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Speaker 3: On Sunday night, as the Steelers were being beaten down

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Speaker 3: by the Buffalo Bills, Trib Live hockey reporter Seth Roba

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Speaker 3: sent out the following tweet. Mike Tomlin will say we

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Speaker 3: can't eat soup with forks, we need spoons. Then the

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Speaker 3: Steelers will sign a twenty eighteen pro bowler to the

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Speaker 3: practice squad lo and behold. On Tuesday, Mike Tomlin compared

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Speaker 3: his level of confidence in the Steelers to media members

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Speaker 3: writing columns, and the Steelers signed twenty eighteen pro bowler

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Speaker 3: Adam Thielen. So in the vein of trib Live employees

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Speaker 3: speaking the absurd into reality, I am predicting that the

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Speaker 3: next time the power ball hits a billion dollars, I

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Speaker 3: will win it. Twenty eleven Era, Brooklyn Decker is going

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Speaker 3: to slide into myn DMS and Carmelo Anthony's kid is

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Speaker 3: gonna take Syracuse to a national title like his dad did.

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Speaker 3: Check back with me in two days. I'll let you

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Speaker 3: know how things are going, is Brooklyn Decker on Twitter.

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Speaker 3: I'm Tim Benz. This is the Mark Madden Show. Mark

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Speaker 3: is off today. Let's stick with the theme of speaking

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Speaker 3: things into existence, shall we. It's only taken half a

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Speaker 3: decade or so for the national media and former Steelers

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Speaker 3: players to catch on to what some media people like

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Speaker 3: you know myself and Mark Madden have been saying for

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Speaker 3: years that is time for the Steelers to fire Mike Tomlin.

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Speaker 3: And maybe enough people are talking about it now that

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Speaker 1: Oh my kidding, he's not gonna listen.

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Speaker 3: But right now, though, the latest voice in the din

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Speaker 3: It's Ben Roethlisberger on his Football In podcast. I bring

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Speaker 3: in Tommy Radio right now to help me surf through

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Speaker 3: these sound bites. Tom Let's play the first one from

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Speaker 3: Ben's most recent Football In podcast, where not only does

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Speaker 2: Maybe it's a clean house time. Maybe it is.

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Speaker 4: Maybe it's time, and I like Coach Tomlin. I have

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Speaker 2: You know what he would do in Penn State.

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Speaker 4: He'd probably go win national championships legitimause.

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Speaker 2: He's a great recruiter. That's what I was having to comment.

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Speaker 1: We probably had this probably or I was having this

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Speaker 3: Wood he or would he just lose to Minnesota after

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Speaker 3: It would be different than frank He would lose to Minnesota,

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Speaker 1: That's what he would do.

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Speaker 1: But he'll be nine wins, yeah everything, Yeah.

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Speaker 6: Why do we know that Tom would be a great

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Speaker 6: You're just trying to get Tomlin and Nardoozy on opposite

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Speaker 3: You almost didn't say play, You almost said something else.

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Speaker 3: the sentence. But I'm right there with you, Tom. If

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Speaker 3: Brought him up for LSU and then blame me for

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Speaker 6: But when I was supposed to tell the coach that

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Speaker 3: So when he blew his stack when I even broached

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Speaker 6: You have to ask on Tuesday, right about Penn State

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Speaker 1: If they win, it's an easy one for you.

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Speaker 6: Especially coming from you, especially because you know Tomlin remembers

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Speaker 6: week from now, Penn State's still not gonna have a coach.

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Speaker 6: So you don't think you don't think they're gonna finally

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Speaker 3: Oh, they can't ruin my fun and hire somebody, can they? No,

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Speaker 3: they got to let this marinate a little bit. Ben

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Speaker 3: nice legs here, Tomin to Penn State. Penn State's gonna

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Speaker 3: love that. Was that just an ext temporaneous thought from Ben?

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Speaker 3: I'm probably sounding a little bit too much like there's

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Speaker 6: I think it could have been more of just a

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Speaker 6: I do? What's a the school? Who could I grab?

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Speaker 6: I'm not going to do an NFL take. Everybody has

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Speaker 6: that same tire take. What the Ben Roethlisberger sound by

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Speaker 3: Mike Tomlin wants this job. Ben Roethlisberger is talking about it.

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Speaker 6: Look at how great we are, right, I mean we

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Speaker 3: Brooke already baited me on Twitter about having to ask

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Speaker 6: It's gonna be even better since they're going to lose

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Speaker 6: You go to Penn State, coach, do you think I'd

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Speaker 3: Different response or would he just like storm off the

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Speaker 6: We might give you that eye, that that side eye

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Speaker 1: How about Ben?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, no, Chef Evan.

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Speaker 3: He always talks about chicken wings, her ice wings for

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Speaker 2: You don't fire a guy like coach Tomlin. He's a

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Speaker 4: What you do is you come to an understanding and

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Speaker 2: Where's you know? Players? Is the scheme great and the

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Speaker 4: I'm just saying from from sitting back on the couch

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Speaker 4: like there's no reason to some of the things that

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Speaker 4: go a coach, listen, let's I think it's probably best

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Speaker 4: for all parties involved. Let's start over. It happened with

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Speaker 4: Chuck Nole, happens with Coach Coward. Now, Coach Cowards was

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Speaker 4: a little bit different, right because the family things coach

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Speaker 4: has been in Coach Thomas been a long time.

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Speaker 3: Now, there's a lot right that Ben Roethlisberger said. They're

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Speaker 3: talking about the coordinators, talking about the state of the

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Speaker 1: All of that is accurate.

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Speaker 3: The problem that I've got with what he said there

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Speaker 3: was at the very very beginning of that SoundBite, you

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Speaker 1: Yes you do, Yes, you do. And that's the one.

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Speaker 3: Bit of angst that I still have with how the

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Speaker 6: why don't we just mutually agree that this is it's

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Speaker 3: Once you open up the Pandora's box of hey, Mike,

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Speaker 1: Right, And really, how messy is it you fire your coach?

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Speaker 6: What you have to wear a steven as being mad

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Speaker 6: well it's not like the actual divorce where like you

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Speaker 1: That's the same thing as alimony, but.

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Speaker 3: It's not as extreme like that, Like, sure you're gonna

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Speaker 1: Who really cares, Like that's mild stuff.

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Speaker 6: Every other team goes through that, and in fact, when

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Speaker 1: On by the media. It's decision, he's stunk. Who's going

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Speaker 3: Firing Mike Tomlin in January if they've finished below five hundred,

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Speaker 3: What's going to be more awkward firing him two months

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Speaker 6: Because they will. Yeah, but then they wouldn't fire him

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Speaker 3: Say if you want awkwardness, if you want how is

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Speaker 6: The crowd for twelve picks over three days on ESPY

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Speaker 6: That's true, But I don't do you think that will

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Speaker 1: No?

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Speaker 3: No, But I mean, like if it's you're to your point,

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Speaker 3: like that's what's an uncomfortable moment. Why are you willing

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Speaker 3: people saying, hell, you finally fired a head coach. Rooney's

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Speaker 3: don't fire head coaches. This one did well. Ben has

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Speaker 3: an answer to make all of these tough conversations go away.

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Speaker 4: Give him a statue, do it, do whatever whatever you

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Speaker 4: got to do, because he deserves it, He's earned it.

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Speaker 4: But it's it's like, Okay, it's time to find that

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Speaker 2: I don't know this.

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Speaker 4: I haven't talked Couch talking about it, but but I

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Speaker 4: think he might say, like, it's time for a fresh

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Speaker 4: for that long, like even the greatest of like you know,

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Speaker 4: when you know, like and now do you think he

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Speaker 4: that's now that EGS have won since he's left. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: he's one as best for port And so again I'm

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Speaker 2: I just think that it might be even coach might

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Speaker 4: And again, if that's college, I don't know if it's

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Speaker 1: Again, it's gotta be with his blessing. You can't fire him.

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Speaker 3: It's gotta be with Tomlin's blessing, and give him a statue.

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Speaker 3: There's one guy that has a statue. One guy, not

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Speaker 1: Mike Tomlin Ben, not even you, right, you don't have

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Speaker 3: The other one with four rings on his finger doesn't

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Speaker 3: He has a statue that's actually coming back. We don't

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Speaker 1: This dinosaur has to come back. Where is the dinosaur?

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Speaker 3: You were somewhere raising money, wasn't it, Franco, wasn't raising money?

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Speaker 6: The dinosaur had tons of dollar bills and coins, always

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Speaker 3: Was there something that you could donate money to for

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Speaker 3: But he was always leaning over to pick it up.

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Speaker 6: You don't need to go even further into the void

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Speaker 6: and say Tomlin needs a statue. There's so many steelers

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Speaker 6: And I don't even think that's an insult to Mike Tomlin.

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Speaker 6: You finally decided to come back tonight? Do came basketball?

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Speaker 6: That you off the hook?

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Speaker 1: No called the game last night?

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Speaker 6: So I saw a heartbreaker for the Dukes, a comeback,

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Speaker 1: It did great too, So I had fun at the peat.

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Speaker 3: I did?

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Speaker 1: Ten they did, they did. Imagine that you're there for

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Speaker 3: Badden Show. I have so many non Matt Matt stats

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Speaker 3: because Matt always has his stat pack, and I make

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Speaker 3: Matt mad by finding stats that I think rival is.

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Speaker 1: Can I give you some of them? Please?

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Speaker 2: Do?

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Speaker 6: I love these stats? These are probably gonna bury the Steelers.

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Speaker 3: Last five games the Steelers are We're oh of thirteen

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Speaker 3: on passes over twenty yards.

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Speaker 1: I said that yesterday on the show. Oh you have

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Speaker 1: that one?

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Speaker 6: I had a trifecta of just some awful stats, and

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Speaker 6: that was one of them. I haven't completed a downfield

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Speaker 6: pass in thirty six days to him?

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Speaker 1: Do you know what? Mike Tomlins never had a losing season.

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Speaker 3: That can't be right. I think you're aware of that stat, right. However,

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Speaker 3: how long is the season tom seventeen games? What's Mike

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Speaker 3: Tomlins record over the last seventeen games?

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Speaker 2: Oh? Is he?

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Speaker 6: I say this one six? I didn't say this that yesterday,

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Speaker 6: but I saw that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, here's a real one that I actually find very interesting.

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Speaker 1: One No.

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Speaker 3: One is the number of rushing games over one hundred

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Speaker 3: yards for Lamar Jackson since the start of last season.

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Speaker 1: Since the start of last season.

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Speaker 6: Now, that is interesting because we all know he's playing

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Speaker 6: hurt right now and that's why he's not running as much.

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Speaker 3: He had one hundred yards against the Chiefs. He hasn't

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Speaker 3: one hundred yard day running since then. He's eighty one

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Speaker 3: against the Steelers.

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Speaker 1: He was effective as hell as around our last.

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Speaker 3: I felt like he was running with more of a

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Speaker 3: purpose last year. And I'll give you one more zero

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Speaker 3: for one. That would be match Son from half court

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Speaker 3: at the University of Kentucky. Oh my god, I did

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Speaker 3: see that. Did you see him that close?

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Speaker 1: Though? It was really close? Sailed ten k? Yes, come on,

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Speaker 1: Williamson Junior.

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Speaker 3: So that's not just ten k that matt Son would

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Speaker 3: have had at the University of Kentucky.

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Speaker 1: That's ten k that MATC doesn't.

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Speaker 3: Have to pay to the University of kentuckuition, right, and

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Speaker 3: that would have been beers for us at Park Social.

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Speaker 1: That didn't happen, all right, So we had big news.

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Speaker 8: Huh.

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Speaker 1: I have once that for you too.

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Speaker 6: It's not everybody's seen it, but the Mike Tomlin has

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Speaker 6: now gone sixty two straight games with seven or fewer

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Speaker 6: points in the first quarter. If you include the playoff games,

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Speaker 6: that's sixty four. That's so hard to believe. Like put

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Speaker 6: that on his gravestone. You think you'd get ten accidentally,

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Speaker 6: you'd think you'd get nine just off the grace of

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Speaker 6: Boswell trotting out there and kicking a few field goals.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean like you you might get a long

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Speaker 3: kick return and then get a field goal in a

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Speaker 3: three and out, then have a real drive. Or you

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Speaker 3: might score a touchdown and then TJ can it's a

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Speaker 3: strip sack and you get a field goal in advantageous

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Speaker 3: field position.

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Speaker 6: But no, no, I like how Warren Sharp has added

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Speaker 6: the longest streak by any head coach before they were

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Speaker 6: fired in NFL history. It's just the longest streak by

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Speaker 6: any head coach in NFL history, but the longest fired.

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Speaker 3: Yeah with Tom on at this point. But I understand

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Speaker 3: we're breaking news. You told me about Adam Schefter is now.

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Speaker 1: Oh that's right.

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Speaker 3: I forgot about my own breaking news. He's streaming us

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Speaker 3: right now. He has said, you know what, those guys

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Speaker 3: in Pittsburgh, they're onto something. I've got to add fuel

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Speaker 3: to the Roethlisberger Penn State fire.

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Speaker 1: Fifteen minutes ago.

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Speaker 3: Another Trip employee speaking something into existence, Tom.

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Speaker 1: What's going on?

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Speaker 6: Fifteen minutes ago from the big dog himself, Adam Schefter,

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Speaker 6: Roethlisberger suggested on his Football and with Ben Roethlisberger podcast

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Speaker 6: that Mike Tomlin is a good fit for the vacant

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Speaker 6: Penn State job. Gasoline meet the fire there is now

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Speaker 6: blasted out to how many people to follow, Schefter, It's

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Speaker 6: got to be close to it's eleven point three million people.

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Speaker 1: This is now news.

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Speaker 3: I bet you this pops up on the ESPN homepage,

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Speaker 3: you know that little running tap of headlines.

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Speaker 1: I bet you.

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Speaker 6: Roethlisbergers suggests Tomlin fit at Penn State. You got asked him.

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Speaker 6: I mean, everything is leading to you.

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Speaker 3: Oh my god, Tomlin is going to be like Ai

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Speaker 3: superimposed into Beaver Stadium at the white out.

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Speaker 6: It's already on ESPN's Headlight's the second headline on the page.

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Speaker 6: Amid Tomlin angst big Ben floats Penn State job.

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Speaker 3: Yes, Yes, the Power of Trip's suggestion again. Thank you

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Speaker 3: Seth Wrobo for putting it into the ether. All right,

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Speaker 3: we got distracted. Should we come back because we're low

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Speaker 3: on time. Let's come back with us? So we gotta

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Speaker 3: let the Asante Samuel ripping dk Metcalf thing breathe. We

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Speaker 3: didn't start the fire. Screw you, Billy Joel. We did

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Speaker 3: start the fire.

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Speaker 5: Tomorrow night, the Pens face the Lightning. Game time is seven.

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Speaker 5: Our coverage starts at six here every game, and the

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Speaker 5: best coverage right here on your home of the Pens.

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Speaker 2: X is this season.

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Speaker 5: Jack.

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Speaker 3: Tom In the last five minutes, has anybody else from

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Speaker 3: our paper spoken anything in New existence.

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Speaker 6: Now, nothing's happened. You haven't won that lottery. What were

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Speaker 6: some of the other cool things he said at the

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Speaker 6: beginning of the show, Brooklyn.

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Speaker 3: Decker sliding into my Dmshow she's like she's had a

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Speaker 3: second Brooklyn Decker, Yeah, like a second coming, right.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I think she's on a show now,

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Speaker 1: you know.

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Speaker 6: I think her husband, Andy Roddick, is in that movie

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Speaker 6: about pickleball that they're making with Ben Stiller.

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Speaker 1: I think that's true. I think he's in it.

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Speaker 6: As as a feature that she should be in it. Yes,

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Speaker 6: she has to be, just even in the back on

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Speaker 6: cheering him on Super Nice. He met Brooklyn?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I met her at the Super Bowl between the

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Speaker 3: Giants and the Patriots, the second time the Giants beat

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Speaker 3: him in Indy.

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Speaker 1: I met her on Super Bowl Media Day. I bet

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Speaker 1: she was pretty nice. Yeah, those were the days, all right.

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Speaker 3: So I don't want to get further along because we've

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Speaker 3: teased this twice now and it's time to get there.

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Speaker 3: Here is Asante Samuel's dad, new stealer Asante Samuel.

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Speaker 1: Dad has a podcast. I don't know who.

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Speaker 3: Dad does the podcast with some other guy kind of

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Speaker 3: like Spence and but not like Spence, but some other guy.

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Speaker 3: He does this podcast with Sante's dad here, former NFL cornerback,

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Speaker 3: blaming Aaron Rodgers for how things.

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Speaker 1: Have gone wrong in Pittsburgh.

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Speaker 8: I think it's about time for Aaron Rodgers old self

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Speaker 8: to to go ahead and hoping someone's boot and start

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Speaker 8: his broadcasting career. When I say old though, I mean

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Speaker 8: old football year. Time for old man quick is to

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Speaker 8: give it up. Are you used to seeing stats like

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Speaker 8: this from Aaron Rodgers ten for twenty one, one hundred

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Speaker 8: and seventeen yards pass in total, no touchdowns, And then

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Speaker 8: we can't even put a DK Metcalf up here because

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Speaker 8: he's an impact.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's where it gets good. By the way,

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Speaker 3: Aaron Rodgers and broadcasting, Oh that'd be bad.

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Speaker 6: He's hosting Jeopardy. I thought I thought that was always

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Speaker 6: the parachute or did he miss that? They just got

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Speaker 6: to think Jennings because with Rogers we don't need Ken Jennings.

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Speaker 6: He would just debate all the facts that are up there.

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Speaker 6: This is wrong. This eight hundred point answer is wrong.

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Speaker 6: I do not reward you the points.

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Speaker 3: This is where Sante goes after Dk. You're starting to

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Speaker 3: go down that path, and once he went down that path,

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Speaker 3: he did not stop.

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Speaker 8: He is most of the problem. Yet the end of

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Speaker 8: the day, Aaron Rodgers needs someone to throw too.

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Speaker 2: He used to have an.

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Speaker 8: Elite sy was decade suddenly get open. Like I said before,

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Speaker 8: DK Metcalf just can't from that for Aaron Rodgs. Aaron

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Speaker 8: and DK Metcalf is the reason Aaron Rodgers is looking

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Speaker 8: so because he keeps trying to throw DK metcalfter football

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Speaker 8: and he is not even getting an ounce of separation,

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Speaker 8: especially when he's going against press copy.

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Speaker 2: And as much as.

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Speaker 8: Daron Rodgers still wants to win, man, it just doesn't

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Speaker 8: have the talent that receiver to make things happen. I

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Speaker 8: know it has to be very frustrating for Aaron Rodgers

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Speaker 8: dealing with a trying to get the football the DK.

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Speaker 1: Metcalf he does now Adam feeling.

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Speaker 6: The answer solves the problems of all the offense. Hey,

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Speaker 6: happy forty second birthday, Aaron. Here's a thirty five year

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Speaker 6: old wide receiver for you. Meanwhile, and VS is like,

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Speaker 6: what what because Steeling's on the roster right Like, I

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Speaker 6: don't think this is a practice squad mcgun. I think

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Speaker 6: he's gonna play on Sunday Baltimore unless he's inactive.

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Speaker 3: So do you think he's right on that, because don't

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Speaker 3: some of the advanced analytics kind of tell a different

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Speaker 3: story about DK that he actually is getting open more

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Speaker 3: than our eyes are telling us.

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Speaker 6: I think DK Metcalf is to blame for his shortcomings,

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Speaker 6: for sure, But I also think that it's ignorant to

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Speaker 6: ignore the fact that there's literally nothing else in the

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Speaker 6: Steelers passing game that could take even an ounce of

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Speaker 6: attention away from him. And Matt Williamson said it a

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Speaker 6: thousand times probably on our Wednesday show. If you ever

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Speaker 6: show up to the Wednesday show on this show when

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Speaker 6: he's talked to you, like, DK's not this like true,

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Speaker 6: true number one wide receiver where you can double, triple,

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Speaker 6: quadruple and he's still gonna get eight catches for one

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Speaker 6: hundred yards. He's on that tier below that. So if

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Speaker 6: you have nothing else that worries teams, then like what

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Speaker 6: can you expect DK to.

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Speaker 3: It's also pretty easy to cover DK Metcalf or any

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Speaker 3: other wide receiver when you know that they're not going

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Speaker 3: to run into the middle of the field.

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Speaker 6: That's true, Like the sideline is the secondary defender, and

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Speaker 6: they're as an offense going towards it willingly, You're like,

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Speaker 6: thank you. Usually I have to bump you out there

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Speaker 6: to run up down the sidelines.

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Speaker 1: You just want to do that.

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Speaker 3: Here's a little bit more from Samuel on why he

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Speaker 3: thinks DK stinks biggest.

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Speaker 8: D Matcalf is big and strong as he is. It's

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Speaker 8: like the basketball players. I don't know how many of

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Speaker 8: you all play basketball, right you're playing middle school ball

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Speaker 8: or high school ball. You have, but there's always that

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Speaker 8: one six foot nine guard, six foot nine to four

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Speaker 8: that wants to come play guard with the six foot

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Speaker 8: two players. And that's the problem with DK Matcalf, big

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Speaker 8: and strong as he is, he tries to play fall

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Speaker 8: for next football, for next football, at the line of scrimmage,

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Speaker 8: thinking his bast twitch muscles can shake DB's at the

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Speaker 8: line of scrimmage, when.

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Speaker 2: He should be playing physical.

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Speaker 8: As possible, like Michael Irvan, like the physical receivers to

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Speaker 8: get off the line of scrimmags.

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Speaker 2: He should be.

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Speaker 8: Making contact and throwing man handling DB's.

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Speaker 2: Left and right.

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Speaker 8: But instead he thinks he has the agility and the

659
00:29:56,800 --> 00:30:00,720
Speaker 8: quickness to get open suddenly, and he doesn't that's the

660
00:30:00,760 --> 00:30:03,520
Speaker 8: problem with and they Aaron Rodgers continue to try to

661
00:30:03,520 --> 00:30:08,520
Speaker 8: look for him. He just makes everything look terrible and

662
00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:13,280
Speaker 8: oh man played and outdated and everything goes No.

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Speaker 3: I think Arthur Smith has something to do with that too.

664
00:30:16,080 --> 00:30:18,000
Speaker 3: But a couple of things there to what he just said.

665
00:30:18,040 --> 00:30:21,280
Speaker 3: First of all, where did a Sante Samuel senior grow up?

666
00:30:21,400 --> 00:30:23,600
Speaker 3: That they got six foot nine kids in middle school

667
00:30:23,640 --> 00:30:27,560
Speaker 3: basketball and they're trying to play guard and they're trying

668
00:30:27,560 --> 00:30:29,360
Speaker 3: to be the point guard. See now there, he does

669
00:30:29,400 --> 00:30:32,400
Speaker 3: have a point because that guy. Everybody has played basketball

670
00:30:32,440 --> 00:30:35,040
Speaker 3: with that guy. He's right about that. Where you're playing

671
00:30:35,040 --> 00:30:37,640
Speaker 3: pick up basketball and it's short guys like you and

672
00:30:37,680 --> 00:30:40,560
Speaker 3: me who are picking teams and something. Some big guy

673
00:30:40,640 --> 00:30:42,800
Speaker 3: walks in the court, like I got that guy first,

674
00:30:42,800 --> 00:30:45,200
Speaker 3: and all he does is stand outside and shoot threes

675
00:30:45,240 --> 00:30:47,840
Speaker 3: and miss him. I could do that and you could

676
00:30:47,880 --> 00:30:49,880
Speaker 3: get the rebounds and we can stay on the court

677
00:30:49,920 --> 00:30:51,959
Speaker 3: all day. Let me miss the threes and you can

678
00:30:52,040 --> 00:30:54,240
Speaker 3: rebound him and put it back. No, the big guy

679
00:30:54,280 --> 00:30:56,560
Speaker 3: always has to stand outside and shoot.

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00:30:56,280 --> 00:30:58,160
Speaker 1: The three used to drive me crazy. Why not just

681
00:30:58,200 --> 00:30:59,200
Speaker 1: pick up anymore? Buddy?

682
00:30:59,280 --> 00:31:01,840
Speaker 6: I mean, watch a call basketball game, Watch an NBA game.

683
00:31:01,880 --> 00:31:04,760
Speaker 6: I mean the bigs are outside the perimeter plays. They

684
00:31:04,760 --> 00:31:07,760
Speaker 6: want to shoot the threes. He's so right about that comparison.

685
00:31:07,800 --> 00:31:10,160
Speaker 6: When it comes to DK though, that should be the

686
00:31:10,280 --> 00:31:13,120
Speaker 6: number one combat catching wide receiver in the NFL. And

687
00:31:13,120 --> 00:31:15,480
Speaker 6: it said he's good, so soft at it, I mean

688
00:31:15,680 --> 00:31:18,680
Speaker 6: soft as hell at it. It's easy for defensive backs

689
00:31:18,920 --> 00:31:20,600
Speaker 6: to get him off of his game. When it comes

690
00:31:20,640 --> 00:31:21,480
Speaker 6: to the combat catch.

691
00:31:21,480 --> 00:31:21,880
Speaker 1: You can't.

692
00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:24,520
Speaker 6: You can't trust him, And honestly, I think Rogers knows

693
00:31:24,520 --> 00:31:26,720
Speaker 6: that because he kind of throws to the other receivers

694
00:31:26,720 --> 00:31:28,640
Speaker 6: and the tight ends more for those combat catches than

695
00:31:28,640 --> 00:31:31,840
Speaker 6: he does DK and Rudolph. It was a terrible pass

696
00:31:32,080 --> 00:31:35,120
Speaker 6: when he overthrew Mount Washington or when he that was

697
00:31:35,160 --> 00:31:38,880
Speaker 6: a bad pass two yes, yes, but I'm bad passes

698
00:31:38,880 --> 00:31:41,120
Speaker 6: skipped it to DK the Bears. One is what I

699
00:31:41,160 --> 00:31:43,560
Speaker 6: was thinking of when na Sean Wright made the great interception.

700
00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:47,680
Speaker 6: Dam was like falling backwards out of bounds. Just tackle right,

701
00:31:47,880 --> 00:31:51,520
Speaker 6: do anything, get a flag, it doesn't matter, do something.

702
00:31:51,800 --> 00:31:54,400
Speaker 6: So he's so spot on a Sante Samuel as far

703
00:31:54,440 --> 00:31:58,320
Speaker 6: as that's concerned. In that comparison, he just plays so small.

704
00:31:58,400 --> 00:31:59,280
Speaker 1: All right, we come back.

705
00:31:59,320 --> 00:32:01,120
Speaker 3: We got to try on the way that at the

706
00:32:01,160 --> 00:32:04,360
Speaker 3: top of the hour, we'll get back into Steelers conversation,

707
00:32:04,520 --> 00:32:07,760
Speaker 3: specifically Mike Tomlin conversation. We love that to open up

708
00:32:07,760 --> 00:32:09,600
Speaker 3: the three o'clock hour. Mike to course in the three

709
00:32:09,640 --> 00:32:11,760
Speaker 3: o'clock hour as well. This is one of five nine

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Speaker 3: the X Listen to the X.

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00:32:13,920 --> 00:32:17,320
Speaker 1: Everywhere you go, No anywhere, everywhere.

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Speaker 2: Tell your sport device. Ale'sa play one oh five point

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Speaker 2: ninety X on.

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Speaker 1: iHeartRadio from the Dollar Energy Fund Weather Center. This report

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Speaker 1: is sponsored by Flynn's Tire and Auto Service. Overcasting cloudy today,

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00:32:29,920 --> 00:32:32,600
Speaker 1: look for high of thirty one cloudy tonight with light

717
00:32:32,680 --> 00:32:35,920
Speaker 1: snow possible, dropping to twenty five cloudy with no showers

718
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Speaker 1: tomorrow morning.

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Speaker 3: Cloud to the Trifected sponsored by Danny's Pizza and Hogy's

720
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Speaker 3: Pittsburgh's original oven baked Hogy since nineteen sixty Route eighty

721
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Speaker 3: eight in Bethel Park. Tim and for Mark today, Tom,

722
00:32:47,400 --> 00:32:48,960
Speaker 3: what is the trifector for today?

723
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Speaker 6: For today's Trifecta, Tim, We're gonna go with Pittsburgher's who

724
00:32:52,480 --> 00:32:55,320
Speaker 6: are more deserving of a statue than Mike Tomlin Since

725
00:32:55,320 --> 00:32:57,640
Speaker 6: Ben Roethlisberger declared that we should build one for Mike

726
00:32:57,720 --> 00:33:00,600
Speaker 6: t to kind of I guess was that Ben's way

727
00:33:00,640 --> 00:33:02,160
Speaker 6: of saying, we'll ease the blow of.

728
00:33:02,160 --> 00:33:03,880
Speaker 1: Moving on from him, like kind of like, hey.

729
00:33:03,720 --> 00:33:05,120
Speaker 3: We'll give you this statue if you just get the

730
00:33:05,120 --> 00:33:06,800
Speaker 3: hell out of here and go to Happy Valley. I

731
00:33:06,880 --> 00:33:11,240
Speaker 3: think there's a little something to that. Yes, bribing with statues.

732
00:33:11,280 --> 00:33:11,719
Speaker 1: I love it.

733
00:33:12,280 --> 00:33:14,760
Speaker 6: Number three on my list of a Pittsburgh that deserves

734
00:33:14,760 --> 00:33:17,560
Speaker 6: a statue more. I'm gonna go with saxophone guy and

735
00:33:17,600 --> 00:33:20,000
Speaker 6: you gotta put that statue, you know, right there on

736
00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:22,280
Speaker 6: one of his perches on the Clemeny Bridge.

737
00:33:22,560 --> 00:33:25,240
Speaker 1: It'd be perfect. Number two, I'm gonna go with Sid.

738
00:33:26,080 --> 00:33:28,720
Speaker 6: And then number one, I'm gonna go with the guy

739
00:33:28,880 --> 00:33:31,080
Speaker 6: at P and C Park, the usher who beat that

740
00:33:31,160 --> 00:33:33,520
Speaker 6: fan with his belt this year. That would be the

741
00:33:33,520 --> 00:33:35,360
Speaker 6: coolest statue ever, don't you think like if you could

742
00:33:35,360 --> 00:33:37,840
Speaker 6: get like the belt kind of mid like whack whack,

743
00:33:38,080 --> 00:33:38,800
Speaker 6: that'd be awesome.

744
00:33:39,120 --> 00:33:41,600
Speaker 3: Well, let's compare Sid the merits of Sid to those

745
00:33:41,640 --> 00:33:44,000
Speaker 3: other two fine representatives that you just advanced.

746
00:33:45,360 --> 00:33:46,640
Speaker 1: Sid has been known.

747
00:33:46,440 --> 00:33:49,400
Speaker 3: To whack a flyer in the calf from time to time,

748
00:33:50,200 --> 00:33:53,040
Speaker 3: slash and get away with it, And he taught Blake

749
00:33:53,120 --> 00:33:53,920
Speaker 3: Lozat that too.

750
00:33:53,960 --> 00:33:55,120
Speaker 1: Did you see what he did? Yes?

751
00:33:55,200 --> 00:33:57,960
Speaker 3: I did see that. To Hathaway, that was beautiful, real

752
00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:00,800
Speaker 3: good move. That was Sid inspired. I'm sure still not

753
00:34:00,880 --> 00:34:02,640
Speaker 3: the guy with the belt, though, I think I'm with

754
00:34:02,680 --> 00:34:05,600
Speaker 3: you on this one. And Saxophone Guy, sure there was

755
00:34:05,640 --> 00:34:08,239
Speaker 3: a place, There was a time, although I think there's

756
00:34:08,239 --> 00:34:11,000
Speaker 3: somebody threatening Saxophone.

757
00:34:10,200 --> 00:34:14,799
Speaker 1: Guy's place in the Pittsburgh lexicon. Are you aware of this?

758
00:34:15,360 --> 00:34:18,480
Speaker 3: Like freestyle rapper who's at all the games and all

759
00:34:18,480 --> 00:34:19,000
Speaker 3: the venues?

760
00:34:19,040 --> 00:34:20,120
Speaker 1: Now, No, I'm not.

761
00:34:20,360 --> 00:34:23,920
Speaker 6: This is like a modern twist on saxophone guys sort of.

762
00:34:24,040 --> 00:34:24,239
Speaker 1: Yeah.

763
00:34:24,320 --> 00:34:26,640
Speaker 3: I mean like I was unaware of him, and apparently

764
00:34:26,760 --> 00:34:28,839
Speaker 3: I was late to the party. Other people know who

765
00:34:28,880 --> 00:34:31,640
Speaker 3: he is, know about him. He's got his own YouTube channel.

766
00:34:31,640 --> 00:34:33,200
Speaker 3: I just, for the life of me, don't know his name.

767
00:34:33,760 --> 00:34:38,080
Speaker 3: But I was crutching along after I had my surgery

768
00:34:38,520 --> 00:34:41,719
Speaker 3: for one of the early Penguin games, and I was

769
00:34:41,760 --> 00:34:43,960
Speaker 3: going down to the media entrance from where we parked,

770
00:34:44,560 --> 00:34:48,000
Speaker 3: and he was rapping on the corner, like, you know,

771
00:34:48,239 --> 00:34:52,759
Speaker 3: a stone's throwaway from Saxophone Guy, and he sees me

772
00:34:53,080 --> 00:34:57,719
Speaker 3: crutching towards him, and he breaks his freestyle with you know,

773
00:34:58,520 --> 00:35:02,040
Speaker 3: stays in rhythm and somehow makes up a rhyme about

774
00:35:02,040 --> 00:35:03,600
Speaker 3: me crutching by him.

775
00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:07,000
Speaker 1: I was incredibly impressed. And then I saw him.

776
00:35:06,920 --> 00:35:09,480
Speaker 3: Again a few weeks later as I was leaving and

777
00:35:09,520 --> 00:35:11,839
Speaker 3: I wasn't on crutches anymore by this point. As I

778
00:35:11,880 --> 00:35:14,520
Speaker 3: was leaving a Steeler game, he was rapping at somebody

779
00:35:14,600 --> 00:35:17,880
Speaker 3: else and just immediately put them into a rhyme without

780
00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:21,520
Speaker 3: missing a beat. This guy's got skills. Man, I'm impressed.

781
00:35:21,719 --> 00:35:23,800
Speaker 6: And you're telling me that he was setting up shop

782
00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:26,320
Speaker 6: like right down the street from Saxophone Guy's turf Like,

783
00:35:26,400 --> 00:35:27,960
Speaker 6: this is a turf war happening right now.

784
00:35:28,040 --> 00:35:30,680
Speaker 1: It could be now, I could see them combining forces.

785
00:35:31,080 --> 00:35:33,279
Speaker 6: Well, I will say this about Saxophone Guy, even though

786
00:35:33,280 --> 00:35:36,160
Speaker 6: I gave him a statue here on my trifecta Saxophone

787
00:35:36,200 --> 00:35:39,320
Speaker 6: Guy can be bought to a disgusting degree. Case in point,

788
00:35:39,360 --> 00:35:41,560
Speaker 6: you throw some nickels in there, you say, play the

789
00:35:41,560 --> 00:35:44,120
Speaker 6: Notre Dame fight song, Play you know, country Roads, West

790
00:35:44,160 --> 00:35:46,400
Speaker 6: Virginia Town. He'll indulge that, And I think it's a

791
00:35:46,400 --> 00:35:47,960
Speaker 6: little disgusting, to be honest with you.

792
00:35:48,239 --> 00:35:49,359
Speaker 1: The country roads thing.

793
00:35:49,440 --> 00:35:52,880
Speaker 3: Have you noticed how crazy the fans go for country

794
00:35:52,960 --> 00:35:57,520
Speaker 3: roads in every European venue that the NFL plays, the

795
00:35:57,600 --> 00:36:00,719
Speaker 3: Germans especially well, I sure did too.

796
00:36:00,760 --> 00:36:03,040
Speaker 1: Did you hear him? It is a good song, right

797
00:36:03,080 --> 00:36:04,719
Speaker 1: to be fair? Is it that good?

798
00:36:04,760 --> 00:36:05,040
Speaker 8: Though?

799
00:36:05,160 --> 00:36:07,480
Speaker 3: Whenever I've been in Europe, which is not a lot,

800
00:36:07,560 --> 00:36:09,480
Speaker 3: but I've been to England, I've been to Ireland, and

801
00:36:09,480 --> 00:36:16,879
Speaker 3: I've been to Italy. Wagonwheel and freaking country roads any bar, anytime.

802
00:36:17,640 --> 00:36:19,920
Speaker 3: And it's not just the Americans, and it's not just

803
00:36:19,960 --> 00:36:20,879
Speaker 3: for the Americans.

804
00:36:21,080 --> 00:36:23,560
Speaker 1: They love it over there. It's nuts. I don't get it.

805
00:36:23,800 --> 00:36:25,960
Speaker 1: I don't understand it. Are they making fun of us?

806
00:36:26,120 --> 00:36:27,680
Speaker 1: Is it like a sly way to make fun of us?

807
00:36:27,760 --> 00:36:27,800
Speaker 3: Like?

808
00:36:27,840 --> 00:36:30,600
Speaker 6: Look at how stupid these songs are? It might be

809
00:36:30,640 --> 00:36:32,200
Speaker 6: these great Americana songs.

810
00:36:32,560 --> 00:36:35,200
Speaker 3: Well, speaking of country roads, how about the kid who

811
00:36:35,800 --> 00:36:37,160
Speaker 3: flipped his commitment.

812
00:36:37,400 --> 00:36:40,680
Speaker 6: A siege for Cherry Yes, going to West Virginia, Rich Rod.

813
00:36:40,719 --> 00:36:42,520
Speaker 6: I mean they had to pay him a lot, right, do.

814
00:36:42,440 --> 00:36:44,319
Speaker 3: You feel like you've been turned upon because you were

815
00:36:44,320 --> 00:36:46,440
Speaker 3: supposed to turn away from Penn State and turn to

816
00:36:46,480 --> 00:36:47,560
Speaker 3: pitt Wasn't that the belief?

817
00:36:47,640 --> 00:36:49,000
Speaker 6: I thought he was going to turn away from Penn

818
00:36:49,040 --> 00:36:51,640
Speaker 6: State and go right to Blacksburg, Virginia, well, I thought

819
00:36:51,840 --> 00:36:55,040
Speaker 6: a little bit surprised that he's at West Virginia. My

820
00:36:55,120 --> 00:36:57,400
Speaker 6: focus right now is a pittfan. Tam is keeping Mason

821
00:36:57,440 --> 00:37:00,040
Speaker 6: and keeping Turner. The backfield needs to stay intact. And

822
00:37:00,120 --> 00:37:02,839
Speaker 6: that's kind of like, don't you think that this day

823
00:37:02,920 --> 00:37:03,839
Speaker 6: has lost all its time?

824
00:37:03,840 --> 00:37:04,040
Speaker 8: Oh?

825
00:37:04,080 --> 00:37:06,279
Speaker 3: I was just gonna say, the high school recruit they

826
00:37:06,520 --> 00:37:08,719
Speaker 3: walked me right into it, cares about this day.

827
00:37:08,800 --> 00:37:10,759
Speaker 1: I love that no one cares about it.

828
00:37:10,880 --> 00:37:14,720
Speaker 3: I hated National Letter of Intent Day, I hated National

829
00:37:14,800 --> 00:37:16,600
Speaker 3: Signing Day, despised it.

830
00:37:16,680 --> 00:37:19,720
Speaker 1: Oh my god, Like I still I don't.

831
00:37:19,560 --> 00:37:21,239
Speaker 3: Have to talk to Ice about this when Seis comes on,

832
00:37:21,320 --> 00:37:23,800
Speaker 3: because I think Seiss was out there with me for

833
00:37:23,880 --> 00:37:26,399
Speaker 3: the Terrell Prior Day, Oh my god, the Terrell Prior

834
00:37:26,480 --> 00:37:29,760
Speaker 3: Day that turned into a Terrell Prior week and Anthony

835
00:37:29,840 --> 00:37:32,080
Speaker 3: Morelli over out at Penhills.

836
00:37:32,120 --> 00:37:34,880
Speaker 1: Like, I just hated covering those signing days.

837
00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:37,440
Speaker 3: And the thing about it now is it just doesn't

838
00:37:37,440 --> 00:37:39,080
Speaker 3: matter because they flipped their commitments.

839
00:37:39,960 --> 00:37:42,239
Speaker 1: They arrive on campus and they're gone in a year.

840
00:37:43,320 --> 00:37:44,560
Speaker 1: Especially quarterbacks.

841
00:37:44,640 --> 00:37:46,799
Speaker 3: You know, quarterbacks are the big fish that always land

842
00:37:46,800 --> 00:37:48,560
Speaker 3: and if they don't start out of the gate, then

843
00:37:48,640 --> 00:37:51,239
Speaker 3: they transfer or they announced their plans to transfer eight

844
00:37:51,320 --> 00:37:54,680
Speaker 3: games into the season. It doesn't matter anymore. I love

845
00:37:55,160 --> 00:37:58,480
Speaker 3: that what college football has become has watered down National

846
00:37:58,560 --> 00:38:01,520
Speaker 3: letter of intent day. If there is a residue that

847
00:38:01,640 --> 00:38:04,680
Speaker 3: I like about what has become of college football, it's this.

848
00:38:05,560 --> 00:38:07,480
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, it just doesn't matter anymore because like

849
00:38:07,840 --> 00:38:10,040
Speaker 6: these kids, you know, yeah, you want to get good

850
00:38:10,120 --> 00:38:14,239
Speaker 6: high school recruits, but it's about keeping your team intact

851
00:38:14,280 --> 00:38:16,760
Speaker 6: once you have them, and you want to find talent

852
00:38:16,800 --> 00:38:18,239
Speaker 6: in the portal more than you want to find high

853
00:38:18,239 --> 00:38:20,960
Speaker 6: school kaus, Cause, say four star, five star recruits from

854
00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:24,160
Speaker 6: high school, Yeah, they'll probably be pretty good players, But

855
00:38:24,600 --> 00:38:26,799
Speaker 6: I'm sure these coaches are much more interested in the

856
00:38:26,880 --> 00:38:30,239
Speaker 6: proven commodities that you know, they've seen play at a

857
00:38:30,239 --> 00:38:33,319
Speaker 6: college level already for a season or two and know, hey,

858
00:38:33,360 --> 00:38:35,799
Speaker 6: they can handle this. Maybe they deserve a step up

859
00:38:35,840 --> 00:38:38,520
Speaker 6: from a group of five to a power four real quick.

860
00:38:39,320 --> 00:38:42,520
Speaker 3: Have you ever feat conspiracy theory floated by Todd McShay

861
00:38:43,080 --> 00:38:45,000
Speaker 3: about why Penn State doesn't have a coach yet, No,

862
00:38:45,160 --> 00:38:46,560
Speaker 3: because this Jimmy Sexton thing.

863
00:38:46,760 --> 00:38:49,320
Speaker 1: No, because Jimmy Sexton is sort.

864
00:38:49,200 --> 00:38:52,920
Speaker 3: Of like the power broker agent for college coaches, all right,

865
00:38:53,280 --> 00:38:56,719
Speaker 3: He's got like every coach under his thumb, and Franklin's

866
00:38:56,719 --> 00:39:01,799
Speaker 3: one of his guys, and he is deliberately getting expensive

867
00:39:01,920 --> 00:39:06,080
Speaker 3: contracts for coaches to stay in their current positions so

868
00:39:06,120 --> 00:39:08,279
Speaker 3: they don't go to Penn State because he's mad at

869
00:39:08,280 --> 00:39:11,839
Speaker 3: Penn State. That's the theory that's being advanced, which if

870
00:39:11,840 --> 00:39:15,560
Speaker 3: it's true, I love I love a good petty Jimmy

871
00:39:15,600 --> 00:39:19,000
Speaker 3: Sexton two turning his sites towards Penn State. I mean,

872
00:39:20,040 --> 00:39:22,560
Speaker 3: it's hard for me to say this and not sound

873
00:39:22,640 --> 00:39:25,160
Speaker 3: like such a biased douche to be honest with you,

874
00:39:25,200 --> 00:39:26,879
Speaker 3: because I hate Penn State and I'm a Pit fan.

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Speaker 1: But they completely nuked that program, right Tim.

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Speaker 3: I mean, like, I know it's really in the immediacy

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Speaker 3: of it, and sure, I guess they can turn it around,

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Speaker 3: but like they're not going to reach the heights that

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Speaker 3: Franklin had them at, and they were pretty good heights.

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Speaker 1: They were in the semi finals last year.

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Speaker 3: What if it is pitt versus Penn State in the

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Speaker 3: pin Strape Bowl, would Penn State go?

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Speaker 6: That's a good question. Most of that roster is going

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Speaker 6: to hit the portal and probably go to Virginia Tech.

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Speaker 6: Wouldn't you imagine.

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Speaker 3: Potentially, like, how about finally getting Pitt and Penn State

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Speaker 3: in a bowl game? And it could mean absolute crap.

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Speaker 6: As long as Mason and there, that's all we need.

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Speaker 6: We can just play with those two on the field.

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Speaker 6: I think we'd beat them.

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Speaker 1: In thirty seconds.

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Speaker 3: One very important person did not hear the chance of fire, Tomlin.

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Speaker 3: We'll get into that next. For the three o'clock hour,

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Speaker 3: Tim Benzon for Mark Madden one of five, nine the X.

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Speaker 3: It's the