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

DK's Double Shot of Steelers: Stuck in the ‘70s?

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

DK Pittsburgh Sports

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

4.6832 Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Today's episode: Are Mike Tomlin, Arthur Smith and the Steelers really stuck in the 1970s offensively, as so many casually accuse? 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

Gentle criticism here today, and I hope you take this well.

0:11.0

Because this has always driven me a little bit nuts about fandom.

0:15.0

You'll hear something. You'll repeat it.

0:19.0

Someone else will say it. You'll repeat it. Then you really

0:24.4

begin to believe it. No one ever stops to think about what it actually means. Good afternoon to

0:31.7

you. Good Tuesday afternoon. I'm Dan Kovachvich of DK. Pittsburgh Sports. This is the new

0:36.5

double shot show. It comes your way every weekday afternoon. I'm Dan Kovachvich of DK. Pittsburgh Sports. This is the new double-shot show. It comes your way every weekday afternoon. I'm talking about the whole, the Steelers are stuck in the

0:45.1

70s and they need to get out of the 70s thing that everybody repeats. But yet when you ask them

0:53.1

what it is that that means, what it is that they mean when

0:59.4

they say it or repeat it, you'll get, well, they're running the football.

1:03.9

Why are they so determined to run the football?

1:06.7

Why do they do that?

1:08.9

It's like they're trying to, you know, bring back Franco and Rocky and, you know, a yard

1:14.4

and a half and a cloud of dust and all that other stuff.

1:18.8

And it's completely incorrect.

1:23.5

The Steelers problem isn't that they wanted to run the football. It's that they couldn't run the football.

1:30.8

And I really want to go out of my way today to make that distinction

1:34.9

because I think that's going to be really important heading into this offseason

1:38.8

when the Steelers absolutely are going to be looking and prioritizing

1:43.6

a running back to replace Najee Harris, a running back to complement, absolutely are going to be looking and prioritizing,

1:46.8

a running back to replace Najee Harris,

1:50.0

a running back to compliment Jalen Warren.

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