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Speaker 1: W dv E, Pittsburgh, an iHeartRadio station, guaranteed human.

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Speaker 2: Here's a snap, here's the hole, here's the foot by Luke,

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Speaker 2: and that kick.

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Speaker 3: Is glue Mistan and you're Pittsburgh Steelers are sid Nor Chippings.

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Speaker 4: And with that miss kick last week against the Ravens,

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Speaker 4: Steelers Nation is reinvigorated in a way that I didn't

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Speaker 4: think was going to be possible.

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Speaker 5: The noise you've heard all year seems.

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Speaker 4: To have been eclipsed by a found hope that Mike

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Speaker 4: Tomlin might have this team with Aaron Rodgers in the lead,

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Speaker 4: on the path of restoring what was once great about

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Speaker 4: Steeler Nation, which was the possibility of a Super Bowl

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Speaker 4: run each and every year. Raizwatneys sitting in studio with

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Speaker 4: us this morning. He's festudent his Steeler gear. I've got

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Speaker 4: my Steeler hat and shirt. I regret that I had

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Speaker 4: a hoodie that did not make it through the weekend,

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Speaker 4: and I was not ready to go uh in that regard.

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Speaker 4: But everybody I see has just Steeler gear hanging outside

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Speaker 4: of their house.

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Speaker 5: That's all he wants talking about.

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Speaker 4: My eighty four year old mom said she is so

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Speaker 4: nervous for tonight. Every little kid, you know, is on

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Speaker 4: pins and needles. I don't remember it being quite like

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Speaker 4: this in Week one of the playoffs.

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Speaker 5: In all of those years that we were.

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Speaker 4: Used to making runs in the postseason, there was a yeah,

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Speaker 4: it's the wild card and it's a drag that we

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Speaker 4: didn't get a buy this week, but you know, we'll

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Speaker 4: slum it with the regular folk, I guess in the.

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Speaker 5: Wildcad week, and then we'll move on to the divisional playoffs.

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Speaker 5: And now it's like, oh my god, Aaron Rodgers actually

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Speaker 5: might get us a win. Ray. It feels like there's

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Speaker 5: a real chance.

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Speaker 6: That's what I'm like, Yes, and it's not one of

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Speaker 6: those like ten point spreads I feel like we've had

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Speaker 6: in the last few where we're just supposed to get

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, well, like two years ago, it was

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Speaker 4: Mason leading you into Baltimore OLYMPI. I mean, you know,

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Speaker 4: they had to win those three games to get into

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Speaker 4: the postseason, and then he squeaks past Baltimore in a

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Speaker 4: rain storm to get us in and nobody had any

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Speaker 4: real hope that Buffalo was a juggernaut then, and there

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Speaker 4: was not a lot of hope that was gonna happen.

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Speaker 4: But Mason, you know, performed admirably. The following year was

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Speaker 4: the Russell Wilson beat down. It was really the defense

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Speaker 4: that got beat down by the Ravens last year. And

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Speaker 4: since I don't know what is eight years since we've

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Speaker 4: won a playoff game, apparently.

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Speaker 5: The first couple I think we could deal with.

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Speaker 4: But after that point it's just been hard to get

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Speaker 4: any sort of positive feelings about the Steelers.

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Speaker 6: Like everybody on the same page. Now we can do it.

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Speaker 6: It's been constant in fighting with the fans.

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Speaker 4: It got to the point where they chanted fire Matt

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Speaker 4: Canada in every business in town. Got that guy fire,

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Speaker 4: and then the fire Tomlin chance this year. That was

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Speaker 4: the point of departure that had never happened before.

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Speaker 5: You heard it in the stadium like a couple people

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Speaker 5: here and there, but the unison was I heard it

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Speaker 5: on the TV. Yeah, crazy, no discord, unlike anything we've

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Speaker 5: seen before. Abby.

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Speaker 4: But now, but now it might all be fixed with

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Speaker 4: a win over the Houston Texans at home at Akrosher

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Speaker 4: Stadium in the freezing cold temperatures where CJ. Stroud's one

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Speaker 6: He can't handle the cold. Yeah, and we have no hit,

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Speaker 6: Like it's weird. We have no history with like the Texans.

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Speaker 6: I feel like in the playoffs, like it's it's strange,

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Speaker 6: like every other team Boilers would have been. Yeah, which

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Speaker 6: team I'm looking at, I'm like, oh, I got beef

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Speaker 5: But the Texans, I'm just like I kind of like them. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: I don't mind them. I don't have hatred yet. Yes,

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Speaker 4: You can develop it very quick with you know, having

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Speaker 5: It's like the Jaguars.

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Speaker 4: Somebody cared about the Jaguars until they started destroying our

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Speaker 5: True, we'll talk to me at nine pm.

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Speaker 6: We'll see how much I hate the Texans.

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Speaker 5: Well, either way, I hope not.

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Speaker 4: I hope it's one of those we sail past them

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Speaker 4: and we're like, Okay, good for those guys. You know what,

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Speaker 4: It's a good organization. That's the talk I hope we're having.

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Speaker 4: You know, it's a great coach, good organization. You know what,

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Speaker 4: they'll figure it out one day. They'll be good in

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Speaker 4: five years. Yeah, they might touch a super Bowl in

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Speaker 4: five years. Yeah, that's the conversation I want to have

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Speaker 4: tomorrow watching those games this weekend.

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Speaker 6: Are you kidding me? They It put me down.

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Speaker 4: A rabbit hole. Ray, I was telling Abby about this.

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Speaker 4: There's this whole rabbit hole of the NFL being rigged.

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Speaker 4: It's scripted, which I always thought was like just.

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Speaker 5: A comical sort of passing notion that people have.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, this is this is rigged. The rest called they

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Speaker 4: know who Vegas has the money on and everything, And

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Speaker 4: then I got into the rabbit hole.

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Speaker 5: It is in depth.

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Speaker 4: It's crazy how many people think that there is this

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Speaker 4: vast conspiracy to rig NFL games.

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Speaker 5: Well, do you have a gambling problem? Yes?

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Speaker 6: Okay, no, no, I know, okay my problem, yeah, my problem.

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Speaker 4: What I mean to say is I've been gambling my

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Speaker 4: entire life. Yes, football gambling is what brought me and

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Speaker 4: my dad, my brothers together.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, well that's the So I think I've had that

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Speaker 6: conspiracy for a like you have that it hits your

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Speaker 6: head every time you like lose by a half a point. Akay,

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Speaker 6: the you know, the over right yeah it's weak, but yeah,

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I rolled with Chicago and the over on that one,

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Speaker 4: which was delightful. Uh, but the the Rams and the

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Speaker 5: And last two minutes I knew San Francisco.

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Speaker 4: Was gonna win for Bob where I knew that was

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Speaker 5: But when they did, that's when I really thought, oh boy,

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Speaker 4: The Steelers are going to get a home game against Buffalo,

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Speaker 4: and we can beat Buffalo because they're kind of slappy

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Speaker 4: and the Jags just totally gave that one away. I

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Speaker 5: They started pouring it on them at the end. Did

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Speaker 4: Well, you know, sometimes I just want to be like,

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Speaker 6: And right away the Chargers put themselves in a hole

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Speaker 5: There on your first drive of the night. I don't know,

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Speaker 5: maybe things look different. Little momentum that.

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Speaker 6: Was everybody this weekend. Everyone was rolling the dice. Everybody

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Speaker 4: But they were all entertaining games, that's for sure, although

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Speaker 4: some of them were like you were waiting around for

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Speaker 4: stuff to happen and then they were insane fourth quarters.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, that Chicago game.

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Speaker 6: If you're a Chicago Bears fan, Wow, you have got

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Speaker 6: to be pretty excited about Caleb Williams right now. He

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Speaker 6: was doing ben stuff, is what I told someone. Yeah,

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Speaker 6: that's funny. It was the fourth and seven, was it?

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Speaker 4: And I mean one of the craziest throws postseason or not,

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Speaker 4: everything that was on the line for that throw, the

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Speaker 5: Calling him ice Man in Chicago, mice Man.

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Speaker 4: My brother lived in Chicago for a long time and

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Speaker 4: both bet on the Bears and I was like, here's

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Speaker 5: I do think the Bears are gonna win.

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Speaker 4: I'm like, but he drives me crazy because as he start,

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Speaker 6: He's like, no, man, he's he's He's Michael Jordan, and

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Speaker 5: He's not. He's not Michael Jordan. You can't say that.

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Speaker 4: So I'm like argued with my brother and then I'm

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Speaker 4: on the bet with him, and every time something goes wrong,

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Speaker 4: I'm like, what I tell you, you know, And I'm like

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Speaker 5: He shouldn't be holding the ball like that.

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Speaker 4: You see what I'm saying, you know. And I'm just

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Speaker 4: it is hard to argue he's come so far under

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Speaker 5: Who is a lunatic.

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Speaker 4: By the way, his postseason speech or post game speech, Oh,

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Speaker 4: Ben Johnson.

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Speaker 5: I f and hate the Packers.

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Speaker 6: He ran past Matt Lafleur did the drive by handshake,

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Speaker 6: which people are like, that's completely disrespectful.

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Speaker 4: I'm like, he just something I don't know. I guess

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Speaker 4: you're allowed to do whatever. You want high five the dude.

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Speaker 7: That's always how they shake hands, like they did, like

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Speaker 7: a remix of every time they shake each other they

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Speaker 5: Yeah, oh yeah.

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Speaker 6: When he got there, that's what he said, something like

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Speaker 6: I look forward to beating the Packers twice a year.

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Speaker 5: And they asked Matt Lafleur about it. He was like,

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Speaker 5: I don't even know this guy.

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Speaker 4: He Matt Leafloor. Did he said, I enjoy beating Matt

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Speaker 4: Lafleur twice.

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Speaker 6: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, And then Lafleur tried to

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Speaker 5: I don't even think of you, you know, but that's

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Speaker 5: we know that's not true. He's so mean to me. Well,

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Speaker 5: we definitely know it ain't true now, man.

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Speaker 4: So a fun weekend games to build up to tonight's

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Speaker 4: eight fifteen kickoff for the Steelers.

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Speaker 5: Michael.

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Speaker 4: Have more on that coming up a little bit later

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Speaker 4: on this morning. We'll talk with Charlie Batch, Jerry Dulac. Also,

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Speaker 4: you know, in the world of rock and roll, Bob

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Speaker 4: Weirs pass that was quite a big deal with.

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Speaker 5: A group of people I was with.

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Speaker 6: I was with a bunch of Deadheads on Saturday night

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Speaker 6: and we just listened to Bob Weir and the Wolf Brothers,

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Speaker 6: The Dad all night.

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Speaker 4: We listened to nothing but Bob Weir all night. That

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Speaker 4: not that it was shocking, it was still unexpected.

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Speaker 7: I wanted to start with that in news and I

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Speaker 7: because like that actually did shock me, because I knew

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Speaker 7: he was sick. But there was also something about Bob

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Speaker 7: Weir that, like, you know, he was kind of.

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Speaker 4: Dead It's It's Bobby and the Midnights, the Wolf Brothers,

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Speaker 5: Like it's a crazy run that he had.

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Speaker 4: being a douchebag, well, then John Mayer's they're being a douchebag,

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Speaker 4: but his playing was insanely inspired. Well, that's kind of

443
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Speaker 4: the same thing about people projecting their own opinion on it,

444
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Speaker 4: like they were like, no, Jerry Garcia would have never

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Speaker 4: wanted this John Mayer do, And.

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Speaker 6: It's like, who knows. I mean, it's still like, like

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Speaker 6: you said, still providing the same.

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Speaker 8: Vibe that you had.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean Jerry would wear a black T shirt

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Speaker 4: that didn't really fit and we all do that, jeans

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Speaker 4: on the stage.

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Speaker 8: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: He looked like Mark Madden going on the stage. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: And Bob by the end.

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Speaker 6: Was wearing like designer cloaks and things in his cowboy

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Speaker 6: He a whole aesthetic.

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Speaker 4: It was a lot different, but the music never suffered.

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Speaker 4: In fact, it got better. And he was the most

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Speaker 4: selfless guy on stage, and it was always about servicing

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Speaker 4: the song, and he embodied This is the last thing

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Speaker 4: I'll say about it.

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Speaker 5: I'm sorry I went so long.

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Speaker 4: He embodied the character of the song. He was singing

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Speaker 4: as good or better than anybody. And if you're an

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Speaker 4: aspiring singer rock singer, pardon me. The one lesson to

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Speaker 4: take away from him is that dude lived in every

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Speaker 4: one of those songs.

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Speaker 5: So he would like in Jack Straw. He is the

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Speaker 5: guy in Jack Straw. He's living that movie out as

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Speaker 5: he is singing it.

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Speaker 4: And he always talked about how he needed that in

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Speaker 4: order to perform, and it separated him and he was

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Speaker 4: one of one like that. I think in a way

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Speaker 4: that that because he had all of these other tools, uh,

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Speaker 4: in addition to that. So it was it was a

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Speaker 4: tough one. I mean, we talked about Bob all night.

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Speaker 4: I was also bleeding profusely from having cut my hand.

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Speaker 5: Well, you were mayoring it, John mayered it. Yeah, so

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Speaker 5: I've got a big you know.

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Speaker 6: I mean I dropped a bowl on my hand and

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Speaker 6: it was glass and it smashed and ripped up my finger.

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Speaker 5: So it was hard to have people listen to me

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Speaker 5: about bub Weird.

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Speaker 7: Well you're kill Bill gushing blood everywhere.

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Speaker 4: Bob.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm like put on the Wolf Brothers from Ashville

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Speaker 6: in twenty twenty.

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Speaker 5: One and they're like, go to the Eyaw. That's basically

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Speaker 5: what happened to me.

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Speaker 6: Uh.

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Speaker 4: So we'll we will talk to Alan Paul, who wrote

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Speaker 4: for Rolling Stone magazine.

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Speaker 5: About Bob Weir and Bob Weir's passing.

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Speaker 4: That'll be at eight o'clock today, Michael be in next

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Speaker 4: with your Sports as we get set for tonight's kickoff

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Speaker 4: eight fifteen Steelers and the Houston Texans. And it was

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Speaker 4: all because of that miss field goal that we were

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Speaker 4: talking about at the top of the hour, Tyler Loup.

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Speaker 4: We had Patrick Queen on the show on Friday, and

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Speaker 4: I asked him when did he know it didn't go in?

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Speaker 4: Because when I watched the replay, well I watched it

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Speaker 4: nine thousand times, he didn't look at it.

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Speaker 5: Do you remember the moment you became aware it was

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Speaker 5: no good?

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Speaker 6: Yeah?

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Speaker 10: I remember, like I'll just like sitting there look at

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Speaker 10: her like I know everybody likes saying like they got

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Speaker 10: like a jum try at the end of the stadium

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Speaker 10: and stuff. And I wasn't even looking at that, like

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Speaker 10: I was looking straight like everything was blurry. And I

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Speaker 10: remember Peyton just like running and grabbing me like he missed,

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Speaker 10: he missed.

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Speaker 5: Miss crazy in the stadium just erupted, right, it.

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Speaker 10: Was crazy, Like I didn't because it was a lot

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Speaker 10: of fans from both sides. But when they erupted, I

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Speaker 10: have a clue what thought it was. All I remember

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Speaker 10: was running them like missed he did.

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Speaker 4: And now the Steelers are hosting a Wildcard playoff game

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Speaker 4: eight fifteen tonight.

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Speaker 5: It's the Steelers in the Texans on DV.

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Speaker 1: Live from the Don's Appliances Studios where Pittsburgh shops for appliances.

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Speaker 5: It's gonna be cloudy the morning.

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Speaker 4: And also Mike Pursuder now with your sports and sorry,

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Speaker 4: I needed to get all that Bob Weir stuff out.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, appreciate it. Start for your loss man.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it was nice how many people reached out to me.

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Speaker 4: I felt like about three people. I know that's into

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Speaker 4: the dead, like I'm into Springsteen. Yeah, I feel your pain.

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Speaker 5: Well, like I was explaining, And.

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Speaker 6: You know, I don't think it's the same thing with

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Speaker 6: Springsteen with Bob, like his work is done, you know.

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Speaker 5: So I felt.

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Speaker 8: As Bruce's of any consequence.

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Speaker 4: No, because there's no I don't know. I'm not sure

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Speaker 4: Bruce's music goes on without his voice. You know, I'm

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Speaker 4: gonna hear Grateful Dead songs the rest of my life

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Speaker 4: being performed by everybody.

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Speaker 5: Will people cover Springsteen?

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Speaker 8: Yeah, well, you be honest, Yeah, absolutely does not.

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Speaker 11: Like Yeah, he needs him, he has He needs the

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Speaker 11: Street Band as much as they need him.

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Speaker 5: Agreed, But without either one.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, like your boy Ryan Church, my or Eric Church

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Speaker 4: might be like, hey, I'm gonna take the East Street

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Speaker 4: Band out and do a bunch of interesting Well what

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Speaker 4: I'm saying, But I.

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Speaker 11: Mean, you know, they lost Danny Federich and they lost Clarence.

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Speaker 11: The show goes on. Yeah, but without Bruce, the show's over. Well,

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Speaker 11: you still have Bruce. So anyways, uh, fairly well, Bob we.

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Speaker 8: Air Sports is have brought to you by Bridgeville Plains.

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Speaker 11: It's the Steelers and the Houston Texans Tonight playoff football

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Speaker 11: at Actasher Stadium. The winner earns the right to play

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Speaker 11: the New England Patriots this coming Sunday.

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Speaker 8: That game will be in New England. And I don't

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Speaker 8: know if.

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Speaker 11: People are aware of the Steelers haven't won a playoff game.

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Speaker 11: Since the second week of the two thousand and sixteen postseason,

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Speaker 11: they are zero for six since that ties the longest

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Speaker 11: current such streak in the NFL, and it ties the

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Speaker 11: fourth longest such running utility in NFL history.

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Speaker 8: Not that Aaron Rodgers cares.

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Speaker 12: I care about winning. That's why I'm I'm here. That's

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Speaker 12: why I love the Monday to Saturday grind. And you know,

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Speaker 12: stats are what they are, The trends are what they are,

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Speaker 12: and those trends are Any trend is always meant to

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Speaker 12: be broken at some point, so hopefully we can do that.

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Speaker 13: Yeah.

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Speaker 11: Defensive coordinator Terrell Austin is one of many Steelers personnel

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Speaker 11: this past week who has maintained that the goal is

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Speaker 11: not to snap the streak tonight against the Texans. The

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Speaker 11: goal is to beat the Texans and win a Riot

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Speaker 11: game and advance toward a potential championship.

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Speaker 8: The goal is also not to win one for TJ.

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Speaker 11: Watt and Cam Hayward and the other veterans that have

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Speaker 11: been around for the bulk of this drought, if not

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Speaker 11: all of it. But that doesn't mean the Steelers won't

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Speaker 11: be following their leaders.

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Speaker 14: Hayward in particular, you know, we've talked about that before

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Speaker 14: in terms of, you know, our best players are you

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Speaker 14: right now? For us, they've been there are best leaders

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Speaker 14: and our best examples for our guys.

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Speaker 8: So they've they've always been that way.

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Speaker 14: And so I mean I've seen that. Shoot, I watched

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Speaker 14: Cam chase guys all the time, and it's still to

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Speaker 14: me it amazes me. I watch him and you just

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Speaker 14: watch how he runs and how he plays, and you know,

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Speaker 14: there's young guys that don't do what he does, and

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Speaker 14: so he's a unicorn and in a lot of ways,

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Speaker 14: but he's also unicorn in terms of his demeanor and

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Speaker 14: leadership and all that other stuff. And I think that's

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Speaker 14: you know, we talked about it. We've got good leadership,

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Speaker 14: We've got good things. And I think that brings the

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Speaker 14: rest of your guys along all the way because they

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Speaker 14: know how much they cared. You know, they don't have that.

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Speaker 14: Your best players don't push stuff aside. It It means

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Speaker 14: a lot to them, and so I think that that

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Speaker 14: has a really good trickle down effect on everyone.

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Speaker 11: Now, that's great stuff on Cam Hayward, who was named

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Speaker 11: second Team Ball Pro on Friday at thirty six years

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Speaker 11: of age, and deservedly so. But when I was listening

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Speaker 11: to Terra Austin speak there a couple of days ago,

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Speaker 11: it's stuck in my head. I never heard anybody pronounce

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Speaker 11: it unicord, and then he pronounced that unicorn the second

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Speaker 11: time he's talking about Cam's a unicord.

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Speaker 8: What is a unicord?

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Speaker 5: Well, there's there's a unicarrot, and you don't want to

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Speaker 5: confuse the two.

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Speaker 11: As I mentioned All Pro second team for Hayward at

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Speaker 11: thirty six, and stop me if you've heard this one before,

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Speaker 11: an old guy walks into the playoffs if not a

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Speaker 11: bar Cam Hayward's fromamiliar with that one. Camp Thomas been

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Speaker 11: pretty public about briding you about your age from time

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Speaker 11: to time.

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Speaker 8: Having some fun with TJ. Clture forty five after the

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Speaker 8: game the other night. This kind of stuff drive.

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Speaker 10: You a little.

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Speaker 13: Those two are getting up there in h two. Let's

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Speaker 13: not act like there's just some spring chickens.

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Speaker 8: But is there a prove everybody wrong element to your play?

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Speaker 13: Yeah? It's everybody versed me. Oh that's just how I am.

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Speaker 13: You know, I'm always looking for an extra notch, an

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Speaker 13: extra gear. And it's funny that my teammates and coaches

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Speaker 13: poking pride and on the other side of it.

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Speaker 11: Stiller's in the Texans tonight report out of Houston from

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Speaker 11: Aaron Wilson. Backup quarterback Davis Mills of the Texans is

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Speaker 11: expected to join his team at some point today and

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Speaker 11: be available tonight. He did not travel with the team

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Speaker 11: yesterday due to a personal mat The Texans are a

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Speaker 11: nine game winning stick. The first three wins were with

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Speaker 11: Mills at quarterback, replacing CJ. Stroud, who had a concussion.

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Speaker 11: He is a very capable backup quarterback. Everybody else on

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Speaker 11: both sides, things are looking very good in terms of availability.

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Speaker 11: Texans are going to get the right tackle Trent Brown back,

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Speaker 11: presumably he has no injury designation after missing the last

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Speaker 11: two games. The Steelers don't have anybody on their list

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Speaker 11: with designation except defensive tackle Isaiah louder Milk, who still

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Speaker 11: has not been activated from injured reserve. Texans won't have

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Speaker 11: Tank Dell and Joe Mixon. Steelers won't have Broderick Jones

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Speaker 11: to Shaun Elliott, Darnell Washington, and Miles Kilber their IR guys.

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Speaker 11: But if you're not on IR, you're good to go

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Speaker 11: for this one and one matchup that really favors the Steelers,

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Speaker 11: and aren't there aren't many, if any other ones but

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Speaker 11: red zone when the Steelers have the ball. They're eleventh

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Speaker 11: in the league in red zone offense at fifty eight

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Speaker 11: point eight percent. And Texans, for all their defensive splendor

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Speaker 11: and their defense is spec splendor as acular, they're only

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Speaker 11: sixteenth in red zone at fifty six point eight. So

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Speaker 11: if the Steelers can get it into twenty, maybe they

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Speaker 11: got a chance to do some damage. That said, I

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Speaker 11: am just knocked off my chair at how insane NFL

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Speaker 11: coaches have become going forward on fourth down.

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Speaker 5: It is an epidemic.

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Speaker 4: As much as I like it from an entertainment value,

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Speaker 4: the stupidity factor of it at this point is absolutely baffling.

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Speaker 4: It's remarkable that and people are missing kicks right and

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Speaker 4: left all of a sudden. Remember early in the middle

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Speaker 4: of the season, guys are banging from sixteen and they

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Speaker 4: look like extra Now, Mike, if you went down the

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Speaker 4: rabbit hole I did, you would understand that this is

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Speaker 4: all part of the script that's being written.

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Speaker 6: Well, there was like fifteen points left on the table

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Speaker 6: in last night's game.

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Speaker 5: I feel like fourth down in the five.

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Speaker 11: I mean Carolina started it up first game, first series.

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Speaker 11: They're inside their own thirty and they go for it.

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Speaker 8: It'll get it. And then they gave the Rams a

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Speaker 8: short field besketball offense.

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Speaker 10: In the lake. What do you do it?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't want understand it.

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Speaker 15: I mean, I get you want to possess the ball

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Speaker 15: and keep it away. There's got to be a time

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Speaker 15: and a place. Well, I think there's a happy medium

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Speaker 15: for it. And I think that this is when you

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Speaker 15: do the analytics mixed with gut. It's important to.

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Speaker 8: Own analytics is either all or nothing, though, right, I mean.

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Speaker 4: Definitively yes, because if you're not playing the percentages, then

686
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Speaker 4: it's just up the chance.

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Speaker 8: I mean, you're an NFL head coach.

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Speaker 11: Use your gut, use your knowledge, use your in game experience,

689
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Speaker 11: use your understanding of your team. Make the decision that way.

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Speaker 11: Don't do it because Dan Campbell would.

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Speaker 4: Be the analytics you use as the response if this

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Speaker 4: doesn't happen, this can happen, it's your excuse.

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Speaker 5: Well no, no, no, I'm.

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Speaker 6: Saying if you don't use analytics every time, it's just

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Speaker 6: like you know what the result of your failing will be.

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Speaker 11: Rams beat the pants A thirty four to thirty one.

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Speaker 11: That was a phenomenal game. Bearspeat the Packers thirty one

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Speaker 11: twenty seven thousand, that was a phenomenal saying Bill's beat

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Speaker 11: the Jaguars twenty seven to twenty four, that was a

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Speaker 11: phenomenal game. Forty nine Ers speak the Eagles twenty three

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Speaker 11: to nineteen. Didn't see much of that one, and I

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Speaker 11: didn't see any of Patriot's sixteen Chargers three. But if

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Speaker 11: you're like me, let's all celebrate Jim Harbaugh and suck

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Speaker 11: a day.

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Speaker 5: Oh they are pissed at him.

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Speaker 4: Robert Splaine in this postgame comments last night, saying that

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Speaker 4: Chargers were coming up to him after the game, saying,

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Speaker 4: our offense had no idea what covered you guys were in.

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Speaker 5: We didn't know what you were doing.

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Speaker 8: That's because he couldn't study it ahead of time, and.

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Speaker 6: No one.

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Speaker 4: Comedian raised Waddey hanging out with us this morning. Abby,

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Speaker 4: you'll have your news at the top of the hour.

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Speaker 5: We'll start recapping the Golden Globes.

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Speaker 4: Well, we talked you heard from Cam Hayward there, and

716
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Speaker 4: we talked about the importance of his leadership on the team.

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Speaker 4: But he and his brother might be an integral part

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Speaker 4: of tonight's Houston matchup, and we'll explain how the steel

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Speaker 4: City push has gone to the true brotherly shove here

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Speaker 4: in Pittsburgh.

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Speaker 16: Next, Yes your favorite table is available, and yes you

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Speaker 16: build the menu. The DVE workforce has the run of

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Speaker 16: the kitchen.

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Speaker 6: Yeah.

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Speaker 16: With Michelle Michel on the DVE Electric Lunch at noon,

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Speaker 16: MEE Morning.

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Speaker 4: Show, add Krisner and Mike pursued a comedian raised winey

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Speaker 4: hanging out with us here this morning, and Ray, you

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Speaker 4: came on the Best Day. Steelers Texans tonight a fifteen

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Speaker 4: at Extra Stadium.

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Speaker 5: Are you going to the game? I think I think

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Speaker 5: I might. I might try to make it down there.

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Speaker 4: Man, I think you'll be able to score a reasonable

734
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Speaker 4: ticket before kickoff because the I think just the weather alone,

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Speaker 4: and Houston doesn't travel.

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Speaker 6: It's a Monday night game. It's not like a bunch

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Speaker 6: of Texans fans came up for this game. I've the

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Speaker 6: Steelers play them so infrequently. I have no idea if

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Speaker 6: they travel or not.

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Speaker 5: They don't.

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Speaker 4: And it was like I was just telling Jacob, because

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Speaker 4: Jacob was lamenting the fact that Indiana's victory over Oregon

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Speaker 4: that beat down, knocking them into the National Championship against Miami,

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Speaker 4: who essentially have a home game for the Natty.

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Speaker 11: Yeah, so they're real hoosier. You would show up no

746
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Speaker 11: matter the call. You could be there to support your team,

747
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Speaker 11: knowing that they need all the help they can get.

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Speaker 11: With the decks stacked against them like this, you would say,

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Speaker 11: F the money, F work.

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Speaker 6: I'm going if you were a real hoosher Jake, what

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Speaker 6: are you doing next weekend? Your MIC's not on, buddy,

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Speaker 6: your MIC's not on.

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Speaker 5: There you go.

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Speaker 17: I told Mike over the weekend, I was considering opening

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Speaker 17: up another line of credit just to max out a

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Speaker 17: card and worry about that debt another time.

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Speaker 5: What if I give you a loan that you work

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Speaker 5: off in humiliation rituals? Okay, I can consider that.

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Speaker 4: Okay, we'll talk later About that five thousand dollars you're

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Speaker 4: saying is the going price for a ticket to that game?

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Speaker 17: Like anywhere it's I've seen like one thing, like one

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Speaker 17: specific ticket go for like thirty five, and everything else

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Speaker 17: is north of.

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Speaker 5: Like forty five thirty five. That's affordable.

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Speaker 17: That's right, thirty five hund on top of like a

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Speaker 17: thousand dollars flight and you know hotels that are going

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Speaker 17: for five hundred dollars a night.

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Speaker 5: You don't need a hotel.

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Speaker 8: Watching your school win the national time, I will watch, Mike.

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Speaker 5: I will watch being.

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Speaker 8: There while your school was the national championship.

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Speaker 5: I've been there. I've been there for your school.

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Speaker 6: I've been there for a lot of moments this year

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Speaker 6: that they need you, Jacob, they might you need to

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Speaker 6: be Indiana's Michael Irvin will get you an.

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Speaker 5: Eight ball you go, We'll get you a belt. Yeah, Yeah,

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Speaker 5: that's right, Tony.

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Speaker 11: It's gonna take more than Mark Cuban's checkbook for this one.

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Speaker 11: You got to get there and yell man.

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Speaker 5: I I mean, he was there on on on Friday night.

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Speaker 17: But if if there's any takeaway to have from his

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Speaker 17: presence is that you don't need that checkbook. I mean,

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Speaker 17: look at the look at the talent evaluation, the blue

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Speaker 17: chip ratio. Oregon had eighty percent of their players before

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Speaker 17: five star guys. Indiana has zero five star guys on

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Speaker 17: their team. Yeah, and only like six four star guys. Well,

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Speaker 17: I don't know if you need that money, Mike.

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Speaker 5: All Right, an argument for a different day.

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Speaker 4: How much you're paying the coach let's turn it to

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Speaker 4: the Steelers tonight, Steelers and the Texans.

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Speaker 5: It's the wild card round.

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Speaker 4: And one thing that you saw happening across the league yesterday,

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Speaker 4: the tush push is now universal.

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Speaker 5: Everyone uses it. It is a tool in the NFL.

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Speaker 8: That's been the case.

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Speaker 4: Uh yeah, I'm saying, but this one, literally there was

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Speaker 4: a ten yard tush push. It almost resulted in a

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Speaker 4: touchdown yesterday. Sure for the Bills, it is taking on

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Speaker 4: a new level.

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Speaker 6: It used to be you only toush push when it's

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Speaker 6: an inch or half a yard or whatever, and now

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Speaker 6: it's like a yard and a half.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, well, touch push. I don't think the Steelers should

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Speaker 4: be doing that. I think they should only do it

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Speaker 4: when it's really close. They were one for two last week,

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Speaker 4: and it nearly bit them in the three two three.

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Speaker 11: Okay, because the one serious they made fourth down from

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Speaker 11: the ten, that's right, and then they got your pay.

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Speaker 5: So the first one did not go so well.

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Speaker 2: No dithers break the huddle with eight in the play clock,

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Speaker 2: Hayward set up to take the sneak, gets it and

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Speaker 2: pushing and shoving. This is gonna be really really close.

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Speaker 2: Oh it looks like he might be a little short,

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Speaker 2: and he is did not pick it up, went off

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Speaker 2: the left side and came up a few inches short,

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Speaker 2: and the Steelers will turn it over on downs at

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Speaker 2: their own forty five yard line. I mean that was brutal.

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Speaker 4: Connor Hayward was super pissed at his brother Cam, who

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Speaker 4: came in in the stead of Darnell Washington, who's usually

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Speaker 4: the guy behind Connor there.

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Speaker 5: And we asked Missy Matthews.

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Speaker 4: About it when we were talking to her on Thursday

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Speaker 4: here on the show, because she was down on the sidelines.

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Speaker 4: So not having Darnell Washington to help out in that

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Speaker 4: big package is a big loss against this defense.

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Speaker 5: How do you think Arthur Smith counteracts that, I just

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Speaker 5: Cam Hayward go in.

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Speaker 18: I don't know, I'm joking. I did like that, you know,

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Speaker 18: iteration of the Spartan putting Cam Hayward in there. I

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Speaker 18: will say it was not funny at the time, but

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Speaker 18: now that I think back, how mad Connor was at

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Speaker 18: Cam when the first one didn't work, losing his mind

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Speaker 18: not oh no, no, no, not in his face, but

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Speaker 18: like walked away, like could not believe it is just screaming.

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Speaker 18: His face is turning red. He's you know, saying things

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Speaker 18: really and I can't repeat on the radio. Oh he

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Speaker 18: was so mad, so mad, and he was kind of

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Speaker 18: motioning like that he hugged him instead of like pushed him.

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Speaker 18: I agree with coach Tomlin that like Connor was never

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Speaker 18: going to say that to Cam, and that I think

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Speaker 18: it was more Connor probably told Danny Smith, and then

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Speaker 18: Danny Smith told coach, and then coach maybe told Camer

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Speaker 18: was just like, you guys, figure it out. It was true,

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Speaker 18: brother like throw down fisticuffs. That's how angry he was.

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Speaker 18: Put not in Cam's vicinity at all at all.

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Speaker 5: Connor after the game said, yeah, no, that didn't I

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Speaker 5: didn't love that.

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Speaker 19: Yeah, the first one he tackled me, but you know

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Speaker 19: that was the practice for the second and third one.

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Speaker 19: And I was hot at the first one. But you know,

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Speaker 19: he came up to me and he was like, we're good.

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Speaker 5: You know that was my bad, but okay, so that's good.

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Speaker 4: They get it worked out, brothers, shake hands, hug let's

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Speaker 4: just do it right. The second time they did, and

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Speaker 4: then they did it right the third time.

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Speaker 13: Steal City Chef once.

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Speaker 2: Again snapped a Hayward Hunter Hayward second rushing touched out

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Speaker 2: of the season, caps off.

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Speaker 5: A beautiful opening drive here for the Steelers.

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Speaker 4: When you see them line up for the Tush push ray,

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Speaker 4: the Steel City Shove, whatever you want to call it

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Speaker 4: here in Pittsburgh.

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Speaker 5: What goes through you? What's your nervous level when they're

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Speaker 5: two yards out? It's not great?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, but I love the play. I'm a fan of

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Speaker 6: I'm one of the rare people that loves this ugly play.

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Speaker 6: I want them to start the game tonight and do

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Speaker 6: it every play, four in a row from the ten.

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Speaker 6: I mean, if you watch Josh Allen, it look like

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Speaker 6: they could do that all day if they wanted to.

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Speaker 6: The Eagles when they had it perfected, looked like they

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Speaker 6: could do it. Now, I they can't pull out of

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Speaker 6: the garage without hitting the side of the uh, you know,

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Speaker 6: the door.

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Speaker 5: They're a mess.

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Speaker 6: They won't even try it. They didn't even try yesterday.

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Speaker 6: They're a mess. And no surprise, San Francisco bested them yesterday.

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Speaker 8: And the Steelers have some variations on that. They had that.

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Speaker 5: That's what I wanted to get to.

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Speaker 11: The hand off to gain weall in Chicago, which went

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