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Speaker 1: Sidney Crosby's thirty eights. Born on eight seven eighty seven,

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Speaker 1: He's thirty eight, and he's the NHL leader in goals,

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Speaker 1: just two points behind in points. He's captaining a kind

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Speaker 1: so far, and he's thirty eight.

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Speaker 2: Thirty eights.

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Speaker 1: Forget about the stats, forget about the record. Watch Sidney

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Speaker 1: Crosby play. At thirty eight. He's everywhere two hundred feet.

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Speaker 1: Don Lowe in traffic back checks the slot.

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Speaker 2: At thirty eights.

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Speaker 1: He's still got that acceleration through the neutral zone. He

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Speaker 1: makes the other team back up, he makes the fans

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Speaker 1: stand up, and he's thirty eight. Nobody in hockey, and

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Speaker 1: I can't think of well, I mean Brady, but that's different.

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Speaker 1: Nobody in hockey, for sure, has ever played like this

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Speaker 2: And by that I.

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Speaker 1: Mean nobody, nobody at thirty eights. I never thought I'd

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Speaker 1: think that Sidney Crosby might be might wind up being

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Speaker 1: thought of as the best hockey player ever.

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Speaker 2: And that's still Mario.

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Speaker 1: But Crosby is making an argument because he's played just

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Speaker 1: about the same way at the same level for twenty

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Speaker 1: one years and still is at thirty eight's. Don't take

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Speaker 1: this for granted. Acknowledge him. Sidney Crosby is a whirlwind

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Speaker 1: with graying hair that he should absolutely die and absolutely

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Speaker 1: will nots.

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Speaker 2: This is the Mark Madden Show. Don't forget.

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Speaker 1: You can watch the Stealer game with me at Sidelines

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Speaker 1: Beer House in Siwickly on Sunday kickoff at eight twenty.

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Speaker 1: Got a lot of stuff to give away, a lot

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Speaker 1: That's doublem with the Steeler watch party Sunday night at

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Speaker 1: Sidelines Beer House in Siwickly. The Penguins are by far

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Speaker 1: the most interesting sports story in Pittsburgh right now.

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Speaker 2: I mean Steelers.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna wind up same old, same old with the

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Speaker 1: Penguins that might yet too, having missed the playoffs the

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Speaker 1: last three years, but look at it right now, look.

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Speaker 2: At the standings right now.

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Speaker 1: And last night they dodged a major bullet because that

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Speaker 1: game had the stench of death for a second after

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Speaker 1: blowing a three goal lead again second time in four

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Speaker 1: games in four days, two games four days, but special

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Speaker 1: teams building up two great pks in the third and

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Speaker 1: then Rusty scored on the power play. I can't get

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Speaker 1: over see it, can't get over it. Forget the stats

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Speaker 1: and two goals last night nine four and two. Shid

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Speaker 1: is everywhere at thirty eight all over the ice, this

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Speaker 1: burst from Sid and Gino two and maybe even Eric Carlson.

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Speaker 1: I'm convinced it's the young guys and probably energizing the

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Speaker 1: whole roster. Probably the good start due to the young guys,

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Speaker 1: even though the stars are at the top of the stats.

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Speaker 1: And how about Kindle directing traffic on the power play

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Speaker 2: And Carlson did, I laughed at loud.

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Speaker 1: Penguins three for five on the power play, lead the

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Speaker 1: league in conversion percentage at thirty nine. Most coaches lean

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Speaker 1: towards the veteran, but Raquel when he comes back. Kendall's

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Speaker 1: got to stay on the number one power play. He

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Speaker 1: is playing so well with the man advantage. He is

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Speaker 1: giving MWS zero choice. Like I said, playing thirty nine percent.

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Speaker 1: Kendall and Sid are the big catalysts, but Market and

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Speaker 1: Carlson are also playing great with the man advantage.

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Speaker 2: And Rusty got the winner last night on.

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Speaker 1: The PP with a cross ice feed coming from Evgeni Malkin.

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Speaker 1: Now the question is hot kindledoo five on five playing

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Speaker 2: But in the neutral zone and off the.

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Speaker 1: Rush, Uh played great. I think that that line's going

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Speaker 1: to stay together, mainly because it's got no choice. Hollander, Now,

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Speaker 1: I mean Raquel's out for I think five more weeks.

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Speaker 1: Halland and now out for three months some kind of

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Speaker 1: blood caught situation in his leg. But anyway, it's just

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Speaker 1: it's just a great, great story. Are the Penguins and

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Speaker 1: they play at New Jersey twelve thirty start time tomorrow

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Speaker 1: back at home against LA on Sunday night.

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Speaker 2: And by the.

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Speaker 1: Way, just because they won doesn't mean they should not

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Speaker 1: have started morrishoff. And let's even say they do acquies

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Speaker 1: some slight bit, the showbiz starts Shill offs the second

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Speaker 1: straight game in Jersey tomorrow and put morishoff in at

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Speaker 1: home on Sunday against LA. Okay, that's great, but it's

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Speaker 1: a NFL Sunday and the Steelers play that night. That's

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Speaker 1: gonna be their lowest crowd of the year. If Mews

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Speaker 1: sticks to his goaltending rotation, Morishoff won be his home

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Speaker 1: debut until November twenty. First, that's a Friday against Nashville.

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, against Minnesota, and that's assuming Jari isn't back

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Speaker 2: Probably won't be.

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Speaker 1: But what if he is, Morishoff will come and go

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Speaker 1: and the fans will never get a.

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Speaker 2: Chance to see him play at home.

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Speaker 1: So it was absolutely still even though the Penguins won

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Speaker 1: a bad move to not stop Morrishov last night.

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Speaker 2: I talked to Andy cot To, the goal tennant coach.

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Speaker 1: He gave no comment when I asked him why more

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Speaker 1: Shot didn't play, And when I asked him who decided

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Speaker 1: that more Shot didn't play? Andy laughed, But I sense

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Speaker 1: that those involved in the process might have disagreed. Let's

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Speaker 1: keep talking hockey. Let's bring on Tommy Radio. Tom your

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Speaker 1: thoughts on the way Sid's playing. The two goals last night,

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Speaker 1: leads the league in goals, leads the league in power

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Speaker 1: play goals, him playing five on five with Kindle, him

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Speaker 1: being everywhere all over the ice all the time.

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Speaker 3: At thirty eight. It's incredible. It really is incredible. But

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Speaker 3: it's not that surprising. Maybe it's surprising that he's leading

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Speaker 3: the league in goals and he's doing it at this level.

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Speaker 3: But you always knew his game was going to age

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Speaker 3: gracefully if he could stay healthy, and just.

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Speaker 2: If he could stay healthy.

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Speaker 1: If like, even though he is a conditioning freak, other

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Speaker 3: What you said and you're open about how he just

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Speaker 3: that's unbelievable, maybe the most unbelievable part of what he's

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Speaker 3: doing at age thirty eight to still have that kind

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and uh, and that line's playing great. I think

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Speaker 1: that Kindall does need to I mean, Sid Todd Gensel

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Speaker 1: quick study on everything else. Why would this be any

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Speaker 2: For Ben Kindall?

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Speaker 1: So uh? I also like that Tommy Novak fit in

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Speaker 1: least he did okay. I love Manta another goal going

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Speaker 1: So full credit to him. The fourth line don't suck

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: The third line, I thought Heinen did okay, but boy,

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Speaker 1: this Villy coyven Nanita goal badly.

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Speaker 3: That's what I was going to ask you about today,

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Speaker 3: was what you think Danton Heinen in that third line

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Speaker 3: did last night, because that's the big concern with Kendall

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Speaker 2: It was good enough.

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Speaker 2: As much as I.

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Speaker 1: Think Kendall's best position is center for this team right now,

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Speaker 1: Kendall serves the cause better at wing because on since

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Speaker 1: So maybe this season until they you know, get a

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Speaker 2: Maybe Kindle wing is the way to go. Just say it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, if everybody comes back healthy, though, that bumps Raquel

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Speaker 1: It would depend on whether I think that that monster

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Speaker 2: I think Braso is not going to keep it up. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it would depend in terms of who plays on Sid's line.

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Speaker 1: It depends on who I think would be more productive

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Speaker 1: People say Raquel's a thirty goal scorer because he did

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Speaker 1: And I think Kendall has much better upside obviously at eighteen.

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Speaker 3: And if that does happen, Mark, I don't think you're

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Speaker 2: Have my my.

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Speaker 1: Either approval or disdain for that will depend on if

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Speaker 1: Covid is fine about score goals and if mcgroarty's you know,

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Speaker 1: on Covid in uh. You know, I think he's a

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Speaker 1: I just think right now he's kind of battling himself

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Speaker 1: because don't forget he had a bunch of helpers last

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Speaker 2: Right still looking for his first NHL goal.

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Speaker 3: Do you think he's a case of Once he just

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Speaker 3: finds that one, it could potentially be a Floodgate situation.

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Speaker 1: Not necessarily, but I think he'll relax and just play better,

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Speaker 2: Right now, he's really kind of flailing.

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Speaker 3: Off, being to stick a little tight. Just I need

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Speaker 3: he knows in his head, I need to find my

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Speaker 3: first goal, and that's never a good place to be.

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Speaker 2: Well, nobody wants to not find their first goal.

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Speaker 1: So so okay, uh, you can follow me on Twitter

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Speaker 1: at mark man X.

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Speaker 2: Seven out last night. That was kind of kind of cool.

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Speaker 2: On one O five nine d X. People are freaking

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Speaker 5: It's the Mark Man on one O five nine d X.

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Speaker 1: We'd to the Steelers in just a little bit, but

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Speaker 2: That game last night with.

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Speaker 3: Don't you think there's like kind of a symbiotic relationship

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but I'm not sure we're frankly not very good.

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Speaker 3: I don't think that that's what Dan Muse wants to

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Speaker 1: But well, I mean, I mean, but then again, Sid

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Speaker 2: Who knew.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and I think, yo, I hope he's listening. Yo,

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Speaker 3: He tweeted out. I think when Sid not last night,

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Speaker 1: Oh no, when you when you're compared, okay, Sid's like,

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Speaker 3: Now, Gordy had sixty five points when he was aged

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I just know, I mean, he was great.

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Speaker 1: As much as we like the romanticize Gordy, I mean,

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Speaker 3: No, I'm with you that Sid is a nailed on

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Speaker 1: You know what's amazing is that Sid is tied for the

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Speaker 1: never say it lot he hates the Flyers, but we

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Speaker 2: And Cutter Goatier from Anaheim is tied with Sid.

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Speaker 1: And he's the guy who got drafted by the Flyers

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Speaker 3: And you know what else is great, Mark, The Flyers

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Speaker 2: Well talk has him playing better.

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Speaker 1: I mean, he can't get Mitchkoff going though, and Mitchkoff

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Speaker 2: Like forget him.

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Speaker 3: I hate him.

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Speaker 2: He's okay, he's pretty good. I hate him.

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Speaker 3: He's a villain for sure. In this fire.

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Speaker 3: When it comes to Mitchkoff. There's a lot of talk

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Speaker 1: You know what would have really benefited him as if

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Speaker 3: Would go over there and he would train and all

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Speaker 3: that suff.

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Speaker 1: He would have been more ready for the season because

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Speaker 1: he would have been trying to make that team. That's

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Speaker 1: why you give Gino a lot of credit. And Gino

443
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Speaker 1: if he can keep this up. Even if he can't,

444
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Speaker 1: but that rest for the Olympics, that's gonna do him.

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Speaker 2: A world of good. On the other side, I do

446
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Speaker 2: although it sucks that they're not.

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Speaker 1: You know what sucks to it sucks that the cowardly

448
00:21:29,720 --> 00:21:33,480
Speaker 1: bitch ass hockey media, especially those cowardly bitch ass punks

449
00:21:33,600 --> 00:21:37,040
Speaker 1: at the Athletic No offense Josh uh just just won't

450
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Speaker 1: make a deal out of that because they Oh Russian Ukraine,

451
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Speaker 1: what a terrible thing. How can we let these guys

452
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Speaker 1: play if there's a war, I'll tell you how, because

453
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Speaker 1: war in sport should not be related. Politics and sports

454
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Speaker 1: should not be related. I mean, is Fifam Ben the

455
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Speaker 1: bar Israel?

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Speaker 2: You know?

457
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Speaker 1: I mean, I just I think, where do you stop?

458
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Speaker 1: You can't be selective. But that's what dopes like the

459
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Speaker 1: the thought the social police for the athletic wants.

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Speaker 3: There's a precedence too, where you just take the flag

461
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Speaker 3: off their jerseys. You say, you're not representing. I heard

462
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Speaker 3: they don't want to do that. Why I don't know,

463
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Speaker 3: but I heard they don't want to do that.

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Speaker 2: That's so dumb. You're robbing, Malkin, you're robbing. I'm just

465
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Speaker 2: telling talking about guys like Malcot and Ovens. They don't

466
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Speaker 2: want to do that. No, the players don't want to

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Speaker 2: do it.

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Speaker 3: That's okay, okay, Well, you know what, do you want

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Speaker 3: to play in the Olympics or not? If it comes

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Speaker 3: down to that.

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Speaker 1: No, I disagree. I think they should just be able

472
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Speaker 1: to play as Russia. I mean, put it this way,

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Speaker 1: if we looked at all the atrocities this great nation

474
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Speaker 1: of ours is perpetrated on the African American and the

475
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Speaker 1: Native American our metal count would be way down, way down. Tom.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to talk a bit about this this football

477
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Speaker 1: game coming up. You know, I go back and forth.

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Speaker 1: You know, if they win, they're in good shape, though,

479
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Speaker 1: aren't they. Because Baltimore plays Minnesota. Minnesota, that's a losable games,

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Speaker 1: that's a losible game.

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Speaker 3: I think it's their last kind of losable game before

482
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Speaker 3: that Steelers game, because then it's like Browns, Jets, Bengles,

483
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Speaker 3: They're going to run it up on.

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Speaker 1: McCarthy had a good game when they when they wanted Detroit,

485
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Speaker 1: he did. You know what, you know, it sucks. And

486
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Speaker 1: this applies to coyven in two, you know, in a

487
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Speaker 1: much lesser and less visible in terms of the sporting public.

488
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Speaker 1: But whenever, like a heralded young guy plays bad for

489
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Speaker 1: a while, Oh he sucks, he's a buss blah blah blah.

490
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Speaker 1: Sometimes it takes time. I think McCarthy's gonna be a

491
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Speaker 1: good quarterback. I still think they should have franchised Donald

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Speaker 1: for this year.

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Speaker 3: It's such an up. Donald's a perfect gut of reference too.

494
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Speaker 3: When it comes to that kind of mindset. He sucks,

495
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Speaker 3: he's nothing get rid of him. New York. There's nothing

496
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Speaker 3: you're gonna get out of him now he's an MVP candidate.

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Speaker 1: You sense there's some kind of collusion, and I can't

498
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Speaker 1: think why it would be, but there's some kind of

499
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Speaker 1: collusion to not use the franchise tag in the NFL

500
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Speaker 1: because nobody ever does it. And that situation with Donald

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Speaker 1: that was the perfect, you know spot for Minnesota to

502
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Speaker 1: do that with a quarterback you wanted to hold on

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Speaker 1: to for one more year to try to make the

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Speaker 1: most out of the you know, ready to win team

505
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Speaker 1: you had while you transition to the young guy.

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Speaker 3: Is the collusion just a result though, if they don't

507
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Speaker 3: want to hear these players bitching and moaning, like why

508
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Speaker 3: the owners callude to take away their greatest asset.

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Speaker 1: It never stopped them before. But you're right, I'll put

510
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Speaker 1: it this way. I know that's why TJ.

511
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Speaker 2: Watt too much for too long, and they just don't

512
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Speaker 2: want to hear him whin that's what.

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Speaker 1: And they didn't want the fan backlash who think the

514
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Speaker 1: player like, you know what's funny? Usually, like in a

515
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Speaker 1: situation with starting moreshoff. The Penguins fans, especially the social media,

516
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Speaker 1: they agree with everything the club wants, especially younger fans,

517
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Speaker 1: because younger fans are younger people. They just there's such sheep.

518
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Speaker 1: They think they're not with their sheep. They just agree

519
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Speaker 1: with authority while pretending they rebel against authority. But they

520
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Speaker 1: just they're so stupid. They they contradict themselves constantly. But

521
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Speaker 1: but if it comes down to a dispute between club

522
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Speaker 1: and player, they take the player's side, because in the

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Speaker 1: case of the TJ. Watt thing, nobody has an Art

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Speaker 1: Rooney the second jersey.

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Speaker 2: They have a lot of number ninety TJ. Wat jerseys.

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Speaker 3: Do you think that what happened with Le'Veon Bell spooks

527
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Speaker 3: some teams off too when it came to the franchise

528
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Speaker 3: tag and him just holding out an entire season like that,

529
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Speaker 3: But that should also be a cautionary tale for players

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Speaker 3: to add.

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Speaker 1: Oh, I think that situation more than anything, Tom was

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Speaker 1: a cautionary tale for Leon be for.

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Speaker 3: The players too in the future, like, hey, you sit

534
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Speaker 3: out a year of NFL football, it's tough to get

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Speaker 3: back on.

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Speaker 1: All right, No moment, We're going to talk a bit

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Speaker 1: more about that Baltimore Minnesota game, because I think that's

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Speaker 1: a big spot for the Steelers.

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Speaker 2: A Mark Mann one O five to nine.

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Speaker 4: Tomorrow afternoon, the Pens take on the Devils. Game time

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Speaker 4: is twelve thirty. Our coverage starts at eleven thirty. Listen

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Speaker 4: to every game and the best Pens coverage on your

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Speaker 4: home at the Pittsburgh Penguins five nine b X. We're

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Speaker 4: adding another show to the Ex's concert calendar.

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Speaker 3: Oh they are Green Drudge Age two.

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Speaker 2: Big weekend.

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Speaker 1: I got my Steelers watch party Sunday night at Sidelines

548
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Speaker 1: Berross and Swickly. I got my ball hockey tournament at

549
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Speaker 1: Murray's sport Zone starting tonight and running through the weekend.

550
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Speaker 2: We got Liverpool at Man City. Yikes.

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Speaker 1: Then again we killed Madrid well one nil, but we

552
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Speaker 1: badly played him that Sunday as well. And you got

553
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Speaker 1: the River Hounds hosting a Eastern Conference semifinal game Saturday.

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Speaker 2: Night at high Mark.

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Speaker 1: We got Beato Edrich from that team joining us in

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Speaker 1: the five o'clock hour. But besides the Steeler game, another

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Speaker 1: game of interest locally in the NFL as Baltimore plays

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Speaker 1: at Minnesota on Sunday. Baltimore's three and five Minnesota's four

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Speaker 1: and four, and the Vikings got that huge win at

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Speaker 1: Detroit last week and maybe JJ McCarthy's coming on from

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Speaker 1: Minnesota the young quarterback. Like I said a moment ago,

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Speaker 1: when the young guys stumbles, you don't say he's a bust.

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Speaker 1: It just takes some diuys longer. Hopefully that's the case

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Speaker 1: with Lilly Cloyvenan, the Penguin young Finnish swinger. Minnesota is

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Speaker 1: a four point dog and that kind of surprises me.

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Speaker 1: With the Vikes being at home, it's a losable game

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Speaker 1: for the Ravens and the Steelers need to maintain their

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Speaker 1: two game cushion on to Baltimore US and lengthen it

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Speaker 1: if possible, because the Steelers will not rally in the

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Speaker 1: second half of the season and win the division.

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Speaker 2: If the race tightens up, the Steelers have the.

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Speaker 1: Lead in the division, then you keep it, make it

573
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Speaker 1: as big as possible, and grind the second half of

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Speaker 1: the season out. If the Steelers increase their lead from

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Speaker 1: two games to three this weekend by beating LA and

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Speaker 1: Baltimore loses at Minnesota, they're gonna win the division. Tom

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Speaker 1: Baltimore is minus one forty to win the AFC North.

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Speaker 1: The Steelers are plus one forty. That's on bet Parks

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Speaker 1: Vegas is certainly steadfast with favoring Baltimore, aren't they, And bet.

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Speaker 3: Parks they really are. And even when you look at

581
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Speaker 3: the Ravens Vikings game, Vegas really loves the Ravens there too,

582
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Speaker 3: favoring them by four and a half on the road

583
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Speaker 3: against the team that's five hundred. So yeah, they're just

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Speaker 3: enamored by Baltimore. I kind of still see where they're

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Speaker 3: coming from, though, Like I still kind of lean towards

586
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Speaker 3: them winning the division. But regardless of what happens between

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Speaker 3: the Ravens and the Vikings Mark, if the Steelers beat

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Speaker 3: the Chargers, I think they set themselves up gloriously to

589
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Speaker 3: at least hold the Ravens off. They can just earn

590
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Speaker 3: a split between the Ravens there and then take care

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Speaker 3: of this against the team they're supposed to they should

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Speaker 3: win the North. So this week's game, Sunday's game is huge.

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Speaker 1: Well, Baltimore's won two in a row now, and like

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Speaker 1: you said earlier, this game at Minnesota is like probably

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Speaker 1: the last truly losable game for the Ravens, Like they'll

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Speaker 1: be favored in every game.

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Speaker 3: The rest of the way, don't you think, Well, last

598
00:28:45,160 --> 00:28:47,400
Speaker 3: losable game until they meet the Steelers first. But they

599
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Speaker 3: do have the Patriots and the Packers later in the season.

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Speaker 2: But where is the December seventh game at the day

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Speaker 2: that will live in infamy.

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Speaker 3: It's in Baltimore.

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Speaker 2: Baltimore will be favorite for that game. In that game

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Speaker 2: for sure.

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Speaker 1: No matter what, you matter, what happens between now and then,

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Speaker 1: Baltimore or will be favored.

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Speaker 2: But Baltimore.

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Speaker 1: They won two in a ronof just starting one and five.

609
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Speaker 1: And to me, the big thing about their perceived renaissance

610
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Speaker 1: is their defense has allowed thirty nine points total in

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Speaker 1: the last three games, and that's after doing just horribly

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Speaker 1: to start the season on route to that one in

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Speaker 1: five start, and especially that defense playing much better in

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Speaker 1: the round.

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Speaker 3: That's the scariest part is that the Ravens seem to

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Speaker 3: have figured it out on the defensive side of the ball.

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Speaker 3: Because Lamar, before he got hurt, was playing unbelievably at quarterback.

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Speaker 3: And I knew he was gonna come back this year.

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Speaker 3: I knew he'd be great. I knew the offense would

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Speaker 3: be fine. It was that defense maybe would be the

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Speaker 3: bogie that you know, they'd have to score thirty eight

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Speaker 3: to forty points a game, and they just weren't going

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Speaker 3: to be able to do that. But if that defense

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Speaker 3: starts to come around, I mean, it doesn't even have

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Speaker 3: to be a great defense, it just has to be adequate.

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Speaker 3: Hold team's like twenty to twenty five points, and that

627
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Speaker 3: offense will take care of the rest. Well.

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Speaker 1: Van Noy, who's pretty good for Baltimore on that defense.

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Speaker 1: He talked about the pass coverage in pass rush sinking

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Speaker 1: up that each has to help the other, and you

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Speaker 1: look at the Steelers, that's certainly the case there too.

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Speaker 1: In today's NFL top you one hundred percent need covered

633
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Speaker 1: sacks because the quarterbacks get rid of the ball so quick.

634
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Speaker 1: And that's why I want the Steelers to play more

635
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Speaker 1: press man, especially with Porter, to just just make the

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Speaker 1: quarterback hold onto the ball a bit longer. I'm not

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Speaker 1: saying that TJ. Watt should never go sack because the

638
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Speaker 1: quarterback gets rid of the ball quicker, but let's at

639
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Speaker 1: least try to make them hold onto it.

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Speaker 3: And I completely agree with that tactic when you look

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Speaker 3: at an approach against the Chargers this week, mark because

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Speaker 3: don't you just think they're gonna quick game the Steelers?

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Speaker 3: What else are they going to do without their offensive line,

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Speaker 3: it's gonna be max protection. It's gonna be get the

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Speaker 3: ball out quick. You gotta go press man on those

646
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Speaker 3: receivers so Herbert can't just catch the snap and throw

647
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Speaker 3: a quick slant like Flacco was kind of doing to

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Speaker 3: you in that Cincinnati game.

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Speaker 1: I still think Watt has to line up in different

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Speaker 1: spots along the defensive line, like Micah Parson in Green

651
00:31:00,520 --> 00:31:05,240
Speaker 1: Bay and Miles Garrett Cleveland going wide so much just

652
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Speaker 1: feeds into the quarterback using that quick release and running

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Speaker 1: away from what.

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Speaker 2: And doing all the things they do to try to

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Speaker 2: neutralize what.

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Speaker 1: Because when you're making forty one million, I always go

657
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Speaker 1: back to what Mario said, I make the most. I

658
00:31:17,440 --> 00:31:20,719
Speaker 1: got to do the most what being chipped double teamed

659
00:31:21,080 --> 00:31:23,360
Speaker 1: the other team running away from him. That's not a

660
00:31:23,400 --> 00:31:25,400
Speaker 1: good enough excuse for him not putting up numbers. And

661
00:31:25,440 --> 00:31:28,520
Speaker 1: I don't know why he's so against it. Oh why

662
00:31:28,680 --> 00:31:32,200
Speaker 1: because he's a conceited meathead who looks at Parsons and

663
00:31:32,680 --> 00:31:36,040
Speaker 1: Garrett changing their games as admitting a weakness and I

664
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Speaker 1: can just do it my way because I'm better than them.

665
00:31:38,280 --> 00:31:41,320
Speaker 3: No, it's a strength to change your game. It's a strength.

666
00:31:41,360 --> 00:31:41,800
Speaker 3: To adapt.

667
00:31:41,960 --> 00:31:43,360
Speaker 2: But you don't think that's what he's thinking.

668
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Speaker 3: I'm sure you're right, But maybe he should take a

669
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Speaker 3: page out of his own teammate, Jalen Ramsey's book and notice, Hey,

670
00:31:48,440 --> 00:31:51,880
Speaker 3: he's transitioning to safety right now. He is embracing that

671
00:31:52,120 --> 00:31:54,240
Speaker 3: and moving around on this defense. It's paying off. It

672
00:31:54,320 --> 00:31:57,240
Speaker 3: might extend his career. Maybe I can be a much

673
00:31:57,280 --> 00:32:00,280
Speaker 3: greater impactful player more consistently in the latter's age of

674
00:32:00,280 --> 00:32:02,080
Speaker 3: my career if I let my coaches move me around

675
00:32:02,080 --> 00:32:04,440
Speaker 3: a little bit, put me in advantageous matchups.

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Speaker 1: Uh. Did you see Kenny Pickett played last night in

677
00:32:07,400 --> 00:32:09,520
Speaker 1: that game between Denver and the Las Vegas Raiders.

678
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Speaker 3: I didn't see it. I found out today. What's amazing.

679
00:32:12,160 --> 00:32:14,560
Speaker 3: So he's got pass oh for one this year and

680
00:32:14,560 --> 00:32:16,560
Speaker 3: he came in earlier this year and fumbled a snap.

681
00:32:16,640 --> 00:32:18,440
Speaker 3: I mean, just a perfect Kenny Pickett season.

682
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Speaker 2: I don't know. I wasn't Josh Show.

683
00:32:22,520 --> 00:32:25,640
Speaker 1: We had the game on his computer screen, but I

684
00:32:25,680 --> 00:32:27,920
Speaker 1: wasn't watching closely and honestly didn't care enough to check

685
00:32:27,960 --> 00:32:31,640
Speaker 1: out exactly what happened. But I guess Gino Smith got

686
00:32:31,680 --> 00:32:34,280
Speaker 1: hurt and Picket when went in. But then I mean,

687
00:32:34,320 --> 00:32:35,920
Speaker 1: did he come back out? We should look that up

688
00:32:35,920 --> 00:32:38,040
Speaker 1: because I sound dumb when I talk out of my

689
00:32:38,120 --> 00:32:40,360
Speaker 1: ass about something. But I kind of assumed that Gino

690
00:32:40,400 --> 00:32:42,840
Speaker 1: Smith got hurt. Pickett went in threw a pass and

691
00:32:42,840 --> 00:32:45,120
Speaker 1: they said, ah, wait, Gino, you're not that hurt. Get

692
00:32:45,120 --> 00:32:45,640
Speaker 1: back in there.

693
00:32:45,640 --> 00:32:47,880
Speaker 3: Shoot him up again and make sure he goes completely numb.

694
00:32:47,920 --> 00:32:50,000
Speaker 3: Get him out there. But for real, how bad is

695
00:32:50,120 --> 00:32:52,520
Speaker 3: Kenny Pickett when the Raiders suck as bad as they have?

696
00:32:52,600 --> 00:32:55,720
Speaker 3: Gino Smith has sucked all year, and Pete Carroll will

697
00:32:56,080 --> 00:33:00,440
Speaker 3: not go to him, no chance, under no circumstances. Picket

698
00:33:00,440 --> 00:33:01,200
Speaker 3: starter game for me?

699
00:33:01,400 --> 00:33:02,040
Speaker 2: Well, I want to I.

700
00:33:02,080 --> 00:33:04,920
Speaker 1: Want to talk about Kenny Pickett in a very frank

701
00:33:05,360 --> 00:33:07,800
Speaker 1: manner as I have before. And you're a Pit fan,

702
00:33:07,880 --> 00:33:09,720
Speaker 1: so you gotta, you know, take it and Barrett and

703
00:33:09,720 --> 00:33:12,280
Speaker 1: Grin tom Bits. But Kenny Pickett never should have been

704
00:33:12,280 --> 00:33:14,760
Speaker 1: a first round pick. Kenny Pickett probably was never good

705
00:33:14,840 --> 00:33:17,360
Speaker 1: enough to even play in the NFL at all. Look

706
00:33:17,400 --> 00:33:19,560
Speaker 1: at this bum, He's a bum. He's an ef and bum.

707
00:33:19,600 --> 00:33:21,640
Speaker 1: Don't smirk at me like that. I'll jump across this

708
00:33:21,720 --> 00:33:25,720
Speaker 1: console and choke you. Kenny Pickett, uh never should have

709
00:33:25,760 --> 00:33:28,000
Speaker 1: been drafted the first round. Only one team wanted to.

710
00:33:28,280 --> 00:33:32,120
Speaker 1: Only one guy with that team, Tomlin wanted to. He's

711
00:33:32,160 --> 00:33:37,520
Speaker 1: a journeyman, Tom, He's he's still within the parameters chronologically

712
00:33:37,560 --> 00:33:40,280
Speaker 1: of his first contract. He's with his fourth team. He's

713
00:33:40,320 --> 00:33:44,640
Speaker 1: an absolute effing bum. He should be embarrassed, ashamed of himself.

714
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Speaker 3: I'm not disagreeing with you, except for he probably should

715
00:33:48,120 --> 00:33:50,880
Speaker 3: have been drafted, like fifth, sixth round something like that.

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00:33:51,320 --> 00:33:52,760
Speaker 1: He should have been a free agent. He should be

717
00:33:52,800 --> 00:33:55,600
Speaker 1: able to Steelers practice squad right now. But he won

718
00:33:55,680 --> 00:34:00,400
Speaker 1: an ACC championship. Mark throwing him throw. It's a pretend conference.

719
00:34:00,440 --> 00:34:02,560
Speaker 1: Nobody gives a frig about that. He should be on

720
00:34:02,600 --> 00:34:05,760
Speaker 1: the practice squad right now. Pickett should throwing balls to

721
00:34:05,800 --> 00:34:08,920
Speaker 1: Marquez Valdez Scantling. By the way, did you see there's

722
00:34:08,960 --> 00:34:11,000
Speaker 1: a report that he's gonna go right on the active

723
00:34:11,040 --> 00:34:11,680
Speaker 1: roster and get.

724
00:34:11,520 --> 00:34:12,320
Speaker 2: A helmet on Sunday.

725
00:34:12,400 --> 00:34:14,520
Speaker 3: What's that about? I mean Rogers, this whole song and

726
00:34:14,600 --> 00:34:16,279
Speaker 3: Dan Rogers, he's on the practice squad. I'm not gonna

727
00:34:16,280 --> 00:34:16,799
Speaker 3: talk about him.

728
00:34:16,800 --> 00:34:19,120
Speaker 1: Well, you heard Valdez Scantling sitting right next to Rogers

729
00:34:19,160 --> 00:34:20,839
Speaker 1: saying this guy wanted to be here for how long?

730
00:34:21,080 --> 00:34:23,240
Speaker 2: Which begs the question, why didn't you get here sooner?

731
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Speaker 1: Right? I mean Rogers. If Rogers wants him to dress,

732
00:34:27,040 --> 00:34:31,080
Speaker 1: he will dress. Not the Rogers is to the naked.

733
00:34:31,120 --> 00:34:33,080
Speaker 1: I thrown his weight around that much. Since you know

734
00:34:33,280 --> 00:34:36,479
Speaker 1: in that vein you know roster wise, depth chart wise,

735
00:34:36,520 --> 00:34:38,680
Speaker 1: since arriving with the team. Let me ask you this.

736
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Speaker 1: If Valdez Scantley does get a helmet, who doesn't.

737
00:34:44,960 --> 00:34:47,799
Speaker 3: Probably would have to be like Roman Wilson.

738
00:34:47,600 --> 00:34:49,200
Speaker 2: Right, even though that's absurd.

739
00:34:49,440 --> 00:34:51,440
Speaker 3: His Coronic's gonna get one because of his role in

740
00:34:51,440 --> 00:34:53,880
Speaker 3: the run game, right, and because he's just a tough receiver.

741
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Speaker 3: You win like Pursuda.

742
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Speaker 1: I mean, I love Pursuda and he knows more about

743
00:34:57,719 --> 00:35:00,440
Speaker 1: football than I do, but he likes do you win? No,

744
00:35:00,440 --> 00:35:03,239
Speaker 1: it was Kobali. Kabali said, you win with guys like

745
00:35:03,280 --> 00:35:04,960
Speaker 1: Skoronik win. What what did he win?

746
00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:06,120
Speaker 3: Who do he ever beat?

747
00:35:06,719 --> 00:35:07,000
Speaker 2: Yeah?

748
00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:10,160
Speaker 3: But Skarroonic's gonna stay on the field. He's before before

749
00:35:10,160 --> 00:35:12,080
Speaker 3: the Steel I can tell you until he won a

750
00:35:12,120 --> 00:35:14,560
Speaker 3: super Bowl. Because the ninth receiver, I should know that.

751
00:35:14,640 --> 00:35:17,600
Speaker 3: I have no idea. It wasn't following Ben Scaronick's career closely.

752
00:35:17,719 --> 00:35:20,239
Speaker 1: Yeah, Like that's that's where this show's probably gone south.

753
00:35:20,280 --> 00:35:22,719
Speaker 1: Tom and I didn't care about the game last night,

754
00:35:22,760 --> 00:35:24,239
Speaker 1: so I'm not sure why pick it went in and

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Speaker 1: out of the game.

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Speaker 2: I don't care about Ben's Kroonick's career.

757
00:35:27,320 --> 00:35:28,680
Speaker 3: I don't know where he was. Yeah, go ahead, he

758
00:35:28,760 --> 00:35:30,080
Speaker 3: was a RAM for three years.

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00:35:30,080 --> 00:35:30,919
Speaker 2: Oh did he win there?

760
00:35:31,280 --> 00:35:34,240
Speaker 3: He did win. He's a super Bowl champion.

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Speaker 1: Well, it's like Kabali said, you win with guys like

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Speaker 1: Ben's karonik Uh. Last night was was Pittsburgh Knight at

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Speaker 1: the Penguins game, and they had all the Pittsburgh mascots

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Speaker 1: there except for Danny Smith.

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Speaker 5: at the top of every album. Enterady w x D

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Speaker 5: and you could win one thousand dollars.

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Speaker 2: With that much money, you can buy like ten coffees.

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Speaker 2: You know what.

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Speaker 5: I was homeschooled. I'm not good at mouth. Listen all

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Speaker 1: Uh. Last night was Pittsburgh Night at the Penguins game,

784
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Speaker 1: which makes me wonder what the other nights are. Because

785
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Speaker 1: the team's from Pittsburgh and all the home games are

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Speaker 1: in Pittsburgh.

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Speaker 2: You can't really have safe Meadville Night.

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Speaker 1: But the mascot's rotten for Steely mcbeam the river Hound.

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Speaker 1: I think his name's Ammo, the Pirate Parrot. The perogis,

790
00:37:00,320 --> 00:37:03,040
Speaker 1: of course Iceberg. That's his home turf. The Parogies were

791
00:37:03,080 --> 00:37:05,719
Speaker 1: at the River Hins playoff game last week and they

792
00:37:05,760 --> 00:37:07,840
Speaker 1: were right in front of me Don below. When I

793
00:37:07,920 --> 00:37:11,200
Speaker 1: was in Tofi's owner's box, Tuffy Shallenberger and I started

794
00:37:11,200 --> 00:37:13,360
Speaker 1: telling you you're part of a con, you're helping not

795
00:37:13,480 --> 00:37:15,279
Speaker 1: in cheat the city, and they I don't think you

796
00:37:15,320 --> 00:37:17,800
Speaker 1: can flip me off with those big hands, Tom. I

797
00:37:17,800 --> 00:37:18,640
Speaker 1: think they're frozen that.

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Speaker 3: Way, right, yeah, right, But they're probably doing it inside

799
00:37:20,640 --> 00:37:22,440
Speaker 3: the costume. I would love that to carry over to

800
00:37:22,480 --> 00:37:24,440
Speaker 3: actual Pirates games, though. Could you imagine if there was

801
00:37:24,480 --> 00:37:26,440
Speaker 3: just some acid being thrown at the Perogies when they

802
00:37:26,480 --> 00:37:27,320
Speaker 3: get on the field.

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00:37:27,040 --> 00:37:30,120
Speaker 2: Like boom Gone too Far acid?

804
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Speaker 1: I was just heckling, what do we got from the

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Speaker 1: trifecta brought to us by Danny's Peas and Hogies, which

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Speaker 1: is great on Root eighty eight in Bethel Park.

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Speaker 3: For today's trifector, Mark, I've got three things that the

808
00:37:40,160 --> 00:37:43,279
Speaker 3: Steelers better do against the Chargers. They should be embarrassed

809
00:37:43,320 --> 00:37:46,600
Speaker 3: Monday morning if they fail. Number three, they got to

810
00:37:46,600 --> 00:37:49,320
Speaker 3: pick off Herbert. They got to force turnovers. The Chargers

811
00:37:49,320 --> 00:37:51,560
Speaker 3: have given the ball up twelve times this year, that's

812
00:37:51,600 --> 00:37:54,560
Speaker 3: third most in the NFL. And Herbert's thrown eight picks

813
00:37:54,600 --> 00:37:57,440
Speaker 3: this year. That's third most by any quarterback in the NFL. Now,

814
00:37:57,440 --> 00:37:59,600
Speaker 3: he don't care about throwing picks, but you got to

815
00:37:59,600 --> 00:38:02,239
Speaker 3: take of that. You gotta capitalize, grab a couple and

816
00:38:02,280 --> 00:38:02,920
Speaker 3: overs off of him.

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00:38:02,960 --> 00:38:06,320
Speaker 1: I agree, but here's my disclaimer. They had no turnovers,

818
00:38:06,320 --> 00:38:10,520
Speaker 1: no sacks against Green Bay. They can't rely on turnovers

819
00:38:10,520 --> 00:38:14,120
Speaker 1: and sacks. I mean, you should get some every game,

820
00:38:14,760 --> 00:38:17,319
Speaker 1: but their best chance is getting a quantity of one

821
00:38:17,480 --> 00:38:20,319
Speaker 1: or the other or both like they did this past week,

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00:38:20,360 --> 00:38:22,200
Speaker 1: and that's just not always going to happen.

823
00:38:22,239 --> 00:38:24,000
Speaker 3: It's not, but they have to rely on that. That's

824
00:38:24,040 --> 00:38:26,160
Speaker 3: the makeup of their defense.

825
00:38:25,840 --> 00:38:27,520
Speaker 2: And that's why they're probably not going that far.

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Speaker 3: Number two, you mentioned how great the Chargers defense is

827
00:38:30,760 --> 00:38:33,560
Speaker 3: as far as pass defense is concerned, but you can

828
00:38:33,560 --> 00:38:35,560
Speaker 3: get them on the ground. They give up four point

829
00:38:35,600 --> 00:38:38,560
Speaker 3: eight yards per carry. Only five defenses are better, and

830
00:38:38,560 --> 00:38:40,520
Speaker 3: they give up an explosive run rate of eight percent.

831
00:38:40,600 --> 00:38:43,600
Speaker 3: Only three defenses are better there, So you better be

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00:38:43,680 --> 00:38:45,560
Speaker 3: able to run the football. Good thing. The Steelers ran

833
00:38:45,560 --> 00:38:47,320
Speaker 3: for one point seven yards per carry last week.

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Speaker 1: Well, you can't abandon the run, even if you do

835
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Speaker 1: have a rough time of it. It was only one

836
00:38:51,840 --> 00:38:54,080
Speaker 1: point seven yards per carry. And I still think they

837
00:38:54,120 --> 00:38:55,080
Speaker 1: abandoned it too early.

838
00:38:55,160 --> 00:38:56,920
Speaker 3: I think so too. And then Green Bay especially, they

839
00:38:56,960 --> 00:38:58,759
Speaker 3: abandoned the run. They had a lead coming out of

840
00:38:58,800 --> 00:39:01,080
Speaker 3: halftime with the ball, Warren got three carries in the

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00:39:01,120 --> 00:39:01,600
Speaker 3: second half.

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Speaker 1: Well, that that's the thing. Well, they had to lead

843
00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:05,600
Speaker 1: this past week against Indy.

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Speaker 3: They could insult run. Yeah, I mean it was a

845
00:39:08,320 --> 00:39:10,200
Speaker 3: game in Indy that was begging you to run and

846
00:39:10,280 --> 00:39:10,839
Speaker 3: kill the club.

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Speaker 1: And I think even though I've been up and down

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00:39:12,719 --> 00:39:15,080
Speaker 1: and I've said lately he's been improving, I don't think

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00:39:15,120 --> 00:39:17,960
Speaker 1: Warren's number one back because that offensive line is improved

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00:39:18,000 --> 00:39:20,520
Speaker 1: by Leaps and Bot absolutely, and Warren's still not getting

851
00:39:20,680 --> 00:39:21,400
Speaker 1: enough done.

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00:39:21,440 --> 00:39:23,440
Speaker 3: He took a big step back last week's disappointing but

853
00:39:23,520 --> 00:39:27,200
Speaker 3: number one that Chargers depleted offensive line, the Joe Alt effect.

854
00:39:27,320 --> 00:39:30,040
Speaker 3: They're one and two without Joe Alt five and both

855
00:39:30,080 --> 00:39:32,440
Speaker 3: their starting tackles and one of their bathrooms correct done.

856
00:39:32,480 --> 00:39:34,359
Speaker 3: Both their starting tackles are now done for the year.

857
00:39:34,400 --> 00:39:36,040
Speaker 3: They lost Slater at the beginning of the season. Now

858
00:39:36,080 --> 00:39:38,919
Speaker 3: Alts done. They need Dan Moore Junior. They should get

859
00:39:38,920 --> 00:39:39,800
Speaker 3: on the phone with the Titans.

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00:39:40,040 --> 00:39:42,400
Speaker 2: Tennessee to late Tennessee's like one win, right.

861
00:39:42,320 --> 00:39:43,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's too late. They should have traded for you.

862
00:39:44,080 --> 00:39:46,520
Speaker 2: Dan Moore Junior. He really has helped them.

863
00:39:46,840 --> 00:39:48,960
Speaker 3: But you got a feast. You've got to get pressure

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00:39:49,000 --> 00:39:51,399
Speaker 3: on Herbert and that's kind of twofold because they're gonna

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Speaker 3: get the ball out quick. So your corners they better

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00:39:53,760 --> 00:39:56,279
Speaker 3: be pressing and they better get sticky in coverage on

867
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Speaker 3: those defense on those wide receivers.

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Speaker 1: I've been saying both on Twitter and he that the

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Speaker 1: big thing with the Charges is they played tough, hard

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Speaker 1: nosed football.

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Speaker 2: They punching him up.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and Pittsburgh prided themselves on the Steelers being that way. However,

873
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Speaker 1: a false narrative that's grown to be so then they

874
00:40:11,680 --> 00:40:12,239
Speaker 1: responded to me.

875
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Speaker 2: Well, that's not that big of no, you got to

876
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Speaker 2: play football.

877
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Speaker 1: Come on.

878
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Speaker 3: You know what I could see happening too. The Steelers

879
00:40:17,200 --> 00:40:19,840
Speaker 3: totally sucking against the run again, and that is just

880
00:40:19,920 --> 00:40:22,080
Speaker 3: giving the Chargers a life raft if they can run

881
00:40:22,120 --> 00:40:24,279
Speaker 3: the ball and not have to worry about Chargers, yes,

882
00:40:24,320 --> 00:40:26,160
Speaker 3: and not have to worry about Herbert dropping back and

883
00:40:26,200 --> 00:40:28,680
Speaker 3: passing too much. And that's Herbert running too. By the way,

884
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Speaker 3: He's the leading rusher as far as quarterbacks are concerned

885
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Speaker 3: this year. That's a problem.

886
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Speaker 2: Do you know?

887
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Speaker 1: I covered Jim Harbaugh for an entire week once when

888
00:40:35,320 --> 00:40:39,720
Speaker 1: he was the Colts quarterback. The year the Steelers beat

889
00:40:39,760 --> 00:40:42,440
Speaker 1: Indy in the AFC Championship Game and went to the

890
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Speaker 1: Super Bowl Foster Dallas as the Post Gazette then, and

891
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Speaker 1: the Post Cazette sent me to Kansas City to cover

892
00:40:48,320 --> 00:40:51,600
Speaker 1: the the Indye Kansas City game, which Indy pulled an upset.

893
00:40:51,840 --> 00:40:54,040
Speaker 1: So I went to Indianapolis and it was snowing like

894
00:40:54,080 --> 00:40:56,120
Speaker 1: crazy there, like I could barely get from the motel

895
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Speaker 1: to the Colts practice facility. But I wrote stories about

896
00:40:59,040 --> 00:41:01,200
Speaker 1: the Colts every day. And Harbaugh for a guy who's

897
00:41:01,280 --> 00:41:04,160
Speaker 1: kind of a dig very forthcoming and easy to work with,

898
00:41:04,520 --> 00:41:06,919
Speaker 1: and even easier to work with. The Colts head coach

899
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Speaker 1: then was a former Steeler quarterback Ted Marchibroda, who when

900
00:41:11,880 --> 00:41:13,920
Speaker 1: I told I was from Pittsburgh, kind of really warmed up.

901
00:41:13,960 --> 00:41:16,319
Speaker 2: He was like this likable old guy. And it's one

902
00:41:16,320 --> 00:41:17,000
Speaker 2: of those deals.

903
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Speaker 1: Where I think because Harbaugh saw his coach like was

904
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Speaker 1: okay with me, he was maybe more okay with me,

905
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Speaker 1: but they were both great to work with.

906
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Speaker 3: Harma almost pulled that off too, that Hail Mary at

907
00:41:28,200 --> 00:41:30,359
Speaker 3: the end of the game looked like he almost caught

908
00:41:30,400 --> 00:41:31,239
Speaker 3: that in the end zone.

909
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Speaker 1: It's like when Nicky six liked me with Motley Cruze

910
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Speaker 1: back when because I was friends with Pete Way, the

911
00:41:35,920 --> 00:41:39,120
Speaker 1: bass player was wasted in UFO and NICKI idolized Pete

912
00:41:39,120 --> 00:41:40,840
Speaker 1: and then I got Nicky drugs and that was even

913
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Speaker 1: you know, a bigger deal to him one oh five

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Speaker 1: to ninety X