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DK's Double Shot: Slow starts or adjustments?

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

DK Pittsburgh Sports

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4.6832 Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2024

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Today's episode: The Steelers have started slow on both sides of the ball so far this season, slogging along until the second half? Is that on Mike Tomlin? On locker room leadership? On schematics? 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 p.m. Eastern!

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0:00.0

Good afternoon. I'm Dan Kavach, which of DK. Pittsburgh Sports, and this is the new Double Shot Show that comes your way at 4 p.m. Eastern every weekday.

0:16.2

And unlike the Steelers, we're going to get off to a non-slow start.

0:21.3

Yes, that was Mike Tomlin's first choice of subject matter in his press conference today.

0:27.5

The Steelers slow starts.

0:28.7

And it's a fair and accurate thing to bring up.

0:33.5

You go back to Atlanta.

0:35.7

B. John Robinson was running a little bit too loosely.

0:39.0

You go to a Denver.

0:40.2

Even in Denver, not everything was really in sync, certainly not with the offense.

0:45.2

Home game against the Chargers, which they ended up winning fairly comfortably.

0:51.3

Not a great start there.

0:52.6

And then you get to Indianapolis and they get down 17 points.

0:57.4

And it really, really shows itself. So yes, there's things to work on. There's things to improve on.

1:03.0

And this is how Tomlin put it.

1:04.8

We're just going to keep practicing, man. You know, I imagine we're not the only ones who have issues with that, particularly if three out of your first four games have been in hostile environments.

1:14.5

And so we're not going to change our approach.

1:17.2

Sometimes I acknowledge an issue, but an acknowledgement of an issue that mean that we need to be a moving target in terms of how we address it.

1:24.3

Sometimes it's just more of the same and maybe more urgency associated with the same

1:29.2

in terms of our work. And I'll say it again, he's well within his rights to talk about this. He's

1:34.1

well within his rights, obviously, to address it. But there's slow starts and then there's

1:41.0

slow adjustments. Coaches are always happy to talk about slow starts.

1:45.0

They're not as happy to talk about slow adjustments because slow adjustments are on the coaches.

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