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Speaker 1: Nation Radio. We are back here on the drive. I'm

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Speaker 1: Dale Lolly here with Matt Williamson. Were pleased to be

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Speaker 1: Steelers Nation Radio, at least a familiar voice from the past.

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Speaker 1: People may recognize this if you're new to Steelers Nation Radio.

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Speaker 1: Maybe you don't, but Adam Crowley joining us for the segment.

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Speaker 1: How you doing, Adam, I'm good, and I think people

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Speaker 1: sounds like if they get the seventeen game schedule, they're

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Speaker 1: four for that team that's in the UH. That's how

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Speaker 1: they that's how they make up for that seventeenth game,

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Speaker 1: this is why you have me on because I'm so

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Speaker 1: tapped into all the goings on around the NFL. Well,

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Speaker 1: I'm assuming, Adam, that you've been paying attention to the

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Speaker 1: Ben Roethlisberger saga, and UH have seen everything that's transpired

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Speaker 1: Here you go, shock chock yourself. Uh would have been

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Speaker 1: talk show fodder or gold for you as somebody trying

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Speaker 1: Is this? Is this what the way you thought this

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Speaker 1: to me. If I'm the Steelers, of course I want

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Speaker 1: find a way to get this done. I had said

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Speaker 1: not move on and start the quote unquote rebuild. But

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Speaker 1: that's not the way the Steelers go about their business.

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Speaker 1: And if the goal is to win this upcoming season,

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Speaker 1: then this is the best option to help the Steelers

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Speaker 1: win in two thousand and twenty one. Yeah, I agree

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Speaker 1: with that. You always have a good pulse of Steeler Nation,

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Speaker 1: going to blow it up. So if Mason Rudolph was

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Speaker 1: no matter what. Almost And if that's the version of

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Speaker 1: a Stealer rebuild. And next year we're all talking about, Wow,

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Speaker 1: they won seven seven games. They're picking sixteenth in the draft.

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Speaker 1: to the Steelers and the Ravens were four and five.

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Speaker 1: I hate playing because I'm a huge baby, and so

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Speaker 1: I was driving back from Baltimore after producing in the

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Speaker 1: booth and Ravens fans were going nuts. I was listening

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Speaker 1: to the post game show, saying, you gotta fire our boy.

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Speaker 1: This guy's joke. He's got no imagination. And then all

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Speaker 1: of a sudden, he's the most imaginative. Right, He's able

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Speaker 1: And you know, good coaches, they's a loser. Again. You

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Speaker 1: can't win the playoffs, right, you know, to that point,

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Speaker 1: Look how many games they want with that guy? And yeah,

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Speaker 1: I realized they've had their pointoff failures. I would have

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Speaker 1: would have to think, eventually that's gonna translate. Well, that's

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Speaker 1: what we do here on this show ATAM. We jump

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Speaker 1: all over the place because it was free form jazz radio. Um,

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Speaker 1: just uh, but we're gonna let you go, Adam. We

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Speaker 1: appreciate you stopping by. Always good to catch up with you, buddy.

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Speaker 1: That is Alaan Crowley. Of course, you can hear him

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Speaker 1: all over the place on the I Heart media. Um,

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Speaker 1: no matter where you're at in the country, I believe,

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Speaker 1: is that correct, Adam? Well, I'm in my basement in

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Speaker 1: a closet so that you got the closet. Dude, you've

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Speaker 1: been in the closet for way too long. Adam, I'm

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Speaker 1: just gonna hang up, goodbye, but we appreciate him stopping by.

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Speaker 1: I'm Dale Lally. That is Matt Williamson. We want to

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Speaker 1: thank Jacob Breck for keeping us on the air throughout

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Speaker 1: the segment, and we want to thank you for listening

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Speaker 1: to this edition of The Drive on Steelers Nation Radio.