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Speaker 2: Do you get that they suck yet? I'm not sure

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Speaker 1: I think if they win Sunny at Baltimore, which they

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Speaker 2: But they suck.

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Speaker 1: It's amazing how little it takes to make the Steelers fold,

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Speaker 1: like the beginning of that third quarter yesterday. It's amazing

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Speaker 1: two takeaways, but it didn't matter. What was invisible. Cam

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Speaker 1: and now it's stealing money and owes everybody an apology,

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Speaker 1: an apology, Senator, No, seriously, these guys wanted more money,

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Speaker 2: Not being paid commensurate with.

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Speaker 1: What I contribute blah blah blah, and now they blow goats.

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Speaker 2: I mean, Cam Hayward should apologize to all of you. TJ.

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Speaker 1: Watson apologized to all of you. I'm sorry, I'm getting

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Speaker 2: I suck. I've let you down. I've let the city down.

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Speaker 2: I've let my family down.

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Speaker 1: I haven't let the Mark Madden show down because just

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Speaker 2: I love mister Donardo, I miss him so much.

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Speaker 1: I we can take all of the young guys in

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Speaker 2: That would come out wrong if I said what I'm thinking. Uh,

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Speaker 2: what do you guys make of all this? Seriously?

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Speaker 1: Tom w have gotta go, but he won't. Con gotta go,

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Speaker 2: You know what I mean?

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Speaker 1: They would rather stick with their method because it's the

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Speaker 1: Guess what, they're stopping you. They're not really stopping you.

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Speaker 1: They're pissing all over you. Maybe that's what you like.

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Speaker 1: Who knows what people do in the ivest in their

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Speaker 1: I hate all of it. I hate the offensive play calling,

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Speaker 2: Although Mason screwed the poots there.

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Speaker 1: And you run on third and nine and get eight,

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Speaker 1: On Sunday Night Football, the halftime dudes were saying, how

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Speaker 1: Oh it wasn't, not even a little bit. If you

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Speaker 1: the Steelers, not Jones, because the Steelers have mangled Jones's

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Speaker 1: some point, him leaving Ole Miss for LSU. Now before

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Speaker 1: But the college football is just ft, no loyalty, no identity.

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Speaker 2: In the playoff? I go, why do you? What do

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Speaker 1: It's the sports talk segment that's a new sensation. It's

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Speaker 1: the radio craze that's sweeping the nation. It is calls

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Speaker 1: By the way, besides sucking and losing, the Steelers are

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Speaker 1: terrible to watch. No fun, my babe, no fun, and

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Speaker 1: to Joel. Hello, Joel, you're on with Mark to eat

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Speaker 1: you can eat you a.

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Speaker 3: Hey.

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Speaker 4: Now that we're seeing it all play out, I wanted

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Speaker 4: to get your updated ranking on these three stupid Steeler

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Speaker 4: moments now the current TJ. Watt extension, drafting of Kenny

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Speaker 5: For Maka Fitzpatrick so we could go eight to eight.

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Speaker 1: All of them hurt the team immeasurably. Some moving forward.

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Speaker 1: they still haven't solved that problem and set themselves back

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Speaker 2: Due to that.

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Speaker 1: acrimonious at the end. But now he's playing so bad

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Speaker 1: there's no doubt it will be acrimonious at the end,

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Speaker 1: although to release him would cost them just a ton

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Speaker 1: next couple of years.

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Speaker 2: Let's go to Dave. Dave ask you're.

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Speaker 6: All with Mark, Thanks super genius. I just want to

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Speaker 6: know if the Steelers lose to Baltimore this week, will

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Speaker 6: you bring back the countdown clock?

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Speaker 7: No?

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Speaker 2: Because I jinxed the losing season for Tomlin by doing

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Speaker 8: So no, okay, no, I might.

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Speaker 1: If they would lose, if they would get to six

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Speaker 2: I would consider it.

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Speaker 9: Well, that's fair.

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Speaker 2: Yet go to Jake and Myrtle Beach. Jake, you're on

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Speaker 2: with Mark.

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Speaker 1: Mark.

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Speaker 8: I just want to lay out how stupid the Steelers

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Speaker 8: short sightedness is. I'll do this quick. Last year, after

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Speaker 8: They said, as long as we get our run defense right,

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Speaker 8: we're gonna do better. Well, not only is the long

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Speaker 8: term issues not obviously played out, but even now, the

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Speaker 8: run defense sucks. The one thing they fixated on stupidly

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Speaker 8: sucks two hundred and fifty yards yesterday and no effort

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Speaker 8: guys complaining. I like the short sightedness, and I always had.

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Speaker 1: Always hesitate to criticize effort because they're just not very

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Speaker 1: good on defense.

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Speaker 2: They can't tackle.

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Speaker 1: Like you heard what what Cook said the Baltimore the

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Speaker 8: Y'all want to not say effort is because Cam's complaining

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Speaker 8: about after the game about that's not effort.

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Speaker 2: That's attitude.

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Speaker 1: That's attitude, that's pettiness, But it's not effort.

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Speaker 2: I think those guys try. I just think they suck.

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Speaker 8: And that's the issue of the short sighting this. You won't.

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Speaker 8: You said, we've got to fix our run defense.

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Speaker 1: But let me let me tell you Cam Hayward bitching

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Speaker 1: He got bullied by a quarterback. And Patrick Queen bitching

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Speaker 1: because of what a guy with two Super Bowl rings

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Speaker 1: and the culture of that very flawed Steelers locker. And

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Speaker 1: let's go to Scoots, Coot, Charlman.

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Speaker 10: Mark, Hey, how cathartic was it to see? I think

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Speaker 10: the crowd finally had its watershed moment and broke because

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Speaker 10: I never thought i'd see fire Tom on chance in

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Speaker 10: the middle of the season. How beautiful was that?

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Speaker 1: So you're saying the crowds water broke, yes, Well, I

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Speaker 10: Okay, I think the majority Pittsburgh fans finally are past.

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Speaker 10: Now it's over fifty percent, and I and you'll appreciate this.

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Speaker 10: What the fans need to do is, yeah, you can

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Speaker 10: do the draft and whatnot, but they need to start

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Speaker 10: getting violent and destroy the stadium like I.

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Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, no, goodbye goodbye. No no, no,

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Speaker 1: absolutely not. I would never encourage that. But uh, but

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Speaker 1: as far as ruining the draft and going there and

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Speaker 1: chanting fire Tomlin every chance you can and getting it

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Speaker 1: uh momentous occasion he finally got the draft in Pittsburgh

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Speaker 1: to ruin that would be a legitimate reflection of Steeler

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Speaker 1: fan dissatisfaction. But you won't do it. You don't have

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Speaker 1: exactly what they want you to do.

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Speaker 2: How's this go? Can I get the rhythm right my mind?

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Speaker 2: At Waterloo? Napoleon did surrender?

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, And I have met my destiny in quite

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Speaker 2: Let me tell you. Let me tell you what I

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Speaker 1: If I could not only Garrett breaking TJ sack record,

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Speaker 10: So we're beating up on him today?

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Speaker 8: But that's okay?

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Speaker 7: Is it not just downright embarrassing that, you know, after PJ.

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Speaker 1: Actually he didn't boo who about the contract all summer.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, and again on an already sinking ship. I mean,

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Speaker 7: I mean, hey, facts are facts. I don't want to

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Speaker 2: Or I think so too.

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Speaker 1: What's afflicting Rogers, I think it's all of the above.

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Speaker 9: I hear what you're saying too. And I think he's

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Speaker 8: No, it's not.

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Speaker 1: But I think it's worse for him because they don't

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Speaker 1: Now, Rogers talked about his receivers running the right route

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Speaker 1: Why is Firemuth being absolutely ignored the supposed to be

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Speaker 9: Yeah, that's really high on my list of frustrations, to

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Speaker 9: it's pretty obvious to see the problem here, right.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, that I don't know anymore. I mean I used

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Speaker 2: Why is the defense that bad? Because it obviously should

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Speaker 9: No, it should not be, and this is what you

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Speaker 9: But it boggles my mind that I know Harmon was

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Speaker 1: No, that forty two to eighteen margin. That's the biggest

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Speaker 2: Doesn't it.

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Speaker 9: Yes, I mean unless you happen to score on defense

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Speaker 9: It's the only way you can win that game. Fluky stuff,

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Speaker 9: And I say they have no explosiveness on offense. I mean,

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Speaker 5: You know.

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Speaker 9: you know, you ask if the defense can ever be good.

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Speaker 9: They can't be if they're playing that many snaps. So

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Speaker 9: the defense has played one hundred and fifty nine more

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Speaker 9: snaps than the offense. That's almost like them playing three

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Speaker 9: more games than the offense. I mean that that's unsustainable.

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Speaker 9: It's unbelievable. And in a way, they're lucky that they

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Speaker 9: don't have six starters hurt. I mean, Harmon's out, Elliott's out.

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Speaker 9: But if you play that much football, guys are going

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Speaker 9: to go down. And as a result, as of right

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Speaker 9: now they play tonight, the Giants are the only team

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Speaker 9: in the league allowing more points in the fourth quarter,

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Speaker 9: So all of a sudden, you come out of the

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Speaker 9: the the halftime. Steelers offense has gotten trendous in the

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Speaker 9: third quarter for whatever reason, and then the defense is

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Speaker 9: on the field the entire second half. And even if

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Speaker 9: they're playing well, they're just out there too much. I mean,

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Speaker 9: to me, that's the biggest problem. But there's so many

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Speaker 9: reasons for the problem of time of possession.

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Speaker 1: Here's the craziest part to me. They're six and six,

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Speaker 1: tied for first place, still in it. It's incredible because

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Speaker 1: they're so bad right now, but it's all still in

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Speaker 1: their hands.

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Speaker 9: It's still in their hands. Like if they were in

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Speaker 9: the NFC West, it would be over, you know, but

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Speaker 9: it's still in their hands. Baltimore, if this was a

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Speaker 9: Baltimore radio station, they would be equally as upset right now.

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Speaker 9: And they're Kansas City and some of these other teams

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Speaker 9: that are perennial winners if.

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Speaker 1: It's a Cincinnati radio station, they're saying, if Burrow hadn't

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Speaker 1: been hurt, would be in first place.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, or if they traded for Flacco two weeks earlier

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Speaker 9: in the round or whatever. You know, it really is

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Speaker 9: that close and it sounds nuts. But the Bank could

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Speaker 9: still win this division. I mean, if you look at

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Speaker 9: their their schedule, they're probably favored in most games with Burrow,

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Speaker 9: they're playing the best of the three. I don't know

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Speaker 9: what to make of it, and I'll be honest, the

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Speaker 9: entire AFC to me, is really horrible, and that does

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Speaker 9: an excuse where the Steelers are at. Their problems are

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Speaker 9: their own, but the whole conference and division is a disaster.

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Speaker 1: Well, I ask you this every week, Well what can

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Speaker 1: they change? What would you change? Because it seems like

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Speaker 1: despite everything going wrong, Matt, that they don't really want

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Speaker 1: to change anything.

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Speaker 9: I know, and it's easier said than done because game

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Speaker 9: script can screw you up. But I really think they

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Speaker 9: have to run the ball a higher percentage of the time.

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Speaker 9: I mean, I think you have to start there, like

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Speaker 9: Mike Pursuda and.

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Speaker 2: I do a thing as they do.

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Speaker 9: You're right, I mean that's step one of helping the

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Speaker 9: time of possession problem like this joke, like you go

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Speaker 9: to the doctor and be like, hey, doc, you know

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Speaker 9: my time of possession hurts, and he'd be like, well,

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Speaker 9: because you don't run the ball well enough. You know,

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Speaker 9: like there's symptoms. And then how do I cure those symptoms?

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Speaker 9: Where I think you start by running the football? And

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Speaker 9: I mentioned I do a Thursday night show with Merril

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Speaker 9: Hodge and Meryl anytime things are going wrong. And this

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Speaker 9: goes back to Chuck Nole and the way that Meryll

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Speaker 9: learned football is you start with, all right, let's tear

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Speaker 9: this thing back to its studs, and what are our

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Speaker 9: two or three best running plays, whatever they are, much

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Speaker 9: like Buffalo yesterday where they ran the same play a

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Speaker 9: million times. Let's just practice these two or three plays

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Speaker 9: to no end and get ten percent better at outside

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Speaker 9: zone or whatever ones you pick, and just start there

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Speaker 9: and stick with it, because to me, that's step number

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Speaker 9: one is they throw the ball too much and then

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Speaker 9: all of a sudden you're behind the chains and where

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Speaker 9: where they throw the ball is very predictable. It's always

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Speaker 9: actor behind the line of scrimmage or an occasional deep

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Speaker 9: ball down the sideline.

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Speaker 1: Well, now they go to Baltimore and the Ravens, like

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Speaker 1: we just discussed, aren't pretty good either.

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Speaker 2: What's wrong with Baltimore.

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Speaker 1: It seems like Lamar is one hundred percent and it

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Speaker 1: seems like and this is abstract map, but it seems

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Speaker 1: like they've lost their mojo, just like the Steelers a lot.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, they were my Super Bowl pick and I thought, boy,

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Speaker 9: they're loaded. Lamar's awesome, And I still think Lamar is awesome,

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Speaker 9: but you're one hundred percent right. He is playing with

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Speaker 9: a bad wheel. I mean, he doesn't run hardly at

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Speaker 9: all right now. It also compromises his accuracy because he's

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Speaker 9: got this bad hamstring. I think it is his base

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Speaker 9: isn't as good as it used to be. But what

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Speaker 9: I was wrong about them in the preseason when I

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Speaker 9: picked them is they have fundamental issues before even Lamar

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Speaker 9: got hurt. Their pass rush is very poor, they don't

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Speaker 9: have pass rushers. Their offensive line is well belowdge. So

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Speaker 9: those things were the problem early in the season. They

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Speaker 9: remain the problem. And Superman's on Superman right now, so

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Speaker 9: nobody's elevating things now. They did win five in a

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Speaker 9: row before this week, and you know, and in somewhat

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Speaker 9: impressive fashion. But they definitely are not that team that

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Speaker 9: steam rolled the Steelers in the playoffs. And who knows.

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Speaker 9: I mean, obviously there's a Tomlin parallel here, but when

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Speaker 9: a coach has been there that long, a lot of

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Speaker 9: the guys have heard the same message over and over,

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Speaker 9: you know.

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Speaker 1: Oh, and both Tom and Harbaugh. I mean they kind

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Speaker 1: of coach outdated. They're stuck in defense and running, except

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Speaker 1: the Steelers aren't stuck in running anymore.

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Speaker 9: To a lot of direasy. Yeah, I mean, well, the

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Speaker 9: certain parallel is neither one is an innovative offensive mind

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Speaker 9: there you go. Yeah, well, how.

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Speaker 2: Do you think this game is going to go?

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Speaker 1: I mean, I you know, you know what to be

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Speaker 1: hilarious on every level if the Steers could find a

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Speaker 1: way to win it, and then the usual suspects would

548
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Speaker 1: all talk about how the AFC is terrible and the

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Speaker 1: Steelers could beat anybody in the playoff game, and maybe

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Speaker 1: that even be right.

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Speaker 9: And they might even be right, you know, Mahomes doesn't

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Speaker 9: even go to the playoffs or you know, I mean,

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Speaker 9: they might even be right. The funniest thing which could

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Speaker 9: actually happen is Tomlin's streak could end. They could end

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Speaker 9: up with like an eight and nine win team, win

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Speaker 9: the division, and win a playoff game, so we could

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Speaker 9: stop talking about his streak and we could stop talking

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Speaker 9: about playoff losses.

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Speaker 2: Disagree, disagree.

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Speaker 1: If they go wight nine to win a playoff game,

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Speaker 1: that's nine and nine. Oh wait, then they'd have to

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Speaker 1: lose the next one. Okay, losing season.

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Speaker 2: There you go. Yeah, I just so much about this season.

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Speaker 1: Like do you ever run out of stuff to say?

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Speaker 1: I mean, my god, Matt, they were booing renegades.

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Speaker 8: I know.

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Speaker 9: I'll be honest, This has been my hardest game to

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Speaker 9: analyze on a Monday, because I feel like everyone listening

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Speaker 9: could do my job right now because it was so

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Speaker 9: obvious what the problems were.

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Speaker 2: Oh, I know.

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Speaker 1: When I wrote my column for the Trib it went

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Speaker 1: like eight inches over what I usually write because I

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Speaker 1: just kept going there was so much to criticize.

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Speaker 9: Yeah right, I mean, but there's not much to analyze.

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Speaker 9: I mean, they were bad at everything except for maybe

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Speaker 9: past defense, which didn't matter at all because Buffalo never

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Speaker 9: had to throw the ball.

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Speaker 1: The main reason I'd go to Rudolph instead of Rogers,

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Speaker 1: which I know is tough to do because they're evident

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Speaker 1: lack of faith and trust in Rudolph. I just don't

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Speaker 1: think a one armed old man who looked like he

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Speaker 1: was in a bus stop when he was on the

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Speaker 1: bench yesterday just hoping the weather would get warmer.

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Speaker 2: He's not going to bail them out.

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Speaker 1: I gave him credit for trying his best in a

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Speaker 1: difficult situation, but we know this situation can't be what

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Speaker 1: he bargained for.

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Speaker 9: I'm sure all of that stuff is true. I'm sure

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Speaker 9: I still think he gives you the best chance to win,

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Speaker 9: and that's still the goal here are you know they

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Speaker 9: are six and six. But a big thing I've been

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Speaker 9: saying today and again this is very obvious analysis. When

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Speaker 9: you watch Rogers at this age on the same field

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Speaker 9: as Josh Allen, who people just bounce off of and

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Speaker 9: whenever he needs it, he can pick up ten yards

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Speaker 9: of his legs, you realize what you're up against, you know.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, no question about that, because Josh Allen won't even

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Speaker 1: that great yesterday, but every play he had to make.

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Speaker 9: He did, Yeah, and again he just it just stresses

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Speaker 9: to me how badly the next quarterback has to be

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Speaker 9: an athlete.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll see about that. Matt, great stuff. As always,

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Speaker 1: I appreciate the insight. We'll do it again next week.

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Speaker 1: That's Matt Williamson, and he's right about the quarterback. I

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Speaker 1: just don't think they're gonna get it right, because they

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Speaker 1: never get quarterback right. Tomlin ain't ever. Matt bront Is

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