When you just like to discredit things that people deserve credit for, that you can't possibly be expected to defend that.

Talk about the game, Sam. So, here's about what people think about us.

Yeah, like the ball, like the ball stays in all the things that go with it.

Welcome in to the PFF NFL podcast. Steve Pell is all back here with Sam Monson, weak ones in the books, man. It is. Well, Monday night football. We still have Monday night football. No double header this year. Just one game for us to watch. But yeah, a lot of actual all sorts of stuff happened. So let's dive right into it.

Yes, from yesterday. We talked a little bit before the show and said, we usually go game by game. We touch on every single game. But we're going to start it this week by asking the question, you know, essentially, what are we overreacting to? What are we properly reacting to? What was real? What wasn't real?

As far as week one, we already have the PFF NFL daily up by the way. If you guys are subscribers, you already got our biggest surprise each of us for week one. But let's start with what was real? Cause we learned some new things yesterday, Sam. We also might have some full schooled out there as well. Yeah, I mean, it's fascinating. You watch the games and you're like, okay, we're halfway through the 1 p.m.s. How many things have you like thrown out the window that you've been saying for the last of a few months? How many things have you already decided you were completely wrong about? And then there are some things out there that you're like.

Okay, I see where this is going. On the other hand, this is one game. It's probably not real. It is. I think there are definitely some things that are new pieces of information, even though it's week one. And week one gives you a level of crazy. And you know, there are going to be some weird results out there. So sort of working through this whole thing and deciding what's real and what is just variance and week one craziness, I think is interesting. Ultimately, what's going to happen is, you know, anything that you thought was the case beforehand.

Week one just backed up your priors. And that's the way it's going to be. And anything that goes against what you thought, well, it's week one. It's a very small sample size. It's we just want it's very sample size. It's going to swing back. Who knows?

What what do you think? So what give me something that was real? Give me something that was real. Okay, let me let me let me let's let's let's go into Pittsburgh Steelers. Yes, let me start with us. Pittsburgh Steelers, Buffalo Bills. Steelers win 23 to 16.

The thing. So the thing we mentioned on the podcast that did happen was, hey, Josh Allen against the Steelers has not performed all that well. And we went, you know, looked up his grade and he had a sub 50 passing grade against the Steelers blitz against their blitz in their first two games.

But in this game, the Steelers played this completely differently. They played coverage a lot.

Foreman rush a lot of two high safeties and non Steelers types of teams, non blitz heavy teams have tried to play Josh Allen in this manner before.

I was impressed that the Steelers adjusted their traditional game plan. Does this mean they're going to become a game plan oriented defense because they're Foreman rush Cameron Hayward, TJ Watt, Melvin Ingram, Alex Heismeth. Those guys got after it.

It was an impressive outing by that Steelers D. It was. And I think that's that's one thing that's real is this idea of don't write off the Pittsburgh Steelers too quickly because there's too much talent on this team for them to just not be a factor this year.

Okay, maybe they won't go on an undefeated run of 11 to know and be one of the best teams in the NFL for a period and a contender.

But this team is too good to go on and you know, you have a losing record, which Tom was never had and sort of fade into obscurity while the Browns and the Ravens jockey for position in the division.

That defense is nasty and as much as defense is high variance and you can't rely on it necessarily year to year.

Like one of the massive sort of under the radar things is they upgraded when they went from Budduperi, let him walk to sign the big contract in Tennessee and gotten Melvin Ingram like at the death of free agency when nobody was signing anybody for a throwaway deal.

Melvin Ingram has had like five, six straight seasons that are better than anything Budduperi has ever had from a PFF pass rushing grade point of view.

He is a better pass rusher than Budduperi is and if he stays healthy, which to be fair is a significant caveat, that is a major upgrade.

And it allows them, I think, to do a lot more from just a four man rush point of view.

Like they blitzed a lot because it gets people favorable matchups and allows people like Budduperi to have production even if he's not necessarily winning one on one against a tackle.

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