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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 Goals, Steelers Nation Radio.

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Speaker 2: Good evening, Steeler Nation. How we doing well?

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Speaker 3: That's good us too, our number two here of the

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Speaker 3: Drive on the Steelers Audio Network and joining us now,

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Speaker 3: the Dean of Doom, the Lord of living in his fears,

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Speaker 3: the Great Bob Labriola, Steelers Historian, Steelers Digest, Steelers.

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Speaker 2: Dot Com Labs.

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Speaker 3: Thank you for taking the time as always, and I

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Speaker 3: just got to ask you. I think we've all been

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Speaker 3: very encouraged by that offensive performance that we saw from

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Speaker 3: the Steelers pass game from DK Metcalf and I think

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Speaker 3: particularly Aaron Rodgers. Was that the most impressive performance that

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Speaker 3: we've seen from the future Hall of Famer in the

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Speaker 3: Black and Gold so far this season?

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Speaker 4: Oh, I don't think there's any question. Yeah, I think

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Speaker 4: it's what you know, it's it's it's gonna be what

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Speaker 4: the Steelers need moving forward every game, every game. If

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Speaker 4: Aaron Rodgers can put up twenty five plus points and

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Speaker 4: nope and not turn the ball over, I'll take that,

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Speaker 4: and I think it's gonna be It's going to require

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Speaker 4: something very similarly to that number of points. Uh, and

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Speaker 4: that you know, turnover ratio kind of thing in their

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Speaker 4: favor moving forward every game the rest of this regular

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Speaker 4: season and then into the playoffs is I think if

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Speaker 4: they if Aaron Rodgers can continue to deliver, that the

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Speaker 4: Steelers will have a chance in every game they play. Now, obviously,

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Speaker 4: you know the other part portions of the team have

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Speaker 4: to chip in. I mean, I'm not laying this all

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Speaker 4: on Aaron Rodgers. You've got to produce this these kinds

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Speaker 4: of numbers, you know, all on his own, so to speak.

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Speaker 4: But you know, you need I think you need a

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Speaker 4: certain level of play from your quarterback at this stage

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Speaker 4: of the regular season in the NFL, and then the

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Speaker 4: postseason is just an extension of that. And that's why

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Speaker 4: they got Aaron Rodgers. I mean, that's to me, this

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Speaker 4: is why he is here for this time of the

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Speaker 4: year and to give the Steelers a chance in these

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Speaker 4: games that they will be playing at this time of

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Speaker 4: the year.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think that's really well said in one thousand percent,

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Speaker 5: you know, I mean, in order to get where you

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Speaker 5: want to go and win playoff games, your quarterback's going

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Speaker 5: to have to compete with other great quarterbacks. I know

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Speaker 5: they're not head to head. But I think that's really

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Speaker 5: well said, Labs. I wonder if you have any insight

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Speaker 5: on this because I have a hard time with it.

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Speaker 5: But I think it's remarkable and I think everyone knows

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Speaker 5: it at this point that Mike Tomlin on Monday night

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Speaker 5: is incredibly good, like the best coach in NFL history,

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Speaker 5: but as impressive, and obviously they overlap. They're twenty two

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Speaker 5: to oh at home in their last twenty two Monday

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Speaker 5: night home games. I mean, the NFL does not schedule

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Speaker 5: crappy teams for Monday night either why yeah all no

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Speaker 5: mean games or he's good to have with a little

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Speaker 5: extra rest. I mean, I don't know, but it's remarkable.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it is. Uh And you know the Steelers of

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Speaker 4: the franchise are pretty good at home on Monday nights too,

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Speaker 4: So there's that, you know. I no, I really can't.

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Speaker 4: I mean, I can't give you any specific This is

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Speaker 4: the secret sauce answer to that question. I'm sure that

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Speaker 4: at different times it has been different things. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 4: you know, I think there have been some Certainly there

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Speaker 4: had to have been some occasions where playing at home

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Speaker 4: have been times when maybe the extra rest really came

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Speaker 4: in hand. You know, whatever weather and who you're playing.

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Speaker 4: Maybe this is one of those where you know you're

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Speaker 4: getting the South Florida team and the teams in terms

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Speaker 4: can say is that, yes, what you just recited, Matt

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Speaker 4: were facts. Why those have happened? I mean, I'm just

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Speaker 4: like everybody else. I can guess, but I don't know.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't think it's because the fans had three

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Speaker 4: I mean, maybe there is some sort of uh, you know,

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Speaker 4: don't know. It's hard, right, it is hard to ignore.

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Speaker 4: But let me say this. It's not that stat that

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Speaker 5: No, Miami doesn't care, right, Yeah?

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Speaker 4: You know what? What? What is it that the that

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Speaker 4: the financial advisors say past performance is no indication of

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Speaker 4: you know future reason does? Right? Who's going to play

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Speaker 5: Concerning, right?

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Speaker 4: Does it sound great here as we sit here on

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Speaker 4: four at four point thirty pm on Thursday. Maybe this

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Speaker 4: extra day comes in handy for the guys that are

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Speaker 4: in the concussion protocol this time around. Because I'll tell

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Speaker 4: you what something else. You know, the Dean of doom

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Speaker 4: Me is starting to get a little nervous about this.

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Speaker 4: I won't say that. The number of injuries, yeah, and

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Speaker 4: the way they're kind of clustered at some important positions.

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Speaker 4: You all due respect to Dylan Cook, I mean, you'll

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Speaker 4: want to be bringing a guy off the practice squad

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Speaker 4: right at that position.

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Speaker 3: So it is Bob Labriola with us here on the

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Speaker 3: Drive Labs. I wanted to make sure and ask you,

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Speaker 3: I think, the same question I've probably asked you of

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Speaker 3: vast majority of these Thursdays that we've had you on.

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Speaker 3: But I feel like a broken record, But how do

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Speaker 3: they get this run game going it? You know, we're

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Speaker 3: going through Matt's stats packet and there's only been two teams,

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Speaker 3: two instances of a team in the NFL this season

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Speaker 3: and it was the both times against the Colts at

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Speaker 3: broken record, because it feels like this is something we've

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Speaker 3: is it just simplifying, is it just a commitment to it?

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Speaker 3: Is it more push up front? It's got to be

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Speaker 4: The four yards bringing how about bringing tackles up off

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Speaker 4: the practice squall. I mean there's that too. And you know,

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Speaker 4: to me the the Ravens game that that's always an outlier,

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Speaker 4: let's go back to how many games in this series

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Speaker 4: and how many times did the Steelers run the ball

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Speaker 4: well against the Ravens. It doesn't happen. And so I

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Speaker 4: think that sometimes the smart thing to do is or

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Speaker 4: don't not run the ball at all. But they have

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Speaker 4: a lot of run game equivalent things, quick passes, you know,

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Speaker 4: could have been a lot more of that if Darneld

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Speaker 4: Washington didn't get knocked out. But you know, numbers, statistics again,

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Speaker 4: I'm not I don't care if the Steelers don't run

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Speaker 4: As long as, as I said, if Aaron Rodgers is

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Speaker 4: don't care what the final status sheet looks like. Those

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Speaker 4: are the stats that I'm interested in. I'm not interested

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Speaker 4: in how many plays they run, as opposed how many

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Speaker 4: plays the Steelers run, you know, all of that kind

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Speaker 4: of stuff that a lot of outlets or media members

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Speaker 4: like to latch onto. Yeah, that's a story for that game.

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Speaker 4: But trying to take that and make it, you know,

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Speaker 4: has to be overcome, or you know it cannot continue,

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Speaker 4: or you know, that's a guest who knows.

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Speaker 5: There's definitely a lot of ways to win in this.

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Speaker 4: League, right, And again I think it was I forget

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Speaker 4: who I was talking to talking about the Steelers identity.

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Speaker 4: You know, Mike Tomlin made this point a while a

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Speaker 4: few years ago to me that an identity, in a

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Speaker 4: lot of ways, all that is is a tendency that

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Speaker 4: you're giving to the opponent, which is, if your identity

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Speaker 4: is we're going to run the football, well that's a

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Speaker 4: significant if you're really if you really believe in that

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Speaker 5: I've always hated that term too. I think an identity

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Speaker 5: is you're tough, you're physical, or like in Miami's case,

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Speaker 5: you're fast, you know, like not they run the ball

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Speaker 5: plates and things like that. I think it's more right

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Speaker 5: what you.

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Speaker 4: Call in certain situations, right. I don't know that you

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Speaker 4: want to have an identity, correct, So you know, and

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Speaker 4: I don't mean this to any disrespect to you guys,

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Speaker 4: I truly do not. But that kind of stuff, the

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Speaker 4: stats and looking at trends and stuff, that's good talk

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Speaker 4: show stuff. It is, but that's all it is. So

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Speaker 4: and we May next Thursday. You may be saying to me, see,

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Speaker 4: they didn't run the ball again and it cost him

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Speaker 4: a game against the Dolphins, And that could very well

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Speaker 4: in that in that specific situation against that specific opponent.

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Speaker 4: Easy for me to say. So that's I mean, I

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Speaker 4: just kind of look at these each as an individual,

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Speaker 5: And we saw a lot of instances of Belichick and

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Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, Or the Steelers playing Brady and Belichick with

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Speaker 4: a Hall of Fame running back who's on a roll,

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Speaker 4: or a guy who is the best running back in

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Speaker 4: think was the year and gee, three carries, four carries

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Speaker 4: in the first quarter, he gets injured. Done problem for

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Speaker 4: that game? Now where are you? So? Like I said,

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Speaker 4: it's the way I choose to look at it. And

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Speaker 4: I'm not saying I'm right. This is just what works

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Speaker 4: standalone thing, try and figure out why they won or

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Speaker 4: lost and point that out. And then after that and

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Speaker 4: then you've got to work on who the next opponent

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Speaker 4: is until you're either in or you're eliminated.

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Speaker 5: La, I want to go outside the Steeler comfort zone

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Speaker 5: for a minute, because I can't wait to hear your

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Speaker 5: opinion on this, Philip Rivers. I mean, have you ever

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Speaker 5: seen anything like this in NFL history? I mean, like

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Speaker 5: George Bland to do this, I mean, I can't imagine

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Speaker 5: it goes well, But I have to know your opinion

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Speaker 5: to him coming five years off the off retirement to

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Speaker 4: Doesn't have anything to do with him. It has to

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Speaker 4: do with the Indianapolis Colts, their management and you know,

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Speaker 4: their their decision. I mean, Philip Rivers, He's just the

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Speaker 4: tool of that of what I see as their desperation.

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Speaker 4: You know, I think that because it's quarterback, the position

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Speaker 3: There he goes the Dina Doom, the lord of living

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Speaker 3: in his fears, the great Bob Labriola, Steelers Historian, Steelers

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Speaker 5: And I heard this morning just about Rivers because I

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Speaker 2: I'm sure that's a conversation they've had.

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Speaker 5: I'm sure everyone was aware of going in.

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Speaker 3: And I bet you if Philip Rivers probably said, I

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Speaker 2: Makes a ton of sense.

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Speaker 3: On the other side, we do have the Steelers latest

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Speaker 2: We'll get into all of that.

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Speaker 3: What's the latest with some of these big names that

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Speaker 1: You were tuned about Drive on your twenty four to

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Speaker 3: Rolling along here on the Drive on a Thursday, and

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Speaker 3: Steelers Thursday injury participation practice report. Of course, all in

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Speaker 2: But it's almost kind of like it's a Wednesday. Yeah, yea,

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Speaker 3: Like typically if you see a guy did not practice

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Speaker 5: Okay, we didn't Tom say something like we're going to

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Speaker 5: I think that's a good way of putting it, like

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Speaker 3: But again, that's something that will keep an eye on tomorrow. Obviously, TJ.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, that means they took step one.

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Speaker 2: You have to crawl. You have to crawl before you walk,

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Speaker 5: That makes me think he's playing starting great, Okay.

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Speaker 5: I'm expecting another big game on him too. Their corners

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Speaker 5: and get back to practice report in a second, because

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Speaker 5: Rob mentioned this when we did the video today. Obviously,

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Speaker 5: Minca was traded for Ramsey. These two teams made a

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Speaker 5: huge deal not long ago, and we were featuring Minco

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Speaker 5: on the video and they're so their safeties aren't great.

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Speaker 5: Nothing about the secondary it's great, but there's corners are

443
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Speaker 5: so bad. Minca is playing a lot more slot yeah

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Speaker 5: in Miami than he did here. Well, Rob made the observation,

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Speaker 5: it's pretty funny, is like you traded your free safety

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Speaker 5: for a slot corner and now the slot corner is

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Speaker 5: playing free safety and the free safety.

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Speaker 2: Play like backwards day here.

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Speaker 5: Yeah exactly. You know, like maybe both teams should just

450
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Speaker 5: kept their guy or you know, it's just it's just

451
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Speaker 5: funny how the league works, you.

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Speaker 3: Know, the weird world of Matt Williamson. They traded this

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Speaker 3: guy to play safety.

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Speaker 5: He went upgrade slot and he's playing slot.

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Speaker 3: They traded this guy to play slot. Now he's playing safety.

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Speaker 3: And around and around we go. It's a very very

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Speaker 3: mad word. Patrick Queen full practice participant today with the

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Speaker 3: hip engine outstanding.

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Speaker 5: Aaron didn't mention him after the game, but like just

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Speaker 5: watching the TV.

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Speaker 3: Without a doubt, without a doubt. So that's good, I

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Speaker 3: mean really good news. And for Dugger, for Metcalf, for Queen.

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Speaker 2: That great. Aaron Rodgers full practice participant.

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Speaker 5: Today, outstanding, the veteran day off.

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Speaker 3: He had been doing that most of the year until

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Speaker 3: a couple of weeks there with the wrist where he

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Speaker 3: rightfully so you know, took an extra day. But Aaron

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Speaker 3: Rodgers back to business, back to UH to practice today,

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Speaker 3: which is great to see why a Black full practice

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Speaker 3: participant with that shoulder, Keanu Betton full practice participant with

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Speaker 3: that ankle, so good.

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Speaker 5: Mostly I don't see any bad news there. If we're

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Speaker 5: not gonna call Harmon bad news. Was there a concussion

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Speaker 5: guy that didn't play?

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Speaker 4: Uh?

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Speaker 2: Pete?

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Speaker 5: Okay, I think Cook's gonna be the start of there.

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Speaker 2: Malie.

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Speaker 5: I thought that was.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Malik Harrison and Darnell were both limited and then

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Speaker 3: one and then Pete was was was not a participant

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Speaker 3: in today's practice. So that's the three, the three concussion guys. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: I'm leaning. I'm leaning towards that way as well.

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Speaker 2: And that's that's.

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Speaker 5: Not the end of the world. I saw know who

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Speaker 5: the third tackle is if Pete's out and Broderick's out,

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Speaker 5: I don't I should know who that is.

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Speaker 4: I don't know.

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Speaker 5: It is somebody in the.

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Speaker 2: Practice squad, somebody on the practice squad.

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Speaker 5: Somebody on the prectice squad. Is not what you want.

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Speaker 2: No, they brought back Doug Nestor yesterday. I don't know

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Speaker 2: if you if you saw that who.

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Speaker 5: He's really a pinch to play tackle.

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Speaker 2: He's more of a guard. Yes, absolutely so.

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Speaker 3: Hey, there's always always room for mountaineers in western Pennsylvania.

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Speaker 3: Got a few, got a few of those around here. Uh,

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Speaker 3: just across the timeline, now, Matt, the Broncos waived tight

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Speaker 3: end Mercedes Lewis.

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Speaker 2: Wouldn't that be wouldn't that be something I don't Rogers,

501
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Speaker 2: he sure did for for a little bit of time.

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Speaker 5: Washington before Darnel Washington. He's a great blocker. But you

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Speaker 5: talking about old men.

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Speaker 2: I mean he's forty one.

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Speaker 3: He's forty one, which, hey, for a quarterback is one

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Speaker 3: thing for for for a route runner tight end lining

507
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Speaker 3: up in the trenches, that's a pretty impressive.

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Speaker 5: Honestly, it's really a good career. He was the first

509
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Speaker 5: round pick and lasted this long. Yes, yes, that's not bad.

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Speaker 2: Exactly right, exactly right. So that's.

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Speaker 5: You know, I think that's the Yeah.

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Speaker 2: The news of the day. I have not seen anything

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Speaker 2: yet for the Dolphins.

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Speaker 5: Worried about a chan but I think he's gonna play.

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Speaker 2: I think he's gonna play too.

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Speaker 3: But that's that's when the kicker, that's the kicker is like,

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Speaker 3: is he gonna be a full participant all week?

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Speaker 2: Is he going to be limited? Is he gonna miss practice?

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Speaker 3: Exactly what it looks like, because maybe he's on a

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Speaker 3: little bit of a snap count type thing on Monday.

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Speaker 3: But again we're going I mean, people have especially for

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Speaker 3: a running back where you're I mean, you're the hit

523
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Speaker 3: and hit and hit.

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Speaker 5: He gets a helmet in the ribs early in the game.

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Speaker 5: Maybe a change of things cool. I mean not that

526
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Speaker 5: I've ever had them, but a lot of folks and athletes.

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Speaker 5: It's ribs. It's like I never get any good sleep,

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Speaker 5: you know, like you know you don't sleep, you know,

529
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Speaker 5: stuff like that. It's like I'm never comfortable all night.

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Speaker 3: You're tossing, you're turning, You're sleeping in a lazy boy chair.

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Speaker 5: That can't work out all week because everything hurts. But

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Speaker 5: I get the impression.

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Speaker 3: His minor Matt and how about this. I love it

534
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Speaker 3: when a plan comes together. Dolphins injury report across the time.

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Speaker 3: DeVaan a Chain with those ribs was a limited participant

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Speaker 3: today in practice for a Wednesday. Makes a ton of

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Speaker 3: sense as also limited Chop Robinson with the oblique Russeull

538
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Speaker 3: Douglas from Yeah, West Virginia University. He was also limited

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Speaker 3: with that foot injury today. Let's see here. Darren Waller

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Speaker 3: was limited, although they just listed him as a veteran

541
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Speaker 3: rest day to.

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Speaker 5: Say, no, I don't think he practices Wenesday.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, no specific injury designation. Let's see here. Other than that, at.

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Speaker 5: Least, I don't know what what else even look for

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Speaker 5: for that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Caleb Johnson did not practice with a shoulder. Elijah

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Speaker 3: Campbell didn't practice with an ankle.

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Speaker 5: I think they're pretty healthy, with the exception of really

549
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Speaker 5: like the most important.

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Speaker 3: With the exception of, yeah, they're number one running back,

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Speaker 3: Chop Robinson an important piece. Rull Douglas is their number

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Speaker 3: two corner I think, right.

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Speaker 5: And there's like two and a half sacks the last

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Speaker 5: two days too.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, starter type, those are starter type. Yeah, not all

556
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Speaker 3: pro pro bowlers, but starter type guys. So that's the latest. Okay,

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Speaker 3: mostly good news for them. I think having having a

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Speaker 3: chain and chop and those guys limited today on a

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Speaker 3: you know again a quote unquote wednesday is mostly positive.

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Speaker 5: It's had a massive workload already this year might have

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Speaker 5: been the MP if he was totally healthy this late

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Speaker 5: in the year.

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Speaker 2: On point, you know what I mean, that's a good point.

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Speaker 3: And maybe that was also as much as poss Maybe

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Speaker 3: that was just one of those things of like, hey,

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Speaker 3: let's get you out there today just to see how

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Speaker 3: you respond and how it feels, and you can rest

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Speaker 3: the rest of the week.

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Speaker 2: You could take it easy the.

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Speaker 3: Rest of the week, but let's just see how those

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Speaker 3: ribs feel out there after running around for a couple

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Speaker 3: hours this afternoon.

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Speaker 5: If anybody will tell you that goes to practice regularly limited,

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Speaker 5: could be really limited.

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Speaker 3: Oh, like he could have done he could have done

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Speaker 3: a didn't break a sweat. I'm not even gonna shower.

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Speaker 3: I'm out of here, he as, I'll see you later.

578
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Speaker 3: I'll see you later. Yeah, I mean he that's a

579
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Speaker 3: great point by you. Maybe that was gonna be in

580
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Speaker 3: the cards anyways, even if he hadn't kind of nicked

581
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Speaker 3: up his ribs a little bit in met Life Stadium,

582
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Speaker 3: three one hundred yard games in their last four, and

583
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Speaker 3: let's be honest, would have been four for four. He

584
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Speaker 3: exited that game on seven carries ninety two yards in

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Speaker 3: the first half.

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Speaker 5: My team are like this play four quarters?

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Speaker 2: I'm sure did you? And Rob King?

588
00:31:03,400 --> 00:31:05,880
Speaker 3: Did Rob King give you his his a chain fantasy story.

589
00:31:05,960 --> 00:31:09,320
Speaker 3: Yet this year he's in like similar to you and

590
00:31:09,360 --> 00:31:10,960
Speaker 3: I and most people, He's in a couple of leagues,

591
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Speaker 3: but there's like one that he really cares about. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: it's like his big money league. It's like me and

593
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Speaker 3: my buddies from high school that you know twenty years

594
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Speaker 3: and the one you really care about he had like

595
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Speaker 3: he's doing his draft on the computer. And Kinger for

596
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Speaker 3: being a really smart and bright guys, can be a

597
00:31:26,880 --> 00:31:28,400
Speaker 3: technological dfist a little.

598
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Speaker 2: Bit at times.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, you've seen that.

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Speaker 2: Yes, he tried to draft it was a wide receiver.

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Speaker 3: I forget who, but it was like an early pick,

602
00:31:37,480 --> 00:31:40,920
Speaker 3: early pick, not Jefferson or Chase, you know, but like

603
00:31:40,960 --> 00:31:43,240
Speaker 3: a pretty good let's say I'm on Ross Saint.

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Speaker 5: Brown, Yeah, you know, second round guy.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and he accidentally flubbed it and hit the wrong

606
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Speaker 3: button and drafted a chain and he's like, he's like,

607
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Speaker 3: the best decisions.

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Speaker 2: Maybe it was what, maybe it was Maybe it was

609
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Speaker 2: what Uh no, it wouldn't have been Tyree Kill that early,

610
00:31:57,520 --> 00:31:59,440
Speaker 2: but it was someone. It was a wide receiver too.

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Speaker 5: It didn't work.

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Speaker 3: It hasn't worked out this year that it's had like

613
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Speaker 3: a down year injuries or whatever. And he accidentally drafted

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Speaker 3: the guy who's third in the league and rushing right now.

615
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Speaker 3: There you go, beautiful, beautiful, beautiful mistakes do happen sometimes.

616
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Speaker 3: But yeah, so that one was pretty funny. But that's

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Speaker 3: that's the latest for the Dolphins. There kind of what

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Speaker 3: we know in that regard from from both of the

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Speaker 3: both the teams here on this quote unquote Wednesday esque

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Speaker 3: typically type practice, Matt, why do you say we take

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Speaker 3: a commercial break here, we'll come back on the other

622
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Speaker 3: side for our final segment of the day.

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Speaker 2: I want to talk with you a little bit about

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Speaker 2: Thursday Night football tonight.

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Speaker 3: A couple more teased across, and i's to dot before

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Speaker 3: we get up out of here on the Drive, West Huler,

627
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Speaker 3: Matt Williamson here on Steelers Nation Radio on the Steelers Audio,

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Speaker 3: your tuns.

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Speaker 1: About Drive on your twenty four to seven home of

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Speaker 1: the Black and Goal Steelers Nation Radio.

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Speaker 3: Final segment here of the Drive on this Thursday that

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Speaker 3: kind of feels like a Wednesday, but also feels I

633
00:33:16,440 --> 00:33:19,200
Speaker 3: don't know, it's just different, these Monday night games.

634
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Speaker 2: They're always a little bit weird.

635
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Speaker 3: This time of year is just always bizarre because it's

636
00:33:23,920 --> 00:33:26,920
Speaker 3: like such a fever pitch with work and down the

637
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Speaker 3: stretch and season and everything andlidays, holidays and real life

638
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Speaker 3: and weather and all kinds of stuff going on. But

639
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Speaker 3: obviously it's exciting as well too, so we enjoy we

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00:33:39,720 --> 00:33:43,080
Speaker 3: enjoy that aspect of it without a doubt. Matt, I

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Speaker 3: did want to just kind of take a look tonight

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Speaker 3: Thursday Night football.

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Speaker 2: Do we have two more?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Because through thing through Christmas would make so yeah, So

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Speaker 3: through Week seventeen. Week eighteen's the one where.

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Speaker 5: Is Christmas on a Friday this year?

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Speaker 3: Chris was on a Thursday this year. So the Chiefs

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00:34:02,840 --> 00:34:06,880
Speaker 3: play on Christmas third straight year. There's three games on

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Speaker 3: Christmas this year, Dallas at Washington, Detroit at Minnesota, Denver

651
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Speaker 3: at Kansas City.

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Speaker 5: Which could mean something. The third one. Absolutely, it doesn't

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Speaker 5: break my heart that they're not have to watch every

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Speaker 5: snap games on christ.

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Speaker 3: Like it was last year, but it was Steelers, Steelers,

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Speaker 3: Chiefs and then the Ravens Texans. Yeah, it doesn't break

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Speaker 3: my heart either. Call me crazy, but that's maybe one

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Speaker 3: day of the year where I'm alright, not being concerned

659
00:34:32,320 --> 00:34:34,920
Speaker 3: about football and just hanging with the fam and everything

660
00:34:34,960 --> 00:34:38,120
Speaker 3: that's going on. But yeah, I remember, remember, I think

661
00:34:38,120 --> 00:34:39,759
Speaker 3: it was maybe earlier this week or last week.

662
00:34:39,760 --> 00:34:41,839
Speaker 2: I was like, Wow, the Chiefs are on Christmas Day

663
00:34:41,840 --> 00:34:43,959
Speaker 2: for the second straight year. It's actually the third straight year.

664
00:34:45,280 --> 00:34:46,120
Speaker 5: No one's gonna get more.

665
00:34:46,920 --> 00:34:48,920
Speaker 2: It's tough being popular out here, man. You know, it's

666
00:34:49,040 --> 00:34:49,840
Speaker 2: very very next.

667
00:34:49,760 --> 00:34:51,880
Speaker 5: Year to make any difference. If they don't make the playoffs, I.

668
00:34:52,480 --> 00:34:55,640
Speaker 2: Think you might be onto something that Travis Kelsey retires.

669
00:34:55,480 --> 00:34:58,680
Speaker 3: And that might slow down that could be the thing,

670
00:34:58,760 --> 00:35:01,440
Speaker 3: that could be the one that does it. Tonight Atlanta

671
00:35:01,560 --> 00:35:04,880
Speaker 3: at Tampa Bay. Tampa Bay five and a half point favorites.

672
00:35:05,640 --> 00:35:06,920
Speaker 5: I don't like how either team's playing.

673
00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:10,000
Speaker 3: I don't know absolutely, but for Tampa at least they

674
00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:11,160
Speaker 3: still have something to play for.

675
00:35:11,600 --> 00:35:12,640
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's at Tampa too.

676
00:35:12,719 --> 00:35:15,480
Speaker 3: It's at Tampa, it's at home. It's against the divisional foe.

677
00:35:15,680 --> 00:35:18,400
Speaker 5: I think has been cleared, which just makes me happy.

678
00:35:18,440 --> 00:35:19,520
Speaker 5: This warms my soul.

679
00:35:19,920 --> 00:35:20,400
Speaker 4: I'm with you.

680
00:35:20,719 --> 00:35:21,520
Speaker 2: I'm with you on that.

681
00:35:21,600 --> 00:35:23,239
Speaker 3: And maybe this is a little too early for him

682
00:35:23,239 --> 00:35:25,440
Speaker 3: on a short week to get back out there, but

683
00:35:25,480 --> 00:35:27,359
Speaker 3: maybe not with his status and he's in.

684
00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:29,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly right.

685
00:35:30,200 --> 00:35:33,360
Speaker 5: Gayfield's been playing really poorly though. The offense has struggled

686
00:35:33,400 --> 00:35:35,400
Speaker 5: as a whole, and they're a lot different places than

687
00:35:35,400 --> 00:35:36,479
Speaker 5: they were a couple of weeks ago.

688
00:35:36,719 --> 00:35:38,799
Speaker 3: So many of those kind of people that we mentioned,

689
00:35:38,920 --> 00:35:42,480
Speaker 3: is like the early season MVP conversation, the Baker Mayfields, Yeah,

690
00:35:42,880 --> 00:35:48,480
Speaker 3: the Daniel Jones' situation, Jared Goff. I mean a lot

691
00:35:48,520 --> 00:35:51,360
Speaker 3: of these guys have not been utter disasters, but have

692
00:35:51,400 --> 00:35:54,239
Speaker 3: certainly not maintained that that high level of performance.

693
00:35:54,360 --> 00:35:57,239
Speaker 5: Mahomes actually was number one for a while too. They're

694
00:35:57,680 --> 00:36:01,880
Speaker 5: like Week five six, you know, the shortest odds. I

695
00:36:01,920 --> 00:36:05,719
Speaker 5: guess i'd take the bucks. I don't know what the

696
00:36:05,719 --> 00:36:07,880
Speaker 5: over under is. I might lean towards the under because

697
00:36:07,920 --> 00:36:11,399
Speaker 5: neither neither offense is playing well at all. Drake London's out.

698
00:36:11,440 --> 00:36:13,319
Speaker 5: They have nothing at wide receiver.

699
00:36:13,640 --> 00:36:14,600
Speaker 2: For three and a half.

700
00:36:14,840 --> 00:36:20,640
Speaker 5: Okay, Atlanta, this is hindsight, but they were so aggressive

701
00:36:21,239 --> 00:36:23,520
Speaker 5: trading up, you know, trading future first to get a

702
00:36:23,560 --> 00:36:28,000
Speaker 5: pass rush, and their defense or their their draft was

703
00:36:28,040 --> 00:36:30,719
Speaker 5: almost all defense, and their defense has been a problem.

704
00:36:31,200 --> 00:36:34,399
Speaker 5: But it's hard to ignore. And they really ignored an

705
00:36:34,560 --> 00:36:36,960
Speaker 5: entire side of the ball for an offseason, and they're

706
00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:40,680
Speaker 5: paying for it, you know, like if they were taking

707
00:36:40,719 --> 00:36:42,959
Speaker 5: a third round receiver, they could be in better shape

708
00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:45,720
Speaker 5: than they are now. You know, like drafting no offensive

709
00:36:45,760 --> 00:36:48,960
Speaker 5: lineman makes it tough and the side that used to

710
00:36:48,960 --> 00:36:51,120
Speaker 5: be a strength all of a sudden starting to crumble. Yes,

711
00:36:51,160 --> 00:36:53,600
Speaker 5: and you know, yes, yeah, you can't just ignore one.

712
00:36:53,520 --> 00:36:55,120
Speaker 2: No, you absolutely cannot.

713
00:36:56,560 --> 00:36:58,719
Speaker 3: I like to think I'd lay the I'm laying the

714
00:36:58,719 --> 00:37:00,680
Speaker 3: five and a half with Tampa tonight.

715
00:37:00,320 --> 00:37:02,960
Speaker 5: Like see a close, ugly game, though.

716
00:37:02,800 --> 00:37:06,080
Speaker 3: At some point it feels like the Panthers are nipping

717
00:37:06,080 --> 00:37:08,920
Speaker 3: at their heels. They've just felt off lately. Can they

718
00:37:08,920 --> 00:37:11,440
Speaker 3: get it turned around. We've talked about kind of the

719
00:37:11,440 --> 00:37:13,440
Speaker 3: advantage of being at home on a Thursday night as

720
00:37:13,440 --> 00:37:16,480
Speaker 3: opposed to as opposed to having to travel on a

721
00:37:16,520 --> 00:37:17,520
Speaker 3: short week.

722
00:37:17,400 --> 00:37:20,400
Speaker 5: And needing it much more than Atlanta. Atlanta might be

723
00:37:20,400 --> 00:37:21,240
Speaker 5: cashing things.

724
00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:23,880
Speaker 2: In CanCon on three for Atlanta.

725
00:37:23,600 --> 00:37:25,840
Speaker 5: Short week doesn't sound much fun in the fourth quarter.

726
00:37:26,120 --> 00:37:30,080
Speaker 5: You know, it's a good pointing to play for, and

727
00:37:30,160 --> 00:37:33,520
Speaker 5: you know, cousins getting beat up and absolutely fired, and

728
00:37:33,560 --> 00:37:36,520
Speaker 5: you know, yeah, that's not a great environment. What's thee

729
00:37:36,600 --> 00:37:38,600
Speaker 5: Then maybe Tampa after, you know, if they can win

730
00:37:38,640 --> 00:37:41,719
Speaker 5: the night and then get that ten days before they

731
00:37:41,719 --> 00:37:45,960
Speaker 5: go to Carolina, hmm, maybe they put some momentum together,

732
00:37:46,239 --> 00:37:48,080
Speaker 5: you know, and rest their bones a little bit and

733
00:37:48,120 --> 00:37:49,000
Speaker 5: get some stuff fixed.

734
00:37:49,600 --> 00:37:53,200
Speaker 3: They do go to Carolina on ten days rest, and

735
00:37:53,239 --> 00:37:57,000
Speaker 3: then they go to Miami the weekend after Christmas, and

736
00:37:57,040 --> 00:37:59,320
Speaker 3: then they host the Panthers the final week and the

737
00:37:59,360 --> 00:38:00,760
Speaker 3: season and the tead Again.

738
00:38:00,920 --> 00:38:03,719
Speaker 2: The NFL really hit it with some of these games this.

739
00:38:03,719 --> 00:38:06,960
Speaker 3: Year at the end of the the year that could

740
00:38:06,960 --> 00:38:11,360
Speaker 3: have major major division playoff ramifications.

741
00:38:11,840 --> 00:38:16,080
Speaker 5: I don't think you know, the either the Panthers or

742
00:38:16,160 --> 00:38:19,160
Speaker 5: Bucks getting in the NFC playoffs is going to change

743
00:38:19,160 --> 00:38:20,879
Speaker 5: the balance of power of who goes to the super

744
00:38:20,920 --> 00:38:23,560
Speaker 5: Bowl all that much. No, but it's really darn cool

745
00:38:23,640 --> 00:38:25,920
Speaker 5: that to the last three games against the two teams.

746
00:38:25,920 --> 00:38:27,320
Speaker 5: Awesome battling for it. It's awesome.

747
00:38:27,480 --> 00:38:28,920
Speaker 2: It's it's you know, it's perfect.

748
00:38:29,040 --> 00:38:31,400
Speaker 3: It's not quite to the same extent of like Packers

749
00:38:31,400 --> 00:38:33,799
Speaker 3: and Bears right where you could see one of those

750
00:38:33,840 --> 00:38:35,760
Speaker 3: teams going on a run and being a real player

751
00:38:35,760 --> 00:38:36,960
Speaker 3: in the super Bowl conversation.

752
00:38:37,680 --> 00:38:40,239
Speaker 5: But still he maybe turning it around. But don't about

753
00:38:40,239 --> 00:38:42,560
Speaker 5: super Bowl conversation. But like waitning a playoff game.

754
00:38:42,520 --> 00:38:45,080
Speaker 3: Yes, hosting, and they're in all likelihood, I mean they're

755
00:38:45,120 --> 00:38:46,680
Speaker 3: going to host one or not go.

756
00:38:47,080 --> 00:38:49,560
Speaker 5: So yeah, they probably get Seattle or somebody.

757
00:38:49,640 --> 00:38:51,200
Speaker 3: And as you and I have outlined, they've been to

758
00:38:51,200 --> 00:38:53,640
Speaker 3: the playoffs five straight years, this would be six again.

759
00:38:53,960 --> 00:38:55,839
Speaker 5: Really successful organization for a long time.

760
00:38:55,880 --> 00:38:57,600
Speaker 2: They know what it takes, without a doubt.

761
00:38:58,000 --> 00:38:58,160
Speaker 5: Matt.

762
00:38:58,200 --> 00:39:01,160
Speaker 3: A couple of tweets to close us down here. Frankie

763
00:39:01,160 --> 00:39:05,680
Speaker 3: tweets us and says, if all capitals, if Aaron Rodgers retires,

764
00:39:06,200 --> 00:39:09,080
Speaker 3: the draft falls. As you guys highlighted on yesterday's show,

765
00:39:09,120 --> 00:39:11,440
Speaker 3: that would be Mendoza going first overall to.

766
00:39:11,600 --> 00:39:14,920
Speaker 5: The somebody trade up Jets Jets, Yeah.

767
00:39:14,560 --> 00:39:17,319
Speaker 3: And Dante Moore going second overall to the Raiders. That

768
00:39:17,440 --> 00:39:21,480
Speaker 3: was the scenario we went through yesterday. The top quarterbacks

769
00:39:21,480 --> 00:39:23,839
Speaker 3: are gone by the time the Steelers pick. There's no

770
00:39:24,080 --> 00:39:27,640
Speaker 3: noteworthy free agent acquisitions available at quarterback that you would

771
00:39:27,680 --> 00:39:29,920
Speaker 3: be interested in. Okay, so you've fallen along with this

772
00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:31,399
Speaker 3: hypothetical already.

773
00:39:31,080 --> 00:39:32,920
Speaker 5: Because there aren't going to be a lot of quarterbacks

774
00:39:32,920 --> 00:39:35,399
Speaker 5: on the move that are that are starter for sure,

775
00:39:35,719 --> 00:39:36,360
Speaker 5: less than most.

776
00:39:36,239 --> 00:39:37,880
Speaker 3: Years, It's going to be a lot of Mac Jones's

777
00:39:37,920 --> 00:39:41,120
Speaker 3: and Kyler Murray's and not guys that don't belong in

778
00:39:41,160 --> 00:39:41,479
Speaker 3: the league.

779
00:39:41,640 --> 00:39:44,319
Speaker 5: Right, Not like you could go land your guy and

780
00:39:44,360 --> 00:39:45,160
Speaker 5: be set for years.

781
00:39:45,160 --> 00:39:48,439
Speaker 3: Probably, So, frankie Ze says, if that scenario you guys

782
00:39:48,520 --> 00:39:50,799
Speaker 3: highlighted plays out, with Mendoza and more going one and

783
00:39:50,800 --> 00:39:53,640
Speaker 3: two in the draft, no other quarterbacks to take, no

784
00:39:53,840 --> 00:39:57,000
Speaker 3: worthwhile free agents that you would want to sign, would

785
00:39:57,000 --> 00:40:00,120
Speaker 3: you roll with Mason or Will Howard? And also how

786
00:40:00,120 --> 00:40:03,160
Speaker 3: would you rank and discuss Will Howard if he was

787
00:40:03,200 --> 00:40:04,720
Speaker 3: in this year's quarterback class.

788
00:40:05,560 --> 00:40:08,040
Speaker 5: M that's okay of good question to ask because I also.

789
00:40:08,920 --> 00:40:13,239
Speaker 3: First part of that, absolutely Mason Rudolph of the two. Yeah,

790
00:40:13,320 --> 00:40:18,440
Speaker 3: if it's Mason Rudolph, Will Howard and then another rookie

791
00:40:18,920 --> 00:40:22,000
Speaker 3: who you drafted in the fourth or fifth round, or

792
00:40:22,080 --> 00:40:25,280
Speaker 3: a journeyman type quarterback that you signed free agency.

793
00:40:25,680 --> 00:40:27,480
Speaker 5: I mean, there's no way they're going Latrobe. But just

794
00:40:27,560 --> 00:40:30,759
Speaker 5: Mason and Will Howard, no chance, No, absolutely not in

795
00:40:30,760 --> 00:40:33,239
Speaker 5: a Skyler Thompson type. Would be somebody better than that.

796
00:40:33,719 --> 00:40:36,880
Speaker 3: Whether it's at this moment, whether it's a Joe Flacco

797
00:40:37,000 --> 00:40:38,000
Speaker 3: esque veteran.

798
00:40:38,600 --> 00:40:41,680
Speaker 5: Mary Oda or Mary I'm just trying to free agent, yeah,

799
00:40:41,760 --> 00:40:43,600
Speaker 5: or something. I mean, it would not just be Rudolph

800
00:40:43,640 --> 00:40:46,440
Speaker 5: and Howard battling it out, or imagine.

801
00:40:47,040 --> 00:40:50,560
Speaker 2: You know, a Hayes King in the fifth or sixth round,

802
00:40:50,640 --> 00:40:52,000
Speaker 2: or that's possible.

803
00:40:51,840 --> 00:40:54,440
Speaker 3: So you're Robinson on Day three something like that. It

804
00:40:54,480 --> 00:40:57,600
Speaker 3: would absolutely be. It would be, and I would want

805
00:40:57,640 --> 00:41:00,560
Speaker 3: it to be Mason Rudolph who gets the first team

806
00:41:00,680 --> 00:41:01,880
Speaker 3: start in the first team reps.

807
00:41:01,960 --> 00:41:03,719
Speaker 5: Yeah. Yeah, but Howard maybe.

808
00:41:03,440 --> 00:41:08,319
Speaker 2: But what happened this would for the for Howard, for

809
00:41:08,400 --> 00:41:09,239
Speaker 2: Will Howard nation.

810
00:41:09,440 --> 00:41:10,359
Speaker 5: There's a lot of them out there.

811
00:41:10,600 --> 00:41:13,279
Speaker 2: This this would be the ideal scenario for Will Howard nation.

812
00:41:14,000 --> 00:41:14,880
Speaker 5: That's what everybody wants to do.

813
00:41:15,120 --> 00:41:17,240
Speaker 2: Mason is the number one, he's the number two.

814
00:41:17,160 --> 00:41:18,719
Speaker 5: And he's just so good he blows him on the

815
00:41:18,760 --> 00:41:20,040
Speaker 5: water and he takes over the job.

816
00:41:20,000 --> 00:41:21,680
Speaker 2: Or he at least gets he at least gets a

817
00:41:21,719 --> 00:41:23,000
Speaker 2: real crack at it, because.

818
00:41:22,840 --> 00:41:24,080
Speaker 5: I think he can get a crack at it if

819
00:41:24,080 --> 00:41:24,920
Speaker 5: that was actually.

820
00:41:25,440 --> 00:41:27,959
Speaker 3: If they were the top two, yes, because if it's

821
00:41:28,160 --> 00:41:30,640
Speaker 3: let's let's go total pie in the sky, right, Steelers

822
00:41:30,640 --> 00:41:32,760
Speaker 3: trade up and they get a Mendoza or a Dante

823
00:41:32,800 --> 00:41:36,160
Speaker 3: Moore type, they're gonna be the one competing with Mason Howard.

824
00:41:36,239 --> 00:41:40,560
Speaker 3: And or when Mason Howard Mason Rudolph pardon me, and

825
00:41:40,640 --> 00:41:42,920
Speaker 3: Will Howard would be the clear third, not that he had,

826
00:41:43,480 --> 00:41:45,160
Speaker 3: not that he wouldn't get reps, not that he wouldn't

827
00:41:45,160 --> 00:41:47,160
Speaker 3: get opportunity, but he would be the clear third to

828
00:41:47,200 --> 00:41:49,439
Speaker 3: start camp as opposed to the clear number two.

829
00:41:49,640 --> 00:41:51,840
Speaker 5: Right, much like it, much different than like a Rogers

830
00:41:51,880 --> 00:41:54,759
Speaker 5: who doesn't want any preseason snaps. Howard, do you want

831
00:41:54,760 --> 00:41:56,879
Speaker 5: to give all of them to you? Couldn't. You can't

832
00:41:56,880 --> 00:41:58,480
Speaker 5: do that with the first round rookie. He needs to

833
00:41:58,480 --> 00:42:00,680
Speaker 5: get a lot of that kind of stuff. Yes, I

834
00:42:00,680 --> 00:42:05,640
Speaker 5: don't in terms of the question Frank's he's tweet's.

835
00:42:05,000 --> 00:42:06,600
Speaker 2: Good, He's a loyal he's a loyal tweeter.

836
00:42:06,800 --> 00:42:09,040
Speaker 5: But I don't know how to possibly rank a six

837
00:42:09,160 --> 00:42:12,879
Speaker 5: round quarterback from last year again this quarterback class. He's

838
00:42:12,880 --> 00:42:15,759
Speaker 5: not better than more Rendozo. No, he's not better than

839
00:42:15,840 --> 00:42:16,480
Speaker 5: the guys we talked.

840
00:42:17,120 --> 00:42:18,400
Speaker 2: I think he might be better.

841
00:42:18,440 --> 00:42:20,680
Speaker 3: If he might be, and again we still have to

842
00:42:20,760 --> 00:42:23,000
Speaker 3: What makes this difficult is we don't know what that

843
00:42:23,440 --> 00:42:25,799
Speaker 3: you know they are with that four through ten of

844
00:42:25,840 --> 00:42:28,160
Speaker 3: the quarterbacks, that's going to be who's going to go,

845
00:42:28,200 --> 00:42:30,920
Speaker 3: who's going to stay? The clash should they stay or

846
00:42:30,920 --> 00:42:32,839
Speaker 3: should they go is still up in the air.

847
00:42:33,360 --> 00:42:35,160
Speaker 5: But I would expect to do a lot work homework

848
00:42:35,200 --> 00:42:36,480
Speaker 5: on him too. I don't even know who they are.

849
00:42:36,719 --> 00:42:40,680
Speaker 3: I would expect he would fare slightly better amongst this

850
00:42:40,719 --> 00:42:43,600
Speaker 3: class than he did last year. Not that he would

851
00:42:43,640 --> 00:42:45,160
Speaker 3: go in the third round all of a sudden, but

852
00:42:45,200 --> 00:42:47,560
Speaker 3: I think I think I think he could go higher,

853
00:42:47,680 --> 00:42:49,480
Speaker 3: certainly than he than he did this past year.

854
00:42:49,520 --> 00:42:51,560
Speaker 5: Like if he was doing what he did last year

855
00:42:51,600 --> 00:42:54,640
Speaker 5: for Ohio State this year, maybe were talking about him

856
00:42:54,640 --> 00:42:55,480
Speaker 5: at the end of day two.

857
00:42:55,719 --> 00:42:58,200
Speaker 3: You know, yes, okay, yes, maybe he'd be the Dylan

858
00:42:58,239 --> 00:43:00,919
Speaker 3: Gabriel type in this year or even the fifth round

859
00:43:00,920 --> 00:43:03,040
Speaker 3: shitt Or Sanders. He moved, he moves up around. I

860
00:43:03,040 --> 00:43:05,960
Speaker 3: think those are real possible. Yeah, last one here before

861
00:43:06,000 --> 00:43:09,040
Speaker 3: we go. Joe tweets us and says, I love the

862
00:43:09,080 --> 00:43:11,920
Speaker 3: show and the quick peaks at your inside lives.

863
00:43:12,160 --> 00:43:13,920
Speaker 2: Remember we discussed that yesterday.

864
00:43:14,360 --> 00:43:16,520
Speaker 3: He said, how about a quick backstory on why you

865
00:43:16,560 --> 00:43:18,600
Speaker 3: guys call Chris Adamski buzz.

866
00:43:18,520 --> 00:43:19,840
Speaker 5: I have no idea, but I mean to ask you

867
00:43:19,880 --> 00:43:21,600
Speaker 5: that for three months, so.

868
00:43:21,280 --> 00:43:22,960
Speaker 2: So I don't know the backstory.

869
00:43:23,040 --> 00:43:25,640
Speaker 3: I just know that when I got to the Steelers,

870
00:43:25,640 --> 00:43:27,920
Speaker 3: when I got to this job in twenty eighteen, and

871
00:43:27,960 --> 00:43:30,040
Speaker 3: I was just producing and doing behind the scenes stuff

872
00:43:30,080 --> 00:43:31,680
Speaker 3: at that point. But you know, when I was out

873
00:43:31,680 --> 00:43:33,320
Speaker 3: in La Trobe in twenty eighteen and met you and

874
00:43:33,400 --> 00:43:36,200
Speaker 3: Dale for the first time and working with Tounching Wolf

875
00:43:36,280 --> 00:43:40,520
Speaker 3: and all that stuff, Chris Adamski had a nickname that

876
00:43:40,600 --> 00:43:41,600
Speaker 3: a lot of the people on the.

877
00:43:41,600 --> 00:43:42,960
Speaker 2: Beat would call him Buzzsaw.

878
00:43:43,560 --> 00:43:45,759
Speaker 3: Okay, I don't know if that's like a WWE thing,

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Speaker 3: if that's something from college. I have no idea. We'll

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Speaker 3: have to ask him how he got the nickname buzz Saw.

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Speaker 3: But that was a nick that that was a nickname

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Speaker 3: that he had that just got shortened to buzz Okay,

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Speaker 3: that's where it comes from. Yeah, I had no clue,

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Speaker 3: But I don't know how he got the nickname buzz Saw.

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Speaker 3: We'll have to ask him that. But buzz Saw was

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Speaker 3: his nickname, and is that often happens it got shortened

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Speaker 3: to buzz And so I, I honestly don't even know

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Speaker 3: if a ton of people call him that, other than

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Speaker 3: maybe like a few of the you know, the the

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Speaker 3: Sharkis regulars and things like that. But I just started

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Speaker 3: calling him buzz you know, seven or eight years when

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Speaker 3: the first.

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Speaker 5: Time really yeah yeah, yeah, so interesting.

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Speaker 3: And I think part of it for me too was

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Speaker 3: there's already enough Chris Is. There's Chris Halleck, There's Chris Carter,

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Speaker 3: there's Chris A. Damski, there's a lot of there's a

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Speaker 3: lot of Chris Is on the beat. And so I

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Speaker 3: think that was part of the reason why I stuck

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Speaker 3: with calling him buzz too, Because you'd be at Sharky's

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Speaker 3: and you go Chris and three people would turn around

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Speaker 3: and go, yeah, I supposed to way.

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Speaker 2: If you go buzz, it's just him.

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Speaker 5: I thought maybe you knew somehow through high school or whatever,

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Speaker 5: right connection.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know if it's a Mars Planets thing,

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Speaker 3: if he got that nickname in high school, in college,

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Speaker 3: when he got on the beat, whatever the case may be.

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Speaker 3: But we'll have to find that out. We'll have to

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Speaker 3: get some backstory. We'll have to get some backstory from

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Speaker 3: a Damski. But that will do it for us today.

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Speaker 3: Tomorrow on the program, Missy Matthews, five star Friday NFL

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