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Speaker 3: Rodgers get to snap back hit as he throws, ball

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Speaker 3: is loose and McCormick scrambles back to the thirty yard

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Speaker 3: line and lands on top of it.

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Speaker 1: It's Daniel Hunter who had to hit on Rogers.

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Speaker 4: Daniel Hunter was insane last night. The edges were just

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Speaker 4: so tough for the Houston Texans. Joining us right now

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Speaker 4: for a power hour of steel talk, Steel just about steel.

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Speaker 1: Because specific yeah, well.

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Speaker 5: We just feel like metal talk might be better than

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Speaker 5: what we had to last night.

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Speaker 4: of the Pittsburgh.

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Speaker 6: Steelers who got trucked in the fourth quarter.

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Speaker 4: They allowed twenty three points last night. They couldn't get

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Speaker 4: in the end zone. That was no good. So Rob

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Speaker 4: the season comes to an end, and would you say,

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Speaker 4: let's just do a big old broad brush stroke.

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Speaker 6: Here Aaron Rodgers bringing him in.

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Speaker 4: The right move or might they have been better served

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Speaker 4: going elsewhere? I mean, given what was out there, they

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Speaker 4: were looking at Justin Fields Sam Darnold, which had a

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Speaker 4: pretty hefty price tag a fixed to it, and then

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Speaker 4: you that's your guy, that's your guy for four or

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Speaker 4: five years, right, you know that you're you're really sailing

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Speaker 4: with him or given that, they wanted to start with

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Speaker 6: Was this still the way to go despite the outcome.

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Speaker 5: Well, you know, there there were moments of the season

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Speaker 5: where he looked phenomenal. He looked the best we've seen

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Speaker 1: Agree, he just he looked great. Cincinnati, he looked great.

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Speaker 5: And him back against the Jets, there were moments down

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Speaker 5: they offered Justin Fields a contract and he didn't take it.

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Speaker 5: You know, some people wanted Russell Wilson back. Well, he

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Speaker 5: got benched by the Giants.

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Speaker 1: You know, he was.

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Speaker 5: On Anderson Cooper's New Year's Eve celebration and Sam Donald

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Speaker 5: they wanted to talk to Sam Donald. My understanding is

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Speaker 5: that Sam Donald met with the Seattle first, got an.

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Speaker 1: Offer and just went there. So you never even had

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Speaker 5: So you know, people say, people could say this or

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Speaker 5: that about Okay, what's the solution, you know, and listen,

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Speaker 5: it's not up to us to have the solution, right, uh,

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Speaker 5: you know, but have some sort of idea.

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Speaker 1: Of what is a possible solution, like, you.

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Speaker 5: Know, go out and get a safety Okay, well who

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Speaker 5: I mean that, you know, and then and balancing you

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Speaker 5: other answers there would have been out there. I think

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Speaker 5: they they got into bad down in distances, which Mike

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Speaker 5: Tomlins said before the game, he was talking to Bob Labriella,

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Speaker 1: Well, that's what they did well.

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Speaker 4: To me, that is a component of not game planning

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Speaker 4: watched Aaron Rodgers constantly yelling at receivers, running round wrong routes,

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Speaker 4: Corlis Weightman was fantastic and he was flipping the field

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Speaker 4: for you. Why on earth do you approach that game anyway?

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Speaker 4: I think at one point it was like first sixteen

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, they they came out.

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Speaker 5: I think the first play the game was a Jalen

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Speaker 5: You know they will find you. So you have to

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Speaker 5: But I'm always in the run the ball more school.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, I mean that's just the way I

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Speaker 5: I thought this was going to be I thought this

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Speaker 5: it away. Play defense, you know, try to win the

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Speaker 5: the past, DK Metcalf haul that in when you've got

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Speaker 5: the opportunity to make the big place. You know, it's

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Speaker 5: important in every game. Like we saw against Cleveland when

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Speaker 1: They still had chances to win that game.

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Speaker 5: The better the opponent is, and Houston's a very good

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Speaker 5: have to be at situational football. Mike tomlincalls them the

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Speaker 5: weighty downs. So you were better than them in the

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Speaker 5: getting the turnovers. That's the team that has the second

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Speaker 5: fewest giveaways in the second best turnover margin in the NFL.

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Speaker 5: The Texans, you were doing some of those things, but

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Speaker 5: The Texans began to dictate what the Steelers had to do.

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Speaker 5: Think about all the great and I've described to Steelers

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Speaker 1: That's what happened with the Steelers last night.

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Speaker 5: They they ran into a Steelers defense that was kind

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Speaker 1: And that's what happened last night.

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Speaker 4: Given that they have no number two wide receiver, no

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Speaker 4: all year long. What was John New's stance last year?

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Speaker 4: Ted eighty eight grams from tua. I thought he was

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Speaker 4: going to be their second leading receiver? John Smith? How

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Speaker 4: that they had him doing and Friarmouth was a non factor?

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Speaker 1: Do you like now?

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Speaker 4: All I was told about Arthur Smith is he loves

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Speaker 4: tight ends like you know Charlie Batch Lake snowstorms. You know,

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Speaker 4: he gets giddy from tight ends. And I didn't see

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Speaker 4: seen that when they did decide to throw gotten it out?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, there are two things.

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Speaker 5: I kind of expect sixty catches and he didn't come

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Speaker 5: close to that. The other one was they drafted Roman

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Speaker 5: I mean, you know, one of the things about that

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Speaker 5: he was suspended for two games.

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Speaker 1: Who's there to pick it up?

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Speaker 5: Well, the Texans have Nico Collins, right, and he's a

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Speaker 5: We have Christian Kirk, who's a good player and been

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Speaker 5: a really good player. Second round picking Jayden Higgins, you

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Speaker 5: Dalton Schultz didn't even kill this cheers last night, and

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Speaker 5: he's a third leading receiver among tight ends in the NFL.

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Speaker 5: They had more options that could get down the field

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Speaker 5: I'm a fan. It doesn't look to me like there's

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Speaker 1: You know, sometimes those other guys are really good.

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Speaker 1: But I do like I think that you know, they've.

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Speaker 5: They have made a concerted effort to get better along

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Speaker 5: I think that they, you know, they they probably need

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Speaker 5: last night was a good example of why you still

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Speaker 5: Know, there's a couple of things that I'm I think

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Speaker 6: First and foremost. But maybe they learned their lesson from that.

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Speaker 6: I think there was there's a phoenix rising from the ashes.

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Speaker 6: So Steelers fans, your team is a powerhouse. Are you

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Speaker 1: Absolutely? And let's take sports. Yeah, we're the fight off

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Speaker 7: It's one more In terms of your post game sound

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Speaker 7: bite reaction from Texans thirty Steeler six, this is Mike

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Speaker 7: Tomlin when asked if he had a message to the

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Speaker 8: Again, when you when you don't get it done, words

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Speaker 1: Do you don't?

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Speaker 4: Well, he is good at losing. I will say that.

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Speaker 7: You know a lot of speculation about Mike Tomlin all season,

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Speaker 7: Here's what he had to say about that quote. I'm institutionalized, man,

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Speaker 7: From training camp, well really from OTA's on that led

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Speaker 1: He wanted historic at the start of the year.

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Speaker 1: Like, historic, Really, this is gonna be great.

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Speaker 1: Let the deal. CJ.

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Speaker 6: Stroud was rattling, particularly after you saw.

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Speaker 1: How rattled he at that point? How do you not

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Speaker 1: get more conservative on offense?

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Speaker 5: Because I was saying it to you all week, Mike,

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Speaker 5: I thought what was gonna happen was our defense was

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Speaker 5: gonna set up our offense with good field position and

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Speaker 5: we should get three field goals in a touchdown and

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Speaker 5: win this game sixteen to ten.

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Speaker 1: And it was headed in that direction.

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Speaker 5: If you don't leave them on the field for how

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Speaker 5: what was their time and possession last night for.

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Speaker 7: The Texans thirty two twenty two? God, I thought it

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Speaker 7: was I thought it would have been like four.

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Speaker 5: But I don't understand what they see different from what

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Speaker 5: my lion eyes are seeing.

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Speaker 7: It's funny though you know a fine line between being

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Speaker 7: too conservative and letting the defense dictate to you. Oh, well,

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Speaker 7: we can't block this guy, so we better not give

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Speaker 7: him a chance to make a tackle, and having faith

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Speaker 7: to your guys and being aggressive. You know, they went

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Speaker 7: at denzil Ward three times in a row in Cleveland

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Speaker 7: on that Gal and Rogers one all ones though, right, well,

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Speaker 7: we talked to him with mvs versus one of the

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Speaker 7: best corners in the game. So would you throw it

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Speaker 7: to Scotty Miller against one of the other best corners

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Speaker 7: in the game.

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Speaker 6: I would run the ball on first down.

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Speaker 5: They were running all over them.

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Speaker 7: Except the second down throw was there and I know

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Speaker 7: that didn't execute it. Gene really got me thinking Jeane's

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Speaker 7: territory when he was on the show today and he

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Speaker 7: talked about the Calvin Austin Talvanhawsin.

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Speaker 1: Did come up lame on that one? He should have?

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Speaker 7: No, he got grabbed, did he?

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Speaker 1: He slows down a little bit, But is he judging

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Speaker 1: the ball or trying to draw a foul that I

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Speaker 1: don't know. I thought he was trying to and that

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Speaker 1: was Gene's point. Yeah, but he definitely got turned.

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Speaker 7: And then there goes you speak because you can't run

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Speaker 7: with your torso twisted sideways.

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Speaker 1: It's a fifty to fifty call.

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Speaker 7: But the point on that play is it was the

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Speaker 7: same thing I've been bitching about all morning. It was

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Speaker 7: third and long and they tried to block it with

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Speaker 7: five and they did. It was one of a few

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Speaker 7: times he had a perfect clean pocket, he had all

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Speaker 7: the time to throw, set himself, let it rip. You've

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Speaker 7: got to hit those one on ones when you know,

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Speaker 7: not all of them, but you got to hit a

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Speaker 7: couple of them. You got to hit some splash and

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Speaker 7: and they just weren't able to do it even once.

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Speaker 4: Last night the Calvin Austin play, I think he did

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Speaker 4: slow up to try and draw the penalty. I think

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Speaker 4: he did draw the penalty, and it should have been

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Speaker 4: called also if he decides to run through that or fights.

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Speaker 7: So it almost like it almost looked like a hockey

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Speaker 7: play where a guy goes down too easy when he

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Speaker 7: gets bumped in.

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Speaker 4: I don't yeah, I don't think a ref should have

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Speaker 4: looked at that play and gone, now he's sloid up

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Speaker 4: and tried to draw the penalty.

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Speaker 1: I think the ref should have thrown the flower. I

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Speaker 1: don't think that's how they're supposed to try. That's what

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Speaker 1: I'm saying.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, but I think Jean's interpretation of what happened is correct.

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Speaker 1: But that doesn't mean there should have been a flag.

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Speaker 4: Same thing for the strip sack touchdown by the big man.

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Speaker 5: Uh the Rankins that should have been hit to the

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Speaker 5: head quarterback personal foul, first down Steelers.

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Speaker 1: I gotta get another look at that one. But his

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Speaker 1: helmet almost came off. You know.

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Speaker 7: The point is they got annihilated last night, and there's

512
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Speaker 7: still a couple of plays here and there where if

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Speaker 7: only this one had worked out that you as you've

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Speaker 7: been talking about today. If Metcalf catches that ball, what

515
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Speaker 7: if they go end up going up six.

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Speaker 5: He's running to the it's first and ten of the

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Speaker 5: twenty five yard line. If he touches that ball, he

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Speaker 5: might have scored. Actually he might have. There's only one

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Speaker 5: guy behind him. He dropped it at the thirty for

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Speaker 5: he was pretty open.

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Speaker 8: He was.

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Speaker 5: There's only one defender back on that. He might have

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Speaker 5: turned it up and scored, but he certainly they certainly

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Speaker 5: would have at least been in field goal range.

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Speaker 1: Well, you know, we don't pay him enough. Oh wait,

526
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Speaker 1: we gain him so much.

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Speaker 6: Quick Break will be right back more with Rob King.

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Speaker 4: It's your radio home of the Steelers, why on two

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Speaker 4: point five DV And that's a rap on the twenty

533
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Speaker 4: five to twenty six season. After losing to the Houston

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Speaker 4: Texans last night thirty to six at home, it's Mike

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Speaker 4: Tomlin's fifth straight playoff loss by double digits. And then

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Speaker 4: it's historic. It is historic, no question about it. We

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Speaker 4: have Rob King, Voice of the Steelers with us and

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Speaker 4: Mike Persuda, who is the host of the postgame show

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Speaker 4: on the Steelers Audio Network, and Mike Kinger and I

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Speaker 4: were wondering kicking around what was the tenor of the

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Speaker 4: calls last night because I would imagine it's a whole

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Speaker 4: lot of what we would expect people being sick and

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Speaker 4: tired of being sick and tired.

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Speaker 7: You know, it was not And apologies for not charting

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Speaker 7: one because there was one guy.

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Speaker 1: Who waited a while.

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Speaker 7: I should have written down which call this was, but

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Speaker 7: I didn't do it for whatever reason. But he asked

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Speaker 7: a serious question, and I gave an answer, and then

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Speaker 7: Charlie gave an answer, and then he yelled.

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Speaker 1: Stealer suck, Ravens fluck.

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Speaker 7: And then he hung Up's ookay, well glad you got.

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Speaker 1: That off your chest. Would you rather lost to the

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Speaker 1: Ravens and not have that game? Not me, No, No way,

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Speaker 1: for sure. We had.

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Speaker 7: We took nineteen calls from ten different states, including multiple

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Speaker 7: calls from Jersey, Texas, and California, and probably three or

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Speaker 7: four Tomlin's got to go. This ain't working. It's never

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Speaker 7: going to change. But the rest of it was just

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Speaker 7: you know, disappointment and how do they get better? And

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Speaker 7: some game stuff, you know, should that have been a

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Speaker 7: penalty on the Austin play and why didn't they do this?

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Speaker 7: Or why didn't they do that? And a lot of them,

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Speaker 7: why didn't they do this? I said, geez, I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I would have. Yeah.

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Speaker 7: Mostly they run the ball stuff and the you know,

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Speaker 7: don't leave your quarterback back there to get killed on

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Speaker 7: third and long.

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Speaker 1: Uh.

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Speaker 4: I do think that they were a poorly constructed roster

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Speaker 4: and they worked around it a lot to their advantage

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Speaker 4: this year. Last night, I think the game plan was

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Speaker 4: just wrong. King, heer, what was the stat you had

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Speaker 4: for coming out of the second half?

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Speaker 5: I had first twenty two plays, five rush, seventeen pass.

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Speaker 1: That's to me.

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Speaker 5: By the way he asked about Aaron Rodgers. I will

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Speaker 5: say this one thing. I think I think all those

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Speaker 5: guys were really glad to have Aaron Rodgers.

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Speaker 1: To play out a doubt. You know.

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Speaker 4: I think for the players, this was a very fun year.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I think it was cool. You know.

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Speaker 5: I was talking to Spencer Anderson after he caught a pass,

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Speaker 5: and I was like, hey, man, lineman catching a pass,

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Speaker 5: you know, like, yeah, like my he had a lineman

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Speaker 5: roommate in college. He just wanted to fall on a

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Speaker 5: fumble in the end zone. That was like his dream.

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Speaker 5: And I'm like, you know, so.

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Speaker 1: Like there's not a lot of big dreams here. When

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Speaker 1: you're alignment, you got to block people, you know. And

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Speaker 1: I was like, hey, mane he caught a.

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Speaker 5: Pass, and he was like, and he goes, I caught

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Speaker 5: a pass from Aaron Rodgers.

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Speaker 1: Like that.

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Speaker 5: It's just the way that they they hold this guy

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Speaker 5: in such highest team. That's just one tiny example. I'm

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Speaker 5: sure every player down the roster would tell you how

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Speaker 5: cool it was. I just want to know why certain

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Speaker 5: players weren't featured more. I want to know was it

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Speaker 5: Mooth or was it Aaron Rodgers, or was it Arthur

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Speaker 5: Smith that was reluctant to roll out firearmth like we

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Speaker 5: thought they were going to, Or John new Smith the

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Speaker 5: way he'd been used in the past.

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Speaker 1: And then still dropping back.

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Speaker 4: Wouldn't throwing the ball way more than you'd think they

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Speaker 4: would Given the stat we're just talking about about the

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Speaker 4: lack of using tight ends, you'd think if they were

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Speaker 4: throwing as much as they are oftentimes it would be

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Speaker 4: through tight ends.

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Speaker 7: And that wasn't the case you would think. And also

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Speaker 7: I didn't just hear this. I saw it when I

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Speaker 7: studied John Us Smith. He lined up a wide receiver

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Speaker 7: a lot in Miami. That's how he caught eighty eight

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Speaker 7: balls for eight hundred something yards and eight touchdowns. And

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Speaker 7: with the lack of receivers here, why didn't they just

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Speaker 7: do that more?

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Speaker 1: I thought he was going to be a slot guy.

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Speaker 5: I basically thought, that's what they're going to do, is

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Speaker 5: line him up in the slot, and that I thought

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Speaker 5: he was going to be the second leading receiver behind

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Speaker 5: DK you know, they missed Darnell Washington.

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Speaker 1: They utilized him a lot.

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Speaker 5: But you know, Gamewell had I think four point seven

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Speaker 5: yards per carry after the first three weeks of the season.

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Speaker 5: Remember the two has had trouble running the ball early,

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Speaker 5: and then Jale and Moren got banged up, didn't play

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Speaker 5: against Minnesota, then came back. He averaged four point nine

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Speaker 5: yards of carry After that. The running game was effective

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Speaker 5: over the last thirteen to fourteen games of the season.

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Speaker 5: I thought it was a little underutilized.

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Speaker 1: I couldn't agree more, particularly last night.

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Speaker 7: I mean, I would have been playing if I'm losing

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Speaker 7: seven to six or even ten to six in the

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Speaker 7: fourth quarter. I keep going back to that third and long.

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Speaker 7: It's just that that sex strip scoop score. You're just

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Speaker 7: you're killing yourself. You're inviting disaster. When you set that

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Speaker 7: were they gonna throw along? There was that.

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Speaker 5: Nothing breaks the defense down quite like running all over him.

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Speaker 1: Yes, which is.

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Speaker 6: What the Texans did better than I thought.

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Speaker 5: I mean, mostly to me, the offense needed to help

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Speaker 5: the defense out in this game. But there's no way

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Speaker 5: I saw Woody Marx, who'd come in with the highest

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Speaker 5: seventy four yards in his career doing he was at

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Speaker 5: one hundred. Yeah, to be able to run hot, I

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Speaker 5: did not see that coming. I thought the team that

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Speaker 5: would be more effective running would be the Steelers, and

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Speaker 5: that that would be one of those little factors, like

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Speaker 5: we're talking about third down point, but that helps you

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Speaker 5: on third down, Right, you're running the football and you're

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Speaker 5: being effective, you get into third and two, third and three.

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Speaker 1: That's what Houston did.

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Speaker 5: The Steelers were constantly third and nine, third and eleven,

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Speaker 5: third and twelve. That's that's a tough way to make

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Speaker 5: a lot, you thought.

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Speaker 7: I thought they were going to win both trenches because

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Speaker 7: I thought I had mad respect for Hunter and Anderson,

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Speaker 7: but I thought them playing on the road and the

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Speaker 7: Steelers having the advantage of Houston having to go silent.

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Speaker 7: I thought Watt, high Smith and Herbert would feast. And

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Speaker 7: they didn't win either. So they lost the offensive trench,

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Speaker 7: they lost the defensive trench. There their edge was not superior,

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Speaker 7: which they thought it had to be, and then they

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Speaker 7: could not overcome. I was very skeptical that the stuff

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Speaker 7: in the flat was gonna work, and Toddalod even said

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Speaker 7: in his press conference on Tuesday he relied on that

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Speaker 7: heavily all year. The little checkdowns in the back, making

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Speaker 7: a guy miss and turning a short catch into a

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Speaker 7: bigger play. Well you take that out of the equation,

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Speaker 7: where does it go? The answer is nowhere.

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Speaker 4: Special thanks to Tim Ben's, Jean Sterotre and Rob King

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Speaker 4: talking Steelers. And that's a wrap on the twenty five

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Speaker 4: twenty six season for.

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Speaker 1: Your Pittsburgh Steelers.

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Speaker 6: Let's get Pence, Let's go Pens, Let's go Box.

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Speaker 5: I like the off season pirates are so far so

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Speaker 5: had another guy or too, and let's go man. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: I'm just gonna go and pretend to not be completely

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Speaker 5: pissed the rest of the day. That's fine. I know

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Speaker 5: I didn't believe they could make a little bit of

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Speaker 5: a runt. No, I wasn't sitting telling everybody Saturday, you know,

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Speaker 5: if the Bills win and the Chargers we got al

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Speaker 5: and I think we can beat them, and I'm just saying,

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Speaker 5: don't be surprised if Aaron Rodgers. I don't feel dumb

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Speaker 5: for thinking that and telling everybody all day Saturday.

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Speaker 7: Well, I did say this on the pregame last night.

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Speaker 7: Starts agreed with me, and technically it's not wrong. I

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Speaker 7: said the Houston game was gonna be harder to win

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Speaker 7: than I thought the New England game would be. If

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Speaker 7: they could survive the Houston game.

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Speaker 1: We'll never know if you were right, Mike. We won't.

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Speaker 1: We should just assume I am.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Tad, thanks for coming in. I know you pulled

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Speaker 4: an onliner two. Yeah, and come back tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: See you tomorrow. Yeah, well, you know a lot. It

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Speaker 1: will be much better Boons tomorrow.

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Speaker 5: We'll forget all about this by Dan Abbey.

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Speaker 1: Fine, you stay classy, Pittsburgh. Don't touch your face.

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Speaker 5: I got him time Pittsburgh, allday Berby.

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Speaker 1: So now you call me Ronald?

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Speaker 6: Would you not eat my pants?

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Speaker 1: Ronald? Oh? Why goggle ahead?

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Speaker 2: It's time for the Steelers Daily Report on DV, brought

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Speaker 2: Here's Tom Opferman.

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Speaker 10: The Steelers season ended Monday night at the hands of

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Speaker 10: the Houston Texans. Thirty to six was your final score.

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Speaker 10: Houston's defense was as advertised, as they completely shut down

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Speaker 10: the Steelers offense, holding them to just one hundred and

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Speaker 10: seventy five yards of total offense and limiting them to

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Speaker 10: just two for fourteen on third downs. The Texans pass

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Speaker 10: rush was all over Aaron Rodgers, who threw for just

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Speaker 10: one hundred and forty six yards on seventeen of thirty

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Speaker 10: three passing. Houston sacked Rodgers four times and had twelve

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Speaker 10: quarterback hits. They also tacked on eight tackles for loss

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Speaker 10: as they completely blew up the Steelers offensive line all

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Speaker 10: night long. Defensively, the Steelers played decently well in a

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Speaker 10: game that entered the fourth quarter with Houston leading just

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Speaker 10: seven to six.

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Speaker 6: They got adequate pressure on CJ.

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Speaker 10: Strouds, sacking him three times and forced multiple turnovers. But

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Speaker 10: the biggest flaw by far on that side of the

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Speaker 10: ball was the inability to stop the run. Houston, who

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Speaker 10: averaged just three point nine yards per carry during the

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Speaker 10: regular season, averaged five point three against the Steelers as

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Speaker 10: they racked up one hundred and sixty four yards on

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Speaker 10: thirty one carries and one rushing touchdown. The lost means

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Speaker 10: the Steelers now have lost seven playoff games straight as

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Speaker 10: they continue to search for their first postseason wins since

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Speaker 10: the twenty sixteen season on tom All Forramen with the

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Speaker 10: Steelers report.

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Speaker 3: Offenses can't move the ball when they get stuck by

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Speaker 3: the defense, and you won't move off the couch after

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Speaker 11: After most of us had a late night, looks like

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Speaker 11: a lot of people are having a late start. We

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Speaker 11: still have break lights for delays. Parkway West coming down

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Speaker 11: the hill end of the tunnels to slow ride Parkas

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Speaker 11: to slow at the tunnels both directions. Slowdown's on the

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