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Steelers win first preseason game & Jaylen Warren Interview · The Irish Steelers Podcast

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  Speaker 2: Everybody. Welcome into the Irish Steeters Podcast, presented by air
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  Speaker 2: erlingus dot com. Michael mccaid here as we get set
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  Speaker 2: to look back on what was the first preseason game
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  Speaker 2: for the Pittsburgh Steels at thirty one to twenty five
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  Speaker 2: win late on Saturday night against the Jacksonville Jaguars. And look,
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  Speaker 2: we know the main thing from the NFL preseason is
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  Speaker 2: to get out on that field, stay fit, stay healthy,
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  Speaker 2: and get off that field the game. But it's always
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  Speaker 2: nice to win a game as well, and great to
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  Speaker 2: see guys come in in terms of you know, the
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  Speaker 2: rookies come in, get to see a first look at
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  Speaker 2: them as well, and we get Scatter Thompson who was
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  Speaker 2: playing there as well. His alma mater actually plays in
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  Speaker 2: Dublin next week and Mason Rudolphus will good to see
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  Speaker 2: those guys get on And I'll tell you what what
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  Speaker 2: I really enjoyed from that was actually here and what
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  Speaker 2: pot firm we've had to say with Dublin.
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  Speaker 3: One of the highlights of this season is going to
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  Speaker 3: be the team traveling to Ireland for a week four.
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  Speaker 4: You got to go this offseason though, take you.
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  Speaker 5: Through what that experience was like and what we can
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  Speaker 5: expect we finally get to go there.
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  Speaker 4: The people that are unbelievable and it's exciting to you know,
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  Speaker 4: play over in Ireland and it's gonna be a great time.
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  Speaker 4: You know, they're passionate about American football. They've already had
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  Speaker 4: signs everywhere. And I'm excited, and I think the whole
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  Speaker 4: team is exad as well.
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  Speaker 2: I tell you what, if he's excited, I'm excited. We're
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  Speaker 2: all excited. Can you believe we are literally under seven
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  Speaker 2: weeks away from this game in Dublin. It is scary
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  Speaker 2: to think. Some really cool news has dropped over the
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  Speaker 2: last few days with a couple of big things in
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  Speaker 2: this podcast. We've got an interview with Gilan Warren come
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  Speaker 2: up in a few moments. But just let people know
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  Speaker 2: that you can watch the entire preseason for the Pittsburgh
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  Speaker 2: Staters along with weekly showings of The Mike Tomlin Show
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  Speaker 2: on Vergin Media this season, along with audio commentary throughout
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  Speaker 2: the season on Off the Ball. You tell me an
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  Speaker 2: other team that can do that. That is unbelievable for
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  Speaker 2: Irish fans. Obviously, wherever you are north or south, you
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  Speaker 2: can get that off the ball up on your phone
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  Speaker 2: as well, So do check it out, folks, and really
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  Speaker 2: interesting game in terms of you if you have watched
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  Speaker 2: it back from the weekend. It was just good to
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  Speaker 2: see guys sort of get reps and actually see what
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  Speaker 2: they could do in the sense of you know, yes,
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  Speaker 2: it's unlikely we're gonna see Scanner Thompson for example, BQB
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  Speaker 2: one and obviously you know missing as there as well,
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  Speaker 2: but this still gives an idea for US guys to
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  Speaker 2: see just how much depth this team has. And I
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  Speaker 2: think that's key in terms of watching coach Tomlin said
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  Speaker 2: after the game, and you can now hear that on
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  Speaker 2: the Irish Hitters podcast.
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  Speaker 6: You know, it's really good Evening's work.
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  Speaker 5: We got put in a lot of situations and got
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  Speaker 5: a chance to watch people performing them two minute drive
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  Speaker 5: before the half kind of highlighting some of that. I
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  Speaker 5: thought we did a nice job of not beating our
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  Speaker 5: own butt. We kept pre snap penalties virtually to a minimum.
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  Speaker 5: I think we had one. We played a pretty clean
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  Speaker 5: game for a first time out We gave a lot
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  Speaker 5: of people a lot of opportunities, and that's what this
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  Speaker 5: is about. It was good to see some offensive players
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  Speaker 5: tackling on special teams, defensive players blocking on special teams.
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  Speaker 5: We'll comb through that really closely. In the top of
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  Speaker 5: it all, off man, we kind of got through the
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  Speaker 5: game virtually injury free. I think Cam McCutcheon got taken
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  Speaker 5: out with a soft tissue injury maybe at hamstring that
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  Speaker 5: needs to be evaluated, But other than that, we're pretty
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  Speaker 5: clean and so productive night on a lot of fronts,
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  Speaker 5: and obviously we'll comb through the tape, man, and learn
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  Speaker 5: from it in a lot of ways, both players and coaches,
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  Speaker 5: and hopefully be better the next time out.
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  Speaker 2: Good to hear from coach Tomlin officer the preseason win
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  Speaker 2: against the Jacksonville Joguars On this week for the very
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  Speaker 2: special guest Via Steeters, running back Jill and Warren joined.
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  Speaker 2: I'll say I had the chance to sit down with
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  Speaker 2: him at Saint Vincent College just before the first game.
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  Speaker 2: Lovely guy. I hope you enjoyed listening. I hope you
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  Speaker 2: enjoy listening to it on the Irish Taters podcast. But
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  Speaker 2: I'll tell you wats I have some great players to
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  Speaker 2: chap to your at Saint Vincent College. This guy's no exception.
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  Speaker 2: Jaalen Ward, Jailen, it's great to have you on Haida.
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  Speaker 3: It's good. I'm doing good.
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  Speaker 6: I'm good.
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  Speaker 2: I'm even better. I've been better for I've been buzzing,
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  Speaker 2: sorry for the last sixty eight and months. No one
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  Speaker 2: that you guys are coming out in Ireland.
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  Speaker 6: Are you excited about that?
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  Speaker 2: Is?
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  Speaker 6: Is it the first time in a national for you?
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  Speaker 6: What's that like?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, this will be my first time out the country. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: I'm excited. I tell my family, because my family that
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  Speaker 3: they're really excited too. But I don't look at it
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  Speaker 3: is like vacation. You know, we're there'll win a game,
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  Speaker 3: so that's kind of how I look at it, or
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  Speaker 3: no matter where we play. So I'm excited to get
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  Speaker 3: that experience and you know, share you know, that football
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  Speaker 3: experience with you know, outside of the country. But at
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  Speaker 3: the end of the day, they'll win a game.
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  Speaker 6: Get the Dublin Dublin hopefully we'll say come back. We
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  Speaker 6: will come back to that in a bit.
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  Speaker 2: What's it feeling like in the locker room Because I
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  Speaker 2: spoke to Alex Highsmith about it. Are the guys excited
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  Speaker 2: Is something that you guys talk about or is it
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  Speaker 2: very much for you as much as it's a big
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  Speaker 2: thing for all of us. You guys just just look
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  Speaker 2: at the schedule and it doesn't matter where the game is,
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  Speaker 2: you're just ready to rock and roll.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you know, it's a you know, it's our job,
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  Speaker 3: you know, and we you know, we want to win
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  Speaker 3: where it don't matter where it's at. Oh yeah, obviously
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  Speaker 3: we're excited to go to Ireland. A lot of us
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  Speaker 3: haven't been out the country. It'll be the first for
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  Speaker 3: a lot of us. So yeah, we're excited, okay.
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  Speaker 2: And in terms of the game itself, it's look, I
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  Speaker 2: give you a prime example they're on this year the
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  Speaker 2: Jags play the Rams in London and that's fantastic, and
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  Speaker 2: to get any games internationally it's big. But for the
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  Speaker 2: for the Rooney family and the connection, the significance that
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  Speaker 2: they have to the island of Ireland, that's a really
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  Speaker 2: big deal. Is that Is that something that you guys
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  Speaker 2: conceive and being part of the organization and on that
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  Speaker 2: Rooney family and what it really means to them, because
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  Speaker 2: it is going to be very very special in that sense.
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  Speaker 3: You know, obviously they do a lot for us, They
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  Speaker 3: take care of us very well, and so it'd be
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  Speaker 3: nice to you know, share that experience with others.
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  Speaker 6: Running back rooms looking a little bit different this year.
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  Speaker 2: First off, you know, I'm presuming as friends, you'll obviously
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  Speaker 2: miss playing Monaji. You've got a couple of good guys
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  Speaker 2: in there now as well. How is the Dynamics Forming
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  Speaker 2: and Training camp in terms of getting that new room
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  Speaker 2: adjusted in that sense?
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  Speaker 3: You know, I really love this room because you know,
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  Speaker 3: everybody's you know, bought into the process and the culture
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  Speaker 3: that we have here, and you know they come in
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  Speaker 3: with great attitude. There's nobody that's a very selfless room.
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  Speaker 3: And I think when times get hard, you know you
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  Speaker 3: can lean on you know, your brothers and you know,
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  Speaker 3: get the job done whatever it is.
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  Speaker 2: And I've been here for a couple of ours. On
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  Speaker 2: this Sunday morning, I can see already high specialist place.
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  Speaker 2: Is what's it like coming out here walking down the steps,
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  Speaker 2: seeing all the funds Because for a lot of those
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  Speaker 2: like for a lot of those kids, that is their
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  Speaker 2: opportunity to see you guys up close and try and
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  Speaker 2: amate you in the future. What's it like being here
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  Speaker 2: because it just seems special already and there's no funds here.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, it's cool.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I enjoy it, you know as a player,
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  Speaker 3: because you know, I never got that when I was younger.
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  Speaker 3: I mean as a kid, you dream about, you know,
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  Speaker 3: seeing NFL players like up close, and uh, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I try to make it special for those that I
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  Speaker 3: do come across. So yeah, it's it's special every day.
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  Speaker 2: You can use the word special when you say we're
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  Speaker 2: thirteen thousand fans and Friday Night what was that like?
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  Speaker 2: So Friday Night Lights, I believe in the trope that
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  Speaker 2: looked awesome.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, it looked amazing. I think that was the
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  Speaker 3: most pact that I've seen it since I've been here.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I tell the guys, it's a lot more
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  Speaker 3: people than there was at my state championship game in
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  Speaker 3: high school. Like our high school games they never looked
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  Speaker 3: like this, So yeah, it was it was nice to see.
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  Speaker 6: That's awesome.
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  Speaker 2: Look talk about running back room and people know now
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  Speaker 2: you've been living under a rock. There's been real bold moves,
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  Speaker 2: big improvements made on this team this season. What's it
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  Speaker 2: like having Roland and how have you found them so
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  Speaker 2: far in terms of both on the field but also
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  Speaker 2: outside of that as well.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he's a you know, leader on and off the field.
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  Speaker 3: He's always giving us point as the younger guys, Like,
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  Speaker 3: he's been in the game a long time, so he
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  Speaker 3: knows a lot of the rights and a lot of
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  Speaker 3: the wrongs. So he'll share that knowledge and uh, you know,
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  Speaker 3: it helps, It's contagious, it helps a lot.
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  Speaker 2: And DK is a massive statement in terms of this
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  Speaker 2: offense and in terms of getting to that next level.
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  Speaker 2: And for people listening fives away in Ireland, we've seen
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  Speaker 2: how FASTI is, but have you found him the last
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  Speaker 2: couple of weeks on the on the field.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he's a freak of nature. We like to call
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  Speaker 3: the people like that aliens because you don't come across
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  Speaker 3: those a lot. And uh yeah, he's just yeah, he's
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  Speaker 3: what you see in real life. He's bigger and or
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  Speaker 3: on the media and he's a lot bigger in real life.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, I'm glad he's on our side.
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  Speaker 2: You've had a metal players so far with your time
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  Speaker 2: with the organization. What was your like if you had
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  Speaker 2: the name a favorite one, what would it be so far?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I guess really anything Uh inside the tackles,
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  Speaker 3: I like to you know, the screens too.
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  Speaker 2: You didn't get a result you wanted that game, but
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  Speaker 2: the play you had against Cleveland in the snow where
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  Speaker 2: you you know, really pushed it in to get a touchdown,
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  Speaker 2: it was definitely up. There wasn't like playing in the
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  Speaker 2: snow good.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, It's just it enhances like obviously ball security.
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  Speaker 2: That must be really hard when it's snowing like that
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  Speaker 2: must be very real.
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  Speaker 3: There's there's there's like gloves to kind of help with
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  Speaker 3: the condition weather conditions. But yeah, it's it's just you
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  Speaker 3: gotta be more cautious of what can go wrong.
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  Speaker 2: We were outside there and eye before we met, and
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  Speaker 2: I had the chance from a distance to see coach
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  Speaker 2: Tomlin do an interview with my friend Neil Reynolds and
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  Speaker 2: the or that man gives off. It's just he seems
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  Speaker 2: like such a great guy. What's it like working with
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  Speaker 2: coach Tomlin but also coach Faulkner as well in terms
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  Speaker 2: of the running backs.
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  Speaker 3: You with both those guys, you learned something new every day.
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  Speaker 3: Uh Uh, it's a it's a privilege to be coached
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  Speaker 3: by those two dudes and I'm very grateful that I
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  Speaker 3: fell into a place where I'm able to get.
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  Speaker 6: Coached by both of them.
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  Speaker 2: What's not like in terms of motivation coming into the
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  Speaker 2: league and drafted, you know, did you feel did you
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  Speaker 2: feel like I need to prove myself or did you
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  Speaker 2: feel like month these guys have made a big mistake.
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  Speaker 6: I'm going to show the league put them in notic.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean.
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  Speaker 3: My mindset is it was always just like because you know,
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  Speaker 3: it ain't nothing new under the sun. Kind of that's
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  Speaker 3: kind of how like my life went out of high school.
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  Speaker 3: I wasn't really a high recruit or whatever. I was
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  Speaker 3: called the system back because we ran I don't know,
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  Speaker 3: if you know, it is like a triplesh I was
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  Speaker 3: a full back. Yeah yeah, and I you know, just
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  Speaker 3: hit it downhill whatever. But yeah, I like, you know,
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  Speaker 3: beating the odds or I liked my backs against the
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  Speaker 3: wall because I feel like I dived in that in
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  Speaker 3: those situations. So yeah, kind of just you know, that's
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  Speaker 3: just how I like to live my life. Anyway. I
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  Speaker 3: love when people doubt me, because yeah, no, just doubt
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  Speaker 3: do it for my loved ones.
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  Speaker 2: There's so many examples in the NFL, as well, the
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  Speaker 2: guys come in and just make a big difference, like yourself.
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  Speaker 2: I asked that Alexis, so I'll ask you as well.
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  Speaker 2: The funniest person in the locker room is.
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  Speaker 3: The funniest person. Uh, I would say Darnell, Darnell or.
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  Speaker 6: He gave a different answer, So I'll definitely take that answer.
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  Speaker 3: I don't kick it around. I don't know. I don't
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  Speaker 3: know too much about Sleigh, but I heard that one.
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  Speaker 2: We'll get to know even more this season. Just finally
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  Speaker 2: for fans, for you as a player, what will it
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  Speaker 2: take this team to make the next step in the postseason,
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  Speaker 2: you know, to get that playoff with him?
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  Speaker 6: Push on? Do you think I.
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  Speaker 3: Think we just you know, when things get hard, we come,
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  Speaker 3: you come together. You know, you get closer. Uh, don't
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  Speaker 3: turn on each other because we've got some ballers on
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  Speaker 3: our team. As long as we keep the unity.
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  Speaker 2: Will be shirt under. Seven weeks to the game in Dublin.
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  Speaker 2: Historic first game and nobody can take that away from you.
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  Speaker 2: You're always gonna have that on your TV, hopefully touched
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  Speaker 2: with he played in that first game. For all of
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  Speaker 2: us guys and girls in Ireland, it means the absolute
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  Speaker 2: world see if travels out there, but more and more importantly,
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  Speaker 2: from everybody listening to this say the very our best
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  Speaker 2: look this season. We can't wait to see what's gonna
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  Speaker 2: happen to feel more than thank you, very very much,
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  Speaker 2: thank you for having me.
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  Speaker 1: partner of Steelers Ireland twenty twenty five. Airlingus's growth in
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  Speaker 1: North America continues in twenty twenty five as the airline
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  Speaker 1: prepares to fly to two new US destinations, Nashville and Indianapolis,
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  Speaker 1: using its new Airbus eight three twenty one xl or aircraft.
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  Speaker 1: This brings the number of transatlantic routes operated by the
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