Yahoo Sports NFL analyst Nate Tice and NFL writer Charles McDonald react to Sunday’s thriller as the Steelers held off the Lions in Motown. Check out the full conversation on “Football 301” – and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.
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For the Steelers, I don’t, so I don’t, I don’t really know.
Like this, this is a good performance for them.
Um, I, I still don’t think they could, you know, actually maybe go on a run.
But it does feel like they’re playing maybe a little more cohesive football over the past Month or so than they have… Basically since the Bills game, They’ve been pretty good.
Um, uh, ’cause they beat the, Uh, well, they beat the Ravens; they beat the Dolphins.
Now they kind of stifled out that Lions’ run game and made it less tough.
Yeah.
Matt Stafford has been traded to the Rams for Jared Goff.
They’re, it’s like, like I said, like we said before the season.
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This is the best version of the slop that they’ve put together since Ben Roethlisberger.
Mm-hmm.
… retired.
But it’s still a little sloppy, and I gotta know what that fan said to DK Metcalf.
‘Cause, you know, you dont see that every day unless someones actually kind of going off Crazy.
I know.
Someone’s talking crazy; you usually are not gonna hit him in the face.
Unless that’s happening.
Uh, and the fan, other fans then weren’t like, “Whoa, whoa, Whoa.”
They were just more like, “Yeah, yeah.”
Yeah.
Kind of had it covered there.
Yeah, yeah.
Probably like that.
That’s kind of how they react.
Or they just act like nothing happened there.
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Yeah, that was, That was interesting.
And they won.
That’s the team that won the game.
Um, no, I, uh, it was watching…
I, I, I agree with you.
The Steelers’ run game had been the weakness.
I mean, Just look at the Bills’ game.
They’ve had some injuries and everything, And they’ve been figuring out their personnel, but they kicked their butt today.
Crazy, yeah.
I thought it was interesting, too.
Because again, I noted this last week, and maybe ’cause I have Amarostin Brown some Fantasy is that the Steelers, when they moved Ramsey to safety, Had been, you can get him in the slot, but they’ve been better against outside targets.
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So I was like, okay, so we know we can get Amarostin Brown going.
That’s one of the best slot receivers in the game.
Okay, so that’s exactly how the Lions are gonna target you.
Steelers moved, uh, Ramsey to the slot a little bit.
It was like half his snaps were at Safety, and half his snaps were in the Slot.
‘Cause Dugger was back out there, too.
And I was, I thought, I thought that was interesting.
Because it was just the weaknesses of the Steelers defense, to me, is you can run on them a little bit, and you can gash them in the, In the, on the, in the interior, in the middle areas.
And I think that also, they just kind of now have some personnel kind of shifting they can Do.
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And I, I think that was an interesting card to Play.
Um, because I thought it was kind of like a Easy or kind of an Occam’s Razor choice, like the simplest answer.
Yeah, put Ramsey in the slot, but the fact that they could do it and didn’t really feel the same Brown played much during this game to the end.
Uh, yeah, I thought that was just an interesting thing.