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NFL Live
"tj white" Discussed on NFL Live
"Give me one thing you're watching from those playoff teams this week. Marcus, you go first, the Bengals. I'm watching the Cincinnati bingo's offensive line. Y'all better stop playing with Joe burrow and stop getting this man hit. I know the Pittsburgh Steelers defense is good, but he needs some protection. Obviously he was a bit rusty, turned the football over against this Pittsburgh pass rush with TJ white and cam. I didn't work. Alex highsmith all of those guys, but this week, the Cincinnati bingo's offensive line needs to continue to jail. They need to figure out how to keep Joe burrow upright so we can see what the Cincinnati bingo's really are. Man, I hate that Marcus is rubbing off on me. Why am I not talking about skill players? And I'm going to San Francisco to talk about them dominating up front. This is the San Francisco forty-niners we know. It's not about switching to Trey Lance and forgetting who you are. You dominate people in the run and that opens up the play action pass. If they don't get back to doing that, if Carl Shanahan doesn't get in his mind and guess what? We're not going to be cute because we have a guy with skill and we're going to go downhill that creates the type of physicality we want, then they can't win. Get back to being who you are up front. So the readers offense is a bit underwhelming for me week one for a couple of reasons. The offensive line struggles, especially on the right side and Derek Carr made bad decisions. I don't think this offensive line is getting better. So to me, there is immense pressure on Derek Carr, not to be careless with the football not to hone in too much on Davante Waller and Darren Waller to consider more hunter Renfro perhaps and take what's giving to him not to force it because he has skill players who can easily pick up yards up to the catch. It's the oldest rivalry in the league and can the packers avoid falling to O into after a very disappointing start last week, while some good news could be on the way in the form of wide receiver Allen lazard plus two star tackles and left half of left tackle David bakhtiari and Elton Jenkins, all three of those players are listed as questionable, seemingly closer to playing this week than they were last week. If not, it could be a problem again for the packers who look completely out of sorts against the Vikings last Sunday. A great week to slate and so much more coming your way on NFL live this Friday. The ravens host the dolphins Sunday. Marcus says this is a tougher test for tua, but here why the whole crew says the outcome of this game will define the future for both teams. Plus, you worried about your fantasy teams will don't be worried. Fields here to tell you how to deal with the cowboys without dac as well as looking forward to a big running back matchup. That's next. 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And hey, if you want to tailgate, join us as the NFL live crew will be moving outdoors to the RV parking lot of high Mark stadium in Buffalo. It's gonna be menace. Marcus beer is dinner lasky and yours truly getting the party started with those bills fans. Bills mafia is gonna be out and proud. It's part of 8 hours of NFL coverage. Here on ESPN on Monday, it all starts at 4 p.m.. Time for some smart lineup decisions, provided by IBM Watson to fill the 8s here who's gonna help you get your lineups, right? Let's start with some of the biggest fantasy storylines of the week field. Let's do it Laura and of course dak Prescott being out for the cowboys is a massive fantasy impact. People are wondering, what do I do with CD lamb? Who had 11 targets last week just two catches. He's too talented to bench and there's too much opportunity there because as we know, the cowboys so thin at wide receiver. Meanwhile, Titan Dalton Schultz should be fine. A lot of the throws to Dalton Schultz are the kind of throws of Cooper rush is capable of making. This cowboy's offense though. Not looking so great. How about Tom Brady? Do you play him on Sunday against a saints team that has had his number during the regular season, and Laura, it might be easier for me to list which bucks receivers are healthy as opposed to which are not healthy right now. Mike Evans, he's not fully healthy. Julio Jones, not fully healthy Russell gage, not fully healthy. His offensive tackles were banged up. Chris coffin is out of this game. Leonard fournette is questionable to play. There are a lot of injuries along that buck's offense. I won't be looking at elsewhere. Meanwhile, here's what about feel good story. Saquon Barkley and Christian McCaffrey have been the kings of fantasy football in previous years. Saquon Barkley was the highest corn running back in fantasy and all of week one. Christian McCaffrey has been incredible, even after a quiet week one, it would be great to see these two on the field and can Christian McCaffrey restore order and be back atop the running back fantasy score leading board would not be surprised. It touches the case on Sunday against the New York Giants. Field, let's go to ravens versus dolphins, both Lamar Jackson and villa are coming off of week one wins in Baltimore three and a half point favorites in this one it is at home for them. When these teams matched up last season in November, it was a turning point on both sides, Miami came into that game at two and 7. The ravens came in at 6 and two Miami won the game and then went on to finish with a better record than Baltimore, so in that game last season, Miami's defense was able to get after Lamar Jackson, the dolphins actually pressured Jackson on a career high 20 of his drop backs. They did so by bringing defensive backs on blitz is sending them on 24 of his
ESPN Daily
"tj white" Discussed on ESPN Daily
"They can win games by playing defense and running the football. They did hold Tom Brady and company to 19 points during that frustrating game on Sunday Night. So that's a viable formula in the short term. And for the forty-niners, who might not want to trade Jimmy Garoppolo a way to an historic rifle in the NFC, who didn't exactly get a great game from their offense in those terrible conditions in week one against the bears, they might not be quite as dashboard to trade Garoppolo as they would have been three or four weeks ago. So, outside of first take, I don't see this one happening, but I guess Stranger Things have occurred in the NFL. Yeah, I do want a Stephen a Smith quotient to be considered as an advanced metric and evaluating football decisions. I do want value over replacement take to matter when it comes to constructing your football team. But the other injury here, the other replacement that we got to talk about is what happens with TJ watt and the Steelers and him tearing his pec against the Bengals. While painting a masterpiece, it felt like at the time to me, Bill, just watching him be the best offensive player in the league, seemingly leading the best defense in the league. And so what does this do to the Steelers D right now? Yes, and speaking of Lehman doctors, TJ watt came off the field and immediately said, I tore my pec, which is pretty impressive, frankly. Get that man a giant cowboy hat. This is a really interesting one. I asked to find a bell who does excellent work at ESPN, breaking down injuries, said what might be able to come back after rehab without surgery and reports today have suggested that what does not require surgery and could come back after 6 to 8 weeks, which sounds great. The Steelers obviously would rather have TJ white for the entire season, but getting it back after two months would be great. Also, and this is maybe not appropriate medical science, but I'm not a doctor. I don't have a big cowboy hat so I can say this. The wat family is not built of the same stuff as normal human beings like you and I Pablo. And we have one very notable exception to the track record of torn pictorials causing season ending injuries and it happens to be TJ Watt's brother JJ watt, who tore his pectoral muscle in mid season for the Texans. That's right. Why not IR for 8 weeks, came back for practice and forced way back onto the field at the very end of the season? Was expected to play a few snaps and because he's JJ watt and basically does not have to listen to anybody because he's a freak of nature. Basically played in every down role in the playoffs, helping the Texans get to the second round of the postseason that year. But hold on, just be very extra clear here about the injury prognosis. So saying that unlike with Andy Reid's preferred style of rib. Oh, tough. TJ watt does not want his meat here to be falling off the bone. No, he does not. But I also think if you told TJ watt, we could just slap some barbecue sauce on it and he'd be fine. I think he'd probably go with it and play the upcoming Sunday. Yes. And even though they're not going to have TJ one on Sunday and probably not for a few more weeks, it's a huge victory for the Steelers to have TJ watt coming back at all in 2022, because this is not a very deep defense. And it's a defense that is going to have to win this team games as we saw on Sunday. Alex highsmith, who plays across from watt in the Pittsburgh defense, did rack up three sacks in the season opener, but it's difficult to imagine him being quite as effective without the reigning defensive player of the year drawing attention away from him. Malik read just joined the Steelers last month. He's likely going to be there starting outside linebacker coming up this Sunday. But when you talk about the lack of depth on defense Bill, which is a little jarring for me to hear given how good I consider that unit to be, what are the Steelers really as they are now at this ecstatic one to know? Guess Pablo on one hand, when you win a game, you beat the AFC defending champions, you force 5 takeaways. That's all good. There's nothing wrong with doing that. But let's compare this to history Pablo. When you look back over the last 20 years and see what happens when a team wins the turnover battle by 5 takeaways, like the Steelers did on Sunday, they went a lot. They're 97 three in one historically. Those teams win by an average of more than 20 points. You blow teams out when you win the turnover margin by 5. The Steelers did not pull out the Bengals popular. They needed overtime, they needed a blocked extra point. They needed a miss 29 year old field goal by the swaggiest kicker in football, Evan McPherson. And that only happened because the Bengals had an injured long snapper and could not get a snap down for that 29 yard field goal attempt. The Steelers needed all of that to win the game on the final play in overtime on a field goal of their own. Pablo, that happened because the offense is bad. It is a bad offense in Pittsburgh. They scored 16 points. Against the Bengals, on 13 possessions. And that was mostly with naji Harris their first round picket running back from a year ago who appeared to re aggravate the list Frank injury to his foot, he suffered during the preseason. Harris, who apparently has a big hat, said he expects to play this weekend, but it's unclear whether he's with 100%, or likely to make it through the entire game, which he did not do last week. The Steelers just do not have much at running back behind their star runner, who averaged 2.3 yards per carry while maybe struggling with this foot injury in the opener. And on top of that, miss trubisky, who was making his first start. Yes, we meet again, mister biscuit. His first start since leaving the Chicago Bears looked a lot like the midstream whisky we all know and love. The former MVP played like an envy covered in slime. It felt like he was getting the slime off after a year in Buffalo. In Cincinnati last week. The average just over 5 yards per pass of time. That's just really bad as bad as it gets for a quarterback in 2022. And the big plays he made that pushed that number two 5 came on a screen where he didn't do much work. A flea flicker, a free play, and a ridiculous one handed catch from Deontay Johnson on what was admittedly a terribly thrown past Pablo. We will see eventually in the long term if the Steelers do turn to Kenny Pickett, their first round pick, who looked excellent during the preseason and starts the year as Pittsburgh's backup. But nothing about trubisky's performance on Sunday, suggests he's going to be even an average quarterback in 2022. So if the Steelers say don't force 5 takeaways again and for the second week in a row, I don't think the offense can hold up their end of the bargain moving forward. But Bill, you know that the most important statistic of all, of course, is that mister biske is want to know. That's true, Pablo, I don't know if you want to point out. The bills went want to know, Mitch trubisky, who played for the bills last year, won his first start, writing table, who was the offensive coordinator from the bills, won his game with the Giants of his debut as the head coach, maybe the NFL solution is just to rub some more bills on it. But speaking of rubbing some bills on it, we get to who this dealers are playing on Sunday. New England Patriots. After the break. We all know door and window projects can be a lot. Whether you're making home upgrades or you're a contractor on the job site. The Home Depot can help. They're free millwork virtual apron service makes it easy to get expert assistance without stepping foot in the store. You just call one 8 three three HD apron or you visit Home Depot dot com slash MVA. And their associates can help you find inspiration, order products, and take on installation. Plus, they speak Spanish too. And for the pros working on door or window jobs, they can assist with materials, large orders, and complex requests while you're on the job site, helping save time and money. So if you need a little assistance with your door window projects, take a timeout and contact millwork virtual apron at The Home Depot. The Home Depot. How doers get more done?
NFL Live
"tj white" Discussed on NFL Live
"At the quarterback has led the team on a 6 game winning drive on 6 game winning drives this season. Second most in the NFL he's been clutch when it matters most. For both of these quarterbacks, it will come down to who will play better under pressure as both of these teams have two of the league's best pass rushers raiders max Crosby and Bengal spray hendrickson ranked first and fourth respectively in total pressures this season. So a lot of pressure no matter what, but Ryan can Crosby and the Raiders de line get after Joe burrow. Listen, they can get after Joe burrow and we've seen that happen throughout the season. And when you go back to last week and watch the Los Angeles chargers. I mean, obviously, Justin Herbert had a phenomenal day, but he was under pressure. He was under siege the entire day, and that's with rashon slater locking down one side of the field. So they're gonna have to get after Joe burrow and one thing you know about Joe is he doesn't give up on plays. Joe burrow is gonna hit that spin move. Try to scramble, get outside the pocket and create second play opportunities for his skill players downfield and that's when guys like max like Yannick can get to him, try to force funds or even hopefully get bad passers thrown on the fields to get intercepted. If you can turn over to Cincinnati Bengals, I think that's when we've seen this team struggle. You saw it against the Los Angeles chargers. You saw it against the Cleveland Browns. If those things begin to happen, those are the best chances for the Las Vegas Raiders to capitalize, gain leads and then make the Cincinnati Bengals play from behind. It Ryan is absolutely right. The biggest mismatch the Raiders have in this game is their edge rushers versus the Bengals tag was particularly on the right side, having lost O'Reilly reef for the season. However, the biggest mismatch for the Bengals is their wide receivers TA is Jamar chase against and that is why. I am betting the exact Taylor. You took the governor out the go kart man. There's no going back now. I do not want to see a different game plan. I do not want to see early down runs because you're afraid of your quarterback getting hit. Joe burrow is going to get sacked in this game, but it doesn't matter because he's going to make enough place to keep this offense humming. This is the offense that got them into the postseason and see offense I want to see in this game. Yeah. It just warms my heart to see my colleague talk about D line play. One of those ways to keep Joe burrow in this explosive offense on the sideline is Josh Jacobs y'all. He had a phenomenal game kind of got lost in the shuffle a little bit because Justin Herbert made so many tremendous plays throughout the end of that game, but if you think about how he was able to control, like let's point at the perfect example, the last possession of the game. Against the Los Angeles. When you had the habit, when you had to move the change, Josh Jacob was that guy. And I seen by it seems to me that we forget about him. I know he's had some injuries in being hampered, but when Josh Jacobs is healthy, this is a physical run game. This is a grand UI run game. So I'll be interested to see how much they put that forward in Las Vegas to make sure they can keep Joe burrow in the sideline a little bit longer. I mean, there's more than one reason that's important. It's obviously important for ball control, but it's also important because it leads to the play action pass of Derek Carr. And we're talking about Joe burrow and those skill players, but we can not forget what Derek Carr has done this entire season and especially down the stretch. So if Josh Jacobs get going, gets going and now you open up that play action pass, that's a great way to attack the secondary of the Cincinnati Bengals without having to worry about Trey hendrickson so much up front. Yeah, during the Raiders win streak right Waller's big two during this four game win streak Josh Jacobs averaging over a 110 scrim yards per game at 6 most in the NFL since week 15, he's been really good, also got healthy at the right time. Let's show who we're picking in this day. You know, I try to fix the curse the last time, but I didn't try to do it this time. So we're all in the Bengals. Uh oh. Uh oh, good luck. There you go. Raiders win. Congratulations. I'm glad that we're trying to play reverse psychology with our own pics. We all pick the Bengals. And I think rightfully so because they've been deserving of it, what a huge win it would be for them. Time now for some DraftKings predictions. Meet up. More rush yards in that game. Josh Jacobs or Joe Nixon. I really like Josh Jacobs. I think he's really heated up as your husband on broken a ton of tackles and yeah, and I think the Bengals defense at times does struggle to tackle in the open field. I expect the Raiders to lean on him a lot for all the reasons Marcus spears laid out. So to me, this is much about opportunity as it is about production. RC and pat's bills does Mac Jones throw for at least two touchdowns tomorrow. You know what? He does it. I don't think he'll create enough explosive place for them to score outside of the red zone and we know the New England Patriots when they get down and have opportunities to score. They're gonna lead heavily on this run game and the offensive line and you mentioned it early allure. The captain said it Damien Harris has been big for this team against the Buffalo Bills. I expect him to get the ball in scoring territory. Marcus, he set a regular season sack record last week, does TJ watkin another on Sunday against the chiefs and Patrick Mahomes? Yeah, I'm gonna get y'all saying that the whole folks used to say just to show us tomorrow and Saturday, you go get a second this game because you get a second this game has to be the most dominant player on the field in order for the Pittsburgh Steelers to have an opportunity to win this football game. We've seen him take over games. We've seen him make game altering plays. That's the TJ white I expect to see against the Kansas City Chiefs. I can't wait for Marcus book that's like elderly people sayings in all respect for the elderly. Speaking to TJ what? He was one of 5 players to be named to a unanimous all pro selection for the 2021 season 6, joins Aaron Donald Cooper Cup, Devante Adams and Jonathan Taylor. Actually watch third straight season being named first team all pro. 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ESPN Daily
"tj white" Discussed on ESPN Daily
"The second half for mason Rudolph. But I'm strangely going to be a tiny bit more optimistic than Ben Roethlisberger appears to be about his own team and his own career. In this situation, because I feel like that game was a really unlucky outcome for the Steelers. No, I don't think they should have won that game by any means. I lost by 26 points. That's they deserve to lose. Let's go. What happened though, then? What happened was fumbles essentially. The evidence tells us Pablo, whether it's the numbers, whether it's looking back at history, whether it's just watching a football bounce around on these incredible athletes desperately try to pick it up with limited success. We know that fumble recovery rates are random from game to game from drive to drive from year to year. You can't count on recovering a particularly high or low percentage of the fumbles. And then NFL game. There are 5 levels in that game. We'd expect each team to get about two and a half instead, the cheese got 5 of those fumbles, the Steelers got zero. In a game where you're a huge underdog, like the Steelers are against the chiefs. You have to have that luck go your way for you to win that game. The game we saw a couple of weeks ago, that was an example of what happens when all the bouncers go the chiefs way. The Steelers can afford to win a game where not only a better team than them, but also getting lucky in the process. So you've got to figure that's not going to happen again. The reason I think the Steelers are going to fail to recover every fumble in that contest. And I think we're sort of making some illusions between the Steelers chiefs game and the Bengals raiders game. I think there's another application here as well. And I think it's the fact that a pass rusher might be the difference maker. Next cross may be flying underneath the radar a bit. You can't say that about TJ watt the presumptive defensive player of the year. And I think the guy who could flip this game for the Steelers. Mike Crosby, TJ white lines up on the left side of the defense, across from right tackle. Like the Bengals. The chief of down to a backup tackle, not just their second stringer, but their third stringer Pablo, an Andrew Wiley, who played by tackle for the chiefs in the Super Bowl, where we saw a great defensive line, pick the chiefs apart and win. Phil, I love the idea of like, you played for this team in the Super Bowl being something that's actually a grand indictment. If you remember that Super Bowl. It takes about two seconds to think, oh no, I don't want to repeat that time where I did the greatest thing I'll ever do by playing in a Super Bowl. I think that tells you how bad it went for the chiefs in that game. I mean, I think if we're talking about a crazy steelers I've said Monday morning, it's almost impossible for me to imagine that happening without teaching what playing one of the best games of his entire career. So if you're gonna be watching TJ watt in particular in this one on the defensive end, I want to ask you about how the chiefs are shaping up on offense because I know the chiefs offense is the chief's offense. You know, that's tautological, but also accurate. I feel like, you know, but if they do win this one as Big Ben predicts and they get onto the divisional round, what is the deal with tyreek hill gonna be like, what's it like right now actually? Because I know he has this heel injury, but he also has not had a play apparently over 50 yards since week one, so what's going on here? I do like that you're explaining that Big Ben predicts the chiefs will win because this leads to a possible Tom Brady paradox where Tom Brady says he predicts the other team to win and then says nobody believed in us when they upset. It's very troubling to us as content producers as it might be a possibility. With tyreek hill, I think it's a combination of things. I mean, first and foremost, I feel like it's almost agnostic at this point, bringing up the words too high in relation to the chief's offense. But the word cloud of NFL discourse Bill has two and high in like a 150 points. It's all we had. It's all we had during the 2021 season. It was that in COVID to work with. I mean, during the regular season, this would happen though, the chief saw a ton of 2D coverages to date safeties, take away those big plays. Other teams were kind of going to let them do anything else they wanted an offense that you said I think the highest third down conversion rate in league history or close to it based on how they open space they had to work with underneath. But teams were willing to do that to take away those big plays from tyreek hill. And then I think on top of that, it's clear hillside a 100%. I mean, go back to week 16. He didn't miss the game, but Terry kill was placed on the COVID list, was questionable to play, came back, played 29 snaps below his normal average and said he was quote unquote exhausted after that game. Then he suffers a heel injury in warm ups before the game in week 18 and caught one pass for two yards on 14 snaps. And yes,.
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"AP sports I'm Josh Rowntree major league baseball's NLCS the Atlanta Braves now hold a two oh series lead Eddie Rosario singled home the winning run in the ninth inning to send the Braves past Los Angeles Dodgers five to four we're sorry you had four hits for Atlanta in the NFL the Arizona Cardinals remain the NFL's only unbeaten team and continue their best start since nineteen seventy four Kyler Murray tied a career high with four touchdown passes in the cardinals improved to six now with a thirty seven fourteen dismantling of the Browns also around the NFL on Sunday night football TJ white forced a strip sack of Seattle Seahawks starter Geno Smith in overtime as the Steelers moved to three and three on the year with a twenty three twenty when dak Prescott three thirty five yard touchdown pass to CeeDee lamb in overtime to give the cowboys a thirty five twenty nine victory over the patriots Aaron Rodgers passed for two touchdowns and ran for another in the Packers fifth straight win twenty four fourteen at Chicago the March Jackson threw for one hundred sixty seven yards and a touchdown while the ravens frustrated Justin Herbert in a thirty four six stifling of the Chargers I'm Josh Rowntree AP sports
Behind the Steel Curtain
"tj white" Discussed on Behind the Steel Curtain
"My podcast on tuesday was all about It's called the cutting room floor covered a life. You wanna hear my thoughts on ben rothlisberger in that situation a little more expounded That came out on. Tuesday is an audio only podcast If you wanna see my thoughts on the offensive line. I just submitted a film room today. I'd probably go tomorrow or friday. One of the two on the offensive line in the run game. And what's going on there and David i stay. Scofield vertex on the difference on our defense between when tj. What was in tj white was out of the game. Incredible difference so check all of that out beautiful. Thank you for that. Jeffrey also want to remind the people of the offensive line article that i had run today about eleven hundred words. If anything you'll learn a little bit about offense line play if it's confusing you can always shoot me a message on twitter whatnot to at michael fifty six. You can follow. Jeffrey well at fans escapee. That's a ph fanta you can find him there Before we sign outs I guess we should also remind you to click over to behind steel curtain dot com. It should be your one stop shop for all things pittsburgh steelers and finally make sure if you're only listening to these shows on youtube or facebook you're only getting about a quarter of the podcast. Were putting out. There are twenty five original titles now on our Our audio platforms. Searcy there is a ton of great pittsburgh steelers content available to you from a variety of hosts including jeffrey benedict myself. Jeff hartmann dave scofield. The boys from australia you name it. There is a ton of content. Shot up ryan. Anthony davis producing all of it. So Thank you once again for tuning into a know your enemy tonight for my co-host jeffrey benedict my name. Is michael back. Thank you for tuning in turn..
Behind the Steel Curtain
"tj white" Discussed on Behind the Steel Curtain
"Their home opener this past sunday. Ceiling their eighty ninth straight season without going undefeated only five. Nfl franchises have a longer streak of losing at least one game. Yes that is me telling you to settle down and find some perspective after disappointing steelers loss. It is after all along season at this point. The steelers could still win the super bowl or they could lose sixteen games. There's lot more of this story to right but that doesn't mean there isn't anything to talk about today. We're gonna talk about what went wrong. Against the the las vegas raiders from the steelers defense to the run game to ben rothlisberger. I'm your host jeffrey benedict. Welcome to the cutting room floor. We're start with what we saw this weekend. And before we dig in too much. I just wanna say that. Now it's time for a little braggadocio. While i wave my arms like ralph macho My keys to this game heading into week. Two i gave an x factor for the raiders. I was with marquis de on the steelers. Touch down on die in that show. I called henry runs the third as being a potential game changing player. Because with the steelers paying attention to darren waller rudd's was that guy that could break a huge play and break open what i expected to be a largely. A close scored defensive battle. Well yeah that kind of happened. That kind of happened with the steelers. Don't have a ton of speed in the secondary. Terrell edmonds is their fastest defensive back so if you get isolation on the outside and i believe the play Rugs broke for sixty. One yard touchdown. He he was on a callow. Witherspoon was on him again. I predicted that before. I knew joe haden was going to be out for the game But they got they got. Henry runs the third on. Are number four defensive back which really really. He's our number six. We're just missing are one of our top guys and we were sat james. We sat justin lane. Sorry lots his name for a second. We justin lane forever and boom sixty. One yard touchdown. That really broke that game open. So i kinda caught that one. Not that i'm happy about that One of my other main keys to this game was the steelers winning the interior line battle. i made that my kids game. 'cause watching the the ravens raiders games. What stood out to me. Is that while. Derek carr was getting pressured around the edge quite a bit second half of the game. He starts being able to step up into a clean pocket. And when derek carr can step up into a clean pocket. He's a really good quarterback when you put people in his face is not nearly as good so car against the steelers. One of my things was we. Gotta we gotta keep guys in his face. We can't step up into the pockets. So that the pressure from the edges can get to him well. Tj wise was absolutely crushing. When he was in this game he was playing phenomenal. He was doing a fantastic job. And for those snaps the longest pass. Play with watt on the field with seventeen yards and there wasn't a single deep attacked a deep throw attempt by derek carr with tj lot on the field through the point tj. By got injured. There was not a single deep pass through by car. Tj what left the field the very first play after tj Left the field with his injury was a twenty five yard. Pass to second tied foster moreau. And when worse from there by the end of the game derek carr had thrown eight deep passes connected on five of them for one hundred sixty four yards and a touchdown the reason he was able to do. That is because with tj white gone and simply cam hayward in there being the only real big time threat. The raiders were able to give. Derek carr a clean pocket and he was able to look downfield. See what was happening and make take take shots. Take good shots. Downfield step into his throws make throws without being hit. They won the game. The moral of that story is even with steph onto it out. Even with bud duprey gone end. Advertisement is a good player. But we've seen. He's he's struggling this season. A bit with this step up responsibility and the step up in in attention. The he's gotten he's not getting socks he doesn't even have a. Qb hit yet this season. But even with him there with tj with steph onto it out tj white and cameron. Heyward are a lot to deal with. And what hayward and supporting staff of chris warmly. Alex highsmith marlin ingram. Melvin ingram is playing really well but he's not tj. Why he's not cameron heyward. He's not on their level. Hayward watt and supporting staff is a lot to deal with just cam hayward and supporting staff wasn't not too much for a banged up raiders. Offensive line they were able to shift the pocket to count for hayward Hayward's penetration and really the offensive line. Just had to steer cameron heyward to one side of the pocket and let derrick walk. Go the other way. Well when cameron heyward can say okay You know i'm gonna rush. I'm going to penetrate. And i'm going to go to the right side from the defensive perspective. I'm gonna rush to the right side of the pocket and cause havoc. There will have tj one on the left. You can't just be like okay. I'll take a step to the left. No you're taking a step towards teach what you're taking a step towards getting lit up. You're taking a step towards a fumble. You know you are taking a step towards a big defensive play. You can't do it with just hayward gable step outside. That was a huge problem for the ravens. That's big reason. The ravens lost is they were not able to contain derek. Carr they were. They were not able to crash his pocket. They were not able to put people around his legs bodies around his legs people in his face hands on you know threatening to swat the football away. They weren't able to do that. And the raiders came back on with car. Throwing deep downfield the steelers. Despite the success they had defending. Darren waller like i said before. They're one of the best at defending tight ends in the national football league the last three seasons since they Drafted devin bush brought in Tara lawson and brought in a mega fitzpatrick. They've been one of the best they did again. That was different. But it didn't matter because in the end when they could not disrupt derek cars pocket derek carr was able to throw downfield for five of eight for one hundred sixty four yards and a touchdown. You're not gonna win a game when you give that up to the opposing quarterback and you're offenses in scoring. Yeah that's a shootout. If you're giving up deep passes like that. That's a shootout as over twenty yards per attempt on deep balls. You don't even know what the steelers putting up on. Those numbers was it was awful talking about darren. Waller i put this clip up on twitter. Cassivi s rise. It came back from the half. I was watching. It was just like yes. Oh my goodness thank you cbs. 'cause i don't have all twenty two film yet which is awful and stupid But cbs puts out the alternative film and they show how. The steelers are bracketing. Darren waller putting a on him with a safety back behind him..
GSMC Football Podcast
"tj white" Discussed on GSMC Football Podcast
"I had the jets winning twenty four twenty one so was all the way wrong on that one right next game was a solid one though very good competition between two great organizations pittsburgh steelers versus the buffalo bills for this game. I had buffalo winning twenty six twenty I wasn't terrible on the score. But i was wrong on. Who's gonna win Yeah pittsburgh steelers took this one twenty three to sixteen actually And i mean stand out performance from linebacker. Tj why with two sacks five qb hits and a tackle for a loss all over the place. There's still somebody out there that had a better performance in him but very solid situation for him absolutely and the steelers. Let's talk about the steelers. Defense was always going to be the strength and that was especially evident. Has it kept the game. Close in the first half in spurred the second half comeback Yeah they needed to warm up. First half was a little shaky for pittsburgh. Second half is definitely when it got it done. It made his win. Happened of pittsburgh's twenty unanswered points. Seventeen were the result of two bills. Turnovers on downs and a block plant slash return touchdown which was put into motion when cameron heyward had a third down sack on josh allen. One play early. Tj white just off. The mass of payday had sex and was disruptive forced out the afternoon. The bills managed to convert seven of sixteen third downs. But they were oh into on fourth downs. The offense has work to do all right. They have to work out some of these pains that they had early on but the defense showed sunday. It's more than capable of basically buying off some time. All right offense to like. I said had to get get going like old. Motor robots Degrees in getting really vibrating through man But the old line what. The line was the biggest question mark answering the game. Any remains the same the line which included two rookies. Okay not one but this line includes two ricky's making their nfl debut They were you know almost absent in their first. Half steelers had rushing yards in first round. Pick hairs was averaging one point one yards per carry. Rosberg are roth Mamas and his name rothlisberger also got sacked twice in the first half. The second half was better in the run game. Picked up behind the line with seventy six total yards and four yards per carry. So i mean there could have apart on. My things will slow. I think they were having a lot of confidence in what they're bringing to the table in the rain game immediately and it just didn't it didn't clock out that way. It's just not high went down as for the bill. Despite a dominating defense defensive effort in the first two quarters the bills allow twenty straight points to the steelers coming out of the half and lost a commanding lead The defense allow pittsburgh to put together three drives of nine plus plays in the second half along and failed the Generate assistant pressure against a young offensive. Line the bills also had a black which will turn into a td. And that's cut those kinds of turnovers you don't want whatsoever It only hurts. You doesn't even give you a chance. I mean it. It's a tough thing to overcome especially in tie game But i mean candidate can can build replicate. What they year was is just the funky start or is this what they are now. Will if are being transparent. I think it will just a rough start straight up And still is a coach. Will you gotta give them their props. So it's a tough team to beat if you're not completely prepared warm everything like that Accuracy downfield proved to be a problem for josh allen. In the first game of the season despite facing the lowest blitz rate of his career and that information came from espn stats and info He completed thirty of fifty. One passes a career high in pass attempts for two hundred seventy yards against the steelers and had trouble connected with both stefan digs air colby's The offensive line one of the teams biggest questions. coming incidents also struggled with allen's limited movement which played a part in the steelers not needed to blitz release. So they just you know he's gonna stay the pocket they didn't have to keep them in the pocket But we also know what josh cable of outsider pocket. So was this. Josh was coaching thing. Not sure but i'm sure going forward we will learn more about the team This is a team that i feel like we still. We still have high expectations for them as being a conference champion contender for sure for for sure. Okay that that's out of the question. That should be very obvious But it is not easy to make a decision on really both teams yet. Really both teams. We need to see like just come back in the second half and come back with a win. That doesn't say enough of bain was looking real sloppy in the beginning in run game gotta have often. I mean defense wind championship but offense deadly helps get you there as for sure. So that's something that both sides can look into san francisco versus the detroit lions. I had the oh. I had a winning twenty eight to seven will towards the end of the game. Detroit made it much more of a game in san francisco is making much more of a splash. Point side so wrong again. I got a winner right but not how it went down. It wasn't the whole story. San francisco forty niners one. Forty one Upon detroit lions thirty three so they only lost by eight in made it all the way to the forty one one of the highest games of the weekend For three quarters the forty niners offered a reminder of how dominant they can be when they are healthy a firing on all cylinders they also led up late in nearly coughed. Twenty eight point coughed up. The twenty point lead The needed caveat here is that the lions again look like contenders for the number one overall. Pick in next year's draft if the niners are going to retire to contender status. They can't let their foot off the gas especially against inferior opponents So was this a hiccup on san francisco de france or detroit. Lions offense just solid will more calmly gentlemen more to see how the forty niners continue to integrate trae Because they did put him in in this game lands through his first career. Touchdown has on his second. Nfl snap and i pass in the league. But only played sparingly that Sparingly after that taking a lot of four snaps taken a total of four snaps because the game was essentially over a halftime. It was over at halftime. There was no need for coach. Shannahan to show too much of what he had his mining high plan on using lands. But it's clear he won't be afraid to put the rookie quarterback in get him involved in the games in order to have his skillset involved. I guess so. We will be seeing trae last this year but even though he worked his game. This is definitely a pattern. We have seen time after time. Just not worth Alternate those quarterbacks that in the nfl isn't that efficient. And then you know a little bit more unfortunate news. The san francisco forty niners have been you know no stranger to disappointing injuries of course But the one that took place this past sunday might be the most devastating yet with seven minutes. Fifty four seconds left in their victory win against the detroit. Lions quarterback jason. Vernet suffered a right knee injury. That both he a team. Fear are torn is a torn acl. vernet is slated to have further tested testing dine in order to really see what it is..
Beating The Book with Gill Alexander
"tj white" Discussed on Beating The Book with Gill Alexander
"But a big key for almost anybody in this league anymore is how good are your assistance and got some new offensive. Assistant matt cannon. Excuse me matt canada. Who i think is going to be pretty good. Be good for ben. So i think they made great adjustments at the half also the thing about football that makes it different than any other sport. It's big place can turn games around now. Who makes big plays great. Athletes make big plays steelers have some great athletes particularly on defense looking at minka fitzpatrick. I think one of the best safety in the league. Tj white lot. Some guy saying he's the best player in the league quite go there yet. But but he's pretty far up there but they got that bush also. Yeah i that. That team is peppered with some great athletes. And they're gonna make some big plays and ben looked pretty good stuff a lot of questions about that offensive line. But tweed yesterday rumors of the steelers demise have been greatly overrated in there. I think for in the thick of the of the playoff race and once you get in the playoffs. I mean anything can happen. But i think they're they're gonna be right there till the end. We'll talk a little bit more about the ravens when we get there at that point in time but i think this is a good team not a great team but i my my takeaway. Obviously from yesterday was very positive. Pittsburgh is hosting who the ravens are. the raiders. The raiders the raiders. The raiders site on. Should i make a guess here. We've got a lot of numbers. I don't i mean i have no idea four and a half pittsburgh. I almost like your number better but not quite. I see six out there who my power ratings. Come to five and a half which that's that's kind of a leap from five to six five hundred eight show up yesterday on my dies wind guard so a lot of numbers out there that are live. that'd be comfortable in pittsburgh's six. I won't be that comes away there. I expect the raiders who look pretty good and we'll get to that later But i also and i. We had the seminar here on friday. And i talked about the home. Field is almost non-existent home field advantage. So don't win like three and just go home and think that's fine. It's a lot less and the thing about the steelers. Yeah they win a lot at home but they went a lot on the road to you know so i think homefield is my standard number one and a half. I've been saying for years at washington at zero. Yeah something's zero like washington zero jacksonville's zero point washington. I feel like it's better on the road. They might be but i. I don't want to give teams a three point advantage for home field. And that's why i make six is a little too. I'd like. I like five and a half better although probably gonna open six just because i don't want to mess around with it too much before..
The Pat McAfee Show 2.0
"tj white" Discussed on The Pat McAfee Show 2.0
"Area and everyone can agree with that. What do you want me to say. These guys that haven't played very much white out in the. Nfl are really good. No that'd be obnoxious kind of like saying the lions are going to ten seven win a playoff game. And what are they gonna do this year. They're gonna go ten and seven to win the playoffs. No problem being obnoxious for some things. But you'll bury your team another gotta ballots. Shefty sweet about tj white yesterday. The hell are you talking me. That was unbelievable. Let's dive into t.j. Watt gets a deal done with the pits. Birds allegedly a potential hold in happening between tj. And the pittsburgh steelers. Mike tomlin said. I ain't dealing with the numbers. I just managed to player in the situation however he can be. He would show up to individuals not a teams. I assume that was because he didn't want to get injured just days or weeks or months before a potential massive massive contract or was he potentially saying. Hey this team look much different right now without me. We should probably get this deal done. We don't know what the motive was. Why the holding was happening. He was obviously utilizing a little bit of leverage to try to get his co. done let them know he's done happy. It inevitably does happen. We're getting close to a deadline. People said it happened for a long time. Then that got kind of debunked because i guess. The deadline was actually that if negotiations hadn't started before the season started they wouldn't finish them during the season. So everybody's worried outage a wad is going to be upset with the pittsburgh steelers. They're not gonna take care of their own. What does this guy have to do for the pittsburgh steelers at the pay somebody finally in this ever evolving world especially with your division getting much better around you i mean. Is this ever going to take place. A lot of people buried in the steelers. I think in the end what we learned the adam schefters all one hundred percent true tweet. How shepherds journalist that tj. Wanted to get this goddamn deal done and schefter reported that. Tj what overrode his agents and believe they could get more money today Who who believed they could get more money today. He marched in the office of president running and told her. Hey y'all deal then. The nfl's new highest paid defensive player excused himself instead. I got go workout now. This is very reminiscent to a story that we were told about. Aj hawk signing his rookie contracts. Got fifth overall. That was back when there was a lot to negotiate because there was no rules. What everybody the amount of money was ridiculous especially for top. Matthew stafford got paid the got drafted detroit. Lions enough money that he could have bought. Detroit at the time hadn't even played one that worked out but a lot of others did not. So that whole thing happened so t. J. watt looks at his agents and says how much money's enough money in the agents will we think we can get you another blah blah blah blah blah blah in allegedly. Tj said. i'll fuck off and just walked in there and said this is the deal. This is enough money. That is whatever yinzer wanted to hear in one clean sentence. This guy told his agents right injures probably do not like agents if he ends are much like me which i think the answers are like me. We we don't like these people representing like i don't think there's a lot of agent love in the city of pittsburgh just as a whole okay. I'm not. I'm sure big union city. Not sure it's a big agency central. So the fact that tj want the guy who gets introduced last when the defense gets introduced in pittsburgh has been for a couple years so these people who are potentially trying to get in the way of a long term deal between teacher to go fuck themselves and walks in signs deal says thank you and says i'm i'll go to work most perfectly crafted pittsburgh sentence of all time users. I bet you tj watch jersey's going back up there there's a guy over air somewhere in allegany county go. Hey i'm them. Throw that fucking juju jersey and signed a one year deal are he wants more money. He was negotiating with the fuck raisins. I'll know what to stick. Talk is brompton needs tic tac. Is that fucking taste in your mouth. Whenever you're saying juju name is bad. Tj watchers every. Goddamn day that is basically what chapters tweet did so it has made a lot of people think absolute bullshit i have i someone on good faith your source source said. Tj walked into that room to. Hey where we sitting at are saying well. Twenty eight million. Eighty seven million guaranteed. Tj goes was the problem and the steelers said you tell us the agents. I'll i think we could get more us more. Twenty million a year eighty million guaranteed. I could buy three or four steel mills with that. Okay out of my way suits. Billy walsh entourage. Get on my way suits stupid fucking goes in. Ar twos office..
Behind the Steel Curtain
"tj white" Discussed on Behind the Steel Curtain
"Know on the steelers favor it's really not tj. What has a lot of leverage simply because you one you can't replace him to you have a lot of stuff tied up in him. And if you if you play hardball with him you you're gonna lose a ton of money of ton of money spent on the team. The team's not going to spend the money but they're not going to be able to spend that money to improve the team and they're not going to have a player for that money they're going to get nothing for it just like they did in two thousand eighteen would instead of addressing holes at the defense. They played hardball with love. You on bell seriously hurt us in a season where ben roethlisberger led the nfl in passing. We have added another running back any running back on free agency that we wanted. We could've added a better inside linebacker. Jon bostick we have added a safety. We could've added cornerback. You added a running back and linebacker in pretty much any other player you wanted and still had more cap space than they did with levy on bell sitting now. My point is the money. Tj white wants. Pittsburgh needs to pay it. And i think they're going to. I honestly don't think we're going to see these hardball situations. Fans are going to right now because we approached the season and tj wad isn't signed but those hardball situations. Don't make sense for the team. It's not like oh. Tj what you screwed up steelers are going gonna win this and you're gonna lose no you don't you don't win by having less talent on the field right. You don't do that so for me. It's an easy choice. Pay pay the man. And if you're not gonna pay him in my opinion you already screwed up. If your if your plan was him the right move was to sign bud. Depre- tell tj white dude. Look you're gonna play out your last your fifth year option or tag you one year and then we'll trade you and you do it and you see. Maybe he doesn't do it. Maybe you only get one year but you let them know. Hey this is the situation. We're gonna let you go. You're gonna hit free agency but you gotta finish your contract. I let go get those years in you. Finish ben roethlisberger career with the three incredible outside linebackers. And then you let him go. That's that's the way it makes sense to me. And really i think the steelers have put them in a position where they have to pay tj. And i think they're planning to pay. Tj if you offered levy on bell the contract they offered him and then you go to tj widened saving tj. You're not really worth all that much. Yeah that that that tells you. Your front office is just plain dumb. Really just playing down if you're not if you're willing to pay levy on value not willing to pay tj watson you're done that's not to say on that So that's our show. I hope you enjoyed it. Have a good day. have a great week. Can't wait for the steelers. Actually play some football. I can't wait for t- to science contracts. I don't have to hear or read any more about this nonsense. Pay the man steelers and hakodate goodbye. Everybody i Lindsey you are the creator of the outdoorsy gals facebook group. Why did you start this facebook group..
Behind the Steel Curtain
"tj white" Discussed on Behind the Steel Curtain
"The steelers inside linebacker. They signed in free agency in two thousand. Eighteen was named john bostick. His first year cap was under seven hundred thousand dollars. He was cheap. The highest first year cap hit for two thousand inside linebacker. Free agent was six million dollars. I went through. It looked at the two thousand eighteen contracts in their first year. Hits for that fifteen million dollars. The steelers could assigned any inside linebacker. Running back and safety. They wanted and their cap. It would have been less than they paid to not have levy on the field though restate that they could have signed any inside linebacker safety and running back free agent that season and the cap hit in two thousand eighteen would have been lower than what the steelers paid to play. Hard ball with le vian bell if they do this with. Tj why and tj white says. Look i already showed you. I'm not playing this game right. You're gonna pay me and i'll be the best. I'll be the ideal player. i'll be the ideal teammate. I'll be everything you want me to be. But you're going to pay me what i want. And they say no. We're going to franchise tag you in tj watson. I'm gonna sit out then. I'm not gonna play not okay. You're two thousand twenty two. The projected cap it for outside linebacker. Which is for. I should say it's all linebackers is eighteen million right. You're gonna put eighteen million of a cap hit into playing hardball with tj. Y and you're not gonna be able to spend that money until you start getting back in the middle of season. I don't know if you know this. But there's a lot of great high end free agents available in november no one size too high priority free agents in november when that money from levian bell came off the books in twenty nineteen. The steelers won out and they signed steven nelson. They signed mark barron. Both those players played a role in the steelers solving the problems. They had the year before in two thousand eighteen. The steelers were one of the worst teams defending titans in two thousand nineteen. They were one of the best complete flip they signed. They drafted devon bush. That played a pretty good role labor and they signed mark baron. That played a pretty good role to they had steven nelson other receivers didn't need as much help make of. It's patrick played a role in that but mostly it was the guys covering the tight ends which vault mark barron he did that. A lot though signings signings like that occur when you have cap space. We've seen the steelers us cap space. Well in twenty twenty one. Twenty twenty two tj. Let's no. i'm not playing on this franchise tag and the steelers say we're tagging you anyways. The steelers aren't going to be able to replace teachers. They're going to tie up so much. Money in tj y and get nothing for it except a rollover for the next season that they can use to again spend a whole bunch of money out of their cap to simply play hardball with tj. Meanwhile if you know this ben rothlisberger might be gone. Tj tj want to sit out this year that would actually be less bad for the steelers enfranchise tagging him like how. How far does this go. Everyone everyone talks. Tj white has no choice but just to play for the next three years in the steelers have control over how much he gets paid with the franchise tag and with this year option. But when you sit and you have a large chunk of your salary cap with no productivity out of that money even if you don't actually spend the money and you get that cap hit back at the end of the year. You're still not getting anything for that. You're not getting the production now. Furthermore if you play hardball. Tj wide like bell. You're going to get a reputation in on the steelers right. You're gonna get a hit on the steelers you're going gonna take that shot and you right now. The steelers are team are free agents talk about. Oh i'd love to play for the ceiling. I love to play for my tom. I love to play for that team will. Yeah part of the reason is they wanna play with a guy like tj. Why and part of that. Reason is the steelers have a reputation of tree their players. Pretty well they can look at the contract. We offered levian bell and look at what he signed a new jersey as they do. You didn't really do that much better. Overall if you had played well you would have been better off. Being in pittsburgh. Levy on bell sat out a year came back and was terrible. And you know what he got. More guaranteed money from the new york jets than the steelers offered him more guaranteed money he would have needed to play two seasons with pittsburgh and as bad as he played in the new york jets. If you've played that badly in pittsburgh he might he might not have made more playing on the pittsburgh steelers contracts that they offered him the what the jets had to pay him is by the fact that he he was barely worth anything. Tj wide is a different matter man if t lots sits out a year he's still going to get paid to me. The leverage sitting here is not all.
Behind the Steel Curtain
"tj white" Discussed on Behind the Steel Curtain
"People are starting to worry is tj walking to play. Is he gonna be available week one. When's he gonna play what's gonna happen is you're gonna sign this deal like what's going on. I thought i want to bring out. Is the steelers. When they cut down the fifty three man roster and as of today have four outside linebackers on this roster including t. j. watt. They kept six inside linebackers. They kept four outside linebackers. Didn't sign any of the cuts. They didn't go into the waiver. Wire and put in a waiver priority. You know saying For to pick up outside linebacker that someone else cut. They are if tj doesn't play. They are rolling to the season with three outside linebackers on their roster. The steelers would not put themselves in that position if they did not believe that. T. j. watt is playing week one so understand that the dealers who are involved in this. Believe t. j. watt will be playing week one. That's the first thing. I want to focus on second of all. I'm hearing a lot of people talk about. You know what let's just tagging. We plan this year making play out the fifth year. The last year was rookie fifth year. Twenty thousand eighteen nineteen twenty fifth year of his deal. Make him play that out franchise tag for two years and then let him go. We t. j. watt for three more years had and we'd get him for an incredible bargain just like we've already had him for four and it's been an incredible bargain every single season. There's a problem with that. Right i off. Tj wide is a great player. He has shown he deserves a bigger contract. Does does anyone listening to this. Sitting there looking at tj white saying yeah but can teach you what a great player right. Continue wiping great player two years in a row. He was a top candidate for an fell defensive player of the year yet. We know he's great this. This isn't a. Let's wait and see if you're great in. Let's say if you develop. Tj maybe maybe you'll become a player that's worth a bigger contract. No he's already worth a bigger contract. Don't be stupid are you. Don't be silly. Tj watt already deserves a contract if he wants to be the highest paid defensive player in the nfl. Yeah he's in that category of guy until until unless aaron donald to signing the contract right now as well then he should be the highest paid player in the nfl. I don't. I don't have a problem with that. He definitely deserves to get more than myles. Garrett everyone in pittsburgh talking about how tj. What's the player that myers gary. And then say oh. Yeah but he's not worth. What miles guarantor. Well that doesn't make any sense. Second point i want to make is this. Isn't a player you mess around with tj. What knows his value. he knows it. he's not going to play games. The man has pride. He's not a sucker. He's not going to sit here. And say oh well still me to play for significantly less than i should get on the open market than my than my production is worth than. I'm worth as a player okay. I mean there's contracts and those deals the nfl and the nfl pa. sign this. i'll just go along with. That's not gonna happen. I mean really think about this. I want you to think about this has tj. What not delivered a clear message here. Has he failed to deliver a message. He is under contract right now. The steelers have him under contract right now. He is not practicing with the team. he's doing it in a nice way. He's like shown up. I'm still practicing just now team like you're gonna pay me. You want me to be a part of this team. You want me to play nice. You want me to be that leader you want me to be the hardest working person in the foot and the nfl. I'm there. I'm with you but you're gonna pay me. i am. Yeah he's worth it. If j. watt plays for less than he's worth he's dumb america's a capitalist country we're not communism we don't believe all. Nfl players are equal. Tj is more valuable so pay him more that simple also the franchise tag people act like tj has no leverage. And i want this up. I want to talk about the levy on bell situation. We're gonna talk about two thousand eighteen. Two thousand eighteen levy on bell had fifteen million dollar cap it. For the franchise tag fifteen million dollars right. He doesn't play. He doesn't signed his tag and he doesn't play. The pittsburgh steelers still had a cap hit of over fifteen million dollars locked up into le on bell. The season started the steelers still had fifteen million dollars of their cap. Hit locked up in levy on belt. They got just under one million back every single game. They played now. They got to roll that over the next year. But i want you to think about the two thousand eighteen season because you didn't have levy on belt but yet your salary cap had fifteen million dollars dedicated to lebanon bell. There was one free agent signing in two thousand eighteen where the two thousand eighteen cap it was. More than fifteen million dollars and that was kirk. Cousins signed that ridiculous big big..
The Odd Couple with Chris Broussard & Rob Parker
"tj white" Discussed on The Odd Couple with Chris Broussard & Rob Parker
"With chris. Bruce and rob harker the nfl released. Its top one hundred players from according to the players. The player vote pat. Mahomes number one. I don't see the controversy. I do think he is the best player in But nfl dot com ripped the players for making him number one and They say it should be air. Rogers do you have an issue with mahomes number or you see it like i do know. I don't have an issue with. I definitely see it like you end the actual players who vote on this so to have a a website come out and disagreed with the actual players who've played against all of these players. I mean it makes no sense. It's like click bait right like you. How are you. How are you gonna argue. That's like boxers rating the best boxer. And you argue with them. It's like wait what basketball players rating the best basketball player. Patrick mahomes the face of the nfl and we'll be the next twelve years right. I mean he is special in every way imaginable. If you put him on any team on the planet there an instant super bowl contender right period. Well speaking of that and we're getting we. We don't have a ton of time packet. Tom let me just read through the top. Ten josh allen. Tj white nine the andrea pins eight. Tom brady seven. Davante adams six travis kelsey five derrick henry four aaron rodgers three aaron donald to panels one i. I don't know where you're gonna go at this. But for me and i wouldn't have said this seven months ago from but because of i let me just put it out there. I would put tom brady ahead of air. Rogers i would have tom brady three air rogers for and i say it because tom brady is still and i know he's thrown interceptions in playoff games and stuff like that but he still to me delivers more embiid games air. Rogers does aaron rodgers. A different quarterback in those nfc championship games never throws picks in the regular season in his five sec title game. Four straight losses by the way. He's nine touchdowns eight picks. That's a different player. And so am i. Do you think. I'm off my rocker for saying i would go with brady rodgers. Don't be in the regular season and all that. But i just think brady makes his teammates. Better i agree with you. One hundred percent and i can you argue that this meant to a whole 'nother team after twenty years eighteen right and took him to the super.
Behind the Steel Curtain
"tj white" Discussed on Behind the Steel Curtain
"He's gonna be a solid two good blocking tight end when he puts his mind to it. Not like we're i'm not. I'm not talking matt spaeth. I'm not talking a glorified offensive lineman right. I'm talking about a receiving tight end who also blocks. Well that's what we're looking at with their braun. Is he going to drop passes. Yeah but he's also gonna make place. He's a playmaker he's he's not heath miller he's not the reliable tight end even as a playmaker he's gonna make plays and he's going he's gonna fail to make place right. He's that dude Pat fireman's looks like a better version of that. He looks like a reliable version of eric. Brought that's honestly where fry fire moves. Looks right now. Little better blocking to the surprise for me at the tight end position was zach gentry's action. She got snatched with the first team offense. They actually had plays. Wrap your head around this where they weren't eleven personnel ben. Roethlisberger is the quarterback and the tight end is accurate. The tight end zach. Gentry wrap your head around that he is there blocking tight end zach. Gentry's you're blocking tight on on this team. Ebro fryer moose are going to be. You're receiving tight ends. They're going to be your role they're gonna move around matt. Cain was going to get creative with those two. I can't wait to see what all he does. That gentry is gonna be your number three tight end. he's gonna be your blocking tight at. That's that's not what they're showing right now. Running back position man. Najia harris snazzy nausea harris is everything he's been billed. He's great behind him. The steelers have two running backs. And that's a benny smell. Sorry you don't make the team from the tub. He wasn't that great to start with and he's been injured making this team jalen. Samuels sorry. no the guys behind him. Can't bodies you've got naasi harass you have caleb lodge and you have anthony mcfarland junior as you're running back on this team and there isn't a fourth one which again my personal thoughts on that is. I would like to see trey. Edmunds win the job. He's been running back before he can be an emergency back. You've got three backs right. If if one of those guys goes down with an injury use you sign another running back. Trae admins offers versatility. I like what he brings in the back role better than what. They're quite breaks. I doubt they cut derek quite but if they did i wouldn't sweat it at all. I think trey edmunds can fill the role. That derek watt fills for less money. He can do it and people are like. Oh you gotta keep him to keep you know. Tj white happy with. It's not that big a deal. Guys you know i. It's not like tj. Watch gonna leave to go play with his brother jj now. Jj was willing to take less money to play with both of his brothers. It didn't happen. He wasn't willing to do it. I don't i don't think it would matter that much. Booby non from offense. That's it for offense moving onto the defensive through the defensive line real quick here cameron hayward's return. He's an absolute beast. I wanna cover really quickly. One play. I throw it up on my twitter You wanna follow me on twitter. It's at fantasy skippy. Bph a n. t. a. s. k. i. p. p. y. At fantas go on twitter. I put this play up It was a stunt right cameron. Heyward alex smith running the stunt. Hayward's gonna go get the offensive tackle and highsmith gonna loop inside russia quarterback. Alex smith has been playing phenomenally. One of his few weaknesses. He shows is on stunts largely because he is real quick off the line and he gets up field fast. And when you do on a stunt that means a big defensive lineman who significantly slower than you has to catch up and basically chased down the offensive tackle and what you see. Is alex smith out there. And you see this defensive. Tackle looking at the offensive tackle and running straight to him to try and get the body their body on the offensive tackle. So the outside smith can stunt inside. Will the problem with that. Is the guard sees this. The left guard can see this happening and they reliably just are like okay. One hand on the defensive lineman. They're going. I see going for the tackle. Pass them all. And i've got alex. Heisman will out smyth Highsmith has to complete stop and then cut inside because he he won't feel too quick right that's nuance for a guy who who's just absolutely been kicking by all preseason coming into a second season that is new alex highsmith will gain in his game mixing up his russia's mixing up to speed of his russia's setting up different things so we can actually set up the stunt when it happens alzheimer's will get there but on this particular rush. He did it again right. He burst off the line. He's upfield and cameron. Heyward is running straight at the offensive. Tackle the guard see the sees this checks off and his right there waiting sitting there waiting for alex smith when he cuts inside place still work though because cameron heyward meets the offensive tackle puts two hands on him and shoves him three yards backwards. And it's the quarterback. I was ecstatic. I'm watching this like. Oh i got this cam hayward back again doing cam hayward things i a cam hayward fan boy at this point The man on film is just amazing And you're going to see if you if you follow me at fantasy camp clips this season. You're going to hear about him on this show. You're gonna you can see him at my twitter..
Behind the Steel Curtain
"tj white" Discussed on Behind the Steel Curtain
"The pittsburgh steelers played their third preseason games the twenty twenty one season their first at heinz field. And the first one to see almost all of the starters play today we will look at what the steelers showed us and their matchup against the lions both the good and the bad. I'm your host jeffrey benedict. Welcome to the cutting room floor. An last week show talked a lot about the inside linebackers then at heinz field this week we got to see devon bush and new steeler joe schober play together for the first time as a pairing. They showed promise but also showed that they need more time than bush still needs time to get back fully from his injury and get up to. Nfl speed joe. Schober needs time to get accustomed to his defense to the steelers defense and his new teammates. Bush looked a little rusty. Like you would expect. He had a few plays where he approached a gap in the run game wrong. At least one time. He overran a play shumpert for his part. Look slow on his reactions and his assignment something you expect when a player is thinking about their role on a given play what their assignment is instead of. Just being able reaction la- relax employees. These are things that are going to work themselves out. These two guys need time. Need time in the steelers defense and they need time together. They're going to be all right. Now in bush and schober off the field they were replaced by roberts poulain and marcus allen those who played the rest of the game that was the steelers played. Four linebackers devin bush. Joe show bert roberts lane and marcus allen buddy. Johnson didn't play on defense at all. He only played on special teams where he does has looked good and he made a tackle in that game. Roberts spelane looks like he's locked down the job of the number three linebacker after you know. We thought he was going to be the number two guy. He's moved back to number three with the addition of schober. And i like him a lot better in that number three linebacker role. Marcus allen looked good. He has looked a lot better than he looked last season in this. Preseason he's really good in coverage on running backs and tight ends and even when he's thrown on a a you know a depth wide receiver. He's looked good He also has improved at hud. Blitzing where the steelers you know if you're on the running back especially if you're on the running back and the running backstays into block the is covering them turns into a blitzer and adds into the pass rush. Marcus allen is looking good there we saw him with a couple of pressures and with half a sack in this game. I think marcus. Allen is leading the battle to be the number for linebacker over buddy johnson over any of the camp bodies over anybody else. I think it's right now. It's devon bush. And joe schober is your starters. You've got roberts splaine as your number three linebacker and i think marcus allen is really solidified his hold on the number four linebacker spot and that pushes buddy johnson to number five on the linebacker list. Now the steelers generally keep four to five inside linebackers and forty-five outside linebackers for usually right around nine linebackers. Total is what they keep and that fifth the fifth at each position either position. Normally you've got you've got four outside linebackers four inside linebackers and then usually you get one more either outside or inside linebacker. Who's mostly gonna play special teams now with buddy johnson being fourth round. Pick and frankly he's looked good. He's looked talented. He shows a lot of promise he's just also showed he may not be ready for. Nfl snaps right now. But he's not. He's not ready to be a player. You rely on marcus. Allen roberts plane. They're ready. they're ready to be that player. So while buddy. Johnson really isn't one of the top four inside linebackers. He's a fourth round. Pick who shown promise. He's playing on special teams. He's playing while he had a special teams tackle against the detroit. Lions i think buddy johnson makes squad as the number five linebacker with a bit of a redshirt season. because i mean he's a fourth round. Pick any looks good and he looks like what you want to be like next year. He could be an upgrade on both splaine and marcus allen the way he looks right now he just needs experience he needs that seasoned to learn to grow. By the end of the season he could be moved up into a higher tier. The right now. He's not there by his promise. Says you can't really let him go. Which means for me. Seals are keeping five inside linebackers. They almost have to you. Can't you can't send your number four linebacker off the team. you're not. you're not cutting marcus allen. You're not cutting robert spelane. You're gonna keep them. You're going to have to keep buddy johnson too. What stands out to me. In that is we're now looking at if we're keeping five inside linebackers. We're only likely to keep four outside linebackers and three of those are set. Tj what's gonna comeback at some point. They're going to pay him. He's going to be he's going to be back playing for the steelers. Not just practicing by himself. Alexander smith has looked. Phenomenal and melvin. Ingram is a lock. He's our number three guy and he looked really good against the lions which is also allow the steelers to ease. tj white back in if he sits out most of the preseason you know if he misses if he misses the whole season they can still eat him in to game action. Because they have melvin ingram behind those three why highsmith in ingram the steelers have two young edge rushers who are competing and playing well in jamir jones and quincy roce. Now the buddy johnson marcus allen situation. Where really buddy. Johnson's almost locked to make this team as the number five inside linebacker in his all night opinion guys. This is what i'm seeing film. And this is what. I'm picking out from the roster not i don't have insider information here. I'm not claiming what the steelers are going to do. This is just how i when i look at it. This is what i see is. You can't let marcus allen. Go you're not let roberts bolongo buddy johnson. You've got to keep it right you. The ceo's almost half to keep five inside linebackers the.
The Odd Couple with Chris Broussard & Rob Parker
"tj white" Discussed on The Odd Couple with Chris Broussard & Rob Parker
"I like about this. Rob g a robin i. We criticize players for a lot of their. You know votes and you know when they in the nba. They pick the all stars and half of them. Don't pick lebron and half of them. Don't pick in that type of foolishness. But i do like. And i think because these lists i'll allow you feel. They're not totally off the wall. So i do think that players take them fairly seriously. And i think they really try to. You know make good picks and so the nfl dot com of course top one hundred players ask chosen by curry nfl players. And we're waiting for the top ten unveil. We know the players right. We just don't know the order. Here's the order alpha the top ten players in nfl heading into this season. This is an alphabetical order. Now on saturday next weekend they will be named in the order that they are. But you got devante atoms. You got josh allen. Tom brady aaron. Donald derrick henry the andre hopkins travis kelsey pat mahomes air rogers and tj white. I mean look. You can quibble over a few. It does if you want but but honestly is hard to argue against that top ten. I mean again. There might be a guy here there. You wanna put in there. But i do have a huge problem with that. I have a jain norm his problem with that. Well it's me i know. Giant enormous is. Is you. But i normally problem with this list. I do i do now. This is supposed to be the top. One hundred players not quarterbacks not offensive players top one hundred players period okay there is one name that stands out above the rest that i got to put a b. astra's next to it and that is one tom brady. Not only is he. Not a top ten player in the nfl. Right now okay. I could make an argument that he's even a top ten quarterback right now. Waste rob stop.
Behind the Steel Curtain
"tj white" Discussed on Behind the Steel Curtain
"Him go right. You can't do that. you will be like. Oh you can't give well. that's that's how players get leverage. When you're that good you determine how much you make like. That's how you do i. I think part of this situation is he seen love eon. Bell get the franchise tag. He seemed bud. Pre gets the franchise stack right. He knows the steelers have done this to people. And i i think carter. What we're seeing here is him being. I'm not playing that game. You're not going to franchise tag. They'll let you now. I'm just going to say here like i know. You wanna re signed me. I want to resign here of just kind of letting you know it's going to happen or you're going to let me go you're not franchise. I'm not playing that game. And i can't blame him. You're that good. If tj want is sitting out a year people don't realize how big of loss at is. I want to get into that. That's that's stuff that won't happen but to me. Tj want is gonna get answer longtime he's going to get thirty million a year Someone was saying he could get. He's signed for like twenty four if he signs for twenty five or less build a statue of him. The next day like have a statue. They're put balloon every time you walk into the stadium just have like a parade four ham if he signs the less than twenty five twenty five million or less he. He's gonna get whatever he wants if you put him on the free market and you let teams bid for him like it's insane what he would. He would be a lot of quarterbacks. That's that's it. Because he that's what he does. On sundays he beats a lot of quarterbacks. So yeah tv. What you gotta sign him. You gotta take that you take that hit and understand that. That's the cost of having a tj. Why the other option and really in all honesty. The steelers are going to pay. Tj white because if you aren't going if you going to pay tj y you signed by debris you signed to undo pre for half of what tj. What's going to cost you have another year of. T. j. watt and bud dupree together. And then you let me walk. Walk into the walkout into the sunset and go into free agency and you get that compaq. That's really that's really the answer there. So rounder yeah the steelers. He's gotta be a steeler. It's got to happen. It's going to be thirty million so in my opinion i feel like this deal. Basically has already done and what they're trying to figure out as the guaranteed money because this is not a deal the steelers have ever negotiated. And you're not getting away with giving awad zero guaranteed dollars. This is going to be like a lower level quarterback contract. Quarterbacks make thirty million at a lower level quarterbacks making thirty million dollars a year. So i think what this is hung up on those dollars. Sense of what What that check for tj going to say on it the moment he puts pen to paper so in my opinion i think that's that's probably what the hangup is right now. If i guess it'll be like a five year. One hundred fifty million dollars attention. That's my guess. And whatever the guaranteed money kind of just works out the way that those average years go after that. So that's kind of my My prediction on it. I think five years probably exactly what the player would want without also mean he gets one more payday And then the franchise according to you get five years of arguably the best defensive player in football in really i guess you can always argue for donald but at the end of the day. It's the towel contracts work. The next guy up is going to reset the market. That's just the way it goes. But i'm curious whether or not you care about tijuana sitting out of these Contact drills or if that means absolutely nothing. I don't really. I don't think he's a guy that really needs preseason the way he plays i don't think he needs to much practice of any gives. It gives guys a chance. It gives melba. Melvin ingram because seismic. Is everyone a bit more time to play. That's beneficial 'cause they're actually going to rotate any salt lake. When ben sets out and we get to watch you know guys who aren't going to be the future of the steelers franchise fight over. Who's who's number two. Let's you know whatever these guys are actually gonna play during the season cashless marsh. If he's the guy who makes it he's gonna play if quincy rochet is there. He's gonna play. They're gonna be on the field right. You're number four even if you're number five if you're if you are on the steelers active roster you are going to play in games not every game but you're gonna make you're going to get into game i cringe because you mentioned the name of who who We should not be who should not be spoken of course The marsh man the marshmallow. Maybe that's what we should go with. Because he soft against the run ale. I just came up with that one. I'm gonna use that in an article in team any who there's another guy that's looking for an extension and someone that i think. Both of us are very very high on something that i think both of us were hoping what happened before. The season's still should have a little bit more walking around money. Mr joe haden wants to retire. Pittsburgh steelers some people are like. Oh thirty two year old corner. How could you sign them now. But joe hayden is not lost a step like seriously. That guy played as good as ever in two thousand twenty and really. He looks like he's in tip top shape once again. Jeffrey are you all four. I think i know the answer to this already. But are you all four. Joe haden extension getting done Shortly thereafter teacher watts gets done absolutely I don't know if this year they may not do it this year. But this could just be like. Let's get it in the works. Let's get the talks going so that we don't have to hit free agency next year. We don't have to go through that drama joe. Haden should absolutely be pittsburgh steeler. He played i think he is twenty. Six games away from being a pittsburgh. Steelers played more games for the steelers for the browns. We have to hit that number. we have to. He can't like if he plays one more season and then he leaves. He was brown like he was a brown more than he was a steeler. I wanna swing that. I wanna swing that. Because i want to be like. Hey cleveland member. Joe haden the best defensive back in like forever. Yeah he's a steeler. he's not really around. He's pittsburgh steeler People talked what people talked about him. Playing the steelers have seen this before townsend played till he was thirty. Four.