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HR1: Power Rankings · In the Locker Room presented by Neighborhood Ford Store (Pittsburgh Steelers)

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  Speaker 2: With us today in the locker room and a beautiful
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  Speaker 2: another beautiful.
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  Speaker 3: Day here in pittsburgh hopefully the weather.
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  Speaker 2: Is going to hold off i think it is it's
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  Speaker 2: supposed to be pretty good i think on sunday relatively
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  Speaker 2: warm for this time of year if you're one of
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  Speaker 2: those people that looks ahead to the weather and how
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  Speaker 2: it might impact a football game uh willie cologne how
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  Speaker 2: are you doing today my friend.
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  Speaker 4: All is well rob here in sunny mississippi uh i
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  Speaker 4: just finished an awesome workout It's time to shave the
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  Speaker 4: bear coat, Rob. I know it's usually the opposite. You
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  Speaker 4: try to do it before summer. I happen to be
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  Speaker 4: late on that, so I'm doing it before winter. Nevertheless,
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  Speaker 4: it's Wednesday, baby.
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  Speaker 3: Let's get rolling.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it is a good time of year to do that,
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  Speaker 2: by the way. It's tough in the summer. You know,
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  Speaker 2: the summer's the time for lazing about and having some
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  Speaker 2: good food, you know. But now is the time because
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  Speaker 2: holidays are coming.
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  Speaker 3: It is coming.
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  Speaker 4: You know, and I think part of it too, Rob,
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  Speaker 4: is when, you know, I think every man goes through
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  Speaker 4: this where you don't notice yourself until you walk by
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  Speaker 4: the mirror instantly, you know?
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: And you're like, oh, that's what I look like? You're like, oh,
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  Speaker 4: I got to tighten up. So that's where I'm at
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  Speaker 4: right now.
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  Speaker 3: Good.
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  Speaker 5: Good man.
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  Speaker 2: What kind of, just real quick, because we have a
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  Speaker 2: lot of people that are probably wondering, what kind of
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  Speaker 2: workout do you do?
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  Speaker 5: How long does it take you to do it?
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  Speaker 4: Man, so I try to do a 30 to 35-minute workout.
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  Speaker 4: You know, just every other day is different. When there
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  Speaker 4: may be legs, when there may be arms, when we're back,
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  Speaker 4: you know, I kind of do a variation thing, and
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  Speaker 4: I always end with 30 minutes to 45 minutes of cardio.
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  Speaker 4: So the lighter days, I'll do 45 minutes. The heavier days,
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  Speaker 4: I'll just do 30, and I try to get back
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  Speaker 4: in time to talk to the great Rob King and
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  Speaker 4: Max Stark.
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  Speaker 3: So that's where I'm at.
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  Speaker 2: So total time, we're looking at an hour and 15,
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  Speaker 2: hour 20, hour 30.
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  Speaker 3: The thing about it, I don't know about you, Rob.
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  Speaker 3: I've fallen. There's a pandemic going on.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know if you're aware of this, where you
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  Speaker 4: pull up to the gym and you're sitting in your
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  Speaker 4: car for 25 minutes going through a death scroll or
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  Speaker 4: trying to catch up to people that you really don't
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  Speaker 4: want to talk to, but you're just not ready to
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  Speaker 4: open the door.
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  Speaker 3: They always say the heaviest weight in the gym is
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  Speaker 3: the front door. I've never heard that before. Yeah, it's true.
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  Speaker 3: It's never the 45 plates that sit there aimlessly.
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  Speaker 4: It's the front door. Once you kind of pull that
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  Speaker 4: thing open, baby, you actually get over the threshold. Now
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  Speaker 4: you're locked in. So it's really the procrastination while I'm
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  Speaker 4: sitting in the parking lot looking at the gym that
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  Speaker 4: I really have to conquer.
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  Speaker 3: I've yet to do that.
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  Speaker 4: I think part of it is me trying to align
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  Speaker 4: myself like, all right, you're going to grind it out.
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  Speaker 4: You're going to finish the workout. You're going to do
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  Speaker 4: everything you need to do because it's all about you
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  Speaker 4: and bettering yourself. Trying to have that power talk before
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  Speaker 4: you walk through those doors is important. And another thing
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  Speaker 4: is you try not to– a lot of people are–
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  Speaker 4: you know, we live– once again, we live in a
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  Speaker 4: very body-conscious society right now, which annoys the.
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  Speaker 3: Hell out of me. You try to make sure you
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  Speaker 3: have the.
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  Speaker 4: Right clothing that's not kind of, you know, oozing out
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  Speaker 4: the fat. So that's always– that takes some time, too. So–
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  Speaker 4: You got to do a reach test.
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  Speaker 3: You got to stretch your hands. Yeah. Make sure you
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  Speaker 3: don't have that muffin top looking at the bottom.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: That's before you eat.
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  Speaker 4: Big Max, I was doing some leg raises today, and
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  Speaker 4: the fupa just fell out in front of a bunch
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  Speaker 4: of girls doing some stretches. You talk about humbly. It
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  Speaker 4: was a very humble moment. They looked up like, oh, God.
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  Speaker 4: I said, yeah, that's why I'm here. I'm trying to
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  Speaker 4: get rid of it. Exactly.
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  Speaker 3: Exactly.
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  Speaker 2: Well, one of the liberating parts of getting older is
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  Speaker 2: you become, you know, Ralph Ellison. You become the invisible man, right?
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  Speaker 2: Nobody's looking at you when you get to my age.
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  Speaker 2: So you have that to look forward to. I also
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  Speaker 2: have some advice, Max, that I know you and Willie
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  Speaker 2: know far more about working out, you know, especially with
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  Speaker 2: the weights and all that stuff than I do. But
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  Speaker 2: I've got some advice for Willie. I want to see if, Max,
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  Speaker 2: if you agree with this advice. You know, sometimes you
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  Speaker 2: get in the gym– and you're just running five minutes behind.
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  Speaker 2: And it sounds like Willie might have that all the time.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to go ahead and say, Willie, you could
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  Speaker 2: probably skip triceps one day if you're running five minutes behind. Max,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know how you feel about that. I think
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  Speaker 2: that's sage advice. I think that's good advice.
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  Speaker 4: It is.
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  Speaker 5: It is.
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  Speaker 6: Buys and tries, not a problem. You are well adept there.
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  Speaker 6: You know, just got probably a little more squat work,
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  Speaker 6: you know, You know, work in the hammies, you know,
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  Speaker 6: but but yeah, no, I definitely agree with with Rob.
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  Speaker 3: You could stand to miss a couple of preacher curls. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I blame my wife for the extra attention
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  Speaker 4: to that because she said during when we first met.
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  Speaker 4: One of the things that she's attracted to is my arms. So,
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  Speaker 4: you know, to keep the customers buying the donuts, man,
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  Speaker 4: you got to put a little glaze.
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  Speaker 3: On the thing. So I got to keep the things big. Absolutely.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, that is funny, man. That is absolutely funny. By
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  Speaker 5: the way.
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  Speaker 6: It's like we have a 90s R & B group. Like,
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  Speaker 6: I'm not going there to hear your album from 2017.
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  Speaker 3: Play the hits. Play the greatest hits.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, I don't know if I said this
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  Speaker 2: on the locker room. Or just said it to Max
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  Speaker 2: in private. So I'll say it to you, Willie. So
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  Speaker 2: Willie came up.
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  Speaker 5: I covered the Steelers a little bit when Willie was
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  Speaker 5: there in the locker room. Not very much.
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  Speaker 2: So Willie came up and was doing the sidelines in
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  Speaker 2: the last two preseason games. Came up in the press
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  Speaker 2: box and we had a nice introduction.
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  Speaker 5: You know, hello, how are you? Just a little hello,
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  Speaker 5: quick thing.
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  Speaker 2: And then about maybe 20 minutes, then Willie left, went
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  Speaker 2: down and did his duties. Then Max came up to
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  Speaker 2: the press box, and I said, yeah, I met Willie.
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  Speaker 2: And he's like, yeah, Willie's a good friend of mine.
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  Speaker 2: I said, I just want you to know, I backed
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  Speaker 2: him up against the wall and kind of gave him
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  Speaker 2: the lowdown.
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  Speaker 5: And Max just said, no, you didn't. And I was like,
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  Speaker 5: you're right, man, no, I didn't. It was just as
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  Speaker 5: simple as that. There wasn't even any, like, he was like, no,
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  Speaker 5: you didn't. Like, okay, all right.
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  Speaker 4: Yep.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, there's no back and forth. We just had to
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  Speaker 3: squash that will. You know what I'm saying? You just
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  Speaker 3: got to sometimes just, hey, just.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Listen.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 3: We know our own.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Exactly.
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  Speaker 5: I'm just happy to have large friends.
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  Speaker 2: And by the way, I'm not one of those guys
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  Speaker 2: that takes advantage of that. I'm sure you guys have
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  Speaker 2: been around that guy where you're just like, hey, man,
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  Speaker 2: pipe down, dude.
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  Speaker 5: Pipe down.
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  Speaker 3: Well, Rob, I'm going to be honest with you. It's
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  Speaker 3: never the friends. It's the wives. It's the wives. It's
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  Speaker 3: the wives who take advantage of it. Oh, absolutely.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you probably get one or two Napoleon complexes that
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  Speaker 4: happen to be amongst you, but those usually kind of
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  Speaker 4: temper off. It's your wives who feel like, because they
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  Speaker 4: got nudged by somebody else in the supermarket, that now
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  Speaker 4: they want to now feel like they can call upon
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  Speaker 4: the Terminator, right?
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  Speaker 3: Like they can tap a button and we.
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  Speaker 4: Will immerse out of another realm and be like, who
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  Speaker 4: messed with our wives, right?
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 4: And so it's the wives who usually set us up
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  Speaker 4: for a UFC fight in the middle of a parking
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  Speaker 4: lot when all we want to do is just not
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  Speaker 4: hurt our back trying to load the car with groceries.
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  Speaker 3: It's so true, man.
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  Speaker 4: Your wife seems to feel like in the process of
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  Speaker 4: buying the case of water and the chicken, she wants
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  Speaker 4: to set you up for the 1 o'clock scrap with
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  Speaker 4: old Sammy in the backyard.
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  Speaker 3: So it's the wives that do the damage. Max, what
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  Speaker 3: do you do in these days workout-wise?
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  Speaker 6: So what I try and do is, um, my biggest
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  Speaker 6: thing is like, I try and hit 10,000 steps.
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  Speaker 3: Like that's the biggest thing. So how do I get
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  Speaker 3: to 10,000?
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  Speaker 6: You know, it's, uh, I've now started walking the dog
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  Speaker 6: now that it's actually not, you know, like walking on,
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  Speaker 6: on the bottom layers of hell when you go outside
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  Speaker 6: where it's 112 degrees that my shoes start melting.
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  Speaker 3: Um, yeah, I usually take the dog on like a 30,
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  Speaker 3: 35 minute walk.
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  Speaker 6: And then, I just do, actually, funny enough, I only
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  Speaker 6: do a 15-minute workout, and it's all body weight at
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  Speaker 6: this point.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, good.
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  Speaker 6: Like, I pick up weights if I'm away, like at
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  Speaker 6: a hotel gym, just because it's like, you know, vanity, pride,
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  Speaker 6: you know, hey, you know, sun's out, guns out, right?
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  Speaker 3: You know, it's game day.
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  Speaker 6: But on my daily, like, when I'm at home, it's
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  Speaker 6: literally 10,000 steps and a 15-minute body weight workout, and
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  Speaker 6: that's just squats, push-ups, and movement cardio. So whether it's
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  Speaker 6: jump rope, mixing in with, um, just shadow boxing, you know,
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  Speaker 6: doing some, doing some crunches, like just 15 minutes. And
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  Speaker 6: I just put a timer on and I just alternate
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  Speaker 6: between them, but 15 minutes of continuous movement.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, exercises for body weight. Cause you know, I'm just like,
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  Speaker 3: I just got to move. Like you have to get
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  Speaker 3: in the habit.
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  Speaker 6: Cause like Willie said, like the biggest, the biggest door,
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  Speaker 6: you know, the biggest weight is the front door.
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  Speaker 3: And I have no excuse because mine's in the basement.
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  Speaker 6: So literally my biggest barrier is walking back up the
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  Speaker 6: stairs afterwards. That's what actually gets me well. It's like, oh, man,
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  Speaker 6: going down is easy. But it's like going back.
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  Speaker 3: Up, I'm like, ugh. Yeah. Left outside of my knee
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  Speaker 3: was starting to hurt.
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  Speaker 2: Last question on the workout thing for both you guys.
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  Speaker 2: So obviously I'm considerably older. But when I was in
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  Speaker 2: college in the 80s, the big thing was the Nebraska workout,
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  Speaker 2: which was– Two hours and 15 minutes to two and
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  Speaker 2: a half. hours in the gym three days a week.
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  Speaker 2: Saturday was your off day. Maybe you did an hour 45.
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  Speaker 5: Always benching, right?
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  Speaker 2: We were always trying to see how much you could bench.
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  Speaker 3: It was the frat boy workout.
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  Speaker 2: The benching took half an hour because you'd do one set,
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  Speaker 2: you'd gab around, and you're trying to recover. You're trying
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  Speaker 2: to buy yourself time to recover so you could max
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  Speaker 2: out your bench and that kind of stuff. Did you guys...
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  Speaker 2: Had it changed? I remember when I went back to the–
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  Speaker 2: so first of all, when I quit, I had never
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  Speaker 2: lifted until college. I lifted in college. You feel great,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm like, man, I'm going to lift for the
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  Speaker 2: rest of my life. And the minute I was done
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  Speaker 2: with my last game, I didn't lift again for like
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  Speaker 2: 10 years. But when I went back to the gym,
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  Speaker 2: everyone was doing these 35, 45-minute workouts, like high tempo, boom, boom, boom, boom.
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  Speaker 2: Is that what you guys grew up doing, or did
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  Speaker 2: you guys do those real lengthy workouts too?
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  Speaker 4: Uh well you know for us we did the lengthy
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  Speaker 4: workouts because there was a lot of there was a
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  Speaker 4: lot of dynamic stuff before you actually lift weights right
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  Speaker 4: so there was a lot of mobility and dynamic movement
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  Speaker 4: and getting a sweat and foot ladders and all that
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  Speaker 4: stuff so that took part of your workout and then
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  Speaker 4: you went through whatever weight training you had to do
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  Speaker 4: and then afterwards you did some cardio so yeah we
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  Speaker 4: hours would add up to about two hours in total
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  Speaker 4: and plus now i think you're starting to see is
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  Speaker 4: you know, people just don't have the attention span to
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  Speaker 4: stand in the gym anymore like that.
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  Speaker 3: They just don't. So you find people saying, hey, this
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  Speaker 3: is my clock. This is my window.
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to superset everything and try to be out
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  Speaker 4: in a reasonable time.
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  Speaker 3: The people that who.
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  Speaker 4: Are like hanging out for two hours, just crushing it
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  Speaker 4: at the gym, you know, you're doing obviously you want
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  Speaker 4: to train for a purpose, but to you also burn
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  Speaker 4: yourself out. And so I think, you know, Max kind
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  Speaker 4: of alluded to it. You want to do something that's
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  Speaker 4: challenging but that fits your window because if you're constantly
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  Speaker 4: rushing to the gym cramming it in and rushing out
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  Speaker 4: and you know you're trying to it wears on you
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  Speaker 4: so the purpose of working out is obviously for health
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  Speaker 4: purposes but also for mental clarity i to me working
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  Speaker 4: out is more um therapy than anything to be honest
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  Speaker 4: with you i don't even the cosmetics are just what
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  Speaker 4: they're what it is um it just allows my brain
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  Speaker 4: to let go and kind of have that's like kind
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  Speaker 4: of my alone time to myself. So that's what it
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  Speaker 4: is in entirety for me.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so I think that's a really– I love the
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  Speaker 2: way you put that.
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  Speaker 5: And, Max, I don't know if you get this too.
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  Speaker 2: So most of my activity is the same thing Max
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  Speaker 2: talked about. Get me those 10,000 steps, and that's the minimum.
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  Speaker 2: If I'm trying to cut back some LBs, it's more
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  Speaker 2: like 13,000 or above in the steps trying.
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  Speaker 5: To get that. But one of the things that I've enjoyed,
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  Speaker 5: I was never a walker. I was always a runner.
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  Speaker 2: I ran to get my exercise or I played hoops
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  Speaker 2: or whatever, preferably playing basketball. But if I couldn't do that,
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  Speaker 2: I would go hit a treadmill or whatever or run
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  Speaker 2: around the neighborhood.
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  Speaker 5: I haven't run in years.
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  Speaker 2: But one of the things that I like about walking,
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  Speaker 2: and I don't know if you get this, Max, is
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  Speaker 2: that you get to a certain point and the mind
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  Speaker 2: begins to clear. I have a hard time clearing my mind.
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  Speaker 2: I remember sitting down trying meditation once. And you set
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  Speaker 2: the clock. And I'm sitting there and like, I'm like, man,
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  Speaker 2: how long have I been doing this? Man, this is,
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  Speaker 2: I look over, it's like 40 seconds.
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  Speaker 5: Really? That's it?
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  Speaker 3: You know?
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  Speaker 2: So, and then like when I go to, when I
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  Speaker 2: go to sleep at night, I have to read a book.
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  Speaker 2: I have to shut down my mind and focus on
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  Speaker 2: one thing. So the book helps me get to sleep.
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  Speaker 2: But walking does that for me, Max. It's like all
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  Speaker 2: of a sudden I get like two miles in and
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  Speaker 2: my mind is freed up and, you know, whatever it takes,
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  Speaker 2: I guess, huh?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I mean, mental clarity is a big thing, right?
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  Speaker 6: When you don't have a responsibility, you know, and I
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  Speaker 6: think those walks with my dog, I only have one responsibility.
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  Speaker 6: It's just make sure that my dog is paying attention
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  Speaker 6: and that I'm wearing him out, right?
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  Speaker 3: That's the biggest deal with it.
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  Speaker 6: But I find most of my mental clarity, like, I
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  Speaker 6: don't know if this is like with you guys, but
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  Speaker 6: since I drive a lot, I usually don't turn on
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  Speaker 6: the radio or... do anything like i just drive and
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  Speaker 6: my wife's like oh yeah with you like why didn't
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  Speaker 6: you put the radio on i'm like oh sorry i
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  Speaker 6: was just i was just i was just zoning out
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  Speaker 6: like that's also my zone out time so anytime oh
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  Speaker 6: max yeah yeah no sorry right yeah i mean that
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  Speaker 6: that's the biggest thing.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah i'm sorry to cut you off and i apologize
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  Speaker 4: yeah when i was during my time when i was
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  Speaker 4: doing morning radio and i would have to be up
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  Speaker 4: at five in the morning and drive into new york
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  Speaker 4: city to be at the Series 6M building and be live,
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  Speaker 4: go live at 7 or whatever. I was– if somebody
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  Speaker 4: was to see me driving down the parkway, I looked
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  Speaker 4: like Michael Myers. I was stone-faced with no music. Like,
• 14:45
  Speaker 4: I just– I couldn't take– and I'm naturally not a
• 14:48
  Speaker 4: morning person, which is tough because most of my jobs
• 14:50
  Speaker 4: are in the morning. But nevertheless– I'm, I'm always in
• 14:55
  Speaker 4: the car and get silent. So if, if somebody was
• 14:58
  Speaker 4: to see me like, man, Willie's in a bad mood. No,
• 15:00
  Speaker 4: I'm just, I just cannot process the world until like,
• 15:03
  Speaker 4: I kind of like, it takes me about 30 minutes,
• 15:05
  Speaker 4: 45 minutes before I'm like, okay, like, all right, what
• 15:08
  Speaker 4: would I get? I cannot, I don't, my mom, my
• 15:10
  Speaker 4: wife is a morning person and she can wake up
• 15:12
  Speaker 4: and have an open her eyes and have a damn monologue.
• 15:16
  Speaker 3: I cannot do that. I am like, That's one of
• 15:18
  Speaker 3: our biggest struggles. She's like, good morning. I'm just like,
• 15:22
  Speaker 3: not now. Shut up. I can't. It's like, is it
• 15:27
  Speaker 3: really a good morning? Are you sure about that? She
• 15:30
  Speaker 3: can rip off the Gettysburg speech. I cannot.
• 15:33
  Speaker 4: I have to. It takes me a good minute to
• 15:36
  Speaker 4: kind of open up to the world.
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: I got to tell you guys, I'm so glad that
• 15:41
  Speaker 2: we've had this little conversation because I thought I was
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: becoming like– You know the Grinch?
• 15:47
  Speaker 5: You know the Grinch who stole Christmas? He says, oh,
• 15:49
  Speaker 5: the noise, noise, noise, noise. I'm that way.
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: I love turning off the noise and getting in my
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: car and having silence.
• 15:59
  Speaker 5: So it's not just me. I'm not the Grinch.
• 16:01
  Speaker 4: No.
• 16:01
  Speaker 5: Well, we're not saying I'm not the Grinch, but in
• 16:02
  Speaker 5: this instance.
• 16:04
  Speaker 3: No, you're doing just fine.
• 16:06
  Speaker 5: Nice.
• 16:06
  Speaker 6: You're among fellow Grinch-like behavior. So you're welcomed here. You know,
• 16:13
  Speaker 6: they talk about there's a group for everybody. You're in
• 16:15
  Speaker 6: the right group right now.
• 16:15
  Speaker 5: Good deal.
• 16:16
  Speaker 6: We're in the non-morning group, and as good our show
• 16:18
  Speaker 6: is at noon.
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: So we can avoid most of the morning stuff.
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: By the way, no offense to Jim Carrey, but give
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: me Boris Karloff.
• 16:30
  Speaker 5: Can we agree on that? We're not in the season.
• 16:32
  Speaker 5: I know we're not in Christmas season, but yes.
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: We're not in Christmas season yet. You're still like.
• 16:36
  Speaker 5: Two months early. Jim Carrey's fine. He's fine. Did a
• 16:38
  Speaker 5: great job. But Boris Karloff, come on.
• 16:40
  Speaker 3: It was a live action versus a cartoon. I mean,
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: we can get into the semantics of it later.
• 16:45
  Speaker 6: But, I mean, yes, the voice and what you think
• 16:47
  Speaker 6: of as the Grinch and the narration, yes, absolutely. But
• 16:50
  Speaker 6: the physical embodiment, I think Jim Carrey did a great
• 16:53
  Speaker 6: job of physically embodying what Boris Karloff created.
• 16:57
  Speaker 5: And we can have a joke conversation.
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: And final little trivia thing before we actually start talking
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: about some football. Do you know the voice of the Grinch?
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: The singing voice? I wouldn't touch you, the ten-and-a-half-foot pole.
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: is the same as Tony the Tiger. Did you know that?
• 17:11
  Speaker 4: Oh, really?
• 17:12
  Speaker 5: Remember Tony the Tiger from the commercial?
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: No, did not know that.
• 17:15
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah.
• 17:16
  Speaker 5: I'm here. I'm here for you guys.
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: I'm here for you. Oh, man. You're great.
• 17:20
  Speaker 5: Thank you.
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: Rob is like, that's Jeeves.
• 17:25
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: By the way, some of my favorite books at the end,
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: the Birdie and Jeeves books. Anyway, now we're getting further afield.
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: Too far afield.
• 17:34
  Speaker 5: After we got off.
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: Yesterday, Sean Murphy Bunting had been signed in the morning.
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: The Steelers nab Terrell Smith. So they've added two defensive
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: backs to the active roster. You know, obviously, Mike McCarthy
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: said he didn't know much about Jamel Dean. He thought
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: he was progressing. Again, we talked about this a little bit.
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: Just tried to get some football chatter in here, Max,
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: before we had to break.
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: Exactly. So we actually could say this was a football segment?
• 17:59
  Speaker 5: Yes, exactly. We're salvaging this.
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: Danico Slaughter got re-signed to the practice squad.
• 18:03
  Speaker 5: He did.
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: Which, you know, and by the way, I know that
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: we do a lot of– and this happens in baseball too. Oh,
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: my goodness, we're going to DFA this guy. Everybody's going
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: to line up to be taking him. No, you're probably
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: going to be able to sign him back in a
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: minor league deal. It's kind of like that with the
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: practice squad. Like Danico Slaughter, when I saw they released him,
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: I'm like, man, this guy's been on the active roster,
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: and I think he's a good football player right back
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: in the practice squad. So that was good to see,
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: but it makes me wonder about The availability of Jamel Dean,
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: and I really hope that that's not a sign. Signing
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: two corners, that that's not a sign, Max, that Jamel
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: Dean's not going to be able to go. We'll know
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: more today when the first injury report comes out, but
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: they really need Jamel Dean, especially since it looks like
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: Keenan Allen is probably going to be back after missing
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: last week with a groin injury.
• 18:56
  Speaker 6: Yeah, definitely going to need him, and I think this
• 18:59
  Speaker 6: is probably a precautionary signing.
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: I mean, you already had a gap. um for one player.
• 19:05
  Speaker 6: Because of the joey porter trade and then you also
• 19:07
  Speaker 6: had a gap because of derrick harman being put on
• 19:11
  Speaker 6: ir so you had to fill two slots so i
• 19:14
  Speaker 6: i think more so it's a precautionary thing and that's
• 19:17
  Speaker 6: one that you can always cut move up and down
• 19:21
  Speaker 6: guys so you do have that flexibility so i think
• 19:23
  Speaker 6: this was more so we had two open spaces and
• 19:26
  Speaker 6: what's our weakest position right now it's cornerback. So see
• 19:30
  Speaker 6: which one can get there faster. But we had two
• 19:32
  Speaker 6: slots that we had to fill.
• 19:35
  Speaker 5: Willie?
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I think Max is spot on.
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: I think right now, if you're the Steelers and you
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: turned on last week's tape, you need some veteran leadership
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: and you also need guys who can, you know, cover
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: in the back. And if you turned on the tape
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: for the Colts last last week while they were in London, man,
• 19:52
  Speaker 4: their offense is stagnant.
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: It's not a very good one.
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: So they feel like they want to open it up
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: by throwing the ball, and that's why you go get
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: corners so you can combat some of that.
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: Okay, so we're going to do our power rankings. Jim
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: Box is going to join us. We're going to go
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: over the NFL power rankings as distributed by The Athletic. Okay, guys,
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: I'm going to put you on the spot. Right now,
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: before we go to break, I want your number one
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: team and your guess at where the Steelers are ranked.
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: And I have not looked at this. So who's the
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: number one team in football? Who do you think will
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: be ranked number one?
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: No, you know what?
• 20:25
  Speaker 5: Better yet, who's your number one and where do you
• 20:28
  Speaker 5: think the Steelers are going to be ranked?
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: You want me to go or you want Max to go?
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: Go ahead. You take it, Will. Okay. I think the
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: number one team.
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: In football right now, for the second week in a
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: row is the San Francisco 49ers, and I do think
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: the Steelers are probably ranked 23rd.
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: I'm going to go 49ers and 19. I think the
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: 49ers and Chiefs, I think the Chiefs have an interesting argument,
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: but I think the 49ers were ranked number one last week,
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: so I think they'll be ranked one again. I'm going
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: to go 19 on the Steelers, Max.
• 21:03
  Speaker 6: All right, I'm going to go Chiefs because I feel
• 21:06
  Speaker 6: like the Chiefs after last week kind of showed us who,
• 21:09
  Speaker 6: you know, that they are actually officially real. You know,
• 21:14
  Speaker 6: played a great game against the Raiders and came out,
• 21:17
  Speaker 6: you know, the Battle of Unbeatens, and they came out
• 21:19
  Speaker 6: on top. The dust settled, so I like them at
• 21:21
  Speaker 6: number one. Steelers, I'm going to say Steelers.
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: I'm going to split. I'm going to say.
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: Actually, no, I'm not going to split the difference because
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: 21 is too rich. I'm going to go 22. I'm
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: going to go 22nd. I'm going to go in between
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: both of you. Okay.
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: All right. Again, this is Scout's honor. We have not
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: checked these things. So we're going to check them when
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: we come back. We're also going to have Jim Wexel
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: joining us a little bit later on as news trickles
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: in from Steelers practice. If we get any, we will
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: pass it along to you as well. When we continue
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: in the locker room here on the Steelers Audio Network.
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: This is In the Locker Room with Rob King, Max Starks,
• 22:05
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• 22:08
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• 22:11
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• 22:16
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• 22:24
  Speaker 2: And thanks very much for being back with us. This
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: is the time of the week we like to take
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: a look around. the NFL, see what's happening and see
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: how teams are being perceived, of course, including the Steelers
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: as well.
• 22:36
  Speaker 5: We also like to have our.
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: One overrated team and one underrated team from around the NFL.
• 22:44
  Speaker 5: So let's get started.
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: As we suspected, Willie Colon, San Francisco 49ers, number one.
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: I don't think that's much of a surprise. Max's team,
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: Kansas City, number two. I don't have any I don't
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: have any complaints at all with those rankings.
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: You?
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: Not at all.
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: I think if you watch the Niners right now and
• 23:06
  Speaker 4: the way they play, the Niners and the offensive line
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: haven't given up a sack all year. Bob Purdy continues
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: to dominate. And, you know, one person that we should
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: start talking about about comeback player of the year is
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: George Kettle. So altogether, there's defense, the offense, Kyle Shanahan.
• 23:23
  Speaker 4: He has the boys humming at a high level right now,
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: and it's early, so. Yeah, beware of the fans of
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: San Francisco 49ers.
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: And I think you liked the Chiefs early too, Willie,
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: didn't you? Weren't you a big proponent of them right
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: away after that opening day victory?
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah, because I was a believer in K-9. I thought
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: Kenneth Walker, who continues to dominate.
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: Listen, if you turn on that game against the Raiders,
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: he totally took over that game. And now when you
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: start to see the offensive line and the way he's
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: playing along with Patrick Mahomes, Patrick Mahomes doesn't have to
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: whip out the cape anymore. He has a running back
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: who can really stabilize the offense.
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: And they have a.
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: Defense who's backing him up. LeGarrette Snead had a big
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: play that caused a fumble. The Chiefs are starting to
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: look like the Chiefs of old, man. And there's something
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: to say when you can run the ball, Rob.
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: So, here we go. Here come the Chiefs.
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: Well, you know, I think my biggest question about that,
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: Willie and Max, too, if you want to chime in
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: on this, was that, you know, and I think it was–
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: I can't remember if it was Troy Aikman and Joe
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: Buck in the first game where they were impressed with
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: the way Walker was running the ball. And then they
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: basically said if– If their head coach, Andy Reid, can
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: keep this going and cannot go to his inclination, which
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: is to pass the ball, right? He wants to throw
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: the ball and he wants to run the West Coast offense.
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: And if he can step away from that and not
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: get in his own way, kind of was what he
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: was saying, then there's no reason this offense can't continue
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: to roll. And he said that from game one. And
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: there's been no hesitation, Max, in giving the ball to
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: Kenneth Walker.
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 24:55
  Speaker 6: And I think that's something that when you think about
• 24:58
  Speaker 6: the chiefs and when they were rocking and their heyday,
• 25:02
  Speaker 6: they had to have that balance. Even though we saw
• 25:05
  Speaker 6: the theatrics of Patrick Mahomes, we saw all of the
• 25:08
  Speaker 6: heroics that he would come up with some off platform,
• 25:12
  Speaker 6: throw some left-handed throw under the harm.
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: Behind the back.
• 25:16
  Speaker 6: I mean, looking like magic Johnson out there, um, or
• 25:19
  Speaker 6: Kyrie Irving for the younger generation. Um, They had a
• 25:23
  Speaker 6: solid run game. Kareem Hunt was a valuable part of
• 25:26
  Speaker 6: this team. Isaiah Pacheco was a valuable part of this
• 25:28
  Speaker 6: team in keeping them consistent, and they ran the ball effectively.
• 25:32
  Speaker 6: They could grind you down to a pulp if they
• 25:34
  Speaker 6: needed to run, but then they could also throw themselves
• 25:37
  Speaker 6: out of a bad situation if you were running an
• 25:39
  Speaker 6: eight-man box, and that's what made them so tough to defend.
• 25:42
  Speaker 6: When you think about kind of that five-year window where
• 25:45
  Speaker 6: the AFC championship game had to go through Kansas City,
• 25:48
  Speaker 6: and they were usually going to be one of the
• 25:49
  Speaker 6: representative's you know, three out of five Super Bowls in
• 25:52
  Speaker 6: that time. So I think that's something that we do
• 25:57
  Speaker 6: see the short, quick passing game, but that's because they
• 26:00
  Speaker 6: couldn't run the ball. So it was a de facto, like,
• 26:02
  Speaker 6: we need this to get us in a better situation. But, yeah,
• 26:07
  Speaker 6: running the football cures a lot of ills. I mean,
• 26:10
  Speaker 6: it's an old axiom, and people don't like it. It
• 26:12
  Speaker 6: doesn't score as many points, but when you talk about rhythm, consistency–
• 26:17
  Speaker 6: and being able to slow the game down so it's
• 26:19
  Speaker 6: not so up-tempo, high-flying, everybody's going everywhere.
• 26:22
  Speaker 5: That's what a run game does.
• 26:24
  Speaker 6: A run game is a balance. It provides an opportunity.
• 26:28
  Speaker 6: Your defense is tired, right? It doesn't matter if you
• 26:31
  Speaker 6: score on three plays 75 yards. Your defense has only
• 26:35
  Speaker 6: been on the sideline for 45 seconds, right? They don't
• 26:38
  Speaker 6: even have enough time to really get the adjustments in,
• 26:41
  Speaker 6: let alone get some Gatorade and just kind of take
• 26:43
  Speaker 6: a breath. So you have to have that balance, and
• 26:46
  Speaker 6: I think for Kansas City, that was something that they
• 26:48
  Speaker 6: had that people kind of overlooked because you look at
• 26:50
  Speaker 6: Patrick Mahomes, you look at Travis Kelsey, but those were
• 26:53
  Speaker 6: the unsung heroes finding a run game, and when they
• 26:56
  Speaker 6: have their struggles, it's because they couldn't run the football,
• 26:58
  Speaker 6: and now they're back to it.
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: You know, one of my favorite football-isms came from Dave Wanstead,
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: and it took me a minute to realize what he
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: was saying, but he's basically saying what you said. He said,
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: you throw the ball to score points, you run the
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: ball to win games. And I thought that's kind of
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: a beautiful way of putting it and very true, I think.
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: Listen, I think for everybody who's witnessing these running backs
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: around the league that's starting to kind of get momentum,
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: and we've talked about Kenneth Walker, B. John Robinson, and,
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: you know, the list goes on. You know, Tyron Williams,
• 27:36
  Speaker 4: even from the Rams, has really last couple weeks has
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: popped off the tape and really done a great job
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: of helping the Rams. Your staff really hasn't been playing well.
• 27:43
  Speaker 4: considering that he's been turning over the ball a lot
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: more than he did last year. But the key to
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: the run game, as much as we like to talk
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: about it, generate momentum.
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: And also, you know, acting as a.
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: Stabilizer, it also forces the defense to not really get
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: in their bag, because if you're dominant on the run,
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: you know, you have to worry about the play action.
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: And if you have to worry about the play.
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: Action, now you have to, now you got to give
• 28:08
  Speaker 4: me between playing the lighter box or heavy box and,
• 28:11
  Speaker 4: That's when you start to see the talent of some
• 28:13
  Speaker 4: of these coordinators and defensive coordinators. And so having a
• 28:17
  Speaker 4: really good running back just doesn't make you one-sided, right?
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: It allows you to kind of tap into a myriad
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: of things.
• 28:23
  Speaker 4: And also see some of the talent that you either
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: drafted or have on your roster where they can come
• 28:28
  Speaker 4: to fruition as well.
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: So it just opens up a lot.
• 28:31
  Speaker 4: When you see teams that aren't able to run the ball,
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: it puts so much stress on the offense to really
• 28:37
  Speaker 4: try to figure out what they can do. We saw
• 28:40
  Speaker 4: it last week with the Jets, man. They were 0
• 28:43
  Speaker 4: for 7 on third down. simply because they just simply
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: couldn't run the ball. And there are other teams who
• 28:49
  Speaker 4: do run the ball at a good tilt, and you
• 28:52
  Speaker 4: see it take the pressure off their quarterback and the
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: pressure off the offensive coordinator because they feel like they
• 28:56
  Speaker 4: have ways to kind of get out of tough situations
• 28:59
  Speaker 4: by keeping it on the ground, and it protects the
• 29:01
  Speaker 4: quarterback from throwing the ball away. So running the ball,
• 29:04
  Speaker 4: it cures a lot, right? It's the ultimate robot testing.
• 29:06
  Speaker 4: So not everybody has it, not everybody likes it, but
• 29:10
  Speaker 4: it's effective.
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: Okay, number three, Seattle. Number four, Buffalo. Number five, the
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: Alabama Crimson Tide. Oh, I'm sorry. The LA Rams. I
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: beg your pardon. I misspoke there. They're, again, following that
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: federal mandate. They can't fall too far down.
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: They're number five.
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: Number six, Jacksonville Jaguars. um man i'm not sure i'm
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: not you're not a believer no i'm not convinced that
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: they're not number three three yeah i will.
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: Put them in front of buffalo i put them.
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: In front of a hundred percent yeah i i'm a
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: i'm a believer in jacksonville.
• 29:56
  Speaker 6: Me too yeah yeah but you said seattle's number three.
• 29:59
  Speaker 5: Right Seattle is three, Buffalo four.
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I would swap Buffalo and Seattle.
• 30:06
  Speaker 6: I just covered the Pats-Bills game, and they got a
• 30:10
  Speaker 6: lot of questions to answer on defense, and they barely
• 30:12
  Speaker 6: got out of L.A.
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: The week before that.
• 30:14
  Speaker 5: L.A.
• 30:15
  Speaker 6: Was playing with their food against the Bills.
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: They could have beaten them.
• 30:19
  Speaker 6: But Jacksonville, Jacksonville is looking like a silent juggernaut.
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: They are beating people convincingly. It's not like, oh, my gosh.
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: We hope to do this. Travis Hunter had, what, two
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: interceptions in that game last week? Correct. Yep.
• 30:32
  Speaker 6: And then Parker Washington has just been on an absolute
• 30:34
  Speaker 6: tear as a number one receiver.
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: So, I mean, that's a squad.
• 30:38
  Speaker 6: Trevor Lawrence is starting to come up to Bill and
• 30:40
  Speaker 6: starting to look like the guy that they drafted number
• 30:42
  Speaker 6: one overall. So, I would definitely slot them in front
• 30:45
  Speaker 6: of Buffalo for sure. They're definitely a top four, top
• 30:47
  Speaker 6: five team.
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: So, as we're eyeing into the future, peering into the
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: future about our– we're all going to pick a team
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: that we think is underrated and overrated. We all think
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: Jacksonville is underrated at this point.
• 30:57
  Speaker 5: Correct. Oh, yeah. Yeah, we'll try to look for a
• 31:00
  Speaker 5: little differentiation. The Vikings, number seven. Four and 0.
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: Rock fight.
• 31:05
  Speaker 5: Four and 0.
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: Rock fight.
• 31:07
  Speaker 5: I know.
• 31:07
  Speaker 4: The Vikings go past the Dolphins.
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah. I mean, Kyler Murray, that's a whole other show. Yeah.
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: But the defense, it's the defense. The defense is carrying.
• 31:24
  Speaker 4: It's also hypocritical of us as Steelers fans and people
• 31:27
  Speaker 4: who wore the black and gold when we watched our
• 31:30
  Speaker 4: defense carry the offense multiple times and hoist us to
• 31:33
  Speaker 4: victory to kind of throw rocks at the Vikings for
• 31:36
  Speaker 4: doing the same thing. I think the problem is I
• 31:40
  Speaker 4: think from a talent standpoint, you would assume the Vikings
• 31:43
  Speaker 4: have way more talent than the Steelers do, right? From
• 31:45
  Speaker 4: a roster standpoint, a better receiving core, I would attest to.
• 31:49
  Speaker 4: But when you look at what they're dealing with, they
• 31:51
  Speaker 4: have some serious injuries on the offensive line. Kyler Murray
• 31:56
  Speaker 4: doesn't look good, period. I'm going to stop it there.
• 31:58
  Speaker 4: And Justin Jefferson is struggling to find somebody who can
• 32:02
  Speaker 4: deliver the ball to him on time. But when you
• 32:05
  Speaker 4: stop the other team from scoring by blitzing.
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: Them 80% of the time.
• 32:11
  Speaker 4: And be effective at that, it's going to work. So
• 32:15
  Speaker 4: Brian Flores has those guys playing at a high level
• 32:18
  Speaker 4: on defense out there in Minnesota. The offense is still
• 32:21
  Speaker 4: trying to figure themselves out, but they're 4-0.
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: So that brings up an interesting point that I want
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: a quick aside here, and then we'll jump back into
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: the rankings. I always believe, I think that a team
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: that starts to believe is a dangerous team. And I
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: think a team that is starting to win is starting
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: to believe. Now, if you're the Vikings and you're starting
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: to believe, maybe there's a little nagging doubt in the
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: back of your mind, and then you get worked by
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: the Bears or something. I don't know what their upcoming
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: schedule is. I don't know who the.
• 32:57
  Speaker 5: Vikings have next. They have the Saints coming up next.
• 33:00
  Speaker 5: You know what I mean? I remember watching when the
• 33:02
  Speaker 5: Rams moved to St.
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: Louis.
• 33:09
  Speaker 5: And I think it was, yeah, it was the St.
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: Louis Rams, and they were still playing at Busch Stadium,
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: and they got off to a great start, they had
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: a new coach, and they started to get some belief.
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: They hadn't been very good, and then San Francisco came
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: in and just pounded them. I mean, obliterated them at
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: Busch Stadium, and there went the belief. It just leaked
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: out like air out of a balloon. So I understand
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: it's not, you know, things can happen, but I think
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: if the Vikings have another couple of wins.
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: Maybe they're going to start actually deserving that. Because I
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: think we all agree that that seems a little high,
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: even though they're 4-0. But they might start– you know
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: what I'm saying, guys? I mean, do you guys think
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: that belief matters?
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: Well, I think you can get fooled by that.
• 33:56
  Speaker 4: I think you can assume every time a team pops
• 33:59
  Speaker 4: up with a W on their schedule that they're a
• 34:01
  Speaker 4: team that's all in in belief. Sometimes– That's not necessarily
• 34:05
  Speaker 4: the case. The schedule may favor them. They may just
• 34:12
  Speaker 4: be the better outfit. When I think about a team
• 34:15
  Speaker 4: who believes, believe it or not, I think about the
• 34:18
  Speaker 4: bottom feeders. I think about teams like the Raiders. I
• 34:22
  Speaker 4: think about teams like the Dolphins. The Dolphins haven't won,
• 34:25
  Speaker 4: but if you watch them, you can see the bricks
• 34:28
  Speaker 4: being built.
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: You can see the guys.
• 34:32
  Speaker 4: who are now there, whether it's Chop Robinson or Rodriguez,
• 34:35
  Speaker 4: the linebacker who they just picked up in a draft,
• 34:38
  Speaker 4: who's playing out of his mind. Malik Willis is starting
• 34:41
  Speaker 4: to show signs that he can be a competent quarterback.
• 34:43
  Speaker 4: You start to see guys, despite the record, really give
• 34:47
  Speaker 4: an all-out effort and take teams to deep water, even
• 34:50
  Speaker 4: though they're not winning those games.
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: I think sometimes when you see a team.
• 34:54
  Speaker 4: Who is as efficient as the Rams or the Chiefs
• 34:58
  Speaker 4: or whoever. You feel like, oh, that team just– they
• 35:00
  Speaker 4: believe in who they are.
• 35:01
  Speaker 3: I'm like, yeah, maybe.
• 35:03
  Speaker 4: I think they just– they are a product of the
• 35:06
  Speaker 4: system like the Niners are. But I look at teams
• 35:10
  Speaker 4: who are kind of middle of the pack and kind
• 35:14
  Speaker 4: of dwell at the bottom a little bit of how
• 35:15
  Speaker 4: their play style and how they finish games and how
• 35:17
  Speaker 4: they don't beat themselves and things like that. Those– because
• 35:22
  Speaker 4: you'll notice, Rob, too, when a team is– a team
• 35:25
  Speaker 4: that doesn't believe they pack it up early.
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: You can see it.
• 35:28
  Speaker 4: Missed tackles, penalties, arguing on the sideline.
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: Um, I'm not talking about the Steelers here, by the way.
• 35:35
  Speaker 4: Uh, it's, it's, it's, you can, you can start to see,
• 35:40
  Speaker 4: you start to see things, right?
• 35:42
  Speaker 3: You, you see, there's a disconnect.
• 35:44
  Speaker 4: Um, but with all that said, uh, The teams who
• 35:49
  Speaker 4: do believe, doesn't matter what the game looks like, there's
• 35:53
  Speaker 4: a community belief that they're going to figure it out somehow,
• 35:56
  Speaker 4: some way.
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: And usually they do. But even if they don't, you
• 35:59
  Speaker 3: can tell they put up a good fight.
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: All right, quickly through the top. No, we're going to
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: stop right there because we need to take a break.
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: And then we're going to dash through the rest of
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: these power rankings. Jim Wexler joining us next hour as well. Again,
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: any news, filters in from Steelers practice, we'll let you
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: know when we continue here in the locker room.
• 36:17
  Speaker 5: On the Steelers Audio Network.
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: This is In the Locker Room with Rob King, Max Starks,
• 36:30
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• 36:33
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• 36:41
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• 36:50
  Speaker 2: And thanks for being back with us as we... go
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: through the power rankings around the NFL and the teams
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: that we like, don't like, think are overrated, think are underrated.
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: We are through the top seven, and we're going to
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: kind of get the– we also had a guess as
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: to where the Steelers were. I guessed 19, Max guessed 22,
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: Willie guessed 23 on the athletic power ranking. So, again,
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: San Francisco 1, Kansas City 2, Seattle 3, Buffalo 4,
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: the Rams 5, Jacksonville six. We all think they should
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: be a little higher. The Minnesota Vikings were all kind
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: of waiting for the pin to hit the balloon. Eight,
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: Chicago Bears. I am so wrong on the Bears that
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: I think that if they were five or six instead
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: of eight, that would not, I don't think that would
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: be a miss. Then it's the Broncos nine, the Ravens ten.
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: You guys want to chew on those three selections there?
• 37:49
  Speaker 3: Uh, no, I think they're fair.
• 37:51
  Speaker 4: Um, you know, I think the bears right now, I've
• 37:54
  Speaker 4: said this before, Ben Johnson has built an ecosystem. I
• 37:57
  Speaker 4: don't think there's a quarterback that can't play in his
• 37:59
  Speaker 4: offense and thrive. Um, I think he's proven that from
• 38:01
  Speaker 4: Caleb Williams, the agent to case kingdom, they've all had
• 38:05
  Speaker 4: a successful days in his offense. I think when it
• 38:08
  Speaker 4: comes down to the Ravens, the biggest question with them
• 38:10
  Speaker 4: is the health of Lamar Jackson, who's not dealing with
• 38:12
  Speaker 4: an ankle injury. Um, and so, uh, And they played
• 38:16
  Speaker 4: the Titans. I mean, so the Titans are honestly one
• 38:20
  Speaker 4: of the worst teams in the NFL.
• 38:23
  Speaker 3: So, yeah, I think that's a fair assessment. I don't
• 38:26
  Speaker 3: have any problem with those rankings.
• 38:28
  Speaker 5: Max?
• 38:29
  Speaker 6: Yeah, no, I mean, it's so Lamar Jackson heavy, and
• 38:33
  Speaker 6: obviously we'll see what the status is. I know the
• 38:35
  Speaker 6: report came out and said that, oh, you know, it's
• 38:38
  Speaker 6: not a long-term injury. Well, I mean, they're never long-term injuries.
• 38:42
  Speaker 6: you know, when the guy's the face of a franchise, right,
• 38:45
  Speaker 6: unless his leg.
• 38:46
  Speaker 3: Or his arm is dangling from his body.
• 38:49
  Speaker 6: But, I mean, it is significant that they are not
• 38:52
  Speaker 6: successful when he's not in that lineup. And with new
• 38:54
  Speaker 6: coach Jesse Minter, they haven't quite, you know, become that
• 38:57
  Speaker 6: stout defense that you're talking about. So I think there
• 39:00
  Speaker 6: could be a little fluff there, you know, with their ranking.
• 39:04
  Speaker 6: But as it stands right now, I mean, you can't
• 39:06
  Speaker 6: argue it. The result's the result. I mean, and like
• 39:09
  Speaker 6: you said, the Bears– I mean, I don't know what
• 39:12
  Speaker 6: the Bears are. I need to see the Bears, you know,
• 39:16
  Speaker 6: play a little bit more. But I am a believer
• 39:19
  Speaker 6: that Ben Johnson is a great coach. And they're playing,
• 39:22
  Speaker 6: I think, I think they're out kicking their coverage. I mean,
• 39:25
  Speaker 6: this is the first quarter of the season. I mean,
• 39:27
  Speaker 6: halfway point could be a completely different story.
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: But.
• 39:30
  Speaker 6: As it stands right now, I mean, I see no
• 39:31
  Speaker 6: problem with it.
• 39:32
  Speaker 3: It is what it is right now.
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe I'm overcompensating for being so wrong about them.
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: I really thought they were one of the candidates to
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: come back to Earth. There's always a team or two
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: that comes back to Earth. Maybe that team's number 11,
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: the New England Patriots, but they just jumped up from
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: 16 to 11 with their victory over the bills. They're
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: followed by another two and two team, the Detroit lions.
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: And then I'm going to call them Willie Cologne's Las
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: Vegas Raiders who went from 12 to 13 after a
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: field goal loss to the chiefs.
• 40:05
  Speaker 5: I mean, they were right there with the chiefs.
• 40:07
  Speaker 3: Oh man.
• 40:09
  Speaker 4: And then, you know, listen, they didn't, they didn't particularly
• 40:11
  Speaker 4: run the ball really well. Just Kurt Cousins playing out
• 40:14
  Speaker 4: of the skull and the defense really backing them up. They,
• 40:17
  Speaker 4: I mean, Brock Bowers was dealing with a flu, and
• 40:20
  Speaker 4: he had a decent game. So, yeah, the Raiders– I'm just– man,
• 40:26
  Speaker 4: I'm just a fan of a team that says enough
• 40:28
  Speaker 4: is enough. You know, I'm just a fan of an
• 40:31
  Speaker 4: organization who finally gets it right.
• 40:34
  Speaker 3: Like, enough is enough.
• 40:34
  Speaker 4: Like, we're going to spend time– let's spend our time winning,
• 40:37
  Speaker 4: not losing all the damn time.
• 40:40
  Speaker 3: And so, when you– the Raiders are fun to watch.
• 40:42
  Speaker 4: They got a bunch of guys who– You know, Cody White,
• 40:45
  Speaker 4: the guy who came off the bench, continues.
• 40:46
  Speaker 3: To thrive and score touchdowns.
• 40:49
  Speaker 4: Brock Bowers and Michael Myers are two tight end combinations, really,
• 40:53
  Speaker 4: really good. And Kirk Cousins, man, you can't say enough about,
• 40:58
  Speaker 4: you know, is he worthy? Let me ask you this, Rob.
• 41:00
  Speaker 4: Is he worthy of being in the comeback conversation?
• 41:05
  Speaker 3: Absolutely. Of the comeback play of the year?
• 41:08
  Speaker 5: No doubt.
• 41:09
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, what he is doing. is, frankly, nothing
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: short of remarkable. I mean, look, I think for most
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: fans in the NFL, myself probably included, you know, Kirk
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: Cousins didn't really work out in Atlanta that.
• 41:27
  Speaker 5: Well the last couple years. Just like, meh, you know.
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: Okay, so, okay, old man, you know, play your four
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: games and then get out of the way so we
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: can see Mendoza. I think that's what fans were thinking.
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: That's what I was thinking. He has been tremendous.
• 41:43
  Speaker 3: Tremendous, man.
• 41:44
  Speaker 5: They are 3-1.
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: And their loss is a three-point loss to the Raiders.
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: I mean, to the Chiefs.
• 41:52
  Speaker 3: And to your point, Rob, they're spooky good, right?
• 41:55
  Speaker 4: Like, this is a team that you kind of like, man,
• 41:58
  Speaker 4: we'll bring our flip-flops to the game because we know
• 42:01
  Speaker 4: we're about to roll these dudes. Now, you got to
• 42:03
  Speaker 4: bring your hard-toe boots because they're going to play you
• 42:06
  Speaker 4: for fourth quarter.
• 42:06
  Speaker 3: So, yeah.
• 42:08
  Speaker 4: Man, I just like it, man. I just like their story.
• 42:11
  Speaker 4: I like Kubiak and his system, and I like the
• 42:14
  Speaker 4: defense and everything that happened with Max Crosby in the offseason.
• 42:17
  Speaker 4: And even up into the season, there were still rumors
• 42:20
  Speaker 4: laying around that he still might get traded. And when
• 42:23
  Speaker 4: you see this defense play together, they're not the best,
• 42:26
  Speaker 4: but they'll put their foot in the middle.
• 42:29
  Speaker 3: Of the ring and bang it out with you.
• 42:30
  Speaker 4: So they're fun to watch. So I'm a pseudo Raiders fan.
• 42:37
  Speaker 5: By the way, you know the.
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: Game, because we're all going to pick our game of
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: the week, right?
• 42:47
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 42:49
  Speaker 5: That comes up on Friday, right?
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: And so earlier in the year, these guys were laughing
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: at me because I had the Patriots, and then the Patriots,
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: somebody killed them.
• 42:57
  Speaker 5: I can't remember who it was. It was Jacksonville.
• 43:00
  Speaker 3: No, it was Jacksonville. It was Jacksonville two weeks ago.
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: So I don't mind telling you because– We're 974 miles
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: removed from Pittsburgh.
• 43:10
  Speaker 5: To Jackson, Mississippi. By the way, I looked it up. Okay.
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: When Willie said, I'm really looking forward to the Raiders game,
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: after these guys, after my friends were giving me the business,
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: I rolled my eyes.
• 43:26
  Speaker 5: Willie, I'm 974 miles away. I rolled my eyes. But
• 43:30
  Speaker 5: now I'm like, hey, man. Come Friday, I might be
• 43:33
  Speaker 5: jumping on that as my game of the week. The
• 43:35
  Speaker 5: Raiders and the Patriots. Yeah.
• 43:38
  Speaker 4: And Drake may play better in the second half. He
• 43:41
  Speaker 4: just got off in the first half. But he was
• 43:43
  Speaker 4: better in the second half. I think he put it
• 43:47
  Speaker 4: together and willed his team to victory.
• 43:50
  Speaker 3: So, yeah. I mean, Pats, Raiders, it could be a
• 43:54
  Speaker 3: backyard scrap. I'm with it.
• 43:56
  Speaker 5: So, I'm going to go early.
• 44:02
  Speaker 2: Foot down it's kind of a tentative foot down like
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: I'm kind of tapping it like is that ground hot
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: or not I'm not real I'm not overly on board
• 44:11
  Speaker 2: with this and I'm not going to pick 19 teams
• 44:15
  Speaker 2: but I might my early my team that might be
• 44:18
  Speaker 2: overrated might be the Lions are at 12 maybe they're
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: just maybe they're just a team that got there and
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: got close and now they're on the downslides You know,
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: they're sliding now. There's a bunch of 2-2 teams, and
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: to see them at 12, I'm going to go right now,
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: early call, as the Lions are my overrated team in
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: the NFL at number 12.
• 44:46
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, Rob, I can't disagree with that because
• 44:51
  Speaker 4: watching the Lions feels like the feeling I got when
• 44:53
  Speaker 4: I watched Ronald Isley performed on stage a couple of
• 44:57
  Speaker 4: months ago.
• 44:58
  Speaker 3: It was hard to watch, right?
• 45:00
  Speaker 4: Like, the hits were the hits, but watching him sit
• 45:03
  Speaker 4: there on stage and, you know, pretty much people had
• 45:06
  Speaker 4: to kind of, you know, fish the words out of
• 45:09
  Speaker 4: his mouth.
• 45:09
  Speaker 3: It was rough.
• 45:10
  Speaker 4: And I think that's how I perceive the lambs.
• 45:13
  Speaker 3: The lambs. The lions. The lions right now.
• 45:16
  Speaker 5: They are lambs. No, you got it right.
• 45:17
  Speaker 3: You got it right.
• 45:18
  Speaker 5: Oh, man.
• 45:19
  Speaker 6: That's a great Freudian slip.
• 45:21
  Speaker 5: I love it.
• 45:21
  Speaker 3: By the way.
• 45:23
  Speaker 5: When Lions turned to Lions. Isley Brothers? Isley from the
• 45:26
  Speaker 5: Isley Brothers.
• 45:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah.
• 45:27
  Speaker 5: Mr.
• 45:28
  Speaker 4: Big.
• 45:29
  Speaker 5: Mr.
• 45:29
  Speaker 6: Big.
• 45:29
  Speaker 4: Mr.
• 45:29
  Speaker 3: Big, Ronald Isley, yeah. I saw him perform a couple
• 45:32
  Speaker 3: months ago, and he, you know, it's funny. You know
• 45:35
  Speaker 3: the songs, but.
• 45:36
  Speaker 4: It's like it's hard to kind of like, you know,
• 45:37
  Speaker 4: he's old. He's getting up there in age. No disrespect
• 45:40
  Speaker 4: to the man, but, you know, at some point you
• 45:43
  Speaker 4: got to stop performing.
• 45:44
  Speaker 3: But it is what it is.
• 45:45
  Speaker 4: With the Lions right now, you watch them, you know, offensively, sure,
• 45:50
  Speaker 4: they can score and they can do things, but defensively,
• 45:53
  Speaker 4: they can't stop anybody. I mean, that game against Carolina,
• 45:56
  Speaker 4: you know, Bryce Young and what's the name, the young
• 46:01
  Speaker 4: receiver from Arizona.
• 46:02
  Speaker 3: Oh, Ted McMillan. Ted McMillan, right.
• 46:05
  Speaker 4: Like, the offensive line, defensively, they look solid, man, and,
• 46:09
  Speaker 4: you know, and that was, the Panthers.
• 46:11
  Speaker 3: Had a lot of key injuries as well, but.
• 46:15
  Speaker 4: When you watch a team's window close in real time,
• 46:18
  Speaker 4: all you can do is just sit there and just say,
• 46:19
  Speaker 4: you know what, it was fun while it lasted because
• 46:21
  Speaker 4: that's how I feel when I watch the Lions.
• 46:24
  Speaker 3: It was great for a period of time, but now you.
• 46:26
  Speaker 4: Have to seriously start thinking about blowing this thing up
• 46:29
  Speaker 4: just so you can stay apart, stay afloat, because the
• 46:33
  Speaker 4: rest of their division is getting better. The Vikings are
• 46:35
  Speaker 4: getting better. The Packers will get better. The Bears are
• 46:38
  Speaker 4: obviously getting better. So if you're the Lions right now,
• 46:42
  Speaker 4: you've lost your fear factor. And we witnessed this Sunday
• 46:45
  Speaker 4: night against the Panthers. And no disrespect to the Panthers,
• 46:47
  Speaker 4: who I think will win the division or will at
• 46:50
  Speaker 4: least battle between the.
• 46:51
  Speaker 3: Saints and the Falcons.
• 46:53
  Speaker 4: But overall, man, you know, when the Lions rolled into town,
• 46:56
  Speaker 4: you say, oh, this can get.
• 46:57
  Speaker 3: Out of hand fast.
• 46:58
  Speaker 4: I don't think you feel that way anymore about the Lions.
• 47:02
  Speaker 4: And I think a lot has to do with how
• 47:04
  Speaker 4: bad the defense is and the fact that the offense.
• 47:06
  Speaker 3: Valet, can put up points.
• 47:07
  Speaker 4: It comes with a Herculean effort week after week.
• 47:10
  Speaker 2: Okay, so we are through 13 teams in the power rankings.
• 47:13
  Speaker 2: We have not yet arrived in the Steelers, not that
• 47:15
  Speaker 2: we expected to. We are going to let you know
• 47:18
  Speaker 2: where they rank. We'll take a look at the rest
• 47:19
  Speaker 2: of the team's rankings. Jim Wexel is going to be
• 47:22
  Speaker 2: joining us as well. We continue in the locker room
• 47:24
  Speaker 2: here in the Steelers.