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Speaker 2: Here's a snap, here's the hold, here's the boot by

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Speaker 2: And you're Pittsburgh Steelers are hec nord Champions?

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Speaker 3: Good afternoon, Steelers Nation. It's the Drive on the Steelers

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Speaker 3: Audio Network. Wes Shuoler and Matt Williamson with you here

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Speaker 3: for the next two hours on perhaps an all time

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Speaker 3: victory Monday here in the steel City, Pittsburgh twenty six,

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Speaker 3: Baltimore twenty four, Matt Instant Classic. You hear the call

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Speaker 3: at the end there and everyone losing their mind in

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Speaker 3: the booth. I think I had set on Friday like

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Speaker 3: this will be a time capsule game five years from now,

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Speaker 3: ten years from now, twenty years from now. They'll show

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Speaker 3: the highlights of the time the Steelers and the Ravens

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Speaker 3: played in Week eighteen with the playoffs on the line.

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Speaker 3: We knew it was gonna be big, But I don't

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Speaker 3: think even Martin Scorsese could have written a script like

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Speaker 3: that last night, And.

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Speaker 4: So I gotta tell a super quick story that on

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Speaker 4: Monday mornings, Mike Pursuda and Rob and I pre record

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Speaker 4: a show that you can find on DV tonight. It's great,

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Speaker 4: it's an hour, you'll love it, but pull back to curtain.

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Speaker 4: We played that clip coming in and Rob's the host

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Speaker 4: and he's supposed to be all organized, and the show

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Speaker 4: starts with him going, I just like losing his Mind's like,

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Speaker 4: I love Max. That was so much fun, not like

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Speaker 4: welcome to the show or anything like that. That's how

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Speaker 4: the show opened tonight, So I urge you check that out.

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Speaker 4: But it was pretty hilarious, and I think it's the

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Speaker 4: first time Rob probably heard his call.

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Speaker 3: What that makes sense?

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Speaker 4: That makes sense, and he's like, oh, Max was the greatest.

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Speaker 4: I mean, I'm sure the booth was acstatic.

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Speaker 3: Incredible, And you know I said this to you similar

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Speaker 3: you know, conversation after the Detroit Lions crazy ending, where

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Speaker 3: I was like, sometimes as much as we love and

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Speaker 3: are very fortunate to do what we do, it's still

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Speaker 3: work and it can become mundane. Like sometimes you're rocking

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Speaker 3: up to the stadium and you're not necessarily jacked up,

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Speaker 3: and here we go and we got a football game.

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Speaker 3: You know, it's like, uh, you're sick. You got stuff

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Speaker 3: going on with your family whatever, it's work.

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Speaker 4: It's not all joy, and you know.

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Speaker 3: Exactly right, and by the way they lose games, you

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Speaker 3: know sometimes too.

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Speaker 4: And there's been some long weeks chatting about him. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: be a bit of a grind.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but I think I said this after the Detroit

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Speaker 3: game and last night times a million in those type

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Speaker 3: of moments when kind of the handbook, the rule book

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Speaker 3: to what did we just see? What just happened? Oh

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Speaker 3: my this I can't believe that, Like those are the

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Speaker 3: It went from Boswell missing the kick and.

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Speaker 4: We're all like, oh no, then the big return.

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Speaker 3: And then the big return and we're like, oh no,

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Speaker 3: they're two first downs away from uh should make it

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Speaker 4: And everything likely catch sense.

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Speaker 3: Like absolutely the fourth down likely there's And that's the

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Speaker 3: otherwise would have been this massive moment. Yeah that get

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Speaker 3: the busted coverages and then the Calvin Austin cut touched out,

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Speaker 4: And I think a couple of things take it up

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Speaker 4: another level. And it probably goes without saying, is the

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Speaker 4: fact that it's Steelers Ravens. I mean, it's still probably

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Speaker 4: the best rivalry in the league and definitely has been

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Speaker 3: It's not a well kept secret, no.

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Speaker 4: And it's a night game at primetime game, and it's

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Speaker 3: game against the Raiders, that night game with the backdrop

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Speaker 3: of everything that happened with Franco Maclear reception aculate reception anniversary.

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Speaker 3: And I think right, and I think there was some

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Speaker 3: that there's a lot of history. And when you have

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Speaker 3: games night games in the cold, and that Christmas Eve

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Speaker 3: last night is a Sunday night. Everyone's back to today's

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Speaker 3: like your Christmas vacation's over. Everyone's back to the real

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Speaker 3: Like there's no secret if you looked on stub Hub

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Speaker 3: up to those type of games are the sickos, and

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Speaker 4: I get up in the morning, I want to go.

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Speaker 3: To the concession stand in the team store. And you know,

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Speaker 3: like if Scorsese writes that script, I'm not sure I

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Speaker 4: It's funny you brought up that Raiders game, because you know,

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Speaker 4: when I was born nineteen seventy three and is when

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Speaker 3: Tight Enders were like, oh yeah, you number one.

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Speaker 4: They Steelers Raiders. The seventies was probably even nastier, you know,

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Speaker 4: I mean, all that history is where I'm going with this.

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Speaker 4: But you're right, and you know, the thing that's most

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Speaker 4: there was so many other aspects of it, and frankly,

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Speaker 4: I were talking about that other show that we pre recorded.

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Speaker 4: Is it's funny because he said the exact same thing

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Speaker 4: if that ball went between the uprights, I would analyze

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Speaker 4: this game exactly the same. I thought the Steelers were

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Speaker 3: Better and you talk about this a lot. The Steelers

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Speaker 3: their success rate on a play by play basis was

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Speaker 3: much better. Yeah, they just lost the explosive battle drastically.

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Speaker 4: Drastically, I mean like, if by chance that ball goes

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Speaker 4: you let two huge plays, whether they're coverage busts or

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Speaker 3: That play for Derek Henry on the first SNAT.

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Speaker 3: You know, I completely agree with you. In fact, I

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Speaker 3: this was after the second Zay Flowers busted coverage.

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Speaker 3: which wasn't as much of a busted coverage as much

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Speaker 4: You're talking about the Queen Queen was in coverage. Yes,

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Speaker 3: So after the second one, which was the true busted coverage.

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Speaker 3: The Zay Flowers sixty four yard touchdown, right, so you

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Speaker 3: get the Kenneth Gainwell response to go back up twenty

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Speaker 3: to seventeen. But then bangs Zay Flowers sixty four yard

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Speaker 3: my notes, perhaps talk about this on the Tuesday rewind.

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Speaker 3: off of explosives. Now, yeah right, you know, jokes on me.

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Speaker 3: Calvin Austin scores there to put the Steelers ahead. But

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Speaker 3: it was it was really a tale of two halves

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Speaker 3: So the first half it was like, I mean, Derek

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Speaker 4: Because it's happened a lot and them all the time.

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Speaker 3: we do that. Matt, I've got some donuts here in

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Speaker 3: Hasn't been wide open touchdown, Pittsburgh Steelers.

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Speaker 3: Dramatic Calvin Austin's game winning touchdown? There brought to you

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Speaker 3: joins us now, Kinger, thank you for taking the time

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Speaker 3: on a busy, on a low sleep reaction Monday here.

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Speaker 3: You've been covering high level sports for a long time, NFL, MLB, NHL.

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Speaker 4: I definitely want to get into the game with you,

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Speaker 3: or two on the end, because I hadn't we talked

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Speaker 3: a little bit about the atmosphere, but yeah, that that

435
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Speaker 3: part of the end kind of reminded me of like collegiate,

436
00:21:11,480 --> 00:21:14,040
Speaker 3: like no one wants to leave, you know, like the bands.

437
00:21:14,080 --> 00:21:16,919
Speaker 3: The band's playing and we're singing along and celebrating, and

438
00:21:17,119 --> 00:21:19,040
Speaker 3: you know, Oh I gotta do is just walk back

439
00:21:19,080 --> 00:21:21,440
Speaker 3: to my apartment across campus. I'm in no hurry to

440
00:21:21,440 --> 00:21:24,880
Speaker 3: get out of here. Yeah, all time time capsule stuff

441
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Speaker 3: and Kinger. So much of that centered around the performance

442
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Speaker 3: of Aaron Rodgers. I think, listen, I'll be the first one,

443
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Speaker 3: I'll admit it, but I'm sure I'm not alone. If

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Speaker 3: you guys would have told me Friday, Eric, or if

445
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Speaker 3: you had even told me yesterday before kickoff, Aaron Rodgers

446
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Speaker 3: is going to throw the ball forty seven times.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that run past ratio, I.

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Speaker 3: Would have said, Well, that means the Steelers were probably

449
00:21:46,119 --> 00:21:48,359
Speaker 3: trailing the whole second half and playing from behind and

450
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Speaker 3: things didn't go their way. And that's not the game anything,

451
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Speaker 3: that's not the outcome that we're looking for. Man Toby Keith,

452
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Speaker 3: Rob King. I ain't as good as I once was,

453
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Speaker 3: but I'm as good once as I ever was. Aaron Rodgers,

454
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Speaker 3: I think, especially in the second half, just exactly what

455
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Speaker 3: this team needed. And who saw Aaron Rodgers out rushing

456
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Speaker 3: Lamar Jackson by double.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, look, you know, and we talk about

458
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Speaker 2: numbers like I was saying this last week, like if

459
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Speaker 2: you told me, hey, the Steelers ran for one thirty one,

460
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Speaker 2: they won the turnover battle against the Browns, Aaron Rodgers

461
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Speaker 2: wasn't sacked. I'm like, Okay, they must have won the

462
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Speaker 2: AFC Nord title in Cleveland. Well that didn't happen. And

463
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Speaker 2: you're right, there's some statistical anomalies in this game, some

464
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Speaker 2: things that happened that maybe you wouldn't expect to happen,

465
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Speaker 2: whatever the case may be. But Aaron Rodgers is And look,

466
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Speaker 2: I would have liked to see them run the ball more.

467
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Speaker 2: I'd like to see them run the ball more against Cleveland.

468
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Speaker 2: Probably if they ran the ball seventy four times and

469
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Speaker 2: threw it once, I'd be like, I wish they'd run

470
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Speaker 2: the ball more. So, you know, because I think their

471
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Speaker 2: running game is trending in the right direction. I think

472
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Speaker 2: it's a real weapon. I think warning game. Well. Are

473
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Speaker 2: both phenomenal players, But Aaron Rodgers is he is, you know,

474
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Speaker 2: and I don't want to just say mentally because physically

475
00:23:10,280 --> 00:23:12,800
Speaker 2: he still has a lot left I mean, we've seen

476
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Speaker 2: the arm strength and he still has the arm talent.

477
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Speaker 2: He's forty two years old, is he twenty eight? No,

478
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Speaker 2: but he's still a phenomenal talent. He still has great

479
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Speaker 2: athleticism as we saw on the run, and the way

480
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Speaker 2: he thinks the game. I just think more and more,

481
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Speaker 2: I think a big part of and Matt and I

482
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Speaker 2: discussed this also wes about the things that are trending

483
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Speaker 2: in the right direction for this yelers, Oh, yeah, the team,

484
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Speaker 2: you know, hopping on the trolley with Aaron Rodgers, you know,

485
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Speaker 2: in the same mental space and kind of getting with

486
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Speaker 2: where he wants them to be is a big part

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Speaker 2: of the reason why the team is succeeding.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, And I wanted to keep talking about that even more,

489
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Speaker 4: that his command is showing up eve and more week

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Speaker 4: to week, you know. And I think it's not because

491
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Speaker 4: he's changed. I think it's those around him have started

492
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Speaker 4: to embrace it, have changed more from what I heard.

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Speaker 4: I of course listened to the radio broadcast, but on

494
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Speaker 4: the television broadcast, they mentioned that they've never met with

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Speaker 4: a quarterback or team that gets together more often in

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Speaker 4: their own time, like at nights at Aaron's house three

497
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Speaker 4: nights a week, four nights a week, and I think

498
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Speaker 4: everybody always bought into the guy, but now they're used

499
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Speaker 4: a great example on our other show that like he's

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Speaker 4: throwing down the line from the top of the mountain

501
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Speaker 4: and just bringing everybody up with them, you know, they're

502
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Speaker 4: climbing up the ice, you know, and it shows on

503
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Speaker 4: the field over and over with his command.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's exactly what I was trying to articulate. Matt absolutely,

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Speaker 2: And you know when you you know, just in the

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Speaker 2: postgame comments last night, he's like, yeah, I was talking

507
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Speaker 2: to Pat back in the trop I'm like, what you know,

508
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Speaker 2: and hey, I'm you know, the I'm asking Calvin, Hey,

509
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Speaker 2: what do you want to run on the backside? And

510
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Speaker 2: then I took a peek over there and his defender

511
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Speaker 2: fell down. So what I mean, who does that? You know? Uh?

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Speaker 2: And the answer is not many, if any, you know.

513
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Speaker 2: And I do think that the fact that they're all

514
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Speaker 2: in the same page with Aaron and that they know

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Speaker 2: what he wants and that they respect what he wants, right,

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Speaker 2: they know, you know, he talked last night about the

517
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Speaker 2: team collective and you know, the leadership and and you know,

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Speaker 2: there are a lot of people that thought that, oh,

519
00:25:34,880 --> 00:25:38,280
Speaker 2: these are violatile personalities, and their people predicting this Steelers

520
00:25:38,320 --> 00:25:41,960
Speaker 2: are going to fall apart. And I read one prognostication

521
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Speaker 2: before the season. This is where it all collapses on

522
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Speaker 2: the Steelers and they get that high draft pick and

523
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Speaker 2: get you know, get a draft get a quarterback. You know,

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Speaker 2: they thought these these personalities Jalen Ramsey, you know, DK

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Speaker 2: Metcalf and Aaron Rodgers, it was going to be oil

526
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Speaker 2: and water, and no that that hasn't been the case.

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Speaker 2: And he was talking last night about the collective and

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Speaker 2: Mike Brigida was telling us about that that John Smith,

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Speaker 2: sure he wants the ball more, but he's leaning into

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Speaker 2: the collective, as is Pat Fryer move as is Calvin Austen.

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Speaker 2: As are both running backs who are unbelievably supportive of

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Speaker 2: each other. I mean, Kenny Gambill has a big game

533
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Speaker 2: and the first thing the words out of Jail and

534
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Speaker 2: Warren's mouth, that's my guy, you know, not boy. I

535
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Speaker 2: wish those carries went to me. I wish I was

536
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Speaker 2: the guy sweeping around right end into the end zone.

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Speaker 2: By the way, I would love to see him on

538
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Speaker 2: some of those short yarded situations, meaning Jalen Warren, I digress,

539
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Speaker 2: But I just think the fact that they're all in

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Speaker 2: it together. That's a powerful force when you have a

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Speaker 2: group of people, whether you're in a corporation or whether

542
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Speaker 2: you are on a football team, When everybody's pulling together

543
00:26:49,400 --> 00:26:52,600
Speaker 2: and everybody is in it together and in it to

544
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Speaker 2: win it, that's a huge factor to me, A huge

545
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Speaker 2: tangible and tangible to know how you define it. But

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Speaker 2: I think it's a big thing for the Steelers, and

547
00:27:02,520 --> 00:27:05,439
Speaker 2: it's again part of the reason why to me, this

548
00:27:05,480 --> 00:27:07,960
Speaker 2: thing is just building and building and good at end

549
00:27:08,080 --> 00:27:10,359
Speaker 2: on Monday night against the red hot Houston team. Sure,

550
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Speaker 2: but I wouldn't I wouldn't bet on it. You know.

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Speaker 2: I love the way the Steelers are trending right now and.

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Speaker 3: King a kind of piggybacking off of that at the

553
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Speaker 3: at the forefront of this collective. With all due respect

554
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Speaker 3: to Aaron Rodgers and TJ. Watt is Cam Hayward. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: my goodness, did he I was about to say, did

556
00:27:30,440 --> 00:27:32,800
Speaker 3: he look like a guy who had some playoff incentives

557
00:27:32,800 --> 00:27:35,040
Speaker 3: in his contract on the line last night? But to

558
00:27:35,080 --> 00:27:37,680
Speaker 3: be fair, he's looked like that for the last handful

559
00:27:37,720 --> 00:27:42,280
Speaker 3: of weeks quite literally the fine wine aging Matt and

560
00:27:42,320 --> 00:27:46,920
Speaker 3: I both said Rob cam Hayward was probably the best

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Speaker 3: player on the field last night, and man did they

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Speaker 3: need him to be?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and expand on that, like, obviously Rogers has a

564
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Speaker 4: rare combination of leadership and on the field ability. But

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Speaker 4: Cam's as good an example was is you know.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, by the way, I thought you were gonna say,

567
00:28:03,359 --> 00:28:06,520
Speaker 2: Mike Tomlin when you talk about the leadership, just tied

568
00:28:06,640 --> 00:28:09,920
Speaker 2: Chuck Nole. Uh yeah, you know, for I think it's

569
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Speaker 2: ninth for the most regular season wins of all time.

570
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Speaker 2: Fitting that he would tie a Steelers legend in a

571
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Speaker 2: legendary matchup against the Ravens in the legendary game in

572
00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:22,240
Speaker 2: the chapter uh the of that own book. You know

573
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Speaker 2: that that Ravens Steelers matchup, you know, Cam Hayward.

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Speaker 4: But real quick, Rob, I mean obviously coach Tomlin has

575
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Speaker 4: a ton to do with tying all those personalities together

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Speaker 4: that you mentioned Ramsey Metcalf Rogers guys, what do you

577
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Speaker 4: warn you with the team last year?

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Speaker 2: You know, right, like the Browns just fired the two

579
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Speaker 2: time coach of the year, right the Mike Tomlin is

580
00:28:42,920 --> 00:28:45,480
Speaker 2: a no time Coach of the Year winner because they

581
00:28:45,520 --> 00:28:47,719
Speaker 2: just keep winning. You know, you almost have to be

582
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Speaker 2: bad in order to win Coach of the year.

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Speaker 4: You know, Uh, it's been too successful for.

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Speaker 2: One, yeah, because your success counts against you. So I

585
00:28:57,000 --> 00:28:59,240
Speaker 2: think that you know again to win the ac NORD

586
00:28:59,280 --> 00:29:02,440
Speaker 2: title firsts twenty twenty, so many people the credit. I

587
00:29:02,480 --> 00:29:05,120
Speaker 2: think the front office, you know, doing a great job

588
00:29:05,200 --> 00:29:08,640
Speaker 2: of continuing. If I think about how you know, there

589
00:29:08,960 --> 00:29:12,480
Speaker 2: there's gonna be gnashing of teeth and whaling in Baltimore

590
00:29:12,880 --> 00:29:16,680
Speaker 2: if Kyle Hamilton hadn't been hurt. Okay, well you know this,

591
00:29:16,760 --> 00:29:19,440
Speaker 2: Julis are out there relying on players who began the

592
00:29:19,440 --> 00:29:22,880
Speaker 2: season under practice squad, right, James Pierre, Dylan Cook and

593
00:29:22,920 --> 00:29:27,000
Speaker 2: those guys playing at a high, high level as is.

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Speaker 2: By the way, to get back to the original statement,

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Speaker 2: Cam Hayward, I just want to quickly say, I think

596
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Speaker 2: Alex Highsmith has been incredible too. And I mean Cam

597
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Speaker 2: Hayward dominated that game. I thought he was playing you know, solid, good,

598
00:29:44,600 --> 00:29:47,880
Speaker 2: solid football throughout the first half the season. It kind

599
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Speaker 2: of had the holden thing with the contract in camp.

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Speaker 2: But over the last you know, five weeks or six

601
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Speaker 2: weeks or so he has just been incredible. To me,

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Speaker 2: I don't want to compare him to vintage Cam, but

603
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Speaker 2: I you know, whatever, maybe this is vintach Cam. I

604
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Speaker 2: don't know. I mean, he was awfully good last year too.

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Speaker 2: You know, he did a great year last year. Uh,

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Speaker 2: he is just playing at an unbelievable high level. Unbelievably

607
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Speaker 2: high level in the leadership. I just think I agree, guy,

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Speaker 2: he has been incredible.

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Speaker 3: Tremendous, he sure has, and uh hopefully he will continue

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Speaker 3: to do the same. Monday Night Football a little over

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Speaker 3: a week from now, when the Steelers host the Texans

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Speaker 3: for a wild card.

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Speaker 4: We get that extra day that we don't have to

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Speaker 4: look forward because they play Monday Night's feel a little

615
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Speaker 4: bit better about it. We can bask for a little bit,

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Speaker 4: as you said, you know.

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Speaker 3: We can back get your passport out basking.

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Speaker 2: We're in Basque country, and you know what for once

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Speaker 2: it's the Steelers will getting the extra day arrest, right,

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Speaker 2: that's been a problem with the schedule down down the line,

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Speaker 2: and Mike Thomason after the game last night, they could

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Speaker 2: use it as you usually can come out of a

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Speaker 2: Ravens game. So we'll take it. The Steelers will take

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Speaker 2: it and I can't wait to you know, uh, in

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Speaker 2: the next couple of days dig into this, this great

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Speaker 2: matchup against the Texas.

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Speaker 3: We'll be excited to hear you on the call next

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Speaker 3: Monday night, of course, King, or thank you for taking

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Speaker 3: the time here today to recap an instant classic with us.

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Speaker 2: Thanks guys, there.

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Speaker 3: He goes Rob King, Voice of the Steelers on the

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Speaker 3: Steelers Audio Network. I still feel like we've barely kind

633
00:31:18,960 --> 00:31:22,360
Speaker 3: of skimmed the surface here right now with everything that happens,

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Speaker 3: So we'll continue to digest it all to download it all.

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Speaker 3: Steelers twenty six, Ravens twenty four. I've got an insane

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Speaker 3: stat for you, Matt. I wonder if you've seen it

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Speaker 3: or read it yet from last night. But we've got

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Speaker 3: some more to get into, plenty more to get into

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Speaker 3: as we roll along West Uler, Matt Williamson, It is

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Speaker 3: the Drive on Steelers Nation Radio on a victory Monday

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Speaker 3: on the Steelers Audio Network, your tunes.

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Speaker 1: About Drive on your twenty four to seven home of

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Speaker 1: the Black and Goal, Steelers Nation Radio.

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Speaker 3: Down the home stretch of the first hour here on

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Speaker 3: a all time victory Monday in the Steel City, as

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Speaker 3: the Steelers are champions of the AFC North behind a

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Speaker 3: instant classic twenty six to twenty four win over the

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Speaker 3: Baltimore Ravens. Matt Of course, the crescendo moment of all

649
00:32:18,920 --> 00:32:21,440
Speaker 3: of that was the missed kick by Tyler Loop Yeah.

650
00:32:21,480 --> 00:32:21,840
Speaker 4: Crazy.

651
00:32:22,320 --> 00:32:24,440
Speaker 3: I'm not sure if you saw this, but according to

652
00:32:24,520 --> 00:32:28,760
Speaker 3: opt the stats, okay, probably yeah, there have been an

653
00:32:28,960 --> 00:32:34,800
Speaker 3: NFL history, there have been over sixty thousand field goal attempts. Okay,

654
00:32:35,040 --> 00:32:39,240
Speaker 3: and the history, there have been over sixty thousand field

655
00:32:39,240 --> 00:32:43,120
Speaker 3: goal attempts. Tyler Loops miss on Sunday night is the

656
00:32:43,240 --> 00:32:46,360
Speaker 3: first one, the only one of those sixty thousand plus

657
00:32:46,440 --> 00:32:50,200
Speaker 3: attempts that came as one time expired in the fourth

658
00:32:50,280 --> 00:32:55,760
Speaker 3: quarter of two the final week of three, both teams

659
00:32:55,800 --> 00:32:59,040
Speaker 3: playoff hopes resting solely on the result of the kick

660
00:32:59,040 --> 00:33:03,959
Speaker 3: and nothing else. First time, first time, crazy over, let

661
00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:06,800
Speaker 3: me say that again, just when we're parramatic effect over

662
00:33:06,920 --> 00:33:10,000
Speaker 3: sixty thousand field goal attempts in NFL history. It's the

663
00:33:10,080 --> 00:33:12,880
Speaker 3: first and only one of those that came as time

664
00:33:12,920 --> 00:33:15,840
Speaker 3: expired in the fourth quarter during the final week of

665
00:33:15,880 --> 00:33:18,560
Speaker 3: the season, in a game in which both teams playoff

666
00:33:18,600 --> 00:33:21,160
Speaker 3: hopes rested solely on the result of that kick.

667
00:33:21,280 --> 00:33:24,560
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's wild. It could even be like there's two

668
00:33:24,560 --> 00:33:26,320
Speaker 4: seconds left, maybe you were turned the kick off to

669
00:33:26,320 --> 00:33:30,920
Speaker 4: the right.

670
00:33:27,320 --> 00:33:27,400
Speaker 2: Or.

671
00:33:28,880 --> 00:33:31,040
Speaker 3: You know, there's one more game and kind of like

672
00:33:31,080 --> 00:33:33,600
Speaker 3: what happened with with Tampa Bay and Carolina, like, oh well,

673
00:33:33,600 --> 00:33:36,920
Speaker 3: there's this other game that could still affect.

674
00:33:35,440 --> 00:33:40,000
Speaker 4: The loser goes home, whether this goes between the uprates or.

675
00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:41,920
Speaker 3: Not, you know, exactly right, exactly right.

676
00:33:42,040 --> 00:33:45,480
Speaker 4: It's pretty crazy. I mean, sixty thousand, that's insane. It's insane.

677
00:33:45,840 --> 00:33:49,120
Speaker 4: I'm not totally shocked. I mean that's three pretty distinct parameters,

678
00:33:49,160 --> 00:33:52,640
Speaker 4: but still sixty thousand. Very A lot of games come

679
00:33:52,680 --> 00:33:54,000
Speaker 4: down to the last second kick.

680
00:33:53,880 --> 00:33:56,360
Speaker 3: They do, but with this much on the line in

681
00:33:56,400 --> 00:34:01,400
Speaker 3: a true, you know, winner go home type fashion, It's

682
00:34:01,480 --> 00:34:07,440
Speaker 3: just it's incredible. It's absolutely incredible, and you know so

683
00:34:07,600 --> 00:34:09,960
Speaker 3: much from the end of that game that still feels

684
00:34:09,960 --> 00:34:11,959
Speaker 3: hard to digest. But I did want to get back

685
00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:15,680
Speaker 3: to giving some flowers to Cam Hayward here in the

686
00:34:15,719 --> 00:34:20,799
Speaker 3: first hour. Fantastic I from the opening, I mean the

687
00:34:20,840 --> 00:34:23,440
Speaker 3: opening drive, like, and I know Baltimore had a lot

688
00:34:23,480 --> 00:34:25,440
Speaker 3: of success there, but I felt like he was still

689
00:34:25,520 --> 00:34:29,319
Speaker 3: noticeable on that drive. I mean, don't forget you know,

690
00:34:29,760 --> 00:34:33,359
Speaker 3: he at the beginning of the third quarter is you know,

691
00:34:33,600 --> 00:34:36,720
Speaker 3: he kind of creates the pressure that allows high Smith

692
00:34:36,760 --> 00:34:38,480
Speaker 3: to get his hand on that football that leads to

693
00:34:38,520 --> 00:34:43,560
Speaker 3: the TJ interception. I mean, he just he a lot

694
00:34:43,600 --> 00:34:45,840
Speaker 3: of deserving candidates for Player of the Game, but he

695
00:34:45,920 --> 00:34:46,720
Speaker 3: might be my pick.

696
00:34:47,360 --> 00:34:49,880
Speaker 4: He would be my pick. He would. Can you do

697
00:34:49,960 --> 00:34:53,200
Speaker 4: me a favor and can you look at JJ Watts

698
00:34:53,239 --> 00:34:57,480
Speaker 4: Twitter timeline because I bring this up because Mike Pursuda

699
00:34:57,520 --> 00:35:01,200
Speaker 4: found it and it's just it's a small example of

700
00:35:01,239 --> 00:35:03,400
Speaker 4: how humble he is and what a leader he is.

701
00:35:03,440 --> 00:35:06,680
Speaker 4: But while you're looking, yes, he was also part of

702
00:35:06,719 --> 00:35:09,440
Speaker 4: the the New Brotherly Shove, you know.

703
00:35:09,560 --> 00:35:11,640
Speaker 3: I mean that's the few offensive snaps yep.

704
00:35:11,719 --> 00:35:13,880
Speaker 4: I mean, so he's doing a little bit of everything.

705
00:35:14,440 --> 00:35:19,160
Speaker 4: I mean he dominated some frankly inferior offensive lineman, but

706
00:35:19,239 --> 00:35:23,000
Speaker 4: he always does. I mean, he's getting better as the

707
00:35:23,040 --> 00:35:26,200
Speaker 4: season's gone on. I'll be disappointed if he's not first

708
00:35:26,200 --> 00:35:29,719
Speaker 4: team All Pro. If he's not second team, I'll lose

709
00:35:29,760 --> 00:35:32,400
Speaker 4: my mind. Him and Jeffrey Simmons to me have been

710
00:35:32,440 --> 00:35:34,920
Speaker 4: the best defensive tackles in the league. And he's played

711
00:35:34,960 --> 00:35:37,719
Speaker 4: more snaps than all of them everyone, which is mind

712
00:35:37,719 --> 00:35:40,600
Speaker 4: boggling at his age. But I don't know exactly how

713
00:35:40,719 --> 00:35:43,560
Speaker 4: deep the twitter one. I asked you a look up,

714
00:35:43,800 --> 00:35:47,319
Speaker 4: but I think it really shows his unselfishness, and.

715
00:35:47,280 --> 00:35:49,800
Speaker 3: I think especially coming from a guy like JJ Watt exactly.

716
00:35:50,120 --> 00:35:52,959
Speaker 3: JJ Watt tweeted last night, Cam Hayward being the tight

717
00:35:53,080 --> 00:35:56,880
Speaker 3: end on the field goal protection team is pretty wild.

718
00:35:57,239 --> 00:35:59,920
Speaker 3: That's a miserable position to play. You're just getting roast

719
00:36:00,160 --> 00:36:02,239
Speaker 3: by guys who can tee off knowing that they get

720
00:36:02,280 --> 00:36:05,200
Speaker 3: a free run at you. Die slow is literally the

721
00:36:05,239 --> 00:36:07,080
Speaker 3: motto that they say when you play that position.

722
00:36:07,200 --> 00:36:09,799
Speaker 4: Yes, I mean, like everyone knows you're gonna lose. You're

723
00:36:09,840 --> 00:36:11,080
Speaker 4: just hoping the kick gets off.

724
00:36:11,239 --> 00:36:12,880
Speaker 3: You know, you're just trying to hold him up for

725
00:36:12,880 --> 00:36:13,520
Speaker 3: a half second.

726
00:36:13,640 --> 00:36:16,279
Speaker 4: He's not an offensive lineman, you know, he doesn't pass

727
00:36:16,320 --> 00:36:18,680
Speaker 4: protect for a living. He does the opposite. But it's

728
00:36:18,680 --> 00:36:20,880
Speaker 4: just a small It's the most thankless job ever that

729
00:36:20,920 --> 00:36:24,040
Speaker 4: no one ever thinks about. You're gonna die, just die slow,

730
00:36:24,200 --> 00:36:26,920
Speaker 4: you know, and it just shows, you know, no one

731
00:36:26,960 --> 00:36:29,120
Speaker 4: would ever think about, Oh, he's pretty good on the

732
00:36:29,120 --> 00:36:31,920
Speaker 4: field bawl cold protection team too, Like, yeah, why is

733
00:36:31,960 --> 00:36:32,520
Speaker 4: he out there.

734
00:36:32,640 --> 00:36:37,080
Speaker 3: You know, he's you know, just just incredibly.

735
00:36:39,440 --> 00:36:39,799
Speaker 4: He is.

736
00:36:39,920 --> 00:36:42,120
Speaker 3: He's an all time Stealer. Like, yeah, and I know

737
00:36:42,200 --> 00:36:45,000
Speaker 3: that that says a lot. That means a lot. You

738
00:36:45,040 --> 00:36:47,600
Speaker 3: don't just throw that around willy nilly in this organization.

739
00:36:48,160 --> 00:36:53,000
Speaker 3: And some people, some of the more ardent Steeler fans

740
00:36:53,080 --> 00:36:54,799
Speaker 3: might say, you can't, you can't be an all time

741
00:36:54,840 --> 00:36:56,640
Speaker 3: Steeler if you've never won a Super Bowl. I would

742
00:36:56,640 --> 00:36:58,919
Speaker 3: disagree all this year, all day, long run, because that

743
00:36:58,960 --> 00:37:01,879
Speaker 3: guy is is one of the best to ever put

744
00:37:01,920 --> 00:37:04,160
Speaker 3: on the black and gold. Yeah, certainly in this twenty

745
00:37:04,200 --> 00:37:06,600
Speaker 3: first century, you know, in the last twenty five years

746
00:37:06,719 --> 00:37:07,240
Speaker 3: or so.

747
00:37:07,400 --> 00:37:09,439
Speaker 4: And should make the fan base in the organization as

748
00:37:09,480 --> 00:37:12,160
Speaker 4: proud as anyone that's ever put on the year, you

749
00:37:12,200 --> 00:37:14,239
Speaker 4: know what I mean. It's also paid me of the Year.

750
00:37:14,280 --> 00:37:16,360
Speaker 3: And you know, I'm laughing at this kind of stuff

751
00:37:16,400 --> 00:37:20,080
Speaker 3: now because it's the same same church, different pew. Everybody

752
00:37:20,120 --> 00:37:22,080
Speaker 3: in the YouTube comments always loves it when I say that.

753
00:37:23,160 --> 00:37:25,759
Speaker 3: Remember when Debo, when James Harrison kind of had that

754
00:37:25,880 --> 00:37:28,680
Speaker 3: ugly exit of the steel from the Steelers. It's falling

755
00:37:28,719 --> 00:37:31,239
Speaker 3: asleep in team meetings and not paying attention because he

756
00:37:31,280 --> 00:37:34,040
Speaker 3: was upset that TJ. As a rookie. TJ was getting

757
00:37:34,040 --> 00:37:36,480
Speaker 3: snaps ahead of him. He ends up getting cut. He

758
00:37:36,520 --> 00:37:39,120
Speaker 3: goes to the Patriots, right, and it's like he just

759
00:37:39,200 --> 00:37:42,200
Speaker 3: tarnished his Steelers' legacy. He goes out like that and

760
00:37:42,200 --> 00:37:46,720
Speaker 3: then he signs with that team. Are you kidding me now? Deboy?

761
00:37:46,960 --> 00:37:48,800
Speaker 3: They played a hype video of him in the stadium

762
00:37:48,800 --> 00:37:50,799
Speaker 3: with like five minutes left. It was great. It was

763
00:37:50,840 --> 00:37:52,480
Speaker 3: just a black screen and maybe we'll have to get

764
00:37:52,480 --> 00:37:54,480
Speaker 3: some info from Tyler on how this all went down.

765
00:37:54,760 --> 00:37:57,000
Speaker 3: But they cut to black screens on the jumbo trons

766
00:37:57,000 --> 00:38:00,120
Speaker 3: and it's Debo and he goes, hey, listen up, you

767
00:38:00,120 --> 00:38:03,520
Speaker 3: you you listen to me, Stand up, make some noise,

768
00:38:03,560 --> 00:38:06,000
Speaker 3: get on your feet, you know, and the place went

769
00:38:06,080 --> 00:38:09,920
Speaker 3: absolutely bonkers. He's one of the most beloved Steelers of

770
00:38:09,960 --> 00:38:12,799
Speaker 3: all time. Of course, no one remembers his exit in

771
00:38:12,800 --> 00:38:16,600
Speaker 3: that messiness. This summer at training camp, how many tweets,

772
00:38:16,600 --> 00:38:19,640
Speaker 3: how many people did we see saying Cam Hayward's tarnishing

773
00:38:19,640 --> 00:38:22,920
Speaker 3: his Steelers legacy, contracting centives and all this stuff, and

774
00:38:22,960 --> 00:38:25,040
Speaker 3: he's being such a baby and so selfish and Dona

775
00:38:25,120 --> 00:38:27,799
Speaker 3: D d D look at him now, who gives a

776
00:38:27,960 --> 00:38:29,240
Speaker 3: rip about that now.

777
00:38:29,320 --> 00:38:32,040
Speaker 4: Not to mention he's an extreme bargain in terms of

778
00:38:32,040 --> 00:38:33,719
Speaker 4: what he's making compared to what he's given you on

779
00:38:33,760 --> 00:38:34,200
Speaker 4: the field, and.

780
00:38:34,920 --> 00:38:37,080
Speaker 3: His contracting centives that he wanted just hit by the

781
00:38:37,080 --> 00:38:39,320
Speaker 3: team making the playoffs. I think that was like the

782
00:38:39,320 --> 00:38:40,000
Speaker 3: biggest thing.

783
00:38:41,480 --> 00:38:44,000
Speaker 4: And thought of that now. But I mean he's phenomenal

784
00:38:44,120 --> 00:38:47,239
Speaker 4: on the field too. I mean he greatly greatly influences

785
00:38:47,280 --> 00:38:49,799
Speaker 4: that game, and him and Highsmith next to each other

786
00:38:49,840 --> 00:38:51,680
Speaker 4: has been as good of a right side of a

787
00:38:51,760 --> 00:38:54,840
Speaker 4: D line as you will find in the league lately.

788
00:38:55,080 --> 00:38:57,760
Speaker 3: You take that first drive, maybe first driving a half away,

789
00:38:57,840 --> 00:39:01,919
Speaker 3: they were lights out, lights out, they were they were outstanding,

790
00:39:02,280 --> 00:39:06,839
Speaker 3: and Matt this is a bigger conversation for a different time.

791
00:39:06,960 --> 00:39:10,040
Speaker 3: But I think this year, I think this year might

792
00:39:10,080 --> 00:39:11,799
Speaker 3: be the one that puts Cam Hayward over the top

793
00:39:11,800 --> 00:39:12,960
Speaker 3: to get him that gold jacket.

794
00:39:13,040 --> 00:39:15,440
Speaker 4: I do too. I think it might just firm it up,

795
00:39:15,560 --> 00:39:18,319
Speaker 4: especially if he does get a first team all or

796
00:39:18,360 --> 00:39:20,560
Speaker 4: even a second you know, I mean, that's a one

797
00:39:20,600 --> 00:39:23,960
Speaker 4: more thing on the resumes his age. A playoff win

798
00:39:24,000 --> 00:39:27,359
Speaker 4: wouldn't hurt totally totally. I'm not saying a super Bowl

799
00:39:27,400 --> 00:39:31,080
Speaker 4: would be wonderful, But I mean I think he's probably

800
00:39:31,080 --> 00:39:34,319
Speaker 4: in no matter what. I wonder too. I mean, these

801
00:39:34,320 --> 00:39:37,280
Speaker 4: are conversations for another day, and it obviously applies to Rogers,

802
00:39:37,280 --> 00:39:39,719
Speaker 4: but she looks like they're enjoying their time out there.

803
00:39:39,920 --> 00:39:41,799
Speaker 4: I'm talking about like coming back for next year and

804
00:39:41,840 --> 00:39:43,719
Speaker 4: things like that too. I mean that we'll talk about

805
00:39:43,760 --> 00:39:46,239
Speaker 4: that stuff when, when, when, and if they get eliminated.

806
00:39:46,280 --> 00:39:49,480
Speaker 4: But he still brings a lot to the table to

807
00:39:49,480 --> 00:39:50,160
Speaker 4: say the least.

808
00:39:50,280 --> 00:39:53,160
Speaker 3: Yes, yes he does. And that was on full display

809
00:39:53,520 --> 00:39:56,480
Speaker 3: from from the jump last night and has been all season.

810
00:39:57,160 --> 00:39:59,920
Speaker 3: I mean TJ's missed some time, high Smith has me

811
00:40:00,120 --> 00:40:03,520
Speaker 3: some time. Derek Harmon has missed some time. Uh, you you.

812
00:40:03,480 --> 00:40:05,640
Speaker 4: Know a lot.

813
00:40:05,760 --> 00:40:07,799
Speaker 3: You've had a ton of change in your secondary.

814
00:40:08,040 --> 00:40:09,480
Speaker 4: Let's all forget too. You got a helmet and the

815
00:40:09,520 --> 00:40:11,279
Speaker 4: knee on what the first play of the game, Yes,

816
00:40:12,080 --> 00:40:14,200
Speaker 4: Flowers right chasing down.

817
00:40:15,160 --> 00:40:21,120
Speaker 3: Dere yards down the sideline. That play right there kind

818
00:40:21,120 --> 00:40:22,320
Speaker 3: of embodies Cam Hayward.

819
00:40:22,560 --> 00:40:27,160
Speaker 4: Yeah, Like I'm like, oh no, not on Henry gashing them.

820
00:40:27,160 --> 00:40:30,560
Speaker 4: But they lost Cam and then he's back in no

821
00:40:30,719 --> 00:40:32,840
Speaker 4: time and then they're shutting him Henry down lift.

822
00:40:32,680 --> 00:40:34,239
Speaker 3: When we went to when we went to break there,

823
00:40:34,400 --> 00:40:36,560
Speaker 3: Cam was kind of limping off the field. I said

824
00:40:36,560 --> 00:40:38,600
Speaker 3: to Max, I said, Zay Flowers will take that personal

825
00:40:38,640 --> 00:40:42,880
Speaker 3: foul penalty all the time. If Flowers just a personal

826
00:40:42,920 --> 00:40:44,960
Speaker 3: foul penalty just knocked Cam Hayward out of the game

827
00:40:45,000 --> 00:40:46,799
Speaker 3: on the first series of the game, I'm like, you

828
00:40:46,800 --> 00:40:51,839
Speaker 3: gotta be kidding me, you know, But Cam iron Man Wolverine,

829
00:40:52,120 --> 00:40:56,160
Speaker 3: some combination of both, just the proverbial fine wine that

830
00:40:56,200 --> 00:40:57,560
Speaker 3: has continued to impress.

831
00:40:58,200 --> 00:40:59,840
Speaker 4: And it really stood out to me too. Like on

832
00:40:59,880 --> 00:41:04,200
Speaker 4: the television broadcast they interviewed on the field Rogers and

833
00:41:04,280 --> 00:41:06,080
Speaker 4: Cam was right next to them, and just look at

834
00:41:06,080 --> 00:41:09,240
Speaker 4: the two of them, like at their age, their accomplishment.

835
00:41:09,440 --> 00:41:12,000
Speaker 4: You know, Rogers are with other teams of course too,

836
00:41:12,040 --> 00:41:14,719
Speaker 4: but I mean or especially the Packers, but like, wow,

837
00:41:14,760 --> 00:41:17,120
Speaker 4: I mean, imagine those two in your locker room every day,

838
00:41:17,200 --> 00:41:17,400
Speaker 4: you know.

839
00:41:17,600 --> 00:41:19,640
Speaker 3: And again, I know some people see that some of

840
00:41:19,680 --> 00:41:21,680
Speaker 3: the more ardent, some of the more stubborn, some of

841
00:41:21,719 --> 00:41:25,040
Speaker 3: the more spoiled. Honestly, if I'm gonna be honest, Steelers fans,

842
00:41:25,040 --> 00:41:26,799
Speaker 3: and it's not just Steelers fans that do this, it's

843
00:41:26,840 --> 00:41:29,360
Speaker 3: fans all across the sports world. But this is a

844
00:41:29,400 --> 00:41:31,640
Speaker 3: Steelers show. This is the Steelers Audio Network. You and

845
00:41:31,680 --> 00:41:34,440
Speaker 3: I live here in Pittsburgh, are gonna go, Yeah, I

846
00:41:34,480 --> 00:41:36,359
Speaker 3: don't care about all that emotion and all that. That's

847
00:41:36,440 --> 00:41:38,520
Speaker 3: just a win to get you into the playoffs, you know,

848
00:41:38,680 --> 00:41:41,880
Speaker 3: show show me the baby. Yeah, Like, go win a

849
00:41:41,880 --> 00:41:43,799
Speaker 3: playoff game, go on a run. Let's get into an

850
00:41:43,840 --> 00:41:46,080
Speaker 3: AFC championship game in a couple weeks, and then all

851
00:41:46,080 --> 00:41:48,160
Speaker 3: that emotion and all that raw ra will matter to me.

852
00:41:48,560 --> 00:41:50,800
Speaker 4: We know this is a results driven business, but I'm.

853
00:41:50,640 --> 00:41:52,880
Speaker 3: Telling you, if that's your attitude last night, you're in

854
00:41:52,960 --> 00:41:54,480
Speaker 3: the wrong business.

855
00:41:54,200 --> 00:41:56,040
Speaker 4: Right, right, right, Be a fan and enjoy it.

856
00:41:56,160 --> 00:41:56,319
Speaker 2: Right.

857
00:41:56,760 --> 00:42:00,480
Speaker 3: It's so so much of and I'm gonna sound like

858
00:42:00,520 --> 00:42:03,120
Speaker 3: the boomer get off my lawn here, guy, but so

859
00:42:03,280 --> 00:42:06,600
Speaker 3: much of sports phantom in twenty twenty six now is like,

860
00:42:06,880 --> 00:42:08,920
Speaker 3: if you're not a champion, nothing else matters.

861
00:42:09,719 --> 00:42:10,960
Speaker 4: And that's that makes me insane.

862
00:42:11,040 --> 00:42:14,319
Speaker 3: That makes me insane. If you can't enjoy last night

863
00:42:14,400 --> 00:42:17,600
Speaker 3: and bask, as Rob King would say in that moment,

864
00:42:18,040 --> 00:42:20,359
Speaker 3: maybe sports aren't for you, right Like pursuit I had.

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00:42:20,280 --> 00:42:22,440
Speaker 4: It, I might giving out participation in trophies just for

866
00:42:22,520 --> 00:42:25,800
Speaker 4: showing up a little league. But you know, enjoy the

867
00:42:25,880 --> 00:42:26,840
Speaker 4: ride here, two folks.

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00:42:26,840 --> 00:42:28,759
Speaker 3: You know those highlights are gonna be shown five years,

869
00:42:28,760 --> 00:42:31,200
Speaker 3: ten years, fifteen years, twenty years from now of how

870
00:42:31,239 --> 00:42:33,760
Speaker 3: the Steelers had this epic victory to win the AFC

871
00:42:33,800 --> 00:42:38,080
Speaker 3: North against their greatest rival h and like pursuit PURSUITA

872
00:42:38,239 --> 00:42:40,520
Speaker 3: was PURSUITA was so fired up. Someone called him the

873
00:42:40,560 --> 00:42:43,440
Speaker 3: postgame show last night and was like, you guys were

874
00:42:43,440 --> 00:42:45,879
Speaker 3: giving too many roses, Like the job's not done yet.

875
00:42:45,880 --> 00:42:48,799
Speaker 3: They just made the playoffs. If Mike tom if they

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00:42:48,800 --> 00:42:50,960
Speaker 3: lose in the first round, like Tom one should still

877
00:42:51,000 --> 00:42:54,200
Speaker 3: be gone and Rogers should retire, and Aaron and Cam

878
00:42:54,239 --> 00:42:57,240
Speaker 3: Heyward this and that. Yeah, and PURSUITA was like PURSUITA

879
00:42:57,280 --> 00:42:59,000
Speaker 3: goes to break and like throws his headset down and

880
00:42:59,000 --> 00:43:01,080
Speaker 3: he's like, do these people enjoy sports?

881
00:43:02,280 --> 00:43:05,719
Speaker 4: Why are you fan? Look at the root of it all,

882
00:43:05,760 --> 00:43:06,120
Speaker 4: you know.

883
00:43:06,280 --> 00:43:09,520
Speaker 3: The you know, the the final verdict on this group,

884
00:43:09,560 --> 00:43:12,279
Speaker 3: on this collective to use that term again, isn't going

885
00:43:12,360 --> 00:43:15,759
Speaker 3: to be rendered until the season's over. We'll have those conversations, right,

886
00:43:16,120 --> 00:43:19,759
Speaker 3: But yeah, if you if you can't appreciate what Cam

887
00:43:19,800 --> 00:43:22,319
Speaker 3: Hayward did last night, what Aaron Rodgers.

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00:43:22,040 --> 00:43:26,960
Speaker 4: Did Monday after. Yeah, I mean, yeah, we're gonna be

889
00:43:26,960 --> 00:43:29,200
Speaker 4: talking Texans like crazy, you know, but just enjoyed it

890
00:43:29,239 --> 00:43:31,479
Speaker 4: and smile and laugh and be glad, you know, glad

891
00:43:31,520 --> 00:43:32,239
Speaker 4: it went the way it did.

892
00:43:32,440 --> 00:43:35,920
Speaker 3: Absolutely because you know, hey, it might not end in

893
00:43:35,920 --> 00:43:40,240
Speaker 3: the Ultimate Prize. There's fourteen teams still standing spoiler alert,

894
00:43:40,480 --> 00:43:42,160
Speaker 3: Thirteen of them are going to be upset with how

895
00:43:42,200 --> 00:43:46,600
Speaker 3: their season ends, except for maybe the Carolina Panthers and

896
00:43:46,600 --> 00:43:50,239
Speaker 3: the Chicago Bears. Yeah, a couple of exceptions there, maybe

897
00:43:50,239 --> 00:43:52,480
Speaker 3: the New England Patriots. Teams that are really kind of,

898
00:43:52,840 --> 00:43:55,600
Speaker 3: you know, out out kicking their expectations from this year.

899
00:43:56,160 --> 00:43:59,640
Speaker 3: But it's it's it's it was just it took so

900
00:43:59,800 --> 00:44:04,200
Speaker 3: much much to go right to have that result last night,

901
00:44:04,600 --> 00:44:05,640
Speaker 3: you know, and it was earned.

902
00:44:05,680 --> 00:44:07,680
Speaker 4: It was not a gift. That was not you know,

903
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Speaker 4: just because this kid, as.

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Speaker 3: You and I said, and I'm glad you said this

905
00:44:13,520 --> 00:44:15,200
Speaker 3: at the at the top of the show, because I'm

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00:44:15,239 --> 00:44:19,480
Speaker 3: right there with you. I would have been very honked

907
00:44:19,520 --> 00:44:21,520
Speaker 3: off coming in here today the Steelers lose that game

908
00:44:21,560 --> 00:44:24,680
Speaker 3: on the last second field goal, I would have been

909
00:44:25,040 --> 00:44:27,160
Speaker 3: but I would have said, on a down and down basis,

910
00:44:27,160 --> 00:44:29,680
Speaker 3: you were the better team. The explosives like they did

911
00:44:29,719 --> 00:44:32,200
Speaker 3: at so many points this season cost you. But on

912
00:44:32,239 --> 00:44:35,840
Speaker 3: a down game, I would have taken no comfort. That's

913
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Speaker 3: so easy to stay say today right from the vantage

914
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Speaker 3: point of winning. I would have taken no comfort in

915
00:44:41,400 --> 00:44:45,080
Speaker 3: saying that if last night had played out differently. But

916
00:44:45,200 --> 00:44:47,920
Speaker 3: they're but they they were the better team last night

917
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Speaker 3: over the course of sixty minutes, over the thought, so

918
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Speaker 3: over the course of of all those you know, one

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00:44:52,480 --> 00:44:56,480
Speaker 3: hundred plus plays, and they they got a victory to

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00:44:56,520 --> 00:44:58,920
Speaker 3: go with it, and that is that's something to you know,

921
00:44:58,960 --> 00:45:02,719
Speaker 3: they deserve some credit, they deserve some roses. And now

922
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Speaker 3: they get to host a home playoff game on Monday

923
00:45:05,000 --> 00:45:07,440
Speaker 3: night where they haven't lost since I was in diapers.

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00:45:07,560 --> 00:45:09,000
Speaker 4: Yeah, twenty three in a row. I think it is.

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Speaker 3: October of nineteen ninety one was the last time they

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Speaker 3: lost a home game on a Monday night. I was

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00:45:13,280 --> 00:45:15,279
Speaker 3: born in February of nineteen ninety.

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Speaker 4: One, graduated in high school.

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00:45:16,280 --> 00:45:19,800
Speaker 3: Yeah, I couldn't even walk yet. So there's our first

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00:45:19,800 --> 00:45:20,359
Speaker 3: hour in the books.

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Speaker 4: Peterson's never won a road playoff game.

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Speaker 3: Hey, there's there's some there's some real voodo one here.

933
00:45:30,000 --> 00:45:33,359
Speaker 3: Once there's some there's some real voodoo going into into that,

934
00:45:33,560 --> 00:45:36,919
Speaker 3: into that game that will get Yeah, that's on Monday too, Yeah,

935
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Speaker 3: on Thursday and Friday, and as the week rolls along.

936
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Speaker 3: But we've got an hour in the books, another hour

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Speaker 3: to go. More thoughts from this one, and we obviously

938
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Speaker 3: have to take a look around the NFL and now

939
00:45:45,320 --> 00:45:47,839
Speaker 3: the playoff picture is set, and we had some other

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00:45:47,920 --> 00:45:51,279
Speaker 3: very important results over the weekend other than just the

941
00:45:51,280 --> 00:45:54,400
Speaker 3: most important one that played out last night at Akershuer Stadium.

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Speaker 3: We'll do all that in more an hour number two.

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Speaker 3: Well Shuler, Matt Williamson, halfway home here on a victory Monday.

944
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Speaker 3: It's the I'm on Steelers Nation Radio on the Steelers

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Speaker 3: Audio Network.