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Speaker 1: All right, Benny, your first NFL start results in the

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Speaker 1: best ground game for the Steelers. Take me through just

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Speaker 1: leading up, the preparation and also just the game. You know.

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Speaker 1: Going into the game, we had a few guys hurt,

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Speaker 1: you know, so it's definitely next man up. And I

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Speaker 1: felt like I felt like Um during the week, I

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Speaker 1: did a good job preparing myself. But when my number

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Speaker 1: was called and personnel, so, UM, I was ready, you know,

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Speaker 1: I was ready to execute on a run game. Oline

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Speaker 1: was doing a good job. So you don't keep it going.

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Speaker 1: Being that you're from Ohio, you played at Kentucky didn't

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Speaker 1: mean anything more to you. Um it did. Um, haven't

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Speaker 1: been home in a minute, so it definitely felt good

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Speaker 1: getting a win. Um. In the in the stands, I said,

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Speaker 1: it was a lot of Kentucky fans too. They were

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Speaker 1: like a little bit a little bit of blue here

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Speaker 1: and there, so it was exciting. During his press conference,

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Speaker 1: coach Tomlin shouted out your performance and said that you

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Speaker 1: want above and beyond his expectations, especially coming off of

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Speaker 1: an injury. Did you surprise yourself at all? What you're

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Speaker 1: able to do? Always fall back on always being prepared,

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Speaker 1: and you know, um, my preparation for the game. You know.

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Speaker 1: That's what I spent most of my time there, especially

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Speaker 1: with being injured. I got like a outside perspective of

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Speaker 1: sure I was ready. What is something specific? I guess

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Speaker 1: you learned in that time from the outsider perspective. Um,

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Speaker 1: it just gave me a wake up call to how

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Speaker 1: much I love football. UM. I don't like being away

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Speaker 1: from my teammates. You know, they were out there and

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Speaker 1: I was like shaking, like like he was like, like

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Speaker 1: I was out there in the code. But Na, I'm

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Speaker 1: glad you're back. You talked about your love for football. Um,

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Speaker 1: I went back when you were drafted. Kevin Colvert mentioned it,

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Speaker 1: Mike Tumlan mentioned it, and he Polkner mentioned it. You

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Speaker 1: keep mentioning it. When did you actually fall in love

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Speaker 1: with football? Mm hmmm. I could say I fell in

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Speaker 1: love with football around high school. I could say high school.

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Speaker 1: I always played, um, you know, when I was in

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Speaker 1: Little league leading up to middle school and things. But

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Speaker 1: high school is when I valued like the team when

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Speaker 1: it takes to be a team, you know, and in

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Speaker 1: that true connection on in off the field, so I

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Speaker 1: was in high school. Was there a game, was there

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Speaker 1: a moment or was it just kind of all encompassing.

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Speaker 1: I guess it was. Actually it was actually a few

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Speaker 1: games um too, it was it was what got us

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Speaker 1: just a close fourth quarter, you know, clutch games where

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Speaker 1: you know, they gave me the ball and I made

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Speaker 1: it happen. But like it all started with the line

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Speaker 1: and you know, defense getting stopped. So I was just

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Speaker 1: thankful for that, for that environment, and you know, it

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Speaker 1: just got me to where I am today. So trying

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Speaker 1: to get to the outside, each chib Snell cuts back

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Speaker 1: at the five, wisely goes down inbounds to keep that

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Speaker 1: clock running. Welcome back, Betty Snell. I was on the sidelines,

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Speaker 1: and especially towards the end of the game, coach Tomlin

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Speaker 1: was even going, that's Benny's know football, That's Benny Snow football.

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Speaker 1: How much does that mean that they know they can

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Speaker 1: count on you, especially to close out a game like that.

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Speaker 1: It makes me feel good, you know, with with with

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Speaker 1: them being able to say that, Um, they know it

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Speaker 1: gives me motivation. They know what motivates me to you know,

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Speaker 1: run harder, and you know, they just keep it change moling.

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Speaker 1: So that's that's what I like to do. Coach always

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Speaker 1: talks about young guys, you learned something new about them

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Speaker 1: every time they go out into the stadium and perform.

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Speaker 1: What do you think he learned about you that maybe

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Speaker 1: he didn't know going into the Cincinnati game. Mm hmm,

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Speaker 1: Maybe that I earned a little bit more trust, a

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Speaker 1: little bit more trust on leaving me out there. You know, Um,

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Speaker 1: you could say for past protection or you know, catching

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Speaker 1: the ball or whatevery case. Maybe say hopefully earned a

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Speaker 1: little bit of trust. Knowing how important this game on

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Speaker 1: Sunday at Hines Field is to both sides, how do

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Speaker 1: you kind of prepare? Maybe not think about the last game.

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Speaker 1: I know you didn't play in it, but just knowing

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Speaker 1: that you guys do have a job to do and

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Speaker 1: you want to keep building off of what you didn't

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Speaker 1: sin see. Um, well take a week by week, game

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Speaker 1: by games. So um, we'll definitely have a plan going

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Speaker 1: into the game. We're gonna be ready and we're gonna

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Speaker 1: execute it. You know, I didn't play in the last game,

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Speaker 1: I got to watch, I got to see things. So

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Speaker 1: now I'm in the game, so also my time. Totally

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Speaker 1: switching topics. You said you're a big spongeboobob guy, right

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Speaker 1: a little bit. Do you have a favorite episode or

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Speaker 1: a favorite quote from SpongeBob. I like the episode where

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Speaker 1: the one where like, uh, the jellyfish. They were doing

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Speaker 1: the jellyfish and yeah, it took over like his house

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Speaker 1: and they were like dancing and stuff. Does everyone else

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Speaker 1: on the team like SpongeBob too, Um? I haven't really asked,

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Speaker 1: you know. That's that's kind of my thing. I'll be

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Speaker 1: chelling all right. What's one thing we do not know

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Speaker 1: about any snow? Um? I like video games. Um, that's

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Speaker 1: one of my hobbies that I love to do. Um.

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Speaker 1: And I feel like I'm very good. So yeah,