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Speaker 1: Your tunes about Drive on your twenty four to seven

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Speaker 1: Home of the Black and Goal Steelers Nation Radio.

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Speaker 2: It is the first time that Matt and I have

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Speaker 2: ever been in Dublin in Ireland, but boy, it sure

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Speaker 2: feels like home. And if you're listening to the background, welcome,

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Speaker 2: very warm welcome from the people, from the culture. From

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Speaker 2: as we mentioned, the weather which has been unseasonably nice

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Speaker 2: these these past two days. You can also hear I'm

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Speaker 2: trying to turn the microphone off a little bit, but

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Speaker 2: Renegade has been blasted in the background. I mean, it's

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Speaker 2: just been absolutely incredible. And so you know what, Matt,

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Speaker 2: we are today and tomorrow on the show, we'll bob

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Speaker 2: and weave between Ireland and Dublin conversation and you know,

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Speaker 2: just Steelers, Vikings x's and o's and specific game stuff.

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Speaker 2: Let's chase the shiny silver object.

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Speaker 3: Forgot it?

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Speaker 2: If you er maybe chased a Blarney stone or something

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Speaker 2: like that here. That's the one thing that I actually

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Speaker 2: haven't thought about until just now. I wonder where the

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Speaker 2: Blarney stone is.

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Speaker 4: Mentioned to you last night that I have a good

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Speaker 4: buddy that lived here briefly.

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Speaker 3: You did tell me this last night.

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Speaker 4: And said don't kiss, don't kiss the Blarney stone. The

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Speaker 4: locals like to uh use it as a journal a

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Speaker 4: laugh of themselves, like.

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Speaker 3: I'm picking up what you're putting down.

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Speaker 4: Who's gonna kiss this stupid stone right now? I'm not

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Speaker 4: making it might be not stupid, but whatever he said,

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Speaker 4: the locals will get a little chuckle out of that

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Speaker 4: that someone's gonna kiss this tomorrow or whatever.

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Speaker 3: Right, Oh goodness, gracious, yeah, just be careful out there.

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Speaker 2: I uh, I don't think I would have kissed the

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Speaker 2: Blarney stone before you know that information, but definitely definitely.

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Speaker 3: Now I'm not a germophobe. But I'm good on that.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm good on that.

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Speaker 3: You could, you could? I can pass on that. Uh Matt,

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Speaker 3: let's do a little you know you.

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Speaker 2: You and I would do this funny thing on Wednesdays,

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Speaker 2: typically on the show called Best of the West, where

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Speaker 2: it's just power rankings.

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Speaker 3: It's just kind of tough to take power rankings.

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Speaker 4: And that's what so far, we've just done best Teams Georgia.

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Speaker 2: Yes, and we will switch it up throughout the year.

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Speaker 2: We'll start doing best Quarterbacks and some other things like

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Speaker 2: that as we roll along. But how about a little

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Speaker 2: best of the West today. We just tell some stories

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Speaker 2: and peel back the curtain on some guinness. Uh, you know,

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Speaker 2: visits and what where do you want to start? You

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Speaker 2: want to go first?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think you'll get a kick out of my evening.

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Speaker 4: I mean, so we went pretty strong, and it was

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Speaker 4: for us during the day, you know.

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Speaker 2: I mean we also slept for like three four hours

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Speaker 2: on the flight, long.

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Speaker 4: Day, in very little sleep period. I got a strong

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Speaker 4: hour at the hotel, and then we were out and about,

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Speaker 4: having a blast, pounding guinnesses and having a good time.

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Speaker 4: So remarkably I hadn't like eaten it all. Every step

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Speaker 3: I kept telling for three hours we meet.

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Speaker 4: Somebody, and I'd forget about it, and would go somewhere

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Speaker 4: looked at each other like we should probably hang it up. Probably,

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Speaker 4: so I grab a five guys Burger. Didn't even realize

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Speaker 4: when I put put posted in I got an extra paddy,

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Speaker 4: so it was a triple decker when I got home. Jesus,

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Speaker 4: thing's ridiculous. But I'm starving, So anyway, I get back

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Speaker 4: to my room, crush the burger hadn't eaten it like

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Speaker 4: all day. I mean I honestly had like a cliff

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Speaker 4: but I'm tired. But I'm like it's still like eight o'clock.

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Speaker 4: I mean, I'm like not programmed to go to bed.

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Speaker 4: If I could have bed before midnight, it's weird, weird

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Speaker 3: Now you're looking at there a night out.

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Speaker 4: I'm just looking at the clock like it's eight o'clock.

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Speaker 4: There's things to be done. So, I mean, as people

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Speaker 4: I grabbed my laptop laying in bed. What's that We're

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Speaker 4: live on the radio at the people.

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Speaker 3: That's all right, we're doing that. We're doing it live, baby.

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Speaker 4: So I crawl in there and I grabbed my laptop

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Speaker 4: and like a nerd, I'm like, I'm gonna start watching

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Speaker 4: Carson Wentz Cutoups all twenty two. You know, I'm playing.

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Speaker 4: I'm doing this. I didn't try to put the burger

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Speaker 4: I'm sitting there in bed and I'm like I was

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Speaker 4: wasn't good enough. I couldn't do the All twenty two.

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Speaker 4: I'm gonna do it before you know, kick off. I

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Speaker 4: really want to watch the Wentz All twenty two. I

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Speaker 4: maybe got two plays and I must have just crashed

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Speaker 4: like immediately. I'm in bed and I'm still in like

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Speaker 4: jeans and like like not even like comfortable stuff. And

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Speaker 4: it's probably eight oh three and I'm probably snoring and

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Speaker 4: the Carson Wentz cut up or on the floor and

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Speaker 4: somewhere in the bed rolling around on my laptop. So

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Speaker 4: I'm out and I wake up like suddenly, I'm like,

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Speaker 4: or five in the morning. And I pull up my phone.

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Speaker 4: I'm like midnight. It's eleven and I'm like, totally spokes,

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Speaker 4: It's only eleven o'clock. And I'm like, is it PM

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Speaker 4: or AM? Did I sleep for twenty hours? Or did

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Speaker 4: I sleep for three? It was it was PM, so

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Speaker 4: I got like three whole hours. I was totally clueless

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Speaker 4: oh man, I'll put on Thursday Night Football. I mean,

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Speaker 4: I missed the first half, but I'm gonna throw it

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Speaker 4: on hadn't even started for like two and a half hours, right,

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Speaker 4: So I'm like, I've never missed a game. I can't.

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Speaker 4: I'm not gonna miss this game. I mean, I'm in

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Speaker 4: good shape. So I set my alarm again. Yeah yeah,

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Speaker 4: So I'm like, I'm still really tired. I don't know

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Speaker 4: what I'm doing up, go use the bathroom super quick,

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Speaker 4: crawl back in. I'm like, I'll set my phone for

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Speaker 4: one am. I'll get up and watch a game. I

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Speaker 4: got five hours in I can go back to bed afterwards.

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Speaker 4: I do that. At one o'clock Mary Maryland. You know,

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Speaker 4: alarm goes off. I'm like, no way, I was rocked out. Yeah, done,

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Speaker 4: not getting back up, but I guess somewhere in the

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Speaker 4: back of my warped football mind. About an hour later,

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Speaker 4: I woke up again and I'm like, I'm kind of

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Speaker 4: like rested, and there's a football game going on. What

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Speaker 4: am I doing right? Right? And I'm like, what am

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Speaker 4: I doing? It was half I checked, it's half time.

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Speaker 4: I'm like, I'll just sit here and watch the whole

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Speaker 4: second half at like three thirty in the morning, and

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Speaker 4: I was my head was dobbin, you know, bobbing a

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Speaker 4: little bit and I'm laying there on my side with

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Speaker 4: it on with my phone. And it's like right next

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Speaker 4: day and I'm still like into it, and it almost

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Speaker 4: went to overtime, Like, don't go to over time. So

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Speaker 4: I did watch the second half and then like as soon.

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Speaker 3: As it was over, I was like right back to seph.

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Speaker 4: You know. Then I end up sleeping. I bet eleven

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Speaker 4: hours total. Yeah, not in a row at all, but

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Speaker 4: then I mean I got from that point on it

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Speaker 4: was but I was so discombobulated, so I'm still kind

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Speaker 4: of understand any of it. And then I tried to

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Speaker 4: relate it back to you know, home, and I'm like sturtsay,

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Speaker 4: night games on, let's go, let's do it. That's all

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Speaker 4: I even started for two.

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Speaker 3: Hours, it's not even starting, right. That is hilarious.

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Speaker 4: That was my night.

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Speaker 3: That's that's impressive.

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Speaker 2: So I went to bed at like eight forty five

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Speaker 2: and slept till seven thirty.

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Speaker 4: I mean, yeah, yeah, I slept eleven too, right, with

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Speaker 4: a little stuff in between.

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Speaker 5: Right.

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Speaker 2: I texted my wife at like eight forty five and

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Speaker 2: was like, you know, love you, Like I'll text you

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Speaker 2: in the morning.

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Speaker 4: You know that you too. I'm like, I'm going to bed,

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Speaker 4: and she's like, she's.

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Speaker 2: Like, it's two forty five in the afternoon, the girls

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Speaker 4: I know there's a time difference, but that's still early dude,

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Speaker 4: right yeah.

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Speaker 2: And she's like, you're lying, like you're going out. I

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Speaker 2: was like, babe, like I swear to you, I'm bent. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: all right, So my turn, I'll tell you about this crazy,

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Speaker 2: crazy morning that I had. Woke up at about seven thirty, Okay,

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Speaker 2: felt great. It's like I just slept for eleven hours.

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Speaker 2: I was like, I'm back. I'm back, fantastic, Like I.

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Speaker 4: Feel great today for the first time. I have no

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Speaker 4: idea what time it is at the moment, but I

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Speaker 2: Finally, we our hotel is like right next to the

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: So I'm like, it's seven thirty, like it's early still,

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Speaker 2: the sun's coming up. I'm like, I'm just gonna go

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Speaker 2: outside for fifteen minutes.

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Speaker 4: And just went a beautiful day walk by.

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Speaker 2: The water, check it out, come back inside, go to

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Speaker 2: breakfast at the hotel, having this great full Irish breakfast.

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Speaker 2: It was delicious. Tomorrow go upstairs, take a shower. Okay

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Speaker 3: And by this point it's like almost nine am, it's

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Speaker 3: probably eight fifty.

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Speaker 4: I'm out of the shower, dressed, feeling good, rested, feeling great.

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Speaker 2: I have a tour at Guinness at ten am. Okay,

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Speaker 2: So I I got like seventy minutes till Guinness, and

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Speaker 2: I'm like, okay, it was like a twenty minute uber,

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Speaker 2: so not too far. And then I walked from Guinness

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Speaker 2: to here, yes, which is reasonably close, which is which

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Speaker 2: was a fifteen minute walk, not bad at all. And

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Speaker 2: again the weather's great. I'm exploring the city as I walk, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: walking past Saint Patrick's Cathedral and all awesome. I'm like, okay,

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Speaker 2: I got about seventy minutes till my tour at Guinness starts.

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Speaker 2: It's a twenty minute uber. I was like, but you

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Speaker 2: know what, like, i'll order my uber here soon. Worst

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Speaker 2: case scenario, I'll just poke around Guinness, you know, I'll

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Speaker 2: check out the area that's around it, all that stuff.

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Speaker 2: I get ready to order my uber mat about nine

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Speaker 2: am this morning, and I got this massive wave of

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Speaker 2: like nauseousness and queasiness. I think something that I had

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Speaker 2: with my friend. The Irish breakfast did not agree with

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Speaker 2: my stomach. Not to skive people out at home. I

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Speaker 2: threw up twice and went back and it wasn't like

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Speaker 2: a hangover throw.

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Speaker 5: Oh no.

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Speaker 3: I felt great.

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Speaker 2: And then all of a sudden, it was like I

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Speaker 2: was nauseous. I was queasy, my hands were like tingly.

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Speaker 2: I threw up twice. It had to be food poisoning.

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Speaker 2: I threw up twice.

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Speaker 4: Maybe you're lucky to didn't like get through your system like

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Speaker 4: you started out.

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Speaker 3: What I'm hoping?

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Speaker 2: Ye yeah, And I was like, okay, I feel a

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Speaker 2: little bit better, but I can't go to Guinness right now.

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Speaker 1: Your tunes about Drive on your twenty four to seven

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Speaker 2: Back at fitz Simon's Temple Bar in Dublin for our

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Speaker 2: Steelers Nation Radio on the Steelers Audio Network. We were

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Speaker 2: hoping to for you today have former Steelers tight end,

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Speaker 2: Played in the nineteen ninety seven preseason game at Croke Park. Unfortunately,

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Speaker 5: We're joined now by Mark Bruner and Mark.

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Speaker 6: I guess I could introduce you as former Steelers tight

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Speaker 5: Dad Mark Bruner. Proud Dad Mark Bruner.

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Speaker 7: It's it's been an amazing year for me personally and

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Speaker 6: You know, minutes after the draft, we talked to Mike

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Speaker 7: He's if he had a different name, he still would

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Speaker 7: Coach Thalman did make those comments and I could not

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Speaker 5: More because my son really did a.

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Speaker 6: I mean, help appreciate them with my dad and he

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Speaker 5: And he knows how.

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Speaker 7: expect as far as the draft process, but ultimately he

439
00:19:03,920 --> 00:19:06,440
Speaker 7: led that train by himself, and he did a great

440
00:19:06,520 --> 00:19:09,879
Speaker 7: job of taking the bull by the horns and figuring

441
00:19:09,920 --> 00:19:12,280
Speaker 7: out how he's going to navigate through it. And the

442
00:19:12,400 --> 00:19:14,280
Speaker 7: kid really made a name for himself. The kid did

443
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Speaker 7: a great job at the combine, He did a great

444
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Speaker 7: job in the interviews himself. And you know, you can,

445
00:19:19,280 --> 00:19:21,040
Speaker 7: you can open the door for him, you can tell

446
00:19:21,080 --> 00:19:23,080
Speaker 7: him what to expect, but ultimately he's the one that

447
00:19:23,119 --> 00:19:25,920
Speaker 7: had to do the job himself and earn the job

448
00:19:25,960 --> 00:19:28,199
Speaker 7: that he did. And that's what I'm most proud of

449
00:19:28,320 --> 00:19:30,080
Speaker 7: is he's very proud of his name, but he's also

450
00:19:30,080 --> 00:19:30,720
Speaker 7: proud that he's.

451
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Speaker 5: Been able to do it all on his own as well.

452
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Speaker 6: What's the bigger deal for you having been the player

453
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Speaker 6: you were or seeing him become the player he's becoming.

454
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Speaker 7: I personally think it's seeing him become who he is.

455
00:19:42,560 --> 00:19:45,240
Speaker 7: I had a wonderful career. I don't I don't minimize that,

456
00:19:45,359 --> 00:19:48,080
Speaker 7: nor do I ever forget that. I greatly appreciate my

457
00:19:48,119 --> 00:19:51,159
Speaker 7: opportunity in all the years that I played, But to

458
00:19:51,440 --> 00:19:54,760
Speaker 7: watch him and see him experience what I know is

459
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Speaker 7: the most amazing journey.

460
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Speaker 5: Because I lived at myself. Truly is special for me.

461
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Speaker 5: It really we've known this game was coming for a while,

462
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Speaker 5: but I don't know.

463
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Speaker 6: I've been here for a short time, and it's a

464
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Speaker 6: way bigger deal than I thought it was gonna be,

465
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Speaker 6: and I thought it was gonna be.

466
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Speaker 5: A pretty big deal.

467
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Speaker 6: Just give me kind of your early impressions of the

468
00:20:12,960 --> 00:20:15,920
Speaker 6: Steelers and Steeler Nation invading Ireland.

469
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Speaker 7: It's we got out of my wife and I flew

470
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Speaker 7: in and we landed Thursday afternoon, and the amount of

471
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Speaker 7: Steeler presence that we've seen literally since we have stepped

472
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Speaker 7: foot on the on the airport and then here in

473
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Speaker 7: the town of Dublin is truly amazing.

474
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Speaker 5: And a lot of people ask, what do I remember

475
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Speaker 5: from that.

476
00:20:32,080 --> 00:20:35,879
Speaker 7: Ninety seven game here, And I definitely do not remember

477
00:20:35,880 --> 00:20:39,760
Speaker 7: the presence that the Stid Nation is showing here back then.

478
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Speaker 7: And I'm sure we had very good representation back then.

479
00:20:42,680 --> 00:20:44,520
Speaker 7: But the amount of Steeler.

480
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Speaker 5: Representation that we have from all walks of life.

481
00:20:46,960 --> 00:20:50,800
Speaker 7: To the amount of people that I see wearing Steeler jerseys, hats,

482
00:20:50,880 --> 00:20:53,760
Speaker 7: sweatshirts is truly amazing. And you know, I was walking

483
00:20:53,800 --> 00:20:56,639
Speaker 7: here to this event this afternoon and it was the

484
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Speaker 7: really first time I saw a significant amount of Viking presence,

485
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Speaker 7: and it was on one of the yellow busses that

486
00:21:00,800 --> 00:21:01,879
Speaker 7: it's touring around the city.

487
00:21:02,160 --> 00:21:04,520
Speaker 5: But steel the presence is very, very strong here, Mike.

488
00:21:05,480 --> 00:21:06,040
Speaker 5: You know, there's a.

489
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Speaker 6: Great video on Steelers dot com kind of taking a

490
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Speaker 6: deep dive into Dan Rudy and his connection to Ireland

491
00:21:13,920 --> 00:21:20,680
Speaker 6: and the Steelers connection to Ireland, and it's suggested therein

492
00:21:21,040 --> 00:21:24,840
Speaker 6: that when missus Rudey saw how nice the trophy was,

493
00:21:25,280 --> 00:21:27,080
Speaker 6: she decided that she wanted it.

494
00:21:27,400 --> 00:21:29,960
Speaker 5: And Bill Kauer put you know, he.

495
00:21:30,000 --> 00:21:31,680
Speaker 6: Was not unaware of that, and he put a little

496
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Speaker 6: more emphasis in beating the Bears then maybe a typical

497
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Speaker 6: preseason game.

498
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Speaker 5: Any truth to that before that that is not a

499
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Speaker 5: wise tale. I'll just say that that is not a

500
00:21:41,040 --> 00:21:44,600
Speaker 5: wise tale at all. And we want to go out

501
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Speaker 5: and win every game that we played.

502
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Speaker 7: There are certain preseason games where you just want to

503
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Speaker 7: make sure you get through it healthy. That game against

504
00:21:51,880 --> 00:21:53,720
Speaker 7: the Chicago Bears in ninety seven was not one of

505
00:21:53,760 --> 00:21:55,280
Speaker 7: those games that we just wanted to get through, if

506
00:21:55,320 --> 00:21:56,080
Speaker 7: you know what I'm saying.

507
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Speaker 5: So that that wise tale is. There's a lot of

508
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Speaker 5: truth to that.

509
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Speaker 6: Talk a little bit if you can mark about the challenges.

510
00:22:03,880 --> 00:22:06,400
Speaker 6: It is a business trip, but it's about a whole

511
00:22:06,440 --> 00:22:09,159
Speaker 6: lot more than that, particularly for the Steelers. How do

512
00:22:09,200 --> 00:22:11,800
Speaker 6: you take everything from one side of the plump to

513
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Speaker 6: the other and make it function well.

514
00:22:15,240 --> 00:22:17,160
Speaker 7: You know, a lot of times coaches will say, yeah,

515
00:22:17,160 --> 00:22:18,760
Speaker 7: we're just gonna treat it as a regular way game,

516
00:22:19,040 --> 00:22:21,600
Speaker 7: and and that's that's extremely difficult for the players. You've

517
00:22:21,600 --> 00:22:24,760
Speaker 7: got a time time change. Uh, you know that their

518
00:22:24,800 --> 00:22:26,320
Speaker 7: normal schedule is very disruptive.

519
00:22:26,359 --> 00:22:27,680
Speaker 5: This is a home game for us.

520
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Speaker 7: Uh, those guys are not anywhere close to the normal

521
00:22:30,600 --> 00:22:33,880
Speaker 7: regimen that they have regarded a home home game there

522
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Speaker 7: in Pittsburgh.

523
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Speaker 4: Uh.

524
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Speaker 7: For for the team and the players that come over

525
00:22:37,280 --> 00:22:39,239
Speaker 7: here and and and function the way they've they've been.

526
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Speaker 5: They just landed this morning.

527
00:22:40,480 --> 00:22:42,800
Speaker 7: Early, and they're going to have to find a way

528
00:22:42,840 --> 00:22:45,480
Speaker 7: to have put put the adversity of the time change

529
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Speaker 7: and the travel behind them. And I if anybody can

530
00:22:49,440 --> 00:22:50,920
Speaker 7: do it, I know our players can and our coaching

531
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Speaker 7: staff can find a way to motivate them as well.

532
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Speaker 6: You kind of did a preseason game, plus as we

533
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Speaker 6: just discussed it. It didn't count but accounted. Yeah, what

534
00:22:59,119 --> 00:23:01,480
Speaker 6: what do you think for more then? And how far

535
00:23:01,560 --> 00:23:04,119
Speaker 6: ahead do you think everybody is now just dealing with

536
00:23:04,160 --> 00:23:05,960
Speaker 6: everything you have to deal with because the.

537
00:23:05,960 --> 00:23:09,119
Speaker 5: NFL has done this reputably, I think that not here.

538
00:23:09,160 --> 00:23:11,520
Speaker 7: But I know what you're saying, Mike, Yeah, it's this

539
00:23:11,600 --> 00:23:14,879
Speaker 7: game is at an international game, and I think the

540
00:23:14,920 --> 00:23:18,040
Speaker 7: players are more accustomed to traveling across time zones, and

541
00:23:18,720 --> 00:23:21,399
Speaker 7: coaches are doing a better job of training the players

542
00:23:21,480 --> 00:23:25,720
Speaker 7: for disruption, unexpected disruptions, finding a way to motivate them

543
00:23:25,720 --> 00:23:28,640
Speaker 7: mentally for them to block out their distractions. And there's

544
00:23:28,640 --> 00:23:30,600
Speaker 7: going to be a lot of distractions coming here, as

545
00:23:30,640 --> 00:23:33,040
Speaker 7: we talked about the disruption of the time, the time

546
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Speaker 7: and their normal schedule.

547
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Speaker 5: And so what really is amazing is no matter where

548
00:23:38,640 --> 00:23:39,920
Speaker 5: you're playing, if.

549
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Speaker 7: It's home in Pittsburgh or in La or Vegas or

550
00:23:43,560 --> 00:23:47,040
Speaker 7: Cleveland or Ireland, once you kick that ball off and

551
00:23:47,040 --> 00:23:49,720
Speaker 7: you're wearing a helmet and you're facing an opponent whatever

552
00:23:49,760 --> 00:23:51,840
Speaker 7: other color helmet that is, it is still the game

553
00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:54,360
Speaker 7: the sixty minutes in the game, and you.

554
00:23:54,359 --> 00:23:56,040
Speaker 5: Find a way to kind of forget where you're at.

555
00:23:56,080 --> 00:23:57,440
Speaker 7: But I want to find a way to win this

556
00:23:57,480 --> 00:24:00,640
Speaker 7: football game and play my best and a former player

557
00:24:00,680 --> 00:24:02,960
Speaker 7: that's gone through that, I think that's the similar sentiments

558
00:24:02,960 --> 00:24:05,399
Speaker 7: that those current players have is once stig ball is

559
00:24:05,480 --> 00:24:07,639
Speaker 7: kicked off, it kind of they're they're gonna forget that

560
00:24:07,640 --> 00:24:09,760
Speaker 7: they're in Double Larry and they just know they're gonna

561
00:24:09,760 --> 00:24:11,479
Speaker 7: play the Minnesota Vikings. They want to find to get

562
00:24:11,480 --> 00:24:12,159
Speaker 7: a way to get a win.

563
00:24:12,920 --> 00:24:13,440
Speaker 5: You're here.

564
00:24:14,080 --> 00:24:18,159
Speaker 6: There has been a parade of your former teammates and

565
00:24:18,600 --> 00:24:23,919
Speaker 6: other representatives of the organization, players whatever capacity, that had

566
00:24:24,160 --> 00:24:28,600
Speaker 6: either been here or are here now. M having my

567
00:24:29,320 --> 00:24:31,640
Speaker 6: difficulties wrap my head around that too, because I.

568
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Speaker 3: Know the ty Fireland and what everything we've.

569
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Speaker 6: Just discussed, but it seems like anybody who has ever

570
00:24:38,280 --> 00:24:40,320
Speaker 6: been associated with the Steelers.

571
00:24:39,840 --> 00:24:41,560
Speaker 5: In any capacity is all in on this.

572
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Speaker 7: And it just shows the support that that that the

573
00:24:46,640 --> 00:24:49,159
Speaker 7: Steeler Nation gets from not only the crowds, but the

574
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Speaker 7: former players. And it also shows how the players are

575
00:24:52,160 --> 00:24:55,480
Speaker 7: treated by our organization, by the Rooney family. And you

576
00:24:55,520 --> 00:24:57,200
Speaker 7: could probably pull a lot of players that have played

577
00:24:57,240 --> 00:24:59,000
Speaker 7: for a lot of different teams, and I think the

578
00:24:59,080 --> 00:25:02,080
Speaker 7: common u comments that you're gonna get from former players

579
00:25:02,200 --> 00:25:03,840
Speaker 7: is the way they're treated by the Bruney family. This

580
00:25:03,880 --> 00:25:06,520
Speaker 7: is a tough business, Mike, let's be clear, but you

581
00:25:06,520 --> 00:25:07,879
Speaker 7: can still treat people.

582
00:25:07,960 --> 00:25:10,440
Speaker 5: With humane and you can still treat people the right way.

583
00:25:10,960 --> 00:25:13,240
Speaker 7: And former players, if they played with us for a

584
00:25:13,320 --> 00:25:15,280
Speaker 7: year or they played with us for a decade, they

585
00:25:15,280 --> 00:25:17,920
Speaker 7: all have the same type of stimus towards the team

586
00:25:17,960 --> 00:25:19,800
Speaker 7: and the way they're being treated by the team, and

587
00:25:20,480 --> 00:25:22,800
Speaker 7: that allegiance carries over to a game like this here

588
00:25:22,800 --> 00:25:23,320
Speaker 7: in Ireland.

589
00:25:23,720 --> 00:25:25,840
Speaker 5: So they called and say, hey, would you mind doing this?

590
00:25:26,280 --> 00:25:29,040
Speaker 5: And everybody where do you need me and win? I

591
00:25:29,400 --> 00:25:31,400
Speaker 5: think it was more of them calling.

592
00:25:31,760 --> 00:25:34,760
Speaker 7: Mike Martinsky or or whomever to cite please can I

593
00:25:34,800 --> 00:25:37,720
Speaker 7: come and is there anything I can do it? It's

594
00:25:37,760 --> 00:25:40,119
Speaker 7: just the way the Steelers Steeler that's the way we are,

595
00:25:40,160 --> 00:25:43,359
Speaker 7: the Steeler family is and and it's not surprising that

596
00:25:43,400 --> 00:25:45,800
Speaker 7: they're acting that way. But then it stems from us

597
00:25:45,840 --> 00:25:48,000
Speaker 7: bringing in the right kind of people in our organization.

598
00:25:48,440 --> 00:25:50,520
Speaker 5: And that's when it starts. When we get them out.

599
00:25:50,359 --> 00:25:52,040
Speaker 7: Of college and you bring in a good person, it

600
00:25:52,119 --> 00:25:55,119
Speaker 7: turns out to be a good player. Then there they're retired,

601
00:25:55,119 --> 00:25:57,159
Speaker 7: they're still a good person, and now they still want

602
00:25:57,200 --> 00:25:59,239
Speaker 7: to be apart and help the organization. Is that your

603
00:25:59,280 --> 00:26:03,280
Speaker 7: lasting memory of Dan, the real people were treated one

604
00:26:03,359 --> 00:26:05,240
Speaker 7: hundred percent compelling your memory.

605
00:26:05,440 --> 00:26:06,400
Speaker 5: I have a lot of great.

606
00:26:06,160 --> 00:26:10,720
Speaker 7: Memories of mister Rooney, but how how genuine he was

607
00:26:10,800 --> 00:26:13,720
Speaker 7: being the owner of our team and in my interaction with.

608
00:26:13,680 --> 00:26:16,000
Speaker 5: Other owners, he was different in a really good way.

609
00:26:16,160 --> 00:26:19,080
Speaker 7: And mister Rooney is one of the carry most gracious

610
00:26:19,119 --> 00:26:22,680
Speaker 7: people I've ever been around. And that if you pull

611
00:26:22,720 --> 00:26:24,200
Speaker 7: a lot of a lot of people, they're going to

612
00:26:24,240 --> 00:26:26,040
Speaker 7: all have that same comment about mister Rooney.

613
00:26:26,080 --> 00:26:28,639
Speaker 6: And last thing, we have four you Mark, you're a

614
00:26:28,720 --> 00:26:32,480
Speaker 6: scout now, so you are tasked with finding the next.

615
00:26:32,200 --> 00:26:35,359
Speaker 5: Wave of players on an annual basis. How do you

616
00:26:35,400 --> 00:26:37,320
Speaker 5: find the right guy?

617
00:26:37,400 --> 00:26:40,040
Speaker 7: It's it's tough because there's just not a no, no,

618
00:26:40,040 --> 00:26:42,880
Speaker 7: no batistic for the no, it's not a measurement. There

619
00:26:42,880 --> 00:26:44,400
Speaker 7: is an a measurement, and you can't go to AI

620
00:26:44,600 --> 00:26:47,320
Speaker 7: or analytics and and and let be okay because he's

621
00:26:47,359 --> 00:26:50,800
Speaker 7: this height and runs this fast. It's it's it's kind

622
00:26:50,840 --> 00:26:53,119
Speaker 7: of hard to put in words what a Steeler player is,

623
00:26:53,119 --> 00:26:56,600
Speaker 7: but when you see it, you know it. And we've

624
00:26:56,600 --> 00:26:59,800
Speaker 7: been fortunate to where we continually draft with Kevin Colbert

625
00:26:59,840 --> 00:27:02,760
Speaker 7: and Olimar conn and our scouting staff continue to bring

626
00:27:02,800 --> 00:27:06,119
Speaker 7: in Steeler players, and it's people that they really have

627
00:27:06,160 --> 00:27:09,919
Speaker 7: a high care factor in football. And if we like

628
00:27:09,960 --> 00:27:12,320
Speaker 7: to ask a question, if football is taken away, would

629
00:27:12,359 --> 00:27:15,520
Speaker 7: they be devastated, satisfied or relieved? And we want more

630
00:27:15,560 --> 00:27:19,479
Speaker 7: devastated than we do relief. And the true Steeler players

631
00:27:19,480 --> 00:27:22,200
Speaker 7: are more devastated than relief, So we want more devastated

632
00:27:22,200 --> 00:27:23,520
Speaker 7: guys coming into our building.

633
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Speaker 6: Mark really appreciate you taking a few minutes enjoy Ireland.

634
00:27:28,400 --> 00:27:29,480
Speaker 5: Thanks Mike, you enjoyed too.

635
00:27:29,480 --> 00:27:33,920
Speaker 2: But Mark Bruner there, of course, former Steelers first round

636
00:27:33,920 --> 00:27:36,560
Speaker 2: pick at tight end, current Steelers scout. Like I said,

637
00:27:36,640 --> 00:27:40,000
Speaker 2: he played in that ninety seven preseason game against Harold Park.

638
00:27:40,520 --> 00:27:43,680
Speaker 2: Obviously now with the team. His son's on the team, Matt.

639
00:27:43,720 --> 00:27:45,359
Speaker 2: We've said a few times like the whole trip of

640
00:27:45,359 --> 00:27:48,159
Speaker 2: a lifetime thing from I think Mark Bruner might be

641
00:27:48,160 --> 00:27:49,639
Speaker 2: at the forefront of that list. This has got to

642
00:27:49,680 --> 00:27:50,480
Speaker 2: be so cool.

643
00:27:50,240 --> 00:27:53,280
Speaker 4: For him, Oh I bet, I bet. I mean such

644
00:27:53,280 --> 00:27:55,719
Speaker 4: a nice guy too. I don't know Mark well, but

645
00:27:55,760 --> 00:27:58,159
Speaker 4: I mean everyone who knows him is like he is

646
00:27:58,240 --> 00:28:01,160
Speaker 4: the kindest, nicest human being out there and every time

647
00:28:01,160 --> 00:28:03,479
Speaker 4: I've interacted with him, he's always own you know how

648
00:28:03,480 --> 00:28:06,080
Speaker 4: you're doing. You know, I mean, really a great guy

649
00:28:06,119 --> 00:28:09,159
Speaker 4: to talk to. I don't much to add. Yeah, I

650
00:28:09,200 --> 00:28:12,800
Speaker 4: mean his son is gonna be a special teamer and

651
00:28:12,920 --> 00:28:15,720
Speaker 4: you know, maybe work his way into things from that point,

652
00:28:15,800 --> 00:28:19,399
Speaker 4: but who knows the whole dynamics. And it's such a

653
00:28:19,400 --> 00:28:22,359
Speaker 4: steeler thing that the Hayward's, the Watts, et cetera, et cetera,

654
00:28:22,480 --> 00:28:24,080
Speaker 4: and you know it works out.

655
00:28:24,600 --> 00:28:27,080
Speaker 2: It sure does. And pretty cool to hear from him.

656
00:28:27,119 --> 00:28:30,800
Speaker 2: In pursuit of there, we are hoping to potentially have

657
00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:31,920
Speaker 2: Mike pursuit.

658
00:28:31,560 --> 00:28:34,520
Speaker 4: To join us here whom might might find us in

659
00:28:34,520 --> 00:28:35,280
Speaker 4: that last hour a.

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Speaker 2: Little little over halfway home, and before we get there,

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Speaker 2: we got to dig into some of Matt's stats. Of course,

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Speaker 2: as we rock and we roll here from fitzsimmons temple bar,

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Speaker 2: we're on Simon's Dang it, I did it again, yea Fitzsimon's.

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Speaker 2: Simon says, that's just how i'mon. That's how I'm gonna

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Speaker 2: remember it the rest.

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Speaker 3: Of the way. Simon says.

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Speaker 2: We are on the rooftop bar of fitz Simon's temple

668
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Speaker 2: bar here in Dublin. The music's playing, the people are

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Speaker 2: drinking guinness, they're clad, and they're black and gold. It's

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Speaker 2: it's a heck of a time that we are having

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Speaker 2: here and we'll continue the party when we return. What scheeler,

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Speaker 2: Matt Williamson, It's the Drive on Steelers Nation Radio on

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Speaker 2: a Steelers Audio Network.

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Speaker 1: Your tunes about Drive on your twenty four to seven

675
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Speaker 1: home of the Black and Goal Steelers Nation Radio.

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Speaker 2: Back of fit Simon's Temple Bar in Dublin, Ireland. We're

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Speaker 2: gonna get into some Matt's stats here in just a minute.

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Speaker 2: But the people are going nuts. Renegade is playing once again.

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00:29:37,520 --> 00:29:41,560
Speaker 2: My goodness, this place is on fire. It's awesome, man.

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00:29:41,600 --> 00:29:43,040
Speaker 3: You gotta love it. You can. You can hear it

681
00:29:43,040 --> 00:29:45,200
Speaker 3: them trying to trying to turn the mic up.

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00:29:45,080 --> 00:29:47,360
Speaker 2: A little bit there, get the Renegade in the in

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Speaker 2: the background there for everybody. But just absolutely fantastic. I mean, Matt,

684
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Speaker 2: you've never seen You've never seen so many happy people.

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00:29:56,360 --> 00:29:58,960
Speaker 3: In one place at the same time, with a.

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Speaker 2: Lot of a lot of dark beverages, dark creamy beverages

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Speaker 2: in there, yea in their hand. I think they call

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00:30:04,840 --> 00:30:06,120
Speaker 2: the stuff guinness around here.

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Speaker 3: I'm pretty sure I didn't realize the other ones.

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Speaker 4: Where those two or three other options up there. I'm

691
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Speaker 4: gonna have to dabble in at some point.

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00:30:12,920 --> 00:30:15,520
Speaker 2: I'm thinking maybe tomorrow I'll drink something other than Guinness. Yeah,

693
00:30:15,600 --> 00:30:18,280
Speaker 2: first forty eight hours. You gotta, you know, win and round.

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00:30:18,400 --> 00:30:19,800
Speaker 2: I like your play, I like your playing a lot

695
00:30:19,880 --> 00:30:22,000
Speaker 2: winning Rome. Gotta do what the Romans do. We got

696
00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:24,840
Speaker 2: some terrible towels waving in here and everything right now.

697
00:30:24,880 --> 00:30:30,480
Speaker 2: It's awesome, just just an just incredible, h incredible stuff

698
00:30:30,520 --> 00:30:32,600
Speaker 2: here that we are, that we are seeing all across

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Speaker 2: Dublin and certainly here at Fitzsimon's Temple Bar.

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Speaker 3: We'll be here again tomorrow, the dB Morning Show will

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Speaker 3: be here. It'll all be happening.

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00:30:40,040 --> 00:30:42,080
Speaker 4: It will be We got a full tomorrow here.

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Speaker 2: We sure do, full slate today, full gamit tomorrow, and

704
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Speaker 2: then obviously Game Day, all the crescendo of Game Day

705
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Speaker 2: on Sunday.

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Speaker 4: What time will you get there for Game Day?

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Speaker 2: About five hours before kickoff? Dan and I do for

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Speaker 2: road games. Okay, so two thirty kickoff, twelve thirty, eleven thirty,

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Speaker 2: ten thirty, nine thirty.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that gives you plenty of time.

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Speaker 3: Yep, gives us plenty of time. And I, between you

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Speaker 3: and I don't tell Dan I said this, No, I'll

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Speaker 3: keep it quiet.

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Speaker 2: I could probably go like half hour hour later and

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Speaker 2: we'd still But he's a nervous he's a nervous nelly

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Speaker 2: and likes to get there super early.

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Speaker 3: That's fun, It's okay.

718
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Speaker 4: Scoping it out probably made you feel better about it too,

719
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Speaker 4: like you're confident that everything's gonna be copasatic.

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Speaker 2: I am, And hey, I mean we're doing a broadcast,

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Speaker 2: you know, in somewhere where they typically don't, you know,

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Speaker 2: do NFL broadcast.

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Speaker 4: I guess there's more room forrayer there.

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Speaker 3: There's there is more room prayer certainly. But again though like.

725
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Speaker 4: Maybe they double checked it and triple checked it where

726
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Speaker 4: if you were in Vegas or Chicago, they were just like, ah, were.

727
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Speaker 3: You That's exactly where I was gonna go.

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Speaker 2: Like, I know I've told you this before, particularly in

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Speaker 2: the preseason and early in the season. A lot of

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Speaker 2: times we show up the stadiums and the visitor broadcast

731
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Speaker 2: booth and they don't even have the internet turned on. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: because they're like, oh earlier, running out of game here

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Speaker 2: in seven months you.

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Speaker 4: Know, like like winter rising your pipes or your lawnbow

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Speaker 4: or your your you know, your bass boat, whatever the

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Speaker 4: case may be.

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Speaker 2: And so here I'm sure that they're going to be

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Speaker 2: on their p's and q's and and and and ready

739
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Speaker 2: for everything.

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Speaker 4: And in that regard absolutely, yeah, would think you triple

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Speaker 4: on quadruble check this.

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Speaker 3: Stuff real quick.

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Speaker 2: Do you know where p's and q's originates from? I

744
00:32:12,360 --> 00:32:14,520
Speaker 2: learned this yesterday, you know, just yesterday.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: It's a because it's an Irish saying, mind your peat,

747
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Speaker 2: mind p's and q's.

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Speaker 3: It's for pints and quarters. Okay, so pints and quarts.

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Speaker 2: Sorry, that's what I meant, pints and quarts, not quarters,

750
00:32:27,880 --> 00:32:31,240
Speaker 2: pints and quarts, because that's how historically you could order

751
00:32:31,280 --> 00:32:32,479
Speaker 2: beers across Dublin in the bar.

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00:32:32,600 --> 00:32:34,360
Speaker 4: Yeah, you can take a pint or you can.

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Speaker 3: Get it, or you can get a court.

754
00:32:36,040 --> 00:32:39,040
Speaker 2: And like when people would be nosy at the bar

755
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Speaker 2: trying to talk to you, trying to get in your business,

756
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Speaker 2: you'd be like, leave me alone, mind your own p's

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Speaker 2: and q's.

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Speaker 4: I've got mine.

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00:32:46,280 --> 00:32:48,080
Speaker 2: So it's like a leave me alone, like mind your ow.

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Speaker 2: But that's where it originated from is from people at

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Speaker 2: the bar who didn't want to be bothered, like, mind

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Speaker 2: your own piece.

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Speaker 4: And you learned yesterday, I learned it today. I'm never

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Speaker 4: gonna forget it.

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Speaker 2: We are we are, we are kind of learning stuff

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00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:02,360
Speaker 2: every single day here on the Emerald Aisle, Matt. And

767
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Speaker 2: one of the things that we're gonna start learning now

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Speaker 2: is some more into your into your Matt's stats, okay,

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Speaker 2: and everything that you have, uh, you know, procured that

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Speaker 2: you do so well every single week.

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Speaker 3: I want to start here and.

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Speaker 4: You tweet funny three or four people that are in

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Speaker 4: the Steeler organization. I won't name them over whatever, but

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Speaker 4: there's several that have come up to me since I

775
00:33:22,040 --> 00:33:23,640
Speaker 4: don't see a lot of them in person or on

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Speaker 4: the plane or you know, it's a couple of them

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Speaker 4: are here. How do you get all those stats? Tell

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Speaker 4: me your process. I'm like, wow, i'd have to kill you.

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Speaker 4: But it's just just keep your eyes open. And I

780
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Speaker 4: mean a lot of people are like I love them

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Speaker 4: so much, like, hey, hey, I appreciate it. But some sausages, Matt,

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Speaker 4: I'm gonna tell you all those but there's a lot

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Speaker 4: of sources. You just got to keep your ears open.

784
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Speaker 2: You know that you do, and Matt you you pound

785
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Speaker 2: the pavement and get those sources and break it all down.

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Speaker 4: Yes, I mean I'll do it over the bye week.

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Speaker 4: I'll start putting stuff together, you know, right.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. One of the things that you had in your

789
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Speaker 2: latest Matt stats. You actually tweeted this one out as

790
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Speaker 2: well too, and I found it incredibly telling over the

791
00:34:05,960 --> 00:34:10,400
Speaker 2: last five years, so sizable sample. Yeah, this is not

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Speaker 2: you know, the last ten games or one season or

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Speaker 2: anything like that.

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Speaker 3: Over the last five years.

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Speaker 4: Mind you, they've had the same head coach for five

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Speaker 4: years plus.

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Speaker 3: They had that they have they have.

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Speaker 2: Uh, the Steelers rank number one in e p A

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Speaker 2: from turnovers at plus one hundred and sixty one.

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Speaker 4: I can assure people that's a very large number.

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Speaker 2: It's expected points added EPA expected points added from turnovers

802
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Speaker 2: one hundred and sixty one. The NFL average is zero because.

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Speaker 4: If somebody gained, somebody lose a seesaw, you know, yea.

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Speaker 2: The number four best team in the league is at

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Speaker 2: eighty eight. Yeah, basically half of the Steelers.

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Speaker 4: Right, So, I mean there was like a distant Yeah

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Speaker 4: this this.

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00:34:52,560 --> 00:34:55,200
Speaker 2: This gets back into you know, something you and I

809
00:34:55,320 --> 00:34:57,839
Speaker 2: talked about on the tail end of that Patriots game.

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Speaker 3: It's not cool.

811
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Speaker 4: I mean, I can't believe it's coincidence or of luck

812
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Speaker 4: one hundred, I mean three.

813
00:35:05,400 --> 00:35:08,480
Speaker 2: And you know, sixty five whatever it was. You know,

814
00:35:08,520 --> 00:35:11,960
Speaker 2: Mike Thomas record and one score games. It is not luck,

815
00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:14,920
Speaker 2: even though we're in Ireland, right it's a like, but

816
00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:16,920
Speaker 2: how like, how does that? And I know that's one

817
00:35:16,920 --> 00:35:19,719
Speaker 2: of those secret sauce, Like if Mike Tomlin would were

818
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Speaker 2: to tell.

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Speaker 4: You, he'd have to kill you one hundred percent.

820
00:35:22,600 --> 00:35:25,960
Speaker 2: But man, like that to me, is is glaring that

821
00:35:26,080 --> 00:35:28,759
Speaker 2: you know, there are only even two other teams in

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Speaker 2: the league that are even in the stream the same

823
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Speaker 2: stratosphere as the Steelers.

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Speaker 4: Right like, right now, I was pulling up a couple others.

825
00:35:35,480 --> 00:35:39,200
Speaker 4: I mean, there's just a turnover news, like this year

826
00:35:40,040 --> 00:35:45,439
Speaker 4: they have twenty seven points off turnovers. They've allowed zero. Now,

827
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Speaker 4: there's probably some people go and Caleb Johnson's screw up

828
00:35:49,960 --> 00:35:52,799
Speaker 4: should count, but it doesn't officially a good point. But

829
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Speaker 4: still that's still an ungodly number. Twenty seven to zero

830
00:35:56,400 --> 00:35:58,839
Speaker 4: or twenty seven to seven or six or however you count.

831
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Speaker 4: It is still crazy. And we talk about this a

832
00:36:03,040 --> 00:36:07,000
Speaker 4: ton and you know that everyone knows the turnovers are

833
00:36:07,040 --> 00:36:09,399
Speaker 4: really really important. Everyone listening knows that, I mean every

834
00:36:09,440 --> 00:36:11,840
Speaker 4: single one of you. But I bet fifty percent of

835
00:36:11,840 --> 00:36:16,000
Speaker 4: the listeners don't realize how important they are. And you know,

836
00:36:16,040 --> 00:36:19,440
Speaker 4: we talk about like sack differential and explosive differential, and

837
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Speaker 4: I believe they're the second and third, but they're a

838
00:36:22,040 --> 00:36:26,120
Speaker 4: distance second and third. And to Tomlin's credit, I think

839
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Speaker 4: he understands this more than any head coach maybe ever,

840
00:36:29,719 --> 00:36:32,839
Speaker 4: and especially when you don't have Ben in your prime. Hey,

841
00:36:32,840 --> 00:36:34,319
Speaker 4: we can take a risk here. We could turn the

842
00:36:34,360 --> 00:36:37,960
Speaker 4: ball over. Ben'll hit ab for you know, a deep bomb,

843
00:36:37,960 --> 00:36:39,960
Speaker 4: and we'll get it back. I mean, if it doesn't

844
00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:42,120
Speaker 4: go our way, we'll get it back, you know. But

845
00:36:42,160 --> 00:36:45,520
Speaker 4: you got Duck and Trubisky and Pickett and even Russ

846
00:36:45,520 --> 00:36:49,680
Speaker 4: and Fields and new guys. I'm sure it is drilled

847
00:36:49,680 --> 00:36:51,480
Speaker 4: into their mind. And that's I think it's a big

848
00:36:51,520 --> 00:36:54,200
Speaker 4: reason they wanted Rogers. Rodgers does not turn the ball over.

849
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Speaker 4: I mean, he is the best. Him and Mahomes are

850
00:36:55,960 --> 00:37:00,000
Speaker 4: the best touchdown interception ratio in history, and Russell Wilson's

851
00:37:00,080 --> 00:37:01,759
Speaker 4: right behind them. I mean, I think that it's not

852
00:37:01,800 --> 00:37:04,480
Speaker 4: an accident that those. Yeah, I'm gonna go pay and

853
00:37:04,560 --> 00:37:10,120
Speaker 4: go after these dudes. And I understand that people you know,

854
00:37:10,320 --> 00:37:12,759
Speaker 4: have a problem with It's not the most fun way

855
00:37:12,800 --> 00:37:15,799
Speaker 4: to watch a game. It's not, and then I'm sure

856
00:37:15,840 --> 00:37:17,800
Speaker 4: no one will tell you it is. But it results

857
00:37:17,840 --> 00:37:24,520
Speaker 4: in wins, and that's I mean undeniable. And really this

858
00:37:24,600 --> 00:37:26,960
Speaker 4: has gone back five years. I'm trying to look for

859
00:37:27,040 --> 00:37:29,040
Speaker 4: it now and probably in the stat pack that I

860
00:37:29,160 --> 00:37:31,120
Speaker 4: don't have it handy, but I can tell you right now,

861
00:37:31,960 --> 00:37:35,600
Speaker 4: over the last five years they clearly have the best

862
00:37:35,719 --> 00:37:38,799
Speaker 4: turnover ratio in the league too. You know, again, this

863
00:37:38,880 --> 00:37:41,960
Speaker 4: stuff can't be accident or luck or coincidence like the

864
00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:42,479
Speaker 4: last camp.

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Speaker 2: The last few years, Buffalo has forced a lot of

866
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Speaker 2: turnover but Josh Allen used to cough the ball up

867
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Speaker 2: a ton until about a year ago.

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Speaker 4: So they were the only one better than the Steelers

869
00:37:52,840 --> 00:37:54,080
Speaker 4: last year, yes, yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And and again they've been at the top in

871
00:37:55,760 --> 00:37:58,800
Speaker 2: terms of takeaways like the Steelers, but give the ball

872
00:37:58,840 --> 00:38:02,520
Speaker 2: away at right where the Steelers have been buttoned up

873
00:38:02,520 --> 00:38:03,080
Speaker 2: in that retard.

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00:38:03,719 --> 00:38:09,200
Speaker 4: So early in my football career I thought turnovers were

875
00:38:09,360 --> 00:38:13,919
Speaker 4: mostly luck, and I also believe then, okay, what would

876
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Speaker 4: be my first component to creating turnovers.

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Speaker 3: And I would say sure, and.

878
00:38:18,080 --> 00:38:20,840
Speaker 4: I would say a pass rush, you know, like the

879
00:38:20,960 --> 00:38:24,480
Speaker 4: number one thing to me is past rushes cause havoc.

880
00:38:24,920 --> 00:38:29,960
Speaker 4: You hit quarterbacks, ball goes awrye forced bumbles, blah blah blah.

881
00:38:30,120 --> 00:38:33,480
Speaker 4: I mean quarterback hits end up with the ball fluttering

882
00:38:33,760 --> 00:38:35,879
Speaker 4: or sure, maybe he doesn't step in the next row

883
00:38:35,920 --> 00:38:39,120
Speaker 4: as much because he's got blasted or whatever. And I

884
00:38:39,160 --> 00:38:41,160
Speaker 4: do believe that, and I think the Steelers one hundred

885
00:38:41,160 --> 00:38:43,400
Speaker 4: percent agree. I know their pass rush has not been

886
00:38:43,440 --> 00:38:46,319
Speaker 4: an a plus this last year and three games, but

887
00:38:47,080 --> 00:38:49,640
Speaker 4: I'll put their pass rushers against anybody on the planet.

888
00:38:50,000 --> 00:38:51,879
Speaker 4: And I also want to talk about Herbig a little

889
00:38:51,880 --> 00:38:53,520
Speaker 4: bit because he's unbelievable.

890
00:38:53,680 --> 00:38:54,239
Speaker 3: We can do that.

891
00:38:55,600 --> 00:38:58,840
Speaker 4: But there are a couple things that are very obvious

892
00:38:59,040 --> 00:39:04,719
Speaker 4: about this team right now. Is they force fumbles at

893
00:39:04,719 --> 00:39:05,640
Speaker 4: an ungodly rate.

894
00:39:05,719 --> 00:39:08,319
Speaker 3: It's like I got Peanut tillmut at every position right And.

895
00:39:08,719 --> 00:39:11,719
Speaker 4: I believe, and the stats back it up, and it's

896
00:39:11,760 --> 00:39:15,120
Speaker 4: not any hard stat to find. TJ. Watts is good

897
00:39:15,200 --> 00:39:18,319
Speaker 4: a fumble forcer as it ever played the game. I

898
00:39:18,320 --> 00:39:21,759
Speaker 4: mean he really had, he really really is. And Herbig's

899
00:39:21,800 --> 00:39:25,120
Speaker 4: not far behind him and his cohorts obviously have rubbed

900
00:39:25,160 --> 00:39:26,200
Speaker 4: off on him, you know.

901
00:39:27,160 --> 00:39:29,200
Speaker 3: So all they leave the league in deflections as well too.

902
00:39:29,440 --> 00:39:31,080
Speaker 4: That's how it's going to go to, right, It is

903
00:39:31,120 --> 00:39:34,400
Speaker 4: like forced fumbles and deflections are turnovers and big plays

904
00:39:34,400 --> 00:39:38,319
Speaker 4: with defense. And this Steeler defense, for this is will

905
00:39:38,360 --> 00:39:39,960
Speaker 4: be the third year in a row or at the

906
00:39:40,080 --> 00:39:42,759
Speaker 4: very top of the league at batting balls down at

907
00:39:42,760 --> 00:39:45,200
Speaker 4: the line of scrimmage. And the only guy who I've

908
00:39:45,239 --> 00:39:47,279
Speaker 4: ever seen in history that's better at it than Cam

909
00:39:47,320 --> 00:39:51,799
Speaker 4: Hayward is JJ Watt, Yes, who was remarkable in one

910
00:39:51,840 --> 00:39:54,640
Speaker 4: of the best everage and maybe the best ever JJ Swatt.

911
00:39:54,840 --> 00:39:58,160
Speaker 4: And I wonder, you know, did Cam and TJ going

912
00:39:58,239 --> 00:40:02,520
Speaker 4: a with him with let's go let's go fishing for

913
00:40:02,680 --> 00:40:06,719
Speaker 4: must Yeah, right with the Watt brothers and talk about

914
00:40:06,760 --> 00:40:09,120
Speaker 4: learning how to swap balls at the line of scrimmage?

915
00:40:09,440 --> 00:40:11,839
Speaker 4: Because now, why a Black's good at it, Benton's good

916
00:40:11,840 --> 00:40:14,359
Speaker 4: at it like kind of like everybody else. I mean,

917
00:40:14,400 --> 00:40:18,279
Speaker 4: cam'sus on that game exactly TJ's. TJ's is good to

918
00:40:18,320 --> 00:40:22,239
Speaker 4: fumble forcer as there ever was. Cam's basically as good

919
00:40:22,239 --> 00:40:26,200
Speaker 4: a batter as there ever was, And the dudes around

920
00:40:26,280 --> 00:40:29,480
Speaker 4: him are like, maybe I should learn these tactics too.

921
00:40:29,640 --> 00:40:30,520
Speaker 3: Successfully's close.

922
00:40:30,640 --> 00:40:33,600
Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly exactly. If you mix that with pass rush

923
00:40:33,640 --> 00:40:36,360
Speaker 4: and you you go from there. I mean, Minco was

924
00:40:36,400 --> 00:40:39,080
Speaker 4: a really good interception guy, and you know, so, I

925
00:40:39,160 --> 00:40:41,640
Speaker 4: don't think these are accidents. I don't think that they're.

926
00:40:43,200 --> 00:40:43,279
Speaker 6: So.

927
00:40:44,120 --> 00:40:46,680
Speaker 4: Someone was just over here talking about last week's game.

928
00:40:47,239 --> 00:40:49,880
Speaker 4: It wasn't real thrilled with the Steelers performance. They were

929
00:40:49,960 --> 00:40:53,200
Speaker 4: lucky to win that game, sure, sort of. I mean

930
00:40:53,480 --> 00:40:55,839
Speaker 4: there were five fumbles in that game, and all five

931
00:40:55,880 --> 00:40:58,840
Speaker 4: of them ended up in Steeler arms. That to me

932
00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:00,840
Speaker 4: is a lot of luck. To me, that's taking a

933
00:41:00,840 --> 00:41:03,000
Speaker 4: coin and flipping it five times and it comes up

934
00:41:03,040 --> 00:41:05,160
Speaker 4: heads five times in a row. Yeah, I mean, once

935
00:41:05,200 --> 00:41:07,480
Speaker 4: it hits the ground, you it was a good chance

936
00:41:07,520 --> 00:41:07,880
Speaker 4: to pick it up.

937
00:41:07,920 --> 00:41:08,320
Speaker 5: His idea.

938
00:41:08,640 --> 00:41:10,400
Speaker 4: But the fact that it hits the ground a lot,

939
00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:12,960
Speaker 4: and that New England also fumbles.

940
00:41:12,520 --> 00:41:13,759
Speaker 3: A lot is not by chance.

941
00:41:13,800 --> 00:41:16,400
Speaker 4: That's not an accident at all. And I'm sure it

942
00:41:16,480 --> 00:41:19,480
Speaker 4: was stressed this week more than ever going into New England.

943
00:41:20,040 --> 00:41:21,120
Speaker 4: We're going to chop that ball out.

944
00:41:21,239 --> 00:41:22,200
Speaker 3: Did you see that story?

945
00:41:22,440 --> 00:41:22,560
Speaker 5: No?

946
00:41:22,640 --> 00:41:25,200
Speaker 2: I think it might have been Herbig But somebody basically

947
00:41:25,200 --> 00:41:29,200
Speaker 2: in the postgame at Foxborough Stadium said all week, starting

948
00:41:29,239 --> 00:41:32,000
Speaker 2: our first team meeting on Wednesday, priping for the Patriots,

949
00:41:32,080 --> 00:41:35,440
Speaker 2: and all week Mike Tomlin talked about Drake May and

950
00:41:35,480 --> 00:41:38,040
Speaker 2: Ramandre Stevenson are going to put the ball in Harm's way. Yeah,

951
00:41:38,239 --> 00:41:40,000
Speaker 2: be ready for it and go get it, hunt it,

952
00:41:40,120 --> 00:41:42,279
Speaker 2: hunt it, Herbig said every It was the first thing

953
00:41:42,280 --> 00:41:43,880
Speaker 2: he said in meetings. It was the last thing he

954
00:41:43,880 --> 00:41:45,800
Speaker 2: said in meetings. These guys will put the ball in

955
00:41:45,880 --> 00:41:46,439
Speaker 2: Harm's way.

956
00:41:46,520 --> 00:41:47,160
Speaker 3: Be ready for that.

957
00:41:47,440 --> 00:41:50,239
Speaker 2: So you're right that there is obviously luck involved, but

958
00:41:50,320 --> 00:41:52,239
Speaker 2: everything is also not just completely by chance.

959
00:41:52,360 --> 00:41:54,160
Speaker 4: Yeah, and the fact that two of them were within

960
00:41:54,200 --> 00:41:57,520
Speaker 4: the two yard line is fortunate totally, But it wasn't

961
00:41:57,560 --> 00:41:59,600
Speaker 4: like they weren't trying them on the four plays before

962
00:41:59,640 --> 00:42:02,480
Speaker 4: that were driving into the two yard line. And I wonder.

963
00:42:03,200 --> 00:42:05,919
Speaker 4: I've been in team meetings and I'm not a coach

964
00:42:05,920 --> 00:42:08,480
Speaker 4: and I would never pretend to be, but I wonder

965
00:42:08,600 --> 00:42:13,560
Speaker 4: if the defense is sitting there watching the game tape together, going, Okay,

966
00:42:13,560 --> 00:42:15,400
Speaker 4: maybe you could have made that run play, but you

967
00:42:15,440 --> 00:42:18,200
Speaker 4: went for the ball. Okay, that's what we told you

968
00:42:18,200 --> 00:42:20,400
Speaker 4: to go into the game, you know, Like so instead

969
00:42:20,400 --> 00:42:22,560
Speaker 4: of a eight yard or game, it could have been

970
00:42:22,600 --> 00:42:25,080
Speaker 4: a five yard game and he hacked at the ball

971
00:42:25,160 --> 00:42:28,480
Speaker 4: and it didn't pop out, but maybe a little next tide, yes,

972
00:42:28,719 --> 00:42:30,799
Speaker 4: and that's worth three yards, you know what I mean

973
00:42:30,800 --> 00:42:34,600
Speaker 4: exactly right? Like Belichick to me is the utmost respect

974
00:42:34,600 --> 00:42:37,279
Speaker 4: amongst in the defensive world. If you look at his

975
00:42:37,440 --> 00:42:41,040
Speaker 4: yardage numbers for his great defenses. They weren't at the

976
00:42:41,080 --> 00:42:44,880
Speaker 4: top of the league. They weren't real concerned about making teams,

977
00:42:46,000 --> 00:42:49,239
Speaker 4: you know, get backwards between the twenties all that much.

978
00:42:49,280 --> 00:42:52,360
Speaker 4: Sure they were incredible in red zone, incredible in red zone,

979
00:42:52,440 --> 00:42:54,480
Speaker 4: and they must have practiced that more than anyone and

980
00:42:55,000 --> 00:42:58,719
Speaker 4: just grinded red zone tape and red zone tendencies and

981
00:42:58,760 --> 00:43:00,719
Speaker 4: they always would have thrown over mark, you know, like

982
00:43:01,160 --> 00:43:03,680
Speaker 4: the only games at Tomlin and Belichick have won.

983
00:43:03,800 --> 00:43:07,080
Speaker 3: A lot, right. Uh.

984
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Speaker 2: In fact, I do believe they are there towards the

985
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Speaker 2: towards the top of the list.

986
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Speaker 3: Uh.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, no, you know what, that's very well said by

988
00:43:14,600 --> 00:43:16,279
Speaker 2: you on a lot of fronts there. I want to

989
00:43:16,320 --> 00:43:18,279
Speaker 2: continue on some of that and bring the her big

990
00:43:18,320 --> 00:43:19,960
Speaker 2: stuff into the conversation as well too.

991
00:43:20,000 --> 00:43:21,440
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm blowing away with them lately.

992
00:43:21,680 --> 00:43:25,359
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