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BONUS EPISODE: Pgh Sports Current Events - September 17, 2026 · Pittsburgh Sports Memories

• 0:00
  SPEAKER_00: Hello and welcome to another exciting edition of Pittsburgh Sports Memories current events.
• 0:06
  SPEAKER_00: It's Football Palooza time, and I'm Steve Wirt.
• 0:09
  SPEAKER_00: I'm joined by my co-host.
• 0:11
  SPEAKER_01: I'm Tim Hannon.
• 0:13
  SPEAKER_00: Sweet Tim, are you ready for some football palooza?
• 0:16
  SPEAKER_00: Yay!
• 0:17
  SPEAKER_01: I am.
• 0:17
  SPEAKER_01: Football Palooza's here.
• 0:19
  SPEAKER_00: It's here to stay.
• 0:21
  SPEAKER_00: So we'll start off with uh pit football.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um day one, and this is an actual score from uh 2026, Tim, of 12 to 7.
• 0:32
  SPEAKER_00: Uh I think they were off five to nothing in the third there, and they gave up a couple late runs.
• 0:38
  SPEAKER_00: The bullpen came in.
• 0:40
  SPEAKER_00: Um UCF, did you know UCF is in the Big 12 now?
• 0:45
  SPEAKER_01: I did not know that.
• 0:46
  SPEAKER_00: I didn't know that.
• 0:47
  SPEAKER_00: And like because Narduzzi kept saying it, oh, that was a Big 12 win.
• 0:51
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know, you didn't beat like Texas or Oklahoma, or I guess that would be an ace SEC win now, but you didn't even beat Kansas.
• 1:02
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
• 1:03
  SPEAKER_01: I I the who's in what conference anymore is like I I can't follow it anymore.
• 1:08
  SPEAKER_01: It's two.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's confusing.
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  SPEAKER_00: And like there's all these division one AA powerhouses are now in like Division I or FBS.
• 1:17
  SPEAKER_00: Now like they're like Delaware's up, App State, Troy, like I think North Dakota State is now an upper level.
• 1:25
  SPEAKER_00: It's like it's weird.
• 1:26
  SPEAKER_00: Like all those schools like that were like traditional powers and won like all these national championships are now miling away at the bottom of this whatever it is.
• 1:39
  SPEAKER_00: So uh that's actually probably a more interesting conversation than this game.
• 1:44
  SPEAKER_00: It was really kind of a boring game, and I think it's mainly the weather in the second half.
• 1:49
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I will say this Heichel um he did what he needed to do.
• 1:53
  SPEAKER_00: He didn't throw any interceptions, he didn't throw any touchdowns, but um he went 18 for 29, 212 yards.
• 2:00
  SPEAKER_00: Um they did not have a good day running the ball, and that was probably the kind of a weather game where you needed to kind of line up and run it.
• 2:06
  SPEAKER_00: And uh Damian Ferguson had 20 carries for 59 yards and a touchdown.
• 2:12
  SPEAKER_00: He scored the game the Pitt's only touchdown.
• 2:16
  SPEAKER_00: Um Pitt had a safety, Pitt's defense had a safety.
• 2:19
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I guess Jekari Turner was hurt, he was a game time decision.
• 2:24
  SPEAKER_00: Um the defense played well, you know.
• 2:26
  SPEAKER_00: They they gave up a late touchdown as Pitt always does because they were leading 12 to nothing most of the game.
• 2:32
  SPEAKER_00: So um Pitt is 2-0.
• 2:34
  SPEAKER_00: Next up is Syracuse.
• 2:36
  SPEAKER_00: Pitt is a 10-point favorite at home, which means bet the house on Syracuse.
• 2:41
  SPEAKER_00: Um what are your thoughts on uh Pitt and the soggy win over UCF?
• 2:48
  SPEAKER_00: Were you just happy the turf wasn't terrible on Sunday for the Steelers?
• 2:53
  SPEAKER_00: I was kind of impressed.
• 2:54
  SPEAKER_00: I was impressed that it wasn't that bad.
• 2:57
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, did you see Aaron Rodgers even said um you know he said it was it really gave props to who's ever working on the turf this year or so?
• 3:06
  SPEAKER_01: Even even Rogers uh he complained about it last year.
• 3:10
  SPEAKER_02: Right.
• 3:10
  SPEAKER_01: Yep.
• 3:11
  SPEAKER_01: Uh you're right.
• 3:12
  SPEAKER_01: Turner not being in there hurt them.
• 3:14
  SPEAKER_01: They really needed a running game for that weather, and Turner being injured last second.
• 3:19
  SPEAKER_01: That that just that really set the offense back.
• 3:22
  SPEAKER_01: The defense looked really good.
• 3:24
  SPEAKER_01: Uh so that was promising.
• 3:26
  SPEAKER_00: I I think the quarterback for UCF's okay.
• 3:28
  SPEAKER_00: I I don't think he's terrible.
• 3:29
  SPEAKER_00: It just they they don't have much else, and it was raiding, and he really didn't do much.
• 3:34
  SPEAKER_01: And and it wasn't just raining.
• 3:36
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, the by the end of the game, I don't know if you were watching it.
• 3:39
  SPEAKER_00: It was like torrential.
• 3:41
  SPEAKER_01: Well, and they couldn't even use the cameras on the field anymore.
• 3:44
  SPEAKER_01: They had like they had cut to the faraway camera because and they had this um bar at the bottom of the screen that kept saying, like, you know, this is all we can show because of the because the equipment we can't use the cameras on the field.
• 3:57
  SPEAKER_01: And and it was so weird watching that because it like at one point Pitt punted and like when the ball went to the edge of the screen, they cut to the other camera where the ball came out of the other side of the screen.
• 4:09
  SPEAKER_01: Like it was it wasn't they didn't have anything scrolling, they didn't have anything close up.
• 4:13
  SPEAKER_01: So you're watching it from like a mile away through all this rain.
• 4:16
  SPEAKER_01: So yeah, that was that was just a mess of a game.
• 4:18
  SPEAKER_01: I'm glad they just escaped with a win.
• 4:20
  SPEAKER_01: I I'll take it.
• 4:23
  SPEAKER_00: Uh I don't yeah, who knows?
• 4:25
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, it's still kind of like Pitt's a big question mark.
• 4:27
  SPEAKER_00: It's like weird.
• 4:28
  SPEAKER_00: Like Pitt is really like you really don't know what Pitt is until like week four or five.
• 4:33
  SPEAKER_00: Like, even after, even if they beat or lose to Syracuse, you're kind of still like, uh, I don't know.
• 4:38
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not sure what they are yet.
• 4:40
  SPEAKER_01: So agreed.
• 4:43
  SPEAKER_00: And we really didn't find out what Pitt was until the tail end of last season either.
• 4:47
  SPEAKER_00: And you're like, well, they're kind of a mediocre team, they're not an upper echelon team yet, but they're okay, they're not terrible.
• 4:55
  SPEAKER_00: So moving on to the team that played on Sunday, speaking of mediocre wins, uh similar.
• 5:04
  SPEAKER_00: You you were afraid of losing to Tua Tagalowa, whatever his name is.
• 5:09
  SPEAKER_00: Were you even more afraid of losing to the mighty Cooper Rushes?
• 5:14
  SPEAKER_01: No, I really didn't have any thought that we were ever gonna lose to Cooper Rush, especially after the game got going.
• 5:20
  SPEAKER_01: And he what was it?
• 5:22
  SPEAKER_01: Kyle Pitts that was like wide open down the field, he just completely missed them.
• 5:26
  SPEAKER_01: I've there there was like a play early in the game, he had a dude just wide open.
• 5:31
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, and so uh yeah, he good for us.
• 5:34
  SPEAKER_01: We got to play their third string quarterback.
• 5:36
  SPEAKER_01: And when you're playing the Falcons third string quarterback, that's a nice play to start the season.
• 5:43
  SPEAKER_00: Hey, I you know, Mike McCarthy got his win right coming out of the gate.
• 5:48
  SPEAKER_00: I think the last four Steeler coaches have won their first game, haven't they?
• 5:52
  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
• 5:53
  SPEAKER_01: Uh our Facebook page posted a nice little graphic showing all four of those wins.
• 5:57
  SPEAKER_01: Uh Chuck Noel won his first game.
• 6:00
  SPEAKER_01: And he didn't win much else that season.
• 6:02
  SPEAKER_01: That was the only game he won that season.
• 6:04
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, against the Lions.
• 6:05
  SPEAKER_01: Bill Cower beat the Oilers, uh, Tomlin beat the Browns.
• 6:08
  SPEAKER_01: The fake punt.
• 6:10
  SPEAKER_00: I don't remember.
• 6:11
  SPEAKER_00: I don't remember the Tomlin versus the Browns game.
• 6:13
  SPEAKER_01: I the only thing I remember about that game is that Cleveland Cleveland on a punt had four penalties called on them on the same play.
• 6:24
  SPEAKER_00: Oh my god.
• 6:26
  SPEAKER_00: Wow.
• 6:27
  SPEAKER_00: All right.
• 6:28
  SPEAKER_00: Well, in the immortal words of Juju Smith shoots Browns be Browns.
• 6:34
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, did you see Tomlin said that the other night?
• 6:37
  SPEAKER_00: Did he really?
• 6:38
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 6:38
  SPEAKER_01: Oh yeah, you didn't see that.
• 6:39
  SPEAKER_01: So Tomlin was on NBC and he Yeah, he's doing the commentary.
• 6:43
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and and he literally said the same thing you just said.
• 6:46
  SPEAKER_01: He said in the words of Juju Smith Schuster, Browns v.
• 6:49
  SPEAKER_01: Browns, because he was showing the highlights of the Browns getting smoked by the Jacksonville.
• 6:53
  SPEAKER_01: Deshaun Watson, you know, not being able to throw.
• 6:57
  SPEAKER_01: And uh Tomlin said that.
• 6:59
  SPEAKER_01: And then they they had they interviewed Todd Monkin the next day and asked him about it.
• 7:04
  SPEAKER_01: And he said, you know, he was very diplomatic, obviously.
• 7:08
  SPEAKER_01: He was like, well, you know, if we don't want people to say things like that, then we just gotta play better.
• 7:13
  SPEAKER_01: But I mean, you could you could tell he was a little irked that Tomlin was like ripping on the Browns from afar.
• 7:20
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, I guess that's the right way to handle it.
• 7:23
  SPEAKER_00: You know, hey, you can you can be mad and yell all you want, but until you start winning, you can't you gotta, yeah, you're not gonna shut anybody up.
• 7:31
  SPEAKER_01: Well, Todd Monkin's gonna get fired after week six anyway.
• 7:34
  SPEAKER_01: So what does he care?
• 7:38
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, seriously, like what a what a terrible I I mean, talk about uh Deshaun Watson, is he the ultimate coach killer?
• 7:46
  SPEAKER_00: He's the ultimate coach killer.
• 7:48
  SPEAKER_00: How many coaches has he gotten fired?
• 7:50
  SPEAKER_00: And that stupid owner just it's like dude, it was like three years ago is the time to get rid of this dude.
• 7:57
  SPEAKER_00: Like just to eat your yes, you can just eat the money.
• 8:02
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it was all guaranteed though.
• 8:04
  SPEAKER_00: Like I think that they what that that has to be the worst contract in the history history.
• 8:07
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, it is, it's the worst, it's the worst trade in NFL history, it's the worst contract in NFL history.
• 8:13
  SPEAKER_01: It's it's it's awful.
• 8:15
  SPEAKER_01: And now they're stuck with them for at least this one more year.
• 8:18
  SPEAKER_01: And and somebody I heard somebody say, I wonder if their first two games are on the road.
• 8:24
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and I think they play at Tampa this weekend against Baker, which is gonna be interesting.
• 8:30
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, jeez.
• 8:31
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 8:32
  SPEAKER_01: And and then their first home game is week three.
• 8:34
  SPEAKER_01: And I wonder if that's when they'll bench Watson.
• 8:38
  SPEAKER_01: Because the fans are they even gonna show up?
• 8:42
  SPEAKER_01: I mean Oh, they'll show up just to boo them.
• 8:45
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, jeez.
• 8:46
  SPEAKER_00: What a what a mistake.
• 8:48
  SPEAKER_00: Like, imagine if they would have Baker Mayfield last year.
• 8:51
  SPEAKER_00: They probably would have competed.
• 8:52
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know if they make the playoffs, but they probably are at least in the conversation.
• 8:56
  SPEAKER_01: They they yeah.
• 8:58
  SPEAKER_01: Yep.
• 8:59
  SPEAKER_01: It'd be a great what if.
• 9:00
  SPEAKER_01: What if they kept Baker and all those draft picks that they created to Houston, that Houston now has this great defense with?
• 9:09
  SPEAKER_01: You know, what if they kept what if they kept all that?
• 9:12
  SPEAKER_01: And and I think Cleveland fans are gonna come if they if they get smacked around by Baker this week, and then they come home with Watson as their starting quarterback.
• 9:21
  SPEAKER_01: Remember Watson, remember in the in the preseason he had that whole controversy where he was, you know, he was he's bitter at the fans for being mad at him and not liking him, and that's just gonna get uglier and uglier.
• 9:35
  SPEAKER_01: I I I'm just gonna grab my popcorn for that one.
• 9:39
  SPEAKER_00: You you go, Jimmy Haslan.
• 9:41
  SPEAKER_00: Well, getting back to a team that is the Steelers and is at least the Steelers, I guess, what's worse?
• 9:47
  SPEAKER_00: Is it is it is it worse like being the Browns, or do you think it's better to be the Steelers and just be totally mired in mediocrity?
• 9:55
  SPEAKER_00: The Steelers and the Philadelphia Flyers are kind of the same team, aren't they?
• 10:00
  SPEAKER_00: If you think about it, like they're just absolutely mired in mediocrity.
• 10:04
  SPEAKER_00: Like just there doesn't seem any way out, does it?
• 10:08
  SPEAKER_00: Because like the offense was not very good.
• 10:12
  SPEAKER_00: Aaron Rodgers threw the ball 40 times, was 24 for 40, so a little better than 50%.
• 10:18
  SPEAKER_00: He didn't throw any interceptions, which is good.
• 10:21
  SPEAKER_00: He only threw one touchdown, which I think that was the only touchdown the Steelers scored on offense.
• 10:27
  SPEAKER_00: And um, Jalen Warren, 10 carries for 46 yards, uh not really effective.
• 10:33
  SPEAKER_00: I I just don't know what the and the offensive line does doesn't look very good again.
• 10:37
  SPEAKER_00: And uh the mediocre at best.
• 10:41
  SPEAKER_00: Uh defense I thought played well.
• 10:44
  SPEAKER_00: Um hey, TJ Watt, is he washed up, Tim?
• 10:47
  SPEAKER_00: Apparently not.
• 10:49
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 10:50
  SPEAKER_00: Uh yeah, I mean, four tackles, interception for a TD, um, two sacks.
• 10:55
  SPEAKER_00: Uh Highsmith had a great game, two sacks.
• 10:58
  SPEAKER_00: Uh Peyton Wilson, 13 tackles.
• 11:00
  SPEAKER_00: I was impressed.
• 11:00
  SPEAKER_00: He made plays.
• 11:01
  SPEAKER_00: He he stuck out.
• 11:03
  SPEAKER_00: So so much for a missing Atlandon Roberts, right?
• 11:06
  SPEAKER_00: So I guess that guy.
• 11:08
  SPEAKER_01: No, the defensive front looked really good.
• 11:11
  SPEAKER_01: Um you know, they they they hit a the only thing they had trouble with was B.
• 11:16
  SPEAKER_01: John Robinson, but I mean he's probably the best running back in the league, so you can't be too upset about that.
• 11:22
  SPEAKER_01: Uh I I I don't think that there's no way out for the offense.
• 11:26
  SPEAKER_01: I think that they have, you know, so like Rogers looked mediocre.
• 11:31
  SPEAKER_00: Um but he made plays.
• 11:33
  SPEAKER_00: That's what he did last year, though.
• 11:34
  SPEAKER_00: He like he's okay, but then he'll make he still has the like that touchdown pass, like Cooper Rush tried to do that and threw an interception.
• 11:43
  SPEAKER_00: Like and he did the exact same play through back across the middle like you're not supposed to late in the play and then goes for a touchdown.
• 11:51
  SPEAKER_00: And that's the difference between a Hall of Famer and a guy that's barely in the league.
• 11:55
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and if you want encouragement over last year, he threw the ball a lot more downfield than he did last year.
• 12:01
  SPEAKER_01: In the middle of the field, in the middle of the field.
• 12:03
  SPEAKER_01: It's not like the Mike Tomlin Live in your fears offense.
• 12:07
  SPEAKER_01: So that that was nice to see.
• 12:09
  SPEAKER_01: You know, there was also like some pass interference, it wasn't called DK Metcalf, man.
• 12:14
  SPEAKER_00: That was the worst game I've seen him ever play.
• 12:17
  SPEAKER_00: There was one in the middle, it hit him right in the hand.
• 12:20
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, yeah.
• 12:20
  SPEAKER_00: And if he catches that, he's probably gone for like 40 yards.
• 12:24
  SPEAKER_01: Maybe the perfect pass.
• 12:25
  SPEAKER_01: Like, you want to talk about like we wouldn't be talking about Rogers being mediocre if he completes that pass for a touchdown.
• 12:31
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, because it was perfect.
• 12:32
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, there was another pass where Roman Wilson dropped.
• 12:35
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
• 12:37
  SPEAKER_00: That was a tough catch.
• 12:38
  SPEAKER_01: That would have been a tough catch, at least.
• 12:40
  SPEAKER_01: And also he's Roman Wilson.
• 12:42
  SPEAKER_01: But like like DK Metcalf, like I'm starting to lose patience.
• 12:46
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know about you.
• 12:47
  SPEAKER_00: He made a big catch late in the game for a critical first down.
• 12:51
  SPEAKER_01: Sure, yeah.
• 12:52
  SPEAKER_01: He just he he should be so much more.
• 12:54
  SPEAKER_01: It reminds me of Plex Coburris' first couple of years.
• 12:57
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, you just feel like there's more.
• 12:59
  SPEAKER_01: You just feel like like I g there's talent there.
• 13:02
  SPEAKER_01: And like with Plex, you only saw that in college, but like with DK Mencap, you saw that in Seattle.
• 13:07
  SPEAKER_01: Like he's got talent, and it's just like, man, dropping, you know, he dropped that pass in the playoff game.
• 13:14
  SPEAKER_01: Like, no one people won't remember that five years from now, that he dropped the pass in the first quarter of the Houston playoff game.
• 13:21
  SPEAKER_01: But if he catches that, I swear that whole game goes differently.
• 13:25
  SPEAKER_01: So, so it's just now, is it fair to blame DK Metcalf for losing the playoff game because he dropped the pass in the first quarter?
• 13:31
  SPEAKER_01: No, it's not.
• 13:32
  SPEAKER_01: But I'm just saying it's like it's little things like that where you're just like, come on, man, you like we paid a lot of money to go get this guy.
• 13:39
  SPEAKER_01: He's supposed to be better than this.
• 13:41
  SPEAKER_01: I'm just losing patience.
• 13:44
  SPEAKER_01: And he's not the only the other the other the other part you mentioned the offensive line, it's really that right side.
• 13:50
  SPEAKER_01: I think Dylan Cook's about to lose his job.
• 13:53
  SPEAKER_01: Like that was a really nice story last year, how he came in and he was this out of nowhere guy and he looked really sharp.
• 14:00
  SPEAKER_01: He he looks he just doesn't look good anymore.
• 14:03
  SPEAKER_01: And I think I think Max Honitor, it's he's he's a rookie, so they're not gonna start him right away.
• 14:11
  SPEAKER_01: But I think it's only a matter of like two more weeks of this, I think they put the first round pick in and they just make him the right tackle.
• 14:19
  SPEAKER_01: Because you can't have a 42-year-old quarterback getting killed.
• 14:24
  SPEAKER_00: And I I will say this, Atlanta's defensive line looked pretty good.
• 14:28
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 14:28
  SPEAKER_00: I I I they aren't terrible.
• 14:31
  SPEAKER_00: Like Atlanta's not a good team, but they have some parts.
• 14:34
  SPEAKER_00: They they like I think they're a lot closer to being good than like Cleveland.
• 14:40
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, yeah.
• 14:40
  SPEAKER_01: Well, like I said, they they I think they probably have the most talented individual athlete in the league and B.
• 14:47
  SPEAKER_01: John Robinson.
• 14:48
  SPEAKER_01: Like that guy, because it it's amazing.
• 14:50
  SPEAKER_01: Like, I'm I was sitting there, I'm like, how can they not stop this guy?
• 14:53
  SPEAKER_01: Like that there's nobody else that they can even do any.
• 14:57
  SPEAKER_00: Like, they're well, they have Drake London who's okay.
• 15:00
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, but he didn't do anything.
• 15:01
  SPEAKER_01: Kyle Pitts is a good athlete too, but he didn't do anything.
• 15:03
  SPEAKER_01: Like, just key everything on Robinson, but they couldn't stop him.
• 15:07
  SPEAKER_01: And then when they were stopping him on the run, they were, you know, he scored that touchdown on that on that screen pass.
• 15:14
  SPEAKER_01: So so yeah, you're right.
• 15:15
  SPEAKER_01: Atlanta has they just don't have a quarterback.
• 15:18
  SPEAKER_01: That was a that was a waste drafting Michael Pennox, I think that was.
• 15:22
  SPEAKER_00: He yeah, it's kind of like a Kenny Pickett for move for them.
• 15:26
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it felt forced, and that's kind of how they run their franchise.
• 15:30
  SPEAKER_01: It's it's I feel bad.
• 15:31
  SPEAKER_01: I like that.
• 15:32
  SPEAKER_01: I think that Arthur Blank is a nice.
• 15:33
  SPEAKER_00: He's not yeah, he's not a bad guy.
• 15:35
  SPEAKER_00: And he does and he does seem to try to win.
• 15:38
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 15:39
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it's not like he's Bob Nunning or Mike Brown.
• 15:42
  SPEAKER_01: You know what I mean?
• 15:42
  SPEAKER_01: Like he wants to win, but he just I don't think he yeah.
• 15:46
  SPEAKER_01: I I I don't know.
• 15:47
  SPEAKER_01: I it I always feel like that's a franchise, Steve, that if the most snake-bitten.
• 15:54
  SPEAKER_01: No, not even snake bitten, just useless.
• 15:56
  SPEAKER_01: Like if the NFL didn't have an Atlanta Falcons anymore, would like who would know?
• 16:00
  SPEAKER_01: Would it take like four weeks before we'd even notice?
• 16:04
  SPEAKER_00: Like You don't think the you think Tampa and uh and New Orleans and Tennessee or the other NFC South team, Carolina, would even notice if, hey, weren't we supposed to play somebody this week?
• 16:19
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know, whatever.
• 16:20
  SPEAKER_00: I think we're supposed to go to Atlanta.
• 16:22
  SPEAKER_00: Nah no, we're going to Tampa, I swear.
• 16:24
  SPEAKER_01: Snake Bitten would be like the Minnesota Vikings or the Buffalo Bills or the like these teams that have actually like come close and had now you the Falcons had their you know 2023.
• 16:35
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 16:35
  SPEAKER_01: But I mean, literally, you take that away.
• 16:37
  SPEAKER_01: It's just they're useless and pointless.
• 16:39
  SPEAKER_01: There's no reason for them to be in the league.
• 16:42
  SPEAKER_00: Uh well, you can send all your letters to all your comments.
• 16:48
  SPEAKER_01: Sorry, Falcons fans.
• 16:50
  SPEAKER_01: All five of you, I'm sure that really upsets you.
• 16:53
  SPEAKER_00: That's another yeah, when the Steelers go to the Georgia Dome, it's like another home game.
• 16:57
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 16:58
  SPEAKER_00: Uh so overall, I thought it looked like a first game.
• 17:02
  SPEAKER_00: It looked because there's no preseason anymore.
• 17:04
  SPEAKER_00: And like a lot of the games this week looked, except for the Bears and the Panthers, who just decided to score on every possession.
• 17:14
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
• 17:16
  SPEAKER_01: That can't be stressed enough how how week one is now an extension of the preseason.
• 17:22
  SPEAKER_01: Because you're right, Steve.
• 17:24
  SPEAKER_01: They don't the starters don't play in preseason anymore.
• 17:26
  SPEAKER_01: They they took away a preseason game.
• 17:28
  SPEAKER_01: This is gonna get worse.
• 17:29
  SPEAKER_01: When they had an 18th game and go down to two preseason games, it's gonna be even worse.
• 17:33
  SPEAKER_01: My I my buddy made a good point.
• 17:35
  SPEAKER_01: He he said week one should be all interconference games.
• 17:41
  SPEAKER_00: What do you interconference?
• 17:43
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, okay.
• 17:44
  SPEAKER_01: To minimize the impact of winning and losing.
• 17:47
  SPEAKER_00: Because well, it didn't help San Diego much playing Arizona.
• 17:51
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I don't know who the San Diego team is that you speak of.
• 17:54
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, I bet LA.
• 17:55
  SPEAKER_00: Sorry.
• 17:56
  SPEAKER_01: But but but but but but the point being that like if you lose like the Falcons losing to the Steelers is not going to hurt them anywhere near as much as if they would have lost to the Panthers or the Buccaneers or a team in their division, right?
• 18:10
  SPEAKER_01: Because it that when you do the tiebreakers, those interconference games are always the least impactful.
• 18:16
  SPEAKER_01: So I thought that was a good idea.
• 18:18
  SPEAKER_01: Like have week one be all interconference games because then it's it's it's it's it's the it's the closest equivalent you can do to you know um pit playing Miami of Ohio, right, in week one.
• 18:31
  SPEAKER_01: So so but yeah, you're right, week one is a crapshoot.
• 18:35
  SPEAKER_01: You know, the Rams, everybody the Rams are gonna win the Super Bowl, and then they looked like garbage.
• 18:40
  SPEAKER_01: Denver, Denver looked like crap.
• 18:42
  SPEAKER_01: New England looked like the New England lost.
• 18:45
  SPEAKER_00: Well, there you go.
• 18:46
  SPEAKER_00: That's a nice segue in the our next opponent, huh?
• 18:49
  SPEAKER_00: It's gonna be your New England Patriots.
• 18:52
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, there's gonna be a lot of pressure on them, too, man.
• 18:55
  SPEAKER_00: Well, I don't think Drake, Drake May is not very good.
• 18:58
  SPEAKER_00: I didn't think.
• 18:59
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, you and I disagree on that.
• 19:01
  SPEAKER_01: And and I think this season's going to prove one of us right and one of us wrong.
• 19:06
  SPEAKER_01: And so far, so far, you're you're gonna you're winning that argument.
• 19:10
  SPEAKER_00: He just doesn't look very good.
• 19:13
  SPEAKER_00: Like I just don't see it yet.
• 19:15
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, I don't know.
• 19:16
  SPEAKER_00: Maybe maybe the Steelers defense minus Joey Porti Jr.
• 19:20
  SPEAKER_00: will be what uh what cures him, but it would be the first time the Steelers defense made somebody look good.
• 19:27
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I I don't I mean they gave him fits last year.
• 19:30
  SPEAKER_01: Remember, he took they turned the ball over what five times or something.
• 19:33
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, they probably win that game if yeah.
• 19:36
  SPEAKER_01: Right, if not for all the turnovers.
• 19:37
  SPEAKER_01: So yeah, yeah, I don't I don't I think Drake May's good.
• 19:41
  SPEAKER_01: Um but I I wouldn't be surprised if New England has a has a subpar season just because their schedule was and and I hate that.
• 19:48
  SPEAKER_01: Like I really do hate when people are like, oh, they didn't have to play anybody.
• 19:52
  SPEAKER_01: It's like, no, they played who they played and they won.
• 19:54
  SPEAKER_01: You have to give them credit for that.
• 19:56
  SPEAKER_01: But then but then it's like man, they really didn't play anybody.
• 20:00
  SPEAKER_01: And then they played like Denver's backup quarterback in the AFC championship game.
• 20:05
  SPEAKER_01: So it's like they they they got as fortunate as you can get in a season, and now I think they're it's gonna be harder for them.
• 20:12
  SPEAKER_01: And uh man, it would be something if we could go up there and win.
• 20:16
  SPEAKER_01: I don't I think it's gonna be easier said than done though.
• 20:19
  SPEAKER_00: As it always is in New England, but like you said, I don't know.
• 20:23
  SPEAKER_00: I I I I don't know if the Steelers are any good.
• 20:27
  SPEAKER_00: I think they're mediocre and they're kind of stuck in the middle where they have been.
• 20:31
  SPEAKER_00: I didn't really see anything, but you know, you really don't know much like I said about Pitt, you probably won't know much about the Steelers for another three weeks, and then you'll be able like to tell who's good in the whole NFL in general, who's good, who's bad, what was an outlier, what isn't.
• 20:50
  SPEAKER_01: Well, well, see perfect example of that was week one last year.
• 20:54
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 20:55
  SPEAKER_01: At at New England, the Raiders went to New England and tried to New England.
• 20:59
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and New England ended up in the Super Bowl.
• 21:01
  SPEAKER_01: The Raiders ended up with the number one overall draft pick.
• 21:04
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, they had three wins.
• 21:05
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 21:06
  SPEAKER_01: But week one, Raiders looked really good this year.
• 21:09
  SPEAKER_00: The Cardinals, the Cardinals won week one, so what does that say?
• 21:14
  SPEAKER_01: I mean Well, yeah, and that's another man, that's another like narrative.
• 21:17
  SPEAKER_01: Like Justin Herbert.
• 21:21
  SPEAKER_01: I I don't know, man.
• 21:22
  SPEAKER_01: Is he is he just is he ever gonna win anything?
• 21:25
  SPEAKER_01: Ever.
• 21:26
  SPEAKER_00: Maybe it's just being quarterback of the Chargers.
• 21:29
  SPEAKER_01: Maybe actually that's not a bad point because it is.
• 21:32
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, literally, Philip Rivers, that was his story.
• 21:35
  SPEAKER_01: Dan Feltz.
• 21:36
  SPEAKER_01: I Stan Humphreys is the only Chargers quarterback to ever make a Super Bowl.
• 21:40
  SPEAKER_00: The immortal Stan Humphreys.
• 21:43
  SPEAKER_01: You're right.
• 21:44
  SPEAKER_01: I didn't even think about that.
• 21:45
  SPEAKER_01: It is a pattern, isn't it?
• 21:48
  SPEAKER_01: I didn't I never even thought about that.
• 21:50
  SPEAKER_01: That's so true.
• 21:51
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 21:51
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 21:52
  SPEAKER_00: And uh, we're gonna start a new section, and I don't know how often this this is gonna stay, but I feel like I need to have like Like Walter Cronkite, you remember like you used to have like that studio with all the clocks that said New York, Los Angeles, like Calcutta?
• 22:08
  SPEAKER_00: I need that, and I need like the little with like all the typewriters going in the background, like news bulletin.
• 22:15
  SPEAKER_00: It's time for the Joey Porter Jr.
• 22:17
  SPEAKER_00: watch.
• 22:18
  SPEAKER_00: Today with your host, Steve Martin Tim Hannon.
• 22:21
  SPEAKER_00: So in wild rumors that are probably not even remotely true, uh, did you know that the Detroit Lions have been in contact with the Pittsburgh Steelers about the availability of Joey Porter Jr.?
• 22:33
  SPEAKER_00: Wow, according to Jeff Risden, whoever he is, he's an NFL reporter.
• 22:37
  SPEAKER_00: The Joey Porter Jr.
• 22:39
  SPEAKER_00: trade talks.
• 22:40
  SPEAKER_00: I can tell you that I know that the Lions have approached the Steelers.
• 22:43
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know how the receptive the Steelers were, and I don't know what the Lions offered, if anything, I know that they have talked.
• 22:50
  SPEAKER_00: I got that from a reliable source from the Pittsburgh side.
• 22:54
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I saw that.
• 22:56
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, and that's that's the way it's gonna be until uh either he either he well, I mean, I guess he's not gonna sign, assuming that they stick to their policy of not negotiating during the season.
• 23:09
  SPEAKER_01: You know, people are like, well, I I I love the by the way, I like it's not that the stealers are always right or that their ownership has necessarily been super competent the last few years, but I I love when people put them in no-win situations, you know, well, you gotta pay him, and that's ridiculous that you're not gonna pay, you're gonna, you know, he's a he's a quality cornerback, why wouldn't you pay him?
• 23:33
  SPEAKER_01: But then like people are like, we have the most expensive defense in the league.
• 23:37
  SPEAKER_01: Why do we have the most expensive defense in the league?
• 23:39
  SPEAKER_01: So it's like they can't win either way.
• 23:42
  SPEAKER_01: And also, like the thing that no one ever talks about is none of us have any idea what this is over.
• 23:49
  SPEAKER_00: Well, it's uh it's a supposedly over a contract extension that is worth 30 million or more annually.
• 23:56
  SPEAKER_00: But that is believed to be right, but nobody knows that.
• 24:01
  SPEAKER_01: And nobody knows if it's over guaranteed money, if it's over length, if it's over, you know, Porter wants more money, the stealers aren't willing to offer more money.
• 24:11
  SPEAKER_01: Like, nobody knows.
• 24:12
  SPEAKER_01: So so for anybody to be critical of either side, because I've seen it on both sides.
• 24:17
  SPEAKER_01: It's like just just pay him, or I've seen other people like he's not worth it.
• 24:21
  SPEAKER_01: They they don't pay him that much.
• 24:23
  SPEAKER_01: It's like uh none of us know what they're offering, none of us know what he's turned down, none of us know the terms.
• 24:29
  SPEAKER_01: And and again, it might not be over amount, it might be over guaranteed, it might be over four years versus five years.
• 24:35
  SPEAKER_01: Uh who knows, Steve.
• 24:37
  SPEAKER_00: It might be over getting uh Joey Porter Senior's name in the Ring of Honor, which they don't have.
• 24:47
  SPEAKER_00: Uh I yeah, I I don't know, whatever.
• 24:50
  SPEAKER_00: I mean he's okay.
• 24:51
  SPEAKER_00: I mean I don't know how much does a corner go for these days.
• 24:55
  SPEAKER_00: I I would pay him, you know, I guess land him in the top ten with money somewhere.
• 25:03
  SPEAKER_00: Somewhere between 10 and 15, maybe, of whoever those people are making.
• 25:09
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I'd I'd even say like five and fifteen because the the market even if he is the tenth.
• 25:14
  SPEAKER_00: Well, it's been skewed that that uh guy, speaking of New England, that that uh Christian is yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 25:21
  SPEAKER_00: He he kind of skewed the market.
• 25:22
  SPEAKER_00: I what did he get?
• 25:23
  SPEAKER_00: I don't even know what he got.
• 25:25
  SPEAKER_01: Well, he right.
• 25:25
  SPEAKER_01: So you even if he is the 10th best cornerback, he's gonna get paid as like the fourth or fifth be just because of the timing.
• 25:32
  SPEAKER_01: Right, that's the way that works, and that's fine.
• 25:34
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, if he's if you think he's a top 10 cornerback, then then I'd say pay him something in the range of the top ten cornerbacks.
• 25:42
  SPEAKER_01: But again, maybe they are and he's not he wants more, or he wants a different turn.
• 25:48
  SPEAKER_00: More guaranteed money.
• 25:49
  SPEAKER_01: But right.
• 25:50
  SPEAKER_01: Again, we'll never know.
• 25:51
  SPEAKER_01: I honestly the the other thing is, do you think that he has a back injury?
• 25:57
  SPEAKER_00: I hope he does.
• 26:00
  SPEAKER_00: Because this is this is because this is gonna look bad.
• 26:03
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, this is very levy on Bell.
• 26:05
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, if we see like, you know, Instagram videos of him riding around on a jet ski, then I don't know what happened.
• 26:11
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
• 26:12
  SPEAKER_00: I I I don't I wonder what Jerry Porter thinks of this.
• 26:17
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 26:18
  SPEAKER_01: Right.
• 26:19
  SPEAKER_01: So yeah, this is this is ug.
• 26:22
  SPEAKER_01: I I I hate that this is still a thing.
• 26:24
  SPEAKER_01: I was really hoping that we would just either sign him or move on with our lives.
• 26:29
  SPEAKER_01: And now with him being like a a scratch for last week and possibly a scratch for this week, it's like uh-oh, this this is getting uglier.
• 26:37
  SPEAKER_00: Well, maybe he'll sign and he'll have like three interceptions, thus proving my concept.
• 26:43
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, maybe he'll sign by the time this releases, and then we'll look dumb.
• 26:47
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, there you go.
• 26:48
  SPEAKER_00: You look pretty looked pretty dumb when we said two was gonna play, but who knew he was gonna get injured on Friday?
• 26:53
  SPEAKER_00: I didn't.
• 26:58
  SPEAKER_00: Well well, that's all we got for now.
• 27:01
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I'm signing for big time podcast money, right?
• 27:06
  SPEAKER_00: Top ten money.
• 27:07
  SPEAKER_01: I'm holding out for more money myself.
• 27:10
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 27:10
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• 27:12
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• 27:16
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