Jawaan Taylor

Um, I might mix it up just to go offensive tackle 'cause we've been talking about it but we haven't done it yet.

Bergeron and then Jawaan Taylor.

Yeah, I'm gonna go Trevor Goosby here.

Mm.

Like you said, Derek, Jake Matthews got hurt in the middle of this game.

I know that Bijan is walking through the door for the Falcons, but this is a team that signed Jawaan Taylor off the street before the season started and has their backup left tackle for 50 of the 60 snaps on offense, and they're running the ball at will.

Like, there, there's no explanation as to why the Falcons should be able to do that and why you can't do anything on the ground if you're the Saints.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but, and I, I understand it's a big disappointing loss, but Kelvin Banks is the only problem right now.

I, I, but I, I do think there's a level of we are appropriately grading on a curve for Khaliil Benson.

Um, just as Jawaan Taylor wasn't...

Jawaan Taylor was graded on a different curve, because he was getting $20 million.

Correct.

Um, and that's where, like, you know, you talk about Jaylen Moore on the right side versus Khaliil Benson, it's also one of the reasons when the Chiefs offered Orlando Brown and he said, "No, thank you," that they weren't gonna sit around and have Orlando Brown shop his services and then come back to the Chiefs, and then the Chiefs miss out on other guys.

So they paid Jawaan Taylor.

Like, that's, that was part of the process that took place when people were like, "Why'd they pay Jawaan Taylor?" Well, they were gonna give that money to Orlando Brown, and he said no.

He wanted more money.

Like you're not paying that big time tackle money that you see the tackles make in the NFL right now.

You're not paying that Jawaan Taylor contract.

You're getting an undrafted free agent, possibly a future starter for your football team.

That's huge, 'cause you can now use that money and allocate it somewhere else.

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Jawaan Taylor.

Jawaan Taylor.

Jawaan Taylor.

Yeah.

Chris Collinsworth.

what about uh alan i'll start with you uh what about in the trenches uh you make this matchup because i do think atlanta's offensive line is kind of feast or famine i like three of the players and then i think there's pretty big question marks at two of the spots and then obviously i like the steelers defensive line to be able to create a bunch of havoc up front in the past game but with how fast i'm expecting cooper rush to get rid of the ball i'm curious to see how much of that they're even able to dial up so what do you make of the uh the trenches there atlanta's offense if line going against the steelers defensive line i

mean i don't think anybody's tackles feel good against the steelers but i really don't think i mean joan taylor banged up um it's not a good group and and I think there's, again, I think this defensive line is going to be feeling good about almost every matchup this year.

I am just curious to see exactly how much they can get pressure without blitzing and how much they need to blitz.

I think that's a real unknown question here.

You might be right about that.

And how about the matchup for T.J. Watt this week against Jawaan Taylor? I kinda like T.J.

Or, and, you know, you could put Herbig over there for, for a bunch of snaps, too.

I like the Steelers in this game.