Analyzing Jets vs Steelers Game Dynamics and Strategy

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00:00And we get to Jets Steelers.

00:07This back-end one here though is for a little bit of different reason, it's not that we

00:11have two of the best teams in the league going head to head, it's that we have two circuses

00:15showing up and they're going to put on their acts all at the same time.

00:18Quite frankly, the Jets conversation has gotten enough juice that I'm going to make sure we

00:22start with the Pittsburgh end of it, and I'm going to let Donnie lead off here.

00:25Donnie, the Steelers, with the dumbest charade I've ever seen played, shout out George Pickens.

00:34We don't know who our quarterback's going to be, yet everybody in the world knows Russell

00:37Wilson will start tonight for Justin Fields.

00:40What do you make of that move?

00:42What does it mean for Pittsburgh?

00:43Most people that understand football knew Wednesday when the reports came out, hey by

00:46the way, Russell's going to take the majority of the first team snaps.

00:49That means you're going to be the starter that weekend.

00:50But I do love the fact that Mike Tomlin loves to keep everything inside, and for some reason

00:54he can't reprimand or scold George Pickens for whether or not he even wants to play in

00:58football games, run the correct routes, or even just give information off.

01:01Last time we saw a wide receiver giving off information with a cell phone in the locker

01:05room, what happened?

01:06It was Antonio Brown, and he was shipped out quickly after that.

01:09So if we are focused on this game, let's just start with Russell Wilson starting as a quarterback.

01:13Everybody knows me.

01:14Love Mike Tomlin, thought he was the best coach all along for the past decade.

01:18Making the right move to shift it over today.

01:20I like this move because for the first time, not buying into the Steelers, but understanding,

01:25sometimes it's not about winning on a game-to-game basis, it's how good can we be for the season.

01:30This team will not reach its potential with Justin Fields, and I'm not even saying it's

01:33going to reach it with Russ.

01:34The one thing we do know is Russ can play point guard at quarterback, Justin Fields

01:39cannot do that.

01:40Good move to change the starting quarterback.

01:42I disagree.

01:43That's from the passing perspective.

01:45The ability in the RPO game for what Justin Fields provides, 11 carries last week, 59

01:51yards, two touchdowns, and the ability just to break and tame when the offensive line

01:56breaks down is something that Russ hasn't done over the latter part of his career.

02:00And that's the concern that I have for Pittsburgh, not in just this game, but big picture for

02:06the team overall.

02:07And the locker room, I understand that, okay, you got to buy into the guy on the center.

02:12He's the leader.

02:14The coach makes the decision.

02:16But you have a player in Justin Fields that's four and two overall.

02:19Three of the wins have come on the road.

02:22You can make the argument they could be five and one if the defense makes a stop at home

02:26against the Dallas Cowboys, and then you're going to turn to Russell Wilson.

02:30What happens, Kev, if this team drops two games, they're four and four, and Russell

02:35Wilson is giving you the exact same productivity as Justin Fields?

02:40You're going to go back to Justin Fields then?

02:42Why'd you make the move in the first place?

02:44Yes, so they will go back to Justin Fields at some point this season.

02:47That's crazy.

02:48They are putting in what is comfortably a worse quarterback.

02:52It's an embarrassing decision from a coach who, quite frankly, needs to be put on the

02:55hot seat because I don't understand what he's doing anymore.

02:58I really don't.

02:59By the way, they'll go back to Justin Fields, 31 in the red zone.

03:01No, no, no.

03:02Perfect.

03:03Perfect today.

03:04I will take any action that he gets back on the center this season.

03:07In fact, in fact, I'm open to the theory that he is sending Russ out there against

03:14the Jets to get destroyed, and Fields will get the job next week against the Giants.

03:20Here's what I don't understand.

03:22You keep undercutting what Fields does as a runner because you have to to even attempt

03:27to make the Russell Wilson argument.

03:29It is nonsensical because you cannot ignore what Fields does as a runner for this team.

03:36In that process, then, we keep propping up Russ as a passer despite being a terrible

03:42passer since he left Seattle.

03:44His yards per attempt is the same as Fields.

03:48The deep ball accuracy is gone.

03:50The balloon ball that he used to throw and then lock it was underneath every single Sunday

03:56does not exist.

03:58You're asking him to play point guard because of a completion percentage that isn't better

04:03than Justin Fields.

04:04He is just a worse quarterback across the board and then doesn't provide the mobility.

04:10This is an insane move from a coach who clearly got caught promising a guy a job he never

04:17should have promised him.

04:18No, but he would never go back to win that respect here.

04:20I didn't like the way it started out.

04:22I'm on record as saying that if you're going to get Russell Wilson, let him be your starter.

04:24If you're going to get Justin Fields, at least open it up as a fair competition throughout

04:28training camp.

04:29And they didn't do that in Pittsburgh.

04:30That was unless Russell Wilson was absolutely injured, and he was, he was going to be the

04:33starting quarterback, which he wasn't.

04:35But as we move forward, it's just it's sometimes it's so simple to see the body language of

04:39the wide receiving court.

04:40That's George Pickens, who, quite frankly, I'll admit, doesn't have great body language.

04:44But if you have wide receivers that understand when they run routes, Joe, and they're not

04:48going to get the football accurately, it blows up your entire offensive scheme.

04:52The fact that George Pickens was willing on a Wednesday or Thursday to sit in front of

04:56the microphone, though, my coach has told me this, but you know what?

04:58I can't stand Justin Fields so much.

05:00I'm telling you right now, I'm probably wearing a tuxedo to the game on Sunday afternoon.

05:05How excited I am, because I might actually get an accurate ball.

05:08He caught seven passes for a buck 13 against Indianapolis.

05:12I mean, he threw for 300 yards.

05:14Can I bring up this point?

05:16What happens tonight if Arthur Smith calls this vanilla conservative game plan, right?

05:23And they win 17-13.

05:24Brilliant.

05:25I mean, that's what we do.

05:27Like what are we doing here?

05:28I don't think that matters.

05:29Arthur Smith couldn't game plan B. John Robinson in that offense last year.

05:34We're going to count on Arthur Smith to elevate this offense now with Russell Wilson.

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