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Speaker 1: Your tunes about Drive on your twenty four to seven

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Speaker 1: home of the Black and Goal Steelers Nation Radio.

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Speaker 2: Good afternoon, Steelers Nation. It's the Drive here on the

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Speaker 2: Steelers Audio Network. West Shooler and Matt Williamson with you

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Speaker 2: for the next two hours here on a Wednesday, on

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Speaker 2: the eve of one of the best days of the year.

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Speaker 2: Of course, tomorrow is Thanksgiving. We will have no show tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: Will Black bet bit bit bit bit lit Litt will

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Speaker 2: be back with you on Black Friday. Easy for me

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Speaker 2: to say, so plenty to get to today, Matt. And

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Speaker 2: in the spirit of the holiday week, different week, We're

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Speaker 2: gonna actually start off the program with a guest right

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Speaker 2: from the jump.

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Speaker 3: Very giving and.

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Speaker 2: It's very giving. And I also think it's fitting because

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Speaker 2: the Steelers quarterback Aaron Rodgers, future Hall of Famer, missed

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Speaker 2: last week, of course against the Bears. Just spoke to

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Speaker 2: assembled members of the media. So let's talk to a

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Speaker 2: member of the media. It's our buddy, Chris Halleck, of course,

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Speaker 2: covers the Steelers for dk Pittsburgh Sports. Chris, let's jump

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Speaker 2: right into it.

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Speaker 4: Man.

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Speaker 2: After Aaron Rodgers speaking this afternoon, how are we feeling

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Speaker 2: about his status? For Sunday against the Bills.

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Speaker 5: I think it's pretty much the same from his perspective

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Speaker 5: as it was last week. It's, you know, he didn't

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Speaker 5: practice today, He's going to try to give it a

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Speaker 5: go tomorrow for on you know, for Thursday's practice. He's

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Speaker 5: going to try again on Friday. What he's trying to

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Speaker 5: do to get ready sounds a lot like what he

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Speaker 5: did last week. The difference here is not Aaron's perspective,

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Speaker 5: but Mike Tomlins perspective, because last week he was obviously

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Speaker 5: non committal for a very very good reason because Aaron

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Speaker 5: ended up not playing. But while this week it's a

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Speaker 5: very different story. I mean, Mike Commins said he has

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Speaker 5: great optimism about Aaron being able to return, and when

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Speaker 5: Aaron spoke to numbers of the media today, he talked about, like,

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Speaker 5: what's the thing that's going to change this week that

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Speaker 5: could help him play, and he just flied outside. It's

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Speaker 5: just time. It's time to be able to heal and

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Speaker 5: that that's pretty much it. So in terms of the

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Speaker 5: process for him, it doesn't change. I think if he

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Speaker 5: were the one deciding his fate AG's the Bears in Chicago,

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Speaker 5: he probably would have played but that obviously didn't work out,

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Speaker 5: So we'll see what happens this week.

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Speaker 3: So two other injuries, we already know Broderck Jones is

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Speaker 3: now we all know Harmon's out. Is why a Black

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Speaker 3: a direct replacement for Harmon? Or is that a committee situation?

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Speaker 3: And what do you expect to left tackle?

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Speaker 5: Calvin Anderson is going to be at left tackle for sure,

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Speaker 5: and then when it comes to replacing Harmon, I do

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Speaker 5: think it's going to be a bit of a committee.

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Speaker 5: I do think ya Black will get increase reps for

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Speaker 5: an obvious reason, just because you know, if if whether

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Speaker 5: that's you know him and like being a full on

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Speaker 5: replacement for Harmon, then obviously his snapcount is going to

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Speaker 5: go up. But you know, they got the one guy

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Speaker 5: and his name is escaping me right now. But the

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Speaker 5: one guy, yes, the new hyphenated dude. My apology to

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Speaker 5: that to that player, but he's he's also in the mix.

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Speaker 5: There there are a number of guys in the mix.

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Speaker 5: But I do see an increased workload for ya Black.

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Speaker 5: And the great thing there is that you know throughout

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Speaker 5: this entire process, you know he's been there for it all.

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Speaker 5: He knows the defense, He knows the system there. There's

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Speaker 5: no guessing UH in that regard, so it's a lot

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Speaker 5: more of just play. So I do think it's gonna

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Speaker 5: be world of of a you know, committee that's going

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Speaker 2: How confident are you in why A Black sticking his

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Speaker 2: albeit in small sample sizes. Do you think he can

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Speaker 5: Yeah, absolutely, I think he'll. He'll probably help a little

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Speaker 5: bit more against the run, and that's going to be

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Speaker 5: very important going up against the Bills team that currently

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Speaker 5: ranks number one in the NFL in in rushing. That's

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Speaker 5: And so I think this is a good week for

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Speaker 5: Wya Black to see an increased UH account his steps.

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Speaker 5: But again, players continue to grow. I think, you know,

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Speaker 5: even if he doesn't get back there and actually bring

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Speaker 5: gigantic mits up in the same way that he did

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Speaker 5: in Latrobe and bat down a of passes. You know

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Speaker 5: that there are different ways that guys can impact in

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Speaker 5: There were no high expectations for him coming out of Iowa.

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Speaker 5: So I think it's a it's a good opportunity for him.

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Speaker 5: And again, you know, really stressing like the Steelers need

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Speaker 5: to stop the run this week. They like that. That's

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Speaker 5: that is paramount. Now. It's not like you want to

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Speaker 5: stop the run and say, Okay, we want to make

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Speaker 5: the quarterback feed us, because Josh Allen's pretty capable of

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Speaker 5: doing that. But still, you definitely the numbers kind of

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Speaker 5: speak for themselves. When James Cook doesn't run the ball well,

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Speaker 5: Bills typically don't win as many games as when he

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Speaker 5: does run well. So stopping the run is still is very,

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Speaker 5: very important, even though Josh Allen can absolutely do damage

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I wish it was under these circumstances. But I

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Speaker 3: am excited to see more of the youngster. Yi Black,

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Speaker 3: I'm impressed. I'm excited about his future. Chris, this isn't

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Speaker 3: the normal type of question I ask you, but is

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Speaker 3: this team better in manner zone? I can't figure out

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Speaker 3: what to do in past defense? Or is there a

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Speaker 3: coverage scheme you think they should be stronger in or

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Speaker 3: weaker in or more predominant in. I know you know

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Speaker 3: this stuff, So dig in.

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Speaker 5: Can I Can I go in a different direction? Sure,

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Speaker 5: because I think I think there are weaknesses to both

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Speaker 5: with this the way the Steers play them. Yeah. Well,

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Speaker 5: because in man coverage. Now, there was an exception in

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Speaker 5: intercept Joe Flacco and run it back for a touchdown. Typically,

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Speaker 5: when they play man coverage, it's cover one and they're

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Speaker 5: the middle of the field. That's been very very rare

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Speaker 5: this year, like I said, and the one real time

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Speaker 5: it changed was when Kyle Duggery intercepted a pass and

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Speaker 5: running back for a touchdown. In zone coverages, from what

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Speaker 5: I've seen and from my conversations with players, they're asking

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Speaker 5: players to do things that leave little margin for error. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: and and when that happened that it's the same it's

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Speaker 5: the same thing whenever we This is kind of the

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Speaker 5: the bone we were picking. One of the many bones

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Speaker 5: we were picking about Matt Cannon's offense when he was

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Speaker 5: if it wasn't done to perfection, if one guy screwed up,

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Speaker 5: the whole play was blown up. And that's kind of

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Speaker 5: what I'm seeing. And that's kind of the reason why

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Speaker 5: I think there it's been so inconsistent because when they

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Speaker 5: have executed more often than not, they've looked really really good,

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Speaker 5: it's like really good. Now, when they haven't been able

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Speaker 5: I think that's probably like that's what I deduce for exactly, yeah,

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Speaker 5: And I think, you know, and but then again, like

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Speaker 5: are also times in which Ben Johnson just does what

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Speaker 5: three and you just run four verts that like that's

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Speaker 5: that's their typical cover three beater, and the Steelers don't

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Speaker 5: have an answer for it. Like then there's also those

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Speaker 5: and I think that's the that's the problem with this team.

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Speaker 5: I think it's why we've seen like we don't know

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Speaker 5: extra motivated because Jalen Ramsey and John Smith gave a

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Speaker 5: And then there have been other games like this past

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Speaker 5: think I but that's what I deduced from it is

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Speaker 5: that I just don't think there's a there's a wide

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Speaker 5: margin for error, and when one guy out of eleven

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Speaker 5: whole thing gets blown up.

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Speaker 2: Chris, last one I've got for you, Where can this

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Speaker 2: team start to find some momentum, start to find some

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Speaker 2: level footing on offense, it's been a struggle the last

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Speaker 2: few weeks. They've averaged less than twenty points per game.

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Speaker 2: As in offense, if you take away the handful of

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Speaker 2: course just the ten points out there in Los Angeles

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Speaker 2: on Sunday night football. I mean, I know that there's

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Speaker 2: a lot of simplicity of get the run game back going,

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Speaker 2: been talking about these things for seemingly most of the

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Speaker 2: second half of the season so far. In your mind,

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Speaker 2: where does it start for this offense. Where can they

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Speaker 2: Who are you looking to to kind of make some

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Speaker 5: I'm looking mainly at the run game, and I understand

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Speaker 5: that this is a team that just ran for one

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Speaker 5: hundred and eighty six yards against the Bears. But that

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Speaker 5: second half it was kind of the same thing, not exactly,

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Speaker 5: the loss to the Packers. They ran the ball really

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Speaker 5: well in the first half. They really kind of suck

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Speaker 5: they have some downs where you think they're gonna run

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Speaker 5: and then they end up throwing. Like there was the

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Speaker 5: first down. I don't remember on what series it was

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Speaker 5: in the second half, but it was in the third quarter. There,

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Speaker 5: you know, they they run play action and it's not

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Speaker 5: if if for whatever reason, your first read or second

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Speaker 5: now all of a sudden, the run game is completely

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Speaker 5: taken away from that set of downs because now it's

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Speaker 5: second long, you have to throw to get to third

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Speaker 5: running the ball because you know, I mean, unless you're

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Speaker 5: I mean, there was the one time they ran on

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Speaker 5: third and seven, but typically if you're a third and seven,

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Speaker 5: third and eight, you're not running the ball. Sure, there's

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Speaker 5: just there's too much of that going on. When I

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Speaker 5: think both Jalen Warren and Kenneth Gainwell, and I understand

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Speaker 2: Excellent stuff as always with our buddy Chris Hallick DK

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Speaker 2: Pittsburgh Sports. Chris, thank you so much for the time

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Speaker 5: Hey, you too, Happy Thanksgiving to you guys.

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Speaker 2: Take care Chris. There he goes. Awesome stuff from him. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: I don't have any comments on that. I don't know what.

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Speaker 2: on a Wednesday, the night before Thanksgiving, day before Thanksgiving. Everybody,

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Speaker 3: As we're recording this. My phone just lit up and

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Speaker 3: Brandon Graham's happened Philly.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, but the Steelers call probably in the building, out

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Speaker 2: Of the West, A goofy, a goofy ish one for you.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And we're of course very thankful for his drink

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00:22:21,200 --> 00:22:26,480
Speaker 2: concoction of iced tea and lemonade. A absolute legend icon

437
00:22:26,520 --> 00:22:30,080
Speaker 2: of Western Pennsylvania sports, no question. Arnold Palmer, his statue

438
00:22:30,080 --> 00:22:32,760
Speaker 2: at the latrob Beairport, his hometown is pretty cool and

439
00:22:32,800 --> 00:22:36,440
Speaker 2: pretty unique. Number nine I've kind of got a two

440
00:22:36,480 --> 00:22:39,320
Speaker 2: parter here and I've got a couple of these, but

441
00:22:39,440 --> 00:22:41,320
Speaker 2: I had shared with you I had been to lambeau

442
00:22:41,359 --> 00:22:45,200
Speaker 2: Field before, back in my working in minor league hockey days.

443
00:22:45,240 --> 00:22:45,400
Speaker 4: Yeah.

444
00:22:45,480 --> 00:22:46,200
Speaker 3: Yeah.

445
00:22:46,480 --> 00:22:49,280
Speaker 2: At lambeau Field, there's two really cool statues. The first

446
00:22:49,320 --> 00:22:51,359
Speaker 2: is a massive one of Vince Lombardi. This thing's like

447
00:22:51,400 --> 00:22:52,760
Speaker 2: ten feet twelve feet tall.

448
00:22:53,240 --> 00:22:56,920
Speaker 3: It was actually this trade is an average statue.

449
00:22:57,440 --> 00:22:58,040
Speaker 2: They're all questions.

450
00:22:58,040 --> 00:23:01,040
Speaker 3: They're probably bigger than they actually human. Oh yeah, most

451
00:23:01,080 --> 00:23:01,520
Speaker 3: of them.

452
00:23:01,440 --> 00:23:04,240
Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, probably a good eight to ten feet, I

453
00:23:04,240 --> 00:23:07,719
Speaker 2: would say, But this this one feels like ten to

454
00:23:07,720 --> 00:23:10,680
Speaker 2: twelve feet. It's this mass of Vince Lombardi. He's got

455
00:23:10,680 --> 00:23:12,919
Speaker 2: his hands in his trench coat pocket, he's got the

456
00:23:12,960 --> 00:23:15,960
Speaker 2: Fedora type hat on. Ye standing outside of the atrium

457
00:23:16,000 --> 00:23:19,320
Speaker 2: and it's pretty cool. And then right beside it, they

458
00:23:19,359 --> 00:23:22,720
Speaker 2: have a Lambeau Leap statue really where it's a cut

459
00:23:22,760 --> 00:23:24,840
Speaker 2: it's a cutout of like what the wall would be,

460
00:23:25,280 --> 00:23:27,800
Speaker 2: and it's the statue of Packers fans and you can

461
00:23:27,840 --> 00:23:32,280
Speaker 2: do a photo op Lambeau like you're the Leapy Leaper.

462
00:23:32,760 --> 00:23:35,880
Speaker 2: It's pretty cool. The combination of those two really cool there.

463
00:23:35,920 --> 00:23:38,960
Speaker 2: That's number nine, number eight. I'm gonna go with another

464
00:23:39,119 --> 00:23:42,640
Speaker 2: kind of by committee here, and I'm cheating a little

465
00:23:42,640 --> 00:23:46,600
Speaker 2: bit because they're more like busts than they are statues.

466
00:23:47,240 --> 00:23:49,920
Speaker 2: That's coming up next, okay, but number eight is John

467
00:23:49,960 --> 00:23:53,000
Speaker 2: Elway and Terrell Davis at Mile High Stadium.

468
00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:54,920
Speaker 3: There next there.

469
00:23:54,800 --> 00:23:56,520
Speaker 2: Next to each other, and it's like a it's not

470
00:23:56,560 --> 00:23:58,800
Speaker 2: a full statue, it's like a bust thing. But it's

471
00:23:58,840 --> 00:24:02,040
Speaker 2: really cool having those too, next to each other, the cutouts,

472
00:24:02,320 --> 00:24:04,680
Speaker 2: and as you know, I love those two guys growing

473
00:24:04,760 --> 00:24:08,800
Speaker 2: up as a football fan. So Lway and TD right

474
00:24:08,800 --> 00:24:12,960
Speaker 2: next to each other outside a Mile High is number

475
00:24:12,960 --> 00:24:13,720
Speaker 2: eight on my list.

476
00:24:13,800 --> 00:24:14,040
Speaker 1: Cool.

477
00:24:14,720 --> 00:24:19,080
Speaker 2: You mentioned the Yankees. They're monuments though Monument Park, and

478
00:24:19,119 --> 00:24:21,280
Speaker 2: again this is kind of cheating. It's a little bit,

479
00:24:21,520 --> 00:24:23,560
Speaker 2: a little bit like Lay and Terel Davis. It's not

480
00:24:23,640 --> 00:24:26,200
Speaker 2: just a pure statue. But if you ever go to

481
00:24:26,320 --> 00:24:29,560
Speaker 2: Yankee Stadium, which I did once in twenty and eighteen,

482
00:24:31,560 --> 00:24:34,520
Speaker 2: they have a whole area called Monument Park. Now it

483
00:24:34,600 --> 00:24:37,040
Speaker 2: closes down an hour before the game starts, so you

484
00:24:37,119 --> 00:24:39,399
Speaker 2: got to get into the stadium pretty early to see it.

485
00:24:39,800 --> 00:24:43,800
Speaker 2: But it's totally worth it. It's monuments of every Yankees

486
00:24:43,880 --> 00:24:47,600
Speaker 2: retired number, which is like twenty some numbers from Rude

487
00:24:47,920 --> 00:24:54,080
Speaker 2: Garrettmaggio to Jeter and Mariano Rivera and those guys, they

488
00:24:54,119 --> 00:24:56,359
Speaker 2: all have a monument. They all have like a plaque

489
00:24:56,359 --> 00:24:58,600
Speaker 2: and their number and a little bit about the player.

490
00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:00,040
Speaker 2: It's like almost like.

491
00:25:00,080 --> 00:25:02,080
Speaker 3: A it's kind of like a graveyard on kind of

492
00:25:02,119 --> 00:25:02,520
Speaker 3: like a grave.

493
00:25:02,680 --> 00:25:04,760
Speaker 2: I was gonna say a garden to like it up

494
00:25:04,800 --> 00:25:07,800
Speaker 2: a little bit, but it's a it's it's awesome that

495
00:25:07,920 --> 00:25:11,280
Speaker 2: the history of it, the eras, the years it spans.

496
00:25:11,720 --> 00:25:14,480
Speaker 2: It's really pretty with flowers and all kinds of stuff too.

497
00:25:14,680 --> 00:25:17,120
Speaker 2: Monument Park at Yankee Stadium checks in at number seven,

498
00:25:17,520 --> 00:25:19,960
Speaker 2: like it, you're gonna allow me to be a touch

499
00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:21,880
Speaker 2: of touch of Homer here for a second.

500
00:25:21,880 --> 00:25:23,480
Speaker 3: I definitely would, Well, we're gonna do I Also, I

501
00:25:23,480 --> 00:25:25,159
Speaker 3: haven't seen them an statues, and I have seen the

502
00:25:25,200 --> 00:25:25,840
Speaker 3: ones in Pittsford.

503
00:25:25,880 --> 00:25:27,600
Speaker 2: We're gonna do that with the yins or statues here

504
00:25:27,640 --> 00:25:30,000
Speaker 2: in a second. But checking in at number six in

505
00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:35,120
Speaker 2: good old Morgantown, West Virginia, the Jerry West statue outside.

506
00:25:34,680 --> 00:25:36,679
Speaker 3: Of the study of You Colisea is West Virginia ever

507
00:25:36,720 --> 00:25:38,560
Speaker 3: had a football player good enough to make a statue.

508
00:25:38,640 --> 00:25:40,800
Speaker 2: I mean maybe Chuck Halley or Sam Huff. You know

509
00:25:40,880 --> 00:25:43,879
Speaker 2: you heard of those guys. A super Bowl MVP Chuck Halley,

510
00:25:43,920 --> 00:25:45,560
Speaker 2: No big deal, it's a long time ago.

511
00:25:45,680 --> 00:25:45,879
Speaker 3: You know.

512
00:25:45,920 --> 00:25:48,360
Speaker 2: You pit guys love to talk about your NFL success.

513
00:25:48,400 --> 00:25:50,040
Speaker 2: Have you ever had a Super Bowl MVP?

514
00:25:50,320 --> 00:25:50,520
Speaker 5: Huh?

515
00:25:50,640 --> 00:25:52,200
Speaker 3: That's on even don't even go down that road.

516
00:25:52,359 --> 00:25:54,760
Speaker 2: Have you ever had a Super Bowl MVP? Huh.

517
00:25:54,800 --> 00:25:56,560
Speaker 3: I'm not much a pick guy, but you can't have

518
00:25:56,560 --> 00:25:56,920
Speaker 3: that cover.

519
00:25:57,160 --> 00:26:01,320
Speaker 2: I'm going with the NBA MVP WV on the short

520
00:26:01,320 --> 00:26:04,160
Speaker 2: list of like seven universities that has produced that both

521
00:26:04,200 --> 00:26:08,560
Speaker 2: an NBA and NFL well, Super Bowl and NBA Finals MVP.

522
00:26:09,119 --> 00:26:11,560
Speaker 2: But the Jerry West statue outside of the WU colisseum,

523
00:26:11,600 --> 00:26:13,399
Speaker 2: I'm cheating a little bit, but come on, he's the

524
00:26:13,440 --> 00:26:14,879
Speaker 2: logo of the friggin' NBA.

525
00:26:15,240 --> 00:26:15,879
Speaker 3: That's not cheating.

526
00:26:15,960 --> 00:26:19,000
Speaker 2: That's not cheating. It's the logo of the NBA statue

527
00:26:19,040 --> 00:26:20,679
Speaker 2: outside of the WVU colisseum.

528
00:26:21,119 --> 00:26:22,200
Speaker 3: So it's the same pose.

529
00:26:22,359 --> 00:26:25,280
Speaker 2: Yes, okay, yeah, it's it's it's really cool. It's got

530
00:26:25,359 --> 00:26:27,879
Speaker 2: lights on it, and like when it snows and the

531
00:26:27,960 --> 00:26:31,119
Speaker 2: lights are shining, it's awesome. That's number six for me.

532
00:26:31,160 --> 00:26:34,439
Speaker 2: The Jerry West logo statue in Morgantown outside of the

533
00:26:34,440 --> 00:26:38,479
Speaker 2: Colisseum into the top five. Number five, And if it

534
00:26:38,600 --> 00:26:42,639
Speaker 2: wasn't for the history element, this might just be the

535
00:26:42,680 --> 00:26:47,160
Speaker 2: purest architecture of a statue I've ever seen Shack statue

536
00:26:47,560 --> 00:26:50,280
Speaker 2: outside of whatever they call the Staples Center now Crypto

537
00:26:50,400 --> 00:26:54,240
Speaker 2: dot Com Arena or whatever it is in La. It's

538
00:26:54,600 --> 00:26:58,760
Speaker 2: Shack like tearing down a basketball rim, like it's a

539
00:26:58,840 --> 00:27:03,040
Speaker 2: hanging statue. It's like two handing dunking on the rim

540
00:27:03,119 --> 00:27:06,199
Speaker 2: and the backboard. And it's really cool because it's just

541
00:27:06,240 --> 00:27:09,000
Speaker 2: so different from what you normally see of a statue.

542
00:27:09,280 --> 00:27:12,440
Speaker 3: Guys, you know, I mean, right.

543
00:27:12,880 --> 00:27:16,399
Speaker 2: That's the post. It's like a statue that's kind of

544
00:27:16,440 --> 00:27:21,800
Speaker 2: mounted into the wall and hangs. It's really it's really unique,

545
00:27:21,880 --> 00:27:24,800
Speaker 2: and it's really cool. And I grew up loving Shack.

546
00:27:24,880 --> 00:27:26,959
Speaker 2: So that one's got that's got a cool angle. That's

547
00:27:27,040 --> 00:27:29,240
Speaker 2: number five. All right, now, we're really gonna go touch

548
00:27:29,280 --> 00:27:32,240
Speaker 2: a Homer, and Yin's out here for a minute. Number

549
00:27:32,240 --> 00:27:35,280
Speaker 2: four the Roberto Clemente statue at PNC Park.

550
00:27:35,520 --> 00:27:38,280
Speaker 3: I mean, you're definitely allowed to be a Homer iconic player.

551
00:27:38,480 --> 00:27:41,440
Speaker 2: It's an awesome statue. He's massive. He's doing the swing

552
00:27:41,560 --> 00:27:42,760
Speaker 2: with the baseball bat.

553
00:27:42,960 --> 00:27:44,920
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a big statue.

554
00:27:44,720 --> 00:27:49,800
Speaker 2: Huge statue. One of the greatest baseball players of all time,

555
00:27:49,960 --> 00:27:52,560
Speaker 2: one of the greatest ambassadors of Pittsburgh sports of all time.

556
00:27:52,640 --> 00:27:54,520
Speaker 2: Roberto Clemente checks in at number four.

557
00:27:54,840 --> 00:27:59,520
Speaker 3: There's a two hour Clemeny documentary on the History Channel,

558
00:27:59,600 --> 00:28:03,080
Speaker 3: like go month or two months, probably longer than I thought. Well,

559
00:28:03,119 --> 00:28:04,400
Speaker 3: worse people time to check out.

560
00:28:04,600 --> 00:28:05,760
Speaker 2: It's on History Channel.

561
00:28:05,960 --> 00:28:06,880
Speaker 3: I think it was on the History Channel.

562
00:28:07,040 --> 00:28:09,240
Speaker 2: I don't think I've seen that. I will it's recent, Okay,

563
00:28:09,280 --> 00:28:09,640
Speaker 2: I'll have.

564
00:28:09,560 --> 00:28:12,359
Speaker 3: To respect for him if you're especially the younger folks.

565
00:28:12,359 --> 00:28:13,840
Speaker 3: I mean again, he's before my time.

566
00:28:13,720 --> 00:28:17,440
Speaker 2: But we're gonna stay here in Pittsburgh. Matt number three

567
00:28:17,720 --> 00:28:22,920
Speaker 2: Swiss all Swiss. Oh yeah, split in the two defenders

568
00:28:22,960 --> 00:28:26,399
Speaker 2: of the Minnesota North Star's iconic moment that helped the

569
00:28:26,400 --> 00:28:30,040
Speaker 2: Penguins capture their first Stanley Cup in franchise history. Right

570
00:28:30,040 --> 00:28:34,480
Speaker 2: there on Fifth Avenue. The Lemux statue aws Some checks

571
00:28:34,480 --> 00:28:35,160
Speaker 2: in at number three.

572
00:28:35,280 --> 00:28:37,399
Speaker 3: So just a quick side note, especially because you put

573
00:28:37,400 --> 00:28:40,600
Speaker 3: those two next to each other. My uncle Clementy died

574
00:28:40,600 --> 00:28:42,960
Speaker 3: in ninety one. I was born ninety or seventy three

575
00:28:43,520 --> 00:28:47,440
Speaker 3: and seventy one, respectively. My uncle's about ten twelve years

576
00:28:47,440 --> 00:28:49,520
Speaker 3: older than me. He's the one that like gotten took.

577
00:28:49,320 --> 00:28:51,960
Speaker 2: Me to three rivers and I've got some uncles like that.

578
00:28:52,080 --> 00:28:54,640
Speaker 3: And it was like a thanksgiving or some event in

579
00:28:54,720 --> 00:28:56,760
Speaker 3: him and I are chat and then he's like, oh,

580
00:28:56,760 --> 00:28:59,760
Speaker 3: what's my damn password again? He's like Clementy twenty one.

581
00:28:59,760 --> 00:29:03,200
Speaker 3: I'm like idel music six like it is. You both

582
00:29:03,240 --> 00:29:05,320
Speaker 3: said it like at the exact same time, you know, like,

583
00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:07,800
Speaker 3: h my Lemieux is his Clementing.

584
00:29:07,920 --> 00:29:10,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know absolutely, Yeah. I love that.

585
00:29:10,680 --> 00:29:13,520
Speaker 3: That's really cool, Like everything's the music. She says, He's

586
00:29:13,520 --> 00:29:14,479
Speaker 3: all one.

587
00:29:14,640 --> 00:29:18,640
Speaker 2: This was the toughest part was differentiating my the yinser here.

588
00:29:18,840 --> 00:29:21,080
Speaker 2: So I had the yinsers here, So I had Clementy four

589
00:29:21,200 --> 00:29:24,760
Speaker 2: Swiss on Swiss three. But you gotta go the Franco

590
00:29:24,840 --> 00:29:26,240
Speaker 2: statue at the airport number two.

591
00:29:26,400 --> 00:29:28,000
Speaker 3: I didn't even consider that a statue.

592
00:29:28,880 --> 00:29:30,560
Speaker 2: That might be kind of cheating there a little bit,

593
00:29:30,640 --> 00:29:34,160
Speaker 2: but it's it's full color. It's an iconic part of

594
00:29:34,200 --> 00:29:36,800
Speaker 2: an of of an airport. Like people like, where's the

595
00:29:36,840 --> 00:29:39,760
Speaker 2: Franco statue? Oh yeah, roll into Pittsburgh. It's one of

596
00:29:39,760 --> 00:29:42,000
Speaker 2: those things that everybody talks about. It is the most

597
00:29:42,200 --> 00:29:46,400
Speaker 2: iconic moment in the century plus long history of the

598
00:29:46,480 --> 00:29:49,520
Speaker 2: National Football League, him picking the ball off the ground

599
00:29:49,560 --> 00:29:53,320
Speaker 2: for the immaculate reception. Franco checks in at number two.

600
00:29:53,960 --> 00:29:55,760
Speaker 3: It's a great one. I would have even thought of

601
00:29:55,800 --> 00:29:57,760
Speaker 3: that as a statue, but just because it's color, you know,

602
00:29:57,920 --> 00:30:00,840
Speaker 3: but it definitely counts and it is a statue. I've

603
00:30:00,840 --> 00:30:04,280
Speaker 3: regurgitated this joke on this show probably five times over

604
00:30:04,320 --> 00:30:09,440
Speaker 3: the years. But I was probably sixteen seventeen eighteen before

605
00:30:09,480 --> 00:30:12,120
Speaker 3: I knew. I think I like asked my parents when

606
00:30:12,120 --> 00:30:14,200
Speaker 3: we got off the plane. I'm like, who's the guy

607
00:30:14,200 --> 00:30:17,240
Speaker 3: next to Franco again? Like this George Washington dumbass?

608
00:30:18,320 --> 00:30:21,040
Speaker 2: Probably a lot of Pittsburgh kids.

609
00:30:22,320 --> 00:30:24,680
Speaker 3: Didn't even pay attention to dude on the other side,

610
00:30:24,880 --> 00:30:26,040
Speaker 3: Like who's the guy in the blue cove?

611
00:30:26,320 --> 00:30:26,480
Speaker 4: Right?

612
00:30:27,200 --> 00:30:29,040
Speaker 3: Like I don't. I mean, I passed that thing. Like

613
00:30:29,200 --> 00:30:31,560
Speaker 3: we didn't travel much growing up, and maybe twice a

614
00:30:31,640 --> 00:30:34,200
Speaker 3: year I was at the at the airport and I

615
00:30:34,280 --> 00:30:36,920
Speaker 3: checked out Franco and like, I remember, there's somebody else there.

616
00:30:36,960 --> 00:30:39,520
Speaker 3: I was well into my teens or maybe, which is funny,

617
00:30:39,560 --> 00:30:40,520
Speaker 3: like who's the other one.

618
00:30:40,600 --> 00:30:44,800
Speaker 2: That's like George Washington speaks to how it is right, right, right,

619
00:30:44,800 --> 00:30:46,680
Speaker 2: and how important it is. That's why it's number two

620
00:30:46,680 --> 00:30:47,600
Speaker 2: on the list.

621
00:30:47,880 --> 00:30:49,600
Speaker 3: But you see the t Rex and I mean, like

622
00:30:49,640 --> 00:30:51,520
Speaker 3: you forget about the other guy, You forget all about

623
00:30:51,520 --> 00:30:53,280
Speaker 3: the t Rex and George Washington.

624
00:30:54,400 --> 00:30:57,840
Speaker 2: Then number one, the best there ever was, the best

625
00:30:57,880 --> 00:31:01,520
Speaker 2: there ever will be. Twenty Jordan the Airman. Michael Jordan's

626
00:31:01,600 --> 00:31:02,040
Speaker 2: is it him?

627
00:31:02,120 --> 00:31:04,760
Speaker 3: Like it's the Jordan logo.

628
00:31:05,240 --> 00:31:10,160
Speaker 2: I mean, it's the most iconic athlete silhouette in the

629
00:31:10,240 --> 00:31:13,480
Speaker 2: history of sports. Is the Jordan the Jordan logo.

630
00:31:13,560 --> 00:31:15,320
Speaker 3: I mean, that's the jump man or whatever.

631
00:31:15,400 --> 00:31:20,040
Speaker 2: Most I launched an entire billion dollar brand, made Nike

632
00:31:20,160 --> 00:31:22,720
Speaker 2: what Nike is, and the Jordan brand attached to it.

633
00:31:23,200 --> 00:31:26,080
Speaker 2: And I told you it just I really like some

634
00:31:26,120 --> 00:31:28,200
Speaker 2: of the inscriptions on the statues, Like I love how

635
00:31:28,200 --> 00:31:31,440
Speaker 2: for Walter Payton it just says sweetness, big, huge, bold

636
00:31:31,520 --> 00:31:34,320
Speaker 2: capital letters, just one word. Michael Jordan's it says Michael

637
00:31:34,400 --> 00:31:36,520
Speaker 2: Jordan's the best there ever, was, the best there ever

638
00:31:36,560 --> 00:31:39,000
Speaker 2: will be. And I'm like, really good, that's freaking awesome.

639
00:31:39,160 --> 00:31:41,600
Speaker 3: Okay, So I have two I want to throw out there,

640
00:31:41,960 --> 00:31:44,160
Speaker 3: neither of which I've seen in person, and one may

641
00:31:44,200 --> 00:31:51,600
Speaker 3: not even exist. The Detroit boxing glove that counts as

642
00:31:51,600 --> 00:31:52,600
Speaker 3: a statue.

643
00:31:52,400 --> 00:31:52,840
Speaker 2: You know what?

644
00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:54,560
Speaker 3: That would be on the list.

645
00:31:54,720 --> 00:31:56,680
Speaker 2: I didn't think because I have seen that it was

646
00:31:56,720 --> 00:31:58,120
Speaker 2: pretty cool. I didn't think about that.

647
00:31:58,160 --> 00:31:59,960
Speaker 3: But that's because it's not a person. But I think

648
00:32:00,040 --> 00:32:00,760
Speaker 3: that's good.

649
00:32:00,800 --> 00:32:04,400
Speaker 2: It's a sports statue outside the box. That's a very

650
00:32:04,520 --> 00:32:05,960
Speaker 2: outside the box, but very good.

651
00:32:06,160 --> 00:32:09,080
Speaker 3: I don't you would know. I don't actually think this

652
00:32:09,200 --> 00:32:11,960
Speaker 3: is standing there, but Balbo at the top of the steps,

653
00:32:12,440 --> 00:32:12,800
Speaker 3: it is?

654
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Speaker 2: It is there? Oh yeah, it's not at the top

655
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Speaker 2: of the steps anymore. It's at the side of the steps.

656
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Speaker 2: That's still right there.

657
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Speaker 3: I thought, I'm almost certain it's not at the top

658
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Speaker 3: of the steps.

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Speaker 2: I thought about that one. I did that one might

660
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Speaker 2: have to be one because it's so iconic in.

661
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Speaker 3: When people run the steps just to do this.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, a real athlete. I mean in Philadelphia they fantasy.

663
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Speaker 2: You finally won some championships, all right, the Eagles got

664
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Speaker 2: two Super Bowls.

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Speaker 3: Pretty often.

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Speaker 2: You can I confess something for just a minute. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I didn't even think about that until you just mentioned.

668
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Speaker 3: I was just trying to think real outside the box.

669
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Speaker 3: It real outside the box from movies. I'm like, is

670
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Speaker 3: there any from like Major League.

671
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Speaker 2: That might be though the most photo sought after statue.

672
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Speaker 3: That certainly run the steps.

673
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Speaker 2: And that's why there's some complaint now because you can't,

674
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Speaker 2: like I mean, you can still run the steps, but

675
00:33:00,880 --> 00:33:04,240
Speaker 2: the statues off to the side. They hadn't moved the

676
00:33:04,240 --> 00:33:06,000
Speaker 2: statue off to the side because it was such a

677
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Speaker 2: tourist attraction, Like people couldn't get in and out of

678
00:33:08,440 --> 00:33:09,960
Speaker 2: the art museum because.

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Speaker 3: Everyone those three years, people take as many pictures as

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Speaker 3: the Lincoln Memorial.

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Speaker 2: Matt the three years that I lived in Philly, I

682
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Speaker 2: would actually my wife and I lived just like a

683
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Speaker 2: mile and a half two miles away from that, so

684
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Speaker 2: I would always drive that way to get to our

685
00:33:27,240 --> 00:33:30,520
Speaker 2: studios on game days when I was working the Eagles broadcasts.

686
00:33:31,200 --> 00:33:33,360
Speaker 2: The amount of times on Sundays that like I'd be

687
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Speaker 2: trying to get through downtown Philly in that area was

688
00:33:36,320 --> 00:33:41,280
Speaker 2: just a traffic jam. Viking Vikings fans or Steelers fans

689
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Speaker 2: who they're playing floated with people that are.

690
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Speaker 3: Not Wednesday at noon, Yeah, but I probably somebody there Wednesday.

691
00:33:50,840 --> 00:33:55,200
Speaker 2: Absolutely weekends all the time, holidays like July fourth, Memorial Day,

692
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Speaker 2: you name it, packed zoo, forget about it. It's a

693
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Speaker 2: really good one by you.

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Speaker 3: That's a great one.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, hopefully, hopefully my in laws aren't listening right now

696
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Speaker 2: on their way out from Philadelphia to spend a couple

697
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Speaker 2: of days with us for Thanks.

698
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Speaker 3: Hear about it a lot.

699
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Speaker 2: They'd be very upset with me. But that's your adang, Ma,

700
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Speaker 2: that's a good I've seen that probably more aside from

701
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Speaker 2: the Pittsburgh statues and the Jerry West statues there. Drove

702
00:34:22,600 --> 00:34:24,839
Speaker 2: past that thing almost every day for the three years

703
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Speaker 2: that I lived in Philly.

704
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Speaker 3: Is probably some cool one in Oregon or Maine or

705
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Speaker 3: something we don't think about it.

706
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Speaker 2: There's some, I mean some great ones across the across

707
00:34:33,840 --> 00:34:40,560
Speaker 2: the country. I'm one, no doubt. Like the Pat Tillman

708
00:34:40,640 --> 00:34:42,359
Speaker 2: one out of Arizona State is really cool.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm sure that'd be a good one.

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Speaker 2: Dang is a good one, Matt, to show you up

711
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Speaker 2: best of the Matt on a Wednesday. There it is

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Speaker 2: thanks to to j t On on Instagram. Coolest athlete,

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Speaker 2: best athlete statues I've ever seen? And uh, some really

714
00:35:00,640 --> 00:35:03,279
Speaker 2: cool ones here in Pittsburgh that Michael Jordan won, though

715
00:35:03,360 --> 00:35:06,440
Speaker 2: tough to beat man like the most iconic silhouette of

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00:35:06,480 --> 00:35:09,160
Speaker 2: any athlete in sports history. Let's take a break. When

717
00:35:09,160 --> 00:35:11,200
Speaker 2: we return. On the other side, we've got the Steelers'

718
00:35:11,280 --> 00:35:14,480
Speaker 2: latest practice report across the timeline. Same for the Bills.

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Speaker 3: Good. I have not heard anything about the Bills, especially

720
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Speaker 3: in a long week. There's some guys I'm interested in.

721
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Speaker 2: There's some interesting stuff in there for the Steelers. There's

722
00:35:21,719 --> 00:35:24,799
Speaker 2: some real big stuff in there for Buffalo. We'll do

723
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Speaker 2: that when we return. Wesheeler, Matt Williamson, It's the Drive

724
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Speaker 2: on Steelers Nation Radio on the Steelers Audio Network, your.

725
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Speaker 1: Tunes about Drive on your twenty four to seven home

726
00:35:41,560 --> 00:35:44,160
Speaker 1: of the Black and Goal Steelers Nation Radio.

727
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Speaker 2: All right, real quick, before we get into the injury reports.

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Speaker 2: We went to break there in the previous segment talking

729
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Speaker 2: about statues and our video producer statistician mister do it all. Hey, Matt,

730
00:36:04,480 --> 00:36:05,920
Speaker 2: don't tell him I said this, but he's a big

731
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Speaker 2: part of the show. Tyler, Mister TV goes, what about

732
00:36:10,400 --> 00:36:12,319
Speaker 2: the chief statue here?

733
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Speaker 3: I didn't even think of it either.

734
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Speaker 2: I didn't think of it either for two reasons. One,

735
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Speaker 2: I'm never on that side of the stadium like I yeh,

736
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Speaker 2: I park over on the science. I've been doing this

737
00:36:21,760 --> 00:36:26,399
Speaker 2: for you. I walk past that statue.

738
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Speaker 3: Two, he's not an athlete, that is true.

739
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Speaker 2: I did say best athletes. That's the that's the kicker,

740
00:36:34,120 --> 00:36:35,960
Speaker 2: because no one else on there was like an owner

741
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Speaker 2: or a except for Jerry West.

742
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Speaker 3: But he was yeah, yeah.

743
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Speaker 2: I guess two technically, but he was an athlete. That

744
00:36:46,160 --> 00:36:49,719
Speaker 2: saved my bacon by a technicality there. But I also

745
00:36:49,880 --> 00:36:52,640
Speaker 2: it's to the Franco thing too. I don't think when

746
00:36:52,680 --> 00:36:54,399
Speaker 2: you think of the Pittsburgh Steelers, it's part of why

747
00:36:54,400 --> 00:36:57,319
Speaker 2: we love them. You don't think about mascots and all

748
00:36:57,400 --> 00:36:59,640
Speaker 2: due respect to our guys Steely mcbeam. You don't think

749
00:36:59,680 --> 00:37:03,640
Speaker 2: about and cheerleaders and statues and retired numbers. The Steelers

750
00:37:03,640 --> 00:37:04,759
Speaker 2: don't do that stuff.

751
00:37:04,840 --> 00:37:07,560
Speaker 3: Marching bands and nonsense. You know, like you go to.

752
00:37:07,760 --> 00:37:10,840
Speaker 2: You go to Foxborough and there's a Tom Brady statue

753
00:37:10,880 --> 00:37:13,799
Speaker 2: and there's they got the six banners hanging up and yeah,

754
00:37:13,840 --> 00:37:16,080
Speaker 2: you go to the Link, you go to Philadelphia and

755
00:37:16,120 --> 00:37:19,160
Speaker 2: there's a Nick Foles and Doug Peterson's statue and they've

756
00:37:19,200 --> 00:37:22,400
Speaker 2: got the banners hanging up Pittsburgh. Don't do that nonsense.

757
00:37:22,640 --> 00:37:27,120
Speaker 2: You got our terrible pals and that's it. It's pretty awesome.

758
00:37:27,160 --> 00:37:29,400
Speaker 2: It is pretty awesome, cigar and everything. It's pretty sweet.

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Speaker 3: But along those lines, like when you sprung that on me,

760
00:37:31,400 --> 00:37:33,439
Speaker 3: I start thinking of them. I'm like, well, Clement, you'll

761
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Speaker 3: be on there. Even took me a while to come

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Speaker 3: up with you. And that's my guy. Like, I just

763
00:37:37,160 --> 00:37:40,960
Speaker 3: didn't think Pittsburgh statues because it's for those reasons. You know,

764
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Speaker 3: it's not, you know, a bunch of hoopla.

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Speaker 2: You know, you saved me on the technicality that I

766
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Speaker 2: did many times say athletes.

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Speaker 3: We'll get on. I wouldn't have thought of it though.

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Speaker 2: Miss the Chief statues just in its own category. It

769
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Speaker 2: can't be ranked with these amateurs. It's it's in its

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Speaker 2: own it's in its own league. Obviously, good stuff from

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Speaker 2: TV the Matt. Let's get into the from TV to

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Speaker 2: I R. Let's get into the injury report for both

773
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Speaker 2: of these teams. You want Bills first or Stillers first.

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Speaker 2: TV Bills are Stillers, Okay. Buffalo Bills head coach Saan

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Speaker 2: McDermott said today Dion Dawkins, Spencer Brown will not practice

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Speaker 2: on Wednesday. Did not practice on Wednesday. Dawkins in concussion protocol,

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Speaker 2: which is important to note as well. Also Bernard Kincaid

778
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Speaker 2: and Curtis Samuel did not practice either. So the linebacker Bernard,

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Speaker 2: the tight end obviously Dalton Kincaid, and wide receiver Curtis

780
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Speaker 2: Samuel did not practice Wednesday.

781
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Speaker 3: Okay, So Dawkins is an excellent left tackle.

782
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Speaker 2: Excellent, one of the more underrated left tackles in the

783
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Speaker 2: national football no question.

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Speaker 3: He's been kind of a stalwart for years. Unorthodox. I mean,

785
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Speaker 3: he just doesn't look the party.

786
00:38:58,360 --> 00:38:59,600
Speaker 2: It looks like a guard all day.

787
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Speaker 3: So I'm pulling up something here real quick.

788
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Speaker 2: You need me to fill a buster for you?

789
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Speaker 3: Yeah, not the moment. We'll talk tackles first, but I'm

790
00:39:06,360 --> 00:39:08,719
Speaker 3: just trying to There's some Kincaid numbers I found this morning.

791
00:39:08,760 --> 00:39:13,560
Speaker 3: I'm gonna bring up Spencer Brown's also an excellent right tackle.

792
00:39:13,640 --> 00:39:17,960
Speaker 3: He's developmental Northern Iowa third round pick. Project.

793
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Speaker 2: The offensive line or the Browns the part of me,

794
00:39:20,520 --> 00:39:22,200
Speaker 2: The Bills offensive line is underrated.

795
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Speaker 3: It's very very good, and they develop talent well, you know,

796
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Speaker 3: like very different from one six 's eight and looks

797
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Speaker 3: like a former tight end that he was, and one's

798
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Speaker 3: kind of a round looking guard, but they still get

799
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Speaker 3: great production from both. Both were very not healthy for

800
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Speaker 3: that Texans eight Sac mess on Thursday night against awesome

801
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Speaker 3: edge rushers, but I would say Steelers ed rushers are

802
00:39:44,560 --> 00:39:48,680
Speaker 3: in that category or in that neighborhood. Dawkins finished the game,

803
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Speaker 3: so concussion was not what I was thinking with him.

804
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Speaker 3: Brown did not, and I kind of thought, man, he

805
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Speaker 3: might be out a couple of weeks. Just watching the game,

806
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Speaker 3: you could tell he was really really hurting. Look a

807
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Speaker 3: filibuster for a minute.

808
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Speaker 2: A Look, Well, I was just gonna say, Dawkins in

809
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Speaker 2: concussion protocol, typically that's kind of become like a kiss

810
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Speaker 2: of death. I wonder, though, with the three extra days

811
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Speaker 2: of rest, if he's got more of a chance. He

812
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Speaker 2: didn't get a concussion on Sunday, he got it on Thursday.

813
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Speaker 2: There's that three extra days of rest factor for Buffalo

814
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Speaker 2: coming into this one as well, So I wonder if

815
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Speaker 2: that gives Dawkins. I mean, I'm sure it does give

816
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Speaker 2: him a greater opportunity to play, and how much that factors.

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Speaker 3: In, I'm sure it does. Okay, Kincaid is really important

818
00:40:34,640 --> 00:40:37,400
Speaker 3: to them, Oh, big time. Yeah, he's been sort of

819
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Speaker 3: a disappointment after being a first round pick until this

820
00:40:40,760 --> 00:40:44,160
Speaker 3: year he's really stepped up in a big way. And

821
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Speaker 3: him being out these last two weeks maybe three, they've

822
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Speaker 3: missed him a lot because he's kind of their closest

823
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Speaker 3: thing to a number one receiver. And I saw these numbers,

824
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Speaker 3: I was like, Wow, that's a big deal for someone

825
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Speaker 3: you don't look of in that light. So in his

826
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Speaker 3: eight games with Kincaid, Allen has a seventy two percent

827
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Speaker 3: completion percentage and a thirteen to three touchdown to interception ratio.

828
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Speaker 3: Really good numbers, but nothing Alan does shocks anybody at

829
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Speaker 3: this point.

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Speaker 2: Did you hear what Cam Heyward said about him today? No,

831
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Speaker 2: he's perhaps the NFL's best superhero, like something along along

832
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Speaker 2: those lines. Doesn't better than anybody.

833
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Speaker 3: So in the three games without Kincaid, he's only completing

834
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Speaker 3: sixty four percent of his passes as opposed to seventy two,

835
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Speaker 3: and he's got a five to six touchdown to interception ratio.

836
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Speaker 3: He's got a negative touchdown interception ratio. Now, it's only

837
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Speaker 3: three games, but he's super important to them, oh somewhat

838
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Speaker 3: by default because they don't really have a number one receiver.

839
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Speaker 2: Here's what we know about Here's what we know about that.

840
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Speaker 3: None of those dudes practice.

841
00:41:46,520 --> 00:41:49,480
Speaker 2: None of those guys practiced. We again will not have

842
00:41:49,520 --> 00:41:53,560
Speaker 2: a show tomorrow, but will obviously Friday. Regent revisit injury

843
00:41:53,600 --> 00:41:59,359
Speaker 2: reports for your Pittsburg stillers. Not a ton of surprise here.

844
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Speaker 2: Metcalf did not practice today with the ankle. I think

845
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Speaker 2: you would have maybe like to see him limited, but

846
00:42:05,080 --> 00:42:09,480
Speaker 2: that doesn't shock I bet you know. Aaron Rodgers did

847
00:42:09,520 --> 00:42:11,440
Speaker 2: not practice today. I bet you that was probably the

848
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Speaker 2: plan all along.

849
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Speaker 3: Probably, but I just want to make sure people know

850
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Speaker 3: he does not take those veteran Wednesdays.

851
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Speaker 4: No, he did last week with the rest more injury.

852
00:42:21,280 --> 00:42:26,200
Speaker 2: Once again, absolutely, Ben Skronick did not practice with that

853
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Speaker 2: shoulder injury today Wednesday.

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Speaker 5: Uh.

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Speaker 2: And then obviously Roger Jones, Derek Harmon as we already

856
00:42:32,400 --> 00:42:36,799
Speaker 2: been they've been, they've been ruled out. Uh, let's see,

857
00:42:36,840 --> 00:42:39,360
Speaker 2: and then limited today in practice, Joey Porter Junior with

858
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Speaker 2: the hip. So him being out there I think is

859
00:42:41,280 --> 00:42:44,520
Speaker 2: a good sign. Alex high Smith limited with the peck

860
00:42:45,719 --> 00:42:48,320
Speaker 2: and Cam Hayward limited with an ankle.

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Speaker 3: And Cam on a Wednesday I never think anything about

862
00:42:51,560 --> 00:42:52,880
Speaker 3: it either way.

863
00:42:52,920 --> 00:42:56,000
Speaker 2: Like like Isaac Samalho was limited with rest.

864
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Speaker 3: He's another one on.

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Speaker 2: So Metcalf, Rogers chronic and the two that have been

866
00:43:01,840 --> 00:43:06,680
Speaker 2: ruled out Broderick and Derek Harmon did not practice pas Junior,

867
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Speaker 2: high Smith, Cam Hayward limited in practice.

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Speaker 3: A lot of big names if you combine those two practice,

869
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Speaker 3: I mean this whole segment the names were talking about.

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Speaker 2: It's that time of year. Two injuries are piling up.

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Speaker 2: But that's kind of where we stand with what we

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Speaker 2: know here on this onnes I expected the.

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Speaker 3: Bills to be in a little bit better shape on Wednesday,

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Speaker 3: after a long.

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Speaker 2: Week, after three days, get you excited.

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Speaker 3: Golden rule on injury reports, folks is Wednesday stuff. Don't

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Speaker 3: get too excited, but it is noteworthy. High Smith, Porter

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Speaker 3: Metcalf are the ones I'm kind of keeping an eye

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Speaker 3: on most of Steelers.

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Speaker 2: When we return on Friday. That might be where we

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Speaker 2: start is with the conversation of here's what Thursday's practice

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Speaker 2: report looked like, and.

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Speaker 3: It might be Roger's completely back, right, be great?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it might be. You know, Joey Porter Junior was

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Speaker 2: a full practice participant. High Smith was was was full.

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Speaker 2: However that looks, but yeah, that'll be certainly some thing.

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Speaker 2: You know, check your social media tomorrow when you're in

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Speaker 2: the middle of your second or third round of tripto

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Speaker 2: fans and see what the Thursday practice report looks like.

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Speaker 2: Hour in the books, another hour ago. When we come

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Speaker 2: back on the other side, Matt, we have to talk

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Speaker 2: a little bit about the Thanksgiving games, the Black Friday game.

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Speaker 2: We've got to do our Buffalo Bills, pick a player,

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Speaker 2: talk about some Matt's stats. But when we kick off

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Speaker 2: our number two, what do you say we go around

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Speaker 2: campus nice for our weekly quarterback college quarterback check in.

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Speaker 2: We'll do all that and more in our number two

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Speaker 2: West Shouler Matt Williamson. It's the Drive on Steelers Nation

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Speaker 2: Radio on the Steelers Audio Network.