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Speaker 1: What'scept everybody. I'm wil Silva and these are your good

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Speaker 1: morning football headlines from NFL Network. The Steelers were riding high,

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Speaker 1: hoasting to eleven and ol start, and then they hit

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Speaker 1: that rough patch with Monday being the latest bump in

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Speaker 1: the road Pittsburgh as it first intended nineteen yard line,

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Speaker 1: the exchange was fumbled, the ball on the ground at

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Speaker 1: the twenty. The Bengals have started celebrating and they recover

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Speaker 1: the Pittsburgh Steelers fumbled Roethlisberger back to throw fires about

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Speaker 1: the inner accept I picked off at the thirty eight

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Speaker 1: yard line. High stepping is Mackenzie Alexander all right? So

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Speaker 1: to put this for you in context, the Steelers have

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Speaker 1: joined the nineteen sixty nine Rams and the two thousand

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Speaker 1: and nine Saints as the only teams to lose three

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Speaker 1: games at some point after starting a season eleven and oh.

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Speaker 1: Now looking at the bright side here, New Orleans started

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Speaker 1: weeks fifteen through seventeen, but still managed to win the

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl that season against the Colts. Well, Pittsburgh needs

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Speaker 1: to get back on the winning side of the Ledger

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Speaker 1: this week against Indianapolis, and that effort would be helped

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Speaker 1: by Ben Roethlisberger just playing better. Big Ben is thrown

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Speaker 1: at least one pick in five straight games, and he

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Speaker 1: acknowledges the criticism of this play lately is well, it's

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Speaker 1: certainly well deserved. If I don't blame him. When you

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Speaker 1: play like pooh, you should get talked about like that.

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Speaker 1: And so you know, I need to play better. So

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Speaker 1: if if I'm not giving him a reason to talk good,

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Speaker 1: then I'm giving a reason to talk bad. So that's

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Speaker 1: all that's all on me. I need to play better.

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Speaker 1: I need to get more consistent with my play, and

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Speaker 1: that's mentally and physically. And so I think when I

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Speaker 1: play good football mentally and physically, then hopefully that'll trickle

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Speaker 1: down to everyone else get better. Ben hit better, because

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Speaker 1: don't look now, but here comes the Browns then, now

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Speaker 1: just one game behind Pittsburgh in the race for the

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Speaker 1: ANFC North. The Brown's only path to win the division, though,

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Speaker 1: starts with the win over the Jets. Couple with the

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Speaker 1: Steelers losing their last two games. Brown's head coach Kevin

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Speaker 1: Stefanski is not taking the Jets lightly despite their one

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Speaker 1: and thirteen record. Nope. On the way. He wants to

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Speaker 1: squad to focus on themselves, not an opponent or playoff

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Speaker 1: birth you walk in this building on Wednesday, you understand

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Speaker 1: all the things that you need to do to get

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Speaker 1: ready for that Wednesday. And that's where we are right now.

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Speaker 1: So we had good meetings this morning introducing them to

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Speaker 1: this team, and again, just put the tape on, watch

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Speaker 1: that game from last week. You're very, very quickly understand

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Speaker 1: what's required this week. Kevin Stefanski certainly Coach of the

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Speaker 1: Year candidate honors for the job he's done in Cleveland. Tomorrow,

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Speaker 1: you'll have a special Christmas gift of NFL actions. Du

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Speaker 1: Brees and the Saints host Kirk Cousins and the Vikes

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Speaker 1: at four three pm Eastern on Fox, NFL Network, and

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Speaker 1: Amazon Prime Video. On Saturday, we've got a tripleheader for

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Speaker 1: you with playoff implications. We cook off with the Bucks

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Speaker 1: and Lines on NFL Network, followed by the Niners and

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Speaker 1: Cards on Amazon Prime, and then it's the Dolphins and

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Speaker 1: Raiders back on NFL Network. Speaking of those Raiders, quarterback

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Speaker 1: Derek car a full participant at practice yesterday and maybe

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Speaker 1: healthy enough to start against Miami. A car was expected

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Speaker 1: to be out two weeks after injuring his growing less

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Speaker 1: Thursday against the Chargers. Now it's not clear if he'll

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Speaker 1: go or if Marcus Mariota will get the nod. At

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Speaker 1: seven and seven, the Raiders must win out and get

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Speaker 1: some help if they want to make the playoffs. The

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Speaker 1: Dolphins currently hold the seventh and final spot in the

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Speaker 1: ANC playoff picture. Miami's one game behind Indie for the

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Speaker 1: sixth seed, and the Dolphins are one game ahead of

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Speaker 1: the Ravens based on conference record will Over in the NFC.

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Speaker 1: Washington can clinch the NFC East with the home win

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Speaker 1: against Carolina and a Giant's loss or tie. Taking your quarterback,

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Speaker 1: Dwayne Haskins, we'll get to start Sunday against the Panthers.

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Speaker 1: If if Alex Smith isn't able to go that coach

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Speaker 1: Ron Rivera saying Smith had a really good day yesterday

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Speaker 1: and will continue to evaluate his path before making a

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Speaker 1: decision staying with Washington. According DNAFL networking Saturae and Rabbitport,

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Speaker 1: Haskins was fined forty thousand dollars for attending a party

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Speaker 1: without a mask after last week's game. That's the largest

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Speaker 1: known fine for a COVID nineteen protocol violation more than

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Speaker 1: half of the quarterbacks weekly paycheck. Haskins will also no

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Speaker 1: longer wear the Captain's see on his jersey, and the

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Speaker 1: Texans have interviewed former Bengals head coach Marvin Lewis for

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Speaker 1: their head coaching vacancy. Lewis had a winning record during

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Speaker 1: the sixteen seasons and Cincinnati, however, was owen seven in

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Speaker 1: the playoffs. Now for further analysis on both the NFL

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