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

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

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Speaker 2: Good afternoon, Steeler Nation.

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Speaker 3: It's the Drive on the Steelers Audio Network, West Wheeler

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Speaker 3: and Matt Williamson with you here for the next two

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Speaker 3: hours on this Thursday. And Matt, it finally happened today.

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Speaker 3: It's been a weird build up to the Super Bowl. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: not for anything because that game specifics, but just because

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Speaker 3: of how much change and how much we've been Steelerlan

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Speaker 3: monitoring this time.

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Speaker 2: Of year has been.

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Speaker 3: These couple weeks have been way busier, way more going

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Speaker 3: on than there typically is in Steeler Land. Yeah, usually

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Speaker 3: this time of year there's a couple changes to the

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Speaker 3: coaching staff or things like this got to be back,

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Speaker 3: you know, right right, and reports of people getting interviews

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Speaker 3: elsehere where and that kind of thing. But obviously this

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Speaker 3: has been ramped up to another extreme in the first

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Speaker 3: year of Mike McCarthy as he puts his inaugural staff

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Speaker 3: together here in Pittsburgh. But it finally happened today. I was,

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Speaker 3: you know, doing some show prep stuff and flipping through

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Speaker 3: ESPN and NFL Network and all that, and everyone's live

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Speaker 3: from Santa Clara San Francisco and Radio Row and all

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Speaker 3: this stuff.

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Speaker 2: And it finally hit me today.

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Speaker 3: I'm like, May, we got the super Bowl this weekend,

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Speaker 3: Like it's super Bowl weekend. It's basically here, it's Thursday.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I feel like I'm slow to the event too,

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Speaker 4: Like I'm wondering who's on the injury report? Is everybody playing?

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Speaker 4: Like I mean, it's two weeks so you don't think

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Speaker 4: attention to like Radio Row and all the nonsense that

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Speaker 4: today too, like you know how, I listen to so

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Speaker 4: many podcasts and stuff too, Like I've been watching I've

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Speaker 4: been listening to like Senior Bowl recaps or yes, you know,

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Speaker 4: different bigger, bigger picture coaching people are coaching hi conversations,

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Speaker 4: And I'm like, maybe I should started listening to like

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Speaker 4: matchup stuff for the game, or yes, man, what do

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Speaker 4: I think is gonna happen in this game? Like boy,

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Speaker 4: those two pretty good d lines, how think you gonna

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Speaker 4: good game.

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Speaker 3: It absolutely should a lot of fun storylines. Of course,

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Speaker 3: a rematch for about ten years later between these two franchises.

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Speaker 3: We also found out uh Camp quickly.

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Speaker 4: What's interesting I mentioned podcasts. The podcast I'm listening to

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Speaker 4: right now is the one that Robert Mays does with

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Speaker 4: The Athletic and they're talking about how much the league

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Speaker 4: has changed from the first time these teams played in

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Speaker 4: the Super Bowl till now. I mean they maybe they

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Speaker 4: do a lot of stats and trends and it's pretty interesting, you.

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Speaker 3: Know, Like I mean you mentioned alone the cover that

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Speaker 4: Ago exactly, and even a couple of things that stand out.

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Speaker 4: I didn't plan on having this conversation, but the average

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Speaker 4: age of quarterbacks was way higher than it was, like

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Speaker 4: Ben and Ryan and River. Yeah, you know now it's

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Speaker 4: like five years younger average starting quarterback age including Rogers

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Speaker 4: there's there's some interesting stuff. Oh how fast it changes.

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Speaker 3: The NFL changes rapidly, man, I mean every sport does, right,

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Speaker 3: but I think football since there's so much schematically into it.

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Speaker 3: Like the coaching and the schematics that go into it

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Speaker 4: And the coach hires influence at a time like now,

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Speaker 4: then everyone was stealing from Belichick's tree. Now ione's stealing

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Speaker 4: And that's another trend is the coaches are like, on

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Speaker 2: It really changes so rapidly, man, it really does.

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Speaker 3: Did you see Cam Hayward is going to be part

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Speaker 2: Now Cam Hayward will see.

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Speaker 4: This is bad news on the NB. I don't want

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Speaker 4: The media and like, I'm sure that'll be his future.

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Speaker 4: I'm getting too comfortable with the money.

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Speaker 3: Test it out, Test it out this year, and then

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Speaker 3: next year you can you can fully dive into it.

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Speaker 3: But NBC announced last night they have added Cam Hayward,

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Speaker 3: Aaron Donald might have heard of that guy before, Kyle

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Speaker 3: Shanahan and Fred Warner as pregame analysts for the Super

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Speaker 4: H that's real cool.

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Speaker 3: So plenty, uh as we roll along here today, I

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Speaker 3: we always kick around too. But Matt continuing with the

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Speaker 3: on this Thursday. Last night, the Steelers made a handful

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Speaker 3: biggest amongst them naming Brian Angelico, who we discussed on

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Speaker 3: as Danny Crossman as special teams coordinator. We've discussed him before,

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Speaker 3: Joe Witt Junior as assistant head coach and secondary coach.

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Speaker 3: And then a familiar name, a familiar foe, former Cincinnati

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Speaker 3: Bengal Demata Pico as defensive line coach and pat Riley,

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Speaker 3: No not the LA Lakers heat pat Riley, pat Riley

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Speaker 4: So I didn't hear that one.

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Speaker 3: Five new official announcements by the Steelers last night, but

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Speaker 4: And we did touch on him. I mean, he comes

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Speaker 4: I don't know if he's good. I assume they think

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Speaker 4: But that's a hard position to coach, and people I

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Speaker 4: that's like, you know, trying to block a cheetah, then

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Speaker 4: and a more important job than you think. They must

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Speaker 4: have extreme faith in faith in Peico. But he has

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Speaker 4: not coached long and there's not much of a resume.

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Speaker 4: Just young in the coaching world.

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Speaker 3: This is this This upcoming season will be just his

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Speaker 4: And maybe he's just a that he's young, Sheldon, you know,

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Speaker 4: I mean, I don't know, he could be.

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Speaker 3: He two years ago twenty twenty four, was with the

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Speaker 3: the Buffs, Deon Sanders and those guys, and then now

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Speaker 3: been a very rapid assent for him in these coaching ranks.

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Speaker 4: It also makes me wonder are they going to add

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Speaker 4: an old gent in that room too, you know, as

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Speaker 4: the assistant or something along those lines. A name he

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Speaker 4: didn't mention. I think his last name is Howe, but

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Speaker 4: he's been rumored to be the outside linebacker edge coach.

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Speaker 4: And he comes from Montana, Montana State, Yes, Seawan Howe,

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Speaker 4: and really the edge guys are similar, and he's also

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Speaker 4: similar in that he doesn't have a lot of experience.

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Speaker 4: So like your whole if that ends up being true,

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Speaker 4: your whole, entire defensive front is being coached by guys

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Speaker 4: probably Cam Hayward's age or younger, don't really have experience.

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Speaker 2: And remember, I mean Mike McCarthy talked about this.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you need the guys that have been in the

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Speaker 3: league coaching for twenty thirty years. You need the young

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Speaker 3: guys that are cutting their teeth and grinding it out

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Speaker 4: I'm all for I wind a variety absolutely, Yeah.

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Speaker 3: The It is interesting though, because when you look at

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Speaker 3: our veteran guys like Cam Hayward, TJ. Watt, Alex high Smith. Sure,

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Speaker 3: those guys don't need an expert coach to continue their

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Speaker 3: So I'm with you, that's a very interesting one.

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Speaker 4: This is something to keep an eye on. It's a

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Speaker 4: they have a senior assistant on defense or something who

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Speaker 4: has a D line background. I don't know.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and you mentioned Sean how outside linebackers coach. That

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Speaker 3: is being again that's still in the reported stage, not

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Speaker 3: officially official, but yeah, it would be his first NFL job.

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Speaker 3: He's been at Tennessee, USC, NC State, Coastal Carolina, a

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Speaker 3: lot of different college.

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Speaker 4: Programs and good ones too, but they would be TJ. Watt.

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Speaker 3: It is much different, much different than coaching grown men

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Speaker 3: who were making thirty forty million dollars a year, age

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Speaker 3: one hundred percent. So yeah, we talked about Angelico pretty

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Speaker 3: extensively yesterday I'm with you. I think you're plucking him

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Speaker 3: from one of those trees that Yeah, you'd like to

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Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely, bring those ideas with you.

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Speaker 3: You would like to have some of that fruit. Danny Crossman,

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Speaker 3: Joe Witt Junior, I think is probably the one that

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Speaker 3: we haven't mentioned too much. Assistant head coach and secondary

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Speaker 3: coach for him heading here here in Mike McCarthy's staff

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Speaker 3: in year one.

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Speaker 4: Another huge job because it's a lot of human beings,

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Speaker 4: I mean, secondary coach. Now, I'm sure he'll have a

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Speaker 4: be alone in charge of all the defensive backs. But

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Speaker 4: I do think it's a feather in his cap, you know,

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Speaker 4: to be like, we're gonna give you the assistant head

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Speaker 4: coach title too. I mean that's more money, that's more respect,

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Speaker 4: that's all that stuff.

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Speaker 3: Well, he spent the last two years as the Commander's

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Speaker 3: defensive court Yes. First year obviously successful, last year not

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Speaker 3: That to me is kind of the opposite of taking

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Speaker 4: That goodlet me. He knew he's gonna land somewhere.

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Speaker 4: Makes sense.

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Speaker 3: The it was more often than not that that outside

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I would assume he'll get a young group to

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Speaker 3: Because they just traded away Quentin Williams and some of

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Speaker 3: You mentioned some of the injury stuff.

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Speaker 3: And there's a potential significant one for Seattle's defense from yesterday.

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Speaker 2: You know he might be a second round rookie.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, his first name might rhyme with pick. We'll talk

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Speaker 3: It is Super Bowl Week here on the Drive all

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Speaker 4: And I don't think Hall of Famers are announced tonight.

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Speaker 4: Are probably everything.

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Speaker 2: I would think everything.

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Speaker 3: So we'll have on Elsie Greenwood and some of these

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Speaker 4: Usually it's like, who's that guy again?

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Speaker 3: Sometimes like all three of those guys have very deserving,

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Speaker 3: But we will know five Modern Era electees, I guess

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Speaker 4: It's most but they always put five in yes, and.

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Speaker 3: That has leaked as well, Yeah, which is kind of surprising,

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Speaker 3: Which makes me think Suggs has a good chance to

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Speaker 4: Yonda would have been one of my Yonda Yeah, maybe

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Speaker 3: But in three of those five, I feel very confident.

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Speaker 4: In me too. So I had buddies asked me, They're like,

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Speaker 4: And it's a goofy process that needs fakes.

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Speaker 3: It's not that there's fifty people voting and they're circling

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Speaker 4: It's like their last chance.

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Speaker 2: It's like their last chance saloon.

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Speaker 4: I wouldn't get them in.

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Speaker 2: So if you can only vote.

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Speaker 4: That's it's the way that they're like, somebody else will

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Speaker 2: It's not that simple.

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Speaker 3: It's not just a yes or no that these people

440
00:21:01,600 --> 00:21:04,320
Speaker 3: are circling no for Bill Belichick. It's that they're looking

441
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Speaker 3: at it and they're going these are the last chance

442
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Speaker 3: for some of these players.

443
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Speaker 4: I want to I think Roger Craig's deserving.

444
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Speaker 3: A League MVP in the past, and Ken Anderson, you

445
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Speaker 3: know what I mean, to get into the.

446
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Speaker 2: Hall of Fame. So it's a flawed voting system.

447
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Speaker 3: It's not just people saying no no, no to all

448
00:21:20,119 --> 00:21:23,399
Speaker 3: these patriots because they're trying to hold Spygate.

449
00:21:22,840 --> 00:21:24,120
Speaker 4: And things like that.

450
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Speaker 3: That's a convenient narrative, but it's just not true.

451
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Speaker 4: I mean, if my chance Brady didn't get in, I'd

452
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Speaker 4: be like, oh my lord. I mean like, because that's

453
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Speaker 4: a different process, and you basically are voting no for him.

454
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Speaker 4: They're five for someone in a contemporary over him.

455
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Speaker 3: They're fifty voters and they can only vote for three

456
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Speaker 3: of those senior and contributor class YEP.

457
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Speaker 4: So this was a big deal in Russell Wilson and

458
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Speaker 4: Ben Roethlisberger's career and Dale and I laid this out

459
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Speaker 4: a couple of years ago. I guess what it was.

460
00:21:52,880 --> 00:21:58,359
Speaker 4: Russ was here. Neither one from what I understand, ever

461
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Speaker 4: got an MVP vote, and that sounds terrible, like, oh man,

462
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Speaker 4: how could they not get one? Why not get an

463
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Speaker 4: MVP vote? Because I think there's thirty two voters. I

464
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Speaker 4: think there's one in every season every city, maybe there's

465
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Speaker 4: fifty at most whatever, it is somewhere between thirty and

466
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Speaker 4: fifty voters, and they only get one vote. So many

467
00:22:18,960 --> 00:22:21,720
Speaker 4: years it's unanimous. It's like, my homes is the MVP.

468
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Speaker 4: So if you're like third on the list, you might

469
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Speaker 4: not get any votes, you know, Like last year is

470
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Speaker 4: a lot of Allen, was a lot of Lamar. But

471
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Speaker 4: most years it's pretty obvious who the MVP is, And

472
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Speaker 4: even if you're the second best guy, you might not

473
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Speaker 4: get a vote.

474
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Speaker 3: It's not a Heisman ballot, no, or you're voting for

475
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Speaker 3: your top three, top five or whatever the case.

476
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Speaker 4: Yeah, so that's I mean, you could have been top

477
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Speaker 4: five five years in a row and gotten no votes.

478
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Speaker 3: I urge people to do this in every walk of life,

479
00:22:47,680 --> 00:22:49,840
Speaker 3: but especially when it comes to media stuff like this.

480
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Speaker 3: Before you hit the outrage button, pause and look at

481
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Speaker 3: the process and the guidelines, and because quite often it's

482
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Speaker 3: not as simple as people like to make.

483
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Speaker 4: It seems like being in your fane the league and

484
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Speaker 4: not known the rules.

485
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Speaker 3: You know, I if it's like it's like I was

486
00:23:04,240 --> 00:23:06,280
Speaker 3: just gonna say, it's like being upset because you thought

487
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Speaker 3: that you was a PPR league and so you drafted

488
00:23:08,720 --> 00:23:12,920
Speaker 3: wide receivers differently, right, Like read the rules right, don't

489
00:23:12,960 --> 00:23:14,240
Speaker 3: hate the player, hate the.

490
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Speaker 2: Game, yeah, exactly, or something like that. Matt nick Emon

491
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Speaker 2: worry is that how he pronounces it?

492
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Speaker 4: I know, we man worry. Yes, I usually butcher it.

493
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Speaker 2: You are a big fan of his.

494
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Speaker 3: Of course, the rookie safety from the versatile chess piece

495
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Speaker 3: there in the second modern day slot.

496
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Speaker 2: He's the modern day slot that we've tied.

497
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Speaker 4: So much about. That's why they can live in big Nickel.

498
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Speaker 2: The Brian Branches, the Cooper de Jeans, these these type of.

499
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Speaker 4: Guys Coincidentally, just last segment, we were talking about differences

500
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Speaker 4: from ten years ago to now.

501
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Speaker 2: That's a massive one.

502
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Speaker 4: They laid out the percentage of base defense in the league,

503
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Speaker 4: across the league, then the now you know Steelers have

504
00:23:49,920 --> 00:23:53,040
Speaker 4: been there three to four. It's like, I want to say,

505
00:23:53,080 --> 00:23:56,200
Speaker 4: twenty five percent heavier to nickel than or twenty five

506
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Speaker 4: percent less base now than that.

507
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Speaker 3: In fact, I would have guessed it was even more

508
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Speaker 3: than that. But that's that's still a praise.

509
00:24:03,320 --> 00:24:04,160
Speaker 4: It might even be higher.

510
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Speaker 3: Uh, he's a finalist for Defensive Rookie of the Year.

511
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Speaker 3: I know, I'm sure you've done some of this. In fact,

512
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Speaker 3: I think I saw some of it in my algorithm.

513
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Speaker 3: Actually redraft of last year's.

514
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Speaker 4: Draft I did.

515
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Speaker 2: That's been popular and you and.

516
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Speaker 3: I might end up doing that at some point in

517
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Speaker 3: March and April when we need to fill a segment

518
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Speaker 3: or two.

519
00:24:21,880 --> 00:24:23,360
Speaker 4: He just did one.

520
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Speaker 3: He'd have been a first round pick. I was going

521
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Speaker 3: to say probably top probably top ten. So a real

522
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Speaker 3: steal in the second round for the Seahawks. Injured his

523
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Speaker 3: ankle in practice yesterday. Is listed now as limited.

524
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Speaker 4: To their credit because they traded Gino and d K.

525
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Speaker 4: They went up and got Mui at the beginning of

526
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Speaker 4: the second round. You know, like when when Friday started,

527
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Speaker 4: they were on the phones heavy. I'm sure the night

528
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Speaker 4: before we got to get our Kyle Hamilton from the

529
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Speaker 4: Ravens defense, and that's exactly what they got.

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Speaker 3: Yes So that's that's one to keep an eye on

531
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Speaker 3: because he's a real chess piece that lets them do

532
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Speaker 3: the things that make them successful on defense.

533
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Speaker 4: It's the exact same conversation I had about Petrie when

534
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Speaker 4: the Steelers played Houston. You know that he's the rug

535
00:25:04,600 --> 00:25:06,680
Speaker 4: that ties the room together. Yeah, I mean, he allows

536
00:25:06,920 --> 00:25:09,600
Speaker 4: so many other people to flourish because he can do everything.

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Speaker 3: It's a big Lebowski joke in there somewhere about the

538
00:25:13,160 --> 00:25:16,359
Speaker 3: rug that ties the room together. The Seahawks had perfect

539
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Speaker 3: attendance at practice yesterday, but did have several players listed

540
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Speaker 3: as limited, along with Emon Worry.

541
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Speaker 2: Sam Darnold with an oblique.

542
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Speaker 4: I think he said I'm playing, which, of course he is.

543
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Speaker 2: Offensive tackle Charles Cross.

544
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Speaker 4: With the foot that's been bothering him for a while.

545
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Speaker 3: There are other offensive tackled Josh Jones with an ankle

546
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Speaker 3: and a knee. DeMarcus Lawrence just Risted listed his veteran rest,

547
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Speaker 3: Jackson Smith and Jigba same thing, just as rest.

548
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Speaker 2: And keep bubble wrap and uh and another veteran on

549
00:25:46,720 --> 00:25:48,640
Speaker 2: that defense, Leonard Williams.

550
00:25:48,080 --> 00:25:50,720
Speaker 4: Just Cam Hayward. Rest type guys.

551
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Speaker 3: Yeah, so hey, Donald, not one hundred percent, but most

552
00:25:53,760 --> 00:25:55,520
Speaker 3: guys aren't this time of year. I think the same

553
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Speaker 3: with with Charles Cross and now and now Emon Worry.

554
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Speaker 3: But all in all, not terrible for Seattle.

555
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Speaker 4: I do like that they give the Super Bowl an

556
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Speaker 4: extra week just for health reasons too, better chance to

557
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Speaker 4: get the best players out there with that week off.

558
00:26:07,680 --> 00:26:11,000
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, for the Patriots, pretty thin injury report. Robert

559
00:26:11,040 --> 00:26:13,600
Speaker 3: Splane did not practice yesterday with an ankle, but he

560
00:26:13,600 --> 00:26:17,960
Speaker 3: said he's a hundred percent confident he's playing. Harold Landry

561
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Speaker 3: limited with a knee injury. Most important development though, for

562
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Speaker 3: the Patriots. Is that Drake may no longer listed he's

563
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Speaker 3: full full go with that with that right shoulder.

564
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Speaker 4: In Okay, now he's taking a beating in the playoffs.

565
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Speaker 3: He has, Yeah, he has, and that'll certainly. I mean

566
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Speaker 3: for both quarterbacks. I think both of us would be

567
00:26:37,280 --> 00:26:38,440
Speaker 3: shocked if they wouldn't play.

568
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Speaker 2: Of course, Yeah, but I.

569
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Speaker 4: Donold played phenomenal last week.

570
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Speaker 3: I mean, so few of those guys are one hundred

571
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Speaker 3: percent this year, but you know, enough for both of

572
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Speaker 3: those guys to keep an eye on once things kick

573
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Speaker 3: off on Sunday night, Matt as we you know, look

574
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Speaker 3: a little bit at some Super Bowl specifics here, I

575
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Speaker 3: tell you what one thing.

576
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Speaker 2: I wanted.

577
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Speaker 3: There's a bunch obviously that I want to pick your

578
00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:07,920
Speaker 3: brain on, but I think it starts with talking about

579
00:27:08,640 --> 00:27:10,879
Speaker 3: is the number one matchup to keep an eye on?

580
00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:13,720
Speaker 3: Is that the Seattle defensive front against the Patriots offensive line?

581
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Speaker 3: Is that kind of the biggest X factor?

582
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Speaker 4: Probably one X factor that I always throw out there

583
00:27:19,640 --> 00:27:21,919
Speaker 4: because Seattle is so good at it is they have

584
00:27:21,920 --> 00:27:24,280
Speaker 4: a big special teams advantage. Again, we talked about that

585
00:27:24,320 --> 00:27:24,800
Speaker 4: with the Rams.

586
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Speaker 2: So it's funny.

587
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Speaker 3: I had a couple of things listed here for us

588
00:27:27,600 --> 00:27:31,320
Speaker 3: to kick around. Yeah, one is Seattle's special teams advantage.

589
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Speaker 4: It's not as big as the Rams. The Rams were

590
00:27:33,119 --> 00:27:35,920
Speaker 4: like bottom of the league. Patriots are average, but Seattle,

591
00:27:36,320 --> 00:27:40,080
Speaker 4: especially since getting Shaheed, they get a lot of which

592
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Speaker 4: is huge because I expected to be a very defensive game.

593
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Speaker 4: And to your point, I think the big I guess

594
00:27:47,840 --> 00:27:50,480
Speaker 4: the big matchups are similar to what you said, but

595
00:27:50,600 --> 00:27:52,960
Speaker 4: on both sides of the ball. And it makes me

596
00:27:53,520 --> 00:27:55,119
Speaker 4: And we had this conversation when we broke down the

597
00:27:55,119 --> 00:27:58,840
Speaker 4: Steelers D line yesterday or day before. I'm greedy there.

598
00:27:58,880 --> 00:28:04,399
Speaker 4: I want another. But Murphy and Williams versus the interior

599
00:28:04,520 --> 00:28:09,520
Speaker 4: the Patriots O line greatly favorite Seattle, and as much

600
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Speaker 4: as I love Gray's Abel, the rookie guard, bar More

601
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Speaker 4: and Williams greatly have an advantage over the interior of

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Speaker 4: Seattle's interior line. Okay, Yeah, I'm just I think the

603
00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:23,200
Speaker 4: tackles could rule the day.

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Speaker 2: That was the case. That was the case for the

605
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Speaker 2: Eagles last year.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and I could see May trying to put the

607
00:28:30,080 --> 00:28:32,479
Speaker 4: cape on but just getting beat up like crazy by

608
00:28:32,520 --> 00:28:34,000
Speaker 4: that front, much like Mahomes.

609
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Speaker 3: I mean, their tackle what Williams and Carter were able

610
00:28:37,359 --> 00:28:41,440
Speaker 3: to do last year. They destroyed worlds on Kansas City's

611
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Speaker 3: offensive line.

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Speaker 4: But I'm with you too. I mean, I think Campbell's

613
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Speaker 4: in for a real long day. Yeah, this time of year,

614
00:28:47,720 --> 00:28:50,240
Speaker 4: because it's one game. Some of the analytic nerds that

615
00:28:50,280 --> 00:28:53,040
Speaker 4: I follow and stuff really get into things. And this

616
00:28:53,120 --> 00:28:55,520
Speaker 4: is a draft note, but like one of the reasons

617
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Speaker 4: one of the only knocks on Will Campbell coming out

618
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Speaker 4: with short arms, you know, and I didn't like him

619
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Speaker 4: that much to begin with, and he's.

620
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Speaker 3: Really you've been on You've been on the record, they've

621
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Speaker 3: been rough on him. You would have taken Membo.

622
00:29:04,840 --> 00:29:07,800
Speaker 4: Yeah, you're the Patriots. But someone did a study this

623
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Speaker 4: year of all the defensive ends Campbell's gone against with

624
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Speaker 4: I don't know, I think it was like thirty four

625
00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:17,160
Speaker 4: inch arms or longer. Okay, they've all crushed him. M hmm.

626
00:29:17,480 --> 00:29:20,000
Speaker 3: I mean like one of the matter again, some some

627
00:29:20,120 --> 00:29:21,600
Speaker 3: dork getting real into the wings.

628
00:29:21,760 --> 00:29:23,960
Speaker 4: Like like I wonder who he had his bad games against.

629
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Speaker 4: What's in common, well, the the length of Lawrence and

630
00:29:29,920 --> 00:29:32,320
Speaker 4: all those d ns as you mentioned too, with you know,

631
00:29:32,440 --> 00:29:36,560
Speaker 4: Seattle's front is a problem, is a real problem. And

632
00:29:36,560 --> 00:29:38,920
Speaker 4: even Morgan moses the Ray tackle is going to be overwhelmed.

633
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Speaker 4: I think both d lines rule today.

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00:29:41,520 --> 00:29:43,760
Speaker 3: I think both the lines rule today, and which offensive

635
00:29:43,800 --> 00:29:47,160
Speaker 3: line can stymy that, yeah, is going to go a

636
00:29:47,160 --> 00:29:50,560
Speaker 3: long way, which like, which offensive line can just contain

637
00:29:50,600 --> 00:29:53,160
Speaker 3: it instead of instead of being overwhelmed.

638
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Speaker 4: By So it doesn't look like the Chiefs last year.

639
00:29:54,200 --> 00:29:56,400
Speaker 3: So it doesn't look like the Chiefs last year exactly, right?

640
00:29:56,440 --> 00:29:59,360
Speaker 3: That to me a chance that's probably the biggest just.

641
00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:02,040
Speaker 4: And May's mobility might help, but I mean not the

642
00:30:02,160 --> 00:30:04,920
Speaker 4: Donald's a slouch. Everybody can move absolutely, that was another

643
00:30:04,960 --> 00:30:07,240
Speaker 4: theme from ten years ago. All the quarterbacks can't move

644
00:30:07,280 --> 00:30:07,920
Speaker 4: like they do now. Right.

645
00:30:08,120 --> 00:30:12,080
Speaker 3: Chance the tomorrow when we kind of kick off real

646
00:30:12,400 --> 00:30:14,920
Speaker 3: Super Bowl conversation, I mean, I think it starts with

647
00:30:15,080 --> 00:30:17,560
Speaker 3: Drake May and Sam Donald and who do you trust more?

648
00:30:17,560 --> 00:30:19,240
Speaker 3: And who would you rather have? But I want to

649
00:30:19,240 --> 00:30:20,240
Speaker 3: save that for tomorrow.

650
00:30:20,320 --> 00:30:21,200
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, yeah.

651
00:30:21,240 --> 00:30:23,800
Speaker 3: But as we alluded to earlier in the week when

652
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Speaker 3: we talked about how successful both of these teams are

653
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Speaker 3: in their explosive play differential huge man. I think particularly

654
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Speaker 3: for the Patriots offense because it feels like they kind

655
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Speaker 3: of feast on those explosives like New England's offense needs

656
00:30:37,040 --> 00:30:39,200
Speaker 3: explosives to put up a bunch of points. Yeah, they're

657
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Speaker 3: not going to nickel and dime you nine, ten, eleven,

658
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Speaker 3: twelve play drives down the field as often as Seattle could.

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Speaker 4: I agree.

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Speaker 2: And so that to me is another big one.

661
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Speaker 3: Seattle's defense and their ability to limit the explosive plays

662
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Speaker 3: that we've seen all year, New England's offense and their

663
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Speaker 3: ability to hit the explosive plays that we've seen all year.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a good point because New England could be

665
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Speaker 4: three and out, three and out one first down pund

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Speaker 4: X one right and okay, and then you're in it,

667
00:31:02,440 --> 00:31:03,120
Speaker 4: you know, right.

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Speaker 3: And that same kind of thing we talked about yesterday

669
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Speaker 3: of when you start in your drives at the thirty

670
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Speaker 3: at the thirty five yard line, you hit one of

671
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Speaker 3: those explosives and you're in plus territory.

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Speaker 4: That's points.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, So that to me is a real is a

674
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Speaker 3: real kind of interesting, interesting storyline to keep an eye on.

675
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Speaker 3: And we'll get into some more of these tomorrow.

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Speaker 4: That was obviously another trend too. Field goal kickers are

677
00:31:24,760 --> 00:31:27,840
Speaker 4: a lot better now, expotentially better now than they were

678
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Speaker 4: ten years ago.

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Speaker 2: It so you know this, it's funny.

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Speaker 3: You know, I have a whole list of like off

681
00:31:33,240 --> 00:31:36,320
Speaker 3: season topics for us of you know, when we get

682
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Speaker 3: into the when we get into dry season and we're

683
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Speaker 3: not yeah, we're not being spoon fed content. One of

684
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Speaker 3: the things that I have, it's right here in my

685
00:31:43,320 --> 00:31:48,360
Speaker 3: off season notes. Kicking seems like it's too easy. Now

686
00:31:48,440 --> 00:31:52,240
Speaker 3: we see more sixty yarders than ever before. Should we

687
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Speaker 3: change something about this kicking game? Do we need to

688
00:31:54,480 --> 00:31:56,200
Speaker 3: make it more difficult? Do we need to shrink the

689
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Speaker 3: field goal posts? All this different stuff.

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Speaker 4: Well, we'll have that conversation. There's rounds why too.

691
00:32:00,680 --> 00:32:02,920
Speaker 3: Now is not the time to have that conversation, But

692
00:32:03,120 --> 00:32:05,080
Speaker 3: that is certainly one of the things that has rapidly

693
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Speaker 3: changed is how automatic these these kickers are across the

694
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Speaker 3: National Football League.

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Speaker 4: In turn, I mean the kickoff rules have done drastic

696
00:32:12,360 --> 00:32:14,720
Speaker 4: changes to the league just this past year. I mean,

697
00:32:15,080 --> 00:32:18,480
Speaker 4: the dramatic kickoff was not a failure, but now the

698
00:32:18,520 --> 00:32:20,680
Speaker 4: way that they have it structured is way way better

699
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Speaker 4: in terms of real returns. I think what an off

700
00:32:24,520 --> 00:32:27,560
Speaker 4: season need for the Steelers is a returner. Yeah, they've

701
00:32:27,560 --> 00:32:29,960
Speaker 4: been down the list, but like I've mentioned several times,

702
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Speaker 4: like I'd love to see him sign Romeo Dobbs and

703
00:32:32,880 --> 00:32:35,760
Speaker 4: a first round pick receiver and another guy. Well that

704
00:32:35,840 --> 00:32:38,560
Speaker 4: other guy might be a six rounder. That's a jitterbug

705
00:32:38,600 --> 00:32:40,520
Speaker 4: punt returner, kick returner type, you know what I mean?

706
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Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, yes, And that is one of those things too.

707
00:32:44,360 --> 00:32:46,720
Speaker 3: I think that especially, I know you've mentioned this before.

708
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Speaker 3: If they end up expanding the active roster that happens

709
00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:53,000
Speaker 3: that everybody exactly right, exactly right.

710
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Speaker 4: I should remember his name, But who was the dude

711
00:32:54,720 --> 00:32:56,760
Speaker 4: that played four or five games of the Steelers. I

712
00:32:56,800 --> 00:32:58,320
Speaker 4: want to say his last name was Williams. He's a

713
00:32:58,360 --> 00:33:00,520
Speaker 4: receiver by trade, Yeah, Kyron Williams, all right, right, like

714
00:33:01,440 --> 00:33:03,960
Speaker 4: he would be on the roster all year. Then just

715
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Speaker 4: just do that. Yes, but it makes a game better,

716
00:33:06,640 --> 00:33:07,520
Speaker 4: Oh it sure does.

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00:33:07,600 --> 00:33:11,400
Speaker 3: Right over under for this is forty five and a half.

718
00:33:11,440 --> 00:33:13,720
Speaker 3: Seahawks favored by four and a half points, so that's

719
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Speaker 3: about a twenty five the twenty ish final scorer, you know, projected,

720
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Speaker 3: give or take. We'll get into more prediction stuff and

721
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Speaker 3: all that tomorrow. But Matt, the last thing I really

722
00:33:24,920 --> 00:33:27,040
Speaker 3: started noticing today when I was deep diving into this.

723
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Speaker 3: I can't remember the last time there was a super

724
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Speaker 3: Bowl that felt this unanimous in terms of the picks.

725
00:33:35,200 --> 00:33:36,080
Speaker 4: Really maybe one.

726
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Speaker 2: Of these Chiefs years.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, but man, like, it feels like eighty ninety

728
00:33:40,440 --> 00:33:42,760
Speaker 3: percent of the you know, quote unquote analyst, doesn't matter

729
00:33:42,800 --> 00:33:45,840
Speaker 3: where you go, ESPNNFL, dot com anywhere else, are picking

730
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Speaker 3: the Seattle Seahawks.

731
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Speaker 4: I'm going to spoiler right, but I'm shocked the lines

732
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Speaker 4: that low give me. I have a lot of respect

733
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Speaker 4: for May and Vrabel and their defense playing really well.

734
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Speaker 3: It's given me some vibes of that first page Riots

735
00:34:00,280 --> 00:34:01,920
Speaker 3: team that won a Super Bowl back in like two

736
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Speaker 3: thousand and two, when it.

737
00:34:02,880 --> 00:34:05,240
Speaker 2: Was all, look how good the Saint Louis Rams are in.

738
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Speaker 3: The turf and the Patriots Patriots are just lucky to

739
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Speaker 3: be here, and then they win a knockdown, drag out,

740
00:34:11,800 --> 00:34:13,840
Speaker 3: low scoring defensive battle.

741
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Speaker 4: I guess don't same here.

742
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Speaker 3: I do not think this will be the sexy Super

743
00:34:19,360 --> 00:34:21,319
Speaker 3: Bowl of lighting it up and back and forth that

744
00:34:21,400 --> 00:34:23,840
Speaker 3: we have seen a few times over the last handful

745
00:34:23,880 --> 00:34:26,759
Speaker 3: of years. Felt like that was always the case when

746
00:34:26,760 --> 00:34:30,399
Speaker 3: the Chiefs and the Niners met up. Certainly, but yeah,

747
00:34:30,560 --> 00:34:32,319
Speaker 3: it's it's gonna be a fun one.

748
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Speaker 2: On Sunday.

749
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Speaker 3: We'll get more into it some of the matchups and

750
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Speaker 3: specifics tomorrow, but when we return, Matt little Best of

751
00:34:39,040 --> 00:34:42,480
Speaker 3: the West. Okay, we've gotten some questions on Twitter about

752
00:34:42,520 --> 00:34:45,319
Speaker 3: super Bowl food and Super Bowl traditions and things like

753
00:34:45,320 --> 00:34:47,359
Speaker 3: that that I want to kick around with you. And

754
00:34:47,400 --> 00:34:49,680
Speaker 3: then there was one thing that struck me this morning

755
00:34:50,160 --> 00:34:52,600
Speaker 3: talking about how much the game has changed and all that.

756
00:34:52,920 --> 00:34:56,879
Speaker 3: I was watching some highlight packages from Super Bowls of yesteryear.

757
00:34:56,719 --> 00:34:58,800
Speaker 2: And something stood out to me that I really missed.

758
00:34:58,840 --> 00:35:01,920
Speaker 3: That doesn't happen anymore. All Right, I'll run that by

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Speaker 3: you when we return to close down the first hour

760
00:35:03,640 --> 00:35:06,600
Speaker 3: as well. On the other side, more super Bowl Talk

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Speaker 3: West Shoeoler, Matt Williamson. It is the Drive on Steelers

762
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Speaker 3: Nation Radio on the Steelers Audio Network, your tunes.

763
00:35:12,360 --> 00:35:14,799
Speaker 1: About Drive on your twenty four to seven home of

764
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Speaker 1: the Black and Goal, Steelers Nation.

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Speaker 3: Radio, closing down the first hour of the Drive here

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Speaker 3: on this Thursday. And Matt, we have gotten some tweets

767
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Speaker 3: about what are your musts for Super Bowl Sunday, for

768
00:35:40,640 --> 00:35:44,320
Speaker 3: food wise and for all those things. I got some stereotypical,

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Speaker 3: but I think it's still fun to have, you know,

770
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Speaker 3: conversations you and I don't spend as much time on

771
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Speaker 3: that as nearly anybody else does.

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Speaker 4: So I should run this by you because I'm going

773
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Speaker 4: to be useless for this segment, because I treat it

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Speaker 4: like any other Sunday of the year. I sit in

775
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Speaker 4: my chair and I do work, you know.

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Speaker 3: So it's hilarious you say that because I'm not quite

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00:36:02,800 --> 00:36:05,280
Speaker 3: to that extent, but I'm somewhere in between.

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Speaker 4: But I'm questioning should I just go to a party

779
00:36:08,160 --> 00:36:10,680
Speaker 4: and just watch every snap? I mean, I don't know, all.

780
00:36:10,680 --> 00:36:11,920
Speaker 2: Right, so let's let's go there.

781
00:36:12,040 --> 00:36:12,640
Speaker 4: Let's go there.

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Speaker 3: I really sit on the fence on that one because

783
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Speaker 3: it is fun. It's an American tradition. You'd get a

784
00:36:18,520 --> 00:36:21,160
Speaker 3: pot luck thing like, hey, I'm getting a hundred wings.

785
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Speaker 3: Everybody else bring a side.

786
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Speaker 4: You know. I would eat better. I mean, I might

787
00:36:25,719 --> 00:36:27,040
Speaker 4: eat just whatever's in the fridge.

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Speaker 3: You know. All through all throughout my twenties before I

789
00:36:29,360 --> 00:36:33,279
Speaker 3: had kids, you know, really like up until COVID timeframe.

790
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Speaker 2: We did that.

791
00:36:33,560 --> 00:36:36,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, going to parties and parties all that stuff.

792
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Speaker 3: And don't get me wrong, it is a lot of fun,

793
00:36:38,760 --> 00:36:40,600
Speaker 3: and it's a fun tradition. But at the same time,

794
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Speaker 3: one you're not is intently watching the game.

795
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Speaker 4: That's the thing. I gotta talk about it next.

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Speaker 3: I don't care even if you are with all your

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Speaker 3: buddies who are all football junkies too, Like you're just

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Speaker 3: not as intently watching the game as you are at home.

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Speaker 3: And two, and this is kind of the big kicker

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Speaker 3: for me. When I do Super Bowl parties, When we

801
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Speaker 3: do those gatherings, what do we do in this country?

802
00:37:00,840 --> 00:37:04,359
Speaker 3: We overeat, we overdrink, we indulge. And then I wake

803
00:37:04,440 --> 00:37:07,879
Speaker 3: up Monday morning lethargic and feeling like crap.

804
00:37:07,680 --> 00:37:09,800
Speaker 2: And I gotta work all day, like it's a Monday.

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Speaker 3: I hate starting a Monday tired, and i ate way

806
00:37:13,880 --> 00:37:16,360
Speaker 3: too much last night, and I'm a little hungover and

807
00:37:16,400 --> 00:37:17,160
Speaker 3: all those like.

808
00:37:17,600 --> 00:37:20,440
Speaker 4: I hate to have a beverage. I watched the game.

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00:37:20,440 --> 00:37:21,960
Speaker 2: Absolutely, I'm gonna eat some food.

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Speaker 3: But when you do the party gathering, you eat way

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Speaker 3: too much and you end up staying up later and

812
00:37:27,360 --> 00:37:30,279
Speaker 3: the whole time. Yeah, exactly right, And then you wake

813
00:37:30,360 --> 00:37:33,239
Speaker 3: up Monday groggy and lethargic, and it's a slow start

814
00:37:33,280 --> 00:37:34,360
Speaker 3: to the week, and all that.

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Speaker 4: I already know the answer. I'm gonna be home alone,

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Speaker 4: sitting in my lazy boy watch.

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00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:40,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, enjoying it, like one or two of my buddies

818
00:37:40,760 --> 00:37:42,920
Speaker 3: might come over. But we're not doing anything crazy. Like

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Speaker 3: last night my wife said to me, what should we

820
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Speaker 3: do for food for the Super Bowl? And I was like, oh, yeah,

821
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Speaker 3: I didn't even think about that. Yeah, probably too late

822
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Speaker 3: to pre order wings or anything like that.

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00:37:53,000 --> 00:37:56,319
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I just last time we went to Giant Eagle.

824
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Speaker 4: Whatever's in the fridge, or maybe I'll order pizza for myself.

825
00:37:58,880 --> 00:38:01,920
Speaker 4: Like I'm not even home to walk. You hit me

826
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Speaker 4: like flopped there, you know, right right?

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Speaker 2: But RJ tweeted us, Chris tweeted us.

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Speaker 3: I think there was somebody else that's like that, Like,

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Speaker 3: you know, I need to know you must have foods

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Speaker 3: on a Super Bowl spread top three foods for Super

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Speaker 3: Bowl Sunday. That kind of thing I am big on.

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Speaker 3: Like there has to be some wings involved.

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Speaker 4: Wings are huge.

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Speaker 3: I feel like wings have to be involved, so that

835
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Speaker 3: would certainly be one. And then you gotta have some

836
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Speaker 3: good dips, some good chips and dips.

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Speaker 4: We're assuming this is a party environment, right or even

838
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Speaker 4: at least you know, eight to ten people over or something. Yeah, yeah,

839
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Speaker 4: showing like you're hostings Yeah, it's not just Johnny from

840
00:38:35,360 --> 00:38:36,520
Speaker 4: next door stops over.

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00:38:36,440 --> 00:38:38,520
Speaker 3: Correct correct gotta have some wings. I think you gotta

842
00:38:38,520 --> 00:38:40,880
Speaker 3: have some good chips and dips, some Buffalo chicken dip.

843
00:38:40,960 --> 00:38:44,080
Speaker 4: You guys should know this opinion on wings. I respect

844
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Speaker 4: all the other flavors. I never ever ever order them

845
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Speaker 4: because I love Buffalo so much. I I They're like

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Speaker 4: a different zine for me.

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Speaker 3: I'm seventy five percent okay, Buffalo. I do like like

848
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Speaker 3: a good I see ranch type wing. I do love

849
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Speaker 3: a good women lemon pepper wing.

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Speaker 4: You know, like when the Steelers get like a draft

851
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Speaker 4: sometimes they have like eight million of them and I

852
00:39:08,719 --> 00:39:11,000
Speaker 4: try them. They're fine, but I'm like a flower, like

853
00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:12,520
Speaker 4: the purp. Why would you have them? To mess with them?

854
00:39:12,640 --> 00:39:15,160
Speaker 4: And nobody's messing with them. But I would always order Buffle.

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00:39:15,200 --> 00:39:17,680
Speaker 2: Big Shot Bob's has a wing called the Mean Joe Green.

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Speaker 4: I've had them. They were at the draft a couple

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Speaker 4: of years ago.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like it's like a gold sauce. I do

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00:39:22,800 --> 00:39:24,480
Speaker 3: love a gold sauce, good gold sauce. It's like a

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00:39:24,520 --> 00:39:27,839
Speaker 3: gold sauce with a jalapeno drizzle on it.

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Speaker 4: Unbelievable and it was really good, but I Buffalo's better.

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Speaker 3: I'm seventy five perfect, I'm seventy five eighty percent of

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00:39:34,040 --> 00:39:37,720
Speaker 3: the time Buffalo, yeah, yeah, and then like ten percent

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Speaker 3: of the time lemon pepper. I am a lemon pepper fan.

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Speaker 3: And then ten percent of the time something else.

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Speaker 4: Like if I went to your house and all you

867
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Speaker 4: had was lemon pepper, I'd be happy.

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Speaker 2: But I know what you mean, But if I'm.

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Speaker 4: Sitting there with the menu, I would always pick Buffalo. Brother,

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Speaker 4: not even try.

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Speaker 2: Brother.

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Speaker 3: You are not breaking any news to me because you

873
00:39:52,840 --> 00:39:55,479
Speaker 3: remember once upon a time, back in the early days

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Speaker 3: of my employment here, when I was just doing behind

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Speaker 3: the scenes stuff. For the most part, I'd go the

876
00:40:01,000 --> 00:40:04,440
Speaker 3: South Park Clubhouse every Wednesday night with with you and Wolf.

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Speaker 4: We've moved locations, but we're still doing and.

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Speaker 3: Wolf and Matt before they would put down a rack

879
00:40:10,480 --> 00:40:13,640
Speaker 3: of ribs, would put down like two dozen Buffalo aways. Yeah,

880
00:40:13,920 --> 00:40:16,000
Speaker 3: while they were in the middle of breaking down the

881
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Speaker 3: Cleveland Browns offensive line.

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00:40:17,680 --> 00:40:19,520
Speaker 2: It was. It was cinema.

883
00:40:19,880 --> 00:40:22,560
Speaker 4: One of the tricks is and Wolf doesn't adhere to this.

884
00:40:23,719 --> 00:40:26,279
Speaker 4: I go boneless when you're on the air.

885
00:40:26,320 --> 00:40:28,320
Speaker 2: When you're on the air, because he doesn't care.

886
00:40:28,200 --> 00:40:30,120
Speaker 4: If he was covered in wing sauce. I'm like, I

887
00:40:30,120 --> 00:40:31,839
Speaker 4: don't really want to be covered in wing sauce.

888
00:40:33,400 --> 00:40:35,080
Speaker 2: You just take a fork and stat right.

889
00:40:35,320 --> 00:40:38,640
Speaker 4: I mean, I would a boneless dip theman in blue cheese,

890
00:40:38,880 --> 00:40:40,839
Speaker 4: and it's way more efficient. Like if you asked Tom

891
00:40:40,920 --> 00:40:43,319
Speaker 4: or Tim, I get them ninety percent of the time.

892
00:40:43,400 --> 00:40:45,840
Speaker 4: That's my meal. I got a double order of boneless,

893
00:40:45,840 --> 00:40:46,960
Speaker 4: double order of boneless.

894
00:40:47,680 --> 00:40:49,800
Speaker 2: I remember it well. You still get the rack of

895
00:40:49,880 --> 00:40:51,000
Speaker 2: ribs too, or just the double order.

896
00:40:51,080 --> 00:40:53,440
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's funny, that's funny. They usually get side solid

897
00:40:53,480 --> 00:40:58,640
Speaker 4: to be healthy too. I have because I didn't care

898
00:40:58,640 --> 00:40:59,359
Speaker 4: one bit about that.

899
00:41:00,080 --> 00:41:05,600
Speaker 3: Imagine no pieces of peanut butter pie to take everywhere

900
00:41:05,600 --> 00:41:07,560
Speaker 3: with him, bones everywhere from the wings and ribs, and

901
00:41:07,560 --> 00:41:09,880
Speaker 3: then he'd walk out with two bags full of desserts.

902
00:41:10,239 --> 00:41:12,440
Speaker 2: Got I miss that guy.

903
00:41:12,880 --> 00:41:16,040
Speaker 3: I another thing that's really changed about me in my thirties.

904
00:41:16,120 --> 00:41:17,480
Speaker 3: I'll be thirty five here at the end of the

905
00:41:17,520 --> 00:41:19,600
Speaker 3: month of February, so I'm knocking on the door of

906
00:41:19,680 --> 00:41:20,120
Speaker 3: thirty five.

907
00:41:20,200 --> 00:41:22,359
Speaker 2: Is I still like I told you?

908
00:41:22,480 --> 00:41:24,880
Speaker 3: I like A like if it's a if it's a

909
00:41:24,920 --> 00:41:29,000
Speaker 3: buffalo spicy ranch wing. But man, if I become a

910
00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:32,239
Speaker 3: blue cheese guy in the last three four five years

911
00:41:32,239 --> 00:41:32,680
Speaker 3: of my life.

912
00:41:32,760 --> 00:41:34,799
Speaker 4: Again, if all you had was ranch, I don't know

913
00:41:34,840 --> 00:41:36,799
Speaker 4: if I would dip a buffalo wing in it or not.

914
00:41:37,040 --> 00:41:39,359
Speaker 2: No, but if it's part of the if it's part

915
00:41:39,360 --> 00:41:40,040
Speaker 2: of the sauce.

916
00:41:40,120 --> 00:41:42,719
Speaker 3: Is when I like a like a spicy ranch wing,

917
00:41:43,080 --> 00:41:45,200
Speaker 3: it's part of the sauce proper, not.

918
00:41:45,120 --> 00:41:47,640
Speaker 2: Just a dip. If I'm dipping, I'm going buffalo all day.

919
00:41:47,760 --> 00:41:49,520
Speaker 4: Like I get mad at my kids, Like if my

920
00:41:49,560 --> 00:41:51,359
Speaker 4: kids are old enough that they'll order food for us

921
00:41:51,360 --> 00:41:53,040
Speaker 4: now you know, yeah, Like what do you want? And

922
00:41:53,239 --> 00:41:55,240
Speaker 4: like just get me wings? And like if they forget

923
00:41:55,239 --> 00:41:57,680
Speaker 4: the blue cheese, Like, come on, they're on the they're

924
00:41:57,719 --> 00:41:59,319
Speaker 4: on the list, dude, Like they should know better.

925
00:41:59,640 --> 00:42:02,680
Speaker 3: Come on, new habit once a night in the Ewler household,

926
00:42:02,719 --> 00:42:04,520
Speaker 3: or once a night that'd be a lot. Once a

927
00:42:04,520 --> 00:42:07,320
Speaker 3: week in the Euler household, we do we do ribbis

928
00:42:07,360 --> 00:42:10,040
Speaker 3: and cab night nice So we get ribbis and we

929
00:42:10,080 --> 00:42:12,680
Speaker 3: get a nice, nice bottle of cabs and wife does

930
00:42:12,680 --> 00:42:16,000
Speaker 3: mashed potatoes. I do the steaks and asparagus. I've been

931
00:42:16,040 --> 00:42:17,960
Speaker 3: starting the last couple of weeks. I'll get just a

932
00:42:17,960 --> 00:42:20,279
Speaker 3: little thing of blue cheese at the grocery store, like

933
00:42:20,320 --> 00:42:22,719
Speaker 3: a like a half pound, not even quarter pound, or

934
00:42:22,719 --> 00:42:25,200
Speaker 3: like good blue cheese. Just put some crumbles on on

935
00:42:25,320 --> 00:42:27,440
Speaker 3: like part of the ribbi. Oh, it's unbelievable.

936
00:42:27,640 --> 00:42:31,160
Speaker 4: That's probably my steak of choice in an unlimited selection.

937
00:42:31,520 --> 00:42:36,359
Speaker 4: If again they open a menu, probably doesn't matter what take.

938
00:42:36,400 --> 00:42:39,479
Speaker 4: Would probably be a ribbi with crab and blue cheese

939
00:42:39,520 --> 00:42:43,760
Speaker 4: on it. It could be the saucy ones but crumbled.

940
00:42:43,760 --> 00:42:45,879
Speaker 4: It's probably better because it starts to melt too, But

941
00:42:45,960 --> 00:42:46,560
Speaker 4: that's why.

942
00:42:46,760 --> 00:42:48,560
Speaker 3: You put a little just like and I don't want

943
00:42:48,560 --> 00:42:50,160
Speaker 3: it on every single bite, just like half of my

944
00:42:50,280 --> 00:42:53,560
Speaker 3: ribbi with a little blue cheese crumble it's on, it's on.

945
00:42:55,719 --> 00:42:57,440
Speaker 2: Wings. Dips.

946
00:42:57,920 --> 00:42:59,600
Speaker 4: Dips are big, big time.

947
00:42:59,800 --> 00:43:01,480
Speaker 2: And and I guess my third thing.

948
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Speaker 4: I've eaten more of that like my dad had when

949
00:43:03,719 --> 00:43:07,480
Speaker 4: I was six. It's just old school soft pretzel. No,

950
00:43:08,239 --> 00:43:10,520
Speaker 4: just old school French onion dip. It's so good great.

951
00:43:10,600 --> 00:43:12,000
Speaker 4: I never would eat a good.

952
00:43:12,040 --> 00:43:13,520
Speaker 2: I never eat like hell of a good.

953
00:43:13,719 --> 00:43:17,040
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, what's the one from around here that everyone.

954
00:43:18,880 --> 00:43:23,640
Speaker 3: Yeahs baby, Yeah, I'm a big, a big soft pretzel

955
00:43:23,680 --> 00:43:25,799
Speaker 3: guy too. We had that conversation the other day. My

956
00:43:25,840 --> 00:43:27,919
Speaker 3: wife is a big soft pretzels for the super Bowl.

957
00:43:28,000 --> 00:43:30,279
Speaker 3: Her Philly, you know, her Philly heritage comes out.

958
00:43:30,400 --> 00:43:33,000
Speaker 4: I would never eat it. I would never choose a

959
00:43:33,040 --> 00:43:37,040
Speaker 4: plane potato chip. But what French onion dip? Yeah?

960
00:43:37,120 --> 00:43:39,720
Speaker 3: See, I think that's one of the areas you and I.

961
00:43:39,719 --> 00:43:42,160
Speaker 3: I love a classic glazed donut. I love just a

962
00:43:42,239 --> 00:43:44,239
Speaker 3: classic basic potato chip.

963
00:43:44,280 --> 00:43:46,600
Speaker 4: If there was a bull at a party, that would

964
00:43:46,600 --> 00:43:47,920
Speaker 4: be I would not pick.

965
00:43:47,800 --> 00:43:50,600
Speaker 3: That if they're done right. I love the classic chips.

966
00:43:50,600 --> 00:43:53,319
Speaker 3: I love the classic donuts. Matt, we're up against it here.

967
00:43:53,440 --> 00:43:55,400
Speaker 3: The one thing that I told you I was scrolling

968
00:43:55,440 --> 00:43:58,240
Speaker 3: through reels today and watching super Bowl highlights of past.

969
00:43:58,440 --> 00:44:01,759
Speaker 4: Yeah. Act of chili to the side is never a

970
00:44:01,800 --> 00:44:03,440
Speaker 4: bad idea, something something.

971
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Speaker 2: Now you're talking bro flashbobs, light bulbs at super Bowl kickoffs.

972
00:44:10,280 --> 00:44:11,480
Speaker 4: I guess they don't exist anymore.

973
00:44:11,520 --> 00:44:14,040
Speaker 3: They don't exist anymore. And because everyone's got the cell

974
00:44:14,080 --> 00:44:15,040
Speaker 3: phone and it's.

975
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Speaker 4: You know, but I even missed lighters at concerts.

976
00:44:17,680 --> 00:44:20,880
Speaker 3: Lighters at concerts. But man, someone posted it might have

977
00:44:20,920 --> 00:44:23,399
Speaker 3: been the NFL account this morning. The devin Hester. It's

978
00:44:23,400 --> 00:44:25,560
Speaker 3: like the anniversary the devin Hester opening kickoff.

979
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Speaker 4: It's like a bomb goes off.

980
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Speaker 2: It is unbelievable.

981
00:44:28,239 --> 00:44:30,080
Speaker 4: Everyone in the stadium, percent.

982
00:44:29,880 --> 00:44:30,960
Speaker 2: Of the stadium, you got the flat.

983
00:44:31,239 --> 00:44:32,680
Speaker 3: It was such a call and I was like, I

984
00:44:32,719 --> 00:44:34,799
Speaker 3: remember that was always a thing as a kid, Like

985
00:44:34,840 --> 00:44:35,520
Speaker 3: I remember my.

986
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Speaker 2: Grandpa being like, wait for the flash babs, flash bubs

987
00:44:38,040 --> 00:44:38,919
Speaker 2: and the lights.

988
00:44:39,400 --> 00:44:41,120
Speaker 4: You can see the moon so cool.

989
00:44:41,440 --> 00:44:43,839
Speaker 3: It was like an LED drone show before we had

990
00:44:43,960 --> 00:44:46,560
Speaker 3: LED drone shows. That's one of those old time things

991
00:44:46,600 --> 00:44:48,360
Speaker 3: that I missed. All the all the light bulbs on

992
00:44:48,440 --> 00:44:51,200
Speaker 3: the kickoff hour in the books. Now another hour to go.

993
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Speaker 3: When we return for hour number two, Matt and I

994
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Speaker 3: will step back into the professor chair, we will continue

995
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Speaker 3: this week's exercise of position group report cards for the

996
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:01,840
Speaker 3: It'sburg Steelers. We'll also get to some of your tweets

997
00:45:01,840 --> 00:45:04,399
Speaker 3: before we get up out of here in our number

998
00:45:04,440 --> 00:45:07,040
Speaker 3: two as well. Halfway Home on the Drive Steelers Nation

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Speaker 3: Radio on the Steelers Audio Network