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Speaker 1: ESPN's latest mock draft has the Steelers taking Ty Simpson

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Speaker 1: because we have the best hockey talk in Pittsburgh by far. Hey,

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Speaker 1: the trib always a pleasure to talk to Tim Benz. Tim,

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Speaker 1: Well, and he knew Tim, He knew that if he

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Speaker 2: Right, because you could talk about him being a bad

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Speaker 2: Now you know this is not coming from somebody who

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna be honest. I liked him till now, ye.

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Speaker 2: Well, I will say this, I will say this. The

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Speaker 1: Will this effect Ben from making the Pro Football Hall

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Speaker 2: It could because it just reminds people, I suppose, But

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Speaker 2: I think Ben always had an agenda to take care

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Speaker 2: Because for as much as there was infighting and carping,

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Speaker 1: And I always love when people whine you can't tell

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Speaker 2: Didn't they kind of do that with Aaron Rodgers and

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, then they steer Cam too, because you know,

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Speaker 2: near recent past, they've got to lean into that. And

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Speaker 2: my point about going back to the seventies was, for

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Speaker 2: as much little carping as there might have been, those

434
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Speaker 2: guys always were looked as as the steel the steel

435
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Speaker 2: curtain as a family, even Bradshaw maybe the one exception,

436
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Speaker 2: and this group is fracturing itself and it's a bad look.

437
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Speaker 2: And I think from a Steeler fan point of view,

438
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Speaker 2: no one likes it when mommy and daddy fight, particularly

439
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Speaker 2: when it's in a restaurant of crowded people. And you're

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Speaker 2: seeing some of that right now.

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Speaker 1: We're talking to Tim Men's at the trip here on

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Speaker 1: one oh five nine, the x tim ESPN's mock draft

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Speaker 1: and a lot of other mock drafts as well. Have

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Speaker 1: the Steelers drafting ty Simpson, the quarterback from Alabama in

445
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Speaker 1: the first round? Could that happen? Because more and more

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Speaker 1: I can kind of see it now, Not should it.

447
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Speaker 1: I don't think it should, but could it?

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Speaker 2: I have a hard time gauging that because I don't

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Speaker 2: know what McCarthy likes in a quarterback coming out of college,

450
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Speaker 2: Like how he would look at Tys Simpson and say, okay,

451
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Speaker 2: that's kind of like why I liked Alex Smith more

452
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Speaker 2: than Aaron Rodgers, or why I still saw something in

453
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Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers by the time they were united in Green Bay.

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Speaker 2: I don't know that, but like there is a sense

455
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Speaker 2: of he was a good quarterback on a good team,

456
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Speaker 2: good leader. But when you hold his feet to the fire,

457
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Speaker 2: and the National Football League is gonna look like Kenny Pickett.

458
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Speaker 2: Now he did do it in the SEC and not

459
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Speaker 2: the ACC. My belief is the floor is higher and

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Speaker 2: the ceiling is higher for him both cases. Then pickets

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Speaker 2: one thing that Art should understand, and especially if Rogers

462
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Speaker 2: comes back, and I heard you talking about this, if

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Speaker 2: they feel like they've got to play it up for

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Speaker 2: the draft. I know, nothing pops like a quarterback, but

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Speaker 2: this town is so starved to see them take a receiver.

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Speaker 2: It might not be the big pop, but it would

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Speaker 2: be big enough. And if it's a so so quarterback

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Speaker 2: versus a bang on first round worthy wide receiver choice,

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Speaker 2: just go with the wide receiver and they'll get the

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Speaker 2: pop that they're looking well.

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Speaker 1: No, I agree, but I think that Art will see

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Speaker 1: it that the quarterback gets the biggest possible pop. And

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Speaker 1: Art talks about not wanting to waste a year. If

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Speaker 1: they draft the quarterback this year, you know ty Simpson, whoever? Really?

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Speaker 1: Then you have Rogers this year, and you have the

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Speaker 1: line of succession for who starts next year, and it

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Speaker 1: looks like they've solved the problem even if maybe they haven't.

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Speaker 2: I agree with that part of it, And we kind

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Speaker 2: of thought that about Pickett too, where you know, the

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Speaker 2: theory was he was gonna sit for however long, he

481
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Speaker 2: was gonna sit behind Trubisky, and there was gonna be

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Speaker 2: a line of succession there, even if he had to

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Speaker 2: skip half a year after Roethlisberger, maybe a full year

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Speaker 2: after Roethlisberger. And because the pit thing, people would be

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Speaker 2: willing to wait. Rogers is a future Hall of Famer.

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Speaker 2: People might be willing to wait. There's enough of a

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Speaker 2: sub sect of Steelers fans that are out there that

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Speaker 2: think that Rogers can be Rogers because he's gonna have

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Speaker 2: McCarthy now and he never had that chance with Arthur Smith. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I could see that without squinting hard. I could see

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Speaker 2: them locking themselves into that theory.

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Speaker 1: Tim Trinidad cham was the quarterback at Ole Miss. He

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Speaker 1: wants a six yuer of eligibility right now. He's got it.

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Speaker 1: A judge filed that edict. The NCAA could appeal and

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Speaker 1: overturn it. He obviously wants to keep getting that college

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Speaker 1: nil money. What's your take on that? And is NCAA

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Speaker 1: football now a competing pro league to the NFL.

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Speaker 2: It's it's close, if not right there. Yeah, because you

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Speaker 2: know it's funny. I don't want to sound like a

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Speaker 2: total hypocrite on this, because what we're seeing now with

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Speaker 2: college basketball in college football is starting to mirror some

502
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Speaker 2: of the effect that we've seen in recent years in

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Speaker 2: college hockey. And I know I really have gotten into

504
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Speaker 2: college hockey since doing the Robert Morris games. But even

505
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Speaker 2: before the COVID situation and the extended years of eligibility,

506
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Speaker 2: you were seeing kids who were twenty three then. And

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Speaker 2: I know, like coming out of the shutdown of the

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Speaker 2: reboot for RMU where there are still kids who were

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Speaker 2: getting COVID years. Their captain that year was twenty six

510
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Speaker 2: Riley Saint Ange Pursua, and I used to joke with him,

511
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Speaker 2: is your wife here with the grandkids to watch the

512
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Speaker 2: game tonight? You know, like it was ridiculous think he

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Speaker 2: had a twenty six year old college athlete. That we're

514
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Speaker 2: all very used to it, but it does feel very

515
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Speaker 2: strange that this is now a way to make money

516
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Speaker 2: and delay yourself going to the NFL. I'm a little

517
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Speaker 2: less offended by it in college football that I am

518
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Speaker 2: in college basketball. Because there are other leagues that pay

519
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Speaker 2: go to Europe, go to Greece, go to Turkey, go

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Speaker 2: to Spain or whatever, and play overseas like so many

521
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Speaker 2: college kids do. There's no other outlet for that, so

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Speaker 2: I guess, okay, stick around to college. But it does

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Speaker 2: sort of smack of what you and Tom were talking about,

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Speaker 2: especially in the case of this kid, when he's just

525
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Speaker 2: afraid that you're gonna be told that you're not gonna

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Speaker 2: be good enough, because if he's not good enough by

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Speaker 2: twenty five, he's not gonna be good enough by twenty

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Speaker 2: six either.

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Speaker 1: Tim. Before we wrap up, what's your take on Olympic

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Speaker 1: hockey so far? Canada currently leading Switzerland two to one.

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Speaker 1: The Swiss he's pulling back a goal after being don

532
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Speaker 1: to nil. It's a surprisingly hard hitting game. Connor McDavid

533
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Speaker 1: just got lit up with a pretty good hit. But

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Speaker 1: I gotta tell you the Swiss goal today aside, Canada

535
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Speaker 1: has looked like a juggernaut so far.

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Speaker 2: Well, I'm more interested in what you thought about the

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Speaker 2: American team yesterday, because that game could have been three

538
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Speaker 2: to one after the first and maybe wrapped up with

539
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Speaker 2: even more of knaxious score like seven or eight to one.

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Speaker 2: The funny thing about them yesterday was, you know, the

541
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Speaker 2: two guys that I think got the most heat for

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Speaker 2: being on the team were Trocheck and Nelson, and they

543
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Speaker 2: both played well. Nelson was great.

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Speaker 1: I think he was.

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Speaker 2: He well, that's what I'm saying.

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Speaker 3: He was.

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Speaker 2: He was playing so well. I thought the Latvians were

548
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Speaker 2: wearing Penguins jerseys, knowing his history against Pittsburgh. But you know,

549
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Speaker 2: he I never thought we'd get a single game out

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Speaker 2: of him at Team USA this year like that. So

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Speaker 2: I guess what I'm saying is I think that score

552
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Speaker 2: could have been even more tilted than what it was.

553
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Speaker 2: And you know, they had bad luck, like they hit posts,

554
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Speaker 2: they had the two goals disallowed. I was more impressed

555
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Speaker 2: than I thought I would be with Team USA because

556
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Speaker 2: I was down on their roster instruction.

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Speaker 1: I'm still down on their roster, Tim. They only played Latvia.

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Speaker 1: I think that they look a half step slower than Canada,

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Speaker 1: and that might be a half step too slow.

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Speaker 2: Well then that now we're talking about it. Are they

561
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Speaker 2: better than Canada? No?

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Speaker 1: But but Tim, the way they constructed their team was

563
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Speaker 1: to be better than Canada. They they think physicality is

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Speaker 1: the best bet against Canada, maybe conceding that they cannot

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Speaker 1: skate them. I mean, when you got McDavid, McKinnon and

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Speaker 1: Crosby down in the middle, that's unprecedented attack power and

567
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Speaker 1: star power.

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Speaker 2: It is. I guess where I was going with the

569
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Speaker 2: thought was I was so concerned about Team USA coming

570
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Speaker 2: into this tournament. I wasn't even sure that they would

571
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Speaker 2: get a bronze. But you know, when you see the

572
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Speaker 2: Czechs struggle the way that they did, it looks like

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Speaker 2: there might be some flaws to Finland and Sweden. You

574
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Speaker 2: know that didn't Finland lose and then they beat Sweden?

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Speaker 2: Isn't that how it went today?

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Speaker 1: Correct? Correct? But I see, I think I think the

577
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Speaker 1: US is the second best team. I just think they

578
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Speaker 1: picked the wrong roster. I think they himself open for

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Speaker 1: an upset in the playoffs, especially given that that that

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Speaker 1: Sweden and Finland, by each losing a game, could easily

581
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Speaker 1: drop down to a quarter final spot against the US

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Speaker 1: or Canada. And I think Canada's equipped to handle that.

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Speaker 1: The US, I'm not so sure about. Well, let me

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Speaker 1: give you.

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Speaker 2: The devil's advocate point of view on you know, the

586
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Speaker 2: bottom part of the roster, like basically the bottom forward line.

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Speaker 1: Would the bottom.

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Speaker 2: Forward line of the US ever decide a game against

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Speaker 2: Canada given the star power up top with Canada that.

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Speaker 1: You just outlined, I don't think so.

591
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Speaker 2: Are we sweat by point being marked? Are we sweating

592
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Speaker 2: too much about guys who would be the last forward

593
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Speaker 2: line for the US? Because like, did they make any

594
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Speaker 2: really egregious missteps on the blue line? Do you think

595
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Speaker 2: with their defenseman?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they should have Lane Hudson, Layne Hudson, yep.

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Speaker 2: Okay, so like that would in my mind if you

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Speaker 2: were I.

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Speaker 1: Think they should have col Kawfield and Jason Robertson. I

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Speaker 1: look at Nelson, Miller and tro Check and I know

601
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Speaker 1: to a the three, but I would have dropped two

602
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Speaker 1: of those three.

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Speaker 2: Okay. But now if you put those guys out there,

604
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Speaker 2: and I know I'll pick a third to make up

605
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Speaker 2: a young youngster line that would have been the third line.

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Speaker 2: Do you think Sully would have actually played those guys

607
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Speaker 2: the minutes that would have mattered? Anyway?

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Speaker 1: Here's what I was talking to a local pay like, no, no,

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Speaker 1: I know, but let me just throw this back as

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Speaker 1: maybe the reasoning or lack of reasoning Tim. I was

611
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Speaker 1: talking to a local hockey guy today and we agreed

612
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Speaker 1: that part of the problem with the US team is

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Speaker 1: that Billy Garran picked all guys who think like him

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Speaker 1: to pick the team. There's no devil's advocate there, you know, No,

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Speaker 1: there was probably nobody there. Like as soon as they

616
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Speaker 1: said no cow Field, everybody probably harrumps and said, yeah,

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Speaker 1: no Caffield, no Robertson, let's be big, let's be tough.

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Speaker 2: I agree with that.

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Speaker 1: There was no one there to say what the figure

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Speaker 1: we doing. That's one thing Herb Brooks always bounced ideas

621
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Speaker 1: off off weird. Like I've told this story before. He

622
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Speaker 1: asked me and Tom McMillan about two guys and I

623
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Speaker 1: won't say their names, but one played for the Penguins

624
00:34:09,640 --> 00:34:13,000
Speaker 1: prior to picking the two Olympic team, just in conversation,

625
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Speaker 1: and the next thing we knew those guys didn't make

626
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Speaker 1: and they were expected to. Whereas I think the US

627
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Speaker 1: just has a bunch of Garren Jess. Mean that may

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Speaker 1: be true.

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Speaker 2: Now, you know, history is sort of as it relates

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Speaker 2: to Herb because of miracle kind of warps that like

631
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Speaker 2: when you've talked to Craig or when you talk to Herb,

632
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Speaker 2: because Herb never actually saw the movie made. But like

633
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Speaker 2: that scene where he just picks the twenty six guys

634
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Speaker 2: up in Colorado Springs, did it really happen that way

635
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Speaker 2: or did he actually bounce those roster ideas off of Craig?

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Speaker 1: Uh? It wasn't as cut and dried as the movie. Okay,

637
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Speaker 1: Herb certainly had partly had an idea, but no, it

638
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Speaker 1: wasn't that cut and dried. Did the tryouts mean something

639
00:34:58,560 --> 00:35:02,960
Speaker 1: maybe separating you know, depth charge places, And certainly that

640
00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:05,640
Speaker 1: got ironed out over the exhibition games they played, but

641
00:35:05,680 --> 00:35:08,320
Speaker 1: it wasn't quite as cut and dried. My one complain

642
00:35:08,360 --> 00:35:11,839
Speaker 1: about that movie is that they they dramatized and embellished

643
00:35:11,840 --> 00:35:14,359
Speaker 1: a story that just didn't need any of that. Tim

644
00:35:14,400 --> 00:35:17,640
Speaker 1: great stuff. You're doing something tonight on Fox Sports Pittsburgh.

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Speaker 1: Tell me what's going on.

646
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Speaker 2: Yeah, we're at the auto show, the Steelers Auto Show

647
00:35:22,360 --> 00:35:24,400
Speaker 2: shows that we always do this weekend. There's two for

648
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Speaker 2: the Steelers. There's one for the Penguins on Sunday, two

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Speaker 2: for the Steelers Friday and Saturday. I'm on the air

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Speaker 2: six until eight tonight with former Steelers All Pro offensive

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Speaker 2: lineman Center, Jeff Hardings. We're on six to eight there,

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Speaker 2: so swing by the Auto Show. And a great year

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Speaker 2: to have him on, with the twentieth anniversary of Super

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Speaker 2: Bowl forty and his role in springing Willie Parker. We'll

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Speaker 2: talk about all that and everything going on with the

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Speaker 2: Steelers this year too.

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Speaker 1: Tim great stuff. That's Tim Benz, brought to us by

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Speaker 1: Kamusi Chevallet, serving the Pittsburgh area for one hundred and

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Speaker 1: seven years. We got Avery Hayes of the Big Penguins

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Speaker 1: and the Little Penguins. Depends on the week, I suppose

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Speaker 1: at the time up in the hour one oh five nine,

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