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Speaker 2: Kick is.

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Speaker 3: And you're Pittsburgh Steelers are the s North Champions.

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Speaker 1: The author of I Love Max's response in your hand.

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Speaker 1: You could hear the meat hitting meat on that, you

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Speaker 1: know what I mean? I could.

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Speaker 4: I could hear the god bush, I could hear the

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Speaker 4: bedlam kind of going on around me.

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Speaker 1: But I didn't look.

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Speaker 4: I mean, I have to watch it's going out in

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Speaker 4: I heard the celebration off to my riding through my headsets.

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Speaker 1: That's the first time you've heard that call replayed. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: that was it. I mean, you nailed the essence of it.

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Speaker 1: There king.

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Speaker 5: The play before that, well, two plays before that, the

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Speaker 5: fourth down conversion.

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Speaker 1: My lord.

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Speaker 5: One play that we're not talking about is the play

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Speaker 5: before that where Nate Herbig had Lamar Jackson in his

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Speaker 5: grasp for a sack that would have taken them back

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Speaker 5: to the like forty yard line and it would have

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Speaker 5: been fourth and forever and.

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Speaker 1: He just missed getting him on the ground.

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Speaker 5: That was one of several times that the Steelers defense

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Speaker 5: was this close to bringing down Lamar and then he

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Speaker 5: made a spectacular play.

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Speaker 1: He is, he's a great player.

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Speaker 4: He's just you know, I you know, look at some point,

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Speaker 4: you know, probably we would have been talking about the

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Speaker 4: great plays Lamar mate, because the Steelers dominated from about

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Speaker 4: midway through the second quarter on.

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Speaker 1: The Steelers dominated the game, Yes, and it was dominated.

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Speaker 1: I think I used it. I think I used the

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Speaker 1: boxing analogy on the on the air.

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Speaker 4: You know, you're you're you're landing blow after blow after

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Speaker 4: and you're landing blow after blow after blow, and you

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Speaker 4: know you're out pointing him, you know, for the for the.

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Speaker 1: Judges, but only one judge. It's on the scoreboard.

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Speaker 4: You know, he's a spectacular player, and I thought we

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Speaker 4: might be talking about his spectacular place because that was

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Speaker 4: their offense after the first drive. Their offense was Lamar

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Speaker 4: Jackson making ridiculous Lamar Jackson type play. Well, this was

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Speaker 4: the defensive philosophy of the Steelers. Stop Derrick Henry, Do

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Speaker 4: not let Derrick Henry beat you. Make Lamar Jackson be outstanding,

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Speaker 4: make him make big plays.

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Speaker 5: I cannot tell you how many times I thought he

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Speaker 5: and instead had Zay Flowers fifty yard touchdown reception.

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Speaker 1: You know, I'm sure a lot of Steelers.

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Speaker 4: Fans are thinking, oh, well, you know we've seen we've

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Speaker 4: seen this movie Scrimmage, right, Yeah, we've seen this before.

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Speaker 1: And that was called back a little bit.

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Speaker 4: But you know, when you think about it, it's a

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Speaker 4: I mean, they made four big plays. Really, that's what

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Speaker 4: And you know, it's part of what I When I

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Speaker 4: It's all gonna happen your way, and you're gonna you're

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Speaker 4: But you know, I just I thought they were the

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Speaker 5: So yeah, it shouldn't have been as close as it was.

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Speaker 5: Cam Hayward had maybe his best game of the year.

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Speaker 5: There's a lot of Steeler fans who give him flack

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Speaker 1: It's irrefutable how good he has been.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, and how good and how important that performance was

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Speaker 4: who addressed any Oh? Yeah, Like I don't pay an attention.

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Speaker 4: I literally don't. I don't pay I don't pay any

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Speaker 5: Has Connor Hayward done except big play after big play. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: I think Connor Hayward is he's the kind of guy

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Speaker 4: As for Cam, you know, I thought Cam's season was

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Speaker 4: playing like he's just he's just so he was so dominant,

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Speaker 4: Or four long plays you know on possession down. Hey,

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Speaker 4: you know, John Harville was talking about it this week.

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Speaker 4: And I thought, well, they had one hundred and thirty

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Speaker 4: people are talking about, what's your confidence level going in

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Speaker 1: Well, Aaron Rodgers said the first and first shorts.

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Speaker 5: No, I mean, you know, everybody, when he took that

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Speaker 5: You just thought, now, this is the kind of thing

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Speaker 1: And that didn't come back to haunt them. I think

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Speaker 5: You know, if you miss it to tie it, you

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Speaker 5: But well, Jeff, after forty yards, the percentages that Heiden's

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Speaker 4: If the Steelers did the same thing and trotted Chris

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, those edge guys are really good and

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Speaker 1: It's not going to take them by surprise. They just played.

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Speaker 6: One you don't want to win at the Browns. Phone

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Speaker 4: That'd be hey, man, you know I wanted him to

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Speaker 4: But come on, man, that is that is one of

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Speaker 1: That it is.

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Speaker 4: I mean, it was a it was a winner, go

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Speaker 5: So some AFC North news as we head into the

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Speaker 5: been relieved.

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Speaker 1: You know, I don't want to.

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Speaker 4: I don't want to make another man's misery a part

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Speaker 4: of what we get to witness here in Pittsburgh. But

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Speaker 4: think about he is a two time coach of the Year, right, yeah,

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Speaker 4: and look what is his career record now, I mean,

447
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Speaker 4: look at the losing records he's had. And I mean

448
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Speaker 4: and it's not all him obviously. I mean, they made

449
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Speaker 4: a huge mistake with Deshaun Watson that's hamstrung on the

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Speaker 4: organization and will for another season.

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Speaker 1: But they just lose, you know.

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Speaker 4: Meanwhile, you know you got Duck Hodges darting games for

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Speaker 4: you and you're winning and you're getting to the playoffs,

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Speaker 4: and that should not be you know, look, we all

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Speaker 4: want and Mike tom immediately talked about this, like you're

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Speaker 4: in the tournament, Okay, great, you want to win the game.

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Speaker 1: The standard is the standard. The expectations are the expectations.

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Speaker 4: But you know the fact that we've had what twenty

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Speaker 4: two is it now, twenty one twenty two consecutive seasons

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Speaker 4: in which they haven't had a losing season, that is not,

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Speaker 4: you know, something that should just be swept aside. Every

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Speaker 4: year we get to think about, hey man, this game

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Speaker 4: means something, and maybe we can catch fire and maybe

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Speaker 4: we can do something.

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Speaker 6: And you know, this is what bothers me about Steelers

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Speaker 6: fans is because I think a lot of them are

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Speaker 6: my age that live through the Palamalu Porter Roethlisberger years

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Speaker 6: and expect this level that is basically unattainable. Like the

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Speaker 6: fact that the fact that all of Pittsburgh right now

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Speaker 6: is trying to make plans for what their nachos are

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Speaker 6: going to be for a playoff game should not be

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Speaker 6: lost on anybody that that is a special thing. There's

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Speaker 6: a bunch of teams that don't have that right now,

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Speaker 6: and we're gonna stink and then you know instantly we're

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Speaker 6: gonna get good. Okay, well tell that to Buffalo for

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Speaker 6: twenty years.

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Speaker 4: You know, tell that to other teams that have stunk

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Speaker 4: and then just continue to stink. You know, the Steelers

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Speaker 4: are never They're never gonna They're never gonna mail it in.

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Speaker 1: They're never gonna try to lose games. Ever.

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Speaker 4: I'm so you know, going into this season, I was shocked,

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Speaker 4: and we talked about this. I was shocked that nobody

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Speaker 4: picked the Steelers team to go to the playoffs. Now

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Speaker 4: you can say, okay, there's people that didn't. Hey, they're

485
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Speaker 4: a misfield go away from not having done that. This

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Speaker 4: is a better football team than a year ago. You know,

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Speaker 4: going into the playoffs, this is a better team than

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Speaker 4: last year's team. There is a reasonable expectation for this

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Speaker 4: team to win a game and then let's see what happens.

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Speaker 5: And if you didn't have Mike Tomlin winning those kinds

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Speaker 5: of games for you, you wouldn't have Mike Tomlin post

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Speaker 5: game press conferences.

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Speaker 6: Like that kick Season's over comes to a screeching halt

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Speaker 6: and missing that kick and the.

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Speaker 10: Winner going on you know it is my had male parts.

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Speaker 10: She'd be my uncle, yeah mail man either way.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, but yeah, Rob king with us a power hour

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Speaker 5: of the Pittsburgh Steelers. And now it's Monday night against

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Speaker 5: the Houston Texans. Another prime time Don't love it, but

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Speaker 5: that's okay, better than not having a playoff football and

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Speaker 5: a home game first time since they.

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Speaker 1: Won the division in twenty twenty.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, twenty twenty, and boy, that's welcome back here.

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Speaker 1: Plus we couldn't go to.

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Speaker 4: That game, Kobe was Was that a COVID game they

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Speaker 4: haveing the Browns jumped down the most right before because

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Speaker 4: it's twenty twenty.

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Speaker 11: Yeah, OVID Mary the COVID season. Yeah, so the fans

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Speaker 11: were allowed to go home fans. Was the Jags game?

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Speaker 1: Okay? Really really? Yeah?

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Speaker 11: Wow.

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Speaker 5: Jacob who made his way back from the Caribbean, he

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Speaker 5: was we were worried he wasn't going to get back

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Speaker 5: because his flights were disrupted due to international incidents that

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Speaker 5: are occurring around the region. And we're glad that you

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Speaker 5: drank your way through that at the airport. I pack

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Speaker 5: your buddy.

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Speaker 1: I had fun at the airport bar yesterday. Well, you

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Speaker 1: know that's what they're for, you know, to have fun.

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Speaker 5: Mike Pursuda when we come back, joining the Fray Here

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Speaker 5: learn more. And Mike, we you saw the news about

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Speaker 5: Stefanski getting back there.

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Speaker 1: How many is that for them?

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Speaker 2: Now?

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Speaker 5: The last little while, I don't remember who coached before him.

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Speaker 1: Well I don't either, It's just.

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Speaker 9: I don't know now that's that's the other side of it.

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Speaker 9: That's the other side of it. And you know, Cleveland

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Speaker 9: is a team that has won a playoff game more

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Speaker 9: recently than the Steelers. Do you want to be them?

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Speaker 9: Do you want to be the New York Football Giants?

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Speaker 9: They've won a playoffs.

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Speaker 6: There a quarterback in the future and he has a

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Speaker 6: passer rating of eighteen.

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Speaker 1: It was Hugh what's his name, wasn't it Hugh Morris?

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Speaker 11: No, it was Freddy Kitchens. Remember that guy that Baker

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Speaker 11: Mayfield pretty much hated. He was the cochech was there

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Speaker 11: when Baker was there.

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Speaker 1: Hugh Jackson's the guy you're thinking.

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Speaker 5: I was thinking of Hugh Jacksons, But they had Greg

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Speaker 5: Williams and Freddy Kitchens before that.

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Speaker 1: Hugh fired himself on a hard.

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Speaker 5: Knock, all right, so that NONI was standing. Okay, that's

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Speaker 5: their problem to deal with. Steelers right now. Got to

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Speaker 5: look towards detections. But let's talk a little about what

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Speaker 5: happened last night, because they might be peaking at the

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Speaker 5: right time, particularly on the defensive line and on the

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Speaker 5: edge on.

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Speaker 9: The offensive line too. There the trenches. I think I

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Speaker 9: can't remember if I when our last show was before

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Speaker 9: the break, but we did the previews show throughout that

567
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Speaker 9: didn't stop, and Merril Hodge was adamant I think this

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Speaker 9: was going into the Cleveland game. He thought both lines

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Speaker 9: had really gotten it together. Yeah, and that was transferable

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Speaker 9: and that was kind of game changing for what this

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Speaker 9: team was capable of. And I didn't necessarily show up

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Speaker 9: against the Browns, but showed up last night.

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Speaker 1: It's been showing up.

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Speaker 5: But let's let's let's not make any mistake about the

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Speaker 5: fact that that Ravens team, especially with al Kyle Hamilton,

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Speaker 5: not exactly world beaters.

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Speaker 1: I mean, what they're going to face in.

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Speaker 5: The Houston Texans this coming weekend, this coming Monday night,

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Speaker 5: is going to be markedly different.

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Speaker 9: Well only if you consider that Detexans started the season

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Speaker 9: zero to three and have won gone twelve and two since,

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Speaker 9: including the last nine wins in succession, including a game

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Speaker 9: against the Colts yesterday where they really didn't give a

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Speaker 9: damn and they won it anyway.

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Speaker 1: Don't want it.

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Speaker 9: Uh, they're rightly look good, but you know, yeah, well

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Speaker 9: because you know, again, the Texans didn't really care defensively

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Speaker 9: going into the final weekend. I don't know what the

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Speaker 9: final stats turned out to be. Going into Week eighteen,

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Speaker 9: the Texans were number one in total defense two hundred

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Speaker 9: and seventy two point four yards per game, number four

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Speaker 9: in rushing defense ninety four point eight, number four in

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Speaker 9: passing defense one seventy seven point six, number one in

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Speaker 9: scoring defense sixteen point six points allowed per game, Number

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Speaker 9: four in third down defense thirty five point nine to

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Speaker 9: five percent. Their only relative weakness on defense, they were

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Speaker 9: middling in red zone. They were sixteenth fifty seven point

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Speaker 9: five percent. Now offensively it almost flips around. Sixteenth in

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Speaker 9: points per game, thirtieth in red zone, twenty fourth in rushing,

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Speaker 9: twentieth in yard They went with their defense to Texans.

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Speaker 9: So Steel's got to figure out the way not to

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Speaker 9: let the Texans defense wreck the game.

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Speaker 1: And they got a you know, okay, let's let's still

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Speaker 1: enjoy last night. Okay, before you started worrying about you're

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Speaker 1: starting to zepp all over the place.

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Speaker 5: My pop might no, no, no, I'm admonishing myself here. Okay,

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Speaker 5: it's my fault for dragging us there. Let's enjoy the

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Speaker 5: victory over bald Bull before we deal with Tyson. And

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Speaker 5: here's uh, you know, and one think about that.

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Speaker 9: You've mentioned Hamblon a couple of times, and it's spot

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Speaker 9: on because Mike Tomlins asked last night, did you decide

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Speaker 9: to go down the field more when Hamilton left the game?

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Speaker 9: He said, no, that was our intention a along. He

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Speaker 9: plays down low in the box. But also when they

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Speaker 9: lost him, they moved Marlon Humphrey, who was the suspect

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Speaker 9: cornerback in his own right, They moved him into hamilton

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Speaker 9: spot and brought even a worse cornerback into the game

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Speaker 9: than their two starters Humphrey and Nate Wiggins. So that

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Speaker 9: made them weaker corner and thus more susceptible to go

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Speaker 9: and down. And that was the scenario where you love

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Speaker 9: to have Aaron Rodgers.

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Speaker 1: I'd love to have Aaron Rodgers pretty much every scenario.

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Speaker 6: They kept rushing for four yards to get it first

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Speaker 6: out scenario, I wouldn't like him.

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Speaker 1: He had the longest run of the night for the

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Speaker 1: students last night.

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Speaker 9: He had a career season high in passing yards last night,

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Speaker 9: and he threw for one hundred and thirty three yards

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Speaker 9: in the fourth quarter. Wow, his most in one quarter

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Speaker 9: in this season.

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Speaker 5: They had three touchdown passes of over twenty yards in

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Speaker 5: the fourth quarter last night between he and Jackson, and

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Speaker 5: that was the most in a decade.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, Jackson set some kind of record that he's the

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Speaker 9: first quarterback to throw two touchdowns of fifty plus yards

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Speaker 9: to take fourth quarter leads and lose. One of the

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Speaker 9: things that we saw from the Steelers last night is

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Speaker 9: something that we have seen kind of throughout the season

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Speaker 9: but sort of been underplayed, is they've been a pretty

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Speaker 9: resilient team.

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Speaker 1: Now you got to screw up to be resilient, right.

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Speaker 9: They've handled both ends of that equation. But Rogers talked

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Speaker 9: in detail last night after delivering the Steelers from the

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Speaker 9: brink into the postseason.

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Speaker 12: I think there's a lot of belief in the leadership

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Speaker 12: of the team, you know. I think there's an important

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Speaker 12: part of the leadership role and being you know, as

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Speaker 12: even keel as possible and always believing you got a chance.

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Speaker 1: But it takes moments like this, you know.

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Speaker 12: We back in twenty ten, we were nine to six

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Speaker 12: playing Chicago, last game of the year, and we eked

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Speaker 12: out a close one in the fourth quarter, ten to three,

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Speaker 12: and it gave us a little bit of belief, and

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Speaker 12: then we went on a run where we were underdogs.

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Speaker 12: I believe the entire playoffs. We're underdogs at home tonight

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Speaker 12: against our division rival. I think it's going to give

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Speaker 12: us some belief now we're playing I believe the Texans.

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Speaker 3: Is that right?

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Speaker 1: They're coming off nine in a row. I think so.

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Speaker 12: Who knows if they'll make us an underdog again at home.

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Speaker 12: But the belief level in the locker room have to

662
00:31:30,040 --> 00:31:35,400
Speaker 12: win like this is exponentially greater, which is what you

663
00:31:35,440 --> 00:31:38,200
Speaker 12: want to have going into next week. And then obviously

664
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Speaker 12: we had DK back.

665
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Speaker 9: Yeah, I believe all of that. I mean, they believe

666
00:31:43,440 --> 00:31:45,360
Speaker 9: going into the game last night they wouldn't have won it.

667
00:31:45,440 --> 00:31:49,040
Speaker 9: But now they got to feel like they can handle anything,

668
00:31:49,400 --> 00:31:51,480
Speaker 9: no question. I mean, I don't know if that's realistic enough.

669
00:31:51,520 --> 00:31:52,480
Speaker 9: That's how they're going to feel.

670
00:31:52,560 --> 00:31:56,000
Speaker 6: They're getting their tied arm untied. Also that they've been

671
00:31:56,040 --> 00:31:58,040
Speaker 6: fighting with behind their back for the last two games.

672
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Speaker 1: Got DK back.

673
00:32:00,440 --> 00:32:04,040
Speaker 9: Multiple guys mentioning that last night there isn't any kind

674
00:32:04,080 --> 00:32:07,760
Speaker 9: of bitterness or disgust or how could you do that?

675
00:32:07,880 --> 00:32:09,760
Speaker 9: You know, how could you do something so stupid and

676
00:32:09,880 --> 00:32:12,760
Speaker 9: take yourself out of the equation when we need you most.

677
00:32:12,800 --> 00:32:15,600
Speaker 9: They're just you know, what happened. They're past it and

678
00:32:15,640 --> 00:32:17,880
Speaker 9: they want them back. They're gonna need them back against

679
00:32:17,880 --> 00:32:21,040
Speaker 9: the Texans. Rogers also pulled back the curtain a little

680
00:32:21,040 --> 00:32:24,280
Speaker 9: bit last night while discussing what was going through his

681
00:32:24,520 --> 00:32:28,360
Speaker 9: mind in the immediate aftermath of Tyler Loop's wide wright

682
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Speaker 9: game ending kick.

683
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Speaker 12: You know, it's chaos, disbelieve, gratitude, a lot of emotions.

684
00:32:36,920 --> 00:32:40,200
Speaker 12: It's really really thankful. And that's why I told mister

685
00:32:40,320 --> 00:32:43,360
Speaker 12: Roney and Andy and Omar, just to be able to

686
00:32:44,280 --> 00:32:46,000
Speaker 12: get brought in here and be a part of this team,

687
00:32:46,120 --> 00:32:48,680
Speaker 12: and just the way I bonded with the guys and

688
00:32:48,760 --> 00:32:52,240
Speaker 12: the way they they've put their arms around me and

689
00:32:52,880 --> 00:32:56,440
Speaker 12: allowed me to be myself and listen to me and

690
00:32:56,520 --> 00:32:59,160
Speaker 12: let me lead and inspire me the way they am

691
00:33:00,040 --> 00:33:00,720
Speaker 12: group of guys.

692
00:33:01,680 --> 00:33:02,360
Speaker 1: He's grateful.

693
00:33:03,560 --> 00:33:06,600
Speaker 9: We've been watching Mitch Trubisky, Kenny Pickett, Russell Wilson.

694
00:33:06,880 --> 00:33:08,360
Speaker 1: He's grateful that he's here.

695
00:33:10,800 --> 00:33:15,880
Speaker 9: Right back at you, MANE, What did I had forgotten

696
00:33:16,920 --> 00:33:18,840
Speaker 9: what it looked like with this kind of quarterback?

697
00:33:20,280 --> 00:33:22,440
Speaker 1: You know, we saw it for so long with Roethlisberger.

698
00:33:22,520 --> 00:33:24,719
Speaker 1: We kind of took it for granted, at least I did.

699
00:33:24,720 --> 00:33:28,000
Speaker 9: And then after so many failures you realized, you know

700
00:33:28,080 --> 00:33:31,320
Speaker 9: what that guy was pretty specially so's Aaron Rodgers.

701
00:33:34,400 --> 00:33:36,680
Speaker 1: Huge game for him last night. He also did a

702
00:33:36,720 --> 00:33:38,840
Speaker 1: couple of things that were head scratching. But you know,

703
00:33:40,800 --> 00:33:42,560
Speaker 1: live by it, die by it. That's it.

704
00:33:42,960 --> 00:33:45,680
Speaker 9: That's you know, it's a perfect way to put it.

705
00:33:45,800 --> 00:33:48,640
Speaker 9: I mean, does he throw it a little too often

706
00:33:48,680 --> 00:33:51,760
Speaker 9: and check out of the runs? To Kinger's point, yeah,

707
00:33:51,960 --> 00:33:54,760
Speaker 9: it happens. That's because that's who he is. That's what

708
00:33:54,880 --> 00:33:55,200
Speaker 9: he does.

709
00:33:55,320 --> 00:33:55,720
Speaker 10: But I.

710
00:33:57,640 --> 00:34:00,400
Speaker 9: Can't imagine who you'd want, you know, But what was

711
00:34:00,440 --> 00:34:03,560
Speaker 9: available to the Steelers, well that it's important, ye yeah,

712
00:34:03,560 --> 00:34:06,880
Speaker 9: I mean they got lucky. You know, Justin Fields could

713
00:34:06,880 --> 00:34:09,920
Speaker 9: have said yes, I know, and then it would have.

714
00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:12,080
Speaker 1: Ended right there. Yeah, and then it wouldn't have been

715
00:34:12,080 --> 00:34:14,319
Speaker 1: all the hand ringing and all the criticism, what are

716
00:34:14,360 --> 00:34:14,719
Speaker 1: they doing?

717
00:34:14,760 --> 00:34:16,719
Speaker 5: Although we all agree Justin Fields wouldn't have been as

718
00:34:16,760 --> 00:34:18,400
Speaker 5: bad with the Steelers as he was with the Jets.

719
00:34:18,560 --> 00:34:20,560
Speaker 1: Probably not. But I don't think he'd been Aaron Rodgers. No,

720
00:34:20,760 --> 00:34:22,040
Speaker 1: I don't think he would have been either.

721
00:34:22,120 --> 00:34:23,839
Speaker 9: I mean, think about that last night. That guy led

722
00:34:23,920 --> 00:34:27,600
Speaker 9: two game winning drives. You know, he led one to

723
00:34:27,640 --> 00:34:29,960
Speaker 9: put him ahead and then Ravens scored against He just

724
00:34:30,040 --> 00:34:30,600
Speaker 9: did it again.

725
00:34:30,880 --> 00:34:34,719
Speaker 6: Does Aaron Rodgers soft cast become a rallying point for

726
00:34:34,840 --> 00:34:37,080
Speaker 6: some reason? I want to see people like, is that

727
00:34:37,280 --> 00:34:39,680
Speaker 6: become like remember when Rip Hamilton had the face mask

728
00:34:39,760 --> 00:34:42,000
Speaker 6: and in the NBA playoffs and he broke his nose,

729
00:34:42,040 --> 00:34:43,440
Speaker 6: but then his nose was heeled, he still wore the

730
00:34:43,480 --> 00:34:43,960
Speaker 6: face mask.

731
00:34:44,160 --> 00:34:46,279
Speaker 5: That that arms probably gonna heal. I thought you meant

732
00:34:46,360 --> 00:34:49,239
Speaker 5: like when like Trumpers were wearing the band aid on their.

733
00:34:49,560 --> 00:34:55,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, yes, that's what I want casts, you.

734
00:34:55,520 --> 00:34:57,040
Speaker 9: Know, to think back to the Cleveland game. He did

735
00:34:57,120 --> 00:34:59,120
Speaker 9: not have his best game against Cleveland, was.

736
00:34:59,239 --> 00:35:01,520
Speaker 1: Terrible against clear until the last drive.

737
00:35:02,600 --> 00:35:05,600
Speaker 9: Yes, if markuz Baalda Scantling runs the right route, it's

738
00:35:05,640 --> 00:35:06,240
Speaker 9: a touchdown.

739
00:35:06,520 --> 00:35:07,359
Speaker 1: They tie the game.

740
00:35:07,719 --> 00:35:10,640
Speaker 9: And since the Browns were clearly done scoring at that point,

741
00:35:11,080 --> 00:35:12,200
Speaker 9: they win it in over time.

742
00:35:12,360 --> 00:35:13,719
Speaker 1: Did they even score in the first place?

743
00:35:13,840 --> 00:35:16,680
Speaker 9: And we're all talking about the majestic drive that Aaron

744
00:35:16,760 --> 00:35:19,560
Speaker 9: Rodgers led to clinch the playoffs. Shadur threw up a

745
00:35:19,640 --> 00:35:22,680
Speaker 9: prayer that should have been intercepted, should have been intercepted,

746
00:35:22,800 --> 00:35:26,640
Speaker 9: and Dougger was looking up in space and turning himself around.

747
00:35:26,920 --> 00:35:28,400
Speaker 9: Gave him three because they had to go for it

748
00:35:28,440 --> 00:35:30,759
Speaker 9: on fourth and ten from the twenty. I mean that game,

749
00:35:30,880 --> 00:35:33,560
Speaker 9: every other ball was a pick six waiting to happen. Yeah,

750
00:35:33,640 --> 00:35:37,160
Speaker 9: and they just couldn't make it happen. Somebody I can't

751
00:35:37,160 --> 00:35:39,279
Speaker 9: remember who described that game this way, but they said

752
00:35:39,920 --> 00:35:43,799
Speaker 9: it was as if Sar Sanders had at any time

753
00:35:43,920 --> 00:35:44,960
Speaker 9: I bet.

754
00:35:44,840 --> 00:35:50,319
Speaker 1: On Kyle Dogger kept dropping him herbig had a pick six. Yeah,

755
00:35:50,440 --> 00:35:52,799
Speaker 1: just gone. But again, the.

756
00:35:54,360 --> 00:35:58,200
Speaker 5: Battle test of those games, the Detroit and then Cleveland

757
00:35:58,480 --> 00:36:02,520
Speaker 5: and then culminating with last night's win at home in

758
00:36:02,800 --> 00:36:05,960
Speaker 5: a you know, do or die situation for them, I

759
00:36:06,080 --> 00:36:09,000
Speaker 5: think it's going to pay dividends for them heading into

760
00:36:09,080 --> 00:36:09,680
Speaker 5: the postseason.

761
00:36:09,880 --> 00:36:10,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree with you.

762
00:36:10,880 --> 00:36:13,320
Speaker 9: My biggest disappointment with the with the Cleveland thing was

763
00:36:13,360 --> 00:36:16,279
Speaker 9: they couldn't rest guys in this Ravens game. And I thought,

764
00:36:16,360 --> 00:36:18,719
Speaker 9: being an older team that was maybe gonna bite him

765
00:36:18,719 --> 00:36:21,040
Speaker 9: down the road. What Rogers doesn't look like he needs

766
00:36:21,080 --> 00:36:23,640
Speaker 9: the rest. TJ watch just had three weeks around and

767
00:36:23,760 --> 00:36:26,960
Speaker 9: Cam Heyward seems fine, and DK's had plenty, and DK's

768
00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:30,080
Speaker 9: had plenty. Just keep that jackass out of the don't

769
00:36:30,200 --> 00:36:31,279
Speaker 9: let anybody, uh.

770
00:36:31,560 --> 00:36:34,320
Speaker 6: No, nobody with a blue backwards hat allowed in the

771
00:36:34,400 --> 00:36:36,319
Speaker 6: front three rows exactly, and.

772
00:36:36,360 --> 00:36:38,080
Speaker 1: We got to hear one more from Mike Tomlin.

773
00:36:38,400 --> 00:36:38,520
Speaker 12: Uh.

774
00:36:39,160 --> 00:36:42,600
Speaker 9: He was really uh appreciative of the win and with

775
00:36:42,680 --> 00:36:45,400
Speaker 9: the way the game was won and the rivalry with

776
00:36:45,520 --> 00:36:46,000
Speaker 9: the Ravens.

777
00:36:46,040 --> 00:36:47,120
Speaker 1: Brough also a little defiant.

778
00:36:47,200 --> 00:36:49,560
Speaker 9: You guys played the uh you know if my aunt

779
00:36:49,600 --> 00:36:52,879
Speaker 9: had mail parts clip a minute ago. But uh, here's

780
00:36:52,920 --> 00:36:56,520
Speaker 9: Tomlin talking about how the Steelers were or his response

781
00:36:57,000 --> 00:36:58,839
Speaker 9: when it was mentioned to him that the Steelers had

782
00:36:58,920 --> 00:37:00,640
Speaker 9: taken a lot of punches this season.

783
00:37:01,239 --> 00:37:06,320
Speaker 1: We've thrown a lot to period they have.

784
00:37:07,080 --> 00:37:10,800
Speaker 4: Can I ask us, you know, would you've would you

785
00:37:10,920 --> 00:37:13,640
Speaker 4: have would you cash in last night's game for anything?

786
00:37:13,840 --> 00:37:15,360
Speaker 1: You know what I mean? I mean that was just

787
00:37:15,840 --> 00:37:21,839
Speaker 1: an incredible well yeah, incredible game. But you're talking about

788
00:37:21,960 --> 00:37:23,279
Speaker 1: peer football fan.

789
00:37:24,320 --> 00:37:27,560
Speaker 5: I don't think there's any better feeling than the one

790
00:37:27,880 --> 00:37:30,040
Speaker 5: Steeler fans had at the end of that game.

791
00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:33,479
Speaker 1: Probably because you were pushed to the break of exactly. Listen,

792
00:37:33,600 --> 00:37:35,320
Speaker 1: this is like, this is the first game in memory.

793
00:37:35,440 --> 00:37:38,440
Speaker 1: My kids were are diehard Steelers fans.

794
00:37:38,520 --> 00:37:40,760
Speaker 6: I made them go to bed at halftime, I recorded

795
00:37:40,840 --> 00:37:43,560
Speaker 6: the game, and then when they I literally shook them awake,

796
00:37:43,680 --> 00:37:46,320
Speaker 6: like Christmas morning and said, don't watch, and they're like,

797
00:37:46,360 --> 00:37:46,680
Speaker 6: who won.

798
00:37:46,760 --> 00:37:48,640
Speaker 1: I was like, I don't know, so I played it

799
00:37:48,719 --> 00:37:49,000
Speaker 1: for them.

800
00:37:49,040 --> 00:37:51,280
Speaker 6: It's the first time I've ever had my wife film

801
00:37:51,360 --> 00:37:53,880
Speaker 6: their reaction to the end of a game. And it's priceless.

802
00:37:53,880 --> 00:37:56,120
Speaker 6: So it's a Row's point, like that's gonna go down

803
00:37:56,120 --> 00:37:56,640
Speaker 6: as a chapter.

804
00:37:56,960 --> 00:37:57,200
Speaker 1: It is.

805
00:37:57,320 --> 00:37:59,520
Speaker 4: It's one of the great chapters in the great rivalry.

806
00:37:59,600 --> 00:38:02,239
Speaker 4: And look again, I wanted him to beat Cleveland too.

807
00:38:02,920 --> 00:38:05,600
Speaker 4: I did, but it was you know, and that Mike

808
00:38:05,680 --> 00:38:09,160
Speaker 4: you The crowd was incredible last night, I mean just

809
00:38:09,320 --> 00:38:12,480
Speaker 4: an incredible. The whole city was just so into it.

810
00:38:12,880 --> 00:38:15,640
Speaker 4: I mean that that wouldn't have happened if you beat Cleveland.

811
00:38:15,760 --> 00:38:18,720
Speaker 5: They weren't very confident going into it, and ticket prices

812
00:38:18,840 --> 00:38:21,280
Speaker 5: were very low. There was not a huge demand for tickets.

813
00:38:21,680 --> 00:38:23,480
Speaker 5: I think that pushed a whole bunch of people into

814
00:38:23,560 --> 00:38:25,880
Speaker 5: that game that don't normally get to go to Steeler

815
00:38:25,920 --> 00:38:29,160
Speaker 5: games because it was an affordable Steelers Ravens game.

816
00:38:29,760 --> 00:38:31,880
Speaker 4: Like, I don't think I've ever seen that many towels.

817
00:38:32,400 --> 00:38:35,000
Speaker 4: It's everybody had a towel last night.

818
00:38:35,239 --> 00:38:37,840
Speaker 9: It was great Christmas towels, you know, and think about it,

819
00:38:37,960 --> 00:38:40,839
Speaker 9: like again that you know, now, did I did?

820
00:38:40,880 --> 00:38:42,200
Speaker 1: I want him to beat Cleveland? I have a one

821
00:38:42,200 --> 00:38:43,480
Speaker 1: o'clock game, and I did.

822
00:38:43,760 --> 00:38:46,000
Speaker 4: Yes, for all the reasons, Mike said, for all the

823
00:38:46,640 --> 00:38:49,040
Speaker 4: reasons with your you know you talk about with your head,

824
00:38:49,640 --> 00:38:50,520
Speaker 4: but in your heart.

825
00:38:50,400 --> 00:38:52,480
Speaker 1: Man, that was just that was unbeatable last night.

826
00:38:52,520 --> 00:38:55,359
Speaker 5: There was nothing better, so great, nothing better than seeing

827
00:38:55,360 --> 00:38:57,040
Speaker 5: the Steelers beat the Ravens.

828
00:38:57,239 --> 00:39:00,880
Speaker 4: At home with the division on the line and the playoffs.

829
00:39:01,800 --> 00:39:04,879
Speaker 4: It's never happened that that, that rivalry has never come.

830
00:39:05,200 --> 00:39:07,680
Speaker 4: It feels like it does, it does every year. It's

831
00:39:07,760 --> 00:39:09,479
Speaker 4: that's never ever happened before.

832
00:39:09,520 --> 00:39:09,680
Speaker 2: Never.

833
00:39:09,840 --> 00:39:12,040
Speaker 4: They never met in the last game of the season

834
00:39:12,400 --> 00:39:13,800
Speaker 4: to decide the ANC Nord champion.

835
00:39:14,040 --> 00:39:17,000
Speaker 9: Never And it isn't part of the thrill and the

836
00:39:17,120 --> 00:39:21,279
Speaker 9: satisfaction and all the great emotions. It's because they're who

837
00:39:21,360 --> 00:39:23,719
Speaker 9: they are, right, I mean absolutely, you can hate them

838
00:39:23,760 --> 00:39:25,239
Speaker 9: and still respect the hell out of them.

839
00:39:26,000 --> 00:39:30,279
Speaker 1: Those guys played their ass off last night. They really did.

840
00:39:30,480 --> 00:39:36,239
Speaker 5: That was a hard hitting classic Steelers Ravens game. All right,

841
00:39:36,360 --> 00:39:39,120
Speaker 5: quick break and we'll be right back. Steelers win the

842
00:39:39,160 --> 00:39:39,799
Speaker 5: AFC North.

843
00:39:39,960 --> 00:39:42,799
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844
00:39:43,040 --> 00:39:45,920
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845
00:39:45,960 --> 00:39:46,239
Speaker 1: As the.

846
00:39:50,000 --> 00:39:53,480
Speaker 3: Rodris gets a snap, four man rush coming Roders back lofting.

847
00:39:53,480 --> 00:39:54,640
Speaker 1: Has wide open.

848
00:39:56,160 --> 00:39:59,600
Speaker 7: Town mid Steelers fifty.

849
00:39:59,400 --> 00:40:07,319
Speaker 5: Five fifty five seconds to the postseason. All they had

850
00:40:07,360 --> 00:40:11,440
Speaker 5: to do was stop Lamar Jackson and Derreck Henry and

851
00:40:12,440 --> 00:40:13,719
Speaker 5: the Baltimore.

852
00:40:13,280 --> 00:40:16,720
Speaker 1: Ravens from getting into field goal range. Will have started

853
00:40:16,760 --> 00:40:22,160
Speaker 1: with covering a kickoff because Chris Boswell botched. They can't blocked.

854
00:40:22,320 --> 00:40:26,960
Speaker 1: The official designation is blocked and I have not seen

855
00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:31,279
Speaker 1: a replay of it. Did not look blocked. Look they

856
00:40:31,400 --> 00:40:34,960
Speaker 1: credited KeAndre Jackson with blocking the field goal. Congrats to him.

857
00:40:35,760 --> 00:40:38,879
Speaker 1: Keith Mitchell forty two yard kickoff returns.

858
00:40:38,320 --> 00:40:41,160
Speaker 3: Boswell with a boot will come down to Mitchell at

859
00:40:41,200 --> 00:40:42,919
Speaker 3: the five yard line, right in the middle of the field,

860
00:40:42,960 --> 00:40:45,239
Speaker 3: going to angle toward the right and get to the

861
00:40:45,320 --> 00:40:47,920
Speaker 3: twenty five, crosses the thirty to thirty five of forty

862
00:40:48,239 --> 00:40:50,759
Speaker 3: and it's Boswell who chases him out of bounds, but

863
00:40:50,960 --> 00:40:54,280
Speaker 3: all the way out to the forty seven yard line.

864
00:40:56,080 --> 00:41:01,240
Speaker 1: That is a big, big return of forty two yarder.

865
00:41:02,040 --> 00:41:04,080
Speaker 1: But we're in trouble. I thought, I don't know we're

866
00:41:04,480 --> 00:41:06,960
Speaker 1: this game. I thought their goose was cooked right there,

867
00:41:08,080 --> 00:41:08,680
Speaker 1: really did.

868
00:41:09,280 --> 00:41:11,759
Speaker 5: And the defense just came up huge, by the way,

869
00:41:11,840 --> 00:41:15,240
Speaker 5: a huge penalty on the Ravens.

870
00:41:15,360 --> 00:41:19,279
Speaker 1: Was it the guard? Well, there was an illegal star

871
00:41:19,520 --> 00:41:23,200
Speaker 1: fall star, Yeah, that was big? Or was he was

872
00:41:23,239 --> 00:41:25,560
Speaker 1: he lined up in the new was a left tackle? Okay?

873
00:41:25,600 --> 00:41:27,520
Speaker 1: Yeah lined up? It wasn't lined up in the line

874
00:41:27,520 --> 00:41:29,600
Speaker 1: of scrimmage. That was huge.

875
00:41:30,160 --> 00:41:33,200
Speaker 5: Uh. And then they get them to fourth I think

876
00:41:33,239 --> 00:41:36,680
Speaker 5: it was fourth and seventh, fourth and seven, and they

877
00:41:36,760 --> 00:41:40,120
Speaker 5: had too big fourth down plays. Well, we talked about

878
00:41:40,120 --> 00:41:43,360
Speaker 5: it earlier, the third down play where Nate Herbig is

879
00:41:44,239 --> 00:41:47,840
Speaker 5: inches away from a twenty yard sack and Lamar just

880
00:41:48,680 --> 00:41:49,920
Speaker 5: he's it out of bounds.

881
00:41:50,400 --> 00:41:52,480
Speaker 1: That would have ended the game. But then they get

882
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Speaker 1: this fourth to seven.

883
00:41:53,320 --> 00:41:57,320
Speaker 3: Back the past pressure coming steps up, floats down field

884
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Speaker 3: and it is caught a leaping ground by Isaiah likely

885
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Speaker 3: at the twenty two yard line, and the Ravens have

886
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Speaker 3: called time out. Tremendous catch a twenty eight yard pickup

887
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Speaker 3: only twelve seconds to made here at Akrascher Stadium.

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Speaker 6: That makes my stomach turn just hearing it now, And

889
00:42:16,200 --> 00:42:18,920
Speaker 6: even though I know how it ends, it's still my

890
00:42:19,000 --> 00:42:20,319
Speaker 6: heartbreat drops a little bit.

891
00:42:20,840 --> 00:42:23,160
Speaker 5: Just I didn't know how we drew the ire of

892
00:42:23,239 --> 00:42:26,680
Speaker 5: the football gods on that one. How on earth does

893
00:42:26,760 --> 00:42:29,920
Speaker 5: Boswell miss an extra point? We give up a insanely

894
00:42:30,160 --> 00:42:34,479
Speaker 5: long kickoff return, only to stomp them to fourth and long,

895
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Speaker 5: hold them the fourth and long, and then let up

896
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Speaker 5: a ridiculous heave to Isaiah likely to put them in

897
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Speaker 5: a very makeable field goal range. And remember Isaiah likely

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Speaker 5: was the guy in the first matchup right, didn't get

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Speaker 5: the third foot down in the end zone when they

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Speaker 5: look like they'd won the game that gets overturned. It

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Speaker 5: was a week before or after that that he's running

902
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Speaker 5: into the end zone and has the ball knocked away

903
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Speaker 5: to extend. I mean, he's like the goat for the Ravens, right,

904
00:43:02,000 --> 00:43:03,840
Speaker 5: I mean, hey, we would have won this game in

905
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Speaker 5: that game.

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Speaker 1: It wasn't Frisay likely.

907
00:43:05,640 --> 00:43:08,440
Speaker 4: Then he comes up with that catch, and if you're

908
00:43:08,480 --> 00:43:10,840
Speaker 4: in Baltimore, you're already writing your story about how you

909
00:43:10,920 --> 00:43:12,040
Speaker 4: know it comes full circle.

910
00:43:12,120 --> 00:43:15,399
Speaker 5: And then they missed the kick Tyler loop from forty four,

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00:43:16,200 --> 00:43:17,160
Speaker 5: No blainer, here's a.

912
00:43:17,160 --> 00:43:19,640
Speaker 1: Snap, here's the hole, here's the boot By loop, and

913
00:43:19,760 --> 00:43:20,319
Speaker 1: that kick is.

914
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Speaker 3: And you're Pittsburgh Steelers arec North champions.

915
00:43:34,960 --> 00:43:35,800
Speaker 1: Max enjoyed it.

916
00:43:36,200 --> 00:43:38,000
Speaker 9: Oh man, I got to kick out of when you

917
00:43:38,040 --> 00:43:41,360
Speaker 9: guys were kicking it around. In the immediate aftermath, the

918
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Speaker 9: thing that I thought Max was happiest about was sweeping

919
00:43:45,120 --> 00:43:45,720
Speaker 9: the Ravens.

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00:43:46,320 --> 00:43:51,680
Speaker 1: Yeah we didn't. We didn't, Cincinnati, we swept the Ravens. Oh.

921
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Speaker 1: By the way, they get to go to the playoffs.

922
00:43:54,320 --> 00:43:57,080
Speaker 1: Oh man, Oh, it's so much fun.

923
00:43:57,360 --> 00:44:00,800
Speaker 5: Last night after the game, Pat Fryarmouth was asked what

924
00:44:01,000 --> 00:44:08,400
Speaker 5: that win meant for him, the.

925
00:44:08,440 --> 00:44:12,080
Speaker 1: Organizations, but the team in general, being to get this

926
00:44:12,280 --> 00:44:17,120
Speaker 1: coach team, He said, you get this war coach Teve,

927
00:44:17,160 --> 00:44:18,400
Speaker 1: what do you mean by that? Did you feel like

928
00:44:18,480 --> 00:44:20,960
Speaker 1: you needed to you guys know what I know about it? Yeah.

929
00:44:21,960 --> 00:44:23,759
Speaker 4: By the way, posting that, you know what he did,

930
00:44:23,880 --> 00:44:28,080
Speaker 4: he tied Chuck Nole for the most career wins ninth,

931
00:44:28,200 --> 00:44:29,000
Speaker 4: was ninth all time.

932
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Speaker 9: I think, wow, Well, he tied Dan Reeves for the

933
00:44:33,320 --> 00:44:37,719
Speaker 9: ninth most playoff and regular season wins two one. He

934
00:44:38,239 --> 00:44:40,800
Speaker 9: tied Chuck Nole for the most wins in Steelers history.

935
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Speaker 9: And yeah, and regular season wins yeah yeah. Nole's higher

936
00:44:44,640 --> 00:44:47,640
Speaker 9: up because he had like eighteen playoffs more playoff wins, yeah,

937
00:44:47,640 --> 00:44:50,640
Speaker 9: but regular season wins. He tied Chuck Nole. I mean, look, man,

938
00:44:50,840 --> 00:44:53,920
Speaker 9: come on, he could have done that in Cleveland. Who

939
00:44:54,040 --> 00:44:56,040
Speaker 9: cares he did it against He did it against the

940
00:44:56,160 --> 00:44:58,319
Speaker 9: Ravens in a game for the championship.

941
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Speaker 1: Come on, man.

942
00:44:59,480 --> 00:45:04,080
Speaker 5: Steelers now host the Texans Monday night. First wild card

943
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Speaker 5: game for Aaron Rodgers as a Pittsburgh Steeler, first playoff

944
00:45:09,080 --> 00:45:11,120
Speaker 5: game he's been to in a few years. He looked

945
00:45:11,160 --> 00:45:13,600
Speaker 5: pretty emotional on the field after the game last night

946
00:45:13,680 --> 00:45:16,279
Speaker 5: when talking about that, saying it had been in rough

947
00:45:16,320 --> 00:45:19,240
Speaker 5: couple of years in New York before coming here. Seems

948
00:45:19,280 --> 00:45:22,760
Speaker 5: to genuinely love it here, despite it being not always

949
00:45:22,760 --> 00:45:23,880
Speaker 5: the smoothest roads.

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00:45:23,960 --> 00:45:26,880
Speaker 1: Mike, he's grateful to be here. He's grateful to be here.

951
00:45:27,719 --> 00:45:30,400
Speaker 1: I think he's kidding me. Steeler fans are grateful to

952
00:45:30,480 --> 00:45:30,759
Speaker 1: have him.

953
00:45:31,280 --> 00:45:34,239
Speaker 6: There's no chance this game gets like flexed down to

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00:45:34,400 --> 00:45:35,680
Speaker 6: like eleven forty.

955
00:45:35,400 --> 00:45:39,279
Speaker 1: Five or anything like that, right, Nothing like that. That

956
00:45:39,320 --> 00:45:39,839
Speaker 1: would be nice.

957
00:45:39,880 --> 00:45:41,840
Speaker 9: They can I throw one more stat at you, Kinger,

958
00:45:41,880 --> 00:45:45,279
Speaker 9: I know your baseball guy at heart. The defense is

959
00:45:45,360 --> 00:45:47,280
Speaker 9: now six and one in safe situation.

960
00:45:47,520 --> 00:45:48,960
Speaker 1: Ah, I love it.

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00:45:49,360 --> 00:45:52,600
Speaker 9: I mean statistically body of work, they're not good, but

962
00:45:53,080 --> 00:45:56,040
Speaker 9: they have continued to progress and get better and when

963
00:45:56,080 --> 00:45:59,080
Speaker 9: they have to get a stop to steal a game.

964
00:46:00,200 --> 00:46:03,680
Speaker 9: One the only exception is at Cincinnati that Thursday night.

965
00:46:04,080 --> 00:46:06,680
Speaker 4: Yeah, and the other thing I'll say, Mike too, is

966
00:46:06,719 --> 00:46:08,840
Speaker 4: that you look a lot of statistics and just the

967
00:46:08,960 --> 00:46:11,239
Speaker 4: games and the quality of opponents that the Steelers are

968
00:46:11,280 --> 00:46:14,040
Speaker 4: faced down the stretch, they are playing their best football.

969
00:46:14,160 --> 00:46:17,279
Speaker 4: Now think about, you know, one calendar year ago, when

970
00:46:17,320 --> 00:46:19,800
Speaker 4: it was the exact opposite, they were playing their worst football.

971
00:46:19,880 --> 00:46:22,080
Speaker 4: Down this stretch, they're playing their best football. And I

972
00:46:22,360 --> 00:46:26,239
Speaker 4: still think they haven't played their best football yet, that

973
00:46:26,440 --> 00:46:29,040
Speaker 4: there is still more room for this team to be better.

974
00:46:29,440 --> 00:46:31,120
Speaker 1: And I think that's a really good thing to be

975
00:46:31,160 --> 00:46:32,400
Speaker 1: able to say going into the playoffs.

976
00:46:32,400 --> 00:46:34,200
Speaker 5: All Right, we always like to highlight one call from

977
00:46:34,239 --> 00:46:36,600
Speaker 5: the post game show that Mike hosts with Charlie Batch

978
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Speaker 5: here on the Steelers Audio Network.

979
00:46:38,400 --> 00:46:40,239
Speaker 1: This is from last night's post game. Let's go to

980
00:46:40,320 --> 00:46:42,920
Speaker 1: Devin in Denver. You're up with Mike and Charlie.

981
00:46:44,400 --> 00:46:52,080
Speaker 2: Good evening or morning gooman, it's morning here. Well, my

982
00:46:52,280 --> 00:46:56,480
Speaker 2: problem with either fan, we are not owe super bowls.

983
00:46:56,600 --> 00:46:58,960
Speaker 2: We want them. That's the difitest thing what you want

984
00:46:59,040 --> 00:47:01,280
Speaker 2: and what you get, and what we got was another

985
00:47:01,320 --> 00:47:04,000
Speaker 2: winning season. What we got is a playoff home game,

986
00:47:04,440 --> 00:47:06,960
Speaker 2: and hopefully that leads to a super Bowl run. But

987
00:47:07,120 --> 00:47:09,759
Speaker 2: I'm just I'm proud of the team. I'm proud of

988
00:47:09,800 --> 00:47:12,800
Speaker 2: that T shirt we just got, and I'm proud of Tomlin.

989
00:47:13,719 --> 00:47:16,600
Speaker 2: I'm proud of the free agency moves we made. Hopefully

990
00:47:16,600 --> 00:47:20,120
Speaker 2: we'll be signed game. Well, I'm like this team if

991
00:47:20,200 --> 00:47:24,160
Speaker 2: Aaron played one more year after this year, and I like,

992
00:47:24,440 --> 00:47:27,600
Speaker 2: whatever the way this team is progressing, it's just that,

993
00:47:27,920 --> 00:47:30,400
Speaker 2: you know, after all the doom and gloom and naysaying

994
00:47:30,480 --> 00:47:32,800
Speaker 2: and after this this because we lost this game or

995
00:47:32,840 --> 00:47:35,520
Speaker 2: didn't do this in this game, they still got ten

996
00:47:35,600 --> 00:47:37,879
Speaker 2: wins in the season and we're hosting a home playoff game.

997
00:47:38,560 --> 00:47:40,760
Speaker 2: And like I said, the super Bowl is not given

998
00:47:40,800 --> 00:47:42,400
Speaker 2: to us. The players got to go out in there

999
00:47:42,440 --> 00:47:44,719
Speaker 2: and earn it. I mean, we were not living in

1000
00:47:44,760 --> 00:47:48,640
Speaker 2: the seventies anymore. It's twenty twenty five free agency, players leaving,

1001
00:47:48,719 --> 00:47:52,280
Speaker 2: coming in, going injuries, All kinds of things happen in seasons,

1002
00:47:52,800 --> 00:47:55,359
Speaker 2: and we just hadn't put together in the playoff run.

1003
00:47:55,440 --> 00:47:57,799
Speaker 2: So hopefully with Aaron Rodgers at the helm, we get

1004
00:47:58,000 --> 00:48:00,399
Speaker 2: a long playoff run Man.

1005
00:48:00,400 --> 00:48:04,640
Speaker 6: Great selection, great selection, right there, guy with a little appreciation.

1006
00:48:06,440 --> 00:48:11,319
Speaker 5: Championship Steelers twenty six, Ravens twenty four. And now it's

1007
00:48:11,480 --> 00:48:16,840
Speaker 5: the Houston Texans visiting Akrosher Stadium, wild Card Playoff football

1008
00:48:16,960 --> 00:48:19,239
Speaker 5: in the Berg next Monday night, right here on DVE.

1009
00:48:19,760 --> 00:48:22,399
Speaker 5: Thanks to Rob King, that power hour of Steeler Talk,

1010
00:48:23,239 --> 00:48:25,680
Speaker 5: that half hour of the power our hour, brought to

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Speaker 5: you by a Clearview Federal Credit Union.

1012
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Speaker 1: Also thanks to Jerry.

1013
00:48:28,480 --> 00:48:31,640
Speaker 5: Tulac, Tim Benz and Jeff Conkle for joining us here

1014
00:48:31,680 --> 00:48:33,080
Speaker 5: live in studio this morning.

1015
00:48:33,840 --> 00:48:34,959
Speaker 1: Tomorrow on the show.

1016
00:48:35,560 --> 00:48:40,320
Speaker 5: Charlie Batch, Jean Sterretur, Billy Gardell, our buddy Tad Whistle

1017
00:48:40,360 --> 00:48:41,759
Speaker 5: will be hanging out with us as well.

1018
00:48:42,200 --> 00:48:46,279
Speaker 1: It's Steeler Tuesday tomorrow. One more week.

1019
00:48:48,440 --> 00:48:52,919
Speaker 6: I mean, just get your appetizers ready, Get your appetizers ready,

1020
00:48:53,120 --> 00:48:54,680
Speaker 6: let yourself dream for a second.

1021
00:48:55,600 --> 00:48:59,080
Speaker 1: We beat the Texans and then you're headed the divisional

1022
00:48:59,120 --> 00:48:59,920
Speaker 1: playoff football?

1023
00:49:00,200 --> 00:49:02,120
Speaker 9: Did I give you one more fan reaction? This wasn't

1024
00:49:02,160 --> 00:49:04,280
Speaker 9: a call, but it was a tweet. Some people tweets

1025
00:49:04,400 --> 00:49:09,560
Speaker 9: Charlie and I. This is from It's Annie AFC North Champs,

1026
00:49:09,920 --> 00:49:13,440
Speaker 9: sending wishes for a speedy recovery for all those injured.

1027
00:49:13,520 --> 00:49:19,040
Speaker 1: Jumping back on the bandwagon, I finished you stay classy, Pittsburgh.

1028
00:49:19,200 --> 00:49:22,200
Speaker 1: Don't touch your face. He got him tuch Pittsburgh on day.

1029
00:49:22,239 --> 00:49:22,520
Speaker 5: Baby.

1030
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Speaker 1: For now, you gotta call me Ronald. Would you not

1031
00:49:24,680 --> 00:49:32,680
Speaker 1: eat my pants? Ronald oh Man? Whay, go go ahead.

1032
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Speaker 13: It's time for the Steelers Daily Report on DVE, brought

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Speaker 13: to you by First National Bank. Let's get started. Remember

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Speaker 13: FDIC and Steelers Pro Shop. Get it direct from the

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Speaker 13: team at shop dot Steelers dot com. Here's Tom Opperman.

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Speaker 14: Your Pittsburgh Steelers are winners of the AFC North for

1037
00:49:50,520 --> 00:49:52,880
Speaker 14: the first time since twenty twenty after defeating the Ravens

1038
00:49:52,880 --> 00:49:54,840
Speaker 14: twenty six to twenty four in a game that was

1039
00:49:54,880 --> 00:49:57,680
Speaker 14: truly stranger than fiction on Sunday night. The Ravens shout

1040
00:49:57,719 --> 00:49:59,479
Speaker 14: out to attend to nothing lead in the first quarter

1041
00:49:59,600 --> 00:50:01,600
Speaker 14: and went to the locker room up ten to three,

1042
00:50:01,920 --> 00:50:03,560
Speaker 14: but the Steelers came out of the locker room a

1043
00:50:03,680 --> 00:50:06,320
Speaker 14: determined team, marched right down the field to tie the

1044
00:50:06,400 --> 00:50:08,879
Speaker 14: game and went into the fourth quarter up thirteen to ten,

1045
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Speaker 14: and that's when chaos erupted. The two teams exchanged the

1046
00:50:12,040 --> 00:50:14,480
Speaker 14: lead four times in the fourth quarter, the final time

1047
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Speaker 14: being after Rogers connected with Calvin Austin for a twenty

1048
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Speaker 14: six yard touchdown pass with fifty five seconds left, Chris

1049
00:50:19,960 --> 00:50:22,480
Speaker 14: Boswell would miss the extra point, though, leaving the door.

1050
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Speaker 1: Open for the Ravens.

1051
00:50:23,719 --> 00:50:25,520
Speaker 14: They would drive right down the field and set up

1052
00:50:25,520 --> 00:50:28,080
Speaker 14: Tyler Loop for a very makeable forty four yard field goal,

1053
00:50:28,440 --> 00:50:31,000
Speaker 14: which the rookie would miss wide wright, sending the Steelers

1054
00:50:31,040 --> 00:50:34,360
Speaker 14: to the playoffs. Quarterback Aaron Rodgers posted two hundred and

1055
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Speaker 14: ninety four yards, passing his season high, edging out his

1056
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Speaker 14: previous high of two hundred and eighty four yards, which

1057
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Speaker 14: he also achieved.

1058
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Speaker 1: Against Baltimore back in Week fourteen.

1059
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Speaker 14: A sweep against the Ravens and an AFC North championship

1060
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Speaker 14: is a pretty good first year in Pittsburgh for the

1061
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Speaker 14: Hall of Fame quarterback. Now let's see what he can

1062
00:50:49,360 --> 00:50:51,479
Speaker 14: do in his first playoff appearance since the twenty twenty

1063
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Speaker 14: one season. I'm Tom Appraman with the Steelers Report.

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