DK's Double Shot of Steelers: How long now?

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🗓️ 23 January 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Today's episode: How much longer can the Steelers push any windows in which Cam Heyward and T.J. Watt remain their top talents? Hear award-winning columnist Dejan Kovacevic's three Daily Shot podcasts -- one each on Steelers, Penguins, Pirates -- every weekday morning, plus the all-new DOUBLE SHOT show that follows up at 4:30 p.m. Eastern!

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0:00.0	Mind-blowing stat to start today's program, but I'm first going to give you a chance to guess
0:13.4	the answer. The question is, who led the Steelers in Passes-Defenced this year?
0:21.3	Buy you a couple of seconds here to think about it.
0:23.8	Passes defense, if you don't know what the stat is, as simple as it sounds.
0:27.3	Ball goes in here, somebody prevents it from getting where it's supposed to go.
0:31.8	Did you get it?
0:33.1	Cam Hayward.
0:34.4	Right.
0:35.4	I know.
0:37.0	Cam had 11 of these things. 11 passes defense. Next highest was
0:42.9	Dante Jackson at 8. Then Joey Porter Jr. Patrick Queen and Beanie Bishop all tied with
0:49.3	seven. You expect that to be out of the secondary. But Cam had such a monster year, probably underappreciated still.
0:59.1	He also led the team.
1:00.3	Well, behind T.J. Watten tackles for losses with 12, had 71 total tackles,
1:05.5	eight sacks for 62 yards lost.
1:08.8	Good afternoon to you.
1:10.0	Good Thursday afternoon.
1:11.3	I'm Dan Kovach of DK. Pittsburgh Sports, and this is the new double-shot show.
1:15.6	Comes your way every weekday afternoon.
1:20.8	I worry about what this team will become when it can no longer rely on a couple of very reliable types to perform at an
1:36.2	elite level. I've been looking at the various drafts the Steelers have had over the past, I guess really decade or so,
1:47.0	and if you exempt TJ and you exempt the pick that was traded for Minkafetz Patrick,
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