1 00:00:00,440 --> 00:00:09,240 Speaker 1: Here's the set, here's the hole, here's the boot by 2 00:00:09,320 --> 00:00:11,960 Speaker 1: Loop and that kick is better. 3 00:00:12,280 --> 00:00:22,599 Speaker 2: Right, bloop Miston, You're Pittsburgh Steelers AREFC North champions? 4 00:00:24,440 --> 00:00:26,479 Speaker 3: Are you kidding me? 5 00:00:28,280 --> 00:00:28,480 Speaker 4: Oh? 6 00:00:28,560 --> 00:00:29,960 Speaker 3: Here in the call even better? 7 00:00:31,120 --> 00:00:34,599 Speaker 4: Tyler loop wide on a forty four yard field goal, 8 00:00:34,640 --> 00:00:41,280 Speaker 4: wide right. And the Pittsburgh Steelers escape from Acroshre Stadium 9 00:00:41,800 --> 00:00:46,120 Speaker 4: with a win over the Ravens, and they are AFC 10 00:00:46,159 --> 00:00:50,040 Speaker 4: North champions, and they are headed to the postseason to 11 00:00:50,080 --> 00:00:56,040 Speaker 4: take on the Houston Texans in Monday Night Football next Monday, 12 00:00:56,040 --> 00:00:58,120 Speaker 4: eight point fifteen pm. 13 00:00:58,520 --> 00:01:01,280 Speaker 3: I don't even care. Didn't even care that it's another 14 00:01:01,360 --> 00:01:04,240 Speaker 3: primetime game, didn't even upset me. Happy to be in 15 00:01:04,319 --> 00:01:08,399 Speaker 3: the postseason. That game had. 16 00:01:08,360 --> 00:01:13,640 Speaker 5: Everything, including the stress and the need for dumbs. 17 00:01:14,280 --> 00:01:18,040 Speaker 4: I don't know if I can take it. 18 00:01:18,040 --> 00:01:22,479 Speaker 3: It might have been better for my health if they 19 00:01:22,520 --> 00:01:24,800 Speaker 3: had lost, and I could have just grieved. 20 00:01:25,600 --> 00:01:27,880 Speaker 4: If I have to go through that again next Monday Night, 21 00:01:27,920 --> 00:01:30,920 Speaker 4: there's a good chance I'm gonna stroke out or something. 22 00:01:31,560 --> 00:01:33,319 Speaker 3: I was watching the second half. 23 00:01:33,360 --> 00:01:37,440 Speaker 4: I'm by myself, and I mean my teeth were gritting 24 00:01:37,480 --> 00:01:38,520 Speaker 4: the entire time. 25 00:01:38,959 --> 00:01:43,399 Speaker 3: The Steelers were I couldn't figure them out. 26 00:01:43,800 --> 00:01:49,920 Speaker 4: After the first series, the defense settled down, I thought, 27 00:01:50,280 --> 00:01:54,840 Speaker 4: and really started playing well, except for these four ridiculous 28 00:01:54,880 --> 00:01:55,960 Speaker 4: plays that happened. 29 00:01:56,240 --> 00:01:59,320 Speaker 3: I mean, even the blitz on that. 30 00:01:59,280 --> 00:02:02,760 Speaker 4: First series that sets up a touchdown that would just 31 00:02:02,800 --> 00:02:05,640 Speaker 4: look too easy that I was like, Okay, that was 32 00:02:05,720 --> 00:02:09,280 Speaker 4: kind of a we didn't get their situation and Jalen 33 00:02:09,400 --> 00:02:13,000 Speaker 4: Ramsey just misplayed that, not like they didn't have their 34 00:02:13,040 --> 00:02:15,480 Speaker 4: bleep together. And as the game went on, you know, 35 00:02:16,560 --> 00:02:19,080 Speaker 4: Derrick Henry's just ripping off all these huge runs over 36 00:02:19,080 --> 00:02:21,280 Speaker 4: one hundred yards in the first half, and I'm thinking, 37 00:02:22,360 --> 00:02:25,720 Speaker 4: it still doesn't look bad. It still looks like we 38 00:02:25,760 --> 00:02:29,280 Speaker 4: could be in this game, going down the field at 39 00:02:29,320 --> 00:02:32,040 Speaker 4: the end of the first half with a chance to 40 00:02:32,120 --> 00:02:35,720 Speaker 4: score and coming to way empty handed on a play 41 00:02:35,760 --> 00:02:39,120 Speaker 4: call that a lot of people hate. I don't know 42 00:02:39,160 --> 00:02:41,840 Speaker 4: what that play looks like. If Friarmouth blocks his guy 43 00:02:41,880 --> 00:02:45,680 Speaker 4: there and Kenneth Gainwell is one on one with the 44 00:02:46,120 --> 00:02:48,160 Speaker 4: entire left side of the end zone to try to 45 00:02:48,240 --> 00:02:50,840 Speaker 4: juke the guy, I mean, I don't know. If I 46 00:02:50,840 --> 00:02:53,920 Speaker 4: don't love his chances there, maybe there was something better 47 00:02:53,919 --> 00:02:54,600 Speaker 4: to write up there. 48 00:02:54,639 --> 00:02:57,960 Speaker 3: I don't know. Alas they get nothing there, and I'm thinking. 49 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:00,639 Speaker 4: Boy, if you don't go right down and score touchdown here, 50 00:03:00,680 --> 00:03:02,960 Speaker 4: it's gonna be gonna be really rough on you. And 51 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:07,040 Speaker 4: they do, and the Steelers did. They jam it right 52 00:03:07,080 --> 00:03:09,280 Speaker 4: down the field and the game was on. That second 53 00:03:09,360 --> 00:03:13,440 Speaker 4: half was insane, but the fourth quarter, my god. 54 00:03:13,440 --> 00:03:16,959 Speaker 3: My god, lamar scripted. 55 00:03:17,680 --> 00:03:23,120 Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, that was to end the NFL regular season. 56 00:03:23,480 --> 00:03:26,320 Speaker 3: They could not have asked for a better product. 57 00:03:26,520 --> 00:03:30,240 Speaker 4: And it almost made losing to the Browns worthwhile, But 58 00:03:30,440 --> 00:03:33,800 Speaker 4: not really, not really, because I had to spend an 59 00:03:33,960 --> 00:03:36,480 Speaker 4: entire week just like you people did. We lost to 60 00:03:36,560 --> 00:03:40,440 Speaker 4: the Browns, and instead of enjoying that week between Christmas 61 00:03:40,520 --> 00:03:44,200 Speaker 4: and New Year's you spent the whole time thinking I'm 62 00:03:44,240 --> 00:03:46,920 Speaker 4: gonna have to stay up late on Sunday to have 63 00:03:47,080 --> 00:03:52,160 Speaker 4: my heart broken. And the just the anxiety and stress 64 00:03:52,200 --> 00:03:54,720 Speaker 4: of that alone was pissing me off against this team. 65 00:03:55,200 --> 00:03:57,760 Speaker 4: But what they did yesterday, in particular, I thought Cam 66 00:03:57,800 --> 00:04:01,600 Speaker 4: Hayward just had a game for the ages. And when 67 00:04:01,600 --> 00:04:03,200 Speaker 4: I say the ages, I mean all the people who 68 00:04:03,240 --> 00:04:05,200 Speaker 4: are as old as he is, because he is thirty 69 00:04:05,240 --> 00:04:09,240 Speaker 4: six years old and there's no other ages his age 70 00:04:09,520 --> 00:04:13,320 Speaker 4: playing like he is. Uh and Connor Hayward for that matter. 71 00:04:13,480 --> 00:04:15,400 Speaker 4: I mean I don't you know. I think he got 72 00:04:15,440 --> 00:04:17,560 Speaker 4: caught in the crossfire by a lot of Steelers fans 73 00:04:17,560 --> 00:04:21,560 Speaker 4: this year who were upset with the Cam Hayward contract 74 00:04:21,640 --> 00:04:25,280 Speaker 4: situation and for some reason lumped him is as useless. 75 00:04:25,320 --> 00:04:28,039 Speaker 4: He's been outstanding this year and just come up with 76 00:04:28,080 --> 00:04:30,599 Speaker 4: some really big plays. I'm not sure I love the 77 00:04:30,640 --> 00:04:34,080 Speaker 4: brotherly shove from over a yard away. 78 00:04:34,600 --> 00:04:37,240 Speaker 5: Well, no, that's the brotherly because when it's not a 79 00:04:37,480 --> 00:04:39,720 Speaker 5: tush push, it's a steel c. 80 00:04:39,839 --> 00:04:43,559 Speaker 4: Well, because you had no Darnell Washington, you had Cam 81 00:04:43,600 --> 00:04:47,160 Speaker 4: Hayward pushing little brother Connor. So that's why some people 82 00:04:47,160 --> 00:04:50,440 Speaker 4: were the brotherly shove and otherly things. 83 00:04:50,480 --> 00:04:54,320 Speaker 3: They were calling it something of that effect. Uh. 84 00:04:54,640 --> 00:04:58,720 Speaker 4: Nonwithstanding, Look, I had some issues with the play calling 85 00:04:59,080 --> 00:05:02,080 Speaker 4: in big, big, big way, particularly in that first half. 86 00:05:02,080 --> 00:05:06,120 Speaker 4: I thought Arthur Smith was an absolute mess, a disaster. 87 00:05:07,200 --> 00:05:09,840 Speaker 4: But Aaron Rodgers, who I'm not sure if all of 88 00:05:09,920 --> 00:05:11,920 Speaker 4: those timeouts he burned were because of what was going 89 00:05:11,960 --> 00:05:13,800 Speaker 4: on in his helmet or if he was just playing 90 00:05:13,920 --> 00:05:16,160 Speaker 4: chess a little bit longer than he should have been. 91 00:05:16,520 --> 00:05:19,440 Speaker 4: It didn't end up burning him those timeouts, but boy, 92 00:05:20,040 --> 00:05:22,360 Speaker 4: that seemed like a scary scenario. That was just one 93 00:05:22,480 --> 00:05:24,919 Speaker 4: other factor that he had to contend with there in 94 00:05:25,000 --> 00:05:29,080 Speaker 4: terms of managing the stress of that second half. The 95 00:05:29,120 --> 00:05:31,839 Speaker 4: way they were dicing up the Ravens defense after Kyle 96 00:05:31,880 --> 00:05:36,839 Speaker 4: Hamilton got hurt was just you knew they could score. 97 00:05:36,920 --> 00:05:43,400 Speaker 4: So when they completely blew that coverage on the last 98 00:05:44,160 --> 00:05:46,560 Speaker 4: or second to last offensive series for the Ravens where 99 00:05:46,560 --> 00:05:50,440 Speaker 4: they had another one of those wide open touchdowns to 100 00:05:50,680 --> 00:05:53,960 Speaker 4: Zay Flowers, I thought this could actually help them. 101 00:05:54,160 --> 00:05:55,560 Speaker 3: Now the Steelers got the ball with two and a 102 00:05:55,600 --> 00:05:58,000 Speaker 3: half left, Like if. 103 00:05:57,920 --> 00:05:59,720 Speaker 4: The Ravens would have had a long slog of a 104 00:05:59,800 --> 00:06:02,680 Speaker 4: d and then banged one in there, that would have 105 00:06:02,680 --> 00:06:06,359 Speaker 4: been brutal. So I thought, okay, this might work to 106 00:06:06,400 --> 00:06:09,400 Speaker 4: our advantage in a weird way. And if anything, Aaron 107 00:06:09,440 --> 00:06:11,880 Speaker 4: Rodgers drove them down and scored too quickly fifty five 108 00:06:11,880 --> 00:06:17,119 Speaker 4: seconds left on the clock, and then the kickoff after 109 00:06:17,240 --> 00:06:20,880 Speaker 4: Boz misses the extra point, which when that happened, all 110 00:06:20,920 --> 00:06:21,960 Speaker 4: of our hearts sunk and. 111 00:06:21,880 --> 00:06:25,000 Speaker 3: We thought, oh my god, this is how it's gonna end. 112 00:06:25,520 --> 00:06:30,760 Speaker 4: The guy who's been unstoppable, mister reliable for us all 113 00:06:30,839 --> 00:06:34,200 Speaker 4: year long misses an extra point. 114 00:06:34,600 --> 00:06:36,360 Speaker 3: Like we said, he's just he was just hitting bad 115 00:06:36,400 --> 00:06:37,080 Speaker 3: balls all day. 116 00:06:37,160 --> 00:06:40,520 Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, it just did not look good coming 117 00:06:40,520 --> 00:06:43,960 Speaker 4: off of his foot. Yesterday they were talking about how 118 00:06:44,040 --> 00:06:47,200 Speaker 4: in pregame he looked bad and he was missing all 119 00:06:47,240 --> 00:06:51,440 Speaker 4: the long kicks. Somehow managed that long fifty four yarder through. 120 00:06:51,760 --> 00:06:54,320 Speaker 5: That's what I was like, Wow, how to erase a 121 00:06:54,360 --> 00:06:55,640 Speaker 5: fifty four yard field goal? 122 00:06:56,720 --> 00:06:56,880 Speaker 6: Oh? 123 00:06:56,960 --> 00:07:00,720 Speaker 3: Yeah, miss an extra point? How to do it? 124 00:07:02,200 --> 00:07:03,960 Speaker 4: He had a twenty five yard field goal as well 125 00:07:04,000 --> 00:07:05,880 Speaker 4: as a fifty seven yard field goal he actually hit, 126 00:07:05,920 --> 00:07:09,920 Speaker 4: which is amazing. So when that happens and Lamar's only 127 00:07:09,920 --> 00:07:12,400 Speaker 4: got to get them, you know, in the field goal range, 128 00:07:12,400 --> 00:07:15,480 Speaker 4: and they start off with a huge kickoff. 129 00:07:15,080 --> 00:07:20,600 Speaker 3: Return, I mean I just started packing things up, just like, oh, 130 00:07:20,640 --> 00:07:22,160 Speaker 3: it's over. That's it. 131 00:07:23,360 --> 00:07:25,640 Speaker 4: It's I'll just let this play out and I'll put 132 00:07:25,640 --> 00:07:27,880 Speaker 4: the I turned off all the lights and had the 133 00:07:27,960 --> 00:07:30,480 Speaker 4: remote control in my hand waiting to just turn it off. 134 00:07:30,520 --> 00:07:33,280 Speaker 3: The second the kick went through the uprights. 135 00:07:32,800 --> 00:07:37,960 Speaker 4: And then the Steelers defense stiffened and it was crazy, 136 00:07:38,680 --> 00:07:40,520 Speaker 4: and all of a sudden it looked like they were 137 00:07:40,520 --> 00:07:42,320 Speaker 4: gonna rise up and take the game away from Lamar. 138 00:07:43,120 --> 00:07:46,440 Speaker 3: And then it's fourth and seven and I'm thinking to myself, 139 00:07:46,520 --> 00:07:48,960 Speaker 3: fourth and seven, I like these odds. 140 00:07:49,640 --> 00:07:53,360 Speaker 4: The Steelers defense, who's been on fire the whole second half, 141 00:07:55,000 --> 00:07:58,040 Speaker 4: but no Nate Herbig on the field, no Cam Hayward 142 00:07:58,120 --> 00:07:58,560 Speaker 4: on the field. 143 00:07:58,560 --> 00:08:03,480 Speaker 3: And that fourth is a why, I don't know. They 144 00:08:03,720 --> 00:08:04,840 Speaker 3: had a chance to make a play. 145 00:08:04,840 --> 00:08:11,840 Speaker 4: TJ almost stole the game right there, and somehow Lamar 146 00:08:12,360 --> 00:08:17,240 Speaker 4: Jackson threads the needle to Isaiah Likely and once again 147 00:08:18,360 --> 00:08:23,000 Speaker 4: Jalen Ramsey plays the ball terrible there and on fourth 148 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:26,200 Speaker 4: and seven they convert in the field goal range, and 149 00:08:26,320 --> 00:08:28,720 Speaker 4: my god, all of our hearts dropped, did they not? 150 00:08:28,840 --> 00:08:30,800 Speaker 3: I mean that was it for me. 151 00:08:30,920 --> 00:08:34,160 Speaker 5: I'm like, okay, like you, I was time to put 152 00:08:34,200 --> 00:08:36,079 Speaker 5: the cheese away. 153 00:08:36,160 --> 00:08:36,679 Speaker 3: This is it. 154 00:08:36,920 --> 00:08:41,000 Speaker 7: This is back to past pressure, coming steps up floats 155 00:08:41,080 --> 00:08:44,839 Speaker 7: down field, and it is caught a leaping grab by 156 00:08:44,960 --> 00:08:50,240 Speaker 7: Isaiah Likely at the twenty two yard line and the Ravens. 157 00:08:49,760 --> 00:08:50,920 Speaker 3: Have called time out. 158 00:08:51,360 --> 00:08:56,079 Speaker 7: Tremendous catch, a twenty eight yard pickup, only twelve seconds 159 00:08:56,080 --> 00:08:58,880 Speaker 7: to remain here at Akroshur Stadium. 160 00:08:59,200 --> 00:09:04,079 Speaker 4: Now, at this point I had to be thinking if 161 00:09:04,080 --> 00:09:08,200 Speaker 4: I'm in the crowd full of people there at Akroshuer Stadium, 162 00:09:08,240 --> 00:09:10,400 Speaker 4: which I was not, because it was a night game, 163 00:09:10,440 --> 00:09:13,560 Speaker 4: and we have this gig I did not go. I 164 00:09:13,600 --> 00:09:17,280 Speaker 4: regretted that almost the entire way until that happened, and 165 00:09:17,320 --> 00:09:19,640 Speaker 4: I thought, oh, well, I'm glad I'm not there now, 166 00:09:20,320 --> 00:09:23,679 Speaker 4: you know, I gotta lean on some things here that'll 167 00:09:23,920 --> 00:09:27,760 Speaker 4: prop me up here emotionally, at least I'm not there 168 00:09:27,840 --> 00:09:30,080 Speaker 4: freezing and have to figure out how to get out 169 00:09:30,120 --> 00:09:33,080 Speaker 4: of the parking lot and get home and blah blah blah. 170 00:09:33,480 --> 00:09:35,120 Speaker 3: And then one of the weirdest things happened. 171 00:09:37,400 --> 00:09:43,200 Speaker 4: Tyler Loop Baltimore kicker comes out instead of with twelve 172 00:09:43,240 --> 00:09:46,480 Speaker 4: seconds left, hand of timeout, advancing ball a little further, 173 00:09:47,679 --> 00:09:50,839 Speaker 4: which with Derek Henry, heck figure you could probably get 174 00:09:50,880 --> 00:09:52,560 Speaker 4: him a little closer there if you really wanted to. 175 00:09:54,360 --> 00:09:59,720 Speaker 4: Harbaugh decides forty two yards ought to be fine, takes 176 00:09:59,720 --> 00:10:01,720 Speaker 4: an he backs him up two more yards. 177 00:10:02,040 --> 00:10:05,360 Speaker 3: Eh, forty four yards. What could the problem be there? 178 00:10:05,640 --> 00:10:09,880 Speaker 4: It's the hardest field to kick on over forty yards 179 00:10:10,280 --> 00:10:14,000 Speaker 4: in the league. They bring out Tyler Loup for that 180 00:10:14,040 --> 00:10:16,920 Speaker 4: field goal, and for those of us watching at home, 181 00:10:18,160 --> 00:10:23,600 Speaker 4: Mike Turrico, who I'm always hitt and miss on, he 182 00:10:23,760 --> 00:10:28,480 Speaker 4: was brilliant here and gifted the Stealers fans a kicker 183 00:10:28,600 --> 00:10:34,840 Speaker 4: jinx that we could not have prayed for with his words. 184 00:10:35,600 --> 00:10:38,679 Speaker 8: Is tellinglikely how special that play was to set up 185 00:10:38,679 --> 00:10:42,040 Speaker 8: this moment for the rookie out of Arizona. The Ravens, 186 00:10:42,080 --> 00:10:46,040 Speaker 8: of course, had justin Tucker for so long, the most 187 00:10:46,080 --> 00:10:48,960 Speaker 8: accurate kicker in the history of the league. Rogers can't 188 00:10:48,960 --> 00:10:51,520 Speaker 8: believe what he has just witnessed, what might be the 189 00:10:51,640 --> 00:10:54,640 Speaker 8: end for him. But they went around the country and 190 00:10:54,760 --> 00:10:57,360 Speaker 8: spoke to a lot of the kickers who were coming out, 191 00:10:58,400 --> 00:11:00,920 Speaker 8: and they decided Tyler Loop was made of the right 192 00:11:01,040 --> 00:11:02,439 Speaker 8: stuff for moments like this. 193 00:11:04,520 --> 00:11:06,880 Speaker 3: He now has a chance to win the division for 194 00:11:06,960 --> 00:11:07,600 Speaker 3: the Ravens. 195 00:11:09,040 --> 00:11:12,600 Speaker 4: He was made of the right stuff for moments like 196 00:11:12,720 --> 00:11:17,880 Speaker 4: this and now has a chance to win the division, the. 197 00:11:17,640 --> 00:11:20,839 Speaker 8: Final playoff the regular season for the final spot in 198 00:11:20,920 --> 00:11:21,559 Speaker 8: the playoffs. 199 00:11:22,280 --> 00:11:31,480 Speaker 3: Tyler Luke from forty four s food hoping I'm the 200 00:11:31,520 --> 00:11:37,559 Speaker 3: Steelers to the North. Oh my good. 201 00:11:39,360 --> 00:11:44,520 Speaker 4: Ravens fans just absolutely plots right there. I mean, they 202 00:11:44,720 --> 00:11:49,560 Speaker 4: just their insides explode watching that. Tyler Loop, a rookie, 203 00:11:50,200 --> 00:11:53,760 Speaker 4: a kid, who I look, I'm taking my balls for him? Okay, 204 00:11:54,240 --> 00:11:58,600 Speaker 4: I am Did you see him? After the game? 205 00:11:59,320 --> 00:12:00,240 Speaker 3: I didn't want to look. 206 00:12:00,640 --> 00:12:04,880 Speaker 4: Harbaugh has his arm around him walking up the ramp. 207 00:12:05,400 --> 00:12:07,320 Speaker 3: Oh God, and he's. 208 00:12:07,160 --> 00:12:12,080 Speaker 4: Got loop has his gator pulled up over his nose 209 00:12:12,240 --> 00:12:13,960 Speaker 4: all the way up to his eyes. 210 00:12:16,040 --> 00:12:17,119 Speaker 3: I mean, look. 211 00:12:18,400 --> 00:12:20,560 Speaker 4: There, but for the grace of God, that is the game. 212 00:12:20,640 --> 00:12:23,199 Speaker 4: That is why we watch. I get he's a professional. 213 00:12:23,559 --> 00:12:27,839 Speaker 4: I can't Oh watching that was hard. But that might 214 00:12:27,840 --> 00:12:30,439 Speaker 4: have been Harbaugh walking him right out of the building. 215 00:12:30,480 --> 00:12:32,199 Speaker 3: I don't know. I might come here a little bit, 216 00:12:32,720 --> 00:12:33,440 Speaker 3: I get the hell out here. 217 00:12:33,480 --> 00:12:35,040 Speaker 4: You're gonna be kick him in the button, you know, 218 00:12:35,240 --> 00:12:36,560 Speaker 4: lock him outside the locker room. 219 00:12:36,760 --> 00:12:38,800 Speaker 5: Maybe Harba's like, we're both going, buddy. 220 00:12:38,559 --> 00:12:40,360 Speaker 3: They I think that might be the case there. 221 00:12:40,360 --> 00:12:42,120 Speaker 4: I mean, there was a lot of speculation about what 222 00:12:42,160 --> 00:12:45,960 Speaker 4: happens post game there. Does Mike Tomlin if he loses 223 00:12:46,000 --> 00:12:49,280 Speaker 4: that game move on to greener television pastures, Well, that 224 00:12:49,320 --> 00:12:51,400 Speaker 4: still might be in play. If that's the case. There 225 00:12:51,440 --> 00:12:53,280 Speaker 4: was a lot of thought about that. Tariko has been 226 00:12:53,280 --> 00:12:55,760 Speaker 4: banging that drum quite a bit. Mike Tomlin when he 227 00:12:55,760 --> 00:12:57,600 Speaker 4: talked with Tony Dongey didn't sound like a guy to 228 00:12:57,640 --> 00:13:01,280 Speaker 4: me he was ready to retire anytime soon. Any modicum 229 00:13:01,280 --> 00:13:04,280 Speaker 4: of success in the playoffs. I think that might change, 230 00:13:04,720 --> 00:13:07,160 Speaker 4: you know, as much as I was not a fan 231 00:13:07,240 --> 00:13:09,800 Speaker 4: of Aaron Rodgers coming in here this year, and I 232 00:13:09,800 --> 00:13:12,440 Speaker 4: still think it was. There was lots of flaws to it, 233 00:13:12,480 --> 00:13:16,640 Speaker 4: and certainly he was their third choice. He ended up 234 00:13:16,679 --> 00:13:18,760 Speaker 4: being you know, the other one would have been Donald. 235 00:13:18,760 --> 00:13:22,000 Speaker 4: I mean Donald, You saw how amazing he was this weekend. 236 00:13:22,520 --> 00:13:26,520 Speaker 4: Short of that, realistic acquisitions for the Steelers. 237 00:13:26,120 --> 00:13:27,600 Speaker 3: I don't know that they do any better than they 238 00:13:27,600 --> 00:13:29,480 Speaker 3: did with Aaron Rodgers when it was all said and done. 239 00:13:29,600 --> 00:13:32,480 Speaker 4: Also, he changed his behavior for all those people going, oh, 240 00:13:32,480 --> 00:13:34,640 Speaker 4: I thought he was a little bad. Look, he didn't 241 00:13:34,720 --> 00:13:37,000 Speaker 4: do all the jackass things he had been doing. He 242 00:13:37,040 --> 00:13:40,280 Speaker 4: wasn't going on McAfee show every Tuesday during the season 243 00:13:40,520 --> 00:13:43,959 Speaker 4: stirring up a bunch of controversy and just thinking like, oh, well, 244 00:13:43,960 --> 00:13:47,440 Speaker 4: we can't have conversations now while being disingenuous about the 245 00:13:47,480 --> 00:13:49,760 Speaker 4: fact that like, when you say it, it has more 246 00:13:49,840 --> 00:13:52,840 Speaker 4: import and that's going to be the focus, and let's 247 00:13:52,920 --> 00:13:55,440 Speaker 4: make this about football. He did, and when he makes 248 00:13:55,480 --> 00:13:58,520 Speaker 4: it about football, it's hard to not love Aaron Rodgers, 249 00:13:59,080 --> 00:14:01,880 Speaker 4: even at his advance age. All the dumb things he 250 00:14:01,880 --> 00:14:03,320 Speaker 4: did last night, and I thought he did a couple 251 00:14:03,320 --> 00:14:05,840 Speaker 4: of dumb things, you know, missing John new Smith. 252 00:14:05,960 --> 00:14:08,120 Speaker 3: His footwork just looked really bad on that one. 253 00:14:08,160 --> 00:14:10,160 Speaker 4: I mean, I think that was in the was that 254 00:14:10,200 --> 00:14:12,760 Speaker 4: in the third quarter when he missed him, Yeah, and 255 00:14:15,120 --> 00:14:19,800 Speaker 4: also running for the first down and then stopping, you know, 256 00:14:19,920 --> 00:14:22,560 Speaker 4: on third down there and backing them up. You know, 257 00:14:22,560 --> 00:14:24,080 Speaker 4: he could have at least got it to fourth and 258 00:14:24,160 --> 00:14:26,080 Speaker 4: short there they ended up. I think that's when they 259 00:14:26,120 --> 00:14:27,760 Speaker 4: got one of those field goals, and that might have 260 00:14:27,760 --> 00:14:32,880 Speaker 4: been Boswl's fifty seven yarder. Also the timeout situation, you know, 261 00:14:32,960 --> 00:14:35,760 Speaker 4: he was doing a lot of playing chicken out there, 262 00:14:36,080 --> 00:14:38,760 Speaker 4: a lot of chess games that he kind of forfeited 263 00:14:38,760 --> 00:14:39,760 Speaker 4: by giving up those timeouts. 264 00:14:39,760 --> 00:14:42,120 Speaker 3: But I think the last one was on his helmet. 265 00:14:42,400 --> 00:14:46,560 Speaker 4: That being said, who had more poise without dk Metcalf 266 00:14:46,880 --> 00:14:49,080 Speaker 4: in the lineup and still tried to figure out a 267 00:14:49,080 --> 00:14:52,880 Speaker 4: way how to make MVS useful because that guy is 268 00:14:54,040 --> 00:14:55,280 Speaker 4: he's just a bag of potatoes. 269 00:14:56,840 --> 00:15:01,400 Speaker 5: Well he's a talented bag of potatoes times, but mostly 270 00:15:01,440 --> 00:15:04,120 Speaker 5: back of potatoes. But you get Metcalf back next week. 271 00:15:04,240 --> 00:15:07,920 Speaker 4: Yes, And nobody more relieved than Boss and Metcalf about 272 00:15:07,920 --> 00:15:10,760 Speaker 4: the way that that game ended, because they would have 273 00:15:10,800 --> 00:15:12,480 Speaker 4: they would have been sharing the goat tag. 274 00:15:12,560 --> 00:15:13,480 Speaker 3: I think on that one. 275 00:15:14,560 --> 00:15:16,680 Speaker 4: He figured out a way to get Adam Thielin involved 276 00:15:16,680 --> 00:15:18,760 Speaker 4: when he had to with just a gorgeous pass. Had 277 00:15:18,760 --> 00:15:20,960 Speaker 4: a rough first half but really bounced back and Aaron 278 00:15:21,040 --> 00:15:30,040 Speaker 4: Rodgers fourth quarter was masterful, absolutely masterful. The Steelers are 279 00:15:30,120 --> 00:15:36,720 Speaker 4: now hosting the Texans Monday night. Wild Card weekend culminates 280 00:15:37,400 --> 00:15:45,560 Speaker 4: with the Akerscher Stadium crowd reconvening for another prime time game. 281 00:15:45,920 --> 00:15:49,240 Speaker 3: Now, the last. 282 00:15:47,840 --> 00:15:51,920 Speaker 4: Four Steeler games or three games have basically just felt 283 00:15:51,920 --> 00:15:52,960 Speaker 4: like playoff games. 284 00:15:53,320 --> 00:15:54,600 Speaker 3: That Detroit game. 285 00:15:54,640 --> 00:15:57,680 Speaker 4: Was as fun to watch as any Steeler game that 286 00:15:57,920 --> 00:16:01,720 Speaker 4: I have ever sat down at a bar school in 287 00:16:01,720 --> 00:16:04,600 Speaker 4: Pittsburgh with a bar full of Steeler fans and watch 288 00:16:04,920 --> 00:16:07,920 Speaker 4: it was. It felt so good, it was cathartic. We 289 00:16:08,040 --> 00:16:12,240 Speaker 4: needed that win. We needed a game like that. Guys 290 00:16:12,240 --> 00:16:15,000 Speaker 4: came up big. Kenny Gainwell proved why he would eventually 291 00:16:15,320 --> 00:16:19,560 Speaker 4: be named the Steelers' MVP with that one, and all 292 00:16:19,600 --> 00:16:22,520 Speaker 4: the feelings were happening. And the Ravens lose that week 293 00:16:22,560 --> 00:16:25,000 Speaker 4: and think, now all we have to do is beat 294 00:16:25,040 --> 00:16:27,800 Speaker 4: the Browns and we're in the postseason. 295 00:16:28,160 --> 00:16:30,320 Speaker 3: But you're not gonna have DK because he punched that fan. 296 00:16:30,800 --> 00:16:36,920 Speaker 5: We won't need him it's the Browns, it turns into tears. 297 00:16:37,520 --> 00:16:37,640 Speaker 3: Now. 298 00:16:37,640 --> 00:16:39,920 Speaker 4: I have to tell you I had to watch that 299 00:16:40,520 --> 00:16:44,720 Speaker 4: with my significant other's family, and some of them are 300 00:16:44,800 --> 00:16:48,160 Speaker 4: Bears fans, and even some of the Pittsburgh ones. 301 00:16:49,200 --> 00:16:51,600 Speaker 3: Their investment in the team is not like what. 302 00:16:51,760 --> 00:16:56,440 Speaker 4: Minus Oh no, So I had to explain that while 303 00:16:56,520 --> 00:16:58,080 Speaker 4: some people are like, oh, it'll be fun to watch 304 00:16:58,120 --> 00:17:00,600 Speaker 4: the game with Brandy, I tried to say, no, it's 305 00:17:00,640 --> 00:17:05,320 Speaker 4: not because I was, just like every other Stealer fan, 306 00:17:06,200 --> 00:17:08,520 Speaker 4: not very confident, because when it came down to it, 307 00:17:08,520 --> 00:17:10,480 Speaker 4: it was like, well, these are the games we lose, right, 308 00:17:10,840 --> 00:17:13,080 Speaker 4: these are to the Browns who we have no business 309 00:17:13,240 --> 00:17:19,639 Speaker 4: shit Door Sanders and Dugger like you know, gets lost 310 00:17:19,640 --> 00:17:21,320 Speaker 4: in the lights and lets the Door beat them for 311 00:17:21,359 --> 00:17:24,879 Speaker 4: that big touchdown that essentially was the game, you know, 312 00:17:25,000 --> 00:17:29,600 Speaker 4: right off the bat. The amount of f bombs that 313 00:17:29,760 --> 00:17:36,040 Speaker 4: I was just involuntarily screaming and the level of vitriol 314 00:17:36,119 --> 00:17:38,080 Speaker 4: coming out of my mouth, I scared kids. 315 00:17:38,359 --> 00:17:40,640 Speaker 3: I scared kids who didn't understand. 316 00:17:41,880 --> 00:17:43,960 Speaker 4: And the one guy was like, doesn't he remind you 317 00:17:44,000 --> 00:17:45,520 Speaker 4: of Daddy when the Bears are doing bad? And the 318 00:17:45,560 --> 00:17:51,800 Speaker 4: kids like, no, than you are, because I just knew 319 00:17:51,800 --> 00:17:52,720 Speaker 4: what it was setting up. 320 00:17:52,840 --> 00:17:55,160 Speaker 3: I don't want to call him Uncle Randy anymore. 321 00:17:55,720 --> 00:17:58,720 Speaker 4: There was none of that. They did like me until 322 00:17:58,720 --> 00:18:02,280 Speaker 4: that point. They saw it different side. Hey. I was like, 323 00:18:02,320 --> 00:18:05,320 Speaker 4: you want to watch that? Hey, that's fine. Yeah, you 324 00:18:05,359 --> 00:18:08,280 Speaker 4: know it's like road to perdition. Do you want to 325 00:18:08,280 --> 00:18:09,200 Speaker 4: go to work with daddy? 326 00:18:11,960 --> 00:18:14,120 Speaker 3: This is what it looks like. Yeah, it's not pretty. 327 00:18:15,240 --> 00:18:18,040 Speaker 4: So I spent that week, like everybody, anxious as hell, 328 00:18:19,040 --> 00:18:22,840 Speaker 4: thinking we blew this opportunity, and just wanted to see 329 00:18:22,880 --> 00:18:24,639 Speaker 4: what it would look like if we get into the postseason, 330 00:18:25,040 --> 00:18:30,160 Speaker 4: because it's a ramshackle outfit right now that people really 331 00:18:30,240 --> 00:18:32,320 Speaker 4: don't want to fit. You don't want to play the Steelers, 332 00:18:32,440 --> 00:18:35,600 Speaker 4: you really don't in the postseason. I know they haven't 333 00:18:35,600 --> 00:18:37,399 Speaker 4: had a lot of success with Tomlin lately, but this 334 00:18:37,440 --> 00:18:41,440 Speaker 4: team in particular has enough weapons and they're just goofy enough, 335 00:18:41,600 --> 00:18:45,000 Speaker 4: and it's like, you know, and like it's the old trouble, 336 00:18:45,040 --> 00:18:46,760 Speaker 4: like the Fighter, where you you don't know where it's 337 00:18:46,800 --> 00:18:49,439 Speaker 4: coming from. Like he's not a disciplined boxer, but he 338 00:18:49,520 --> 00:18:52,399 Speaker 4: does lots of unorthodox things, and I mean punches come 339 00:18:52,440 --> 00:18:54,200 Speaker 4: from where you don't see him and they can be 340 00:18:54,320 --> 00:18:58,560 Speaker 4: knockout punching. That's the Steelers, Like, I can't really get 341 00:18:58,560 --> 00:19:00,640 Speaker 4: a read on what they do well. Actually, I think 342 00:19:00,680 --> 00:19:02,560 Speaker 4: they run the ball well, but they don't love running 343 00:19:02,600 --> 00:19:03,520 Speaker 4: the ball for some reason. 344 00:19:04,920 --> 00:19:06,560 Speaker 5: That's a great point. I was gonna say. The whole 345 00:19:06,680 --> 00:19:09,080 Speaker 5: NFL has been a big question mark. I feel like 346 00:19:09,119 --> 00:19:11,719 Speaker 5: this entire season. But the Steelers in particular are so 347 00:19:12,280 --> 00:19:13,520 Speaker 5: hard to pin down. 348 00:19:13,920 --> 00:19:15,080 Speaker 3: But so is Tomlin. 349 00:19:15,920 --> 00:19:17,879 Speaker 5: I feel like that's been a narrative to where like, 350 00:19:17,880 --> 00:19:19,920 Speaker 5: sometimes we live in our fears, sometimes we don't. 351 00:19:20,440 --> 00:19:23,800 Speaker 3: Sometimes it's fourth and two, we'll do a tush push. Yeah, 352 00:19:23,840 --> 00:19:26,640 Speaker 3: fourth and one we are gonna punch. That's what I mean. 353 00:19:26,960 --> 00:19:29,520 Speaker 3: I'm like, I don't know what's happening anymore. Somebody just 354 00:19:29,560 --> 00:19:29,960 Speaker 3: holding me. 355 00:19:30,200 --> 00:19:35,399 Speaker 4: Yeah, here's where I think the football gods may have 356 00:19:35,520 --> 00:19:40,879 Speaker 4: smiled down in a more global sort of regard that 357 00:19:41,560 --> 00:19:46,159 Speaker 4: more than just that miskick at the end, in making 358 00:19:46,200 --> 00:19:50,840 Speaker 4: the Steelers play these games. Detroit was a meaningful game, 359 00:19:52,960 --> 00:19:56,840 Speaker 4: the Browns game meaningful game, no more meaningful. 360 00:19:56,440 --> 00:19:58,280 Speaker 3: Game than last night's game against the Ravens. 361 00:19:58,600 --> 00:20:02,200 Speaker 4: They actually set them up to have some playoff poise 362 00:20:02,400 --> 00:20:06,679 Speaker 4: heading into the postseason because all of those games essentially 363 00:20:07,400 --> 00:20:10,280 Speaker 4: had a playoff kind of vibe to him. There was 364 00:20:10,320 --> 00:20:12,720 Speaker 4: a lot on the line for each one of them, 365 00:20:13,160 --> 00:20:15,800 Speaker 4: and last night being the you know, win and you're in. 366 00:20:16,119 --> 00:20:17,440 Speaker 3: It doesn't get any bigger than that. 367 00:20:18,080 --> 00:20:20,919 Speaker 4: And I think that's gonna pay some dividends as they 368 00:20:20,960 --> 00:20:24,480 Speaker 4: face the Texans, who are a beatable team. It's a 369 00:20:24,640 --> 00:20:28,320 Speaker 4: really good defense, but this is a beatable team. Mike 370 00:20:28,359 --> 00:20:30,240 Speaker 4: pursuit of coming in next with your post game. He 371 00:20:30,359 --> 00:20:33,200 Speaker 4: was up late late. I'm sure he only got maybe 372 00:20:33,280 --> 00:20:36,560 Speaker 4: two hours of sleep last night after last night's Steeler 373 00:20:36,600 --> 00:20:39,679 Speaker 4: Audio Network postgame show, and he'll be joining us here 374 00:20:39,720 --> 00:20:43,439 Speaker 4: Tim Bens, Jerry Dulac, Rob King, and Moore as we 375 00:20:43,520 --> 00:20:47,760 Speaker 4: celebrate the Pittsburgh Steelers heading to the postseason after last 376 00:20:47,840 --> 00:20:50,640 Speaker 4: night's twenty six to twenty four victory. 377 00:20:50,680 --> 00:20:53,160 Speaker 3: Over the Baltimore Ravens. 378 00:20:53,680 --> 00:21:00,640 Speaker 4: And I just can't believe that twenty seven point fourth 379 00:21:00,840 --> 00:21:04,359 Speaker 4: quarter was as entertaining as anything I've watched as a 380 00:21:04,400 --> 00:21:07,399 Speaker 4: Steeler fan. Jeff Conkole in the studio with us as 381 00:21:07,400 --> 00:21:09,640 Speaker 4: well this morning. 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This report is sponsored by Progressive Insurance. 390 00:21:38,880 --> 00:21:39,920 Speaker 3: It's gonna be a decent day. 391 00:21:39,920 --> 00:21:42,040 Speaker 4: A mix of soun and Cloud's warmer high close to 392 00:21:42,080 --> 00:21:45,720 Speaker 4: fifty partly cloudy tonight than mostly cloudy overnight, dropping to 393 00:21:45,800 --> 00:21:52,640 Speaker 4: thirty three cloudy to my v E Sports Mike Pursuda 394 00:21:52,720 --> 00:21:55,320 Speaker 4: just came in and he sprayed holy water all over 395 00:21:55,920 --> 00:21:56,439 Speaker 4: the table. 396 00:21:56,480 --> 00:21:56,680 Speaker 6: Here. 397 00:21:56,760 --> 00:22:00,159 Speaker 4: I'm feeling pretty good about today's show. 398 00:22:00,280 --> 00:22:02,800 Speaker 3: How about that? And that was that end zone? 399 00:22:02,960 --> 00:22:03,080 Speaker 11: Mean? 400 00:22:03,440 --> 00:22:07,359 Speaker 4: I could not believe when it was all said and done, 401 00:22:07,480 --> 00:22:09,160 Speaker 4: because that was the first thing I wanted to know, 402 00:22:09,640 --> 00:22:12,240 Speaker 4: was that, Like, a, did that guy go to both 403 00:22:12,320 --> 00:22:12,760 Speaker 4: end zones? 404 00:22:12,840 --> 00:22:12,919 Speaker 6: All? 405 00:22:12,960 --> 00:22:15,479 Speaker 9: He went all the way down the entirety of that 406 00:22:15,560 --> 00:22:16,840 Speaker 9: end zone. He didn't go to the other one. 407 00:22:16,920 --> 00:22:20,000 Speaker 3: Okay, so it was just that end zone. Is that 408 00:22:20,000 --> 00:22:23,160 Speaker 3: guy a priest? Do we even know St? Vincent College? Yeah? Yeah, 409 00:22:23,200 --> 00:22:24,200 Speaker 3: we met out at Saint Vincent. 410 00:22:24,320 --> 00:22:27,320 Speaker 9: It's not Father Paul Taylor, the president of Saint Vincent 411 00:22:27,320 --> 00:22:32,880 Speaker 9: College is another Saint Vincent. Uh priest Missy Matthews had 412 00:22:32,880 --> 00:22:35,639 Speaker 9: his name on the pregame show, and I didn't commit 413 00:22:35,680 --> 00:22:37,920 Speaker 9: it to memory because I thought, oh, that's a cute story, 414 00:22:38,560 --> 00:22:41,639 Speaker 9: you know, yeah, throw it on top of the winner 415 00:22:41,760 --> 00:22:44,119 Speaker 9: go Home Sunday that we were enjoying. At least I 416 00:22:44,160 --> 00:22:46,360 Speaker 9: was enjoying. I thought the whole week was fantastic. 417 00:22:47,040 --> 00:22:49,879 Speaker 3: Uh. By the way, what happened to Cleveland? I don't remember. 418 00:22:52,040 --> 00:22:53,520 Speaker 3: Do they win or lose? 419 00:22:53,560 --> 00:22:53,800 Speaker 6: You mean? 420 00:22:53,840 --> 00:22:54,199 Speaker 3: What do you mean? 421 00:22:54,520 --> 00:22:54,639 Speaker 12: Oh? 422 00:22:54,720 --> 00:22:59,200 Speaker 3: Oh oh the Steelers games? Yeah? Well look now cares now? 423 00:22:59,240 --> 00:23:00,800 Speaker 3: I don't. Well, I would have cared if we would 424 00:23:00,800 --> 00:23:03,960 Speaker 3: have lost last night. Yeah all right. So my point 425 00:23:04,320 --> 00:23:05,880 Speaker 3: before you joined us. 426 00:23:05,760 --> 00:23:09,040 Speaker 4: Here was that the football gods may have smiled down 427 00:23:09,080 --> 00:23:12,840 Speaker 4: on the Steelers in this regard. They just ran them 428 00:23:12,840 --> 00:23:15,639 Speaker 4: through the wringer in what is as good of a 429 00:23:15,760 --> 00:23:18,600 Speaker 4: ramp up for the playoffs as you could ask for. 430 00:23:18,920 --> 00:23:22,320 Speaker 3: And last night, Mike was a playoff game, no question. 431 00:23:22,600 --> 00:23:25,760 Speaker 9: And I don't know if you guys followed along with 432 00:23:26,200 --> 00:23:29,520 Speaker 9: the extra point last week or Steelers preview on Tuesday 433 00:23:29,640 --> 00:23:33,560 Speaker 9: night or the pregame show yesterday, but that was a 434 00:23:33,560 --> 00:23:37,720 Speaker 9: playoff game. The way I was phrasing it was by definition, 435 00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:40,840 Speaker 9: if not designation. Yeah, the NFL is not going to 436 00:23:40,920 --> 00:23:45,280 Speaker 9: put that on everybody's playoff record, but it was win 437 00:23:45,400 --> 00:23:48,720 Speaker 9: or go home against a quality opponent, the kind of 438 00:23:48,880 --> 00:23:52,120 Speaker 9: which you see in the playoffs. So the whole point, 439 00:23:52,240 --> 00:23:56,040 Speaker 9: you know, Yeah, the Cleveland game sucked on many levels, 440 00:23:56,480 --> 00:23:58,960 Speaker 9: but they were gonna have to play that game sooner 441 00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:00,600 Speaker 9: or later anyway. So when I get it over with, 442 00:24:00,720 --> 00:24:04,080 Speaker 9: cut to the chase. Play the Ravens with your season 443 00:24:04,119 --> 00:24:06,280 Speaker 9: on the line, and see if you're good enough. 444 00:24:06,080 --> 00:24:08,600 Speaker 3: For that environment without DK Metcalf. 445 00:24:08,280 --> 00:24:11,000 Speaker 9: And without DK Metcalf, who, by the way, is now 446 00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:11,720 Speaker 9: eligible to run. 447 00:24:11,840 --> 00:24:14,680 Speaker 4: I know, but that was the rub on all of that, 448 00:24:15,400 --> 00:24:18,520 Speaker 4: was that you were doing it and you felt like 449 00:24:18,680 --> 00:24:21,439 Speaker 4: you kind of got screwed and that you didn't have 450 00:24:21,560 --> 00:24:23,120 Speaker 4: DK and you weren't going to be able to put 451 00:24:23,119 --> 00:24:25,479 Speaker 4: your best foot forward. I think it all ended up 452 00:24:25,520 --> 00:24:28,120 Speaker 4: evening out with injuries last night, because the Ravens got 453 00:24:28,359 --> 00:24:29,600 Speaker 4: decimated throughout the game. 454 00:24:29,640 --> 00:24:32,119 Speaker 9: They had a tough game attrition wise, but you know, 455 00:24:32,880 --> 00:24:33,760 Speaker 9: it's the big legs. 456 00:24:33,800 --> 00:24:36,440 Speaker 4: It is the big happens, and they had some friendly 457 00:24:36,480 --> 00:24:39,680 Speaker 4: fire knock the most valuable defensive player off the field. 458 00:24:39,720 --> 00:24:43,199 Speaker 9: Dealers didn't have metcalf knock because of injury, because of stupidity. Stupidity, 459 00:24:43,960 --> 00:24:45,560 Speaker 9: they didn't have Darnell Washington. 460 00:24:45,960 --> 00:24:46,640 Speaker 3: That one hurt. 461 00:24:46,920 --> 00:24:50,280 Speaker 9: No one hurts going forward to h Miles killed. Remember him, 462 00:24:50,280 --> 00:24:52,080 Speaker 9: he's one of our best special teams player. He hasn't 463 00:24:52,080 --> 00:24:55,000 Speaker 9: played in months. Uh thought about him on a forty 464 00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:59,720 Speaker 9: two yard kickoff return after Yeah, Boswell extra point didn't work. 465 00:25:00,960 --> 00:25:04,040 Speaker 3: Didn't work as a good That is a judicious way 466 00:25:04,080 --> 00:25:04,520 Speaker 3: of saying it. 467 00:25:04,720 --> 00:25:06,760 Speaker 9: Well, I said it didn't work because I thought he 468 00:25:06,840 --> 00:25:09,679 Speaker 9: missed it. The play by play sheet is saying it 469 00:25:09,720 --> 00:25:13,840 Speaker 9: got blocked. I didn't see that. I haven't looked at 470 00:25:13,880 --> 00:25:18,040 Speaker 9: it more than you know, just watching it live. But 471 00:25:18,400 --> 00:25:20,479 Speaker 9: he was hitting. He was hitting bad balls last night. 472 00:25:20,560 --> 00:25:22,600 Speaker 9: Anybody who's been at the golf range. That's what it's 473 00:25:22,640 --> 00:25:24,440 Speaker 9: like when the flight of the ball ain't right. 474 00:25:24,440 --> 00:25:26,840 Speaker 4: It's going in the right direction but not exactly, and 475 00:25:27,119 --> 00:25:29,639 Speaker 4: the rotation on the ball, even that fifty seven yarder, 476 00:25:29,760 --> 00:25:32,840 Speaker 4: he just kind of muscled that one through low trajectory. 477 00:25:33,160 --> 00:25:36,240 Speaker 3: Looked weird and that was worrying me all night. Like God, 478 00:25:36,240 --> 00:25:38,240 Speaker 3: if it comes down to a boss kick, but I. 479 00:25:38,400 --> 00:25:41,120 Speaker 4: Certainly didn't think it would come into play on an 480 00:25:41,200 --> 00:25:42,200 Speaker 4: extra point. 481 00:25:42,320 --> 00:25:47,359 Speaker 9: And conversely, Tyler Tyler Luke, the Ravens rookie. He was 482 00:25:47,480 --> 00:25:50,800 Speaker 9: only one for four from fifty yards or longer this season, 483 00:25:52,040 --> 00:25:54,560 Speaker 9: but he was crushing it in the pregame. He was 484 00:25:54,600 --> 00:25:58,120 Speaker 9: banging from fifty nine to sixty and he was twenty 485 00:25:58,200 --> 00:26:01,680 Speaker 9: nine for twenty nine this season from forty nine yards 486 00:26:01,680 --> 00:26:02,280 Speaker 9: were closer? 487 00:26:02,840 --> 00:26:08,240 Speaker 4: Wow, that was his first miss that. Hey, that's the 488 00:26:08,400 --> 00:26:13,160 Speaker 4: power of Jesus. The Lord wants the stealers to win. 489 00:26:14,600 --> 00:26:17,439 Speaker 3: You might at least taken the points. 490 00:26:16,359 --> 00:26:22,160 Speaker 4: And you think he took the three down. Oh no, 491 00:26:22,200 --> 00:26:25,520 Speaker 4: he had money line. Obviously he get free to happy won. 492 00:26:25,840 --> 00:26:29,439 Speaker 4: You know, I think kick goes through God still say. 493 00:26:28,840 --> 00:26:31,280 Speaker 3: Yeah, no, no, it wasn't doing the math. 494 00:26:31,359 --> 00:26:33,920 Speaker 9: Yeah, God loves a good underdog. 495 00:26:34,520 --> 00:26:39,080 Speaker 4: God loves the Steelers. That was Dan Rooney, Dan Rooney, Yeah, 496 00:26:39,160 --> 00:26:40,080 Speaker 4: you need a little. 497 00:26:41,920 --> 00:26:42,560 Speaker 6: Out of there. 498 00:26:43,119 --> 00:26:46,440 Speaker 3: What a game? Are you not entertained? Twenty six to twenty. 499 00:26:46,280 --> 00:26:48,880 Speaker 4: Most entertaining game I've watched, And I don't know how 500 00:26:49,040 --> 00:26:51,480 Speaker 4: maybe since the Lions game two weeks before. 501 00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:55,320 Speaker 9: One of the best games in that facility's history. Whether 502 00:26:55,359 --> 00:26:58,760 Speaker 9: we're talking about Hinesfield or Acresser Stadium, and isn't it 503 00:26:58,760 --> 00:27:00,880 Speaker 9: funny how they all seem to be against the Ravens, 504 00:27:00,880 --> 00:27:01,639 Speaker 9: all the memorables. 505 00:27:01,680 --> 00:27:03,480 Speaker 3: Well, what a great rivalry. 506 00:27:03,760 --> 00:27:09,360 Speaker 9: Uh, it's not hyperbole when we talk all every season 507 00:27:09,640 --> 00:27:10,800 Speaker 9: when these games come up. 508 00:27:10,880 --> 00:27:12,560 Speaker 3: There's at least two of them every year, and they're 509 00:27:12,600 --> 00:27:17,639 Speaker 3: just they're just special. They are special. It's amazing to me. 510 00:27:18,119 --> 00:27:20,320 Speaker 3: Make Mike Tomlin and John Arball live forever. 511 00:27:21,760 --> 00:27:25,240 Speaker 4: Well, may they coach forever, coach against each other. I 512 00:27:25,240 --> 00:27:27,200 Speaker 4: don't know if Harba will still be in Baltimore. 513 00:27:27,440 --> 00:27:27,919 Speaker 3: He might not. 514 00:27:28,320 --> 00:27:30,159 Speaker 4: I mean, there was a lot of talk about whoever 515 00:27:30,200 --> 00:27:31,920 Speaker 4: lost that game might be walking out the door, and 516 00:27:31,960 --> 00:27:35,159 Speaker 4: I wasn't going to be Tomlin. Well, maybe of his 517 00:27:35,200 --> 00:27:37,560 Speaker 4: own accord. I don't think the organization was going to 518 00:27:37,600 --> 00:27:41,800 Speaker 4: tell him to leave it there. I find that inconceivable. 519 00:27:41,880 --> 00:27:43,600 Speaker 3: So do I, so do I. 520 00:27:44,960 --> 00:27:47,360 Speaker 4: My point is with with all of this, that watching 521 00:27:47,440 --> 00:27:54,280 Speaker 4: that game and the Steelers and Ravens mystique wasn't enough 522 00:27:55,240 --> 00:27:58,359 Speaker 4: to get this town as excited as it needed to 523 00:27:58,400 --> 00:27:59,840 Speaker 4: be about this game. 524 00:27:59,720 --> 00:28:02,399 Speaker 9: Because this town's gotten soft on football and it's a 525 00:28:02,400 --> 00:28:02,679 Speaker 9: bunch of. 526 00:28:02,880 --> 00:28:06,880 Speaker 4: After the Steelers lost to the Browns. We spent a week. 527 00:28:07,600 --> 00:28:09,639 Speaker 4: If you were on social media, all you heard is 528 00:28:09,640 --> 00:28:13,680 Speaker 4: they're gonna lose and Tomlin and and I just couldn't 529 00:28:13,720 --> 00:28:20,119 Speaker 4: believe how set Steeler fans seemed to be in the 530 00:28:20,359 --> 00:28:23,439 Speaker 4: we're gonna lose this one camp, and it was driving 531 00:28:23,480 --> 00:28:27,080 Speaker 4: me a little crazy. Now, did my frustration bubble over 532 00:28:27,160 --> 00:28:29,640 Speaker 4: on that first series from the Ravens last night and think, yeah, 533 00:28:29,680 --> 00:28:30,160 Speaker 4: they were right? 534 00:28:31,040 --> 00:28:32,679 Speaker 3: Sure's it? Yeah, I'm guilty of that. 535 00:28:32,960 --> 00:28:35,199 Speaker 4: Did I think Arthur Smith was screwing up with the 536 00:28:35,240 --> 00:28:37,360 Speaker 4: game plan early on and calling him so I made 537 00:28:37,359 --> 00:28:39,840 Speaker 4: no sense to me, run the eff and ball, just 538 00:28:40,480 --> 00:28:41,280 Speaker 4: you run the ball? 539 00:28:41,360 --> 00:28:43,400 Speaker 9: So well, yeah, I thought he was screwing up lust 540 00:28:43,440 --> 00:28:45,520 Speaker 9: and I really did. I was so surprised they weren't 541 00:28:45,560 --> 00:28:50,240 Speaker 9: running more early. It made statistically, it made no sense 542 00:28:50,280 --> 00:28:53,880 Speaker 9: to me. You could have, especially without DK hey make 543 00:28:53,920 --> 00:28:56,400 Speaker 9: them load up against the run again, you know. 544 00:28:56,600 --> 00:28:59,040 Speaker 4: But they were daring Aaron Rodgers to throw the ball, 545 00:28:59,080 --> 00:29:00,920 Speaker 4: and you know he's got a little of that far 546 00:29:01,040 --> 00:29:03,920 Speaker 4: venom and he wants to take those shots. 547 00:29:04,840 --> 00:29:05,040 Speaker 6: You know. 548 00:29:06,040 --> 00:29:08,680 Speaker 9: The one negative reaction I had after the Cleveland game, 549 00:29:08,800 --> 00:29:13,640 Speaker 9: or the biggest negative reaction was uh Marquez Valdes Scantling. 550 00:29:13,680 --> 00:29:16,200 Speaker 9: I get why they acquired him because they were deficient 551 00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:19,400 Speaker 9: at wide receiver, and he had a history in the league, 552 00:29:19,520 --> 00:29:22,440 Speaker 9: and he's accomplished some things in the league. He accomplished 553 00:29:22,480 --> 00:29:24,360 Speaker 9: some things with Aaron Rodgers in the league. And when 554 00:29:24,400 --> 00:29:26,400 Speaker 9: you're picking guys up off the scrap, if you're looking 555 00:29:26,400 --> 00:29:28,960 Speaker 9: for a diamond in the rough, it's a crapshoot to 556 00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:31,120 Speaker 9: begin with. So why not get a guy that's got 557 00:29:31,120 --> 00:29:32,760 Speaker 9: a little bit of a resume and a history with 558 00:29:32,800 --> 00:29:35,920 Speaker 9: your quarterback? Yeah, hey, it ain't getting done now, this 559 00:29:35,960 --> 00:29:39,520 Speaker 9: is worth a shot, right, And then he was so 560 00:29:39,680 --> 00:29:43,480 Speaker 9: bad against the Browns. The second down play on the goal. 561 00:29:43,520 --> 00:29:45,080 Speaker 9: I don't know if you remember all all he's got 562 00:29:45,080 --> 00:29:47,880 Speaker 9: to do is running in cut. Yes, they ran john 563 00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:51,560 Speaker 9: Us Smith from right to left and feeling from left 564 00:29:51,600 --> 00:29:53,040 Speaker 9: to right or the other way around. But they had 565 00:29:53,040 --> 00:29:56,240 Speaker 9: two guys clearing out and it was there was a lie. 566 00:29:56,680 --> 00:29:58,640 Speaker 9: He could drive a truck through. To throw the ball, 567 00:29:58,800 --> 00:29:59,880 Speaker 9: all you had to do was being the right p 568 00:30:00,080 --> 00:30:01,680 Speaker 9: place at the right time, and he wasn't. 569 00:30:02,200 --> 00:30:02,760 Speaker 3: And then on the. 570 00:30:02,760 --> 00:30:05,320 Speaker 9: Fourth down to go to him again, there is where 571 00:30:05,360 --> 00:30:07,200 Speaker 9: I really well, but that's where the single was it 572 00:30:07,240 --> 00:30:09,880 Speaker 9: was it was it was interferenced to. It was either 573 00:30:09,960 --> 00:30:14,360 Speaker 9: that or the single coverage Scotty Miller on the guy 574 00:30:14,400 --> 00:30:18,600 Speaker 9: they traded, uh from from Jacksonville the other really, Oh yeah, 575 00:30:18,600 --> 00:30:21,560 Speaker 9: he's another first round guy and he's what's his name Campbell? Yes, 576 00:30:22,960 --> 00:30:25,400 Speaker 9: so you know Aaron Rodgers all year, he's gone where 577 00:30:25,480 --> 00:30:26,560 Speaker 9: the single coverage is, He's. 578 00:30:26,440 --> 00:30:28,200 Speaker 3: Thrown it to who is open. He was bad in 579 00:30:28,240 --> 00:30:30,240 Speaker 3: that game. I thought. I thought he was too. 580 00:30:30,840 --> 00:30:30,959 Speaker 1: Uh. 581 00:30:31,120 --> 00:30:35,080 Speaker 9: I thought if they were going to beat Baltimore's Arthur Smith, 582 00:30:35,160 --> 00:30:36,960 Speaker 9: was gonna have to come up with some creative way 583 00:30:37,480 --> 00:30:39,760 Speaker 9: to get the tight ends involved. Then a Friarmuth caught 584 00:30:39,800 --> 00:30:41,920 Speaker 9: a couple last night, a couple of big ones. But 585 00:30:42,200 --> 00:30:43,560 Speaker 9: I thought it was gonna have to be a huge 586 00:30:43,600 --> 00:30:46,880 Speaker 9: Friarmuth John who Smith game and a huge running backs 587 00:30:46,920 --> 00:30:50,800 Speaker 9: game like Gamewell catches eleven and Warren catches nine or 588 00:30:51,920 --> 00:30:54,760 Speaker 9: they stuck with those guys, and you know, getting Calvin 589 00:30:54,760 --> 00:30:57,600 Speaker 9: Austin back was a critical addition. Oh yeah, it was 590 00:30:57,600 --> 00:30:59,800 Speaker 9: a New England game all over again. There at the end, right, 591 00:31:00,040 --> 00:31:03,400 Speaker 9: it's in the end zone for the winning touchdown. But 592 00:31:03,520 --> 00:31:06,080 Speaker 9: they had the faith and one of the reasons they're 593 00:31:06,120 --> 00:31:09,640 Speaker 9: going to the playoffs. Is Aaron Rodgers and the Steelers 594 00:31:09,920 --> 00:31:13,600 Speaker 9: never stopped believing in fact they might just be getting started. 595 00:31:14,840 --> 00:31:16,400 Speaker 11: It just takes a little belief. At this point in 596 00:31:16,400 --> 00:31:20,280 Speaker 11: the season. There's fourteen teams, it'll be left. Eighteen will 597 00:31:20,280 --> 00:31:22,880 Speaker 11: be playing their off seasons, going to be a part 598 00:31:22,920 --> 00:31:27,479 Speaker 11: of the fourteen after you know, so many years, you know, 599 00:31:27,520 --> 00:31:29,160 Speaker 11: twenty two we lost in the last game the nex 600 00:31:29,160 --> 00:31:31,520 Speaker 11: the playoffs twenty three hours out twenty four we were terrible. 601 00:31:31,640 --> 00:31:33,760 Speaker 11: So it's nice to be back in this position. 602 00:31:34,200 --> 00:31:36,640 Speaker 4: Tim Benz joins us when we come back a full 603 00:31:36,680 --> 00:31:40,480 Speaker 4: morning of Steeler coverage as the Pittsburgh Steelers are headed 604 00:31:40,520 --> 00:31:44,440 Speaker 4: to the postseason as AFC North champs after beating the 605 00:31:44,720 --> 00:31:49,040 Speaker 4: Baltimore Ravens twenty six to twenty four last night Sunday 606 00:31:49,120 --> 00:31:50,560 Speaker 4: Night Football in the Burg. 607 00:31:51,240 --> 00:31:53,760 Speaker 3: And it's on to Week one of the postseason. 608 00:31:54,320 --> 00:31:57,440 Speaker 4: And if Mike Tomlin can get that elusive postseason win 609 00:31:58,000 --> 00:32:00,680 Speaker 4: and get people to stop talking about that, this entire 610 00:32:00,920 --> 00:32:03,680 Speaker 4: Aaron Rodgers project will have been worth it. 611 00:32:03,680 --> 00:32:05,720 Speaker 9: It already has been and they need to find something 612 00:32:05,720 --> 00:32:06,920 Speaker 9: else to talk about, because. 613 00:32:06,680 --> 00:32:08,040 Speaker 3: That was a playoff game last night. 614 00:32:08,520 --> 00:32:11,920 Speaker 10: Yes, your favorite table is available, and yes, you build 615 00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:16,080 Speaker 10: the menu. The DVE workforce has the run of the kitchen. Yeah, 616 00:32:16,120 --> 00:32:21,680 Speaker 10: with Michelle Michaels now Berkelekin on the DVE Electric Lunch 617 00:32:21,880 --> 00:32:22,440 Speaker 10: at noon. 618 00:32:22,960 --> 00:32:25,640 Speaker 5: If you're from Pittsburgh, you are built tough to withstand 619 00:32:25,680 --> 00:32:29,760 Speaker 5: our winters. 620 00:32:29,840 --> 00:32:33,320 Speaker 7: Rogers gets a snap four man rush coming, Rogers back lofting. 621 00:32:33,080 --> 00:32:36,600 Speaker 3: Up, has a man wide open touchdown. 622 00:32:36,720 --> 00:32:37,920 Speaker 2: Pittsburgh Stealers. 623 00:32:38,280 --> 00:32:47,520 Speaker 4: What fifty five second ribating unreal? With workmanlike precision, Aaron 624 00:32:47,600 --> 00:32:51,320 Speaker 4: Rodgers takes the team right down the field, scores a touchdown, 625 00:32:51,440 --> 00:32:56,160 Speaker 4: answers for the sixty four year yard touchdown to Zay 626 00:32:56,280 --> 00:32:59,800 Speaker 4: Flowers on the previous possession by the Ravens in which 627 00:32:59,840 --> 00:33:03,400 Speaker 4: he was wide open, which I stated last night. Being 628 00:33:03,440 --> 00:33:07,720 Speaker 4: a Steelers fan means that in the biggest games, having 629 00:33:07,840 --> 00:33:10,680 Speaker 4: to contend with at least three or four times in 630 00:33:10,720 --> 00:33:14,520 Speaker 4: that game wondering why the guy you would think the 631 00:33:14,560 --> 00:33:17,560 Speaker 4: defense would be keyed on is wide open in a 632 00:33:17,560 --> 00:33:21,280 Speaker 4: cow pasture. And last night it wasn't Gronk. This time 633 00:33:21,720 --> 00:33:25,160 Speaker 4: it was Zay Flowers. Tim Benz joining us. Benzi quite 634 00:33:25,160 --> 00:33:27,120 Speaker 4: a response from the Steelers to go right back down 635 00:33:27,120 --> 00:33:29,280 Speaker 4: the field there and get that touchdown from Austin. But 636 00:33:29,360 --> 00:33:32,280 Speaker 4: it was the boss missed extra point that caused all 637 00:33:32,360 --> 00:33:34,800 Speaker 4: of the drama on that last drive. 638 00:33:36,600 --> 00:33:40,000 Speaker 12: Yeah, and they listed it as a block in the 639 00:33:40,560 --> 00:33:43,959 Speaker 12: official play by play. They said that one of the 640 00:33:44,040 --> 00:33:47,000 Speaker 12: Ravens got a piece of it on the way up, 641 00:33:47,160 --> 00:33:49,560 Speaker 12: and I looked at it close as I could, and 642 00:33:49,600 --> 00:33:52,920 Speaker 12: I couldn't tell. But it is pretty clear that the 643 00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:56,200 Speaker 12: pressure on the kick, if nothing else, caught the miss 644 00:33:56,200 --> 00:33:57,000 Speaker 12: more than anything. 645 00:33:57,040 --> 00:33:58,520 Speaker 6: I heard you guys before, and. 646 00:33:59,160 --> 00:34:02,400 Speaker 12: Apparently Toeko said during the play by play that Bos 647 00:34:02,440 --> 00:34:03,440 Speaker 12: was having a rough. 648 00:34:03,280 --> 00:34:07,240 Speaker 6: Pregame and missed a couple. Yeah, so maybe you're right. 649 00:34:07,360 --> 00:34:10,000 Speaker 12: You know that there was something mechanical going on with 650 00:34:10,080 --> 00:34:13,040 Speaker 12: him last night, But if nothing else, at the very 651 00:34:13,160 --> 00:34:16,000 Speaker 12: least some poor blocking up front, I think led to 652 00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:19,120 Speaker 12: the pat miss more than anything else. In the holy 653 00:34:19,200 --> 00:34:21,560 Speaker 12: water led to the miss, obviously, yes, the holy water, 654 00:34:22,080 --> 00:34:23,520 Speaker 12: of course, yes, right. 655 00:34:23,719 --> 00:34:25,480 Speaker 4: Well, Kyle Hamilton might have wanted to have some of 656 00:34:25,520 --> 00:34:28,920 Speaker 4: that water tossed on his head because after he got injured. 657 00:34:29,360 --> 00:34:32,800 Speaker 4: UH Steelers prior to that injury three point nine yards 658 00:34:32,800 --> 00:34:36,880 Speaker 4: of play thirty seven thirty seven percent success rate after 659 00:34:36,920 --> 00:34:40,280 Speaker 4: the injury six point nine yards BOK per play sixty 660 00:34:40,320 --> 00:34:44,960 Speaker 4: percent success rate, and it was undeniable. It seemed like 661 00:34:44,960 --> 00:34:46,560 Speaker 4: a different game after he was out there, and they 662 00:34:46,560 --> 00:34:47,719 Speaker 4: were able to do a whole lot more. 663 00:34:47,760 --> 00:34:49,759 Speaker 9: Mike, he's a very good player on a defense that 664 00:34:49,800 --> 00:34:51,040 Speaker 9: doesn't have very many of those. 665 00:34:52,400 --> 00:34:55,280 Speaker 6: Yeah, I think he's to him. Maybe not quite what TJ. 666 00:34:55,440 --> 00:34:57,920 Speaker 12: Watt was a few years ago to the Steelers, but 667 00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:01,319 Speaker 12: he's their most important guy on that side of the ball, 668 00:35:01,320 --> 00:35:03,640 Speaker 12: and the Wiggans getting hurt on top of that certainly 669 00:35:03,719 --> 00:35:08,160 Speaker 12: helped the pass effort for the Steelers as well. And 670 00:35:08,280 --> 00:35:11,359 Speaker 12: it is ironic that, after you know, two weeks of 671 00:35:11,400 --> 00:35:15,239 Speaker 12: bemoaning and rightfully so, their lack of roster construction for 672 00:35:15,360 --> 00:35:18,399 Speaker 12: wide receiver depth beyond DK Metcalf, that the one guy 673 00:35:18,440 --> 00:35:20,080 Speaker 12: they kept promising over and over. 674 00:35:19,960 --> 00:35:23,839 Speaker 6: Again was a worthy number two became that on the 675 00:35:23,880 --> 00:35:26,920 Speaker 6: touchdown far sideline to Calvin Austin, oh hit. 676 00:35:27,320 --> 00:35:29,360 Speaker 4: You know, go back and look at that route that 677 00:35:29,400 --> 00:35:34,560 Speaker 4: he runs. He absolutely drops the defender to his knees. 678 00:35:34,640 --> 00:35:38,120 Speaker 4: He's down on all fours. He got burnt so bad 679 00:35:38,560 --> 00:35:41,000 Speaker 4: on the cut from Austin on that one, which gave 680 00:35:41,080 --> 00:35:43,640 Speaker 4: him the almost too wide open You know, I had 681 00:35:43,680 --> 00:35:47,239 Speaker 4: one of those ears. Look at remember my dad saying 682 00:35:47,719 --> 00:35:50,600 Speaker 4: he's too open. Now you can just see the ball 683 00:35:50,680 --> 00:35:53,120 Speaker 4: coming down and the pressure's on there. You want a 684 00:35:53,120 --> 00:35:56,439 Speaker 4: little bit of defense, but no, he lofted it into 685 00:35:56,440 --> 00:35:58,840 Speaker 4: his arms. There Aaron Rodgers brilliant with one hundred and 686 00:35:58,880 --> 00:36:02,920 Speaker 4: thirty quarterback rating there in the fourth quarter. He was 687 00:36:02,960 --> 00:36:06,520 Speaker 4: I think eleven and fourteen in the fourth quarter. I 688 00:36:06,640 --> 00:36:10,840 Speaker 4: was a little upset with that first half, particularly because 689 00:36:10,960 --> 00:36:13,520 Speaker 4: mostly the first quarter. But if you bang one in 690 00:36:13,560 --> 00:36:17,000 Speaker 4: there at the end of the first half, Tim and 691 00:36:17,040 --> 00:36:19,520 Speaker 4: then get the ball back, well, you know, it's a 692 00:36:19,560 --> 00:36:22,360 Speaker 4: different ballgame there. And Kyle Hampton's still playing at that point. 693 00:36:22,520 --> 00:36:24,400 Speaker 4: What did you think of the way they handled the 694 00:36:24,480 --> 00:36:25,400 Speaker 4: end of the first half. 695 00:36:26,280 --> 00:36:28,759 Speaker 12: I thought the second quarter was really bad, and I 696 00:36:28,840 --> 00:36:32,400 Speaker 12: thought in particular, Rogers was bad in the second quarter. 697 00:36:33,160 --> 00:36:35,040 Speaker 6: You know, he misses an open John Who's. 698 00:36:34,760 --> 00:36:37,640 Speaker 3: Oh god, was open? Didn't it look like he was? 699 00:36:37,760 --> 00:36:39,960 Speaker 4: He was setting his feet for a bigger, for a 700 00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:42,880 Speaker 4: longer throw, and then saw John Ewan tried to adjust. 701 00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:45,000 Speaker 9: He just didn't have his feet under him there. Yeah, 702 00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:46,759 Speaker 9: I don't know what happened. It was a dream man 703 00:36:46,840 --> 00:36:50,319 Speaker 9: rush against a six man protection. He had all day 704 00:36:51,080 --> 00:36:54,040 Speaker 9: and Hambledon was like ten yards behind Johnny Smith. 705 00:36:54,080 --> 00:36:56,680 Speaker 3: He might have caught that and run it in. Yeah. 706 00:36:56,719 --> 00:36:59,080 Speaker 6: And then what about this scramble on the next snap. 707 00:37:00,120 --> 00:37:04,560 Speaker 4: I don't up if he keeps going there, Tim, maybe 708 00:37:04,560 --> 00:37:05,919 Speaker 4: he doesn't get the first down. 709 00:37:05,960 --> 00:37:07,080 Speaker 3: Sure, okay, I can see that. 710 00:37:07,120 --> 00:37:08,600 Speaker 4: I can see how he looked at that angle and 711 00:37:08,640 --> 00:37:10,719 Speaker 4: find I can't beat him, but you're gonna get enough 712 00:37:10,800 --> 00:37:11,680 Speaker 4: yards to make it forth. 713 00:37:12,960 --> 00:37:14,160 Speaker 3: Yeah. 714 00:37:14,600 --> 00:37:19,080 Speaker 12: And then how they handled the red zone high red 715 00:37:19,160 --> 00:37:22,799 Speaker 12: zone to low red zone sequence where they threw the 716 00:37:22,800 --> 00:37:26,360 Speaker 12: ball to the sidelines twice and still couldn't get guys 717 00:37:26,360 --> 00:37:30,160 Speaker 12: out of bounds and had to burn timeouts and then 718 00:37:30,320 --> 00:37:34,200 Speaker 12: pitching it backwards on a play do or die to 719 00:37:34,239 --> 00:37:36,440 Speaker 12: get into the end zone or walk with no points. 720 00:37:36,440 --> 00:37:40,360 Speaker 12: So the whole play is built around Pat Fryarmouth blocking 721 00:37:40,400 --> 00:37:43,120 Speaker 12: at least one guy if not too when he can't 722 00:37:43,160 --> 00:37:47,799 Speaker 12: flock anybody Like there was just nothing intelligent about that 723 00:37:47,920 --> 00:37:51,080 Speaker 12: play design, and it was almost like tom Win tucked 724 00:37:51,120 --> 00:37:53,040 Speaker 12: himself into it. You know, he would have been more 725 00:37:53,040 --> 00:37:56,040 Speaker 12: comfortable taking the points and in a Raven Steelers game 726 00:37:56,360 --> 00:37:59,520 Speaker 12: at halftime, with the way the defense was performing, I. 727 00:37:59,440 --> 00:38:00,759 Speaker 6: Would have been fine with that. 728 00:38:01,239 --> 00:38:04,520 Speaker 12: But you know, because the pass interference happened on third down, 729 00:38:04,560 --> 00:38:07,840 Speaker 12: Tom would seem to feel obligated to go forward on 730 00:38:07,880 --> 00:38:10,719 Speaker 12: the new first and goal, And I just think that 731 00:38:10,719 --> 00:38:13,120 Speaker 12: they reached in the bag and pulled out the first 732 00:38:13,160 --> 00:38:15,800 Speaker 12: ticket they found, and it was pitch gained well of 733 00:38:15,840 --> 00:38:16,760 Speaker 12: the week's side. 734 00:38:16,520 --> 00:38:18,720 Speaker 6: Where there weren't more blockers than they were. 735 00:38:18,640 --> 00:38:21,840 Speaker 12: Tacklers, and it was just bad from jump streets. So 736 00:38:21,880 --> 00:38:24,640 Speaker 12: to answer your question, I hated how the second quarter ended. 737 00:38:25,560 --> 00:38:29,640 Speaker 4: So now it's onto the Texans and you get DK 738 00:38:29,840 --> 00:38:35,200 Speaker 4: Metcalf back for an offense that desperately needs to have 739 00:38:35,320 --> 00:38:37,640 Speaker 4: him in there. By the way, is anybody happier about 740 00:38:37,680 --> 00:38:39,960 Speaker 4: that win last night than DK Metcalf. 741 00:38:40,200 --> 00:38:41,720 Speaker 3: Boswell, well, Chris Boswell. 742 00:38:42,320 --> 00:38:45,080 Speaker 9: Yeah, but at least he would have died with his 743 00:38:45,120 --> 00:38:47,720 Speaker 9: boots on it. And now yeah, literally. 744 00:38:47,320 --> 00:38:48,800 Speaker 3: He wouldn't have off himself. 745 00:38:49,160 --> 00:38:51,480 Speaker 4: Now, No, I think DK is probably, but I don't 746 00:38:51,480 --> 00:38:53,360 Speaker 4: know what kind of guy is. It's like, would George 747 00:38:53,360 --> 00:38:56,520 Speaker 4: Pickens have been. I think he believed DK. You think 748 00:38:56,560 --> 00:38:59,279 Speaker 4: he is, well not now, but but he had been 749 00:38:59,360 --> 00:39:01,800 Speaker 4: and if they loss, yeah, he was feeling the pressure. 750 00:39:01,800 --> 00:39:02,480 Speaker 3: Well that's good to know. 751 00:39:02,600 --> 00:39:04,720 Speaker 4: I'm glad to hear that because somebody like George Pickens, 752 00:39:04,760 --> 00:39:07,480 Speaker 4: I think would have been like, hey, you know, it happens. 753 00:39:07,760 --> 00:39:09,239 Speaker 4: I don't know that for a fact. I still think 754 00:39:09,239 --> 00:39:11,120 Speaker 4: that that suspension was too long. But that's neither here 755 00:39:11,160 --> 00:39:16,800 Speaker 4: nor there now. But getting him back does give Aaron 756 00:39:16,880 --> 00:39:20,120 Speaker 4: Rodgers a little bit more room to move right now, 757 00:39:20,400 --> 00:39:26,080 Speaker 4: a little bit more another chess piece, certainly, tim it does. 758 00:39:26,280 --> 00:39:29,680 Speaker 12: But the you know, the ability to move, that room 759 00:39:29,719 --> 00:39:34,160 Speaker 12: to move that you're talking about, lessons significantly against that 760 00:39:34,239 --> 00:39:36,640 Speaker 12: Houston's defense of what we saw last night. 761 00:39:37,120 --> 00:39:38,160 Speaker 6: The Ravens defense. 762 00:39:38,160 --> 00:39:40,600 Speaker 12: For as much as you look at the logo and 763 00:39:40,680 --> 00:39:43,960 Speaker 12: you still see images of Ed Reed and ray Lewis 764 00:39:44,040 --> 00:39:46,279 Speaker 12: dancing through your head, it ain't that, no, I know. 765 00:39:46,480 --> 00:39:50,719 Speaker 12: And the Texans is the Texans might be more of 766 00:39:50,800 --> 00:39:53,200 Speaker 12: a fact simile of the Ravens defense back then than 767 00:39:53,200 --> 00:39:54,480 Speaker 12: this Ravens defense is. 768 00:39:54,520 --> 00:39:56,120 Speaker 6: And it's gonna be. 769 00:39:56,040 --> 00:39:59,280 Speaker 12: Really tough to move against those guys, and points really 770 00:39:59,320 --> 00:39:59,880 Speaker 12: will be at a p. 771 00:40:00,920 --> 00:40:01,960 Speaker 6: In that contest. 772 00:40:02,200 --> 00:40:04,440 Speaker 12: I think they're number one in the NFL when it 773 00:40:04,440 --> 00:40:06,800 Speaker 12: comes to yards allowed. They're number two in the NFL 774 00:40:06,840 --> 00:40:11,320 Speaker 12: by a matter decimal points against the versus the Seahawks. 775 00:40:11,320 --> 00:40:14,200 Speaker 12: When it comes to points allowed, so this is a 776 00:40:14,320 --> 00:40:17,759 Speaker 12: defense that allows very little, and the pass rush is. 777 00:40:17,719 --> 00:40:20,440 Speaker 6: Going to be significant against Rodgers. 778 00:40:20,440 --> 00:40:22,640 Speaker 12: There's not just a one man pass rush where they 779 00:40:22,640 --> 00:40:25,040 Speaker 12: can overload against Garrett and make his life a little 780 00:40:25,040 --> 00:40:27,359 Speaker 12: easier like they did against Cleveland and still end up 781 00:40:27,360 --> 00:40:30,440 Speaker 12: losing the game. So I have some qualms about them 782 00:40:30,440 --> 00:40:32,279 Speaker 12: playing Houston in the first round, but. 783 00:40:32,840 --> 00:40:35,439 Speaker 6: At least they got the playoffs. They're back to where 784 00:40:35,440 --> 00:40:38,799 Speaker 6: they were last year. It does go a long way. 785 00:40:38,880 --> 00:40:42,040 Speaker 12: Like you guys were saying to validate the whole Rogers acquisition, 786 00:40:42,200 --> 00:40:43,960 Speaker 12: but it was brought here to win. 787 00:40:43,800 --> 00:40:46,200 Speaker 6: A playoff game, So win a playoff game. 788 00:40:46,400 --> 00:40:49,200 Speaker 12: I do draw a thicker line between those two things 789 00:40:49,200 --> 00:40:51,160 Speaker 12: than like you guys are talking about the six thirty 790 00:40:51,160 --> 00:40:51,880 Speaker 12: Sports cast. 791 00:40:51,920 --> 00:40:54,319 Speaker 6: But he's here, He's got his chance, so go ahead 792 00:40:54,360 --> 00:40:54,919 Speaker 6: and do it now. 793 00:40:54,960 --> 00:40:56,359 Speaker 3: Prior to that, do you want to bring him back? 794 00:40:58,600 --> 00:41:01,799 Speaker 12: I still know if I do. I mean, yeah, I 795 00:41:01,840 --> 00:41:03,480 Speaker 12: still don't know if I do. Last night, you know, 796 00:41:03,560 --> 00:41:05,360 Speaker 12: at the second quarter, I sure as heck did not. 797 00:41:06,840 --> 00:41:09,520 Speaker 12: I wanted a quarterback that was gonna finish that scrambles. 798 00:41:09,560 --> 00:41:10,919 Speaker 6: Who I wanted the second quarter? 799 00:41:10,960 --> 00:41:12,760 Speaker 12: Then I saw a guy who went eleven or fourteen 800 00:41:12,800 --> 00:41:15,520 Speaker 12: against the Ravens in a do or die moment, so 801 00:41:16,200 --> 00:41:18,440 Speaker 12: he'll be part of that game that'll be at That's 802 00:41:18,600 --> 00:41:21,960 Speaker 12: like Tom was referencing this. I think you guys were 803 00:41:21,960 --> 00:41:24,400 Speaker 12: talking about it too. There's a lot of chapters to 804 00:41:24,480 --> 00:41:26,880 Speaker 12: this rivalry. This is a pretty good chapter that we 805 00:41:26,920 --> 00:41:30,799 Speaker 12: saw last night. Now paid off by writing a PostScript 806 00:41:30,800 --> 00:41:32,520 Speaker 12: that's got a playoff victory attached to it. 807 00:41:32,600 --> 00:41:34,560 Speaker 4: Tim Men's is brought to you by Dawn's Appliances. Were 808 00:41:34,560 --> 00:41:37,680 Speaker 4: Pittsburgh shops for appliances this morning on DV. Thanks Benzi. 809 00:41:38,520 --> 00:41:39,480 Speaker 6: Now you got it, guys. 810 00:41:39,760 --> 00:41:42,600 Speaker 4: Jerry Doulac rom came with a power hour Steelers Talk. 811 00:41:42,640 --> 00:41:46,120 Speaker 4: Oh that's gonna be a delightful hour of radio. Abby's 812 00:41:46,120 --> 00:41:47,319 Speaker 4: got your news coming up next. 813 00:41:47,320 --> 00:41:49,080 Speaker 3: All right, it's time to get rid of your live 814 00:41:49,200 --> 00:41:49,879 Speaker 3: Christmas tree. 815 00:41:49,880 --> 00:41:52,239 Speaker 5: The city's gonna help. And since none of us were 816 00:41:52,239 --> 00:41:54,680 Speaker 5: paying attention, we'll do the Critics Choice Awards.