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The Cowboys come to town · The Irish Steelers Podcast

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Speaker 1: Everybody walk them into The Irish Students podcast, the home
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Speaker 1: for Pittsburgh Steelers fans across the Island of Ireland. The
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Speaker 1: podcast emanating from Ireland South. Michael mcquidd delighted to be
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Speaker 1: joined as we get said for Week five of the
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Speaker 1: NFL season with the Pittsburgh Steelers, along with Jimmy and
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Speaker 1: davog and a week out from the Steelers coming to
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Speaker 1: Ireland for their Week four watch party. Jimmy, it's good
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Speaker 1: to see you a game. I'm good to see both
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Speaker 1: of you lads last week. How are you getting on hiding?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm good. Nick. Great to catch up in person
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Speaker 2: there of the beginning Pro Park, It's always good having
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Speaker 2: the gang together. A what a crazy night and Crow
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Speaker 2: Park bigger and better than last year. Great to see
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Speaker 2: so many Steeers fans gathered and indeed so many NFL
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Speaker 2: fans gathered in the one spot. I mean there was
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Speaker 2: a great atmosphere, a great buzz, and it just shows
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Speaker 2: how far the sport of American football is coming the
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Speaker 2: Island of Ireland, which is fantastic to see. So I
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Speaker 2: was still recovering on on Tuesdays that that just shows
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Speaker 2: you how much fun that I had on Monday on
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Speaker 2: Sunday night, but it was an absolutely fantastically well run
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Speaker 2: event and just delighted to see and excited to see
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Speaker 2: what's what's coming down the line in the future with
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Speaker 2: the Steelers here in Ireland.
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Speaker 1: Good to see all you lads make the final cut
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Speaker 1: in terms of videos and for those et cetera. And
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Speaker 1: great to see you a lot as well, just as
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Speaker 1: the weekend to have a good to see you lot
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Speaker 1: as well. And I hope we're getting done well. How
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Speaker 1: much did you enjoy the watch party lot last Sunday night?
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Speaker 1: In terms of the crack, I know the result did
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Speaker 1: not go how we wanted it to, but in terms
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Speaker 1: of taking it away from it, it was a really
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Speaker 1: good night, wasn't it was?
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Speaker 3: It was Michael. I mean, of course the results not
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Speaker 3: the result we wanted. We didn't get the result we
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Speaker 3: wanted last year either, but for second year in a row,
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Speaker 3: it didn't let it dump on the spirits. You know,
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Speaker 3: it was still a great night, great you know, event
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Speaker 3: was put on by the Steelers and you know, getting
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Speaker 3: to see a few familiar and new faces as well.
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Speaker 3: It was great and yeah it was. It was just
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Speaker 3: one of those days where when fortunately we didn't come
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Speaker 3: out with a win, it wasn't maybe the best, you know,
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Speaker 3: the best opportunity to get, you know, like I do
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Speaker 3: have a bit of you know, apologizing to doing the
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Speaker 3: coach fans listening because you know yourself, Michael, last week
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Speaker 3: I was sort of having a retten. I was sort
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Speaker 3: of looking forward to this one and it was just
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Speaker 3: having my head that second time around, watch party, We're
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Speaker 3: going to have the win. But at Fortate it didn't
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Speaker 3: work out like that. But aside from that, it was
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Speaker 3: a great night getting Seruge Lodge as well. It was
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Speaker 3: a joy and yeah, we're obviously going to get more
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Speaker 3: nights out like us hopefully in the future. And yeah
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Speaker 3: it was. It was just a brilliant event all together.
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Speaker 1: Good to see you guys and just some huge fanks
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Speaker 1: to over eight hundred people that turned up at Crook
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Speaker 1: Park on the Sunday evening and you know that's that's
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Speaker 1: putting it lightly. Like to see some of the NFL
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Speaker 1: fans and we've seen jerseys of o our teams as well.
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Speaker 1: It really does show everybody that it is Ireland's time
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Speaker 1: and it's great to put a real emphasis on on
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Speaker 1: the island. And so many fantastic guests there in the evening.
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Speaker 1: Thanks to everybody that stopped and had to chat and
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Speaker 1: said hello, we do appreciate on this podcast your support
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Speaker 1: and your time as well. And Jimmy, I'll ask you
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Speaker 1: this because you were there. You know, it's obviously great
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Speaker 1: to see the organization come over, but a really successful
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Speaker 1: day on the Saturday as well with the AFI Flag
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Speaker 1: Football camp which took place in Parcasler in Neurly, which
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Speaker 1: is of course the spiritial home of the Rooney family.
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Speaker 1: And I guess one of the things that we've seen
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Speaker 1: from then every local county club represented in down on
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Speaker 1: that day, but more so as well, it's actually come
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Speaker 1: out since we've last recorded and been there that there
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Speaker 1: is the nation from the stats to AFI to try
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Speaker 1: and continue to grow the sport here. I know that
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Speaker 1: you of course obviously know and you're very passionate about
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Speaker 1: the local game here. That will make a big difference
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Speaker 1: to the local game here. But also, Jimmy, great to
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Speaker 1: see so many young people that maybe may not have
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Speaker 1: played American football before actually learn a few new skills
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Speaker 1: as well last Saturday.
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Speaker 2: I think even what you're exactly right, Mack, what's even
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Speaker 2: more important or on a grander scale, is the work
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Speaker 2: that the Steelers are doing but regards to growing the
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Speaker 2: local game here and growing the sport at the grassroots level.
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Speaker 2: I mean I think that was the fourth or fifth
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Speaker 2: youth camp they've put on now since they since they
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Speaker 2: launched in Ireland a bit a year and a half ago,
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Speaker 2: So they are really doing tremendous work in terms of
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Speaker 2: promoting not only does not only Steels Nation, but also
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Speaker 2: you know, opening up Americans football to a whole new
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Speaker 2: generation who, like you say, might not have had any
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Speaker 2: knowledge previously or or any kind of experience or might
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Speaker 2: even though that it had existed. And to see and
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Speaker 2: to do it with the medium of flag football as well,
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Speaker 2: in such a fun kind of you know, low pressure environment,
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Speaker 2: but also having having Steelers players of Steelers' legends really
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Speaker 2: on site there. It really just shows you how committed
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Speaker 2: and how dedicated the Steelers are too growing to growing
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Speaker 2: the sport here, which is fantastic. I mean, the grassroots
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Speaker 2: is where it's at in terms of developing you know,
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Speaker 2: future generations of Irish American football players. Of course, I
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Speaker 2: am involved in promoting the game here myself, so it
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Speaker 2: really is it's brilliant to see and there was a
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Speaker 2: great atmosphere up in Newly there in park as they're
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Speaker 2: with with Willie Parker, James Farrier and with some of
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Speaker 2: the Steelers organization who were over and of course they
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Speaker 2: couldn't have done it without the AFI coaches. So fantastic
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Speaker 2: to see the local clubs they are getting involved. And
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Speaker 2: then the news coming out today as well that we
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Speaker 2: have the donation from the Steelers. I mean, that's just there.
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Speaker 2: That really does show that how committed and how serious
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Speaker 2: they are about growing the sport here. So everything is
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Speaker 2: definitely trending in the right direction. Uncertainly tough to see
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Speaker 2: it happening, and trough to see that Irish American football
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Speaker 2: is getting the international recognition that it deserves. And look
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Speaker 2: fair play to everyone involved and long may it last.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's It's obviously a very very exciting time
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Speaker 1: for the game here locally, and I think we definitely
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Speaker 1: do appreciate the support and it's great to see NFL
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Speaker 1: franchises really buy in to the game here, So we
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Speaker 1: certainly appreciate the Steelers. Let's talk about the game. It
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Speaker 1: didn't go to where he wanted it to. Go Dog
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Speaker 1: losing out by field goal in the end, I guess
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Speaker 1: one of the biggest things to look back on and
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Speaker 1: unconscious as well that it was almost a week ago,
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Speaker 1: so I don't want to spend too much time in it.
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Speaker 1: But as we look to this Cowboys game and lock
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Speaker 1: down the stretch here just in a few moments, really,
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Speaker 1: I guess initially it was a disappointing result because you know,
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Speaker 1: naturally you want to go for them, You want to
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Speaker 1: win every game. You want to have that excellence and
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Speaker 1: be unbeaten going in the week five, especially in such
6:45
Speaker 1: a key game at Orchestra Stadium, but teams still flaying one.
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Speaker 1: I guess the biggest thing for me is mistakes and
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Speaker 1: mistakes need to stop at the start of the game.
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Speaker 1: You need to start the game really, really effectively. And
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Speaker 1: we'll talk about that in their Keys game in a
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Speaker 1: few moments. At the end of the day, that though
7:02
Speaker 1: there's so many injuries on this offensive line and there's
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Speaker 1: only so much you can do at the end of
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Speaker 1: the day, and I still feel like a couple of
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Speaker 1: things that had to change a little bit differently last Sunday,
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Speaker 1: we could have been looking at a very different result
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Speaker 1: at the end of the day, we had the ball
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Speaker 1: with two minutes to go. Sometimes it can work, sometimes
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Speaker 1: it didn't, and on that day, it just didn't happen
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Speaker 1: for us. Obviously, naturally disappointed because you can imagine Dublin
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Speaker 1: would have popped off. But twenty four points on the board,
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Speaker 1: the opportunity to go for and one this weekend against
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Speaker 1: the Cowboys. Have you any reaction from that cool scheme
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Speaker 1: that you'd like to talk about, Dovig?
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Speaker 3: You know, Michael, there's a famous saying from Mike Tyson.
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Speaker 3: You know, everyone has a plan until they get punched
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Speaker 3: in the face, and that's exactly what happened. The coach
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Speaker 3: did this on Sunday night. From that first drave I mean,
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Speaker 3: Omney Richardson was really impressive, you know, led the team
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Speaker 3: down the field effectively, let's be honest. Made our All
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Speaker 3: Pro defense looked pretty average at best, you know, before
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Speaker 3: the injury, you know, the defense simply it's hard to say,
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Speaker 3: but they didn't simply just didn't really show up to play.
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Speaker 3: You know, we're having a go at the offense all season.
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Speaker 3: But the defense, of my opinion, our fault to this one,
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Speaker 3: I mean TJ. Watt was almost anonymous and having said that,
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Speaker 3: you know, we're obvious holding calls that weren't called, but
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Speaker 3: we're more than used to that by now, as well
8:18
Speaker 3: as you know, the Minka panalty, which is, let's be honest,
8:20
Speaker 3: is just a joke as well. But even after the
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Speaker 3: risk is an injury, you know, I you know, we've
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Speaker 3: seen it last year. But anyone that was still in
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Speaker 3: doubt whether Joe Flacco could sling it, you know, doesn't
8:30
Speaker 3: need to ask anymore. I mean, the guy is simply timeless.
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Speaker 3: You know, look at what he did in his prime.
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Speaker 3: He's probably still in his prime at the moment, who knows.
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Speaker 3: But statistically, you know, you mentioned about the offensive line,
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Speaker 3: James Daniel, there's a massive mess. You know that he
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Speaker 3: picked up that injury. We'll see how that works out,
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Speaker 3: but statistically as well, justin Fader's had his best game
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Speaker 3: as a Steeler three hundred and twelve yards, three total tds,
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Speaker 3: no picks. You know, of course, he had that fumble.
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Speaker 3: You know, there was a few mistakes, as you've mentioned,
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Speaker 3: a few bad spots, but he proved all doubt or
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Speaker 3: is wrong in my opinion, you know, I just finally, Io,
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Speaker 3: as I said, I owe all the coach fans apologies
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Speaker 3: if any were listening last week. You know I put
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Speaker 3: them Steelers up to win by double judgits. So who's laughing?
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Speaker 1: Now?
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Speaker 3: How wrong was he? And probably shouldn't be allowed to
9:09
Speaker 3: give hut game productions anymore. But I'll just say we're
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Speaker 3: still three and one, still in a great position, still
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Speaker 3: have a few handy games before we get to that bay.
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Speaker 3: You know that the reel works works off to the end,
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Speaker 3: so I'm still optimistic, and you know, let's go and
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Speaker 3: make it for him one this weekend against the Cowboys.
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Speaker 3: That's all I'm thinking about.
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Speaker 1: Jimmy, have you any reaction from the game, Just to
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Speaker 1: add to what Dove Look said there, it was just weird,
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Speaker 1: as somebody's watched league fifteen twenty years, seeing Joe Flacco
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Speaker 1: come in and do that again, and then we've seen
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Speaker 1: them following dead. Obviously, Big Ben was in the crowd
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Speaker 1: as well, and he found it, and me, isn't that
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Speaker 1: Joe Flacker was to come in and do that. I think,
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Speaker 1: if you take rivalry aside, for a quarterback to commem
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Speaker 1: into that agent perform like that is one thing, But
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Speaker 1: for a Steelers' perspective, it was obviously a disappointing result,
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Speaker 1: but we have to look. I have no doubt the coach,
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Speaker 1: Tomlin and these lads will have to hel up immediately
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Speaker 1: looking forward to this week. It's a huge game this
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Speaker 1: week which we wish we will look on luisak and
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Speaker 1: that any initial thoughts from that game that you were
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Speaker 1: thinking over or stewing over going up the m one
10:05
Speaker 1: on Sunday night.
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Speaker 2: Well, first and foremost, when I saw Joe Flacco coming
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Speaker 2: on to the field in relief of Anthony Richards, and
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Speaker 2: I almost fell out of my Chairmick, because I genuinely
10:15
Speaker 2: had no idea he was still in the league. But
10:18
Speaker 2: then he came out and did what he did against us,
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Speaker 2: and like Dave alluded to, the lack of any sort
10:23
Speaker 2: of tangible pass for us, really did open up the
10:25
Speaker 2: holes in our in our on the second level of
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Speaker 2: our defense. I mean, you know, you had Jonathan Taylor
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Speaker 2: running all over our inside linebackers. There was a our
10:35
Speaker 2: I think our secondary got very exposed as well with
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Speaker 2: a couple of big chunk plays. So I think you
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Speaker 2: know that was disappointed to see after such a strong
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Speaker 2: performance over the first three weeks. But then we look
10:46
Speaker 2: at the offense. The offensive line has torn asunder. Now
10:49
Speaker 2: we started playing six round and seven round rookies on
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Speaker 2: a Sunday night from James Daniels went down. I mean,
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Speaker 2: it's it's not looking good overall, but I think we
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Speaker 2: have to remain optimistic. Justin Field's almost won us that game,
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Speaker 2: and if it wasn't for a couple of costly mistakes,
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Speaker 2: you know, the opportunities that should have turned into touchdowns,
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Speaker 2: we would have come back and win. It didn't start
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Speaker 2: out the best we did rally back path Armo's touchdown
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Speaker 2: was fantastic. I think, look, we just have to kind
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Speaker 2: of pick ourselves up, bust ourselves off, and look forward
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Speaker 2: to the Cowboys this Sunday night in prime time. I mean,
11:24
Speaker 2: that's all we can do, is we dwelt on it
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Speaker 2: enough and we gave out a better enough and else
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Speaker 2: time to move on.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. It's funny because we didn't actually mean to not
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Speaker 1: have a podcast earlier the leak. So I'm glad that
11:38
Speaker 1: we've had a chance to talk about this game, and
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Speaker 1: it was good. It was good seeing you guys just
11:42
Speaker 1: over the last few weeks. It was good seeing you
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Speaker 1: guys last weekend as well. And I think it's going
11:48
Speaker 1: to take this offensive line a little bit more time
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Speaker 1: than jeal because some of the guys out and a
11:52
Speaker 1: couple of guys out of the season as well, But
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Speaker 1: they're still performing at such a high level in the NFL.
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Speaker 1: I just hope that it can improve a little bit
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Speaker 1: over the next few weeks. I feel like if we
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Speaker 1: tick on course over four games, the average way of
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Speaker 1: the offense on average in terms of the weight of
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Speaker 1: the offense has played, I remain optimistic. I obviously you
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Speaker 1: do want to see a jump back in the posh
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Speaker 1: now coming into the week five, we will talk about
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Speaker 1: in the week second. Just before we do talk with
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Speaker 1: Week five, let's look ahead to this because of a
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Speaker 1: huge primetime game Sunday night Football Staters against the Collboys.
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Speaker 1: I'm not here from coach Tom before we talk about
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Speaker 1: this game.
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Speaker 4: From a Dallas Cowboy perspective. Starting first and foremost with
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Speaker 4: their offense, man, I just got a lot of respect
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Speaker 4: for Dak Prescott. I hadn't seen a lot of them,
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Speaker 4: funny enough, since he's been in the league. I think
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Speaker 4: we've only played against him in particular one time in
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Speaker 4: twenty sixteen. But I see a guy who is ultra competitive,
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Speaker 4: has unbelievable arm talent, natural leadership skills. You feel the
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Speaker 4: guys rallying around him in terms of the tape study.
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Speaker 4: The way they battled back in the Baltimore game is
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Speaker 4: an example of that. He's got a real steady demeanor.
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Speaker 3: Man.
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Speaker 4: He utilizes his quarterback mobility in a very prudent way.
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Speaker 4: He extends plays. Uh, He'll run if given the opportunity.
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Speaker 4: They got some schematics that highlight that he's got a
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Speaker 4: real rapport obviously with his eligibles. His work with Cdee
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Speaker 4: Lamb is really impressive. They move cd around. You got
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Speaker 4: to defend him on the perimeter. You also got to
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Speaker 4: defend him inside. Really has gained an appreciation for the
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Speaker 4: development of Ferguson at tight end. I remember watching him
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Speaker 4: up close and mobile a couple of years ago when
13:44
Speaker 4: he came out and was really impressive, impressed with his
13:47
Speaker 4: skill set. Had a chance to talk to his grandfather
13:51
Speaker 4: while I was watching practice the Great Barrier Alvarez, and
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Speaker 4: so I enjoyed that. But man, his play is impressive
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Speaker 4: and how he's evolved as a player is really impressive.
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Speaker 4: And Dack's utilization of him within their offense is impressive,
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Speaker 4: but they've got a lot of eligibles to manage. Man,
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Speaker 4: you focus or get hyper focused on those two too much,
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Speaker 4: a guy like Brandon Cooks can ruin your day, and
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Speaker 4: so we better play a total game in terms of
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Speaker 4: minimizing those guys on the defensive side of the ball. Man,
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Speaker 4: they're going through some changes, obviously with Dan Quinn and
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Speaker 4: Joe Witt in DC and the things that they were
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Speaker 4: able to do over there in recent years, particularly in
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Speaker 4: some of their sub packet stuff, was really challenging. But
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Speaker 4: Mike Zimmer is no novice. He's been around, We've competed
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Speaker 4: against him over the years. Man, got a lot of
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Speaker 4: respect for his approach to ball, his aggressive schematic demeanor.
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Speaker 4: He's one of the godfathers of double a pressure, if
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Speaker 4: you will, in one dimensional passing moments. I've seen it
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Speaker 4: in Cincinnati, I've seen it in Minnesota. Man, I've seen
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Speaker 4: it in a lot of places over the years. Man,
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Speaker 4: I imagine he's gonna gonna pack it and bring it
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Speaker 4: to Pittsburgh this weekend. You know, we better prepare ourselves
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Speaker 4: for for for multiple blitz looks and so forth. I
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Speaker 4: would imagine that he's gonna have all the schematic tools
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Speaker 4: at his disposal in terms of creating pressure on the quarterback,
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Speaker 4: particularly maybe with his edge guys out. You do what
15:18
Speaker 4: you gotta do. From a coach's perspective, I use the
15:22
Speaker 4: phrase all the time, if you got red, paint your
15:23
Speaker 4: paint your barn red. And so you know, with those
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Speaker 4: dynamic edged people like Lawrence and maybe even Parsons out,
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Speaker 4: we better get ready for a lot of schematic pressure
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Speaker 4: from him. But we better also prepare for the likes
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Speaker 4: of Parsons. Man. You know, a guy like him, he's
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Speaker 4: not the normal in any circumstances, and so you know,
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Speaker 4: we better be prepared if he shows up in stadium
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Speaker 4: to work to minimize him and how they move him
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Speaker 4: around and his unique talents, particularly in one dimensional passing moments.
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Speaker 4: There's a lot to be excited about. As I mentioned, Man,
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Speaker 4: this is a big football game, it's the next one,
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Speaker 4: it's in our venue, it's prime time, and so those
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Speaker 4: things have our attention. But we pay our respect to
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Speaker 4: exciting and attention with how we work and how we prepare.
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Speaker 4: And I'm excited about doing that with the guys as
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Speaker 4: they come into the building tomorrow.
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Speaker 1: Coach Tomlin here on the Irish Series podcast, looking ahead
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Speaker 1: to this game against the Dallas Cowboys in Week five
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Speaker 1: for the Pittsburgh Seediers, looking to go four and one
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Speaker 1: and looking to routine that lead in the AFC r A.
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Speaker 1: We've got a couple of really interesting games across the
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Speaker 1: league this week, and obviously one of them is an
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Speaker 1: AFC North battle in the Bengals taking on the Ravens
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Speaker 1: as well. So Jimmy, there's certainly a situation there where
16:44
Speaker 1: the Steaders need to take advantage of that and they'll
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Speaker 1: know by the time that they play on Sunday night
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Speaker 1: what will have happened to that game. The reality is
16:51
Speaker 1: we can't worry about our teams in the division, especially
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Speaker 1: when we're.
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Speaker 5: Not playing them.
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Speaker 1: We're going up against a really interesting team in Dallas
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Speaker 1: where it feels like, you know, if we can talk
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Speaker 1: about the offensive line being injured and decimated and we're
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Speaker 1: really going with that next man up strategy. The Dallas
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Speaker 1: Cowboys have not really improved that much, to say the
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Speaker 1: least over the last six to seven months. Dak Prescott
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Speaker 1: gets a huge contract and while he is looking quite
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Speaker 1: good in terms of certain statistics, he is very high
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Speaker 1: in the league in terms of tight passing window stats.
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Speaker 1: That's because he doesn't really have much time to actually
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Speaker 1: do anything with the ball, so he's under a lot
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Speaker 1: of pressure. He's being expected to make big players. Sometimes
17:35
Speaker 1: they're working, sometimes they're not. I really look at this
17:38
Speaker 1: game like an opportunity for this defense to come out
17:41
Speaker 1: after that cold s game and put a marker on reset.
17:44
Speaker 1: And before we talk about that, have you any thoughts
17:47
Speaker 1: on the Cowboys over all, because for both teams this
17:50
Speaker 1: is a huge game in terms of winning it.
17:52
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean they haven't looked great, Michael, like you
17:54
Speaker 2: said all season that they've cooked. They've dropped a couple
17:57
Speaker 2: of games you think they would have won. And considering
18:01
Speaker 2: you're absolutely right, all the money they paid Dak and
18:03
Speaker 2: the pieces they do have, I mean, one of the
18:06
Speaker 2: best receivers in the league in Cdee Lamb, it just
18:09
Speaker 2: hasn't really happened for them. So I think again, this
18:12
Speaker 2: is a massive opportunity for us to kind of come
18:14
Speaker 2: out and prove a point. Like you say, after what
18:16
Speaker 2: happened against the Colts, I would really really like to
18:20
Speaker 2: see our offensive line paved the way for some rushing
18:24
Speaker 2: touchdowns because so far the only member of our team
18:28
Speaker 2: to score any rushing touchdowns is their quarterback, which is
18:31
Speaker 2: a bit disconcerting when we have arguably one of the
18:34
Speaker 2: best running backs in the league in Nagie Harris, I know,
18:39
Speaker 2: and he has been limited. He hasn't really been that
18:41
Speaker 2: effective thus far in the season. So I would like
18:43
Speaker 2: to see our ground game get moving a bit more.
18:46
Speaker 2: And I think if we have an effective ground game,
18:48
Speaker 2: it takes a lot of pressure off off of Justin Fields.
18:51
Speaker 2: And I mean he is the only reason I think
18:54
Speaker 2: in the offense that we've that we Obviously he has
18:56
Speaker 2: a good connection with with George Pickens, but I mean
19:00
Speaker 2: he has been responsible for us staying in the game
19:03
Speaker 2: and staying alive in terms of offense over the past
19:06
Speaker 2: offensive production over the past couple of weeks. But I
19:08
Speaker 2: would like it kind of second. I mean, teams have
19:11
Speaker 2: kind of figured out now at the minute that if
19:13
Speaker 2: you you're getting Justin Fields's face and you throw them off,
19:17
Speaker 2: he might make mistakes and he he won't he won't
19:20
Speaker 2: have as much time to operate. So we definitely need
19:22
Speaker 2: to lean on the grand game a bit more. And again,
19:25
Speaker 2: similarly similarly to the running game and what we do
19:28
Speaker 2: have to get George Pickens involved somehow. I mean, he
19:31
Speaker 2: almost scored a touchdown last weekend, and we all know
19:34
Speaker 2: what happened there when he tried to he tried to
19:36
Speaker 2: make something else happen, and he fumbled the ball. But
19:39
Speaker 2: I think the Cowboys are there for the taking at
19:41
Speaker 2: the minute with regards to what we can do versus them.
19:45
Speaker 2: I know there's a good few injuries on the on
19:47
Speaker 2: their defensive side of the ball. I think Michael Parsons
19:49
Speaker 2: is out, to Marcus Lawrence is out, so hopefully we
19:53
Speaker 2: won't have as much pressure coming against some of the defense.
19:57
Speaker 2: But like it's going to be an intriguing matchup.
19:59
Speaker 1: I think DOGG. We've seen Doc Prescott do a lot
20:04
Speaker 1: with quite little so far this season. He's tied fourth
20:08
Speaker 1: in total past touchdowns, first in past playd percentage per game,
20:13
Speaker 1: and sixth in passing touchdowns per game. On average, they're
20:19
Speaker 1: doing a lot with very little. And when I say little,
20:22
Speaker 1: they're doing a lot with zero run game. We really
20:26
Speaker 1: need to be as a defense. We need to be
20:28
Speaker 1: able to stand up to their wide receiver core and
20:31
Speaker 1: make sure that guys like Ceede Lamb don't have a
20:33
Speaker 1: chance of something that.
20:35
Speaker 3: You're absolutely right, Michael if at the nail on the head,
20:37
Speaker 3: that their run game is basically non existent and that
20:40
Speaker 3: they're just a team that can't run the ball. Get
20:42
Speaker 3: the thirty second in the league at running the ball
20:44
Speaker 3: in terms of yards. Asak is clearly not the same
20:47
Speaker 3: player he used to be. Ricoditled's okay, but he's not
20:49
Speaker 3: in special and you imagine, but you know, they're over
20:52
Speaker 3: a lance on Dak. Only Geno smithhis throwing the ball
20:54
Speaker 3: more times than Dak in the league this season, so
20:56
Speaker 3: it's obvious the sort of game plan going to common
20:58
Speaker 3: tray us imagined with Cde Lamb. Jack Ferguson's a nice
21:02
Speaker 3: piece as well. He would be a top maybe five
21:04
Speaker 3: to ten tight end in the league. But it seems
21:08
Speaker 3: to me with the Cowboys specifically this year, it's a
21:11
Speaker 3: year where Jerry Jones. Obviously everybody knows who Jerry Jones is.
21:14
Speaker 3: He's the lightest sports runner in the world. He owns
21:16
Speaker 3: did all Cowboys. He's turned around. He said, Dak, I'm
21:19
Speaker 3: giving you all this money, go out with limited weapons
21:22
Speaker 3: and show us what you can do. And it seems
21:24
Speaker 3: like so far they're over a lance on Dak. Is
21:27
Speaker 3: it's I wouldn't say it's working out, but there's still
21:29
Speaker 3: a lot of question marks whether he's the top ten
21:32
Speaker 3: quarterback in this league. So it seems to me that
21:35
Speaker 3: they're going to have an over a lance again this
21:36
Speaker 3: week and it's going to be up to us to stop.
21:38
Speaker 3: But it is worth noting as well though they're gonna
21:41
Speaker 3: have a bit of backs to rest. They haven't played
21:42
Speaker 3: since last Thursday night against the Chance. I watched that
21:44
Speaker 3: game as well. They didn't look great. You know, the
21:47
Speaker 3: Chanser meant to be one of the worst teams in
21:49
Speaker 3: the league, and they I would say they limped over
21:51
Speaker 3: the line against them. So for me, it's a really
21:54
Speaker 3: good about how we're going to be able to neutralize DAK,
21:56
Speaker 3: neutralize CD LAMB, put as much pressure on the throne
21:59
Speaker 3: game as much as we can because I know we
22:01
Speaker 3: didn't have a great game against the Coach Defender Run
22:04
Speaker 3: last week. You know, they're a great team that run
22:06
Speaker 3: the ball. The Kaiboys are not, so no excuse this week.
22:08
Speaker 3: Let's get back to the usual ways on the defensive
22:11
Speaker 3: side of the ball.
22:12
Speaker 1: We're going to get our keys to the game in
22:13
Speaker 1: the least second before we did us here from a
22:15
Speaker 1: couple of guys on the roster ahead at this big
22:18
Speaker 1: game against the Kai Boys this week on Sunday Night football.
22:23
Speaker 2: That's thing we talked to our SMI if he felt
22:24
Speaker 2: like in the second half you were really in a
22:26
Speaker 2: flow and it was like anything to be called.
22:27
Speaker 1: He knew it was going to work.
22:28
Speaker 2: You know what, what's the key to carrying that momentum
22:30
Speaker 2: over this next game?
22:32
Speaker 6: Yeah, just doing the same thing we did in the
22:34
Speaker 6: second half, you know, coming out. Of course we want
22:35
Speaker 6: to start faster than we did the first half. And yeah,
22:39
Speaker 6: just you know, doing the same thing. And of course
22:41
Speaker 6: it might have some mistakes, but execution run game was
22:44
Speaker 6: flowing pretty well second half to play pass stuff like that.
22:48
Speaker 6: So as long as we do that, we'll be fine
22:50
Speaker 6: come Sunday night. So would you feel that turning it
22:52
Speaker 6: at some point where?
22:53
Speaker 3: Okay, now things I.
22:54
Speaker 6: Mean, yeah, I think everybody on the team news, I know,
22:57
Speaker 6: us as an offense knew that. You know, we were
22:59
Speaker 6: just hurting ourselves was on the office side of the ball.
23:01
Speaker 6: So it was just a matter of time before you know,
23:02
Speaker 6: we started, you know, to get things going and stuff
23:04
Speaker 6: like that. But uh, like if we're saying, we wanna
23:06
Speaker 6: emphasize on starting faster and maintaining that throughout the whole game.
23:10
Speaker 2: Is there a moment or a play in the second
23:11
Speaker 2: half when you realize, like, oh, we're locked in now,
23:14
Speaker 2: this offense is is moving away?
23:15
Speaker 5: He shout.
23:16
Speaker 6: I think Darnell's play kind of gave us some juice
23:18
Speaker 6: a little bit, you know, when he stiff from the
23:20
Speaker 6: guy and jumped over him. I think that, you know,
23:22
Speaker 6: got his rolling a little.
23:23
Speaker 5: Bit for sure.
23:24
Speaker 7: Did you know he could hurt all like that?
23:26
Speaker 6: I think I might'a seen him do it once, but uh,
23:29
Speaker 6: I mean really just a guy doing it, you know,
23:32
Speaker 6: his size and just the athleticism you know that takes.
23:36
Speaker 6: That's pretty impressive for sure, really impressive.
23:38
Speaker 3: What does that second have to do for confidence?
23:40
Speaker 2: And how does that you're mentioning carryover?
23:42
Speaker 3: How does that port carry over in confidence?
23:45
Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, I think we all have it at
23:48
Speaker 6: the end of the day. We know what we can
23:49
Speaker 6: do on the offense side of the ball. I know
23:52
Speaker 6: I'm super confident in you know. You know all of
23:54
Speaker 6: my guys. You know, the receivers, runner backs are alignement
23:58
Speaker 6: tight end. So yeah, I mean it it does. I
24:02
Speaker 6: guess a lot for our confident. But where are we're
24:04
Speaker 6: already confident? If I'm being honest with.
24:06
Speaker 1: Just the Colts rumbless you guys a lot the uh
24:09
Speaker 1: the different pression that they were sending, which was something
24:11
Speaker 1: that they've done a lot this season.
24:12
Speaker 2: How do you guys counter that in the future when
24:14
Speaker 2: teams are trying to do that and maybe different ways
24:17
Speaker 2: that you guys can respond to that.
24:19
Speaker 6: You know, just anticipate 'em situationally, Yeah, another pattern instead
24:25
Speaker 6: of their patterns and kind of anticipate that using snap
24:28
Speaker 6: count a little bit to try to get it uncovered
24:30
Speaker 6: a little bit earlier. But if not, then you just
24:32
Speaker 6: got to adjust on the run and you know, get the
24:35
Speaker 6: play started at least in the run game for sure.
24:36
Speaker 2: Russ Mike had told us on Tuesday the expectation was
24:39
Speaker 2: to ramp it up this week.
24:41
Speaker 4: Is is that occurring?
24:42
Speaker 2: And how's it going?
24:43
Speaker 5: Yeah, you guys are out there. Yeah, we're we're t
24:45
Speaker 5: we're uh r, definitely ramping it up. It's been good.
24:47
Speaker 5: I feel great and uh just getting better every day.
24:50
Speaker 2: How much work have you been able to do in in.
24:52
Speaker 7: Some of those Yeah, definitely around up hopping the team
24:55
Speaker 7: drills and get more plays and just be able to
24:58
Speaker 7: do that.
24:58
Speaker 5: That was that's been great, uh this week.
25:00
Speaker 7: And and then doing all the team eleven on eleven
25:04
Speaker 7: and also seven on seven all that stuff too as well.
25:06
Speaker 5: So it's been good.
25:08
Speaker 3: How long wouldn't take get rapped up to.
25:14
Speaker 7: What do you mean by It's like like we would
25:16
Speaker 7: have taken to the number of practices number four practice.
25:18
Speaker 5: Like I played a lot of football, you know.
25:21
Speaker 7: I feel like, uh, you know, you know, uh, you know,
25:24
Speaker 7: we're listening to the doctors, listening to coach and just
25:26
Speaker 7: trying to make sure that.
25:28
Speaker 5: They're they're good and I'm good and everything else. And
25:30
Speaker 5: just got a really good week of practice so far.
25:32
Speaker 5: I'm proud of the guys and how hard we've worked
25:34
Speaker 5: and uh, you know. And today's Thursday, so I got
25:36
Speaker 5: some extra days.
25:37
Speaker 7: Left and and then obviously there's Friday and trying to
25:40
Speaker 7: get there too. Is feel great, And I had a
25:42
Speaker 7: real good practice to day. Our team did and fell
25:45
Speaker 7: really confident today.
25:47
Speaker 1: Great to hear from some of the lots in the
25:49
Speaker 1: locker room. I had a huge game for the Staters
25:51
Speaker 1: this Sunday night. We want to hear your false we
25:54
Speaker 1: want to hear your comments, make sure you use a
25:56
Speaker 1: hashtag Steelers Ireland on all forms of social media. Let's
26:00
Speaker 1: let's get into it. Big game for the Steelers. I'm
26:02
Speaker 1: going to use the obvious key for me, Jimmy, I
26:04
Speaker 1: think the home crowd is one thing, and I genuinely
26:08
Speaker 1: think the home crowd gets us over the line and
26:10
Speaker 1: Sunday night and gets us to four and one in
26:12
Speaker 1: such a tight division. And I think if we do
26:14
Speaker 1: get the four and one, and you can almost look
26:17
Speaker 1: back and think to ourselves, well, at least at least
26:20
Speaker 1: we're not sitting three in two, or at least we
26:22
Speaker 1: don't have to focus too much on that lost Indianapolis.
26:24
Speaker 1: I'll give Indianapolis their complete props the way that they played,
26:28
Speaker 1: especially in the passing game last week. For all we
26:30
Speaker 1: can say about our past defense, I thought they were
26:33
Speaker 1: very very good, especially even before Attney Wichardteram went off
26:36
Speaker 1: the way he was able to run. I know it's
26:37
Speaker 1: our job to stop them. They were, they played well,
26:40
Speaker 1: they won the game, and we have we have to
26:41
Speaker 1: give them credits for that and move on. I think
26:43
Speaker 1: for me, if you look last week, the highest rusher
26:46
Speaker 1: that we had had forty three yards outside of justin fields.
26:49
Speaker 1: We need to find a way to run the ball.
26:52
Speaker 1: We need to get Nagy into this game and find
26:54
Speaker 1: a way as well to really effectively hurt this hurt
26:59
Speaker 1: this Dollars Boys defense. They have the weapons defensively we've
27:02
Speaker 1: seen with Mika Parsons. Make them guess, make them guess
27:05
Speaker 1: the plays, and use that home crowd to our advantage.
27:09
Speaker 1: I'm going to take the Steelers winning this game twenty
27:12
Speaker 1: one to fourteen, and if they can go in and
27:15
Speaker 1: they can beat the Cowboys in prime time, I think
27:17
Speaker 1: it opens them up for a really really nice week,
27:20
Speaker 1: a really really nice few weeks as well. What's your
27:23
Speaker 1: keys of the game, Jim.
27:24
Speaker 2: Obviously you mentioned the obvious there, Michael, which is to
27:27
Speaker 2: get the run game going to a greater extent than
27:30
Speaker 2: we have previously. I think we need our actual weapons
27:33
Speaker 2: to score touchdowns, and my actual weapons, the only real
27:37
Speaker 2: weapons we've had so far that have been effective and
27:39
Speaker 2: scoring have been our quarterback, justin fields and our tight ends,
27:42
Speaker 2: which is not something I thought I'd be saying four
27:44
Speaker 2: or five weeks into the season. I mean again, George Pickens,
27:50
Speaker 2: you know, by all means, is one of the top
27:52
Speaker 2: talented receivers in the league. But he's been held scoreless
27:55
Speaker 2: four weeks into the season, where other receivers of his
27:58
Speaker 2: caliber are scoring for fun with some with much less talented.
28:03
Speaker 2: Why we're quarterbacks throwing to them. If you look at
28:06
Speaker 2: you know, you look at Eligue Neighbors in New York,
28:09
Speaker 2: it's a prime example that he's a similar build of Pickens.
28:12
Speaker 2: He has Daniel Jones throwing to him. Like, I don't
28:14
Speaker 2: know how we can't score touchdowns with George Pickens if
28:17
Speaker 2: that's happening. So I would like Pickens to actually get
28:20
Speaker 2: into the end zone. And I think off for me
28:22
Speaker 2: that the big, big key is offensive productivity and a
28:26
Speaker 2: hell of a lot more of it in terms of
28:30
Speaker 2: you know, scores. I think we're going to get four touchdowns,
28:33
Speaker 2: and I think it's going to be twenty eight twenty
28:35
Speaker 2: four to the Steelers, and I think we're going to
28:37
Speaker 2: come from behind as we sometimes do at home, and
28:42
Speaker 2: I think renegade is going to have a big effect
28:46
Speaker 2: in this one and having the whole momentum behind us.
28:50
Speaker 1: Hey, Donald, I'm going to take what Jimmy said and
28:53
Speaker 1: I'm going to say, yes, this is the week we
28:54
Speaker 1: see Pickings got a touchdown or two. He does lead
28:58
Speaker 1: the league when it's a plus twenty yard flow, so
29:02
Speaker 1: five catches. I've seen that they over there for like
29:04
Speaker 1: one hundred million yards. But he does legal league. I
29:06
Speaker 1: think this is the week that we see him gettingto
29:08
Speaker 1: that ends up.
29:10
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's a great perceiver when it comes to throwing
29:12
Speaker 3: the ball down the field. You know the proofs and
29:14
Speaker 3: the pudd and there. I mean, very dynamical. I said
29:18
Speaker 3: we banged the drummer with George Peckens every week on
29:20
Speaker 3: the podcast, but it just seems like every week there's
29:23
Speaker 3: maybe I don't want to say we're making excuses for him,
29:26
Speaker 3: but it seems like there's something that just happens where
29:28
Speaker 3: you know, the penalties has been denver in Week two
29:31
Speaker 3: was a massive option as to why he didn't score.
29:33
Speaker 1: He was unlucky last week, really unlucky at that point
29:36
Speaker 1: as well.
29:37
Speaker 2: Well, I don't think it was. I don't think it
29:38
Speaker 2: was unlucky. Mike Lee shouldn't he like he can't fault
29:41
Speaker 2: him for I'm sorry for cutting across here, but I
29:43
Speaker 2: feel like I have to jump in here and make
29:44
Speaker 2: this point. I love George Pickens from what he does
29:47
Speaker 2: in terms of trying to extend the play and gain
29:50
Speaker 2: the additional yards. But that's twice he's done it, and
29:53
Speaker 2: the first time he got away with it when he
29:54
Speaker 2: went down the Barns one second left in the clock.
29:57
Speaker 2: I think it was the Falcons where we had the
30:00
Speaker 2: opportunity to kick the field goal before halftime. If he
30:02
Speaker 2: had tried to take an extra step, that would completely
30:05
Speaker 2: change that game and we wouldn't have had that field
30:07
Speaker 2: goal and we probably would have lost against the Against
30:10
Speaker 2: the Cowboys, it was a sorry against the Coast. It
30:13
Speaker 2: was an almost fatal mistake, where like, if you're going
30:16
Speaker 2: to do that, I mean, you're taught that. I was
30:18
Speaker 2: taught that when I started playing football. Every underage American
30:22
Speaker 2: football player is taught that if you're going towards the sideline,
30:25
Speaker 2: carry the ball and you're outside hand, so if you
30:27
Speaker 2: do fumble it, it goes out of bounds. He didn't
30:30
Speaker 2: do that. That's a fundamental of American football. And look
30:33
Speaker 2: what happened. We lost the ball and we lost the
30:35
Speaker 2: scoring opportunity and could have potentially, you know, impacted the game.
30:39
Speaker 2: So I think little things like that, I mean, we
30:42
Speaker 2: have to clean up those kind of mistakes as well, sorry, sorry, Dave,
30:45
Speaker 2: I'll let you I'll let you talk now. I probleise.
30:47
Speaker 3: No, you're you're just right because at the same time,
30:50
Speaker 3: I mean, we were dying. We were still down by
30:52
Speaker 3: ten plus points at that stage, so we needed a
30:54
Speaker 3: score and that was a massive mistake. So he's not
30:57
Speaker 3: you know, he's not faultless. You know, we have to
30:59
Speaker 3: be we have to be honest and we have to
31:00
Speaker 3: say luck. He needs to improve this side of the
31:02
Speaker 3: game where he maybe tries to make too much happen,
31:05
Speaker 3: whereas maybe instead of taking the easier out and just
31:08
Speaker 3: running out of bounds. But you're just absolutely right, Jimmy,
31:10
Speaker 3: and I hope this is the week where maybe he
31:13
Speaker 3: looks back and he says, look, maybe this next time,
31:16
Speaker 3: if I play more patient football and maybe I'm not
31:18
Speaker 3: trying to do too much, then he may get into
31:20
Speaker 3: the end zone. So hopefully this is the week he
31:22
Speaker 3: does it. And I don't see why he can't. You know,
31:24
Speaker 3: he's a special player. We know he is, and hopefully
31:27
Speaker 3: you know he's learning from his mistakes.
31:29
Speaker 1: Have you got a prediction for Estavo? Just before we're going.
31:32
Speaker 3: Oh, yes, of course, yeah, I'm actually going to the
31:35
Speaker 3: Sam scorers last week, to be honest, and this time
31:38
Speaker 3: it's it's gonna be Roles reversed. I think it's gonna
31:40
Speaker 3: be twenty seven twenty four Steelers. I think it's gonna
31:43
Speaker 3: go pretty much down to the wire again. I mean, Dallas,
31:47
Speaker 3: They're just I'm not gonna I'm not gonna sort of
31:50
Speaker 3: blast like the opponent like I did last week, because
31:52
Speaker 3: we know how that came back about me. But I believe,
31:56
Speaker 3: as I said, if we're forcing dak to throw the
31:58
Speaker 3: ball forty forty to forty five times a game, I
32:02
Speaker 3: don't see how they're going to come up and post
32:04
Speaker 3: a big number on us. So as long as we
32:06
Speaker 3: don't go down early, just like last week, we will.
32:09
Speaker 3: We went down way too early, you know, too much.
32:11
Speaker 3: So I think as long as we can prevent that
32:13
Speaker 3: from happening, we can win this one in a regulatively
32:15
Speaker 3: low scoring game. I mean, I don't know, what do
32:17
Speaker 3: you think twenty seven to twenty four as well, and
32:19
Speaker 3: going for and as I've said again, go take that
32:22
Speaker 3: to the bank.
32:23
Speaker 1: I hope we are taking to the bank. In a
32:25
Speaker 1: week where we have the budget, we can definitely take
32:28
Speaker 1: that to the bank. And I don't think you can
32:29
Speaker 1: put a price in the guy like TJ What as well,
32:31
Speaker 1: we're going to talk about the budget. Really appreciate the
32:34
Speaker 1: time and as I said previously, just being able to
32:36
Speaker 1: meet so many fans over the last week. Who wrapped
32:39
Speaker 1: this team, Jimmy Davog as well. I know you lots
32:42
Speaker 1: are going over in a couple of weeks, so let's
32:44
Speaker 1: hope we can get this win under our belts this
32:47
Speaker 1: week to go four and one in the season. We'll
32:49
Speaker 1: be back early in the week to recap the game,
32:51
Speaker 1: and I guess we will chat to you soon. Enjoy
32:53
Speaker 1: the weekend and enjoy the game, and we'll chat you
32:55
Speaker 1: soon here on the Irish Series podcast.
32:57
Speaker 2: Here we Go, Here we go, There we go, Down
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Speaker 2: Da