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Silver & Black Pride
"jeff hartmann" Discussed on Silver & Black Pride
"I'm here with my friend. Jeff hartmann from behind the steel curtain to give you guys. A little preview of the raiders. Steelers game on sunday now as a reminder. We're still doing our behind enemy lines or five questions with the opponent articles. So there's anything jeff and i don't cover on here. We'll cover on the written side of things later week anyways. Jeff thank you for coming on man. How are you doing. I'm doing great. Is there a more traditional or classic. Matchup than raiders steelers. I mean it doesn't get much better than that when he talked about traditional matchups. I know we're going back to what like the the beginning of the nfl days right. Pretty much from the get go. The raiders steelers have been rivals whatnot that numerous times boy us. Oh absolutely the originally see and others playoff matchups and accusations of icing the field in the immaculate reception then even bleeds into modern day where the raiders have have the steelers number in oakland at the time. Terrell pryor beating the steelers. I mean just these weird games. The the rivalry still exists in my opinion. Oh yeah for sure. I mean it is a i hate using the cliche because it is such a cliche now the old throughout the record books when these two teams play each other. Right like doesn't really matter. I remember the last one of the. I guess it wasn't in the last year i went to but In two thousand was it nineteen or eighteen when they play the raiders. Were terrible playing. The steelers would go on to be a playoff team of big. Ben got hurt in the whole broken x ray machine in the you know like i said the raiders were foreign twelve team in one of those wins against the steelers so always a fun match up. Yeah and even in pittsburgh the bruce gronkowski game where i believe. He led the raiders to victory heinz field. That's where they're playing this week in week. two. I'm excited to talk about it. Let's get to it l. Let's get started kind of looking at the big picture now. We had the philosophies of preseason regular season game were steelers even one. How are you feeling about in this year. You kinda still expecting the steelers to to win the afc north and be a super bowl contender. I did predict the steelers to be a double digit win team. I'm not sure if that's going to be good enough to win. The afc north. I am someone that thanks to the. Afc north is one of if not the best divisions in all football those will compare say the nfc west is is comparable but For me the steelers are still a mystery in a lot of ways especially on offense the watch the game against buffalo. In week one yes. It's it's on the road. It's a tough place to play buffalo's a very good team But boy the offense was non existent for tuten for the first half. The steelers needs some consistency than e consistency. Running the ball. They couldn't do that in buffalo for a lot of reasons. Rothlisberger was rusty to start. I don't know how much that we chalk up the week. One just being week one and people still getting league knocking the rust off on and how much we say is is there cause for concern. So there's a lot of questions still with the steelers. Fan base is super pumped. They won that we going game. I have some. I definitely have my reservations heading into week two. I think the raiders are going to be a lot tougher than people think and We'll see what the steelers are made of. Yeah i mean you hit the nail. Right on the raiders. Being a tough route than people realize. I don't know a whole lot of people i know. It wasn't like a clean slate of picking the ravens last night or a monday night. But mean let's be the raiders came into that game as underdogs and i think they impress a lotta people but i do have to ask you before we move on to getting into more specific the steelers. Are you worried about the browns and the ravens at all or i guess more specifically are you worried about the browns. Because obviously they're kind of up and coming team yet. The browns i mean i. I did get to watch the browns chiefs game in week. One Definitely a much improved roster. They're doing it the right way. Finally and it only took them two decades. But they're finally doing it the right way. They're making good decisions. It seems like they have a good coach. In stefanski in the ravens are still in. They're always going to be a concern. They're just radish with injuries. I mean it's insane. I think they lost another offense lineman on monday night football to a knee injury. He was placed on injured reserve today. I mean they're kicking the tires on lady on bell and a couple other running backs. It's insane injuries. They've sustained but they still have a really talented roster and you saw that on monday night football. They didn't win the game but they have a ton of potential. There is no easy win. Even when you throw in cincinnati in my opinion with job row and that young roster they have a lot of exciting players there The afc north is going to be very difficult. Like i said. I'm not predicting the steelers to win the division i think they're going to be competitive but It's tough to win. That division will put it that way. Yeah i mean no doubt no doubt so. I want to start off talking about ben rothlisberger. There is no doubt he wasn't the same player last year especially down the stretch of the season. I think you talked about it a little bit at the topic of what we're talking about on the show. I'm curious do you think is age in. The injuries are starting to catch up with them. Or are you confident he'll be able to bounce back either way kind of what makes you think that why it's interesting. It depends on. He talked to last season. Obviously he's coming off that reconstructive elbow surgery which he had in two thousand nineteen. No one knew what his arm strength is going to be. I don't think that was injury that that really ham. Hamstrung him so to speak it was i think he had knee injuries. I think he had some injuries to lower body that were causing him to have to really throw with all arms and that's anyone knows the mechanics throwing any object. That's a big ask of someone that's been doing it for as long as ben. Rothlisberger has I think that he is healthy. Coming into this season can he stay healthy behind that offensive line. That's a big question. Mark does he have the skills to still win games. Absolutely i think he still has the escape ability in the pocket. He's never been a guy. That's going to run. Like josh allen does or patrick mahomes does or even a derek carr does. He's a guy that is going to want to be in the pocket..
Behind the Steel Curtain
"jeff hartmann" Discussed on Behind the Steel Curtain
"Pittsburgh steelers fans welcome back to the second part of the steelers. Post game podcast. I'm jeff hartmann senior editor behind the steel curtain. Dot com joining me as always scofield editor. Bt se and. brian. Anthony davis or podcast producer. We are continuing to go through our of ratings. Were grading giving out grades. Zoe's always in the post game. Before we do this. I wanna talk about the inactive list. Roberson go ahead and explain. It does what happened the list. I think this matters now. Okay well and not only that. I had several players that i thought i picked all the correct positions for the inactive list. I just wasn't sure which players it would be those positions and i actually had an article ready to go. I had names in there. So i could delete other names like i'm gonna pick up the most notable name and put it is the headline so i get the inactive list. I put the headline on their buddy johnson and active for this leads inactive for steelers week. One only to find out nine minutes later when the steelers publish it. It's not buddy johnson. It's robert splaine now. They always give it to labrador report and he reports it apparently from the time they told him. Hey this is what it's going to be sent out at eleven thirty to the time. They actually had to turn it in is when they had to make the call with roberts poulain having a shin injury in pre-game warmups so therefore spelane ended up out and buddy johnson ended up in. So that's why it was a roberts blaine some people it's like. Oh this is going to. What's being to the depth chart now. It was an injury thing so they went with it. Don't know where that would put split on special teams. I thought of it right off the bat Kickoff return if that would have been different but who knows but that's how that went down all right. It's good to note because we're going to talk about the defense. Let's start off looking at josh allens numbers. We're going to base our grades off of that. Josh islanders thirtieth fifty one thirst for two hundred and seventy yards of five point. Three average one touchdown. No interceptions was sacked three times. He's a tough guy to bring down. That's really important. Seventy nine point seven rating. Let's talk about the steelers pass rush. I the steelers finished the game with eight quarterback hits okay. That's that's incredible and then three sacks tj wad with two cameron heyward with a third. The was almost a half a sack. Two and a half. I wasn't sure if they're going to give tj half on that one. But hayward was definitely there. I but tj helped from not getting away. Sorry if josh allen is. Let's say tom brady type. Quarterback is going to sit in the pocket or what had eight tax they have lit up the scoreboard data. Stacks Like the rolling rate the pass rush. Grade the pass rush. I should say bryan. we'll start with. You will go in the same order. I thought the pass rush was absolutely phenomenal. I have one guy that i want to. Mention is melvin ingram. The third i think he changes what they can do on that team by having a third starter in there so you mix and match and pull those guys in and out move them around. He's playing on both sides In relief he's playing early and often. He's getting to the quarterback. I thought they were great. I did not expect. I was afraid that that sack record was going to fall this week and it looked for a while that all right it very well could but then they got it going in also not just the sax how many more would had if the bills weren't holding everybody highsmith would have had a sack there. There was ingram. Would've had a sack. There were so many sack opportunities. Okay so did you. What was a great again. A all right. Dave grade to pass rush yeah. That sounds good. A sounds great. I mean how great is it to where. Tj watt comes off the field and you're not overly concerned about it because you've got two other players that are that are also getting the job done. I'm not saying they're both. Tj watt. but what i'm saying is it's not. it's not oh my goodness what a fall off that all three of them fantastic job constantly bringing the pressure they were they were held. I put a picture on twitter. The touchdown that bill scored the offense of teaching what made around the office of live at. He reached back and grabbed. His shoulder was the only reason. Josh allen was not sacked on that and threw that touchdown pass and how that doesn't get called. I don't know that one was to me. The most egregious out of any of the missed calls. But that's just what they were what they were doing But i mean my dad asked me is is the bills line that bad or steelers pass rush that good to me. The steelers patrushev at good i agree. They were the elite. They was an elite performance. By the pass rush. Let me ask you this because you are. Brian socially bryant is david you. You've mind for this dumb. Michael back was asking on twitter. Is this the best dealers trio of pass rushers that we've ever seen at least in the modern era. Think about the pass rushers so we have ingram highsmith. What is there been any trio. That's better either of brian. Dave whoever wants to dl. Go you know what i'm going to say. No this isn't the best. 'cause that blitzburgh team had a lot of great pass rushers you had. You could throw gilded and chad brown in the mix along with the fact that you had green and lloyd just just edge persistent so ask edges that so much that you put them all you want to get them all three on the field at the same time the no. I don't think there's another if you're just talking straight and rushers. Yes edge the no. I can't recall anybody. Yes it was the third harrison woodley. Was there a third there for them. Was it a hagen was was it world's world's was there in two thousand ten You had hagen's in there for a little bit because like but even even then that's not even comparable. Yeah i know this is really that good and being that good and the other two being that good you know. This is just one game yeah. Tj watts on pace for thirty four sacks here. and i'm you know what with them half they would've would've yeah. It'd be forty two tom. You're against us three dollars. One for each total sack. Thank you tom. We appreciate it indeed. Are i give them an a. What else can be said. But let's go to the secondary. The steelers did surrender a lot through the air. Three two hundred seventy yards but boy. That's what the second one attempts though. Yeah you're right you're right you're right you're right When you look at the numbers. I mean pass breakups or pass defenses. Make ahead one g the cam hayward with two ingram with one seven total.
Behind the Steel Curtain
"jeff hartmann" Discussed on Behind the Steel Curtain
"Whatever you need katie. Smith has got it kevin. How are you my friend ryan. Good to talk to you again man. It's been a while. I've missed you buddy. Nine months you have done this since since the really awful taste in the mouth. The playoff loss. So yeah i gotta tell you. That's that's absolutely crazy. But you and. I look forward to this forum and getting the hear from you. Because i'm the hype. Man you know that i just spout off a lot of stuff. It's feeling it's it's fun it's weird stats like what pittsburgh steeler quarterback duel had razor commercials back in the seventies. And if you don't know that might crew second terry bradshaw. I know that dumb stuff but you know things like cover two schemes. And that's why we talk to you because when it comes to the pittsburgh steelers you guys know this team like you know your high school team. So how's everything going my friend. It's going great. We're back in the swing and you know watching college football over the weekend. Getting excited doing some. you know. We're two games into our high school season already. So i mean i feel like man is football season so all we need steelers complete it. So i understand that You've got the nasty words. Scoreless this year So far so good. Man our defenses Pitch the couple shutouts in the first two games. So we're playing a little like seventy six steelers founded a you know i. I thought that that was He didn't they start the season with three that year and they wound up. It's five something like that. I mean they were. That was an incredible defense at seven. Yeah they they were awesome. They they actually started off. Started off with a rough year and Just ended it fantastic. So i would have to look that up but is it like a no hitter though. Is it like when you just don't talk about the The shutouts ono. We talked about all the time. I guess that's just a matter of pride you know. We were actually angry because in the opener nobody crossed midfield on us in the in the second game they they made it to like our forty so we talked about a new. Let's see let's not not just let's get no point. Let's keep them out of the red zone so we'll see you know you go one week at a time like everything else. Well i tell you what the your post your postgame speeches. I would love to hear him. But i would really love to hear game speech. So what i'm going to do here is try to figure out. What pre game speech for you would be for the pittsburgh steelers this week. So that's one of the things. I'm gonna ask you in a little bit. What they need to do. And how you would motivate this team but lots of interesting things going on. And of course i mean. Nothing's bigger than the news that we got on thursday with t. J. watt allegedly walking into the. Rooney's office and saying you've gotta deal my agents. Take it up with them. But you've gotta deal. I'm throwing them under the bus. I'm going back to practice. What were your thoughts when you heard that. Because there's been some people saying that might not be completely true could be a little bit fabricated but if it's true. I'm lovin kevin. Yeah if it's true. That sort of raises his status in the pantheon of great steelers because it just sort of gives that everyman quality even those get eighty million guaranteed dollars man with eighty million. Guaranteed going into your pockets. But the idea that it's time to get back to work with. My boys is very appealing to the fan base. Of course but i think the thing that i loved about it and i don't know if it's true either but is the whole notion of overruling the agents because to me. The agents are just a problem. I know that they have a functioning a job to do. And i understand that. They're there for their client and i also understand that if you're an nfl player your your shelf. Life is short and you need to maximize your profitability as much as possible. I don't. I don't begrudge these guys for trying to get every dollar that they can but oftentimes really feels like things could be just cleaner and healthier if the agents were removed. Maybe i'm maybe. I'm speaking because i i bought. I bought a house recently and And the middlemen in that process were so frustrating that i'm jaded by that but to hear him to hear the story that he overruled his agents. Walk into the office and said let's get this done. So i could get back to work is just very appealing and you know what i believe in santa claus. The easter bunny the tooth fairy. I'm believing in this story. I told jeff. Hartmann and dave scofield on the the steelers preview that i don't even think about that. I'm going to believe this gospel. And that's what i'm going with. I'm i'm putting my fan hat on on this one. So i'm really excited but i gotta tell you there's this is welcome news because when you saw the injury report on thursday it included for the second day in a row when alex highsmith so what does t. J. watt coming back to this team in the with the sense though that he has not practiced he has been in conditioning. He has been present the entire time. But how much difference does that make kevin. I will be surprised. If he's visibly out of shape that he is a extremely conscientious of his work habits of i think he's the kind of guy that like. He would never allow himself to enter an nfl game knowing that he was out of shape because he takes care of his body he we just look at it craft work. I see is technique when you look at him as a pass rusher. That's a guy that his drill bet stuff over and over and over and over again he can do it in his sleep. He's a master craftsman and it would shock me if he hasn't been diligent with that work on the side. Now again i understand that. It's not the same as live reps. But i don't know if a guy In his situation needs quite as many live rupp especially since scheme hasn't changed. There's really been no appeal on the defensive side of the football so learning curve. You know that's not going to really be an issue. So i i don't know if it's gonna be mid season form but i don't think it's going to be one of those things where were in the late in the third quarter and we're looking at tj. We're like oh no know. The lay offs is really hurting. Right now ingram. I wonder about a little bit more. You know. I wonder what kind of how many reps can he take Is he gonna be able to. If highsmith can't go as ingram or younger going to be able to play a sixty minutes. That's very interesting and glad you brought that up. It's very nice knowing that ingram is in there as well and look you also might see some action out from the isaac redman award winner. Jamir jones as well. Let me ask you about him. Real quick as we're getting ready to go into this. Is this guy we we've seen this movie in the past we've seen the twos are skippers. Just show off in in the second. Half of preseason games but jerry jones jamir jones. Excuse me he seemed to have shown up throughout the entire preseason product process in the first couple quarters which is an even bigger deal is..
Behind the Steel Curtain
"jeff hartmann" Discussed on Behind the Steel Curtain
"To the second part of the steelers preview. I'm jeff hartmann senior editor bundy steel curtain dot com joining as always. Brian anthony davis or podcast producer. And dave scofield the editor of behind the curtain. We already talked about in part one steelers players to watch. I wanna talk about first bills players bills players that you're thinking my god this guy scares the crud outta me for a lot of reasons. I i think. I know who we're going to mention right off the bat i too will go with dave. Go first because dave's always complaining about brian. ceiling is answers to so go with earth. Later that you're looking at this is just you. You're thinking this guy scares me entering this game on sunday. Who is believe it or not. I'm i'm going with quarterback. I'm going with josh allen. I think he you know a lot of people were have him as possible. Mvp candidate i know if if you do your their season long fantasy football i know most places had him ranked the number two quarterback behind. Patrick mahomes a lot of thing. A lot of big things expected out of him this year. So with that. And it's and it's funny because i saw some people throwing around some numbers in the live chat of all the steelers need to do this. They gotta make sure this doesn't happen. A lot of that was exactly the stuff that i talked about on the steelers dacic podcast which is on our audio platform. So if you haven't checked it makes you go do that. Because that's exactly what we talked about. But i even tried to break it down with josh allen. Oh well once you russia's for a lot to have much success there was no correlation. You never know if this guy's gonna throw for yards run for twenty yards or both. He's he's he reminds you a m- not saying they're the same but the but the idea of that he can almost do any anything and make things happen. Kinda fell like one. Btr early in his career that he was just kind of you know when ben would shake off those defenders and still complete the past and stuff like that. You never know with this guy. If he's going to if he's going to take off you know but as butler said today. Hey i hope he wants to run a lot because we like to hit guys who run the paraphrase what he said so. But you can't look at this team and not look at the quarterback in and say that. Yeah that's what we really have to make sure that we account for good big good pig. Indeed brian with. Who would have been you player to watch i. If you're going to quote keith butler thrown a few dadgum dadgum. But i hope he runs it. Man i tell you what josh allen is absolutely i i think he is that next quarterback in fact i had a fantasy draft where i just picked him yesterday instead of mahomes because i think this guy is going to be lighting up numbers. But that's for another thing the guy that he's throwing his stefan digs and the steelers have this tendency to play better against guys six three six four six five tall receivers the kind of match up better with them and but these guys that are six foot and fast. They struggle a little bit more with remember all those years as a guy like john brown. Who would who would light him up. John brown's done on this team anymore. I'm not talking about him. But i'm talking about stefan digs. I love everything that this guy does. He's just dangerous. They shut them down in the first half last year. You'd just new watching that game on december fifteenth last year. That was not going to be enough. The second half he just let them up and he has that ability to turn it on so. This is a guy that i would probably yet. You've gotta stop him. Everyone knows you've gonna stop josh allen but if you stop stefan digs it's going to be easier to stop josh l. Yeah there's two are obviously the main to the people will bring up when it comes to this year. I'm going to go on the defense side of the ball and it's the other edmonds brother. What is this one's. I named brian. What he goes by mature. It's official like you. I think he is a. I think he is just the his name. Trump germaine okay. So he doesn't have okay. That's that's unique anyways. Tremaine is a player. That i think is getting better and better. And he was a first round. Pick for reading. I think he's a really good inside linebacker. He's someone that can wreck your plans at trying to get into the tight and things like that I'll go in that direction. Because i new digs in allen. We're going to be the first to that. You all mentioned it. Just mito outside of emmanuel sanders cole. Beasley people know these names. Maybe it's just me. And i talked with michael beck on my. Let's ride podcast. Friday and asked the same question as you all know the. Nfl is a as a whole than i do. I know the steelers well. But i don't know the all the nfl. What else should i be afraid of with his buffalo bills roster seriously tell me white the corner okay absolutely good good anyone else. I mean both running back singled. Terry he he was him and zack. Moss exac mosses a little bit scarier. If you think of me think of it. But last single terry was he was one of the two. Nfl running back heard me say there's a bunch of times who had more than one hundred carries and a started actually saw he was the only one of two regardless carries. It started sixteen games running back in the nfl last year. Him and derrick. Henry that was it. So we'll he's air. What about the trenches. Ofensive line defensive line any good can get after the quarterback they go. Yeah you've got an oliver who was a top ten Jerry hughes is tough morio. Addison i believe he still in there. islam I can never pronounce his name. Be there i mean. He's out this practice the last two days. Well they didn't practice today. It was the projected injured report. But yet he didn't practice on wednesday their bills fans are a little bit. Like yeah kind isn't good. If he's not going to be available now how you say his name again. Let can't remember the to a or something like that. First name star dr. Yes thinking of names. If you see it. I put it up there. I was wrong. It is fazon tremaine. See dance referring to any tremaine was his name. Adding people lab chevrolet pool jet stream now with their first name. His first name is fazon really. They need to tell for football reference because they just say he's tremaine I i just found that in their fairl. Edmunds was the dad. So he's put everybody with funds in there all right. I have one more. Which i think is the biggest concern. Sean mcdermott. i think he is a top notch. Nfl coach he had just swelling games. He he's he's someone that you you. It's hard to one up him if you know what. I mean as a coach. It's very difficult out coach. This buffalo bills t- so you just have to have to beat them. I feel like they're one of the best teams in the nfl at least last year. We'll see if that carries the twenty twenty one all right. Did this all last season. I wanna carry this over into the twenty twenty one regular season our x-factor thinking of something someone that whatever. The case may be decide the outcome of the game based on their play or really we can expand this beyond players coaches. it could be venue. Could be anything so guys week. One buffalo bills in buffalo will start with brian. What's your x factor in this game. Gimme cam sutton in this game. It's it's gonna fall on him in this game. I i could see him making a big play. Or i mean i'd hate to see go the other way but that could camps and like that i've lot dave. What about you any factor. Let's go minka back there. You know doing his thing in the defense seeing if he can disrupt stuff allow the steelers to do things in the regular season that they didn't really do in the preseason because they couldn't because he wasn't playing if you know what i mean so let's see if if if if minka can come in there and force that take away. Yeah for sure. I'm going to go to najji harris..
Behind the Steel Curtain
"jeff hartmann" Discussed on Behind the Steel Curtain
"Deputy editor behind the curtain dot com and we were doing a little bit of a primer for cut down day of course tuesday the days now as soon as this podcast drops we will be taken down the minutes. Heck the seconds to that cut deadline as those move start trickling in and we know they will and they will be coming in hot. And i don't really anticipate any big crazy cuts by the pittsburgh steelers especially the team in the direction. They're trending in. It just doesn't look like a team. That's going to be making any kind of bold decision right now but we should talk about the defense of course first half of the show. We broke down often. The side of the football defensively kicking things off at the corner position and we'll work our way in from there at corner. I think we already know what the steelers star is going to look like but then it comes to those depth spots and whether or not they make a move for another corner. Which if you ask me if you ask jeffrey benedict if you ask. Jeff hartmann dave pskov. Basically if you ask anyone from behind the steel curtain dot com staff it feels like an evid ability that the steelers land some sort of corner whether or not. It's a player from an outside team or trade to upgrade the spot especially at that nickel position. An o'brien callaghan's name. That's been talked about a lot and one that the steelers have called to check in on. I don't know if it's passed anything other than initial contact but that's something. We need to see one of those spots. Honesty is going to come from a player more than likely outside the organization that the time of recording. The show is currently a pittsburgh steeler outside of that you of go look at those kind of depths spots. Could amar gilbert climb his win in the team. Of course you know occur. Brown got cut in the steelers have no plans on signing him to the practice squad which is kind of mind boggling to think of the undrafted free agent with the largest signing bonus in steelers history getting cut just a few weeks later with no interest for the team for even a one redshirt kind of developmental year the steelers sitting and kind of moved along that one was a bit of a shocker but that corner spot again. It's one wash. It almost seems like justin lanes going to fluke his way into another nfl year. Sorry if you're listening. Justin but he struggled mightily throughout all his playing time in the regular season. The last couple of years after being third round pick for the pittsburgh steelers But they just don't have the bodies. Justin leans going to find his way on this team once again. Moving out to safety. This one is kind of one of those up in the air things once again. Because the steelers don't really have any safeties past their starters you know making fitzpatrick trill admins and traynor. Would i suppose it's kind of that number. One free safety back up now with almost no competition behind him which is pretty insane for the pittsburgh steelers to roll a seventh round pick as a primary backup into the season. But that's just the way we're rolling into this year so hopefully norwood is ready to go but right now. I don't anticipate anything anything crazy. Come down from that role. Strong safety however i guess miles kellogg abreu is your backup strong safety guy. That played linebacker. The last couple of seasons. In that kind of marcus allen type role of course. He's reunited with coach. Darrell austin who drafted him to detroit and meet him. A strong safety before awesome left and killebrew was bumped down to that inside linebacker position. So safety i wouldn't expect anything crazy outside of them perhaps trying to bring in another body. I don't. I don't foresee them making any bold moves at the safety position though and are just more likely to try to rotate one of the corners. Up to safety in the event of an injury bringing things down to inside linebacker and things start to get a little bit of spicy because that inside outside linebacker spot. We know the steelers like to carry nine of them total. Whether or not it's five guys in the inside or five guys in the outside varies by year and it just varies by talent level. And who. Danny danny smith thinks is going to be a better contributor on special teams those kind of depth linebacker roles typically false guys that have a little bit more special teams prowess. So that's something to keep in mind when the cuts come down and you get mad that your favorites outside or inside linebacker depth player that is got the axe. That's probably because they're not a very good special teams contributor. And that's their number. One job being the ninth linebacker on this team so some names to watch out for us cut candidates i think of course ulysses gilbert the third his time i feel like he's one of those guys just come to an end he was terrible. All preseason lawn. He lost naps he. He's he remembered that week one game that he was healthy. Mike tomlin refuse to give them a helmet despite having almost no depth that inside linebacker at all it was just one of those things where ulysses gilbert the third continues to hang on but everything is just training in the wrong direction for him lashing on this team any longer. So that's someone. I kind of anticipate getting the chop. Of course marcus. Allen is another name that you should watch out for who i think he might have played himself onto the roster but battling some injury. You don't know for certain. We know joe schubert and devin bush. You're going to be the starter so not to worry. They're the most likely backups. Roberts splaine and buddy johnson will be backing them up then it becomes whether or not there's a fifth linebacker or fifth guy on the outside. Of course the outside linebacker spot you've got. Tj watt melvyn. Melvin ingram goodness gracious. Already forgotten his name. And then you have. Alex highsmith as your three starters. Your forced guy comes down to a competition of three players..
Pushing the Odds with Matt Perrault
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"But dwayne half would be on deck. Meaning if rudolph is struggling. I don't think tom would hesitate a in the blink of an eye to say half during their. Let's get if ben rothlisberger would retire at the end of the year. Could you see. Dwayne haskins being the quarterback. Qb one next year. I think it would at least be a competition with mason. Rudolph information for find that one year extension. There's past off seasons that are guaranteed to have him in the fold for the twenty twenty you. i think it would be a legitimate. Can't battle to see who would be the starting quarterback and that's to assume that they're not gonna do something crazy like trade up and get a quarterback in the draft or anything like that. I think that if the steelers trust both of these players enough. I don't think one quarter is going to have a given to them. It's gonna be who earns it in the preseason and training camps with year. really interesting battle to watch. I have to think that don't to be honest with you. I think the base and rudolf like i said would be the leader in the clubhouse and that competition but happens would be far behind. What do you make a benny. Snell's roll coming up obviously nausea harris's drafted to be running back one but how many snell be using the offense this season Not much if you asked me. He's an injured. All of training camp Last season was very. He had kinda hit or miss. You know you have some good games Early on in the season and the steelers kind of abandoned the wrong altogether but he hasn't been available this other training camp. You know they always say your best abilities your availability and he hasn't had that and so when you think about nausea harris and the way that mike tomlin and his offense is like us the running back he wanted to get all the carries until he literally need a break and so far in training camp. It's been anthony mcfarland second-year back to maryland. It's been getting the carry And then you had thrown kaelin balaj. Who's kind of a journeyman. Now is breaking several. Nfl team. he has been playing well. He's been getting rave reviews. Mike tomlin. i'm not sure. How many running backs. They're willing to keep it right now. Then he smells the odd man out into people wanna talk about you know projected yard i. I wouldn't expect much from benny's now if he makes it interesting. Jeff hartmann upon the cart and joining us here on pushing the odds so when you look at the defense obviously tj. Watts had just an incredible star to his nfl career. But who else has flashed here in training. Camp defensively pittsburgh. Well i mean. I think if you're looking at outside linebacker dalek. Highsmith your Last season he came in and looked good spelling depre- end or what he can rush from both sides and now this year everyone expected that big sophomore jump. And that's exactly what he has provided us for now granted. It's a small sample size and it's a preseason but in my opinion you can glean something from the preseason regards to you are dominant. Even if you're going up against the backup you're gonna make them look silly and that's exactly what he's done i think he's going to be an impact player. Everyone thinks you know was out free. How's that going to impact tj wide. I think. Alex is an melvin ingram. Let's not forget about him. He's healthy and looks really good. they're going to be able to counteract you know in in kind of place but the as a combination. I think the pass rush russia's still going to be unbelievable you you figure to it'll be back hayward Lulu upfront you..
Behind the Steel Curtain
"jeff hartmann" Discussed on Behind the Steel Curtain
"And then Garrett hartley who signed and then got injured the week after eventually leading to the trade for a josh gobi. Everyone's favorite era and steelers lately. Six summer twenty seventeen seasons fifteen or sixteen but at all. Of course that. Lets chris boswell. But i don't want chris boswell getting hurt on all and we. I forgot the. We picked up a kicker just to kick and campus of sam sloman Formerly of los angeles rams okay and that that's another interesting battle not not with boswell vases demand but with with berry in press press presley arvy. I'm looking forward to seeing that one. Too i mean can can impress lee harvey very out. We thought we got very last year. He's he's snakes his way. Back in the jeff hartmann senior editor on curtain always says finds way back. He's like a cockroach that just will not go away right. I think this might finally be the year that we see that brand new punter for the pittsburgh steelers. It's taken a lot. But i think we finally got there. Of course knock on wood. They're still coming weeks. But i have low conferences. Can you think that have to have asked to be the cases. They used a draft pick on opponent. I mean you you think harvey we get every consideration. Now they won't just give it to them but because they drafted them if they're ranked one a and one b harvard's probably one right. Now i would agree with on my thoughts behind the counter battle. It's kind of interesting. Like i would say if it's fifty fifty if they're completely down the middle even i still go with harbin because you know jordan berry tends to flop when the weather gets cold and you don't know that's kind of an unknown with presley carbon. The third and pressing harvard in years past in college has had a better average of better punting average so those those numbers would suggest and like jordan very kind of collapsing late in the year. I would give the shot to the younger kid. It's just time the steelers need good punting and it. It's been bad for far too long. And it's been bad in in crucial moments. Long i believe is a dallas cowboys. Game in twenty four seventeen or two thousand sixteen was during berry just the ball hits the side of his foot tenure net punt out wins a game. But you know it just. That's the game. Zeke elliott took screen pass and win like eighty five yards on. Yeah right in the end there ryan. Yeah so it's about time for the pittsburgh steelers to have some good ponting. But as i look at the clock here we are at our halfway point tape before we let you go. Is there anything you want to plug for the people. I know nothing all man. Just let me know we we we have. This is new. Know it alls podcast. We talk about a multitude of different sports and things like that so you just check it out on youtube. No all podcast facebook. The nordahl podcast group. Join and just check us out. Awesome great stuff No there's a ton of great interviews on your platform as well And straight from the horse's mouth. Brian anthony davis will will try to get to take more involved in the rotation here as the weeks. Go on of course. A great steelers mine. Were always looking for those. So take. Thank you so much for hopping on with me tonight. Thanks man already so everyone. That's listening on facebook and youtube right now to stay put. We'll switch over to part to if you're on the podcast platform side. Just hang out for a click over to part two. Now you'll be able to catch the second half of your enemy right now. Mom support for.
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"And with me. Today is a special guest. I'm so glad to pull a good friend from the live chat. You might know him as tape boys. Kevin tate is here with me kevin. How are you my friend a. I'm doing well. thanks for having me. I love this. Show been a viewer for both about two and a half years now. So you know i i enjoy i enjoy all all the different shows that you guys have on mostly youtube every week i do sometimes listen to the less ri- but i find myself watching a youtube morrison excellent and now that's a good thing. I'm glad you brought that up. If you're missing out on the i mean if you're checking out the youtube shows that's great but you're going to be missing out on so much more as the podcast producer. We have put together a great fall lineup. Where we're already starting to mix those shows in so are you. Fantasy football guy kevin. I'm a fancy football guy all right. So you've gotta be checking out the steelers fantasy football fix on wednesdays. Jeremy bets another guy who he was a writer dai crew on the. Let's ride podcast. And he was able to show us what he could do and he has a great fantasy. Football show that comes from steelers perspective. Who they're playing each and every week and the rest of the league whether it's daily fantasy or whether it's your traditional fantasy football league so check that out we also debuted another show yesterday We call them the steelers power half hour some guys with an ohio perspective. They're coming from there. So we've got chris joe and paul doing a show where they power rank different factions of the steelers. Each and every week they did a top five of the most crucial for twenty twenty one just yesterday so you gotta check that out as well. of course let's ride and you know jeff hartmann. He wants everybody to be in the right or nike crew. So check that out. But we've got other shows too. They're coming up. I can't wait to talk about them. We will be maybe having some guys from. They're coming up leading up to those shows. Jeffrey benedict's going to have his own show. We have another show called. What is talking about about the steelers side of social media. And there's other shows on the audio only the steelers richard show at tony and myself and we're going to be doing factor fiction's there every single week. We've got steelers radio wire if we appear on other shows in speaking of other shows you have your own show on youtube tate. Can you tell us about that. Yeah i have a. I a couple of good buddies of mine. We starting podcast a couple of months ago. It was called the nobles. And it's basically just your your routine sports podcast mass dealer centric like this when we talk about all sports two of us know are steelers fans one of the cowboy fan and we just talk about the. You know the gamble sports. Thus far we've had some guests on his show k j adams. All american basketball player headed to kansas. This fall we talked about the al with him. You know the name image likeness that the ncaa has allowed collegiate athletes. That get a to get paid We've had olympian don cherry on talking about an olympics preview and just last week we had ray jackson and ethnic blu ray jackson from the michigan fan. Five anthony floyd ex louisville cardinal all american safety in indianapolis call play. We paid manning and adron james marvin harrison three those guys so we talked about the bells guys and just their careers and life after sports. So you know we're we're trying to just make a mark and you know get some some subscribers and have some some different days to bring you guys obey. Forgive me a chance to to kinda talk about that. Badness is no at all k- in all. It a l l z. knowing halls. and i tell you what. It's a good show. I've had a chance to check out. I saw the ray jackson. Shell and i i saw the the dominant choose nestle shell so It was really good. So i wanted to have tate on the show. I i remember tate from a our live. Chat and kevin was also in our in our draft draft. Yes so who did. Who did you have last year. Measure in draft. I had the raiders. Had the raiders. And i took i took. I took j. o. k. Who's now a cleveland.
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"jeff hartmann" Discussed on Behind the Steel Curtain
"Anthony davis the podcast producer. Had a week off in the woods man since saturday. I've been taken some naps. I am absolutely tired. So but i'm glad to be back. I missed you guys. I really missed hashtag bad company. I really missed. Bts's family of podcast in everybody in the live chat. That hangs out on all the shows. And i even mistake. Scofield and jeff hartmann. I missed those guys so as well as everybody else on the network. It's great to be back here. gosh talking about we're talking about bigfoot. We're talking about lao richie songs. But we're talking about the most personality in pittsburgh steelers lower than that's what we are going to be doing Looks like we've had some people down for the count not feeling that great this week in hashtag bad company. Hope you're feeling better. And if i missed anything in the live chat. I do apologize. You know me multitask. This is bad. We'll tell you. I do not multi task well. So i'm trying so if you need to. If you need to let me know. Put it on there again. George test mask are the scouts. Coed now yes a new yes. They are but they're separate troops completely. My daughter was there. It's cow camp as well but she was in her own troop. She's not in our troop now. They're co ed classes. They're they're coed. They they mixed through but we keep a very good eye on them and they are not at the same campsite their tents or not anywhere near each other. And that's something that we make sure for for many reasons but the girls troops. I will tell you this. They are organized. They are fantastic. They take it to the boys. They really do fantastic groups really glad to have them there. They get a great experience as well. It's a good feeling to have all kinds of scouts. No matter the gender. They're working together but at night there in separate sites and that's good too so anyway i i gotta tell you this. I talked a lot of steelers. I met some. I met some be. Tse fans there that that knew about bt se. Had no clue that i was on. It had no clue. They didn't realize that they go to the website. And like mogo to the podcasts. So it was so much fun. It was one of the best weeks of my life again but this year no issues. What's so ever migra up. They they were really pumped. They had a lot of fun and no one thought. It was really weird. I think being off for covert being missing it last year. They missed being a camp in so they were back in. They were on their best behavior. I i think it was great. I love this now. I'm going to say jerry cherry says come on feel the noise girls. Rock the boys. Now if you're going to stay quiet riot you can but jerry jerry would probably correct me. 'cause that's originally a song by slade believe nineteen seventy-three one of the greatest rock bands in england's history. If you don't know slate you know the song. Run run away from nineteen eighty-four. It is a great song but slade does really good rock band. But we probably would've know it if it wasn't for quiet riot. So can all feel the. Na is there you go check out some slade man. We're throwing out bigfoot lionel ritchie. Now we've got slade and quiet riot. We've the scouting movement. We've got so much to talk about. It's great we had to scout camp. We had two on thursday for spirit week. it was sports jersey day. What's yours do you think i wore. I'm gonna let she guess. I will let you guess which jersey i war yes. It was a steelers jersey. But which one do you think. I wore so throw it in there i wore. I also wore. I wore this. Make your own maryland helmet. Because i represent the state of maryland in the back our numbers on the back have the maryland flag in it. I did not wear the. Bj fit he pants garrett. He's that would that goes against so many things that would be not scout appropriate to where those pants..
Behind the Steel Curtain
"jeff hartmann" Discussed on Behind the Steel Curtain
"Of protect myself from brutality. I always kind of like downplay our chances. And i'm kind of like doom and gloom and so but joe that that may have been the problem to last year is joe began to autoimmune. I start feeling good about our chances and then came in at ten is oh what. Why wouldn't i be optimistic at that point. Even ten dollars like ugly wins. I don't know so yeah. i'm. I'm perpetually anxious that the bottom's gonna fall out from under us. I guess that's kind of where i come from. Unfortunately we need you to break down. Joe will yes joe. He's the he's the optimus he's he's the guy who's going to see the silver lining no matter how bad things look no matter how rough things are. Even when the steelers get embarrassed in the playoffs so still find the positives to take away from it so he he's always gotta pulling us off the edge of the abyss and so he's the yeah. I think if if it wasn't for him coming on whether the season fell apart last year. Have been chris. And i just yelling and screaming. And so yeah. He's bounced still screaming to be fair. A justified though the super chat up really quick. If i can click on a properly dirk sessions puts five dollars in the tip jars frost. Joe second chair podcast. Or is that a reference to something. Maybe i'll turn the next question over to joe here. Maybe you can give a compliment sandwich to your your other podcasters a couple of positive things about each guy and maybe one negatives slid in in maybe can start with a break now chris content i have i always comes in. He's a born journalist so he comes in always very well researched and very well Thought through the things that he's bringing to our podcast. He's he's the person that we rely on to To really set us up as what the structure of what we're gonna talk about is for in a lot of ways pollen. I just come on and talk. And chris sets it all up So it's always really helpful to have his organization in his research. That goes into what. What's gonna make good podcast for us this week. part of the sandwich where it's got the the negative part wolf say about kurt's which is kind of enjoyable for us if we could take a kind of pleasure in trying to guess where chris is going to go sometimes The hill get things just stuck in the back of his mind and they'll just really bother him and from week to week will still argue about how there shouldn't be to professional athletes that have the same name and that's just wrong and it gets really frustrated by its becomes a game of. How do we continue to respond to the things. That really bother. Chris and for all of paul's what he's saying is his negativity. It all comes from a very strong understanding of what what should be happening in these. It's a frustration when something that should be. Obviously happening isn't so his heart. Is you know deeply rooted in a in steelers fandom and he gets disappointed when it doesn't go as well as he knows that it can and i'm just here to to pull him back from the abyss but remember they can do they can. Yes that's true so you know we balance each other out pretty well all the way around trying to keep some good humor but also You know trying to bring some some good analysis to what has just happened. What did we just watch perfect. Now chris it's your turn to take the floor and breakdown. You're in whatever order. You want to take that for now. Complain about us there you go. I can't believe me. I mean real quick. I just questioned mike sullivan. I'm sure a great quarterback coach. I'm sure he's going to do great with the steelers. Why do we only pick a mike solvent when he's also the coach of our hockey team. I'm like i don't know these are the things that go around my mind so i appreciate tonight just as a more reason by like wildcard thoughts my mind manley but honestly Pawn joe are great people to work with. It's fun. it's nice to podcast with people that you have hung out with ally. You can talk about suffering with love talk about. We're steelers fans. It's great to talk about. the scene. Could frustrates the times last. Couple of games of season. But it's fun being part of them. I guess negative thing. And i got address this. Ah jeffrey we don't have the same merch deal set up as i see. Michael paul and joe have. I mean we haven't done a show yet. And you seem paul got hooked up emerged from somewhere and joe did and michael has more go to a store did buy some of your graham guys gotta get one of these one of the official behind the steel curtain dot com shirts. Yes go maybe we can get Jeff hartmann hook hook the squad up. But he's the senior editor. He's the one with all the money so we'll throw he's got the big bucks passed by anybody out. There wants to sponsor me. I can't be great. Beautiful stuff It it is the top of the hour now so I think we will sign out before we get there Jeffrey ernie film rooms to the people should know about. Yeah we just go. Field and i did a vertex online. Melvin ingram and what he brings to the steelers. And i've got a tj another tj watt sack party. One coming out It's cute it's there's been a lot of news so it's been it's been sitting sitting waiting for a spot to get published But that should be coming out here shortly. That's it for me awesome So chris paul and joe all your twitter handles are currently on screen right. That's right okay. So read those out for the people on the podcast side. If you wanna follow. Chris that a.
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"jeff hartmann" Discussed on Behind the Steel Curtain
"Team even if he's just a special teams in depth piece. Think about a better jordan. Dangerfield antoine brooks a. He was another player who got a lot of talk. He didn't get in front of the media he might tomlin spoke about him. Mandatory minicamp saying he could have a bigger role this season. He was a drafted player. In twenty twenty in traynor. Would i still think the steelers loved him and we could actually have him in the cornerback discussion as well. I like what you said. Dave when were getting to the cornerback. She said i have them ten ten defensive backs making the team because some of these players malesherbes norwood They can play multiple positions so they could be technically on both of these depth charges. But still i like. I like that five that you have as well. So that's a total of twenty five on the defensive side of the ball. Do some very basic math than even jeff hartmann can do. That's fifty so that leaves us to specialists especial teams and this is normally something that we would just kinda who Here we go. Let's go over the three players. They're going to make the team. Maybe not so much this year you have make it from the specialists well as of right now camera candidate is really long snapper on the on the roster so true that's right i forgot is there. Is he a linebacker long snapper. That's what you've gotta ask. Tom and loves position versatility. Yes but he's been around for. I think this'll be his third camp so he's one of those guys that they liked to have around just in case but i don't think he's gonna knock candidate off the roster And then of course. It's not the they did. Bring in another kicker. But it's not he's not gonna knock off chris. Boswell unless there's a big problem it's mainly to keep boswell from having to kick too much through the preseason. And i have. I've got big press. I've got big press making it as at the punter over jordan berry and the biggest reason is if you go back in the history of the pittsburgh steelers. Drafting punters players. That were strictly punters. You know i'm not talking back in in nineteen thirty nine where you draft a guy. That's that's a half back a linebacker and upon her and the placekicker. I'm not talking that. But if you're drafting a guy that is a punter only upon her. They've never drafted. One did not kick every game of their rookie year. So for that reason. I think they go with the guy. They drafted so i obviously boswell. I agree with you. He's the guy he's going to be the player. That and i hope they give him kind of the ben roethlisberger treatment because he was had those nagging injuries last year. I think it was hip hip with kicker. That's a horrible injury to have. You don't want him to develop any those type of injuries in training camp. So boswell's the kicker candidates probably along sanford barring and injury in then presley. Harvard in the third. You know i remember. I joined the curtain call about three weeks ago now and they were talking about presley harbin. The third big presses. I call and thank thankfully. No one is picking up on Briny anthony davis is elvis. Je is horrible. it's what anyways big press. Because he's a big guy and he'd president a lot of weight if you check out what he did at georgia tech. I talked about how you know last year. We were all excited just me. I was excited when buried in. Make the team. They signed dustin colquitt. Anything in sweet here. We go and then he ends up coming coming back Personally harvard is going to have to play well. And i'll probably celebrate if he's still the partner at the second half so after the second half of the season if presley harvard is still the punter. Maybe that's when i will celebrate and i'll do a little diddy or something like that on the show for all those out there my writer dai crews had been wanting to hear me mates. They always. I always talk about all right as song and i'll sing song. Maybe i'll do a song. Is you have jeff. Would you look at some of the longest averages for the season in punting have been in recent years with jordan berry being the owner. I do not have a problem with jordan. Berry i do i. I have a problem with the inconsistency. It's not that he can't punt. Well it's just that he doesn't always punt well and i understand that and an honestly the biggest thing that i like with the steelers is if they see that their weaker and they could get better that. They're not afraid to do what they need to do to get better. And last year after dusted cocaine the steelers realized they could get better at punting by bringing jordan barry back and they did. I just want them to be good at it. I don't care who it is. I don't have a problem with anyone like you do. I just want them to be good at. And now you're right you're right. I have a problem with barry even sure what it is. I i absorbed that narrative. Now you can't you can't you can't backtrack on that. I'm i'm i'm way in the deep end to this thing. There's no backing out. So all right so there. You have it folks. That's our prediction for this 53-man roster we know we're going to be wrong but it's just fun to go through it. If you want to communicate with us you can find us on twitter. I am at j hartman h. Ertms underscore pat can find him at s. t. l. Superfan dad follow us. You can talk about this if you don't wanna do twitter a lot of people like i'm not doing i'm not tweeting or anything. Go to behind the steel curtain dot com..
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"As always tony. Few and i am so excited you guys. You're joining me tonight. This actually pretty pleasant friday night and pittsburgh i'm I was out earlier. I was out shopping for some dinner for some post Show dinner About forty five minutes ago. I'm like wow i. it's almost fall but it really isn't. It's it's still early july so we still have another eight nine weeks of a of a really hot weather. At least you never know anymore. But i can't believe how pleasant it is especially considering how hot it was just a few days ago. It was torture. I was out running on tuesday. Don't ask you. Why almost fifty. I'm not even allowed to shovel at this point about running in like ninety five degree weather and poor. Poor air quality alerts. Not why. I'm trying to get apps i guess but yeah it's a. It's a pleasant friday night. Where i as of right now. We're watching right now. You're watching me on on youtube. Live reading catch so many live podcast every night. Actually there's there's there's this show and then on. You'll see me again on monday. Night with brian davis and shannon metre shannon last week. I felt so bad. But he's he's a great addition to the show and add so much insight so it'll be three about moving forward in you catch that every monday night at eight thirty. It's the hangover in in the off season in a regular season. It's called actually. It's called hangover all the time. Now right yeah so to hangover. What am i talking about. Sorry it was a lapse tuesday night. It's the scarborough show with dave scofield. And his brother rich as a great show. I enjoy that at the very popular show. And there's an dave son. Kyle's becoming a star before our very eyes so look out for him. He's another one. Just like connor davis who will be taking my job soon. I'll be on twitter bashing them on twitter about how they don't know what you're talking about because i'm i've been in this business for what three years now. The podcast in business. So i really no more than that which is not true. So check that out wednesday. It's the curtain. Call with michael beck in jeffrey benedict and soon it'll be Know your enemy where they always have an awesome guest on every week during the season. And i think they have some during during the off season to So that's awesome show. I always enjoy getting their takes on football. They both know their stuff Jeffrey benedict isa's to film breakdown. Whiz and michael beck crecy played football so he knows his stuff. So that's a great show. Thursday nights to preview. jeff hartmann brian. If they davis are podcasting manager and dave scofield. The one of our editors friday. This saturday it's touchdown under with with mattie pepper all and in mark davidson and enforce on sunday at least in the off season that's tales from two. Am with the very famous and very popular. and rockstar. like brian Bryant anthony davis so. 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"And thirty six is about our our senior editor hartman in the ass. Tony wise shift hartman. Such a hater on jordan berry. When he hasn't ever played this life you tell him he's a. Wow wow. I shouldn't have put that up there man. I'm glad i cut that off the end. I mean you know there's room there's room for improvement with jordan. Barry i mean we've seen it in recent training camps where you know he may have been in position to lose his job in the eddie stuck around. I mean last year. They cut them broaden. Dustin colquitt didn't work out for coke when he was he wasn't really good and they had to bring back berry but You know why are so many people why they hate ben even though the second he goes they're probably going to be in a bit of trouble as far as trying to rebuild and and move forward. I mean we don't know yet. I just got done saying that. They're probably gonna have a great young team to to for for young quarterback to step into but again once ben retires. You know it might be a couple of years. People can't wait for retire. Why she's just a fan. But i mean let's not pretend like jordan berries Ray guy either i mean. He's you know he's had his good days and he's as bad as but just because you never played football in your life doesn't mean you can't be critical somebody just because you can't just talk part of being a fan you know jeff. Hartmann was critical of the entire team. All the time probably wouldn't be the editor of one of the most popular steelers sites around. I mean being critical doesn't mean that you know you're not a fan doesn't mean just because you never played as me. You're not allowed to criticize. I mean i don't know why people get upset about that. I think we're all have our opinions. I think jordan berries average. Jeff thinks he's worse than average. You know you can improve at the very least you can improve upon average so hopefully presley. Harbin will will accomplish that for them this year. All right on that note at the forty two four mark. I'm just done away. I'm saying the time tonight. But i think i'm going to tell you all good nights and again i hope you have. You'll have a great weekend and a great fourth of july weekend party safe but party hard and on that until i talk to you again go steelers take.
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"jeff hartmann" Discussed on Behind the Steel Curtain
"Cow and people were saying they wasted draft stock taking presley arvin the second seventh round. Pick the last there. It could've draft someone else if this guy's their starter in he's he wins the job and he does a good job. He's your punter. For how many years the next decade plus should you should think so. I don't know it's bad. I wanted him because one of the things we talking about is. It's very hard to judge. Punters today against the past. Because like i was talking with michael dana supported after he came out like the times he was putting up for hang times and the distances he was getting their common now. Then it was like holy crap. Nobody kicks this way. Nobody is this gonna putter in the nfl. He's better than everyone. We've seen point in history you know. It's almost like the the steph curry. You know kind kind of thing where he comes out and starts shooting threes and making them and all of a sudden everyone else's is learning and being like. Hey we can do that to a the game has changed. Puffiness changed and the punters today. Like you said yeah. Jordan berry does not rank well with planners across the nfl. But if you look at steelers history. He looks incredible simply because over the last ten years. Punters have drastically improved. And i've learned more about putting since they drafted presley harvey nudity listener. danny smith. He's talking about how it's not just the big leg. He's gotta have more finesse in science. And i really hate is i feel like punters the statistics. They should have a an inside the twenty statistic which is justifiable but then also inside the tent. Like show me like it. 'cause if if a steelers drive stalls at the fifty yard line inside the twenty is not good enough for me. That should be inside the ten. Let's set a new standard here folks. Let's have inside the tent. That's impressive whatever happened to the coffin corner to whatever happened to people trying to go for the corners. That's very rare. It's almost like the I blame the australians under some in live chat right now. they've probably messed every you know. Jordan barry is australian. It's nothing against the country or the continent itself is. It's kinda strange but anyways It's that whole kicking. The point of the ball aussie stuff. I dunno angles. We do have a superjet here. That i really wanna bring up from austin smith. He puts five dollars in the tip jar. He asked if we can get hallelujah. Performed live by one. Jeff hartmann if jordan berry gets cut by the end of cam. What do you say jeff. What would you do that for the people first and foremost that's canadian dollars. That's not real five dollars. That's fagin like monopoly money. But anyways i'll enter a long way up here cannot bucks is that we called on the preview. I'm not. I will perform. But i don't know see. I read that i saw it on lifezette. I read it. I'm thinking okay. If he week want no. I can't do a week one. Because last year week one was dustin colquitt in the weasel. Roy finds its way back. So what point can we seriously say. The weasel boys gone in these not coming back like we got rid of the weasel again. Is it the by in week seven. Is it halfway through the where. There's no halfway point anymore. Stupid seventeen games but still where what is the point. I'll gladly do a performance of something. I'll pull up guitar. i'll do it on. let's ride you have to tune in. I have no problem with that seriously so if it went down under seriously. Let's talk about this. At what point do we say okay jordan. Mary's actually gone for good barring injury considering last year. I almost want to say like the play. Offs like it scares a little bit. Honestly what is upon or too old. Define because i think very probably like i was sitting there thinking. Yeah he gets picked up by another team. We've seen guys go to other teams. Get cut and come back i mean. Bj finish. Could you imagine though from now. All now it'd be like two thousand five divisional game. Fa change of emotion. I'm just checking tampa roller coaster. Very back. I quit any team seeking applications for fans like goodness me. How can the team that is had this much. Success be dad vatted position. That's what i want to know. And that's beyond. It's a pretty important position i it's it's a holder most of the time. When did the backup quarterback stopping the holder. I remember that all the time back tony. Romeo vases muffing the pun muffing. The the was it extra point or field goal against seattle. I mean yeah lost the game. Yeah lost the game it's crazy. I don't know george. Dobbs could learn to do it. He just fifteen. It'd be messes it up. You can run but you can make the team. Ben has a lot of sway. I don't know trade him to jacksonville for six. Picking shoe imagine goodness me. It is the halfway point in the show. Though i jeff only signed up for ten minutes so if you wanna run you're welcome to stay. I don't think we're talking about punters for the second half but what are you talking about i. I think we're going to break down some of the fun stuff that happened last week right before the preview that that was super super easy to plan for that we definitely jealous of the day before all the news. Talk about. Well i'll i'll let you go at it. It ain't heard me talk about that so for good coming on as my big fan of the show time listener. First-time caller love the show standing guide. A i grew up listening to anyone else. Now you michael jeffrey. Do you remember standing guy. Oh yeah. I loved that show. Hey stan guy burstein a long time listener. First-time caller love the show. All right guys take these last thing though before you outta here. What's what's going to be on the preview tomorrow night. Do you guys have a topic for the no clue no we tell you virtuous we print minutes. I could tell you what's gonna be on. Let's ride for friday morning. But i really i. There's going to be a blog from down under. come join me on. So it's one of two yard berry hopefully one of them not the other one even love to interview jordan berry and say i just you know i would say that. I'm not a big fan. But still i'd love to ask questions about like what's going on in your head when you shank a ball of sixty five thousand people. What's the first thing that goes to your head. I wanna know you walked back to the sideline. How do you even like. Do you avoid mike. Tomlin danny smith. How many pieces of gum does danny smith shoe per quarter like. These are things i wanna know. I was one of the australian guys need to get that interview. Setup i'll do gladly all right. I'll let you go go have a good rest of your take awesome. Thanks for coming on the ladies and gentlemen jeff arman senior editor behind the steel curtain.
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"jeff hartmann" Discussed on Behind the Steel Curtain
"How it goes. I have a list based on ninety man rosters. Okay so this is going to change. But we don't know the steelers roster yet of course we don't have their snaps that they're playing this year in order to do this snap way today. A h so the best i can do is tell you the average age of the ninety man roster and right now for the pittsburgh steelers their average age there ninety man roster is twenty five point four four the got to remember a lot of guys that aren't going to make that team are the younger guys. Guys that are trying to crack their way in the nfl and and catch on with the team. Things like that there could be. There's occasional older guy that just is going to get cut because they don't have it anymore but generally the average age is get dropped down during training camp because of somebody players there now if you want to know where this is this. The steelers were ranked twentieth opposite their the twentieth. Youngest team right now so that puts them asaba just making sure. I had my numbers right. Sorry for positive for a moment there that puts them eleventh. If you're looking for the older steam believe it or not right now the oldest team the houston. Texans the houston. Texans have that have that. Have the oldest age based on everything It goes houston san francisco arizona new england tampa baltimore buffalo tennessee chicago new york giants. And then the steelers who have the same two decimal places the same average age as both the washington football team and the detroit lions. So that's where they sit right now but that's gonna change but that's the best we can do based on the data right now so the number might look younger for the steelers but the fact that there eleven still has them in the top half. I think that's where you wanna be. They're getting right about where that is but really it comes down to play on the field if really it it it really does come down to that so i have one more thing i was gonna dive into since i have a a little bit of time to finish off the show and that was i was talking with senior editor jeff hartmann and say hey you know i like to do. I was two two different topics. I know this topic that. I have this week is gonna take a little bit longer up through the numbers but i always like to have another one small to finish out the show i look at you have a question on and then he throws me one of mike. That's too good. I got to see it for its own show. And then he throws another one. Actually i thought i thought said no. That's good to say that. I don't show or both in one. Shell finally got one and this. This is so jeff hartmann inspired you if you understood if you listen to antiwar charge. You're gonna why. I decided. I go back and look at punters drafted by the steelers and how they wanted their first year georgia just to get the information. It doesn't mean that that presley. Harvard in the third or the second. I can't remember pretty sure it's the third presley harvard. We'll just leave it there whether whether it's a big six or thick kicker whatever people wanted to call him a mock on brian. Anthony davis is dick name because it just so what does it mean that. He's going to be locked into anything going on here. But i just thought i break this down the first thing of note. That's nice well. I searched in all the steelers draft and only came up with previously to harbin. Four punters the steelers drafted now with the first one being craig colquitt nineteen seventy eight. It's important to note that what might have happened with that announcing the steelers never drafted punter before that it might have been that either. A just didn't have the players position listed. Which i'll tell you this pro football reference for some reason doesn't have benny snell listed as a running back you. Do you do a filter for running backs. He's not going to show up. They just have him listed as a football player. They have its position in there. At least that was the case a couple of weeks ago and since unless they fixed it it could be that. That was the case or the bigger possibilities. You go back in steelers history. Is that the player that punted also did other things they just something else that was thrown on because the you didn't always have just strictly a punter but so we're going back. I'm confident that this goes back to the merger. So i'll just at least say that kicking it in one thousand nine hundred seventy eight. You had craig colquitt. He punted in all sixteen games. He had sixty six punts. He averaged forty point zero yards per punt and on his career average forty one point three so below the average first year not surprising the next punter. Oh and he was. He was a third round draft. Pick by the white guy for that in the next drafted by the steelers was in nineteen eighty two. It was john goodson. He punted nine games. You're like oh. I only nine remember what you're saying. It was drafted nineteen eighty two. That was the strike year. He punted every game but that was the strike here. And this is regular season stats. I didn't i didn't throw in playoff. He punted forty nine times. He had a forty point four yard average which was also his career average. Because that was the only year you ever played the nfl..
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"jeff hartmann" Discussed on Behind the Steel Curtain
"I'm laughing about it because there's a typo here in. I got scared. I because it looks like when you eight young but when you are young you sneak out of the house to go to parties. Now i sneak out a parties to go to the house. Ain't that the truth badische and by the way no fine for you. You're on the show. The dogs wanna say hello there running past a lot of dogs in the house this weekend. We're dog sitting too so absolutely crazy. Seven dogs in the house this weekend. That's why i'm here talking to you. Guys other shows checkouts gopro. Shell with dave with his big brother. Rich great show. One of my favorite shows is the curtain call or know your enemy web be known in season again. I mean they're talking to people from different organizations whether it be a competitor or a school where you're gonna draft picks from tony. Oh he's on. Friday nights friday nights six pack with without it used to have brunch with tony on saturdays. Now you're having the six pack with tony so check. All those great shows we will be bringing more personalities in as well that's That's a process that were going to be figuring that all out in the next six weeks or so and we're probably going to have more bad it. I have four dogs. But we're were dog sitting this weekend. So that's the only reason there's a little bit more so i think i think we'll be fine but just don't send to my house. I'm going to go ahead dave's asking for my email address. I've been looking day. So i'm just gonna tell you here. It's be a davis eight. Nine at gmail dot com. So if anybody does want to get a hold of me. I i love hearing from all of our viewers slash listeners. It is it's so much fun to interact with. You and i get an opportunity to do that. So i try to answer all of them the best that i can so i'll put that up on the screen and if anybody wants to get a hold of me feel free to do so. So let's go ahead. And i'll pull that up on the screen here on youtube here. It's ba davis eight. Eight eight nine edgy. Email dot com. And i'll put up for facebook our facebook friends as well. I get a hold of me. I love hearing talking black and gold with all my friends. I've gotten some really good friends from people that i've never met before and people that talk to me all the time so love it. So let's talk about good. France never met touch. Schulkin never met in my life. I've been in the vicinity of them at different events but never had an opportunity to talk them. I regret that man. I would have loved to have had a conversation with touch because when you listen to the radio and from every account from when he was a freshman player at indiana state when he was a rookie for the pittsburgh steelers. This guy was accessible. And he's one of those guys that you think of as family from the beginning. He is a man of faith. He's a man of family. He's a man of his football family. The steelers you know. He played for another team. He actually played for the packers for a little bit in nineteen ninety three. But he's always been a steeler. You know it's michael. Jordan was a wizard. Johnny united's was a san diego charger. Brett farve we talked about him. He was a viking jet and then he came back to the packers and was he somewhere else. Toop besides the vikings on the jets. I think that was that. Tom brady is now a buccaneer. Putt when he always think about it. You're going to think about who they played for. We talked about that with with big al. He's always gonna be noticed. Steeler rod woodson. One super will bold baltimore. He's always going to be known there. Josh parker yet. He was drafted in the second. Round by the falcons brett farve. Yeah i what i was thinking about. An i knew that from the beginning. Because i remember watching the draft. Josh i man. I watched drafts like crazy. Snowman franco was a seahawk absolutely I was thinking more of the nfl career. But thanks for throw that in. Because i did leave that out there yet. Yeah can you imagine. Brett farve is a legendary atlanta falcon. How they would've loved Held onto him. Definitely sometimes you. Don't he have a remember. Drew brees was the san diego charger too. But i wanna talk about belkin. So when i got the news in october when i heard that the token had ls my heart sunk. Jeff hartmann talked about ls the other day. His best friend for ever passed away from l. s. and it is a devastating illness that the you don't come back from and it is has been said that it's the equivalent of being trapped inside your body as it goes is just unfathomable to me. I can't even fathom. I can't process it if i was trapped inside my body. The only the only thing that could think of is a night terror or you're having a dream and you know you've gotta wake up in your trying to fight your way out of it actually hurts your way out of it because you know you're asleep you're trying to wake up and you feel trapped. I'm almost thinking it would feel like that. I don't know for a fact. I just that would scare me more than anything. I've had family members that have had it We we all went through.
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"jeff hartmann" Discussed on Behind the Steel Curtain
"I was listening to one of my favorite podcasts. The other day called the rewatch ables with bill. Simmons and talk about old movies and i was on there. Because they're on a luminary and luminary is. I've never really heard of luminary before. So i gotta luminary and i look in there. We are still curtains on their two. Were found on itunes. Google play were found on everything into me. It's it's great to see us out there but let me tell you. Some of these shows that you might be missing if you're not listened to the audio only platform. Let's ride with jeff. Hartmann monday wednesday and friday in a m on tuesday mornings. It's michael beckwith. Live mike on thursday. One of my favorite shows. The stat geek. Because man no-one taking if you ask him a stat he's gonna do his best to find unless day scofield. It's fantastic stuff. Then these shows that he get on youtube. Were putting him out there. There's other stuff. Like my factor fiction my retro. Show with tony jeffey where we go back in time. We're not talking about now. We're talking about then. Sometimes it's great to reminiscent feel good about a game of the past. We do mostly wins every once in a while. We're gonna we'll throw in an extraordinary loss as well From a game that was was a legendary. there's some legendary losses to But we mostly do wins right now. maybe when i ran out of games but we go we watch. We watch the game start to finish. There's a site where we found these games in its mcmillan life. It's incredible so get to go back in time and relive those shows in the one we just put out. Yesterday it was two thousand nine steelers against brett farve in the vikings remember brooke far was in purple. Yep it was really cool to do. Tony and i did that game. And it looked like the steelers were gonna blow that game. Defense prevailed two thousand nine in that particular game was so much fun. Check that out. Don't miss those. And i'm telling you we are coming up with our new fall season. We are going to be bringing in some noontime shows to these shows right now the youtube shows they re airing on the audio side have to run noon going to change that up a little bit in. We're going to have five new shows for yet so we're going to have new shows on the audio side that gonna be fantastic. Get involved and remember. You can't be in a situation where you're driving in watching us on youtube. 'cause look at the look at everything. You might get distracted. You don't want that you do not want to get distracted by this face whether it's good or bad you don't want to get distracted by it. check that out and also. Don't forget about these shows that you're gonna get on youtube. Every single day tells from to a you know it. It's on sundays on mondays. Live on youtube steeler hangover. Tony gaglione myself jeff. Hartmann is with myself and dave scofield on thursdays with the preview as we preview. What's going on now and in the future. Dallas says it's one seventy five dollar fine here for touching your phone while driving so if you're watching me while you're driving. I can't pay that fine. I don't get paid that much. I can't do that so you could listen to the show on audio and then you can just picture this face. You picture me much better looking than i already am. Every that'd be great You know when i was in radio is top forty radio and i would work midnight to six and i would have women call the time to chat and i was bored. It's two a m. i already did my homework for the night. I was still in college at the time. And i'd be bored. I just talked to. Everybody is when i have conversations Next up spin doctors the go back. I'd be talking So they some of them had no clue what i look like and they would look like and i'd like you tell me each time. I got the same thing every single time. And i was man i was in my twenties. I was skinny. Dude i i have a much better. I had the i still had the the flowing hair at the time at the mullet going. One points. when Mullets were supposedly acceptable. And but i would say. I you tell me what i look like. I got two answers every single time. Brown hair brown eyes medium build medium height and thaddeus. I don't know it seemed like i was talking to women. It was the nineties. It was a simpler time. And they hit me right on and then the other group would would tell me. I was six four blonde with blue eyes. And i'm like you got. And i i would i would. I would whatever they wanted me to be in the luck. That's that's what i said. I was so what a fun time at the Very early nineties late eighties. I graduated from high school in late eighties just so much fun But other shows to check out touchdown under speaking about our glamour. Boys man the boys from down under matt ep. Marquis de man. Those those are the a guy they get a lot of youtube us so they get a lot of Listen just because of their voices because of the accents..