1 00:00:02,759 --> 00:00:06,080 Speaker 1: It's your radio home of the Pittsburgh Steelers one O 2 00:00:06,200 --> 00:00:10,039 Speaker 1: two point five d v E Steelers Packers on Sunday 3 00:00:10,119 --> 00:00:11,920 Speaker 1: Night and joining us right now, brought to you by 4 00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:16,280 Speaker 1: calli Ante Pizza in Draft House, the Pizza Champions. Linebacker 5 00:00:16,280 --> 00:00:19,040 Speaker 1: for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Alex high Smith, Ladies and gentlemen, Alex, 6 00:00:19,079 --> 00:00:19,840 Speaker 1: good morning, How are you? 7 00:00:21,200 --> 00:00:23,040 Speaker 2: Good morning? Guys doing well? How are y'all? 8 00:00:23,120 --> 00:00:24,720 Speaker 3: Are you on your phone right now? 9 00:00:24,760 --> 00:00:25,280 Speaker 4: By chance? 10 00:00:26,680 --> 00:00:30,720 Speaker 2: Uh? Not my phone now? 11 00:00:30,760 --> 00:00:33,320 Speaker 3: The reason I'm asking is because the caller I D 12 00:00:33,560 --> 00:00:35,720 Speaker 3: came up here and I'm like, that's not who we're 13 00:00:35,760 --> 00:00:38,400 Speaker 3: talking to, it says TJ. 14 00:00:38,560 --> 00:00:40,959 Speaker 1: Watt here, But I think that that's just our producer 15 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:42,520 Speaker 1: put that on there in the past. 16 00:00:42,640 --> 00:00:44,319 Speaker 3: This must be the phone they put you guys all 17 00:00:44,360 --> 00:00:45,120 Speaker 3: on when you call in. 18 00:00:45,320 --> 00:00:47,360 Speaker 4: I thought that might just be like the linebacker phone. 19 00:00:47,520 --> 00:00:47,720 Speaker 2: That's it. 20 00:00:47,880 --> 00:00:50,040 Speaker 3: Yeah, right, I don't know if you guys shared phone. 21 00:00:50,120 --> 00:00:52,040 Speaker 4: Yeah a phone. 22 00:00:52,960 --> 00:00:56,400 Speaker 5: Queen's done with it, but uh, Wilson's gonna need it 23 00:00:56,400 --> 00:00:57,960 Speaker 5: in five minutes, so let's get this guy. 24 00:00:58,000 --> 00:00:59,440 Speaker 3: We'll get it going. Alex. 25 00:00:59,480 --> 00:01:02,400 Speaker 1: First of all is how do you like the uniform 26 00:01:02,400 --> 00:01:04,320 Speaker 1: combination that you have to wear on Sunday Night. 27 00:01:05,560 --> 00:01:08,080 Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I'm excited to wear it. I remember 28 00:01:08,120 --> 00:01:11,319 Speaker 2: when whenever I first saw it, you know, it was 29 00:01:11,319 --> 00:01:13,480 Speaker 2: really cool and it's something that you know, we haven't 30 00:01:13,920 --> 00:01:17,760 Speaker 2: seen before, and or at least another the jerseys. The 31 00:01:18,560 --> 00:01:21,399 Speaker 2: jerseys we haven't worn shooting a very long time, but 32 00:01:21,600 --> 00:01:23,560 Speaker 2: I've always like when I first saw it, I was 33 00:01:23,600 --> 00:01:26,039 Speaker 2: a fan of like my I'll say, my favorite part 34 00:01:26,040 --> 00:01:28,080 Speaker 2: probably is the helmet, like the yellow helmets are sick, 35 00:01:29,240 --> 00:01:31,600 Speaker 2: and just the jersey. I'm a big Dark Knight fan. 36 00:01:31,680 --> 00:01:37,880 Speaker 2: I love those movies. So seeing uh, seeing those jerseys, 37 00:01:37,920 --> 00:01:41,120 Speaker 2: you know, made me get into my vain personality a 38 00:01:41,160 --> 00:01:44,399 Speaker 2: little bit. Yeah, watching that scene from The Dark Dark Knight, 39 00:01:44,560 --> 00:01:47,360 Speaker 2: so I thought that was really cool that way. So 40 00:01:47,400 --> 00:01:48,160 Speaker 2: they're pretty cool. 41 00:01:48,320 --> 00:01:50,240 Speaker 1: I didn't know you guys were wearing yellow cleats until 42 00:01:50,240 --> 00:01:52,760 Speaker 1: Bill just retweeted somebody that that showed the cleat you 43 00:01:52,760 --> 00:01:55,160 Speaker 1: guys have. I mean, those are you guys are gonna 44 00:01:55,240 --> 00:01:57,520 Speaker 1: leave a flash across the TV screen? 45 00:01:58,440 --> 00:02:00,720 Speaker 2: Yeah, I think some guys are. I don't know if 46 00:02:00,760 --> 00:02:03,400 Speaker 2: everybody is. Some guys are wearing yellowclise. I think it'll 47 00:02:03,440 --> 00:02:05,680 Speaker 2: be here and there guys wearing yellow cleis and stuff. 48 00:02:06,080 --> 00:02:08,040 Speaker 4: How do we feel about the khaki pants? 49 00:02:10,240 --> 00:02:13,400 Speaker 2: I mean, for me, I mean I like them, but 50 00:02:13,760 --> 00:02:17,120 Speaker 2: you know, I think, uh, you know, they maybe I 51 00:02:17,160 --> 00:02:19,440 Speaker 2: was wondering if what what a black would look like. 52 00:02:19,760 --> 00:02:22,960 Speaker 2: My person think the black would probably look a little better. 53 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:26,000 Speaker 2: But you know, I think it's a good, good outfit, 54 00:02:26,240 --> 00:02:29,480 Speaker 2: and so I'm just excited to see how it looks 55 00:02:29,480 --> 00:02:30,960 Speaker 2: on Sunday Night Football. 56 00:02:30,720 --> 00:02:33,760 Speaker 5: Alex Keishawn Williams takes a kick back to the house. 57 00:02:33,800 --> 00:02:35,560 Speaker 5: The stadium is not going to explode. 58 00:02:35,240 --> 00:02:37,080 Speaker 2: Is it? No? 59 00:02:38,400 --> 00:02:40,519 Speaker 4: That happens? 60 00:02:40,560 --> 00:02:42,200 Speaker 2: Not gonna say Gotham's reckoning. 61 00:02:46,400 --> 00:02:51,000 Speaker 5: You've got the voice down well with that describe as 62 00:02:51,040 --> 00:02:55,440 Speaker 5: sack in the Bain You're getting You're getting a sack 63 00:02:55,520 --> 00:02:57,480 Speaker 5: and Bain's doing the play by play. 64 00:02:57,480 --> 00:03:01,480 Speaker 2: What do you got? I guess I'll just play okay, 65 00:03:01,720 --> 00:03:07,320 Speaker 2: uh oh, yes, suck by Alex he and Tuday what 66 00:03:08,320 --> 00:03:11,520 Speaker 2: h Yeah? 67 00:03:11,840 --> 00:03:19,320 Speaker 1: But you know what, Yeah, Bain doesn't really know football. 68 00:03:22,280 --> 00:03:23,320 Speaker 3: He was born in the darkness. 69 00:03:23,320 --> 00:03:23,840 Speaker 1: He doesn't know. 70 00:03:24,240 --> 00:03:26,359 Speaker 2: We should something from I've been working on that one 71 00:03:26,400 --> 00:03:28,960 Speaker 2: for a little bit. From that one for a little bit. 72 00:03:29,080 --> 00:03:30,800 Speaker 3: Do you have other impersonations that you can do? 73 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:35,280 Speaker 2: Coach t Uh, I've done coach t and then the 74 00:03:35,280 --> 00:03:38,160 Speaker 2: water Boy. I've done the Joker, the. 75 00:03:38,280 --> 00:03:44,120 Speaker 3: Water Boy, You've done Adam. 76 00:03:44,200 --> 00:03:53,520 Speaker 2: My father was drinker. See why so serious, Joe? 77 00:03:53,880 --> 00:03:55,840 Speaker 3: I like that? Can I hear the water Boy? 78 00:03:57,600 --> 00:03:57,680 Speaker 1: Ye? 79 00:03:58,960 --> 00:04:09,280 Speaker 2: I'm I'm a kid. Yeah, Uh, he's fantastic. I know. 80 00:04:09,440 --> 00:04:11,760 Speaker 4: Weed to break some of these out in game, you have. 81 00:04:11,720 --> 00:04:14,080 Speaker 1: To do your post game and after you like sack 82 00:04:14,200 --> 00:04:16,480 Speaker 1: Jordan Love three times on Sunday Night and they interview 83 00:04:16,560 --> 00:04:17,560 Speaker 1: you after the game. 84 00:04:18,520 --> 00:04:19,520 Speaker 4: Sunday Night TV. 85 00:04:20,400 --> 00:04:22,120 Speaker 2: I'll have to I'll have to do his little uh 86 00:04:22,360 --> 00:04:25,039 Speaker 2: pose where you know, puts his hands in his his 87 00:04:25,160 --> 00:04:28,080 Speaker 2: caller and just like stands there and watches. That's like 88 00:04:28,160 --> 00:04:31,560 Speaker 2: his thing. Yeah, that might watch Sunday Night celebrations. 89 00:04:31,600 --> 00:04:34,760 Speaker 1: Well, let's hope you get uh that that opportunity. I mean, 90 00:04:34,800 --> 00:04:38,480 Speaker 1: this is no small feat. This team is a pretty 91 00:04:38,480 --> 00:04:41,560 Speaker 1: good folk coming in. Of course, the overriding theme of 92 00:04:41,600 --> 00:04:44,200 Speaker 1: things here is Aaron Rodgers returning to face his former 93 00:04:44,240 --> 00:04:48,560 Speaker 1: team for the first time as a non Green Bay Packer. 94 00:04:49,240 --> 00:04:52,919 Speaker 1: They've downplayed it, both the Packers and Aaron Rodgers in 95 00:04:52,960 --> 00:04:56,159 Speaker 1: terms of revenge game is that the sense that you're 96 00:04:56,200 --> 00:04:58,839 Speaker 1: getting and the other teammates are getting that. Oh even 97 00:04:58,880 --> 00:05:01,200 Speaker 1: though he's face seeing the Packers for the first time, 98 00:05:01,200 --> 00:05:02,440 Speaker 1: that won't be much of a factor. 99 00:05:02,600 --> 00:05:05,840 Speaker 3: Or is that something that you guys are all too 100 00:05:05,920 --> 00:05:06,520 Speaker 3: well aware of. 101 00:05:07,640 --> 00:05:09,400 Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I think we're definitely aware of that. 102 00:05:09,480 --> 00:05:11,080 Speaker 2: I think it's just a chance, you know, for for 103 00:05:11,160 --> 00:05:13,840 Speaker 2: him to make history for beating every single being one 104 00:05:13,880 --> 00:05:17,480 Speaker 2: of what I think four or five kbs too be 105 00:05:17,640 --> 00:05:21,280 Speaker 2: every single team in the NFL. So I know there's 106 00:05:21,960 --> 00:05:23,920 Speaker 2: some big history with that. But it's just going to 107 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:29,240 Speaker 2: be a high intensity. Uh, it's gonna be a pack game, 108 00:05:29,560 --> 00:05:32,360 Speaker 2: pretty sure. It's probably almost sold out. If not, it's 109 00:05:32,360 --> 00:05:35,120 Speaker 2: probably close. So it's not sold out, so in it 110 00:05:35,160 --> 00:05:37,320 Speaker 2: Satday night football, it's prime time, and so I just 111 00:05:37,360 --> 00:05:39,000 Speaker 2: know it's going to be a crazy matchup. 112 00:05:39,560 --> 00:05:42,919 Speaker 1: How sure are you guys that what happened against the 113 00:05:42,960 --> 00:05:46,400 Speaker 1: Bengals defensively and not being able to stop the run, 114 00:05:46,480 --> 00:05:50,720 Speaker 1: to your satisfaction was an aberration and not a revelation. 115 00:05:52,440 --> 00:05:56,080 Speaker 2: Yeah, I think, Uh, like we started off great. You 116 00:05:56,120 --> 00:05:57,640 Speaker 2: know I was talking about the other day in the 117 00:05:57,680 --> 00:05:59,800 Speaker 2: locker room. You know, we started off ten zero and 118 00:06:00,320 --> 00:06:03,760 Speaker 2: things that damn started to break whenever we finished up 119 00:06:03,800 --> 00:06:06,520 Speaker 2: the run. And I think it was hard to drive 120 00:06:06,640 --> 00:06:09,279 Speaker 2: the second quarter and they got that one long run 121 00:06:09,440 --> 00:06:11,880 Speaker 2: on us, and then you know that's that's when things 122 00:06:11,920 --> 00:06:14,200 Speaker 2: started going south. So for us, it's, you know, obviously 123 00:06:14,200 --> 00:06:16,520 Speaker 2: we've got to start fast. We just got to continue 124 00:06:16,520 --> 00:06:19,080 Speaker 2: to play more consistent, especially in the run game, especially 125 00:06:19,080 --> 00:06:21,479 Speaker 2: you know the three the two games we've lost and 126 00:06:21,520 --> 00:06:23,600 Speaker 2: then you know the Jets being that close game. All 127 00:06:23,600 --> 00:06:25,960 Speaker 2: the games we've let up a lot of points. Teams 128 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:27,560 Speaker 2: have been successed to running the ball and they've had 129 00:06:27,560 --> 00:06:30,720 Speaker 2: one hundred yard rushers and so for us, that's just 130 00:06:30,920 --> 00:06:34,239 Speaker 2: where it comes and starts. We just got to stop 131 00:06:34,279 --> 00:06:36,520 Speaker 2: the run first and foremost. And you know Josh Jacobs 132 00:06:36,520 --> 00:06:38,200 Speaker 2: and company coming in town. You know they got a 133 00:06:38,200 --> 00:06:40,600 Speaker 2: good runn attack, so we've just got to be able 134 00:06:40,600 --> 00:06:42,160 Speaker 2: to stop him and then be able to get them 135 00:06:42,160 --> 00:06:43,840 Speaker 2: in a third and long situations. 136 00:06:43,839 --> 00:06:46,600 Speaker 5: That cause having Alex I didn't talk to you this week, 137 00:06:46,640 --> 00:06:50,200 Speaker 5: but the message from your teammates on defense and even 138 00:06:50,520 --> 00:06:56,640 Speaker 5: up through coordinator Tarrell Austin was an emphatic. Everybody's confident 139 00:06:56,839 --> 00:06:59,160 Speaker 5: that this is going to be a really good defense. 140 00:06:59,560 --> 00:07:02,839 Speaker 5: There's been some ups and downs to this point, but uh, 141 00:07:02,920 --> 00:07:05,200 Speaker 5: that's just kind of part of the deal. It's coming, 142 00:07:05,480 --> 00:07:08,400 Speaker 5: it's going to get there. What's the sense of urgency 143 00:07:08,440 --> 00:07:10,920 Speaker 5: that it gets there Sunday night? Because these guys are 144 00:07:10,920 --> 00:07:11,400 Speaker 5: pretty good. 145 00:07:12,240 --> 00:07:13,840 Speaker 2: I mean, it's a huge sense of urgency, and I 146 00:07:13,880 --> 00:07:17,080 Speaker 2: think we have displayed that since of urgency by the 147 00:07:17,120 --> 00:07:19,680 Speaker 2: way to practice these Pascal days. Way we have practiced 148 00:07:19,680 --> 00:07:22,360 Speaker 2: these press couple days. So in the day, we just 149 00:07:22,400 --> 00:07:24,160 Speaker 2: had to flush it, you know, and it was over 150 00:07:24,160 --> 00:07:26,600 Speaker 2: a week ago, So we flushed that and we've moved 151 00:07:26,640 --> 00:07:30,000 Speaker 2: on from it. It's definitely frustrating, but you know, we 152 00:07:30,040 --> 00:07:32,480 Speaker 2: can't play it cool. You know. We got to own 153 00:07:32,600 --> 00:07:35,280 Speaker 2: up to it, and we got to to get back 154 00:07:35,320 --> 00:07:36,880 Speaker 2: week for us, and so we just got to be 155 00:07:36,880 --> 00:07:40,080 Speaker 2: better when we were last week a lot better because 156 00:07:40,080 --> 00:07:41,600 Speaker 2: you know, we had the defense and the players would 157 00:07:41,600 --> 00:07:43,920 Speaker 2: be a great defense. So I think it's on us. 158 00:07:44,040 --> 00:07:47,960 Speaker 1: How much has Aaron Rodgers helped you understand defensively what 159 00:07:48,560 --> 00:07:51,680 Speaker 1: they're going to do offensively given his vast knowledge of 160 00:07:51,680 --> 00:07:52,640 Speaker 1: what Lafleur does. 161 00:07:53,640 --> 00:07:56,080 Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean he definitely knows a lot. And he's, 162 00:07:56,240 --> 00:07:57,600 Speaker 2: like I said, he spent a lot of time there, 163 00:07:57,640 --> 00:07:59,720 Speaker 2: so he knows the engine mouth and so he's definitely 164 00:07:59,760 --> 00:08:02,800 Speaker 2: shared some some drible information with us. 165 00:08:04,520 --> 00:08:06,880 Speaker 4: I know, I know you're I know you're on defense, 166 00:08:06,920 --> 00:08:10,800 Speaker 4: But how can you protect Aaron Rodgers from Broderick Jones 167 00:08:11,240 --> 00:08:12,880 Speaker 4: if it goes well on Sunday Night? 168 00:08:14,120 --> 00:08:17,160 Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, shoot, uh, someone someone just gonna have 169 00:08:17,200 --> 00:08:19,680 Speaker 2: to as Aaron's run off the field. Someone's gonna have 170 00:08:19,720 --> 00:08:23,880 Speaker 2: to run run off the sideline tackle project and stuff 171 00:08:25,160 --> 00:08:28,200 Speaker 2: take him out. Yeah, because obviously we scored and then 172 00:08:28,440 --> 00:08:30,080 Speaker 2: we were getting ready to go back on defense. I 173 00:08:30,120 --> 00:08:32,280 Speaker 2: didn't know what happened till after the game. Oh shoot, 174 00:08:32,360 --> 00:08:36,040 Speaker 2: that really happens. So yeah, I'm gonna gonna happen again. 175 00:08:36,080 --> 00:08:39,920 Speaker 1: We gotta make sure Steelers and the Packers Sunday night 176 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:43,160 Speaker 1: and a twenty kickoff and uh look. 177 00:08:43,960 --> 00:08:44,800 Speaker 3: Look home Sunday. 178 00:08:45,280 --> 00:08:50,920 Speaker 4: Yes, they're gonna experire much. Yeah, there you go, Alex. 179 00:08:51,400 --> 00:08:53,959 Speaker 3: That's buddy. Best of Block Sunday Night.