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Speaker 1: We live in a world where the Pittsburgh Steelers are

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Speaker 1: where Arthur Smith is a head coaching candidate running the

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Speaker 1: twenty ninth ranked offense in the NFL. We live in

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Speaker 1: a world where the Penguins seem to think system first.

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Speaker 1: We live in a world where Penn State is a

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Speaker 1: hockey school and pitts quarterback has more people optimistic than

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Speaker 1: the guy some people wanted to see the Steelers draft

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Speaker 1: out of Penn State. And we live in a world

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Speaker 1: where Penn State's football fans think Indiana's head coach can

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Speaker 1: make them better. In the words of Iron Maiden, I'm

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Speaker 1: a stranger in a strange land.

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Speaker 2: Tim bens in for Mark Manaday. Mark is sick.

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Speaker 1: As you heard yesterday, I felt that one coming a

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Speaker 1: mile away. If you heard him on the podcast for

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Speaker 1: Breakfast Bends, which we taped up Sunday night. I had

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Speaker 1: the over under on me being here Monday, not Tuesday.

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Speaker 1: But here I am with Tommy Radio, who joins me

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Speaker 1: to talk about a myriad subjects, including this list that

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Speaker 1: I saw at Pro Football Talk before I come on.

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Speaker 1: It's their power rankings. Pro Football Talk has its Power

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Speaker 1: rankings out and they have the Pittsburgh Steelers fifth.

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Speaker 2: Right now.

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Speaker 1: Now, Tom, this is, in my estimation, kind of like

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Speaker 1: college football polls in August, college basketball polls in November.

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Speaker 2: It doesn't mean much. In fact, it's the NFL. It

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Speaker 2: means nothing.

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Speaker 1: Your record is what your record is at the end

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Speaker 1: of the year, and it doesn't matter what perception says.

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Speaker 1: It does sort of matter how the Steelers perceive themselves, though,

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Speaker 1: how they move forward to the trade deadline, how they

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Speaker 1: move forward using young players or not, how they move

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Speaker 1: forward thinking that what they're doing is working. Are the

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Speaker 1: Steelers really the fifth best team in the National Football League?

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Speaker 1: And before you answer, would you like me to couch

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Speaker 1: it by telling you who the top four teams are

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Speaker 1: according to Pro Football Talk?

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Speaker 3: You should couch it for the audience, because I'm looking

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Speaker 3: at this bad boy right now. And spoiler alert, I

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Speaker 3: disagree with some teams that are behind the Pittsburgh Steelers.

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Speaker 3: Here some teams that are behind the Steels. They should

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Speaker 3: not be number five.

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Speaker 1: The Bucks are the best team in football. The Colts

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Speaker 1: are the second best team in football.

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Speaker 4: No, they are not.

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Speaker 1: The Lions are the third best team in football. They

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Speaker 1: actually should be higher. I think they might be number two.

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Speaker 1: The Rams are the fourth best team in football, and

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Speaker 1: the Steelers by virtue of beating Dylan Gabriel in the

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Speaker 1: now one in five Cleveland Browns have jumped from number

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Speaker 1: eleven to number five. According to this Pro Football Talk list,

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Speaker 1: just beating the Browns catapult level of bully from number

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Speaker 1: eleven to number five. And do you look at the

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Speaker 3: No, for me, it does not catapult my level of

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Speaker 3: start having our belief changed in this team until we

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Speaker 3: see what happens in the stretch after the Cincinnati game.

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Speaker 3: Don't you agree? Like that's the measuring stick stretch for

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Speaker 3: the Steelers. Two home games against the Packers and the

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Speaker 3: Colts back to back. Then you go on the road

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Speaker 3: and one in that stretch after beating Cincinnati on Thursday night. Okay, Florio,

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Speaker 3: I'll believe that you're number five. Maybe is this Florio's

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Speaker 1: Well does say he does have his byline on it. So, yes,

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Speaker 1: it is Mike Florio's list. As it turns out, well,

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Speaker 3: Then if you go two and one in that stretch,

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Speaker 3: if the Steelers come out of that with just two losses,

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Speaker 3: they'll set them up self up nice. And those are

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Speaker 3: some wins against some quality opponents. But do you really

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Speaker 1: The quick analogy to college basketball, like that's a quad

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Speaker 4: But you don't buy into them yet, do you.

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Speaker 1: No. But even at the time, and you and I

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Speaker 3: Based on what the Bills look like. I think we

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Speaker 3: bump them out of his top ten down seven spots

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Speaker 1: That's a tricky specific extreme overreaction. Like he's got the

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Speaker 1: what would the points spread be seven to nine over

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Speaker 2: He's got the Chiefs thirteen.

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Speaker 3: See, they should be flirting with the top five after

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Speaker 3: You know, we're starting to actually see statistical performances from Mahomes, like,

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Speaker 3: like the past couple of years, Mahomes wasn't really doing

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Speaker 4: Like now he's lightening it up.

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Speaker 3: I mean, three touchdowns through the air, one on the

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Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, So I just view them as the number one

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Speaker 1: Well, Tom, this is a situation of my view that

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Speaker 1: But I always thought if those two teams would have

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Speaker 1: like there's deserve, there's who are you what based on

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Speaker 1: and that's a completely different kettle of fish. Now there

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Speaker 1: and we just went through a whole bunch of them.

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Speaker 1: The tricky thing with the Steelers, though, is if you

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Speaker 1: to look at the Steelers and for all the reasons

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Speaker 1: it's hard to separate that, divorce that from the reality

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Speaker 1: likely to get five on Thursday unless they screw it

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Speaker 1: five more wins to get to ten and seven. Do

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Speaker 1: you think right now it's going to take eleven wins

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Speaker 1: to win the AFC North I do not.

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Speaker 3: That's just two more losses for Baltimore that they can afford.

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Speaker 3: So of the five wins that they would need.

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Speaker 1: Then if they were to beat Cincinnati on Thursday, two

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Speaker 4: They be able to.

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Speaker 3: And that's what's so kind of funny about what's also

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Speaker 3: building along with the optimism in Steelers Nation right now, Tim,

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Speaker 3: the optimism that's out of control. Like I said, you

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Speaker 3: You don't know if it's out of control.

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Speaker 1: No, I don't, because like I want to wait to

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Speaker 1: Batch and Pursuita's postgame show. I've heard the station down

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Speaker 1: the dial. I hear Madden every single day. I hear

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but there are different circumstances this year, mainly the

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Speaker 3: rest of the division really stinking out loud like last year.

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Speaker 1: All the rest of the division can stink, they can

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Speaker 2: Like the big difference of how that might.

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Speaker 1: Affect the playoffs is they could be ten and seven

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Speaker 1: get the home game and you finally get the playoff win.

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Speaker 1: Are they a challenger to the Chiefs the Bills that

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Speaker 1: Do they do it?

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Speaker 1: you know, Madden's kind of laid this out there before,

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Speaker 1: and this would be like so bad luck for the Steelers.

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Speaker 1: Like what if the Steelers are the third seed, okay,

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Speaker 1: and they get the Chiefs coming to Pittsburgh Ackroestra Stadium.

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Speaker 3: Chiefs are going to make the playoffs, I'm sure of that.

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Speaker 3: I think they have an outside shot now at getting

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Speaker 3: what the Broncos are, man, I really don't. Probably a

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Speaker 3: playoff team, But what if the five seed is the

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Speaker 3: Chiefs and they come to Pittsburgh and you're the four

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Speaker 3: or the three in the six matchup? Like then you're

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Speaker 3: just falling into I think, just a devastating trap where

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Speaker 3: everything was pointing in the direction this year. If you

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Speaker 3: finally ending that playoff drought, you get the home game,

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Speaker 3: You've got Rogers, there's a lot of feel good going

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Speaker 3: into it. You win the Division crown, you get the

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Speaker 3: and then Kansas City rolls in on their you know,

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Speaker 3: three straight road game run to another Super Bowl starts

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Speaker 3: That was amazing, you know, I was truly chef's kiss

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Speaker 1: I didn't hear any overwhelming amount of positivity pushing back

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Speaker 3: Point of they're going to the playoffs then in a

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Speaker 1: if you're what, independently thinking, what have you seen from

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Speaker 2: Where do you see that?

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Speaker 3: Because that's the only thing that Arthur Smith has done

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Speaker 3: generational running back, because every other offense that he's had

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Speaker 1: They're just what are they running the football? I think

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Speaker 1: Just everybody is so flawed. Everybody is so flawed right

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Speaker 3: I mean, they're run defense is abysmal. That's why you

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Speaker 1: Would you aggressively pursue a wide receiver if you're the Steelers.

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Speaker 1: The calculus of the whole quarterback conversation for them has changed,

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Speaker 3: And I mean, we can start to see Aaron Rodgers

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Speaker 2: That's part of it that seems to be very clearly.

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Speaker 2: Winning a division and maybe winning a playoff game.

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Speaker 1: Maybe that might be enough based on where the Steelers are,

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Speaker 3: Like if he's feeling good at the end of the year,

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Speaker 4: That's spooky with who's coming up in two days.

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Speaker 1: They haven't had their two and six like they did

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Speaker 1: So Florio can say they're the fifth best team in

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Speaker 3: That's what's so hard for me to follow with all

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Speaker 1: And we said going into the Steelers game was playing

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Speaker 3: The Browns are just like a little engine that could

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Speaker 3: At this point, we're gonna run this thing like her.

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Speaker 4: Did you think he played that bad?

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Speaker 1: Though? I don't think he was tough. He just couldn't

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Speaker 1: A former NFL coach with Pittsburgh Ties, also has a

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Speaker 1: I haven't heard Andrew Barry say anything about what Mike

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Speaker 1: All Zach Taylor said was we're happy that he's here

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Speaker 1: talking about Joe Flacco. After Mike Tomlin buried the Browns

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Speaker 2: And then there was.

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Speaker 1: Terry Pluto from Cleveland dot Com. We'll get to his

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Speaker 1: the former Mike Tomlin assistant, the former offensive coordinator for

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Speaker 1: Pat McAfee show today. He was also a coach in Indianapolis,

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Speaker 1: and they do a segment where it's BS with AB

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Speaker 1: BS move by the Cleveland Browns. Obviously, Tomlin thinks that

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Speaker 1: it is, and Arians apparently agrees with this former boss total.

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Speaker 4: Books, Okay, it's not a good decision.

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Speaker 2: What are you thinking?

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Speaker 5: Okay? I mean, first of all, Pittsburgh's a big rival.

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Speaker 5: Since Snager's nick biggest rival, why would you trade him

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Speaker 5: to Cincinnati. If I'm gonna trade him, may get a

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Speaker 5: six round pick for somewhere else. Now, I ain't traded

442
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Speaker 5: him in the division. All of a sudden, to mar

443
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Speaker 5: Chase and Tikiggins have twenty targets to Marches has ten

444
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Speaker 5: receptions almost one hundred yards and one week couldn't get

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Speaker 5: the damn ball to him.

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Speaker 4: The other three weeks and now Pittsburgh's had to play

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Speaker 4: on Thursday night.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Tom, that has been on the record of Cole. Yeah,

449
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Speaker 2: he does not want to see Joe and those receivers.

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Speaker 5: As like he had him right where we wanted him,

451
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Speaker 5: and they go and trade this guyhead to our division rivals, say,

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Speaker 5: that makes no sense to me.

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Speaker 1: Now, Terry Pluto's call him on Tom from Cleveland dot Com.

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Speaker 1: He theorized that Tomlin was upset from a football perspective,

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Speaker 1: like the football purist, and Mike Tomlin was offended. That's

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Speaker 1: how mad he was at the very thought of a

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Speaker 1: team tanking on a season and a team trading a

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Speaker 1: quarterback within the division because they're giving up on a

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Speaker 1: year like that was sort of the nuts and bolts

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Speaker 1: of his take on it. And I do think that

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Speaker 1: there was some football symbolism, some football sensitivity from Tom

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Speaker 1: that it was offended by trading within the division. But

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Speaker 1: I just think he's pissed because he doesn't get to

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Speaker 1: play against Jake Browning. I don't think it's much deeper

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Speaker 1: than that. If he thought that the Browns made a

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Speaker 1: move that made the Bengals worse, and he knew he

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Speaker 1: was gonna get the worst out of Cleveland and the

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Speaker 1: worst out of Cincinnati, he wouldn't have said what he

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Speaker 1: said yesterday. He would have been fine with it and

470
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Speaker 1: would have been grinning like a cheshire cat. But he

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Speaker 1: was mad because this made the road harder for the Steelers.

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Speaker 1: He wanted to see Jake Browning twice like the one

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Speaker 1: guy whose name was not mentioned there. And that was

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Speaker 1: the big narrative coming out of what Tomlin said, is

475
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Speaker 1: he said Andrew Berry by name. He was not asked

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Speaker 1: about Andrew Berry. The words Andrew and Barry were not said.

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Speaker 1: The question simply was, hey, Mike, what's you think of

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Speaker 1: that trade? And he came out with that, And it

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Speaker 1: was just like Richardson with the Colts, Like Richardson caught

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Speaker 1: a stray, but that was a direct stray, if such

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Speaker 1: a thing makes sense. The guy who caught the stray

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Speaker 1: and all this was a guy who wasn't even mentioned.

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Speaker 1: And that's Browning. Because Tom Win ostensively he was telling

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Speaker 1: you we wanted to play that guy. We didn't want

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Speaker 1: to play Flaco. But Flacco isn't the Flacco of old.

486
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Speaker 1: This isn't Joe Flaco from the Ravens circa twenty ten

487
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Speaker 1: standing back in the pocket behind Jonathan Ogden and Marshall Yonda,

488
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Speaker 1: chucking it downfield and hitting thirty yard bombs and getting

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Speaker 1: pass interference penalties. This guy's throwing it as quick as

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Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers is a lot of time now. Granted, if

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Speaker 1: the Bengals are able to do to the Steelers pass

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Speaker 1: rush with the Steelers offensive line did to the Browns

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Speaker 1: pass rush out of nowhere, Flacco is gonna be dangerous

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Speaker 1: throwing to t Higgins and to Jamar Chase. Yes, but

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Speaker 1: I also agree with what Pursuda and Randy said on

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Speaker 1: the Morning Show today because I had this thought as

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Speaker 1: well as I'm listening to this.

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Speaker 2: Isn't he making too big of a deal at.

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Speaker 3: Joe fla Absolutely, Tim, I'm glad that this is where

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Speaker 3: he ended up.

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Speaker 4: Like, why are you spooking yourself right now?

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Speaker 1: Joe? Why are you so mady something? Joe Flacco? Why

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Speaker 1: are you so.

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Speaker 3: Mad about having to play Joe Flacco? All of a

505
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Speaker 3: sudden who cares like, yeah, it's flight. It used to

506
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Speaker 3: be a punchline around. It's a slight upgrade. And I

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Speaker 3: mean emphasis on the words slight.

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Speaker 1: This forty version, forty year old version of a quarterback

509
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Speaker 1: is not the forty year old version of the quarterback

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Speaker 1: that you have right now in Rodgers. It just is.

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Speaker 4: It's not even close.

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Speaker 3: And even Flacco when he was kind of an annoyance

513
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Speaker 3: and would beat the Steelers from time to time, was

514
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Speaker 3: nobody that you really feared. Like you said it was

515
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Speaker 3: a punchline. It was like, oh, it's Flacco. That's the

516
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Speaker 3: guy who threw the ball to Troy. I don't want

517
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Speaker 3: to lose to Flacco. That's embarrassing. Like we delegitimized him

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Speaker 3: the entire time he was in Baltimore.

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Speaker 1: The whole run up to the twenty fourteen playoffs, when

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Speaker 1: Leveon Bell was hurt, the talking point was, yeah, Lev's hurt.

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Speaker 1: That stinks. They're in a bad situation. But hey, what

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Speaker 1: are they gonna do? Lose it home to fly?

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Speaker 5: Oh?

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, that sucks.

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Speaker 1: That kind of happened, didn't it.

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Speaker 2: It did.

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Speaker 3: He's obviously spooked too because of what happened a couple

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Speaker 3: of years ago in Indy when Flacco came in and

529
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Speaker 3: just tortured That was it last year, right, that that

530
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Speaker 3: happened in Indy?

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Speaker 4: Yeah? Wow.

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Speaker 1: I still don't think that he got beat by Flacco.

533
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Speaker 1: I think he got beat by Stichan And that's my worry.

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Speaker 1: When the Colts game comes around, he's beating them with

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Speaker 1: three different quarterbacks, now, hasn't he?

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Speaker 3: Yes, I remember that right. I think you're correct. I

537
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Speaker 3: think Gardner Minshew was in there, Minshew.

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Speaker 1: Flacco and who was the other one? Do he lose

539
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Speaker 1: to Richardson? Maybe it was only two, but I digress.

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Speaker 3: Flacco torched him last year year and that's gotta be

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Speaker 3: fueling this is that great. I saw this picture last year.

542
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Speaker 3: Flack was gonna kill us. But you're right, it was

543
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Speaker 3: more stiking in the offense at that point. I mean,

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Speaker 3: you watched that Green Bay game or what you could

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Speaker 3: have when you were, you know, probably still at the

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Speaker 3: stadium wrapping things up after the Steelers game. Like he

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Speaker 3: was awful in the first half, he started to do

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Speaker 3: okay in the second half, started to connect with those

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Speaker 3: receivers a little bit more.

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Speaker 4: If your pass rush.

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Speaker 3: Mike Tomlin is what it was against Cleveland, and it

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Speaker 3: should be you paid a lot for it. There's no worry.

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Speaker 3: He's not gonna have any time to hit receivers twenty

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Speaker 3: yards down the field.

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Speaker 1: They're just not gonna everything's gonna have to be dump

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Speaker 1: offs and short stuff.

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Speaker 2: But mister don't.

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Speaker 1: Live in your fears. Is afraid of forty something year

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Speaker 1: old Joe Flacco.

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Speaker 4: He kind of lives in his feares a little bit

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Speaker 4: all the time. Happens a little bit.

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Speaker 1: I mean, we all know it, but it does not

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Speaker 1: how he presents himself, of course, of course, but it

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Speaker 1: You can't tell me that there's not a little bit

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Speaker 1: of that happening here when it should just be.

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Speaker 3: Vibes are at an all time high. Feel good, we're

567
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Speaker 3: kicking quarterbacks ass. It doesn't matter who's back there. They

568
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Speaker 3: pressured Gabriel thirty two times, like even great quarterbacks are

569
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Speaker 3: gonna have a long day facing that. There's about like

570
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Speaker 3: three or four quarterbacks in this league that can swim

571
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Speaker 3: in those seas, those rough waters and be successful. Flack,

572
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Speaker 3: It's not one of them, never was.

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Speaker 1: Like the Browns have no obligation to do anything that

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Speaker 1: the Steelers want. Like this whole thing about his football

575
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Speaker 1: sensitivity is being offended.

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Speaker 2: By this move?

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Speaker 1: Whatever? Like if if the Browns were in a position

578
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Speaker 1: where they were doing a fire sale and they wanted

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Speaker 1: to get rid of somebody and they wanted to give

580
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Speaker 1: that person to the Steelers, Like what if this? What

581
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Speaker 1: if the Browns had decided it's more advantageous for us

582
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Speaker 1: to take a pick from the Steelers and give them

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Speaker 1: Joe Hayden as opposed to cutting him, knowing that the

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Speaker 1: Steelers are gonna sign Joe Hayden, Like what would Thomas?

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Speaker 2: No, that's that's not how we do football in the

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Speaker 2: AFC North. I refuse to take Joe Hayden unless you

587
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Speaker 2: cut him, Like you.

588
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Speaker 1: Know what I mean. I know exactly what you mean,

589
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Speaker 1: because that's kind of what happened, is they cut them

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00:27:01,400 --> 00:27:03,439
Speaker 1: and the Steelers swooped right in and scooped him up.

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Speaker 1: But you know, if they had if the Browns said,

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Speaker 1: we're done with this guy. We think it's better for

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Speaker 1: us to get a sixth.

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Speaker 2: Round pick for him. Hey, Pittsburgh, will you give him

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Speaker 2: to us?

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Speaker 3: Look, if you're upset or if your football sensitivities are

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Speaker 3: upset by management moves roster moves by the Cleveland Browns.

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Speaker 4: I mean, where have you been?

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Speaker 3: I mean they spit on your football sensitivities and your

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Speaker 3: football traditions all the time. They're a poorly run franchise.

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Speaker 3: I think it's stupid that they traded Flacco, not just

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Speaker 3: to the Bengals, but I think it's stupid that they

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Speaker 3: traded him because it's just Shador and Dylan Gabriel in

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Speaker 3: a quarterback room now trying to find their way through

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Speaker 3: this season.

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Speaker 1: Well, here's another thing where I think where Pluto might

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Speaker 1: have been right Church, wrong Pew, and that is I

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Speaker 1: do think that there's a coaching fraternity thing that's going

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Speaker 1: on here. And I don't know really what Tomlin thinks

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Speaker 1: of Kevin Stefanski as a guy, but I do have

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Speaker 1: a pretty strong sense that he doesn't like it with

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Speaker 1: GMS and when ownership overmanages a situation, and I'm sure everybody.

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Speaker 3: Can see is what's really happening here, right, And Mike

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Speaker 3: Tomlin knows not to say the name Jimmy Haslam at

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Speaker 3: a podium, So we'll throw Andrew Berry out.

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Speaker 1: There exactly, even though he might be a puppet for Haslam,

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Speaker 1: which is I think exactly what happened in and can

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Speaker 1: I give you another theory. I'll give you another theory

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Speaker 1: on this. My other theory about what has angered Tomlin

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Speaker 1: about this is not just one move from Barry. It's

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Speaker 1: not just Flacco that he traded that bothered Tomlin. This

622
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Speaker 1: is the same GM that reset the market for what

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Speaker 1: quarterbacks are worth and what guaranteed money is all about

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Speaker 1: with Deshaun Watson. And this is the guy that gave

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Speaker 1: Miles Garrett all that money, and now the Steelers had

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Speaker 1: to give a ton of money. And Mike Tomlin knows

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Speaker 1: the back end of that contract looks like with TJ. Watt,

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Speaker 1: and he would have been willing to give TJ. Watt money,

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Speaker 1: but not that kind of money, but he had to

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Speaker 1: because of what Barry gave Miles Garrett after Miles Garrett

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Speaker 1: said I want out, So they just paid for his happiness.

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Speaker 4: That's a great point.

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Speaker 1: That's where I think all that is coming from. Those

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Speaker 1: are the seeds to this. And let me give you

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Speaker 1: another something. And this is a little behind the scenes,

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Speaker 1: and I might be speak you want me to break

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Speaker 1: and we'll do it.

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Speaker 4: Let's do it later. You're fired up, all right, I'll

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Speaker 4: do it when we come back.

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Speaker 1: There's a little behind the scenes about how that all

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Speaker 1: happened yesterday, and I'll give it to you when we

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Speaker 1: the whole Joe Flacco commentary from Mike Tomlin yesterday about

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Speaker 1: the trade.

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Speaker 2: And so the backstory on this.

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Speaker 1: heard this secondhand. I didn't witness this myself or anything

659
00:29:53,160 --> 00:29:57,239
Speaker 1: like that, but I was told that Tomlin had a

660
00:29:57,320 --> 00:30:00,000
Speaker 1: you know, sort of a interpersonal reaction with a couple

661
00:30:00,080 --> 00:30:02,800
Speaker 1: reporters coming off the field after the Flacco trade was made,

662
00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:05,480
Speaker 1: Like you know, said something that indicated like why the

663
00:30:05,560 --> 00:30:07,360
Speaker 1: heck or how the heck did that happen? Or what

664
00:30:07,440 --> 00:30:09,000
Speaker 1: did they get? Did you hear what they got? That

665
00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:12,720
Speaker 1: sort of thing, just off the cuff reaction. Some reporters

666
00:30:12,720 --> 00:30:14,640
Speaker 1: that I know afterwards were like, Wow, they could tell

667
00:30:14,680 --> 00:30:18,719
Speaker 1: that Tom couldn't believe that that took place, and they

668
00:30:18,760 --> 00:30:21,840
Speaker 1: were getting ready to ask him, you know, like, but

669
00:30:22,040 --> 00:30:24,280
Speaker 1: I think it was a reporter who wasn't there that

670
00:30:24,400 --> 00:30:27,480
Speaker 1: just happened to lob the question out there of hey,

671
00:30:27,520 --> 00:30:31,760
Speaker 1: would you think of that trade? And the way it

672
00:30:31,800 --> 00:30:34,280
Speaker 1: was so open ended, it just allowed Tomlin to walk

673
00:30:34,320 --> 00:30:36,800
Speaker 1: through the door and give the exact answer that he

674
00:30:36,840 --> 00:30:39,640
Speaker 1: wanted to. And ironically, I wonder if someone of the

675
00:30:39,640 --> 00:30:42,680
Speaker 1: reporters that actually heard that exchange had asked if they

676
00:30:42,680 --> 00:30:45,560
Speaker 1: would have cooked the stew too much and said, what

677
00:30:45,600 --> 00:30:47,200
Speaker 1: do you think what Andrew Berry did there? And then

678
00:30:47,200 --> 00:30:49,240
Speaker 1: maybe Toman would have backed off, wouldn't have hit the

679
00:30:49,240 --> 00:30:52,240
Speaker 1: throttle as hard. But because the question was so open ended,

680
00:30:52,280 --> 00:30:54,760
Speaker 1: he walked right through the door and gave us six.

681
00:30:55,040 --> 00:30:57,200
Speaker 1: It was kind of like when I asked him about

682
00:30:57,240 --> 00:31:01,840
Speaker 1: taking the college job. He was ready for that too, apparently,

683
00:31:01,920 --> 00:31:03,760
Speaker 1: like I was told he was ready to give that

684
00:31:03,840 --> 00:31:06,840
Speaker 1: kind of response. After I asked him about the college job.

685
00:31:06,760 --> 00:31:08,760
Speaker 3: Perked up a little bit when the question actually came

686
00:31:08,960 --> 00:31:10,240
Speaker 3: exactly and I saw this one.

687
00:31:10,320 --> 00:31:12,400
Speaker 1: Yeah, I saw this one coming right. This is a

688
00:31:12,440 --> 00:31:17,120
Speaker 1: telegraph fastball down the middle. So now what should have

689
00:31:17,160 --> 00:31:19,800
Speaker 1: happened is at the end of that press conference on

690
00:31:19,840 --> 00:31:21,680
Speaker 1: his way out, when he said some of you guys

691
00:31:21,720 --> 00:31:23,600
Speaker 1: are really annoying me today, or whatever he said on

692
00:31:23,600 --> 00:31:25,000
Speaker 1: the way out, I should have said, Hey, Mike, one

693
00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:29,040
Speaker 1: more question. You're interested in the Penn State job. How

694
00:31:29,040 --> 00:31:30,120
Speaker 1: would that have gone over?

695
00:31:30,920 --> 00:31:33,440
Speaker 4: I wish you would have tim as a missed opportunity.

696
00:31:33,560 --> 00:31:35,640
Speaker 1: I wonder if there's still a booster they can't write

697
00:31:35,640 --> 00:31:37,920
Speaker 1: a check big enough. What if that booster is Pogoula.

698
00:31:37,960 --> 00:31:39,640
Speaker 1: You think he can write a check big enough. I

699
00:31:39,680 --> 00:31:40,160
Speaker 1: think he can.

700
00:31:40,280 --> 00:31:42,040
Speaker 3: You should just become college coach guy when it comes

701
00:31:42,080 --> 00:31:44,520
Speaker 3: to Mike Tomlin, like every time he's a job, a

702
00:31:44,520 --> 00:31:45,880
Speaker 3: big job, that it's got to be a big one

703
00:31:45,880 --> 00:31:47,120
Speaker 3: an LSU a Penn State.

704
00:31:47,200 --> 00:31:49,720
Speaker 1: What if Penn State hires Nardusia and asked Tomlin about

705
00:31:49,720 --> 00:31:50,200
Speaker 1: going over to.

706
00:31:50,200 --> 00:31:53,400
Speaker 3: Pitt No, I want Franklin if that happens, so he

707
00:31:53,400 --> 00:31:54,880
Speaker 3: can play in the field when the field is better.

708
00:31:54,920 --> 00:31:56,520
Speaker 4: I don't want Tom and I want Franklin if that's

709
00:31:56,560 --> 00:31:56,920
Speaker 4: the case.

710
00:31:57,120 --> 00:31:58,880
Speaker 1: So if you're a Pit fan, and I know you are,

711
00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:03,760
Speaker 1: if Franklin were to get either the Virginia Tech or

712
00:32:04,040 --> 00:32:07,160
Speaker 1: the North Carolina job, if Belichick goes, what would you think?

713
00:32:07,200 --> 00:32:09,160
Speaker 1: Would you like that or hate that? As a would

714
00:32:09,160 --> 00:32:11,040
Speaker 1: hate that, would hate to be awful because you don't

715
00:32:11,040 --> 00:32:14,160
Speaker 1: want to lose to Franklin. Lose to Franklin, Well, he

716
00:32:14,160 --> 00:32:15,040
Speaker 1: would give it to you, guys.

717
00:32:15,080 --> 00:32:17,840
Speaker 3: But I also just don't want what I think would

718
00:32:17,840 --> 00:32:21,560
Speaker 3: become a really steady consistence, not power, but really good

719
00:32:21,560 --> 00:32:24,240
Speaker 3: team rising in the ACC, which is a conference that's

720
00:32:24,280 --> 00:32:26,000
Speaker 3: right for one of those teams to rise now because

721
00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:26,720
Speaker 3: of Clemson's down.

722
00:32:26,880 --> 00:32:31,000
Speaker 1: He's just got just enough bitterness toward Nardouzian Pit through

723
00:32:31,120 --> 00:32:34,040
Speaker 1: like some of the local recruiting wars. No question he

724
00:32:34,080 --> 00:32:37,640
Speaker 1: would have questioned victory is over Pitt, like North Carolina

725
00:32:37,680 --> 00:32:38,000
Speaker 1: beachs Pit.

726
00:32:38,160 --> 00:32:40,160
Speaker 2: North Carolina beats Pit, Virginia Tech beats Pit.

727
00:32:40,560 --> 00:32:40,920
Speaker 1: Whatever.

728
00:32:40,960 --> 00:32:42,840
Speaker 3: But here's the thing with Virginia Tech, he can kind

729
00:32:42,840 --> 00:32:45,080
Speaker 3: of get back into the old little like rivalry angled

730
00:32:45,120 --> 00:32:47,440
Speaker 3: to it too. With Franklin and Pitt because of the

731
00:32:47,440 --> 00:32:50,480
Speaker 3: old big East connection that they have together, Like it

732
00:32:50,520 --> 00:32:52,080
Speaker 3: would just not be good. But I think that's what's

733
00:32:52,120 --> 00:32:54,800
Speaker 3: gonna happen. I said yesterday. If I'm Virginia Tech, I'm

734
00:32:54,840 --> 00:32:57,800
Speaker 3: sprinting towards Franklin. I'm asking him, could he coach this weekend?

735
00:32:57,800 --> 00:32:59,440
Speaker 3: Could you just stand on the sidelines and hang out.

736
00:32:59,600 --> 00:33:03,000
Speaker 1: I don't think I think Florida or Florida State. I

737
00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:04,920
Speaker 1: think it goes over better at Virginia Tech.

738
00:33:05,360 --> 00:33:07,040
Speaker 3: I think he would have Virginia Tech at the top

739
00:33:07,040 --> 00:33:08,600
Speaker 3: of the AEC in a couple of years because he

740
00:33:08,640 --> 00:33:11,680
Speaker 3: already kind of has the recruiting hotbed there on lock.

741
00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:13,200
Speaker 3: He would just move it to Virginia.

742
00:33:13,240 --> 00:33:16,120
Speaker 1: And really, unless you were to lose to Clemson every year,

743
00:33:16,200 --> 00:33:18,840
Speaker 1: which is entirely possible, he wouldn't have the whole You'll

744
00:33:18,880 --> 00:33:21,960
Speaker 1: lose all your big games because there's no big It.

745
00:33:21,920 --> 00:33:25,240
Speaker 3: Doesn't exist with Miami. Every once in a while Smu

746
00:33:25,320 --> 00:33:27,760
Speaker 3: sneaks up there. No, it doesn't matter. He'd be the

747
00:33:27,760 --> 00:33:32,320
Speaker 3: big game. Yes, great point, that is his big way.

748
00:33:32,840 --> 00:33:35,360
Speaker 3: Just seems like a perfect match, doesn't it. Like if

749
00:33:35,360 --> 00:33:38,080
Speaker 3: I'm Virginia Tech, I'm salivating over the opportunity.

750
00:33:38,880 --> 00:33:42,680
Speaker 1: Is that Front office sports story right about his offset language.

751
00:33:42,760 --> 00:33:44,880
Speaker 3: He has to search, he has to do for a job.

752
00:33:45,080 --> 00:33:47,400
Speaker 3: It's a weird thing to put into a contract. It's

753
00:33:47,400 --> 00:33:48,960
Speaker 3: a weird thing for a coach to agree to.

754
00:33:48,920 --> 00:33:51,760
Speaker 1: You. Maybe it's something that he gave in on because

755
00:33:51,800 --> 00:33:54,680
Speaker 1: he knew he couldn't stay away at his age, Like

756
00:33:54,760 --> 00:33:57,720
Speaker 1: he knew he was going to look anyway, So like,

757
00:33:57,760 --> 00:33:59,480
Speaker 1: if they fire me, I'm not gonna want to just

758
00:33:59,480 --> 00:34:04,240
Speaker 1: suit my paycheck. I would for a year, though, I

759
00:34:04,240 --> 00:34:05,560
Speaker 1: would for a year potentially.

760
00:34:06,160 --> 00:34:08,080
Speaker 3: Do you think he's gonna pop up on a desk

761
00:34:08,120 --> 00:34:10,400
Speaker 3: somewhere in a couple of months and then finish.

762
00:34:10,200 --> 00:34:12,840
Speaker 1: This season that count is looking for a job? That

763
00:34:12,880 --> 00:34:15,319
Speaker 1: said it said TV too? Oh said TV too?

764
00:34:15,960 --> 00:34:17,719
Speaker 3: And it would offset the salary with how much he

765
00:34:17,760 --> 00:34:19,239
Speaker 3: makes in the TV contract.

766
00:34:19,440 --> 00:34:20,360
Speaker 4: Do you see him doing.

767
00:34:20,200 --> 00:34:22,480
Speaker 2: Like hittings of what the annual salid it would be.

768
00:34:22,680 --> 00:34:25,319
Speaker 3: Do you think a studio job it would fit him

769
00:34:25,320 --> 00:34:28,400
Speaker 3: for like these next few months, then he jumps to Virginia.

770
00:34:28,160 --> 00:34:31,040
Speaker 1: Tech or he's full of bs anyway, so he'd be

771
00:34:31,080 --> 00:34:32,880
Speaker 1: great on two. He'd be great on it. Yeah, Like

772
00:34:32,920 --> 00:34:34,400
Speaker 1: do you think he'd be like he wouldn't do big

773
00:34:34,440 --> 00:34:36,360
Speaker 1: newon kickoff? Would he just kind of hang around the

774
00:34:36,360 --> 00:34:38,000
Speaker 1: Big ten. You gotta get a far away from the

775
00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:39,960
Speaker 1: Big ten as you can, oh, I mean like get

776
00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:43,320
Speaker 1: to the SEC network. Would too many chirpings? Yeah, you

777
00:34:43,360 --> 00:34:45,200
Speaker 1: gotta go to your vanity roots, go to the SEC net.

778
00:34:45,280 --> 00:34:47,000
Speaker 1: Like what if he was seriously, if he's on the

779
00:34:47,080 --> 00:34:49,080
Speaker 1: desk and they go to ann Arbor, if he's on

780
00:34:49,120 --> 00:34:52,080
Speaker 1: the desk and they can't this, he'd he'd just be

781
00:34:52,080 --> 00:34:52,920
Speaker 1: setting himself up.

782
00:34:52,920 --> 00:34:55,799
Speaker 3: Absolutely, So maybe he just lays low until Virginia Tech

783
00:34:55,840 --> 00:34:57,640
Speaker 3: comes calling. Like I said, I'd have him on the

784
00:34:57,680 --> 00:34:59,799
Speaker 3: sideline this week. I'd be like, just hang out, just

785
00:34:59,800 --> 00:35:01,520
Speaker 3: be part of the Hoky nation for a little bit.

786
00:35:01,560 --> 00:35:04,680
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787
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801
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802
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804
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805
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806
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807
00:36:10,000 --> 00:36:13,560
Speaker 3: In honor of Mark Today, this trifecta will be things

808
00:36:13,560 --> 00:36:16,400
Speaker 3: that I like to do when I'm home sick. Favorite

809
00:36:16,400 --> 00:36:18,080
Speaker 3: things about being sick. I guess you could.

810
00:36:17,920 --> 00:36:19,480
Speaker 2: Say favorite things about being sick.

811
00:36:19,520 --> 00:36:21,360
Speaker 3: And we're talking about of course, you know, when you

812
00:36:21,400 --> 00:36:24,160
Speaker 3: just have the sore throats, the nose, stuffy, just can't

813
00:36:24,160 --> 00:36:27,960
Speaker 3: get out of bed, nothing serious. Number three, the night

814
00:36:28,040 --> 00:36:31,959
Speaker 3: quill naps, Oh so good, so good, Just a nice

815
00:36:32,040 --> 00:36:35,360
Speaker 3: drug induced coma over the counter, of course, drug induced coma.

816
00:36:35,880 --> 00:36:38,440
Speaker 1: Do you prefer the liquid? Nike will or do you

817
00:36:38,440 --> 00:36:39,680
Speaker 1: prefer pills Nike will?

818
00:36:39,760 --> 00:36:41,520
Speaker 3: I do prefer the liquid Nike wuill and I like

819
00:36:41,520 --> 00:36:43,080
Speaker 3: to put a jolly rancher at the bottom of it.

820
00:36:43,080 --> 00:36:45,719
Speaker 4: Oh, so you go, red Nipel No, I do like

821
00:36:45,719 --> 00:36:46,280
Speaker 4: the red nicqul.

822
00:36:46,360 --> 00:36:47,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, Rednike. Well not the green Nicke.

823
00:36:47,560 --> 00:36:49,120
Speaker 1: I always thought it was purple, but sure we can

824
00:36:49,160 --> 00:36:51,799
Speaker 1: call okay, Well, I am colorblind, so keep that in mind.

825
00:36:51,840 --> 00:36:55,600
Speaker 2: I thought it was green. No, pearls are green. The

826
00:36:55,680 --> 00:36:59,120
Speaker 2: nighttime pills are green, and then the daytime ones are orange.

827
00:36:59,160 --> 00:37:00,880
Speaker 3: At the daytime o orange for sure. I just like

828
00:37:00,960 --> 00:37:03,120
Speaker 3: that nice coating, you know what I mean that like.

829
00:37:03,040 --> 00:37:05,239
Speaker 1: The alcohol burn and pretend that I just took a

830
00:37:05,239 --> 00:37:08,880
Speaker 1: shot of whiskey, Like, do one of those after you're

831
00:37:08,920 --> 00:37:09,319
Speaker 1: done with it?

832
00:37:09,760 --> 00:37:10,279
Speaker 4: Number two?

833
00:37:10,280 --> 00:37:12,000
Speaker 3: For me, it's gonna be just you know, the chicken

834
00:37:12,040 --> 00:37:15,400
Speaker 3: noodle soup, the Gatorade. Love pounding a couple of Gatorades

835
00:37:15,440 --> 00:37:17,919
Speaker 3: when I'm sick. They just hit so good sitting next

836
00:37:17,920 --> 00:37:19,920
Speaker 3: to your bedstand a little lukewarm.

837
00:37:19,960 --> 00:37:20,400
Speaker 4: Sometimes.

838
00:37:20,440 --> 00:37:21,480
Speaker 2: What's solid food?

839
00:37:21,560 --> 00:37:23,600
Speaker 3: What solid comfort food do you like when you're You

840
00:37:23,600 --> 00:37:25,560
Speaker 3: don't count chicken noodle soup as that. No, it's a soup,

841
00:37:25,680 --> 00:37:28,160
Speaker 3: I guess noodles in there, and sure, but it's not

842
00:37:28,320 --> 00:37:28,879
Speaker 3: solid food.

843
00:37:28,920 --> 00:37:29,440
Speaker 1: It's a soup.

844
00:37:29,640 --> 00:37:33,439
Speaker 3: Solid food when I'm sick, when I'm feeling a little, cheese, eh,

845
00:37:33,680 --> 00:37:35,800
Speaker 3: if the stomach's a problem, you gotta kind of avoid

846
00:37:35,840 --> 00:37:39,120
Speaker 3: ba though. But otherwise, yeah, gri cheese isn't a terrible thing,

847
00:37:39,200 --> 00:37:40,919
Speaker 3: which is like a bagel something like that.

848
00:37:41,200 --> 00:37:43,440
Speaker 2: Oh, if you're puking, then yeah, you just won't touch

849
00:37:43,480 --> 00:37:43,880
Speaker 2: the cheese.

850
00:37:43,960 --> 00:37:44,200
Speaker 1: Yeah.

851
00:37:44,360 --> 00:37:46,879
Speaker 3: Ginger ale, yes, Oh, ginger ail is a huge key

852
00:37:47,000 --> 00:37:48,000
Speaker 3: or sprite chips.

853
00:37:48,120 --> 00:37:49,359
Speaker 2: I remember I used to get that all the time

854
00:37:49,400 --> 00:37:49,960
Speaker 2: when I was a kid.

855
00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:52,400
Speaker 1: When I was sick, my mom would put ice chips

856
00:37:52,440 --> 00:37:53,960
Speaker 1: in sprite and then give them to me.

857
00:37:54,719 --> 00:37:55,640
Speaker 4: I like a good bagel.

858
00:37:55,920 --> 00:37:57,920
Speaker 3: As far as the solid food is concerned, though, the

859
00:37:58,040 --> 00:37:59,440
Speaker 3: number one thing that you do when you're sick is

860
00:37:59,440 --> 00:38:03,560
Speaker 3: you just binge a movie trilogy, Lord of the Rings,

861
00:38:03,840 --> 00:38:06,799
Speaker 3: Dark Knight. Those are go tos for me. Maybe Back

862
00:38:06,800 --> 00:38:09,000
Speaker 3: to the Future. It doesn't have to be a trilogy either,

863
00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:10,440
Speaker 3: if you just have a favorite movie you want to

864
00:38:10,480 --> 00:38:12,560
Speaker 3: go to, but it's you know, something that you have

865
00:38:12,680 --> 00:38:16,919
Speaker 3: seen so much tim that your pass out beautifully said,

866
00:38:17,080 --> 00:38:20,920
Speaker 3: I'm right back in Godfather. I just exited Batman begins,

867
00:38:20,960 --> 00:38:22,600
Speaker 3: and now I'm towards the end of Dark Knight, but

868
00:38:22,600 --> 00:38:23,560
Speaker 3: I know exactly what happened.

869
00:38:23,560 --> 00:38:25,680
Speaker 1: You gotta watch that version of The Godfather where they

870
00:38:25,760 --> 00:38:27,880
Speaker 1: chop it up sequentially, so they actually just start in

871
00:38:27,880 --> 00:38:30,320
Speaker 1: the el of Godfather too, and then you just because

872
00:38:30,320 --> 00:38:31,840
Speaker 1: you can pass out in and out of it the

873
00:38:31,880 --> 00:38:35,080
Speaker 1: whole time. Yes, it's perfect rip. Diane Keaton, by the way,

874
00:38:35,239 --> 00:38:38,000
Speaker 1: I know I thought she was older than that. Do

875
00:38:38,040 --> 00:38:38,719
Speaker 1: you know I met her?

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Speaker 4: She winked at me, Tim, That's right, the original k

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Speaker 4: Adams winked at you.

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Speaker 2: She did.

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Speaker 1: I met her in New York. Why didn't meet her?

880
00:38:45,680 --> 00:38:47,399
Speaker 1: She just winked at me when she walked by. Who's

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Speaker 1: the better k Adams? The original and the godfather of

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00:38:50,120 --> 00:38:50,399
Speaker 1: this one?

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Speaker 4: Right now? That does NFL media?

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Speaker 2: I met her too. She's a lotch Diane Keat was

885
00:38:56,320 --> 00:38:59,359
Speaker 2: tall like she was listed five sevens, but I think

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00:38:59,400 --> 00:39:01,080
Speaker 2: she was taller that. She looked like she was like

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Speaker 2: five foot ten.

888
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Speaker 4: Who's taller her?

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00:39:03,320 --> 00:39:07,399
Speaker 1: Dylan Gabriel a Dylan Gabriel by about a half an inch.

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Speaker 1: I think the Steelers would have been nicer to the

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Speaker 1: dying ed Keaton. Yeah, I don't think they would have

892
00:39:10,760 --> 00:39:14,120
Speaker 1: thrown her around quite as much as they did Dylan Gabriel.

893
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Speaker 1: Well there was a time, tim all right, we come

894
00:39:19,320 --> 00:39:22,120
Speaker 1: back in just thirty seconds. We're gonna get into a

895
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Speaker 1: little bit more of the Steelers being the fifth best

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Speaker 1: team in all the National Football League. Boy, how the

897
00:39:27,719 --> 00:39:30,919
Speaker 1: standards have shifted. We're we're like, we're fifth best. We're

898
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Speaker 1: fifth best. It's not even fourth place for crying out

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Speaker 1: loud one oh five nine, The X