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Speaker 1: To England Super Bowl on Sunday. You can come watch

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Speaker 1: the game with me at celebrations in Imperial. Joining me

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Speaker 1: now to talk about it a guy with a couple

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Speaker 1: of Super Bowl rings. He is former Steelers quarterback Charlie Batch. Charlie,

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Speaker 1: you won two Super Bowl champions with the Steelers. What's

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Speaker 1: the locker room like right before the game? Is it

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Speaker 1: loose tense? What's the feeling?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a little bit of both because you've been

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Speaker 2: anticipating that moment, but yet the coaches prepare you leading

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Speaker 2: up to it because it is a different pre game

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Speaker 2: than anything else that you ever envisioned, because you're at

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Speaker 2: the stadium four hours and then ultimately leading up to it,

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Speaker 2: you have to gear yourself and be ready for it.

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Speaker 2: So that's where guys they're trying to stay loose and

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Speaker 2: then ultimately the nerves.

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Speaker 3: Kind of kicking in when you get closer to the game.

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Speaker 1: In your locker rooms, who talked the most, Who said

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Speaker 1: what needed to be said and how much did they say?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, in Super Bowl forty, it was Joey Porter, for sure.

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Speaker 2: He was the one I was getting everybody gassed up.

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Speaker 2: Everybody knows what Jeremy Stevenson that he had a beef

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Speaker 2: on that end and he was just ready to rock

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Speaker 3: To run side by side with him.

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Speaker 2: So that was one there, and I think ultimately super

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Speaker 2: Bowl forty three, that's where you had the Ryan Clarks

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Speaker 2: and James Harrison, James Ferrier, those guys who were getting

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Speaker 2: the defense going as well.

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Speaker 4: We were just talking a moment ago.

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Speaker 1: Al Michael said that the James Harrison interception return one

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Speaker 1: hundred yards at Super Bowl forty three is the greatest

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Speaker 1: play in Super Bowl history. Charlie, Not only do I agree,

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Speaker 1: I don't see how any other play compares except maybe

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Speaker 1: Ben to Santonio in that same game.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was, and I mean easily either one of

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Speaker 2: those two could have been an MVP as well, just

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Speaker 2: a matter of one happened at the end of the

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Speaker 2: first half, and of course Ben's is at the end

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Speaker 2: of the second half. But there's a lot of different

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Speaker 2: plays that kind of stand out, and those two play

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Speaker 2: for me is one because I watched it in real time,

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Speaker 4: Did you think Harrison was going to make it one

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Speaker 4: hundred yards?

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Speaker 3: Be honest, heck no. When I caught the.

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Speaker 2: I'm looking at him, we're washing him run and you

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Speaker 2: can see the Shay Townson trying to grab the ball

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Speaker 2: and I said, man, James, you got to get down

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Speaker 2: because if you don't make it.

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Speaker 3: This interception is all or not.

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Speaker 2: And lo and behold when he made the cut to

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Speaker 2: and lo and behold. You know he was able to

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Speaker 2: now with off Larry Fitzgerald, who was running down the

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Speaker 2: sidelines illegally. But again, if he made that tackle, nobody

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Speaker 2: would have remembered that. But it was a beautiful play

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Speaker 2: and it is one that we still talk about almost

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Speaker 1: Now, look good at the Super Bowl this Sunday, Charlie.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to say Seattle's a lock, but I

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Speaker 1: think they're the better team, certainly the better defense.

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Speaker 4: Am I overstating No, you're not.

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Speaker 2: And then everything is shifting towards Seattle's way. And this

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Speaker 2: is where you get to the point where you start

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Speaker 2: believing what's being written about you was being spoken about

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Speaker 2: you all week leading up to this, and this is

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Speaker 2: where you, just as a coach, you have to rule

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Speaker 2: everything back in and say, yes, guys, we know where

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Speaker 2: better than what they are. But one thing we cannot

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Speaker 2: allow the Patriots to at least have a chance. And

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Speaker 2: that's going to be the formula right there for the

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Speaker 2: Patriots to take the ball away. If this is just

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Speaker 1: Who has the edged quarterback? Because those are two great stories.

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Speaker 3: They really are.

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Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, I'm looking at it. I think Sam

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Speaker 2: he's been on five teams. I'm just looking at that

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Speaker 2: Just turn around and say in this particular big game,

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Speaker 3: Need you to lean on that expertise.

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Speaker 2: But on the other side, when you look at Drake May,

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Speaker 2: he's playing with house money because nobody expected him to

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Speaker 2: think this is a great storyline for both of these

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Speaker 1: Why do you think Donald failed at three teams? You

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Speaker 1: know up until last year of Minnesota and what turned

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Speaker 3: Being in the wrong system.

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Speaker 2: You know, when you work your tail off as a

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Speaker 3: But again you're going to the worst team.

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Speaker 2: But if that's just the does not fit you, then

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Speaker 2: they when you're a first rounder, you now go to

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Speaker 2: a second team and a third team.

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Speaker 3: You now get that B word.

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Speaker 2: I associated with you, which is a bus And that's

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Speaker 2: ultimately what happened with Sam Darnald. But yet when you

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Speaker 2: put him into the Minnesota system, things that work towards him.

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Speaker 3: He's now able to flourish. And he was able to

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Speaker 3: take that into Seattle.

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Speaker 2: Nobody with the exception of Seattle believed in him in

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Speaker 2: the offseason. Because if that was the case, the Steelers

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Speaker 2: had a chance to now enter into that negotiating pool.

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Speaker 2: They chose not to hatch off the Seattle for making

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Speaker 2: the right decision and hopefully he's able to now hooisde

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Speaker 2: that Lombardi Trophy and make the decision perfect for Seattle.

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Speaker 1: Where I give Donald credit, Charlie is he threw fourteen

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Speaker 1: but no picks in the postseason. And he's done it

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Speaker 3: And those things that you have to have.

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Speaker 2: Obviously, you have to have a little luck on your side.

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Speaker 2: You want to be playing your best football and not

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Speaker 2: turning that football over. And he's been able to do so,

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Speaker 2: and he knows that because he doesn't have to be

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Speaker 3: That he has on the defensive side of the ball.

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Speaker 2: When you have talent that way, you know, as a quarterback, hey,

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Speaker 2: it's one thing to turn the football over, but don't

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Speaker 2: have a fumble of a return for a touchdown. Don't

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Speaker 2: have a pick six return to this touchdown for a touchdown.

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Speaker 2: If you're going to turn the football league, at least

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Speaker 2: allow your defense the opportunity to defend every lady to grass.

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Speaker 1: What is Drake May's ceiling because he and the Patriots,

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Speaker 1: I think they've arrived a little early.

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Speaker 3: Maybe yeah, I think so.

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Speaker 2: And I think ultimately this is where the experience of

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Speaker 2: Mike Ravell is going to have to come into play

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Speaker 2: obviously his game per game preparation as a player, understanding, Hey,

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Speaker 2: the moments aren't too big because you've been able to

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Speaker 2: experience this, and now you're able to relay that from

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Speaker 2: a coaching perspective and say, hey, organizationalwise, we are normal. Normally,

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Speaker 2: we're used to being here in this Super Bowl. Hey

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Speaker 2: understand it. Take it all in. But at the same time,

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Speaker 2: play your game, and if you play your game, then

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Speaker 2: you're going to give us a chance to win.

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Speaker 1: I agree, because the one thing about arriving early is

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Speaker 1: just because you do. If you don't win, there's certainly

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Speaker 1: no guarantee you'll ever get back, is there.

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Speaker 2: No, that's the toughest part because you know, you work

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Speaker 2: all you know. It's one thing to have a fire

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Speaker 2: going to lose some pieces and these teams aren't going

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Speaker 2: to be the same as they enter into the twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty six season, so they know what that state. But

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Speaker 2: at the same time, do not want that empty feeling

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Speaker 2: coming out of this game as a loss, because that's

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Speaker 3: A long time.

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Speaker 2: When you get the Super Bowl week, you have to

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Speaker 2: remind every player in there, yes, we are at the

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Speaker 2: Let them party. If you choose to party with them

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Speaker 2: and lose the game, you have to live with that.

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Speaker 2: But if you win it now you're able to celebrate

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Speaker 2: for the next six months.

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Speaker 1: We're talking to Charlie Batch here on one oh five

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Speaker 1: ninety X. Charlie, here's an interesting matchup and I hope

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Speaker 1: it materializes. You got Jackson Smith and the jigbeb at

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Speaker 1: whyd not for Seattle, just an elite receiver, and you

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Speaker 1: got Christian Gonzalez to defensive back for New England. Would

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Speaker 1: would you let Gonzalez just play his normal game, which

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you You could probably switch it up

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Speaker 2: be predictable because if you start to become predictable, now

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Speaker 2: they know what you're going to do in that third

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Speaker 2: I would just go out there, switch it up and

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Speaker 3: So that would just be my personal preference.

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Speaker 1: Might you have Gonzalez follow him though? On key plays?

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Speaker 2: It could be and now you know it's just third

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Speaker 2: and short or something that that made a third and medium.

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Speaker 2: That's potential. But you get those third and long situations. Hey,

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Speaker 2: it's okay to play zone play the sticks, put everything

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I just want to see the match up Charli

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Speaker 1: hump being selfish. I think those are maybe if they're

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Speaker 1: not the two best at their positions, they're pretty close,

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Speaker 3: They really are.

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Speaker 2: And I think you know that that's going to be

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Speaker 2: know each we're going to get their fair share of

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Speaker 2: wins in that particular matchups.

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Speaker 3: I'm like you, I want to see the selfis matchup.

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Speaker 3: But I just think situations will kind of dictate as

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Speaker 2: Goes on because we're talking about, you know, putting the

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Speaker 2: ball in the air, but hey, if they're able to

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Speaker 2: get the running game going, then that changes the whole

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Speaker 1: Now with Seattle, we talk about jsent a lot, but

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Speaker 1: New England has depth of weaponry, don't they. They have

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Speaker 1: a lot of targets, a lot of guys who can

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Speaker 2: They do, and that's the that's the hitting secret because

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Speaker 2: you know, we're used to them running the football and

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Speaker 2: trying to get Drake made into those third and short opportunities.

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Speaker 3: But he's been able to deliver.

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Speaker 2: The football down the field and that's been something that

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Speaker 2: really he doesn't get a lot of credit for. But

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Speaker 4: Charlie. Not everybody knows this. What was it like to

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Speaker 1: Finally, Charlie, it sounds to me like you like Seattle.

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Speaker 1: Charlie is always great stuff. Thank you for everything all year.

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Speaker 1: We'll talk again real soon.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I appreciate it. Thanks for having me, and we'll

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Speaker 3: having for a great, great season. Mark, You're best. Really

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Speaker 4: Charlie.

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Speaker 1: Bat's great stuff from him on the post game show

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Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Steeler. We got mister Friday afternoon. It's a dramatic setup.

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Speaker 1: He went two and ten during the conference championship weeks.

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Speaker 4: We're calling it.

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Speaker 1: Don't play the song yet Tom, but we're calling it

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Speaker 1: all or nothing, so stay tuned for that at four thirty.

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Speaker 1: And we want your calls right now for calls on

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Speaker 1: the fifteens. I want your verdict first of what has

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Speaker 1: snack you need for the Super Bowl is wings and beer.

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Speaker 1: You can come have exactly that with me in celebrations.

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Speaker 1: They're special wings celebrations in Imperial. I'll be there for

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Speaker 1: the Super Bowl this Sunday one oh five ninety.

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Speaker 5: X from the one oh five ninety X Traffic Center.

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Speaker 3: This week four games sponsored by Flynn's Tire, and I will.

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Speaker 4: Have a good time. Toe got cold.

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Speaker 3: Got the X at one five.

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Speaker 4: Nine, Get your calls.

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Speaker 1: And what's the biggest difference between the Penguins now and

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Speaker 1: We have mister Friday Afternoon at the bottom of the hour.

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Speaker 1: I put a poll up. It's getting a lot to play.

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Speaker 1: Right now, we've had almost three thousand votes and uh,

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Speaker 1: Mikeel RUZIONI said at that Netflix documentary that we could

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Speaker 4: And even if it did happen, would f it up?

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Speaker 1: didn't he.

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Speaker 4: And Uh, I think Avery will be going back to Wilks.

445
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Speaker 1: In fact, he's going there today, I think for the

446
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Speaker 1: Olympic break because they're gonna keep playing. But uh, but yeah,

447
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Speaker 1: I give that kid credit. He will be a regular

448
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Speaker 1: in this lineup. Uh, maybe as early as next year.

449
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Speaker 1: Let's go to Ron Ron your own with.

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Speaker 9: Double M What I mean up, I'm saying Mark the

451
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Speaker 9: biggest difference between these Penguins and last year's Tegles. I

452
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Speaker 9: think he said it perfectly. The depth, I mean four

453
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Speaker 9: balanced lines, not.

454
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Speaker 1: Not even not even the depth in terms of talent,

455
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Speaker 1: but that depth has been creating by the way all

456
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Speaker 1: four lines fit together properly exactly.

457
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Speaker 9: You've got lines that are producing. And I can't recall

458
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Speaker 9: stats from last year, but I remember there was a

459
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Speaker 9: very big talking point on how the top two lines

460
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Speaker 9: are doing everything.

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Speaker 1: Oh how there was almost no secondary scoring. That's correct

462
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Speaker 1: last year, That's right.

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Speaker 9: So I think I think that and your coaching change,

464
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Speaker 9: and I think that sums up this season.

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Speaker 4: That's well put. Thank you for the call.

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Speaker 1: Okay, let's go to was that David we just talked to? Oh,

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Speaker 1: let's go to David. David drone with double.

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Speaker 8: M hey mark.

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Speaker 10: There's been a lot of big differences from last year,

470
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Speaker 10: but I think the goaltending is number one because you've

471
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Speaker 10: got two new goalies right now, and I would say

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Speaker 10: Skinner's a better number one than Jari and Sea Lovs

473
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Speaker 10: is definitely a better number two than the Donkamick ones.

474
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Speaker 10: And that's a big difference to me.

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Speaker 1: Well, I don't think that either goalie is a clear

476
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Speaker 1: cut number one right now. I think it's in a rotation,

477
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Speaker 1: with Skinner maybe getting an occasional additional start maybe sixty forty.

478
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Speaker 1: But yeah, I think they've both done pretty well. The

479
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Speaker 1: sad part his shilloffs is so bad at shootouts. He's

480
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Speaker 1: been good otherwise, but those shootout points are why the

481
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Speaker 1: Penguins don't have even a bigger cushion for a playoff

482
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Speaker 1: spot and why they're not on top of Carolina for

483
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Speaker 1: first place in the Metro.

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Speaker 4: But yeah, the goaltending has been huge. Let's go to Matt.

485
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Speaker 11: Mark. Completely agree with the goaltending. Not letting up that

486
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Speaker 11: first goal, first shot thing is huge for the Psyche.

487
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Speaker 11: But I really lean on the kid line. I mean,

488
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Speaker 11: they've been energizing the older players, and I don't think

489
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Speaker 11: you can really account for something like that.

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Speaker 1: Well, yeah, but there hasn't been a kid line for

491
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Speaker 1: a while. I mean, Kendall's the only rookie who's stuck

492
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Speaker 1: with it all year. Brunick's gone, Coyvenan's gone, mcgroarty's in

493
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Speaker 1: and out of the lineup, and Hayes just came last night.

494
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Speaker 1: I do think there's been youthful energy, maybe not as

495
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Speaker 1: much as I would like. I would have kept Coyvenan

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Speaker 1: in the lineup probably longer than they did.

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Speaker 4: I wouldn't have mangled Brunank like they did.

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Speaker 1: These are some some of the very few criticisms I

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Speaker 1: have for the way things have gone for the Penguins

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Speaker 1: this year. But but I can't fault where it's wound up.

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Speaker 1: Second place in the Metro for the Olympic break.

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Speaker 4: Let's go to Rick.

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Speaker 12: Hey who would you give more credit to for the turnaround?

504
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Speaker 9: Would you give it to Dubas.

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Speaker 11: In the moves he's made, or would you give it

506
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Speaker 11: to Dann Muse and the and the coaching that he's

507
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Speaker 11: done well?

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Speaker 4: Both but both.

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Speaker 1: But I'd give the lion's share of the credit to

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Speaker 1: Kyle because well, for one thing, he hired he hired

511
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Speaker 1: news and for two, how often do you see every

512
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Speaker 1: move you make be at least a single or a

513
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Speaker 1: double With the home run of Chinacough mixed in, It's incredible.

514
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Speaker 1: I mean the goal the goalie trade was a home

515
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Speaker 1: run too, because they.

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Speaker 4: Got a better They've got.

517
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Speaker 1: A better goalie than Jari and and because they don't

518
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Speaker 1: have Jarry was gutless. I mean, I mean we see

519
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Speaker 1: that in Edmonton now maybe now from a distance, the

520
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Speaker 1: people who defended him we'll see it too.

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Speaker 4: But he's gutless.

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Speaker 8: That's one of the getting rid of Jari's just getting

523
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Speaker 8: rid of him. With the net positive, that seems like

524
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Speaker 8: that's that's right.

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Speaker 1: If they would have just given Jari away and gone

526
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Speaker 1: with Morris, Shoff and Shilloffs, I think we all would

527
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Speaker 1: have been happier with that. Finally, Chain Saw, Chain Saw

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Speaker 1: your home with Mark.

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Speaker 12: What I mean, I do have do citizenship, but I'm

530
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Speaker 12: rooting for USA Canada final and I think.

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Speaker 6: I've rooted for Canada enough times.

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Speaker 11: I might root for USA.

533
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Speaker 6: In this one, but I'm hoping for that vile at least.

534
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Speaker 12: But ultimately, I think that the main.

535
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Speaker 11: Difference between last year and this year.

536
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Speaker 12: Is our five on five play in our power play.

537
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Speaker 1: And different at different to the PK because they're they're

538
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Speaker 1: top five in each of the special teams, the only

539
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Speaker 1: team in the NHL.

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Speaker 12: To have that right, and it's but for this year,

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Speaker 12: it seems like each player clearly knows their role and

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Speaker 12: you know, I mean we've had this some of the steps,

543
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Speaker 12: but I think the injection of the youth that we've had, honestly,

544
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Speaker 12: having guys that are hungry to stay in the NHL,

545
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Speaker 12: to work on every single shift, we didn't have.

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Speaker 8: That last year.

547
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Speaker 1: Yeah, A new coach, a different voice, a different way

548
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Speaker 1: of doing things.

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Speaker 4: I think it's been great for everybody. I think it's

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Speaker 4: been great for Sid.

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Speaker 1: I think if you let Sid bring Sully back even now,

552
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Speaker 1: he would, but I think part of him.

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Speaker 4: Knows that the change has been for the better.

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Speaker 1: I still think the Vector's boy, they were really attached

555
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Speaker 1: to Mike Sullivan, but they can't be blind to the

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Speaker 1: change here in Pittsburgh, let alone to what's going on

557
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Speaker 1: with the New York Rangers, who were supposed to be

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Speaker 1: near the top of the metro and now their season

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Speaker 1: is done.

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Speaker 4: So thank you for the call.

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Speaker 1: Okay, up next, it's all or nothing with mister Friday

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Speaker 1: afternoon five hundred to this point, it all gets decided

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Speaker 1: by the super Bowl.

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Speaker 4: You're one of my program.

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Speaker 1: Inexplicably because he comes into today's predictions sixty six and

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Speaker 1: sixty six, he is dead on five hundred for the season,

580
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Speaker 1: was below at the start, above it for a while,

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Speaker 1: but things have settled in at sixty six and sixty six,

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Speaker 1: and now a lot is on the line. So we

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Speaker 1: walk into the program, mister Friday afternoon.

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Speaker 8: It's been a great year for sixty six and sixty six.

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Speaker 4: That's not great, that's exactly mediocre.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, but in this day and age of persistent participation trophies,

587
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Speaker 8: you're not losing. It's quite a success.

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00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:05,720
Speaker 1: Well, you should own the Steelers. Now we're gonna change

589
00:25:05,720 --> 00:25:07,919
Speaker 1: things up here. We're not gonna have the daily Double.

590
00:25:09,960 --> 00:25:13,879
Speaker 1: You're not gonna have the super Collider. We're not gonna

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Speaker 1: spin the wheel and make the deal. Instead, I'm introducing

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Speaker 1: one time only, all or nothing, just the fie.

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Speaker 4: You're sixty six and sixty six.

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Speaker 1: You make one pick and one pick only winner of

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Speaker 1: the game using the spread. If you win, you get

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Speaker 1: paid for next year. If you lose, you work all

597
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Speaker 1: next year for free. It's all or nothing, just the fine.

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Speaker 4: Do you understand? Do you understand?

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Speaker 8: Yeah? It's all or nothing.

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Speaker 3: It's the.

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Speaker 4: That's exactly right. If you win, you get paid next year.

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Speaker 4: I lose, you don't.

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Speaker 8: Well what if I if I win, you get paid. Okay,

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Speaker 8: I get I get paid, right. But if I lose,

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Speaker 8: you work for you work for free next year. Oh

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Speaker 8: that's great, I just quit.

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00:26:22,600 --> 00:26:27,040
Speaker 4: No, you're as you know, your contract is iron clad.

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Speaker 8: No, I already I I I so I spoke with HR.

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Speaker 8: They said it's okay.

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Speaker 4: I spoke to HR. They said what I say is okay?

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Speaker 8: Okay, at any rate, it's all or nothing.

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Speaker 4: And I said, note that.

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Speaker 1: If the Patriots win, that'll be their seventh super Bowl.

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Speaker 1: To me, that makes them the greatest, the greatest football

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Speaker 1: organization of all time. What say you, mister Friday afternoon?

616
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Speaker 1: Because we know you hate the Steelers.

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Speaker 8: No, if they wait, if they if it's the seven

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Speaker 8: super Bowls, that definitely makes them the greatest team of

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Speaker 8: all time by far right.

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Speaker 4: Because you hate No.

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Speaker 8: Not because I hate the Steelers. I say that because

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Speaker 8: I zero down.

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Speaker 4: I mean, but you do hate the Steelers.

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Speaker 8: I don't hate the Steelers. Okay. That that's a that's

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Speaker 8: a propaganda campaign that that y're forwarding.

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Speaker 11: You know, the as sole fabrication on your part.

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Speaker 1: Okay, now, but before we uh get to the get

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Speaker 1: to the all or nothing picks?

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Speaker 4: Uh, do you have any thoughts about next year? You know,

630
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Speaker 4: like who you think will win the Super Bowl year

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Speaker 4: from now?

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Speaker 6: Oh?

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Speaker 8: Yeah, you know, I got it earlier. It's like there's

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Speaker 8: some lines out and my early pick for next year

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Speaker 8: is definitely just not the Steelers.

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Speaker 1: Okay, if you'd like to talk to mister Friday afternoon,

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Speaker 1: you can dial eight three three four one two w

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Speaker 1: X d X.

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Speaker 4: Are you excited about this all or nothing?

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Speaker 8: I mean I'm excited for the chance to win. I

641
00:28:02,840 --> 00:28:05,080
Speaker 8: found that, like you know, and in all or nothing?

642
00:28:05,920 --> 00:28:07,520
Speaker 4: Why did that?

643
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Speaker 8: Shouldn't shouldn't the motivation be double or nothing?

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Speaker 12: No?

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Speaker 4: Because we can't afford me?

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Speaker 8: Well, you can flow, I can't afford nothing. I can't

647
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Speaker 8: afford to work for free.

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Speaker 1: Look, it's in your contract, which, as has been discussed

649
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Speaker 1: as iron clad.

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Speaker 8: Okay, but are you saying that with zero doubt?

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Speaker 1: I am indeed, And let me just throw this in

652
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Speaker 1: there too. You just said you're gonna make the pick

653
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Speaker 1: with zero dout. Since you know you're gonna win, then

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Speaker 1: it doesn't matter if it's all or nothing. If you

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Speaker 1: don't get paid next year, none.

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Speaker 4: Of that matters because you're confident in your ability to win.

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Speaker 4: So just go win.

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Speaker 8: I'll I'll be very honest with you. I liked it

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Speaker 8: better when we had the Daily Double and the U

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Speaker 8: and the Super Coli.

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Speaker 1: Well, we're just not having the Daily Double in the

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Speaker 1: Super Colder.

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Speaker 4: This sweep, that's all.

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Speaker 8: And we're not gonna I mean, what can't we just

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Speaker 8: spin the wheel?

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Speaker 4: No, we're not gonna. We're not gonna spin the wheel. Okay, enough?

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Speaker 8: What what?

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Speaker 3: What?

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Speaker 9: What's your cake?

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Speaker 4: Would you like to talk to one of your fans?

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Speaker 8: Absolutely?

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Speaker 1: Okay' he's our good friend, a a regular caller.

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Speaker 4: He's the Hebrew Hammer. Hebrew hammer you all with mister

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Speaker 4: Friday afternoon.

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Speaker 6: Hey, Yusha, mister afternoon, mister afternoon.

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Speaker 8: My question to you is what you can Is this

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Speaker 8: a Hebrew hammer from Twitter?

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Speaker 4: No, the Hebrew hammer from Twitter? No, it's not.

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Speaker 8: You are the Hebrew there's a Hebrew know this is

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Speaker 8: the because.

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Speaker 4: He just shut up? What do you have to say? Hammer?

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Speaker 8: You know, like there's actually a Hebrew hammer on Twitter?

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Speaker 8: Is this the same to Twitter handle? Hebrew hammer?

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Speaker 4: If it furthers the conversation. Yes, what do you want hammer.

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Speaker 8: Anyway? Just real quick, keeper Hammer, are is there anywhere

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Speaker 8: there are you related to Greg the Hammer Valentine.

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Speaker 9: That's my third cousin.

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Speaker 11: Interesting, real quick after what's this afternoon?

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Speaker 8: Mister afternoon? Would you consider the.

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Speaker 6: Super Genius to be a turn code for rooting for

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Speaker 6: Canada during the Olympics.

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Speaker 8: He's a wait is he rooting for Canada?

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Speaker 4: I'm rooting for Canadian the Sydney Cross.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, well, well he's you know, he's he's a kind

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Speaker 8: of a jerk like Lake Lash and when they had

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Speaker 8: the Four Nations, he would he got all mad that

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Speaker 8: the United States dropped the gloves against Canada the first

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Speaker 8: when the property and they beat up the Canadian.

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Speaker 4: When he didn't beat up.

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Speaker 1: When I worked in w c W, I was part

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Speaker 1: of Team Canada with Lance Storm, a real turncoat, Hacksaw,

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Speaker 1: Jim Duggan, Tyleen Buck, I was.

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Speaker 4: I was on the ground floor with Team Canada, Brett

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Speaker 4: the hitman Heart when he came in.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, hock sauce from a bottle up?

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Speaker 4: Is he really for no Buffalo Hammer?

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Speaker 1: Goodbye Hammer Hammer, you gummed up to works get rid

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Speaker 1: of Ham. So anyway, let's look at the Seattle New

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Speaker 1: England game. This is a revenge game.

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Speaker 8: Obviously, that's right. That's the big that's the big motivation

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Speaker 8: here is this is a big revenge game. So I

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Speaker 8: think this is a pretty easy. But first of let

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Speaker 8: me ask you question, who do you like in this game?

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Speaker 1: I like Seattle, but it depends where the spread settles in.

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Speaker 4: It's four and a half right now?

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Speaker 8: Correct? Correct, I'm gonna I'm gonna so, I think the

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Speaker 8: best thing to do here, since you're trying to blackmail

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Speaker 8: me and to not pay me next year, have you

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Speaker 8: worked for free?

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Speaker 4: It's a it's all or nothing. It's very already people loving.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, but that's kind of weird that you would you

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Speaker 8: you would make can make the game all or nothing?

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Speaker 1: You know, actin right, because everything we've done in this

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Speaker 1: segment has made sense up till now.

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Speaker 8: What's a big revenge game?

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Speaker 4: Look, I'm getting a headache. Would they just pick the.

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Speaker 8: Game let's say New England plus four and a half?

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Speaker 3: Okay?

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Speaker 4: Would you care to explain your reasoning? Because this is

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Speaker 4: all or nothing?

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Speaker 12: Yeah?

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Speaker 8: The underdog has been covering pretty regularly in the Super

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Speaker 8: Bowl lately. Ones you to believe that the favorites are

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Speaker 8: over value. They're getting met up too much. Everybody's complained

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Speaker 8: about the straight the schedule that New England you know,

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Speaker 8: played a very you know, that's you know, I've heard

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Speaker 8: all the technicalities and stuffy thing, but but I'm going

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Speaker 8: with the coaching experience edge, where you've got a guy

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Speaker 8: like Josh McDaniel has done in the Super Bowl numerous

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Speaker 8: sun That's true.

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Speaker 4: That's a good point.

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Speaker 1: I think McDaniel's an offensive coordinator, has the potential to

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Speaker 1: be the most impactful coach in this game.

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Speaker 8: And they've been and New England's basically played three of

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Speaker 8: the top you know, this isn't be the fourth of

746
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Speaker 8: for the top five defenses in the NFL will be

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Speaker 8: their path to the Super Bowl. And they've already beaten

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Speaker 8: the first three, so they just have experienced playing in

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Speaker 8: these close, tight defenses to you know games. Uh, this

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Speaker 8: is the first time Seattle's been on the road in

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Speaker 8: a bit. They're you know, they're not at home anymore.

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Speaker 8: I think this might be the first like five weeks

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Speaker 8: they've traveled. Uh So, and I just I mean, you

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Speaker 8: really honestly think that, like Sam Darnold is the guy.

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Speaker 4: You know, he.

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Speaker 8: Might be, but I'm not round by you know, if

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Speaker 8: he's gonna win by margin here, like by you know,

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Speaker 8: win by like six or seven. I don't know, man.

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Speaker 8: I the the New England's got a great defense.

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Speaker 13: Uh.

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Speaker 8: They got to shut down corner on js N the

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Speaker 8: and this is like the first week that they're gonna

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Speaker 8: be playing basically with or like you know, the they

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Speaker 8: don't have the charbonnet Walker won two punch anymore, which

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Speaker 8: which is the bread and butterfay half the season now

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Speaker 8: it's just Kenneth Walker. If Kenneth Walker is not having

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Speaker 8: a good game, and New England that's the one thing

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Speaker 8: they do is shut down the run.

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Speaker 9: Uh.

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Speaker 8: I think it kind of stemies their offensive, their offensive

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Speaker 8: like fluidity or whatever you want to call it. They're

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Speaker 8: not gonna be comfortable if they can't run the ball.

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Speaker 8: And it's just it turns into a defensive game. And

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Speaker 8: that's all New England has been playing the past the

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Speaker 8: past like months is defensive struggles. And they've experienced in

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Speaker 8: this and Josh McDaniels has a couple you know, their

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Speaker 8: the offense is not like good and Drake May is

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Speaker 8: not looked at.

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Speaker 1: Okay, you're babbling. Now I'm tired of it. So New

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Speaker 1: England plus four and a half and it's all or not.

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Speaker 8: And then I think what altermate it comes down to

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Speaker 8: In the end, it's the motivation being this being the

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Speaker 8: big revenge game going to.

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Speaker 1: Uh yeah, because you know that that game where Russell

785
00:35:03,520 --> 00:35:04,480
Speaker 1: Wilson threw the pick.

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Speaker 4: That has nothing to do with this game. There's no

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Speaker 4: players left, no, But.

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Speaker 8: It's the culture in the cities and and how can

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Speaker 8: you how can you minimize the fact that this is

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Speaker 8: a big revenge you.

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Speaker 4: All right?

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Speaker 1: That's mister Friday afternoon. It's all or nothing, he says.

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Speaker 4: Take New England plus four and a half. Now it's

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Speaker 4: time to ask Mark Anything.

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00:35:32,680 --> 00:35:35,759
Speaker 1: four one two w xdx or leave a callback via

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Speaker 1: the microphone icon at the iHeartMedia app.

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Speaker 4: One O five to nine.

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Speaker 5: It's time to submit your questions for Ask Mark Anything.

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Speaker 5: Use your free iHeartRadio app and tap the microphone icon

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Speaker 3: It's the Booty Show week mornings at six. Of course,

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Speaker 3: you dings on one five number seventy eight.

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Speaker 4: Bett Parks is the old me online?

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00:36:00,840 --> 00:36:02,680
Speaker 3: Bring the duct tape type of affairs.

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Speaker 4: What you're gonna make us play a walk game. It's

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Speaker 4: not fair, it's not far, it's not fair.

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Speaker 3: The exit one O five nine.

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Speaker 1: I've asked Mark Editing brought to us five People's natural

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Speaker 1: Gas safe Reliable natural gas Energy, People's hyphengas dot Com.

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Speaker 4: Let's go to Joe and Alabama.

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Speaker 1: Joe your own with double M.

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Speaker 3: What I mean what I.

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Speaker 14: Quick curse room question because I want to talk Liverpool,

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Speaker 14: like really back. What was the first cursh word you

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00:36:40,320 --> 00:36:41,879
Speaker 14: ever heard on the radio? And what was the first

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Speaker 14: one you said on the radio on.

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Speaker 1: The radio, I'm not I mean, I say, goddamn, is

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Speaker 1: that a curse word? I mean, I say what you're

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Speaker 1: allowed to say. I've slipped and said just the other day.

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Speaker 1: I slipped and said uh uh s the S word

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Speaker 1: the other day but we dropped it.

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Speaker 4: But yeah, I mean, I mean, I'm not sure that's

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00:37:01,160 --> 00:37:01,799
Speaker 4: a big deal.

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Speaker 14: Why I was just serious, I mean, especially considering you know, I.

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Speaker 1: Think I think I think people on I think people

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Speaker 1: on on Serious XM who were allowed to swear that

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Speaker 1: do it all the time, really show their lack of

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Speaker 1: command of the English language and and lack of intelligence.

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Speaker 4: I think Howard Stearns a primary example of that.

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Speaker 1: I think once he was able to swear, he went

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Speaker 1: overboard and he's gone downhill in every way since.

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Speaker 3: Totally agree there.

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Speaker 14: Okay, let me talk Liverpool quick.

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Speaker 11: Uh.

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Speaker 14: I'm looking at the Champions bracket. Where do you think

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00:37:36,880 --> 00:37:41,200
Speaker 14: Liverpool lands as far as the next round after the prelimbs?

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Speaker 4: I don't know.

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00:37:42,200 --> 00:37:44,960
Speaker 1: There's three four teams that could play. The two tougher

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00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:48,400
Speaker 1: teams are Atletico and u Ventos. I mean, we'll see,

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00:37:48,400 --> 00:37:50,279
Speaker 1: but you know, I'm not bothering either way. You play

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00:37:50,320 --> 00:37:51,480
Speaker 1: who you play.

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Speaker 14: What is that difference between where they land with Liverpool

845
00:37:55,280 --> 00:37:57,920
Speaker 14: or Tottenham? Is it like who wins the most?

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00:37:57,960 --> 00:37:58,120
Speaker 3: Will?

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00:37:59,520 --> 00:38:02,160
Speaker 1: They have teams in pods you can draw from if

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00:38:02,200 --> 00:38:05,400
Speaker 1: those teams win. It's rather convoluted. I don't like it

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00:38:05,440 --> 00:38:07,759
Speaker 1: as much as I like the everybody in the same

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00:38:07,800 --> 00:38:08,399
Speaker 1: pot you draw.

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00:38:08,520 --> 00:38:13,920
Speaker 4: Let's go to Jake good day, I said, good.

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Speaker 6: Day, Okay, So the first hour of the show today

853
00:38:18,560 --> 00:38:23,439
Speaker 6: was the best hour of meat entertainment media of all time.

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00:38:24,200 --> 00:38:25,640
Speaker 4: I don't know about that, but thank you.

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00:38:27,239 --> 00:38:30,719
Speaker 6: And my question is you A couple of weeks ago

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00:38:30,800 --> 00:38:34,400
Speaker 6: you mentioned UH, Joe Goodheart's try State Wrestling U and

857
00:38:34,440 --> 00:38:36,200
Speaker 6: you're going out to Philly for it. Were you going

858
00:38:36,239 --> 00:38:38,120
Speaker 6: out to do commentary or no?

859
00:38:39,440 --> 00:38:42,120
Speaker 4: Friends of mine to see uh? To see the matches.

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00:38:42,200 --> 00:38:45,799
Speaker 1: I knew Candido and Tammy back then they worked on it.

861
00:38:47,440 --> 00:38:50,920
Speaker 1: I wanted to see chic uh. And the first time

862
00:38:50,960 --> 00:38:53,960
Speaker 1: I met Saboo he was working, mckfuley was working.

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00:38:54,040 --> 00:38:58,080
Speaker 6: I just went to go, oh, cool, cool, okay, because

864
00:38:58,080 --> 00:38:59,680
Speaker 6: I've seen you at like local shows too.

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00:38:59,760 --> 00:39:04,839
Speaker 1: So yeah, no, all kinds of wrestling back then, now

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00:39:04,960 --> 00:39:07,279
Speaker 1: not so much. Let's go to Newman, Hello, Newman.

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Speaker 11: Hello Jerry. Have you heard any worried about whether the

868
00:39:11,680 --> 00:39:15,080
Speaker 11: Pens are considering extending Chinakall before free agency?

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00:39:15,440 --> 00:39:17,799
Speaker 1: Well, he's restricted though at the end of the year,

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Speaker 1: so he ain't going nowhere.

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Speaker 11: Oh I see, yeah.

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Speaker 1: No, they'll they'll they'll get things, I mean, and he'd

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Speaker 1: be nuts to want to go, wouldn't he?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? I mean.

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Speaker 11: One thing I do wonder about, though, is how much

876
00:39:31,400 --> 00:39:33,879
Speaker 11: the price tag is going to move with every goal

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00:39:33,960 --> 00:39:36,200
Speaker 11: he scores, Like, would the Pens get a bargain if

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00:39:36,200 --> 00:39:39,480
Speaker 11: they extend him? Now as opposed to waiting for golf.

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00:39:39,640 --> 00:39:43,000
Speaker 1: Restricted free agents almost never move. I'm not sure he'd

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00:39:43,000 --> 00:39:46,000
Speaker 1: have much interest after just one good season, so I

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00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:48,719
Speaker 1: don't think there's any worry that Chinnakov will be anywhere.

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Speaker 1: But with the Penguins next year, let's go to a talkback.

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Speaker 15: Hey, Mark, the Penguin's special teams have been amazing this year,

884
00:39:57,239 --> 00:40:00,120
Speaker 15: for sure, but the past five games we've had up

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Speaker 15: on opportunities on the power play and haven't scored. Would

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Speaker 15: you say that we're in a rut? And if we are,

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Speaker 15: how do you think.

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Speaker 3: We should get out of it?

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Speaker 1: I think the fact that Sid's been quiet has dripped

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Speaker 1: down to the power play a bit. I don't know

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Speaker 1: that during a rut. I think they get some chances,

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Speaker 1: but not as many as they should. I don't I

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Speaker 1: would have Kendall in the first power play no matter what,

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Speaker 1: and he's not. If that's the reason for the rut,

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Speaker 1: I don't know. But he's their best power play guy.

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Speaker 1: He has the best power play instincts of anybody. Let's

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Speaker 1: go to a talkback, Hi, Mark.

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Speaker 13: I know we're talking about James Harrison's interception during the

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Speaker 13: Super Bowl, but would you put the mclar reception and

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Speaker 13: Ben Roethlisberger's tackle during the Colts game as two moments

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Speaker 13: in Steelers playoffs history that would be bigger plays than

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Speaker 13: Harrison's interception.

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Speaker 1: No, I wouldn't. Harrison's interception won a Super Bowl. It

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Speaker 1: was one hundred yard interception returned by a big guy.

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Speaker 1: It was a fourteen point swing right before the half.

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Speaker 1: Will he Parker's run, the Ben throw, the Ben tackle, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they all count. But but that Harrison plays the biggest

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Speaker 1: play in Super Bowl history.