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Speaker 1: He's the drive with Dale Lolly and Matt Williamson on your Home of the Black and Gold Steelers Nation Radio Steelers finishing up with those one on one passing drills are a lot of fun stuff to see there. But tell you what, the Aunte Johnson, that little start to stop that he did down here in front of us, You kind of forget how good he is when you watch all the other receivers and it's like, oh, yeah, yeah, that's the eighteen million door guy. Yeah, I get it, um real quick. You mentioned it, you know, right up right before we went live there, that really good outing there by the tight ends. And I was about to say before you said that was the past catchers in general, and that drill and the drill before making a lot of plays on the ball, you know, like going up and getting it in contested situations. And to me, that's not just a testament to the receivers the pass catchers, it's the court are back starting understand these guys. You know, I can lay this one up here and he can go make that play or like very nicely, very nicely done little play action fake to the to the right, and then Mitch Robinsky rolling to his his left and threading the needle there to Zac Gentry about ten yards down the field and tight coverage. Yeah, rolling to his left, naked Gentry's well down the field fifteen yards, I would say something like that puts it right in front of him on stride and the defender did everything he could and you know, got him on the ground to side and the second he caught it. But hey, that's moved sticks. We got a team drove and in case we didn't mention that before, Yeah, he is. That is something that Trabisky has done really well, rolling to the left, rolling either way either way. Yeah, he's very comfortable when he gets out of the out of the pocket. He is really good. It was a nice run by Benny Snell. It was. It was a nice hole five five yard game there. Obviously, and we've said this a lot. You know that they're looking for quarterbacks to throw well with designed movement, rollouts, nakeds, boots, et cetera, off and off play action. And that's great and both these guys, I mean, pick it in Drabinsky, the new guys, the once they went in hand picked exceling that and I think Drabinsky especially has been a standout and that's great. It's a bit of a crutch though, too, you know. I mean, it's just an easy way to you know, see half the field, manipulate the defense. But as our man Great Cossel always says, eventually, it's third and eight and you've gotta drop back in that back foot hits to hit in the pocket, and you've gotta make throws. So you know, it's all good. I mean, those aren't aren't negatives, but you need to see from the pocket to Yeah, a nice little three yard run. They're getting some positive yardage by Anthony McFarland's have a nice little practice himself there. Maybe it's a little body language thing or watching practice yesterday, I feel like the the offense is actually starting to get a little confident. You know, like if they looked overmatched there, they their body language looked like they were overmatched. They were all trying to get the feel for one another. New quarterback, where's Ben? You know all this? You know, that type of feel to it. These last two days, it's like, Okay, that's some guys here. We're ready to compete against a really good defense. Yeah, Heyward and Watt aren't out there again. That makes a little bit of a difference. It does, of course, but I mean, this isn't a bad group they're going against, and they're completing passes, and you know, these tight ends and receivers running route, they don't care if cam's out there. You know, wats out there? Like what I saw on that run right there from Devin bush Um attacking the line of scrimmage instead of waiting. Wasn't happened. It wasn't wasn't standing sitting back waiting for something that happened came up to the line of scrimmage. That play went away from him. But I think he did what he was supposed to do and got his gap. We talked about that a lot on backs on backers. We're not backs on backers. Backs well, yeah, backs on backers in in the passing game. You know, as a as a coverage player, he was much more attacking than on his heels. My hunches, Flores, Tomlin, Austin, the whole coaching staff is saying, if you're gonna make a mistake, make it going for aggressive. Yeah, make it going forward. Be a striker. You're a little missile lot there that can fly around the field. That's why we loved you. If you take him, if you if you miss an assignment because you're blowing up the A gap instead of the B gap, will live with it, you know. I don't want you to being passive and being reactionary out there now. I know you've said you haven't seen a lot of those wild passes from from the core of the last two days. Though the passage Robinsky made there was a high level passing to his left and throw. I mean that that was really good coverage. When I made that statement, practice hadn't started yesterday, yes, and there's been a lot since then, you know, so I think that's promising. And again, Mitch is very capable. I mean, it's got a second pick in the draft. It wasn't people weren't blown away that he was top five pick. But you do want to start seeing some more of that from the pocket. He can't just agree Rudolph getting some time there. Okay, Yeah, he handled the navigating the pocket well there, pass wasn't perfect. A little behind him infect that may have been as well. That's Anthony Miller comes the flag came down. I think he was getting held on them. I think he was too, But he's still contorted and caught the ball over his head behind him and you know, first down plus flood. Yeah, the miller is good. Miller is good. M M. It's a little different good to him less filling. Yeah, I could use a cool one of those right right now. Uh, we gotta pick it out there now. Um, so we'll see what what Kenny does with his uh his reps here maze from Rudolph just stepping off. So pick it. Taking the three reps again today here is you listen to the drive on Steelers Nation Radiocean again to tight ends going from left to right and then goes back across nobody. So their zone zone zone. That was a run play all the way out, bulls out. Who fumbled that? I think it was our guy Warren just by his running stunt offense recovers. You don't like to see that from the young man, No, of course not. But he's not gonna be perfect, was it him or not? Just that looks like sure, looks like it just the body I think so, Yeah, that would be the first mistake, real mistake that he has made there. But he looks like he got it back. He was getting gang tackled by three guys. He was, and I get justin lane credit. I mean he came down as the corner, really hold his ground, played the cutback because the whole play was going away from him to the offenses. Left, held his ground like a big strong dude. Came up smack the running back. Right. There's a nice play by Lane. Yeah, pick it in the shotgun. Somebody caused the fumble too. It wasn't just some guy just dropping the ball, but there were several causes in them. Okay, they pick it adjust, they go in the center. That's a jet sweeping around there. Nice star start stop there for Steven Sims. I believe that is to get something positive if he played that well though, remember when we talked about fifty before. Yes he did, Yes he did. Scott showing up there. So I wonder on these jets sweeps and and these you know, these those type of motions in handoffs. Is this defense is keying on them like crazy have to be? You know, it's come at some point, and if you're Scott or whomever, you're not gonna cheat. I mean you might as well cheat. The drill and blast like the Marvin Leel looks bigger in pads in the uniform than he does. I thought that too. I thought he'd look a little underside and out of place. He doesn't look like that, you know in pads to me either. Nice play coming down the time to coming down the line there, I couldn't see that it was Sutton. Yeah it was thirty. Yeah, yeah, so that that will be Carlin's platel coming down the line of scrimmage and make it play. So the zero gets it back and it was nicely done. He got beat earlier. You gotta hear breaking the huddle here who's against You can't tell who's in the huddle right now, but it looks like the some of the backups out there, so I assume it's still No. This is Mason Rudolph there, got it back behind him? That looks like gentry. You get a couple of the guys that are gonna play snaps. Is that Matteo Durant behind him? I would bet, just by the way the end of the body type starting to learn those things from right right right, just the mannerisms, the way they hold themselves tight, it was Mateo Durant. Kind of She thought her stepped a little bit coming up to the line of scrimmage. There wasn't really a hole there. Defense filled pretty I'm sorry that was Mastertigue. Now that was Tigue. I kind of forgot he showed up yesterday, big body guy. Yeah, how can you forget Master Tigue? Mastertigue, name like Master take you better be good. I almost name my son Mastered and decide against it. That's Michael. But we got going here, we still got we're back to pick it. So little rotation going on here. Pickets under center. Warren hasn't been back in since the fun Bill. Yeah, I can't tell who the running back is there. We we got Kevin Rader in motion from left to right. The handoff now I got blown up. That was once again in the backfield. There a lot of penetration Durant and uh you just saw um that was who's our skipper coming in there to make the play. I don't want to overreact, you know, for a week's worth of the camp, but it hasn't been a lot of holes for running backs. I mean no, no, you can look at that two ways boys steals run defense getting better probably, but it worries me a little bit of there's no Cam Heyward in there right now. There's no, there's no uh, you know they're starting defensive line is not out there right now. But i'd like to see this old line move some people off the ball. But yeah, I'm not seeing a lot of them. A lot of stuff happening on there out of the line of scrimmage, and said the other way around. Okay, this time we were in a shotgun with the running back to to pickets right, little motion inside handoff got tripped up, but there was also penetration. He got positive yardage out of it. He did, he did. Running game needs work, but we'll see what twenty two out there. Well, you know, this is the other thing about that particular drill. It is a team run drill, so the defense defense knows you're running every single time. It's kind of the old iverson practice practice everyone. You kind of have to not cheat the drill to make things work. And that's that's why it's not. Every once in a while they'll throw a pass out of that drill, but not too often. Running make you pay, but and you usually complete those because the defense is playing run right right right, Everyone bites hard on the run. Danny Smith, time here, what are we focusing on today? Is this punt. Yeah, just the way that line shaping up, it kind of looks like punt team. You see the return of men back, Eric Horse, Gunner, Roschewsky taking five or six of them back there, they get a bunch. Do you think Gunner is the opening day punt returner? Well, he has been a pro Bowl punt returners, right, I mean, it's kind of why you paid him amongst other special teams reason. But do you think he's better than Miller and Austin? I mean again, he's been. He ever sixteen yards of punt return of two years. It's a massive number. It's a huge nuns a massive number. You it's like kickoff return to tap ever. So yeah, I think he's the he's the guy, and I think he's I think he's pretty secure with the football, which is a big part of that as well. It seems to be. But I haven't watched every punt return he's had. You do like the fact that there are other guys here that can do it in case something happens to him. It's one of their positions where they have a ton of guys centers, nickel corners, you know, punt returners. It's a good problem to half. Yeah, I mean if someone gets hurt, there's probably three guys active on game day, they'll be just fine doing it. Remember how A B. Of course, you remember remember how A B used to in big situations we returned punts. Yeah, they did with Santonio Holmes as well de'ante. You think is that in his future that I think they got ships sailed. Yeah, I think that ship is sailed, particularly when you have a guy like General Chefski who's been a Pro Bowl pump returner. I mean, you don't have to go that route. And I think that you do that because some of the other guys just I mean they were okay, but they weren't as good. Yeah, this is actually an interesting drill that special team stuff goes. This is more exciting than most because they're not even punning the football. They're they're drugs machining it to the returners. And everyone's gonna cheer because these guys take it to the house. Three guys season them as opposed to eleven so and there's there are blockers now in this as well. And say, this isn't a return or drill, This is a This is a gunner drill and a gunner. If you do not know, is the guys that line up like a wide receiver. One of them is the top of the screen here trying to get off a double, and one's down here trying to get off a single. And I assume the dude next to the long snapper who's basically a guard, and he has to get off the same thing as well. So there's the long snapper is not gonna move. Yeah, and you've got four but only three, so it's a half line drill. You've got three punt coverage players basically being blocked by four guys to try to get an elusive pump returner on the field. So he is going to take the house every time. But this is a really valuable drill for Danny, like he can see who can get off those if you get off those jams, and you can hustle down there and maintain some lane integrity, and you know, again you're not trying to make the tackle necessarily, but if you can force him not to get to the outside after getting through a double team. Again, we got a gunner down here with two dudes on him that they're going to beat the crap out of him, and he's gonna try to get down there and be disruptive and just make that punt returner's life a little bit more difficult. I can't tell who this is here, but it is a real receiver. And he's got with the green beanie on on our side here, and you guy who's in the punt defender who's covering the punts, Oh, that's Anthony Miller. A nice job splitting it. I didn't think they would look at him as a gunner, but he did a nice did a fantastic job there. He looked like he was getting off press cover. Yeah he did o what I mean, just out quick him at the line of scrimmage and split the difference. Split the split the two guys, and one of the defenders was white fifteen a receiver, the other one was twenty one and other receiver. Yeah, yeah, but he made those guys look silly like he was, and he went right for the right for the pump return or forced him where he needed to be. He may have even made that tackle. That was a great play, but really solid play. Yeah. I don't look at him as a a gunner or a guy that might run on on kick coverage. Probably been asked to do it, but he just showed he can. He's he is very compellibly got Miles Boykin up on the other side. Let's see how Miles Boyken does with this again. He's trying to either split or just beat a double team. And these are the type of plays where you see sometimes two guys just drive him out of bounds. Boykin has two defensive players on him, whereas Miller had two offensive players. Is that you would think that the backs are better at pressing at the line of scrimmage. But you know, Cody White's a lifetime special teamer. He's done that. Two big receivers there bare they weren't. It wasn't Calvin Austin on him. You know, he takes an inside release, takes the inside not not a bad job, really good angle to the ball carrier. Absolutely didn't didn't get beat up on his way down the round. That was fine. And he's been a special team guy over the course of his career, so you'd expect that to look good. I don't know if he can tackle a soul or Miller if he can tackle a soul. But they got down there and they're not going to hit him this But that was promising, good job, good job. Who would get done with James Pierre Now he's he's done this quite a bit in the course of his career. Another, he's just putting Miller back out there. It's an offensive player. Who's the topest? Is that Miller? Again? Just one on one? This one's only one on one. He's going to get Arthur Miletto. So letsa established this. Yeah, in offense, defensive drills, a lot of this a lot. Let's see what this one looks like. The ball is about to be snapped and Danny Smith giving him the last instructions there and there's the break. Okay, not bad again, not bad again. Not a bad job by Milette either. No, he kind of forced him to change direction a couple of times, even though that they weren't touching. He was ahead of them and sort of forced him to, you know, change directions going down the field. Yeah, I mean that's what you want to do, is that, you know, those two or three extra steps or give your part returners just a little bit of room, but point four seconds more it takes you to get there. Well, Johnson did a nice job of closing the space there at the end that uh as the as the part return guy caught the football, he was about, you know, six yards out. So that's an exhausting drill too. Oh yeah, I gotta think they wanted to see that one, that matchup after seeing Johnson do well splitting that double team. All right, go out there and do this against a varsity guy. Yeah, right, right right, it makes perfect sense. We got another match up, your offensive against defensive guy. Who's that up there? I gotta be receivers that McFarlan. Let's McFarlane, Yeah, let's McFarland. Well he didn't nice, just very nice. He did a nice job and he kept him on his head the whole time down the field. Would have definitely disrupted the punt returned doubt. Yeah, yeah, tell Danny's done a good job coaching these guys up to do this at right that they're they're taking these and putting them on once some toughness and you need to you need to be able to run. But you also there's technique involved too, without a doubt, Without a doubt, you're not just running down there. You gotta get down there and make something happen, like running a route and keeping that guy proper leverage and all that stuff too, and knowing where the ball is gonna you know, you get any on the return guy as well, and you hope your punter doesn't shank it. You know it's supposed to whatever right here. Yeah, and he hits the wrong direction and then you look bad, and you know, let's see we got. Is this Cody White down here? Yes? Yeah, Cody White against James Pierre again another uh other good matchup. Sure they've done this a lot and special teams in over the last year or two. All right, Cody, get off the ball. There's a snap, a little outside released after a fake to the inside. Getting down there, getting down there, nice job separating. It doesn't look quite as fast as youether, not the open up yea, Yeah, I couldn't really run away from James Pierre. I meant say before, I thought Boykin would look a little faster doing this too. And maybe it's just because he's such a big guy. His feet like Miller, you know, yeah, gliding a little more than they look like they're but he eats up bigger strides too, Right, this is kind of fun, drill. Let's see what we got. You're listening to the drive here on Steelers Nation Radio. We're bringing our live coverage from Steelers training camp practice here at St. Pittson College and Danny Smith are ready to uh snap the football again here and there's the snap to do battle down this probably little too much. These are too much Patty Cake. Oh but give the give the defensive players, you know, credit there too. He kept interfering. Every time he wanted to go left. You get in front of him. Everything want to go right, you get in front of him. Mark Robinson was the other guys trying to get down two young guys the other day. The defense defender was uh Lyndon Stevens. The other ones was Lyndon Stevens. And you can tell they haven't done it as much as the They're not as refined, and they take a few more false steps and you know they don't understand the path to take as well. All Right, we got Tyler, but you hope two weeks from how they do. Tyler Vaughan's down here against Anthony Miller and yeah that's twenty one the receiver. Yeah that's uh Javon McKinley. Let's see how I wouldn't think these two are good at jamming. I wouldn't think so, But I don't know that Tyler Vaughan is getting what he's good at. Let's see what he does here. He goes outside, he's out of bounds. Yep, that's not good. And they do a nice shot of keeping him out there too. Like he's nowhere near to be a non factor in this, just staying on him. Miller likes this stuff. He's feisty him, kind of shot to the head the whole way down the field, ran him out of bounds. He's one of my new faves man. Fun to watch that because I'm a shot to the He's a little exhausted there because he did He's been doing a lot. He ran down like three times and then he just had to run down as a coverage guy. I'm just last last. Really, I took one eight yards. Yeah, get used to seeing Miller number seventeen and you're black and gold folks. Yeah, absolutely, that's that was enlightening there. I usually don't pay a whole lot of attention to these. Uh we kind of take special teams periods off a little more sometimes too. But that's a great drill to watch. Are they're still doing another one going up here at the top. I can't quite see numbers, but it's an offensive player. It's going to be the gun. Trying to look at the body type. There is that Stephen Sims. Maybe he's little, yeah, quick, very quick. I think that is Sim's boy. He beat them, just beat him. He just beat him with speed and quickness. That's nineteen. That's Calvin Austin about that. Yeah, he just that makes me. Yeah, he just I just thought ran him right down the field. He's a fast winner. But but I mean, how many times since he got drafted if we said he's not just a slot receiver. He gets off press band coverage outside the numbers, you know, I mean, and that's exactly what he did. He one at the line of scrimmage and then with him it's over. Nobody's catching him, you know. I mean once he gets that step on you and he had that inside release there, you know, like he's getting off the line and on offense. Forget about it. Yeah, absolutely been the same thing if if it was an offensive play. Yeah, yeah, Um, it's not just a specialty player. That was fun. This will going back to team defensive ones ones verse ones. Yes, I can't see the quarterback quite yet. I would assume it's trabisky. I assume so, yeah, I think we can make that as something. I'll take another break. He is Matt Williamson. I am Dale Lali. You're listening to the Drive here on Steelers Nation Radio. There's just seven on sevens full team. That was full team. We are live from Steelers training camp here at Same Pensive College, the only station bringing you live coverage right from an updates from Steelers training camp. He's well, yeah, I'm starting to freeze up here that my brain fog is taking over here. But then we're gonna take a break. We'll be back with more right after this. He's the Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt Williamson on your home of the Black and Gold, Steelers Nation Radio. Welcome back. I'm dl Ally here with Matt Williamson. This is the Drive on Steelers National. The other Steelers are practicing here in front of us U. Pickett had watching a little eleven on eleven here and Picktt had some trouble handling the footballs. He came back in the snap shotgown snap and them was a little late getting it out to the not very accurate, very accurate. Warren probably should have hauled it in, but it was going for a negative one year gain anyway. Yeah, as we watched that, we saw a couple of throws before that. Yeah, yeah, watching, Uh it's eleven eleven. This is more of a first down. I guess we're in third down here now, so it's just a third down. Two? Why do I not see the change? There? We go five? Ye, about third and five, they break the huddle, pick it in the shotgun. It's like it's been a spirited practice though. Yeah, you got about a half hour left. Giver take rolling to his right, gets it out there to uh to Tyler Vaughns. You know that, Tyler von Yeah, I think so, Tyler Vaughns. And that's the first down. Pick gets a work in progress, but he's getting a little better, a little more comfortable, just you know, with his his throws and his ball placement and getting it out and you know, I think he's starting to get to get the swing of things. Once again, we saw some movement of the pocket there, little rolls the right designed yep, yep, yep, And that helps the tackles to it, helps the protection we got going there. Okay, they break the huddle again here once again, in this about third and five seen a lot of twelve personnel. Tim Benzis wrote an article about twelve personnel and he had me kind of my proof read it, but just contribute a little bit that their percentage of twelve personnel one back two tight ends two receivers. It was very low last year because they're so high in eleven and eleven. And I think there's a lot of benefits of twelve. I mean, you're always gonna you're almost always gonna get you know, a base defense a four three or three four. It helps your tackles a lot. I think that's a big thing is you've got another big body often outside the tackles so that they out of it. And friar muth is a weapon, you know. And Gentry is an emerging player. I don't know that's your best eleven on the field, but it's not too far off. You know. If you can replace Claypool or Pickings with Gentry, you know, that's not so awful. I think they will see more twelve. So this is a third and a little bit longer. It's third and about eight. Everything about nice there you go, nice, nice anticipation ary through the receiver, kind of open there. The other thing about twelve real quick by them on that little tangent is you can create new blocking angles too. You know. It's in the run game, like the Ravens are the perfect example. They have all these tight ends and fullbacks on the field that they can create really advantageous blocking angles sometimes off motion, you know, sometimes a lot of off and off shifts, especially in the run game. Yeah, yeah, um, I think that's what they're exploring with here. But yeah, this is about the third and ten here again, here's a Rudolph in the shotgun. Um, double receivers down here to the forest. I think you see has Jay Sternberg go motion. Nobody goes with him, so they we're just looking his zone. Here, free blitzer comes right up the middle. Um, nothing, nothing Rudolph can do one. No, that's not on him. I mean, that's that's a the corner blitz. It looked like a slot blitz that just came flat right up to me, right right. Not much you can do about that one, but hold onto the football and punt, yeah right right. I mean hopefully in the real world he would have chucked that out of bounds or throw it to someone's feet. Or so I couldn't tell if the back didn't get up and pick that up. That's really hard to watch him here without rewind available, you know, And that's a I would assume that would be that would be what the back would be, you know, that would be his job to pick that one up. I mean, the best way to watch protection is always from the end zone anyway, and you sometimes you have to rewind several times to see who's who's at fault. So that was a hard one to decide for. But you're probably right, you know, that's a lot corner is probably a back. That's one of the things about protection for backs. I mean that happens quick. I mean that's a slot corner. They may not run a four three, but they are unbelievably quick. You know. They're just that those first couple of steps and they're little and they get in there quick, and they're hard to find. And if you're you know, to the uh quarterbacks right and this guy's coming from the other side, you gotta across the face and go go get him. I mean it's not only is you have to be really on top of your assignment, but you gotta have some quick feet to get over there. Absolutely, we got ones on ones here again, Um, the defensive lineman in this situation, looks like we got Isaiah louder Milk out there. Um that Adams Adams on the nose. Montrader said him as Chris Warmley. So basically the second line, I'd say, Yeah, they really like what Isaiah louder Milk has done in this in this camp. Thus you're getting a lot of buzz around behind the scenes on him. Positive, all positive, Yeah, yeah, absolutely. He looks massive. He does. He's very tall and long, and I mean he looks like he's the biggest guy on the field. Yeah, except he can move. Do you know this. I mean, he sure looks like he's added ten or fifteen pounds a good weight. I mean, I don't know he added anyway, but it looks like he's redistributed a little good point. I don't know if he weighs more, but he looks a little different and more proportioned and better proportions. A big man. He's a big man. I'm not small by any stretch. And I was talked to him a couple of days ago, and I'm like I'm looking up at him, like, yeah, holy mackerel. That's the planet theory. There him the edge and he's smell getting out to the edge and did a good job put the ball on the ground. That Bush coming background to get the ball out. Bush is the one that really made the play and then held up because he didn't take him to the ground, but he kind of beat him to the corner. That was nicely done by Bush. Yeah, he's quietly having a pretty good camp here. I've heard zero negative things, right, you know, that's step one. I wrote about it today. And of course you know the fans are, oh, you staying cut him now, I'll get rid of you know, you can't never get any better. I made up my mind about him three years ago. He stinks thinks they didn't pick up. It's with your option. Doesn't matter if he's coming off an injury or what. Yeah, you see he's out there with spleen to focus on Mr Bush right now with his story. He's directing traffic a little bit there. Okay, once again, okay, they threw on that one that it wasn't really his play. Now he just kind of took that short zone ball. Another fumble, another fumble was that three to dance three? Or four for the to the offense. In general, defense is getting the ball out and four or five near turnovers. You know, there was a picking seven shots. There should have been a pick down here. So I have a feeling coach T's gonna bring that up. Well, that's one thing that Tarrell Austin when he came in really stressed as the senior defensive assistant, like getting the ball out and lo and behold, the numbers jumped that year. Not that they didn't stress that before, but he really, he's not the first coach in history, right stress and stuff. But right, I know you're saying, but he had them making sure you know, anytime the ball was on the ground, of defense is picking it up and one the other way with it because you don't know if he's a catch or not. And some coaches, you know, we'll really stress getting multiple tacklers to the ball, or the first guy even holding the runner up for a minute just to get it. Let other guys come in and punch at that football. I like that formation, Matt. They came out, I missed it. I was they came out in a tight set and then Trabisky kind of looked step back and everybody split wide. Um, what does that do to a defense is I would imagine it just makes you a just you know, like if you talk to any linebacker coach, like if Jerry O was sitting there, and I'm sure his career is a perfect example too, is pre your alignment before the snap is critical and it's down the six inches like the stuff we would never notice. And and you know a lot of people that were really in the know, we're really here we go again. Now they were hard on Bard of changing it, and he's bringing them in tight. So to where I'm going with this is if it's that drastic of a split from all over across tight formation to an overcross wide formation and you don't get many times to get your feet totally set, well, there's a really good chance those linebackers are six inches off their mark put off. Here we go again, Here, here we go again. And now he brought them in tight. Okay, so now they don't have much time to get set exactly where they want. Am I on am I on the outside shade of that tight end and not for am I pushing too much? And those little the game of inches stuff is real. Yeah, you're just kind of trying to create somebody being a little late getting to the spot right, and next thing you know, you get that little opening. They pick up your art a little bit better blocking angle, and you know, and I'm sure the really good quarterbacks is you know, the Mannings and Bradies. Soon as they make that shift, they're like, by eleven, Oh there's one that's a little out of phase. I'm gonna click to this run and I'm gonna kick him out. Absolutely, absolutely advance level stuff. You know, they gotta do really quick. Let's see if they do it again here. Now, get rude off in the in the huddle here, getting ready to break the huddle. Got the second unit out there. Uh, got some first teamers out there on defense. Well, I see I see Miles Jack out there. It looks like we're going straight. Just motion on this one motioning back. That's a straight hand off. Picked up a few Yeah, thattayo is that that's thirty? That's thirty? He hit that whole quick. There was a hole too, though. I Mean I was just complaining, I don't half hour ago, an hour ago, that the line wasn't moving people and they pushed the defense backwards there. Yeah, I asked him about that today. I'm like, you're pretty decisive runner. Uh, he said, you're talking about yeah more and Jilly Moren and they said, Uh, you know, I tried that dancing thing a couple of times and I guess I just got you know, crushed so and then more dancing. Just get straight ahead, go that probably just fine that j C player of the year, But that's not fine against the Browns and raven Bengals, and you know, I pick it getting it out quickly? Was he entertaining to talk to too for he's gonna be a fan favor once they started watching in preseason. Yeah, but we probably got what another fifteen minutes of practice, depending on you know, how long like Tomlin wants to keep him out there. We still got another special teams period to go through here. As they get through this team session here, Kenny Pickett has the team in the huddle. You're listening to the drive here on Steelers Nation Radio. He's Matt Williamson. I am Dale Lally and we break a second and ten period. Yeah, break the huddle here. What we got to pick it under center? The back behind him is that Durant. I believe it looks like it. Yes, by stance, Yeah, that's Durant steps back play action. Wait for those linebackers. Bite Miller on the end, find the find the void to trusted receiver in breaking route Miller Boom moved to move the sticks. Quarterbacks looking good again today, better than they had. I think they've built on what they've accomplished, which is good. I mean, right, that's what you want to see. I'm done with excuse. But don't you know, you don't expect them to be you know, elite level guys yet either. And there's a comfort. Okay, we got Rudolph out there breaking the huddle again. He's in the shotgun back beside. That might be Mastertigue there beside him. Now. Kinds of motion Oh nice YEA good throw, good throw there to gunneral Schefski. Not only did they have to motion cross, but then they had that double like they're at the goal line tight end. I guess it was a running back, you know, almost like they're pulling in front of the quarterback too, and that just open things up. Linebackers then start paying attention to that, and they threw the third level behind those two. Yeah for a nice bag. Yeah, No, d did a nice job getting that one out. It's a good example. Froze thee outside lineback, frozen, frozen Robinson on that side too. Yeah, it just puts him in conflict. What what what? What's my job here? I'm not quite sure. Boom completion. He's under center this time. They'll play action fake here. Good penetration as a sack. That's sixty eight coming in there, Gangbusters. Yeah, he just beat him to the inside. That that Khalil Davis winning to the inside against sixty four. That's a Doug Coston. So you beat him. I know. I'm sorry. That's Trent Scott. Trent Scott not good play by Davis. Absolutely absolutely could do a little bit better job and give him the d a little credit here too once in a while. Yeah, you know when we see something like that, that was nice. I do think all eyes are on the offense though, typically when you're in easy because you don't have we can't rewind things, you don't have any kind of replay here. We're just I just mean this year more than ever. I hear you, I hear you. A little quick motion there and in the jet sweep that's a McFarland special. Yeah. Oh, Yeah, I'm not sure if fifty could have done more in real life there. Um, he had two guys that coming out there with him as pokers, and he kind of tried to McFarland's speed and cutting ability really showed up. That was nice. That was real nice. Yeah. Absolutely, If Farland is having a good camp, he is, he has much better. You know, the last couple of years he's been hurt and dealing with some stuff. Yeah, I think a lot of us have written him off. And I was pretty much in that camp too before, you know, a month or two ago, like that was failed experiment, might not be. No, he's he looks bigger than it looks bigger, and he looks explosive. I mean him and Austin are two of the offensive players where Oh, he looks faster than the other guys out there, right right right. I'd like to see there's those two in a foot race. Yeah, I'll bet on Austin against anyone here, But he'd be the one guy that might be able to hang with him at least through you know, thirty yards or whatever. I think he might be second on the team in terms of speed. Yeah, beat, they both got beat. Beep speeds. We're gonna take another break. He is Matt Williamson. I am Dale Lolly. You're listening to the Drive here on Steelers Nation Radio. We are live from Steelers training camp practice here at St. Vincent College. We'll be back with more, probably to wrap up the practice. Yeah. Probably. He's the Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt Williamson on Home of the Black and Gold in our Steelers Nation Radio. Welcome back. I am Dale Wally here with Matt Williams and this is to Drive on Steelers Nation Radio, the only radio show, the podcast that you can listen to practice and live as it happens in in front us the Steelers on the field here taking part in practice number eight of training camp two. Right now they're working on some kick return blocking or kick return I guess return team. Yeah, they got the return team out there, but they got all eleven there and just one kicker, you know. So we've been winding and crying about the heat and it's been a little a little rough, but I will say the fan interaction has been tremendous. So all you guys have stopped by and said hello. Had several people stopped by to get pictures taken with us. Uh, Matt and I signed some autographs yesterday, which is just shouldn't sort of humorous rights, shouldn't have four kids. Ball decreased in value dramatically, But that's all right. Yeah, Um, he's still wanted us to sign that. I said, hey, buddy, we're gonna you know, once we put our names on that football, that twenty dollar football becomes a ten dollar fo use it for for play. Take it down to the part. This is not Babe Ruth, but his signature on there's playing with Dad, dad playing or playing with Dad's paper paper autographed baseball. So I'm curious what exactly we're looking here. I assume it's landmarks. If you're that front six, where you should set up at how deep you should go because you don't know where the kicks going. That kick was to the kicking team's right. So all those front six, which are basically like an old line, they gotta get depth, get depth, get depth, flip around, find their landmark and then make their block and kind of create like an old line. So I think they're working on that stuff right now. Where wherever the ball is gonna go. This is every one of them has a specific landmark, whether it's the numbers of the hash marks or whatever, and you want them all lined up. You don't like a no line, you know, like a wall. Yeah, build a wall. Can't can no longer do a wedge or anything like that that is not only illegal, So you have to make sure you have your spacing. Um, guys can't be too close together. Uh, you know, you can't combo block anymore in these things. So it's a little different than it used to be. And you'll see this front six wall. There's heavier dudes on the inside. The outside guys can run, you know, I mean, you know you Buddy Johnson and and uh uh Derek Tusker the inside the inside guys, and then there's like defensive backs from from them to the sidelines that can move a little bit more. They gonna cover a little more ground. Yeah, just little things that you have to work on. You you only have so many practices with which which with which to do all these things before you have to go play a game. And if you noticed those six that were the wall, the you know, the front line, they're all wearing gold jerseys. Yeah, they don't block anybody in real life, you know, I mean they get there, but that they're they're the offense now, I mean they're they're blockers, so that that a chore for them too, just like when we were talking about the the release drills for the gunners and those type of things, like just because you're an offensive player doesn't mean you're gonna do offensive things on special teams. And now we get another unit out there, UH two of the inside guys who in UH two's our skipper, also big bodied edge guys with linebackers on each side of them, defensive backs on the on the fringes, Mark Robinson out there on the other on the other side. And then forty six is t name T. D. Moultrie is the other guy down my hunts. This is the second or third team kickoff return team. Yeah, you know what they're gonna do in the next week's game. Get a game next week. Get a game tonight, Matt, Now we do a game tonight. How about that? Any chance we see Lawrence eight. They've already said that these guys aren't playing, none of them, I mean even Walker, the first overall pick. I mean, I was hoping to see one or one series of good players, but I don't think I can see that Hall of Fame game is great. I love the whole Hall of Fame experience. The Hall of Famers is awesome. But the Hall of Fame games the most anti clamb a thing in all sports. Yeah, it's pretty bad. You know, you get all excited for, you know, to watch the football back, right, and then you don't recognize the soul. Yeah, and then it's that game. And we might recognize some guys just from our draft covers, but like if we're if we're Sharkey's a night and it's on how kind to pay attention but not really Yeah, I mean you're not missing a hole. Yeah, but it's great to see the average fans not going to recognize a lot of those names though tonight. No, I'm not gonna recognize a lot of those names. And they don't blame him. I'm not ripping it on the fans, right, He's just not at all because these are guys that probably aren't gonna make it. But now that there's only three going forward, you know, a week from now, next week's games, you'll see a lot of brand name guys. Yeah, a little different, a little different. This this is the fourth game for the Raiders and Jaguars, but as it was for the Steelers last year, and a little different, a little different. Two new coaches too, that's not by accident. Got some clouds here, some I'm gonna stock in clouds again, just coming into the area just uh, you know, the winds starting to kick up again. Thank thankfully is blowing opposite where those clouds are at there. It's a little cool, blowing it away from us. But there are still thunderstorm mornings. Absolutely. We get a couple more periods for the Steelers after this was they're gonna go well, they're gonna go well after four o'clock here, that would be the longest practice of the year so far. Uh, they've gone out, they've been well aft, were well over, I guess. So we've been on the trail that last hour while they're still doing stuff. This when they get two team periods left, actually there'll be a seven on seven now and then another competition period to finish off practice. So the end with a bang. Just judging from my years of experience of watching the strong hunch was about to say, how do you know that we get one on ones with the with the offensive line and defensive line over on the opposite field. I wish we could see those better. Yeah, that's one thing. I feel like we're a little light on. You know, it's hard to watch out. I'll be watching that closely tomorrow night at Friday night lights. I'll go to watch right next. I could see the seven on sevens and those things here a lot, very easily from where are we're sitting at the one on one. Blocking driels are tougher to see. So let me see the numbers over there there far away. Yeah, it's just a little bit of far away and on their whole field a cross plus, there's good stuff right in front of us. You watch what's closer to you. It's easy, definitely easier. So where do we got going in this period we're matching up, they're starting to get there. It's right outside the red zone, high red zone. It's going to be the one that the first team defense defensive nowls out there, and we're going to see the ones that doesn't really look like the ones ass out there right Miles Jack is out there. I was looking at the offense more. You got Hayward, you got Heyward's coming off the field. George Pickens is out there, we get I guess right. I mean it's not Deante and some of those guys, but you know, sometimes they split this up to they'll send some of those uh tight ends will go over with the one on one blocking and good point, depending what they're trying to accomplish it. Let's see here. Now we got Kenny pickt out there. Defense kind of muddling around here. Now we get this some guys pressing up. That's biscuit obvious. I keep doing that, Mitch and Kenny, And oh, you can't hold on questionable decision there you're going to I think that that Sternburger. Yeah, yeah, you're tight end in that situation, hoping he can come down with football. He kind of got rerouted and never really got in a good position to make a play on. That was the Monte Casey by the fensive player. Yeah, he basically ran the route for the tight end and that one eliminated him completely. So we'll see here. Get for Bisky back there again. Get George Pickens coming down here to the bottom. He's a single down here, there's three on the other side. I'm looking his way right now. Yeah, especially because you motioned that that safety goes out of there. He's looking looking staring him right down, yeah, up where he should look at the balls? At first read got it to him, easy picking, easy pickings. That stairs his nickname, easy pickings. How about that? And then well look what you just did? How about that? About that? Let's see here we get we still have Drabinski in there pickings, still staying out there with him. I looked that way again. Try to get him if you're gonna get that one on one move, I mean get that singled up again. That's safety went from being a slant defender to go and single high. And this time we get Olshovski in the slot. Uh, you get Gentry on the other side, with Calvin Austin outside of him. And let's see where we go this time looking looking looking left. Stuck it in there. Probably should have been a catch. Probably it wasn't terrible. Throw a lot of heat on it and a little bit high traffic area. Calvin Austin could not come down with the catch in that situation. Which changing quarterbacks here, No, we're still sticking with Trabisky in this one, but we changed the personnel completely. Now you get Anthony McFarland out there. Is that Anthony Miller, gentry, gentry still, Yeah, he's easy to pick out in the crowd. The giant person, Cody White coming down here, why to the bottom? I can't tell. These guys are getting dark, dude. Yeah, I know I'll get a little getting a little worried with this. This is Jacob rect here. Yeah, we get this ball. Snap, we're done at the six. Probably should have made Delan. That's just kind of a race of the pile on that McFarland was winning. He's not happy that match is real. I'm not happy this almost throwing his helmet. You gotta make that throw. That's a touchdown. Yeah, that was left on the field, and that was on the quarterback. Yep, no doubt about that. And now we got Rudolph out there with his group. It looks like Connor Heyward is out there, and now I see Anthony Miller out there. Okay, they move the ball back a little bit. I think it started that fine, more room this one got the what in the slot? There is a tight end yet go so yeah double DC. You know wat and Hayward on the field here. Interesting, that would really mess with the defense from Yeah, I prefer to run the ball that situation. Yeah, pick up five yards forward, a little bit, a little flag route, good throw to putting it where he could just fall and you know, get easy yardage. You don't have to fight to catch, and you don't. I'm worried about him running after the catching, right, I mean, know who your guy is, Make them make make him just secure the catch YEP, we're gonna take another break. Matt. He is Matt Williamson. I am Dale Lally. You're listening to the Drive here on Steelers Nation Radio. We'll be back to bring you our three of our live coverage here from Steelers training camp at same Vincent College here on Steelers Nation Radio right after this
Speaker 1: He's the drive with Dale Lolly and Matt Williamson on your Home of the Black and Gold Steelers Nation Radio Steelers finishing up with those one on one passing drills are a lot of fun stuff to see there. But tell you what, the Aunte Johnson, that little start to stop that he did down here in front of us, You kind of forget how good he is when you watch all the other receivers and it's like, oh, yeah, yeah, that's the eighteen million door guy. Yeah, I get it, um real quick. You mentioned it, you know, right up right before we went live there, that really good outing there by the tight ends. And I was about to say before you said that was the past catchers in general, and that drill and the drill before making a lot of plays on the ball, you know, like going up and getting it in contested situations. And to me, that's not just a testament to the receivers the pass catchers, it's the court are back starting understand these guys. You know, I can lay this one up here and he can go make that play or like very nicely, very nicely done little play action fake to the to the right, and then Mitch Robinsky rolling to his his left and threading the needle there to Zac Gentry about ten yards down the field and tight coverage. Yeah, rolling to his left, naked Gentry's well down the field fifteen yards, I would say something like that puts it right in front of him on stride and the defender did everything he could and you know, got him on the ground to side and the second he caught it. But hey, that's moved sticks. We got a team drove and in case we didn't mention that before, Yeah, he is. That is something that Trabisky has done really well, rolling to the left, rolling either way either way. Yeah, he's very comfortable when he gets out of the out of the pocket. He is really good. It was a nice run by Benny Snell. It was. It was a nice hole five five yard game there. Obviously, and we've said this a lot. You know that they're looking for quarterbacks to throw well with designed movement, rollouts, nakeds, boots, et cetera, off and off play action. And that's great and both these guys, I mean, pick it in Drabinsky, the new guys, the once they went in hand picked exceling that and I think Drabinsky especially has been a standout and that's great. It's a bit of a crutch though, too, you know. I mean, it's just an easy way to you know, see half the field, manipulate the defense. But as our man Great Cossel always says, eventually, it's third and eight and you've gotta drop back in that back foot hits to hit in the pocket, and you've gotta make throws. So you know, it's all good. I mean, those aren't aren't negatives, but you need to see from the pocket to Yeah, a nice little three yard run. They're getting some positive yardage by Anthony McFarland's have a nice little practice himself there. Maybe it's a little body language thing or watching practice yesterday, I feel like the the offense is actually starting to get a little confident. You know, like if they looked overmatched there, they their body language looked like they were overmatched. They were all trying to get the feel for one another. New quarterback, where's Ben? You know all this? You know, that type of feel to it. These last two days, it's like, Okay, that's some guys here. We're ready to compete against a really good defense. Yeah, Heyward and Watt aren't out there again. That makes a little bit of a difference. It does, of course, but I mean, this isn't a bad group they're going against, and they're completing passes, and you know, these tight ends and receivers running route, they don't care if cam's out there. You know, wats out there? Like what I saw on that run right there from Devin bush Um attacking the line of scrimmage instead of waiting. Wasn't happened. It wasn't wasn't standing sitting back waiting for something that happened came up to the line of scrimmage. That play went away from him. But I think he did what he was supposed to do and got his gap. We talked about that a lot on backs on backers. We're not backs on backers. Backs well, yeah, backs on backers in in the passing game. You know, as a as a coverage player, he was much more attacking than on his heels. My hunches, Flores, Tomlin, Austin, the whole coaching staff is saying, if you're gonna make a mistake, make it going for aggressive. Yeah, make it going forward. Be a striker. You're a little missile lot there that can fly around the field. That's why we loved you. If you take him, if you if you miss an assignment because you're blowing up the A gap instead of the B gap, will live with it, you know. I don't want you to being passive and being reactionary out there now. I know you've said you haven't seen a lot of those wild passes from from the core of the last two days. Though the passage Robinsky made there was a high level passing to his left and throw. I mean that that was really good coverage. When I made that statement, practice hadn't started yesterday, yes, and there's been a lot since then, you know, so I think that's promising. And again, Mitch is very capable. I mean, it's got a second pick in the draft. It wasn't people weren't blown away that he was top five pick. But you do want to start seeing some more of that from the pocket. He can't just agree Rudolph getting some time there. Okay, Yeah, he handled the navigating the pocket well there, pass wasn't perfect. A little behind him infect that may have been as well. That's Anthony Miller comes the flag came down. I think he was getting held on them. I think he was too, But he's still contorted and caught the ball over his head behind him and you know, first down plus flood. Yeah, the miller is good. Miller is good. M M. It's a little different good to him less filling. Yeah, I could use a cool one of those right right now. Uh, we gotta pick it out there now. Um, so we'll see what what Kenny does with his uh his reps here maze from Rudolph just stepping off. So pick it. Taking the three reps again today here is you listen to the drive on Steelers Nation Radiocean again to tight ends going from left to right and then goes back across nobody. So their zone zone zone. That was a run play all the way out, bulls out. Who fumbled that? I think it was our guy Warren just by his running stunt offense recovers. You don't like to see that from the young man, No, of course not. But he's not gonna be perfect, was it him or not? Just that looks like sure, looks like it just the body I think so, Yeah, that would be the first mistake, real mistake that he has made there. But he looks like he got it back. He was getting gang tackled by three guys. He was, and I get justin lane credit. I mean he came down as the corner, really hold his ground, played the cutback because the whole play was going away from him to the offenses. Left, held his ground like a big strong dude. Came up smack the running back. Right. There's a nice play by Lane. Yeah, pick it in the shotgun. Somebody caused the fumble too. It wasn't just some guy just dropping the ball, but there were several causes in them. Okay, they pick it adjust, they go in the center. That's a jet sweeping around there. Nice star start stop there for Steven Sims. I believe that is to get something positive if he played that well though, remember when we talked about fifty before. Yes he did, Yes he did. Scott showing up there. So I wonder on these jets sweeps and and these you know, these those type of motions in handoffs. Is this defense is keying on them like crazy have to be? You know, it's come at some point, and if you're Scott or whomever, you're not gonna cheat. I mean you might as well cheat. The drill and blast like the Marvin Leel looks bigger in pads in the uniform than he does. I thought that too. I thought he'd look a little underside and out of place. He doesn't look like that, you know in pads to me either. Nice play coming down the time to coming down the line there, I couldn't see that it was Sutton. Yeah it was thirty. Yeah, yeah, so that that will be Carlin's platel coming down the line of scrimmage and make it play. So the zero gets it back and it was nicely done. He got beat earlier. You gotta hear breaking the huddle here who's against You can't tell who's in the huddle right now, but it looks like the some of the backups out there, so I assume it's still No. This is Mason Rudolph there, got it back behind him? That looks like gentry. You get a couple of the guys that are gonna play snaps. Is that Matteo Durant behind him? I would bet, just by the way the end of the body type starting to learn those things from right right right, just the mannerisms, the way they hold themselves tight, it was Mateo Durant. Kind of She thought her stepped a little bit coming up to the line of scrimmage. There wasn't really a hole there. Defense filled pretty I'm sorry that was Mastertigue. Now that was Tigue. I kind of forgot he showed up yesterday, big body guy. Yeah, how can you forget Master Tigue? Mastertigue, name like Master take you better be good. I almost name my son Mastered and decide against it. That's Michael. But we got going here, we still got we're back to pick it. So little rotation going on here. Pickets under center. Warren hasn't been back in since the fun Bill. Yeah, I can't tell who the running back is there. We we got Kevin Rader in motion from left to right. The handoff now I got blown up. That was once again in the backfield. There a lot of penetration Durant and uh you just saw um that was who's our skipper coming in there to make the play. I don't want to overreact, you know, for a week's worth of the camp, but it hasn't been a lot of holes for running backs. I mean no, no, you can look at that two ways boys steals run defense getting better probably, but it worries me a little bit of there's no Cam Heyward in there right now. There's no, there's no uh, you know they're starting defensive line is not out there right now. But i'd like to see this old line move some people off the ball. But yeah, I'm not seeing a lot of them. A lot of stuff happening on there out of the line of scrimmage, and said the other way around. Okay, this time we were in a shotgun with the running back to to pickets right, little motion inside handoff got tripped up, but there was also penetration. He got positive yardage out of it. He did, he did. Running game needs work, but we'll see what twenty two out there. Well, you know, this is the other thing about that particular drill. It is a team run drill, so the defense defense knows you're running every single time. It's kind of the old iverson practice practice everyone. You kind of have to not cheat the drill to make things work. And that's that's why it's not. Every once in a while they'll throw a pass out of that drill, but not too often. Running make you pay, but and you usually complete those because the defense is playing run right right right, Everyone bites hard on the run. Danny Smith, time here, what are we focusing on today? Is this punt. Yeah, just the way that line shaping up, it kind of looks like punt team. You see the return of men back, Eric Horse, Gunner, Roschewsky taking five or six of them back there, they get a bunch. Do you think Gunner is the opening day punt returner? Well, he has been a pro Bowl punt returners, right, I mean, it's kind of why you paid him amongst other special teams reason. But do you think he's better than Miller and Austin? I mean again, he's been. He ever sixteen yards of punt return of two years. It's a massive number. It's a huge nuns a massive number. You it's like kickoff return to tap ever. So yeah, I think he's the he's the guy, and I think he's I think he's pretty secure with the football, which is a big part of that as well. It seems to be. But I haven't watched every punt return he's had. You do like the fact that there are other guys here that can do it in case something happens to him. It's one of their positions where they have a ton of guys centers, nickel corners, you know, punt returners. It's a good problem to half. Yeah, I mean if someone gets hurt, there's probably three guys active on game day, they'll be just fine doing it. Remember how A B. Of course, you remember remember how A B used to in big situations we returned punts. Yeah, they did with Santonio Holmes as well de'ante. You think is that in his future that I think they got ships sailed. Yeah, I think that ship is sailed, particularly when you have a guy like General Chefski who's been a Pro Bowl pump returner. I mean, you don't have to go that route. And I think that you do that because some of the other guys just I mean they were okay, but they weren't as good. Yeah, this is actually an interesting drill that special team stuff goes. This is more exciting than most because they're not even punning the football. They're they're drugs machining it to the returners. And everyone's gonna cheer because these guys take it to the house. Three guys season them as opposed to eleven so and there's there are blockers now in this as well. And say, this isn't a return or drill, This is a This is a gunner drill and a gunner. If you do not know, is the guys that line up like a wide receiver. One of them is the top of the screen here trying to get off a double, and one's down here trying to get off a single. And I assume the dude next to the long snapper who's basically a guard, and he has to get off the same thing as well. So there's the long snapper is not gonna move. Yeah, and you've got four but only three, so it's a half line drill. You've got three punt coverage players basically being blocked by four guys to try to get an elusive pump returner on the field. So he is going to take the house every time. But this is a really valuable drill for Danny, like he can see who can get off those if you get off those jams, and you can hustle down there and maintain some lane integrity, and you know, again you're not trying to make the tackle necessarily, but if you can force him not to get to the outside after getting through a double team. Again, we got a gunner down here with two dudes on him that they're going to beat the crap out of him, and he's gonna try to get down there and be disruptive and just make that punt returner's life a little bit more difficult. I can't tell who this is here, but it is a real receiver. And he's got with the green beanie on on our side here, and you guy who's in the punt defender who's covering the punts, Oh, that's Anthony Miller. A nice job splitting it. I didn't think they would look at him as a gunner, but he did a nice did a fantastic job there. He looked like he was getting off press cover. Yeah he did o what I mean, just out quick him at the line of scrimmage and split the difference. Split the split the two guys, and one of the defenders was white fifteen a receiver, the other one was twenty one and other receiver. Yeah, yeah, but he made those guys look silly like he was, and he went right for the right for the pump return or forced him where he needed to be. He may have even made that tackle. That was a great play, but really solid play. Yeah. I don't look at him as a a gunner or a guy that might run on on kick coverage. Probably been asked to do it, but he just showed he can. He's he is very compellibly got Miles Boykin up on the other side. Let's see how Miles Boyken does with this again. He's trying to either split or just beat a double team. And these are the type of plays where you see sometimes two guys just drive him out of bounds. Boykin has two defensive players on him, whereas Miller had two offensive players. Is that you would think that the backs are better at pressing at the line of scrimmage. But you know, Cody White's a lifetime special teamer. He's done that. Two big receivers there bare they weren't. It wasn't Calvin Austin on him. You know, he takes an inside release, takes the inside not not a bad job, really good angle to the ball carrier. Absolutely didn't didn't get beat up on his way down the round. That was fine. And he's been a special team guy over the course of his career, so you'd expect that to look good. I don't know if he can tackle a soul or Miller if he can tackle a soul. But they got down there and they're not going to hit him this But that was promising, good job, good job. Who would get done with James Pierre Now he's he's done this quite a bit in the course of his career. Another, he's just putting Miller back out there. It's an offensive player. Who's the topest? Is that Miller? Again? Just one on one? This one's only one on one. He's going to get Arthur Miletto. So letsa established this. Yeah, in offense, defensive drills, a lot of this a lot. Let's see what this one looks like. The ball is about to be snapped and Danny Smith giving him the last instructions there and there's the break. Okay, not bad again, not bad again. Not a bad job by Milette either. No, he kind of forced him to change direction a couple of times, even though that they weren't touching. He was ahead of them and sort of forced him to, you know, change directions going down the field. Yeah, I mean that's what you want to do, is that, you know, those two or three extra steps or give your part returners just a little bit of room, but point four seconds more it takes you to get there. Well, Johnson did a nice job of closing the space there at the end that uh as the as the part return guy caught the football, he was about, you know, six yards out. So that's an exhausting drill too. Oh yeah, I gotta think they wanted to see that one, that matchup after seeing Johnson do well splitting that double team. All right, go out there and do this against a varsity guy. Yeah, right, right right, it makes perfect sense. We got another match up, your offensive against defensive guy. Who's that up there? I gotta be receivers that McFarlan. Let's McFarlane, Yeah, let's McFarland. Well he didn't nice, just very nice. He did a nice job and he kept him on his head the whole time down the field. Would have definitely disrupted the punt returned doubt. Yeah, yeah, tell Danny's done a good job coaching these guys up to do this at right that they're they're taking these and putting them on once some toughness and you need to you need to be able to run. But you also there's technique involved too, without a doubt, Without a doubt, you're not just running down there. You gotta get down there and make something happen, like running a route and keeping that guy proper leverage and all that stuff too, and knowing where the ball is gonna you know, you get any on the return guy as well, and you hope your punter doesn't shank it. You know it's supposed to whatever right here. Yeah, and he hits the wrong direction and then you look bad, and you know, let's see we got. Is this Cody White down here? Yes? Yeah, Cody White against James Pierre again another uh other good matchup. Sure they've done this a lot and special teams in over the last year or two. All right, Cody, get off the ball. There's a snap, a little outside released after a fake to the inside. Getting down there, getting down there, nice job separating. It doesn't look quite as fast as youether, not the open up yea, Yeah, I couldn't really run away from James Pierre. I meant say before, I thought Boykin would look a little faster doing this too. And maybe it's just because he's such a big guy. His feet like Miller, you know, yeah, gliding a little more than they look like they're but he eats up bigger strides too, Right, this is kind of fun, drill. Let's see what we got. You're listening to the drive here on Steelers Nation Radio. We're bringing our live coverage from Steelers training camp practice here at St. Pittson College and Danny Smith are ready to uh snap the football again here and there's the snap to do battle down this probably little too much. These are too much Patty Cake. Oh but give the give the defensive players, you know, credit there too. He kept interfering. Every time he wanted to go left. You get in front of him. Everything want to go right, you get in front of him. Mark Robinson was the other guys trying to get down two young guys the other day. The defense defender was uh Lyndon Stevens. The other ones was Lyndon Stevens. And you can tell they haven't done it as much as the They're not as refined, and they take a few more false steps and you know they don't understand the path to take as well. All Right, we got Tyler, but you hope two weeks from how they do. Tyler Vaughan's down here against Anthony Miller and yeah that's twenty one the receiver. Yeah that's uh Javon McKinley. Let's see how I wouldn't think these two are good at jamming. I wouldn't think so, But I don't know that Tyler Vaughan is getting what he's good at. Let's see what he does here. He goes outside, he's out of bounds. Yep, that's not good. And they do a nice shot of keeping him out there too. Like he's nowhere near to be a non factor in this, just staying on him. Miller likes this stuff. He's feisty him, kind of shot to the head the whole way down the field, ran him out of bounds. He's one of my new faves man. Fun to watch that because I'm a shot to the He's a little exhausted there because he did He's been doing a lot. He ran down like three times and then he just had to run down as a coverage guy. I'm just last last. Really, I took one eight yards. Yeah, get used to seeing Miller number seventeen and you're black and gold folks. Yeah, absolutely, that's that was enlightening there. I usually don't pay a whole lot of attention to these. Uh we kind of take special teams periods off a little more sometimes too. But that's a great drill to watch. Are they're still doing another one going up here at the top. I can't quite see numbers, but it's an offensive player. It's going to be the gun. Trying to look at the body type. There is that Stephen Sims. Maybe he's little, yeah, quick, very quick. I think that is Sim's boy. He beat them, just beat him. He just beat him with speed and quickness. That's nineteen. That's Calvin Austin about that. Yeah, he just that makes me. Yeah, he just I just thought ran him right down the field. He's a fast winner. But but I mean, how many times since he got drafted if we said he's not just a slot receiver. He gets off press band coverage outside the numbers, you know, I mean, and that's exactly what he did. He one at the line of scrimmage and then with him it's over. Nobody's catching him, you know. I mean once he gets that step on you and he had that inside release there, you know, like he's getting off the line and on offense. Forget about it. Yeah, absolutely been the same thing if if it was an offensive play. Yeah, yeah, Um, it's not just a specialty player. That was fun. This will going back to team defensive ones ones verse ones. Yes, I can't see the quarterback quite yet. I would assume it's trabisky. I assume so, yeah, I think we can make that as something. I'll take another break. He is Matt Williamson. I am Dale Lali. You're listening to the Drive here on Steelers Nation Radio. There's just seven on sevens full team. That was full team. We are live from Steelers training camp here at Same Pensive College, the only station bringing you live coverage right from an updates from Steelers training camp. He's well, yeah, I'm starting to freeze up here that my brain fog is taking over here. But then we're gonna take a break. We'll be back with more right after this. He's the Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt Williamson on your home of the Black and Gold, Steelers Nation Radio. Welcome back. I'm dl Ally here with Matt Williamson. This is the Drive on Steelers National. The other Steelers are practicing here in front of us U. Pickett had watching a little eleven on eleven here and Picktt had some trouble handling the footballs. He came back in the snap shotgown snap and them was a little late getting it out to the not very accurate, very accurate. Warren probably should have hauled it in, but it was going for a negative one year gain anyway. Yeah, as we watched that, we saw a couple of throws before that. Yeah, yeah, watching, Uh it's eleven eleven. This is more of a first down. I guess we're in third down here now, so it's just a third down. Two? Why do I not see the change? There? We go five? Ye, about third and five, they break the huddle, pick it in the shotgun. It's like it's been a spirited practice though. Yeah, you got about a half hour left. Giver take rolling to his right, gets it out there to uh to Tyler Vaughns. You know that, Tyler von Yeah, I think so, Tyler Vaughns. And that's the first down. Pick gets a work in progress, but he's getting a little better, a little more comfortable, just you know, with his his throws and his ball placement and getting it out and you know, I think he's starting to get to get the swing of things. Once again, we saw some movement of the pocket there, little rolls the right designed yep, yep, yep, And that helps the tackles to it, helps the protection we got going there. Okay, they break the huddle again here once again, in this about third and five seen a lot of twelve personnel. Tim Benzis wrote an article about twelve personnel and he had me kind of my proof read it, but just contribute a little bit that their percentage of twelve personnel one back two tight ends two receivers. It was very low last year because they're so high in eleven and eleven. And I think there's a lot of benefits of twelve. I mean, you're always gonna you're almost always gonna get you know, a base defense a four three or three four. It helps your tackles a lot. I think that's a big thing is you've got another big body often outside the tackles so that they out of it. And friar muth is a weapon, you know. And Gentry is an emerging player. I don't know that's your best eleven on the field, but it's not too far off. You know. If you can replace Claypool or Pickings with Gentry, you know, that's not so awful. I think they will see more twelve. So this is a third and a little bit longer. It's third and about eight. Everything about nice there you go, nice, nice anticipation ary through the receiver, kind of open there. The other thing about twelve real quick by them on that little tangent is you can create new blocking angles too. You know. It's in the run game, like the Ravens are the perfect example. They have all these tight ends and fullbacks on the field that they can create really advantageous blocking angles sometimes off motion, you know, sometimes a lot of off and off shifts, especially in the run game. Yeah, yeah, um, I think that's what they're exploring with here. But yeah, this is about the third and ten here again, here's a Rudolph in the shotgun. Um, double receivers down here to the forest. I think you see has Jay Sternberg go motion. Nobody goes with him, so they we're just looking his zone. Here, free blitzer comes right up the middle. Um, nothing, nothing Rudolph can do one. No, that's not on him. I mean, that's that's a the corner blitz. It looked like a slot blitz that just came flat right up to me, right right. Not much you can do about that one, but hold onto the football and punt, yeah right right. I mean hopefully in the real world he would have chucked that out of bounds or throw it to someone's feet. Or so I couldn't tell if the back didn't get up and pick that up. That's really hard to watch him here without rewind available, you know, And that's a I would assume that would be that would be what the back would be, you know, that would be his job to pick that one up. I mean, the best way to watch protection is always from the end zone anyway, and you sometimes you have to rewind several times to see who's who's at fault. So that was a hard one to decide for. But you're probably right, you know, that's a lot corner is probably a back. That's one of the things about protection for backs. I mean that happens quick. I mean that's a slot corner. They may not run a four three, but they are unbelievably quick. You know. They're just that those first couple of steps and they're little and they get in there quick, and they're hard to find. And if you're you know, to the uh quarterbacks right and this guy's coming from the other side, you gotta across the face and go go get him. I mean it's not only is you have to be really on top of your assignment, but you gotta have some quick feet to get over there. Absolutely, we got ones on ones here again, Um, the defensive lineman in this situation, looks like we got Isaiah louder Milk out there. Um that Adams Adams on the nose. Montrader said him as Chris Warmley. So basically the second line, I'd say, Yeah, they really like what Isaiah louder Milk has done in this in this camp. Thus you're getting a lot of buzz around behind the scenes on him. Positive, all positive, Yeah, yeah, absolutely. He looks massive. He does. He's very tall and long, and I mean he looks like he's the biggest guy on the field. Yeah, except he can move. Do you know this. I mean, he sure looks like he's added ten or fifteen pounds a good weight. I mean, I don't know he added anyway, but it looks like he's redistributed a little good point. I don't know if he weighs more, but he looks a little different and more proportioned and better proportions. A big man. He's a big man. I'm not small by any stretch. And I was talked to him a couple of days ago, and I'm like I'm looking up at him, like, yeah, holy mackerel. That's the planet theory. There him the edge and he's smell getting out to the edge and did a good job put the ball on the ground. That Bush coming background to get the ball out. Bush is the one that really made the play and then held up because he didn't take him to the ground, but he kind of beat him to the corner. That was nicely done by Bush. Yeah, he's quietly having a pretty good camp here. I've heard zero negative things, right, you know, that's step one. I wrote about it today. And of course you know the fans are, oh, you staying cut him now, I'll get rid of you know, you can't never get any better. I made up my mind about him three years ago. He stinks thinks they didn't pick up. It's with your option. Doesn't matter if he's coming off an injury or what. Yeah, you see he's out there with spleen to focus on Mr Bush right now with his story. He's directing traffic a little bit there. Okay, once again, okay, they threw on that one that it wasn't really his play. Now he just kind of took that short zone ball. Another fumble, another fumble was that three to dance three? Or four for the to the offense. In general, defense is getting the ball out and four or five near turnovers. You know, there was a picking seven shots. There should have been a pick down here. So I have a feeling coach T's gonna bring that up. Well, that's one thing that Tarrell Austin when he came in really stressed as the senior defensive assistant, like getting the ball out and lo and behold, the numbers jumped that year. Not that they didn't stress that before, but he really, he's not the first coach in history, right stress and stuff. But right, I know you're saying, but he had them making sure you know, anytime the ball was on the ground, of defense is picking it up and one the other way with it because you don't know if he's a catch or not. And some coaches, you know, we'll really stress getting multiple tacklers to the ball, or the first guy even holding the runner up for a minute just to get it. Let other guys come in and punch at that football. I like that formation, Matt. They came out, I missed it. I was they came out in a tight set and then Trabisky kind of looked step back and everybody split wide. Um, what does that do to a defense is I would imagine it just makes you a just you know, like if you talk to any linebacker coach, like if Jerry O was sitting there, and I'm sure his career is a perfect example too, is pre your alignment before the snap is critical and it's down the six inches like the stuff we would never notice. And and you know a lot of people that were really in the know, we're really here we go again. Now they were hard on Bard of changing it, and he's bringing them in tight. So to where I'm going with this is if it's that drastic of a split from all over across tight formation to an overcross wide formation and you don't get many times to get your feet totally set, well, there's a really good chance those linebackers are six inches off their mark put off. Here we go again, Here, here we go again. And now he brought them in tight. Okay, so now they don't have much time to get set exactly where they want. Am I on am I on the outside shade of that tight end and not for am I pushing too much? And those little the game of inches stuff is real. Yeah, you're just kind of trying to create somebody being a little late getting to the spot right, and next thing you know, you get that little opening. They pick up your art a little bit better blocking angle, and you know, and I'm sure the really good quarterbacks is you know, the Mannings and Bradies. Soon as they make that shift, they're like, by eleven, Oh there's one that's a little out of phase. I'm gonna click to this run and I'm gonna kick him out. Absolutely, absolutely advance level stuff. You know, they gotta do really quick. Let's see if they do it again here. Now, get rude off in the in the huddle here, getting ready to break the huddle. Got the second unit out there. Uh, got some first teamers out there on defense. Well, I see I see Miles Jack out there. It looks like we're going straight. Just motion on this one motioning back. That's a straight hand off. Picked up a few Yeah, thattayo is that that's thirty? That's thirty? He hit that whole quick. There was a hole too, though. I Mean I was just complaining, I don't half hour ago, an hour ago, that the line wasn't moving people and they pushed the defense backwards there. Yeah, I asked him about that today. I'm like, you're pretty decisive runner. Uh, he said, you're talking about yeah more and Jilly Moren and they said, Uh, you know, I tried that dancing thing a couple of times and I guess I just got you know, crushed so and then more dancing. Just get straight ahead, go that probably just fine that j C player of the year, But that's not fine against the Browns and raven Bengals, and you know, I pick it getting it out quickly? Was he entertaining to talk to too for he's gonna be a fan favor once they started watching in preseason. Yeah, but we probably got what another fifteen minutes of practice, depending on you know, how long like Tomlin wants to keep him out there. We still got another special teams period to go through here. As they get through this team session here, Kenny Pickett has the team in the huddle. You're listening to the drive here on Steelers Nation Radio. He's Matt Williamson. I am Dale Lally and we break a second and ten period. Yeah, break the huddle here. What we got to pick it under center? The back behind him is that Durant. I believe it looks like it. Yes, by stance, Yeah, that's Durant steps back play action. Wait for those linebackers. Bite Miller on the end, find the find the void to trusted receiver in breaking route Miller Boom moved to move the sticks. Quarterbacks looking good again today, better than they had. I think they've built on what they've accomplished, which is good. I mean, right, that's what you want to see. I'm done with excuse. But don't you know, you don't expect them to be you know, elite level guys yet either. And there's a comfort. Okay, we got Rudolph out there breaking the huddle again. He's in the shotgun back beside. That might be Mastertigue there beside him. Now. Kinds of motion Oh nice YEA good throw, good throw there to gunneral Schefski. Not only did they have to motion cross, but then they had that double like they're at the goal line tight end. I guess it was a running back, you know, almost like they're pulling in front of the quarterback too, and that just open things up. Linebackers then start paying attention to that, and they threw the third level behind those two. Yeah for a nice bag. Yeah, No, d did a nice job getting that one out. It's a good example. Froze thee outside lineback, frozen, frozen Robinson on that side too. Yeah, it just puts him in conflict. What what what? What's my job here? I'm not quite sure. Boom completion. He's under center this time. They'll play action fake here. Good penetration as a sack. That's sixty eight coming in there, Gangbusters. Yeah, he just beat him to the inside. That that Khalil Davis winning to the inside against sixty four. That's a Doug Coston. So you beat him. I know. I'm sorry. That's Trent Scott. Trent Scott not good play by Davis. Absolutely absolutely could do a little bit better job and give him the d a little credit here too once in a while. Yeah, you know when we see something like that, that was nice. I do think all eyes are on the offense though, typically when you're in easy because you don't have we can't rewind things, you don't have any kind of replay here. We're just I just mean this year more than ever. I hear you, I hear you. A little quick motion there and in the jet sweep that's a McFarland special. Yeah. Oh, Yeah, I'm not sure if fifty could have done more in real life there. Um, he had two guys that coming out there with him as pokers, and he kind of tried to McFarland's speed and cutting ability really showed up. That was nice. That was real nice. Yeah. Absolutely, If Farland is having a good camp, he is, he has much better. You know, the last couple of years he's been hurt and dealing with some stuff. Yeah, I think a lot of us have written him off. And I was pretty much in that camp too before, you know, a month or two ago, like that was failed experiment, might not be. No, he's he looks bigger than it looks bigger, and he looks explosive. I mean him and Austin are two of the offensive players where Oh, he looks faster than the other guys out there, right right right. I'd like to see there's those two in a foot race. Yeah, I'll bet on Austin against anyone here, But he'd be the one guy that might be able to hang with him at least through you know, thirty yards or whatever. I think he might be second on the team in terms of speed. Yeah, beat, they both got beat. Beep speeds. We're gonna take another break. He is Matt Williamson. I am Dale Lolly. You're listening to the Drive here on Steelers Nation Radio. We are live from Steelers training camp practice here at St. Vincent College. We'll be back with more, probably to wrap up the practice. Yeah. Probably. He's the Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt Williamson on Home of the Black and Gold in our Steelers Nation Radio. Welcome back. I am Dale Wally here with Matt Williams and this is to Drive on Steelers Nation Radio, the only radio show, the podcast that you can listen to practice and live as it happens in in front us the Steelers on the field here taking part in practice number eight of training camp two. Right now they're working on some kick return blocking or kick return I guess return team. Yeah, they got the return team out there, but they got all eleven there and just one kicker, you know. So we've been winding and crying about the heat and it's been a little a little rough, but I will say the fan interaction has been tremendous. So all you guys have stopped by and said hello. Had several people stopped by to get pictures taken with us. Uh, Matt and I signed some autographs yesterday, which is just shouldn't sort of humorous rights, shouldn't have four kids. Ball decreased in value dramatically, But that's all right. Yeah, Um, he's still wanted us to sign that. I said, hey, buddy, we're gonna you know, once we put our names on that football, that twenty dollar football becomes a ten dollar fo use it for for play. Take it down to the part. This is not Babe Ruth, but his signature on there's playing with Dad, dad playing or playing with Dad's paper paper autographed baseball. So I'm curious what exactly we're looking here. I assume it's landmarks. If you're that front six, where you should set up at how deep you should go because you don't know where the kicks going. That kick was to the kicking team's right. So all those front six, which are basically like an old line, they gotta get depth, get depth, get depth, flip around, find their landmark and then make their block and kind of create like an old line. So I think they're working on that stuff right now. Where wherever the ball is gonna go. This is every one of them has a specific landmark, whether it's the numbers of the hash marks or whatever, and you want them all lined up. You don't like a no line, you know, like a wall. Yeah, build a wall. Can't can no longer do a wedge or anything like that that is not only illegal, So you have to make sure you have your spacing. Um, guys can't be too close together. Uh, you know, you can't combo block anymore in these things. So it's a little different than it used to be. And you'll see this front six wall. There's heavier dudes on the inside. The outside guys can run, you know, I mean, you know you Buddy Johnson and and uh uh Derek Tusker the inside the inside guys, and then there's like defensive backs from from them to the sidelines that can move a little bit more. They gonna cover a little more ground. Yeah, just little things that you have to work on. You you only have so many practices with which which with which to do all these things before you have to go play a game. And if you noticed those six that were the wall, the you know, the front line, they're all wearing gold jerseys. Yeah, they don't block anybody in real life, you know, I mean they get there, but that they're they're the offense now, I mean they're they're blockers, so that that a chore for them too, just like when we were talking about the the release drills for the gunners and those type of things, like just because you're an offensive player doesn't mean you're gonna do offensive things on special teams. And now we get another unit out there, UH two of the inside guys who in UH two's our skipper, also big bodied edge guys with linebackers on each side of them, defensive backs on the on the fringes, Mark Robinson out there on the other on the other side. And then forty six is t name T. D. Moultrie is the other guy down my hunts. This is the second or third team kickoff return team. Yeah, you know what they're gonna do in the next week's game. Get a game next week. Get a game tonight, Matt, Now we do a game tonight. How about that? Any chance we see Lawrence eight. They've already said that these guys aren't playing, none of them, I mean even Walker, the first overall pick. I mean, I was hoping to see one or one series of good players, but I don't think I can see that Hall of Fame game is great. I love the whole Hall of Fame experience. The Hall of Famers is awesome. But the Hall of Fame games the most anti clamb a thing in all sports. Yeah, it's pretty bad. You know, you get all excited for, you know, to watch the football back, right, and then you don't recognize the soul. Yeah, and then it's that game. And we might recognize some guys just from our draft covers, but like if we're if we're Sharkey's a night and it's on how kind to pay attention but not really Yeah, I mean you're not missing a hole. Yeah, but it's great to see the average fans not going to recognize a lot of those names though tonight. No, I'm not gonna recognize a lot of those names. And they don't blame him. I'm not ripping it on the fans, right, He's just not at all because these are guys that probably aren't gonna make it. But now that there's only three going forward, you know, a week from now, next week's games, you'll see a lot of brand name guys. Yeah, a little different, a little different. This this is the fourth game for the Raiders and Jaguars, but as it was for the Steelers last year, and a little different, a little different. Two new coaches too, that's not by accident. Got some clouds here, some I'm gonna stock in clouds again, just coming into the area just uh, you know, the winds starting to kick up again. Thank thankfully is blowing opposite where those clouds are at there. It's a little cool, blowing it away from us. But there are still thunderstorm mornings. Absolutely. We get a couple more periods for the Steelers after this was they're gonna go well, they're gonna go well after four o'clock here, that would be the longest practice of the year so far. Uh, they've gone out, they've been well aft, were well over, I guess. So we've been on the trail that last hour while they're still doing stuff. This when they get two team periods left, actually there'll be a seven on seven now and then another competition period to finish off practice. So the end with a bang. Just judging from my years of experience of watching the strong hunch was about to say, how do you know that we get one on ones with the with the offensive line and defensive line over on the opposite field. I wish we could see those better. Yeah, that's one thing. I feel like we're a little light on. You know, it's hard to watch out. I'll be watching that closely tomorrow night at Friday night lights. I'll go to watch right next. I could see the seven on sevens and those things here a lot, very easily from where are we're sitting at the one on one. Blocking driels are tougher to see. So let me see the numbers over there there far away. Yeah, it's just a little bit of far away and on their whole field a cross plus, there's good stuff right in front of us. You watch what's closer to you. It's easy, definitely easier. So where do we got going in this period we're matching up, they're starting to get there. It's right outside the red zone, high red zone. It's going to be the one that the first team defense defensive nowls out there, and we're going to see the ones that doesn't really look like the ones ass out there right Miles Jack is out there. I was looking at the offense more. You got Hayward, you got Heyward's coming off the field. George Pickens is out there, we get I guess right. I mean it's not Deante and some of those guys, but you know, sometimes they split this up to they'll send some of those uh tight ends will go over with the one on one blocking and good point, depending what they're trying to accomplish it. Let's see here. Now we got Kenny pickt out there. Defense kind of muddling around here. Now we get this some guys pressing up. That's biscuit obvious. I keep doing that, Mitch and Kenny, And oh, you can't hold on questionable decision there you're going to I think that that Sternburger. Yeah, yeah, you're tight end in that situation, hoping he can come down with football. He kind of got rerouted and never really got in a good position to make a play on. That was the Monte Casey by the fensive player. Yeah, he basically ran the route for the tight end and that one eliminated him completely. So we'll see here. Get for Bisky back there again. Get George Pickens coming down here to the bottom. He's a single down here, there's three on the other side. I'm looking his way right now. Yeah, especially because you motioned that that safety goes out of there. He's looking looking staring him right down, yeah, up where he should look at the balls? At first read got it to him, easy picking, easy pickings. That stairs his nickname, easy pickings. How about that? And then well look what you just did? How about that? About that? Let's see here we get we still have Drabinski in there pickings, still staying out there with him. I looked that way again. Try to get him if you're gonna get that one on one move, I mean get that singled up again. That's safety went from being a slant defender to go and single high. And this time we get Olshovski in the slot. Uh, you get Gentry on the other side, with Calvin Austin outside of him. And let's see where we go this time looking looking looking left. Stuck it in there. Probably should have been a catch. Probably it wasn't terrible. Throw a lot of heat on it and a little bit high traffic area. Calvin Austin could not come down with the catch in that situation. Which changing quarterbacks here, No, we're still sticking with Trabisky in this one, but we changed the personnel completely. Now you get Anthony McFarland out there. Is that Anthony Miller, gentry, gentry still, Yeah, he's easy to pick out in the crowd. The giant person, Cody White coming down here, why to the bottom? I can't tell. These guys are getting dark, dude. Yeah, I know I'll get a little getting a little worried with this. This is Jacob rect here. Yeah, we get this ball. Snap, we're done at the six. Probably should have made Delan. That's just kind of a race of the pile on that McFarland was winning. He's not happy that match is real. I'm not happy this almost throwing his helmet. You gotta make that throw. That's a touchdown. Yeah, that was left on the field, and that was on the quarterback. Yep, no doubt about that. And now we got Rudolph out there with his group. It looks like Connor Heyward is out there, and now I see Anthony Miller out there. Okay, they move the ball back a little bit. I think it started that fine, more room this one got the what in the slot? There is a tight end yet go so yeah double DC. You know wat and Hayward on the field here. Interesting, that would really mess with the defense from Yeah, I prefer to run the ball that situation. Yeah, pick up five yards forward, a little bit, a little flag route, good throw to putting it where he could just fall and you know, get easy yardage. You don't have to fight to catch, and you don't. I'm worried about him running after the catching, right, I mean, know who your guy is, Make them make make him just secure the catch YEP, we're gonna take another break. Matt. He is Matt Williamson. I am Dale Lally. You're listening to the Drive here on Steelers Nation Radio. We'll be back to bring you our three of our live coverage here from Steelers training camp at same Vincent College here on Steelers Nation Radio right after this
