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Speaker 1: right in the middle football season every year, every year? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: muse amash If I figured that out, I could figure

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Speaker 1: it out, all right, pitt, I ask you both. He

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Speaker 1: And playing coverage. He plays a lot in coverage for

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Speaker 1: him too. Um, this athletic guy does a good job

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Speaker 1: of really all those things. Plays it wrong. Well, it's

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Speaker 1: good as rusher and pretty good in cover region for

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Speaker 1: instant's he's a verse little player for him. There's a

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Speaker 1: lot of things. Hill. You had Mike kill him here

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Speaker 1: very briefly. Um, just what do you think of him

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Speaker 1: Playing for big? Good football player, instinctive, smart, really tough.

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Speaker 1: Um runs well, it's good quickness, it's not a lot

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Speaker 1: Had a really good college career, very impressive, Um, Mississippi,

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Speaker 1: playing corner, playing inside, a little bit of safety. Um,

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Speaker 1: he's around the ball a lot, made a lot of tackles.

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Speaker 1: and then said some roster movement and it's one of

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Speaker 1: used Sudden as a nickel corner or slot corner? Also?

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Speaker 1: Has it mostly been Mike killing him? He's mostly played

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Speaker 1: a little bit last year. Everything made that played on

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Speaker 1: They played her laer in the year for sensible and

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Speaker 1: then it's kind of been sensible on Hayden and Sutton

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Speaker 1: and m and Hilton. So coach, neither team's exactly on

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Speaker 1: a roll of Steelers are coming up three losses and

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Speaker 1: you're coming off the miracle in Miami. How do you

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Speaker 1: turn the page and get your team moving forward? And

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Speaker 1: forgetting about the last week. It's every week, say does

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Speaker 1: everybody turn the page and move on the next team?

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Speaker 1: That's right, yeah, exactly right. It stibility is a football

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Speaker 1: story and a Steeler or something. Really Yeah, it's been incredible. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: three coaches in fifty years, um, you know, well one

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Speaker 1: ownership but kind of kind of three guys in that spot,

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Speaker 1: It's a good problem to have, But is it tough

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Speaker 1: to me the interactive decisions when everyone's healthy overgree Oh,

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Speaker 1: that's that's the same every week than whatever the options are.

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Speaker 1: you just prepare for everybody that's great play. Yeah, we

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Speaker 1: We're going back and the Steelers kin't duty as some

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Speaker 1: players shootings we learned about, you know how in depth

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Speaker 1: that history of these teams enfranchises the boarding against and

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Speaker 1: But um, I'd say it filled in pretty quickly from

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Speaker 1: though It's has been several weeks, and you know he's

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