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Speaker 1: like there's a lot of stuff we just don't know

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Speaker 1: about right now joining me now to talk about it.

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Speaker 1: He's got a great podcast with Trey Essex and you

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Speaker 1: hear him on the Steeler postgame show on DVE.

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Speaker 2: It's Charlie Batch. Charlie, Am I right about that.

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Speaker 1: It feels like there's a lot about this game we

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Speaker 1: just don't know about, not least the Steelers quarterback situation.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, unknowns here, And I think ultimately, when you look

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Speaker 3: at everything that's at stake for the Steeler, they have

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Speaker 3: a huge opportunity, especially with Buffalo losing last night, But again,

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Speaker 3: what does everything else look like for this team? Because

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Speaker 3: everything that they want is in front of them, it's

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Speaker 3: just a matter how hungry they are.

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Speaker 1: How will that injury the risk affect what Aaron Rodgers

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Speaker 1: can and can't do. I mean, that's not his throwing hand,

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Speaker 1: but it still takes some things away, doesn't.

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Speaker 3: It swel here today? But ultimately, or if you're Arthur Smith,

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Speaker 3: he has to really prepare two game plans, one for

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Speaker 3: if he's capable of taking a snap throughout the entire

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Speaker 3: game because when you put your left hand on the

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Speaker 3: But again, if a handoff is to the right, he

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Speaker 3: now has to grip with that left hand in hand off.

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Speaker 3: If the play is going to the right, can't he

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Speaker 3: sustain that? And if he can't, then that means and

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Speaker 3: he's attempting to play, that means now everything will be

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Speaker 3: done out of the pistol formation, out of the shotgun.

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Speaker 3: So it's going to be a different type of game

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Speaker 1: If he has to go with all all shotgun or

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Speaker 1: snaps in the pistol, Charlie, does that limit his decision

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Speaker 2: What does it take away?

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Speaker 1: And does it make the preparation job easier for the

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Speaker 3: It's it a little bit easier for the defense because

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Speaker 3: again you're not That takes away from that play action game.

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Speaker 3: It's really dormant in the shotgun because you're already five

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Speaker 3: yards behind that token fake doesn't do too much to

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Speaker 3: those linebackers, So you could pretty much eliminate that particular

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Speaker 3: phase of the game out for the Steelers offense, and

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Speaker 3: again they're just gonna attempt to throw the football down

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Speaker 3: the field. But again we're not seeing them throwing it

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Speaker 3: they are tempting to try to get those explosive plays in,

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Speaker 3: but right now we're not seeing it continuously. And if

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Speaker 3: they're in the shotgun, I think he could pretty much

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Speaker 3: eliminate that play action game.

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Speaker 1: What's the worst injury you played through, Charlie, And how'd

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Speaker 3: There was rips, you know, because again, you know it's

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Speaker 3: that's what I look at where Aaron, because yeah, you

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Speaker 3: but you're going to get some type of defense. This

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Speaker 3: So those are the thing that you know going to

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Speaker 2: If you're Tomlin, who would you play?

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Speaker 1: What percentage would Rogers have to be apt for you

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Speaker 3: If I would probably say at least seventy percent. You

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Speaker 3: wouldn't surprise me if he'd going to throw Aaron out there.

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Speaker 3: And this is the time that Ben was playing on

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Speaker 3: In this particular case, Aaron, yes, it's just a risk.

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Speaker 3: We know he's going to mentally he's going to be fine.

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Speaker 1: One reason I'd lean toward Rogers, and I think there's

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Speaker 1: But but Rodgers is really good at protecting the ball

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree with you. All that just something that

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Speaker 3: now it increases his chances to play, and Mason now

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Speaker 3: would not be a surprise if he is trotting out

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Speaker 1: Where's Caleb Williams at his development at quarterback for Chicago.

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Speaker 2: He's he's having a pretty good sophomore year.

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Speaker 1: But but any guy that young, at that experience level,

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Speaker 1: there's going to be some backsliding.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's kind of scratching the surface because we're not

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Speaker 3: capitalizing off of that and play action is huge for him,

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Speaker 3: So I still look to see that, but again, you're

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Speaker 3: if we start seeing that no huddle, I'll let you know, Okay,

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Speaker 1: We're talking to Charlie Batch. You can hear him on

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Speaker 1: the DVE postgame show after Steelers games. Do they trust

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Speaker 1: Mason Rudolph? I mean, I think that so many times

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Speaker 3: Just have it. They haven't. And you know, and when

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Speaker 3: I looked at Mason, you know, in his postgame press

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Speaker 3: But yet the organization didn't show that love back to him.

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Speaker 3: If you just look at the course of his whole

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Speaker 3: In that same year they bring Dwayne Haskin in here,

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Speaker 3: love is just not being shown back. But again, yes,

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Speaker 3: he's excited to be here. We know he's capable of playing.

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Speaker 3: He just wants that opportunity because that's why he thought

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Speaker 3: and unfortunately the organization didn't feel the same way. But yet,

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Speaker 1: This is an odd defensive matchup, isn't it, Charlie. The

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Speaker 3: You can't because the Bears offense is that good. They

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Speaker 1: The Bears are great at running the ball, and Caleb

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Speaker 1: What's the stealer's best bet? What kind of strategy formation

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Speaker 3: I think this is where you utilize the speed of TJ.

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Speaker 3: Watt and Nick Herbeck on the outside. Those guys there,

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Speaker 3: also understand he's capable of escaping it. So I don't

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Speaker 3: You can use it as a switch up, but ultimately

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Speaker 3: if he starts rolling out, then you know, okay, at

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Speaker 3: least you're getting to the quarterback. Now you just have

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Speaker 1: On the flip side. Charlie, why won't the Steelers commit

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Speaker 1: more to the run? I know they've not been partectarly

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Speaker 3: They don't have that flow, and that's why you want.

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Speaker 3: That's why I expecting to see him play.

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Speaker 2: Charlie is always great stuff.

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Speaker 1: I enjoyed the postgame show every week and we'll talk

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

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Speaker 6: If they were so enamored with him, why do they

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Speaker 1: I don't get why they benched him for duck, which

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Speaker 1: I mean, I know why fans don't like him. Fans

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Speaker 1: I thought that was pretty rotten for Garrett to just

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Speaker 1: He's a trumper. He's a trumper and people don't like that,

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Speaker 1: Well, I mean, his biggest his biggest weakness always is

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Speaker 1: He wanted somebody could help him now, and Ben, by

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Speaker 1: Thankins eight three three, four one two wxdx the number

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Speaker 1: one oh five to nine.

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Speaker 7: HiT's Bunny Diver and I just love good news. Okay,

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Speaker 7: So this is a great story I just heard about.

437
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Speaker 7: On a ninety degree day in Racine, Wisconsin. It gets

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Speaker 7: that hot up there, I guess it does. An AT

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Speaker 7: and T technician Marco was called out to install fiber

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Speaker 7: internet at residence. So while he was there, he noticed

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Speaker 7: it was really hot in the house. Meanwhile, the little

442
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Speaker 7: kids in the house kept coming over to him and

443
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Speaker 7: showing him their toys and all this kind of stuff.

444
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Speaker 7: So Marco starts talking to their mom, Anastasia, and he

445
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Speaker 7: finds out that she has five kids and they just

446
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Speaker 7: lost their house in a fire a couple of months earlier,

447
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Speaker 7: and this was a temporary place. The AC wasn't working.

448
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Speaker 7: It's ninety degrees with five little kids. So Marco was

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Speaker 7: so moved by the situation that he called his supervisor, Anthony,

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Speaker 7: to see if they could do something. AT and T

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Speaker 7: approved the purchase of a five hundred dollars AC unit

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Speaker 7: through the company's Acts of Kindness program that allows field

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Speaker 7: technicians to request support that impact their customers in that

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Speaker 7: special way.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for the good news.

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Speaker 3: Connecting changes everything at and T this this season.

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Speaker 1: Joining me now with the second straight week of going

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Speaker 1: above five hundred. Well, I think he was five hundred

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Speaker 1: two weeks ago, but five and oh last week, three

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Speaker 1: and two, this week looking for a big game, a

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Speaker 1: big weekend coming up, he is mister Friday afternoon, Mister

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Speaker 1: Friday afternoon, three and two, last week twenty seven and

463
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Speaker 1: thirty on the year five and oh, the week before that.

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Speaker 2: You're coming on strong.

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Speaker 4: All right, So first of all, you're you're already a

466
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Speaker 4: spreader of the misinformation and disinformation. Okay, two weeks ago

467
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Speaker 4: was last week was three and two, The week before

468
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Speaker 4: was five and one, and the week before that was

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Speaker 4: three and two, Three straight weeks of winning. After you

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Speaker 4: threatened my job, I.

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Speaker 1: Thought you were, didn't I thought you were three and

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Speaker 1: three the uh the first week?

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Speaker 4: How could I be? Three and three? No, three and two.

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Speaker 2: Three.

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Speaker 4: If you're a spreader, you're a spreader of misinformation.

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Speaker 1: Spread information, spread anything I want you jerk, But you're

477
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Speaker 1: a spreader of misinformation. You get a different information one

478
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Speaker 1: second to can be You'll be out.

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Speaker 2: Of here like a goose.

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Speaker 4: You threaten me with my job. Say if I don't win.

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Speaker 2: Shocking you, I took the shock collar off.

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Speaker 4: Okay, fine, but you threatened me with my job if

483
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Speaker 4: I didn't start winning last week. You took me off

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Speaker 4: the air after two street consecutive winning week, which is

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Speaker 4: an egregious breach of contract. And my contract is ironclass.

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Speaker 1: Are your contract takes into account that the entire show

487
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Speaker 1: is preempted? What did you want to go on in

488
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Speaker 1: the middle of the Penguin game at Sweden to make

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Speaker 1: your picks?

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Speaker 4: There is literally nothing in the contract that talks about preemption.

491
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Speaker 4: Your breach of contract, which means, okay, sue, who cares? Okay,

492
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Speaker 4: but I'm I'm I'm I want.

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Speaker 1: To think a big If you don't know, no, no compromise,

494
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Speaker 1: shut up right now and make your pick.

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Speaker 4: Okay, Listen, if I have another winning week after you

496
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Speaker 4: get third in the winning week, I want to be

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Speaker 4: eligible for are the fans to vote on whether or

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Speaker 4: not I should get a raise. I think that's a

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Speaker 4: fair deal.

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Speaker 1: Have another winning week, then we'll put it this way.

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Speaker 1: How about this, if you have another winning week, that

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Speaker 1: will be on the table. We can discuss it some more.

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Speaker 4: Okay, fine, it's on the table.

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Speaker 1: Okay, But don't you ever address me disrespectfully again. I

505
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Speaker 1: want an apology right now.

506
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Speaker 4: Well, you disrespected you by kicking me off the air

507
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Speaker 4: last week.

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Speaker 1: No, the Penguins preempted you. The Penguins at a game

509
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Speaker 1: but in Stockholm at two pm. That preempted the entire show.

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Speaker 4: You knit with But but but I had but last

511
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Speaker 4: week I had zero doubt, and you preempted. You preempted me,

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Speaker 4: which is like an egregious preash of contract.

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Speaker 1: No, No, the contra the contract says all you had

514
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Speaker 1: to do to stay, for us to be within the

515
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Speaker 1: parameters of the deal is to make the picks, which

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Speaker 1: you did. We called you for the picks. The picks

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Speaker 1: got on the air.

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Speaker 4: Okay, okay, so you have Well should we get to the.

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Speaker 1: Pis Yeah, yes, okay, Steelers game first?

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Speaker 2: Who do you.

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Speaker 4: Got I peop? Well, first of all, I'm on a

522
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Speaker 4: hot streak and I think that we should be able

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Speaker 4: to talk. I should be able to talk to my fans.

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Speaker 4: I'm sure my fans are lighting up the boards right now.

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Speaker 4: The person waiting to talk to you, Well, that's the

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Speaker 4: well what should doing is you're that's your algorithm is

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Speaker 4: suppressing my content with any luck?

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Speaker 1: Yes, but you can call to talk to mister Friday

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Speaker 1: afternoon dial eight three three four one two w XDX.

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Speaker 4: I'm excited about this week because I am a zero

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Speaker 4: doubt Okay.

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Speaker 1: The Steelers are two and a half point underdogs against Chicago.

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Speaker 2: Who do you like?

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Speaker 4: Can I make a Can I ask you a question?

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Speaker 4: And in the interest of fairness, since the Steelers have

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Speaker 4: not announced the quarterback, can I make a picked contingent

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Speaker 4: on who the quarterbacks are?

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Speaker 2: No?

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Speaker 4: Why not?

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Speaker 2: Because I have zero doubts.

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Speaker 4: Well that's my that's my catchphrase.

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Speaker 1: No, no, it's the show's catchphrase. We own all the

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Speaker 1: intellectual property.

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Speaker 4: Oh you own all the ID Yes? Oh well that's great.

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Speaker 4: Well well hey, hey, what do you say?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but we don't want you to say make your pick.

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Speaker 4: Okay, let's let's go. We're gonna I'm assuming this line

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Speaker 4: is the Bears are minus two and a half because

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Speaker 4: Rogers is playing and I'm not gonna bet on a

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Speaker 4: team that has with a guy with a broken wrists.

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Speaker 4: I'm gonna take the Bears. This is you know, this

552
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Speaker 4: is not fair because like I don't really know who's

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Speaker 4: playing quarterback. I'm assuming Rogers is playing because I think

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Speaker 4: the line would be higher if Rudolph is playing. But

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Speaker 4: Rogers is playing with a broken broken wrist. And I

556
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Speaker 4: think this is an opportunity where the Bears, who've been

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Speaker 4: tortured by Aaron Rodgers over the years and he's on

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Speaker 4: Green Bay, see a lame duck, a hurt quarterback with

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Speaker 4: a broken wrist on a different team with an opportunity

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Speaker 4: to to to basically get some payback. And like, you know,

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Speaker 4: this is this is definitely gonna be Aaron rodgers last

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Speaker 4: game in Chicago ever, and I think that they're gonna

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Speaker 4: step up and like they want to deliver to their

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Speaker 4: fans of victory over the hated evil Aaron Rodgers. I'm

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Speaker 4: gonna take the Bears minus half.

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Speaker 1: First uf No, the Bears, the Bears. You take the

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Speaker 1: Bears minus two and a half. First off, Aaron Rodgers

568
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Speaker 1: isn't evil. He's my favorite Steeler. Second, in private conversation, No, no,

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Speaker 1: you talked about what.

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Speaker 2: That's just not true. I never met him. How would

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Speaker 2: I know that?

572
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Speaker 4: Because you don't like the guy.

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Speaker 2: He is my favorite Steeler. I resent you casting.

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Speaker 4: You hate you hate the Steelers, and.

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Speaker 1: You hate the Steelers and you feel uncomfortable with his

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Speaker 1: pick because the quarterback situation correct.

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Speaker 4: Well, I just don't know what the quarterback situation is.

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Speaker 4: I'm assuming, based on my knowledge of football the line.

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Speaker 1: Okay, since you're uncomfortable with the pick, I'm gonna say

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Speaker 1: it right now.

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Speaker 2: It's the super collider.

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Speaker 4: That's a that's that's an egregious Uh, that's egregious malepractice

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Speaker 4: on your part.

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Speaker 2: It's the super collider.

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Speaker 4: Okay, what is it?

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Speaker 2: What's your game of the week? Pick of the week?

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Speaker 4: Uh? I love the Bengals getting seven against the Patriots

588
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Speaker 4: this week at home. Okay, looks it looks. It looks

589
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Speaker 4: like the Burrows is going to be playing. Okay, and

590
00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:40,760
Speaker 4: there's another game. I don't know, but I'm assuming because

591
00:27:40,760 --> 00:27:43,360
Speaker 4: the line went from eight and a half to six

592
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Speaker 4: and a half an hour and now to seven and

593
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Speaker 4: then the six and a half other puce. Look to

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Speaker 4: take that.

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Speaker 2: The Bengals plus seven against New England. Yes, you know what,

596
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Speaker 2: I'm gonna go off the board. That is also the

597
00:27:53,520 --> 00:27:57,400
Speaker 2: super Collider. I'm going to super cold of course, Joy,

598
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Speaker 2: of course.

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Speaker 4: I packing Wait a minute, I haven't even talked about

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Speaker 4: the Daily double yet.

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Speaker 1: Bear super Collider, Ben super Collider, the rare double super collider.

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Speaker 2: It's never been done this year. Okay, let we gonna

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Speaker 2: get you. Would you like to talk to one of

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Speaker 2: your fans. Absolutely, let's go to Rich Rich. You're oh,

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Speaker 2: mister Friday Afternoon.

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Speaker 4: What a great name for my Rich. I'm Rich? Hey,

607
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Speaker 4: I love your afternoon? If what's that rich? Are you?

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Speaker 4: Is that a nickname.

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Speaker 2: Because you've been freaking guy talk?

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Speaker 4: Well, his name is Rich. I wonder if that's a

611
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Speaker 4: nickname because he's rich taking all my dad Rich?

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Speaker 2: What do you want?

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Speaker 4: Hey, I love mister Friday Afternoon.

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Speaker 8: If you could preempt him the rest of the season.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, see that you not understand?

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Speaker 1: What do you think of my unpressing and a decision

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Speaker 1: to have a double super collider.

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Speaker 4: That's that's that's tremendous.

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Speaker 1: It is. I'm thank you for the call, Reache. I

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Speaker 1: am the star of this segment, not you. What's the

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Speaker 1: Daily Double?

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Speaker 4: We're gonna go Okay, so this is we're gonna go

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Speaker 4: contrict Uh what are you called the regression to the

624
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Speaker 4: mean here? So last week the Bills clobbered the Buccaneers

625
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Speaker 4: as like a five and a half point favorite at home,

626
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Speaker 4: and Allen went off. Then they regressed to the mean.

627
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Speaker 4: Allan did nothing this past week against Houston. Baker Mayfield's

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Speaker 4: a competitor. I did not see this. This team that

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Speaker 4: Tample is a good team too. They're not gonna go

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Speaker 4: on the road two weeks in a row and put

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Speaker 4: up a stinker. The Rams just came up two straight

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Speaker 4: division games where they beat Timperancis because they beat Seattle.

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Speaker 4: This is a little bit of a letdown spot. Baker

634
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Speaker 4: is gonna come uh, probably keep the back door open.

635
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Speaker 4: This should be a closer game than than than it

636
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Speaker 4: was against Buffalo. I see maybe the Rams winning this

637
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Speaker 4: game by three, or even the Buccaneers upsetting them. I'm

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00:29:58,120 --> 00:30:01,320
Speaker 4: taking the Buccaneers plus seven in this and I have

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Speaker 4: zero dow.

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Speaker 1: Okay, that is the daily double Tampa Baylas. So let's

641
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Speaker 1: go over the picks. The Bears minus two and a

642
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Speaker 1: half against the Steelers, that is the super collider. The

643
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Speaker 1: Bengals plus seven against New England that is the rare,

644
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Speaker 1: unprecedented I'm giving the people what they want, the Double

645
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Speaker 1: Super Collider and then the daily Double, Tampa.

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Speaker 2: Bay plus.

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Speaker 4: Correct and all those, all those games that the name

648
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Speaker 4: was zero dow Can Is there any more Miss.

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Speaker 1: Sampseng No, No, they've just dried up, by the way.

650
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Speaker 1: How about your home? How about your football team, Sunderland?

651
00:30:38,880 --> 00:30:39,600
Speaker 1: Who do they play?

652
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Speaker 4: I seek the playing Fulham this week. That is one

653
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Speaker 4: of the good, the best managed teams in the Premier League.

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Speaker 4: And I look for Sutherland to keep of the keep

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Speaker 4: the winning ways going. And you know, like we have,

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Speaker 4: you know, we have a personal side deck that are

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Speaker 4: Sunderland defeats. You know, had a Liverpool in the Premierly

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Speaker 4: this year, you're gonna owe me one thousand dollars.

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Speaker 2: That's just not true. We never made that bet.

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Speaker 4: We we made that you you you you in a

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Speaker 4: fit of a fit of ecstasy after Liverpool beat Arsenal.

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00:31:12,360 --> 00:31:15,440
Speaker 4: You made that be with the other verbally.

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Speaker 2: Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on.

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Speaker 1: When you say bet if if Liverpool Finis had a Sunderland,

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Speaker 1: you owe me a thousand dollars, then right.

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Speaker 4: Oh, I never said that.

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Speaker 2: You there, zero Dad, Screw you, screw Sunderland. You want

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Speaker 2: to make. I'll give you.

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Speaker 1: I'll give you two to one onds right now, my

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Speaker 1: thousand against your five hundred Liverpool finishers out of Sunderland.

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Speaker 4: No, I'm already free roll and you said, lishut up.

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Speaker 2: No, that's just not true.

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Speaker 4: Why are you being so nasty this week? You're being

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Speaker 4: very combative. I don't know why. Why that is. Especially

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Speaker 4: you're being combative in a week when I'm gonna throw.

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Speaker 4: I'm on a three week win streak. Why do you

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Speaker 4: beat something.

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Speaker 2: Batter because you're a jerk.

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Speaker 4: Well, at least I'm not a jackass.

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Speaker 1: It's time goodbye. It's time not to call and ask

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Speaker 1: Mark anything, and you are a jackass. I have zero doubts.

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Speaker 2: I'm still laughing about that.

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Speaker 1: Uh ceedee. Lamb and George Pickens story. We knew they

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Speaker 1: got bench for the first series of the Dallas game

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Speaker 1: at Vegas this past Sunday, but we didn't know why.

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Speaker 1: It turned out it's because Lamb and Pickens both miss

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Speaker 1: curfew the night before in Vegas shooting crap with Eric Carlson,

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Speaker 1: I think, and Lamb admitted to drinking, but denied throwing

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Speaker 1: up in a garbage can as somebody had reported at

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Speaker 1: six am, because he can hold his liquor, so it's

714
00:33:58,560 --> 00:34:00,360
Speaker 1: okay to drink and miss curfew was long as you're

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Speaker 1: a functioning alcoholic. I just love football. And then somebody

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Speaker 1: talked to George Pictus today and he said he had

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Speaker 1: no beef with the Steelers and no beef with coach Tomlin.

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Speaker 1: That he could talk to coach tom win out and

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Speaker 1: have a great conversation. And that's the problem here in Pittsburgh.

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Speaker 1: No matter how you f things up, Mike Tomlin's always

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Speaker 1: your buddy. And if you don't think that's a problem,

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Speaker 1: I could point to a lot of examples that proves

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Speaker 1: I am right.

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Speaker 2: Had a funny exchange on Twitter.

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Speaker 1: I was talking about the Shador Sanders things, the race

726
00:34:32,040 --> 00:34:36,760
Speaker 1: baiting involved in that, and somebody tweeted that the NFL

727
00:34:36,800 --> 00:34:42,160
Speaker 1: puts end racism on the end line at games on

728
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Speaker 1: the field, like that'll end racism, But of course it's

729
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Speaker 1: going to end racism. We're already seeing that that's going

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Speaker 1: to happen because that is on TV on the end

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Speaker 1: line at NFL games. People love the NFL. That act

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Speaker 1: end racism on the end line in the end zone

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Speaker 1: at NFL games on TV will end racism. I feel

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Speaker 1: like we're getting close to that already. Any hoodles, ask

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Speaker 1: Mark anything. Let's go to Cody. Cody, ask Mark anything.

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Speaker 4: Hey, Mark, just wanted to know the odds of Penn

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Speaker 4: State hiring Terry Smith for next season.

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Speaker 1: You know, as more and more coaches sign new deals

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Speaker 1: to stay where they're at, which is because schools are

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Speaker 1: afraid that Penn State's going to proach him, I think

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Speaker 1: it becomes more and more of a possibility. It would

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Speaker 1: be a terrible move, just a terrible move. Why would

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Speaker 1: you hire the guy, the interim guy who was part

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Speaker 1: of the program that fell apart enough in your estimation

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Speaker 1: to fire Franklin, which I still say was a bad move.

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Speaker 2: Terry Smith ain't never.

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Speaker 1: Been groomed to be the next head coach like Tom

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00:35:52,440 --> 00:35:54,960
Speaker 1: Bradley was when he worked for Joe Paterno. He's just

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Speaker 1: not a head coach. No offense to him, lovely guy,

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Speaker 1: He's not a head coach. But then again, who else

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Speaker 1: they're going to hire?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the big that's the big Urban Meyer.

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Speaker 1: Well, that would that would turn the program into a

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Speaker 1: more scattershot, uh sporadic joke than it already is, and

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Speaker 1: it already is. That they never should have fired Franklin.

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00:36:18,480 --> 00:36:20,920
Speaker 1: The next coach won't do as good as Franklin. I

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Speaker 1: will be proven one right about that.

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Speaker 2: Let's go to Jonah. Jonah ask Mark anything.

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Speaker 8: Good?

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Speaker 2: Damn it's the Madden, I said, Good day, Mark.

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Speaker 8: I just want to talk about I feel like, you know,

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Speaker 8: the Steelers story this season feels already written. I mean,

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Speaker 8: what's the best they're going.

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Speaker 4: To do it?

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Speaker 1: Not only it not only feels already written, it feels

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Speaker 1: like the same old story for the last almost a decade.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 8: Absolutely, And I mean, I don't know, I'm so just

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Speaker 8: sick of Colin's vanticks, the team vanticks. I feel like

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Speaker 8: they're an extremely unlikable bunch. But I just wanted to say,

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Speaker 8: I mean, I'm really, you know, proud of the Penguins

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Speaker 8: right now, really into just the story lines that are developed.

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Speaker 2: Because they've finally done something different.

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Speaker 1: They moved away from the same old, same old that

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Speaker 1: said it certainly took come long enough to do it,

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Speaker 1: didn't it right?

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Speaker 8: Absolutely? But just I mean, how awesome is it that

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Speaker 8: Horcroff I guess is leading the NCAA Division one in

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Speaker 8: goals right now? I mean, kindle start, and I mean

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Speaker 8: it's just I think we still need to appreciate.

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Speaker 2: What sid doing.

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Speaker 8: And I mean, just yeah, I appreciate keep malk and.

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Speaker 2: Can't keep malking, can't block Kindle, can't block cork Coff

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Speaker 2: for that matter.

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Speaker 1: But they're gonna I mean, that'll be when they take

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00:37:32,480 --> 00:37:35,000
Speaker 1: a step backwards, when they they cling to the last

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Speaker 1: vestiges of of not moving forward, which is something they've

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Speaker 1: indulged for most of the last decade, just like the Steelers.

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Speaker 1: But but no, I am enthusiastic about what they're doing.

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Speaker 1: I'm just worried that they might follow it up because

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00:37:47,880 --> 00:37:51,040
Speaker 1: they're hypnotized by the start they've had and would be

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Speaker 1: hypnotized further by making the playoffs this year, which they

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Speaker 1: might do. The best thing that could happen for this

794
00:37:56,600 --> 00:37:58,120
Speaker 1: team would have been if they would have got a

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Speaker 1: top five pick, But it doesn't look like that's gonna.

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Speaker 8: Happen, right right, No, Yeah, I mean play else would

797
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Speaker 8: certainly be the cherry on top. But go Pennce, hopefully

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Speaker 8: you will this weekend.

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Speaker 1: No, the cherry on top would be drafting. God, what's

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Speaker 1: the damn kid's name of Penn State? McKenna, Gavin McKenna, I.

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Speaker 2: Am getting old. People had to know I'm not shaken

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Speaker 2: yet though, Thank Heavens. By the way, you know what

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Speaker 2: I hate. I gotta get this in there.

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Speaker 1: Daylight savings time and it gets stark really early. Now

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00:38:30,920 --> 00:38:34,920
Speaker 1: that depresses me, That really depresses me. I'm so sad.

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Speaker 5: Let's go to a talkback, Hey, Mark, what is it

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00:38:38,680 --> 00:38:43,040
Speaker 5: with all of these offensive tackles constantly jumping early and

808
00:38:43,080 --> 00:38:44,680
Speaker 5: not getting called for false starts?

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00:38:44,880 --> 00:38:45,600
Speaker 4: What say you?

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00:38:47,040 --> 00:38:51,279
Speaker 1: Well, Orlando Brown Junior, you know, like like backpedaled into

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Speaker 1: his pass blocking stance early, like on half the snaps

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Speaker 1: in that in that Steelers game against Cincinnati and they

813
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Speaker 1: never called it.

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00:38:58,840 --> 00:39:00,960
Speaker 2: I mean, are they just so used to seeing it?

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00:39:01,040 --> 00:39:04,000
Speaker 1: Does it seem something they're used to that they're willing

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00:39:04,040 --> 00:39:04,480
Speaker 1: to let it go.

817
00:39:04,640 --> 00:39:05,080
Speaker 2: I don't know.

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00:39:05,280 --> 00:39:08,480
Speaker 1: And it ain't just Orlando bron Junior, although he makes

819
00:39:08,520 --> 00:39:12,000
Speaker 1: it epidemic. He does it so often it's just absurd.

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

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Speaker 12: Your guest this week, in analyzing the Steelers seemed to

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Speaker 12: be in consensus that Aaron Rodgers is the better quarterback

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Speaker 12: than Mason Rudolph. I'm not going to dispute that, but

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Speaker 12: my question to you is could Mason Rudolph potentially be

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Speaker 12: the better quarterback for this particular football team.

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Speaker 2: My question to you is, why are you yelling? I'll

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Speaker 2: do the yelling around here.

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Speaker 1: I've never suggested Mason Rudolph is a better quarterback than

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Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers. I suggested his tools might be sharper, as

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Speaker 1: arm might be stronger, but Rodgers' guile and his pre

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Speaker 1: snap and he's not so far behind Mason Rudolph and

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Speaker 1: the things where I think Rudolph hasn't advantage. So I

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Speaker 1: would start Rogers, but maybe not at whatever percent he's

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Speaker 1: at for the Chicago game. Charlie Batch said he would

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Speaker 1: start Rogers if he's at seven. I would tend to

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Speaker 1: think that is the bottom end of the percentage that

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Speaker 1: I would also go with. Don't forget tomorrow. I'm at

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Speaker 1: Shiloh Playton Poor. I'm at Washington for the River Hunts

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Speaker 1: game kick off at noon. USL Championship at Stake at Tulsa,

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Speaker 1: and I'll be there for the Liverpool game before that too.

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Speaker 1: But leave me alone if you come there to watch that,

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Speaker 1: and I'm serious about that, leave me the frig alone.

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Speaker 2: Let's go to Cody. Cody, what's up?

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Speaker 4: Mark? So you know we're in. We're in this spot

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Speaker 4: right now. We got all these old vets on the team.

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00:40:33,719 --> 00:40:34,680
Speaker 4: You know, everyone's talking.

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00:40:34,719 --> 00:40:36,320
Speaker 8: We got Will Howard, he's our guy.

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Speaker 1: Nobody's saying that right now. But go ahead, maybe you are?

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Speaker 1: I mean, is yeah, F John Gruden, F you two

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Speaker 1: anything else? It's just stupid. I mean, you're stupid. Gruden stupid.

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Speaker 1: The idea of playing Howard is stupid. I can't emphasize

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00:40:51,160 --> 00:40:53,759
Speaker 1: enough how dumb ass that is. And you are and

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Speaker 1: John Gruden, let's go to Rick on the south side. Rick,

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Speaker 1: you're on with double M.

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Speaker 4: Hey what I have?

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Speaker 8: Double M?

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00:41:00,360 --> 00:41:01,040
Speaker 4: What up? Hey?

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Speaker 8: All the years you've been doing this, do you have

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Speaker 8: a sporting event that you haven't attended yet that you

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Speaker 8: wish to attend before you leave this earth?

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00:41:09,719 --> 00:41:10,080
Speaker 4: Yeah?

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00:41:10,480 --> 00:41:14,719
Speaker 1: Champions League final with Liverpool in it World Cup game,

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Speaker 1: But I'll do that this summer somewhere. That's probably about it.

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Speaker 1: There's a couple of arenas I'd still like to go to,

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Speaker 1: but uh, but mostly in terms of events, those are it.

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Speaker 8: And I'm I'm sure you've answered this before, but what's

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Speaker 8: your what's your most memorable memorable sporting event.

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Speaker 6: You've been to?

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Speaker 1: But I've attended in person, Yes, sir, Penguins clinched the

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Speaker 1: Stanley Cup at Detroit No.

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Speaker 9: Nine.

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Speaker 1: Maybe the the Penguins beat Chicago Game one of the

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Speaker 1: ninety two final on Lemieu's last second goal, because huge

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Speaker 1: game was in the middle of the Penguins biggest one

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Speaker 1: ever eleven straight playoff games on route to a second

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Speaker 1: straight up, and I took my mom to the game

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Speaker 1: because I wasn't working.

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Speaker 2: So that's a big memory. Thank you. Let's go to

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Speaker 2: a talkback, Hey.

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Speaker 4: Mark Richard in the truck, who, in your opinions, the

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Speaker 4: better Steeler backup, Mason Rudolph or Charlie Batch.

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Speaker 1: Charlie Batch, because Charlie Batch just proved so many times

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Speaker 1: could come in cold and win, whether you know, after

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Speaker 1: not playing getting many STAPs in practice. Charlie was just

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Speaker 1: an incredibly efficient backup. I think Charlie Batch might be

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Speaker 1: the best stealer backup of all time. Him or Mike

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Speaker 1: tom Zach those are the two guys who immediately come

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Speaker 1: to mind for quality in that role.

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Speaker 2: Okay, get some more calls in.

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Speaker 1: We got the Hockey Night Show at five point thirty,

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Speaker 1: Gonna replay that interview yesterday with Ryan Graves. Gonna talk

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Speaker 1: hockey with my producer, Tommy Radio. So stick around because

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Speaker 1: then after that we got the Penguins Network pregame showing

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Speaker 1: in the Penguins game. I don't forget. Like I said, I'm

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Speaker 1: a Shiloh. Playton Port Tomorrow noon kickoff for the River

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Speaker 1: Hans game USL Championship. Then Sunday one pm kickoff at

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Speaker 1: Marinos American Eatery in Greensburg for the Steelers game one

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Speaker 1: oh five ninety x