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Speaker 1: It's the dB Morning Randy Bauman, along with Bill Crawford

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Speaker 1: and Abby Prisner, Mike Pursuda from New Jersey dot Com

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Speaker 1: or the New York Star Ledger. New York Yankees beat

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Speaker 1: writer Randy Miller joining us right now on the DV

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Speaker 1: Morning show.

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Speaker 2: Randy, good morning. How are you man?

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Speaker 3: I'm great, It's great to be on DVE. I'm a

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Speaker 3: native Jeannette, the guy who's grew up listingertation.

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Speaker 2: Well, it's been a long time.

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Speaker 1: We haven't spoken in a while, but you know, I

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Speaker 1: know you in pursuit of have been friends for a

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Speaker 1: long time, but you and I have crossed paths a

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Speaker 1: couple of times, and it's definitely good to talk to

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Speaker 1: you again. This story's making a lot of ways here

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Speaker 1: in Pittsburgh. There's some some people who are saying, oh, oh, well,

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Speaker 1: Paul Sken's denied this report, but I don't hear a

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Speaker 1: denial in what he said. What did you make of

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Speaker 1: Paul Sken's comments about your story about him wanting to

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Speaker 1: be traded to the Yankees and vocalizing that to teammates.

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Speaker 3: I wasn't surprised. Haven't been a Yankee. I covered the

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Speaker 3: Phillies for seventeen years and this is my coming up,

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Speaker 3: my eleventh of the Yankees. And over the years I

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Speaker 3: heard a lot of stories from people would have been

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Speaker 3: in the organization, not good stories, and a lot of

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Speaker 3: people have been unhappy there. And I did a big

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Speaker 3: story last year on Domingo Herman and how that the

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Speaker 3: Parts signed him after he'd been through a lot of

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Speaker 3: issues and the Parts didn't do their due diligence, and

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Speaker 3: I kind of had pretty interesting phone conversation with GM

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Speaker 3: after that surprised me. Then I help players are a

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Speaker 3: lot of friends in the game and people I talked to,

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Speaker 3: and when I heard this story, I wasn't surprised, but

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Speaker 3: it wasn't from what It wasn't just schemes. I heard

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Speaker 3: that a lot of people when they're there. It's when

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Speaker 3: you're the miners, get to the big leagues, they can

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Speaker 3: develop you and then get out of there because the

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Speaker 3: owner just isn't going to spend money and schemes wants

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Speaker 3: to win. I'm in Las Vegas right now off of

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Speaker 3: the GM meetings, and I waited out and spoke to

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Speaker 3: the Pirates GM the other day by myself for a

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Speaker 3: little bit, and I told him what I'd heard, and

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Speaker 3: he's just he wasn't surprised. He knows. He told me

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Speaker 3: that every one of our conversation, schemes I want to win.

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Speaker 3: I want to win. Keeps been the best priority for

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Speaker 3: probably since Barry Bonds and Deans is doing it the

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Speaker 3: right way. And it's sad to me. I grew up

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Speaker 3: a big Pirates fan, kept score probably one hundred and

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Speaker 3: twenty or thirty games a year in the Starguel Park

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Speaker 3: or Candelira era, and it's sad what they become. It's

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Speaker 3: just I hope that the owner sells the team at

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Speaker 3: some point. I think there's going to be a lockout

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Speaker 3: next year that might we might even lose the entire

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Speaker 3: twenty twenty seventh season. I know the owners want to

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Speaker 3: get a floor to the I get a cap of

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Speaker 3: the floor, and maybe that's the best thing that could

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Speaker 3: happen to Pittsburgh because it's it's a shame. And look,

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Speaker 3: everyone knows that there's no chance the Pirates are going

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Speaker 3: to keep schemes for the long run. There's just no shots.

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Speaker 3: He's going to get probably five hundred million at some point.

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Speaker 3: And also, by the way, there's before I even talked

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Speaker 3: to a pirate about this, and it was brought up

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Speaker 3: to me. It wasn't something high asked. It was brought

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Speaker 3: up to me and it was I know in my

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Speaker 3: story it was a couple of comments, but it was

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Speaker 3: a ten minute conversation about the pirates that I've heard

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Speaker 3: from being out in the New York area. I have

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Speaker 3: heard from people that that schemes. His girlfriend has told

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Speaker 3: people that he's going to be a Yankee. I heard

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Speaker 3: that second hand. I didn't write it because I heard

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Speaker 2: But he was for an apartment in Dormont.

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Speaker 3: I thought, I think she tried to buy Babe Russel

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Speaker 3: the Little House and it got denied at one point.

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Speaker 3: So after that happened, I had heard stories who who knows.

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Speaker 3: I just know that at one point last year someone

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Speaker 3: Look what they've done to the six years of a

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Speaker 3: Tawny's career. You're going to go there and beat your

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Speaker 3: I'm hearing I'm hearing the Yankees, and I'm not hearing

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Speaker 3: that anything's going to happen. Now. I think he can

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Speaker 3: that they have heard the same thing. They've they've kind

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Speaker 3: let's see what happens down the road, you know, for

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Speaker 3: agency's a long way. Now see what happens down the road.

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Speaker 3: So the Yankees have heard this. They've heard the stuff too,

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Speaker 3: not from me, They've heard it from other people.

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Speaker 1: The Skis agent must be like, shut up, you're killing us.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I have a funny story and uh,

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Speaker 3: you know, I I ripped the Pirates because I love

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Speaker 3: the old pirates and it's sad what become. But this

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Speaker 3: is this is a story that kind of illustrates what

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Speaker 3: the pirates are. And you wonder, why is nutting like this?

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Speaker 3: You know, if he's going to be an owner, why

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Speaker 3: not put some money into the team. Well, a few

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Speaker 3: years ago, a long time friend of mine passed away,

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Speaker 3: and I'm at the dinner after the funeral, and I'm

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Speaker 3: we're talking about my job, and her husband says, hey,

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Speaker 3: few of us that make this trip to Colorado and

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Speaker 3: it's it's a bunch of rich people to go and

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Speaker 3: have these dinners and go hang out for several days.

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Speaker 3: He goes, what's crazy is we're these dinners and they

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Speaker 3: Nothing's dad pulls out of his jacket instant coffee and says,

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Speaker 3: I ain't paying twenty dollars for damn coffee. So here's

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Speaker 3: it's just when you hear that, it's just like, oh god,

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Speaker 3: you know, it's it's sad to me. But look there's

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Speaker 3: no chance they're keeping Schemes for the long run. I

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Speaker 3: think this year ms Keller is going to make sixteen

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Speaker 3: the richest contract in pirate history. I hear that he's

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Speaker 3: He's making money. But when it comes time for Schemes

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Speaker 3: the last year he might make might set a record

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Speaker 3: fifty million dollars a year. And it's just it's just

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Speaker 3: he's never he has no shots of staying, so at

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Speaker 3: When I talked to the GM two days ago, he said,

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Speaker 3: to win. Well, keep him the longest. What does that mean?

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Speaker 3: Keep him for five years instead of four, six years

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Speaker 3: to where Garret Cole was. You know, I talked to

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Speaker 3: still upset that the Pirates didn't keep him for six years.

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Speaker 3: And they try to win because a lot of people

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Speaker 3: that I talked to that come through your organization, they

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Speaker 3: know what it was like in the seventies when they won,

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Speaker 3: when the Pirates were as popular as as the Steelers,

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Speaker 3: more popular than the Penguins. And now what there's a

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Speaker 3: couple of generations fans that know nothing but losing. And

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Speaker 3: the Schemes is already the best right handed in baseball.

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Speaker 3: He in s Google Beside Young Winner for Detroit are

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Speaker 3: the best two pitchers in baseball. And it's sad that

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Speaker 3: he has no shot in making the playoffs. What are

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Speaker 3: the Pirates gonna do this year? The GM says, Oh,

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Speaker 3: we're gonna spend a little more money. What's that mean.

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Speaker 3: They're gonna get one bat that's a five million dollar player.

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Speaker 3: That's not gonna change anything. They're gonna lose. They're gonna

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Speaker 3: lose eighty five ninety games for sure. Agan next year.

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Speaker 3: It's just not gonna change.

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Speaker 2: And that's Randy, correct me if I'm wrong.

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Speaker 4: That's your perception of how baseball looks at the Pirates

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Speaker 4: that are not a serious player.

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Speaker 3: Of course, they're not a serious player. And and the

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Speaker 3: thing is is that we always hear the small market. Well,

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Speaker 3: look at Milwaukee, Milwaukee. I've been to Milwaukee. I've been

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Speaker 3: there with you. The night that the Mummy Brister's when

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Speaker 2: Got to do a different interview about that one. He's

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Speaker 3: I remember there was like the Evil Twin and the

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Speaker 2: That's amazing.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, Mike. Mike was probably seventeen beers in and

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Speaker 2: You're welcome, love the bar. People are not in the industry.

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Speaker 2: You're not taking them seriously, is the suspicion.

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Speaker 3: It's how can they They've had what four winning seasons

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Speaker 3: since Barry Bonds left and and it's I think of

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Speaker 3: When there was talk Peter Rose might come to the

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Speaker 3: just it's a joke. And they got a beautiful ballpark.

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Speaker 3: People come from all over the nation go see that ballpark,

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Speaker 3: and they just don't win. Well, why can Milwaukee win?

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Speaker 3: a year. I'm there for spring training. They get ten

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Speaker 3: How can they win? Because they put a lot of

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Speaker 3: money into their form system, they do things right. Even

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Speaker 3: I hear a lot of times in spring training when

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Speaker 3: freezing PARAMIDT League signs that are going to go to

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Speaker 3: Trip Away, and all the ones that play for the Pirates.

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Speaker 3: I go up to them and shout with them, what

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Speaker 6: pick indicates sorrow in the actual season. That, in other words,

436
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Speaker 6: is what we're experiencing right now as steel As fans.

437
00:22:09,160 --> 00:22:11,600
Speaker 6: But anyway, the good news is that if they do

438
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Speaker 6: announce local boy, if they do announce local son, Bill

439
00:22:16,320 --> 00:22:19,320
Speaker 6: Crawford is the first ever all pick. Now, them talking

440
00:22:19,359 --> 00:22:21,520
Speaker 6: heads was right all along, this is going to be

441
00:22:21,520 --> 00:22:22,159
Speaker 6: grand stuff.

442
00:22:22,160 --> 00:22:23,040
Speaker 3: So I look forward to that.

443
00:22:23,080 --> 00:22:25,680
Speaker 6: I'm just gonna I'm gonna go hibernate until the draft.

444
00:22:25,720 --> 00:22:28,360
Speaker 6: Somebody wake me up so I can I can celebrate

445
00:22:28,400 --> 00:22:31,560
Speaker 6: with Crawford because right now I'm just I'm just sick.

446
00:22:31,720 --> 00:22:33,760
Speaker 6: But I do want to say this very quickly.

447
00:22:35,640 --> 00:22:40,119
Speaker 5: That I just want to know are at this well.

448
00:22:40,320 --> 00:22:44,520
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm just sick over this.

449
00:22:45,560 --> 00:22:47,960
Speaker 6: Oh listen, I'm going to be sick in my ball

450
00:22:48,440 --> 00:22:50,480
Speaker 6: now I already am, but I'm trying to say. I'm

451
00:22:50,640 --> 00:22:52,720
Speaker 6: trying to say some of the some of the more

452
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Speaker 6: serious illness to unfold around the holidays.

453
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Speaker 3: So I could be really delightful.

454
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Speaker 6: At Thanksgiving and Christmas, but I want to make clear

455
00:23:03,080 --> 00:23:05,160
Speaker 6: that it could have been worse, because if you're down

456
00:23:05,200 --> 00:23:08,000
Speaker 6: in the dumps, you know silver lining Dave is here

457
00:23:08,119 --> 00:23:11,680
Speaker 6: to boost your spirits. Yeah, it was grim and embarrassing

458
00:23:11,800 --> 00:23:14,200
Speaker 6: for what the second time in three weeks or whatever,

459
00:23:14,240 --> 00:23:17,399
Speaker 6: it was on a national stage, prime time, the uh

460
00:23:17,800 --> 00:23:22,119
Speaker 6: the the Mike Tomlin and company figuratively at least standing

461
00:23:22,200 --> 00:23:27,640
Speaker 6: nude before the pro football world to show to show balls,

462
00:23:27,680 --> 00:23:33,520
Speaker 6: sick or otherwise, and that that performed three points three

463
00:23:33,840 --> 00:23:36,680
Speaker 6: three points? Oh ohtho. But I don't know if you

464
00:23:36,800 --> 00:23:38,760
Speaker 6: heard all the all the people, all the all the

465
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Speaker 6: sober local people want you to know, the talking heads like, hey,

466
00:23:44,920 --> 00:23:48,320
Speaker 6: Chargers have a great defense. Oh okay, so so then

467
00:23:48,400 --> 00:23:50,359
Speaker 6: that so then that makes it okay to only score

468
00:23:50,440 --> 00:23:52,480
Speaker 6: three points in a pro football game when you're the

469
00:23:52,560 --> 00:23:56,320
Speaker 6: mighty Pittsburgh Steelers touted with a smart move. Oh no, Dave,

470
00:23:56,480 --> 00:23:59,040
Speaker 6: you don't get it. Aaron Rodger, you just see you

471
00:23:59,080 --> 00:24:01,840
Speaker 6: just seem angry about something that we can't quite put

472
00:24:01,840 --> 00:24:03,960
Speaker 6: our finger on. But I don't think you understand. We're

473
00:24:04,080 --> 00:24:06,640
Speaker 6: practice every day and you should see the command Aaron

474
00:24:06,720 --> 00:24:09,159
Speaker 6: Rodgers has. And you thought he was going to be disruptive. No,

475
00:24:09,160 --> 00:24:11,000
Speaker 6: I didn't think he was going to be disrupted with

476
00:24:11,040 --> 00:24:14,080
Speaker 6: his teammates. I thought he was old and wasn't going

477
00:24:14,160 --> 00:24:17,840
Speaker 6: to be able to evade professional athletes chasing him around.

478
00:24:17,920 --> 00:24:20,320
Speaker 6: And so far it looks like I'm right if you want.

479
00:24:23,920 --> 00:24:24,440
Speaker 2: A gloater?

480
00:24:25,359 --> 00:24:28,080
Speaker 6: Do you think I Do you think this makes me happy?

481
00:24:28,240 --> 00:24:29,720
Speaker 6: Do you think this gives me pleasure?

482
00:24:31,359 --> 00:24:34,600
Speaker 2: A little bit? A little bit, a little bit?

483
00:24:34,680 --> 00:24:39,520
Speaker 6: Yeah, well, look, consider my side of it. I'm slack

484
00:24:39,640 --> 00:24:42,119
Speaker 6: jawed that people who seem bright to me continue to

485
00:24:42,160 --> 00:24:45,640
Speaker 6: indulge this nonsense, that that after the Russell Wilson experience,

486
00:24:45,640 --> 00:24:49,320
Speaker 6: everybody's like, I don't think you understand, Dave. I don't

487
00:24:49,359 --> 00:24:51,280
Speaker 6: think you quite get it from out there in LA.

488
00:24:51,440 --> 00:24:54,119
Speaker 6: But but Aaron Rodgers is a different guy. How is

489
00:24:54,119 --> 00:24:56,439
Speaker 6: it any different than what happened with Russell Wilson? So

490
00:24:56,480 --> 00:24:59,320
Speaker 6: far it's exactly the same. But anyway, here's how it

491
00:24:59,359 --> 00:25:02,520
Speaker 6: could have been. Work the guy, the guy gashing him

492
00:25:02,560 --> 00:25:04,720
Speaker 6: up and down the field all night long on the

493
00:25:04,720 --> 00:25:07,120
Speaker 6: ground could have been Nachie Harris, and then it would

494
00:25:07,119 --> 00:25:10,000
Speaker 6: have been really embarrassing. Oh no, it was as about

495
00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:11,960
Speaker 6: as embarrassing as it could have been, but it would

496
00:25:11,960 --> 00:25:13,440
Speaker 6: have been a little bit worse if it would have

497
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Speaker 6: been nach The football gods have done their best to

498
00:25:15,760 --> 00:25:19,080
Speaker 6: protect Mike Tomlin from true shane. We've been talking about

499
00:25:19,119 --> 00:25:22,040
Speaker 6: it for what eight and ten weeks now. They should

500
00:25:22,040 --> 00:25:24,680
Speaker 6: have lost to Justin Fields. That would have exposed things

501
00:25:24,680 --> 00:25:28,120
Speaker 6: a lot earlier in the season than where we are now.

502
00:25:28,160 --> 00:25:31,480
Speaker 6: But as much as possible, the football gods have insulated

503
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Speaker 6: Tomlin from true shame. And as long as you don't

504
00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:36,119
Speaker 6: pay attention to what's going on in Dallas. With George

505
00:25:36,160 --> 00:25:38,720
Speaker 6: Pickens being one of the top receivers in the games

506
00:25:38,760 --> 00:25:41,800
Speaker 6: that also fielders, you.

507
00:25:41,720 --> 00:25:44,080
Speaker 1: Know, you know who's glad that we didn't go to

508
00:25:44,240 --> 00:25:49,080
Speaker 1: Justin Fields full time last year Justin Fields he earned

509
00:25:49,119 --> 00:25:52,679
Speaker 1: another thirty million dollars because we benched him.

510
00:25:53,200 --> 00:25:55,320
Speaker 3: No, this is the stink.

511
00:25:55,320 --> 00:25:57,960
Speaker 6: And thinking of people being all over the place about

512
00:25:58,000 --> 00:26:01,680
Speaker 6: who these stealers are, you do you think as much

513
00:26:01,880 --> 00:26:04,200
Speaker 6: as many shots as I will take at the Steelers'

514
00:26:04,240 --> 00:26:09,840
Speaker 6: brain trust. You are now Randy Bauman, the signature radio

515
00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:12,600
Speaker 6: show on the banks of the Three Rivers for at

516
00:26:12,680 --> 00:26:16,159
Speaker 6: least the last quarter century. You you are asserting now

517
00:26:16,400 --> 00:26:19,639
Speaker 6: that the Steelers' brain trust equals the Jets brain trust

518
00:26:19,880 --> 00:26:24,359
Speaker 6: their coaching abilities and otherwise. No, oh, look now you

519
00:26:24,400 --> 00:26:26,560
Speaker 6: look dumb, Dave, because you wanted the Steelers to take

520
00:26:26,600 --> 00:26:28,040
Speaker 6: that to bring back justin.

521
00:26:29,600 --> 00:26:32,080
Speaker 2: Passing in the first half. No coaches are that bad.

522
00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:36,240
Speaker 6: He sucks, but that's not the point is you bring

523
00:26:36,320 --> 00:26:37,520
Speaker 6: him in is a transition and.

524
00:26:37,600 --> 00:26:40,359
Speaker 2: You I wanted that too, and it was obviously going

525
00:26:40,440 --> 00:26:41,160
Speaker 2: to be the wrong move.

526
00:26:42,840 --> 00:26:46,240
Speaker 6: I disagree, because what if you if what you want

527
00:26:46,560 --> 00:26:50,119
Speaker 6: is to set yourself up with a bridge quarterback, I mean, listen,

528
00:26:50,200 --> 00:26:54,679
Speaker 6: PURSUITA and I are among a small handful of people

529
00:26:54,920 --> 00:26:58,679
Speaker 6: who I'm pretty sure I'm kissing pursuit into this. It

530
00:26:59,160 --> 00:27:02,800
Speaker 6: said for a long long time, and still say. Jackson

531
00:27:02,880 --> 00:27:05,640
Speaker 6: Dart was obviously the guy. It's the quarterback league. Well,

532
00:27:05,680 --> 00:27:08,000
Speaker 6: but we took Kenny Pickett and that didn't work out,

533
00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:09,600
Speaker 6: and you picked him in the twenties, and you see

534
00:27:09,640 --> 00:27:11,720
Speaker 6: what you get when you get into into the back

535
00:27:11,760 --> 00:27:15,080
Speaker 6: half of the of the first round, it's not as dependent. No,

536
00:27:15,160 --> 00:27:18,200
Speaker 6: you keep taking swings at the only position that matters.

537
00:27:18,200 --> 00:27:20,080
Speaker 6: You don't take a defensive tackle when you have a

538
00:27:20,080 --> 00:27:22,320
Speaker 6: desperate need for a quarterback. Oh no, but we got

539
00:27:22,320 --> 00:27:24,159
Speaker 6: the forty year old man who's going to bridge us

540
00:27:24,160 --> 00:27:28,240
Speaker 6: into into brighter days. Except that now none of those

541
00:27:28,240 --> 00:27:30,520
Speaker 6: guys in twenty twenties just appear to be worth it.

542
00:27:30,720 --> 00:27:31,120
Speaker 3: Anyway.

543
00:27:31,160 --> 00:27:33,200
Speaker 2: Listen, here's what I'll say.

544
00:27:33,280 --> 00:27:36,760
Speaker 1: You are right, and we have dissected their mistakes from

545
00:27:36,800 --> 00:27:40,720
Speaker 1: an organizational standpoint to the end that like there is

546
00:27:40,760 --> 00:27:42,080
Speaker 1: nothing left of the body.

547
00:27:42,240 --> 00:27:44,760
Speaker 7: I will say that it is very Pittsburgh that we

548
00:27:44,880 --> 00:27:47,960
Speaker 7: have an old bridge that's going to get us to

549
00:27:48,040 --> 00:27:48,600
Speaker 7: the future.

550
00:27:49,359 --> 00:27:50,600
Speaker 5: I will say we can all.

551
00:27:50,520 --> 00:27:53,679
Speaker 7: Agree that at least that is on brand for Pittsburgh,

552
00:27:55,760 --> 00:27:56,800
Speaker 7: the lab without.

553
00:27:56,600 --> 00:28:00,720
Speaker 3: Kay, that's what I can do that.

554
00:28:01,400 --> 00:28:04,680
Speaker 1: Okay, So let's let's look at let's let's get let's

555
00:28:04,680 --> 00:28:08,159
Speaker 1: get optimistic. Okay, let's let's let's try to find a

556
00:28:08,200 --> 00:28:08,720
Speaker 1: silver line.

557
00:28:08,800 --> 00:28:10,600
Speaker 2: Okay, I want to do that.

558
00:28:11,280 --> 00:28:17,440
Speaker 6: Samuel means that, Santi Samuel Junior, he this is this

559
00:28:17,600 --> 00:28:20,080
Speaker 6: move makes this defense historic.

560
00:28:20,880 --> 00:28:24,879
Speaker 2: Thank you for something I think say I'm a ray

561
00:28:24,880 --> 00:28:25,480
Speaker 2: of sunshine.

562
00:28:25,680 --> 00:28:26,879
Speaker 3: Let me tell you something.

563
00:28:26,640 --> 00:28:33,600
Speaker 6: Else I hate talk about, like what the national voices

564
00:28:33,640 --> 00:28:34,520
Speaker 6: were buzzing about.

565
00:28:35,160 --> 00:28:37,480
Speaker 2: You are one of the national voices, FYI, But go ahead.

566
00:28:38,720 --> 00:28:42,200
Speaker 6: I don't I don't wear that, I don't accept that.

567
00:28:42,680 --> 00:28:46,400
Speaker 6: I'm focused singularly on my I can. I'm capable of

568
00:28:46,440 --> 00:28:49,560
Speaker 6: weighing in intellectually on the thirty one other teams, but

569
00:28:49,680 --> 00:28:53,360
Speaker 6: by heart, it sits on the banks of the three rivers. Now,

570
00:28:54,360 --> 00:28:57,360
Speaker 6: the the I hate when they do the thing when

571
00:28:57,360 --> 00:28:59,840
Speaker 6: they have nothing to talk about. The the the unimatgined

572
00:29:00,040 --> 00:29:02,960
Speaker 6: of people. What should we do to fill this TV segment? Well,

573
00:29:02,960 --> 00:29:05,760
Speaker 6: I know, let's thirty two times over put up the

574
00:29:05,800 --> 00:29:08,680
Speaker 6: schedules of these pro football teams and hack through them

575
00:29:08,920 --> 00:29:12,000
Speaker 6: in April and pretend that we can divine what the

576
00:29:12,040 --> 00:29:14,840
Speaker 6: results are going to be in November and December games blind.

577
00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:15,640
Speaker 3: Let's just do that.

578
00:29:15,920 --> 00:29:18,000
Speaker 6: I do think we can now do that, now that

579
00:29:18,040 --> 00:29:21,600
Speaker 6: we've transcended the halfway point in the stealer schedule, and

580
00:29:22,040 --> 00:29:25,600
Speaker 6: let's just go at it. Obviously, we can't predict in

581
00:29:25,680 --> 00:29:29,120
Speaker 6: a league fully when the Carolina Panthers can go to

582
00:29:29,160 --> 00:29:30,800
Speaker 6: Green Bay and knock them off head to head and

583
00:29:30,840 --> 00:29:32,600
Speaker 6: all that, but as best we can tell me what

584
00:29:32,680 --> 00:29:34,520
Speaker 6: you think of this. They're five and four, as you know,

585
00:29:35,040 --> 00:29:37,720
Speaker 6: are they going to how many wins do you hear here?

586
00:29:37,760 --> 00:29:39,680
Speaker 6: Just count your head? How many wins do you count

587
00:29:39,720 --> 00:29:42,480
Speaker 6: out of this remaining schedule to get to ten, which

588
00:29:42,520 --> 00:29:45,680
Speaker 6: I think is we can agree, probably the magic number

589
00:29:45,720 --> 00:29:48,320
Speaker 6: to at least get into the postseason or take a

590
00:29:48,360 --> 00:29:53,280
Speaker 6: shot at winning the North. Here we go, Bungals at Bears,

591
00:29:54,360 --> 00:30:01,920
Speaker 6: Buffalo in Pittsburgh, at the Ravens, Dolphins in Pittsburgh, at

592
00:30:01,960 --> 00:30:06,720
Speaker 6: Detroit Cleveland with Baltimore. I count four wins there. I

593
00:30:06,720 --> 00:30:10,080
Speaker 6: think they wind up. I now it kind of seems

594
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Speaker 6: I have.

595
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Speaker 1: I have Brown's Bengals, Dolphins, Crawford.

596
00:30:15,840 --> 00:30:18,200
Speaker 7: I don't like the Dolphins because it's a night game

597
00:30:18,520 --> 00:30:20,840
Speaker 7: and Aaron is too old to play at night. Now

598
00:30:21,200 --> 00:30:25,520
Speaker 7: three three bad, bad games in prime time. I don't

599
00:30:25,600 --> 00:30:27,920
Speaker 7: like that as a win. I got them at four.

600
00:30:28,920 --> 00:30:31,200
Speaker 7: I have I have them winning the game against the Bungles,

601
00:30:31,560 --> 00:30:34,560
Speaker 7: I have them beating the Bears. I've got them beating

602
00:30:34,600 --> 00:30:35,480
Speaker 7: the Ravens once.

603
00:30:37,960 --> 00:30:42,000
Speaker 6: I mean, I think, what what I said, I talk

604
00:30:42,040 --> 00:30:44,640
Speaker 6: about pat myself on the back, but what I said, whatever,

605
00:30:44,680 --> 00:30:48,560
Speaker 6: it was three weeks ago before, before the first game

606
00:30:48,600 --> 00:30:51,840
Speaker 6: against Cincy, and I stand by this even as things

607
00:30:51,840 --> 00:30:56,320
Speaker 6: have spiraled a little bit here. If they had won

608
00:30:56,400 --> 00:30:58,560
Speaker 6: that game, they just have to beat the Crepa Joe

609
00:30:58,600 --> 00:31:01,960
Speaker 6: Flacco and they would have been then they that would

610
00:31:01,960 --> 00:31:04,800
Speaker 6: have gotten in to six and one, and that would

611
00:31:04,800 --> 00:31:08,600
Speaker 6: have been a five games spread against the Ravens. And

612
00:31:08,640 --> 00:31:11,440
Speaker 6: if you merely not merely, but if you split with

613
00:31:11,600 --> 00:31:15,960
Speaker 6: Baltimore in those two, it creates a mountain too tall

614
00:31:16,040 --> 00:31:17,960
Speaker 6: for Baltimore, no matter what they do the rest of

615
00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:20,560
Speaker 6: the season, for them to overcome. The Steelers would have

616
00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:22,760
Speaker 6: won the division with a win there. I know that

617
00:31:22,880 --> 00:31:25,120
Speaker 6: sounds retro and like wow, but maybe they stole want

618
00:31:25,160 --> 00:31:27,280
Speaker 6: to get the Colts that you didn't anticipate they had

619
00:31:27,280 --> 00:31:30,680
Speaker 6: been six and one, five game margin that it would

620
00:31:30,680 --> 00:31:34,320
Speaker 6: have been nearly impossible. Assuming again, like Crawford just said,

621
00:31:34,360 --> 00:31:38,400
Speaker 6: a split against Baltimore. I no longer see the possibility

622
00:31:38,400 --> 00:31:40,280
Speaker 6: of that split. Though you think they're gonna win at

623
00:31:40,320 --> 00:31:42,840
Speaker 6: the first game is at Baltimore, I don't have high

624
00:31:42,880 --> 00:31:45,600
Speaker 6: hopes for them pulling that one out in between. I

625
00:31:45,640 --> 00:31:49,480
Speaker 6: mean that's after they played the Bills, So I mean

626
00:31:49,520 --> 00:31:52,440
Speaker 6: they're not gonna win at Detroit. Clear they're certain. I mean,

627
00:31:52,640 --> 00:31:56,160
Speaker 6: who would pick that The swing game, aside from needing

628
00:31:56,200 --> 00:31:59,160
Speaker 6: to beat Baltimore at least once, is at the Bears.

629
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Speaker 1: You know, Okay, so you're saying, but if they win

630
00:32:01,720 --> 00:32:03,840
Speaker 1: four games, that makes them nine and eight, and you

631
00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:05,480
Speaker 1: do they get in the playoff at nine and eighth

632
00:32:05,480 --> 00:32:05,840
Speaker 1: this year?

633
00:32:06,600 --> 00:32:09,920
Speaker 6: And look at the It's just the way it susses

634
00:32:09,960 --> 00:32:11,680
Speaker 6: out if you, if you take a look at the

635
00:32:12,320 --> 00:32:14,840
Speaker 6: at the way things lay out right now, they look

636
00:32:14,920 --> 00:32:17,840
Speaker 6: comfy in a in a playoff spot. They're fourth seated,

637
00:32:17,880 --> 00:32:22,520
Speaker 6: but they're the the It is bizarre. It's downright weird.

638
00:32:22,960 --> 00:32:25,840
Speaker 6: If you look at as much conversations like who's saw

639
00:32:25,920 --> 00:32:28,800
Speaker 6: the Patriots and Buffalo at the top of the standings?

640
00:32:28,840 --> 00:32:30,840
Speaker 6: What is this two thousand and eight?

641
00:32:30,920 --> 00:32:31,480
Speaker 5: Everybody?

642
00:32:32,720 --> 00:32:33,760
Speaker 3: It's hysterical.

643
00:32:33,800 --> 00:32:36,000
Speaker 6: But anyway, I can't stop.

644
00:32:35,840 --> 00:32:37,360
Speaker 2: Laughing about how delightful it is.

645
00:32:37,880 --> 00:32:40,040
Speaker 6: But uh oh, you know, and they kiss the Steelers

646
00:32:40,040 --> 00:32:42,280
Speaker 6: into that too, because they still are holding on the

647
00:32:42,320 --> 00:32:44,920
Speaker 6: first place nominally, but look at the teams that are

648
00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:48,320
Speaker 6: rising up beneath them. Do you the Bills already have

649
00:32:48,400 --> 00:32:51,360
Speaker 6: a game on them so that they buy by necessity,

650
00:32:51,440 --> 00:32:54,080
Speaker 6: Pittsburgh would have to win that Buffalo game. To overcome

651
00:32:54,200 --> 00:32:57,000
Speaker 6: the Bills, otherwise they aren't passing them in the Still,

652
00:32:57,040 --> 00:33:00,720
Speaker 6: Buffalo is essentially ahead of Pittsburgh in the stand if

653
00:33:00,760 --> 00:33:03,120
Speaker 6: you assume the Ravens are going to win the division.

654
00:33:03,640 --> 00:33:07,600
Speaker 6: The Texans are one game behind the Steelers now, and

655
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Speaker 6: here come the Chiefs on the rise as well. So

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Speaker 6: all the teams that are by number underneath Pittsburgh right

657
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Speaker 6: now are probably going to or some percentage of them

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Speaker 6: are going to wind up ahead of Pittsburgh. And where

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Speaker 6: that leaves the Steelers, I don't know. The only one

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Speaker 6: who they really have head to head is the Colts,

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Speaker 6: and that's nice, except that the Coults ain't going to

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Speaker 6: blow the division. So it's neither here nor there.

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Speaker 1: Dave dan ashek Football America Podcast, brought to you by

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Speaker 1: Gateway Clipper this morning.

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Speaker 6: I don't mean to be a bummer, but of course

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Speaker 6: that that only aligns with where we are today, Will

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Speaker 6: mischie Bill Crawford, go get them out there, Region Square Son.

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Speaker 6: We believe in you. We know you're gonna kill it

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Speaker 6: out there, and and everybody's cheering for you on the

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Speaker 6: banks of the Three Rivers. Pali.

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Speaker 5: Thanks check.

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Speaker 7: It's it's been so fun talking Steelers with you Man,

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Speaker 7: as evidenced by h When everybody leaves the studio and

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Speaker 7: we're off air, we've done this segment, we've taped it,

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Speaker 7: we've sent it off to be repurposed for the next

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Speaker 7: day's show. And it's still me and you sitting here

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Speaker 7: talking Steelers for thirty five to forty five minutes. They

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Speaker 7: start closing the whole building down. Chairs are flipping around me,

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Speaker 7: they're turning the lights off.

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Speaker 2: I'm already home sleeping.

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Speaker 1: If you guys are still talking, it's like build it.

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Speaker 6: The next day's show starts in ninety minutes.

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Speaker 3: I'm miss hang out here. It's about that, Kay, late

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Speaker 3: to take a nap.

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Speaker 7: Now, it's been a blast, man, and I hope we

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Speaker 7: keep in touch and I might just have to call

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Speaker 7: you to do this segment off air, just between us

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Speaker 7: on the phone sometime.

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Speaker 3: Oh.

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Speaker 6: Listen, the Steelers season may be winding down, but the

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Speaker 6: Pens are just getting going. And then we got schemes

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Speaker 6: talk about bridging into twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 2: Let's do it, fella, go get them out there.

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Speaker 5: This is general one of the Pistol Steelers follow team

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Speaker 5: alls even long on your radio home for the Steelers

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Speaker 5: one or two point five.

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Speaker 3: DVE Another DV concerts, Queens Reich Live.

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Speaker 2: Hope you are listening to Randy A Right and the

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Speaker 2: DV Morning Show.

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Speaker 1: It's the DVE Morning Show Randy Bauman along with Bill

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Speaker 1: Crawford this morning here on his big last day, welcoming

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Speaker 1: our next guest. Brought to you by Edgar Snyder and associates.

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Speaker 1: They're always looking out for you in this in perfect world.

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Speaker 1: Before you talk to the insurance company, find Edgar, we

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Speaker 1: found Guy, Guy Junker, Ladies in general.

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Speaker 2: What's upbody?

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Speaker 5: Good morning morning.

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Speaker 2: Yes, it is a good morning.

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Speaker 4: So let's start with, Oh, it's kind of a bad

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Speaker 4: morning because it's Bill's last show and I got a time.

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Speaker 4: I'm gonna severely miss you. The amount of times coffee

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Speaker 4: has come back.

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Speaker 5: Out through my nose and stuff that you have said

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Speaker 5: is like a record.

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Speaker 4: So good luck to you, brother. I love you, and

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Speaker 4: you're tremendously talented.

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Speaker 6: I know you'll do well whatever you do.

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Speaker 7: Thank you so much, Guy, And I just want to

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Speaker 7: say it's been an absolute pleasure getting it to you

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Speaker 7: every week, and you've done such an amazing job filling

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Speaker 7: the spot of your partner.

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Speaker 5: It's It's truly been an honor to get to talk

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Speaker 5: to you.

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Speaker 6: Man.

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Speaker 7: I grew up watching you and uh and I love

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Speaker 7: how much you still know about every single sport. I mean,

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Speaker 7: it just it gives me hope that that's you know,

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Speaker 7: that's that's on deck for me for the rest of

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Speaker 7: my life. It doesn't matter if you're retired. You're working

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Speaker 7: now more than you ever did.

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Speaker 4: Well, you grew up watching me.

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Speaker 5: Is that an age joke?

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Speaker 1: Because that you're I'm sorry, I mean you have got

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Speaker 1: that gray beard now you well, I mean you probably

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Speaker 1: got four shades grayer. Watching Penn State blow that game

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Speaker 1: to Indiana last week.

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Speaker 4: I was talking to producer Jacob there went up to

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Speaker 4: the game. If you were just not interested in either

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Speaker 4: team and just watched that New Joe. It was a

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Speaker 4: fabulous football game. But it's a look, it's a terrible

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Speaker 4: They stink and it's don't I don't even know they

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Speaker 4: can win the last three games to get to a

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Speaker 4: lousy Bowl, but they got to be one of the

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Speaker 4: best three and six teams or whatever. They lost two

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Speaker 4: games by one point double overtime. The Oregon back to

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Speaker 4: back weeks against the one and two undefeated teams in

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Speaker 4: the country and played, you know, a good half against

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Speaker 4: Ohio State in a great game against Indiana. Yeah, you

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Speaker 4: want to pull your hair out, absolutely well.

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Speaker 1: You know that's one of those things a good coach

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Speaker 1: might be able to get you over the hump there.

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Speaker 1: And there's really about Brian day Bole possibly going to

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Speaker 1: Penn State. He's wearing the Penn State hoodie a day

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Speaker 1: after being fired by the jet the Giants.

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Speaker 2: What are your thoughts on that that?

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Speaker 4: I don't want him.

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Speaker 2: And he he has a kid that goes there too,

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Speaker 2: I believe, so that could be part of the reason.

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Speaker 2: He even has that sweatshirt, you know.

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Speaker 4: And I want a young up and coming I would

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Speaker 4: love to see him. I don't even know who it is,

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Speaker 4: some Division two head coach or a thirty five year old, bright,

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Speaker 4: young coordinator somewhere. And as much as I supported James Franklin,

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Speaker 4: you got man, you gotta have somebody with the personality

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Speaker 4: to recruit. I don't care how good of a.

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Speaker 5: Coach you are.

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Speaker 4: You know, even though you know Sicknaty was just done

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Speaker 4: a fabulous job in Indiana. But holy cow, I watch

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Speaker 4: his interviews, I think, how can any how can he

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Speaker 4: ever sit in anybody's living talking to the common player.

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Speaker 6: For him, he's a jag off.

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Speaker 7: Yes, he looks miserable if they're winning by fifty or

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Speaker 7: if they're down in again.

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Speaker 4: Right, you can't tell. The sideline reporter asked him last week,

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Speaker 4: you know, you know, knowing what your schedule's like the

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Speaker 4: rest of the way, how big is this game? And

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Speaker 4: he's like, I don't care about the schedule the rest

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Speaker 4: of the way. You know, he just didn't want to

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Speaker 4: give her, give her the time of day and whatever.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, no they even have to recruit anymore, though, Guy,

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Speaker 1: isn't it just buying your money?

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Speaker 2: Isn't it just what just buying players?

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Speaker 4: And yeah, you know what that that's a good point.

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Speaker 4: I still think if that, But I where I think

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Speaker 4: it comes in, Randy is the guys that aren't getting

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Speaker 4: me and I that's true with the Stars, but I

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Speaker 4: still think if you want to a national championship contender,

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Speaker 4: you need trench players that maybe aren't going to get

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Speaker 4: nil money or get very little nil money. You need linemen.

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Speaker 4: It might have three or four big university opportunities that

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Speaker 4: are still just going for the scholarship. So yeah, with

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Speaker 4: the Stars, I think you're one hundred percent right.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and they have the money.

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Speaker 4: They'll be able to get the big time players.

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Speaker 6: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Now a big college football matchup this weekend. Of course

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Speaker 1: here in Pittsburgh. ESPN's College Game Day is going to

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Speaker 1: be filming here and Pat McAfee and crew will be

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Speaker 1: revving up all the technic fans getting super pit Notre Dame.

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Speaker 1: I got a call from somebody I don't really even know,

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Speaker 1: who's a friend of my older brother, and he's like,

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Speaker 1: call and see if you have any extra tickets to the.

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Speaker 2: Pit Notre Dame game.

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Speaker 1: Like, I couldn't pick you out of a lineup, number one,

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Speaker 1: number two, What planet are you on?

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Speaker 2: There haven't been tickets for this game since they went on.

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Speaker 4: I had a guy call me in the nineteen ninety

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Speaker 4: one baseball playoffs at five in the afternoon that I

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Speaker 4: played high school baseball with and hadn't talked to in

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Speaker 4: seventeen years. The wanted to know if I could get

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Speaker 4: him a ticket for a Pirate playoff, the Pirate playoff

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Speaker 4: game that was starting in two hours.

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Speaker 2: So I know exactly what that is like.

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Speaker 4: But it also shows you how.

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Speaker 6: Huge this game is.

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Speaker 4: And I wasn't quite sure what Nordoozy was trying to

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Speaker 4: do when he, you know, said, hey, we could lose

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Speaker 4: this game from one hundred and three to three the

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Speaker 4: next and win the next two, and I'd be.

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Speaker 6: Okay with that.

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Speaker 4: I mean, I understand the thinking. The biggest game left

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Speaker 4: for them is the road game at Georgia Tech. I mean,

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Speaker 4: they win that, they've got a really good shot of

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Speaker 4: playing in.

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Speaker 3: The ACC Championship game.

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Speaker 4: This game is not a conference game, but from where

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Speaker 4: they've been for a long time, and with all this

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Speaker 4: national attention, and then really their first chance to prove

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Speaker 4: this year that they belong with the elite or belong

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Speaker 4: as a ranked team. Maybe he just doesn't want to

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Speaker 4: make it that big. Maybe he's trying to play the

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Speaker 4: hype to his players. You know, Okay, game days coming

833
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Speaker 4: here to place, the sold out, let's just let's let's

834
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Speaker 4: everybody calm down. But I don't think he quite got

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Speaker 4: that thought across. I think some people scratched their heads

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Speaker 4: the way the way he presented that.

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Speaker 1: He presents things in a lot of head scratching ways.

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Speaker 1: It's been my experience, all right. Aaron Rodgers and the

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Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Steelers taking on Joe Flacco once again the Flacco

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Speaker 1: led Bengals.

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Speaker 5: Hunk Bowl Part two, geriatric Boogaloo.

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Speaker 1: They've gotten in four weeks better than the last time

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Speaker 1: they faced each other.

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Speaker 4: Well, you talk about gray hair watching Penn State Indiana,

845
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Speaker 4: I reckon they went bald. Watch That reminded me of

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00:41:44,400 --> 00:41:46,560
Speaker 4: the Steelers of the sixties when I was a little

847
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Speaker 4: kid and I became a New York Giants fan because

848
00:41:48,800 --> 00:41:49,600
Speaker 4: they sucked.

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Speaker 6: So bad every year that came from beginning to end.

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Speaker 4: I kept thinking, Okay, he'll settle down, and then even

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Speaker 4: at halftime, all right, he'll get himself together. And it'sn't

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Speaker 4: just him.

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Speaker 3: I mean, it's muffed punts.

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Speaker 6: It's stupid coaching.

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Speaker 4: Cana Johnson finally gets a chance to come back in

856
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Speaker 4: the game when they're in the shadow of their own

857
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Speaker 4: goal host When the last time you saw me let

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Speaker 4: one go through it over his head into the m zones.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, in the Seattle gain.

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Speaker 2: I just that whole game.

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Speaker 3: I want to make me kill myself.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: But now so since so, all right, Cincinnati's coming in

864
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Speaker 4: here now. Normally they've beaten the Steelers four straight times. Now,

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Speaker 4: it's been been a while since the Steelers have been

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Speaker 4: able to beat them, and you have to be concerned

867
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Speaker 4: with the way Jamar Chase and the way they threw

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Speaker 4: the ball against them, and since he as banged up,

869
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Speaker 4: as the Steelers secondary is right now. But the key

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Speaker 4: to this time around is they the Bengals running game

871
00:42:36,280 --> 00:42:38,520
Speaker 4: is not good. They let them run on him the

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Speaker 4: first time, which opened up that they got to shut

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Speaker 4: down the run first. Jamar Chase is gonna make some

874
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Speaker 4: catches if they allow them to run the ball as well.

875
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Speaker 4: He's gonna throw over them again. But I think they're

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Speaker 4: gonna beat him this time around. You know, that's the

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Speaker 4: only damn win they have in their last six or

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Speaker 4: seven games.

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Speaker 2: I mean, they stink.

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Speaker 5: I said the same thing off air today, guy.

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Speaker 7: I said that I think they're gonna win this game

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Speaker 7: because I thought the last game that they played, they

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Speaker 7: totally and completely overlooked the running game of the Bengals

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Speaker 7: and Chase Brown, and that caught them so off guard

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Speaker 7: in that game that the wheels came off.

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Speaker 6: Well.

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Speaker 4: I hated the way they made it. I think you're

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Speaker 4: a roundre percent right, But I think they also acted

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Speaker 4: like they weren't.

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Speaker 6: You know.

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Speaker 4: Tomlin referred to in this press conference this week that

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Speaker 4: you know they weren't exactly sure how Flacco was going

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Speaker 4: to fit into their offense, you know, just ten days

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Speaker 4: into his tenure there. I mean, I've seen Joe Flacco

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Speaker 4: twenty plus times in the regular season over the years.

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Speaker 4: I would have think you'd be a little more, a

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Speaker 4: little more prepared. I find it funny that there is

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Speaker 4: such gnashing of teeth about Aaron Rodgers' performance.

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Speaker 6: And it was hideous.

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Speaker 4: I mean, it was terrible, but to this, I think,

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Speaker 4: up before the game last Sunday, he's their most valuable player,

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Speaker 4: if not him Boswell, And it's just funny. I was

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Speaker 4: taking out some newspapers to the recycling and I'm looking

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Speaker 4: at the post his head from before the Packers game,

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Speaker 4: and it's like, here's the headlines, Rogers turning back the clock,

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Speaker 4: turning heads. I knew we'd see the quick decisions in

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Speaker 4: the accuracy. I wasn't expecting the mobility. Another headline, Rogers

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Speaker 4: defying Father time ahead of Packers showdown. And after one

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Speaker 4: lousy performance, everyone's like, oh, I think his career is over.

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Speaker 3: He's like that, he's Doug.

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Speaker 4: I just think it was a terrible game and I

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Speaker 4: think I think we'll see more. I think we'll see

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Speaker 4: more of the rest of the way of what we

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Speaker 4: saw the first couple of months. You know, not him

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Speaker 4: in his prime, but certainly better than he was against

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Speaker 4: the games.

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Speaker 2: Well, let's hope.

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Speaker 1: So I want to clock kickoff here on DV Steelers

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Speaker 1: Bengals this Sunday on the flagship of the Black and

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Speaker 1: Gold and Guy Jocker, brought to you by Edgar Snyder

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Speaker 1: and Associates this morning.

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Speaker 2: Thanks guy, We'll talk to you next week, Budy.

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Speaker 4: All right, guys, Happy football viewing Bill, happy future.

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Speaker 5: Thank you guy.

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Speaker 8: It's time for the Steelers Daily Report on DVE, brought

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Speaker 9: The Steelers will try to get their revenge against the

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Speaker 9: Bengals this Sunday, since he comes to Pittsford for the

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Speaker 9: second leg of the division rivalry this season. Pittsford lost

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Speaker 9: to since he back in Week seven, thirty three to

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Speaker 9: thirty one, in a game that saw Bengals star wide

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Speaker 9: receiver Jamar Chase put up sixteen catches on twenty three

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Speaker 9: targets for one hundred and sixty.

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Speaker 2: One yards and a touchdown.

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Speaker 9: That kind of game is the norm for someone like Jamar,

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Speaker 9: who was the NFL's second leading receiver this season despite

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Speaker 9: losing his star quarterback Joe Burrow to injury in Week two.

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Speaker 9: It was what the other Chase did to the Steelers

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Speaker 9: that was the bigger problem in the team's last meeting

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Speaker 9: since he running back Chase Brown ran for one hundred

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Speaker 9: and eight yards in just eleven carries, and the Bengals

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Speaker 9: as the team ran for one hundred and forty two

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Speaker 9: total yards, despite entering that game as the league's worst

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Speaker 9: rushing offense. Well fast forward to Week eleven and that

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Speaker 9: fact hasn't changed. The Bengals rank dead last and running

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Speaker 9: the ball with an average of just seventy eight point

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Speaker 9: eight yards per game on the ground. What better change, though,

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Speaker 9: is how the Steelers handle Brown, whose game against the

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Speaker 9: Steelers was by far his best of the season so

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Speaker 9: far and the only game he's eclipsed one hundred yards

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Speaker 9: rushing this year. With the Bengals receiving cores and passing

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Speaker 9: game posing such a massive threat, the Steelers will be

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Speaker 9: best to take the running game completely away from since

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Speaker 9: if they hope to successfully get their payback on tom

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Speaker 9: op forman with the Steelers

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