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Speaker 2: Show welcoming future Hall of Famer quarterback for your Pittsburgh

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Speaker 2: Steelers super Bowl champion, Ben Roethlisberger, Ladies and gentlemen.

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Speaker 1: He took the big bang like the Batman call.

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Speaker 2: I sent out the big Ben call, and he answered,

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Speaker 3: Does happen to be getting home from dropping the kids

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Speaker 3: off at school and I'm like, let me see what

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Speaker 3: they're talking about in the morning show, and then you

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Speaker 3: called me out.

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Speaker 1: Well, because I don't agree with you.

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Speaker 3: I'm used to be in pursuit of I used to

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Speaker 3: be a pursuita so this is different now. By the way,

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Speaker 3: I'm hoping he's still there. Yeah, he's I'm here.

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Speaker 2: I like to think, well, look, you know, I'm being

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Speaker 1: I just don't agree with you.

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Speaker 2: If you could explain it, explain your theory on strategy

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Speaker 2: for the Steelers going into this draft in quarterback for

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Speaker 2: this upcoming season.

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Speaker 3: Well, I've said it before and I'll coortinue to say it.

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Speaker 3: I think the I think too many teams try and

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Speaker 3: get a quarterback and try and take a flyer, maybe

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Speaker 3: not a flyer, but a chance on a quarterback, and

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Speaker 3: they build a team around a quarterback. I think that

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Speaker 3: can work sometimes if the quarterback is a quote unquote

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Speaker 3: think those are a few and far between nowadays. Look

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Speaker 3: what's going on in Arizona right now, right Kyler Murray's

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Speaker 3: getting released. Kyler Murray was the number one overall pick.

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Speaker 3: I mean they got him and they trying to build

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Speaker 3: a team around him. I'm a proponent of building a

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Speaker 3: team and then finding your quarterback to plug into that team,

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Speaker 3: because then you can kind of maybe take a chance

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Speaker 3: here or there, and if it doesn't work, you're like, Okay,

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna get a different guy. It happened with me

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Speaker 3: right like, the team was there and then I got

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Speaker 3: good situation. But build the team and then you can

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Speaker 3: put your quarterback into it. So my biggest take on

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Speaker 3: be everyone's, you know, was he Will is not like

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Speaker 3: people think he's like my cousin or something. I'm defending him.

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Speaker 3: I'm just saying, we got to give the guy a chance. Right,

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Speaker 3: he played it. He played at a high level for

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Speaker 3: a very good football team. Some would argue a minor

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Speaker 3: league NFL team, Right, Ohio State was very good. I

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Speaker 3: like the fact that I think part of it is

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Speaker 3: I like the fact that he struggled in that Oregon game. Right,

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Speaker 3: he made a mistake, he slid time, ran out, big mistake.

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Speaker 3: He doesn't go into the tank, he takes the he

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Speaker 3: takes it on himself, says I screwed up, not going

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Speaker 3: to happen again. And he goes out and pretty much

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Speaker 3: put together a national championship performance with some good players.

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Speaker 3: I'm not saying he did on his own. But and

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Speaker 3: then he sat in my basement and we did the show,

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Speaker 3: and I could just see in his eye and the

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Speaker 3: Because you look at that draft class. I'm not cause

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Speaker 3: I believe fourth round? Yeah, six six when he got

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Speaker 3: drafted in the sixth round, what did What did he do?

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Speaker 3: When he got drafted? He called, he asked for the playbook.

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Speaker 3: He wanted to dive into the offense. There are other

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Speaker 3: quarterbacks that were taken late that were celebrating and doing this,

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Speaker 3: that and the other. I just like the fact that

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Speaker 3: something to be said about that. That's just That's just

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Speaker 3: what I'm saying. Now, he may go out there and

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Speaker 3: know what, I was wrong? But how do we know

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Speaker 1: So he's like Schrodinger's quarterback.

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Speaker 2: He's simultaneously good and bad until we lift the box

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Speaker 2: off and find out. This is my issue is that

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Speaker 2: too much unknown about him. I'm not saying don't investigate

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Speaker 3: So what what happens if he's not the guy.

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Speaker 2: Randy, Well, it depends on what you're saying that you're

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Speaker 1: He's playing and you find out he's not the guy.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, if he's playing, he's not the guy. The Steelers

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Speaker 3: have a bad record in what happens they they're built

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Speaker 3: their Remember my big I guess my biggest thing in

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Speaker 3: saying this is that I don't think the Steelers should

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Speaker 3: go get a quarterback anytime in the in the first

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Speaker 3: couple of rounds, Like don't don't go get the Simpson

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Speaker 3: get receivers, get corners, get lined build this team. And

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Speaker 3: if you put Will in and Will is not worth

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Speaker 3: a lick, and you can then guess what, You're gonna

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Speaker 3: have a not a good season. And our Steeler fans

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Speaker 3: some are gonna be okay this summer or not. You're

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Speaker 3: do is you're gonna get a top pick and you

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Speaker 3: want in the draft. But while you were waiting and

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Speaker 3: seeing what Will Howard did, you were building a team

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Speaker 3: that you can plug a young quarterback into I agree

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Speaker 3: might have something here. Let's continue to build a team

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Speaker 3: and develop and see what we can do.

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Speaker 4: I agree with the not drafting one because correct me

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Speaker 4: if I'm wrong, Ben, But you can't develop two young

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Speaker 4: And second, you can't practice enough. There's not enough preseason reps.

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Speaker 4: But what what stuns me is you're as competitive a

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Speaker 4: you live that. And when did you become okay with

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Speaker 3: I'm not but I no, listen, I'm not the quarterback.

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Speaker 3: If I was the quarterback, I wouldn't I wouldn't be

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Speaker 3: the team and take a chance? And again, look what

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Speaker 3: We had two four and thirteen seasons. I mean again,

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Speaker 3: if Will's If you build a team and Will is

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Speaker 3: know what could happen. Is that not a good thing?

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Speaker 3: And if it doesn't happen, then you're building for the future. So,

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Speaker 3: assuming I know the Steeler the Rooines don't want to

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Speaker 2: So, in the scenario where Aaron Rodgers does not return,

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Speaker 2: how does Mason Rudolph fit into that? Do you just

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Speaker 2: bypass him and keep him at number two and put

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Speaker 2: Will Howard at number one out of just needing to

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean yeah, all this is obviously speculating on

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Speaker 3: Why Why wouldn't you want a guy that's approved veteran,

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Speaker 3: the point of having a good veteran is. I had

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Speaker 1: What about a cheap Kyler Murray?

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Speaker 3: Do you think he's gonna be cheap?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, because they got to pay.

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Speaker 4: He's kind into Russell's situation from a couple of years ago,

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Speaker 4: where they are they've out there, yeah thirty million or whatever.

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Speaker 3: So maybe, I mean, I think that's I think that's

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Speaker 3: if that's your What're you're just doing a one day again,

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Speaker 3: I'm I'm thinking more of you bringing a guy in

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Speaker 3: then let him compete. Let me see what he can do.

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Speaker 3: But I'm talking more about getting a guy that just

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Speaker 2: But Kyler comes back, has a pedigree as a starter

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Speaker 1: He can be the crash Davis to this.

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Speaker 2: To Will Howard in the meantime, while you're waiting to

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Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly correct. Yeah, and again it's it's you're not

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Speaker 3: You're looking for another I mean, because Will this met

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Speaker 3: last year under Aaron, he might get another year. That's

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Speaker 3: a great thing. But you get another guy in there

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Speaker 4: I know, bench just Shines came up. I got to

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Speaker 2: Last thing for you, Ben, that NFL Players Association report

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Speaker 3: It was tough. It was tough. You know, a lot

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Speaker 2: Hey man, thanks for calling in and make sure you

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Speaker 3: Oh he didn't even thanks for arguing with him, Mike.

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Speaker 1: All right, but I haven't been audio by the way.

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Speaker 2: You guys, that would be a great podcast.

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Speaker 3: It would well, it would just be us arguing me

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Speaker 5: and that's Will Howard. You know I knew about Will

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Speaker 5: watching him ball out for Ohio State. I didn't really

438
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Speaker 5: pay a ton of attention. It was a Kansas State

439
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Speaker 5: I'll be honest with you, But but I loved watching

440
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Speaker 5: him with Ohio State because obviously age was there and

441
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Speaker 5: I followed the team for a long time and enjoy

442
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Speaker 5: enjoy watching them. But I didn't know what to expect

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Speaker 5: when Will came in or how would be with me

444
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Speaker 5: and and Mason for the in Sky for that matter

445
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Speaker 5: as well. But the room was a fantastic room. I mean,

446
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Speaker 5: I love those guys and we still have a group

447
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Speaker 5: group chat that lights up all the time. But but

448
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Speaker 5: Will in general, I think has what it takes from

449
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Speaker 5: a personality and a moxie standpoint to have a long

450
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Speaker 5: career in the league. Don't know what's gonna happen to

451
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Speaker 5: the light bullets start flying, But I really I went

452
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Speaker 5: to him early in the season, early camp, and I said, listen,

453
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Speaker 5: I help you as much or as little as you want.

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Speaker 5: You know, it's kind of my my nature to inject,

455
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Speaker 5: you know, during a drill work or during a meeting,

456
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Speaker 5: because I want you to see the game the way

457
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Speaker 5: I see it, and I want you to be thinking

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Speaker 5: about the things that a young player should be thinking about.

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Speaker 5: And a lot of this goes back to when I

460
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Speaker 5: was a young player and how I was treated, And

461
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Speaker 5: it's the way that I wanted to treat my backups

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Speaker 5: when I became a starter, and and and the way

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Speaker 5: that I you know, I feel like I worked with

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Speaker 5: Jordan love uh and and Zach and New York. You know,

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Speaker 5: that was only for a year, but but I really

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Speaker 5: wanted to pour into Will and make sure he knew

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Speaker 5: that cared about him and I wanted him to be successful.

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Speaker 5: And anybody who's in the trope and watching practice was like,

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Speaker 5: damn this will hour, damn good. I mean, he was

470
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Speaker 5: having a real nice camp until he had a fluke injury,

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Speaker 5: which kind of allowed him to just kind of reset

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Speaker 5: and learn the game. And you know, I was just

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Speaker 5: going through his rehab on and the different things, and

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Speaker 5: throughout the season it was fun to see him get

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Speaker 5: suited up later in the year.

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Speaker 2: All right, he poured into Will Howard. All Right, Okay,

477
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Speaker 2: next is his wife apparently, but yeah, the good news

478
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Speaker 2: is he's a fan of Will Howard. I don't think

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Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers is coming back.

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Speaker 3: Did that interview solidify.

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Speaker 1: That for me? You kind of did well. We'll hear

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Speaker 1: what Pursuit has to say about that.

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Speaker 2: Coming up Soft Dumps with Steve or with Joe Barnik

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Speaker 2: Steve Burne live in studio for you still to come

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Speaker 2: as well. We've got a packed ask Guy Junker, Big Cat,

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Speaker 2: and a whole lot more coming up here on the

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Speaker 2: DV Morning Show.

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Speaker 5: And you played the greatest foll in the world.

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Speaker 1: For me only if you can pick it.

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Speaker 3: You picked his.

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Speaker 2: What your take is on the Aaron Rodgers Barbara Walters

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Speaker 2: hour on the MacAfee show. There, I know you sat

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Speaker 2: and transcribed the entire thing. Yeah, yeah, here's what drives

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Speaker 2: me crazy about that.

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Speaker 3: Before you go any further.

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Speaker 2: Number one, he constantly says, You're not gonna see me

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Speaker 2: in the public eye when this is all over.

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Speaker 1: Forget about it. I'm gonna be kaiser Jose. Okay.

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Speaker 2: Oh so that means you're coming back. No, I haven't decided. Well,

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Speaker 2: then why are you on the radio? Like, why are

509
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Speaker 2: you on a podcast?

510
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Speaker 1: What do you do?

511
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Speaker 2: I thought you're going away. I thought you hate the publicity.

512
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Speaker 2: If you hate the publicity, why are you always doing

513
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Speaker 2: things like that? It's so aggravating and I can't even

514
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Speaker 2: imagine what that must be like to deal with in

515
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Speaker 2: the Steelers organization right now, unless he knows and he

516
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Speaker 2: told them he's coming back, which I know, that's what

517
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Speaker 2: you think. That interview made me think, like, I don't

518
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Speaker 2: know if he is. He just whined for two hours.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I just caught the highlights on social media and

520
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Speaker 4: some of the reports, but.

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Speaker 1: Not just wine. He said some cool stuff. Don't get

522
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Speaker 1: me wrong. It didn't change my opinion.

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Speaker 4: I got the vibe I got from the Steelers at

524
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Speaker 4: the combine was that they're okay with it. They did

525
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Speaker 4: this last year, They're willing to do it again. Now,

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Speaker 4: Omar Khan did say in Indianapolis that quote, I think

527
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Speaker 4: neither side wants to have this drag on like it

528
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Speaker 4: did last year. It went to June fifth last year. Yeah,

529
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Speaker 4: right before mandatory veteran mini camp. Rogers telling Pat McAfee yesterday, quote,

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Speaker 4: there's been no deadline that's been put in front of me.

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Speaker 4: There's no contract offer or anything. So there's nothing that

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Speaker 4: I'm having to debate between. I'm a free agent. I'm

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Speaker 4: enjoying my time with my wife and enjoying this part

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Speaker 4: of the offseason, and I think there's conversations to be

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Speaker 4: had down the line, but right now, there hasn't been

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Speaker 4: any progressive conversations. Yeah, so he'll get around to figure

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Speaker 4: that out. When he gets around the figuring it out,

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Speaker 4: then I.

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Speaker 2: Think he's coming back when it's all about football with him.

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Speaker 2: It's fine, yeah, but when he gets outside of it, man,

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Speaker 2: he is so hard to listen to and it's hard

542
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Speaker 2: to root for. But just like last year, if he

543
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Speaker 2: ends up being our quarterback, I'm all in the moment,

544
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Speaker 2: he's our quarterback.

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Speaker 1: Until then he annoys a piss on of me.

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Speaker 4: Smaller Steeler news yesterday anam chefter reporting that tight end

547
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Speaker 4: John new Smith is going to be released. This should

548
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Speaker 4: come as a surprise to no one. I was told

549
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Speaker 4: in the locker room clean out day. Smith took his

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Speaker 4: helmet with him, kind of an indication that he didn't

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Speaker 4: think he would be.

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Speaker 3: Bad parting gift. He's keeping all those helment.

553
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Speaker 1: Profound failure and profound failure. This is a guy.

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Speaker 4: In twenty twenty four with Miami, which had great wide

555
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Speaker 4: receivers and quarterback issues, caught eighty eight passes for eight

556
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Speaker 4: hundred and eighty four yards average ten yards to catch,

557
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Speaker 4: and scored eight touchdowns in the Arthur Smith offense. The

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Speaker 4: tight end guru of tight end gurus, John new Smith

559
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Speaker 4: caught thirty eight balls for two hundred and twenty two

560
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Speaker 4: yards five point eight per catch and two tds. He

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Speaker 4: also rushed for a touchdown because they had him carry

562
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Speaker 4: the ball out of the backfield nine times for some reason.

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Speaker 2: Well, I do lay a lot of the blame on

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Speaker 2: Arthur Smith. I don't understand why he was deployed the

565
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Speaker 2: way he was.

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Speaker 4: I him at the expense of Friarmuth. Somebody's gonna have

567
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Speaker 4: to explain that to me. I'm like everybody else.

568
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Speaker 2: But even Aaron Rodgers said it yesterday with McAfee that

569
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Speaker 2: Friarmuth was real professional in the way he handled getting

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Speaker 2: screwed over by them using Johnny Smith instead of him.

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Speaker 1: He was, I would concur it.

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Speaker 4: I came up periodically throughout the season and farm never.

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Speaker 1: But why is the quarterback agreeing with that?

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Speaker 2: How isn't Aaron Rodgers making more of a stink about

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Speaker 2: that with Arthur Smith during the season.

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Speaker 1: Maybe he did. I can't believe that he didn't have

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Speaker 1: more sway with him on.

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Speaker 4: That, eh, you know, I mean, I think he's got

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Speaker 4: some sway when he's standing behind the center and he's

580
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Speaker 4: looking at the defense.

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Speaker 1: He can only do so much about personnelity.

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Speaker 4: I don't know that he can drag a guy off

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Speaker 4: the sideline. He's got sway, But I think a lot

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Speaker 4: of times it's not as much as people think.

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Speaker 2: Well, hold on, now, you were also one of the

586
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Speaker 2: people like banging the drum of this is a guy

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Speaker 2: who's working in concert with him.

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Speaker 1: You know what I mean.

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Speaker 2: I don't mean to say like, I'm not trying to

590
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Speaker 2: like single you out. We all thought that was one

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Speaker 2: of the benefits of having Aaron Rodgers is that you have.

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Speaker 1: A tascit oc on the field.

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Speaker 4: Oh and I think the conversations during the week, in

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Speaker 4: the game planning, I think he's heavily involved in all that.

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Speaker 4: But when he's on the field and the other guy's

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Speaker 4: on the sideline, right, there's nothing he can do about that. Now,

597
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Speaker 4: you can pitch about it and say I want him

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Speaker 4: out there, But if he's not out there, he's not

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Speaker 4: out there.

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Speaker 2: I can't believe he wouldn't in one of those Thursday

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Speaker 2: scrums have gone out there and be like, yeah, I'd

602
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Speaker 2: like to see eighty eight on the field. They'll get

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Speaker 2: to use him a little bit more. I think he

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Speaker 2: sort of danced around it a little bit. He doesn't

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Speaker 2: dance around anything.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, sometimes he does. Sometimes he does.

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Speaker 2: He didn't dance around anything yesterday, jumped up and down on.

608
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Speaker 2: Apparently wants his wife to jump up and down on him.

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Speaker 2: That was the big takeaway, big.

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Speaker 4: Trade in the NFL as well. Yesterday schefter Adam Schefter

611
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Speaker 4: of VSPN reporting that the Chiefs are sending all pro

612
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Speaker 4: cornerback Trent McDuffie to the Rams in exchange for the

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Speaker 4: number twenty nine overall selection in this draft and then

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Speaker 4: a twenty twenty sixth, fifth and sixth round pick and

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Speaker 4: a twenty twenty seventh third round pick. Mcduffee's entering the

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Speaker 4: last year of his rookie contract. That is an interesting

617
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Speaker 4: acquisition by the Rams. They have two picks in the

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Speaker 4: first round. Twenty nine is the second one. I was

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Speaker 4: actually playing around with a mock draft yesterday and I

620
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Speaker 4: had them taking a corner, So that gives me a

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Speaker 4: little faith and I'm on the right track.

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Speaker 3: Sometimes you're on the right track most of the time.

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Speaker 4: And by the way, twenty first overall, Yeah, there were

624
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Speaker 4: wide receivers available, and I took the guard from Penn.

625
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Speaker 2: State because there's more free agent wide receivers than there

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Speaker 2: are guards.

627
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Speaker 4: More otherwide receiveing. That guy's the best guard and he

628
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Speaker 4: was still on the board. Gard will be there for

629
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Speaker 4: ten years wide receiver you only get for six.

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Speaker 1: And it's still trench. Just man, it's a QB like,

631
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Speaker 1: actually it's not. It's a football league. He's yelling at damage.

632
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Speaker 1: Yes he's not in the room. Tweet yeah yesterday.

633
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Speaker 4: It's how many times have got to see teams win

634
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Speaker 4: the Super Bowl because they can run the ball and

635
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Speaker 4: play defense and do all the things. Well, yes, you

636
00:28:25,680 --> 00:28:28,720
Speaker 4: have to have a good quarterback. Sam Donald's not Patrick

637
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Speaker 4: Mahomes or Tom Braid and they just won.

638
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Speaker 2: But all right, yes, and Kenth Walker was the MVP.

639
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Speaker 2: But Sam Donald is in a I don't want to

640
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Speaker 2: say elite, but he's a top five NFL quarterback right now.

641
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Speaker 1: Very good. I don't know if he's top five or not.

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Speaker 3: Who you got in front of him, I'd have to

643
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Speaker 3: think of That's what I'm saying, Like.

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Speaker 2: You still have Mahomes at number one? Is he still

645
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Speaker 2: your Springsteen? He's incredible?

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Speaker 1: Yes?

647
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Speaker 2: Okay, because I mean he didn't exactly have a boss ear.

648
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Speaker 1: I mean Stafford's pretty good, right, really good? The MVP

649
00:29:05,440 --> 00:29:08,200
Speaker 1: is really good. And how'd that work out? Did they

650
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Speaker 1: win the Super Bowl? Almost? Because yeah? Almost? Okay, all right? Almost?

651
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Speaker 1: On's have prayed for almost but why didn't they? Was

652
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Speaker 1: it because.

653
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Speaker 2: They relied on their quarterback too much? That guy made

654
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Speaker 2: maybe the most impressive throw of the year on that

655
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Speaker 2: third down.

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Speaker 1: Is Jalen Hurts like elite? Top three? Top five?

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Speaker 3: I thought?

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Speaker 1: I thought Jalen.

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Speaker 2: Hurts season when they won what put him? He was

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Speaker 2: a top ten quarterback that year for sure?

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Speaker 4: I mean, you need a goodman. Don't get me wrong.

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Speaker 4: I don't want a bad quarterback, but you need more

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Speaker 4: than that.

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Speaker 1: I know. But it can't be Trent til for.

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Speaker 4: And that's why teams draft the way they do and

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Speaker 4: signed guys the way they do and developed guys the

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Speaker 4: way they do.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I'm with you. You don't have to

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Speaker 2: have the best quarterback in the league. I just don't

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Speaker 2: think Gino Smith wins your Super Bowl, no argument. Abby's

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Speaker 2: got your news. Top of the Hour Working for Fries,

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Speaker 2: Kenny Wood has a hiring opportunity this weekend and the

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Speaker 2: the week that was with your Pittsburgh Penguins from our

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Speaker 2: buddy Joe Bartneck's soft Dump segment coming up, and look

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Speaker 2: ahead at a weekend where they have Buffalo to night

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Speaker 2: and they have, as he calls them, the Creamsickles, the

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Speaker 2: Philly Flyers.

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Speaker 1: They gotta do God's work.

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Speaker 2: They gotta get God's work, indeed, beating the Flyers. Steve

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Speaker 1: Offense with Joe Bartnick on DVE. Yeah, Joey B. Booker's Barkin.

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Speaker 1: Everybody's excited. What's going on?

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Speaker 2: Man?

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Speaker 7: Oh, I'm just happy that NHL hockey is back, Randall

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Speaker 7: and everybody, I mean, thank god. Three weeks, three good games.

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Speaker 7: I mean they say it's best on best. It's not

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Speaker 7: best on best, the NHL's best on best. I mean,

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Speaker 7: did they act like the NHL's the AHL or the KJO.

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Speaker 7: I saw the Olympics. I saw better games at the

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Speaker 7: Castle Shannon night Men's.

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Speaker 3: League for those reason.

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Speaker 2: Well, look, you can't get down on the gold medal

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Speaker 2: game though, I mean, that was about as exciting as

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Speaker 2: it cats.

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Speaker 7: No, he was absolutely exciting, except it was one of

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Speaker 7: those things where you know, instant gratification, but then you

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Speaker 7: have to live with it, kind of like an STD

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Speaker 7: you know.

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Speaker 1: Right of course, you know what I mean. It was like, oh,

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Speaker 1: you know, I just oh.

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Speaker 3: It's not gonna play. That's awesome.

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Speaker 7: Now I can cheer like Hacksaw Duggan for the United

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Speaker 7: States of America.

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Speaker 3: But then the next six weeks I'm peeing.

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Speaker 1: Fire, you know.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, so far, so good with the for the.

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Speaker 1: Penguins without Sydney Cross.

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Speaker 7: No, you know, it's been Geno Machino. I don't know

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Speaker 7: if he's think a new contractor or not, but he's

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Speaker 7: been fantastic and five out of six points on the weekend.

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Speaker 3: You can't beat that.

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Speaker 7: Top five penalty kill, top five power play, and just

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Speaker 7: a fun night all around, the first night with New

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Speaker 7: Jersey coming to town.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I don't think he had that great

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Speaker 2: of the game against Boston, but I don't know that

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Speaker 2: any of them did.

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Speaker 3: No, you know, they.

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Speaker 7: Never played good against Boston, but you know what, they

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Speaker 7: had such a great run, it didn't really matter. It's

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Speaker 7: like we're always gonna lose in Boston anyway. So okay,

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Speaker 7: I mean, you know, to come back, Jack, Oh Jack

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Speaker 7: hughes emotion. He's like, I'll never forget Pittsburgh, Like.

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Speaker 3: What did he do? You go to?

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Speaker 2: What?

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Speaker 3: He eat? A Danny's and getting up on Mount.

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Speaker 1: Washington in old fashioned sure? Oh yeah, you know.

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Speaker 7: Then we were so on such a high after beating Jersey.

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Speaker 7: Then we go to Massive Square Garden and we lose

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Speaker 7: to the Rangers. You blow a two goal leads. I

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Speaker 7: hate the Rangers almost as much as going back to

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Speaker 7: Adam Graves days. Yes, I mean because I hate that goaltender, Randy.

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Speaker 7: He's He's my most hated Russian, even more than Putin.

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Speaker 1: I can't stand the guy.

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Speaker 7: He flops when you touch him. He flops like a ballerina,

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Speaker 7: like a Russian ballerina. I can't pronounce the name of

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Speaker 7: or spell, but that's the guy. He irritates hell on me.

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Speaker 7: But that's okay because all my was over Sunday, mister

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Speaker 7: Rogers day. It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood, A

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Speaker 7: beautiful day in the neighborhood, and we made.

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Speaker 1: The most of it, Randy.

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Speaker 7: I mean, people talk about the greatest sweaters in hockey,

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Speaker 7: the red wings of Blackhawks, the Canadians. No, it's the

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Speaker 7: mister Rogers win sweater. That's the greatest sweater in hockey.

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Speaker 7: You know what, And we took mister Rogers lessons. There's

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Speaker 7: Vegas never does. What did they do? They didn't treat

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Speaker 7: Mark Andre Flurry right, that's not what mister Rogers would do. No,

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Speaker 7: so we taught him a lesson. We spanked them five nothing.

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Speaker 7: Did you see Riley Smith's face? Yeah, you didn't like

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Speaker 7: being here. But that's not very mister Rogers like, is it.

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Speaker 7: You didn't make any friends in this new down go

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Speaker 7: back to Vegas?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean pretty impressive.

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Speaker 2: It would have been great if they somehow could have

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Speaker 2: stolen one from the Bruins the other night. But back

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Speaker 2: at it against Buffalo and then this weekend, it doesn't

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Speaker 2: get a whole lot easier for him, and you know,

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Speaker 2: the Philadelphia Flyers making their way in here as part

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Speaker 2: of a twofer.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, Buffalo is gonna be tough, but you know, this

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Speaker 7: weekend we have to beat the cream Stickles I mean,

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Speaker 7: let's face it, if we only win seven games a year,

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Speaker 7: it's got to be against the cream Stickles.

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Speaker 3: And then Boston. I mean, we owe them because they

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Speaker 3: hate us.

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Speaker 1: They hate us because they can't be us.

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Speaker 3: They think we stole black and Gold. We didn't.

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Speaker 7: The original Pittsburgh Pirates before the original Sixer was the

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Speaker 7: Pittsburgh Pirates in the twenties. Then they hate us because

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Speaker 7: you know, oh, I'm sorry, Ray Board can't stop Mary o'lemieux,

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Speaker 7: and we went to Stanley Cups in nineteen ninety one

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Speaker 7: and ninety two. Then they hate us because of all

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Speaker 7: Sam was and hey, it's not my fault. It's not

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Speaker 7: our fault that cam Neely's week. If cam Deally and all,

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Speaker 7: they build a statue Camuley's wife. He doesn't Camuy hit

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Speaker 7: the exercise bike. Instead of whining, he would have rehabbed

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Speaker 7: me to pass.

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Speaker 1: Dude, I hope Bill Burr doesn't hear this. You're never

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Speaker 1: gonna hear the end of it.

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Speaker 3: Oh, believe me.

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Speaker 7: He tried to ruin my Olympic. He tried to ruin

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Speaker 7: my Olympic experience. I'm like, yeah, us can't win with

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Speaker 7: that seat. He goes Byer Nigga has to come back

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Speaker 7: to your dirty birds.

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Speaker 3: He was screaming to me.

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Speaker 7: But I want to talk about we have a problem, Randy,

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Speaker 7: the Penguins. We can't we can't win a face off

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Speaker 7: or thirty three percent. It's like a face off to

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Speaker 7: like a fifty a coin to us, it's like playing black.

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Speaker 7: It's like playing roulette. It's black or red or black

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Speaker 7: or if they're five reds in the road, you know,

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Speaker 7: justice would be a black thirty three percent. I say,

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Speaker 7: take Benino off the bench, put him in a game.

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Speaker 7: He's gotta be better than Kevin Hayes. Kevin Hayes is

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Speaker 7: so slow. He's like watching frozen ketchup being poured behind

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Speaker 7: ketch It either there or trade deadline. Bring back Sweaty

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Speaker 7: Teddy because we're in a playoff race, baby, and I'm

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Speaker 7: going to crush your face.

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Speaker 2: Joe Bartnick Soft Dums PuckOff podcast and also two for

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Speaker 7: two for talking special Trade deadline episode at two thirty.

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Speaker 1: Eastern today or Friday on Friday.

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Speaker 2: to check that out, Joe Bartnick.

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Speaker 1: And then when are you coming back to Pittsburgh.

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Speaker 3: I'll be back in. I'll be back.

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Speaker 7: Killing a DV late next week. And then we got

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Speaker 2: March twenty six at the Cadence Club, Joe Bartnick, make

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