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Steelers win season opener, New England ahead! · The Irish Steelers Podcast

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Speaker 2: Mark McGrath is joining us. Thanks for having me.
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Speaker 3: Nice to see everyone.
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Speaker 2: Thank you for joining us after a busy week one weekend.
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Speaker 2: I'm saying that because NFL's back. It's back, which is,
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Speaker 2: which is phenomenally great, right? But You know, and a
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Speaker 2: lot of people listening to this know how difficult that
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Speaker 2: first weekend is. We had a game on Wednesday night, kick-off.
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Speaker 2: We had the Melbourne game. And then we had late night,
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Speaker 2: Sunday night. And we're actually talking on the Monday after
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Speaker 2: the Steelers-Falcons game, which we'll talk about in a wee second.
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Speaker 2: How tired are you right now?
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Speaker 3: I'm sleepy. Thank you very much for the coffee. I'm
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Speaker 3: about four coffees in and it's whatever it is, one
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Speaker 3: o'clock in the afternoon, which is too many coffees. But look,
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Speaker 3: I've missed it. You kind of forget that you're going
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Speaker 3: to feel tired, but I'm feeling energised. Looking forward to
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Speaker 3: chatting about it. The energy that comes with the sport
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Speaker 3: kind of helps keep you awake. Although saying that, getting
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Speaker 3: out with two young kids, waking me up at 7
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Speaker 3: o'clock this morning, it was tough sledding.
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Speaker 2: Thank God. When I look at the schedule this year,
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Speaker 2: like the amount of Steelers games that are at 6
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Speaker 2: o'clock in the evening is a godsend. The Week 2
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Speaker 2: game is against the Patriots. It's on The Zone and
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Speaker 2: it's also on Sky Sports Football. We'll talk about that
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Speaker 2: later on in the podcast. Before we talk about the Steelers,
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Speaker 2: obviously Steelers got a big win in Week 1 against
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Speaker 2: the Falcons and we will talk about that, but You're
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Speaker 2: obviously new in here, so some people will know who
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Speaker 2: you are from the domestic side of the game and
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Speaker 2: also from seeing what you've done to grow the game,
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Speaker 2: really across the Isle of Arran as well. But tell
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Speaker 2: us a wee bit about yourself and more importantly for
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Speaker 2: this podcast and talking about different players and stuff, you've
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Speaker 2: actually played the game, which is great as well.
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Speaker 3: Yes, played the game twice. domestically in Ireland. I'm the
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Speaker 3: GM of the Belfast Trojans, which is a local American
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Speaker 3: football team based here in Belfast. This is our 20th year,
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Speaker 3: 20th anniversary. So I'd say all the old guys in
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Speaker 3: and around the league would know me as I've been
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Speaker 3: playing for 22 years now. We kind of all know
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Speaker 3: each other. Somehow the body is still kidding out there,
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Speaker 3: but it's very different than what we're obviously going to
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Speaker 3: talk about. But it's a lot of fun. And again,
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Speaker 3: that energy that the sport brings is why I fell
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Speaker 3: in love with it. And the energy you see every
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Speaker 3: Sunday and even the college football and the crowds and
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Speaker 3: the NFL, how much buy-in it gets is just fantastic.
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Speaker 2: You actually had the Steelers. Steelers came up a couple
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Speaker 2: of times now to Dermot Park where the Trojans play.
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Speaker 2: And they've held a number of different camps. When that
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Speaker 2: happened the first time, because whenever that happened the first time,
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Speaker 2: I'm not saying it was the first time ever in Ireland,
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Speaker 2: but it was really the first time ever, Mark, at
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Speaker 2: that scale where it came up. I think I was
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Speaker 2: out there. That was really, really cool. And have you
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Speaker 2: seen it grow since then? I guess as well as
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Speaker 2: the question.
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Speaker 4: Yes.
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Speaker 3: Like the, the, the Steelers, the Rooney family have been phenomenal. Um, we,
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Speaker 3: we had, um, the, the grandfather, Dan's grandfather's actually been
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Speaker 3: to our club and spoke there when he was doing
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Speaker 3: his role over here in Ireland.
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Speaker 2: Um, awesome. I didn't know that. That was 15 years ago.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Uh, yes.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. He came in and spoke at one of our
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Speaker 3: rugby lunches, pre rugby lunches. And then I had to
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Speaker 3: sit and watch a very slow, boring game of rugby. Um,
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Speaker 3: But the energy they're bringing into the sport has been incredible. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: the first sort of camp they did, we had 80
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Speaker 3: to 100 kids. We were very lucky with the sunshine,
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Speaker 3: but out on the main pitch at Harlequins, we might
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Speaker 3: have put our big inflatable ball up with the big
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Speaker 3: Trojan T on it, which was maybe a bit faux pas,
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Speaker 3: but really, really good day. And they're definitely from grassroots.
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Speaker 3: It's exploding because of the energy they're bringing into it
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Speaker 3: and putting into it, along with the NFL flag, guys.
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Speaker 3: Over in the mainland. It's been really good.
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Speaker 2: When Mr Rooney was in the Trojans. All those years ago.
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Speaker 2: Did you think. 15 or so years on. That there
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Speaker 2: would have been a game in Ireland. The Steelers would
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Speaker 2: have played in it. But more so as well. You
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Speaker 2: sort of just mentioned it there now. You know. Did
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Speaker 2: you think that the game would be where it is today.
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Speaker 4: I guess.
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Speaker 2: At that point.
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Speaker 3: No.
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Speaker 5: I mean.
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Speaker 3: I always heard about how big it was in the 80s.
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Speaker 2: You know.
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Speaker 3: It was a massive thing in the 80s and 90s.
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Speaker 2: And then.
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Speaker 3: Obviously the NFL Europe and stuff. Was all going on.
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Speaker 2: But then.
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Speaker 3: Before we were of an age to actually pay attention
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Speaker 3: to it or allowed to stay up that late, it
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Speaker 3: kind of really petered off. So the fact that we're
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Speaker 3: kind of almost, for us, this is the first resurgence
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Speaker 3: of it. It's on TV so much, it's so accessible now,
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Speaker 3: and there's so much interest. You took that Dublin game
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Speaker 3: last year, sold at Croke Park. Who would have ever
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Speaker 3: thought American football in Ireland would have been that popular
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Speaker 3: and have that many people want to engage? And it
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Speaker 3: wasn't just what was in there. The whole city of
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Speaker 3: Dublin was packed.
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Speaker 2: It was great. And then the Steelers obviously came up
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Speaker 2: north as well that week as well, which is great.
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Speaker 2: We are going to maybe try and bounce in a
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Speaker 2: wee bit about that. Just finally, before we talk about
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Speaker 2: the game, what's your position when you play football?
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Speaker 3: My position in the club? General manager, and that's probably
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Speaker 3: the best position for me.
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Speaker 2: When you were on the field, what was your position?
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Speaker 3: As a younger man, I did a wee bit of fullback.
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Speaker 3: Through my career, I've done sort of a centre guard
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Speaker 3: on my offensive line in my little short spell into
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Speaker 3: the wolfhounds in the national thing i was a defensive
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Speaker 3: tackle so do you watch the game primarily from watching
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Speaker 3: the big men i like i like watching both but
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Speaker 3: i'm really looking just for the aggression i like the
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Speaker 3: the two lines of the aggression they come with seeing
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Speaker 3: the dominance that comes because there's some monsters and and
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Speaker 3: the steelers defense has.
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Speaker 2: A lot of them well this is the thing like
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Speaker 2: you know one of the things that people talked about
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Speaker 2: in week one sunday was primarily Like, is it the
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Speaker 2: highest ever? Or the highest is 1991 in terms of
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Speaker 2: points scored. But some of the defensive performance across the
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Speaker 2: league were phenomenal. But really, the Steelers stood out. 20-13
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Speaker 2: victory over the Atlanta Falcons in Week 1. A lot
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Speaker 2: of different variables come into it. Obviously, the first game
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Speaker 2: with Coach McCarthy coming in. A new era for him.
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Speaker 2: I know the pre-seasons are. I know he had his
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Speaker 2: family there, Week 1 of pre-season. But this is, for
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Speaker 2: a man who's from the state, who's from the area,
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Speaker 2: a big, big deal for him. And then, coupled on
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Speaker 2: the fact that this was... a true gritty Steelers performance?
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Speaker 2: Because I was texting you in the fourth quarter going,
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Speaker 2: oh man, let's go, come on, let's go.
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Speaker 3: We were chatting backwards and forwards and I mean, that
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Speaker 3: defense came out and was exactly what you would hope
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Speaker 3: it would be. You know, fast, aggressive. I was kind
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Speaker 3: of thinking that old, you know, Blitzburg is coming back
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Speaker 3: to Pittsburgh. But they were getting pressure with just their line, dude.
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Speaker 3: It was really, really impressive.
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Speaker 2: Like, if you say about how impressive it was, I
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Speaker 2: think the key for a lot of teams in the
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Speaker 2: first few weeks is It is going to take a
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Speaker 2: wee bit of time for the offense to gel on
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Speaker 2: and keep going. But on that defensive side, the guys
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Speaker 2: came in yesterday and made it look as if it
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Speaker 2: was just easy in one sense. TJ Watt, two sacks,
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Speaker 2: three tackles for loss.
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Speaker 3: Didn't he explode in that second half?
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Speaker 2: But the explosion, Mark. It's easy to have it written
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Speaker 2: down here, 35 yard pick six, right? For him, his size...
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Speaker 2: where he had that ball when he was down on
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Speaker 2: the ground, for him to get there to the end,
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Speaker 2: talk to us about that.
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Speaker 3: The other big guys were in there real fast, making
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Speaker 3: sure nobody got near him, but that was, but before
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Speaker 3: you even get into the second half, you look at
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Speaker 3: Highsmith's nine-yard sack, gets the offense to short field, and
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Speaker 3: then they punish with big Friar Muth right in the
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Speaker 3: back there, which is lovely to see, and I think
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Speaker 3: Friar Muth's, you know, maybe going to be working himself
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Speaker 3: to that number two receivers, I think he's going to
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Speaker 3: get a lot of looks this year, and Big boy.
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Speaker 3: Take their offense in general before we go into how
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Speaker 3: great the defense was. They're enormous.
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Speaker 2: Big, big boys. Highsmith, you mentioned that one play. Also,
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Speaker 2: fourth quarter, third down, dagger. When Atlanta was like, let's
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Speaker 2: be clear. We're going into that at different times in
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Speaker 2: the game. The Falcons, you have to give credit to
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Speaker 2: them in the fact of.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, they hung in.
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Speaker 2: I did a podcast with Missy Matthews last week from SNR.
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Speaker 2: And at the time, I asked Missy about Tua coming in.
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Speaker 2: One of the biggest things that changed in the week
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Speaker 2: was Tua's not playing. And Atlanta put it up. Atlanta,
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Speaker 2: you have to give it to them. To come into
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Speaker 2: Pittsburgh week one is not easy any time. But they
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Speaker 2: had the belief. But Highsmith's play in that fourth quarter
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Speaker 2: when they were still in the hunt was phenomenal. And
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Speaker 2: his skill throughout it was.
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Speaker 3: He's fantastic. They're all phenomenal athletes when they get to
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Speaker 3: that level. The fact that guys are standing out when
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Speaker 3: surrounded by other phenomenal athletes just really goes to just
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Speaker 3: I mean, scheming stuff comes into it. I'm not taking
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Speaker 3: away from the coaches and how fantastic they are, but
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Speaker 3: some of those guys are just absolute freaks.
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Speaker 2: In the best way. New defensive coordinator, Patrick Graham, has
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Speaker 2: come in. And you can see, look, it's too early
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Speaker 2: to say this, but you can see a wee bit
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Speaker 2: of a jump there on that defense.
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Speaker 3: That's why I was expecting a lot more blitzes, a
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Speaker 3: lot more pressure. But that's not really what I, maybe
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Speaker 3: they're going to see if they needed.
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Speaker 4: It or not.
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Speaker 3: But maybe they just wanted to help out that new
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Speaker 3: secondary that's there, but they didn't seem to look like
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Speaker 3: they needed a lot of help coming in. They were
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Speaker 3: hitting hard themselves.
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Speaker 2: One of the more impressive things as well for me
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Speaker 2: was seeing how veterans, and there's a lot of veterans
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Speaker 2: on this team, and Cam Hayward's one of them.
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Speaker 3: Big tips. I think he's number one, 33, 34 passes tipped.
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Speaker 2: Tipped three batted balls at the line. Batted balls. Three disruption, man.
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Speaker 2: I mean, that is just.
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Speaker 3: Do you know who's number two and that's that go
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Speaker 3: for it tj what tv in the whole nfl.
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Speaker 2: Tj what if he was to keep that up over
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Speaker 2: the next five to ten weeks no no pressure tj
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Speaker 2: i start googling when was the last time we had
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Speaker 2: a defensive mvp but start as you mean to go
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Speaker 2: on like we will talk about the offense in a
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Speaker 2: wee second here but certainly from a defensive point of
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Speaker 2: view The lads showed up, showed out. And like I
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Speaker 2: haven't even mentioned, Jaquan Brisker, his first interception that you
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Speaker 2: mentioned as well, set a primary score in that game.
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Speaker 2: You know, this is a guy that does that in
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Speaker 2: that moment and is making these big, big plays. Alex
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Speaker 2: Heisman had the two sacks, as we said. Peyton Wilson
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Speaker 2: had a team-high tackle total and two tackles for loss
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Speaker 2: as well on the day.
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Speaker 3: Didn't Ramsey have a couple of big hits to the
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Speaker 3: ball pop out?
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Speaker 2: I think it popped out once.
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Speaker 3: He's on his knee and just launched himself into that elbow.
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Speaker 2: How impressive have you been with him since he went
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Speaker 2: to the theaters?
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Speaker 3: This is always a thing. Are they just collecting big names?
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Speaker 3: Or do these guys still have it? They come out
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Speaker 3: this season and it's not just big names. They're still
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Speaker 3: hungry and they're still balling. You see a lot of
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Speaker 3: the video and the media stuff around winning the Super Bowl,
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Speaker 3: bringing it back to Pittsburgh, which would be absolutely fantastic.
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Speaker 3: But I think those guys are just hungry in their
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Speaker 3: own right to just keep improving and just absolute competitors.
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Speaker 2: In a world where people talk so much about defence
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Speaker 2: winning championships, and granted, we are talking days, hours after
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Speaker 2: week one is concluded here, Mark. People talked all off-season
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Speaker 2: about the Seahawks and what they'd done so special last year.
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Speaker 2: And they were phenomenal. Hell, they won a Lombardi trophy.
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Speaker 2: A very, very good start for this defence. And there's
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Speaker 2: really nothing that we can pick out here in this
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Speaker 2: podcast to say.
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Speaker 3: That Look, both defenses were really, really on point. I mean, really,
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Speaker 3: really hard defensive battle, good games, but the Steelers' defense
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Speaker 3: was just special. My experience in the sport, which is
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Speaker 3: obviously a complete nothing level, but defense is always easier
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Speaker 3: to put together than offense. You've got McCarthy and New
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Speaker 3: holding the ship. You've got new offense, defense coordinators, coaching
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Speaker 3: players all coming together. Offense, in my experience and from
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Speaker 3: anything I've watched, always takes longer to come together and
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Speaker 3: gel than a defense does. The defense can feed on
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Speaker 3: the energy and the aggression can get you a long,
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Speaker 3: a long way there. But I think that, that Steelers
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Speaker 3: offense also has some real special athletes. I'm going to be,
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Speaker 3: and they're enormous. I think they're just Steelers football. They're
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Speaker 3: going to grind teams. And one of my top plays
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Speaker 3: is obviously big Washington's stiff one into the dirt. I
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Speaker 3: was pumped.
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Speaker 2: This is where we need on the screen here to
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Speaker 2: go through and go. Yes, yes, yes.
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Speaker 3: Can we put that in?
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Speaker 2: We will find a way over the next few weeks
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Speaker 2: to do out there. Appreciate you joining me on the
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Speaker 2: podcast this week. We're going to look a wee bit
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Speaker 2: at the offense, and then we're going to look ahead
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Speaker 2: to the Patriots game, which is coming up on Sunday
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Speaker 2: in week two. In a few moments, we're going to
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Speaker 2: hear from Coach McCarthy first here and hear his thoughts
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Speaker 2: from the week one victory over the Falcons on the
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Speaker 2: Irish Studios podcast presented by Erlingus.
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Speaker 4: Great feeling, without a doubt. I'm glad it's by us.
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Speaker 4: It was emotional all day today. Well, I think just
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Speaker 4: like anything, we're about defense first. I mean, we made
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Speaker 4: that clear. We started this journey and I think it
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Speaker 4: was clearly evident why today, you know, you know, it's
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Speaker 4: clearly takes all three phases. And, but I thought, you know,
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Speaker 4: our defense really set the tone, you know, just the
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Speaker 4: only points that really given up was, you know, we
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Speaker 4: gave them one field position and created those, those scenarios. So, and,
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Speaker 4: and obviously TJ's play was just, you know, that's a highlight,
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Speaker 4: you know, that's a highlight play. You'll be watching the
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Speaker 4: rest of your life. So, and I thought those guys really,
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Speaker 4: really just, you know, kept the thermostat where it needed
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Speaker 4: to be. So we were, you know, obviously in a
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Speaker 4: one score lead plus most of the game. But, you know, offensively,
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Speaker 4: it was a little harky jerky, you know, starting with me.
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Speaker 4: So it's, you know, getting into a flow was just
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Speaker 4: a bit challenging. Third down was the thing that kind
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Speaker 4: of stood out to me where we got to, you know,
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Speaker 4: maybe A, get more favorable and B, you know, convert those. But,
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Speaker 4: you know, I love the way they battled back. We
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Speaker 4: had some, boy, we had some tough flags. you know,
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Speaker 4: against us and that's football, that's September football. So we
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Speaker 4: clearly have a lot to correct tomorrow. It's a good
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Speaker 4: place to be, you know, after your first win and
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Speaker 4: know that you have room for improvement. You know, special teams,
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Speaker 4: we had the, you know, the communication breakdown there on
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Speaker 4: the resetting the clock. And then, you know, when you
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Speaker 4: get in under, I think it's six seconds where we're
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Speaker 4: getting into a rhythm, you know, With our operation, we
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Speaker 4: were under six, and then when they reset the clock,
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Speaker 4: and then there was some verbal communication. So glad we're
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Speaker 4: in a position where we win a game, and we
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Speaker 4: can learn from these experiences we have, and that's the
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Speaker 4: game of football. But, you know, it's a good start.
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Speaker 4: And most importantly, we got our first home win. You
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Speaker 4: got to win your home games, as we all know,
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Speaker 4: in this league.
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Speaker 3: Mike, you mentioned the TJ play.
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Speaker 2: Can you take us through watching it and the impact
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Speaker 2: that it had on this game?
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Speaker 4: Well, obviously a huge play. I mean, the anticipation of it,
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Speaker 4: and frankly, great players make great plays all the time.
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Speaker 4: You see that play in practice. You see that play
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Speaker 4: on the cut-ups. I remember watching Will Howard when I
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Speaker 4: first got Howard hired, and they showed me some practice tape,
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Speaker 4: and TJ makes the same play. He goes, you know,
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Speaker 4: he jumps up and Catches the ball. I don't know
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Speaker 4: why they put that on Will's tape to show me
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Speaker 4: to take a look at him. But, you know, you
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Speaker 4: see him make those plays all the time. But not
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Speaker 4: only did he make the play, but the ability to
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Speaker 4: get up and finish it was incredible. It was a
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Speaker 4: great finish by the whole defense and the momentum swing
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Speaker 4: that came with that. That was obviously huge. That was
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Speaker 4: clearly the biggest play in the game.
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Speaker 2: Coach McCarthy with his thoughts on the matchup in week one.
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Speaker 2: Obviously a win for the Cedars. A really important win
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Speaker 2: as well. Actually, before we talk about the offence, Mark,
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Speaker 2: and thanks again for joining me, Mark. Like, AFC North
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Speaker 2: will not mention the Cleveland Browns and how they performed
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Speaker 2: in Jacksonville. But I will say one thing. And it's
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Speaker 2: important to mention this for fans across Ireland listening to
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Speaker 2: this and beyond. You're all very welcome. Rebens and Bengals
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Speaker 2: were very, very impressive. So to get that win against
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Speaker 2: the Falcons was very important as well.
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Speaker 3: Weren't they just? And even I'm looking forward to having
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Speaker 3: given those games enough attention other than the highlights and
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Speaker 3: things because we only have so many hours and we're
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Speaker 3: five hours past.
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Speaker 2: The last game. You've been locked in on the Steelers is.
16:33
Speaker 3: What you're saying? Yeah, the Steelers when they're on and
16:36
Speaker 3: then I do kind of go to the red zone
16:39
Speaker 3: but you don't really get a proper feel for the
16:41
Speaker 3: ebb and flow of the games.
16:42
Speaker 2: I do both. I watched them I had a split screen,
16:45
Speaker 2: I had the Steelers, and I had Reds all last night.
16:47
Speaker 2: So you're right.
16:48
Speaker 3: Your attention span is obviously better than mine. That's why
16:50
Speaker 3: my wife always says I can't do more than one
16:51
Speaker 3: thing at once.
16:52
Speaker 2: Well, I can't, and I'm still trying to manage. I
16:56
Speaker 2: guess it's one thing to mention, Bengals' defense was very,
17:00
Speaker 2: very impressive against the Bucs in the week that the
17:03
Speaker 2: Bucs had at Baker Mayfield, and the Ravens just put points.
17:06
Speaker 3: On the board. Here he still goes. What is he,
17:09
Speaker 3: 32 now? We're talking about the freak athletes that the
17:14
Speaker 3: Steelers have on defense and the big boys they have
17:16
Speaker 3: on offense. And you've got a guy like Henry just
17:18
Speaker 3: still producing.
17:19
Speaker 2: But the good thing for us, though, is you look
17:22
Speaker 2: at the guys we mentioned in the first half and
17:23
Speaker 2: you go, okay, bring it on. And we know you
17:27
Speaker 2: could argue that the AFC North is the best division
17:29
Speaker 2: or it's one of the most closest in football.
17:31
Speaker 3: It's going to be an amazing game.
17:33
Speaker 2: It's going to be a great year. Those games are
17:35
Speaker 2: coming up later on in the year, especially in the
17:36
Speaker 2: last few weeks. And for a neutral... going to be
17:39
Speaker 2: very competitive for Steelers fans that defense is there and
17:42
Speaker 2: on the offense as well when you look at how
17:44
Speaker 2: this offense played choppy it was a choppy start like
17:47
Speaker 2: but it was a typical week one start yeah I
17:49
Speaker 2: just mentioned they're not a Ravens but not 40 odd
17:51
Speaker 2: points but.
17:52
Speaker 3: You know that's no way that I mean that's not
17:54
Speaker 3: everything that's the exception to the rule rather than the
17:56
Speaker 3: rule you see a lot of guys obviously in the
17:59
Speaker 3: preseason stuff are trying and getting looks and rookies this
18:01
Speaker 3: is obviously trainings training but this is the first For
18:05
Speaker 3: a lot of guys, the first time you have those
18:07
Speaker 3: starting guys in a pod playing against the best guys
18:11
Speaker 3: the other team has in their pod and properly trying to,
18:15
Speaker 3: because obviously the pre-season things, you don't want to show
18:17
Speaker 3: certain things. You want to kind of keep things to yourself.
18:20
Speaker 3: This is now, we're in the show, we're in the hunt.
18:22
Speaker 3: So I think it's always going to have teething problems
18:25
Speaker 3: in the offensive side of things.
18:26
Speaker 2: Probably the two standouts in the game with that reunion
18:31
Speaker 2: of McCarthy and Rodgers, I.
18:33
Speaker 3: Thought Rodgers was good, man. He was really, really good.
18:36
Speaker 3: Pushing the ball deep as well. Not just dink and
18:38
Speaker 3: dunk stuff, which a lot of people were like, oh,
18:40
Speaker 3: we're going to go back to 25 dink and dunk stuff.
18:43
Speaker 3: He was pushing the ball deep. Some of those balls
18:44
Speaker 3: were really, really nice.
18:46
Speaker 2: I love how he's come back to work with McCarthy again,
18:50
Speaker 2: just in that sense. It was choppy. It probably wasn't,
18:53
Speaker 2: you couldn't describe it as fluent, but two guys that
18:55
Speaker 2: did impress to an extent there. Pat Fryman probably got
18:58
Speaker 2: the six-yard touchdown. Five targets, five catches, 46 yards. Michael
19:02
Speaker 2: Pittman Jr., the coach.
19:03
Speaker 3: The first one that won the sideline was lovely.
19:06
Speaker 2: I got the coach in the same yesterday though. He's
19:09
Speaker 2: a game changer, man.
19:09
Speaker 3: A 6'4, whatever he weighs. Two 6'4 monsters, a 6'5
19:15
Speaker 3: monster and a 6'6 monster.
19:17
Speaker 2: You're right though, that 28-yard sideline grab was one of
19:20
Speaker 2: the highlights of the game. 3 for 3, 58 yards.
19:23
Speaker 2: I mean, we'll talk about this in a wee second
19:26
Speaker 2: when we look ahead to this Patriots game, but you'd
19:28
Speaker 2: like to see a wee bit more in that running game.
19:30
Speaker 2: Jalen Warren, 46 yards, 5 catches, he did it that
19:33
Speaker 2: one fumble, but I guess for this entire offence, and
19:37
Speaker 2: for any offence in the league that maybe doesn't perform
19:39
Speaker 2: to that peak level week 1, even though the defence did,
19:43
Speaker 2: it's pick yourselves up, go again, still won the game,
19:46
Speaker 2: still put points on the board, and even take it
19:47
Speaker 2: on the way to TJ Watt's situation, still put points
19:49
Speaker 2: on the board. 13 points up on the board.
19:51
Speaker 3: This is it you just build everything you just build
19:55
Speaker 3: and grow every week the results are the results but
19:59
Speaker 3: it's the process is what gets you there you trust
20:01
Speaker 3: the process look to improve every week it's as true
20:05
Speaker 3: in our level of the sport as the top level
20:07
Speaker 3: the proper competitive athletes aren't focusing on the win They're
20:10
Speaker 3: focusing on improvement. If you get better every week, the
20:13
Speaker 3: wins come.
20:14
Speaker 2: Really good week in the sense of building and finding
20:17
Speaker 2: ways to win. The third down defense was elite. Pat
20:20
Speaker 2: Fryer move was absolutely automatic. And the takeaways really created
20:24
Speaker 2: both touchdowns, as you mentioned earlier on, Brisker getting for
20:28
Speaker 2: Pat Fryer move and obviously TJ's pick six. Definitely work
20:32
Speaker 2: to work on, I guess. But the amount of games
20:36
Speaker 2: I watched this weekend, folks, where I heard head coaches
20:38
Speaker 2: talk at the end of, oh we won I'm not
20:40
Speaker 2: happy we've all this to improve on that is the
20:43
Speaker 2: way to go going a lot.
20:44
Speaker 3: Of the half time chat was I need to get
20:46
Speaker 3: in the room like I appreciate you need to talk
20:48
Speaker 3: to me right now but we've got all these things
20:50
Speaker 3: to fix I've got to get in the room head
20:51
Speaker 3: coaches are hungry they're excited for it as well.
20:53
Speaker 2: And it's going to take time I enjoyed hearing coach
20:57
Speaker 2: Tomlin obviously former coach Tomlin on Sunday.
20:59
Speaker 3: How relaxed and he looked he.
21:01
Speaker 2: Looked sharp how happy did he look when he managed
21:04
Speaker 2: to concede his defence to him yeah and it was
21:06
Speaker 2: just it was cool he looks very he looks very
21:08
Speaker 2: chill he looks nice doesn't he Fair play to him.
21:10
Speaker 3: Sharp suit, well together, nice and calm, didn't look stressed
21:13
Speaker 3: at all, it was good to see.
21:15
Speaker 2: Coach McCarthy on the other hand, busy few weeks ahead,
21:19
Speaker 2: and it really kicks off with that game, 6 o'clock,
21:21
Speaker 2: Sunday night for people across the Isle of Arran, Northern Ireland,
21:24
Speaker 2: Republic of Ireland, and even people listening in the UK
21:27
Speaker 2: as well. Steelers going to New England, we'll talk about
21:29
Speaker 2: that in a wee second, 6 o'clock, Sky Sports Football,
21:33
Speaker 2: if you have Sky, and the channel's called Football, but
21:36
Speaker 2: I think it's usually for like Premier League football, Championship football,
21:39
Speaker 2: but it's on Sky Sports Football. That also means if
21:42
Speaker 2: it's not on the main channel, it's not blacked out
21:44
Speaker 2: on DAZN. What that means is it's on DAZN Game
21:47
Speaker 2: Pass and also on Sky Sports as well. It's also
21:49
Speaker 2: available to listen on the OTB Sports app, which was
21:51
Speaker 2: announced last week after our podcast with Missy Matthews that
21:54
Speaker 2: you can listen to all Steelers games audio format on
21:57
Speaker 2: that app the entire season. And believe me, Mark, after
22:00
Speaker 2: going to a London game or a game in France
22:03
Speaker 2: or a game in Spain, for example, that's a very,
22:05
Speaker 2: very handy tool to have before you talk about the Steelers.
22:08
Speaker 2: That game of Wednesday night, the Patriots-Seahawks kicked it off.
22:12
Speaker 2: And the reason I'm bringing it up is because, one,
22:13
Speaker 2: the lads are going to Foxborough this weekend. But two,
22:17
Speaker 2: you know, Patriots are under pressure here. Any team that
22:21
Speaker 2: loses in week one, they're going to have a wee
22:23
Speaker 2: bit more of a focus on them. And look, a
22:24
Speaker 2: lot of people's favourites for the Super Bowl, the LA Rounds,
22:26
Speaker 2: for example, right? They lost in week one. But for
22:29
Speaker 2: New England, for... I'm not even talking about the off-season
22:32
Speaker 2: that they've had both on and off the field. In February,
22:34
Speaker 2: when they lost the Super Bowl in the way they
22:36
Speaker 2: lost it, I mean, they looked different last week.
22:41
Speaker 3: They looked different last week, but even with a loss,
22:45
Speaker 3: I mean, going there is going to be a hard trip.
22:49
Speaker 3: May looks good. He's playing well.
22:52
Speaker 2: I'm really glad you said that. He does look good,
22:54
Speaker 2: but there was three occasions last week.
22:56
Speaker 3: This is the first game of the season. You've got,
22:59
Speaker 3: as I said, those gelling issues. I'm not saying that
23:02
Speaker 3: maybe there are actual issues or not there, but I'm
23:05
Speaker 3: going to go week one, offense is... Sometimes it's just
23:08
Speaker 3: going to take a wee bit more time to get
23:10
Speaker 3: in there, but I think you're going in scheming that
23:13
Speaker 3: this is the guy we need to shut down. Are
23:14
Speaker 3: we keeping him in a pocket?
23:16
Speaker 2: When you've got some of the defensive guys we talked
23:18
Speaker 2: about in the first half, you can definitely give that
23:22
Speaker 2: a go.
23:23
Speaker 3: If we were sitting talking here over dinner and you
23:25
Speaker 3: were like, okay, what are we going to put out
23:26
Speaker 3: against any offense in the league? The Steelers defense is
23:30
Speaker 3: going to be in that conversation. Top three, I would
23:34
Speaker 3: be hoping as we get to the back end of things.
23:36
Speaker 2: Definitely top two at the minute. Minimum anyway, if not
23:39
Speaker 2: top one at the minute. Some really good defensive performances
23:42
Speaker 2: in week one that the Cedars are definitely up there.
23:44
Speaker 2: Talking about Drake Bay for me, Mark, I agree with you.
23:48
Speaker 2: He showed good... He actually didn't have a bad game.
23:50
Speaker 2: I think the reality in week one against the Seahawks
23:52
Speaker 2: was there is an argument that the Patriots, I don't
23:56
Speaker 2: want to say threw away that game, but they should
23:58
Speaker 2: have won that game against the Seahawks. But there was
24:00
Speaker 2: two or three occasions, especially at the end, where he
24:03
Speaker 2: threw the ball in the end zone and you're sitting
24:05
Speaker 2: there going, okay, I'm looking at the clock, I can
24:07
Speaker 2: understand to an extent of why he would throw it,
24:10
Speaker 2: but there was a couple of passes where I thought, no,
24:12
Speaker 2: that's not, like, why would you play that ball? So
24:15
Speaker 2: I'm sort of hoping that from a Steelers point of
24:17
Speaker 2: view here, that that continues, but that's not really all
24:19
Speaker 2: else to sort of prepare for, that's more injury we
24:21
Speaker 2: had to prepare for as well.
24:22
Speaker 3: Yeah, very much so, and that there's, obviously having been
24:26
Speaker 3: around the sport Again, much lower level. I'm well aware.
24:30
Speaker 2: Stop saying much lower level. You've been around this sport.
24:34
Speaker 2: Look here. You've put pads on. You've played the game.
24:38
Speaker 3: The thing is, I know that sometimes throws and passes
24:41
Speaker 3: and things, you watch it and you always automatically go,
24:44
Speaker 3: why did the quarterback do that? It's not necessarily that
24:48
Speaker 3: he wasn't supposed to be a receiver somewhere where he's
24:50
Speaker 3: supposed to be, or the defense has done some sort
24:52
Speaker 3: of trick with the coverage where they've shown something and
24:54
Speaker 3: changed to it. So the space that he thought was
24:57
Speaker 3: going to be open wasn't open. Gee whiz, I can't
24:59
Speaker 3: even imagine trying to... And some of the really cool
25:02
Speaker 3: inside stuff you see where quarterbacks are going through cadences
25:05
Speaker 3: and all the things they have to remember. I couldn't
25:07
Speaker 3: even imagine the pressure and the speed of thought you
25:09
Speaker 3: need to execute that. I just always am curious now
25:14
Speaker 3: is do I have the whole picture? Was there supposed
25:16
Speaker 3: to be a... What was the option that they read?
25:18
Speaker 3: Did the receiver run it differently than he read it
25:21
Speaker 3: rather than he just chucked it? And why did he
25:23
Speaker 3: chuck it?
25:24
Speaker 2: One of the biggest... differences in this game is and
25:27
Speaker 2: this does not timestamp whatsoever EJ Brown who went to
25:30
Speaker 2: New England he is out for this game I know
25:33
Speaker 2: he's certain he's injured that's a big big loss for
25:36
Speaker 2: New England because that's something they really struggled on in
25:38
Speaker 2: the second half running back running.
25:40
Speaker 5: Back Stevenson Stevenson yeah he's going to be he's obviously
25:45
Speaker 5: a very good player they weren't that great on the
25:48
Speaker 5: run in week one either who was Hunter Henry obviously
25:52
Speaker 5: last year Keir Steeler's a wee bit of a baller
25:56
Speaker 5: So he's definitely someone, after May, you definitely don't want
25:58
Speaker 5: to forget about.
26:00
Speaker 2: Matt Collins, Hunter Henry, they've also brought in Romeo Dibes.
26:03
Speaker 2: But again, let's be very clear here, and we are
26:06
Speaker 2: going to talk about the theatres now, don't worry, but
26:08
Speaker 2: I guess the point in which I'm trying to get
26:10
Speaker 2: across to people listening is this is going to be
26:13
Speaker 2: a difficult game because they're going to be reeling after
26:15
Speaker 2: week one. I haven't got it in front of me,
26:18
Speaker 2: but the first four games of the season for the Patriots,
26:20
Speaker 2: are very, very difficult both home and on the road
26:23
Speaker 2: as well.
26:23
Speaker 3: If you want a statement play from the Steelers team,
26:27
Speaker 3: we saw a bit, not 100% firing on the offense,
26:32
Speaker 3: but some really hard play, Steelers football play, both sides
26:36
Speaker 3: of the ball. There's a big statement where the defense
26:38
Speaker 3: comes out here and really gets after a top-level offense.
26:42
Speaker 2: So you're key to the game if we start this
26:45
Speaker 2: whole segment. If we start this whole segment. And yours
26:47
Speaker 2: has to be then. You've got to get May off
26:49
Speaker 2: a spot without selling out and some of those guys.
26:51
Speaker 3: You've got to keep them in the pocket if you can.
26:54
Speaker 3: If they can continue to generate pressure without having to
26:57
Speaker 3: send too much extra and you can help out those
27:00
Speaker 3: DBs out, defensive backside, that would be fantastic. Offensively, obviously
27:05
Speaker 3: getting some more of the running game going so you're
27:07
Speaker 3: not having to rely on as much passing. But I
27:11
Speaker 3: really liked Rodgers' passing game. There was some stuff that
27:13
Speaker 3: was open. I think that they're only going to get
27:15
Speaker 3: better and better and better. Mm-hmm. And offensively and defensively,
27:19
Speaker 3: they're a big physical team and they're going to wear
27:21
Speaker 3: teams down. I think you're going to see a lot
27:23
Speaker 3: of offensive production in the second half.
27:25
Speaker 2: Time will tell. For me, it's going to be not just,
27:28
Speaker 2: and I fully agree with what you're saying, but the
27:29
Speaker 2: defense in terms of May, because I actually feel like
27:31
Speaker 2: if May is put under pressure constantly, I think he's
27:35
Speaker 2: going to fold a wee bit in this game. So
27:36
Speaker 2: one can hope for that there. Two things for me,
27:39
Speaker 2: clean up the offense a wee bit. It wasn't as
27:43
Speaker 2: fluid as we would have hoped in week one. There's
27:45
Speaker 2: nothing wrong with that. but it's just trying to find
27:47
Speaker 2: that way of using that chemistry, using this week to
27:50
Speaker 2: get better, but more so as well, allowing guys like
27:54
Speaker 2: Jalen Warren to run the ball more in the game
27:57
Speaker 2: as well. If it's not working out when you've got Pat,
28:00
Speaker 2: when you've got DK, when you've got different guys on
28:03
Speaker 2: the offense, run the ball there, because there is going
28:06
Speaker 2: to be points, whether it's the second, third, fourth quarter
28:08
Speaker 2: in this game, where the pitch fans are going to
28:10
Speaker 2: be up for it. If you need to run it
28:12
Speaker 2: to get some yardage, do it, but be smart enough
28:15
Speaker 2: when you're on the offensive line?
28:16
Speaker 3: I think a balanced offense, given the level, obviously the
28:22
Speaker 3: highest level of the sport, I think a balanced offense
28:24
Speaker 3: is needed. Yes, it can be pass heavy or run heavy.
28:27
Speaker 3: You kind of need to be able to produce at both. Arguably,
28:32
Speaker 3: if you're really good at passing, it's going to have
28:34
Speaker 3: less guys in the box. You can run the ball.
28:36
Speaker 3: If you're really good at running and you're a big,
28:37
Speaker 3: heavy team, they're going to have more guys in the box.
28:40
Speaker 3: All teams can do both. They have their personnel packages.
28:42
Speaker 3: They can come in and run whatever they need to
28:44
Speaker 3: run at the time. You just like to see them
28:47
Speaker 3: get a wee bit more so they have some better situations,
28:50
Speaker 3: like easier situations that then Roger's experience can then pick
28:53
Speaker 3: apart and really get going to work with his, again,
28:57
Speaker 3: absolutely enormous receiver core.
28:59
Speaker 2: I'm going to get your score prediction in a wee second.
29:00
Speaker 2: There is one thing I want to bring on beforehand.
29:02
Speaker 2: We know what it's like in New England. Believe me,
29:04
Speaker 2: anytime I've been out at the airport in Boston, it's
29:06
Speaker 2: always been cold. So I know it's not like it
29:09
Speaker 2: all the time, but we know how bad it can get.
29:11
Speaker 2: At this time of the year. We know how fired
29:12
Speaker 2: up the Patriots are going to be. Both on the
29:14
Speaker 2: field and in the stands. We can argue the Steelers
29:16
Speaker 2: travel as well. If not better than anybody in the
29:19
Speaker 2: entire league. But what I will say is. When it
29:22
Speaker 2: comes down to those pressure moments. When we might need
29:25
Speaker 2: to hit a 50-55 yard or 60 yard field goal.
29:28
Speaker 2: Hopefully not a 60 yarder. But we've seen obviously Boswell
29:31
Speaker 2: miss one on Sunday in week one. But we know
29:33
Speaker 2: how good he can be. So it's just giving him
29:35
Speaker 2: that confidence and alignment. And I'm sure he will come
29:37
Speaker 2: back in week two.
29:38
Speaker 3: Are you ever curious just how fast. do you reckon
29:40
Speaker 3: someone could hit a live field goal from? I actually
29:44
Speaker 3: see them in training and stuff and they are in
29:46
Speaker 3: the mid 60s but obviously you never do it in
29:48
Speaker 3: a game but I kind of like to see it
29:50
Speaker 3: once in a game.
29:51
Speaker 2: In week one in Sunday Night Football Cowboys Giants obviously
29:55
Speaker 2: Steve's podcast but just on the whole kicking topic The Cowboys,
29:59
Speaker 2: I think it was like a 68 or 70 yarder.
30:01
Speaker 2: I thought, go for it, lads, at the end of
30:03
Speaker 2: the first half. I think the one thing I would
30:06
Speaker 2: say is consistency, working well under pressure is key in
30:10
Speaker 2: that position. And we know Boswell has it. He'd be
30:13
Speaker 2: disappointed he missed that one in week one, but he'll
30:14
Speaker 2: go from there. He'll just keep picking up. And it's
30:16
Speaker 2: the team believing in him and giving him the confidence.
30:18
Speaker 3: He's also not a young player. He's going to have
30:21
Speaker 3: the experience. They always say, you've got to be able
30:23
Speaker 3: to forget. It's always the next play, the next play.
30:24
Speaker 3: You've got to be able to forget. Hardest thing to do,
30:27
Speaker 3: Forget about the bad players. Forget about the blue players.
30:29
Speaker 3: Just execute the next play. It's a hard skill to teach,
30:34
Speaker 3: but Jeepers, there's no sport like it. It's all sports.
30:37
Speaker 3: You've got to forget about it when you're live and
30:38
Speaker 3: just keep going on to the next job. But everything's
30:41
Speaker 3: a reset. You've just got to be able to forget
30:43
Speaker 3: the bad and go on and go forward with the
30:44
Speaker 3: good and just execute the next play.
30:46
Speaker 2: Take the good with the bad, happy with the sad.
30:48
Speaker 2: Just finally, star of the run game for the Patriots,
30:51
Speaker 2: 2.6 yards per carry. Seattle held the Patriots 2 on
30:54
Speaker 2: Wednesday night. We'll also argue the Patriots have had more
30:57
Speaker 2: time to recover as well, which is going to be
30:59
Speaker 2: a factor on all those points, Mark, if you had
31:02
Speaker 2: to give a prediction for this game. I guess the
31:05
Speaker 2: question is, how much of a Steelers are we.
31:07
Speaker 3: Going to win by, Mark? I'm going like a 24-14
31:10
Speaker 3: is what I would like to see.
31:11
Speaker 2: Okay.
31:11
Speaker 3: I think it's going to be a really close first half. Again,
31:15
Speaker 3: coming into that big defensive battle. But I think, again,
31:18
Speaker 3: the offense and the defense are going to wear teams down.
31:22
Speaker 3: The Steelers' offense and defense are going to wear teams
31:24
Speaker 3: down physically. I think you're going to start to see
31:26
Speaker 3: a lot of production in the second half of these
31:27
Speaker 3: games for the Steelers' offense.
31:30
Speaker 2: I think the Steelers will win the game, but I
31:33
Speaker 2: don't think it'll be as.
31:35
Speaker 3: As that big a gap.
31:36
Speaker 2: As big a gap as that. I think it's going
31:37
Speaker 2: to be very, very tight. We know how good Vrabel
31:40
Speaker 2: can be in terms of managing certain schemes. I feel
31:43
Speaker 2: like this could be... I actually think 24. I think 24-21,
31:47
Speaker 2: Boswell can win and feel the goal to win the game. So, look,
31:51
Speaker 2: if you give me the option right now, I'll take it.
31:53
Speaker 2: But this is, let's be very clear here, this is
31:55
Speaker 2: a Super Bowl finalist, a team that surprised a lot
31:58
Speaker 2: of people last year, and a team that will be
32:01
Speaker 2: reeling from a week one loss in prime time, where
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Speaker 2: the whole country and half the world watching as well.
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Speaker 2: They're going to be up for it, and it's going
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Speaker 2: to be on the Cedars.
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Speaker 3: They're going to be up for it. Again, it's a
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Speaker 3: good six o'clock time slot for us, so it's going
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Speaker 3: to have full energy, won't even need to be caffeinated. Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Another big feed, you know, it's always good to eat
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Speaker 3: food with football.
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Speaker 2: What's your go-to food for week one?
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Speaker 3: Well, the week just there, I had the chicken nachos,
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Speaker 3: shredded chicken nachos, nice queso.
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Speaker 2: All homemade, yeah?
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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, and not by me, but my fantastic wife.
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Speaker 3: I came home from work and it was there ready
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Speaker 3: for me. So fantastic. What about yourself?
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Speaker 2: You've made a really good point. Six o'clock's good because
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Speaker 2: you can sort of rock up and stuff. It's different
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Speaker 2: for me because you're going to get the wee tiny
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Speaker 2: violin out now. Like six o'clock for me until like
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Speaker 2: one or now, right? one or two in the morning
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Speaker 2: is work like it's social media it's obviously watching stuff
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Speaker 2: making notes for stuff like this here but I got
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Speaker 2: a Chinese okay.
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Speaker 3: I like that I don't know would the interactions come
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Speaker 3: in I'd like to get some.
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Speaker 2: Pittsburgh recipes if people want to ask what's football.
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Speaker 3: Food give me something that you can make in the.
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Speaker 2: House what should we have at 6 o'clock on Sunday
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Speaker 2: night and again a reminder for people a lot of
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Speaker 2: these games this year bar a few prime time there's
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Speaker 2: a Black Friday game as well A lot of these
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Speaker 2: games are on 6 o'clock in this game. Beautiful. 6
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Speaker 2: o'clock I want to say IST, GMT and then 1
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Speaker 2: o'clock Eastern if you're listening over in the States. 7
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Speaker 2: o'clock if you're in Paris ahead of this game next month.
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Speaker 2: So Sky Sports Football for Steelers fans out of Sky Sports.
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Speaker 2: OTB Sports Radio for the audio. It's across Ireland as well.
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Speaker 2: Works both Northern Ireland and the Republic. And it's on
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Speaker 2: NFL Game Pass on the Zone. We'll be back week
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Speaker 2: 3 to look back on this game as we get
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Speaker 2: closer to Paris. Mark, that was a good crack. You'll
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Speaker 2: have to come back next time.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, look, thanks for having me. It was great. And obviously,
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Speaker 3: if anyone sends in some recipes, let me hear them
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Speaker 3: and then I'll maybe get a photo of my attempt
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Speaker 3: at your recipe coming into the next week if you
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Speaker 3: have me back.
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Speaker 2: We got a pierogi at the NFL Draft in Pittsburgh,
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Speaker 2: so we'll see what we can do. For now, Irish
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Speaker 2: for listening and we'll see you in week three. Thanks
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Speaker 2: again and go Steelers.
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Speaker 3: Go Steelers.
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