2X Super Bowl Champion Ike Taylor is Catchin’ Fades with Aqib Talib this week. Taylor lists all of the problems in Pittsburgh, and what the Steelers need to do to bounce back. Taylor also talks about his favorite young corners.
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In Michigan, Tennessee red line one hundred eight nine nine seven eight nine in Tennessee, visit www eighteen hundred gambler dot net in West Virginia or called one hundred next step or text next step to five three three four two. In Arizona, catching fades, we got my guy I Taylor on again. Man. You know I had to bring you back. Baby. What I'm saying it still is, it still is making headlines. I'm gonna call I, you know, what I'm saying, talk about and talk about the one three start. Man, what's going on in Pittsburgh. Yeah, they're making headlines for the royal reason. And right now you've been extra. You've just called, you're being messing me. I just gotta know. I'm calling I right. Look, if it's ugly in Pittsburgh, I'm calling right man. I want to know it's the offense, man, offense, the old guy to get together. Man. Then uh, I mean right now, I ain't never seen been through three touchdowns and three interceptions in four games. And that's and that's how I look at like. And you're looking real good right now. So my my thought always been and man, let's get back to this running game, right it's until you already know like when you get to their running game, they help us out. As a defense. We ain't to worry about no further downs. We just war the clock, winnning the clock, winning out. So I'm looking at I'm looking at Pittsburgh, and they do have a nice style defense. And the only way you can help your defense, even by catching the breathing it's a boy running the clock a little bit. And right now we just ain't got no personality on offense and when we was winning Super Bowls. Man, regardless of what you whether you know our playbook or not, who's gonna run the ball right now? They ain't even trying to run the ball right now, they ain't even trying to run the ball. So that's the issue. You try to run the ball the first year Rees, then after you trying to run the ball the first year, Reaes, you just go back to pass. That ain't gonna work. So them so them twenty three points and the three fifty yards the defense given up, that's that's that's because they're tired. That's flew gazing. Yeah, that's just like some water down BS jury you wear. Like if somebody gets a BS jury, they're like, nah, that's flo gazing. They ain't even know. I know what you're saying, because I have been on a good defense and ship we could we could only we could only not break for so long, you know what I'm saying. We could ben being being and eventually we're gonna be tired. Eventually, Yeah, eventually's gonna break. And that's where the Pittsburgh Stills defense going through right now. Like you know they've been and they've been and they've been and they've been in right, Well, she'll give me some help, bro, give me a little bit. And right now the Pittsburgh offense ain't given the Pittsburgh defense and the help. And I think it has everything to do with not trying to run the ball. But this really all right. The old line is probably different, right, but there's been the same the same football team as last year defensive offense. You shift that old line, it's probably like three three new guys on the old line, right, maybe four, maybe three. So three new guys on the old line make that big of a difference in on the on the offensive run game. This team started twelve and o eleven and o last year. No are you speaking? Can you speaking? Lest cause you're speaking the truth. So I look at Green Bay offensive line, right, they got three new guys exactly on the offensive line. But you know what, when they want to run the ball, they're running ball. Don't don't worry about none of that. We got edits, We got all that good ship. Bro. Okay, So they passed the ball so they can start off running and they can finish your thing up by league and they can und ball. That's what they're going against the Pittsburgh stealers. Jesus Christ, I'm I'm the same way over here, but I promise you right, allergies so Pittsburgh, so Pittsburgh right now, they don't even try to ruin. They sprinkled. They sprinkle. Yeah, so they they're they're sprinkle. They'll sprinkle a running, but they ain't really trying to consistently run. So all that has big ben to do as man going the center and hand the ball off the nagy. Yeah, and when you do and when you do that, it gets the offense aligned in the rhythm. Yeah. Offense alignment with their rookies and they're young and they don't have any experience, they do well. When you try to go to the run game, it's hard to ask the offense alignment to pass it, right, But us in Pittsburgh, we're doing the opposite. We asked the offense alignment as young guys and rookies to learn how to pass him instead of run game. So you put your body a weight on somebody. So when you put your back, when you put your body weight on the defensive linement, and you got the running back. The whole the whole landing game slows down to it, so damn. Then you're running back to the offensive line. They're going the matrix. Yeah, because it's it's like the old lineman. They love a run block because they get the attack now. Correct, correct, they love the run block because because they get the attack. Now when you pass blocks, they like dvs, they like us at that point, they just gotta defend and see what you're gonna do. So I definitely, I definitely feel that. So Mike t he he the vibe master with the locker room like right now. Honestly, excuse me, Honestly, I don't even know what the locker room like. But so you made a good you made a good stay, remember, bro. So I look at offensive alignment like linebackers. So linebackers when they get the Russian blitz, that's just like an offensive alignment. When he gets the run block, I get the attack and put my body way on you. That's just like a running back. So now running back he gets to get into matrix because because he's in a rhythm with the offensive line in the hole, and the game slows down for him, so he's seeing everything and three the action, you know, So the daggle your derrek herrings. Uh, dago, you bought some Moore Ravers offensive line, bought some Moore Rams. They can ship whatever offensive line they got, because all they like to do is run, right, you know what I'm saying. So even even Tom Brady as afforded for year old, he knows how important running the ball is. We forgot about playoff Lenny to be in the regular season until the playoff Lenny became in the playoffs. Once left from the playoffs, we was like, damn what he'd been at the time. Ready was like, man, I had kept couldn't ride. I know what it is to win championships. You got you gotta run the ball. You gotta run the ball, even even when you was when you was with them book. You know by the end of the day, when y'all kids to the playoffs, Yeah, y'all might have relied on paid Man a few times in the fourth quarter. Yeah, but but when it came down to the playoffs, paid man and when handing that thing off, oh you yeah, good defense, hand the ball off, good defense. Now got to run that ball correct if I need, if I need to, if I need to clutch play meaning if I need you to get us a field goal range and need seven points in the fourth quarter. That's when I needs you. But for the most part in the playoffs, you want to hand the ball off and play good defense. Pittsburg right now, we just ain't got no identity. So it ain't so it ain't uh big being health. It ain't big being health bringing the team down. Now, I don't think it's seven hells like seven. Seven. Got to tell the o C. I think seven seven, at this point in time in this career, he could he could say and do what he wanna do, right regardless. So seven want to be a shotgun all day, Seven will be a shopun If seven want to mix it up and go flash your pass and run the ball and try to establish and running game, he has he has the green light to do that. So for me, it's just all on seven. Yea. But but from what I know, when we was winning, we handled the ball off. We had identity. You already knew when you play the Pittsburgh Steelers, they they're gonna pound the ball. After they've gone, it's gonna be some play actual passes after some flaship passes. They're gonn play some good defense period. Right now, that's what they just need to get back to and they're not doing that. So this weekend, from the front of this weekend, they got the broncos. I mean he toesna you need for them to win, not your need thirty toes dirty toes You heard it first, m T. Give him the rock thirty times, not you, not your kneed thirty to leave. Give him a chance because Jess Justin Justin Simmons right now ain't playing no games. Honestly, Von Mill and company, they ain't playing the games. Want pass the ball, so it ain't gonna look pretty. If you want to throw the ball thirty five the times against that defensive pass rush, it's not it's not gonna look good. Now. I don't want you don't want to ship back there and do that. All right? I got my I got my Pittsburgh questions answering, and I definitely needed that. I appreciate that too. I but uh, around the league right now, who you like, who you like, what it's looking like? Who catching you about surprise? What teams you like? Who gonna who gonna be there? Charges? Charges like a real good like the charges that young boy looked right hey, teen streets that Herbert in his first name, dressed in his last and the brother special specially he looks he looks special specially what you like about him? Though? What what are you doing? I'm gonna tell you what I like. You're telling me first what you like? Open pot? And he looked at and he look at y'all. He like, you know, he has a command. I'll tell you this. When defensive guys aren't they knees instead of being on the bench and now listening to their coach because they know how good your quarterback is. Yeah, that's what they're doing over there. They want to watch it. They want to watch like we're seeing him pat this, but let us just see this in the game like this, dude him a look him a little bit different, It really different. You know what I see he got He got like that Tom Brady ship. He goes, he knows what you were before the play. He check out where you want to go? Here like it bam, it's quick. Everything is like a machine. And that's how Tommy was. Bro. You couldn't you barely can hit him because he getting the ball out so fast. He got total command of the offense. Bro, You know exactly what you're doing. You know exactly what we're trying to do. He getting the ball out like that, and they lucky, They're lucky he ain't running. Yes, what I mean by big cheese. He's a big quarterback that can run the ball. He's a Josh Allen that can run the ball. He just want to sit in the pocket. So whenever he feels like running to the offense, he's saving it for the playoffs, right yeah, yeah, Yeah, that's all want the other mention, they like it, They like it, the league like it. Right now, he's just shipping in the pocket. Yeah, it's it's I love. I love what the Chargers doing. Uh. I need my dog, Chris Harris get back healthy. Man. He's gonna really he's gonna really help him out. And he put him back in that secondary. Uh Sante Samuel Jr. It's one of the rookie cornerbacks plans ball right now? Man, who you like out of all these young guys? Out of these young corners, I got a three piece spicy chicken nuggets Popine's. So I'm liking Trevon Diggs, pat certain the second yea seven, the three number three young boys Umber three right now, Diggs, he's in the matrix. Yeah, big year two guy, but he's still a young guy. He's a young guy, but he's still in the match. You don't have five picks. And for games, man, he got five picks. So basically he's he's running the routes and he understand the defense. So he knows the weakness of the defense. So he understands what the quarterback is thinking. So now he biting and jumping on every route. So he do now because they didn't play for games. So what Digs gotta do now? He gotta fall back for the next three games, just play the defense, get tips and over be aggressive for the next After the next few games, now he got action with Shanton, Samuel and Patrick show team the second though. No, boys, it's the high i Q. Yeah, it's the high i Q, and it's the bloodline, and it's my coach played in the league. It's all definitely, I love I love him three corners in the league right now. Man, my dog Dig is definitely looking like a d n v P boy. You're on the great pace, tubs and all. And the best thing about his game he big. He be in Dallas. Here in Dallas, I'm in Dallas. He'd be up here at the gym A plus D one right, be up here with me, what I'm saying, picking my brain, getting some good knowledge. But I see him move like up close to personal broat this boy got five nine movement right as far as quickness, and then he got wide receiver hands. Like I'm telling you real, real, real Boster. He got lead type ball skills. I don't. Guys don't have lead type ball skills. I'm saying real. That's there was stuff Weevers had. Rivers had the receiver hands. Oh yeah, yeah, Reeves had to receiver hands. But yeah, and that's what that's what days girl, and not he if you want to flip and put him on the offensive side, he can definitely be a bad receivers what he taller than me? Alright, So, how you see how you see this NFC North playing out man by the end of the year with what you like? I'm liking Dallas bro the North, y'all NFC North, My bad, I said, NFC North. I'm sorry, you know how you like this FC North? How you see this f C North playing out? Um? Right now, I'm like a Baltimore Yeah, because of their difference and they scratch him too. They just they just playing physical guys, gonna drop, guys, gonna get hurt, but we're gonna scratch. That's why I just love how they're playing football. Yeah, they playing they ain't back your football. And they down bad at the running backs, right, so they down they're down bad at as some starters. So you still find the ways the women ball games. That's some starters. They don't go with Cleveland. I can't say something. I can't say Pittsburgh because cincinnat would be Pittsburgh. So now Pittsburgh just gotta go on the run and get a sweep. But man, it's right now in Pittsburgh exactly what they need to be at. And it's and it's it's hard for me to say that, like how they been playing in the ABC. Man, it's the bottom of the barrel. So I'm gonna go with I'm gonna go with Baltimore that I'm gonna go with Cleveland, don't go assisting, And I'm going to Pittsburgh right now today, right now today. I like it. I like it, like man, always a pleasure, baby, knowing I got Pittsburgh questions. I'm calling you, baby, you already know man two streets, How I let you work, appreciated my boy. We're catching fades like Taylor Baby,