Not ruined At All, by being a member of the Steelers.
I remember when they drafted him in the first round several
years ago. It just it felt perfect. It was one of
the things I really haven't thought about TJ. W at the Steelers,
but when you hear it called out right boy, this is going to
like done and it worked. Well.
Yeah, and and it worked so well that he got to 21 and a half
sacks. Last night, one short of the asterisk Michael Strahan
record because the
22nd and a half sack was a fake and a phony, and a fraudulent
sack. And the passage of time does not change. The fact that
It Favre. Deliberately gave him that sack.
So TJ. Ward has tied Michael Strahan in my mind. Here's what
talking about, where he stands after getting four sacks last
night against the Browns.
First year to, I used to do big individual goals, x minus ax,
tfl is all that stuff, but
adds too much pressure. You start chasing and all that
stuff. And now it's just trying to affect every game, the best
that I can prepare and it's been working for me. So I'm not
really looking at
goals like that anymore. Just trying to
be a game record.
All he is a game wrecker. And look,
somebody talked earlier this year about the difference
between pressures and sacks. I think was Bill, Belichick,
the sax can't ultimately be
controlled. All you can do is get yourself in the vicinity of
the quarterback, right? The sacks will come Sometimes They
Come sometimes they don't, and it's frustrating when you get
close and you don't get the sack,
but just keep getting close. Just keep doing what you can to
get close and sometimes the planets line up. Sometimes they
don't. And this year, they have lined up repeatedly.
A wad. And last night. They almost lined up to the point
where he overshadowed Big Ben night in Pittsburgh by breaking
the single-season sacre-coeur. I know. Well, there's a part of
me that was kind of, you know, rooting for it, you know,
because of what you said is. So there would be no asterisk. So
you can just go
like, man, get one more sack and tie, Michael Strahan
and now we could go and they both got 22 and a half sacks
and the 16-game season. That would have been no one got. No.
No. No, I know not get 22 and I know I don't got 22. Justin
Houston, got 22, that's the real wreck. Ya, it me.
In a lot of ways. Yes. And Brett Favre. I do you know that.
Yes, that was not. I was not cool to the rest of
the the history of the NFL that Brett Favre did that.
But either way, like, TJ W. And you said it just it's special.
Brett did it for Uncle rube? He had advised the exclamation.
Yeah, maybe he did. He affects the game
anyways and what he does. I mean you're funny.
It really is just like,
I mean, you know,
just the
Also, the pattern of the metal every play, let alone just
the great physical ability. I mean, strength speed ability to bend
and turn the corner.
Unbelievable quick, powerful hands on some of those sacks
also like just like he kind of just said affecting the game
and the broader picture. I mean
first off. How many times did the Pittsburgh, the defensive
line realize that, you know, Baker Mayfield is going to
throw the ball and he's got that long wind-up. That's so
deliberate. They timed it out. And
batted balls down,
you know, that was another issue last night for Baker,
Mayfield in the offensive side of the ball, but you know, W
doing that. Like we saw in the clip there. He's just
a phenomenal football player
and let alone. He's not just a pass rusher. You can drop them
into pass coverage and that 34 scheme, and he can do a lot of
stuff. That way he is,
you know, awesome. He really was. That was an amazing
performance. Last night.
I should have mentioned Mark, Gastineau, as well. He was
the original 22 seconds back in 1984, the Saturday. Did it in
2011 for a 3 and 13 Vikings team? Justin Houston did it
with the Chiefs in 2014.
22. In my mind is the record shared by three guys.
TJ W can set and hey 17 games is that, you know, people all
over. There should be a difference. Now, no went from
14 to 16. Nobody ever has any difference, right? The size of
the season is now 17 games.
So the single-season records eventually will adjust to 17
just like they'll just 218. It's never going to be more
than 18. I'd be stunned if it It is watch, it'll be twenty
someday, but
whatever the size of the season is. That's how you determine
the single-season record. That that's it period. So TJ W gets
one more game to get one more sack to tie,
the asterisk, Michael Strahan, 22 and a half, and one and
a half sacks, gives him the single season record and I hope
he gets it. I it's been 20 years. Now
of of seeing the fraudulent Michael Strahan record, and I'm
sorry. I Michael Strahan's gone on to do great things. Great
things. Yeah, it's awesome. It's not But that record that
wreck its fraudulent. He shouldn't have wanted that. Why
do you want that? It was a gift from Brett Favre
and called an audible to give Michael Strahan the extra Zack.
I'm sorry. I'm just, I'm not, I'm not a purist by any stretch
of the imagination, but it's a fraudulent record. Well, yeah.
Well, it disrespects the other guys. It just disrespect exact
respect to the guys
who had the record who have worked who had worked so hard
and you know, got it in a way that was within natural
competition of the football game. Not a, you know, stage
Moment where it's like, oh
the pitcher knows, this is a big,
you know, he's willing to be a part of the history here. He's
going to throw the ball down the middle. So the guy can
break the homerun record here,
that was with that kind of was, and
that's not football. That's cool and baseball. That's
great, good, but that doesn't go down and football. That's
where, yeah, it's a little flawed certainly that way, but
man,
TJ W. Just what an unbelievable year by him. It really is. And,
and, and also added to that, he hasn't even been a totally
healthy
and missed. James, I think that's, you know, you gotta
remember that aspect to that, even makes it the, you know,
that much more special.
Yeah, he missed several games and and fought back from
a covid, diagnosis to come back. And I mean not that you can
really make yourself - but it was a week after he had covid.
Now. The thinking is the game at Cincinnati. He really was
suffering
from covid, symptoms, tested positive the next day, but it's
cleared for the following week and had a great game.
Phenomenal game against the Ravens. So he the defensive
player of the year award. There's
debate about, you know, should it be? This guy should be. That
guy should be. It's after last night to have Force acts
on Big Ben tonight in Pittsburgh.
Look at how the odds have shifted. I know it's mine is a 304
tj-100. How does it end up so specific? I've never seen it
that specific but - 30 for that means you got a bet $304 to
win. 100. Michael Parsons, is the the next guy in line? Aaron
Donald.
He could, you just name the award after him. But even this
year you got it. You got to give TJ W the consideration.
I was Get the
single-season records. It's amazing.
What's in the W? DN a--,
TJ W with 21 and a half. This year. JJ has to
twenty point five sacks seasons in 2012 and 2014. He won
Defensive Player of the Year both times and it's time for TJ
W to get his. Yeah. It's it's crazy.
I know we,
I don't know. I mean, it's hard to argue, I guess right now,
Michael Parsons had such a phenomenal football year.
He really did. He's affected so many games and it is in my
opinion
the most important single player on that Cowboys defense
for their further, turn around on that side of the ball and
for their turnaround as a football team,
you know, that's where it's a tough one. Yeah. He doesn't
have those sacks to match up that way. But man,
you know as far as the
Out the season. I do think Michael Parsons is affected.
You know, the games every bit as much as TJ W is here. So
this is an interesting discussion.
Yeah, he's not going to have that big number there.
But and you know it
yeah, it's crazy in the fact where
the last few weeks did TJ W when he's going to do and what
he did last night it's going to put him in the lead as as
you know, Defensive Player of the Year and Joe burrow, what
he did the last two weeks all the sudden he's going to throw
him into To
maintain the lead guy in The Comeback player of the year or
the MVP conversation. Just kind of out of nowhere. Both guys
kind of just jumped onto the the top, the top of
the leaderboard here
and that's, that's what's amazing here. And I don't know.
I don't know if I really feel like TJ W
was the best defensive player of the year this year.
I understand he was right there.
He's amazing. I'm not trying to take anything away with it.
But man, there was so many weeks. I've Come Away
where Michael Parsons was more of the story of the week as far
as the defendant apply. Fire. He'll get, he'll get defensive
rookie
defensive if he can. Keep it up. He'll get his hard worker.
I get this year,
21 and a half sacks in 14 games for t.j. Yeah. I know that's
amazing. That's fighting through injury all year long
for the most part. It would be a stunner right now if he
doesn't get it and then ultimately
the oddsmakers, don't have one of the votes and it's 50 humans
who cast these ballots. But based on that number that is
that number is undeniable and he still has one more game.
time to go out and try to add to