Chris Simms
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7 recordings
5 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 27 Apr
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And then you couple that with they haven't played the last few weeks. Jalen Hurts hasn't played in a few weeks. Thursday was the first day he practiced, right, in a long time. I think they were a little rusty, and I also do think they got to make a little more of a concerted effort to get their stars to ball, A.J. and Devontae Smith, early in the game.
They're a little cocky at times, and they just go, we're so good, the ball will get to everybody, no worries about it. Not in the playoffs. Sometimes you got to force it and start that momentum and get a little false momentum for your football team so they can get rolling.
That's a hundred percent.
I will say when they first did it, I did not think they would. I thought, hey, Justin Fields, the way he runs the football, they want to play through their defense and chew up clock like it makes sense. But I think when it's all said and done, no, I think they did the right thing. I do. I think Russell Wilson's a better thrower than Justin Fields.
I think he gave their team maybe a little bit more belief than just the fact that, hey, he's been there, he's done that, he's been in some big football games. But when that's all said and done, do I think Russell Wilson's a long-term answer? Do I think he's going to be the quarterback of the Pittsburgh Steelers next year? No, I don't. I think we saw the last game of Russell Wilson.
Maybe he's a backup there, but I don't expect him to be the guy going forward and being the man that carries the franchise. I don't think that. The Steelers have a number of things to me that they have to work on and address in the offseason on their roster. I know everyone wants to blame Mike Tomlin. He just coaches the team. In Pittsburgh, they have a pecking order.
The front office gets the players. And to me... The players, including Russell Wilson, are just not good enough in some positions for us to put them in the upper echelon of teams in the NFL that we're talking about here.
Right. Right.
The last few years we've looked at it and I've been like, it was Pittsburgh. I've openly said, I don't want to see them in the playoffs because they're one and done. A few weeks ago, I was like, wow, Pittsburgh might actually be able to win a few games in the playoffs. And then of course they lose four to end the regular season. You're kind of like, ah, it looks like it's one and done.
And here's like what I'll say to you. And I think you're agreeing with me a little bit. Like, You're game planning for Pittsburgh's offense. I talk to coaches around football all the time. Nobody's scared of anybody on Pittsburgh. George Pickens is a good player, but it's not to the point where teams are like, oh man, if we don't double team him, we can't ever win the football game.
Then what are you worried about after that? I mean, maybe Friermuth down the middle over 10 yards? What, Najee Harris lowering his pads for a four-yard run? And then on the defensive side of the ball, I would echo those same sentiments. After you get after TJ Watt and Cam Hayward, you're not like, oh, no, they pose so many problems with us everywhere around the defense. No.
They're almost at a point where they're kind of meddling in, we just get in the playoffs. They might need to do something drastic with the roster, take a step back so they can get two or three steps forward instead of this constant, like, we just get in the playoffs and we're relevant, but we don't really have a chance to win the Super Bowl.
I feel like they put Band-Aids over their roster for a long time, and at some point, they got to do something drastic, like I'm saying.
Right? Shocking?
Yeah. OK. All right. I mean, I think adaptable like I always just some offensive ones right away. I always I'm like, hey, Sean McVay, he's going to go in at halftime and he's going to crack the code and go, this is what they're doing. We got it figured out. We're going to start going to this place here. And all of a sudden you go, man, they didn't do anything in the first or second quarter.
And all of a sudden you're like, what? This is a different team. Kevin O'Connell certainly has a little bit of that as well, where he can go, oh, wait, they're playing us this way. Let me adjust and go from there. That would be one. Ben Johnson and the Lions, they have that as well. I think a lot of the offensive play callers that way, as far as the special ones are concerned, can do that.
Defensively, Tomlin can do that at times. I thought they were a little late to adjust the other day, like you said. Like, okay, hey, Lamar's going to run the ball here today. You're not going to be right, and you can't defend this defense and go, oh, we're going to be in the right gap on every play.
Like, tell me how you're going to be able to do some of that stuff when it's like, hey, whoa, one receiver goes this way, he fakes it to Derrick Henry, and then two pullers go the other way with Lamar Jackson. Like, you're going to be short of people in gaps there. You've got to force the issue with some of these awesome offenses sometimes.
You've got to do some things that are unforeseen, that they go, whoa – I don't know how we block this or whatever. It might be a little risky in the defense, but you got to take some tactical gambles. And I thought they were a little late to do that. They didn't start doing that stuff until the third quarter the other day, and that was a little disappointing.
But I think those are the ones that jump out to me as far as the ones that make changes pretty quickly in a football game. And then Steve Spagnuolo and Andy Reid. How could I not say them? They are as good as it gets in that department, right? And that would be the ones that jump out to me, Brian.
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