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DK Pittsburgh Sports: Daily podcasts on Steelers, Penguins, Pirates!

DK's Daily Shot of Steelers: Is the O-line all bad?

DK Pittsburgh Sports: Daily podcasts on Steelers, Penguins, Pirates!

DK Pittsburgh Sports

Hockey, Steelers, Penguins, Football, Nfl, Matt Williamson, Nhl, Pittsburgh, Mlb, Baseball, Dejan Kovacevic, Dk Pittsburgh Sports, Pittsburgh Penguin, Pittsburgh Pirates, Pittsburgh Steelers, Sports, Pirates

4.6832 Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

How bad, really, is the offensive line? Hear award-winning columnist Dejan Kovacevic's Daily Shots of Steelers, Penguins and Pirates -- three separate podcasts -- every weekday morning on the DK Pittsburgh Sports podcasting network, available on all platforms: https://linktr.ee/dkpghsports

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0:00.0

Nothing that I could say to you about the offensive line that would be negative would surprise you in any capacity.

0:15.7

I'm not going to try to do that as a result.

0:18.9

However, hear me out on something. Good morning to you. Good Wednesday morning.

0:23.4

I'm Dan Kovachievich of D.K. Pittsburgh Sports. This is Daily Shot of Steelers. It comes your way

0:28.0

right in early every weekday. If you're into hockey and or baseball, I also offer daily shots

0:33.6

of Penguins and Pirates in the same place that you found this.

0:38.0

The 33rd team group of analysts does some pretty good work.

0:43.2

They're kind of a renegade group.

0:44.6

I think they broke off from the pro football focus people.

0:47.9

I could be totally wrong about that too.

0:51.6

Came up with a graphic that they put out yesterday.

0:55.3

For the 16 quarterbacks in the NFL, who had a minimum of 250 pass attempts,

1:04.5

which ones had the lowest percentage of plays spent in a clean pocket.

1:13.9

That's a mouthful, so I'm going to say it again.

1:16.2

The lowest percentage of plays were spent in a clean pocket,

1:23.8

meaning they had time to look around and do their thing, regardless of when they released.

1:33.0

The worst on this list, the lowest on this list, however you'd want to describe it, was Russell Wilson at 51.7%.

1:43.8

That range from one through 16 of the 16 quarterbacks who qualified

1:50.6

down to Caleb Williams was between 51.7% and 58%, which is a pretty decent sized range there, right?

1:59.9

Okay, I'm not going to lie to you. First thing I thought of,

2:04.3

just because it was Russ was, well, what do you want? He's in the pocket all the time. He stays there

2:13.7

even when he shouldn't. When he tries to get out, he no longer can do that. Even on plays that

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