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- 0:00Speaker 1: Today on Steelers Country Weekly, we will recap the Steelers
- 0:04Speaker 1: win over the Patriots this past week, and then preview
- 0:08Speaker 1: the game in Dublin against Minnesota Vikings, and then talk
- 0:10Speaker 1: about our favorite guest host, because I'm a guest host,
- 0:13Speaker 1: the unpaid student in turn, Joe Dethuglio here with the
- 0:16Speaker 1: world famous account Ericam Join Eric.
- 0:18Speaker 2: How are you doing?
- 0:20Speaker 3: Oh? Not too shabby. I got my belly full of
- 0:23Speaker 3: Skyline Chile. If anyone's ever been to Scott in the
- 0:26Speaker 3: Cincinnati's a staple and ate way too much. So just
- 0:34Speaker 3: here couching it and talking with you for the very
- 0:37Speaker 3: first time. We've grown up together but never done a
- 0:41Speaker 3: podcast together.
- 0:42Speaker 1: Definitely have not. You know, the whole Steelers thing might
- 0:46Speaker 1: be coming in the way. I know you got that
- 0:47Speaker 1: Chase Brown bobblehead from Skyline that they're selling. But no,
- 0:51Speaker 1: Nick is in Disney right now, so we thought about
- 0:55Speaker 1: making maybe the post post preview topic, maybe Disney Cares
- 1:00Speaker 1: would best for the Steelers right now, but figured that's
- 1:02Speaker 1: a little bit harder, So Nick will be back next week.
- 1:04Speaker 1: We hope to bring some more fanfare to the Steelers.
- 1:08Speaker 1: I provide more of a I guess non biased opinion
- 1:11Speaker 1: or an outsider's opinion. I guess you could say for
- 1:13Speaker 1: this team. But I mean, before we get into the
- 1:16Speaker 1: preview or the recap of last week, Eric, I will
- 1:19Speaker 1: say that the record for the Steelers is better than
- 1:23Speaker 1: maybe I thought it would or maybe exactly where I
- 1:24Speaker 1: thought it would be so far this year. But what
- 1:28Speaker 1: I see on the field maybe doesn't match the record.
- 1:31Speaker 1: I don't know if it's just easier schedule or what,
- 1:34Speaker 1: but that's kind of my vibes from the outside, and
- 1:36Speaker 1: I don't know if you felt the same way or not.
- 1:38Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, and the Steelers historically start off fairly strong.
- 1:45Speaker 3: Even there was a year that we had Dennis Dixon
- 1:47Speaker 3: lead four games when Big Ben was serving as suspension
- 1:52Speaker 3: and we went three and one. So you know, this
- 1:55Speaker 3: is a team that typically and I think you kind
- 1:58Speaker 3: of hit on it too. It's a soft schedule. Jets
- 2:00Speaker 3: are zero and three, the Seahawks are two and one
- 2:04Speaker 3: and they blasted us by two touchdowns and a you know,
- 2:07Speaker 3: very mistake prone game. And the Patriots, I mean, they
- 2:13Speaker 3: just kind of shot themselves in the foot five turnovers,
- 2:16Speaker 3: so you know, and they're rebuilding. I don't think that
- 2:21Speaker 3: they're great team so far, so have we really been
- 2:24Speaker 3: battle tested? I mean when we did, we got hit
- 2:28Speaker 3: in the mouth by two touchdowns. So we'll see what happens.
- 2:31Speaker 4: But you know what I I I'll take a win, however,
- 2:36Speaker 4: I'll get it two and one and right now tied
- 2:40Speaker 4: for the top of the standings in the AFC North,
- 2:43Speaker 4: So we'll take it.
- 2:45Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 2:45Speaker 1: Who would have thought the Bengals without Joe Burrow and
- 2:47Speaker 1: the Steelers top at the top or tied at the
- 2:49Speaker 1: top of the division. The Ravens have gotten off to
- 2:52Speaker 1: a slogus start. They also have had a very tough
- 2:53Speaker 1: schedule and they played the Chiefs this weekend and then
- 2:56Speaker 1: the Browns are always the Browns, but they'll think they
- 2:57Speaker 1: have at least a tough defense this year. To recap
- 3:01Speaker 1: what happened in the Steelers versus Patriots game, you already mentioned,
- 3:04Speaker 1: Steelers won twenty one to fourteen. I would say the
- 3:07Speaker 1: defense maybe didn't look all that much better. Other than
- 3:09Speaker 1: forcing the turnovers which you mentioned for first fourth fumbles,
- 3:14Speaker 1: they had one interception of Drake may It was a
- 3:18Speaker 1: game that I definitely had on the side screens with
- 3:21Speaker 1: the YouTube TV with the Sunday ticket, but just kind
- 3:23Speaker 1: of keeping tabs on it, big plays here and there.
- 3:27Speaker 2: But what was really.
- 3:28Speaker 1: Shocking to me Eric maybe was to you two was
- 3:31Speaker 1: the Steelers run game still wasn't that great overall, just different.
- 3:38Speaker 1: I think factors in that with the offensive line and
- 3:41Speaker 1: maybe not the running back talent not being at the
- 3:43Speaker 1: kind of quite near the top of the league.
- 3:45Speaker 2: And then they let the Patriots.
- 3:48Speaker 1: I guess this kind of goes with what the Patriots
- 3:49Speaker 1: have in terms of they have good tight ends and everything,
- 3:52Speaker 1: but under Henry eight catches for ninety yards and two touchdowns,
- 3:56Speaker 1: I felt like the Patriots were moving the ball pretty
- 3:58Speaker 1: well four point one yards per row us and they
- 4:01Speaker 1: were targeting what they had, which was tight ends very
- 4:04Speaker 1: well in this game. So while they get to win,
- 4:07Speaker 1: I think it was mostly based on those turnovers, and
- 4:09Speaker 1: it still wasn't a great performance for that defense.
- 4:12Speaker 2: As much as it is nice to be two and one.
- 4:15Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I mean, look, you mentioned you said it nicely.
- 4:20Speaker 3: The run game is second worst than the league, only
- 4:23Speaker 3: behind the Bengals. We have probably I think I calculated
- 4:29Speaker 3: it and told Nick before when we're preparing for this,
- 4:34Speaker 3: but you know, we have two point eight yards of
- 4:38Speaker 3: carry and You know, I think that there is a
- 4:42Speaker 3: little bit of a is this the best running back
- 4:46Speaker 3: room in the league now? But I think a lot
- 4:48Speaker 3: of it is actually the offensive line. There's still a
- 4:52Speaker 3: very young unit, and I think that they're still having
- 4:57Speaker 3: some hard time gelling. You know, Broderick Jones has had
- 5:02Speaker 3: his troubles before, Troy is basically in his rookie season,
- 5:07Speaker 3: spending it on ir last year, and we might have
- 5:12Speaker 3: a little bit of a sophomore slump with Zach Frazier
- 5:15Speaker 3: and Mason McCormick. So I do think the front. I
- 5:19Speaker 3: think the offensive line is a big one to blame.
- 5:21Speaker 3: It's also the kind of the reason why I don't
- 5:24Speaker 3: think that Aaron Rodgers has been as effective the last
- 5:28Speaker 3: two weeks. You know, this is a team that has
- 5:33Speaker 3: not eclipsed three hundred yards in a single game and
- 5:36Speaker 3: three showing, so it's pretty surprising that we're two and one.
- 5:42Speaker 3: The one thing I will say about the defense, and yeah,
- 5:45Speaker 3: you're right, they definitely didn't look great, but it's encouraging.
- 5:50Speaker 3: I mean they Tomlin loves to play a ben not
- 5:54Speaker 3: break defense, so they can move the ball all they
- 5:58Speaker 3: want to as long as their defensive player may playmakers
- 6:00Speaker 3: are gonna come up clutch, and you know in this
- 6:03Speaker 3: game they did.
- 6:05Speaker 2: Yeah, that's something they.
- 6:06Speaker 1: Might have to do moving forward, is just be a
- 6:08Speaker 1: defensive forces turnovers and it's just gonna be tough with
- 6:11Speaker 1: that offensive line. This is a Patriots defense that was
- 6:15Speaker 1: without Christian Gonzales and I think had a lot of
- 6:18Speaker 1: doubts coming into it. I do like some of their
- 6:20Speaker 1: players that were like upfront in this game, but their
- 6:23Speaker 1: secondary definitely could have been taken advantage of. And it
- 6:26Speaker 1: just seemed like Rogers had some good throws in this game,
- 6:29Speaker 1: but maybe didn't have the time to pick it apart.
- 6:31Speaker 1: And just the running game wasn't there at all to
- 6:33Speaker 1: help either. So you know, I know Caleb Johnson's in
- 6:37Speaker 1: the doghouse right now. I don't know when he gets
- 6:39Speaker 1: out either. I feel like at some point he has
- 6:40Speaker 1: to help the running game, but I know, I don't
- 6:42Speaker 1: know how long he's gonna be in the dog house
- 6:43Speaker 1: after that kickoff return blunder. But he didn't do much
- 6:47Speaker 1: with his carries earlier in this season either. I just
- 6:49Speaker 1: I feel like at some point only having what two
- 6:51Speaker 1: or three carries on the year so far maybe helps,
- 6:53Speaker 1: but at what point. Will it help the offensive line too,
- 6:57Speaker 1: because it's just I don't see this getting any better
- 7:00Speaker 1: or either free offensive lint least.
- 7:02Speaker 3: Yeah, and you know you mentioned Caleb Johnsa. I'm actually
- 7:07Speaker 3: not a huge fan. When he was drafted, I think
- 7:11Speaker 3: he got one of my lowest grades because he literally
- 7:14Speaker 3: is not Jay Harris two point zero. He's got no burst.
- 7:19Speaker 3: I think he ran four to six speed and it
- 7:21Speaker 3: really shows too, and that's we needed some explosive plays
- 7:28Speaker 3: and that's one thing I think Jalen Warren, you know,
- 7:32Speaker 3: he he's still trying to settle into the lead back role,
- 7:36Speaker 3: but it's kind of deceiving and kind of scary. He
- 7:39Speaker 3: he does have some like bigger runs. He'll have some plays,
- 7:43Speaker 3: especially receiving. So when he starts averaging two point five
- 7:48Speaker 3: yards of carry, even though he's still getting ten yard
- 7:51Speaker 3: bursts here and there, really like kinds of show like
- 7:54Speaker 3: during the game, they're just not doing a single thing
- 7:58Speaker 3: on you know, five of those runs in between those
- 8:01Speaker 3: ten yard runs. So we'll see what happens. But you know,
- 8:07Speaker 3: this is a typical Tomlin type of team, right. You
- 8:12Speaker 3: can poke holes at things, but at the end of
- 8:14Speaker 3: the day, the dude still wins football games, and it's
- 8:18Speaker 3: never pretty. I mean, if you're a Steelers fan, you
- 8:21Speaker 3: did not do it because you want the high flight offense.
- 8:25Speaker 3: You want to be the you know, most miraculous team
- 8:29Speaker 3: on the field. This is not the Rams of two
- 8:32Speaker 3: thousand and one. If you did, go be an Eagles fan,
- 8:37Speaker 3: go be a Bills fan. You want slugfest, you got it.
- 8:42Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what the design is for. Hopefully they can
- 8:44Speaker 1: get Jalen Warren to be more explosive for this offense.
- 8:47Speaker 1: I know Aaron Rodgers has mentioned that they just need
- 8:49Speaker 1: to get the ball in his hands more because of
- 8:50Speaker 1: his explosions explosiveness, but it is it's hard with that
- 8:54Speaker 1: offensive line. It might be more, might need more design
- 8:57Speaker 1: to get him the ball in space more just because
- 8:59Speaker 1: the offensive line is so bad. But yeah, the Steelers
- 9:02Speaker 1: get the one twenty one to fourteen in this one. Eric,
- 9:04Speaker 1: any any other thoughts from this game you want to
- 9:06Speaker 1: go over before.
- 9:06Speaker 2: We move on?
- 9:08Speaker 3: Thing, it's good weekend, all right?
- 9:10Speaker 1: Well, then we will move on to the Vikings game.
- 9:13Speaker 1: This game is in Dublin, Ireland. The Vikings had a
- 9:17Speaker 1: big win over the Cincinnati Bengals last week, which you know,
- 9:20Speaker 1: Joe Burrow was out for that one, but I would say,
- 9:22Speaker 1: honestly wouldn't have even mattered forty eight to ten. A
- 9:25Speaker 1: lot of it was on Bengals mistakes, but they do
- 9:28Speaker 1: get credit for the Winstill, they are two and one
- 9:30Speaker 1: and a kind of an awkward I would say start
- 9:33Speaker 1: to the season. That beat the Bear twenty seven to
- 9:35Speaker 1: twenty four, then they lost to the Falcons twenty two
- 9:37Speaker 1: to six. Their team that's going to be without a
- 9:40Speaker 1: lot of their key players in this game, including starting
- 9:43Speaker 1: quarterback JJ McCarthy, starting running back Aaron Jones, a couple
- 9:47Speaker 1: offensive linemen who are I think Ryan Kelly is in
- 9:50Speaker 1: the concussion protocol right now and did not practice so
- 9:53Speaker 1: far this week, or excuse me, he was a full
- 9:56Speaker 1: participant in practice this week, so I guess he's going
- 9:58Speaker 1: to play. So there are like this is a Minnesota
- 10:01Speaker 1: Vikings team that is it does have a complex defense
- 10:04Speaker 1: under Brian Flores. Kevin O'Connell seems to be a quarterback
- 10:07Speaker 1: whisper with whoever's back there, but they won't be at
- 10:09Speaker 1: full strength for this game, which so I'd make it
- 10:12Speaker 1: easier for the Steelers, especially having a very veteran tea.
- 10:16Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I mean, I do think experience will come
- 10:19Speaker 3: into play, but I do think that I trust the
- 10:25Speaker 3: Vikings coaching staff a little bit more. I think they've
- 10:28Speaker 3: been making adjustments and like you said, the quarterback play
- 10:33Speaker 3: has been really consistent, even though you know, when you
- 10:36Speaker 3: look at the level of talent that he's had to
- 10:39Speaker 3: deal with, it seems like they never really skip a beat.
- 10:43Speaker 3: It kind of feels like the forty nine ers in
- 10:45Speaker 3: that way that it doesn't matter who's behind the quarterback
- 10:49Speaker 3: or behind the center, it's still always going to be
- 10:51Speaker 3: a pretty good offensive performance. And that makes me a
- 10:56Speaker 3: little nervous, especially because the Vikings were able to show
- 11:00Speaker 3: last week that yeah, we we can make some defensive
- 11:04Speaker 3: plays too. We don't need to worry about the offense
- 11:08Speaker 3: providing fireworks. Their backup running back Jordan Mason, he looked
- 11:16Speaker 3: very explosive as well. And you can never take anything
- 11:20Speaker 3: away from Justin Jefferson. The guys a match just waiting
- 11:25Speaker 3: to be strike. So yeah, I think it's a dangerous
- 11:30Speaker 3: game because both teams coming off. You know, the turnovers
- 11:35Speaker 3: were the deciding factor of both of those games. But
- 11:41Speaker 3: as you could see, the Vikings were able to throttle
- 11:43Speaker 3: where the bank or the Steelers just kind of survive.
- 11:47Speaker 3: So we'll see what happens. But you know, early testament
- 11:53Speaker 3: is I still just don't trust this team.
- 11:56Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it'd be hard to with what they've
- 11:58Speaker 1: shown on tape so far. And it is a little
- 12:00Speaker 1: bit easier, I think, especially these days, if you have
- 12:02Speaker 1: like an offensive coach like Kevin O'Connell kind to get
- 12:05Speaker 1: you through the tough times and win with several different
- 12:07Speaker 1: quarterbacks and everything like that, what do you see is
- 12:10Speaker 1: the keys to the game here, because I could see
- 12:12Speaker 1: a couple of different ones, I know, like forcing turnovers.
- 12:15Speaker 1: But look, I mean I could also just see if
- 12:18Speaker 1: somehow the Steelers can stop the run and then make
- 12:21Speaker 1: Carson Wentz beat you. That could be a big thing.
- 12:23Speaker 1: Albeit having Kevin O'Connell leading Carson Wentz as well could
- 12:26Speaker 1: deal with better than maybe people expect.
- 12:29Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, look, the Steelers are seven and eight
- 12:35Speaker 3: in the red zone. That's unsustainable, but it could still
- 12:40Speaker 3: continue to be the factor of the reason why they're
- 12:42Speaker 3: going to win these football games. So we've been turning
- 12:46Speaker 3: those into touchdowns. When that stops, and we're relying on
- 12:51Speaker 3: Boswell to kick six field goals in a game. That's
- 12:54Speaker 3: when we're going to start seeing those close wins turn
- 12:58Speaker 3: into losses. So I think that's a key one. And
- 13:02Speaker 3: then yeah, I mean, really the defense being able to
- 13:06Speaker 3: kind of like save fresh and continue to play their game.
- 13:10Speaker 3: They're gonna need some better production from the run game.
- 13:14Speaker 3: Time of possession is one of those things that it
- 13:17Speaker 3: gets kind of lost in the mix. People always kind
- 13:20Speaker 3: of focus on a lot of other stats. But you know,
- 13:23Speaker 3: if your team is out there and your defense is
- 13:25Speaker 3: getting dogged in your offense, really it doesn't have anything
- 13:30Speaker 3: kind of putting together moving the chains, it's really gonna
- 13:33Speaker 3: be a hard press day for you because we don't
- 13:37Speaker 3: have that explosive playmaker on our team right now. DK
- 13:40Speaker 3: Metcalf was brought in to be that guy. I haven't
- 13:44Speaker 3: seen it yet, maybe slid a little bit in the
- 13:47Speaker 3: first game. Calvin Austin has the potential to do it,
- 13:53Speaker 3: but still feels untapped.
- 13:55Speaker 5: So you know.
- 13:57Speaker 3: What's the key. I mean it really just because someone's
- 14:01Speaker 3: got to step up, right, I mean, eventually there's gotta
- 14:05Speaker 3: be somebody that takes the reins and especially on the
- 14:09Speaker 3: offense side of the ball, and says that I'm gonna
- 14:13Speaker 3: be the guy, and I think that they had the
- 14:15Speaker 3: talent to do so. But who that person's gonna be.
- 14:19Speaker 3: I mean, your guess is as good as mine, man.
- 14:23Speaker 2: Definitely.
- 14:23Speaker 1: I do think an underrated factor of this game is
- 14:27Speaker 1: the Vikings defense is very complex and they'll throw a
- 14:31Speaker 1: bunch of different looks at you. So I think a
- 14:33Speaker 1: lot of checks at the line of scrimmage for Aaron Rodgers.
- 14:35Speaker 1: Can he get the whole offense on the same page
- 14:37Speaker 1: with an offensive line that hasn't played great this year,
- 14:39Speaker 1: with a lot of playmakers and maybe haven't played to
- 14:41Speaker 1: their best this season, I think that'll be a big key.
- 14:43Speaker 1: I know it's pretty cliche to say that the quarterback
- 14:46Speaker 1: is the X factor or something like that, but when
- 14:48Speaker 1: you're going up against a defense like this, I would
- 14:51Speaker 1: you know. It's just one of those things where if
- 14:52Speaker 1: the Vikings are playing a young quarterback, I'm just like, oh,
- 14:54Speaker 1: they're gonna win because that's what he does to people.
- 14:56Speaker 1: But if you have someone like Aaron Rodgers, that's not
- 14:58Speaker 1: really an excuse either. So now now he has to
- 15:00Speaker 1: go in here and make some plays. So along with
- 15:03Speaker 1: just the running game on both sides, even stopping the
- 15:04Speaker 1: run and running the ball. I think that's just gonna
- 15:06Speaker 1: be something to watch out for here. Can he get
- 15:08Speaker 1: the team into the right checks? Can he, you know,
- 15:10Speaker 1: get the ball into the playmaker's hands. Does he have
- 15:12Speaker 1: enough time from the offensive line. It's just gonna be
- 15:14Speaker 1: very tough against this Vikings defense, you know, a in
- 15:18Speaker 1: a weird week to prepare going over to Ireland. Yeah,
- 15:22Speaker 1: what do you think you're the score of this game
- 15:24Speaker 1: is gonna be?
- 15:25Speaker 5: What's your prediction here, Eric, I think it's gonna be close.
- 15:32Speaker 5: I'm gonna say twenty three twenty Vikings.
- 15:36Speaker 1: All right, you got a little push against the spread there.
- 15:38Speaker 1: Steelers are or excuse me, the Vikings a fiver about
- 15:41Speaker 1: three points. I'm gonna say Steelers win this one, seventeen
- 15:45Speaker 1: to thirteen. You can tell it's coming from the heart
- 15:48Speaker 1: here as someone who doesn't cheer for.
- 15:49Speaker 2: The Steelers at all.
- 15:50Speaker 1: But yeah, to me, it's it's just we've seen time
- 15:53Speaker 1: after time, backup quarterbacks come into a game in the
- 15:56Speaker 1: NFL and the stats will back this up, and their
- 15:58Speaker 1: first start is really good, and then they're set can
- 16:00Speaker 1: start they have problems. I do think the Steelers have
- 16:03Speaker 1: the talent to cause problems. We haven't seen it yet,
- 16:05Speaker 1: but I think it's a weird week for Carson Wentz
- 16:07Speaker 1: to prepare for this offense too, not having everyone playmaker wise,
- 16:11Speaker 1: Jordan Addison is coming back from his suspension in this
- 16:14Speaker 1: game too. Don't know if he's gonna be like one
- 16:15Speaker 1: hundred percent, if he's gonna play, how many snaps all
- 16:18Speaker 1: that stuff that could be tough. I do think it's
- 16:20Speaker 1: gonna be low scoring. Maybe maybe Chris Boswell is the MVP,
- 16:24Speaker 1: as he has been for you guys in a bunch
- 16:25Speaker 1: of different other games this year, but it's I think
- 16:28Speaker 1: it's gonna be one of those typical Sunday morning ugly
- 16:30Speaker 1: games that honestly, it's a coin flip either way. I
- 16:32Speaker 1: could see either team winning just based on what the
- 16:34Speaker 1: Vikings have out. I think if the Vikings were fully healthy,
- 16:36Speaker 1: I'd probably picked them to win. But I think that
- 16:39Speaker 1: there is some some hope for Steelers fans out there
- 16:41Speaker 1: that then maybe they can keep on forcing some turnovers.
- 16:44Speaker 2: Maybe TJ.
- 16:45Speaker 1: Watt can get two more sacks this week and really
- 16:46Speaker 1: change the game. So I'm taking the Steelers to win,
- 16:49Speaker 1: and you know, hoping I'm wrong.
- 16:52Speaker 3: Well, this is coming from a guy that hasn't watched
- 16:55Speaker 3: a lot of Steelers football. So you know what, I
- 16:57Speaker 3: hope you're right there.
- 17:00Speaker 4: You go.
- 17:01Speaker 1: All right, So our last topic of conversation, since I
- 17:04Speaker 1: am a guest host, we decided to do a favorite
- 17:07Speaker 1: guest host of all time, whether that is you know,
- 17:09Speaker 1: on different shows, late night shows, comedy shows, anything that
- 17:13Speaker 1: you can really think of. Here, it's kind of sign
- 17:16Speaker 1: us off, Eric, what do you think? What do you
- 17:17Speaker 1: got there?
- 17:19Speaker 3: Yeah? For me, I think it's always Peyton Manning. I mean,
- 17:23Speaker 3: the guy is just he was gold on and off
- 17:26Speaker 3: the field. To me, he feels like the Tom Hanks
- 17:31Speaker 3: of the NFL. Just a guy that like everyone loves universally.
- 17:35Speaker 3: He's very versatile and what he can do. He obviously
- 17:41Speaker 3: has his own show that with Eli doing the simultaneous
- 17:45Speaker 3: cast on ESPN Monday Night Football and whenever he would do,
- 17:51Speaker 3: you know, Saturday Night Live hosting. You know, I don't
- 17:56Speaker 3: really love watching Saturday Night Live. I was more of
- 17:59Speaker 3: a Matt TV guy growing up. There's some good skits
- 18:04Speaker 3: out there. If you ever need to kind of, like,
- 18:06Speaker 3: you know, kill some fifteen minutes, just go look up Stewart.
- 18:11Speaker 3: But yeah, I was a big Peyton Manning guest host fan.
- 18:16Speaker 2: His his skits were pretty awesome too.
- 18:18Speaker 1: I feel like they're they're perfectly written, and I do
- 18:21Speaker 1: love watching I guess it's not really guest hosting thing,
- 18:22Speaker 1: but I do like watching the Manning Caster one of
- 18:24Speaker 1: the night footballs a lot of the time too, just
- 18:26Speaker 1: to have see their guests and see what they say
- 18:27Speaker 1: about football too. I think I have two answers. I'm
- 18:32Speaker 1: not sure he officially guest hosted anything, but Mike Leach
- 18:35Speaker 1: came to mind. I don't. I think he's been like
- 18:38Speaker 1: a podcast interview guy. I don't know if he technically
- 18:39Speaker 1: was a guest host, but his press conferences were awesome.
- 18:42Speaker 1: Rest in peace to him.
- 18:43Speaker 2: And then.
- 18:45Speaker 1: I know Nick is as well a big fan of
- 18:47Speaker 1: the show Whose Line Is It Anyway? Robin Williams was
- 18:49Speaker 1: on at one time and I love that too, so
- 18:52Speaker 1: they had a couple of good guest hosts in that
- 18:54Speaker 1: out of Whose Line Is It Anyway? But I thought
- 18:57Speaker 1: that was particularly good as well, just having his comment
- 19:00Speaker 1: he mix with those guys while they did their improv.
- 19:02Speaker 3: But yeah, always love that show.
- 19:05Speaker 2: Yeah he's I think he still watches it all the time.
- 19:07Speaker 1: I'm sure if he does listen back to this episode,
- 19:09Speaker 1: God knows if he does, but I'm sure he'll appreciate
- 19:11Speaker 1: that shout out for that show. But any other guest
- 19:14Speaker 1: hosts that you can think of that you really liked
- 19:16Speaker 1: or is that it?
- 19:19Speaker 3: Let's see, you know, I it's not anyone particular, but
- 19:25Speaker 3: I always think that they do a really good job
- 19:27Speaker 3: of bringing on people on college game Day. You know.
- 19:32Speaker 3: I actually just saw Trey Young. He was they had
- 19:39Speaker 3: a game, I think in Atlanta, and he was doing it.
- 19:41Speaker 3: And you know, I'm not saying him in particular, but
- 19:45Speaker 3: I think that they always find a good guy like
- 19:47Speaker 3: to like get on the show and just talk shop
- 19:51Speaker 3: every once in a while, And it's always fun to
- 19:55Speaker 3: watch that and just kind of see the environment of
- 19:59Speaker 3: the college high in them and then just what who
- 20:02Speaker 3: they're gonna invite.
- 20:03Speaker 1: So yes, it's fun to watch that and see like
- 20:06Speaker 1: some people go on just for the fun and have
- 20:08Speaker 1: no idea what they're talking about, and then every once
- 20:10Speaker 1: in a while you get someone who knows exactly what
- 20:12Speaker 1: they're talking about. They had Timothy Shallomey was on it
- 20:15Speaker 1: last year and he was just talking about Mac football
- 20:17Speaker 1: and Mac quarterbacks and knew every little detail. It's just
- 20:19Speaker 1: funny how you would never suspect, you know, he'd be
- 20:22Speaker 1: judging a book by its cover that like Timothy Shallamy
- 20:24Speaker 1: will be watching mac football, but you knew exactly what
- 20:26Speaker 1: he was talking about, so that's always fun too.
- 20:28Speaker 3: Oh yeah, well he's doing it in between his Dune movies, right,
- 20:32Speaker 3: he's got.
- 20:35Speaker 1: There's nothing nothing better than having a long day on
- 20:37Speaker 1: set and then going home and watching some Mac football
- 20:39Speaker 1: on a Tuesday November.
- 20:40Speaker 2: Nothing better?
- 20:41Speaker 3: Well is it on Tuesdays nowaday?
- 20:44Speaker 2: Yeah? Tuesdays and Wednesdays?
- 20:45Speaker 5: No?
- 20:46Speaker 3: Yeah? Wow, there we go. I mean you can watch
- 20:49Speaker 3: football every day of the week.
- 20:51Speaker 1: That's that's the beauty of it all, right, Eric, any
- 20:53Speaker 1: final thoughts for the week before we log off.
- 20:57Speaker 3: I hope, I hope. My guest toast is right.
- 21:00Speaker 1: It's I'm unpaid for a reason, so I'll probably be
- 21:03Speaker 1: wrong our minder next week. Nick will be back for
- 21:06Speaker 1: now thanks to listen. We'll catch you guys on the
- 21:08Speaker 1: next one.