Lattimore is out for Sunday, but that might be okay

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Grant and Danny discuss why the Commanders might be just fine without Marshon Lattimore matching up with this Steelers offense.

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00:00In that game, Washington will not have Marshawn Lattimore.

00:02They acquired him at the trade deadline on Tuesday.

00:06There was hope that despite having a hamstring injury that kept him out of

00:09last week's game for the Saints, he was gonna magically heal,

00:12leaving the bad team that he was at odds with,

00:14coming to the good team that he's happy to be on.

00:17But the hamstring's actually legitimately not quite right,

00:19sparking it seems like.

00:20He did not practice again today, and so he will be out.

00:23My logic on that is, if they lose to the Steelers,

00:28it will not be because they got eaten up by wide receivers.

00:32This is not a game to me that will hinge on corner play on the outside necessarily.

00:37Marshawn Lattimore will help, and in any game, you're better off having better

00:41players, but I look at the Steelers passing game, and even when it's good,

00:47it's kind of George Pickens and not a lot else, right?

00:51Pickens is the type of guy that Benjamin St.

00:53Joost is a more favorable matchup for, and he'll beat St.

00:57Joost some.

00:57He's a good player.

00:58He was, high draft pick has become a really nice weapon for them.

01:03I don't like St. Joost against A.

01:04Flowers.

01:05I don't like St.

01:06Joost against the twitchy guy with the wiggle who's shifty and diminutive.

01:11But when he goes up against another big fella that's long,

01:14he can get his hands on like Pickens.

01:15I think that's a much better matchup.

01:17So I'm okay with him against Pickens this week,

01:21taking your chances with like Calvin Austin, who is that smaller guy who maybe

01:24chews them up here or there as a number two against San Rostil and Ibn Agni.

01:30When I really need Lattimore is that Eagles game when you're dealing with

01:34A.J. Brown and Devante Smith, a wide receiver game, a game where

01:39the personnel becomes a lot more problematic for

01:42what this defense is built to do right now.

01:43No, I will say passing totals have not been huge and

01:47receiving totals obviously follow that for Pittsburgh.

01:51Because the first six games,

01:52it was more the Justin Fields run and gun type show, right?

01:55Where he's running around, they're making plays and

01:58the occasional bomb here and there.

01:59But for the most part, business has picked up the last couple of weeks.

02:02Russell Wilson throwing for over 270 yards per game.

02:05And I think some of the stats are gonna follow along with that,

02:07the longer he ends up being a quarterback for this passing game.

02:11So I'm a little more worried about it than you are.

02:12Cuz I think Pickens has some of that,

02:14obviously not quite the same caliber player.

02:16I'm not putting him in this class.

02:17But he's got some of that DeAndre Hopkins game where he's not as fast as you'd

02:21think, not as explosive, not like a big bulking Hulk like a Mike Williams or

02:25somebody.

02:25But he's someone that runs great routes, is very crisp, has good footwork,

02:29toe taps on the sideline, I feel like he's dangerous.

02:31And you mentioned Austin kind of running and

02:33being a predator underneath, kind of keeping them off balance.

02:36So to me, this is a Pittsburgh offense that we're thinking about them

02:40through a lens of 75% of their season.

02:42I think we need to look at them more what they've been the last couple of weeks,

02:45where they've been a bit more prolific throwing the football.

02:47So I'm a bit more nervous about that part, I think, than you are.

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