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Speaker 1: W dv E, Pittsburgh, an iHeartRadio station guaranteed human.

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Speaker 2: Rogers steps up, and Rogers is sacked and the ball

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Speaker 2: is loose, and it's picked up by Sheldon Rankins, and

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Speaker 2: Rankins is sprinting down the field and Rankins has scored

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Speaker 2: a Houston Texans touchdown.

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Speaker 3: And with that, the game was pretty much over for

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Speaker 3: the Pittsburgh Steelers. Aaron Rodgers fumbling there and giving up

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Speaker 3: a defensive touchdown. It would be the first of two

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Speaker 3: that quarter, and Aaron Rodgers career with the Pittsburgh Steelers

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Speaker 3: may have culminated with a pick six in which he

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Speaker 3: totally whisked out on the tackle.

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Speaker 4: And that, to me was when I realized, oh, he's done.

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Speaker 1: This was it.

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Speaker 3: He's not even gonna try to make that tackle, because

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Speaker 3: why would he.

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Speaker 4: He's done playing.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean he might be done playing, but we're

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Speaker 5: beginning an off season that's gonna be at minimum three

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Speaker 5: months of Aaron Rodgers Like, well, if I did come back,

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Speaker 5: here's how I would do.

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Speaker 1: It have to be lots of changes.

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Speaker 5: You're gonna have to think about this one.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm gonna, you know, get with my family and

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Speaker 6: walk under a blanket on the beach for five months,

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Speaker 6: yell about Calvin Austin running the wrong route.

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Speaker 3: I mean, Aaron Rodgers was pissed off all night, and

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Speaker 3: I don't really blame him. I mean, he didn't have

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Speaker 3: a lot of protection. This's a great defense, make no

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Speaker 3: mistake about it. Didn't have a lot of protection last

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Speaker 3: night when he did have time, though there were times

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Speaker 3: Aaron was missing wide open guys. I mean he was

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Speaker 3: making it harder for them because he did not have

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Speaker 3: a great game. But nobody on the offense did, save

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Speaker 3: for Gainwell and Warren, who I still don't understand why

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Speaker 3: we just didn't run the Bejesus out of those guys.

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Speaker 3: But you know, the Steelers took some shots downfield. Eventually,

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Speaker 3: they threw it to Mooth eventually. But I think there

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Speaker 3: are so many problems with this team, Arthur Smith's very

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Speaker 3: one dimensional offense.

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Speaker 1: It's just I mean, the dink and dunk king.

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Speaker 3: And maybe that's only because they never went out and

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Speaker 3: got a second receiver second year in a row. That

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Speaker 3: Omar and Mike Tomlin thought they'd be okay with just

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Speaker 3: one receiver threat, or maybe they thought John new Smith

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Speaker 3: would be more failed experiment on John hu failed, didn't

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Speaker 3: go well, Aaron Rodgers failed failed experiment. I think he

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Speaker 3: was much more promising had they surrounded him with some

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Speaker 3: better assets than Russell Wilson would have been. But enough

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Speaker 3: with this. Let's you know, we need the Drake May,

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Speaker 3: we need a bow Knicks. We need one of those

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Speaker 3: young guys to come in here and develop and play

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Speaker 3: at a level that is necessary to win in the NFL.

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Speaker 3: The Steelers haven't had that in a long time since

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Speaker 3: before Ben's elbow injury. And it's maddening right now to

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Speaker 3: see this wound back and a lot of questions as

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Speaker 3: to whether Mike Tomlin will be back. I mean a

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Speaker 3: little overreaction Tuesday here, but I just don't see how

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Speaker 3: anybody thinks it's gonna be any different going forward that

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Speaker 3: the old way of doing things isn't working now. I'm

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Speaker 3: sure Michael had plenty of reasons when he comes in

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Speaker 3: here as to why it wouldn't be such a bad

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Speaker 3: thing if they brought Mike back. They are going to

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Speaker 4: That's pretty much a short at this point.

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Speaker 3: But it feels like we are stuck in a loop

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Speaker 3: of mediocrity. It's like the Pirates are in a loop

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Speaker 3: of futility?

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Speaker 5: Are the Steelers in.

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Speaker 3: That much of a different one currently? Other than it's

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Speaker 3: only been nine years instead of thirty nine years.

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Speaker 5: Playoff futility a different level, a higher echelon of futility.

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Speaker 3: Championships still eluding them by a great deal.

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Speaker 5: Yeah. I feel a little stupid having celebrated so hard

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Speaker 3: Now, don't don't. Don't get mad at yourself for that.

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Speaker 3: Beating the Ravens is always cost for celebration.

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Speaker 5: No, yeah, it was if you waited to me, No, no, no,

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Speaker 5: you kept the Ravens out of the playoffs and got

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Speaker 5: their coach fighters All right, you're right, that's it. This

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Speaker 3: I mean, there was a lot to celebrate there, Tad,

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Speaker 3: But don't forget that might have been for us the

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Speaker 6: You never win the next week after that happens, and

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Speaker 6: you know they might have I.

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Speaker 3: Almost use a metaphor that would have got us in

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Speaker 6: Their emotional Yeah, yes, there we go.

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Speaker 5: Thanks Sammy, you know what I'm talking about. It's all

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Speaker 5: gone now, Yeah, it's all gone now.

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Speaker 3: I need to build this up from my refractory period

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Speaker 3: for the does that have a progesteron blocker? I need

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Speaker 3: some of that te goo that Porky puts on his neck. Anyways,

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Speaker 3: it's disappointing, no doubt about it. We did get an

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Speaker 4: You're watching playoff football and.

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Speaker 5: Thinking this could be us.

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Speaker 7: The Bears did that could be us.

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Speaker 3: Look at all this fun that everybody's having. You could

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Speaker 3: get back to having fun again. And the way that

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Speaker 6: Oh my god, we're gonna win this game. We are

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Speaker 6: gonna win this game. Yeah, and then that defense stiffened up.

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Speaker 6: And I don't understand the play calling with Arthur Smith.

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Speaker 6: They they are a tough team to run on.

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Speaker 3: And you know, I understand how great of a defense

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Speaker 3: that is. But no defense in the NFL should make

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Speaker 3: you look as bad as the Steelers offense looked last night.

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Speaker 4: It was just pitiful.

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Speaker 3: DK Metcalf coming off a two game suspension, dropping a huge,

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Speaker 3: huge throw from Aaron Rodgers. I mean it would have

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Speaker 3: gone for a big game at a time they needed

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Speaker 4: I think that was their ninety two yard drive there

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Speaker 5: Yeah, the Metcalf play was the one that I kept

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Speaker 5: coming back to. It is like, oh, if we had

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Speaker 4: You know, but when you're doing that, like, but that's

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Speaker 4: how bad thing, that's a feudal things were.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, it's like, oh, if we had just

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Speaker 3: Had, maybe that would have that would have kicked in

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Speaker 4: But they had the momentum and they pissed it away.

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Speaker 3: Steelers lose thirty to six, thirty to six. They gave

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Speaker 4: The pit so not exactly.

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Speaker 6: They forgot to do that thing where you hold four

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Speaker 6: why they're like, we forgot what quarter was ceedars Stroud

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Speaker 8: That was the biggest in tellus he sucked, yeah for

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Speaker 4: Defense made him stink though.

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Speaker 3: I mean, you know, I saw a lot of people

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Speaker 3: worn down. Yeah, they gave up yards, but it was

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Speaker 4: I mean I thought that I thought the defense.

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Speaker 3: Had a good enough game for the Steelers to win

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Speaker 3: if the offense could do anything. They never made the

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Speaker 3: Texans play from behind, just a joke.

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Speaker 5: I mean, three turnovers, you know, And I find myself

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Speaker 5: like it's a bad habit to get into. But if

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Speaker 5: gonna be plus three, well, I know, at one point

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Speaker 5: to be thirty to six, I would be like thirty

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Speaker 6: Right, Yeah, Christian Kirk diced them up one hundred and

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Speaker 6: forty four yards receiving last night.

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Speaker 5: Christian Kirk was in the Steelers wide receiver two sweepstakes.

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Speaker 5: Which makes that even more frustrating is that he was

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Speaker 5: you know, and then he slaughtered them last night, destroyed.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely destroyed him eight catches last night. I mean, the

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Speaker 3: Steelers had every scenario they could have wanted to win

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Speaker 3: that game except having a capable offense. The offensive joke

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Speaker 6: Their worst performance of the season. Troy five time, I've

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Speaker 6: never seen him that bad. No, he's the steady Eddies.

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Speaker 6: The young Rock got absolutely owned all night. The same

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Speaker 6: Dylan Cook as good as he's been. You know, there's

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Speaker 6: only so much you can ask of a guy who's

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Speaker 6: fifth on your death chart or fourth on your death

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Speaker 1: I don't know.

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Speaker 3: I feel somewhat released, you know, I don't know what

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Speaker 3: What I will be angry with is if this team

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Speaker 3: doesn't make changes and it's not going to be at

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Speaker 3: the coaching level, but their talent assessment is just poor

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Speaker 3: John new Smith was a joke this year. He was

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Speaker 3: in absolute embarrassment DK Metcalf. Unless you get him any

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Speaker 3: somebody else, he is not going to pay dividends. He

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Speaker 3: basically was like a more I don't know, polite George Pickens.

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Speaker 3: You know when he did you in trouble, you go, oh, yes, ma'am,

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Speaker 3: yes sir. And he was great interview, nice fella. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: you know, he seems like he's like cool to hang

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Speaker 3: around with and everything, but he can't do it by himself.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: And Aaron Rodgers at forty two.

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Speaker 3: I just think there was more good than bad from

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Speaker 3: Aaron Rodgers this year, but it was a far cry

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Speaker 3: from where he was. And last night I did not

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Speaker 3: He had receivers running in the wrong routes. You saw

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Speaker 3: him screaming, do your fin job. They weren't on the

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Speaker 3: same page. Okay, so you're running this back or do

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Speaker 3: you pray Arthur Smith gets a job somewhere else And

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Speaker 3: if so, do you bring in Mike McDaniel.

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Speaker 8: The annual thing is interesting. If Aaron stays, for sure.

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Speaker 3: Would hate him James Harrison already said no, f and way. Well,

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Speaker 3: not that he gets to make any decisions, but that

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Speaker 3: gives you the idea of what some of the Steelers

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Speaker 8: Arthur Smith wants to go to the Titans.

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Speaker 3: Right, I mean I think he wants a head coaching

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Speaker 4: He did not do himself any favors with that.

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Speaker 5: Yeah night, how would he get one? This is my question.

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Speaker 6: I don't think he's interviewing for any other job except

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Speaker 6: that one. That doesn't mean you have to keep in oc.

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Speaker 5: But it feels like it's the only way for them

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Speaker 3: Did they ever catch fire or have a rhythm this year?

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Speaker 3: So he's like one or two games?

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Speaker 8: You are filth.

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Speaker 8: But I say it patriotic sentiments.

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Speaker 3: I never thought anybody was like sitting down with a

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Speaker 8: Just guessing things over and over.

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Speaker 8: That's what I thought, too, is it wasn't like going like, Ooh,

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Speaker 8: Sports fanatics of all hobbies, Sports teams and players are

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Speaker 3: Last night after the game, Aaron Rodgers postgame comments not

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Speaker 5: Yeah, he's pissed.

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Speaker 3: He is very angry last night, and who could blame him? Well,

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Speaker 3: Steelers lost. Tim Banz will join us too. That's it

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Speaker 3: for your Pittsburgh Steelers twenty five twenty six campaign. And

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Speaker 6: That's a lot.

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Speaker 3: Mike's got your sports when we come back here, because

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Speaker 1: I was pissed.

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Speaker 5: Got to be partly cloudy to mostly cloudy today high

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Speaker 11: Mike Pursuda with your sports here in the wake of

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Speaker 1: Let's get to the particular.

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Speaker 12: Statistically, Steelers now have the longest active playoff losing streak

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Speaker 5: Got to be pretty good to lose twenty games in

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Speaker 12: As for the reaction, the Houston defense did what the

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Speaker 12: Houston defense does, and things wound up collapsing off the

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Speaker 12: edge for the Steelers.

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Speaker 1: Here's Mike Tomlin. You know, it certainly was a step back.

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Speaker 13: I respect obviously their front and their capabilities and so forth,

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Speaker 13: but we certainly didn't play to our desires today. And

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Speaker 13: it wasn't like they were they were they were pressing

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Speaker 13: a lot. They weren't. That's not the style their four

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Speaker 13: man rush group. But it certainly was significant.

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Speaker 12: And the Steelers' response, or I shouldn't even say the

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Speaker 12: response they're planned for it.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to put this as bad as the.

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Speaker 12: Defensive game plan was in Baltimore last year, this was

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Speaker 12: the offensive a clip.

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Speaker 5: I would agree.

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Speaker 12: They trusted their tackles against the two best at rushers

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Speaker 12: in the game, the best tag team, not number one

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Speaker 12: and number two at rushers. But you knew coming in

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Speaker 12: that those guys could destroy you, and job one had

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Speaker 12: to be not getting destroyed. And the first couple of

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Speaker 12: downs there was a little help on the left side.

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Speaker 12: They left Troy on the right to pretty much be

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Speaker 12: Troy Favetanu.

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Speaker 1: And the longer the game went, the worst it got.

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Speaker 12: And uh the play that sums it up on a

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Speaker 12: lot of levels to me, Third and twelve from the

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Speaker 12: Steelers forty three eleven thirty four left in the fourth quarter.

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Speaker 12: They're down ten to six at this point. Throughout the

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Speaker 12: Pittsburgh forty three, third and twelve, they've been trying to

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Speaker 12: get third and nine, third.

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Speaker 1: And twenty one, third and eight all night. Nothing's working.

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Speaker 12: They went empty, set, sack, strip, scoop score ballgame. Whereas

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Speaker 12: I would have thought, and I would have hoped at

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Speaker 12: that point run it wish they should have been doing

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Speaker 12: all night anyway on it.

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Speaker 1: And they got away.

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Speaker 12: From that punnet, try to flip the field and then

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Speaker 12: get the ball back and steal the game with the

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Speaker 12: drive late kind of like the way the Cleveland game

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Speaker 12: played out, except they didn't finish the Cleveland drive. In Cleveland,

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Speaker 12: they maniacally protected and couldn't score a touchdown as a result.

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Speaker 12: Last night, they rolled the dice that they could protect

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Speaker 12: without anything special extra, no no allowance for what they

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Speaker 12: were up against, and they couldn't score touchdown. That's malpractice,

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Speaker 12: So I guess We've gone from too hot to too cold.

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Speaker 1: They go, maybe next year will be just row.

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Speaker 5: Next year's the goalie lost year. I think we'll be fine.

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Speaker 12: The postseason agety continues, particularly for TJ. Watt, who was well,

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Speaker 12: he's never experienced anything else.

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Speaker 1: I mean, this is still fresh man.

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Speaker 13: It's extremely frustrating, extremely frustrating.

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Speaker 12: Now the off season questions commence, and no doubt the

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Speaker 12: biggest one of those is going to involve whether Aaron

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Speaker 12: Rodgers is done playing and if not, if he's done

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Speaker 12: playing here.

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Speaker 14: No, I mean, I'm not going to make any emotional decisions. Disappointed,

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Speaker 14: you know, obviously it's such a fun year. You know,

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Speaker 14: a lot of adversity, but a lot of a lot

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Speaker 14: of fun. Been a great year, you know, overall my

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Speaker 14: life in the last they last year, and this is

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Speaker 14: you know, really part of that coming here and being

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Speaker 14: part of this team. So it's disappointing to be sitting

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Speaker 14: here with the season over.

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Speaker 3: We talked about him being a bridge quarterback possibly next

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Speaker 3: year if he wants to come back to help develop

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Speaker 3: whoever they end up getting in the draft, assuming they

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Speaker 3: do go all in on a quarterback in this year's draft.

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Speaker 3: That being said, Mike, do you look around for another option?

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Speaker 3: If Aaron Rodgers does want to come back, is that

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Speaker 3: the decision.

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Speaker 12: I would have no problem with him coming back. I

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Speaker 12: thought he just had no time last night. I didn't

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Speaker 12: think he had a chance, and I mentioned, you know,

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Speaker 12: going empty set on third and twelve. I think suicidal

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Speaker 12: against those guys, the one at the end of the

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Speaker 12: second quarter. Ironic that one time Cook actually blocked will

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Speaker 12: Anderson into the ground and was lying on top of him,

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Speaker 12: and when Rodgers went to escape, he ran into the

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Speaker 12: pile on that third down. I don't know if he

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Speaker 12: could have got out onto the wing if anything would

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Speaker 12: have developed, and I just I would have thought, well,

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Speaker 12: my plan would have been to outlast the Texans, realizing

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Speaker 12: that they have a huge advantage from the pressure components.

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Speaker 12: I'm just not going to let that destroy the game.

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Speaker 12: I'm gonna run, run, run, punt, run, run, run, punt

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Speaker 12: because I'm thinking they're not going to score on me either.

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Speaker 12: I'll make this thing six to three if I have to,

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Speaker 12: but to let that unfold the way it did last night,

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Speaker 12: and I don't want to let the defense off the

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Speaker 12: hook either, because the defense got run on by Woody.

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Speaker 5: Marx by the third quarter.

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Speaker 12: The turnovers, you know, kind of saved face on the

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Speaker 12: scoreboard for a while, but they were they were being

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Speaker 12: dictated to and they were being pushed and controlled.

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Speaker 1: So it wasn't good.

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Speaker 4: No, it was bad, very bad.

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Speaker 3: Steeler fans went from the elation of beating the Ravens

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Speaker 3: to the realization of what actually is in terms of

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Speaker 3: the composition of this team. And that's where I think

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Speaker 3: the biggest problem is. I think coaching is the second

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Speaker 3: issue to deal with on this team. To me, talent

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Speaker 3: assessment is their biggest problem.

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Speaker 12: Yeah, I think that's I think that's everybody's biggest challenge,

548
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Speaker 12: but it's it's clearly this team's biggest issue. They didn't

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Speaker 12: Roban Wilson was a healthy scratch again last night on

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Speaker 12: a team that is picking up wide receiver was picking

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Speaker 12: up wide receivers off the street because it was an

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Speaker 12: insufficient wide receiver room.

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Speaker 1: Caleb johnsons, I.

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Speaker 12: Mean it's like they got two good running backs. I

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Speaker 12: mean that's not ideal, but the wide receiver one. I mean,

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Speaker 12: third round pick on that guy. For two years, They've

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Speaker 12: had problems Roman Wilson for two years. I've had problems

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Speaker 12: with wide receiver. He has been a zero factor.

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Speaker 6: I didn't understand it when they got him. I did

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Speaker 6: not understand that.

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Speaker 1: Pick.

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Speaker 12: No, he's really productive in college and he measured well.

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Speaker 12: And you know, not everybody hits he did. It's going

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Speaker 12: to be like Hunter Renfro or one of those guys.

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Speaker 12: He was not just the whole composition of it. I mean,

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Speaker 12: you can have one small guy, you can't have three,

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Speaker 12: all right.

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Speaker 3: asking you this pointing the finger of blame, do you

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Speaker 3: way more towards the game plan or the execution for

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Speaker 15: Well, Mike Tomlin looked so down after that game last night.

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Speaker 15: I really thought he needed to hold his head up.

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Speaker 15: So I just ran up to him and gave him

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Speaker 15: a big wet kiss on the mouth. Instead of by

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Speaker 15: when Aaron Rodgers got the podium, I just gave him

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Speaker 15: a reach around. I mean, I thought that was Yeah,

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Speaker 15: that's that's what the Internet keeps telling me. This postgame

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Speaker 15: press conference are for, for genuine human reaction.

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Speaker 4: I'm glad that you.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, did you?

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Speaker 15: I kind of thought it yesterday?

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Speaker 16: Was I thought?

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Speaker 15: On the offensive side of the they held their own

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Speaker 15: against the great pass rushers of Houston until was it

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Speaker 15: the second drive of the third quarter. It's kind of

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Speaker 15: funny because I tweeted it out. I said so far,

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Speaker 15: and I put so far in like asterisks and exclamation

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Speaker 15: points and caps in bold, because it just it felt

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Speaker 15: like it still could be coming. You know, the Steelers

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Speaker 15: front seven is winning the battle because they had the

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Speaker 15: two strip sacks and three sacks overall, Whereas I think

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Speaker 15: by that point Rogers when it came to Hunter and

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Speaker 15: Anderson at least had been touched behind the line of

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Speaker 15: scrimmage once by those guys the whole game, and then

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Speaker 15: the damn broke. I just thought that the Steelers offensive

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Speaker 15: line broke about thirty five minutes into the game and

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Speaker 15: they never got it back. So that's on the players schematically,

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Speaker 15: you know, they they never figured it out. They never

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Speaker 15: figured out how to push the ball across the chains effectively.

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Speaker 15: They never figured out how to hand all third downs.

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Speaker 15: They never figured out how to stay away from Petrie.

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Speaker 15: I mean that might God, that guy was all over

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Speaker 15: the field last night for Houston and then on defense.

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Speaker 15: I don't know what that was, Mike, Maybe you can

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Speaker 15: tell me. I might just be missing. I asked TJ. Watt,

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Speaker 15: and he was so flummixed by a lack of answers

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Speaker 15: that I thought his answer was actually extremely revealing and

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Speaker 15: honest that they got their asses kicked by a Texans

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Speaker 15: offensive line that's not supposed to be any good and

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Speaker 15: a run game that's marginal on its best day. Like,

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Speaker 15: I don't think they got schemed in that run game.

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Speaker 15: They just got pushed around and that's not supposed to happen.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's how I saw that.

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Speaker 12: The fourth round running back Wooden Marks from USC had

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Speaker 12: eighty eight yards by the third quarter, which was more

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Speaker 12: than he had in any game all season.

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Speaker 16: Correct.

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Speaker 15: Yeah, and they wound up with one hundred and sixty

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Speaker 15: four yards rushing.

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Speaker 12: Yeah, kind of stopped the bleeding temporarily, But I don't

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Speaker 12: think it was well. The defense played well left to win.

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Speaker 12: They only gave up seventeen points. They got physically pushed around.

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Speaker 15: I don't know if you guys saw the meme that's

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Speaker 15: going around from that NFL Memes page. It's not fit

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Speaker 15: for human eyes, but it's just a still shot that

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Speaker 15: they created of the Steelers' last seven playoff games and

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Speaker 15: the scores where they took a picture of them from

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Speaker 15: the broadcast when the Steelers were at their greatest deficit.

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Speaker 15: It's a montage. It's just a still shot montage. You're like,

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Speaker 15: oh my god, it really has been that bad. I'll

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Speaker 15: tell you where I didn't like the scheme at all,

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Speaker 15: and that was the approach that they took to the

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Speaker 15: run game again. Like, I know that their yards per

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Speaker 15: carrie wasn't great, but I don't know what it felt

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Speaker 15: like to you guys. It felt like to me they

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Speaker 15: were still more effective in creating running lanes for the

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Speaker 15: backs than they were completing the wide open passes.

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Speaker 5: That they had.

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Speaker 15: Like, you know, they had an opportunity to be up

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Speaker 15: at least ten nothing, nine to nothing with three field

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Speaker 15: goals at the end of that first quarter, but they

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Speaker 15: were missing passes less than right Whereas I thought there

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Speaker 15: were alleys to be run in that first quarter, and

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Speaker 15: they didn't run up with Gainwell and Warren early.

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Speaker 3: I thought, But hasn't that I mean, I was tweeting

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Speaker 3: URTFB for the last month. I don't think they were

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Speaker 3: running the ball enough all fricking year. And I don't

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Speaker 3: know how they reassessed each week and didn't say, well,

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Speaker 3: you know, what would have been better if we would

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Speaker 3: have just stuck with the run control the clock. That

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Speaker 3: has worked well for them, especially last night, Mike, Like

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Speaker 3: you said, lives to fight another day, don't let.

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Speaker 12: Their defense score on you, which they're highly capable of doing.

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Speaker 6: Fourteen points for them last night.

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Speaker 4: Under the cross under.

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Speaker 15: Did that cost the over under for some people?

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Speaker 6: Some precincts okay, good, Well some precincts, yeah, that's the key.

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Speaker 15: But well, the live to fight another Day thing was

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Speaker 15: something that C J. Stroud did not employ. I mean, like,

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Speaker 15: they got three turnovers against a team that never turns

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Speaker 15: the ball over, and they couldn't cash them in at any points. Like,

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Speaker 15: if this wasn't such a defining moment of their playoff ineptitude,

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Speaker 15: that would be the biggest talking point to if this

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Speaker 15: is a game that just happens in October, You're saying

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Speaker 15: that team never turns the ball over, they got the

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Speaker 15: ball back bunch, and they still couldn't put points on

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Speaker 15: the board. What's going on? But instead, you know, I know,

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Speaker 15: I was giving you guys a little bit agrief when

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Speaker 15: I was on with you last week after Baltimore, because

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Speaker 15: I don't I think we maybe overreacted to the Baltimore

692
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Speaker 15: win in the sense that calling it a playoff win

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Speaker 15: was almost like preemptively making ourselves feel better about what

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Speaker 15: was about to happen because we know this team is failures.

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Speaker 12: I can just I can just tell you from my perspective, Tim,

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Speaker 12: I called it a playoff win because it was winner

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Speaker 12: go home. I was not trying to forecast failure well

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Speaker 12: or protect against failure. I just think by definition it

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Speaker 12: was a playoff game. You win your gat.

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Speaker 15: Yeah, well it doesn't count as ledger and I've got

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Speaker 15: a seven game losing streak now in nine straight years

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Speaker 15: without a playoff victory.

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Speaker 3: Tim Ben's brought to you by Don's Appliances this morning

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Speaker 3: on DV. Benzie, thanks so much and appreciate you propping

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Speaker 3: up Mike Tomlin like that.

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Speaker 15: Yeah, Hey, anything I can do because those of us

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00:36:35,719 --> 00:36:38,640
Speaker 15: in the media, it's our job to, for the good

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Speaker 15: of the community, make the team feel better about itself.

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Speaker 4: Glad you finally come to that realization. Welcome on board.

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Speaker 17: It's time for the Steelers Daily Report on DVE, brought

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Speaker 17: Here's Tom Offerman.

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Speaker 18: The Steelers season end Monday night at the hands of

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Speaker 18: the Houston Texans. Thirty to six was your final score.

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Speaker 18: Houston's defense was as advertised, as they completely shut down

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Speaker 18: the Steelers offense, holding them to just one hundred and

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Speaker 18: seventy five yards of total offense and.

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Speaker 1: Limiting them to just two for fourteen on third downs.

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Speaker 18: The Texans pass rush was all over Aaron Rodgers, who

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Speaker 18: threw for just one hundred and forty six yards on

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Speaker 18: seventeen to thirty three passing. Houston sacked Rodgers four times

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Speaker 18: and had twelve quarterback hits. They also tacked on eight

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Speaker 18: tackles for loss as they completely blew up the Steelers

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Speaker 18: offensive line all night long. Defensively, the Steelers played decently

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Speaker 18: well in a game that entered the fourth quarter with

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Speaker 18: Houston leading just seven to six.

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Speaker 1: They got adequate pressure on CJ.

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Speaker 18: Strouds, sacking him three times and forced multiple turnovers. But

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Speaker 18: the biggest flaw by far on that side of the

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Speaker 18: ball was the inability to stop the run. Houston, who

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Speaker 18: averaged just three point nine yards per carry during the

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Speaker 18: regular season, averaged five point three against the Steelers as

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Speaker 18: they racked up one hundred and sixty four yards on

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Speaker 18: thirty one carries.

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Speaker 1: And one rushing touchdown.

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Speaker 18: The loss means the Steelers now have lost seven playoff

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Speaker 18: games straight as they continue to search for their first

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Speaker 18: season wins since the twenty sixteen season. I'm Tom Aframan

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Speaker 18: with the Steelers Report.

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Speaker 9: Frock WDVEE, Pittsburgh at iHeartRadio station guaranteed human.

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Speaker 7: Game Wills to his left, gets a snap back to

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Speaker 7: past four man rush.

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Speaker 2: Rogers pumps throws and it is intercepted, picked off and

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Speaker 2: running back the other way. It's Bullock and Bullock down

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Speaker 2: the left sideline. Rogers tries to pump him. Bullock knocks

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Speaker 2: off of Rogers and sprints into the end zone.

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Speaker 7: The coupde gras a fifty.

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Speaker 2: One yard interception return, and the Texans have turned this

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Speaker 2: game into a route.

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Speaker 3: Will that be the last throw that Aaron Rodgers ever

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Speaker 3: attempts in the NFL? Will that be the end of

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Speaker 3: a Hall of Fame career for mister Rogers.

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Speaker 4: Mason Rudolph went in after that and cleaned up, So

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Speaker 4: that was it for it.

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Speaker 3: I thought he would have tried to get him a

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Speaker 3: Bullock out of bounds a little bit, you know more,

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Speaker 3: you know, well, he would have tried harder to tackle

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Speaker 3: him and he just kind of olaid him, And I know,

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Speaker 3: I don't think that changes the outcome of the game.

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Speaker 3: Just his career doesn't have to end on that ugly

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Speaker 3: of a note.

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Speaker 5: We'll find out if this is it for Rogers minutes

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Speaker 5: before the draft. That's really how it feels. It's gonna

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Speaker 5: be Rogers Watch all over again. And I like.

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Speaker 3: The idea that like he's like because he said last night, like, oh,

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Speaker 3: you know, I'm not gonna make any emotional decisions.

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Speaker 8: I'm just gonna those are the only decisions he makes,

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Speaker 8: you know, exclusively makes emotional decisions.

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Speaker 3: And then like him just like walking on the beach

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Speaker 3: with the sad Hulk music playing behind him, or any

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Speaker 3: with a with a blanket and that dog that follows

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Speaker 3: him around that it might not be his dog.

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Speaker 1: I don't know.

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Speaker 8: It's not his dog, it's not his wife.

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Speaker 6: I don't want to make fun of his wife's situation because.

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Speaker 5: I don't think she was at that game.

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Speaker 4: Maybe she's at all of them, and you just don't know.

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Speaker 3: Here's my My take has always been, she wears the

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Speaker 3: steely mcbeam costume so that she can freely move him

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Speaker 3: on Steeler Nation. Oh my god, Yeah, exactly so that

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Speaker 3: he knew he could always look over to Steely and

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Speaker 3: tug his ear and she would, you know, wind right

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Speaker 3: back then.

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Speaker 8: I have to tell you that raise Awadney and I

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Speaker 8: when we were off Mike yesterday kept saying that like,

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Speaker 8: if the result of last night's game didn't go well,

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Speaker 8: that we were going to pull the Uh.

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Speaker 5: I never liked him.

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Speaker 8: Like whenever your friend is dating somebody, yeah, kind of

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Speaker 8: have like a side eye about.

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Speaker 5: If it doesn't go well, then be like.

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Speaker 1: I always hated the kind of thing.

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Speaker 8: And then if you get back together with him, be like, no, no,

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Speaker 8: I hate it the way he treated you.

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Speaker 16: Yeah, that's what I meant.

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Speaker 3: I think he's far from the biggest problem the Steelers

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Speaker 3: have right now. Running this back again next year is

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Speaker 3: going to be tough. Oh it's going to be tough.

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Speaker 3: Like with the Buckos, you just you're completely immune to

802
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Speaker 3: their futility. I mean, what they've done in this postseason

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Speaker 3: makes me think, hey, maybe this will be a fun

804
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Speaker 3: Bucko season. But we've just been beaten down by them

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Speaker 3: so much that the belief that they would actually change

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Speaker 3: anything long exited. So seeing it get run back the

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Speaker 3: same way each and every year is.

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Speaker 1: Like, yep, they go again. What a shame.

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Speaker 6: But there was this belief that the Steelers could turn

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Speaker 6: it around for those first four or five years. In

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Speaker 6: the last two or three it's been Hey, what the

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Speaker 6: what are we doing here?

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Speaker 5: What is going on?

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Speaker 3: And then there was something this year about Okay, maybe

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Speaker 3: we're making the right steps and moving forward and we're

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Speaker 3: getting the right talent because Mike tom came on this

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Speaker 3: radio show and said this defense would be historic, and

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Speaker 3: he was right for all the wrong reasons, because they

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Speaker 3: were historically bad at points and offensively, You're like, all right.

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Speaker 6: Aaron Rodgers.

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Speaker 3: We didn't know if he was going to be going

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Speaker 3: on McAfee and causing the distraction each week, and then

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Speaker 3: lo and behold, he didn't do any of that, and

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Speaker 3: he made it just about football and he became exactly

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Speaker 3: the guy they needed in the locker room because they

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Speaker 3: needed a daddy in there. They desperately did. And you

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Speaker 3: just saw everybody gravitate to him, like, oh, he's the best.

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Speaker 3: You know, there's a celebrity component to it, and all

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Speaker 3: his NFL success, it makes sense that everyone gravitated toward him,

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Speaker 3: and like he did the opposite of what he did

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Speaker 3: in New York. He seemed to really embrace that and

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Speaker 3: make it all about football. And maybe that's just a

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Speaker 3: little bit because Pittsburgh is that special of an environment.

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Speaker 3: So I thought, Okay, this is going to be good enough.

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Speaker 3: But my god, Arthur Smith's offense and lack of realization

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Speaker 3: that the two best components you have our game.

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Speaker 6: Well and Warren and why we're not.

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Speaker 3: Going through them all f and day, especially in a

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Speaker 3: game like that last night.

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Speaker 6: Live to fight another day, punt if you have to.

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Speaker 1: CJ.

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Speaker 3: Stroud wanted to lose that game. It was a battle

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Speaker 3: of who is going to lose this game? Now, who's

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Speaker 3: gonna win it?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 5: CJ. Stroud looked like he had never played football for

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Speaker 5: stakes before ever. And just like the eye off the ball,

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Speaker 5: the snaps that he was dropping, Oh yeah, that's not

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Speaker 5: the It's like a bach in baseball, like you get

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Speaker 5: one in ten games and he had three last night.

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Speaker 3: Offense couldn't capitalize on any of it. I mean, I

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Speaker 3: can't remember what our our points on turnovers were.

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Speaker 1: I think I think it was three.

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Speaker 4: I'm not sure if it was all six of our

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Speaker 4: six points at Tjy.

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Speaker 5: Pumper recovery it's three points.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so Aaron Rodgers and the offense couldn't do anything.

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Speaker 3: DK Metcalf. Doesn't matter if DK's there, if they don't

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Speaker 3: have a number two. Gross negligence on Omar and Mike

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Speaker 3: Tomlin to not come up with a number two for

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Speaker 3: the second year in a row. I don't know how

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Speaker 3: you watched that last year with George Pickens and thought,

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Speaker 3: now we can do it again.

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Speaker 5: If it's Dkay, it doesn't matter who it is to me.

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Speaker 3: Jerry Rice in his prime, he had an offensive line

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Speaker 3: that was work in progress, but got enough done up

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Speaker 3: until that game last night in which they got absolutely manhandled.

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Speaker 3: But without Darnell Washington there, they seemed to be okay

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Speaker 3: with letting the line fen from themselves and not giving

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Speaker 3: the Edges any help.

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Speaker 6: They started to in the beginning of the game, and

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Speaker 6: then they got away from it. And when did they

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Speaker 6: look good?

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Speaker 5: In the beginning of the game.

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Speaker 4: They were first.

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Speaker 3: Drive, it looked like they were gonna roll right down

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Speaker 3: and score, and then they did on the second one.

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Speaker 3: Oh so aggravating it just it felt like they had

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Speaker 3: an opportunity to understand what was working and stick with

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Speaker 3: that kind of game plan and I'm not sure what

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Speaker 3: Arthur Smith thought. Why he thought dropping his forty two

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Speaker 3: year old quarterback back without you know, help enough times

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Speaker 3: and then empty seven on third and long and just

884
00:45:01,840 --> 00:45:05,319
Speaker 3: let them get teed off on I think terrible job

885
00:45:05,360 --> 00:45:08,280
Speaker 3: by the coaches last night. Number one game plan, bad

886
00:45:08,719 --> 00:45:11,800
Speaker 3: execution by the offensive line. Well, the old John mckaylyne,

887
00:45:11,800 --> 00:45:14,600
Speaker 3: I'm in favor of it. They were bad last night,

888
00:45:15,120 --> 00:45:18,680
Speaker 3: really bad, and they weren't doing anything special. There was

889
00:45:18,760 --> 00:45:20,839
Speaker 3: just four guys who were beating the hell out of them.

890
00:45:21,480 --> 00:45:24,400
Speaker 3: So the Steel season comes to an end, and I

891
00:45:24,520 --> 00:45:27,160
Speaker 3: hate to say that, you're probably going to see a

892
00:45:27,200 --> 00:45:29,160
Speaker 3: lot of the same people in charge next year. But

893
00:45:29,200 --> 00:45:32,480
Speaker 3: I cannot see them making a change as a business.

894
00:45:32,560 --> 00:45:36,319
Speaker 3: This is a successful formula for now. But I know

895
00:45:36,360 --> 00:45:39,319
Speaker 3: they were the fire Tomlin chance again last night. Do

896
00:45:39,360 --> 00:45:41,200
Speaker 3: you want to go through another season of that? If

897
00:45:41,239 --> 00:45:44,560
Speaker 3: things go wrong? What do you do to ensure that

898
00:45:44,600 --> 00:45:46,640
Speaker 3: they get off to a good start and stay there

899
00:45:46,680 --> 00:45:48,680
Speaker 3: next year? If you stay the course with Mike Tomlin,

900
00:45:49,320 --> 00:45:50,839
Speaker 3: who is it in the draft that you think you're

901
00:45:50,840 --> 00:45:53,000
Speaker 3: going to jump up and get You're a playoff team,

902
00:45:53,040 --> 00:45:55,719
Speaker 3: You're not gonna have a high draft position you're gonna

903
00:45:55,719 --> 00:45:57,040
Speaker 3: have to trade away all of those picks.

904
00:45:57,120 --> 00:45:59,640
Speaker 4: You have to try and move up. What if you can't?

905
00:46:00,080 --> 00:46:02,560
Speaker 4: And do you take someone just because who do you love?

906
00:46:02,640 --> 00:46:03,120
Speaker 5: Right now?

907
00:46:04,080 --> 00:46:07,000
Speaker 3: A lot of people have Mendoza's the Heisman Trophy winner

908
00:46:07,160 --> 00:46:09,560
Speaker 3: as a third or fourth round guy.

909
00:46:10,360 --> 00:46:12,560
Speaker 4: Who's the NFL quarterbow.

910
00:46:12,120 --> 00:46:16,319
Speaker 3: I don't know about it was number one man. There's

911
00:46:16,360 --> 00:46:20,520
Speaker 3: there's there's guys saying like, I'm not saying he won't

912
00:46:20,520 --> 00:46:21,200
Speaker 3: go in that round.

913
00:46:21,280 --> 00:46:22,200
Speaker 1: I'm saying he's.

914
00:46:22,120 --> 00:46:24,479
Speaker 5: Kind of like the Kenny Pickett thing. Yeah, exactly, he's

915
00:46:24,520 --> 00:46:26,920
Speaker 5: made jump the gun yet, right, Uh.

916
00:46:26,800 --> 00:46:28,120
Speaker 4: No, he'll go in the first round.

917
00:46:28,160 --> 00:46:31,319
Speaker 3: But they're grading him like, you know, actually if you

918
00:46:31,360 --> 00:46:34,440
Speaker 3: take the hype away, which I don't. I never understood

919
00:46:34,440 --> 00:46:37,920
Speaker 3: that part. Like the reason there's hype is because he's good.

920
00:46:38,400 --> 00:46:39,680
Speaker 3: But is the NFL good?

921
00:46:40,400 --> 00:46:40,799
Speaker 4: I don't know.

922
00:46:40,840 --> 00:46:43,800
Speaker 3: Aaron Rodgers definitely was, but he lost a step and

923
00:46:43,960 --> 00:46:46,800
Speaker 3: was vulnerable last night. He was pissed off. He didn't

924
00:46:46,800 --> 00:46:50,400
Speaker 3: have anybody open. What are you gonna do? Adam Thielen

925
00:46:50,719 --> 00:46:54,759
Speaker 3: was running in quicksand and Roman Wilson couldn't even get

926
00:46:54,760 --> 00:46:56,160
Speaker 3: a helmet.

927
00:46:56,640 --> 00:47:01,440
Speaker 5: Fealen was like our you know, the guy most productive

928
00:47:01,480 --> 00:47:06,719
Speaker 5: receiver last night. I'm terrified at what might happen with

929
00:47:06,840 --> 00:47:07,759
Speaker 5: quarterback next year.

930
00:47:10,200 --> 00:47:11,840
Speaker 4: What if it's Aaron Rodgers.

931
00:47:12,800 --> 00:47:15,160
Speaker 5: I feel like it's Aaron Rodgers or Mac Jones right now,

932
00:47:15,320 --> 00:47:18,239
Speaker 5: or some mac Jones equivalent. And I'm not pumped about

933
00:47:18,280 --> 00:47:23,440
Speaker 5: that either. I don't know if it's Aaron Rodgers, and

934
00:47:24,560 --> 00:47:27,360
Speaker 5: I guess it would depend who's behind him.

935
00:47:27,280 --> 00:47:29,000
Speaker 6: Kyler Murray.

936
00:47:29,280 --> 00:47:32,000
Speaker 5: Kyler Murray is the antithesis of what Tomlin thinks of

937
00:47:32,080 --> 00:47:33,400
Speaker 5: when he thinks about a quarterback.

938
00:47:33,760 --> 00:47:36,760
Speaker 3: Right, Yes, Kyler Murray would be his all time favorite

939
00:47:36,840 --> 00:47:39,520
Speaker 3: receiver short right?

940
00:47:39,800 --> 00:47:41,640
Speaker 5: How are they going to bring Kyler Murray in? And

941
00:47:41,719 --> 00:47:43,600
Speaker 5: Calvin Austin is just towering over it.

942
00:47:45,400 --> 00:47:47,800
Speaker 3: He's like Calvin Austen like, hey, can you get that

943
00:47:47,840 --> 00:47:48,960
Speaker 3: tape off the top shelf for me?

944
00:47:49,000 --> 00:47:49,320
Speaker 1: Please?

945
00:47:50,080 --> 00:47:53,120
Speaker 8: If it is Aaron Rodgers but it's not Arthur Smith,

946
00:47:53,160 --> 00:47:53,840
Speaker 8: are you excited?

947
00:47:56,040 --> 00:47:57,040
Speaker 4: It depends who it is.

948
00:47:57,480 --> 00:48:02,040
Speaker 3: Mike McDaniel and Aaron Rodgers with an actual legitimate receiving corps.

949
00:48:02,239 --> 00:48:04,080
Speaker 4: Fine, But John Usmith was a joke.

950
00:48:04,160 --> 00:48:06,120
Speaker 3: They didn't throw the ball to Friar Mouth all year

951
00:48:06,160 --> 00:48:09,040
Speaker 3: after paying him, and you know Mouth was the most

952
00:48:09,080 --> 00:48:10,799
Speaker 3: exciting tight end they had and that was largely a

953
00:48:10,800 --> 00:48:11,640
Speaker 3: component of what he was.

954
00:48:11,640 --> 00:48:13,080
Speaker 4: Doing in the running game.

955
00:48:13,480 --> 00:48:14,799
Speaker 1: We had all these tight ends and No.

956
00:48:14,880 --> 00:48:16,279
Speaker 4: Number two, and we never used them.

957
00:48:16,480 --> 00:48:20,440
Speaker 3: John Newsmith's abject failure, just an absolute joke all year.

958
00:48:20,880 --> 00:48:22,880
Speaker 4: Wasn't even blocking what he was supposed to.

959
00:48:23,200 --> 00:48:24,880
Speaker 3: I mean there were one or two times where he

960
00:48:24,920 --> 00:48:27,600
Speaker 3: came through and they used him interestingly on Samanda rounds

961
00:48:27,600 --> 00:48:31,279
Speaker 3: and things like that, but by and large failure. Their

962
00:48:31,880 --> 00:48:35,480
Speaker 3: free agent pickups were a disaster. Darius Slay was watching

963
00:48:35,680 --> 00:48:39,520
Speaker 3: the game in Philadelphia on the sidelines this weekend as

964
00:48:39,520 --> 00:48:43,960
Speaker 3: a member of the Buffalo Bills. It's not coaching that's

965
00:48:44,080 --> 00:48:48,840
Speaker 3: the biggest problem. It's talent assessment. They're awful at it.

966
00:48:49,280 --> 00:48:51,000
Speaker 3: They are terrible at it.

967
00:48:50,800 --> 00:48:52,719
Speaker 6: Is does Peyton Wilson make you think he's going to

968
00:48:52,760 --> 00:48:53,560
Speaker 6: be the second Coming?

969
00:48:53,719 --> 00:48:55,000
Speaker 4: He can't play on rundowns.

970
00:48:56,360 --> 00:49:00,440
Speaker 5: The hype around Peyton Wilson in the office isn't in

971
00:49:00,719 --> 00:49:02,600
Speaker 5: camp was crazy.

972
00:49:02,800 --> 00:49:06,279
Speaker 3: Patrick Wilson probably led and tackles this year or not.

973
00:49:06,360 --> 00:49:09,640
Speaker 3: Patrick was Patrick Queen. Yeah, but is he worth the

974
00:49:09,640 --> 00:49:13,560
Speaker 3: biggest free agent contract that we've ever given anybody before?

975
00:49:13,640 --> 00:49:20,399
Speaker 3: Dk Eckles made more plays on defense than a lot

976
00:49:20,440 --> 00:49:23,279
Speaker 3: of the big name guys. Jalen Ramsey ended up using

977
00:49:23,360 --> 00:49:25,360
Speaker 3: its safety all year. You thought he was going to

978
00:49:25,400 --> 00:49:28,280
Speaker 3: be another shutdown corner. Joey Porter Jr. Awesome and another

979
00:49:28,280 --> 00:49:33,600
Speaker 3: awesome game last night. Yeah, but defensively like Harmon, Okay,

980
00:49:33,920 --> 00:49:37,560
Speaker 3: he's great. Cam had an unbelievable year again, you know,

981
00:49:37,719 --> 00:49:42,640
Speaker 3: second team All Pro. The edge rushers are great. There's

982
00:49:42,640 --> 00:49:46,000
Speaker 3: a lot of holes on defense that I think also

983
00:49:46,080 --> 00:49:49,520
Speaker 3: with TJ. Watt, I'm not sure that they ever utilize

984
00:49:49,600 --> 00:49:53,160
Speaker 3: him in a way that gets him from being chipped

985
00:49:53,320 --> 00:49:58,200
Speaker 3: and rendered ineffective too often in a game. The Browns

986
00:49:58,280 --> 00:50:01,640
Speaker 3: do things to get Miles Garrett freed up, and I

987
00:50:01,719 --> 00:50:04,600
Speaker 3: don't think defensively the Steelers did anything interesting to do

988
00:50:04,719 --> 00:50:05,279
Speaker 3: that for TJ.

989
00:50:05,400 --> 00:50:05,680
Speaker 1: Watt.

990
00:50:05,719 --> 00:50:07,319
Speaker 3: I don't know if it's like a Sydney Crosby thing,

991
00:50:07,400 --> 00:50:09,400
Speaker 3: like hmm, I don't want to play there now, this

992
00:50:09,520 --> 00:50:12,000
Speaker 3: is how I do it, Or if it's just Tara

993
00:50:12,120 --> 00:50:14,640
Speaker 3: Austin going no, he'll be okay, and he'll take two

994
00:50:14,760 --> 00:50:17,000
Speaker 3: or three guys and then everyone else will do their job.

995
00:50:17,320 --> 00:50:18,320
Speaker 5: Yeah, I could see that.

996
00:50:19,000 --> 00:50:21,400
Speaker 3: Pat Meyer, I used to bash all the time, but

997
00:50:21,440 --> 00:50:23,680
Speaker 3: I thought that offensive line came pretty far this year.

998
00:50:23,840 --> 00:50:25,520
Speaker 4: Until last night, and they were terrible.

999
00:50:26,239 --> 00:50:30,960
Speaker 6: Jalen Warren revelation Kenny Gainwell best pickup they've had, and

1000
00:50:31,120 --> 00:50:32,760
Speaker 6: I mean there's a reason he's the team MVP.

1001
00:50:33,960 --> 00:50:39,040
Speaker 3: Andy on special teams weightment over Cam Johnson. Great decision. Yeah,

1002
00:50:40,800 --> 00:50:42,920
Speaker 3: but they never had a threat as a returner.

1003
00:50:43,400 --> 00:50:44,520
Speaker 4: They don't have any.

1004
00:50:46,680 --> 00:50:52,880
Speaker 3: Explosive players on offense. I don't understand what's gonna change

1005
00:50:53,000 --> 00:50:56,560
Speaker 3: if we move forward with the same regime. I just

1006
00:50:56,680 --> 00:51:01,440
Speaker 3: don't unless you think, like, well, it's there's a percentage

1007
00:51:01,480 --> 00:51:04,040
Speaker 3: of a chance that you need to have. You need

1008
00:51:04,120 --> 00:51:07,760
Speaker 3: a lottery ticket, and Mike Tomlin gets you that lottery

1009
00:51:07,840 --> 00:51:11,400
Speaker 3: ticket every year, and then it's anybody's ballgame. And that

1010
00:51:11,600 --> 00:51:14,160
Speaker 3: seems to be their mo o. We're good enough to

1011
00:51:14,200 --> 00:51:17,280
Speaker 3: get to the dance and then maybe we'll get laid.

1012
00:51:18,560 --> 00:51:21,080
Speaker 3: But they forgot there's more to it.

1013
00:51:21,440 --> 00:51:24,839
Speaker 5: Yeah, you more likely to be back next year Arthur

1014
00:51:24,880 --> 00:51:27,120
Speaker 5: Smith or Terror Austin.

1015
00:51:29,440 --> 00:51:31,960
Speaker 4: I feel like Terall Austin is more likely to be

1016
00:51:32,040 --> 00:51:33,440
Speaker 4: back than Arthur Smith.

1017
00:51:33,360 --> 00:51:37,440
Speaker 3: Because of opportunity for Arthur Smith, and I wouldn't be

1018
00:51:37,480 --> 00:51:43,120
Speaker 3: surprised if he jumps ship if given a parallel opportunity,

1019
00:51:43,320 --> 00:51:48,759
Speaker 3: if able, but he's not like getting interviewed by every team, right,

1020
00:51:48,880 --> 00:51:51,759
Speaker 3: he interviewed by the Titans. It's not like he's on

1021
00:51:51,880 --> 00:51:54,399
Speaker 3: the coaching carousel unless people were waiting to find out.

1022
00:51:55,160 --> 00:51:55,799
Speaker 1: But I don't think.

1023
00:51:55,880 --> 00:51:58,840
Speaker 3: I don't think anything's gonna change. I think they're just

1024
00:51:58,880 --> 00:52:00,400
Speaker 3: gonna say, no, all right, we know what we did

1025
00:52:00,440 --> 00:52:02,200
Speaker 3: wrong last year, and we got to try to do better.

1026
00:52:02,360 --> 00:52:05,040
Speaker 3: And it just boils down a talent assessment. Way too

1027
00:52:05,120 --> 00:52:07,799
Speaker 3: many misses in the draft, way too many. You look

1028
00:52:07,840 --> 00:52:09,520
Speaker 3: at some of these teams that are being effective in

1029
00:52:09,600 --> 00:52:13,160
Speaker 3: the postseason, and they are loaded for bear, with solid

1030
00:52:13,200 --> 00:52:14,439
Speaker 3: players all over the board.

1031
00:52:14,480 --> 00:52:17,319
Speaker 6: The Steelers have guys who you're like, wow, hopefully you'll

1032
00:52:17,360 --> 00:52:18,719
Speaker 6: be able to figure it out.

1033
00:52:19,280 --> 00:52:21,760
Speaker 3: You know, they're thirty five years old, and a Sante

1034
00:52:21,880 --> 00:52:26,080
Speaker 3: Samuel trying to avoid any contact in the secondary last night,

1035
00:52:26,520 --> 00:52:27,919
Speaker 3: driving me absolutely nuts.

1036
00:52:28,680 --> 00:52:30,200
Speaker 4: There's only so much you can do about injury.

1037
00:52:30,520 --> 00:52:33,279
Speaker 6: But their talent assessment has just been so garbage for

1038
00:52:33,280 --> 00:52:34,479
Speaker 6: a couple of years. And I hate to keep harping

1039
00:52:34,520 --> 00:52:36,480
Speaker 6: on it, but I'm pissed, just like everybody else who

1040
00:52:36,520 --> 00:52:38,359
Speaker 6: didn't sleep and stayed up and watch that last night.

1041
00:52:38,680 --> 00:52:42,000
Speaker 6: I don't want Aaron Rodgers to return because it's just

1042
00:52:42,760 --> 00:52:47,120
Speaker 6: a there's a ceiling on this, I agree, And how

1043
00:52:47,239 --> 00:52:50,600
Speaker 6: he made it through this year, I don't know. It's

1044
00:52:50,640 --> 00:52:51,440
Speaker 6: a miracle to me.

1045
00:52:52,320 --> 00:52:55,400
Speaker 3: He's not the kind of forty two that you're like

1046
00:52:55,760 --> 00:52:58,440
Speaker 3: Tom Brady, like, oh, he can come back. And I

1047
00:52:58,520 --> 00:53:00,600
Speaker 3: think he could come back and still throw the ball.

1048
00:53:01,800 --> 00:53:04,120
Speaker 3: And even though he was a little more mobile than

1049
00:53:04,160 --> 00:53:06,400
Speaker 3: I thought he would be in the last couple of

1050
00:53:06,440 --> 00:53:08,960
Speaker 3: weeks especially, I think he's gonna get better at it.

1051
00:53:10,080 --> 00:53:13,480
Speaker 3: He's just you're just waiting to put your backup in

1052
00:53:13,560 --> 00:53:17,160
Speaker 3: with Aaron Rodgers next next year. Somehow you survived this year.

1053
00:53:17,840 --> 00:53:19,960
Speaker 3: And he wasn't great when he did have open receivers

1054
00:53:20,000 --> 00:53:23,320
Speaker 3: last night and a few times this year. You know

1055
00:53:23,480 --> 00:53:27,120
Speaker 3: that the Browns game, the Browns game, the Chargers game,

1056
00:53:27,200 --> 00:53:30,359
Speaker 3: when he was off the entire time. This was another

1057
00:53:30,760 --> 00:53:34,880
Speaker 3: huge second half let down. And like when I think

1058
00:53:34,920 --> 00:53:39,080
Speaker 3: about the scoring chart of last night's game, down seven

1059
00:53:39,080 --> 00:53:43,399
Speaker 3: to six, Okay, we can manufacture a bs field goal here,

1060
00:53:44,280 --> 00:53:48,440
Speaker 3: down ten to six, well, still totally possible. When they

1061
00:53:48,480 --> 00:53:50,080
Speaker 3: went down eleven, it felt like they were down by

1062
00:53:50,080 --> 00:53:50,760
Speaker 3: a thousand points.

1063
00:53:51,600 --> 00:53:52,240
Speaker 4: No scoring.

1064
00:53:52,560 --> 00:53:55,120
Speaker 3: In the third quarter, they gave up twenty three to

1065
00:53:55,239 --> 00:53:57,200
Speaker 3: the Texans in the fourth quarter last.

1066
00:53:57,080 --> 00:53:58,799
Speaker 4: Night, I collapse.

1067
00:53:59,440 --> 00:54:04,479
Speaker 3: Jequavius marks one hundred and twelve yards rushing, Christian Kirk

1068
00:54:04,600 --> 00:54:07,560
Speaker 3: destroyed them one hundred and forty four yards receiving, And

1069
00:54:07,680 --> 00:54:13,399
Speaker 3: the defense wasn't really the problem. The offense never made

1070
00:54:13,440 --> 00:54:15,960
Speaker 3: you think they were going to be a threat. That's

1071
00:54:16,000 --> 00:54:18,040
Speaker 3: a very good defense. They should have been able to

1072
00:54:18,080 --> 00:54:21,960
Speaker 3: do more than that. Where Wasmuth? How do you not

1073
00:54:22,120 --> 00:54:24,640
Speaker 3: work him into the equation a little bit more? Just

1074
00:54:24,719 --> 00:54:32,840
Speaker 3: a very unevent un un inventive offense from Arthur Smith.

1075
00:54:34,360 --> 00:54:36,359
Speaker 3: See some of the plays that houstons running and you're like, yeah,

1076
00:54:36,400 --> 00:54:38,920
Speaker 3: that got that guy open right there. It's a nice uh,

1077
00:54:39,719 --> 00:54:43,040
Speaker 3: nice route, Like what routes was was John new Smith

1078
00:54:43,120 --> 00:54:46,960
Speaker 3: running all year long, free yard out in the flat

1079
00:54:47,160 --> 00:54:48,120
Speaker 3: turn around.

1080
00:54:48,000 --> 00:54:51,839
Speaker 1: And wait what they did?

1081
00:54:52,200 --> 00:54:53,359
Speaker 4: Why did we get this guy?

1082
00:54:54,560 --> 00:54:56,399
Speaker 1: Why did we spend all this money on this dude?

1083
00:54:56,560 --> 00:54:58,320
Speaker 6: Wait and never look ready.

1084
00:55:01,880 --> 00:55:06,160
Speaker 5: Miss blocks, Yeah, fall start, critical false start last night,

1085
00:55:06,440 --> 00:55:07,239
Speaker 5: absolute joke.

1086
00:55:08,000 --> 00:55:10,239
Speaker 3: But Mike Tomlin is a Hey, he's a Hall of

1087
00:55:10,280 --> 00:55:12,360
Speaker 3: Fame coach and he's coming back if he wants to.

1088
00:55:12,880 --> 00:55:13,759
Speaker 4: Everybody knows that.

1089
00:55:14,600 --> 00:55:17,160
Speaker 1: The question is does he want to?

1090
00:55:18,239 --> 00:55:22,880
Speaker 8: With how many firings we've seen and this little like

1091
00:55:23,000 --> 00:55:25,680
Speaker 8: you know, spin the lazy season in the AFC, like

1092
00:55:25,760 --> 00:55:28,319
Speaker 8: I mean other coaches that are available, like has your

1093
00:55:28,400 --> 00:55:30,120
Speaker 8: mind been running at all?

1094
00:55:30,640 --> 00:55:30,799
Speaker 15: Here?

1095
00:55:31,120 --> 00:55:34,080
Speaker 4: They missed the big chance for the coach that their

1096
00:55:34,160 --> 00:55:35,600
Speaker 4: next Chuck No. Was Mike Ramble.

1097
00:55:36,880 --> 00:55:40,200
Speaker 3: And when he was available, it was like bad timing

1098
00:55:40,880 --> 00:55:43,200
Speaker 3: because you knew that Tomlin hadn't done enough to get

1099
00:55:43,239 --> 00:55:47,440
Speaker 3: fired yet, but he was headed in that direction and

1100
00:55:47,560 --> 00:55:50,920
Speaker 3: they had a guy who could have been the perfect

1101
00:55:51,200 --> 00:55:55,000
Speaker 3: Steeler coach, and uh, it was not to be. Now,

1102
00:55:55,239 --> 00:55:57,960
Speaker 3: Like Damashek was saying, Ben Johnson was, I'm not so sure.

1103
00:55:58,080 --> 00:56:00,839
Speaker 3: I mean, what Ben Johnson is doing in Chicago remarkable

1104
00:56:01,040 --> 00:56:05,040
Speaker 3: and with that team it works. I'm not so sure

1105
00:56:05,160 --> 00:56:07,279
Speaker 3: if he is going to be the guy long term.

1106
00:56:07,280 --> 00:56:09,360
Speaker 3: I don't know about his style yet, you know, like

1107
00:56:09,440 --> 00:56:12,000
Speaker 3: there's not I'm not sure if that works when there's.

1108
00:56:11,880 --> 00:56:15,359
Speaker 4: Less talent on the team. I feel like he could

1109
00:56:15,520 --> 00:56:18,320
Speaker 4: lose a team. I don't know yet. He might be

1110
00:56:18,480 --> 00:56:19,200
Speaker 4: the second coming.

1111
00:56:19,640 --> 00:56:22,640
Speaker 3: But Rabel is a guy who gets teams who aren't

1112
00:56:22,680 --> 00:56:26,040
Speaker 3: that great to play way above their talent level, I think,

1113
00:56:26,360 --> 00:56:29,680
Speaker 3: and he gets guys to believe that Patriots team is

1114
00:56:29,719 --> 00:56:31,920
Speaker 3: pretty well coached and what he's done with Drake May

1115
00:56:32,000 --> 00:56:34,879
Speaker 3: in terms of developing a quarterback, which is what you're

1116
00:56:34,920 --> 00:56:35,960
Speaker 3: gonna need someone to do.

1117
00:56:36,280 --> 00:56:37,400
Speaker 4: Who is Tomlin developed?

1118
00:56:40,560 --> 00:56:41,160
Speaker 5: Not Mason?

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00:56:43,000 --> 00:56:44,880
Speaker 6: Hey, he was one for one last night. He's got

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Speaker 6: a QBR seventy one. Don't you besmirch Mason?

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00:56:48,719 --> 00:56:48,960
Speaker 1: I'm not.

1122
00:56:49,160 --> 00:56:51,759
Speaker 3: And his mustache and all the mirth that he brought

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00:56:51,800 --> 00:56:54,880
Speaker 3: to that locker room. Mason and his mirth were one

1124
00:56:54,960 --> 00:56:56,560
Speaker 3: of the few bright spots this year.

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00:57:00,440 --> 00:57:03,000
Speaker 5: When he went in the game, I opened Twitter out

1126
00:57:03,000 --> 00:57:06,440
Speaker 5: of boredom and was immediately comforted by the picture of

1127
00:57:06,520 --> 00:57:08,920
Speaker 5: him holding the jackfruit in overalls.

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Speaker 6: With penny loafers on. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I didn't even

1129
00:57:14,200 --> 00:57:16,320
Speaker 6: know people wear penny loafers. And do you put the

1130
00:57:16,360 --> 00:57:17,280
Speaker 6: penny in the penny loafer?

1131
00:57:17,760 --> 00:57:19,640
Speaker 8: Mason does and that's all that matters.

1132
00:57:21,480 --> 00:57:22,640
Speaker 4: Thank God for Mason's mirth.

1133
00:57:23,880 --> 00:57:27,680
Speaker 3: The Steelers with another disappointing one and done in the postseason.

1134
00:57:28,320 --> 00:57:31,760
Speaker 5: This was a winnable game for them, and that was

1135
00:57:31,800 --> 00:57:34,040
Speaker 5: the frustrating part. When it was seven to six.

1136
00:57:34,360 --> 00:57:39,360
Speaker 3: Pat muldowney, who's pittsburgher who's been working for Fox had

1137
00:57:39,400 --> 00:57:42,160
Speaker 3: worked for Fox Sports for many year, tweeted out last night.

1138
00:57:42,240 --> 00:57:43,840
Speaker 3: I don't know how to explain this to somebody who's

1139
00:57:43,880 --> 00:57:46,680
Speaker 3: not watching, but the Steelers are currently getting their ass

1140
00:57:46,800 --> 00:57:50,040
Speaker 3: kicked seven to six, and I thought that was the

1141
00:57:50,200 --> 00:57:51,680
Speaker 3: perfect description of that game.

1142
00:57:52,640 --> 00:57:54,680
Speaker 4: At no point did you believe that they were going

1143
00:57:54,760 --> 00:57:56,840
Speaker 4: to start rolling on that Houston defense.

1144
00:57:57,320 --> 00:57:58,600
Speaker 6: There was exposing us.

1145
00:57:59,160 --> 00:58:01,560
Speaker 3: If I was Miko Ryan, in fact, I would have

1146
00:58:01,640 --> 00:58:05,760
Speaker 3: been way more conservative with the Houston offense because the

1147
00:58:05,880 --> 00:58:07,160
Speaker 3: only trouble they were getting in was c J.

1148
00:58:07,240 --> 00:58:09,000
Speaker 6: Stroud making colossal mistakes.

1149
00:58:09,200 --> 00:58:12,360
Speaker 5: I think they simplified when CJ. Stroud was starting to

1150
00:58:12,400 --> 00:58:15,600
Speaker 5: get the yips there, they you know, they shortened the

1151
00:58:15,600 --> 00:58:20,120
Speaker 5: playbook and did things that he was absolutely going to complete.

1152
00:58:21,200 --> 00:58:25,920
Speaker 4: I mean never, we never go downfield. Never the end

1153
00:58:25,960 --> 00:58:26,360
Speaker 4: of the game.

1154
00:58:26,440 --> 00:58:28,960
Speaker 3: They did out of desperation. At that point's too late.

1155
00:58:29,040 --> 00:58:32,920
Speaker 3: There's no weapons, the team is poorly constructed. They got

1156
00:58:33,000 --> 00:58:37,480
Speaker 3: to figure this out, and I'm sure they will. And

1157
00:58:37,520 --> 00:58:38,760
Speaker 3: I feel really good about this year.

1158
00:58:38,840 --> 00:58:39,040
Speaker 1: Guys.

1159
00:58:39,040 --> 00:58:43,160
Speaker 3: I'm just saying, you know, we'll be back and we'll

1160
00:58:43,200 --> 00:58:44,880
Speaker 3: feel good about whatever the hell they're doing.

1161
00:58:45,320 --> 00:58:48,160
Speaker 6: And at the time, we're idiots. Everything they did seemed

1162
00:58:48,200 --> 00:58:48,760
Speaker 6: like it was great.

1163
00:58:49,000 --> 00:58:51,520
Speaker 19: Darius Slay was on a Super Bowl champion last year,

1164
00:58:51,760 --> 00:58:55,200
Speaker 19: our secondary and now we got Ramsey back there too. Dude,

1165
00:58:55,200 --> 00:58:59,160
Speaker 19: it's gonna be nuts. Wan Thornhill was just banged up exactly,

1166
00:59:00,640 --> 00:59:01,480
Speaker 19: and it was.

1167
00:59:01,800 --> 00:59:02,400
Speaker 1: It was a nightmare.

1168
00:59:02,440 --> 00:59:03,120
Speaker 4: They're free agents.

1169
00:59:03,200 --> 00:59:05,160
Speaker 3: That I mean they batted what probably like five hundred

1170
00:59:05,280 --> 00:59:06,600
Speaker 3: on free agent pickups this year.

1171
00:59:06,920 --> 00:59:07,320
Speaker 16: Yeah, what.

1172
00:59:09,040 --> 00:59:10,000
Speaker 1: Which isn't good enough?

1173
00:59:10,240 --> 00:59:13,760
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I mean five hundred played, you know

1174
00:59:13,800 --> 00:59:15,640
Speaker 3: what I mean, not like five hundred like they were

1175
00:59:15,680 --> 00:59:17,000
Speaker 3: great and you know the other.

1176
00:59:17,000 --> 00:59:18,040
Speaker 4: Half weren't count.

1177
00:59:18,080 --> 00:59:19,840
Speaker 5: Dugger is a hit. Dougger is a hit.

1178
00:59:20,120 --> 00:59:21,640
Speaker 4: They couldn't even get on the field though the last

1179
00:59:21,680 --> 00:59:22,160
Speaker 4: couple of weeks.

1180
00:59:22,400 --> 00:59:24,240
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know if something was up with him

1181
00:59:24,320 --> 00:59:27,000
Speaker 3: or not, but I thought the first couple of weeks

1182
00:59:27,040 --> 00:59:30,520
Speaker 3: he made his splash. Yeah, I think that. You know,

1183
00:59:30,840 --> 00:59:35,320
Speaker 3: not having Elliott was big. Ah man, Yes, that really

1184
00:59:35,360 --> 00:59:38,040
Speaker 3: screwed things up. But at no point going into the

1185
00:59:38,080 --> 00:59:40,200
Speaker 3: season where you're like the corner stone on the defense

1186
00:59:40,800 --> 00:59:44,480
Speaker 3: is gonna be Elliott. No impact player though, Yep, Ecles

1187
00:59:44,560 --> 00:59:46,400
Speaker 3: was the same way. Eckles would always make a big play,

1188
00:59:46,440 --> 00:59:48,400
Speaker 3: came up with another big one last night, and then

1189
00:59:48,440 --> 00:59:50,120
Speaker 3: he would get hurt and be out for two weeks

1190
00:59:50,480 --> 00:59:54,200
Speaker 3: every single time. The problem is it's going to be

1191
00:59:54,240 --> 00:59:56,920
Speaker 3: super annoying to listen to the Mike Tomlin discourse for

1192
00:59:57,160 --> 00:59:57,800
Speaker 3: another year.

1193
00:59:57,960 --> 01:00:00,400
Speaker 4: If he's coming back, I terrible.

1194
01:00:00,880 --> 01:00:06,360
Speaker 3: It's just going to be overwhelming because I don't know

1195
01:00:06,440 --> 01:00:10,000
Speaker 3: if there's any Steeler fans who are super excited to

1196
01:00:10,040 --> 01:00:11,920
Speaker 3: see Mike Tomlin come back right now.

1197
01:00:12,240 --> 01:00:13,080
Speaker 4: And that's a problem.

1198
01:00:14,440 --> 01:00:18,720
Speaker 5: But he's got another year, Yeah he's not. I mean,

1199
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Speaker 5: so it would have.

1200
01:00:19,720 --> 01:00:21,919
Speaker 8: To be him choosing at this point.

1201
01:00:21,960 --> 01:00:25,040
Speaker 4: It's him choosing, and your fan base is not excited

1202
01:00:25,040 --> 01:00:25,320
Speaker 4: about it.

1203
01:00:25,400 --> 01:00:25,640
Speaker 1: They were.

1204
01:00:25,920 --> 01:00:28,520
Speaker 4: There was a smattering of fire Tomlin going on again

1205
01:00:28,600 --> 01:00:29,200
Speaker 4: last night, but.

1206
01:00:29,280 --> 01:00:30,400
Speaker 5: Not as bad as the Bills game.

1207
01:00:30,560 --> 01:00:33,960
Speaker 4: No, okay, And that's a tough position to be in.

1208
01:00:35,040 --> 01:00:39,480
Speaker 3: You have to really put together an incredible squad and

1209
01:00:39,880 --> 01:00:43,120
Speaker 3: last year that was the predicament they were in and

1210
01:00:43,280 --> 01:00:47,240
Speaker 3: their their end result did not bear out.

1211
01:00:47,400 --> 01:00:47,680
Speaker 5: Again.

1212
01:00:48,440 --> 01:00:52,400
Speaker 3: This year was a failure the Aaron Rodgers experiment. I

1213
01:00:52,480 --> 01:00:55,160
Speaker 3: guess you could call it a failure because they didn't

1214
01:00:55,160 --> 01:00:57,680
Speaker 3: win a playoff game. And if they had Mason Rudolph

1215
01:00:57,680 --> 01:01:00,560
Speaker 3: as their starting quarterback this year, how much different would

1216
01:01:00,560 --> 01:01:00,840
Speaker 3: it have been.

1217
01:01:00,880 --> 01:01:01,160
Speaker 5: I don't know.

1218
01:01:01,200 --> 01:01:04,000
Speaker 6: They might not even made the postseason, but they would

1219
01:01:04,000 --> 01:01:05,200
Speaker 6: have had a better draft position.

1220
01:01:05,760 --> 01:01:09,400
Speaker 4: So it's this constant purgatory.

1221
01:01:09,160 --> 01:01:13,960
Speaker 3: Of never good enough to do anything substantial in the

1222
01:01:14,000 --> 01:01:19,320
Speaker 3: postseason and never bad enough to make wholesale changes. And

1223
01:01:19,480 --> 01:01:22,400
Speaker 3: that's what it's like to be a Pittsburgh Steeler fan

1224
01:01:22,840 --> 01:01:26,720
Speaker 3: for an entire generation of Steeler fans. Now at this point,

1225
01:01:27,040 --> 01:01:32,040
Speaker 3: we're coming up on ten frickin' years. That is a

1226
01:01:32,200 --> 01:01:35,520
Speaker 3: lot and part of what I think the elation of

1227
01:01:35,640 --> 01:01:38,880
Speaker 3: what last week was. Certainly it was knocking the Ravens out.

1228
01:01:38,920 --> 01:01:41,480
Speaker 3: Like I said, the manner in which that game unfolded,

1229
01:01:41,520 --> 01:01:45,560
Speaker 3: it was just so drama filled, got Harbaugh fired, felt

1230
01:01:45,600 --> 01:01:49,720
Speaker 3: like a playoff game because it's winning. In part of

1231
01:01:49,800 --> 01:01:53,120
Speaker 3: it was just remembering that we used to have that

1232
01:01:53,400 --> 01:01:57,160
Speaker 3: feeling all the time, but forgetting what it was like,

1233
01:01:57,720 --> 01:02:00,120
Speaker 3: and the whole town remembered we used to do you

1234
01:02:00,360 --> 01:02:05,320
Speaker 3: like this every year. Four years we'd go into the

1235
01:02:05,360 --> 01:02:08,440
Speaker 3: playoffs and we were gonna win one, maybe two games,

1236
01:02:08,600 --> 01:02:11,080
Speaker 3: and it was just get to the championship game and

1237
01:02:11,160 --> 01:02:14,600
Speaker 3: then you know, that is your lottery ticket. Now it's

1238
01:02:14,720 --> 01:02:18,240
Speaker 3: like we might sneak into the wild card if Houston

1239
01:02:18,360 --> 01:02:22,520
Speaker 3: can beat Indianapolis with their backup quarterback, and then if

1240
01:02:22,640 --> 01:02:26,160
Speaker 3: the Chargers, you know, all of these scenarios have to

1241
01:02:26,200 --> 01:02:30,520
Speaker 3: play out for us to even sniff the postseason A.

1242
01:02:30,640 --> 01:02:34,400
Speaker 3: Winning the AFC North this year atop the division, taking

1243
01:02:34,440 --> 01:02:39,080
Speaker 3: the AFC North crown felt like, finally, okay, we determined

1244
01:02:39,240 --> 01:02:40,360
Speaker 3: our own destiny.

1245
01:02:40,640 --> 01:02:42,720
Speaker 1: This year is gonna be different notes not.

1246
01:02:45,400 --> 01:02:46,200
Speaker 5: So frustrating.

1247
01:02:48,800 --> 01:02:50,959
Speaker 4: Yeah, how do you run that back again?

1248
01:02:51,200 --> 01:02:51,680
Speaker 1: I don't know.

1249
01:02:52,520 --> 01:02:56,440
Speaker 3: I mean you have to look at it without emotion

1250
01:02:56,840 --> 01:02:59,760
Speaker 3: and from a business standpoint, where their butts in the

1251
01:02:59,800 --> 01:03:07,200
Speaker 3: sea eat all year. Of course, stadium's packed. They win

1252
01:03:07,320 --> 01:03:13,240
Speaker 3: enough games that plenty of people go. Television ratings pretty high.

1253
01:03:13,520 --> 01:03:17,520
Speaker 3: People love the Steelers, put them in primetime quite a bit.

1254
01:03:19,400 --> 01:03:20,480
Speaker 3: It's the bob nutting thing.

1255
01:03:20,520 --> 01:03:24,360
Speaker 6: At some point, Well, we're making a lot of money doing.

1256
01:03:24,280 --> 01:03:27,880
Speaker 1: This, but at some point it's going to turn around.

1257
01:03:29,400 --> 01:03:33,080
Speaker 5: It's the slow creep into the vibe and energy that

1258
01:03:33,200 --> 01:03:36,160
Speaker 5: they have now. It's like if you zapped yourself back

1259
01:03:36,200 --> 01:03:39,600
Speaker 5: to ten years ago when they beat the Chiefs, which

1260
01:03:39,640 --> 01:03:41,880
Speaker 5: they had to do because Alex Smith was the quarterback.

1261
01:03:42,160 --> 01:03:43,240
Speaker 6: That's a must win play.

1262
01:03:43,720 --> 01:03:48,720
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, and then you know comparing that feeling to now, Yeah,

1263
01:03:48,840 --> 01:03:54,640
Speaker 5: the slow just the amount of Tomlin detractors, the everything

1264
01:03:54,840 --> 01:03:58,760
Speaker 5: going on, Oh no, franchise quarterback Steelers Twitter is.

1265
01:03:58,800 --> 01:04:04,560
Speaker 3: Going to be unbare urable for another year. But this

1266
01:04:05,240 --> 01:04:08,720
Speaker 3: three week period here going into the super Bowl is

1267
01:04:08,880 --> 01:04:11,400
Speaker 3: gonna be I might have to mute eight hundred accounts.

1268
01:04:11,560 --> 01:04:13,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is gonna be the same thing.

1269
01:04:13,120 --> 01:04:16,280
Speaker 3: Get rid of them doing the same thing over and

1270
01:04:16,360 --> 01:04:19,560
Speaker 3: over and expecting a different result is a definition of insanity.

1271
01:04:21,080 --> 01:04:27,600
Speaker 5: I yet news stories when podcasters hire skyriders to do

1272
01:04:27,800 --> 01:04:28,560
Speaker 5: fire Tomlin.

1273
01:04:28,920 --> 01:04:30,880
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, well that's what I thought it had been

1274
01:04:30,880 --> 01:04:34,800
Speaker 3: funny is you know how the controversy over Liam Cohen

1275
01:04:34,880 --> 01:04:38,440
Speaker 3: having that woman from the Jacksonville Free Press in there going.

1276
01:04:38,360 --> 01:04:40,120
Speaker 1: You did good baby, you know whatever.

1277
01:04:40,200 --> 01:04:43,800
Speaker 3: She was like, you know yeah, she was like, you know,

1278
01:04:44,400 --> 01:04:48,360
Speaker 3: a hilariously sort of comforting woman in the press room,

1279
01:04:48,440 --> 01:04:52,200
Speaker 3: which created that whole you know, kerfuffal online, which I

1280
01:04:52,240 --> 01:04:57,000
Speaker 3: think is insane. But the Steelers version of that would

1281
01:04:57,000 --> 01:04:59,920
Speaker 3: have been like Kevin Adams and Jersey Jerry going, Hey,

1282
01:05:00,000 --> 01:05:01,280
Speaker 3: I just want to let you know that we put

1283
01:05:01,320 --> 01:05:04,080
Speaker 3: together a go fund me to buy billboards to say

1284
01:05:04,120 --> 01:05:06,240
Speaker 3: you suck and you should be fired all over so

1285
01:05:06,400 --> 01:05:08,760
Speaker 3: hang your head low and just we just want to.

1286
01:05:08,800 --> 01:05:13,800
Speaker 5: Let you know that we are fomenting a movement to

1287
01:05:13,960 --> 01:05:15,320
Speaker 5: get you out of town.

1288
01:05:15,880 --> 01:05:19,040
Speaker 6: So just so you know that, I don't have a question. Actually,

1289
01:05:19,520 --> 01:05:22,240
Speaker 6: this is what the pressure room is now. We just

1290
01:05:22,360 --> 01:05:25,120
Speaker 6: tell you whether you're good or bad. In your bad

1291
01:05:25,160 --> 01:05:26,240
Speaker 6: and you suck and we hate you.

1292
01:05:26,640 --> 01:05:29,520
Speaker 3: And there's goetna be t shirts that we're selling right

1293
01:05:29,560 --> 01:05:32,800
Speaker 3: now on our website that say tire Fomlin.

1294
01:05:34,480 --> 01:05:37,520
Speaker 5: My quick announcement for you just not engaging him in

1295
01:05:37,520 --> 01:05:39,840
Speaker 5: a question. My quick announcement. We're going to buy the

1296
01:05:39,960 --> 01:05:44,200
Speaker 5: pond of hockey billboard and we're going to defame you.

1297
01:05:44,640 --> 01:05:48,240
Speaker 5: We're going to come after you pretty hard. Nothing's off limits,

1298
01:05:50,760 --> 01:05:52,960
Speaker 5: So just you know, keep an eye out. Early next

1299
01:05:53,000 --> 01:05:55,840
Speaker 5: week is what it's looking like it and that's my time.

1300
01:05:55,920 --> 01:05:59,600
Speaker 5: I'll turn it over to you, coach. Yeah yeah, Steelers

1301
01:05:59,680 --> 01:06:01,440
Speaker 5: Round dot com over here.

1302
01:06:01,600 --> 01:06:03,960
Speaker 3: Just want to let you know we are praying for

1303
01:06:04,080 --> 01:06:08,760
Speaker 3: your demise as a coach, hoping that you're really deciding

1304
01:06:08,840 --> 01:06:10,040
Speaker 3: to go into TV this year.

1305
01:06:10,040 --> 01:06:10,680
Speaker 1: I have no question.

1306
01:06:10,960 --> 01:06:13,640
Speaker 6: This is comments, this is what people want.

1307
01:06:14,120 --> 01:06:15,600
Speaker 3: I just want to let you know that we're tired

1308
01:06:15,640 --> 01:06:19,680
Speaker 3: of your BS and that you play old, old people

1309
01:06:19,720 --> 01:06:24,000
Speaker 3: who aren't good anymore because they're they like you because

1310
01:06:24,040 --> 01:06:27,200
Speaker 3: you hired them. Like collecting old dogs that nobody wants

1311
01:06:27,240 --> 01:06:29,920
Speaker 3: to adopt. No question at this time. It's just that

1312
01:06:30,000 --> 01:06:30,560
Speaker 3: you're terrible.

1313
01:06:30,600 --> 01:06:37,600
Speaker 5: Thank you, Mike Steelerarsenal dot blogspot dot com. I just

1314
01:06:37,720 --> 01:06:42,680
Speaker 5: want to say I actually we held a seance last night.

1315
01:06:44,280 --> 01:06:48,840
Speaker 5: I paid a few Wiccan priestesses to curse you and

1316
01:06:49,000 --> 01:06:55,480
Speaker 5: a family again. Not a question, not a question, just

1317
01:06:56,280 --> 01:06:58,480
Speaker 5: bad job. Just wanted to say, bad job.

1318
01:06:58,800 --> 01:06:59,120
Speaker 1: That's it.

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Speaker 6: Live from the Don's Appliances Studios, where Pittsburgh shops for appliances.

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Speaker 1: This is w DVEE Pittsburgh. Can you play the greatest

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Speaker 1: song in the world for me only if you can

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Speaker 1: dick it.

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Speaker 1: Button on the iHeart radio app that one you picked.

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Speaker 10: Lunch at noon on DV from the Seedon Hill University

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Speaker 1: Schedule your campus visit today.

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Speaker 4: Gotta be partly clouding to mostly.

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Speaker 6: Okay, all right, you know, look, we're we're calming down.

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Speaker 1: It could be fine.

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Speaker 4: No, no, we're not.

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Speaker 3: The more I see online the angry I'm getting Mike

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Speaker 3: pursuit of joining us now for postgame reaction from last night,

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Speaker 3: Steelers lost to the Houston Texas thirty to six at

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Speaker 3: Acriscuer Stadium, and the crowd was never really into it

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Speaker 3: in the second half, and who could blame.

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Speaker 12: Them, didn't have a reason to get into it. Yeah,

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Speaker 12: it did feel like they were a million miles behind

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Speaker 12: when it was seven to six. Yeah, and ten six,

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Speaker 12: but the potential was there to steal the game, and

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Speaker 12: they just couldn't even again like the Cleveland game, couldn't

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Speaker 12: come up with one touchdown.

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Speaker 1: Hard to win that way.

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Speaker 4: I just don't know what you how do you say? Okay,

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Speaker 4: Arthur Smith, let's do that again.

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Speaker 12: Yeah, I think there are going to be changes. I

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Speaker 12: don't think it'll be the head coach unless he wants

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Speaker 12: to change. And Mike Tomlin well, in the midst of

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Speaker 12: his immediate aftermath, I should say, of his seventh straight

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Speaker 12: playoff disappointment, he wasn't really interested in contemplating his future.

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Speaker 13: I'm not even in that mindset as I sit here tonight.

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Speaker 13: I'm more in the mindset of what transpired in this stadium.

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Speaker 13: And you know, certainly what we did and didn't do,

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Speaker 13: not a big picture mentality.

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Speaker 1: Is he here tonight?

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Speaker 12: Aaron Rodgers wasn't much interested in contemplating his future either,

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Speaker 12: but Rodgers was adamant and extensive and insisting there shouldn't

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Speaker 12: be any question about Tomlin.

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Speaker 14: I mean this, this league has changed a lot my

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Speaker 14: twenty one years. You know, when you hear conversation about

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Speaker 14: the the Mike Tomlin's of the world, Matt Lafleur's of

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Speaker 14: the world, those are just two that kind of played

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Speaker 14: for And when I first got in the league, there

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Speaker 14: wouldn't be a conversation about whether those guys were on

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Speaker 14: the hot seat, you know. But the way that the

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Speaker 14: league is covered now and the way that there's snap

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Speaker 14: decisions and validitally given to the you know, the Twitter

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Speaker 14: experts and all the you know experts on TV now

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Speaker 14: who who who make it seem like they know what

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Speaker 14: the hell they're talking about. To me, that's an absolute joke.

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Speaker 14: And for either of those two guys to be on

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Speaker 14: the hot seat is is really an apropos of where

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Speaker 14: we're at as a society and the league. Because obviously

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Speaker 14: Matt's done a lot of great things and we had

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Speaker 14: a lot of success. Mike T's had more success, and

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Speaker 14: damn there anybody in the league you know from for

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Speaker 14: the last nineteen twenty years and more than that. Though,

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Speaker 14: when you have the right guy and the culture is right,

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Speaker 14: you don't think about making a change. But there's a

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Speaker 14: lot of pressure that comes from the outside, and obviously

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Speaker 14: that sways decisions from time to time. But it's not

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Speaker 14: how I would do things, and not how the league.

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Speaker 1: Used to be.

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Speaker 12: Rogers apparently had set his piece regarding Mike Tomlin at

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Speaker 12: that juncture, because another thing he wasn't interested in entertaining

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Speaker 12: was a follow up question about Tomlin.

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Speaker 14: And I've answered that a number of times. I've talked

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Speaker 14: extensively about I feel about Mike and I.

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Speaker 5: And I just did that an answer so ool, sassy.

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Speaker 6: Keet that woman from Jacksonville up here, Yeah, jack the

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Speaker 6: Jacksonville love fest right the hot seat.

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Speaker 8: Maybe you do all the drugs now, you take all

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Speaker 8: the time you need, You get in the darkness and

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Speaker 8: you do whatever you need.

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Speaker 1: You trib fun with that in the press box before

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Speaker 1: the game. I'm sure.

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Speaker 4: The contests of the press is.

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Speaker 1: Society. People are defending it, particularly people in the media.

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Speaker 3: I just have well, I think that, Uh, I think

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Speaker 3: that it's a lot of people arguing different points that

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Speaker 3: you know that. I think people are genuinely okay with

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Speaker 3: positivity and any sort of kindness sentiment being expressed. It's

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Speaker 3: just context, that's all, and people's misunderstanding what context is

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Speaker 3: or is. Like McAfee and those guys were like, this

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Speaker 3: is the greatest thing ever, but that is that. Well,

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Speaker 3: I mean I like all those guys. I like all

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Speaker 3: those guys, but like, I think they do a job

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Speaker 3: separate of what the job is being done in there,

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Speaker 3: do you know what I mean? Like it would be

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Speaker 3: like if somebody burst into a an operating room and

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Speaker 3: they were like, you know what, I just want to.

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Speaker 6: Let the patient know before he goes under. You're doing

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Speaker 6: great and everything's fine.

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Speaker 3: It's like, okay, this that that's a nice sentiment, but

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Speaker 3: we're actually doing something different in here than what you're doing.

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Speaker 3: And the difference is is that the old media and

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Speaker 3: this the newer media have been sort of melded together

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Speaker 3: in a way like that in a way that the

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Speaker 3: old media is not really okay with and they're kind

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Speaker 3: of getting the bank together. Yeah, no, I agree on level,

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Speaker 3: but it's it's not just sports.

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Speaker 6: Yes, and this is a minor and that's where people like,

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Speaker 6: we're so outraged the little hair sticking out of the

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Speaker 6: goiter on your nose, right, I mean yeah, but if

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Speaker 6: you have a nose goiter, I just want to say,

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Speaker 6: you know, I had mine removed from the doctor will

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Speaker 6: up in Wexford.

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Speaker 1: Yes, now I get it. I get it.

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Speaker 6: It's a very frustrating morning, frustrating day, frustrating to be

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Speaker 6: a Stealer fan right now, losing in a valiant effort.

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Speaker 4: I would have been okay with Now you wouldn't more

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Speaker 4: than this because it's.

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Speaker 13: Now.

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Speaker 4: It doesn't point to like we've never learned our lesson.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, it's a Randy's point. It makes it so that

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Speaker 8: we don't have any assurances that anything will change.

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Speaker 4: Exactly we went are How many of those do you

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Speaker 4: have in life? Assurance?

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Speaker 6: You trying to trust me?

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Speaker 12: If they got beat twenty seven to twenty six on

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Speaker 12: a fifty nine yard field goal at the gun, you'd

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Speaker 12: feel worse and just you're gonna be picking three or

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Speaker 12: four plays.

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Speaker 1: Why did they do this?

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Speaker 3: Did they do that?

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01:14:12,080 --> 01:14:13,759
Speaker 1: Oh my god, we're so close?

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Speaker 4: Well, okay, we were so close?

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Speaker 3: Is not something I uttered at all last night and

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Speaker 3: we were down by one point for most of the game,

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Speaker 3: and I was like, we're getting our ass kick, yeah,

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Speaker 3: and we're down by a point.

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Speaker 4: How is Houston not up by twenty? Asked meat belt?

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Speaker 1: All right? Do you have to do phrase now something

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Speaker 1: like that? Look it is now.

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Speaker 4: It's to ask spelled to ask, not ask meat belt.

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Speaker 8: It is now and now it's asked meat belt Now.

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Speaker 3: That's kinky wrestling in Lawrence fell ass wet belt belt

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Speaker 3: Ass screwed.

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Speaker 1: That up because Ma Man gave me a lot of

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Speaker 1: experience with that.

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Speaker 4: Jean's sterotor joining us when we come back here.

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Speaker 1: On DV, we get it.

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Speaker 6: Some of you tune in at one O two point

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Speaker 6: five and others listen to their smart device.

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Speaker 1: No matter how you listen, it's for.

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Speaker 6: Rocker is w DV is always rocked and always well rocked.

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Speaker 8: Dv E Playoff Football hits different than.

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Speaker 6: Raders one er two point five DV.

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Speaker 6: It's Geneing the reviewing mescy geez Ratar Morny Gino, how

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Speaker 6: are you.

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Speaker 16: The Reds it going, buddy?

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Speaker 5: I mean, I'm miserable. That was awful.

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Speaker 3: It doesn't give me any hope that anything's ever gonna change,

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Speaker 3: and it just seems like I'm rooting for. You know,

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Speaker 3: two of the three teams I'm rooting for won't learn

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Speaker 3: anything from their mistakes, and I'm doomed to be in

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Speaker 3: this Sissifian uh fan.

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Speaker 6: It's period the rest of my life.

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Speaker 1: Other than that the D I mean, how things going, Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: pretty good? I mean New Year's back.

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Speaker 6: You can't really complain. Well, let me let me let

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Speaker 6: me let.

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Speaker 1: Me ask you this.

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Speaker 3: You know, the first one I want to ask you

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Speaker 3: about is the Calvin Austin play where you know, Aaron

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Speaker 3: and Calvin were trying to get.

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Speaker 4: A p I call there and who was the It

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Speaker 4: was a Dean Blanding.

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Speaker 1: Who was on the I don't know is that the game?

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Speaker 4: I don't know who's the official.

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Speaker 1: DFP last night? I think is Russell York Russe.

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Speaker 3: He said oh yeah, He's like, oh yeah, no, no,

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Speaker 3: this is not passing interference. Their feet got tangled.

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Speaker 6: No interference, but you can see the dB kind of

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Speaker 6: yanking his shoulder passed down his shoulder.

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Speaker 1: Grabbing a turn. What's the Eugene.

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Speaker 16: I think that the ball was two and a half

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Speaker 16: fiords in front of Calvin Austin, and I'm just perplexed

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Speaker 16: from a football standpoint that he slowed down at that point.

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Speaker 16: On agreed, and to me it appeared that he was

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Speaker 16: looking to play make a play for a foul instead

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Speaker 16: of making a play on a ball. When you had

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Speaker 16: a step on your d back and the ball was

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Speaker 16: thrown ahead of you to accelerate, why are you decelerating

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Speaker 16: five yards before the catch point to try to draw

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Speaker 16: something when the football is in front of you and

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Speaker 16: your defensive back is behind you.

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Speaker 1: Wait a minute.

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Speaker 12: You trying to say that it's not always the official

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Speaker 12: screwed up, that sometimes the players aren't good enough that

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Speaker 12: it's their own fault.

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Speaker 4: Can't both be true?

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Speaker 16: Yeah, sometimes we make these slit second decisions and then

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Speaker 16: we get to watch them over and over again and

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Speaker 16: ask the big whyse I thought there's some contact there?

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Speaker 16: I quite honestly, I really didn't think there was a

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Speaker 16: lot of pass interference situation on that play. I think

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Speaker 16: the football is in front of him, and I think

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Speaker 16: they're trying to. I think they're trying to play for

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Speaker 16: a penalty on the play, like I said, on a

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Speaker 16: route where he beat he beat his d back. I

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Speaker 16: mean he had a step on and you got a

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Speaker 16: quarterback at that point. That's letting this rock go, knowing

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Speaker 16: your speed, knowing your timing, and knowing where that football

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Speaker 16: should be provided you continue to finish your route. And

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Speaker 16: I think he pulls up and I think that's the

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Speaker 16: difference in the yard and a half. Now, whether he

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Speaker 16: makes the player or not, I can't tell you that,

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Speaker 16: but it was rather perplexing that he pulled up five

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01:18:19,200 --> 01:18:22,000
Speaker 16: yards before that football got to where it got and

1537
01:18:22,200 --> 01:18:23,880
Speaker 16: that football was a yard and a half in front

1538
01:18:23,880 --> 01:18:24,120
Speaker 16: of him.

1539
01:18:24,240 --> 01:18:26,840
Speaker 1: That's one of those things like winners want the ball,

1540
01:18:27,040 --> 01:18:27,760
Speaker 1: you know, and and.

1541
01:18:29,960 --> 01:18:32,680
Speaker 3: Well, look, the fear gets gets into you sometimes, and

1542
01:18:32,760 --> 01:18:34,519
Speaker 3: I think you think you can kind of weasele your

1543
01:18:34,560 --> 01:18:37,120
Speaker 3: way into a big play like Limas Swede.

1544
01:18:37,200 --> 01:18:39,960
Speaker 4: But I like Calvin Austin a lot.

1545
01:18:40,600 --> 01:18:43,439
Speaker 1: I agree with you there also. I think it was interference.

1546
01:18:43,520 --> 01:18:49,880
Speaker 6: Okay, so this the other thing, the fumble, stripsack touchdown,

1547
01:18:50,360 --> 01:18:53,040
Speaker 6: the big man touchdown for the Houston Texans last night,

1548
01:18:53,280 --> 01:18:55,400
Speaker 6: Aaron Rodgers appeared to take a shot to the head.

1549
01:18:55,479 --> 01:18:56,320
Speaker 1: Jean, let's say you.

1550
01:18:57,800 --> 01:19:00,599
Speaker 16: Yeah, but you're also now at that place you're kind

1551
01:19:00,640 --> 01:19:03,320
Speaker 16: of tucking it away, and there's a lot of bodies

1552
01:19:03,360 --> 01:19:06,240
Speaker 16: that that's a really hard play, the ref rand because

1553
01:19:06,240 --> 01:19:09,519
Speaker 16: as he did, Yeah, it's it is a hard play,

1554
01:19:09,840 --> 01:19:11,439
Speaker 16: you know, I don't I don't know that that's a

1555
01:19:11,560 --> 01:19:14,040
Speaker 16: roughing the pass or play when that when that pocket

1556
01:19:14,120 --> 01:19:16,800
Speaker 16: collapses like that an arms stark failing in there, and

1557
01:19:16,920 --> 01:19:20,160
Speaker 16: you're you're you don't feel as much like a defenseless

1558
01:19:20,240 --> 01:19:25,720
Speaker 16: player passer and in that moment, I would say, but

1559
01:19:26,040 --> 01:19:28,680
Speaker 16: again looking back as their contact to his head, Yes,

1560
01:19:29,680 --> 01:19:31,720
Speaker 16: I don't know though that it didn't feel like it

1561
01:19:31,800 --> 01:19:33,519
Speaker 16: jumped off. Let's put it this way. I didn't feel

1562
01:19:33,560 --> 01:19:34,920
Speaker 16: like it jumped off the screen at me. As you

1563
01:19:35,000 --> 01:19:37,800
Speaker 16: watched that collapse, you know, it looked like a football.

1564
01:19:37,439 --> 01:19:40,120
Speaker 1: Play, you know. Yeah, gee none.

1565
01:19:40,240 --> 01:19:43,799
Speaker 12: Still a related question, have you ever had an analyst

1566
01:19:43,880 --> 01:19:46,360
Speaker 12: situation such as the one you had at the end

1567
01:19:46,400 --> 01:19:47,920
Speaker 12: of the first half in Jacksonville?

1568
01:19:50,200 --> 01:19:53,120
Speaker 1: And what's your regard like you would how do you mean?

1569
01:19:53,760 --> 01:19:55,600
Speaker 12: Yeah, did they get the snap off and one of

1570
01:19:55,640 --> 01:19:56,519
Speaker 12: the guys off side?

1571
01:19:56,680 --> 01:19:59,680
Speaker 1: Now that was wild. I was watching that night.

1572
01:19:59,760 --> 01:20:02,679
Speaker 6: Yeah, do you have access to anything that we don't

1573
01:20:02,720 --> 01:20:03,479
Speaker 6: see or.

1574
01:20:03,560 --> 01:20:05,920
Speaker 1: Is it just no no, because we don't go to tents, Mike.

1575
01:20:06,000 --> 01:20:09,280
Speaker 16: You know, I just started to rewind feverishly trying to

1576
01:20:09,439 --> 01:20:12,040
Speaker 16: put the play in its proper bucket. Because when the

1577
01:20:12,120 --> 01:20:15,200
Speaker 16: defense on a hurry up situation is behind the offensive

1578
01:20:15,240 --> 01:20:18,040
Speaker 16: line and trying to get between tackles or guards to

1579
01:20:18,160 --> 01:20:21,719
Speaker 16: get back online, and they end up because the offense

1580
01:20:21,880 --> 01:20:24,880
Speaker 16: is legally set and a defensive players either trying to

1581
01:20:24,920 --> 01:20:26,840
Speaker 16: wiggle through like he's in a crowd of people and

1582
01:20:26,960 --> 01:20:28,960
Speaker 16: get between a tackle and a guard or something, but

1583
01:20:29,040 --> 01:20:30,400
Speaker 16: he's on the offensive side.

1584
01:20:30,240 --> 01:20:30,639
Speaker 1: Of the ball.

1585
01:20:31,160 --> 01:20:33,840
Speaker 16: It is a dead ball file that immediately is blown

1586
01:20:33,920 --> 01:20:36,040
Speaker 16: dead as soon as the censor starts to move the

1587
01:20:36,120 --> 01:20:39,040
Speaker 16: football because he basically, by rule, is kind of what

1588
01:20:39,160 --> 01:20:41,320
Speaker 16: we would call unabated because he's on the wrong side

1589
01:20:41,320 --> 01:20:43,560
Speaker 16: of the football. So it has nothing to do with

1590
01:20:43,680 --> 01:20:45,479
Speaker 16: the ball being spiked. It has nothing to do with

1591
01:20:45,600 --> 01:20:48,000
Speaker 16: how long it takes him to snap the rocket. It's

1592
01:20:48,120 --> 01:20:50,240
Speaker 16: all down to as soon as that center starts to

1593
01:20:50,280 --> 01:20:53,120
Speaker 16: move the football, it's over. It's a dead play. And

1594
01:20:53,840 --> 01:20:56,240
Speaker 16: it is really like if that was a frame by

1595
01:20:56,320 --> 01:20:58,920
Speaker 16: frame play in the center does just start to hitch

1596
01:20:59,000 --> 01:21:01,120
Speaker 16: even kind of what would be an illegal snap, right,

1597
01:21:01,160 --> 01:21:04,120
Speaker 16: I mean or something and the defenses on the other side,

1598
01:21:04,160 --> 01:21:09,559
Speaker 16: and again all the great technology, does it mean now

1599
01:21:09,680 --> 01:21:12,759
Speaker 16: every stadium gets retrofitted with tens of a second inside

1600
01:21:12,800 --> 01:21:13,519
Speaker 16: of one second?

1601
01:21:13,680 --> 01:21:16,040
Speaker 1: You know, because is there one? There is there? Zero?

1602
01:21:16,160 --> 01:21:18,479
Speaker 1: There we in that space in between and what does

1603
01:21:18,520 --> 01:21:19,200
Speaker 1: that mean? Thing?

1604
01:21:21,400 --> 01:21:24,080
Speaker 16: I think most times more than not, probably in the past,

1605
01:21:24,240 --> 01:21:27,120
Speaker 16: just because you know, we don't die sick things are happening.

1606
01:21:27,200 --> 01:21:30,000
Speaker 16: Back then, this was just a half overplay, you know,

1607
01:21:30,240 --> 01:21:31,719
Speaker 16: and then you didn't go all the way down.

1608
01:21:31,640 --> 01:21:32,240
Speaker 1: The rabbit hole.

1609
01:21:32,360 --> 01:21:34,200
Speaker 16: But we know how we live in this day and

1610
01:21:34,240 --> 01:21:37,080
Speaker 16: age with every hundredth of a second is as a

1611
01:21:37,200 --> 01:21:40,120
Speaker 16: light year. So it was really close, and I really

1612
01:21:40,160 --> 01:21:42,320
Speaker 16: thought that the center kind of flinched before I could

1613
01:21:42,360 --> 01:21:45,320
Speaker 16: see a full zero, you know, where it sat in

1614
01:21:45,439 --> 01:21:45,920
Speaker 16: between there.

1615
01:21:45,920 --> 01:21:46,600
Speaker 1: I couldn't tell you.

1616
01:21:47,560 --> 01:21:53,120
Speaker 3: How did you feel the weekends officiating went like from

1617
01:21:53,160 --> 01:21:57,000
Speaker 3: a grade standpoint, yeah, there, you know, there was you know,

1618
01:21:57,479 --> 01:22:01,080
Speaker 3: Mike just reference one of the questionable scenarios. That was

1619
01:22:01,120 --> 01:22:03,200
Speaker 3: a bald don't lie moment though with Kim Little missing

1620
01:22:03,200 --> 01:22:05,559
Speaker 3: the field goal after it was you know, but yeah,

1621
01:22:05,640 --> 01:22:07,839
Speaker 3: what did you think by in large of the Zebra's

1622
01:22:07,920 --> 01:22:08,599
Speaker 3: job this weekend.

1623
01:22:09,760 --> 01:22:12,080
Speaker 16: I thought it was you know, look, I talked to

1624
01:22:12,080 --> 01:22:14,559
Speaker 16: a good bit of them, not that it meant that much,

1625
01:22:14,720 --> 01:22:17,400
Speaker 16: but I really did think that this week was played

1626
01:22:17,439 --> 01:22:19,320
Speaker 16: where they kind of fished for the whales and not

1627
01:22:19,479 --> 01:22:21,920
Speaker 16: the minnos. Overall, you know, it didn't feel like a

1628
01:22:22,000 --> 01:22:25,160
Speaker 16: bunch of ticky toc stuff. I thought they let d

1629
01:22:25,320 --> 01:22:29,080
Speaker 16: Bachs play, and I thought they refereed and got big

1630
01:22:29,240 --> 01:22:31,800
Speaker 16: plays right and manage games, and I thought it was

1631
01:22:31,920 --> 01:22:34,879
Speaker 16: just this was maybe the most exciting I thought, outside

1632
01:22:34,960 --> 01:22:37,840
Speaker 16: of really the last two games where the points spread

1633
01:22:37,920 --> 01:22:41,639
Speaker 16: changed after three quarters of football and the score maybe

1634
01:22:41,800 --> 01:22:44,240
Speaker 16: wasn't a reflection of the majority of the game, which

1635
01:22:44,320 --> 01:22:47,040
Speaker 16: was one possession games, and then the other ones were

1636
01:22:47,160 --> 01:22:50,240
Speaker 16: just unbelievable wild card games. And no one is really

1637
01:22:50,439 --> 01:22:56,759
Speaker 16: talking about officiating today, right, like nobody impacted the outcome

1638
01:22:56,840 --> 01:22:59,200
Speaker 16: of the game this week. That's kind of the space

1639
01:22:59,280 --> 01:23:01,120
Speaker 16: you live in right now for the next couple of weeks,

1640
01:23:01,200 --> 01:23:04,679
Speaker 16: is you know, be anonymous, get your stuff right. Yep,

1641
01:23:04,720 --> 01:23:06,639
Speaker 16: there's gonna be a couple of hiccups. Let's not miss

1642
01:23:06,680 --> 01:23:08,439
Speaker 16: the big ones. Get the big ones leave the little

1643
01:23:08,479 --> 01:23:11,920
Speaker 16: stuff alone. And I thought they did that this week.

1644
01:23:12,360 --> 01:23:15,080
Speaker 3: First four games pretty good, last two not so great.

1645
01:23:15,520 --> 01:23:18,880
Speaker 3: But man, the entertainment value of those first four games

1646
01:23:19,200 --> 01:23:19,960
Speaker 3: pretty incredible.

1647
01:23:21,280 --> 01:23:22,519
Speaker 1: Yes, one percent.

1648
01:23:22,720 --> 01:23:25,560
Speaker 16: I think we've got good matchups going ahead. And you know,

1649
01:23:25,760 --> 01:23:27,840
Speaker 16: last night it's a hard game. Man, it's seven to six,

1650
01:23:27,960 --> 01:23:30,280
Speaker 16: and it's a you know, it's an ass kicking kind

1651
01:23:30,360 --> 01:23:33,280
Speaker 16: of game and nasty game and and it makes every

1652
01:23:33,360 --> 01:23:33,840
Speaker 16: little play.

1653
01:23:33,840 --> 01:23:35,400
Speaker 1: I thought the DK drop early in.

1654
01:23:35,400 --> 01:23:38,320
Speaker 16: The game looking back now, naturally right, Like it's like

1655
01:23:38,479 --> 01:23:41,360
Speaker 16: when you have games like that, it's that one drive

1656
01:23:41,760 --> 01:23:45,040
Speaker 16: where that one scenario and CJ. Stroud looked as shook

1657
01:23:45,120 --> 01:23:47,920
Speaker 16: as you could see a quarterback look. And that wasn't

1658
01:23:48,000 --> 01:23:50,280
Speaker 16: just because he was nervous about being in the playoffs.

1659
01:23:50,280 --> 01:23:52,719
Speaker 16: It's because he was looking to see where TJ. Hassmit

1660
01:23:52,800 --> 01:23:55,400
Speaker 16: that someone was as the ball was being snapped.

1661
01:23:55,680 --> 01:23:58,080
Speaker 1: You know he was, he was that concerned.

1662
01:23:58,200 --> 01:24:00,800
Speaker 16: You can see that human element cut creeping in those

1663
01:24:00,880 --> 01:24:04,439
Speaker 16: zoom and plays in his eyes, wondering where the next

1664
01:24:04,479 --> 01:24:07,600
Speaker 16: threat was coming from, and the tables set in so

1665
01:24:07,720 --> 01:24:09,880
Speaker 16: many ways, you just needed to get over the hump.

1666
01:24:09,960 --> 01:24:12,200
Speaker 16: But I don't know what point, Mikey, you would know

1667
01:24:12,280 --> 01:24:16,040
Speaker 16: the stats, but third down conversions, right, and games like that,

1668
01:24:16,479 --> 01:24:20,880
Speaker 16: it's extended drive. It's one more possession, maybe one more series,

1669
01:24:20,960 --> 01:24:23,040
Speaker 16: so I can punt the football from the forty and

1670
01:24:23,160 --> 01:24:26,080
Speaker 16: not my own twenty, which flips a game like that.

1671
01:24:26,320 --> 01:24:28,280
Speaker 1: You know, it's a different type of game.

1672
01:24:28,360 --> 01:24:32,120
Speaker 16: And at the end, that defense just created turnovers that

1673
01:24:32,200 --> 01:24:35,400
Speaker 16: we're used to seeing our defense create when we may

1674
01:24:35,479 --> 01:24:38,920
Speaker 16: not have a great offensive day, which they did early.

1675
01:24:39,120 --> 01:24:41,960
Speaker 16: You know, Houston's defense did it and did what we

1676
01:24:42,200 --> 01:24:44,560
Speaker 16: normally do too and get points out of it. Like

1677
01:24:44,640 --> 01:24:47,320
Speaker 16: if you guys can't score tonight, will score for you.

1678
01:24:47,840 --> 01:24:48,960
Speaker 1: And I thought Houston did that.

1679
01:24:49,439 --> 01:24:51,559
Speaker 12: See and I'm glad you used the plural and third

1680
01:24:51,640 --> 01:24:53,639
Speaker 12: down conversions because they did get two of them.

1681
01:24:54,960 --> 01:24:57,160
Speaker 1: There were two of them, Like is that what the finals?

1682
01:25:00,960 --> 01:25:01,320
Speaker 1: There you go?

1683
01:25:01,520 --> 01:25:03,080
Speaker 6: When they got one in the it was like like

1684
01:25:03,479 --> 01:25:08,640
Speaker 6: in the second half to Scantlon, like it felt like

1685
01:25:08,800 --> 01:25:12,160
Speaker 6: a glass of water in the desert, and it was

1686
01:25:12,400 --> 01:25:15,960
Speaker 6: like a way late in the game, like, oh my god, I.

1687
01:25:16,040 --> 01:25:17,360
Speaker 1: Never thought that was gonna happen.

1688
01:25:17,720 --> 01:25:22,320
Speaker 6: We converted. That's why I described the Steelers offense last

1689
01:25:22,439 --> 01:25:25,920
Speaker 6: night as a fish flopping around on the deck of

1690
01:25:26,000 --> 01:25:26,400
Speaker 6: a boat.

1691
01:25:26,640 --> 01:25:28,559
Speaker 4: With no chance of getting back in the waters.

1692
01:25:29,080 --> 01:25:33,680
Speaker 6: Were trying nothing, just can't get over the side of

1693
01:25:33,760 --> 01:25:34,080
Speaker 6: the boat.

1694
01:25:34,240 --> 01:25:36,280
Speaker 12: I would describe it as a fish that you told

1695
01:25:36,800 --> 01:25:43,960
Speaker 12: before the game, don't bite the hole, and then it was.

1696
01:25:43,960 --> 01:25:45,000
Speaker 1: All bloody and dead.

1697
01:25:45,600 --> 01:25:49,719
Speaker 6: Gina Gino the Steelers.

1698
01:25:53,080 --> 01:25:55,200
Speaker 16: I know it looks like a nice worm, but there

1699
01:25:55,320 --> 01:25:57,320
Speaker 16: really is a hawk in there, don't.

1700
01:25:58,720 --> 01:26:00,840
Speaker 3: I hope a couple of guys around here get the

1701
01:26:00,920 --> 01:26:04,040
Speaker 3: hook going in the next year, Jean, But you're not

1702
01:26:04,160 --> 01:26:06,519
Speaker 3: getting the hook where you're not off the hook. We're

1703
01:26:06,520 --> 01:26:10,000
Speaker 3: getting you back on next week for more analysis as

1704
01:26:10,040 --> 01:26:12,320
Speaker 3: we had in the playoffs. Good slady games, Bill's Broncos

1705
01:26:12,360 --> 01:26:16,000
Speaker 3: forty nine or Seahawks, Texans, Patriots and Rams Bears.

1706
01:26:16,479 --> 01:26:19,800
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1707
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1708
01:26:23,400 --> 01:26:25,360
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1709
01:26:25,400 --> 01:26:26,439
Speaker 4: Abby's got a news update.

1710
01:26:26,680 --> 01:26:28,920
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1711
01:26:28,920 --> 01:26:31,800
Speaker 8: stressors that folks they are not bringing into twenty twenty six.

1712
01:26:31,920 --> 01:26:34,000
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1713
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1717
01:26:54,280 --> 01:26:55,760
Speaker 7: Gets to snap kids to Mark.

1718
01:26:55,800 --> 01:26:57,519
Speaker 2: Stretch played with the right, cuts back to the left,

1719
01:26:57,560 --> 01:27:00,639
Speaker 2: and Mark's is able to burst through and get into

1720
01:27:00,680 --> 01:27:01,040
Speaker 2: the end.

1721
01:27:01,040 --> 01:27:02,439
Speaker 7: Zone for a Texan score.

1722
01:27:02,960 --> 01:27:06,679
Speaker 2: Slams the football against the far side of the stands

1723
01:27:07,320 --> 01:27:11,599
Speaker 2: and nineteen carries one hundred and twelve yards, a career

1724
01:27:11,760 --> 01:27:12,800
Speaker 2: high for Woody March.

1725
01:27:12,920 --> 01:27:16,200
Speaker 7: And that touchdown is pretty much gonna end this one.

1726
01:27:16,600 --> 01:27:18,200
Speaker 3: I can't even make fun of what he marks his

1727
01:27:18,360 --> 01:27:21,120
Speaker 3: name right now because he kicked our ass so much.

1728
01:27:21,160 --> 01:27:25,880
Speaker 3: Last night the Steelers, they had a cool drone show

1729
01:27:25,960 --> 01:27:26,479
Speaker 3: at halftime.

1730
01:27:26,640 --> 01:27:28,840
Speaker 8: You know there's that Oh yeah, you sent that to

1731
01:27:28,920 --> 01:27:30,719
Speaker 8: me that that was cool.

1732
01:27:30,920 --> 01:27:32,080
Speaker 5: Yeah, what did the drones do?

1733
01:27:33,400 --> 01:27:39,200
Speaker 3: Waved the white flag, it said fire Tomlin really big. Yeah,

1734
01:27:40,040 --> 01:27:42,640
Speaker 3: that'll be the next thing that happens. We got to

1735
01:27:42,680 --> 01:27:44,719
Speaker 3: go fund me together. We're gonna have a drone show

1736
01:27:44,920 --> 01:27:52,240
Speaker 3: during the draft that says fire tom One. I don't

1737
01:27:52,240 --> 01:27:54,960
Speaker 3: think that that's what's gonna happen right now. I think

1738
01:27:55,040 --> 01:27:57,160
Speaker 3: that this is up to coach Tomlin. I don't see

1739
01:27:57,160 --> 01:28:02,200
Speaker 3: the organization firing, but let's just say they did, and

1740
01:28:02,240 --> 01:28:04,160
Speaker 3: then the Steelers could hire John Harbaugh, and then the

1741
01:28:04,280 --> 01:28:09,320
Speaker 3: Ravens could hire Tomlin, and then the Browns would rehire Stefanski.

1742
01:28:11,160 --> 01:28:11,720
Speaker 1: Bring them back.

1743
01:28:11,760 --> 01:28:13,759
Speaker 6: We decided you passed the test.

1744
01:28:13,960 --> 01:28:14,040
Speaker 3: Ye.

1745
01:28:15,160 --> 01:28:17,280
Speaker 5: Pasloman was like, I walked past the homeless guy.

1746
01:28:17,360 --> 01:28:18,920
Speaker 1: He said, I should rehire him? So I did.

1747
01:28:20,160 --> 01:28:21,120
Speaker 6: Did you sell your house?

1748
01:28:22,120 --> 01:28:22,679
Speaker 7: Not yet.

1749
01:28:23,240 --> 01:28:27,320
Speaker 5: We're getting it right. We're doing some staging photos. We'll

1750
01:28:27,400 --> 01:28:32,160
Speaker 5: pull the listing. You're coming back, buddy, but it looks

1751
01:28:32,240 --> 01:28:33,880
Speaker 5: like it might all be coming back here. I don't

1752
01:28:34,080 --> 01:28:34,559
Speaker 5: I don't know.

1753
01:28:36,160 --> 01:28:37,400
Speaker 4: Why some things occurred this year.

1754
01:28:37,400 --> 01:28:39,160
Speaker 6: I don't know why John HW Smith had eight million

1755
01:28:39,240 --> 01:28:42,519
Speaker 6: more snaps than Pratt Fryarmouth he had won.

1756
01:28:42,600 --> 01:28:45,240
Speaker 4: I thinkth had one target last night. I don't get it.

1757
01:28:45,439 --> 01:28:48,200
Speaker 5: There's like a there's a fifteen minute YouTube video out there.

1758
01:28:48,200 --> 01:28:50,360
Speaker 5: Maybe it's not fifteen minutes. There is a YouTube video

1759
01:28:50,439 --> 01:28:53,160
Speaker 5: out there that I began to watch like a month

1760
01:28:53,200 --> 01:28:57,960
Speaker 5: ago that details Arthur Smith's love of John hus Smith

1761
01:28:58,479 --> 01:29:00,640
Speaker 5: and how he's like, you know, taking him to all

1762
01:29:00,720 --> 01:29:01,960
Speaker 5: his stops in the league.

1763
01:29:02,160 --> 01:29:05,880
Speaker 3: You just say, like Kenny Wood, he's taking to all

1764
01:29:05,920 --> 01:29:11,760
Speaker 3: his family events. You get in this racer car and

1765
01:29:11,800 --> 01:29:16,360
Speaker 3: I'll get in this one. No, I don't, Johnny Smith

1766
01:29:16,439 --> 01:29:16,880
Speaker 3: tells me.

1767
01:29:20,240 --> 01:29:24,599
Speaker 5: On the jail trail. Uh, he caught Johnny Smith caught

1768
01:29:24,680 --> 01:29:29,439
Speaker 5: eighty eight balls from hapless TUA last year. Doesn't that

1769
01:29:29,720 --> 01:29:34,839
Speaker 5: It sounds crazy crazy that you you must be elite

1770
01:29:35,360 --> 01:29:36,280
Speaker 5: to do something like that.

1771
01:29:36,640 --> 01:29:40,080
Speaker 3: I don't understand what John new Smith's role on this

1772
01:29:40,200 --> 01:29:43,680
Speaker 3: team was all year long. I don't understand why we

1773
01:29:43,760 --> 01:29:45,920
Speaker 3: didn't use Pat Friar muth Moore when we had no

1774
01:29:46,080 --> 01:29:49,080
Speaker 3: number two wide receiver that was worth a bleep. I

1775
01:29:49,280 --> 01:29:52,400
Speaker 3: don't understand so much of what occurred this year. It

1776
01:29:52,560 --> 01:29:54,960
Speaker 3: is baffling to me that we're going to run this

1777
01:29:55,120 --> 01:29:57,840
Speaker 3: back the second year in a row without having a

1778
01:29:57,960 --> 01:30:02,240
Speaker 3: number two wide receiver. That is is malpractice. That is

1779
01:30:03,040 --> 01:30:08,080
Speaker 3: gross negligence. You can't do stuff like that not learn

1780
01:30:08,120 --> 01:30:10,360
Speaker 3: from it and keep moving forward and think we'll be

1781
01:30:10,439 --> 01:30:11,520
Speaker 3: able to overcompensate.

1782
01:30:11,720 --> 01:30:12,439
Speaker 4: Don't worry about it.

1783
01:30:13,800 --> 01:30:16,880
Speaker 3: No, we got all these tight ends Darnel Washington, Pratt,

1784
01:30:16,880 --> 01:30:20,040
Speaker 3: Firemouth and John new Smith. Oh yeah, you need to

1785
01:30:20,479 --> 01:30:22,240
Speaker 3: do some interesting things with the three tight ends.

1786
01:30:22,439 --> 01:30:24,479
Speaker 1: No, not really, We're gonna use one to block.

1787
01:30:24,560 --> 01:30:26,200
Speaker 6: We're not gonna play the other one and the other

1788
01:30:26,280 --> 01:30:28,040
Speaker 6: guy We're gonna throw him out in the flat four

1789
01:30:28,120 --> 01:30:29,759
Speaker 6: yards and tell him just turn around.

1790
01:30:30,520 --> 01:30:32,120
Speaker 1: Does turn around every play You're.

1791
01:30:31,960 --> 01:30:33,679
Speaker 5: Probably gonna get tackled for a two yard loss.

1792
01:30:34,000 --> 01:30:35,640
Speaker 1: But when things go bad, we'll throw it to you.

1793
01:30:35,920 --> 01:30:37,640
Speaker 5: Do I have to block only when you want to,

1794
01:30:38,080 --> 01:30:42,559
Speaker 5: only when you want to? John Ewin Friarmuth both making

1795
01:30:42,640 --> 01:30:46,040
Speaker 5: top ten money for tight ends just sort of disturbing.

1796
01:30:46,080 --> 01:30:49,920
Speaker 5: Did you see the shot of uh Art Rooney Sr.

1797
01:30:50,040 --> 01:30:55,360
Speaker 5: And Omar up Omar sort of like just hands folded

1798
01:30:55,760 --> 01:30:57,400
Speaker 5: like this? This isn't good?

1799
01:30:57,680 --> 01:30:59,599
Speaker 1: Yes, not good?

1800
01:31:00,560 --> 01:31:03,559
Speaker 3: Sad Daddy wore books chili up in there. Yeah, well,

1801
01:31:04,320 --> 01:31:06,720
Speaker 3: I just wonder how much of it And I thought

1802
01:31:06,800 --> 01:31:12,479
Speaker 3: this at the end of the the last GMS of

1803
01:31:12,640 --> 01:31:15,560
Speaker 3: Kevin's run there as GM is how much of it

1804
01:31:15,840 --> 01:31:16,320
Speaker 3: was Tomlin?

1805
01:31:18,280 --> 01:31:19,920
Speaker 4: How much of it is him saying that's who I.

1806
01:31:19,920 --> 01:31:20,559
Speaker 1: Want in the draft?

1807
01:31:21,160 --> 01:31:22,400
Speaker 5: This is the free agent I want.

1808
01:31:22,479 --> 01:31:25,120
Speaker 3: I know he's got a lot of power, but the

1809
01:31:25,240 --> 01:31:29,960
Speaker 3: talent assessment on this team has been bad since Colbert's

1810
01:31:30,200 --> 01:31:33,920
Speaker 3: second to last year. They're bringing in the wrong free

1811
01:31:33,960 --> 01:31:36,639
Speaker 3: agents guys like for everyone that makes a big splash

1812
01:31:37,800 --> 01:31:40,280
Speaker 3: there's two guys that are you know, don't make it

1813
01:31:40,360 --> 01:31:42,000
Speaker 3: to the end of the season. How many free agents

1814
01:31:42,000 --> 01:31:43,160
Speaker 3: do we have that didn't make the end of the

1815
01:31:43,360 --> 01:31:45,400
Speaker 3: season this year, one because of injury, and.

1816
01:31:45,400 --> 01:31:51,720
Speaker 4: Two that quit the sport. Quit this, Slay Sleigh just quit.

1817
01:31:51,960 --> 01:31:54,360
Speaker 3: It was like when Dennis Martinez retired from baseball in

1818
01:31:54,400 --> 01:31:56,519
Speaker 3: the sixth inning of a Pirates game. He's like, rather

1819
01:31:56,640 --> 01:32:00,639
Speaker 3: than watch this occur anymore, I'm going to quit playing

1820
01:32:00,720 --> 01:32:01,200
Speaker 3: the sport.

1821
01:32:01,439 --> 01:32:03,960
Speaker 5: He had his Pirates jersey off before he got out.

1822
01:32:03,880 --> 01:32:05,360
Speaker 6: Of the dugout and was in a car on the

1823
01:32:05,439 --> 01:32:09,639
Speaker 6: way back to the Dominican Republic before the seventh inning.

1824
01:32:10,320 --> 01:32:13,639
Speaker 5: A number of Steelers and yeah, and Sleigh was highly

1825
01:32:14,560 --> 01:32:18,360
Speaker 5: was well compensated. And the irony for Sleigh is that

1826
01:32:18,439 --> 01:32:20,160
Speaker 5: he went to that Eagles game as a member of

1827
01:32:20,200 --> 01:32:21,519
Speaker 5: the Bills and the Bills are still in it.

1828
01:32:21,640 --> 01:32:24,760
Speaker 3: It's so funny. That is hilarious. Yeah, and he can't

1829
01:32:24,800 --> 01:32:28,519
Speaker 3: play for the Bills either at this point because of

1830
01:32:28,560 --> 01:32:30,320
Speaker 3: the designation they have on him. So he just became

1831
01:32:30,560 --> 01:32:34,400
Speaker 3: man without a country. That was the weirdest exit from football.

1832
01:32:35,520 --> 01:32:37,320
Speaker 3: He's like, nah, I don't want to go to Buffalo.

1833
01:32:37,360 --> 01:32:37,840
Speaker 3: It's cold.

1834
01:32:38,240 --> 01:32:42,320
Speaker 5: They might go to the Super Bowl. I mean, I

1835
01:32:42,400 --> 01:32:45,400
Speaker 5: hope they do now to spite slay what I don't know.

1836
01:32:45,439 --> 01:32:47,599
Speaker 5: I don't understand how the Eagles are like, yes, you're

1837
01:32:47,600 --> 01:32:50,880
Speaker 5: coming to town, get your field passes, shake some hands,

1838
01:32:51,040 --> 01:32:54,000
Speaker 5: wave super Bowl champion last year. I guess so, But

1839
01:32:54,360 --> 01:32:58,479
Speaker 5: is a I don't know. Did anyone ask him, like, hey, man,

1840
01:32:58,520 --> 01:33:02,519
Speaker 5: shouldn't you uh huh chill out playing for Buffalo?

1841
01:33:02,800 --> 01:33:03,000
Speaker 1: Yeah?

1842
01:33:03,280 --> 01:33:05,960
Speaker 3: Either play or chill out? Stop the press tour. Yeah,

1843
01:33:06,040 --> 01:33:07,599
Speaker 3: it's kind of like when you call him sick for school,

1844
01:33:07,640 --> 01:33:11,120
Speaker 3: you can't go to the mall. I guess they don't

1845
01:33:11,160 --> 01:33:14,519
Speaker 3: pretend to be sick. I'm sick too my stomach. I'm

1846
01:33:14,520 --> 01:33:18,040
Speaker 3: watching Tremors on USA and drinking ginger ale. Do you

1847
01:33:18,080 --> 01:33:19,519
Speaker 3: want Aaron Rodgers back? No?

1848
01:33:19,960 --> 01:33:23,000
Speaker 6: Do you want Aaron Rodgers back? I think it would

1849
01:33:23,000 --> 01:33:23,519
Speaker 6: be kind of fun.

1850
01:33:24,120 --> 01:33:27,160
Speaker 4: It's not personal. It's just what is that talking about

1851
01:33:27,200 --> 01:33:27,760
Speaker 4: running it back.

1852
01:33:27,920 --> 01:33:31,439
Speaker 3: Let's say they get a big named quote whatever, they

1853
01:33:31,560 --> 01:33:34,120
Speaker 3: maneuver and get themselves the quarterback they.

1854
01:33:34,120 --> 01:33:38,439
Speaker 6: Want in the first round, whoever that might be. Do

1855
01:33:38,560 --> 01:33:40,320
Speaker 6: you want Aaron Rodgers to come back and have this

1856
01:33:40,439 --> 01:33:41,280
Speaker 6: guy learn from him?

1857
01:33:41,960 --> 01:33:45,439
Speaker 5: Can he can he do that? Is he capable of

1858
01:33:45,560 --> 01:33:48,759
Speaker 5: doing that, He capable of being a backup.

1859
01:33:49,000 --> 01:33:50,080
Speaker 1: I don't know Will Howard.

1860
01:33:50,280 --> 01:33:53,599
Speaker 3: You know, he said he'd spend a lot of time

1861
01:33:53,600 --> 01:33:55,559
Speaker 3: with Will Howard. I'm not so sure that Will Howard

1862
01:33:55,640 --> 01:34:00,240
Speaker 3: is the answer. You know, the the odds and it's

1863
01:34:00,240 --> 01:34:01,600
Speaker 3: tim A lot of people are a lot of.

1864
01:34:01,600 --> 01:34:04,040
Speaker 6: People are sure that he's the answer. He's right there

1865
01:34:04,080 --> 01:34:05,240
Speaker 6: on the roster, they keep saying.

1866
01:34:05,280 --> 01:34:06,160
Speaker 5: But I don't know.

1867
01:34:06,640 --> 01:34:08,320
Speaker 1: And who am I to say that.

1868
01:34:08,400 --> 01:34:11,200
Speaker 3: The Steelers have any ability to assess whether he is

1869
01:34:11,320 --> 01:34:14,080
Speaker 3: or he isn't, because I'm just sitting near bitching about

1870
01:34:14,120 --> 01:34:17,759
Speaker 3: the fact that they have such a terrible track record

1871
01:34:18,120 --> 01:34:21,160
Speaker 3: of talent assessment over the last seven years.

1872
01:34:21,439 --> 01:34:26,680
Speaker 5: The fact that Will Howard didn't play this year proved right.

1873
01:34:27,520 --> 01:34:31,120
Speaker 3: This is the brain trust that brought in Kendrick Green

1874
01:34:31,240 --> 01:34:33,760
Speaker 3: to be Ben's center in his last year.

1875
01:34:36,400 --> 01:34:37,559
Speaker 6: Yeah, Abby's face just.

1876
01:34:37,600 --> 01:34:42,760
Speaker 3: Went Kendrick Green, don't even say the name anyways. All right, well,

1877
01:34:42,800 --> 01:34:44,240
Speaker 3: Rob King will come in, we'll do a power hour

1878
01:34:44,280 --> 01:34:46,120
Speaker 3: of Steeler talk. I want to let you guys know

1879
01:34:46,240 --> 01:34:49,439
Speaker 3: that we are doing another ramble coming up on January

1880
01:34:49,479 --> 01:34:52,599
Speaker 3: twenty fourth, two saturdays from now, and it's a killer

1881
01:34:52,680 --> 01:34:55,320
Speaker 3: lineup and it's the band north Side is opening up

1882
01:34:55,360 --> 01:34:57,400
Speaker 3: and they're worth the price of admission, and the ramble

1883
01:34:57,439 --> 01:34:58,720
Speaker 3: Horns are going to sit in with them, and they're

1884
01:34:58,720 --> 01:35:00,280
Speaker 3: going to do a bunch of sittings with other players.

1885
01:35:00,280 --> 01:35:01,360
Speaker 4: So they're doing a little little.

1886
01:35:01,240 --> 01:35:03,640
Speaker 3: Mini Ramble of their own there to open up with

1887
01:35:03,760 --> 01:35:06,160
Speaker 3: some of the funkiest tunes you ever heard. But because

1888
01:35:06,479 --> 01:35:09,719
Speaker 3: of Bob Weir's passing this weekend, we kind of gutted

1889
01:35:09,760 --> 01:35:12,760
Speaker 3: the set list and then filled it full of Bob

1890
01:35:12,800 --> 01:35:15,599
Speaker 3: Weir songs. So there's going to be like a really

1891
01:35:15,720 --> 01:35:19,840
Speaker 3: significant tribute to Bob Weir at the next Ramble, and

1892
01:35:19,920 --> 01:35:22,760
Speaker 3: I'm really excited to hear some of the interpretations from

1893
01:35:22,840 --> 01:35:24,720
Speaker 3: some of these local artists. Clinton Kleg will be there,

1894
01:35:24,760 --> 01:35:26,960
Speaker 3: josh Va Bannets is going to be there, Jeff Taylor,

1895
01:35:27,680 --> 01:35:34,080
Speaker 3: Addie Twigg, and you know, Mike minda Rob, James Nick

1896
01:35:34,120 --> 01:35:38,040
Speaker 3: Gucker is going to be there, Vince Wiley, Andre Costello,

1897
01:35:39,600 --> 01:35:43,040
Speaker 3: and Eric Weiningrad. Pappy from the Cause is going to

1898
01:35:43,120 --> 01:35:44,760
Speaker 3: join us, of course, because if we're going to do

1899
01:35:44,960 --> 01:35:46,599
Speaker 3: some dead we gotta have Pappy jump on board.

1900
01:35:46,600 --> 01:35:49,200
Speaker 8: So I was wondering if anybody besides you that you

1901
01:35:49,240 --> 01:35:51,960
Speaker 8: would Mark as like a significant Dead fan.

1902
01:35:52,200 --> 01:35:53,400
Speaker 4: No, but you know what's cool about that.

1903
01:35:53,560 --> 01:35:58,000
Speaker 3: And I was thinking, like, what's great about Bob's contribution

1904
01:35:58,120 --> 01:36:00,519
Speaker 3: to the Dead is that he brought so much of

1905
01:36:00,560 --> 01:36:04,400
Speaker 3: that Bakersfield country, the Marty Robbins kind of vibe, the

1906
01:36:05,400 --> 01:36:09,639
Speaker 3: Buck Owens thing, that it really was. Like one critic

1907
01:36:09,720 --> 01:36:17,120
Speaker 3: said yesterday that his bringing that western country into the

1908
01:36:17,280 --> 01:36:22,960
Speaker 3: Dead's repertoire helped start what is now Americana, and I

1909
01:36:23,040 --> 01:36:25,760
Speaker 3: thought about it, I'm like, yeah, it's actually probably very true.

1910
01:36:25,800 --> 01:36:27,600
Speaker 3: I mean, the Birds had as much to do with that,

1911
01:36:27,720 --> 01:36:30,160
Speaker 3: and Graham Parsons as well, but that was a big

1912
01:36:30,240 --> 01:36:33,240
Speaker 3: part of it. And so the people who are on

1913
01:36:33,320 --> 01:36:35,640
Speaker 3: that stage are well versed in Americana and roots rock

1914
01:36:35,680 --> 01:36:37,600
Speaker 3: and stuff like that. So not everything needs to be

1915
01:36:37,760 --> 01:36:42,599
Speaker 3: spaced out, you know, jam session if it's a Dead song,

1916
01:36:43,680 --> 01:36:45,680
Speaker 3: But there will be some of that, I'm sure with

1917
01:36:45,800 --> 01:36:48,120
Speaker 3: Mike Minda getting to play Jerry Garcia, I can't wait

1918
01:36:48,200 --> 01:36:48,720
Speaker 3: to hear that.

1919
01:36:49,160 --> 01:36:52,800
Speaker 4: But those songs stand on their own, you know, And

1920
01:36:52,880 --> 01:36:53,479
Speaker 4: that's I think what.

1921
01:36:53,560 --> 01:36:55,160
Speaker 3: Bob Weir was trying to do at the end a

1922
01:36:55,200 --> 01:36:57,320
Speaker 3: whole lot with the Wolf Brothers, especially if you go

1923
01:36:57,439 --> 01:36:59,679
Speaker 3: listen to those Wolf Brothers recordings.

1924
01:36:59,680 --> 01:37:02,080
Speaker 6: They're on you know, all the streaming platforms. He did

1925
01:37:02,200 --> 01:37:04,400
Speaker 6: such cool versions of all those songs.

1926
01:37:04,479 --> 01:37:07,000
Speaker 3: It's so much, I think better than what Dead and

1927
01:37:07,080 --> 01:37:09,519
Speaker 3: Company was doing, because when he slowed him down all

1928
01:37:09,600 --> 01:37:11,720
Speaker 3: those songs, people call him dead and slow. You know,

1929
01:37:11,800 --> 01:37:14,400
Speaker 3: they didn't love that. You know, the band wasn't ripping

1930
01:37:14,439 --> 01:37:16,320
Speaker 3: through you know, tunes that they're used to boogey in

1931
01:37:16,360 --> 01:37:20,520
Speaker 3: pretty fast too. That approach really works with the instrumentation

1932
01:37:20,760 --> 01:37:22,960
Speaker 3: of the Wolf Brothers, in which there was no lead guitar.

1933
01:37:23,200 --> 01:37:26,920
Speaker 3: There were strings in a horn section in Don Wah's arrangements,

1934
01:37:27,080 --> 01:37:30,680
Speaker 3: and it's really cool. So maybe it'll oh in some

1935
01:37:30,880 --> 01:37:34,439
Speaker 3: cases a little more to that iteration of those songs,

1936
01:37:34,560 --> 01:37:36,600
Speaker 3: but by and large, I'm excited for it. Tickets on

1937
01:37:36,640 --> 01:37:39,480
Speaker 3: sale at the Thunderbird Music Hall right now. It's January

1938
01:37:39,600 --> 01:37:43,360
Speaker 3: twenty fourth, the next Ramble with a whole bunch of

1939
01:37:43,640 --> 01:37:45,160
Speaker 3: Pittsburgh superstars showing up.

1940
01:37:45,520 --> 01:37:46,160
Speaker 4: Join us, won't you?

1941
01:37:46,560 --> 01:37:48,719
Speaker 8: News This hour brought to you by Window Nation. Cloudy

1942
01:37:48,760 --> 01:37:51,040
Speaker 8: and breezy today, with rain this evening high of fifty,

1943
01:37:51,080 --> 01:37:54,839
Speaker 8: y'all actually stick with a little bit of music news here. Ammon,

1944
01:37:55,120 --> 01:37:59,560
Speaker 8: the widow of David Bowie commemorated the tenth anniversary of

1945
01:37:59,760 --> 01:38:03,720
Speaker 8: his passing by getting a new tattoo inspired by his

1946
01:38:03,920 --> 01:38:06,680
Speaker 8: album Blackstar, which was the last album that he did.

1947
01:38:07,080 --> 01:38:10,960
Speaker 8: But The tattoo features a minimalist black shape that kind

1948
01:38:11,000 --> 01:38:14,120
Speaker 8: of looks like stars, but it spells out Bowie in

1949
01:38:14,280 --> 01:38:17,640
Speaker 8: this abstract way. But Aman shared a video of the

1950
01:38:17,680 --> 01:38:22,439
Speaker 8: tattooing process on Instagram, expressing her enduring grief and love

1951
01:38:22,520 --> 01:38:25,240
Speaker 8: for David, stating that the pain didn't vanish, it left

1952
01:38:25,360 --> 01:38:29,120
Speaker 8: its in its place, a loving, permanent mark. David passed

1953
01:38:29,160 --> 01:38:32,360
Speaker 8: away on January tenth of twenty sixteen after a private

1954
01:38:32,439 --> 01:38:35,200
Speaker 8: battle with cancer, as confirmed in a statement on his

1955
01:38:35,360 --> 01:38:39,280
Speaker 8: official Facebook page. But they married in nineteen ninety two.

1956
01:38:39,320 --> 01:38:40,960
Speaker 8: They had met in nineteen ninety and they had a

1957
01:38:41,080 --> 01:38:44,840
Speaker 8: daughter named Alexandria Zahara Jones in two thousand and Aman

1958
01:38:44,920 --> 01:38:49,200
Speaker 8: says she still considers herself married to Bowie, emphasizing through

1959
01:38:49,280 --> 01:38:51,280
Speaker 8: my memory, my love lives.

1960
01:38:52,600 --> 01:38:56,000
Speaker 6: Fun fact the Blackstar record, the band that performed that

1961
01:38:56,200 --> 01:38:59,320
Speaker 6: record toured the record after Bowie's death, and the singer

1962
01:38:59,400 --> 01:39:02,000
Speaker 6: they hired was Jeff Taylor, who is going to be

1963
01:39:02,800 --> 01:39:06,920
Speaker 6: performing on The Ramble coming up on January twenty fourth.

1964
01:39:07,000 --> 01:39:09,640
Speaker 5: Wow, you are kidding me.

1965
01:39:09,840 --> 01:39:11,439
Speaker 8: Nope, he performed on that.

1966
01:39:11,640 --> 01:39:14,320
Speaker 6: Yeah, he did the Black Store, Black Black Star tour

1967
01:39:15,040 --> 01:39:15,960
Speaker 6: after Bowie died.

1968
01:39:16,439 --> 01:39:19,280
Speaker 3: That's who the singer was. They put him out so

1969
01:39:19,360 --> 01:39:21,519
Speaker 3: but it wasn't like a Bowie tour. It was because

1970
01:39:21,560 --> 01:39:23,680
Speaker 3: Bo's dad, but it was the band that recorded that.

1971
01:39:23,760 --> 01:39:25,800
Speaker 3: They wanted to tour those songs around and they did

1972
01:39:25,880 --> 01:39:27,760
Speaker 3: and they had. Jeff was the singer and he'll be

1973
01:39:27,840 --> 01:39:31,400
Speaker 3: apart and now he's now he's Dormont's own and anyways,

1974
01:39:32,080 --> 01:39:34,360
Speaker 3: he'll be there at the Ramble on the twenty fourth.

1975
01:39:34,479 --> 01:39:36,800
Speaker 4: As well Max Somerville from the Charles.

1976
01:39:37,000 --> 01:39:40,960
Speaker 3: Wesley Godwin Band who's returning to Pittsburgh, and also Zoob

1977
01:39:41,040 --> 01:39:43,599
Speaker 3: the return of Nathan Zuob. So sorry to keep bringing

1978
01:39:43,600 --> 01:39:44,479
Speaker 3: it back to the Ramble.

1979
01:39:44,240 --> 01:39:44,400
Speaker 1: But no.

1980
01:39:45,280 --> 01:39:50,120
Speaker 8: Appropriately So, wow, Jeff's a great choice for that. That's fantastic.

1981
01:39:50,760 --> 01:39:52,960
Speaker 8: I saw a lot of love for David Bowie, like

1982
01:39:53,120 --> 01:39:55,360
Speaker 8: throughout the weekend. I actually had not realized that it

1983
01:39:55,520 --> 01:39:58,439
Speaker 8: was the anniversary he died on his birthday?

1984
01:39:58,600 --> 01:39:58,720
Speaker 1: Right?

1985
01:40:00,200 --> 01:40:01,559
Speaker 8: Was January tenth his birthday?

1986
01:40:01,680 --> 01:40:04,360
Speaker 1: Yeah? Or the knife? Yeah?

1987
01:40:05,000 --> 01:40:07,920
Speaker 8: Wow, I told you. Over the weekend I went and

1988
01:40:08,040 --> 01:40:12,519
Speaker 8: saw Labyrinth. They were doing like a fortieth anniversary of Labyrinth, yeah,

1989
01:40:12,760 --> 01:40:13,760
Speaker 8: being released, And.

1990
01:40:13,800 --> 01:40:14,559
Speaker 5: I had no idea.

1991
01:40:16,240 --> 01:40:19,240
Speaker 8: Yeah, I had no idea that that was in conjunction with.

1992
01:40:19,360 --> 01:40:22,760
Speaker 3: Like the January eighth was his birthday January twenty guy,

1993
01:40:23,439 --> 01:40:25,640
Speaker 3: so it's two days after his birthday. But so you

1994
01:40:25,760 --> 01:40:29,880
Speaker 3: got to see the cod piece on even bigger.

1995
01:40:30,000 --> 01:40:31,280
Speaker 1: Pretty cool. Yeah, that thing.

1996
01:40:31,520 --> 01:40:33,639
Speaker 8: I was thinking, like I, you know, with my child

1997
01:40:33,720 --> 01:40:35,280
Speaker 8: there and everything, I'm like, that's going to be a

1998
01:40:35,360 --> 01:40:36,360
Speaker 8: midnight conversation.

1999
01:40:37,360 --> 01:40:40,840
Speaker 5: So you saw it with your kid, Yeah, okay, does

2000
01:40:40,880 --> 01:40:41,840
Speaker 5: it hold up for kids?

2001
01:40:43,240 --> 01:40:45,360
Speaker 8: You know, here's the thing. You know, we're battling. And

2002
01:40:45,439 --> 01:40:47,719
Speaker 8: I did have this conversation with her because I felt

2003
01:40:47,720 --> 01:40:49,800
Speaker 8: like we needed to where I was explaining to her,

2004
01:40:49,840 --> 01:40:52,679
Speaker 8: you know, most of what you see, she's super into animation,

2005
01:40:52,800 --> 01:40:55,919
Speaker 8: and she actually takes animation classes. So she's using programs

2006
01:40:56,000 --> 01:40:58,639
Speaker 8: to create animation because she likes to not only draw

2007
01:40:59,040 --> 01:41:02,200
Speaker 8: her own cartoons, but now she's animating them. And so

2008
01:41:02,320 --> 01:41:04,160
Speaker 8: I was explaining to her, like, you know, the programs

2009
01:41:04,200 --> 01:41:06,960
Speaker 8: that you're using where you're doing animation and all the

2010
01:41:07,040 --> 01:41:09,080
Speaker 8: things that you see with CGI and cartoons, Like you

2011
01:41:09,200 --> 01:41:13,920
Speaker 8: have to remember when we see this movie, these are puppets. Yeah,

2012
01:41:14,400 --> 01:41:17,479
Speaker 8: So when you try to appreciate what you're seeing, I

2013
01:41:17,560 --> 01:41:19,479
Speaker 8: want you to remember there are either people in those

2014
01:41:19,600 --> 01:41:22,439
Speaker 8: costumes or there are things like people behind the scenes

2015
01:41:22,479 --> 01:41:24,880
Speaker 8: that are pulling things like So the fact that you're

2016
01:41:24,880 --> 01:41:27,280
Speaker 8: seeing it it should be all the more impressive of

2017
01:41:27,439 --> 01:41:30,280
Speaker 8: how difficult that is to make something move in that

2018
01:41:30,439 --> 01:41:32,400
Speaker 8: way where you really can't cheat it in any way.

2019
01:41:32,560 --> 01:41:32,680
Speaker 20: Right.

2020
01:41:33,080 --> 01:41:36,320
Speaker 8: So I think she was seeing it and appreciating it,

2021
01:41:36,439 --> 01:41:39,240
Speaker 8: but I don't know that it had the lasting impression

2022
01:41:39,360 --> 01:41:42,000
Speaker 8: on her where it broke my brain as a kid.

2023
01:41:42,800 --> 01:41:46,400
Speaker 5: Was there a novel component because kids see less puppetry

2024
01:41:46,520 --> 01:41:49,120
Speaker 5: than I felt like when I saw Labyrinthine, Stone to

2025
01:41:49,200 --> 01:41:53,479
Speaker 5: the Bone and the first time, the first fifteen times, sure,

2026
01:41:53,760 --> 01:41:56,599
Speaker 5: I was like, it's puppets. Yeah, I've seen puppets before,

2027
01:41:57,160 --> 01:41:59,080
Speaker 5: but you know, kids probably don't see that many puppets.

2028
01:41:59,240 --> 01:42:02,400
Speaker 8: I don't think they do. I didn't see a huge

2029
01:42:02,520 --> 01:42:05,479
Speaker 8: impact on her. Over the Christmas break. When I played

2030
01:42:05,640 --> 01:42:08,200
Speaker 8: the Muppet Christmas Carol for her, I was like, oh

2031
01:42:08,280 --> 01:42:11,160
Speaker 8: my god, this is gonna blow her mind. And she

2032
01:42:11,640 --> 01:42:15,799
Speaker 8: just didn't seem engaged with it at all, And I'm like, oh, bummer, bummer.

2033
01:42:16,720 --> 01:42:18,320
Speaker 8: So I was hoping for a little bit of a

2034
01:42:18,360 --> 01:42:20,840
Speaker 8: better result, and I mentioned it to Randy too. There's

2035
01:42:20,880 --> 01:42:25,240
Speaker 8: a part in Labyrinth where there's these like creatures. I

2036
01:42:25,400 --> 01:42:27,360
Speaker 8: have no idea what the point of the scene is.

2037
01:42:27,439 --> 01:42:31,439
Speaker 8: I still don't. Yeah, there's like these fire creatures that

2038
01:42:31,920 --> 01:42:34,439
Speaker 8: pop off their heads, you know what I'm talking about,

2039
01:42:34,439 --> 01:42:37,640
Speaker 8: the like and they just sing to her and like

2040
01:42:37,760 --> 01:42:41,400
Speaker 8: it's called They're called okay, and they just pop off

2041
01:42:41,439 --> 01:42:43,840
Speaker 8: their heads. And I as soon as that scene started,

2042
01:42:43,880 --> 01:42:46,000
Speaker 8: I had completely forgotten about it. I just leaned over

2043
01:42:46,120 --> 01:42:48,560
Speaker 8: to Edie and I'm like, this movie is about to

2044
01:42:48,640 --> 01:42:52,200
Speaker 8: go off the rails. And she was like, what's gonna happen.

2045
01:42:52,200 --> 01:42:54,560
Speaker 8: I'm like just waiting. They're like popping out their eyeballs

2046
01:42:54,600 --> 01:42:56,280
Speaker 8: and pulling their heads off and stuff, and she's like,

2047
01:42:56,400 --> 01:42:59,400
Speaker 8: what is happening. I'm like, it's insane, right, She's like,

2048
01:42:59,479 --> 01:43:01,200
Speaker 8: this is a little cringe. I'm like, it's a little

2049
01:43:01,240 --> 01:43:03,760
Speaker 8: red I don't I don't know what to tell you.

2050
01:43:03,960 --> 01:43:07,120
Speaker 4: It's basically like what I envision Aaron Rodgers' weekend.

2051
01:43:09,240 --> 01:43:12,679
Speaker 3: Is he Bowie or Jennifer Kahn, Jennifer Connolly, Okay, yeah,

2052
01:43:12,760 --> 01:43:15,280
Speaker 3: he's Jennifer Connolly and He's just sitting around a fire

2053
01:43:15,360 --> 01:43:19,719
Speaker 3: campfire somewhere, and all of these like big like demon

2054
01:43:20,120 --> 01:43:22,880
Speaker 3: bird characters are dancing around him and ripping out their

2055
01:43:22,880 --> 01:43:24,519
Speaker 3: eyeballs and pointing out.

2056
01:43:24,439 --> 01:43:28,760
Speaker 6: And he's like, okay, I understand good, I'm gonna get

2057
01:43:28,800 --> 01:43:29,519
Speaker 6: that as a tattoo.

2058
01:43:29,640 --> 01:43:35,479
Speaker 5: And football is the baby and we've got to take

2059
01:43:35,560 --> 01:43:36,720
Speaker 5: care of the baby.

2060
01:43:38,960 --> 01:43:42,679
Speaker 1: Man. And uh, I'm the cod piece.

2061
01:43:45,160 --> 01:43:47,680
Speaker 8: Cloudy and breezy today with rain this evening, it is

2062
01:43:47,720 --> 01:43:48,479
Speaker 8: a high of fifty.

2063
01:43:48,560 --> 01:43:49,759
Speaker 1: Some good things happened.

2064
01:43:49,800 --> 01:43:52,000
Speaker 2: I thought there was a chance that gets a snap

2065
01:43:52,080 --> 01:43:53,960
Speaker 2: will give and now it's going to be a fleet

2066
01:43:54,000 --> 01:43:57,160
Speaker 2: flicker shroud back pressure coming and the ball is out.

2067
01:43:59,040 --> 01:44:00,360
Speaker 11: For the Staylors.

2068
01:44:01,560 --> 01:44:01,880
Speaker 5: Line.

2069
01:44:04,840 --> 01:44:08,800
Speaker 2: The pressure came from Sawyer and why Black snatched it

2070
01:44:08,880 --> 01:44:09,439
Speaker 2: down the air.

2071
01:44:09,800 --> 01:44:10,920
Speaker 4: That was at the point of the game.

2072
01:44:10,840 --> 01:44:13,880
Speaker 6: Where it was still like, okay, who's gonna stop making mistakes?

2073
01:44:14,200 --> 01:44:17,719
Speaker 6: Surely it'll be us, and we'll capitalize on their mistakes

2074
01:44:17,960 --> 01:44:20,439
Speaker 6: and we'll get back ahead and all will be right

2075
01:44:20,520 --> 01:44:24,040
Speaker 6: with the world and order will be restored. I hate

2076
01:44:24,439 --> 01:44:26,599
Speaker 6: saying this because it was so early in the game,

2077
01:44:26,960 --> 01:44:30,960
Speaker 6: but if DK Metcalf doesn't drop that ball, we are

2078
01:44:31,040 --> 01:44:35,600
Speaker 6: headed for a ten nothing lead and all the momentum

2079
01:44:35,840 --> 01:44:40,160
Speaker 6: in a completely different situation with a flummixed quarterback on

2080
01:44:40,280 --> 01:44:44,560
Speaker 6: the other side who was likely to make another mistake. Instead,

2081
01:44:45,520 --> 01:44:49,040
Speaker 6: they went ninety two yards and went ahead seven to three.

2082
01:44:49,600 --> 01:44:52,559
Speaker 5: Yeah, perhaps even more rattled had they been down ten nothing.

2083
01:44:52,800 --> 01:44:53,840
Speaker 16: I you know.

2084
01:44:53,920 --> 01:44:58,160
Speaker 5: Another a bad indicator when watching the game is when

2085
01:44:58,360 --> 01:45:02,360
Speaker 5: TJ recovered that fumble, like, ah, that's great. I wish

2086
01:45:02,400 --> 01:45:04,599
Speaker 5: he would have picked it up. Could he have? Could

2087
01:45:04,640 --> 01:45:05,200
Speaker 5: he have scooped it?

2088
01:45:05,360 --> 01:45:06,760
Speaker 6: Could he have scooped it and ran with it?

2089
01:45:06,840 --> 01:45:08,519
Speaker 5: Because we get in Do we need that?

2090
01:45:08,800 --> 01:45:09,000
Speaker 1: Yeah?

2091
01:45:09,120 --> 01:45:12,160
Speaker 3: So we would have needed anyways, all right, Michael, join

2092
01:45:12,240 --> 01:45:14,160
Speaker 3: us here when we come back. Rob came with a

2093
01:45:14,280 --> 01:45:17,200
Speaker 3: power hour of Steeler talk. Still to come here as

2094
01:45:17,520 --> 01:45:21,160
Speaker 3: we bid farewell to the twenty twenty five twenty sixth season,

2095
01:45:21,800 --> 01:45:24,439
Speaker 3: and will we run it back with Aaron Rodgers what

2096
01:45:24,560 --> 01:45:26,040
Speaker 3: he has to say about that coming up?

2097
01:45:26,400 --> 01:45:27,000
Speaker 1: I like to hear.

2098
01:45:27,160 --> 01:45:30,639
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2099
01:45:30,760 --> 01:45:33,160
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2100
01:45:33,240 --> 01:45:36,919
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2101
01:45:36,960 --> 01:45:41,000
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2102
01:45:40,880 --> 01:45:42,519
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2103
01:45:42,680 --> 01:45:45,840
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2104
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2105
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2106
01:45:49,920 --> 01:45:57,839
Speaker 6: Mike Pasuda with a recap of Houston thirty Pittsburgh six, Pittsburgh,

2107
01:45:57,880 --> 01:45:59,000
Speaker 6: you have a problem.

2108
01:46:01,640 --> 01:46:02,680
Speaker 1: That you can turn on.

2109
01:46:02,760 --> 01:46:03,120
Speaker 4: It's here.

2110
01:46:04,000 --> 01:46:06,280
Speaker 6: Look, they never achieved liftoff last night, Mike.

2111
01:46:06,880 --> 01:46:07,320
Speaker 1: They did not.

2112
01:46:09,760 --> 01:46:15,479
Speaker 3: That was the that was callingers. Hey, guys, is it

2113
01:46:15,560 --> 01:46:20,320
Speaker 3: too far wrong that it was tragedy too soon? I

2114
01:46:20,439 --> 01:46:22,479
Speaker 3: was in seventh grade. That was a long time ago.

2115
01:46:22,520 --> 01:46:23,800
Speaker 3: I felt like, when there's enough time. That was the

2116
01:46:23,880 --> 01:46:25,759
Speaker 3: most sass kick in seven to six games?

2117
01:46:27,040 --> 01:46:27,320
Speaker 5: It was.

2118
01:46:27,479 --> 01:46:29,200
Speaker 3: I told you, I saw that tweet last night, and

2119
01:46:29,240 --> 01:46:30,800
Speaker 3: I'm like, that is the perfect way to describe it.

2120
01:46:30,880 --> 01:46:32,680
Speaker 3: How do I tell somebody my team is getting their

2121
01:46:32,760 --> 01:46:34,320
Speaker 3: ass kicked? Seven to six.

2122
01:46:34,960 --> 01:46:37,280
Speaker 12: Sports that are brought to you by Bridgeville applies to

2123
01:46:37,360 --> 01:46:40,280
Speaker 12: Miko Rise, the Texans head coach and the author of

2124
01:46:40,360 --> 01:46:43,960
Speaker 12: that thirty to six Texans victory over the Steelers last

2125
01:46:44,040 --> 01:46:49,040
Speaker 12: night at Actor sure thought his team authored up quote

2126
01:46:49,640 --> 01:46:56,080
Speaker 12: the best performance we've had in our team history. Defensively, Uh,

2127
01:46:56,240 --> 01:46:59,320
Speaker 12: he might not be wrong. They smashed the Steelers at

2128
01:46:59,720 --> 01:47:02,920
Speaker 12: any in all turns and scored two touchdowns while allowing

2129
01:47:03,040 --> 01:47:07,240
Speaker 12: none historic and I think they could still be playing

2130
01:47:07,240 --> 01:47:08,960
Speaker 12: and the Steelers still wouldn't have a touchdown.

2131
01:47:09,400 --> 01:47:14,320
Speaker 3: So the Steelers could score no touchdowns against the Browns

2132
01:47:14,720 --> 01:47:15,479
Speaker 3: or the Texans.

2133
01:47:16,200 --> 01:47:20,920
Speaker 12: Correct, Riley Leonard did right, Yeah, Texas didn't give a

2134
01:47:21,000 --> 01:47:25,080
Speaker 12: damn about that game. I think the moral of that

2135
01:47:25,200 --> 01:47:27,559
Speaker 12: story is it's when you play a team with great

2136
01:47:27,600 --> 01:47:31,000
Speaker 12: pass rush and great corners, you maybe need great receivers.

2137
01:47:34,640 --> 01:47:37,519
Speaker 3: They don't have that. They have one very very good

2138
01:47:37,600 --> 01:47:41,800
Speaker 3: receiver who dropped the ball when we really needed him

2139
01:47:41,800 --> 01:47:45,200
Speaker 3: to catch it. Maybe the quarnerback this year de Kalen

2140
01:47:45,320 --> 01:47:46,320
Speaker 3: apparently he hates that.

2141
01:47:48,120 --> 01:47:49,200
Speaker 1: Lester has blue hair.

2142
01:47:49,400 --> 01:47:53,320
Speaker 12: Through that might have been a Steelers defense not awful,

2143
01:47:53,439 --> 01:47:56,560
Speaker 12: but not up to standard. Not a winning performance, and

2144
01:47:56,640 --> 01:47:59,519
Speaker 12: I'm not given a defensive pass. I know they held

2145
01:47:59,720 --> 01:48:02,160
Speaker 12: used to the seventeen points and kind of the magic

2146
01:48:02,240 --> 01:48:04,840
Speaker 12: number for the Texans was twenty. They had fifteen wins

2147
01:48:04,880 --> 01:48:08,000
Speaker 12: in a row when they scored twenty or more points.

2148
01:48:09,000 --> 01:48:13,519
Speaker 12: Now thanks to thirteen points from the defense, sixteen in

2149
01:48:13,560 --> 01:48:17,720
Speaker 12: a row. But the Steelers did not accomplish what they

2150
01:48:17,800 --> 01:48:21,720
Speaker 12: wanted to defensively, starting with stopping the run, which is

2151
01:48:21,760 --> 01:48:26,960
Speaker 12: always job one and continuing with the edge group not being.

2152
01:48:26,880 --> 01:48:28,240
Speaker 1: The best edge group on the field.

2153
01:48:28,320 --> 01:48:31,479
Speaker 12: They weren't bad, but they were not the Neil Hunter

2154
01:48:31,720 --> 01:48:33,120
Speaker 12: and Will Anderson Junior TJ.

2155
01:48:33,280 --> 01:48:33,519
Speaker 1: Watt.

2156
01:48:33,560 --> 01:48:35,960
Speaker 12: By the time he met media in the wake of

2157
01:48:36,040 --> 01:48:40,360
Speaker 12: Texans thirty Steelers six was exhausted, exasperated, and lacking any

2158
01:48:40,439 --> 01:48:42,439
Speaker 12: kind of long term answers about The only thing well

2159
01:48:42,479 --> 01:48:46,479
Speaker 12: it was certain of was where the search for clarity

2160
01:48:46,520 --> 01:48:49,560
Speaker 12: would begin. In terms of his approach to trying to

2161
01:48:49,720 --> 01:48:53,679
Speaker 12: escape the Steelers' nightmares postseason narrative, Yeah.

2162
01:48:53,520 --> 01:48:56,240
Speaker 2: It's always evolving, going to have to be a hard

2163
01:48:56,280 --> 01:49:00,400
Speaker 2: look in the mirror, continue to evolve and do things differently.

2164
01:49:00,439 --> 01:49:05,360
Speaker 12: But I'm gonna take this one in. Man, this sucks hard.

2165
01:49:05,439 --> 01:49:10,880
Speaker 12: Look in the mirror. I didn't notice that he was

2166
01:49:10,920 --> 01:49:15,400
Speaker 12: getting chipped constantly or not. But you know, while there

2167
01:49:15,520 --> 01:49:17,560
Speaker 12: was some edge pressure on the Steelers part and it

2168
01:49:17,640 --> 01:49:22,880
Speaker 12: got to C. J. Stroud periodically, Rogers was on Aaron

2169
01:49:22,960 --> 01:49:27,760
Speaker 12: Rodgers was under siege. Yeah, and that helped turn the game.

2170
01:49:28,200 --> 01:49:32,320
Speaker 12: What was among the Steelers who didn't see what transpired

2171
01:49:32,360 --> 01:49:33,920
Speaker 12: at Actorsure Stadium last night?

2172
01:49:33,960 --> 01:49:34,240
Speaker 1: Coming?

2173
01:49:35,640 --> 01:49:39,439
Speaker 5: I feel great, confidence was great, execution and practice was great.

2174
01:49:39,560 --> 01:49:42,040
Speaker 5: Meetings were great, camaraderie was great.

2175
01:49:44,040 --> 01:49:49,000
Speaker 1: Thought it was gonna be a different story instead the

2176
01:49:49,160 --> 01:49:50,000
Speaker 1: same old story.

2177
01:49:50,800 --> 01:49:53,760
Speaker 3: I don't know what would lead anybody to believe that

2178
01:49:53,920 --> 01:49:56,200
Speaker 3: things are going to be different right now. And I

2179
01:49:56,439 --> 01:49:59,000
Speaker 3: like Mike Sports, I know, I like Mike Tomlin.

2180
01:49:59,680 --> 01:50:02,720
Speaker 4: I I just don't understand how it is that he

2181
01:50:02,880 --> 01:50:05,479
Speaker 4: gets to call his own shots here.

2182
01:50:05,600 --> 01:50:08,519
Speaker 12: That is well, because there's a body of work Randall,

2183
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Speaker 12: I know I've heard that so many times and it's like, well,

2184
01:50:15,880 --> 01:50:17,719
Speaker 12: that's why I'm bringing it up so that you can respond.

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01:50:17,960 --> 01:50:20,040
Speaker 12: His career is not the last nine years, it's the

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01:50:20,120 --> 01:50:24,360
Speaker 12: last nineteen. I'm not endorsing him right now. I'm not

2187
01:50:24,640 --> 01:50:27,599
Speaker 12: firing him right now. They have a lot of stuff

2188
01:50:27,640 --> 01:50:29,880
Speaker 12: to sort through. I got some stuff to sort through.

2189
01:50:30,439 --> 01:50:34,559
Speaker 12: But the amazement, could he still be the coach? Well,

2190
01:50:34,680 --> 01:50:38,360
Speaker 12: because he's the ninth winningest coach in history, in history,

2191
01:50:38,760 --> 01:50:41,800
Speaker 12: not the Steelers, the NFL. He's won a Super Bowl

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01:50:41,800 --> 01:50:43,320
Speaker 12: and been to another. It's not a lot of guys

2193
01:50:43,400 --> 01:50:46,400
Speaker 12: walk on the planet that have been to two Super Bowls.

2194
01:50:46,600 --> 01:50:49,920
Speaker 12: He has never had a losing season. Go ahead, fan base,

2195
01:50:50,200 --> 01:50:52,639
Speaker 12: that's your cure to laugh and say that doesn't matter.

2196
01:50:53,160 --> 01:50:55,439
Speaker 12: I was at Akroser Stadium when they beat the Ravens.

2197
01:50:55,640 --> 01:50:57,880
Speaker 12: I'm here to tell you the regular season matters, and

2198
01:50:58,000 --> 01:51:00,160
Speaker 12: you people know that as well as I do, even

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Speaker 12: if you refuse to acknowledge it.

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01:51:02,439 --> 01:51:07,160
Speaker 1: That's why he's still the coach for now. But I'd

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01:51:07,200 --> 01:51:08,720
Speaker 1: like to fire him because it feel good right now.

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Speaker 3: Ye sure, what have you considered, Randy, And it would

2203
01:51:13,439 --> 01:51:15,120
Speaker 3: just be yeah, there would be a great you know,

2204
01:51:15,200 --> 01:51:16,120
Speaker 3: I might regret it later.

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Speaker 12: My biggest problem with this is the West right now

2206
01:51:19,920 --> 01:51:22,080
Speaker 12: feels so good, and you know, I mean, look, you

2207
01:51:22,120 --> 01:51:24,400
Speaker 12: look at some of these playoff games, all right. Ben

2208
01:51:24,520 --> 01:51:27,800
Speaker 12: Roethlisberger threw four interceptions against Cleveland.

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Speaker 4: In twenty twenty fum to start.

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Speaker 12: They went into Buffalo with Mason Rudolph as their quarterback

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01:51:35,439 --> 01:51:36,280
Speaker 12: and not having TJ.

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01:51:36,439 --> 01:51:36,599
Speaker 1: Watt.

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Speaker 12: They went into Kansas City when the Chiefs were at

2214
01:51:38,920 --> 01:51:40,840
Speaker 12: the height of their power. These are not games they

2215
01:51:40,880 --> 01:51:44,080
Speaker 12: were supposed to win, and slipped on a banana peel. Now,

2216
01:51:44,120 --> 01:51:48,120
Speaker 12: the Jacksonville game in twenty seventeen Blake Bortles. That was

2217
01:51:48,160 --> 01:51:51,080
Speaker 12: a horrible loss, but they'd also just lost Brian Shazier

2218
01:51:51,080 --> 01:51:53,360
Speaker 12: about five weeks ago, and that sort of shot the

2219
01:51:53,400 --> 01:51:55,519
Speaker 12: hell out of their defense, which was the problem. Then

2220
01:51:56,560 --> 01:52:01,519
Speaker 12: last night they were home underdogs. They got smashed and bashed.

2221
01:52:01,560 --> 01:52:03,559
Speaker 12: That's not supposed to happen. But that's not a game

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01:52:03,600 --> 01:52:04,599
Speaker 12: they were supposed to win.

2223
01:52:07,560 --> 01:52:11,160
Speaker 6: Well, they did not do that. Yeah, they lived up

2224
01:52:11,200 --> 01:52:15,560
Speaker 6: to that expectation that it would have been nice to

2225
01:52:15,560 --> 01:52:16,240
Speaker 6: get a touchdown.

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01:52:16,439 --> 01:52:18,600
Speaker 12: It would have been nice to not look at the

2227
01:52:18,680 --> 01:52:21,240
Speaker 12: Houston Texas and say, well, these guys are really really

2228
01:52:21,280 --> 01:52:23,920
Speaker 12: good on the edge, but we can block them with

2229
01:52:24,040 --> 01:52:26,880
Speaker 12: a guy who had never played before five weeks ago,

2230
01:52:27,360 --> 01:52:29,320
Speaker 12: and with the second year player who's basically in his

2231
01:52:29,400 --> 01:52:29,960
Speaker 12: rookie season.

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Speaker 3: There were times when Aaron Rodgers last year, there was

2233
01:52:32,439 --> 01:52:35,040
Speaker 3: times when Aaron Rodgers had time and nobody was open

2234
01:52:35,640 --> 01:52:38,840
Speaker 3: or he was missing guys, and there's no number two guys.

2235
01:52:38,880 --> 01:52:41,519
Speaker 3: This is a poorly constructed team for the second year

2236
01:52:41,560 --> 01:52:44,400
Speaker 3: in a row. Who does that fall on. That's their

2237
01:52:44,520 --> 01:52:47,640
Speaker 3: biggest problem is the construction.

2238
01:52:47,320 --> 01:52:47,920
Speaker 1: Of this team.

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01:52:48,240 --> 01:52:51,880
Speaker 6: They don't they it's not even like, wow, they miss

2240
01:52:51,920 --> 01:52:54,160
Speaker 6: on guys. They didn't go get a number two guy.

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01:52:54,360 --> 01:52:56,120
Speaker 12: Well, they didn't go get one because they're trying to

2242
01:52:56,200 --> 01:52:58,880
Speaker 12: keep the draft capital to go get a quarterback, which

2243
01:52:58,920 --> 01:53:00,879
Speaker 12: everybody's going to be screaming for next spring.

2244
01:53:02,720 --> 01:53:03,160
Speaker 1: So it had.

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Speaker 12: It wouldn't have been a problem if they hadn't whiffed

2246
01:53:06,000 --> 01:53:09,000
Speaker 12: on Roman Wilson, but they did. It wouldn't have been

2247
01:53:09,040 --> 01:53:12,240
Speaker 12: a problem if Calvin Austin had been a legit number

2248
01:53:12,280 --> 01:53:14,559
Speaker 12: two receiver like they were all insisting he was in there,

2249
01:53:14,720 --> 01:53:15,000
Speaker 12: or if.

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Speaker 3: They knew what they had in Kenny Gaine, well maybe

2251
01:53:16,400 --> 01:53:17,920
Speaker 3: you don't have to draft Caleb Johnson.

2252
01:53:19,560 --> 01:53:22,280
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a good point, somebody. I don't think they

2253
01:53:22,360 --> 01:53:23,200
Speaker 1: knew what they hadn't Kenny.

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01:53:23,360 --> 01:53:23,680
Speaker 4: They did it.

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Speaker 6: They keep saying they did, because talent assessment is not

2256
01:53:27,360 --> 01:53:30,960
Speaker 6: there Forte, which is really the most important part of

2257
01:53:31,080 --> 01:53:34,680
Speaker 6: constructing a football team is knowing who's good and who's not.

2258
01:53:35,200 --> 01:53:36,960
Speaker 5: And I think they got guys on the roster who

2259
01:53:37,000 --> 01:53:39,120
Speaker 5: are good and they're not even using them.

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Speaker 1: Friar Mooth.

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Speaker 12: My biggest problem though, is that the defensive game plan

2262
01:53:44,280 --> 01:53:47,240
Speaker 12: against the Ravens last year and the offensive game plan

2263
01:53:47,760 --> 01:53:51,080
Speaker 12: against Houston last night. I think those were two major

2264
01:53:51,160 --> 01:53:52,639
Speaker 12: contributors to those playoff.

2265
01:53:52,680 --> 01:53:53,960
Speaker 1: The backles totally agree.

2266
01:53:54,120 --> 01:53:57,080
Speaker 12: If I'm an't rooting and I'm trying to find some answers,

2267
01:53:57,120 --> 01:53:57,719
Speaker 12: I start.

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01:53:57,520 --> 01:53:59,880
Speaker 6: There, how are you not just pounding the rock last night?

2269
01:54:00,040 --> 01:54:03,400
Speaker 6: Don't know the whole fricking game, beat them three two.

2270
01:54:03,439 --> 01:54:08,000
Speaker 6: If you have to go to the line, okay, then

2271
01:54:08,080 --> 01:54:10,880
Speaker 6: you let Aaron Rodgers change things up.

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Speaker 12: You know, here's here's the stuff that happened that we

2273
01:54:13,360 --> 01:54:16,240
Speaker 12: were pretty certain, even us the amateurs, and you know,

2274
01:54:16,360 --> 01:54:19,320
Speaker 12: from casual fans to people who think we study this

2275
01:54:19,439 --> 01:54:22,000
Speaker 12: and know what we're talking about. You knew those guys

2276
01:54:22,040 --> 01:54:26,000
Speaker 12: were hell on earth coming off the edge, right, game wreckers.

2277
01:54:26,320 --> 01:54:29,760
Speaker 12: You knew that you probably suspected if you were looking

2278
01:54:29,760 --> 01:54:32,320
Speaker 12: at it honestly, that all that checkdown stuff they did

2279
01:54:32,400 --> 01:54:34,560
Speaker 12: to the running backs all year wasn't going to work

2280
01:54:34,600 --> 01:54:38,000
Speaker 12: against the defense. This path, this fast, the flanker screens

2281
01:54:38,040 --> 01:54:41,640
Speaker 12: and a little team off downs the negative.

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01:54:41,280 --> 01:54:42,080
Speaker 4: Play off on that.

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01:54:42,560 --> 01:54:44,560
Speaker 12: And then the third thing is you know your receivers

2284
01:54:44,600 --> 01:54:47,880
Speaker 12: by now are not what you thought they were. So

2285
01:54:48,000 --> 01:54:51,480
Speaker 12: you got basically one option, try to outlast them by

2286
01:54:51,600 --> 01:54:54,800
Speaker 12: running the ball and playing defense. And you had a

2287
01:54:54,920 --> 01:54:57,360
Speaker 12: chance to play defense better than them if you didn't

2288
01:54:57,480 --> 01:54:58,760
Speaker 12: try to play into their strength.

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01:55:00,160 --> 01:55:03,120
Speaker 3: I didn't have a huge problem with the defense other

2290
01:55:03,240 --> 01:55:04,760
Speaker 3: than they were out there for too long, and that

2291
01:55:04,880 --> 01:55:05,920
Speaker 3: was a lot to ask for them.

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01:55:06,120 --> 01:55:07,120
Speaker 4: They still came up.

2293
01:55:07,080 --> 01:55:09,800
Speaker 3: With big plays, whether it was CJ's croud screwing up

2294
01:55:10,760 --> 01:55:14,320
Speaker 3: or them making them screw up. You know, those interceptions

2295
01:55:14,360 --> 01:55:17,160
Speaker 3: he threw wasn't just because he was making a bad throw.

2296
01:55:17,400 --> 01:55:18,800
Speaker 3: It was he was under duress.

2297
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Speaker 12: So but I didn't get past the woody marks hundred

2298
01:55:23,040 --> 01:55:27,560
Speaker 12: and twelve yards rushing on nineteen carries. Welcome to the NFL.

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Speaker 12: I think we were joking about that before the game.

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Speaker 12: I called him just a guy, and he said, oh,

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Speaker 5: That's right.

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Speaker 3: Guess what here, We are all right on the way

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Speaker 3: for you. Rob came with a power hour Steeler talk.

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Speaker 3: But first, Mike, we're all gonna need to try to

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Speaker 3: make some hey while the sun shines this coming weekend.

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Speaker 1: You know, I get it.

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Speaker 2: Rob King Here, Staying connected to your Steelers has never

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Speaker 2: been easier.

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Speaker 4: You're Radio home of the Pittsburgh Steelers. Why out two

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Speaker 4: point five dv E.

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Speaker 6: Well, top five plays of the game aren't so fun

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01:58:01,240 --> 01:58:03,560
Speaker 6: when the result is as bad as it was for

2353
01:58:03,600 --> 01:58:04,760
Speaker 6: the Pittsburgh Steelers.

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Speaker 4: But let's get started here.

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Speaker 3: Abby Crisner in my pursuit of Ted Whistle joining me

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Speaker 3: Randy Bauman here in the studio at number five, two

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01:58:13,240 --> 01:58:14,840
Speaker 3: oh nine left in the first quarter.

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01:58:15,920 --> 01:58:21,839
Speaker 4: For some reason, the Texans resort to trickery.

2359
01:58:21,920 --> 01:58:22,920
Speaker 1: I don't know who they.

2360
01:58:22,800 --> 01:58:26,960
Speaker 3: Thought they were playing, and they had a touchdown waiting

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01:58:27,040 --> 01:58:27,520
Speaker 3: to happen.

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01:58:27,640 --> 01:58:32,360
Speaker 4: If not for the modern day warrior, Jack Sawyer.

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01:58:32,960 --> 01:58:35,080
Speaker 2: Crowd gets a snap, will give and now it's going

2364
01:58:35,160 --> 01:58:38,000
Speaker 2: to be a flea flicker, shroud back, pressure coming hit

2365
01:58:38,120 --> 01:58:39,640
Speaker 2: and the balls out right.

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01:58:39,960 --> 01:58:43,080
Speaker 1: Black pats it for the Scalers at the forty five

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01:58:43,240 --> 01:58:46,480
Speaker 1: year line. O.

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01:58:46,800 --> 01:58:51,160
Speaker 2: The pressure came from Sawyer and why Black snatched it out.

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01:58:51,000 --> 01:58:51,360
Speaker 16: Of the air.

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Speaker 3: Okay, that was one of those plays I was telling

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01:58:54,440 --> 01:58:56,640
Speaker 3: you about where I felt like, all right, as soon

2372
01:58:56,720 --> 01:59:01,080
Speaker 3: as they stopped making mistakes, you know, so maybe.

2373
01:59:00,880 --> 01:59:02,320
Speaker 1: We'll be in trouble with they're still making them.

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01:59:02,360 --> 01:59:05,760
Speaker 6: So it's capitalize and the Steelers could have done that

2375
01:59:06,800 --> 01:59:07,760
Speaker 6: at the paths.

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01:59:07,640 --> 01:59:11,160
Speaker 1: To Metcalf two plays later to the Houston thirty four and.

2377
01:59:11,120 --> 01:59:14,280
Speaker 3: He dropped it momentum killer. They could have gone up

2378
01:59:14,560 --> 01:59:19,240
Speaker 3: nothing there at least six at number four with six

2379
01:59:19,280 --> 01:59:23,320
Speaker 3: point twenty left in the second after they punted away

2380
01:59:23,560 --> 01:59:26,720
Speaker 3: to the Houston Texans, and then they drive ninety two

2381
01:59:26,880 --> 01:59:30,120
Speaker 3: yards for a touchdown, and it looks like, oh boy,

2382
01:59:30,400 --> 01:59:32,000
Speaker 3: are they gonna start turning up against US.

2383
01:59:32,080 --> 01:59:34,080
Speaker 4: No, Keanu Benton says, eh.

2384
01:59:36,160 --> 01:59:38,880
Speaker 2: Took second and six and Stroud drops a snap back

2385
01:59:38,960 --> 01:59:42,320
Speaker 2: to pass looking steps up and flings the ball forward.

2386
01:59:42,600 --> 01:59:44,880
Speaker 2: The Steelers are gonna think this is a fumble with

2387
01:59:45,040 --> 01:59:47,960
Speaker 2: blood on top of it, and the officials are saying

2388
01:59:48,000 --> 01:59:51,040
Speaker 2: it is a fumble at the twenty one yard line

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01:59:51,360 --> 01:59:53,400
Speaker 2: and DJ one has recovered.

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01:59:55,080 --> 01:59:58,160
Speaker 3: Okay, they kept giving you chances to stay in the game.

2391
01:59:58,240 --> 02:00:00,880
Speaker 3: It was seven to three at that point Steelers got

2392
02:00:00,920 --> 02:00:05,720
Speaker 3: the ball. Was that when they went down and kicked

2393
02:00:05,720 --> 02:00:07,680
Speaker 3: the second field goal that is well went down? Is

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02:00:08,400 --> 02:00:09,560
Speaker 3: three plays of nothing.

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Speaker 12: Take place for four yards, Yeah, four years, including a

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Speaker 12: fourth down conversion. When I was thinking kick it, kick it,

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Speaker 12: don't don't be stupid, kick it, ended up kicking it anyway.

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Speaker 5: We needed the priest to come out with the holy

2399
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Speaker 5: water right then he needs to throw it.

2400
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Speaker 6: There were two on hand last night. Well, they didn't

2401
02:00:27,440 --> 02:00:29,640
Speaker 6: do their job. Bad bad job by the pre Even

2402
02:00:29,640 --> 02:00:32,360
Speaker 6: the priests under performed last night. Number three play of

2403
02:00:32,400 --> 02:00:35,000
Speaker 6: the game, ten thirty two of the third quarter. It

2404
02:00:35,160 --> 02:00:38,680
Speaker 6: looked like the Texans once again. We're about to push

2405
02:00:38,760 --> 02:00:41,760
Speaker 6: the ball in the end zone and start to create

2406
02:00:41,840 --> 02:00:44,040
Speaker 6: some distance between them and the team that they were

2407
02:00:44,840 --> 02:00:45,840
Speaker 6: badly out playing.

2408
02:00:46,840 --> 02:00:50,120
Speaker 5: But Brandon Eckles makes another big play.

2409
02:00:50,880 --> 02:00:53,480
Speaker 2: Gets a snap back the pass looking left, now back

2410
02:00:53,520 --> 02:00:56,080
Speaker 2: to the right, has time stepping up, dancing in the pocket,

2411
02:00:56,160 --> 02:01:01,080
Speaker 2: sling sidar and is it picked off? Holy macro Eckles

2412
02:01:01,240 --> 02:01:05,840
Speaker 2: somehow came up with a tumbling interception inside the five

2413
02:01:06,000 --> 02:01:06,560
Speaker 2: yard line.

2414
02:01:06,960 --> 02:01:08,800
Speaker 5: What a catch on the I.

2415
02:01:09,080 --> 02:01:10,280
Speaker 6: Int by Eckles.

2416
02:01:10,400 --> 02:01:12,840
Speaker 5: You know, they were gassed from that first half.

2417
02:01:13,120 --> 02:01:15,320
Speaker 3: The second quarter especially was brutal, and then they had

2418
02:01:15,360 --> 02:01:19,040
Speaker 3: to you know, contend with the Texans getting the ball

2419
02:01:19,120 --> 02:01:20,080
Speaker 3: to start the second half.

2420
02:01:20,880 --> 02:01:24,320
Speaker 6: And they still were bend not break, and this defense

2421
02:01:24,360 --> 02:01:25,200
Speaker 6: still made some places.

2422
02:01:25,240 --> 02:01:27,200
Speaker 3: I'm not beating as hard on the defense as everyone

2423
02:01:27,200 --> 02:01:29,080
Speaker 3: else because Tom has always been a bend, don't break guy,

2424
02:01:29,920 --> 02:01:31,160
Speaker 3: and they came up with the big plays.

2425
02:01:31,160 --> 02:01:32,960
Speaker 4: Wouldn't matter. They're still in the game.

2426
02:01:33,040 --> 02:01:38,880
Speaker 6: It's seven to six there, number two not that, but

2427
02:01:38,960 --> 02:01:40,600
Speaker 6: they converted a third down after that.

2428
02:01:41,160 --> 02:01:45,080
Speaker 4: We know to Marquez Valdez, Scantlon was the first one.

2429
02:01:45,200 --> 02:01:46,120
Speaker 5: Excell Valdez.

2430
02:01:46,640 --> 02:01:49,880
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was not quite that big of a disaster

2431
02:01:50,040 --> 02:01:53,960
Speaker 3: for him this year here, but during near close number

2432
02:01:53,960 --> 02:01:57,320
Speaker 3: two play of the game, Tad, as you said, the

2433
02:01:57,440 --> 02:02:00,160
Speaker 3: fact that Christian Kirk was in the conversation to be

2434
02:02:00,240 --> 02:02:03,400
Speaker 3: the Steelers number two guy, and then it didn't end

2435
02:02:03,480 --> 02:02:05,680
Speaker 3: up happening this year when they desperately needed that, and

2436
02:02:05,840 --> 02:02:08,480
Speaker 3: he was the guy killed us to burn them last night.

2437
02:02:09,280 --> 02:02:13,560
Speaker 3: Third and fifteen, forty three seconds left in the third quarter.

2438
02:02:13,920 --> 02:02:18,520
Speaker 4: To me, this was the game number two Christian Kirk

2439
02:02:18,680 --> 02:02:20,080
Speaker 4: from c J. Stroud.

2440
02:02:20,280 --> 02:02:23,720
Speaker 2: Droud gets a snap five man rush coming steps up

2441
02:02:23,760 --> 02:02:25,560
Speaker 2: past time, throws out to the right as a man

2442
02:02:25,680 --> 02:02:30,960
Speaker 2: breaking free, and it's caught by Kirk inside Steelers territory.

2443
02:02:31,680 --> 02:02:35,080
Speaker 2: The pass rush didn't get home and Kirk broke wide

2444
02:02:35,400 --> 02:02:39,560
Speaker 2: open and a third and fifteen conversion all the way

2445
02:02:39,680 --> 02:02:42,480
Speaker 2: down to the thirty three yard line of his Steelers,

2446
02:02:42,800 --> 02:02:45,000
Speaker 2: a forty nine yard pickup.

2447
02:02:45,320 --> 02:02:46,920
Speaker 4: Forty nine yard pickup.

2448
02:02:47,120 --> 02:02:50,120
Speaker 12: You know, while we were raging against the evaluations machine,

2449
02:02:50,160 --> 02:02:52,600
Speaker 12: we didn't get around to talking about Kyle Dugger, but

2450
02:02:52,720 --> 02:02:55,280
Speaker 12: when he first got here was being credited for helping

2451
02:02:55,360 --> 02:02:58,520
Speaker 12: solidify things on the back end with Ramsey. By the

2452
02:02:58,640 --> 02:03:00,840
Speaker 12: end of the Baltimore game, he was watching and Chuck

2453
02:03:00,880 --> 02:03:02,920
Speaker 12: Clark was playing and I think the only reason he

2454
02:03:03,000 --> 02:03:05,240
Speaker 12: was playing at that juncture was because Chuck.

2455
02:03:05,120 --> 02:03:05,720
Speaker 1: Clark got hurt.

2456
02:03:06,000 --> 02:03:09,600
Speaker 3: It's exactly And if you watch that play, he did

2457
02:03:09,720 --> 02:03:13,880
Speaker 3: such a horrific job of capping that route and getting

2458
02:03:13,920 --> 02:03:14,640
Speaker 3: a late start.

2459
02:03:15,360 --> 02:03:22,000
Speaker 6: It is mind boggling that he was misplaying at that poorly.

2460
02:03:22,680 --> 02:03:23,720
Speaker 6: But he was not alone last night.

2461
02:03:23,720 --> 02:03:26,600
Speaker 3: There are a lot of people miss playing on crucial downs.

2462
02:03:26,640 --> 02:03:31,640
Speaker 3: You'll never You'll never miss, not with this defense or

2463
02:03:31,760 --> 02:03:33,760
Speaker 3: this offense for that matter. And the number one play

2464
02:03:33,800 --> 02:03:37,080
Speaker 3: of the game, I mean, Oklahoma, I don't no Carosel.

2465
02:03:38,000 --> 02:03:40,120
Speaker 3: You're the musical guy, not me. You like all of

2466
02:03:40,200 --> 02:03:45,200
Speaker 3: that fruity stuff. Number one play of the game.

2467
02:03:45,280 --> 02:03:46,280
Speaker 1: We all know what it was.

2468
02:03:46,680 --> 02:03:50,000
Speaker 3: And you get this big man touchdown on you. It's

2469
02:03:50,200 --> 02:03:53,200
Speaker 3: just hard to come back from this morally. If nothing else.

2470
02:03:54,120 --> 02:03:57,040
Speaker 2: Rogers steps up, and Rogers is sacked, and the ball

2471
02:03:57,200 --> 02:04:00,840
Speaker 2: is loose and it's picked up by Sheldon Ranks and

2472
02:04:01,080 --> 02:04:04,839
Speaker 2: Rankins is sprinting down the field and Rankins has scored

2473
02:04:05,440 --> 02:04:07,160
Speaker 2: Houston Texans touchdown.

2474
02:04:07,760 --> 02:04:09,480
Speaker 12: I hate that play more than any play in the

2475
02:04:09,640 --> 02:04:14,720
Speaker 12: entire season. Third and twelve. They've done nothing all night.

2476
02:04:16,040 --> 02:04:17,760
Speaker 12: What do you think is going to happen if you

2477
02:04:17,840 --> 02:04:21,800
Speaker 12: go empty spread there. I still think that's what's gonna happen.

2478
02:04:22,000 --> 02:04:25,560
Speaker 12: I disagree with Jeans terrator two. I mean he Aaron

2479
02:04:25,600 --> 02:04:27,520
Speaker 12: Rodgers clearly took a shot to the head on that one.

2480
02:04:27,880 --> 02:04:29,200
Speaker 12: I think you got to call it. That's why the

2481
02:04:29,280 --> 02:04:32,120
Speaker 12: rule is there. And if you're not calling that, they

2482
02:04:32,160 --> 02:04:32,720
Speaker 12: don't even.

2483
02:04:32,640 --> 02:04:33,080
Speaker 1: Have the rule.

2484
02:04:34,520 --> 02:04:37,080
Speaker 3: And yes, I do love show tunes. I mean, on

2485
02:04:37,200 --> 02:04:40,360
Speaker 3: Friday night I watched them. That's the movie about Rogers

2486
02:04:40,400 --> 02:04:44,360
Speaker 3: and Hammerstein. You know, I don't know that much. I'm

2487
02:04:44,480 --> 02:04:46,440
Speaker 3: still not as well. You're singing down from heaven to

2488
02:04:46,520 --> 02:04:51,520
Speaker 3: his daughter, Well, somebody singing down to the Steelers' front

2489
02:04:51,560 --> 02:04:52,600
Speaker 3: office and tell them to get.

2490
02:04:52,480 --> 02:04:56,320
Speaker 1: People that I don't know. You don't know this stuff.

2491
02:04:56,920 --> 02:04:58,680
Speaker 12: No, you know a lot of old person stuff for

2492
02:04:58,760 --> 02:05:01,920
Speaker 12: a guy who Yeah, sometimes i'd have thought you'd have known.

2493
02:05:01,800 --> 02:05:02,800
Speaker 5: That a whiff.

2494
02:05:04,360 --> 02:05:06,400
Speaker 4: Not the super fruity stuff though, just the regular.

2495
02:05:06,640 --> 02:05:11,040
Speaker 5: Yeah, the cool musical stuff, yeah, Jesus Christ, Superstar, Tommy,

2496
02:05:12,240 --> 02:05:13,520
Speaker 5: Carousel and Oklahoma.

2497
02:05:14,800 --> 02:05:15,120
Speaker 1: That's it.

2498
02:05:15,400 --> 02:05:18,160
Speaker 3: I mean, just an awful end to the Steelers season

2499
02:05:18,640 --> 02:05:20,800
Speaker 3: last night at home, in front of a crowd that

2500
02:05:21,040 --> 02:05:24,400
Speaker 3: was ready to explode. Unlike the week before, which was

2501
02:05:24,560 --> 02:05:26,400
Speaker 3: essentially a playoff game win and you're in.

2502
02:05:27,080 --> 02:05:29,320
Speaker 4: Tickets were not cheap.

2503
02:05:29,640 --> 02:05:32,320
Speaker 3: Getting into that game was pricey last night, and they

2504
02:05:32,400 --> 02:05:35,920
Speaker 3: still put sixty five thousand people into the stands sixty.

2505
02:05:35,640 --> 02:05:42,400
Speaker 12: Seven sixty seven, Yeah, two hundred and ninety seven and

2506
02:05:42,440 --> 02:05:48,360
Speaker 12: ninety seven sixty seven. Sorry, just to sleep deprived of

2507
02:05:48,400 --> 02:05:51,480
Speaker 12: all of you, and nothing's making sense. Very few Texans fans,

2508
02:05:51,480 --> 02:05:53,040
Speaker 12: although you wouldn't have known that if you're doing the

2509
02:05:53,080 --> 02:05:55,440
Speaker 12: postgame show and the only people left were Texans fans

2510
02:05:55,480 --> 02:05:57,240
Speaker 12: surrounding the TV thing.

2511
02:05:57,160 --> 02:05:57,640
Speaker 1: On the field.

2512
02:05:57,920 --> 02:06:00,200
Speaker 3: So you and Charlie were there to see all of that, Huh, yes,

2513
02:06:00,320 --> 02:06:02,360
Speaker 3: we were, Man, Howley, did you guys take the post

2514
02:06:02,400 --> 02:06:04,400
Speaker 3: game to last night o'clock? Yeah?

2515
02:06:05,160 --> 02:06:07,440
Speaker 6: Wow, Well, good on you once again for getting an

2516
02:06:07,520 --> 02:06:09,000
Speaker 6: hour and a half asleep and coming in here and

2517
02:06:09,120 --> 02:06:10,720
Speaker 6: doing the morning show after.

2518
02:06:10,920 --> 02:06:13,560
Speaker 4: Is this the fourth night game we've had this year?

2519
02:06:13,840 --> 02:06:14,720
Speaker 1: I not, it's the last.

2520
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Speaker 6: It is a power hour with Rob King, voice of

2521
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Speaker 6: the Steelers, the voice of all of those calls you

2522
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Speaker 6: just heard here on the flagship DV.

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Speaker 2: Human Rodgers gets to snap back hit as he throws,

2534
02:07:10,080 --> 02:07:14,200
Speaker 2: ball is loose and McCormick scrambles back to the thirty

2535
02:07:14,280 --> 02:07:16,360
Speaker 2: yard line and lands on top of it.

2536
02:07:16,800 --> 02:07:19,400
Speaker 7: It's Daniel Hunter who had to hit on Rogers.

2537
02:07:19,840 --> 02:07:23,520
Speaker 4: Daniel Hunter was insane last night.

2538
02:07:24,240 --> 02:07:26,440
Speaker 3: The edges were just so tough for the Houston, Texas

2539
02:07:26,520 --> 02:07:28,960
Speaker 3: joining us right now for a power hour of Steel

2540
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Speaker 3: Talk Steel just about steel.

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Speaker 8: Specific.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, well, we just feel like metal Talk might be

2543
02:07:37,360 --> 02:07:40,760
Speaker 6: better than what we had to last night. It's brought

2544
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Speaker 6: to you by Ford this half hour your neighborhood Ford Store.

2545
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Speaker 6: The F one fifty, the official truck of the Pittsburgh

2546
02:07:45,720 --> 02:07:48,760
Speaker 6: Steelers who got trucked in the fourth quarter.

2547
02:07:49,040 --> 02:07:53,120
Speaker 3: They allowed twenty three points last night, they couldn't get

2548
02:07:53,160 --> 02:07:54,000
Speaker 3: in the end zone.

2549
02:07:54,360 --> 02:07:55,440
Speaker 1: That was no good.

2550
02:07:55,560 --> 02:07:59,200
Speaker 3: So, Rob, the season comes to an end, and would

2551
02:07:59,240 --> 02:08:01,640
Speaker 3: you say, let's just do a big, old broad brush

2552
02:08:01,680 --> 02:08:06,640
Speaker 3: stroke here Aaron Rodgers bringing him in the right move

2553
02:08:07,640 --> 02:08:12,000
Speaker 3: or might they have been better served going elsewhere? I mean,

2554
02:08:12,120 --> 02:08:15,800
Speaker 3: given what was out there, they were looking at Justin

2555
02:08:15,880 --> 02:08:19,360
Speaker 3: Fields Sam Darnold, which had a pretty hefty price tag

2556
02:08:19,880 --> 02:08:22,880
Speaker 3: affixed to it, and then you that's your guy, that's

2557
02:08:22,880 --> 02:08:25,040
Speaker 3: your guy for four or five years, right, you know

2558
02:08:25,240 --> 02:08:28,240
Speaker 3: that you're you're really sailing with him, or given that

2559
02:08:28,320 --> 02:08:31,120
Speaker 3: they wanted to start with somebody younger, and seems like

2560
02:08:31,120 --> 02:08:32,160
Speaker 3: they've had their mindset on this.

2561
02:08:32,400 --> 02:08:34,320
Speaker 4: Was this still the way to go despite.

2562
02:08:34,200 --> 02:08:37,720
Speaker 6: The outcome, Well, you know, there were there were moments

2563
02:08:37,760 --> 02:08:40,120
Speaker 6: of the season where he looked phenomenal. He looked the

2564
02:08:40,200 --> 02:08:43,600
Speaker 6: best we've seen since Ben, you know, in the latter

2565
02:08:43,720 --> 02:08:46,720
Speaker 6: years of his prime. Agree, he just he looked great. Cincinnati,

2566
02:08:46,800 --> 02:08:49,000
Speaker 6: he looked great, and he led him back against the Jets.

2567
02:08:49,720 --> 02:08:51,440
Speaker 6: There were moments down the stretch where I thought he

2568
02:08:51,520 --> 02:08:55,920
Speaker 6: looked really good. You know, they offered Justin Fields a

2569
02:08:55,960 --> 02:08:58,760
Speaker 6: contract and he didn't take it. You know, some people

2570
02:08:58,800 --> 02:09:01,760
Speaker 6: wanted Russell Wilson back got benched by the Giants. You know,

2571
02:09:02,040 --> 02:09:07,760
Speaker 6: he was on Anderson Cooper's New Year's Eve celebration and

2572
02:09:08,040 --> 02:09:10,440
Speaker 6: Sam Donald. They wanted to talk to Sam Donald. My

2573
02:09:10,560 --> 02:09:13,320
Speaker 6: understanding is that Sam Donald met with the Seattle first,

2574
02:09:13,360 --> 02:09:14,560
Speaker 6: got an offer and just went there.

2575
02:09:14,680 --> 02:09:16,160
Speaker 5: So you never even had an opportunity.

2576
02:09:16,240 --> 02:09:20,600
Speaker 6: So, you know, people say, people could say this or

2577
02:09:20,680 --> 02:09:23,160
Speaker 6: that about Okay, what's the solution, you know, and listen,

2578
02:09:23,200 --> 02:09:26,320
Speaker 6: it's not up to us to have the solution, right, uh,

2579
02:09:26,880 --> 02:09:29,800
Speaker 6: you know, but have some sort of idea of what

2580
02:09:30,000 --> 02:09:32,000
Speaker 6: is a possible solution, like, you know, go out and

2581
02:09:32,040 --> 02:09:35,200
Speaker 6: get a safety Okay, well who I mean that, you know,

2582
02:09:35,280 --> 02:09:37,520
Speaker 6: and then and balancing you know that question as a

2583
02:09:37,600 --> 02:09:41,080
Speaker 6: fan with uh, you know who with maybe some answers.

2584
02:09:41,120 --> 02:09:42,760
Speaker 6: So I don't know what other answers there would have

2585
02:09:42,800 --> 02:09:45,720
Speaker 6: been out there. I think that at a lot there

2586
02:09:45,800 --> 02:09:47,520
Speaker 6: was a lot of times where Anon Rodgers looked great

2587
02:09:48,000 --> 02:09:54,240
Speaker 6: and last night, you know, they they got into bad

2588
02:09:54,400 --> 02:09:56,960
Speaker 6: down in distances, which Mike Tomlins said before the end

2589
02:09:57,120 --> 02:09:59,120
Speaker 6: he was talking to Bob Labriella, we can't do that.

2590
02:09:59,320 --> 02:10:01,240
Speaker 5: Well, that's what they did well.

2591
02:10:01,360 --> 02:10:04,440
Speaker 3: To me, that is a component of not game planning

2592
02:10:04,560 --> 02:10:10,440
Speaker 3: or play calling efficiently for the circumstances. To me, I've

2593
02:10:10,440 --> 02:10:15,040
Speaker 3: watched Aaron Rodgers constantly yelling at receivers, running round wrong routes,

2594
02:10:15,680 --> 02:10:20,640
Speaker 3: guys having trouble, you know, with different formations that they're

2595
02:10:20,720 --> 02:10:21,480
Speaker 3: trying to implement.

2596
02:10:22,400 --> 02:10:24,720
Speaker 6: But the running game has never had an issue.

2597
02:10:25,320 --> 02:10:28,280
Speaker 3: And why they weren't leaning on the running game to

2598
02:10:28,320 --> 02:10:31,560
Speaker 3: set up the occasional pass and just pound the rock

2599
02:10:31,760 --> 02:10:34,200
Speaker 3: and when you had to punt, you punt Corlis Weightman

2600
02:10:34,320 --> 02:10:36,320
Speaker 3: was fantastic and he was flipping the field for you.

2601
02:10:37,320 --> 02:10:40,600
Speaker 3: Why on earth do you approach that game anyway? I

2602
02:10:40,640 --> 02:10:42,920
Speaker 3: think at one point it was like first sixteen plays

2603
02:10:43,000 --> 02:10:44,320
Speaker 3: or eleven dropbacks.

2604
02:10:45,120 --> 02:10:47,280
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, they came out.

2605
02:10:47,280 --> 02:10:49,560
Speaker 4: I think the first play the game was a Jalen

2606
02:10:49,600 --> 02:10:50,600
Speaker 4: Warren first down run.

2607
02:10:50,800 --> 02:10:51,000
Speaker 5: Yeah.

2608
02:10:51,320 --> 02:10:53,720
Speaker 6: And you know, Max and I were talking about this

2609
02:10:53,840 --> 02:10:56,440
Speaker 6: before the game. You know, when you have a defense

2610
02:10:56,520 --> 02:11:00,320
Speaker 6: it's as fast and as aggressive as Houston's. To me,

2611
02:11:01,240 --> 02:11:03,280
Speaker 6: you have to run at them, not away from them,

2612
02:11:03,320 --> 02:11:05,360
Speaker 6: because they will they will track you down.

2613
02:11:05,520 --> 02:11:06,800
Speaker 1: You know they will. They will.

2614
02:11:07,280 --> 02:11:10,640
Speaker 6: You know they will find you. So you have to

2615
02:11:10,720 --> 02:11:13,600
Speaker 6: run it at them. And even that's obviously not easy.

2616
02:11:14,560 --> 02:11:16,920
Speaker 6: But I'm always in the run the ball more school.

2617
02:11:16,920 --> 02:11:18,520
Speaker 5: I mean I said this. I don't know it was

2618
02:11:18,640 --> 02:11:19,160
Speaker 5: last week.

2619
02:11:19,480 --> 02:11:22,040
Speaker 6: If the Steelers had seventy five plays and ran it

2620
02:11:22,160 --> 02:11:23,960
Speaker 6: seventy four times, I would have said they should have

2621
02:11:24,000 --> 02:11:25,440
Speaker 6: run it more. Yeah, you know, I mean that's just

2622
02:11:25,520 --> 02:11:27,720
Speaker 6: the way I feel about it. I thought this was

2623
02:11:27,800 --> 02:11:30,520
Speaker 6: going to be I thought this was going to be

2624
02:11:30,720 --> 02:11:34,840
Speaker 6: a slog fest. You know, both teams getting into third

2625
02:11:34,880 --> 02:11:37,320
Speaker 6: and five, third and six, take a shot, don't have

2626
02:11:37,400 --> 02:11:39,960
Speaker 6: the shot, It's ok to punt it away. Play defense,

2627
02:11:40,840 --> 02:11:45,560
Speaker 6: you know, try to win the field the field position game.

2628
02:11:46,080 --> 02:11:48,960
Speaker 6: Make the occasional play like the past the DK Metcalf

2629
02:11:49,320 --> 02:11:51,760
Speaker 6: haul that in. When you've got the opportunity to make

2630
02:11:51,800 --> 02:11:54,360
Speaker 6: the big plays. You know, it's important in every game.

2631
02:11:54,440 --> 02:11:57,000
Speaker 6: Like we saw against Cleveland when the Steelers were three

2632
02:11:57,040 --> 02:11:59,480
Speaker 6: for fifteen on third down, how important that was. They

2633
02:11:59,520 --> 02:12:01,960
Speaker 6: still let you answers to win that game. The better

2634
02:12:02,080 --> 02:12:05,280
Speaker 6: the opponent is, and Houston's a very good opponent they've

2635
02:12:05,320 --> 02:12:08,120
Speaker 6: now won ten straight games, the better you have to

2636
02:12:08,240 --> 02:12:11,960
Speaker 6: be at situational football. Mike Tomlin calls them the weighty downs.

2637
02:12:12,280 --> 02:12:16,000
Speaker 6: So you were better than them in the red zone.

2638
02:12:16,680 --> 02:12:19,080
Speaker 6: They were both about the same. I think on third

2639
02:12:19,160 --> 02:12:24,400
Speaker 6: downs and so little things. You know, they value rushing

2640
02:12:24,440 --> 02:12:28,080
Speaker 6: the passer and trying to turn the ball over. And

2641
02:12:28,800 --> 02:12:30,880
Speaker 6: so this Juders were doing some of those things right.

2642
02:12:31,240 --> 02:12:33,680
Speaker 6: They were doing a better job of getting the turnovers.

2643
02:12:34,240 --> 02:12:36,720
Speaker 6: That's the team that has the second fewest giveaways in

2644
02:12:36,800 --> 02:12:40,160
Speaker 6: the second best turnover margin in the NFL. The Texans,

2645
02:12:40,480 --> 02:12:42,560
Speaker 6: you were doing some of those things, but you weren't

2646
02:12:42,640 --> 02:12:45,440
Speaker 6: winning on third down. You weren't winning in the red

2647
02:12:45,560 --> 02:12:49,480
Speaker 6: zone those moments in a game like this, And who

2648
02:12:49,640 --> 02:12:53,280
Speaker 6: knows what happens if, you know, instead of being down

2649
02:12:53,480 --> 02:12:56,040
Speaker 6: seven to six in the fourth with the momentum kind

2650
02:12:56,080 --> 02:12:59,160
Speaker 6: of surging against you, what if you're up thirteen to six.

2651
02:12:59,520 --> 02:13:01,760
Speaker 6: You know what I mean, how's the game played differently?

2652
02:13:02,640 --> 02:13:06,320
Speaker 6: What happened is is this game war on. The Texans

2653
02:13:06,360 --> 02:13:09,760
Speaker 6: began to dictate what the Steelers had to do. Think

2654
02:13:09,800 --> 02:13:12,920
Speaker 6: about all the great and I've described the Steelers defense

2655
02:13:13,000 --> 02:13:15,800
Speaker 6: that way. They're great defenses that way so many times

2656
02:13:15,840 --> 02:13:18,280
Speaker 6: over the years. You know, you get your own Bettis

2657
02:13:18,360 --> 02:13:20,840
Speaker 6: and you're pounding away and now you get a little

2658
02:13:20,840 --> 02:13:23,280
Speaker 6: bit of a lead, and now the other teams got

2659
02:13:23,400 --> 02:13:26,680
Speaker 6: to pass, and your defense is well rested and you're

2660
02:13:26,720 --> 02:13:27,160
Speaker 6: in trouble.

2661
02:13:27,920 --> 02:13:29,400
Speaker 5: That's what happened with the Steelers last night.

2662
02:13:29,720 --> 02:13:34,920
Speaker 6: They ran into a Steelers defense that was kind of

2663
02:13:35,000 --> 02:13:37,440
Speaker 6: like the Steelers defenses of their prime. They only have

2664
02:13:37,520 --> 02:13:40,440
Speaker 6: to rush for they don't need to blitz, and they

2665
02:13:40,480 --> 02:13:44,280
Speaker 6: are super fast. And when you're behind, or when you're

2666
02:13:44,320 --> 02:13:47,040
Speaker 6: in third and long, when they get to dictate to you,

2667
02:13:47,480 --> 02:13:48,360
Speaker 6: you're in big trouble.

2668
02:13:48,400 --> 02:13:49,440
Speaker 5: And that's what happened last night.

2669
02:13:50,080 --> 02:13:53,240
Speaker 6: Given that they have no number two wide receiver, no

2670
02:13:53,400 --> 02:13:57,120
Speaker 6: proven guy, no real threat, we all assumed that the

2671
02:13:57,200 --> 02:13:59,440
Speaker 6: tight ends would be a big part of this offense

2672
02:13:59,520 --> 02:14:00,000
Speaker 6: all year life.

2673
02:14:00,480 --> 02:14:02,840
Speaker 3: What was John New's stance last year? Tad eighty eight

2674
02:14:02,960 --> 02:14:05,080
Speaker 3: grams from Tua. I thought he was going to be

2675
02:14:05,080 --> 02:14:09,200
Speaker 3: their second leading receiver. Smith, how did he get relegated

2676
02:14:09,280 --> 02:14:11,080
Speaker 3: to whatever the hell it is that they had him doing?

2677
02:14:11,520 --> 02:14:15,200
Speaker 4: And Friarmouth was a non factor? Do you like now?

2678
02:14:15,240 --> 02:14:18,400
Speaker 6: All I was told about Arthur Smith is he loves

2679
02:14:19,040 --> 02:14:22,560
Speaker 6: tight ends like you know Charlie Batchlake snowstorms.

2680
02:14:22,680 --> 02:14:27,840
Speaker 3: You know, he gets giddy from tight ends. And I

2681
02:14:28,120 --> 02:14:32,920
Speaker 3: didn't see any efficient use of tight ends at all.

2682
02:14:33,320 --> 02:14:34,760
Speaker 3: And you thought it was going to be prominent and

2683
02:14:34,840 --> 02:14:36,200
Speaker 3: last night would have been the game. I thought I

2684
02:14:36,200 --> 02:14:38,920
Speaker 3: would have seen that when they did decide to throw

2685
02:14:39,560 --> 02:14:42,040
Speaker 3: gotten it out. Is that in your opinion?

2686
02:14:42,440 --> 02:14:45,800
Speaker 6: Do you think because that's what Arthur Smith wanted or

2687
02:14:45,880 --> 02:14:52,160
Speaker 6: because Aaron Rodgers didn't feel comfortable with that tight end group.

2688
02:14:52,400 --> 02:14:54,280
Speaker 1: I don't know that. It's a good question. I really

2689
02:14:54,360 --> 02:14:55,920
Speaker 1: don't know. I thought that.

2690
02:14:56,280 --> 02:14:58,200
Speaker 4: Because he's used tight ends in the past. It is

2691
02:14:58,440 --> 02:14:59,360
Speaker 4: like he hasn't done that.

2692
02:14:59,680 --> 02:15:00,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, there are two things.

2693
02:15:00,880 --> 02:15:04,000
Speaker 6: And again I don't know the whys on this, but

2694
02:15:04,040 --> 02:15:05,800
Speaker 6: if I'm a fan looking, I'm like, well, okay, so

2695
02:15:05,920 --> 02:15:08,800
Speaker 6: Friar Muths is a sixty catch guy right when he's

2696
02:15:08,840 --> 02:15:10,840
Speaker 6: healthy and he gives you a full season, he's a

2697
02:15:10,920 --> 02:15:13,280
Speaker 6: sixty catch guy. He signed to do a contract extension.

2698
02:15:13,640 --> 02:15:16,640
Speaker 6: I kind of expect sixty catches and he didn't come

2699
02:15:16,680 --> 02:15:19,040
Speaker 6: close to that. The other one was they drafted Roman

2700
02:15:19,040 --> 02:15:22,400
Speaker 6: Wilson in the third round last year. He obviously lost,

2701
02:15:23,040 --> 02:15:26,360
Speaker 6: you know, lost the season due to injury. I thought

2702
02:15:26,600 --> 02:15:28,800
Speaker 6: in the five or six game stretch that they used

2703
02:15:28,840 --> 02:15:31,920
Speaker 6: me at a couple of touchdowns. I thought he showed

2704
02:15:32,000 --> 02:15:34,760
Speaker 6: some ability to stretch the field a little bit, you know,

2705
02:15:34,920 --> 02:15:40,080
Speaker 6: to run. It's uh, you know, and this is nothing

2706
02:15:40,120 --> 02:15:42,720
Speaker 6: against theal And and mvs who were in the latter

2707
02:15:42,800 --> 02:15:45,520
Speaker 6: stages of their career, but they aren't guys that can

2708
02:15:45,720 --> 02:15:48,680
Speaker 6: that are gonna, you know, stretch the defense and scare

2709
02:15:48,720 --> 02:15:51,760
Speaker 6: you anymore. I thought Roman Wilson showed some of those tendencies.

2710
02:15:51,800 --> 02:15:55,920
Speaker 6: But for whatever reason, he I don't know if he

2711
02:15:55,960 --> 02:15:58,880
Speaker 6: fell out of favor or what happened, but he just

2712
02:15:58,920 --> 02:15:59,800
Speaker 6: stopped being used.

2713
02:15:59,840 --> 02:16:01,680
Speaker 4: And I thought that that was a guy.

2714
02:16:01,760 --> 02:16:03,920
Speaker 6: You know, if you're looking at who can step up

2715
02:16:04,000 --> 02:16:06,040
Speaker 6: and be a guy, well, he was the most He

2716
02:16:06,120 --> 02:16:08,520
Speaker 6: and Calvin Austin were the most obvious guys in the roster.

2717
02:16:08,640 --> 02:16:11,440
Speaker 6: Calvin got hurt and that's when Roman Wilson emerged and

2718
02:16:11,480 --> 02:16:14,360
Speaker 6: I thought, Okay, well, maybe maybe out of this injury,

2719
02:16:14,400 --> 02:16:16,320
Speaker 6: you're gonna be able to get something good. Roman Wilson's

2720
02:16:16,320 --> 02:16:18,640
Speaker 6: going to be able to come out there and run free.

2721
02:16:18,680 --> 02:16:20,400
Speaker 6: I mean, you know, one of the things about that

2722
02:16:20,520 --> 02:16:23,240
Speaker 6: you saw with Seattle, and fans have talked about this

2723
02:16:23,360 --> 02:16:26,880
Speaker 6: a lot, Randy, is that last year, what happens if

2724
02:16:26,880 --> 02:16:31,080
Speaker 6: Pickens gets hurt? Right, this year, what happens if DK Well,

2725
02:16:31,120 --> 02:16:32,920
Speaker 6: in this case, he gets hurt, but in this case

2726
02:16:32,920 --> 02:16:35,959
Speaker 6: he was suspended for two games. Who's there to pick

2727
02:16:36,000 --> 02:16:40,520
Speaker 6: it up. Well, the Texans have Nico Collins, right, and

2728
02:16:40,680 --> 02:16:42,880
Speaker 6: he's a pro bowler. He gets hurt, goes out of

2729
02:16:42,920 --> 02:16:46,320
Speaker 6: the game. We have Christian Kirk who's a good player

2730
02:16:46,360 --> 02:16:48,040
Speaker 6: and been a really good player. You have a second

2731
02:16:48,120 --> 02:16:50,160
Speaker 6: round picking Jaden Higgins. You have a third round pick

2732
02:16:50,200 --> 02:16:54,119
Speaker 6: in Jalenole who's being effective. You have additional weapons. Dalton

2733
02:16:54,120 --> 02:16:56,160
Speaker 6: Schultz didn't even kill this too this last night, and

2734
02:16:56,240 --> 02:16:58,680
Speaker 6: he's a third leading receiver among tight ends in the NFL.

2735
02:16:59,040 --> 02:17:02,080
Speaker 6: They had more options that could get down the field

2736
02:17:02,160 --> 02:17:05,720
Speaker 6: and make plays in their in their arsenal players and

2737
02:17:05,760 --> 02:17:09,120
Speaker 6: this yeelers either uh don't have that. I mean, it

2738
02:17:09,200 --> 02:17:11,720
Speaker 6: doesn't look to me. And again I don't. I don't

2739
02:17:11,760 --> 02:17:14,039
Speaker 6: watch the game the same way I would as if

2740
02:17:14,040 --> 02:17:15,800
Speaker 6: I'm a fan. It doesn't look to me like there's

2741
02:17:15,840 --> 02:17:18,080
Speaker 6: a lot of guys open, like I know, the guys

2742
02:17:18,160 --> 02:17:20,039
Speaker 6: running wide open. No, they're not bad guys running wide

2743
02:17:20,040 --> 02:17:21,720
Speaker 6: open last night Seattle think, But I don't know how

2744
02:17:21,760 --> 02:17:23,400
Speaker 6: much of that is well. And also it looked like

2745
02:17:23,520 --> 02:17:26,680
Speaker 6: play design. They had just some some play designs that

2746
02:17:26,800 --> 02:17:29,280
Speaker 6: look like oh yeah, oh is it second and three?

2747
02:17:29,760 --> 02:17:32,000
Speaker 6: You know, and they would run like, you know, a

2748
02:17:32,160 --> 02:17:35,480
Speaker 6: quick route out of the backfield for an easy pluto.

2749
02:17:35,760 --> 02:17:38,080
Speaker 6: Guys got one on one beats that you know, beats

2750
02:17:38,120 --> 02:17:40,200
Speaker 6: the defender drops in for a first down.

2751
02:17:40,240 --> 02:17:43,600
Speaker 4: There, everything we do on offense looks so labored.

2752
02:17:44,360 --> 02:17:47,520
Speaker 3: It just seems like, I don't know, it's so it

2753
02:17:47,560 --> 02:17:49,720
Speaker 3: feels so antiquated all of the things we're doing.

2754
02:17:49,959 --> 02:17:51,600
Speaker 4: That's why I don't know if they're gonna.

2755
02:17:52,920 --> 02:17:56,080
Speaker 6: Reboot what we just saw for twenty twenty six season,

2756
02:17:56,200 --> 02:17:57,520
Speaker 6: and that remains to be seen.

2757
02:17:58,440 --> 02:18:00,480
Speaker 4: There were some positives on the year, though.

2758
02:18:00,840 --> 02:18:03,200
Speaker 3: I thought the offensive line was gonna be a liability,

2759
02:18:03,600 --> 02:18:07,640
Speaker 3: and last night they were. But that seemed to me

2760
02:18:07,840 --> 02:18:10,800
Speaker 3: to be a big step backwards for them. Up to

2761
02:18:10,920 --> 02:18:13,640
Speaker 3: that point, I thought they were progressively progressing nicely, and

2762
02:18:13,760 --> 02:18:16,080
Speaker 3: I think Steeler fans can feel pretty good about the

2763
02:18:16,200 --> 02:18:20,080
Speaker 3: offensive line going forward, a young group who got better.

2764
02:18:20,360 --> 02:18:20,560
Speaker 1: Yeah.

2765
02:18:20,760 --> 02:18:24,440
Speaker 6: By the way, just an aside, because part of the

2766
02:18:24,680 --> 02:18:26,720
Speaker 6: part of the reason that the offensive line had trouble

2767
02:18:26,800 --> 02:18:30,560
Speaker 6: is because their defensive line is resane good yes and

2768
02:18:31,320 --> 02:18:34,200
Speaker 6: Joe and Petree man oh man, is that dude, I

2769
02:18:34,280 --> 02:18:37,440
Speaker 6: mean killed the Holy mackerels? He good player again. Mike

2770
02:18:37,520 --> 02:18:41,600
Speaker 6: tom Win mentioned him on Tuesday. And you know they're

2771
02:18:41,879 --> 02:18:45,560
Speaker 6: all their all their secondary guys can run, they're young,

2772
02:18:45,920 --> 02:18:50,120
Speaker 6: they can run, and they are aggressive. I mean Lassiter

2773
02:18:50,600 --> 02:18:53,840
Speaker 6: is not a big guy, but he has zero regard

2774
02:18:53,920 --> 02:18:56,680
Speaker 6: for his own health. I mean that little guy will

2775
02:18:56,720 --> 02:18:59,760
Speaker 6: come up and pop you Petrie. I mean they're super aggressive,

2776
02:18:59,760 --> 02:19:02,920
Speaker 6: super fast. And you know I said this before the game.

2777
02:19:03,200 --> 02:19:05,880
Speaker 6: You know, you talk about the offensive line like their

2778
02:19:06,080 --> 02:19:12,440
Speaker 6: second unit, their second defensive line could start on it

2779
02:19:12,560 --> 02:19:14,680
Speaker 6: would be like there's a lot of teams would be like,

2780
02:19:14,720 --> 02:19:17,720
Speaker 6: I'll take Derek Barnett and Diniko Watry and Nate Kwan

2781
02:19:17,840 --> 02:19:19,520
Speaker 6: Jones yet as my starting defensive line.

2782
02:19:19,720 --> 02:19:20,240
Speaker 5: Sign me up.

2783
02:19:20,400 --> 02:19:23,880
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'll take that. They're just so deep, you know.

2784
02:19:24,000 --> 02:19:26,160
Speaker 4: So was it a step backward?

2785
02:19:27,120 --> 02:19:29,520
Speaker 6: Sure, you get game one, he gave up four sacks,

2786
02:19:29,600 --> 02:19:32,720
Speaker 6: but makeson I mean every one of them got owned

2787
02:19:32,760 --> 02:19:32,960
Speaker 6: at one.

2788
02:19:33,000 --> 02:19:34,320
Speaker 1: Ye oh sure they did, Sure they did.

2789
02:19:34,480 --> 02:19:38,560
Speaker 6: But they didn't put themselves in good positions either, you know,

2790
02:19:39,080 --> 02:19:41,520
Speaker 6: like I thought going into this game, like I said,

2791
02:19:41,560 --> 02:19:44,480
Speaker 6: you know, third and six is not a terrible thing, right,

2792
02:19:44,800 --> 02:19:47,520
Speaker 6: It's not a terrible thing. Third and eleven, third and twelve.

2793
02:19:47,600 --> 02:19:51,880
Speaker 6: There was one time in the second half and uh,

2794
02:19:52,560 --> 02:19:54,720
Speaker 6: so Mark Oxen riders doing our stats average. Brother, he's

2795
02:19:54,720 --> 02:19:55,959
Speaker 6: a really really good stats guy.

2796
02:19:56,240 --> 02:19:56,760
Speaker 1: So he was.

2797
02:19:57,959 --> 02:20:00,840
Speaker 6: He was it was like third nine, third and twelve,

2798
02:20:01,000 --> 02:20:03,280
Speaker 6: third and eleven, third and eleven, and I'm like that

2799
02:20:03,440 --> 02:20:06,360
Speaker 6: that's just not you can't be there. That's not gonna

2800
02:20:06,360 --> 02:20:09,160
Speaker 6: help your offensive line. You know, sometimes those other guys

2801
02:20:09,200 --> 02:20:10,240
Speaker 6: are really good too, but this.

2802
02:20:10,280 --> 02:20:12,640
Speaker 3: Would be in trouble and then he just throw it,

2803
02:20:13,160 --> 02:20:16,040
Speaker 3: you know, to John Whu who's two yards deep, and

2804
02:20:16,160 --> 02:20:18,199
Speaker 3: he'd catch it at his knees and then get tackled.

2805
02:20:18,400 --> 02:20:20,400
Speaker 4: Right, what good did that do us?

2806
02:20:20,640 --> 02:20:20,840
Speaker 1: Yeah?

2807
02:20:21,360 --> 02:20:27,560
Speaker 5: And why is John hu Smith there? Like, so, why

2808
02:20:27,640 --> 02:20:28,879
Speaker 5: isn't that a Kenny Gainwell?

2809
02:20:29,120 --> 02:20:30,959
Speaker 3: Why is the tight end guy who had eighty eight

2810
02:20:31,040 --> 02:20:33,160
Speaker 3: passes and nine touchdowns last year?

2811
02:20:34,040 --> 02:20:36,800
Speaker 6: Yeah, So to go back on the offensive line, you know,

2812
02:20:36,959 --> 02:20:39,400
Speaker 6: I do think there's a lot to like that. I mean,

2813
02:20:39,440 --> 02:20:43,199
Speaker 6: Foutanu even though he's a second year player, he's a rookie.

2814
02:20:44,200 --> 02:20:47,480
Speaker 6: Mason McCormick, second year player, Zach Frazer, second year player,

2815
02:20:47,800 --> 02:20:51,520
Speaker 6: Dylan Cooks played what five games now, you know, and

2816
02:20:51,879 --> 02:20:55,600
Speaker 6: seem Alo's just a pro. So, you know, I we're

2817
02:20:55,640 --> 02:20:58,440
Speaker 6: sort of transitioning between what happened last night, and and

2818
02:20:58,520 --> 02:21:00,240
Speaker 6: what does the future look like. I know we're we're

2819
02:21:00,400 --> 02:21:03,720
Speaker 6: kind of in that netherland right now of evaluating the

2820
02:21:03,800 --> 02:21:06,840
Speaker 6: season and the team, But I do like I think that,

2821
02:21:07,320 --> 02:21:09,880
Speaker 6: you know, they've made it clear the last three years,

2822
02:21:09,959 --> 02:21:13,000
Speaker 6: with since Omarkan has taken over a general manager and

2823
02:21:13,320 --> 02:21:15,640
Speaker 6: Andy Widel came in to help him out and the

2824
02:21:15,720 --> 02:21:19,600
Speaker 6: rest of the staff, they have made a concerted effort

2825
02:21:20,080 --> 02:21:22,600
Speaker 6: to get better along the lines both sides, and I

2826
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Speaker 6: think they have.

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02:21:23,400 --> 02:21:25,160
Speaker 4: I think they've gotten better now.

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02:21:25,879 --> 02:21:28,000
Speaker 3: And they've gotten play from Cam Hayward that I don't

2829
02:21:28,000 --> 02:21:29,440
Speaker 3: even think anybody expected.

2830
02:21:29,520 --> 02:21:31,920
Speaker 6: He was incredible down the stretch. I think that they,

2831
02:21:32,720 --> 02:21:36,200
Speaker 6: you know, they probably need to continue to do that. Yeah,

2832
02:21:36,240 --> 02:21:39,080
Speaker 6: they need a wide receiver, they need a quarterback, but

2833
02:21:39,160 --> 02:21:40,800
Speaker 6: they're going to have to just keep I think every

2834
02:21:40,879 --> 02:21:43,760
Speaker 6: year they're going to just keep adding guys in the

2835
02:21:43,840 --> 02:21:46,879
Speaker 6: offensive and defensive lines. And last night was a good

2836
02:21:46,920 --> 02:21:49,800
Speaker 6: example of why you still want to get better there.

2837
02:21:50,280 --> 02:21:52,280
Speaker 6: Mike's going to join us here in just one minute.

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Speaker 6: We'll take a quick break.

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Speaker 3: This half hour a Steeler Talk was brought to you

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Speaker 3: by your neighborhood Ford store, the f one fifty, the

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Speaker 3: official truck of the Pittsburgh steel There's more from last

2842
02:22:02,400 --> 02:22:06,120
Speaker 3: night's lost to the Texans and a recap of the

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Speaker 3: twenty twenty five sixth season, What worked, what didn't work, and.

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Speaker 6: You know, there's a couple of things that I'm I

2845
02:22:13,480 --> 02:22:15,160
Speaker 6: think we can hold our hat on. We just mentioned

2846
02:22:15,200 --> 02:22:19,920
Speaker 6: that lines getting fortified there and Kenny Gainwell your MVP,

2847
02:22:20,080 --> 02:22:20,800
Speaker 6: and Jalen Warren.

2848
02:22:20,840 --> 02:22:22,680
Speaker 4: Those are two tough guys who I still.

2849
02:22:22,520 --> 02:22:25,240
Speaker 6: Don't understand why the offense wasn't going through them first

2850
02:22:25,320 --> 02:22:28,240
Speaker 6: and foremost. But maybe they learned their lesson from that. Yeah,

2851
02:22:28,320 --> 02:22:30,640
Speaker 6: I think there are I mean, in the in the

2852
02:22:30,760 --> 02:22:33,200
Speaker 6: ashes of last night's loss, I still think we can

2853
02:22:33,240 --> 02:22:34,280
Speaker 6: sift through and see some things.

2854
02:22:34,400 --> 02:22:37,240
Speaker 4: I think there was there's a phoenix rising from the ashes.

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02:22:37,360 --> 02:22:39,280
Speaker 1: Wrong, I hope, So man, I hope.

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Speaker 21: So Steelers fans, your team is a powerhouse. Are you

2857
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Speaker 21: ready to throw another great game here in the steel City? Absolutely?

2858
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Speaker 21: And let's take sports. Yeah, we're still fight off. I

2859
02:22:51,640 --> 02:22:53,080
Speaker 21: tell you you're Kingy Shrolkons.

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Speaker 3: It's a power hour Steeler Talk with Rob King, live

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Speaker 3: Mike Persuda joining the fray.

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Speaker 1: It's one more.

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Speaker 12: In terms of your post game SoundBite reaction from Texans

2873
02:23:31,200 --> 02:23:35,080
Speaker 12: thirty Steelers six, this is Mike Tomlin, when asked if

2874
02:23:35,120 --> 02:23:37,840
Speaker 12: he had a message to the fans in the wake

2875
02:23:37,959 --> 02:23:41,480
Speaker 12: of a ninth straight season without a playoff.

2876
02:23:41,160 --> 02:23:45,880
Speaker 13: Dub again, when you don't get it done, words are cheap.

2877
02:23:46,520 --> 02:23:48,120
Speaker 13: It's about what you do or you don't do. And

2878
02:23:48,280 --> 02:23:52,280
Speaker 13: so I appreciate the question, but people talk too much

2879
02:23:52,959 --> 02:23:53,640
Speaker 13: in our business.

2880
02:23:54,920 --> 02:24:00,360
Speaker 3: Either do you don't? Well, he is good at losing.

2881
02:24:00,600 --> 02:24:04,480
Speaker 3: I will say that, no, I mean it like, he's

2882
02:24:04,560 --> 02:24:08,320
Speaker 3: not an excuse maker. When the fans chant fire Tomlin,

2883
02:24:08,360 --> 02:24:10,960
Speaker 3: He's like, I get it, I understand it. There's a

2884
02:24:11,040 --> 02:24:16,360
Speaker 3: high expectation. He doesn't whine. I will say that, but

2885
02:24:16,480 --> 02:24:17,280
Speaker 3: it's cold comfort.

2886
02:24:19,280 --> 02:24:23,320
Speaker 12: You know a lot of speculation about Mike Tomlin all season,

2887
02:24:23,440 --> 02:24:26,200
Speaker 12: and that's not going to go away. In the wake

2888
02:24:26,240 --> 02:24:30,199
Speaker 12: of Texans thirty Steelers six, this was interesting. Tomlin appeared

2889
02:24:30,240 --> 02:24:34,440
Speaker 12: on The Rich Eisen Show before the Ravens game and

2890
02:24:34,560 --> 02:24:38,360
Speaker 12: he was asked about possibly doing television at some point.

2891
02:24:39,240 --> 02:24:43,800
Speaker 12: Here's what he had to say about that quote. I'm institutionalized, man,

2892
02:24:44,120 --> 02:24:46,640
Speaker 12: I gotta have it. I just love the challenges that

2893
02:24:46,680 --> 02:24:49,160
Speaker 12: week in and week out that this job provides, the

2894
02:24:49,280 --> 02:24:52,040
Speaker 12: growth and it the collective growth, the individual growth. A

2895
02:24:52,080 --> 02:24:54,000
Speaker 12: lot of lessons I've learned in life have kind of

2896
02:24:54,040 --> 02:24:57,119
Speaker 12: been through my football experience. I've been on a team

2897
02:24:57,160 --> 02:25:00,440
Speaker 12: every year of my life since nineteen eighty and so

2898
02:25:00,600 --> 02:25:08,040
Speaker 12: I really appreciate it. I haven't seen anything from training camp,

2899
02:25:08,120 --> 02:25:12,600
Speaker 12: well really from OTA's on that led me to suspect

2900
02:25:13,000 --> 02:25:18,000
Speaker 12: his enthusiasm energy all into the job was waning. So

2901
02:25:18,080 --> 02:25:21,600
Speaker 12: I think he's still the guy he's been now. His effectiveness.

2902
02:25:21,680 --> 02:25:24,320
Speaker 12: We just said they haven't won a playoff game in

2903
02:25:24,400 --> 02:25:28,400
Speaker 12: nine years. It's a little more recent than that.

2904
02:25:28,520 --> 02:25:28,760
Speaker 1: Okay.

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02:25:29,040 --> 02:25:32,120
Speaker 12: Just feels like Mike Tomlin is now the author of

2906
02:25:32,160 --> 02:25:36,920
Speaker 12: the longest active playoff losing streak in the NFL the Steelers.

2907
02:25:37,280 --> 02:25:38,120
Speaker 1: He wanted historic.

2908
02:25:38,160 --> 02:25:40,480
Speaker 12: At the start of the year, Steelers became the first

2909
02:25:40,720 --> 02:25:44,039
Speaker 12: team in NFL history to lose five consecutive playoff games

2910
02:25:44,080 --> 02:25:44,920
Speaker 12: by double digits.

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02:25:45,000 --> 02:25:47,560
Speaker 3: You know when he said that to us at camp.

2912
02:25:47,720 --> 02:25:49,840
Speaker 3: It was on this show that Mike Tomlin made the

2913
02:25:49,920 --> 02:25:54,960
Speaker 3: declaration we have a chance to be historic. I felt

2914
02:25:55,000 --> 02:25:57,440
Speaker 3: like one of the kids in Christmas Vacation when Clark's like,

2915
02:25:57,520 --> 02:26:02,240
Speaker 3: We're gonna get a new swimming pool. I'm like, historic, Really,

2916
02:26:03,080 --> 02:26:03,360
Speaker 3: this is.

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02:26:03,400 --> 02:26:04,039
Speaker 1: Gonna be great.

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02:26:04,440 --> 02:26:07,640
Speaker 6: Oh my god, I got sucker right back in, bought

2919
02:26:07,720 --> 02:26:10,080
Speaker 6: all the way back in, and.

2920
02:26:10,120 --> 02:26:13,480
Speaker 1: Then in the fool me once, no bonus, no pool.

2921
02:26:13,760 --> 02:26:16,680
Speaker 6: Shame on you fool me eight seasons in a row

2922
02:26:16,760 --> 02:26:18,960
Speaker 6: with five straight double digit losses.

2923
02:26:19,120 --> 02:26:22,320
Speaker 1: Won't get fooled again. You won't get hold again.

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Speaker 6: Doing a hell of a job, doing a hell of

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02:26:26,000 --> 02:26:26,320
Speaker 6: a job.

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02:26:27,080 --> 02:26:30,959
Speaker 1: Key the thing that I continue and this.

2927
02:26:31,040 --> 02:26:33,360
Speaker 12: Has gone on for as long as this Mike Tomlin

2928
02:26:33,440 --> 02:26:35,360
Speaker 12: angst has started the parko late, and that's been a

2929
02:26:35,400 --> 02:26:40,879
Speaker 12: couple of seasons now, the complete lack of postseason success.

2930
02:26:41,280 --> 02:26:43,920
Speaker 12: They look like Charlie Brown trying to kick the football

2931
02:26:44,360 --> 02:26:47,920
Speaker 12: and Lucy just pulls it away in those nine years

2932
02:26:47,920 --> 02:26:51,320
Speaker 12: when they have not won a playoff game. The Steelers

2933
02:26:51,400 --> 02:26:55,520
Speaker 12: are fourth in the NFL and regular season victories one

2934
02:26:55,600 --> 02:27:00,640
Speaker 12: hundred and one, sixty two and two. Baltimore is one

2935
02:27:00,720 --> 02:27:03,560
Speaker 12: hundred and three and sixty two just the head of

2936
02:27:03,560 --> 02:27:06,200
Speaker 12: the Steelers, and Baltimore has gotten rid of John Harbaugh.

2937
02:27:06,760 --> 02:27:09,840
Speaker 12: Buffalo's one oh five and fifty nine. And I think

2938
02:27:10,360 --> 02:27:14,480
Speaker 12: Sean mcdermot's seat was getting hot before they went into

2939
02:27:14,560 --> 02:27:16,840
Speaker 12: Jacksonville one. I think he's probably okay now, I would

2940
02:27:16,879 --> 02:27:21,080
Speaker 12: think if it was indeed hot. I don't know so

2941
02:27:21,200 --> 02:27:23,280
Speaker 12: much of the speculation. You don't know what's real it isn't.

2942
02:27:23,280 --> 02:27:26,959
Speaker 12: But the regular season success is real. The regular season

2943
02:27:27,040 --> 02:27:30,720
Speaker 12: success is significant. The regular season success keeps us talking

2944
02:27:30,800 --> 02:27:33,160
Speaker 12: about it for four or five months at a time.

2945
02:27:34,160 --> 02:27:38,400
Speaker 12: And to go from the euphoria that Ravens game and

2946
02:27:38,440 --> 02:27:40,760
Speaker 12: the whole week. I mean, I was listening to madd

2947
02:27:40,879 --> 02:27:43,480
Speaker 12: yesterday even he was talking about the energy in town

2948
02:27:43,560 --> 02:27:46,040
Speaker 12: and how different it was and how people were actually

2949
02:27:46,200 --> 02:27:51,080
Speaker 12: believing that there was a chance this time, and then

2950
02:27:51,120 --> 02:27:54,640
Speaker 12: they just went off the cliff again. I at this

2951
02:27:55,120 --> 02:27:57,760
Speaker 12: particular point in time, after two hours of sleep and

2952
02:27:58,600 --> 02:28:00,480
Speaker 12: six months of the season, I can't make sense of

2953
02:28:00,520 --> 02:28:00,760
Speaker 12: the night.

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Speaker 1: I don't have any more profound.

2955
02:28:04,400 --> 02:28:07,360
Speaker 3: I mean, I think it came down to, honestly, the

2956
02:28:07,520 --> 02:28:13,320
Speaker 3: game play and last night was not complimentary to the

2957
02:28:13,480 --> 02:28:15,760
Speaker 3: talent level of the players they had on the field.

2958
02:28:15,800 --> 02:28:18,120
Speaker 12: I would concur there are too much faith in their guys.

2959
02:28:18,240 --> 02:28:21,240
Speaker 12: They overestimated what they were ready for. I don't think

2960
02:28:21,240 --> 02:28:23,959
Speaker 12: they're underestimated Houston, because no, we were talking about that.

2961
02:28:24,040 --> 02:28:25,520
Speaker 4: All week, and no they didn't.

2962
02:28:25,600 --> 02:28:30,200
Speaker 6: But I don't understand how you didn't just run the

2963
02:28:30,400 --> 02:28:35,520
Speaker 6: ball NonStop and h third and third and eight. No,

2964
02:28:35,760 --> 02:28:38,360
Speaker 6: now it's fourth and two or fourth and three. All right,

2965
02:28:38,480 --> 02:28:40,040
Speaker 6: Well we're in our own territory.

2966
02:28:40,120 --> 02:28:42,720
Speaker 4: We're gonna punt it. Weightman's flipping the field for you.

2967
02:28:43,360 --> 02:28:44,279
Speaker 4: Let the de CJ.

2968
02:28:44,400 --> 02:28:47,560
Speaker 6: Stroud was rattling, particularly after you saw how rattled he

2969
02:28:47,920 --> 02:28:49,080
Speaker 6: was at that point.

2970
02:28:49,160 --> 02:28:51,360
Speaker 4: How do you not get more conservative on offense?

2971
02:28:51,600 --> 02:28:53,560
Speaker 3: Because I was saying it to you all week, Mike,

2972
02:28:53,680 --> 02:28:56,480
Speaker 3: I thought what was gonna happen was our defense was

2973
02:28:56,560 --> 02:28:59,200
Speaker 3: gonna set up our offense with good field position, and

2974
02:28:59,280 --> 02:29:01,200
Speaker 3: we should get three field goals in a touchdown and

2975
02:29:01,240 --> 02:29:02,400
Speaker 3: win this game sixteen to ten.

2976
02:29:02,520 --> 02:29:03,680
Speaker 7: And it was headed in that direction.

2977
02:29:03,800 --> 02:29:05,520
Speaker 6: If you don't leave them on the field for how

2978
02:29:05,680 --> 02:29:10,240
Speaker 6: what was their time and possession last night for the

2979
02:29:10,400 --> 02:29:13,280
Speaker 6: Texans thirty two twenty two? God, I thought it was

2980
02:29:13,480 --> 02:29:15,840
Speaker 6: I thought it would have been like four.

2981
02:29:16,840 --> 02:29:22,360
Speaker 3: But I don't understand what they see different from what

2982
02:29:22,600 --> 02:29:23,880
Speaker 3: my lion eyes are seeing.

2983
02:29:24,080 --> 02:29:29,400
Speaker 12: It's funny, though, you know a fine line between being

2984
02:29:29,480 --> 02:29:33,920
Speaker 12: too conservative and letting the defense dictate to you. Oh, well,

2985
02:29:33,959 --> 02:29:35,840
Speaker 12: we can't block this guy, so we better not give

2986
02:29:35,920 --> 02:29:38,520
Speaker 12: him a chance to make a tackle and having faith

2987
02:29:38,560 --> 02:29:40,920
Speaker 12: to your guys and being aggressive. You know they went

2988
02:29:40,959 --> 02:29:43,199
Speaker 12: at Denzel Ward three times in a row in Cleveland

2989
02:29:43,959 --> 02:29:47,480
Speaker 12: on that Gal and Rogers won all ones.

2990
02:29:47,560 --> 02:29:51,200
Speaker 6: Though, right, well, we talked with mvs versus one of

2991
02:29:51,240 --> 02:29:52,400
Speaker 6: the best corners in the game.

2992
02:29:52,800 --> 02:29:54,959
Speaker 12: So would you throw it to Scotty Miller against one

2993
02:29:55,000 --> 02:29:56,280
Speaker 12: of the other best corners in the game.

2994
02:29:56,320 --> 02:30:00,800
Speaker 1: I would run the ball on first down. They were

2995
02:30:00,920 --> 02:30:02,440
Speaker 1: running all over them.

2996
02:30:04,760 --> 02:30:07,680
Speaker 12: Except the second down throw was there, and I know

2997
02:30:07,840 --> 02:30:11,480
Speaker 12: that didn't execute it. Jane really got me thinking Jeane's

2998
02:30:11,560 --> 02:30:13,520
Speaker 12: territory when he was on the show today and he

2999
02:30:13,560 --> 02:30:14,640
Speaker 12: talked about the Calvin.

3000
02:30:14,400 --> 02:30:16,920
Speaker 6: Austin Calvinhawsin did come up lame on that one. He

3001
02:30:16,959 --> 02:30:20,440
Speaker 6: should have No he got grabbed, did he.

3002
02:30:21,040 --> 02:30:23,920
Speaker 12: He sleeps down a little bit, But is he judging

3003
02:30:23,959 --> 02:30:25,840
Speaker 12: the ball or trying to draw a foul that I

3004
02:30:25,879 --> 02:30:26,200
Speaker 12: don't know.

3005
02:30:26,520 --> 02:30:28,240
Speaker 4: I thought he was trying to and that was Gene's point.

3006
02:30:28,720 --> 02:30:29,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, Gene.

3007
02:30:29,240 --> 02:30:32,840
Speaker 12: But he definitely got turned and then there goes your

3008
02:30:32,840 --> 02:30:36,240
Speaker 12: speed because you can't run with your torso twisted sideways.

3009
02:30:37,520 --> 02:30:39,400
Speaker 12: It's a fifty to fifty call. But the point on

3010
02:30:39,520 --> 02:30:41,720
Speaker 12: that play is it was the same thing I've been

3011
02:30:41,760 --> 02:30:44,640
Speaker 12: bitching about all morning. It was third and long and

3012
02:30:44,760 --> 02:30:46,800
Speaker 12: they tried to block it with five and they did.

3013
02:30:47,800 --> 02:30:50,440
Speaker 12: It's a few times he had a perfectly clean pocket,

3014
02:30:50,480 --> 02:30:52,680
Speaker 12: he had all the time to throw, set himself, let

3015
02:30:52,760 --> 02:30:56,840
Speaker 12: it rip. You gotta hit those one on ones when

3016
02:30:57,360 --> 02:30:59,120
Speaker 12: you know, not all of them, but you got to

3017
02:30:59,200 --> 02:31:01,040
Speaker 12: hit a couple of them, got to hit some splash

3018
02:31:02,160 --> 02:31:05,039
Speaker 12: and they just weren't able to do it even once

3019
02:31:05,160 --> 02:31:05,560
Speaker 12: last night.

3020
02:31:05,640 --> 02:31:07,600
Speaker 3: The Calvin Austin play, I think he did slow up

3021
02:31:07,640 --> 02:31:10,360
Speaker 3: to try and draw the penalty. I think he did

3022
02:31:10,520 --> 02:31:12,960
Speaker 3: draw the penalty and it should have been called also

3023
02:31:13,320 --> 02:31:16,160
Speaker 3: if he decides to run through that or fights.

3024
02:31:16,200 --> 02:31:18,400
Speaker 12: So it almost like it almost looked like a hockey

3025
02:31:18,480 --> 02:31:20,400
Speaker 12: play where a guy goes down too easy when he

3026
02:31:20,440 --> 02:31:21,040
Speaker 12: gets bumped in.

3027
02:31:21,160 --> 02:31:22,600
Speaker 3: I don't yeah, I don't think a ref should have

3028
02:31:22,640 --> 02:31:24,320
Speaker 3: looked at that play and gone now he's sloid up

3029
02:31:24,320 --> 02:31:25,840
Speaker 3: and tried to draw the penalty. I think the ref

3030
02:31:25,920 --> 02:31:27,480
Speaker 3: should have thrown the flat. I don't think that's how

3031
02:31:27,480 --> 02:31:29,280
Speaker 3: they're supposed to tell you. That's what I'm saying. Yeah,

3032
02:31:29,640 --> 02:31:32,560
Speaker 3: but I think Jean's interpretation of what happened is correct.

3033
02:31:32,640 --> 02:31:34,160
Speaker 3: But that doesn't mean there should have been a flag.

3034
02:31:34,400 --> 02:31:38,120
Speaker 3: Same thing for the stripsack touchdown by the big man

3035
02:31:39,200 --> 02:31:42,320
Speaker 3: Rankins that should have been hit to the head quarterback,

3036
02:31:42,400 --> 02:31:44,520
Speaker 3: personal foul, first down Steelers.

3037
02:31:44,560 --> 02:31:45,840
Speaker 1: I gotta get another look at that one.

3038
02:31:45,920 --> 02:31:47,720
Speaker 5: But his helmet almost came off.

3039
02:31:47,879 --> 02:31:48,040
Speaker 1: You know.

3040
02:31:48,120 --> 02:31:50,760
Speaker 12: The point is they got annihilated last night, and there's

3041
02:31:50,879 --> 02:31:54,160
Speaker 12: still a couple of plays here and there worth If

3042
02:31:54,200 --> 02:31:56,400
Speaker 12: only this one had worked out the you as you've

3043
02:31:56,440 --> 02:31:59,120
Speaker 12: been talking about today. If Metcalf catches that ball, what

3044
02:31:59,240 --> 02:32:00,560
Speaker 12: if they go and up going up.

3045
02:32:00,560 --> 02:32:02,760
Speaker 6: Six, Well, he's running to the it's first and ten

3046
02:32:02,840 --> 02:32:04,640
Speaker 6: of the twenty five yard line. If he catches that ball,

3047
02:32:04,720 --> 02:32:07,320
Speaker 6: he might have scored. Actually he might have. There's only

3048
02:32:07,360 --> 02:32:09,360
Speaker 6: one guy behind him. He dropped it at the thirty four.

3049
02:32:09,440 --> 02:32:12,080
Speaker 6: He was pretty open, he was there's only one defender

3050
02:32:12,160 --> 02:32:14,440
Speaker 6: back on that. He might have turned it up and scored,

3051
02:32:15,240 --> 02:32:17,080
Speaker 6: but he certainly they certainly would have at least been

3052
02:32:17,080 --> 02:32:17,880
Speaker 6: a field goal range.

3053
02:32:18,280 --> 02:32:20,800
Speaker 1: Well, you know we don't pay him enough.

3054
02:32:22,040 --> 02:32:24,600
Speaker 5: Oh wait, we paid so much. Quick break will be

3055
02:32:24,680 --> 02:32:26,039
Speaker 5: right back more with Rob King.

3056
02:32:26,560 --> 02:32:29,400
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3057
02:32:29,640 --> 02:32:32,480
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3058
02:32:32,520 --> 02:32:35,039
Speaker 12: and support our community every step of the way.

3059
02:32:43,879 --> 02:32:45,760
Speaker 6: It's your radio home of the Steelers.

3060
02:32:45,840 --> 02:32:48,360
Speaker 3: One out two point five DVE and that's a rap

3061
02:32:48,440 --> 02:32:50,720
Speaker 3: on the twenty five to twenty six season. After losing

3062
02:32:50,800 --> 02:32:53,080
Speaker 3: to the Houston Texans last night thirty to six at home,

3063
02:32:53,440 --> 02:32:58,039
Speaker 3: it's Mike Tomlin's fifth straight playoff loss by double digits.

3064
02:32:58,840 --> 02:33:03,160
Speaker 4: And then historic. It is historic, no question about it.

3065
02:33:03,840 --> 02:33:05,840
Speaker 3: We have Rob King Voice of the Steelers with us

3066
02:33:06,120 --> 02:33:09,400
Speaker 3: and Mike Persuda, who is the host of the postgame

3067
02:33:09,480 --> 02:33:11,960
Speaker 3: show on the Steelers Audio Network, and Mike Kinger and

3068
02:33:12,000 --> 02:33:15,320
Speaker 3: I were wondering kicking around what was the tenor of

3069
02:33:15,400 --> 02:33:17,680
Speaker 3: the calls last night, because I would imagine it's a

3070
02:33:17,760 --> 02:33:20,640
Speaker 3: whole lot of what we would expect people being sick

3071
02:33:20,720 --> 02:33:22,480
Speaker 3: and tired of being sick and tired.

3072
02:33:22,560 --> 02:33:26,000
Speaker 12: You know, it was not And apologies for not charting

3073
02:33:26,080 --> 02:33:29,959
Speaker 12: one because there was one guy who waited a while.

3074
02:33:30,240 --> 02:33:32,720
Speaker 12: I should have written down which call this was, but

3075
02:33:33,560 --> 02:33:35,680
Speaker 12: I didn't do it for whatever reason. But he asked

3076
02:33:35,720 --> 02:33:38,720
Speaker 12: a serious question and I gave an answer, and then

3077
02:33:38,800 --> 02:33:41,160
Speaker 12: Charlie gave an answer, and then he yelled.

3078
02:33:41,760 --> 02:33:43,760
Speaker 1: Stealer, suck, Ravens fluck.

3079
02:33:45,000 --> 02:33:45,800
Speaker 4: And hung up.

3080
02:33:46,959 --> 02:33:50,080
Speaker 1: Okay, well glad you got that off your ches.

3081
02:33:50,560 --> 02:33:52,600
Speaker 4: Would you rather lost to the Ravens and not have

3082
02:33:52,760 --> 02:33:53,080
Speaker 4: that game?

3083
02:33:53,200 --> 02:33:53,440
Speaker 16: Not me?

3084
02:33:53,760 --> 02:33:56,240
Speaker 1: No, No way, for sure, way had.

3085
02:33:56,560 --> 02:34:00,720
Speaker 12: We took nineteen calls from ten different states, including multiple

3086
02:34:00,800 --> 02:34:04,360
Speaker 12: calls from Jersey, Texas, and California, and.

3087
02:34:06,520 --> 02:34:08,679
Speaker 1: Probably three or four Tomlin's.

3088
02:34:08,240 --> 02:34:08,520
Speaker 16: Got to go.

3089
02:34:08,720 --> 02:34:11,480
Speaker 12: This ain't working. It's never going to change. But the

3090
02:34:11,560 --> 02:34:14,080
Speaker 12: rest of it was just you know, disappointment and how

3091
02:34:14,160 --> 02:34:16,960
Speaker 12: do they get better? And some game stuff, you know,

3092
02:34:17,040 --> 02:34:19,039
Speaker 12: should that have been a penalty on the Austin play

3093
02:34:19,080 --> 02:34:20,920
Speaker 12: and why didn't they do this? Or why didn't they

3094
02:34:21,000 --> 02:34:22,959
Speaker 12: do that? And a lot of them, why didn't they

3095
02:34:23,040 --> 02:34:26,760
Speaker 12: do this? I said, geez, I don't know. I would

3096
02:34:26,879 --> 02:34:30,240
Speaker 12: have Yeah, like you had a mostly they run the

3097
02:34:30,280 --> 02:34:33,240
Speaker 12: ball stuff and they you know, don't leave your quarterback

3098
02:34:33,480 --> 02:34:34,720
Speaker 12: back there to get killed.

3099
02:34:35,000 --> 02:34:37,120
Speaker 1: On third and long. Uh.

3100
02:34:38,320 --> 02:34:41,560
Speaker 3: I do think that they were a poorly constructed roster,

3101
02:34:41,760 --> 02:34:43,920
Speaker 3: and they worked around it a lot to their advantage

3102
02:34:43,959 --> 02:34:47,280
Speaker 3: this year. Last night, I think the game plan was

3103
02:34:47,440 --> 02:34:49,600
Speaker 3: just wrong. King Heer, what was the stat you had

3104
02:34:49,640 --> 02:34:50,800
Speaker 3: for coming out of the second half.

3105
02:34:51,200 --> 02:34:55,760
Speaker 6: I had first twenty two plays, five rush, seventeen pass.

3106
02:34:56,120 --> 02:34:59,960
Speaker 6: That's to me just side by the way he asked

3107
02:35:00,000 --> 02:35:01,800
Speaker 6: about Aaron Rodgers. I will say this one thing. I

3108
02:35:01,879 --> 02:35:04,440
Speaker 6: think I think all those guys were really glad to

3109
02:35:04,520 --> 02:35:05,760
Speaker 6: have Aaron Rodgers to play.

3110
02:35:05,959 --> 02:35:06,720
Speaker 4: Out a doubt.

3111
02:35:06,879 --> 02:35:07,040
Speaker 1: You know.

3112
02:35:07,560 --> 02:35:12,960
Speaker 6: I think for the players, this was a very fun year.

3113
02:35:13,160 --> 02:35:15,240
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think I think it was cool.

3114
02:35:15,879 --> 02:35:16,000
Speaker 1: You know.

3115
02:35:16,040 --> 02:35:18,960
Speaker 6: I was talking to Spencer Anderson after he caught a pass,

3116
02:35:19,280 --> 02:35:22,200
Speaker 6: and I was like, hey, man, lineman catching a pass,

3117
02:35:22,280 --> 02:35:26,840
Speaker 6: you know, like like my head of lineman roommate in college.

3118
02:35:26,879 --> 02:35:28,600
Speaker 1: He just wanted to fall on a fumble in the

3119
02:35:28,680 --> 02:35:29,920
Speaker 1: end zone. That was like his dream.

3120
02:35:30,000 --> 02:35:32,640
Speaker 4: And I'm like, you know, so like there's not a

3121
02:35:32,680 --> 02:35:34,600
Speaker 4: lot of big dreams here when you're alignment.

3122
02:35:34,640 --> 02:35:35,720
Speaker 1: He got to block people, you know.

3123
02:35:36,120 --> 02:35:37,560
Speaker 6: And I was like, hey, maybe he caught a pass

3124
02:35:37,600 --> 02:35:39,440
Speaker 6: and he was like, and he goes I caught a

3125
02:35:39,520 --> 02:35:43,800
Speaker 6: pass from Aaron Rodgers like that. It's just the way

3126
02:35:43,959 --> 02:35:47,120
Speaker 6: that they they hold this guy in such highest team

3127
02:35:47,160 --> 02:35:48,800
Speaker 6: ats just one tiny example.

3128
02:35:49,360 --> 02:35:51,360
Speaker 5: I'm sure every player down the roster will tell you

3129
02:35:51,360 --> 02:35:52,000
Speaker 5: how cool it was.

3130
02:35:52,360 --> 02:35:53,120
Speaker 1: I just want to know.

3131
02:35:54,840 --> 02:35:57,320
Speaker 4: Why certain players weren't featured more.

3132
02:35:57,360 --> 02:36:00,280
Speaker 3: I want to know was it Mooth or was it

3133
02:36:00,640 --> 02:36:05,080
Speaker 3: Aaron Rodgers, or was it Arthur Smith that was reluctant

3134
02:36:05,120 --> 02:36:07,440
Speaker 3: to roll out Fiarmuth like we thought.

3135
02:36:07,320 --> 02:36:09,320
Speaker 4: They were going to. Or John new Smith the way

3136
02:36:09,320 --> 02:36:10,720
Speaker 4: he'd been used in the past.

3137
02:36:11,360 --> 02:36:15,039
Speaker 3: And then still dropping back wouldn't thrown the ball way

3138
02:36:15,160 --> 02:36:18,400
Speaker 3: more than you'd think they would. Given the stat we're

3139
02:36:18,440 --> 02:36:19,439
Speaker 3: just talking about about.

3140
02:36:19,200 --> 02:36:20,240
Speaker 4: The lack of using tight ends.

3141
02:36:20,400 --> 02:36:22,040
Speaker 3: You'd think if they were throwing as much as they

3142
02:36:22,080 --> 02:36:24,880
Speaker 3: are oftentimes, it would be through tight ends.

3143
02:36:25,160 --> 02:36:26,720
Speaker 4: And that wasn't the case you would think.

3144
02:36:26,800 --> 02:36:29,800
Speaker 12: And also I didn't just hear this, I saw it

3145
02:36:30,480 --> 02:36:33,640
Speaker 12: when I studied John Us Smith. He lined up a

3146
02:36:33,720 --> 02:36:35,280
Speaker 12: wide receiver a lot in Miami.

3147
02:36:35,400 --> 02:36:36,400
Speaker 1: That's how he caught.

3148
02:36:37,680 --> 02:36:40,520
Speaker 12: Eighty eight balls for eight hundred and something yards and

3149
02:36:40,600 --> 02:36:41,400
Speaker 12: eight touchdowns.

3150
02:36:42,680 --> 02:36:44,600
Speaker 1: And with the lack of receivers here. Why didn't they

3151
02:36:44,720 --> 02:36:46,800
Speaker 1: just do that more? I thought he was going to

3152
02:36:46,840 --> 02:36:47,520
Speaker 1: be a slot guy.

3153
02:36:47,920 --> 02:36:49,760
Speaker 6: I basically thought that's what they're gonna do, is line

3154
02:36:49,800 --> 02:36:51,800
Speaker 6: himup in the slot, and that I thought he was

3155
02:36:51,840 --> 02:36:53,920
Speaker 6: going to be the second leading receiver behind DK.

3156
02:36:54,240 --> 02:36:56,880
Speaker 4: You know, they missed Darnell Washington. They utilized him a lot.

3157
02:36:57,360 --> 02:36:59,680
Speaker 6: But you know, Gamewell had I think four point seven

3158
02:36:59,760 --> 02:37:02,280
Speaker 6: yards for Kerry after the first three weeks of the season.

3159
02:37:02,280 --> 02:37:04,040
Speaker 6: Remember the S two has had trouble running the ball early,

3160
02:37:04,800 --> 02:37:07,520
Speaker 6: and then Joe Warren got banged up, didn't play against Minnesota,

3161
02:37:07,520 --> 02:37:10,160
Speaker 6: then came back. He averaged four point nine yards to carry.

3162
02:37:10,320 --> 02:37:13,920
Speaker 6: After that, the running game was effective over the last

3163
02:37:14,200 --> 02:37:15,920
Speaker 6: thirteen to fourteen games of the season.

3164
02:37:16,000 --> 02:37:18,000
Speaker 4: I thought it was a little underutilized.

3165
02:37:18,360 --> 02:37:20,520
Speaker 1: I couldn't agree more, particularly last night.

3166
02:37:20,560 --> 02:37:23,360
Speaker 12: I mean, I would have been playing if I'm losing

3167
02:37:23,440 --> 02:37:25,680
Speaker 12: seven to six or even ten to six in the

3168
02:37:25,760 --> 02:37:28,160
Speaker 12: fourth quarter. I keep going back to that third and long.

3169
02:37:28,240 --> 02:37:31,080
Speaker 12: It's just that that sacks strip scoop score. You're just

3170
02:37:31,200 --> 02:37:35,280
Speaker 12: you're killing yourself. You're you're inviting disaster. When you set

3171
02:37:35,360 --> 02:37:36,360
Speaker 12: that were they gonna throw along?

3172
02:37:36,440 --> 02:37:39,480
Speaker 6: There was that nothing breaks the defense down quite like

3173
02:37:39,640 --> 02:37:43,520
Speaker 6: running all over them. Yes, which is what the Texans

3174
02:37:43,600 --> 02:37:46,160
Speaker 6: did better than I thought. I mean, mostly to me,

3175
02:37:46,879 --> 02:37:49,120
Speaker 6: the offense needed to help the defense out in this game.

3176
02:37:49,200 --> 02:37:52,560
Speaker 6: But there's no way I saw Woody Marx, who'd come

3177
02:37:52,600 --> 02:37:55,360
Speaker 6: in with the highest seventy four yards in his career

3178
02:37:55,920 --> 02:37:57,680
Speaker 6: doing he was.

3179
02:37:58,240 --> 02:38:01,120
Speaker 4: At one hundred the third quarter, to be able to run.

3180
02:38:01,480 --> 02:38:02,640
Speaker 4: I did not see that coming.

3181
02:38:02,760 --> 02:38:05,440
Speaker 6: I thought the team that would be more effective running

3182
02:38:05,440 --> 02:38:07,640
Speaker 6: would be the Steelers, and that would be one of

3183
02:38:07,720 --> 02:38:10,000
Speaker 6: those little factors. I we're talking about third down point,

3184
02:38:10,080 --> 02:38:11,800
Speaker 6: but that helps you on third down, Right, you're running

3185
02:38:11,800 --> 02:38:14,640
Speaker 6: the football and you're being effective, you get into third

3186
02:38:14,640 --> 02:38:16,640
Speaker 6: and two, third and three. That's what Houston did. The

3187
02:38:16,680 --> 02:38:20,200
Speaker 6: Steelers were constantly third and nine, third and eleven, third

3188
02:38:20,240 --> 02:38:22,600
Speaker 6: and twelve. That's a tough way to make it thought.

3189
02:38:23,280 --> 02:38:25,280
Speaker 12: I thought they were gonna win both trenches because I

3190
02:38:25,360 --> 02:38:29,240
Speaker 12: thought I had mad respect for Hunter and Anderson.

3191
02:38:29,360 --> 02:38:30,440
Speaker 1: But I thought them.

3192
02:38:30,360 --> 02:38:33,640
Speaker 12: Playing on the road and the Steelers having the advantage

3193
02:38:33,879 --> 02:38:38,360
Speaker 12: of Houston having to go silent. I thought Watt, high

3194
02:38:38,400 --> 02:38:42,320
Speaker 12: Smith and Herbie would feast. And they didn't win either.

3195
02:38:42,360 --> 02:38:45,320
Speaker 12: So they lost the offensive trench, they lost the defensive trench,

3196
02:38:47,480 --> 02:38:50,680
Speaker 12: their edge was not superior, which they thought it had

3197
02:38:50,720 --> 02:38:54,720
Speaker 12: to be, and then they could not overcome. I was

3198
02:38:54,920 --> 02:38:57,760
Speaker 12: very skeptical that the stuff in the flat was going

3199
02:38:57,840 --> 02:39:01,640
Speaker 12: to work, although he even said in this press conference

3200
02:39:01,680 --> 02:39:04,080
Speaker 12: on Tuesday he relied on that heavily all year. The

3201
02:39:04,120 --> 02:39:06,320
Speaker 12: little checkdowns in the back, making a guy miss and

3202
02:39:06,640 --> 02:39:09,120
Speaker 12: turning a short catch into a bigger play, Well, you

3203
02:39:09,240 --> 02:39:10,880
Speaker 12: take that out of the equation, where does it go?

3204
02:39:11,920 --> 02:39:13,359
Speaker 1: The answer is nowhere.

3205
02:39:13,080 --> 02:39:16,119
Speaker 3: Special thanks to Tim Ben's Jean Sterator and Rob King

3206
02:39:16,320 --> 02:39:19,720
Speaker 3: talking Steelers. And that's a rap on the twenty five

3207
02:39:19,879 --> 02:39:22,400
Speaker 3: twenty six season for your Pittsburgh Steelers.

3208
02:39:22,440 --> 02:39:25,400
Speaker 4: Let's get Pence, Let's go Pens, Let's go Box.

3209
02:39:25,440 --> 02:39:28,400
Speaker 6: I like the offseason Pirates are so far so had

3210
02:39:28,400 --> 02:39:31,039
Speaker 6: another guy or too, and let's go man. Yeah, I'm

3211
02:39:31,120 --> 02:39:33,560
Speaker 6: just gonna go and pretend to not be completely pissed

3212
02:39:33,879 --> 02:39:34,560
Speaker 6: the rest of the day.

3213
02:39:34,959 --> 02:39:38,600
Speaker 3: That's fine. I know I didn't believe they could make

3214
02:39:38,640 --> 02:39:41,320
Speaker 3: a little bit of a run. No, I wasn't sitting

3215
02:39:41,440 --> 02:39:45,080
Speaker 3: telling everybody Saturday, you know, if the Bills.

3216
02:39:44,840 --> 02:39:51,120
Speaker 1: Win and the Chargers, I know we got a I

3217
02:39:51,200 --> 02:39:52,080
Speaker 1: think we can beat him.

3218
02:39:52,280 --> 02:39:56,640
Speaker 6: And I'm just saying, don't be surprised if Aaron Rodgers.

3219
02:39:56,800 --> 02:39:59,360
Speaker 3: I don't feel dumb for thinking that and telling everybody

3220
02:39:59,600 --> 02:40:00,720
Speaker 3: all day Saturday.

3221
02:40:01,000 --> 02:40:03,320
Speaker 12: Well, I did say this on the pregame last night.

3222
02:40:03,400 --> 02:40:08,040
Speaker 12: Starts agreed with me, and technically it's not wrong. I

3223
02:40:08,120 --> 02:40:10,960
Speaker 12: said the Houston game was gonna be harder to win

3224
02:40:11,040 --> 02:40:12,720
Speaker 12: than I thought the New England game would be. If

3225
02:40:12,760 --> 02:40:15,600
Speaker 12: they could survive the Houston game. We'll never know if

3226
02:40:15,640 --> 02:40:16,320
Speaker 12: you were right, Mike.

3227
02:40:17,120 --> 02:40:19,960
Speaker 1: We won't. We should just assume. I am Yeah, Ted,

3228
02:40:20,000 --> 02:40:20,600
Speaker 1: Thanks for coming in.

3229
02:40:20,680 --> 02:40:21,880
Speaker 4: I know you pulled an onliner two.

3230
02:40:22,000 --> 02:40:24,360
Speaker 1: Absolutely yeah, and come back tomorrow.

3231
02:40:24,440 --> 02:40:25,920
Speaker 5: See you tomorrow. Yeah, well, you know a lot.

3232
02:40:26,120 --> 02:40:27,959
Speaker 4: It would be much better boots tomorrow.

3233
02:40:28,400 --> 02:40:29,560
Speaker 6: We'll forget all about this.

3234
02:40:29,680 --> 02:40:30,320
Speaker 4: By Dan Abbey.

3235
02:40:30,879 --> 02:40:35,600
Speaker 1: What fine finish you say?

3236
02:40:35,720 --> 02:40:37,720
Speaker 6: Classy Pittsburgh, don't touch your face?

3237
02:40:37,920 --> 02:40:41,200
Speaker 5: I got him, Taday baby, So now you gotta call

3238
02:40:41,280 --> 02:40:41,760
Speaker 5: me Ronald?

3239
02:40:41,760 --> 02:40:42,959
Speaker 6: Would you not eat my pants?

3240
02:40:43,200 --> 02:40:46,480
Speaker 5: Ronald? Oh?

3241
02:40:48,520 --> 02:40:50,040
Speaker 1: Why goggle it?

3242
02:40:53,320 --> 02:40:56,440
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3247
02:41:06,520 --> 02:41:08,280
Speaker 18: The Steelers season ended Monday night at the hands of

3248
02:41:08,320 --> 02:41:11,000
Speaker 18: the Houston Texans. Thirty to six was your final score.

3249
02:41:11,720 --> 02:41:14,640
Speaker 18: Houston's defense was as advertised, as they completely shut down

3250
02:41:14,640 --> 02:41:17,000
Speaker 18: the Steelers offense, holding them to just one hundred and

3251
02:41:17,040 --> 02:41:19,039
Speaker 18: seventy five yards of total offense.

3252
02:41:19,000 --> 02:41:22,039
Speaker 1: And limiting them to just two for fourteen on third downs.

3253
02:41:22,480 --> 02:41:25,000
Speaker 18: The Texans pass rush was all over Aaron Rodgers, who

3254
02:41:25,040 --> 02:41:26,520
Speaker 18: threw for just one hundred and forty six yards on

3255
02:41:26,600 --> 02:41:29,960
Speaker 18: seventeen to thirty three passing. Houston sacked Rodgers four times

3256
02:41:29,959 --> 02:41:32,880
Speaker 18: and had twelve quarterback hits. They also tacked on eight

3257
02:41:32,959 --> 02:41:35,080
Speaker 18: tackles for loss as they completely blew up the Steelers

3258
02:41:35,120 --> 02:41:38,560
Speaker 18: offensive line all night long. Defensively, the Steelers played decently

3259
02:41:38,600 --> 02:41:40,280
Speaker 18: well in a game that entered the fourth quarter with

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Speaker 18: Houston leading just seven to six. They got adequate pressure

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Speaker 18: on CJ. Strouds, sacking him three times and forced multiple turnovers.

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Speaker 18: But the biggest flaw by far on that side of

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Speaker 18: the ball was the inability to stop the run. Houston,

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Speaker 18: who averaged just three point nine yards per kerry during

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Speaker 18: the regular season, averaged five point three against the Steelers

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Speaker 18: as they racked up one hundred and sixty four yards

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Speaker 18: on thirty one kiss and one rushing touchdown. The lost

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Speaker 18: means of Steelers now have lost seven playoff games straight

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Speaker 18: as they continue to search for their first postseason win

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Speaker 18: since the twenty sixteen season.

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Speaker 6: I'm Tom Aframan with the Steelers Report.

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Speaker 2: Rob King here for Calienti pizza and draft ass. Offenses

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Speaker 2: can't move the ball where they get stuck by the defense,

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Speaker 2: and you won't move off the couch after you get

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Speaker 2: stuffed by the Caliente stuffed crust pizza. Right now, just

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Speaker 2: twenty two bucks for a large two topic at Caliente,

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Speaker 2: the official pizza of.

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Speaker 5: This report is sponsored by Staples.

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Speaker 20: After most of us had a late night, looks like

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Speaker 20: a lot of people are having a late start. We

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Speaker 20: still have break lights for delays. Parkway West coming down

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Speaker 20: the hill into the tunnels to slow ride Parkways slow

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Speaker 20: at the tunnels both directions. Sodown's on the North Shore

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Speaker 20: Express to the four to Cambridge. I'm Bonnie Diver Total traffic.

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Speaker 5: It's a new year and Staples has