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DK’s Double Shot of Steelers: Way too safe

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

Pittsburgh Steelers, Penguins, Pirates

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4.8778 Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Today's episode: Is Mike Tomlin guilty of what's becoming commonly known as the 'cowardly punt?' The Steelers sure seem to duck short-yardage. 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! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, what's up, everybody?

0:11.2

I got some different stuff I want to bring up today,

0:15.1

mostly because I get the sense that everybody's sick of either,

0:18.4

A, the current quarterback situation or whatever potential future quarterback

0:24.1

situation.

0:25.9

And I did that on my morning show today on the morning podcast.

0:29.2

I did a bunch of stuff on the draft.

0:30.6

You're more than welcome to check it out.

0:32.9

It's a D.K.'s daily shot of Steelers.

0:35.6

It was a lot about Jackson Dart, some about the other guys,

0:39.8

but mostly about Dart. If you want to do quarterbacks, we've got you covered. If you want

0:45.5

to do other stuff, this episode has you covered with something that I think is really different,

0:51.0

okay? And I want you to hear this out, because I think this is worth discussing,

0:56.1

if probably closer to the season, but it's definitely worthwhile. Listen to this scenario.

1:05.6

When you think of the Steelers game in Baltimore, what do you think of? Boom, $2.99. You just, you just think of the yardage

1:13.0

that they got on the ground. That game's going to end up being defined by that for as long as

1:18.3

anybody remembers it, which hopefully wouldn't be very long. Something else happened in that game.

1:24.7

I want to bring this up with you, and I'm going to bring it up with Chris too when he comes on. Chris Hallick will be joining us after the break. The Steelers decided

1:32.2

to punt the ball away from their 29-yard line on fourth and inches. This was early in the second

1:42.3

quarter. They were losing seven to nothing. Now, there are

1:47.4

analytics out there related to punts. And if they refer to them, if you haven't already heard

1:55.2

this, as cowardly punts. And there are degrees of cowardliness, which I think is a word. In fact, there's even a

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