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Speaker 4: What fifty five second dramatic Calvin Austin's game winning touchdown?

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Speaker 4: There brought to you by the voice of the Pittsburgh Steelers,

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Speaker 4: Rob King. He joins us Now, King or thank you

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Speaker 4: for taking the time on a busy, on a low

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Speaker 4: sleep reaction Monday here. You've been covering high level sports

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Speaker 4: for a long time, NFL, MLB, NHL. I know you've

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Speaker 4: done some college basketball and things like that before. I'm

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Speaker 4: sure you've been a part of some pretty epic, some

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Speaker 4: pretty wild endings and games and things like that, Kinger.

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Speaker 4: I also imagine last night's finish and how it all

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Speaker 4: played out is towards the top of your list all

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Speaker 4: time time capsule stuff at Akroshar Stadium last night.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's funny you ask it and ask it that way,

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Speaker 2: like I haven't articulated to myself like hey, where does

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Speaker 3: And maybe maybe I will at some point.

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Speaker 2: I will just tell you this that you know, having

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Speaker 2: been around me for the last couple of years, you

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Speaker 2: know that, like usually I'm right into the next game, right, like,

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Speaker 2: let's go, here we go, let's let's get on with it.

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Speaker 2: That was great, that was fun. And now let's start

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Speaker 2: the fun of getting ready for the next opponent. Cause

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Speaker 2: that part's fun too, right.

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Speaker 5: I just have been.

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Speaker 2: What is that region between Spain and France, I've been

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Speaker 2: in Basque Country. I've just been basking.

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Speaker 5: I've just enjoyed it, you know.

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Speaker 2: I I don't want to think about the Houston Texans.

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Speaker 2: I don't want to think about them till tomorrow. I'm

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Speaker 2: sure when we go to dive into them, all of

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Speaker 2: us we're going to be excited about it. But right now,

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Speaker 2: it's just it's just a warm glow. It's a great

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Speaker 2: feeling too to have been there and to see that

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Speaker 5: Know, first of it was just a great game.

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Speaker 2: And the awesome you know, feeling that fans had, and

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Speaker 2: and you know, to be able to in my own

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Speaker 3: Just it was phenomenal.

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Speaker 6: I definitely want to get into the game with you,

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Speaker 6: Rob and some of the things that happened and all

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Speaker 6: those things, but I certainly got the impression and just

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Speaker 6: real West touched on it briefly in the first segment

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Speaker 6: that the fans themselves were a plus.

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Speaker 2: Huh, it was an incredible crowd, Yeah, Matt, I mean

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Speaker 2: it's you know, so I've been doing the games for

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Speaker 3: Prior to that, you.

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Speaker 2: Know, I was doing the postgame show with with you know,

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Speaker 5: And so I mean.

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Speaker 2: I've been to every home game the last four years

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Speaker 3: When the last time was that I thought a crowd.

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Speaker 5: Was that good. But you could feel it.

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Speaker 2: I mean they were standing up and cheering from the

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Speaker 2: They were looking for reasons to cheer, they wanted to cheer.

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Speaker 2: There were terrible towels all over the place. I mean,

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Speaker 2: You know, they know when to cheers. They I wanted

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Speaker 2: But I just thought it was, like you said, A plus,

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Speaker 2: I thought it was a sensational crowd last night, right

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Speaker 3: The crowd went nuts for the anthems singer.

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Speaker 2: All black and she waved, the waved the terrible talents,

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Speaker 2: One of the great things about Pittsburgh, there's so many

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Speaker 5: You know they are.

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Speaker 3: They are hanging on every word and cheering when they

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Speaker 2: Actually, I can't think of another place that's really liked

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Speaker 2: that sensational crowd last night, Absolutely sensational.

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Speaker 4: No doubt. From from the anthem to the loop miss

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Speaker 4: It was pandemonium. It was one of the best.

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Speaker 2: Atmosphere, Wes, they didn't want to leave, that's just hanging around.

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Speaker 2: They just so many fans, Sure some of them filed that,

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Speaker 3: They didn't want to leave because it was like a

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Speaker 2: I'm still feeling that globe of magic today. They just

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Speaker 2: kind of where That's where my head'space is right now.

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Speaker 4: Uh No, no doubt. And that's a great call, King

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Speaker 4: or two on the end, because I hadn't We talked

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Speaker 4: a little bit about the atmosphere. But yeah, that that

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Speaker 4: part of the end kind of reminded me of like collegiate,

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Speaker 4: like no one wants to leave, you know, like the bands.

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Speaker 4: The band's playing and we're singing along and celebrating, and

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Speaker 4: get out of here. Yeah, all time time capsule stuff

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Speaker 4: and Kinger so much of that centered around the performance

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Speaker 4: of Aaron Rodgers. I think, listen, I'll be the first one,

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Speaker 4: I'll admit it, but I'm sure I'm not alone. If

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Speaker 4: you guys would have told me Friday, Eric, or if

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Speaker 4: you even told me yesterday before kickoff, Aaron Rodgers is

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Speaker 4: going to throw the ball forty seven times?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, that run past ratio.

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Speaker 4: I would have said what that means. The Steelers were

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Speaker 4: probably trailing the whole second half and playing from behind,

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Speaker 4: and things didn't go their way, And that's not the thing.

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Speaker 6: Game didn't anything.

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Speaker 4: That's not the outcome that we're looking for. Man Toby Keith,

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Speaker 4: rob King, I ain't as good as I once was,

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Speaker 4: but I'm as good once as I ever was. Aaron Rodgers,

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Speaker 4: I think, especially in the second half, just exactly what

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Speaker 2: I mean, look, you know, and we talk about numbers

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Speaker 2: they won the turnover battle against the Browns, Aaron Rodgers

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Speaker 2: AFC Nord title in Cleveland, but that didn't happen. And

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Speaker 2: you're right, there's some statistical anomalies in this game, some

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Speaker 2: I would have liked to see them run the ball more.

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Speaker 2: I'd like to see them run the ball more against Cleveland.

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Speaker 2: Probably if they ran the ball seventy four times and

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Speaker 2: are both phenomenal players.

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Speaker 5: But Aaron Rodgers is he is, you know, And I.

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Speaker 2: Don't want to just say mentally, because physically he still has.

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Speaker 5: A lot left.

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Speaker 2: I mean, we've seen the arm strength and he still

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Speaker 2: He still has great athleticism as we saw on the run,

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Speaker 3: I just think more and more, I think a big

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Speaker 2: things that are trending in the right direction for this yelers. Yea,

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Speaker 6: Yeah, and I wanted to keep talking about that even more,

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Speaker 6: that his command is showing up even more week to week,

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Speaker 6: I think it's those around him have started to embrace

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Speaker 6: it have changed more from what I heard, I of

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Speaker 6: course listened to the radio broadcast, but on the television broadcast,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's exactly what I was trying to articulate. Matt

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Speaker 2: I'm asking Calvin, Hey, what do you what do you

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Speaker 3: I mean, who does that?

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Speaker 5: You know?

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Speaker 2: And the answer is not many, if any, you know.

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Speaker 2: And I do think that the fact that they're all

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Speaker 3: What he wants and that they respect what he wants.

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Speaker 2: Right, they know, you know, he talked last night about

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Speaker 2: you know, there are a lot of people that thought that, oh,

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Speaker 3: Steelers are going to fall apart.

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Speaker 2: And I read one prognostication before the season, this is

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Speaker 2: it was going to be oil and water, and no,

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Speaker 2: that hasn't been the case at all. And he was

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Speaker 2: talking last night about the collective and Mike Brigida was

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Speaker 2: telling us about that that John Smith, sure he wants

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Speaker 2: Kenny Gambell has a big game and the first thing

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Speaker 2: the words out of Jaalen Warren's mouth, that's my guy,

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Speaker 2: you know, not boy. I wish those carries went to me.

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Speaker 2: I wish I was the guy sweeping around right end

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Speaker 5: I digress.

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Speaker 2: But I just think the fact that they're all in

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Speaker 5: On how you define it.

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Speaker 2: But I think it's a big thing for the Steelers,

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Speaker 5: Sure, but I wouldn't I wouldn't bet on it.

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Speaker 3: You know. I love the way the Steelers are trending

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Speaker 4: And king a kind of piggybacking off of that at

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Speaker 4: respect to Aaron Rodgers and TJ. Watt is cam Hayward. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: my goodness, did he I was about to say, did

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Speaker 4: he look like a guy who had some playoff incentives

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Speaker 4: be fair, he's looked like that for the last handful

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Speaker 4: of weeks. Uh, quite literally. The fine wine aging Matt

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Speaker 6: Yeah, and expand on that, like, obviously Rob has a

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Speaker 6: Cam's as good an example as there is.

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Speaker 2: You know. Yeah, by the way, I thought you were

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Speaker 5: Uh yeah, the you know, for I.

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Speaker 2: Think it's ninth for the most regular season wins of

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Speaker 2: You know that that Ravens Steelers matchup, you know, Cam Hayward.

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Speaker 6: But real quick, Rob, I mean, obviously coach Tomlin has

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Speaker 6: that you mentioned Ramsey Metcalf Rogers. Guys, what do you

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Speaker 2: You know, right, like the Browns just fired the two

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Speaker 2: just keep winning. You know, you almost have to be

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Speaker 3: Uh, it's been too successful for one.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, us hear your success counts against you. So I

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Speaker 2: think that you know again, to win the AFC North title,

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Speaker 2: there's gonna be gnashing of teeth and whaling in Baltimore

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Speaker 5: Hadn't been hurt.

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Speaker 2: Okay, well, you know the Steelers are out there relying

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Speaker 5: By the way, to.

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Speaker 2: Get back to the original statement, Cam Hayward, I just

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Speaker 2: want to quickly say I think Alex Highsmith has been

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Speaker 5: I thought he was playing you.

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Speaker 3: Know, solid good, solid football throughout the first.

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Speaker 2: Half the season, kind of had the Holden thing with

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Speaker 5: I don't know. I mean he was awfully good last

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Speaker 2: Year last year. Uh, he is just playing at an

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Speaker 3: In the leadership.

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Speaker 2: I just think I agree, guy, he has been incredible, tremendous.

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Speaker 4: He sure has, and uh hopefully he will continue to

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Speaker 4: do the same. Monday Night Football a little over a

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Speaker 4: a wild we.

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Speaker 6: Get that extra day that we don't have to look

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Speaker 6: forward because they play Monday Night. That's feel a little

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Speaker 6: bit better about it. We can bask for a little bit,

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Speaker 6: as you said, you know.

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Speaker 4: We can bag get your passport out basking.

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Speaker 2: We're in Basque country and you know what for once

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Speaker 2: it's the Steelers will getting the extra day arrest, right,

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Speaker 2: that's been a problem with the schedule down down the line,

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Speaker 2: and Mike Thomason after the game last night, they could

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Speaker 2: rave game. So we'll take it. The Steelers will take it,

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Speaker 2: and I can't wait to you know, in the next

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Speaker 4: We'll be excited to hear you on the call next

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Speaker 4: Monday Night. Of course, King or thank you for taking

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Speaker 4: the time here today to recap an instant.

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Speaker 5: Classic with us, Thanks guys.

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Speaker 4: There he goes Rob King, voice of the Steelers on

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Speaker 4: the Steelers Audio Network,