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Speaker 1: Steelers in Houston Monday night, joining us not to talk

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Speaker 1: about it. Former Steelers quarterback. You hear him on the

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Speaker 1: postgame show. You hear him on his great podcast with

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Speaker 1: former Steeler Trey Essex.

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Speaker 2: It's Charlie Batch.

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Speaker 1: Charlie, what do you expect from Aaron Rodgers on Monday night?

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Speaker 1: It's a cliched question, but boy, he's gotta be at

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Speaker 1: the top of his game.

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Speaker 3: I figure, yeah, he really is, and he's been playing phenomenal.

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Speaker 4: But for me, in this game here, because of the

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Speaker 4: strength of that Texans defense, they have to figure out

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Speaker 4: a way to get that running game going.

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Speaker 3: To now get that play action going.

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Speaker 4: I know that's something that'll harp on a lot, but

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Speaker 4: it's going to be tough for him to drop back

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Speaker 4: deliver the football without that running game going.

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Speaker 1: Charlie, I'll be even more dramatic. I think if they

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Speaker 1: don't establish the running game and he just drops back

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Speaker 1: after drop back after drop back, he gonna get hurt

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Speaker 1: because they pressure and they hit in those edge rushers.

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Speaker 2: I mean, it's better than any defense in that regard.

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Speaker 1: I don't think the Steelers have a choice.

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Speaker 3: I understand that, but you know, when.

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Speaker 4: You look at they're able to get to the quarterback

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Speaker 4: without blitzing, and that's that that's the challenge that is

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Speaker 4: created there. And ultimately, you know, sometime when they bring

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Speaker 4: the blitz, you know it's going to be one of

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Speaker 4: the man and man coverage on the back end. But

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Speaker 4: with this Texan defensey'll allow you to confuse you to

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Speaker 4: that point because of the pass rushers. But to your point,

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Speaker 4: there's no way in his game that he can continue

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Speaker 4: to drop back and drop back without getting pressured a lot.

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Speaker 1: Have there been times this year he's got rid of

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Speaker 1: the ball too early to avoid being hit. Does he

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Speaker 1: need to to take a hit to make a play

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Speaker 1: in this game more often?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, he's been doing that. I mean he's getting the

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Speaker 4: ball out of his hands quickly. But again you have

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Speaker 4: you know, your receivers have to get that run after

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Speaker 4: catch and that's something that they got better better at.

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Speaker 3: The second half of the season.

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Speaker 4: But I think ultimately, when you're seeing everything unfold, we

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Speaker 4: don't know what DK is doing. You would assume that

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Speaker 4: he's going to be in great physical condition. But again,

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Speaker 4: how is that Texans defense going to now, you know,

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Speaker 4: defend DK. Are they going to put their best defender

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Speaker 4: Stingley on him or are they going to rotate average

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Speaker 4: to him now to make sure there's always a safety

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Speaker 4: over top of him and put Stingley on maybe a

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Speaker 4: Calvin Austen or whoever the other receiver is out there.

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Speaker 4: So I think that and that question is going to

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Speaker 4: be answered in the first couple series.

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Speaker 1: And we got to know too that Lasted or their

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Speaker 1: other cornerback is very good as well.

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Speaker 4: Right, absolutely, And that's the part where you just don't

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Speaker 4: know if they're going to play zone again, but you

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Speaker 4: just gonna be hard to play. You know, if I'm them,

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Speaker 4: I would not play one on one cover the DK

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Speaker 4: because you know there's going to be a fifty to

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Speaker 4: fifty ball down the field and he's probably going to

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Speaker 4: complete one of those passes. But to minimize that is

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Speaker 4: just a matter of trying to remove him completely out

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Speaker 4: of the game and say to yourself, can Calvin Austen

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Speaker 4: do this again? Can you know, somebody else in that

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Speaker 4: receiver group do something in this.

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Speaker 3: Game that's going to be impactful?

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Speaker 4: And again, that's going to be something that's going to

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Speaker 4: be fairly early to see.

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Speaker 1: How about the offensive line match up against Houston's edge

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Speaker 1: rushers in particular, how will Dylan Cook and and Troy

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Speaker 1: Fatanu do. I mean I would put them one on

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Speaker 1: one a lot just to free up you know, weapons

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Speaker 1: like the extra offensive lineman doubling with a tight end,

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Speaker 1: the chipping, I mean the chipping against Cleveland Charlie took

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Speaker 1: Kenneth Gainwell right out of the.

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Speaker 4: Offense correct And I don't think they can go back

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Speaker 4: to that format because again, could Gainwell leads this team

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Speaker 4: or receptions. And if they know that game Will is

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Speaker 4: gonna be that guy's gonna chip. You better believe they're

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Speaker 4: gonna continue to maybe rush a linebacker to keep him

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Speaker 4: in on pass protection and not allow him to beat

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Speaker 4: you in the past the passing game. So if I'm

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Speaker 4: if the Steelers at this particular, boy, and this is

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Speaker 4: the only thing that I think that Aaron Rodgers can

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Speaker 4: do is use that snap count as a weapon, and

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Speaker 4: if he can do that, maybe he keeps that pass

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Speaker 4: rush off balanced deer. But Troy Fontana, I'm not worried

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Speaker 4: about him. I think he's gonna be okay there. Dylan Cook,

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Speaker 4: I think they're gonna now say prove it you're the

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Speaker 4: young guy on his team on.

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Speaker 3: This roster fourth tackle. You go out here and see.

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Speaker 4: So I think they're gonna now figure out what that

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Speaker 4: one on one matchups and how the Steelers look to

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Speaker 4: protect Dylan Cooked on that left side.

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Speaker 1: See I think, Charlie, you hit the nail right on

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Speaker 1: the head in the beginning of this conversation. I think

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Speaker 1: they got to run the ball. And that's not just

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Speaker 1: to open up the pass either. I think they can

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Speaker 4: No, I agree with you, they can, but they will

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Speaker 4: they commit to it because when you get to this

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Speaker 4: point of the season, when you know there's no tomorrow.

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Speaker 4: If the running game doesn't get going early, that's when

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Speaker 4: you tend to have conversations on the sideline and say,

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Speaker 4: you want to know what Just give me no huddle, Hey,

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Speaker 4: put me spread out, and if the running game is there,

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Speaker 4: then I can check to the run versus just completely

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Speaker 4: dedicating yourself to the run.

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Speaker 3: There.

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Speaker 4: So again, I think a lot of that unfolds on

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Speaker 4: how this game shapes out in.

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Speaker 3: The first quarter.

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Speaker 4: I know there's a lot of talk on the Steelers

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Speaker 4: being outscored in the first quarter, but that is going

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Speaker 4: to be critical because that will ultimately determine what the

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Speaker 4: game plan is in that second and third quarter.

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Speaker 1: Well, Charlie, that leads nicely into what I was going

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Speaker 1: to bring up next. The Steelers have been outscored badly

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Speaker 1: early in their last five playoff games and have never

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Speaker 1: managed to come back, losing all five of those.

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Speaker 2: Why does that happen? It happens so consistently with this team.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it does, and I know there, you know there's

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Speaker 4: different ways and different meanings and why it happened. But

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Speaker 4: I think for them defensively, and a lot of teams

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Speaker 4: have taken the ball first and they just went right

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Speaker 4: down the field and scored on that defense. So this

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Speaker 4: is going to be critical for that defense to go

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Speaker 4: out there. You know, you would love a three and out,

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Speaker 4: but if you can at some point, maybe you know,

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Speaker 4: six plays to force a punt to give your offense

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Speaker 4: an opportunity to go down the field and score. And

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Speaker 4: that's assuming that the Steelers win the coin toss and defer.

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Speaker 4: But if you're Aaron Rodgers in this particular game, I

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Speaker 4: would want to take the ball first and now potentially give.

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Speaker 3: Us the lead and allow your defense to play with

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Speaker 3: that lead.

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Speaker 1: We're talking to Charlie Batch, former Steelers quarterback here on

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Speaker 1: one oh five ninety X Charlie, I'm finding this game

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Speaker 1: really hard to handicap.

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Speaker 2: I'm vacillating.

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Speaker 1: I think it's going to be low scoring, which we'll

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Speaker 1: give both teams a chance. And I also look at

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Speaker 1: certain trends, like I don't think Houston's O line is

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Speaker 1: necessarily very good, but they've all had no sacks in

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Speaker 1: the last three games and only won in the game

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Speaker 1: before that.

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Speaker 2: You see what I mean.

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Speaker 1: It's is it trends or is it is it what

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Speaker 1: the personnel indicates should happen.

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Speaker 4: Now, it's personnel as far as indicating on all of

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Speaker 4: those things. But I think ultimately, you know, I'm with you.

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Speaker 4: I kind of lean towards the direction of maybe a

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Speaker 4: low scoring game. But I think for whatever reason, there's

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Speaker 4: going to be a couple of scores that happen, mainly

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Speaker 4: in that second half that now will get the score

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Speaker 4: over the twenties. And I think whoever gets to twenty

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Speaker 4: five well first, will win this game. That's just true

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Speaker 4: of how I truly feel in this particular game.

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Speaker 3: But again, you know, there's going to.

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Speaker 4: Be that jockey that just match going between these two,

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Speaker 4: and I think ultimately somebody is going to have to

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Speaker 4: make it play in a special teams game to now

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Speaker 4: get that hitting yard is to allow an offense a

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Speaker 4: shorter field.

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Speaker 2: No, you're right on the money with that.

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Speaker 1: And really we can compare it to the Baltimore game, Charlie,

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Speaker 1: because that game was just an all out rock fight

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Speaker 1: for thirty minutes and then it almost kind of magically

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Speaker 1: opened up in the second half. And all it takes

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Speaker 1: is a player too to open a gay up game up.

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Speaker 3: Correct, that is it.

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Speaker 4: And you know, both of these quarterbacks are mobile, they

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Speaker 4: can't extend plays defensively. For the Steelers, they now have

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Speaker 4: to cover a little bit longer because of what Lamar

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Speaker 4: Jackson did. Some of those plays that he made that

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Speaker 4: was purely Lamar Jackson making plays on that defense. They

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Speaker 4: were there initially, but that it's a play broke down.

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Speaker 4: Then that's whenever receivers were able to get open. So,

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Speaker 4: because you put that on the film, the defense of

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Speaker 4: the Steelers is going to have to correct that because

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Speaker 4: there are going to be certain formations the Texans are

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Speaker 4: going to want to see, Hey, did you correct those mistakes?

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Speaker 4: And if you didn't, you'll see that formation a little

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Speaker 4: bit more what's your.

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Speaker 2: Take on CJ.

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Speaker 1: Stroud right now in his third year in the NFL, Charlie,

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Speaker 1: they don't necessarily ask him to do a ton, but

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Speaker 1: he has a decent deep arm and when called upon,

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Speaker 1: he can catch up Canny.

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Speaker 3: He really can.

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Speaker 4: I mean, he had a great first year, second year

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Speaker 4: was kind of up and down, but when you go

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Speaker 4: into your third year, they want to see him take

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Speaker 4: that next step.

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Speaker 3: He's trying to do that.

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Speaker 4: But again, you don't have to take as many chances

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Speaker 4: down the field because you had that defense. And ultimately,

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Speaker 4: if you're the Texans coach, you say, hey, if there's

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Speaker 4: one thing to be aggressive down the field, but if

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Speaker 4: you're earn a ball over, don't allow it to be

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Speaker 4: a picked six or defensive score with not allowing your

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Speaker 4: defense to get on the field. So these are things

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Speaker 4: that they're going to want to see. It wouldn't surprise

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Speaker 4: me if they become aggressive and try to push the

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Speaker 4: ball down the field because there has been some leakage

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Speaker 4: on the back end of that second theary there that

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Speaker 4: they've given up those big plays. So I'm really unsure

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Speaker 4: is how they're going to approach Seed Scroud.

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Speaker 3: But I'm a big fan of him.

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Speaker 1: Now, we talked about the tangible stuff of Metcalf's return earlier.

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Speaker 1: What about the intangibles, Charlie. If I'm DK, I would

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Speaker 1: feel like I owe one of the Steelers, even though

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Speaker 1: they made the playoffs in his absence, that lost to Cleveland,

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Speaker 1: made all the old guys play against Baltimore and it

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Speaker 1: would have been better had they not. Do you think

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Speaker 1: DK's gonna come out Not that he ever comes out undetermined,

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Speaker 1: but you know what I mean, I feel like he

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Speaker 1: owes the Steelers one.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he does, and he feels bad.

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Speaker 4: I m I haven't had a chance to talk to him,

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Speaker 4: but that just me putting myself into a situation. But

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Speaker 2: Him in that vein. What about TJ.

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Speaker 4: Really absolutely, and he was there, so I would expect that,

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Speaker 1: Charlie, I know I shouldn't be worried about Chris Boswell,

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Speaker 4: And when that's to be continued to be the narrative.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, so do I. But in that vein, though, Charlie,

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Speaker 1: it's could be a weird game. Because Houston has kicked

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Speaker 4: You're right on that, and I think that's one of

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Speaker 4: Maybe somebody steps up and maybe get a block and

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Speaker 2: Do you like, Charlie. Like I keep saying, I'm flip flopping.

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Speaker 4: I'm flip flopping, but you know, this time of year,

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Speaker 4: I gotta go with the Steelers that you know, everybody's

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Speaker 4: talking about the Texans nine to nine game winning streak,

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Speaker 3: They're won four of the last five. So I'm kind

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Speaker 4: Those vibes that I think that they're going to get

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Speaker 4: the actorsuer Stadium, the opportunity to make it impact in

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Speaker 3: So I'm going with the Steelers in this one.

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Speaker 1: Charlie, great stuff, fantastic insight. We'll do it again next

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Speaker 1: week and enjoy the game.

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Speaker 3: I appreciate it. Thanks for having me.

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Speaker 2: That's the great Charlie Batch, former Steelers quarterback.

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Speaker 1: You can hear him on the postgame show on DV

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Speaker 1: is excellent.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I do keep flip flopping, but boy, that Chris sim SoundBite.

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Speaker 5: I like.

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Speaker 1: Read the transcript. I was afraid to listen to it

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Speaker 5: To Fox right from Los Angeles.

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Speaker 3: There is day Mark's twenty six music.

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Speaker 2: First Longs to get start, But thanks for.

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Speaker 3: Coming the X at one oh five nine.

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Speaker 1: We talked briefly earlier that Chad O Cho Sinko says

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Speaker 5: Could live there.

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Speaker 1: They got the leisure rooms with the big screen TVs,

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Speaker 2: Products you could want, gratis.

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Speaker 2: You could do it. You could do it, nobody would notice.

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Speaker 1: When I worked at the Pittsburgh Post Gazette, there was

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Speaker 2: You know. I've been kind of I don't know who

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Speaker 2: I'm going to pick right now.

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Speaker 1: I'm leaning toward Houston because of that Chris sim SoundBite

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Speaker 1: and I think he may well be. I think Aaron

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Speaker 1: Rodgers has to determine in his mind that he's willing

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Speaker 1: You're playing a team that has an hillatious pass rush,

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Speaker 1: Cam Hayward talked about how he wanted Aaron Rodgers to

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Speaker 1: game and citing the tradition. There ain't no tradition here,

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Speaker 1: not for you guys. You ain't mean Joe Green, you

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Speaker 1: ain't Ben Roethlisberger, You're not Troy Polamalu, You're not Terry Bradshaw.

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Speaker 1: If you want to glom onto stuff that happened years

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Speaker 1: And Aaron Rodgers said two moments have defined that he

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Speaker 1: looking at what he did say, he liked the feeling,

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Speaker 6: Hey, Mark, you might think I'm crazy, But one thing

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Speaker 6: I'm concerned about is the Houston running game, simply because

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Speaker 6: I'm afraid the Steelers may not take it as seriously

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Speaker 1: I don't think Houston realies on anything or person in

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm afraid that it's going to open up on

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Speaker 5: That's my concern, Brov.

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Speaker 1: I have a million concerns and I'm sure you do too.

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Speaker 1: But the biggest concern is that Rogers can hang in

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Speaker 2: To make a play, take a hit to make a play.

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Speaker 1: He's not been willing to do that all year, if

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Speaker 2: Like the Cleveland game the LA game, you know, when.

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Speaker 1: his picks.

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Speaker 2: It's the mark Man Show one oh five ninety.

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Speaker 7: X from the one oh five ninety X Weather Center.

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Speaker 2: This report is Spider. What if they were assless chaps?

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Speaker 2: Would that help it all?

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Speaker 1: If they want d X At one O five nine,

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Speaker 1: his hot streak is over. He's flashing back into his pan.

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Speaker 1: He went two and three last week, but he remains

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Speaker 1: a very creditable fifty five and forty four on the season.

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Speaker 1: Here with the Football Picks, it is, mister Friday afternoon,

456
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Speaker 1: Mister Friday Afternoon, you've kind of I don't want to

457
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Speaker 1: say slump.

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Speaker 2: Two and three, I mean, not brutal, but what's gone wrong?

459
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Speaker 1: You're not like what you were when you had that

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Speaker 1: twenty game winning streak.

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Speaker 5: Well, it's when the in the end of the season

462
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Speaker 5: is kind of always difficult because you never know, uh,

463
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Speaker 5: who's going to play, the motivations, the scoreboard watching.

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Speaker 2: You do know all that I expect.

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Speaker 5: However, I did take Tennessee, Okay, and their quarterback got

466
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Speaker 5: injured on the play where he rushed in for a

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Speaker 5: touchdown to take a seven nothing lead, so they had

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Speaker 5: to put the back back the quarterback in the rest of.

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Speaker 2: The I don't see what going that.

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Speaker 5: That happens excellent point. No, no, But but you asked,

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Speaker 5: you asked me, what what happens? That's a valid excuse

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Speaker 5: while lost to play.

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Speaker 2: I probably I'm not excuse.

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Speaker 1: Probably you're exactly wouldn't you just said you're not making

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Speaker 1: excuses then presented.

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Speaker 5: But it's a valid But it's a valid excuse.

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Speaker 1: Right, Well, I'd like maybe I should make the question

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Speaker 1: more direct. I left it a little more ambiguous. Uh,

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Speaker 1: the question is why do you suck again?

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Speaker 5: Are there our own sucky kid?

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Speaker 2: Okay? Fair enough?

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Speaker 5: Three two and three? Respectable?

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Speaker 2: Not really, it's losing money.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, but I won a game. Okay, I want two games.

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Speaker 1: Let's let's go to the if you look at it,

486
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Speaker 1: if you look at it.

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Speaker 5: From a positive standpoint, I wont two games. Well from

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Speaker 5: that standpoint, yeah.

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Speaker 2: You only won one. You only won the super Collider.

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Speaker 5: Oh I thought I won the Daily Double. No, don't, don't.

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Speaker 1: Try to mask your failure with sound effects. I gave

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Speaker 1: you credit. You're incredible. You you are a creditable fifty

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Speaker 1: five and forty four.

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Speaker 5: Okay. Going into the playoffs, were are we going to

495
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Speaker 5: spend the wheels?

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Speaker 2: Don't play that, don't play that. Uh, I don't know.

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Speaker 2: I haven't made up my mind yet. Do you think

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Speaker 2: we should?

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Speaker 5: Yeah? I think we should spend the wheel I stop.

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Speaker 1: Stop, Okay, let me think about it. Uh, let's let's

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Speaker 1: do the Steeler game first. Who do you got Steelers

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Speaker 1: in Houston? It's Monday night.

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Speaker 5: Very exciting, isn't it I've got hot news and inside

504
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Speaker 5: information on this game. Oh god, So my sources okay,

505
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Speaker 5: you know, in the gaming community, there's a lot of

506
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Speaker 5: people that are credible sources, sources, But go ahead, okay.

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Speaker 5: My sources has told me that the Steelers are prepared

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Speaker 5: to fire Mike Mike uh, what's his name? Tom?

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Speaker 1: Okay, so you forgot the name and you expect me

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Speaker 1: to believe that whatever you're about to go.

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Speaker 5: I just had a brain brain crant there. They're they're

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Speaker 5: ready to fire Mike Tomins. So they're they're, they're they're

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Speaker 5: they're preparing to lose this game, okay, and they're going

514
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Speaker 5: to hire John Harbaugh and Mike Tomlin is going to

515
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Speaker 5: go coach the Ravens. Okay, the deal is already in place.

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Speaker 5: As a matter of fact, one of the underground sports.

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Speaker 2: That's a hard application on your pot.

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Speaker 5: No, no, no, that's absolutely true. Well, my sources are

519
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Speaker 5: telling me this is true, and when it comes to fruition,

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Speaker 5: you're gonna be apologize it to me and you're gonna

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Speaker 5: an HR might get involved.

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Speaker 2: No, no, no, I already talked to HR.

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Speaker 5: They said it's okay, okay, that's fine, But what's gonna happen,

524
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Speaker 5: is is uh, they're gonna they're flipping teams. So John

525
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Speaker 5: Harbor is gonna become the Steelers coach, My Tom was

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Speaker 5: gonna become the Ravers coach. And actually one of one

527
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Speaker 5: of my one of my local sports books here they

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Speaker 5: actually have a line out already for the game next

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Speaker 5: year was the first game they play against each other's

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Speaker 5: already line out.

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Speaker 1: The first game when Tom Win coaches Baltimore against Tarball

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Speaker 1: coaching Pittsburgh.

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Speaker 2: There's already a lineup.

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Speaker 5: What is the line under?

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Speaker 1: Okay, well that that that kind of figures okay in

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Speaker 1: this game.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, so nice tonight you can see it. It makes sense.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it really does make sense.

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Speaker 1: Okay, Pittsburgh is a three and a half poet underdog

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Speaker 1: at home Monday night.

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Speaker 2: Who do you got?

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Speaker 5: Okay, they're gonna lose, but the I'm not gonna lose

543
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Speaker 5: by more than three because you know, the the Steelers

544
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Speaker 5: season is playing out exactly as we talked about before

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Speaker 5: the season started. They finished one game over five hundred,

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Speaker 5: they won the division, or two they finish they won

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Speaker 5: the division.

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Speaker 1: The most rudimentary fact, why should we try him out?

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Speaker 5: Time out? They went into the last game where they

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Speaker 5: they possibly if they would have lost, they would have

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Speaker 5: finished one game over five hundred. Basically, they they barely

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Speaker 5: got in. They're the number four seed, okay, uh, and

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Speaker 5: they're they're playing against the team that's got the best

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Speaker 5: defensive football. Now they're lucky because they have a chance

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Speaker 5: to cover this game because they're on Monday Night football.

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Speaker 5: They win the best Monday Night football teams and in.

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Speaker 2: The wins on Monday Night football.

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Speaker 5: Correct. They're not gonna win this one though. Okay, they're

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Speaker 5: gonna lose by three on a field goal from Kyne Fairburn, Fairbarn,

560
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Speaker 5: whatever the guy's name is. He's going to kick a field.

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Speaker 1: His name, he didn't know Tom Wins name. You don't know,

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Speaker 1: the Steelers didn't.

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Speaker 5: It's a difficult name to pronounce.

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Speaker 2: No, it's fair Burn. It's easy to pronounce.

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Speaker 5: Oh, fair fair Barn was fair Barn.

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Speaker 2: Okay, anyway, let's get past that. Three and a half and.

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Speaker 5: Half yeah, yeah, yeah, okay. So it's gonna be both.

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Speaker 5: It's gonna be win win. They're gonna get eliminated from

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Speaker 5: the playoffs. Tom is gonna get fired because's gonna go

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Speaker 5: to Baltimore and we've got the under in the first

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Speaker 5: game that they played me. You're already already better underwater,

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Speaker 5: just under, it's just under. It's under you already.

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Speaker 2: And then and then pick yeah that available is under.

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Speaker 5: Yeah it was your doubt.

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Speaker 2: Okay, what's the lock of the week?

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Speaker 5: The lock of the week this week of Well, here's

577
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Speaker 5: some tough games. We're gonna take the Packers against the Bears.

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Speaker 5: They've owned they've owned the Bears for ever. The Bears

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Speaker 5: got lucky to beat them last wons. Okay, so uh yeah,

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Speaker 5: they're gonna they're gonna get the revenge and they're gonna

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Speaker 5: beat them in a uh, they're gonna beat them in cover.

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Speaker 1: Where did you yell at something from from from Scarface?

583
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Speaker 2: I was I was doing slapside.

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Speaker 1: What what context was there for you yelling revenga?

585
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Speaker 5: Because it's it's a revenge game.

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Speaker 2: Okay, Okay, I got you? Then good that that's actually

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Speaker 2: a good one.

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Speaker 5: It's revenge game. It's a revenge game, venga.

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Speaker 2: Okay, that's enough, all right?

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Speaker 1: Okay, So Green Bay minus one and a half, now

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Speaker 1: it's time to pick the daily double.

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Speaker 5: It's a tough one, but we're going to go down

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Speaker 5: South to Jacksonville and we're going to uh oh boy,

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Speaker 5: it's a tough sick.

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Speaker 1: Did you know Tony Kann has appointed himself offensive coordinator

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Speaker 1: for Jacksonville for this game?

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Speaker 5: Oh really? Yes, Okay, I'm changing my mind. Taking Buffalo

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Speaker 5: Buffalo pick them. Uh, this is the ticket is made

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Speaker 5: the zero doubt.

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Speaker 2: It's not picking Buffalo is minus one.

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Speaker 5: Okay, I'm still making a zero down.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So so the picks are that's the daily double

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Speaker 1: Buffalo giving one, the lock of the weekes Green Bay

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Speaker 1: giving a point and a half, and the Steelers are

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Speaker 1: your pick, getting three and a half.

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Speaker 2: Now I'm gonna allow you right now to make it.

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Speaker 5: Are we gonna spin the wheel? Well?

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Speaker 1: Stop, stop not until I say, uh, why should we?

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Speaker 2: I mean, give me, give me a compelling argument.

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Speaker 5: Because uh, there's this, there's there's six games, all right,

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Speaker 5: we should we should have another game to pick where

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Speaker 5: we spin the wheel.

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Speaker 2: Okay, at least at least Tom didn't play it there. Okay,

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Speaker 2: here's the thing.

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Speaker 5: You don't even really but why don't you want to

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Speaker 5: spin the wheel?

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Speaker 1: Spin the wheel is contingent on, not an additional game.

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Speaker 2: It's we do it for one of the already picked games.

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Speaker 1: If you'll recall, and then whatever the wheel stops on,

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Speaker 1: it is assigned a multiplier for you know, times three

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Speaker 1: times five times ten as I recall.

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Speaker 5: Correct?

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Speaker 1: Okay, so so uh okay, we can use the sound effect.

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Speaker 1: Now I have decided to spin the wheel. Now refresh

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Speaker 1: my memory. Here, do we pick the super collider before

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Speaker 1: or we spin the wheel?

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Speaker 5: H From my memory? I think I think the main

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Speaker 5: event the final pick was spin the wheel.

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Speaker 2: Okay, so I picked the super collider first, correct? Okay?

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Speaker 2: Now now I make this pick knowing you hate the Steelers.

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Speaker 5: I don't hate the Steelers. You do?

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Speaker 2: You do hate that?

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Speaker 1: You just said they were gonna lose though you said

634
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Speaker 1: they would cover, but lose because.

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Speaker 2: You hate them.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, but we're gonna get John Harbaugh.

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Speaker 2: Who's we.

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Speaker 5: The Steelers?

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Speaker 2: They're not your team? You hate the Steelers?

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Speaker 5: No, you said, I do you hate the Steelers? I don't,

641
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Speaker 5: And you're and you're deflecting off of me to putue

642
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Speaker 5: a project the year that you don't hate the steel What.

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Speaker 2: Are you talking about? Okay?

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Speaker 1: By way of proving how much I love the Steelers

645
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Speaker 1: and you hate them, I am picking the Steelers as

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Speaker 1: the Super Collider.

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Speaker 5: All right, let's spin the wheel.

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Speaker 2: That's the sound effect.

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00:29:26,720 --> 00:29:30,920
Speaker 1: We're not actually spinning the wheel yet. Okay, now on

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Speaker 1: my queue, let's do it. Let's spin the wheel. You

651
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Speaker 1: know what that that doesn't count because I forgot to

652
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Speaker 1: say what game we were spinning the wheel for?

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Speaker 5: Correct? You didn't take the correct You needn't pick the game.

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Speaker 2: Do you ever feel like we should just stop doing

655
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Speaker 2: this segment?

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00:29:49,600 --> 00:29:52,480
Speaker 5: No, what we should do is let me talk to

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Speaker 5: my fans.

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Speaker 2: Okay, we got Mike from South Park. Mike, you're on

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Speaker 2: mister Friday Afternoon.

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Speaker 8: Hey, mister Friday Afternoon and one of your biggest fans.

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Speaker 8: I saw a video online of you being removed from

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Speaker 8: the Raiders stadium.

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Speaker 6: Because your huge bugle beak nose was blocking everybody for

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Speaker 6: you in the section.

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Speaker 8: Was that real or was that artificial intelligence?

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Speaker 5: That had to been AI? I think it was Grock.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for the call, but that that would be

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Speaker 1: the first time you've ever been linked with intelligence, though

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Speaker 1: artificial or otherwise.

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Speaker 5: Well, that's sol fabrication of your part.

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Speaker 1: Okay, I am designating. Let's see, should I go Super

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Speaker 1: Collider daily double.

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Speaker 2: For the last of the week.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna spin the wheel on the super collider.

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Speaker 5: Oh boy, that's.

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Speaker 2: The side effect. But I'm gonna say it. Now, spin

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Speaker 2: the wheel.

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Speaker 1: It is times five Sony Steelers game is now worth

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Speaker 1: ten points.

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Speaker 5: Wow. And you know what the best thing about that is.

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Speaker 2: It could it could go on.

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Speaker 1: You could go under five hundred on the year based

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Speaker 1: on your insistence of using spin the wheel.

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Speaker 5: Correct correct however, however, Okay, it's a Steeler game and

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Speaker 5: I had inside information on this, all right, and.

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Speaker 1: Kakamaning story about the coaches switching teams.

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Speaker 5: Well, you'll see when it comes to fruition. But the

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Speaker 5: best part about that pick that we that it's the

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Speaker 5: super collider and that we spun the wheel, that we

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Speaker 5: stood just spin the wheel, is that the game was

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Speaker 5: made with zero doubt.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you just want to get the sound effects out

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Speaker 1: there to mask your stupidity.

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Speaker 5: Well see that as may be, the picks are still

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Speaker 5: made with zero doubt.

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Speaker 1: It's time to ask mark anything dial eight three, assuming

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Speaker 1: anyone's left listening, which I DoPT. But now eight three

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Speaker 1: three four one two wxdx eight three three four one

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Speaker 1: two wxdx. That's a three three four one two wxdx.

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Speaker 1: Or leave a talkback via the microphone icon thatt the

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Speaker 1: iHeartMedia app, and you can also use our secret backdoor

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Speaker 1: number with Lube that gets you on the air right

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Speaker 1: away and penetrates deeply. Wait what four one two three

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Speaker 1: three three WXDX.

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Speaker 7: It's time to submit your questions for Ask Mark Anything.

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Speaker 7: Use your free iHeartRadio app and tap the microphone icon

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Speaker 7: to send your questions to the super genius instantly.

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Speaker 9: Tomorrow afternoon, the Pens go head to head against the Flames.

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Speaker 9: Game time is three thirty. Our coverage starts at two thirty.

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Speaker 9: Listen to every game and the best Pens coverage on

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Speaker 9: your home at the Pittsburgh Penguins one oh five nine DX.

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Speaker 1: It's Mark Madden here for Heinz Verified Playoff Football in

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Speaker 1: Pittsburgh clus for Wings. New York Dolls popping ad in

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Speaker 1: there today because it would have been the seventy sixth

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Speaker 1: birthday today of David Johanson, the dolls lead singer. I

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Speaker 1: remember the kid seeing the Dolls like on Don Kursher's

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Speaker 1: rock concert with all the glitter and you know, they

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Speaker 1: did a lot of draggy type costuming and just had this.

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Speaker 1: I mean, they were the original punks. So good for

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Speaker 1: a kid to see that. Wow, what a wake up called,

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Speaker 1: just how you could do things different and still do

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Speaker 1: them real good. So wish David was still around. He

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Speaker 1: passed away less than a year ago. But yeah, just

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Speaker 1: the New York Dolls, the frick in New York Dolls

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Speaker 1: man and Jimmy Page eighty second birthday today, good music

726
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Speaker 1: day here on the show. I think Houston might win.

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00:33:53,840 --> 00:33:58,520
Speaker 1: Monday night, though, the Baltimore Ravens interviewed Kevin Stefanski for

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Speaker 1: their vacant head coaching position. Contradicting mister Friday Afternoon's report

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Speaker 1: that Mike Tomlin and John Harbaugh would be switching jobs

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Speaker 1: next year, Miami hired John Eric Sullivan, the longtime Green

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Speaker 1: Bay assistant GM, to be their new GM.

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Speaker 2: You can see where that's going, don't you.

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Speaker 1: They're going to bring in Malik Willis to be the

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Speaker 1: quarterback put two on the paid o mind list, even

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Speaker 1: though they still owe him an awful lot of money.

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Speaker 2: And a lot of dead cap.

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Speaker 1: And I think Harba is going to go there because

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Speaker 1: having done reasonably well with Lamar, although not winning a

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl, you would think that Harbaugh coaching Malik Willis

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Speaker 1: would be a good fit. Again, contrary to what mister

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Speaker 1: Friday Afternoon is predicting regarding Harbaugh's future.

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Speaker 2: If you're just.

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Speaker 1: Tuning in, the picks are the Steelers plus three and

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Speaker 1: a half. That is both the super collider, that is

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Speaker 1: both the there you go and the spin the wheel bonus,

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Speaker 1: so that is worth ten points.

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Speaker 2: The daily double.

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Speaker 1: Is Buffalo minus one, and the lock of the week

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Speaker 1: is Green Bay minus a point and a half. Let's

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Speaker 1: go to sewn Seawan. Ask Mark anything, Shawn, You're on

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00:35:26,239 --> 00:35:31,960
Speaker 1: the air. Okay, Shawn's not there. Let's go to a talkback.

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Speaker 3: Are you afraid to die.

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00:35:39,719 --> 00:35:42,880
Speaker 2: At this point? Unwelcome it. Let's go to another talkback.

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Speaker 10: Hey, Mark, I was just wondering if you saw the

755
00:35:47,320 --> 00:35:52,080
Speaker 10: fiasco with the Saint Louis Blues where Jim Montgomery wanted

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Speaker 10: to pull Bennington and the backup goalie was literally hiding

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Speaker 10: in the tunnel.

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Speaker 11: It was all over the internet.

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Speaker 1: Well Benning to refuse to come out correct and the

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Speaker 1: backup goalie wanted no part of it. Yeap, Benington's an ass,

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Speaker 1: but he won the Four Nations for Canada. He won

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Speaker 1: a Stanley Cup for Saint Louis. I don't think he's

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Speaker 1: a very good goalie, but as somebody I talked to,

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Speaker 1: who may or may not be Canada's captain at the Olympics, said,

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Speaker 1: he's capable of picking up his game dramatically in big situations.

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Speaker 1: So that's why he's gonna gonna be the Olympic goalie

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Speaker 1: for Canada. Let's go now to our good friend, always

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Speaker 1: a pleasure to talk to the Hebrew Hammer Hammer yak Shamash.

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Speaker 8: Happy New year Mark. Hey, not only a four days

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Speaker 8: still parts of four days to dissect.

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Speaker 5: The Steelers game.

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Speaker 1: We've been dissecting it NonStop all week.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, we still and we still have more than a

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Speaker 8: half a week to do. So don't you think the

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Speaker 8: next matchup will be best?

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Speaker 2: My god, that's Chargers.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So we have four days or parts thereof till

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Speaker 1: the next game, and you want to figure out who

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Speaker 1: they play next?

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Speaker 8: Yeah, let's look ahead. I mean, obviously the Texas can't

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Speaker 8: play in the cold and the Monday night football thing,

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Speaker 8: so it's a foregone conclusion. Let's focus on the next week.

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Speaker 2: Do you think they're gonna win?

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Speaker 8: I cited again the Monday night streak and the cold weather.

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Speaker 8: Let us focus on the next week.

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Speaker 1: So everything you're sighting is totally intangible and should almost

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Speaker 1: no way be applied to the predicting the result.

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Speaker 2: But you want to move ahead anyway? Is that correct?

789
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Speaker 2: I just want to I'd like to move ahead. Okay? Good?

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Speaker 2: Who would I rather they play?

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Speaker 1: I mean you know that I don't care, but I

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Speaker 1: mean they they I mean, if everybody pulled the upset,

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Speaker 1: that play the LA Chargers. Right, No, they play. If

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00:37:49,880 --> 00:37:51,600
Speaker 1: everybody pulled the upset, the play Buffalo.

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Speaker 2: Yikes.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, that's what I mean. It's it's it's fun to

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Speaker 8: look ahead.

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Speaker 2: Oh I'm having a blast.

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Speaker 8: But they'll be better prepared for Buffalo this time. They're

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Speaker 8: a new team.

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Speaker 1: That's your cue. That's a WAMMI. He made less sense

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Speaker 1: than usual. Let's go to a talk back.

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Speaker 5: Mark.

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Speaker 11: If Gina continues to play at a point per game pace,

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Speaker 11: would you allow him to come back for another year.

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00:38:20,680 --> 00:38:25,080
Speaker 11: Let's say Brad Marshawn money around four point five to

807
00:38:25,080 --> 00:38:25,800
Speaker 11: five million.

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00:38:26,840 --> 00:38:27,560
Speaker 3: What do you think?

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Speaker 1: I don't bring Geno back no matter what, cause Kendall's

810
00:38:31,239 --> 00:38:33,080
Speaker 1: got to be the number two center and you can't

811
00:38:33,080 --> 00:38:35,839
Speaker 1: block them. If Gino plays wing, then it's a forty

812
00:38:35,920 --> 00:38:37,960
Speaker 1: year old wing who's not very fast, and that doesn't

813
00:38:38,040 --> 00:38:41,200
Speaker 1: keep with what they're trying to do either. But I

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00:38:41,280 --> 00:38:44,080
Speaker 1: bet they bring him back. Let's go to Mike. Mike

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Speaker 1: ask Mark anything.

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Speaker 5: He's super genius. I questioned, if Probin wins this game Monday,

817
00:38:52,040 --> 00:38:54,120
Speaker 5: does he stay in Pittsburgh or would you still like

818
00:38:54,160 --> 00:38:54,719
Speaker 5: to see him go?

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Speaker 1: I'd fire no matter what. I think it's stale. I

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00:38:59,600 --> 00:39:02,719
Speaker 1: don't think it's building to anything. I think it's an

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Speaker 1: old quarterback a play dot coach. Uh, DK's a bust.

822
00:39:08,000 --> 00:39:12,720
Speaker 1: Ramsey is too old. Uh Cam, although cam boy Cam's

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00:39:12,760 --> 00:39:15,120
Speaker 1: done great this year, but will he be better next year?

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Speaker 2: A year older?

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Speaker 1: I I just think they're painting themselves into a four

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Speaker 1: and thirteen corner, uh, either either next year or the

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Speaker 1: year after. But then again, maybe that's exactly what they

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Speaker 1: need to be. But no, I would not bring Tomlin back.

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Speaker 1: Let's go to ed Ed you're on with Mark?

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Speaker 5: Hey, Mark, have you ever seen David Johansson?

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Speaker 6: No?

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Speaker 1: I never saw him perform, which is I mean the

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Speaker 1: dolls were barely together.

834
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Speaker 2: And then oh that but that was but that wasn't

835
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Speaker 2: with David. That was with just Sylvain. Sylvain.

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Speaker 5: Oh, I think Buster Pointdexter.

837
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Speaker 2: Well, that was that's a different story. What was Dave?

838
00:39:53,520 --> 00:39:55,360
Speaker 2: David wasn't with the dolls at Heartwood Acres?

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Speaker 5: Was he?

840
00:39:56,080 --> 00:39:56,200
Speaker 6: Oh?

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00:39:56,239 --> 00:39:56,920
Speaker 2: I guess he was.

842
00:39:57,360 --> 00:39:59,319
Speaker 5: No, he was playing. He was buster Point.

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00:39:59,560 --> 00:40:01,400
Speaker 2: We interested buster Point Dexter.

844
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Speaker 9: That was.

845
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Speaker 5: That's that's David Johnson.

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Speaker 1: I know it is, but I have no interest in

847
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Speaker 1: David doing his cabaret act as I bet. I bet

848
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Speaker 1: it was, But I never saw the dolls, never saw David.

849
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Speaker 1: Short answer, thank you for the call. By the way,

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Speaker 1: now I'm thinking we had Sylvain Sylvain on the show

851
00:40:20,960 --> 00:40:23,000
Speaker 1: from the New York Dolls when he brought a version

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00:40:23,040 --> 00:40:26,120
Speaker 1: of the dolls to Pittsburgh, and was that at Heartward Acres.

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Speaker 2: That's a while back. You think David would have been there.

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Speaker 1: Why didn't I go, especially having had Sylvain on the show,

855
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Speaker 1: Because I'm a jerk off.

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00:40:32,960 --> 00:40:33,520
Speaker 2: That's why.

857
00:40:33,719 --> 00:40:36,600
Speaker 1: By the way, a new Black Crows music out and

858
00:40:36,600 --> 00:40:38,200
Speaker 1: they're doing a tour this summer and I have yet

859
00:40:38,239 --> 00:40:41,600
Speaker 1: to figure out where I'll be seeing them. Let's go

860
00:40:41,760 --> 00:40:47,480
Speaker 1: to uh, Starky, Starky, you're on with Double M Double.

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Speaker 5: How you doing great? So I understand that you're a

862
00:40:51,400 --> 00:40:53,600
Speaker 5: big Emerson Lake and Palmer fan.

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Speaker 2: That's that's not true. I thought I thought I thought

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Speaker 2: it was.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I'm a Keith Emerson was a great keyboard player,

866
00:41:02,400 --> 00:41:04,960
Speaker 1: color Palmer's a great drummer. But I just I thought

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00:41:05,040 --> 00:41:09,400
Speaker 1: that was like overblown artsy, fartsy, more hype than substance.

868
00:41:09,719 --> 00:41:12,040
Speaker 1: I went to see them one time. Remember Cozy Powell

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00:41:12,040 --> 00:41:14,839
Speaker 1: filled in. It was Emerson, Lake and Powell, and he's

870
00:41:14,840 --> 00:41:17,080
Speaker 1: one of my favorite drummers ever. And I like Cozy's work.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, I'm not anti. I don't hate. If you

872
00:41:20,400 --> 00:41:22,000
Speaker 1: like them, I get it, but I'm just not a fan.

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00:41:23,600 --> 00:41:26,480
Speaker 5: Okay. Well, I was gonna say they're definitely better than Sticks, right,

874
00:41:26,880 --> 00:41:27,520
Speaker 5: I mean, come on.

875
00:41:27,800 --> 00:41:29,400
Speaker 2: Well, in my country, have a saying.

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00:41:30,800 --> 00:41:31,200
Speaker 5: Sticks.

877
00:41:31,400 --> 00:41:32,160
Speaker 2: Thank you for the call.

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00:41:33,280 --> 00:41:35,759
Speaker 1: Okay, I forgot to put a list together, and I'm

879
00:41:35,800 --> 00:41:37,440
Speaker 1: doing that a lot lately because I'm old and have

880
00:41:37,480 --> 00:41:40,560
Speaker 1: bad memory. But I'll figure out something in the next

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Speaker 1: couple seconds and call. Keep calling. Make the rest of

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Speaker 1: this easy for me. Hebrew Hammer said something really depressing.

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Speaker 1: We've still got parts of four days before the Steelers play.

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Speaker 2: This hype is insufferable, but don't worry win or lose.

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Speaker 1: They'll have we'll have the tradition of Tomlin, Rogers and

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Speaker 1: Cam walking off the field together.

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Speaker 2: Oh you know what, I'll put Cam on the list,

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Speaker 2: even though he has had a good season,