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Speaker 1: Good morning, coach, Good morning, victory shot time. Once again,

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Speaker 1: here us get us going Congress. That is eleven of them.

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Speaker 1: M hmm all right, m little energy boost and a tradition,

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Speaker 2: Because baby's gonna come out just unified him. Wake me up,

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Speaker 2: get you going.

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Speaker 1: It will well late night last night, by the way,

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Speaker 1: we were sold a bill of goods by.

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Speaker 2: The guys doing the broadcast, Buck and Aikman.

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Speaker 1: They said, you'd have the stash taken care of this morning,

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Speaker 1: and it's.

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Speaker 3: That was not on the top of my list. It

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Speaker 3: was just trying to get down here this so you're

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Speaker 3: going to keep it no going today.

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Speaker 2: I like the cleats. Yeah, pretty cool, cool, pretty.

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Speaker 1: Cool and certainly, uh that's eleven wins and a uh.

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Speaker 2: A good effort here at home. And that's a team.

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Speaker 1: It's so interesting WIGGI talks all about has been talking

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Speaker 1: a lot this season more than any other about parody

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Speaker 1: that's that's a football team that could have could have

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Speaker 1: bothered you.

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Speaker 3: Well, I think they all can you know, and if

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Speaker 3: you don't show up ready to go, and you don't

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Speaker 3: do the things that that are important to winning, and

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Speaker 2: But I thought it was cool just talking about.

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Speaker 3: My shoes and the player's shoes and just the causes

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Speaker 3: that they hold deer to them. I think is important.

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Speaker 3: So I'm glad that they were able to do that

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Speaker 4: Now I need you to give me the lottery numbers,

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Speaker 4: because I think it was last week you said Jones

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Speaker 4: What did you see on that play that ultimately led

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Speaker 3: You got to get him started, and to do that,

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Speaker 2: I thought our guys did that.

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Speaker 3: I thought Charles Woods, I thought Myles Battle uh got

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Speaker 3: then you're gonna need some some blocks, some legal blocks

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Speaker 2: And I thought guys were doing that.

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Speaker 3: And yeah, we do that on Friday, and it's not

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Speaker 3: looks just like it did on Friday. I said, that's

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Speaker 5: So, the last couple of weeks, we've asked you about

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Speaker 5: the defense starting off slow and how do you fix that?

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Speaker 5: Last night they were firing on all cylinders. They looked

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Speaker 5: so fired up. Did anything change in practice this week

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Speaker 3: No, I just appreciate how they came out and they

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Speaker 3: were aggressive. It'd been a while since we'd played, and

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Speaker 1: Missing obviously missing a couple of guys on the line

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's this league is about that and making sure

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Speaker 3: I thought it was a good plan that the players

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Speaker 1: I heard a suggestion yesterday somebody, uh insider, that you

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't, I mean it was I mean, I'm

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Speaker 3: working hard to come back, just like everybody else.

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Speaker 2: That wasn't available in the football game.

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Speaker 6: A lot of online and post game pontificating saying that

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Speaker 6: the Patriots. What would you think? How would you describe

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Speaker 2: I thought it was good. I thought it was excellent.

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Speaker 3: I didn't see anything on the first view that would

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Speaker 3: this happens in this league. And if you're in bounds

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Speaker 3: and you're not sliding, you know, again, when Harold the

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Speaker 3: I mean, I don't think he was going for his

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Speaker 3: make sure that that he's down and giving himself up.

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Speaker 2: But We're not hitting him in the head or neck.

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Speaker 3: We coach that all the time. We know that that's

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Speaker 3: they're going to be protected. We can say anything we

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Speaker 3: have to We're going to have to hit him. And

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Speaker 3: let's just go through this every week on a Friday

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Speaker 2: Gonna get hit.

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Speaker 3: And if we show that to Drake and our defenders

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Speaker 3: this is legal, I turn around and tell the defense

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Speaker 4: Mike, we as fans, we always have expectations prior to

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Speaker 4: the season, during the season, throughout the season.

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Speaker 2: I'm glad that they change. They change, And so I

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Speaker 4: As a coach, do you do you take that same approach, like,

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Speaker 2: No, I mean I think that that's probably a good question.

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Speaker 2: I don't.

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Speaker 3: And our expectations are trying to figure out what we

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Speaker 3: try to do it as consistently as possible each and

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Speaker 5: You brought up Harold, but then also Christian Ellis it

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Speaker 2: Can't we all need to make a statement to anybody

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Speaker 3: We just need to focus on ourselves and try to

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Speaker 3: continue to improve and always talk about earning the respect

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Speaker 3: take a lot of pride in the way we cover kicks.

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Speaker 3: Said that when they were the top five kickoff returning it,

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Speaker 3: I expect us to be top five in the league

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Speaker 2: Courtney.

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't say your eyes are naive. You go, you

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Speaker 2: Where'd you go? She was down in three Rivers. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I don't even know the three Rivers, the names of them.

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Speaker 2: Almost notice that there's a lot of that. The guy meant, yes, yeah,

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Speaker 5: Well, honestly, if you want to feel myself, I'm on

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Speaker 2: State doesn't play.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe they did walk in the campus Welsh Jesuit

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Speaker 2: Semi okay, some are some are calling it treason.

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Speaker 1: Against the bill, traitorous activity against the bill.

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Speaker 2: Do you have did you have a good time you

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Speaker 3: At least if you'd a fan like you know the Rivers,

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Speaker 2: The stadium sat on your favorite all time Steeler, probably

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Speaker 2: you got it out of the way there. So your

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Speaker 5: No, one of my best friends has a very strong connection.

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Speaker 2: To the Steelers. So we go very strong, very strong.

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Speaker 2: And you want me to translate that air, I mean

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Speaker 2: I'm always.

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Speaker 1: Repping the Patsy no matter what not Away, I would never,

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Speaker 1: I would never.

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Speaker 2: Well, you guys make your great You guys had a

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Speaker 2: good time. We had a We had a great time.

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Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers definitely doesn't have a wife.

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Speaker 6: But other than that, Ohio State was mentioned. They were

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Speaker 6: Ohio State, Michigan and he was reminiscing on how many

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Speaker 6: bets he lost to you with the Ohio State. What

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Speaker 6: part of those rivalry bets that.

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Speaker 2: He wanted to bet, he would we would bet.

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Speaker 2: Any any input from you on that?

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Speaker 6: But would you say that there is been more on

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Speaker 3: I mean, I've done that. How many times do you

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Speaker 4: You talk about, you know, just the way your offense

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Speaker 2: Accuracy, we talk about it every week. Just the accuracy.

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Speaker 5: That's that we were talking about Steph Diggs at the

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Speaker 5: It seems like we were served a narrative about him

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Speaker 2: How proud are you of him.

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Speaker 5: That he's been able to prove himself not just on

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Speaker 3: Well, I think it just goes back to the recovery

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Speaker 2: He was ready to go.

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Speaker 3: He's practiced I would imagine every single day or every

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Speaker 2: He's remained durable.

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Speaker 3: And I appreciate that with everybody, and especially Steph, and

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Speaker 3: Make sure that we're doing everything that we can to

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Speaker 7: Those are that's the facts, and that those are things

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Speaker 6: Big bye week plans, you guys going away for a bit.

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Speaker 3: The time players will have plenty of time, The coaches

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Speaker 7: Par with some of the other ones that we'll have

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Speaker 4: Pleased were you with the balance of your special teams

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Speaker 3: I mean, it was fun to watch. It felt like

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Speaker 4: Do you like the fact that because I'm really I'm

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Speaker 2: I mean, here's what I would say.

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Speaker 3: I would say that as close I don't The NFL

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Speaker 6: Did it ever get close or theoretical in your mind?

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Speaker 3: I mean I looked at every opportunity that was presented

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Speaker 2: Beggars, can't choose.

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Speaker 1: Well, thank god it didn't happen. We're glad you're here.

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Speaker 1: Courtney wants you to coach the Steelers. I mean, that's

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Speaker 2: Different are you from there? She's a New England girl?

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Speaker 2: It says it on her on her bio. I am

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Speaker 5: See me for supporting a friend.

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Speaker 2: You know, I want the extra mile to Robert Morris.

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Speaker 2: I would thank you.

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Speaker 5: I got one, Yeah, thank you.

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Speaker 1: Listen.

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Speaker 2: We'll let you like, let you get to work. Guys,

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Speaker 2: you're sitting in a suite two and three Rivers. That's

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Speaker 1: That yeah, wow, nice to have oil fans when you're

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Speaker 1: liking when the Steelers all right, coach, thanks appreciate it,

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Speaker 1: have a great, great week, and we'll we'll talk to

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