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Steelers State of the Franchise + Draft: People Who Should Be Happiest For Games Without Fans | 8/19 #2

PFT Live with Mike Florio

Mike Florio

Sports

4.31.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

State of the Franchise - #11 Steelers: Is a healthy Big Ben enough to bring them back to the playoffs? Is JuJu Smith-Schuster a #1 WR? Tom Brady: He's already won over Mike Evans and getting cussed out by Bruce Arians. Simms explains why he's not worried about Brady's arm strength even at 43 years old. PFT Live Draft: People Who Should Be Happiest For Games Without Fans Florio wishes happy birthday to Kirk Cousins.

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0:00.0

You guys know I like catch phrases, but what you're talking about is conduct that is detrimental.

0:06.0

And that's a term that's used often in our business and appropriately so.

0:10.0

Because in this COVID environment, if you're not exercising discretion and being thoughtful about how you move,

0:15.0

that conduct is detrimental to your cause and to ours collectively.

0:20.0

And so that's the messaging that I'm delivering to those guys.

0:23.6

You know, we got to conduct ourselves accordingly.

0:25.6

There's been a lot of work to position ourselves to be where we are right now.

0:30.6

You know, it's one fail, all fail in this environment.

0:33.6

And so we're going to continue to package the messaging that way and be very transparent.

0:39.1

It is that. It's conduct detrimental to their efforts and ours.

0:45.0

Well said.

0:45.7

Steelers coach Mike Tomlin from earlier in camp, Chris. And look at it this way. The Steelers had no one opt out.

0:51.6

They've had no one on the COVID-19 reserve list. They waited until

0:54.9

July 28 to let anyone in the building. They were taking the full time to get it ready.

0:59.1

They're practicing out of Heinz Field where they have four locker rooms that they can use

1:02.8

to spread their players out. Watch week one. I guarantee you they're going to travel same day

1:09.3

to play the Giants like they did eight years ago when they couldn't get a hotel because of Hurricane Sandy. They're going to travel same day. They're going to take care of business. They're going to come home. They're going to continue to keep everything as tight and protected as they can. This is an opportunity for Mike Tomlin to reconfirm why he's one of the best coaches in the NFL. And he's gotten his guys committed and believing in that full season sacrifice you need to make in order to master this challenge of not letting the pandemic get into your building. No doubt. Well, I mean, there's, there's, you know, you could argue he's the best of messaging in the NFL. He's one of the best of messaging I've ever been around.

1:44.8

You know, I mean, just, all you got to do is listen to those comments there. I mean,

1:48.2

he just, the way he always lays it out on a daily basis, I've always been impressed with

1:53.8

Mike Tomlin that way. Even in just normal conversations, like me and him man to man, you know,

2:00.3

seeing them at the owner's meeting or something

2:02.0

like that like some of the things he'll say to me i'm just like man that was well said or that was

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