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Steelers season comes to an end in Buffalo · The Irish Steelers Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Head books. Welcome went to the Irish Sitters podcast, the
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  Speaker 1: podcast for Irish Pittsburgh Staters fans. Well the season is
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  Speaker 1: the season has come to an end after m unfortunately
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  Speaker 1: thought exit in the NFL Wildcard run, a super wold
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  Speaker 1: Card run. And you know what, before we get these
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  Speaker 1: guys into it, you know, Steelers meant to plans on
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  Speaker 1: the end of the plane of Monday. That felt like
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  Speaker 1: an extended aegin, which was nice apart from the result.
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  Speaker 1: Michael mcquid, Jimmy English, Dave McKee, Jimmy first off, before
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  Speaker 1: we talk with the game, weird having a Monday night game,
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  Speaker 1: wasn't it was weird? It was nice, like you know, not.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was nice being able to watch a Monday
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  Speaker 2: night game at a reasonable hour. Unlike yourself, I don't
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  Speaker 2: have the capacity to stay up until super o'clock in
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  Speaker 2: the morning watching football on a Monday night make But no,
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  Speaker 2: it was great. Like you said, it was a nice
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  Speaker 2: little extension of the weekend, and.
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  Speaker 3: It was.
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  Speaker 2: It was a welcome change be able to watch Steelers
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  Speaker 2: football on a Monday night as opposed to Sunday night.
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  Speaker 2: So it was it was a great way to start
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  Speaker 2: the week. Despite the result. But sure, look, we were
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  Speaker 2: playing we were playing bonus football at that stage. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: we had no expectations of making it to the playoffs,
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  Speaker 2: never mind winning a playoff game. And I think regardless
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  Speaker 2: of how well the team played in the past couple
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  Speaker 2: of weeks, going into Buffalo in those conditions and playing
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  Speaker 2: against Josh Allen the way he's been playing recently, look,
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  Speaker 2: it would have been a miracle if we had gotten
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  Speaker 2: any other results except what happened last night. So I
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  Speaker 2: think we should just take the positives, such as they are,
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  Speaker 2: from the season and start looking at the twenty twenty five.
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  Speaker 2: For the twenty four season.
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  Speaker 1: Here, it'll be funny one if I before you know,
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  Speaker 1: am it feels like this whole that this over year
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  Speaker 1: is flowing in, which is which is crazy because I
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  Speaker 1: remember we were like almost grasping the topics in a
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  Speaker 1: positive way whenever we were looking at the preseason and
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  Speaker 1: that that seems like five minutes ago, which is awesome.
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  Speaker 1: It's just flowing, and I always get that sad. I
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  Speaker 1: guess when we get to the end. I seen your
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  Speaker 1: your hype video, Jimmy. I was bouncing around on Monday
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  Speaker 1: watching it, and it was great. To see some many
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  Speaker 1: people with the here we go print outs. I had
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  Speaker 1: the whole guy the old printer printed out, didn't have
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  Speaker 1: any colored ink left, but sure done the same job.
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  Speaker 1: De is for people that can't see right now, the
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  Speaker 1: man you're wearing a Staters hat. You're still openly you know,
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  Speaker 1: patriotic and buzzing. Twenty four hours on. Are you disappointed
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  Speaker 1: or what's the current fault?
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  Speaker 4: Of course I'm disappointed, like maybe Warren Staters. It's more
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  Speaker 4: just the hide my bad herline. But now I'm joking.
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  Speaker 4: Of course. Look, we're disappointed, just as as Jimmy said,
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  Speaker 4: you know we're But at the same time we do
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  Speaker 4: have a lot of reasons to be proud. You know,
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  Speaker 4: to go into Buffalo, one of the hardest places in
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  Speaker 4: the NFL, you know, to win minus our best player,
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  Speaker 4: and I have it narrowed down to a one score
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  Speaker 4: game with what was at six seven minutes left the
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  Speaker 4: fourth quarter. It's really something to think about. At least
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  Speaker 4: we sort of shot ourselves in the foot earlier on,
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  Speaker 4: you know, with the fumbles, probably lucky to get away
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  Speaker 4: with a fararmouth one as well as you know, the
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  Speaker 4: interception in the end zone. I mean you come away.
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  Speaker 4: You have to come away with points on that drive,
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  Speaker 4: and to not do that, you know you can do
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  Speaker 4: that against Cincinnati and Baltimore's backups, You're always going to
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  Speaker 4: have another chance. Against the best teams in this league,
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  Speaker 4: you're just not going to get them chances. So before
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  Speaker 4: you know they're they're fourteen twenty one points ahead of
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  Speaker 4: you three scores, and it's just too long in the playoffs.
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  Speaker 4: So as well as that, you know a few questionable
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  Speaker 4: decisions you know by the referees on the night. Look,
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  Speaker 4: I'm not going to sit here and blame the referee
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  Speaker 4: and say it's the reason we lost. It's not. But
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  Speaker 4: you know, you know the maux jack hits on Josh Allen,
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  Speaker 4: it's not a dangerous one. I can understand why through
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  Speaker 4: the flag, but it's it's realistically, it's not dangerous. So
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  Speaker 4: it's just a bit of a kick in the teeth.
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  Speaker 4: That's not even the one I'm really angry about. The
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  Speaker 4: one more one is the head and Joey Porter Junior
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  Speaker 4: by one of the bells over Lineland. I just don't
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  Speaker 4: know how the referees don't see it. So again, I'm
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  Speaker 4: not going to sit here and use it as an excuse.
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  Speaker 4: But at the same time, when you're playing against the Bills,
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  Speaker 4: helping it doesn't help. You know, you need you need
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  Speaker 4: your look and we just didn't have it by the officials.
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  Speaker 4: So I'm not going to sit here and blame them,
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  Speaker 4: but you know, you need you know, you need your
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  Speaker 4: first share luck and the you know that. At the
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  Speaker 4: same time, you know, we'll just have to sort of
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  Speaker 4: knuckle down, as Jimmy said, at the same time, we
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  Speaker 4: have to realize we have to be honest as well.
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  Speaker 4: We're not at that level to go on one on
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  Speaker 4: one against the legs of Buffalo. Can't say in at
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  Speaker 4: the minute, we're just not. So as I said, we're
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  Speaker 4: going to take a good time to reflect in the
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  Speaker 4: off season. You know, we're gonna have to look at
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  Speaker 4: you know, personnel way if it's going to be changes there,
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  Speaker 4: who knows. But going forward, we're going to have a good, long,
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  Speaker 4: hard look at and thinking of ourselves and the I
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  Speaker 4: believe hopefully it comes top Tamber's time, we're ready to
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  Speaker 4: go again. So I haven't lost all fief. You know,
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  Speaker 4: people are sort of beating themselves up on Twitter all
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  Speaker 4: day and I'm knocking that Baggin. You know, we got
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  Speaker 4: our dust, ourselves down and and just take a look
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  Speaker 4: at long hard look in the mirror.
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  Speaker 2: It was hard. It was hard though day last night
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  Speaker 2: because they were they run it, they score a three touchdowns.
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  Speaker 2: We texting like god, but this, this is this, that's it.
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  Speaker 2: And then Deanta Johnson scored that touchdown and we're like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: hold on a second, hang on now, and I like,
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  Speaker 2: I started to believe again. And I think that's what
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  Speaker 2: makes it hurt even more, is that I actually I
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  Speaker 2: had faith, you know, towards the middle and the end
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  Speaker 2: of that game, and then looks possibly mistakes and I
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  Speaker 2: mean obviously key areas were depleted. It completely stripped down
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  Speaker 2: inside linebacker and that was so evident against the run
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  Speaker 2: and even in coverage and the tight ends last night,
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  Speaker 2: and as you know, safety as well, so thin as safety,
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  Speaker 2: and thank god we have mink I Fitzpatrick back. Otherwise
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  Speaker 2: it could have been a lot lot worse, I think,
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  Speaker 2: because if you're down TJ and Minka would have been
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  Speaker 2: a complete disaster. So yeah, look, it is, it is
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  Speaker 2: what it is.
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  Speaker 1: Just one of them Miles Jack moments. We've had the
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  Speaker 1: real positive I guess for a lot of people to
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  Speaker 1: be one of the biggest positive this year. The Staders
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  Speaker 1: have been on the sky Sports so many times, at
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  Speaker 1: least nine times this year. Out of you a teaen
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  Speaker 1: nineteen weeks and I'm not sure if you guys would
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  Speaker 1: watch it, but did you both see nhamlung Sus sort
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  Speaker 1: of comments on that. He thought it was a very
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  Speaker 1: soft sort of penalty to give away. He thought that
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  Speaker 1: there was a wrong decision made that he thought that
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  Speaker 1: the game should have been played on and going on that.
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  Speaker 1: Like for me, there was still at that point in
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  Speaker 1: the game, there was still the optimism up stop them,
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  Speaker 1: get the ball back up the fielding look, I was
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  Speaker 1: definitely in the coord of when they go to or
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  Speaker 1: three scores up your finger, it's gonna be very difficult here.
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  Speaker 1: But Jimmy, you said it yourself there as well. There
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  Speaker 1: was a moment where going hold on here, if they
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  Speaker 1: can get it back again, they've got a chance. Because
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  Speaker 1: Mason toys been a little bit, he definitely can connect
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  Speaker 1: a lot more in the second half and looked a
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  Speaker 1: lot more confident. I thought that was a very very
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  Speaker 1: soft flag personally, very soft.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think there was a couple of critical moments
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  Speaker 2: in that game last night, Mickfash, we're pivotal. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: in terms of negatives. That hit the flag of Miles Jack,
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  Speaker 2: that's such a high one. And I think they're gonna
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  Speaker 2: call lash. With the focus on quarterback safety and player
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  Speaker 2: safety in general, any sort of contact that seemed to
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  Speaker 2: be late or high or dangerous, they're good, they're gonna
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  Speaker 2: flag it. And I have to agree with Dave as well.
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  Speaker 2: They were a couple of questiona because and there was
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  Speaker 2: there was a hole the defensive hold and missed on
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  Speaker 2: the Anton Johnson towards the latter stages of the game
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  Speaker 2: where the defender had had his arm around his waist.
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  Speaker 2: I mean that should have been called by all by
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  Speaker 2: all means, you know. But well we also got away
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  Speaker 2: with a couple of we we've got it. We definitely
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  Speaker 2: got away with it with a Miles Jack could have
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  Speaker 2: been past interference that was only given as a defensive holding.
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  Speaker 2: Surely costs us five yards instead of fifteen. So I
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  Speaker 2: mean it's ebbs and flows like like Dave reference earlier
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  Speaker 2: on that fire mood from but he was not out
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  Speaker 2: of bounds, that ball was live. Let's be honest here.
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  Speaker 2: So we we got away with that one, so you know,
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  Speaker 2: it swings aroundabouts. But for me, then there was a
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  Speaker 2: couple of key things that that that game hinged on.
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  Speaker 2: I mean that the block of the punt. I mean
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  Speaker 2: that's something we see been do before this season, is
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  Speaker 2: something we've seen them score off. I mean that was massive,
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  Speaker 2: but I think we should capitalize more on that. And
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  Speaker 2: you just just look, it was just a game of
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  Speaker 2: big moments. It was a couple of massive miss tackles.
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  Speaker 2: I mean that run on that run where where where
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  Speaker 2: Josh Allen scored? I mean the fifty two yard touchdown
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  Speaker 2: run second long, second longest QB rushing touchdown in playoff history.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he can't have plays like that and expect
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  Speaker 2: to have a chance to win. You just you know
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  Speaker 2: if you if you let Josh Allen do that to you,
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  Speaker 2: you're going to have a long night.
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  Speaker 3: So a luck.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, like I said, we dared to believe when
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  Speaker 2: when they started coming back, it was just it was
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  Speaker 2: just too much for us overall.
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  Speaker 4: I think, And yet just I'll jump jump on the
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  Speaker 4: name as well. We also need a shout out Mason Rudolph.
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  Speaker 4: I mean he's played obvioustely out of his skin for
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  Speaker 4: the past couple of weeks. And albeit you know, I
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  Speaker 4: think there was a couple of injuries to the inside
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  Speaker 4: linebackers on the Bills. You know, I think Tony Romo
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  Speaker 4: and jim Nuts were very they're very favorable more more
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  Speaker 4: less saying like other target and I think I can't
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  Speaker 4: remember the player's name, but and he was. We were
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  Speaker 4: very good and actually exposing that and or defense. But
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  Speaker 4: as you say, like, it's just one of those things
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  Speaker 4: where Josh Allen can play for sixteen minutes straight and
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  Speaker 4: if you can't match it, then if you can't match
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  Speaker 4: the other team's quarterback, then it's it's gonna be difficult.
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  Speaker 4: And unfortunately, just we we came out in the wrong end.
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  Speaker 4: But it'd be interesting to see what happens with miss
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  Speaker 4: And you know, obviously with his contract up and stuff,
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  Speaker 4: and he wasn't getting drawn in that before the game.
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  Speaker 4: But you know, it's just one of those things where
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  Speaker 4: he's done absolutely everything he could have possibly done the
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  Speaker 4: end of the season and we just have to obviously
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  Speaker 4: say thanks, thanks very much for for doing that for us.
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  Speaker 4: You know, as we said a couple of weeksgo, Jimmy
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  Speaker 4: said it we barely even thought we'd be in this
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  Speaker 4: position and we are. And obviously we took our unlucky
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  Speaker 4: bounces with PJ being out and stuff. So it's one
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  Speaker 4: of those things where we'll we'll dust ourselve downs and
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  Speaker 4: we'll have to wait and see.
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  Speaker 1: Ez definitely missed obviously last night, and you're right, and
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  Speaker 1: you're edgment what you're saying. I mean Dave going on
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  Speaker 1: the whole conversation, but missing movie. Love for him to
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  Speaker 1: sort of come in and really to take take charge
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  Speaker 1: of this team offensively, where the last two weeks has
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  Speaker 1: been really cool to see. But Lucky didn't have a
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  Speaker 1: great first off, but he really turned the run the
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  Speaker 1: second off. And look, a lot of a lot of
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  Speaker 1: people did not give, especially locally, a lot of people
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  Speaker 1: didn't give the seats Johns against the Bills, and I
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  Speaker 1: think a few people were shut up last night, to
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  Speaker 1: be honest, because I think people expected them right and
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  Speaker 1: that did not happen at all. There was a point
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  Speaker 1: where the theaters were not that far off and I
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  Speaker 1: guess more more average sort of consistency there, and we'll
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  Speaker 1: sort of see that going forward and hopefully and wet
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  Speaker 1: to see that next step being taken in twenty twenty four.
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  Speaker 1: Let's look at the standard and consistency, and he from
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  Speaker 1: coach Mike Thumblin, and here exactly his faults on the game.
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  Speaker 5: You know, I compliment coach McDermott and the Buffalo Bills
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  Speaker 5: for victory and the Hartford game. You know, I appreciate
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  Speaker 5: the efforts of our guys in there. I just told
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  Speaker 5: them that. But efforts don't get it done. So let's
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  Speaker 5: talk tangibly about why we weren't successful. You know, we
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  Speaker 5: spotted them early in the football game via the turnovers.
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  Speaker 5: Can't come into an environment like this versus a playoff
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  Speaker 5: caliber team and and turn the ball over like that
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  Speaker 5: and expect to be competitive. Man, we spotted them. We
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  Speaker 5: fought back in it over the course of the game.
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  Speaker 5: We cut it to seven and was excited about that.
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  Speaker 5: Then we gave up a touchdown drive. When you get
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  Speaker 5: a major penalty within a drive on defense, that's usually
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  Speaker 5: going to produce points. And that was the case, and
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  Speaker 5: they put him back up by fourteen. And the rest
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  Speaker 5: is academic, and so I'm appreciative of the efforts, but
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  Speaker 5: it's not mystical. We didn't do what was required to win.
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  Speaker 3: The night.
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  Speaker 5: We didn't take care of the ball. We didn't get
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  Speaker 5: it get the ball from them enough in an environment
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  Speaker 5: like this, and thus the score. Had a couple of
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  Speaker 5: injuries Joey Porter, Alan Robinson or in the concussion protocol
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  Speaker 5: Pat Froyermuf had an ankle, had limited availability there towards
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  Speaker 5: the end of the game.
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  Speaker 3: Questions like that.
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  Speaker 6: Second turnover and Josh was fifty two yards on I scramble.
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  Speaker 3: I know that one was really hurtful.
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  Speaker 5: No question, But we talked about quarterback mobility and what
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  Speaker 5: he and they are capable of, and probably not the
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  Speaker 5: story of the game was the mobility, but the turnover component.
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  Speaker 3: You know, got to do better to get a consistent rally.
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  Speaker 5: As their efforts, they did a really good job of
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  Speaker 5: packing the line of scrimmage and you know, forcing us
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  Speaker 5: to throw the ball more vertically, probably a little bit
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  Speaker 5: more vertically than we wanted to. We adjusted, we started
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  Speaker 5: doing that and we started moving to football.
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  Speaker 3: So credit to them. What did they do any.
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  Speaker 6: Different with their trade ends or did put your ID
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  Speaker 6: plan does not work for you?
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  Speaker 5: You know, we've had our issues with tight end matchups
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  Speaker 5: over the second half of the year. We adjusted in game,
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  Speaker 5: but they made some plays definitively early on.
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  Speaker 3: How much did you feel the loss of that out
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  Speaker 3: of DJ.
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  Speaker 1: White out there?
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  Speaker 5: You know, I didn't think about it, to be quite
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  Speaker 5: honest with you. We knew all week he wasn't playing,
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  Speaker 5: and so we prepare with that mindset, and so I
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  Speaker 5: didn't waste any time thinking about what wasn't at our disposal.
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  Speaker 5: We had too much at our disposal and too many
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  Speaker 5: decisions and considerations to be made to waste time like that.
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  Speaker 3: How do you think from that interception?
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  Speaker 5: I thought he was solid. I thought he was competitive.
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  Speaker 5: I thought his confidence was unshakable. I thought he, you know,
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  Speaker 5: displayed the things that he displayed really for the last
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  Speaker 5: month or so.
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  Speaker 1: That was coach Mike Tomlin speaking after the Staters dropped
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  Speaker 1: out all the twenty twenty four NFL playoffs of we
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  Speaker 1: lost in the Super Waild card matchup at high Mark
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  Speaker 1: Stadium against the Buffalo Bills. We're gonna hear from two
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  Speaker 1: players before we look back, Renaissance on the year we'll
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  Speaker 1: here from missing Rudolph on comeron Haward on the Irishitis podcast.
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  Speaker 6: Anytime you're on the road and playing a good team,
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  Speaker 6: and that's as explosive as they are. You want to
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  Speaker 6: try to, you know, have a fast start, and we didn't.
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  Speaker 6: And uh, you know we knew being on the road
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  Speaker 6: you gotta come out and you know, keep it close early,
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  Speaker 6: and we didn't. But you know, it's probably the way
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  Speaker 6: we fought back there at the end and never never
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  Speaker 6: stopped believing and put you know, one stack. We try
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  Speaker 6: to stack one good play on top of another makes
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  Speaker 6: it inter.
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  Speaker 7: Central pile on throat out and you see that play
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  Speaker 7: play it was.
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  Speaker 6: It was a great play by the defender. Kind of
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  Speaker 6: a timing deal. I thought he covered tape well out
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  Speaker 6: of his break. I mean he he was in his
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  Speaker 6: low hip. He just the little average was a little off.
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  Speaker 6: I just got to put that ball much more outside
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  Speaker 6: us or nobody. But like I said, he made a
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  Speaker 6: great play to score at the end.
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  Speaker 3: Of the first out.
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  Speaker 6: You know, if they have stocked it, you know, don't
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  Speaker 6: started to make that point.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, things a parer the ebreak and they can absolutely
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  Speaker 3: you know.
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  Speaker 6: I was the score, like you said, at the end
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  Speaker 6: of the half was bad to keep us, keep us
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  Speaker 6: in it. And and then then the field goal and the
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  Speaker 6: touchdown and cut it to seven. So like I said,
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  Speaker 6: I was. I was proud of the way I mean
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  Speaker 6: everyone on in the in the and on the offense
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  Speaker 6: side of the ball, you know, defense that did did
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  Speaker 6: a good job too.
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  Speaker 3: But I know what our guys uh never stopped believing and.
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  Speaker 6: Stayed in it mentally and encouraged each other and tried
• 15:22
  Speaker 6: to you know, put some points on the board.
• 15:25
  Speaker 4: He left the show something over the last four weeks.
• 15:29
  Speaker 6: Something you shown something over the last four weeks show
• 15:33
  Speaker 6: NFL for Sorry, Yeah, I think, you know, when I
• 15:38
  Speaker 6: go back and look at the totality of the tape,
• 15:40
  Speaker 6: I'll get a better feel for it.
• 15:41
  Speaker 3: But I'm I.
• 15:43
  Speaker 6: Think I think right now, obviously the plan was to
• 15:48
  Speaker 6: come here and get away, and we fell short, fell
• 15:51
  Speaker 6: short to a great team. But uh, I think I
• 15:54
  Speaker 6: can say I you know, I was proud of what
• 15:57
  Speaker 6: we as an offense put on tape these last few
• 15:59
  Speaker 6: weeks and just the way we we'll we celebrated, the
• 16:03
  Speaker 6: way guys cheered for each other, whether the run game
• 16:06
  Speaker 6: was was working, whether the receivers were rolling. I mean,
• 16:09
  Speaker 6: it was just al it was just we had we
• 16:12
  Speaker 6: had chemistry, and we had belief and uh love for
• 16:16
  Speaker 6: one another.
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: You know, in my heart. I want to play, but
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: you know it's been rough.
• 16:31
  Speaker 7: You know, I need to take the off season to
• 16:34
  Speaker 7: get healthy again. You know, bad them back for through
• 16:39
  Speaker 7: a growing. You know, it's one thing that just walk
• 16:42
  Speaker 7: off a growing I mean to play football. And there's
• 16:48
  Speaker 7: been some other stuff, but you know, it's definitely been
• 16:52
  Speaker 7: a season that I just wanted to put my hand
• 16:55
  Speaker 7: in that pile.
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: That would have been all I longed to be in
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: this year, we had kind of hang I want to
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: have to just rape that. You know, what's your point
• 17:01
  Speaker 3: for your size? Okay, here we go.
• 17:04
  Speaker 7: Yeah, we got shows well, when we got it down
• 17:07
  Speaker 7: to seven points, I thought we were gonna, you know,
• 17:10
  Speaker 7: make a run. You know, it comes back to the defense.
• 17:15
  Speaker 7: You know, we got some turn we got some penalties.
• 17:18
  Speaker 7: Uh that kept the drive alive and we didn't get
• 17:20
  Speaker 7: off the field and miss tackling led to a touchdown,
• 17:23
  Speaker 7: and you know, we just thought we just need to
• 17:27
  Speaker 7: get our ball, the ball back to our offense one
• 17:30
  Speaker 7: more time with a seven point lead, and then we
• 17:32
  Speaker 7: can make things interesting. But man, I appreciate the fight
• 17:35
  Speaker 7: of the guys. Uh was it pretty Now it's been
• 17:39
  Speaker 7: ugly in this game, but uh, you know, you just
• 17:42
  Speaker 7: gotta find ways to get it done.
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: Great day from the guys, and you know it's emotional, Jimmy,
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: because that's it. That's that's the last game for for
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: a while. I'm not, you know, as much as we
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: all love the NFL, it's it's odd because you have
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: to almost you have to cherish each every down, each
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: every week because there is that big offseason. And I
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: guess if you're you know, I know, a lot of
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: us work in the league and do a different podcasts
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: and do different things, and sometimes it feels like there
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: is no offseason, but certainly on the field there is.
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: And it's gonna be a while before we see the
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: guys out in the field again. And in this segment,
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: we're gonna give our favorite memory of the season, and Jimmy,
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: I'm blatantly gonna go ahead of here. So I'm I mean,
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: if you want to, if you want to re enact
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: this and give me the same one as fine, but
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: I have to give the watch part of April Parker
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: shot it because it I think for a lot of people,
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: it shocked me just how much I enjoyed it. Not
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: that I wasn't going to enjoy it, but just it
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: was so fun and it was I guess Ireland's first
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: time to have an event like that. Was really really cool,
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: and you could see the Steelers went all out. I
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: know the result didn't go away on the day, and
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: I think a lot of us, going on what they
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: have said a few minutes ago, Jimmy like as as
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: they have said, we did not expect this team to
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: make such a playoff fun. After that result, I think
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: a lot of us were sort of panicing at that point.
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: And you know, even at that even with the loss,
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: it was still an enjoyable day, which says so much
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: about the way of the team and more so Santonio Allen,
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: everybody that came over. It was such a fun time.
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: And I know there was other things that weekend. They
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: were up and down and they were doing different camps
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: and I love that. But I'll say this and not
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: shut up, guys, I promised I'll give you the microphone here.
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: I love the fact that, you know, I think for
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: a lot of people were we're lucky that what we're
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: experiencing as fans now in this generation of this game,
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: because there was people there on that night that would
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: have dreamed of something against in the eighties, nineties, two thousands,
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: so it was really cool. Were really excited to see
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: what happens this year. We don't know what's going to happen,
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: but we know there's stuff in the you know, in
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: the plans, and it's going to be cool to see
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: what happens. Jimmy, if I Stow, you're far with that event,
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: I feel like I have.
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: Well, there's a reason you went first, because I think
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: that was everyone's high life in the season. Nick would
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: know that's fair enough, and I completely agree with you.
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: I mean, there's such you can even see, there's such
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: exciting times ahead, not only the Steelers organization as a whole,
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: like you mean, there are positives to say from this
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: season with different players and things, but just for Watson Store,
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: for Ireland over the next couple of years, not just
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: the Steelers, with NFL in general. I mean we're on
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: the ground, the three of us. We're seeing how much
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: the fandom is growing year on year, a month, a month,
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: and it's just it's it's absolutely exploding right now. So
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: it's great to be in the middle of that and
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: be experienced, be experiencing that. But I think my own
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: personal kind of favorite thing from the season if I
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: had to pick up, and let's be honest, there's not
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: a lot of massive positives from on the field, but
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: I would have to say the emergence of Jaalen Warren
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: is probably my favorite thing from this season. I mean
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: way back when whenever we started this podcast, I did
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: kind of tap him as a player to watch. This season,
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: he's definitely he's emerged as one of the best running
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: backs in the league. And it's no longer a case
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: of j Harris being running back one and Jalen being
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: running back too. They are They're interchangeable and Dale and
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: Jaillen is a change of paceback. He's so explosive every
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: time he takes he gets his hand in the ball.
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: He's dynamic in the passing game as well. So I
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: think he's going to take on an even bigger role
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: next year. And if it is the case, and I
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: don't see why it would be that the Steelers don't
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: exercise Nagie's fiftyear option, I think we we have a
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: true running back one in Jalen Morren. So watching him
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: emerge has definitely been my highlight of the season.
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: I love a Jimmy Dave Jimmy Cammin clutch with that
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: jail a ward one sures we've went how many minutes
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: wid said Nick her Big on this podcast.
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: I know I've lost character tracks about how many times
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: he was mentioned on the podcast this year. But just
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: on a personal note, obviously that the last part is
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: the number, you know, the number one. Just on a
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: personal note, because if you had told me this time
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: last year, I would be sitting in the Hugan Swite
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: and Crow pow Ark watching the Steelers on a Sunday afternoon,
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: getting to meet Super Bowl MVP Santonio Holmes, Alan Fanica,
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: Hall of Famer Holland Fanica. By the way, I would
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: have asked you, maybe what what was in your tea?
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: It's it's it's incredible just to think of that this
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: time last year. I would have never imagined it. So
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: that was probably on a personal note. And in terms
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: of like Claire, I wasn't expecting maybe player development obviously
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: with with Nick Herbig, you know, the moment he got
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: his first sack was great, of course, but in moments
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: ways I think back to that play against the Ravens.
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: I can't remember if it was third down or not,
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: but Kenny Peckett's and smart decision making throwing it along
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: to George Pekins and winning the game with with a
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: long long through the end zone for a touchdown. Thinking back,
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: that was probably my moment of the season as well,
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: I think you had the t J Watt against the
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: Browns and the first Monday Night football of the year,
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: you know, fumble recovery in the NS for a touchdown
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: to say the game. So there was a couple of
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: moments I got where I think of specific game time moments,
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: but I was just saying, like, development wise, you know,
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: it always comes down to TJ. Water At the same time,
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: I mean to be the first player in NFL history
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: to reach to lead the league in sacks three for
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: three years on consocrative seasons, it's an incredible achievement and
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: probably you know, in terms of player development, again, he's
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: our best player, so there's not much room to develop there.
• 23:23
  Speaker 4: But in terms of player development, that would be mine.
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: But but the moments I think back to, obviously it
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: would be that touchdown to George Pekins was probably his
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: breakout moment of the year as well. Remember we were
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: sort of saying, like, when's he going to get this
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: moment and that was probably the moment but helped it.
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: So that's probably my mom out of the year.
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: Look, it's it's been a great year and there's been
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: so many things that have happened, and it's just it's
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: flew in and it feels like we were sitting in
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: the week one five minutes. It was really really strange.
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: But I know, and I think Jimmy you sort of
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: said it there as well, like on the ground this
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: is only the start. And that's what's so cool about
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: this because like when you've done this in one season,
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: what do we expect not just next season, but in
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: the lead up to next season. There's so many things
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: to come. And I know, folks, if you want to,
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: you know, keep on board, keep on touch, do follow
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: Steelers Ireland on x on on Instagram. Also, I know
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: you boys will be sitting hoping the Baltimore and knocked
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: out this weekend they get the I'm joking, I'm I.
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: Don't know the Lions. I'm adopting the Lions is my
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: playoff team. Now I am on behind that at that franchise.
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: I mean, oh, you're a cly Yeah, Like I was
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: eleven months old when they last they got to like
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: the last one of the playoff game. That's the scene,
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: Like that's so long ago.
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: Like I'm one hundred percent firmly behind the Lions. Is
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: my underdog this year to wait to win the NFC
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: and get into the into the super Bowl. And you
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: heard it your first hashtag gang camp.
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: I'm hoping for some sort of like you know, redamn
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: sure that the Steelers are back in like next week, Yeah,
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: Bublo count play, Okay, right.
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: It doesn't work that way, I know, I know.
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: Look there's always next year, and I know at some
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: point we will be talking around the championship slashing Bullpaards.
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: I can believe it.
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: I can.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: If you see it, you can achieve it. That's what
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: I can see in my mind a lot. It's been
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: great crack over the last few weeks. I know we'll
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: have contact on let again very very soon. For everyone listening,
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: just go me Margot, thank you so much for listening
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: this season. We'll be back very soon. But for now,
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: this has been the our Singers podcast. Do we do?
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: We get it?
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: Here we go on Optimistic, Here we go ahead of yeah,
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: here we go, here, here
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: Here we go