00:00Yeah, great play there by Bijan.
00:01Great blocking on the perimeter.
00:03And that's what we talked about late last week was like,
00:06they're going to do a lot of screen game stuff.
00:09I didn't know it was going to be only screen game stuff for the most part,
00:12but that's pretty much all they could do.
00:15Bijan, 21 carries, 10 targets, 170 yards in total, a touchdown.
00:22And thank God you got him.
00:24Yeah, man.
00:24Otherwise, I don't know what they would have done.
00:25Yeah, I mean, like I said, he played his ass off, man.
00:28I know the uncharacteristic of the two fumbles.
00:31One, I thought he should have pressed the hole a little bit more,
00:33but I know he saw the color on that back side.
00:36But, yeah, I just thought, you know, just overall,
00:38you got a third-string quarterback who's banged up probably with the back.
00:42And that just limits everything you can do.
00:45And, I mean, and you saw a lot of that.
00:48Again, we talked about the interception.
00:49You just do it too damn much.
00:50Take some grass and get down.
00:52Take some grass and get down.
00:53Offensive line, I mean, they're professionals.
00:55They understand because I think this is a strength of this team.
00:59And you can't – and I understand that front for Pittsburgh, they are hellacious.
01:02They are.
01:02Especially when 90 is going.
01:06He's a force multiple.
01:07He makes everybody around you good, man,
01:08because you got to spend so much time worried about him.
01:10And then you got Highsmith on the other damn side.
01:12Yeah.
01:12I mean, they just – and then Cam, still, we talked about him Friday,
01:15still playing at a damn All-Pro.
01:17He made the All-Pro last year.
01:18He batted down four passes.
01:20Yeah.
01:20And I was in the car.
01:21I had to make a run at halftime.
01:22I mean, I heard Art said we're talking about the batted balls of Cooper Rush
01:27and everything.
01:28He had balls batted in preseason.
01:29You know, and so –
01:30He's not like a short guy.
01:31No, he's not.
01:32But he has like a short guy release.
01:35Okay.
01:35Yeah.
01:35It seems like to me.
01:36Well, it seems like there's kind of two things working against him there.
01:39Like, obviously, Mike McCarthy knows that.
01:42Like, he coached him.
01:43Knows some of the stuff beyond just the limitations that he's got physically.
01:47Like, some of the little quirks about his game.
01:50And then they have Cameron Hayward and T.J. Watt, who lead the NFL
01:54and passes defended at the line one and two in the NFL over the last five years.
01:59So, those guys do that anyway.
02:01Like, they're great at that anyway.
02:03You combine that with the fact that you're not going down the field
02:06because he can't throw it.
02:08Uh-huh.
02:09And eventually, T.J. Watt was like, you know what's better than knocking these down?
02:13Let me just snatch one of them.
02:15Yeah.
02:15And they chipped him and blocked him on that play.
02:17Like, they defended him pretty well on the play.
02:20But he jumped up and snatched it.
02:22Cooper Rush said he never saw him, which –
02:23He didn't.
02:24I don't doubt.
02:25Yeah.
02:25It was a hell of a play, man.
02:26And then it was in the end zone.
02:27It was a hell of a damn play by him, man.
02:28Hit the Dion on him, too.
02:30Yeah, dog.
02:30But you know what it looked like, Andy?
02:32It looked like – you know when the one thing I hate,
02:35it just drives me freaking crazy when the defense gets an interception
02:38and then everybody runs to the end zone to celebrate.
02:41That's what it looked like.
02:42I wasn't sure if he got tagged.
02:43Right.
02:43I wasn't sure if he got tagged.
02:44It seemed like he almost did.
02:45He almost did.
02:46Lindstrom almost got him.
02:47He did, but then he got up.
02:49And then Dijon kind of got clipped by his own guy trying to get him.
02:52Yeah, I thought –
02:52Yeah, he was up.
02:53I thought he was – he almost had – but I'll tell you this, though.
02:56The defensive line – we talked about this.
02:58I think they're better, man.
03:00Because I'm telling you, Mason Smith played his ass off.
03:02Played great.
03:02He played really, really good.
03:03Darius Smith played great.
03:05Darius, yes, two sacks.
03:06I don't think he only played like 15, 16 plays.
03:08I thought he played really good.
03:09Cameron Thomas, I mean, just covering down, man.
03:12Yep.
03:12Just finishing to the play.
03:13Diablo getting on the ball.
03:14Diablo looked like he's something wrong.
03:16That don't – no, he's a lot – he looks sluggish to me.
03:19Mm-hmm.
03:20To me.
03:21And they could be playing a lot of plays, all these different things,
03:23but I think I'm going to run more plays than them anyways.
03:26But, yeah, them just covering down, doing all those different things.
03:30Kendall Daniels had a nice big hit.
03:32I mean, they played really good.
03:34Now, the pass rush still wasn't what it needed to be,
03:36but we understand where it was going to be.
03:37Shout out to Zed Darius.
03:39You know, two sacks yesterday.
03:42So, you saw some – there were some good things.
03:44Good Jesse – I thought Jesse Bates played his ass off.
03:46Jesse Bates was everywhere yesterday, but he played really, really good.
03:50Xavier has got to realize he's a big man.
03:52He's a big man, and you're a little guy.
03:54You know, and so there's a Watt tattoo on the Pittsburgh grass right now.
03:58You know what I mean?
03:59That's a big man.
04:00You're not.
04:00I applaud you for trying to go up – run up on that big joker.
04:04Yeah, he got it.
04:05Yeah, that's a big man.
04:08That's a big man.
04:11With all those screens, I would have liked to have seen them if you're going to do that.
04:15You're talking about the Darnell stiff arm?
04:16Yeah.
04:17Yeah.
04:17But, you know, offensively, if you're going to do all those screens,
04:20talking about the Falcons, why couldn't Zachariah get at least two of them?
04:23Yeah, I don't know.
04:23Why couldn't Kyle get one of them?
04:24Yeah, Kyle, like something, like a runner screen, like, you know, T.J. Watt is one –
04:30he's one of the hardest people to screen off of, period,
04:33because he's so damn smart he can understand light.
04:35So, but, yeah, trying to tight end screen or something to Kyle.
04:38You know, on the third downs, Cooper, bam, throw it.
04:41You know, let it go on one of the sacks.
04:43Let it go.
04:44Just bang it on Kyle.
04:45Yeah, I know.
04:45And then I saw a retweet that Joe Patrick tweeted this morning talking about,
04:49still play the whole game in zone.
04:51The whole game.
04:51The whole game in zone.
04:52Why would I play man?
04:54Why would I risk the fact of turning my back and Bizarre
04:56and catching a little check down and out the gate?
04:58Yeah, I'm going to keep everything in front of us.
05:00You know, nothing – he can't beat us over the top.
05:02We're not worried about any of that.
05:04No, he literally can't.
05:05Yeah, we're not worried about that.
05:05Because they had one play.
05:06I mean, they dialed up the one and Kyle won.
05:08Yep.
05:09He beat Ramsey off the line.
05:10And he was – I don't know if it's a touchdown if he puts it in front of him.
05:12Oh, no, it's a touchdown.
05:13But it might be.
05:14I mean, it's a huge gain if he puts it in front of him.
05:17And it throws him by 10 yards, and Ramsey's able to make up the distance
05:21and deflects the ball.
05:22And that's it.
05:23That's the only pass.
05:23Now, maybe one or two of those deflected balls might have been heading Kyle's way.
05:27I have no idea.
05:27That's the crazy thing about it.
05:29Yeah, man.
05:30Some injury news because he didn't leave the game.
05:31Deshaun Hand has a torn quad.
05:33He's out for the season.
05:34So, obviously, we'll see what moves they make for that one.
05:37Lindstrom came out of the game, too.
05:37And Lindstrom had a concussion.
05:38And so, yeah, obviously, he's going to be in the protocol this week.
05:42But, I mean, the only good sign, whatever,
05:45I thought the defensive line, outside just the pass, I thought they played good.
05:49I really did.
05:49I thought they played good.
05:50And you could just look at them on TV and see they are big.
05:53I thought the defense in general tackled well.
05:55They did.
05:56Again, there was a couple lucky ones where if DK makes the catch
06:00or Aaron hits the guy, there was a lot of rust on that offense.
06:03And maybe the offense just isn't going to be good.
06:04They can't run the ball.
06:05They can't run the ball.
06:06Yeah, Pittsburgh can't run the ball.
06:07And, again, to the Falcons' defense for being able to do that.
06:10For Aaron to throw the ball 40 times, that's not what they want.
06:13That's not what they want.
06:13That's definitely not what they want.
06:14And, again, that's what makes the whole thing frustrating is, like,
06:19there was still an opportunity given just how incapable the offense was
06:26because of the quarterback play to win the game if you make a couple more field goals
06:30and don't throw that pick six and just don't, you know.
06:33Even the first interception led immediately to points, too.
06:35Like, all of their points came off turnovers.
06:38Yeah.
06:38And that's how you're supposed to do it.
06:39Defense, take the ball away.
06:40Let's go score.
06:41Yeah, you just can't turn the ball over when you're – I mean, again,
06:45that's easier said than done.
06:46But Cooper Rush just has to – especially that first one, you just can't throw that.
06:50Yeah, you can't.
06:50The second one, look, one of the best players in the NFL made a great play.
06:55Yeah, he made an outstanding individual effort.
06:57But I think, you know, again, first one, play was designed.
07:00They were trying to get Drake the ball, and it wasn't there.
07:03Okay, you scan back, looking for the back.
07:04The back's blocking.
07:05You got to run or, like you said, throw it all.
07:09You can't – you don't – that's not your game.
07:11You just don't do that.
07:12That's not your game.
07:13Yeah.
07:13And then –
07:14Now the hard part is, and we've got all week to figure it out.
07:16Hopefully we know by the time we talk to Stefanski on Thursday.
07:19I hate the fact that we talk all week Thursday.
07:22Oh, I'm glad.
07:23I'm thinking to figure some stuff out first.
07:25Yeah, let's do it today.
07:26But if we ask him today, it's just going to be all we don't know.
07:28Let's debrief the game, and then we go.
07:30Yeah, it is kind of weird.
07:32You're already in a day.
07:32You're far enough away from the game where it's hard to ask about the last game.
07:36Yeah, I don't know.
07:37I just – maybe – I'm hopeful.
07:38Here's why I'm glad it's Thursday this week.
07:40Hopefully they know that Michael Penix is healthy by then
07:44because that would be a lot more fun to talk about
07:47than trying to talk about Cooper Rush being a quarterback.
07:49What time is the thing – what time is the – it's at noon?
07:53Okay.
07:53So we should know something in about 30 minutes.
07:56Maybe.
07:57Oh, it's 3.
07:57Oh, 3.
07:58Okay.
07:59Huh?
07:59Oh, the press conference is at 3.
08:00Oh, the press conference today is at 3.
08:01Okay.
08:02All right.
08:02Noon Thursday.
08:03Noon Thursday.
08:03Yeah, I know that.
08:043 today.
08:04Yeah, yeah.
08:04Got it.
08:05Okay.
08:05Okay.
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