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Speaker 1: heard Tom Win today's press conference talking about how kickoffs

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Speaker 1: He is so full of crap to lead off your

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Speaker 1: just silly. It's meant to distract. Every word Mike Tomlin

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Speaker 1: says his horseman, or he's a fraud. You heard the

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Speaker 1: word salad like always schematic endeavors, Gee, coach, what about

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Speaker 1: your schematic endeavors? Do you have synergy? YadA, YadA? To repeat,

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Speaker 1: Tom Win only knows how to coach one way, one method.

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Speaker 1: It's antiquated, it's prehistoric. Can adjust, doesn't want to adjust.

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Speaker 1: And right now he knows his team is screwed, blued

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Speaker 1: and tattooed and do not know what to do. That's

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Speaker 1: what I hear when he talks. Here's an update on

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Speaker 1: the injuries. Broder joneses out, I don't think it's it's

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Speaker 1: it's that big a deal, but I hear people wondering, Well,

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Speaker 1: it'll throw off their their jumbo package for sure. Uh,

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Speaker 1: Derek Carmon out on that defensive line. Not good. Why

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Speaker 1: can't the DBS get hurt? They got literally the worst

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Speaker 1: pass defense in the league. Why can't DB's get hurt?

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Speaker 1: I mean, my god, you know what James Pierre, like

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Speaker 1: we talked about in the pregame show with Tom, Pierre

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Speaker 1: was supposed to hit the bench, Slay was supposed to start.

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Speaker 1: the bloom's off his rows because that that defensive backfield sucks.

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Speaker 1: I gave Ramsey credit for being the Swiss army knife.

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Speaker 1: Played and then all on him. But every one of

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Speaker 1: those DB's, every single one, if you put them all

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Speaker 1: whoever got a broken bone would deserve it. That's how

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Speaker 1: bad that secondary is, how bad that pass defense is,

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Speaker 1: how bad that defense is, period and again, I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: keep saying it till you all agree with me. TJ.

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Speaker 1: Watt whining like a baby wanting to get paid a

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Speaker 1: little bit more than Miles Garrett. Well, he did get

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Speaker 1: paid a little bit more than Miles Garrett forty one

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Speaker 1: Steelers who told you that. Me, that's who the super genius,

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Speaker 1: who said they should have let him play out of

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Speaker 1: his contract and then franchise as necessary. Me, that's who

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Speaker 1: the super genius. And on all you people, Oh you

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Speaker 1: Mark's out there with TJ Watt Jerseys, Miles Garrett, Well,

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Speaker 1: TJ can taste the urine because Miles is pissing all

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Speaker 1: over him. TJ can keep it extra million per year.

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Speaker 1: Miles Garrett has eighteen sacks, TJ has seven. Miles Garrett

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Speaker 1: gonna get twenty three, Miles Garrett gonna own the single

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Speaker 1: season record. Miles Garrett gonna be remembered as an all

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Speaker 1: time defensive great. TJ walk going to be remembered as

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Speaker 1: the guy who didn't win a playoff game. Let's go

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Speaker 1: to know him and Newman. You're all with double.

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Speaker 2: M Hey, we all know that the national perception of

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Speaker 1: Not right now, they're not criticizing, but they're not exactly

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Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, the sentiment does seem like it's shifting. And

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Speaker 2: so my question for you is, so, do you think

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Speaker 2: that Rogers believed all that hype about Tomlin's greatness before

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Speaker 2: coming to the team, And do you think that that

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Speaker 1: And I think he did believe that hype. Whether his

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Speaker 2: I'd say C plus or maybe be minus. I mean

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Speaker 2: he hasn't made, like, you know, gratuitous errors stay for

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Speaker 1: Well, he's an all time great quarterback who's coming here

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Speaker 2: Do, right, And I'm sure he doesn't like that. I'm

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Speaker 2: sure he'd like to be taking more risks unless.

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Speaker 1: Unless he knows what he is. Unless he knows what

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Speaker 1: he is, and this is all that he is, Newman.

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Speaker 1: the fifteens the talk show Craze at Sweeping the Nation

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Speaker 3: Nine night, Welcome shot.

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Speaker 1: Well if I wont you over, Buddy benitating Dust to Road,

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Speaker 1: It's calls on the fifteens. I think I forgot to

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Speaker 1: Let's go to Jeff. Jeff, you're on with Mark.

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Speaker 4: Taking out orders so much, I can't hear you, the

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Speaker 1: Can't hear you. I can't hear you. I can't hear you.

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Speaker 1: Just can't hear you. I mean, when you learn to

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Speaker 1: doubt you have anything constructive to say, but whatever, goodbye,

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Speaker 1: God damn people, just ugh. I mean, one would think

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Speaker 1: not call. What's good to John in Greensburg? John? Please

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Speaker 1: do better?

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Speaker 4: Heyblem I just wanted to ask how glorious would it

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Speaker 1: I might run on the field and jump into Garrett's

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Speaker 4: Can you imagine the Pooh pooh face on TJ?

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Speaker 1: would be tremendous. And again it's nothing less than what

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Speaker 1: Garrett's pissing all over him. Eighteen sacks to seven. It

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Speaker 1: makes TJA look ridiculous. If anybody in this town or

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Speaker 1: insistent on more money than Garrett and then being that

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Speaker 1: much worse than Garrett exactly. And that's that's the trap

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Speaker 1: you leave yourself open to fall into, BRUV. If you

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Speaker 1: as opposed to basing it on what somebody else makes.

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Speaker 1: You leave yourself open to fail and for criticism.

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Speaker 4: And that's why you're the super genius.

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Speaker 1: No anybody could have figured that one out. Let's go

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Speaker 1: to Jackson. Jackson, you're on with double.

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Speaker 2: M, double M.

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Speaker 5: Word up man, two quick ones for you, please go ahead.

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Speaker 5: What does Art Rooney the owner actually what is he

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Speaker 5: gaining by all of this? I don't understand because like

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Speaker 5: he's losing Steeler fans, he's losing popularity, He's not.

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Speaker 1: Losing He's not losing Steeler fans when when they're empty

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Speaker 1: seats at acres, Sure you can say that, but they're.

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Speaker 6: Just aren't gods like me.

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Speaker 5: I'm not buying tickets or merch or anything like that.

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Speaker 1: I'm not Okay, when's the last time you bought it.

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Speaker 1: When's the last time you bought a ticket?

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Speaker 5: Last time I bought a ticket?

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Speaker 1: Probably two thousand and four, okay, And how'd you buy it?

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Speaker 5: I probably bought it on eBay or Craigslist if I

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Speaker 5: had to be honest.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So that ticket was already So that ticket was

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Speaker 1: already sold. And it's twenty two years ago. So believe

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Speaker 1: me when I tell you arn't runey. The second doesn't

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Speaker 3: Right?

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Speaker 5: You're right now, second start does?

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Speaker 4: Does Tomlin? Last?

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Speaker 5: If the owner of the Cowboys is there, mister what's

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Speaker 5: his name?

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Speaker 1: Jerry Jones? But he's not here, but he's not Mike.

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Speaker 1: Tomlin would have been fired by almost every NFL franchise

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Speaker 1: by now after not making the playoffs for seven years,

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Speaker 1: and it probably would not have taken seven years. But

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Speaker 1: the Steelers want to do things like Daddy and Granddaddy.

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Speaker 1: Did I mean? I mean Jackson? No offense? I have

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Speaker 1: to keep repeating myself stuff like this is obvious? How

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Speaker 1: can people not get it? By now? Tom Win will

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Speaker 1: never be fired, He will never be asked to leave.

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Speaker 1: He will decide when he goes. Period. He could miss

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Speaker 1: the playoffs for the next ten years and he's not

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Speaker 3: Right.

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Speaker 5: That makes Rooney look like a look like a soft

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Speaker 1: And as we've already said, no, he doesn't make him

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Speaker 1: soft guy softer than baby crap on a summer side. Well, no,

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Speaker 1: on a hot summer sidewalk. But he doesn't care, and

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Speaker 1: tom Win doesn't care. And that's where a lot of

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Speaker 1: this failure comes from. That they don't care. They just

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Speaker 5: Right, What are they going to do a documentary like

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Speaker 5: when the talk to like James Ferriers and all those

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Speaker 5: old time real Steelers and let them tell their truth

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Speaker 5: over like some bourbon or something. Wouldn't that be a

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Speaker 5: great HBO series?

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Speaker 1: No, thank you for the call. Let's go to James.

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Speaker 6: Are you doing Mark good? I wanted to let you

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Speaker 6: know that I just saw a stat. Pittsburgh actually was

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Speaker 6: ranked number two on the week in offensive efficiency, only

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Speaker 6: to the LA Rams. So their offense in their running game, dude,

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Speaker 6: I don't give.

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Speaker 1: A fly in fordication. What your stats says. Their offense sucks.

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Speaker 1: I hear you, it sucks. They don't use the middle

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Speaker 1: of the field, they don't go deep. They just suck.

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Speaker 6: want to tell you that Arthur Smith Mason missed a

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Speaker 6: number of openings and throws.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it was Mason's fault. Thank you for establishing that.

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Speaker 1: He's the only reason they lost. He's responsible for losing

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Speaker 1: the games. He didn't play it even it's all Mason

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Speaker 7: The coach sucks, the coordinators suck, the scheme sucks, the

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Speaker 7: Steelers suck.

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Speaker 1: The logos Dad, for f's sake, I mean.

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Speaker 7: How many times did you take the blame to where

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Speaker 7: it doesn't belong? And you will forever because you're the

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Speaker 7: dumbest mf first that have ever watched football?

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Speaker 1: gotta do a read. God, that pisses me off. What

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Speaker 1: We are just wallowing in Steeler's misery. Joining me now

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Speaker 1: Always great to talk to. Mike de Fabo. Mike, who

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Speaker 1: made the call for Rogers to not play at Chicago?

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Speaker 1: And you think the Steelers would have won that game

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Speaker 9: Yeah, I'm glad you're asking me this question because it

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Speaker 9: why Aaron Rodgers didn't play. So let's start with last Tuesday.

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Speaker 9: What happened. Mike Toman came out and he said, Aaron

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Speaker 9: So then Sunday comes he's inactive. They start Mason Rudolph.

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Speaker 9: And after the game, we asked him what was the

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Speaker 9: He's a veteran. Why would he need to practice now,

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Speaker 9: The biggest reason why Aaron Rodgers didn't play is because

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Speaker 9: he didn't practice enough, But that was Mike Tomin's decision

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Speaker 9: I asked him, I said, well, what's going to be

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Speaker 9: be able to play in seven days. A broken bone

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Speaker 9: Tom's answer was because he can practice more during the week.

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Speaker 9: And then today during his press conference, he again said

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Speaker 9: to me, it makes no sense. I don't understand nothing

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Speaker 1: Well, Mike, he's double talking. That's what con men do.

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Speaker 1: They double talk. It's why he opened the press conference

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Speaker 9: It's hilarious. It's hilarious that he just started with the

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Speaker 9: They realize a good defense, good offense beats great defense,

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Speaker 9: they spent more money on defense. They acquired Jalen Ramsey,

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Speaker 9: any playoff games. They gave more incentives to camp Hayward.

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Speaker 9: They trusted Terrell Austin, the defensive coordinator, even more, and

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Speaker 9: they're getting even less. And that's why they're broken franchise

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Speaker 1: Aim in all that. And I hate the offense. I

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Speaker 1: thought he played okay. I don't think anybody could have

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Speaker 1: think I've overrated personally how much Rogers has. I think

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Speaker 9: Yeah, I agree with you. You know, the way I

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Speaker 9: Some people said, if you're supported by this great defense

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Speaker 9: They average like three point six yards per carry, which

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Speaker 9: is like league average this year. They they're below average

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Speaker 9: Steelers need more than they ever would have anticipated from Rogers.

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Speaker 9: I just don't see him being able to do that.

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Speaker 9: I think that they've worked around his limitations. They've found

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Speaker 9: a way to to score some points using this quick,

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Speaker 9: a conservative approach. But you know, if you're asking Aaron

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Speaker 9: the state of this defense, I just don't think he's

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Speaker 1: Well, and where Rogers won't have a chance is they

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Speaker 1: want to do that. And I think that's their best

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Speaker 1: so you know he's gonna get his try to make

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Speaker 9: No, I don't think so. And it's it's everything, you know,

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Speaker 9: I don't don't think that Aaron Rodgers really has for whatever.

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Speaker 9: It's weird because he has the arm strength to throw

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Speaker 9: but he's off target when he goes downfield, and so

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Speaker 9: that's part of the problem. Part of the problem attacking

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Speaker 9: downfield is also I don't think they have the receivers

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Speaker 9: And then I think, don't think that Arthur Smith is

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Speaker 9: creating situations for these guys to attack downfield. And it's

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Speaker 9: just too hard in the modern NFL to drive you know,

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Speaker 9: fourteen fifteen sixteen plays. Every time you have the ball,

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Speaker 9: you need some type of an explosive element in the offense,

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Speaker 9: and right now that's just terribly lacking.

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Speaker 1: We're talking to Mike the Fable of the Athletic. This

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Speaker 1: I don't think any of this can be fixed. And furthermore,

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Speaker 1: I don't think Tomlin knows what to do. I've been

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Speaker 1: one method, and he can't adjust. He just doesn't know

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Speaker 1: what to do. Is that fair?

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Speaker 9: Yeah? I think that that is fair. I think that

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Speaker 9: and they're not adapting. They're not innovating, they're not making changes.

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Speaker 9: Like I gave them some credit, they did start going

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Speaker 9: on pretty basic things. A lot of people who play

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Speaker 9: that is a problem.

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Speaker 1: That said Buffalo is a weird team. I don't see

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Speaker 1: Buffalo's got the best quarterback in football, Josh Allen. They

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Speaker 9: Yeah, we agree with you. I think the Steelers are

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Speaker 1: One thing I find symbolic where the Steelers are at

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Speaker 1: Mike because they have big egos. Those egos may be

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Speaker 1: being betrayed right now, but they're still there. TJ. Watt

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Speaker 1: insisted on being paid more than Miles Garrett's and now

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Speaker 1: he trails Garrett by eighteen sacks to seven. There's some

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Speaker 1: ality in symbolism, there isn't there?

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Speaker 9: Yeah? There really is that the guy that I mean,

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Speaker 9: the way I look at it, Miles Garrett had to

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Speaker 9: basically try to force his way out of town and

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Speaker 9: only then did an incompetent franchise like the Browns give

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Speaker 9: him the money and overpay him. He's now at least

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Speaker 9: producing on that contract. You know, TJ. Watt for what

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Speaker 9: he's being paid, is showing more signs of regressing than

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Speaker 9: he's showing signs of living up to that paycheck. He

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Speaker 9: really is. This has been an underwhelming season. I know

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Speaker 9: that we're having this conversation after he had the biggest

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Speaker 9: defensive play on Sunday that could have changed the outcome.

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Speaker 9: But those types of plays have been few and far

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Speaker 9: between for TJ. Watt this season, especially for a guy

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Speaker 9: that's paid like you know, when you're paid forty plus

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Speaker 9: million dollars, you're basically saying every year you're making that

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Speaker 9: you should be in the MV in the Defensive Player

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Speaker 9: of the Year conversation, you.

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Speaker 1: Should be three over voting every year when you're getting

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Speaker 1: that money.

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Speaker 9: Yes, TJ. Watt is not in that conversation right now.

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Speaker 9: No one is saying TJ. Watt's name within that conversation,

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Speaker 9: and and and so for that reason, I mean, he

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Speaker 9: is the perfect microcosm a team that believes too much

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Speaker 9: in its own players, and especially when it comes to defense,

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Speaker 9: has been committing way too much to that side of

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Speaker 9: the football for subpar results.

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Speaker 1: Well, the Steelers make the playoffs.

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Speaker 9: I don't think that they will as it stands right now,

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Speaker 9: but it's tight, like nine to eight probably means they

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Speaker 9: miss the playoffs, ten and seven means they probably make it.

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Speaker 9: So to me, I think that they've got two wins

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Speaker 9: on their schedule that they should win the Browns and

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Speaker 9: the Dolphins. Those will these games they're favored in, and

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Speaker 9: then you're looking at after losing to the Bears, you know,

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Speaker 9: they probably need to split with the Ravens, and then

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Speaker 9: they probably need to steal a game this weekend. If

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Speaker 9: they can win this weekend against a flawed Bills team,

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Speaker 9: I think that they're right back in the conversation of

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Speaker 9: a playoff team. If they lose this weekend, you know,

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Speaker 9: then you're looking at they have to upset either the

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Speaker 9: Lions or they have to sweep the Ravens. To get

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Speaker 9: into the playoffs is like a really tall task. So

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Speaker 9: I feel like if they win this week, they're back

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Speaker 9: to life and they can make the playoffs. If they lose,

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Speaker 9: then you know, we might be throwing a shovel full

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Speaker 9: of dirt on them next week. When we had this conversation, I.

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Speaker 1: Read the article of The Athletic that had you know

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Speaker 1: where your power rankings, and they had one question, big

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Speaker 1: question each team is dealing with. For the Steelers is

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Speaker 1: what's the long term plan? Mike whoever wrote that, you're

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Speaker 1: to ask me, that's an easy answer. There is no

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Speaker 1: long term plan.

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Speaker 9: And that's the correct answer.

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Speaker 7: Yeah.

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Speaker 9: You know, Omar Kahn. You go back to this offseason,

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Speaker 9: and I remember in training camp by asked him. I said,

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Speaker 9: like a lot of people looked at your off season

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Speaker 9: and said, this looks like a team that's all in.

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Speaker 9: How would you respond to that? And his answer was

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Speaker 9: that he wanted to do everything he could to win

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Speaker 9: now without sacrificing the future. And what I think that

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Speaker 9: they've done is they've tried to straddle two lines and

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Speaker 9: they've done it really poorly. Like if you were going

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Speaker 9: to say, if you're going to bring in a thirty

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Speaker 9: one year old Jalen Ramsey and extend TJ. Watt at

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Speaker 9: his age and Adam sent us to Cameron Heyward's contract,

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Speaker 9: then they should have gone out at the trade deadline

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Speaker 9: and got a legitimate number two wide receiver, no matter

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Speaker 9: the price. You know, you should have been giving up

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Speaker 9: a third and a fifth round pick to go get

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Speaker 9: a wide receiver and go for it this year. That

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Speaker 9: would have made sense, and that would have been choosing

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Speaker 9: a lane another approach, And this is what I would

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Speaker 9: have done. I would have traded Mink. I would have

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Speaker 9: traded George Pickens. But I would have tried to get

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Speaker 9: draft capital. I would have tried to get younger. There

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Speaker 9: were a number of talented cornerbacks that were available in

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Speaker 9: free agency that were like twenty five years old. I

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Speaker 9: would have gone over after those guys, and I would

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Speaker 9: have been preparing for the next window, in the next quarterback.

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Speaker 9: Because the problem that they're going to have right now is,

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Speaker 9: let's say that the Steelers hit the lottery, they end

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Speaker 9: up getting the franchise quarterback at the draft, and everybody's

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Speaker 9: excited because it was in Pittsburgh. Well, you could have

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Speaker 9: a Joe Burrow situation by the time that quarterback two

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Speaker 9: or three years from now feels confident in steadying this league.

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Speaker 9: TJ is not gonna be what he once was. Cam's

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Speaker 9: gonna be gone, you know, Jalen Ramsey's gonna be either

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Speaker 9: gone or not what he once was. And you're gonna

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Speaker 9: have a situation just like the bengalsab where you've got

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Speaker 9: a quarterback and basically nothing else around him. And I

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Speaker 9: feel like that's the biggest problem with this team right

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Speaker 9: now is they didn't choose them Lane and they didn't

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Speaker 9: pick and and because of that, they've kind of been

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Speaker 9: stuck in this in between, just as they have been

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Speaker 9: in the standings, just as they've been at the end

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Speaker 9: of season in the playoff picture.

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Speaker 1: Finally, the conversation involving the Steelers is skewed both with

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Speaker 1: the fans, in with a lot of the media and

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Speaker 1: ton like, what about the notion that they should have

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Speaker 1: kept pickings. He's having a knockdown drag got heck of

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Speaker 1: a breakout season in Dallas, but if he was here,

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Speaker 1: he would not be having that season, not with these quarterbacks,

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Speaker 1: not with this game plan.

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Speaker 9: Completely agree with both of those points, and I'm so

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Speaker 9: glad you asked me this question, Mark. Okay, So there's

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Speaker 9: that both of those parts, which are completely true and

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Speaker 9: accurate that you're saying. Here's another element of it. How

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Speaker 9: do we know he was ever going to report to

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Speaker 9: training camp?

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Speaker 3: Okay?

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Speaker 9: He was good friends with Deontay Johnson. Deontay Johnson gave

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Speaker 9: him the playbook. After your third year, when you're entering

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Speaker 9: your fourth year, that's when the Steelers negotiate contract extensions.

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Speaker 9: How do you know he wasn't going to hold in

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Speaker 9: and force the Steelers hands, Okay, which I think he

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Speaker 9: very much would have and could have. Then here's the

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Speaker 9: other part of it, Like the he was part of

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Speaker 9: one of the most inflammatory off field stories of this

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Speaker 9: season with the whole CD lamb and going into casino

557
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Speaker 9: and being up all night partying and gambling. Well, you're

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Speaker 9: not even allowed by NFL roles to be in a

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Speaker 9: casino and okay, And so he was breaking the NFL roles,

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Speaker 9: he was breaking team roles. He got himself benched. And

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Speaker 9: this is during his season of pr Spin where his

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Speaker 9: agent and everybody involved has tooled George like, keep your

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Speaker 9: head on straight for one year, and you're going to

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Speaker 9: get a bag thrown out you because you're that talented.

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Speaker 9: So even in the year when he's trying to prove

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Speaker 9: to thirty two teams in the NFL that this was

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Speaker 9: a fake media narrative and he was actually a great

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Speaker 9: guy and a model citizen in Pittsburgh. Even in the

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Speaker 9: one year where if he could just keep his head

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Speaker 9: on straight for seventeen.

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Speaker 10: Games, he can make himself a boatload of money, he

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Speaker 10: still goes and does something so stupid like that that

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Speaker 10: you're not even allowed to be in a casino, let

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Speaker 10: alone at seven o'clock in the morning, Okay, And if

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Speaker 10: you want to think that that's the only thing that's

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Speaker 10: going on in Dallas, you're lying to yourself.

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Speaker 9: And if you want to think that the only things

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Speaker 9: that George did wrong in Pittsburgh were the things that

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Speaker 9: were reported, you're lying to yourself. And if you think

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Speaker 9: that Omar Khan listens to quote unquote media narratives and

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Speaker 9: media narratives or the reason why George Pickens was traded,

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Speaker 9: you are lying to yourself. Because as much as I

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Speaker 9: would love to have the power to make roster decisions

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Speaker 9: and to influence decisions by the front office, I am

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Speaker 9: a nobody. And this team does not care what is

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Speaker 9: reported about as players. They know what actually went on,

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Speaker 9: and what actually went on for the Steelers was much different.

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Speaker 9: And so this had reached a crossroads, whether the Steelers

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Speaker 9: have wanted it to or not, and they felt like

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Speaker 9: they were not going to pay the player and they

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Speaker 9: needed to get something for him. So I can criticize

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Speaker 9: Omar Khan for not getting more for George Pickens, but

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Speaker 9: they were never going to pay him and they were

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Speaker 9: going to have to trade him inevitably at some point.

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Speaker 9: And in that time finally came to see this offseason.

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Speaker 1: Mike excellent stuff. Good work at the Athletic. We'll talk

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Speaker 1: again next week.

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Speaker 9: All right, sounds great. Mark, really appreciate you having me on.

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Speaker 1: It's The Woody Show weekday mornings at six one o

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Speaker 1: five nine x eighty four.

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Speaker 3: Lumber is proud to part now the super Genius Mark Madden.

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Speaker 9: I would tell mister Madden there.

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Speaker 1: Monk might say no right now, but in their hearts

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Speaker 1: they're saying yes, yes, oh yes.

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Speaker 1: I got some Steelers personnel news. Well, in an abstract way,

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Speaker 1: somebody they didn't get. You may remember a couple of

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Speaker 1: days ago Brandon Cooks got cup By New Orleans, the

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Speaker 1: veteran receiver who isn't very good now and is washed up.

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Speaker 1: But guess who we signed with today, Buffalo. He'll be

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Speaker 1: playing against the Steelers on Sunday. Is that a shortcoming

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Speaker 1: on the Steelers part? Not really, I don't think so.

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Speaker 1: I don't think Brandon Cooks would come in and be

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Speaker 1: any more of a threat at why not two than

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Speaker 1: say Roman Wilson. And by the way, Trey Essex said

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Speaker 1: that Roman Wilson was open on a lot of his

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Speaker 1: routes on Sunday, didn't get the ball, and that he

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Speaker 1: should be the number two receiver. And I think I

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Speaker 1: might agree with that. But it ain't bad that Buffalo

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Speaker 1: got Cooks and the Steelers didn't, unless, of course, Cooks

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Speaker 1: catches a bunch of balls on Sunday at Akershure. But

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Speaker 1: let's say the Steelers did want Brandon Cooks, which I

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Speaker 1: did not hear. Who would Brandon Cooks sign with the

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Speaker 1: Bills to catch balls from Josh Allen and they're a

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Speaker 1: better team, or the Steelers to catch balls for Rogers

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Speaker 1: or Rudolph and they go to one way ticket to Polukaville.

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Speaker 1: Come on, let's use our heads here, uh time to

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Speaker 5: Well, mister Madden, that was a real good bit with

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Speaker 5: Pierre McQuire, and it made me think of Eddie Johnston.

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Speaker 9: He was the last goaltender to play all seventy games

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Speaker 9: in the sixties, the.

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Speaker 1: Last goaltender to play every minute of every game in

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Speaker 1: the season. Correct. Yeah, And by the way, EJ got

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Speaker 1: a mask as a gift last night. There's a photo somewhere.

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Speaker 1: team's logos on it, and he put it on. EJ

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Speaker 1: was ready to play. That's amazing.

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Speaker 2: He was ready to suit up.

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Speaker 9: Do you remember what season that was for the Boston Bruins.

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Speaker 1: I don't. I want to say it was sixty three,

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Speaker 1: sixty four, but I'm not sure. I'll look it up momentarily.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for the call.

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Speaker 8: Let's go to a talkback, double m Why can't Steve

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Speaker 8: Fans connect the dots and see that after several offensive

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Speaker 8: coordinators later, we're still throwing two and five yard passes

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Speaker 8: and that the common nominator as Tomlin. Are we talking

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Speaker 8: Latarski level GPAs here?

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Speaker 2: Or what.

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Speaker 1: Zero point zero. I think a lot of people have

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Speaker 1: figured it out. I mean, not that the coordinators aren't

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Speaker 1: doing something different. I think Smith is Smith is just

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Speaker 1: as dumb as Matt Canada, just is not innovated as

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Speaker 1: Matt Canada, but with more tight ends, which he barely

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Speaker 1: uses and certainly not properly. But yeah, Tomlin wants conservative

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Speaker 1: on both sides of the ball. Tom Win wants rock fights.

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Speaker 1: He's outdated, he's antiquated, he's prehistoric, and he ain't going nowhere.

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Speaker 1: Let's go to another.

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Speaker 12: Talkback, Mark, do you think JJ Watt's presence in the

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Speaker 12: national sports media played any role in pressuring the Steelers

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Speaker 12: to extend TJ?

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Speaker 3: Do?

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Speaker 1: I think it played a role in them extending TJ.

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Speaker 9: No.

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Speaker 1: I think Art Soften doesn't want any of his players

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Speaker 1: to ever be unhappy. But I repeat again, the logical

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Speaker 1: thing would have been to tell TJ to play out

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Speaker 1: the last year of his deal, then franchise him is necessary,

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Speaker 1: which I'm not even sure you do given the kind

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Speaker 1: of average season he's having, But that's what they should

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Speaker 1: have done. But Art soft and his dad wasn't well,

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Speaker 1: not until after he got feeble at the end near

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Speaker 1: the end. But yeah, I mean maybe I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I mean I think it's ridiculous. By the way that

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Speaker 1: every Steelers game seems to have JJ Watt on commentary.

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Speaker 1: Seems like there would be a conflict of interest and

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Speaker 1: they would try to avoid that. By the way, EJ

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Speaker 1: it was sixty three to sixty four, seventy games played.

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Speaker 1: Where's the minutes at forty one hundred and ninety nine

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Speaker 1: minutes and thirty seven seconds. I'm assuming the goalie was

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Speaker 1: pulled to have that odd number there, But yeah, the

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Speaker 1: last goalie to play every minute of every game in

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Speaker 1: an NHL season.

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Speaker 12: Let's go to a talkback, Mark, what are your plans

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Speaker 12: for Thanksgiving and what will you be eating this year?

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Speaker 1: Well, I'll be trying to control my eating because I'm

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Speaker 1: on Awaken one eighty. I'm gonna have stuffing because even

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Speaker 1: though that's against the Awaken one eighty protocol. I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: have turkey, stuffing, a little dessert probably about it, cranberry sauce,

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Speaker 1: maybe not potatoes. That'll be my sacrifice for the one

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Speaker 1: day off to diet. I won't eat potatoes. And I'm

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Speaker 1: going to my friend Rich and Kelly's their restaurant Severina.

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Speaker 1: They hate when I mentioned it. But it's great in Westview,

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Speaker 1: but not Thanksgiving. That's a private thing and I don't

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Speaker 1: know if it's there or not. I don't know. I'm

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Speaker 1: going somewhere. Shut up, uh as mark anything brought to

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Speaker 1: us by People's Natural Gas peopleshypeogas dot com ninety ho

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Speaker 1: ho ho.

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Speaker 8: It's that Tommy yeur Agan, isn't it.

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Speaker 1: It's Bonnie Diver