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

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Speaker 2: Hour number two of the Drive here on Steelers Nation

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Speaker 2: Radio on the Steelers Audio Network at.

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Speaker 3: The Temple Bar and downtown Dublin Island.

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Speaker 2: Oh, these people are ready, they're hydrated, they are living

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Speaker 2: life here on the Emerald Isle. We're gonna do this

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Speaker 2: at the start of every hour, just to keep the

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Speaker 2: vibes going.

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Speaker 4: Who's here for the Pitts Park? Stealer, who's gonna win tomorrow?

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Speaker 3: Here we go, stealers, here we go, Here we go, stealers,

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Speaker 3: here we go, and just real quick by what we'll do?

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Speaker 4: Applause and cheers. If yes, thumbs down, booze If nos,

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Speaker 4: who here.

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Speaker 2: Likes that skull chant that Minnesota does? Oh man, what

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Speaker 2: a what a bunch of weirdos. I tell you, all

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Speaker 2: we need is a towel and some Here we go

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Speaker 2: and we are ready to roll, baby, having some fun

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Speaker 2: here at the Temple Bar.

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Speaker 4: Steeler Nation.

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Speaker 2: Every day, like we said and we'll continue to say,

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Speaker 2: Thursday you felt the presence, Friday you felt the presence

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Speaker 2: and getting ramped up. Yeah, the sun's coming out here

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Speaker 2: a little bit. Everyone is out and about.

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Speaker 4: Uh.

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Speaker 2: It's it's absolutely incredible. All right, One more crowdsource thing here.

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Speaker 2: Uh who got here early in the week and made

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Speaker 2: a whole week out of this?

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Speaker 4: Make some noise. Anybody out there that got here in

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Speaker 4: like the last day or two, make some noise. Did

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Speaker 4: any of you sickos just get here this morning on

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Speaker 4: a red eye flight? I absolutely love it.

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Speaker 2: Cheers to everybody, whether you've been whether you've been here

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Speaker 2: all week and made a vacation out of it, Like

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Speaker 2: my lovely family back there in the corner of the

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Speaker 2: ORMs from Tennessee.

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Speaker 4: Everybody buy them beers all right before they get out

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Speaker 4: of here. They made a whole family vacation out of this.

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Speaker 2: A lot of people, like I was telling you, I've

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Speaker 2: got a buddy who was at the Ryder Cup in

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Speaker 2: New York yesterday and just.

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Speaker 4: Got here on our issues.

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Speaker 2: Didn't go too well for us yesterday, but we got

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Speaker 2: plenty of time, all right, plenty of time in this

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Speaker 2: in this tournament here certainly as we continue to rock

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Speaker 2: and roll again here from Fitzsimon's Temple Bar in the

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Speaker 2: Temple Bar District.

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Speaker 4: This is our third day here. It's been awesome. The

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Speaker 4: DV Morning Show will be here after us for a

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Speaker 4: specializition Saturday show for them.

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Speaker 2: We will also have the post game show here as

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Speaker 2: well with with DVE. So this has kind of been

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Speaker 2: our This has been our studio for the last few days,

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Speaker 2: if you will, and.

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Speaker 5: It's pretty much like the next six hours, there'll be

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Speaker 5: somebody camping out.

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Speaker 2: Here exactly right, exactly right, And it's been incredible. It's

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Speaker 2: been so much fun. They've been great hosts here and

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Speaker 2: I can't recommend FitzSimons enough for those of you who

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Speaker 2: are in the area or are planning to make trips

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Speaker 2: here in the future, Matt, I want to get into

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Speaker 2: some of your Matt's stats with you as well too,

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Speaker 2: for those of you that are unfamiliar. Matt puts together

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Speaker 2: a cheat sheet, a stats packet for Steelers dot Com

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Speaker 2: every single week that kind of previews and analyzes the

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Speaker 2: game from a statistical and analytical.

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Speaker 4: Perspective, thinking pretty deep, pretty pretty.

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Speaker 2: Deep, and Matt, I wanted to get into some of these,

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Speaker 2: some of these numbers with you. The Vikings running fifty

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Speaker 2: one plays per game, which is.

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Speaker 4: Fewest in the league.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Steelers at fifty four plays per game, fifth.

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Speaker 4: Lowest in the league.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, why is that the case for both of these teams?

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Speaker 2: And what does that mean for tomorrow?

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Speaker 5: So to me, it's much more concerning for the Steelers

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Speaker 5: because they haven't had quarterback changes, they haven't had left

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Speaker 5: So what really worries me, and we've talked about this

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Speaker 5: really only thing to blame is man. They're just not

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Speaker 5: creating first downs. They're just not holding the ball. They're

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Speaker 5: because he's smart, and Smith because he's smart, have kind

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Speaker 5: of created this horizontal passing game. Now, the Steelers do

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Speaker 5: lead the league in yards after catch, which is great,

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Speaker 5: Yes, And I meant to talk about this last segment too.

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Speaker 5: If you watch the tape against the Steelers, you would

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Speaker 5: think everyone's like stacking the box to kill that run game.

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Speaker 6: They're not.

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Speaker 5: They're they're they're playing too high and they're taking away

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Speaker 5: run the ball that well against lighter boxes, so that's

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Speaker 5: why they've done this horizontal passing game. Now the Vikings

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Speaker 5: is more circumstantial for not running a ton of plays

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Speaker 5: right back. Yeah, I mean, you don't have to play

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Speaker 5: run a lot of plays. And early in the year

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Speaker 5: a mess. Then I don't think it's a mess now

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Speaker 5: where the Steelers. I'm not saying their offense is a mess.

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Speaker 5: It's just not sustaining. You know, it's gonna if you

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Speaker 5: keep that up. It's just going to ask too much

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Speaker 5: They can get off the fields a little bit better

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Speaker 5: on third and fourth downs. You know, they've been phenomenal

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Speaker 5: was excellent. Third and fourth downs, they weren't complete opposite. Yeah, right, right,

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Speaker 5: is that fluky? Is that something that that the teams

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Speaker 2: There's a lot of that weird stuff. And like the

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Speaker 2: And typically when you're winning a turnover margin by that wide,

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Speaker 5: Right, you get five turnovers, you get that many gifts,

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Speaker 5: but you can't even turn them into first downs.

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Speaker 4: To that's the problem.

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Speaker 2: I think every single one of those turnovers except for one, right,

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Speaker 2: That's how you end up in that position.

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Speaker 4: That's one of the things.

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Speaker 5: To run more plays. I mean, it's hard to get

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Speaker 2: And we saw we also saw a ton of that

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Speaker 5: And we've seen it.

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Speaker 4: We haven't seen the Steelers have a drive.

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Speaker 5: Too many Steelers opponents have these long drives, and you're

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Speaker 5: not gonna be able to cause turnovers inside the two

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Speaker 2: No, they are, and they you know, they have a

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Speaker 4: It's not forcing multiple turnovers at the goal line.

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Speaker 5: Speaking of which we need to throw this out there.

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Speaker 5: From a positive nature too, though, Steelers offense in the

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Speaker 4: Outstanding seven of eight so far this year.

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Speaker 5: Seven of eight, and to me that's Rogers. I mean,

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Speaker 5: I completely agree, others are. I mean, you can't blame

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Speaker 5: credit when things go right either. People do what they'd

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Speaker 5: love to do. Those type of things too. But boy,

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Speaker 5: you've brought this up a bunch the last couple of months.

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Speaker 5: It's been five six years that they've been the bottom

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Speaker 5: you settled for a lot of nineteen since twenty nineteen,

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Speaker 2: Twenty eighteen that year where I mean it was maybe

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Speaker 2: one of the best years of AB's career. It was

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Speaker 2: the last year that Ben was still really Ben. They

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Speaker 4: Bowl that year.

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Speaker 2: Juju had a great season, great rookie season that year.

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Speaker 2: They were one of the best teams in the NFL.

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Speaker 2: I think top five in red zone that year, and

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Speaker 2: since then they have been in the bottom of.

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Speaker 5: The bar, the way bottom. And you know, you settle

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Speaker 5: for field goals. Luckily you got Bos who never misses.

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Speaker 5: But just think if he was just an average field

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Speaker 5: kicker to do all that, you probably lose two or

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Speaker 5: three more games last year every year. Absolutely mean, that's able.

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Speaker 2: You would have probably had a losing record at some

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Speaker 4: You might have gone eight to nine or you know,

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Speaker 5: As many one score games as they play in. If

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Speaker 5: your field goal kicker wouldn't be just average as opposed

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Speaker 5: a lot different. But I am super encouraged with the

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Speaker 5: red zone offense. And they throw touchdowns now. I mean

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Speaker 5: I used to have a running joke. I mean they

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Speaker 5: Now they're bodying up Washington. I mean they're they're getting

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Speaker 5: fades to Metcalf, big bodied receivers, and.

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Speaker 2: Aaron's getting shots to Calvin Austin when he's got one

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Speaker 2: on Thempportunity absolutely, So, yeah, that is that is certainly

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Speaker 2: piggybacking off of that, only twenty two point two percent

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Speaker 2: drives against Minnesota have reached the red zone this year.

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Speaker 2: That's the lowest rate in the in the NFL.

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Speaker 5: So it doesn't matter if you're awesome in the red

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Speaker 2: And is that is that purely a function of the

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Speaker 2: Floores confusion?

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Speaker 4: Is it?

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Speaker 2: Hey, we're early into the season and Minnesota hasn't faced

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Speaker 5: Who last I mean, yeah, they blew out the burrowless.

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Speaker 4: Game zone second quarter.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean their defense has been good. Their defense

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Speaker 5: will always be good. But last week made that number

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Speaker 4: They they very well could be.

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Speaker 2: And you know that is no one's gonna cry, and

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Speaker 2: that could be one of those breaks. You know, we

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean a massive way over five hundred and one.

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Speaker 2: I mean it's it's like Belichick and Andy Reid are

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Speaker 5: Yes, now, I'm sure the Steelers would like to be

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Speaker 5: It is promising. But I always used to think and

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Speaker 4: And this league is designed that way.

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Speaker 2: I mean, it's just how the league gets especially early

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Speaker 4: That's the way the league ones that.

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Speaker 6: That's the way they want.

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Speaker 5: Now, I think it's very very safe to say that

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Speaker 5: Right Like Seattle last year was seven and one on

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Speaker 2: I don't either, And and that is something that listen

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Speaker 5: I mean it's easy to forget you brought this era up.

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Speaker 2: From kickoff, the Steelers turn a set of downs into

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Speaker 2: first downs or touchdowns.

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Speaker 4: That's the second best in the league.

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Speaker 2: That to me, again, it's all the ecosystem of football,

445
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Speaker 2: but your time of possession, your ability to run the

446
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Speaker 2: football like that. This cannot be a week where the

447
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Speaker 2: Steelers go six straight drives with three and out or

448
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Speaker 2: a turnover like they did it so right, that will

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Speaker 2: sink you against this Vikings team.

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Speaker 5: Right, because this is a stiffer test than any of

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Speaker 5: the ones. Well, I don't know about Seattle, but especially

452
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Speaker 5: then the Patriots. That data's face that isn't nearly as

453
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Speaker 5: good in that capacity. And again it is the diabolic

454
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Speaker 5: as Flores is in all the crazy stuff he does.

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Speaker 5: It's not as scary on first and ten or staying

456
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Speaker 5: ahead of the chains. You know, if you're getting sure,

457
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Speaker 5: if you're getting the second and two, well his crazy

458
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Speaker 5: stuff isn't as scary. You know, you've got to stay

459
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Speaker 5: ahead of the chains. But if you're going to be

460
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Speaker 5: in third and six, is third and eight, third and

461
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Speaker 5: twelves after a penalty, things of that nature. The chances

462
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Speaker 5: you converting against his team are really really slim, very slim.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, very slim, And so Matt, we know, obviously, I

464
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Speaker 2: think just the you know, if we're writing on the

465
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Speaker 2: grease board, how to fix that.

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Speaker 4: Number one is the run game. Offensive line in the

467
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Speaker 4: run game, winning more on.

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Speaker 2: First down, setting up second and short, second and manageable

469
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Speaker 2: third and short, all those different things to keep your

470
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Speaker 2: playbook and your options open and not get into early

471
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Speaker 2: you know, early down predictable passing situations at the same

472
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Speaker 2: time either that. Obviously, though tomorrow, especially with the status

473
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Speaker 2: of Jalen Warren up in the air, is going to

474
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Speaker 2: be a tougher ask it is.

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Speaker 4: Could this be? Is this maybe the week?

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Speaker 2: And listen, I know Minnesota has yet to allow seventy

477
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Speaker 2: receiving yards to a wide receiver this season. They allowed

478
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Speaker 2: just four point six yards per pass attempt, second best

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Speaker 2: in the NFL.

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Speaker 4: I mean, they're pretty good so far through every three games.

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Speaker 2: If you're not picking up on this, but you and

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Speaker 2: I have also over the few weeks of the regular season,

483
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Speaker 2: you know, about the month or so now that we've

484
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Speaker 2: been into this thing, discussed Steelers tight end usage plenty.

485
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Speaker 2: Is this Finally, maybe the weekend where we start to

486
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Speaker 2: see it come together, or at least does it need

487
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Speaker 2: to be.

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Speaker 5: I think it's been a little lack lust and that's unacceptable.

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Speaker 5: And I'd even throw Metcalf in there. I mean, Jalen

490
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Speaker 5: Warren's been tremendous, but he shouldn't be leading the team

491
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Speaker 5: in receiving yards.

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Speaker 2: No, it's a testament to him, but that should not

493
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Speaker 2: That's not why you went out and got DK Metcalf exactly.

494
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Speaker 5: And we knew that this was going to be a

495
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Speaker 5: very tight end centric offense and passing game. We've seen

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Speaker 5: glimpses of it, but not enough in my opinion. Now,

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Speaker 5: I definitely think, oh, I know Rogers will throw in

498
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Speaker 5: between the numbers much more than Russell Wilson, but that's

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Speaker 5: not the only way you use tight ends. That can

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Speaker 5: be just a short sighted way, you think, I just

501
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Speaker 5: haven't seen a ton I've seen some of, Boy, Washington

502
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Speaker 5: so much different than friar Mouth, and Friar moves so

503
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Speaker 5: much different than Smith, and Smith is so much different

504
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Speaker 5: than Washington. You know that I'm not seeing, Boy, You've

505
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Speaker 5: put two three tight ends out there and the defense

506
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Speaker 5: has no answers. You know that there's just mismatches galore. Right, Okay,

507
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Speaker 5: they're playing nickels, so they're running the ball down their

508
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Speaker 5: throats with three tight ends. Haven't seen that? Oh they're

509
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Speaker 5: playing bass, so you're spreading them out and hitting John

510
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Speaker 5: New and Friarmouth against linebackers.

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Speaker 2: Haven't really so, And that's a lot of what we

512
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Speaker 2: envisioned from this offense when we all gathered a latrow

513
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Speaker 2: back in July.

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Speaker 5: That's how it's built. You don't make the John New trade,

515
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Speaker 5: you know, and Washington's a really good player. Those three

516
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Speaker 5: needs to be out there a lot mooth.

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Speaker 4: Is what the eight or ninth highest paid tight end

518
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Speaker 4: in the league.

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Speaker 5: Sure? Sure, And I don't think it's been terrible. I

520
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Speaker 5: don't think it's been.

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Speaker 6: Bad, right, But it needs to be a strength.

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Speaker 5: It needs to be a strength. Yeah. I mean, like

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Speaker 5: Tom and I do the pre pregame show, and a

524
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Speaker 5: big thing we've been saying is, yeah, I can survive

525
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Speaker 5: with that, but I want to thrive with that, you

526
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Speaker 5: know what I mean. And it needs to be your foundation.

527
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Speaker 5: It needs to be what sets you over.

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Speaker 4: Called this offense and brought all those guys in.

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Speaker 5: Absolutely and Metcalf as well. I mean, you know you're

530
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Speaker 5: gonna have one receiver who stands above the rest, and frankly,

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Speaker 5: in week one, I had no problem that he wasn't

532
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Speaker 5: super productive because Sauce Gardner is an exceptional corner and

533
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Speaker 5: more importantly, the rest are defensive back strength. So just

534
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Speaker 5: don't throw it Sauce and Sauces. Following Metcalf, we saw

535
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Speaker 5: Austin have a big game. Everybody did well. But in

536
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Speaker 5: a game like this, I don't see one defensive back

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Speaker 5: that's just gonna eliminate Metcalf or one spot you just

538
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Speaker 5: have to avoid. I also don't see one spot you're

539
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Speaker 5: gonna pick on like crazy either, you know. I mean

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Speaker 5: some of those Patriot defensive backs you could pick on pretty.

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Speaker 4: Good, especially with Gonzales out of the lineup last week

542
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Speaker 4: as well too. Yeah, that was a big benefit.

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Speaker 5: That was a massive benefit.

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Speaker 2: Oh dear, oh, somebody just brought us some beverages.

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Speaker 4: Thank you so much, thank you, very kind of you.

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Speaker 5: Thank you, Joey Porter.

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Speaker 2: I appreciate all the way from Texas to bring us

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Speaker 2: to bring us some beverages here in Dublin.

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Speaker 5: Now, we talked about the personnel of the Vikings and

550
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Speaker 5: it's kind of a vanilla group because none of them

551
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Speaker 5: are stars, but they all are versatile. They all do

552
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Speaker 5: their job. Now, Ivan Pace Junior is a pretty good

553
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Speaker 5: young linebacker that people don't really know. But the middle

554
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Speaker 5: of the field for them is probably their weakest area,

555
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Speaker 5: including Pace, who's also a little undersize.

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Speaker 4: So maybe that is a good thing for this week.

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Speaker 5: That's what I'm hoping, you know, Like I've in Paced

558
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Speaker 5: Junior went to the University of Cincinnati. He was undrafted.

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Speaker 5: The only reason he was undrafted because he's like five

560
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Speaker 5: ten and he didn't blow up the combine. But he

561
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Speaker 5: was great in college. But the fact that he's five

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Speaker 5: to ten, he used to be five to ten when

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Speaker 5: he wakes up tomorrow and five to ten the next day.

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Speaker 5: Washington's not five to ten. No, Friar Moose's not five ten.

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Speaker 5: You know what I mean, Like, if he's their best

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Speaker 5: linebacker and he has a deficiency based.

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Speaker 4: On size, pick on it man, Yeah.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean attack the middle of the field with

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Speaker 5: big bodies.

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Speaker 2: Steelers tight end snap counts last week John new Smith

571
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Speaker 2: forty five, Pat Fryarmooth thirty eight, Darnell Washington two one

572
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Speaker 2: offensive snap for Connor Hayward as well too, U John

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Speaker 2: Newsmith on the field for eighty four percent of Pittsburgh's

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Speaker 2: pass plays, fifty six percent for Friar Mouth, sixteen for

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Speaker 2: Mount Washington.

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Speaker 6: Let's harp on that, yeah, because it seems.

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Speaker 4: A little low for everyone other than Johnny.

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Speaker 5: To me, Well, I think there's a typo there, because

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Speaker 5: do you have Washington having two snaps?

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Speaker 4: No? Twenty snaps? Okay, you said too, Oh sorry, I'm sorry,

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Speaker 4: twenty for Darnell Washington for sixteen percent of the Steelers

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Speaker 4: pass plays.

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Speaker 5: First off, I'd love to see more Washington. I mean,

584
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Speaker 5: I know Friar moves making more money. Johnny Smith caught

585
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Speaker 5: eighty eight passes last year. I think Washington's their hardest

586
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Speaker 5: tight end to play against because he's just so unique

587
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Speaker 5: from a size. He's like Sack in the post, right,

588
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Speaker 5: and he gets better and better every year. I thought

589
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Speaker 5: he was their most improved player as a rookie and

590
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Speaker 5: got even better this past year. So I would love

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Speaker 5: to see more and more Mount Washington out there, for sure.

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Speaker 2: I would as well. Do you hear the Natives getting

593
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Speaker 2: restless out here?

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Speaker 3: Baby?

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Speaker 2: I absolutely love it? All right, real quick, let's do

596
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Speaker 2: this real quick again. Everybody, raise your glass with us.

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Speaker 2: Thanks to the lovely man in the blue right here

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Speaker 2: for buying this parus love all of you stealer Nation Slancha. Anyways,

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Speaker 2: what were we talking about? So tight Oh, my goodness,

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Speaker 2: that's incredible, My goodness, my guinness.

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Speaker 4: Uh yeah, tight end usage?

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Speaker 5: Oh yeah yeah? What were the percentages of run versus pass?

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Speaker 5: That last sentence the because that I don't like, so.

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Speaker 4: They I have here.

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Speaker 2: H Smith was on the field for eighty four percent

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Speaker 2: of pass plays, fifty six percent for Friar Mooth, sixteen

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Speaker 2: for Darnell Washington.

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Speaker 5: See, I'm fine with Friar Mouth kind of split in

609
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Speaker 5: the difference. But they become and these these defensive coordinators

610
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Speaker 5: are so smart and these defensive staffs picked this stuff apart.

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Speaker 2: Oh, these guys are all millionaires who are filmed junkies

612
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Speaker 2: and know everything.

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Speaker 5: They have working for them. I mean, like, I mean,

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Speaker 5: there's a lot of advantages, but they're becoming more predictable

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Speaker 5: with their tight end usage that when Washington's out there,

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Speaker 5: they run, and when John Who's out there, they pass.

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Speaker 5: And this was what we're hoping to totally avoid.

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Speaker 2: This has been an issue in the past that again

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Speaker 2: that we were hoping was going to be behind us

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Speaker 2: this year.

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Speaker 5: One thousand percent was you have these three really versatile

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Speaker 5: and different chess pieces, make yourself unpredictable by the usage.

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Speaker 5: You know, like rarely have I seen John Who and

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Speaker 5: Washington out there, you know, like Washington's this huge shack dude,

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Speaker 5: John Who's really a slot receiver. Friar moves somewhere in

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Speaker 5: between that you can mix and match those three totally

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Speaker 5: to really throw tendencies off. And again it's only through

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Speaker 5: three weeks, but too high a percentage when Washington's out there,

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Speaker 5: they run, and too high a percentage when John Who's

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Speaker 5: out there, they passed.

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Speaker 4: They pass.

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Speaker 6: Ye.

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Speaker 5: People know this stuff, they sure do.

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Speaker 2: I mean, and this is utmost respect to you. But

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Speaker 2: if it's in Matt's stats, it's in the meeting rooms

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Speaker 2: for the Vikings, I.

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Speaker 6: Would assume, so at least they're doing something wrong right,

638
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Speaker 6: at least a better.

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Speaker 5: Be Just go to Steelers dot com and get it.

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Speaker 4: That's exactly right.

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Speaker 2: That's where you can get match cheat sheet, his stats

642
00:29:03,160 --> 00:29:06,920
Speaker 2: packet every single week Matt and kind of staying with

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Speaker 2: that tight end usage offense. Week one, I loved what

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Speaker 2: the Steelers did in the play action game thirty three

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Speaker 2: point three percent of the time, literally an exact third percent.

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Speaker 2: At the time Aaron Rodgers was dropping back, they were

647
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Speaker 2: using play action that has very effectively yes week two

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Speaker 2: against Seattle fifteen point two percent. Okay, maybe that made

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Speaker 2: a little sense with that, with that defensive front and

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Speaker 2: that pass rush.

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Speaker 5: That's one hundred percent why that one dropped, But it

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Speaker 5: was still only I mean, if if you run play

653
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Speaker 5: action and things, you're gonna hurt it a smidge longer.

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Speaker 2: Turning your back to a very talented defensive front, that

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Speaker 2: certainly makes sense. And I know New England not to

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Speaker 2: Seattle's standpoint talented. They led the league in sacks going

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Speaker 2: into that week three matches in fox for a last week,

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Speaker 2: but still just twenty one point seven percent of the time.

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Speaker 2: Is this Minnesota defenses that allow you to get back

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Speaker 2: up into the thirty percentage you know tomorrow.

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Speaker 5: I almost think that this point it shouldn't matter the

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Speaker 5: opposition all that much. So let's kind of do the

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Speaker 5: history of this is Aaron Rodgers' career, very low, very

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Speaker 5: little play action percentage got Ben didn't like play action.

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Speaker 5: A lot of those dudes defense, right, and when I

666
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Speaker 5: turn my back to the defense and I flip around,

667
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Speaker 5: they're not where they used to be. You know. Now,

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Speaker 5: I guarantee you that when Rogers came to town before he

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Speaker 5: signed his contract and met with the team, remember that

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Speaker 5: weekend he was here that I'm sure him and Smith

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Speaker 5: and I'm sure Tom was in the room, talked about

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Speaker 5: how do I marry you my offensive philosophy with your

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Speaker 5: offensive philosophy. You know, let's let's blend these two worlds

674
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Speaker 5: because they're not exactly the same. But there is some

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Speaker 5: overlap because Arthur Arthur Smith was with Lafleur under Vrabel

676
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Speaker 5: with the Titans, and Lafloor went and coached Rogers, so

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Speaker 5: they and did it really well one MVPs with the guys,

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Speaker 5: you know. So, I mean there's there was an overlap

679
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Speaker 5: app there. But Rogers for his career before coming to

680
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Speaker 5: Pittsburgh was reluctant to run play action. Didn't want to.

681
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Speaker 5: I want to see the field. He's real big too

682
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Speaker 5: of when the play clock's running. I want to use

683
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Speaker 5: a ton of play clock. Yes, to survey the field.

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Speaker 5: You're gonna move around.

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Speaker 4: Let's run some motions. See how they respond.

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Speaker 5: We're just going to be static and I'm going to

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Speaker 5: just read it out because I'm smarter than you. And frankly,

688
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Speaker 5: that's what Peyton Manning did. Marvin Harrison was on the right,

689
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Speaker 5: Wayne was on the left, and he just said him

690
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Speaker 5: and ray Lewis could bark at each other.

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Speaker 4: Well for both of those guys a right, And I'm

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Speaker 4: smarter than you.

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Speaker 5: And if I had the longer I wait, the more

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Speaker 5: information I get, I don't need the play action stuff

695
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Speaker 5: to manipulate you. I don't want to move my eyes.

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Speaker 5: But at this stage of Rogers' career, and the league

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Speaker 5: has changed since ten years.

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Speaker 4: Ago, changes rapidly almost every year.

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Speaker 5: No question, play action is becoming a bit of a

700
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Speaker 5: cheap code. That everyone's numbers when running play action are

701
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Speaker 5: better than not. And he used to make me crazy,

702
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Speaker 5: especially under Mac Canada. They were low play action rates.

703
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Speaker 4: Oh it was like like single bidget percentage.

704
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Speaker 5: A lot of games, right, and those those quarterbacks needed it.

705
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Speaker 5: Now give Picket some help, I mean, give Trubisky some help.

706
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Speaker 5: And they didn't. So in week one I thought, Wow,

707
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Speaker 5: this is a really good blend of both worlds and

708
00:32:20,520 --> 00:32:23,520
Speaker 5: it worked really really well. They're numbers under when using

709
00:32:23,560 --> 00:32:27,920
Speaker 5: play action drop back were great. So I'm hoping they

710
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Speaker 5: just didn't get away from that, or maybe they are

711
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Speaker 5: Patriot and especially Seattle specific. Sure, but you get a

712
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Speaker 5: lot of pass rushers and you're coming up that are tough,

713
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Speaker 5: you know, including this one from a different post.

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Speaker 2: Everybody in the NFL now has these apex predators on

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Speaker 2: the defensive line.

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Speaker 5: And so I think you need to get back to

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Speaker 5: more play action and getting layups.

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Speaker 4: How does that work? Though?

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Speaker 2: Since Brian Flores became a Vikings defensive coordinator in twenty

720
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Speaker 2: twenty three, they have the highest blitz percentage in the

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Speaker 2: NFL nearly forty five and a half percent of time.

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Speaker 4: Does that matter?

723
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Speaker 2: Does that relate to again turning your back around, taking

724
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Speaker 2: that extra half second. Could they maybe even get a

725
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Speaker 2: little gun shy with that this week?

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Speaker 5: I mean I could see why they would, But the

727
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Speaker 5: numbers using it are just way better than without, and

728
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Speaker 5: that's an across the league thing, and it definitely was

729
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Speaker 5: with a run.

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Speaker 4: Numbers that too. Even if you have a run game

731
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Speaker 4: that's been struggling like the Steelers has through three.

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Speaker 5: Weeks, and you can also run play action out of

733
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Speaker 5: the shotgun and do this thing and it's not as

734
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Speaker 5: effective as old school play action. Put the ball in

735
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Speaker 5: their belly, pull it out, you know, But I think

736
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Speaker 5: you have to utilize it more. The offense is struggling.

737
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Speaker 5: There's just way too much evidence, way too much data

738
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Speaker 5: that shows across the league for five ten years, play

739
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Speaker 5: actions better than not.

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Speaker 2: Yes, and I certain I certainly think that that's something

741
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Speaker 2: to keep an eye on. For tomorrow's kickoff, of course,

742
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Speaker 2: at Crow Park in Dublin, Ireland.

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Speaker 4: Two thirty local time.

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Speaker 2: Here home in the United States of America, Matt and

745
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Speaker 2: I are a little over halfway home here with our

746
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Speaker 2: show today. Plenty going on at the Temple Bar, Fitzsimon's

747
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Speaker 2: Temple Bar here in the fabulous Temple Bar district of

748
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Speaker 2: downtown Dublin. Westheuler, Matt Williamson. It's a special on location,

749
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Speaker 2: out of the country edition of the Drive on Steelers

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Speaker 2: Nation Radio on the Steelers Audio Network.

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

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

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Speaker 2: Wrapping up the second hour of the Drive here at

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Speaker 2: Fitzsimon's Temple.

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Speaker 4: Bar in downtown Dublin. We got the cameraman in here.

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Speaker 4: Now everybody go nuts. Let's go, let's get the towns going.

757
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Speaker 4: Let's make some uns. I tell you what this is,

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00:34:54,280 --> 00:34:57,680
Speaker 4: standing room only up here on the rooftop bar. Matt Williamson. Oh,

759
00:34:57,719 --> 00:34:59,799
Speaker 4: it's getting packed, it It certainly is.

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Speaker 3: Who's running for some football tomorrow?

761
00:35:06,080 --> 00:35:08,080
Speaker 4: Are the Steelers gonna win tomorrow?

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Speaker 3: Here we go, Staalers, Here we go, Here we go, Staalers,

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Speaker 3: Here we go.

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Speaker 4: You're all beautiful people. Slaunch them, slaunch a raise them.

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Speaker 4: Let's go, let's go, let's go better. You just can't

766
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Speaker 4: beat this. Oh wait, one more, one more? Who's done

767
00:35:33,880 --> 00:35:35,320
Speaker 4: a Guinness tour this week?

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Speaker 2: Happiest place in the world if you ask me, I

769
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Speaker 2: could spend a whole week there and not leave West Yuler.

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Speaker 2: Matt Williamson. It's a special on location edition of The

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Speaker 2: Drive here and Matt, what do you say? I think

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Speaker 2: it's time for our NFL Pick Them segment? Yeah, let's

773
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Speaker 2: go around the league a little bit here. Typically we

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Speaker 2: do this on Fridays, but of course we had to

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Speaker 2: save this for our last show here before the game tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: Of course, so Matt, we will run through the gambit

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Speaker 2: here of these games will save Steelers Vikings. Final thoughts

778
00:36:10,560 --> 00:36:12,680
Speaker 2: and predictions for the end, but all the other games

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Speaker 2: across the NFL. Let's start Commanders and Falcons in Atlanta.

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Speaker 2: Jayden Daniels limited in practice this week.

781
00:36:21,120 --> 00:36:22,319
Speaker 5: He obviously don't think he'snna play.

782
00:36:22,360 --> 00:36:23,480
Speaker 4: He missed the game last week.

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00:36:23,520 --> 00:36:26,719
Speaker 2: Marcus Mariota played well and they beat the Raiders comfortably.

784
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Speaker 4: Two and a half point favorites are the Atlanta Falcons.

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Speaker 5: Falcons are favorite at home.

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Speaker 4: Huh after losing three nothing.

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Speaker 5: I gotta think Washington in that one. I expect Panics

788
00:36:38,200 --> 00:36:42,160
Speaker 5: to drop to bounce back. I mean, he was really miserable,

789
00:36:42,600 --> 00:36:45,640
Speaker 5: could hardly complete a pass. I assume they're gonna go

790
00:36:45,640 --> 00:36:48,200
Speaker 5: back to the run game feature bijon quite a bit,

791
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Speaker 5: and I'm sure that that'll be their worst game of

792
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Speaker 5: the year. I mean, that was a miserable performancy.

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Speaker 4: I mean they lost by thirty two, a bad teen.

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Speaker 5: And I'll be honest, I think Washington's overrated and I've

795
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Speaker 5: been kind of betting again against them every step of

796
00:37:02,080 --> 00:37:04,360
Speaker 5: the way. But man, I mean, they're just in a

797
00:37:04,440 --> 00:37:06,920
Speaker 5: lot better place than Atlanta's right, and Atlanta does not

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Speaker 5: have a huge home field advantage.

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Speaker 2: They they certainly do not. That's a great point. This

800
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Speaker 2: one's a tough one, like this is one of those

801
00:37:12,719 --> 00:37:15,839
Speaker 2: I would stay away from, you know, And if I'm

802
00:37:16,160 --> 00:37:19,360
Speaker 2: doing you know, actual gam yeah, or making real bets

803
00:37:19,360 --> 00:37:24,120
Speaker 2: on Sunday. I like Atlanta. I like Atlanta to respond

804
00:37:24,160 --> 00:37:26,879
Speaker 2: at home. There is a lot of that in this league.

805
00:37:26,920 --> 00:37:29,319
Speaker 2: Like get embarrassed one week, come back and play with

806
00:37:29,360 --> 00:37:31,480
Speaker 2: some pride like a prospect.

807
00:37:31,600 --> 00:37:32,120
Speaker 4: I do too.

808
00:37:32,280 --> 00:37:35,760
Speaker 2: We both adore Bijon Robinson. We've talked about that plenty

809
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Speaker 2: this season so far. Two and a half points, that's

810
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Speaker 2: enough to lay. I'll take the Falcons minus two and

811
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Speaker 2: half at home, Bills hosting the Saints and a one

812
00:37:44,520 --> 00:37:47,800
Speaker 2: of the biggest spreads that you will see probably this season.

813
00:37:48,280 --> 00:37:51,280
Speaker 2: Buffalo obviously three and zero. The game is at home

814
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Speaker 2: the Saints, oh and three. Quick side note for you

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Speaker 2: are Buddy Arthur Motes. The Bills for this game invited

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Speaker 2: back all their former alumni, So if you've anyone, anyone,

817
00:38:02,160 --> 00:38:04,399
Speaker 2: because because this is their final season at Orchard Park,

818
00:38:04,520 --> 00:38:06,239
Speaker 2: right so they're doing a lot of different stuff for that.

819
00:38:06,360 --> 00:38:07,600
Speaker 5: Still a bazillion people.

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Speaker 4: They invited all their alumni back for the game.

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Speaker 2: The Motes families going up there like they're all gonna

822
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Speaker 2: go out onto the field at halftime, you know, and

823
00:38:15,239 --> 00:38:18,200
Speaker 2: there's gonna be an Orchard Park thing, so so pretty cool.

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Speaker 2: It'll be a rocket environment there, as it always is.

825
00:38:21,040 --> 00:38:23,520
Speaker 2: But fifteen and a half points is a massive number.

826
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Speaker 5: Oh, I'm taking the point.

827
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Speaker 4: I think so too.

828
00:38:25,719 --> 00:38:26,720
Speaker 5: It's just so many.

829
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Speaker 4: It's like they got to win by more than two touchdowns, right.

830
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Speaker 5: I mean, you pulled Josh Allen in the fourth quarter

831
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Speaker 5: and Trubisky's in there and pick six and then you

832
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Speaker 5: win your bet. I mean, over fourteen is hard for

833
00:38:37,680 --> 00:38:40,080
Speaker 5: me to take. And I know that Saints just got

834
00:38:40,200 --> 00:38:43,279
Speaker 5: crushed by Seattle. By the way, Seattle's crushing everybody the way.

835
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Speaker 4: Can it do that crazy win on Thursday night for

836
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Speaker 4: them too?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, but that loss to the Seattle doesn't look as

838
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Speaker 5: bad for the Steelers as maybe initially thought. I just

839
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Speaker 5: think that's too many points because other than that game,

840
00:38:54,880 --> 00:38:57,400
Speaker 5: I think the Saints have played okay, you know, for

841
00:38:57,480 --> 00:38:57,960
Speaker 5: a bad.

842
00:38:57,800 --> 00:38:59,400
Speaker 4: Team for an oh and three tea, It's not like

843
00:38:59,400 --> 00:38:59,839
Speaker 4: they've been a disa.

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Speaker 2: No, No, I'm with you too, though, Like I typically

845
00:39:03,880 --> 00:39:06,600
Speaker 2: shy away from double digit spreads, it is Buffalo at home.

846
00:39:06,640 --> 00:39:08,480
Speaker 2: It's a little bit of a different story, but I'm

847
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Speaker 2: gonna take the Saints into plus fifteen and a half.

848
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Speaker 4: Buffalo gets it done by thirteen or fourteen.

849
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Speaker 5: But yeah, over fourteen, it's rare, man very rare.

850
00:39:15,760 --> 00:39:20,120
Speaker 2: We see that maybe once a year. Another massive spread, Matt.

851
00:39:20,160 --> 00:39:23,880
Speaker 2: The Detroit Lions at home against the Cleveland Browns. Detroit

852
00:39:23,920 --> 00:39:27,360
Speaker 2: a ten point favored against Cleveland. This one, to me,

853
00:39:27,600 --> 00:39:29,600
Speaker 2: is just a question of if the Browns defense does

854
00:39:29,640 --> 00:39:30,680
Speaker 2: what the Browns defense has.

855
00:39:30,600 --> 00:39:32,799
Speaker 4: Been doing through three games. I don't think the Lions

856
00:39:32,800 --> 00:39:34,080
Speaker 4: are gonna win by eleven.

857
00:39:34,400 --> 00:39:38,240
Speaker 5: I'm gonna infuriate some people listening here, but Miles Garrett

858
00:39:38,280 --> 00:39:42,799
Speaker 5: is playing a remarkable a Lawrence Taylor rest of his career,

859
00:39:43,120 --> 00:39:46,040
Speaker 5: way better than he has at any point, which is frightening.

860
00:39:46,440 --> 00:39:50,160
Speaker 5: The defense has been outstanding, outstanding. Now, I don't think

861
00:39:50,200 --> 00:39:52,440
Speaker 5: they're a good football team. I think their offense needs

862
00:39:52,600 --> 00:39:55,279
Speaker 5: a ton of work, but I think the defense keeps

863
00:39:55,280 --> 00:39:57,560
Speaker 5: it close. I do too, I'll take the points.

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Speaker 2: I think i'll take the points with Cleveland as well.

865
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Speaker 2: Like I have no out that Detroit is.

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Speaker 5: Gonna win, I think they will too.

867
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Speaker 4: I think it's gonna be rare that we're going to

868
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Speaker 4: see Ms beat.

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Speaker 5: The Packers, though, I mean like they might be able

870
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Speaker 5: to hang with good teams again.

871
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Speaker 2: That defense, I mean is going to be a handful

872
00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:14,799
Speaker 2: for people, and I think for Detroit, yeah, they'll win

873
00:40:14,840 --> 00:40:17,200
Speaker 2: at home, but by more than ten points.

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Speaker 5: I'm not Again these big spreads, especially early in the year,

875
00:40:21,080 --> 00:40:21,600
Speaker 5: they're scared.

876
00:40:21,680 --> 00:40:23,320
Speaker 4: Ye, very scary, very scary.

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00:40:23,440 --> 00:40:26,200
Speaker 2: The Patriots are back home in Foxborough once again, hosting

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Speaker 2: the Carolina Panthers off what I think will certainly be

879
00:40:29,160 --> 00:40:32,439
Speaker 2: Carolina's best performance season, a battle of one and two

880
00:40:32,440 --> 00:40:35,239
Speaker 2: teams New England five and a half point favorites at

881
00:40:35,239 --> 00:40:35,680
Speaker 2: home tomorrow.

882
00:40:35,840 --> 00:40:37,239
Speaker 5: That's a big number. It is a bit. I didn't

883
00:40:37,239 --> 00:40:39,359
Speaker 5: think it'd be three and a half, four and a half,

884
00:40:39,360 --> 00:40:41,440
Speaker 5: three and a half. Yeah, I'll take the points in

885
00:40:41,480 --> 00:40:44,719
Speaker 5: that one too. I know the Steelers just beat them,

886
00:40:44,719 --> 00:40:47,000
Speaker 5: but I mean, I think the pan the Patriots are

887
00:40:47,000 --> 00:40:49,400
Speaker 5: still working on figuring out a lot of different things.

888
00:40:49,480 --> 00:40:52,040
Speaker 5: You know, who's going to be the ball carrier May

889
00:40:52,120 --> 00:40:54,439
Speaker 5: is still a work in progress. So I'm really high

890
00:40:54,520 --> 00:40:57,920
Speaker 5: on them now. I wouldn't touch the game because I

891
00:40:57,960 --> 00:41:01,600
Speaker 5: still think Caroline was terrible despite beating you know, Atlanta,

892
00:41:02,120 --> 00:41:04,280
Speaker 5: But I'm gonna take the points.

893
00:41:05,239 --> 00:41:07,960
Speaker 2: That's a tough one for me because I think Carolina

894
00:41:08,320 --> 00:41:11,400
Speaker 2: played so well last week. New England played so poorly

895
00:41:11,440 --> 00:41:13,440
Speaker 2: last week. They turned the ball over five times, but.

896
00:41:13,440 --> 00:41:14,279
Speaker 5: They did move the ball.

897
00:41:14,400 --> 00:41:16,640
Speaker 2: They did move the ball. I think I'm gonna think

898
00:41:16,640 --> 00:41:18,720
Speaker 2: I'm gonna pay the points with New England in this one. Okay,

899
00:41:18,800 --> 00:41:20,439
Speaker 2: I think Caroline is gonna have a little let down

900
00:41:20,480 --> 00:41:23,120
Speaker 2: off of that that solid performance, and I think New

901
00:41:23,160 --> 00:41:25,920
Speaker 2: England's gonna be pissed off, frankly, with how they treated

902
00:41:25,920 --> 00:41:26,760
Speaker 2: the football.

903
00:41:26,400 --> 00:41:30,399
Speaker 5: Last week, say the least in practice this week.

904
00:41:30,520 --> 00:41:32,440
Speaker 4: I can't imagine that it was. Yeah, that it was

905
00:41:32,480 --> 00:41:33,880
Speaker 4: a comfortable.

906
00:41:33,400 --> 00:41:36,560
Speaker 2: Film room meetings for the Patriots when you're watching a

907
00:41:36,600 --> 00:41:39,280
Speaker 2: tape where you turn the ball over five separate times.

908
00:41:40,440 --> 00:41:42,280
Speaker 4: I'm gonna lay the five and a half with New England.

909
00:41:42,320 --> 00:41:43,560
Speaker 4: I think they win by a touchdown.

910
00:41:44,239 --> 00:41:46,840
Speaker 2: A battle of teams on the opposite coast and teams

911
00:41:46,880 --> 00:41:50,719
Speaker 2: in opposite directions, the zero to three Giants host the

912
00:41:50,760 --> 00:41:54,759
Speaker 2: three and zero Chargers Jackson Dark QB one for the

913
00:41:54,800 --> 00:41:55,960
Speaker 2: remainder of the season.

914
00:41:56,080 --> 00:41:58,000
Speaker 4: Brian Dables said, yeah, but that's a right move.

915
00:41:58,040 --> 00:41:59,600
Speaker 5: If you're gonna jump in, they go all the way.

916
00:41:59,640 --> 00:41:59,960
Speaker 5: But this is.

917
00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:02,480
Speaker 2: It's a very tough test for him for his first

918
00:42:02,480 --> 00:42:04,839
Speaker 2: go at it in the NFL, despite having to come

919
00:42:04,880 --> 00:42:06,840
Speaker 2: across the coast for a one o'clock game, which we

920
00:42:06,920 --> 00:42:09,080
Speaker 2: know traditionally the record for West Coast teams in that

921
00:42:09,160 --> 00:42:10,920
Speaker 2: it's like a thirty three percent win percentage.

922
00:42:10,920 --> 00:42:13,520
Speaker 4: It's not great. But Chargers a six and a half

923
00:42:13,560 --> 00:42:14,800
Speaker 4: point favorite at MetLife.

924
00:42:14,840 --> 00:42:16,560
Speaker 5: I don't think that's nearly enough points for me.

925
00:42:16,800 --> 00:42:18,200
Speaker 4: I don't need I think this should be one of

926
00:42:18,239 --> 00:42:20,400
Speaker 4: those ones that's closer to ten. Yes, with double digit.

927
00:42:20,360 --> 00:42:23,719
Speaker 5: That Charger defensive coordinator throws a lot at you for

928
00:42:23,800 --> 00:42:26,360
Speaker 5: your first start. I think that's a really tough situation.

929
00:42:26,880 --> 00:42:29,960
Speaker 5: I think a Charger playing great football, Herbert's playing like

930
00:42:29,960 --> 00:42:34,520
Speaker 5: an MVP. That one, to me is way too low

931
00:42:34,560 --> 00:42:38,800
Speaker 5: of a number. So side note, I wonder if Russell

932
00:42:38,840 --> 00:42:41,160
Speaker 5: Wilson like ends up in Cincinnati.

933
00:42:43,080 --> 00:42:45,160
Speaker 6: I mean, they got Jameis Winston there to be the two.

934
00:42:45,360 --> 00:42:47,440
Speaker 5: They've already dedicated themselves to Dart.

935
00:42:47,480 --> 00:42:49,160
Speaker 4: They're not going back to Russ at this point.

936
00:42:49,239 --> 00:42:49,600
Speaker 6: He can't.

937
00:42:49,880 --> 00:42:52,560
Speaker 5: I mean, he's too big a name that messes everything up.

938
00:42:53,440 --> 00:42:56,920
Speaker 5: I think you shop him. I mean, if you're the Bengals,

939
00:42:57,840 --> 00:42:58,920
Speaker 5: consider it. It might keep you.

940
00:42:58,960 --> 00:43:00,640
Speaker 4: Afloat long enough round pick.

941
00:43:00,680 --> 00:43:03,399
Speaker 6: I mean nothing, He's not making a ton of money.

942
00:43:03,520 --> 00:43:05,800
Speaker 2: You know, it's not a bad idea that you float

943
00:43:05,800 --> 00:43:07,399
Speaker 2: out there, and that would certainly make for.

944
00:43:07,400 --> 00:43:09,240
Speaker 4: Some uh some fun matchups.

945
00:43:09,360 --> 00:43:12,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, right in Cincinnati here later on in the season,

946
00:43:12,560 --> 00:43:15,359
Speaker 2: uh Matt And what could be, of course, obviously, other

947
00:43:15,400 --> 00:43:17,759
Speaker 2: than the first NFL regular season game in Dublin, what

948
00:43:17,800 --> 00:43:20,000
Speaker 2: could be the game of the week this weekend?

949
00:43:20,280 --> 00:43:21,799
Speaker 4: The Bucks post.

950
00:43:21,600 --> 00:43:23,920
Speaker 2: The Eagles in a battle of three and OHO teams

951
00:43:23,920 --> 00:43:26,919
Speaker 2: there in the NFC. Obviously, Mike Evans is not gonna play.

952
00:43:26,920 --> 00:43:28,680
Speaker 2: He's gonna miss I think two to three weeks they

953
00:43:28,719 --> 00:43:31,799
Speaker 2: said Philly in Tampa a three and a half point

954
00:43:31,800 --> 00:43:33,880
Speaker 2: favor in Tampa.

955
00:43:33,960 --> 00:43:36,560
Speaker 5: Right in Tampa, I'm taking the home dog there for sure.

956
00:43:37,440 --> 00:43:40,600
Speaker 5: I'm very fond of the Eagles, of course, but yes,

957
00:43:40,680 --> 00:43:43,480
Speaker 5: they'd lose Evans. But they're bringing back Godwin, They're bringing

958
00:43:43,560 --> 00:43:48,120
Speaker 5: back Worfs. The Eagles are not blowing people out, They're not.

959
00:43:48,280 --> 00:43:51,839
Speaker 5: I mean, I think Baker's playing really, really well. These

960
00:43:51,880 --> 00:43:54,439
Speaker 5: teams have kind of have a knowledge of each other.

961
00:43:54,520 --> 00:43:56,280
Speaker 4: I think that in the playoffs a couple of times

962
00:43:56,280 --> 00:43:57,479
Speaker 4: in the last handful of years.

963
00:43:57,520 --> 00:43:59,600
Speaker 5: I think it's close. At home, I thought they win,

964
00:43:59,680 --> 00:44:00,400
Speaker 5: but it's close.

965
00:44:00,600 --> 00:44:01,239
Speaker 4: I think so too.

966
00:44:01,320 --> 00:44:03,040
Speaker 2: This is one of those if this was two and

967
00:44:03,120 --> 00:44:04,840
Speaker 2: a half instead of three and a half, I probably

968
00:44:04,920 --> 00:44:07,720
Speaker 2: lean towards Philadelphia maybe, but I see, I know Philly

969
00:44:07,719 --> 00:44:09,520
Speaker 2: could kick a last second field goal like they did

970
00:44:09,600 --> 00:44:10,080
Speaker 2: last week.

971
00:44:10,400 --> 00:44:12,120
Speaker 4: Well, I guess they blocked the last second field goal

972
00:44:12,200 --> 00:44:12,600
Speaker 4: last week.

973
00:44:12,640 --> 00:44:14,239
Speaker 2: Part of me against the Rams, but I do think

974
00:44:14,280 --> 00:44:16,480
Speaker 2: it'll be that type of down to the wire finish.

975
00:44:16,920 --> 00:44:18,440
Speaker 2: Philly finds a way to get it done, but I

976
00:44:18,440 --> 00:44:20,360
Speaker 2: think the Bucks cover. I'll take the three and a

977
00:44:20,400 --> 00:44:23,640
Speaker 2: half points with you there. Certainly, Matt in a maybe

978
00:44:23,640 --> 00:44:26,840
Speaker 2: the team that is in the biggest must win situation

979
00:44:26,960 --> 00:44:29,319
Speaker 2: this weekend has to be the Houston Texans at home.

980
00:44:29,320 --> 00:44:33,000
Speaker 2: I wouldh and three playing team playing an oh and

981
00:44:33,040 --> 00:44:39,640
Speaker 2: three team in Tennessee. Houston is seven point favorites. This

982
00:44:39,760 --> 00:44:42,120
Speaker 2: to me again, this is if you're if you're picking

983
00:44:42,160 --> 00:44:44,479
Speaker 2: one team in the NFL that has to win this week,

984
00:44:44,520 --> 00:44:48,560
Speaker 2: it's definitely it's definitely Houston Houston, but by seven, I

985
00:44:48,560 --> 00:44:50,279
Speaker 2: don't know. I think that the Titans can move the

986
00:44:50,280 --> 00:44:52,560
Speaker 2: ball and score a little bit. Cam Ward's looking a

987
00:44:52,600 --> 00:44:53,560
Speaker 2: little more comfortable.

988
00:44:53,880 --> 00:44:57,279
Speaker 5: I'm a ward believer. This is like if this was

989
00:44:57,320 --> 00:45:00,960
Speaker 5: six and a half, if.

990
00:44:59,560 --> 00:45:01,600
Speaker 2: It was seven and a half, take Tennessee. I don't

991
00:45:01,640 --> 00:45:03,200
Speaker 2: like that flat seven number, which.

992
00:45:03,040 --> 00:45:05,759
Speaker 5: Is probably exactly why it exists, so that they get Vegas.

993
00:45:06,480 --> 00:45:09,759
Speaker 5: I mean, that's like the perfect number. I guess I'll

994
00:45:09,800 --> 00:45:15,200
Speaker 5: take Houston based on their defense, more established quarterback, the

995
00:45:15,320 --> 00:45:18,839
Speaker 5: must win factor is huge for them. There's already talk

996
00:45:18,880 --> 00:45:22,040
Speaker 5: at Tennessee getting fired too, but yeah, I mean they

997
00:45:22,080 --> 00:45:25,359
Speaker 5: don't have the same expectations by any stretch. I'll take

998
00:45:25,400 --> 00:45:26,680
Speaker 5: Houston reluctantly.

999
00:45:28,000 --> 00:45:30,279
Speaker 4: I think I'm with you. Reluctantly is a good word

1000
00:45:30,320 --> 00:45:30,919
Speaker 4: to use there.

1001
00:45:30,960 --> 00:45:34,720
Speaker 2: Certainly, the Rams are back home after that disappointing loss

1002
00:45:34,760 --> 00:45:37,719
Speaker 2: to the Eagles against the Colts, who have maybe been

1003
00:45:37,760 --> 00:45:40,600
Speaker 2: the surprise team at least certainly in the positive department

1004
00:45:40,640 --> 00:45:43,160
Speaker 2: in the NFL this season. Three and oh Colts in

1005
00:45:43,320 --> 00:45:45,680
Speaker 2: La taking on the two and one Rams, Rams three

1006
00:45:45,719 --> 00:45:50,080
Speaker 2: and a half point favorites. Is this where the Colts

1007
00:45:50,080 --> 00:45:51,200
Speaker 2: finally come back to life?

1008
00:45:51,480 --> 00:45:52,839
Speaker 5: They absolutely they could come back.

1009
00:45:52,760 --> 00:45:54,520
Speaker 4: To Earth, back down to Earth, Siden That's what I mean.

1010
00:45:54,680 --> 00:45:56,880
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean that Houston's gonna try and come back

1011
00:45:56,880 --> 00:45:57,200
Speaker 6: to life.

1012
00:45:57,280 --> 00:45:59,480
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's a really tough test. But if that was

1013
00:45:59,560 --> 00:46:01,680
Speaker 5: under three, I think i'd go the other direction. You're

1014
00:46:01,680 --> 00:46:03,719
Speaker 5: gonna be three and a half. I'm gonna take it enough.

1015
00:46:04,160 --> 00:46:06,240
Speaker 5: I think they can run the ball and keep it close.

1016
00:46:07,040 --> 00:46:09,959
Speaker 4: I'm gonna lay the points with the Rams back home.

1017
00:46:10,000 --> 00:46:11,719
Speaker 2: I don't think they're gonna be They're gonna be ticked

1018
00:46:11,760 --> 00:46:15,719
Speaker 2: off after coughing up that lead to Philly, and they're

1019
00:46:15,760 --> 00:46:18,319
Speaker 2: not going to take this Coats team lightly at all. No,

1020
00:46:18,880 --> 00:46:21,520
Speaker 2: they should, but they're not gonna sneak up on anybody anymore.

1021
00:46:21,880 --> 00:46:23,960
Speaker 2: That's another tough one, but I think I'll I think

1022
00:46:24,000 --> 00:46:25,400
Speaker 2: I'll go against you on this one and lay the

1023
00:46:25,440 --> 00:46:29,360
Speaker 2: points with La Staying in California the Niners three and

1024
00:46:29,400 --> 00:46:30,160
Speaker 2: oh Niners as.

1025
00:46:30,040 --> 00:46:30,640
Speaker 4: Well to Matt.

1026
00:46:31,000 --> 00:46:33,920
Speaker 2: They host the Jacksonville Jaguars two and one. Jacksonville with

1027
00:46:33,920 --> 00:46:37,000
Speaker 2: a good start to the season as well two San Francisco,

1028
00:46:37,120 --> 00:46:38,960
Speaker 2: another three and a half point favorite at home.

1029
00:46:41,040 --> 00:46:42,760
Speaker 5: That's tough, That is tough.

1030
00:46:44,000 --> 00:46:46,000
Speaker 4: I might take Jacksonville in the points on this one.

1031
00:46:46,160 --> 00:46:48,880
Speaker 5: Yeah, their defense is played better than I expected. I

1032
00:46:49,120 --> 00:46:54,160
Speaker 5: keep expecting Lawrence and Thomas and Connor to really pop

1033
00:46:54,520 --> 00:46:58,239
Speaker 5: and it hasn't quite happened yet. I'm gonna go with

1034
00:46:58,239 --> 00:47:01,920
Speaker 5: San Francisco, and they have some issues. I think party's

1035
00:47:01,960 --> 00:47:05,480
Speaker 5: coming back though, although Jones wasn't terrible No Bosa, I

1036
00:47:05,520 --> 00:47:08,840
Speaker 5: don't love that aspect of it. But Shanahan's a winner

1037
00:47:08,920 --> 00:47:11,799
Speaker 5: and I think he understands where his team's at. I'm

1038
00:47:11,800 --> 00:47:12,800
Speaker 5: gonna go with the Niners.

1039
00:47:13,400 --> 00:47:14,399
Speaker 4: This is another one of those.

1040
00:47:14,440 --> 00:47:15,919
Speaker 2: I would like it much more if it was two

1041
00:47:15,920 --> 00:47:17,960
Speaker 2: and a half for San Francisco, but I think I'm

1042
00:47:18,000 --> 00:47:21,200
Speaker 2: still gonna I'm gonna give them more continuity as a roster,

1043
00:47:21,320 --> 00:47:22,239
Speaker 2: more continuity as.

1044
00:47:22,120 --> 00:47:23,319
Speaker 4: A coaching staff. M hm.

1045
00:47:23,840 --> 00:47:27,759
Speaker 2: Over Jacksonville, who's at this So far, so good relatively,

1046
00:47:27,800 --> 00:47:29,600
Speaker 2: but at the start of a new era again.

1047
00:47:29,680 --> 00:47:32,040
Speaker 5: They're just in a lot different places as franchises.

1048
00:47:32,560 --> 00:47:35,800
Speaker 2: Another one of these potential Game of the Week type matchups, Matt.

1049
00:47:36,600 --> 00:47:38,600
Speaker 2: This will be perfect for us here because it'll be

1050
00:47:38,680 --> 00:47:40,920
Speaker 2: in the evening time after we're all done with our

1051
00:47:41,239 --> 00:47:45,480
Speaker 2: Steelers and Vikings responsibilities. Two teams who did not expect

1052
00:47:45,480 --> 00:47:48,120
Speaker 2: to be one and two, the Chiefs and the Ravens. Yeah,

1053
00:47:48,160 --> 00:47:51,759
Speaker 2: at Arrowhead Stadium, Baltimore. Hey, how do we feel about

1054
00:47:51,840 --> 00:47:57,319
Speaker 2: Baltimore in here? Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait

1055
00:47:57,400 --> 00:47:59,719
Speaker 2: one more time. I don't think I heard you feel

1056
00:47:59,760 --> 00:48:06,160
Speaker 2: about Baltimore in here. This is crazy. The Chiefs two

1057
00:48:06,160 --> 00:48:08,680
Speaker 2: and a half point underdogs at home. I know we

1058
00:48:08,719 --> 00:48:11,960
Speaker 2: haven't we haven't seen that in seven eight years. Baltimore

1059
00:48:11,960 --> 00:48:13,960
Speaker 2: two and a half point favorite. Again, this is another one,

1060
00:48:14,000 --> 00:48:17,200
Speaker 2: like a big still probably too early to say must win,

1061
00:48:17,239 --> 00:48:17,959
Speaker 2: but this is huge.

1062
00:48:18,120 --> 00:48:19,680
Speaker 5: But it's huge. I mean, one of these teams going

1063
00:48:19,800 --> 00:48:21,880
Speaker 5: one and three, one and three, that's bonkers to me.

1064
00:48:22,640 --> 00:48:25,080
Speaker 5: I can't give the Homes that many points at home.

1065
00:48:25,520 --> 00:48:25,759
Speaker 4: Same.

1066
00:48:25,880 --> 00:48:28,520
Speaker 5: I mean, I think Baltimore is quite good, but both

1067
00:48:28,560 --> 00:48:31,480
Speaker 5: their lines have been bad. I mean they're getting pushed

1068
00:48:31,480 --> 00:48:34,040
Speaker 5: around on both sides of the ball. Matta Bouquet has

1069
00:48:34,080 --> 00:48:35,919
Speaker 5: been out for a while. That's been a huge deal

1070
00:48:35,960 --> 00:48:40,920
Speaker 5: for them. Their offensive line looks troubling. I think that

1071
00:48:40,800 --> 00:48:43,800
Speaker 5: they win the line of scrimmage and both I trust

1072
00:48:43,840 --> 00:48:45,680
Speaker 5: the Chiefs both their lines a lot more than I

1073
00:48:45,719 --> 00:48:46,880
Speaker 5: trust Ravens Lignes.

1074
00:48:47,239 --> 00:48:49,400
Speaker 2: This is one of those for me, Matt like until

1075
00:48:49,440 --> 00:48:52,000
Speaker 2: the body is cold in Kansas City, right, I'm not

1076
00:48:52,040 --> 00:48:52,760
Speaker 2: gonna believe.

1077
00:48:52,560 --> 00:48:55,320
Speaker 6: It in their in their building, especially.

1078
00:48:54,920 --> 00:48:55,960
Speaker 4: At Arrowhead Stadium.

1079
00:48:56,280 --> 00:48:58,919
Speaker 2: Yeah again, how often in the last six or seven years,

1080
00:48:58,920 --> 00:49:00,960
Speaker 2: have you been able to get Kansas City and points

1081
00:49:00,960 --> 00:49:01,319
Speaker 2: at home?

1082
00:49:01,400 --> 00:49:02,160
Speaker 4: Probably zero.

1083
00:49:02,360 --> 00:49:03,400
Speaker 5: That doesn't happen often at all.

1084
00:49:03,680 --> 00:49:05,960
Speaker 2: Maybe maybe last week against Philly, I think it was

1085
00:49:06,000 --> 00:49:08,720
Speaker 2: like one yes Philly or something. I will take Kansas

1086
00:49:08,719 --> 00:49:10,960
Speaker 2: City plus two and a half at home all day.

1087
00:49:11,040 --> 00:49:13,360
Speaker 2: But that is a huge one in the scope of

1088
00:49:13,360 --> 00:49:15,520
Speaker 2: the AFC early on here in the season. To close

1089
00:49:15,520 --> 00:49:18,960
Speaker 2: down the month of September, a couple more games to

1090
00:49:19,040 --> 00:49:21,359
Speaker 2: get to here, actually, in fact, just one more game

1091
00:49:21,440 --> 00:49:23,120
Speaker 2: to get to or no, sorry, two more part of me,

1092
00:49:23,120 --> 00:49:27,040
Speaker 2: two more here. Bears Raiders in Vegas, two teams that

1093
00:49:27,080 --> 00:49:30,640
Speaker 2: have shown some good but have struggled as well too.

1094
00:49:30,800 --> 00:49:32,240
Speaker 5: Like where Vegas is at right now.

1095
00:49:32,280 --> 00:49:34,760
Speaker 2: I don't either. They're one point favorite at home against

1096
00:49:34,760 --> 00:49:35,200
Speaker 2: the Bears.

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00:49:35,560 --> 00:49:38,920
Speaker 5: I like the Bears. I mean, I'm not convinced that

1098
00:49:38,960 --> 00:49:41,839
Speaker 5: they've turned this big corner, but I do think they're

1099
00:49:41,880 --> 00:49:45,000
Speaker 5: starting to show signs of life. Young quarterback, young coach.

1100
00:49:45,160 --> 00:49:48,279
Speaker 5: Both have a lot of potential. Maybe they're starting to

1101
00:49:48,360 --> 00:49:51,640
Speaker 5: kind of get each other a little bit. Vegas they're

1102
00:49:51,719 --> 00:49:53,959
Speaker 5: a line maybe the worst in the league. I feel

1103
00:49:54,000 --> 00:49:56,000
Speaker 5: for Ashton Genty in such a bad way. I mean

1104
00:49:56,200 --> 00:49:59,120
Speaker 5: those all linemen are getting pushed backwards. I mean, like we've.

1105
00:49:58,920 --> 00:50:01,960
Speaker 6: Talked about, like Jayalen war yards before first.

1106
00:50:01,680 --> 00:50:07,920
Speaker 5: Contact isn't very good. Negative, it's terrible, it's really rough.

1107
00:50:08,360 --> 00:50:10,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, that that's one of those. I mean, it's almost

1108
00:50:10,440 --> 00:50:12,359
Speaker 2: to pick them at a one point spread. I don't know, though,

1109
00:50:12,400 --> 00:50:16,560
Speaker 2: I might just lean towards Pete Carroll, the more veteran coach,

1110
00:50:16,600 --> 00:50:19,799
Speaker 2: Gino Smith, the more veteran quarterback. Can they just minimize

1111
00:50:19,880 --> 00:50:22,359
Speaker 2: the error enough to get out of there with a win.

1112
00:50:22,880 --> 00:50:25,000
Speaker 2: I think I might lay the one point with Vegas

1113
00:50:25,040 --> 00:50:28,640
Speaker 2: on that one Sunday night football matt which will actually

1114
00:50:28,640 --> 00:50:31,560
Speaker 2: be one twenty am here for us Monday, so it'll

1115
00:50:31,600 --> 00:50:33,520
Speaker 2: be like Monday mourn all night.

1116
00:50:34,560 --> 00:50:36,319
Speaker 4: I think maybe if you get a nap in before that.

1117
00:50:36,320 --> 00:50:37,719
Speaker 5: And then stay, then they can't watch them.

1118
00:50:37,760 --> 00:50:40,239
Speaker 4: The other guy, but then you can't watch Chiefs. You

1119
00:50:40,280 --> 00:50:41,440
Speaker 4: are a warrior, and we do.

1120
00:50:41,400 --> 00:50:43,040
Speaker 2: Have a seven and a half hour flight home to

1121
00:50:43,040 --> 00:50:44,840
Speaker 2: get some sleep in there as drill two.

1122
00:50:45,080 --> 00:50:47,000
Speaker 5: To post Steeler game, I think I'm gonna stay up

1123
00:50:47,000 --> 00:50:47,279
Speaker 5: all night.

1124
00:50:47,480 --> 00:50:49,920
Speaker 4: That's hey. I can't say I'll join you, but but

1125
00:50:50,239 --> 00:50:51,680
Speaker 4: I will be interested.

1126
00:50:51,320 --> 00:50:53,560
Speaker 5: To hear your thought watch those games Man.

1127
00:50:53,760 --> 00:50:57,360
Speaker 2: Cowboys at home reeling a little bit against the Packers,

1128
00:50:57,360 --> 00:50:58,520
Speaker 2: who another one of these teams.

1129
00:50:58,520 --> 00:50:59,720
Speaker 4: This is a tough spot for Dallas.

1130
00:50:59,760 --> 00:51:02,200
Speaker 2: You're in a team that has ticked off about their

1131
00:51:02,239 --> 00:51:03,600
Speaker 2: performance from the previous week.

1132
00:51:03,760 --> 00:51:05,840
Speaker 6: The whole Parsons factor going to the whole.

1133
00:51:05,640 --> 00:51:08,920
Speaker 2: Parsons revenge factor as well to ceed Lamb. I guess

1134
00:51:08,920 --> 00:51:11,240
Speaker 2: decent news for Dallas. He's not gonna go on ir

1135
00:51:12,200 --> 00:51:13,680
Speaker 2: He's not going to play in this game. It's certainly

1136
00:51:13,719 --> 00:51:16,840
Speaker 2: going to miss a few weeks. Green Bay a seven

1137
00:51:16,920 --> 00:51:17,959
Speaker 2: point favorite.

1138
00:51:17,640 --> 00:51:18,320
Speaker 4: At Jerry World.

1139
00:51:18,480 --> 00:51:19,440
Speaker 5: I think they blow them out.

1140
00:51:19,520 --> 00:51:19,920
Speaker 4: I do too.

1141
00:51:19,920 --> 00:51:22,040
Speaker 2: I think it's a double digit I mean in NFL

1142
00:51:22,120 --> 00:51:24,040
Speaker 2: Termsah yeah, Like they're not going to go in there

1143
00:51:24,040 --> 00:51:28,480
Speaker 2: like Alabama playing Southeastern Central Missouri State, right, but by

1144
00:51:28,640 --> 00:51:30,160
Speaker 2: ten to fourteen points.

1145
00:51:30,200 --> 00:51:31,239
Speaker 4: I think the Packers win this.

1146
00:51:31,520 --> 00:51:34,920
Speaker 5: Dallas is one of the worst defenses in the league. Terrible, terrible,

1147
00:51:35,000 --> 00:51:37,880
Speaker 5: and right now without Lamb it's just Pickens and Ferguson

1148
00:51:37,920 --> 00:51:40,960
Speaker 5: getting all the attention. And that's fine, it's just not enough.

1149
00:51:41,040 --> 00:51:43,279
Speaker 5: They don't run the ball very well. They got o

1150
00:51:43,440 --> 00:51:48,320
Speaker 5: line injuries. Gary's leading the league in sacks, and Parsons

1151
00:51:48,400 --> 00:51:50,000
Speaker 5: is better than him. You know. I mean like I

1152
00:51:50,280 --> 00:51:52,960
Speaker 5: think this is a really really long day from Dallas.

1153
00:51:53,360 --> 00:51:54,200
Speaker 4: I do as well too.

1154
00:51:54,400 --> 00:51:55,720
Speaker 5: That's a Sunday night, right.

1155
00:51:55,560 --> 00:51:57,319
Speaker 4: That is the Sunday nighter. Yes.

1156
00:51:57,680 --> 00:52:00,799
Speaker 2: Again, when you combine the Parsons factor and the a

1157
00:52:00,880 --> 00:52:03,359
Speaker 2: Green Bay team that is probably very disappointed with their

1158
00:52:03,360 --> 00:52:05,960
Speaker 2: performance last week in Cleveland, I think that spells disaster

1159
00:52:06,040 --> 00:52:08,560
Speaker 2: for Dallas. Could be a big day for George Pickens though,

1160
00:52:08,640 --> 00:52:13,240
Speaker 2: sliding number one slot there with Dak Prescott two hours

1161
00:52:13,239 --> 00:52:15,640
Speaker 2: of the books Bonus Hour. When we return, our buddy

1162
00:52:15,640 --> 00:52:17,560
Speaker 2: Brian back over the Pittsburgh Post Gazette is going to

1163
00:52:17,640 --> 00:52:20,759
Speaker 2: join us. Maybe we'll rope in some maybe PURSUITO or

1164
00:52:20,800 --> 00:52:22,799
Speaker 2: some DV people depending on what time they get here

1165
00:52:22,800 --> 00:52:25,480
Speaker 2: as well too. But it is all happening at Fitzsimon's

1166
00:52:25,520 --> 00:52:27,560
Speaker 2: Temple Bar in Dublin.

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00:52:27,640 --> 00:52:29,640
Speaker 4: Steeler Nation is here. They are ready to go.

1168
00:52:30,200 --> 00:52:33,080
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, we're coming back with the Bonus Hour plenty

1169
00:52:33,120 --> 00:52:35,520
Speaker 2: more here high atop of the rooftop.

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Speaker 4: All right, yeah, now we're talking. You guys are awesome.

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Speaker 2: It's the Drive West Wheeler Matt Williams and Steelers Nation

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