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Speaker 2: Is that brought to you by Bridgeville Plants.

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Speaker 3: It was a pretty safe bet.

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Speaker 2: Mike McCarthy was going to get a little emotional upon

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Speaker 2: As if on cue, McCarthy cut bright to the chase.

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Speaker 3: All right, here we go. Thank you, Ert.

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Speaker 4: I think I thought at least be able to get started.

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Speaker 4: You know, oftentimes coaches and players, you know, you put

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Speaker 4: you wore since you brought home apauze, right, I told

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Speaker 4: you not to see my family not here in front

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Speaker 4: of this is so unfair when you come home from

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Speaker 4: Mercy Hospital.

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Speaker 3: I do want to think.

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Speaker 4: I want to thank art or Roney, homework, conn Dan Rooney,

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Speaker 4: and the entire Steelers organization for the trust they play

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Speaker 3: Made the world to me.

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Speaker 4: Because Pittsburgh's my world and it's just awesome to be back.

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Speaker 3: Here every time.

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Speaker 5: Outside of putting a Ravens fan and a headlock in

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Speaker 6: Else you could have done to make me.

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Speaker 7: More all in?

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Speaker 6: It's perfect? Oh my god.

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Speaker 2: They seld Pittsburgh's My World t shirts in the street.

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Speaker 8: Dude, I mean, just Mike McCarthy's big face on this

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Speaker 8: on the shirt Pittsburgh's My World.

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Speaker 6: Come on, hell, yeah.

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Speaker 2: That clip is not gonna get old at least until September.

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Speaker 7: Well, you know it's first loss, right your world socks? Yeah,

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Speaker 8: I think that anybody else who would have got that

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 2: One of the curious and somewhat remarkable aspects of this

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Speaker 2: It sounds like he never left. Well, you know how

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Speaker 2: It's when you're back amongst it. It's like muscle memory.

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Speaker 5: For me, it's when I'm back for longer than two

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Speaker 6: Drinking was a big trigger for a lot of people.

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Speaker 8: You have a few pops and I say, and everything

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Speaker 2: Of course we don't know who the quarterback is going

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Speaker 2: to be for Mike McCarthy's first Steelers team, but he

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Speaker 3: I mean definitely. I mean, honestly, why you wouldn't.

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Speaker 4: But you know, I think, just like anything, you know,

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Speaker 3: That's I think that's very important.

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Speaker 4: Uh. The game is so emotional. You know what these

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought he was to So let's let's try

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Speaker 2: McCarthy is his longest tenured at head coach and play

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Speaker 2: caller in Rogers' NFL career. Rogers is McCarthy's longest quarterback

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Speaker 2: because Rogers doesn't want to play, right, that's it. If

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Speaker 2: Yes, And they'll figure out the finances, which will not

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Speaker 2: And I don't think Rogers coming and said, yeah, I'll

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Speaker 8: Gonna get north of twenty though, if he wants to

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Speaker 8: I think he accomplished what he set out to do,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think he's interested in more than that.

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Speaker 5: I think he changed a lot of in one season.

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Speaker 5: Off the field perception, I think, yeah, And and like

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Speaker 6: Yeah, Yeah, you might be right. Bold prediction.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna be sitting on that bench at Saint Vincent

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Speaker 6: And I don't know if I hope you're right. I

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Speaker 8: I don't know what I hope right now, other than

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Speaker 2: To look intriguing in a very small sample selling and.

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Speaker 8: The very boy I wonder what Mike McCarthy would do

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Speaker 2: Because he looked like a guy who now understands how

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Speaker 8: And Kyler Murray, while he has spoken about him in

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Speaker 2: All right, stop you're talking it into existence.

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Speaker 8: Where he's not interested in football enough for me, I

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Speaker 2: No, mcarthy knows a little bit about quarterbacks and coaching

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Speaker 4: I think the obvious is the role changes. Uh, their

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Speaker 2: That is consistent with the theory. When Ben Roethlisberger first

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Speaker 1: Mark, Hello again, everybody.

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Speaker 8: So Art Rooney said they didn't have to win, or

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Speaker 8: that was a win, no doubt, And I know you

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Speaker 1: Well, no, Mike checked all the boxes. At the press conference,

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Speaker 1: that hard Pittsburgh accent. He cried. His elderly mom and

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Speaker 1: He comes home to coach the Steelers, although I doubt

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Speaker 1: high I don't think it changes enough. I would have

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Speaker 8: Okay, how do you think it's the same as Tomlin?

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Speaker 8: I mean, I keep hearing this from people that they

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Speaker 1: No one's an offensive mind and one was a defensive mind.

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Speaker 1: But but I just think it's gonna be still very conservative.

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Speaker 1: I think they're gonna keep veterans and sign more veterans.

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Speaker 1: I don't think there's gonna be a reset with the roster,

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Speaker 1: not remotely. So. McCarthy already said they're sticking with the

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Speaker 1: it will continue to be overpaid and underperforming. Again, there

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Speaker 1: will be x amount of change. There just won't be

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Speaker 8: So essentially what you're saying, and I guess what all

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Speaker 8: Answered Bill Belichick not voted into the Hall of Fame

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Speaker 1: George Paros, you're no gene sterretor.

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Speaker 8: I can tell you that Mark Mannon is brought to

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Speaker 6: Mark always a pleasure.

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Speaker 1: And by the way, nobody out there's a gene sterritor.

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Speaker 8: And see Mark still has the rotary avocado phone on

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Speaker 6: Thanks to Mark, Thanks to Merril Hodge.

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Speaker 8: Who Mark summarily dismissed as immoral uh and also thanks

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Speaker 3: Ray.

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Speaker 6: Oh, he's gonna hanging out with you. Pat, thanks for

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Speaker 8: When you coming back to you stand up in Pittsburgh.

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Speaker 8: You got any shows lined up in the future? Nothing

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Speaker 5: But hopefully looking to be back do some stand up

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Speaker 8: All right, get online and follow Ray on all the

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Speaker 8: the show, Missy Matthews, Big Cat Guy, Junkerk Joe Bartnick

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Speaker 6: Lunch coming up.

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Speaker 1: Next.

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Speaker 6: Have a great day, everybody.

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Speaker 3: I'm finished.

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Speaker 6: You stay classy, Pittsburgh.

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Speaker 3: Don't touch your face.

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Speaker 6: He got him type Pittsburgh on day baby.

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Speaker 3: But now you Ronald?

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Speaker 6: Would you not eat my pants? Ronald?

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Speaker 1: Oh?

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Speaker 9: The Steelers officially introduced new head coach Mike McCarthy, who

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Speaker 9: the Penguins will be back on the ice, playing at

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Speaker 2: Guess what Discovers accepted at ninety nine percent of places

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