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A huge win for the Steelers in LA! · The Irish Steelers Podcast

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Speaker 1: Folks, welcome into the Irish Theaters Podcast as we look
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Speaker 1: back on Week seven of the NFL season and starting
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Speaker 1: looking ahead as we're getting almost at the half web
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Speaker 1: point of the regular season for the Pittsburgh Steeters.
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Speaker 2: Mike, I'm a bit Jimmy English.
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Speaker 1: Dave McKee as this the Theaters starting off with you.
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Speaker 1: Jimmy moved to four and two in the season twenty
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Speaker 1: four to seventeen, winning Sofi Stadium or in the Orchestra Stadium.
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Speaker 1: You could argue last night, and you know, it was
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Speaker 1: great to see. We're recording this on the Monday night, Jimmy,
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Speaker 1: And we'll go into sort of death from the game
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Speaker 1: in a minute. But always good to get a win,
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Speaker 1: no matter how it comes here. Moving the four and two,
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Speaker 1: I think after week one a lot of us would
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Speaker 1: have bit your arm up for that, So I'll take
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Speaker 1: it and move on. How are you doing any good?
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Speaker 2: Yeah?
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Speaker 3: Absolutely, Mick. I went to bed, they were to sleep
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Speaker 3: at a slightly later time of ten past twelve last night,
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Speaker 3: a bit beyond my bedtime, but I have to stay
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Speaker 3: up to see the Staters win, and I'm glad that
1:00
Speaker 3: I did. And yeah, I mean it was a long,
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Speaker 3: long bi week. I don't know about you, boys, but
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Speaker 3: I missed Steelers weekend last weekend, and it was great
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Speaker 3: to get the boys back, great to get the victory
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Speaker 3: and what a what a turnout in Sofi Stadium in
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Speaker 3: La I mean, I'm fairly sure one stage they mentioned
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Speaker 3: that the Steelers fan out and actually outnumbered the Rams fans.
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Speaker 3: So that was great to see. So do you know
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Speaker 3: what for a change, I actually don't think I have
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Speaker 3: anything negative to say, So take take that and run
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Speaker 3: if you will.
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Speaker 1: I think we should like print the T shirt now
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Speaker 1: for the crack Stick with us watch party under four
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Speaker 1: weeks away. Now they have good to see as well.
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Speaker 1: I guess before we talk about the game, just achoing
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Speaker 1: what Jimmy said there. It was it was a kin
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Speaker 1: to the time that you see the Niners play the
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Speaker 1: Rams and Sofi and they call it Levi's South. It
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Speaker 1: was Pittsburgh West yesterday because it was just it was
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Speaker 1: fall of black and yeah, it's full of Steelers fans.
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Speaker 1: It was pretty cool to see, Like even whenever I
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Speaker 1: think the Rams missed a field go over, we're going
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Speaker 1: for like a point attempt at all you can see
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Speaker 1: was Steelers fans with the title. It was insane, man.
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Speaker 4: I know Phil Bott, Brad Mayer anytime he was kicking
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Speaker 4: and it was just flinging left, and I think it
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Speaker 4: was just a terrible title, just flinging that way, you know.
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Speaker 1: It was.
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Speaker 4: Actually it's it's one of those is not even not
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Speaker 4: crazy anymore because we just come to accustomed to it.
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Speaker 4: I mean, every away game is a home game, and
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Speaker 4: I was actually I was going to start by saying,
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Speaker 4: you know, every every road game win on the any NFL,
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Speaker 4: it's it's hard to come by. But we don't really
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Speaker 4: have our road game anymore.
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Speaker 2: You know.
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Speaker 4: It's just the Steelers nation that's just everywhere, and it's
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Speaker 4: it's unbelievable to say, and it's it's obviously a great
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Speaker 4: thing to be a part of. So perroud to be
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Speaker 4: a Steelers fan this morning, you know, the barly sleep
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Speaker 4: last night, just from the victory, and it was it
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Speaker 4: was just one of those things where you know, Jimmy
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Speaker 4: was saying about ten past twelve, I was up till
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Speaker 4: about temp past three. He's just reading all the reviews
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Speaker 4: and stuff and following you know, the box score and everything.
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Speaker 1: It was just great.
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Speaker 4: So hopefully we'll roll on another win, and you know
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Speaker 4: we've got three home games in a row, which is
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Speaker 4: which is great. So you know, hopefully we can get
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Speaker 4: three out of three or three out of three on
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Speaker 4: that one. So that's seeing what happens.
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Speaker 1: A big game this weekend in the battle of the
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Speaker 1: global markets for the Island of Ireland. We welcome back
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Speaker 1: to that in a minute. Jimmy obviously positive to get
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Speaker 1: a win. I guess first off, I guess we could
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Speaker 1: say it because it's actually correct. You know, generally first
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Speaker 1: three quarters of action weren't create for the Steelers. They
3:21
Speaker 1: had just six first dins, they were one for seven
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Speaker 1: and third dons and only one hundred and ten I
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Speaker 1: think yard a total offense through the first three quarters.
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Speaker 1: How do you think the team turned that around wun
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Speaker 1: into the fourth.
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Speaker 3: Well, I think similarly to the Ravens game, it took
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Speaker 3: a spark or a moment of magic and in a
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Speaker 3: different phase of the game, and that came through who
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Speaker 3: else but TJ.
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Speaker 2: Watt.
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Speaker 3: They just give that man defensive of the defensive player
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Speaker 3: of the year right now. He is absolutely incredible. We
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Speaker 3: saw him drop back into coverage and pick off Matt Stafford,
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Speaker 3: an almost returner for the touchdown, and I think that
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Speaker 3: kind of jose to the offense to life a little bit.
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Speaker 3: I kind of gave everyone a bit of a kick
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Speaker 3: up the backside, which is great and it's exactly what
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Speaker 3: they needed. And thank god for Chris Boswell as well
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Speaker 3: for getting us our first points of the game and
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Speaker 3: keeping us in there. And then the defense was fine.
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Speaker 3: Said of the offense was finally able to do something,
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Speaker 3: and I think a large part of that was having
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Speaker 3: Deonta Johnson back. He gave Kenny Pickett another target. It
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Speaker 3: took some of the attention off George Pickens, but it
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Speaker 3: gave a different dimension to to our offense. You know,
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Speaker 3: we saw the effect of the impact Deonton Johnson had.
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Speaker 3: He looked one hundred percent. He was great, and that
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Speaker 3: allowed us to open up the running game a little
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Speaker 3: bit as well. Still not great in the run game.
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Speaker 3: I think we had a total of eighty five rushyards,
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Speaker 3: But the important thing was getting scores on the ground,
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Speaker 3: something that we haven't really seen today from the Steeds.
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Speaker 3: Great to see Agie Harris as well getting I think
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Speaker 3: that might be his first touchdown of the year. Maybe
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Speaker 3: I could be mistaken on that, but at the I
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Speaker 3: cu not, and Dave, I think I'm correct in saying that.
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Speaker 3: So look, I think overall there was a lot more
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Speaker 3: positivity and offense still not perfect, but definitely progress. And
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Speaker 3: you know you'll take that progress at this stage of
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Speaker 3: the season. And great to see Matt Cannon at getting
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Speaker 3: getting a bit a bit excited in the booth as
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Speaker 3: well when the Steelers scored. So overall, no, I'm happy
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Speaker 3: out with that.
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Speaker 1: D have just a gentleman what Jimmy said. It's it's
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Speaker 1: funny to see, like Jimmy talked about the start there,
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Speaker 1: just start of the podcast about how there was that
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Speaker 1: gap between the buy and we were waiting and waiting
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Speaker 1: and waiting for this team to get back into action.
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Speaker 1: I felt like a lifetime. But then you see the
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Speaker 1: Monday reaction across the board in the US, especially on Monday,
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Speaker 1: and Jimmy, I'm sorry, Dave rich Eisen talking about colin
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Speaker 1: the fourth quarter Kenny Pickett time. I've got the quote
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Speaker 1: from Terry Bradshaw here in Fox and saying that Kenny
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Speaker 1: Pickett does not throw for a lot of touchdowns, but
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Speaker 1: in time that he will. He is a perfect quarterback
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Speaker 1: for this team. He's a very selfish human being, great
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Speaker 1: in the clutch, great under pressure, and how impressed have
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Speaker 1: you been with just how he's been able to mind
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Speaker 1: his pressure, managed situations and games where yes, maybe some
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Speaker 1: players could take it negatively, he's turned it around and
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Speaker 1: won one games on getting the ball down the field
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Speaker 1: and do what he has to do.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, his pocket poise is fantastic. I think
6:15
Speaker 4: you know, I was actually watching an interview with with
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Speaker 4: Terry Bradshaw and he was matching about how seerful this
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Speaker 4: he is. And he goes through his progressions very very
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Speaker 4: you know, he doesn't he doesn't feel the necessarily to
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Speaker 4: take risk, but his his pocket poise is just fantastic,
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Speaker 4: just for a player in his second year. And and
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Speaker 4: you know what, it's it's been proven now he plays
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Speaker 4: his best football when it comes to the crunch time
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Speaker 4: as the fourth quarter, and he seems to always come
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Speaker 4: up with a play. You know, just even as Jimmy
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Speaker 4: was saying, it's good to have the Anty back because
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Speaker 4: you know, maybe the past couple of weeks where maybe
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Speaker 4: were land Calvin Austin for a few players, but with
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Speaker 4: George Pickins, you know, stepping up as usual with that
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Speaker 4: Deontay Johnson, you know, sacking sacking string wide receiver. Now
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Speaker 4: he was able to sort of open up routes for himself.
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Speaker 4: So just to sort of back up everything, Terry bro says,
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Speaker 4: I mean, we're not going to listen to anybody else
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Speaker 4: apart from from TV if you like the real TV.
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Speaker 4: But you know, it's pocket poisonous is something to be
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Speaker 4: old at such a young age, and you know he's
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Speaker 4: coming into his own perfect and it's the first time
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Speaker 4: after like a long time where of watched the Steelers
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Speaker 4: game and off thought offensive like, we're actually onto something here.
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Speaker 4: You know, there's been glimmers here and there throughout the season,
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Speaker 4: but I think for now it's really something we could
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Speaker 4: be excited about. It's just proven. I think we may
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Speaker 4: be worked on it throughout the bay. So you know,
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Speaker 4: it's all positive talk from here. And hopefully, you know,
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Speaker 4: we can go back and up a game next week,
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Speaker 4: you can Suggjax.
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Speaker 3: Hopefully now we won't have to rely so much of
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Speaker 3: our defense to get us going, and we can get
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Speaker 3: our offense going from the very start. And it was
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Speaker 3: great as well to see Jalen Warren and Algy compliment
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Speaker 3: each other. And I think they've really kind of embraced that.
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Speaker 3: You know what we discussed before of positively being running
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Speaker 3: back one and running back one A. I mean, I've
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Speaker 3: said it before a million times, and I'll die on
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Speaker 3: this hill. Jalen Warren is an NFL Qualities running back.
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Speaker 3: He is a starting running back and we saw that
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Speaker 3: on display last night. I mean there was He's just
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Speaker 3: I mean, I could go on and on, but he
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Speaker 3: had one key block where he absolutely blew up a
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Speaker 3: defensive lineman and the fellas five eight and one hundred
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Speaker 3: and ninety pounds like he's tiny relatively speaking for an
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Speaker 3: NFL running back. So yeah, no, I mean, just fantastic
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Speaker 3: stuff in general across the board, and hopefully it can
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Speaker 3: continue now and we bring it into the game next
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Speaker 3: week against the Jags.
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Speaker 1: And Jimmy it was a crucial to end the sense
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Speaker 1: of we all seen how the Ravens played and how
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Speaker 1: well they played to win that game. The Browns had
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Speaker 1: a serious game thirty nine to thirty in Indianapolis. But
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Speaker 1: the Steelers continue to put the pressure on and the
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Speaker 1: Bengals sitting at hum going, oh year, this is some division, man.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean I honestly, at the start of the
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Speaker 3: season after what happened. We won't talk about that. We've
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Speaker 3: forgotten about what happened a week one. I mean, we
8:56
Speaker 3: were sitting here going what kind of chance do we
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Speaker 3: have in the AFC, And now we're second in the
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Speaker 3: AC North. But I think that the tougher matchups are ahead. Obviously,
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Speaker 3: we're gonna have the Bengals twice, and we're gonna have
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Speaker 3: that rematch with the Ravens, which you think are gonna
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Speaker 3: be absolutely I think, as far as I'm concerned, every
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Speaker 3: game from here on out is a must win game.
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Speaker 3: And if we won't have any chance of get finishing
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Speaker 3: first or second and possibly getting into the playoffs, we're
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Speaker 3: gonna have to We're gonna have to run the table.
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Speaker 3: And you know that's that's just that's just the way
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Speaker 3: it is in this in this competitive landscape in the division.
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Speaker 1: Dave, I've been very complimentary to start the season off
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Speaker 1: with puking the coup for the Rams. I think he's
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Speaker 1: really added something to this, just to this Rams team
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Speaker 1: when a lot of people died of them, and he
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Speaker 1: came out and said after the game and suddeny that
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Speaker 1: he felt that the defense for the Steelers didn't really
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Speaker 1: restrict the Rams to practically anything. Now, he might be
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Speaker 1: able to say that because he had one hundred and
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Speaker 1: like one hundred and fifty forty yards receiving on the day,
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Speaker 1: which fair played at him. That was an excellent turnaround
9:58
Speaker 1: for him. But I would argue are that. I mean,
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Speaker 1: the Steelers defense Obviously was talked there about TJ. Watts play,
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Speaker 1: but the Steelers defense limited the Rams seventeen points at home,
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Speaker 1: where they've been a hard team to feel so far
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Speaker 1: this season at home. I don't think the defense, though
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Speaker 1: not bad. Obviously, there's always going to be things to improve.
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Speaker 1: I was surprised at his comments, to be honest.
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Speaker 4: With Yeah, it was a bit surprising considered you know
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Speaker 4: Joey Porter Jr. Once Joey Porter Junior, who got matched
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Speaker 4: up with him. He had three targets and he didn't
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Speaker 4: catch a single ball. I mean, I don't really know
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Speaker 4: what he's talking, but there, of course, he had a
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Speaker 4: fantastic game. You know, he got catched on the sideline.
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Speaker 4: I think was one of the best catches I've seen
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Speaker 4: all year. But then, and of course he's a great talent.
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Speaker 4: But you know, if you look at it, you know,
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Speaker 4: with Kipper Cups on the other side, and we were
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Speaker 4: able to strict him pretty well. You know, as Jimmy said,
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Speaker 4: with TJ Wats coming up with the big play. You know,
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Speaker 4: TJ had a pretty quat game, didn't record any sacks,
10:49
Speaker 4: but he came up with a big interception which was
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Speaker 4: really turned the tight So as well as that, you know,
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Speaker 4: we we prevented them from scoring on three straight draves
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Speaker 4: in the fourth quarter. So not only is the offense
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Speaker 4: starting to pick up in the fourth quarter, but the
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Speaker 4: defense has proven clutch as well. So you know, he
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Speaker 4: can have his opinion and stuff like that, but at
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Speaker 4: the end of the day, the only thing that matters
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Speaker 4: is we got the win, and you know we're on
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Speaker 4: and moving moving on up next. And you know, for
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Speaker 4: a player then they're they're pretty good offense. But at
11:14
Speaker 4: the same time, you know, we've got a great defense
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Speaker 4: and we're gonna score up with hell if anybody. So yeah,
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Speaker 4: it's it is what it is. But yeah, we're we're
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Speaker 4: onwards and upwards. We don't have to worry about that.
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Speaker 1: Just to round this up, Jimmy, I feel like I
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Speaker 1: have to say it, I mean in the best way
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Speaker 1: positive Sometimes It's nice to get the rubb of the green,
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Speaker 1: especially at the end there of the game. I was
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Speaker 1: laughing last night when I see it, But look, some
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Speaker 1: teams always get up, but like a little rubble of green,
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Speaker 1: I felt like it was it was definitely our time
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Speaker 1: to get at seven weeks end of the season.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, obviously, it's you never you know, you
11:49
Speaker 3: never like to win where it might be judged to
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Speaker 3: have being a decision going your way. But that's just
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Speaker 3: the major of the game. You're gonna get some decisions
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Speaker 3: that go with you, something that go against you. And
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Speaker 3: in this instant it's okay, hard luck to the Rams,
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Speaker 3: but the Steelers had the look in this game, and
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Speaker 3: we'll take it. You know, there was you know, there's
12:08
Speaker 3: there was there was a couple of things that did
12:10
Speaker 3: go away in a couple of Brett Maher and miss kicks,
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Speaker 3: and that also, you know, overall contributed to to a
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Speaker 3: Steelers victory. So we'll take it and we'll run and
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Speaker 3: we'll we'll look forward to to the to the next
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Speaker 3: week against the Jags.
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Speaker 1: Take it and run them on. Take it and run.
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Speaker 1: Before we look at the Jogs briefly this week, let's
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Speaker 1: listen to some of the feedback from both coaches and
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Speaker 1: players after the win in Sobay Stadium on Sunday. We'll
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Speaker 1: hear from coach Tomlin first and then we'll hear from TJ.
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Speaker 1: Watt and can you pick it on the Irish Sivers podcast.
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Speaker 2: Man.
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Speaker 5: First, let me say, man, it's just great to see
12:49
Speaker 5: some Steeler alumni man and have their support Man Troy, James, Ferrier,
12:56
Speaker 5: Joe Hayden. Just warms my heart to see those guys.
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Speaker 3: Man.
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Speaker 5: Thankful for their support and attendance. In regards to the game, man,
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Speaker 5: you know, it's a fight. It always is a fight.
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Speaker 5: Sometimes it's, you know, man versus himself. Sometimes it's man
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Speaker 5: versus opponent. I thought we shout ourselves in the foot
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Speaker 5: some on possession down play on both sides of the ball.
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Speaker 5: I'm gotta be more successful on possession downs if you
13:22
Speaker 5: want more fluidity and the engineer and the victory. And
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Speaker 5: there wasn't enough fluidity probably to the first two and
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Speaker 5: a half quarters really on either side. I think on
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Speaker 5: defense we lost two third and eleven's in the first half.
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Speaker 5: And whether or not it produces points, there's a field
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Speaker 5: position component and a time of possession component of it,
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Speaker 5: and so that's why it was uneven and uncomfortable at
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Speaker 5: times from our perspective. But I appreciate the fight that
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Speaker 5: the guys displayed. They gotta don't blink mentality. Obviously, we
13:53
Speaker 5: got to clean up some things from a management of
13:56
Speaker 5: our emotions, but I would much rather say wode than
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Speaker 5: sick them. We got some guys that are competitors. They
14:02
Speaker 5: just got to compete in the appropriate and mature and
14:04
Speaker 5: professional way. We'll use it as a learning experience. Is
14:07
Speaker 5: good to learn while sitting at four and two as
14:10
Speaker 5: opposed to three and three. Cole Hookum had an ankle injury,
14:15
Speaker 5: but he was able to return. We got some other
14:17
Speaker 5: bumps and bruises associated with play. But I just love
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Speaker 5: to fight in this group. They don't blake, man, They
14:26
Speaker 5: cut their eyelids off.
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Speaker 3: Man.
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Speaker 5: They go at it, and it is, like I told them,
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Speaker 5: it's not a compliment, it's required. I'm just acknowledging that
14:36
Speaker 5: we better be prepared to fight every time we step
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Speaker 5: into a stadium, man, because that's what the National Football
14:41
Speaker 5: League is about. So our pause and rope clup for questions.
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Speaker 5: I don't know that anything changed. I just think that
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Speaker 5: you know they were possessing the ball and we weren't.
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Speaker 5: I think, as I outlined, we didn't win enough early
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Speaker 5: third downs. They were winning too many, and even like
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Speaker 5: third and long, third and eleven, I think they can
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Speaker 5: two of them in the first half. I thought that
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Speaker 5: one that they converted, I think it was third and
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Speaker 5: four to get somebody on a shallow cross that produced
15:07
Speaker 5: a two minute touchdown drive. We had a chance to
15:09
Speaker 5: get off the field right there. When you're not getting
15:12
Speaker 5: off the field, you can talk about uneven performances of
15:16
Speaker 5: individuals and units and so forth. Any of those questions
15:20
Speaker 5: can be directed toward our inability to operate on possession
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Speaker 5: downs on both sides of the ball through the first
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Speaker 5: probably two and a half quarters.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's a four quarter game.
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Speaker 6: We understand as a defense we need to blow up
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Speaker 6: in big time moments and just try to change the
15:37
Speaker 6: tide of the game and stopping the runners again in
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Speaker 6: the issue today. But anytime you can get some sort
15:43
Speaker 6: of spark UH to get us going UH and be
15:46
Speaker 6: able to have us start continuing to play good football
15:48
Speaker 6: late in games, I feel like we're gonna we just
15:50
Speaker 6: need to continue to progress and go off of it
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Speaker 6: a couple.
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Speaker 1: Of football lots of the second half kind of ways
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Speaker 1: you get to turn.
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Speaker 3: On one of the offense.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, we don't care where the spark comes from.
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Speaker 6: We just want to get that spark so it allows
16:03
Speaker 6: us to get going. We don't want to be that
16:04
Speaker 6: team that starts games slow, start second half slow. It's
16:07
Speaker 6: important to come out strong and hopefully shut down some
16:10
Speaker 6: things early so that you don't see him again later
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Speaker 6: in the game.
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Speaker 7: I think it was it was both, you know, they're
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Speaker 7: a man. I feel like, you know, it was a
16:18
Speaker 7: really good route for him. He's a great route runner,
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Speaker 7: get separation, just want to give him a chance to
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Speaker 7: convert on third down.
16:24
Speaker 2: It was great to have him back.
16:25
Speaker 7: I think you saw the effects that have, you know,
16:27
Speaker 7: having him and George out there on both sides and
16:29
Speaker 7: kind of moving guys inside and out.
16:31
Speaker 2: You know, they're two tough guys to cover. What kind
16:33
Speaker 2: of the group did you feel like, you guys run
16:35
Speaker 2: into that fourth quarter.
16:36
Speaker 7: Of those playing the type of football we want to play,
16:38
Speaker 7: you know, that's what we've been working towards. And I
16:40
Speaker 7: think the run game balance the pass game really well.
16:43
Speaker 7: It was it was kind of you know, everything that
16:44
Speaker 7: we've been working towards. You started to see it in
16:46
Speaker 7: that fourth quarter. There was good to good to see.
16:48
Speaker 5: We've seen this all year.
16:49
Speaker 3: We struggled a little bit for three quarters. Matter out
16:52
Speaker 3: standing in the fourth.
16:56
Speaker 2: Was playing playing football, man. I mean it's not gonna
16:58
Speaker 2: be smooth all the time. They got a pretty good
16:59
Speaker 2: de fense.
17:00
Speaker 7: They were getting after us a little bit, you know
17:02
Speaker 7: in the past game, you know, getting some hits and
17:05
Speaker 7: I was trying to get the ball as fast as
17:06
Speaker 7: I could. But you know, I think it's just over time,
17:09
Speaker 7: you know, wearing down in the run game, how the
17:10
Speaker 7: pass came out.
17:12
Speaker 2: We got to keep having that balance.
17:13
Speaker 3: Think of your.
17:17
Speaker 2: They did a great job, great job.
17:18
Speaker 7: You know that we had a goal of not letting
17:20
Speaker 7: him wreck the game, you know, trying to do everything
17:22
Speaker 7: we can of of of sliding guys and doubling him,
17:25
Speaker 7: getting four hands on him as many times as possible,
17:28
Speaker 7: if not, you know, all the time.
17:29
Speaker 2: So that was that was a goal of ours. I
17:31
Speaker 2: think those guys at an unbelievable.
17:33
Speaker 3: Job with the first three guys to face.
17:36
Speaker 2: We have some experience in it. We've played some pretty
17:38
Speaker 2: good pass rushers.
17:39
Speaker 7: Man. It doesn't get easier we go against the I
17:42
Speaker 7: think the best every day and practice, so it's it's
17:46
Speaker 7: good to have ninety on our side to help us
17:48
Speaker 7: give those looks of of of what we should do
17:50
Speaker 7: and how we should plan when you're going against guys
17:52
Speaker 7: that you know can wreck the game and can change
17:55
Speaker 7: the game as a pass rusher.
17:57
Speaker 3: How about it to play He made it to start
17:59
Speaker 3: the second.
17:59
Speaker 2: Half, sparked us. Yeah, it just does what he does.
18:02
Speaker 7: And he always says like it takes one play to
18:04
Speaker 7: to spark it, and you know, majority of the time
18:07
Speaker 7: it's him making the plays. And you know, hell of
18:09
Speaker 7: the leader, hell of a player, got us going. Glad
18:11
Speaker 7: we got in the end zone there and finished out
18:14
Speaker 7: in the fourth quarter stand on the field, which I
18:15
Speaker 7: was proud of. That was something that we didn't do
18:17
Speaker 7: earlier in the season, but was being a four minute drill,
18:20
Speaker 7: finish on the on the field and let our defense.
18:22
Speaker 2: You know, kind of sit and relax on the sideline.
18:24
Speaker 2: That's what that's what we wanted. So that was good.
18:28
Speaker 1: Okay Coach thom and t J Watt can he pick it?
18:31
Speaker 1: On the Irish Evers podcast. After a huge win the
18:34
Speaker 1: Texas Theaters four and two in the season, the AFC
18:37
Speaker 1: North well look in contention for the division and we're
18:40
Speaker 1: absolutely buzzing. I'm Jimmy, I'll start with you, man, I
18:44
Speaker 1: am buzzing about this week. Not only is it the
18:47
Speaker 1: game coming up that will briefly look at I will
18:49
Speaker 1: hopefully be back at some point this week to go
18:52
Speaker 1: in that a bit more detail on it, but it's
18:54
Speaker 1: the matchup of the two teams that have Irish marketing
18:57
Speaker 1: rights trying to get obviously hope and the Steelers come
19:00
Speaker 1: out on top of this game, Steelers against the Jags,
19:04
Speaker 1: a big potential marker to get a fifth win of
19:06
Speaker 1: the season going into the later the later autumn months
19:11
Speaker 1: and just of the season. But Jimmy, first off, you
19:14
Speaker 1: know this is a Jags team that looked really good.
19:18
Speaker 2: Now.
19:18
Speaker 1: I know it was on and off on on Thurst
19:21
Speaker 1: Night Football last week against the Saints, but like a
19:24
Speaker 1: number of us, including Steelers fans, seeing the Jags in
19:27
Speaker 1: person in London, they've really improved year on year. Trevor
19:31
Speaker 1: Lawrence was great. Let's be clear here. They're going to
19:34
Speaker 1: come into this game on Sunday with a lot of expectation.
19:38
Speaker 1: They're going to feel like they can go to Pittsburgh
19:40
Speaker 1: and get a result. They were in London for two weeks.
19:42
Speaker 1: They'll have a lot of confidence and it's going to
19:44
Speaker 1: be up to our defense to just shut down Trevor Lawrence.
19:47
Speaker 1: Shut down not only a run game, but a very
19:49
Speaker 1: efficient passing game. Also.
19:52
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's going to be a challenge, Michael,
19:56
Speaker 3: if not more of a challenge than certainly this same
20:00
Speaker 3: level of challenges we face against the Rams. We do
20:03
Speaker 3: have home field advantage, which I think is going to
20:04
Speaker 3: be very important for us. And it's like you said,
20:07
Speaker 3: I mean, there's no real easy weeks in the NFL
20:11
Speaker 3: anymore with the talent that you're coming up against. So yeah,
20:14
Speaker 3: we just just contain Trevor Lawrence, contained the talented and
20:18
Speaker 3: the talent that they have. To be honest, I haven't
20:20
Speaker 3: really been keeping that much of a close eye on
20:23
Speaker 3: the Jags this year, but I feel like, like I
20:25
Speaker 3: said earlier, every game is going to be a must
20:27
Speaker 3: wing game here on in, and like Dave mentioned earlier on,
20:31
Speaker 3: we now have a run of three home games in
20:33
Speaker 3: a row, which I think we have to fully capitalize on.
20:37
Speaker 3: Every game is a must wing game. I mean, we're
20:39
Speaker 3: on a two game winning street now since that disaster
20:42
Speaker 3: Dan in Houston. So I think it's just a case
20:44
Speaker 3: of carrying that momentum, letting the defense do what they've
20:47
Speaker 3: been doing best, which is shutting down corner, shutting down
20:50
Speaker 3: you know, receivers stuff in the box, and making splash plays. Dave,
20:55
Speaker 3: you mentioned that TJ didn't have a sack. I don't
20:58
Speaker 3: think neither of our edge rusher had a stack against
21:00
Speaker 3: the Rams, which now they were constantly harassing Staffer, and
21:04
Speaker 3: they certainly had an impact in the game. They mightn't
21:06
Speaker 3: have gone home, but you can still see the impact
21:09
Speaker 3: that TJ has when he even when he's not getting
21:11
Speaker 3: through the quarterback, he's causing havoc. So I think all
21:14
Speaker 3: those things are going to be vital against the Jaguars.
21:18
Speaker 3: It's an earlier game, which I'm glad about it. I
21:19
Speaker 3: think it's five o'clock over here due to the best
21:22
Speaker 3: of the year, Jimmy. The changeover week is is always great.
21:26
Speaker 3: So yeah, I mean, I think those are a couple
21:27
Speaker 3: of key things. Michael, just Steelers need to keep doing
21:30
Speaker 3: what they've been doing and just building all the momentum
21:32
Speaker 3: that we have that we have generated over the over
21:35
Speaker 3: the past two weeks.
21:37
Speaker 1: Yeah, just going on what Jimmy said their day, we're
21:40
Speaker 1: a little closer this week to Pittsburgh on the East
21:42
Speaker 1: coast of the US once these clocks changed for us
21:45
Speaker 1: this weekend only four hours away. I wish they'd done
21:48
Speaker 1: it for two or three weeks, because fans over here,
21:50
Speaker 1: you know, regardless of the Steelers play, really benefit of
21:53
Speaker 1: those early times Sunday and football on early this week
21:56
Speaker 1: as well. So it's it's definitely nice for the fans
21:58
Speaker 1: and you just going what Jimmy said, three home games.
22:01
Speaker 1: The next game away from home will be that Browns
22:03
Speaker 1: game that will all be in Krok Park and Dublin
22:05
Speaker 1: at the watch party at and you know, look it's
22:08
Speaker 1: the Jags. I sort of that what Jimmy says. I think, Dave,
22:12
Speaker 1: it is going to be a difficult game in the
22:13
Speaker 1: sense of you look at some of the offensive weapons
22:17
Speaker 1: that they have, like Calvin Ridley in person is just
22:21
Speaker 1: it's phenomenal, honestly, and the way that they took it
22:23
Speaker 1: up against the Bills. I know the Bills have had
22:25
Speaker 1: their struggles since coming from London, but I really feel
22:29
Speaker 1: like this is going to be one of the hardest
22:31
Speaker 1: challenges that we feel so far this season. But I
22:33
Speaker 1: do remain optimistic that I think that this winning so
22:35
Speaker 1: far will really help spur the team on. All we
22:38
Speaker 1: need to know is just that consistency from this team
22:40
Speaker 1: and just getting the performance and Sunday one.
22:43
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, absolutely, without a dot MC, they're a great team. Obviously,
22:47
Speaker 4: you don't really need to talk about Travor Lards much. He's,
22:50
Speaker 4: in my opinion, your top five, arguably top he's easily
22:53
Speaker 4: top ten, but arguably top five quarterback in this league.
22:56
Speaker 4: Calvin Ridley's a great receiver, Za Jones as well. You've
22:59
Speaker 4: got to have an anger but tight end. We've got
23:00
Speaker 4: so many great pieces on the offensive set of the
23:04
Speaker 4: ball on their defense has traditionally always been pretty decent.
23:07
Speaker 4: So just to you know, obviously come back and as well,
23:10
Speaker 4: we've we've got an extra r on them this week.
23:12
Speaker 4: You know, we've got the Titans next week as well
23:14
Speaker 4: on prime time, so we'll hopefully get them stay up
23:15
Speaker 4: for that there. And but as well as that, you know,
23:18
Speaker 4: we're not gonna look past Jackson though. They're they're great
23:20
Speaker 4: team and hopefully we can just roll on from from
23:23
Speaker 4: last week all the positivity and all the you know,
23:25
Speaker 4: the positive players we had on all offense, we can
23:27
Speaker 4: just roll into next week and hopefully come off of
23:29
Speaker 4: a win. So let's let's hope. So and you know,
23:32
Speaker 4: I have every trust in the boys.
23:33
Speaker 2: Can do it.
23:34
Speaker 3: I think one thing as well that we've that we've
23:37
Speaker 3: done relatively well since Week one where Joey but or
23:40
Speaker 3: Nick bos A had a field day, is containing the
23:44
Speaker 3: top tier edge rushers that the teams we've faced have.
23:47
Speaker 3: I mean, look at Aaron Donald last night. I mean,
23:50
Speaker 3: his name was barely called.
23:51
Speaker 5: Now.
23:51
Speaker 3: He's certainly had an impact in stuff in the middle
23:53
Speaker 3: and disrupting the run game, but I don't think he
23:55
Speaker 3: got home at all. I think it was hect got
23:57
Speaker 3: home a couple of times. So if we can do
23:59
Speaker 3: the same thing with with Josh Allen and the Jaguars,
24:03
Speaker 3: I mean, and that's something that we've been doing for
24:06
Speaker 3: the majority of the season thus far, I think that's
24:08
Speaker 3: gonna be another kind of key thing to watch out
24:10
Speaker 3: for is how well we did it against the Raiders
24:12
Speaker 3: of Max Crosby. Max Crowby had a very quiet day.
24:15
Speaker 3: So that's something that I think has kind of slipped
24:17
Speaker 3: under the Raider a little bit this season. So far
24:19
Speaker 3: is how well this new look offensive line has performed.
24:23
Speaker 3: I mean, the majority of the season are far. They
24:27
Speaker 3: have kept Kenny relatively upright. Okay, the run game hasn't
24:30
Speaker 3: been fantastic, but I think that's showing flashes, especially after
24:35
Speaker 3: last night with a couple of decent runs that we
24:38
Speaker 3: have that we did have. So yeah, just something that
24:41
Speaker 3: I might be watching out for next week is is
24:43
Speaker 3: how well how well our offensive nine handles handles Josh
24:46
Speaker 3: Allen the other Josh Allen, not the quarterback, the defensive end.
24:51
Speaker 1: You're all good, Josh Allen, Josh Allen, I keep getting
24:54
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24:57
Speaker 1: to you boys. I feel like we're really on a
24:59
Speaker 1: journey this season is how this team can go and
25:01
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25:05
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25:09
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