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

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Speaker 2: Good evening, Stealer Nation, how we do it? Well, that's

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

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Speaker 2: final hour of this week, final hour until Super Bowl

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Speaker 2: sixty Sunday night, six thirty in Santa Clara there at

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Speaker 2: Levi Stadium and in what will be obviously hopefully a

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Speaker 2: memorable edition of the Big Game. Matt Williamson and We're

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Speaker 2: gonna spend our number two here diving into it and

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Speaker 2: dissecting it and predicting it and all that. Yeah, all

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Speaker 2: that good stuff. Super Bowl Hour here on the show.

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Speaker 2: I got a little surprised for you to get us started.

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Speaker 2: I want to talk to you about some specific matchups.

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Speaker 2: But first I've got some Wes's stats for you Super

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Speaker 2: Bowl edition that I want to run by you. Okay,

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Speaker 2: let's start a few from the Seattle side, few from

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Speaker 2: the New England side. Seattle side. Sam Darnald zero to

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Speaker 2: four in his career against the New England Patriots. That's

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Speaker 2: the second most losses without a win by a quarterback

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Speaker 2: in their career against an opponent entering a Super Bowl matchup.

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Speaker 2: Now Asterix because he spent a lot of those years

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Speaker 2: with the Jets and they were and the really good.

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Speaker 3: You were the third pick in the draft in a

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Speaker 3: year on the terrible team when the Juggernaut is in

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Speaker 3: your division, correct, I'm not sure I'm gonna blame him

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Speaker 3: for that.

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Speaker 2: No, but one more, one last uh Juggernaut for Sam

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Speaker 2: Darnald to slay on his way to fully changing that reputation.

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Speaker 2: Including the playoffs, Jackson Smith and Jigma is seeking his

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Speaker 2: eleventh game this year with at least one hundred receiving yards.

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Speaker 2: If he reaches that mark, it'll tie for the third

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Speaker 2: most in a season by an NFL wide receiver.

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Speaker 3: He really has had a historic season. I mean, not

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Speaker 3: this com out, but I didn't see this jump. I mean,

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Speaker 3: he's been unbelievable.

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Speaker 2: And if he puts the whip cream and the cherry

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Speaker 2: on top and ends with a Super Bowl championship and

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Speaker 3: Super Bowl MVP, and he got an award last night.

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Speaker 2: I mean it would be like Cooper Cup, you know,

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Speaker 2: five or six years ago, when yeah, that Triple Crown

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Speaker 2: single seasons we've ever seen a wide receiver.

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Speaker 3: Have chase when the triple crown recently, Yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 2: Jackson Smith and Jigba is knocking on that door with

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Speaker 2: the personal accolades and potentially the team achievement to put

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Speaker 2: you over the top. I mean, he's he's doing incredible stuff.

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Speaker 3: You obviously know this, you know, and everybody does. But

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Speaker 3: the wide receivers coming out of Ohio State the last

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Speaker 3: five years in Saints, it's incredible. But when they interviewed

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Speaker 3: the other ones, they all said JSN the best.

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Speaker 4: Really, yes, interesting, yeah, and you would like.

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Speaker 2: Him and Amecca Abuca obviously they went to Ohio State.

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Speaker 2: Great high school players and recruits. Ohio State isn't isn't

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Speaker 2: picking through two star you know, comas that are choosing.

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Speaker 3: Between They're not Marvin Harrison junior.

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Speaker 2: Or Chris Henry junior. Jeremiah Smith.

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Speaker 3: Wow, I don't think those two count in this conversation yet.

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Speaker 3: They might change things, but right.

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Speaker 2: I certainly might. Yeah, but no, it's a huge testament

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Speaker 2: to the year that he's having defensive.

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Speaker 3: End of Mark Funny, Abuka and JSN are like wide receiver.

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Speaker 3: Wide receivers do the dirty work, fine tune route running.

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Speaker 3: You know, they're remind. I mean, I'm sure I'll remember,

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Speaker 3: but combine three cone drill for wide receivers, big big,

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Speaker 2: That's the load of the separation route running.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, change in direction. Yeah, three cones for tight ends,

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Speaker 3: wide receivers and edge rushers. I pay a lot of

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Speaker 2: When we get to the combine here in a few weeks,

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Speaker 2: we will have a weird world of Matt Williamsons segment.

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Speaker 2: That's one of them where you'll describe to us why

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Speaker 2: the three cone is so important in great detail for

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Speaker 2: certain positions. Number three, I got four for each team here.

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Speaker 2: Number three for the Seahawks defensive end, to Marcus Lawrence.

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Speaker 2: He has recorded a sack, both a sack and a

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Speaker 2: forced fumble and both of the Seahawks postseason wins. Okay,

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Speaker 2: so it's been phenomenal over the Niners. In the Rams,

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Speaker 2: he had a sack and a forced fumble in each game.

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Speaker 2: If he does it again in the Super Bowl for

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Speaker 3: Well, he's gonna be alone on Will Campbell a lot

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Speaker 3: and has a major advantage. I know that style of

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Speaker 2: It's one of the matchups that I have down here

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Speaker 2: to discuss that I'm sure you think favors Seattle. Last

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Speaker 2: and make it to the Super Bowl since the twenty

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Speaker 2: sixteen New England Patriots. Teams that led the NFL in

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Speaker 2: to the Super Bowl fourteen and four all time.

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Speaker 3: Wow. Sure, there's like some Steeler teams in the seventies

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Speaker 2: Maybe that Broncos team with Manning.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm sure that they were defensive driven powerhouses.

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Speaker 2: So that's that's some West's stats for Seattle for you there.

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Speaker 2: Now here's a few for New England before we get

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Speaker 2: into some matchups. The Patriots have averaged eighteen points per

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Speaker 3: Okay, I was basically aware of that. I know its

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Speaker 3: any easier. They've played three really good defenses, yes, they have,

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Speaker 3: and have had massive weather implications.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, context does always matter. Yes, the Patriots are the

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Speaker 2: first team since the nineteen seventy merger to defeat to

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Speaker 2: defense en route to the Super Bowl. Speaking to what you.

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Speaker 3: Just used in Denver, I mean right right.

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Speaker 2: Including the playoffs, New England has led at halftime in

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Speaker 3: Okay, again, particularly hard like Aaron Shotsman, football Siders now

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Speaker 3: FTN basically said that this was maybe the easiest path

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Speaker 3: But they had like a historically easy schedule. They play

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Speaker 3: Okay, and even like Denver didn't have Nicks, Yeah, like

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Speaker 2: Chargers were playing with their JV offensive right.

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Speaker 3: They didn't have any offensive tackles. And I mean, these

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Speaker 2: Speaking to you R, how important it is to have

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Speaker 2: Drake May one hundred and twenty nine rush yards on

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Speaker 3: It's something I'm definitely gonna harp on breaking down the

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Speaker 3: they kind of I thought were the difference in the

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Speaker 2: more specifically, but including the playoffs the Patriots. In games

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Speaker 3: To zero, doesn't totally shock me.

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Speaker 2: And have allowed just fourteen point five points per game

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Speaker 3: So I heard a stat on the way here about

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Speaker 3: like the Cam Hayward rush defense numbers from last year

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Speaker 2: And these are like the two best, That's what I'm

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Speaker 3: The Patriots are eight no on the road and I

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Speaker 2: That's crazy. And then you factor in does that include

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Speaker 3: Which you should, right, that's crazy. Wow, they've won lost

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Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, Matt, Let's get into some specific matchups here,

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Speaker 2: some five Star Friday matchups, if you will, And let's

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Speaker 2: start with some names that we've mentioned, Jackson Smith and

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Speaker 2: Jigba of course, reigning offensive Player of the Year wide

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Speaker 3: Yeah. So, I don't know if you'll bring Kenneth Walker

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Speaker 3: I'm not giving the Raiders a hard time for taking

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Speaker 3: Walker now with Sharbonna out and Jsn's hands, I mean,

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Speaker 3: those guys are going to get plays designed for them.

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Speaker 3: They may get sixty five percent of the touches. I

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Speaker 3: mean because of running backs, to get a ton of them,

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Speaker 3: I can't stress this enough. Having the extra week in

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Speaker 3: the Super Bowl is huge for these coaches. I mean

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Speaker 3: they will definitely every Super Bowl. Every coordinator puts something

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Speaker 2: Well, Matt. Those are the specific matchups that I wanted

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Speaker 3: Yep, just guy, I don't want to forget about it.

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Speaker 2: But New England's no slouch in that to meet. Yeah, yah, yeah, Matt.

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

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Speaker 2: All right, Matt, Williamson pen ultimate segment here of this Friday,

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Speaker 3: Of the official season. Yeah, good call, You're right.

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Speaker 2: When we are back next week.

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Speaker 2: happens quick, Matt, You and I hey listen, full transparency

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Speaker 3: For a game, right right, right, right, May. Everyone knows

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Speaker 2: same line of parameters, Matt Williamson for your three and

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00:21:45,880 --> 00:21:49,680
Speaker 2: a half hours Super Bowl sixty life, would you rather

437
00:21:49,760 --> 00:21:52,919
Speaker 2: have Mike Rabel or Mike McDonald is Which Mike do

438
00:21:53,000 --> 00:21:55,200
Speaker 2: you want as your head coach for sixty minutes of

439
00:21:55,200 --> 00:21:58,320
Speaker 2: football on Sunday? They're both really high on my List's

440
00:21:58,520 --> 00:21:59,639
Speaker 2: I got you with this Oneeah?

441
00:21:59,640 --> 00:22:04,680
Speaker 3: I thought they don't. I think McDonald's such a good schemer.

442
00:22:04,800 --> 00:22:07,480
Speaker 2: I think he's maybe the most underrated head coach in

443
00:22:07,520 --> 00:22:12,240
Speaker 2: the NFL. Yeah, everyone rightfully so talks about Vrabel and

444
00:22:12,480 --> 00:22:15,959
Speaker 2: McVeigh and Andy Reid, but you hardly ever hear Mike

445
00:22:16,040 --> 00:22:18,080
Speaker 2: McDonald's name mentioned in those conversations.

446
00:22:18,119 --> 00:22:20,399
Speaker 3: So we do a Twitter Thursday and I was asked,

447
00:22:21,080 --> 00:22:23,960
Speaker 3: would you rather the coaches in the NFC West or

448
00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:27,760
Speaker 3: the AFC West question, which is a really good question,

449
00:22:27,840 --> 00:22:29,800
Speaker 3: And I'm like McDonald will be pretty high on my

450
00:22:29,880 --> 00:22:33,840
Speaker 3: draft pick list. Of those there's six awesome ones, two replacements,

451
00:22:33,880 --> 00:22:41,360
Speaker 3: you know, But I think I'm taking Vrabel and he's son.

452
00:22:41,680 --> 00:22:45,600
Speaker 3: He always does these like sneaky things with substitutions and

453
00:22:45,640 --> 00:22:52,199
Speaker 3: knowing the rules. Yeah, you know, understanding the situation. There

454
00:22:52,240 --> 00:22:54,000
Speaker 3: might not be anyone better in the league at it.

455
00:22:54,960 --> 00:22:57,800
Speaker 3: He's been a head coach in more big games. I

456
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Speaker 3: mean he's more experienced Rabel.

457
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Speaker 2: But that's a close one.

458
00:23:02,960 --> 00:23:05,359
Speaker 3: Yeah, They're both would be maybe top six or seven

459
00:23:05,400 --> 00:23:07,760
Speaker 3: on my list of anyone walking a planet.

460
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Speaker 2: Matt Williamson, would you rather the Patriots running back tandem

461
00:23:13,680 --> 00:23:17,480
Speaker 2: of Henderson and Stevenson or the Seahawks running back tandem

462
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Speaker 2: of Walker and Charboney.

463
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Speaker 3: So we counting him or not?

464
00:23:22,200 --> 00:23:25,960
Speaker 2: Well, but yes, I would still like to count him

465
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Speaker 2: for the sake of this would you rather one two

466
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Speaker 2: running back conversation?

467
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Speaker 3: Walker is my first pick in the draft of all

468
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Speaker 3: of them, which I think is fair.

469
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Speaker 2: Yeah, is Henderson too. I know it's only a rookie season.

470
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Speaker 4: That's what makes it difficult, is like Stevenson's really good

471
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Speaker 4: this year though.

472
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Speaker 2: I mean all four of these guys were really good

473
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Speaker 2: this year.

474
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Speaker 3: Yeah, they were. It Seattle's the choice. If Charbona is

475
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Speaker 3: in the mix without them, New England's without them. It's yeah,

476
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Speaker 3: for this particular game.

477
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Speaker 2: And you know what, maybe for the sake of this conversation,

478
00:23:55,040 --> 00:23:56,680
Speaker 2: it's better if you don't include Sharbonay.

479
00:23:56,720 --> 00:23:59,720
Speaker 3: Probably not, because even though Walker making out last year,

480
00:23:59,760 --> 00:24:01,800
Speaker 3: it's a distant fourth. Though for the other guys, I

481
00:24:01,800 --> 00:24:05,600
Speaker 3: can't remember who even they are. But Stevenson is a really,

482
00:24:05,600 --> 00:24:09,159
Speaker 3: really good player. And the problem with Henderson, which nobody

483
00:24:09,200 --> 00:24:11,840
Speaker 3: saw coming because everyone considered him like the best blitz

484
00:24:11,840 --> 00:24:15,040
Speaker 3: pick up pass protecting back in the draft last year,

485
00:24:15,880 --> 00:24:17,760
Speaker 3: he hasn't been good in that It's it's a different

486
00:24:17,760 --> 00:24:20,879
Speaker 3: world pass blocking against Michigan and Indiana anymore, you know,

487
00:24:21,040 --> 00:24:23,400
Speaker 3: it's a different world. So that's a big reason why

488
00:24:23,400 --> 00:24:27,000
Speaker 3: Stevenson's gotten so many more touches. But since they're by

489
00:24:27,160 --> 00:24:30,600
Speaker 3: they've also incorporated them both on the field together a lot,

490
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Speaker 3: So keep an eye on that too.

491
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Speaker 2: Whose defensive front would you rather have? Matt Williamson seattles

492
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Speaker 2: are New England? I thought, I thought that'd be a

493
00:24:40,640 --> 00:24:45,480
Speaker 2: pretty better And it's deeper, it's deeper, and it's better

494
00:24:45,520 --> 00:24:47,840
Speaker 2: off the edge. I thought that would be the pretty

495
00:24:47,840 --> 00:24:49,959
Speaker 2: easy answer, but I still thought it was worth floating

496
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Speaker 2: to you.

497
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Speaker 3: If it was the conversation was just defensive tackles, then

498
00:24:53,960 --> 00:24:57,200
Speaker 3: it's about a tie. I mean Barmore and Williams versus

499
00:24:57,359 --> 00:25:01,399
Speaker 3: Murphy who's been outstanding his second year and Leonard Williams,

500
00:25:01,400 --> 00:25:05,959
Speaker 3: who's kind of like there Cam Hayward guy. Then it's close.

501
00:25:06,359 --> 00:25:08,520
Speaker 3: But the edge, dudes not The New England's are bad.

502
00:25:08,880 --> 00:25:10,760
Speaker 3: They've got a lot out of Landry and Chase on.

503
00:25:11,280 --> 00:25:14,600
Speaker 3: There's so many guys just career they've rejuvenated. But it's

504
00:25:14,680 --> 00:25:16,760
Speaker 3: not like the Seattle guys.

505
00:25:17,920 --> 00:25:22,040
Speaker 2: Whose offensive line would you rather have? Seattle's or New

506
00:25:22,080 --> 00:25:23,440
Speaker 2: England's Seattles?

507
00:25:24,640 --> 00:25:27,920
Speaker 3: New England doesn't have a a great player on their

508
00:25:27,920 --> 00:25:28,840
Speaker 3: line either. One does.

509
00:25:28,880 --> 00:25:34,680
Speaker 2: Actually, Cross and Zabel are good though. Yeah, they're great.

510
00:25:35,480 --> 00:25:38,359
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're good. I mean they're well, well, well above average.

511
00:25:38,640 --> 00:25:41,359
Speaker 3: They may have the weakest link at right guard in Bradford,

512
00:25:42,720 --> 00:25:48,639
Speaker 3: but I think collectively the Patriots O line might be

513
00:25:48,720 --> 00:25:54,840
Speaker 3: the worst position group in this game of any position group. Okay, yeah,

514
00:25:55,440 --> 00:25:58,040
Speaker 3: I still think it's a fair amount of work. The

515
00:25:58,119 --> 00:26:01,080
Speaker 3: right side is pretty good. The right guard as a

516
00:26:01,080 --> 00:26:04,040
Speaker 3: good player, he's an above average player. The rest of

517
00:26:04,040 --> 00:26:06,640
Speaker 3: the dudes are young, are not quite there yet, or

518
00:26:06,880 --> 00:26:08,880
Speaker 3: you know, they may. I bet they add another old

519
00:26:08,920 --> 00:26:10,320
Speaker 3: lineman or two in the offseason.

520
00:26:11,880 --> 00:26:16,040
Speaker 2: I would certainly think that that's New England's early offseason priority.

521
00:26:16,160 --> 00:26:18,280
Speaker 2: I mean they're so strong, they're so much strong, They

522
00:26:18,280 --> 00:26:21,240
Speaker 2: are so loaded, so strong in so many different areas.

523
00:26:21,440 --> 00:26:23,080
Speaker 3: Defense is pretty well set. Yeah.

524
00:26:23,160 --> 00:26:27,479
Speaker 2: Yeah, secondary, they've got some nice young pieces. Yeah, certainly.

525
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Speaker 2: Offensive line though, would feel like the if you're if

526
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Speaker 2: you're listing a priority for the team that's gonna pick

527
00:26:31,680 --> 00:26:34,639
Speaker 2: thirty first or thirty second in the NFL draft. Yeah right,

528
00:26:34,720 --> 00:26:37,000
Speaker 2: But offensive lines it was a priority this year.

529
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Speaker 3: I mean they draft to tackle high. They signed Moses,

530
00:26:39,480 --> 00:26:42,280
Speaker 3: so they had a two new guys and Wilson was

531
00:26:42,320 --> 00:26:45,040
Speaker 3: a center at Georgia. They turned him into a left

532
00:26:45,040 --> 00:26:46,679
Speaker 3: guard and he's been He's a keeper.

533
00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:50,440
Speaker 2: All right, Matt, You ready for some off the field

534
00:26:50,480 --> 00:26:57,520
Speaker 2: ones here? Salmon or lobster, lobster? I think so too.

535
00:26:57,720 --> 00:26:59,959
Speaker 3: Yeah, I do like salmon. I like salmon.

536
00:27:01,720 --> 00:27:04,159
Speaker 2: Can I say something might be a little controversial. I

537
00:27:04,240 --> 00:27:05,720
Speaker 2: think lobster rolls are overrated.

538
00:27:06,320 --> 00:27:06,840
Speaker 3: I do too.

539
00:27:07,440 --> 00:27:11,800
Speaker 2: They cost thirty dollars and there's just something about the

540
00:27:11,880 --> 00:27:15,760
Speaker 2: consistency of lobster on bread that just doesn't vibe with me.

541
00:27:16,160 --> 00:27:18,920
Speaker 2: But I do love just cracking lobster fresh.

542
00:27:19,040 --> 00:27:21,359
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, it's tough to beat. Or you're at a

543
00:27:21,440 --> 00:27:24,320
Speaker 3: nice restaurant and they bring it out presented and yeah,

544
00:27:24,359 --> 00:27:24,920
Speaker 3: right next.

545
00:27:24,720 --> 00:27:28,439
Speaker 2: To your river. Yeah like that. I think so too.

546
00:27:28,440 --> 00:27:30,840
Speaker 2: I'm a big salmon fan. We do salmon like probably

547
00:27:30,840 --> 00:27:34,080
Speaker 2: once every other week in our house. But lobster's tough

548
00:27:34,080 --> 00:27:35,840
Speaker 2: to beat. But with the caveat of I'm not a

549
00:27:35,840 --> 00:27:36,920
Speaker 2: big lobster roll guy.

550
00:27:37,080 --> 00:27:39,560
Speaker 3: So a little history lesson for you, Like back in

551
00:27:39,640 --> 00:27:42,120
Speaker 3: the day, like when they landed on Plymouth Rock in

552
00:27:42,119 --> 00:27:46,080
Speaker 3: New England and you know, the country was new. They

553
00:27:46,080 --> 00:27:47,399
Speaker 3: would feed the prisoner's lobster.

554
00:27:47,480 --> 00:27:50,119
Speaker 2: Oh it was. It was garbage garbage on the bottom

555
00:27:50,119 --> 00:27:51,120
Speaker 2: of the ocean, right.

556
00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:53,920
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I mean it was everywhere too, Yeah, lobster.

557
00:27:54,240 --> 00:27:56,120
Speaker 2: Lobster's reputation has done a one to eighty.

558
00:27:56,240 --> 00:27:57,160
Speaker 3: No, it's not a long way.

559
00:27:57,160 --> 00:27:59,360
Speaker 2: It's come a long way. It's like chicken wings man.

560
00:27:59,440 --> 00:27:59,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly.

561
00:28:02,080 --> 00:28:04,359
Speaker 2: Now it's like you can't get six wings for cheaper

562
00:28:04,400 --> 00:28:05,600
Speaker 2: than ten bucks.

563
00:28:05,800 --> 00:28:06,080
Speaker 3: Yeah.

564
00:28:06,680 --> 00:28:08,560
Speaker 2: Back in the day, it was like six dollars all

565
00:28:08,600 --> 00:28:09,080
Speaker 2: you could eat.

566
00:28:09,280 --> 00:28:12,040
Speaker 3: Oh, dude. When I was in even I mean there

567
00:28:12,080 --> 00:28:14,080
Speaker 3: was a day that they threw them away before, like

568
00:28:14,359 --> 00:28:16,720
Speaker 3: they put hot sauce on them. Yeah, and they were like,

569
00:28:16,720 --> 00:28:18,720
Speaker 3: what am I do with these little things? Right? When

570
00:28:18,760 --> 00:28:20,640
Speaker 3: I was in college, eight ten cent wing night, dude,

571
00:28:20,840 --> 00:28:23,360
Speaker 3: my whole fraternity would go to Ohio Street Bar and

572
00:28:24,160 --> 00:28:27,160
Speaker 3: by eight hundred pitchers of beer and never leave.

573
00:28:27,600 --> 00:28:32,359
Speaker 2: Every every Friday, me and our buddy Adam Crowley. Yeah,

574
00:28:32,440 --> 00:28:34,480
Speaker 2: there was a there was a place in Morgantown that

575
00:28:34,520 --> 00:28:36,240
Speaker 2: had a Friday hat. It was from like five o'clock

576
00:28:36,240 --> 00:28:38,960
Speaker 2: to eight o'clock. I think it was five bucks, got

577
00:28:39,040 --> 00:28:41,239
Speaker 2: you all you could eat wings and there were like

578
00:28:41,520 --> 00:28:45,400
Speaker 2: seventy five cent domestic beers, so you could go. You

579
00:28:45,400 --> 00:28:47,080
Speaker 2: could go in there with ten Bucks and get a

580
00:28:47,080 --> 00:28:50,160
Speaker 2: full meal and start your Friday off right. It was.

581
00:28:50,480 --> 00:28:51,040
Speaker 2: It was the best.

582
00:28:51,040 --> 00:28:53,440
Speaker 3: Someone I'm sure will tweet me this, but this was

583
00:28:53,520 --> 00:28:55,520
Speaker 3: before I was even in the business, so I was

584
00:28:55,560 --> 00:29:00,600
Speaker 3: probably twenty five. It's a good twenty five to thirty

585
00:29:00,680 --> 00:29:03,840
Speaker 3: years ago. My buddies had a place in Shady Side

586
00:29:04,520 --> 00:29:07,920
Speaker 3: and would do Monday Football down there because every picture

587
00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:11,680
Speaker 3: of beer you bought, they brought out ten wings. So

588
00:29:11,760 --> 00:29:14,360
Speaker 3: it's like which one goes first? You're like that first ten,

589
00:29:14,480 --> 00:29:17,760
Speaker 3: We've eaten four seconds of us sitting around, absolutely, but

590
00:29:17,800 --> 00:29:19,760
Speaker 3: how many pictures of beer do you go through? And

591
00:29:19,760 --> 00:29:21,719
Speaker 3: they keep bringing out the wings?

592
00:29:22,520 --> 00:29:24,720
Speaker 2: What Wolf would tell stories about when you could get

593
00:29:24,720 --> 00:29:29,200
Speaker 2: like like fifty cents for fifty wings. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,

594
00:29:29,240 --> 00:29:32,480
Speaker 2: I bet grow it up. I'm sure Lobster and chicken

595
00:29:32,480 --> 00:29:35,600
Speaker 2: wings man, they have gone from the stalking them way

596
00:29:35,600 --> 00:29:38,320
Speaker 2: back from the Bargain Bend to to Fifth Avenue real

597
00:29:38,440 --> 00:29:41,800
Speaker 2: estate there, baby, I always enjoy that. Do you have

598
00:29:41,840 --> 00:29:43,520
Speaker 2: a favorite wing place in Pittsburgh real quick?

599
00:29:43,560 --> 00:29:46,120
Speaker 3: While we while we're here, No, but I'm moving to suggestions.

600
00:29:46,560 --> 00:29:49,280
Speaker 3: Our local pizza shop has good ones at the Cheese.

601
00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:51,880
Speaker 2: Is really good, Sidelines is really good, Big shop. Bob's

602
00:29:51,960 --> 00:29:54,760
Speaker 2: is really good. Fath Heads is really good.

603
00:29:54,840 --> 00:29:57,480
Speaker 3: That's another thing too, Like I never even got wings

604
00:29:57,560 --> 00:29:59,880
Speaker 3: growing up, Like they didn't have them a pizza shops.

605
00:30:00,800 --> 00:30:03,239
Speaker 3: I mean like when I went to college and I

606
00:30:03,280 --> 00:30:04,680
Speaker 3: was like old, when I was twenty one, you'd go

607
00:30:04,720 --> 00:30:06,000
Speaker 3: to bars like you could get way.

608
00:30:06,040 --> 00:30:07,800
Speaker 2: It was like Quaker Steak and Lube in Buffalo Wild

609
00:30:07,840 --> 00:30:09,360
Speaker 2: wings that was all you can eat.

610
00:30:09,600 --> 00:30:11,560
Speaker 3: We drove all the way to Slippy Rock one time

611
00:30:11,600 --> 00:30:13,320
Speaker 3: just to get wings at Quaker Steak and Loob. It's

612
00:30:13,360 --> 00:30:16,000
Speaker 3: awesome because there was nothing around it. Tell you what

613
00:30:16,320 --> 00:30:18,240
Speaker 3: the mobster they've come along that I didn't deliver them

614
00:30:18,280 --> 00:30:18,719
Speaker 3: with pizza.

615
00:30:19,200 --> 00:30:20,960
Speaker 2: All Right, you ready for this one, Matt. I'd like

616
00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:23,960
Speaker 2: to have Dale in here for this conversation too. Would

617
00:30:24,040 --> 00:30:28,000
Speaker 2: you rather Aerosmith, James Taylor and the drop Kick Murphy's

618
00:30:28,520 --> 00:30:31,880
Speaker 2: or Hendricks, Nirvana and Pearl Jam I better know your

619
00:30:31,880 --> 00:30:32,560
Speaker 2: answer on this.

620
00:30:32,480 --> 00:30:37,400
Speaker 3: One, but nine are at the top of my list.

621
00:30:37,920 --> 00:30:39,320
Speaker 3: Give me the three game.

622
00:30:39,560 --> 00:30:42,600
Speaker 2: Boston's is Aerosmith, James Taylor and drop Kick Murphy's. I

623
00:30:42,720 --> 00:30:44,840
Speaker 2: really threw in the Angry Pirate music for Dale there.

624
00:30:44,920 --> 00:30:46,160
Speaker 2: I could have put the Pixies.

625
00:30:46,360 --> 00:30:49,360
Speaker 3: I'm actually big on the band in Boston in my

626
00:30:49,440 --> 00:30:50,320
Speaker 3: first ever show.

627
00:30:51,320 --> 00:30:53,920
Speaker 2: Actually are they Are they actually from Boston?

628
00:30:54,120 --> 00:30:57,440
Speaker 3: I assume I'd never thought they might not be. That's

629
00:30:57,520 --> 00:31:00,640
Speaker 3: kind of funny. But my uncle took me. He was

630
00:31:00,680 --> 00:31:03,040
Speaker 3: about ten years older than me, and we.

631
00:31:03,640 --> 00:31:05,480
Speaker 4: Oh, they are they are from Boston. Sat in the

632
00:31:05,520 --> 00:31:08,280
Speaker 4: first row. Replace them with the drop Kicks there.

633
00:31:08,320 --> 00:31:11,080
Speaker 3: This is more my style. Angry pirate music though, is

634
00:31:11,120 --> 00:31:13,160
Speaker 3: fun with Dale and pursuit of those guys.

635
00:31:13,200 --> 00:31:13,600
Speaker 2: It is.

636
00:31:13,840 --> 00:31:15,880
Speaker 3: But he took me to the show and we sat

637
00:31:15,920 --> 00:31:19,600
Speaker 3: in the first row at the Civic Arena and the

638
00:31:19,600 --> 00:31:22,520
Speaker 3: boards are still in front of you, and like I

639
00:31:22,600 --> 00:31:24,640
Speaker 3: stood on the boards as like an eleven year old.

640
00:31:24,760 --> 00:31:27,480
Speaker 3: Yeah right, that was a pretty cool first show.

641
00:31:27,520 --> 00:31:28,160
Speaker 2: It's pretty cool.

642
00:31:28,400 --> 00:31:30,480
Speaker 3: I think I'll go with the Boston crew.

643
00:31:30,640 --> 00:31:33,080
Speaker 2: Yeah. For me, it's not even close. It's Seattle. And

644
00:31:33,120 --> 00:31:35,840
Speaker 2: I'm not a massive Nirvana or Pearl Jam guy.

645
00:31:36,080 --> 00:31:37,880
Speaker 3: I know what Pearl Jam has a lot of ways.

646
00:31:37,880 --> 00:31:40,560
Speaker 2: I appreciate what they meant for the music scene. Certainly

647
00:31:40,600 --> 00:31:43,480
Speaker 2: their hits. You throw them on and I'm I'm bopping

648
00:31:43,520 --> 00:31:43,800
Speaker 2: my head.

649
00:31:43,880 --> 00:31:44,600
Speaker 3: Jimmy's huge.

650
00:31:44,880 --> 00:31:47,719
Speaker 2: But as you know this, I've said this to you

651
00:31:47,800 --> 00:31:51,960
Speaker 2: before that I mean I think Hendrix, there's a couple

652
00:31:52,080 --> 00:31:55,600
Speaker 2: guys when you have that best guitar player ever conversation. Yeah,

653
00:31:55,600 --> 00:31:57,680
Speaker 2: but if you don't at least mention them pretty quickly,

654
00:31:57,760 --> 00:32:00,440
Speaker 2: I'm throwing your your argument out the window real quick.

655
00:32:00,440 --> 00:32:02,840
Speaker 2: And Hendrix might be number one on that list.

656
00:32:03,040 --> 00:32:05,520
Speaker 3: Strangely, I saw my uncle that took me to the

657
00:32:05,560 --> 00:32:08,400
Speaker 3: Boston show just last weekend, and Hendrix came up for

658
00:32:08,440 --> 00:32:10,280
Speaker 3: somebody's he's big music guy, He's the one that got

659
00:32:10,280 --> 00:32:12,680
Speaker 3: me into the Zeppelin and all that stuff, and he's like, man,

660
00:32:12,680 --> 00:32:15,200
Speaker 3: what if that guy didn't die so young? I mean,

661
00:32:15,240 --> 00:32:17,280
Speaker 3: he was so ahead of his time at twenty.

662
00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:19,320
Speaker 2: Seven, twenty seven when he died twenty seven.

663
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Speaker 3: But what have you been doing at forty?

664
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Speaker 2: You throw on a Hendrix record now and it sounds

665
00:32:23,960 --> 00:32:25,959
Speaker 2: like it's from the future still.

666
00:32:25,480 --> 00:32:27,920
Speaker 3: Right, And like I even asked him, I'm like, what

667
00:32:27,960 --> 00:32:29,720
Speaker 3: was it like here in that for the first time?

668
00:32:29,880 --> 00:32:32,480
Speaker 2: Ye your hair back? Yeah, exactly, it'd be like here

669
00:32:32,480 --> 00:32:34,080
Speaker 2: in Ouzzy and Sabbath for the first time.

670
00:32:34,120 --> 00:32:35,560
Speaker 3: He said, it was a little bit like here in

671
00:32:35,680 --> 00:32:38,479
Speaker 3: Eddie van Halen for the first time, which is so,

672
00:32:38,680 --> 00:32:40,280
Speaker 3: what's yeah, yeah, yeah, what is that?

673
00:32:40,360 --> 00:32:40,680
Speaker 2: Yeah?

674
00:32:40,720 --> 00:32:41,840
Speaker 3: Yeah?

675
00:32:41,920 --> 00:32:44,480
Speaker 2: Hendrix carries a lot a weight in that conversation, although

676
00:32:44,520 --> 00:32:47,240
Speaker 2: I do love me some James Taylor two more, Matt,

677
00:32:47,280 --> 00:32:49,800
Speaker 2: real quick to close this thing down. I should have

678
00:32:49,960 --> 00:32:53,240
Speaker 2: asked you this first. But New England or the Pacific Northwest.

679
00:32:53,440 --> 00:32:54,840
Speaker 2: I don't know if you've been to either, been to

680
00:32:54,880 --> 00:32:56,040
Speaker 2: one or the other, been to both.

681
00:32:56,240 --> 00:32:59,400
Speaker 3: I have a good buddy that they two of my buddies.

682
00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:03,160
Speaker 3: After they graduated college. There was like five or six

683
00:33:03,200 --> 00:33:05,600
Speaker 3: of them. It just like took a car and went

684
00:33:06,400 --> 00:33:09,240
Speaker 3: and they landed in Portland and one of them never

685
00:33:09,280 --> 00:33:11,480
Speaker 3: came back. He still lives there, so I visited him once.

686
00:33:12,800 --> 00:33:15,800
Speaker 3: It was cool. It rained like crazy all the time.

687
00:33:15,920 --> 00:33:19,120
Speaker 3: But I can't understand why people dig it New England.

688
00:33:19,160 --> 00:33:21,160
Speaker 3: I haven't been too much. I haven't traveled much and

689
00:33:21,200 --> 00:33:24,760
Speaker 3: New England. I would go to Bristol a lot, but

690
00:33:24,840 --> 00:33:31,000
Speaker 3: I didn't like And I have a real good buddy

691
00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:33,840
Speaker 3: that lives in Maine that I'd like to visit, you know,

692
00:33:34,040 --> 00:33:37,520
Speaker 3: But I think I would like New England better from

693
00:33:37,520 --> 00:33:39,680
Speaker 3: what I know of both. And I visited Boston College

694
00:33:39,680 --> 00:33:41,200
Speaker 3: when we were pit twice. I thought that was a

695
00:33:41,200 --> 00:33:43,280
Speaker 3: great area from for me.

696
00:33:43,400 --> 00:33:49,200
Speaker 2: Matt tier one and I am talking just landscapes, geography, topography,

697
00:33:50,200 --> 00:33:54,720
Speaker 2: all that stuff. Tier one in the United States is California,

698
00:33:54,720 --> 00:33:58,600
Speaker 2: in the Carolinas. California and the Carolinas, you can go

699
00:33:58,600 --> 00:34:01,040
Speaker 2: to the beach, you can go hiking, you can go swimming,

700
00:34:01,080 --> 00:34:03,520
Speaker 2: you can go skiing, all in the same. Yeah, in

701
00:34:03,600 --> 00:34:07,520
Speaker 2: terms of natural beauty, weather, climate, all that stuff, California

702
00:34:07,520 --> 00:34:09,520
Speaker 2: and the Carolinas are in tier one for me. But

703
00:34:09,560 --> 00:34:12,120
Speaker 2: then Tier two would be the Pacific Northwest and New England.

704
00:34:12,440 --> 00:34:14,920
Speaker 3: Oh, so that's all. It's a tight call for you, though.

705
00:34:14,840 --> 00:34:17,040
Speaker 2: It's a tight call. I think I'll lean towards Pacific

706
00:34:17,080 --> 00:34:20,840
Speaker 2: Northwest just because it's a little less populated. New England

707
00:34:20,920 --> 00:34:24,040
Speaker 2: is crazy. Population greener, it's a little bit greener. But man,

708
00:34:24,120 --> 00:34:26,879
Speaker 2: fall less snow fall in New England is unbelievable. Yeah,

709
00:34:26,880 --> 00:34:28,279
Speaker 2: but I'd get a lot of pond hockey if I

710
00:34:28,320 --> 00:34:30,520
Speaker 2: lived in the New England area.

711
00:34:31,160 --> 00:34:32,920
Speaker 3: Maybe it's just on my mind now because I'm getting

712
00:34:32,920 --> 00:34:35,319
Speaker 3: pretty sick of the weather locally, But I could do

713
00:34:35,440 --> 00:34:37,479
Speaker 3: less snow less zero degree days.

714
00:34:37,760 --> 00:34:41,719
Speaker 2: The same. Last one, the maybe the most cliche of

715
00:34:41,719 --> 00:34:44,839
Speaker 2: them all. Matt Starbucks are Duncan baby.

716
00:34:46,040 --> 00:34:49,480
Speaker 3: Starbucks. But I'm not a coffee expert, I drink a

717
00:34:49,480 --> 00:34:51,279
Speaker 3: lot of coffee. Well, you see me drink a lot

718
00:34:51,320 --> 00:34:52,640
Speaker 3: of coffee. I only drink coffee here.

719
00:34:52,680 --> 00:34:54,440
Speaker 2: Basically, you and I are in the same boat that

720
00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:57,960
Speaker 2: ninety plus percent of the coffee that we drink is

721
00:34:57,960 --> 00:34:59,720
Speaker 2: either here at the studio or at our house.

722
00:35:00,200 --> 00:35:02,520
Speaker 3: Yeah, and ninety percent of it's here at the studio

723
00:35:04,360 --> 00:35:06,600
Speaker 3: Sunday game day out. I'll make a coffee at home.

724
00:35:06,680 --> 00:35:08,080
Speaker 3: Once in a while, I'll have one at home, but

725
00:35:08,680 --> 00:35:09,920
Speaker 3: there's many days I don't.

726
00:35:10,239 --> 00:35:13,080
Speaker 2: About once a month, I jones for a Starbucks latte.

727
00:35:13,640 --> 00:35:15,640
Speaker 3: I never go buy coffee anyway.

728
00:35:15,680 --> 00:35:17,279
Speaker 2: That's why I give them the slight edge.

729
00:35:17,360 --> 00:35:20,680
Speaker 3: Okay, I would say one hundred percent of the coffee

730
00:35:20,719 --> 00:35:24,840
Speaker 3: I drink is either Duncan cacuffs or I'm in a

731
00:35:24,880 --> 00:35:27,839
Speaker 3: diner at breakfast and keep filling it up. Yeah, yeah,

732
00:35:27,840 --> 00:35:29,520
Speaker 3: know what I mean. But I never go somewhere and

733
00:35:29,520 --> 00:35:30,280
Speaker 3: buy a coffee.

734
00:35:30,320 --> 00:35:33,000
Speaker 2: I rarely do either. Yeah, only a handful of times

735
00:35:33,040 --> 00:35:33,480
Speaker 2: a year.

736
00:35:33,360 --> 00:35:34,800
Speaker 3: And Starbucks is pretty good stuff.

737
00:35:35,040 --> 00:35:38,480
Speaker 2: The week that we're in Indianapolis, I buy coffee as

738
00:35:38,560 --> 00:35:41,040
Speaker 2: much as I do probably the rest of the year combined.

739
00:35:40,680 --> 00:35:43,080
Speaker 3: Because I'm hard to find there. Sometimes you go to

740
00:35:43,080 --> 00:35:43,840
Speaker 3: the media room.

741
00:35:44,120 --> 00:35:46,160
Speaker 2: It's never in the media room. It's always out or

742
00:35:46,160 --> 00:35:47,440
Speaker 2: it's a fifteen minute walk away.

743
00:35:47,680 --> 00:35:49,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's always out of the me.

744
00:35:49,400 --> 00:35:51,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, from the from where we stay and walk through

745
00:35:51,640 --> 00:35:54,160
Speaker 2: the convention center and everything. I walk past a Starbucks

746
00:35:54,160 --> 00:35:55,759
Speaker 2: like three or four times a day. Yeah, I'll just

747
00:35:55,760 --> 00:35:56,440
Speaker 2: be like, I'll snagger.

748
00:35:56,440 --> 00:35:58,279
Speaker 3: That's one of my least favorite things about because I'm

749
00:35:58,280 --> 00:35:59,960
Speaker 3: on the air, and you know, I always drink coffee

750
00:36:00,120 --> 00:36:02,359
Speaker 3: before and while on the air, it's not as easy

751
00:36:02,360 --> 00:36:02,919
Speaker 3: to find it.

752
00:36:03,760 --> 00:36:06,799
Speaker 2: It's one of the most bass awkward things. Maybe the

753
00:36:06,840 --> 00:36:10,799
Speaker 2: only one about the Combine that's not logistically awesome is

754
00:36:10,840 --> 00:36:13,600
Speaker 2: that the media workroom is a ten to fifteen minute

755
00:36:13,600 --> 00:36:17,600
Speaker 2: walk away from radio row. I know, and that's ridiculous.

756
00:36:17,600 --> 00:36:19,120
Speaker 2: That's where all the water and coffee are. So if

757
00:36:19,120 --> 00:36:21,759
Speaker 2: we want water and coffee, it's about a fifteen to

758
00:36:21,800 --> 00:36:24,000
Speaker 2: twenty minute round trip walk. You can't just go and

759
00:36:24,040 --> 00:36:26,160
Speaker 2: grab one during your four or five minute commercial.

760
00:36:26,440 --> 00:36:29,640
Speaker 3: Started going to the Combine through the Steelers. In every

761
00:36:29,719 --> 00:36:34,080
Speaker 3: corner of the radio row, we're huge ice buckets full

762
00:36:34,120 --> 00:36:37,279
Speaker 3: of aquafinas or whatever. That was great, and I think

763
00:36:37,320 --> 00:36:40,000
Speaker 3: there was a coffee station. Now there is one that

764
00:36:40,080 --> 00:36:42,880
Speaker 3: the NFL Network. If you cheat and go behind the curtain.

765
00:36:43,160 --> 00:36:45,600
Speaker 3: We've done that a couple Yeah. If they're not watching,

766
00:36:45,760 --> 00:36:47,239
Speaker 3: you like, all right, break strike.

767
00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:48,799
Speaker 2: This part of the episode from the record. But yeah,

768
00:36:48,800 --> 00:36:51,040
Speaker 2: we might have stolen coffee from the NFL network crew

769
00:36:51,040 --> 00:36:53,040
Speaker 2: in the past. Yeah, but they paid for that, right

770
00:36:53,160 --> 00:36:53,920
Speaker 2: statue limitation.

771
00:36:54,040 --> 00:36:55,600
Speaker 3: Now you can't get any of that stuff. You should

772
00:36:55,600 --> 00:36:58,239
Speaker 3: be unlimited. Waters that were like, hey, by you're up me.

773
00:36:58,520 --> 00:37:00,800
Speaker 2: Okay, we're all sitting here talking for eight nine hours

774
00:37:00,840 --> 00:37:02,880
Speaker 2: a day. Nah, we don't need any water or coffee.

775
00:37:02,880 --> 00:37:04,279
Speaker 2: Definitely not. It'll be just fine.

776
00:37:04,280 --> 00:37:05,759
Speaker 3: And they do, Oh, go to the media room. Yeah,

777
00:37:05,760 --> 00:37:08,160
Speaker 3: but it's on the other side of the convention center.

778
00:37:08,640 --> 00:37:10,759
Speaker 2: On the other side. We'll wrap this thing up a

779
00:37:10,840 --> 00:37:14,680
Speaker 2: couple of your tweets and our predictions on how Super

780
00:37:14,680 --> 00:37:17,680
Speaker 2: Bowl sixty will unfold. We will do that as we

781
00:37:17,719 --> 00:37:21,800
Speaker 2: put a bow on this week's operations. When we return.

782
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Speaker 2: Eyuler Williamson, Steelers Audio Network.

783
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Speaker 1: Your tunes about drive on your twenty four to seven

784
00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:44,040
Speaker 1: home of the Black and Goal Steelers Nation Radio.

785
00:37:51,320 --> 00:37:54,680
Speaker 2: The final segment here of the week final segment of

786
00:37:54,760 --> 00:38:01,120
Speaker 2: the NFL season as Super Bowl sixty about forty eight

787
00:38:01,160 --> 00:38:03,960
Speaker 2: hours or so from now. Yeah, right, well, well we'll

788
00:38:04,000 --> 00:38:07,080
Speaker 2: be raps. We'll put a bow on this twenty twenty five,

789
00:38:07,120 --> 00:38:09,280
Speaker 2: twenty twenty sixth season in.

790
00:38:09,160 --> 00:38:11,520
Speaker 3: The or you end up doing a party or something.

791
00:38:12,239 --> 00:38:14,719
Speaker 2: All right, So here's what's going on. This actually all

792
00:38:14,760 --> 00:38:18,400
Speaker 2: happened this morning. One of our neighbors, Okay, lives a

793
00:38:18,400 --> 00:38:21,839
Speaker 2: few doors down from us. We become friends with him

794
00:38:21,880 --> 00:38:24,279
Speaker 2: and I get along, wives get along. They've got three

795
00:38:24,360 --> 00:38:26,080
Speaker 2: kids that are the same age as our two kids,

796
00:38:26,280 --> 00:38:28,239
Speaker 2: so we've become friends. Yeah. Kids play out in the

797
00:38:28,239 --> 00:38:31,040
Speaker 2: street the summertime, front trick or treating and that kind

798
00:38:31,080 --> 00:38:36,560
Speaker 2: of stuff. They have a pizza oven and I don't

799
00:38:36,600 --> 00:38:39,520
Speaker 2: mean like like they bought it at Costco and like

800
00:38:39,520 --> 00:38:42,959
Speaker 2: like I'm talking like built from scratch Italian brick pizza oven.

801
00:38:43,200 --> 00:38:43,560
Speaker 3: Nice.

802
00:38:43,680 --> 00:38:45,320
Speaker 2: And they texted us this morning and we're like, you

803
00:38:45,320 --> 00:38:46,719
Speaker 2: guys want to come over for the Super Bowl and

804
00:38:46,760 --> 00:38:47,400
Speaker 2: have some pizzas?

805
00:38:48,120 --> 00:38:51,399
Speaker 3: Yes, so you put any toppings you want on them.

806
00:38:51,719 --> 00:38:55,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, So we said we'll come over till halftime because

807
00:38:55,000 --> 00:38:56,120
Speaker 2: at that point it will be time to put the

808
00:38:56,120 --> 00:38:59,239
Speaker 2: girls down. Anyways, that way I could really focus on

809
00:38:59,280 --> 00:39:01,360
Speaker 2: the second half in the everything.

810
00:39:01,600 --> 00:39:04,920
Speaker 3: That's a good compromise. They live the girls have a blast.

811
00:39:05,040 --> 00:39:07,359
Speaker 2: They live four houses down from Yeah. Yeah, we'll walk

812
00:39:07,440 --> 00:39:09,160
Speaker 2: down there a little bit. My wife and I had

813
00:39:09,200 --> 00:39:11,040
Speaker 2: already pre ordered some wings, so we were like, we'll

814
00:39:11,040 --> 00:39:14,000
Speaker 2: bring the wings over you guys, make some pizzas nice.

815
00:39:14,120 --> 00:39:15,960
Speaker 2: It'll be fun. Yeah, And I actually think in a

816
00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:17,799
Speaker 2: weird way, the kids will all be off doing their

817
00:39:17,840 --> 00:39:21,400
Speaker 2: own things, so I might actually get to focus on

818
00:39:21,440 --> 00:39:23,000
Speaker 2: the game, maybe even more than I would if I

819
00:39:23,040 --> 00:39:24,440
Speaker 2: was sitting at home with my kids bugging.

820
00:39:24,719 --> 00:39:27,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm climbing all over you. Yeah, I'm just sitting

821
00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:28,400
Speaker 3: in my lazy boy by myself watching.

822
00:39:28,480 --> 00:39:30,680
Speaker 2: Do you have any food plans or I might need

823
00:39:30,680 --> 00:39:31,319
Speaker 2: to work on that.

824
00:39:31,400 --> 00:39:34,560
Speaker 3: Maybe Saturday, I have to pick up something, fine, Yeah,

825
00:39:35,239 --> 00:39:35,680
Speaker 3: might as.

826
00:39:35,520 --> 00:39:38,240
Speaker 2: Well get some. Get yourself some nice Deli meats.

827
00:39:38,640 --> 00:39:40,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, something cheeses.

828
00:39:40,239 --> 00:39:42,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, make yourself a nice little charcouterie board.

829
00:39:43,280 --> 00:39:44,759
Speaker 3: That could be the move. You are a big Deli

830
00:39:44,840 --> 00:39:48,479
Speaker 3: meats Oh yeah, she could might be my favorite food

831
00:39:48,520 --> 00:39:51,600
Speaker 3: on the planet, just in terms like Italian meats and cheeses.

832
00:39:52,640 --> 00:39:55,320
Speaker 3: We haven't had this conversation, but I mean, hot super

833
00:39:55,360 --> 00:39:57,239
Speaker 3: sod Is The King is so good. It's the King

834
00:39:57,280 --> 00:39:59,120
Speaker 3: of the fatty meats and never gets credit for it.

835
00:39:59,160 --> 00:40:00,280
Speaker 3: Why isn't it on pizza?

836
00:40:01,600 --> 00:40:05,120
Speaker 2: Is it not someplace you need to go to Rome?

837
00:40:05,160 --> 00:40:06,560
Speaker 2: It's on It's on pizza in Rome.

838
00:40:06,840 --> 00:40:07,080
Speaker 3: Yeah.

839
00:40:07,200 --> 00:40:10,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe it is something with the doesn't bake well

840
00:40:10,160 --> 00:40:10,759
Speaker 2: and you can sell.

841
00:40:10,760 --> 00:40:12,360
Speaker 3: Maybe they can cook quite right or something.

842
00:40:12,400 --> 00:40:15,759
Speaker 2: But we've got there. Let us know on Twitter. Well,

843
00:40:15,760 --> 00:40:17,279
Speaker 2: I don't put it on on pizza as much, but

844
00:40:17,320 --> 00:40:18,960
Speaker 2: soaper soda is great with some good cheese.

845
00:40:19,120 --> 00:40:21,520
Speaker 3: But if I have like fresh mozzarell in a variety

846
00:40:21,560 --> 00:40:25,960
Speaker 3: of olives and only get one meat, it's.

847
00:40:24,760 --> 00:40:27,480
Speaker 2: I'm a big appetizer guy, love them. But I think

848
00:40:27,520 --> 00:40:29,200
Speaker 2: if you told me for the rest of my life

849
00:40:29,480 --> 00:40:31,920
Speaker 2: that the only appetizers I could appetizers, I could have

850
00:40:32,080 --> 00:40:34,960
Speaker 2: charcuterie and oysters. I think I'd be good. I think

851
00:40:34,960 --> 00:40:37,680
Speaker 2: I could survive. Oysters are a time of the year thing.

852
00:40:37,719 --> 00:40:41,360
Speaker 2: But man, when the sun's out and you get them fresh,

853
00:40:41,560 --> 00:40:42,200
Speaker 2: boy do they hit.

854
00:40:42,280 --> 00:40:45,600
Speaker 3: We don't ever make them. But at a restaurant, oh absolutely.

855
00:40:45,680 --> 00:40:48,400
Speaker 3: And needless to say, I don't eat the fruit and

856
00:40:48,400 --> 00:40:52,840
Speaker 3: stuff in the security. It's all all of all of

857
00:40:52,960 --> 00:40:53,560
Speaker 3: cheese and meat.

858
00:40:53,600 --> 00:40:57,200
Speaker 2: You drop those olives into your glass there James Bond shaking.

859
00:40:57,040 --> 00:41:00,000
Speaker 3: Shaking jokes, believe it or not, Like when I get it,

860
00:41:00,560 --> 00:41:03,120
Speaker 3: we go to a Kachina belly or in the corner,

861
00:41:03,560 --> 00:41:06,839
Speaker 3: like just take the artichokes off and add whatever else

862
00:41:06,880 --> 00:41:10,839
Speaker 3: you want in the mix or whatever. Yeah, I do too,

863
00:41:10,920 --> 00:41:13,440
Speaker 3: but I don't. I wouldn't pay for them, you know

864
00:41:13,480 --> 00:41:13,799
Speaker 3: what I mean?

865
00:41:14,000 --> 00:41:17,319
Speaker 2: I do like the dick for more of Wes and mats. Yeah,

866
00:41:17,320 --> 00:41:22,160
Speaker 2: really subscribe to our Patreon only food is what we

867
00:41:22,239 --> 00:41:25,600
Speaker 2: call it with Williamson and Yuler, You and I, You

868
00:41:25,640 --> 00:41:27,359
Speaker 2: and I are in lockstep and a lot of those things.

869
00:41:27,360 --> 00:41:31,320
Speaker 2: It is. It is funny, okay, Matt Big Game Sunday,

870
00:41:31,920 --> 00:41:38,480
Speaker 2: Santa Clara, San Francisco, NBC six thirty Seattle four and

871
00:41:38,520 --> 00:41:41,760
Speaker 2: a half point favorites. Yeah, the over under forty five.

872
00:41:41,920 --> 00:41:43,439
Speaker 3: I guess the line has not moved once.

873
00:41:43,960 --> 00:41:46,640
Speaker 2: I think it did. I think it opened Seattle three

874
00:41:46,680 --> 00:41:48,799
Speaker 2: and a half. Oh, really quickly jumped to four and

875
00:41:48,800 --> 00:41:50,520
Speaker 2: a half like eleven days ago.

876
00:41:50,640 --> 00:41:53,520
Speaker 3: So when it opened, I thought, man, this line's off.

877
00:41:53,600 --> 00:41:55,280
Speaker 3: I think I should be like seven and a half.

878
00:41:55,520 --> 00:41:56,920
Speaker 2: I thought it would be close to it if you

879
00:41:56,960 --> 00:41:58,600
Speaker 2: would have asked me to predict before I knew what

880
00:41:58,640 --> 00:42:01,240
Speaker 2: it was, I would have said six and a half, seven.

881
00:42:01,120 --> 00:42:03,279
Speaker 3: And a half seven, and I actually did it. We

882
00:42:03,280 --> 00:42:05,000
Speaker 3: were chatting on in Mike, I bet this is like

883
00:42:05,040 --> 00:42:07,080
Speaker 3: a seven and a half way line. But the more

884
00:42:07,120 --> 00:42:11,960
Speaker 3: I think it through, I have Seattle winning, but only

885
00:42:12,080 --> 00:42:16,400
Speaker 3: nineteen sixteen. I think it's like a close. I have

886
00:42:16,440 --> 00:42:18,120
Speaker 3: a lot of faith in Vaybel and I have a

887
00:42:18,120 --> 00:42:20,279
Speaker 3: lot of faith in those defensive tackles to keep this

888
00:42:20,360 --> 00:42:24,960
Speaker 3: thing close. This Josh McDaniel's tenth time there, I mean

889
00:42:25,000 --> 00:42:26,840
Speaker 3: like there's a bend there done in factor to the

890
00:42:26,840 --> 00:42:30,840
Speaker 3: coaching staff at least may might be special, might be

891
00:42:30,880 --> 00:42:33,040
Speaker 3: in for a real long day and might just get battered.

892
00:42:33,080 --> 00:42:35,200
Speaker 3: But I think it's gonna be a close, very low

893
00:42:35,239 --> 00:42:39,839
Speaker 3: scoring game. So over a field goal, I think I'm in.

894
00:42:41,360 --> 00:42:43,160
Speaker 3: And I shocked. I thought that way because when it

895
00:42:43,200 --> 00:42:45,359
Speaker 3: opened and I didn't start breaking it down, I was like,

896
00:42:45,560 --> 00:42:47,080
Speaker 3: Seattle might win this game. By twenty.

897
00:42:47,440 --> 00:42:51,839
Speaker 2: I have gone back and forth, and as we get

898
00:42:51,840 --> 00:42:53,600
Speaker 2: closer and closer to the game, I think it's going

899
00:42:53,680 --> 00:42:55,000
Speaker 2: to be a closer and closer game.

900
00:42:55,080 --> 00:42:56,279
Speaker 3: That's what I keep thinking too.

901
00:42:56,760 --> 00:42:59,560
Speaker 2: My first prediction, if you would have last Friday, if

902
00:42:59,560 --> 00:43:02,560
Speaker 2: you would ask I would have said thirty one seventeen Seattle.

903
00:43:02,800 --> 00:43:03,040
Speaker 3: Yeah.

904
00:43:03,120 --> 00:43:06,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, I just think it's time for the bell to

905
00:43:06,080 --> 00:43:09,399
Speaker 2: toll for the New England Patriots. I'm not saying they're

906
00:43:09,400 --> 00:43:13,080
Speaker 2: an unworthy AFC champion that would be seeking comfort. That

907
00:43:13,120 --> 00:43:15,719
Speaker 2: would be excuse making. That would be a bridge too far.

908
00:43:16,280 --> 00:43:18,319
Speaker 3: But they haven't super impressive on their run.

909
00:43:18,360 --> 00:43:20,560
Speaker 2: But there's a reason why the national people of the

910
00:43:20,560 --> 00:43:22,759
Speaker 2: world who evaluate this thing will tell you they've had

911
00:43:22,840 --> 00:43:24,360
Speaker 2: one of the easiest paths to get there in the

912
00:43:24,440 --> 00:43:26,279
Speaker 2: last fifty years. I think both of those things can

913
00:43:26,320 --> 00:43:29,560
Speaker 2: be true. Yes, it's not a joke that they're there,

914
00:43:29,840 --> 00:43:31,520
Speaker 2: but they've also had a lot of bounces and a

915
00:43:31,560 --> 00:43:33,960
Speaker 2: lot of benefits to get there. Yeah, and sometimes I

916
00:43:34,040 --> 00:43:36,600
Speaker 2: just believe in the sports justice thing of like it's

917
00:43:36,640 --> 00:43:39,080
Speaker 2: time for the bell to toll for New England. They've

918
00:43:39,080 --> 00:43:41,560
Speaker 2: been so fortunate to this point. They only played three

919
00:43:41,560 --> 00:43:43,840
Speaker 2: different teams for if you count the Bills twice, but

920
00:43:43,920 --> 00:43:46,799
Speaker 2: three different franchises in the regular season that made the playoffs,

921
00:43:46,960 --> 00:43:49,280
Speaker 2: and one of them was the eight to nine Carolina Panthers.

922
00:43:50,040 --> 00:43:54,120
Speaker 2: Then in the postseason, they get a destroyed Chargers offensive line,

923
00:43:54,160 --> 00:43:56,120
Speaker 2: they get a Houston team that turned the ball over

924
00:43:56,160 --> 00:43:58,279
Speaker 2: as much in that game as they as they did

925
00:43:58,280 --> 00:44:01,080
Speaker 2: the entire regular season, and they get a Broncos team

926
00:44:01,160 --> 00:44:06,040
Speaker 2: with a quarterback that that hadn't started a game all year. Yeah, yeah,

927
00:44:06,280 --> 00:44:10,239
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go twenty eight to seventeen Seattle, and I

928
00:44:10,320 --> 00:44:12,879
Speaker 2: know that eleven points is a decent margin. I think

929
00:44:12,920 --> 00:44:15,360
Speaker 2: they'll be like a late score that puts it away.

930
00:44:15,560 --> 00:44:16,759
Speaker 3: You think it's a competitive game.

931
00:44:16,840 --> 00:44:19,200
Speaker 2: I think it's mostly a competitive game. But that Seattle

932
00:44:19,200 --> 00:44:21,360
Speaker 2: from start to finish is clearly the better team in

933
00:44:21,400 --> 00:44:22,960
Speaker 2: the score line will reflect That.

934
00:44:23,239 --> 00:44:25,399
Speaker 3: Wouldn't struck me at all. I mean, I don't think

935
00:44:25,440 --> 00:44:27,759
Speaker 3: the Patriots can win big. I think they can win.

936
00:44:28,080 --> 00:44:30,520
Speaker 2: If there's a team that wins big, yeah, it feels

937
00:44:30,560 --> 00:44:31,600
Speaker 2: like it has to be Seattle.

938
00:44:31,600 --> 00:44:33,680
Speaker 3: I agree with that. I agree with that they're the

939
00:44:33,719 --> 00:44:34,160
Speaker 3: best team in.

940
00:44:34,160 --> 00:44:36,160
Speaker 2: The league and have been since.

941
00:44:37,520 --> 00:44:40,040
Speaker 3: At least a few months. Yeah, something like that. They're

942
00:44:40,040 --> 00:44:42,400
Speaker 3: a powerhouse, and they're really well constructed, and I have

943
00:44:42,440 --> 00:44:43,719
Speaker 3: great respect for how they got here.

944
00:44:43,960 --> 00:44:45,640
Speaker 2: But all those things that you said about the Patriots

945
00:44:45,719 --> 00:44:49,879
Speaker 2: ring true, and just hey man, it's the Super Bowl.

946
00:44:49,920 --> 00:44:52,760
Speaker 2: What we saw last year in a easy, decisive victory

947
00:44:52,920 --> 00:44:56,120
Speaker 2: that is so often just not the case right right,

948
00:44:56,480 --> 00:44:57,759
Speaker 2: But it's gonna be a lot of fun matter.

949
00:44:57,840 --> 00:44:59,560
Speaker 3: I'm getting pyched up for it me too. I haven't

950
00:44:59,600 --> 00:45:01,600
Speaker 3: thought about all week till like yesterday.

951
00:45:01,680 --> 00:45:05,000
Speaker 2: So yesterday, yeah, like, hey, what's going on here? You

952
00:45:05,040 --> 00:45:07,000
Speaker 2: should have seen me this morning. I was like, I

953
00:45:07,000 --> 00:45:09,440
Speaker 2: looked like a spectator a tennis match, like back and forth.

954
00:45:09,600 --> 00:45:11,960
Speaker 2: I'm flipping back and forth between the Olympics and all

955
00:45:12,000 --> 00:45:14,560
Speaker 2: the Super Bowl coverage. Oh okay, Like I'm like curling's on,

956
00:45:15,239 --> 00:45:17,680
Speaker 2: but I want to watch the NFL network, Santa Clara.

957
00:45:17,760 --> 00:45:19,759
Speaker 2: I'm like flipping back and forth, like it's like I'm

958
00:45:19,960 --> 00:45:23,040
Speaker 2: watching a tennis ball, go back and forth. Good stuff.

959
00:45:23,040 --> 00:45:25,239
Speaker 2: This week, man, had a lot of fun and and

960
00:45:25,239 --> 00:45:27,200
Speaker 2: we'll be back on Monday to break it all down.

961
00:45:27,400 --> 00:45:29,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, the big game off season will be here.

962
00:45:29,480 --> 00:45:32,120
Speaker 2: And then we will fully start diving into draft and

963
00:45:32,160 --> 00:45:34,839
Speaker 2: free agency even more so than we already have. Big

964
00:45:34,840 --> 00:45:37,520
Speaker 2: shout out to mister TV Tyler V for doing video

965
00:45:37,560 --> 00:45:41,360
Speaker 2: producing today and for Matt Williamson. I'm West Shuler. Enjoy

966
00:45:41,400 --> 00:45:43,440
Speaker 2: the Super Bowl everybody, and we will be back with

967
00:45:43,480 --> 00:45:45,600
Speaker 2: you on Monday to react to it at all, to

968
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Speaker 2: react to it all. Pardon me, As always, you know

969
00:45:48,640 --> 00:45:50,000
Speaker 2: where to find us. It's on your twenty four to

970
00:45:50,000 --> 00:45:52,479
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971
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