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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 Goals. Steelers Nation Radio back

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Speaker 1: on the drive here and a very special guest joining

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Speaker 1: us as we continue to get ready for wild Card weekend.

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Speaker 1: Number twenty four on the field, but number one in

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Speaker 1: your hearts. Steelers defensive back Joey Porter Junior joining us

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Speaker 1: now here on the drive. Joey, thank you for taking

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Speaker 1: the time so much. And I got to imagine you're

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Speaker 1: real excited for Monday Night. You've been part of some

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Speaker 1: playoff games with the Steelers already earlier in your early

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Speaker 1: in your career, but this will be the first one

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Speaker 1: at home at Akroshur Stadium. I'm sure you're excited to

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Speaker 1: get in front of Steelers fans in that atmosphere on

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Speaker 1: Monday night for a home playoff game.

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Speaker 2: Man, definitely, I can't wait for it, especially how the

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Speaker 2: Stiller's Nation came last week Verthu the Ravens and showed

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Speaker 2: up and showed out. Know, I know how they're feeling

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Speaker 2: coming up for this Monday night game. Well, we're all

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Speaker 2: excited for.

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Speaker 3: It, oh right, bet, And they have a heck of

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Speaker 3: a wide receiver, Nico Collins in big, strong, fast, he's

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Speaker 3: their feature guy. What can you tell us about him?

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Speaker 3: You know, his style of game, A quick little thumbnail

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Speaker 3: scouting report on him.

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Speaker 2: I mean there's really much you see. You see his

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Speaker 2: game on tape, just everything you said, the biggest wrong

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Speaker 2: physical wide receiver. Uh, he plays bully ball and he's

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Speaker 2: he's he's a guy that they use heavily in that offense.

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Speaker 2: So he will get a lot of targets. So the secondary,

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Speaker 2: we're ready for the matchup. We're always looking for a

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Speaker 2: good matchup and and neither one of this is one

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Speaker 2: of those ones where the game is gonna be on

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Speaker 2: us and we get the show out.

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Speaker 1: Joey, I got to imagine a week like this getting

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Speaker 1: ready for, you know, a playoff game here and in

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Speaker 1: an offense like Houston's. It's it's got to be valuable

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Speaker 1: to have Jalen Ramsey on your guy's side and in

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Speaker 1: the room this time of year. A guy who's been there,

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Speaker 1: done that, Super Bowl champion, accomplished just about everything you

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Speaker 1: can in this league. It's got to be nice having

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Speaker 1: an a vet like that to lean on and be

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Speaker 1: part of this process.

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Speaker 2: Definitely, just like you said, he's been through the playoffs.

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Speaker 2: He's been deep in the playoffs win a chip, So

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Speaker 2: just just getting nuggets from him and just staying staying

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Speaker 2: by his hip, just to soak the game and just

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Speaker 2: to hear hear his stories and tells about the playoffs.

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Speaker 2: It's always going to help and give confidence to our guys.

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Speaker 2: So definitely a great addition to the team and very

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Speaker 2: valuable at this moment.

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Speaker 3: So, Drey, I meant to look this up and I didn't,

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Speaker 3: but my hunches you and Mark or you and c J.

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Speaker 3: Stroud did battle in the Big Ten at some point

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Speaker 3: Penn State, Ohio State. Am I right on that? How

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Speaker 3: did that go?

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Speaker 2: You know?

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Speaker 3: What are your thoughts on him as well?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we paced off a couple of times in Big Ten.

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Speaker 2: I ain't I ain't get it. I ain't get a

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Speaker 2: dug and those and those in those matchups. But you know,

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Speaker 2: I pay I played fatally. Are right. We have a

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Speaker 2: good history though we trained together the combined and he's

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Speaker 2: a cool dude, good guy, but we both know what

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Speaker 2: it is when it comes to Monday. We're trying to

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Speaker 2: get the w, get the win. So I don't think

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Speaker 2: there'll be much talking.

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Speaker 1: Well good and hopefully you know, you owe him one now, certainly, Joey,

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Speaker 1: last last one I've got for you. I got to imagine,

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Speaker 1: you know, last week, you guys get TJ. Watt back,

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Speaker 1: and I'm sure that was a big lift for the

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Speaker 1: team heading into a big game against Baltimore this week

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Speaker 1: other side of the ball, but getting DK Metcalf back,

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Speaker 1: Having a guy like that who has in his own

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Speaker 1: right a lot of playoff success and a lot of

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Speaker 1: playoff experience, I'm sure he's ready to go and gonna

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Speaker 1: be shot out of a canon Monday night, definitely.

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Speaker 2: Man, we all miss DK being on the squad for

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Speaker 2: those two weeks. He missed it. He's he's happy to

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Speaker 2: he's just a great dish and a great teammate. So

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Speaker 2: we're all happy to get to the back and play

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Speaker 2: with us this playoff game. So it's gonna be exciting

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Speaker 2: for all of us.

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Speaker 1: Well, Joey, we're looking forward to it. Man, enjoy the

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Speaker 1: atmosphere in the moment on Monday Night. And I just

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Speaker 1: wanted to let you know last the last the last

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Speaker 1: So you got some you got something big on deck

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Speaker 1: for for Monday night. If you're following in the footsteps

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Speaker 1: the last two Steelers, good good vibes, good juju heading

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Speaker 1: into this one. So thank you for taking the time

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Speaker 1: and have some fun on Monday.

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Speaker 2: Night and appreciate you guys.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for golling anytime you are welcome anytime partner there,

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Speaker 1: he goes Joey Porter Junior. Uh. Great way to end

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Speaker 1: the week and to and to get us ready for

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Speaker 1: a big one on Monday night.

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Speaker 2: Matt.

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Speaker 1: Everyone can listen to you and Tom on the pregame

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Speaker 1: U four hours before Yeah, two hours reminder to everybody.

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Speaker 1: Saturday night, five o'clock Tequila Cowboy Steelers PEP rally party.

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Speaker 1: Myself and Tom will be doing a show. Rob King

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Speaker 1: and uh and and Charlie Batch will be there on site.

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Speaker 1: They'll be giveaways all kinds of prizes and and coozies

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Speaker 1: and rally signs and all that good stuff, and of

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Speaker 1: course appearances by Steelers alumni. So that is five o'clock

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Speaker 1: at Tequila Cowboys Saturday. UH. And obviously if you're not

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Speaker 3: I think most people know this by now. But game

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Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, because by the time we would, you and

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Speaker 1: Tom will be on air at that time, so exactly right,

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Speaker 1: So win, lose or draw, well, I guess there can't

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Speaker 3: Time, just win or lose. We will be back today.

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Speaker 1: We are to break down obviously Steelers, Texans and all

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Speaker 1: the other NFL action.

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Speaker 1: One or a couple quick thank yous before we get

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Speaker 1: out of here, to Missy Matthews for joining us today. UH,

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Speaker 1: to Joey Porter Junior, and to Makaiah from Steelers pr

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Speaker 1: for setting that up for us. Big thanks to her

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Speaker 1: and UH and Joey promptly on time. We were joking

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Speaker 1: around like what time do you think he's actually gonna call?

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Speaker 1: And then bang, I mean he was. He was right

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Speaker 1: there on tur so great stuff. Big thanks to Tyler

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Speaker 1: for keeping us crisp and handsome on the video side

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Speaker 1: of things on YouTube, and for Matt Williamson, I'm Wes

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Speaker 1: s Yueler. Take care, everybody. We will talk to you Tuesday.

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