“Victory Formation” Pittsburgh Steelers Vs Vikings Week 4 Game Preview ( @ReallyFlawed )

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And then the way that you got on me last show, I’m just like, “Yep, I don’t want no problems, okay? I am your friend, okay? We we’re together. It’s so like we That is so funny. It’s so funny too because I’m like after the show I kid you not. So I watched the replay, right? And then I’m like in your comment section being extremely petty and then when I tagged you on the time I was like why did he look how did why did he see my tag on this timestamp? I was like why? I said she really didn’t time stamp me, bro. Like time. This is wild, man. Hold on. But how is everything? My hair is looking a mess today. Oh my god. Stop it. Listen. Give me five minutes. Let me get myself together. Listen, listen, listen. The the I’ve told you the the the faces that come with this show, the the the apparel, the appearances, nothing. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Even on your worst day, you’re going to be a major jump. I still like hair going everywhere. Like I’m just going to show up like Yeah. Listen, this morning, this video recap, okay, it’s going to be around like 11 my time. I’ll be frustrated no matter what cuz I’ll be tired. So, I might show it with my hair all over my head. Okay. My favorite movie is The Lion King. So, I’m going for like a Mufasaish type of period. That’s what I in my reaction video. But How are you? I’m so happy to be here, dude. I’m so happy to have you here. Like I said, it is a beautiful Thursday and we get a chance to talk ball. It’s victory formation time. And like I said, I’ve been waiting all week. You know, I watch the tape. I come with my notes and I’m like, I’m not talking about this game until I talk to Tanisha. I’m not giving until I talk and I’ll be over just like, but you see this and this this this and I got these like, but I got to not until I talk to Tanisha. So now that you here, let’s go. I’m so excited. So what they say? What they say? Since I already see them showing you all the PhD love in the chat. Hello chat. I’m sorry. My bad. Okay. Hello chat. Thank you. I’m so happy to see all of you here. Thank you so much. You’re amazing. Thank you. There it is. There it is. Hey, I’m glad that you’re still back supporting Moes after after what happened on Tuesday. See, you all are his real supporters. I I respect you. I respect that. And and and they they like you. I’ll be over here like, “Look, guys. All right. She gonna keep coming back. All right. She’ll be back. She’ll be back. I promise she coming back.” Okay. So, I appreciate you. So, now that’s why they they like, “Yeah, we only stayed for you.” So, here we are. All right. Close out the show. You know what I mean? Absolutely. But ladies, first, how you feeling about this weekend Vikings match up? What you like about them? Let’s start there, right? What you think they do really well? So, what I the oh god I I feel like I said this last week, but what I know about the Vikings changes every week because the first week I thought they looked absolutely terrible against Chicago in the first half. Then they come back and win the game. Okay, cool. Then the next week they look absolutely awful against the Falcons and then they lose the game and then the next week they don’t have their quarterback and the Bengals can’t hold on to the football and then so the and then the game blows up. So, there’s this weird dynamic where I’m like, what what do I think about them? There’s some things I know about them to be true. They are the third highest penalized team in the NFL right now. I like when you do that. I like when you do that. Like, that is something I am thinking about right now because they are a very highly penalized team. And I think when you play us, we all know how we win, right? We win ugly. we win because you can’t quite get your crap together and we’re going to have a little bit more together than you are and so we’re going to win. And so seeing that they’re the most penalized team was something that popped out at me. Obviously seeing that they’re playing with like their backup quarterback is a thing. The only thing that I will say that worries me about them though is we have given up a lot of explosive plays on defense and literally if I was a quarterback I would just throw it to JJ and see if he can catch it like at this point because why not? And so that’s kind of like the weirdness I’m working with is is that and then I know they have their running their starting running back is out also. So now they have a backup running back. So it’s like what do I know about the real Vikings team as opposed to this iteration of the Vikings team is kind of two different things because I think that they are being impacted by those penalties. I mean they I think they already have like a hundred penalties or something stupid. Um and it’s week four. Like that’s that’s kind of crazy when you really think about it. And so for me, I think it’s going to come down to Aaron Rogers versus Brian Flores. That’s kind of my that’s all I got. Like that’s kind of where I’m at. Like because I don’t know what else to call it in the middle because it’s not real because it’s like a a backup and then a this and then I don’t know what that means. So those those are my highle takes. What do you think? Let’s go. And I always appreciate you when you do that, man. when you start talking that talk because you hit all the right spots, right? Highly penalized for sure. And those are some of the things that do stand out when you’re talking about opponents facing the Steelers. We do a good job of not beating ourselves. And some people call that fluky, some people call that lucky, but at this level, it’s called execution. All of that matters. If you can only make explosive plays, but you can’t do the routine stuff, then you’re still onedimensional. Even though that one down the field stuff is sexy, it still isn’t going to get you out of these stadiums consistently. Right. When I look at the Vikings, obviously it starts with Justin Jefferson. We know offensively he is all world. And when you watch Kevin Oonnell, he does an excellent job schematically getting him the ball. The things that we complain about with Arthur Smith in terms of why don’t you just spam it right and get everything to DK. I understand Arthur Smith wants to be balanced. He wants to not be onedimensional. Kevin’s def uh Kevin Okonnell is not like that. He’s like, man, the first play, hey, scream. Hey, JJ. Hey. Second play, hey, you want to slant? Here, take that. Oh, it’s a trick play. Don’t worry about it, JJ. You’re going to throw it or you want to catch it. Either way, you’re going to be in this involved in some way. And you watch their quarterbacks. They also have that mindset. Watch Carson Wentz. As soon as he drop backs, the first guy he’s staring at is Justin Jefferson every single time. And when JJ is covered, that’s when you’ll see him struggle when he has to go off for that read. But the problem is Justin Jefferson in as a defense, you either have to completely sell out to stop that or you better pray that you know he get tired cuz he’s capable of really just taking off. And now when you insert Jordan Addison this week, that’s really where they can kind of get you in that bind so to speak. But we know quarterback matters. Carson Wentz, high pedigree dude, good player, but inconsistent, but somebody that you do got to take serious because of Justin Jefferson and Jordan Addison right now. Yeah. Now, O line is weird to me though. I like their O line versus the run, but I was about to say cuz what if I were to tell you that they’ve allowed more sacks through three games than we have? That was my other point. Yeah, that was my other thing is like they Yeah, the sacks 12 sacks allowed to our seven sacks allowed. Yeah, but but I know our O line is trash and and we can’t say anything positive about it. I know this, but I’m just like you do know that their quarterback has been sagged more it it’s two of them, right? Because it’s been it was it was uh JJ McCarthy first. He got with three sacks under his belt and then W got the rest. I’m like, god dang, bro. Y’all getting y’all getting beat up a little bit over here now. They yeah that and that and that’s one that’s interesting because it’s like the things like when we because okay because I when I look at this I try to look at the other team and then I kind of think about our team and I always try to find things and and that’s it. It’s like they’re technically right if we’re going by stats if we don’t want to go by stats then okay but if we’re going by stats technically their offensive line is worse than ours and technically they’re like they have more penalties than we do. So that tells me they’re moving the opposite direction more than we are. And in a game where we say their defenses will decide, right? Because if we just give defense a toss up or you can say their defense is better. I don’t even care at this point. That those little things those are impact plays. Like you can’t you can’t do anything about that. Like if you lose seven yards on a sack, you lose seven yards on a sack. Like there’s nothing you can do about that. Absolutely. And there’s still questions about the legit the legitimacy of it, right? I know everybody loves to discredit anything that we do, right? Hey man, you won but it was the Patriots. You won but it was the Jets. Hey, you won but it was because these turnovers. It’s like did you see who the Vikings played? The Bengals with Jake Browning. They had five turnovers. Four of them in the first half. Three turnovers in four plays. But did you also see that that turnover, the two that went to the house for touchdowns were 87 yards and 67 yards. What does that say? 87 yards means they’re on the 13 yardd line about to score. 67 yards mean they was on the 34 yard and high red zone. That means they’re moving the ball. That happened multiple times in that game. But I get it. I get it. You know, I get it. You got right. But I’m like, okay now. All right. Then I look at the other opponents. I’m like, Bears, how we feel about the Bears right now? Are we are we sure the Bears are great? Because outside of them beating Dallas, we haven’t seen the Bears look good. And there are legitimate questions about what is Dallas? We know defensively Dallas is trash right now and the Bears were able to have their best offensive performance against who? You catch what I’m saying? So yeah, I’m looking at it and then the team that and and I was about to say I was getting to them. You ready? Cuz that was the team that on paper we would have said, “Hey, through three games is the most complete up until what just happened to the Falcons? They played the Panthers this weekend and got whooped 30 to zero.” Right. A shut out. We haven’t got shut out all season. Right. I know we trashed though. I know. But that same Falcons team, that same Falcons team, you know how we said the Vikings are two and one, there are losses to the Falcons. You catch what I’m saying, Moose. Who told you we were trash? What are you doing right now? Because because every time every time we get up here, I’ll be looking in the comments at times and I’ll be optimistic and then they’ll fire me up. Moses is biased. You got to remember, he’s very biased because he played for the team. Mr. Rudy still signs him a check. So he he’s he’s he has to say these things, but they’re trash. You know, they not like that. He has to speak. I’m like, you know, I’m just this is what y’all be telling me. So I just be want to make sure that I speak the language that y’all speak when I communicate so we all on the same page. That’s all I want to do because I was told that our old line is the worst in the league. Our coach staff is the worst in the league. We’re the flukiest team in the league. And I’m like, well, what the heck are this team been, man? I’m like, why does he keep saying we’re trash? What is going on? Oh, see. Oh, see, you’re trying to lean into being a fan. Okay. You’re trying to whine. Oh, no. No, no, no, no, no, no. Are you ready? Are you ready? It’s not even that. This is This is my passive aggressiveness towards fans because at times I do get annoyed, but I don’t ever want to just like get at it. So, this is like my well, y’all told me this, but the facts say this, but you eyeball tell me this, but then I look at that and I see this. So, which one is it? Is it eyeball test? Is it dipper? Is it an like? because there are a lot of things that say that we’re not, you know, as bad as everybody be panicking and acting like it. So, I’m just like, you know, I was like just bring the parallels in. The Vikings, a lot of people around the league, a lot of people media wise, a lot of people fanwise are scared of this Vikings day. They’re like, yo, the Vikings and I’m like, have y’all been actually watching the Vikings and y’all just see what they did to the Cincinnati Bengals in terms of the end result and, you know, just kind of ran with it. I’m like, I told you it’s people telling them they should be worried about the Vikings like that. That’s why I’m like, do we even know how to watch football anymore? Like, do we even know like the things that matter? But I think but that’s what happens. That’s why I always say like if you just look at stats, right? If you just look at stats, the Steelers should be 0 and3. 0 and three. Absolutely. But that’s not how the game works. And I think that people just don’t Yeah. Everybody tells you what you should be worried about and so therefore we should be worried about it. And it’s like at the end of the day, if you are a fan of a team, you have to realize that winning isn’t just it’s not a straight line. It’s just like life. Life is not a straight line. Success isn’t a straight line. It es and flows and goes in and outs. The only thing is is everybody says you have to just keep getting up. And the Steelers keep doing what they need to do and they keep winning games. It’s like we can’t like take away their wins and act like they’re losing. They’re not losing. You’re like, you’re here. You off of this tangent. I’m like, okay, now we’re trash. Like, what has happened in the past two days? Like, I appreciate that because for sure, you know, I’m like, I’m over here like y’all at like the close a close win or a win that wasn’t beautiful enough and didn’t score enough. It’s like a loss. Like, no, that’s not how that works. No, that’s not how it works at all. You know, that’s not But but I told you I told you that we we whine because we don’t know. We only watch our team. We only know our team. We We watch our team and we’re like, “We don’t look perfect, so therefore that translates to trash.” Yes, that’s it. It doesn’t matter. It doesn’t matter. It’s It’s kind of It’s kind of wild. Um, you just got a new member. Shout out to him. Did you get a video ready for your new members? I I I have not just yet. But but for my members though, y’all know what y’all got though. Shantaquento 49. You know, I appreciate you joining the family. And more importantly, we’ll go to the room. Yes indeed. Yes indeed. That’s about the only video I got for him right there. All right. That’s about all I got. But yes indeed. That’s that’s what I’m saying. That’s what we on over here. We Yes indeed them. But but get let’s get back to this Vikings real quick. All right. Cuz we ain’t done with them just yet. All right. Now they do got some positive things. I ain’t going to act like you know it’s all sugar and sweet over there. Number one, the defense is going n us. Okay. Brian Flores, he is the wizard, right? I love his pre- snap disguises. To me, this week is really a difference of philosophies, right? You have one that’s going to try to overwhelm you with pre-nap disguises where they show you three different things and you’re guessing which one is which. Yeah. You got the other where it’s more static, but you have to stop or can you block the TJ Watt? Can you block the Cam Hayward, right? Can you win this oneonone? To me, this is going to be that interesting part. But when you watch, you know, Brian Flores in the way that they’ve had success last week specifically, they confused Jake Browning at times and forced him into turnovers. They also, very similar to how we attack the football, how we say, you watch Cole Hulcom, that first uh fumble that we caused versus Ramaj Stevenson. That wasn’t by accident. He’s attacking it. You watch the Vikings, Brian Flores, excellent defensive mind. He coaches that the exact same way and it showed up for multiple players. We know Isaiah Rogers was like the main main guy that benefited from it, but that was like the game of his life. He’s never had anything close to that. But you could just tell it’s taught because even later in the game, it’s another guy, same technique. And it’s like, okay, you know, those things are what they bring. So that is stuff that you have to be concerned about. But the beautiful thing is we don’t have Jake Brown in that quarterback. We got Aaron Rogers, right? And from experience playing against quarterbacks like Rogers, like Ben, like Brady, heck, even when it was Payton Manning with the Broncos, it’s so hard to confuse those guys because they’ve seen so much. So when you try to give, oh, I’m going to show three and then I’m going to go to cover two. It’s like, you know how many times they’ve seen that disguise? Like, you can’t trick them. And I think that that’s the part that kind of gives me a little bit more peace. But we got to protect it also because if you can’t protect now that’s when they really can’t have their way with you. But that was one of the things that definitely kind of was like all right I can see that being a little little freaky over there. Yeah. No, and that’s their strong suit, right? Is that defense even with JJ McCarthy, their strong suit is going to be that defense. And we know what that’s like. And we we we know what time it is. We know we And again though, we how do we win? What do people say? We win ugly. we win because of, you know, all the things. That is where this shows up, right? That is where it’s like we’re getting punched in the mouth. We’re not good enough. D. But then you look at the scoreboard and you’re like, they just kicked another field goal. That’s it. Okay. Like, yeah, they’re Yeah, they’re winning time of possession. Yeah, they’re getting all these yards. At the end of the day, they’re kicking field goals. And wait, we’re not even out of this. If we scored a touchdown right now, like, we could be ahead. I feel like it’s going to be like that. It’s going to be a little weird. That’s just who we are. We have to claim our identity. It’s just it’s not pretty. It just works. And I I don’t know what to say to that. Like I just don’t know what to say. I mean, I do things that aren’t pretty that just work. That’s what it is. Look, none of us like it because we all want control. We want to feel like, hey, I can box this and I know what this is every single week. I can guarantee it. And even if it’s not good enough, at least I know. Yeah. But we don’t know all the way. Sometimes we’re like, “Yo, this could be that lottery ticket in here. We really might have one of the ones.” And then sometimes we like, “All right, bro. I think this jo ain’t broken, man. It might be time to go get a new one.” All right. And what you call elite average, that’s that’s where we treading right now. But two and one would reflect that. Would reflect that. So, you know, here we are. That’s That’s How you feeling about this kicking situation, though? Cuz you know, Ba usually walking into the stadium with the biggest leg out and it’s like, bro, who want what? Yeah. You I don’t know if you you seen that kid last week. What did he do? 62 62 he had a 62 in week one he had a 59 and then he had a 51 in there uh in week two I’m like god broke who is you you know what we didn’t look at what is he on extra points is he one of those that’s making okay cuz you know there’s a couple of kickers that are like yeah they can’t kick points and because I know in the we were just watching somebody that was doing that you’re absolutely right it was we was just watching that did B. He hit the crazy one and Mr. Short whistle. He was struggling in the preseason kicking field goals. And so I think I think the other thing is too is that whenever you’re traveling outside of your element because they’ve never played on this field, not just our kicker, but their kicker either. Not just our players, but their players, too. I think that adds for an interesting dynamic because is this an open stadium? Is it an indoor stadium? It it it’s open. It’s open on green grass, but I don’t know what the weather is supposed to be at kickoff time cuz usually it’s like when they play in like the the London stadium, it’s always like rain or some type of like moisture out there and that always has an impact on it. But I’m not exactly sure what it’s supposed to be in Dublin. Okay. Shoot. I’m surprised you ain’t going out there in Dublin, too, man. Miss PhD. D what you do with us regular folk? You know what I mean? Just go stay with regular folk. I’m gonna be up with y’all frustrated as hell, literally. Yeah. So, yeah. So, so that’s kind of I I feel like the kicking game is either going to be a wash or somebody’s going to have the advantage because the weather will be we don’t know. The field is also going to be something no one really is used to. So, it’s going to be interesting to see like how that happens. And listen, I’m taking my guy over anybody’s. Okay? So, I don’t care what so and so has going on over there. Like, I’m taking my guy and my kicker. And even if they’re a wash, that’s still a win for us because remember, we’re terrible, right? So even if that’s a wash, then it’s like, okay, you got to beat us another way. And look, don’t you start being terrible. All right. All right. Uhuh. There’s only room for one negative on this show. Okay. For one negative. Okay. You got it. You got it. Okay. I’ll let you have it. Okay. I’m fair. I’m fair. And I don’t mind sharing. So you can have that for today. Maybe next week I’ll need it. So it’s fine. Only I can get negative at the end of the week after the good victim. I’m like, “You know what? I’m I’m upset now. I’m mad. I’m tired of this crap. Tired of this crap. I keep talking about it. You know, winning is so boring.” Yeah. It’s just Who gets Who gets excited for this type of stuff? Nobody wants to keep winning, man. We like it to lose. We want to talk about them real bad. All right. Real real bad. That’s awesome. Continuing on with this here, Vikings approach though, right? One of the things that I uh another thing that I do think will be something that we’ll be able to take advantage of, as much as they like to be explosive on offense, right? Take some of those down the field shots. And we know with Jordan Addison also being out there, they’re going to have even more incentive to throw it down the grass. They do put that offensive line in bad situations. The longer they’re having to protect on some of those double moves, even Cincinnati was able to really have success getting after the quarterback. Now granted, we said that game got out of hand because of the defensive touchdowns, but when you would look at some of those double moves or you’re trying to hold it to hunt that big down the grass play from Justin Jefferson, their O line was giving it up. They were getting beat. And that’s one of the things that I don’t think a lot of us obviously in Steelers Nation, but even leaguewide would look at the Bengals and feel like they have a better pass rush than we have in Pittsburgh. And that’s one of the things that when I look at how they were able to affect the passer, how they were able to affect Carson Wentz, I’m over here excited like, well now, okay, what happens when you’re when you’re not able to just stay comfortable and we force turnovers. We know that. That’s y’all saw last week. We force turnovers. That’s some of the stuff when we talk about the flow of the game and how that can change it. I look at that as one of those things for us that could really put it in our favor. Yeah. The other thing I like too, and I don’t know if any of this is true, this could just be my fandom talking. I like when my team gets to play a team, and this is for college and pros, after they’ve just ran somebody over. Oh, because for me, I feel like my team has had to be locked in. We were in it, like we’re it’s like it’s different versus when you just blow somebody out. How do you even assess your play after that? Yeah. How do you even go back to the drawing board and say, “Hey, this is what we need to get better at.” Because every single thing you did worked and the team just fell apart. And so for me like I like and I I kind of like too I don’t think we’ve seen the best of the Steel I don’t think we’ve seen the best of the Steelers defense. Yeah. I don’t think we’ve seen the best of anything in Pittsburgh right now except for Chris Boswell. I’ll give let me let me let me shout out to Bos. Bos, you do you. Um but otherwise I don’t feel like we’ve seen like our best offense. I don’t think we’ve seen our best running game for damn sure. Excuse my language, but we haven’t seen any we haven’t seen anything close to that. And same with this defense. like we haven’t seen anything that I think any of us would say that was our best like that was maybe a play, maybe a series, but nothing consistently. And I and that also makes me excited because we’re still working towards being that. And I love that. Not saying the Vikings don’t care, not saying they’re not working hard, but just in context like I like where we’re at right now. I like that we’re ready to fight at any moment because we’ve had to. Absolutely. And I would also to piggyback on what you just said, you think about how that Vikings game went. They didn’t even play in the fourth quarter, right? They quarter obviously WZ is the backup, but they had the other backup bit. Then then they take out all the receivers and it’s like who’s this receiver over here? Who’s this running back? So even from a mindset standpoint, you think about how our game ended. We were in this thing fighting a fight. We learned a lot about what Aaron Rogers handling pressure for us. We saw that, hey, Calvin Austin isn’t afraid of the moment. We learned that, hey, Nick Herby can close the door on you, right? So, those are certain things in terms of information for us that we were able to acquire that this Vikings team coming in here after that type of game. How do you feel as confident with that type of stuff? But the flip side is for them, if they feel more rested, that is something that could be a potential advantage. And it’s like, okay, well, goes back to our preseason conversation though, right? Rest versus rest. Yep. The only way you stay sharp playing football is by playing football. But at the same time, health is wealth in this league. So now we going to get a chance to see what that looks like also because we’re not necessarily ultra healthy per se, but we’ve been in fights and we feel like, yo, we’re hardened and we’re getting hardened, you know, as this thing is growing, getting a little bit more callous on us. Whereas it’s like, you know, you watch them. It’s like, hey man, y’all y’all had a nice little sweet little spot last week, man. Hey y’all. Y’all got to kick back for the whole second half, man. Not us. No, I think you’re also somebody said Weightman. You’re absolutely correct. My bad. Weightman also. Boss Weightman. Yes. Shout out to Shout. Fantastic. Absolutely. My bad. My bad. Thank you for that correction. And I I agree. And listen, this is this is football. Yeah. Show up and play. Like, show up and do your job. That’s all I ever ask. I’m not asking you to do anything crazy. I’m just asking you to show up and do your job. And that’s what we need to do is show up and do our job. And I don’t care what it looks like. Do I care what it looks like? No. During the game, when it’s after, then I can criticize it. But during the game, I don’t really care. Score one more point than the other team. Get the job done. That’s all we asking for. That’s it. That’s it. We’ll talk about it later. But get it done. Yeah. Well, no. No. I’ll be back on Tuesday to tell you what I really think. But or after the game, but say after the game, you’ll get a video. You know, you get a video. Who knows? you will get a video and my hair will be all over the place. So, everybody be ready for that for my hair to be everywhere. Um, but yeah, like and and I also think that I also this is it might sound like whatever, but so I do this thing and I say this in my pre my preview video for this game is I take the very best of a team and the very worst of a team and I throw it away because the chances of you always getting their best is rare and the chances of you always getting the worst of them is rare. So, I’m throwing all of that away. When I’m looking at this Vikings team, just what they are at their core and what they do well consistently. It’s it’s the defense and and that’s us, too. And so now So now you’re telling me it’s it’s go time. That’s what that means to me. That means to me that this offensive line has been challenged by the Steelers defensive line all for what now? Eight weeks total, including right. So, so now it’s time like I don’t I don’t care what your reasoning. I don’t care. It’s now time to show up that I don’t know what else to say. Like that’s it. Like that’s the case. Like show up. And I like your approach to that too. Throw out the worst, throw out the best cuz it’s probably in the middle somewhere, right? See, if more people had PhDs, we could all be thinking like that because not everybody thinks like that. Most people look at whatever was the best situation and they just going to roll with that and just stick with that. You’re like, you know, they don’t what they did to say that that’s not what they do every week, right? But for some people, they like, yo, that’s them. That’s all we know. And others look at that Falcons like, yo, they lost to them. Ah, they trash. He’s like, no, no, no, no. There some context in there. Some context in there, man. So, I like that right there, though. Shout out to you. All right. Shout out. Now, I got a couple matchups, though. Got a couple match up. Okay, before your matchups, can you super chat? Your super chat? All right. Oh, this this is why we need each other. All right. You be keeping me on my toes. You be keeping me on where I need to be at, though. And shout out to tons of fun also. All right. I like that. And shout out to Patrick. I was a big fan of Patrick. He says, “Thank you for taking the time to break down the play I mentioned in the comments on the PQ video. Salute to you.” So, for those that don’t know what he’s talking about, dropped a couple of uh film session videos, some for the public, some for the members, but for Patrick Queen, did a couple of plays with him and Tons of Fun had asked specifically about the fourth and one toss play. Um it was that second quarter about 955 left in the uh in the second quarter where Kohoka misses the tackle and they get the first down. So basically broke down, you know, how PQ could have done a little bit different angle to it, but oh, I mean, unblack players got to make tackles and that’s 55 on that one, but he already knows that and 5’5 gonna make that tackle next time. But yeah, shout out to you though. Tons of fun. I appreciate the support, man. And then uh let’s see. We got the bro. Oh, bro, you’ve been over you showing out. All right. You calling in today, Tanisha Pier all say you get you giving me weather reports and everything. I I like your style though. I I ain’t tripping. Average temperature in Dublin 64 degrees in September and a little rain. They’re like, “When do we start getting full weather reports like this?” My man’s like, “Yo, what time is the sunrise? Can I get the sunset with that as well? And and what’s the precipitation? I I want the percentage to be sure. Okay, man. You are wild. That all right. I see what’s going on here. I see this. I appreciate Thank you. Thank you for the info. I very much appreciate it. It helps me.” I was like, “Yo, you really gave us the weather report. I like energy, baby. I appreciate you. All right. Hey, you cool with me. All right. Okay. No one say you cool with me. Yeah. I like that. Let’s go. Let’s go. I can’t wait to hear your matchups, by the way. So, so can can we just say cuz I don’t think we’ve ever said like how we kind of decided to construct the show. So, I’m here to give Okay. So, I’m here to give like my my thoughts, what I think, how I’m feeling, and what I can kind of research, get in the data, because that’s what I do. I like obviously I like researching. I like getting in the data and I like finding things that maybe people won’t talk about because a lot of people talk about like the main things but not a lot of people like kind of go down and talk about other things. So that’s what I am here to do. However, Moes because he’s a former NFL player and everybody knows who he is and everybody wants his name, autograph, picture, all of those things and they love every single thing about him and you guys show up for him only. Um he is here to give us like the football stuff. So, the matchups and the things that he’s looking forward to and the things that he’s noticed watching film and studying the way he studies because I don’t watch film and he does. So, just in case you were wondering kind of like how this is structured and why we talk about different things, it is because all I do is research because I have a PhD, but it’s Arthur Moes that really is bringing like the meat and potatoes here. And so, I’m just calling that out so that we all know. Okay, I set the stage for you. It’s on you. Are you are you finished? Are you finished? It’s on you. Whenever you’re ready. I just I need to know. They need to understand like my role. I’m just like I’m kind of like the icing. Okay. I just like the icing. Like you need the icing. You want the icing. It’s so good. Right. It’s so good. Icing is bomb, right? Like the cake. This is the cake part of this. Okay. So, I’m just I’m just helping them to understand. So, I’m setting you up. Like, I’m setting you up so you can have the floor. So, go ahead. They’re all here for you. It’s not even like that. All right. It’s not even like that. Okay. Just Okay. I Why you acting like that? All right. I’m just here. Everybody understands. Okay. I’m just a YouTuber. I got a little Just got I’m just a YouTuber. That’s all I am. All right. Nothing more at the less YouTuber. Okay. Jeez. But during my time away from being a YouTuber, okay, and not all this other stuff she’s talking about, don’t nobody be looking for me, worried about me at all. All right. For sure. Just regular guy. I’m just telling you what I know. I’m just telling you what. Just regular guy. For sure. Regular guy. But there were some matchups, some things that, you know, did kind of come across to me that I’m like, you know what? I do think that this could, you know, swing the the pendulum, so to speak, man. One way or the other. And the first one to me has to start with their left guard. And it’s not the it’s not the first rounder either. Donovan Jackson was the first rounder that they just drafted, but he’s hurt. He’s out. They’re going to be going with Joe Huber. All right, that’s their left guard going to be replacing him. And why is that important? Because he has to face killer Cam Hayward. And Cam has a long track record of not just destroying people, but destroying people that aren’t, as T likes to call them, starters. But to me, not only is this important, it’s important because it can help make them one-dimensional. You look at their run game, they do a really good job of moving people in terms of the run blocking part, winning the grass. And Donovan Jackson is a heck of a player early on in terms of doing a good job with that. Now, with Cam, Cam, number one, that’s one of his best things in terms of playing against the run. But when you talk about a lesser than opponent, now we’re looking at him not just trying to match it and barely win. We’re talking about him now potentially being able to take over. And that also shows up in the pass game because now the quickest way to the quarterback, right? Outside linebacker Dia, you further out. But as you start to talk about when we go into our obvious pass situations, our nickel defense where we have have two D linemen. Now we’re talking about can directly over this guy and you can’t keep sliding this direction because you got to help out with TJ. So now we get that isolation and granted uh Christian Derel I’m gonna talk about also but now you create one-on- ones on that backside and to me Cam should thrive with that right there especially versus Joe Huber not just in the run but also in the pass. So our guys aren’t trying to you know do the whole I can stop Justin Jefferson today. Oh god here. All right. We want to help you out. All right. I know in your heart you ready to lock him up. I know. Yeah, I got I know. I know. But just let’s be realistic. Let’s be realistic. Cale. Yeah. So, that’s the first one we’re starting off with. The next one, as you heard, right? I said, man, I want to create that one-on-one. And the Steelers are going to try to create that one-on-one. So, the next thing is Christian Derol. He just came back. He had been injured throughout the preseason and early on in the season. His first game back was last week. Played well, but also gave up pressure. Gave up a sack. If I remember correctly, well, who just had one of the most exciting, most productive pass rushing performances, you know, to the point that people was like, “Yo, should we trade high? Do we need high?” It’s true. It’s true. I was like, “That just is trying to get back.” He was like, “Yo, we don’t need this one, bro.” I’m like, “Bro, what?” He plays well. So, your first response is get rid of this one. Train the guy. like train I mean he can’t stay healthy but like why are we training them already like can we like can we have racks like like budget people that can play well like I don’t understand like don’t y’all like when we say hey we got multiple guys you could throw at him like like don’t y’all let us say that we when you trade those guys away you no longer it’s like hey please don’t get hurt guys like who wants to live like that man all right this yeah we feel great right now so that matchup to me though is the one I’m really excited because like I said with Daras struggled a little bit last week but it was his first game back and he’s also a high pedigree guy really good firstrounder you know left tackle all that good stuff but to me Nick Herig is on this I’m trying to prove that I deserve to get paid trajectory right now he’s also trying to prove to the Steelers that when Alex Heismith does return that you don’t just take me out this lineup you don’t just minimize my role I’m a guy that you have to keep on this field in some capacity Allah James Harrison when Joey Porter had initially got in trouble, right? It opened that door from then it was like, “Yo, we can’t put who going to sit that down? You can’t sit that down. He might not be that, but he he ain’t Yeah, he nice. He’s still nice. That’s her big to me.” And this is going to be another one of those opportunities. The same way we feel confident in Heismith, we feel that confidence because we’ve seen Heismith go through a Ronnie Stanley, right? We’ve seen him go through Orlando Brown. We’ve seen him go through a Deion Dawkins. We can name all of the allp pro bowl left tackles. Yeah. And Highmith has took their heads off. So to me, if Herbic wants to be in that same class, right, he wants to get that same type of money, he wants to be viewed in that same ve in that same way, this is a guy that he has to win against. And I think he’s capable of doing that. I like that. I like that. It it um I have a question just football question. Yeah. whenever. So, in your preparation for the game, are you So, okay, let me just say what I’m thinking and then Yeah. And then you can rearrange it for me. When you’re preparing for a game, obviously you’re looking at your matchups and what that looks like for you and then you study you’re studying the film on that person of their last game. I’m assuming I guess my question is that’s kind of my question. How do you you create the matchups? Correct. And then and then how do you but I want to know it from a player’s perspective like if you’re I got you I know exactly what you’re ask if you were playing this weekend like how would you be looking at this and what would you be saying to yourself? So literally the way that I’m breaking down these matchups exactly how I would go through it. The difference is this the names of who I’m breaking down would be different because it wouldn’t have to be offense and defense right? It would be more if I’m just playing defense. These are the people that I’m specifically worried about because of how they can attack us. offense. Y’all have to worry about you guys, but I trust y’all also. So, I’m not gonna disrespect offense by feeling like I have to prepare for offense to let them know, hey man, you better watch out for this guy. Watch out for that guy, man. They go with this blitz. It’s like, no, man. Y’all professionals as well. Now, we going to be in that same team meeting room. So, I hear certain things from you guys, y’all hear certain things from us, but as a whole, I’m locked in. So, from here, the way that we would go about the matchups, you don’t create the matchup first. you watch tape first and see who is doing stuff because what most people do especially like fans it was like yo who’s the big name the star and it’s like all right that’s star that’s the only guy we’re worried about and it’s like most of the time it’s like man you better watch the other guys and how you want to deal with those guys because they’re the ones that can kill you it’s like man if you come in here and all you’re worried about is Justin Jefferson and you’re like hey we’re going to double Justin Jefferson okay cool Jordan is oneonone on the backside from the rest of the game who do you want to guard him one-on-one for the rest of the gay with no help. That’s not what you want to do. So, you start to look at, okay, well, if they got a Jordan and they got a Justin Jefferson, well, what are certain things that we could do? They also got a TJ Hawinson. We know how Hunter Henry impacted us last week. Now, part of that was due to the value. So, as you watch the tape, you started to look, okay, I pointed out the offensive line part. It’s like, man, these dudes really run the ball. They run the ball well. Why is that? Well, their guards and their centers man do a really good job of moving the interior part. And that’s why even though it’s Jordan Mason and not Aaron Jones, he’s still, you know, able to hit that hundred yard mark because of that element of it, right? Also, what I look and I say, well, hey man, through three games, the two games they won as a team, they ran for over 100 yards, but the one game they lost, they struggled to run the ball. Who was that against? The Falcons. So now I’m looking at that Falcons tape and I want to see schematically what did they do? Oh, okay. You made them have to block one on one on one. So, what are certain things that we do defensively that could replicate that? Maybe we’re not married to everything that, you know, that Raheem uh Moore down in uh Atlanta does, but there are certain concepts that we’re going to have. Hey, we know what Brian Flores does, right? We do certain things that he does. We’re not married to all his concepts. We don’t do all of that window dressing, but it’s like, yo, we all have certain parallel, certain similarities. So once again, you think to yourself, they practice against that defense every day the same way our offense practice against us. So we know certain things of how to combat that. So it’s certain things that we know we can’t just do against them because they’ve already seen this. They already know how to combat that. And those are the things that we started looking through. So now as you continue to break down the match ups, I say, “Okay, well, if I know Olinewise the interior part of the offensive line is the best in terms of when they’re run blocking, where’s the weakest link?” Oh, it’s a rookie. Oh, rookie is not in there no more. Oh, it’s his backup. That’s what I needed. Okay, bet. Let’s go to the next one. Okay. Well, hey, if I know TJ is over here, the same way they’re trying to get Justin Jefferson into Ideal 101 ones, we’re trying to do the same thing for TJ. So, TJ, you’re going to always be by yourself away from where Cam is. I don’t want y’all on the same side because they could slide to y’all. And now my two most dominant players, y’all two on three. I don’t want to deal with that. Plus probably a chip from a tight end or a running back. So, how can I offset you guys? Right? So, that’s where I’m looking. I’m say, well, if I’m offsetting this and I know they gonna slide that way, well, that has to create my one-on-one for Nick Herbic, right? And how do I feel about that match up? So, that’s how we start to just kind of build it up, build it up. And then from there, like I said, if it was just defense, I would just keep going that way. And it’s like, okay, well, who’s another player? What’s something else that they do well that we need to account for? Maybe it’s all right, how they want to attack us with their quick game in terms of just getting Justin Jefferson involved. So maybe it’s a check that okay if he’s motioning from the back side of the formation where he’s the only receiver to the front side where now he might be that second receiver right or he’s trying to get that third receiver spot where we know that’ll be a linebacker guard and Justin Jefferson you start thinking of yeah it’s like a puzzle and Okay and you’re looking for um I don’t think you said this word but you’re looking for like vulnerabilities basically because that’s your attack attack method and then it’s kind of like vulnerability vulnerability one, vulnerability two, like these are our okay and then that’s your game plan and then that’s what you kind of go in the week and you’re like all right this is okay I just I never understood how it kind of started I guess I just knew that matchups happened but I never yeah so so you have to know first off you have to know yourself intimately right what we do well and what we struggle with and then you have to know your personnel in terms of why are we struggling with this why do we do these things why do we do these things though. And then from there, you look at the opponent and you have to be brutally honest with yourself. It can’t be the, “Oh, we nice because we said we nice.” Yeah. And that’s Justin Jefferson over there. Good luck. That’s Jordan over there. Good luck. We can have that false bravado, but pride and ego at this level gets you beat. You hear me say it all the time. So, it’s like, okay, understanding what we struggle with, understanding what they do well. And now, what do they struggle with? Oh, what do we do? Oh, so you said we rush the passer. Well, oh, they have problems when they having to throw the ball down the grass. But why do they get sacked so much? Well, because who do they want to get the ball to so much? Justin Jefferson. They don’t want to just do short toss intermediate, right? That’s boring. They want it down the grass. Bored. Yeah. So, the things that we guard against and we complain about because we’re more of a safer approach, they are more on the aggressive side offensively and defensively almost in the sense of for us, we’re playing, and I don’t want to call it not to lose, we just play a a safer style. We’re not willing to take as much risk, right? Whereas for the Vikings, they’re high-risisk, high reward. They remind me of like the poker people where it’s like, “Yo, put it all put it all in the middle of the tape.” You’re like, “Bro, every single time, like for example, cover zero is a coverage from a defensive standpoint that is a blitz where everybody is going, you don’t have any safety help, nobody to bail you out, everybody is one-on-one. You traditionally only call cover zero when you are within 20 yards of the goal line because you’re telling yourself, “All right, we can’t get beat deep.” But even 20 yards is for most people the absolute cut off the line of demarcation. You don’t even consider it past 20. Most aren’t even comfortable with it outside of 10 just because of how risky it is. Brian Flores will call cover zero at the 50 yard line. Oh, y’all want to remember something funny? Mason Rudolph prior to halftime throws a touchdown pass to Deontay Johnson. Monday Night Football versus the Miami Dolphins. Brian Flores is the head coach. Yeah. The first call they have, they’re showing a cover two. Look, we bang a timeout. They switch their call to that cover zero max blitz and we gash him DJ on a slant for a touchdown. It blew the whole game open. After that minute, it wasn’t even close. That’s the risk and reward. So, it’s like we look at the Vikings now and it’s like, oh, sexy. Yeah, Blitz. Crazy. Woo. I love it. But it’s like y’all won’t holler about that. We was and it’s like that’s the risk and reward of it. We’re not willing to open ourselves up to that. We we would never do that with coach Tom and Toff. We’re not going to do that. But the flip side is that blitz might hit and if that blitz hits, force fumble, strip sack, or that quarterback pumps it too quick, throws interception, pick takes, we feel great. So it’s like high risk, high reward. But that’s just not who we are. And then the same with their offense. They will risk the drop back extended double move so I can get Justin Jefferson down that grass with a bomb. And it’s like, man, we said 12 sacks of your quarterback. That is not what you want. M and that doesn’t even count for pressures or QB hits. We’re just talking sex. Yeah. So when you start thinking of that, it’s like, well, yeah, that’s something that plays into what we do well, but that’s also why we don’t do a lot of that because we start off as a line, we don’t feel that confident with we don’t feel like, yo, they could just protect, protect, protect. So we avoid it. And for some of us, we don’t mind it. For others, like, yo, man, fire this dude, bro. He suck, man. Hey, be aggressive. It’s like it’s just a difference of philosophies. That’s it. Both are positive though. Both work. As you can see, both teams are having winning records. But the flip side is one has done it in a little bit more exciting manner. But at the end of the day, are you winning, are you not? And we’re going to find out which method, which philosophy works well in this matchup because offensively and defensively, you’re going to see literally that like the yin versus the yang. Okay. No, that makes sense. Um, I just think it’s it’s so interesting how intricate these things are. Yeah. Because it’s like yet and still, right, if if if the Vikings do everything right and the Steelers do everything right, what really can turn this game is the Vikings turning the ball over one time like but everything else would have went perfect down to perfection, down to every single thing, but it didn’t matter because in that one time in that one possession, it just didn’t work. And now all of the things. So it’s like right game plan, right everything. It just couldn’t hold because and that was us. That was us versus the Seahawks. You think about it football. Yeah. Because so or whatever it is. So or so and so makes a great play, right? Because I think that’s the other piece of this where it’s like if everything works, we are all moving in unison together. But that’s not what this is. This is a game. So somebody is going to either break a tendency or play above their what we think or or whatever it is. And that’s going to be the difference. But you just never know because you have to see like the game and the moment and the situation. So yeah. Okay. Absolutely. But I got a couple more match ups and after that I see a super that just came in. I actually caught it this time. I saw it. All right. I’m trying I’m trying to be like you. I’m trying to get better. Okay. I’m being multiplier. Don’t you forget it. Look. See why you keep doing this, man? You got to stop this, man. We’re staying focused. All right. I’m not entertaining this. I’m staying focused. Okay, I got a couple more matches we’re going to get to. Okay, so non-destruction, boy. I tell you, I I know I know I know early on you you you had brought up, you know, some coordinators in terms of, you know, some of the match you looking for. You like, hey, bro, it’s coordinator this coordinator. I’m also with you. I’m also with you, but a little bit different. Okay. Okay. My matchup right here is we know who Justin Jefferson is, right? Terrell Austin, what is your plan? What is your plan? Because as you heard me break down earlier, if you just come out here and say, “Yep, we’re going to have this corner on him. Jaylen Rams is going to stay on him and we’re going to keep, you know, whichever safety might be Deshawn Elliott. We’ll see. But whoever’s we’re going to keep him over there the whole time as well.” And it’s like, “All right, cool. We’re going to count for two every single time he goes.” Are we playing Darius Slay manto man on Jordan Addison the whole game? I don’t feel comfortable with that for four quarters. I think Slay will make some plays but all it takes is one bad and that’s a touchdown. You could just see the difference in that sort to speak, right? Or to say okay you can see the difference in that. So from there, I’m asking myself with Tur Austin, are you going to take the approach of you’re trying to pressure, which is something that you don’t typically do, but you try to do more of the blitz package stuff to make it where Carson has to get rid of the ball faster and your spinning coverage to Justin or to Justin Jefferson in a more traditional manner, right? Cover six where he’s likes to line up on the back side. All right, cool. I got corner that could be aggressive on them and I still got safety up over top, but I still don’t bastardize everything else that we’re doing with the defense. That’s an approach. You got the other approach of all right, we’re going to sit back, play our soft zone, keep everything in front of us. Justin might have 20 catches for about, you know, 200 yards, but everything was in front of us. So, I get it if that’s the approach you want to take. He didn’t score a touchdown, but it’s like the numbers are going to look crazy. But that could work and you make a team have to snap the ball 16 17 times on a drive. We saw the Patriots have success doing that, but at the end they would make the mistake. To me, I think that’s still a little bit dangerous game to plague versus the Vikings because they don’t show a lot of complete self-destruction just yet. But they do make mistakes. But you you see what like I think that that’s a little bit dicey versus them to play the oh wait wait wait wait wait it’s going to happen. think you might want to speed it up and be a little bit more aggressive versus them. But that’s the part where I want to see with Terrell Austin how he attacks this because for some teams they’ll say, man, you put the number two corner or the number two corner on Justin Jefferson, right? Darius Slay, play that safety over top and Ramsay, you got to be a son of a gun. You manto man on the backside, no help and live. Get it how you live. You versus Jordan. It’s like we can do that, too. Yeah, I feel more comfortable with that. But as you can see, you got some pros and cons to either approach or any of those approaches when you’re dealing with that type of talent. And this is still based on us being able to keep a lid on Hawinson as well. He hasn’t been going crazy, but we know he has potential. Yeah, he has potential. Yeah. Yeah. So, like I said, man, that’s definitely one of those I like that one. I like that one. this one. We either gonna be throwing up together or we’re gonna be uh feeling amazing together. Brick Jones, hey, I know you had a great week last week. You had a chill week last week, man. The week prior to that, it was cool as well. Hey, bro, it’s up this week. All right, you know what it is. Get your war paint. All right, whatever you got to do to get your mind ready cuz Jonathan Greenard, I’m I’m just letting you know he went all he with whatever you with. Okay. He He done back to back 12 plus sack seasons. You know how I feel about passes. Unless you cross that 10 plus, you like, “Oh, you a real one.” All right. We ain’t playing with you at this level, you get 10 plus, you’re a dog, bro. He done 12 to He done 12 to 12 back to back. All right. I’m just letting you know. You heard it here. FYI, just just in case you’re wondering. And now, Tanisha, you you we’ve been doing this now for a couple weeks. I haven’t spoken like this since Will McDonald week one. Okay. Yeah. So, y’all heard it here. Don’t be over here with Roger. God damn it. But you Arthur Smith d it don’t play. Okay. Put the s put put a Titan over there. Y’all know the drill. Okay. That Jets approach the head and and I’m probably like the biggest project supporter right now. I’m like the dark horse. I didn’t came out the mud. Like I don’t even know why I’m like on this Brick kick, but I’m like Brick. Come on, baby. I’ve been working with you, Project. Come on, baby. I’m liking what I’m saying. Project, but baby, this one of the ones. Yeah, this is a real one. Name isn’t as familiar as Miles Garrett and TJ Watt and Micah Parsons, but I’m trying to let everybody know this dude is good. Real thing. He’s good. We got to We got to stay focused. We have to stay focused. He’s really good for sure. and do your job. Just do just do your job. Like again, no one’s asking you to, you know, just very aggressively do your job. Do your job. Please do your job. Okay? And and whoever you whoever you guys, you know, from a spiritual standpoint, who you guys like to talk to, pray to. I don’t want to offend anybody. So, however y’all do it, just if you send an extra one up. All right. Just with all due respect, like I said, I’m team Brick and and and and trust me, if he do what I hope he can do, oh, y’all not gonna hear the end of it for me. Oh yeah, it’s gonna be bad. Just it’s going to be Brick alert all week. All right. Heavy on the Broadick. Heavy on the Broadick. Okay. Going to be I No, I mean, listen, I mean, and he’s protecting like our one of our biggest assets. Maybe not by dollar amount, but by impact, I think a lot of times. Yes. And so like again like this is this is it, right? Like this is why you’re in the NFL. Like this this is that moment. So do it. Make it happen. Like what do you want me to say? Like what they say? You want to play left tackle in the National Football League. You want to be the starter, right? Yeah. Everybody wanted him to be that starting left tackle. Well, this is what comes with being the starter at left tackle. You heard the same way I was talking about Nick Kerbic and I saying you want to be the man. You want to be the guy and you got to go ahead and whoop these dudes. Hey Brick, you want to be the guy? You gotta block these dudes. We gonna find out for sure. We gonna find out. So, with that being the case, we’re gonna end it on a high note in terms of my match ups because I ain’t like how that energy was. So, this why I saved this match up for the last one. Okay, but let me get Mr. Sign Language. Okay, I’m trying to stay on business. I need DK and specifically versus Byron Murphy Jr. when but this is when they doing that aggressive cover zero blitzing. Okay, that’s the guy that’s their best man-to-man coverage corner. That’s their best corner that they utilize. That’s the guy that they let travel and stuff, etc. He is going to be the guy that’s going to be matched up with DK and DK has to win. When that happens, I don’t know how often it’s going to happen, but it’s going to happen because that’s what Brian Flores does. He’s going he going to give you 30 different looks and then it’s going to be zero for real. Then he gonna have everybody up there and it’s gonna be coverage. They everybody they gonna come in the case like bro they really they really he’s like yes they really doing this bro. So with that being the case that means there is zero help out there. It is true backyard one-on-one football. Make it work. You know Rogers understands how to backpedal backpedal. Throw it up. Yep. And this is where you go get that thing. Go make him right. But it’s going to be available. It’s going to happen just because of how aggressive Brian Flores is with that defense. And for sure Brian Murphy is going to be the guy that is guarding DK. Shoot. I pray it’s somebody else cuz then it’s like barbecue chicken, right? Barbecue chicken. But Flo ain’t I don’t see Flo. I don’t see Yeah. Why would he? Cuz why would he why would he change it? Like why? I don’t see Flo. You need the advantages on your team. Yeah. I’m like Flo would not match that up like that and call that behind that because that’s dangerous. Very dangerous. Yeah. Very very dangerous. you don’t want to do that. But that’s the one that like I said, man, those are the match ups though for me that I do feel like will have an impact in this game in a major way. And that Roger one for sure is going to have impact. I was going to say out of all the ones you said, I think that’s the main one. Yes. Because if I had to win any of them, I think for me it would be that one because it’s kind of like I mean I want to win all of them, but if I had if you were going to make me choose it 100% is that because I think that that just allows so much more other things to happen and God like can we just run the football well this game? I mean I don’t even know what to say about the run game. Tanisha, can can I can I So you said it last week you was like oh yeah I heard that you know they got good players too. All right. You might have heard this one dude. His name is like hard hard grave. Hard gra some they call him like grave dick. Is he playing this week? I know he was injured. It’s called like wobble. Yeah. That like he he he potentially be back out that thing. And I’m just like that that could make running the ball just a little. Just a little. You know what I’m saying? I’m still waiting to see about Van Geno though. Just throwing that out there. All right. He might not be out there because he did not practice yesterday and I don’t think he practiced earlier today either. So just throwing that out there that might be a benefit for Yeah. But say I did see he was the MP so that might be a benefit but that’s my only I’m like they start having some of those injuries some of those dudes not out there. I’m with you. I think that that running game should pick up a lot more but we’ll see. We got to see now. Now oh go ahead. What you about to say? Cuz I was about to ask you a question. What you got? Oh I was just going to ask you a question from the chat. Um can you beat Brick Jones in a race right now? Yeah. See I I ain’t disrespecting Roger like that man. Anybody that is currently active, I’m going to forever say is faster, stronger, and better at everything because they’re active. And that’s how we’ll leave it at that. And and the reason I say this out of respect, I remember when I was playing and we would always hear, “Oh man, such and such thinks he could come back.” We’re like, “Bro, I wash him. I’ll work him.” Now, granted, Granted, I will say this, there was once a guy that actually came back and proved that he still had it. His name was James Harrison. I watched that man retire and I was like, “Yo, this is my spot. I’m the LB head now.” He came back and I was like, “No, it’s your spot. I’m just here to help. I’m I’ll I’ll be your Robin. Thank you. Appreciate you. You still there.” All right. So, yeah, that that’s, you know, but what question? It’s like a respect cuz you know, I do feel good about it though. But respect to the boys. All right. Respect to That’s what I was waiting for. I’m like, how this competitiveness? It’s respect to the respect to the guys. Respect to the guys. Hey. Hey. Respect to the guys. All right. Respect to y’all. Don’t try me. But respect to respect. Y’all got it. Y’all got it. It’s it’s a mutual respect. I think that’s that’s why I like to call it. It’s a mutual like, hey, you might be the big dog there. I might feel like I’m the big dog here. And sometimes them dogs never have to go at it. Sometimes them dogs be like, you know what? Salute you. Salute. We leave it at that. So, that’s how I feel. All right. But deep down, you think you can win. That’s all I care about. Okay. What was the question you ask me? I’m I’m just I’m I try to maintain a a well-fit lifestyle. Okay. And I try to maintain a a body weight that, you know, revolves around my playing days. You feel me? So like I what they say like, “Oh man, most like still play.” I just I I I try to keep that around. And in fact, sometimes I say I low key kind of in better shape now than I was back then. So So okay, I understand. But no, we’re not saying that. No, no, no. We’re not saying that. We’re not putting that on me. That No, we are not saying that. All right. We are not saying that we all pulled up a healthy on one side. You would be like Healthy respect. I’m good. I got this. It’s a healthy respect is all I’m saying. All right. It’s a healthy respect. That’s all I’m saying. It’s respect. Respect. All right. We know the Yeah. Yeah. It’s respect. It’s respect. It’s respect. Shoot, man. Project fast though, man. You think about I’m sure is is man that’s a welloiled machine right now, man. Big killing grizzly bro. All right. Don’t play with that man over there. I don’t want no parts of project, man. I’m team project. I’m a supporter. Okay. as you end the show in like in like an hour in your mind you’re going to be like man I would dust Roger Jones you’re like eating dinner you’re going to be like shoot you funny see I ain’t even going there I ain’t even going there I think it’s it’s the problem as competitors we always know what we are and we always know what we were just like hey bro hold on now but it’s just funny too because it’s like most fast guys are like yo break up like a name like a faster name you know you’re like the live hey man respect man respect man any of them all up nice all up good all up nice the question you got you got the question up funny man salute though man salute to y’all but yes so the question that I had for you was this though obviously you know we were breaking down the matchup but we didn’t talk about how those around us view us right the the the the Vegas the house. Yeah. What do they say now? Granted, we are the home team, but it’s technically not a home game. Technically. The home team. Yeah, but we’re the home team. They got us actually as dogs, though. Yeah. Two and a half points. They think the Vikings are at least two and a half points better than us in this matchup, which I was a little bit surprised by because of how, you know, robust the Vikings margin for victory was last week and how tight ours was. Even though we also won and covered, I think I I don’t I’m not shocked because depending on who you ask, they will say we didn’t win because of us. We won because the Patriots lost and I think that’s what’s given them the extra whatever. I will tell you though, Coach Tomlin against the spread when it’s like this usually covers just I mean it’s you know if you want to look at the data um that’s what just figured out put it out there. No. So like I think it’s because they’re saying we didn’t win. We didn’t go out there and dominate and they’re looking at the Vikings performance as dominating. And listen, I have a I say what we did. And listen and listen, I think you could make the same argument the other way, but I think also they’re getting credit because they believe their defense is better than ours. I think that’s what’s giving them that edge. And I haven’t even looked at the numbers as far as like where everybody is because it’s week three. I kind of feel like the numbers in week three are kind of like fluffy. So I don’t really know if that’s true or not. I mean, I think but I think that’s what they’re I think that’s what they’re seeing. So, hey, and that’s the beauty of football. We going to find out. We’re going to line it up. Just like Yeah, we’re going to line it up. See, he was about to say something slick. All right. He’s about to say something slick. See, stop. I’m on your team. Okay. I’m I’m team PhD. You was about to I felt it. You You were for sure about that. You You shot me up yesterday. This the stream minute. You shot me up in the comments. You time stamped it. I was like, “Yo, you still shooting me, man. I thought it was a CT. You want to shoot me again?” You for sure. I said you pointed it. You pointed at me, man. All right. You for sure pointed it. I was like, “Yo, well, we’re def we’re definitely on the same team and that’s why I would I know that you beat Rodri Jones in a race.” Oh my god. See, I’m not getting in trouble with nobody. All right. I’m team all active players. Okay. Conversation with Brick. You tell him what I said. No, I’m just kidding. I’m totally kidding. I am totally kidding. I was like I was like first though, have y’all seen Magic a person? Listen said magic a person. Okay. I’m not We are none of them. Okay. Okay. That’s why I said I you know the thing when you see him you know you wasn’t you it was me. I’ll win because I’m scared he’s chasing me and I’m running for fear of my life. Okay. That’s a big just no person in there. All right. No person. That’s hilarious. Somebody’s on my side in the chat. I know. Shout out to J, man. Let’s go. Let’s go. Let’s go. I love that. All right. What were your super chats? I saw them come across the screen. I didn’t read them. Let’s see. Did we have I think one was long and I didn’t I saw I just You’re right. You’re right. There it is. I’m glad you brought that up, too. James Ska, shout out to James Sk. He says Dr. T. I like how you put some respect on her name. Dr. T. Amos. Nobody’s talking about it, but don’t count out spiritual justice and divine intervention. Hey, Glory. I’m with you. He says, “Old man Rooney is looking down on his boys and us. He’s going to pull some strings for us up there.” Shout out, man. You’re absolutely right, man. Old man Rooney. RIP to Mr. Rooney, man. DMR for sure. We know that was the ambassador over there in Ireland, man. And yeah. Yeah. Be talked about and that’s for sure been talked about, man. Those dudes know what they’re playing for. Those dudes know what they’re going to be representing, man. And yeah, I do expect that, too. Give them a little added boost on top of that. So, shout out. I got another supporter. I got another supporter. Hey, let’s go. Let’s go. Let’s go. And then we got tons of funny. He says, “Is it wrong for me to say this matchup feels similar or feels familiar to the Seahawks? Both QBs with up and down.” Yep. But have weapons and a decent defense? And yeah, I think that’s fair because I I I could be wrong and I’m not just saying this because they played the Steelers. I think the Seahawks might be on an upswing. Like I think they might be I think the defense might they look they look good this past week. They they did. I think they might be figuring something out. Like I think they’re kind of headed in the right direction. They play physical fast. They hit hard. They surround they, you know, swarm the ball. Like they do all the things. So that’s not a bad analogy actually. Yeah. Hopefully the difference though between Seahawks and Vikings is we don’t have the major critical error cuz that for sure was you know the difference in that Seahawks game and it really we said swung the the whole feel of it and swung the whole momentum late in the day man. So yeah. Wait but can I ask you something? Did Caleb Johnson play at all last week? Was he he wasn’t in the inactives? I looked at he was active. No, he he was he was active. For sure he was active, but he didn’t get any snaps that I saw. No. Um, and that was the Kenneth Gam. Yeah, I was curious to see. Was it remanded to an active or was it like Okay. The same thing you were looking at was what I was looking at as well. It was like Okay. And as long as nobody else gets hurt, he’ll be dressed. But what happens is this. Once you fall down to you’re not getting any snaps realistically, you’re one injury away at the wrong position and now they got to bump somebody up or somebody else needs to dress there and that’s when they’ll take him. But for right now, it buys him another week. And who knows what happens this game, man. He is literally a play or two away from being out there and now nobody cares about what didn’t happen. You better figure it out, man. Go play. Or somebody else’s dumb mistake, right? Like somebody else’s inability to whatever. like that means you’re back. Like that’s just how this goes. That’s how fast it happens. And nobody is going to care. Nobody’s going to feel sorry for you. And that’s why we say as players, you can’t go into that pity party, that tank that most people assume you should go into because you played bad or had a bad snap. Why we say 24-hour rule is because literally this next game, man, if you carry that mess up on kickoff into this game and you mess up again, you will be out this league. You will be fired. You don’t have time for that. So that’s the part where it’s like, man, forget what you did wrong. You know how to correct that and it never happens again. But you better make sure that you’ve been watching film the same way. Even though you didn’t take a rep last week, hopefully somebody got in your ear and said, “Man, show up early on Monday, run with the inactives, and run with the practice squad guys.” So that way you get double condition. And speaking from a guy that had to do it at one point before, cuz not everybody is starters from start to finish the whole time. Sometimes, man, you go through a phase where, all right, they calling you the guy that they don’t want out there no more. Okay. Well, hey, man, when that does happen, you still have to be ready because in two weeks, man, you might be right back out there heavily in the lineup. And they don’t care about you being out of shape either. So, Caleb, you’re hearing it, man. They don’t The dudes in there telling you that. They know what it is. But for sure, for sure, man. I’m keeping an eye out for him. And I I want the comeback story, right? I want I want that one. I want him I don’t know. I don’t want anybody I don’t want it to be a bad reason why he’s out there, but unfortunately it’s football. That’s usually how it happens is somebody has to go down for somebody else to kind of come in. So, it’ll be interesting to see. I I’m cheering for him and I hope that he maintains his spot and his position and he works his way through it. Like, I hope that he’s doing all the things right, showing up early, studying, and hope as soon as his number gets called, he’s ready and he can hold on to the football. Please, please, no more negativity. You got to come with a different issue. You can’t keep having the same stuff pop up, man. Can’t have the same stuff pop up. But I like it though. I like it. Well, shoot. That’s all I had. You got anything left before we get up out of here. I don’t have anything else. I don’t even get even get to get be petty at the end of this for my stream. I’m so happy cuz like I said, you was cooking me. You was killing me. And and just know all right, I’mma get in the lab. I’m for sure get in the lab. But you you you were so ahead of the game with how you was cooking me. I told you I was I was like torn between astonished and then I was like, “Dang, she’s like cooking me on top of this.” But I’m like, “Yo, this is really cool. Like, how did you do that?” But I’m like, “Yo, she’s really like cooking me right now.” So, I’m torn, but I’m recovering. Okay, just recover and you going to be sleeping. Think it’s like boom, I got you. All right. So, it’s all about you and your excellence and how fast I’m sure. Uhhuh. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Mr. Force. Just a guy. Just a guy. No, no one no one here is calling you that. So, everyone calls me that. Come on, man. So, with that big cash, though, comes that’s awesome. That is awesome. I love it. I like it. So, so on the back end though, it looks like ah Dante, yes, please ask for your score prediction. Oh, you want to drop that? Oh, he wants your score prediction. I say, “Do you want to drop that?” I say, “Because I know you should be waiting on that, right?” Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And I I’ll be honest, I usually don’t give score predictions because there’s so many factors and I don’t and I don’t trust the Steelers, okay? So, I’m not giving a score because every time I predict something, it didn’t happen. So, I don’t want to give a score prediction and I don’t want to say we’re going to lose. So, I just I’m just I’m like, “No, look, you you give out the pros, the cons, what you like, what you don’t like, and that’s it.” Yep. That’s Yeah. score predictions. I’m like, I don’t even want to. Then I’ll feel bad. Then I feel like it’s my fault. So, and we won’t have time for you to be feeling bad. Uhuh. Because I know when you feel bad, you you might come over here and start shooting me up and uh I don’t want that. I want no problems. All right. But but but what I am going to say is this chat. It’s important. Don’t just like and subscribe over here. Like and subscribe over there as well on her channel. And if you look in the comment section right now, you should see this is the link to her members channel as well, man. So, join her members as well. All right, make sure y’all show her love. The same way y’all showing me love, join the upper room. All right, all that good stuff. Make sure y’all rocking out with her as well, man. All right, she got dope videos. She dropping content as well. You get the behind the scenes over there. Okay, there it is. There it is. Look at you. Look at you. So, now I’ve checked all the boxes. I ain’t forget nothing. All right. At least for today. I forget nothing. I feel good. All right. and it smells like dinner time. So, I’m excited. I’m excited. But with that being the case, as always, Denise, you know, I appreciate the heck out you take some time to jump on the show, breaking it down victory formation style. All good. All good, chat. We appreciate y’all. You already know, man. The content flows because the way that y’all do it, man. The way that y’all show up and support. So, we appreciate y’all. Please keep doing it. Stay safe out there if you are traveling. And until next time, baby. Bye. [Laughter]