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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 evening, Steeler Nation. How we doing well? That's good

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Speaker 2: us too, our number two here on the Drive on

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Speaker 2: a victory Monday, where we're enjoying that victory a little

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Speaker 2: bit more so than some of the others recently, as

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Speaker 2: the Steelers win their third straight and are now in

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Speaker 2: fantastic playoff position. We will talk a little bit more

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Speaker 2: about that here in this hour, Matt. But basically, Ravens

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Speaker 2: play at Lambeau Saturday.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they Saturday, they lose, that is important.

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Speaker 2: They lose that you're in. Yes, and or even if

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Speaker 2: they win, that you beat the brown Sunday, you're in.

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Speaker 2: So there's potential that, as you mentioned, both of those

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Speaker 2: games could not matter if the Ravens don't take care

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Speaker 2: of business.

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Speaker 3: Clinch citing on your.

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Speaker 2: Cap Saturday night. Yeah, yeah, yeah, And it's gonna be

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Speaker 2: Huntley versus Moliku Willis It looks like.

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Speaker 3: I was curious about that. I don't know, do we

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Speaker 3: know that for sure? Not for sure?

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Speaker 2: But Jordan Love picked up a concussion and it's going

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Speaker 2: to be a shorter week for them, Yes, which makes

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Speaker 2: me think that's a tough that's.

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Speaker 3: A tough flip. And then lamar man, lamar, I just

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Speaker 3: heard day to day, but they're not going to tell

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Speaker 3: you he's out on a Monday.

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Speaker 2: But it's also like, I think you're at a point

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Speaker 2: with him where, like, I know, this is not how

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Speaker 2: NFL teams think and operate. Every game. Every game is

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Speaker 2: the end of the world. We have to win. It's

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Speaker 2: the beauty of this league.

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Speaker 3: That's why we're paying them and all of that stuff.

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Speaker 2: But but like, he's had an ankle, he's had a knee,

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Speaker 2: he's had a hip, he's had a back this season.

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Speaker 2: At some point I might just shut him, Like I

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Speaker 2: might just be like, this is like this is not

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Speaker 2: worth his his next He's.

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Speaker 4: The most importantchise, He's the most important piece of the franchise.

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Speaker 3: You're risking the golden child, you know.

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Speaker 2: Do I need to trot him out there seven and

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Speaker 2: seven or whatever they are right now and try and

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Speaker 2: drag myself? I just I don't know.

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Speaker 4: I mean, I understand both sides. I mean, anything possible

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Speaker 4: to get in the playoffs, sure, sure, but he's also

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Speaker 4: not as good when he's out there that he just

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Speaker 4: takes over games either, Like, No, he's obviously way better

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Speaker 4: than Huntley side note didn't. I don't think this will

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Speaker 4: affect the Steelers, But in our quarterback conversation of off

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Speaker 4: season and moving around, Willis is somebody's team should be

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Speaker 4: interested in. Yeah, I mean he's come a long way

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Speaker 4: since Tennessee and you know the tiny.

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Speaker 3: School he went to Liberty.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean he's better than like, he gives them

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Speaker 4: a better chance.

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Speaker 3: If it's backup Bowl, I'll take Willis.

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Speaker 2: Everyone talks how historically bad that that quarterback draft classes,

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Speaker 2: and I kind of agree, But Malik Willis has turned

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Speaker 2: into a viable NFL player.

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Speaker 4: He's going the right direction at least. Yeah, i mean

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Speaker 4: like Ritter looks shot. Pick, it looks shot some of the.

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Speaker 2: I guess Brock party was in that. Yeah, has never

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Speaker 3: From the mid round picks didn't work out.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, man, I'm with you. I think Willis has after

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Speaker 2: what looked like, Okay, this guy doesn't have much. He

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Speaker 3: Knew he had ability. He was just like the most

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and we'll get to that more here in just

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Speaker 2: a minute. But let's talk about the first game on

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Speaker 2: Saturday as we kind of recap a massive Week sixteen

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Speaker 2: around the National Football League. The Eagles. They go to

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Speaker 2: d C. Well, I guess technically Maryland there, right, and

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and I'll be frank. I mean, there was college

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Speaker 3: My son was there.

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Speaker 4: It was the Kentucky Hoops Forever. Yeah. But I was

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Speaker 4: all day. This is the game I saw the least of.

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Speaker 4: But it didn't really look like it was ever really

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Speaker 2: This is when we were I was on the plane

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Speaker 3: Very little takeaway.

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Speaker 2: I didn't watch a ton of this either. But if

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Speaker 2: there was one game this weekend that I couldn't watch

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Speaker 2: a ton of, that might have been the one that

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Speaker 4: If it worked out, great, but if the first game

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Speaker 2: This Saturday night different story. If a Steelers' lines wasn't

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Speaker 2: the game of the week Bears Packers certainly might have

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Speaker 2: been Saturday night at Soldier Field, one that you and

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Speaker 2: I spent a few minutes previewing. Matt, I think the

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Speaker 2: Bears are for real. I think the Bears are legit.

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Speaker 2: I mean they're eleven and four. I'm not breaking any

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Speaker 2: news there, but man, Caleb Williams, I think if if

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Speaker 2: you are a Bears fan, you have to be as

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Speaker 2: high as you've been on this team. In this quarterback

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Speaker 2: score at the end and tie the game up that

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Speaker 2: pass and play by him and then obviously the game

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Speaker 2: winner perfectly dropped in a bread basket and a great

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Speaker 2: been the And I know he's had some very good

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Speaker 3: That could always have a lot of moments that could.

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Speaker 2: Be the coming out party for Caleb Williams of like, okay,

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Speaker 2: watch out, this guy's going to be a top ten

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you were talking about quarterback classes, like May's already there,

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Speaker 2: This guy's coming along.

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Speaker 4: Yeah next to that have his best day, but he's

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Speaker 4: had a really good season teams in his first place.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know.

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Speaker 4: And you look at Williams be like he's going to

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Speaker 4: And my big takeaway the Bears is they're not just

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Speaker 4: a cute story. They're good. I mean, they can hang

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Speaker 4: with their own injuries as well, and they're at least

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Speaker 2: Six and one at home, Matt, and you know what

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Speaker 2: I told you was one of the one of the

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Speaker 2: more raucous environments we've seen this season. That's going to

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Speaker 2: be a tough place for anyone. They're they're not going

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Speaker 2: to get the one seed in all likelihood.

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Speaker 3: That'll be, but they're going to host the game.

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Speaker 2: Problem, but they're going to host the game. Maybe two.

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Speaker 4: They're pretty happy the Lions lost, absolutely Lions, and that's

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Speaker 4: that's going to be a tough place for anybody to

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Speaker 3: Was not many since No, I.

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Speaker 2: Mean kind of like the Steelers. It's they've it's been

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Speaker 2: a long time since the Steelers have hosted a playoff game.

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Speaker 2: They've been in the playoffs, but they haven't hosted one

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Speaker 2: since Blake Bortles in the well, okay, the COVID game

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Speaker 2: against against the Browns, but I'm talking there for seven

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Speaker 2: I'm talking sixty seven thousand terrible towels in full effect

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Speaker 2: Philadelphia the last time the Steelers hosted a true home

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Speaker 2: or maybe about that same timeline.

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Speaker 3: For the Bear who has to go to Chicago.

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Speaker 2: To your point, no chance, they're six and one at

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Speaker 2: home this year. That's a that's a fan base that

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Speaker 2: speaking of which, I texted this to you and TV

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Speaker 2: but maybe other than Chicago. I was very impressed by

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Speaker 2: see them everywhere that we go. That's what Steeler Nation does.

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Speaker 2: But this was maybe, along with Chicago, the fewest that

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Speaker 2: fans held onto their tickets man like, there were Steeler

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Speaker 2: fans there, but it was not anywhere close to a takeover.

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Speaker 2: It was not anywhere close to We're gonna have their

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Speaker 2: offense on silent counts. It was maybe the fewest terrible

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Speaker 4: Okay, decided to confirm that because the broadcast.

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Speaker 2: You know, it's a holiday season, this year isn't going

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Speaker 2: that we've seen so far to this point in Cleveland,

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Speaker 2: Matt a little closer than I think anybody thought, but

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Speaker 2: the Bills able to get it done, twenty three to

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Speaker 2: and Miles Garrett does not get that sack.

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Speaker 3: You got a half of one.

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Speaker 2: You got a half a one. That's right, which means

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Speaker 2: that he wanted controversy.

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Speaker 4: There was a sack and he was involved. Ye went

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Speaker 2: half behind, half behind. Can't let that happen next next Sunday, And.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly, they're all.

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Speaker 4: I mean, I've just started to do a little bit

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Speaker 4: of Brown's preliminary results preliminary scouting here as I do

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Speaker 4: on Mondays. I'm trying to fast forward it because you know,

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Speaker 4: everything's happening quicker this week. Offense is a mess right now.

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Speaker 4: I mean, they're on a bunch of backup linemen.

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Speaker 2: Not Ks got hurt.

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Speaker 4: Judkins got hurt. They really don't have anything was running back.

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Speaker 4: Everything's through fan In but the defense is hanging around

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Speaker 4: and they were competitive early on, and then Buffalo didn't

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Speaker 4: really have to rely on Allen all that much. Coquette

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Speaker 4: a big game, as you mentioned, and they road trip

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Speaker 4: a business trip for the Bills. That took care of business.

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Speaker 4: Check that off the list, you know.

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Speaker 2: Four straight win for Buffalo and they're another one of

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Speaker 2: those teams that is getting getting hot at the right time.

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Speaker 2: And as you and I have discussed, they're kind of

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Speaker 2: built for this weather in this time of year, and they're.

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Speaker 3: Feeling good about themselves right now. Totally, yeah, totally.

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Speaker 2: Chargers go to Dallas and they explode in the second half.

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Speaker 2: It was a four point game at the half, Charger

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Speaker 2: tell you what I've thought to them, kind of a

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Speaker 2: ton of credit. Herbert should probably be getting some conversation,

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Speaker 2: I've never really thought the Chargers were dangerous, but I

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Speaker 3: They just keep winning, right.

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Speaker 3: But they they beat Steelers, I mean, they're good.

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Speaker 3: That's important voting time.

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Speaker 2: The Titans Matt get just their third win of the season.

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Speaker 2: Oh no, there, ruining their draft position twenty six to

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Speaker 3: Run the ball for a couple weeks in a row. Decent.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and the Chiefs, I'm packing it up and uh

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Speaker 2: Can get the eleventh pick instead of eighteen. Yeah, totally.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, especially in this sport, they celebrate in

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Speaker 3: I don't know what.

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Speaker 4: Miami's gonna do in terms of jobs and things like that.

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Speaker 4: Yours made a thrower two, but he's weighing over his head.

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Speaker 4: I mean, Chase Brown was a madman in this game.

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Speaker 2: Yes, they do, you know, as do the New Orleans

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Speaker 2: Saints now quietly are playing pretty well, three wins in

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Speaker 2: another one of those. I think it's good for them

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Speaker 2: because again, like winning in football, it's such a cultural

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Speaker 4: Absolutely, it's some older guys on defense that know the

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Speaker 2: You know, they were two and ten just a few

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Speaker 3: Last year head coach has been a successful year for

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Speaker 2: They might not pick in the top three anymore, but

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Speaker 3: Way more valuable, right right.

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Speaker 4: I'm not saying that they're necessarily like the Bears with

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Speaker 3: That's just it.

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Speaker 4: I mean, like it's good first step to having the

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Speaker 2: A team that is looking like they might be locking

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Speaker 3: JJ McCarthy both each quarterback, Yeah, mcarthy.

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Speaker 4: Saw some bottom rung quarterbacks this past weekend in Kansas City,

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Speaker 4: You know, we saw some dudes that shouldn't be out there.

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Speaker 3: We'll talk you.

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Speaker 4: These are more offseason conversations. But if they end up

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Speaker 4: to think about Mendoz, you know, like the Steers kind

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Speaker 3: Of course it wouldn't. No.

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Speaker 2: No, it was like, move on, not even a top

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Speaker 3: Right right, right right.

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Speaker 4: If you're fall in love with mendoz Or, you know,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they're sure was, yeah, matt in What was one

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Speaker 2: and how about those Carolina Panthers. They move ahead of

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Speaker 3: That's the store, that's the story. Like the receivers are

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Speaker 4: Right, He's playing like he's he gets some of this.

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Speaker 3: In a row. And I don't know that totally, you know,

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Speaker 2: But no, the Rams will go there and beat him

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Speaker 4: But McMillan and Cooper and these running backs and like

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Speaker 2: They are I still I still don't know about Bryce

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Speaker 2: But they are one of the more surprising stories in

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Speaker 2: Another one of the all eyes on this game type

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Speaker 2: the second straight week, Trevor Lawrence looked like the best

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Speaker 4: And I'm like, why did you throw a Hunter in

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Speaker 3: Absolutely treading right there, Matt.

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Speaker 2: The Broncos were unblemished at home this season. As you

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Speaker 4: My hunch on Denver though, is not that it's a

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Speaker 2: I wouldn't be panicked if it was a Broncos fan today.

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Speaker 3: They could still go to Super Bowl. Who knows.

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Speaker 2: But the race for the one seed and the AFC

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Speaker 3: That's a good thing tomorrow thing.

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Speaker 4: But I don't know the seedings and how people can

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Speaker 2: Maybe we'll get into that a little bit here on

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Speaker 2: the Raiders, like most lifeless teams going right now, Giants

443
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Speaker 2: and Jets in that conversation too. But the Cardinals started too,

444
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Speaker 2: and oh, folks, I know that's hard to remember.

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Speaker 3: Every week is the same.

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Speaker 2: They are now one in twelve. Since starting two and zero,

447
00:19:02,720 --> 00:19:06,639
Speaker 2: they've shut a lot of guys down. I mean, I

448
00:19:06,680 --> 00:19:08,359
Speaker 2: don't know if there's a ton for the Falcons to

449
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Speaker 2: hang their hat on other than game. Other than the

450
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Speaker 2: Falcons aren't terrible. They're not a playoff team, but they're

451
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Speaker 2: not a disaster. They're right in that mushy middle.

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Speaker 3: I just feel like.

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Speaker 4: Both these teams are kind of playing out the string

454
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Speaker 4: and we'll see if there's coaching changes, what happens a

455
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Speaker 4: quarterback for both teams. I know Penn X will be

456
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Speaker 4: in the mix. Mom cousins, I don't know, you know

457
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Speaker 4: who knows.

458
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Speaker 2: The Texans get it done at home. Uh, they stay hot.

459
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Speaker 2: They are now ten and two in their last twelve

460
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Speaker 2: after starting zero.

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Speaker 3: You think, though probably a miserable team.

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Speaker 2: It's probably gonna say the most signs of life we've

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Speaker 2: seen from the Raiders.

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Speaker 3: Yes, I think that's since September.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean genty ran the ball well, Gino Smith

466
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Speaker 2: played pretty well.

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Speaker 3: Gentid a big day, Yeah, but.

468
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Speaker 2: It wasn't enough. The Texans hold on. They win their

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Speaker 2: seventh straight, twenty three to twenty one.

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Speaker 4: The line issues that creep back up too. And you know,

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Speaker 4: I still feel good about Houston being in one of

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Speaker 4: the best teams in the AFC. But this was a

473
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Speaker 4: slight step back, kind of like that for conversation.

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Speaker 2: Agreed, but they won. They'ven't been such a heat or two.

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Speaker 2: Like I these guys are human. It's important to remember. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: and I have a feeling. I have a feeling this

477
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Speaker 2: past week. You know, they weren't sitting up as straight

478
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Speaker 2: in their chair and yeah, it's the Raiders had Yeah

479
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Speaker 2: at home, we got the Raiders.

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Speaker 3: Give the Raisers a little bit of credit, Like you said,

481
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Speaker 3: they did little bit sides.

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Speaker 2: They didn't roll over and die. That's probably Gent's best game.

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Speaker 2: It's one of Geno Smith's better games, which hasn't been

484
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Speaker 2: in a high bar for him to clear this year.

485
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Speaker 2: But regardless, but then Matt Sunday Night one that meant

486
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Speaker 2: a lot to the Ravens, to the Patriots, to the Steelers,

487
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Speaker 2: to the playoff picture. The Patriots get it done. Uh,

488
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Speaker 2: they are racing eleven point deficit to beat the Ravens

489
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Speaker 2: to clinch us playoff spot and to get right back

490
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Speaker 2: into the one seed conversation in the AFC.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and there were a lot of injuries in this

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Speaker 4: game too, or a lot of NEI are teams at

493
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Speaker 4: one hundred percent, and I don't know that I came

494
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Speaker 4: away thinking either one is a legit Super Bowl type team,

495
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Speaker 4: especially Baltimore with their quarterback situation, but they had a

496
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Speaker 4: lot of the same issues. They still get away from

497
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Speaker 4: Henry a lot. I mean, I thought they run the

498
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Speaker 4: ball pretty well, prans pretty banged up defense, and putting

499
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Speaker 4: too much on hunt Lee, who didn't play terrible. But

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Speaker 4: I think a big story is Henderson got hurt. Diggs

501
00:21:22,440 --> 00:21:25,879
Speaker 4: played really well, but May kind of took over, you know,

502
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Speaker 4: like he just start I'm just gonna throw and throw

503
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Speaker 4: and throw.

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Speaker 2: He's like he's really good, He's really impressive.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, He's as if the AFC was short on great quarterback.

506
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Speaker 2: That's exactly right. And as if the New England Patriots

507
00:21:37,320 --> 00:21:40,280
Speaker 2: haven't had one of those in a long time, but

508
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Speaker 2: good for the Steelers. Helps out the Steelers road here

509
00:21:43,760 --> 00:21:45,359
Speaker 2: makes things a little bit more clear.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, let's talk what we wanted.

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Speaker 2: Let's talk about so we kind of ran through the

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Speaker 2: results here, let's discuss what that means when we return

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Speaker 2: on the other side here in our number two of

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Speaker 2: the drive. Well Schuler, Matt Williamson, It's Steelers Nation Radio

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Speaker 2: on the Steelers Audio Network.

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Speaker 1: Your tums about drive. You are twenty four to seven

517
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Speaker 1: home of the black and Goal Steelers Nation Radio.

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Speaker 2: All right, Matt, So what's it all mean here for

519
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Speaker 2: the playoff picture across the AFC, across the NFC.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm behind. I need to know this stuff.

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Speaker 2: I kind of am too, because we got in a

522
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Speaker 2: little late last night, as you can imagine, a couple

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Speaker 2: hours of sleep before the girls woke us up. I

524
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Speaker 2: gotta say I really like Ford Field. Cool building, cool atmosphere.

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Speaker 2: Cool Ford Field to me is it's it's the type

526
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Speaker 2: of stadium that I like. It's it's nice enough, but

527
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Speaker 2: it's also no fancy frill.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it's just.

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Speaker 2: A it's just a cool, well built stadium.

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Speaker 3: That's the job.

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Speaker 2: Close seats are low to the you know, with the

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Speaker 2: with the dome and everything, the seats are real close

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Speaker 2: to the field, so like even sitting sure it gets loud,

534
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Speaker 2: and even sitting upper deck there, like I wouldn't imagine,

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Speaker 2: it's not a bad there's not a bad seat in

536
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Speaker 2: the house type place, because it's like if you're in

537
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Speaker 2: the upper deck, it's not like you're up you know,

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Speaker 2: high five and Jesus up there near the clouds. Like

539
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Speaker 2: your decent food, pretty decent food, pretty pretty good spread.

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Speaker 2: They had a barbecue company that actually catered the meal,

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Speaker 2: so it was like pulled pork and pulled chicken and

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Speaker 2: mac and cheese, and it was it was written. It

543
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Speaker 2: was really good. Postgame meal wasn't so good. It was

544
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Speaker 2: just chicken tenders and I was kind of hoping for

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Speaker 2: something a little more substantial there. But that's okay. We

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Speaker 2: took the win and that makes up for the lack

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Speaker 2: of postgame options. But it's also, as you can imagine, uh,

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Speaker 2: a very comforting. Uh. To be indoors in Detroit in

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Speaker 2: late December is much better than being outdoors.

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Speaker 3: I always follow Missy on the pregame show. I listened

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Speaker 3: to her. She was like, I was, I'm pretty happy.

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Speaker 4: I don't have eight layers on in my heated vest

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Speaker 4: and blah blah blah.

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Speaker 2: So like after the game, going to the buses, you know,

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Speaker 2: we get everything loaded on the equipment trucks, all the

556
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Speaker 2: equipment and everything, and like have our stuff and we're

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Speaker 2: going to get on the buses and you have to

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Speaker 2: go like out the tunnel to get on the buses.

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Speaker 2: And it was like, I mean, yeah, it was like

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Speaker 2: it was like getting hit by Ed Reid across the

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Speaker 2: middle and they stepped out of that tunnel and that

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Speaker 2: Detroit wind hit you in the face. For the Lions,

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Speaker 2: they are Monty Python not dead yet due to the

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Speaker 2: Bear's loss, I believe, right.

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Speaker 3: I've heard with them is they have like a seventeen chance.

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Speaker 2: Seven chance they need to win out and they need

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Speaker 2: the Packers to lose out basically, I believe.

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Speaker 4: It's what's funny is this Packers Ravens game has a

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Speaker 4: lot to do with the teams that just played in Detroit.

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Speaker 2: It absolutely does. What's wild to me, Matt is that

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Speaker 2: according to analytics, they still give the Bucks a slight advantage,

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Speaker 2: like a two percent advantage over the Panthers to win

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Speaker 2: to win the division.

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Speaker 3: Does that game really come down to Week eighteen when

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Speaker 3: they meet again.

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Speaker 2: I would have to assume based on common opponents and

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Speaker 2: the tie breakers that they're saying, and that one didn't

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Speaker 2: really mean as much for Tampa because if they win

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Speaker 2: Week eighteen, they'll still be in Okay, that's what I'm

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Speaker 2: gathering here. But Packers ninety three percent chance to make it,

581
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Speaker 2: Lions just seven percent chance. So you can see the

582
00:25:13,240 --> 00:25:17,800
Speaker 2: direct one hundred percent correlation there, Matt Across, they are,

583
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Speaker 2: especially from an injury standpoint, but everybody else. So you

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Speaker 2: take the Bucks and the Panthers, uh, you know, still

585
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Speaker 2: a coin flip situation, and then the Packers clearly with

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Speaker 2: a you would have to have a disaster. You'd have

587
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Speaker 2: to take a disaster type, you know, with the Lions

588
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Speaker 2: loss for them not to make it. Everybody else is

589
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Speaker 2: locked in. Seahawks, Bears, Eagles, Niners, Rams have all clinched.

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Speaker 4: I know the Niners clinched by doing nothing yesterday, correct, they.

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Speaker 2: They played tonight against the Colts.

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Speaker 3: I know that all the seedings like the game still

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Speaker 3: matters to them.

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Speaker 2: Which is funny too, because if you would have told

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Speaker 2: us in like early October, hey, that Monday night game

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Speaker 2: in San Francisco between the Niners and the Colts. It's

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Speaker 2: not gonna matter to one of those teams. Like, one

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Speaker 2: of those teams is going to be out of the

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Speaker 2: race and one of those team is going to be in.

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Speaker 3: That's right, you're right, sorry, but still right.

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Speaker 2: One of those teams is going to be out of

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Speaker 2: the race, one of those teams is gonna be locked

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Speaker 2: into a playoff spot. It'll be like, wow, Indy kept

604
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Speaker 2: rolling in those injuries. Finally caught up to.

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Speaker 3: The nine coach year in conversation too.

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Speaker 2: So the NFC picture, I mean again, the Lions still

607
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Speaker 2: have a chance, but it's ninety three percent. PA pretty

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Speaker 2: much know the seventeam pretty much knows six of the

609
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Speaker 2: seven right now, and it's just Bucks or Panthers who.

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Speaker 3: Ends up NFC South Champ.

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Speaker 2: Yes, So the NFC playoff picture actually, for still having

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Speaker 2: two weeks left, is pretty clear, pretty clear. There's not

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Speaker 2: a lot of wiggle room there. And you know what, Matt,

614
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Speaker 2: the the AFC picture looks just about as clear, if

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Speaker 2: not even more so. Broncos and Patriots are both clinched. Yes,

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Speaker 2: Jags ninety nine point eight percent chance to make the playoffs, so.

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Speaker 3: That must have been like they can't have ties.

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Speaker 2: I think so.

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Speaker 3: I think so, like go and and other team's go.

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Speaker 2: To Steelers ninety three percent chance to make the playoffs,

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Speaker 2: Ravens a seven percent chance, Bill's ninety nine point nine,

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Speaker 2: Chargers ninety eight point nine, Texans ninety six point two,

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Speaker 2: which is insane to see Houston that high off where

624
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Speaker 2: off of where they were a few months ago. Raven's

625
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Speaker 2: just a seven percent chance, Colts just a five percent chance.

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Speaker 3: Okay, So I guess.

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Speaker 2: Still tonight, with a win, are alive.

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Speaker 3: But I assume if they lose tonight that five percent

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Speaker 3: goes as.

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Speaker 2: Euro I would, I would. I believe that would be

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Speaker 2: the game.

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Speaker 3: Maybe Rivers doesn't play again after that.

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Speaker 2: And maybe and maybe that's it.

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Speaker 3: But honestly, I bet the NFL doesn't love this.

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Speaker 2: I bet that's exactly what I was gonna say, because

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Speaker 2: it's unusual. It's especially for the extra playoff team, you know,

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Speaker 2: seventeen now the extra seventeenth game, like we've talked about

638
00:27:42,960 --> 00:27:45,560
Speaker 2: how that has been so smart because it's kept teams

639
00:27:45,560 --> 00:27:47,640
Speaker 2: in the playoff picture late and late into the season.

640
00:27:47,720 --> 00:27:49,960
Speaker 2: You sell more tickets, you get more eyeballs, more merchandise,

641
00:27:50,040 --> 00:27:53,840
Speaker 2: all that stuff they want to you know, right now,

642
00:27:53,880 --> 00:27:56,040
Speaker 2: really the only fan bases that are like are we

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Speaker 2: in or are we out? Realistically like sitting on that

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00:27:59,200 --> 00:28:01,520
Speaker 2: fence or the Bucks, the Panthers, that's it. Everyone else,

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Speaker 2: it's like ironclad. Even if you're Green Bay or the

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00:28:05,640 --> 00:28:07,600
Speaker 2: Steelers or the Texans, like, you would have to have

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Speaker 2: a colossal historical lect down to miss at this point.

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Speaker 4: Now, of course the Steelers could miss the playoff. Sure,

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Speaker 4: that's not inconceivable. You know, by no means it is

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Speaker 4: the time to be like, oh, it's a done deal.

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Speaker 4: That does seem high.

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Speaker 2: I mean that if you would have told me to

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Speaker 2: guess a percentage, yeah, that seems high, I would have

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Speaker 2: said eighty two percent probably like low eighties would have

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Speaker 2: been my guess. It's ninety three percent, which is okay.

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Speaker 2: But again, I think when you consider the Ravens have

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Speaker 2: to go on the road to Lambeau and Pittsburgh, they

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Speaker 2: would have to win both of those, and they would

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Speaker 2: need they would need the Steelers to lose against the Browns,

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Speaker 2: which I know is in Cleveland. But I'm sure the

661
00:28:43,120 --> 00:28:46,000
Speaker 2: analytics have the Steelers as a eighty some percent favored

662
00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:47,080
Speaker 2: in that they're.

663
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Speaker 4: Going to be favored in the game at a minimum, Yeah,

664
00:28:49,320 --> 00:28:50,720
Speaker 4: by seven or eight ers.

665
00:28:50,560 --> 00:28:53,240
Speaker 2: So I get it, and I'm sure the Lamar injury

666
00:28:53,320 --> 00:28:54,640
Speaker 2: is factored into that number.

667
00:28:55,360 --> 00:28:59,240
Speaker 3: You know, absolutely, Green Bay it's terrible play.

668
00:28:59,360 --> 00:29:01,400
Speaker 2: I actually this time of year, right.

669
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Speaker 3: And they're not playing great. They just lost. I mean,

670
00:29:03,440 --> 00:29:05,200
Speaker 3: so Baltimore is in a bind.

671
00:29:05,720 --> 00:29:08,280
Speaker 2: So it is actually funny. I didn't really put two

672
00:29:08,320 --> 00:29:11,000
Speaker 2: and two together in that regard. But yeah, both the

673
00:29:11,040 --> 00:29:14,320
Speaker 2: AFC and the NFC picture not nearly like remember last

674
00:29:14,360 --> 00:29:16,080
Speaker 2: year when we got to this point, Oh, it was

675
00:29:16,120 --> 00:29:18,400
Speaker 2: like the Steelers can make it X, Y and Z,

676
00:29:18,600 --> 00:29:20,479
Speaker 2: but they could also do a B and C. There

677
00:29:20,520 --> 00:29:22,760
Speaker 2: were seven different scenarios of how the Steelers could be

678
00:29:22,760 --> 00:29:23,160
Speaker 2: in and out.

679
00:29:23,200 --> 00:29:25,040
Speaker 3: There weren't nearly as many teams that were like ninety

680
00:29:25,040 --> 00:29:25,600
Speaker 3: percent in.

681
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Speaker 2: A bus, right, And the Ravens and the Bengals were

682
00:29:28,040 --> 00:29:31,600
Speaker 2: all really factored in at this point last year. And yeah, man,

683
00:29:31,640 --> 00:29:34,800
Speaker 2: it's this year quite different. And I think you're right.

684
00:29:34,960 --> 00:29:37,720
Speaker 2: Not with the NFL wants, although it could be leat.

685
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Speaker 4: It's not thrilled with the Chiefs, Bengals, Ravens. You know,

686
00:29:41,680 --> 00:29:43,120
Speaker 4: like you guys, we expect more out of you to

687
00:29:43,120 --> 00:29:43,840
Speaker 4: make this thing more.

688
00:29:43,800 --> 00:29:45,800
Speaker 2: Be hunt totally right, totally.

689
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Speaker 3: Much of those team in the NFC that qualifies.

690
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Speaker 4: As maybe the Lions in Minnesota won a bunch last year,

691
00:29:50,480 --> 00:29:52,280
Speaker 4: but someone was gonna come in forth there.

692
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Speaker 2: You know the other side of that, though, is when

693
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Speaker 2: we get to the playoffs here, I mean two weeks

694
00:29:57,520 --> 00:29:59,240
Speaker 2: from now, you and I will be talking about here

695
00:29:59,280 --> 00:30:02,720
Speaker 2: we go it's wild card week. I think there's gonna

696
00:30:02,720 --> 00:30:05,680
Speaker 2: be no real empty chairs. Maybe we'll say, Okay, the

697
00:30:05,800 --> 00:30:08,400
Speaker 2: Rams are gonna go to Tampa Bay or Charlotte and.

698
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Speaker 3: They'll definitely be favored. Yeah yeah, in a big way. Yeah.

699
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Speaker 2: But other than that, there's gonna be not really many

700
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Speaker 2: empty seats in the playoff picture, like these are all

701
00:30:16,160 --> 00:30:18,240
Speaker 2: We're gonna look at pretty much all these teams and say, yeah,

702
00:30:18,240 --> 00:30:20,160
Speaker 2: wouldn't shock me if they won the NFC. Yeah, wouldn't

703
00:30:20,160 --> 00:30:21,280
Speaker 2: shock me if they won the AFC.

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Speaker 4: I think there were team people that lump the Steelers

705
00:30:25,760 --> 00:30:27,880
Speaker 4: in there, you know, like, oh, I want to go

706
00:30:27,920 --> 00:30:30,400
Speaker 4: to Pittsburgh absolutely, And I'm sure people still think that,

707
00:30:30,480 --> 00:30:32,280
Speaker 4: and I understand it. I mean, if you look at

708
00:30:32,520 --> 00:30:36,760
Speaker 4: these seven likely AFC teams playing the Steelers, I could

709
00:30:36,760 --> 00:30:38,560
Speaker 4: see where that would be your first choice if you're

710
00:30:38,680 --> 00:30:41,720
Speaker 4: the Chargers or the Bills or second place in the

711
00:30:41,800 --> 00:30:44,640
Speaker 4: end of AC South or something along those lines. But

712
00:30:44,720 --> 00:30:47,160
Speaker 4: you can't tell me that that's not a scarier situation

713
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Speaker 4: coming to Pittsburgh.

714
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Speaker 3: Then it looked a week or two ago.

715
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Speaker 2: Could play scary way like Boogeyman type.

716
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Speaker 4: Yeah, and I mean this is really get ahead of ourselves.

717
00:30:57,040 --> 00:31:00,320
Speaker 4: But they might be able to rest guys one or

718
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Speaker 4: even two weeks.

719
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Speaker 2: And I were talking about that, but while you were

720
00:31:03,840 --> 00:31:05,600
Speaker 2: while you were finishing up your other show, like.

721
00:31:06,280 --> 00:31:09,880
Speaker 4: If the Ravens eliminated Sunday Night, maybe Rogers and Cam and.

722
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Speaker 2: What that may why I don't want to give my

723
00:31:11,840 --> 00:31:14,400
Speaker 2: guys two weeks off back to back, right, So maybe

724
00:31:14,600 --> 00:31:16,719
Speaker 2: maybe I play him the first half against the Browns

725
00:31:16,720 --> 00:31:19,840
Speaker 2: and then rest them against against the Ravens or a

726
00:31:19,840 --> 00:31:22,280
Speaker 2: couple series against a couple series against the Browns, couple

727
00:31:22,360 --> 00:31:24,840
Speaker 2: series against the Ravens, you know, a Watt situation.

728
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Speaker 3: I mean, I don't know if he could come back

729
00:31:26,080 --> 00:31:27,960
Speaker 3: or not. Ye, you definitely don't rush him back.

730
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Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers, Cam, Jalen Ramsey, even a Metcalf or you know, right,

731
00:31:33,200 --> 00:31:34,040
Speaker 2: totally totally.

732
00:31:34,040 --> 00:31:37,040
Speaker 3: It could set up real well where you're quite rested.

733
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Speaker 2: Quick exercise and will continue to do this as we

734
00:31:39,160 --> 00:31:41,720
Speaker 2: as we roll down the stretch here. But NFC playoff

735
00:31:41,760 --> 00:31:46,360
Speaker 2: picture the NFC aside from the NFC South winner and

736
00:31:46,400 --> 00:31:51,120
Speaker 2: the Packers just because of their injury situation. True, but

737
00:31:51,160 --> 00:31:52,280
Speaker 2: I still.

738
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Speaker 3: But they still the Parsons injury was used.

739
00:31:54,040 --> 00:31:56,280
Speaker 2: But I think five teams in the in the NFC

740
00:31:56,320 --> 00:32:00,880
Speaker 2: could win the Super Bowl. Seahawks, Bears, Eagles, Niners, Rams.

741
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Speaker 3: I'm sure the Niners could.

742
00:32:03,040 --> 00:32:05,560
Speaker 2: That might be fair. Yeah, they're really decimated too.

743
00:32:05,720 --> 00:32:07,520
Speaker 3: Yeah, their defense is pretty they could lose a night.

744
00:32:08,440 --> 00:32:12,360
Speaker 2: AFC though. It's funny because it's almost like I don't

745
00:32:12,360 --> 00:32:13,600
Speaker 2: know if the Broncos can. I don't know if the

746
00:32:13,600 --> 00:32:15,200
Speaker 2: Patriots can. I don't know if the Jags can. I

747
00:32:15,240 --> 00:32:16,640
Speaker 2: don't know if the Steelers can. I don't know if

748
00:32:16,640 --> 00:32:17,320
Speaker 2: the Chargers can't.

749
00:32:17,680 --> 00:32:19,360
Speaker 3: Right, but one of them going, but one of.

750
00:32:19,280 --> 00:32:21,040
Speaker 2: Them has to, Like you could see any of those

751
00:32:21,080 --> 00:32:24,560
Speaker 2: teams winning the AFC, any of them, certainly Buffalo or

752
00:32:25,080 --> 00:32:28,800
Speaker 2: any of those teams winning the AFC. So it's man,

753
00:32:28,880 --> 00:32:33,640
Speaker 2: it's it's a lot of fun in that regum. The totally, Yeah,

754
00:32:33,760 --> 00:32:36,200
Speaker 2: totally right now. The Broncos still have the one seed,

755
00:32:36,240 --> 00:32:39,120
Speaker 2: so it would be Houston going to New England. That

756
00:32:39,160 --> 00:32:43,120
Speaker 2: could be an upset Chargers, Chargers going to Jacksonville. The

757
00:32:43,200 --> 00:32:46,040
Speaker 2: Chargers just one in Jacksonville a couple weeks ago, and

758
00:32:46,080 --> 00:32:48,200
Speaker 2: then okay, Bills in Pittsburgh, that would be a tough one.

759
00:32:48,200 --> 00:32:50,240
Speaker 2: Steelers would likely be a home dog by a few

760
00:32:50,200 --> 00:32:53,160
Speaker 2: peop not astronomical, but two and a half, three and

761
00:32:53,160 --> 00:32:55,960
Speaker 2: a half. And we also just saw that game at

762
00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:58,760
Speaker 2: Akroshuer Stadium as well. But I think any team in

763
00:32:58,800 --> 00:33:01,440
Speaker 2: the AFC you could see winning the conference. I think

764
00:33:01,440 --> 00:33:05,920
Speaker 2: in the NFC, you know, maybe other than Niners and

765
00:33:06,160 --> 00:33:10,160
Speaker 2: whoever wins the the NFC South. It's it's gonna be fun.

766
00:33:10,240 --> 00:33:11,920
Speaker 2: These next couple of weeks might be a little anti

767
00:33:11,920 --> 00:33:14,080
Speaker 2: climactic now all of a sudden, but I think once

768
00:33:14,120 --> 00:33:16,040
Speaker 2: we get into January, it's gonna be a lot of fun.

769
00:33:16,120 --> 00:33:17,640
Speaker 4: Last thing I got on that is I still think

770
00:33:17,680 --> 00:33:21,440
Speaker 4: the Rams are the best team, and they might blow

771
00:33:21,480 --> 00:33:24,880
Speaker 4: out the NFC South winner and we might be looking

772
00:33:24,920 --> 00:33:28,760
Speaker 4: at them like their Ohio State a couple of weeks ago,

773
00:33:28,800 --> 00:33:31,000
Speaker 4: like you want them or the field, but they're gonna

774
00:33:31,040 --> 00:33:32,400
Speaker 4: have to go on the road over and over and over,

775
00:33:32,640 --> 00:33:34,200
Speaker 4: you know, like, we'll see about that.

776
00:33:34,280 --> 00:33:36,120
Speaker 2: We will see about that part.

777
00:33:36,560 --> 00:33:36,800
Speaker 3: Matt.

778
00:33:36,840 --> 00:33:41,280
Speaker 2: We've got some some breaking news here, not that relates

779
00:33:41,280 --> 00:33:47,560
Speaker 2: to the Steelers or really anything involving teams in the playoffs,

780
00:33:47,560 --> 00:33:50,040
Speaker 2: but a AFC team just kind of with a pretty

781
00:33:50,080 --> 00:33:52,239
Speaker 2: significant announcement about their future that I want to kick

782
00:33:52,280 --> 00:33:54,440
Speaker 2: around with you in our final segment. We've also got

783
00:33:54,440 --> 00:33:56,800
Speaker 2: some tweets and some final things to get to, so

784
00:33:56,800 --> 00:33:58,920
Speaker 2: we'll do that. Yeah, we'll do all that as we

785
00:33:59,000 --> 00:34:01,040
Speaker 2: roll along here and wrap up the show on the

786
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Speaker 2: other side. Why Shouler, Matt Williamson. It's the Drive on

787
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Speaker 2: Steelers Nation Radio on the Steelers Audio Network.

788
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Speaker 1: Your tunes about Drive on your twenty four to seven

789
00:34:10,760 --> 00:34:11,960
Speaker 1: home of the Black and Goal.

790
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Speaker 3: Steelers Nation Radio.

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Speaker 2: Final segment here on a victory Monday, wrapping up the

792
00:34:30,160 --> 00:34:34,040
Speaker 2: drive and smiles and good tidings and all those things

793
00:34:34,120 --> 00:34:38,760
Speaker 2: here in Steeler Nation. Matt's significant news. This has nothing

794
00:34:38,760 --> 00:34:41,120
Speaker 2: to do with the games or the players or the

795
00:34:41,280 --> 00:34:44,800
Speaker 2: playoff picture anything like that, but the Kansas City Chiefs

796
00:34:45,040 --> 00:34:49,080
Speaker 2: just announced that they are going to leave Arrowhead Stadium

797
00:34:49,560 --> 00:34:54,240
Speaker 2: and build a new home in Kansas because Arrowhead technically

798
00:34:54,280 --> 00:34:56,799
Speaker 2: in Missouri because Kansas City is you know, right on

799
00:34:56,840 --> 00:35:00,319
Speaker 2: the border there. They announced just in the last few

800
00:35:00,320 --> 00:35:03,520
Speaker 2: minutes that they plan to abandon Arrowhead Stadium and move

801
00:35:03,719 --> 00:35:08,160
Speaker 2: to Kansas and build a new facility there, which I get.

802
00:35:08,239 --> 00:35:12,520
Speaker 2: I mean, Arrowhead is old, old, though I've never been there.

803
00:35:12,760 --> 00:35:16,520
Speaker 2: It's one of the few Levi Stadium in San Francisco, Arrowhead,

804
00:35:16,920 --> 00:35:21,399
Speaker 2: Jerry World Superdome in New Orleans, and once There's there's

805
00:35:21,440 --> 00:35:24,879
Speaker 2: one more that I haven't been to. But there's five

806
00:35:24,960 --> 00:35:29,280
Speaker 2: still that Arizona at the State Farm out there in Glendale.

807
00:35:29,280 --> 00:35:30,880
Speaker 2: Those are the five that I haven't been to. I

808
00:35:30,880 --> 00:35:32,799
Speaker 2: would love to go to Arrowhead because you know, I'm

809
00:35:32,880 --> 00:35:36,120
Speaker 2: kind of a for those historic sites and everything. But

810
00:35:36,160 --> 00:35:38,560
Speaker 2: I also get it. This is the new way. We're

811
00:35:38,560 --> 00:35:41,200
Speaker 2: seeing it in Cleveland, we're seeing it in Chicago. If

812
00:35:41,280 --> 00:35:43,840
Speaker 2: you want to host super Bowls, in final fours, in

813
00:35:44,000 --> 00:35:46,800
Speaker 2: college football playoff games and all this stuff, like you

814
00:35:46,880 --> 00:35:49,600
Speaker 2: got to have the fancy new facility, nothing about it, if

815
00:35:49,560 --> 00:35:51,360
Speaker 2: it'll have a roof for a dome or anything.

816
00:35:51,640 --> 00:35:51,759
Speaker 1: Back.

817
00:35:53,239 --> 00:35:55,160
Speaker 2: I just I think it's interesting that they're moving back

818
00:35:55,200 --> 00:35:59,960
Speaker 2: into Kansas. And yeah, again, I'm I'm sure. I'm sure

819
00:36:00,080 --> 00:36:02,360
Speaker 2: it'll probably only end up being ten miles, twenty miles

820
00:36:02,400 --> 00:36:04,680
Speaker 2: something like that because it is right on the state

821
00:36:04,719 --> 00:36:05,239
Speaker 2: border there.

822
00:36:05,480 --> 00:36:07,359
Speaker 4: But as I've tuckled a few times about your World

823
00:36:07,400 --> 00:36:11,400
Speaker 4: Cup stuff, like, I come to the city, it's stadiums

824
00:36:11,400 --> 00:36:13,680
Speaker 4: are nowhere near the francist.

825
00:36:13,200 --> 00:36:15,200
Speaker 2: I'm going to go to San Francisco to watch Argentina

826
00:36:15,239 --> 00:36:18,040
Speaker 2: against France. Wait, the stadium sixty miles to the city

827
00:36:18,080 --> 00:36:19,640
Speaker 2: in Santa Clara. What are we doing here?

828
00:36:19,719 --> 00:36:19,959
Speaker 1: City?

829
00:36:20,239 --> 00:36:22,640
Speaker 2: Oh, that European mind is going to be blown by

830
00:36:22,640 --> 00:36:25,080
Speaker 2: that when they when they realize that East Rutherford is

831
00:36:25,080 --> 00:36:27,200
Speaker 2: nowhere close to where they're staying in Vansas City.

832
00:36:27,239 --> 00:36:29,520
Speaker 3: That's not in Kansas, but the place is in Kansas.

833
00:36:29,719 --> 00:36:31,560
Speaker 2: That's another one. I'm pretty sure they're I'm pretty sure

834
00:36:31,560 --> 00:36:34,200
Speaker 2: they're hosting World Cup games there are Oh, I'm pretty

835
00:36:34,200 --> 00:36:35,960
Speaker 2: sure actually, now that you mentioned it, so it's like, wait,

836
00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:37,600
Speaker 2: I gotta go to a different state here.

837
00:36:37,760 --> 00:36:41,080
Speaker 3: Right on Ireland City. I would think it's in Ireland.

838
00:36:41,160 --> 00:36:47,359
Speaker 2: Yes, Kansas City, Missouri. Yeah, that you know, my love.

839
00:36:47,520 --> 00:36:49,239
Speaker 2: I love going to New York City and spending time

840
00:36:49,239 --> 00:36:51,160
Speaker 2: in Rhode Island this time of year.

841
00:36:51,520 --> 00:36:52,640
Speaker 3: Uh is big news.

842
00:36:52,680 --> 00:36:55,320
Speaker 2: I get it, significant news, but I also like I love.

843
00:36:55,200 --> 00:36:57,440
Speaker 3: The super wealthy station too.

844
00:36:57,680 --> 00:37:01,160
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, I love the old finance. I love the

845
00:37:01,200 --> 00:37:03,640
Speaker 2: old temples of Sport though, you know what I mean,

846
00:37:03,960 --> 00:37:05,400
Speaker 2: as much as I do. I love going to the

847
00:37:05,440 --> 00:37:08,120
Speaker 2: Sofis and the Mercedes Benz and these places that are

848
00:37:08,239 --> 00:37:11,719
Speaker 2: just spectacles. I also love the old the old temples too.

849
00:37:11,840 --> 00:37:15,640
Speaker 4: It also made me think of Buffalo's stretch here where

850
00:37:15,800 --> 00:37:18,520
Speaker 4: they're hosting again another final year or another one. I'm

851
00:37:18,520 --> 00:37:21,000
Speaker 4: sure that final year in Kansas City will be a

852
00:37:21,440 --> 00:37:24,200
Speaker 4: spectacle of you know, all the hosting and not like

853
00:37:24,200 --> 00:37:25,440
Speaker 4: they're not on prime time a lot.

854
00:37:25,480 --> 00:37:25,800
Speaker 3: Anyway.

855
00:37:25,880 --> 00:37:28,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a very good point, very good point. So

856
00:37:28,600 --> 00:37:30,440
Speaker 2: that news just kind of caught my eye and thoughts

857
00:37:30,480 --> 00:37:33,160
Speaker 2: was worth was worth mentioning for a minute. Here a

858
00:37:33,239 --> 00:37:35,400
Speaker 2: couple of tweets Matt. We had a few people tweet

859
00:37:35,480 --> 00:37:37,560
Speaker 2: us who got to laugh about a couple of these

860
00:37:37,680 --> 00:37:39,759
Speaker 2: RJ tweets and says, Wes, I swear if you and

861
00:37:39,800 --> 00:37:42,040
Speaker 2: Matt both don't pick against the Steelers for the rest

862
00:37:42,040 --> 00:37:44,240
Speaker 2: of the season on the drive, I'm gonna lose my mind.

863
00:37:44,680 --> 00:37:46,160
Speaker 4: I thin you got to save it. I might have

864
00:37:46,160 --> 00:37:49,600
Speaker 4: to save it for the wildcard round. I'm not sure

865
00:37:49,640 --> 00:37:50,520
Speaker 4: I'm taking the Brownies.

866
00:37:51,239 --> 00:37:55,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't spoiler alert, I'm definitely not, definitely not.

867
00:37:57,120 --> 00:37:58,560
Speaker 2: And then there was a there was a couple other

868
00:37:58,640 --> 00:38:03,080
Speaker 2: funny ones too, where uh, let me see. Of course

869
00:38:03,080 --> 00:38:05,000
Speaker 2: I'm struggling to find him, but there were there were

870
00:38:05,000 --> 00:38:07,120
Speaker 2: a few of you that kind of tweeted like, hey, guys,

871
00:38:07,160 --> 00:38:09,680
Speaker 2: you gotta you gotta.

872
00:38:09,080 --> 00:38:12,000
Speaker 4: Make sure Land Warren coming on the show thing and yeah, yeah,

873
00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:13,799
Speaker 4: a couple of people called onder that that was good.

874
00:38:14,280 --> 00:38:14,520
Speaker 3: Yep.

875
00:38:16,280 --> 00:38:19,400
Speaker 2: Let's see here. Andre tweets us and says, happy victory Monday.

876
00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:23,040
Speaker 2: I'm gonna really enjoy listening to the show today and

877
00:38:23,040 --> 00:38:26,200
Speaker 2: talking about this victory over a very good opponent, looking forward,

878
00:38:26,480 --> 00:38:28,719
Speaker 2: uh to everything you guys have to say. Happy holidays,

879
00:38:28,760 --> 00:38:30,320
Speaker 2: and let's not sleep on the Browns.

880
00:38:30,680 --> 00:38:33,560
Speaker 4: Let's not say they would be nothing that would like

881
00:38:33,600 --> 00:38:36,560
Speaker 4: better to win that game. And Miles Garrett's gonna be

882
00:38:36,560 --> 00:38:38,560
Speaker 4: after the sack thing, and Sanders is trying to make

883
00:38:38,560 --> 00:38:40,640
Speaker 4: people think, you know, I can be your quarterback. And

884
00:38:41,040 --> 00:38:43,640
Speaker 4: I'm not sure Stefanski has one hundred percent job security.

885
00:38:43,800 --> 00:38:45,920
Speaker 2: And you know, I will tell you this too from

886
00:38:46,040 --> 00:38:48,480
Speaker 2: somebody who will be going there for the fourth time

887
00:38:48,760 --> 00:38:51,920
Speaker 2: to Cleveland, and it's been a bad Browns team. Like

888
00:38:51,960 --> 00:38:55,440
Speaker 2: I started. I started traveling after the Baker Mayfield you know,

889
00:38:55,520 --> 00:38:59,440
Speaker 2: Obj Landry won a playoff game. Here a team, it's

890
00:38:59,440 --> 00:39:01,799
Speaker 2: been pretty rough, but they sit up straight in their

891
00:39:01,840 --> 00:39:03,560
Speaker 2: chair and they pay attention when the Black and Gold

892
00:39:03,680 --> 00:39:06,919
Speaker 2: roll into town. It's something some labs could talk about, like.

893
00:39:07,160 --> 00:39:09,160
Speaker 3: It's a good point. They this could be their super

894
00:39:09,200 --> 00:39:09,840
Speaker 3: Bowl type.

895
00:39:09,680 --> 00:39:12,640
Speaker 2: Of This is not Steelers Ravens where there's a mutual

896
00:39:12,680 --> 00:39:15,400
Speaker 2: respect and you're great and we're great, and we mirror

897
00:39:15,400 --> 00:39:17,600
Speaker 2: each other and let's go, let's go have a five

898
00:39:17,640 --> 00:39:20,759
Speaker 2: star prize fight here for fifteen rounds. This is we

899
00:39:20,880 --> 00:39:23,920
Speaker 2: hate this big brother who kicks our butt all the

900
00:39:24,000 --> 00:39:26,120
Speaker 2: time and rubs our face in it. And you know,

901
00:39:26,920 --> 00:39:29,800
Speaker 2: their quarterback Ben Roethlisberger has like the third most wins

902
00:39:29,800 --> 00:39:31,200
Speaker 2: at our stadium of all time.

903
00:39:32,200 --> 00:39:32,480
Speaker 3: I mean.

904
00:39:32,560 --> 00:39:34,920
Speaker 4: So we had this event like the day after I

905
00:39:34,920 --> 00:39:37,640
Speaker 4: got hired in Cleveland where they It was at a

906
00:39:37,680 --> 00:39:40,279
Speaker 4: big bar, like a David Buster's type place, and there

907
00:39:40,280 --> 00:39:42,040
Speaker 4: was tons of Browns fans. They're the kind of stuff

908
00:39:42,080 --> 00:39:44,080
Speaker 4: that you guys do on the road, you know, And

909
00:39:44,120 --> 00:39:46,960
Speaker 4: they introduced us three or four new scouts. You know,

910
00:39:47,080 --> 00:39:49,400
Speaker 4: usually wouldn't like do that, but it was an event

911
00:39:49,480 --> 00:39:52,880
Speaker 4: like that. And this is Matt Williamson and he's from Pittsburgh.

912
00:39:53,600 --> 00:39:56,560
Speaker 4: Screw that guy, like, I mean, like on your team. Now,

913
00:39:56,600 --> 00:39:59,000
Speaker 4: I'm wearing Browns gear. And they they immediately the word

914
00:39:59,040 --> 00:40:02,320
Speaker 4: Pittsburgh came out. They were not happy about that hire.

915
00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:03,840
Speaker 2: I'm sure.

916
00:40:05,600 --> 00:40:05,960
Speaker 3: That was.

917
00:40:06,000 --> 00:40:08,759
Speaker 2: Like one of my first days working at the radio

918
00:40:08,800 --> 00:40:13,600
Speaker 2: station in Philadelphia was a few days after the Pens

919
00:40:13,640 --> 00:40:16,640
Speaker 2: won the Cup in twenty sixteen. So I get, like

920
00:40:16,719 --> 00:40:19,319
Speaker 2: my whole credential and badges and all that to scan.

921
00:40:19,360 --> 00:40:20,560
Speaker 2: You know, it's just like we have here. You got

922
00:40:20,600 --> 00:40:22,799
Speaker 2: a badge to scan and do your workplace and all that.

923
00:40:23,200 --> 00:40:26,520
Speaker 2: I put it on a twenty sixteen Penguins Stanley Cup

924
00:40:26,600 --> 00:40:29,840
Speaker 2: champions lanyard and they were all, you know, all the

925
00:40:29,840 --> 00:40:34,319
Speaker 2: the orange clad mouth breathers there in Philadelphia were none too.

926
00:40:35,040 --> 00:40:35,560
Speaker 3: No, I would not.

927
00:40:35,719 --> 00:40:38,160
Speaker 2: In fact, I I punched him in the face. Kyle

928
00:40:38,320 --> 00:40:40,040
Speaker 2: was the other one who tweeted, you and Matt are

929
00:40:40,040 --> 00:40:42,200
Speaker 2: a perfect three and oh when you fade the Steelers,

930
00:40:42,239 --> 00:40:45,239
Speaker 2: please keep it up. Yeah, hey, we'll do we do

931
00:40:45,360 --> 00:40:48,080
Speaker 2: our part. We do our part. Let's see here, we

932
00:40:48,200 --> 00:40:51,000
Speaker 2: kind of touched on this, but Christopher tweets us and says,

933
00:40:51,040 --> 00:40:53,880
Speaker 2: I know your chickens and then counting them from hatching

934
00:40:53,920 --> 00:40:56,439
Speaker 2: and all that, et cetera. But if Green Bay beats

935
00:40:56,440 --> 00:40:59,480
Speaker 2: Baltimore Saturday night, who plays in the last two games?

936
00:41:00,200 --> 00:41:03,400
Speaker 2: How are you guys handling it at that point?

937
00:41:03,520 --> 00:41:04,200
Speaker 3: More overnight?

938
00:41:04,360 --> 00:41:04,600
Speaker 2: Same?

939
00:41:04,760 --> 00:41:05,840
Speaker 3: I think.

940
00:41:07,200 --> 00:41:09,719
Speaker 2: I don't want to know for two weeks.

941
00:41:10,320 --> 00:41:14,600
Speaker 4: I always have mixed feelings about that, And again, let's

942
00:41:14,600 --> 00:41:15,880
Speaker 4: discuss it more tomorrow.

943
00:41:16,040 --> 00:41:17,279
Speaker 3: It certainly can just well, I.

944
00:41:17,239 --> 00:41:18,920
Speaker 4: Guess we won't get a chance to talk about it

945
00:41:19,040 --> 00:41:20,560
Speaker 4: Sunday morning if it does happen.

946
00:41:20,920 --> 00:41:21,439
Speaker 3: I mean, if.

947
00:41:24,200 --> 00:41:27,799
Speaker 4: If Week eighteen is a wash, I'm sitting everybody, you know,

948
00:41:27,840 --> 00:41:29,680
Speaker 4: like if I need the Browns game. If I'm with

949
00:41:29,719 --> 00:41:31,759
Speaker 4: you on the Ravens win, I'm with you on that.

950
00:41:32,120 --> 00:41:34,040
Speaker 3: I'm definitely sitting like everybody.

951
00:41:34,160 --> 00:41:37,960
Speaker 2: I mean, if the Packers went beat the Ravens Saturday night.

952
00:41:37,880 --> 00:41:42,080
Speaker 4: If the Steelers can have to beat the Browns, yes,

953
00:41:44,640 --> 00:41:45,920
Speaker 4: of course you play everybody.

954
00:41:45,640 --> 00:41:49,840
Speaker 3: In absolutely, But if they and the Steers, the.

955
00:41:49,840 --> 00:41:53,280
Speaker 4: Steelers win in Cleveland and clinch it, I'm sitting everyone

956
00:41:53,320 --> 00:41:56,840
Speaker 4: for a week. Week eighteen, Yes, everyone yes, two games

957
00:41:56,880 --> 00:41:58,960
Speaker 4: is a little different. We can play a couple of series.

958
00:41:59,120 --> 00:42:00,799
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm kind of hope it. And I know that

959
00:42:00,840 --> 00:42:02,880
Speaker 2: this might go against my you know, my Black and

960
00:42:02,920 --> 00:42:05,120
Speaker 2: Gold brethren. I'm kind of hoping the Ravens win.

961
00:42:05,040 --> 00:42:08,120
Speaker 3: At Lambo Saturday night, just to stay sharp.

962
00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:10,520
Speaker 2: Stay sharp, and I want the Steelers to Hey, listen,

963
00:42:10,520 --> 00:42:12,200
Speaker 2: you win the division, You win the division. Who cares?

964
00:42:12,239 --> 00:42:14,560
Speaker 2: But I'd rather have them clinch it in Cleveland. With

965
00:42:14,600 --> 00:42:16,759
Speaker 2: a win. You get to celebrate the hats and the

966
00:42:16,760 --> 00:42:20,040
Speaker 2: T shirts in the locker room. You did it yourselves.

967
00:42:20,440 --> 00:42:22,440
Speaker 2: Now you get to rest the next week and put

968
00:42:22,440 --> 00:42:22,960
Speaker 2: your feet up.

969
00:42:24,160 --> 00:42:24,840
Speaker 3: Nice guests.

970
00:42:25,080 --> 00:42:27,799
Speaker 2: That would be my ideal timeline, and you would kind

971
00:42:27,800 --> 00:42:30,720
Speaker 2: of break Baltimore like Baltimore would still be watching on Sunday,

972
00:42:30,760 --> 00:42:32,800
Speaker 2: like and Cleveland get it done for us and you

973
00:42:32,920 --> 00:42:34,719
Speaker 2: shove it up their backside while they're sitting at home.

974
00:42:34,719 --> 00:42:36,360
Speaker 4: But it wouldn't be hard to come up with the list.

975
00:42:36,480 --> 00:42:38,680
Speaker 4: I mean, like even like see them alu, I mean

976
00:42:38,920 --> 00:42:42,160
Speaker 4: the guys that often take a Wednesday off, yeah, or

977
00:42:42,719 --> 00:42:45,719
Speaker 4: let alone are battling something. Now, Watt would be off

978
00:42:45,760 --> 00:42:49,280
Speaker 4: the table for both games, even if he's a possible

979
00:42:49,360 --> 00:42:50,359
Speaker 4: chance it's definitely off.

980
00:42:50,520 --> 00:42:53,160
Speaker 2: I would even, like, you know, like guys like Zach Frasier,

981
00:42:53,200 --> 00:42:55,279
Speaker 2: I would, I would.

982
00:42:54,520 --> 00:42:59,080
Speaker 3: Let them only yes, yes, yes, all my important guys. Yeah.

983
00:42:59,120 --> 00:43:01,640
Speaker 2: So again, we'll have more time to discuss that and

984
00:43:01,719 --> 00:43:03,600
Speaker 2: kick that around. But I think we're both on the

985
00:43:03,640 --> 00:43:05,359
Speaker 2: same page there. But yeah, as we're kind of talking

986
00:43:05,560 --> 00:43:07,560
Speaker 2: wonderful gift, as we're kind of talking this out in

987
00:43:07,600 --> 00:43:09,600
Speaker 2: real time, I wouldn't hate it if the Ravens won

988
00:43:09,680 --> 00:43:12,080
Speaker 2: now Saturday night. You still have to stay sharp for

989
00:43:12,160 --> 00:43:15,319
Speaker 2: week seventeen. Do it on the road against the divisional foe.

990
00:43:15,440 --> 00:43:17,480
Speaker 2: Have that fun, get the hats, get the t shirts,

991
00:43:17,520 --> 00:43:19,560
Speaker 2: earn it in the locker room, and then shut it

992
00:43:19,600 --> 00:43:20,240
Speaker 2: down for a week.

993
00:43:20,520 --> 00:43:24,359
Speaker 4: And frankly, I mean, let's kid ourselves. The Browns aren't

994
00:43:24,400 --> 00:43:26,480
Speaker 4: very good. You know you should still win that game.

995
00:43:26,560 --> 00:43:27,120
Speaker 2: Yes you should.

996
00:43:27,200 --> 00:43:27,680
Speaker 3: You know what I mean?

997
00:43:27,800 --> 00:43:29,879
Speaker 4: Like, if the Ravens win and you have to play

998
00:43:29,920 --> 00:43:33,120
Speaker 4: your best game, you should still win in Cleveland.

999
00:43:33,200 --> 00:43:36,279
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, you absolutely should. So that'll do it for

1000
00:43:36,320 --> 00:43:39,120
Speaker 2: our show today, thanks to everybody who tweeted. Still unable

1001
00:43:39,160 --> 00:43:40,880
Speaker 2: to get a hold of Rob King. We'll give him

1002
00:43:40,920 --> 00:43:43,120
Speaker 2: some grief next time we talk to him. But plenty

1003
00:43:43,160 --> 00:43:45,600
Speaker 2: more to discuss on the show. Tomorrow, we'll catch up

1004
00:43:45,640 --> 00:43:48,239
Speaker 2: with Chris Adamski get all his thoughts on the win,

1005
00:43:48,760 --> 00:43:52,480
Speaker 2: and we'll have our Tuesday rewind as we'll both have

1006
00:43:52,520 --> 00:43:56,320
Speaker 2: an opportunity to rewatch and come up with some final

1007
00:43:56,400 --> 00:44:01,120
Speaker 2: thoughts from that chaotic victory against the Lions. Big thanks

1008
00:44:01,120 --> 00:44:05,400
Speaker 2: to the village assembled here today, Nathan for producing TV,

1009
00:44:05,800 --> 00:44:08,120
Speaker 2: for doing all the work on the video side of things,

1010
00:44:08,440 --> 00:44:10,960
Speaker 2: and for Matt Williamson. Of course, I'm Wes Sheeler. Take

1011
00:44:10,960 --> 00:44:12,759
Speaker 2: care everybody. We'll talk to you tomorrow. You know where

1012
00:44:12,760 --> 00:44:14,319
Speaker 2: to find us. As always, It's on your twenty four

1013
00:44:14,320 --> 00:44:16,640
Speaker 2: to seven home of the Black and Gold. It's Steelers

1014
00:44:16,719 --> 00:44:18,799
Speaker 2: Nation Radio on the Steelers Audio Network.