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🗓️ 9 September 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Today's episode: Mike Tomlin digs deep into the dictionary to challenge the Steelers’ run defense 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 4:00 p.m. Eastern!

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0:00.0	Hey guys. Welcome to Double Shot of Steelers presented by Fandul. I'm Dan Kovachovich of DK. Pittsburgh
0:15.5	Sports, soon to be joined by our beatwriter Chris Hallick. We're back from East Rutherford, New Jersey,
0:20.2	where your football
0:21.6	team sadly survived an inferior opponent. At least we think it's an inferior opponent. At least we
0:28.4	think they survived. There's a lot of questions after week one. Most of them, believe it or not,
0:37.1	are based in positive things like, hey, did you
0:40.7	really think that the offense was going to be able to put up that many points? Hey, did you really
0:44.7	think that Aaron Rogers was going to be that efficient? Just like that. And he was. Hey, did you
0:50.3	think D.K. Metcalf was going to bounce right back from that early drop.
0:56.8	There were positive things.
1:02.5	I'm familiar enough with this fan base to know that that's not going to be anybody's focus for a while.
1:06.3	It's going to be all about stopping the run.
1:12.8	The Seahawks could come out this Sunday in a formation of five wide receivers,
1:16.5	and everyone's still going to be focused on stopping the run.
1:18.2	That's okay.
1:19.4	That's okay.
1:21.1	It has to get done.
1:27.4	Remember, and I did say this on Friday before we embarked on our journey out there.
1:35.5	This team needed first to build a floor, a foundation of what it's going to be.
1:47.0	And that foundation, as I stated, plainly, needed to be stopping the run, and oh, by the way, running the ball yourself.
1:51.4	Neither of those things happened in East Rutherford.
1:52.9	Neither of those things.
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