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Speaker 1: This is the Mark Madden Show. Here's a shot heard

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Speaker 1: round the world. You can follow me on Twitter at

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Speaker 1: Mark Madden X. I'm joined now by Tommy Radio. Tom

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Speaker 1: has Aaron Rodgers fed up the Steelers offense at this

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Speaker 1: point by bending to his quirks and preferences.

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Speaker 2: I hate that he's bending to his quirks and he's

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Speaker 2: going to MVS like he is right now. But I

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Speaker 2: think the person that fed up the Steelers offense is

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Speaker 2: still to Kaln Metcalf. If he was out there, yes,

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Speaker 2: you would still see Rogers maybe throwing to MVS more

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Speaker 2: than he should, but he'd still be going to dk

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Speaker 2: Metcalf and still be having that downfield threat that they

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Speaker 2: so clearly need. But you can't ignore the fact that

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Speaker 2: he spammed MVS three straight times. On that last drive.

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Speaker 2: He had nine targets to Scottie Miller's seven to m VA.

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Speaker 2: I mean, it's just that's nutty stuff. It's not going

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Speaker 2: to your best player.

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Speaker 3: I question if them guys should even be on.

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Speaker 2: The field, fringe players that should be on the getting a.

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Speaker 3: Helmet, let alone getting targeted that much.

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Speaker 1: And like you said, down the stretch, MVS with the

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Speaker 1: last three targets with Denzel Ward covering. We got a

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Speaker 1: great sound bite from Mike Florio. Boy, that's a phrase

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Speaker 1: you don't often hear. A great sound bite from Mike

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Speaker 1: Florio about Rogers's quirkiness when it comes to anointing receivers.

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Speaker 1: But it's relevant, it's true, and it's hurting the Steelers.

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Speaker 1: I mean, here's what Rogers has done. A dumps out

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Speaker 1: of the run all the time, whether it's working or not.

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Speaker 1: They averaged five point five yards per carry at Cleveland

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Speaker 1: and yet passed the ball almost twice as much as

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Speaker 1: they ran it. B wants to invent guys like we

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Speaker 1: talked about, like Miller and MVS or reinvent c just

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Speaker 1: shuts some guys out like Mouth mostly and most inexplicably.

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Speaker 1: And what made it even weirder, it was like flipping

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Speaker 1: off Mouth. He used him to get to the red

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Speaker 1: zone on that last drive at Cleveland and then didn't

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Speaker 2: So frustrating. But I think the thing that you listed

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Speaker 2: there that gets on my nerves the most is his

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Speaker 2: ability or his willingness to dump out of the run

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Speaker 2: as frequently as he does. And that is the way

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Speaker 2: that this offense is supposed to be. It's supposed to

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Speaker 2: run the ball. Everything flows from there, a lot of

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Speaker 2: play action off of you know what, that's what Arthur Smith.

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Speaker 2: He wants it to be.

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Speaker 1: That's what he's always done. So this is Rogers overruling Smith.

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Speaker 1: We saw that little tet at ted where he like,

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Speaker 1: motion to the bench, just.

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Speaker 3: Let me do it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, no doubt.

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Speaker 3: You know what's funny.

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Speaker 1: It took a long time for him to be an ass,

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Speaker 1: but Aaron Rodgers at long last has become an ass.

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Speaker 3: And I kind of knew it would happen eventually.

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Speaker 2: And we kind of knew that he was going to

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Speaker 2: dump out of the run a lot if you looked

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Speaker 2: at what he did to the New York Jets, because

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Speaker 2: the Jets were built a similar way. Last year, they

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Speaker 2: were supposed to run the ball a ton. They ran

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Speaker 2: the ball the fewest amount of any team in the NFL.

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Speaker 2: They ended up throwing the ball more than anybody. No,

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Speaker 2: they were trailing a lot, but still.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's ego.

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Speaker 1: Obviously, Rogers doesn't want to just be a game manager.

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Speaker 1: But he's not good enough any more to be much

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Speaker 1: more than that. So he wants to be the offensive

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Speaker 2: Right, and if his idea of being the offensive coordinator

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Speaker 2: is dumping out of the run and targeting Marquezvaldez Scantling

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Speaker 2: nine times, you're a terrible offensive coordinator. You're somehow worse

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Speaker 1: I think still, even despite the loss of Cleveland, he's

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Speaker 1: the Steelers' MVP this year. But if he does what

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Speaker 1: a very hollow MVP. And you know, not that it's

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Speaker 1: a big award, but he can make or break that

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Speaker 1: candidacy in this last game if he don't win it.

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Speaker 3: Bringing him in here was a failed experiment.

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Speaker 2: Winning this last game getting into the playoffs, of course.

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Speaker 1: And then even I think if he don't win a

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Speaker 1: say expand that a little bit. And that's what weird

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Speaker 1: is coming from the loss of Cleveland. If they beat Baltimore,

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Speaker 1: now win the division, but don't win a playoff game,

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Speaker 1: because they came so close to blowing the division, it'll

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I completely people are gonna view it through that lens.

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Speaker 2: Some people. I still think there will be people that

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Speaker 2: ten years that you haven't won a playoff game and

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Speaker 2: view that as unacceptable.

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Speaker 3: Well, nine, it'll be nine.

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Speaker 2: Nine going on ten. And but you're right, like there

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Speaker 2: will be some kind of a triumph of well, at

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Speaker 2: least we beat the Ravens and we got the AFC

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Speaker 2: North under our belt. That's progress. They'll view that as progress.

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Speaker 1: A triumph of the dumb dilected by Leanie Reefenstahl, would

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Speaker 1: you bring Rogers back next year at forty three? And

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Speaker 1: given the way things are going right this second, I

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Speaker 1: would say no.

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Speaker 3: Way.

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Speaker 2: I would say no, just because I'm tired of the

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Speaker 2: old body quarterbacks.

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Speaker 1: I would say no. Even if they beat Baltimore, even

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Speaker 1: if they win a playoff game.

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Speaker 3: Move on. You have to develop, you have to go.

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Speaker 3: But here's the thing.

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Speaker 1: If they do draft the guy they perceive to be

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Speaker 1: their long term quarterback in April in Pittsburgh at the

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Speaker 1: draft A, they'll mangle it be. They're not going to

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Speaker 1: start up as a rookie anyway, unless injury dictates like

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Speaker 2: I think all of those things will play out, but

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Speaker 2: I still want to go back into those waters, into

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Speaker 2: that rookie quarterback, you know, kind of roulette, spin that

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Speaker 2: you can't screw up, like his development, you can't hinder

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Speaker 2: based on being an archaic offensive minded team. It's just

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Speaker 2: the best option forward. It's the only option forward for

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Speaker 2: a team that really wants to get back to seriously contending.

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Speaker 2: This old bummy recycled quarterback thing ever waits.

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Speaker 1: They don't want to get to seriously contending. They want

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Speaker 1: to just patch work and try to make the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: And you know, Tom Win never had a losing season,

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Speaker 1: and boy, I used to think that him never having

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Speaker 3: I think about two or three years ago.

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Speaker 1: It just leap fraud into a position of significance to

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Speaker 2: Is that what's going if they do lose this game

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Speaker 2: is that what they will. They will kind of spin.

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Speaker 2: They'll be like what it was nine and eight?

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Speaker 1: How do I have these no idea what they will

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Speaker 1: say if they lose to Baltimore because tom Win should

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Speaker 1: that's not gonna happen, but I'm curious to see what

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Speaker 1: how Art Rooney the second spins it?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I really don't know either. I wonder if it'll

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Speaker 2: be like he had a winning season. The stability thing,

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Speaker 2: I don't know, but it's unspinnable. I mean, you just

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Speaker 2: said it yourself. They're interested now in patchworking just to

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Speaker 2: get into the playoffs. You patchworked and miss the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: So well, they'll feel the same way next year because

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Speaker 3: It'll be all in for the old guys Ramsey.

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Speaker 1: But it didn't work and they'll feel, oh, if we

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Speaker 1: would have had DK blah blah blah. Their organization is

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Speaker 1: of excrement, But that's what they're full of.

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Speaker 2: And a lot of it, you walk right into it.

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Speaker 2: That's what they're gonna lean on. A lot is the

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Speaker 2: dkmat Calf thing, which is his own fault, and he's

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Speaker 2: an idiot, and you have a environment that fosters those

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Speaker 3: Yet they re guaranteed his.

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Speaker 2: Money immediately, didn't even make him sweat it a little bit.

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Speaker 1: Tom I'm gonna talk about this at Blink though, if

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Speaker 1: not today then tomorrow. But but what you're talking about Willis,

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Speaker 1: would you bring in Milik Willis? I mean, people are

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Speaker 1: going nuts over the prospect of him not just in Pittsburgh,

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Speaker 1: you know, playing for their team, you know, fill in

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Speaker 1: the blank. And he's had two good games and and

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Speaker 1: he lost to Baltimore. Yeah, they should really think about

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Speaker 1: bringing in a guy who has experienced losing to Baltimore and.

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Speaker 2: He keeps getting hurt, like he was questionable going into

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Speaker 2: that Ravens game, was able to play hurt, then got

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Speaker 2: hurt in the Ravens game, so they ended up losing

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Speaker 2: the game because he wasn't able to finish it. A

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Speaker 2: two game sample size is going to make I don't

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Speaker 2: know if it's with Pittsburgh, Mark, but it's gonna make

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Speaker 2: Milik Willis an insane amount of money, an insane amount

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Speaker 1: Saw an article online about the top four teams, you know,

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Speaker 1: candidates to get Malik Willis, and Pittsburgh wasn't among them,

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Speaker 1: and the only reference to the Steelers was in so

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Speaker 1: many words, why would he want to go there?

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Speaker 2: You say that about almost every prominent offensive player that people.

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Speaker 1: They would do the same to him that they did

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Speaker 1: the fields. They wouldn't let him play his game. That

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Speaker 1: take his legs away from him.

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Speaker 2: That's what he needs. That's what was so dynamic when

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Speaker 2: you saw him Saturday night against the Ravens.

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Speaker 1: That's Tom Mark. We got de Fabo later, we got

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Speaker 1: Pierre McGuire. Later, we got Kolobe Armstrong. We are celebrating

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Speaker 1: his record setting goal in the very first Winter Classic,

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Speaker 1: just twenty one seconds in.

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Speaker 3: It will never be broken.

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Speaker 1: I challenge all you great players out there, sin if

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Speaker 1: you're listening, you won't break it. Maybe because you're not

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Speaker 1: in the Winter Classic this year. What oh five ninety

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Speaker 1: x ah, here you go, are you run out?

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Speaker 2: We've got you and your friends, very last chance.

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Speaker 3: To Penguin's host Carolina this evening.

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Speaker 1: It's a hockey night in Pittsburgh. Ryan Grahams got waived

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Speaker 1: to make room for Chinnikov, the winger they got in

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Speaker 1: that trade with Kalum Chinnakoff feels like just some guy,

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Speaker 1: the Russian Phil Thomas Sino. Maybe he was a first

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Speaker 1: round pick in twenty twenty, but has never been a

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Speaker 1: top score at any level, not like even dating back

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Speaker 1: when he played juniors in Russia. Not particularly big either.

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Speaker 1: I'm curious why he was a first round pick. Peter

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Speaker 1: MacGuire can probably tell us about that later in the program.

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Speaker 1: I will give him benefit of the dapt because he

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Speaker 1: was miscast in Columbus. He got fourth line minutes and

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Speaker 1: that was his role, but that's not his skill set.

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Speaker 3: And the coach there disliked him.

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Speaker 1: And when the coach dislikes you, if you are good,

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Speaker 1: you're not gonna get a chance to prove it. Carolina

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Speaker 1: leads to Metro. Good solid, very basic team, no real stars, Aho,

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Speaker 1: Jarvis and Svetchtakoff. Kind of our buddy Jordan stall the captain.

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Speaker 3: I saw him.

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Speaker 3: Okay, that's true.

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Speaker 1: But I would always pick my best, yes, eighteen skaters

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I love Rusty, but I agree on both counts

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Russell, when you're playing for your country and

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Speaker 2: His ego is because he has got the country, the

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Speaker 1: I don't even think you should be on the team.

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Speaker 2: Nate Dogg moved to wing and Sid was the second

438
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Speaker 2: line center. I think marsh On is the other wing.

439
00:19:19,560 --> 00:19:21,600
Speaker 2: I bet you that's the path that they will go

440
00:19:21,840 --> 00:19:22,280
Speaker 2: with here.

441
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Speaker 1: Well, my second line will with me Sid, Celebrini and

442
00:19:27,440 --> 00:19:30,359
Speaker 1: and McKinnon. No, no, dot on that in my mind,

443
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Speaker 1: And of course I am rooting for Canada because I

444
00:19:32,400 --> 00:19:32,920
Speaker 1: ruled for Sid.

445
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Speaker 2: There's some chemistry between Sid and Celebrini right at the

446
00:19:35,240 --> 00:19:36,879
Speaker 2: World's right at the end of the season. Last year

447
00:19:36,920 --> 00:19:38,920
Speaker 2: they played on the line together for Canada. When Sid

448
00:19:38,920 --> 00:19:40,639
Speaker 2: and Fleurry went to play for Team Canada.

449
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Speaker 1: Gee, I wasn't paying attention to the World Championships, so

450
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Speaker 1: I don't know.

451
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Speaker 3: One oh five nine the X.

452
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Speaker 2: It's the Woody Show weekday mornings at six.

453
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Speaker 3: Yeah on one oh five nine X.

454
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Speaker 1: Rob King here, Staying connected to your studers has never

455
00:19:56,640 --> 00:19:57,320
Speaker 1: been easier.

456
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Speaker 3: Tune into sho on one oh five nine D.

457
00:20:00,520 --> 00:20:09,080
Speaker 1: Steelers against Baltimore. You can watch the game with me

458
00:20:09,280 --> 00:20:11,639
Speaker 1: at the All Star Sports Bar and Grill at.

459
00:20:11,480 --> 00:20:13,000
Speaker 3: South Point to South Point location.

460
00:20:14,200 --> 00:20:20,919
Speaker 1: This idea, I mean, I've really soured on Rogers, and

461
00:20:21,000 --> 00:20:25,159
Speaker 1: I know it's not his fault DK suspended, but the

462
00:20:25,240 --> 00:20:28,720
Speaker 1: notion that his top two receivers, his top two targets

463
00:20:28,720 --> 00:20:33,600
Speaker 1: are mvs and Scottie Miller, it's just absurd. Those two

464
00:20:33,640 --> 00:20:37,280
Speaker 1: guys are bums between them. Like I said earlier, they've

465
00:20:37,320 --> 00:20:39,120
Speaker 1: been cut so many times it's a wonder they ain't

466
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Speaker 1: bled to death. But he's made them the preferred targets

467
00:20:43,800 --> 00:20:49,000
Speaker 1: ahead of guys like Mouth. Cower got it right. Cower said,

468
00:20:49,040 --> 00:20:54,520
Speaker 1: the best thing to do with metcalf out is to

469
00:20:54,600 --> 00:20:56,880
Speaker 1: do a lot of play action and feature John Hue

470
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Speaker 1: and mouth. So it has been said and so should

471
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Speaker 1: come to pass, but it absolutely will not.

472
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Speaker 3: Let me tell you.

473
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna talk later about why Cower is a much

474
00:21:05,800 --> 00:21:09,280
Speaker 1: better coach than Tomlin, and part of it is Cower

475
00:21:09,400 --> 00:21:11,679
Speaker 1: would tell the quarterback what to do, and it wouldn't

476
00:21:11,680 --> 00:21:15,760
Speaker 1: matter who the quarterback was. Tom Win just goes with

477
00:21:15,840 --> 00:21:18,600
Speaker 1: the flow because he's scared to death. The whole organization

478
00:21:18,720 --> 00:21:21,760
Speaker 1: is scared the death of Tomlin, except Tom went scared

479
00:21:21,760 --> 00:21:25,680
Speaker 1: to death of Rogers. That's the pecking order right now.

480
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Speaker 1: Took a while for that to be made clear, but

481
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Speaker 1: that's the pecking order right now. Uh. I am finalizing

482
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Speaker 1: a lot of my travel plans for this summer because

483
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna travel a ton till I drop, and that'll

484
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Speaker 1: probably happen. I just hope it's at home so I

485
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Speaker 1: don't have to, like put my carcass on some transatlantic

486
00:21:44,560 --> 00:21:47,000
Speaker 1: flight dead body in the hold blow Ugh.

487
00:21:47,760 --> 00:21:50,159
Speaker 3: I'd hate to be that dead body, but hey, who

488
00:21:50,200 --> 00:21:50,760
Speaker 3: would like it?

489
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Speaker 1: But I'm finalizing my World Cup game, my bucket list

490
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Speaker 1: World Cup game. I'm going to Scotland versus Morocco. Scotland

491
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Speaker 1: captain oh and Andy Andy Andy Andy Andy Robertson from

492
00:22:04,280 --> 00:22:07,800
Speaker 1: Liverpool and I got the hotel booked at fifteen hundred

493
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Speaker 1: a night, right next to Jillett Stadium.

494
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Speaker 3: Though I got the flight booked.

495
00:22:14,119 --> 00:22:17,960
Speaker 1: I got the limo from the airport Logan Airport to

496
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Speaker 1: the hotel booked, but I don't have the ticket yet.

497
00:22:20,640 --> 00:22:21,960
Speaker 3: But there's a lot of options for that.

498
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Speaker 1: So I signed up for the official FIFA Hospitality ticket service,

499
00:22:29,840 --> 00:22:32,640
Speaker 1: like you can get like the real fancy Smancy tickets

500
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Speaker 1: and I haven't booked a ticket yet.

501
00:22:35,240 --> 00:22:36,640
Speaker 3: You can book single tickets.

502
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Speaker 1: The guy called me today, a guy from FIFA, and said,

503
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Speaker 1: how many were talking about in your group? And I

504
00:22:45,560 --> 00:22:50,479
Speaker 1: go one? He goes one. I go yeah, one. He

505
00:22:50,480 --> 00:22:51,760
Speaker 1: goes we can do that online.

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Speaker 3: I go yeah. I was going to until you called.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I know he's got a call and he

508
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Speaker 1: had a properly FIFA name. He was Mahmud, you know,

509
00:23:02,760 --> 00:23:05,960
Speaker 1: very very continental, very global representative.

510
00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:11,080
Speaker 3: But I'm going and I'm also debating. I'll be blunt.

511
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Speaker 1: I was gonna blow off the draft and go to

512
00:23:12,760 --> 00:23:16,800
Speaker 1: Crystal Palace at Liverpool that weekend. But my preferred ticket

513
00:23:16,800 --> 00:23:18,800
Speaker 1: that I've got on stub hup for like the last

514
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Speaker 1: four Liverpool games for some reasons not posted. But Chelsea

515
00:23:23,520 --> 00:23:26,679
Speaker 1: at Anfield in June. I can get that ticket. But

516
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Speaker 1: I would have to fly right from Miami after seeing

517
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Speaker 1: Guns and Roses to England to see Liverpool, and that

518
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Speaker 1: sounds like it's tough to do physically, just a lot

519
00:23:37,560 --> 00:23:40,560
Speaker 1: of you know, flights and getting here, getting there.

520
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Speaker 3: It also sounds awesome.

521
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Speaker 1: Guns n' Roses on Tuesday, Liverpool and Chelsea on Saturday.

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Speaker 1: That sounds pretty awesome. Tom, What is your bucket list

523
00:23:51,600 --> 00:23:53,879
Speaker 1: in terms of sports? What would you like to attend

524
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Speaker 1: before you shuffle off the Mortal Coil?

525
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Speaker 3: You being only what thirty one?

526
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Speaker 2: Thirty one? Yes, yeah, World Cup is a really good one.

527
00:24:00,200 --> 00:24:01,800
Speaker 2: I would like to see a Super Bowl. I think

528
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Speaker 2: I've never seen a Super Bowl in person. It doesn't

529
00:24:03,560 --> 00:24:05,399
Speaker 2: have to be the Steelers in it, just a super Bowl.

530
00:24:05,960 --> 00:24:09,000
Speaker 2: Some cathedrals of baseball stadiums like Wrigley I think would

531
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Speaker 2: be cool to go to see. But for me, Mark,

532
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Speaker 2: my number one bucket list is going to be a

533
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Speaker 2: weekend at Augusta. I would love to see Saturday and

534
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Speaker 2: Sunday Masters tournament walk those grounds It's just such a

535
00:24:20,520 --> 00:24:22,800
Speaker 2: legendary feel. I think when you're there. It's so hard

536
00:24:22,800 --> 00:24:24,679
Speaker 2: to get on those grounds, Like you gotta win like

537
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Speaker 2: lotteries to get those tickets. So Augusta, Saturday and Sunday

538
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Speaker 2: would be my bucket list.

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Speaker 3: See let me tell you, why did you ever go

540
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Speaker 3: to the US Open?

541
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Speaker 2: I've been to Oakmon?

542
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Speaker 3: Yes, how was that?

543
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Speaker 2: It was fun? It was twenty sixteen when I went.

544
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Speaker 2: I didn't go this year.

545
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Speaker 1: You know what I hate about that and why I'm

546
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Speaker 1: a little trepidacious about the World Cup. I hate being

547
00:24:42,680 --> 00:24:44,960
Speaker 1: in the sun in the summer because I get burnt

548
00:24:45,040 --> 00:24:49,479
Speaker 1: very easily. But the game between Scotland and Moroccos at

549
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Speaker 1: six pm, so like the sun will be on one

550
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Speaker 1: side of the stadium. Maybe I'm lucky and getting the

551
00:24:53,680 --> 00:24:55,640
Speaker 1: shade and it shouldn't be just burning.

552
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Speaker 3: It's mid June. It should be tolerable.

553
00:24:58,440 --> 00:25:02,160
Speaker 2: Oakmont was really legendary, obviously, but Augusta's just a it's

554
00:25:02,200 --> 00:25:04,880
Speaker 2: a different level of legendary when it comes to golf tournaments.

555
00:25:04,880 --> 00:25:06,560
Speaker 2: And with the sun there mark you can you know,

556
00:25:06,600 --> 00:25:08,560
Speaker 2: you can dodge in and out of tree brand right,

557
00:25:08,680 --> 00:25:10,399
Speaker 2: so you get some shade there.

558
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Speaker 1: One time when Liverpool did a tour of the US,

559
00:25:12,760 --> 00:25:18,200
Speaker 1: they played in Baltimore against Spurs in August. In game time,

560
00:25:18,280 --> 00:25:20,200
Speaker 1: I don't know what what dumb son of a bitch

561
00:25:20,280 --> 00:25:24,400
Speaker 1: decided this game time was new okay, baking. We had tickets.

562
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Speaker 1: I went with a group of guys. We had tickets

563
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Speaker 1: at the at the at the center line. You know

564
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Speaker 1: what I did. I went and sat in the back

565
00:25:31,359 --> 00:25:34,200
Speaker 1: in the shade because like an overhangs was head right right.

566
00:25:34,480 --> 00:25:36,879
Speaker 1: It was very far away. But I didn't burn like

567
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Speaker 1: a lobster.

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Speaker 2: Oh no, it just been terrible planning there. Any game

569
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Speaker 2: like that needs to be at night, not at noon

570
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Speaker 2: in August. What would be number two on you, Loki,

571
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Speaker 2: Besides the Masters, I'd say probably go to a super Bowl.

572
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Speaker 2: I went to one Super Bowl thirty. It's cool, right,

573
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Speaker 2: The atmosphere is just a wild thing.

574
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Speaker 1: Of the ten best parties I've ever been to, three

575
00:25:55,920 --> 00:25:56,840
Speaker 1: were at that Super Bowl.

576
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Speaker 3: They were awesome. Yeah.

577
00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:01,959
Speaker 1: Kevin Green break curfew honestly just so he wasn't drunk though,

578
00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:03,920
Speaker 1: he was just like really wound up the night before

579
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Speaker 1: the game and wanted to just you know, get somewhere.

580
00:26:06,680 --> 00:26:08,520
Speaker 2: The game would be cool itself. Don't get me wrong,

581
00:26:08,600 --> 00:26:11,040
Speaker 2: I've seen millions of football games before in person. It's

582
00:26:11,080 --> 00:26:13,560
Speaker 2: that atmosphere around the Super Bowl, the party's happening, the

583
00:26:13,600 --> 00:26:15,480
Speaker 2: build up around it, I think would be the cool part.

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Speaker 3: You know, where my seat was for the Super Bowl.

585
00:26:17,920 --> 00:26:21,280
Speaker 1: It was in the auxiliary press box, which was literally

586
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Speaker 1: at the very top row of the stands in temp

587
00:26:23,960 --> 00:26:27,119
Speaker 1: BA Sun Devil Stadium, which which wasn't bad. I mean,

588
00:26:27,119 --> 00:26:29,280
Speaker 1: you're there to work and you can see fine from there.

589
00:26:29,280 --> 00:26:32,080
Speaker 1: That's one thing about football. You can see it from

590
00:26:32,160 --> 00:26:35,160
Speaker 1: a top of the state of perspective and not really

591
00:26:35,160 --> 00:26:38,080
Speaker 1: miss what's going on. But and of course I was

592
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Speaker 1: the only person that went there for the post because

593
00:26:39,680 --> 00:26:42,280
Speaker 1: that wrote two stories a day every day. You know

594
00:26:42,359 --> 00:26:46,280
Speaker 1: my story about how I was, you know, working for WWN,

595
00:26:46,880 --> 00:26:49,679
Speaker 1: and I recruited Kevin Green to be in Halkogan's Corner

596
00:26:49,960 --> 00:26:55,040
Speaker 1: midweek in Vegas on a on a primetime special on TBS.

597
00:26:55,359 --> 00:26:57,359
Speaker 1: It was a Steelers day off. We got a private

598
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Speaker 1: play and flew him up. Eric Bishop Boss. He was

599
00:27:00,720 --> 00:27:02,960
Speaker 1: so happy that I pulled that off, and it was

600
00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:05,480
Speaker 1: my idea in the first place. He had a seat

601
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Speaker 1: for me on the private plane. My idiot, Boss at

602
00:27:07,960 --> 00:27:09,440
Speaker 1: the Post Caaseet wouldn't let me go. You know what,

603
00:27:09,520 --> 00:27:12,040
Speaker 1: he said to me, You're down there to cover football,

604
00:27:12,119 --> 00:27:14,320
Speaker 1: not to screw around with wrestling. And then, of course

605
00:27:14,359 --> 00:27:17,840
Speaker 1: the next day, Haul Cogan, with Kevin Green in his corner,

606
00:27:18,080 --> 00:27:21,840
Speaker 1: was front page in USA Today, not sports, front page

607
00:27:21,840 --> 00:27:24,359
Speaker 1: of USA Today. And then he said maybe I should

608
00:27:24,440 --> 00:27:27,520
Speaker 1: have let you go, And I said, gee, you think so.

609
00:27:28,480 --> 00:27:29,920
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna mention his name because he was a

610
00:27:29,960 --> 00:27:33,400
Speaker 1: nice guy, utterly incompetent boss, following in a long line

611
00:27:33,440 --> 00:27:35,520
Speaker 1: of incompetent bosses to the Post Gazette.

612
00:27:35,520 --> 00:27:37,600
Speaker 2: At least he at least admitted kind of that he

613
00:27:37,640 --> 00:27:39,119
Speaker 2: made a mistake there, because I'm sure there's a lot

614
00:27:39,160 --> 00:27:40,520
Speaker 2: of bosses that would have just been like, nah, I

615
00:27:40,560 --> 00:27:42,320
Speaker 2: was right anyway, don't care about wrestling.

616
00:27:42,400 --> 00:27:45,240
Speaker 1: It's the same guy who when I did a huge

617
00:27:45,359 --> 00:27:49,359
Speaker 1: page three takeout on the history and the execution of

618
00:27:49,400 --> 00:27:53,560
Speaker 1: the trap, he didn't like the diagram that I provided,

619
00:27:53,920 --> 00:27:58,200
Speaker 1: so he changed it, and when it got published, the

620
00:27:58,240 --> 00:28:02,160
Speaker 1: trapping team had six skaters, to which Craig Patrick, when

621
00:28:02,160 --> 00:28:04,679
Speaker 1: he saw me, I hadn't seen the diagram yet, he said, no,

622
00:28:04,720 --> 00:28:05,320
Speaker 1: wonder that works.

623
00:28:05,320 --> 00:28:07,520
Speaker 3: You can use six skaters. That's a great line.

624
00:28:07,640 --> 00:28:09,879
Speaker 1: Yeah, Craig. Craig has his moments. He could be he

625
00:28:09,920 --> 00:28:13,000
Speaker 1: could be funny and uh. But but here's the best part.

626
00:28:13,880 --> 00:28:16,720
Speaker 1: I didn't draw the diagram. You know who faxed me

627
00:28:16,800 --> 00:28:19,560
Speaker 1: the diagram, Scottie Bowman.

628
00:28:21,440 --> 00:28:21,840
Speaker 3: This thing.

629
00:28:23,280 --> 00:28:26,720
Speaker 1: The Post Gazette didn't think that Scotty Bowman's diagram of

630
00:28:26,760 --> 00:28:30,800
Speaker 1: the trap was accurate, even though Scotty pretty much as

631
00:28:30,840 --> 00:28:33,960
Speaker 1: a sixty minute tactic, invented.

632
00:28:33,480 --> 00:28:36,480
Speaker 2: It and he personally sent that to you. Yeah, here

633
00:28:36,520 --> 00:28:37,760
Speaker 2: go Mark, use this for your article.

634
00:28:37,800 --> 00:28:40,320
Speaker 1: He because I'll faction something. Scotty great guy. I wish

635
00:28:40,360 --> 00:28:41,000
Speaker 1: I'd talked to him more.

636
00:28:41,120 --> 00:28:42,880
Speaker 3: Was so great to see him when he was in

637
00:28:42,920 --> 00:28:44,080
Speaker 3: town for the Penguins Hall of Fame.

638
00:28:44,080 --> 00:28:45,880
Speaker 2: I love Scotty, but he didn't know as much as

639
00:28:45,880 --> 00:28:48,400
Speaker 2: your editor at the Postseat or your boss the postt.

640
00:28:48,280 --> 00:28:50,400
Speaker 1: You know what, Actually that was a turning point because

641
00:28:50,440 --> 00:28:53,640
Speaker 1: when that happened, I I and that in them. I

642
00:28:53,760 --> 00:28:56,680
Speaker 1: mentioned the World Cup fiasco where I went to Cleveland

643
00:28:56,760 --> 00:28:59,200
Speaker 1: covered the US in a preliminary game, you know, an

644
00:28:59,240 --> 00:29:02,080
Speaker 1: exhibition for the ninety four Wold Cup, and actually was

645
00:29:02,120 --> 00:29:05,040
Speaker 1: cool because Brad Friedel, the US goalie guess who bought him.

646
00:29:05,040 --> 00:29:07,960
Speaker 1: The day I was there, I got to write a

647
00:29:07,960 --> 00:29:10,560
Speaker 1: feature him on Freedol Yeah, talk to him, and then

648
00:29:10,600 --> 00:29:13,200
Speaker 1: covered the game two stories and they liked my work

649
00:29:13,320 --> 00:29:15,080
Speaker 1: so much that they decided they would keep me in

650
00:29:15,120 --> 00:29:17,320
Speaker 1: the office to edit everybody else's work because I knew

651
00:29:17,360 --> 00:29:19,880
Speaker 1: so much about soccer. Between that and the Trapp diagram,

652
00:29:19,960 --> 00:29:21,320
Speaker 1: I said, you need to leave here, and I did.

653
00:29:21,320 --> 00:29:22,240
Speaker 3: And now I'm a millionaire.

654
00:29:22,400 --> 00:29:25,200
Speaker 1: And I'm sure that guy who changed that diagram isn't

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Speaker 1: what five ninety x DX. We got news on who

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Speaker 1: did and didn't make the finalists among Steelers candidates for

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Speaker 1: the Pro Football Hall of Fame, emphasis on the didn't.

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Speaker 1: We'll get to that at the top of the hour,

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Speaker 1: but right now it's time for the trifect that brought

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Speaker 1: to us by Danny's, Peter and Hogies Family owned and operated.

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Speaker 1: It is nineteen sixty that's on Route eighty eight in

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Speaker 1: Bethel Park, Tom, what do you got for today's trifecta?

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Speaker 2: Mark? I was pleased to find out this morning that

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Speaker 2: it is National Bacon Day. I don't know who decides

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Speaker 2: what day is a national day for things, but I'm

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Speaker 2: happy it's National Bacon I love bacon, So we're gonna

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Speaker 2: go with three bacon dishes, you know, dishes that feature bacon.

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Speaker 2: Number three, For me, I'm gonna go the bacon, egg

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Speaker 2: and cheese breakfast sandwich, A true staple for me. I'll

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Speaker 2: always say yes to one of those. Number two kind

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Speaker 2: of in a similar family, but for lunch slash dinner time.

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Speaker 2: The bacon cheeseburger. I think it just it emphasis or

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Speaker 2: it ups the cheeseburger's value, just a completely different level

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Speaker 2: with bacon on it. But my number one bacon featured

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Speaker 2: thing is bacon wrapped appetizers. I'm talking like bacon wrapped scallops.

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Speaker 2: I'm talking like bacon wrapped you know, pigs and blankets,

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Speaker 2: stuff like that is number one.

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Speaker 1: All of those are great, great, great trifecta listings, but

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna throw one on top of all of them.

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Speaker 1: Pilet mignon wrapped in bacon.

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Speaker 2: Does that kind of count though it's not an appetizer though,

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Speaker 2: so I wouldn't be the bacon wrapped apps.

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Speaker 1: This is a bacon wrapped on Yes, I'll put that

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Speaker 1: on my list. Who was the best bacon cheeseburger among

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Speaker 1: fast food?

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Speaker 2: I like Wendy's.

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Speaker 3: Yea, the bacon. Yeah, the baconator is great. Uh what

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Speaker 3: was your first one?

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Speaker 1: Uh?

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Speaker 2: Like number one on the list, the breakfast sandwich, bacon

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Speaker 2: eg specifically, be specific, what do you want on it? Bacon, egg, cheese,

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Speaker 2: what kind of egg? Just you know, sunny side up egg,

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Speaker 2: No scrambled egg. I want a scrambled egg on it.

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Speaker 2: But I if you do like a sunny side up

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Speaker 2: egg where it gets a little drippy, I'm not opposed

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Speaker 2: to that either. But the scramble egg, the classics good

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Speaker 2: bagel as far as what I wanted on is the

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Speaker 2: preference English muffin. You like the English muffins. I'm not

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Speaker 2: gonna fight you on an englishmuffin easier to bite through. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: bagels are a little bit thicker, but I love a

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Speaker 2: good bagel.

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Speaker 1: Bacon on everything, like bacon mash on, Like a baked

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Speaker 1: potato with with sour cream and chives, bacon cheese.

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Speaker 3: That's the thing about a baked potato.

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Speaker 1: A baked potato is like carb hell in the first place,

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Speaker 1: and then when you junk it up, it like can

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Speaker 1: stop your heart.

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Speaker 3: But it's so good.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, no question. What about like bacon desserts. Do you

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Speaker 2: ever do that, like when you put like bacon on

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Speaker 2: maple sundae ice creams?

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Speaker 3: Bad? Make?

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Speaker 1: I tried. I tried chocolate covered bacon. I talked about

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Speaker 1: it in the air, and a confection or sent it

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Speaker 1: to him. I mean, it was awful. I think there's

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Speaker 1: some things you just can't mix. I've had donuts with

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Speaker 1: like crumbled bacon on the frosting.

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Speaker 2: No, no way, I might be toying with that, but

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Speaker 2: I'm anti that as well. Do you like bacon, egg

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Speaker 2: and cheese on a biscuit that's kind of more in

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Speaker 2: the English muffin realm where it's easier to bite into

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Speaker 2: like croissant, like a croissant biscuit as the bread.

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Speaker 1: I would prefer croissant to like a bagel, a buttermilk

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Speaker 1: type biscuit. Okay, Okay, yeah I would. I would rank

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Speaker 1: English muffin first, croissants san second. Correct, And now I

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Speaker 1: wish we had some bacon.

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Speaker 3: Okay.

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Speaker 1: Steeler fans, some bad news coming up as far as

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Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame prospects for some of your heroes.

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Speaker 1: We'll get to that just around the corner here on

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Speaker 1: one oh five ninety