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Speaker 1: Your Tune's 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 afternoon, Steelers Nation. It's the Drive on the Steelers

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Speaker 2: Audio Network. Wes Shooler and Matt Williamson with you here

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Speaker 2: on a Tuesday, on a weird week where we have

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Speaker 2: got blunty to get into man.

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Speaker 3: More than we can fit one show.

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Speaker 2: Probably that's exactly right, So off and run into the

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Speaker 2: races here. And I just wanted to ask you before

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Speaker 2: we get into some Steelers Bengaled specifics, who's the best

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Speaker 2: team in the AFC right now?

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Speaker 3: I was just gonna ask who's the best team in

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Speaker 3: the league. I mean, I mean, the Lions kind of

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Speaker 3: had a case and they just lost. Bill's kind of

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Speaker 3: had a case recently, Eagles had a case recently. Is

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Speaker 3: it Tampa?

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Speaker 2: May be?

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Speaker 3: Is the Are the Chiefs the best team?

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Speaker 2: That was my you know, like a sneaky answer, was

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Speaker 2: going to be the Chiefs the best team in the

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Speaker 2: a f C, which.

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Speaker 3: Is so boring, which is very like.

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Speaker 2: The conversation, but my goodness, a rough one for Buffalo

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Speaker 2: last night.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I can't put the Steelers there though, I mean

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Speaker 3: I think that's where you were going.

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Speaker 2: But you know, right, I at least think the Steelers

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Speaker 2: mentioned in the conversation yea be right now today fourteenth.

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Speaker 3: You know, but may Denver was less than impressive overseas.

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Speaker 3: I mean, they won, but I.

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Speaker 2: Think to this point the only teams that have been

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Speaker 2: real impressive are almost the ones that we didn't expect

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Speaker 2: it from heading into the sea in Indy for sure.

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Speaker 3: And if you buy in or not, I guess is

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Speaker 3: the case on them. They've had the best year.

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Speaker 2: They have, yes, and I think Tampa not quite to that.

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Speaker 2: Ext've made the playoffs five straight years. I think they

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Speaker 2: were the popular pick to win that division.

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Speaker 3: I don't think a lot of so many injuries and things.

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Speaker 2: I don't think a lot of people thought that they'd

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Speaker 2: be five and one and it would have played out

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Speaker 2: like this where Baker Mayfield's an MVP favorite, right and

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Speaker 2: they guys.

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Speaker 3: Are dropping left and right.

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Speaker 2: It hasn't mattered, and they look, you know, like maybe

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Speaker 2: the best team in the National Football League. We'll do

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Speaker 2: some power rankings here today and I got a feeling

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Speaker 2: they're gonna be towards the top certainly.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think they've earned that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, But it's just, man, I'm sitting there last night

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Speaker 2: and I'm watching the Bills struggle, and as you mentioned

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Speaker 2: some of these other teams, particularly in the AFC as

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Speaker 2: well too, that we have thought, Okay, this team's really good,

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Speaker 3: You Baltimore is the best example.

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Speaker 2: Baltimore is the best example. But like you bring the

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Speaker 2: Lions or a good example, and the Eagles are a

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Speaker 2: good example. Man, nobody is perfect right now. I mean,

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Speaker 2: maybe the Colts are like the one team that feels

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Speaker 3: But I've had the best years. Yes, does that mean

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Speaker 3: they're the best team. I'm not sure they have the

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Speaker 3: best resume, you know, right, But you like Daniel Jones

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Speaker 3: that takes a little leap of faith, you know, let alone,

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Speaker 3: let alone, we're not talking about this, but to go

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Speaker 3: I know if Daniel Jones isn't that ready for that yet?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly right. But it's just, man, it

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Speaker 2: feels like and I always hesitate to do this kind

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Speaker 2: this year is way more wide open than most in

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Speaker 3: I tend to agree. I mean, a lot of it

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Speaker 3: is just burrow Lamar. Don't look like they're going to

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Speaker 3: Mahomes has had it's starting to open up from home.

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Speaker 3: Yes it is, how boring, is that right? I mean

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Speaker 3: Route for them this year where they were the records

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Speaker 2: I mean, they've already lost more games this year than

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Speaker 2: Not gonna be fifteen, They're not going to be fifteen

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Speaker 2: and two, you know. I guess they could still obviously

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Speaker 2: felt like this entire season. Every time we nailed down well,

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Speaker 2: Really good and then they have two terrible performances. The

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Speaker 2: It's just it has been a bizarre seed.

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Speaker 2: And with that once again, I mean the Steelers really

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Speaker 2: Cleveland on Sunday. Yes, in Baltimore, the Rams kind of

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Speaker 3: Browns pretty darn close.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you and I have talked. We both If Baltimore

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Speaker 3: I would I could, I could. You can tell me

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Speaker 2: But even if that's the case and.

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Speaker 3: The math or whatever, I feel like they can lose

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Speaker 2: Like make a wild card.

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Speaker 3: They did even be the team no one wants to

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Speaker 3: play in the play right alone? Right right? I mean

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Speaker 3: two more losses than any way you cut it, I

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Speaker 2: And so it three more losses they're out of it.

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Speaker 2: Two I think they could still get a wild card.

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Speaker 3: Three they would need tie breakers, exactly right.

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Speaker 2: It just it feels, it feels like a very bizarre year.

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Speaker 2: And the backdrop of that is the Steelers are four

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Speaker 3: They're favored.

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Speaker 2: They're favored against a banged up Bengals team that is,

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Speaker 2: I know that, you know, Mike Tomlin is never one

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Speaker 2: of the one one of these Thursday divisional games on

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Speaker 2: the road. I think he's only won two of these

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Speaker 2: Thursday road games in his nineteen years in Pittsburgh. Yes,

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Speaker 2: And two again, I mean sitting five and one with

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Speaker 3: All Right, So a couple things that I wanted to

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Speaker 3: just get want to rewind one thing. League wide, I

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Speaker 3: don't think we know who's really good. We know who's good,

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Speaker 3: you know, I don't know who we know who's really good.

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Speaker 3: really really bad. That doesn't really concern the stealer, they're

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Speaker 3: night stuff, we haven't talked about a lot. We've only

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Speaker 3: had one show this week. But on the road Thursday night,

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Speaker 2: For the road team on those Thursday night games, is

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Speaker 2: not good best like it's like one out of three.

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Speaker 3: Yes, his isn't good enough. It's below the standard, you

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Speaker 3: at it. Well, two things won't add too in this case,

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Speaker 3: he's always been better the more prep time he gets.

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Speaker 3: We just talked about after a bye he's awesome, you know, well,

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Speaker 3: he's Green Bay is a better team than the Bengals. Yes,

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Speaker 3: I would rather have the long time to prepare for

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Speaker 3: especially it's currently restructed with with Flakka not you get

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Speaker 2: Totally with you.

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Speaker 3: Now. I didn't know this still today, but I did

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Speaker 3: a live show with Rob and Missy and Rob opened

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Speaker 3: it with you know that all the struggles on Thursday

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Speaker 3: Night on the road everything you just said, and Missy

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Speaker 3: retorted by saying, yeah. But Aaron Rodgers is thirteen and

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Speaker 3: Michael Burch just put this out from the Steelers. He

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Speaker 3: has all the stats. I think he's thirteen and five

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Speaker 3: a forty two to five interception touchdown interception ratio?

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Speaker 3: I think that's pretty good. I mean, like he's passer rating,

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Speaker 3: forty two to five is what I remember in terms

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Speaker 3: of touchdown interception ratio. So wow. Yeah, I mean, so

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Speaker 3: maybe that mojo you know fights the bad mojo.

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Speaker 2: You know, he played two Thursday night games last year

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Speaker 2: with the Jets. The first one seventy seven percent completion percentage,

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Speaker 3: Pretty bad team. These aren't powerhouse packer teams.

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Speaker 2: One hundred and nineteen passer rating.

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Speaker 2: The second one, okay, The first one was against New

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Speaker 2: against Houston A Division.

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Speaker 3: Champeah, Okay, playoff team.

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Speaker 2: Twenty two of thirty two for a sixty nine completion percentage,

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Speaker 2: two hundred and eleven yards passing, three touchdowns, no turnovers

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Speaker 3: Yeah. So, you know, I mean a lot of We've

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Speaker 3: heard this from a Steeler fans and probably from all

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Speaker 2: Forty two and five touchdown to intersect. That looks fake.

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Speaker 3: That looks fake, right, it looks like mad numbers or

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Speaker 3: something like. But a lot of people will be like,

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Speaker 3: old stuff. Well that's a pretty big change.

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Speaker 2: That's a significant right, And that is another one of

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Speaker 2: those I think kind of. I was about to say

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Speaker 3: I haven't seen anything today. It's obviously a weird week.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, helps Yeah, absolutely, And then still haven't seen a

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Speaker 2: Back on the Drive here on a Tuesday, on a

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Speaker 2: of course, our buddy and proud mars Man himself, Chris Adamski. Buzz,

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Speaker 2: thank you for taking the time, as always before we

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Speaker 4: I would think that that would mean, you know, the

439
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Speaker 4: Thursday game is a little bit of a different than

440
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Speaker 4: a normal week where they don't practice on Friday. It's

441
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Speaker 4: been almost unanimous over Tomin's ten year that if somebody

442
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Speaker 4: doesn't practice on Friday, they don't practice, don't play on Sunday. Now,

443
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Speaker 4: the Thursday thing, you can tuck yourself into it, I guess,

444
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Speaker 4: But they also didn't. It's not like he just suffered

445
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Speaker 4: this on Sunday and you know, get a guy day

446
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Speaker 4: off something like that. I apprentice at this point expect

447
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Speaker 4: he's not going to play, uh tomorrow, Thursday tomorrow, No,

448
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Speaker 4: I get the week. He short weeks all throw me off.

449
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Speaker 4: We two days ago.

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Speaker 3: Do you think Miller would be the close to the

451
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Speaker 3: direct replacement again? It seems that way.

452
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Speaker 4: Yeah, it seemed certainly into I mean in terms of

453
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Speaker 4: snaps he did, and I guess you go by target.

454
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Speaker 4: There was only one target to be had when it's

455
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Speaker 4: the whole core there, and you know, I think we

456
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Speaker 4: I thought by the eye test, I thought Gainwell lined

457
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Speaker 4: up a little bit more in the slot that game.

458
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Speaker 4: But then from what I saw the the at least

459
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Speaker 4: the PFF numbers that didn't didn't say he did, I

460
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Speaker 4: thought maybe that was they were going to kind of

461
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Speaker 4: replace him more, you know, by committee of course on

462
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Speaker 4: this jump up package. Now that that's one fewer wide

463
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Speaker 4: receiver you need for a lot of plays. But in

464
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Speaker 4: terms of who the act that extra eligible was wouldn't

465
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Speaker 4: exactly be linear, you know, in terms of Scotty Miller

466
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Speaker 4: replacing Calvin Austin for all the snaps he'd play, I

467
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Speaker 4: thought you'd see more gain Well and maybe more the

468
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Speaker 4: tight ends. And I guess probably by extension there probably

469
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Speaker 4: was a little more John new Smith on Sunday then

470
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Speaker 4: it would have been otherwise. But that seems to be it.

471
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Speaker 4: But to sample size now is up to five games, right,

472
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Speaker 4: so you add up Miller and Wilson and Scaronik. I

473
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Speaker 4: mean how many targets they have in totality, it's not

474
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Speaker 4: too many. So whatever anybody's thinking about in terms of production,

475
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Speaker 4: at least catch production, I don't know if there's going

476
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Speaker 4: to be anybody who really steps into that role as

477
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Speaker 4: the wide receiver.

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Speaker 2: Two, well buzz kind of sticking with a similar conversation.

479
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Speaker 2: Over the last two weeks, Darnell Washington has clearly been

480
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Speaker 2: tight end number one. Is that here to stay for

481
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Speaker 2: the long term? Is that a function of just the

482
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Speaker 2: opponents and the defenses they've played the last two weeks?

483
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Speaker 2: Maybe the answer somewhere in the middle. Do you expect

484
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Speaker 2: to continue to see him being the lead car, the

485
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Speaker 2: pace car for the tight ends at least certainly in

486
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Speaker 2: terms of snapcount.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know if it was by ir if

488
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Speaker 4: it has been, or was their design that, Hey, from

489
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Speaker 4: this point on, Thornell's gonna play, you know whatever, three

490
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Speaker 4: quarters eighty percent of the snaps the rest of the season.

491
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Speaker 4: But maybe that was the game plan for Minnesota and

492
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Speaker 4: the way the game flow played out, and then Cleveland

493
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Speaker 4: sort of the same way, and you see the results

494
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Speaker 4: with you could say the running game, you could say

495
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Speaker 4: Washington's production as a receiver, all the lot of reasons

496
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Speaker 4: why it's working. The team's winning obviously, and he finally,

497
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Speaker 4: I don't say finally, but they're finally trusting maybe putting

498
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Speaker 4: the pack obviously. I mean, he's you've talked about it

499
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Speaker 4: at nausea for three years.

500
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Speaker 3: Now.

501
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Speaker 4: What kind of athlete he is? Or a unique individual?

502
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Speaker 4: He is anikee human being he is, or being that

503
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Speaker 4: size and being that fast and having some of the

504
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Speaker 4: skills he has. So he was projected as a remember,

505
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Speaker 4: a possible first round pick for a reason that year,

506
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Speaker 4: and he fell a little bit and they were talking

507
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Speaker 4: about his medicals maybe whatever happened there. So he has

508
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Speaker 4: the pedigree he could be that. And quite frankly, if

509
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Speaker 4: he's gonna, I mean it's it's it's again. We've seen

510
00:24:05,880 --> 00:24:07,400
Speaker 4: it so often. We've seen it for three years off

511
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Speaker 4: and on to some little sample sizes. I guess that's

512
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Speaker 4: maybe that's why. But it's every time he heads the past,

513
00:24:12,400 --> 00:24:15,080
Speaker 4: it is still a marvel to see the you know,

514
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Speaker 4: six and forty pounds linebackers just cut. It's like fee

515
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Speaker 4: five both it's bumping on him. It's it's it's something

516
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Speaker 4: to behold it and it's yeah, yeah, yeah, certainly, I

517
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Speaker 4: mean without saying that, yeah, that just the way he

518
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Speaker 4: just kind of takes seems like it takes three guys

519
00:24:32,640 --> 00:24:34,520
Speaker 4: to tackle him every time he catches the pass. So

520
00:24:34,920 --> 00:24:36,720
Speaker 4: you add this up and the way things are working,

521
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Speaker 4: and there's obviously a lot of good vibes around around

522
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Speaker 4: the Steelers offense and the Steelers overall right now. And

523
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Speaker 4: it's been I want to say it's a direct result

524
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Speaker 4: of him playing, of course, but if it ain't broke,

525
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Speaker 4: don't fix it.

526
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Speaker 3: Right, So it doesn't matter who the quarterback is. But

527
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Speaker 3: the scariest aspect, without question, of this Bengals team is

528
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Speaker 3: Higgins and Chase right. I mean, it looks like the

529
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Speaker 3: Steelers will be healthy at corner and they've pretty public

530
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Speaker 3: said Ramsey's their number one? How do you think they

531
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Speaker 3: handle it? Though? I mean I would, I still would

532
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Speaker 3: kind of be shocked if it's just chasing Ramsey on

533
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Speaker 3: an island all day. I mean that sounds like that's

534
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Speaker 3: asking a lot.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and it really hasn't They haven't done yet this season.

536
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Speaker 4: It's really hard to get an idea because this past

537
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Speaker 4: game was the first game where the entire secondary was

538
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Speaker 4: healthy for the entire game.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, And you could get you can get some kind

541
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Speaker 4: of idea how the Steelers are helped Terre Austin and

542
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Speaker 4: like everybody was going to approach how they would defend Eam.

543
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Speaker 4: Now Cleveland doesn't have an alpha wide receiver or a

544
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Speaker 4: very very good or.

545
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Speaker 3: You know, justin Jefferson two weeks ago, and they didn't

546
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Speaker 3: do that, you.

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Speaker 4: Know, yeah, so I would think now, I mean, they

548
00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:46,359
Speaker 4: didn't have Joey Pour of that game. So in theory

549
00:25:46,440 --> 00:25:49,040
Speaker 4: you put him, then you're making yourself weaker at number two.

550
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Speaker 4: And and maybe the Vikings doesn't have the same number

551
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Speaker 4: as caliber number two that the Bengals have. So in

552
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Speaker 4: other words, they how open. Yeah, yes, they have a lot.

553
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Speaker 4: They've built this secondary with a lot of options in

554
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Speaker 4: mine and they've been pretty upfront here even this week.

555
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Speaker 4: I've been surprised at up front they were like, yeah,

556
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Speaker 4: we had we have the Bengals in mind when we

557
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Speaker 4: made when we acquire all these dbs we've been getting.

558
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Speaker 4: We talk about these eligibles and the things we've been

559
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Speaker 4: doing to you get all these these cornerbacks like this.

560
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Speaker 4: But the Bengals were, you know, target number one for

561
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Speaker 4: while we're doing it. So now having a whole full

562
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Speaker 4: compliment of players all, but then you have the Ramsey

563
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Speaker 4: with the hamstring though, I mean obviously he looked pretty

564
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Speaker 4: healthy making plays the other day. But maybe you don't

565
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Speaker 4: want to put extra stress on him, you know what

566
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Speaker 4: I'm saying that like three days you know, a game

567
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Speaker 4: four days later on three days rest, we have a

568
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Speaker 4: tender hamstring. Maybe maybe you do want to keep him

569
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Speaker 4: back in center field a little bit more than you

570
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Speaker 4: would otherwise. So I still wouldn't predict it, but I

571
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Speaker 4: also wouldn't be surprised because, like I said, I'm sure

572
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Speaker 4: that they've had whatever they've acquired all these DB's, they

573
00:26:51,640 --> 00:26:54,040
Speaker 4: had the Bengals circle this entire time, So whatever they

574
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Speaker 4: got cooked up and was fun to see.

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Speaker 2: A couple more minutes here with Chris Adamski on the

576
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Speaker 2: Drive on Steelers Radio on the Steelers' audio network Buzz.

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Speaker 2: I think Matt and I kind of stumbled into a theory,

578
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Speaker 2: into a thesis maybe in the first segment of the show.

579
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Speaker 2: We were talking about, of course, the challenges of Thursday

580
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Speaker 2: night games, particularly in the division, particularly when you have

581
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Speaker 2: to go on the road. Mike Tomlin just two and

582
00:27:18,359 --> 00:27:20,720
Speaker 2: eight on road Thursday night football games as the head

583
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Speaker 2: coach of the Steelers zero and six when those are

584
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Speaker 2: divisional games. Now we kind of juxtapose that, however, with

585
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Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers who is thirteen and six on Thursday nights

586
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Speaker 2: in his career, And Matt I just kind of did

587
00:27:36,800 --> 00:27:39,760
Speaker 2: the quick math on this. Yeah, nine and one in

588
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Speaker 2: divisional Thursday night games. Oh okay, Aaron Rodgers in his career,

589
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Speaker 2: So thirteen and.

590
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Speaker 3: Six overall familiar opponents.

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Speaker 2: Nine and one in his division and obviously he has

592
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Speaker 2: not yet seen the Bengals as the you know, the

593
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Speaker 2: quarterback of the Pittsburgh Steelers. But buzz I gotta think, listen,

594
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Speaker 2: Mike Tomlin is not alone. His percentage is a little

595
00:27:59,320 --> 00:28:01,760
Speaker 2: bit lower, but it is across the league. A tall

596
00:28:01,840 --> 00:28:04,400
Speaker 2: task for teams to win on the road on these

597
00:28:04,520 --> 00:28:07,360
Speaker 2: short weeks on Thursday nights. But Matt and I kind

598
00:28:07,359 --> 00:28:11,000
Speaker 2: of hypothesized that when you have a quarterback like Aaron Rodgers,

599
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Speaker 2: obviously one of the greatest to ever do it at

600
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Speaker 2: his position, he's going to walk into the Hall of

601
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Speaker 2: Fame when he hangs them up. But he's also one

602
00:28:17,680 --> 00:28:21,600
Speaker 2: of the smartest quarterbacks ever above the shoulders. Just the

603
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Speaker 2: advantage that that can have for your offense on a

604
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Speaker 2: short week, less prep time, less practice time, all those things.

605
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Speaker 2: Could this kind of be the elixir Aaron Rodgers under

606
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Speaker 2: center against a Bengals team who feels like they're right

607
00:28:36,080 --> 00:28:39,720
Speaker 2: for the picking to get Mike Tomlin that first Divisional

608
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Speaker 2: road win on a Thursday night.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, just looking at what the Bengals. I mean,

610
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Speaker 4: the Bengals are last right now in the league. And

611
00:28:47,200 --> 00:28:48,880
Speaker 4: this is no great th Thursday nights, of course, but

612
00:28:48,920 --> 00:28:50,520
Speaker 4: they're last in the league in point different so and

613
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Speaker 4: that's after starting too. And oh so you imagine how

614
00:28:53,480 --> 00:28:55,680
Speaker 4: bad they've they've been getting beat the past four weeks. Now,

615
00:28:55,720 --> 00:28:58,520
Speaker 4: they're minus eighty overall and minus eighty five over over

616
00:28:58,560 --> 00:29:01,239
Speaker 4: this four game losing streaks. And I know lot that

617
00:29:01,280 --> 00:29:03,520
Speaker 4: was Jake browning at Jake Brown and giving the ball

618
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Speaker 4: the other team for the first three of those games.

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Speaker 4: And he's not gonna be part of this game, but

620
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Speaker 4: you still have And I know he's forty years old too,

621
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Speaker 4: and he's considered a smart quarterback and been around and

622
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Speaker 4: seeing everything and joined a bunch of different teams and

623
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Speaker 4: all that, so better equipped than most. But it was

624
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Speaker 4: only eight days ago, or actually, as we speak now,

625
00:29:19,360 --> 00:29:22,360
Speaker 4: seven days ago. So Whendon Placo show up in Cincinnati

626
00:29:22,400 --> 00:29:24,600
Speaker 4: six days ago, right, so he's going to be eight

627
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Speaker 4: days later playing his second game, the second game in

628
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Speaker 4: five days, so there's there obviously is a lot here

629
00:29:30,680 --> 00:29:36,600
Speaker 4: going for the Steelers. And but you're right, yeah, you

630
00:29:36,640 --> 00:29:39,160
Speaker 4: think about it, show up somewhere and unless he got

631
00:29:39,200 --> 00:29:42,120
Speaker 4: there Tuesday night, he's playing the game, planning for a game,

632
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Speaker 4: you know, five days later, to be the starting quarterback

633
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Speaker 4: four days later, and then four days after that another game.

634
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Speaker 4: So I'm sure it's a friendly time and you know

635
00:29:51,080 --> 00:29:53,560
Speaker 4: that everything points to the Steelers, but it did. It

636
00:29:53,680 --> 00:29:55,880
Speaker 4: is crazy, I mean just from a just from a

637
00:29:56,160 --> 00:30:00,680
Speaker 4: for entertainment purposes only perceptive, you know people the people

638
00:30:00,680 --> 00:30:03,040
Speaker 4: love to say it's cliche, but you know, road teams

639
00:30:03,040 --> 00:30:05,720
Speaker 4: in the division, you're always weary to back. The road

640
00:30:05,760 --> 00:30:07,720
Speaker 4: team in a Thursday night game, you're always wearied to back.

641
00:30:07,760 --> 00:30:09,480
Speaker 4: And of course we have a lot of data with

642
00:30:09,480 --> 00:30:12,680
Speaker 4: the Steelers that provides although almost all those losses, unless

643
00:30:12,680 --> 00:30:16,160
Speaker 4: they were on Thanksgiving, are against the Browns. Now, I

644
00:30:16,200 --> 00:30:18,960
Speaker 4: don't know if that makes it better because the Browns

645
00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:21,320
Speaker 4: are are that you know, I have this, I've been

646
00:30:21,400 --> 00:30:23,600
Speaker 4: that great teams over the years or anything like that.

647
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Speaker 4: But what there's two on Thanksgiving with the with the Ravens,

648
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Speaker 4: I think, and they played a regular Thursday night game whenever.

649
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Speaker 4: Who was the kicker that kept missing stield goals for

650
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Speaker 4: the Steelers?

651
00:30:32,560 --> 00:30:34,240
Speaker 2: The Scooby Scoby Scoby kept.

652
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Speaker 4: Missing kicks over and over and that's why they lost

653
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Speaker 4: that Thursday night game. That was a home game. So

654
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Speaker 4: I guess that doesn't count. But you get the point.

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Speaker 4: There's a there's a lot here that you would think

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Speaker 4: would point to the Steelers. But then again, it's like

657
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Speaker 4: hashtag NFL. You can never take anything for granted.

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Speaker 3: Chris. Last thing I got for you is, I'm curious

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Speaker 3: your thoughts on Patrick Queen. There's so many right now

660
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Speaker 3: individual players on defense to get excited about, you know,

661
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Speaker 3: the first round pick, her Big, the corners, Elliott being back.

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Speaker 3: I think Queen's right there with those guys, though, I

663
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Speaker 3: think he's really played well of late.

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Speaker 4: It is it is crazy with this Steelers defense. How

665
00:31:10,160 --> 00:31:12,440
Speaker 4: you can go and talk and me and Tom will

666
00:31:12,480 --> 00:31:15,080
Speaker 4: talk for a whole segment about the defense. And I

667
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Speaker 4: think it was like we got to hour two before

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Speaker 4: you mentioned Derek Harmon. This is your first round.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, but you.

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Speaker 4: Know, three or four games into his career, you're just

671
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Speaker 4: kind of like, yeah, he's there, he saw what he does,

672
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Speaker 4: you know he's doing It's like you don't even like

673
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Speaker 4: have to talk about it because there's so many guys

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Speaker 4: around him make it. I mean, how can you ignore

675
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Speaker 4: her big and Wat's doing his thing and it's just

676
00:31:33,520 --> 00:31:38,400
Speaker 4: Ramsey's making splash plays and you guys get lost because

677
00:31:38,400 --> 00:31:41,080
Speaker 4: there's just so many playmakers right now. And that's absolutely right.

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Speaker 4: Here's a guy who you know I've talked about just

679
00:31:43,440 --> 00:31:45,560
Speaker 4: in general, that queen kind of gets lost in his

680
00:31:45,600 --> 00:31:47,640
Speaker 4: defense and we kind of forget about how he was

681
00:31:47,680 --> 00:31:51,360
Speaker 4: just for the Steelers, a very marquee, I mean literally

682
00:31:51,400 --> 00:31:54,280
Speaker 4: the highest paid free agent they've ever signed outside the

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Speaker 4: organization to bring into a free agent and it was

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Speaker 4: an all pro when they brought him in. And he's

685
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Speaker 4: been in the middle of the defense. And yeah, so

686
00:32:00,160 --> 00:32:02,720
Speaker 4: you kind of do a great way of putting it.

687
00:32:02,760 --> 00:32:04,960
Speaker 4: You kind of forget to forget about him. But yeah,

688
00:32:04,960 --> 00:32:07,920
Speaker 4: he's probably had a solid a time, a solid stretch

689
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Speaker 4: here these past couple of games that he's had as

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Speaker 4: a Steeler, and and especially after the way those first

691
00:32:13,480 --> 00:32:16,320
Speaker 4: couple of games went with the run, defense overall and everything,

692
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Speaker 4: and like I like to say, it's not just the

693
00:32:18,400 --> 00:32:20,280
Speaker 4: Steelers are four and one. I just think that they've

694
00:32:20,280 --> 00:32:23,000
Speaker 4: been ascending literally almost every week where you just feel

695
00:32:23,040 --> 00:32:25,440
Speaker 4: better and better about the where they played after a

696
00:32:25,480 --> 00:32:27,720
Speaker 4: week one and week two certainly, and the way they're

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Speaker 4: playing even week three. These last two games, they've been

698
00:32:31,480 --> 00:32:35,080
Speaker 4: at their best and almost up and down almost all

699
00:32:35,120 --> 00:32:37,760
Speaker 4: aspects of the team, almost at six teams, lake and

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Speaker 4: the run, defense, in the middle of the defense, and

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Speaker 4: and remember a few games ago we were really worried

702
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Speaker 4: about at least the you know, more so maybe Peyton Wilson,

703
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Speaker 4: but in the middle of that defense. And man, that

704
00:32:47,480 --> 00:32:49,800
Speaker 4: that's uh, that seems like a long time ago now.

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Speaker 2: Sure does. Things can change very rapidly week to week

706
00:32:53,600 --> 00:32:57,040
Speaker 2: in this league. Just ask the Buffalo Bills currently how

707
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Speaker 2: they're feeling. Chris Damski make sure you're checking him out

708
00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:02,720
Speaker 2: every day on the Steelers Blitz with Tom Opferman all

709
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Speaker 2: his work in the trip as well to buzz. Thank

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Speaker 2: you for the time, great stuff as always, and we'll

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Speaker 2: talk to you next week.

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Speaker 4: O get look all, let's look forward to talk.

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Speaker 2: There he goes the second most popular Mars grad on

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Speaker 2: the Steelers Audio netway, Chris Adana. That's all right, top

715
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Speaker 2: to right, right right top too, Matt. We have got

716
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Speaker 2: plenty to get to today. I want to get into

717
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Speaker 2: some Matt's stats when we return on the other side

718
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Speaker 2: to close down the first hour.

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Speaker 3: That document's starting to take shape.

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Speaker 2: Starting to take shape a little bit and got the

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Speaker 2: finishing and we've only got so many segments left right

722
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Speaker 2: before before kickoff, and so I want to make sure

723
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Speaker 2: we get to some of the good information and stat

724
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Speaker 2: pools and factoids that you have in there this week,

725
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Speaker 2: and we will do some of that when we return

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Speaker 2: on the other side. Was Shuuler Matt Williamson. It's the

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

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

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Speaker 1: of the Black and Goal Steelers Nation.

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Speaker 2: Radio, wrapping up the first hour here of a condensed week,

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Speaker 2: a weird week, as this is kind of fun. It

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Speaker 2: is fun. It's kind of the end of it too.

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Speaker 2: I mean, you know, Steelers will have a Monday night game,

734
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Speaker 2: but in terms of in terms of the Monday night.

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Speaker 3: Game, right, I'm a Sunday night or which doesn't Sunday.

736
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Speaker 4: Night for us?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Miami, right, the Dolphins when Meca comes back to town.

739
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Speaker 3: If he's still a dolphin who knows what's going on.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, ain't that the truth. That's a good point too.

741
00:34:51,880 --> 00:34:54,400
Speaker 2: Don't assume that here anymore. Uh And yeah, and like

742
00:34:54,440 --> 00:34:58,839
Speaker 2: there's the West Coast Sunday night game in La that

743
00:34:58,920 --> 00:35:01,279
Speaker 2: you know, it'll be six am or seven am by

744
00:35:01,280 --> 00:35:03,840
Speaker 2: the time we land back here and all that on Monday.

745
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Speaker 3: But that doesn't change for the listeners.

746
00:35:06,280 --> 00:35:09,359
Speaker 2: It doesn't. You and I will still be doing a show.

747
00:35:09,400 --> 00:35:11,319
Speaker 2: I might be half asleep, but we'll still be doing

748
00:35:11,320 --> 00:35:15,320
Speaker 2: a show. But hopefully this is the last supremely weird

749
00:35:15,520 --> 00:35:19,080
Speaker 2: week that we will have kind of in this calendar season.

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Speaker 3: You should have done this during COVID.

751
00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:24,719
Speaker 2: It was you were just like nuts. We were all

752
00:35:24,719 --> 00:35:26,040
Speaker 2: doing three hour shows a.

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Speaker 3: Day, playing on a Wednesday or something Wednesday.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, even a couple of years ago a playoff game

755
00:35:32,320 --> 00:35:35,240
Speaker 2: on a Monday at four thirty against Buffalo or whatever

756
00:35:35,280 --> 00:35:35,600
Speaker 2: it was.

757
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Speaker 3: There was that Bronco game that they have a quarterback.

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Speaker 2: Speaking of which real quick for you. I was talking

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Speaker 2: about like some of the travel in the flights and

760
00:35:44,680 --> 00:35:47,359
Speaker 2: Buffalo and back and how quick that is. Yeah, when

761
00:35:47,400 --> 00:35:49,719
Speaker 2: we went to when we flew to Buffalo for that

762
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Speaker 2: snow state of emergency game playoff game two years ago.

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Speaker 2: That was one of the most bizarre things ever. We

764
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Speaker 2: first of all, they flew in like top Gun from

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Speaker 2: Atlanta to have him fly the Steelers plane because of

766
00:36:04,040 --> 00:36:06,480
Speaker 2: the because of the weather. So it was like Delta's

767
00:36:06,520 --> 00:36:11,839
Speaker 2: we got mad, We got Iceman, their number one guy,

768
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Speaker 2: and we never went above the clouds. We never went

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Speaker 2: like I could I could see it was seventy nine

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Speaker 2: north the whole time that we were. We were flying

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Speaker 2: and we it's so but we land in Buffalo and mad.

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Speaker 2: It was a state of emergency in Buffalo. No other

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Speaker 2: flights anywhere, and no one on the road, Like unless

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Speaker 2: you're deemed like essential personnel, like you work in the

775
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Speaker 2: hospital or you work for public works, you were not

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Speaker 2: allowed to be out on the roads. So we fly

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Speaker 2: into Buffalo on that Sunday evening before the Monday game,

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Speaker 2: and it was like a scene out of an apocalyptic movie.

779
00:36:44,600 --> 00:36:47,200
Speaker 2: No one's on the roads, no one's at the airport,

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00:36:47,520 --> 00:36:50,960
Speaker 2: nothing going on. It's all white everywhere with snow. We

781
00:36:51,239 --> 00:36:54,480
Speaker 2: land and it's like police escort and like seven plow

782
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Speaker 2: trucks to lead us, to lead us full exactly like

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Speaker 2: all Stott christ Fu, Mautamala Fallu and all these guys

784
00:37:04,080 --> 00:37:07,400
Speaker 2: Riggins and all these great fullbacks in front of us

785
00:37:07,400 --> 00:37:10,440
Speaker 2: there to bring us on home. But yeah, that was

786
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Speaker 2: that was certainly a bizarre one. But it will be

787
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Speaker 2: a short flight to Cincinnati on Wednesday, of course, for

788
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Speaker 2: this game on Thursday. And let's jump into some Matt's

789
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Speaker 2: stats here. Matt, a couple of these that I want

790
00:37:20,920 --> 00:37:23,799
Speaker 2: to run past you. We've talked a little bit about

791
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Speaker 2: point differential, and with Cincinnati Steelers went into last week

792
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Speaker 2: minus two in the point differential. They are now plus twelve,

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Speaker 2: and that particularly on the back of winning three straight

794
00:37:36,320 --> 00:37:41,000
Speaker 2: games as well too. But since the negative eighty worst

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Speaker 2: in the league, and they were two and oh at

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Speaker 2: one point, you've got to score more points than your

797
00:37:46,520 --> 00:37:48,719
Speaker 2: opponent to win a game. I can figure that one out.

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Speaker 2: And over their last four games, that four game losing streak,

799
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Speaker 2: they have been outscored one hundred excuse me almost you know,

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Speaker 2: it's so disgusting, I almost screw up in my own mouth.

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Speaker 2: One hundred and forty to fifty five, brutal, like they're

802
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Speaker 2: getting bolt raced down year.

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Speaker 3: Crushed on both sides of the ball. Now I will

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Speaker 3: say it was a little better with Flacco. I mean

805
00:38:12,640 --> 00:38:14,680
Speaker 3: there was nowhere to go, but uh sure, and it's

806
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Speaker 3: one game and at.

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Speaker 2: Least he's gonna take shots to Chase.

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Speaker 3: And say it makes those two more dangerous, you know.

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Speaker 3: But their running game is horrendous. Their oh lines really bad.

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Speaker 3: I actually think the d line's a little bit better

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Speaker 3: than it has been, but the back seven is a mess.

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Speaker 3: And we've talked a lot about like young linebackers, how

813
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Speaker 3: they get manipulated. These young linebackers are just running around

814
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Speaker 3: with their hair on fire. I mean it's it's rough

815
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Speaker 3: right now. I mean it's real rough.

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Speaker 2: Turnover differential another thing that we track and keep an

817
00:38:43,040 --> 00:38:45,840
Speaker 2: eye on and discuss week to week. Steelers now plus

818
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Speaker 2: seven in turnover differential, third best in the NFL.

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Speaker 3: Yep. And remember, like on some of these counting stats,

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Speaker 3: that one's not as big a deal. They've played one

821
00:38:53,719 --> 00:38:55,640
Speaker 3: less game than some teams too, So a lot of

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Speaker 3: these this time of year Matt stats, a lot of

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Speaker 3: things will be average per game things like that, as

824
00:39:01,400 --> 00:39:03,520
Speaker 3: opposed to they have the most rushing yards in the league. Well,

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Speaker 3: you played next y game.

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Speaker 2: There's only a couple of teams. Yeah, yeah, yeah, the

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Speaker 2: Steelers are one of them plus seven turnover differential, third

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Speaker 2: best in the league, only behind Chicago and Jacksonville. Just

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Speaker 2: like everybody fought with those two teams, and that's impressive

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Speaker 2: for Chicago. We talked a little bit about the Bills

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Speaker 2: and the surprise that that was last night. My goodness,

832
00:39:21,680 --> 00:39:22,920
Speaker 2: how good is Bejeon Robinson?

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Speaker 3: We buried the lead really, I mean, one of the

834
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Speaker 3: best players in the league right.

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Speaker 2: Also, my two big takeaways from that were Bijon Robinson,

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Speaker 2: good lord?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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00:39:33,040 --> 00:39:35,279
Speaker 2: And second is, why did the Atlanta Falcons where any

839
00:39:35,320 --> 00:39:37,120
Speaker 2: other uniforms other than those ones?

840
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Speaker 3: A uniform guy with there so much better typical uniforms.

841
00:39:42,080 --> 00:39:44,520
Speaker 2: But how about your how about Chicago finding a way

842
00:39:44,560 --> 00:39:46,800
Speaker 2: to get it done and a weird one there against

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00:39:46,840 --> 00:39:47,959
Speaker 2: the Commanders on the road?

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Speaker 3: I think you should be pretty happy with where you're

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Speaker 3: at in the Bears world. You know, Halo looks okay,

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00:39:52,200 --> 00:39:53,680
Speaker 3: you got a coach, you know, I mean, you're trending

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Speaker 3: the right.

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Speaker 2: First, a couple of weeks were a struggle. I think

849
00:39:55,680 --> 00:39:56,799
Speaker 2: that's to be expected.

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Speaker 3: Being a Bears fan the last twenty years or so

851
00:39:59,400 --> 00:40:01,040
Speaker 3: since Dick hasn't been easy.

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Speaker 2: No, it is not. Yeah, I mean, and particularly as

853
00:40:04,320 --> 00:40:06,879
Speaker 2: it relates to their situation under center. But I think

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00:40:06,920 --> 00:40:09,200
Speaker 2: you gotta be feeling as good about Kayleb Williams as

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Speaker 2: you have at any point. So Steelers plus seven and

856
00:40:12,360 --> 00:40:17,640
Speaker 2: turnover differential only behind Dah Bears and the Jacksonville Jaguars

857
00:40:17,800 --> 00:40:22,080
Speaker 2: a Cincinnati minus four only ahead of the Jets, the Ravens,

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Speaker 2: and the Niners.

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Speaker 3: And I don't think at least history shows Flacco all

860
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Speaker 3: of a sudden is not going to stop the turnovers

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Speaker 3: from happening. I mean, that guy turns them all over, correct, you.

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Speaker 2: Know, correct, Steelers. Another one that we keep an eye on,

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00:40:36,440 --> 00:40:39,880
Speaker 2: Matt is sack differential. You know, everyone talks about turnover

864
00:40:39,920 --> 00:40:43,680
Speaker 2: differential and it's obviously a key indicator of who wins games.

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Speaker 2: Right behind that sack differential and explosive play differential. Steelers

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Speaker 2: now plus fifteen in sack differential in their last three games,

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Speaker 2: plus eleven on the season in total. That's common, man,

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Speaker 2: That's where they need to be and.

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Speaker 3: Exactly what we've been hoping for and started slow in

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Speaker 3: that regard, but it's come back in a big.

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Speaker 2: Way and you're seeing it from everybody you know as

872
00:41:03,520 --> 00:41:07,279
Speaker 2: well too. Getting involved, Jalen Ramsey getting involved. It's not

873
00:41:07,400 --> 00:41:11,120
Speaker 2: just the typical Watt and high Smith and and Cam Hayward.

874
00:41:12,280 --> 00:41:15,600
Speaker 2: That to me has been very, very encouraging.

875
00:41:15,880 --> 00:41:18,120
Speaker 3: It's great that you're this is a knock on Cam,

876
00:41:18,160 --> 00:41:21,040
Speaker 3: but it's great that you're less reliant on Cam totally.

877
00:41:21,120 --> 00:41:23,360
Speaker 3: You know how you drew it up, why you drafted

878
00:41:23,400 --> 00:41:24,120
Speaker 3: him in the first round.

879
00:41:24,160 --> 00:41:26,000
Speaker 2: It's the same thing you said this a couple of

880
00:41:26,040 --> 00:41:27,880
Speaker 2: weeks ago, I think it was, but you were like,

881
00:41:27,960 --> 00:41:29,759
Speaker 2: as much as I love Chris Boswell, I don't want

882
00:41:29,800 --> 00:41:30,640
Speaker 2: him to be team MVP.

883
00:41:30,800 --> 00:41:31,640
Speaker 3: No, No, that's.

884
00:41:33,280 --> 00:41:35,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like as much as we all love Cam Hayward,

885
00:41:36,640 --> 00:41:40,040
Speaker 2: I don't want him to be You're, you know, pacing

886
00:41:40,080 --> 00:41:43,160
Speaker 2: the way by far and snaps and everything like he

887
00:41:43,320 --> 00:41:44,719
Speaker 2: was the first week or two of the season for

888
00:41:44,800 --> 00:41:47,640
Speaker 2: the defensive front. It's almost like a less is more

889
00:41:47,719 --> 00:41:49,360
Speaker 2: thing with him at this stage.

890
00:41:49,680 --> 00:41:53,080
Speaker 3: Like the Bills want Josh Allen to be MVP. I

891
00:41:53,120 --> 00:41:53,640
Speaker 3: don't want bo.

892
00:41:55,440 --> 00:41:58,040
Speaker 2: VP. I don't want Cam Hayward out there for ninety

893
00:41:58,120 --> 00:42:02,000
Speaker 2: percent of the snaps a single week at it exactly right,

894
00:42:02,680 --> 00:42:05,160
Speaker 2: And I think we're starting to see all that stuff

895
00:42:05,239 --> 00:42:07,319
Speaker 2: come together and a lot of those guys sticking their

896
00:42:07,360 --> 00:42:09,719
Speaker 2: hand in the pile for the defense has been a

897
00:42:09,760 --> 00:42:10,600
Speaker 2: big part of that.

898
00:42:10,840 --> 00:42:12,920
Speaker 3: Some of the depth pieces have really stepped up. I

899
00:42:12,920 --> 00:42:14,440
Speaker 3: mean in every position huge.

900
00:42:14,680 --> 00:42:18,359
Speaker 2: It's not just the Herbigs and the harmon.

901
00:42:19,239 --> 00:42:22,680
Speaker 3: Uk Black Hulkum you know, Echosi.

902
00:42:22,840 --> 00:42:25,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, that's a great list right there that you

903
00:42:25,520 --> 00:42:28,440
Speaker 2: just put together of guys who have really contributed and

904
00:42:28,480 --> 00:42:31,560
Speaker 2: started to make a difference. Matt, last one here before

905
00:42:31,560 --> 00:42:33,799
Speaker 2: we go to break and come back for hour number two.

906
00:42:34,520 --> 00:42:38,520
Speaker 2: Steelers penalized ten times last week. That's the most penalties

907
00:42:38,520 --> 00:42:42,680
Speaker 2: accepted against the Steelers since Week two of last year.

908
00:42:43,160 --> 00:42:43,600
Speaker 3: Yeah.

909
00:42:43,640 --> 00:42:45,480
Speaker 2: How much of that was a function though of their

910
00:42:45,520 --> 00:42:48,920
Speaker 2: sloppy play versus just a Ron Tolbert crew that we

911
00:42:49,000 --> 00:42:51,520
Speaker 2: know throws flags at a higher rate than anybody else.

912
00:42:51,560 --> 00:42:55,640
Speaker 3: Now, I think it's sixty forty more towards the other

913
00:42:56,080 --> 00:42:56,759
Speaker 3: part two of that.

914
00:42:56,880 --> 00:42:59,520
Speaker 2: Okay, So, like you don't expect that to be a

915
00:42:59,640 --> 00:43:01,359
Speaker 2: negative trend that we now need to keep.

916
00:43:01,960 --> 00:43:03,799
Speaker 3: Last year there at the best in the league at it. Yeah,

917
00:43:03,840 --> 00:43:06,200
Speaker 3: we got a long sample size here over twenty games

918
00:43:06,280 --> 00:43:09,520
Speaker 3: or so where they're amongst the best. I didn't put

919
00:43:09,520 --> 00:43:11,960
Speaker 3: this in the packet yet because it's they have the

920
00:43:12,000 --> 00:43:14,319
Speaker 3: benefit of playing one less game than most, but I

921
00:43:14,320 --> 00:43:19,319
Speaker 3: still think they're the fewest penalties taken, so on a

922
00:43:19,360 --> 00:43:21,720
Speaker 3: per game basis, they're still going to be amongst the best.

923
00:43:24,640 --> 00:43:25,880
Speaker 3: Pretty good, I think.

924
00:43:25,719 --> 00:43:28,440
Speaker 2: So I'm not worried in that department. I think, I

925
00:43:28,440 --> 00:43:31,120
Speaker 2: think I think one more was was was just a

926
00:43:31,400 --> 00:43:33,239
Speaker 2: I think last week part of me was just a

927
00:43:33,719 --> 00:43:35,480
Speaker 2: was just a one off. That's what I'm looking for.

928
00:43:36,440 --> 00:43:38,600
Speaker 3: Ten penalties, but it wasn't for an scene amount of

929
00:43:38,640 --> 00:43:40,719
Speaker 3: yardage either. It was only like sixty yards or something.

930
00:43:40,719 --> 00:43:43,680
Speaker 2: A lot of them were off sides on times, and

931
00:43:43,719 --> 00:43:44,359
Speaker 2: you know, things like.

932
00:43:44,320 --> 00:43:45,879
Speaker 3: That lining up the neutral zone and stuff.

933
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Speaker 2: Correct. Correct, But hopefully we'll see that number much down

934
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Speaker 2: lower here, much lower. On on Thursday night in Cincinnati,

935
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Speaker 2: an hour in the books, another hour to go on

936
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Speaker 2: the other side, little fantasy football focus, some NFL power rankings,

937
00:44:00,360 --> 00:44:03,920
Speaker 2: more thoughts on Pittsburgh and Cincinnati. Of course, as we

938
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Speaker 2: roll along into hour number two was Shouler Matt Williams

939
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Speaker 2: and It's the Drive on Steelers Nation Radio on the

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Speaker 2: Steelers Audio Network.