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Speaker 3: And welcome to the Drive. I am Dale Lolly, he

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Speaker 3: is the Matt Williamson and it is another chilly day

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Speaker 3: here in at Pittsburgh on a Wednesday, that's a Thursday.

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Speaker 3: For the Steelers' practice purposes. The Steelers had to move

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Speaker 3: their practice over to Akroschure Stadium today. The field there

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Speaker 3: and they wanted to get an out there was. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: so that's where they're at. You know, if you look

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Speaker 3: at the Steelers injury situation, not terrible. Chris Boswell added

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Speaker 3: to the injury report today with an illness.

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Speaker 4: This is the season for illnesses here and there.

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Speaker 3: He'll be fine. I bet yeah, that won't be an issue.

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Speaker 4: You had.

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Speaker 3: Roman Wilson still dealing with the He's still on the

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Speaker 3: inside of his window, I should say, as is Cole Holkoman,

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Speaker 3: Logan Lee and Calvin Anderson. But all were full participants today.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Dante Jackson for the second second, second consecutive day a

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Speaker 3: full participant. So you're looking at that. Mace McCormick limited

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Speaker 3: again today, but at least that is you know, he's

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Speaker 3: able to get through a limited practice broken hand. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: no reason to rush that. Cam Hayward did not practice

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Speaker 3: again today with the illness, but that's nothing new. He

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Speaker 3: doesn't practice on Wednesdays and Thursdays as it is, right.

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Speaker 5: And yeah, they played through the blue when probably a

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Speaker 5: lot worse shape than he is today.

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Speaker 3: He'll be just fine. I think that started. He said

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Speaker 4: Wow, okay, he'll be fine.

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Speaker 3: Uh My. Cole Pruett, however, with the knee, did not

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Speaker 3: practice today after being limited yesterday, and then Isaac Samalu

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Speaker 3: as a resting veteran.

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Speaker 5: That sounds like Prouve. It's really the only one in question. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 5: I mean we'll get to the Ravens here, I'm sure.

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Speaker 5: But Jackson's interesting in that I expect Porter to follow

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Speaker 5: Bateman like crazy.

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Speaker 3: Well, and to that point, once again, the Ravens did

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Speaker 3: not have Zay Flowers iteme today.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, I don't.

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Speaker 3: Think people are making a big enough deal about this.

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Speaker 5: No, it's a really key component to their passing game.

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Speaker 5: It's a huge component. If you think back to the

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Speaker 5: last game.

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Speaker 3: I think Lamar had two hundred and seven passing yards

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Speaker 3: in that game, when when the Ravens won and Flowers

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Speaker 3: had one hundred yards in that game? Six one? Yeah,

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Speaker 3: what are we? What are we missing here? Why are

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Speaker 3: people to me? This is very much, very similar to

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Speaker 3: if you think back, there's there's a correlation here. Twenty fourteen,

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Speaker 3: Steelers go into the final game of the season needing

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Speaker 3: they had lost, Baltimore could have passed them. Well, they

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Speaker 3: didn't lose, They took care of business and Ravens are

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Speaker 3: now the wild card. Ravens have to come to Pittsburgh

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Speaker 3: in the wildcard round, Steelers were playing to win. Le'von

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Speaker 3: Bell gets hurt in that game.

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Speaker 4: Okay, we're going with that right, kind of a big deal.

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Speaker 3: His first Pro Bowl season and he's unable to play.

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Speaker 3: The Steelers then have to go out.

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Speaker 4: They Flowers for a Pro Bowl season.

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Speaker 3: Also day Flowers. There's lots of correlations there. Day Flowers

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Speaker 3: first Pro Bowl season in his second year. This was

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Speaker 3: Le'vion's second year and he gets hurt, they don't have him,

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Speaker 3: le'von le'von. I mean, he had thirteen hundred rushing yards

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Speaker 4: He was touching the ball all the time, all the time.

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Speaker 4: He was a huge type of guy.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, a huge part of the of the offense there.

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Speaker 3: So they signed Ben Tait wow off the off the

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Speaker 3: If you remember, he had a fumble in that game.

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Speaker 5: Imagine being that situation. Yeah, the Steelers practice squads back then,

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Speaker 5: you know, right. Yeah, the Steelers end up losing that game.

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Speaker 5: It was twenty to fifteen at one point early in

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Speaker 5: thirty to fifteen to the wild card teams, the only

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Speaker 3: Have beat the Steelers in the playoffs. But you didn't

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Speaker 3: have a guy who accounted for two thousand yards of offense, one.

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Speaker 5: Of the most important players. Yeah, maybe the best back

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Speaker 5: are some similarities. I mean in that you know, Flowers,

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Speaker 5: I was in compare it to like when Pickens was out. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: I mean then that you know, they elected Flowers to

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Speaker 5: I would take the other Ray Vince pass catchers over

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Speaker 3: Close, you know, certainly a lot closer.

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Speaker 5: Absolutely, And they're different style receivers, of course, Yeah, but

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Speaker 5: they also fit what those teams are trying to do.

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Speaker 5: And I also think a huge component I think we

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 5: Bateman does everything well, but he's been more of the

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Speaker 5: caught a lot of deep balls. But I think the

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Speaker 5: ripple effect is so big in that Joey, you got Bateman,

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Speaker 5: and we're gonna play ten on ten like we're not

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Speaker 4: You, you know what I mean.

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Speaker 5: I mean, and we're expecting you to win a high percentage.

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Speaker 5: And he's a better player than Bateman. That doesn't mean

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Speaker 4: And then between Minka and Elliott on their tight ends,

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Speaker 4: it's not so bad. Not so bad.

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Speaker 3: In fact, if you if you look at this matchup,

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Speaker 3: if you take Zay Flowers out of the equation, the

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Speaker 3: Steelers might have the better pass catchers overall. Well, I

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Speaker 3: would say so with Pickens pickings in the equation this

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I agree, I agree.

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Speaker 3: I mean he's he is Andrews is good.

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Speaker 4: He is good, and likely he's a nice player too.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but having a good year and Bateman's having a

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Speaker 4: That's it though.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. In terms of the talent, yeah, Pickens is the

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Speaker 4: He's the most.

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Speaker 5: Dangerous player in the game. Yeah, And frankly, he needs

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Speaker 3: This is it.

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Speaker 4: You've got to be.

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Speaker 3: You can't have what happened last week happened in this game.

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Speaker 3: If you're going to advance.

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Speaker 5: And frankly, I mean with Flowers out it makes it easier.

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Speaker 5: But if you really trust your safeties on the tight

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Speaker 5: put a lot of big bodies in the box. Yes,

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Speaker 5: And that's the key is stopping the run here, because

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Speaker 5: I don't think you're going to see hardly any eleven

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Speaker 4: I mean, if so, you're getting into.

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Speaker 5: So you're gonna be in a lot of bass, I

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Speaker 5: would think with big bodies out there anyways, Roberts and

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Speaker 4: That don't have to worry all that much about coverage.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so there's a bit of a hubbub. Speaking of

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Speaker 3: George Pickens, there was some cologne, unisex cologne going through

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Speaker 3: you can hear as there it's going around there. There's

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Speaker 3: like George Pickens. Okay, I'm kind of inferring that, well,

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Speaker 3: and the other guy guy says yeah, just like that.

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Speaker 3: that's not what we meant. No, that's exactly what you meant.

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Speaker 5: I assume you meant feminine, you know, like perfumish, you know,

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Speaker 4: Pot here soft.

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Speaker 3: There's no way to sell saying we said this guy

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Speaker 3: with that. You could say all you want about George Pickens,

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Speaker 3: I would say soft might not be the word. He

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Speaker 3: And if you're going to poke the bear with that,

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, I don't think the perfume smelled like

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Speaker 4: They soft.

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Speaker 3: The word soft was used. Okay, you can try to

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Speaker 3: apologize for all that that is, as much as you want.

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Speaker 4: And Merril says this all the time.

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Speaker 5: You know, a really talented professional athlete embarrassed on us

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Speaker 5: everyone the planet knows that's not Picking's best effort. I mean,

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Speaker 3: I don't explain that. Yeah, I mean, I just think

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Speaker 3: that he is so competitive that you know, he's also

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Speaker 3: the kind of guy who in the past has complained

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Speaker 3: about like last year and even his rookie season not

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Speaker 3: making the Pro Bowl. Yeah, yeah, Well, now you're playing

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Speaker 4: Was probably probably the last one that made their cut too.

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Speaker 3: Who had a guy who made the Pro Bowl. There's

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Speaker 3: you know, it's the same thing with you know, with

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Speaker 4: Know, I forgot Judy made it.

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Speaker 3: Judy made it as well, Like, yeah, tell me three

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Speaker 3: the three of the top four wide receivers in the

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Speaker 3: AFC were in this division and I don't know about that.

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Speaker 3: I don't know about that either.

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Speaker 5: If so, I'd say it's the three best are Higgins, Pickens, right,

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Speaker 5: I mean, I like Flowers, but he was a nice player.

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Speaker 3: But he you know, he scored four touchdowns this year.

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Speaker 3: I understand, George scored three. Yeah, but he had seventy

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Speaker 3: four catches and George had fifty five. George missed three games.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean some of the stars, Tyreek Nico, you know,

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Speaker 5: we just didn't have an long enough season.

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Speaker 3: And then that that hurt Pickens cause too obviously. Well,

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Speaker 4: Can we can?

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Speaker 3: We make sure that you know, we have Kyle Hamilton

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Speaker 5: Okay, I'm gonna take that shit. He'll take those shots.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that club is there. Yeah, he's got that one.

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Speaker 3: we're not leaving. Yeah, we better win the battle here

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Speaker 4: And they did largely.

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Speaker 3: So you know, I'm like that that term has been

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Speaker 4: Centuries.

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Speaker 4: Like that, they go four wide.

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Speaker 3: You're not going to go crazy in this situation.

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Speaker 4: But you still do what you do.

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Speaker 3: You've got some stuff that might you feel might work

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Speaker 5: It's like a punt fake, you know, like if you

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Speaker 5: for over the top. We're max protet can go over

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Speaker 5: the top. We just didn't get it in the first

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Speaker 3: But yeah, the one thing that the Ravens do now

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Speaker 3: They were doing that earlier in the season. Now they show.

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Speaker 4: It, but more sales.

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Speaker 5: And yeah, it's it's more. I mean they even drop

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Speaker 5: You just have to figure out which four.

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Speaker 4: Guys it is.

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Speaker 5: Communication stuff's hard, and that's such a trend in the

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Speaker 4: And they're good at it, you know.

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Speaker 3: So because of that, would you go a little more

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Speaker 5: Maybe because I think Wilson's really good attitude. Yeah, I

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think that makes sense. Not to mention Peerce

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Speaker 4: He is. He is a big, big sucker. Yeah yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 4: No offense, he's a good football Oh, he's a really

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Speaker 3: He is a wide buddy.

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Speaker 4: He takes up a lot of space.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, a lot of I'm not folks, that's just an observation.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he is a big man. And if you again,

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Speaker 3: you got to convert the third downs. Oh yeah, convert

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Speaker 5: That's a huge difference between these two teams right now, too,

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Speaker 5: Steelers do that that needs a change overnight. Yeah, on

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Speaker 3: Get behind if you win the toss in this one,

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Speaker 5: But if you could go down and even get three,

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Speaker 5: why do you defer? Will you defer to try to

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Speaker 3: So you're trying to get at least a ten point

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, not to mention too, you have a better idea

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Speaker 3: I think I want my defense on the field.

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Speaker 4: It's your best unit.

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Speaker 3: It's your best unit against their best unit. And you

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Speaker 5: Or have it for a bid for them, if you

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Speaker 3: Quick, really quickly, and get in Lamar's head. I want

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Speaker 3: And you know, I've I've learned from that, have you?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 5: Right, right right? You know we all mature. He's twenty seven,

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Speaker 3: I mean he's two and four in the playoffs. Can't

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Speaker 5: No, they're not that great, right. The rushing yards are good.

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Speaker 5: Everything else is bad. Everything else is bad.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they average so in La Mars it's like eighty

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Speaker 3: over twenty seven points per game. Okay, in Lamar's six

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Speaker 4: Ago that it's low.

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Speaker 1: It's low.

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Speaker 4: I don't think they ever got to twenty and any

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Speaker 4: Maybe he they are turning the corner. I mean, they're

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Speaker 3: They had that game, so he had four total touchdowns.

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Speaker 4: Their losses are very low scoring.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know that they've fixed anything. I don't

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Speaker 3: I want to see it, like you got to do

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Speaker 3: this again. It's not just one time. And he was okay,

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Speaker 3: he was fine in the first or the second meeting

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Speaker 5: Was the driving force in that game obviously has an

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Speaker 5: influence that's very wide. The playoff experience is a huge deal.

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Speaker 5: We talk about this all the time, and I'm sure

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Speaker 5: you saw this, and I shouldn't shock anybody, but Mahomes

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Speaker 4: That's amazing.

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Speaker 5: hard it is to win playoff games? I mean, if

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Speaker 5: you have a winning record as a coach or quarterback

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Speaker 5: in the playoffs, that is a wow factor, Like it's hard.

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Speaker 3: There's been a lot of playoff games played in the

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Speaker 3: one hundred and plus years of the NFL, and sev seventeen, Yeah,

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Speaker 3: seventeen guys have a winning record.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, Brady Mahomes. I mean there's something. There are no

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Speaker 5: brainers off the right right thet They take a lot

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Speaker 5: of the wins, they take a lot of the wins.

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Speaker 5: I mean, over the last ten years, how many playoff

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Speaker 5: wins of Brady Mahomes scooped up a awful lot.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they're like up like fifteen out yeah.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, Mahomes has fifteen. I think Wilson has nine. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: Mahomes is distant first. Yeah, you know, Brady's a distant first.

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Speaker 4: Well, I mean the guys that are active as we

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Speaker 4: speak in the playoffs, right.

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Speaker 3: Right, Anyways, let's get to a break. He is Matt Williamson.

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Speaker 3: I am Dale Lolly. You're listening to the Drive if

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Speaker 3: you're on the Steelers Audio Network. We're going to take

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Speaker 3: a break. When we come back, we'll be joined by

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Speaker 3: Bob Larriola, who hasn't visit us in the last couple

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Speaker 3: of weeks because the games have all been messed up.

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Speaker 3: So let's do that right after this.

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Speaker 2: He's the Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt Williamson on

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Speaker 2: your twenty four to seven home of the Black and

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Speaker 2: Gold Steelers Nation Radio.

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Speaker 3: And welcome back. I am Dale Lolly. He is the

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Speaker 3: Matt Williamson. And on the Justin Miller Hotline, we are

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Speaker 3: joined by the Dean of Doom, the Lord of living

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Speaker 3: in his fears right now might be the mayor of

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Speaker 3: Pittsburgh because everybody here seems to be doing the same thing.

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Speaker 3: That is Bob Larbriola, editor of Steelers Digested Steelers dot Com.

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Speaker 3: How you doing, Bob, been a.

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Speaker 1: While I was dead? Is happy New Year? Boys? Yeah?

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Speaker 4: As well? They keep losing because you haven't been on.

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Speaker 1: I think there is that it's my fault. That's clever.

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Speaker 1: Let's let's let's let's start with that. Uh. You know,

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Speaker 1: if one thing I'm tired of shoveling snow, let me

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Speaker 1: say that. You know, I agree with that. Guys, you guys, okay, yeah,

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Speaker 1: and uh, just all the listeners out there. My piece

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Speaker 1: of advice when you buy a house, do it. Don't

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Speaker 1: do what I did, which was, you know, the attached

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Speaker 1: garage is in the back of the house, so when

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Speaker 1: you're shoveling, you gotta shovel all you know, from the

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Speaker 1: street all the way back and then the big pad

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Speaker 1: in the back behind the house because you know, you

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Speaker 1: gotta pull the cars in that way.

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Speaker 3: It looks great because you don't have the cars parked

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Speaker 3: in front of your house.

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Speaker 1: But right, yeah, but see there's yes, I'm really jealous

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Speaker 1: because they just have to shovel, you know, from their

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Speaker 1: their garage are in the front of the house, so

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Speaker 1: they just have to show from there to the street

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Speaker 1: and that's it.

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Speaker 3: And they're all looking at you going sucker. Yeah, that's

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Speaker 3: why the house was available right then.

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Speaker 1: So that's what that's what That would be my advice

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Speaker 1: to anyone who can, uh, you know, afford to buy

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Speaker 1: the house in these economic times if if you.

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Speaker 5: Have that option, Sage words one with a garage in

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Speaker 5: the front.

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Speaker 3: While we're on the subject of Sage words of it

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Speaker 3: of wisdom here, I mean, we've seen Steelers ravens a lot.

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Speaker 3: We've seen Steelers ravens in the postseason. Is there a

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Speaker 3: path to victory here for the Pittsburgh Steelers.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean there is. You know, there's that. That's

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Speaker 1: the whole that's the whole point of the NFL. I mean,

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Speaker 1: that's been the business model since you know, Pete Roselle.

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Speaker 1: Back then it was called on on any given Sunday.

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Speaker 3: Now it's any given Wednesday, Saturday night exactly.

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Speaker 1: So you know, so yes, there there there is a

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Speaker 1: path of victory. I mean, but you know, I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: say what I said in two thousand and five, after

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Speaker 1: a three game losing streak by the Steelers in mid

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Speaker 1: November to early December was you know, everything you see

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Speaker 1: though during the three game losing streak contributes to a

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Speaker 1: sense of how can they win four in a row?

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Speaker 4: Which is which?

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Speaker 1: Which? Which is what it was in two thousand and five.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, there's a path for the Steelers to win

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Speaker 1: Saturday Night. But I mean I haven't seen a whole

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Speaker 1: lot in the last month that I can point to

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Speaker 1: and say and that's what they need. You know, you

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Speaker 1: understand what I mean. Yeah, they have played this season

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Speaker 1: well enough to beat the Ravens. In fact, they you

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Speaker 1: know that's a fact, because they did beat them once.

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Speaker 1: But you know, lately things haven't been going as well.

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Speaker 1: And uh, I think you can, really you don't even

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Speaker 1: have to be a really good dart player, just throw

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Speaker 1: a dart at the board whenever it hits you can.

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Speaker 1: You can criticize just about every aspect except Chris Boswell. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's the guy. Uh And and you know what I

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Speaker 1: thought of this as it happened up the entire season,

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Speaker 1: up until he kicked that ball, that kickoff out of bounds,

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Speaker 1: You could legitimately say there's nothing you can complain about

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Speaker 1: with this guy. Yeah, zero now, but that one and

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Speaker 1: it wasn't you know, I'm not cutting them from the

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Speaker 1: team or anything, but that's the only thing I could think.

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Speaker 3: That's what thoughts In that game. He showed he's human,

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Speaker 3: like he actually made a mistake.

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Speaker 1: He made so but you know, what do you guys think?

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Speaker 1: Tell me something, Give me something.

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Speaker 3: Okay, all right, I'm gonna give you something here, Bob.

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Speaker 3: We're gonna go back to nineteen eighty six. You were

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Speaker 3: covering the Steelers back then. Nineteen eighty six, the New

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Speaker 3: York Jets start the season ten to one. They then

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Speaker 3: lose their last five games of the regular season, the

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Speaker 3: closest of which was by fourteen points. Including it included

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Speaker 3: in that was a loss to the Steelers in nineteen

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Speaker 3: eighty six, And you were there. The Steelers in eighty

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Speaker 3: six were not a great football team. They beat the

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Speaker 3: Jets in New York forty five twenty four, sending the

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Speaker 3: Jets into the postseason a five game losing streak. The

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Speaker 3: Jets then go out in the first first round of

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Speaker 3: the playoffs. They beat the as a wild card beat

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Speaker 3: the Kansas City Chiefs the following week they go to

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Speaker 3: Cleveland and lose twenty three to twenty in double overtime,

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Speaker 3: five game losing streak the end of season.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and I do know that the eighty six Steelers

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Speaker 1: were bad. That's that's the only thing that I know

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Speaker 1: for a fact. I mean this other stuff you're saying,

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Speaker 1: I was trying to, you know, recollect it. But you know,

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Speaker 1: hearing that the Jets would go on a losing streak,

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Speaker 1: that's not surprised, right, It's an every year event, you know.

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Speaker 1: And I can also point to some instances, historical instances

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Speaker 1: where I believe the Steelers had no chance and they

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Speaker 1: won two thousand and five in Indianapolis, nineteen eighty nine

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Speaker 1: in Houston, and one a game that I didn't attend personally,

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Speaker 1: but I was old enough to be paying attention nineteen

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Speaker 1: eighty four in Denver. But you know, I don't know

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Speaker 1: that history. I think Bill Kauer once said this, and

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Speaker 1: it was incredibly, incredibly insightful.

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Speaker 3: The great philosophers.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, you know, I mean, give them give the

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Speaker 1: man the credit that's due. You know, history has no

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Speaker 1: bearing on you know, what's going to happen. I mean

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Speaker 1: referring to history as a way of predicting or forecasting

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Speaker 1: the future has no meaning. So you know, we could

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Speaker 1: we could play this game all day. And again, I

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Speaker 1: maybe I'm too doctor doomed to use one of your

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Speaker 1: favorite phrases. You know, I just don't. I don't see

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Speaker 1: why that should make me optimistic.

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Speaker 3: Well, one of the things that happened in that in

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Speaker 3: that losing streak leading into that game, the Jets in

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Speaker 3: their ten and one start had forced thirty two turnovers.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I was gonna go turnovers.

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Speaker 3: They were plus They were plush thirteen in turnovers at

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Speaker 3: that point, so more than one per game that they

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Speaker 3: were winning the turnover battle by and obviously back then

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Speaker 3: turnovers were more prevalent. In their five game losing streak,

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Speaker 3: they were minus twelve. But in the postseason when they

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Speaker 3: when they you know, beat the Chiefs and then lost

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Speaker 3: to the to the Browns, they were plus five. They

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Speaker 3: forced five turnovers and didn't have any themselves. I mean,

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Speaker 3: it's it's it's a fault, it's a it's something that

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Speaker 3: we've seen from this particular Steelers team as well. When

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Speaker 3: you get the turnovers, you can beat anybody, and even.

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Speaker 5: These bad this bad stretch, I mean the Steeler defenses

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Speaker 5: tipped balls and caused fumbles and they have some pay

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Speaker 5: some turnovers as well. But the offense is the one

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Speaker 5: that needs to correct itself to me, and in terms

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Speaker 5: of the turnovers in the sloppy play.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and you know that's again, I don't think there's

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Speaker 1: any argument there at all. I mean, because over the

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Speaker 1: length of the four game losing streak, the defense that

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Speaker 1: showed some improvement. I mean, there have been areas of

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Speaker 1: the defense that were below the line in different parts

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Speaker 1: of the game, different parts of different games during that streak,

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Speaker 1: but I think towards the end you were seeing some improvement.

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Speaker 1: They were doing a little bit better job of taking

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Speaker 1: the ball away. The red zone defense, because I don't

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Speaker 1: care what anybody says. You know, I'll die on this hill.

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Speaker 1: I'll take Joe Burrow over Lamar Jackson a thousand times

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Speaker 1: over a thousand and when you keep that guy out

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Speaker 1: of the end zone. What was it three times they

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Speaker 1: settled for three field goals, three red zone field goals,

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Speaker 1: as they.

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Speaker 4: Turned them over nineteen total points in the whole game,

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Speaker 4: you know.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, So to me, that's that's good enough. Red zone defense,

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Speaker 1: you know, holding holding the Bengals under twenty points that

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Speaker 1: should have been a win. And so to me, Matt,

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Speaker 1: that does you know, verify what you just said about.

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Speaker 1: It's the offense that.

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Speaker 4: In particular.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, And I'll tell you what, there's not there's

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Speaker 1: not an area of the offense even that you can

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Speaker 1: point to and say, well, that's good.

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Speaker 3: This would make it better, right, you know, that's a

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Speaker 3: good question.

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Speaker 1: I can't you know, I don't know what I would

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Speaker 1: say to that. And you know, looking at that, you know,

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Speaker 1: what are they good at on offense and not being

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Speaker 1: able to come up with an answer to me that

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Speaker 1: points right at the line. Yeah, the line has been

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Speaker 1: not good enough in my opinion in any way. Not

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Speaker 1: running the football, not the past protection. You know, there's

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Speaker 1: just a lot of things that you know, throw the

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Speaker 1: ball over the middle, well, to throw the ball over

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Speaker 1: the middle when you're Russell Wilson, you need some throwing

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Speaker 1: wings in there. If he's supposed to drop back five

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Speaker 1: steps and throw quick, uh short to intermediate passes over

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Speaker 1: the middle, you can't have that big, you know, mass

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Speaker 1: of humanity there that's closing in on him like that.

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Speaker 1: There has to be some sort of either lanes created

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Speaker 1: or you know, hold your ground better for that kind

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Speaker 1: of a passing attack to work with a guy like him.

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Speaker 1: I mean, he's not Ben, he's not six ' five.

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Speaker 1: He's not standing in there and just looking over everything

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Speaker 1: and you know, delivering the ball.

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Speaker 3: And even when they were doing that with Ben, with

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Speaker 3: a quick passion game, there were still balls getting batted

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Speaker 3: down all that.

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Speaker 4: Quite a few at the end there.

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Speaker 3: Yes, that's gonna happen.

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Speaker 1: Yes. So so you know, the the offensive line needs

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Speaker 1: to be better in my opinion. You know, receivers can't

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Speaker 1: be dropping the ball. And you know again I I

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Speaker 1: and and it's everyone. I mean, you know people will

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Speaker 1: talk about uh you certainly remember pickings Calvin Austin, but hey,

659
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Speaker 1: Farmouth fumbled one and that was a drop on fourth

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Speaker 1: down against the Bengals. So again I mean, I'm I'm

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Speaker 1: not pointing at him or anything. But if it's everyone,

662
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Speaker 1: is my point. There's you can complain about the play calls,

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Speaker 1: you can question the game plans. Fine, that's legit. You

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Speaker 1: can talk about the quarterback that's legit too, But it's

665
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Speaker 1: also the offensive line. The receivers, uh, you know, the

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Speaker 1: make routine plays routinely. I mean that's a I don't know,

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Speaker 1: that's that's a up there high in the list of cliches.

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Speaker 1: But I mean, you're.

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Speaker 3: Right, right, because there are things that should happen, yes, exactly,

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Speaker 3: routine play routine because it's expected to be made.

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Speaker 1: Yes. So you know, again, I don't know, I don't

672
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Speaker 1: know what what the point to is an optimistic thing.

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Speaker 1: And let me say this too, I don't know what

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Speaker 1: I would want to do from a strategic standpoint to

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Speaker 1: start this game. I mean, do you want to come

676
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Speaker 1: out it's funny, be aggressive offensively and start throwing the

677
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Speaker 1: ball around because you know, it cracks me up this.

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Speaker 1: You know, people want to talk about this string of

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Speaker 1: bad starts offensively not scoring. Okay, that's fine, that's that's

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Speaker 1: factually accurate. But one of the few shows on the

681
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Speaker 1: ESPN that I will ever admit in public to watch

682
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Speaker 1: is pardon the interruption. I've always liked Will Bond and Kornheiser.

683
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Speaker 1: They're ink stained wretches like me. That's that's what they

684
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Speaker 1: got to start. But anyway, they had Jeff Saturday on,

685
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Speaker 1: who is a former All Pro player, and one of

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Speaker 1: the things he said was they were talking to him

687
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Speaker 1: about playoff games, and he said, what you always have

688
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Speaker 1: to remember going into a playoff game is you can't

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Speaker 1: win the game in the first quarter, but you and

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Speaker 1: lose it in the first quarter. So you know that

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Speaker 1: a lot of the media elects to throw into Tomlin's

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Speaker 1: face that when he says, you know, we didn't lose

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Speaker 1: the game there, it's too early in the game. We

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Speaker 1: didn't lose that. That's that's accurate, because if you the

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Speaker 1: only way you can lose a game in the first

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Speaker 1: quarter turning it over. And we've seen that in some

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Speaker 1: playoff games too. I mean, Ben has had so bad starts.

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Speaker 1: And then there was the one against Cleveland where Poncey

699
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Speaker 1: just snapped the ball into the second level or wherever

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Speaker 1: it went on the first play of the game.

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Speaker 3: It would actually have been better if it had gone

702
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Speaker 3: to Blocknoxs because it wouldn't have been recovered in the

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Speaker 3: end zone for a touchdown, right.

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Speaker 1: You know what I mean? But Markquis Poncey, you know,

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Speaker 1: is he the guy you think is gonna, I don't know,

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Speaker 1: make that kind of mistake at that point of a

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Speaker 1: playoff game. Ever, I mean, you could have put me

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Speaker 1: down for no.

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Speaker 3: It might have been the only time in his career

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Speaker 3: that he did that.

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Speaker 1: So but yeah, you can't so. But getting back to

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Speaker 1: my original point, how do you want to open the game?

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Speaker 1: I mean you want to go for it and risk

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Speaker 1: that or do you want to try and muck it

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Speaker 1: down into you know, uh, seventeen fourteen or nineteen sixteen

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Speaker 1: or something, you know, midway through the fourth quarter and

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Speaker 1: then see where you are.

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Speaker 5: The one thing I think I would do, though, Labs,

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Speaker 5: is I need to get Pickings involved immediately and engaged.

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Speaker 1: You know, I don't you know that? That's fine? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: but uh.

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Speaker 5: And you sink to swim with it to some degree.

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Speaker 5: I mean, he's your best playmaker. He has to be

724
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Speaker 5: one of the best players on the field in this game.

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Speaker 1: Or what I'm saying though, is are you coming out

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Speaker 1: doing that and you know on first downs or are

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Speaker 1: you talking about getting him involved in.

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Speaker 4: Early in the game.

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Speaker 5: I need to ball in his hands five times in

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Speaker 5: the first quarter or four times the first quarter or.

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Speaker 1: What I'm what I'm what I'm saying though, is are

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Speaker 1: you trying to get it to him on third and ten?

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Speaker 1: Are you trying to get it to them on first

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Speaker 1: intent I'd.

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Speaker 3: Be trying to get it to him on first intent, I'd.

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Speaker 4: Be more aggressive that early downs they.

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Speaker 1: Okay, I mean I'm not arguing. Yeah, let's certainly hope

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Speaker 1: that you know, the pass protection works out that ninety

739
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Speaker 1: nine cut doesn't come off the corner and strip sack

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Speaker 1: Russell Wilson because you know, the tackles aren't having a

741
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Speaker 1: great day pass blocking or you know, I don't know. Again,

742
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Speaker 1: it's the Ravens defense is a it's it's potentially dynamic.

743
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Speaker 1: They have potentially dynamic players on that defense. And do

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Speaker 1: you want to start a game that way on their

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Speaker 1: home field in the first round of the playoffs. I mean,

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Speaker 1: all the momentum, they're the favorites, they're I mean, do

747
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Speaker 1: you want to come out so if you win the

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Speaker 1: coin toss? What are you doing?

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Speaker 4: That's what we're talking about.

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Speaker 3: Last I put the defense on the field. I want

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Speaker 3: to try a to start winning the field position battle quickly,

752
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Speaker 3: and my defense is my best unit. I want that

753
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Speaker 3: one to I understand that's Baltimore's best unit, but I

754
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Speaker 3: want to try to get Lamar's head as quickly as

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Speaker 3: I can.

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Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, and that that's a that's a very legitimate

757
00:37:14,960 --> 00:37:17,719
Speaker 1: point of view, and you know that would.

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Speaker 3: Have happened if you recover that fumble in the in

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Speaker 3: the in the last rounding on the opening drive, on

760
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Speaker 3: the strip sack, you're in his head. He goes, oh,

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Speaker 3: here we go again against the Steelers.

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Speaker 1: You know, and maybe and maybe, because you know, Steelers

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Speaker 1: fans aren't the only impatient people who will let their

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Speaker 1: opinions be known early in a game. If if that

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Speaker 1: was a strip sack on lamar uh, they lost in

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Speaker 1: Pittsburgh because he didn't really play well. Then in the

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Speaker 1: first game back against Baltimore in Baltimore, on the first series,

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Speaker 1: he turns it over. Now, I'm sure to of Ravens fans,

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Speaker 1: he could have been being careless with the football. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I'm sure that there are replays that would show he

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Speaker 1: didn't tuck it right or you know whatever, because you can,

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Speaker 1: every play made in a football game is either a

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Speaker 1: good play by somebody or a bad play by somebody,

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Speaker 1: or at the same time, simultaneous, depending on who.

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Speaker 3: You like or you you actually made a good play,

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Speaker 3: you did everything right, and the other guy made a

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Speaker 3: better play.

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Speaker 1: Yeah there's that too. So you know, it's going to

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Speaker 1: be interesting how this game unfolds again. I don't think

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Speaker 1: that there is a clear, decisive, correct way, you know,

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Speaker 1: to go about this from the Steelers point of view.

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Speaker 3: All I know is that if Baltimore wins the toss,

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Speaker 3: the Steelers offense is going to be on the field first. Yes,

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Speaker 3: So I'm not gonna do what they want to do.

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna do what I want to do, and I'm

786
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Speaker 3: gonna put my defense on the field.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. And as I said, I mean, it's there's there

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Speaker 1: doesn't seem to be a clear, definitive way to approach

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Speaker 1: this game, and so the game unfolds in terms of

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Speaker 1: that strategy. If you if you're a Tomlin hater, it's

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Speaker 1: his fault, well sure, yeah, you know, or or whatever.

792
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Speaker 1: If you don't like Russell Wilson, if you don't think

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Speaker 1: the Steelers defense is elite, if if, if, if, whatever,

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Speaker 1: there is a suitable group or individual that there's that

795
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Speaker 1: you will get blamed. And that's the I don't know.

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Speaker 1: It it takes away the fun of the playoffs, it.

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Speaker 3: Does, right, it does. I mean, this is a playoff

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Speaker 3: game we're talking about here, and people are talking they

799
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Speaker 3: already want to start talking off season stuff like there's

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Speaker 3: a playoffs, right, this is what you live for.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and well, and there's no enjoyment of it either,

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Speaker 1: you know, regardless of what I mean is enjoyment of

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Speaker 1: the accomplishment, because it is it is one uh you know,

804
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Speaker 1: it's not the NHL where everybody gets it.

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Speaker 3: There's a ten win team sitting at home right now.

806
00:40:16,800 --> 00:40:20,399
Speaker 3: They're actually firing people and moving on with their offseason plans.

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Speaker 3: The Seattle Seahawks won ten games this year and did

808
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Speaker 3: not make the postseason. I mean, people take this for

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Speaker 3: granted here in Pittsburgh, and I get it. You want

810
00:40:28,440 --> 00:40:30,440
Speaker 3: you know, you want super Bowls, you want all that stuff.

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Speaker 3: But it's not easy to accomplish this and and so

812
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Speaker 3: enjoy it when when you get it and enjoy it

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Speaker 3: for what it is, and you're getting another Steelers Ravens game.

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Speaker 4: Half the league is not. It doesn't have a season

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Speaker 4: going anymore.

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Speaker 1: You know. Yeah, yeah, and you know that's that's another issue.

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Speaker 1: As you mentioned. Deal, you got another Steelers Ravens game,

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Speaker 1: and that's for NFL fans, oh absolutely, just fans of

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Speaker 1: their respective teams. That's a game. I mean, if you

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Speaker 1: just like watching uh football played, that's it.

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Speaker 3: There's a reason why hard Knocks is still following these

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Speaker 3: two these teams like.

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Speaker 1: You know, yeah, and and Hard Knocks is a reason that, uh,

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Speaker 1: and Hard Knocks is a reason a lot of this

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Speaker 1: latter part of the season was set up the way

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Speaker 1: it was too. Absolutely convinced me that that's not that

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Speaker 1: that wasn't the case.

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Speaker 3: With you, Bob, But we gotta let you go. We've

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Speaker 3: we've I know, we kept you over here today because

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Speaker 3: we haven't talked to you in a few weeks. I have,

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Speaker 3: but Matt hasn't, and so we had a lot of

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Speaker 3: questions for you. But we appreciate your time. Hopefully you're

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Speaker 3: in a little better mood next week, and you know

834
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Speaker 3: it's you're not, so we're talking about the Steelers next

835
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Speaker 3: to next doom doom field week or something like that.

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Speaker 3: But uh, well, we hopefully have a game to talk

837
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Speaker 3: about our guests and and you don't have to do

838
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Speaker 3: any shoveling. Let's let's hope for that as well.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm sure Washington Conny hasn't been kind of oh.

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Speaker 3: Not at all, not at all, but uh, our guest

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Speaker 3: has been Bob Larbriola, editor of Steelers Digest and Steelers

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Speaker 3: dot Com. The Dean of Doom, the Lord of living

843
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Speaker 3: in his fears. He's Matt Williamson. I am Dale Lolly.

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Speaker 3: You're listening to the Driver on the Steelers Audio Network.

845
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Speaker 3: We'll be back with more right after this.

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Speaker 2: At least he's the Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt

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Speaker 2: Williamson on your twenty four to seven Home of the

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Speaker 2: Black and Gold Steelers Nation.

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Speaker 3: Radio and welcome back. I am Dale Lolly. He is

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Speaker 3: the Matt Williamson. And Matt got the Ravens full injury report.

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Speaker 3: I knew, you know before that Flowers was out. Col

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Speaker 3: Hamilton returned as a full participant, and I didn't expect

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Speaker 3: him to mess anything. But the kick returner, the punt returner,

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Speaker 3: I should say that they had opened the window on

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Speaker 3: Deontay Hardy did not participate, and he's actually, you know,

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Speaker 3: a good return guy.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's kind of his gig. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: So if he can't play, then you're still looking then

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Speaker 3: at Steven Simms as their punt returner. And I like

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Speaker 3: Steven Simms, sure, but he's not super dynamic as a

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Speaker 3: punt reach.

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Speaker 4: I mean he's been on a bunch of teams.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, there's a reason why the Texans were

864
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Speaker 3: willing the same week that they lost Tank Dell. They said,

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Speaker 3: we're going to part ways here with Yeah.

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Speaker 5: I mean, I think he's a fine NFL player. He's

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Speaker 5: going to retire with money in the bank and a

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Speaker 5: career and all that kind of stuff. But the teams

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Speaker 5: have had them play them, right. I mean, they're they're

870
00:43:35,440 --> 00:43:37,640
Speaker 5: looking for somebody better. I mean, that's just that there's

871
00:43:37,640 --> 00:43:39,279
Speaker 5: a lot of players that a lot of positions that

872
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Speaker 5: do that. And case Field didn't listen yesterday and shaming

873
00:43:42,600 --> 00:43:45,960
Speaker 5: you for six weeks he didn't. I didn't realize. I mean,

874
00:43:46,080 --> 00:43:48,759
Speaker 5: they've gone through kicking punt returners left like crazy, yeah,

875
00:43:48,920 --> 00:43:50,360
Speaker 5: crazy until yesterday.

876
00:43:50,440 --> 00:43:53,640
Speaker 3: That's one of the reasons why they signed Simms, because

877
00:43:53,680 --> 00:43:57,080
Speaker 3: they lost Hardy. They tried Tyler Wallace. They tried Desmond

878
00:43:57,160 --> 00:43:58,640
Speaker 3: King there and they both were putting the ball on

879
00:43:58,680 --> 00:44:00,920
Speaker 3: the ground a lot, and they said, we can't do

880
00:44:00,960 --> 00:44:02,040
Speaker 3: that for obvious reasons.

881
00:44:02,080 --> 00:44:04,759
Speaker 5: Yeah, and King's kind of a borderline NFL player at

882
00:44:04,840 --> 00:44:05,359
Speaker 5: that point too.

883
00:44:05,400 --> 00:44:07,600
Speaker 3: You saw that here, he's the one that fumbled in

884
00:44:07,640 --> 00:44:09,160
Speaker 3: the Steeler game on the return.

885
00:44:10,320 --> 00:44:12,000
Speaker 4: And you know you're gonna get some sort of weather.

886
00:44:12,080 --> 00:44:15,040
Speaker 4: I mean, there's going to be windy. Yeah, right, Fielding

887
00:44:15,040 --> 00:44:16,960
Speaker 4: punts in this time of year, no matter of fun,

888
00:44:17,080 --> 00:44:17,760
Speaker 4: isn't great.

889
00:44:18,640 --> 00:44:20,440
Speaker 3: I did a big story in that when I was

890
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Speaker 3: still at dk Pittsburgh Sports about just the the problems

891
00:44:24,680 --> 00:44:27,680
Speaker 3: of fielding of punts in weather.

892
00:44:28,200 --> 00:44:30,279
Speaker 4: It's so much harder than anyone thinks. If you're looking up.

893
00:44:30,239 --> 00:44:32,520
Speaker 3: In the air, there's snow coming down, there's rain coming down.

894
00:44:32,640 --> 00:44:34,200
Speaker 3: How the light hit all of a sudden. You know,

895
00:44:34,400 --> 00:44:36,440
Speaker 3: the kickers are so good now they kick a knuckleball

896
00:44:36,440 --> 00:44:38,600
Speaker 3: in the air, it's fluttering around and.

897
00:44:38,760 --> 00:44:39,600
Speaker 4: You know, it takes it.

898
00:44:39,680 --> 00:44:42,640
Speaker 5: And it's one of the hardest things in sports in

899
00:44:42,640 --> 00:44:44,320
Speaker 5: my opinion, that people take for granted.

900
00:44:44,360 --> 00:44:47,080
Speaker 3: And then you add a left footed punter, as the

901
00:44:47,080 --> 00:44:51,400
Speaker 3: Steelers having Corlis Williamson into the equation and makes it

902
00:44:51,400 --> 00:44:57,040
Speaker 3: even harder. Corlss weightman. Yeah, Corlus Williams was a basketball player.

903
00:44:57,880 --> 00:44:58,680
Speaker 4: I know that name too.

904
00:44:59,280 --> 00:45:02,520
Speaker 5: Also re nor is Ion for that bat. Yeah right,

905
00:45:02,920 --> 00:45:04,760
Speaker 5: but I got all the good jeans.

906
00:45:05,000 --> 00:45:07,720
Speaker 3: Yeah. So I mean it looks like they'll be without

907
00:45:07,760 --> 00:45:08,680
Speaker 3: those two players.

908
00:45:09,719 --> 00:45:13,080
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah. Put returner is important again. It sounds like

909
00:45:13,120 --> 00:45:16,400
Speaker 5: that's an area special teams in general. I'm sure Harbaugh

910
00:45:16,440 --> 00:45:17,960
Speaker 5: can't be thrilled with confidence.

911
00:45:18,080 --> 00:45:19,239
Speaker 3: He's a special teams coach.

912
00:45:19,360 --> 00:45:22,319
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's your background, that's his backer league in that.

913
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Speaker 3: And they've not been as good this year. So yeah,

914
00:45:26,600 --> 00:45:30,480
Speaker 3: you know, I didn't expect that that we would not see.

915
00:45:32,800 --> 00:45:35,239
Speaker 5: I thought Hamilton was playing from the start. Yeah, I

916
00:45:35,239 --> 00:45:37,439
Speaker 5: think Flowers. I thought it was not gonna I don't

917
00:45:37,440 --> 00:45:40,279
Speaker 5: thinks and I'm sure they're going to leave the light

918
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Speaker 5: on for him and not gonna tell the Steelers now,

919
00:45:42,440 --> 00:45:44,560
Speaker 5: but I would be prepared tomorrow. Are they going to

920
00:45:44,600 --> 00:45:46,880
Speaker 5: make a declaration that? Yeah, I'm where the other I

921
00:45:46,880 --> 00:45:49,000
Speaker 5: guess it is a day earlier than usual. It's on

922
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Speaker 5: normal Wednesday around here.

923
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Speaker 3: Yeah, so game day comes forward as normal Wednesday is

924
00:45:55,000 --> 00:45:58,160
Speaker 3: I'm with you, man, I'm driving to the facility today

925
00:45:58,160 --> 00:45:59,880
Speaker 3: and I get, you know, the news that the Steelers

926
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Speaker 3: are moving practice over to Akrocher Stadium. I'm like, all right,

927
00:46:03,719 --> 00:46:06,200
Speaker 3: planning to do that. You get to do their early

928
00:46:06,280 --> 00:46:09,200
Speaker 3: locker room, go in do that. The coordinators were going

929
00:46:09,239 --> 00:46:12,240
Speaker 3: to talk after the walk through in the morning. Okay,

930
00:46:13,160 --> 00:46:15,080
Speaker 3: you know where's that gonna be at. Okay, it's gonna

931
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Speaker 3: be there. Is this guy going to talk before practice

932
00:46:18,080 --> 00:46:20,360
Speaker 3: or is he going to talk after practice, well after practice,

933
00:46:20,360 --> 00:46:21,920
Speaker 3: it was going to be on the field. Then they

934
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Speaker 3: decided that we're you know, you're gonna bring everybody back

935
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Speaker 3: over and you're gonna have the open locker room after

936
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Speaker 3: the practice at Akroeser Stadium. Like, okay, do I need

937
00:46:28,640 --> 00:46:32,000
Speaker 3: to go to practice at Achrocer Stadium because you know,

938
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Speaker 3: am I gonna drive over? Because we're being told, well,

939
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Speaker 3: if you're gonna get if you're gonna go over, you

940
00:46:36,840 --> 00:46:39,319
Speaker 3: have to leave practice at one thirty because you got

941
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Speaker 3: to get back here in time for the open locks.

942
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Speaker 3: Like all right, a strange day again in a strange month, such.

943
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Speaker 5: A strange month. You know, we record this video every

944
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Speaker 5: Thursday with Rob. Well, that one's gonna be earlier than usual,

945
00:46:54,600 --> 00:46:57,479
Speaker 5: and then you know, pull back the curtain. Friday's drive

946
00:46:57,640 --> 00:46:59,600
Speaker 5: is going to be even earlier than earlier than usual.

947
00:46:59,680 --> 00:47:01,239
Speaker 5: So you got can get the Baltimore in time, you know.

948
00:47:01,360 --> 00:47:03,080
Speaker 5: So just a lot of little things.

949
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Speaker 3: Just the little things that mess things up. No, there

950
00:47:06,880 --> 00:47:09,240
Speaker 3: has not been this again. As I said earlier earlier

951
00:47:09,280 --> 00:47:10,919
Speaker 3: in the week, this is the first time in team

952
00:47:11,040 --> 00:47:14,440
Speaker 3: history that they played four consecutive weeks without playing a

953
00:47:14,520 --> 00:47:17,600
Speaker 3: Sunday game. We've had labs for almost in a month.

954
00:47:17,640 --> 00:47:19,840
Speaker 3: I guess that's in history. But since their first season,

955
00:47:20,000 --> 00:47:22,120
Speaker 3: that's great. Had the Pennsylvania Blue Laws and you couldn't

956
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Speaker 3: play on Sunday.

957
00:47:22,840 --> 00:47:25,680
Speaker 5: Yeah, and even like the Chiefs I heard played every

958
00:47:25,840 --> 00:47:27,799
Speaker 5: they've played six of the seven days of the week

959
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Speaker 5: this year.

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Speaker 3: That's so strange, right, Yeah, anyways, that's going to do

961
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Speaker 3: it for our number one, Matt and now are going

962
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Speaker 3: to take a break here. We'll be back with our

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Speaker 3: number two right after this.