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Speaker 1: And joining us right now from the Football America podcast

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Speaker 1: on Den Levatard's Middlework Platform Network podcast, uh Arena, It

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Speaker 1: is our friend, brought to you by the Gateway Clipper

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Speaker 1: Dave Damnage that, ladies and gentlemen, I.

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Speaker 2: Hardly have a voice left you in I'm still belly

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Speaker 2: ache and shouting out loud to anyone who will listen

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Speaker 2: to me, not about the upcoming game on Sunday night.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if you heard. Aaron Rodgers is playing.

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Speaker 3: His old team.

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Speaker 2: But as it turns out, like he doesn't care. He's

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Speaker 2: not upset, he has no feeling. It's not it's like

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Speaker 2: what wait was the absence makes the heart grow fonder? No,

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Speaker 2: this isn't a big game for me. Like, wait, did

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Speaker 2: I did I talk endless amounts of crap about the

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Speaker 2: front office and how no one would ever want to

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Speaker 2: live in Green Bay, Wisconsin if it weren't for me

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Speaker 2: and everything else?

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Speaker 4: Like did he say that.

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Speaker 5: He could pin it on far?

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Speaker 4: He say no one would want to live in Green Bay?

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Speaker 2: Yes, he said that. I mean he didn't say it.

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Speaker 2: He didn't say it this week because now he I know.

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Speaker 4: But he said that in the past.

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Speaker 6: It does make it does make more sense now in

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Speaker 6: his press conference this week, how much he mentioned the

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Speaker 6: neighborhoods and areas that he loved living in.

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Speaker 1: He's like, yeah, I want to jump in the Piggly

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Speaker 1: Wiggley and I'd see Sharon and produced.

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Speaker 6: He talked about his neighborhood three separate times in that interview.

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Speaker 2: Now, wait, did I say something that that set some

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Speaker 2: people off?

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Speaker 7: Oops?

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Speaker 2: My bad, everybody, Let's just move.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Well, you know, he's our quarterback now and it's all

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Speaker 1: games and ship and I don't care. I'm glad he

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Speaker 1: was mean to them because f Green Bay. We got

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Speaker 1: to win this game on Sunday night.

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Speaker 2: Well, I mean absolutely right, and you definitely yeah for

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Speaker 2: for all the talk about you know, the nick picking

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Speaker 2: what the offense didn't do, and certainly up ten nothing.

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Speaker 2: I mean, it's pretty grim not to get in the

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Speaker 2: in the rear view mirror of last week. But but

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Speaker 2: let's get in the rear view rearview mirror of last week.

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Speaker 2: The up ten nothing. If anybody would have told you

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Speaker 2: with the Steelers having the ball just before Aaron rodgers

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Speaker 2: On corks that deep shot, that unnecessary deep shot that

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Speaker 2: felt like, uh, listen devil may care where we're gonna

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Speaker 4: Arm puns on first down.

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Speaker 2: That that began the spiral. But okay, if anybody would

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Speaker 2: have told you they're going to lose that game, you

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Speaker 2: you would have thought they're crazy. But okay, I don't

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Speaker 2: understand how. Maybe nationally it's a cute story the two

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Speaker 2: old guys played each other, but consider the run up

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Speaker 2: in a short week, Jamar Chase announced they did exactly

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Speaker 2: what they thought we were were what we thought they

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Speaker 2: were going to do in anticipation of trying to stop

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Speaker 2: me and my other high end pass catcher in t Higgins,

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Speaker 2: both of us receiving throws off the right arm of

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Speaker 2: a decrepit old man named Joe Flacco and Mike Tomlin. So,

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Speaker 2: while Jamar Chase is watching game tape anticipating what the

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Speaker 2: Steelers defense is going to do, Mike Tomlin is busy

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Speaker 2: belly achin about Andrew Berry trading that old man from

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Speaker 2: one orange hatted, Ohio based football team to another, as

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Speaker 2: if this is the end of the world. So he's

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Speaker 2: mad about that, And at the same time, Cam Hayward

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Speaker 2: is having hilarious conversations about how icy Hot is sponsoring

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Speaker 2: this old man bull and it was just delightful. It

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Speaker 2: was all delightful stuff. And then somehow on the other

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Speaker 2: side of that game, it takes on this this cute

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Speaker 2: kind of hue of like he's their kryptonite. They just

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Speaker 2: can't handle that Joe black On No matter.

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Speaker 4: What they try.

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Speaker 2: This sucks. Joe Flacco is now the personification he used

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Speaker 2: to be a legit. We talked about this, you know whatever,

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Speaker 2: it was six, eight, ten years ago, fellas when we

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Speaker 2: would talk about, Hey, Joe Flacco is nails when he

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Speaker 2: comes into Hines. That's what they used to call actors. Sure,

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Speaker 2: when he comes into Hines, he always, no matter how

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Speaker 2: many how much things go against him in the first

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Speaker 2: three quarters, he keeps on shooting. And man, he is

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Speaker 2: tough to deal with no matter what, no matter how

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Speaker 2: good the defense is and all of that. That's not

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Speaker 2: who we're talking about anymore. This is a decrepit old man.

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Speaker 2: If I didn't mention it yet, he is a punchline

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Speaker 2: of a guy who cannot handle any NFL defense outside

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Speaker 2: of the Pittsburgh Steelers. By the way, who put that

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Speaker 2: defense together, Who hand picked the members of the secondary? Oh,

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Speaker 2: I know who it was. It was the guy who

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Speaker 2: is an alleged defensive whiz, and and he hands.

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Speaker 7: He wasn't gone, and then and then.

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Speaker 2: He said, this defense has a chance to be historic,

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Speaker 2: and getting torched by a decrepit old man on some

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Speaker 2: level is history because no other team would would, would

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Speaker 2: would suffer the shame, the indignity of getting smoked over

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Speaker 2: and over and over again by a guy, a decrepit

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Speaker 2: old man who's been in been a part of the

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Speaker 2: organization in Cincinnati for about for about third or or

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Speaker 2: for about three hours. What a humiliation to put to

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Speaker 2: put that effort out onto the field. And by the way,

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Speaker 2: it will carry over, I really do. I'm not trying

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Speaker 2: to get pessimistic about this, but all of a sudden,

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Speaker 2: for all the songs about it. We talked one week

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Speaker 2: ago that if they just they had to have this game,

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Speaker 2: they just had to take care of this one because

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Speaker 2: the gauntlet is now here. So they were five and

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Speaker 2: one and Lamar Jackson is on his way back. A

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Speaker 2: four game cushion would be a really fascinating proposition to

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Speaker 2: see if the Ravens could close that gap over the

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Speaker 2: final two thirds of the season. Now the Steelers are

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Speaker 2: right on the edge here. I mean they're a home

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Speaker 2: dog against these Packers and Aaron Rodgers. Like I loved,

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Speaker 2: I loved all these ruminations about his time in Green Bay.

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Speaker 2: It really is Don Draper and the elevator with with

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Speaker 2: with with the other guys. Jordan Love and the Packers

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Speaker 2: are looking are looking at looking back at the junior

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Speaker 2: copywriter named Aaron Rodgers, saying I don't think about you

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Speaker 2: at all. I mean, the Packers couldn't give a crap

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Speaker 2: about the Aaron Rodgers.

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Speaker 4: I think your larger.

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Speaker 1: Yes, this is like all you need to do is

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Speaker 1: look at Sean Payton and Russell Wilson's behavior this past

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Speaker 1: week and realized it is not above any NFL coach

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Speaker 1: and or frances to hold grudges for long periods of time.

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Speaker 6: They want the validation too, to prove that they knew

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Speaker 6: what they were doing and they made the right decision

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Speaker 6: to move on.

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Speaker 2: Exactly why people haven't the last three years already done

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Speaker 2: that when they say success is the best revenge, haven't

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Speaker 2: they succeeded?

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Speaker 3: Then?

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Speaker 2: Jordan Love has proven to be the right decision, so

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Speaker 2: that Aaron that Aaron Rodgers now apply some twenty twenty

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Speaker 2: high tight, Like, yeah, I always knew when they drafted

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Speaker 2: Jordan the writing was on the wall. For me, I

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Speaker 2: just had to move on, Like then, why did you

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Speaker 2: shout constantly and try to get the front office fired

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Speaker 2: and all of that, and they don't know what they're

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Speaker 2: doing and they were disloyal and all of that.

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Speaker 4: Well, but.

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Speaker 1: He's got nothing but love for Aaron Rodgers. I mean,

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Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers, you know, and Jordan love have a great relationship.

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Speaker 1: And while I, you know, agreed with all of the

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Speaker 1: reasons why I didn't think they should bring Aaron Rodgers

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Speaker 1: in at the beginning of the season, he has not

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Speaker 1: done any of those things here, and we you know,

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Speaker 1: his past behavior was the reason why seventy five percent

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Speaker 1: of Steeler fans did not want him to come here.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I'd always talk about it. At the Comedy

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Speaker 1: Festival this year, I said, so is everyone excited about

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Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers as your new quarterback? And that was in

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Speaker 1: the middle of the summer, and the entire audience booed,

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Speaker 1: you know, and like, I think it's so. But my

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Speaker 1: point is he's learned from all that stuff. He's not

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Speaker 5: And he's won over all all the women in and he.

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Speaker 4: Is the least of our problems. Like do I think

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Speaker 4: that he is?

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Speaker 1: His attitude is representative of how he really feels right now.

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Speaker 1: And is there some revisionist history going on so that

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Speaker 1: he can, from a pr standpoint, come out of this

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Speaker 4: Little bit better.

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Speaker 1: Yes, absolutely, that's just smart by him, all right, Like

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Speaker 1: I know the real acrimony that existed there and the

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Speaker 1: way they are glad he's gone right now. The Pittsburgh

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Speaker 1: Steelers have big problems, and he's way down on the

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Speaker 2: I Bowman, you and me park our cars in the

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Speaker 2: same garage. Absolutely, you cannot look at Aaron Rodgers. And

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Speaker 2: in fact, as I got myself all wild up there

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Speaker 2: talking about being up to nothing in him taking that

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Speaker 1: Roethlisberger would have done, you know, in every year of

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we the nitpicking about how well the offense missed

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Speaker 2: I mean, it's all on the defense. It is entirely

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Speaker 2: so desperate that they're starting a decrepit old man at quarterback.

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Speaker 2: But now here come the repercussions because the Packers are

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Speaker 2: straight up better than the Steelers are. I mean, the

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Speaker 3: That's a shame.

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Speaker 2: I thought that was going to be better. This was

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Speaker 2: the construct of Mike Tomlin. It was all leading up

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Speaker 2: to this. And keep in mind, I understand that the

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Speaker 2: aforementioned Sean Payton pulled off the big rally against the Giants,

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Speaker 2: but Jackson Dart once again looked real good, and the

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Speaker 2: Steelers need an answer quarterback that goes beyond twenty twenty

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Speaker 2: five and even twenty twenty six. The news this week, well,

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Speaker 2: now the Steelers want Airon back for twenty twenty six. Man,

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Speaker 2: you're really pushing things here, do I mean? Guys, this

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Speaker 2: age do not succeed long term. But okay, so you

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Speaker 2: didn't need to take Jackson Dart because you prioritized Derek Harmon.

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Speaker 2: I'll say again Derek Harmon better be real, real, real, real,

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Speaker 2: real good to offset the potential of taking Jackson art

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Speaker 2: and solving the only position that really matters.

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Speaker 1: Especially because next year's uh, you know, quarterback class is

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Speaker 1: looking less and less elite as each college football week

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Speaker 1: goes by.

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Speaker 4: And did we talk about that? Did we? Did?

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Speaker 2: We talk about that all spring and summer that this

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Speaker 2: is exactly where it was going. Where's Arch?

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Speaker 3: Now?

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Speaker 2: Is Arch the savior for the Pittsburgh Steelers? No, he's

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Speaker 2: going to be back in Austin unless he gets transferred

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Speaker 2: out out of there. How about Drew Aller? Remember all

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Speaker 2: the buzz about him? Hey, Kiboley, where are you at there?

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Speaker 2: He's going to end up being the number one overall

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Speaker 2: pick there? I don't think so he's not. He's going

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Speaker 2: to be back in the mix.

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Speaker 6: We weren't going to have to trade out to get

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Speaker 6: him now, yeah, I mean right?

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Speaker 4: The Colts are.

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Speaker 2: I mean that's hoping for a lot there. That's like, hey,

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Speaker 3: They think.

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Speaker 2: They just have to.

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Speaker 1: Do there's one way they could do it, maybe playing

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Speaker 2: there's a defensive whiz named Mike Tomlin, and he has

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Speaker 1: A all right, all right, okay, you're you're failing the factor

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Speaker 2: Hm. Did I wait? Did I think bad about Green Bay?

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Speaker 4: You're spiraling.

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Speaker 5: You're going to see him in the bus stop.

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Speaker 6: You're spiraling all the rest of this over and over

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: A tactical standpoint with them.

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Speaker 1: Again, he I'll go so far to say, is he's

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Speaker 1: run against Chase Brown. Good lord, what are they going

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Speaker 1: to do against Josh Jacobs and TJ Watts invisibility in

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Speaker 4: Go out and do something.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, man, you said it all. I am not hanging

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Speaker 2: an approach issue. This is this is Mike Tomlin's approach,

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Speaker 2: and it goes back to springtime, and it's all informed

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Speaker 1: By the way, Okay, but I agree with all what

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Speaker 2: No, we have to go back to you know, what

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Speaker 2: forgot to get a second wide receiver for two years.

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Speaker 2: For two years that the con artist he's working over

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Speaker 4: Now, look out, NFL.

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Speaker 6: I got two words for you that sound like three.

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Speaker 6: Ben Scarronic. You might have heard of him touchdown.

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Speaker 2: I can't believe that there's so many Pittsburgh's out there

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Speaker 2: I got When I talk about that the empirically obvious

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Speaker 2: people will be like, Dave, you can't have that guy

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Speaker 2: I mean, that's the idea that in his contract year

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Speaker 3: He's good.

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Speaker 2: Everybody right, he'll there's no chance he'll ever get banged

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Speaker 2: And then we got we got Robert Woods, who was

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Speaker 6: Happened, Yeah he was, Yeah, he's Robert Woods gets cut

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Speaker 5: Does it make a sound.

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Speaker 4: He's in the witness protection program.

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Speaker 1: You know, you did make me realize that with Arthur

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Speaker 4: I guess I guess shrimp company. All we got is

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Speaker 4: shrimp here, guys, I guess we got to hire someone.

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Speaker 2: Who can make you gonna be twenty twenty thick, gonna

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Speaker 2: Smith is now in chat up well Hill, like John

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Speaker 2: new Smith. We should trade him. We can get a

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Speaker 2: good a good second wide receiver for maybe George picking

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Speaker 3: Listen.

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Speaker 2: The only thing that makes this right, The only thing

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Speaker 2: I know that the Packers element of it has nothing

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Speaker 2: because it does feel like because George Picken's doing what

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Speaker 2: that was good sober decision making by the Packers bring

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Speaker 2: you try to get us fired. That's what that. The

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Speaker 2: Packers now have the confidence, have the trust of Packers fans.

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Speaker 2: The Steelers need that right now with Pittsburgh fans because

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Speaker 2: their approach seems pretty flawed. They wanted to This was

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Speaker 2: all remembered. It was all a big setup to get

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Speaker 2: We talked about it. They're very far away from that

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Speaker 2: right now to write the ship and show that Aaron

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Speaker 2: restore themselves as a contender at five and two. Otherwise,

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Speaker 2: dark days may lay ahead with this schedule.

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Speaker 6: There's Dave Damashek from bust Off Damask Football America, and

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Speaker 1: Aren't the Rosie end there with the big whistle, happy whistles?

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Speaker 3: I guess that way.

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Speaker 2: Let's let's win. I didn't say what's going to happen

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Speaker 2: in the game. I said that they've got to win it.

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Speaker 2: If they win it, I'll be.

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Speaker 1: Let's get it going with the Cowboys at Denver. Jerry

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Speaker 1: Jones is gonna need to double his oxygen tank capacity

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Speaker 1: this week as he gets set to flip off fans

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Speaker 1: in the mile high Mountain Air when his Cowboys had

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Speaker 1: to Denver to take on the Broncos at Sean Payton's Place.

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Speaker 4: This game's interesting because if.

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Speaker 1: You could combine Dallas's best in league offense with Denver's

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Speaker 1: near best in league defense, it would be unbeatable. The

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Speaker 1: problem for these two teams is the other team you'd

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Speaker 1: be left with is the Jets. The Cowboys are rolling

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Speaker 1: on offense, getting stampeded on defense, Broncos d bucking every

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Speaker 1: challenger while the offense takes longer to get going than

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Speaker 1: a push mower in January.

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Speaker 4: Let's start with Denver.

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Speaker 1: Now, Bonnicks might sound like a piece of exercise equipment

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Speaker 1: you'd buy on late night infomercials.

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Speaker 4: Lose weight fast with.

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Speaker 1: The Bonicks, but it's late in games where he's been

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Speaker 1: slap chopping opponents. Thirty three points in the fourth quarter

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Speaker 1: against the Giants and eighteen points in the.

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Speaker 4: Fourth quarter against the Eagles the week before.

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Speaker 1: That problem is, in their last three games, they only

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Speaker 1: have one touchdown in the other ten quarters combined.

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Speaker 4: If procrastination was masturbation, Bonnicks would be Louis c.

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Speaker 1: K geez bo stuck whipping out the win when nobody's

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Speaker 1: expecting it.

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Speaker 4: No, it's not okay that you ask.

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Speaker 1: Bo's not exactly enduring a sophomore slump, thoughs Your two

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Speaker 1: has been kind of like Pooting the Blowfish's second album.

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Speaker 1: It went triple platinum, but people were still hoping for

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Speaker 1: a little bit more after the first one. This week,

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Speaker 1: Sean Payton warned his team against the letdown after the

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Speaker 1: big win against the Giants and got them focused on

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Speaker 1: the Cowboys by continuing to fight publicly with Russell Wilson.

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Speaker 1: Man obsessed much, Sean, show me on the Tackling Dummy

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Speaker 1: where Russ hurt. You already humiliated beyond belief. You've been vindicated.

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Speaker 1: Nobody likes a sore winner, Sean, unless it's a herpes contest,

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Speaker 1: then you'd want to be the sore winner.

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Speaker 4: I guess you'd get a trophy filled with Voucher. I

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Speaker 4: don't know why you talking about this. You weird For Dallas.

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Speaker 1: Dak is all the way back, and in each of

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Speaker 1: his last four games he's thrown at least three touchdowns

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Speaker 1: without a pick. Only Brady Rogers, Manning, Russ and Breeze

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Speaker 1: have done that, which puts him in more rarefied nfl air.

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Speaker 1: Then they'll deal with it in power field on Sunday.

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Speaker 1: Dak's got Pittsburgh's problem child, George Pickens mossing players like

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Speaker 1: they were Stephen King and creep Show.

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Speaker 4: In Denver shutdown Corner.

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Speaker 1: Patrick Tretan can't cover both GP and CD, so expect

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Speaker 1: a lot more tds than Denver's.

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Speaker 4: D usually sees.

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Speaker 1: The Broncos are wearing throwback Orange Crush jerseys for this one,

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Speaker 1: but Dallas is gonna be the one that has too

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Speaker 1: much jolt.

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Speaker 4: Hey who doesn't love soda humor it ohs puffs, Cowboys

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Speaker 4: are gonna bust. The Broncos take Jerry's kids.

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Speaker 2: Next.

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Speaker 4: Giants at the Eagles minus seven and a half.

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Speaker 6: Rematch, second time in three weeks. The g Men face

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Speaker 6: off against the Eagles. This time it's in Philly and

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Speaker 6: the weather is cloudy. With a chance of batteries. This

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Speaker 6: one has got to be a little weird for Philly fans.

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Speaker 6: They hate everyone from Santa to their own black quarterback,

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Speaker 6: But Scataboo looks like he should be in the parking

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Speaker 6: lot of the Link, crawling up to the tailgate and

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Speaker 6: headbutting the keg dry humping a pothole. He spends more

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Speaker 6: time in the blue tent than the Smurfs on a

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Speaker 6: camping trip. The guy runs like a stolen delivery truck

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Speaker 6: with no brakes or power steering, and if you put

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Speaker 6: him in Jackson Dart in a tucked McNab jersey and

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Speaker 6: turtleneck combo, you should just go ahead and start filming

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Speaker 6: Silver Linings Playbook two right now.

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Speaker 7: They also curb stomped.

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Speaker 6: The eagles in the Meadowlands a couple of weeks ago,

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Speaker 6: so you best believe they're trying to win this John

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Speaker 6: in front of their hometown douchebags. That giant ass whooping

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Speaker 6: might have awoken a sleeping eagle because they soared against

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Speaker 6: the Vikings last week. Aj Brown didn't have any time

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Speaker 6: to read on the sidelines in that one. It's too

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Speaker 6: busy running down the sidelines and scoring touchdowns. Justin Hurtz,

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Speaker 6: who dresses like he's in a remake of the Eddie

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Speaker 6: Murphy classic Boomerang threw for over three hundred yards and

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Speaker 6: three tuddies for the first time in over a year.

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Speaker 5: He was slinging that John all over to John.

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Speaker 6: The Giants are a fun team to watch in a

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Speaker 6: frat bros skateboarding off a roof into the pool kind

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Speaker 6: of way. I mean, it's crazy, it's exciting to watch.

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Speaker 6: But he usually ends with the Broncos scoring thirty three

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Speaker 6: points in the fourth quarter. The Giants have ninety nine problems,

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Speaker 6: but Mick A. Tomney ain't one. I know how you're gay.

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Speaker 6: You miss two extra points in the same game. The

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Speaker 6: Giants cut their Irish kicker quicker than Jacob could swap

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Speaker 6: T shirts with a stranger that.

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Speaker 5: He met at the Guinness Factory.

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Speaker 7: Eagles win Miss John by double digits.

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Speaker 1: Neck Bears at the Ravens Ravens minus set. Good news

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Speaker 1: for Baltimore the defense finally didn't give up four touchdowns

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Speaker 1: on Sundays. Oh well, bad news is because it was

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Speaker 1: their bye week. The mortgaand news from Baltimore. No, they're

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Speaker 1: not getting the Colts back, but Lamar Jackson is expected

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Speaker 1: to return, and not a moment too soon. In the

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Speaker 1: two games he was injured, the Ravens only managed one touchdown,

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Speaker 1: which is why Harbaugh is all too glad to have

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Speaker 1: Cooper Rush back to the bench instead of onto the field.

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Speaker 4: To be fair, the Ravens weren't expecting much from Cooper Rush,

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Speaker 4: and he delivered. Cooper Rush is.

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Speaker 1: The punchline to a mom Can we stop for Andy Dalton? No, honey,

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Speaker 1: we have Andy Dalton at home?

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Speaker 5: Joke.

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Speaker 1: Kind of a failure of the GM not to have

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Speaker 1: something better in the break in case of emergency QB box.

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Speaker 1: The Bears, conversely, are watching Caleb Williams slowly mature into

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Speaker 1: a less annoying quarterback and Ben Johnson and his team,

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Speaker 1: he's got him playing like sesame seeds.

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Speaker 4: They're on a roll, but nobody's really noticing. You never

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Speaker 4: noticed in the month.

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Speaker 1: It's good and with fort sight wins after dropping the

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Speaker 1: first two, Ben Johnson could be the f Chicago coach

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Speaker 1: since George Hallis to win five of his first seven games.

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Speaker 4: So suck on that at Deede keik Obwala think we're playing.

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Speaker 7: Good enough now? U Karen Andrews.

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Speaker 1: I imagine he says in his head, I think the

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Speaker 1: Bears are pretty legit, unless you think I'm wearing bear goggles.

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Speaker 1: Just know this, the Bears eleven interception and plus eleven

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Speaker 1: turnover ratio leads the league, and they lead the league

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Speaker 1: in points after takeaway.

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Speaker 4: Now, this, of course, was potentially.

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Speaker 1: More of an issue when Cooper Rush was lobbying interceptions

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Speaker 1: like Trump throwing toilet paper to hurricane victims. But it

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Speaker 1: might be something that becomes relevant since it's Jackson's first

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Speaker 1: game back from injury and you might have a rusty lamar.

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Speaker 1: By the way, don't look up rusty Lamar in the

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Speaker 1: Urban Dictionary while you're at work.

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Speaker 4: HR will pay a visit to your desk. Why would

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Speaker 4: you kick you in the hamstring afterwards?

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Speaker 1: Yesterday, John Harbaugh refuted the press reports he's instituted a

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Speaker 1: no fun rule in the locker room and assured everyone

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Speaker 1: he's got no problem with players cornholing. And why not,

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Speaker 1: I mean, so long as they shower after no one

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Speaker 1: tries to pull a rusty Lamar.

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Speaker 4: I don't see what the problem is.

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Speaker 1: Rokwan's back from injury and will bolster the d against

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Speaker 1: his former team for the first time as a Raven,

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Speaker 1: but ever since Baltimore lets standout defensive coordinator Mike McDonald

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Speaker 1: lee for Seattle, the Ravens.

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Speaker 4: Keep forgetting two Blake defense no more, and things keep

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Speaker 4: getting worse for them.

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Speaker 5: Minute ba minute.

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Speaker 1: Though you can't get much worse than thirty second in

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Speaker 1: total defense. As desperate is as Harbaugh is for the

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Speaker 1: Wind to stay in playoff contention, I don't think he's

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Speaker 1: got the trap for these Bears. Chicago's on the come

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Speaker 1: up and there haven't been this many happy Bears since

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Speaker 1: Pride Week in Provincetown. Take the money line and you

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Speaker 1: can hibernate on those odds.

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Speaker 8: The Bears next.

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Speaker 4: Jets at Sincy minus six and a half.

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Speaker 6: Aaron Glenn said earlier this week that he didn't want

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Speaker 6: to give the Bengals a competitive advantage, so he's not

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Speaker 6: revealing whether Justin Fields or Tyrod Taylor will start on Sunday.

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Speaker 6: Smart now the Bengals won't know and to kickoff. If

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Speaker 6: the Jets are gonna suck or blow competitive advantage, you're

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Speaker 6: oh for the season and just bench the guy you

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Speaker 6: paid forty million dollars to.

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Speaker 7: Every team left on the schedule.

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Speaker 6: Has a competitive advantage, and the icing on this piece

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Speaker 6: of sheet cake was the best throw of anyone on

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Speaker 6: the Jets this week. Was the owner throwing Justin Fields

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Speaker 6: under the bus, saying, if we could just complete a pass,

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Speaker 6: it would look good. It's a shame they don't have

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Speaker 6: Joe Flacco because he can complete sixteen passes to the

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Speaker 6: same receiver even when the defense knows it's coming, and

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Speaker 6: he doesn't even know all the plays.

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Speaker 7: What's that?

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Speaker 6: They had Joe Flacco two different times and then okay,

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Speaker 6: then he was backing up Namath and Testa Verdi. No

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Speaker 6: Sam Darnold and Zach Wilson. The Jets is the Jets.

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Speaker 7: No wonder.

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Speaker 6: The young fans hate that team and only root for

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Speaker 6: them because they were born into this and have no

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Speaker 6: other choice.

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Speaker 7: What's that? Tyrod Taylor is now day to day with

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Speaker 7: a knee injury.

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Speaker 6: He hit himself in the hammer just so he doesn't

661
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Speaker 6: have to play, and Justin Fields has been dealing with

662
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Speaker 6: a toe injury since training camp. All right, well, maybe

663
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Speaker 6: send both of them out there and let's see if

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Speaker 6: Tony Tony Tony can.

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Speaker 7: Complete a pass.

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Speaker 6: The only player in this matchup who can get a

667
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Speaker 6: Tony Tony Tony reference is Joe Flacco and he plays

668
00:33:24,120 --> 00:33:29,920
Speaker 6: for the Brangles this season. Brangus, he's still playing because

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Speaker 6: he wants to look in the mirror when he's fifty

670
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Speaker 6: and say he gave it everything he had that seemed

671
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Speaker 6: like a week ago. Try not to get two injured

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Speaker 6: this year, because the Steelers are gonna need you healthy

673
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Speaker 6: when you join the team in twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 1: Take the Brangles next, Dolphins at Atlanta. Minus seven and

675
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Speaker 1: a half is the owner of the Miami Dolphins. Just

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Speaker 1: three kids in a trench coat standing on each other's

677
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Speaker 1: shoulders who are playing a prank on the rest of

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Speaker 1: the league.

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Speaker 4: How does Mike McDaniel still have a job?

680
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Speaker 1: The actual must have been one of those psycho kids

681
00:34:01,760 --> 00:34:04,720
Speaker 1: that picked the wings off of flies and then slowly

682
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Speaker 1: melted them with a magnifying gleut.

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Speaker 4: Just squatch them already.

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Speaker 1: Too bad Mike McDaniel still having a coach this team.

685
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Speaker 1: He must feel like football Sisyphus. That is, if Sisiphus

686
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Speaker 1: wore clam diggers in vape while he pushed the boulder

687
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Speaker 1: up the help and I love the phrase people keep

688
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Speaker 1: using about Mike McDaniel now because they always allude to

689
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Speaker 1: his appearance and they'll say.

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Speaker 4: He's no leader of men. It always feels kind of

691
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Speaker 4: gay to me. I don't know.

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Speaker 1: Teddy Bruski was like, I've watched all his sorry excuses

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00:34:30,719 --> 00:34:33,319
Speaker 1: for press conferences, and I'm sorry, but I just look

694
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Speaker 1: at that guy and.

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Speaker 4: He's no leader of men, and he does nothing from

696
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Speaker 4: my downstairs. Doesn't turn me on at all.

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Speaker 1: Meanwhile, the coach Teddy Bruski played for and thinks his

698
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Speaker 1: super butch is now sporting a solid Sea cup and

699
00:34:46,600 --> 00:34:48,440
Speaker 1: being told what to do by a twenty four year

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Speaker 1: old hooker with the business acumen of a golden retriever.

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Speaker 4: You know, a real much of a leader of men,

702
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Speaker 4: that Belichick.

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Speaker 1: It's only a matter of time at this point until

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Speaker 1: the Dolphins bring in a buff, authoritarian coach. It's a

705
00:34:59,719 --> 00:35:03,400
Speaker 1: copy league, and beefcake coaches are all the right. Dan Campbell,

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Speaker 1: Sean McAboy, Andy Reid, Well heat he eats a lot

707
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Speaker 1: of beef and cake that counts as beefcake right yesterday,

708
00:35:13,080 --> 00:35:16,600
Speaker 1: too has said he has trouble finding receiver Jaalen Waddle

709
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Speaker 1: because he's not tall enough to see over the offensive line.

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Speaker 1: You know, I don't care if the next coach he

711
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Speaker 1: hires the rock you can't make two a taller or

712
00:35:23,680 --> 00:35:26,080
Speaker 1: stop saying dumb things when he's at the podium. At

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Speaker 1: least in Atlanta, Kirk Cousins can give two us some

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Speaker 1: pointers on how to make fifty million dollars while holding

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Speaker 1: a clipboard.

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Speaker 4: They paid him too.

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Speaker 1: Much and now they got to put him into it

718
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Speaker 1: a game, even though they read to send them to

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Speaker 1: it a bench and that's to a bed. Miami is

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Speaker 1: already without Tyreek Hill, who, while being carted off the

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Speaker 1: field with a season ending injury, he celebrated like Mary

722
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Speaker 1: just told him.

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Speaker 4: You are not the father, and now.

724
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Speaker 1: Their next best offensive weapon. Darren Waller was putting ir

725
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Speaker 1: He's out for the season and out of his misery.

726
00:35:57,880 --> 00:36:00,279
Speaker 1: The Falcons aren't great, but at home with b John

727
00:36:00,320 --> 00:36:02,800
Speaker 1: running wild, they're gonna jam it down to Dolphins.

728
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Speaker 4: Blowhole. But seven points is a lotch. Did you take

729
00:36:05,840 --> 00:36:08,240
Speaker 4: the points though, and been on Miami?

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Speaker 1: Well, you know, as the Dolphin would tell you here, eh.

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Speaker 4: No, play it pretty far. Atlanta take the Falcons.

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Speaker 1: Next last one, Packers at Steelers plus three.

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Speaker 6: This is not a revenge game. Okay, guys, it's not

734
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Speaker 6: it's not for Rogers. He has no animosity towards the

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Speaker 6: Packers organization. And maybe it's because absence makes the fart

736
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Speaker 6: grow honder.

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Speaker 3: I don't know.

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Speaker 7: He spent eighteen years there, guys, he grew up there.

739
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Speaker 7: That's where he got immunized.

740
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Speaker 6: That's where he saw the Epstein list for the first time.

741
00:36:42,880 --> 00:36:45,560
Speaker 6: A ton of great memories, and he loves the guys

742
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Speaker 6: he played with, and the relationship with the coach was great.

743
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Speaker 6: He never screamed and swore at him just for calling

744
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Speaker 6: a timeout or having a conservative play call.

745
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Speaker 7: And guess what, Lafleur loves him too.

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Speaker 6: You never traded up in the twenty twenty draft to

747
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Speaker 6: get George Love to replace them.

748
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Speaker 7: That wasn't his choice. That was a call passed down

749
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Speaker 7: directly from.

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Speaker 6: The board to cheese heads, voted on by the bradtholders.

751
00:37:10,239 --> 00:37:13,719
Speaker 6: Could he have traded up to draft Aiyuk or Justin

752
00:37:13,800 --> 00:37:16,480
Speaker 6: Jefferson or Ceedee Lamb for Rogers instead.

753
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Speaker 7: Maybe, But it's not like Aaron.

754
00:37:18,560 --> 00:37:22,759
Speaker 6: Rodgers complained about them never drafting a receiver in the first.

755
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Speaker 7: Round for the entire time he was there.

756
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Speaker 6: And it's not like they drafted a wide receiver this

757
00:37:27,520 --> 00:37:30,120
Speaker 6: year when the draft was in Green Bay. It's not

758
00:37:30,360 --> 00:37:34,759
Speaker 6: a revenge game, guys, so go to hell unless you

759
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Speaker 6: listen to rogers longtime teammate and offensive lineman David Bachazi's

760
00:37:40,080 --> 00:37:44,120
Speaker 6: I'm sorry. He actually thinks all the back and forth

761
00:37:44,160 --> 00:37:47,280
Speaker 6: pleasant trees are a bunch of gorgan zola. He thinks

762
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Speaker 6: this is a really big game for both sides. Rogers

763
00:37:51,320 --> 00:37:55,200
Speaker 6: doesn't hold grudges. It's not like he downplayed the Jets

764
00:37:55,239 --> 00:37:57,840
Speaker 6: game and then dropped four tds in that game and

765
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Speaker 6: said afterwards that he was happy to be everybody associated

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Speaker 6: with the Jets. Aaron Glenn, the front office, the players

767
00:38:05,560 --> 00:38:09,040
Speaker 6: fireman ed that stupid kid that doesn't realize he doesn't

768
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Speaker 6: have to be a fan just because he was born

769
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Speaker 6: into it. He's still young enough to get out of

770
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Speaker 6: the death sentence that is being.

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Speaker 7: A Jets fan.

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Speaker 6: This is definitely a revenge game for far Love and

773
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Speaker 6: Rogers are both getting deep picks late Sunday afternoon and

774
00:38:23,560 --> 00:38:26,839
Speaker 6: they're gonna have to deal with that. But revenge isn't

775
00:38:26,880 --> 00:38:31,520
Speaker 6: the biggest R word coming for this Sunday night. This

776
00:38:31,640 --> 00:38:36,920
Speaker 6: game is about resilience. Can the defense bounce back from.

777
00:38:36,719 --> 00:38:42,360
Speaker 7: The stumble in the jungle stumble. This game is about

778
00:38:42,400 --> 00:38:43,720
Speaker 7: playing responsible.

779
00:38:43,840 --> 00:38:47,440
Speaker 6: Can they stay in their gaps and play sixty minutes

780
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Speaker 6: of sound football?

781
00:38:49,040 --> 00:38:50,520
Speaker 7: Can they stop the run?

782
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Speaker 6: Can they remember to cover the Packers' best receiver? Can

783
00:38:55,320 --> 00:38:59,200
Speaker 6: they figure out a better linebacker rotation? Can they not

784
00:38:59,600 --> 00:39:03,080
Speaker 6: repeat they hate their mistakes? Can they not rupture and

785
00:39:03,120 --> 00:39:06,880
Speaker 6: look repugnant and not play with their head up there rectum?

786
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Speaker 6: Because I swear to God, if they come out in

787
00:39:09,440 --> 00:39:12,440
Speaker 6: a soft zone and get run on and routed, I'm

788
00:39:12,480 --> 00:39:15,080
Speaker 6: gonna need a rope, a razor and a reforce.

789
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Speaker 4: I'm taking the Steelers because.

790
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Speaker 7: We need to write up our reputation.

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Speaker 1: There you go, Six pigs for you over this weekend,

792
00:39:22,680 --> 00:39:24,839
Speaker 1: guaranteed to probably maybe possibly win.

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Speaker 1: Your radio home for the Pittsburgh Steelers one on two

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Speaker 3: Good morning folks.

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Speaker 4: Doing pretty good and excited for the game on Sunday night.

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Speaker 1: What did you make of the tenor the tone coming

813
00:40:31,640 --> 00:40:33,560
Speaker 1: out of both locker rooms yesterday?

814
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Speaker 8: Well, you know, if you listened to Aaron Rodgers before

815
00:40:37,719 --> 00:40:39,840
Speaker 8: the Jets game and after the Jets game, he was

816
00:40:39,840 --> 00:40:40,600
Speaker 8: a little different.

817
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Speaker 3: Although I think his time in New.

818
00:40:43,280 --> 00:40:46,560
Speaker 8: York was certainly a lot more frustrating, and he was

819
00:40:46,600 --> 00:40:49,520
Speaker 8: more bitter about that situation than his years in Green Bay.

820
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Speaker 3: And I think he's being very smart about it.

821
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Speaker 8: I don't think he has the same bitter feelings about

822
00:40:56,400 --> 00:40:59,440
Speaker 8: the Packers certainly as he did about the Jets. So

823
00:40:59,880 --> 00:41:02,560
Speaker 8: I think if they win this game, he might be

824
00:41:02,600 --> 00:41:07,080
Speaker 8: a little more a little more braggetocius afterwards than he

825
00:41:07,200 --> 00:41:07,680
Speaker 8: was before.

826
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Speaker 3: But he's a season that he's smart.

827
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Speaker 1: I'm not worried about the offense. That seems like behind

828
00:41:14,680 --> 00:41:17,279
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers, they're able to figure things out. Frustrating though

829
00:41:17,280 --> 00:41:20,560
Speaker 1: it may be at times, every week seems to get

830
00:41:20,560 --> 00:41:23,600
Speaker 1: a little better in that regard, though I hated the

831
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Speaker 1: way they approached that Bengals game and didn't put the

832
00:41:27,080 --> 00:41:32,439
Speaker 1: pedal down early defensively. You know, we were talking about

833
00:41:32,480 --> 00:41:35,239
Speaker 1: this earlier. I don't know if we've revealed our I

834
00:41:35,280 --> 00:41:39,120
Speaker 1: revealed our identity against the Bengals, or if that's the aberration.

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Speaker 8: No, let's talk about the elephant in the room, Randy.

836
00:41:45,719 --> 00:41:49,640
Speaker 8: The defense stinks. It stunk last year and it stinks

837
00:41:49,680 --> 00:41:53,000
Speaker 8: this year. They gave up almost five hundred yards to

838
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Speaker 8: a team that had a quarterback in their.

839
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Speaker 3: Uniform for barely a week.

840
00:41:57,560 --> 00:41:59,919
Speaker 8: They'd allowed thirty or more points three of their last

841
00:42:00,080 --> 00:42:03,520
Speaker 8: six games, they've allowed one hundred or more rushing yards,

842
00:42:03,520 --> 00:42:04,960
Speaker 8: and eight of their last twelve games.

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00:42:04,960 --> 00:42:07,880
Speaker 3: If you go back to last year, I do not.

844
00:42:08,160 --> 00:42:09,680
Speaker 3: I've said this on the show before.

845
00:42:09,840 --> 00:42:12,840
Speaker 8: Torell Austin continues to get a halt pass all the

846
00:42:12,920 --> 00:42:16,560
Speaker 8: time as the defensive coordinator of this team. I never

847
00:42:16,600 --> 00:42:20,280
Speaker 8: hear anybody criticize the guy when they ran Matt Canada

848
00:42:20,400 --> 00:42:23,920
Speaker 8: out of town, chanting his name even at Penguin games

849
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Speaker 8: to fire the guy because the offense stunk. So it's

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00:42:28,080 --> 00:42:30,799
Speaker 8: probably it's one of two reasons. He's a terrifically nice man,

851
00:42:30,920 --> 00:42:32,560
Speaker 8: so maybe nobody wants to criticize them.

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00:42:32,600 --> 00:42:34,440
Speaker 3: Everybody knows that Tomlin's running.

853
00:42:34,480 --> 00:42:37,360
Speaker 8: The defense anyway, but one of their buds should be

854
00:42:37,440 --> 00:42:41,160
Speaker 8: held to the fire. Mike Tomlin's first six years, man,

855
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Speaker 8: you're gonna get me going here. His first six years

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00:42:43,920 --> 00:42:47,560
Speaker 8: as head coach, their defense was no worse than fifth

857
00:42:47,600 --> 00:42:50,760
Speaker 8: in any of those six years. In the last five years,

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00:42:50,760 --> 00:42:53,560
Speaker 8: it's been no better than twelve. Despite they keep throwing

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00:42:53,640 --> 00:42:56,080
Speaker 8: money at it and throwing money at it and throwing

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Speaker 8: money at it.

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Speaker 3: They're terrible.

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Speaker 8: And if it wasn't for a great turnover margin, I mean,

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00:43:00,960 --> 00:43:03,560
Speaker 8: their most impressive winners is it's turning out is that

864
00:43:03,600 --> 00:43:06,319
Speaker 8: win In New England, Patriots are now five and two,

865
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Speaker 8: and it took five Patriot turnovers to win that game.

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Speaker 8: Then they won't get five turners. Well, I'll bet they

867
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Speaker 8: won't get five turnovers in a game the rest of

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Speaker 8: the year. If they don't win the turnover battle. They do,

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Speaker 8: they are more likely to stop the other team with

870
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Speaker 8: an interception or a fumble recovery than they are to.

871
00:43:23,920 --> 00:43:26,920
Speaker 3: Force him to punt. The Bengals scored on seven of

872
00:43:26,920 --> 00:43:27,680
Speaker 3: their last eight.

873
00:43:27,600 --> 00:43:31,360
Speaker 8: Possessions last week. It's a screen door on a submarine.

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Speaker 6: Guy, Your your ins are just bumped into my ins er.

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Speaker 6: It's like one of those little ghosts where the you know,

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Speaker 6: the voice triggers another one and I start going.

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Speaker 7: Because I believe that the loophole that.

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00:43:44,880 --> 00:43:49,520
Speaker 6: Tomlin has found defensively is to be opportunistic to get

879
00:43:49,520 --> 00:43:53,480
Speaker 6: those turnovers because you can win games early in regular

880
00:43:53,600 --> 00:43:58,160
Speaker 6: seasons to doing that. Like we've seen it so many

881
00:43:58,200 --> 00:44:01,160
Speaker 6: different times. When the when the narrows and you get

882
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Speaker 6: into the postseason, you're paying you're playing against better quarterbacks,

883
00:44:05,280 --> 00:44:09,759
Speaker 6: better coordinators, and teams that are watching out and being

884
00:44:09,840 --> 00:44:14,719
Speaker 6: conservative and protecting the ball. Those turnovers go away and

885
00:44:14,760 --> 00:44:17,680
Speaker 6: you get dog walked up and down the field. You

886
00:44:17,760 --> 00:44:22,719
Speaker 6: bend and then you break in the postseason, Well, Bill,

887
00:44:22,719 --> 00:44:23,279
Speaker 6: I think one of.

888
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Speaker 8: The biggest things is how how bad they have been

889
00:44:25,840 --> 00:44:28,880
Speaker 8: against the run. There's so much less likely a chance

890
00:44:28,920 --> 00:44:31,399
Speaker 8: of getting a turnover when teams just run it down

891
00:44:31,440 --> 00:44:33,920
Speaker 8: your throat. Uh not that every you know, you can

892
00:44:34,080 --> 00:44:36,840
Speaker 8: still fumble the ball, as the Patriots did four.

893
00:44:36,640 --> 00:44:37,520
Speaker 3: Times that game.

894
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Speaker 8: But but you know, I think and Cam Hayward's right,

895
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Speaker 8: that's the number one thing they gotta fix. They gotta

896
00:44:42,840 --> 00:44:45,320
Speaker 8: be able to stop that. There's no way Joe Flacco

897
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Speaker 8: has that game if.

898
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Speaker 3: They're not running the ball the way that they were.

899
00:44:48,440 --> 00:44:50,279
Speaker 8: I mean, it just played right into their hands. But

900
00:44:50,640 --> 00:44:54,839
Speaker 8: and and and you know, Mike Tomlin talked about at

901
00:44:54,840 --> 00:44:56,879
Speaker 8: the halftime interview that game. He's like, oh, we got

902
00:44:56,920 --> 00:44:58,800
Speaker 8: to do better on first and second down and stop,

903
00:44:59,000 --> 00:45:00,440
Speaker 8: you know, so that we can off the.

904
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Speaker 3: Field on third down.

905
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Speaker 8: They allowed a third and fourteen, a third and ten

906
00:45:04,840 --> 00:45:06,680
Speaker 8: conversion in the first half of that game.

907
00:45:06,719 --> 00:45:09,440
Speaker 3: That wasn't that. They were all third and twos and

908
00:45:09,520 --> 00:45:10,160
Speaker 3: third and ones.

909
00:45:10,360 --> 00:45:13,480
Speaker 8: Their third down conversion against is forty two percent.

910
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Speaker 3: It's one of the worst in the league.

911
00:45:14,920 --> 00:45:17,360
Speaker 4: I think the first one they converted was third and thirteen.

912
00:45:18,520 --> 00:45:20,879
Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean, you know, if it was a bunch

913
00:45:20,960 --> 00:45:22,120
Speaker 8: of and that happens a lot.

914
00:45:22,160 --> 00:45:23,960
Speaker 3: I never doing a story one time. In fact, this

915
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Speaker 3: is one of the first time that Stan.

916
00:45:26,040 --> 00:45:28,120
Speaker 8: You know, when when I first started working with Stan,

917
00:45:28,200 --> 00:45:30,560
Speaker 8: the Steelers played a game in Dallas and I covered

918
00:45:30,560 --> 00:45:33,440
Speaker 8: it in Dallas and Stan would always he couldn't travel

919
00:45:33,480 --> 00:45:35,000
Speaker 8: that week for some reason. I had to do a

920
00:45:35,040 --> 00:45:38,040
Speaker 8: sidebar story, and I was thinking, I got to come

921
00:45:38,120 --> 00:45:40,600
Speaker 8: up with something here that's that's of interest, that makes sense,

922
00:45:40,920 --> 00:45:44,200
Speaker 8: or his stand's not going to be impressed. And the

923
00:45:44,239 --> 00:45:50,680
Speaker 8: Steelers that they had allowed like fifteen third down conversions,

924
00:45:51,080 --> 00:45:54,120
Speaker 8: but the average distance on the third down conversions was

925
00:45:54,120 --> 00:45:57,040
Speaker 8: like third and two, so's that makes sense.

926
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Speaker 3: They were giving up way too much on the first two.

927
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Speaker 8: Now I got back Stendos, you really know your football,

928
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Speaker 8: and I'm like, okay, good, We're in.

929
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Speaker 3: But that has not been the case.

930
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Speaker 8: They can't get off the field regardless of what the

931
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Speaker 8: distance is on third down.

932
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Speaker 3: Matt Williams so frustrating.

933
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Speaker 1: Matt Williamson had this stat he tweeted out last night.

934
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Speaker 1: Pittsburgh's defense surrenders thirty eight point three yards per drive

935
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Speaker 1: worse in the league. They're also on the field for

936
00:46:23,000 --> 00:46:24,960
Speaker 1: seven point two plays per drive.

937
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Speaker 4: Only Miami is worse.

938
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Speaker 6: And their opponents are averaging twenty more plays.

939
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Speaker 8: Well, yeah, yeah, And when you're on the field that

940
00:46:35,440 --> 00:46:39,000
Speaker 8: long and you're already an old team by the fourth quarter,

941
00:46:39,040 --> 00:46:41,560
Speaker 8: what do you got left in the tank? You know

942
00:46:41,960 --> 00:46:44,400
Speaker 8: a couple of years ago, you know, fans would complain

943
00:46:44,440 --> 00:46:47,080
Speaker 8: because they were They would try to win games twenty

944
00:46:47,120 --> 00:46:51,000
Speaker 8: to seventeen, fourteen to nine like that because their defense

945
00:46:51,120 --> 00:46:54,000
Speaker 8: was good, and after Roethlisberger left they couldn't seem to

946
00:46:54,000 --> 00:46:56,800
Speaker 8: find an offense. Well, I don't know what's more frustrating.

947
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Speaker 8: You put up over thirty points and you still can't

948
00:46:58,960 --> 00:47:01,640
Speaker 8: win the game. It's more entertaining, But I think it's

949
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Speaker 8: even more frustrating.

950
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Speaker 1: Do you think Mike Tomlin would ever allow someone else

951
00:47:08,880 --> 00:47:11,680
Speaker 1: to run the defense? Do you think Art Rooney might

952
00:47:11,719 --> 00:47:14,000
Speaker 1: ever come to him and go, hey, next time we

953
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Speaker 1: get a Brian Flores come through here, we want to

954
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Speaker 1: keep him and we want to just make you the

955
00:47:18,480 --> 00:47:20,040
Speaker 1: head coach the end.

956
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Speaker 8: I don't know if Art Rooney would do that, Dan

957
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Speaker 8: Rooney would have done it, or Art such a laid

958
00:47:26,719 --> 00:47:29,640
Speaker 8: back guy, you don't know what goes on behind closed doors.

959
00:47:29,719 --> 00:47:33,040
Speaker 8: Tomlin seems to rule the roost, and I think it's

960
00:47:33,080 --> 00:47:35,239
Speaker 8: hard to you know, back in the day, you know,

961
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Speaker 8: they made Chuck Nol fire Tony Dungey and he didn't

962
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Speaker 8: want to.

963
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Speaker 3: So they've done stuff like that in the past.

964
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Speaker 8: But it doesn't seem like art rules with the arn

965
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Speaker 8: fist that Dan did, or takes that active of a role.

966
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Speaker 3: In making those kind of decisions.

967
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Speaker 8: But we don't really know, you He just is so

968
00:47:56,640 --> 00:47:59,960
Speaker 8: mellow and down to earth all the time behind closed door.

969
00:48:00,680 --> 00:48:02,400
Speaker 8: I remember he told me one time, you know, when

970
00:48:02,440 --> 00:48:04,480
Speaker 8: he's watching a road game, if he doesn't if he

971
00:48:04,560 --> 00:48:06,680
Speaker 8: is watching the game on TV, he's screaming at it,

972
00:48:06,760 --> 00:48:08,920
Speaker 8: throwing stuff like like everybody else.

973
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Speaker 5: I would to watch that stream.

974
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Speaker 4: So how do you see this going on Sunday night?

975
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Speaker 3: I think you're gonna lose? Hm, I just I think.

976
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Speaker 8: I mean green Bay on he has one loss, although

977
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Speaker 8: it was the Cleveland but it was Joe Flacco and uh.

978
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Speaker 1: Didn't do anything in that game. Green Bay absolutely gave

979
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Speaker 1: them that win.

980
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and then you know what.

981
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Speaker 8: The Steelers are good news, you know, and then in

982
00:48:36,960 --> 00:48:40,960
Speaker 8: home primetime games they're good. They're they're more rested because

983
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Speaker 8: they did play on Thursday, and I'd love to see

984
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Speaker 8: them win. I just don't green Bay's. Green Bay beat Detroit,

985
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Speaker 8: they beat Washington, and I come from behind win against Arizona.

986
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Speaker 8: It was was pretty impressive. The Cardinals aren't great, but

987
00:48:51,280 --> 00:48:53,600
Speaker 8: they still had to come from behind and that Dallas

988
00:48:53,640 --> 00:48:56,040
Speaker 8: game and then ended in the time. I just think

989
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Speaker 8: Green Bay is a better team right now. I don't

990
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Speaker 8: trust his defense at all.

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Speaker 1: Guy Junker, brought to you by Edgar Snyder Associates this

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Speaker 4: Guy, thanks so much, buddy, appreciate. We'll talk to you

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Speaker 4: next week.

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Speaker 3: Okay, guys, see it.

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Speaker 7: Here's Tom Opperman.

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Speaker 10: When the Steelers and Packers face off on Sunday Night

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Speaker 10: Football this weekend, it will mark the first time that

1003
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Speaker 10: Aaron Rodgers will face the franchise he once played eighteen

1004
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Speaker 10: seasons for, and over those eighteen seasons with the Packers,

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Speaker 10: Rodgers racked up one hundred and forty seven regular season wins,

1006
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Speaker 10: eleven playoff victories, four MVP Awards, and a Lombardi Trophy

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Speaker 10: with a win in Super Bowl forty five. With a

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Speaker 10: victory Sunday night, Rogers will become just the fifth quarterback

1009
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Speaker 10: in NFL history to have defeated all thirty two NFL franchises,

1010
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Speaker 10: joining Tom Brady, Peyton Manning, Drew Brees, and Brett Favre.

1011
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Speaker 10: An impressive group with each member either in or going

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Speaker 10: to be in the Hall of Fame one day.

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Speaker 7: But speaking to the media.

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Speaker 10: Earlier this week, Aaron Rodgers swore that this wasn't a

1015
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Speaker 10: revenge game for him against his former team. However, the

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Speaker 10: importance of a Steelers win Sunday against the PA can't

1017
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Speaker 10: be understated. Standing in the way of Rogers and the

1018
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Speaker 10: Steelers from accomplishing that is a strong Packers defense led

1019
00:50:05,760 --> 00:50:09,160
Speaker 10: by a dominant pass rush that's headlined by superstar Micah Parsons.

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Speaker 10: Parsons had three sacks last week against the Arizona Cardinals

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Speaker 10: and the Packers win his best game so far as

1022
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Speaker 10: a Packer. Neutralize the all pro pass rusher is going

1023
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Speaker 10: to be a major key to the Steelers having.

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Speaker 3: Success Sunday night.

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Speaker 10: Kickoff between The Steelers and Packers is at eight twenty

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Speaker 10: pm on Tom Opperman with the Steelers Report.

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