to the Steelers are 1 & 2 George fat. The left, tackle
of the New York Jets has been placed on injured reserve. He's
the third Jets, tackle to land on IR that caused it. One point
yesterday.
Joe Douglas is named to be trending because of course,
it's all his fault that these guys are injured. I mean, come
on, come on. I'm
I mean, seriously,
guys, get injured and football, it happens. And it's and again,
There's a fine line between bad luck and bad practices in your
building, but they got three tackles injured
and
that's not good. That's not good with the quarterback. Joe
Flacco, my quite Zach Wilson,
Joe Namath. You got 300 tackles
you're not putting your best guys out there to keep your
quarterback up, right? Yeah, right. I mean it's it's at odds
are they're cursed at this position for whatever reason
the Makai becton can't stay healthy. I mean they got that.
You know hey we got Jordan
they got George Fant last year. I mean he did well let's
In the tackle. Let's move him to left tackle.
Let's move Makai back to the right tackle.
Oh wow, beckton gets hurt again.
Now we get Dewayne Brown.
He's there for 4 minutes. He's hurt again.
So I mean, yes, this is it stuff and then, you know, you
look at it like Joe Flacco. He's a guy that likes to hold
on the football
to a fault in times where you just go, Joe
Joe. Like there's there's still rushing you stop looking down
the field and patting the ball for the seventh time. The guy
that just went by you and miss you. You, he's coming back so
don't forget about him.
But but yes it's they're going to have so many experienced
guys. There you see the names of the bottom. Those are
the guys you're going to see Connor. McDermott Max Mitchell,
right? Those are the guys going to take over Max Mitchell. A
rookie
you know looks the part will see Connor McDermott
you know is not been a guy that's traditionally you know
been used at the tackle position but we'll see where he
goes he's got to make this work here so
I know and Pie and Pittsburgh and dealing with all that
certainly is To be easy for the Jets of that offense.
You mentioned Joe Flacco. There is a chance, it will be Zach
Wilson this week. He suffered that knee injury back in
the preseason opener. Here is head coach Roberts, Allah from
Monday talking about the status
of the second year. S overall draft pick.
Yeah, we're
looking for
confirmation.
Once one sex, doctors, clear him like, we talked about,
we'll be ready to roll, but
can really Define that until We get clearance from them. When
do you anticipate the doctors?
Giving you thumbs up or thumbs down on him for this week
should be in the next 24 to 36 hours,
hopefully, by the end of the month.
So, we'll see. I like that. That makes a big difference for
the Jets and that puts more pressure on the Steelers
defensive won't have TJ W. That is really missing TJ, what you
get a mobile guy out there,
if he's truly healthy. I mean, that's the challenge. You don't
want to put him on the field especially with that knee
injury and given his history last year at the PCL injury in
2021. You just don't want to put him in a position where he
can't protect himself,
but if he's healthy, you know, Chris. I know you're waiting
for that emergence from a guy in whom you have seen. Yeah,
some special skills. Right? Yeah, I do. I love his ability.
I do, I saw, you know,
I've seen it in person, a little
we saw at the end of last year.
I just I do think he's got some things about them to go.
There's, there's Superstar potential, you know, even if
throw like this, hey, move out to the right wave of guy.
Hello. Don't worry, I'll throw it to you,
60 yards down the field on the money,
and we've seen them be able to move, right? So
yeah, they need to be careful here. It's the second knee
injury and two years. This is one like we've discussed Like
with with Dak Prescott, let's not push the issue.
Let's make sure he is 100% and ready to go.
They got a lot invested in this guy, he is the future. You got
to take the big picture into account here, but I will say
like, you know, again I know Joe Flacco's experience.
I do think a guy like Zach Wilson
into the other reason they want to baby happen is he's a leader
in the locker room. He's a guy that we saw like the team
rallied around him and the preseason, you know, with, for
a whole bunch of
Reasons. We know the m*** inator and all that, right? But
they also didn't just rally. Yeah. Hello. They didn't just
rally around him because of that they rally around a guy
like that too. When they go,
oh wait, there's a cool story and the guy is cool on
the field, he's the man on the field and that's why he's loved
there as well. And they need some of his playmaking ability
and Mobility,
you know. So that's where
it's, it's a tough one here. But I would say, wait it out,
wait till week 5, see where it goes from there, and then maybe
he can help.
About Connor McDermott, at tackle and
and and the and the rookie Maximus show. By making some
people miss and not always being right on the spot in
the pocket.
I swear to you about 45 seconds before you said that I thought
to myself. Thank God. We have gotten past the point in
the year where Chris would be compelled to say m*** a name
and there it was there was we're back baby.
That's right. That's right. But I mean I'm dying to see him
play especially with some of the weapons they have on
offense right now we see the receiving Corps looks pretty
good
and I think his ability to play backyard football has a chance
to be special so we'll see. And
yeah it's going to be a tough test. Again, once again, it's
a team that's, you know, Joe Flacco's been hit a lot. And
now you got, you know, McDermott Max Mitchell, plan
tackle. That that's not going to be an easy task in
Pittsburgh.
A couple of second overall picks for years of part true,
Biscay, and 2017 Wilson in 2021. And if Zach Wilson comes
out and plays. Well, and the Jet score points,
and the Steelers can't match. That's when we're going to
start hearing Kenny, Kenny, Kenny, and it will be loud
enough for Mike Tomlin
to hear it this time. Let's go ahead and take
a break.
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