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Speaker 1: He's the Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt Williamson on

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Speaker 1: your twenty four to seven home of the Black and

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Speaker 1: Gold in Steelers Nation Radio.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to the Drive. I am Dale LOLLI he is

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Speaker 2: the Matt Williamson. And now we know Matt. Now we

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Speaker 2: know it's official in the books, it is official. The

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Speaker 2: Steelers schedule out there. We have the preseason schedule as well,

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Speaker 2: and lots to dig into. So let's let's get right

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Speaker 2: to it here. Yeah, yeah, absolutely, Steelers preseason schedule at

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Speaker 2: Jacksonville August ninth.

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Speaker 3: Sounds like a chili day afternoon, huh yeah, right right,

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Speaker 3: and bring your Parkers.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Then they host the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Saturday,

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Speaker 2: August sixteenth. That's their only home preseason game this year. Okay, right,

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Speaker 2: Then they're at the Carolina Panthers also throwing them a

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Speaker 2: little bone there. That's Thursday, uh, the twenty first of August,

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Speaker 2: So then they are off for that.

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Speaker 3: So it's a Saturday Saturday Thursday.

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Speaker 2: Y right, So the whole legal plan that Thursday. That

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Speaker 2: way they can they have.

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Speaker 3: A nice ten days stretch and except for the Cowboys

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Speaker 3: and Eagles, they get a nice long rest for opening bass.

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Speaker 2: On the Chargers and Chiefs alight, Oh they go to Brazil. Okay, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 2: that's why the Chargers scheduled this year. Is the long

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Speaker 2: is the most air miles traveled in league history?

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Speaker 3: Is that league history? I know it's number one this year. Yeah, well,

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Speaker 3: I guess going to Brazil goes a long way to

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Speaker 3: adding that up. And being a West Coast team to

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Speaker 2: I think it's like thirty might be thirty seven thousand

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Speaker 3: And the Bengals are like, well under ten.

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Speaker 2: Yeah they have like eight okay, yeah, but if you

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Speaker 2: if you took jumped on, hopped on a plane and

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Speaker 2: decided you were gonna fly the whole way around the Equator, okay,

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Speaker 2: that is just under twenty five thousand miles.

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Speaker 3: Wow, that's like an equator and a half trip.

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Speaker 2: They can circle the globe and then land then somewhere

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Speaker 2: in Asia and say okay, that was it.

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Speaker 3: Wow, that's a lot of hours on flight. That's insane.

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Speaker 3: Back to Steeler preseason. I bet Mike Tomlin loves it. Heat, heat,

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Speaker 3: heat conditioning, sweat.

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Speaker 2: You know, on the top of them O, you're gonna

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Speaker 2: get heat, no matter what, no matter what, but at Nxonville,

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Speaker 2: Jacksonville and even Carolina heats a little bit different than

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Speaker 2: it is here. Oh, no question, no question.

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Speaker 3: I mean it'll be warm here, but those two places

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Speaker 3: you in.

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Speaker 2: Week one, absolutely, Yeah. Getting moving on to Week one,

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Speaker 2: Steelers at the Jets on Sunday, September seventh, that's a

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Speaker 2: one o'clock game, little justin fields versus yeah, Aaron Rodgers.

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Speaker 3: So that's a little tinfoil hattish. But I mean, if

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Speaker 3: the league didn't think Aaron Rodgers was going to be

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Speaker 3: a Steeler, would that be Opening Day? I mean, well,

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Speaker 3: a one in seventeen chance, I mean, I guess it.

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Speaker 2: So there was a there was a press conference today

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Speaker 2: or a phone press conference today, and the league was

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Speaker 2: asked about that, Well, if we if we knew for

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Speaker 2: sure Aaron Rodgers was signing, that would probably be a

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Speaker 3: Okay, week one, and it's gonna get a lot of

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Speaker 3: And well, I'm sure we'll talk more about in depth

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Speaker 2: But new coach, no quarterback, you love that quarterback. Week

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Speaker 2: one that's great. Week two they have the Seattle Seahawks

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Speaker 2: k Metcalf became Metcalf revenge game the Seahawks. To your point,

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Speaker 3: It's a new team, new place. Yeah, absolutely, a lot

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Speaker 3: They came with allions too, right, Okay, yeah.

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Speaker 2: Week three they have they're at New England on the

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Speaker 2: But they've been around the block, they've been around. But

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so a lot of inexperienced quarterbacks here so far.

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Speaker 2: Week four they got the Vikings. But that's where it's

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Speaker 3: And it's a goofy little tidbit, but all four of

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Speaker 3: I mean, it's welcome to the league, you know.

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Speaker 2: Well, not only that, but if you look at those teams,

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Speaker 2: the Jets have a bad offensive line.

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Speaker 2: We're going to give you the bye week.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's not exactly ideal, but hey, you know, and

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Speaker 3: it's going to take a toll going overseas, but it

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Speaker 3: would have been nice to have at mid season or later.

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Speaker 3: The buys this year between Week five and fourteen, and

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Speaker 2: Coming out of the bye, they host the Cleveland Browns

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Speaker 2: knows who's going to be quarterbacks? Yeahs at that point.

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Speaker 2: Then they have their first short week of the season.

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Speaker 2: They turn around and go to Cincinnati Thursday, October sixteenth,

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Speaker 2: And while that sounds daunting and it will be, yeah,

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Speaker 3: Okay, I haven't looked at any of what the Steelers'

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Speaker 2: So it's even a shorter week. At least the Steelers

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Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly, so I know it's a week removed, but

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Speaker 2: A tough situation.

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Speaker 3: Y Yeah, the division familiarity, and there's two games that

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Speaker 2: Week eight, they come home for a night game, Sunday

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Speaker 3: Nice, and it'll be potentially rogers first time playing the Packers.

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Speaker 2: Week nine, that would be November two, one o'clock against

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Speaker 3: Here here and you had some great notes the last

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Speaker 3: Night show. Colts have been really bad in Pittsburgh.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they're like seventeen and two against the Colts in Peterbor. Yeah. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Green Bay has actually been really rough here of late too.

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Speaker 2: You don't like to see West Coast night game night games.

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Speaker 2: That part's bad. They then come back home the following

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Speaker 3: Yeah, there's two stretches. We'll get the other one in

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Speaker 3: the second where it's really strong quarterbacks back to back weeks,

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Speaker 2: Don't get me wrong.

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Speaker 3: But I think for those that are kind of looking

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Speaker 2: Yeah, after playing the Bengals at home, that's a one

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Speaker 3: Okay, that's a place the Steelers of strung.

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Speaker 2: can't remember who the quarterback was. They've had so many,

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Speaker 3: That's the first road game I kind of look at

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Speaker 2: You know. They then come home week thirteen to host

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Speaker 3: Which looks brutal, and I'm sure it will be. I

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Speaker 3: think Buffalo is really really good, but your notes ten

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Speaker 2: In Pittsburgh, Buffalo has struggled. Here Week fourteen, they finally

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Speaker 3: Okay, I mean got you got those get them twice late,

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Speaker 3: which I'd prefer that they spread things out a little more.

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Speaker 2: But okay, and you're playing Bengals Bears, Bills Ravens. Back

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Speaker 3: And that's what I was gonna say too about that

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Speaker 2: Well, this one's Alan Lamar. Yeah. They then come back

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Speaker 3: Right, which I don't think the Dolphins are happy about.

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Speaker 2: I'm guessing not. That is December fifteenth at night in

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Speaker 2: well for Miami Week sixteen. This will be their only

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Speaker 3: Start, brutal place to play really good team. I don't

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Speaker 3: Mean, we said that, we did the schedule release show

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Speaker 3: No, And again I had a problem with six division

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Speaker 2: So that's the schedule. We will bring it down a

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Speaker 2: Matt Williamson. I am Dale Lolly. You're listening to the

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Speaker 1: This as he is the Drive with Dale Lolly and

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Speaker 2: And we are back. I am Dale LOLLI he is

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Speaker 2: the Matt Williamson except no imitations. And Matt, it's kind

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Speaker 3: And we're gonna win loss it.

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Speaker 2: Why not? Sure?

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Speaker 3: I guess everybody does.

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Speaker 2: Everybody does.

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Speaker 3: I make fun of people for doing it because it's

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Speaker 2: But yeah, it gives you an idea, I mean, yeah,

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Speaker 3: Or how often or how much the Vegas win totals

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Speaker 3: going under, Yeah, the Sharps might be on top of that.

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Speaker 2: It might be so at the Jets in Week one.

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Speaker 3: I like Steelers of that one. Yeah, I mean, especially

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Speaker 2: Yeah. The coaching staff coaching staff for me, yeah, I

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Speaker 2: I like the Steelers at home in that one. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: Tougher than you think. I don't think you just rolled

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Speaker 2: No, they're a better football team than they were.

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Speaker 3: I to I'll pick the Steelers, but so I firmly

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Speaker 2: Flores causes problems. I think that offense has a chance

438
00:20:34,200 --> 00:20:37,439
Speaker 2: to be real good. But the quarterback's hard to comment on.

439
00:20:37,480 --> 00:20:40,159
Speaker 2: Who the heck knows? But I just can't four and

440
00:20:40,200 --> 00:20:42,480
Speaker 2: oh seems rich. Does you know what I does? I

441
00:20:42,680 --> 00:20:45,920
Speaker 2: think you maybe lose one of those games. You could

442
00:20:45,920 --> 00:20:48,119
Speaker 2: lose it just because yeah. Yeah, but if you go

443
00:20:48,160 --> 00:20:51,760
Speaker 2: three and one in the first four, yeah, I'll take that. Yeah,

444
00:20:51,800 --> 00:20:53,680
Speaker 2: I wouldn't take take three and one and all four

445
00:20:53,720 --> 00:20:56,560
Speaker 2: segments and you're going to be Yeah, you go into

446
00:20:56,560 --> 00:20:58,400
Speaker 2: the buy three and one, you should be very optimistic

447
00:20:58,440 --> 00:21:02,280
Speaker 2: about that. Coming out of the buy Cleveland at home,

448
00:21:03,080 --> 00:21:04,959
Speaker 2: I think Steelers win that one bag. Yeah. I think

449
00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:06,840
Speaker 2: the Browns lose a lot of games this year, So

450
00:21:06,880 --> 00:21:09,400
Speaker 2: that would be four or halfway there, four and one

451
00:21:10,200 --> 00:21:12,320
Speaker 2: the short week against the Bengals.

452
00:21:12,080 --> 00:21:14,000
Speaker 3: Four and two, four and two, Yeah, yeah, I'm not

453
00:21:14,040 --> 00:21:16,640
Speaker 3: picking that one, even if their defense is junk. That's

454
00:21:16,640 --> 00:21:17,720
Speaker 3: a tough one.

455
00:21:18,600 --> 00:21:22,680
Speaker 2: Week eight, it gets ten day, ten days off before

456
00:21:22,680 --> 00:21:26,040
Speaker 2: they play the Packers at home in a Sunday night game.

457
00:21:26,760 --> 00:21:29,280
Speaker 3: The coin flipped to me, But Rogers versus the Packers

458
00:21:29,280 --> 00:21:32,200
Speaker 3: on a lot of rest here, I'll.

459
00:21:32,040 --> 00:21:34,680
Speaker 2: Go to the Steelers. I think so too. So that's five

460
00:21:34,720 --> 00:21:37,760
Speaker 2: and five and two. Okay, Colts at home.

461
00:21:39,640 --> 00:21:41,440
Speaker 3: It's losable, but.

462
00:21:41,480 --> 00:21:42,960
Speaker 2: I don't have a lot of respect for where they're

463
00:21:43,000 --> 00:21:46,960
Speaker 2: at right now. I'm gonna take a Steelers. I think

464
00:21:47,000 --> 00:21:49,960
Speaker 2: I am too, right, Six, six and two's a really

465
00:21:49,960 --> 00:21:54,400
Speaker 2: strong start. Week ten at the Chargers Sunday night game.

466
00:21:54,840 --> 00:21:57,560
Speaker 2: I think that's going to be filled up with Steeler fans.

467
00:21:58,280 --> 00:22:00,960
Speaker 3: I'm gonna take the Chargers there. Okay, seven and two

468
00:22:01,000 --> 00:22:01,800
Speaker 3: just seems a little rich.

469
00:22:01,840 --> 00:22:05,040
Speaker 2: It seems a little rich. Yeah, Okay, Bengals at home.

470
00:22:05,080 --> 00:22:07,080
Speaker 2: Then coming out of that, I think they split with

471
00:22:07,080 --> 00:22:08,720
Speaker 2: the bank. Think they split with the Bengals too. I'd

472
00:22:08,760 --> 00:22:10,840
Speaker 2: be shocked. So that would be that would get our seventh,

473
00:22:10,880 --> 00:22:15,359
Speaker 2: seven and three at Chicago. They never win in Chicago.

474
00:22:15,440 --> 00:22:16,680
Speaker 2: That's a loss for me. Yeah.

475
00:22:16,760 --> 00:22:19,040
Speaker 3: I just think it's gonna be tough environment. I think

476
00:22:19,040 --> 00:22:22,680
Speaker 3: that team's trending the right direction. Maybe it's sloppy conditions,

477
00:22:22,760 --> 00:22:25,800
Speaker 3: but Rogers kills the bear. He kills the bear, kills

478
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Speaker 3: the bear.

479
00:22:26,240 --> 00:22:30,320
Speaker 2: It's like Ben versus Browns. Yeah, Boss seven and four,

480
00:22:30,480 --> 00:22:33,520
Speaker 2: seven and four, Buffalo at home. In week at thirteen,

481
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Speaker 2: I'll take the Bills. Okay, that's seven and five. Week

482
00:22:39,320 --> 00:22:46,480
Speaker 2: fourteen at Baltimore seven and six, Okay, tough stretcher. Week

483
00:22:46,560 --> 00:22:50,840
Speaker 2: fifteen Miami at home, a nice resounding win. Yeah, I

484
00:22:50,840 --> 00:22:56,280
Speaker 2: think gets six. Yeah. Week sixteen at Detroit, that one

485
00:22:56,280 --> 00:23:00,960
Speaker 2: I hate. Eight and seven. Week seventeen at Cleveland.

486
00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:03,920
Speaker 3: I think that's a steam roll Browns are. I think

487
00:23:03,960 --> 00:23:05,720
Speaker 3: you want to play the Browns as late as possible,

488
00:23:05,760 --> 00:23:06,840
Speaker 3: that things won't matter.

489
00:23:06,880 --> 00:23:08,520
Speaker 2: At that point. They may not even have a head coach.

490
00:23:08,560 --> 00:23:10,080
Speaker 2: They may fire. That may be a fire the head

491
00:23:10,080 --> 00:23:11,280
Speaker 2: coach game if.

492
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Speaker 3: He lasts that long.

493
00:23:12,040 --> 00:23:13,760
Speaker 2: I don't think he's a bad head coach, but it's

494
00:23:13,840 --> 00:23:15,880
Speaker 2: just I think it's going to be a miserable year

495
00:23:15,880 --> 00:23:16,200
Speaker 2: for them.

496
00:23:16,359 --> 00:23:18,480
Speaker 3: So that's nine and seven going.

497
00:23:18,600 --> 00:23:23,000
Speaker 2: Into the game against the Ravens here in week eighteen.

498
00:23:23,240 --> 00:23:25,320
Speaker 3: I'm gonna say it split against the Ravens too, I

499
00:23:25,359 --> 00:23:27,280
Speaker 3: mean split with the Bengals, split with the Ravens, and.

500
00:23:27,400 --> 00:23:30,200
Speaker 2: Won four the last five against the Ravens in Pittsburgh. Yeah.

501
00:23:30,320 --> 00:23:33,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, And so that's four and two in the division,

502
00:23:33,160 --> 00:23:35,800
Speaker 3: beat the Browns twice, split against the other ten wins.

503
00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:39,359
Speaker 3: It'll be ten wins. I think that's very doable. Now,

504
00:23:39,520 --> 00:23:42,280
Speaker 3: Will Rogers, I keep assuming it's him.

505
00:23:42,480 --> 00:23:42,919
Speaker 2: Will he be?

506
00:23:43,280 --> 00:23:46,000
Speaker 3: Can he last seventeen games? You know that it's a

507
00:23:46,040 --> 00:23:48,639
Speaker 3: bit of a concern at his age, right right right?

508
00:23:48,760 --> 00:23:50,000
Speaker 3: You know who's going to be in the games for

509
00:23:50,080 --> 00:23:51,760
Speaker 3: these But we don't know that for any of these.

510
00:23:51,960 --> 00:23:53,879
Speaker 2: Yeah, we don't. We don't know. But I again, I

511
00:23:53,880 --> 00:23:57,160
Speaker 2: think it's a manageable quarterback a Browns. I think it's

512
00:23:57,160 --> 00:24:00,199
Speaker 2: a manageable schedule. Just again, that to me, the the

513
00:24:00,280 --> 00:24:03,680
Speaker 2: rest factor, and when I say rest factor, the fact

514
00:24:03,680 --> 00:24:07,800
Speaker 2: that you have so many of these games on regular weeks.

515
00:24:07,520 --> 00:24:10,680
Speaker 3: Adequate, normal routines.

516
00:24:10,280 --> 00:24:11,480
Speaker 2: Makes a huge difference.

517
00:24:11,520 --> 00:24:14,040
Speaker 3: It does, and you wouldn't think it does, but it

518
00:24:14,080 --> 00:24:16,480
Speaker 3: physically does for sure. Just to wear and tear on

519
00:24:16,520 --> 00:24:19,520
Speaker 3: the body, but being around these guys, and you know this,

520
00:24:19,640 --> 00:24:21,119
Speaker 3: and I think a lot of the listeners know this.

521
00:24:21,960 --> 00:24:24,760
Speaker 3: When I started being with teams, I was so shocked

522
00:24:25,280 --> 00:24:31,800
Speaker 3: what creatures of habit football teams are, from coaches to

523
00:24:31,880 --> 00:24:33,040
Speaker 3: players preparation.

524
00:24:33,880 --> 00:24:37,280
Speaker 2: And when I say, I'm talking about the player preparation,

525
00:24:37,600 --> 00:24:39,480
Speaker 2: the coach preparation right right right?

526
00:24:39,560 --> 00:24:41,960
Speaker 3: You break down red zone on Tuesday at four, you know,

527
00:24:42,600 --> 00:24:46,240
Speaker 3: you know, like everything is exactly regimented, groundhalled week.

528
00:24:46,359 --> 00:24:50,439
Speaker 2: I mean, to me, the most difficult thing about the

529
00:24:50,480 --> 00:24:55,880
Speaker 2: whole situation of those short weeks. You've got coaches on

530
00:24:55,920 --> 00:24:58,239
Speaker 2: a plane. Let's say you're flying back from somewhere. You've

531
00:24:58,240 --> 00:25:02,240
Speaker 2: got a game on Thursday night. You're flying back from somewhere,

532
00:25:02,320 --> 00:25:05,200
Speaker 2: and you're exhausted. You're exhausted. You just spent the whole

533
00:25:05,280 --> 00:25:08,720
Speaker 2: day coaching a game, which is in itself is preparing

534
00:25:08,720 --> 00:25:11,679
Speaker 2: to coach. Maybe you didn't sleep the night before, and

535
00:25:11,760 --> 00:25:14,160
Speaker 2: now you immediately have to start and do it while

536
00:25:14,160 --> 00:25:17,359
Speaker 2: you're on the plane, prepping for the next game, because

537
00:25:17,400 --> 00:25:19,359
Speaker 2: you have to have you have to have your game

538
00:25:19,400 --> 00:25:22,560
Speaker 2: plan put together for that next game when the team

539
00:25:22,560 --> 00:25:23,600
Speaker 2: shows up the next day.

540
00:25:23,800 --> 00:25:26,000
Speaker 3: And people don't think about this, but the video guy

541
00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:27,760
Speaker 3: that's in charge of getting that on your iPad's a

542
00:25:27,760 --> 00:25:29,639
Speaker 3: little grumpier than usual because he had to be up

543
00:25:29,680 --> 00:25:32,040
Speaker 3: all night doing Like everybody's just a little bit.

544
00:25:32,400 --> 00:25:34,960
Speaker 2: I think it's just human nature that you're not as

545
00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:39,119
Speaker 2: well prepared as you normally would be. Just you're going

546
00:25:39,200 --> 00:25:42,040
Speaker 2: to miss things if you are that tired and your

547
00:25:42,080 --> 00:25:44,639
Speaker 2: brain is that stressed out after having just coached a

548
00:25:44,680 --> 00:25:46,480
Speaker 2: game and now you've got to go into the next one, and.

549
00:25:46,480 --> 00:25:48,040
Speaker 3: You feel like you're rushing the next day, like I

550
00:25:48,080 --> 00:25:49,439
Speaker 3: better get up early and get to the office.

551
00:25:49,480 --> 00:25:51,399
Speaker 2: You're not going to be at your best. It's it's

552
00:25:51,520 --> 00:25:53,600
Speaker 2: the way it is. It's just let alone the players

553
00:25:53,640 --> 00:25:55,160
Speaker 2: who then have to come around, you know, and turn

554
00:25:55,200 --> 00:25:56,960
Speaker 2: around and play a game in four or five days.

555
00:25:57,240 --> 00:25:58,879
Speaker 3: I mean, I cited it in the last segment that

556
00:25:59,480 --> 00:26:02,000
Speaker 3: if you're your third road trip in a row, even

557
00:26:02,040 --> 00:26:04,680
Speaker 3: if it's seven days, seven days, ten days, you almost

558
00:26:04,720 --> 00:26:07,320
Speaker 3: always lose, you know, I mean, and let alone if

559
00:26:07,359 --> 00:26:10,399
Speaker 3: it's four days and then seven and then six, and like,

560
00:26:11,080 --> 00:26:12,879
Speaker 3: I don't know when I get my red zone stuff

561
00:26:12,880 --> 00:26:15,920
Speaker 3: in or my blitz prep or man, i't really wanted

562
00:26:15,920 --> 00:26:19,160
Speaker 3: to tell my running backs this, but I only had

563
00:26:19,600 --> 00:26:22,120
Speaker 3: one short day of practice. Didn't get that message? Did

564
00:26:22,119 --> 00:26:23,399
Speaker 3: I get that message across or not?

565
00:26:23,520 --> 00:26:26,320
Speaker 2: That was what was so remarkable about the Steelers run

566
00:26:26,359 --> 00:26:31,280
Speaker 2: to the super Bowl. And five because road game, road game,

567
00:26:31,359 --> 00:26:35,159
Speaker 2: road game. Yeah yeah, right, like against great against the

568
00:26:35,320 --> 00:26:37,440
Speaker 2: really good teams. Yeah, you're not just playing some.

569
00:26:37,520 --> 00:26:38,720
Speaker 3: You know your team in there.

570
00:26:38,800 --> 00:26:41,199
Speaker 2: No, there's no slappy thrown in there. You're dealing with

571
00:26:41,320 --> 00:26:44,080
Speaker 2: good football teams on a weekly basis. Yeah. Yeah.

572
00:26:44,119 --> 00:26:48,560
Speaker 3: And again against Joe average opponent, that third road game

573
00:26:48,680 --> 00:26:51,080
Speaker 3: is like a seventeen percent win percent. Yeah, let alone

574
00:26:51,080 --> 00:26:53,920
Speaker 3: against on the playoffs, on the playoffs, in the playoffs,

575
00:26:54,000 --> 00:26:55,000
Speaker 3: you know that's crazy.

576
00:26:55,280 --> 00:26:57,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just very difficult to do. And the Steelers

577
00:26:57,560 --> 00:27:01,760
Speaker 2: don't have that. Again, they only have two games in

578
00:27:01,800 --> 00:27:04,600
Speaker 2: the entire season where they don't have a full week's rest.

579
00:27:04,800 --> 00:27:07,520
Speaker 2: That's not bad. And you knew half opponents, but that's

580
00:27:07,520 --> 00:27:09,240
Speaker 2: not bad. But you knew going into it you were

581
00:27:09,240 --> 00:27:10,480
Speaker 2: going to play a Thursday night game.

582
00:27:10,400 --> 00:27:13,160
Speaker 3: At summer point, and you're never gonna have seven every week, yeah,

583
00:27:13,280 --> 00:27:14,040
Speaker 3: or seven plus.

584
00:27:14,040 --> 00:27:16,680
Speaker 2: Although Dallas got four Thursday night games this year.

585
00:27:16,640 --> 00:27:18,440
Speaker 3: Do they really they always get two?

586
00:27:18,800 --> 00:27:21,560
Speaker 2: Right? Because they they're always I thought I saw that

587
00:27:21,600 --> 00:27:22,840
Speaker 2: somewhere that the Cowboys.

588
00:27:22,880 --> 00:27:29,200
Speaker 3: The Cowboys have four. I gotta look, now you knew

589
00:27:29,400 --> 00:27:31,440
Speaker 3: schedule Grid, I sent you guys. Has all that stuff

590
00:27:31,440 --> 00:27:33,720
Speaker 3: on you real easy to see. So they have, but

591
00:27:33,760 --> 00:27:36,760
Speaker 3: they almost always the other Thanksgiving teams don't get this.

592
00:27:36,800 --> 00:27:38,119
Speaker 2: Like Dallas. I don't know why it is.

593
00:27:38,160 --> 00:27:39,639
Speaker 3: I think it's just an agreement between them in the

594
00:27:39,720 --> 00:27:42,400
Speaker 3: league that they almost always get a Thursday, either before

595
00:27:42,600 --> 00:27:43,760
Speaker 3: or after Thanksgiving.

596
00:27:44,320 --> 00:27:46,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, they open on a Thursday, so that's.

597
00:27:47,680 --> 00:27:48,200
Speaker 3: Not the same.

598
00:27:48,400 --> 00:27:51,720
Speaker 2: Yeah. Then they get the Sunday night Sunday game against

599
00:27:51,720 --> 00:27:55,720
Speaker 2: the Giants. That's a noon game. Is that a noon game?

600
00:27:55,760 --> 00:27:56,240
Speaker 2: Week two?

601
00:27:58,160 --> 00:27:58,240
Speaker 1: Oh?

602
00:27:58,240 --> 00:27:59,920
Speaker 2: I guess it's that they're listening to this their time.

603
00:28:00,240 --> 00:28:02,240
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it's on the birthday. I'm sure it's or

604
00:28:02,280 --> 00:28:07,280
Speaker 2: one o'clock. Yeah, uh no, that isn't Uh. Then they're

605
00:28:07,320 --> 00:28:11,640
Speaker 2: at the cow or Bears on a Sunday Sunday Sunday

606
00:28:11,840 --> 00:28:16,840
Speaker 2: Sunday Sunday Sunday Monday game, and they have their week

607
00:28:16,880 --> 00:28:23,919
Speaker 2: ten by Monday game Sunday Thursday against Kansas City that's Thanksgiving.

608
00:28:24,560 --> 00:28:27,320
Speaker 2: Then they play Thursday against Detroit, so they match both

609
00:28:27,320 --> 00:28:29,720
Speaker 2: of those teams up with another. Okay, so Detroit got that.

610
00:28:29,960 --> 00:28:31,600
Speaker 2: That's a good move for them. Yeah. Then they get

611
00:28:31,600 --> 00:28:35,240
Speaker 2: a Sunday game, Sunday game, and then Thursday at Washington

612
00:28:35,480 --> 00:28:37,800
Speaker 2: in week seventeen, so they do have four Thursday night.

613
00:28:37,640 --> 00:28:39,960
Speaker 3: Games, although I don't think the first one counts the

614
00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:41,840
Speaker 3: same as the others in my opinion.

615
00:28:41,520 --> 00:28:43,280
Speaker 2: And the second and the third one, I should say,

616
00:28:43,360 --> 00:28:46,120
Speaker 2: is a Thanksgiving game where they played to Thursday before

617
00:28:47,080 --> 00:28:48,840
Speaker 2: the second one coming out of the Thanksgiving.

618
00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:51,640
Speaker 3: So the first one they won't be on limited rest,

619
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Speaker 3: the second, the third one they won't be on limited rest,

620
00:28:55,120 --> 00:28:57,480
Speaker 3: and the first one allows them to have more rest

621
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Speaker 3: for week two.

622
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Did you see the you still have to go

623
00:29:00,560 --> 00:29:05,440
Speaker 2: into film with alf Did you see the Chiefs primetime stuff? Oh,

624
00:29:05,480 --> 00:29:06,440
Speaker 2: it's ridiculous. Yeah.

625
00:29:06,440 --> 00:29:10,440
Speaker 3: So they got one Week one in Brazil. Yeah, that's

626
00:29:10,520 --> 00:29:12,440
Speaker 3: I didn't realize that was a Friday game too. Then

627
00:29:12,480 --> 00:29:13,400
Speaker 3: there's Sunday night.

628
00:29:13,600 --> 00:29:15,480
Speaker 2: It takes you like two days to get back.

629
00:29:15,520 --> 00:29:18,760
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the worst road trip ever. Week three at

630
00:29:18,760 --> 00:29:22,640
Speaker 3: the Giants, Week five at Sunday Night, Week five Monday

631
00:29:22,680 --> 00:29:26,040
Speaker 3: Night Football in Jacksonville. Then Week six Sunday Night at

632
00:29:26,120 --> 00:29:30,760
Speaker 3: home against the Lions. Week eight in or against Washington

633
00:29:30,880 --> 00:29:34,600
Speaker 3: Monday night football and they play Thanksgiving and Christmas. That's

634
00:29:34,600 --> 00:29:36,800
Speaker 3: a screams Taylor Swift to be you know, like, of

635
00:29:36,800 --> 00:29:39,240
Speaker 3: course the Chiefs are a good draw anyway, but if

636
00:29:39,240 --> 00:29:42,640
Speaker 3: we can get her on camera seven times or whatever

637
00:29:42,680 --> 00:29:43,640
Speaker 3: that is is bonkers.

638
00:29:43,840 --> 00:29:45,920
Speaker 2: All the guys in the locker room are now looking

639
00:29:45,960 --> 00:29:49,040
Speaker 2: at Travis Kelsey going, dude, why don't you retire, retire

640
00:29:50,080 --> 00:29:53,320
Speaker 2: or stop dating her. If you can't stop dating her,

641
00:29:53,440 --> 00:29:54,440
Speaker 2: then retire. Yeah.

642
00:29:54,440 --> 00:29:57,520
Speaker 3: I think you guys will be fine, get married, we

643
00:29:57,600 --> 00:29:59,680
Speaker 3: roll off in the sunset. Yeah, especially if you're a

644
00:29:59,680 --> 00:30:02,000
Speaker 3: decline play have her hide at the stadium. So we

645
00:30:02,080 --> 00:30:03,560
Speaker 3: don't want.

646
00:30:04,080 --> 00:30:08,560
Speaker 2: Going to Brazil, Yeah, no doubt. Just it's insane, right,

647
00:30:09,320 --> 00:30:11,760
Speaker 2: that's a lot to ask. What achieve it is? And

648
00:30:11,880 --> 00:30:13,920
Speaker 2: you know they're not going. Would they go last year

649
00:30:13,920 --> 00:30:17,040
Speaker 2: fifteen to two, fourteenth, sixteen month whatever they were, it

650
00:30:17,080 --> 00:30:18,040
Speaker 2: ain't happening this year.

651
00:30:18,280 --> 00:30:20,400
Speaker 3: We talked about this before. I like the Bills chances

652
00:30:20,440 --> 00:30:22,360
Speaker 3: of being the one seed in the Apes. I mean,

653
00:30:22,400 --> 00:30:24,760
Speaker 3: I think they roll through their division. Their schedule is

654
00:30:24,760 --> 00:30:27,760
Speaker 3: not real bad. I mean I think they're set up well. Yeah,

655
00:30:27,800 --> 00:30:28,800
Speaker 3: so we'll see.

656
00:30:28,840 --> 00:30:33,160
Speaker 2: I think I do think that the Steelers can be

657
00:30:33,240 --> 00:30:34,840
Speaker 2: pretty successful with this schedule.

658
00:30:35,040 --> 00:30:37,040
Speaker 3: I think we're happy with the results. Yeah, you know,

659
00:30:37,080 --> 00:30:39,400
Speaker 3: you knew the teams. Like I heard a bunch of

660
00:30:39,440 --> 00:30:42,800
Speaker 3: people complain about the Eagles schedule, it's really hard, But

661
00:30:42,840 --> 00:30:45,280
Speaker 3: that's on the NFL's fault. You're playing a tough division.

662
00:30:45,280 --> 00:30:48,080
Speaker 3: You're a number one seed and you play you have

663
00:30:48,160 --> 00:30:50,840
Speaker 3: Buffalo and Kansas City that no matter where do you

664
00:30:50,840 --> 00:30:52,120
Speaker 3: play those guys, it's going to be tough.

665
00:30:52,120 --> 00:30:54,960
Speaker 2: It's gonna be too right, right, you know. Yeah, it's

666
00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:57,120
Speaker 2: just part that goes that goes along part for the

667
00:30:57,120 --> 00:31:00,000
Speaker 2: course here. But yeah, you know what you what you

668
00:31:00,080 --> 00:31:02,680
Speaker 2: don't want is what again, what the league did last

669
00:31:02,760 --> 00:31:03,760
Speaker 2: year to those teams, that.

670
00:31:03,800 --> 00:31:06,440
Speaker 3: Was that's too much, and the Steelers got the worst

671
00:31:06,440 --> 00:31:08,640
Speaker 3: of it, but it was that's too hard.

672
00:31:08,400 --> 00:31:09,040
Speaker 2: On any of them.

673
00:31:09,080 --> 00:31:11,400
Speaker 3: Yeah, Christmas was a Wednesday that year, Right, It was

674
00:31:11,440 --> 00:31:14,400
Speaker 3: a Wednesday. So that's the worst day for Christmas to land, right, Yeah,

675
00:31:14,440 --> 00:31:16,640
Speaker 3: Tuesday would have been even more feasible, or a Thursday

676
00:31:16,640 --> 00:31:17,680
Speaker 3: wouldn't have killed you.

677
00:31:17,720 --> 00:31:20,800
Speaker 2: Tuesday wouldn't have been great, and they tried to mitigate

678
00:31:20,840 --> 00:31:23,000
Speaker 2: it by giving you the Saturday game, But that also

679
00:31:23,080 --> 00:31:25,600
Speaker 2: meant coming into that end of that week. You had

680
00:31:25,600 --> 00:31:26,160
Speaker 2: a short week.

681
00:31:26,240 --> 00:31:28,240
Speaker 3: You had a short week to lean up into the Mets, right.

682
00:31:28,280 --> 00:31:29,720
Speaker 3: I mean, there's nothing good about it was just a

683
00:31:29,760 --> 00:31:31,400
Speaker 3: train wreck and the teams were so hard.

684
00:31:32,120 --> 00:31:35,800
Speaker 2: But I can remember after they played, they played in Philadelphia.

685
00:31:35,880 --> 00:31:39,520
Speaker 2: I drove to Philadelphia for that game. I was on

686
00:31:39,600 --> 00:31:42,960
Speaker 2: the team flight to Baltimore the next week. When I

687
00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:47,280
Speaker 2: got back from Baltimore, I was tired. I was, and

688
00:31:47,280 --> 00:31:50,840
Speaker 2: I'm like, more so than just as a long fly. Yeah,

689
00:31:51,200 --> 00:31:53,479
Speaker 2: more so than the usual road road trip. I mean

690
00:31:53,480 --> 00:31:55,560
Speaker 2: those aren't usually all that taxi. Did you do back

691
00:31:55,600 --> 00:31:58,240
Speaker 2: to back like that? And it's like yeah, because the

692
00:31:58,320 --> 00:32:03,360
Speaker 2: thing about it was, you know, because the game was

693
00:32:03,360 --> 00:32:09,080
Speaker 2: on a Saturday. In the the first game there, the

694
00:32:09,680 --> 00:32:12,120
Speaker 2: Baltimore game was on a Saturday. After the Eagles game,

695
00:32:13,560 --> 00:32:16,880
Speaker 2: Mike Tomlin has press conference the next day after Philadelphia.

696
00:32:17,920 --> 00:32:23,120
Speaker 2: I drove halfway back to Harrisburg after that game. When

697
00:32:23,120 --> 00:32:24,560
Speaker 2: I got after I got done writing, so I got

698
00:32:24,560 --> 00:32:26,480
Speaker 2: to the I got to the hotel in Harrisburg and

699
00:32:26,520 --> 00:32:29,640
Speaker 2: it was an ice storm the entire way. Why wouldn't

700
00:32:29,640 --> 00:32:34,640
Speaker 2: it be stayed? I got to the hotel in Harrisburg

701
00:32:34,680 --> 00:32:37,880
Speaker 2: at like one thirty in the morning after white knuckling

702
00:32:37,880 --> 00:32:38,640
Speaker 2: the whole way. Yeah.

703
00:32:38,720 --> 00:32:40,880
Speaker 3: Yeah, after a long day to begin with.

704
00:32:40,960 --> 00:32:44,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, after after you know, sixteen hour day. Yeah, slept

705
00:32:44,800 --> 00:32:48,080
Speaker 2: for about five hours, got up and drove to Pittsburgh,

706
00:32:48,120 --> 00:32:51,080
Speaker 2: directly to the team facility because Tomlin's press conference was

707
00:32:51,120 --> 00:32:53,440
Speaker 2: the next was at noon the next day, and Harrisburg

708
00:32:53,480 --> 00:32:55,400
Speaker 2: isn't right around the corner, right right. I had to

709
00:32:55,400 --> 00:32:57,080
Speaker 2: get there in time. Yeah. Wow.

710
00:32:57,440 --> 00:33:00,680
Speaker 3: And that's just one example. But again, the ball boys,

711
00:33:00,680 --> 00:33:03,640
Speaker 3: the guys that line the field, everybody's exhausted, and the

712
00:33:03,640 --> 00:33:07,360
Speaker 3: facilities kind of you know, yeah, doing my best here, coach,

713
00:33:07,400 --> 00:33:08,240
Speaker 3: but I'm struggling.

714
00:33:08,280 --> 00:33:10,960
Speaker 2: You know, there's there's your schedule. If you don't even

715
00:33:10,960 --> 00:33:11,600
Speaker 2: know what day it is.

716
00:33:11,680 --> 00:33:13,880
Speaker 3: Yeah, I remember that whole stretch, and I don't travel,

717
00:33:13,960 --> 00:33:16,200
Speaker 3: but I'm like, I don't know what day is it now,

718
00:33:16,360 --> 00:33:18,240
Speaker 3: I don't even know. Everything was kind of a fall.

719
00:33:18,480 --> 00:33:20,360
Speaker 2: You get. You get used to have hey, game on Sunday,

720
00:33:20,400 --> 00:33:21,960
Speaker 2: game on Sunday, the game on Sunday, and then.

721
00:33:21,880 --> 00:33:25,520
Speaker 3: They start on Saturdays, and the Steelers certaindays we're the

722
00:33:25,600 --> 00:33:28,200
Speaker 3: only teams playing rookies. But I do remember, I think

723
00:33:28,440 --> 00:33:32,040
Speaker 3: you interviewed McCormick and Fraser. I remember McCormick in particular, like,

724
00:33:32,920 --> 00:33:33,840
Speaker 3: I'm not real used to this.

725
00:33:33,880 --> 00:33:35,640
Speaker 2: I've never done Yeah, I've never done this before, but

726
00:33:35,680 --> 00:33:37,520
Speaker 2: we played a Thursday night game earlier in the year,

727
00:33:37,600 --> 00:33:39,560
Speaker 2: so it kind of got me ready for this kind

728
00:33:39,560 --> 00:33:40,800
Speaker 2: of kind of but not really.

729
00:33:40,960 --> 00:33:43,520
Speaker 3: You're also in game like fourteen. You've never played fourteen

730
00:33:43,560 --> 00:33:46,200
Speaker 3: games against these level of people either, and I.

731
00:33:46,280 --> 00:33:49,560
Speaker 2: Think you saw that with their play a little bit.

732
00:33:49,720 --> 00:33:52,040
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, no doubt, I mean the whole team.

733
00:33:52,240 --> 00:33:54,400
Speaker 3: And they're playing great teams, right, I mean, I'm not

734
00:33:54,400 --> 00:33:56,520
Speaker 3: saying they would have beat the Eagles, Ravens and Chiefs

735
00:33:56,600 --> 00:33:59,040
Speaker 3: no matter what. They're the best three teams in the league. Possibly,

736
00:33:59,120 --> 00:34:01,160
Speaker 3: but so circumstances sure didn't help.

737
00:34:01,240 --> 00:34:03,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh, there's no doubt about it. And people, well,

738
00:34:03,480 --> 00:34:06,840
Speaker 2: that just showed who the Steelers were. Anybody, if the

739
00:34:06,880 --> 00:34:10,640
Speaker 2: Bills had played that stretch, they probably at the very

740
00:34:10,719 --> 00:34:12,200
Speaker 2: least loose two of those games.

741
00:34:12,280 --> 00:34:15,200
Speaker 3: That's still if not what you could ask, right, right,

742
00:34:15,480 --> 00:34:17,840
Speaker 3: And yes, I will concede that the Steelers aren't as

743
00:34:17,880 --> 00:34:20,440
Speaker 3: good as the best team in the league, right, Yes,

744
00:34:20,600 --> 00:34:22,719
Speaker 3: that is, the two Super Bowl teams are better than

745
00:34:22,760 --> 00:34:24,239
Speaker 3: the Steelers in twenty twenty four.

746
00:34:24,400 --> 00:34:30,560
Speaker 2: Yes, right, that was correct, that is true. Yes, anyways,

747
00:34:30,880 --> 00:34:33,920
Speaker 2: let's get to another break. He is the Matt Williamson.

748
00:34:34,040 --> 00:34:36,520
Speaker 2: I am Dale Lolly. You're listening to the Drive here

749
00:34:36,560 --> 00:34:38,560
Speaker 2: on the Steelers Audio Network, Matt and now will be

750
00:34:38,600 --> 00:34:40,120
Speaker 2: back with more right after this.

751
00:34:45,719 --> 00:34:48,400
Speaker 1: In the least, He's the Drive with Dale Lolly and

752
00:34:48,440 --> 00:34:51,480
Speaker 1: Matt Williamson on your twenty four to seven Home of

753
00:34:51,520 --> 00:34:54,840
Speaker 1: the Black and Gold Steelers Nation Radio.

754
00:34:57,800 --> 00:35:00,440
Speaker 2: And we are back. I am Dale Lolly. He is

755
00:35:00,719 --> 00:35:05,040
Speaker 2: the Matt Williamson and Matt. When we were talking about

756
00:35:06,239 --> 00:35:10,319
Speaker 2: the Cowboys having four Thursday night games this year, well,

757
00:35:10,360 --> 00:35:12,759
Speaker 2: if you start doing the math, it doesn't quite work

758
00:35:12,840 --> 00:35:15,759
Speaker 2: out that everybody gets one. Yeah, it makes sense. There

759
00:35:15,760 --> 00:35:17,520
Speaker 2: are three teams this year that don't have a prime

760
00:35:17,520 --> 00:35:18,000
Speaker 2: time game.

761
00:35:18,760 --> 00:35:20,960
Speaker 3: Tennessee is one of them because the.

762
00:35:20,920 --> 00:35:23,880
Speaker 2: Titans, the Saints and Browns. So don't tell me that

763
00:35:23,920 --> 00:35:25,960
Speaker 2: the league doesn't have an idea of who's going to

764
00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:26,600
Speaker 2: be good and who's not.

765
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Speaker 3: I mean, those guys were all early picks. They don't

766
00:35:30,040 --> 00:35:33,279
Speaker 3: project to have great seasons, there's absolutely I mean, the

767
00:35:33,400 --> 00:35:36,120
Speaker 3: Chiefs weren't an accident that they have so many like that.

768
00:35:36,239 --> 00:35:38,759
Speaker 2: That tells me that TV is coming to them and saying, hey,

769
00:35:38,800 --> 00:35:41,120
Speaker 2: look right, I know it used to be that everybody

770
00:35:41,200 --> 00:35:44,359
Speaker 2: got a Thursday night game, but how about we not

771
00:35:44,520 --> 00:35:44,879
Speaker 2: do that.

772
00:35:45,640 --> 00:35:47,640
Speaker 3: I wouldn't mind not having a Thursday night game. I

773
00:35:47,719 --> 00:35:49,759
Speaker 3: mean I have to study those three teams schedule, but

774
00:35:50,520 --> 00:35:52,759
Speaker 3: Thursday night games, to me level the playing field a

775
00:35:52,760 --> 00:35:53,160
Speaker 3: little bit.

776
00:35:53,360 --> 00:35:56,320
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, I mean for the Browns, who they've hosted

777
00:35:56,320 --> 00:35:58,920
Speaker 2: the Steelers like three or four times now on Thursday nights,

778
00:35:59,239 --> 00:36:01,080
Speaker 2: because you're going to you got to try to get somebody.

779
00:36:01,280 --> 00:36:03,160
Speaker 2: How do you how else do you get people to

780
00:36:03,200 --> 00:36:05,600
Speaker 2: watch a Browns game nationally? Right? Right? You put them

781
00:36:05,640 --> 00:36:07,360
Speaker 2: against the Steelers, or you put them against somebody of

782
00:36:07,400 --> 00:36:10,319
Speaker 2: that ILK and you get eyeballs on it. But it's

783
00:36:10,360 --> 00:36:11,400
Speaker 2: not the best football.

784
00:36:12,160 --> 00:36:14,719
Speaker 3: Steelers help sell that a lot though. Yeah, and it's

785
00:36:14,719 --> 00:36:16,319
Speaker 3: a story drive and all that too.

786
00:36:16,480 --> 00:36:21,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, but no primetime games for the Titans, Saints and Browns. Yeah.

787
00:36:21,560 --> 00:36:24,319
Speaker 2: It goes back on actually, and not even a Thursday night.

788
00:36:24,320 --> 00:36:26,120
Speaker 2: It used to be everybody had a you know, back

789
00:36:26,160 --> 00:36:27,839
Speaker 2: in the day, everybody has to get a Monday night

790
00:36:27,880 --> 00:36:31,080
Speaker 2: game or Sunday night, and then it came everybody gets

791
00:36:31,120 --> 00:36:33,800
Speaker 2: a Thursday night game. Well, not anymore. No, not anymore.

792
00:36:34,040 --> 00:36:36,200
Speaker 3: And I kind of think it'd be better if everyone did

793
00:36:36,239 --> 00:36:39,120
Speaker 3: get a Thursday. But I get it if people don't

794
00:36:39,120 --> 00:36:41,120
Speaker 3: want to watch it, watch the Saints, right, I mean

795
00:36:41,160 --> 00:36:41,800
Speaker 3: of those things.

796
00:36:41,800 --> 00:36:44,440
Speaker 2: But last last year the Saints were on I think

797
00:36:44,440 --> 00:36:46,160
Speaker 2: it was a Thursday. It was a standalone game, I

798
00:36:46,200 --> 00:36:50,720
Speaker 2: know that, And it was Rattler in his first career start. Yeah,

799
00:36:50,760 --> 00:36:51,399
Speaker 2: that was rough.

800
00:36:51,640 --> 00:36:54,120
Speaker 3: I mean there was a lot of those AFC South

801
00:36:54,200 --> 00:36:56,840
Speaker 3: games where it was like Jags when they're bad against

802
00:36:57,080 --> 00:37:01,000
Speaker 3: Matt Ryan l Colts on Thursday nights, or Derrick Henry

803
00:37:01,080 --> 00:37:03,279
Speaker 3: just running all over the whole division on Thursday night.

804
00:37:03,400 --> 00:37:05,759
Speaker 3: You know, Yeah, it's it's not that great to watch,

805
00:37:05,880 --> 00:37:06,600
Speaker 3: it really isn't.

806
00:37:06,800 --> 00:37:08,920
Speaker 2: So it's a it's the Titans, the Saints and the Browns,

807
00:37:09,719 --> 00:37:14,040
Speaker 2: and the Browns only have one standalone game, that being

808
00:37:14,080 --> 00:37:20,120
Speaker 2: their London game, oh okay, which they're the home standalone game.

809
00:37:20,719 --> 00:37:23,200
Speaker 3: Outside of that, the Titans that SATs pably don't have anything.

810
00:37:23,560 --> 00:37:26,200
Speaker 2: The Browns have two games that do not start at

811
00:37:26,200 --> 00:37:27,760
Speaker 2: one o'clock. Wow.

812
00:37:27,960 --> 00:37:29,439
Speaker 3: That says kind of all you need to know about

813
00:37:29,440 --> 00:37:32,439
Speaker 3: the organization. And they were starting to build some momentum

814
00:37:32,480 --> 00:37:34,799
Speaker 3: in terms of this time last year they had like

815
00:37:34,800 --> 00:37:37,440
Speaker 3: an eight and a half win total. Yeah, you know, Ninemore.

816
00:37:37,680 --> 00:37:40,279
Speaker 2: No, there were people last year picking them to finish

817
00:37:40,280 --> 00:37:42,719
Speaker 2: ahead of the Steelers. Remember the finished fourth in the

818
00:37:42,760 --> 00:37:44,480
Speaker 2: division last year? Widely?

819
00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:49,839
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean pick second in the draft, and yeah,

820
00:37:50,560 --> 00:37:53,600
Speaker 3: pick first and second and what eighth for those teams?

821
00:37:53,640 --> 00:37:55,600
Speaker 2: You know. Yeah, I just look worse this year, especially

822
00:37:55,640 --> 00:37:58,920
Speaker 2: New Orleans. I wonder in terms of the bottom line,

823
00:38:00,120 --> 00:38:03,160
Speaker 2: teams draw better for night games? Do they? Is it?

824
00:38:03,280 --> 00:38:03,600
Speaker 2: Do they?

825
00:38:04,320 --> 00:38:08,919
Speaker 3: I don't know about attendance, I mean, less kids go

826
00:38:09,719 --> 00:38:10,279
Speaker 3: things like that.

827
00:38:10,360 --> 00:38:12,960
Speaker 2: Do you sell more adult beverages in I mean, I

828
00:38:13,040 --> 00:38:16,600
Speaker 2: don't know, I don't I don't know financials, Like does

829
00:38:16,640 --> 00:38:19,000
Speaker 2: this hurt them in the pocketbook by not having.

830
00:38:20,560 --> 00:38:21,200
Speaker 3: A home game?

831
00:38:21,239 --> 00:38:22,680
Speaker 2: I think you'd like to have the national You like

832
00:38:22,719 --> 00:38:25,640
Speaker 2: your your Oh yeah, you'd like your fans nationally to

833
00:38:25,680 --> 00:38:26,919
Speaker 2: be able to see your team play.

834
00:38:27,960 --> 00:38:30,960
Speaker 3: And obviously there's services now you can find it anywhere.

835
00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:34,680
Speaker 3: But yes, I think every team wants to host a

836
00:38:34,880 --> 00:38:39,200
Speaker 3: primetime game. Whether you sell more beers and chips and stuff,

837
00:38:39,239 --> 00:38:44,880
Speaker 3: I don't know, but or more tickets now.

838
00:38:44,920 --> 00:38:48,520
Speaker 2: That I don't know, even tickets are probably similar. Yeah,

839
00:38:48,680 --> 00:38:51,000
Speaker 2: but again to your point, who's going to those games

840
00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:52,080
Speaker 2: is a little different. It's definitely that.

841
00:38:52,120 --> 00:38:54,000
Speaker 3: Well, the environment's different too, and they've been drinking all

842
00:38:54,080 --> 00:38:56,600
Speaker 3: day and stuff like that too. But does that mean

843
00:38:56,960 --> 00:38:58,920
Speaker 3: you drink all you drink and eat the whole time

844
00:38:58,960 --> 00:39:02,719
Speaker 3: you're in there, or dinner before as many seats full that?

845
00:39:02,840 --> 00:39:06,040
Speaker 2: I don't know speaking of of that, the Steelers are

846
00:39:06,200 --> 00:39:10,000
Speaker 2: or any The second said yesterday they'll unveil for the

847
00:39:10,000 --> 00:39:13,640
Speaker 2: Green Bay game, the night game, new throwback uniforms.

848
00:39:13,840 --> 00:39:16,280
Speaker 3: Oh really, I didn't catch that news. Okay, so it'll

849
00:39:16,320 --> 00:39:18,680
Speaker 3: be a little different. They'll have their their new throwbacks.

850
00:39:18,880 --> 00:39:20,279
Speaker 3: I think they're gonna we've never seen this.

851
00:39:20,320 --> 00:39:23,880
Speaker 2: They're gonna unveil those sometime in the summertime, sometime in July,

852
00:39:23,960 --> 00:39:26,600
Speaker 2: I believe, maybe the August training camp kind of thing.

853
00:39:26,640 --> 00:39:28,799
Speaker 2: But they come out for the Packer game. Yeah.

854
00:39:29,160 --> 00:39:33,759
Speaker 3: So interesting, also too old story franchise franchises and the

855
00:39:33,840 --> 00:39:35,760
Speaker 3: Roger connections interesting of course.

856
00:39:36,320 --> 00:39:39,560
Speaker 2: Yeah. I have no idea what the new throwbacks are

857
00:39:39,560 --> 00:39:41,720
Speaker 2: going to look like, but they'd have a long history

858
00:39:41,719 --> 00:39:43,839
Speaker 2: of from which to choose, so.

859
00:39:43,920 --> 00:39:46,400
Speaker 3: Is having The Packers will also wear something that's not

860
00:39:46,520 --> 00:39:49,279
Speaker 3: their usual I don't know that Yeah, I don't know

861
00:39:49,280 --> 00:39:51,160
Speaker 3: how that works because they used to be throwback games

862
00:39:51,239 --> 00:39:53,200
Speaker 3: or it was like old one versus Old one. Yeah,

863
00:39:53,360 --> 00:39:54,799
Speaker 3: but I don't know if the Packers will wear their

864
00:39:54,880 --> 00:39:55,880
Speaker 3: usual uniforms or not.

865
00:39:56,560 --> 00:39:59,960
Speaker 2: I like those better than color rushes, like the throwbacks

866
00:40:00,120 --> 00:40:02,520
Speaker 2: better than Color Rush. Some of the Color Rush color

867
00:40:02,560 --> 00:40:05,919
Speaker 2: rushes could be too much like Seattle's Color Rush uniforms

868
00:40:05,960 --> 00:40:08,919
Speaker 2: are unwatchable.

869
00:40:09,040 --> 00:40:11,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a funny story. My my brother in law,

870
00:40:11,719 --> 00:40:14,319
Speaker 3: who is a very very casual fan to be kind

871
00:40:14,560 --> 00:40:14,920
Speaker 3: kind of.

872
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Speaker 2: Watches the Steelers.

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Speaker 3: He was over our place on a Thursday night one

874
00:40:19,040 --> 00:40:21,400
Speaker 3: time and it was a color Rush night, and it

875
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Speaker 3: was he is red green, color blind, and it was

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Speaker 3: Jets versus Bills, who were who were red top to

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Speaker 3: bottom and green top to bottom. And he really had

878
00:40:33,320 --> 00:40:35,120
Speaker 3: no clue, which was either.

879
00:40:34,920 --> 00:40:36,880
Speaker 2: They got it, they got it, they got it right.

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00:40:36,920 --> 00:40:39,600
Speaker 3: They all looked exactly the same through his eyes, you know,

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Speaker 3: which is pretty crazy.

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00:40:40,600 --> 00:40:40,759
Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I got to kick out of it. Not that

884
00:40:42,400 --> 00:40:44,440
Speaker 3: he cared that much, but I mean it was kind.

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Speaker 2: Of I mean, I get the idea of the color

886
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Speaker 2: Rush uniform.

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Speaker 3: And you also can't tell if it's a red light

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00:40:48,480 --> 00:40:50,759
Speaker 3: or a green light which one, well, you know which

889
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Speaker 3: one's on top.

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Speaker 2: But they're not the same to him. But like the Seattle,

891
00:40:55,280 --> 00:40:57,000
Speaker 2: the Seattle color rushes to me and.

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00:40:57,160 --> 00:41:00,319
Speaker 3: It's too much, right, It's like Oregon almost said air

893
00:41:00,360 --> 00:41:00,840
Speaker 3: of the country.

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00:41:00,920 --> 00:41:03,000
Speaker 2: I guess, so like their I don't love the color

895
00:41:03,320 --> 00:41:06,439
Speaker 2: highlighter colors. Yeah, yeah, but it's tough to watch. It's

896
00:41:06,480 --> 00:41:08,799
Speaker 2: like watching it's like watching a Boise State game when

897
00:41:08,800 --> 00:41:09,799
Speaker 2: they had the blue field.

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00:41:09,600 --> 00:41:12,279
Speaker 3: The blue smurf turfic just looks weird. Yeah, but I

899
00:41:12,320 --> 00:41:15,880
Speaker 3: bet the Packers. Steelers will be not bland, but a

900
00:41:15,880 --> 00:41:19,239
Speaker 3: little more nineteen forty ish. That's what I'm envisioning, more.

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00:41:19,120 --> 00:41:21,279
Speaker 2: Of a contemporary throwback. I wonder if they just go

902
00:41:21,320 --> 00:41:24,359
Speaker 2: block letters. I don't know, okay. Or what were their

903
00:41:24,440 --> 00:41:27,760
Speaker 2: jerseys when they met in the Super Bowl. I don't remember.

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Speaker 2: I'm just again, I'm not a jersey guy, just not

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00:41:31,400 --> 00:41:33,680
Speaker 2: at all. Yeah, right, I mean I knew the bumblebees.

906
00:41:33,920 --> 00:41:36,239
Speaker 3: They're hard to mess, hard to miss.

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Speaker 2: Anyways, that's going to do it for our number one

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Speaker 2: of the drive here on the Steelers Radio network. Matt

909
00:41:44,320 --> 00:41:46,719
Speaker 2: and I will be back with our number two right

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Speaker 2: after this