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Speaker 1: here we are, twelve minutes to go in the third quarter,

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Speaker 1: and it's exactly the offensive struggle and lack of a

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Speaker 1: really entertaining offensive football game. We thought we were gonna

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Speaker 1: get seven to six. Texans lead the Steelers. Though the

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Speaker 1: Texans are knocking on the door. They just ran Woody

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Speaker 1: Marks for about five yards. They have the ball now

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Speaker 1: second and six at the Steelers sixteen yard line. So

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Speaker 1: finally CJ. Stroud holding onto the football a little bit

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Speaker 1: more than he did in the first half, and now

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Speaker 1: maybe the Texans go in and get a big score.

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Speaker 4: Some big opportunities missed wide open wide receivers. The I

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Speaker 4: don't have the ball anymore as I'm kind of getting

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Speaker 4: hit but not quite. Yeah, just a curious end of

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Speaker 4: the first half. But if you bet the over on this,

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Speaker 4: that tells me you just blindly like wishing, wanting, hoping

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Speaker 4: that there's a lot of scoring.

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Speaker 1: But didn't the overcome in at twenty seven and a half.

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Speaker 1: I know there was a lot of downward pressure, don't.

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Speaker 1: I don't think it quite broke through that far. You

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Speaker 1: know what, would I be shocked? No, all right, no,

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Speaker 1: I would not have the under. I would still take

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Speaker 1: the under on that. Tw he s out and I'm

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Speaker 1: feeling pretty good right now, ye you know, nearing the

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Speaker 1: midway point of the third quarter, I'm feeling pretty good.

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Speaker 4: Both defensive lines absolutely dominating.

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Speaker 1: CJ.

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Speaker 4: Stroud with some happy feet. We've seen that before this

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Speaker 4: playoff weekend, and Aaron Rodgers crumbling instead of taking the

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Speaker 4: big hit just as we surmised he would, you know,

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Speaker 4: when he did the avoid dance with Miles Garrett a

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Speaker 4: couple of weeks ago. Yeah, we're seeing it here against

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Speaker 4: that Houston pressure.

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Speaker 1: Now here's the thing, okay, is that I fully expected

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Speaker 1: why we talked about this last week. Aaron Rodgers is

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Speaker 1: not good and CJ. Stroud is just absolutely killing the

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Speaker 1: Texans scrambling right now, one a time before we get

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Speaker 1: to c J.

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Speaker 5: Stroud.

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Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers, it was second and six from the sixteen. CJ.

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Speaker 1: Stroud rolls out, he's under pressure, an ill advised throw,

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Speaker 1: which again for CJ. Stroud tonight, there hasn't been many

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Speaker 1: more than that, and he is picked off. So now

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Speaker 1: the Steelers have the football deep in their own territory.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what CJ. Stroud was thinking. He tried

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Speaker 1: to throw this, you know, just try to get rid

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Speaker 1: of it. Did not see Brandon Eckles X jet now good.

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Speaker 1: I did not see Brandon Eckles come in and step

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Speaker 1: in front of the ball. So now the Steelers have

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Speaker 1: the football. It's like, you know, and the happiest guy

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Speaker 1: in the world is justin Herbert right now because he's going. Man,

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Speaker 1: they're gonna talk about my game last night forever and

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Speaker 1: how bad he took all the ownership today, how bad

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Speaker 1: I played and he did not play well last night.

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Speaker 1: Forget it. He looks like Joe Montana compared to c J.

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Speaker 1: Stroud tonight. Four fumbles in the first half and now

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Speaker 1: three turnovers, it looks like to me, honestly, and I'm

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Speaker 1: just saying, I mean, well, obviously we'll hear from CJ.

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Speaker 1: Stroud after the game, but it's not just the fact

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Speaker 1: that he is fumbling the football. He's making bad decisions

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Speaker 1: with the football. His second turnover in the second quarter,

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Speaker 1: where it was a bad snap, he picks it up

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Speaker 1: the old rule, don't make a bad play worse, and

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Speaker 1: instead I'm gonna I'm gonna hold the football up and

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Speaker 1: you have this horrendous pass. This is this is the

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Speaker 1: worst game I have ever seen him play. And he

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Speaker 1: is absolutely killing the Texans right now. This should be

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Speaker 1: He is I mean, he is absolute one guy. It's

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Speaker 1: hard to say, Yo, can you really blame one guy? No,

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Speaker 1: he is absolutely killing the Texans.

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Speaker 4: Oh, this is one where you don't need to be cute.

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Speaker 4: Your defense has taken care of business. You're third and

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Speaker 4: four in field goal range. Right, this is a chip

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Speaker 4: shot field goal, and I get it. The wind swirling.

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Speaker 4: We certainly talked about that in Pittsburgh a long time.

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Speaker 4: But this is one that you cut through the wind,

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Speaker 4: you'll be able to make it, you know, a ten

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Speaker 4: to six game, which might be insurmountable at this point. Right,

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Speaker 4: So on a third and four, I'm not getting cute

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Speaker 4: step right, two step. Woody Marks has had a couple

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Speaker 4: a quick breather. That's fine, call a quarterback option. I'm

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Speaker 4: not putting the ball up. I'm taking my three points

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Speaker 4: and I'm going to bank on my defense making it

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Speaker 4: hold up. By the way, though, he does have one

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Speaker 4: thing that Justin Herbert did not last night. What is

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Speaker 4: he There is a touchdown pass on the ball and

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Speaker 4: he has a one point lead.

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Speaker 3: Now he also has an offensive line.

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Speaker 1: Mike, Yeah, a little bit, a little bit, but ye know,

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Speaker 1: well Houston's isn't that much better? Houston? Come on, you

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Speaker 1: and Jason are better. Yeah that's true, that is true.

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Speaker 1: Yeah you want me over Mkai Becton next year. Percent

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Speaker 1: argue with that. That's Jet still bad, still bad. Look,

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Speaker 1: now here's the thing for CJ.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to get to because again, you know,

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Speaker 1: he's fleshed out of the pocket. He's he's when he's

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Speaker 1: got to make a quick decision. They're all wrong tonight.

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Speaker 1: All is diance like the Jet. What I said, whatever

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Speaker 1: the Jets do is wrong. Whatever c J. Stroud decides

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Speaker 1: to do is wrong. But watching him, he doesn't even

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Speaker 1: look comfortable getting the snap from center, Like I don't

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Speaker 1: know if it's a football thing like where he's having

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Speaker 1: trouble gripping the football. But there's plays where he hasn't

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Speaker 1: fumbled where he's had trouble just getting the snap, and

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Speaker 1: like like they're watching the last possession of the first half.

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Speaker 1: There were two plays where the ball is snapped to

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Speaker 1: where he's able to throw the ball or hand the

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Speaker 1: ball off. But two plays just on that last drive,

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Speaker 1: where the snap came to him and he bobbled it

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Speaker 1: and he's gotta find it, like he's having trouble even

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Speaker 1: just gras so I don't I mean, is it the cold,

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Speaker 1: is it his hands? Is it the football? The football

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Speaker 1: is really slick? Is someone on the sideline putting vasoline

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Speaker 1: on him before they throw him into play? But that

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Speaker 1: looks like to me, what like CJ. Stroud is having

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Speaker 1: trouble even just grasping the football, And I don't know

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Speaker 1: if that's manifesting itself and his decision making and throwing

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Speaker 1: he's missed on some big plays. He missed on what

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Speaker 1: of the first half that really would have put a

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Speaker 1: death blow on the Steelers. He had a receiver wide

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Speaker 1: open thirty yards downfield and didn't even throw it. In

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Speaker 1: the same zip code, like he has been absolutely terrible,

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Speaker 1: and I really I just wonder if he's not holding

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Speaker 4: You got a veteran center, and Andrews been around the league.

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Speaker 4: But whatever this issue is, you're screwing up the timing right,

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Speaker 4: and then he's accelerating it the old it's supposed to

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Speaker 4: slow down the more reps you get. I don't know

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Speaker 4: if he's just afraid of seeing TJ. Watt on the

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Speaker 4: other side or Hayward or whatever the case may be.

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Speaker 4: But everything just seems so sped up because he's missed

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Speaker 4: some wide open receivers. We were watching it as you

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Speaker 4: finished the half. Nico Collins, whether it's a touchdown or

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Speaker 4: he's down inside, he's the very inside, just gunned the

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Speaker 4: standing by himself. Like the way the progression went through,

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Speaker 4: they ran a beautiful combo route and the other receiver

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Speaker 4: took all help with him, so he had wide green

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Speaker 4: in front of him. It's literally just shot put it

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Speaker 4: out to him, and instead he gunned it through his hands.

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Speaker 4: And now we've had these exchanges. Look still a seven

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Speaker 4: to six lead. Because Pittsburgh can't get out of their

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Speaker 4: own way, I'm certainly giving them every opportunity to come

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Speaker 4: and snatch this game.

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Speaker 1: You know so well, CJ. Stratleick, Seriously, just hand the

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Speaker 1: ball off man, Just go put David carr in. I

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Speaker 1: mean really, just you know, get well, he would have

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Speaker 1: been flat on his ass. You want to talk about offensive.

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Speaker 4: Lines, Okay, you want to go back to that when

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Speaker 4: he took his nine hundred sacks.

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Speaker 3: He does have good hair.

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Speaker 1: He done great hair, great well, that never ate, that

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Speaker 1: never struggled, great questions. I didn't see Hey that I

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Speaker 1: think that would be in a shampoo commercial. Hey, even

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Speaker 1: though I got sacks seventy five times my rookie year,

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Speaker 1: my hair never suffered. That's why I use but my

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Speaker 1: hair never moved. You know the worst part of this

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Speaker 1: right because you know me this Steelers are frauds. They're

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Speaker 1: absolute frauds. And I can see them finding a way

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Speaker 1: be well the Steelers play the Patriots next week, so

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Speaker 1: at least one fraud is going home. But the thing

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Speaker 1: about this is that this is such a dominant defensive

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Speaker 1: performance by the Texans. Every play the Steelers try to run,

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Speaker 1: the Texans feel like they have the play sniffed out.

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Speaker 1: Every play they want to run at the line of scrimmage,

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Speaker 1: a quick hit, there's a one of the linemen is

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Speaker 1: They can't run the football. It is going to be

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Speaker 1: some kind of effort if the Steelers get a big

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Speaker 1: kind of blown coverage, and that's the only way they're

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Speaker 1: going to really move the football against this Texans defense.

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Speaker 1: They're making every single play. But I'll tell you what,

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Speaker 1: when you force your defense to make every single play,

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Speaker 1: generally the other team is going to make one play

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Speaker 1: offensively that you're not. And that's what the Texans off

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Speaker 1: is doing. They are just I mean, they are making

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Speaker 1: it so hard. They're making the defense play an absolute

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Speaker 5: You know what.

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Speaker 1: I had a great final year. We got to the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: Even though CJ. Stroud has not been the player he

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Speaker 1: He's still pretty good this game. I mean, this is

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Speaker 4: Well, I don't know, but spokes would tell me. Because

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Speaker 1: He's a wizard. Hi, Caleb Hayters, He's got what he's said,

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Speaker 4: It's just a you know, a specious argument where I

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Speaker 1: Have you not been paying attention? This is to our

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Speaker 1: I'm just gonna tell CJ. Stroud, hold your head up high.

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Speaker 1: It's a congratulations, coach, But it's something we brought up

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Speaker 4: What's his what's his absolute max distance for the year,

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Speaker 1: They're gonna need him to be super tow before this

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Speaker 1: Late in the third quarter, it is still seven to six.

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Speaker 1: Steelers have the ball near midfield first and ten to

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Speaker 1: fifty nine to go again. The next field goal might

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Speaker 1: That's it.

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Speaker 4: I mean, that's what we said tonight. We're going to

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Speaker 5: Jay?

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Speaker 1: How are you man?

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Speaker 5: I'm doing okay watching this? Uh yeah, rock fight.

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Speaker 1: Because you're feeling good because you have the under looks.

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Speaker 5: Like rocks in his pocket.

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Speaker 1: I think CJ. Stroud has rocks for hands in this game.

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Speaker 1: That's what's been happening so far.

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Speaker 5: Yeah. Not not a good look from him, but about

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Speaker 1: I think seventeen or twenty turnovers, you might be better

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Speaker 1: So while we're waiting for this game to come out here,

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Speaker 5: Oh look there, they're not afraid to shake things up there.

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Speaker 5: So yeah, that offense is going to have to have

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Speaker 5: there's a fluke sixty yard play early in that game.

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Speaker 5: I thought there was about three miss hoolding calls on

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Speaker 4: Sunday Night Football, we see the Patriots take down the Chargers.

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Speaker 1: Where do you evaluate and hold Justin Herbert at.

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Speaker 5: This point, Look, it's only three games, but it's the

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Speaker 5: I don't know why there wasn't an emphasis on his

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Speaker 5: I mean, it's a new don't take now oneer's defense

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Speaker 5: is good. I don't think it's great. They're not running

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Speaker 5: generational pass rushers out there. There's one corner you don't

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Speaker 5: want to mess with. He messed with him more than

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Speaker 5: I thought he was going to. And that that's somebody

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Speaker 5: You know, Vidal ran the ball pretty well, I thought,

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Speaker 5: you know, Hampton, I don't, I don't. I mean they

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Speaker 5: maybe had somebody else up who could have helped them

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Speaker 5: a little bit more, but it was it was ugly man.

433
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Speaker 5: And there's no way you can bring Greg Roman back.

434
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Speaker 5: And that's another team that should be looking to get

435
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Speaker 5: a little more to sort of look at a wider

436
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Speaker 5: lens in terms of what they want to do as

437
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Speaker 5: a coordinator. Right, Patulo was a very easy, you know,

438
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Speaker 5: promote from within. You know, that's my drinking body kind

439
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Speaker 5: of a thing. Same thing with Greg Roman and Harball.

440
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Speaker 5: He's been in that cocoon forever. It was, you know,

441
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Speaker 5: no shock to anybody that you know, Greg Roman ended

442
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Speaker 5: up back with him at like Michigan or whatever, and

443
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Speaker 5: then back with him with the Chargers. They need to

444
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Speaker 5: cast a wider net and be a little bit more

445
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Speaker 5: less myoptic about what they think a Harball offense should

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Speaker 5: look like.

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Speaker 1: Jason Locking for our guest Jason Smith Mike Harman live

448
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Speaker 1: from the Fox Sports Radio studios. All right, let's head

449
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Speaker 1: to the drama now between the Bears and the Packers

450
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Speaker 1: and the rivalry that's going to continue with Ben Johnson's

451
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Speaker 1: f The Bear is doubling down on that today, uh saying, hey,

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Speaker 1: I hate that team. What do you what do you

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Speaker 1: make of what's been going on the last day or so.

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Speaker 5: I mean, that was a one way highway for I mean,

455
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Speaker 5: I don't know the last six or eight years with

456
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Speaker 5: Green Bay just smashing the Bears every chance they got.

457
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Speaker 5: I think the fans feed off it. I think he

458
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Speaker 5: knows what he's doing. You know. I also think next

459
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Speaker 5: year that's probably going to be a pendental swing. And

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Speaker 5: you can just look at Washington in the magic carpet

461
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Speaker 5: ride they were on a year ago, and then all

462
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Speaker 5: of a sudden, the expectations are raised and you're in

463
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Speaker 5: prime time all the time, and that thing just you

464
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Speaker 5: know that that that thing has a way and not

465
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Speaker 5: going your way. And the fourth quarter breaks so the

466
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Speaker 5: other way, and that look, he's put a little bit

467
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Speaker 5: of target on his back yet. But do I think

468
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Speaker 5: that team needed a completely different outlook, needed a completely

469
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Speaker 5: different energy. They did. They did, And I think it's

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Speaker 5: his way of taking pressure off the players as well.

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Speaker 5: And you know, saying put it on me, put the

472
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Speaker 5: wind and losses on me, and put the swag or

473
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Speaker 5: lack of swag on me, or too much swag on me.

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Speaker 5: You know, I'm a big boy, and on a rookie

475
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Speaker 5: head coach, and I can handle it, and it's it's working.

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Speaker 5: It's working, and the quarterback is obviously blossoming under his tutelage.

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Speaker 5: And there's there's a lot of things, just a lot

478
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Speaker 5: of things going Chicago's way, which you haven't been able

479
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Speaker 5: to say about Bears football with this much consistency for

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Speaker 5: quite some time. I mean, what it's probably like the

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Speaker 5: peanut punch season.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, year one year Rex Persman to the Super Bowl,

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Speaker 4: and all anybody remembers was Prince playing Purple Rain in

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Speaker 4: the Rain.

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Speaker 5: I was there. It was amazing.

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Speaker 4: So there you go. I mean, that's it. Otherwise I

487
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Speaker 4: got to go back forty years in my Chicago I.

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Speaker 5: Think the most amazing thing, honestly was they always do

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Speaker 5: a press conference for the musical act, and his press

490
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Speaker 5: conference because you know, he you know, was a man

491
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Speaker 5: a few words. He had the whole band, like he

492
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Speaker 5: had the whole band and like the backup singers everything,

493
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Speaker 5: and he just basically is like, you know, I'm not

494
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Speaker 5: really gonna take any questions, I speak them on music whatever,

495
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Speaker 5: and then band just like play the said I mean,

496
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Speaker 5: I don't know, probably three or four songs.

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Speaker 1: It was amazing A a nice little bonus concert for you.

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Speaker 1: That's Prince. That's Prince here.

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Speaker 4: You go all right out out there in the beautiful

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Speaker 4: land of Baltimore. Harbaugh now doing the interview circuit. Who's

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Speaker 4: the presumptive favorite in this contest going forward to the

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Speaker 4: next I.

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Speaker 5: Think Jessy Minter is probably the guy to watch. He

504
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Speaker 5: just checks all out of boxes. He's somebody the GM

505
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Speaker 5: would be comfortable with. He's been in there building before.

506
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Speaker 5: I don't think I'll have the plushback that more established

507
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Speaker 5: coaches would have about Gee, you know you ever gonna

508
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Speaker 5: get any pass rushers around here? Like you just want

509
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Speaker 5: to like mediocre corners, Like how that working out for it?

510
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Speaker 5: Not really so well? Do you really want to hold

511
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Speaker 5: context or do you want actual football players? Like do

512
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Speaker 5: you want football players in theory because they provide extreme value?

513
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Speaker 5: Or do you actually want as many blue chip players

514
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Speaker 5: as you can get because like your quarterback's not gonna

515
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Speaker 5: be twenty nine forever. But think Justin Minch is gonna

516
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Speaker 5: really be coming at them that way. I do think though,

517
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Speaker 5: you know, Jim Harball is going to be able to

518
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Speaker 5: tell him a little bit about and John for that matter,

519
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Speaker 5: about some of what John was running up against in Baltimore.

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Speaker 5: With Sacy Brown as the team president, Eric Cacasta is

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Speaker 5: the GM they's gonna be h He definitely, he definitely

522
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Speaker 5: will be aware of some of the issues there, but

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Speaker 5: again he's been there before. They do have Lamar Jackson.

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Speaker 5: They're obviously in a different category than any of these

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Speaker 5: other teams that are looking for a head coach. This

526
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Speaker 5: is an owner who was willing to keep a guy

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Speaker 5: employed for eighteen years straight running, you know, running his

528
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Speaker 5: football team. So it's it's an interesting group they're talking to.

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Speaker 5: I wouldn't be shocked if jesse Minter, jesse Minter ends

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Speaker 5: up being that guy, all right, Jay.

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Speaker 1: Lastly, as we look forward now to the games coming

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Speaker 1: up this weekend, the general narrative after the big win yesterday,

533
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Speaker 1: Josh Allen, this is it is best chance to win.

534
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Speaker 1: You on board with Alan the Bills running through the

535
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Speaker 1: rest of the AFC.

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Speaker 5: Well, I think, you know, this match up in Denver,

537
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Speaker 5: got a lot of more work to do in that game.

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Speaker 5: But my initial sort of reaction is that, yeah, I

539
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Speaker 5: think the Bills can win that game. I don't really

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Speaker 5: love what I've seen at a bow. Next in the

541
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Speaker 5: second half of this year. Frankly, I think he looked

542
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Speaker 5: better the second half of last year. Denver's defense has

543
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Speaker 5: slipped some. I can see Denver being involveable, Like I

544
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Speaker 5: thought the Chargers running go to Denver and be so yeah,

545
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Speaker 5: and I look, I thought Jacksonville was going to beat Buffalo,

546
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Speaker 5: So what do I know? But yeah, I do think

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Speaker 5: I'm a little worried about Allen's foot. He didn't runned

548
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Speaker 5: it and loved to run quite as much the I'll

549
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Speaker 5: know he's finished some drives on the ground for touchdowns,

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Speaker 5: but in terms of the explosives, I didn't really see it.

551
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Speaker 5: But yeah, I think they can win that game. Now.

552
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Speaker 5: I also think, put it again, t J's job might

553
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Speaker 5: just really really want to end the Texan season tonight.

554
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Speaker 5: But if that doesn't happen, you know, I can see

555
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Speaker 5: the Detections hosting an AFC championship game, and I think

556
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Speaker 5: that's a real tough matchup in buff bill So we'll see.

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Speaker 1: He's on Twitter at Jason Lock and four that is

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Speaker 1: at Jason lock and for a checkout want to bet

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Speaker 1: as well? Washington Post Odyssey one O five seven. The

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Speaker 1: fan Jay is always buddy appreciate it man, We'll talk

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Speaker 1: to you next week. Enjoy the rest of the game, you.

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Speaker 5: Guys, you guys do the same. Enjoy it.

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Speaker 1: Thanks, There goes Jason lock and for look like I mean,

564
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Speaker 1: all of a sudden, now Buffalo with this runt, I

565
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Speaker 1: will say this, sometimes the harder path is beneficial to

566
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Speaker 1: a team rather than we have these home playoff games

567
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Speaker 1: we're expected to win, we have the chiefs in our way.

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Speaker 1: Who's in our head? This year a little bit different

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Speaker 1: for Buffalo where we're on the road. We're not the

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Speaker 1: presumptive favorites. We didn't even win the division. Once in

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Speaker 1: a while. I think that's a great reality check for

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Speaker 1: a team and you and you're a little bit more

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Speaker 1: focused and you're not as much in your head as

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Speaker 1: you are. And you saw them come through with the

575
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Speaker 1: big plays yesterday. Not that they play perfect, but hey,

576
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Speaker 1: here they are. And who's the best player left in

577
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Speaker 1: the playoffs, right, Josh Allen's the best player left in

578
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Speaker 1: the NFC playoffs. So yeah, I can see where maybe

579
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Speaker 1: the path for Buffalo maybe a little bit more what

580
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Speaker 1: they need. Yeah, it wasn't terribly excited about.

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Speaker 4: The the narrative for the week of well he's got

582
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Speaker 4: to get there because you know this guy's that Mahomes

583
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Speaker 4: isn't there and Lamar's and almost like like his team

584
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Speaker 4: still isn't very good.

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Speaker 1: At some point, but he's great.

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Speaker 4: But to just say, well, it's not like and I

587
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Speaker 4: joked about this, Hey, it's the other day going through

588
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Speaker 4: some notes ahead of my Sunday morning show with Great

589
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Speaker 4: co Sell, and I'm flipping channels and literally there was

590
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Speaker 4: professional pillow fighting on. You got a two pound weighted pillow? Yeah, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 4: Josh Allen ain't participating in that with other quarterbacks. They're

592
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Speaker 4: like a bunch of other dudes, three hundred pound guys

593
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Speaker 4: trying to chase his ass down. You know that other

594
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Speaker 4: Josh Allen was trying to make his life miserable. Sorry

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Speaker 4: it's Josh Hinz Allen, now sure, But the point being

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Speaker 4: he had to run away from him, and he's got

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Speaker 4: ten other guys trying to knock his block off, with

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Speaker 4: his leading receiver being Khalil Shakir, decent receiver. Yeah, not

599
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Speaker 4: a go to guy, but you got him and you

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Speaker 4: got James Cook. You gotta puncher's chance. So it is

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Speaker 4: his time. But if it had gone the other way,

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Speaker 4: we'd have been talking maybe about Sean mcderbott walking the plank.

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Speaker 4: But he lives to see another day. Meanwhile, will the Steelers'

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Speaker 4: offense live to see another day? Early in the fourth quarter,

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Speaker 4: Steve de Saga has breaking news. We have points in

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Speaker 4: this game. We got new points in this game. Steve,

607
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Speaker 4: I saw it. I want to make sure it's not Ai.

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Speaker 4: We haven't had points in a long time. Can you

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Speaker 4: confirm we just had more points between the Texans and

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Speaker 4: the Steelers.

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Speaker 7: It was not Ai. It was not Alan Iverson kicking

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Speaker 7: a field goal. No, Kayimi Fairbairn with a fifty one

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Speaker 7: yarder and the Texans lead ten to six, thirteen minutes

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Speaker 7: to go in this playoff game at Pittsburgh to wind

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Speaker 7: up wild Card weekend. Even though the Texans keep turning

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Speaker 7: the ball over. That's three turnovers for this quarterback. The

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Speaker 7: Houston Texans were best in the AFC this year in

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Speaker 7: turnover margin plus seventeen.

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Speaker 1: They were the bears of the AFC.

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Speaker 7: If I may say, and yet, what would you think

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Speaker 7: the record is of a road team in a playoff

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Speaker 7: game where they are a minus three turnover margin as

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Speaker 7: the Texans are tonight? The answer is one and ninety seven,

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Speaker 7: with the only win in that situation being John Madden's

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Speaker 7: Raiders in the double overtime game goes to the post

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Speaker 7: nineteen seventy seven against the Baltimore Colts.

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Speaker 1: This is something rare that's happening.

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Speaker 7: The Texans are trying to give the Steelers the game,

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Speaker 7: and the Steelers are just inept enough to take it.

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Speaker 7: The bad news for the Texans is their star receiver

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Speaker 7: Nico Collins has left the field. He's being evaluated for

632
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Speaker 7: a concussion after landing straight on the face mask after

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Speaker 7: an incompletion. The good news for Houston, Christian Kirk is

634
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Speaker 7: having himself a game. Seven catches, one hundred and eleven yards,

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Speaker 7: the only touchdown c J Stroud with an interception. He's

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Speaker 7: lost two fumbles. He's fumbled three other times that weren't lost.

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Speaker 7: By the way, the Steelers trailing at halftime for a

638
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Speaker 7: seventh straight playoff game. That's the tide for the second

639
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Speaker 7: longest streak and the history of the NFL.

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Speaker 1: So what is Mike.

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Speaker 7: Tomlin's record when trailing a playoff game at the half?

642
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Speaker 7: One to ten and the one win was way back

643
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Speaker 7: in twenty ten. Aaron Rodgers was not throwing the ball

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Speaker 7: downfield this year. That is an understatement. It was a

645
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Speaker 7: career low in air yards under four air yards per completion.

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Speaker 7: It was three point seven, to be exact night. In

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Speaker 7: the first half it was half of that. An average

648
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Speaker 7: of one point eight yards beyond the line of scommage

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Speaker 7: for a completion from Aaron Rodgers did.

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Speaker 1: And the thing is, when you say air yards, it

651
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Speaker 1: really doesn't go well because the ball is not in

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Speaker 1: the air very long. When you throw it into the

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Speaker 1: ground like Aaron Rodgers is, it's not really an air yard.

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Speaker 7: He is facing the best defense in the AFC, and

655
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Speaker 7: it shows. The only good news for the Steelers tonight

656
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Speaker 7: is they actually led three to nothing after the first quarter.

657
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Speaker 7: Hadn't led the first after the first quarter of a

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Speaker 7: playoff game in almost a decade. The fact that he

659
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Speaker 7: had even scored in the first quarter of a playoff

660
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Speaker 7: game was news because they hadn't done that in their

661
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Speaker 7: last six postseason games in a row. But they have

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Speaker 7: two field goals, and you know they did get the

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Speaker 7: two forced fumbles in the first half, after one of

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Speaker 7: them three and out with the offense after the other

665
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Speaker 7: settled for a field goal.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and look in Pittsburgh. Still they're dining out on

667
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Speaker 1: the news that opening Day is going to be the

668
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Speaker 1: big stream game between the Pirates and the Mets. You're

669
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Speaker 1: gonna see Skens opening Day. It's the best news Pittsburgh

670
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Speaker 1: has had in the week.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, football season's about to be over it now.

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Speaker 1: It's only ten to six.

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Speaker 7: I mean, but honestly, people, what he marks of the

674
00:33:09,360 --> 00:33:14,440
Speaker 7: Texans sixteen carries ninety five yards. Meanwhile, combine the two

675
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Speaker 7: running backs for the Steelers eleven carries thirty two yards.

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Speaker 7: Tonight's winner goes to New England on Sunday.

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Speaker 1: Back to you, I think Woody Page would have more

678
00:33:22,880 --> 00:33:24,600
Speaker 1: yards rushing for the Steelers.

679
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Speaker 3: A little sign behind his shoulder.

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Speaker 1: Give me the ball. I need it, Thank you, Steve

681
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Speaker 1: uh So. Yeah, twelve minutes to go in the fourth quarter,

682
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Speaker 1: Steelers with the football though, down ten to six, and boy,

683
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Speaker 1: at seventy five yards of the end zone looks really

684
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Speaker 1: long against this Texans defense. We'll have more on this game.

685
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Speaker 1: Plus coming up next you'll hear something that's gone viral

686
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Speaker 1: in the last twenty four hours and a team that

687
00:33:47,800 --> 00:33:50,880
Speaker 1: if they had listened to us the trade deadline, they

688
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Speaker 1: might still be playing in the playoffs instead of being eliminated.

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Speaker 1: That's next, right here, Jason Mike Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith's

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Speaker 2: Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven

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Speaker 2: pm Pacific.

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Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show with my best

694
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Speaker 1: friend Mike Harmon. Yeah, boy, do we have some controversy

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Speaker 1: between the Texans and the Steelers. Make it a seventeen

696
00:34:25,480 --> 00:34:29,960
Speaker 1: to six lead for the Texans following a sack, Aaron

697
00:34:30,040 --> 00:34:33,560
Speaker 1: Rodgers fumble and the Texans run it in for a touchdown.

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Speaker 1: Just one thing, and it's shocking that it's smissed.

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Speaker 3: We see that.

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Speaker 1: You and I looked at this on the replay a

701
00:34:39,480 --> 00:34:42,359
Speaker 1: couple of times, and at first I thought, okay, well,

702
00:34:42,719 --> 00:34:45,520
Speaker 1: the Texans came in and Rankins makes contact with the

703
00:34:45,560 --> 00:34:47,440
Speaker 1: ball trying to knock it out of Rogers hands and

704
00:34:47,480 --> 00:34:50,880
Speaker 1: then hits his helmet. But you see the first contact

705
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Speaker 1: of that play that just happened was Rogers getting hit

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Speaker 1: in the helmet. He goes down, fumbles the football, the

707
00:34:58,160 --> 00:35:01,960
Speaker 1: Texans running in for a touchdown. Honestly, look and you

708
00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:04,319
Speaker 1: know me, you know, seeing Aaron Rodgers get his get

709
00:35:04,320 --> 00:35:06,600
Speaker 1: his head knocked around in that helmet because he's like

710
00:35:06,680 --> 00:35:09,600
Speaker 1: make a cottage industry of memes of Rogers where his

711
00:35:09,680 --> 00:35:12,080
Speaker 1: helmet is all twisted around at his face inside it.

712
00:35:12,160 --> 00:35:15,000
Speaker 1: And that's gonna be another one. But honestly, you see

713
00:35:15,040 --> 00:35:18,120
Speaker 1: that he gets hit in the head and fumbles the

714
00:35:18,120 --> 00:35:21,759
Speaker 1: football that should have been fifteen yards in a first down. Uh,

715
00:35:22,040 --> 00:35:24,239
Speaker 1: and they didn't call it. Instead it's a touchdown for

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Speaker 1: the Texans, and now the Steelers are really behind the

717
00:35:26,800 --> 00:35:29,320
Speaker 1: eight ball, down seventeen six with less than ten minutes

718
00:35:29,360 --> 00:35:32,160
Speaker 1: left to go. I mean, look, I'm no apologist for

719
00:35:32,200 --> 00:35:33,720
Speaker 1: the you know, you know me, I think the Steelers

720
00:35:33,760 --> 00:35:35,920
Speaker 1: are frauds, but he got to call it like that,

721
00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:38,800
Speaker 1: and I'm really surprised that that didn't get either another

722
00:35:38,840 --> 00:35:41,680
Speaker 1: look at or something else happening where you can see

723
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Speaker 1: way that first contact was a fist to the helmet

724
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Speaker 1: of Aaron Rodgers. Yeah, it reminded me.

725
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Speaker 4: You remember when doctor d David Schultz was being interviewed

726
00:35:49,680 --> 00:35:54,040
Speaker 4: by John Stossel on twenty twenty. You think it's fake?

727
00:35:54,160 --> 00:35:56,239
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, And he slapt outside the head. That's

728
00:35:56,280 --> 00:35:59,000
Speaker 4: what he did there. That's what he did there. And

729
00:35:59,040 --> 00:36:02,920
Speaker 4: there's no call like one of those. He basically goes

730
00:36:03,239 --> 00:36:06,400
Speaker 4: limp in the moment and he Balgum's flying out and

731
00:36:06,480 --> 00:36:09,680
Speaker 4: gets return for a time like we see so many

732
00:36:09,880 --> 00:36:13,480
Speaker 4: calls that quarterbacks get Like Jalen Hurts with that slide.

733
00:36:13,840 --> 00:36:16,319
Speaker 4: The defender was just sitting there like as the end

734
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Speaker 4: of a bumper. Uh, you know, you're coming down the

735
00:36:20,080 --> 00:36:23,560
Speaker 4: slide at a playground. He got flagged because there was

736
00:36:23,680 --> 00:36:25,719
Speaker 4: the helmets bumped a little bit. Here was an open

737
00:36:25,800 --> 00:36:27,280
Speaker 4: hand slap to the head.

738
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Speaker 3: Like Rogers didn't deserve it.

739
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Speaker 1: Yeah, you deserve that, Aaron Rodgers. You got you gotta

740
00:36:35,760 --> 00:36:37,040
Speaker 1: call it. You gotta call it the right. And I'm

741
00:36:37,040 --> 00:36:39,600
Speaker 1: really surprised the way the way that is for a

742
00:36:39,640 --> 00:36:42,920
Speaker 1: guy who's been officiated a certain way his entire career,

743
00:36:42,920 --> 00:36:45,319
Speaker 1: that that wasn't even looked at a little bit more saying,

744
00:36:45,320 --> 00:36:46,880
Speaker 1: oh wait a minute, that's a penalt because it was.

745
00:36:46,920 --> 00:36:49,040
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, you're not the guy anymore. Wow,

746
00:36:49,160 --> 00:36:51,080
Speaker 1: they just looked the other way on you. That might

747
00:36:51,120 --> 00:36:52,840
Speaker 1: be the play that Aaron Rodgers decided, you know what,

748
00:36:52,880 --> 00:36:55,920
Speaker 1: I'm retiring. I'm retiring now, and that that that play

749
00:36:55,960 --> 00:36:58,799
Speaker 1: that's I'm done this game against this Texans defense. Oh

750
00:36:58,920 --> 00:36:59,920
Speaker 1: I'm done. I'm done.

751
00:37:00,160 --> 00:37:06,200
Speaker 4: Everything egregious, just open hand to the helmet and it

752
00:37:06,320 --> 00:37:08,960
Speaker 4: just went. There's no review, there's no nothing like. We've

753
00:37:08,960 --> 00:37:11,359
Speaker 4: seen so many stoppages of play going. Do we see

754
00:37:11,400 --> 00:37:13,239
Speaker 4: that or did we not? Over the course of the

755
00:37:13,239 --> 00:37:15,600
Speaker 4: wildcard weekend, how many times did you have the all Right,

756
00:37:15,680 --> 00:37:18,359
Speaker 4: let's all meet together and decide did we really see

757
00:37:18,360 --> 00:37:20,640
Speaker 4: a penalty here or did we not? Let's go to

758
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Speaker 4: the artificial intelligence to decide whether it's a first down

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Speaker 4: or not.

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Speaker 1: Here it gets clocked. Happened last night, They didn't call

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Speaker 1: it again. Patriots got a field goal in the first half. Right,

762
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Speaker 1: So we'll have more on this play coming up again.

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Speaker 1: Seventeen to six Houston with the lead nine and a

764
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Speaker 1: half to go in the fourth quarter. Meanwhile, listen, there's

765
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Speaker 1: a team that if they did what we told them

766
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Speaker 1: to do with the trade deadline, maybe they're still playing.

767
00:37:44,520 --> 00:37:46,879
Speaker 1: But you don't need me to tell you that. How

768
00:37:46,920 --> 00:37:50,200
Speaker 1: about this Philadelphia Eagles fan. This kid was probably about

769
00:37:50,200 --> 00:37:53,080
Speaker 1: twelve years old, ten twelve years old, who's gone viral

770
00:37:53,160 --> 00:37:55,440
Speaker 1: in the last twenty four hours. This is from the

771
00:37:55,480 --> 00:37:57,880
Speaker 1: post game last night. Maybe you've seen this during the

772
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Speaker 1: day today. If you have, you're gonna hear it again.

773
00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:02,319
Speaker 1: And if you haven't, are you in for retreat? This

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00:38:02,440 --> 00:38:04,600
Speaker 1: is probably me if you asked me about a Jets

775
00:38:04,600 --> 00:38:08,040
Speaker 1: game at some point when I was twelve, not happy

776
00:38:08,280 --> 00:38:10,520
Speaker 1: with the Eagles loss to the forty nine Ers.

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Speaker 8: Yes, this was a huge letdown. This is my Christmas present.

778
00:38:13,040 --> 00:38:17,960
Speaker 8: I got a loss. No, you probably would, yeah, probably.

779
00:38:18,040 --> 00:38:20,680
Speaker 8: I'm feeling two of two things. A. I want aj

780
00:38:20,760 --> 00:38:23,040
Speaker 8: Brown packing his bags, and I want him somewhere else

781
00:38:23,280 --> 00:38:25,759
Speaker 8: that is not here. I love you, Aj, but like

782
00:38:26,360 --> 00:38:29,200
Speaker 8: you can't make those drops in that game. And I

783
00:38:29,239 --> 00:38:32,040
Speaker 8: also want Kevin Patula flipping burgers at like the local

784
00:38:32,120 --> 00:38:34,200
Speaker 8: McDonald's or something. I don't care. Why do you say

785
00:38:34,239 --> 00:38:38,000
Speaker 8: that whenever he's an offensive coordinator, it's like he's flipping burgers.

786
00:38:38,400 --> 00:38:41,759
Speaker 8: One side he's cooking, one half he's cooking, and the

787
00:38:41,800 --> 00:38:43,200
Speaker 8: other half is completely raw.

788
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Speaker 1: I did that. I thought, Oh, he's in that line.

789
00:38:46,120 --> 00:38:48,839
Speaker 1: He's doing the McDonald's slippit Like McDonald's just gets side

790
00:38:48,840 --> 00:38:50,719
Speaker 1: swiped all the dame. You should be flipping burgers at

791
00:38:50,760 --> 00:38:52,840
Speaker 1: McDonald's Burger King's, Like, can't you mention us once in

792
00:38:52,840 --> 00:38:53,120
Speaker 1: a while.

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Speaker 4: The first job, there's so many people on their path

794
00:38:55,920 --> 00:38:57,840
Speaker 4: to greatness. I don't know why it's so denigrated.

795
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Speaker 3: They also don't flip burgers at McDonald's. It's Mike Wift.

796
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Speaker 5: Just put it right in.

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00:39:02,640 --> 00:39:04,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, it'll be ready in five minutes. Don't worry about it.

798
00:39:04,560 --> 00:39:07,520
Speaker 1: You'll be fine. Uh So digging the kid right? Actually

799
00:39:07,600 --> 00:39:10,600
Speaker 1: that that kid is Barstool Sports twenty thirty three, twenty

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Speaker 1: thirty four.

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Speaker 4: Man, No, they'll accelerate it. You think so you'd be like, yeah,

802
00:39:13,640 --> 00:39:15,800
Speaker 4: I mean he's like the child child labor laws.

803
00:39:15,880 --> 00:39:18,920
Speaker 1: But I mean he's like the like the Tiger Woods

804
00:39:18,920 --> 00:39:20,960
Speaker 1: of kids who are going to go to a barstool.

805
00:39:21,400 --> 00:39:24,200
Speaker 1: We take him early, early ed.

806
00:39:25,320 --> 00:39:28,360
Speaker 4: No need to go to college, no need for nili.

807
00:39:28,560 --> 00:39:30,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm going right to barstool, going right to barstool.

808
00:39:30,880 --> 00:39:32,720
Speaker 1: Child actor. He just needs a little bit of tutoring

809
00:39:32,760 --> 00:39:34,680
Speaker 1: on saying him and Frank the Tank, you know, they'll

810
00:39:34,680 --> 00:39:37,160
Speaker 1: they'll be doing a show on barstool together. It happened,

811
00:39:37,360 --> 00:39:40,160
Speaker 1: but a phenomenon that I still don't get. But that's okay.

812
00:39:41,120 --> 00:39:43,879
Speaker 1: But listen, if the steal, if the steal, if the

813
00:39:44,000 --> 00:39:46,640
Speaker 1: Eagles had just listened to us, we told you at

814
00:39:46,680 --> 00:39:49,840
Speaker 1: the deadline, Listen, things are not working with AJ Brown.

815
00:39:50,160 --> 00:39:53,080
Speaker 1: He is a big part of this offense and it's

816
00:39:53,200 --> 00:39:55,200
Speaker 1: just it wasn't working at the end of last year

817
00:39:55,239 --> 00:39:57,440
Speaker 1: and he's reading books on the sideline. But they were

818
00:39:57,480 --> 00:39:59,880
Speaker 1: able to get by, right, they won the Super Bowl. Okay, fine,

819
00:40:00,160 --> 00:40:03,520
Speaker 1: let's start fresh this year. And there's no excuse because

820
00:40:03,520 --> 00:40:06,400
Speaker 1: they knew it wasn't working with him throughout the entire season.

821
00:40:06,640 --> 00:40:08,919
Speaker 1: He is too big a piece to be a guy

822
00:40:08,920 --> 00:40:11,600
Speaker 1: that you can't trust. In the drops last night and

823
00:40:11,719 --> 00:40:14,840
Speaker 1: getting into with Sirianni on the sideline, it's awful. We

824
00:40:14,920 --> 00:40:17,279
Speaker 1: knew what the deadline. You gotta move on from him.

825
00:40:18,120 --> 00:40:20,960
Speaker 1: He's a change of scenery guy. Someone would take him.

826
00:40:21,080 --> 00:40:23,160
Speaker 1: Go out and get a Jacobe Meyer, someone else you

827
00:40:23,160 --> 00:40:25,799
Speaker 1: can come and throw the football to. So the Eagles, look,

828
00:40:25,840 --> 00:40:27,759
Speaker 1: you did it to yourself. He did because you knew

829
00:40:27,760 --> 00:40:30,080
Speaker 1: it wasn't gonna work with AJ Brown. But for some reason,

830
00:40:30,360 --> 00:40:32,600
Speaker 1: we want to keep him. And you know that there's

831
00:40:32,640 --> 00:40:35,920
Speaker 1: all sorts of discrepancies between who likes each other offensively

832
00:40:35,960 --> 00:40:38,399
Speaker 1: and who doesn't like each other. You decided to stick

833
00:40:38,400 --> 00:40:41,440
Speaker 1: with AJ Brown and your home because of him. Right,

834
00:40:41,480 --> 00:40:43,800
Speaker 1: We told you the deadline and you knew what the deadline,

835
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Speaker 1: and you still kept him around.

836
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Speaker 3: And look where you are.

837
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Speaker 4: A lot of mouths defeat in that offense. He did

838
00:40:48,360 --> 00:40:53,760
Speaker 4: finish with a thousand yard receiving year, actually best bettered

839
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Speaker 4: his reception total from a year ago, even though the

840
00:40:56,440 --> 00:40:59,600
Speaker 4: average was down nearly four yards. For game touchdowns the

841
00:40:59,640 --> 00:41:01,799
Speaker 4: same all but you look at Goddard, you look at

842
00:41:01,800 --> 00:41:04,160
Speaker 4: DeVante Smith, and you look at the run game. You

843
00:41:04,239 --> 00:41:06,719
Speaker 4: brought in Tank Bigsby. He was still a bystander much

844
00:41:06,719 --> 00:41:10,400
Speaker 4: of the year. He went away from from really using

845
00:41:10,560 --> 00:41:13,719
Speaker 4: Saquon Barkley till the back end of the season. But

846
00:41:13,920 --> 00:41:17,359
Speaker 4: you saw all the signs of that discord. And part

847
00:41:17,400 --> 00:41:20,520
Speaker 4: of it's a new coordinator, right, different philosophies. Guys aren't

848
00:41:20,520 --> 00:41:23,400
Speaker 4: gonna mesh whatever is going on. Brown and Sirianni. They

849
00:41:23,400 --> 00:41:26,759
Speaker 4: could give you all the syrupy talk on the microphones

850
00:41:26,800 --> 00:41:29,719
Speaker 4: all they want. Nobody's buying that that it was good, right,

851
00:41:29,760 --> 00:41:32,440
Speaker 4: How many shots of side eye did you see of

852
00:41:32,480 --> 00:41:35,160
Speaker 4: them going back to the tunnel even after wins Right,

853
00:41:35,239 --> 00:41:38,359
Speaker 4: it just wasn't working. But at least three alligator arm

854
00:41:39,080 --> 00:41:43,400
Speaker 4: experiences here. That leads you to an early exit and

855
00:41:43,440 --> 00:41:46,840
Speaker 4: a mad kid. Well, we told you, We told you.

856
00:41:46,920 --> 00:41:50,359
Speaker 1: The kid knew. Everybody knew. Everybody knew what that kid's bit.

857
00:41:50,600 --> 00:41:55,400
Speaker 1: Everybody knew, well, not aj Brown, probably Sirianni. Yeah, who's compleek?

858
00:41:56,080 --> 00:41:59,360
Speaker 1: Coming up next? We got more on Monday Night football

859
00:41:59,480 --> 00:42:10,160
Speaker 1: and blank the Packers everybody five second dance party. Did

860
00:42:10,440 --> 00:42:14,040
Speaker 1: you see Aaron Rodgers get sacked, twist.

861
00:42:13,719 --> 00:42:16,920
Speaker 9: In his helmet on the ground.

862
00:42:17,880 --> 00:42:20,960
Speaker 1: Did you see the refs not throw the flag and

863
00:42:21,160 --> 00:42:25,280
Speaker 1: give the Texans the clinching touchdown?

864
00:42:28,520 --> 00:42:30,400
Speaker 2: He nearly.

865
00:42:32,200 --> 00:42:39,960
Speaker 9: Rogers nearly lost his helmet. Now he's probably gonna retire.

866
00:42:41,280 --> 00:42:48,719
Speaker 9: He nearly lost his helmet, and it's time for Tomlin.

867
00:42:50,719 --> 00:42:53,000
Speaker 1: There you go. No one's ever freestyle the screaming trees

868
00:42:53,040 --> 00:42:58,759
Speaker 1: before we here we go songs. Man, I nearly I

869
00:42:58,800 --> 00:43:00,319
Speaker 1: love screaming trees again.

870
00:43:00,360 --> 00:43:00,839
Speaker 3: I'll hurt you.

871
00:43:00,920 --> 00:43:03,000
Speaker 1: That was great though, Now, but I was gravelly, I

872
00:43:03,120 --> 00:43:03,399
Speaker 1: was there.

873
00:43:03,440 --> 00:43:04,480
Speaker 2: I was rock and roll man.

874
00:43:04,520 --> 00:43:04,920
Speaker 6: That was me.

875
00:43:05,239 --> 00:43:10,840
Speaker 1: Lifestyle, Yeah, that's me, But that was land again drinking.

876
00:43:11,200 --> 00:43:13,840
Speaker 1: That's that's the way he sounds drinking the mister pibs

877
00:43:14,120 --> 00:43:18,040
Speaker 1: zero sugars. Really not at all what he sounded like. Yes,

878
00:43:18,120 --> 00:43:20,600
Speaker 1: it was just like he sound not. Now I'm getting

879
00:43:20,640 --> 00:43:22,960
Speaker 1: even deeper here. Well, no, I was talking about him

880
00:43:23,000 --> 00:43:29,000
Speaker 1: being gravelly not sounded. I sounded fantastic. Okay, everything was

881
00:43:29,040 --> 00:43:32,560
Speaker 1: great there. I'm I'm I'm mister nineties grunge man.

882
00:43:33,760 --> 00:43:35,279
Speaker 3: You sounded like you needed a cough drop.

883
00:43:35,960 --> 00:43:38,160
Speaker 1: But that's that. That's the way the song goes. Sometimes

884
00:43:38,160 --> 00:43:40,360
Speaker 1: it's you sing well that way. You don't want me

885
00:43:40,440 --> 00:43:42,640
Speaker 1: to try to hit high notes like Jeff Tate from

886
00:43:42,680 --> 00:43:45,279
Speaker 1: Queen's Rike or anything. You don't want that one. You

887
00:43:47,880 --> 00:43:50,759
Speaker 1: have to expand the You have to expand the note

888
00:43:50,760 --> 00:43:52,440
Speaker 1: there for Addy better, he's not like a ghost.

889
00:43:52,880 --> 00:43:55,480
Speaker 4: I feel like I want to go sing some Queen's

890
00:43:55,560 --> 00:43:57,120
Speaker 4: Reke at a karaoke bar.

891
00:43:57,239 --> 00:44:02,000
Speaker 1: Now silent lucidity the thee Houston Texans, in a game

892
00:44:02,000 --> 00:44:05,400
Speaker 1: that was seven to six early in the fourth quarter,

893
00:44:05,960 --> 00:44:10,120
Speaker 1: put up twenty three thanks to a couple of defensive touchdowns,

894
00:44:10,160 --> 00:44:14,960
Speaker 1: including the big sack strip of Aaron Rodgers fumble recovery

895
00:44:14,960 --> 00:44:16,719
Speaker 1: in for the score that gave him a seventeen to

896
00:44:16,800 --> 00:44:20,799
Speaker 1: six lead. That did the Steelers in Houston moves on.

897
00:44:20,920 --> 00:44:24,440
Speaker 1: They play next week again against New England. This was

898
00:44:24,480 --> 00:44:28,560
Speaker 1: the Steelers' fewest yards in a playoff game since nineteen

899
00:44:28,760 --> 00:44:32,280
Speaker 1: forty seven. I mean that's even before Terry Bradshaw played.

900
00:44:32,600 --> 00:44:35,480
Speaker 1: That's a long time ago for the Steelers. Again, this

901
00:44:36,719 --> 00:44:40,120
Speaker 1: is a effort of one hundred and seventy five total

902
00:44:40,239 --> 00:44:44,200
Speaker 1: yards against this Texans defense. Man, I know that they look.

903
00:44:44,960 --> 00:44:47,759
Speaker 1: I know that the Patriots played well defensively last week

904
00:44:47,800 --> 00:44:50,400
Speaker 1: and you know last night and everything else. But man,

905
00:44:50,760 --> 00:44:53,120
Speaker 1: good luck if this is the Texans defense that's packing

906
00:44:53,160 --> 00:44:56,680
Speaker 1: for New England on Sunday. Oh good look what's that

907
00:44:56,840 --> 00:44:59,600
Speaker 1: over under gotten? Established nine and a half? Nine and

908
00:44:59,600 --> 00:44:59,919
Speaker 1: a half?

909
00:45:00,400 --> 00:45:02,560
Speaker 4: This one that came close though, five people had to

910
00:45:02,600 --> 00:45:05,439
Speaker 4: sweat in the final minutes after that pick six, right, yeah,

911
00:45:05,520 --> 00:45:07,839
Speaker 4: I was like, oh, we got the Woody Mark touchdout, okay,

912
00:45:07,960 --> 00:45:11,279
Speaker 4: twenty three six. Wait, now there's a pick six and

913
00:45:11,400 --> 00:45:13,840
Speaker 4: we're at thirty eight and a half was the total.

914
00:45:13,880 --> 00:45:16,279
Speaker 4: We get the thirty six in the final minute or two,

915
00:45:16,360 --> 00:45:19,680
Speaker 4: and it's like, uh oh, potentially chaos. But two of

916
00:45:19,760 --> 00:45:23,680
Speaker 4: fourteen on third downs. We watched Rogers under duress all night.

917
00:45:24,680 --> 00:45:27,680
Speaker 4: The offensive line certainly is something that that we've been

918
00:45:27,719 --> 00:45:32,080
Speaker 4: talking about. But his unwillingness inability to stand in the

919
00:45:32,120 --> 00:45:37,000
Speaker 4: pocket and try to deliver downfield certainly came to bear

920
00:45:37,200 --> 00:45:41,719
Speaker 4: repeatedly here. Overall fairly clean game, only three three penalties,

921
00:45:42,000 --> 00:45:45,720
Speaker 4: but couldn't take advantage of all the gimmes that CJ.

922
00:45:45,840 --> 00:45:49,680
Speaker 4: Stroud had early with the would be fumbles lost, the

923
00:45:49,800 --> 00:45:53,719
Speaker 4: three turnovers, all of that goes for not as you're

924
00:45:53,760 --> 00:45:57,240
Speaker 4: absolutely ineffective from biller to post on the offense.

925
00:45:57,600 --> 00:46:00,239
Speaker 1: Now, look, we'll get to the Texans, we'll get to

926
00:46:00,280 --> 00:46:04,920
Speaker 1: Mike Tomlin. But watching ESPN did a great job with this.

927
00:46:05,000 --> 00:46:07,960
Speaker 1: At the end of the game, camera no one talking,

928
00:46:08,239 --> 00:46:11,719
Speaker 1: neither neither announcers talking. We didn't see anything from Joe Buck,

929
00:46:11,760 --> 00:46:15,600
Speaker 1: nothing from Troy Aikman, just the camera following Aaron Rodgers

930
00:46:16,080 --> 00:46:18,279
Speaker 1: off the field for what could be the last time

931
00:46:18,320 --> 00:46:22,800
Speaker 1: and into the locker room. And quite honestly, Aaron Rodgers,

932
00:46:23,040 --> 00:46:25,319
Speaker 1: this should be it. He should he should come out

933
00:46:25,400 --> 00:46:27,880
Speaker 1: out of this and understand that it's time for me

934
00:46:27,920 --> 00:46:32,160
Speaker 1: to retire from the NFL. Right for a couple of reasons. One, yeah,

935
00:46:32,200 --> 00:46:35,000
Speaker 1: you saw the game that he played tonight against the Texans,

936
00:46:35,040 --> 00:46:38,200
Speaker 1: and this defense able to force him into one of

937
00:46:38,200 --> 00:46:42,000
Speaker 1: the worst playoff games he has ever had. All season long,

938
00:46:42,400 --> 00:46:45,400
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers has had some moments, but yet when a

939
00:46:45,600 --> 00:46:48,319
Speaker 1: when when a defense is getting into the backfield, what

940
00:46:48,400 --> 00:46:50,680
Speaker 1: does he do. He's not the same guy throwing off

941
00:46:50,719 --> 00:46:53,240
Speaker 1: his back foot, throwing the ball early, throwing it away.

942
00:46:53,480 --> 00:46:55,680
Speaker 1: He can't stand in there and get hit anymore. He

943
00:46:55,760 --> 00:46:57,920
Speaker 1: just is very skittish. He's been that way since he

944
00:46:57,960 --> 00:47:00,839
Speaker 1: came back from his injury with the Jets three years ago.

945
00:47:01,600 --> 00:47:05,880
Speaker 1: But mainly for Rogers. It's not gonna get any better

946
00:47:05,920 --> 00:47:08,880
Speaker 1: than it is right now. Okay, the Steelers are not

947
00:47:08,920 --> 00:47:11,160
Speaker 1: gonna go crazy free agency. They're not gonna load up

948
00:47:11,160 --> 00:47:13,080
Speaker 1: on guys. They're not gonna bring in a bunch of weapons.

949
00:47:13,520 --> 00:47:16,600
Speaker 1: You had your year to come off of. I don't

950
00:47:16,600 --> 00:47:19,360
Speaker 1: want to end the way the Jets ended, Right, And

951
00:47:19,400 --> 00:47:21,200
Speaker 1: I get that you don't want that. It was awful,

952
00:47:21,520 --> 00:47:25,360
Speaker 1: just personally stuff. I'm talking about the leaks in the

953
00:47:25,360 --> 00:47:27,560
Speaker 1: building and everything. It was an awful time with the Jets.

954
00:47:27,600 --> 00:47:31,000
Speaker 1: Nobody wants to retire coming off of that. So it's

955
00:47:31,040 --> 00:47:32,560
Speaker 1: a risk this year. Right And he did have a

956
00:47:32,600 --> 00:47:34,640
Speaker 1: good back half of the year last year, Right finished

957
00:47:34,640 --> 00:47:37,080
Speaker 1: till nearly thirty touchdowns he threw for you know, yeah,

958
00:47:37,080 --> 00:47:39,319
Speaker 1: he had a pretty good year throwing the football. But

959
00:47:39,400 --> 00:47:42,160
Speaker 1: he decided I'm gonna roll the dice and see what

960
00:47:42,200 --> 00:47:45,120
Speaker 1: I do on an overall better team, and let me

961
00:47:45,160 --> 00:47:47,239
Speaker 1: see what I can do this year. And I know

962
00:47:47,320 --> 00:47:49,480
Speaker 1: he talked a couple of weeks ago about saying, hey,

963
00:47:49,480 --> 00:47:53,080
Speaker 1: I have options for next year. But this year for Rogers,

964
00:47:53,239 --> 00:47:55,840
Speaker 1: you could see he's not clearly not the same quarterback.

965
00:47:55,880 --> 00:47:58,160
Speaker 1: He had some moments, but he also had moments where

966
00:47:58,160 --> 00:48:01,480
Speaker 1: it looked like he was absolutely done. It's not gonna

967
00:48:01,520 --> 00:48:03,920
Speaker 1: get better than this. This is is you don't get

968
00:48:03,960 --> 00:48:07,440
Speaker 1: to choose the ending. Tom Brady chose, Hey, I'm done

969
00:48:07,600 --> 00:48:10,400
Speaker 1: after a playoff game where it's not me holding up

970
00:48:10,400 --> 00:48:12,759
Speaker 1: the Lombardi Trophy one more time. But it's a playoff game.

971
00:48:12,800 --> 00:48:14,400
Speaker 1: I played as well as I could. It's time for

972
00:48:14,440 --> 00:48:17,239
Speaker 1: me to go. This is about as close to an

973
00:48:17,400 --> 00:48:20,440
Speaker 1: end of career success that you could walk out on

974
00:48:20,520 --> 00:48:23,719
Speaker 1: if you're Aaron Rodgers. Next year, it's another year of

975
00:48:23,800 --> 00:48:26,280
Speaker 1: him getting older. It's another year of him being skittish

976
00:48:26,280 --> 00:48:28,040
Speaker 1: in the pocket. It's another year of him of him

977
00:48:28,040 --> 00:48:32,200
Speaker 1: being slower trying to make plays, defenses getting faster getting

978
00:48:32,200 --> 00:48:38,280
Speaker 1: after him. When it's almost like being in Vegas, where

979
00:48:38,800 --> 00:48:41,719
Speaker 1: the objective when you're gambling in Vegas is not to

980
00:48:41,760 --> 00:48:44,239
Speaker 1: walk away with a million dollars. It's when do I

981
00:48:44,280 --> 00:48:47,520
Speaker 1: walk away with the most money I'm gonna walk away with? Right,

982
00:48:47,520 --> 00:48:49,839
Speaker 1: because if I just stay gambling and I gamble all night,

983
00:48:49,840 --> 00:48:51,520
Speaker 1: I'm gonna lose it all and then I'm gonna lose

984
00:48:51,520 --> 00:48:52,799
Speaker 1: my I'm gonna go but go to bed at six

985
00:48:52,800 --> 00:48:54,799
Speaker 1: o'clock in the morning and go, oh, man, I was

986
00:48:54,880 --> 00:48:58,200
Speaker 1: up like fifteen hundred bucks and then I don't know, man,

987
00:48:58,280 --> 00:49:00,719
Speaker 1: I had a couple of bad decisions five am with

988
00:49:00,719 --> 00:49:02,440
Speaker 1: the Roulett wheel or whatever it is. I think you

989
00:49:02,480 --> 00:49:04,240
Speaker 1: say what you did? Well, now I'm down three hundred.

990
00:49:04,520 --> 00:49:06,280
Speaker 1: Like you have to know when when am I gonna

991
00:49:06,320 --> 00:49:09,400
Speaker 1: walk away with the most money? And that's when I

992
00:49:09,440 --> 00:49:12,000
Speaker 1: walk away. Rogers has to get when when do I

993
00:49:12,040 --> 00:49:15,000
Speaker 1: walk away with the most chips on the table? And

994
00:49:15,040 --> 00:49:17,879
Speaker 1: this is that moment because you can't count that next

995
00:49:17,960 --> 00:49:20,279
Speaker 1: year is gonna go better. It could go worse. You

996
00:49:20,400 --> 00:49:23,960
Speaker 1: finished on your feet, you won the division, you got

997
00:49:24,040 --> 00:49:26,440
Speaker 1: your team to the playoffs, you got the sour taste

998
00:49:26,440 --> 00:49:28,759
Speaker 1: of the jets out of your mouth. This is how

999
00:49:28,800 --> 00:49:31,359
Speaker 1: it ends. Because if you're Roger, you reflect, you're really

1000
00:49:31,400 --> 00:49:33,759
Speaker 1: gonna go through what happened next year. Next year is

1001
00:49:33,800 --> 00:49:35,319
Speaker 1: not gonna be as good as this year. And then

1002
00:49:35,360 --> 00:49:38,000
Speaker 1: suddenly it's all poor Aaron Rodger. He stayed a year

1003
00:49:38,040 --> 00:49:40,759
Speaker 1: too long, and look at look at the memory of him. Now, Yes,

1004
00:49:41,200 --> 00:49:43,400
Speaker 1: you want to pick a better ending than getting your

1005
00:49:43,640 --> 00:49:46,760
Speaker 1: helmet rearranging your face on the sack and fumble return

1006
00:49:46,840 --> 00:49:49,480
Speaker 1: for a touchdown. But you don't always get to pick

1007
00:49:49,520 --> 00:49:52,640
Speaker 1: the absolute end. But ending like this, I think Rogers

1008
00:49:52,680 --> 00:49:55,200
Speaker 1: should take some time and think about that situation and

1009
00:49:55,280 --> 00:49:57,040
Speaker 1: go all right, let me get away from the game

1010
00:49:57,040 --> 00:49:59,200
Speaker 1: a bit and go, yeah, it's not gonna go any

1011
00:49:59,200 --> 00:50:01,400
Speaker 1: better than this. I'm in my forties. I've done this

1012
00:50:01,480 --> 00:50:03,719
Speaker 1: other things I can do. This is when to walk

1013
00:50:03,760 --> 00:50:04,439
Speaker 1: away from the game.

1014
00:50:04,719 --> 00:50:08,160
Speaker 4: Yeah, finishes with twenty four against seven for the year,

1015
00:50:08,200 --> 00:50:11,200
Speaker 4: twenty four touchdown, seven picks, thirty three hundred yards, a

1016
00:50:11,280 --> 00:50:17,000
Speaker 4: quarterback rating of ninety intended air yards per attempt. Only

1017
00:50:17,040 --> 00:50:20,799
Speaker 4: two quarterbacks finished worse than him on this list in

1018
00:50:20,840 --> 00:50:24,920
Speaker 4: front of me of forty one. That qualified Kyler Murray

1019
00:50:24,920 --> 00:50:27,000
Speaker 4: at five point nine. You want to know who is

1020
00:50:27,040 --> 00:50:31,560
Speaker 4: dead last, Dylan Gabriel. There you go, that's your company.

1021
00:50:31,680 --> 00:50:34,720
Speaker 4: Of course, you're also down there with Gino Smith, Jared Goff,

1022
00:50:34,760 --> 00:50:38,760
Speaker 4: Bryce Young, all the usual suspects, your guy justin fields,

1023
00:50:38,760 --> 00:50:43,359
Speaker 4: et cetera. But it look uneven season. You can go

1024
00:50:43,400 --> 00:50:46,239
Speaker 4: all the way through, and there were moments, right you

1025
00:50:46,320 --> 00:50:50,239
Speaker 4: have the winning streak and all of that for Tomlin continues,

1026
00:50:50,440 --> 00:50:54,360
Speaker 4: and there were moments where for him and DK Metcalf

1027
00:50:54,400 --> 00:50:57,480
Speaker 4: down the field, like even today, you watched a couple

1028
00:50:57,520 --> 00:51:01,759
Speaker 4: of and highlighted it earlier with Calvin Austin that the

1029
00:51:01,800 --> 00:51:05,359
Speaker 4: receivers at some point are gonna stop running their deep

1030
00:51:05,440 --> 00:51:08,200
Speaker 4: routes because you're just getting rid of the ball too fast.

1031
00:51:08,239 --> 00:51:10,359
Speaker 4: So suddenly you look it's like, oh wow, the ball

1032
00:51:10,400 --> 00:51:13,040
Speaker 4: actually was where it's supposed to go. But normally he's

1033
00:51:13,080 --> 00:51:15,840
Speaker 4: been hot rotten it or dirting it or taking the

1034
00:51:15,920 --> 00:51:18,560
Speaker 4: sack that you're not even getting to that point. So

1035
00:51:19,320 --> 00:51:22,960
Speaker 4: while it was I'm sure a nice cleanser for him

1036
00:51:23,080 --> 00:51:26,919
Speaker 4: off the way the things ended with the Jets, it's

1037
00:51:26,960 --> 00:51:29,279
Speaker 4: tough to say, hey, come back, although you and I

1038
00:51:29,320 --> 00:51:33,400
Speaker 4: have just watched sixty two different guys quarterback a game

1039
00:51:33,480 --> 00:51:37,960
Speaker 4: as a starter in the NFL this year, he's better.

1040
00:51:37,719 --> 00:51:38,800
Speaker 1: Than a lot of those guys.

1041
00:51:40,480 --> 00:51:43,920
Speaker 4: Even at forty nine or whatever, he is at this point,

1042
00:51:44,160 --> 00:51:45,440
Speaker 4: darkness retreats or whatever.

1043
00:51:45,520 --> 00:51:47,879
Speaker 1: But you got to decide when that end game is. Yeah,

1044
00:51:47,880 --> 00:51:49,959
Speaker 1: And that's the thing, is that to get that stick,

1045
00:51:50,560 --> 00:51:53,719
Speaker 1: everybody would rather stay, would rather go a year early

1046
00:51:53,800 --> 00:51:55,759
Speaker 1: than stay a year too long. Right when you are

1047
00:51:55,800 --> 00:51:58,200
Speaker 1: a player like this, when you are one of the

1048
00:51:58,280 --> 00:52:00,279
Speaker 1: great to play the game, and Aaron Rod one of

1049
00:52:00,320 --> 00:52:02,680
Speaker 1: the top five quarterbacks I've seen throughout my life, even

1050
00:52:02,719 --> 00:52:04,120
Speaker 1: regardless of the last three years.

1051
00:52:04,200 --> 00:52:05,920
Speaker 4: But that's the thing, right, we've already done this for

1052
00:52:05,960 --> 00:52:09,040
Speaker 4: three years. What's what's what's up? But as long as

1053
00:52:09,040 --> 00:52:09,960
Speaker 4: you don't get yourself hurt.

1054
00:52:10,080 --> 00:52:12,120
Speaker 1: Nah, But that's the thing. By the way, you also rolled.

1055
00:52:12,000 --> 00:52:15,400
Speaker 4: Up a really inverted way that you described it with

1056
00:52:15,480 --> 00:52:18,040
Speaker 4: your Vegas thing. I thought you were gonna start picking

1057
00:52:18,040 --> 00:52:19,520
Speaker 4: a guitar and singing the Gambler.

1058
00:52:20,400 --> 00:52:25,000
Speaker 1: You have to know both too tired to sleep? Uh.

1059
00:52:25,480 --> 00:52:29,040
Speaker 1: Is that when when you're this great an athlete, you

1060
00:52:29,120 --> 00:52:33,080
Speaker 1: never want the end to be remembered badly. And there's

1061
00:52:33,160 --> 00:52:35,960
Speaker 1: many great athletes that hung on a year or two

1062
00:52:36,040 --> 00:52:38,600
Speaker 1: too long. And that's what you remember when you think

1063
00:52:38,640 --> 00:52:40,360
Speaker 1: about Joe Namath. The first thing you think of a

1064
00:52:40,400 --> 00:52:42,120
Speaker 1: Super Bowl three, and then you think of boy, the

1065
00:52:42,239 --> 00:52:44,879
Speaker 1: Rams that was terrible. Well you think of Susie Cole.

1066
00:52:45,280 --> 00:52:47,480
Speaker 1: Will Yeah, Willie Mays had an incredible one of the

1067
00:52:47,520 --> 00:52:50,680
Speaker 1: greatest three four careers in baseball history, but people still

1068
00:52:50,719 --> 00:52:52,359
Speaker 1: remember his last year at the Mets when he had

1069
00:52:52,400 --> 00:52:55,560
Speaker 1: trouble fielding the ball and running the bases. EMITTT. Smith

1070
00:52:55,719 --> 00:52:58,000
Speaker 1: unbelievable with the Cowboys, but that last year as a

1071
00:52:58,000 --> 00:53:01,240
Speaker 1: Cardinal just to add more yards to is to his total.

1072
00:53:01,320 --> 00:53:05,160
Speaker 1: Like certain players, when they're that good, that becomes a

1073
00:53:05,280 --> 00:53:08,040
Speaker 1: very big memory and part of your legacy is that

1074
00:53:08,080 --> 00:53:09,759
Speaker 1: you hung on with that year. Now, if you are

1075
00:53:09,800 --> 00:53:12,080
Speaker 1: an average player or you're a really good player and

1076
00:53:12,120 --> 00:53:14,520
Speaker 1: you want to play, hey, okay, right, you play until

1077
00:53:14,560 --> 00:53:16,600
Speaker 1: they take the uniform off. You need to continue to

1078
00:53:16,600 --> 00:53:19,040
Speaker 1: make money. Okay, Rogers has made his money. He's had

1079
00:53:19,080 --> 00:53:21,720
Speaker 1: his career, and you want to keep that legacy intact,

1080
00:53:21,840 --> 00:53:25,880
Speaker 1: especially when you have an after career career that is

1081
00:53:25,960 --> 00:53:28,879
Speaker 1: going to help you. Right, Brady knew, okay, I'm gonna

1082
00:53:28,920 --> 00:53:30,920
Speaker 1: leave here. Could he have played another year? Probably could have,

1083
00:53:31,200 --> 00:53:32,880
Speaker 1: but would it have been as good or would there

1084
00:53:32,880 --> 00:53:35,759
Speaker 1: have been embarrassing situations? And hey, boy, Brady should have

1085
00:53:35,760 --> 00:53:38,040
Speaker 1: really hung it up and now trying to get into broadcasting.

1086
00:53:38,280 --> 00:53:40,120
Speaker 1: A little bit of the luster comes off of him.

1087
00:53:40,320 --> 00:53:42,920
Speaker 1: But now but he knows I have that next career

1088
00:53:42,960 --> 00:53:44,880
Speaker 1: that I want to get to, and Rogers has that

1089
00:53:44,960 --> 00:53:47,279
Speaker 1: next career too, whether it's a TV show, whether it's

1090
00:53:47,280 --> 00:53:49,880
Speaker 1: a radio show, whether it's coaching, whatever it's gonna be.

1091
00:53:50,320 --> 00:53:52,359
Speaker 1: He's a guy that stirred the drink for a long time.

1092
00:53:52,440 --> 00:53:55,000
Speaker 1: Then his popularity is hitting incredible levels over the course

1093
00:53:55,000 --> 00:53:57,200
Speaker 1: of the past three four years. So there's things he's

1094
00:53:57,239 --> 00:53:59,480
Speaker 1: going to do or he's gonna continue to be a voice.

1095
00:53:59,600 --> 00:54:03,560
Speaker 1: And so leaving off of this high point, okay, great

1096
00:54:03,920 --> 00:54:06,120
Speaker 1: another year where it's another year of boy. He's throwing

1097
00:54:06,120 --> 00:54:08,600
Speaker 1: the ball even earlier and off his back foot because

1098
00:54:09,040 --> 00:54:11,839
Speaker 1: he's scared he hears footsteps. Now it just gets more

1099
00:54:11,840 --> 00:54:15,080
Speaker 1: embarrassing and that ruins your legacy and the optics and

1100
00:54:15,080 --> 00:54:17,560
Speaker 1: whatever you want to do going forward. So that's why

1101
00:54:17,719 --> 00:54:20,120
Speaker 1: you know, it's a tough decision to go boy next year.

1102
00:54:20,280 --> 00:54:22,919
Speaker 1: I really think I can go one more. But Kenny really,

1103
00:54:22,960 --> 00:54:25,799
Speaker 1: I mean, you've seen him play sometimes this year was like, wait, dude,

1104
00:54:25,840 --> 00:54:27,799
Speaker 1: you can't throw the ball in DK metcalf with three

1105
00:54:27,840 --> 00:54:30,239
Speaker 1: steps into his route just because of defensive lineman's coming

1106
00:54:30,280 --> 00:54:32,719
Speaker 1: off the edge, step up in the pocket, buy some time.

1107
00:54:32,719 --> 00:54:34,160
Speaker 1: But no, no, no, I just want to throw the

1108
00:54:34,200 --> 00:54:36,040
Speaker 1: football away. You don't want to get hit anymore. And

1109
00:54:36,080 --> 00:54:37,560
Speaker 1: I get you don't want to get hit, but man,

1110
00:54:37,600 --> 00:54:39,800
Speaker 1: you're the quarterback and you're the guy that's got to

1111
00:54:39,800 --> 00:54:42,480
Speaker 1: stand in there deliver the football. It's not gonna get

1112
00:54:42,520 --> 00:54:46,120
Speaker 1: better for Aaron Rodgers than it was this season. Ending

1113
00:54:46,239 --> 00:54:48,680
Speaker 1: like this. It's not perfect, but it's as good at

1114
00:54:48,680 --> 00:54:51,120
Speaker 1: the ending as you're gonna get. Yeah, it was just tough.

1115
00:54:51,520 --> 00:54:54,000
Speaker 4: All those plays that you remember, and certainly you know

1116
00:54:54,040 --> 00:54:57,040
Speaker 4: we talked a lot about the Bears, Packers and the rivalry,

1117
00:54:57,280 --> 00:54:59,919
Speaker 4: all those plays that were just the extension right Dan

1118
00:55:00,080 --> 00:55:03,080
Speaker 4: sing a little bit to the right, waiting, waiting, waiting,

1119
00:55:03,160 --> 00:55:07,760
Speaker 4: and then delivering a perfect dark downfield, which we watched

1120
00:55:07,800 --> 00:55:10,799
Speaker 4: him get away and evade that initial pressure from the

1121
00:55:10,840 --> 00:55:15,560
Speaker 4: Houston defensive line today. But it's scattershot, and we watched

1122
00:55:15,640 --> 00:55:19,160
Speaker 4: quarterbacks all all weekend long where that became a bit

1123
00:55:19,200 --> 00:55:23,120
Speaker 4: of a phenomenon of you're now feeling pressure that may

1124
00:55:23,160 --> 00:55:26,439
Speaker 4: not one hundred percent be there and getting the ball

1125
00:55:26,520 --> 00:55:30,040
Speaker 4: out early, sailing it wide. We watched CJ. Stroud do

1126
00:55:30,120 --> 00:55:32,880
Speaker 4: that a number of times over the course of the

1127
00:55:32,920 --> 00:55:36,920
Speaker 4: game as well. But for Aaron Rodgers, like, I'm just

1128
00:55:36,960 --> 00:55:38,640
Speaker 4: always a believer and you and I've been doing this

1129
00:55:38,680 --> 00:55:44,400
Speaker 4: a very long time collectively, that it's the until I

1130
00:55:44,520 --> 00:55:47,040
Speaker 4: have to take it off, right until I got to

1131
00:55:47,080 --> 00:55:50,200
Speaker 4: take that jersey off. I'm hanging on for dear life. Man,

1132
00:55:50,760 --> 00:55:52,240
Speaker 4: retirement is long.

1133
00:55:53,040 --> 00:55:53,600
Speaker 1: So EMMITTT.

1134
00:55:53,640 --> 00:55:57,040
Speaker 4: Smith, does he regret it in his quiet moments that

1135
00:55:57,200 --> 00:55:59,879
Speaker 4: extra year with the Cardinals. Maybe, but he can still

1136
00:56:00,160 --> 00:56:02,680
Speaker 4: I got three Super Bowls and all the Cowboys teams

1137
00:56:02,680 --> 00:56:03,760
Speaker 4: since me have sucked.

1138
00:56:03,960 --> 00:56:07,359
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's you know, but I mean I don't think

1139
00:56:07,360 --> 00:56:10,360
Speaker 1: he likes, you know, likes walking around people. Go, Emmitt Smith,

1140
00:56:10,360 --> 00:56:12,799
Speaker 1: you were great and the Cardinals. But then he went

1141
00:56:12,920 --> 00:56:15,360
Speaker 1: Dancing with the Stars, that is true, and he's trained

1142
00:56:15,400 --> 00:56:18,239
Speaker 1: on that commercials Sonny. He had another affter. I mean,

1143
00:56:18,320 --> 00:56:20,640
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers could be dancing. He had to wait to

1144
00:56:20,680 --> 00:56:22,600
Speaker 1: do Dancing with the Stars to get to get the

1145
00:56:22,640 --> 00:56:24,360
Speaker 1: stink of the end of with the Cardinals off. And

1146
00:56:24,360 --> 00:56:27,520
Speaker 1: that was like fifteen or twenty years later. Oh, man,

1147
00:56:27,560 --> 00:56:29,640
Speaker 1: I gotta get rid of I can't play football anymore.

1148
00:56:29,920 --> 00:56:32,040
Speaker 1: Oh this is great. Yeah, I'll do Dancing with the Stars.

1149
00:56:32,080 --> 00:56:33,759
Speaker 1: I gotta have people remembering for something else other than

1150
00:56:33,800 --> 00:56:34,800
Speaker 1: that last year with the Cardinals.

1151
00:56:34,840 --> 00:56:38,319
Speaker 4: Of course, the nerd me because of the memorabilia collectibility,

1152
00:56:38,320 --> 00:56:41,279
Speaker 4: and Emmett was always a big guy that you know,

1153
00:56:41,360 --> 00:56:44,880
Speaker 4: wanted his touchdown football's had the huge collection and jerseys

1154
00:56:44,880 --> 00:56:47,600
Speaker 4: and he'd been doing that forever, had his own logos

1155
00:56:47,640 --> 00:56:50,200
Speaker 4: and long before anybody else. I'd be curious to see

1156
00:56:50,239 --> 00:56:55,760
Speaker 4: what his hall was at conventions pre Dancing with the Stars.

1157
00:56:56,760 --> 00:56:58,720
Speaker 4: Did that open up a whole other market?

1158
00:56:58,960 --> 00:56:59,320
Speaker 5: Yeah?

1159
00:56:59,160 --> 00:57:02,719
Speaker 1: Yeah, people bring the photo of him in the glitter vest.

1160
00:57:02,840 --> 00:57:04,680
Speaker 1: Is there's dancing at the Stars con is.

1161
00:57:04,680 --> 00:57:06,799
Speaker 4: Do they have that if you've showed up dancing conn

1162
00:57:06,880 --> 00:57:09,080
Speaker 4: But if you show up at a well, I'm sure

1163
00:57:09,120 --> 00:57:11,680
Speaker 4: there is. I mean they have them for soap operations.

1164
00:57:12,400 --> 00:57:14,800
Speaker 4: The stars at General hospitals come on.

1165
00:57:15,560 --> 00:57:17,280
Speaker 1: Time now to find out what's trending in the wide

1166
00:57:17,320 --> 00:57:19,560
Speaker 1: world sports. But guy has been called the Emmett Smith

1167
00:57:19,960 --> 00:57:23,280
Speaker 1: of Fox Sports Radio because he's really good at the tango.

1168
00:57:23,600 --> 00:57:26,360
Speaker 1: It's Steve Disager. Don't forget the chacha.

1169
00:57:26,880 --> 00:57:29,320
Speaker 7: By the way, Mike Tomlin might be dancing his way

1170
00:57:29,360 --> 00:57:32,959
Speaker 7: out after another playoff loss tonight. There are so many

1171
00:57:33,000 --> 00:57:35,959
Speaker 7: Tomlin stats coming through it's it's hard to keep track

1172
00:57:36,000 --> 00:57:36,560
Speaker 7: of them all.

1173
00:57:36,880 --> 00:57:39,440
Speaker 1: None of them are good. Just for the record, Oh, okay, okay.

1174
00:57:39,480 --> 00:57:43,000
Speaker 7: Houston Texans win their wildcard game at Pittsburgh tonight thirty

1175
00:57:43,080 --> 00:57:46,200
Speaker 7: to six. Texans have won ten in a row. They'll

1176
00:57:46,200 --> 00:57:49,560
Speaker 7: advance to New England Sunday three pm Eastern time for

1177
00:57:49,600 --> 00:57:52,960
Speaker 7: a divisional playoff game. That means the Rams at Chicago

1178
00:57:53,120 --> 00:57:55,960
Speaker 7: game is Sunday at six thirty pm Eastern.

1179
00:57:56,320 --> 00:57:57,800
Speaker 1: The two Saturday.

1180
00:57:57,360 --> 00:58:01,160
Speaker 7: Games, well, we've got Bills at Denver this Saturday four

1181
00:58:01,320 --> 00:58:04,840
Speaker 7: thirty Eastern and then on Fox TV Saturday night forty

1182
00:58:04,920 --> 00:58:08,600
Speaker 7: nine Ers at Seattle eight pm Eastern time. Now, Steelers

1183
00:58:08,600 --> 00:58:12,240
Speaker 7: coach Mike Tomlin the first Steelers coach in their history

1184
00:58:12,280 --> 00:58:15,440
Speaker 7: to have a nine year stretch without a single playoff victory.

1185
00:58:16,000 --> 00:58:19,760
Speaker 7: The thing is he has lost seven straight playoff games,

1186
00:58:19,880 --> 00:58:24,240
Speaker 7: which ties the record of Marvin Lewis of Cincinnati, and

1187
00:58:24,360 --> 00:58:27,720
Speaker 7: the Steelers franchise is now the first ever to lose

1188
00:58:28,280 --> 00:58:32,120
Speaker 7: five straight playoff games by double digits each. They were

1189
00:58:32,120 --> 00:58:34,920
Speaker 7: only down seven to six to start the fourth quarter tonight,

1190
00:58:35,040 --> 00:58:38,680
Speaker 7: thirty to six. Houston the final Christian Kirk eight receptions,

1191
00:58:38,720 --> 00:58:41,480
Speaker 7: one hundred and forty four yards and a score. Houston

1192
00:58:41,560 --> 00:58:45,720
Speaker 7: Star wide receiver Nico Collins left with a concussion. Steelers,

1193
00:58:45,760 --> 00:58:49,440
Speaker 7: for a seventh straight playoff game, were down at the half.

1194
00:58:50,000 --> 00:58:53,320
Speaker 7: They did not recover Aaron Rodgers one fumble return for

1195
00:58:53,400 --> 00:58:57,400
Speaker 7: a touchdown, one interception return for a touchdown. The Steelers

1196
00:58:57,520 --> 00:59:02,000
Speaker 7: offense had eleven drives only thirteen downs. Now, the Texans

1197
00:59:02,040 --> 00:59:05,680
Speaker 7: turnover margin was best in the AFC a plus seventeen,

1198
00:59:05,800 --> 00:59:08,920
Speaker 7: Yet their quarterback C. J. Stroud had three turnovers tonight

1199
00:59:09,520 --> 00:59:13,120
Speaker 7: and they still won. Going away. You mentioned the Steelers yardage,

1200
00:59:13,520 --> 00:59:16,240
Speaker 7: their worst in a playoff game since the nineteen forties.

1201
00:59:16,840 --> 00:59:20,400
Speaker 7: The yardage differential is the worst in any Steelers playoff

1202
00:59:20,480 --> 00:59:24,360
Speaker 7: game ever because they own only one seventy five while

1203
00:59:24,400 --> 00:59:28,360
Speaker 7: the Texans offense had four hundred and eight. Texans defense

1204
00:59:28,480 --> 00:59:31,360
Speaker 7: is best in the AFC. They allow about two seventy

1205
00:59:31,400 --> 00:59:34,840
Speaker 7: five on average, which is best in the conference one

1206
00:59:35,000 --> 00:59:38,760
Speaker 7: seventy five for Pittsburgh tonight. In fact, Houston allows only

1207
00:59:38,800 --> 00:59:42,200
Speaker 7: seventeen points a game and no touchdowns for the Steelers tonight,

1208
00:59:42,240 --> 00:59:44,800
Speaker 7: thirty to six is the final. A note on New

1209
00:59:44,800 --> 00:59:48,920
Speaker 7: England defensive beck Christian Gonzales is in concussion protocol. As

1210
00:59:48,960 --> 00:59:51,080
Speaker 7: for the two late games in the NBA, It's late

1211
00:59:51,120 --> 00:59:53,480
Speaker 7: their quarter at Sacramento, and the Kings are leading the

1212
00:59:53,560 --> 00:59:57,680
Speaker 7: Lakers eighty four to sixty nine despite thirty two points

1213
00:59:57,680 --> 01:00:01,480
Speaker 7: from LA's Luka Donziic halftime. I'm in Los Angeles. Clippers

1214
01:00:01,480 --> 01:00:05,200
Speaker 7: are edging Charlotte forty five forty three. Kawhi Leonard is playing.

1215
01:00:05,280 --> 01:00:09,120
Speaker 7: He has eleven points. James Harden with thirteen earlier wins

1216
01:00:09,120 --> 01:00:12,600
Speaker 7: for Indiana and Philadelphia, Michigan dropped to number four in

1217
01:00:12,680 --> 01:00:16,320
Speaker 7: the New AP Men's College Basketball Poll NHL. Tampa Bay

1218
01:00:16,320 --> 01:00:19,320
Speaker 7: won its tenth straight game, five to one at Philadelphia.

1219
01:00:19,480 --> 01:00:23,120
Speaker 7: Detroit in overtime beat Carolina four to three. Columbus fired

1220
01:00:23,160 --> 01:00:26,720
Speaker 7: coach Dean Evison, replaced by Rick Bonus and former Pirates

1221
01:00:26,760 --> 01:00:29,400
Speaker 7: closer Dave Justy died at the age of eighty six.

1222
01:00:29,440 --> 01:00:31,800
Speaker 7: He led the league in saves in nineteen seventy one

1223
01:00:31,880 --> 01:00:34,080
Speaker 7: when Pittsburgh won the World Series. He was an All

1224
01:00:34,080 --> 01:00:35,320
Speaker 7: Star in seventy three.

1225
01:00:35,520 --> 01:00:37,840
Speaker 1: Back to You, Thank You, Steve though the Jason Smithson

1226
01:00:37,880 --> 01:00:40,400
Speaker 1: with Mike Harmon live from the Fox Sports Radio Studios.

1227
01:00:40,560 --> 01:00:43,720
Speaker 1: Coming up next, we get into a big NFL story

1228
01:00:43,760 --> 01:00:46,680
Speaker 1: where one team that doesn't need to get side swiped

1229
01:00:47,080 --> 01:00:51,160
Speaker 1: absolutely getting side swiped. Keep it right here, Big Football

1230
01:00:51,200 --> 01:00:53,600
Speaker 1: Monday continues Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio