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Speaker 1: he won't talk about it. He was on McCafe today,

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Speaker 1: joining me now to talk about that. From the post

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Speaker 1: gazetted Steelers writer Brian Batco, Brian, what did you make

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Speaker 1: of what Rogers said on the McAfee show.

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Speaker 2: It sounds to me like he is.

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Speaker 1: Jerking the Steelers around a second straight off season.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Mark, that was certainly a sprawling seventy five minute

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Speaker 3: conversation or whatever it ended up being. I'll be honest,

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Speaker 3: I kind of tuned out at certain points, but I

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Speaker 3: think I got most of it, from the sort of

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Speaker 3: how I Met your Mother sitcom plot about his wife,

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Speaker 3: to rantings and ravings about his own personal privacy and

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Speaker 3: sort of how the NFL works. So it covered a

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Speaker 3: lot of ground, but not a ton about the Steelers

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Speaker 3: or the Vikings or you know, playing again in the

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Speaker 3: NFL at all for anyone, So I guess I would

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Speaker 3: make of it. It's kind of at odds with Woodow

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Speaker 3: mark concept last week in India to Combine, who said,

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Speaker 3: you know, the door's open for Aaron. We'd all like

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Speaker 3: to have Aaron back, but Aaron said it takes two

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Speaker 3: to tango and no contract offer.

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Speaker 4: So I guess they're both two guys that you wouldn't

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Speaker 3: Because someone here is sort of dancing around the truth.

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Speaker 4: I guess why won't.

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Speaker 1: The Steelers walk away? Why are they so stuck on Rogers?

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Speaker 1: That's ill advised. He's forty two, he wasn't great last year.

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Speaker 1: The logo looks worse every day that it deals with

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Speaker 3: My best guess on that answer is five in a row.

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Speaker 3: And what I mean by that is five consecutive years

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Speaker 3: with a different starting quarterback. Obviously, if they walk away

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Speaker 3: from Rogers, twenty twenty six will be six years in

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Speaker 3: a row with a different starting quarterback.

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Speaker 1: That wouldn't be any more embarrassing that what's going on

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Speaker 1: with Rogers.

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Speaker 4: I hear you, I hear you.

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Speaker 3: And it's a catch twenty two in the sense of

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Speaker 3: the treadmill, right, I mean, you're just doing the same

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Speaker 3: over every year with that position. And you know, maybe

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Speaker 3: some people in the organization think at least there's something

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Speaker 3: to be said for stability. If you get Rogers back,

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Speaker 3: we know how much they value continuity in the top

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but continuity of mediocrity. That's not good continuity, Brian.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, And I think and that's where I started this whole,

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Speaker 3: you know, mental gymnastics journey of this off season as

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Speaker 3: I could kind of squint and see the logic is, yeah,

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Speaker 3: we'll stipulate Rogers. He didn't bring them what they seek,

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Speaker 3: a super Bowl victory. He didn't get them over that

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Speaker 3: hump take a step forward and make the sort of

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Speaker 3: But is there the argument to be had that if

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Speaker 3: you give him a better supporting cast, and you give

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Speaker 3: step and he'll play better and he'll be more.

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Speaker 4: Productive, the offense will be more productive.

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Speaker 1: After the coach he wanted specifically to play for left

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Speaker 2: It's a it's.

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Speaker 1: A rotten receiving core that you can't rebuild without. Him

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Speaker 1: approving it, because that's how Scottie Miller at MBS and

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Speaker 2: I just don't see an upside.

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Speaker 1: I don't, Brian, I forget my interruption, but this aggravates me.

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Speaker 2: It aggravates me that.

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Speaker 1: They're so goddamn stupid not to see that all this

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Speaker 1: is the is the obvious truth.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and I think this is the back and forth

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Speaker 4: So it's nice to have you actually giving another voice on.

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Speaker 4: I can kind of see both perspectives.

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Speaker 3: And you mentioned the rotten receiving corps in the you know,

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Speaker 4: On my one shoulder.

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Speaker 3: Is like, well, it's not going to be so rotten

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Speaker 3: if they sign a good free agent, use their first

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Speaker 3: And you know McCarthy's offense, I don't know. I mean,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but Brian, the problem is they never look past

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Speaker 1: the next game. The only game that matters them is

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Speaker 1: Week one, and they'll figure it out in Week two

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Speaker 1: But now it keeps them in the mushy middle. And

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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna lie, Brian. A big part of this

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Speaker 1: a con artist. You can be all of those things

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Speaker 1: that'll be a Hall of Fame quarterback. I think he

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Speaker 3: I was texting with someone else who covers the team,

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Speaker 4: And I'm like, all right, that was.

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Speaker 3: The collective groan or something er eye roll of Steelers

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Speaker 1: And don't get me wrong, stuff like that is Pat's aim. Okay,

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Speaker 1: Pat is kind of like I mean, I'm not immune

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Speaker 3: And I think it probably did annoy a lot of people,

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Speaker 3: And then ultimately fans talk themselves into the logo and

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Speaker 4: This is great, it's been an awesome experience.

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Speaker 1: But why won't the Steelers nip this in the bud.

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Speaker 1: Why won't they just say thanks but no thanks? Why

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Speaker 1: Looking back, that's what they should have done. We need

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Speaker 3: Yeah, because every player who gets to that age or

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Speaker 4: But not everybody drags it out like this. And you

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Speaker 4: As far as why they don't do.

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Speaker 3: That, I mean, I think you kind of said it

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Speaker 3: what is the best chance for us to win this

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Speaker 3: next game or this next season. Then they must think

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Speaker 4: The PG site. Maybe they aren't as enamored with Rogers

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Speaker 3: It's another fish in the pond right now. So I

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Speaker 2: Well, Brian, I would sign Kyler Murray right now. He's

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Speaker 1: You know, he ain't great, but he ain't bad, and

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Speaker 1: there's upside with him. Rogers can only go down. I mean,

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Speaker 3: Well, Rodgers himself said he felt like Benjamin Button at

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Speaker 1: But Brian, he's just scared to death. He plays chicken

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Speaker 4: But you know the difference there. Of course, has Ben

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Speaker 3: can't seem to get a straight answer from anyone on that.

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Speaker 1: Brian. The absolute best would be if he double crossed

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Speaker 1: him and went to Minnesota, and I doubt that because

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Speaker 2: But I'm not rolling it out.

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Speaker 3: Either I think he plays well or he plays better

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Speaker 3: Slow down Father Time a little bit if you're playing

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Speaker 3: you know you've also got you know, Detroit on your schedule.

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Speaker 4: Every year indoors, and you've got that receiving core around you.

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Speaker 4: If it's not number eight, mister Rogers.

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Speaker 3: So I just and that's one thing that gives me

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Speaker 4: So you take it all with a grain of salt.

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Speaker 3: But at least he did kind of lay it on

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Speaker 2: Brian, great stuff.

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Speaker 1: If I cut you off too many times, it's because

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Speaker 2: We'll do it again soon, I hope.

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Speaker 4: I love that passion makes for good radio.

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Speaker 2: Thanks Mark, I'll be the judge of that. No, I like.

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Speaker 1: I'm I'm mad that Rogers is jerking everybody around again.

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Speaker 1: I think he's an ass. I'm also mad that we're

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Speaker 1: rehashing this endlessly. I enjoyed how many hockey shows had

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Speaker 4: X every weekd at ten am is it is.

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Speaker 2: one nine. Miss Rogers stuff him going on McAfee. It's

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Speaker 2: just too much.

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Speaker 1: Pat McAfee said today that the Steelers consulted with him

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Speaker 1: work with. That's what the fabo's reporting. Anyway, Why would

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Speaker 2: Somehow I believe it.

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Speaker 5: Uh.

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Speaker 1: Rogers also said that he's going to disappear from public

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Speaker 1: like after he retires. Yeah, he certainly gave that impression

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Speaker 2: Guy's an attention horror grifter. He ain't going nowhere.

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Speaker 1: He might think he is, but he'll be on TV

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Speaker 1: Rogers ain't going to disappear attention hor grifters, just don't.

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Speaker 1: The bottom line is the Steelers need to walk away

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Speaker 2: Rooney who can't.

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Speaker 1: We got Phil Board talking hockey, thank god, at the

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Speaker 2: I hate this, I hate rehashing all this. I hate

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Speaker 1: Thing, him jerking them around, him jerking the city around,

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Speaker 2: Let's good to Nick, Nick, you're on with Mark.

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Speaker 6: Hey, Mark, sorry, I'm bringing you back into what you hate.

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Speaker 6: But what is wrong with showing your hand? If you're

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Speaker 6: Omar Kahan to Rogers by saying, hey, we want Tyler Murray.

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Speaker 6: We're gonna try for.

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Speaker 1: Them, Omar spineless, art, spineless McCarthy, spineless, Steelers spineless.

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Speaker 6: What's the downfall though, of showing your hand. I know

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Speaker 2: They're not going to because they're spineless.

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Speaker 1: They should do more than show their handbro they should

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Speaker 1: Let me just wrap up the Rogers and Steeler situation

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Speaker 1: And there's nobody better to talk it with than the

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Speaker 1: on the game last night at Boston? I thought it

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Speaker 1: It wasn't for lack of a a bunch of chances.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, good afternoon, Wlem and yeah, thanks for flipping the

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Speaker 5: script there enough Steeler talk. Enough Rogers talk, Let's talk

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Speaker 5: about something fun, and that was your Pittsburgh Penguins. And

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Speaker 5: you're right, it was a weird game last night. You know,

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Speaker 5: You could have blinked and not even had a cold

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Speaker 5: up to nothing. But Boston went to work. And Boston's

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Speaker 5: a unique team. Mark there not a team you want

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Speaker 5: to play first round in the playoffs if they get

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Speaker 5: good last night. So they've got a pretty good one

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Speaker 5: and they play a patient game. They get David AUSTINOK.

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Speaker 5: But after that, you know, Morgan Geek leads a team

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Speaker 5: Morgan geeky, but they've done enough guys that can hurt

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Speaker 5: And I didn't think the Penguins had their a game,

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Speaker 5: But with that being said, I still felt like there

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Speaker 5: of those games where it was just a whole bunch

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Speaker 5: I don't think they started great. They admitted that, but

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Speaker 1: We've both been critics in the past, but Eric Carlson's

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Speaker 1: I am not convinced he isn't the Penguin's MVP. It's

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Speaker 5: I'm with you. I'm with you, and we've had long

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Speaker 5: It's fun to watch Defensively, there's a certain there's a

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Speaker 2: And he's got that here.

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Speaker 5: He's always said he loves it here. He doesn't want

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Speaker 5: your players to listen to you and and and want

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Speaker 5: to play for you, that's pretty remarkable to do what

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Speaker 1: What would you do with the trade deadline which is Friday?

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Speaker 1: Would you make a big deal? A little deal?

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Speaker 5: What probably a little deal? Or those big deals are tough?

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Speaker 5: And listen, we've talked a lot about you know, Ricardo

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Speaker 5: because you know those terms. If you're gonna have to

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Speaker 1: It's something They're not going to dump that guy?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, no, And if they don't want to sign

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Speaker 5: then you probably pull off a bigger deal in the offseason.

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Speaker 5: But let me thill some names out there. Are you

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Speaker 5: Are you interested in Teddy Blueger? I mean, I think

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Speaker 1: like him as an all around two hundred foot player.

439
00:21:51,280 --> 00:21:54,040
Speaker 1: I would like Teddy Blueger as a temporary fill in

440
00:21:54,160 --> 00:21:57,359
Speaker 1: while Sid's out, like because he can play you know, second, third,

441
00:21:57,440 --> 00:22:00,480
Speaker 1: fourth line, mostly third and fourth. But yeah, I'm interested

442
00:22:00,480 --> 00:22:04,080
Speaker 1: in those guys. Some are pushing for tro check and

443
00:22:04,200 --> 00:22:08,280
Speaker 1: hit solve some problems to be sure, face offs, you know, shootouts,

444
00:22:08,280 --> 00:22:10,600
Speaker 1: et cetera. But say you got him and you'd have

445
00:22:10,640 --> 00:22:12,840
Speaker 1: to give up a lot because he's very much in demand,

446
00:22:13,320 --> 00:22:15,280
Speaker 1: then who would be the fourth line center when sids

447
00:22:15,359 --> 00:22:17,280
Speaker 1: back and would Lezat even play.

448
00:22:17,359 --> 00:22:18,840
Speaker 2: I'd love to get tro Check here.

449
00:22:19,440 --> 00:22:21,840
Speaker 1: I just don't see a comfortable fit and maybe not

450
00:22:21,920 --> 00:22:23,880
Speaker 1: even for him, although you know he'd love to come

451
00:22:23,880 --> 00:22:25,760
Speaker 1: to Pittsburgh.

452
00:22:26,280 --> 00:22:30,200
Speaker 5: He would, but also, you know, pretty vocal to say.

453
00:22:30,240 --> 00:22:32,280
Speaker 5: You know, I'm in my thirties now and I want

454
00:22:32,280 --> 00:22:35,000
Speaker 5: to win a Cup right away. So you know, is

455
00:22:35,040 --> 00:22:37,080
Speaker 5: he leaning that way? I know he's got one's got

456
00:22:37,080 --> 00:22:39,600
Speaker 5: a limited no move right where he can take teams

457
00:22:39,640 --> 00:22:40,359
Speaker 5: he won't go to.

458
00:22:40,840 --> 00:22:43,359
Speaker 2: I think it's twelve teams and right.

459
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Speaker 5: And here's the other part. What the Rangers trade him here?

460
00:22:46,160 --> 00:22:47,840
Speaker 5: You know, like even though he wants to go, I

461
00:22:47,880 --> 00:22:49,840
Speaker 5: get he wants a good call courts, he wants to

462
00:22:49,840 --> 00:22:53,040
Speaker 5: come home with the Rangers. With everything that's gone on

463
00:22:53,080 --> 00:22:55,840
Speaker 5: between the Rangers and the Penguins, you know what they

464
00:22:55,920 --> 00:22:58,159
Speaker 5: trade him here. You know you got the facts at

465
00:22:58,200 --> 00:23:01,600
Speaker 5: that thing too, And I just don't I just don't

466
00:23:01,640 --> 00:23:03,520
Speaker 5: see that. I just don't see the Rangers doing the

467
00:23:03,520 --> 00:23:06,719
Speaker 5: Penguins of favor, even though they'd be doing Trochek a favoring.

468
00:23:07,119 --> 00:23:09,520
Speaker 5: You know, I think that that boat sailed a couple

469
00:23:09,560 --> 00:23:12,760
Speaker 5: of years ago, when when Trochech wasn't undership a free agent,

470
00:23:12,920 --> 00:23:16,760
Speaker 5: and you know he he waited for if Guinea Malkin

471
00:23:16,840 --> 00:23:20,240
Speaker 5: to sign, and after if Guinny Malkin signed here because

472
00:23:20,280 --> 00:23:23,879
Speaker 5: he did want to come here. His next team to

473
00:23:23,920 --> 00:23:25,600
Speaker 5: go to with the Rangers, and he signed the next

474
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Speaker 5: day with the Rangers.

475
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Speaker 1: Well, the names you mentioned I like, and especially because

476
00:23:31,040 --> 00:23:33,160
Speaker 1: like you could get Max Domi to fill in its

477
00:23:33,160 --> 00:23:35,040
Speaker 1: center till sins back. Then he moves to the wing

478
00:23:35,119 --> 00:23:38,480
Speaker 1: with somebody like he'd be the best name there. And

479
00:23:38,520 --> 00:23:40,359
Speaker 1: that's the type of player I want. Borkye.

480
00:23:40,400 --> 00:23:42,840
Speaker 2: I think that that's that's a pretty obvious thing. And

481
00:23:43,560 --> 00:23:44,280
Speaker 2: I don't know if.

482
00:23:44,160 --> 00:23:45,920
Speaker 1: Max takes a lot of face offs, but why can't

483
00:23:45,920 --> 00:23:49,399
Speaker 1: they win face offs? They were thirty three percent on

484
00:23:49,520 --> 00:23:52,400
Speaker 1: face offs last night, and that's critical mass.

485
00:23:52,720 --> 00:23:55,480
Speaker 2: You don't get hurt by face offs unless you lose

486
00:23:55,520 --> 00:23:56,440
Speaker 2: that many of them.

487
00:23:57,560 --> 00:24:00,760
Speaker 5: Yeah, because you chased the puck right right, be exhausted

488
00:24:00,800 --> 00:24:03,080
Speaker 5: over the course of the game. When you're at in

489
00:24:03,200 --> 00:24:05,520
Speaker 5: the game in New York against the Rangers the Penguins,

490
00:24:05,600 --> 00:24:08,160
Speaker 5: I think we're at a historic role of but twenty

491
00:24:08,200 --> 00:24:10,639
Speaker 5: four percent, that's almost hard to do because there's a

492
00:24:10,680 --> 00:24:13,200
Speaker 5: lot of most of the face offs are fifty to

493
00:24:13,200 --> 00:24:16,320
Speaker 5: fifty wins. But to get back to your boy, Vin Chrochik,

494
00:24:16,600 --> 00:24:19,000
Speaker 5: Vince Chrochik was on fire. I think he won something

495
00:24:19,080 --> 00:24:21,480
Speaker 5: like eighteen of twenty one, you know, I think he

496
00:24:21,640 --> 00:24:25,080
Speaker 5: was just killing everybody. And it's not just the Penguins.

497
00:24:25,080 --> 00:24:27,440
Speaker 5: He does that too. He's done it throughout the league. Uh.

498
00:24:27,520 --> 00:24:29,040
Speaker 5: And they're one of the top teams in the league

499
00:24:29,040 --> 00:24:33,000
Speaker 5: in staceoffs as a group with you know, other guys. JT.

500
00:24:33,119 --> 00:24:36,040
Speaker 5: Miller's pretty goer than faceoffs too. But with that being said,

501
00:24:36,080 --> 00:24:39,200
Speaker 5: it's a combination of two things. As I mentioned that,

502
00:24:39,600 --> 00:24:41,280
Speaker 5: you know, there's there's got to be more of a

503
00:24:41,320 --> 00:24:44,440
Speaker 5: game plan, and if you're not beating a guy clean, well,

504
00:24:44,520 --> 00:24:47,160
Speaker 5: you know, even say at times when he's having trouble

505
00:24:47,200 --> 00:24:50,160
Speaker 5: with somebody, you know, he'll he'll huddle everybody up and

506
00:24:50,520 --> 00:24:53,520
Speaker 5: he'll he'll go hard to the boards, you know, or

507
00:24:53,560 --> 00:24:56,200
Speaker 5: he'll he'll he'll he'll push it in a different direction

508
00:24:56,320 --> 00:24:59,560
Speaker 5: or sometime to even lose the faceoff on purpose, and

509
00:24:59,600 --> 00:25:01,639
Speaker 5: you tell wingers you're going to do that so they

510
00:25:01,680 --> 00:25:03,520
Speaker 5: can jump and try to get to the puck first.

511
00:25:03,800 --> 00:25:08,959
Speaker 5: I just think the combination of missing sidh guy's confidence

512
00:25:09,280 --> 00:25:11,280
Speaker 5: is not very high in the face of that, but

513
00:25:11,400 --> 00:25:13,960
Speaker 5: also not getting as much help as they should be

514
00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:16,960
Speaker 5: getting from the wingers on the outside to win those

515
00:25:16,960 --> 00:25:19,479
Speaker 5: fifty to fifty puck battles. After the puck get stopped.

516
00:25:19,920 --> 00:25:22,840
Speaker 1: Hot kindall do on that top line between McKell and Rust.

517
00:25:22,880 --> 00:25:25,600
Speaker 1: I know, he got four shots, and boy, he was buzzing.

518
00:25:25,600 --> 00:25:28,000
Speaker 1: I think the Olympic rest obviously didn him a lot

519
00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:29,720
Speaker 1: of good buck.

520
00:25:29,800 --> 00:25:31,639
Speaker 5: I liked them. I liked him a lot. I mean

521
00:25:31,720 --> 00:25:34,480
Speaker 5: halfway through the game we went to a commercial break

522
00:25:34,520 --> 00:25:37,240
Speaker 5: and I said to Joe Brand last night in Boston,

523
00:25:37,240 --> 00:25:40,720
Speaker 5: I'm like Man eighty one at Flying TI. I love

524
00:25:40,760 --> 00:25:43,320
Speaker 5: his game. He's just he was hungry after the pocket.

525
00:25:43,280 --> 00:25:45,879
Speaker 5: He was taking pucks for the net. And as I mentioned,

526
00:25:45,920 --> 00:25:48,159
Speaker 5: it was a physical game, and you know some of

527
00:25:48,200 --> 00:25:51,520
Speaker 5: their defense, and starting with you know, Niki the door

528
00:25:51,600 --> 00:25:54,639
Speaker 5: off at six seven, two fifty five. You know you

529
00:25:54,720 --> 00:25:58,960
Speaker 5: had Ben kindall eighteen years of age and about half

530
00:25:58,960 --> 00:26:01,720
Speaker 5: that size right in the corner, you know, battling for

531
00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:03,600
Speaker 5: a loose puck with the door off. So he doesn't

532
00:26:03,640 --> 00:26:06,639
Speaker 5: shy away from any of that kind of physicality, and

533
00:26:06,680 --> 00:26:08,879
Speaker 5: I like, I like this game a lot, and I

534
00:26:08,920 --> 00:26:11,639
Speaker 5: think he kind of embraced the bit of wh if

535
00:26:11,640 --> 00:26:13,920
Speaker 5: it's a verbal and non verbal challenge from and take

536
00:26:13,960 --> 00:26:16,320
Speaker 5: coach to go up there with Rusty and Rats. I

537
00:26:16,359 --> 00:26:19,320
Speaker 5: thought that Ben Kendall raised the level of his game

538
00:26:19,400 --> 00:26:20,760
Speaker 5: last night. I thought it was really good.

539
00:26:23,480 --> 00:26:26,280
Speaker 2: No, Lazat, that was bad.

540
00:26:27,080 --> 00:26:29,520
Speaker 1: And with with Kindle moving up, that bottom six really

541
00:26:29,560 --> 00:26:30,560
Speaker 1: drops off, doesn't it.

542
00:26:30,560 --> 00:26:33,120
Speaker 2: It's been a strength up till these injuries hit.

543
00:26:33,160 --> 00:26:35,760
Speaker 1: And now, boy, I mean, no offense to those guys,

544
00:26:35,760 --> 00:26:37,520
Speaker 1: the guys filling in, but I don't like it half

545
00:26:37,560 --> 00:26:38,000
Speaker 1: as much.

546
00:26:39,080 --> 00:26:40,960
Speaker 5: Yeah, double im, You're right, And that's what I think.

547
00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:44,239
Speaker 5: The thing about the Penguins, and I mean, we can

548
00:26:44,280 --> 00:26:46,600
Speaker 5: all admit that Kyle Dubs has done an incredible job

549
00:26:46,600 --> 00:26:50,520
Speaker 5: in a short time of getting Wilkesbury to the level

550
00:26:50,600 --> 00:26:54,400
Speaker 5: now the personnel where guys come up and you're like, wow,

551
00:26:54,440 --> 00:26:57,159
Speaker 5: this is this a guy that's even Avery Hages. You're like,

552
00:26:57,200 --> 00:26:59,800
Speaker 5: this guy's really close to being, you know, a day

553
00:26:59,800 --> 00:27:03,159
Speaker 5: in and day out NHL player. He's on some teams

554
00:27:03,160 --> 00:27:05,640
Speaker 5: he probably is, and maybe with the Penguins he needs

555
00:27:05,960 --> 00:27:09,160
Speaker 5: a little bit more seasons. But it goes to show

556
00:27:09,160 --> 00:27:12,160
Speaker 5: you that this team is still a little fragile as

557
00:27:12,200 --> 00:27:16,560
Speaker 5: far as who's out, how long they're out, and who

558
00:27:16,640 --> 00:27:19,160
Speaker 5: replaces them. And that's the thing. They don't have anybody.

559
00:27:19,200 --> 00:27:22,080
Speaker 5: Obviously they can't replace Sick, that's obvious, but also Blake

560
00:27:22,160 --> 00:27:25,080
Speaker 5: goes out, they don't have anybody that can replace what

561
00:27:25,160 --> 00:27:28,600
Speaker 5: Blake Gozat does and so that's when it becomes a problem,

562
00:27:28,920 --> 00:27:31,560
Speaker 5: you know, if Connor Deer goes out. And nothing against

563
00:27:31,560 --> 00:27:34,560
Speaker 5: Connor Doer, but I think they have players that can

564
00:27:34,640 --> 00:27:37,199
Speaker 5: do some of the things that Connor Doer does in

565
00:27:37,240 --> 00:27:39,600
Speaker 5: a very short time, right, and they kind of put

566
00:27:39,640 --> 00:27:41,840
Speaker 5: the finger in the dyke and kind of hold the

567
00:27:41,840 --> 00:27:44,360
Speaker 5: water back for a while. And I just don't think

568
00:27:44,400 --> 00:27:47,040
Speaker 5: they have enough players that can come and fill the

569
00:27:47,119 --> 00:27:50,080
Speaker 5: roles when the cit is out, when Alizade is out,

570
00:27:50,280 --> 00:27:52,720
Speaker 5: and even a couple of other players I thought, you know,

571
00:27:52,800 --> 00:27:55,679
Speaker 5: when Ricard Raquel was out, they you know, were kind

572
00:27:55,720 --> 00:27:58,119
Speaker 5: of flip flopping players around and nobody else kind of

573
00:27:58,160 --> 00:28:00,840
Speaker 5: does what he does, and so not many teams to

574
00:28:00,920 --> 00:28:03,879
Speaker 5: have that kind of depth, and the Penguins are getting there,

575
00:28:03,920 --> 00:28:07,320
Speaker 5: but it's becomes very clearing when you see a glaring

576
00:28:07,560 --> 00:28:11,439
Speaker 5: when you see Sid and Lazat two of your ninety

577
00:28:11,480 --> 00:28:13,920
Speaker 5: the night out sentiment out for you know, I know

578
00:28:14,160 --> 00:28:16,920
Speaker 5: that's only off of one game here. Hopefully he's that soon.

579
00:28:16,960 --> 00:28:20,159
Speaker 5: But now we're what four games tomorrow that will be

580
00:28:20,160 --> 00:28:23,680
Speaker 5: the fourth game for SID. It becomes pretty glaring that

581
00:28:23,720 --> 00:28:26,840
Speaker 5: we don't have anybody that can can really kill that void.

582
00:28:27,480 --> 00:28:31,280
Speaker 1: Buffalo's here tomorrow and they're on fire. Uh they started bad,

583
00:28:31,480 --> 00:28:33,679
Speaker 1: got hot, and now they've won four straight since the

584
00:28:33,680 --> 00:28:37,000
Speaker 1: Olympic break. And you hear they might get Thomas from

585
00:28:37,040 --> 00:28:39,760
Speaker 1: Saint Louis, who's the soup de jour at the trade deadline,

586
00:28:40,080 --> 00:28:42,320
Speaker 1: But I hope they don't trade for their sake a

587
00:28:42,440 --> 00:28:45,760
Speaker 1: defenseman to get Thomas. That that Byrom and Power and

588
00:28:45,840 --> 00:28:48,560
Speaker 1: especially Dauleine, even Samuelson a bit.

589
00:28:48,920 --> 00:28:51,680
Speaker 2: I think that's what makes that team.

590
00:28:52,320 --> 00:28:55,280
Speaker 5: Samuson has really impressed me this year. I mean he

591
00:28:55,880 --> 00:28:57,840
Speaker 5: seems really I didn't see this from him, and I

592
00:28:57,880 --> 00:29:00,600
Speaker 5: know he's kind of banged up last year. But the

593
00:29:00,680 --> 00:29:04,120
Speaker 5: one player I would respectfully disagree with you mark is

594
00:29:04,160 --> 00:29:06,560
Speaker 5: Owen Power. I don't think he's all that in the

595
00:29:06,600 --> 00:29:09,040
Speaker 5: bag of chips. I think if they are, if they

596
00:29:09,080 --> 00:29:11,440
Speaker 5: do have to trade a kind of a marquee player

597
00:29:11,440 --> 00:29:13,880
Speaker 5: because he was the first overall pick a few years ago.

598
00:29:14,840 --> 00:29:17,280
Speaker 5: I think they could survive without him.

599
00:29:17,440 --> 00:29:19,200
Speaker 2: If you trade any of them, who's the guy?

600
00:29:19,280 --> 00:29:23,200
Speaker 5: I agree, he's the guy. Yeah, Bowen and Dollien and

601
00:29:23,480 --> 00:29:26,400
Speaker 5: Sam Luson. I think those are your big three and

602
00:29:26,440 --> 00:29:29,880
Speaker 5: you can kind of fill in around them. But Owen

603
00:29:29,960 --> 00:29:32,560
Speaker 5: power would be the one guy. If I was going

604
00:29:32,640 --> 00:29:34,880
Speaker 5: to swing for the fences and go for Robert Thomas

605
00:29:34,920 --> 00:29:37,440
Speaker 5: from the Saint Lewis Blue, they'd be Power. But you know,

606
00:29:37,600 --> 00:29:40,480
Speaker 5: right before the Olympic break, the Penguins gave it pretty

607
00:29:40,480 --> 00:29:44,320
Speaker 5: good to the Buffalo favors. And historically the Penguins have

608
00:29:44,520 --> 00:29:49,440
Speaker 5: unbelievable numbers as far as windred losses versus Buffalo, especially

609
00:29:49,520 --> 00:29:51,520
Speaker 5: here in Pittsford. They kind of just have their number

610
00:29:51,560 --> 00:29:54,160
Speaker 5: and something you can't explain it. Mark the names changed,

611
00:29:54,400 --> 00:29:57,280
Speaker 5: the face has changed, but we've had Buffalo's number for

612
00:29:57,760 --> 00:30:00,880
Speaker 5: quite a while. And I just feel like Dick homestand

613
00:30:01,320 --> 00:30:03,480
Speaker 5: where you got Buffalo Philly and then you got the

614
00:30:03,520 --> 00:30:06,680
Speaker 5: Bruins on Sunday afternoon before you take off on a

615
00:30:06,760 --> 00:30:09,400
Speaker 5: five game road trip that starts in Carolina and ends

616
00:30:09,440 --> 00:30:12,600
Speaker 5: in Carolina. This stretch right here, I said, last night

617
00:30:12,640 --> 00:30:14,760
Speaker 5: before we signed off. It's gotta be six out of

618
00:30:14,880 --> 00:30:18,520
Speaker 5: six Buffalo, Philly, Boston. You gotta get six out of

619
00:30:18,520 --> 00:30:20,720
Speaker 5: the sticks. You gotta you gotta paint, you gotta pop

620
00:30:20,800 --> 00:30:23,600
Speaker 5: the building on these three games. This is a huge

621
00:30:23,640 --> 00:30:26,680
Speaker 5: stretch for the Penguins. That five game road trip is

622
00:30:26,760 --> 00:30:28,920
Speaker 5: a bear. As I mentioned, you're gonna play Utah, You're

623
00:30:28,920 --> 00:30:31,320
Speaker 5: gonna play Vegas, you're gonna play Colorado, and the book

624
00:30:31,440 --> 00:30:34,640
Speaker 5: ends against Carolina. This is a huge stretch for the

625
00:30:34,680 --> 00:30:35,479
Speaker 5: Penguins coming up.

626
00:30:35,680 --> 00:30:38,760
Speaker 1: By it's being reported that that those Sabers are getting

627
00:30:38,800 --> 00:30:41,280
Speaker 1: perreco from the Blues on defense. I hope he's not

628
00:30:41,360 --> 00:30:44,600
Speaker 1: still dizzy from being spun like a top throughout the Olympics.

629
00:30:45,960 --> 00:30:47,920
Speaker 1: One thing we have to preview before we wrap up.

630
00:30:48,600 --> 00:30:51,560
Speaker 1: We're having our annual dinner in Las Vegas. I'm making

631
00:30:51,640 --> 00:30:54,760
Speaker 1: the trip at at Carbone right now. The lineup, it's

632
00:30:54,760 --> 00:30:58,000
Speaker 1: an impressive lineup. Right now, it's me, you, Josh, Joey,

633
00:30:58,160 --> 00:31:00,760
Speaker 1: Joe Brand. Josh gets off And what I want to

634
00:31:00,800 --> 00:31:02,600
Speaker 1: know is, are we finally going to get the guy

635
00:31:02,680 --> 00:31:05,000
Speaker 1: to play the credit card draw to see who pays

636
00:31:05,240 --> 00:31:07,600
Speaker 1: as opposed to separate checks. I think it's time for

637
00:31:07,720 --> 00:31:09,520
Speaker 1: these other guys to step up with the big boys.

638
00:31:09,720 --> 00:31:11,840
Speaker 1: Because you know that me and you were ready and willing.

639
00:31:13,040 --> 00:31:13,320
Speaker 4: That's it.

640
00:31:13,600 --> 00:31:16,239
Speaker 5: Credit card roulette. Man, just close your eyes and let

641
00:31:16,360 --> 00:31:20,200
Speaker 5: us fly, and whoever is the last man standing pays.

642
00:31:20,720 --> 00:31:23,959
Speaker 5: I'm for it. Man, we're in Vegas, let us fly?

643
00:31:24,440 --> 00:31:27,080
Speaker 5: Is that cheap skate? This is a Friday afternoon going

644
00:31:27,120 --> 00:31:27,480
Speaker 5: to be there.

645
00:31:28,760 --> 00:31:30,680
Speaker 1: He has to mop the fours at the peep show.

646
00:31:30,720 --> 00:31:32,760
Speaker 1: I'm not sure it's one hundred percent, but he's working

647
00:31:32,800 --> 00:31:33,000
Speaker 1: on it.

648
00:31:34,720 --> 00:31:37,760
Speaker 5: That's why his shoes are always sticky.

649
00:31:38,680 --> 00:31:41,920
Speaker 1: No, and that also, but one thing that doesn't stick

650
00:31:42,040 --> 00:31:43,640
Speaker 1: is his hand to his wild because you're right, if

651
00:31:43,680 --> 00:31:46,400
Speaker 1: here's this credit card roulette thing, that'll scare him off,

652
00:31:46,440 --> 00:31:47,560
Speaker 1: so we better keep it quiet.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, he's got those alligator arms when it comes to

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Speaker 5: you're talking about, Barky.

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Speaker 2: You are the man. Fantastic stuff I'll see at the rink.

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Speaker 1: is a simple process. At the top of the hour,

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Speaker 1: the Pittsburgh river Hans open defense of their USL title

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Speaker 1: UH this weekend with an away game of Charleston Boy.

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Speaker 1: The season starting already and I can't wait. Joining us

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Speaker 1: will be Rob Vinson, who took the team over as

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Speaker 1: So we got him at the top of the hour,

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you one thing for sure, if there was

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Speaker 1: the jab omar Con said last week that this offseason

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Speaker 1: with Rogers wasn't going to go the same way as

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Speaker 1: last offseason. But now with what Rogers said and didn't

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Speaker 1: say on McAfee's show, it is going.

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Speaker 2: Exactly the same way. Exactly. Now it's time to ask Mark.

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Speaker 2: Let's go to Chris. Chris, you're on with double M. Hi, Mark,

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Speaker 2: how are you great?

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Speaker 9: I just want to ask you're a big Paul McCartney

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Speaker 9: Wings fan, as am? I Have you seen the Man

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Speaker 9: on the Run documentary on Amazon Prime?

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Speaker 5: No?

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Speaker 1: I can't figure out how to get it, just like

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Speaker 1: I can't figure out how to get the Raven documentary.

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Speaker 2: How do you get it?

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Speaker 9: Do you order from Amazon? You normally can get Amazon?

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Speaker 1: Well no, but let me ask you this. If I

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Speaker 1: if I order it on the laptop, can I watch

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Speaker 1: it on my TV?

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Speaker 2: I think yeah, but I don't know that.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to pay for it and I don't

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Speaker 1: want to watch it on my laptop. It has to

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Speaker 1: be on my TV, so yes, you have.

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Speaker 9: To watch it on TV. It's excellent. It is excellent.

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Speaker 2: I'm sure I will at some point. I'm a big

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Speaker 2: McCartney guy. Let's go to Matt. Matt, you're on the double.

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Speaker 5: M Hey, Mark, what up? Man? What up? Mane hey

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Speaker 5: question about Liverpool. I just wanted to get your take on.

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Speaker 5: I don't know what's the problem is that the players

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Speaker 5: are you.

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Speaker 2: I think they play incredibly slow.

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Speaker 1: I think that's because some of the players aren't what

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Speaker 1: they were, most notably Mohammed Sala and even Virgil van

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Speaker 1: Dijk has shown some cracks. I don't like the way

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Speaker 1: Virgil throws tantrums on the field when things goes wrong either.

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Speaker 1: I think he needs to be a better captain than that.

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Speaker 1: But I also think that they expected to be much

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Speaker 1: better this year. I think that losing Jada provided adrenaline,

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Speaker 1: you know, let's do it for him at the beginning

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Speaker 1: when they won five straight, and since then now.

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Speaker 2: He's just gone. So I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I think it's still a good roster. I think they

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Speaker 1: need verts to be available every game. I think they

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Speaker 1: really missed him the past couple of games. That he's

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Speaker 1: been out, but I think it'll come good, maybe next year,

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Speaker 1: maybe with a different manager.

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Speaker 2: I'm not blaming Slot for this, but given the.

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Speaker 1: Delonzo was probably their first choice when Kop left and

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Speaker 1: then he went to Real Madrid, they might have settled

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Speaker 1: for Slot. I hate that word because he won the

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Speaker 1: league last year. But I still have the utmost faith

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Speaker 1: in the club like I always have. Let's go to

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Speaker 1: a talkback.

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Speaker 10: Mark, have you ever been sued or has anyone ever

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Speaker 10: threatened to sue you for anything? And conversely, have you

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Speaker 10: ever filed a lawsuit against anyone or any entity?

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Speaker 5: Thanks?

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Speaker 1: Never filed a lawsuit, got threatened with the couple, nobody

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Speaker 1: followed through and maybe you know, I can't remember. Maybe

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Speaker 1: one guy did when I worked the twelve fifty followed

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Speaker 1: too briefly.

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Speaker 2: But it ended in nothing because it was nothing.

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Speaker 1: Let's go to a talkback, Hey, double M What are

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Speaker 1: some of the dumbest hills people choose to die on.

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Speaker 2: That's a good question, because I probably die on a

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Speaker 2: lot of them. I don't know.

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Speaker 1: The big thing that's going on now that I don't

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Speaker 1: get is people will shun friends because.

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Speaker 2: They disagree politically. I just do not in the least

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Speaker 2: get that.

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Speaker 1: Is that a hill to die on? I don't know,

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Speaker 1: but it happens and I don't like it. Let's go

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Speaker 1: another talkback.

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Speaker 11: Hey, Mark.

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Speaker 4: Depending on the amount of request that you get, how

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Speaker 4: many cameos do you usually record in a week?

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Speaker 1: Thanks, I've only recorded one cameo in the past two weeks.

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Speaker 1: There have been weeks where I've done like like ten

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Speaker 1: or eleven. If you'd like to get a cameo for me,

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Speaker 1: birthday wishes, let's go penns see you later, Tom, and

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Speaker 1: stuff like that.

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Speaker 2: Go to go on my Twitter.

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Speaker 1: You can log onto my excuse me, tap into my

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Speaker 1: cameo there and all the proceeds right now going to

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Speaker 1: the Mary Lemeux Foundation for Cancer Research because we already

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Speaker 1: raised over five thousand dollars for the Pegy and Madden

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Speaker 1: Scholarship Fund at Northfields High School. All right up next

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Speaker 1: and going to talk to the coach of the River

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Speaker 1: Haunts USL champions they open up their title defense on Saturday.

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Speaker 2: Going to talk to Rob Vincent one oh five nine.

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Speaker 1: The Pittsburgh River Hunts Soccer Club opens defense of the

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Speaker 1: USL championship this Saturday at Charleston South Carolina joining me

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Speaker 1: to talk about the upcoming season is the head coach,

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Speaker 1: Rob Vincent. Rob, you took over late last season and

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Speaker 1: presided over the run to the championship, and it was

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Speaker 1: quite a whirlwind.

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Speaker 2: And you're thirty five.

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Speaker 1: What do you do for an encore that's pretty young

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Speaker 1: for head coach, let alone winning a title.

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Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, I've sent the Bob fort they eh, Now,

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Speaker 11: so I guess that's probably the standard every year now,

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Speaker 11: I suppose, But yeah, I mean great to end the

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Speaker 11: season the way we did and excited to get the

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Speaker 11: ball rolling on Saturday.

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Speaker 2: Now, how much turnovers the roster had? I think I saw.

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Speaker 1: It's about fourteen new players joining the team, and the

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Speaker 1: biggest loss is the goalkeeper Eric Dick, who had such

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Speaker 1: a great playoff last season.

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Speaker 2: He's gone to Indianapolis. How do you replace a guy

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Speaker 2: like that? What do you have to pick from?

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Speaker 11: Yeah, well, we signed Nico Capazzano as a goalkeeper. He's

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Speaker 11: a guy who played a pitch, so he's well known

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Speaker 11: to the city and the community. Had a good season

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Speaker 11: in Monterrey last year in the USL, so we're pretty

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Speaker 11: happy with him. He's a different profile to Eric, but

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Speaker 11: Bushy our goalkeeper. Coach has been working hard with him

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Speaker 11: to get him ready for this Saturday. You're right to

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Speaker 11: a couple of high profile guys who we lost in

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Speaker 11: the off season, but I think on the whole, we

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Speaker 11: were able to keep a good core of the guys together,

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Speaker 11: and so you know, when you see our lineup step

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Speaker 11: outs on Saturday, there's gonna be a lot of guys

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Speaker 11: who've been here for a few years and know what

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Speaker 11: you know, Pitts Beg Socker is all about. So not

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Speaker 11: too concerned about, you know, the couple of guys that

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Speaker 11: we did lose. I think the guys who've come in

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Speaker 11: will help us. And again, a lot of continuity from

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Speaker 11: last season.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's worth noting that the continuity the guys returning

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Speaker 1: and midfield seems like it is mostly intact with Danny

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Speaker 1: griff and the captain, Robbie Mertch the local guy. Could

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Speaker 1: that be the strength of the team, that backbone in

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Speaker 1: the middle of the park.

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Speaker 11: Absolutely, Yeah, that was a big part of our discussions

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Speaker 11: early in the off season, was ensuring that we kept

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Speaker 11: those guys together. Bradley Sampled, Danny Griffin, and Robbie Metz

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Speaker 11: were all out of contract. Jackson walty too. Well, we've

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Speaker 11: got those guys these signs of new deals. We've also

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Speaker 11: added a few of the experienced midfielders as well, So

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Speaker 11: that's certainly a strength of OZ and certainly will will

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Speaker 11: help the way we play. But yeah, I think you know,

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Speaker 11: that's certainly a strength of OZ. And then you know,

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Speaker 11: hopefully we can can can keep the defensive strength intact

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Speaker 11: and add more goals next this coming season as well well.

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Speaker 2: In that vein.

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Speaker 1: One big acquisition is Albert dqua Is coming back from

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Speaker 1: Rhode Island FC. He was the USL's leading scorer in

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty three when he was with the River Hounds.

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Speaker 1: What have you seen from him in training and how

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Speaker 1: much does Albert have left in the tank at twenty

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Speaker 1: eight years old.

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Speaker 11: Oh, he's got plenty. Yeah, we've We've been really happy

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Speaker 11: with him this preseason. You know, he was he was

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Speaker 11: used a little differently in Rhode Island, you know, for

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Speaker 11: better or for West I think you know, we obviously

843
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Speaker 11: had Augie Williams here last year, and so we had

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Speaker 11: a big decision to make going into the offseason do

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Speaker 11: we keep Augie around. We knew that Peque was available

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Speaker 11: and wanted to come back, So that was a big

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Speaker 11: decision that we made. I think he fits out profile

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Speaker 11: a little bit better. He's someone who's willing to work

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Speaker 11: really hard defensively from the front. He obviously has a

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Speaker 11: great record of scoring goals, and again, I think he's

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Speaker 11: just hungry to get back to, you know, playing at

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Speaker 11: his best again. He's had a couple of wide season

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Speaker 11: in Rhode Island in terms of his output, and I

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00:41:19,520 --> 00:41:21,040
Speaker 11: still think he's got plenty left in the tank.

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Speaker 1: What's the pressure like the defend the title on you

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Speaker 1: and on the team, especially one that was one in

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00:41:27,800 --> 00:41:31,160
Speaker 1: very deserving but odd fashion. Rob, you guys posted four

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Speaker 1: clean sheets and four playoff games but only scored the

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Speaker 1: one goal. You had to win three games on penalties.

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Speaker 1: That's that's a well won title, but a strangely won title.

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Speaker 11: Absolutely.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 11: I mean, I think for us, it's going to be

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Speaker 11: making sure that we continue the you know, the level

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Speaker 11: that the organization has set over the past several years

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Speaker 11: of being a really good defensive team. I think that's

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Speaker 11: something we have to continue, and then obviously finding ways

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Speaker 11: two score more goals.

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Speaker 4: We've we've done.

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Speaker 11: We feel as though we've done a good job in

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Speaker 11: the offseason in terms of recruiting some guys who will

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Speaker 11: will help us score more goals. Albertik was obviously one.

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Speaker 11: Elliott Goldthorpe. We feel as a player who can have goals,

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Speaker 11: dam Bassetton of the player who's scored a lot of

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Speaker 11: goals in his career, so Trevor Man the twenty twenty

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Speaker 11: three League one leading goal scorer. So we've tried to

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Speaker 11: add players who we believe can score more goals for us.

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Speaker 11: You know, in terms of the pressure, you know, I

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Speaker 11: think we tried to put that to one side. You know,

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Speaker 11: I think we you know, attack the season as best

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Speaker 11: we can, try and get up to a really good

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Speaker 11: start and see where the season takes us. But you know,

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Speaker 11: our goal will has always beat to try and finish

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Speaker 11: in that top four, get a home playoff game, and

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Speaker 11: then you know, as you know, as you guys know

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Speaker 11: American sport, it's all about you know, kind of hitting

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Speaker 11: the hitting the end of the season on the right

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Speaker 11: note and trying to put another run together.

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Speaker 1: Well, I imagine you'd think like I do for soccer, Rob,

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Speaker 1: I'd rather there weren't a playoff and you win the

891
00:42:48,680 --> 00:42:50,719
Speaker 1: league or you don't. The standing speak for themselves, but

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Speaker 1: like you said, that's America.

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Speaker 11: Yeah, I mean, I do think that the you know,

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Speaker 11: the best team in the league generally is the team

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Speaker 11: that finishes with the most points at the end of

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Speaker 11: the season. But if that was the case, then we

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Speaker 11: wouldn't have a championship to our name last season. And

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Speaker 11: you know, it really was that perfect storm of hit

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Speaker 11: and form at the right time. And so yeah, we

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Speaker 11: want to build a team here that not only competes

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Speaker 11: at the top of the league throughout the regular season,

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Speaker 11: but then it's also positions well to put a championship

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Speaker 11: run together as well. So that's the challenge for myself,

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Speaker 11: the staff, the players as we go into twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 2: You have an interesting game on the seventeenth.

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Speaker 1: It's a cup game against steel City FC, which is

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Speaker 1: a local team. They're semi pro, but they're very good.

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Speaker 1: That kind of presents a unique kind of challenge, doesn't it.

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Speaker 5: It does.

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Speaker 11: I think it's great for the Pittsburgh community. I don't

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Speaker 11: remember the last time too Pittsburgh teams played against each other,

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Speaker 11: but I know it's been several decades. Yeah, I think

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Speaker 11: it's gonna be a great night for Pittsburgh.

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Speaker 5: Soccer.

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Speaker 11: You know, Steel City has a great fan base. Obviously

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Speaker 11: we'll have plenty of fans out on that night too,

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Speaker 11: So yes, we want to win the game. It's a

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Speaker 11: game that realistically that we should be, you know, winning

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Speaker 11: for I think it will be a great night and

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Speaker 11: Ffield City and give it absolutely everything.

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Speaker 1: They go, Rob, I did not know you're from Liverpool,

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Speaker 1: but the accent certainly gives away. And I did not

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Speaker 1: know you were an Evertonian. That last part kind of sucks,

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Speaker 1: but but I mean I make do I suppose.

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Speaker 11: Yeah, I don't hold it against you too.

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Speaker 5: Ma.

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Speaker 11: So I've been listening to you for a while and

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Speaker 11: I'm at a pleasure to finally.

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Speaker 5: Talk to you. And yeah, I guess I just have

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Speaker 5: to look past the fact that you're a Red well.

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Speaker 1: Just like i'd looked like to look past the fact

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Speaker 1: we lost the Wolves yesterday. Rob, this has been terrific.

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Speaker 1: Thank you very much.

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Speaker 2: I'll see at the stadium and good luck in the opener.

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Speaker 11: Thank you very much, Mak much appreciated.

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Speaker 1: Rob Vinci used to play for the team, scored a

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Speaker 1: bunch of goals twenty one goals in twenty fifteen. In fact,

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Speaker 1: played in MLS for a bit too. He's a quality

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Speaker 1: soccer man for sure, quality football man, I should say