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Speaker 1: Steelers at LA. It's a tough game to call. Let's

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Speaker 1: see if my guests can do any better. Former Steelers

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Speaker 1: quarterback You hear him on the DVE postgame show. He

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Speaker 1: has a great podcast with former Steeler Trey Essex. It's Charlie,

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Speaker 1: Betch Charlie. I can't get a grip on this game.

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Speaker 1: I would like to think the Steelers can take advantage

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Speaker 1: of LA being so beat up on the offensive line

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Speaker 1: and win this game, but I still feel like it's kind.

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Speaker 2: Of up for grabs.

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Speaker 3: I'm with you on that. And this is the game

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Speaker 3: that scares me. And even though everything is favored kind

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Speaker 3: of towards the Steelers direction, and you're just like, Okay,

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Speaker 3: are they going to start reading their press clippings on

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Speaker 3: how good they were last week and not allow them

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Speaker 3: now go into this game with that you know, that

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Speaker 3: edge that they need. So this is one of those

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Speaker 3: things where, like you, it's hard to call at this

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Speaker 3: particular point.

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Speaker 1: You know the quarterback position better than anybody. I know,

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Speaker 1: you played quarterback. How good is Justin Herbert? Really break

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Speaker 1: him down from you? What are his pros?

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Speaker 3: And Yeah, this is a guy that just obviously Steeler

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Speaker 3: fans don't get an opportunity to see on a regular basis,

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Speaker 3: only on TV and highlights that you're seeing. But this

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Speaker 3: guy is tall in stature and he's bigger than what

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Speaker 3: most people realize. He's like Big Ben, you know, essentially

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Speaker 3: as far as how he's stand, but mentally he's there.

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Speaker 3: He has a big arm, he could push the ball

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Speaker 3: down the field, and he is more mobile than what

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Speaker 3: people think. And if you go back to last year,

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Speaker 3: he was nursing a high ankle spring, so we didn't

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Speaker 3: truly see the mobility and the Steelers were able to

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Speaker 3: get after him from that perspective. Now he's coming in

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Speaker 3: healthy and it looks like this guy is playing with

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Speaker 3: a ton of confidence. But playing for Jim Harball type

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Speaker 3: of coach, you know, he's gonna believe in this quarterback

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Speaker 3: and he's going to, you know, truly try to will

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Speaker 3: his players to a victory and something, you know, something

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Speaker 3: that he's done. But ultimately, there are some things in

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Speaker 3: his game that you could take advantage of.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, one thing that's underrated though he runs pretty good.

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Speaker 1: I mean he has over three hundred yards rushing. I

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Speaker 1: don't think he gets tough credit for that.

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Speaker 4: And that's yeah. Absolutely.

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Speaker 3: That's the point where I said, people just don't know

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Speaker 3: and how mobile this guy is and he can fly.

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Speaker 3: Streids are long, but he actually is quick in stature

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Speaker 3: that he can get away from some of those closing

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Speaker 3: defenders and be able to make a play. And that's

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Speaker 3: going to be something on those Reid option plays with

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Speaker 3: RPOs that he's going to pull that ball out.

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Speaker 4: And not afraid to run it.

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Speaker 3: So those defensive ends are outside linebackers, they're going to

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Speaker 3: have to play their keys and not get caught up

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Speaker 3: with the eye tests and allow Herbert to get outside.

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Speaker 1: How much will their injuries on the old line hurt them?

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Speaker 1: They got three tackles hurt, they got to guard banged up.

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Speaker 1: But they do have a true balance between running pass.

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Speaker 1: I mean, they got a great running game and Herbert's

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Speaker 1: a great quarterback. They're one of the few teams to

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Speaker 1: really truly have that legit balance, aren't they?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they are, And in Jim Harball, he loves to

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Speaker 3: run the football and I know justin Herbert, you know

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Speaker 3: he's pushing the ball down the field. But they're starting

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Speaker 3: with that run game. Greg Roman offense. Those are things

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Speaker 3: that ultimately plays into his factor and even though they

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Speaker 3: had the injuries, and this is where they made a trade,

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Speaker 3: But this is where you start now testing the depth

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Speaker 3: to say, Okay, if you truly believe in your roster,

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Speaker 3: are you now gonna start inserting some of those practice

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Speaker 3: squad guys that you're developing and see if they can

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Speaker 3: step up to go from JV to varsity type of play.

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Speaker 3: And this is gonna be a game that really we're

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Speaker 3: all gonna see come to Fruition all together on Sunday

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Speaker 3: night because we don't know what that offensive line is

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Speaker 3: truly gonna jail this weekend.

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Speaker 1: Can the Steelers keep it up with the splash plays

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Speaker 1: on defense and can they win if they don't make it?

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Speaker 2: And that's a pretty good question.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, can they do it in the manner of six turnovers?

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Speaker 3: I don't think they can sustain that, But they have

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Speaker 3: to create those turnovers and shorten one possession for the

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Speaker 3: I don't think that they can continue in this formula

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Speaker 4: Only because these splash.

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Speaker 3: Plays are missing in this offense on a consistent basis

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Speaker 3: doesn't mean they can't do it.

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Speaker 4: It's just a.

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Speaker 3: Matter of all three phases haven't played together in the

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Speaker 3: manner that you would like to see, especially when you

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Speaker 3: create six you would like to win by more than

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Speaker 3: seven points.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean they got three touchdowns in the field

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Speaker 1: go out of the six turnovers, and that sounds like

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Speaker 1: a lot, but you would like to do better. And

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Speaker 1: the weird part is, Charlie, I would bet on the

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Speaker 1: Steelers to get a takeaway before I bet on them

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Speaker 1: to get a three and out, And that's.

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Speaker 3: Odd, it is, But then that's just part of Justin's

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Speaker 3: Herbert game and that's what they could possibly take advantage

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Speaker 3: of it right there, what you mentioned, this guy is

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Speaker 3: gonna throw some balls up there that you can legitimately.

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Speaker 4: Catch or you're gonna get there. You just have to

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Speaker 4: catch those footballs.

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Speaker 3: And again that's gonna cause that the pressure of that

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Speaker 3: defensive front is going to have to force that, and

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Speaker 3: when he does, you have to make them pay for it.

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Speaker 3: They've been practicing all week on those particular footballs that

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Speaker 4: Thrown down the field.

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Speaker 3: Of course, Jalen Ramsey as good as anybody, but how

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Speaker 3: are those other defenders going to be able to do so?

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Speaker 3: It's one thing to have a pass deflection, but we

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Speaker 3: now need to turnover that goes along with it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, what about Jalen Ramsey and they got dugger just

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Speaker 2: I thought they did a good job against him. Can

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Speaker 2: they keep it up?

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Speaker 1: And what are your thoughts about maybe having Ramsey to

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Speaker 1: a Rod Woodson just become a safety period.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, And I think that's something that he has to

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Speaker 3: embrace and it seems like he's done that up until

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Speaker 3: this point. And it's a lot easier when you turn

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Speaker 3: So when you have two guys that are comparable, that

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Speaker 3: He's embracing he is a team player. He's doing everything

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Speaker 3: think he ultimately is going to embrace it. And I

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Speaker 3: think what you see right now with him and Dougar,

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Speaker 3: this is going to be something that those guys have

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Speaker 3: to work on. The non verbal communication. And when I

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Speaker 3: say that non verbal communication, you look at there, you

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Speaker 3: look at your guy, and he knows exactly what you're thinking.

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Speaker 3: It's very similar to the great tabas that you had

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Speaker 3: in here with the Steelers secondary Troy Pom, Troy Poul,

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Speaker 1: We're talking to Charlie Batch here on the ex Charlie

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Speaker 2: It's something interesting.

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Speaker 1: He doesn't like the Steelers offense, but he thinks it

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Speaker 1: can improve and get better. I actually like it better

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Speaker 1: than he does, but I'm not sure how much more

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Speaker 2: What do you think?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean they're they're starting to play better in

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Speaker 3: that they're starting to play together in that in the

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Speaker 3: But I think ultimately what they have to do is

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Speaker 3: get those splash plays in or you have to create

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Speaker 3: those fifteen plus yards down the field. And like Mike

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Speaker 3: Tomlin talks about field flipping plays and if you do that, yes,

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Speaker 3: it takes the pressure off off of the offense because

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Speaker 3: now they don't have to go ten, eleven, twelve play drives.

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Speaker 3: It's hard to do that consistently at this level because

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Speaker 3: there's going to be a mistake that's made. So they

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Speaker 3: just have to stay in front of the change, but

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Speaker 3: ultimately push that football down the field and that's where

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Speaker 3: the opportunity can still happen.

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Speaker 4: Even though we're midway through this season.

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Speaker 1: Well, big fact with that, Charlie's DK metcalf and I

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Speaker 1: don't know if it's his fault not being targeted enough.

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Speaker 2: He's dropped a.

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Speaker 1: Couple of balls, but I feel like they got to

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Speaker 2: Lot more out of him. Not a little more, but

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Speaker 2: a lot more now, I'm.

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Speaker 4: With you, a lot more.

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Speaker 3: Two catches six yard that's just not going to cut it.

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Speaker 3: And again, other receivers have to take that pressure off

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Speaker 3: of DK. So if you make those plays down the field,

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Speaker 3: now it changes the defensive coordinator scheme on how he's

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 3: So those are things that ultimately is going to have

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Speaker 3: to play out. I know they've been working hard this

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Speaker 3: they always try to do so anytime that you're on

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Speaker 3: Sunday night, this is going to be a game.

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Speaker 4: You know your peers are watching.

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Speaker 3: Everybody around the country is all paying attention to then,

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Speaker 3: So I expect them to get DK involved in this

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Speaker 1: Why is he coming up short and not being as

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Speaker 1: involved like you say, because I can't put my.

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Speaker 3: Finger on it when you're going out there and you

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Speaker 3: just look at it. And I'm saying this respectfully. If

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Speaker 3: you have DK on one side, you have calvinas and

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Speaker 3: a Room and Wilson who's young in their careers that

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Speaker 3: aren't has proven is DKA. You're going to take DK

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Speaker 3: away and make those other guys prove that they can

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Speaker 3: beat you down the field. And until they do it consistently,

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Speaker 3: that's when the coordinators will start respecting those guys and

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Speaker 3: will free up the one on one covers on.

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Speaker 4: The outside the DK. But also you have to get

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Speaker 4: that running game going.

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Speaker 3: If Jalen Warren could get going now, you create those

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Speaker 3: second and medium, third and short opportunities where you know

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Speaker 3: you can dictate what the coverage is going to be.

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Speaker 3: But if you're always in that third and long it

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Speaker 3: plays into the defensive favor.

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Speaker 1: Well, you're definitely nailed, Dear Charlie, because I've been saying

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Speaker 1: they abandon the running game far too quickly the last

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Speaker 1: two games in particular, and I know sometimes it's not

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Speaker 1: what they wanted to be, but I don't feel like

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Speaker 1: you can ever like what was it against Green Bay?

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Speaker 2: Warren got three carries in the second half.

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Speaker 3: I mean, come on, yeah, absolutely, And it's always going

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Speaker 3: to be an extra defender in the box, especially when

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Speaker 3: your quarterbacks are not going to be the mobile guys,

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Speaker 3: so they're always going to have a guy in there

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Speaker 3: that's going to defend the run. And when you draw

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Speaker 3: up these plays and you're putting the game plan together,

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Speaker 3: you always go up there, and the coordinator would always say, Hey,

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Speaker 1: You know what worries me about Baltimore Trump, and it's

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Speaker 3: And then that's something. And that's why that Cincinnati game

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Speaker 1: Charlie, great stuff, great stuff on the podcast with Trey

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Speaker 4: Thanks for having me.

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Speaker 2: That's Charlie Batch. Love having Charlie on.

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Speaker 1: Came out on the DV postgame show this Sunday and

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Speaker 1: sidelines Beer Hustings, Wickly get them wings. Okay, up next,

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Speaker 4: It's the Woody Show Weeked mornings at six. Of course

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Speaker 6: To chim Hortens for the fact free donuts DX at one.

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Speaker 1: We got mister Friday Afternoon next with the football picks.

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Speaker 1: We talked a lot of Penguins earlier. Maybe we should

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Speaker 1: return to that now. I thought last night was a

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Speaker 1: Because the Penguins are nine to four and two and

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Speaker 1: Remember before I said, unless Morishoff does get a launch

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Speaker 1: I think it's okay on a good day, so a

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Speaker 7: Just one of to talk about Ben Kendall. He looked

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Speaker 8: Well.

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Speaker 1: The power play is where Ben Kindall just is too

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Speaker 2: The Penguin powerplay was three for five. He directs it.

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Speaker 1: He was out there pointing to where Eric Carlson should

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Speaker 7: It's it's crazy impressive. Do you think they'll keep him

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Speaker 1: Well if they if they don't, they should be prepared

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Speaker 9: Bob.

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Speaker 5: Hello, my friend, Hey Mark, listen. As far as penguins,

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Speaker 5: about this team. We have a variety of we have size,

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Speaker 5: we have young, really good player. I loved Candle and

441
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Speaker 5: you know, Shay sput in the waterspoon and Manton is

442
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Speaker 5: playing real good this season. And I really feel good

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Speaker 5: about this team, especially the fact that with the new coach,

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Speaker 5: it seems like they're listening to him. It was a

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Speaker 5: little bit of you know, when they came back again

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Speaker 5: this Washington as you know, when what happened in Toronto.

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Speaker 2: Oh no, Bob, You're right on the money there.

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Speaker 1: It would have been so easy to finish losing that

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Speaker 1: game after what happened in Toronto. But they dug In

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Speaker 1: and I wouldn't call it a great comeback, comeback from

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Speaker 1: their comeback, but they got the job done.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, that and that was the point, and I'm so

453
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Speaker 5: happy about it. That's why the Steeters I told you.

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Speaker 5: I'm glad actually Big Ben back the album that listen.

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Speaker 5: I say it, I said it, then I say it again.

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Speaker 5: Time of position is magic wards for well centers for Steelers,

457
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Speaker 5: because this team, if they have two okay, good runners

458
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Speaker 5: and they have a lots of pieces that you can

459
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Speaker 5: get ten, ten yards, you know, five yards, six yards,

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Speaker 5: if they can keep the other team in the benches,

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Speaker 5: that is.

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Speaker 2: The Bob Bob, I agree with you.

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Speaker 1: But but time of possession, when they win that battle,

464
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Speaker 1: it sort of fools gold sometimes because if you do

465
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Speaker 1: it by takeaways, you know, that's good. You get the ball,

466
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Speaker 1: hopefully you converted into points like they did last week

467
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Speaker 1: three touchdowns and a field goal on six takeaways, which

468
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Speaker 1: is good, but still really not enough.

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Speaker 2: As Aaron Rodgers noted.

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Speaker 1: But they need to get more three and outs, they

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Speaker 1: need to force more punts and they're not really doing that.

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Speaker 1: On defense, it's an all or nothing type of defense.

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Speaker 5: I absolutely agree with you. Yeah, that's one they're short

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Speaker 5: on that one to basically make the other team punts,

475
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Speaker 5: especially on third nons. But my point is basically this

476
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Speaker 5: team the way it is right now because they double

477
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Speaker 5: the metscalf and like you said, you know, you know,

478
00:21:47,440 --> 00:21:50,080
Speaker 5: he lets some ball go out of his hands and

479
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Speaker 5: so forth, and this team, in my opinion, if they

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Speaker 5: just look at their record right now, I don't know

481
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Speaker 5: about this that this, but I'm willing to bet that

482
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Speaker 5: every time that they won, they have one time a position,

483
00:22:06,960 --> 00:22:10,360
Speaker 5: and every time they lost, they have lost time a position.

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Speaker 1: I think that usually happens, Bob, But like I said,

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Speaker 1: sometimes it's the fool's goal to the turnovers. I don't

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Speaker 1: think they'll ever do what you're talking about exactly as

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Speaker 1: you describe until, like I said, they force more punts.

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Speaker 1: Good call, Bob, Thank you for calling. As always. Up next,

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Speaker 1: we got mister Friday Afternoon with the football Picks, and

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Speaker 1: talkback via the microphone icon at the iHeartMedia app. But

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Speaker 1: mister Friday Afternoon is up next with the Football Picks

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Speaker 1: My next guest was told it'd be fired if he

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Speaker 1: didn't go five hundred or better picking the football games

510
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Speaker 1: last week. In this so far he has stood up

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Speaker 1: to the pressure. He went three and two this past week.

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Speaker 1: Is mister Friday afternoon, Mister Friday Afternoon, I forget, and

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Speaker 1: the tape mysteriously got erased. Do you have to go

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Speaker 1: five hundred or finish above five hundred to avoid being fired?

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Speaker 8: Did? I? Uh? I can't go five hundred?

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Speaker 2: Yeah you could. You could go two and three this week.

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Speaker 8: That's not five, that's under five hundred, don't you know?

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Speaker 1: To add, No, you went three and two this week,

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Speaker 1: you could go two and three, so you could go

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Speaker 1: five and five over the two weeks.

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Speaker 8: Oh yeah, so I wouldn't be fired.

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Speaker 2: No, you would be fired. I think you have to

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Speaker 2: go over.

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Speaker 8: Five hundred, no, five better.

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Speaker 2: You said that's what I said. Now I I forget

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Speaker 2: what the what? What I mean? We the tape pot.

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Speaker 5: I'm not.

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Speaker 8: That's not my responsibility. That's your responsibility to remember what

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Speaker 8: you said.

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Speaker 1: Okay, I remember that you that I said you have

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Speaker 1: to go over five hundred. Anyway, let's let's get.

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Speaker 8: That's not what you said. Though you said you have

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Speaker 8: to go five hundred or better.

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Speaker 2: That's not what I said. No, that that's a total fabrication.

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Speaker 8: You don't remember what you don't remember.

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Speaker 1: The total fabrication on your part. Okay, let's get to

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Speaker 1: the picks. First off, you have to pick the Steeler game.

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Speaker 1: That's Sunday night. It's a big one, the Steelers at

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Speaker 1: the LA Chargers. The line is I'm scrolling here with

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Speaker 1: the bet Parks app these Steelers are uh two and

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Speaker 1: a half point underdogs.

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Speaker 2: Who do you like?

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Speaker 8: I like the Steelers. That line's training they this is

544
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Speaker 8: a this scheme should be a pick them because the

545
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Speaker 8: Chargers are decimated again on their offensive line and.

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Speaker 2: The guards banged up.

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Speaker 8: Yeah. Right, so they're not gonna be able to run

548
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Speaker 8: the ball, which means they're gonna be able to Yeah,

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Speaker 8: and then the Steelers defense will cup last week against

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Speaker 8: one of the better the best offense in the league.

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Speaker 1: When you agree that relying on takeaways like like they

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Speaker 1: got last week with six, that's a slippery slope.

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Speaker 2: You can't count on that. There is a random element there.

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Speaker 8: You're correct, however, But when you get a decimated line

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Speaker 8: and you're gonna be getting pressure on the quarterback, you're

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00:25:36,800 --> 00:25:40,960
Speaker 8: going to be creating more opportunities for turnovers by rushing

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Speaker 8: the quarterbacks throws. So that's it. It's kind of like

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Speaker 8: it is random, but it's random by design because they

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Speaker 8: have the guys that will be putting pressure on the quarterback.

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Speaker 8: This is a good spot for Tomlin two. It's national,

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Speaker 8: it's national, it's uh national TV game, and there's an

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Speaker 8: underdog to just the typical I should but I talked

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Speaker 8: myself out of it. I actually said last week I

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Speaker 8: should have been the Steelers in that spot home underdog,

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Speaker 8: and I didn't have gone five and oh, but we're

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Speaker 8: gonna stick and I'm gonna stick with the trends of

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Speaker 8: the Steelers in common Hardmark is a good coach, though,

568
00:26:14,520 --> 00:26:16,439
Speaker 8: he's the type of guy that could, like, you know,

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Speaker 8: pull a rabbit out of his hat here. But I

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Speaker 8: just this game is probably gonna go exactly how you

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Speaker 8: would expect.

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Speaker 2: Now, have you been indicted yet in the NBA betting scandal?

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Speaker 8: Son of your business?

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Speaker 1: Have they questioned you in the NBA betting scandal the

575
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Speaker 1: sound of your business?

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Speaker 8: Did you, by the way, did you suggest to erase

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Speaker 8: our text message? Don't?

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Speaker 9: Don't?

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Speaker 2: Why?

580
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Speaker 8: Son of your business?

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Speaker 2: Oh? My god?

582
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Speaker 8: What if?

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Speaker 2: Have you got me in trouble with the NBA betting scandal?

584
00:26:42,800 --> 00:26:43,840
Speaker 8: That's sound of your business?

585
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Speaker 2: What about the fixed poker games?

586
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Speaker 8: How much did you lose?

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Speaker 2: Is a tree? You were arrested for running a fixed

588
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Speaker 2: poker game?

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Speaker 8: That's soun of your business?

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Speaker 2: Is it true you worked on a sex farm?

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Speaker 8: Uh, that's none of your business? Is the treaty? You

592
00:27:01,520 --> 00:27:02,480
Speaker 8: were going to sex for them?

593
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Speaker 2: Okay? What's the pick of the week.

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Speaker 8: Where we get some stinker game? There's a hard card

595
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Speaker 8: this week. By the way, I don't know if you

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00:27:11,480 --> 00:27:14,640
Speaker 8: know that or not I do. Yeah, I'm gonna pick

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00:27:14,680 --> 00:27:17,800
Speaker 8: a stinker game. Okay, so the Jets were the Jets

598
00:27:17,840 --> 00:27:21,240
Speaker 8: were favored over Cleveland at home by like one and

599
00:27:21,240 --> 00:27:25,959
Speaker 8: a half points. They trade away all those guys.

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Speaker 1: The game that nobody cares about is often where the

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Speaker 1: best value is, right.

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Speaker 8: So there, so they traded away all those guys. But

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Speaker 8: you're not gonna tell me that those the Jets defensive

604
00:27:35,600 --> 00:27:37,400
Speaker 8: players are worth three and a half points in teams.

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Speaker 8: You know, Cleveland's favored by two. Cleveland's offense stinks, period,

606
00:27:41,560 --> 00:27:44,119
Speaker 8: so worst offense in the league. It doesn't matter what

607
00:27:44,200 --> 00:27:46,639
Speaker 8: the defense is like. You don't need to. You know,

608
00:27:46,680 --> 00:27:48,360
Speaker 8: you could take a couple of your best players out

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00:27:48,400 --> 00:27:50,639
Speaker 8: and then then Gabe Will still will not move the ball.

610
00:27:51,040 --> 00:27:54,640
Speaker 8: Aaron Glynn will had the defense fired up, the remaining

611
00:27:54,640 --> 00:27:57,800
Speaker 8: guys or anything. There's there's no way that Cleveland should

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Speaker 8: be favored over anybody, especially the Jets on the road.

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Speaker 8: Here at least, the Jets have some some decent, decent

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Speaker 8: offensive players in this game with Briefe Hall, I think

615
00:28:06,880 --> 00:28:10,200
Speaker 8: Garret Wilson, Mike Vack evens even he's not brief Hall

616
00:28:10,280 --> 00:28:13,880
Speaker 8: is and then Cleveland's defense stinks on the road. They're

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Speaker 8: great at home and terrible on the road. It's weird split.

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Speaker 8: So definitely there's anybody betting Dylan Gabriel to win on

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Speaker 8: the road is just lost, has lost in mind.

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Speaker 1: So Jets put at home against Cleveland. How do you

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Speaker 1: feel about this pick?

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Speaker 2: How's strong?

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Speaker 5: Uh?

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00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:33,200
Speaker 8: I've zeroed out.

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00:28:35,320 --> 00:28:37,399
Speaker 2: Okay, now it's time for the daily double.

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Speaker 8: We're gonna go on a little tried and shrewd formula here.

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00:28:44,320 --> 00:28:46,520
Speaker 8: I like playing the backup quarterback in the at home

628
00:28:46,560 --> 00:28:51,160
Speaker 8: when the starter goes out. Houston is getting a point

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Speaker 8: at home from Jacksonville. Houston still has arguably the best

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Speaker 8: defense in the league. And Davis Mills is a serviceable

631
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Speaker 8: quarter back that his arm is not base. He's not

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00:29:03,080 --> 00:29:06,080
Speaker 8: much worse than Stroud's been. Stroud's been a very average

633
00:29:06,200 --> 00:29:09,000
Speaker 8: game manager. Davis Mills can do that and.

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00:29:11,920 --> 00:29:13,200
Speaker 2: Is kind of just just.

635
00:29:15,440 --> 00:29:18,320
Speaker 8: Right. He's he's an average below average quarterback. Actually, that

636
00:29:18,520 --> 00:29:21,360
Speaker 8: offense doesn't really do much, so Davis Mills, they don't

637
00:29:21,360 --> 00:29:25,400
Speaker 8: need to do much. Jacksonville's uh entire wide receiving corps

638
00:29:25,480 --> 00:29:28,920
Speaker 8: decimated bill Us all three starters, and they stuck up.

639
00:29:28,960 --> 00:29:31,800
Speaker 8: They got Jakobe Miners get a trade for a guy

640
00:29:32,400 --> 00:29:36,320
Speaker 8: they've got, but you know they got no receivers against

641
00:29:36,440 --> 00:29:38,160
Speaker 8: and you're going on the road in your favorite against

642
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Speaker 8: the best defensive league. I think this is Houston season

643
00:29:41,400 --> 00:29:44,200
Speaker 8: right here. They're still in the playoff mix. They have

644
00:29:44,280 --> 00:29:46,320
Speaker 8: to win this game. So I like, I like Houston

645
00:29:46,360 --> 00:29:46,800
Speaker 8: plus one.

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00:29:46,880 --> 00:29:49,720
Speaker 2: Okay, Houston plus one. That is the daily double.

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Speaker 8: By the way, by the way, I'm Jodelle. Hi's Jodell.

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Speaker 1: Okay, now, just just free and f We found the

649
00:30:01,040 --> 00:30:03,720
Speaker 1: tape from last week where I said, you have to

650
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Speaker 1: finish over five hundred.

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00:30:04,840 --> 00:30:06,320
Speaker 2: Let me play it. Are you ready? Hold on? Are

652
00:30:06,320 --> 00:30:07,480
Speaker 2: you ready?

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00:30:07,800 --> 00:30:10,320
Speaker 8: Yes, you have.

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Speaker 1: To finish over five hundred. Do you get fired? Okay,

655
00:30:15,280 --> 00:30:17,000
Speaker 1: So that's the tape, So now we know you have

656
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Speaker 1: to finish.

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00:30:17,680 --> 00:30:20,080
Speaker 8: That was not the tape. That was you saying that's

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Speaker 8: just now.

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Speaker 1: No, No, that's a tape. So you have to finish

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Speaker 1: over five hundred. Do you want me to play it again?

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Speaker 8: Those taps have been doctor, Why are you playing?

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna play it again. Hush up, hold on, here

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Speaker 2: we go. You have you have to finish over five hundred.

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Speaker 2: Are you fired?

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Speaker 8: You could clearly see that you were doctored your coughs

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Speaker 8: while doing that.

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Speaker 5: You're doing this.

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Speaker 1: Live, well, no, the cough is on the tape anyway.

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Speaker 1: So it's time to pick the super collider. And by

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Speaker 1: the way, we we what you off the hook about,

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Speaker 1: you know, talking about being of all those fixed poker games.

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Speaker 1: And did you communicate directly with any of the players

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Speaker 1: who who shaved points on the prop bets, on their

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Speaker 1: on their on their on their individual totals.

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Speaker 8: No, our communication was with the referees last year. But

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Speaker 8: I'm not the son of your business?

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Speaker 2: Okay in the sex form. You don't want to admit

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Speaker 2: that either, Nope.

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Speaker 1: But but by by saying you don't want to admit it,

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Speaker 1: you've confirmed that if you were pressed that you had to, like,

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Speaker 1: what if you want to lie detect?

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Speaker 8: Right, I'm as long as the phone was not a

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Speaker 8: lie detector. Yes, I would say son of your business.

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Speaker 1: That that wouldn't be a lie. That's actually well played. Okay,

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Speaker 1: Now what about you.

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Speaker 8: Hating the Steelers the son of your business?

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Speaker 1: Okay, the super collider. Now you're gonna like what I

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Speaker 1: did here. I usually picked the Steeler game, right, correct,

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Speaker 1: In this case, I'm picking the Houston game as the

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Speaker 1: super Collider, which is already the Daily Double, and that's

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Speaker 1: the six point since play for this week, which means

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Speaker 1: you can finish under five hundred.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, you're absolutely right. So uh so we have.

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Speaker 8: So the Houston game is now the Daily Double and

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Speaker 8: the Super correct and the game was zero doubt.

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Speaker 2: Well that's what you say. Now, let me just play

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Speaker 2: that sound by the game.

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Speaker 8: Let's take a try factor. That's like, you know what

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Speaker 8: should do whenever we have a pick like that where

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Speaker 8: it's made with zero doubt. It's also the super collider,

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Speaker 8: and it's also the Daily double. Let me call that

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Speaker 8: the tripack, and let's call that the tria right right,

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Speaker 8: and maybe we should call it the hat trick or

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Speaker 8: the TRIFACTO have to be the.

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Speaker 1: Hat trick because we have a segment in the very

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Speaker 1: first hour of the show that's the trifecta.

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Speaker 8: Okay, so let's call it the hat tricks. So so

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Speaker 8: that Houston game is the hat trick because it is

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Speaker 8: being made with zeroed doubt and it's it is the

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Speaker 8: Daily double.

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Speaker 2: Okay. God, I have such a headache right now.

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Speaker 1: Oh you know what, though, we could get we could

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Speaker 1: get the hat trick sponsored by a sex farm.

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Speaker 2: Which one the one you worked at?

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Speaker 8: Now?

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Speaker 5: Uh?

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Speaker 1: Okay, so let's recap steelers plus two and a half.

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Speaker 2: The pick of the week is the just plus.

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Speaker 1: Two and the uh now newly christened hat trick.

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Speaker 2: The daily double is used in plus one, so.

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Speaker 8: And again also zero doubt, zero doubt, Let me.

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Speaker 1: Play, Let me play that. Uh that sounded again. If

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Speaker 1: you don't finish over five hundred, you're fired.

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Speaker 8: Okay, well that sounded live, but it's you know. Oh,

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Speaker 8: you're right.

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Speaker 1: You don't work in radio. You would have no way

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Speaker 8: Uh, I'm not worried at all because I've made all

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Speaker 1: We got a drink from the River Hans joining me

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Speaker 1: next hour. River Hans hosting Detroit Rock City in a

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Speaker 1: USL Eastern Conference semifinal tomorrow night at seven thirty high

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Speaker 1: Mark Games nearly sold out, but you can still get in.

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Speaker 1: Gonna be a great atmosphere for a big football match

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Speaker 1: at high Mark. Uh, let's go to Dustin Dustin from Charleroy.

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Speaker 12: Ask Mark anything, Hey, double m I wanted to keep

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Speaker 12: it with some Penguins talk here. I want to know

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Speaker 12: what you think about if the team stays on this trajectory.

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Speaker 12: Kendall's chances for winning the calder Muses Chance of winning

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Speaker 12: Jack Adams, and I think it should not be lost

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Speaker 12: right now because the team is pretty banged up but

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Speaker 12: still playing well.

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Speaker 4: So what are your thoughts?

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Speaker 1: I think of Sid finished his top five scoring in

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Speaker 1: the PENG make the playoffs.

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Speaker 2: He hasn't shot at MVP.

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Speaker 1: That's the first, uh, first thing I would put forth

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Speaker 1: in terms of postseason awards, Muse, I don't know first

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Speaker 1: year coach.

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Speaker 2: I don't know how much Cashet hit have.

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Speaker 1: Kinda won't win rookie either, because that's Schaefer kid in

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Speaker 1: New York, the first pick overall, the defenseman.

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Speaker 2: He's going to run away with it.

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Speaker 1: That said, I hope that your directory remains the same

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Speaker 1: or that they lose the rest of their games. The

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Speaker 1: worst thing that can happen is that they finished just

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Speaker 1: out of the playoffs, because then no playoffs, no good

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Speaker 1: draft pick.

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Speaker 2: Let's go to the butcher. Butcher ask Mark anything.

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Speaker 1: Double m What I mean?

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Speaker 8: Hey? More overrated musicians slash catalog the Boss or Dave Grohl?

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Speaker 2: Boy? Is that a good question?

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Speaker 1: I think that because Springsteen higher rated, that he's probably

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Speaker 1: more overrated.

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Speaker 2: Does that make sense?

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Speaker 5: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: I find I find, I find both of their catalogs

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Speaker 1: despicably same mean boring. So that's a real good question.

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Speaker 1: But I would say Springsteen. I mean, there's a movie

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Speaker 1: about about the friggin guy.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, maybe one for Girl will be next to

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Speaker 8: could be.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, when it comes to the king of the

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Speaker 1: overrated between Springsteen and Dave Grohl, I'm going with Springsteen.

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Speaker 1: But you hit, you hit A great question because that's

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Speaker 1: two guys over rated.

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Speaker 2: Let's go to a talk back.

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Speaker 8: Hey, what up, Matt?

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Speaker 12: And this is Zach about the quarterback getting knocked out

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Speaker 12: by a hit?

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Speaker 4: Didn't James Harrison knock out Colt McCoy.

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Speaker 3: Or Johnny Manziel or somebody on the Browns a couple

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Speaker 3: of years back.

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Speaker 2: Well that narrows it down.

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Speaker 1: No, we figured out Tim Ben's up informed us when

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Speaker 1: he was on earlier that the last quarterback the Steelers

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Speaker 1: knocked ot was in fact Justin Herbert of the La

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Speaker 1: Charges in last year's game, and now they play Justin

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Speaker 1: Herbert this coming Sunday night.

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Speaker 2: Let's go to a talkback.

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Speaker 8: Hey, Mark, do you think sid the kid can potentially

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Speaker 8: win the scoring title this year?

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Speaker 4: Do you think he can stay in this run?

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Speaker 1: Well, he's no kid, He's thirty eight, which actually makes

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Speaker 1: what he's doing, the level he's playing at in his

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Speaker 1: twenty first season all the more amazing.

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Speaker 2: Can he make a run at the scoring title?

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Speaker 1: Boy, I don't know McDavid gets in those jags where

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Speaker 1: he'll have like a five game stretch with like, you know,

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Speaker 1: fourteen points. I don't know if that's in Sid's quiver

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Speaker 1: that arrow anymore. But I think Sid can stay in

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Speaker 1: the top ten, maybe top five, and one thing that

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Speaker 1: he's doing right now, because I think one of them

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Speaker 1: that's Sid.

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Speaker 2: Sid never stops improving.

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Speaker 1: And Sid has a keen understanding of exactly what the

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Speaker 1: team needs him to do. And you'll remember back when

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Speaker 1: nobody ever thought he could score fifty goals or win

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Speaker 1: the Rocket Rashard Trophy for most goals in the season,

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Speaker 1: but he did score fifty and he won that trophy twice.

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Speaker 1: And I think Sid knows, with the team constructed as

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Speaker 1: it is, he's got to score more goals if it's

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Speaker 1: going to get to the playoffs. And Sid has eleven

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Speaker 1: goals already in quitting six on the power play, and

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Speaker 1: he's really sharp with his powerplay skills. And Kendall and

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Speaker 1: Sid and Malkoln and Carlson and Rust are a match

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Speaker 1: made in heaven with the man advantage, and Dan Muse

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Speaker 1: simply cannot go back to Raquel on that unit in

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Speaker 1: place of Well, I was gonna say Kendall, but really

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Speaker 1: anybody because this works and the only thing where Kel's

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Speaker 1: better at on the power play, Well, I was gonna

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Speaker 1: say shooting from that left tof wall, but you know

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Speaker 1: what I'm wrong, Kendell's a better shooter from there.

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Speaker 2: Kendall's the guy on the power play. Kendall has the

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Speaker 2: number one power play IQ. Kendall was pointing out where.

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Speaker 1: Eric Carlson should move last night, and Carlson listened, so

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Speaker 1: I know they know MEWS had better.

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Speaker 1: I love talking about the Penguins. Got a lot of

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Speaker 1: Uh defender for the River Hans. River has at home

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Speaker 1: for a big Eastern Conference semifinal playoff game tomorrow night

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Speaker 1: at high Mark Stadium on the in Station Square one

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Speaker 1: Like I said, big playoff game tomorrow night at high

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Speaker 1: the Eastern Conference Final. Joining me now to talk about

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Speaker 1: that game and about the River Hans hot streak of late.

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Speaker 1: It's Cenaer defender Beto iDRAC Beto, Like I said, second

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Speaker 1: at home is kind of a nice surprise, isn't it.

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881
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Speaker 13: Yeah, you know, I mean, we obviously had to get

882
00:41:43,320 --> 00:41:45,960
Speaker 13: the job done at Heimark last week in dramatic fashion

883
00:41:45,960 --> 00:41:50,160
Speaker 13: and penalties. But yeah, I mean, one of the best

884
00:41:50,160 --> 00:41:53,720
Speaker 13: teams in USL championship history, Louisville had to get taken

885
00:41:53,760 --> 00:41:55,880
Speaker 13: down by Detroit on the road, and that's exactly what

886
00:41:55,920 --> 00:41:59,600
Speaker 13: Detroit did. So we lucked out, But you know, we're

887
00:41:59,640 --> 00:42:01,879
Speaker 13: ready to go over tomorrow night at home in front

888
00:42:01,920 --> 00:42:02,520
Speaker 13: of our fans.

889
00:42:02,800 --> 00:42:03,799
Speaker 2: I don't know if lucked down.

890
00:42:03,840 --> 00:42:06,359
Speaker 1: I was at that Hartford game and I thought they

891
00:42:06,440 --> 00:42:08,440
Speaker 1: just lumped the ball over the top and tested you

892
00:42:08,480 --> 00:42:09,960
Speaker 1: guys in the back. It was kind of a boring

893
00:42:10,000 --> 00:42:12,480
Speaker 1: attack by them, and it slowed the game down. But

894
00:42:12,760 --> 00:42:14,600
Speaker 1: you guys in the back, you just, you know, got

895
00:42:14,600 --> 00:42:17,040
Speaker 1: a good head on and kind of rode the storm.

896
00:42:17,080 --> 00:42:17,759
Speaker 2: Correct.

897
00:42:18,719 --> 00:42:21,160
Speaker 13: Yeah, I mean, you know, a lot of teams in

898
00:42:21,160 --> 00:42:24,160
Speaker 13: the USL, that's how they try to play in playoffs

899
00:42:24,160 --> 00:42:26,719
Speaker 13: is just try to make it a little bit the

900
00:42:26,760 --> 00:42:29,719
Speaker 13: game's a little bit choppy and just slow the tempo.

901
00:42:29,480 --> 00:42:30,160
Speaker 4: Down to the game.

902
00:42:30,239 --> 00:42:34,520
Speaker 13: But you know, we're definitely in the frame of mind

903
00:42:34,560 --> 00:42:38,439
Speaker 13: to take the attack to the other teams, and we're

904
00:42:38,480 --> 00:42:40,480
Speaker 13: going to try to do exactly the same against Detroit.

905
00:42:41,080 --> 00:42:43,640
Speaker 1: Now, you guys haven't lost in four matches. Your three

906
00:42:43,680 --> 00:42:46,560
Speaker 1: wins in one draw in that span. What is caused

907
00:42:46,600 --> 00:42:49,960
Speaker 1: that hot streak and obviously exactly the right time playoff time.

908
00:42:51,560 --> 00:42:55,520
Speaker 13: Yeah, I mean, I just think that a certain sense

909
00:42:55,560 --> 00:42:59,240
Speaker 13: of togetherness that we have within the group has grown

910
00:42:59,280 --> 00:43:03,960
Speaker 13: throughout the season, and we just nothing, nothing too special.

911
00:43:03,960 --> 00:43:06,840
Speaker 13: We've just all of a sudden started playing some of

912
00:43:06,840 --> 00:43:10,799
Speaker 13: our best soccer and just taking the attack to the

913
00:43:10,840 --> 00:43:13,640
Speaker 13: other teams, like I've said, and you know it started.

914
00:43:13,880 --> 00:43:15,879
Speaker 13: We've started to get the results that we wanted and

915
00:43:16,200 --> 00:43:19,080
Speaker 13: you know it's proven that way in this playoff run

916
00:43:19,120 --> 00:43:19,839
Speaker 13: as well so far.

917
00:43:20,600 --> 00:43:23,720
Speaker 1: Now it's your first professional season after having played college

918
00:43:23,719 --> 00:43:27,359
Speaker 1: soccer at UCF, and you've played almost every minute at

919
00:43:27,400 --> 00:43:30,040
Speaker 1: center back for the River Huts this year. What's the

920
00:43:30,080 --> 00:43:32,560
Speaker 1: adjustment been like to professional soccer, Beto?

921
00:43:32,880 --> 00:43:37,920
Speaker 2: What's been different? What's been the hardest?

922
00:43:38,120 --> 00:43:41,640
Speaker 13: I think the hardest. Hardest aspect of this of being

923
00:43:41,640 --> 00:43:44,840
Speaker 13: a professional is just how consistent you have to be

924
00:43:44,920 --> 00:43:47,520
Speaker 13: weak and when weak out with how long the season

925
00:43:47,640 --> 00:43:49,759
Speaker 13: is is you know, you have to be really professional

926
00:43:49,760 --> 00:43:53,280
Speaker 13: with how you maintain your body and your mentality throughout

927
00:43:53,320 --> 00:43:55,479
Speaker 13: the season because it is a long and grueling year.

928
00:43:56,160 --> 00:44:00,400
Speaker 13: But the pace of play, you know, it's it's pretty similer.

929
00:44:01,200 --> 00:44:03,640
Speaker 13: I've been able to adjust pretty quickly, which I'm very

930
00:44:03,640 --> 00:44:06,640
Speaker 13: grateful for. And I you know, having the staff have

931
00:44:06,760 --> 00:44:08,799
Speaker 13: that faith in me to be able to place from

932
00:44:08,840 --> 00:44:11,400
Speaker 13: the beginning has obviously helped a lot for me to adapt.

933
00:44:12,000 --> 00:44:13,719
Speaker 2: What do you think makes you a good defender?

934
00:44:13,719 --> 00:44:16,080
Speaker 1: What do you concentrate on in the back, and what

935
00:44:16,120 --> 00:44:17,920
Speaker 1: do you feel your strengths are to this point in

936
00:44:17,960 --> 00:44:18,400
Speaker 1: your career.

937
00:44:20,960 --> 00:44:23,440
Speaker 13: I'd say, you know, I have a good range of

938
00:44:23,480 --> 00:44:26,040
Speaker 13: passing for a defender. You know, I played midfielder for

939
00:44:26,120 --> 00:44:30,080
Speaker 13: most of my life, so for a defender, I'm I

940
00:44:30,239 --> 00:44:32,280
Speaker 13: think I'm pretty good at being able to find passes

941
00:44:32,280 --> 00:44:35,080
Speaker 13: through the lines that breaks pressure from the other teams.

942
00:44:35,640 --> 00:44:37,759
Speaker 13: But defensively, I think I'm pretty good in the air.

943
00:44:37,800 --> 00:44:41,600
Speaker 13: I'm good at winning headers. So whatever the other team

944
00:44:41,640 --> 00:44:43,359
Speaker 13: tries to throw at us in the air, we got

945
00:44:43,920 --> 00:44:45,600
Speaker 13: good players in the back to be able to deal

946
00:44:45,680 --> 00:44:45,960
Speaker 13: with it.

947
00:44:46,320 --> 00:44:48,520
Speaker 1: How did you come to move from midfield to center

948
00:44:48,600 --> 00:44:50,640
Speaker 1: back and what was your reaction when they asked you

949
00:44:50,680 --> 00:44:51,080
Speaker 1: to do it?

950
00:44:53,040 --> 00:44:53,320
Speaker 4: Well?

951
00:44:53,760 --> 00:44:57,279
Speaker 13: Actually, at my time at UCF, I played nine different positions,

952
00:44:57,280 --> 00:45:00,440
Speaker 13: so I mean, wow, throughout my time playing yeah, through

953
00:45:00,440 --> 00:45:03,719
Speaker 13: my time playing soccer, I've been able to be a

954
00:45:03,719 --> 00:45:06,240
Speaker 13: little bit versatile and you know, just adapt to whatever

955
00:45:06,280 --> 00:45:09,400
Speaker 13: the coaches need. So I was lucky enough to have

956
00:45:09,440 --> 00:45:12,120
Speaker 13: played a little bit of center back throughout my time

957
00:45:12,160 --> 00:45:16,880
Speaker 13: at UCF. So I mean, like, like I said, like,

958
00:45:16,920 --> 00:45:19,279
Speaker 13: whatever the coaches ever wanted me to do, I just

959
00:45:19,280 --> 00:45:20,800
Speaker 13: try to do it to the best of my ability.

960
00:45:21,239 --> 00:45:23,080
Speaker 2: Well, that certainly keeps in the lineup. Now.

961
00:45:23,920 --> 00:45:26,680
Speaker 1: You also played for the Puerto Rican national team, which

962
00:45:26,719 --> 00:45:30,600
Speaker 1: is incredibly impressive. Betos seventeen appearances for the team, and

963
00:45:30,640 --> 00:45:33,840
Speaker 1: you just played against Argentina not long agoing to friendly,

964
00:45:33,840 --> 00:45:36,560
Speaker 1: and you played against Messi and all those legends.

965
00:45:36,560 --> 00:45:37,279
Speaker 2: What was that like?

966
00:45:39,400 --> 00:45:39,760
Speaker 8: Oh?

967
00:45:39,800 --> 00:45:42,839
Speaker 13: Man, I mean when I when I was warming up

968
00:45:42,880 --> 00:45:45,879
Speaker 13: before the game, you know, I, you don't, you don't

969
00:45:45,920 --> 00:45:48,040
Speaker 13: really know that it's that it's gonna happen, Like you

970
00:45:48,080 --> 00:45:50,239
Speaker 13: know leading up into the game that you're definitely gonna

971
00:45:50,239 --> 00:45:52,439
Speaker 13: play against Messi, but you don't. I had to see

972
00:45:52,520 --> 00:45:54,920
Speaker 13: him to believe it that he was there. And then

973
00:45:54,960 --> 00:45:57,200
Speaker 13: once once he stepped out onto the field, I kind

974
00:45:57,200 --> 00:45:59,040
Speaker 13: of had to pinch myself and be like, Wow, he's

975
00:45:59,080 --> 00:46:01,640
Speaker 13: actually a real person and like this he's not just

976
00:46:02,520 --> 00:46:05,680
Speaker 13: a celebrity from TV. But you know, the the level

977
00:46:05,680 --> 00:46:08,080
Speaker 13: of play that those guys play at, it's just another

978
00:46:08,680 --> 00:46:11,080
Speaker 13: They're in another stratosphere of how good they are, and

979
00:46:11,120 --> 00:46:15,040
Speaker 13: then there's levels within the professional game, and Messi just

980
00:46:15,400 --> 00:46:19,120
Speaker 13: he just stands alone. It's actually pretty pretty crazy to

981
00:46:19,160 --> 00:46:22,000
Speaker 13: think about, because they the whole national team of Argentina

982
00:46:22,080 --> 00:46:24,400
Speaker 13: is so good and then Messi is just a step

983
00:46:24,440 --> 00:46:28,279
Speaker 13: above what those guys are as well. It's but man,

984
00:46:28,320 --> 00:46:31,080
Speaker 13: it was a great experience, Like it was a good

985
00:46:31,080 --> 00:46:34,080
Speaker 13: way to just test how good we as a national

986
00:46:34,160 --> 00:46:36,200
Speaker 13: team are and how good individually I am as well

987
00:46:36,239 --> 00:46:38,760
Speaker 13: against you know, essentially the best team in the world.

988
00:46:39,280 --> 00:46:41,200
Speaker 1: Now, did you did you get near Messy? Did you

989
00:46:41,320 --> 00:46:43,160
Speaker 1: did you launch at tackle or anything like that? How

990
00:46:43,440 --> 00:46:45,400
Speaker 1: physical did you get with Lionel Messi?

991
00:46:46,200 --> 00:46:46,400
Speaker 12: You know?

992
00:46:46,520 --> 00:46:49,880
Speaker 13: Actually I blocked one of his shots. I stole the

993
00:46:49,880 --> 00:46:51,879
Speaker 13: ball off him like a couple of times, and then

994
00:46:52,560 --> 00:46:54,799
Speaker 13: on one outsides I had to I had to tell

995
00:46:54,880 --> 00:46:57,040
Speaker 13: him something in Spanish just to make sure that like

996
00:46:57,160 --> 00:46:58,719
Speaker 13: he kind of knew who I was.

997
00:47:00,600 --> 00:47:03,480
Speaker 1: Now now I'm told you swap shirts after the game

998
00:47:03,480 --> 00:47:07,240
Speaker 1: with Alexis McAllister. Beto is one of my favorite players

999
00:47:07,239 --> 00:47:09,000
Speaker 1: in soccer. What do I have to do to swap

1000
00:47:09,040 --> 00:47:10,160
Speaker 1: and get that shirt from you.

1001
00:47:13,760 --> 00:47:17,120
Speaker 13: Do you have any good Steelers memorabilia?

1002
00:47:17,200 --> 00:47:19,240
Speaker 2: Are you serious you would swap an Alexis?

1003
00:47:19,600 --> 00:47:19,759
Speaker 6: Yeah?

1004
00:47:19,960 --> 00:47:20,439
Speaker 2: What do you want?

1005
00:47:21,640 --> 00:47:22,440
Speaker 4: Oh?

1006
00:47:22,600 --> 00:47:24,319
Speaker 5: I don't know, I don't know. What do you have

1007
00:47:24,360 --> 00:47:24,840
Speaker 5: to offer that?

1008
00:47:24,880 --> 00:47:27,400
Speaker 1: Well, let me let me let me, let me let

1009
00:47:27,480 --> 00:47:29,560
Speaker 1: me dig deep. Maybe after the game tomorrow night we'll

1010
00:47:29,560 --> 00:47:32,800
Speaker 1: touch base. But yeah, I because McAllister. I mean, I'm Liverpool,

1011
00:47:32,840 --> 00:47:34,680
Speaker 1: So yeah, that's a big deal. How did he play

1012
00:47:34,719 --> 00:47:35,120
Speaker 1: against you?

1013
00:47:35,160 --> 00:47:35,799
Speaker 2: What was that like?

1014
00:47:37,400 --> 00:47:40,560
Speaker 13: He's also he was also a guy that really surprised

1015
00:47:40,600 --> 00:47:43,200
Speaker 13: me as well. He was really really good. He scored

1016
00:47:43,239 --> 00:47:46,960
Speaker 13: twice on us, so, I mean, he was also one

1017
00:47:46,960 --> 00:47:48,239
Speaker 13: of the guys that surprised me. I had to get

1018
00:47:48,239 --> 00:47:51,279
Speaker 13: his jersey just because I out of the respect that

1019
00:47:51,360 --> 00:47:55,319
Speaker 13: I gained for him through that game. He's they're all,

1020
00:47:55,360 --> 00:47:57,040
Speaker 13: they're all really good, but he was one of the

1021
00:47:57,040 --> 00:47:59,360
Speaker 13: guys that surprised me as well for how good he was.

1022
00:47:59,600 --> 00:48:01,839
Speaker 1: No, he's my beato. Thank you so much for taking

1023
00:48:01,840 --> 00:48:03,640
Speaker 1: the time. Really good stuff and good luck. I'll see

1024
00:48:03,640 --> 00:48:04,200
Speaker 1: you tomorrow night.

1025
00:48:05,040 --> 00:48:05,879
Speaker 13: All right, sounds good.

1026
00:48:05,920 --> 00:48:06,239
Speaker 11: Thank you.

1027
00:48:06,480 --> 00:48:10,200
Speaker 1: That's Beto, a drac centered defender for the River Hans.

1028
00:48:10,239 --> 00:48:13,920
Speaker 1: They play Detroit at Hei Mark tomorrow night, seven thirty pm.

1029
00:48:14,000 --> 00:48:16,799
Speaker 1: A few tickets still available, so get down there. I'm

1030
00:48:16,840 --> 00:48:20,560
Speaker 1: next gonna talk some hockey with my producer Tommy Radio

1031
00:48:20,600 --> 00:48:21,960
Speaker 1: one oh five to nine.

1032
00:48:22,080 --> 00:48:22,360
Speaker 9: It's so