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Speaker 1: Today on Steelers Country Weekly, we recapped the steelers big
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Speaker 1: win in Baltimore over the Ravens, look ahead to the
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Speaker 1: Monday night matchup in Pittsburgh against the Dolphins, and then
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Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about players that we would want the
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Speaker 1: Steelers to come out of retirement and play for us
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Speaker 1: in an unexpected emergency situation. I'm Nick Detulia, and as
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Speaker 1: always I'm joined by the world famous accountant Eric vanminshowten, Eric,
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Speaker 1: how are you tonight?
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Speaker 2: Feeling rusty?
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Speaker 1: Uh?
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Speaker 2: We did.
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Speaker 3: We didn't do our normal sign off to do a
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Speaker 3: little test, so that's true.
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Speaker 1: We just kind of went right into it. I'm right,
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Speaker 1: I know it better work, right.
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Speaker 2: Oh my goodness.
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Speaker 1: Well, no, I'm glad. I'm I'm glad that we're back together.
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Speaker 1: I'm glad we're talking. I'm glad we get to talk
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Speaker 1: after a win. It's been It's refreshing to get one
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Speaker 1: of those, right.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know what this feeling feels like.
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Speaker 3: It seems like most of our sports teams have been
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Speaker 3: disappointing to us lately, so I'll take this one.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: This was a rough sports weekend all around for me,
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Speaker 1: except for this. We had our Bearcats lose into arrival.
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Speaker 1: Not that I care so much, but I was kind
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Speaker 1: of following along. My alma mater lost in the state
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Speaker 1: championship to a team called the Orange.
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Speaker 4: That's kind of depressing.
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Speaker 1: And I got kicked out of the fantasy football playoffs.
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Speaker 1: I was in, and then three or four different things
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Speaker 1: happened and I just couldn't get over the hurdle I
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Speaker 1: was in before last week, and then I just needed
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Speaker 1: someone to lose and I would be in, or if
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Speaker 1: I won, I.
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Speaker 4: Was in and nothing happened. So coning that is correct.
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Speaker 1: My older brother has to be the coney guy this year,
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Speaker 1: so that will be fantastic compared to my experience last year.
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Speaker 1: But the point still stands that with all that the Steelers,
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Speaker 1: with the exception of fantasy football, although I had a
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Speaker 1: pretty good idea that this was going to happen during
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Speaker 1: the Steelers game, I was expecting the Steelers to get
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Speaker 1: the loss, I was unable to watch the game. I
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Speaker 1: had an event I had to attend, so when it
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Speaker 1: was socially acceptable, I would look at my phone and
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Speaker 1: and kind of catch up on what was going through.
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Speaker 1: But we are going to a lot.
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Speaker 2: Socially acceptable in that in that regards you're going to
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Speaker 2: the bathroom.
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Speaker 1: No, it was a reception type affair, so people were
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Speaker 1: sitting at tables, eating, talking, some drinking. This was not
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Speaker 1: a solemn event, so to speak. But yes, I was
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Speaker 1: not leaving the event to go check my phone.
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Speaker 4: If that's what you were implying. That was not the kids.
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Speaker 2: To do back in the day.
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Speaker 1: Oh my god.
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Speaker 2: I I actually was part of Elder Glee Club.
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Speaker 3: And not to delay before we get into it, but
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Speaker 3: I was part of Elder Glee Club and we wanted
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Speaker 3: to know the score of like one of the football games.
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Speaker 3: I forget which one it was, but when we were
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Speaker 3: going to the back for a break, they had out
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Speaker 3: one of those portable not even TVs radios. It looks
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Speaker 3: like a walkie talkie listening to the game on w
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Speaker 3: LW seven hundred, So you know you have a computer
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Speaker 3: in your pocket.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, And if it was in our market, I would
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Speaker 1: have been able to stream it. And if I wasn't
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Speaker 1: a cheap skate, I would have been able to stream
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Speaker 1: it too.
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Speaker 2: It wasn't in our market, actually it was.
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Speaker 4: I was gonna say it was in your market, it
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Speaker 4: wasn't in mine.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, But yeah, I mean, just to your point though,
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Speaker 1: that was what not between ten and fifteen years ago?
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Speaker 4: And look how far we've come now?
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Speaker 2: Yeah?
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Speaker 4: Man, all right, Well, like I.
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Speaker 1: Said, I was unable to watch this, So journalistic integrity
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Speaker 1: is a hallmark of our program here. So I can't
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Speaker 1: give you all an honest review of this game. We
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Speaker 1: are going to have to rely on the expertise of
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Speaker 1: our world famous accountant here to give us the whole breakdown,
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Speaker 1: and you can expect nothing but the perfect truth and
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Speaker 1: the perfect unbiased, totally factual.
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Speaker 4: Breakdown right here. So let's let's get into it.
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Speaker 1: Eric. We all know the final score here was twenty
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Speaker 1: seven to twenty two. I did watch the last two
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Speaker 1: and a half minutes or so on on replay YouTube
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Speaker 1: uploaded or the NFL did upload that to YouTube. But
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Speaker 1: give us the whole picture here. What went down and Baltimore?
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Speaker 1: What went right for the Steelers? What went wrong for
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Speaker 1: the Ravens, and how are they able to get out
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Speaker 1: of there with this win?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, it was a it was an interesting game.
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Speaker 3: I think that like Baltimore will come out and say
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Speaker 3: that they didn't get calls, to which they might maybe
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Speaker 3: make a valid point, But there were some definite calls
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Speaker 3: that I thought also went to the Baltimore's way, So.
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Speaker 2: We'll see what happens. But there was a lot of.
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Speaker 3: Coaching challenges, so there was Isaiah likely his catch was overturned.
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Speaker 2: That was a pivotal moment in the game.
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Speaker 3: Honestly, Rogers had an interception that got overturned. I don't
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Speaker 3: know if you saw the replay. No tipped up, he
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Speaker 3: caught it. He was going to the ground and he
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Speaker 3: barely has he's got finger tips on this ball. Then
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Speaker 3: so one rips it out and then they take it well,
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Speaker 3: they said that he caught the ball, went down to
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Speaker 3: his knees and he was down by contact before the
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Speaker 3: ball came out.
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Speaker 2: I don't even think he caught it. But another.
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Speaker 3: Big one was Zay Flowers had to catch on the
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Speaker 3: outside of the field. It was a thirty thirty five
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Speaker 3: yard bomb. I don't think he caught it, but they
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Speaker 3: ruled it a catch. And then another one that happened
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Speaker 3: was Rogers threw the ball to Calvin Austin on the sideline.
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Speaker 3: Rogers was telling the coaches, we need to speed this up,
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Speaker 3: we need to snap this ball, and and doing so,
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Speaker 3: Ravens throughout challenge flag and it was easily overturned.
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Speaker 2: So there were red flags galore in the scheme out
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Speaker 2: of that.
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Speaker 3: Also, though we're just big plays, the Steelers had zero
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Speaker 3: and I say zero air.
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Speaker 2: Yards of twenty.
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Speaker 3: More or twenty or more yards in the month of November,
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Speaker 3: and they had three on Sunday.
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Speaker 2: They came out.
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Speaker 3: I think it was like the first play, this fly
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Speaker 3: route to Dkay ended up being.
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Speaker 2: Like a fifty five yard play.
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Speaker 3: So for me, I think offensively, we finally took the
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Speaker 3: training wheels off.
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Speaker 2: God forbid that you had to wait.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, twelve thirteen weeks into the season, but gosh forbid,
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Speaker 3: we did it. And the offense I thought looked great
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Speaker 3: for doing so. Rogers was moving so comfortably in the pocket.
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Speaker 3: Out of the pocket even ran for a touchdown his
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Speaker 3: first and I think four years.
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Speaker 1: I saw that in the celebration he did too.
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Speaker 4: That got everyone fired.
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Speaker 3: Up, that's right, And even leading into the game, Rogers
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Speaker 3: said this was the best week of practice that they've
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Speaker 3: had since he's joined the team. You know, maybe hard
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Speaker 3: on me for not believing that at first. I thought
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Speaker 3: it might have been a little lip service, But you know,
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Speaker 3: I think overall it showed and then even I've talked
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Speaker 3: a lot about offense, but defensively, I wouldn't say it
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Speaker 3: was our cleanest game, and Lamar started looking like himself
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Speaker 3: in the second half. But they made plays when they
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Speaker 3: needed to. There were some instances where there were some failures.
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Speaker 3: Patrick Queen was the spy on Lamar in the red zone.
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Speaker 3: He ended up blitzing the middle. Lamar ran to the
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Speaker 3: Riot and for a touchdown. Easy score, but hey, gotta
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Speaker 3: give to the defense because of them, Lamar couldn't even
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Speaker 3: get off the game winning pass and ends up Steelers
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Speaker 3: winning by five. So well, I'm gonna turn it over
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Speaker 3: to you for your unbiased expert knowledge of the two
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Speaker 3: and a half minutes that you.
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Speaker 2: Were able to watch. Break it down.
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Speaker 1: Well, I will say it was interesting getting to watch that.
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Speaker 1: If you were curious, I think the video was about
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Speaker 1: seven minutes or so long, and obviously there was no commercials,
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Speaker 1: so you edit that out. That's how you get from
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Speaker 1: the two and a half or so minutes to seven
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Speaker 1: minutes of real time. But I think, kind of like
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Speaker 1: you alluded to, there were big plays that were made
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Speaker 1: periodically by both teams throughout the day and just at
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Speaker 1: the end there. The Ravens were able to drive and
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Speaker 1: get the ball down, but they just weren't able to
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Speaker 1: get points on the board when they needed to. And
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Speaker 1: like you said, the defense stepped up at the right time.
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Speaker 1: And that's, frankly, in a game like this all you
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Speaker 1: can ask for. We've seen for years Steelers and Ravens
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Speaker 1: games be very close affairs, with the occasional blowout here
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Speaker 1: and there, notably last year's playoff game for one. But
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Speaker 1: it was really good for me to see that all
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Speaker 1: kind of come together and culminate with that defensive stand
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Speaker 1: there at the end and getting the stop for the
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Speaker 1: Steelers on defense because Lamar Jackson is one of the
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Speaker 1: better players in the league and he is supremely dangerous
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Speaker 1: because of the combination of his passing and his mobility.
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Speaker 1: So seeing the team step up was great. And look,
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Speaker 1: I can't say it enough.
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Speaker 4: I'm like you.
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Speaker 1: I was a pessimist myself. I was not expecting the win.
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Speaker 1: I didn't think it was going to happen. I thought
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Speaker 1: the Ravens were gonna take care of business, and it
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Speaker 1: turns out.
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Speaker 4: That we were the ones who took care of business.
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Speaker 4: So nice. Nice to be on that end for once.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it was I was really impressed with
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Speaker 3: how we played offensively, especially Rogers h DK, he played well,
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Speaker 3: but it was mostly Rogers just throwing dimes. You know,
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Speaker 3: he knuck out of like a few different sacks too.
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Speaker 3: One of the announcers just could not believe, They're like
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Speaker 3: amazed that Rogers, with his recovered achilles and forty.
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Speaker 2: One years was he ford two?
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Speaker 3: Actually, yes, you'res right, was able to kind of make
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Speaker 3: it happen. So, look, I I had been, I would say,
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Speaker 3: a naysayer of Rogers preseason and throughout this season. In
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Speaker 3: one week's not going to change my mind. But man,
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Speaker 3: old man, did I get a little bit of a taste?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and I'm a little more I guess. I don't
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Speaker 1: know that patients the right word.
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Speaker 4: That I was more.
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Speaker 1: Impressed with Rogers play, particularly early in the season. You
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Speaker 1: have to remember we did have a couple of thirty
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Speaker 1: point games and performances, and it was the defense that
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Speaker 1: we were really hounding on for giving up thirty or
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Speaker 1: more points each game. And then we kind of went
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Speaker 1: into a lull there, and you don't know what kind
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Speaker 1: of impact that injury was having on him to the
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Speaker 1: fractured wrist. But yeah, I'm hoping, and this is again
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Speaker 1: hoping is the key word, that this is a good
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Speaker 1: foundation for them to start to turn things around and
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Speaker 1: come together on because they are in first place now
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Speaker 1: with this win. It is only one one game, but
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Speaker 1: obviously it matters because it's a win against your division
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Speaker 1: rival who you're competing with four number one.
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Speaker 2: Arguably the biggest win of the year.
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Speaker 4: Yes, in terms of impact, it is.
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Speaker 2: So.
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Speaker 4: And it was in Baltimore too, which was another big thing.
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Speaker 1: The last game of the year is going to be
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Speaker 1: against Baltimore as well, but you have the luxury of
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Speaker 1: having that at home, so if the game means anything
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Speaker 1: at that point, you will absolutely have home field advantage
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Speaker 1: and to.
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Speaker 2: Make sure that sneak it in.
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Speaker 3: While we're talking about the Ravens, they played the Bengals,
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Speaker 3: which they lost pretty handedly to a Burrow list Bengals.
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Speaker 2: Burrow's been looking real good.
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Speaker 4: Man, he has.
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Speaker 1: They almost went into Buffalo and pulled off a win
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Speaker 1: there too.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: So yeah, I mean, luckily we got to play without
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Speaker 3: Burrow playing, and heck, we could only split a series,
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Speaker 3: but the Bengals have the ability to actually take a
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Speaker 3: sweep of the Ravens, which is unfathomable.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think anyone would have predicted that when
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Speaker 1: Joe Burrow went down or when he came back, just
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Speaker 1: because their defense has been, no exaggeration, historically bad this year.
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Speaker 1: The statistics will tell you that.
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Speaker 4: I think.
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Speaker 1: One of their players was it. I'm terrible with their
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Speaker 1: name with the names of players that aren't on the Steelers.
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Speaker 1: The running back Brown I think called out the defense publicly. Anyway,
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Speaker 1: Joe Burrow's back and things seem to be right in
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Speaker 1: the Cincinnati Bengals world for the time being.
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Speaker 2: But you're exactly right.
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Speaker 1: They played the Bengals for the second time in three
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Speaker 1: weeks this upcoming weekend, So the Bengals are obviously in
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Speaker 1: playoff mode right now because every week they have to
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Speaker 1: win if they still want even a remote chance.
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Speaker 4: So yeah, I think it's like.
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Speaker 1: You said, it all goes back to this might be
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Speaker 1: the biggest win of the season for the Steelers because of.
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Speaker 2: What it means now.
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Speaker 1: I don't want to get too far ahead of ourselves.
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Speaker 1: I don't want to get that taste of victory and
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Speaker 1: think we're going back to the super Bowl just to
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Speaker 1: be crushed again come Monday night.
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Speaker 2: Think for yourself.
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Speaker 4: Eric's back on the bandwagon.
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Speaker 1: But no, I look, let's just take it for what
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Speaker 1: it was. It was a good win, and we're happy
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Speaker 1: we're in first place, and hopefully again this serves as
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Speaker 1: a foundation for them to continue to improve on.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: So, and like Aaron Rodgers said, maybe it'll get everyone
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Speaker 1: to shut the hell up for a week. All right,
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Speaker 1: anything else you want to say about the Baltimore matchup.
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Speaker 4: Now, all right? Well, then let's move on.
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Speaker 1: The next game the Steelers have will be a home
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Speaker 1: game against the Miami Dolphins on Monday night. So I
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Speaker 1: want to call out that Mike Tomlin is undefeated at
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Speaker 1: home on Monday nights. So take that for what you will.
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Speaker 1: Earlier in the y it is. I think it's like
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Speaker 1: ten to zero as well. Normally I don't buy into
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Speaker 1: that stuff, but we were talking about the Thursday night
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Speaker 1: stats earlier this year when they played the Bengals and
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Speaker 1: how they haven't won on Thursday night, and sure enough
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Speaker 1: that held true. So hopefully this stat for Monday night
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Speaker 1: will hold true as well. They're playing the Dolphins, who
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Speaker 1: are having a really interesting year. I do have to say,
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Speaker 1: I think they probably looked like they were competing with
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Speaker 1: the Jets for one of the worst teams to start
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Speaker 1: this year. They started off one, two, three, four, five, six, seven,
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Speaker 1: two and seven, and they have won the last four
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Speaker 1: in a row, notably against the Bills where they crushed
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Speaker 1: the Bills thirty to thirteen. And then they do still
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Speaker 1: have They've got wins against the Commanders, the Saints, and
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Speaker 1: the Jets. So after the Bills, not the most stellar
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Speaker 1: track record, I know, but for a team that was
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Speaker 1: as bad as they are to come back and get
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Speaker 1: these four wins.
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Speaker 4: In a row is it is something. It's impressive.
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Speaker 1: So all that to say is they do have momentum.
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Speaker 1: We do know what the Steelers are capable of doing
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Speaker 1: or not doing in games, so I do understand that. Look,
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Speaker 1: I think for this game, it's just going to be
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Speaker 1: a matter of are we going to see the team
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Speaker 1: continue to make improvements and adjustments to what they've done,
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Speaker 1: and is Aaron Rodgers going to continue to be healthy
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Speaker 1: and play healthy. During the Steelers rough patch here, it
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Speaker 1: was kind of a case of Murphy's law where everything
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Speaker 1: that could go wrong did go wrong, with exception of course,
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Speaker 1: to our kicker Chris Boswell, who never does wrong.
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Speaker 4: Never.
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Speaker 1: Look, I'm putting this one on the defense. I think
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Speaker 1: the defense is going to need to make their presence known.
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Speaker 1: I think we really got to establish the run defense
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Speaker 1: here because I'm and maybe you can correct me, because
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Speaker 1: again my most recent memories from two weeks ago. But
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Speaker 1: I don't want to see running back scashing us for
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Speaker 1: one hundred hundred and fifty yard games. And I would
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Speaker 1: just like the defense to play better overall, you know,
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Speaker 1: I think that's really what it's going to come down to.
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Speaker 1: I have more trust in Aaron Rodgers and his pedigree.
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Speaker 4: Than I do with this defense.
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Speaker 1: And I'm going to continue to be hard on the
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Speaker 1: defense and be incredibly pessimistic about the defense because of
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Speaker 1: the price tag that comes with it. So I'll pass
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Speaker 1: it over to you. Now, what are some of your
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Speaker 1: keys for a Steelers' victory this upcoming Monday night?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I to tell you what they did on the
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Speaker 3: run defense. I don't remember Derrick Henry doing anything there
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Speaker 3: you go, so and Lamar didn't necessarily run all over
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Speaker 3: us either. So yeah, I think that they looked. You
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Speaker 3: give up twenty two points. You're like, how'd that go?
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Speaker 2: Well?
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Speaker 3: They could limit the big plays right now, Look the
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Speaker 3: bend not break. I think it works when you allow
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Speaker 3: teams to pick up five yards, seven yards, four yards,
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Speaker 3: But if they start adding a double digit to those
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Speaker 3: amount of yards, then all of a sudden, we're we're
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Speaker 3: looking a little dangerous. So I think that that's the
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Speaker 3: biggest thing there is. You know, I think they got
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Speaker 3: some running backs that have speed, that can that can
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Speaker 3: gash us.
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Speaker 2: They have.
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Speaker 3: They have a waddle who we talked about is being
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Speaker 3: interested and trading for yep, so he's.
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Speaker 2: An explosive guy.
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Speaker 3: I think that you limit the big plays and keep
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Speaker 3: in front of you.
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Speaker 2: I just don't see it a way that the Dolphins
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Speaker 2: are gonna win. I think that.
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Speaker 3: When I look at this, who do I trust quarterback
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Speaker 3: to not just implode?
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Speaker 2: Look, Tua doesn't.
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Speaker 3: I think he has more games of implosion than he
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Speaker 3: has explosion anymore.
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Speaker 2: So I'm not saying he's gonna have a bad game, but.
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Speaker 3: I definitely would not be surprised, especially since I know
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Speaker 3: this was an interesting stat.
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Speaker 2: During the game. I think we lead the league in turnovers.
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Speaker 3: Defensively, and we are second in points off turnovers. So
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Speaker 3: and considering how bad are like, I wouldn't say bad.
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Speaker 2: How pedestrian our offense has been. That's pretty astounded.
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Speaker 1: There you go, yeah, that's fine. So I'm hearing that
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Speaker 1: we might get another six interception or six turnover game,
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Speaker 1: is what you're saying.
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Speaker 2: Chalk me up for for.
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Speaker 4: There you go.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, on paper, this is a game that
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Speaker 1: we shouldn't be worried about. But we always look, we
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Speaker 1: know the team, right, We've been here so many times.
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Speaker 2: I just.
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Speaker 4: I'm not quite overly. I'm not quite back on the bandwagon.
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Speaker 1: So I know, I know, I know that the Dolphins
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Speaker 1: have a pretty good safety in Minka Fitzpatrick, so that'll
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Speaker 1: be good to see him at Akrascher Stadium again. But look,
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna go out on a limb. I'm gonna give.
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Speaker 4: The Steelers the w here.
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Speaker 1: I just I think it's gonna be really ugly. Let's
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Speaker 1: say the Steelers win twenty to seventeen.
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Speaker 3: Okay, I'm gonna go twenty four to thirteen. Steelers, all right,
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Speaker 3: so you're on board. Not quite a blowout, but you
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Speaker 3: got them getting the win here.
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Speaker 4: So ye perfect. I hope that we're right.
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Speaker 1: I think that this is a really good opportunity for
23:28
Speaker 1: the Steelers. Again, don't want to put the cart before
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Speaker 1: the horse, but they've got a I mean, I don't
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Speaker 1: want to call it a favorable schedule, but they're playing
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Speaker 1: the Dolphins, They're going to Detroit to play the Lions,
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Speaker 1: who have taken a.
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Speaker 4: Step back this year.
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Speaker 1: They're gonna play at Cleveland, and then the last game
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Speaker 1: of the year, of course, is the Ravens. So all
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Speaker 1: four of these teams are on a I guess you
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Speaker 1: want to call it a downward trend at the moment.
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Speaker 1: So strike while the iron's hot. And again they're in
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Speaker 1: driver's seat right now. This it's four games, but the
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Speaker 1: division is theirs to lose, and frankly it has been
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Speaker 1: all year and the fact that they haven't quite lost
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Speaker 1: it yet is astounding. So yeah, take advantage, right, yeah, exactly,
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Speaker 1: all right, Well, the most interesting news of the day
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Speaker 1: was that the Colts tried out forty four year old
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Speaker 1: Philip Rivers, who hasn't played since twenty twenty, because they
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Speaker 1: have a couple different injuries.
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Speaker 4: On the roster right now to the quarterback.
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Speaker 1: Notably, Daniel Jones is out for the year and he
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Speaker 1: did actually retire to sign with them. I'm not sure
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Speaker 1: if he's going to be starting or if he's just
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Speaker 1: going to be on the roster. I have no idea,
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Speaker 1: And frankly, the news came out of left field entirely
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Speaker 1: for me. When they were talking about quarterbacks, Philip Rivers
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Speaker 1: didn't even enter my mind as a possibility. So that
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Speaker 1: got us thinking if the Steelers were in a similar
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Speaker 1: situation where let's say Rogers goes down and Mason Rudolph
25:19
Speaker 1: goes down, so they're left with just Will Howard, are
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Speaker 1: there any other players similar to Philip Rivers that you
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Speaker 1: would like to see them sign and come out of retirement.
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Speaker 1: With the caveat being this isn't like an all time
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Speaker 1: thing or anything. These are people could be any age.
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Speaker 1: They just have to physically able to get onto the
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Speaker 1: field and play. They don't have to be great. They
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Speaker 1: just gotta put on the uniform and get onto the field.
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Speaker 1: So I'll let you go first, Eric. This doesn't have
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Speaker 1: to be a one answer thing. We can talk about
25:50
Speaker 1: several different people that we want to but it doesn't
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Speaker 1: even have to just be the quarterback. But if there
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Speaker 1: was a player out there that the Steelers could sign
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Speaker 1: that was obviously past their prime and maybe he's currently retired.
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Speaker 1: Who are some names that you think would be interesting
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Speaker 1: to see?
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Speaker 3: So he was never an athlete, never was his mo,
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Speaker 3: but gosh almighty, when he was called upon the start
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Speaker 3: a game, I felt comfortable as I could ever be.
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Speaker 2: Do you know who I'm talking about?
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Speaker 4: Charlie Batch.
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Speaker 2: Charlie Batch, call him on down. No, Charlie was to
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Speaker 2: me like the perfect backup.
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Speaker 3: He was a smart quarterback, he did not turn the
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Speaker 3: ball over, and I felt like he just was also
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Speaker 3: a glue guy, very good team arale guy.
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Speaker 2: So when he played a lot of people trusted him.
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Speaker 3: So, I don't know, he's probably pushing sixty now, but
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Speaker 3: he's not.
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Speaker 1: He's not pushing sixty. How dare you slander?
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Speaker 3: And he's old so, but yeah, get that old geezer
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Speaker 3: off the couch.
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Speaker 2: I think.
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Speaker 3: If if Aaron Rodgers went down, I'm not saying I
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Speaker 3: would put him in front of Mason Rudolph, but I
27:31
Speaker 3: wouldn't be upset either, just because I had that much
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Speaker 3: faith in him.
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Speaker 1: You know, I think that if it was a quarterback,
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Speaker 1: I think you would have to at least call Big
27:48
Speaker 1: Ben out of convenience, right, I mean, yeah, the only
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Speaker 1: thing that Aaron Rodgers has done this year that Ben
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Speaker 1: cannot do is throw the ball seventy yards in the air,
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Speaker 1: And frankly, I don't think there's many others who could
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Speaker 1: do that, even some of the best quarterbacks in their
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Speaker 1: prime right now, that's really impressive. So I think if
28:17
Speaker 1: we're just gonna do dunk and dunk, I think Ben
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Speaker 1: could probably do that for a game or so, or
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Speaker 1: come off the bench for a couple series. Right Honestly,
28:29
Speaker 1: it's literally impossible, but I'd still be fine given Tom
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Speaker 1: Brady a call, because if there's anyone that I know
28:38
Speaker 1: takes care of himself, it's Tom Brady, right Yeah, But
28:44
Speaker 1: legally he cannot being an owner of the Raiders, although
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Speaker 1: that would be interesting to see him suiting up for
28:51
Speaker 1: the Raiders too, because they could. They could definitely use
28:54
Speaker 1: some quarterback help.
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Speaker 4: Right now too.
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Speaker 2: I can use everything.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, as we.
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Speaker 1: Were talking about this, I was thinking of James Harrison
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Speaker 1: because we quite literally lived this with James Harrison. When
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Speaker 1: he came out of retirement for the Steelers as well.
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Speaker 1: He was I don't want to say written off, but
29:14
Speaker 1: he he was done, and I think he was out
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Speaker 1: for almost two years before they re signed him and
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Speaker 1: he came back and I think he had another two
29:22
Speaker 1: or three years and then obviously ended with the Patriots.
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Speaker 4: But just kind of nuts there. I don't know.
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Speaker 1: I mean, Philip Rivers I think is interesting if he
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Speaker 1: still got it. We joked before the call or before
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Speaker 1: our recording that he just probably wanted to get out
29:39
Speaker 1: of the house for a little bit. So I don't know, man.
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Speaker 1: I think Ben and Tom Brady are the two most
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Speaker 1: interesting that could probably do something that would be interesting
29:55
Speaker 1: to see in that situation. One we haven't mentioned was
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Speaker 1: Cam Newton too, who's still young enough. I think he's
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Speaker 1: younger than those other guys we mentioned. He's obviously not
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Speaker 1: been signed by other teams for a reason.
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Speaker 4: But I guess, yeah, I.
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Speaker 3: Don't Cam when he was like, I don't know, he
30:19
Speaker 3: never appealed to me, So.
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Speaker 1: I mean, there's only so many people you can call
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Speaker 1: in this hypothetical, right, Yeah, So anyone else that has
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Speaker 1: come to your mind that you think might be interesting
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Speaker 1: to see suit up?
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Speaker 2: Mmmm, well you went with the obvious Hall of famers. Ah,
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Speaker 2: let's see. No, I don't think so. I think that
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Speaker 2: I'm happy with my Charlie Batch.
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Speaker 4: Oh my gosh.
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Speaker 3: He's thinking about just thinking about good old Charlie.
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Speaker 2: But that guy's got quality starts in him.
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Speaker 4: Good old Charlie.
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Speaker 1: The interesting one was Drew Brees, though, because the Saints
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Speaker 1: did call him and he was, in his own words,
31:11
Speaker 1: he laughed and hung up the phone. I think one,
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Speaker 1: he knew that his arm wasn't quite what it was
31:19
Speaker 1: because he had a pretty significant surgery I think at
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Speaker 1: the tail end of his career. And two, I think
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Speaker 1: they called him while he was just enjoying retired life
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Speaker 1: golfing do you want to come back and play quarterback?
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Speaker 4: And now I'm good?
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Speaker 1: So yeah, all right, Well, I think that does it
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Speaker 1: for us.
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Speaker 4: Kind of a light week.
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Speaker 1: You'll get the full breakdown next week when we come
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Speaker 1: back and do this on Tuesday, after both of us
31:44
Speaker 1: have had the opportunity to really sink our teeth into
31:46
Speaker 1: that game against the Dolphins, and I think we're gonna
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Speaker 1: be pretty positive on Tuesday.
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Speaker 4: Let's knock on wood.
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