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Cincinnati awaits: A key matchup this weekend · The Irish Steelers Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Hey, folks, walk them into the Irish Sailors podcast, the
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  Speaker 1: podcast for Pittsburgh Steers fans across the island of Ireland.
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  Speaker 1: Michael McGrady here delighted to be joined with the flame
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  Speaker 1: egos Jimmy English Dave McKee after this mean up, there
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  Speaker 1: is no point in shining wetness. It was a disappointing
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  Speaker 1: game last week when the Steelers played the Colts, and Jimmy,
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  Speaker 1: it's one thing you get a Saturday night game and
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  Speaker 1: it's great for us because it's on early. But we
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  Speaker 1: can't shy away from this. But there were so many
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  Speaker 1: fans in Ireland that obviously remain optimistic and hopeful for
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  Speaker 1: the season. But it was disappointing going into Indian losing
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  Speaker 1: thirty to thirteen and three games left, three playoff games,
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  Speaker 1: which we'll talk about down the stretch. But well, first off, Harry,
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  Speaker 1: you have just jumped into the game.
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  Speaker 2: I'm good neck, Thanks, I'm glad to be back after
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  Speaker 2: an absence last week.
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  Speaker 3: And you're you're you're dead right.
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  Speaker 2: I was in the wheel chair with some fallows, Theeeters
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  Speaker 2: fans and Saturday night watching the game.
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  Speaker 4: It was a tough watch. I mean, there was some
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  Speaker 4: promising signs at the start. We had Connor Hayward's block
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  Speaker 4: punt which landed right on the right on the one
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  Speaker 4: yard line the two yard line and eventually turned into
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  Speaker 4: a touchdown.
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  Speaker 3: That was initially ruled.
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  Speaker 2: That fumble recovered by the defense, but they gave us
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  Speaker 2: a score up. But now it was it was hard
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  Speaker 2: to watch. I mean, you try and be hopeful a
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  Speaker 2: week on week, but like sometimes you have to.
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  Speaker 3: Call a spade a spade and said that was just
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  Speaker 3: that was just awful.
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  Speaker 2: So look, you know we were we were laying optimistic
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  Speaker 2: as optimistic as we can be.
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  Speaker 4: We go in and we faced a division rival next Saturday,
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  Speaker 4: another start of that game, which which is great. So yeah,
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  Speaker 4: let's just keep plugging on and see what happens.
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  Speaker 1: To quote the Yas song, Dave, the only way is
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  Speaker 1: up baby for you mean, like, look, let's see what happens.
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  Speaker 1: I just I actually forgot Jimmy and it's great to
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  Speaker 1: have you back. I know you weren't all last week.
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  Speaker 1: That was great crack last week David with Jeff and
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  Speaker 1: we'll hopefully get them out again during a playoff r
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to keep the positive vibes it's just just
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  Speaker 1: going from what Jimmy said. Nothing it right in that game.
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  Speaker 1: And it's funny because the first two quarters were sort
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  Speaker 1: of stopped start and indeed pull away towards the end.
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  Speaker 1: The prostrating thing for me is we were there, it
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  Speaker 1: was just like find a way and couldn't get the
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  Speaker 1: run game going at all with Nazi got to look forward.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, we've just sort of you know, I often say it,
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  Speaker 5: but I'm just gonna echo everything Jimmy said. You know,
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  Speaker 5: it's it's obviously the only way I can describe it.
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  Speaker 5: It's disappointing. And you know, twenty was a twenty seven
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  Speaker 5: unentered points minus three turnover the financial you know, we
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  Speaker 5: mentioned at the start of the season we were constantly
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  Speaker 5: getting out gained in every single game. But we're winning
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  Speaker 5: the games. And the reason is because we weren't turning
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  Speaker 5: the ball over. Like if you if you're constantly turning
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  Speaker 5: the ball over, you're gonna put yourself on a bobs
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  Speaker 5: us and you know, the chances are you're probably going
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  Speaker 5: to end up losing the game. But just nothing after
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  Speaker 5: the second quarter, just nothing went right, and then obviously,
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  Speaker 5: you know, just the sloppy playout quarterback that ended up
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  Speaker 5: you know, even if Trubisky did have sort of signs
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  Speaker 5: that you know, we met Deantay Johnson in a couple
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  Speaker 5: of good routes, but just in the end, it's just
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  Speaker 5: it's it's really unacceptable to lose to an Indianapolis Coast
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  Speaker 5: team that you know, with then they're they're in, they're
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  Speaker 5: in the shop with the playoffs. So not only is
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  Speaker 5: a loss, it's a it's a massive loss for us,
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  Speaker 5: but because obviously they've put that as a bit of
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  Speaker 5: like ground distance between ourselves and the name is going
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  Speaker 5: to be hard to even get in now. So the
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  Speaker 5: any ways, up we've got Cincinnati, you know when this weekend,
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  Speaker 5: and again it's it's that you know, domino fact. You know,
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  Speaker 5: we're big, we're playing team that's in that battle for
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  Speaker 5: a playoff position, and we can come up with when
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  Speaker 5: where all of a sudden back in it. But obviously
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  Speaker 5: we've still got two massive games after that against Seattle
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  Speaker 5: and Baltimore, So it's it's not going to get any easier.
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  Speaker 5: You know, this is maybe you know, out of the
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  Speaker 5: three games, this is probably the most winnable, but at
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  Speaker 5: the same time, we've got a look at it, and
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  Speaker 5: you know we're gonna have to take the injuries and
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  Speaker 5: the suspension on board as well. But I'll say, you know,
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  Speaker 5: if if we can just continue keep pupping the head down,
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  Speaker 5: hopefully we'll come out with a when next weekend. That's
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  Speaker 5: the best way we can look at.
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  Speaker 1: Us, and there's gonna be positive vibes. I just I need,
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  Speaker 1: we need to win this weekend. Let's hear from coach
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  Speaker 1: Tomlin first before we get our guessle this week. Lets
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  Speaker 1: let's see what you have to say on Monday to
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  Speaker 1: the press.
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  Speaker 6: Let's talk about Cincinnati, their group that appears to be
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  Speaker 6: trending in the right direction since the last time we
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  Speaker 6: played them. They gaining some real traction. I'll start first
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  Speaker 6: with their offense. Browning is doing a really good job
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  Speaker 6: of taking care of the ball. His completion percentage speaks
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  Speaker 6: to that. Their lack of turnovers or their ball security
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  Speaker 6: speaks to that. But it's not just him, it's them.
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  Speaker 6: They've done some schematic things to really do a nice
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  Speaker 6: job of staying on schedule, not being one dimensional, are
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  Speaker 6: working to keep defenses off balance, changing law points. Again.
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  Speaker 6: He's new to playing, but not new to their program,
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  Speaker 6: and I think We talked about that last time, but
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  Speaker 6: I think that that is increasingly evident as he's gained
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  Speaker 6: more in helmet perspective on play over the last three
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  Speaker 6: weeks at running back man, you know, we got to
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  Speaker 6: minimize mixing his impact on the game, whether it's run
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  Speaker 6: or in the passing game. We got hit on a
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  Speaker 6: big screen and the significant moment screens are a big
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  Speaker 6: component of what they do, particularly with him. The rookie
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  Speaker 6: Chad has come on in recent weeks. That is something
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  Speaker 6: to consider also from a running back perspective that might
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  Speaker 6: be a little bit different than the last time we
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  Speaker 6: played them. U T Higgins is a component of what
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  Speaker 6: they're doing. We didn't see tea last time, and so
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  Speaker 6: you know, we were able to allocate a lot of
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  Speaker 6: schematics towards Chase. When you're when you're dealing with a
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  Speaker 6: full arsenal, you gotta deal with T. Higgins and Chase
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  Speaker 6: and Tyler Boyd. So ours we got some more schematic
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  Speaker 6: challenges in those situational passing moments because he's got a
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  Speaker 6: you know, a full repertoire of people to spread the
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  Speaker 6: ball around too, and so you know, those are some
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  Speaker 6: of the things that have our attention on that side
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  Speaker 6: of the ball. On the defensive side of the ball,
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  Speaker 6: they're playing really good situational ball, standing up in big moments.
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  Speaker 6: Mike Hilton big interception in the red area, I thought
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  Speaker 6: really kept that thing in striking distance form the other day.
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  Speaker 6: But we know and they're familiar with Mike. He is
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  Speaker 6: a big catalyst for them. I think he's third or
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  Speaker 6: fourth and tackles for them. He's always had an appetite
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  Speaker 6: for the big play. He shows up off the edge
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  Speaker 6: in the run game a lot. They're they're bringing some
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  Speaker 6: pressure in the run game. They're bringing battle as well
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  Speaker 6: at the safety position. They got really good continuity in
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  Speaker 6: terms of the things that they do. We're familiar with them,
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  Speaker 6: but it doesn't necessarily provide comfort for us. They're familiar
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  Speaker 6: with us as well, and I just think that's a
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  Speaker 6: texture of divisional play.
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  Speaker 1: Interesting to hear from Coach Fumbling ahead of this game
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  Speaker 1: against the Bengals this weekend, which we will look ahead
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  Speaker 1: to in a little second. In the meantime, this week,
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  Speaker 1: we're delighted to welcome back a guy that we had
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  Speaker 1: on just before the season started, a guy that you
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  Speaker 1: will hear on OTV radio and across the Staters Nation broadcast.
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  Speaker 1: Craig Wolfe joins, it's not just to recap the season
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  Speaker 1: so far, but to look ahead and give us some positivity.
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  Speaker 1: Happened into the last three games in the season as
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  Speaker 1: Christmas comes up this week, We've got a Staters game
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  Speaker 1: around Christmas on Saturday Night against the Bengals, and we
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  Speaker 1: have an early Christmas present at a time of need
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  Speaker 1: for every Staters fan across the island of Ireland and
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  Speaker 1: further beyond. We've got Craig Wolfy, obviously part of the
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  Speaker 1: States broadcast, former Stater himself, Craig wolf fame on. It's
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  Speaker 1: it's great to have you on as always, second time
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  Speaker 1: on here. Now you've already hit the record, You've got
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  Speaker 1: the most appearances. Welcome in.
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  Speaker 5: How you doing.
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  Speaker 7: I'm doing great. I love it. I finally set a
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  Speaker 7: record and something besides some or the food eating contest.
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  Speaker 7: You know. Good to see you, fellas man.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Tom, we were talking off there there before. We
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  Speaker 2: before we jumped on about how the team must be
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  Speaker 2: feeling on the back of the loss of the calls
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  Speaker 2: and Saturday to night, and you alluded to a moment
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  Speaker 2: in your career back in nineteen eighty eight when you
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  Speaker 2: were five and eleven. What can these guys do, I
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  Speaker 2: suppose to to somehow get the get their heads up
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  Speaker 2: against the crucial game against the Bengals next again.
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  Speaker 7: Not crack under pressure, man, You gotta hold it together.
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  Speaker 7: The boys got to stick together. I walked on the
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  Speaker 7: plane past Cam Hayward and TJ. Watt, and I could
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  Speaker 7: see the miserableness in their faces. They know, they know
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  Speaker 7: that that game got away from them. And you know,
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  Speaker 7: but those are two of the most important guys that
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  Speaker 7: you can have that reload this stuff and pull people together.
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  Speaker 7: You gotta stick together. You gotta keep the voices to
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  Speaker 7: the outside of the four walls in the locker room
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  Speaker 7: and some where from within. It's not gonna be without
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  Speaker 7: Chuck Nolan. I'll remember way back in eighty eighty. Also,
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  Speaker 7: he warned us back then, there's nobody coming in from
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  Speaker 7: the east to save you. You know, this is all
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  Speaker 7: about you guys finding out what you need to do.
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  Speaker 7: All the answers to all your questions are inside the
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  Speaker 7: four walls of the locker room. You guys got to
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  Speaker 7: make that effort to find out what it is. And
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  Speaker 7: that's what these guys have to do. You know, they
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  Speaker 7: started off great, got the block punt, things were moving along,
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  Speaker 7: and then things went downhill, and you know, you've got
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  Speaker 7: to find out who is going to stand up under
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  Speaker 7: the pressure, Who's going to fight to the end. You
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  Speaker 7: got three games left and I expect to see nothing
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  Speaker 7: but their best foot forward, guys fighting to finish. That's
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  Speaker 7: what I expect coming up.
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  Speaker 5: You've mentioned about rough patches and stuff, and you were
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  Speaker 5: matching about the tame favor and lab and stuff. You know,
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  Speaker 5: who is that guy in your locker room? So you
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  Speaker 5: look back on your grit stealert hangs during the eighties
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  Speaker 5: and stuff. Who is that guy in your locker room
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  Speaker 5: that says, right, we need to start of the ship.
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  Speaker 5: We need to get the next Like, who's that guy
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  Speaker 5: if you compare to this team right now, Like, who
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  Speaker 5: do you think was the guy kicks kicking yourrobots in
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  Speaker 5: the place?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah? Easy, In my day it was Joe Green and
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  Speaker 7: Jack Lambert. Okay, now you turn around, now you got yourself,
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  Speaker 7: Cam Heyward and TJ.
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  Speaker 2: Wyt All.
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  Speaker 7: Right, those are two of the guys that have to lead.
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  Speaker 7: Alex Highsmith is another high quality, high energy guy that's
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  Speaker 7: got to lead from the front too. And it's the
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  Speaker 7: big dogs now that got to step out and put
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  Speaker 7: in the superb performances because everybody's looking for their cues
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  Speaker 7: from those guys, and those guys are the standard bearers.
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  Speaker 7: Those guys are the guys that can carry things forward,
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  Speaker 7: and I look for them to be of tremendous resource
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  Speaker 7: to all the other guys.
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  Speaker 1: It's funny because you're part of the game day broadcast.
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  Speaker 1: And one thing that's changed since we've last spoken, we
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  Speaker 1: hadnock starts not too long after you both you or no.
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  Speaker 1: You can listen to your Dolcentnes on the radio in
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  Speaker 1: Ireland during a game day and you're going global, You're
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  Speaker 1: going international. How does that make you, guys feel? Just
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  Speaker 1: like I mean, obviously it's really unique. This is happening.
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  Speaker 1: I have you been paying much attention to it? Do
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  Speaker 1: you think it's pretty cool? Or what's your thoughts? No?
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  Speaker 7: I know, you know the funny thing was I got
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  Speaker 7: into this broadcasting business through you know, tud Yillkin many
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  Speaker 7: years ago. You know, I had a boxing gym. He
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  Speaker 7: used to come into my gym all the time and say,
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  Speaker 7: come on, you got to do this. I'm like, now,
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  Speaker 7: I don't want to do this. Put the gloves on.
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  Speaker 7: We'll go in the ring through a few rounds. You know,
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  Speaker 7: whoever bleeds the most has got to pick up the
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  Speaker 7: tab for lunch. So, you know, we do that for
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  Speaker 7: a while. They hed to go, come back and go.
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  Speaker 7: You gotta do this. You got to be the sideline guy.
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  Speaker 7: You gotta travel. Because he says, I'm getting bored hang
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  Speaker 7: out with you. I'm like, no, I don't want to
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  Speaker 7: do this, right. So then finally I do that. And
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  Speaker 7: then after the first year, they tell me, oh, by
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  Speaker 7: the way, when you turn your microphone on, this is
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  Speaker 7: a year after I've already been in it, you know,
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  Speaker 7: or maybe a couple of years. Actually, there's like around
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  Speaker 7: a million people listening. I said, what you know, I'm like,
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  Speaker 7: I think I'm just talking to a couple of people
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  Speaker 7: on the microphone, and you're telling me, now there's like
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  Speaker 7: a million or two or something listening. I'm going to
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  Speaker 7: gad zooks, man, you gotta be kidding me, you know.
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  Speaker 7: But the fact is, you know what they are, the
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  Speaker 7: Steelers fans, and it's just all one big Steelers nation.
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  Speaker 7: I'm just talking to friends, that's all I'm.
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  Speaker 2: Doing talking about Steeters Nation there.
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  Speaker 4: Well, you know, I don't know if you if you
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  Speaker 4: saw the turnout we had and built in a couple
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  Speaker 4: of weeks ago for the first ever Steeters Irish watch party,
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  Speaker 4: were you were you a bit envious over there looking
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  Speaker 4: across the pond.
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  Speaker 3: You couldn't join us for a couple of appliants, you know.
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  Speaker 7: It would have been nice.
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  Speaker 2: Brother.
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  Speaker 7: I saw some of that action. I heard about it,
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  Speaker 7: I got the reports and it was all everybody was
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  Speaker 7: talking about how great it was, what a joy it was,
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  Speaker 7: how much excitement and enthusiasm and everything. Congrats to you guys,
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  Speaker 7: you know, being part of all that, doing all you
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  Speaker 7: can to bring the Steelers war to the great, great
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  Speaker 7: country of Ireland. Man, I mean, dad zookes, that's just
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  Speaker 7: beautiful stuff.
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  Speaker 4: Way to go, And I as I suppose you're you're
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  Speaker 4: a key part of the Steelers organization. You know, you're
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  Speaker 4: on the radio broadcast, you've been a player. How does
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  Speaker 4: it make you feel when you see the reach that
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  Speaker 4: Steelers Nation has across the world globally?
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  Speaker 7: You know, it's fantambic And let me just correct things.
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  Speaker 7: I'm just a little small spot, guys. You know, I've
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  Speaker 7: been so privileged to be able to be a small
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  Speaker 7: part of this organization for a long time. And I'm
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  Speaker 7: grateful to the Roonies and all the coaches that Chuck
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  Speaker 7: Knowle had drafted me and everything. So it's just a
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  Speaker 7: privilege for me to be able to do this. And
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  Speaker 7: it's wonderful because I get to meet people like you, right,
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  Speaker 7: you got dudes. Yeah, I mean sometimes we're going to
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  Speaker 7: hang out together. It'll be a lot of fun. But
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  Speaker 7: we all have that commonality of Steeler football and that's
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  Speaker 7: what we love. That's what you get your juice from.
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  Speaker 7: You know. I can't imagine even you know, another team
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  Speaker 7: having as much as you know of the Steelers Nation
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  Speaker 7: type of thing as what the Steelers have. So I
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  Speaker 7: think it's all good. I remember from the fan to
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  Speaker 7: see football camps, you know, way back in the day
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  Speaker 7: before COVID, the Steelers had those fantasy football camps up
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  Speaker 7: in Saint Vincent College and we got guys from man
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  Speaker 7: all over the world. There was just crazy about how
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  Speaker 7: many people came. And one was from my Kazakistan or
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  Speaker 7: was Bekastan something like that, I mean way on the
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  Speaker 7: other side of the world. It was just tremendous to
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  Speaker 7: see that Steelers football reaches that far.
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  Speaker 5: It really is. It's crazy when you think of it,
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  Speaker 5: and it's it's another one of those were doesn't actually matter,
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  Speaker 5: of course, it matters how we're playing, but you know
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  Speaker 5: when Lois or Tae, you know, Steelers Nation will always
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  Speaker 5: stay loyal and always stick beat or through the rough
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  Speaker 5: patches and stuff. So you're spot on there. Just obviously
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  Speaker 5: coming back to it. Well for you know, this week,
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  Speaker 5: you know, Mason Ridoff he's going to get a chance
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  Speaker 5: to come in as a starter against Cincinnati. What do
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  Speaker 5: you think he can bring that maybe we haven't been
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  Speaker 5: seeing from Mitchell Traubisky. You know, he's a bit of
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  Speaker 5: a veteran now, he's been in the league for what
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  Speaker 5: six seven years? What is he going to be able
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  Speaker 5: to bring it in? But that maybe we weren't getting
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  Speaker 5: with Mitch.
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  Speaker 7: You know, I think and I'll say that, yeah, listen, listen.
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  Speaker 7: You know for Mitchell, feel bad for him. You know,
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  Speaker 7: you know he had some opportunities they just didn't materialize
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  Speaker 7: for him. The guy is a is a quality quarterback.
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  Speaker 7: But you know you've got to try something now, and
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  Speaker 7: Mason Rudolph is a guy he's got a five to
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  Speaker 7: four to one overall record as a you know, backup quarterback.
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  Speaker 7: This is a guy who in his last outing, if
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  Speaker 7: you remember Detroit, one of his last outings, he was
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  Speaker 7: like thirty of fifty for over three hundred yards and
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  Speaker 7: did a great job on a very you know, snowy,
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  Speaker 7: rainy December day when they should have been running the
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  Speaker 7: ball and they threw the ball fifty times. He woke
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  Speaker 7: up that morning Ben had COVID and all of a
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  Speaker 7: sudden he's in the starting lineup. But he's able to
• 15:44
  Speaker 7: come through like that, does a great job securing at
• 15:48
  Speaker 7: least a tie when you know that could have really
• 15:50
  Speaker 7: gone sideways. I think Mason Rudolph is a very capable veteran,
• 15:54
  Speaker 7: a guy who can lead from the front, a guy
• 15:57
  Speaker 7: that has shown that he's capable of it. I know
• 16:00
  Speaker 7: some people you know, don't disagree with me. That's fine.
• 16:03
  Speaker 7: I happen to think very highly of his skills. You
• 16:06
  Speaker 7: watch him. He's got a strong arm. He can run people.
• 16:10
  Speaker 7: People don't think he can run. And i'mber watching in
• 16:12
  Speaker 7: one of the films, you know, he scrambled for almost
• 16:15
  Speaker 7: thirty yards just on one way alone. A guy can run.
• 16:18
  Speaker 7: And the guy is also capable of throwing the air
• 16:21
  Speaker 7: in that ball out like he can't believe. So let's
• 16:23
  Speaker 7: hope and pray that, you know, he gets it together.
• 16:26
  Speaker 7: He has an opportunity, and he's a fighter, you know,
• 16:28
  Speaker 7: and I get hey, give me anybody that's ready to fight,
• 16:31
  Speaker 7: because right now you're looking at three games, man, three games.
• 16:34
  Speaker 7: You better not lay down, You better not give less
• 16:37
  Speaker 7: than your best effort, and ought to all be about
• 16:40
  Speaker 7: coming through and delivering the goods this weekend.
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: Well, you've been quite fortunate, thought a lot of the
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: games both have even been not prime time, but they've
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: been on TV for us here. So a lot of
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: the games we've seen this season in general fonds I've
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: seen also that continues this week with a game on
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: Saturday night, like I mean, Jimmy and Dievill tell you
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: nine thirty on a Saturday night SUPERB Globule against the Bengals. No,
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: the Bengals have had an up and down season as well.
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: They're still in the hunt. Obviously when a guy that
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: Joe Burrow go was out, you see Brown and come
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: in and do quite well. It just sort of we're
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: recording this earlier in the week. What are your initial
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: thoughts on what this Bengals team brings against the Seders
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: on Saturday.
• 17:25
  Speaker 7: Well, they are still the Bengals. They are still burrow less.
• 17:28
  Speaker 7: But this kid Browning and we've got a lot of
• 17:30
  Speaker 7: bes going on there, man. But bron has proven himself
• 17:34
  Speaker 7: to be capable. He's gotten better in his performances. Last
• 17:38
  Speaker 7: week against the Colts, I mean, threw for two seventy five,
• 17:42
  Speaker 7: but a buck twenty five of it was through screen passes.
• 17:45
  Speaker 7: There's a you know, they got the mix in, they
• 17:47
  Speaker 7: got a good offensive line, you've got a defense. They
• 17:50
  Speaker 7: can come after you. So it's it's gonna be a
• 17:52
  Speaker 7: good soiree. It's gonna be a good set to you know.
• 17:55
  Speaker 7: I mean, it's a division opponent. What more do you need,
• 17:58
  Speaker 7: dad Zooks. You love division opponents because those are the
• 18:01
  Speaker 7: ones that you never have to worry about a cheap shot,
• 18:03
  Speaker 7: you know, because you're never gonna have to apologize for it.
• 18:06
  Speaker 7: Somebody will start it and you got to finish it,
• 18:09
  Speaker 7: you know. I mean, that's just the way it rolls
• 18:11
  Speaker 7: well to me.
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: Anyway, there were a couple of areas that were locking
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: in the past couple of weeks for this theaters, you know,
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: the inside linebackers is particularly thin, and now the safety
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: position as well, with the news coming today that Casey
• 18:28
  Speaker 4: has been ruined after the rest of the season, true suspension.
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: But from your perspective, what is the area that needs
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: to be most addressed ahead of the game? I mean,
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: where is the area that the statis need to focus
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: on most?
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: How success against the Bengals.
• 18:41
  Speaker 7: Well, one of them is just what you're highlighting. You're
• 18:43
  Speaker 7: exactly spot on. I mean, you can't lose your first
• 18:47
  Speaker 7: two linebackers, you got your third one, the land and Roberts.
• 18:50
  Speaker 7: You know, you went from a pair and a spare,
• 18:52
  Speaker 7: as Mike Domlin used to call it, to the loan solitaire.
• 18:55
  Speaker 7: That would be Landon Roberts. After you lose Cole Holcombe
• 18:59
  Speaker 7: and On Alexander and then all of a sudden you're
• 19:02
  Speaker 7: down to you know, a young Buck rookie Mark Robinson.
• 19:05
  Speaker 7: So the thing is that you're you're hurting down the middle.
• 19:09
  Speaker 7: You've got a Landon Roberts playing with a pool groin. Which,
• 19:12
  Speaker 7: let me tell you something I've done that it's extremely hard.
• 19:17
  Speaker 7: It it hoists to put it in terms that everybody
• 19:21
  Speaker 7: can understand. But a Landon Roberts is a real man.
• 19:24
  Speaker 7: He's a tough guy. Man, he's out there playing and
• 19:27
  Speaker 7: doing I thought until those last game he had been
• 19:30
  Speaker 7: doing a great job. And everybody on the defense struggled
• 19:32
  Speaker 7: this past week. But a Landon Roberts is one of
• 19:35
  Speaker 7: those guys that keeps plugging away and keeps going. Then
• 19:38
  Speaker 7: you lose your safeties. You know, Mika Fitzpatrick, we're still like,
• 19:42
  Speaker 7: I can't believe that make is down. Mica is just
• 19:45
  Speaker 7: one of those rare NFL talents. That's he's generational. He's
• 19:50
  Speaker 7: one of those guys that, man, oh man, to lose
• 19:53
  Speaker 7: him is that's that's very painful. But you lose Demante Casey,
• 19:57
  Speaker 7: which I'm sorry, I disagree totally. I understand the hits.
• 20:01
  Speaker 7: This is back in my day that hit was celebrated.
• 20:03
  Speaker 7: That would have been on all the TV hot you know,
• 20:06
  Speaker 7: talk shows and everything like that, all that. It would
• 20:09
  Speaker 7: have been great. But in this day and age now
• 20:12
  Speaker 7: they rule that it you know, was he they tossed
• 20:15
  Speaker 7: him out. It's gonna cost him some bucks. I'm sorry
• 20:18
  Speaker 7: for him. Di Monty I thought was going after the ball.
• 20:21
  Speaker 7: But the fact of the matter is, I don't see that.
• 20:25
  Speaker 7: I don't believe he was trying to injure Pittman at all,
• 20:28
  Speaker 7: you know. Matter of fact, I say, why don't they
• 20:31
  Speaker 7: talk to Gardner about throwing a ball that leaves them,
• 20:33
  Speaker 7: let you know, out stretched out in front of a
• 20:35
  Speaker 7: guy that's just that's more his fault than anything. But
• 20:39
  Speaker 7: having said that, you know, we are down at the
• 20:42
  Speaker 7: safety position. We're down through the middle of the football team.
• 20:45
  Speaker 7: So one man's misfortune is another man's fortune, and they're
• 20:49
  Speaker 7: gonna have to step up with the opportunities given to
• 20:52
  Speaker 7: these different individuals that it will take over like Tratton
• 20:56
  Speaker 7: Marshall and I'm sorry Trent and Thompson and so forth.
• 20:59
  Speaker 7: They're gonna have to stay up up and make some
• 21:01
  Speaker 7: plays and be part of it. And hopefully Elijah Rightley
• 21:04
  Speaker 7: might be back this week too, that's a possibility. And
• 21:07
  Speaker 7: you know that kid. I love that kid. That kid
• 21:09
  Speaker 7: is West Point Top.
• 21:10
  Speaker 5: Yeah, And as you say, well, you know it's already
• 21:13
  Speaker 5: about adopting and next guy up, And if the next
• 21:15
  Speaker 5: guy up plays as well as Trenton Thompson has, then
• 21:18
  Speaker 5: I really don't see how it could be an issue.
• 21:20
  Speaker 5: But just you know, and coming back on as well,
• 21:23
  Speaker 5: you know, one of the positives we have had we
• 21:25
  Speaker 5: have consistently over the past year, as obviously TJ. Watt
• 21:29
  Speaker 5: And you know I said it last week in the podcast.
• 21:32
  Speaker 5: I think he's the most disrespected player in the NFL.
• 21:35
  Speaker 5: Maybe doesn't get as much prospect as the likes of
• 21:37
  Speaker 5: Mayas Gareth and Micah Parsons. Just how important is that
• 21:41
  Speaker 5: key pass rusher on there, you know, our past rusher.
• 21:43
  Speaker 5: Sorry because obviously you know you need good head coach,
• 21:45
  Speaker 5: good quarterback, but obviously the edge rusher as well. How
• 21:48
  Speaker 5: important is that aspect you know for us? And obviously
• 21:51
  Speaker 5: going forward, you.
• 21:53
  Speaker 7: Know you're exactly on man. I mean, think about it.
• 21:56
  Speaker 7: You've got TJ. Watt. He doesn't. He's not just a
• 21:59
  Speaker 7: pass rush you know. You think about some of the
• 22:01
  Speaker 7: great plays he makes with he's using his Gordon, you know,
• 22:04
  Speaker 7: I mean he drops back, gets his hands up, knocks
• 22:07
  Speaker 7: down a pass, he intercepts a ball. He's just a
• 22:10
  Speaker 7: great player. And this great player he uses his noodle
• 22:14
  Speaker 7: in a way that he's able to accomplish things that
• 22:16
  Speaker 7: maybe a lot of defensive players don't. Because I'm always
• 22:19
  Speaker 7: kidding him about them being brainless and the offensive guys
• 22:21
  Speaker 7: are the ones that are really smart. You know. Of
• 22:24
  Speaker 7: course you go back and forth with him and that's
• 22:26
  Speaker 7: it doesn't fly with him. But regardless, the point of
• 22:29
  Speaker 7: being is a guy like TJ. Watt shows more than
• 22:32
  Speaker 7: just the physical attributes that you see on the field. Well,
• 22:36
  Speaker 7: what's so much fun is when you watch him pass
• 22:38
  Speaker 7: rush and he executes some of those hand trapping techniques.
• 22:41
  Speaker 7: Those are the things you see when you're on the
• 22:43
  Speaker 7: south side every day at practice. You watch him working
• 22:47
  Speaker 7: on it, and I love that because he's kind of like,
• 22:49
  Speaker 7: it's like he's out there with one of his coaches.
• 22:51
  Speaker 7: He's like, I don't know, he's like, we're working with
• 22:54
  Speaker 7: mister Miagi, you know, and the karate kid. You know,
• 22:57
  Speaker 7: he's working his hand trap and uppercut all the kind
• 22:59
  Speaker 7: of things. But he's that good because number one, he's
• 23:03
  Speaker 7: talented and he desires to be great, and the third
• 23:06
  Speaker 7: is he backs it up with great hard work. Same
• 23:09
  Speaker 7: thing for Alex Heismith. You don't think it's inspirational for
• 23:12
  Speaker 7: him at the one end to look over and see TJ.
• 23:15
  Speaker 7: Watt at the other end of the spectrum, And how
• 23:17
  Speaker 7: much of a great advantage is that knowing that they're
• 23:20
  Speaker 7: gonna they've got to pick their poison. Where are you
• 23:23
  Speaker 7: gonna swing your wall? Where you're gonna go with the
• 23:24
  Speaker 7: double team? Who gets the chip? You know, I hated
• 23:27
  Speaker 7: playing tackle. I was a guard, you know. Put me
• 23:30
  Speaker 7: in the phone booth. I like close quartered grappling fighting,
• 23:33
  Speaker 7: you know that type of thing. Put me at tackle,
• 23:35
  Speaker 7: kad zooks. That's a lot of open territory out there.
• 23:38
  Speaker 7: So yeah, I was always like, if I'm at tackle,
• 23:41
  Speaker 7: Ton Jokins at right tackle, give me the wall, give
• 23:44
  Speaker 7: me the tight end, give me the chip, and I'm
• 23:46
  Speaker 7: gonna take the the uh, take the equipment boy, and
• 23:49
  Speaker 7: I'll stuff him in my back pocket and throw it
• 23:51
  Speaker 7: at that guy. You know. I means I want it all,
• 23:54
  Speaker 7: but TJ Watt he picks up all. Let me tell
• 23:57
  Speaker 7: you something, if you watch that film, he's constantly being
• 24:00
  Speaker 7: chipped and double team did that sort of stuff. That
• 24:03
  Speaker 7: speaks to what a great player he is.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: I love him. I think like this was this was
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: the exact interview we needed this week. I'm telling him
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: on great, great.
• 24:11
  Speaker 7: Still gonna do headbutts when we're done here. Okay, we're
• 24:14
  Speaker 7: gonna get all fired out.
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: Over soon and just finally Craig. Obviously for people and
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: in Ireland you can listen to you, guys, I am
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: on Off the Ball on a TV radio on Saturday.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: Get the Game is also on Sky Sports NFL in
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: Ireland on the Cross the UK also look three games
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: to go. If you win all three games, you've a
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: seventy seven percent Johnson making the playoffs. Do you still believe?
• 24:40
  Speaker 7: Oh, I believe. I listen, man, I'm too old to
• 24:43
  Speaker 7: change my ways. You know, ever since I was a player,
• 24:46
  Speaker 7: I believed. I always believed. I never worried about it.
• 24:49
  Speaker 7: You know, playoffs, you leave them in the back of
• 24:53
  Speaker 7: your mind. It's all that matters is the next game,
• 24:55
  Speaker 7: the next series, and the next play. That's it. I
• 24:59
  Speaker 7: don't worry about anything else. When I was a player,
• 25:02
  Speaker 7: people would ask me who you playing in two weeks.
• 25:04
  Speaker 7: I couldn't tell you. All I know is I got
• 25:06
  Speaker 7: a game coming up. I know where that game is,
• 25:09
  Speaker 7: I know what's important about it, and that I got
• 25:11
  Speaker 7: to show up. I gotta be ready to play the game,
• 25:14
  Speaker 7: the the series and the play. I mean, that's it,
• 25:18
  Speaker 7: boa and that's the focus that these guys need. You
• 25:20
  Speaker 7: got to stay ramrod straight with your desire to win
• 25:24
  Speaker 7: that next game, and that's going to come one play
• 25:26
  Speaker 7: at a time.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: So you playoff games starting this weekend Saturday nine thirty pm.
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: So if you're in the car driving to your parents
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: or in laws wherever for Christmas.
• 25:35
  Speaker 5: You have no excuse.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: You can hear Wolfie on the team on the TV
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: radio on or you can watch it on TV. Also, Craig,
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: I feek we'll be shotting a hopefully a lot more
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: going into the playoffs as well. I'm going to keep
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: the positive vibes up. Thank you for coming on you
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: you're a very very busy mom on. We will tut
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: to youson Happy Hollidays as well.
• 25:51
  Speaker 7: Oh, Merry Christmas to everybody and all the good folks
• 25:54
  Speaker 7: there and Ireland Man Steelers Nation, love y'all. Thank you
• 25:58
  Speaker 7: for having me on. I feel very I'm very grateful
• 26:02
  Speaker 7: to be able to spend some time with you guys,
• 26:03
  Speaker 7: So most humbly I say thank you for having me on.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: Great to hear from Craig on the Irish series podcasts
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: and you can listen to that game against the Bengals,
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: which is this Saturday, nine thirty Irish time, boys OTV
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: radio and because it's that time. It's on Sky Sports
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: NFL as well. Jimmy, Look, first off, before we talk
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: about the fact that this is the must win game,
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: it's a huge game.
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: Beautiful, Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: I mean when the schedule came out, make I circle
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: this game on my calendar because it's the day after
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: I finished work for Christmas.
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna have the fire on.
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: I'm gonna be in the sitting room having a nice drink,
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: hopefully and hopefully enjoying a victory.
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: All I want for Christmas is theeter win. So let's
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: see if they can pull it in. Look, it's gonna
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: be another close game, and.
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: You know, just shotting to Wolfe there, his positivity and
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: enthusy hasn't really really kind of meet me cheer up
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: a little bit. I mean, it was obviously a bit
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: down after the game there the weekend and then seeing
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: the news Occasey had been suspended the rest of the season.
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: I was in a little bit of a.
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: Spiral regarding the Steelers hopes for the rest of the season.
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: But definitely good to hear some some positive energy from
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: from wolf It's going to be challenging. I don't think
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: it's going to be an easy game, especially with the
• 27:23
  Speaker 4: Fisher quarterback. But all we can do and all they
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: can do is just keep plugging away and hopefully pull
• 27:32
  Speaker 4: off the win.
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: That's what I enjoyed so much about the interview. It's
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: like positivity, but it's also it's not shining away from
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: the fact that the last few weeks have been disappointed,
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: been very appointant, because you look at the situation day
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: of where there was three games there there was the
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: opportunity to pull away. We see last week that the
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: Bengals the Ravens both win, as well as the Browns
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: as well in a very close circumstance. And we look
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: at a game this week where the Bengals come into
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: this game hot with a backup quarterback, and that's annoying
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: because we obviously now either bringing a Mason Rudolph Candy's
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: not ready to go yet. There's so many ifs and buds,
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: But I guess trying to stay positive, everything flips if
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: the Seders win this game. Ever, in the flips, you
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: got games against the Seahawks and a game potentially against
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: the Ravens which could potentially be a game of rescue
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: for them. I'm not saying look, you go to win
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: every game in week EID team, but it's there for
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: them and after Saturday night, I'll take that at this point.
• 28:31
  Speaker 5: No, you just bought on Mike. It's like people were
• 28:35
  Speaker 5: saying about the Ravens. He knows they could have the
• 28:37
  Speaker 5: the FC number one seed wrapped up by then. I
• 28:39
  Speaker 5: think they did it a couple of years ago as well,
• 28:41
  Speaker 5: and the ended up pressing and they end up doing
• 28:42
  Speaker 5: one and done in the playoffs. So they've maybe learned from that.
• 28:45
  Speaker 5: But at the same time, just to sort of gole
• 28:48
  Speaker 5: what both of you have said there, it's just we've
• 28:50
  Speaker 5: got to you know, rense ourselves off, dost ourselves down,
• 28:54
  Speaker 5: and like at the end of the day, it's an opportunity,
• 28:56
  Speaker 5: different mission Rudolph to come in and if he gets
• 28:58
  Speaker 5: to win, then you know, for you know, we flipped
• 29:01
  Speaker 5: the table, as you said, you know, we've we've we've
• 29:03
  Speaker 5: put ourselves back in a strong position, you know. Just
• 29:05
  Speaker 5: on the Bengals, you know, Jake Brewnan, he's been playing,
• 29:07
  Speaker 5: you know, Joe Burrow obviously is completely different level, but
• 29:11
  Speaker 5: he's come in and he's absolutely seems to be fire
• 29:14
  Speaker 5: in a lot of senators, you know, he's not just
• 29:15
  Speaker 5: a drop back, you know, short and stant quarterback, which
• 29:18
  Speaker 5: we we got him and in his first week I
• 29:21
  Speaker 5: didn't look great, but he's had a massive bounce back.
• 29:24
  Speaker 5: So if we can you know, if as say, you know,
• 29:28
  Speaker 5: with the suspension as well as disappointing, it's not obviously
• 29:30
  Speaker 5: what we wanted the city, but even just listening about
• 29:33
  Speaker 5: what Wilf he's speaking about it as well, he's sort
• 29:36
  Speaker 5: of you know, put my opinion on turn the opinion
• 29:38
  Speaker 5: on a head as well. You know, I sort of
• 29:40
  Speaker 5: came in thinking, you know, off England, bad thoughts and
• 29:43
  Speaker 5: stuff like that, but what he was able to cheer
• 29:45
  Speaker 5: me up a bit. So I'm in a different sort
• 29:47
  Speaker 5: of headspace now after but I might hopeful that we
• 29:50
  Speaker 5: can obviously turn it back. And as you know Jimmy
• 29:52
  Speaker 5: said there, I'll be the same Ilb washing it with
• 29:54
  Speaker 5: a paid a Guinness in my hand, and if we
• 29:56
  Speaker 5: can win then I just it's only sort of odd
• 29:58
  Speaker 5: into the experience. So yeah, no, and let's let's just look,
• 30:02
  Speaker 5: let's sort of pop the bar on this behind us
• 30:04
  Speaker 5: and if we can come off, we'll win this weekend,
• 30:05
  Speaker 5: then I'll just say we're straight back in it and.
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: I enjoyed there.
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: It's it's definitely gonna be I think the key to
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: this game is going to be defensive ends and defensive
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: line because I think our secondary, particularly safeties, and I
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: look how banged up our safeties are right now.
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: Mink is Casey's thought. In the season he suspended.
• 30:25
  Speaker 4: We saw how much are inside linebackers struggled against the
• 30:29
  Speaker 4: run in the especially the last quarter of the game
• 30:32
  Speaker 4: against the cold. So I think we're gonna have to
• 30:35
  Speaker 4: like Wolf, you said the leaders in the locker room,
• 30:37
  Speaker 4: Cam Award, TJ. Watt, They're going to have to step
• 30:41
  Speaker 4: up even more than they have a lead from the
• 30:43
  Speaker 4: front and hopefully lead the charge in this game.
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: It's funny because going on with Jimmy said and going
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: going through that as well, Dave. One thing that Steelers
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: really struggled with on Saturday night, as we mentioned slightly,
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: is the run game just did not start for ward
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: or for logie. How do you start our How do
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: you start that against a stout Bengals defense. One that
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: will be looking at this team going well, they've won
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: or they've lost so many games out of the row,
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: they're low on confidence. This team's here for and they'll
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: they'll be thinking, this team's here for the take, and
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: so how do we get a run game established on
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: Saturday night?
• 31:15
  Speaker 5: Sort of like at the start of the season, Megal,
• 31:17
  Speaker 5: we remember how lethargic our run offense was the start,
• 31:21
  Speaker 5: but we managed to turn that around and they ended
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  Speaker 5: up for the three four straight weeks. It was our
• 31:26
  Speaker 5: most important aspect. You know, Jalden Warren, he hasn't been
• 31:30
  Speaker 5: you know, the dynamic, tough runner he has. We've wanted
• 31:33
  Speaker 5: him to be in the past couple of weeks. It's
• 31:35
  Speaker 5: been well known, you know, with that Nauja him and
• 31:38
  Speaker 5: they've been sharing most of the stops, and you know,
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  Speaker 5: this week we just couldn't get it going against the
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  Speaker 5: coach defense that you know, they're not the greatest know orld,
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  Speaker 5: of course, but it just seems like, you know, we
• 31:48
  Speaker 5: just couldn't get it going. And you know, just even
• 31:52
  Speaker 5: sort of going back in the coach game, you have
• 31:53
  Speaker 5: to give them a lot of credit. You know, at
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  Speaker 5: the end of the day, what Shane Steikin's doing with them,
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  Speaker 5: I mean he's potacity, you know, head coaches, you know,
• 32:00
  Speaker 5: the year of a ward if you like. So you know,
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  Speaker 5: we can't beat ourselves up too much. We've got a big,
• 32:05
  Speaker 5: massive game. You know, I'm not entirely sure of having
• 32:07
  Speaker 5: looked at the starts, you know where their weakness lays.
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  Speaker 5: But the same time, you know we've got to come
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  Speaker 5: back and you know, if mission rightof can get us
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  Speaker 5: to the win, and that's all the matters, and hopefully
• 32:16
  Speaker 5: before we know what, Canny packet suiting back up so
• 32:18
  Speaker 5: and just at the same way as it was before,
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  Speaker 5: just ground and pound. If we can get that wrong
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  Speaker 5: game going, it's going to be a massive positive.
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: Looking ahead to Saturday night, As I said, a game
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: is nine thirty Sky Sports, nfl OTB Sports. Really we're
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: going to have a podcast potentially Christmas eve boarding before
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: everyone was off for Christmas. Can't expect these boys going
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: on to Christmas Day for a pot as much as
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: we love it. And we are going to get if
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: it's not this week going, but the week after, we're
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: going to get a couple of fans all those ball
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: because we want to hear your thoughts not just on
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: the season, but just Everyham as well. So do you
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: reach out to his hashtag selters Ireland of after theaters
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  Speaker 1: Areland if you'd like to do that Jimmy home game
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: Saturday night for US primetime, baby, But during the day
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: and the States, I'm gonna take a stout fourteen to
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: ten win the Statters. What's your thoughts?
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  Speaker 2: Not too far off, Nick, Not too far off. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: before we talk to Wolfe and before I came on,
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: I really was down in the dumbs. But you know,
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna have fai. They're going to keep the positive
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  Speaker 2: vibes going and I'm gonna go Steelers twenty to seventeen.
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  Speaker 3: It's gonna come down to the wire. I think T J.
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: Watt and the defensive front will do enough to throw
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: Browning off. I think next man up and will take
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: place in our safeties. I don't know what the hell
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: is gonna happen with Mason Rudolph and the receivers. I
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: think that's just gonna be who knows what's gonna happen there.
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: So I think our defense is gonna have to like
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: they've been doing all season. They're gonna have to carry
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: carry the offense. Well, yeah, somehow, some way, the Steers put.
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  Speaker 3: Off a win.
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: Dave sand this home, are we gonna go flee? You
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: know and just be so positive? This week and just
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: go from there at the plan.
• 33:56
  Speaker 5: Of course, of course you weren't expecting me to defect us,
• 33:59
  Speaker 5: not Yance, but no, I'm all serious, Yeah, like it's
• 34:03
  Speaker 5: it's it's one of those where it's it's a bounce
• 34:05
  Speaker 5: back position. You know, the bank builds. They're probably due
• 34:08
  Speaker 5: to loss. I don't know how much have won the
• 34:09
  Speaker 5: row now, and if there's a team that can give
• 34:11
  Speaker 5: them a loss over history, it's it's the Pittsburgh Dealer.
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  Speaker 5: So I ain't gonna come in. I'm gonna say seventeen
• 34:17
  Speaker 5: sixteen win by a single point, and I think it's
• 34:20
  Speaker 5: going to be a last minute failal from Boswell, believe
• 34:23
  Speaker 5: it or not. So that's that's that's my prediction, and
• 34:25
  Speaker 5: I normally say it. I won't say it well as
• 34:27
  Speaker 5: normally said it every week. Take this under the bank
• 34:29
  Speaker 5: and you're a very rich man if you do follow
• 34:32
  Speaker 5: my predictions, you sit. From from what you can.
• 34:34
  Speaker 4: Tell, Ozz did have a rare miss though against the Curls,
• 34:38
  Speaker 4: which is not like I'm considering that Lucas Oilfield is indoors.
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: So hopefully there's no more, no more at that this
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  Speaker 2: time around in Boswell, we trust.
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: Boss we trust well.
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: We've seen punters kick this week as well, so I'm
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: confident that that comes to will be fine. Lads, like
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: the last couple of weeks, you've got to be back
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: feeling positive again. Just a big thanks everybody listening to
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: this podcast on the Island of Ireland. It's hard to
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: believe we're going in the week sixteen here. I just
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: obviously I hope people enjoy the weekend but also enjoy
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: the holiday season, have a great Christmas, not holloway and
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: we will chat to you is on the other side
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  Speaker 1: of the game potentially Sunday morning, so we need your quotes,
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: your comments, everything if you can. Folks, hashtag Steelers Ireland
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: on x and Instagram and on TikTok. We'll chat to
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: you soon. Here we go, lads, Here.
• 35:29
  Speaker 5: We go, Here we go, Here we go.
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  Speaker 3: Oh Ho ho