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Commanders Preview · Steelers Country Weekly

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Speaker 1: Today on Steelers Country Weekly, we break down what happened
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Speaker 1: in the Steelers game last week against the New York Giants.
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Speaker 1: We'll look ahead to their matchup against the Commanders in
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Speaker 1: Washington now that they're done with their bye week, and
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Speaker 1: then we're going to talk about interesting stadium features in
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Speaker 1: honor of the fact that the Steelers are going to
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Speaker 1: one of the most universally accepted stadiums that has poor
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Speaker 1: experiences for the fans. I'm Nick de Tulo, and as
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Speaker 1: always I'm joined by the world famous accountants Eric van Benschowden. Eric,
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Speaker 1: has it gone tonight?
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Speaker 2: I'm doing pretty good. Yeah, I don't know about you.
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Speaker 2: It's like eight degrees here in Cincinnati. Some enjoying some
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Speaker 2: unseasably warm weather and just like unseasably warm. So have
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Speaker 2: our results from the Steelers in the first half of
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Speaker 2: the season.
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Speaker 3: Very exciting, very unexpected. But can't complain.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, we took last week off because the Steelers went
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Speaker 1: into a bye and we just figured it's probably easier
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Speaker 1: to break down the preview against the Commanders once we've
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Speaker 1: got that extra game from them that they've played this
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Speaker 1: past weekend. So yeah, I mean, overall, comeing into the
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Speaker 1: by the Steelers are six and two. The games they
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Speaker 1: lost were very close, and we both probably feel that
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Speaker 1: had they tweaked a few things, they could have won.
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Speaker 1: But you're exactly right, warm is I think a fair
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Speaker 1: assessment of where they're at so far, sitting at six
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Speaker 1: and two, and it seemed like these last two games
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Speaker 1: they started to turn the heat up. Now, to be fair,
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Speaker 1: it was against the New York Jets and the New
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Speaker 1: York Giants, both at home, but we got to see
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Speaker 1: Russell Wilson continue to play, continue to get a little
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Speaker 1: bit better. The defense did the same thing. They continued
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Speaker 1: to grow, and I think we were both probably feeling
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Speaker 1: pretty good with where the team was at overall going
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Speaker 1: into the buy. And of course we'll mention this as
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Speaker 1: well today too. Today was the trade deadline as we
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Speaker 1: record this on November fifth, and the Steelers made moves,
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Speaker 1: and they were both moves that were very much in
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Speaker 1: the win now mentality based on the contract of the
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Speaker 1: two guys that they picked up today. So let's just
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Speaker 1: get into it and talk about the Giants matchup that
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Speaker 1: the Steelers had. The two and six Giants come to town.
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Speaker 1: The Steelers really had one of the more interesting games
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Speaker 1: of the year, because if you look at the score,
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Speaker 1: it's twenty six to eighteen. If you had showed us
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Speaker 1: that score what three weeks ago, you and I might
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Speaker 1: have just assumed that, Okay, Justin Fields is still the quarterback,
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Speaker 1: the defense is still carrying the team, and the offense
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Speaker 1: is scoring when they need to, and the box score
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Speaker 1: doesn't tell the whole story because the Steelers had several
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Speaker 1: touchdowns called back due to penalties or due to the
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Speaker 1: same foot being tapped down twice instead of two separate feet,
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Speaker 1: and the defense did what they were supposed to do
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Speaker 1: as well too. But beyond that, we saw the special
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Speaker 1: teams make yet another big statement with their play as well.
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Speaker 1: So that being said, not quite seeing as many points
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Speaker 1: or as many touchdowns as you would like, considering the
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Speaker 1: overall performance at least that I feel that the Steelers had.
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Speaker 1: So I'll ask you, Eric, looking back at this game,
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Speaker 1: and I know it's been a week and a half now,
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Speaker 1: but when you think back to this matchup against the Giants,
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Speaker 1: what are some of your key takeaways from this?
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Speaker 3: Well?
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Speaker 2: I think it was kind of funny about the two
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Speaker 2: point conversion fail. That one definitely stood out you know,
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Speaker 2: I think for me it was a little bit of
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Speaker 2: why didn't we let them stay in this game? Oh,
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Speaker 2: Russell Wilson had that fumble in the fourth quarter that
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Speaker 2: was uncharacteristic of our team. Actually, I saw the stat
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Speaker 2: Do you want to hear about why the Steelers have
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Speaker 2: been so successful through eight games?
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Speaker 3: They're turning the ball over at a historically low rate.
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Speaker 2: But an easy way to give up the game is
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Speaker 2: turn it over, especially late in the game, and I
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Speaker 2: believe it was around our thirty yard line thereabouts.
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Speaker 3: So I think honestly, the Steelers just kind.
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Speaker 2: Of let the door open too much. But overall, I
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Speaker 2: mean it's really tough to like say that you weren't
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Speaker 2: overall impressed with this game.
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Speaker 3: I think that the the defense played exceptionally well, you know,
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Speaker 3: I think that like t J.
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Speaker 2: Watt had one heck of a game, and he's actually
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Speaker 2: the one that got the forced fumble at the end
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Speaker 2: of the game.
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Speaker 3: Correct. So Yeah, Beanie.
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Speaker 2: Bishop hot Off his two interceptions, got another interception.
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Speaker 3: I believe that ended the game pretty much.
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Speaker 2: Calvin Austin got a special team's touchdown. Special teams have
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Speaker 2: been playing out of their mind over the last month.
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Speaker 3: With Boswell also connecting on four or four. So you know,
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Speaker 3: if you could say that the Steelers.
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Speaker 2: Had almost three hundred yard passer, one hundred yard rush, rusher.
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Speaker 3: T J.
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Speaker 2: Watt is healthy and still playing amazing, and we're getting
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Speaker 2: special teams, touchdowns and big plays, I really don't think
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Speaker 2: that there's room for any complaints on my end.
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Speaker 1: No, and I'm with you, and that's it's almost an
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Speaker 1: anomaly that they had such impressive statistics but only had
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Speaker 1: one offensive touchdown to show for it. Yeah, so on
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Speaker 1: the it was the opening drive, the play, the touchdown
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Speaker 1: pass I think it was to Darnell Washington got called
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Speaker 1: back because Broderick Jones had a face mask penalty that
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Speaker 1: was one of those where yet it sucked, but Russ
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Speaker 1: may not have gotten the throw off if he didn't
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Speaker 1: have that extra split second. So yeah, it still sucks
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Speaker 1: no matter what. But but that's why it was called back.
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Speaker 1: And then the other callback that I alluded to is
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Speaker 1: George Pickens made yet another fantastic grab somehow held on
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Speaker 1: to the ball. But and they mentioned this on the broadcast,
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Speaker 1: it was almost more impressive that he didn't get both
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Speaker 1: feet down. But the issue was he touched the same
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Speaker 1: foot his right foot twice and you can't do that.
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Speaker 1: That doesn't count. Jason Kelsey was pretty funny. I don't
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Speaker 1: know if you saw that. He was ripping that after
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Speaker 1: the game he said, what, so I can catch the ball,
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Speaker 1: hop on my one foot for fifteen yards and then
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Speaker 1: jump out of bounds and it's incomplete. Well, yeah, technically
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Speaker 1: that's correct. So so yeah, I'm kind of in the
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Speaker 1: same boat as you. What I've liked to have seen
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Speaker 1: some more points which, to your initial point, would have
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Speaker 1: possibly put this game away quicker and not let the
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Speaker 1: Giants hang around. Absolutely, I also understand that the circumstances
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Speaker 1: were such that it just it didn't happen, and they
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Speaker 1: still were able to do enough to put the game away,
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Speaker 1: which in a game like that where things just don't
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Speaker 1: always break your way, you're right. Controlling the turnovers and
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Speaker 1: just not making any drastic mistakes is one of the
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Speaker 1: only things you can do. The one thing I will say, though,
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Speaker 1: is I wish that the rush defense had been a
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Speaker 1: little more stout there. They did give up one hundred
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Speaker 1: and forty five yards to Tracy Junior. I'm not really
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Speaker 1: sure what happened there. I know there was a few
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Speaker 1: big plays that probably dragged his stats up. But to me,
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Speaker 1: I think on the defensive side, if I had to
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Speaker 1: get nitpicky, that'd be one thing that I'd be like, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: maybe we need to loosen or tighten that up a bit,
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Speaker 1: particularly when we know that the quarterback we're playing against
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Speaker 1: is not going to be particularly effective. So the running
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Speaker 1: game might be all the other offense has. But you
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Speaker 1: know what, they won the game. A win's a win,
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Speaker 1: And I think, as I alluded to before, given the
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Speaker 1: improvements that we've seen, even in just these past two games,
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Speaker 1: it's I feel pretty comfortable. I mean as comfortable as
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Speaker 1: I guess I can be, knowing that we've got this
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Speaker 1: gauntlet of a schedule coming up as we've come out
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Speaker 1: of the bye week now and get ready to face
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Speaker 1: the Commanders.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, And I mean the gauntlet to me has
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Speaker 4: changed a bit from when we looked at the beginning
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Speaker 4: of the season, I mean looking ahead to the Commanders.
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Speaker 2: At the beginning of the season, I would not have
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Speaker 2: thought this is gonna be one of the better teams
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Speaker 2: in the league, right, and then as you look down
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Speaker 2: the barrel of the rest of the season, I mean,
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Speaker 2: I said that the Browns weren't going to be that good.
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Speaker 2: I wasn't expecting one of the worst teams in the league,
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Speaker 2: and then the Bengals have definitely underperformed. So still incredibly
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Speaker 2: tough schedule. I mean, I think right now we have
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Speaker 2: four games for teams that are under five hundred. Two
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Speaker 2: of those are against the Bengals, who are only one
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Speaker 2: game under five hundred. They're on a three out of
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Speaker 2: four game winning streaky and two games against Browns, which
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Speaker 2: never easy.
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Speaker 3: They beat the Ravens, so no doubt that they could
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Speaker 3: definitely beat us.
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Speaker 2: So but very excited about what they've done halfway through
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Speaker 2: the season, but very excited to.
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Speaker 3: See what they're going to do in the back half,
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Speaker 3: especially with two new bells and whistles on the team.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and I'm with you as well. The Commanders, We'll
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Speaker 1: talk about that in a little more detail. I haven't
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Speaker 1: watched them too much. I did watch the game that
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Speaker 1: they played the Bengals, which was an amazing performance from
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Speaker 1: Jade and Daniels. But yeah, they've surprised I think everybody.
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Speaker 1: They're sitting at what is it seven and two right now,
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Speaker 1: and they're just playing really good football. You're right though
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Speaker 1: as well. The Browns have kind of fallen off. They
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Speaker 1: started trading away people today. So with Deshaun Watson being
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Speaker 1: out for the year, you kind of figured that they
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Speaker 1: were going to be, you know, calling it anyway, But
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Speaker 1: once you start trading players, that kind of makes it official.
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Speaker 1: I think that you're you're done, You're not really competing anymore.
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Speaker 1: So yeah, I'm happy, I'm glad. I think we're in
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Speaker 1: a good spot. But they definitely do still have their
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Speaker 1: work cut out for them. As we mentioned, they are
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Speaker 1: traveling to Washington this week to play the Commanders. Washington
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Speaker 1: has a lot going for him, like they said, but
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Speaker 1: Mike Tomlin is usually pretty good coming with his team
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Speaker 1: out of a bye. So as we look ahead to
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Speaker 1: this game, Eric, what are some of the keys that
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Speaker 1: you're looking for for the Pittsburgh Steelers.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I think that this is a great
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Speaker 2: tune up game for what we have to have in
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Speaker 2: store for us with Lamar Jackson, Jayden Hill's very nifty
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Speaker 2: on his feet.
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Speaker 3: And I think he you.
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Speaker 2: Know, that's the team that's definitely rallying around him. But
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Speaker 2: I think that the Commanders have been able to show
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Speaker 2: that they can win games by just turning out points.
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Speaker 2: They have a couple of games where they've turned over,
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Speaker 2: you know, over forty points in a game. They've also
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Speaker 2: had a couple of slugouts, you know, most notably against
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Speaker 2: the Bears. So I think that this is a team
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Speaker 2: that is able to easily can change their game plan
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Speaker 2: to whatever counteracts the other team.
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Speaker 3: I think that that comes with you know, look, Dan
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Speaker 3: Quinn might have.
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Speaker 2: Gotten a little bit of a bad rap for losing
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Speaker 2: the infamous twenty eight to three Falcons Super Bowl, but
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Speaker 2: he's a heck of a coach. Honestly, I thought he
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Speaker 2: might have gotten a little bit too bad taste in
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Speaker 2: the mouth when he got fired from the Falcons.
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Speaker 3: Was one of the best coordinators in the league when
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Speaker 3: he got.
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Speaker 2: This this role with the Commanders, and the Commanders have
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Speaker 2: not been good consistently for like basically our whole entire lifetime.
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Speaker 2: And then this is the best that I've believed that
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Speaker 2: they've been since RG three rookie season. So you know,
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Speaker 2: I'm just looking for This is a veteran head coach
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Speaker 2: who has been the league for a while, and to
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Speaker 2: be honest, I just don't know what the game plan is.
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Speaker 2: I wouldn't know really where to start. This is where
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Speaker 2: the big boats going to Mike Tomlin and Dan Quinn,
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Speaker 2: because I really would know how.
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Speaker 3: To attack it.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a good point. The other thing I'll mention too,
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Speaker 1: And maybe we should have talked about this first, Like
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Speaker 1: you alluded to, the Commanders also just beefed up their defense.
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Speaker 1: They acquired Marshaun Lattimore today from the Saints. I assume
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Speaker 1: that I assume that all three players between that have
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Speaker 1: been acquired via trades today by both teams are going
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Speaker 1: to at least make appearances in this game. Not sure
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Speaker 1: schematically what that's gonna look like. Again, kind of your point,
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Speaker 1: with all these other moving pieces, it's very difficult to
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Speaker 1: analyze this game as it is anyway, But.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, what do you think is the what do you
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Speaker 2: think is the hardest vision position other than quarterback to
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Speaker 2: plug and play from a trade?
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Speaker 1: My gut is gonna tell me wide receiver. And the
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Speaker 1: reason I say that is and maybe this is just
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Speaker 1: me not knowing as much as I perhaps should, you know,
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Speaker 1: being co host of an award winning podcast. But okay, so, like,
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Speaker 1: for example, we saw that in Week one this year
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Speaker 1: where there were so many illegal formation calls against. I
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Speaker 1: think it was both the Ravens and the Chiefs for
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Speaker 1: people lining up where they were off the ball or
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Speaker 1: where they were moving a hair too early. So you've
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Speaker 1: got to deal with constant rule changes of where you're
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Speaker 1: supposed to line up and where you're not. You have
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Speaker 1: to know what routes you're gonna run. You've got to
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Speaker 1: learn the cadences. You've got to learn more often than
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Speaker 1: other positions. For example, when are you going to need
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Speaker 1: to go in motion or not. The only instance I
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Speaker 1: could see a wide receiver moving to another team and
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Speaker 1: the transition itself is seamless, is some sort of relationship
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Speaker 1: where they've been together before. So Davante Adams to Aaron Rodgers. Obviously,
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Speaker 1: obviously we beat the Jets, but it wasn't because Davante
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Speaker 1: Adams was, you know, running, running the wrong routes or anything.
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Speaker 1: They were using a playbook that's very similar to what
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Speaker 1: was in Green Bay, because it's basically the green Bay
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Speaker 1: Jets at this point over there. Another one that would
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Speaker 1: work out is and maybe this will be the case
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Speaker 1: with the Steelers knowing how accepting and open minded their
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Speaker 1: quarterbacks are in both Russell Wilson and Justin Fields. I
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Speaker 1: remember Rob Gronkowski in an interview saying that he doesn't
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Speaker 1: study film. He just asked Tom Brady what he was
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Speaker 1: supposed to do before every play. So I'd imagine there
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Speaker 1: would be a little bit of that anyway in your
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Speaker 1: first game, but I feel like they were in their
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Speaker 1: first game. In particular, you would need to have that
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Speaker 1: kind of handholding if you're the wide receiver from your
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Speaker 1: quarterback and your teammates. Whereas and again, you played a
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Speaker 1: little longer than I did. But I feel like if
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Speaker 1: you got someone, let's say a safety or a cornerback,
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Speaker 1: you could say, like, I mean, a cover two is
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Speaker 1: a cover two, right, You can say, hey, you're shadowing
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Speaker 1: that guy in man coverage all game. Like you still
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Speaker 1: call plays obviously, but I feel like there's a little
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Speaker 1: more of a routine to them, if that makes sense.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's fair.
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Speaker 1: What are your thoughts? What do you think is the
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Speaker 1: most difficult to adapt or acclimate to outside a quarterback?
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Speaker 3: Yeah?
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Speaker 2: I mean, after hearing that, I do think that that's
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Speaker 2: probably fair. The chemistry that's involved with a quarterback does
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Speaker 2: play a big factor. I did play safe or safety
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Speaker 2: back in high school. I think the secondary is a
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Speaker 2: very difficult position.
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Speaker 3: To plug and play, and.
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Speaker 2: A lot of it is because just if one person
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Speaker 2: does the coverage completely wrong, it's really hard to disguise.
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Speaker 2: And the quarterbacks, if you're playing a good one, will
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Speaker 2: pick it apart. So where I think, like if you
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Speaker 2: get alignment, you know, I think it's like it's harder
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Speaker 2: to like look bad because like, you know, either you
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Speaker 2: went inside or outside.
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Speaker 3: Maybe you made the wrong call like not containing.
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Speaker 2: But I don't think that you're quite as on island
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Speaker 2: when you're let's say, a cornerback and you know you
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Speaker 2: thought that you had a safety over top and nope,
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Speaker 2: there it goes a touchdown.
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Speaker 3: So that's why I brought it up.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, fair enough. Getting back to this game in particular,
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Speaker 1: it's kind of hard for me to predict it because
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Speaker 1: all the reasons we've talked about. I think though, that
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Speaker 1: if I'm just looking at what the Commanders have done
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Speaker 1: so far, I think I'm leaning towards picking the Steelers today.
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Speaker 1: It looks like the Commanders they're having kind of a season.
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Speaker 1: The last stretch of weeks. I'll say something that we're
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Speaker 1: accustomed to as Steelers fans is they go out and
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Speaker 1: they they play a close game against a good team.
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Speaker 1: They lose to it's the Ravens. Okay, fine. Then they
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Speaker 1: go out and stomp a bad team, the Panthers. They
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Speaker 1: win forty to seven. Okay, great, that's fun. It's expected.
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Speaker 1: And then they play the Bears, who have Kill Williams
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Speaker 1: but no one expects them to be Super Bowl contenders
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Speaker 1: this year, and they get a squeaker out of them.
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Speaker 1: Then they play the Giants, who again kind of like
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Speaker 1: the Steelers last week. In a manner of speaking, I
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Speaker 1: suppose you're like, Okay, they should truck roll this team.
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Speaker 1: And it's a five point game. So it seems like
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Speaker 1: they're kind of trending downward just a little bit. I mean,
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Speaker 1: they're still getting wins, which is good. I'm gonna say
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Speaker 1: that with the additions the Steelers made, I think that's
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Speaker 1: only going to be beneficial to them. I think, particularly
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Speaker 1: on defense. As impressive as he has been, this is
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Speaker 1: still a rookie quarterback. So if TJ. Watt is able
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Speaker 1: to make his presence known, ideally early in the game,
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Speaker 1: that would be that would be great. Maybe getting his
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Speaker 1: head a little bit, and then offensively, I think one
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Speaker 1: of the more impressive things we've seen so far is
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Speaker 1: just the fact that the Steelers have been utilizing deep
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Speaker 1: pass attempts even if they haven't been completed. Is I
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Speaker 1: think what is mostly responsible for opening up the running
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Speaker 1: game for Najie Harris in the last couple weeks. So
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Speaker 1: I think this might be a game that will need
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Speaker 1: to be one in the more in the manner that
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Speaker 1: we're accustomed to seeing out of the Steelers, where it's
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Speaker 1: a bit of a slog. You got to win with
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Speaker 1: the time of possession, you got to not turn the
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Speaker 1: ball over and win by what six points because of
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Speaker 1: a couple of field goals, as much as I would
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Speaker 1: like to see the offense continue to open it up.
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Speaker 1: So with all that being said, and again keeping in
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Speaker 1: mind the two new editions the Steelers had, particularly Mike
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Speaker 1: Williams a wide receiver, I will give the Steelers a
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Speaker 1: win here. And if I had to put the score
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Speaker 1: on it, which I do because we do that every week,
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Speaker 1: give me a twenty to seventeen win. Okay, I think
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Speaker 1: it'll be close.
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Speaker 2: Gonna be keeping Boswell little cold and rescue over there.
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Speaker 3: The field goals in this one.
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Speaker 1: Well, if it's twenty, he's gonna get one or two.
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Speaker 3: I thought you said twenty one seventeen.
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Speaker 1: No, no, no, twenty twenty. I'm not Robin Boswell of his
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Speaker 1: points here.
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Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, you know, I think that I think I
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Speaker 3: have no grounds for it. Again from my.
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Speaker 2: Viewpoint prior to this, and no grounds, but I think
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Speaker 2: this is actually gonna be a shootout erase to thirty
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Speaker 2: and unfortunately, I just don't think that we have the
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Speaker 2: firepower for that. I think that, oh it, in fact's
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Speaker 2: the case, it's going to skew to the commanders. So
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Speaker 2: I'm gonna get the commanders a thirty one twenty seven one.
22:40
Speaker 1: All right, mister pessimist. As always, I see, well, there
22:47
Speaker 1: you go. One of us will be right unless there's
22:50
Speaker 1: a tie, which no one wants. So the big news was,
22:55
Speaker 1: of course, today's November fifth, twenty twenty four, and really
22:58
Speaker 1: the only news on anybody's mind today at all is
23:02
Speaker 1: the NFL trade deadline. So the Steelers were particularly big
23:08
Speaker 1: in making moves today. We were talking about it before
23:12
Speaker 1: we recorded. Couldn't remember the last time they made multiple
23:14
Speaker 1: moves in the same day, let alone the same cycle,
23:19
Speaker 1: And they made two acquisitions today. So we'll go through
23:24
Speaker 1: them one at a time, but just to mention them first,
23:27
Speaker 1: the Steelers sent the Jets a fifth round pick in
23:31
Speaker 1: the next draft for Mike Williams, and then they sent
23:37
Speaker 1: the Packers a seventh round twenty twenty five pick for
23:42
Speaker 1: edge Preston Smith. So let's talk about the Mike Williams
23:47
Speaker 1: trade first, because that was the big one. Since the
23:52
Speaker 1: off season, the Steelers have been that team that just
23:57
Speaker 1: pops up on everybody's listen, and there's even rumors that
24:02
Speaker 1: a wide receiver might be unhappy and want to be traded,
24:04
Speaker 1: just based on the fact that they traded away Deontae
24:08
Speaker 1: Johnson in the offseason and they did draft a wide
24:12
Speaker 1: receiver who has yet to see the field. It's just
24:15
Speaker 1: been kind of an open secret that they need a
24:17
Speaker 1: wide receiver. Someone like Van Jefferson, while serviceable, is not
24:24
Speaker 1: not the guy. So if nothing else, it's nice to
24:28
Speaker 1: finally get that wide receiver so that it stops coming
24:31
Speaker 1: up and everybody keeps getting their hopes up. But again,
24:36
Speaker 1: want to talk about the trade overall. It is a
24:38
Speaker 1: fifth rounder in the upcoming draft for Mike Williams. So
24:42
Speaker 1: what were your what are your initial thoughts on this move.
24:48
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think we've been trying hard and we try
24:52
Speaker 2: to make good with the best that we could. I
24:56
Speaker 2: think Mike Williams is an interesting one because I I
25:00
Speaker 2: think it could be extremely beneficial based on Russell being
25:05
Speaker 2: the quarterback. Mike Williams is a best when he's down
25:09
Speaker 2: the field threat. Russell Wilson has been opening it up
25:14
Speaker 2: by just throwing some moonball. So if our strategy just
25:18
Speaker 2: starts becoming George and Mike will He's just running down
25:22
Speaker 2: the field and whoever's gonna get the pop out at
25:27
Speaker 2: that time come down with it and we just try
25:30
Speaker 2: to rack up as many forty yard passes. This offense
25:33
Speaker 2: could be pretty exciting to watch. So but the only
25:40
Speaker 2: thing is I just don't think he's been good in
25:42
Speaker 2: like three years, so I think he has a lot
25:48
Speaker 2: of health issues too, and.
25:51
Speaker 3: So I just don't know how that votes for it.
25:54
Speaker 2: But like when you give up a fifth rounder, which
25:59
Speaker 2: you know, not take anything away from fifth rounders, I
26:02
Speaker 2: just think it's worth the risk.
26:04
Speaker 3: And as I've been saying, I want.
26:07
Speaker 2: Us to put the chips in the middle of the table,
26:09
Speaker 2: and this was a step in that direction.
26:14
Speaker 1: Yeah, your point about Williams having a rough three year stretch.
26:19
Speaker 1: It's really been exacerbated this season too, with his injury
26:23
Speaker 1: and having an interesting situation at quarterback. It's been kind
26:32
Speaker 1: of a scenario that we're used to as Steelers fans.
26:35
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers has been publicly throwing Williams under the bus
26:38
Speaker 1: for some of their losses, which again we know that feeling.
26:42
Speaker 1: So I think the best outcome for the Steelers here
26:45
Speaker 1: is just that it really was a chemistry issue. He's
26:48
Speaker 1: gonna get healthy and he can help the team here.
26:52
Speaker 1: And pretty much, I guess what I'm trying to get
26:56
Speaker 1: it is the hope is that it wasn't his fault
27:00
Speaker 1: what happened in New York, right, so, and maybe there's
27:05
Speaker 1: at least a kernel of truth to that and we'll
27:08
Speaker 1: see an improvement out of him. But I think you're
27:10
Speaker 1: spot on here if he can at least open things
27:13
Speaker 1: up a little bit for the offense so that George
27:15
Speaker 1: Pickens isn't having to shoulder that load and having to
27:19
Speaker 1: make you know, three to four to five insane circus
27:24
Speaker 1: catches every game, as exciting as they are. I think
27:28
Speaker 1: that'll go a long way for the team. And like
27:30
Speaker 1: I mentioned, before with the deep ball opening things up
27:32
Speaker 1: for Najie Harris. Continuing to add to that's going to
27:36
Speaker 1: complement all aspects of the offense as well. We should
27:39
Speaker 1: with a solid number two, you should be seeing all
27:42
Speaker 1: of the weapons having a little more breathing room, a
27:45
Speaker 1: little more a little more flexibility there. And I'm not
27:48
Speaker 1: talking just about wide receivers. I'm talking about again the
27:51
Speaker 1: running back, the tight ends Friar Muth and Washington, who
27:55
Speaker 1: we've both seen step up already this year. I think
27:58
Speaker 1: just having that extra weapon should give the team, again
28:02
Speaker 1: emphasis on the word, should give the team a little
28:05
Speaker 1: bit more flexibility to see things open up. And it
28:09
Speaker 1: was Mike Williams their first choice. No, he obviously was not,
28:14
Speaker 1: because again we heard all off season Brandon Ayuk's coming
28:19
Speaker 1: to the Steelers, then it was Davante Adams coming to
28:21
Speaker 1: the Steelers, and when both of those panned out, Yes,
28:27
Speaker 1: Mike Williams name was on a list for the Steelers
28:29
Speaker 1: as potential targets, but so is every other receiver that
28:32
Speaker 1: was even rumored to be on the block. And it
28:36
Speaker 1: was confirmed today that the Steelers also had talks with
28:39
Speaker 1: the Giants about Darius Slayton why they went with Mike
28:45
Speaker 1: Williams instead of Darius Slayton. Not sure if I had
28:48
Speaker 1: to guess, probably cost, And when I say cost, I'm
28:51
Speaker 1: talking about the cost to acquire him, not necessarily cost
28:55
Speaker 1: of the contract, although that could be part of it too,
28:58
Speaker 1: But but yeah, overall, they we'll talk about it as
29:04
Speaker 1: well with the other pick, but getting rid of a
29:07
Speaker 1: fifth rounder in next year's draft, it's uh, maybe a
29:12
Speaker 1: little bit higher than we would have liked to have seen,
29:15
Speaker 1: but it doesn't feel like a really large reach for
29:20
Speaker 1: what they.
29:21
Speaker 2: Got, so all right now, And we don't have to
29:25
Speaker 2: commit huge amounts of money to them either, because right
29:29
Speaker 2: I believe.
29:30
Speaker 3: It's a one year deal and.
29:33
Speaker 2: A lot of it was already pretty much guaranteed, So
29:35
Speaker 2: I think it's probably like a three or four million
29:39
Speaker 2: dollars cost for the.
29:40
Speaker 1: Year, if that. If that, yeah, all right. In the
29:45
Speaker 1: other move the Steelers made today which kind of took
29:48
Speaker 1: me by surprise, mostly because it wasn't a position I expected,
29:52
Speaker 1: and I was like, I didn't expect to see the
29:54
Speaker 1: Steelers pop up again. But they sent a seventh round
29:59
Speaker 1: pick for Reston Smith defensive end from Green Bay. So
30:06
Speaker 1: the reason I thought this was interesting at first was
30:09
Speaker 1: because it was a position I did not expect to
30:10
Speaker 1: see them bolster. But as the more I thought about it,
30:13
Speaker 1: the more I like it. Again, it's a seventh rounder,
30:16
Speaker 1: but they're getting some help at edge rusher. We've seen TJ.
30:21
Speaker 1: Watt is healthy right now, but he's had his fair
30:25
Speaker 1: share of injuries. But then on the other side of
30:28
Speaker 1: the line, you've got her Big who's been hurt. High
30:33
Speaker 1: Smith's been hurt, so you gotta get some depth there,
30:36
Speaker 1: and I think this does bolster that unit.
30:41
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I mean I think that we took a
30:47
Speaker 2: strength and we made it even stronger. I think for
30:52
Speaker 2: this season it makes a lot of sense. I think
30:57
Speaker 2: it's kind of interesting. The cost of it was a
31:00
Speaker 2: lot because the Steelers are also taking on a little
31:04
Speaker 2: bit of deadness. I think it carries two more years
31:10
Speaker 2: at like an eight figures type of.
31:14
Speaker 3: You know salary.
31:15
Speaker 2: So yeah, we'll see how that works out in the future.
31:20
Speaker 2: But again, I wanted to take a swing of the bat.
31:23
Speaker 3: I think that this is the.
31:24
Speaker 2: Year to do it, especially since we have no idea
31:27
Speaker 2: what our quarter back plan will be after the season.
31:29
Speaker 2: So yeah, TJ is healthy, Cam Hayward's playing great, let's
31:37
Speaker 2: go get some playoff wins for these guys.
31:40
Speaker 3: You know.
31:40
Speaker 1: The only thing that's concerning to me, And maybe I
31:42
Speaker 1: should pull up the rest of the picks that the
31:46
Speaker 1: Steelers have. But today they gave away a fifth rounder
31:50
Speaker 1: and a seventh rounder, and they've already given up in
31:54
Speaker 1: the Justin Fields trade a fourth or a sixth rounder.
31:59
Speaker 1: If I had to guess, it'll probably be the sixth
32:01
Speaker 1: barring and injury and Russell Wilson. So right now the
32:06
Speaker 1: Steelers have no fifth, sixth, or seventh round pick. Again,
32:09
Speaker 1: I know that's the tail end of the draft, but
32:13
Speaker 1: I'd rather have more picks than not, if I'm all
32:15
Speaker 1: things being equal. So we mentioned this before too. I'm
32:19
Speaker 1: glad they're going for the fences here and they're making moves,
32:21
Speaker 1: but not to put the cart before the horse or
32:25
Speaker 1: get too far ahead of things when we're still in
32:26
Speaker 1: the middle of this season. I think that sets us
32:29
Speaker 1: up in the draft. Look for us to trade back
32:33
Speaker 1: and try to recoup some picks. I think they've done
32:35
Speaker 1: that the last couple of times as well with con
32:38
Speaker 1: and that's one of the ways we got Darnell Washington
32:40
Speaker 1: actually by trading back in the third round swapping picks
32:43
Speaker 1: with someone and getting an additional pick as well. So
32:48
Speaker 1: just something I wanted to point out because I think
32:50
Speaker 1: that's likely and interesting since we might be missing our
32:52
Speaker 1: last three picks to the next draft.
32:55
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, but you know, if we get to a
33:03
Speaker 2: certain point in the playoffs, maybe it's worth no.
33:07
Speaker 1: And I'd agree with that. I was talking with colleagues
33:09
Speaker 1: at work today and it kind of is anti Steeler
33:13
Speaker 1: sentiment from what we're used to, but we were talking
33:16
Speaker 1: about another team. My colleague at work as a Mets fan,
33:21
Speaker 1: and I said, you know, I hate the Mets, which
33:23
Speaker 1: I really don't. I just like to get under his skin.
33:25
Speaker 1: But I said, I think there is something to be
33:29
Speaker 1: said for an owner who's at least try It's very
33:32
Speaker 1: clear that they're trying to go out and they're trying
33:34
Speaker 1: to do things to get the win. And I will
33:38
Speaker 1: admit that, as much as we all love the Steelers way,
33:41
Speaker 1: for a couple of years there it sounded like it
33:44
Speaker 1: felt like things were starting to get a little bit stale.
33:46
Speaker 1: It's like, really, we're not going to make this particular
33:48
Speaker 1: move when we could do it, you know. So I'll
33:54
Speaker 1: just say that overall, I am appreciative and happy that
33:58
Speaker 1: we're seeing the Steelers on these lists of teams that
34:01
Speaker 1: made moves at the deadline, because it shows that while
34:05
Speaker 1: there is still some respect and adherence for the values
34:10
Speaker 1: of the quote unquote stealerway, they're still willing to do
34:16
Speaker 1: things to take risks and go out and make those
34:19
Speaker 1: kind of play decisions mid season to try and make
34:24
Speaker 1: that Super Bowl run. Yeah, all right, Well, we wanted
34:31
Speaker 1: to end with the fun topic, and frankly, we're kind
34:34
Speaker 1: of spent and burnt out after eight years of trying
34:37
Speaker 1: to pink of random fun topics. I think we've probably
34:39
Speaker 1: reused a few and not even realized it. But one
34:43
Speaker 1: thing we talked about was the fact that the Commanders
34:46
Speaker 1: are playing and what's i'd say universally accepted as the
34:52
Speaker 1: worst stadium in the NFL now, particularly that the Raiders
34:55
Speaker 1: are out of Oakland. You know, we had the stories
34:58
Speaker 1: of cats falling from one deck to another. There was
35:01
Speaker 1: a pipe burst that led to water with fecal matter
35:04
Speaker 1: and it pouring on fans. So maybe they're not great features.
35:11
Speaker 1: I can't imagine I'd want either of those things happening
35:14
Speaker 1: to me when I pay money to see an NFL
35:16
Speaker 1: team play, but we thought it might be kind of
35:19
Speaker 1: neat to talk about some interesting stadium features that we've
35:22
Speaker 1: seen in person or have wanted to see by going
35:28
Speaker 1: to games at these stadiums. So Eric, I'll let you start,
35:32
Speaker 1: but I've got a couple as well. I think we'll
35:34
Speaker 1: have a fun discussion here. In your personal experience at stadiums,
35:39
Speaker 1: and I know you've gone to college stadiums and different
35:41
Speaker 1: NFL stadiums, do you have any unique features or experiences
35:47
Speaker 1: at any of those stadiums that you visited that stand
35:50
Speaker 1: out to you.
35:54
Speaker 2: Maybe not like directly seen, but then I have experienced,
35:58
Speaker 2: And I remember seeing it on TV and thinking how
36:02
Speaker 2: crazy it is that.
36:04
Speaker 3: You know, franchise dollars and they're still playing on that.
36:09
Speaker 3: So when I was.
36:11
Speaker 2: In grade school, a lot of them are grade schools
36:15
Speaker 2: that we played against had joint football and baseball.
36:19
Speaker 1: Fields, And.
36:23
Speaker 2: You know, I didn't particularly love when it was a
36:27
Speaker 2: dry day. You landed your face down to the ground
36:32
Speaker 2: and your pancakes somebody and you get some dirt in
36:35
Speaker 2: the eye, right because the dust cloud just.
36:38
Speaker 3: Pops up on you.
36:40
Speaker 2: I can't believe like So in the nineties, I was
36:44
Speaker 2: crazy of having baseball teams and football teams share stadium,
36:48
Speaker 2: and I always remember the worst I felt was the
36:52
Speaker 2: Oakland Raiders, and that I believe the Miami Dolphins. So
37:00
Speaker 2: to me, that's always the stadium feature that always stuck
37:03
Speaker 2: out to me is having just you're playing in the
37:08
Speaker 2: middle of a baseball diamond on this football field.
37:11
Speaker 3: Just crazy to me.
37:14
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, and that is crazy, but it's something you
37:19
Speaker 1: kind of come to expect though, when you're playing at
37:22
Speaker 1: those grade schools. Our grade school had four baseball diamonds
37:28
Speaker 1: where the football field was in I guess center field
37:32
Speaker 1: of each one, so we always had to run our
37:36
Speaker 1: And I'm saying, are I know you know what I'm
37:38
Speaker 1: talking about? Eric and I went to the same school
37:41
Speaker 1: for our tens of listeners out there, I think forever
37:46
Speaker 1: before before every practice when we would do our warm ups,
37:50
Speaker 1: the last thing part of our warm up was running
37:52
Speaker 1: one lap around the outside of every single one of
37:55
Speaker 1: those baseball fields. So I do think that was kind
37:59
Speaker 1: of kind of neat in the sense that we had
38:02
Speaker 1: the baseball fields, but you didn't actually have to go
38:04
Speaker 1: over the dirt. Yeah, I remember, and I don't know
38:08
Speaker 1: if you ever played at this field either. But I
38:11
Speaker 1: didn't play in high school, but I went to watch
38:13
Speaker 1: my high school do a playoff game at the University
38:16
Speaker 1: of Dayton. Oh yeah, did you play on that field
38:21
Speaker 1: at all?
38:22
Speaker 3: Uh huh.
38:23
Speaker 1: So at the time, it was like the old school
38:27
Speaker 1: straight AstroTurf, right, it was, and which is basically just
38:34
Speaker 1: what a light carpet on top of concrete, so it's
38:39
Speaker 1: a hard surface. And when I went and saw my
38:42
Speaker 1: high school, it was in the playoffs and I'm like
38:46
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four. It got cold in November, and I
38:51
Speaker 1: remember I forget which team it was, but there was
38:53
Speaker 1: a punt and whoever was returning the punt didn't catch it.
38:58
Speaker 1: They were gonna let it hit the ground and then
39:00
Speaker 1: field it. The ball bounced twenty yards back up in
39:04
Speaker 1: the air. It's the opposite of the one we always
39:06
Speaker 1: talk about the Steelers where it just plopped in the ground.
39:10
Speaker 1: So I think that was kind of interesting that Dayton had.
39:15
Speaker 1: Is the last field I saw that had like legit
39:18
Speaker 1: astro turf on it. Everything else has been updated, I think,
39:24
Speaker 1: speaking about interesting things again from our experience, the Paul
39:29
Speaker 1: Brown Stadium or what is it now pay Corpse Stadium
39:32
Speaker 1: in Ohio. One thing I think is really funny is
39:37
Speaker 1: they have one escalator, at least they did the last
39:41
Speaker 1: time I went there. You'll have to check it out
39:42
Speaker 1: for our fans after we break this news to them.
39:45
Speaker 1: But it goes up at the start of the game,
39:49
Speaker 1: and then it goes down at the end of the game,
39:51
Speaker 1: and you can see people because they've made it so
39:55
Speaker 1: that you can still see the game in the field.
39:57
Speaker 1: When you're on the state or on the escalator, you
40:01
Speaker 1: can see the fans leaving, and usually before the end
40:05
Speaker 1: of the game because they're losing. So I thought that
40:08
Speaker 1: was interesting. You would just think with a stadium that's
40:13
Speaker 1: twenty first century, we'd have a little bit more user
40:17
Speaker 1: friendly amenities. But I mean Pittsburgh's kind of the same
40:21
Speaker 1: way too. I mean I remember exiting those games and
40:24
Speaker 1: walking for what felt like forty five minutes down the
40:26
Speaker 1: exit ramps. Yeah, but yeah, I think I think college
40:33
Speaker 1: stadiums are kind of more unique and have the more
40:37
Speaker 1: interesting features. Again, I don't think anyone's throwing cats or
40:41
Speaker 1: between decks in the stadium, but I mean, looking at
40:46
Speaker 1: our stadium from our all modern Nippert Stadium, which is
40:51
Speaker 1: maybe what we should have led off with because it
40:53
Speaker 1: is one of the most interesting college football stadiums. It
40:56
Speaker 1: seems like they don't rebuild stadium or or build new
41:01
Speaker 1: stadiums that much. They kind of have to add on
41:03
Speaker 1: to what they have and remodel, so you get a
41:05
Speaker 1: lot of unique quirks. Our stadium, Nippert Stadium, I think,
41:11
Speaker 1: is the only stadium that is open to the public
41:15
Speaker 1: at all times, with the exception of a game going on,
41:18
Speaker 1: when you'd obviously have to pay a ticket to get in. Right.
41:22
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I don't know if it's the only one,
41:24
Speaker 2: but it's definitely it's unique that. I mean, none of
41:28
Speaker 2: the other colleges I've gone to where he was it accessible.
41:33
Speaker 3: So yeah, I mean I got to play it a
41:36
Speaker 3: mural on that field.
41:37
Speaker 1: It's prett neyt Yeah.
41:38
Speaker 3: Same.
41:39
Speaker 1: I kind of wish they put some padding on the
41:41
Speaker 1: walls when we were playing softball so you don't run
41:43
Speaker 1: into those brick walls and fly ball. But I don't
41:47
Speaker 1: know if you saw this, but it was before one
41:49
Speaker 1: of their last games. Someone was quite literally able to
41:53
Speaker 1: just drive their car onto the field. Yeah, and obviously
41:59
Speaker 1: they should and have done that, Nor do I condone it,
42:01
Speaker 1: but just the most interesting thing was they drove up.
42:05
Speaker 1: They didn't damage the field, they didn't peel out. They
42:07
Speaker 1: just wanted to say they did it. So they drove
42:10
Speaker 1: their car, took a selfie, and they tried to leave.
42:12
Speaker 1: The cops were there and caught them. I don't think
42:13
Speaker 1: they even arrested them. They just sighted them. And obviously
42:16
Speaker 1: I'm sure they're going to put up some barricades so
42:18
Speaker 1: cars can't drive on the field anymore. But but yeah,
42:23
Speaker 1: I remember.
42:25
Speaker 3: Did they really only cite them?
42:27
Speaker 1: I am fairly certain that they cited them because they
42:31
Speaker 1: had they had a good attitude, The field was not damaged,
42:35
Speaker 1: and they were already trying to leave escape the scene.
42:43
Speaker 1: So yeah, there's a lot of interesting quirks out there.
42:45
Speaker 1: I'm trying to think we've talked about it on the
42:48
Speaker 1: show before, but when we went to Indianapolis, we had
42:50
Speaker 1: our view blocked for what was it, the forty yards
42:54
Speaker 1: to the left of us because the press box jutted out.
42:59
Speaker 1: That stuff like that. I get it when it's like
43:02
Speaker 1: a stadium like Fenway where it's over one hundred years old,
43:05
Speaker 1: but again in one of the newer stadiums in the NFL,
43:08
Speaker 1: to have an oversight like that. It just kind of
43:11
Speaker 1: it's mind boggling to me.
43:15
Speaker 3: Yeah, we were very excited to go see that stay
43:20
Speaker 3: of the art stadium, but uh yeah, I don't know.
43:26
Speaker 2: I love going to nipperd I actually just went this
43:28
Speaker 2: past weekend. My nephew played there in his championship.
43:33
Speaker 3: But they kind of conned us a little bit.
43:37
Speaker 2: They said, like, you know, you gotta pay for a
43:40
Speaker 2: ticket ahead of time. And I go there and I
43:45
Speaker 2: just spent twenty five dollars after fees to pay go
43:48
Speaker 2: watch eight year olds.
43:50
Speaker 1: Play twenty five dollars. Yeah, my god.
43:53
Speaker 3: I was like it was crazy.
43:56
Speaker 2: And then I go and there's no one taking tickets,
44:00
Speaker 2: no security, no nothing, and I'm just like, it's for
44:05
Speaker 2: the kids. So I got that tught myself. But at
44:08
Speaker 2: the same time, I was like, okay, like I just
44:10
Speaker 2: got swindled.
44:11
Speaker 1: And who did you have to make the payment to.
44:13
Speaker 1: Was it like the kids school or was it the university?
44:18
Speaker 2: It was to like the youth football league or whatever
44:21
Speaker 2: that they're all part.
44:22
Speaker 1: Of, So all right, I mean, at least if it
44:25
Speaker 1: was the university, you could like trick yourself into thinking
44:28
Speaker 1: that it was for the nil fond or something.
44:30
Speaker 3: But but yeah.
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Speaker 1: I think you did it the right way. It's it's
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Speaker 1: for the kids, It's for the kids.
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Speaker 3: I was still like, man, I feel I do. I
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Speaker 3: felt swindled.
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Speaker 2: That's the way that I would describe it, just like
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Speaker 2: it didn't make me nervous, Like so, who was that?
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Speaker 3: So I'm just like, hey, I'm just gonna tell everybody.
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Speaker 2: On both sides of the you know, the Mason and
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Speaker 2: the King's.
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Speaker 3: Team, like hey, uh, parents, you gotta pay twenty five dollars, that's.
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Speaker 2: What you gotta do and move on with it. And
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Speaker 2: then all of a sudden they walk away with I
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Speaker 2: mean there's hundred hundreds of people see pay ten bucks spot,
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Speaker 2: I mean a few thousand.
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Speaker 1: Was it at least a good game?
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Speaker 3: It wasn't actually a good game. Good they about seven
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Speaker 3: to six, but they should have like.
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Speaker 2: They should have like won because based off how well
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Speaker 2: they were playing comparatively. But and actually the other team
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Speaker 2: the best player was I believe Takio Spikes probably.
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Speaker 1: Like Sun Wow remember that guy?
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Speaker 3: Yeah?
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Speaker 2: So yeah, I tell my wife like, I don't know
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Speaker 2: which one he is, Like, there's like a few guys
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Speaker 2: on the field I could have liked been to Kio.
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Speaker 2: My life's like you mean, it's just not that mammoth
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Speaker 2: like six foot six, humongous man right there, you're prosking, right.
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Speaker 1: We don't assume here.
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Speaker 2: I did say that I was like he had the
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Speaker 2: biggest neck of all time? Have you ever have you
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Speaker 2: ever saved the queue Spike's neck?
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Speaker 1: I can safely say I have not.
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Speaker 3: Okay, Well, look at up.
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Speaker 2: I mean the thing goes most people's necks like kind
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Speaker 2: of like go straight.
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Speaker 3: Down, maybe even a little inwards.
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Speaker 2: His outwards, like his neck just like extends from his
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Speaker 2: ear lobe to like his shoulder blade.
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Speaker 1: Well, on that note, we talked about the Giants game preview,
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Speaker 1: the Commander's matchup, went through the trade deadline moves the
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Speaker 1: Steelers made, talked about some of our most interesting stadium features,
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Speaker 1: and gave ta Kio Spike's neck a shout out. Was
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Speaker 1: there anything else or any other athlete body parts you
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Speaker 1: wanted to mention before we sign off?
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Speaker 3: I don't think so.
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Speaker 1: All right, well, I think that'll do it for us.
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Speaker 1: Then you'll have to tune in next time for more
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Speaker 1: details of the human athlete physiology with Eric for the
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Speaker 1: world famous accountant Eric van Benschoten, I am Nick Detulio,
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Speaker 1: and this has been another episode of the GameHouse dot
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