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

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

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Speaker 2: Audio Network. We was Shooler and Matt Williamson with you

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Speaker 2: here on a Wednesday that still somehow feels like a Tuesday.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, everything's all messed up.

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Speaker 2: On a scale of one to ten. How back are

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Speaker 2: you mad? How adjusted are you back here? On our

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Speaker 2: Eastern Standard time and our schedule and everything.

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Speaker 3: I would say it's been easier coming home than go.

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Speaker 3: I never got adjusted there, agree, Yeah, I mean I

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Speaker 3: just when I thought I was adjusted, I had a

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Speaker 3: real weird night's sleep and was up and just couldn't sleep,

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Speaker 3: and I was like, maybe I'm not quite there. Like

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Speaker 3: when we're done recording here, I might get an hour

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Speaker 3: and a half at some point this afternoon and then

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Speaker 3: I think I'll be ready. But I think I was

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Speaker 3: full of myself for day or so there.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, No, absolutely, I'm with you.

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Speaker 3: By the way.

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Speaker 2: Nice Yeah, watching on YouTube. I got a Steelers Ireland

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Speaker 2: hat on here. You know, I tend to wear many hats,

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Speaker 2: and this one is a Steelers Steelers Irish one. But yeah,

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Speaker 2: about you you justin I would say a little yes

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Speaker 2: and a little no. It hasn't been as bad as

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Speaker 2: I thought it was going to be. But it's like

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Speaker 2: I keep waking up more in the middle of the night. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I usually do, like.

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Speaker 3: I wasn of that in Ireland. Same, I never had like.

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Speaker 2: Toss six correct, a lot of tossing and turning. But

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Speaker 2: I am with you in the sense of I think

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Speaker 2: it's definitely easier coming back as opposed to going out.

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Speaker 2: But getting there. I'm optimistic that by tomorrow, by Thursday,

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Speaker 2: I'll feel one hundred percent back to normal.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. I was happy to have my my lazy boy

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Speaker 3: and all that kind of stuff in my bed and sure,

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Speaker 3: so yeah, I'm starting to get there.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna talk to our buddy Chris Halleck. He was

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Speaker 2: in doubling with us, joined us for one of our

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Speaker 2: live shows at Fitzsimon's Temple Bar here in a few minutes, Matt. Though,

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Speaker 2: typically we do a Tuesday rewind, which is just some

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Speaker 2: additional observations from the Steelers previous game after we get

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Speaker 2: a chance to rewatch and digest a little bit more. So,

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Speaker 2: what do you say we do a little Tuesday rewind

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Speaker 2: here on a Wednesday to get a side.

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Speaker 3: Sure.

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Speaker 2: I had two observations that I wanted to run by

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Speaker 2: you that I kind of kind of jumped off the

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Speaker 2: page at me last night when I was rewatching the

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Speaker 2: of course Steelers twenty four to twenty one win over

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Speaker 2: the Minnesota Vikings at Croke Park in Dublin. Both have

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Speaker 2: to do with the offense. Okay, First is, man, it

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Speaker 2: felt like they were lining up DK Metcalf in the

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Speaker 3: They did. They did.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you probably had some some numbers behind that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. It was the highest percentage I think of any

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Speaker 3: game in his career.

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Speaker 3: And it was maybe fifty percent ish of slot usage

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Speaker 3: for him, which is significant. I love it. I think

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Speaker 3: that's a great way. I mean, that's that's that's a

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Speaker 3: huge trend around the league, is get your best player

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Speaker 3: better matchups, move them around, especially somebody his size. I mean,

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Speaker 3: he used to be you put Welker in the slot

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Speaker 3: and those are slot guys. But you don't see many

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Speaker 3: the slot against smaller Hilton guys. That's why the Hiltons

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Speaker 3: all for it. He had good numbers out of the

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Speaker 2: Which, hey, that that kind of skews the maybe the

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Speaker 2: it still counts. I mean, an eighty yard touchdown as

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Speaker 2: an eighty yard touchdown. I'm with you on that. It's

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Speaker 2: kind of like the Jordan Addison thing when you look

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Speaker 2: like it is that liar, but it still happened. It's

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Speaker 2: part of the equation. But that to me seems significant.

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Speaker 2: I felt like we saw a decent amount of that

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I have to I have to go back.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's just like, off the top of my head.

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Speaker 2: I think he had some success doing that. That's how

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Speaker 2: But I felt like it really jumped off the page

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Speaker 2: touchdown definitely has a big impact on that. But that's

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Speaker 2: what I like. I love the approach, don't be static,

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Speaker 2: right yeah, yeah, like find where the defense has their weaknesses,

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Speaker 2: there specifically, and I felt like they did that. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I mean, he's your best pass catcher without question. I mean,

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Speaker 3: I like the tight ends. You get more from them,

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Speaker 3: to feature. He's in the guy you need to scheme

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Speaker 3: up and get layup touches, you know, And I think

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Speaker 3: teams won't put their best corner into the slot this period,

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Speaker 3: you know. I mean that's obviously a week to week thing.

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Speaker 3: They're a heavy zone team. I think they wanted to

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Speaker 3: have him work more against safeties and linebackers of course too.

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Speaker 3: Another Metcalf number, though, is he it seems like he's

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Speaker 3: breaking out. I mean, he's been putting the ball in

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Speaker 3: sillly has nine targets over the last two weeks, you know.

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Speaker 3: I Mean one of the problems with all the offensive

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Speaker 3: numbers is they're just run enough plays. I mean, this

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Speaker 3: lot of good but the time of possession stuff still

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Speaker 3: still too low compared to what the defense has to

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Speaker 3: a stand. But I would like to see more like

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Speaker 3: nine targets a game, not nine targets over two games,

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Speaker 3: you know what I mean?

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Speaker 2: Completely agree. Hopefully we're getting there, Like we talked about yesterday,

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Speaker 2: the I think the concerns and pass pro are certainly

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Speaker 3: They are.

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Speaker 2: If you can start to run the ball more effectively

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Speaker 2: like they did in Dublin as well, I think that

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Speaker 3: I think it does too. And if you're going to

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Speaker 3: keep using Anderson as an extra lineman, maybe that helps

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Speaker 3: I think it's becoming.

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Speaker 2: Not a tell.

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Speaker 3: But you see Anderson, you see Washington, You like, here

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Speaker 3: comes run right right at me. But those guys can

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Speaker 2: And then maybe once once those tendencies start to show,

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Speaker 2: here comes the run game, here comes the corn beef

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Speaker 2: package yesterday, then maybe that's when you can finally start

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Speaker 2: taking some of those deep shots that you've been waiting for.

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Speaker 2: Well to off of play action and things like that.

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Speaker 2: Second thing for you, Matt is kind of a ecosystem

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Speaker 2: for the offense observation, if you will. I felt like

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Speaker 2: the Steelers and most successful run game of the season

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Speaker 2: would obviously a direct correlation. Here had a lot more

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Speaker 2: success on first and second down than we've seen throughout

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Speaker 2: the first three games on offense, and that led to

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Speaker 2: I thought, much better on third downs. Way fewer three

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Speaker 3: I think there were only three. The show sounds Mike

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Speaker 3: and Rob. Rob mentioned I think there's only three three

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Speaker 3: that's one hundred percent true. And they weren't right in

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Speaker 3: a row, you know, like they were just kind of

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Speaker 3: You're right. It's a great observation because you know, I'm

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Speaker 3: big on success rate. You know, how successful are you

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Speaker 3: played to play to play, and their success rate as

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Speaker 2: Probably was the best of the season.

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Speaker 3: I think it was best of the season, but it

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Speaker 3: I mean just getting four or more on first, you know,

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Speaker 3: half of the down distance on second converting on thirds

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Speaker 3: and you're right, their early down success rate was also

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Speaker 3: like in the ninety fourth percentile in the league. I mean,

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Speaker 3: so the chains and right right right, you know there's

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Speaker 3: a lot of second and five. I mean that's very managed.

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Speaker 2: You got gain well average in five yards of tote. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I mean that really I think has a real trickle

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Speaker 3: One thousand percent. I thought that was what Those are

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Speaker 3: real good observations and promising ones. Well, thank you all

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Speaker 3: about that.

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Speaker 2: You know where you have I like it when I

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Speaker 2: get a compliment from that. What do you say? Shorter

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Speaker 2: opening segment here because we got our budd Chris Line

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Speaker 2: on the other side and I want to talk to

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Speaker 2: him about the game. And then obviously he spent the

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Speaker 2: week in Dublin as well.

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Speaker 3: Here he had a good time.

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Speaker 2: So will continue to swap some stories and some memories

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Speaker 2: and some x's and o's talk with our buddy Chris

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Speaker 2: Hallick when we return on the other side. Shuler, Matt Williamson.

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

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Speaker 2: To the phone lines, we go here. It is our

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Speaker 2: Wednesday regular on the Drive. Chris Hallick covers the Steelers

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Speaker 2: for dk Pittsburgh Sports. Chris, of course, was over in Dublin.

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Speaker 2: We actually had a couple of nice times of Chris

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: He joined us at fitz Simon's Temple Bar for one

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Speaker 2: of our shows. The three of us went out for

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Speaker 2: dinner and some drinks one night as well, too, had

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Speaker 2: some delicious beef stew if I do say so myself, Chris,

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Speaker 2: what's going on, man, and how you're feeling? You you

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Speaker 2: knocked off the jet lag or you're back on East

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Speaker 2: Coast time in a normal schedule. How's it going?

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Speaker 4: Oh man, I've had a couple of days on the

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Speaker 4: South side here covering the team.

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Speaker 5: It's been it's been good man.

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Speaker 6: Actually, it was my second time traveling overseas like that,

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Speaker 6: and I thought I handled the jet like this time

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Speaker 6: a lot better than I did the last time.

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Speaker 3: Just give us the overall opinion. I mean, I think

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Speaker 3: you had a good time. I think you'd enjoyed the

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Speaker 3: whole festivities. I mean, just give us the overview, mat Brother.

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Speaker 5: Oh man, it was great, man, it was phenomenal.

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Speaker 2: I thought.

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Speaker 6: I thought it was not just like a great atmosphere

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Speaker 6: at fitz Simon's.

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Speaker 5: Obviously, it was great there seeing all the Steelers fans.

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Speaker 6: I was around, even whenever you guys weren't or whenever

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Speaker 5: Excited everybody was.

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Speaker 6: But then when we get into the stadium and to

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Speaker 6: see the atmosphere there, I thought it was fantastic. I

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Speaker 3: Camp real quick, Chris, I know you went to practice

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Speaker 5: But we'll we'll we'll see.

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Speaker 3: All Right, enough of the pleasantries. Let's start talking football here, brother.

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Speaker 3: So we've we've hinted at it all week. I mean,

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Speaker 2: And it worked, No, it certainly did in an impressive

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Speaker 3: Chris, if Calvin Austin's gonna miss significant time or even

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Speaker 3: a week, I mean, how do you you think they

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Speaker 3: make up for his snapcounts it a group effort? Does

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Speaker 3: one guy step up? How do you think that goes?

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Speaker 6: I mean, you can probably do certain things where you

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Speaker 6: can have a tight end fill in, like where you

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Speaker 6: might be in eleven personnel normally when Austin's there, but

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Speaker 6: maybe you'll just be in twelve and have john Why

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Speaker 6: be that guy. But I think, like the DK Metcalf

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Speaker 6: touchdown is a perfect example of what I'm talking about,

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Speaker 6: you cannot use a tight end all the time to

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Speaker 6: replace even a tight end as versatile as Johnny.

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Speaker 5: It just the thing.

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Speaker 6: The part of this, and even Metcalf credited Austin for

457
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Speaker 6: this on his touchdown, was he created space by the

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Speaker 6: way he ran his route on the back side of

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Speaker 6: the play, because he took not only the zone defender underneath,

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Speaker 6: but also the safety on the backside with him, which

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Speaker 6: gave all this room for Metcalf to pretty much put

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Speaker 6: it into his top gear and then.

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Speaker 5: Just take off. That doesn't have happen with a player

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Speaker 5: that's not that's not as fast as Calvin Austin's.

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Speaker 6: So I would still think that the next guy's up.

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Speaker 6: If Austin missus time would be a Scottie Miller or

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Speaker 6: a Roman Wilson, two guys who are fast, who can

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Speaker 6: attack middle of the field with speed like that, even

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Speaker 6: if it's just as a diversion. Because there's still NFL receivers,

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Speaker 6: defenses can't just look and say, hey, that's Tidy Miller,

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Speaker 6: that's Roman Wilson. We can ignore those guys. No, you

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Speaker 6: cannot leave any receiver wide open over the middle of

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Speaker 6: the field just because, oh, that's not as high caliber

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Speaker 6: of a receiver. No, if it's a fast guy, you

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Speaker 6: have to honor that. You have to and if it

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Speaker 6: can help take a defender away so you can create

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Speaker 6: room for a DK Nightcap on a on an end

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Speaker 6: breaking route, or or Pat Firon Ruther, Johnny Smith or

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Speaker 6: Darnell Washington on something.

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Speaker 5: Over the middle, then so be it.

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Speaker 6: So I think like Scotty Miller, Roman Wilson would be

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Speaker 6: the first guys to step up.

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Speaker 5: And the good thing is that those.

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Speaker 6: Guys maybe not quite as fast as Austin, but they're

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Speaker 6: still they can still run the run pretty pretty quickly.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you know, they certainly can. It's Chris Halleck

487
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Speaker 2: from DK Pittsburgh Sports a couple more minutes with him

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Speaker 2: here on the drive, Chris spinning the block to the

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Speaker 2: defensive side of the ball. Man. A lot to like

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Speaker 2: there from what we saw on Sunday. But how about

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Speaker 2: just you know, off the top, the return of the

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Speaker 2: Shawn Elliott. I'd say it was timely and much needed

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Speaker 2: for the Steelers defense.

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Speaker 6: Oh yeah, I'm Patrick Queen talked about it after the end,

495
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Speaker 6: He's like, that's my guy.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, like they they they really really missed him.

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Speaker 6: He he brings, Uh, he brings a really really great

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Speaker 6: presence to that defense.

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Speaker 5: I'm not talking about you know.

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Speaker 6: Just you know energy, and obviously he brings a lot

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Speaker 6: of energy, but he's a suret tackler, He's always in

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Speaker 6: the right spot. He's just a sound football player. And

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Speaker 6: it's good to have that. And I don't think it's

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Speaker 6: an accident that, you know, whenever he's played this year

505
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Speaker 6: or or even last year, that usually things.

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Speaker 5: Go really really well. No, he was.

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Speaker 6: He was sorely messed as good as Peppers was in

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Speaker 6: New England. Uh, And that's a great problem to have

509
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Speaker 6: that you know, Hey, if DeShawn needs a needs a break,

510
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Speaker 6: or if you don't want to you know, run him

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Speaker 6: into the ground too much. You want to make sure

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Speaker 6: if he's he stays healthy, that you have a guy

513
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Speaker 6: like Peppers that can play in that spot. But no, Elliott,

514
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Speaker 6: He's he got a contract extension for a reason, and

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Speaker 6: they love having a player like that on the field,

516
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Speaker 6: especially with how much he even played on Sunday, which

517
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Speaker 6: was quite a bit.

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Speaker 3: Chris, last thing I got for you is it's a

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Speaker 3: good problem to have. But I guess it's not even

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Speaker 3: a question. I don't know how you keep herbig off

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Speaker 3: the field. M Yeah, he's game, Yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 6: Terrell Austin talked about it today. Linebackers coach talked about

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Speaker 6: it today. I would like, I mean.

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Speaker 5: They, I mean Austin's flat out said.

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Speaker 6: We're not going to limit his snaps even after Alex

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Speaker 6: Heismith comes back. Like they're going to have to find

527
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Speaker 6: a way, whether it's a road tation or they deploy

528
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Speaker 6: a package in which those three are on the field

529
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Speaker 6: more consistently. However you do it, uh, he is he

530
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Speaker 6: is playing at a way in a way that's it's

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Speaker 6: going to force their hand. They cannot keep him on

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Speaker 6: the sideline too often now, even for a players as

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Speaker 6: great as TJ. Watt is, You know you don't want

534
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Speaker 6: to run him into the ground, you know. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 6: and and maybe that's I remember, you know, throughout the offseason,

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Speaker 6: you know, we had heard, you know that this team

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Speaker 6: really really wants to stress having a strong rotation without

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Speaker 6: having a big drop off in production. That's ideal because

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Speaker 6: that way, you know, you keep you know, players like

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Speaker 6: t J.

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Speaker 5: Watt and like Cam Hayward and those.

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Speaker 6: Guys fresh for more important downs, more crucial downs you know,

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Speaker 6: late in the second quarter, you know, critical possession downs late.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, absolutely want to keep those guys fresh.

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Speaker 6: And so when you have a player who's because it's

546
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Speaker 6: not like Alex high Smith is some bum, you know,

547
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Speaker 6: this guy can play, oh big time.

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Speaker 5: He's a really good player.

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Speaker 6: And so when you can have especially because her Big

550
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Speaker 6: also has experience playing both sides, you know, you can

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Speaker 6: maybe spell TJ. Watt a little bit more often, you

552
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Speaker 6: can spell Alex high Smith a little bit more often.

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Speaker 6: Knowing that Nick Herbig is a very very productive player

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Speaker 6: and he's becoming a more well rounded player. He's been

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Speaker 6: better against the run this year than he was last year,

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Speaker 6: and that's a big improvement too. So no, they are

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Speaker 6: going to find ways to keep playing him but also

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Speaker 6: he's not been the most healthy guy either, so also

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Speaker 6: you want to be able to have that rotation also

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Speaker 6: keep him healthy as well.

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Speaker 2: It's a great point. Great stuff for our buddy, Chris Aleck.

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Speaker 2: Make sure you're checking out all of his work. DK

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Speaker 2: Pittsburgh Sports, one of our regulars here on the drive. Chris.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for the time, buddy, and enjoy yourself some a

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Speaker 2: bye weekend breather. How about that?

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Speaker 5: That sounds good, guys. I appreciate you having me on.

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Speaker 2: See you, buddy, Chris Alex. Great stuff from him. As always,

568
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Speaker 2: we had some fun across the pond. Yeah, it's it's okay,

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Speaker 2: it's all right. Favorite thing about Dublin the Guinness, that's okay.

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Speaker 3: That was pretty high on my list too, pretty The

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Speaker 3: people was good, the games were good, you know, the

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Speaker 3: sites were good.

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Speaker 2: Real quick, for real quick for you best of the

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Speaker 2: West here, okay on the West. Yeah, my top ten

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Speaker 2: favorite things about Dublin. Guinness, Guinness, Guinness, the people, Guinness.

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Speaker 3: Guinness, Guinness, Guinness Brewery, Guinness Brewery. We need it today.

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Speaker 3: At some point I need a Guinness Brewery recap. By

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Speaker 3: the way, the tour, how about this? All right, we'll

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Speaker 3: do that.

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Speaker 2: On the other side, I also want to dig into

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Speaker 2: some of that wide receiver conversation with you as well too.

582
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I want to dig deeper at that too.

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Speaker 2: The absence of Calvin Austin, Let's talk a little Calvin

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Speaker 2: Austin the third and a little Guinness Factory tour when

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Speaker 2: we returned to close down the first hour of the Drive. Wesheuler,

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Speaker 2: Matt Williamson, Steelers Nation Radio on the Steelers Audio Network,

587
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Speaker 2: your tunes.

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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 2: All right, Matt, so dealer's choice for you here in

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Speaker 2: our final segment of the first hour. You want the

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Speaker 2: Guinness talk first, you want the wide receiver conversation first.

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Speaker 3: I think the folks want the Guinness talk. I think

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Speaker 3: you're right, not how yummy they were, But tell me

595
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Speaker 3: about everybody.

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Speaker 2: Everybody knows that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Well, first I got

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Speaker 2: to tell you how awesome the people at Guinness were

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Speaker 2: for hooking me up.

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Speaker 3: I know the story, but I want everyone else to

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Speaker 3: hear it.

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Speaker 2: And I'm gonna try to keep it as not graphic

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Speaker 2: as possible. Okay, So I had my I had a

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Speaker 2: Guinness tour scheduled for Friday morning at ten am.

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Speaker 3: Lees say you had a belly.

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Speaker 2: Yes, woke up Friday feeling fantastic, went for a walk

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Speaker 2: along the water for like twenty thirty minutes. It was awesome,

607
00:28:02,160 --> 00:28:05,359
Speaker 2: sun was shining, nice breeze. I'm like, this is going

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Speaker 2: to be a great day. I'm gonna go have my

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Speaker 2: Guinness tour. Matt and I are gonna do an awesome show.

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Speaker 2: It fits Simon's what could be better? I go back

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Speaker 2: to the hotel. I have a full Irish breakfast at

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Speaker 2: the hotel. It's about eight thirty in the morning at

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Speaker 2: this point, eggs, sausage, bacon, black pudding, tomatoes, beans, mushrooms,

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Speaker 2: the whole full Irish.

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Speaker 3: Coach me up on black pudding again.

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Speaker 2: It's like a beef and yeah, I thought rain. It

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Speaker 2: has nothing to do with our concept of pudding.

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Speaker 3: Right, It's not like banana pudding.

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Speaker 2: No, it's not right. And apparently I've been told that

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Speaker 2: if you've never had it before, sometimes it doesn't agree

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Speaker 2: with your stomach. Ah, so maybe that's the spoiler alert.

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Speaker 2: That's where we're gonna go.

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Speaker 3: Here. You have any like crazy blood sausage or any

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Speaker 3: I didn't do that.

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Speaker 2: No, no, no, I didn't do that. Just normal sausage

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Speaker 2: and nice, nice crispy bacon for those of you that

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Speaker 2: are born of the Rings fans out there. So I

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Speaker 2: have this nice walk in the morning, I'm feeling good.

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Speaker 2: I'd gotten a good night sleep the night before, get

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Speaker 2: a full Irish breakfast. I'm like, this is great. I'm

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Speaker 2: going upstairs. I'm gonna shower like half an hour. I'm

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Speaker 2: going to Guinness like I am, a big smile on

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Speaker 2: my face, smiling like a butcher's dogs laying. I get

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Speaker 2: out of the shower, I'm getting dressed. I'm like ten

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Speaker 2: minutes away from ordering my Uber and I go, oh no,

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Speaker 2: this just and everybody who's ever had food poisoning or

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Speaker 2: something like that knows what I'm talking about. It comes

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Speaker 2: out of nowhere. It's sudden, it's violent, and.

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Speaker 3: You're lucky it wasn't ten minutes later, exactly.

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Speaker 2: You're right. Actually I never thought about it that way.

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Speaker 2: But I was very fortunate because if it would have

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Speaker 2: came ten fifteen minutes later, I might have been cleaning

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Speaker 2: out some poor Uber driver's car.

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Speaker 3: This story could have got much one could have.

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Speaker 2: Been much worse. I got this sudden violent wave of

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Speaker 2: nauseousness and queasiness, and I'm like, oh no, I'm gonna

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Speaker 2: lose lose my breakfast. Let's just say I lost my

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Speaker 2: breakfast two or three times. And at this point it's

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Speaker 2: like a little bit after nine, my guinness towards at ten,

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Speaker 2: and I'm like, there's no way. My hands are like shaken,

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Speaker 2: and like at that.

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Speaker 3: Point I'd just be like, I need to try to

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Speaker 3: get myself ready for the radio show.

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Speaker 2: I'm like, I at least got time for that, exactly right.

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Speaker 2: And that was at the forefront of my mind, was like,

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Speaker 2: Matt and I are supposed to be on air in

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Speaker 2: six hours. I better go back to bed and sleep

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Speaker 2: this off and.

659
00:30:16,800 --> 00:30:19,000
Speaker 3: Get out whatever I need to get out exactly.

660
00:30:18,680 --> 00:30:20,560
Speaker 2: Right, which I did. I went back to bed for

661
00:30:20,600 --> 00:30:23,960
Speaker 2: about ninety minutes. I drank a power raid. I woke up,

662
00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:25,960
Speaker 2: went to the little bodega by our hotel, got a

663
00:30:25,960 --> 00:30:28,120
Speaker 2: power raid. It was the way it was. It was.

664
00:30:29,400 --> 00:30:31,440
Speaker 3: We didn't have that conversation deer I bought there. It

665
00:30:31,480 --> 00:30:35,120
Speaker 3: was like warm, but anyway, not a.

666
00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:37,000
Speaker 2: Lot of uh, not a lot of refrigeration, not a

667
00:30:37,040 --> 00:30:42,320
Speaker 2: lot of trash cans around Ireland that yeah. So I

668
00:30:42,360 --> 00:30:44,680
Speaker 2: wake up at about noon after my ninety minute nap,

669
00:30:44,720 --> 00:30:47,640
Speaker 2: and fortunately I wake up, I feel completely better again.

670
00:30:48,040 --> 00:30:51,520
Speaker 2: Whatever was in my system, I purged it. I got

671
00:30:51,520 --> 00:30:53,840
Speaker 2: a ninety minute nap. I woke up and I was like, Okay,

672
00:30:54,080 --> 00:30:56,280
Speaker 2: I'm good, I'm fine. Thankfully, this is not going to

673
00:30:56,320 --> 00:30:58,080
Speaker 2: be something that's gonna knock me out for the whole day.

674
00:30:58,320 --> 00:30:59,880
Speaker 2: Like I don't have to text Matt and our Bos

675
00:31:00,320 --> 00:31:03,880
Speaker 2: and be like I got food poisoning. I'm toast. It's

676
00:31:03,880 --> 00:31:06,640
Speaker 2: a little after twelve. You and I still have about

677
00:31:06,640 --> 00:31:08,400
Speaker 2: where we went on air at three or four, so

678
00:31:08,440 --> 00:31:09,280
Speaker 2: I still have some time.

679
00:31:09,480 --> 00:31:09,560
Speaker 3: Ye.

680
00:31:10,120 --> 00:31:12,200
Speaker 2: I'm like, you know what, I missed my Guinness tour.

681
00:31:12,240 --> 00:31:14,680
Speaker 2: I was like, but I'm still going worst case scenario.

682
00:31:14,720 --> 00:31:15,440
Speaker 3: I want to miss it.

683
00:31:15,520 --> 00:31:17,920
Speaker 2: Worst case scenario. I'll poke around a little bit. I'll

684
00:31:17,960 --> 00:31:18,760
Speaker 2: go to the gift shop.

685
00:31:18,840 --> 00:31:20,600
Speaker 3: I like, anybody can walk in and just do that

686
00:31:20,720 --> 00:31:21,719
Speaker 3: correct correct.

687
00:31:21,720 --> 00:31:24,560
Speaker 2: And I was like, you know, I probably missed my tour,

688
00:31:24,600 --> 00:31:26,600
Speaker 2: but at least i'll see it. I'll see a few things.

689
00:31:26,640 --> 00:31:28,680
Speaker 2: I'll get some stuff at the gift shop. You know,

690
00:31:28,680 --> 00:31:30,760
Speaker 2: maybe i'll find a place to have a pint there.

691
00:31:30,840 --> 00:31:33,240
Speaker 2: It'll be fine, buy something at the I get there

692
00:31:33,240 --> 00:31:36,320
Speaker 2: about twelve thirty ish. I get to the gate, which

693
00:31:36,360 --> 00:31:39,840
Speaker 2: is awesome. I mean it's immaculated. Oh it's this massive,

694
00:31:39,920 --> 00:31:43,680
Speaker 2: huge gate with Guinness, you know, Saint James's Gate, Dublin

695
00:31:43,800 --> 00:31:47,080
Speaker 2: and the Harp and all that stuff. It's unbelievable. There's

696
00:31:47,120 --> 00:31:48,600
Speaker 2: signage everywhere on all the walls.

697
00:31:48,640 --> 00:31:50,560
Speaker 3: It's like a beautiful and and it's like a.

698
00:31:50,520 --> 00:31:53,760
Speaker 2: Whole compound that is beautiful and clean and looks like

699
00:31:53,800 --> 00:31:56,040
Speaker 2: My favorite kind of architecture is the kind that looks

700
00:31:56,080 --> 00:31:58,120
Speaker 2: new and old at the same time. Gotcha, you know

701
00:31:58,160 --> 00:32:00,600
Speaker 2: what I mean, Like it looks hundreds of years old,

702
00:32:00,880 --> 00:32:02,560
Speaker 2: but it's not like beat up and run down and

703
00:32:02,920 --> 00:32:06,000
Speaker 2: down at the same time either. They take good care, right.

704
00:32:06,680 --> 00:32:08,120
Speaker 2: So I get there, I go up to the gate,

705
00:32:08,200 --> 00:32:10,320
Speaker 2: and again I don't go into graphic detail, but I

706
00:32:10,400 --> 00:32:12,440
Speaker 2: kind of tell the lady at the entrance at the

707
00:32:12,440 --> 00:32:14,520
Speaker 2: ticket counter what happened. I was supposed to have a

708
00:32:14,520 --> 00:32:17,000
Speaker 2: ten am tour. I woke up this morning sick, not

709
00:32:17,080 --> 00:32:19,960
Speaker 2: feeling well. I'm doing much better now. I was just

710
00:32:19,960 --> 00:32:21,560
Speaker 2: wondering if there's any way I can go in there,

711
00:32:21,600 --> 00:32:24,200
Speaker 2: poke my head in there, poke around, maybe get something

712
00:32:24,200 --> 00:32:27,120
Speaker 2: at the gift shop. Yeah, she goes, honey, you're going

713
00:32:27,160 --> 00:32:30,120
Speaker 2: on the tour. She goes, another one starts in ten minutes,

714
00:32:30,160 --> 00:32:34,640
Speaker 2: give me your ticket, scans get in there. Yeah. It

715
00:32:34,680 --> 00:32:36,280
Speaker 2: was just like a digital ticket on my phone. You know.

716
00:32:36,720 --> 00:32:38,560
Speaker 2: She scans it. She's like, go get your button line

717
00:32:38,600 --> 00:32:41,600
Speaker 2: like you're not missing this all right, which was awesome

718
00:32:41,600 --> 00:32:44,920
Speaker 2: by it A big shout out to that lady. And

719
00:32:44,920 --> 00:32:46,480
Speaker 2: so I got to do the full tour. I got

720
00:32:46,480 --> 00:32:48,880
Speaker 2: to do the entire thing. Despite being two and a

721
00:32:48,880 --> 00:32:50,920
Speaker 2: half hours late. They still let me hop in with

722
00:32:50,960 --> 00:32:55,040
Speaker 2: the twelve thirty group and Matt. It was Disney World

723
00:32:55,080 --> 00:32:56,160
Speaker 2: for beer fans.

724
00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:56,600
Speaker 3: It sounds like it.

725
00:32:56,640 --> 00:33:00,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was Willie Wonka's chocolate factory for me. It

726
00:33:00,880 --> 00:33:07,120
Speaker 2: is seven floors and each floor has a restaurant, a bar,

727
00:33:07,360 --> 00:33:10,720
Speaker 2: some kind of tasting experience, some kind of interactive exhibit

728
00:33:10,760 --> 00:33:14,240
Speaker 2: about the history or the brewing process or something like that.

729
00:33:14,400 --> 00:33:15,720
Speaker 3: You said, one of them just teaching you how to

730
00:33:15,720 --> 00:33:16,160
Speaker 3: pour them.

731
00:33:17,240 --> 00:33:19,719
Speaker 2: There's one where you get like the how exactly you

732
00:33:19,720 --> 00:33:22,400
Speaker 2: pour a guinness on the nitro system and you get

733
00:33:22,400 --> 00:33:24,920
Speaker 2: a certificate and all that. There's an area where you

734
00:33:24,920 --> 00:33:27,400
Speaker 2: can print your face, your selfie, your picture in the

735
00:33:27,480 --> 00:33:30,800
Speaker 2: foam on top of the Guinness, which I did, which

736
00:33:30,840 --> 00:33:32,560
Speaker 2: was and I'm not even one of those people who

737
00:33:32,600 --> 00:33:35,400
Speaker 2: normally is into frivolous stuff like that. It was still

738
00:33:35,440 --> 00:33:36,680
Speaker 2: it was very cool, a.

739
00:33:36,680 --> 00:33:38,400
Speaker 3: Little shocky into a WVU symbol.

740
00:33:38,720 --> 00:33:40,600
Speaker 2: Well, I was thinking about I was thinking about it.

741
00:33:40,920 --> 00:33:42,880
Speaker 2: I was like, can I upload a picture into here?

742
00:33:43,040 --> 00:33:48,120
Speaker 2: Possibly by chance? And so different restaurants on each floor.

743
00:33:48,160 --> 00:33:49,960
Speaker 2: Some that are just like you can walk up to

744
00:33:49,960 --> 00:33:52,080
Speaker 2: the window and get fish and chips and oysters in

745
00:33:52,120 --> 00:33:56,440
Speaker 2: that house stuff. Some that are like nicer sit down restaurants.

746
00:33:55,880 --> 00:33:58,840
Speaker 3: Like date Night, Yes, ye, yes, okay.

747
00:33:58,840 --> 00:34:02,840
Speaker 2: They have a breakfast coffee shop nook in there. I

748
00:34:02,920 --> 00:34:04,840
Speaker 2: was like bummed that I had I drank a latte

749
00:34:05,120 --> 00:34:06,880
Speaker 2: in the in the cab ride on the way over

750
00:34:06,920 --> 00:34:08,319
Speaker 2: the Uber ride, I was like, I wish I would

751
00:34:08,760 --> 00:34:10,640
Speaker 2: I gotten a coffee. How many people can say they

752
00:34:10,640 --> 00:34:13,040
Speaker 2: got a coffee at Guinness a Guinness factory.

753
00:34:13,239 --> 00:34:15,120
Speaker 3: I mean you mentioned like you just take your laptop

754
00:34:15,160 --> 00:34:17,040
Speaker 3: and just sit there and work and put it in

755
00:34:17,080 --> 00:34:18,240
Speaker 3: a couple of hours like a Starbucks.

756
00:34:18,280 --> 00:34:20,440
Speaker 2: I was there for three hours. I could have easily

757
00:34:20,440 --> 00:34:21,400
Speaker 2: stayed for another three.

758
00:34:21,480 --> 00:34:23,800
Speaker 3: Yeah, and you weren't even like drinking and hanging like.

759
00:34:25,040 --> 00:34:27,560
Speaker 2: I didn't feel short changed. I definitely could have dug

760
00:34:27,600 --> 00:34:29,080
Speaker 2: into it a little bit more. I had a beer,

761
00:34:29,120 --> 00:34:32,200
Speaker 2: I had my stouty, the one that put the printed selfie. Yes,

762
00:34:32,960 --> 00:34:37,160
Speaker 2: but seven stories of seven stories, all the history, all

763
00:34:37,239 --> 00:34:41,200
Speaker 2: the exhibits, all the restaurants and tasting experiences and everything

764
00:34:41,239 --> 00:34:43,400
Speaker 2: that you can imagine, and it all ends at the

765
00:34:43,480 --> 00:34:46,319
Speaker 2: very top of the Guinness Factory, which is a three

766
00:34:46,400 --> 00:34:49,880
Speaker 2: hundred and sixty foot view of Dublin. It's all glass

767
00:34:50,160 --> 00:34:52,359
Speaker 2: that's on the top floor. Yes, the circle bar they

768
00:34:52,400 --> 00:34:54,600
Speaker 2: call it, I believe, is what it's called. And it

769
00:34:54,680 --> 00:34:58,359
Speaker 2: is the highest point in Dublin. Because skyscrapers, and you're

770
00:34:58,640 --> 00:35:00,560
Speaker 2: their zoning rules or whatever you want to call it,

771
00:35:00,560 --> 00:35:04,800
Speaker 2: are much different than ours. Skyscrapers. No, you know, there's

772
00:35:04,800 --> 00:35:08,239
Speaker 2: no massive eighty story buildings like like like there is,

773
00:35:08,280 --> 00:35:11,280
Speaker 2: you know, here in Pittsburgh and all across the country.

774
00:35:12,520 --> 00:35:14,920
Speaker 2: And that was so cool because they have they have

775
00:35:15,040 --> 00:35:18,000
Speaker 2: little like graphics on the glass that tell you what

776
00:35:18,040 --> 00:35:22,120
Speaker 2: you're looking at. So it's like, here's Krokpark Park. Look

777
00:35:22,120 --> 00:35:24,880
Speaker 2: in this direction. Here's Saint Patrick's Cathedral. Look in this direction,

778
00:35:24,920 --> 00:35:28,640
Speaker 2: Here's Trinity College. Yeah, here's the mountains on the backside

779
00:35:28,680 --> 00:35:32,359
Speaker 2: of Ireland. Yeah, it was so cool. I think even

780
00:35:32,360 --> 00:35:34,560
Speaker 2: if you're somebody that's not a big beer drinker, not

781
00:35:34,600 --> 00:35:37,640
Speaker 2: a Guinness fan, you would still enjoy it. But like

782
00:35:37,640 --> 00:35:39,520
Speaker 2: I said, if you are somebody who's a Guinness fans,

783
00:35:39,680 --> 00:35:41,279
Speaker 2: you know you know that I am. It's one of

784
00:35:41,280 --> 00:35:43,200
Speaker 2: my two or three favorite beers in the world, and

785
00:35:44,320 --> 00:35:45,920
Speaker 2: it was before we went there, and it even is

786
00:35:45,960 --> 00:35:48,400
Speaker 2: more so it's probably number one now. I mean, come on,

787
00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:52,920
Speaker 2: if you are somebody who just enjoys beer, enjoys stuff

788
00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:55,520
Speaker 2: like that, that the history of I mean, they started

789
00:35:55,520 --> 00:35:58,400
Speaker 2: bruning in the seventeen hundreds. I told you this. They

790
00:35:58,440 --> 00:36:05,200
Speaker 2: signed a nine thousand years, forty a month, pretty good deal.

791
00:36:05,239 --> 00:36:07,400
Speaker 2: Now they Guinness ended up buying that property and they

792
00:36:07,480 --> 00:36:10,200
Speaker 2: own it now, so that lease is obsolete but larious.

793
00:36:10,200 --> 00:36:13,799
Speaker 2: But Arthur Guinness signed a nine thousand year lease for

794
00:36:13,800 --> 00:36:17,440
Speaker 2: forty bucks a month. That's it's pretty good business. So

795
00:36:17,480 --> 00:36:20,400
Speaker 2: it was the gift shop I think I spent.

796
00:36:20,400 --> 00:36:21,320
Speaker 3: I know you've got some good stuff.

797
00:36:21,400 --> 00:36:23,279
Speaker 2: I think I spent like two hundred euro in the

798
00:36:23,280 --> 00:36:25,279
Speaker 2: gift shop. I could have spent eight hundred years.

799
00:36:25,520 --> 00:36:27,480
Speaker 3: You wanted everything ever.

800
00:36:27,640 --> 00:36:30,680
Speaker 2: I bought a Guinness soccer jersey, I got one of

801
00:36:30,719 --> 00:36:34,600
Speaker 2: the Guinness pint glasses, and I got Steelers in Dublin

802
00:36:34,680 --> 00:36:37,520
Speaker 2: twenty twenty five engraved on the glass. There a bunch

803
00:36:37,520 --> 00:36:40,040
Speaker 2: of different magnets and signage and stuff like that for

804
00:36:40,160 --> 00:36:43,120
Speaker 2: my fridge and my little little man cave area at home.

805
00:36:44,719 --> 00:36:47,200
Speaker 2: It was, like I said, I spent three hours there.

806
00:36:47,480 --> 00:36:50,440
Speaker 2: I could have spent another three hours there. It was

807
00:36:50,840 --> 00:36:52,680
Speaker 2: such a cool experience. I've gone to a lot of

808
00:36:52,680 --> 00:36:54,800
Speaker 2: breweries and done a lot of different tours and stuff

809
00:36:54,840 --> 00:36:58,440
Speaker 2: like that, distilleries, breweries. This one I think was the

810
00:36:58,480 --> 00:37:00,359
Speaker 2: most well done by far. Like I said, it's like

811
00:37:00,800 --> 00:37:04,520
Speaker 2: it's like a Disney World or Willie Wanka's chocolate factory,

812
00:37:04,520 --> 00:37:07,279
Speaker 2: however you want to describe it. It was so cool.

813
00:37:08,120 --> 00:37:10,880
Speaker 3: Is there a duff Amusing park on the Simpsons or

814
00:37:10,920 --> 00:37:11,640
Speaker 3: something like that there?

815
00:37:11,840 --> 00:37:14,600
Speaker 2: I think there, yes, yes, there is. That's exactly what

816
00:37:14,640 --> 00:37:14,920
Speaker 2: it was.

817
00:37:15,160 --> 00:37:15,440
Speaker 3: It was.

818
00:37:15,520 --> 00:37:19,919
Speaker 2: It's like Chocolate World in Hershey, but for for beer drinkers.

819
00:37:20,280 --> 00:37:22,640
Speaker 2: So it was. I can't say enough about it, how

820
00:37:22,680 --> 00:37:24,360
Speaker 2: great it was, how.

821
00:37:24,239 --> 00:37:26,000
Speaker 3: Cool, how cool the.

822
00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:28,560
Speaker 2: Whole facility was. And then yeah, they were like get

823
00:37:28,560 --> 00:37:30,200
Speaker 2: in there, you're doing this tour. Like, what are you

824
00:37:30,200 --> 00:37:31,880
Speaker 2: talking about? You paid for it, you have your ticket,

825
00:37:32,160 --> 00:37:32,759
Speaker 2: get in there.

826
00:37:33,120 --> 00:37:35,120
Speaker 3: I want everybody here by it. That sounds incredible and

827
00:37:35,200 --> 00:37:35,480
Speaker 3: it was.

828
00:37:35,520 --> 00:37:37,480
Speaker 2: It was awesome. Steelers fans everywhere.

829
00:37:37,880 --> 00:37:41,759
Speaker 3: There were so many people walking around the bar, I

830
00:37:41,760 --> 00:37:45,400
Speaker 3: mean the bar where we're recording from Fit Simon's. Everyone

831
00:37:45,480 --> 00:37:49,080
Speaker 3: either walked in with a little Jamison bag, most with

832
00:37:49,160 --> 00:37:52,560
Speaker 3: a Guinness bag, and some obviously with like Steelers Pro

833
00:37:52,640 --> 00:37:55,399
Speaker 3: shop ass you know, but everybody had something that were there.

834
00:37:55,400 --> 00:37:58,040
Speaker 3: Almost Yes, they did that. The town did well and

835
00:37:58,120 --> 00:37:59,160
Speaker 3: selling stuff that weekend.

836
00:37:59,360 --> 00:38:06,640
Speaker 2: My goodness. They printing money, ye print money? Oh my goodness, Matt.

837
00:38:06,680 --> 00:38:10,560
Speaker 2: I do want to talk some wide receivers with you

838
00:38:10,680 --> 00:38:14,040
Speaker 2: here as well too. What's your You got to buy

839
00:38:14,040 --> 00:38:15,719
Speaker 2: a week to assess this. I think that's the good

840
00:38:15,719 --> 00:38:19,360
Speaker 2: news for the Steelers. We will, I assume, get more

841
00:38:19,760 --> 00:38:23,839
Speaker 2: information on Calvin Austin's status this upcoming Tuesday when Mike

842
00:38:23,880 --> 00:38:26,560
Speaker 2: Tommin will have his weekly press conference ahead of the

843
00:38:26,600 --> 00:38:31,600
Speaker 2: Browns game. What's your kind of vibe your feel on

844
00:38:31,719 --> 00:38:35,799
Speaker 2: that right now? Are you willing to give it because

845
00:38:35,800 --> 00:38:37,320
Speaker 2: you still have a few weeks till the trade deadline?

846
00:38:37,640 --> 00:38:39,239
Speaker 2: Are you willing to give it some time for the

847
00:38:39,280 --> 00:38:41,840
Speaker 2: Roman Wilsons and Scottie Millers of the world. Would you

848
00:38:41,880 --> 00:38:44,200
Speaker 2: would you lean on the side of conservative and weight?

849
00:38:44,480 --> 00:38:46,160
Speaker 2: And I know this is a harder question now when

850
00:38:46,160 --> 00:38:49,480
Speaker 2: we don't have the exact timetable on Calvin Austin, But

851
00:38:49,560 --> 00:38:51,680
Speaker 2: are you kind of leaning towards the side of aggressive

852
00:38:51,719 --> 00:38:53,400
Speaker 2: as now is the time to pull the trigger and

853
00:38:53,440 --> 00:38:54,080
Speaker 2: go get some help.

854
00:38:54,560 --> 00:38:55,920
Speaker 3: A lot of layers here, and I don't even know

855
00:38:55,920 --> 00:38:57,080
Speaker 3: if we have time for all of them. And I

856
00:38:57,120 --> 00:38:59,239
Speaker 3: don't want to talk about trade names. We could even

857
00:38:59,280 --> 00:39:01,839
Speaker 3: talk about that at some other point, but I would

858
00:39:01,920 --> 00:39:05,760
Speaker 3: be a little more aggressive on the phones trade wise.

859
00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:09,320
Speaker 3: I mean I'd be kicking the tires more several reasons,

860
00:39:09,600 --> 00:39:14,720
Speaker 3: you know, like Miami, New Orleans, Oakland, I mean, are Vegas.

861
00:39:14,760 --> 00:39:16,960
Speaker 3: I mean a lot of these teams now that might

862
00:39:17,000 --> 00:39:19,000
Speaker 3: have thought they were in it, No they're not now,

863
00:39:19,120 --> 00:39:21,319
Speaker 3: you know, like their tune might have changed. I'm just

864
00:39:21,320 --> 00:39:24,680
Speaker 3: throwing out the name Kobe Myers, you know, like, oh,

865
00:39:24,719 --> 00:39:26,120
Speaker 3: we think we're gonna have a good year. We're not

866
00:39:26,160 --> 00:39:29,160
Speaker 3: trading Jakobe, We're gonna win the division, blah blah. I'm like, oh, well,

867
00:39:29,200 --> 00:39:31,640
Speaker 3: maybe we'll trade you know, you know, like they might might.

868
00:39:31,800 --> 00:39:34,920
Speaker 3: More teams might become sellers. Now after four games in,

869
00:39:35,360 --> 00:39:38,600
Speaker 3: it'd be pretty easy to see which ones they are. Also,

870
00:39:39,360 --> 00:39:42,200
Speaker 3: you're not a seller. You're three to one. The Ravens

871
00:39:42,200 --> 00:39:45,160
Speaker 3: are falling apart. The division looks like yours for the taking.

872
00:39:45,719 --> 00:39:47,880
Speaker 3: Maybe you push a chip in a future pick in

873
00:39:48,040 --> 00:39:51,160
Speaker 3: more and say, let's be a little bit aggressive, let's

874
00:39:51,160 --> 00:39:54,319
Speaker 3: make a run and in the trade world too. Like

875
00:39:54,480 --> 00:39:56,319
Speaker 3: I don't love the idea of maybe having like two

876
00:39:56,440 --> 00:39:59,480
Speaker 3: thirty million wide receivers, but you could, I mean it

877
00:40:00,040 --> 00:40:04,960
Speaker 3: considering your quarterback situation, and I do think he'd be

878
00:40:05,080 --> 00:40:08,400
Speaker 3: very useful now as well as if you were to

879
00:40:08,480 --> 00:40:10,200
Speaker 3: draft a quarterback in the first round, and we have

880
00:40:10,239 --> 00:40:13,239
Speaker 3: some quarterback talk coming up this week too, you'd sure

881
00:40:13,400 --> 00:40:15,960
Speaker 3: like to walk in with one more receiver if you're

882
00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:19,960
Speaker 3: that quarterback too. Side note, I forget who brought this

883
00:40:20,040 --> 00:40:21,480
Speaker 3: up to me while we were there. I think it

884
00:40:21,480 --> 00:40:25,759
Speaker 3: was Rob actually that we've been counting on a third

885
00:40:25,840 --> 00:40:29,000
Speaker 3: round pick in the Russell Wilson move. Well, now that

886
00:40:29,040 --> 00:40:32,640
Speaker 3: he got benched, I'm not sure that's guaranteed. So draft

887
00:40:32,640 --> 00:40:35,520
Speaker 3: capital might be not quite as strong. It'll maybe it's

888
00:40:35,520 --> 00:40:37,879
Speaker 3: a fourth and seven third, you know, so just keep

889
00:40:37,880 --> 00:40:39,480
Speaker 3: that in mind of it, meaning to say that since

890
00:40:39,480 --> 00:40:44,799
Speaker 3: we got back, but trades aside, and Frankly, I mean

891
00:40:45,280 --> 00:40:47,480
Speaker 3: it's a good time too. I mean you could use

892
00:40:47,520 --> 00:40:49,680
Speaker 3: it as an excuse with the Austed injury, but it's

893
00:40:49,719 --> 00:40:52,600
Speaker 3: also bye week. If you could get him here acclimate

894
00:40:52,680 --> 00:40:55,040
Speaker 3: him all during the bye he plays with the team,

895
00:40:55,160 --> 00:40:57,600
Speaker 3: I mean, it's a good time to add one as

896
00:40:57,600 --> 00:40:59,840
Speaker 3: opposed to at the trade deadline get him ready for

897
00:40:59,840 --> 00:41:02,719
Speaker 3: some that's a little tougher. So I mean it works

898
00:41:02,760 --> 00:41:04,840
Speaker 3: out well with your buy and it correlates with the

899
00:41:04,880 --> 00:41:08,960
Speaker 3: Austin injury. It wasn't a one for one, but after

900
00:41:09,040 --> 00:41:13,120
Speaker 3: he got hurt, it was almost Miller replacing him. I

901
00:41:13,160 --> 00:41:15,480
Speaker 3: mean the other guys got worked in like they still do,

902
00:41:16,120 --> 00:41:18,840
Speaker 3: but in two tight end sets it was mostly Miller.

903
00:41:19,480 --> 00:41:22,200
Speaker 3: And I think he's just highly trustworthy and as Chris

904
00:41:22,239 --> 00:41:24,720
Speaker 3: mentioned too, he can also really run. I think speed's

905
00:41:24,719 --> 00:41:26,840
Speaker 3: important here, but not the Romans slow. All four of

906
00:41:26,840 --> 00:41:30,760
Speaker 3: those guys can fly. But I do think Miller's close

907
00:41:30,840 --> 00:41:33,440
Speaker 3: to Austin in terms of he can play outside more

908
00:41:33,480 --> 00:41:36,360
Speaker 3: than Roman can. Frankly, I don't know their thoughts on

909
00:41:36,440 --> 00:41:39,080
Speaker 3: Roman but I do think they're way more encouraged than

910
00:41:39,120 --> 00:41:42,480
Speaker 3: his stat line would show. I would think you work

911
00:41:42,560 --> 00:41:45,319
Speaker 3: him in a little bit more. I mean, there's some

912
00:41:45,360 --> 00:41:47,839
Speaker 3: of these games he's playing eight snaps, ten snaps. I mean,

913
00:41:47,840 --> 00:41:51,319
Speaker 3: maybe that goes to twenty, but by hunches it would

914
00:41:51,320 --> 00:41:53,000
Speaker 3: be Miller. I'm not even saying that's what I would do.

915
00:41:53,080 --> 00:41:56,320
Speaker 3: But I think that they're just so confident that Miller's

916
00:41:56,360 --> 00:41:58,960
Speaker 3: been there, done it. Get you through a game or

917
00:41:59,000 --> 00:42:02,920
Speaker 3: two or the rest of the year, maybe be Roman

918
00:42:02,960 --> 00:42:07,200
Speaker 3: and say okay, yeah, yeah, Yeah.

919
00:42:06,560 --> 00:42:10,839
Speaker 2: I think that they definitely there's a trust factor there

920
00:42:10,880 --> 00:42:15,600
Speaker 2: with Scottie Miller, Yes, which they would better, you know, Yeah,

921
00:42:15,640 --> 00:42:17,160
Speaker 2: and they would lean on in the short term, they

922
00:42:17,160 --> 00:42:20,120
Speaker 2: would lean on, you know, in the in the situation

923
00:42:20,280 --> 00:42:22,080
Speaker 2: that transpired at Croke Park.

924
00:42:22,200 --> 00:42:24,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, someone goes down, I can plug them right in,

925
00:42:24,120 --> 00:42:26,080
Speaker 3: and Roger trusts them, and you know.

926
00:42:26,239 --> 00:42:27,920
Speaker 2: But I think a lot a lot of things, as

927
00:42:27,960 --> 00:42:30,279
Speaker 2: you outline correctly point to if you're man, if you're

928
00:42:30,280 --> 00:42:31,799
Speaker 2: going to get aggressive, now is a great time to

929
00:42:31,840 --> 00:42:34,280
Speaker 2: do it. Yeah, You've got the bye week to integrate somebody.

930
00:42:35,280 --> 00:42:40,360
Speaker 2: You have a incredible opportunity here, Matt. You get the

931
00:42:40,400 --> 00:42:44,719
Speaker 2: Browns at home coming back from London. Dylan Gabriel could

932
00:42:44,800 --> 00:42:46,000
Speaker 2: be just his second start.

933
00:42:46,000 --> 00:42:47,800
Speaker 3: Ever, I would assume on the road.

934
00:42:48,360 --> 00:42:51,480
Speaker 2: We know how good that Brown's defense is. But even still,

935
00:42:51,600 --> 00:42:54,000
Speaker 2: that's a that's one that feels like a you know,

936
00:42:54,080 --> 00:42:56,360
Speaker 2: you're you're going to be favored and be able to

937
00:42:56,360 --> 00:42:58,160
Speaker 2: take care of business. And then you got the short

938
00:42:58,160 --> 00:43:00,240
Speaker 2: week in Cincinnati on Thursday.

939
00:43:00,040 --> 00:43:01,960
Speaker 3: Which doesn't look as scary as it it doesn't schedule

940
00:43:02,040 --> 00:43:04,640
Speaker 3: him when the schedule A look at that when the

941
00:43:04,640 --> 00:43:07,200
Speaker 3: schedule came out like short weekend, Sincy, come on.

942
00:43:07,120 --> 00:43:09,520
Speaker 2: I'm on right now. Though not as daunting. Again, it's

943
00:43:09,520 --> 00:43:10,719
Speaker 2: not going to be a walk in the park. None

944
00:43:10,760 --> 00:43:12,719
Speaker 2: of the division games ever are. But it's certainly not

945
00:43:12,760 --> 00:43:14,360
Speaker 2: as daunting as it was a few weeks or a

946
00:43:14,400 --> 00:43:17,960
Speaker 2: few months ago. By the middle of October five and

947
00:43:18,000 --> 00:43:22,640
Speaker 2: one right, two to zero in the Division four and

948
00:43:22,640 --> 00:43:23,400
Speaker 2: oh in the AFC.

949
00:43:23,840 --> 00:43:25,880
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, I mean you would.

950
00:43:25,600 --> 00:43:31,040
Speaker 2: Have your in a great, great uh the spot at

951
00:43:31,040 --> 00:43:31,440
Speaker 2: that point.

952
00:43:31,520 --> 00:43:34,520
Speaker 3: Yeah. And again I mean I think one of these

953
00:43:34,560 --> 00:43:38,120
Speaker 3: picks will go to a wide receiver either on draft day,

954
00:43:38,160 --> 00:43:39,759
Speaker 3: you know, no matter what I mean, you probably have

955
00:43:39,840 --> 00:43:42,160
Speaker 3: an off season receiver. Need I doubt that they just

956
00:43:42,239 --> 00:43:44,680
Speaker 3: roll back exactly what they have. You know, I think

957
00:43:44,719 --> 00:43:48,120
Speaker 3: they'll add one sometime between now and opening day twenty

958
00:43:48,200 --> 00:43:49,960
Speaker 3: twenty six, you know, right, you know, I mean that

959
00:43:50,160 --> 00:43:51,480
Speaker 3: doesn't sound far fetched at all.

960
00:43:51,680 --> 00:43:54,240
Speaker 2: No, it doesn't. And so certainly something to monitor, certainly

961
00:43:54,280 --> 00:43:55,680
Speaker 2: something will keep an eye on. Maybe we'll talk a

962
00:43:55,719 --> 00:43:57,640
Speaker 2: little bit more about that next week as well too,

963
00:43:58,040 --> 00:43:58,600
Speaker 2: as we roll.

964
00:43:59,000 --> 00:44:01,000
Speaker 3: With a bunch of names and I mean side notes.

965
00:44:01,080 --> 00:44:03,400
Speaker 3: I do think the trade deadline across the league might

966
00:44:03,440 --> 00:44:05,520
Speaker 3: be busier than ever. I mean, I don't know if

967
00:44:05,520 --> 00:44:07,200
Speaker 3: we're gonna talk power ranks today or not, but the

968
00:44:07,440 --> 00:44:09,319
Speaker 3: bottom feeders are bad right now.

969
00:44:09,360 --> 00:44:11,480
Speaker 2: I'm glad you said that, Matt, because that's what I

970
00:44:11,480 --> 00:44:13,000
Speaker 2: wanted to do with you to start our number two.

971
00:44:13,040 --> 00:44:14,120
Speaker 3: How about that, Let's do it.

972
00:44:14,320 --> 00:44:17,239
Speaker 2: Look at this, we are getting good at this. Let's

973
00:44:17,320 --> 00:44:19,440
Speaker 2: start our number two on the other side with some

974
00:44:19,719 --> 00:44:22,160
Speaker 2: power rankings here as we are now into the month

975
00:44:22,200 --> 00:44:24,319
Speaker 2: of October. We'll get into all of that and more

976
00:44:24,320 --> 00:44:26,200
Speaker 2: when we return our number two of the drive. Wes

977
00:44:26,239 --> 00:44:28,800
Speaker 2: s Heeler Matt Williamson at Steelers Nation Radio on the

978
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Speaker 2: Steelers Audio Network