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

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Speaker 1: and it's exactly the defensive 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 3: Some big opportunities missed wide open wide receivers, the I

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Speaker 3: don't have the ball anymore as I'm kind of getting

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Speaker 3: hit but not quite. Yeah, just a curious end of

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Speaker 3: the first half. But if you bet the over on this,

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Speaker 3: that tells me you just blindly like wishing, wanting, hoping

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Speaker 3: 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 3: I know there was a lot of downward pressure, don't

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Speaker 3: I don't think it quite broke through that far?

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Speaker 4: You know what, would I be shocked? No, all right, no,

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Speaker 4: I would.

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

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Speaker 1: on that twenty seven out. And I'm feeling pretty good

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Speaker 1: right now, yes, you know, nearing the midway point of

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

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Speaker 3: A both defensive lines absolutely dominating CJ. Stroud with some

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Speaker 3: happy feet. We've seen that before this playoff weekend, and

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Speaker 3: Aaron Rodgers crumbling instead of taking the big hit, just

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Speaker 3: as we surmised he would, you know, when he did

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Speaker 3: the avoid dance with Miles Garrett a couple of weeks ago. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: we're seeing it here against that Houston pressure. Now here's

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Speaker 3: the thing, okay, is that I fully expected. Why we

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Speaker 3: talked about this last week. Aaron Rodgers is not and CJ.

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Speaker 3: Stroud is just absolutely killing the Texans scrambling right now.

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Speaker 3: One a time before we get to c J. Stroud,

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Speaker 3: Aaron Rodgers, it was second and six from the sixteen.

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

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Speaker 1: which again for each CJ. Stroud tonight that hasn't been

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

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Speaker 1: now 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: Did not see Brandon Eckles come in and step in

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

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

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Speaker 1: 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: 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: try to throw it in the middle of the field

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Speaker 1: surrounded by Steelers players. It's it knocked out of his hands.

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Speaker 1: Steelers recover and kick a field goal. Now you have

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Speaker 1: this horrendous pass. This is this is the worst game

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Speaker 1: I mean, he is absolute one guy. It's hard to say, Yo,

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Speaker 3: Oh, this is one where you don't need to be cute.

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Speaker 3: Your defense has taken care of business. You're third and

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Speaker 3: four in field goal range. Right, this is a chip

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Speaker 3: We've certainly talked about that in Pittsburgh a long time,

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Speaker 3: but this is one that you cut through the wind,

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Speaker 3: you'll be able to make it, you know, a ten

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Speaker 3: to six game, which might be insurmountable at this point. Right,

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Speaker 3: So on a third and four, I'm not getting cute

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Speaker 3: couple of big runs on this drive. Maybe he needed,

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Speaker 3: hold up. By the way, though, he does have one

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Speaker 3: thing that Justin Herbert did not last night. What is

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Speaker 3: he There is a touchdown pass on the ball and

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Speaker 3: he has a one point lead.

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Speaker 4: 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's Jet still bad?

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Speaker 4: Still bad.

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Speaker 1: Look, 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 disance like the Jet. What I said, whatever

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

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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: 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 vasiline

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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: 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: could have been a touchdown pass in the final minute

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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: 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 1: the football well. I mean, I don't know what else

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Speaker 4: It's the question.

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Speaker 3: You got a veteran center, and Andrews been around the league.

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Speaker 3: But whatever this issue is, you're screwing up the timing right,

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Speaker 3: and then he's accelerating at the old it's supposed to

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Speaker 3: if he's just afraid of seeing TJ. Watt on the

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Speaker 3: But everything just seems so sped up because he's missed

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Speaker 3: some wide open receivers. We were watching it as you

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Speaker 3: finished the half. Nico Collins, whether it's a touchdown or

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Speaker 3: he's down inside, he's the very inside, just gunned the

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Speaker 4: Yes, like a rocket come up, like what are you doing?

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Speaker 3: He's standing by himself, like the the way the progression

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Speaker 3: put it out to him, and instead he gunned it

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Speaker 3: still a seven to six lead. Because Pittsburgh can't get

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Speaker 3: out of their own way, I'm certainly giving them every

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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 4: Well, he would have been flat on his ass.

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Speaker 3: You want to talk about offensive lines, Okay, you want

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Speaker 3: to go back to that when he took his nine

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Speaker 1: He does have good hair. He done great hair. Great

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Speaker 1: hell that never that never struggled. Great question, I didn't see.

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

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Speaker 1: even though I got sacked 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 4: Hair never moved.

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Speaker 1: You know the worst part of this right because you

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Speaker 1: know me, the Steelers are frauds. They're absolutely frauds, and

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Speaker 1: I can see them finding a way out of this game,

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Speaker 1: which the only silver lining would be Well, the Steelers

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Speaker 1: play the Patriots next week, so at least one fraud

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Speaker 1: is going home. But the thing about this is that

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Speaker 1: this is such a dominant defensive performance by the Texans.

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Speaker 1: Every play the Steelers try to run, the Texans feel

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Speaker 1: want to run at the line of scrimmage, a quick hit,

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Speaker 1: there's a one of the linemen is making a tackle

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Speaker 1: or a hit behind the line of scrimmage. They can't

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Speaker 1: run the football. It is going to be some kind

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Speaker 1: blown coverage, and that's the only way they're going to

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Speaker 1: really move the football against this Texans defense. They're making

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Speaker 1: every single play. But I'll tell you what, when you

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Speaker 1: force your defense to make every single play, generally the

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Speaker 1: other team is going to make one play offensively that

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Speaker 1: you're not. And that's what the Texans offense is doing.

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Speaker 1: They are just I mean that they are making it

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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 2: You see his credit.

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Speaker 3: He actually played against Houston, unlike Phil who decided, hey,

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Speaker 1: Here's the other part is that he's doing He's doing

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Speaker 1: won't make big throws. This is kind of who he

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Speaker 1: Stroud has not been the player he was as a rookie,

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Speaker 1: this game. I mean, this is just absolutely abysmal.

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Speaker 3: Well, I don't know, but spokes would tell me. Because

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Speaker 4: He's a wizard. Hi, Caleb Hayters, He's.

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Speaker 1: Got what he's said, he's got, He's got but two thirds,

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Speaker 4: Wow, you know, it's just a stats man.

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Speaker 3: 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: Nothing you should be ashamed about. You had a great year.

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

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Speaker 1: It comes down to Boswell's leg. He's really what they're

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Speaker 3: What's his what's his absolute max distance for the year,

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Speaker 3: he was nineteen of twenty two on kicks beyond forty yards.

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Speaker 4: They're gonna need him to be super tow before this

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Speaker 1: So seven to six. Late in the third quarter, Steelers

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Speaker 1: We'll see as the adventures of CJ. Stroud continue. But

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Speaker 1: Mike Harmon. Late in the third quarter, it is still

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Speaker 1: and ten two fifty nine to go again. The next

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Speaker 3: That's it. I mean, that's what we said tonight. We're

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Speaker 3: It's a rock fight.

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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.

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Speaker 5: Looks 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 5: Well, look, then they're not afraid to shake things up there,

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Speaker 5: At this point, Look, it's only three games, but it's

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Speaker 5: And then look, I mean it's a new don't take

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Speaker 5: They're not running generational pass rushers out there. There's one

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Speaker 5: helped them a little bit more, but it was it

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Speaker 5: was ugly man and there there's no way you can

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Speaker 5: bring Greg Roman back. And that's another team that should

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Speaker 5: be looking to get a little more to sort of

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Speaker 5: look at a wider lens in terms of what they

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Speaker 5: want to do as a coordinator. Right, Patullo was a

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Speaker 5: very easy, you know, promote from within. You know, that's

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Speaker 5: my drinking body kind of a thing. Same thing with

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Speaker 5: Greg Roman and Harball. He's been in that cocoon forever.

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Speaker 5: It was, you know, no shock to anybody that you know,

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Speaker 5: Greg Roman ended up back with him at like Michigan

444
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Speaker 5: or whatever, and then back with him with the Chargers.

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Speaker 5: They need to cast a wider net and be a

446
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Speaker 5: little bit more less myoptic about what they think a

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Speaker 5: Harball offense should look like.

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

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

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

451
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Speaker 1: and the rivalry that's going to continue with Ben Johnson's

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Speaker 1: f the Bears doubling down on that to they uh saying, hey,

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

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Speaker 1: 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,

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

457
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Speaker 5: Green Bay just smashing the Bears every chance they got.

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

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

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Speaker 5: year that's probably going to be attendent on swing. And

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

462
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Speaker 5: ride they were on a year ago, and then all

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

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

465
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Speaker 5: know that that that thing has a way and not

466
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Speaker 5: going your way, and the fourth quarter breaks so the

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

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

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Speaker 5: that that team needed a completely different out look, needed

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Speaker 5: a completely different energy. They did. They did, And I

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Speaker 5: think it's his way of taking pressure off the players

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Speaker 5: as well. And you know, saying put it on me,

473
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Speaker 5: put the wind and losses on me, put the swag

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

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

476
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Speaker 5: a rookie head coach, and I can handle it. And

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Speaker 5: it's it's working. It's working, and the quarterback is obviously

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Speaker 5: blossoming under his tutelage. And there's there's a lot of things,

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Speaker 5: just a lot of things going Chicago's way, which you

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Speaker 5: haven't been able to say about Bears football with this

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Speaker 5: much consistency for quite some time. I mean, what it's

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Speaker 5: probably like the peanut punch season.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, one year, one year, Rex Grossman to the Super Bowl,

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Speaker 3: and all anybody remembers was Prince playing Purple Rain in

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Speaker 3: the Rain.

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Speaker 5: I was there. It was amazing.

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Speaker 3: So there you go. I mean, that's it. Otherwise I

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Speaker 3: got to go back forty years in my Chicago.

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Speaker 5: That's the most amazing thing was they always do a

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

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Speaker 5: because you know, he's a you know, was a man

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

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

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

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Speaker 5: really gonna take any questions. I speak to them on

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Speaker 5: music whatever, and then band just like play to said.

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Speaker 5: I mean, I don't know it, probably three or four

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Speaker 5: songs was amazing.

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Speaker 4: A nice little bonus concert for you.

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

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Speaker 3: There you go, all right out out there in the

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Speaker 3: beautiful land of Baltimore. Harbaugh now doing the interview circuit.

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Speaker 3: Who's the presumptive favorite in this contest going forward to

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Speaker 3: the next.

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Speaker 5: I think jess Mint is probably the guy to watch.

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

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

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

509
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Speaker 5: coaches would have about Gee, you know you ever going

510
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Speaker 5: to get any pass rushes around here? Like you just

511
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Speaker 5: want to collect mediocre corners, Like how's that working out

512
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Speaker 5: for it? Not really so well? Do you really want

513
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Speaker 5: to hold context or do you want actual football players?

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Speaker 5: Like do you want football players in theory because they

515
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Speaker 5: provide extreme value or do you actually want as many

516
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Speaker 5: blue chip players as you can get, because like your

517
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Speaker 5: quarterback's not gonna be twenty nine forever. But think Justin

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Speaker 5: Minch is gonna really be coming at them that way.

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Speaker 5: I do think though, you know, Jim Harball is going

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Speaker 5: to be able to tell him a little bit about

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Speaker 5: and John for that matter about someone what John was

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Speaker 5: running up against in Baltimore. With Saucy Brown as the

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Speaker 5: team president, Eric Cacasta is the GM, they's gonna be

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Speaker 5: h He definitely, he definitely will be aware of some

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Speaker 5: of the issues there, but again he's been there before.

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Speaker 5: They do have Lamar Jackson. They're obviously in a different

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Speaker 5: category than any of these other teams that are looking

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Speaker 5: for a head coach. This is an owner who is

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Speaker 5: willing to keep a guy employed for eighteen years straight

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Speaker 5: running his you know, running his football team. So it's

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Speaker 5: it's an interesting group they're talking to. I wouldn't be

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Speaker 5: shocked if jesse Minter, jesse Minter ends up being that guy,

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Speaker 5: 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,

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

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Speaker 1: you on board with Alan the Bills running through the

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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,

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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

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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 in a bow next in the

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

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

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Speaker 5: slipped some. I could see Denver being volvable, Like I

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Speaker 5: thought the Chargers we running go to Denver and be

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Speaker 5: so yeah, and I look, I thought Jacksonville was going

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Speaker 5: to beat Buffalo, So what do I know? But yeah,

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Speaker 5: I do think Buffalo. I'm a little worried about Allen's foot.

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Speaker 5: He didn't run getting loved to run quite as much.

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Speaker 5: They'll 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.

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

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Speaker 5: I also think put again TJ's job might just really

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Speaker 5: really want to end the Texan season tonight. But if

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Speaker 5: that doesn't happen, you know, I can see the Texans

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Speaker 5: hosting an AFC championship game, and I think that's a

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Speaker 5: real tough matchup for the bust the 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 Jays always buddy. Appreciate it, man, We'll talk to

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

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Speaker 5: You guys do the same. Enjoy it.

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

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Speaker 1: I mean all of a sudden now Buffalo with this run.

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

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

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Speaker 1: games we're expected to win. We have the chiefs in

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Speaker 1: our way. Who's in our head? This year a little

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Speaker 1: bit different for Buffalo where we're on the road. We're

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

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Speaker 1: once in a while. I think that's a great reality

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Speaker 1: check for a team. And you and you're a little

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

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Speaker 1: head as you are. And you saw them come through

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Speaker 1: with the big plays yesterday. Not that they play perfect,

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Speaker 1: but hey, here they are. And who's the best player

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

581
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Speaker 1: left in the NFC playoffs. So yeah, I can see

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Speaker 1: where maybe the path for Buffalo maybe a little bit

583
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Speaker 1: more what they need.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it wasn't terribly excited about.

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Speaker 3: The the narrative for the week of well, he's got to

586
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Speaker 3: get there because you know this guy's that Mahomes isn't

587
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Speaker 3: there and Lamar's and almost like like his team still

588
00:28:40,800 --> 00:28:46,440
Speaker 3: isn't very good but at some point but he's great.

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Speaker 3: But to just say, well, it's not like and I

590
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Speaker 3: joked about this, Hey, it's the other day going through

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Speaker 3: some notes ahead of my Sunday morning show with Greg

592
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Speaker 3: co Sell, and I'm flipping channels and.

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Speaker 4: Literally there was professional pillow fighting on.

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Speaker 3: He got a two pound weighted pillow yea, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 3: Josh Allen ain't participating in that with other quarterbacks. They're

596
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Speaker 3: like a bunch of other dudes, three hundred pound guys

597
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Speaker 3: trying to chase his ass down. You know that other

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Speaker 3: Josh Allen was trying to make his life miserable. Sorry

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Speaker 3: it's Josh Hinz Allen now sure, But the point being

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Speaker 3: he had to run away from him, and he's got

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Speaker 3: ten other guys trying to knock his block off, with

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Speaker 3: his leading receiver being Khalil Shakir, decent receiver. Yeah, not

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Speaker 3: a go to guy, but you got him, and you

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Speaker 3: got James Cook, got a you got a puncher's chance.

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Speaker 3: So it is his time but if it had gone

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Speaker 3: the other way, we'd have been talking maybe about.

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Speaker 4: Sean McDermott walking the plank. But he lives to see

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Speaker 4: another day.

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Speaker 1: Meanwhile, will the Steelers' offense live to see another day?

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Speaker 1: Early in the fourth quarter, Steve de Saga has breaking news.

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Speaker 1: We have points in this game. We have new points

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Speaker 1: in this game. Steve, I saw it. I want to

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Speaker 1: make sure it's not Ai. We haven't had points in

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Speaker 1: a long time. Can you confirm we just had more

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Speaker 1: points between the Texans and 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, Kyimi 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 6: They were the bears of the AFC.

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

626
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Speaker 7: the record is of a road team in a playoff

627
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Speaker 7: game where they are a minus three turnover margin?

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Speaker 6: As the Texans are tonight.

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Speaker 7: The answer is one in ninety seven, with the only

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

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Speaker 7: double overtime game goes to the post nineteen seventy seven

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Speaker 7: against the Baltimore Colts.

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Speaker 6: 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.

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Speaker 6: To take it.

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

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00:31:04,120 --> 00:31:07,400
Speaker 7: Nico Collins has left the field. He's being evaluated for

639
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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

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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 CJ Stroud with an interception. He's lost

643
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Speaker 7: 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

645
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Speaker 7: seventh straight playoff game. That's the tie for the second

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Speaker 7: longest streak in the history of the NFL.

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Speaker 6: So what is Mike.

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

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

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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

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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, tonight. In

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Speaker 7: the first half it was half of that, an average

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Speaker 7: of one point eight yards beyond the line of scrimmage

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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

658
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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

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

663
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Speaker 7: is they actually led three to nothing after the first quarter.

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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

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

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

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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

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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

674
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Speaker 1: the news that opening day is going to be the

675
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Speaker 1: big stream game between the Pirates and the Mets. You're

676
00:32:54,920 --> 00:32:57,520
Speaker 1: gonna see Skens opening Day. It's the best news Pittsburgh

677
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Speaker 1: has had in the week.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, football seasons about to be.

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00:33:01,520 --> 00:33:01,640
Speaker 5: Now.

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00:33:01,680 --> 00:33:02,840
Speaker 6: It's only ten to six.

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00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:05,760
Speaker 7: I mean, but honestly, people, what he marks of the

682
00:33:05,800 --> 00:33:10,840
Speaker 7: Texan sixteen carries ninety five yards. Meanwhile, combine the two

683
00:33:10,920 --> 00:33:14,680
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

686
00:33:19,320 --> 00:33:21,080
Speaker 1: yards rushing for the Steelers.

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Speaker 6: A little sign behind his shoulder.

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Speaker 2: Give me the ball.

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Speaker 1: I need it, Thank you, Steve uh So. Yeah, twelve

690
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Speaker 1: minutes to go in the fourth quarter, Steelers with the

691
00:33:30,480 --> 00:33:33,800
Speaker 1: football though, down ten to six, and boy, at seventy

692
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Speaker 1: five yards of the end zone looks really long against

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Speaker 1: this Texans defense. We'll have more on this game, plus

694
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Speaker 1: coming up next you'll hear something that's gone viral in

695
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Speaker 1: the last twenty four hours and a team that if

696
00:33:44,440 --> 00:33:47,640
Speaker 1: they had listened to us, the trade deadline, they might

697
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Speaker 1: 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

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

701
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Speaker 2: pm Pacific, Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 1: The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon. Yeah, boy,

703
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Speaker 1: do we have some controversy between the Texans and the Steelers.

704
00:34:10,760 --> 00:34:14,279
Speaker 1: Make it a seventeen to six lead for the Texans

705
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Speaker 1: following a sack, Aaron Rodgers fumble and the Texans run

706
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Speaker 1: it in for a touchdown. Just one thing, and it's

707
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Speaker 1: shocking that it's missed.

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Speaker 6: We see that.

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

710
00:34:26,120 --> 00:34:28,959
Speaker 1: couple of times, and at first I thought, okay, well,

711
00:34:29,320 --> 00:34:32,160
Speaker 1: the Texans came in and Rankins makes contact with the

712
00:34:32,160 --> 00:34:34,040
Speaker 1: ball trying to knock it out of Rogers hands and

713
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Speaker 1: then hits his helmet. But you see the first contact

714
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Speaker 1: of that play that just happened was Rogers getting hit

715
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Speaker 1: in the helmet. He goes down, fumbles the football, the

716
00:34:44,760 --> 00:34:48,560
Speaker 1: Texans running in for a touchdown. Honestly, look and you

717
00:34:48,600 --> 00:34:50,919
Speaker 1: know me, you know, seeing Aaron Rodgers get his get

718
00:34:50,920 --> 00:34:53,239
Speaker 1: his head knocked around in that helmet because he's like

719
00:34:53,280 --> 00:34:56,239
Speaker 1: make a cottage industry of memes of Rogers where his

720
00:34:56,280 --> 00:34:58,680
Speaker 1: helmet is all twisted around at his face inside it.

721
00:34:58,760 --> 00:35:01,640
Speaker 1: And that's gonna be another one. But honestly, you see

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00:35:01,640 --> 00:35:04,719
Speaker 1: that he gets hit in the head and fumbles the

723
00:35:04,760 --> 00:35:08,600
Speaker 1: football that should have been fifteen yards in a first down. Uh,

724
00:35:08,640 --> 00:35:10,880
Speaker 1: and they didn't call it. Instead it's a touchdown for

725
00:35:10,920 --> 00:35:13,400
Speaker 1: the Texans, and now the Steelers are really behind the

726
00:35:13,440 --> 00:35:15,640
Speaker 1: eight ball, down seventeen to six with less than ten

727
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Speaker 1: minutes left to go. I mean, look, I'm no apologist

728
00:35:18,680 --> 00:35:19,880
Speaker 1: for the you know, you know me, I think the

729
00:35:19,880 --> 00:35:22,560
Speaker 1: Steelers are frauds, but he gotta call it like that,

730
00:35:22,600 --> 00:35:25,400
Speaker 1: And I'm really surprised that that didn't get either another

731
00:35:25,480 --> 00:35:28,279
Speaker 1: look at or something else happening where you can see

732
00:35:28,320 --> 00:35:31,120
Speaker 1: way that first contact was a fist to the helmet

733
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Speaker 1: of Aaron Rodgers.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it reminded me.

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Speaker 3: You remember when doctor d David Schultz was being interviewed

736
00:35:36,280 --> 00:35:39,480
Speaker 3: by John Stossel on twenty twenty.

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00:35:39,800 --> 00:35:41,920
Speaker 4: You think it's fake? Oh yeah, yeah, and he slapped

738
00:35:41,920 --> 00:35:42,560
Speaker 4: it upside the head.

739
00:35:42,680 --> 00:35:45,520
Speaker 3: That's what he did there, That's what he did there

740
00:35:45,560 --> 00:35:49,080
Speaker 3: and there's no call like one of those. He basically

741
00:35:49,160 --> 00:35:52,799
Speaker 3: goes limp in the moment and hey, balgum's flying out

742
00:35:52,960 --> 00:35:55,719
Speaker 3: and gets return for a time like we see so

743
00:35:55,960 --> 00:36:00,279
Speaker 3: many calls that quarterbacks get. Jalen Hurts with that slide.

744
00:36:00,440 --> 00:36:02,880
Speaker 3: The defender was just sitting there like as the end

745
00:36:02,960 --> 00:36:06,600
Speaker 3: of a bumper. Uh, you know you're coming down the

746
00:36:06,680 --> 00:36:10,200
Speaker 3: slide at a playground. He got flagged because there was

747
00:36:10,280 --> 00:36:12,360
Speaker 3: the helmets bumped a little bit. Here was an open

748
00:36:12,400 --> 00:36:13,680
Speaker 3: hand slap to the head.

749
00:36:14,480 --> 00:36:16,600
Speaker 4: Guys like Rogers didn't deserve it.

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00:36:16,760 --> 00:36:22,319
Speaker 1: Yeah, you deserve that, Aaron Rodgers, you got you gotta

751
00:36:22,360 --> 00:36:23,600
Speaker 1: call it. You gotta call it the right. And I'm

752
00:36:23,640 --> 00:36:26,239
Speaker 1: really surprised the way the way that is for a

753
00:36:26,239 --> 00:36:29,520
Speaker 1: guy who has been officiated a certain way his entire career,

754
00:36:29,520 --> 00:36:31,959
Speaker 1: that that wasn't even looked at a little bit more saying,

755
00:36:31,960 --> 00:36:33,480
Speaker 1: oh wait a minute, that's a pedal because it was.

756
00:36:33,520 --> 00:36:35,680
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, you're not the guy anymore. Wow,

757
00:36:35,760 --> 00:36:37,680
Speaker 1: they just looked the other way on you. That might

758
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Speaker 1: be the play that Aaron Rodgers decided, you know what,

759
00:36:39,520 --> 00:36:42,520
Speaker 1: I'm retiring. I'm retiring now, and that that that play

760
00:36:42,560 --> 00:36:45,439
Speaker 1: that's I'm done. This game against this Texans defense. Oh,

761
00:36:45,520 --> 00:36:46,600
Speaker 1: I'm done, I'm.

762
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Speaker 3: Done with everything egregious, just open hand to the helmet

763
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Speaker 3: and it just went. There's no review, there's no nothing like.

764
00:36:55,360 --> 00:36:57,719
Speaker 3: We've seen so many stoppages of play going. Do we

765
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Speaker 3: see that or did we not? Over the course of

766
00:36:59,719 --> 00:37:01,759
Speaker 3: the card weekend, how many times did you have the

767
00:37:01,920 --> 00:37:04,480
Speaker 3: all Right, let's all meet together and decide did we

768
00:37:04,520 --> 00:37:06,959
Speaker 3: really see a penalty here or did we not? Let's

769
00:37:06,960 --> 00:37:10,160
Speaker 3: go to the artificial intelligence to decide whether it's a

770
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Speaker 3: first down or not. Here it gets clocked. Happened last night,

771
00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:16,000
Speaker 3: They didn't call it again. Patriots got a field goal

772
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Speaker 3: in the first half. Right, So we'll have more on

773
00:37:18,640 --> 00:37:21,600
Speaker 3: this play coming up again. Seventeen to six Houston with

774
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Speaker 3: the lead nine and a half to go in the

775
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Speaker 3: fourth quarter. Meanwhile, listen, there's a team that if they

776
00:37:27,480 --> 00:37:29,719
Speaker 3: did what we told them to do with the trade deadline,

777
00:37:29,760 --> 00:37:32,239
Speaker 3: maybe they're still playing. But you don't need me to

778
00:37:32,280 --> 00:37:35,799
Speaker 3: tell you that. How about this Philadelphia Eagles fan. This

779
00:37:35,920 --> 00:37:38,359
Speaker 3: kid was probably about twelve years old, ten twelve years old,

780
00:37:38,600 --> 00:37:41,200
Speaker 3: who's gone viral in the last twenty four hours. This

781
00:37:41,239 --> 00:37:44,040
Speaker 3: is from the post game last night. Maybe you've seen

782
00:37:44,040 --> 00:37:46,239
Speaker 3: this during the day today. If you have, you're gonna

783
00:37:46,239 --> 00:37:48,680
Speaker 3: hear it again. If you haven't, are you in for retreat?

784
00:37:48,800 --> 00:37:50,840
Speaker 1: This is probably me if you asked me about a

785
00:37:50,920 --> 00:37:54,200
Speaker 1: Jets game at some point when I was twelve, not

786
00:37:54,320 --> 00:37:57,120
Speaker 1: happy with the Eagles loss to the forty nine ers.

787
00:37:57,320 --> 00:37:58,520
Speaker 8: Yes, this was a huge letdown.

788
00:37:58,600 --> 00:37:59,840
Speaker 4: So my Christmas present.

789
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Speaker 8: You probably would Yeah, probably feeling two of two things. A.

790
00:38:06,680 --> 00:38:08,839
Speaker 8: I want aj Brown packing his bags, and I want

791
00:38:08,920 --> 00:38:11,879
Speaker 8: him somewhere else that is not here. I love you, Aj,

792
00:38:12,080 --> 00:38:15,279
Speaker 8: but like, yeah, you can't make those drops in that game.

793
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Speaker 8: And I also want Kevin Patula flipping burgers at like

794
00:38:18,239 --> 00:38:20,400
Speaker 8: the local McDonald's or something. I don't care. Why do

795
00:38:20,480 --> 00:38:23,560
Speaker 8: you say that whenever he's an offensive coordinator, it's like

796
00:38:23,600 --> 00:38:27,520
Speaker 8: he's flipping burgers. One side he's cooking, one half he's

797
00:38:27,520 --> 00:38:29,799
Speaker 8: cooking and the other half is completely raw.

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Speaker 1: I did that, I thought, oh, he's fed. In that line,

799
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Speaker 1: he's doing the McDonald's slippit Like McDonald's just gets sidewiped

800
00:38:35,760 --> 00:38:37,880
Speaker 1: all the time. You should be flipping burgers at McDonald's

801
00:38:37,880 --> 00:38:39,719
Speaker 1: burger Kings, Like, can't you mention us once in a while.

802
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Speaker 3: You're the first job there's so many people on their

803
00:38:42,239 --> 00:38:44,480
Speaker 3: path to greatness. I don't know why it's so denigrated.

804
00:38:44,680 --> 00:38:48,799
Speaker 3: They also don't flip burgers at McDonald's. It's Mike Wift.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it'll be ready in five minutes. Don't worry about it.

806
00:38:51,160 --> 00:38:54,200
Speaker 1: You'll be fine. Uh So digging the kid right? Actually

807
00:38:54,200 --> 00:38:57,200
Speaker 1: that that kid is Barstool Sports twenty thirty three, twenty

808
00:38:57,239 --> 00:38:57,879
Speaker 1: thirty four minutes.

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Speaker 3: No, they'll accelerate it. You think so he'd be like, yeah,

810
00:39:00,280 --> 00:39:02,840
Speaker 3: I mean he's go to child labor laws. But I

811
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Speaker 3: mean he's like the like.

812
00:39:04,800 --> 00:39:06,719
Speaker 1: The Tiger Woods of kids who were going to go

813
00:39:06,719 --> 00:39:07,520
Speaker 1: to barstool.

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Speaker 3: We take him early early, No need to go to college,

815
00:39:13,480 --> 00:39:15,560
Speaker 3: no need for Yeah.

816
00:39:15,560 --> 00:39:18,000
Speaker 4: I'm going right to barstool, going right to Bartol child actor.

817
00:39:18,040 --> 00:39:19,920
Speaker 4: He just needs a little bit of tutoring on saying.

818
00:39:19,800 --> 00:39:21,600
Speaker 1: Him and Frank the Tank. You know, they'll they'll be

819
00:39:21,640 --> 00:39:24,120
Speaker 1: doing a show on barstool together. It happened, but.

820
00:39:24,440 --> 00:39:26,760
Speaker 4: A phenomenon that I still don't get. But that's okay.

821
00:39:27,719 --> 00:39:30,520
Speaker 1: But listen, if the steal, if the steal, if the

822
00:39:30,600 --> 00:39:33,279
Speaker 1: Eagles had just listened to us, we told you at

823
00:39:33,280 --> 00:39:36,440
Speaker 1: the deadline, Listen, things are not working with aj Brown.

824
00:39:36,760 --> 00:39:39,680
Speaker 1: He is a big part of this offense, and it's

825
00:39:39,800 --> 00:39:41,839
Speaker 1: just it wasn't working at the end of last year

826
00:39:41,880 --> 00:39:44,040
Speaker 1: and he's reading books on the sideline. But they were

827
00:39:44,080 --> 00:39:46,560
Speaker 1: able to get by, right, they won the Super Bowl. Okay, fine,

828
00:39:46,760 --> 00:39:50,120
Speaker 1: let's start fresh this year. And there's no excuse because

829
00:39:50,120 --> 00:39:53,000
Speaker 1: they knew it wasn't working with him throughout the entire season.

830
00:39:53,239 --> 00:39:55,520
Speaker 1: He is too big a piece to be a guy

831
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Speaker 1: that you can't trust. In the drops last night and

832
00:39:57,840 --> 00:40:01,040
Speaker 1: and getting into it, Sirianni on the side, it's awful.

833
00:40:01,400 --> 00:40:03,879
Speaker 1: We knew what the deadline. You gotta move on from him.

834
00:40:04,719 --> 00:40:07,560
Speaker 1: He's a change of scenery guy. Someone would take him.

835
00:40:07,680 --> 00:40:09,759
Speaker 1: Go out and get at Jacobe Meyer, someone else you

836
00:40:09,760 --> 00:40:12,399
Speaker 1: can come and throw the football to. So the Eagles, look,

837
00:40:12,480 --> 00:40:14,359
Speaker 1: you did it to yourself. You did because you knew

838
00:40:14,400 --> 00:40:16,279
Speaker 1: it wasn't gonna work with AJ Brown. But for some

839
00:40:16,320 --> 00:40:18,920
Speaker 1: reason we want to keep him. And you know that

840
00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:21,920
Speaker 1: there's all sorts of discrepancies between who likes each other

841
00:40:21,960 --> 00:40:24,799
Speaker 1: offensively and who doesn't like each other. You decided to

842
00:40:24,800 --> 00:40:28,040
Speaker 1: stick with AJ Brown and your home because of him. Right,

843
00:40:28,080 --> 00:40:30,520
Speaker 1: we told you the deadline, and you knew what the deadline,

844
00:40:30,600 --> 00:40:32,399
Speaker 1: and you still kept them around to look where you are.

845
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Speaker 3: A lot of mouths defeat in that offense. He did

846
00:40:35,000 --> 00:40:40,360
Speaker 3: finish with a thousand yard receiving year, actually best bettered

847
00:40:40,400 --> 00:40:43,000
Speaker 3: his reception total from a year ago, even though the

848
00:40:43,040 --> 00:40:46,239
Speaker 3: average was down nearly four yards for game touchdowns to

849
00:40:46,280 --> 00:40:48,120
Speaker 3: save all of that. But you look at Goddard, you

850
00:40:48,120 --> 00:40:50,680
Speaker 3: look at DeVante Smith, and you look at the run game.

851
00:40:50,719 --> 00:40:53,080
Speaker 3: You brought in Tank Bigsby. He was still a bystander

852
00:40:53,160 --> 00:40:56,320
Speaker 3: much of the year. He went away from from really

853
00:40:56,680 --> 00:40:59,840
Speaker 3: using Saquon Barkley till the back end of the season.

854
00:41:00,239 --> 00:41:03,719
Speaker 3: But you saw all the signs of that discord. And

855
00:41:03,800 --> 00:41:06,879
Speaker 3: part of it's a new coordinator, right, different philosophies. Guys

856
00:41:06,880 --> 00:41:09,799
Speaker 3: aren't gonna mesh whatever is going on. Brown and Sirianni.

857
00:41:09,880 --> 00:41:12,680
Speaker 3: They can give you all the syrupy talk on the

858
00:41:12,719 --> 00:41:13,959
Speaker 3: microphones all they want.

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00:41:14,440 --> 00:41:16,319
Speaker 4: Nobody's buying that. That was good, right.

860
00:41:16,360 --> 00:41:19,080
Speaker 3: How many shots of side eye did you see of

861
00:41:19,120 --> 00:41:21,799
Speaker 3: them going back to the tunnel even after wins. Right,

862
00:41:21,840 --> 00:41:25,040
Speaker 3: it just wasn't working, But at least three alligator armed

863
00:41:25,680 --> 00:41:30,040
Speaker 3: experiences here. That leads you to an early exit and

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Speaker 3: a mad kid.

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Speaker 1: Well, we told you, we told you. The kid knew,

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Speaker 1: everybody knew. Everybody knew what that kid's bit. Everybody knew, well,

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Speaker 1: not AJ Brown, probably Sirianni. Yeah, who's compleak Coming up next?

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Speaker 1: We got more on Monday Night football and Blank the Packers.

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Speaker 1: Everybody