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A BIG win in Cincy! · The Irish Steelers Podcast

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Speaker 1: Hey folks, Welcome in to another week with the Iris
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Speaker 1: Series podcast, coming into week fourteen of the NFL season,
0:13
Speaker 1: just coming off week thirteen. At the time of recording,
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Speaker 1: we're still in week thirteen, but great to hear everyone
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Speaker 1: again and hope everyone's doing well this week. Michael mccuay
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Speaker 1: delighted to be joined by Jimmy English and Davog McKee
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Speaker 1: i as we reflect on a returned the winning wes
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Speaker 1: for the Pittsburgh Steers on the Early Window on Sunday Nights,
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Speaker 1: winning forty four to thirty eight. Yes that's the correct
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Speaker 1: score line against the Cincinnati Bengals in Cincinnati. Jimmy, just
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Speaker 1: first off before we chat about this game, how are
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Speaker 1: you doing? It's hard to believe we're now sitting on
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Speaker 1: the cusp of this regular season and the month.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and good Nick, Glad to see you boys again.
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Speaker 2: Glad to have Davo back after last week. We missed you.
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Speaker 2: We missed your catchphrase at the end, Mitcaptain Filanthia. So
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Speaker 2: always good to be in Steeters Football with you boys,
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Speaker 2: especially coming off the back of a win one an
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Speaker 2: absolute shootout yesterday evening. It was incredible to watch. Great
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Speaker 2: to say, you know, we will dig into it eventually.
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Speaker 2: Great to see Russell Wilson taking command of that offense
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Speaker 2: and the offense finally beginning to realize his potential. But
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Speaker 2: like you say, it is hard to believe that we
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Speaker 2: are now in December. The festest season is upon us.
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Speaker 2: December football is when it counts. We're getting down to
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Speaker 2: brass tacks and all of the various expressions he could have. So, look,
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Speaker 2: we're in a good position. We have a two game
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Speaker 2: lead over the Ravens in the AFC North. We're in
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Speaker 2: prime position to make a deep playoff run. I think, look,
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Speaker 2: there's always things to be improved on, and we will
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Speaker 2: get into that. But no, as a Steeters fan, I
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Speaker 2: have to say I'm pretty optimistic now about the way
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Speaker 2: our season is going and how far we can go.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think spot on Dvog was definitely this
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Speaker 1: last week. And Davil is funny because I think Jimmy
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Speaker 1: will have experienced the same thing, and a lot of
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Speaker 1: people listen to this podcast will have experienced that cold
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Speaker 1: snap last week, ironically, the same week that that snow
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Speaker 1: game happened in Cleveland. Will not reflect on that. But
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Speaker 1: it is good to see you back again Donald looking
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Speaker 1: very warm on very cozy there.
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Speaker 3: Yeah that do you know?
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Speaker 4: Apologize Lass for taking last week off. I just wasn't
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Speaker 4: feeling I felt under the weather. I think it might
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Speaker 4: have been just watching that snow game just popped me
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Speaker 4: off completely. But I probably chose the best week to
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Speaker 4: take it off because I was feeling because if there's
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Speaker 4: one team I hate losing to, it's the Cleveland Browns
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Speaker 4: and we get the next week a bit of paybacks
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Speaker 4: out to them. So last week our last night though,
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Speaker 4: was an incredible match to watch. Jimmy just alluded to
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Speaker 4: there as a massive shootout against a team that we
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Speaker 4: know the offensive pro est they you know they have,
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Speaker 4: and to come out to score forty four points even
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Speaker 4: written the group shot as well. Am I dreaming when
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Speaker 4: was the last time we scored? I think it was
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Speaker 4: twenty eighteen. I think I'm not mistake with big then,
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Speaker 4: So I think that just goes to show you, you know,
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Speaker 4: it was really It's like something I've never watched before.
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Speaker 4: But to see that there happen at this time of
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Speaker 4: the year, when there was so much question walking around
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Speaker 4: our offense couldn't have came at a batter time. So
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Speaker 4: I'm really looking forward to sort of breaking it down
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Speaker 4: you guys.
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Speaker 1: It was.
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Speaker 2: It was Week ten against the Carolina Panthers. Week ten
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Speaker 2: of twenty eighteen was the last time we scored.
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Speaker 5: We scored.
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Speaker 2: We scored fifty two points against Carolina, So that was
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Speaker 2: It's been a long time coming offensive wise.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, massive, massive score line on Sunday in that game,
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Speaker 1: and I think we would have took a three to
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Speaker 1: zero win and get a win again either there, just
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Speaker 1: to go on the road Jimmy and Cincinnati, especially when
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Speaker 1: we know the struggles that the Bengals have had this season.
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Speaker 1: We talked about it in the previous podcast, especially they
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Speaker 1: really struggled on the run game throughout the season. But
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Speaker 1: this was a real do or die game for this
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Speaker 1: Bengals team, and a team that came in four and
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Speaker 1: seven looking to move to five and seven have have
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Speaker 1: sort of dropped the four and eight there. For me,
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Speaker 1: it was that it was the performance from this team overall,
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Speaker 1: especially when Russell Wilson had that pick at the start
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Speaker 1: of the game. I think a lot of quarterbacks in
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Speaker 1: the league would have tucked that sat down and had
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Speaker 1: that play on their mind for a lot of it.
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Speaker 1: But Jimmy for the Steelers offense to sort of turn
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Speaker 1: around and just do something that is the hallmark of
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Speaker 1: a team that's going to be in the next going forward.
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Speaker 1: Stay in the game if the Bengals strike back, stay
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Speaker 1: in the game. A lot of teams, especially over the
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Speaker 1: last couple of years, not this season, didn't allow that
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Speaker 1: when they were playing the Bengals, And for me, it
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Speaker 1: was just it was fantastic to see him, and I
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Speaker 1: mean especially when there was a couple of hybrid options
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Speaker 1: as well a quarterback at time.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I think the most important thing Mick
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Speaker 2: was that he didn't panic.
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Speaker 3: I mean, he's an experienced quarterback. He's been in this
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Speaker 3: situation before. I'm not gonna lie. I had my head
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Speaker 3: and my hands after that pick six by camera and
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Speaker 3: britt A contentious play. Some might argue was Pickings interfere
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Speaker 3: with you know, Steeters.
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Speaker 2: Fans could argue that he was I was pass interference there,
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Speaker 2: But look the rest at them play.
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Speaker 3: Like I said, Russell Wilson has just.
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Speaker 2: Really come into his own to the point where I
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Speaker 2: am and we said some previous podcasts, I'll put my
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Speaker 2: hand up and said I was wrong about the entire
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Speaker 2: Russell Wilson situation. I think a lot of us were wrong,
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Speaker 2: a lot of doubters about Wilson's ability to still play
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Speaker 2: at a high level.
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Speaker 3: But I think he's.
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Speaker 5: Hit over here.
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Speaker 2: I think it's close to five hundred yards of passing yesterday,
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Speaker 2: three touchdowns, and you look, he really has come into
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Speaker 2: his own as the leader of the offense, the leader
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Speaker 2: of this team. And then he mentioned that the dynamic
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Speaker 2: options a quarterback. Great to see Justin Field's coming in
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Speaker 2: and taking us to victory, pointing towards the next game
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Speaker 2: at the ends. But overall, a very very very very
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Speaker 2: positive performance, a very very encouraging performance and puts us
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Speaker 2: in a great position now not only in the ASC
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Speaker 2: North but also in the ASC overall.
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Speaker 1: We're just talking about the Ravens Inis second doalogue, but
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Speaker 1: just sort of pulling them what Jimmy said there. I look,
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Speaker 1: I was optimistic when when when Russell came in, but
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Speaker 1: certainly I didn't expect him to take to a duck
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Speaker 1: to water like this. It's it's been fresh to watch.
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Speaker 1: But when we brought in Justin at the end yesterday,
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Speaker 1: Tomlin masterclass. I don't want to say it because sometimes
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Speaker 1: it takes af Cahones, It takes o goods to actually
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Speaker 1: do that at that point in the game, and we
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Speaker 1: could have easily give the ball back to Cincinnati. And
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Speaker 1: on that coach Tomlin now extending his season, his his
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Speaker 1: winning season record, which is just amazing to see. And
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Speaker 1: hopefully we can go further and further this year.
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Speaker 4: Do you want mecha? He mentioned it in the press
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Speaker 4: conference a couple of weeks ago. It's why he's well compensated.
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Speaker 4: I mean, he has, we said narly as the stones
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Speaker 4: to make these decisions that most coaches just don't have,
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Speaker 4: like I mean, no matter what happens, and he you know,
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Speaker 4: in the media, they give him a lot of flak
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Speaker 4: for it. I mean when justin Faus, you know, when
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Speaker 4: he was bounced for us, you know a lot of
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Speaker 4: people including you know ourselves as well, we were thinking
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Speaker 4: is this the best decision for us going forward? He
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Speaker 4: had the stone to make that decision, and he went
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Speaker 4: on ahead and did it. And he's proven everybody wrong.
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Speaker 4: And just on Russ as well. You know, the most
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Speaker 4: I find that the most underrated characteristics someone can have,
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Speaker 4: his resilience and Jimmy just pointed out there as well,
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Speaker 4: the ability to bounce back when things aren't going your way. Russ,
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Speaker 4: shoot it again. I mean that was although of course
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Speaker 4: I'm gonna put my hands up and say, look, I
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Speaker 4: think George Beckany was you know, it was clear the
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Speaker 4: defensive pass interference, but to through that pick six, but
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Speaker 4: the Bengals up in a game where it's going to
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Speaker 4: be scored for score, it was always going to be
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Speaker 4: a high scoring game. And for him to be able
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Speaker 4: to bounce back and you know, to have that just
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Speaker 4: it just proves the resilience that he has. I mean
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Speaker 4: we mentioned it as well, and me and Jimmy were
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Speaker 4: at the Jets game. The first half was not a
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Speaker 4: good half and people were called for just feels to
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Speaker 4: be put in and luck with how he bounced back
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Speaker 4: in the second half. So he's got that resilience in
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Speaker 4: him and just how he was able to do that.
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Speaker 4: Shoot the leadership we get with Russ, and you know
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Speaker 4: that possitive play as well. I think that the touchdown
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Speaker 4: passed to Farmouth looked like prime Russell Wilson and is
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Speaker 4: absolutely prime in Seattle. Under severe pressure from the past,
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Speaker 4: extend the player with faking through an opposute down for
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Speaker 4: the touchdowns, So talk about rolling back the years and
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Speaker 4: I couldn't be more happier or where this team is
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Speaker 4: out of the moment. I don't think any of us
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Speaker 4: a couple of weeks ago would have imagined us ourselves
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Speaker 4: putting up forty four points. Although the Bengals defense, let's
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Speaker 4: be honest, not a lot to work with our I
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Speaker 4: do feel so sorry for Joe Burrow. I mean, he's
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Speaker 4: a quality talent, but I can only really look at
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Speaker 4: our offense and think, where are we out this stage?
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Speaker 4: You know, players at Calvin Austin's coming into the zone
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Speaker 4: pop firm if we've already mentioned and we can get
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Speaker 4: Mike Williams involved more in this pastume, I just sit
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Speaker 4: don't see any way of us.
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Speaker 3: I'm really really happy with how I thank you George Penny. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: just a to Jack make sorry.
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Speaker 2: I mean I think we should also kind of have
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Speaker 2: a little bit of balance to this. It wasn't an
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Speaker 2: entirely flawless performance, so let's not get overly carried away.
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Speaker 2: I mean our defense had splash plays, orright, we had
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Speaker 2: We did have the two strips, the two stripsacks, Peyton
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Speaker 2: Wilson's scoop and sort at the end to kind of
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Speaker 2: almost barry the Bengals was fantastic. We did give up
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Speaker 2: thirty eight points like that can continue to happen. I mean,
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Speaker 2: especially with the more dangerous opponents we are going to
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Speaker 2: fetch then this face down the stretch. We should have
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Speaker 2: the Eagles, we still have Patrick Mahones.
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Speaker 1: I really valuate and just sort of adding the Bengals,
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Speaker 1: Like I really value what Joe World brings to the table,
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Speaker 1: especially when he's got more of a limited cast this year.
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Speaker 1: So when I see that they score thirty or thirty
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Speaker 1: eight points, it doesn't surprise me, even like I know
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Speaker 1: how good that the Steelers defense is. And we've seen
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Speaker 1: Donte Jackson with that pick yesterday. We've seen with a
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Speaker 1: Cam Hebward of two sacks teach or Cam Heyward of
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Speaker 1: one sack. TJ had two, and at times this defense
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Speaker 1: has popped up, making players with the matters. I think
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Speaker 1: already if we look down the stretch and see a
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Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes, that Kansas City team bring it on. They're
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Speaker 1: not scoring points. They're not scoring they're not scoring, and
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Speaker 1: they're not playing on the way that they've had to.
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Speaker 1: And they have to come into the to the to
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Speaker 1: the dan shall we call it on on Christmas Day itself?
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Speaker 1: So I have to say for George Pickens, I did
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Speaker 1: enjoy that GM when he punted it into next week. Allow,
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Speaker 1: it's great to see a lot that we met in Flus,
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Speaker 1: Calvin Austin continuing to get big players. It's pretty cool,
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Speaker 1: Like I think, just generally as a guy that we've
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Speaker 1: met over here, it's pretty awesome and props to him.
10:14
Speaker 1: I guess before we talk with this Rivens defeat yesterday,
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Speaker 1: as were to look ahead to next week, let's firstly
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Speaker 1: hear from coach Tomlin, who did ensure yesterday that he
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Speaker 1: will have a non losing season agame, which is really cool.
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Speaker 5: That's here from Coat.
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Speaker 6: It's good to go on the road and get in
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Speaker 6: the AFC North victory. No, it wasn't it easy one obviously, man,
10:33
Speaker 6: particularly if you spot a group like that seven. They
10:36
Speaker 6: had big time urgency man for a lot of reasons.
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Speaker 6: And so to come in here in their place, against
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Speaker 6: the type of quality team that they have and in
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Speaker 6: this environment and smile in the face of it and
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Speaker 6: get out of here with the necessary win, man, it
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Speaker 6: just can't say enough about the efforts of the guys
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Speaker 6: in their locker room, the splash play making continually over
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Speaker 6: the course of sixty minutes. We knew it would be required.
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Speaker 6: We even talked about the fourth quarter component. You know,
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Speaker 6: this team's all. This team we played today always come
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Speaker 6: storming back in the fourth. They did it against LAC
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Speaker 6: just from the front side of their by and so
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Speaker 6: we don't take the end of the game for granted. Man,
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Speaker 6: we're thankful for the victory. Obviously we got some things
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Speaker 6: to clean up, but that's that's life in this business.
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Speaker 6: It's good to do it with a w. Calvin Austin
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Speaker 6: is being evaluated for concussion. Other than that, it just
11:28
Speaker 6: appears to be bumps and bruises associated with play.
11:31
Speaker 5: Great to hear from coach.
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Speaker 1: Sam on the Irish Toitis podcast. Anybody want to give
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Speaker 1: their performer of the day before we hear from a
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Speaker 1: couple of players. I'm putting everybody in the spot here.
11:38
Speaker 1: I like every time you guys say a farm with
11:40
Speaker 1: I want to shout move or scream move, But I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna keep myself for the least week sixteen, week seventeen.
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Speaker 1: Any players stound out louds that maybe we haven't talked
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Speaker 1: about it I know he's mentioned Russell Wilson there.
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Speaker 2: I'm actually gonna go with a bit of a wild
11:53
Speaker 2: card here, and it's a player to be picked up
11:55
Speaker 2: in the off season that I had questions about giving
11:57
Speaker 2: his given his age and you know, possibly conversations Raul
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Speaker 2: was he passed and he is a former very very
12:05
Speaker 2: extrossive player and we saw a little bit of that
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Speaker 2: yesterday on one of the carries he had in relief
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Speaker 2: of Maggie Harrison. That is Coral Patterson very very impressed
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Speaker 2: with his contributions yesterday. He came in and Nudge obviously
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Speaker 2: had some issues on a handoff and saw him stumble
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Speaker 2: a little bit, had to go to the sideline, and
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Speaker 2: I thought Coral Patterson spelled him very nicely. So great
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Speaker 2: to see him making an impact, a positive impact on
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Speaker 2: the team, I suppose at this stage of his career.
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Speaker 3: So you know, he definitely stood out to me.
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Speaker 2: And then Peyton Wilson like just won an absolute to
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Speaker 2: be a rookie, you know, being drafted in the third
12:41
Speaker 2: round at the NC State I think it was. And
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Speaker 2: now he's a regular contributor on defense. He's an integral
12:46
Speaker 2: part of that defensive unit. He's had a couple of
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Speaker 2: big plays. Recently, he had a fourth bumble or I
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Speaker 2: think it was an interception against Baltimore a couple of
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Speaker 2: weeks ago, and now he had the scoop and score
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Speaker 2: for a touchdown that was reminiscent of TJ. Wadd almost
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Speaker 2: And so I know, I've been very impressed with him
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Speaker 2: so far. This seasonde have.
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Speaker 1: Obviously when Jimmy mentioned players that Cordel Patterson, is there
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Speaker 1: anybody else a dull stand out to you? Do you
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Speaker 1: like the way Justin came in had done that on
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Speaker 1: that third down play? Or was there anybody else that's that?
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Speaker 1: I feel just the overall.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I know you imagine it, but Justin fails. I mean,
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Speaker 4: I think I read a tweet earlier. I think the
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Speaker 4: whole world a part in the Cincinnati Bengals team knew
13:23
Speaker 4: Justin Fieler was going to keep the ball, but he
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Speaker 4: still had to do it. I mean, you know, especially
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Speaker 4: after loss or against the Ravens where he slid too early,
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Speaker 4: he was like, I'm getting this first down in amyationate
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Speaker 4: for the for the team. So he definitely deserves a
13:36
Speaker 4: shout out. And of course, Russell Wilson, we've mentioned Russell Wilson.
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Speaker 4: I think we've we've pretty much blown as trumpet all
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Speaker 4: all so far, and but defensively, I mean it's no surprise.
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Speaker 4: I'm gonna bring up here mc nick Herberg again. Massive play.
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Speaker 4: I mean, how quick is he just getting off that
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Speaker 4: line of scrimmage. I mean before you know it, you know,
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Speaker 4: he's hands on Joe Burrows forces the fumble, and as
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Speaker 4: Jimmy's just said, Peyton Wilson was able to scoop it
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Speaker 4: up and score. So our defense just has an unlimited
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Speaker 4: amount of talent where no matter who steps out, we
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Speaker 4: have another player that's ready to come back in TJ. Watt,
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Speaker 4: who's had a quat couple of weeks of course for
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Speaker 4: his standards, two sacks, a strip, fumble, fist, forced fumble
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Speaker 4: of the year just incredible again, So of course.
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Speaker 3: We did give up.
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Speaker 4: You know what was the thirty eight points. I still
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Speaker 4: feel the defense still show. I think we've just still
14:22
Speaker 4: been a kneel down these fanalies and Joey Porter Junior,
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Speaker 4: I mean five panalties was it just not good enough
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Speaker 4: of this level. So he has that to work on,
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Speaker 4: but there is still room to improvement. But of of
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Speaker 4: course on the offensive side of the ball, as Jimmy's
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Speaker 4: probably said Cordell Polson, particularly earlier on when Nage had
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Speaker 4: to come out. I think he had too much Thanksgiving
14:40
Speaker 4: Thanksgiving dinner. I think he wented and he came in
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Speaker 4: and he stepped in and he was able to keep
14:45
Speaker 4: pick up a few key first downs. So really I
14:47
Speaker 4: could have a whole list here and written out with
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Speaker 4: every player that stapped up, because they all did. But yeah,
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Speaker 4: for me, the three guys would have to be Russell Wilson,
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Speaker 4: Nick Herbig and and probably you know TJ. Watt for
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Speaker 4: me stood out particularly.
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: TJ leads the league with five force foombolls. Nick Herbig
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Speaker 1: is second before he was the highest read the player
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Speaker 1: for PFF on Sunday with the Steters. So it says
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Speaker 1: a lot of Bengo. That's here from a couple of
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Speaker 1: guys on the roster. Before we do look ahead to this,
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Speaker 1: Revens give him und up a week's podcast. We hear
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Speaker 1: from Russell Wilson on TJ walk on the Irish Steeters.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, I thought we had a great day and it
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Speaker 7: all starts off as the line. I thought they did
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Speaker 7: a tremendous job. You know, multiple looks up front and
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Speaker 7: all the things they do in the multiplicity of their defense.
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Speaker 7: I thought, you know, the O line handled it in
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Speaker 7: a great way. I got to a lot of checks,
15:35
Speaker 7: a lot of audibles, a lot of moments in time
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Speaker 7: and in the run game, in the pass game, getting
15:39
Speaker 7: the stuff that you know was favorable looks and everything else.
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Speaker 7: And I just think guys did a great job making plays.
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Speaker 7: I mean, I thought, I thought George made a great
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Speaker 7: catch down the sideline. I thought Pat's plays on his
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Speaker 7: scrambles and also to just how he was clear, painting
15:53
Speaker 7: clear pictures. I always say, you know, the best receivers
15:55
Speaker 7: are always playing a clear pictures. Those guys were painting
15:57
Speaker 7: great pictures today.
15:59
Speaker 5: You know.
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Speaker 7: I thought the guys made it a lot of plays.
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Speaker 7: I thought Nags ran the ball extremely well. That was
16:03
Speaker 7: huge for us in our run game. And he just
16:06
Speaker 7: had a great day man. And I thought just everybody
16:09
Speaker 7: was a great team effort. And then when you see
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Speaker 7: the defense just respond make plays for us. After we
16:13
Speaker 7: have some great responses, they made a huge play, obviously.
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Speaker 7: I thought Herbert had a great game rushing off the edge.
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Speaker 5: TJ. Obviously he's best in the world. Cam Heyward. You know,
16:23
Speaker 5: our our our leaders, you know, really stepped up in
16:25
Speaker 5: a huge way today. I think that was really critical.
16:28
Speaker 7: Obviously, it was always cool cool to see my fellow
16:30
Speaker 7: in C State Guyton Peyton Wilson scored a touchdown to
16:33
Speaker 7: so just it was just fun, man. We just had
16:35
Speaker 7: a great time. We knew it was a matchup. We
16:36
Speaker 7: knew it was gonna be heavyweight fight. I kept telling
16:38
Speaker 7: the guys, it's gonna be a heavyweight fight, and we
16:40
Speaker 7: got to win it.
16:41
Speaker 5: Because of that. The offense responded knowing that he might
16:44
Speaker 5: turn into Yeah.
16:45
Speaker 7: I mean, I thought, I thought the big best thing
16:47
Speaker 7: we did today was respond in the midst of adversity,
16:49
Speaker 7: you know. You know, I thought that we did a
16:52
Speaker 7: great job of scoring touchdowns, making plays. We felt like
16:55
Speaker 7: there was more plays out there too that we could
16:57
Speaker 7: have had, you know, but you know, what it really
17:00
Speaker 7: is is a testament to our coaching staff, is a
17:02
Speaker 7: testament to our players, you know, and our our work
17:05
Speaker 7: ethic and the discipline.
17:06
Speaker 5: That we put into the to the week.
17:08
Speaker 7: And we knew that this was gonna be, like I said,
17:10
Speaker 7: a heavyweight fight, and we had to respond and and
17:13
Speaker 7: you know, keep swinging.
17:15
Speaker 3: The confidence you talked about the spawning in the basic diversity.
17:19
Speaker 5: Obviously, don't want to start with the pick six. What
17:21
Speaker 5: did you see on that play? What did you take
17:22
Speaker 5: the balance matter? Yeah, you know George's run, the slant,
17:25
Speaker 5: you know, they kind of pulled them down.
17:26
Speaker 7: To be honest with you, we tried to throw it
17:28
Speaker 7: on time and rhythm and you know, uh, you know,
17:31
Speaker 7: we thought that you know, we could have gotten you know,
17:32
Speaker 7: a penalty there, but they they did a good job.
17:35
Speaker 5: Of making that play and it's just football.
17:37
Speaker 7: It was one of those you know, Uh, as soon
17:39
Speaker 7: as I threw it, you know, George you know went
17:41
Speaker 7: to the ground and you know it's just on. But
17:43
Speaker 7: you know, more than anything else though, I just, like
17:46
Speaker 7: I was said earlier, I just think our response was great.
17:48
Speaker 4: You know.
17:49
Speaker 7: I thought that we did a really good job of
17:50
Speaker 7: staying confident and and not letting one play face us.
17:54
Speaker 7: You know, I always say to the guys, are seventy
17:56
Speaker 7: five plays and we want to have a collection of
17:58
Speaker 7: great moments, and I think that we did that today.
18:01
Speaker 5: What does it do for the offense type this type
18:02
Speaker 5: of performances.
18:03
Speaker 7: You guys are had done the stretch run, Yeah, I
18:06
Speaker 7: think that what it means is that we did a
18:07
Speaker 7: great job today. That's what it means, and it gives
18:10
Speaker 7: us a lot of momentum and everything else.
18:12
Speaker 5: But we've got to use it for good, you know.
18:14
Speaker 5: We got to be able to respond.
18:15
Speaker 7: We've got to be better next week obviously, you know,
18:17
Speaker 7: for us coming off the Cleveland game, and it was
18:20
Speaker 7: a tough matchup, you know, tough environment, all those things.
18:22
Speaker 7: We thought we should have won that game too, you know,
18:25
Speaker 7: and we didn't finish the way we needed it to
18:27
Speaker 7: in the last you know, three four minutes of that game.
18:30
Speaker 7: I thought that this time we did which is good.
18:33
Speaker 7: We learned something and I think that was really good
18:35
Speaker 7: for us. And I think the biggest thing is is that,
18:38
Speaker 7: you know, all these games are you know, every game matters,
18:41
Speaker 7: and the reality is is that all these games, you know,
18:43
Speaker 7: are going to feel like playoff games, you know, and
18:45
Speaker 7: it's getting us ready for where.
18:46
Speaker 5: We want to go and what we want to do.
18:47
Speaker 7: But I kept telling the guys throughout the game and
18:50
Speaker 7: a halftime and throughout the game, we haven't done nothing yet.
18:52
Speaker 5: We haven't done nothing yet. We got to finish. We
18:53
Speaker 5: got to finish.
18:54
Speaker 7: We gotta do it right and it's the same thing
18:56
Speaker 7: in respect of the season. You know, we just got
18:58
Speaker 7: to keep swinging and keep responding.
19:00
Speaker 8: Yeah. Huge obviously AFC North football, especially on the road.
19:04
Speaker 8: If you want the ball to come through Pittsburgh, you
19:05
Speaker 8: have to win on the road, especially in the North.
19:07
Speaker 8: And it feels great to get a win. We knew
19:09
Speaker 8: it was gonna be a shootout. Our offense did a
19:11
Speaker 8: great job of putting up points for us out a
19:13
Speaker 8: hell of a day and we were able to create
19:15
Speaker 8: splash h Dante again and obviously her her guys that
19:19
Speaker 8: are continuing to show up and that stuff that we
19:23
Speaker 8: preach again. Denzel Martin has been key point of takeaways
19:26
Speaker 8: and everybody wanting T shirts and all that stuff. So
19:29
Speaker 8: it's been a good culture so far.
19:31
Speaker 1: Know the offense can do.
19:33
Speaker 5: That in a game where you're gonna need them when
19:36
Speaker 5: you play.
19:38
Speaker 8: I mean, elite defensive spend a lot of time on
19:40
Speaker 8: the bench. I've said it ever since I've been here,
19:42
Speaker 8: and we've been spending a lot of time on the
19:44
Speaker 8: bench this year, and it's been great to see the
19:47
Speaker 8: offense continue to move the ball like they are.
19:50
Speaker 2: Strip sack of the momentum.
19:51
Speaker 5: You thought maybe a cage your team, just trying to
19:54
Speaker 5: make a play.
19:54
Speaker 8: Uh, just anytime we're on the ball, just trying to
19:57
Speaker 8: continue to ball search and try to make a create
20:00
Speaker 8: a turnover.
20:01
Speaker 2: Uh.
20:01
Speaker 8: Joe did a great job all all game of stepping
20:04
Speaker 8: up through that B gap and uh climbing the pocket.
20:07
Speaker 8: And that was just a way of retracing a game
20:09
Speaker 8: after football and creating a play.
20:12
Speaker 5: Lined up seven of them spots in this game. That's
20:14
Speaker 5: something you guys are saving for this week, is this opponent.
20:16
Speaker 5: Is that's something that you guys have been working on.
20:18
Speaker 8: The feature just something to we're continue to work on.
20:21
Speaker 8: I think I told you guys on Friday, like we're
20:23
Speaker 8: gonna continue to try to move around and find those
20:26
Speaker 8: one on one matchups, the matchups throughout the week and
20:29
Speaker 8: something we're dipping our toe in the water. And I'm
20:32
Speaker 8: sure the package will continue to grow, or not even
20:34
Speaker 8: a package, but moving around will continue to grow as
20:36
Speaker 8: the year goes on. This year, I mean, he's an
20:42
Speaker 8: old dude that's playing in some really good football, very stout.
20:45
Speaker 8: I know he wants to be out there every snap,
20:46
Speaker 8: but he's making every single snap that he's in their
20:48
Speaker 8: count A guy that's just a true leader, true Steeler,
20:52
Speaker 8: one helmet guy.
20:54
Speaker 5: He is.
20:55
Speaker 8: He he he preaches installing kick ass uh all week
20:58
Speaker 8: him and Dunbar and he goes out there each and
21:00
Speaker 8: every week and shows why he's one of the best
21:02
Speaker 8: in the world.
21:03
Speaker 5: You guys, I've talked about Joe rolling out to us
21:05
Speaker 5: right looking out the field. How much of that stripsack
21:08
Speaker 5: was the notes by design to try to get him
21:10
Speaker 5: in those situations then to get after him.
21:13
Speaker 8: Yeah, early on we weren't doing that, and he was
21:15
Speaker 8: able to climb and create those, uh those extended plays
21:19
Speaker 8: and they're very good at it, especially one coming across
21:22
Speaker 8: on some dig routes and stuff extensions, and uh, it
21:25
Speaker 8: just got to a point where, like when you get
21:27
Speaker 8: to the top of the rush, we need to come
21:28
Speaker 8: back down and able to make a play and get
21:31
Speaker 8: paid off.
21:33
Speaker 5: Great to hear from the guys.
21:34
Speaker 1: And just before we runed off this podcast, we do
21:37
Speaker 1: have to mention this because it's relevant to Jimmy. Like
21:40
Speaker 1: we obviously give a game against the Brons there on
21:42
Speaker 1: this week coming into just coming into this weekend, and
21:45
Speaker 1: we will talk about that on a different podcast. TV
21:48
Speaker 1: situation is TBC in terms of Sky Sports or game
21:52
Speaker 1: past as of time of recording. We will let people
21:54
Speaker 1: know on social media of course, Theeters Ireland on ACCE
21:57
Speaker 1: on Instagram for that. A real upper unity here, Jimmy
22:00
Speaker 1: and I feel like I said it every week, but
22:01
Speaker 1: it really is. When you've got a Staters team that
22:03
Speaker 1: are sitting nine and flight that know of the eight
22:07
Speaker 1: and five Ravens who have lost to the Eagles on
22:10
Speaker 1: Sunday or a bye week, that's absolutely huge. More So,
22:15
Speaker 1: you know, like, look, I'm not gonna I'm not gonna
22:19
Speaker 1: be too negative on the Ravens there. I'll give them
22:21
Speaker 1: their flowers. Then there's my joke of the week. But
22:25
Speaker 1: the Eagle bo excellence on the basically they were excellent.
22:29
Speaker 1: So I'm not going to get to you know, too
22:32
Speaker 1: positive or too you know, too excited here. Certainly there's
22:36
Speaker 1: an opportunity here, you know, if you expect the standard here,
22:39
Speaker 1: you go out, you beat Cleveland Sunday and you really
22:42
Speaker 1: develop that gap in the AFC or especially when we've
22:44
Speaker 1: got a number of difficult matchups coming up, including the
22:47
Speaker 1: game against Baltimore. That game against Baltimore on the Saturday
22:50
Speaker 1: night now seems huge. On December to twenty first, yeah.
22:55
Speaker 3: Absolutely make I think as well.
22:58
Speaker 2: What's going to happen is that I honestly think the
23:00
Speaker 2: last game against the Browns was it was a bit
23:02
Speaker 2: of a blip. We fell into the classic kind of
23:05
Speaker 2: trap game mindset, our mentality that you know, these guys
23:07
Speaker 2: are sitting with the with the record that they have
23:09
Speaker 2: the basement of the AOC North. I think given that
23:12
Speaker 2: the beating that we just delivered to the Bengals, I
23:16
Speaker 2: would be expecting a similar situation with the Browns. And
23:22
Speaker 2: look at like you said, it's it's a fantastic opportunity
23:25
Speaker 2: for us to now sees or.
23:27
Speaker 3: Or continue to put a choke called on the AOC North.
23:29
Speaker 2: I mean, like, if it's like any any given Sunday,
23:33
Speaker 2: the Browns, but we could go back in and have
23:35
Speaker 2: an absolute stinker and next Sunday, I don't.
23:38
Speaker 5: I don't think we will.
23:39
Speaker 3: I think it kind of we got that out of
23:41
Speaker 3: our system on the Thursday night game.
23:45
Speaker 2: I think now with our our three arguably our three
23:47
Speaker 2: toughest games of the season coming up in a row
23:50
Speaker 2: against the Eagles, Ravens and then the Chiefs and Christmas State,
23:53
Speaker 2: the one we've been looking for for to since the
23:55
Speaker 2: schedule was released I think the Steelers are finally now
24:00
Speaker 2: look there, it's getting down towards the postseason. We have
24:03
Speaker 2: found our groove offensively. I think on the back of
24:06
Speaker 2: that performance, defense kind of woke up a little bit
24:09
Speaker 2: with t J. Watt, as they've mentioned that, he kind
24:11
Speaker 2: of came out of his hibernation a little bit and
24:14
Speaker 2: made his presence styles even when he wasn't he wasn't
24:16
Speaker 2: making tackles or making sacks. So like, it's still still
24:21
Speaker 2: very much reflux, but though I am a lot more
24:23
Speaker 2: confident a better a better game against the Browns on
24:25
Speaker 2: the back of that performance against the Bengals.
24:29
Speaker 1: Penultimate regular season home game coming up this week against
24:32
Speaker 1: the Browns, so great to.
24:33
Speaker 5: Have a game at home.
24:34
Speaker 1: Just any takeaway from that Eagle from that Revens performance
24:38
Speaker 1: against the Eagles, they couldn't get it going, and I
24:40
Speaker 1: think it's going to be a real blueprint for coach
24:43
Speaker 1: Tomnell and his team to look out over the next week.
24:45
Speaker 1: It's because Dereck Henry looked like a little child on Sunday.
24:49
Speaker 1: I'm joking Ravens fans, but he was definitely stifled.
24:53
Speaker 4: Yeah, that that head up that was a Beckybridge in incredible.
24:58
Speaker 4: He really did sip dark and down. But I think
25:01
Speaker 4: we have you mentioned about a blueprint. I think it
25:03
Speaker 4: was actually us that's a through blueprint. I think maybe
25:05
Speaker 4: next to Riannie was paying attention to us, but I was.
25:08
Speaker 4: I was cheering on that Eagles team or our friends
25:11
Speaker 4: over in western Pennsylvania. Although we have to come up
25:13
Speaker 4: against them in a couple of weeks. That has a
25:15
Speaker 4: massive favor because we've now reinstated that two game, a
25:18
Speaker 4: cushion that we have in the fcn RF. So just
25:21
Speaker 4: as you said, it's a massive opportunity. I mean, coming
25:24
Speaker 4: up against this Browns team who will be on a
25:26
Speaker 4: short week and they're playing the night against the Broncos,
25:28
Speaker 4: I believe difficult game, and I think it's an away
25:30
Speaker 4: game as well, so we owe them massively. I mean,
25:34
Speaker 4: you know, Jimmy's mentioned they're a better chop game. The
25:37
Speaker 4: fact that we had to play in a blizzard as
25:39
Speaker 4: well just did not help our case. I mean, whenever
25:41
Speaker 4: a blizzard happens, any team can win, doesn't matter how
25:44
Speaker 4: good you are, and I believe we owe them massively,
25:46
Speaker 4: So gonna go in confident. Of course, we'll get the
25:49
Speaker 4: previewed a bit later in the week. But yeah, just
25:52
Speaker 4: thanks for spotting me there. It's eastern Pennsylvania. Sorry, I'm
25:55
Speaker 4: not because it's geography or Jimmy Sorry and no, really
26:00
Speaker 4: really and looking forward to this someday. We owe them
26:02
Speaker 4: massively and I'm pretty confident probable we'll get the review
26:05
Speaker 4: our tie previewed at that earlier in the week.
26:08
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26:10
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26:13
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26:23
Speaker 5: Good.
26:24
Speaker 1: Good to chat to you boys again. Appreciate your time,
26:26
Speaker 1: lads and analysis and we'll all chat to you in
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