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Speaker 1: Let's speak now with Tommy Radio.

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Speaker 2: Tom As I just mentioned, we got a sound bite

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Speaker 2: from Orlovsky for later. Should the Steelers go get Joe

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Speaker 2: Burrow for next season? Could that happen?

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Speaker 3: Should they? Yes?

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Speaker 4: I don't know how it could happen, though You'd have

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Speaker 4: to give up so many first round picks, and I

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Speaker 4: just don't think the Steelers would have the balls to

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Speaker 4: do that, to pull the trigger on a deal like that,

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Speaker 4: even though it's the right thing to do.

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Speaker 2: And the Bengals would be loath I think to make

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Speaker 2: the trade division in the division, even though, as we've

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Speaker 2: talked about, you should accept the best offer for your

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Speaker 2: team and not worry about where your assets are going.

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Speaker 3: But that's the fact that the Steelers would have to

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Speaker 3: go up against.

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Speaker 4: You'd have like a tax within your own division where

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Speaker 4: you'd have to overpay for Joe Burrow.

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Speaker 3: Make him the offer. They couldn't say.

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Speaker 1: What would you give up for Burrow if you're the Steelers.

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Speaker 4: Oh, I think he's one of the best quarterbacks that

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Speaker 4: I've ever seen, So I give three first round picks

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Speaker 4: for him.

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Speaker 3: I love Joe Burrow.

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Speaker 1: I might even give three first in a second.

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Speaker 3: Is that crazy?

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Speaker 2: Though?

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Speaker 4: He gets hurt all the time, Like maybe we're a

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Speaker 4: little overzealous on that, but when he plays, he's just magnificent.

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Speaker 2: Well, I mean, you go out and get Russ and

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Speaker 2: l Ron Rodgers, you get these old bastards. Why would't

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Speaker 2: you go get a guy in his prime if you

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Speaker 2: have lost faith in your ability to draft and develop

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Speaker 2: a quarterback, which they they certainly should. I mean, as

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Speaker 2: I just mentioned the quarterback draft, the much heralded class

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Speaker 2: of twenty six for this coming April, when the draft

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Speaker 2: is in Pittsburgh, that seems to have fallen apart. And

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Speaker 2: look at the Steelers' success with quarterback with Kenny Pickett.

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Speaker 2: You know, since Ben retired, they don't know what they're doing.

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Speaker 2: But Joe Burrow's full proof.

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Speaker 4: You bring up a great point there, Yes he is

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Speaker 4: fool proof. And I often have said that the only

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Speaker 4: way they'd get that franchise quarterback is getting a Joe

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Speaker 4: Burrow through the draft. But that's like a number one

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Speaker 4: overall guy that so many other teams are going to

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Speaker 4: crave too. But here's a potential opportunity. Maybe, I mean,

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Speaker 4: we're getting ahead of ourselves here to get a guy

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Speaker 4: proven in the NFL way ahead.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a better chance that the Pirates could have

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Speaker 2: got Kyle Schwarber than the Steelers can get Joe Burrow.

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Speaker 3: I don't know about that.

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Speaker 2: And yeah, good point. Now here's the disclaimer. Why would

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Speaker 2: Joe Burrow want to come to Pittsburgh. Why would he

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Speaker 2: want to leave Jamar and t to come through to

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Speaker 2: Calvin Austin the third? Cincinnati might be the better team.

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Speaker 2: I could understand Burrow wanting to leave Cincinnati. I don't

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Speaker 2: think he would see Pittsburgh is a better option.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, no doubt.

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Speaker 4: Like his frustration is with the team build with Cincinnati,

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Speaker 4: as weird as that sounds, because he's got those weapons

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Speaker 4: on offense, but he doesn't have a line. His defense

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Speaker 4: always sells him out. So that's where I think he's like, Hey,

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Speaker 4: you're selling me out here as an organization, Well, Pittsburgh's

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Speaker 4: not gonna do much better for you because you're gonna

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Speaker 4: lose those weapons. And what their line's great. Their defense

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Speaker 4: is played great this year, So there's gonna be much

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Speaker 4: more attractive options for someone like Joe Burrow.

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Speaker 2: Now you gotta left Philip Rivers, double chin, fat ass.

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Speaker 2: There's no way this ends good. I'm glad it's happening.

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Speaker 2: But I think he gets carted off at some point.

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Speaker 4: Is it for sure that he's playing Sunday against the Seahawks.

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Speaker 1: Well, here's why I think so.

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Speaker 2: They won't announce the starter stichen One, the head coach,

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Speaker 2: and that leads me to believe it's him.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and I have to think too, that there was

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Speaker 4: a conversation had before face.

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Speaker 2: It's also better sports talk if we just assumed that

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Speaker 4: True, and I have to assume when they talk before

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Speaker 4: he actually decided to show up to Indianapolis, they were like,

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Speaker 4: you're gonna start at these games, because why would Philip

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Speaker 4: Rivers come back to be the backup to hold the

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Speaker 1: I could see him coming back and skipping the first game.

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Speaker 2: The first game, yes, but but I mean, you know,

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Speaker 2: they ain't got no time to break him in slow.

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Speaker 2: They need to, you know, get back on track if

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Speaker 2: they're gonna make the playoffs, which they won't, and if

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Speaker 2: they do well, then for sure that's when Rivers gets

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Speaker 2: killed in that playoff game.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and they have no ease him.

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Speaker 4: Maybe they have no ease him in game Seattle crazy

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Speaker 4: good defense, Houston, they have to play still best defense

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Speaker 4: in football, San Franz a nasty defense. They got to

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Speaker 4: play them, They got to play the Jags, so they

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Speaker 4: just got blasted by Like it's not like a walk

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Speaker 4: in the park against any team.

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Speaker 3: Like these are ass kicking defenses. He has to play.

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Speaker 2: Now, if you're the Seattle defense, do you take it

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Speaker 2: easy on Rivers or do you try to kill him?

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Speaker 2: I would like first quarter. I want that old man

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Speaker 4: You are in the tightest division race, in the toughest

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Speaker 4: division in football.

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Speaker 3: You're trying to get the number one overall seed. You

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Speaker 3: have to kill Rivers.

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Speaker 4: You have to get to Riley Leonard banged up or

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Speaker 4: whoever the hell Brett Ripian is that the other guy

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Speaker 4: they have. You got to get that person in the game.

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Speaker 4: Or as River is so bad that you kind of

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Speaker 4: cat and mouse him and keep him in the game

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Speaker 4: because he's gonna throw a bunch of interceptions, like he

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Speaker 4: might not just be a good quarterback anyway, Like.

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Speaker 2: The Steelers wanted to keep Anthony Richardson in the game

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Speaker 2: for the Colts so Flacoak couldn't come in and beat him.

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Speaker 1: And of course Flaco came in and beat.

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Speaker 4: Like what if Rivers just so shaky in the pocket

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Speaker 4: every time, and he's just getting rid of it so

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Speaker 1: I don't think he will.

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Speaker 2: I think he'll come out and play like Phil Rivers

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Speaker 2: used to, only older and slower, and that maybe his.

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Speaker 3: Undoing until he gets cracked. You think, well, if he.

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Speaker 1: Gets carted off.

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Speaker 2: When I say him getting carted off is what I expect,

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Speaker 2: I'm not saying that for effect that's gonna happen.

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Speaker 1: He's forty four, can't move?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and you know Rogers is only two years younger

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Speaker 4: than Rivers, But the big difference, of course, is five

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Speaker 3: Like you have him be playing.

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Speaker 4: Rodgers never stopped exactly right. Brady played into forty five.

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Speaker 4: I think how old he was never stopped like he

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Speaker 1: Don't you agree?

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Speaker 2: It's an indictment of like who Indy had a quarterback,

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Speaker 2: and that there's so few quarterbacks out there. There was

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Speaker 2: a time back when when you could have got somebody

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Speaker 2: off the waiver wire. It wasn't like a legitimate starter,

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Speaker 2: but would be a better idea than a forty four

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Speaker 3: No, I think that's a great point.

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Speaker 4: I think it's an indictment too of how these kids

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Speaker 4: are developed out of college. Like you're still always going

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Speaker 4: to have the great players at the top, right, like

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Speaker 4: the Caleb Williams and the Drake Mays, but like lower

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Speaker 4: down the ladder, like the backups that you're drafting, like

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Speaker 4: none of them can take a snap on the center.

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Speaker 2: Pl problem with college football for years, they don't develop

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Speaker 2: kids to play in the pros, not at any position

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Speaker 2: but a particular quarterback. They just want to win at

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Speaker 2: that level, which I get. But if I were a player,

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Speaker 2: I would look at college football as you know, my

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Speaker 2: degree to go out and get a job with, and

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Speaker 2: if the coach wasn't going to use me right, it

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Speaker 2: were just going to be to win. I would rather

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Speaker 2: go to a program if I'm a quarterback that would

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Speaker 2: coach you to play in the.

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Speaker 1: Pros, then was a winning program.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Absolutely. You have kids that can't take snaps under center

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Speaker 4: in college. You have kids that There's a famous Christian

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Speaker 3: He went to the Jets.

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Speaker 4: He couldn't break a huddle when he got to the Jets,

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Speaker 4: like he just didn't know the mechanics of going through

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Speaker 4: that reading defense as is so basic for these quarterbacks

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Speaker 4: now it's like one read then go and you don't

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Speaker 4: get that like pre snap stuff, that chess game that

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Speaker 4: you have to play at the NFL level. Meanwhile, defenses

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Speaker 4: now at the NFL are better than they've ever been,

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Speaker 4: so like these quarterbacks are just so behind the curve.

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Speaker 1: Now we got that TJ.

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Speaker 2: Watt news that's worries some with thirty one year old

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Speaker 2: hospitalized with lung disorder. Now you hope he's okay, but

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Speaker 2: I'll be blunt. The Steelers can get by without him.

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Speaker 2: He ain't playing great and they do have X amount

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Speaker 2: of depth of Dead's rush for as long as high

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Speaker 2: Smith is okay, he's been hurt, not hurt. But if

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Speaker 2: you got high Smith, Herbig and the modern day warrior

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Speaker 2: Jack Sore, you can get by.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, it sucks that one has whatever he

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Speaker 4: has with his lung. I'm kind of interested to see

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Speaker 4: how it looks though, right without him out there, to

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Speaker 4: see how effective it could possibly be, because I think

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Speaker 4: we do pretty surprise with how effective it's going to

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Speaker 4: be without him out there and Herbig. Ever since high

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Speaker 4: Smith has come back and high Smith's kick ass, so

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Speaker 4: I can't fault him being on the field, but herbig

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Speaker 4: snaps have gone in the toilet again, He's like at

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Speaker 4: thirty percent per game.

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Speaker 3: Let's see a little bit of herbig and Highsmith out there.

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Speaker 2: Doesn't this feel more and more like a Miami win,

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Speaker 2: Like like the dominoes are falling, Like now the watt

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Speaker 2: Illness and maybe minke It comes in and makes a

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Speaker 2: big play for the Dolphins.

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Speaker 4: You're gonna tell me that this doesn't matter at all,

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Speaker 4: But it's twenty two straight wins at home on Monday

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Speaker 4: night football for the Steelers.

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Speaker 3: Like, it's just so hard for me to wrap my

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Speaker 3: head around them losing.

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Speaker 4: This hidden vigorous like the gunner said, yeah, it's it's

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Speaker 4: hard for me.

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Speaker 2: Means no, I donse over my head. The gunner said, no, no,

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Speaker 2: just old time he bob prints departs. ANNs are called

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Speaker 2: hidden vigoras, which held the longer something doesn't happen, the

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Speaker 2: more likely it is to happen.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, no question. So, yeah they're due to lose that spot.

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Speaker 4: But I've just I haven't seen it in forever. The

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Speaker 4: Dolphins just run it down your throats.

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Speaker 2: I mean they are such a good run Yeah to

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Speaker 2: my offensive formula against the Steelers, in particular, what Miami

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Speaker 2: would be don't pass like ever the Steelers can't stop

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Speaker 2: the run. Just pond on the ground because that minimizes

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and two of turns of all over a time.

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Speaker 4: He's got fourteen picks this year. They've fourteen fourteen picks

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Speaker 4: for two way's most in the league with Geno Smith,

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Speaker 4: and they've been hiding him in this four game winning Streek.

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Speaker 4: He averages like twenty pass attempts, like all McDaniel is

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Speaker 2: He's the best goalie in their system. I just don't

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Speaker 4: And again they didn't see you know, I'm sure they

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Speaker 3: No, exactly. So that's what sucks. I wish he came

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Speaker 2: What will the carryover be mentally from blowing that game

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Speaker 4: I hope it's positive and that they go out and

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Speaker 3: Yeah, no, no doubt.

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Speaker 4: As far as playoff positioning is concerned.

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Speaker 2: What's the same thing like getting back to the shootout.

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Speaker 4: Since you're never gonna get Sid to not shooting the shootout.

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Speaker 2: You act like he listens to this show, or that

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Speaker 2: I'm looking forward tonight to see ing Demo Dooff play

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Speaker 1: That would be non negotiable.

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Speaker 2: And the ironic part is I think in Montreal God

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Speaker 4: would have to be Demodoff. They got good players from Montreal.

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Speaker 4: Szuki's good, col Kawfield's good. It's gonna be tough tonight.

443
00:17:22,560 --> 00:17:24,120
Speaker 4: The Habs are in the playoff race too. They've lost

444
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Speaker 4: two straight though, so they're a little cold.

445
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Speaker 1: They can skate, but they're small.

446
00:17:28,440 --> 00:17:32,880
Speaker 2: I think Suzuki's overrated Cowfield can definitely score goals. Demodof

447
00:17:32,960 --> 00:17:37,840
Speaker 2: needs to do more, so does Lefkowski. I like Hudson

448
00:17:37,880 --> 00:17:41,160
Speaker 2: on defense, but they got Dobson from the Islanders, signed

449
00:17:41,240 --> 00:17:43,480
Speaker 2: him to be his partner, and I don't think Dobson's

450
00:17:43,480 --> 00:17:46,120
Speaker 2: done quite as well as he did in New York

451
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Speaker 2: or as they've expected.

452
00:17:47,160 --> 00:17:49,280
Speaker 1: How about the Islanders just won't go away by the way.

453
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Speaker 2: I thought they'd be a legit contender for last place overall,

454
00:17:53,160 --> 00:17:55,600
Speaker 2: but they're riding that Shafer kid, the rookie on defense,

455
00:17:55,640 --> 00:17:58,320
Speaker 2: his hot start, and they're legit contender for the playoffs,

456
00:17:58,359 --> 00:18:01,480
Speaker 2: just like every single team in the Eastern Conference.

457
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Speaker 4: Yeah, he is so unbelievable, Schaefer. I mean just take

458
00:18:04,400 --> 00:18:06,240
Speaker 4: to the NHL. So between I mean he's on a

459
00:18:06,240 --> 00:18:08,560
Speaker 4: different level than Kendle, but between him and Kendle, like

460
00:18:08,600 --> 00:18:10,200
Speaker 4: the eighteen year olds that have just come into the

461
00:18:10,280 --> 00:18:14,080
Speaker 4: league this year seamlessly is really remarkable. The Islanders have

462
00:18:14,119 --> 00:18:16,000
Speaker 4: three more games played than the Penguins. That's what you

463
00:18:16,000 --> 00:18:17,880
Speaker 4: got in your back pocket if you're Pittsburgh. The games

464
00:18:17,880 --> 00:18:20,080
Speaker 4: in hand is such a huge advantage right now when

465
00:18:20,080 --> 00:18:20,440
Speaker 4: you got.

466
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Speaker 1: Patrick Walk coaching them. And I love Patty, but he's

467
00:18:22,520 --> 00:18:22,960
Speaker 1: a dope.

468
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Speaker 3: H Not a fan of HM as a coach behind

469
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Speaker 3: the bench.

470
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Speaker 2: No, I'm a fan of a is a guy deck

471
00:18:26,880 --> 00:18:29,119
Speaker 2: hockey guy. I've told that story. One of the greatest

472
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Speaker 2: goal he's ever right. I just think he's a motivator

473
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Speaker 2: as a coach and nothing else. But did you ever

474
00:18:34,640 --> 00:18:37,280
Speaker 2: see that movie with Tom Cruise where he's the drug

475
00:18:37,320 --> 00:18:38,360
Speaker 2: pilot American Maid.

476
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Speaker 4: No, I've heard of that movie, though I heard it's

477
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Speaker 4: really good.

478
00:18:41,280 --> 00:18:45,600
Speaker 2: Like his CII contact is Shaefer, And every time Cruz

479
00:18:45,760 --> 00:18:48,680
Speaker 2: addresses him as Schaeffer, he goes, who the f is Shaefer?

480
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Speaker 1: One oh five ninety X.

481
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Speaker 3: It's the Woodie Show Tomorrow morning from six till ten.

482
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Speaker 1: Who you got a day Wednesday.

483
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Speaker 3: Maybe one ninety season, when you're in the mood for

484
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Speaker 3: a hall.

485
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Speaker 2: On Mike Tomlin says that TJ. Watt is being further evaluated.

486
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Speaker 2: He said he didn't want to say too much more

487
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Speaker 2: because he's not a medical expert. I'm not sure he's

488
00:19:23,000 --> 00:19:25,160
Speaker 2: much of a football expert either, but that doesn't stop

489
00:19:25,240 --> 00:19:28,280
Speaker 2: him from blabbing away on that subject. If you're just

490
00:19:28,320 --> 00:19:31,919
Speaker 2: turning in TJ. Want hospitalized with some kind of lung disorder.

491
00:19:33,400 --> 00:19:36,959
Speaker 2: No word on exactly what the problem might be, but

492
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Speaker 2: needless to say, he's doubtful for Monday night's home game

493
00:19:41,520 --> 00:19:46,159
Speaker 2: against Miami. I didn't realize the Steelers are down to

494
00:19:46,200 --> 00:19:50,080
Speaker 2: their four string left tackle, but it's not being treated

495
00:19:50,119 --> 00:19:53,120
Speaker 2: as a huge deal, probably because the first three ain't

496
00:19:53,119 --> 00:19:57,560
Speaker 2: that good. Jones, Anderson to Pete, Dylan Cook. But Tom,

497
00:19:57,800 --> 00:20:00,760
Speaker 2: we gotta give Dylan Cook some credit. He's done Okay,

498
00:20:00,600 --> 00:20:02,560
Speaker 2: he really has. But what you just said is so

499
00:20:02,720 --> 00:20:03,359
Speaker 2: taling Mark.

500
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Speaker 4: It is such an indictment on how we feel about

501
00:20:05,960 --> 00:20:08,920
Speaker 4: the number one left tackle in Broderick Jones, that were

502
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Speaker 4: down to number four, and it's kind of just like, oh, yeah,

503
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Speaker 4: he's doing fine. Whatever we're getting by It's not that

504
00:20:12,920 --> 00:20:14,840
Speaker 4: big of a deal, not that big of a drop off.

505
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Speaker 4: The one thing I have noticed, and people have pointed

506
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Speaker 4: out to me too, is Dylan Cook was not tested

507
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Speaker 4: by the Ravens in that game. For whatever reason, they

508
00:20:22,720 --> 00:20:25,080
Speaker 4: just let him off the hook. No like stunts, no

509
00:20:25,280 --> 00:20:27,320
Speaker 4: overload rushes on his side.

510
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Speaker 1: And oddly so, even more so because Darnel Washington got.

511
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Speaker 3: Concussed, Like we were doing our show last.

512
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Speaker 2: They really couldn't do the Jumbo package after point I

513
00:20:35,720 --> 00:20:36,640
Speaker 2: didn't see it out there.

514
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Speaker 3: No, they absolutely couldn't.

515
00:20:38,040 --> 00:20:39,760
Speaker 4: Like and Tim pointed out, we were doing our show

516
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Speaker 4: last night, countdown to Kickoff, and he was like some

517
00:20:41,480 --> 00:20:43,399
Speaker 4: of the reps he was seeing for Cook that people

518
00:20:43,400 --> 00:20:45,840
Speaker 4: were highlighting, like Cook would go back into his past

519
00:20:45,880 --> 00:20:47,840
Speaker 4: set to protect and there was no one to block,

520
00:20:47,960 --> 00:20:50,760
Speaker 4: like the Ravens just went elsewhere. So yeah, he did

521
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Speaker 4: fine for his first reps ever as a practice squad guy.

522
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Speaker 4: But I guarantee you that that's gonna get tested more

523
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Speaker 4: by the Dolphins this week.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's weird.

525
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Speaker 2: The Steelers love Darnell Washing because it was run blocking

526
00:21:02,119 --> 00:21:04,960
Speaker 2: and they love the Jumbo package, but they still can't

527
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Speaker 2: run the ball. They're fourth from bottom in rushing in

528
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Speaker 2: the league, yet they take so many steps to make

529
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Speaker 2: themselves good at it.

530
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Speaker 1: They're just not the But I don't think they're.

531
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Speaker 4: A bad rushing offense though, Like I just think it's

532
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Speaker 4: a commitment issue they get away from, which is so

533
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Speaker 4: weird from where you just said where they love the

534
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Speaker 4: jumbo package because of what it does in the running game,

535
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Speaker 4: but then they don't like the running game that the

536
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Speaker 4: jumbo package feeds into.

537
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Speaker 2: Then again, they rushed seventeen times for thirty four yards

538
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Speaker 2: against Baltimore.

539
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Speaker 1: A dump out of that too.

540
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Speaker 4: Yeah, but you gotta be able to get something out

541
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Speaker 4: of it when you need it in that fourth quarter

542
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Speaker 4: of the game instead of just going three and out,

543
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Speaker 4: three and out, three and out and giving the ball

544
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Speaker 4: back and giving the Ravens life as much as you did.

545
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Speaker 1: Like, let me ask you, Tom.

546
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Speaker 2: Can the Steelers fix the running game because it would

547
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Speaker 2: have to happen out of nowhere.

548
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Speaker 1: And let me add.

549
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Speaker 2: Not only is there no running game, there's no number

550
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Speaker 2: two wide on and they're wasting the tight.

551
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Speaker 4: Ends fixing it would I think have to be leaning

552
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Speaker 4: into it more, committing to it more. And I don't

553
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Speaker 4: get a sense that they're going to do that. I

554
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Speaker 4: also think you can't ignore the fact that Rogers, wherever

555
00:22:08,840 --> 00:22:11,159
Speaker 4: he goes, you know, passing the ball at a high volume,

556
00:22:11,240 --> 00:22:13,280
Speaker 4: just follows like that. It's just a fact. Like the

557
00:22:13,359 --> 00:22:15,199
Speaker 4: Jets led the league last year and passing the ball,

558
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Speaker 4: and they shouldn't have. They had good running backs. It's

559
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Speaker 4: not that extreme. This year with Pittsburgh, they should be

560
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Speaker 4: leaning more on their running game, but they're not because

561
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Speaker 4: Rogers is the quarterback. It's just part of who he is.

562
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Speaker 2: I think, are we ready to admit that the Minka

563
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Speaker 2: trade was a bust?

564
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Speaker 1: And if so, did you ever think it would turn

565
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Speaker 1: out to be the case.

566
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Speaker 4: No, I didn't think it would turn out to be

567
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Speaker 4: the case this fast, especially, I'm getting close to saying

568
00:22:34,920 --> 00:22:35,440
Speaker 4: it's a bust.

569
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Speaker 3: Johnny Smith is bringing nothing to the table.

570
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Speaker 2: Why it's a bust. But that's not his fault, is

571
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Speaker 2: it not. I mean, they're not using them.

572
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Speaker 4: But it's also a bit of a bus because Ramsey's

573
00:22:42,800 --> 00:22:45,200
Speaker 4: just an older Minca. Like he's doing the exact same

574
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Speaker 4: stuff that Manca did at Sea.

575
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Speaker 1: He's actually Minca, but not as good.

576
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Speaker 3: Perhaps you're right at that.

577
00:22:50,280 --> 00:22:52,640
Speaker 4: Regardless, there's no splash and that was the reason why

578
00:22:52,720 --> 00:22:54,800
Speaker 4: you got away from MinC At that safety spot, no

579
00:22:54,840 --> 00:22:57,840
Speaker 4: splash was being provided. Jalen Ramsey had splash earlier this

580
00:22:57,920 --> 00:23:00,439
Speaker 4: year at corner, had an interception way early in the season.

581
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Speaker 4: But there has been no like huge game changing play

582
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Speaker 4: aside from a couple of big hits that he's made.

583
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Speaker 4: So it's like a wash there. It's neutri it's one

584
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Speaker 4: for one there, except you got the older piece. And

585
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Speaker 4: then Johnny Smith has been a total bust.

586
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Speaker 2: Well, well, people talk about lack of communication between the players,

587
00:23:15,200 --> 00:23:18,560
Speaker 2: that's always what they blame for the defense underachieving. But

588
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Speaker 2: how could the con artist trade for john U and

589
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Speaker 2: then Arthur Smith never uses them?

590
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Speaker 4: That makes no sense and it probably stems from the

591
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Speaker 4: head coaches philosophy of ignoring the middle of the field

592
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Speaker 4: at all costs possible.

593
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Speaker 3: And Arthur Smith and.

594
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Speaker 1: They fell in love with the novelty of the.

595
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Speaker 4: Big fat cell and Arthur Smith, there's no doubt about day.

596
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Speaker 1: They fell in love with the novelty of the big

597
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Speaker 1: fat cell. Mount Washington catchy nickname. And then that's killing

598
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Speaker 1: Smith and Friarmouth.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, because I thought we were gonna see Smith and

600
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Speaker 4: Firearmouth on the field together a lot. Like I thought

601
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Speaker 4: a big weapon that the Steelers offense was gonna be

602
00:23:51,600 --> 00:23:53,159
Speaker 4: able to boast was have those two lined up with

603
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Speaker 4: the line of scrimmage and then just rip up the seams,

604
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Speaker 4: you know what I mean, and just one of them's

605
00:23:57,200 --> 00:23:59,560
Speaker 4: got to be open, right, But they never do that ever.

606
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Speaker 2: Given chance that Jackass coaching, the team will always go

607
00:24:03,359 --> 00:24:05,560
Speaker 2: more primitive, except.

608
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Speaker 4: Running the football is like the most primitive thing you

609
00:24:07,440 --> 00:24:09,600
Speaker 4: can do, and they he allows them to dump out

610
00:24:09,600 --> 00:24:10,840
Speaker 4: of it as fast as possible to go to the

611
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Speaker 4: quick passing game.

612
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Speaker 3: It's just not as effective.

613
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I laugh when I hear like, get

614
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Speaker 2: up and Steven a well, actually Steven as kind of

615
00:24:19,359 --> 00:24:21,000
Speaker 2: backing up. But we talk about what a great coach

616
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Speaker 2: Tom Win is and he's not this year as much

617
00:24:24,040 --> 00:24:27,800
Speaker 2: as any ever proves he's incompetent, But that doesn't matter

618
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Speaker 2: because he'll coach forever.

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Speaker 1: Tom.

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Speaker 2: How about your guy Kenny Pickett most likely starting for

621
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Speaker 2: Vegas with Gino Smith out.

622
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Speaker 4: I think it's hilarious. Pete Carroll has been trying to

623
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Speaker 4: avoid this like the plague. Like Gino Smith has been

624
00:24:40,080 --> 00:24:42,840
Speaker 4: banged up throughout the season, He has been playing terribly

625
00:24:42,880 --> 00:24:45,280
Speaker 4: all year long, tied with two of fourteen interceptions, but

626
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Speaker 4: he has just not gone to Kenny Pickett because he

627
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Speaker 4: knows how bad he is forced to do. So now

628
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Speaker 4: it's gonna be great and he's playing Philadelphia, Mark, could

629
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Speaker 4: you have picked a better opponent the old team that

630
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Speaker 4: he won the Super Bowl with? Gotta go back to Philly.

631
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Speaker 4: Do you think he gets a standing ovation from the

632
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Speaker 4: crowd welcome back Kenny Pickett?

633
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Speaker 2: Think they'll barely remember who he was? Uh, it is

634
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Speaker 2: Schador a star? It's too early, but can we say

635
00:25:06,240 --> 00:25:08,600
Speaker 2: that anyway? After his first good game, and he was

636
00:25:08,840 --> 00:25:10,240
Speaker 2: very good.

637
00:25:10,080 --> 00:25:11,840
Speaker 4: You could say he's a star from the sense of

638
00:25:11,880 --> 00:25:15,199
Speaker 4: like he's definitely the most talked about, polarizing figure in

639
00:25:15,240 --> 00:25:17,439
Speaker 4: the NFL, one of the more well known figures, no

640
00:25:17,520 --> 00:25:19,879
Speaker 4: doubt star as far as like play on the field.

641
00:25:19,920 --> 00:25:22,679
Speaker 4: It's it's extremely early for that, but that's a promising result.

642
00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:24,880
Speaker 4: Kenny Pickett never put up a game like that, that's

643
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Speaker 4: for damn sure. It took Kenny Pickett like half a

644
00:25:26,800 --> 00:25:28,600
Speaker 4: season to get to what Schadoor did in that one game.

645
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Speaker 2: Wait, Shador had better numbers at one game than Kenny

646
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Speaker 2: Pickett doesn't half.

647
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Speaker 3: A season pretty much exactly.

648
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Speaker 1: Now, did you.

649
00:25:35,600 --> 00:25:40,000
Speaker 2: See Cam Newton was bitching because uh, Indianapolis brought back

650
00:25:40,040 --> 00:25:43,280
Speaker 2: Philip Rivers but didn't call Cam Newton. And I think

651
00:25:43,320 --> 00:25:45,359
Speaker 2: Philip Rivers is the guy I'd rather have because I

652
00:25:45,400 --> 00:25:47,879
Speaker 2: think could be more dedicated right off the bat coming in.

653
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Speaker 1: And I thought Cam Newton when he when he when he.

654
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Speaker 2: Made a business decision to not fall in that fumble

655
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Speaker 2: in his Super Bowl, I would have never wanted Cam

656
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Speaker 2: Newton to play for me again that said, what a

657
00:25:57,480 --> 00:26:01,119
Speaker 2: contrast the the de vaub Kathley with a billion kids

658
00:26:01,359 --> 00:26:03,760
Speaker 2: or the pimp, the guy who dresses as a pimp

659
00:26:03,800 --> 00:26:04,520
Speaker 2: on ESPN.

660
00:26:04,960 --> 00:26:07,119
Speaker 4: Cam Newton's game too, when he was at his prime,

661
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Speaker 4: you know, winning MVPs, getting to that Super Bowl that

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Speaker 4: he was allowed out of business spad, I wasn't going there.

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Speaker 1: Mark.

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Speaker 4: He was a linebacker playing quarterback like his His athleticism

665
00:26:15,920 --> 00:26:18,320
Speaker 4: was a big draw there. He had the most rushing

666
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Speaker 4: touchdowns in NFL history before Josh Allen broke it this year.

667
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Speaker 4: So like he was such a different quarterback than he

668
00:26:24,600 --> 00:26:27,040
Speaker 4: could ever be. Right now, Philip Rivers, they're going for

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Speaker 4: his mind and they think there's something still left in

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Speaker 4: the arm that was never Cam Newton's game.

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Speaker 1: Well. Plus, and Philip Rivers is bringing Jesus with.

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Speaker 3: Them, right, that's a great thing to have in your corner.

673
00:26:35,800 --> 00:26:38,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, right, And you'd rather have Jesus than not have.

674
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Speaker 3: Jesus going against Jesus as an uphill climb.

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Speaker 1: I don't know about that.

676
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Speaker 2: There's no way to get out of that without being

677
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Speaker 2: really sacriligious. So I'll just leave it go at that. Now,

678
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Speaker 2: is it worth it?

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Speaker 1: Tom?

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Speaker 2: Can Philip Rivers save Indie season? No, because they brought

681
00:26:53,359 --> 00:26:55,320
Speaker 2: him in to save their season, or at least they

682
00:26:55,359 --> 00:26:58,840
Speaker 2: feel that's their best educated way of trying it.

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Speaker 3: No, he cannot say their season.

684
00:27:00,600 --> 00:27:02,640
Speaker 4: They're already outside of the playoff picture, so like he's

685
00:27:02,640 --> 00:27:05,680
Speaker 4: got to get them back into the playoffs. Texans are going,

686
00:27:05,760 --> 00:27:07,399
Speaker 4: the Jags are going, the Bills are going to be

687
00:27:07,440 --> 00:27:09,880
Speaker 4: the wild card too, and he's done. He can't save

688
00:27:09,920 --> 00:27:11,600
Speaker 4: their season, but at least it's entertaining for us to

689
00:27:11,640 --> 00:27:12,960
Speaker 4: see him try.

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Speaker 2: We got a bunch of guests today, Gosh Show. We

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Speaker 2: had three thirty talking hockey. Jerry Dulec at four to

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Speaker 2: thirty talking Steelers this hour, The maart Man show brought

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Speaker 2: to us by Sandrorovia Sandrovic and Fisherman.

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Speaker 1: They got your back, not your wallet. One oh five

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Speaker 2: It's got to be cloudy today with a few flurries

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Speaker 2: or snowshowers, a high of twenty eight cloudie with a

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Speaker 2: few flurries of snowshowers possibly tonight dropping down to twenty

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Speaker 2: cloudy the start today tomorrow. We got Jerry Dulak on later.

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Speaker 2: Just an amazing stat the balance of possession time for

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Speaker 2: the Steelers. It's so great that if you extrapolate it

706
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Speaker 2: over the whole league, the Steelers defense has played the

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Speaker 2: equivalent of over two extra games so far this season.

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Speaker 2: That is just absolutely incredible. Colin, what do we got

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Speaker 2: for the trifectam?

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Speaker 4: For today's trifecta, Mark, I'm pretty sure the Steelers are

711
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Speaker 4: going to host a playoff game, think that they're gonna

712
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Speaker 4: win the AFC North. So it comes down to if

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Speaker 4: you can win that playoff game. My trifecta of teams

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Speaker 4: that I can convince myself the Steelers can beat at

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Speaker 4: home in the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: I could never do this because it wouldn't be fun

717
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Speaker 1: to have a zero.

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Speaker 3: EFFECTA number three for me the Denver Broncos.

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Speaker 4: I don't know if they're gonna fall out of the

720
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Speaker 4: one seed, but if they have to come to Pittsburgh,

721
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Speaker 4: if the Chargers catch them, I could see the Steelers

722
00:28:45,800 --> 00:28:48,120
Speaker 4: beating them in a total rock fight, like thirteen to

723
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Speaker 4: ten game.

724
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Speaker 1: Because Loncos can't get sucked into a rock fight. But

725
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Speaker 1: I love their.

726
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Speaker 3: Defense, and I'd love their defense too.

727
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Speaker 4: It's better than the Steelers defense, no doubt, but bo

728
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Speaker 4: Nicks about Bonnicks just not that impressive. But since I

729
00:28:58,440 --> 00:29:00,720
Speaker 4: don't think they're gonna get caught. Two team is the

730
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Speaker 4: LA Chargers. They're so banged up. I know the Steelers

731
00:29:03,080 --> 00:29:04,680
Speaker 4: lost to them earlier this year, but I think it'd

732
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Speaker 4: be different here. Rogers played awful in that game. I

733
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Speaker 4: don't think that would be the case. They have no tackles.

734
00:29:10,080 --> 00:29:12,600
Speaker 4: Herbert's banged up too. Like I just feel like the

735
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Speaker 4: Chargers aren't as good as their record are, so they'd

736
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Speaker 4: be my number two team, but my number one team,

737
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Speaker 4: and I think it's the team that everybody's circling that

738
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Speaker 4: thinks is going to make the playoffs that they want

739
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Speaker 4: in that first round is Jacksonville, Like Jacksonville is the

740
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Speaker 4: one that you want to pick off, And maybe there's

741
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Speaker 4: a little bit of that logo doing a lot of

742
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Speaker 4: heavy lifting there where it's just like, oh, it's the Jags.

743
00:29:28,480 --> 00:29:30,959
Speaker 4: You always roll over them. But I think Trevor Lawrence

744
00:29:31,040 --> 00:29:33,520
Speaker 4: is very inconsistent and you can't trust them in a

745
00:29:33,520 --> 00:29:35,720
Speaker 4: playoff game. So that's who you want if you're the Steelers,

746
00:29:35,800 --> 00:29:38,000
Speaker 4: just for the Jacks to be the five seed. Unfortunately, Mark,

747
00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:39,440
Speaker 4: I think the five seed is going to be the Bills.

748
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Speaker 4: Josh Allen's gonna roll away. Well they have any chance

749
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Speaker 4: against Buffalo No, No, I don't think so. They just I

750
00:29:44,040 --> 00:29:45,960
Speaker 4: know they beat him in that home opener once upon

751
00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:49,520
Speaker 4: a time up in Buffaloe Free. Yeah, they have very

752
00:29:49,520 --> 00:29:51,400
Speaker 4: minimal success against Salad of the Bills.

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Speaker 2: The trifecto brought to was by Danny's patron Hogies, Pittsburgh's

754
00:29:55,480 --> 00:29:58,280
Speaker 2: original Evan Bake Togi since nineteen sixty. That's Dandy's on

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Speaker 2: Route eighty eight in Bethel Park.

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Speaker 1: Tom. I'm pissed.

757
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Speaker 2: I forgot about the office Christmas party, which was today

758
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Speaker 2: top Golf before the show. Just forgot And usually I

759
00:30:08,240 --> 00:30:11,280
Speaker 2: get pissed because they schedule it during the show, but

760
00:30:11,360 --> 00:30:13,800
Speaker 2: today it was before the show and right down the

761
00:30:13,840 --> 00:30:16,440
Speaker 2: road here too in Bridgeville, and I just pump forgot,

762
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Speaker 2: making it even more intolerable. I'm doing a wake in

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Speaker 2: one eighty and I'm down to over forty pounds lost now,

764
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Speaker 2: and there's a million boxes of bakery and candy, like

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Speaker 2: just random candy or bakery from Bartrams, which is great

766
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Speaker 2: and I can't even touch it.

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Speaker 1: I had some fruit salad that's exciting.

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Speaker 4: So much candy, so much cookies in the office right now.

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Speaker 4: It's the toughest time a year to do it. We

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Speaker 4: got the Double Tree Hotel cookies. My buddy Donnie A.

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Speaker 4: I went to Shaler with Class seventy eight represent you know.

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Speaker 4: He sent over a can to a bunch of people,

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Speaker 4: but I got mine. So I'm taking three days off

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Speaker 4: Awaken one eighty over Christmas, probably twenty four to twenty fifth,

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Speaker 4: twenty six maybe the twenty third instead of the twenty sixth,

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Speaker 4: and I'll eat every single one of those cookies like

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Speaker 4: machine gun him down because they're so good. You are

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Speaker 4: you allowed to just walk into a Double Tree and

779
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Speaker 4: just like buy the cookies like it's a bakery, because

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Speaker 4: I would do that.

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Speaker 3: I would love to buy a s leave of them.

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Speaker 3: They're that good.

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Speaker 1: Well, they're They're the best cookie there is.

784
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Speaker 3: The Double Tree cookies that you get at the desk

785
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Speaker 3: if you like, check it out.

786
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Speaker 1: The chip cookie there is.

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Speaker 3: I don't know how.

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Speaker 4: They're baking them. I don't know who they have back there.

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Speaker 4: It has to be like a Keybrale elf himself back

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Speaker 4: there cooking these cookies up.

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Speaker 1: No, they're way better than keybler uh. Tom.

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Speaker 2: Here here's a subject that that is a little tough

793
00:31:27,200 --> 00:31:31,040
Speaker 2: to broach because you know, when somebody passes away, especially young,

794
00:31:31,880 --> 00:31:33,520
Speaker 2: they're their deeds are magnified.

795
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Speaker 1: You know, it can be a good career move.

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Speaker 2: I don't say that flippantly, but but sometimes people die

797
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Speaker 2: young and they are they are seen as greater because

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Speaker 2: of it.

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Speaker 1: And in that vein, there's a thirty thirty on Stuart.

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Speaker 2: Scott uh the late anchor for ESPN, that everybody's raving about.

801
00:31:50,520 --> 00:31:53,960
Speaker 2: And I didn't dislike Stuart Scott met him once. He

802
00:31:54,040 --> 00:31:58,560
Speaker 2: was okay, and I don't think he sucked. I just

803
00:31:58,680 --> 00:32:02,680
Speaker 2: never got him. I didn't find him clever or charismatic

804
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Speaker 2: at all. I don't see how you having Boo Yah

805
00:32:05,440 --> 00:32:07,040
Speaker 2: revolutionized sports broadcast.

806
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Speaker 1: You know, I'm not being flipping here. I just didn't

807
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Speaker 1: get it.

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00:32:09,320 --> 00:32:10,959
Speaker 4: Yeah, it wasn't for you, and I don't know if

809
00:32:10,960 --> 00:32:12,880
Speaker 4: it was really for me either, Although Stuart Scott was

810
00:32:12,880 --> 00:32:14,480
Speaker 4: a bit before my time, so like if I watched

811
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Speaker 4: this thirty for thirty, I'm sure i'd see a lot

812
00:32:16,160 --> 00:32:18,120
Speaker 4: more about him. But of course I know the boo

813
00:32:18,160 --> 00:32:21,560
Speaker 4: Yeah stuff. I mean he was he was huge, Dan Patrick.

814
00:32:21,600 --> 00:32:23,360
Speaker 4: You know, that's the one that I kind of gravitated

815
00:32:23,400 --> 00:32:26,320
Speaker 4: towards from that, you know, era of great anchors, and

816
00:32:26,360 --> 00:32:27,560
Speaker 4: I think that there was a bit of a healthy

817
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Speaker 4: rivalry between those guys on that show.

818
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Speaker 2: Olberman said at one time, I don't see where inserting

819
00:32:34,480 --> 00:32:37,920
Speaker 2: the latest phrase from the latest rap song is good

820
00:32:37,920 --> 00:32:41,320
Speaker 2: for sports broadcasting. Then again, Keith had his own set

821
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Speaker 2: of drop ins, didn't he.

822
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Speaker 4: Yeah, And like it worked for Stuart Scott, you know

823
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Speaker 4: what I mean, Like you didn't he got it over.

824
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Speaker 2: I'm not putting Stuart Scott Down. I think he was

825
00:32:49,480 --> 00:32:54,360
Speaker 2: very professional in quality, but and now, and like Stephen A.

826
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Speaker 2: Smith is the buffoon version of Oh yes, of Stuart Scott.

827
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Speaker 4: I would kill for Stuart Scott back or Steven A.

828
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Speaker 4: Smith and what we have now.

829
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Speaker 2: I think Stewart Scott in a role like Steven A.

830
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Speaker 2: Smith has now would be excellent and better than Steven A.

831
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Speaker 1: Smith.

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Speaker 3: Do you think that's what it would have happened, do you?

833
00:33:09,960 --> 00:33:10,680
Speaker 1: I really don't know.

834
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Speaker 4: He would have definitely been something ESPN would have kept,

835
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Speaker 4: though you'd think they would hitch their wagon to him.

836
00:33:15,200 --> 00:33:17,960
Speaker 2: I just think ESPN has your credibility left except for

837
00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:20,360
Speaker 2: the hockey guys, and part of that is they don't

838
00:33:20,360 --> 00:33:23,120
Speaker 2: pay that much attention to hockey, so those guys can

839
00:33:23,600 --> 00:33:25,760
Speaker 2: do what they are like like of.

840
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Speaker 1: Course Bucci, Steve Levy, I mean, p K and Mess.

841
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Speaker 2: I don't think they're good, but I don't hate them

842
00:33:31,480 --> 00:33:34,720
Speaker 2: like I do the TNT guys. But to Cone when

843
00:33:34,720 --> 00:33:38,160
Speaker 2: they give her the opportunity, Scott Van Pelt's great, but I.

844
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Speaker 1: Just don't see a lot there.

845
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I know the traffic cops that they have right

846
00:33:42,160 --> 00:33:44,760
Speaker 4: The hosts, the studio hosts for hockey are just flawless

847
00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:46,960
Speaker 4: that on ESPN. I think there's something to what you

848
00:33:46,960 --> 00:33:48,640
Speaker 4: said about how they just don't pay attention to that

849
00:33:48,680 --> 00:33:51,240
Speaker 4: side of things that much. No, no hockey, they just

850
00:33:51,280 --> 00:33:54,160
Speaker 4: get to hockey to feel streaming time, they just get

851
00:33:54,160 --> 00:33:56,760
Speaker 4: to thrive. Yeah, it was all about ESPN plus you know.

852
00:33:56,880 --> 00:33:59,840
Speaker 2: You know what's weird is in the old days, es

853
00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:04,160
Speaker 2: pinion used to go crazy because they didn't want Olberman

854
00:34:04,200 --> 00:34:08,520
Speaker 2: and Patrick and Chris Berman to be bigger than the brand. Okay,

855
00:34:08,520 --> 00:34:12,239
Speaker 2: they wanted the brand to be everything ESPN the worldwide leader, yes,

856
00:34:12,280 --> 00:34:14,080
Speaker 2: and they didn't want those guys to get too big.

857
00:34:14,680 --> 00:34:18,080
Speaker 2: Now they want guys to be stars. But none of

858
00:34:18,080 --> 00:34:21,040
Speaker 2: them are bigger stars than than Oberman, Patrick and Berman.

859
00:34:21,480 --> 00:34:23,239
Speaker 4: None of them hold to candle them and, to be

860
00:34:23,280 --> 00:34:25,320
Speaker 4: quite honest, Stuart Scott terrify.

861
00:34:24,920 --> 00:34:27,879
Speaker 2: Never forget if they're good, bad, indifferent. Those guys were

862
00:34:27,960 --> 00:34:29,719
Speaker 2: just bigger stars.

863
00:34:29,239 --> 00:34:31,839
Speaker 4: For whatever reason. Sure, and to me they were better too.

864
00:34:31,920 --> 00:34:32,680
Speaker 4: Like that was more of my.

865
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Speaker 2: People talk about Pat the Son's never come up on

866
00:34:36,560 --> 00:34:39,080
Speaker 2: the day when Pat McAfee's a bigger star than Dan Patrick.

867
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Speaker 4: Oh, no chance in that or Olberman or even Stuart Scott.

868
00:34:42,760 --> 00:34:44,319
Speaker 4: To be honest, with you, although there is probably gonna

869
00:34:44,320 --> 00:34:45,560
Speaker 4: be a thirty for thirty on Pat one day.

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Speaker 3: Don't you think that's coming?

871
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Speaker 2: Oh well, no, Patt will do it himself and then

872
00:34:49,600 --> 00:34:54,160
Speaker 2: he'll license it to ESPN. Who's your guilty pleasure on ESPN?

873
00:34:54,160 --> 00:34:56,880
Speaker 2: Who's a guy that wasn't known as a big timer

874
00:34:57,360 --> 00:35:00,080
Speaker 2: throughout the worldwide leader's history, but you just thought was real?

875
00:35:01,480 --> 00:35:01,640
Speaker 4: Oh?

876
00:35:01,680 --> 00:35:01,879
Speaker 2: Man?

877
00:35:01,880 --> 00:35:02,600
Speaker 3: What was his name?

878
00:35:02,719 --> 00:35:02,880
Speaker 2: Was it?

879
00:35:03,560 --> 00:35:04,759
Speaker 3: Sam? What was his name?

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Speaker 4: It was Neil Neil Everett. I always thought Neil Everett

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Speaker 4: was really cool and he would do a lot of

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Speaker 4: late night stuff. But he had some cool like phrases

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Speaker 4: like when a home run was said, he'd go bartender,

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Speaker 4: he'd say sake or something like that.

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Speaker 3: I don't know, I liked it.

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Speaker 4: That's kind of Stuart Scottish, but like Neil Everett was

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Speaker 4: a sleeper for me.

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Speaker 2: And again I went, that was it. I thought Stuart

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Speaker 2: Scott was really good. I just don't see the legendary

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Speaker 2: end of it. You know who my my guilty pleasure was?

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Speaker 2: I don't know how you didn't say it yourself or

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Speaker 2: guess it. Craig Kilbourne. Oh, Craig Kilbourn is a comedian.

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Speaker 2: He went on to be like great heel in movies

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Speaker 2: like The Benchwarmers and of course old school.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and he birthed the Daily Show right, he was

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Speaker 3: the first host for that.

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Speaker 2: And Kilbourne on ESPN. Again subtle heel, very subtle, but

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Speaker 2: he was so good at it. I am a big

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Speaker 2: Craig Kilbourne fan. Uh we got Josh are we talking

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Speaker 2: Hawk at the bottom of the hour? Penguins in Montreal tonight?

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Speaker 2: Here all the action right here on one oh five

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Speaker 2: to nine