Welcome into Tailgate, Austin Gale here with Mike Renner in sunny Cincinnati ready to rip it up talking all pro and all rookie teams Mike and I pick our all pro and all rookie teams and also at the back end of the show the watch watch the watch watch all that stuff and then an interview with Notre Dame running back Kyron Williams. Let's get it.

Do we have to talk about Brown Steelers? It was one of the worst games I've seen this year. I don't think we do. I guess we've we're not beholden to any sort of rules here that we have to talk about every game. I will just say big Ben having the lowest yards per attempt in this final game at Heinz Field was kind of a microcosm

of the game. It was kind of hilarious. I mean, he had lower yards per attempt than Baker and completed like eight more passes. It was insane. So Steelers win at home 26 14. I think there were dogs in this game like three point dogs and get closed as Brown's favorite by one. They win 26 14 Baker made for looks horrendous goes 16 of 38 for 185 2 TDs and two picks and Ben Rosper somehow like looks worse 24 of 46 123 2 points.

Seven yards per attempt. One touchdown and an interception. I think Brian Levy or Steve Levy. Is it Steve Levy? Yeah. He on the broadcast said big Ben was at one point was five or five on third downs, but they have not converted one. It was like he was just continuing to throw the football below like behind the sticks and not getting things on just checking things down. It was ugly, gross. Maybe one positive that big run from Naju Harris. He finished game with a 28 carries for how many yard square. Yeah.

28 carries 180 yards and a TD and like the stiff farm from hell that sent that Brown just enter into the dirt MJ Stewart. I think the only positives. Naju Harris is going to still be a Pittsburgh sealer and big Ben is not. That's probably another positive from this one as well. And Mike Tomlin not going below 500 yet again as he was actually still alive with a very, very outside chance. It would take the Colts losing for them to sneak in. But still live off of this game and on to do you want.

All rookie and then all pro sweet. So what we've done here is we've picked our picks for the all rookie and all pro teams by position. We're going to see here largely based on greeting and how people have how players have great out the season, but there are takes. There are some takes. There are some takes we had. I want to also kind of highlight some honorable mentions here. It's not going to be funded. Just say all the same names over and over. I want to highlight some honorable mentions as well as they say we want to harp too much on the ones that we agree. Yeah, that are fairly clear cut. The other thing I'll add is the mailback episode is Thursday. And if you have not gone

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Then those reviews to the DMs in tailgate to make sure those get answered as well. The mailbag episodes are going to be a treat. And we might be doing the bonus mailbag episode for episodes week here soon onto all rook team. Mac Jones quarterback. We both picked Mac Jones. I don't think there's really much of a debate here. He's the highest created rookie quarterback of any of them this year. Davis Mills not really putting up a fight. And he makes tied for ninth among all quarterbacks in the NFL and PFF grade coming off an 89.9 PFF grade in week 17 in that blow out wind over the Jags any any

reason to go off of Mac Jones here. No, this isn't to say he's all of a sudden could be one from this draft class for certain. We of course you learn your lesson when you see what Baker Mayfield did on Monday night after his rookie year, but there's no debate that he was the best as rookie.

I do see who do you ultimately now or do you want to have this conversation? Hell no, you know, I don't you don't rather not we talk about we have weeks and months to talk about.

Okay, fine, fine, running back. I wanted to give Elijah Mitchell some love here. I wanted to add him as an honorable mention. I don't think he's been talking about enough. Huh?

So to want you to marry him. What the hell? That joke is trash. That joke is literally trash.

He hears the whistle. But I think Elijah Mitchell deserves some credit. He hasn't played a ton of this year. He's been hurt a ton this year for 104 snaps played.

But he's the number two graded rookie behind the guy we both pick. But Elijah Mitchell for San Francisco has played like a season vet this year.

When healthy at Najee Harris, I think also deserve some love over 900 snaps played the amount of touches.

Najee Harris has had the season is absolutely absurd. I think he will finish the year with potentially the most combined broken tackles when you include receptions because he's gotten the ball dumped off to him a thousand times.

If volume was driving this pick for us, I think Najee Harris would be the name and recently by us at the stiff farm 180 our day, maybe you do it.

But Javate Williams is our pick. He's only played 500 snaps, which is close to half of what Najee has played, but he leads.

He's tied for the lead and forced miss tackles per touch on the ground with Jonathan Taylor. He has been as efficient real straight up.

Really? Yeah, it's definitely for most forced miss tackles while on the ground. Yeah, that's right. Not for touch. That's insane. Yeah, especially considering only 191 carries on the year.

Yeah, so he has five more carries than Elijah Mitchell and twice as many broken tackles, which is, I mean, that's just who he is. So every 4.5 per he is my pick for it.

Najee, he didn't have much of a shot. You know, like it's not as if this is for certain. Again, that Javante is the better back. It's just when you average 3.9 yards for carry, you're not overcoming said run blocking in a meaningful manner, even though he was good as receiver as well.

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