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🗓️ 28 May 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Today's episode: No one seems to cite the secondary as a concern, but this defense won't excel without both Joey Porter and Darius Slay doing well 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.
0:11.5	I'm Dan Kovachovich of DK. Pittsburgh Sports, soon to be joined by our beatwriter covering the Steelers Chris Halleck.
0:17.9	Today was day two of the Steelers OTAs and a lot like day one and all the days to come,
0:26.0	there's not going to be a whole lot of news out of these things. Some players will speak for the first time in a few months.
0:34.3	And they're going to say stuff that maybe they hadn't have said before, but for the most part, you're not going to be getting, you know, big old headlines
0:41.3	out of anything like this.
0:43.3	It's about orientation from the players and coaches perspective,
0:49.3	and from the reporter's perspective, it's about dialogue.
0:53.3	One of the dialogues that I had at OTAs was with Deshaun Elliott.
1:00.8	If you are not familiar with Elliot's 2024 season beyond, hey, he seemed like he was okay,
1:12.5	then it bears some repeating or reminding of the kind of year
1:17.8	that he just had for the Steelers.
1:21.5	It was through the roof.
1:24.0	It was mind-boggling.
1:26.6	It was record-setting, really, when you get into tackle efficiency.
1:33.9	If that sounds a little bit too newfangled for some of you, I'll explain what that is.
1:40.3	Elliot had 108 tackles in 111 opportunities.
1:47.7	This was over 15 games.
1:50.3	That gave him a tackle efficiency rating of 97.3% according to not pro football focus or any other independent thing, but the NFL, NFL next gen stats.
2:05.5	That efficiency, that 97.3% was the highest efficiency rating for anybody at the safety position in the history of NFL Next Gen stats.
2:26.8	Depending on who you believe, depending on how you analyze or how you define a missed tackle,
2:35.9	he had either one or three.
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