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Speaker 1: Steelers hosting Houston in a wild card playoff game on

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Speaker 1: Monday night, joining me out to talk about it.

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Speaker 2: He covers the Steelers for the trip.

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Speaker 1: He is Joe Runner, Joe, what do the Steelers have

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Speaker 1: to do to beat Houston? What matchup or what facet

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Speaker 1: of the game can you break it down to that

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Speaker 1: cons the most well.

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Speaker 3: I think what they can't do what they did against

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Speaker 3: the Ravens and give up a bunch of long touchdown passes.

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Speaker 3: That's you know, first and foremost CJ. Stroud. One thing

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Speaker 3: he really does well is complete the deep pass and

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Speaker 3: he's able to move around in the pocket. He's not

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Speaker 3: a runner like Lamar Jackson. But you know, they can't

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Speaker 3: let they can't breakdown to the secondary, they can't let

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Speaker 3: players run loose and you know, on deep passes, and

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Speaker 3: they just can't get off those long games like that.

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Speaker 1: Now in that vein, it would seem then that Joey

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Speaker 1: Porter Junior, very likely covering Nico Collins, could determine which

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Speaker 1: way this game goes. What kind of chance do you

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Speaker 1: give Porter? If that's what Tomlin dictates.

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Speaker 3: You know that's probably the best oughtstion obviously, because Jalen

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Speaker 3: Ramsey knows over safety, and I think Order at this

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Speaker 3: stage is probably playing a better outside corner than Ramsey

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Speaker 3: when he did so, I would say he had a

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Speaker 3: that would probably be the matchup of the game. That

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Speaker 3: you probably have him shadow Collins and then you just

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Speaker 3: you know, you're worry about the other receivers, you know,

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Speaker 3: as they come. But yeah, that I think Porter being

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Speaker 3: out there and matching up against him is one thing

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Speaker 3: to look out for. And Collins, as you saw a

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Speaker 3: couple of years ago when he based the Steelers towards

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Speaker 3: them for a couple of touchdowns. And he's one of

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Speaker 3: the elite receivers in the NFL right now.

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Speaker 1: How did the Steelers cope with Houston's pass rush? That's

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Speaker 1: another million dollar question. The on line for the Steelers

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Speaker 1: has been good, no doubt, but this is a heightened circumstance.

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Speaker 1: You got Anderson and Hunter, you got I would assume

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Speaker 1: Fatanu against Anderson, in Cook against Hunter.

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Speaker 4: Yeah and Cook.

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Speaker 3: You know they he got helped, He got help against

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Speaker 3: Detroit even though Aiden Hutchinson had a couple of sacks.

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Speaker 3: They gave him help against Garrett. They helped everybody against Garrett.

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Speaker 3: But you know one thing, you learned is there's two

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Speaker 3: of these guys. They're not quite Garrett, but the two

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Speaker 3: of them are, you know, better than Garrett and pretty

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Speaker 3: much anybody else, one of the best pass restumers in

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Speaker 3: the NFL, probably the best. So there's only so much

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Speaker 3: help you can give them. They're gonna have to win

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Speaker 3: where there's Della's book or Troy Fotner, They're gonna have

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Speaker 3: to win their one on one and the Steelers are

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Speaker 3: gonna have to, you know, at times, let those guys

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Speaker 3: have one on one matchups because they can't keep everybody

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Speaker 3: in for max protection. They're gonna have to be able

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Speaker 3: to try to work the ball down the field too. Well.

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Speaker 1: I would assume that they they let con who largely

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Speaker 1: handle Anderson one on one and and give a quick

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Speaker 1: help against Tunnter And with all due respect to Dylan

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Speaker 1: Cook Joe who's done very well for somebody totally unheralded.

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Speaker 1: I just keep wondering, when the clock strikes midnight he

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Speaker 3: But that very well could happen. And I think that's

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Speaker 3: one reason why, even though he hasn't quitted himself, well

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Speaker 3: that they you know, they're going to try to give

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Speaker 3: him as much help as possible and you know try to,

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Speaker 3: you know, try to you know, get up, you know,

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Speaker 3: protect the passer that way and maybe get a running

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Speaker 3: game going.

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Speaker 1: Uh, what kind of game do you think this will be?

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Speaker 1: Ryan's and Tom? When I've been talking all week Joe

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Speaker 1: are both kind of defensive minded.

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Speaker 2: Neither one minds a one score rock fight.

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Speaker 1: I would think that benefits Tom when we're having the

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I would think so too. I still though, I

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Speaker 3: think it might be in the vein if it was

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Speaker 3: you know, the with the you know against the Ravens

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Speaker 3: twenty six to twenty four, somewhere in that range, maybe

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Speaker 3: fifty combined points scored. I think these teams are going

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Speaker 3: you know, especially with what Aaron Rodgers showed he could

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Speaker 3: starting to see him come you know, come through at

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Speaker 3: the right time for them, and you know he gives them,

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Speaker 3: you know, the presidence of quarterback that they've missed in

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Speaker 1: We're talking to Joe Runner of the trip about Steelers

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Speaker 1: and Houston that game, this Monday night at act for sure, Joe.

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Speaker 2: Let's talk Aaron Rodgers.

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Speaker 1: I thought he was great against Baltimore, but Baltimore got

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Speaker 1: very little pressure. And if you look back through the

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Speaker 1: Steelers schedule and at Rodgers' game, lop, the more pressure,

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Speaker 1: the more he struggles. And I'm hoping this could be

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Speaker 3: I mean that's where if he they do get the pressure,

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Speaker 3: he's gonna have to dump off to the running backs

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Speaker 3: more and they're gonna have to not take as many

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Speaker 3: shots down field.

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Speaker 4: Now.

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Speaker 3: They also have DK Metcalf there who maybe he can

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Speaker 3: win some one on ones and get something going. But yeah,

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Speaker 3: I mean, they've got to try to keep the pressure

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Speaker 3: off Aaron Rodgers, who has had a tendency at times,

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Speaker 3: you know, during this season, to hang onto the ball

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Speaker 1: Do you think Rogers will take more risk Joe and

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Speaker 1: maybe hold onto the ball a bit longer this being

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Speaker 1: a playoff game, is he kind of waited for this?

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Speaker 2: He could?

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Speaker 3: I mean, I you know, he's back for the first time.

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Speaker 3: One of the Steelers probably have their best chance to

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Speaker 3: the past eight years. So yeah, I think so, I mean,

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Speaker 3: he's got nothing to lose at this stage, and uh,

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Speaker 3: you know, why not, you know, be aggressive and you

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Speaker 3: know that that worked well against Baltimore, So I could

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Speaker 3: see them taking the same approach. I think that you'll

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Speaker 3: lot of risks. And maybe you haven't seen from the

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Speaker 2: Uh what about DK. You know, he's back and that helps.

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Speaker 1: It'll trickle down to the other receivers, the whole offensive

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he should, and it shouldn't be one guy. If

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Speaker 3: But yeah, I mean I think and I think they've

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Speaker 1: Is it fair to say metcalfsman disappointing to this point

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Speaker 1: or has the offense let him down?

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Speaker 3: I think it's a little of both. I think it's

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Speaker 3: They've kind of let him down and he hasn't had

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Speaker 3: you know you can you can only do so much.

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Speaker 3: You can only get open so much when you're getting

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Speaker 3: multiple men covering you. In that regard, I think the

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Speaker 3: that regards. And I think he's let them down just

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Speaker 3: by not being there the last two weeks that you know,

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Speaker 3: if he's there in Cleveland, you know, maybe it doesn't

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Speaker 3: get into the postseason.

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Speaker 1: I think for sure it doesn't come down to that,

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Speaker 1: and then you can rest the old guys.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's the you know one thing you're able

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Speaker 3: to see Houston do a little bit. At least in

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Speaker 3: the second half of their last game. They knew that

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Speaker 3: Jacksonville they working to win the division. Jacksonville was so

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Speaker 3: ready for the playoffs, and the Steelers didn't have that

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Speaker 1: I also feel like TJ Watt owes this team a

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Speaker 1: big game. I know they stabbed him in the lung

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Speaker 1: and that's unfortunate. I know he's still recovering, but he

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Speaker 1: hasn't had a single TJ.

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Speaker 2: Watt like game all year.

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Speaker 1: After signing that big ticket.

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Speaker 3: Well, and he hasn't done in the postseason either. It

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Speaker 3: has been well documented. He really hasn't had the production

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Speaker 3: shut down. He really didn't do any I don't think

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Speaker 3: he registered stat last year, a tackle in the Baltimore game.

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Speaker 3: He's gonna have to be the guy that they're paying

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Speaker 3: the big money to to get that defense going, and

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Speaker 3: Cam Hayward's gonna have to be the same way. I mean,

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Speaker 3: I think late late in the season. Cam Hayward's kind

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Speaker 3: there and has played well. And now it's time for

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Speaker 3: what He's got a week under his belt, he's you know,

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Speaker 2: I think Cam for sure has played very well.

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Speaker 1: You mentioned CJ. Stroud briefly earlier. Where's his game at?

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Speaker 1: They don't rely on him to do a ton, but

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Speaker 1: he's capable when they need it, isn't he.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, he's a good downfield passer and he's

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Speaker 3: He I think he's learned a lot in his you know,

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Speaker 3: in his three seasons. You know, he's got i think

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Speaker 3: He's going three straight games without being sacked. So I

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Speaker 3: think he's learning a lot at the position, which is

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Speaker 3: you know, encouraging for Houston for having someone at such

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Speaker 3: you know, when to throw the ball away and you know,

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Speaker 3: not make risky passes, and you know that's something the

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Speaker 3: Steelers are going to have to contend with and try

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Speaker 3: to get him out of his comfort.

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Speaker 2: Zone, Joe.

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Speaker 1: Isn't it weird to kind of be worried about Chris

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Speaker 1: Boswell who has missed a kick in each of the

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Speaker 1: last three games. Not that I think he's washed, but

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Speaker 1: even good kickers get kind of the yip sometimes.

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Speaker 3: They do, and you know, with Boswell, he is so

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Speaker 3: wonder if there if he's totally right healthy health wise.

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Speaker 3: Not from what I understand, he was supposed to talk

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Speaker 3: first time since I think the first game of the

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Speaker 3: and maybe he'll shet a little more light on it.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, it's very uncharacteristic for Boswell to have misses

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Speaker 1: Joe, great stuff, We know your retire, He congratulates on

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Speaker 1: We're talking a whole lot of Steelers, in particular the

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Speaker 1: a pleasure to talk to Jerry Doulect. Jerry, I want

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Speaker 4: You know, Mark, I think the one thing the Steelers

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Speaker 4: because you know, I mean, look at the Steelers. You

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Speaker 4: would think if the Steelers were playing the Steelers, they

436
00:20:25,440 --> 00:20:29,240
Speaker 4: would isolate on DK Metcap with their top guy thinking okay,

437
00:20:29,520 --> 00:20:31,679
Speaker 4: go let the other guys beat us, prove that you

438
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Speaker 4: can beat us. But when you have a team that

439
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Speaker 4: has multiple receivers, then you don't usually do that. And

440
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Speaker 4: the one thing about the Texans, Mark, they three three

441
00:20:41,160 --> 00:20:44,560
Speaker 4: or four receivers are six three or six four, and

442
00:20:44,760 --> 00:20:47,800
Speaker 4: that's a tall receiving group. And you know, the Steelers

443
00:20:47,800 --> 00:20:50,840
Speaker 4: aren't exactly the tallest group of corners in the league.

444
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Speaker 4: They were when they brought in Jalen Ramsey to play

445
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Speaker 4: that position, but as we know, he's playing safety now.

446
00:20:56,040 --> 00:20:58,480
Speaker 4: And I'm not saying that's a mismatch, but I think

447
00:20:58,520 --> 00:21:02,119
Speaker 4: that's something to keep an ey I on in this game.

448
00:21:02,240 --> 00:21:06,000
Speaker 4: How the Steelers match up or or try to defend

449
00:21:06,960 --> 00:21:10,400
Speaker 4: they're taller receivers who are productive guys.

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Speaker 1: How about this matchup the Steelers offensive line against those

451
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Speaker 1: two great edg rushers for Houston. I think the Steelers

452
00:21:16,560 --> 00:21:19,480
Speaker 1: are no slopches, obviously in the offensive trenches.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Mark, that's probably going to be the most significant

454
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Speaker 4: one of the game, because not only do you have

455
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Speaker 4: just one rusher like a Miles Garrett, although none of

456
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Speaker 4: them are Miles Garrett or you know, or when you're

457
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Speaker 4: lining up against Aiden Hutchinson, when it's just one guy.

458
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Speaker 4: This's is two guys on the edge, and Will Anderson

459
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Speaker 4: is the more disruptive of the two from the standpoint

460
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Speaker 4: that he's the one who usually commands the most attention,

461
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Speaker 4: even though Daniel Hunter has more sacks fifteen to twelve.

462
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Speaker 4: But you're getting it from both sides. And you know,

463
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Speaker 4: Mike Tomlin chuckle the other day when he was asked,

464
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Speaker 4: you know, do they flip flop guys and he laughed

465
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Speaker 4: kind of like, it doesn't matter if they flip flop them.

466
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Speaker 4: They come. They come from both edges. And to me, yeah,

467
00:22:01,480 --> 00:22:04,760
Speaker 4: that's gonna that's gonna be if it's not the key, boy,

468
00:22:04,800 --> 00:22:07,040
Speaker 4: that's gonna be one of the keys protecting Rogers and

469
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Speaker 4: giving him some time too, and we know he doesn't

470
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Speaker 4: take a lot of time, but making sure he's not

471
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Speaker 4: under a lot of pressure from those from the edges.

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Speaker 1: I have a lot of faith in Fatanu against Anderson,

473
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Speaker 1: which is the presumed matchup, But boy, I worry about

474
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Speaker 1: Dylan Cook against Tyner. Not the Cook hasn't done a

475
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Speaker 1: fine job, Jerry. But but there's a difference in pedigree,

476
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Speaker 1: there isn't there.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, no question, And yeah, Mark, you're right, and Dylan

478
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Speaker 4: Cook has has done a nice job. But fat Tanu,

479
00:22:33,520 --> 00:22:36,520
Speaker 4: you know, he and Sayamalo are their best lineman and

480
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Speaker 4: Fatano man, I mean, you know, he's a star in

481
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Speaker 4: the making. It's only a matter of time if it

482
00:22:41,280 --> 00:22:43,520
Speaker 4: isn't already, where the rest of the league is going

483
00:22:43,520 --> 00:22:46,760
Speaker 4: to catch up and realize how good this guy is.

484
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Speaker 4: So yeah, I'm with you there. I mean, one on

485
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Speaker 4: one they rely on him and those in those individual matchups,

486
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Speaker 4: and you know, it's not like that guy is going

487
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Speaker 4: to be out there be a liability or get torch

488
00:22:57,400 --> 00:23:01,520
Speaker 4: because it's just the opposite. Troy is very, very good

489
00:23:01,800 --> 00:23:03,840
Speaker 4: and you could see why they just loved him when

490
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Speaker 4: they took.

491
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Speaker 5: Him in a draft.

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Speaker 1: Talking to Jerry Dulac of The Post Gazette, Jerry brought

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Speaker 1: this by bud Light. Easy to drink, Easy to enjoy. Jerry,

494
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Speaker 1: what about the Steelers pass rush against their offensive line?

495
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Speaker 1: Their offensive line that's it's not great, doesn't suck, but

496
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Speaker 1: not great?

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Speaker 2: Correct?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Mark, And I think what we have seen since

499
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Speaker 4: Thanksgiving is that Alex Heismith is our best defensive player.

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Speaker 4: He's been really, really good and I.

501
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Speaker 2: Think so to him and Cam.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, oh yeah, Cam playing at the level he is

503
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Speaker 4: at age thirty six this year after year. You know,

504
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Speaker 4: I don't know if it's as surprising as it is impressive.

505
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Speaker 4: But what he did the other day, you know, that

506
00:23:47,680 --> 00:23:50,560
Speaker 4: was just another level. And of course in those games,

507
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Speaker 4: you want your stars to be the stars, and let's

508
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Speaker 4: face it, they were Cam, Aaron Rodgers and TJ. Watt.

509
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Speaker 4: But I think the Steelers have, you know, the fact

510
00:24:00,080 --> 00:24:03,680
Speaker 4: that they can bring three or four guys with edge pressure,

511
00:24:03,840 --> 00:24:08,480
Speaker 4: you know, Herbing and Sawyer, you know included. I think

512
00:24:08,560 --> 00:24:12,200
Speaker 4: it is good for them. But yeah, I mean, you know, Mark,

513
00:24:12,240 --> 00:24:15,280
Speaker 4: that's the most important. The Steelers look at at quarterback

514
00:24:15,440 --> 00:24:18,320
Speaker 4: number one as the most important position on the team,

515
00:24:18,560 --> 00:24:21,919
Speaker 4: and number two is your edge rushers. They're the idea

516
00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:24,760
Speaker 4: being you need your red rushers to disrupt the other

517
00:24:24,840 --> 00:24:28,119
Speaker 4: team's elite quarterbacks, and so that's why they load up

518
00:24:28,160 --> 00:24:32,160
Speaker 4: that position the way they do. And yeah, I mean,

519
00:24:32,200 --> 00:24:35,480
Speaker 4: I think if they can get a CJ. Stroud off

520
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Speaker 4: his Mark and force him to throw on the run,

521
00:24:38,480 --> 00:24:41,440
Speaker 4: look he's pretty good. But I you know, we'll see

522
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Speaker 4: how that matchup in the secondary goes. But the Texans

523
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Speaker 4: of one thing, they have shown that they can score points.

524
00:24:47,160 --> 00:24:49,879
Speaker 4: They're not Jacksonville, but they can score points. But we

525
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Speaker 4: know they're all about their defense.

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Speaker 1: Watts had a quiet year, and I know lately injuries

527
00:24:54,880 --> 00:24:58,280
Speaker 1: have certainly intervened, but it feels like they need and

528
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Speaker 1: he's due for a big game.

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Speaker 2: He hasn't He had like a TJ. Watt game all year?

530
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Speaker 4: Really, yeah, And I don't know. You know, I'm hesitant

531
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Speaker 4: to say I don't know what they expect of him.

532
00:25:09,800 --> 00:25:13,520
Speaker 4: And I say that because you know they were They

533
00:25:13,520 --> 00:25:15,919
Speaker 4: did not think they would get forty three snaps out

534
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Speaker 4: of him the other day. They they wanted him to

535
00:25:18,600 --> 00:25:21,679
Speaker 4: be honest with them and say, look, no I'm tired,

536
00:25:21,800 --> 00:25:23,960
Speaker 4: or no I need a break, and that was never

537
00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:26,639
Speaker 4: the case. And so he played more than they thought

538
00:25:26,720 --> 00:25:29,720
Speaker 4: he would. But you know, Terry Austin was saying this today.

539
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Speaker 4: People don't understand that edge rushers rely so much on

540
00:25:33,520 --> 00:25:36,919
Speaker 4: timing beyond technique, and when you haven't played a while,

541
00:25:37,600 --> 00:25:39,439
Speaker 4: you know in a few games, three or four games,

542
00:25:39,480 --> 00:25:42,560
Speaker 4: that timing gets disrupted if not rusty.

543
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Speaker 3: And so.

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Speaker 4: You know, Mark, he's never won a playoff game. I

545
00:25:47,080 --> 00:25:49,040
Speaker 4: don't want to say he talks about it freely, but

546
00:25:49,080 --> 00:25:51,080
Speaker 4: when he talks about it. You could tell it's a

547
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Speaker 4: big deal to him, and you know, maybe like Cam

548
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Speaker 4: last week, maybe this game. You know, it's like, hey,

549
00:25:58,440 --> 00:26:01,360
Speaker 4: look I need to win a playoff game, and it's

550
00:26:01,400 --> 00:26:03,280
Speaker 4: going to be you know, he's just going to come

551
00:26:03,320 --> 00:26:05,000
Speaker 4: one hundred and forty miles an hour and maybe be

552
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Speaker 4: the disruptive TJ.

553
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Speaker 3: Watt.

554
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Speaker 4: Let's face it, Mark, we haven't seen a lot of

555
00:26:09,920 --> 00:26:11,720
Speaker 4: it this year, like we're custom to see.

556
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Speaker 2: You mentioned CJ. Strodd, What about the quarterback matchup?

557
00:26:14,800 --> 00:26:18,280
Speaker 1: I thought Rogers was great at the game's end in Baltimore.

558
00:26:18,640 --> 00:26:18,960
Speaker 3: CJ.

559
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Speaker 2: Strodd.

560
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Speaker 1: They don't ask him to do a lot, but he's

561
00:26:21,119 --> 00:26:23,160
Speaker 1: got a good deep barm and he tends to come

562
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Speaker 1: through when they need it, doesn't.

563
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Speaker 4: Heah, Yeah, there's no question, Mark. I mean he was

564
00:26:27,280 --> 00:26:30,840
Speaker 4: one of the surprises of the league last year. And

565
00:26:31,320 --> 00:26:34,000
Speaker 4: you know what you mentioned Aaron Rodgers. And let me

566
00:26:34,040 --> 00:26:38,560
Speaker 4: say this, if the Ravens win that game, the league

567
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Speaker 4: would hail Lamar. Jackson's performance is one of the greatest

568
00:26:42,119 --> 00:26:45,520
Speaker 4: of the season. Those two late touchdown throws, getting away

569
00:26:45,520 --> 00:26:48,479
Speaker 4: from high Smith and even Keanu Benton on that sixty

570
00:26:48,520 --> 00:26:52,359
Speaker 4: four yarder. Making the big plays when they need him.

571
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Speaker 5: It was.

572
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Speaker 4: It was a spectacular performance. And yet in the end,

573
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Speaker 4: who was the guy in the last two drives outperformed

574
00:27:00,720 --> 00:27:03,520
Speaker 4: him was Aaron Rodgers twelve or fourteen, one hundred five

575
00:27:03,600 --> 00:27:07,159
Speaker 4: yards you know, took what eighty five seconds with no

576
00:27:07,280 --> 00:27:10,840
Speaker 4: timeouts to lead that touchdown drive. I mean, that was

577
00:27:10,920 --> 00:27:13,800
Speaker 4: just precision stuff, Mark, And he's doing it in the

578
00:27:13,880 --> 00:27:16,840
Speaker 4: huddle and at the line of scrimmage, and you just

579
00:27:16,880 --> 00:27:19,080
Speaker 4: can't say enough. You know, Arthur Smith and this is

580
00:27:19,119 --> 00:27:23,000
Speaker 4: no surprise, you know, thinks he calls him the smartest

581
00:27:23,080 --> 00:27:25,920
Speaker 4: quarterback in the league. Of course he is. But there's

582
00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:28,879
Speaker 4: very few guys, what two or three maybe they can

583
00:27:28,960 --> 00:27:30,720
Speaker 4: do what he can do with the line of scrimmage

584
00:27:30,720 --> 00:27:33,680
Speaker 4: and process it as quickly as he does. And that's

585
00:27:33,680 --> 00:27:36,480
Speaker 4: been a big benefit for the Steelers as we have seen,

586
00:27:36,760 --> 00:27:38,520
Speaker 4: especially in those moments when they need it.

587
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Speaker 1: Here's a weird thing that we've boy Jared, I don't

588
00:27:41,600 --> 00:27:44,520
Speaker 1: think we've ever talked about it. I'm a bit worried

589
00:27:44,520 --> 00:27:46,560
Speaker 1: about Boswell. He's missed the kicking each of the last

590
00:27:46,560 --> 00:27:48,720
Speaker 1: three games. Does he have the yips? I mean, are

591
00:27:48,760 --> 00:27:49,440
Speaker 1: you concerned?

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Speaker 4: Well, you know that that extra point I talked to

593
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Speaker 4: him about it today. You know, he didn't know was

594
00:27:58,600 --> 00:28:01,280
Speaker 4: blocked until he saw it thirty yards to the right.

595
00:28:01,320 --> 00:28:03,720
Speaker 4: He knew he didn't shank it, and that's when he knew, well,

596
00:28:03,720 --> 00:28:06,840
Speaker 4: it must have been touched and it was by number

597
00:28:06,840 --> 00:28:11,840
Speaker 4: thirty thirty nine key Andre Jackson. But yeah, he's missed

598
00:28:11,840 --> 00:28:15,600
Speaker 4: two others. But he's also you know, from from a

599
00:28:15,640 --> 00:28:18,080
Speaker 4: long way. You know, he drilled that fifty seven yard

600
00:28:18,119 --> 00:28:20,680
Speaker 4: or like it was nothing. So I don't know if

601
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Speaker 4: it's the point where you know, you have to be

602
00:28:22,560 --> 00:28:25,159
Speaker 4: concerned about him. I don't think it's the yips at all.

603
00:28:25,200 --> 00:28:27,000
Speaker 4: The yips would be if he was just missing this

604
00:28:27,200 --> 00:28:28,960
Speaker 4: right team right short.

605
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Speaker 1: But but but Jerry, we expect him to just make

606
00:28:31,920 --> 00:28:33,040
Speaker 1: them all automatically.

607
00:28:33,080 --> 00:28:34,240
Speaker 2: It doesn't feel like that.

608
00:28:35,440 --> 00:28:36,800
Speaker 4: And that's exactly what it is.

609
00:28:36,880 --> 00:28:37,080
Speaker 3: Mark.

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Speaker 4: We're so accustomed to seeing him make everything that it's automatic,

611
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Speaker 4: So when he misses it, we raise an eyebrown, We go,

612
00:28:43,720 --> 00:28:46,280
Speaker 4: what's wrong? Well, you know, I mean, he's going to

613
00:28:46,320 --> 00:28:49,840
Speaker 4: miss some. But I don't think it's anything mechanically to

614
00:28:49,920 --> 00:28:52,920
Speaker 4: worry about or physically to worry about. And maybe Mark,

615
00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:54,840
Speaker 4: I know I know this though too. One of those

616
00:28:54,920 --> 00:28:57,640
Speaker 4: misses was a was a low snap and not the

617
00:28:57,680 --> 00:29:00,760
Speaker 4: greatest hole, right, And I'm certainly not going to excuses,

618
00:29:00,800 --> 00:29:02,400
Speaker 4: but I think that played into one.

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Speaker 1: Of those Jerry, what's the coaching matchupake? I think both

620
00:29:07,040 --> 00:29:11,400
Speaker 1: these guys are like minded. They stress defense, they try

621
00:29:11,440 --> 00:29:15,160
Speaker 1: to hold leads, protect the ball, and they don't mind

622
00:29:15,160 --> 00:29:15,720
Speaker 1: a rock.

623
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Speaker 2: Fight a one score game. It seems like very similar,

624
00:29:18,320 --> 00:29:18,680
Speaker 2: doesn't it.

625
00:29:19,760 --> 00:29:22,120
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't think it's going to be a rock fight,

626
00:29:22,200 --> 00:29:24,320
Speaker 4: even though you were talking about a defense that's number

627
00:29:24,320 --> 00:29:26,600
Speaker 4: one in the league and points and yards and everything else.

628
00:29:28,360 --> 00:29:30,880
Speaker 4: You know, Mark, go back to last week. The most

629
00:29:30,920 --> 00:29:34,240
Speaker 4: important aspect of coaching in that game. To me, that

630
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Speaker 4: one of the most the key component of that was

631
00:29:37,400 --> 00:29:41,080
Speaker 4: Arthur Smith. How was he going to operate without DK

632
00:29:41,200 --> 00:29:45,000
Speaker 4: Metcalf when all the quote replacements were the guys who

633
00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:48,560
Speaker 4: had to step up for DK Metcalf did nothing against Cleveland,

634
00:29:48,920 --> 00:29:52,920
Speaker 4: and I thought he and they responded very well. That's

635
00:29:52,960 --> 00:29:56,160
Speaker 4: what I thought was a key coaching matchup, if you

636
00:29:56,200 --> 00:30:01,080
Speaker 4: will last week, you know, I think in this one

637
00:30:01,120 --> 00:30:05,000
Speaker 4: it's going to be, you know, just how you handle

638
00:30:05,600 --> 00:30:09,920
Speaker 4: the pressure of the Texans and obviously, Mark, the last

639
00:30:09,920 --> 00:30:12,240
Speaker 4: thing they want to do is get behind. We know

640
00:30:12,320 --> 00:30:14,800
Speaker 4: the story, sixty three to nothing in the first quarter

641
00:30:14,840 --> 00:30:17,600
Speaker 4: in the last five playoff games. But then again, they

642
00:30:17,600 --> 00:30:20,080
Speaker 4: were down ten to nothing basically after the first quarter

643
00:30:20,160 --> 00:30:23,640
Speaker 4: three plays into the second quarter against the Ravens and

644
00:30:24,400 --> 00:30:28,920
Speaker 4: they you know, and they rebounded. So I just think,

645
00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:31,240
Speaker 4: you know, if what the Steelers will want to do

646
00:30:31,880 --> 00:30:34,160
Speaker 4: is and they've been pretty good at this all year

647
00:30:34,280 --> 00:30:37,080
Speaker 4: until the Ravens game, don't let the ball go over

648
00:30:37,120 --> 00:30:39,080
Speaker 4: the top, and we saw it happen twice in the

649
00:30:39,120 --> 00:30:41,520
Speaker 4: fourth quarter, and we just haven't seen a lot of

650
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Speaker 4: that last year, last this whole year, and I think offensively,

651
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Speaker 4: I'm going to see I think you're going to see

652
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Speaker 4: them try to do what they always want to do

653
00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:54,440
Speaker 4: and have been fairly successful with it. And that's involved

654
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Speaker 4: both running backs, whether that's running or throwing the ball,

655
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Speaker 4: because if they're worried about the pressure, then Aaron Rodgers

656
00:31:00,920 --> 00:31:02,600
Speaker 4: are going to get rid of it, at least early

657
00:31:02,640 --> 00:31:06,040
Speaker 4: in the game, quicker than he does in general. So

658
00:31:06,640 --> 00:31:09,640
Speaker 4: that involves a lot of checkdowns to the two running backs.

659
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Speaker 1: Will you make a great point about the first quarter,

660
00:31:11,720 --> 00:31:14,960
Speaker 1: how they've really gotten blown up in a lot of

661
00:31:14,960 --> 00:31:18,920
Speaker 1: first quarters in playoff games. Will that make them all

662
00:31:18,960 --> 00:31:21,480
Speaker 1: the more antsy in the first quarter? I mean, will

663
00:31:21,480 --> 00:31:23,280
Speaker 1: they be thinking about that? Will Tom Wan be thinking

664
00:31:23,320 --> 00:31:23,680
Speaker 1: about that?

665
00:31:24,840 --> 00:31:26,880
Speaker 4: I could tell you the fans of me thinking about.

666
00:31:26,680 --> 00:31:28,800
Speaker 2: That market, Yeah, me too, actually.

667
00:31:29,280 --> 00:31:31,719
Speaker 4: Right ten or fourteen? Nothing, because then you're gonna say,

668
00:31:31,720 --> 00:31:36,160
Speaker 4: oh boy, here here they go again. But yeah, I

669
00:31:36,480 --> 00:31:39,320
Speaker 4: don't think they think about that. I really don't. They

670
00:31:39,360 --> 00:31:43,520
Speaker 4: get so singularly focused on what they're doing that, you know,

671
00:31:43,600 --> 00:31:46,280
Speaker 4: they have their scripted plays. They're trying to come down

672
00:31:46,360 --> 00:31:49,320
Speaker 4: and score first time? Do they? Sometimes they do, sometimes

673
00:31:49,400 --> 00:31:52,960
Speaker 4: they don't. I don't think that weighs on his mind

674
00:31:53,080 --> 00:31:53,440
Speaker 4: at all.

675
00:31:54,040 --> 00:31:54,840
Speaker 2: Jerry, who do you like?

676
00:31:55,280 --> 00:31:58,440
Speaker 1: I've vacillated on who I think is gonna win all week.

677
00:31:58,520 --> 00:32:00,600
Speaker 1: I'll probably change my mind a few more times between

678
00:32:00,640 --> 00:32:02,680
Speaker 1: now and Monday. I think it really is up for grabs,

679
00:32:02,760 --> 00:32:03,760
Speaker 1: is what I'm saying.

680
00:32:04,920 --> 00:32:08,360
Speaker 4: Yeah, No, you know, Mark, I'm usually with you. I usually,

681
00:32:08,640 --> 00:32:10,320
Speaker 4: you know, hit this point of the week where I

682
00:32:10,400 --> 00:32:12,280
Speaker 4: kind of think, Okay, I changed my mind.

683
00:32:12,880 --> 00:32:13,160
Speaker 1: I don't.

684
00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:15,719
Speaker 4: I don't know why. I guess it's because of the

685
00:32:15,760 --> 00:32:19,320
Speaker 4: way I've seen the Steelers bounce back from the two

686
00:32:19,600 --> 00:32:22,800
Speaker 4: most pathetic performances of the year. The Buffalo game and

687
00:32:22,840 --> 00:32:25,480
Speaker 4: the Cleveland game and come back with two of their

688
00:32:25,480 --> 00:32:30,160
Speaker 4: best performances of the year, a key moments both against Baltimore,

689
00:32:30,200 --> 00:32:32,040
Speaker 4: one on the road, and of course the winner take

690
00:32:32,080 --> 00:32:35,160
Speaker 4: all last week, and so you went, they won four

691
00:32:35,200 --> 00:32:39,680
Speaker 4: of their last five. I just, you know, with that

692
00:32:39,840 --> 00:32:42,880
Speaker 4: with that playoff drought looming, I don't know, I've kind

693
00:32:42,880 --> 00:32:46,480
Speaker 4: of all week like the Steelers in this game, and

694
00:32:46,880 --> 00:32:49,720
Speaker 4: I haven't vacillated from it, and I don't think I will. So,

695
00:32:50,440 --> 00:32:52,440
Speaker 4: you know, we'll see that. What are the Texans three

696
00:32:52,440 --> 00:32:54,760
Speaker 4: point favorites you give? You know, if you get three

697
00:32:54,760 --> 00:32:56,920
Speaker 4: points for the home field, that means people think they're

698
00:32:56,920 --> 00:33:01,560
Speaker 4: a six point favorite. We'll see. We'll see. They're hot,

699
00:33:01,560 --> 00:33:04,240
Speaker 4: there's no question about it. But I kind of like

700
00:33:04,320 --> 00:33:08,479
Speaker 4: what I see at these key moments, these critical moments

701
00:33:08,520 --> 00:33:11,240
Speaker 4: in the game where the Steelers have responded both offensively

702
00:33:11,240 --> 00:33:14,160
Speaker 4: and defensively, and I think I'm going to stick with

703
00:33:14,200 --> 00:33:14,920
Speaker 4: them the whole way.

704
00:33:14,800 --> 00:33:16,040
Speaker 2: Here, Jerry.

705
00:33:16,360 --> 00:33:19,160
Speaker 1: I feel very bad about the post Casette closing, not

706
00:33:19,320 --> 00:33:22,760
Speaker 1: least because of great professionals like you who put in

707
00:33:22,840 --> 00:33:25,160
Speaker 1: so much time and did great work there. But obviously

708
00:33:25,200 --> 00:33:28,200
Speaker 1: that's where I got my start. Any take on what's happened.

709
00:33:28,200 --> 00:33:29,000
Speaker 1: Did you see it coming?

710
00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:34,760
Speaker 4: Mark, I didn't see it coming. I was at the

711
00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:38,760
Speaker 4: very least surprised, but just a little short of shocked,

712
00:33:38,960 --> 00:33:44,160
Speaker 4: only because when the courts announced the decision in favor

713
00:33:44,240 --> 00:33:47,600
Speaker 4: of the union, the Post Caazette fired that strike across

714
00:33:47,640 --> 00:33:50,480
Speaker 4: the bow that well, you know, I don't know, this

715
00:33:50,520 --> 00:33:54,280
Speaker 4: may cause us to cease operations, and sure enough, that's

716
00:33:54,320 --> 00:33:57,120
Speaker 4: what they did. Now I have to think, you know,

717
00:33:57,200 --> 00:33:59,880
Speaker 4: and of course they're citing these massive losses. I have

718
00:34:00,120 --> 00:34:01,960
Speaker 4: to think this has been in a work, so I'm

719
00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:04,720
Speaker 4: sure it has for a while. All that being said,

720
00:34:04,720 --> 00:34:09,319
Speaker 4: big picture is Pittsburgh is without a major metropolitan newspaper,

721
00:34:09,600 --> 00:34:14,400
Speaker 4: something that they've had for decades and centuries. And to me,

722
00:34:15,120 --> 00:34:17,000
Speaker 4: when you look at the big picture of it, that

723
00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:19,719
Speaker 4: that's that they don't have that now, that to me,

724
00:34:19,880 --> 00:34:22,840
Speaker 4: that's a that's a sad dark day for journalism in Pittsburgh.

725
00:34:23,360 --> 00:34:24,720
Speaker 2: There's any hope of a sale.

726
00:34:24,760 --> 00:34:27,640
Speaker 1: I mean that waiting till May second leaves a little window,

727
00:34:27,719 --> 00:34:28,440
Speaker 1: I think.

728
00:34:28,200 --> 00:34:30,239
Speaker 2: But I I mean, I put it this way.

729
00:34:30,280 --> 00:34:32,040
Speaker 1: I stopped trying to read the blocks, at least in

730
00:34:32,040 --> 00:34:34,160
Speaker 1: any honest fashion A long time ago.

731
00:34:35,200 --> 00:34:37,560
Speaker 4: Right, and Mark that that window that you know to

732
00:34:37,640 --> 00:34:41,319
Speaker 4: wait five months to May third. I'm not saying this

733
00:34:41,440 --> 00:34:44,160
Speaker 4: is a ployer of bluff because I can't imagine that,

734
00:34:44,640 --> 00:34:48,080
Speaker 4: but why have a five month runway up to it?

735
00:34:48,120 --> 00:34:52,000
Speaker 4: Just raises a couple of curious eyebrows to me and

736
00:34:52,160 --> 00:34:56,759
Speaker 4: in our in our one sided zoom meeting yesterday, I

737
00:34:56,920 --> 00:35:00,520
Speaker 4: was surprised that, in some attempt maybe to explore or

738
00:35:00,560 --> 00:35:04,719
Speaker 4: appease their employees, they didn't say, look, we've tried to

739
00:35:04,760 --> 00:35:08,040
Speaker 4: sell the paper, We've looked into that, we've had no buyers,

740
00:35:08,239 --> 00:35:10,239
Speaker 4: or we are going to try to look in to

741
00:35:10,360 --> 00:35:12,719
Speaker 4: sell the paper. But you know, given the industry, the

742
00:35:12,840 --> 00:35:18,040
Speaker 4: likelihood isn't very good. I'm not so sure why that

743
00:35:18,200 --> 00:35:20,640
Speaker 4: wasn't done, or at least they said they might try

744
00:35:20,640 --> 00:35:22,760
Speaker 4: to do it or have tried to do it again,

745
00:35:23,280 --> 00:35:27,280
Speaker 4: maybe in some to help explain the suddenness of the decision.

746
00:35:27,360 --> 00:35:30,760
Speaker 4: So that part of it surprised me and Mark. I've

747
00:35:30,880 --> 00:35:33,560
Speaker 4: just always learned in life, and I see it in sports,

748
00:35:33,560 --> 00:35:36,640
Speaker 4: but in life, you know what, it's May third, Let's

749
00:35:36,680 --> 00:35:38,839
Speaker 4: see what happens in the interim, and.

750
00:35:38,840 --> 00:35:40,120
Speaker 2: Let's see what happens Monday night.

751
00:35:40,200 --> 00:35:42,680
Speaker 1: Jerry, Thanks so much great work because always we'll talk

752
00:35:42,719 --> 00:35:43,479
Speaker 1: again next week.

753
00:35:44,760 --> 00:35:46,439
Speaker 4: Mark, always good chatting with you, my friend.

754
00:35:46,880 --> 00:35:49,560
Speaker 1: That's Jerry Doulac, Bretless by bud Light, Easy to drink,

755
00:35:49,600 --> 00:35:52,880
Speaker 1: Easy to enjoy, eighty ninth. Make that the ninetieth minute

756
00:35:52,960 --> 00:35:56,360
Speaker 1: at Arsenal nil nil actually just a great game. You

757
00:35:56,360 --> 00:35:58,279
Speaker 1: don't think a nil nil game could be a great game.

758
00:35:58,280 --> 00:36:02,279
Speaker 1: This one definitely is all right. Uh, get your calls

759
00:36:02,280 --> 00:36:04,480
Speaker 1: in out for Ask Mark Anything. Eight three three four

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00:36:04,520 --> 00:36:07,080
Speaker 1: one two w xdx eight three three four one two

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Speaker 1: w xdx. Get your calls in now, also the secret

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00:36:10,960 --> 00:36:14,040
Speaker 1: number four one two three three three wxx or leave

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00:36:14,080 --> 00:36:18,080
Speaker 1: talkbacks via the microphone icon at the i art Media app,

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00:36:18,080 --> 00:36:18,680
Speaker 1: which we love.

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00:36:18,719 --> 00:36:21,000
Speaker 2: We love that app. I'd love a goal for Liverpool

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00:36:21,040 --> 00:36:23,640
Speaker 2: even more. Uh one O five nine X.

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Speaker 7: It's time to submit your questions for ask Mark Anything.

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00:36:28,239 --> 00:36:31,560
Speaker 7: Use your free iHeartRadio app and sap the microphone icon

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00:36:31,719 --> 00:36:34,719
Speaker 7: to send your questions to the super Genius instantly.

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00:36:36,920 --> 00:36:40,880
Speaker 1: It's Travis every weekday at ten am, starting your workday

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00:36:40,920 --> 00:36:45,080
Speaker 1: commercial free on one oh five ninety. Hear that that's

772
00:36:45,120 --> 00:36:48,279
Speaker 1: what having fewer hot flashes and nights withs can sound like.

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00:36:50,480 --> 00:36:55,000
Speaker 1: Super Genius Mark Madden come son of Torel Neel before side.

774
00:36:55,280 --> 00:36:59,680
Speaker 1: Oh always break to hear from the lady callers DX.

775
00:37:07,640 --> 00:37:10,200
Speaker 1: I mean Connor Bradley, our young right back, looks like

776
00:37:10,239 --> 00:37:15,040
Speaker 1: he totally blew out his knee. Oh, for God's sakes.

777
00:37:15,600 --> 00:37:17,480
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm grateful we won the league last year,

778
00:37:17,520 --> 00:37:20,440
Speaker 1: but this year, when it rains, it definitely pours, and

779
00:37:20,520 --> 00:37:22,960
Speaker 1: we may we're still under siege in this with not

780
00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:26,680
Speaker 1: a lot of time left. Uh eight three three four

781
00:37:26,719 --> 00:37:28,600
Speaker 1: one two wxdx the number to call.

782
00:37:31,040 --> 00:37:31,200
Speaker 3: Oh.

783
00:37:31,239 --> 00:37:33,080
Speaker 1: Now they've got a corner kick and they've scored eleven

784
00:37:33,120 --> 00:37:34,560
Speaker 1: goals off cornerkicks this year.

785
00:37:35,080 --> 00:37:37,439
Speaker 2: Let's got to Craig Craig Grewing with double m Oh

786
00:37:37,520 --> 00:37:38,120
Speaker 2: my god.

787
00:37:39,560 --> 00:37:42,319
Speaker 4: Hey, hey, Mark, curious, have you ever seen the show

788
00:37:42,440 --> 00:37:44,120
Speaker 4: Heels and what your thoughts were on it?

789
00:37:44,120 --> 00:37:46,640
Speaker 1: If you have, It was a good wrestling drama. I

790
00:37:46,640 --> 00:37:49,319
Speaker 1: wish they would have continued it. I thought they bought

791
00:37:49,360 --> 00:37:54,040
Speaker 1: into the flavor of small time, small town wrestling perfectly. Obviously,

792
00:37:54,120 --> 00:37:56,239
Speaker 1: a lot of disbelief had to be suspended by me

793
00:37:56,280 --> 00:37:58,800
Speaker 1: as a lifelong wrestling guy and somebody who worked in

794
00:37:58,840 --> 00:38:01,799
Speaker 1: the industry freight yours, but it was it was very good.

795
00:38:01,840 --> 00:38:03,880
Speaker 1: I was very sad to see you get canceled. Hold on,

796
00:38:03,920 --> 00:38:06,439
Speaker 1: hold on, goodbye, goodbye. This is like the last throw

797
00:38:06,480 --> 00:38:08,439
Speaker 1: of the dice by Arsenal. I think, can they screw

798
00:38:08,440 --> 00:38:13,840
Speaker 1: off the corner? I thought they did? They didn't. Okay,

799
00:38:13,920 --> 00:38:17,480
Speaker 1: hopefully this is that. It is that it Yep, Neil

800
00:38:17,520 --> 00:38:21,040
Speaker 1: Neil draw, I'll take it. Had chances to win, played

801
00:38:21,080 --> 00:38:23,160
Speaker 1: a great second half, Neil nil draw, I'll take it.

802
00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:26,279
Speaker 2: It's good to Joe. Joe, you're on with double M.

803
00:38:26,800 --> 00:38:28,640
Speaker 5: You know, Mark, I'm about to You were bringing up

804
00:38:28,640 --> 00:38:33,160
Speaker 5: about watch contract. I I would I mean, I think

805
00:38:33,200 --> 00:38:36,319
Speaker 5: about like you. The only way that's happened and is

806
00:38:36,920 --> 00:38:40,680
Speaker 5: Dan Yeah Rooney, he would have never let that happen.

807
00:38:41,080 --> 00:38:42,400
Speaker 3: Oh yeah yeah.

808
00:38:42,480 --> 00:38:46,359
Speaker 1: Would Dan have given Wat that extension? Very probably? So well,

809
00:38:46,360 --> 00:38:50,359
Speaker 1: it depends. It depends younger Dan Rooney. No, this Dan

810
00:38:50,440 --> 00:38:53,120
Speaker 1: Rooney before he went feeble and passed, God bless him,

811
00:38:53,560 --> 00:38:54,680
Speaker 1: might have given him that deal.

812
00:38:54,760 --> 00:38:56,960
Speaker 2: Yes, But Art's a sucker. Art would have gave Art

813
00:38:57,000 --> 00:38:57,520
Speaker 2: did give it.

814
00:38:57,600 --> 00:39:01,600
Speaker 5: He There was never a doubt, okay, because I just

815
00:39:01,680 --> 00:39:05,000
Speaker 5: have a feeling like I mean, to get paid twice

816
00:39:05,200 --> 00:39:07,399
Speaker 5: is the highest. I mean, I know it doesn't matter,

817
00:39:07,480 --> 00:39:09,759
Speaker 5: but it doesn't matter to be able to say he's

818
00:39:09,800 --> 00:39:13,240
Speaker 5: the highest paid player, he made a million more or whatever,

819
00:39:13,680 --> 00:39:16,239
Speaker 5: a dollar more than somebody. It just seems to me

820
00:39:16,440 --> 00:39:19,920
Speaker 5: that that wouldn't happen then. And plus two, we don't

821
00:39:19,920 --> 00:39:22,399
Speaker 5: want we don't have a franchise quarterback. That money would

822
00:39:22,440 --> 00:39:24,120
Speaker 5: have been spent otherwise.

823
00:39:24,360 --> 00:39:27,320
Speaker 2: It's easier said than done to get a franchise quarterback.

824
00:39:27,320 --> 00:39:27,880
Speaker 2: And don't see it.

825
00:39:27,920 --> 00:39:30,360
Speaker 1: They thought they got theirs when they drafted Kenny Pickett,

826
00:39:30,760 --> 00:39:32,319
Speaker 1: which set the team back five years.

827
00:39:32,360 --> 00:39:34,000
Speaker 2: It looks like it may be longer.

828
00:39:33,680 --> 00:39:37,520
Speaker 1: Because I think they're gonna keep recycling old bastards at

829
00:39:37,600 --> 00:39:41,399
Speaker 1: QB until they go four and thirteen. And that day

830
00:39:41,480 --> 00:39:44,000
Speaker 1: will come. The way this team is playing it year

831
00:39:44,040 --> 00:39:47,120
Speaker 1: by year. I've always said their ADEPTI sting in the

832
00:39:47,200 --> 00:39:50,560
Speaker 1: mushy middle, and probably could indefinitely. But the way they're

833
00:39:50,600 --> 00:39:54,080
Speaker 1: mismanaging this roster, the day of four and thirteen will come.

834
00:39:54,080 --> 00:39:55,800
Speaker 2: And that's okay because they really need.

835
00:39:55,640 --> 00:39:58,640
Speaker 5: It, you know, And I just I mean, Lot's a

836
00:39:58,640 --> 00:40:01,439
Speaker 5: great player, man, but like he's just he's hitting out wall.

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00:40:02,840 --> 00:40:04,319
Speaker 2: The point is, and thank you for the call.

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00:40:04,719 --> 00:40:06,680
Speaker 1: What they needed with what was make him play out

839
00:40:06,680 --> 00:40:09,120
Speaker 1: the remainder of his contract and then franchise him is

840
00:40:09,200 --> 00:40:12,120
Speaker 1: necessary because you would still have TJ. Watt right now

841
00:40:12,440 --> 00:40:14,320
Speaker 1: and for two more years if that's what you wanted.

842
00:40:14,560 --> 00:40:17,360
Speaker 1: Would he be mad yes, would he still be rich yes,

843
00:40:17,440 --> 00:40:18,959
Speaker 1: Would it be too bad for him yes?

844
00:40:19,080 --> 00:40:21,680
Speaker 2: Would it be better for the Steelers yes. But the

845
00:40:21,719 --> 00:40:23,919
Speaker 2: Steelers just threw everything.

846
00:40:23,480 --> 00:40:26,960
Speaker 1: In the basket of what will make TJ want happy

847
00:40:27,080 --> 00:40:28,920
Speaker 1: and not whine like a gym teacher.

848
00:40:30,239 --> 00:40:32,560
Speaker 2: Let's go to Joe, Joe, ask Mark anything.

849
00:40:38,440 --> 00:40:42,440
Speaker 8: First off, where you just said you were you were

850
00:40:42,560 --> 00:40:44,560
Speaker 8: happy with that drawer report?

851
00:40:44,719 --> 00:40:45,200
Speaker 2: Happy enough?

852
00:40:45,280 --> 00:40:48,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I thought, especially with the way we

853
00:40:48,120 --> 00:40:52,239
Speaker 1: played for about the about seven or six, seven or

854
00:40:52,239 --> 00:40:54,240
Speaker 1: eight minutes in the first half, we played very well.

855
00:40:54,480 --> 00:40:56,239
Speaker 2: I thought we were the better team by far in

856
00:40:56,280 --> 00:40:56,920
Speaker 2: the second.

857
00:40:56,680 --> 00:41:02,920
Speaker 8: Half outside of those post missus and close chances. What

858
00:41:03,280 --> 00:41:07,400
Speaker 8: happened with that Jeremy from Pong chance that he had.

859
00:41:07,280 --> 00:41:09,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, I thought, I mean, looking at the replay he

860
00:41:09,560 --> 00:41:10,760
Speaker 1: adverts for a cutback.

861
00:41:10,800 --> 00:41:12,040
Speaker 2: He just miss hit the cutback.

862
00:41:12,120 --> 00:41:14,600
Speaker 1: I would have taken the shot with so few chances

863
00:41:15,520 --> 00:41:18,359
Speaker 1: on offer in that game. But my main concern now

864
00:41:18,400 --> 00:41:20,640
Speaker 1: Connor Bradley, who I really like as a player, A

865
00:41:20,640 --> 00:41:23,319
Speaker 1: young kid at right back look to have damaged his

866
00:41:23,360 --> 00:41:25,920
Speaker 1: knee pretty severely, which is, you know, like I said,

867
00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:28,240
Speaker 1: for this season, it never rains.

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Speaker 2: But at poors, let's go to Jerry.

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Speaker 3: Hey Mark.

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Speaker 6: I was wondering, out of all the Pittsburgh traditions that

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Speaker 6: people suggest first time visitors do, what's the one that

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Speaker 6: you wouldn't suggest that I wouldn't think.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know, I've never thought of it.

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Speaker 1: I've lived here my whole life. I've indulged in all

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Speaker 1: the traditions. However, accidentally, I'll tell you what I would recommend. Well,

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't recommend going downtown because it's a hell hole. Okay,

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Speaker 1: if that's a tradition, don't do it, market Square, don't

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Speaker 1: do it. Just just awful place down town, the theater

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Speaker 1: district in your PPG, those family places in downtowns that

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Speaker 1: aren't the proverbial excrement hole. But I'll tell what I

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Speaker 1: would recommend is riding the Incline. Nothing like that incline.

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Speaker 1: I would go to Mount Washington. Nothing like Mount Washington.

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Speaker 1: Ride the Gateway Clipper. I love the Gateway Clipper. I

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Speaker 1: haven't ridden in a while, but I will soon. I

885
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Speaker 1: mean there's a lot of great stuff to indulge, but

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Speaker 1: do not go downtown.

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Speaker 2: Let's go to a talkback, doublem.

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Speaker 1: If there is one thing that all human beings should

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Speaker 1: know and know, well, what would it be?

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Speaker 2: Come on, you reads, let's go another talkback.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 9: I was just curious of your thoughts on the US

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Speaker 9: men's hockey roster and is there any changes to the

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Speaker 9: roster that you would make or any replacements in the

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Speaker 9: event of an injury that you would make.

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Speaker 1: I didn't like the roster at all. And I like

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Speaker 1: Billy Garren, like Mike Sullivan. I didn't like the roster

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Speaker 1: at all. They put emphasis on heavy and tough and

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Speaker 1: in Olympics or speed hockey. They left five of the

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Speaker 1: top ten USA scores off the roster, most notably Jason

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Speaker 1: Robertson of Dallas. They didn't pick up Lane Hudson from Montreal,

902
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Speaker 1: who's like a latter day you know, American Paul Coffee.

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Speaker 1: I don't know how you leave him off. I just

904
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Speaker 1: don't know how you did that. So whatever they think

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Speaker 1: tough in the small rink and YadA YadA, I think

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Speaker 1: Mike's gonna get exposed as a coach in the Olympics

907
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Speaker 1: because the balloom was off his rows anyway, not least

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Speaker 1: because of other rangers have fallen apart. But just like

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Speaker 1: Dan Bosman did in the Olympics, back when I think

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Speaker 1: Mike Sullivan's rep has already taken a hit, I think

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Speaker 1: it'll take a bigger hit in these Olympics.

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Speaker 2: Let's go to one more talkback.

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Speaker 6: Hey, super genius, Hey, just wondering, what was the last

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Speaker 6: time you actually cried, physically cried over a loss of

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Speaker 6: one of the teams that you root for.

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Speaker 1: Uh, nineteen seventy five Penguins blow Game seven, blewe the

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Speaker 1: three games to not lead against the Islanders. I was

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Speaker 1: fourteen years old then, as it turns out, I grew up.

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Speaker 1: I mean, don't get me wrong, I love the Penguins

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Speaker 1: in Liverpool more than anything. There's never been a loss

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Speaker 1: that would make me cry. I mean it's I support,

922
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Speaker 1: I cheer, I wallow in the glory, but I take

923
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Speaker 1: the losses and move on and just try to figure

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Speaker 1: out how it's going to be better, just from on

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Speaker 1: the corner. Same thing with autographs. I've not gotten in

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Speaker 1: an autograph since I was sixteen years old, because again

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Speaker 1: I grew up. I think those people who adults who

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Speaker 1: get autographs and then sell them, I think they are

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Speaker 1: just bottom feeders. I think they're just despicable. Not to

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Speaker 1: be critical. Eight three, three, four to one two WSDX

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Speaker 1: is the number to call. Get your calls in. We

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Speaker 1: got calls on the fifteenes, but get them in now.

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Speaker 1: Let's have some fun. The pressures off after the U

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Speaker 1: after then this idiot Mort McVeigh who coaches hockey. I

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Speaker 1: like Mort, but he texts me right away that was

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Speaker 1: Game five against Allader's not Game seven. No, it wasn't, dumbass,

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Speaker 1: it was Game seven in nineteen seventy five. Listen to

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Speaker 1: the year seventy five. They blew the three games not

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Speaker 1: league against the Islanders. Let me do my show for

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Speaker 1: f's sake.