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Speaker 1: Happy schedule Release Day Art. When you first.

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Speaker 2: Get the schedule, what's the things that jumped out to

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Speaker 2: you about the twenty twenty four to one.

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Speaker 3: Well, you have a lot of primetime games. Of course,

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Speaker 3: the Christmas game jumps out idea. But you know it'll

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Speaker 3: be a challenging schedule. You know, I wish we had

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Speaker 3: a home opener a little earlier in the schedule than

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Speaker 3: the third weekend, but you know, you just have to

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Speaker 3: deal with the schedule as it comes.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the first two on the road, but then three

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Speaker 2: out of the first four.

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Speaker 1: Is that kind of a test for a team When

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Speaker 1: you have to go on the road so much early.

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Speaker 3: On, it is a test. So you know, that's why

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Speaker 3: I'd rather have a little closer to the beginning of

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Speaker 3: the season for an opener. You know, baseball schedules fit

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Speaker 3: into the picture, and so you just have to deal

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Speaker 3: with all the different circumstances.

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Speaker 2: One that really matters when you look at a schedule

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Speaker 2: is the division games.

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Speaker 1: And this year, not till week eleven.

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Speaker 2: Does the Steelers face an AFC Worth opponent.

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Speaker 1: And then it feels like they're bunched together.

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Speaker 3: Your thoughts on that they are bunch together, so that's

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Speaker 3: going to be quite a stretch and probably, you know,

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Speaker 3: be a meaningful stretch of games for sure. You know,

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Speaker 3: it's kind of unusual. I'm not sure I remember having

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Speaker 3: one like this where we don't play any Division games

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Speaker 3: until that late in the season, so something different.

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Speaker 2: You mentioned the primetime games, three of them are also

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Speaker 2: a bunch close together. Knowing that coach Tony gets this

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Speaker 2: team ready and they play well on a national stage,

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Speaker 2: do you think that helps to stay in a rhythm there.

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Speaker 3: You'll never know. You can't take anything for granted, but

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Speaker 3: you know, coach usually has the team prepared for primetime

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Speaker 3: and you know, I know our fans will be excited

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Speaker 3: about the Cowboys coming into town and some of those

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Speaker 3: New York teams, so you know, those will those will

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Speaker 3: be exciting nights.

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Speaker 1: You mentioned Christmas.

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Speaker 2: The Steelers have not hosted on Christmas Day since twenty sixteen,

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Speaker 2: a very memorable finish. Haven't played since twenty seventeen on

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Speaker 2: the holiday. What do you make of that, in the

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Speaker 2: fact that it is at home and we saw what

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Speaker 2: happened on Christmas Eve just a few years ago.

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Speaker 3: We played at home, say on Christmas a few years ago,

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Speaker 3: and I had a great crowd, so hopefully that will

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Speaker 3: be the case. Obviously we're hosting a big time team

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Speaker 3: and so you know it'll be a big game, you know,

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Speaker 3: with a national audience, so it'll be an exciting time, all.

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Speaker 1: Right, Art, thanks for your time.

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Speaker 3: Thank you,