Philadelphia Eagles' Winning Streak and Steelers' Strategy

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00:00that. The Philadelphia Eagles

00:07nine straight wins. We'll take

00:08that. Passing game needs to get

00:09in gear. Understandably. But I

00:11feel like Dave from a Pittsburgh

00:12perspective. I'm like a a flat

00:15a card carrying fan of the

00:17Steelers because I felt like at

00:19this network and outside of you

00:21had to go toe to toe with the

00:22Joe Leases and the Kevin

00:23Walsh's where they were beating

00:24me over the head telling me I

00:26was a fool for saying

00:28absolutely Russell Wilson

00:29because Justin Fields has them

00:30out to a lead early in the

00:31season. Like I feel like I get

00:33vindicated every single week

00:35because my thought process

00:36always was. I thought to start

00:38the season it should have an

00:39open competition. Mike Tomlin

00:40told you no. Like Fields is

00:42fine. He's good. Okay. The

00:43minute Russ can play he's going

00:44to play. Thought it was

00:45interesting. But when I saw the

00:47eligibility of the Steelers

00:48going like there's two choices

00:50you can make Dave. Mike Tomlin

00:51we know wants to win football

00:52games first and foremost.

00:53That's a job as a head coach.

00:55But I thought for the first

00:56time Tomlin could have said you

00:57know what we're winning games

00:58that's all I care about and

00:59we'll wait. And he goes no. I

01:01want to do bigger things than

01:02win football games here. The

01:03Pittsburgh Steelers aren't

01:04about me going over 500. This

01:06is a unit and a team and an

01:08organization Dave that's used

01:09to winning Super Bowls and

01:10winning at the highest level.

01:12I'll roll the dice a little bit.

01:13Russ gives us more of a passing

01:14game. Let's watch it play out.

01:16And I've loved what I've seen

01:17out of the Pittsburgh Steelers.

01:19It's unbelievable. And I think

01:21we have to you know my approach

01:24as a Steeler fan but then even

01:26as a guy who is an odds maker

01:29and spent time in the books was

01:30wait we have to wait and see.

01:32And at the beginning of the

01:33season Russ wasn't physically

01:35able to perform the job. So you

01:38go OK let's see what fields can

01:40do. And for the first time in a

01:43while maybe we got some

01:45stability as the offensive

01:48coordinator. Everybody more on

01:50the same team. And instead of

01:52trying to force an offense onto

01:55somebody I mean you're you know

01:57former football player in the

01:58room on the wide receiver. You

02:00got to block every play and

02:02they know you could catch the

02:04ball but they don't want to

02:05throw you the ball you're going

02:06to be like hey you know what can

02:07we pass it once in a while.

02:09Well guess what. This is what

02:11we're going to do because this

02:12is what Justin Fields does best.

02:14So let's work the offense

02:15around. But no one in the back

02:18in the back pocket over here we

02:19got Russell Wilson working out

02:21practice and getting the reps

02:23building rapport with the team

02:25and Russ is a team guy. I mean

02:27apparently you know there has

02:29been a lot of what he went

02:30through in Denver was painted as

02:32a certain thing and maybe it

02:33didn't end great in Seattle but

02:35he's been nothing but danger

02:37Russ in Pittsburgh and they love

02:40him. And you can tell the guys

02:42play with him not in spite of

02:45him. And Tom did it again. I

02:48mean he just somehow there's

02:50another metamorphosis. He's done

02:52it in the past with guys. You

02:55know when Roethlisberger was

02:56hurt it was Tommy Maddox step

02:58up and then find a way to win

03:00games with Mitchell Trubisky and

03:03they did it. And now I really

03:06feel like everybody's playing.

03:08We get pickings. He's growing up

03:11in front of our eyes every week

03:13and there's things happening.

03:15But you know the saying the

03:17standard is the standard.

03:22The standard.

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