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Speaker 1: Good afternoon, Steelers Nation Top of the morning to you,

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Speaker 1: perhaps and here from the top of Fitzsimmons Temple Bar

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Speaker 1: in Dublin, Ireland.

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Speaker 2: It's Wes mculler and Matt o' williamson with you here

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Speaker 2: today on Steelers Nation Radio and maybe for the weekend.

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Speaker 1: As we have picked this thing up and moved it

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Speaker 1: on the road, I'm sure you will hear the crowd

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Speaker 1: screaming and yelling behind us at points.

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Speaker 2: Matt, this has been chaos.

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Speaker 3: It has been absolute chaos.

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Speaker 4: And amazingly this is somewhat sparse crowd and it's still

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Speaker 4: insane and lying out the window and you could actually

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Speaker 4: walk a little bit.

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Speaker 3: But I mean it has been insane.

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Speaker 4: A million wonderful fans have come up to us, you know,

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Speaker 4: since we've been sitting here and I was here for

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Speaker 4: the morning show doing a hit with them.

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Speaker 3: You were too. I guess you did a Guinness tour.

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Speaker 1: We will absolutely talk about that at some point. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: but yeah, it's just been it's just been absolute chaos.

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Speaker 1: As we as we get off and running here. It

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Speaker 1: is everywhere you go in this town right.

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Speaker 2: Now, Matt. It's black and gold, it really is.

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Speaker 1: I mean, people wearing Steeler garb everywhere, the so many

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Speaker 1: of the different bars and establishments here, Steeler's logos, Steelers flags.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the building like the official one, but.

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Speaker 2: We are yeah, we are Yeah. Fitzsimmons Temple bar is.

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Speaker 3: The Simons fit Simon's Yeah right.

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Speaker 2: There was a mess that up a few times.

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Speaker 3: There was a big morning show sticking point they were

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Speaker 3: fighting about.

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Speaker 1: Yeah Simon, Yes, exactly right, Fitzsimon's here, and you literally

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Speaker 1: can't miss it because it has gotten massive.

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Speaker 2: You're in Steelers.

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Speaker 1: Country, banners hanging all over the place, and we are

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Speaker 1: about what four thousand miles three thousand some miles away

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Speaker 1: from Pittsburgh. But Matt, with these people, man, everywhere is

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Speaker 1: Steeler's Country.

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Speaker 2: It's crazy, it is.

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Speaker 4: And it's been an absolute blast. Now, I will say

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Speaker 4: yesterday we pull that curtain. You and I got here

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Speaker 4: seven am Irish time, more or less is when we landed.

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Speaker 4: Took us a while to get to our hotel, all

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Speaker 4: those type of things, and then we hung out all day,

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Speaker 4: you know, and put down some Guinness, did a show

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Speaker 4: and they did some stuff blah blah blah, and I

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Speaker 4: saw very few Vikings fans on Thursday they're starting to

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Speaker 4: show up though, well they're starting to show up and

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Speaker 4: they're noisy. I mean they're a little wound up. But

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Speaker 4: the ratio is still five to one Steelers. I mean

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Speaker 4: it's crazy.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it absolutely is.

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Speaker 1: And in fact, while the DV morning show was broadcasting,

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Speaker 1: there were one or two Vikings fans that walked in

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Speaker 1: here and got promptly booed by everybody. Yeah, so we'll

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Speaker 1: see if that happens again here over the next couple

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Speaker 1: hours while we are hanging out. But yeah, man, so

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Speaker 1: much to get into, both with the atmosphere and everything

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Speaker 1: going on here, and of course with the football game

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Speaker 1: that we have to get to as well too, Matt.

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Speaker 1: But I just you know, we went to what we

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Speaker 1: not myself and dan quinlan are are our you know,

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Speaker 1: Steelers broadcast producer went to Croke Park yesterday.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, and that's it.

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Speaker 1: Hereby it he had such a cool setting. I mean

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Speaker 1: it stadium was built in the eighteen hundreds. I mean

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Speaker 1: it is literally hundreds of years old, and now it's

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Speaker 1: been renovated and remodeled and all that kind of stuff, right,

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Speaker 2: Of times since then.

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Speaker 1: But it it kind of has the feel of one

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Speaker 1: of those old school like cathedral type stadiums. It holds

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Speaker 1: eighty some thousand people. Wow, and the gills it will

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Speaker 1: be packed to the gills. And it's not one of

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Speaker 1: these new modern age it's fancy, and there's video boards

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Speaker 2: Like it is just a football ground, a football pitch. Uh.

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Speaker 1: The the grass looks beautiful. The end zones are all painted.

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Speaker 1: There are as you can imagine there's some Vikings signage

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Speaker 1: and stuff like that. You know, NFL Dublin game, and

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Speaker 1: it's got both teams logos, but it's a Steeler home game,

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Speaker 1: and they're also trying to make it feel like a

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Speaker 3: Black and really that extreme. I've been one game.

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Speaker 1: I've been told Renegade is on the playlist, so it's

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Speaker 1: it's it's going to be quite the scene.

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Speaker 3: A home game only inane. Yeah.

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Speaker 4: I mean, I thought one end zone would say Steelers,

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Speaker 4: one wan say Viking, right or whatever, you know. I mean,

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Speaker 3: Go to that level of steelering it up. And that's

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Speaker 1: It absolutely is and you know, it's it's this is

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Speaker 1: something Matt, you know, not like it's you're not being hyperbolic,

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Speaker 1: like you're not exaggerating to say that this is something

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Speaker 1: that's been decades in the works for the Steelers, decades

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Speaker 1: in the works for the Rooney family, and you can,

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Speaker 1: I mean you can feel it. I think as soon

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Speaker 1: as as soon as we landed yesterday, you know, there

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Speaker 3: In Steelers gear, right.

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Speaker 1: And there's and there's Steeler stuff all throughout the Dublin

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Speaker 3: Steeler balloons or actually Viking balloons too.

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Speaker 1: There were there were a little bit of Viking lit,

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Speaker 1: a little bit of like you said, it's a it's

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Speaker 1: they're definitely here and they're part of this too. It's

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Speaker 1: a you know, it's the first NFL game and they're

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Speaker 1: part of it as well. That's obviously a big deal.

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Speaker 1: But man, so many people that we've talked to, you know,

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Speaker 1: this is something they've been planning for years, something they've

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Speaker 1: been waiting for. We just talked to Mark Brunner you know,

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Speaker 1: he played in the preseason game back in nineteen ninety

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Speaker 2: Oh wow, you know, and now he's works for the team.

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Speaker 1: Obviously his son is on the team, he gets a

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Speaker 1: chance to play here. It's just a it's a culmination

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Speaker 1: of a lot of years, a lot of decades of

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Speaker 4: And obviously starting with the Rooney family connection, I mean

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Speaker 4: the fact the fact that you know, the the Ambassador

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Speaker 2: Was literally the Ambassador.

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Speaker 4: That's not just a cool nickname, right, And some of

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Speaker 4: the Rooney's I've spoken to have come over here their

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Speaker 4: whole life, and you know DMR Mister Rooney would bring

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Speaker 3: And you know, Jimmy Rooney's been on.

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Speaker 4: And so obviously that's where it starts, but it's sort

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Speaker 4: of doesn't end with all these incredible fans and people

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Speaker 4: I can't imagine what Saturdays will look like. And Sunday

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Speaker 1: And I think there's a lot of people too, obviously.

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Speaker 1: I know there's a lot of people that made a

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Speaker 1: You can already feel it ramping up on Friday. From

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna shift here and get myself out of the sunlight. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: as we're up here on the air.

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Speaker 3: Your shield me yesterday.

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Speaker 1: Yesterday, we gotta we gotta move and shake with the

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Speaker 3: And the weather's been awesome, by the way, everyone's talking

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Speaker 1: But still some lady that I talked to last night,

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Speaker 1: Pittsburgh and Doublin are very similar in that regard usually,

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Speaker 1: But yeah, it just you feel it ramping up in

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Speaker 2: Now, I think there's a lot of people.

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Speaker 1: There's obviously a ton of Steelers fans in Dublin, but

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Speaker 2: Ireland right now. Agreed that are doing different.

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Speaker 1: You know, tourist countryside I've talked to today.

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Speaker 4: We're like, okay, we did a London vacation and now

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Speaker 4: some folks that were here from Germany that was a

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Speaker 3: That was super cool to talk to.

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Speaker 4: And you know, even like all anyone that's a fan

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Speaker 2: From far near they sure are.

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Speaker 2: Or three years, so they're here for it as well too.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, like you, like you said, everybody is everybody

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Speaker 1: has taken part in this, and Steeler Nation is not

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Speaker 2: They're here to take over. They really have to. And

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Speaker 2: it's it's incredible.

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Speaker 1: From the airport to the hotels, to the bars, anywhere

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Speaker 2: Right now, there's Steeler gear.

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Speaker 1: There was black and gold everywhere, terrible towels everywhere. Matt,

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Speaker 1: there's a Steelers pro shop here in Dublin now, like

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Speaker 3: Think there's a Vikings one too, and an NFL one.

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Speaker 1: There are, but I think they're planning on keeping the

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Speaker 1: Steelers one long like that. I don't know if it's indefinite,

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Speaker 1: you know what I mean, but I think it's planning

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Speaker 2: It's not just a pop up for you know, for

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Speaker 4: I mean, think about how many fans will be created

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Speaker 4: this weekend from around here. I mean, like even like

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Speaker 4: my Uber drivers I've had great conversations with because the

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Speaker 4: several young men that have taken me back and forth

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Speaker 4: from the hotel to here, they see my Steeler gear

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Speaker 4: and like you're here for this game, you know, like

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Speaker 4: they don't even know what foot. They didn't say football,

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Speaker 4: like they didn't even know like this this game. And

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Speaker 4: I'm like, yeah, I'm with the team. And they're like, well,

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Speaker 4: what's that mean? You know, like all these questions, and

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Speaker 3: Just too many people in town.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and Sundays it's going to be too crowded, you know,

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Speaker 4: like they had nothing to do with it. But then

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Speaker 1: It's the Drive from Fitzsimon's temple bar here.

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Speaker 2: Bigger picture for you.

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Speaker 1: But if you could pick one thing for the Steelers

444
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Speaker 1: that gets moving in the right direction on Sunday, what

445
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Speaker 1: would it be.

446
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Speaker 4: I think it's easy. It's a run game. To me

447
00:18:39,720 --> 00:18:43,640
Speaker 4: that has me most concerned. I like what Warren has done,

448
00:18:44,440 --> 00:18:47,520
Speaker 4: but he's about the only one or in the whole

449
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Speaker 4: big scope of it all that I'm kind of happy

450
00:18:50,119 --> 00:18:52,600
Speaker 4: with in the run game in general, and we know

451
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Speaker 4: that that's not a quick fix and that's going to

452
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Speaker 4: be a long term thing. But I think they have

453
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Speaker 4: to start running the ball with some consistency. You know,

454
00:19:01,640 --> 00:19:04,439
Speaker 4: we talk about a lot about going to the doctor

455
00:19:04,480 --> 00:19:07,439
Speaker 4: with symptoms, et cetera. And there's a symptom that is

456
00:19:07,720 --> 00:19:09,920
Speaker 4: hurting me at the moment, and that's time of possession.

457
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Speaker 4: You know, you can't be you know, thirty is fifty

458
00:19:13,600 --> 00:19:15,719
Speaker 4: to fifty. Of course they're thirty thirty, but right, I mean,

459
00:19:16,080 --> 00:19:18,800
Speaker 4: too many games have been in twenty six, twenty seven.

460
00:19:18,880 --> 00:19:21,200
Speaker 4: That doesn't sound like much, but that's so many first

461
00:19:21,240 --> 00:19:24,560
Speaker 4: downs and so much wear and tear on these guys' bodies.

462
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Speaker 4: And this team over the last few years is definitely

463
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Speaker 4: at their best when they're thirty three, you know, controlling

464
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Speaker 4: the clock. And I'll give Rogers and Arthur Smith a

465
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Speaker 4: lot of credit too in that, even though they're not

466
00:19:39,840 --> 00:19:42,680
Speaker 4: running the ball well and the time of possession isn't

467
00:19:42,760 --> 00:19:46,399
Speaker 4: been great, they are the short passing game is.

468
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Speaker 3: Replaced at to some degree.

469
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Speaker 4: And I don't think we've mentioned this, but this probably

470
00:19:51,320 --> 00:19:54,200
Speaker 4: will shock people that the Steelers have the most yards

471
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Speaker 4: after the catch in the entire league. Now, some of

472
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Speaker 4: that's good and some that's bad. Right, A lot of

473
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Speaker 4: it's shal and a lot of throws add her behind

474
00:20:02,520 --> 00:20:04,960
Speaker 4: the line of scrimmage, which basically are long hand scenes.

475
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Speaker 1: Some of that from DK Metcalf too, has taken little

476
00:20:08,000 --> 00:20:11,400
Speaker 1: you know, little bubble rounds, little break a tackle, break

477
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Speaker 1: a tackle down the sideline.

478
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Speaker 4: Yeah, so that part's good in that it will eat

479
00:20:16,040 --> 00:20:19,480
Speaker 4: clock for you. They're easy, uh completions, you know, you're

480
00:20:19,520 --> 00:20:22,760
Speaker 4: you should be able to manufacture some time of possession

481
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Speaker 4: in that way.

482
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Speaker 3: And you know, but it's not the physicality of it all.

483
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Speaker 4: It's not just handing the ball and getting four yards

484
00:20:32,200 --> 00:20:35,440
Speaker 4: and being able to count on it and have that

485
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Speaker 4: that bar set a little bit higher where I know

486
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Speaker 4: I can at least rely on a consistent running game,

487
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Speaker 4: you know.

488
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Speaker 3: And it's been really far from that.

489
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Speaker 1: No, it hasn't even been like, hey, it's been all right,

490
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Speaker 1: we just need to improve, we need to get higher.

491
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Speaker 1: It's a it's been like a failure, failure launched through

492
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Speaker 1: the three games so far. Yeah, you're right, and and

493
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Speaker 1: that to me is like I'm with you. I I think,

494
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Speaker 1: you know, we both did hits with the with the

495
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Speaker 1: DV morning show, uh this morning here at the at

496
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Speaker 1: the Temple Bar. And that's one of the things, like

497
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Speaker 1: Randy asked me, you know, what's the what's the biggest

498
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Speaker 1: key to the game on Sunday in your mind? And

499
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Speaker 1: I was like, my answer is going to be the

500
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Speaker 1: same for a few weeks, and that's the Steelers run

501
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Speaker 1: game until we see it. And I think, you you know,

502
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Speaker 1: going into last year, I think so too. Going into

503
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Speaker 1: last week. I think that there was a little bit

504
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Speaker 1: of you know, both sides of the ball in the

505
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Speaker 1: run game.

506
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Speaker 2: I do think though the defense has shown improvement vastly

507
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Speaker 2: big time.

508
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think hard to trust that.

509
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Speaker 1: I'm starting to think, okay, they just need a little

510
00:21:35,880 --> 00:21:38,640
Speaker 1: time some of that. They needed to get Derek Harmon back,

511
00:21:38,680 --> 00:21:40,240
Speaker 1: they needed to get y a Black up to speed,

512
00:21:40,320 --> 00:21:42,280
Speaker 1: they needed to figure out what their best you know,

513
00:21:42,359 --> 00:21:46,080
Speaker 1: base rotation was going to be, and all those different things.

514
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Speaker 3: Yeah, the run fits are better. I mean, they're was

515
00:21:52,760 --> 00:21:55,280
Speaker 3: not himself in week one, but what a difference he makes.

516
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Speaker 4: From now that he's back, which didn't really even worry

517
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Speaker 4: me in week one, but it did raise an eyebrow.

518
00:22:01,080 --> 00:22:04,000
Speaker 1: It did, it did, and I think again that's you're

519
00:22:04,040 --> 00:22:07,320
Speaker 1: starting to feel better certainly in that department. But for

520
00:22:07,359 --> 00:22:09,640
Speaker 1: the Steelers, for their offensive line, for their run game,

521
00:22:10,280 --> 00:22:13,800
Speaker 1: it's still plenty to be desired. There is still a

522
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Speaker 1: need to start to show some of that improvement. It

523
00:22:16,920 --> 00:22:20,359
Speaker 1: doesn't have to be all of sudden great, but it

524
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Speaker 1: needs to be better than it was in one week two,

525
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Speaker 1: and better than it wasn't week two, Week three and onward.

526
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Speaker 1: How does Minnesota's defense kind of stack up in that

527
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Speaker 1: regard for the Steelers then, is this a potential opportunity

528
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Speaker 1: They faced some really talented fronts early on in the season.

529
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Speaker 1: Is this a potential opportunity to find some footing or

530
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Speaker 1: do you think it's gonna be another tough task on Sunday.

531
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Speaker 4: So this defense is harder to project than any and

532
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Speaker 4: that's by design. Flores is a mad scientist. He sometimes

533
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Speaker 4: I think he just rolls the dice up in the

534
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Speaker 4: booth and whatever pops up is boom.

535
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Speaker 3: I'm gonna make that call because.

536
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Speaker 4: They're highly highly unpredictable and they do highly unorthodox stuff

537
00:23:03,640 --> 00:23:08,639
Speaker 4: across the board. But he's gonna have themes like everybody else,

538
00:23:08,720 --> 00:23:11,640
Speaker 4: and I would assume it is, Hey, if you can

539
00:23:11,720 --> 00:23:14,640
Speaker 4: protect and beat us downfield, I'll live with it. Because

540
00:23:14,640 --> 00:23:16,600
Speaker 4: the Steelers haven't pushed the ball down the field really either.

541
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Speaker 4: You know, it'd be different if it's like, can't run

542
00:23:18,320 --> 00:23:20,919
Speaker 4: but you're getting explosives over the top, or you know,

543
00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:23,960
Speaker 4: teams are so afraid of metcalf An Austin beating that

544
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Speaker 4: they're just facing all these light boxes or things like that.

545
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Speaker 4: So I do want to bring this part up though,

546
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Speaker 4: is I wouldn't imagine the Steelers. Why said it's more

547
00:23:34,960 --> 00:23:38,840
Speaker 4: important is because this team rushes a passer really well,

548
00:23:39,200 --> 00:23:43,840
Speaker 4: and it's a young offensive line Roderck Jones in particular.

549
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Speaker 4: But I bet both tackles they're going to try to

550
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Speaker 4: put in conflict with their blitz packages.

551
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Speaker 3: I mean, they're highly exotic. Do I have this guy?

552
00:23:51,240 --> 00:23:51,960
Speaker 3: Do I have that guy?

553
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Speaker 4: Well, okay, I'm dedicating myself to this one, but then

554
00:23:54,520 --> 00:23:55,720
Speaker 4: here the other one's coming free.

555
00:23:55,800 --> 00:23:59,760
Speaker 3: You know, like sometimes there's no right answer. Twists and stunts,

556
00:24:00,560 --> 00:24:04,119
Speaker 3: zone blitzes and you know, really weird exchange concepts they

557
00:24:04,200 --> 00:24:06,840
Speaker 3: do that just you just don't see very much and

558
00:24:06,840 --> 00:24:09,840
Speaker 3: they're probably hard to replicate. In practice as well.

559
00:24:09,960 --> 00:24:13,520
Speaker 4: Sure, so I would think that the Steelers really want

560
00:24:13,600 --> 00:24:16,560
Speaker 4: to stay out a third and longs and you know

561
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Speaker 4: all that the conflict that they put the their blockers in,

562
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Speaker 4: and we know Rogers doesn't move great compared to other

563
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Speaker 4: NFL quarterbators.

564
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Speaker 3: You know, people getting mombed up over here.

565
00:24:27,320 --> 00:24:29,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, we got some people screaming and yelling and there's

566
00:24:29,480 --> 00:24:30,199
Speaker 2: been plenty of that.

567
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Speaker 3: So so my concern is, like mountain, go mountaineers.

568
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Speaker 2: I know some of us have seen me in here.

569
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Speaker 2: We're everywhere too, Matt.

570
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Speaker 3: I've heard.

571
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Speaker 4: So I think it is more important. I think you

572
00:24:39,800 --> 00:24:41,280
Speaker 4: can get away with it a little bit through the

573
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Speaker 4: first three weeks. Okay, the running game hasn't been great.

574
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Speaker 4: Rogers has bailed you out a little bit. Takeaways on defense,

575
00:24:47,280 --> 00:24:49,879
Speaker 4: big plays on defense have bailed you out a TONI

576
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Speaker 4: I don't know if you'll be able to get away

577
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Speaker 4: without being at least productive on the ground in this game.

578
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Speaker 2: You know, this to me is yet you're absolutely right.

579
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Speaker 2: Minnesota is going to be buttoned up.

580
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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, you know, New England like don't.

581
00:25:00,359 --> 00:25:01,040
Speaker 2: I don't want to say.

582
00:25:01,200 --> 00:25:02,120
Speaker 3: They're a work in progress.

583
00:25:02,119 --> 00:25:04,680
Speaker 2: They're a work in progress. They're they're they're starting over.

584
00:25:04,840 --> 00:25:07,919
Speaker 3: Even coaching staff, a lot of new bodies, not super.

585
00:25:07,680 --> 00:25:08,920
Speaker 2: Town second year quarterback.

586
00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:11,760
Speaker 1: Yeah, and even the Jets as well too, new coach,

587
00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:13,040
Speaker 1: first year quarterbacks.

588
00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:17,560
Speaker 2: Actually, you know, like, yeah, this is a team in Minnesota.

589
00:25:17,680 --> 00:25:20,120
Speaker 1: Now, we'll talk about the quarterback situation for them here

590
00:25:20,160 --> 00:25:21,240
Speaker 1: as well too at some point.

591
00:25:21,720 --> 00:25:23,800
Speaker 2: But they're a team that has continuity.

592
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Speaker 5: You know.

593
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Speaker 1: They have not had a ton of turnover on their

594
00:25:26,560 --> 00:25:28,800
Speaker 1: coaching staff, they have not had a ton of turnover

595
00:25:29,240 --> 00:25:32,520
Speaker 1: on their roster. They won fourteen games last year. And yeah,

596
00:25:32,560 --> 00:25:35,680
Speaker 1: and and we're pretty stinking good. This is a week

597
00:25:35,720 --> 00:25:37,600
Speaker 1: for me. The Steelers have to be buttoned up, like

598
00:25:37,640 --> 00:25:42,080
Speaker 1: they just they just have to. They They cannot, i think,

599
00:25:42,200 --> 00:25:46,840
Speaker 1: expect to win in the margins maybe like like they've

600
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Speaker 1: been able to there.

601
00:25:48,680 --> 00:25:51,440
Speaker 2: They're gonna have to line up and make plays and.

602
00:25:52,560 --> 00:25:53,719
Speaker 3: Wine more consistently.

603
00:25:53,800 --> 00:25:56,960
Speaker 1: Down Right, The x's and o's are certainly going to

604
00:25:57,000 --> 00:25:59,159
Speaker 1: be a big factor, but just so simply are there

605
00:25:59,240 --> 00:25:59,920
Speaker 1: Jimmy's and Joe.

606
00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:02,400
Speaker 2: It's like they just need to win Joe.

607
00:26:02,480 --> 00:26:04,400
Speaker 1: They need to win their one on one battles. They

608
00:26:04,440 --> 00:26:08,440
Speaker 1: need to you know, not just wait for the turnover,

609
00:26:08,640 --> 00:26:11,480
Speaker 1: wait for the big play. There's gotta be some consistency

610
00:26:11,520 --> 00:26:13,040
Speaker 1: for sixty minutes there as well too.

611
00:26:13,200 --> 00:26:16,040
Speaker 4: Yeah, I couldn't agree more. And again, I think that

612
00:26:16,160 --> 00:26:18,199
Speaker 4: always starts with your run game. Yeah, I mean, it

613
00:26:18,320 --> 00:26:21,840
Speaker 4: just raises the floor. I'm a big believer that good

614
00:26:21,920 --> 00:26:25,120
Speaker 4: run games travel, And obviously this is a home game

615
00:26:25,160 --> 00:26:28,160
Speaker 4: and name and by the looks of them around us,

616
00:26:28,160 --> 00:26:29,480
Speaker 4: gonna be somewhat of a home game.

617
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Speaker 3: But it's still a weird environment. And you know.

618
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Speaker 2: Your furthest will travel for a game all season.

619
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a home game indeed.

620
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Speaker 4: And I just think that if you don't run the

621
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Speaker 4: ball well, you're gonna be dealing with a lot of weird,

622
00:26:41,680 --> 00:26:46,000
Speaker 4: exotic pressures and probably big plays happening for the wrong team, you.

623
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Speaker 1: Know, exactly right, And that's something Minnesota has a knack for. Yes,

624
00:26:49,800 --> 00:26:51,840
Speaker 1: they are you know, you give them an inch, they'll

625
00:26:51,840 --> 00:26:54,600
Speaker 1: take a mile. And it, I tell you what is

626
00:26:55,119 --> 00:26:59,200
Speaker 1: certainly a test, Like the Steelers have played some good

627
00:26:59,200 --> 00:27:02,080
Speaker 1: teams early on New York right out of the gate

628
00:27:02,119 --> 00:27:04,320
Speaker 1: with what Justin Fields can do was a test. Yeah,

629
00:27:04,440 --> 00:27:06,600
Speaker 1: I think you and I both think now that Seattle

630
00:27:06,680 --> 00:27:08,439
Speaker 1: is going to be one of the more surprising teams

631
00:27:08,480 --> 00:27:10,880
Speaker 1: in the NFL this year, and that's a pretty good team.

632
00:27:11,119 --> 00:27:12,720
Speaker 3: They're having a heck of a year already.

633
00:27:12,880 --> 00:27:14,960
Speaker 1: Drake May was a test what he can what he

634
00:27:14,960 --> 00:27:16,280
Speaker 1: can do with his legs, what he can do with

635
00:27:16,320 --> 00:27:19,320
Speaker 1: his arm, and New England has some talented guys on

636
00:27:19,400 --> 00:27:21,960
Speaker 1: defense as well too. Certainly, but I think this is

637
00:27:22,160 --> 00:27:24,480
Speaker 1: by far the best team the Steelers have played so

638
00:27:24,560 --> 00:27:28,480
Speaker 1: far this season. Yeah, we might, maybe Seattle might change.

639
00:27:28,240 --> 00:27:30,120
Speaker 4: Our mind a month and now and be like Seattle

640
00:27:30,280 --> 00:27:33,520
Speaker 4: ahead of them in the NFC. Maybe we'll see, But

641
00:27:33,880 --> 00:27:36,160
Speaker 4: certainly the team that had the best year last year.

642
00:27:36,840 --> 00:27:39,680
Speaker 4: I mean, guys like Justin Jefferson are phenomenal player. I

643
00:27:39,680 --> 00:27:42,240
Speaker 4: mean like they have some star power that I can't

644
00:27:42,520 --> 00:27:46,880
Speaker 4: speak enough about. Both their offense and defensive coaching staffs

645
00:27:46,960 --> 00:27:49,600
Speaker 4: are about as good a pairing as you'll see in

646
00:27:49,640 --> 00:27:52,280
Speaker 4: this league in terms of the respect they do, how

647
00:27:52,280 --> 00:27:55,320
Speaker 4: innovative they are getting the most out of their players.

648
00:27:55,880 --> 00:27:59,080
Speaker 4: This is gonna sound disrespectful, but I think it's absolutely opposite.

649
00:27:59,240 --> 00:28:02,280
Speaker 4: Is if you took all the Steeler defensive players and

650
00:28:02,320 --> 00:28:04,680
Speaker 4: all the Viking defensive players and you built your best

651
00:28:04,720 --> 00:28:07,879
Speaker 4: eleven the defense, there'd be a lot more black and

652
00:28:07,880 --> 00:28:09,240
Speaker 4: gold than purple out there.

653
00:28:09,359 --> 00:28:10,119
Speaker 2: Yes, you know what I mean.

654
00:28:10,200 --> 00:28:12,320
Speaker 1: Yes, but if you flip it, if you flip it

655
00:28:12,359 --> 00:28:14,399
Speaker 1: to the other side and did your best eleven with

656
00:28:14,440 --> 00:28:17,760
Speaker 1: the offense, there might be.

657
00:28:17,440 --> 00:28:21,119
Speaker 4: Especially the past catchers and yes, yeah right, yes, yeah,

658
00:28:21,480 --> 00:28:24,399
Speaker 4: but they get a lot out of not a little,

659
00:28:24,400 --> 00:28:25,600
Speaker 4: but they get a lot out of.

660
00:28:25,800 --> 00:28:28,360
Speaker 3: Medium mounts, you know what I mean.

661
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Speaker 4: So I don't know if this means anything, but there

662
00:28:32,440 --> 00:28:35,320
Speaker 4: are also four o overseas. They're the best record of

663
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Speaker 4: any franchise overseas.

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Speaker 2: Now, well they do for a loss. That's all that

665
00:28:40,400 --> 00:28:41,960
Speaker 2: I'm hearing is the do exactly.

666
00:28:42,280 --> 00:28:44,880
Speaker 3: It's not the same people, you know, but who knows.

667
00:28:45,840 --> 00:28:48,520
Speaker 3: But I'm concerned.

668
00:28:48,960 --> 00:28:50,960
Speaker 4: I'm concerned, to be honest with you, I don't know

669
00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:52,560
Speaker 4: that I'll pick the Steelers to win this game, and

670
00:28:52,600 --> 00:28:53,040
Speaker 4: I have the.

671
00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:53,640
Speaker 3: First three.

672
00:28:55,480 --> 00:28:57,760
Speaker 2: I unfortunately echo that sentiment.

673
00:28:57,960 --> 00:29:01,760
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, they're scary Gary challenge right now for especially

674
00:29:01,760 --> 00:29:04,960
Speaker 4: for what the Steelers are struggling with. You know, it'd

675
00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:07,000
Speaker 4: be so much better if I could say to your

676
00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:08,040
Speaker 4: original question.

677
00:29:08,440 --> 00:29:10,800
Speaker 3: Man, at least you can count this run game. You know,

678
00:29:11,280 --> 00:29:13,080
Speaker 3: it would just raise all the boats.

679
00:29:12,840 --> 00:29:15,480
Speaker 1: It would It would absolutely it be that high tide

680
00:29:15,480 --> 00:29:18,720
Speaker 1: that would raise all ships. And I am still confident

681
00:29:18,760 --> 00:29:21,200
Speaker 1: that we can see the run game get to that point,

682
00:29:21,680 --> 00:29:23,800
Speaker 1: but there haven't been a lot of There hasn't been

683
00:29:23,800 --> 00:29:24,120
Speaker 1: a lot.

684
00:29:24,040 --> 00:29:26,760
Speaker 2: Of progression in that regard through three games, and the.

685
00:29:26,760 --> 00:29:29,360
Speaker 3: Other areas of concern you at least see glimpses or

686
00:29:29,600 --> 00:29:32,400
Speaker 3: glass or big signs. You know. This one's like.

687
00:29:32,680 --> 00:29:34,240
Speaker 2: One one drive in the three games.

688
00:29:34,280 --> 00:29:36,360
Speaker 1: I think that opening drive at Foxborough you were like,

689
00:29:36,360 --> 00:29:38,080
Speaker 1: all right, we got something here, and then it was

690
00:29:38,200 --> 00:29:40,200
Speaker 1: kind of reverted back to what we had seen through

691
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Speaker 1: the first two games.

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Speaker 4: One thing I want to mention though, just about the

693
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Speaker 4: run game two is I'm a Warren fan without question,

694
00:29:46,720 --> 00:29:50,000
Speaker 4: but I don't think whenever their off season plan was

695
00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:52,160
Speaker 4: put together, I don't think they wanted to get to

696
00:29:52,200 --> 00:29:56,160
Speaker 4: the point where Warrens are belcal absolutely not sure, and

697
00:29:56,480 --> 00:29:59,720
Speaker 4: they I think they really over realized they were overworking

698
00:30:00,080 --> 00:30:02,240
Speaker 4: gain well and he has to be a satellite player.

699
00:30:02,800 --> 00:30:05,000
Speaker 4: But ah, in all, I don't think the ball carriers

700
00:30:05,160 --> 00:30:07,120
Speaker 4: are an issue. Don't get me wrong, you know, I mean,

701
00:30:07,440 --> 00:30:11,320
Speaker 4: and I think they are disappointed or underwhelmed with Caleb Johnson.

702
00:30:11,320 --> 00:30:15,360
Speaker 4: I think that goes without saying as well, but then

703
00:30:15,440 --> 00:30:19,000
Speaker 4: everyone just goes to the offensive line, and I think

704
00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:21,480
Speaker 4: that's a little unfair, you know, like there's more to

705
00:30:21,480 --> 00:30:23,560
Speaker 4: the running game than the ball carrier, whoever's holding the

706
00:30:23,560 --> 00:30:25,560
Speaker 4: ball in his hands and the five big.

707
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Speaker 3: Three hundred dollars. No doubt, Washington, to me is not

708
00:30:29,480 --> 00:30:30,160
Speaker 3: at all to blame.

709
00:30:30,320 --> 00:30:35,440
Speaker 4: He is a special run blocker, pass blocker, utility player, whatever.

710
00:30:36,040 --> 00:30:38,360
Speaker 3: But I would like to see his snapcount go up

711
00:30:38,400 --> 00:30:38,840
Speaker 3: a little.

712
00:30:39,680 --> 00:30:42,240
Speaker 4: John Newsmith and Friarmouth have not really done a whole

713
00:30:42,280 --> 00:30:44,720
Speaker 4: lot run blocking, and they're out there a lot, you know.

714
00:30:45,080 --> 00:30:46,960
Speaker 4: And I know John new Smith's never going to be

715
00:30:47,120 --> 00:30:51,120
Speaker 4: Mark Brenner or Washington, but if you're going to create

716
00:30:51,160 --> 00:30:54,600
Speaker 4: these mismatches either twelve and thirteen personnel, I need him

717
00:30:54,640 --> 00:30:56,680
Speaker 4: on a safety or somebody smaller than him and at

718
00:30:56,760 --> 00:31:00,120
Speaker 4: least do his part. I'm a Calvin Austin fan, but

719
00:31:00,160 --> 00:31:02,520
Speaker 4: he's never going to help you in that regard. Metcalf,

720
00:31:02,560 --> 00:31:06,960
Speaker 4: I think is a plus blocker. Yeah, but you're right.

721
00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:08,680
Speaker 4: I mean, he's having a hard time seeing in the field,

722
00:31:08,720 --> 00:31:11,520
Speaker 4: but he has a reputation for sticking his face in there.

723
00:31:11,520 --> 00:31:14,280
Speaker 4: But he's smaller. And I also think the play calling

724
00:31:14,320 --> 00:31:15,880
Speaker 4: is a little rough, you know. I mean in that

725
00:31:17,040 --> 00:31:19,800
Speaker 4: pursued and I did a show Thursday with Meryl Hodge

726
00:31:19,840 --> 00:31:21,000
Speaker 4: and Meryl was one hundred percent right.

727
00:31:21,040 --> 00:31:23,760
Speaker 3: And maryln knows a run game better than anybody that in.

728
00:31:23,720 --> 00:31:27,400
Speaker 4: This Patriot game they start to incorporate a few more

729
00:31:27,760 --> 00:31:28,960
Speaker 4: different run concepts.

730
00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:30,280
Speaker 3: It's not as much.

731
00:31:30,160 --> 00:31:32,400
Speaker 2: Not straight outside zone, outside zone.

732
00:31:32,320 --> 00:31:34,360
Speaker 3: Right right, right. I mean, even if you have a

733
00:31:34,360 --> 00:31:35,320
Speaker 3: great fastball, I.

734
00:31:35,280 --> 00:31:37,000
Speaker 2: Mean, yeah, you got to be able to throw a

735
00:31:37,040 --> 00:31:38,280
Speaker 2: change change.

736
00:31:38,080 --> 00:31:39,360
Speaker 3: Up once in a while. And they don't have a

737
00:31:39,360 --> 00:31:42,440
Speaker 3: great fast have more than one pitch and they don't

738
00:31:42,440 --> 00:31:43,240
Speaker 3: have a great fastball.

739
00:31:43,280 --> 00:31:45,400
Speaker 4: The outside zone stuff hasn't worked, and I'm not saying

740
00:31:45,440 --> 00:31:49,040
Speaker 4: they should scrap it, but they have incorporated some duo

741
00:31:49,160 --> 00:31:51,440
Speaker 4: and some different stuff at least last week, and so

742
00:31:51,560 --> 00:31:55,040
Speaker 4: that's a step in the right direction. But if you're

743
00:31:55,040 --> 00:31:59,000
Speaker 4: a heavy outside zone team, it's beautiful when it works, well,

744
00:31:59,200 --> 00:32:03,000
Speaker 4: I mean it really is. It's everyone you running, is moving,

745
00:32:03,080 --> 00:32:05,840
Speaker 4: is one. But it takes much longer than any other

746
00:32:05,880 --> 00:32:09,360
Speaker 4: scheme to get really really good at. And unlike some

747
00:32:09,440 --> 00:32:12,760
Speaker 4: other run schemes, if one of your five big men

748
00:32:12,800 --> 00:32:16,840
Speaker 4: blow their block over, it's probably you really, I mean,

749
00:32:16,880 --> 00:32:19,040
Speaker 4: you're putting your back in conflict right away, where some

750
00:32:19,120 --> 00:32:22,320
Speaker 4: other man stuff. If this guy misses his block, okay,

751
00:32:22,400 --> 00:32:23,680
Speaker 4: I mean I might be able to get free.

752
00:32:23,720 --> 00:32:26,240
Speaker 3: So there's less room for error. And right now there's

753
00:32:26,240 --> 00:32:27,160
Speaker 3: been a lot of error.

754
00:32:27,240 --> 00:32:29,200
Speaker 2: It's it's like a symphony. I mean, the zone runs

755
00:32:29,520 --> 00:32:30,120
Speaker 2: like a symphony.

756
00:32:30,360 --> 00:32:33,000
Speaker 1: If your if your trumpet players are a second off

757
00:32:33,040 --> 00:32:36,760
Speaker 1: from your your string section, it's gonna sound terrible. To

758
00:32:36,880 --> 00:32:40,760
Speaker 1: use a poor example there, you've got to have the

759
00:32:40,920 --> 00:32:41,960
Speaker 1: entire play next.

760
00:32:41,800 --> 00:32:44,600
Speaker 3: To your dad. But like, what is this guy ruining things? Right?

761
00:32:45,720 --> 00:32:47,560
Speaker 1: You could have you could have four musicians in the

762
00:32:47,600 --> 00:32:49,400
Speaker 1: right note, but if one guy's out of tune, you're

763
00:32:49,400 --> 00:32:51,200
Speaker 1: gonna be like, that doesn't exactly sound.

764
00:32:51,360 --> 00:32:52,960
Speaker 4: And it's not always the same guy. It's not like

765
00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:55,400
Speaker 4: they need a new center or a Roderick Jones or

766
00:32:55,440 --> 00:32:58,280
Speaker 4: you know, it's just it's always a little bit of popcorn.

767
00:32:58,320 --> 00:32:58,480
Speaker 3: You know.

768
00:32:59,640 --> 00:33:01,800
Speaker 1: I to continue a little bit on this conversation with

769
00:33:01,880 --> 00:33:03,360
Speaker 1: you talk some more about the run game, in the

770
00:33:03,360 --> 00:33:06,240
Speaker 1: offensive line and some of those popcorn issues. We also

771
00:33:06,240 --> 00:33:10,680
Speaker 1: have the latest injury reports as the Steelers man press

772
00:33:10,720 --> 00:33:14,680
Speaker 1: conferences and practice from like a castle looking area about

773
00:33:14,680 --> 00:33:16,920
Speaker 1: forty forty minutes or so outside of Dublin. We'll talk

774
00:33:16,960 --> 00:33:18,640
Speaker 1: about that when we return. On the other side, we're

775
00:33:18,680 --> 00:33:21,080
Speaker 1: gonna have some fun. We've got some guests lined up

776
00:33:21,120 --> 00:33:24,000
Speaker 1: for you, some Mark Brunner conversation. We got to dig

777
00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:26,120
Speaker 1: into some Matt's stats as we as we always do.

778
00:33:26,200 --> 00:33:27,920
Speaker 1: I was trying to think, Matt, and you see, I'm

779
00:33:27,920 --> 00:33:29,600
Speaker 1: like jotting down stuff here on napkin.

780
00:33:29,800 --> 00:33:34,600
Speaker 4: Yeah, because I'm like, Okay.

781
00:33:32,720 --> 00:33:37,080
Speaker 1: It's it's Friday. But we didn't do shows Wednesday and Thursday,

782
00:33:37,160 --> 00:33:39,880
Speaker 1: so the stuff that we typically do on Wednesday Thursday. Yeah,

783
00:33:39,920 --> 00:33:42,520
Speaker 1: exactly right. So we will bob, we will weave. We

784
00:33:42,560 --> 00:33:46,160
Speaker 1: will have plenty to get to. As we continue here

785
00:33:46,200 --> 00:33:49,440
Speaker 1: from Fitzsimon's Temple Bar, we are in the heart of

786
00:33:49,560 --> 00:33:52,520
Speaker 1: Dublin with all of Steeler Nation having a great time.

787
00:33:52,800 --> 00:33:55,479
Speaker 1: It is the drive West Wheeler Matt Williamson on Steelers

788
00:33:55,560 --> 00:33:57,320
Speaker 1: Nation Radio on the Steelers Audio.

789
00:33:57,040 --> 00:34:01,520
Speaker 5: Network you were tuned about on your twenty four to

790
00:34:01,520 --> 00:34:13,520
Speaker 5: seven home of the Black and Goal Steelers Nation Radio.

791
00:34:15,640 --> 00:34:18,479
Speaker 1: Back at Fitziven's Temple Bar in Dublin, West Shooler Matt

792
00:34:18,520 --> 00:34:23,000
Speaker 1: Williamson here with all of Steeler Nation. As we we've

793
00:34:23,040 --> 00:34:26,520
Speaker 1: got plenty plenty to get to, both on the football

794
00:34:26,520 --> 00:34:28,879
Speaker 1: field and with all the happenings around here.

795
00:34:29,600 --> 00:34:30,200
Speaker 2: Matt, I don't know.

796
00:34:30,200 --> 00:34:33,040
Speaker 1: If you saw where these Steelers are staying and practicing

797
00:34:33,760 --> 00:34:35,719
Speaker 1: this week, the pictures of it, I know a.

798
00:34:35,640 --> 00:34:37,920
Speaker 3: Lot of our cohorts were going incredible.

799
00:34:37,960 --> 00:34:42,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, because they had open practice at press conferences today today,

800
00:34:42,120 --> 00:34:44,960
Speaker 1: you know, kind of in the just keeping keeping to normal.

801
00:34:45,840 --> 00:34:48,400
Speaker 1: It's called Carton House, and I mean it looks like

802
00:34:48,400 --> 00:34:49,240
Speaker 1: an Irish castle.

803
00:34:49,600 --> 00:34:51,440
Speaker 2: It's like a golf resort. There's golf courses.

804
00:34:51,440 --> 00:34:52,880
Speaker 3: There is that where they're staying.

805
00:34:52,920 --> 00:34:54,560
Speaker 2: That's where they're staying in practicing.

806
00:34:54,640 --> 00:34:57,399
Speaker 1: Okay, yes, it's not too far outside of the city,

807
00:34:57,400 --> 00:34:59,120
Speaker 1: but I think it's like thirty forty minutes outside of

808
00:34:59,160 --> 00:35:03,359
Speaker 1: the city. And the pictures look immaculate. Again, I mean

809
00:35:03,360 --> 00:35:04,680
Speaker 1: it picture.

810
00:35:03,920 --> 00:35:06,120
Speaker 3: You're a bunch of rooms there for all the players, and.

811
00:35:06,120 --> 00:35:08,719
Speaker 1: I think, I mean, it's really cool that we're downtown,

812
00:35:08,800 --> 00:35:10,319
Speaker 1: so I'm not complaining, but.

813
00:35:10,320 --> 00:35:11,960
Speaker 2: It would have probably have been pretty sweet out there.

814
00:35:12,200 --> 00:35:16,359
Speaker 2: Well fun night out there. Yeah, but it does.

815
00:35:16,360 --> 00:35:18,319
Speaker 4: Think that's like where Royalty was. I mean, there was

816
00:35:18,400 --> 00:35:19,759
Speaker 4: money out there. I assume I.

817
00:35:19,719 --> 00:35:20,239
Speaker 2: Would think so.

818
00:35:20,640 --> 00:35:23,200
Speaker 1: And now, yeah, the pictures that I've seen from everyone

819
00:35:23,200 --> 00:35:25,040
Speaker 1: that's you know, was was out there for practices and

820
00:35:25,080 --> 00:35:29,880
Speaker 1: press conferences. I mean, picture picture your stereotypical like beautiful

821
00:35:29,920 --> 00:35:31,560
Speaker 1: Irish countryside castles.

822
00:35:31,560 --> 00:35:32,840
Speaker 2: That's exactly what it looks like.

823
00:35:33,080 --> 00:35:34,240
Speaker 3: Okay, that's awesome.

824
00:35:34,239 --> 00:35:36,560
Speaker 1: I thought about that so so pretty, stink and cool,

825
00:35:36,560 --> 00:35:39,240
Speaker 1: and like you mentioned earlier, the weather yesterday and today

826
00:35:39,280 --> 00:35:41,960
Speaker 1: has been perfect so much so. I mean it's been in,

827
00:35:42,080 --> 00:35:44,359
Speaker 1: it's been sixty, in the high sixties and sunny. I mean,

828
00:35:44,400 --> 00:35:46,800
Speaker 1: you can't beat it for fall weather, for Dublin weather.

829
00:35:47,080 --> 00:35:48,920
Speaker 4: I didn't bring the sunglasses. I've been mad at myself

830
00:35:48,960 --> 00:35:50,520
Speaker 4: and I didn't even think twice about it. But I mean,

831
00:35:50,760 --> 00:35:52,640
Speaker 4: a rookie move, but man, I neither.

832
00:35:52,840 --> 00:35:55,359
Speaker 1: I laughed at our producer, our our game producer, Dan

833
00:35:55,440 --> 00:35:57,439
Speaker 1: Quinlan when he brought his sunglasses on the plane.

834
00:35:57,480 --> 00:35:59,400
Speaker 2: I was like, dude, what are you doing. We're going

835
00:35:59,400 --> 00:35:59,800
Speaker 2: to Dublin.

836
00:35:59,840 --> 00:36:03,120
Speaker 1: It's fifty five degrees in cloudy and raining every day. Yeah,

837
00:36:03,200 --> 00:36:06,200
Speaker 1: jokes on us, because you're right, we could certainly have

838
00:36:06,360 --> 00:36:08,720
Speaker 1: used a pair of sunglasses these last couple of days.

839
00:36:09,040 --> 00:36:12,960
Speaker 2: Matt. There were more than one hundred international media members

840
00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:18,160
Speaker 2: credentialed for Steelers practice today really practice forget the Steelers people, right,

841
00:36:18,360 --> 00:36:21,800
Speaker 2: the typical Post Gazette and trips, ESPN and Athletic and

842
00:36:21,840 --> 00:36:23,560
Speaker 2: all the different outlets that are there covered.

843
00:36:23,400 --> 00:36:25,800
Speaker 3: There for any DK, everybody that's there.

844
00:36:25,760 --> 00:36:28,359
Speaker 1: You know, it's there covering it for for all the time.

845
00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:32,799
Speaker 1: Over one hundred international media were there today on the

846
00:36:32,840 --> 00:36:33,960
Speaker 1: sidelines as well too.

847
00:36:34,160 --> 00:36:35,160
Speaker 3: I wonder what they think.

848
00:36:35,800 --> 00:36:38,120
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm sure there's some very knowledgeable folks, but I'm

849
00:36:38,120 --> 00:36:39,719
Speaker 4: sure there's some that are just like, I don't know

850
00:36:39,760 --> 00:36:42,120
Speaker 4: what I'm covering, you know what am I looking at?

851
00:36:42,840 --> 00:36:44,399
Speaker 3: I looking at here?

852
00:36:44,520 --> 00:36:46,759
Speaker 4: Folks are these weird helmets on and these pads on

853
00:36:46,800 --> 00:36:48,040
Speaker 4: their shoulders.

854
00:36:47,520 --> 00:36:49,760
Speaker 2: And they do something for like three or four seconds,

855
00:36:49,800 --> 00:36:50,800
Speaker 2: and then they stand around.

856
00:36:50,600 --> 00:36:52,640
Speaker 4: And they staying around, and but boy are they big

857
00:36:52,640 --> 00:36:55,320
Speaker 4: and fast, you know, like they're bigger than soccer players

858
00:36:55,440 --> 00:36:58,320
Speaker 4: or players or you know, right's fat.

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00:36:58,320 --> 00:37:00,400
Speaker 3: I mean, I was these events.

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00:37:00,800 --> 00:37:02,319
Speaker 4: It's kind of dawned on me because I thought about

861
00:37:02,320 --> 00:37:04,239
Speaker 4: the several times in my life like what if you've

862
00:37:04,320 --> 00:37:07,440
Speaker 4: never seen this before, you know, like we've been and

863
00:37:07,440 --> 00:37:10,600
Speaker 4: everyone listened has grown up before you knew to walk

864
00:37:10,600 --> 00:37:13,160
Speaker 4: in baptized Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, But if this was

865
00:37:13,280 --> 00:37:15,880
Speaker 4: brand new Like if this came out of a spaceship

866
00:37:15,880 --> 00:37:17,160
Speaker 4: out of the sky and said.

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Speaker 3: Go watch this and like, but I like it or not?

868
00:37:19,719 --> 00:37:21,360
Speaker 3: I might not. Yeah, I mean I might be like,

869
00:37:21,360 --> 00:37:22,160
Speaker 3: this is the best thing ever.

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Speaker 1: You know, I think it's it's it's kind of like

871
00:37:24,440 --> 00:37:27,560
Speaker 1: I think how like a lot of Americans view hockey? Yeah, yeah, yeah,

872
00:37:27,719 --> 00:37:29,719
Speaker 1: what's what's a two line pass? What's you know what

873
00:37:29,760 --> 00:37:32,080
Speaker 1: I mean? Like these rules seem crazy and it's hard

874
00:37:32,080 --> 00:37:32,520
Speaker 1: to follow them.

875
00:37:34,320 --> 00:37:37,160
Speaker 4: But or even soccer, you know, this is so slow.

876
00:37:37,320 --> 00:37:42,520
Speaker 4: There's no strategy right first one to two wins. This

877
00:37:42,560 --> 00:37:44,440
Speaker 4: isn't fun. Nobody hits anybody.

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00:37:44,400 --> 00:37:46,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a that's a great point. And there you're right.

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00:37:46,719 --> 00:37:48,560
Speaker 2: I mean, it's just different. There's not a lot of

880
00:37:48,600 --> 00:37:52,239
Speaker 2: Derek Harmon's walking around Ireland. No, yeah, there's not a

881
00:37:52,239 --> 00:37:54,000
Speaker 2: lot of Max starts.

882
00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:55,919
Speaker 4: And I bet he stands. He stands out at home.

883
00:37:55,960 --> 00:37:57,160
Speaker 4: But let alone here, right.

884
00:37:57,280 --> 00:38:01,600
Speaker 1: How about last night, So we met Matt and I uh,

885
00:38:01,760 --> 00:38:03,759
Speaker 1: we're kind of again. So Matt had some work to

886
00:38:03,760 --> 00:38:05,680
Speaker 1: do at the hotel for all the million shows and

887
00:38:05,719 --> 00:38:08,799
Speaker 1: podcasts and everything he does. Myself and our and our

888
00:38:08,880 --> 00:38:11,600
Speaker 1: and our Steelers broadcast producer Dan Quinlan went over to

889
00:38:11,640 --> 00:38:13,319
Speaker 1: Croke Park just to get a lay of the land,

890
00:38:13,360 --> 00:38:15,680
Speaker 1: figure out where we're going, where's our equipment gonna be.

891
00:38:15,880 --> 00:38:17,920
Speaker 3: This is before you and I were you, before we

892
00:38:17,920 --> 00:38:18,319
Speaker 3: were on the air.

893
00:38:18,400 --> 00:38:20,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, before we did so yes, and then.

894
00:38:22,560 --> 00:38:24,680
Speaker 1: Dude, same here. I can't even believe it's Friday. Like

895
00:38:24,760 --> 00:38:28,000
Speaker 1: I'm still thinking it's like Wednesday or Thursday. Everything's just

896
00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:30,920
Speaker 1: just thrown into chaos. So it's you know, it's the

897
00:38:30,960 --> 00:38:33,560
Speaker 1: evening here for you and I, but it's like midday

898
00:38:33,600 --> 00:38:34,040
Speaker 1: back home.

899
00:38:34,080 --> 00:38:35,160
Speaker 2: It's just it's just bizarre.

900
00:38:36,760 --> 00:38:39,200
Speaker 1: But anyway, so last night you and I met up

901
00:38:39,239 --> 00:38:40,920
Speaker 1: with you know, we all kind of linked back up

902
00:38:40,960 --> 00:38:43,759
Speaker 1: down here and got some dinner and everything, and we

903
00:38:43,800 --> 00:38:45,480
Speaker 1: were like texting with Max and he was like, where

904
00:38:45,480 --> 00:38:47,319
Speaker 1: are you guys, I'm gonna come meet you. And he

905
00:38:47,360 --> 00:38:50,120
Speaker 1: walks in with his Irish cap on and his sweater,

906
00:38:50,520 --> 00:38:53,080
Speaker 1: like dressed as much like a local as you can,

907
00:38:53,160 --> 00:38:55,920
Speaker 1: Like he's got the boots and the slacks and the

908
00:38:56,000 --> 00:38:57,239
Speaker 1: sweater and the hat.

909
00:38:57,760 --> 00:38:59,640
Speaker 2: And he's like he's like, yeah, I'm trying to blend in.

910
00:38:59,719 --> 00:39:02,600
Speaker 2: And we were both like, yeah, right, luck with that one.

911
00:39:02,400 --> 00:39:04,920
Speaker 3: Buddy, Yeah, good luck blending in around here.

912
00:39:05,040 --> 00:39:06,919
Speaker 2: Right, But that is that's good.

913
00:39:06,920 --> 00:39:09,799
Speaker 1: Actually, maybe maybe uh if today or tomorrow, if we

914
00:39:09,840 --> 00:39:11,719
Speaker 1: can see any of those those Internet. I know they

915
00:39:11,760 --> 00:39:14,200
Speaker 1: won't be down here today because they were all covering practice,

916
00:39:14,239 --> 00:39:16,000
Speaker 1: but maybe we'll We'll have to get somebody.

917
00:39:16,160 --> 00:39:18,759
Speaker 4: I'd love to get that viewpoint from someone that's doing

918
00:39:18,800 --> 00:39:20,759
Speaker 4: this for a living, that has to write about it

919
00:39:20,880 --> 00:39:23,719
Speaker 4: or whatever, that has to cover football for like the

920
00:39:23,760 --> 00:39:25,759
Speaker 4: first time, you know, or go to a practice, let

921
00:39:25,800 --> 00:39:27,640
Speaker 4: alone a game where they're going to hit people and

922
00:39:27,760 --> 00:39:29,319
Speaker 4: you know why they kicking this ball?

923
00:39:29,320 --> 00:39:30,279
Speaker 3: Who's stupid up right?

924
00:39:30,360 --> 00:39:31,000
Speaker 2: That's holding it.

925
00:39:31,160 --> 00:39:33,680
Speaker 3: Right right, right right? All the intricacies and you know, right.

926
00:39:33,560 --> 00:39:35,400
Speaker 1: That was one thing that they were I told you,

927
00:39:35,440 --> 00:39:37,680
Speaker 1: I was flipping through the morning news channels this morning

928
00:39:37,680 --> 00:39:40,359
Speaker 1: and kind of laughing as they were joking about tailgating,

929
00:39:40,760 --> 00:39:41,640
Speaker 1: Like what's tailgating?

930
00:39:41,680 --> 00:39:45,200
Speaker 4: That is actually pretty funny, right, It's better over here.

931
00:39:45,280 --> 00:39:47,399
Speaker 4: Just go to the pub and walk over and walk over.

932
00:39:47,440 --> 00:39:47,879
Speaker 2: All you need.

933
00:39:47,920 --> 00:39:49,719
Speaker 3: All you need to anything, it's.

934
00:39:49,640 --> 00:39:51,200
Speaker 1: Yourself and you don't have to sit and wait in

935
00:39:51,239 --> 00:39:52,560
Speaker 1: traffic for ninety minutes after but.

936
00:39:52,600 --> 00:39:54,360
Speaker 3: A grill it's on fire in your trunk, you know,

937
00:39:54,640 --> 00:39:55,960
Speaker 3: walk in the game. What could go wrong?

938
00:39:56,040 --> 00:39:59,960
Speaker 2: You know, I totally forget what I was.

939
00:40:01,440 --> 00:40:03,320
Speaker 3: We're talking about Max originally talking.

940
00:40:03,080 --> 00:40:06,120
Speaker 1: About Max and and then then the international fans and everything.

941
00:40:06,200 --> 00:40:08,960
Speaker 3: Oh we're talking about Steelers where.

942
00:40:08,440 --> 00:40:09,799
Speaker 2: There's staying and all that.

943
00:40:09,920 --> 00:40:13,960
Speaker 1: I yes, yes, yes, yes, but no that that stuff

944
00:40:14,000 --> 00:40:16,839
Speaker 1: has been has been hilarious and is only going to continue. Oh,

945
00:40:16,920 --> 00:40:18,680
Speaker 1: they were uprights, That's what it was. On one of

946
00:40:18,719 --> 00:40:21,080
Speaker 1: the news things that I was watching this morning. They

947
00:40:21,080 --> 00:40:23,840
Speaker 1: were like, you'll get the loudest cheers at the stadium

948
00:40:24,080 --> 00:40:26,759
Speaker 1: when they when they kicked when they kicked the field goals.

949
00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:27,560
Speaker 3: That's pretty cool.

950
00:40:27,600 --> 00:40:29,560
Speaker 4: Look they kicked that little like a goofy ball that

951
00:40:29,640 --> 00:40:32,040
Speaker 4: kind of looks like a rugby.

952
00:40:31,160 --> 00:40:33,000
Speaker 1: Right, Like all the neutral fans that are just kind

953
00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:35,719
Speaker 1: of there for the spectacle and the experience, they want

954
00:40:35,760 --> 00:40:36,479
Speaker 1: to see the kick stuff.

955
00:40:36,520 --> 00:40:37,240
Speaker 3: They want to see.

956
00:40:37,040 --> 00:40:39,200
Speaker 1: Boswell drill a sixty yards or through the uprights and

957
00:40:39,200 --> 00:40:40,360
Speaker 1: they'll lose their There's.

958
00:40:40,239 --> 00:40:42,160
Speaker 4: Like a weird question, like you said, the Steelers are

959
00:40:42,160 --> 00:40:44,280
Speaker 4: staying at like this castle like environment.

960
00:40:45,280 --> 00:40:46,440
Speaker 3: Are their uprights there?

961
00:40:47,120 --> 00:40:47,359
Speaker 2: Yeah?

962
00:40:47,400 --> 00:40:47,560
Speaker 3: These?

963
00:40:47,640 --> 00:40:49,360
Speaker 1: I mean they must they must have put them in

964
00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:52,600
Speaker 1: because apparently, like dou Lac did a cool story on it.

965
00:40:53,080 --> 00:40:54,480
Speaker 1: I guess you got to go out there and you know,

966
00:40:54,520 --> 00:40:57,440
Speaker 1: got a little bit of access. But he said that

967
00:40:57,480 --> 00:41:00,520
Speaker 1: there's a golf course and there's two functioning foot ball field.

968
00:41:00,600 --> 00:41:03,120
Speaker 1: So I assume that I'm trying to look through some pictures.

969
00:41:04,880 --> 00:41:08,279
Speaker 4: I will say, driving here from the airport to our hotel,

970
00:41:08,560 --> 00:41:11,320
Speaker 4: I think I saw two things that resembled football fields.

971
00:41:11,320 --> 00:41:13,000
Speaker 4: They had like goalposts. They were kind of like the

972
00:41:13,040 --> 00:41:16,840
Speaker 4: high school hes that at least were something similar.

973
00:41:17,000 --> 00:41:18,239
Speaker 1: Like you can see this picture that I have here

974
00:41:18,280 --> 00:41:20,120
Speaker 1: on my phone. That's the press conference room, Like it

975
00:41:20,160 --> 00:41:23,600
Speaker 1: looks like the White House. I mean, you know, so

976
00:41:23,880 --> 00:41:24,440
Speaker 1: a pretty like.

977
00:41:24,440 --> 00:41:25,880
Speaker 4: The Queen of England's gonna come out and do a

978
00:41:25,920 --> 00:41:28,759
Speaker 4: press exactly right, for a cup of tea with the

979
00:41:28,840 --> 00:41:29,480
Speaker 4: Queen of England.

980
00:41:29,760 --> 00:41:29,880
Speaker 3: Right.

981
00:41:30,840 --> 00:41:33,440
Speaker 2: So yeah, so a million things going on.

982
00:41:33,440 --> 00:41:36,600
Speaker 1: One of them is some of that injury report stuff.

983
00:41:36,719 --> 00:41:37,520
Speaker 2: Matt as well to.

984
00:41:37,520 --> 00:41:38,879
Speaker 4: Come out of the loop for a day or two,

985
00:41:39,120 --> 00:41:40,920
Speaker 4: and I guess they had a travel day so they

986
00:41:40,960 --> 00:41:42,399
Speaker 4: didn't practice the one day they did.

987
00:41:42,440 --> 00:41:44,279
Speaker 1: And the real thing that that I that I kind

988
00:41:44,280 --> 00:41:48,400
Speaker 1: of wanted to discuss with you is Jalen Warren has

989
00:41:48,440 --> 00:41:53,040
Speaker 1: been listed as limited the last two days with resting

990
00:41:53,120 --> 00:41:55,560
Speaker 1: veteran slash knee.

991
00:41:55,800 --> 00:41:58,640
Speaker 3: Okay, so that sounds like resting veterans.

992
00:41:58,800 --> 00:42:02,000
Speaker 1: It does, but they're very clear like Isaac Saamal who

993
00:42:02,000 --> 00:42:04,440
Speaker 1: has just listed as resting veteran. DK Metcalf has just

994
00:42:04,520 --> 00:42:07,400
Speaker 1: listed as resting veteran TJ. Watt, Cam Hayward just resting

995
00:42:07,480 --> 00:42:12,160
Speaker 1: veteran Jalen Warren resting veteran knee, John hus Smith resting

996
00:42:12,239 --> 00:42:13,080
Speaker 1: veteran hip.

997
00:42:13,480 --> 00:42:16,280
Speaker 3: Okay, let's address Warren first.

998
00:42:16,480 --> 00:42:19,560
Speaker 4: And this is just my hunch is I think he's

999
00:42:19,640 --> 00:42:22,800
Speaker 4: kind of elevated in the Steeler world in that and

1000
00:42:23,080 --> 00:42:27,120
Speaker 4: this started be yeah where I think this started in

1001
00:42:27,200 --> 00:42:31,320
Speaker 4: the preseason where they wrest a lot of guys in preseasons.

1002
00:42:31,640 --> 00:42:33,799
Speaker 4: I was a little shock he made that cut at

1003
00:42:33,840 --> 00:42:35,960
Speaker 4: the time at that I mean, I remember, remember our

1004
00:42:36,000 --> 00:42:37,200
Speaker 4: mindset at that time is.

1005
00:42:37,239 --> 00:42:39,640
Speaker 3: Johnson's gonna get a ton of carries, I got game. Well,

1006
00:42:40,000 --> 00:42:43,520
Speaker 3: Warren's an undrafted free agent that they like, blah blah blah.

1007
00:42:43,600 --> 00:42:48,120
Speaker 3: And since then they extended him. Okay, we love him.

1008
00:42:48,440 --> 00:42:52,680
Speaker 4: Since then, he's gotten more touches and work every week

1009
00:42:52,719 --> 00:42:56,239
Speaker 4: of the season, and he's a career highs these last

1010
00:42:56,280 --> 00:42:59,400
Speaker 4: two weeks in terms of usage and time on the field.

1011
00:43:00,120 --> 00:43:02,960
Speaker 4: And I think importance to the team is at an

1012
00:43:03,000 --> 00:43:05,719
Speaker 4: all time high, you know, And that's a point you

1013
00:43:05,800 --> 00:43:09,040
Speaker 4: got a little something wrong with you. Do we really

1014
00:43:09,080 --> 00:43:12,360
Speaker 4: want you practicing on a field we don't maybe one

1015
00:43:12,400 --> 00:43:13,480
Speaker 4: hundred percent trust it's.

1016
00:43:13,320 --> 00:43:15,319
Speaker 3: Not home field and things like that too.

1017
00:43:15,440 --> 00:43:18,239
Speaker 4: And this is a side note, but all these international

1018
00:43:18,320 --> 00:43:22,160
Speaker 4: games I always pay attention to slash concerned about the

1019
00:43:22,160 --> 00:43:23,200
Speaker 4: field conditions too.

1020
00:43:23,360 --> 00:43:23,800
Speaker 2: Totally.

1021
00:43:23,840 --> 00:43:25,240
Speaker 3: You just know they're going to be different.

1022
00:43:25,320 --> 00:43:28,840
Speaker 4: I mean, it's definitely not accushure and every stadium and

1023
00:43:28,840 --> 00:43:31,640
Speaker 4: it's not going to be a typical field turf that

1024
00:43:31,719 --> 00:43:33,720
Speaker 4: most a lot of teams have in the league. Sure,

1025
00:43:34,080 --> 00:43:38,520
Speaker 4: I assume they've been somehow vetted or whatever by the league,

1026
00:43:38,560 --> 00:43:40,560
Speaker 4: but you don't know. I always think about the kickers

1027
00:43:40,560 --> 00:43:43,880
Speaker 4: in their footing, and every stadium is different, as anyone

1028
00:43:43,920 --> 00:43:47,560
Speaker 4: remembers back in the when Hinzfield was originally there was

1029
00:43:47,640 --> 00:43:50,520
Speaker 4: some of those and things of that nature that you

1030
00:43:50,600 --> 00:43:53,080
Speaker 4: just don't know here you've never kicked here before.

1031
00:43:53,800 --> 00:43:56,319
Speaker 3: But the key from what people have told me is

1032
00:43:56,960 --> 00:43:57,680
Speaker 3: you would think.

1033
00:43:57,560 --> 00:44:00,480
Speaker 4: Grass is grass and dirt is dirt, but the fields

1034
00:44:00,480 --> 00:44:03,839
Speaker 4: were built for smaller people. They weren't built and they

1035
00:44:03,960 --> 00:44:07,400
Speaker 4: and not all the action is you know, you put

1036
00:44:08,160 --> 00:44:10,359
Speaker 4: five three hundred pounders with a tight end to them

1037
00:44:10,960 --> 00:44:13,040
Speaker 4: up the middle of the field over and over and

1038
00:44:13,120 --> 00:44:15,920
Speaker 4: over again, right, and there's no three hundred pounders playing

1039
00:44:15,960 --> 00:44:18,480
Speaker 4: soccer or rugby or you know what these fields are

1040
00:44:18,480 --> 00:44:21,399
Speaker 4: built for. There are a lot of smaller, swifter, use

1041
00:44:21,480 --> 00:44:23,000
Speaker 4: the whole field type of guys.

1042
00:44:23,120 --> 00:44:23,279
Speaker 3: You know.

1043
00:44:24,040 --> 00:44:25,840
Speaker 1: No that that is a great point, and I know

1044
00:44:25,880 --> 00:44:27,640
Speaker 1: that's something they were talking about on the DV morning

1045
00:44:27,719 --> 00:44:32,600
Speaker 1: show this morning. Is Hey, yeah, rugby and Gaelic football

1046
00:44:32,680 --> 00:44:34,920
Speaker 1: and soccer, like those guys wear cleats and there's a

1047
00:44:34,960 --> 00:44:37,160
Speaker 1: lot of cut that back and forth, but they don't

1048
00:44:37,200 --> 00:44:40,479
Speaker 1: weigh three hundred and twenty pounds and right and again,

1049
00:44:40,520 --> 00:44:41,600
Speaker 1: like you said, a lot.

1050
00:44:41,480 --> 00:44:43,400
Speaker 3: Of it's right between the numbers, right between.

1051
00:44:43,160 --> 00:44:46,080
Speaker 1: The numbers and an exact area that gets tore up

1052
00:44:46,120 --> 00:44:48,560
Speaker 1: over and over and over and over again over the

1053
00:44:48,560 --> 00:44:50,280
Speaker 1: course of three hours.

1054
00:44:50,960 --> 00:44:52,839
Speaker 3: And they don't how old at your point either and

1055
00:44:52,960 --> 00:44:54,000
Speaker 3: stop and you know.

1056
00:44:54,239 --> 00:44:56,320
Speaker 1: There's gonna be something like there will be some weird

1057
00:44:56,400 --> 00:44:58,840
Speaker 1: quirks on the whatever it is, however.

1058
00:44:58,560 --> 00:44:59,880
Speaker 3: It happening to get ahead of it, you know.

1059
00:45:00,080 --> 00:45:01,800
Speaker 1: But the good thing about that is it's gonna be

1060
00:45:01,800 --> 00:45:03,520
Speaker 1: weird for both teams in that regard, it's not like

1061
00:45:03,719 --> 00:45:05,840
Speaker 1: it's not like one gets an advantage one way or

1062
00:45:05,840 --> 00:45:06,120
Speaker 1: the other.

1063
00:45:06,719 --> 00:45:07,440
Speaker 2: Hour in the books.

1064
00:45:07,440 --> 00:45:11,200
Speaker 1: Plenty more to go here Live from Fitzsimon's Temple Bar

1065
00:45:11,480 --> 00:45:13,840
Speaker 1: in Dublin. We are up on the rooftop having some

1066
00:45:13,880 --> 00:45:16,759
Speaker 1: fun with Steeler Nation wetsheler Matt Williams, and it's the

1067
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