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Speaker 1: It's your radio home of the Pittsburgh Steelers, one o

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Speaker 1: two point five dv E Steelers Brown Sunday, one o'clock

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Speaker 1: here on your flagship, the.

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Speaker 2: Black and Gold, tough game coming up.

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Speaker 3: What I don't love is the way that Steelers fans

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Speaker 3: always underestimate the Browns.

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Speaker 2: It drives me up the wall. It happens all the time.

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Speaker 3: Steelers fans used to go, Ba Baker Mayfield stinks because

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Speaker 3: he wore orange and white. You know, it's like, not

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Speaker 3: everything up there stinks unflattering. Look, well, maybe it is

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Speaker 3: the color scheme.

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Speaker 2: Maybe get a logo at least on one side of

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Speaker 2: the helmet. Okay, that might be part of it.

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Speaker 3: But one person I know who's not overlooking them joining

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Speaker 3: us right now from the Pittsburgh Steelers outside linebacker Nick Herbig.

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Speaker 2: What's up, ma'am?

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Speaker 4: How are you? Did?

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Speaker 3: I don't know if you heard what I was saying

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Speaker 3: there before we brought you on the air about Steelers

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Speaker 3: fans have this propensity to underestimate the Browns, and they go, oh,

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Speaker 3: they're the Browns.

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Speaker 2: You know, it's the Browns. We're gonna kill them.

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 3: Dylan Gabriel's only in his second game. This is gonna

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Speaker 3: be a joke. They're traded away Flaco, and so this

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Speaker 3: perception is it's this organization and flux. But the reality

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Speaker 3: is you guys and Cleveland both just played the Vikings

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Speaker 3: to the whistle basically to decide the winner, you know

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Speaker 3: what I mean, It could have gone either way there

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Speaker 3: when when yeah, both games, you know, I see it

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Speaker 3: as more evenly matched an AFC North Sloburn knocker coming

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Speaker 3: up here on Sunday. How do you guys keep from

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Speaker 3: having that mindset? I know your professionals and you're like, well,

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Speaker 3: we're not idiot fans.

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Speaker 2: But like.

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Speaker 3: Because because we're fanatic, you know, and so logic and

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Speaker 3: rationale aren't our strong suit. But that can't possibly be

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Speaker 3: the way that you guys approach this, right.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, you know, at the end of the day,

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Speaker 4: like you know, it's professional football, and anything could happen,

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Speaker 4: like on any given day, any given Sunday, there's gonna

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Speaker 4: be a better team than you out there. So you

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Speaker 4: just have to show up every day, you know, like

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Speaker 4: the days leading up like Monday all the way to Saturday,

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Speaker 4: like all those days in between, you have to make

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Speaker 4: sure you're putting in the work the time. I'm getting

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Speaker 4: everything right for Sunday so you can go out and perform.

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Speaker 5: Nick, You're obviously on a heater here lately. And I

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Speaker 5: talked to TJ. Watt about you a little bit yesterday

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Speaker 5: and he said, one of the things he's most proud

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Speaker 5: about is you're staying humble.

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Speaker 2: How do you turn into Lawrence Taylor and stay humble?

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Speaker 5: Man?

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Speaker 4: I think that just you know, I see like TJ

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Speaker 4: and Alex and the way they went about business, you know,

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Speaker 4: and the level of success they both had, and being

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Speaker 4: able to keep their composure of being able to stay humble.

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Speaker 4: You know, that's been really inspirational to me. And I

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Speaker 4: think growing up like my grand my grandfather always told

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Speaker 4: me to be humble and walk with God. So that's

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Speaker 4: always stuck with me wherever I went. I've always tried

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Speaker 4: to stay humble and walk with God.

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Speaker 3: The perception of your abilities in Alex Heismith when you

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Speaker 3: stepped in for him on his injury, was that, well,

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Speaker 3: Nick's a great pass rusher. Alex is a little more

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Speaker 3: adept at stopping the run. But now you've kind of

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Speaker 3: come full circle and you're a guy who can do

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Speaker 3: it all. Did it was run stopping something you specifically

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Speaker 3: worked on and how did you do that exactly?

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Speaker 4: You know, I think that over time, you know, you

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Speaker 4: just know that you're going to have to develop certain

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Speaker 4: parts of your game that people are going to nitpick,

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Speaker 4: especially for me because I'm a smaller dude. So that

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Speaker 4: was my stigma coming out. Like everyone wanted me to

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Speaker 4: I was too small to be on the edge anyway.

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Speaker 4: So you know, I just always had that stigma around me.

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Speaker 4: So just working on that, talking to older guys, seeing

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Speaker 4: how they played it, run hot, what they do to

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Speaker 4: approach that this, you know, it's helped me.

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Speaker 5: Now it looks like Galax is coming back. So what

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Speaker 5: are we going to see? How do we work three

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Speaker 5: guys into three spots? We're going to see that three

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'd love to tell you, but I can't give

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Speaker 4: you all the sauce man y'all gonna have.

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Speaker 5: But there are there are snaps for everybody, right, I mean,

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Speaker 5: you can't have enough edgress?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, no, no doubt, no doubt, no doubt.

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Speaker 3: I mentioned it was Dylan Gabriel's second game as a

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Speaker 3: starting quarterback. Just you know, there's an advantage to that

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Speaker 3: for the Steelers and his inexperience, But is there a

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Speaker 3: disadvantage in the unknown to not having a lot of

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Speaker 4: Yeah, especially with a young minded quarterback that has something

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Speaker 4: to prove, you know, especially in our division. It's a

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Speaker 4: tough division, so there's always going to be stuff that

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Speaker 4: is going on that you know, we kind of haven't

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Speaker 4: seen it on tape at all. You really have one

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Speaker 4: game to go off of, so that's that's that. But

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Speaker 4: you know we're going to show up and do our

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Speaker 4: best on Sunday.

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Speaker 5: I guess so first, anybody that's not gonna underestimate the

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Speaker 5: small guy, it would be you.

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Speaker 4: Right, Yeah, yeah, I'm I never understed me a small dudes?

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Speaker 2: Are you?

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Speaker 3: Are you starting to feel the love around Pittsburgh now?

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Speaker 3: You're noticing that everybody is like, you know, they used

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Speaker 3: to say the backup quarterback was the most popular guy

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Speaker 3: in Pittsburgh. Right now about the backup outside linebacker is

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Speaker 3: a guy that everybody's talking about.

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Speaker 2: You hearing it in Giant Eagle.

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Speaker 4: I mean, man, I just stay down and keep working.

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Speaker 4: You know, I still got a lot more to do.

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Speaker 4: I still feel like I haven't really done much yet.

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Speaker 4: You know, I'm trying to win a super Bowl. So

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Speaker 4: whatever that takes, you know, whatever that entails, I'm here

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Speaker 5: Nick. Nick.

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Speaker 2: I don't want to threaten your humility.

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Speaker 5: But the story when you first got here and we

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Speaker 5: talked about how you were in contact with t J

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Speaker 5: Watt before you even got drafted, and he was giving

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Speaker 5: you pass rush tips and you guys were exchanging thoughts

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Speaker 5: on past rushing and things of that nature.

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Speaker 2: Because he was helping his fellow Badger.

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Speaker 4: Yes, uh yeah.

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Speaker 5: Was your goal at the time to get in the

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Speaker 4: I think just to be great in general. You know,

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Speaker 4: I always dreamed about being in an NFL.

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Speaker 2: One day.

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Speaker 4: And while I was in college, and TJ talked to

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Speaker 4: hit me up this y'all had any questions or not.

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Speaker 4: So I was like that, I'm gonna hit him up.

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Speaker 4: So hit him up and we bounced ideas off each other,

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Speaker 4: and you know, just to see the way that relationship

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Speaker 4: has grown and developed into what it is today, is

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Speaker 4: truly a blessing. I mean, I'm so thankful that he

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Speaker 4: was such a stand up dude, Like he's not just

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Speaker 4: like he's a huge superstar and a list celebrity whatever

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Speaker 4: you want to call him. And the fact that he

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Speaker 4: went out of his way to take some time to

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Speaker 4: give back and show me and teach me some stuff. Man,

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Speaker 4: it's just truly your blessing.

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Speaker 2: I guess he knows what he's talking about.

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Speaker 4: Huh, yeah, I guess so. I guess we could say

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Speaker 4: that I like he has one hundred and twelve sacks

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Speaker 5: But you guys kind of play this similar game in

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Speaker 5: that he's not just overpowering physically. He does it with

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Speaker 5: technique and with preparation and study. It really takes more

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Speaker 2: Doesn't it.

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Speaker 4: Oh one thousand percent? And I think that's something I

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Speaker 4: admire about him. The way that he puts in works

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Speaker 4: like day in and day out, a lot of stuff

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Speaker 4: that you don't see on Sunday, you know, like I said,

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Speaker 4: the days in between Monday through Saturday, like what are

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Speaker 4: you doing to prepare yourself for game day? And the

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Speaker 4: way he approaches that business is second to none.

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Speaker 3: So you said you were here to win Super Bowl

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Speaker 3: Like that is music the Stealer fanciers. And I would

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Speaker 3: imagine that your understanding of the expectation here in Steeler

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Speaker 3: Nation and just the vastness of Steeler Nations has only

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Speaker 3: grown since you've been here in Pittsburgh. How did Ireland

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Speaker 3: coming together, how did that even inform you further as

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Speaker 3: to how big this expectation of greatness is.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it's crazy, dude, Like we really do

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Speaker 4: have the best fans in the world, and that's truly

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Speaker 4: like the whole world. Like, yeah, Stealer fans are coming

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Speaker 4: from everywhere. Man, it's crazy to see all the love

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Speaker 4: and support we get, you know, and you walk in

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Speaker 4: there and seeing the standard is the standard? You know,

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Speaker 4: That's all you can think about, is like, we need

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Speaker 4: to get back to that. We need to go get

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Speaker 4: one for this city.

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Speaker 3: Well, Nick Herbig, you've definitely lived up to the next

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Speaker 3: man up Edick, no question about that. Steelers Browns one

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Speaker 3: o'clock Sunday, Akroscher Stadium. Nick Herbig from the Steelers, Nick,

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Speaker 3: thanks so much for making time for us this morning.

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Speaker 2: Go get them on Sunday.

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Speaker 4: Thank y'all, Thank y'all, have a good day.

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Speaker 2: Okay man, we'll see them