Scout's Eye with Matt Williamson: Should Austin be extended?
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🗓️ 7 June 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Matt Williamson. How's it going today? I am doing well. OTAs are in the books, |
| 0:12.2 | and then back at it with minicamp next week. So we'll be broadcasting from down there, |
| 0:18.0 | Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. Today is Mailbag. And as always, a lot of really good questions. |
| 0:23.7 | So, Steelers Toro comes up with this, which it looks like he, yeah, AI generated and asked it in short, true. |
| 0:33.3 | But he asked me, is our highsmith and watt, the greatest outside linebacker duo ever? |
| 0:42.3 | I don't think he's talking about in Steeler history. |
| 0:45.1 | I don't think he's talking about in the league as we speak. |
| 0:49.4 | I think he's asking me, are they the best pair of edge rushers teammates that ever lived? |
| 0:55.9 | I'm not willing to go there. But he does have this little chart here that's their peak |
| 1:03.7 | year, 2002, High Smith and Watt combined for 28.5 sacks, which is two better than Frini and Mathis in 2004. |
| 1:17.8 | Vaughan Miller and DeMarcus Ware had 18 and a half in 2015. |
| 1:22.8 | Bosa and Ingram for the Chargers had 23 in 2017. |
| 1:30.5 | So I see where you're coming from. I mean, that's a pretty darn good pairing, which I've been telling you, and I think all of you know |
| 1:34.8 | anyway, that Highsmith and Watt are an elite pairing. But I'm not going to go there. I mean, |
| 1:41.1 | the best set of Eddrushers ever on a team together? I just can't go there. |
| 1:46.3 | Now, where I wanted to take this, though, is are they the best pair in the league right now? |
| 1:52.7 | And I don't think Crosby, Bosa, Parsons, Garrett, have anyone like Highsmith on the other side. |
| 2:06.0 | So they don't have a Robin to their Batman that is comparable. |
| 2:11.7 | But the one pairing that I would say, and I'm kind of taking your question in a different |
| 2:15.6 | direction, I think the Texans with Will Anderson and Deniel Hunter is a better pair right now. |
| 2:24.0 | It's close. |
| 2:24.9 | Like I would take Watt over both those guys, but not by leaps and bounds. |
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