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Gerry Dulac's Steelers chat: 11.1.17
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Gerry Dulac
12:37
You read entirely too much into what I said.
Rahn
12:37
Percentage you think of No. 7 retiring at season's end?
Gerry Dulac
12:37
Lower than Senquez Golson coming back
Smrtalec
12:37
Mitchell is a great guy, but seems to have lost a step or is just not up to speed w/ the rest of the secondary. Do you see them drafting a safety replacement for him in the early rounds next year?
Gerry Dulac
12:39
I see them taking a safety early in the draft, yes, though, not No. 1 and probably not even 2. I will tell you right now, their No. 1 pick, provided he is available, is Penn State TE Mike Gisecki.
Tommy Maddox
12:39
Best guess, what is the ratio between man and zone coverages for the Steelers D so far?
Gerry Dulac
12:40
Probably 80-20, if not higher, Now, they do use their "firezone" defense, which becomes a matchup zone. But pure man coverage....? Yeah, 80-20, 75-25.
Ohioguy
12:41
Isn’t Tom Brady now just waiting to drop passes into the zone behind the corner and in front of the safety ???
Gerry Dulac
12:41
Loves that
AK
12:41
What do you think is a bigger upgrade from last year: Cockrell to Haden; Davis rookie to Davis 2nd year or Burns 1st year to 2nd?
Gerry Dulac
12:41
Uh, that first one.
Jason
12:41
Mike Mitchell seems to always go for the bone jarring hits and defenders seem to always gain additional yards bouncing off his tackles. It seems he would be more effective just wrapping up you agree?
Gerry Dulac
12:42
I don't always agree with Mitchell's actions on the field, but for the most part he gets his guy on the ground. He may not textbook wrap, but, then, how many players, particularly DBs, in today's NFL do that? You can count them on two hands.
Kevin in Punxsy
12:42
The group that I watch the Steelers games with all think that the Steelers DC and OC are very bad at making changes at half-time. Your thoughts?
Gerry Dulac
12:43
That's why they're watching and not coaching
AK
12:43
Do you understand the Steelers using an empty backfield on first down or in short yardage?
Gerry Dulac
12:43
I understand that teams do it all the time, but it still baffles me.
Ohioguy
12:43
If we signed Hightower would we have had enough cap left to sign Haden?
Gerry Dulac
12:43
Who cares? They didn't.
Hambone
12:44
Gerry.......Looks like Cam Sutton will be returning off the PUP.  Do you see any room for him at the moment with a crowded (and might I add a pretty productive) secondary?
Gerry Dulac
12:44
FYI....He's eligible to come off IR, not PUP. But see above answers
Lambert Lunatic
12:44
Hi Gerry, do you have any sort of feeling #10’s production will increase & be impactful. Sunday showed to a small degree how his mere presence impacts the game. Reports of him dominating when downgraded to the scout team and seemingly positive attitude since then should have his “arrow pointing up” moving forward.
Gerry Dulac
12:45
Don't put too much weight on what you hear happens in practice. It's practice.
Taz
12:45
Am I crazy or are most of Ben's deep misses (DHB, ER this past week, MB, JJ, and others in prior weeks) apparently receivers not quite getting into position?  People are making a lot of Ben being "off," but when I watch the replays and the body language.... I'm not sure that's Ben.
Gerry Dulac
12:46
Yes, sometimes its the receivers not being where they are supposed to be. That's what happened on the intercept against the Bengals. That's not what happened on the int in Detroit.
Bob
12:46
Gerry, i know we have done this some but not nearly enough... short crossing routes (ala New England). They work and we have guys who can get great YAC. agree?
Gerry Dulac
12:47
Are you kidding? They've tried that so much this year that Ben is starting to look like a dink-and-dunk QB. This is a guy who has always been at or near the top of the league is yards per completion because he was so good at the 15-20 yards pass. They have become more horizontal than vertical.
Scott in Amsterdam
12:47
Tyson Alualu is looking like an underrated signing as well...Kimo von the second?
Gerry Dulac
12:48
I wouldnt go that far, but he's been a good pickup. I thought he was their most significant offseason pickup anyway.
12:49
OK, kids, we out of time. Good questions. See you next week after the ....bye bye
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