of the week. We're going to finish it up
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: here before we get to the three o'clock hour in
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: which Chris Carter from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette will be joining
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: us here on the show. Chris, also the host of
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: the Locked on Steelers podcast. Make sure you check that out.
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: But before we get to Chris, we do have some
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: more hits and misses for you. Brian, here's another hit.
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: The Steelers run defense. No 100-yard individual rusher given up
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: so far this season through seven games. Bajon in Week 1,
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: 83 yards rushing. Henderson, Trayvon Henderson in Week 2, 76 yards.
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: Chase Brown in Week 3, 61. Junkins, first time around, 53.
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: Jonathan Taylor, 45. Bucky Irving, 46. The Saints as a
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: team last week, 18. No 100-yard rusher yet through seven games.
• 33:42
  Speaker 4: They had a 28-yard rusher on one play last time
• 33:45
  Speaker 4: they faced the Cleveland Browns, and that was Jaleel McLaughlin
• 33:48
  Speaker 4: took it to the house for a touchdown. Since that
• 33:50
  Speaker 4: night where the run defense got, I mean, not gashed necessarily,
• 33:54
  Speaker 4: but they did give up 112 yards in that game,
• 33:57
  Speaker 4: four yards a pop total. And that one was sometimes
• 34:00
  Speaker 4: one big play can really hurt you. That was the
• 34:04
  Speaker 4: only double-digit run by a running back Deshaun Watson took
• 34:08
  Speaker 4: off for a 21-yard scramble but it seemed like that
• 34:11
  Speaker 4: game and that play specifically woke them up a bit
• 34:14
  Speaker 4: because yeah then the next week completely shut down Jonathan
• 34:17
  Speaker 4: Taylor just about then Bucky Irving doesn't get much going
• 34:21
  Speaker 4: he destroyed the Panthers on the ground this past week
• 34:24
  Speaker 4: for the Bucks and then the Saints game is the
• 34:27
  Speaker 4: the the peak I don't want to say it's the
• 34:29
  Speaker 4: peak maybe they can be even better this week against
• 34:31
  Speaker 4: the Browns but I'd You're not going to see many
• 34:33
  Speaker 4: performances like that where a team runs for 18 yards. But, hey,
• 34:37
  Speaker 4: they committed to it early. I mean, they tried to
• 34:39
  Speaker 4: run the ball. The Steelers were just a brick wall.
• 34:40
  Speaker 4: I mean, they finished the game, I think, with 17,
• 34:43
  Speaker 4: 18 rushes.
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: So, you know, if you look at that set, 18 yards,
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: usually you say, oh, they only ran the ball three
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: or four times. No, they went 17, 18 times in
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: that game, Brian. That's usually an average in the NFL.
• 34:52
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I was surprised to see that it wasn't the
• 34:54
  Speaker 4: lowest total by a team in a game this year.
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: It's the second.
• 34:57
  Speaker 4: Yeah, the Packers had 17 in a game. earlier this
• 35:00
  Speaker 4: year but that's a team that ugly ugly yeah they
• 35:02
  Speaker 4: they also had really no running back or running game
• 35:05
  Speaker 4: at the time uh first uh first time since week
• 35:08
  Speaker 4: four of 2022 that a team did not have a
• 35:12
  Speaker 4: 10-yard rusher in a game that well and that was
• 35:15
  Speaker 4: a tom brady led tampa bay team that just winging
• 35:18
  Speaker 4: the ball all around the yard they still scored 31
• 35:21
  Speaker 4: points in a loss to the chiefs that day but
• 35:23
  Speaker 4: let's uh let's see if the steelers run defense can
• 35:26
  Speaker 4: do it again for you know the eighth straight game
• 35:30
  Speaker 4: yeah but i was gonna say just i would consider
• 35:32
  Speaker 4: it the fourth straight really good performance against the run.
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah because i mean it's you know i use that
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: stat loosely and you're right brian because week one the
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: falcons even though not an individual 100 yard rusher i
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: don't have the stat in front of me but they
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: still as a team went over 100 yards as did
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: new england in that game as the cleveland on the
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: thursday night game so yeah you're exactly.
• 35:52
  Speaker 4: Right judkins was more just getting you know a Six
• 35:56
  Speaker 4: yards here, nine yards there, that kind of thing. He
• 35:59
  Speaker 4: rushed for 53 on 17 carries, and he had a
• 36:02
  Speaker 4: touchdown in that game, too, a short one. But they
• 36:04
  Speaker 4: didn't let the Browns necessarily dominate that game on the
• 36:07
  Speaker 4: ground or anything, but that McLaughlin run in the first
• 36:10
  Speaker 4: half really hurt.
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: Our next miss for the Steelers is, speaking of rushing,
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: only one rushing touchdown still this season. Jalen Warren back
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: in Week 5 against the Colts. Weird stat, given all
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: the success of the running game recently. Maybe it's more
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: about Aaron Rodgers checking out of the run in the
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: red zone and throwing more touchdown passes. Hey, regardless how
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: it gets in the end zone, it gets in the
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: end zone. The run game itself has been very strong.
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: But only one rushing touchdown so far this season. I
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: brought this up a few times, Brian. You did not
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: seem alarmed previously. Are you still of that opinion?
• 36:41
  Speaker 4: No, I mean, I think situationally there have been times
• 36:44
  Speaker 4: late in that Tampa game, it would have been nice
• 36:46
  Speaker 4: to pound one in on the ground. They tried once,
• 36:48
  Speaker 4: but the two throws did not work out. You know,
• 36:52
  Speaker 4: it would be a different story if Darnell Washington caught
• 36:55
  Speaker 4: that first one in the end zone. Rodgers comes right
• 36:57
  Speaker 4: back to him in Paris, which was great to see
• 37:00
  Speaker 4: on another note. But, yeah, I mean, the running game,
• 37:03
  Speaker 4: I think that could– I think that slow start as
• 37:07
  Speaker 4: far as getting into the end zone on the ground
• 37:08
  Speaker 4: is going to change now that this Spencer Anderson jumbo package–
• 37:12
  Speaker 4: has been rekindled for the Steelers. That should only help
• 37:15
  Speaker 4: when you get inside the 10, get inside the 5,
• 37:17
  Speaker 4: let alone at the goal line.
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: Let's get to another hit. How about the Steelers' tight
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: ends in 2026 through seven games? Pat Friermuth and Darnell Washington,
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: a combined in these seven games, 39 catches, 360 yards receiving,
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: and seven touchdowns in seven games. Muth has four touchdowns.
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: That leads the team. Darnell right behind him with three.
• 37:38
  Speaker 4: A little quiet in the last couple games has Pat been.
• 37:42
  Speaker 4: but he had two touchdown catches in that Colts game.
• 37:44
  Speaker 4: And obviously in these last two Darnell Washington has found
• 37:47
  Speaker 4: the end zone back to back. So, I mean, I think,
• 37:49
  Speaker 4: you know, we, we mentioned the stat yesterday about the
• 37:52
  Speaker 4: Steelers tight ends leading this team and in touchdown catches
• 37:56
  Speaker 4: speaks a lot to the trust that Aaron Rogers has
• 37:58
  Speaker 4: in those guys when they get in close and then
• 38:01
  Speaker 4: just the nose for the end zone for Friar Muth in,
• 38:03
  Speaker 4: in Washington.
• 38:04
  Speaker 3: And we, we mentioned it yesterday.
• 38:06
  Speaker 4: I mean, Darnell Washington's kind of a cheat code when,
• 38:08
  Speaker 4: when you get it, like I can remember years past,
• 38:11
  Speaker 4: you know, it's, even his second or third year.
• 38:14
  Speaker 3: In the league, at training camp.
• 38:17
  Speaker 4: Guys like Myles Killebrew just bouncing off of him like
• 38:19
  Speaker 4: a bowling ball when they throw that jump ball in
• 38:21
  Speaker 4: the end zone. If he doesn't always catch it, he's
• 38:23
  Speaker 4: at least probably going to get a DP high call,
• 38:25
  Speaker 4: and then you're going to be at the one-yard line,
• 38:27
  Speaker 4: and you can hopefully push it in from there.
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: Thinking back six months ago, of course, in the offseason,
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: Brian and I have to get very creative. Hopefully you listened.
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: We did the March Madness basketball team. We had Darnell
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: Washington on there, didn't we?
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: I believe we did. I don't have the record in
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: the archives here. As a big man pulling down rebounds, yes.
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: He'd probably be your first-round draft pick when it comes to–
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: if you're drafting current Steelers.
• 38:49
  Speaker 3: Onto a basketball team. He might have been.
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: Had to be.
• 38:51
  Speaker 3: He might have been.
• 38:51
  Speaker 4: But although Pat Frymuth was a good hooper too, so
• 38:54
  Speaker 4: was Spencer Anderson actually.
• 38:55
  Speaker 3: We talked about that. What a girth on the inside there.
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: I think you drafted Spencer Anderson, and I looked at
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: you and said, why? And then you went through his
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: whole high school career.
• 39:05
  Speaker 4: It might have been Ben Skoranek, because I think I
• 39:07
  Speaker 4: snubbed Spencer Anderson initially. So yeah, interestingly enough here, since
• 39:14
  Speaker 4: the Cleveland games, these last four weeks, and actually five
• 39:18
  Speaker 4: of seven games this year, a Steelers tight end has
• 39:21
  Speaker 4: caught a touchdown.
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: Great stat.
• 39:23
  Speaker 4: It's a four-game streak at the moment. Either Friar Muth
• 39:26
  Speaker 4: or Darnell Washington has found the end zone they both
• 39:28
  Speaker 4: did in the first Cleveland game.
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: Forget about Matt's stats. We got Batko's stats.
• 39:32
  Speaker 3: Bat's stats.
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: And Troop and Bat's stats. Whoa, wait a minute. Hold on.
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: Somebody call up my friends at Steelers.com. Matt, I'm so sorry.
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: We love you, but we have a new one.
• 39:42
  Speaker 4: No, I can't begin to throw out the amount of
• 39:45
  Speaker 4: numbers that Matt Williamson does.
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: The great Matt Williamson, which, by the way, programming note,
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: I think we're going to get Matt on the show
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: next week. So Matt's going to be making his 2026
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: Steelers report debut with us. So we're going to have
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: him on as a guest next week. Okay, let's get
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: back to another hit. No, we just did a hit.
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: Let's get another miss. Steelers sack totals so far this
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: season in seven games. Just 18 so far. They had
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: a total of 48 last season. So if you do
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: the math, Brian, they're still kind of on track to
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: get to that number. But take out the Tampa game.
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: If you look at the stats per game, the last
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: handful of games, they had five, I think, against Tampa.
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: But outside of that, it's only been one or two
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: here or there. Maybe it's scheme. I know they play
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: a lot more zone. Hey, look, they're getting it done.
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: They're No. 6 overall in the NFL. They're No. 5
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: for points per game with 19 sets. 19.7 given up.
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: Number 7 against the run. Number 6 against total yards.
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: Number 11 against the pass. This is a Patrick Graham
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: top 5 defense, really, when you think about it. So
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: maybe it's just a different time period for the Steelers.
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: They were Blitzburg and they had these high sack numbers
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: for so long. I don't know. Maybe we're changing a
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: bit there.
• 40:50
  Speaker 4: I think that there's reason to believe that they'll get
• 40:53
  Speaker 4: an uptick in that, mainly because of the blitzing lately
• 40:56
  Speaker 4: from Jalen Ramsey, Patrick Queen. I think those two guys
• 41:00
  Speaker 4: are probably your your best two blitzers on the back end,
• 41:04
  Speaker 4: but Peyton Wilson can do it. You know, he's got
• 41:06
  Speaker 4: at least one sack this year that, that I remember
• 41:09
  Speaker 4: off the top of my head.
• 41:10
  Speaker 3: I think Deshaun Elliott can, can do that.
• 41:13
  Speaker 4: Once he gets truly back into the flow of things,
• 41:16
  Speaker 4: you know, he played a handful of snaps out there in,
• 41:18
  Speaker 4: in France. So hopefully there's more, more to come down
• 41:22
  Speaker 4: the line for Deshaun Elliott after his 19 snaps, he
• 41:24
  Speaker 4: was on the field for the Peyton Wilson interception. I
• 41:27
  Speaker 4: know that much, but I think, They do have some
• 41:30
  Speaker 4: pieces who can come on the blitz and help you
• 41:33
  Speaker 4: manufacture laying down the quarterback that way, even if it's
• 41:37
  Speaker 4: not always T.J. Watt, Alex Highsmith, Nick Herbig. Cam Hayward
• 41:41
  Speaker 4: with one sack so far this year. I feel like
• 41:43
  Speaker 4: he's going to hit his stride there. And Keanu Benton,
• 41:46
  Speaker 4: he's going to get off the schneid eventually. I mean,
• 41:47
  Speaker 4: he's too good of a pass rusher to be stuck
• 41:49
  Speaker 4: at zero sacks for too long.
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: Benton and Hayward making impacts even off the stat sheet, though.
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: If you watch this defense play, they've been involved in
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: some batted-down passes, stopping the run. That defensive line playing
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: very well so far this season. For the black and gold,
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: let's get to another hit.
• 42:06
  Speaker 3: T.J.
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: Watt on Sunday, he had a sack, a tackle for loss,
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: two quarterback hits, and he should have had that fumble recovery.
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: Watt leads the Steelers with five and a half sacks,
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: speaking of sacks, and seven tackle for losses. I'm getting
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: choked up. I'm so moved by T.J. Watt so far
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: this year. Two pass deflections, an interception, a touchdown, a
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: forced fumble, a fumble recovery on the 2026 season. Boy,
• 42:27
  Speaker 2: it was nice to see 90 make some splash plays
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: this past week.
• 42:30
  Speaker 4: No doubt, and he tends to play very, very well
• 42:34
  Speaker 4: against the Cleveland Browns, so he's got that going for him.
• 42:38
  Speaker 4: Now they come to his house, and more often than not,
• 42:42
  Speaker 4: he finds a way to get to the QB. That's
• 42:44
  Speaker 4: why it was surprising that they didn't do much more
• 42:48
  Speaker 4: damage than they did on Deshaun Watson in that first
• 42:51
  Speaker 4: matchup when they had two sacks with one of those
• 42:54
  Speaker 4: coming from T.J.
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: Watt.
• 42:55
  Speaker 3: I wouldn't be surprised to see him get two sacks
• 42:57
  Speaker 3: himself on Sunday, Ed.
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: Our last miss of the day, and we already alluded
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: to this to open the show, the Browns' last one
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: in Pittsburgh during a regular season game on October 5, 2003.
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: That was a 33-13 game, Browns win. That was 23
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: years ago. The Steelers would be swept by the Browns
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: for the first time if the Browns win this game
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: on Sunday since 1988. That's 38 years ago, so this
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: is a potential miss. Not a miss yet, Brian, but
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: if they lose this game on Sunday, the Browns will
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: have cracked that code.
• 43:27
  Speaker 3: It would be a strange world to live in to
• 43:31
  Speaker 3: see that.
• 43:31
  Speaker 2: It would be a long two weeks into the bye week.
• 43:34
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you're right. But maybe good radio for us, though.
• 43:36
  Speaker 3: It would leave a bitter taste.
• 43:37
  Speaker 4: It would leave a bitter taste in the Steelers' mouth
• 43:40
  Speaker 4: if that happens.
• 43:41
  Speaker 3: But you got to just.
• 43:43
  Speaker 4: I think there's a fine line to walk between letting
• 43:45
  Speaker 4: that first game against Cleveland and that loss, especially the
• 43:48
  Speaker 4: way that it went down, motivate you versus not letting
• 43:52
  Speaker 4: it linger and fester. Like, you can't go out there
• 43:55
  Speaker 4: pressing is probably the bottom line for me there. I mean,
• 43:59
  Speaker 4: you got to just wipe the slate clean of that,
• 44:01
  Speaker 4: correct what went wrong, but also... Come in there with
• 44:05
  Speaker 4: a fresh state of mind. Don't let the Browns beat
• 44:07
  Speaker 4: you twice as far as that one game. Don't let
• 44:10
  Speaker 4: that game beat you twice is maybe a good way
• 44:13
  Speaker 4: to look at it.
• 44:14
  Speaker 2: When I say good radio, I mean good. I mean,
• 44:16
  Speaker 2: easier topics to talk about. When the Steelers come off
• 44:18
  Speaker 2: of a loss, we have lots to digest. When they
• 44:20
  Speaker 2: come off a win, we're happy. So I'd rather be
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: happy than have lots to digest, Brian. Let's get the
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: win on Sunday. All right, last one of the day,
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: and we will end with this. Jalen Ramsey, 2026 season,
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: 44 tackles, two sacks, five tackle for losses, two pass deflections,
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: a forced fumble. He added seven more tackles this past
• 44:37
  Speaker 2: week against the Saints. Jalen Ramsey, still a shining star
• 44:41
  Speaker 2: in this defense.
• 44:42
  Speaker 4: Not sure about his coverage in this most recent game
• 44:45
  Speaker 4: against the saints gets, gets, I didn't notice gets beat.
• 44:48
  Speaker 3: Into the end zone by Devon valet.
• 44:50
  Speaker 2: Oh, it was him on that coverage on touchdown.
• 44:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 44:53
  Speaker 2: I didn't know that.
• 44:54
  Speaker 4: So I think, you know, the Steelers did play it
• 44:56
  Speaker 4: pretty soft and you know, that doesn't really help any
• 44:58
  Speaker 4: of the corners with the PBUs, but yeah, I still
• 45:01
  Speaker 4: think overall Patrick Graham getting a lot out of Jalen
• 45:05
  Speaker 4: Ramsey and kind of a new look position for him. Uh,
• 45:09
  Speaker 4: we'll see if they tighten things up on the back end.
• 45:11
  Speaker 4: I mean, that was a Saints team that you made
• 45:13
  Speaker 4: them one-dimensional. They throw the ball a lot. They kept
• 45:16
  Speaker 4: it in front of them. They still only give up
• 45:17
  Speaker 4: 10 points. You'll take that at the end of the
• 45:19
  Speaker 4: day every time.
• 45:20
  Speaker 2: Whenever we come back, Chris Carter from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: will be joining Double B and myself. This is the
• 45:26
  Speaker 2: Steelers Report with Troop Mbako on Steelers Nation Radio, part
• 45:29
  Speaker 2: of the Steelers Audio Network.