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Speaker 1: It is your radio home of the Pittsburgh Steelers one

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Speaker 1: or two point five DV Randy Bauman and the DV

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Speaker 1: Morning Show, getting you set for Monday nights Steelers Texans

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Speaker 1: wildcard matchup at Akroscher Stadium and joining us right now

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Speaker 1: from the Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker Patrick Queen.

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Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen, what's up man, I'm good, y'all. I mean,

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Speaker 2: we're doing real good.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know if you can feel the

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Speaker 1: difference in this city right now. Are you feeling the

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Speaker 1: after effects of Steeler Nation after that absolutely outstanding wind

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Speaker 1: Sunday night?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm feeling it obviously, just knowing like the history,

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Speaker 3: so what this place that's going through in the last

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Speaker 3: couple of years with playoffs and stuff. So definitely getting

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Speaker 3: both of the emotions out of fans right now.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, two years removed from being a raven, but with

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Speaker 1: your history in Baltimore, did Sunday Night's win hold any

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Speaker 1: extra meaning for you?

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Speaker 2: Patrick?

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Speaker 4: Na?

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Speaker 3: Honestly, it was just all about getting the still as

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Speaker 3: a win and just continuing in.

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Speaker 4: Our lives in the football world.

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Speaker 3: Honestly, It's just it was just strictly about us and

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Speaker 3: trying to get into the playoffs and being able to

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Speaker 3: you know, continue our season.

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Speaker 1: So I mean I watched the replay of the missed

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Speaker 1: field goal about one hundred times. I'm not sure why,

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Speaker 1: but all Steeler fans, we've all watched that moment to

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Speaker 1: just relive the big the big rush of serotonin, the

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Speaker 1: whatever it does.

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Speaker 2: Every time I watch it, it's.

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Speaker 1: Just I get that same feeling of like this is

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Speaker 1: so great, like he.

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Speaker 2: Does he never makes it.

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Speaker 1: But I notice you couldn't watch that field goal on

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Speaker 1: you know, on the replay, you just kept your head forward.

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Speaker 2: Do you remember the moment you became aware it was

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Speaker 2: no good?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: I remember, like I was just like sitting there just

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Speaker 3: look at her. He like I know, everybody like saying

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Speaker 3: like they got like a junk Moe Trn at the

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Speaker 3: end of the stadium in stuff. And I wasn't even

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Speaker 3: looking at that, like I was looking at history of

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Speaker 3: Everything was blurry. And I remember Peyton just like running

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Speaker 3: and grabbing me like he missed.

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Speaker 4: Was crazy.

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Speaker 2: In the stadium just erupted.

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Speaker 3: Right, it was crazy, Like I didn't because it was

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Speaker 3: a lot of fans from both sides. But when they erupted,

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Speaker 3: I ain't have a clue what side it was.

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Speaker 4: All I remember it was Page just running. I'm like

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Speaker 4: you missed, missed uh.

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Speaker 1: Coach tomlin uh the other day was talking about coach

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Speaker 1: Harbaugh uh and getting fired in Baltimore. Given your experience

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Speaker 1: there was that. Was that a surprise to you and

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Speaker 1: did you get along with coach Harbor?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it definitely was a surprise because he's a good coach,

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Speaker 3: he's a good person, and I know, you know, it

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Speaker 3: was a down year.

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Speaker 4: And it's just tough, man.

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Speaker 3: It's just tough, especially you know the coach who or

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Speaker 3: the organization brought me in and that was my coach

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Speaker 3: my whole time there. Just seeing how you always had

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Speaker 3: my back when I was there, it definitely, you know,

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Speaker 3: stung a little bit, even though I'm on the other

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Speaker 3: side now, because you know, you grow relationships with people

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Speaker 3: that's a lifetime. Man. It definitely was surprising, but I

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Speaker 3: understand how the organization is and you know, they feel

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Speaker 3: like it's best that they went now because they have

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Speaker 3: a roster that can so you know, it kind of

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Speaker 3: it was a surprise, but at the same time, I

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Speaker 3: can understand where the're coming from.

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Speaker 4: Patrick.

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Speaker 5: You were speaking with a couple of us in the

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Speaker 5: locker room in late December about the progress the defense

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Speaker 5: was making and why, and you talked about, you know,

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Speaker 5: the players getting together and hashing it out, and you

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Speaker 5: could feel the tension in the air, but it was

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Speaker 5: still constructive and positive. It wasn't guys just ripping on

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Speaker 5: each other. And you know how Mike Tomlin wanted you

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Speaker 5: and Terrell Austin to kind of get on the same

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Speaker 5: page with one another. Is that something a play caller,

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Speaker 5: slash linebacker and a defensive coordinator. Is that maybe something

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Speaker 5: that people don't realize how well those guys have to

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Speaker 5: work together for a defense to work.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think that's the biggest thing.

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Speaker 3: Like everybody has to get along and has to understand

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Speaker 3: where everybody's coming from. Like one person's off and not

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Speaker 3: on the same face, and they could throw everybody off,

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Speaker 3: and that's a recipe for disaster. And honestly, like it's

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Speaker 3: just it's just so much that goes into every single

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Speaker 3: day of the football life, like just with putting in

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Speaker 3: calls and seeing how the d line needs there to

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Speaker 3: car seeing how the dvs need her to call, whether

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Speaker 3: there's what Mike Toland and uh T a want to

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Speaker 3: see per play or whatever it may be. Like, there's

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Speaker 3: just so much stuff that goes into every single day.

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Speaker 3: So it's definitely it's definitely a job and it's definitely

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Speaker 3: a task. But that's why you love the sport. That's

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Speaker 3: why you you know, if you're a competitor and you're

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Speaker 3: you're a person that you know holds yourself accountable, things

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Speaker 3: like this drives you. And you know, every single day

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Speaker 3: I come into work and there's always something new, and

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Speaker 3: you know, I get into our little stand off about

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Speaker 3: some things and stuff, but for the most part, we

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Speaker 3: always got good things going on. We're always talking about

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Speaker 3: ball and trying to get better.

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Speaker 5: So do you feel like it getting called more the

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Speaker 5: way you'd like it to be called now or are

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Speaker 5: you guys just executing it better.

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Speaker 3: I don't think it matters about whether I like it

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Speaker 3: or now. I think it just matters that we're in

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Speaker 3: a good position to be able to play how we

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Speaker 3: need to play. Just I think with everybody just understanding

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Speaker 3: the defense and maybeing like detailed, thousand guys understanding like, hey,

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Speaker 3: I gotta do my job.

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Speaker 4: I can't freelance. So I think that's the biggest thing

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Speaker 4: about our defense.

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Speaker 1: Patrick, The fan base has a much different vibe going

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Speaker 1: into the postseason about the Steelers' chances in this first

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Speaker 1: week the wild card for the NFL playoffs. Do you

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Speaker 1: guys feel like you have a better chance to actually

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Speaker 1: make a run here than you did last year?

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Speaker 3: And if so, why, yeah, I definitely do. Just from

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Speaker 3: a defense speaking wise, you know, we got playmakers every

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Speaker 3: single position who got confidence in every single guy. We

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Speaker 3: got confidence in the play calls with no matter what

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Speaker 3: it is, because we know we got each other's back.

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Speaker 3: We know we could go out there and execute and

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Speaker 3: do it at a high level. But that's the thing

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Speaker 3: we got to execute, and we know, you know, the

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Speaker 3: execution wasn't there on our part, mostly there that last game,

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Speaker 3: and we could be better with that and.

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Speaker 4: Everybody understands that knows that.

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Speaker 3: So plus you ain't got you know, everybody's most hated

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Speaker 3: team in the playoffs again, so you know, you can

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Speaker 3: hear people talking about it all the time, like the

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Speaker 3: ALC is a toss up, the NFC is up. Nobody's

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Speaker 3: really talking about any powerhouses. So at the end of

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Speaker 3: the day, you know, why not why not make our

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Speaker 3: legacy being that powerhouse that just ran through the playoffs,

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Speaker 3: you know, but it starts with this game. It starts

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Speaker 3: with figureing sake, since we got a great team. But

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Speaker 3: you know, and then the day were feeling very confident

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Speaker 3: about ourselves.

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Speaker 5: Patrick, you told me in the spring you thought you

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Speaker 5: might have had food poisoning before before that Baltimore playoff

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Speaker 5: game last year. Are you gonna get somebody to test

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Speaker 5: your meal?

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Speaker 2: How do you work around that happening again?

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Speaker 4: My mom's cooking.

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Speaker 3: I'm not taking no chances cook.

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Speaker 1: I mean, what do you think post is the biggest

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Speaker 1: threat Monday night from CJ.

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Speaker 2: Stroud and company?

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Speaker 3: Uh, just just poise and all those guys play hard.

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Speaker 4: They got athletes in.

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Speaker 3: Every single position that could get the ball to do damage,

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Speaker 3: and they got a golphins of line. I think when

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Speaker 3: you look at that team, they haven't turned the ball

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Speaker 3: over much at all, and they're really efficient. So the

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Speaker 3: big key for us is getting them in the long

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Speaker 3: down the distances and try to let our dut.

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Speaker 1: Eat Patrick Queen Pittsburgh Steelers, Patrick, go get them on

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Speaker 1: Monday night.

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Speaker 2: Thanks so much for your time this morning. We appreciate it.

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Speaker 4: We'll do appreciate y'all.

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Speaker 2: Okay Man we'll see him