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Speaker 1: Former Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback and Steeler's Audio Network postgame show

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Speaker 1: host Charlie Batch joining me right now here on one

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Speaker 1: oh five nine the X Tien Ben's in for Mark Madden.

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Speaker 1: Charlie go to talk to you again. You took good

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Speaker 1: hey real quick before he gets the game last night.

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Speaker 1: Can I run that quote from Betonio by you? You

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Speaker 1: were involved with the players union? What sort of role

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Speaker 1: does the union have when it comes to complaints about

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Speaker 1: field conditions? Where does that whole thing go from here?

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Speaker 1: Do you think?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Typically the player reps are the ones who have

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Speaker 2: the conversations, and it really works his way up. They

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Speaker 2: talked to the Executive Committee and then ultimately executive director

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Speaker 2: and if they go over field conditions, and then from

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Speaker 2: there they'll reach out to the NFL and start those discussions.

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Speaker 2: I know, far as where they are, as far as

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Speaker 2: where they are now. Ultimately, I'm sure the Steelers will say, hey,

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Speaker 2: the field is now being redone and we won't have

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Speaker 2: that issue movie too forward. So I think this is

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Speaker 2: going to close pretty quick.

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 1: You're close with Ben Roethlisberger. He wants to kick pit

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Speaker 1: out and have their own stadium built on campus. In Oakland.

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Speaker 1: Do you think Ben will pony up the dollars to

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Speaker 1: make that happen, Charlie, it will be Ben Roethlisberger field

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Speaker 1: in Oakland.

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Speaker 2: No, highly doubt that. If he was an alumni, that's

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Speaker 2: a different story. But you know, it's just funny whenever

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Speaker 2: he stated it. But again, I mean, he's not the

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Speaker 2: only one to feel that way. It's just the fact

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Speaker 2: that somebody needed to have the head one to be

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Speaker 2: able to have a conversation started going again.

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Speaker 1: What'd you think last night? I specifically want to ask

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Speaker 1: you two questions, and I want to know if I'm

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Speaker 1: reacting the right way if you agree on either of

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Speaker 1: these points. The first of one is, I admit this

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Speaker 1: is hindsight, and I don't think the offense is primarily

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Speaker 1: at fault. Obviously it's the defense, right, But Jalen Warren,

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Speaker 1: should they have run him a little bit more during

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Speaker 1: that game? What do you think?

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Speaker 2: Yes, if that flea flicker didn't happen, that debacle there,

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Speaker 2: I think that would have been because that play could

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Speaker 2: have easily went for four or five yards. Maybe he

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Speaker 2: bust out of the inn. It could have been a

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Speaker 2: bigger game, and that kind of disrupted the flow of

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Speaker 2: them offensively, and Jalen just bought out busted he missed it,

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Speaker 2: to say, he missed the signal. Everybody else on the

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Speaker 2: offense they received it, but he did not. And that's

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Speaker 2: why you saw the reaction of a Maaron Rodgers because

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Speaker 2: of that.

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Speaker 1: I know that I've talked about it, a lot of

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Speaker 1: other people have talked about it as it relates to

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Speaker 1: getting the ball down the field and taking more shots.

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Speaker 1: So I don't want to sound like a hypocrite and

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Speaker 1: then turn around this week and say, well, you should

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Speaker 1: have run more, you should have run more. But the

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Speaker 1: one time it leapt out at me, Charlie was maybe

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Speaker 1: the sequence that started right after the Bengals scored their

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Speaker 1: first touchdown and Aaron Rodgers went down the sideline and

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Speaker 1: tried the deep shot there and he threw the interception.

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Speaker 1: Like there, it kind of felt like, Hey, do you

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Speaker 1: really want to get into a pinball game with the

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Speaker 1: Bengals or would this be a good time to give

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Speaker 1: it to Warren since he seems to have a little

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Speaker 1: something and your control in the line of scrimmage. That's

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Speaker 1: maybe where I thought would be a good time for

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Speaker 1: them to run him a.

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Speaker 2: Bit more absolutely, And that's one of those things. Of course, obviously,

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Speaker 2: you know, you got to live with the resultage of

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Speaker 2: the quarterback. He threw the interception, he would love to

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Speaker 2: have that bag, but that play happened on first down,

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Speaker 2: so defense just give up points and then here you

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Speaker 2: are now turning the football back over. And it was

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Speaker 2: just tough because if you go back and watch it

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Speaker 2: from the aerial, when you look at the design of

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Speaker 2: the play, yes, you're trying to hit DK, but if

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Speaker 2: the safety towards the closer the d DKAY and then

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Speaker 2: ultimately that pass was thrown a little bit in the

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Speaker 2: middle of the field and it was an easy interception

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Speaker 2: for the safety.

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Speaker 1: Charny the other decision that I wanted to ask you about,

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Speaker 1: and I'm actually on board with what they did. I

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Speaker 1: know some people hated the punt, it actually worked out

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Speaker 1: for the reasons why. I think they punted late in

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Speaker 1: the game. How did you feel about it?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought as I was watching that about that

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Speaker 2: maybe that was four down territory for the Steelers to

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Speaker 2: go for it there, because yeah, you canna make the stop,

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Speaker 2: but again, Tom is more precious than anything else. And ultimately,

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Speaker 2: even though they were are by the rebound score, it

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Speaker 2: was just one of those situations where I was like,

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Speaker 2: I was with you. I thought they should have went

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Speaker 2: on that thought they should have went for it on

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Speaker 2: fourth down to that punting.

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Speaker 1: Okay. The one complaint that I heard from fans that

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Speaker 1: I really don't agree with, and I want to get

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Speaker 1: your take on this one too, is Friarmouth. I think

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Speaker 1: people saw t Higgins go down and say that was

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Speaker 1: the wise move. People had such little face in the

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Speaker 1: defense and how it was playing. I've heard some complaints

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Speaker 1: that friar Mouth should have gone down. I think that

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Speaker 1: was too early in the game. They needed seven. You

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Speaker 1: get seven when you can get seven. I think did

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Speaker 1: you have any thoughts on that? Do you think you

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Speaker 1: should have slid? Because I think it was just right

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Speaker 1: to go in and get the touchdown when you can.

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Speaker 1: It's seven, not three. I think it's a different kettle

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Speaker 2: Yeah, this is tough because it's easier, you know, in hinsight, yes,

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Speaker 2: that's the perfect strategy. That you would have, but typically

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Speaker 2: you don't have those conversations until you're really in four

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Speaker 2: minute football where you're just trying to drain the clock,

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Speaker 2: run the football out, and bleed the clock out. Those

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Speaker 2: type of things didn't occur because if fire muss shoes,

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Speaker 2: he fairly has been part of the game plan. So

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Speaker 2: if you think he's not going to score when he

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Speaker 2: said wide open in the middle of the field, you're

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Speaker 2: sadly mistaken. So, yes, I can understand that, but that's

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Speaker 2: where you hope your defense is going to go out

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Speaker 2: there and make a stop. That didn't happen. But when

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Speaker 2: you look at T Higgins, I mean, that was as

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Speaker 2: smart of a play as that anybody could have possibly done,

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Speaker 2: because if he scores, Pittsburgh probably wars and wins the

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Speaker 2: at the end of the ball game. But that was

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Speaker 2: a very smart play by.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, on that point, Charlie, I was watching that, I thought, yeah,

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Speaker 1: that is a smart play. It's the right way to

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Speaker 1: do it. It's going to be a chip shot field goal.

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Speaker 1: But I do have to admit I've seen the Bengals

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Speaker 1: blow games against the Steelers in Cincinnati so many times

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Speaker 1: it went through my mind that they were going to

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Speaker 1: duff the snap or the hold, or he was going

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Speaker 1: to jink it off the upright or something. It did

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Speaker 1: go through my head.

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Speaker 2: It went through mine. I said, you're going to miss

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Speaker 2: this only because they were attempting on a fourth down

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Speaker 2: and you typically sometimes we attempted on third down. But

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Speaker 2: I want to go back to one more point on

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Speaker 2: the T Higgins play. It kind of reminded me of

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Speaker 2: a few years ago whenever we were open to the

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Speaker 2: season opener against the Falcons, and if you remember at

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Speaker 2: the end of the game, and it typically veterans do this,

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Speaker 2: remember Mika Fitspatcher, he caught the interception, but he easily scored,

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Speaker 2: but he ran out of bounds to make sure that

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Speaker 2: the offense kneeled the ball down and led the clock

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Speaker 2: out and not put your defense on the field. That

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Speaker 2: reminded of and that's why veteran like T Higgins did

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Speaker 1: Charlie Batch with US Steelers Audio Network postgame show host,

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Speaker 1: former Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback what did you see from the

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Speaker 1: attempt at coverage on Chase and Higgins and why did

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Speaker 1: it go awry?

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Speaker 2: Charlie, Yeah, it was so twenty two completions of piece.

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Speaker 2: I mean, this is why you bought your you know

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Speaker 2: the Jalen Ramsey's in you're the Darius Slays in then

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Speaker 2: you for this particular game and Joe Flacco veteran guy

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Speaker 2: he read he did not miss a coverage as their

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Speaker 2: relations to what the defense was trying to do and

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Speaker 2: confusing him anytime. The big play that he hit down

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Speaker 2: the middle of the field to the tight end they

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Speaker 2: were doubling the stars. You had both safety coming out

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Speaker 2: the middle of the field and it less Slay in

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Speaker 2: the buying and you hit him down the field, but

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Speaker 2: in the manner of unknowing where the ball was going

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Speaker 2: to go on up this the most of the thirst

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Speaker 2: disturbing play for me, was at the end of the

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Speaker 2: on the defensive side. They just did this a couple

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Speaker 2: of weeks ago against the Vikings at the end of

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Speaker 2: the game where they led and that was the Jordan

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Speaker 2: Addison play wherever Pat was Peyton Wilson tracking down. It

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Speaker 2: was a busted coverage. Here you are on that particular play,

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Speaker 2: you could see Patrick Queen, He's trying to change the coverage.

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Speaker 2: People on the right side solid. He moves Cole Hookum

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Speaker 2: Don't Again, I don't care what defense you play. It

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Speaker 2: just has to be the same defense. And when you

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Speaker 2: allow Jamar Chase to be that wide open, that's a

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Speaker 2: problem and ultimately cost him the game.

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Speaker 1: Tell me if you disagree with this, But you know,

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Speaker 1: from my novice point of view of looking at it,

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Speaker 1: certainly as opposed to you, my thought was they were

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Speaker 1: so concerned about what they were going to do coverage wise,

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Speaker 1: they kind of forgot to get creative in the past

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Speaker 1: rush department, right. I just didn't see much creativity there,

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Speaker 1: at least none that worked. What did you think?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I really thought going into the game. You know

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Speaker 2: this is sometimes you get into your own way, right,

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Speaker 2: You're like, the offensive line is just so bad. Our

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Speaker 2: defensive front, we don't don't even any to blitz because

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Speaker 2: we're now going to apply to pressure to Flacco. Everybody

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Speaker 2: else has been doing it, why not us? But yet

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Speaker 2: they figured out a way to actually pick up the protection.

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Speaker 2: You saw two men, you know, they had two different

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Speaker 2: defensive line in that time. You have four linebackers on

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Speaker 2: the field. These are things that you know, Again, coverage wise,

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Speaker 2: I just thought that in some cases that they overthought

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Speaker 2: themselves and they got burnt by it because the Bengals

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Speaker 2: were ready for it. And again, Flato was getting the

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Speaker 2: ball out of his hands, and that's the advantage that

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Speaker 2: you have as a veteran quarterback.

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Speaker 1: I thought once or twice, Charlie I noticed specifically on

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Speaker 1: a play that they highlighted on the television feed, it

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Speaker 1: looked like they brought Elliott once and then delayed Queen,

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Speaker 1: sort of like they were anticipating that Elliott would get

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Speaker 1: got rid of the ball. Anyway, it was almost like

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Speaker 1: they were blitzing but not gaining the advantage of speeding

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Speaker 1: I'll end on a big picture question here, Charlie, who

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Speaker 1: Charlie, good catching up with you again. Glad we can

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Speaker 1: Charlie Batch, Steelers Audio Network postgame show host also former

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Speaker 1: can't believe what I'm watching moments from that defense in

438
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Speaker 1: the sixty minutes of the game last night. We probably

439
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Speaker 1: haven't talked enough about how Tomlin approached this week because

440
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Speaker 1: that was a canned, planned response. Let's be honest, right,

441
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Speaker 1: and maybe I'll open the phone lines on that topic too.

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Speaker 1: Relating to Tomlin eight three, three, four, one two nine

443
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Speaker 1: thirty nine, how culpable is he for what happened last

444
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Speaker 1: night based on his approach at the press conference on Monday,

445
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Speaker 1: Because I think the seeds of concern were sown within

446
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Speaker 1: that defense three days before they left for Cincinnati. Because

447
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Speaker 1: Tomlin never does what he did on Monday, never except

448
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Speaker 1: three weeks ago when he talked about the same guy

449
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Speaker 1: with Joe Flacco when he brought up the Anthony Richardson conversation.

450
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Speaker 1: So he's obviously got this thing in his head about

451
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Speaker 1: this quarterback that nobody else in the rest of the

452
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Speaker 1: league seems to be all that concerned about. You know,

453
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Speaker 1: he could have gone anywhere during the offseason. The Steelers

454
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Speaker 1: could have gotten him. I mean, my god, if they're

455
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Speaker 1: so afraid of him, they should get him. Maybe not

456
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Speaker 1: this offseason, but go ahead and get him next year.

457
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Speaker 1: If Aaron Rodgers retires and you can't draft the guy,

458
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Speaker 1: at least we have to stop we can stop hearing

459
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Speaker 1: about how dangerous he is. But I do think there

460
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Speaker 1: is some legitimacy to the belief that he and the

461
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Speaker 1: coaching staff got so far in the heads of his

462
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Speaker 1: own players that they were sort of paralyzed by insecurity

463
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Speaker 1: and doubt over how they were going to face Flacco

464
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Speaker 1: because he turned into this big thing where he called

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Speaker 1: out an opposing GM for making a trade. I mean,

466
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Speaker 1: I think there's some legitimacy to that part of the conversation.

467
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Speaker 1: Let alone the game plan, let alone the tactics, let

468
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Speaker 1: alone how they approached the game once they got there.

469
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Speaker 1: But maybe one hand washes the other there, doesn't it.

470
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Speaker 1: He's talked himself into being that the trade was so

471
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Speaker 1: offensive to him that he turned Flacco into a bigger

472
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Speaker 1: deal than what he is, and that's how they approached

473
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Speaker 1: the game defensively, and you got what you got, which

474
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Speaker 1: was Flacco throwing for over three hundred yards and putting

475
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Speaker 1: thirty three points on the board. You could tweet me

476
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Speaker 1: on that front two at Tim Ben's pgh. We're gonna

477
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Speaker 1: hear from Mike de Corsi coming up a little bit

478
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Speaker 1: later on Friday Football show that he does with me

479
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Speaker 1: each and every Friday before Steelers games. But this case

480
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Speaker 1: was like a postgame show. We're gonna run part of

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Speaker 1: that back. Mike's on with Mark once a week, Rudy

482
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Speaker 1: and Fox Chapel. You're on one of five nine the X.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I don't know if you or anybody else has discussed

485
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Speaker 3: maybe the possible of the bye week affecting their performance.

486
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Speaker 3: Maybe they were boozing too much, smoking too much grass.

487
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Speaker 1: Having they played coming out of the bye. They played

488
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Speaker 1: coming out of the bye. They beat Cleveland coming out

489
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Speaker 1: of the bye, but that's Cleveland. I mean, Oh, so

490
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Speaker 1: they had two by weekends in a rows. They were

491
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Speaker 1: smoking grass and drunk while they were beating Cleveland and

492
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Speaker 1: hitting Dylan Gabriel sixteen times. Yeah, thanks, got I squeezed

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Speaker 1: that one in, mister Friday Afternoon, speaking of boozing and

494
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Speaker 1: drinking too much, smoking lots of dope, mister Friday Afternoon.

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Speaker 1: This report is sponsored by Staples. It's gonna be partly

510
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Speaker 1: cloudy tonight, then mostly time for mister Friday Afternoon, who

511
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Speaker 1: went three and two last week, thirteen and seventeen on

512
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Speaker 1: the season. So that means with two losses last week,

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Speaker 1: mister Friday Afternoon needs two contumn two electric shocks. Oh oh,

514
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Speaker 1: at the end of the season, mister Friday Afternoon, do

515
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Speaker 1: you have to be shocked for every loss you have?

516
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Speaker 1: Is you gonna be like riding the Green Mile in

517
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Speaker 1: week eighteen?

518
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Speaker 4: Well that's not accurate. That's a abuse.

519
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Speaker 1: Well it's abused.

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Speaker 4: Madden. By the way, Where's where's Madden?

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Speaker 1: Madden's in Liverpool.

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Speaker 4: A soccer game.

523
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Speaker 1: Yeah, he faked in illness early in the week and

524
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Speaker 1: then he went to Liverpool.

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Speaker 4: Interesting, is he gonna be at the Is he gonna

526
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Speaker 4: be in trouble with HR?

527
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Speaker 1: I don't think we have HR. I think we actually

528
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Speaker 1: fired HR. I think we run our own ship now,

529
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Speaker 1: which is kind of weird because no one's usually in

530
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Speaker 1: charge around this place anyway. So I guess it makes

531
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Speaker 1: sense now that I say it out loud.

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Speaker 4: All right, I'm gonna talk to HR.

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Speaker 1: Well you are a part of HR. Now that you

534
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Speaker 1: say that, I forgot about that. Technically, your contract, which

535
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Speaker 1: I'm told is not iron clad, is run.

536
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Speaker 4: But it is iron clad. Who told you is not

537
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Speaker 4: iron clad?

538
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Speaker 1: Tom told me that right before you came on.

539
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Speaker 4: Oh no, no, Madden been told me it is iron clad.

540
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Speaker 1: Oh all right, Well I'll double check with the HR

541
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Speaker 1: department that no longer exists to see if it is

542
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Speaker 1: in fact iron clad. Now you get to pick three

543
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Speaker 1: games this week, but you don't get the Steelers game.

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Speaker 1: What would you have.

545
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Speaker 4: PILL had today? I had Cincinnati last night.

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Speaker 1: Well it doesn't count. You can't do that. Now, that's

547
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Speaker 1: not how it works.

548
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Speaker 4: You can't wait. Why didn't you call me on Thursday?

549
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Speaker 4: It's like a mid the Steeler game. Pick.

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Speaker 1: It says right here, mister, Friday afternoon. And I wasn't

551
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Speaker 1: on yesterday, so I'm the one that was entrusted with

552
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Speaker 1: doing this bit. If I come on Thursday, maybe I

553
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Speaker 1: would have made an adjustment. But it says here Friday afternoon,

554
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Speaker 1: and according to HR, I have to do your slot

555
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Speaker 1: on your given day or else it violates the contract,

556
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Speaker 1: which would no longer be ironclad. Well that's a cheap shot,

557
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Speaker 1: so you don't get the ad. Well, I would say

558
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Speaker 1: advantage of the Steelers game, but we saw what happened

559
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Speaker 1: last night. You still need three games. Let's start with

560
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Speaker 1: your lock of the week for this week, which can't

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Speaker 1: be the Steeler game.

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Speaker 4: Okay, well, of course it can't be the steel game.

563
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Speaker 4: It's already played. Let's pick the Falcons plus one and

564
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Speaker 4: a half at San Francisco.

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Speaker 1: That's a weird game because like, these are two teams

566
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Speaker 1: that have no idea which one is really real. I

567
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Speaker 1: know what isn't real, and that's the Buffalo run defense.

568
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Speaker 1: And Bijon went crazy last last week. I don't know

569
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Speaker 1: if he's gonna be able to do the same thing

570
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Speaker 1: against San Francisco that was just a great matchup last week.

571
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Speaker 4: Well or losing Warner hurts a lot because they love

572
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Speaker 4: They've Lostn't in the span of three weeks and lost

573
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Speaker 4: boson Warner. I think I'd rather five at their top

574
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Speaker 4: six defensive players are out. The wide receiving core is

575
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Speaker 4: still decimating. You know, Kittle's coming back this week. Their

576
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Speaker 4: quarterbacks are playing. Max Joneses been playing hurt and he's

577
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Speaker 4: been very effective, but he's still been playing hurt. Birdie's

578
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Speaker 4: not Berdie's not ready yet. And the Falcons have get

579
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Speaker 4: you know, everybody felt the Falcon's defensive stint coming into

580
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Speaker 4: the year, Like if you had fantasy football drafts, you

581
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Speaker 4: were targeting the Falcons defense at your players, like you know,

582
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Speaker 4: we're looking to, you know, draft guys that play the

583
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Speaker 4: Falcons right. They have. They have given the least amount

584
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Speaker 4: of yards to see in the NFL. And that's not

585
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Speaker 4: an accident. I mean they shut down Josh Allen. You

586
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Speaker 4: could just tell that the defensive line, which has been

587
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Speaker 4: terrible and been years past, they're They're tenacious pass rush,

588
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Speaker 4: pass rush, they disrupt everything they're excellent safeties or they

589
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Speaker 4: got a good cornerback, and they have explosive player. They

590
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Speaker 4: have an offense which you know they're making Panics a

591
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Speaker 4: game manager, but they have the type of tools that

592
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Speaker 4: that that could involve themselves in a shoot unnecessary. They

593
00:27:16,800 --> 00:27:19,080
Speaker 4: haven't had to have a shootout this year yet most

594
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Speaker 4: think they're smothering.

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Speaker 1: Most importantly, how do you think George Kittle is gonna

596
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Speaker 1: perform if he doesn't have his smelling salts or has

597
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Speaker 1: that been resolved? Does he allowed to have his smelling

598
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Speaker 1: salts again?

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Speaker 4: I don't I don't know. I don't think they're supposed

600
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Speaker 4: to have to smelling selves that they cheat. It's this

601
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Speaker 4: first game back. The Falcons am been excellent against side

602
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Speaker 4: ends this year. You know, mccaffery's not even averaging four

603
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Speaker 4: yards of carry. It's just I don't know. I'm gonna

604
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Speaker 4: ride the momentum here with Atlanta. They uh, they played

605
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Speaker 4: played a damaged team and like at San Francisco, I

606
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Speaker 4: think he's just trying to get sort and get back

607
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Speaker 4: in good health. Look quick for Atlanta to win this.

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Speaker 1: Game, all right. So that's the lock of the week.

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Speaker 1: What's the daily double?

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Speaker 4: We're playing we're playing an injuries u or travel situation

611
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Speaker 4: that worked last week. We're gonna play against that that

612
00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:13,359
Speaker 4: short strip, uh, the short week with the So the

613
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Speaker 4: Denver went overseas, and it's kind of weird. As they've

614
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Speaker 4: been doing more overseas games. They usually gave the team

615
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Speaker 4: that went overseas a week's rest when they came back.

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Speaker 4: The past couple of years have had so many of

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Speaker 4: these games, and because of scheduling, they haven't really been

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Speaker 4: able to do that. Uh yeah, yeah, well they got it,

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Speaker 4: but I'm just saying that not all the teams are

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Speaker 4: getting it. You know, last week we had the situation

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Speaker 4: where uh you know, Cleveland, who's in that spot?

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Speaker 1: Minnesota?

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Speaker 4: Uh no minute? Who to Minnesota playoffs back against So

624
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Speaker 4: the Browns came back against the Steelers. The Steelers had

625
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Speaker 4: that we're doing the same spot. Steelers had extra rest

626
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Speaker 4: against a team coming back with no rest on on

627
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Speaker 4: the on the overseas week. The Giants play on Thursday.

628
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Speaker 4: That it's extra rest. It's not been complete two weeks,

629
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Speaker 4: but they're are. You know, the bone Nicks has not

630
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Speaker 4: been playing good at all. That offense is not good

631
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Speaker 4: and you can just tell the Giants are re energize

632
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Speaker 4: with with scatted bow and Ben and Jackson Dart. Uh

633
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Speaker 4: in this game, the defense loves that loves them. They're

634
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Speaker 4: playing hard on defense. We're just going to bet against

635
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Speaker 4: that travel. So Denver probably wins. But but this is

636
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Speaker 4: gonna stay close because Denver isn't scorn enough to beat

637
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Speaker 4: anybody by margin.

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Speaker 1: All right, is it really all that or are you

639
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Speaker 1: just making the Giants the daily double because of Jackson

640
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Speaker 1: Dart's mom.

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Speaker 4: No, I'm not gonna make that the daily double.

642
00:29:40,120 --> 00:29:41,320
Speaker 1: Oh that's not the daily double.

643
00:29:42,160 --> 00:29:43,360
Speaker 4: No, that's not the daily double.

644
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Speaker 1: Okay, so then that's just your extra games. So what's

645
00:29:46,200 --> 00:29:47,400
Speaker 1: your daily double? Pick days?

646
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Speaker 4: Uh, we're going to play such another situational uh uh thing.

647
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Speaker 4: So so coaches that have been overseas at least two times,

648
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Speaker 4: okay against coaches that have never been overseas are seven

649
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Speaker 4: to zero in that spot. Okay, Now, jack Ville has

650
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Speaker 4: been overseas a lot, but this is lyon there against

651
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Speaker 4: against what's his name? Who did his last two trips?

652
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Speaker 1: Did we just give his cell phone the electric shock? Tom?

653
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Speaker 4: What? Now?

654
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Speaker 1: Your your cell phone was cutting out? So say that again?

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Speaker 1: You're doing rams and Jaguars, Is that right?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Rams, the Jaguars because Sean McVay has been over

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Speaker 4: been overseas and his teams have won a combined score

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Speaker 4: I think it was forty seven or fifty seven to ten.

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Speaker 4: He's one of the best overseas coaches. Lion Cohen has

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Speaker 4: never been over there. Coaches that have never been over

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Speaker 4: there against coaches that have been over there two times

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Speaker 4: or more are owing seven. So since a good situational spot.

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Speaker 4: The good team. I don't even care if Whoka doesn't

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Speaker 4: play because they're an uptight team. They're very well coached,

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Speaker 4: you know who. They've still got Davonte Adams and Conmen

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Speaker 4: Williams that they'll feed them. Uh take uh take the Rams.

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Speaker 4: I think the Jaguars're gonna start coming back down to

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Speaker 4: earthier that you reach.

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Speaker 1: So Atlanta plus one and a half the Giants plus seven,

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Speaker 1: the Rams minus three. I get to assign the super

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Speaker 1: collider to make us picks the doubled value, I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: go with. I don't have as much faith in Atlanta

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Speaker 1: at plus one and a half, so I'm gonna go

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Speaker 1: with Atlanta as plus one and a half is the

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Speaker 1: super collider.

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Speaker 4: Okay, so we gotta we got the lock of the

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Speaker 4: week and the super collider is Atlanta?

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Speaker 1: Is that okay? Is that allowed? Or do I have

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Speaker 1: to change course here?

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Speaker 4: That that's funny? Just remember that the rams are the

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Speaker 4: daily double.

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Speaker 1: The rams are daily double. Right, yeah, right, and we

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Speaker 1: just doubled up.

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Speaker 4: I mean you could have, but let's also not Let's

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Speaker 4: also not forget that these ticks have been made with

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Speaker 4: zero doubt.

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Speaker 1: And all of them are ironclad. Mister Friday afternoon, you're

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Speaker 2: See what I did there?

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Speaker 1: With that much money, you could buy like ten coffees.

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Speaker 2: You know what I was homeschool.

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Speaker 4: I'm not good at mouth.

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Speaker 5: Listen all day for your chance at some extra cash

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Speaker 1: Joint fonts are commading.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, but I'll be popular at Pittsburgh yet, I think

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Speaker 5: I gotta start with pull pork nachos.

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Speaker 1: Fantastic d X at one O five nine brought just

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Speaker 1: Infro Mark coming up in the five o'clock hour, We're

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Speaker 1: gonna hear from Mike de Corsi from my Friday Football show.

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Speaker 1: Mike's on weekly with Mark and he's on weekly with me,

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Speaker 1: and we broke down the entire game from last night.

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Speaker 1: Let's take a quick five minute respite from All Steelers,

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Speaker 1: All the Time today. A couple other items, including the Penguins,

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Speaker 1: who you can hear on one O five to nine,

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Speaker 1: The X tomorrow against the San Jose Sharks. It's the

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Speaker 1: last of their three game California swing before they're back

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Speaker 1: against Vancouver on Tuesday. Here on one O five to.

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Speaker 4: Nine the X.

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Speaker 1: They won against the Kings last night four to two.

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Speaker 1: And I guess they did with Kindle what they did

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Speaker 1: with Brunick where they intentionally scratched him. So these guys

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Speaker 1: are like on the Paul Skeins pitch count treatment or

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Speaker 1: something like that. It's happening in the vacuum of a

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Speaker 1: year where they're not supposed to be good anyway. So

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Speaker 1: that kinda calms me down a little bit about this also,

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Speaker 1: we're talking about I think an overall big picture view

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Speaker 1: of where the Penguins are going that if they have

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Speaker 1: a plan to sort of space out how many games

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Speaker 1: they play, that suggests to me that the plan is

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Speaker 1: to have them here for as long as possible beyond

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Speaker 1: the nine games. So if that's the case, then I

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Speaker 1: feel better about it. Or else why why not just

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Speaker 1: get nine and send them back? So that's encouraging to me.

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Speaker 1: And you know, this stuff is gonna take care of itself.

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Speaker 1: I mean, let's say that they both are up here

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Speaker 1: for the whole season. They are gonna have these healthy

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Speaker 1: scratch games just for the sake of not burning them out.

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Speaker 1: That's gonna take care of itself. Because La Tang's gonna

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Speaker 1: get hurt, a bunch of forwards are gonna get hurt.

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Speaker 1: They don't have enough at either position anyway, so they're

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Speaker 1: gonna have to play. They're not gonna have the option

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Speaker 1: to scratch them. So if they have the option to

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Speaker 1: do it now early, it's not the biggest deal in

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Speaker 1: the world. I guess it still makes me say, Okay,

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Speaker 1: you're probably overthinking this, but whatever, go ahead and do it.

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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna get my dander up about it. Something

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Speaker 1: else hockey related before we get back to the Steelers,

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Speaker 1: and one actual quick baseball note that I found interesting.

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Speaker 1: The RMU hockey team opened its season last night. They

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Speaker 1: put against Michigan number three, number four in the country

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Speaker 1: based on what pole you're looking. Colonials did well. They

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Speaker 1: were winning two to one. They were tied to two

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Speaker 1: heading in the third. They give up a goal midway

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Speaker 1: through the thirds, they were down three to two, pulled

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Speaker 1: the goalie and they lost four to two. Actually, the

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Speaker 1: guy that scored, TJ. Hughes. He was a recruit, excuse me,

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Speaker 1: a recruit that was coming to RMU that was good

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Speaker 1: enough to end up playing at Michigan. So if that

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Speaker 1: tells you where they were going before that program got

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Speaker 1: shut down for two years while it was such a

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Speaker 1: kick in the teeth beyond obvious reasons. There you go.

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Speaker 1: Michael Felsing from Pittsburgh scored, so that's good to see.

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Speaker 1: And Robert Morris tough way to start. They got Michigan

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Speaker 1: and Notre Dame before their first home game on Halloween

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Speaker 1: against Niagara, so they're really getting tested early. The baseball

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Speaker 1: item before we get back to the Steelers. Tyler Glass

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Speaker 1: now pitching for the LA Dodgers. Last night, Glass now

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Speaker 1: five and two thirds innings. He ends up giving up

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Speaker 1: just one earned run, three hits, three walks, eight strikeouts

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Speaker 1: to beat the Brewers, and now the Dodgers are on

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Speaker 1: the cusp of going back to the World Series. Here's

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Speaker 1: Glass now after the game.

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Speaker 4: Tyler, congratulations, you had to watch lastco season from the dugout.

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Speaker 1: How much better is this?

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Speaker 6: It's incredible. Yeah, to be a part of this, this

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Speaker 6: incredible group of guys. Just being in my hometown, it's

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Speaker 6: a pretty surreal feeling.

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Speaker 1: I feel great. You looked more confident at the night.

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Speaker 1: When on, How did limiting the damage early that uni grew? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: months he saved me right there.

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Speaker 6: I think early on a little like you said, not

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Speaker 6: early in the groove, rhythm was a little off, and

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Speaker 6: I think has the game kept going, I leaned on

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Speaker 6: that slider, Oh sorry, I leaned on the sinker a

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Speaker 6: lot and kind of got me more timed up and I.

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Speaker 2: Was good to go.

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Speaker 1: And I'll just say something real quick about this. First

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Speaker 1: of all, I like Glass now when is here? He

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Speaker 1: drove me crazy as a pitcher. But I really liked

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Speaker 1: him in Pittsburgh and liked the fact that he's had

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Speaker 1: some success in his iterations in Tampa in LA Beyond,

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Speaker 1: of course, he still had the injury issues, but I'm

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Speaker 1: glad to see him have some success in his hometown

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Speaker 1: with the Dodgers. And he's still got really good stuff.

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Speaker 1: And he also had a good series against the Phillies

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Speaker 1: where he came out of the bullpen to relieve show

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Speaker 1: Away for an inning and a half and put up

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Speaker 1: zeros and had a strong start over six innings against

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Speaker 1: the Phillies as well. So they'll close out that series.

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Speaker 1: And I saw someone from down the dial tweet this,

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Speaker 1: and you know, it was kind of like the tone

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Speaker 1: of the tweet was, oh, it's big market beaten up

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Speaker 1: on small market LA, beating up in Milwaukee. Stop stop stop.

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Speaker 1: And I know that's like passive defense of the Pirates

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Speaker 1: on the Pirates flagship station. But stop, that's not what

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Speaker 1: this is. This is an NL Championship series. That team,

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Speaker 1: the Brewers, got this far. This isn't about payroll. But

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Speaker 1: it's won best of seven series. The Pirates beat the

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Speaker 1: Dodgers a couple times this year. Okay, that's not what

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Speaker 1: the friggin Brewers came out of a division that have

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Speaker 1: the Cubs in it and the Cardinals, who're not a

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Speaker 1: big market. If they spend big, that's not a factor here,

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Speaker 1: all right, Like, let's not play that that sad song

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Speaker 1: on behalf of the small market teams here. Now, there's

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Speaker 1: different times. Let's worry about that when the CBA is up.

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Speaker 1: That's not what this is about. The Dodgers just might

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Speaker 1: be better. Eight three three, four thirty nine. Kevin's calling

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Speaker 1: from the North Hills. Kevin, you're on one o five

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Speaker 1: nine the X.

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Speaker 2: Hey, Tim, how are you good?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 7: The Dodgers might not just be better, they are better.

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Speaker 7: I mean I think this is their thirteenth posts. He's

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Speaker 7: in appearance. They're they're looking to repeat for sure. But

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Speaker 7: my question for you, Tim is about the Steelers. If

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Speaker 7: the hallmark of the like a championship team is that

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Speaker 7: you make adjustments and get better as the year goes on.

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Speaker 7: So you we could speak come playoff time. Do you

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Speaker 7: really see that happening with Tomlin and Austin and this defense,

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Speaker 7: which with the way they coach this defense.

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Speaker 1: Well, if you frame it that way, no, But I

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Speaker 1: also think there's a player component to this in Maybe

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Speaker 1: this is something to do with adjustments, or maybe it's

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Speaker 1: just how things work. When they've got an eighteen week,

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Speaker 1: seventeen game season, this is usually the time when the

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Speaker 1: defense is great, and I thought we had started to

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Speaker 1: see that over the last two and a half weeks,

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Speaker 1: where the defense was flying around, making plays, hitting guys hard,

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Speaker 1: jarring the ball loose, sacking the quarterback, putting themselves in

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Speaker 1: position for turnovers. This time of year, October November is

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Speaker 1: usually when the defense ascends. Then they get banged up,

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Speaker 1: they have some injury attrition, their bodies break down, and

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Speaker 1: they just aren't as good at the back half of

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Speaker 1: the seasons. Part of the reason why they collapse all

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Speaker 1: the time. It's not always about the quarterback and the offense.

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Speaker 1: In fact, it's usually in the back half of the

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Speaker 1: year more about the defense. Does that have to do

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Speaker 1: with coaching adjustments, I don't know. Maybe, or maybe it's

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Speaker 1: because they are too reliant on the defense when they're

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Speaker 1: usually pretty good in October and November. All I know

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Speaker 1: is this kind of loss that they have usually happens

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Speaker 1: in the early part of the season where they're trying

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Speaker 1: to figure things out offensively, or it happens in the

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Speaker 1: back half of the season when they start to deteriorate.

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Speaker 1: To have a loss like this in this part of

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Speaker 1: the calendar, to me is bad, not just because it's

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Speaker 1: a divisional loss, but because these are usually this is

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Speaker 1: usually the time of the Steelers make Hay. So it

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Speaker 1: did catch my attention on a lot of levels.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, and you know, we play in the AFC. There's

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Speaker 7: so many good quarterbacks and potentially good passing offenses that

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Speaker 7: we would have to go through to make a serious

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Speaker 7: championship run.

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Speaker 1: That let me ask you this, I hope I'm I'll

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Speaker 1: redirected to you this very topic because I was going

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Speaker 1: to get into this anyway to open up the next hour.

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Speaker 1: So I'll just start you off with it. What are

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Speaker 1: they doing that? What's their record the next three weeks

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Speaker 1: after what you saw last night? What's their record the

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Speaker 1: next three weeks against green Bay Indian the Chargers.

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Speaker 7: I think I actually think they'll they'll they'll fingers and

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Speaker 7: toes crushed that you know, they'll play well against green

871
00:41:17,080 --> 00:41:19,320
Speaker 7: Bay next week at home, uh, you know, with the

872
00:41:19,440 --> 00:41:23,480
Speaker 7: kind of the mini buy and just to hangover from the.

873
00:41:23,520 --> 00:41:24,480
Speaker 2: Sting of this loss.

874
00:41:24,840 --> 00:41:26,880
Speaker 7: So I think they'll they'll win that game, I really do,

875
00:41:27,520 --> 00:41:30,640
Speaker 7: and then probably one and one and those those other two.

876
00:41:30,760 --> 00:41:34,120
Speaker 7: So I'm especially with the way Rogers is playing now,

877
00:41:34,800 --> 00:41:38,120
Speaker 7: so I'm hoping in the offensive lines as well that they'll.

878
00:41:38,760 --> 00:41:39,399
Speaker 2: Be two and one.

879
00:41:39,880 --> 00:41:43,400
Speaker 1: I appreciate it. Eight three, three, four, one two nine.

880
00:41:43,440 --> 00:41:47,279
Speaker 1: I'm going one and two. I've got some concerns about

881
00:41:47,360 --> 00:41:50,880
Speaker 1: how this whole green Bay thing is gonna hang over Rogers,

882
00:41:50,880 --> 00:41:55,200
Speaker 1: and if he forces the offense and forces passes like

883
00:41:55,320 --> 00:41:58,239
Speaker 1: we saw on the deep ball to DK, this will

884
00:41:58,280 --> 00:42:01,040
Speaker 1: be I think the biggest test of where Rogers is

885
00:42:01,160 --> 00:42:05,799
Speaker 1: emotionally and mentally is this game coming up against Green Bay.

886
00:42:05,880 --> 00:42:08,520
Speaker 1: Even he said it himself, the green Bay game is

887
00:42:08,600 --> 00:42:11,040
Speaker 1: a bigger deal than the Jets game. Now, if you

888
00:42:11,160 --> 00:42:13,520
Speaker 1: use the Jets game as the launching points that it

889
00:42:13,600 --> 00:42:15,600
Speaker 1: was great against the New York is gonna be even

890
00:42:15,640 --> 00:42:19,400
Speaker 1: better against Green Bay? Yeah, I hope so. But unlike

891
00:42:19,480 --> 00:42:23,080
Speaker 1: that last caller, they've got to be asking questions about

892
00:42:23,080 --> 00:42:28,160
Speaker 1: the defense, a lot of questions about the defense, because

893
00:42:28,360 --> 00:42:30,480
Speaker 1: if you looked at the last two weeks and thought

894
00:42:30,520 --> 00:42:33,120
Speaker 1: a lot of things were solved, and you see regression

895
00:42:33,400 --> 00:42:36,000
Speaker 1: like that against a team that was primed to be

896
00:42:36,160 --> 00:42:39,920
Speaker 1: kicked to the curb and beaten down unless you talked

897
00:42:39,960 --> 00:42:43,400
Speaker 1: yourself into the Flacco angle like they did. Then I

898
00:42:43,480 --> 00:42:46,120
Speaker 1: don't know what you throw at that defense to fix

899
00:42:46,200 --> 00:42:50,279
Speaker 1: it against perceptibly three much better teams that all could

900
00:42:50,360 --> 00:42:52,440
Speaker 1: be in the playoffs next year, So I'm going with

901
00:42:52,520 --> 00:42:52,960
Speaker 1: one and two.