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HR 2: Top 10 Moments from Steelers 34, Colts 22 · The Steelers Report

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  Speaker 1: This is the Steelers Report with Brian Batko and Ed
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  Speaker 1: Truth on Steelers Nation Radio, a part of the Steelers
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  Speaker 1: Audio Network.
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  Speaker 2: Moving right along into hour number two here on the
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  Speaker 2: Steelers Report. Brian, you have me thinking from that first hour,
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  Speaker 2: you asked me if Jerry Rice was the best wide
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  Speaker 2: receiver I saw growing up in the 80s.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: But on the flip side for the Steelers, who was
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  Speaker 2: the top Steeler wide receiver that I saw growing up
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  Speaker 2: in the 80s?
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  Speaker 3: And that's an easy answer. It's our good friend, Louie Lips.
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  Speaker 4: No doubt. All right.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: Sweet Lou.
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  Speaker 6: You know, that was obviously an in-between time there after
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  Speaker 6: the super 70 Steelers and four things really got rolling
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  Speaker 6: again in the 90s and the 2000s.
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  Speaker 5: But yeah, Louie Lips was a really fun interview to have.
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  Speaker 5: during training camp.
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  Speaker 6: From our Steelers alumni series. Hopefully we can do that
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  Speaker 6: again next summer.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, man, I hope so.
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  Speaker 2: That was a highlight of the summer for me, that's
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  Speaker 2: for sure.
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  Speaker 3: Not just being in the booth with you and Chris
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  Speaker 3: Adamski every day. I mean, that's a highlight in and
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  Speaker 3: of itself.
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  Speaker 6: And we know Louis Lips is loving the Jeremy Bernard breakout,
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  Speaker 6: given their ancestral roots and their distant cousin nature of
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  Speaker 6: their family relationship.
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  Speaker 2: Now, there is one other receiver I grew up watching
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  Speaker 2: outside of Louie Lips, and that was Dwight Stone.
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  Speaker 3: Dwight Stone, number 20. I know you're a big number guy,
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  Speaker 3: but how about that?
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  Speaker 2: He was a wide receiver wearing number 20, which in
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  Speaker 2: today's NFL is really not that rare because the numbers
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  Speaker 2: are all different now, single digits.
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  Speaker 3: But back then in the 80s, that was very weird.
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  Speaker 5: Tough name for a receiver to have, Stone.
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  Speaker 7: Wow.
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  Speaker 6: Because I was thinking this in the press box during
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  Speaker 6: the Colts-Steelers game Sunday.
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  Speaker 5: I'm like, Treadwell is a good name.
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  Speaker 6: Nfl player as was kenny gainwell running back gainwell but
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  Speaker 6: the worst ones are like stone kenny pickett for a
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  Speaker 6: quarterback chris blew it for a kicker who was pitt's
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  Speaker 6: kicker for a while um of course we're not denigrating
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  Speaker 6: anybody's names but some line up a little bit better
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  Speaker 6: uh for athletes and some not so much some you
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  Speaker 6: got to overcome some you can embrace.
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  Speaker 2: The Dwight Stone nickname sometimes was Hands of Stone because
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  Speaker 2: he wasn't always catching the football back then, but he
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  Speaker 2: was fun to watch. He was a big playmaker, wide receiver,
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  Speaker 2: and I think special teams contributor as well.
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  Speaker 6: Speaking of kickers, missed this earlier, but we were talking
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  Speaker 6: about Rams bills. The Rams cut Harrison Mevis, the guy
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  Speaker 6: who missed the kick, the thicker kicker they were calling him.
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  Speaker 5: He's got a little heft to him.
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  Speaker 6: He was at Missouri in college and made some big
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  Speaker 6: kicks and was a fan favorite, but He missed that
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  Speaker 6: one last night against the Bills, and they're moving on.
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  Speaker 2: Well, thank you, Brian Batko, because I had him on
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  Speaker 2: a couple of my fantasy football teams. Now, I probably
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  Speaker 2: would have found out as early as later today when
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  Speaker 2: I check in on those teams, but I had him
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  Speaker 2: because you always want to pick a kicker in fantasy
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  Speaker 2: football where the offense scores a lot of points, right?
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  Speaker 7: Sure.
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  Speaker 3: And the L.A.
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  Speaker 2: Rams, one of the top offenses going in the league.
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  Speaker 2: That's why I picked them. But I had them on
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  Speaker 2: more than just one fantasy football team. So did that
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  Speaker 2: just happen today?
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  Speaker 5: Yes, it did.
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  Speaker 3: I was going to say, I was on my team
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  Speaker 3: earlier this morning. I didn't see anything.
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  Speaker 6: Reported a little bit ago. I guess it's not official.
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  Speaker 6: So I guess they could go a different direction. But
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  Speaker 6: some reports out there that they're going to sign Blake.
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  Speaker 6: groupie off the jets practice squad.
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  Speaker 2: So who do I go get now? Cause you want
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  Speaker 2: to get a big, well, maybe we'll fight out tomorrow
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  Speaker 2: because coming up on the show tomorrow, we'll do our
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  Speaker 2: power ranking top five offense. Uh, so maybe whoever that
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  Speaker 2: top offense is, maybe that's the wave or wire kicker picker.
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  Speaker 6: I always feel bad for the kickers when they miss
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  Speaker 6: a big kick and get cut. I mean, it's never
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  Speaker 6: one kick in a vacuum. I don't think for these
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  Speaker 6: coaches when they make these decisions, but yeah, it is.
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  Speaker 6: It's a tough business and it's, uh, It's just one
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  Speaker 6: of those positions in sports where, I mean, you're just
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  Speaker 6: out there, and everybody sees it when you miss, and
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  Speaker 6: it all falls on you. There's no, hey, this guy
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  Speaker 6: missed his block, and that's why I fumbled. Like, no,
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  Speaker 6: I mean, it's just... It's on you. I mean, I
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  Speaker 6: guess you could have a bad snap. That happened, actually,
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  Speaker 6: in that... What game was that? Somebody missed a short one,
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  Speaker 6: and then they ended up losing, I think.
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  Speaker 5: Was it Eagles? Jaguars, maybe?
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  Speaker 3: Could have been.
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  Speaker 6: Or maybe it was Thursday Night Football. Didn't the Cowboys...
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  Speaker 6: Last week. Miss an extra point or something.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, they did.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: So either way, because there was like a penalty and then.
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  Speaker 3: It was back and it was a bad snap.
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  Speaker 6: That happened last night, too, with or maybe it was
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  Speaker 6: the Bills last night with Tyler Bass.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know. Either way, there does have to be
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  Speaker 5: an operation.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, there has to be an operation that that makes
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  Speaker 6: it easy on the kicker.
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  Speaker 5: But he's ultimately the one who's got to put it
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  Speaker 5: through the pipes.
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  Speaker 2: And you know once you're a kicker and you're brought
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  Speaker 2: in if you start having success then you could make
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  Speaker 2: a career out of it I mean think of Jeff
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  Speaker 2: Reed who kicked for the Steelers he was brought in
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  Speaker 2: off the street at the at the time and ended
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  Speaker 2: up being a Super Bowl winning kicker for the Pittsburgh
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  Speaker 2: Steelers for a long time Sean Swisham we had him
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  Speaker 2: in on our show this past summer yes the Canadian remember.
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  Speaker 5: He came in Louis Lips all those guys yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And he was another one that was brought in and
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  Speaker 2: end up sticking around for a while. Norm Johnson back
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  Speaker 2: in the day for the Steelers. And of course, Chris
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  Speaker 2: Boswell now has been here for over 10 years.
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  Speaker 3: Brian, I was ready to call you Chris. Chris was
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  Speaker 3: earlier today. Chris Adamski. But yeah, Chris Boswell. There you go.
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  Speaker 2: We were talking about this the other day. Now over
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  Speaker 2: 10 years with the Pittsburgh Steelers.
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  Speaker 3: Hard to believe.
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  Speaker 5: For sure.
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  Speaker 6: And he's, like we said, getting close to Gary Anderson's
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  Speaker 6: all-time mark and uh you know we'll get more into
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  Speaker 6: the bucks matchup but good kicker matchup because chase mclaughlin
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  Speaker 6: for the bucks very good for 10 on field goals
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  Speaker 6: 10 for 10 on extra points oh did i just
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  Speaker 6: jinx him i'm sorry about that chase mclaughlin but if
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  Speaker 6: you miss a kick on sunday nobody on steelers nation
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  Speaker 6: radio will be uh you know playing their tiny violin
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  Speaker 6: for you.
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  Speaker 3: He is also on one or two of my fantasy
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  Speaker 3: football teams.
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  Speaker 2: But maybe this week I need to bench him because
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  Speaker 2: I don't like playing fantasy football players against the Steelers,
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  Speaker 2: Brian Backo, unless I absolutely have to. I've got Lamar
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  Speaker 2: Jackson as one of my quarterbacks. I guess for two
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  Speaker 2: weeks this year, I'll have to start him. But in
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  Speaker 2: the back of my mind, I will be struggling with
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  Speaker 2: Win a fantasy football game or have the Steelers win.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, here on Steelers Nation Radio, forget about the
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  Speaker 2: Ed Troop fantasy football team. I want the black and
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  Speaker 2: gold to win. I will be rooting for the Steelers
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  Speaker 2: defense that week. But speaking of field goal kickers, speaking
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  Speaker 2: of special teams, that is where we're going to start
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  Speaker 2: our top 10 moments and plays from this past Sunday. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: it's a very good segue because, well, the Colts have
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  Speaker 2: a good kicker, too. And he was on display yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: More than just once, a bunch of times on Sunday,
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  Speaker 2: but a couple long kicks from Sunday, including the first
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  Speaker 2: one at number 10 for us. It gave the Indianapolis
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  Speaker 2: Colts an early 3-0 lead. It was a 57-yard field goal.
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  Speaker 2: Here's a hold, here's a snap, here's the boot by Schrader.
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  Speaker 2: Plenty of leg, that kick is up, and that kick
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  Speaker 2: is good. Drilled through by Spencer Schrader. 8.57 remains here
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  Speaker 2: in the first quarter for MacRasher Stadium. It capped a seven-play,
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  Speaker 2: just 22-yard scoring drive that ate up three minutes and
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  Speaker 2: 24 seconds, and the Colts had their first and only
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  Speaker 2: lead of the game, Brian Bacco, 3-0 in the first quarter.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, and I think was that.
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  Speaker 6: So the next one was when Mike McCarthy declined a
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  Speaker 6: penalty and set the Colts up for another long field goal.
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  Speaker 5: But yeah, Spencer Schrader was... he was nails in that game.
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  Speaker 6: And sometimes I think you, you probably walk away from
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  Speaker 6: a win and you're like, man, we were fortunate to
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  Speaker 6: get that game when the guy on the other side
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  Speaker 6: was just booting 50 yard field goals, like it was nothing,
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  Speaker 6: but it was encouraging and fitting in the end that
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  Speaker 6: Chris Boswell put it away, made it a two touchdown
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  Speaker 6: game with that 54 yard field goal himself.
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  Speaker 3: Will we hear that 54 yard field.
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  Speaker 2: Goal a bit later on? We might, but not yet.
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  Speaker 2: We got to get some of these early Colts field
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  Speaker 2: goals out of the way. So, and number 10, It
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  Speaker 2: was the 57-yarder at number nine. It's the 56-yard field
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  Speaker 2: goal by Spencer in the first quarter.
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  Speaker 4: Kick by Schrader. That kick is up.
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  Speaker 7: And that kick is drilled through again by Schrader. By
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  Speaker 7: the way, plenty of leg despair on that kick as well.
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  Speaker 7: Hit the net twice.
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  Speaker 2: It is not easy, Brian Bacco, to hit a 50-plus
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  Speaker 2: yard field goal at AccuShore Stadium. Now, across the NFL,
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  Speaker 2: it's almost automatic these days, but it's still challenging in
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  Speaker 2: and around AccuShore, especially when you're 55 or more yards.
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  Speaker 2: I know that's only five yards, but it makes a
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  Speaker 2: big difference in a place like AccuShore where the wind
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  Speaker 2: we know is goofy coming off those rivers.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, it's never an easy place to kick, of course.
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  Speaker 6: You know, it's one of those deals where, Sometimes I
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  Speaker 6: think if you're the Steelers, you maybe feel like you
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  Speaker 6: have a bit of an advantage because you're used to
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  Speaker 6: it and you hope that you can navigate it a
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  Speaker 6: little bit better than opposing kickers.
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  Speaker 5: But that wasn't the case on Sunday. Spencer Schrader was
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  Speaker 5: was really, really good, too.
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  Speaker 2: The last name Warren was extremely important and popular on Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: But there's only one Warren touchdown for the Indianapolis Colts,
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  Speaker 2: and it's our number one. Eight play of the day.
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  Speaker 2: It's Tyler Warren from one yard out.
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  Speaker 7: Jones gets a snap, gives to Warren, and the tight
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  Speaker 7: end is hit at the goal line. Now some extra
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  Speaker 7: pushing and shoving is going to get him across for
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  Speaker 7: the score.
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  Speaker 2: Warren had a big game at the tight end spot,
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  Speaker 2: but he did have a rushing touchdown, as you just heard,
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  Speaker 2: from one yard out. It capped an 11-play, 71-yard scoring
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  Speaker 2: drive that ate up five minutes and 34 seconds.
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  Speaker 6: That pulled the Colts within one. 14-13 in the second quarter. Yeah,
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  Speaker 6: and the Colts were just hanging around, it seemed like,
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  Speaker 6: all day. You know, it was very difficult to stop
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  Speaker 6: them in short yardage. And, you know, the Steelers couldn't
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  Speaker 6: quite put them away, but they eventually sort of coasted.
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  Speaker 6: down the stretch and made that one a little bit
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  Speaker 6: more comfortable than we're used to. And I just like
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  Speaker 6: to see the Steelers get a decisive win because, you know,
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  Speaker 6: even in the Mike Tomlin era, those were hard to
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  Speaker 6: come by in the last several seasons. I mean, we
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  Speaker 6: know how good the Steelers are at– dragging you into
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  Speaker 6: the deep end of the pole and just kind of
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  Speaker 6: finding a way to win that fight.
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  Speaker 5: But I like to win fluidly as well.
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  Speaker 6: Sometimes that makes the Sunday nice and easy, and you
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  Speaker 6: can get a head start on cooking Sunday.
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  Speaker 4: Dinner, right?
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  Speaker 3: That's it. You can always get that head start.
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  Speaker 6: But, yeah, with that Tyler Warren touchdown, that was, you know,
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  Speaker 6: the Colts were keeping pace at a time when it
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  Speaker 6: seemed like Jalen Warren alone might blow this one out
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  Speaker 6: of the water.
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  Speaker 3: We may hear from.
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  Speaker 2: Jalen Warren coming up next a couple times. We shall see,
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  Speaker 2: maybe even in the top three. All right, Tyler Warren
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  Speaker 2: from the tight end spot for the Colts on Sunday
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  Speaker 2: had nine targets, seven receptions, 83 yards, averaged 11.9 yards
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  Speaker 2: per catch. He had a day, the former Penn State
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  Speaker 2: Nittany Lion, and then you just heard the one-yard touchdown run.
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  Speaker 2: That was his only run of the day coming out
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  Speaker 2: of the backfield and really utilizing, Brian, his size to
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  Speaker 2: get into the end zone. Two Chris Boswell field goals
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  Speaker 2: will close out the first 6-10, but first at No. 7,
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  Speaker 2: It's the 48-yard field goal by Boz right before halftime,
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  Speaker 2: just 21 seconds before halftime. This capped an 11-play, 58-yard
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  Speaker 2: scoring drive. They ate up two minutes and 21 seconds. Again,
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  Speaker 2: just 21 seconds before halftime.
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  Speaker 4: Here's the snap. Here's the hold. Here's the boot by Boswell.
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  Speaker 7: That kick is up, and that kick is good by
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  Speaker 7: Chris Boswell, extending the Steelers' lead to 17-13 with 21
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  Speaker 7: seconds remaining here.
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  Speaker 4: In this first half.
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  Speaker 2: And that was key Brian, because it was only a
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  Speaker 2: one point game before that field goal, 14, 13. Um,
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  Speaker 2: when I was watching the game, I thought to myself
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  Speaker 2: at the beginning of this drive, they got to get
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  Speaker 2: points in some form. You want a touchdown, but if
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  Speaker 2: at least if you get a field goal, you make
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  Speaker 2: this more than just a one point game at halftime.
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  Speaker 2: And hopefully you build some momentum for the second half.
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  Speaker 5: Anecdotally.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, it feels like the Steelers have done a
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  Speaker 6: pretty good job of, you know, managing to get some
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  Speaker 6: points before the half, uh, Whatever the time management, whoever's
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  Speaker 6: handling that on the coaching staff, or whether it's Mike
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  Speaker 6: McCarthy himself in the boundary there, making sure everything runs smoothly.
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  Speaker 6: Maybe the Washington Commanders could take some pointers, Ed.
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  Speaker 2: You mean like not take a, well, not take a knee,
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  Speaker 2: but just a little rushing play. And then everybody just
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  Speaker 2: kind of hang out. Everybody just looks around. There's no urgency.
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  Speaker 3: There's not like there's 10 seconds left in the game and.
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  Speaker 4: You don't have any timeouts.
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  Speaker 6: For a guy who has a lot of, who can
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  Speaker 6: be fairly demonstrative on the field when things go wrong,
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  Speaker 6: how would Aaron Rodgers have reacted to a play like that?
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  Speaker 5: Could you even imagine?
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  Speaker 6: He'd look like Foghorn Leghorn in the Looney Tunes or
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  Speaker 6: something blowing a top.
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  Speaker 2: We're referring to the end of the Commanders game from
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  Speaker 2: this past week where Jaden Daniels was, I guess, trying
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  Speaker 2: to position the team in a better spot for a
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  Speaker 2: field goal. And when he went down with no timeouts left,
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  Speaker 2: there was no urgency. The time runs out and the
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  Speaker 2: game's over. It ends in a tie against the Giants.
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  Speaker 2: But you know what's interesting about that play, Brian? We
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  Speaker 2: got one more play to go here before break. We'll
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  Speaker 2: get to it here in a second. Just one thing
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  Speaker 2: on that Commander's Giants game. If you watch the replay,
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  Speaker 2: the Giants are lucky they didn't get called for delay
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  Speaker 2: a game on the defensive side because whatever defensive player
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  Speaker 2: had Daniels wrapped up, watch him. He holds those legs
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  Speaker 2: for an extra second or two.
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  Speaker 3: He's probably smart.
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  Speaker 5: He knew what he was doing. You ain't cheating.
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  Speaker 6: You ain't trying, but yeah, you don't want to tow
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  Speaker 6: that line too much and hurt your team.
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  Speaker 2: You could have called a delay a game. If I
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  Speaker 2: was on the Commander's side, I.
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  Speaker 5: Wouldn't be looking for that. There's no way that they're
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  Speaker 5: going to screw this up, but They.
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  Speaker 4: Screwed it up?
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  Speaker 3: They screwed it up. And the offensive line was not.
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  Speaker 4: Do you like ties?
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  Speaker 5: Are you a fan of ties in the NFL?
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  Speaker 4: No, not at all.
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  Speaker 5: I don't either.
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  Speaker 4: I hate ties.
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  Speaker 6: John Harbaugh had like a kind of a long meandering
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  Speaker 6: answer on it. He's like, we don't really feel good.
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  Speaker 6: We don't really feel bad. We didn't win.
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  Speaker 5: We didn't lose. It's better than losing, but it's not
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  Speaker 5: as good as winning.
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  Speaker 3: It's a half a win and a half a loss.
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  Speaker 5: I wonder if Harbs has had a tie in his career.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure he had to. You can look that up.
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  Speaker 3: I guarantee.
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  Speaker 4: I guarantee.
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  Speaker 3: He's at least had one.
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  Speaker 5: They're not that common.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but he's coached for a long time. How many
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  Speaker 3: did Tomlin have? Tomlin had a handful.
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  Speaker 5: Tomlin had two or three, I think.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he had a handful.
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  Speaker 5: And Harbaugh had one season less than Mike Tomlin did.
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  Speaker 3: I'll let you dig that out.
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  Speaker 5: I'm on the case.
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  Speaker 2: All right, we'll get to our last one before break.
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  Speaker 2: Boswell had two field goals. We just heard the 48 yarder.
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  Speaker 4: No ties.
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  Speaker 5: No ties.
• 14:20
  Speaker 4: Look at me, I'm wrong.
• 14:22
  Speaker 5: Of the Ravens.
• 14:23
  Speaker 6: So it's a modern miracle that the Steelers and Ravens
• 14:26
  Speaker 6: never tied in any of those games, considering how they
• 14:28
  Speaker 6: always came down to the wire and they were often.
• 14:30
  Speaker 6: won by one or two or three points.
• 14:32
  Speaker 2: When you jumped in with the no right away, I
• 14:34
  Speaker 2: thought you were going to tell me I missed a
• 14:35
  Speaker 2: Boz field goal.
• 14:36
  Speaker 3: I thought he had two, and you're like, no. And
• 14:37
  Speaker 3: I'm like, wait a minute. Did he have three? Did
• 14:38
  Speaker 3: I miss one?
• 14:39
  Speaker 7: No.
• 14:40
  Speaker 3: You're talking about John Harbaugh not having a tie.
• 14:42
  Speaker 5: Yeah, so all those years coaching in the NFL, he
• 14:44
  Speaker 5: didn't know how to respond to his first tie.
• 14:46
  Speaker 2: Yep. Like I said, it's a half a win and
• 14:48
  Speaker 2: a half a loss whenever you're breaking things down.
• 14:50
  Speaker 3: It doesn't really count.
• 14:51
  Speaker 5: Mike Tomlin had two.
• 14:52
  Speaker 4: Only two.
• 14:53
  Speaker 5: Browns and Lions, that's off the top of the dome
• 14:55
  Speaker 5: right there.
• 14:56
  Speaker 6: Season opener in Cleveland the one year, and then that
• 14:59
  Speaker 6: Detroit game at home in the rain.
• 15:01
  Speaker 5: Roethlisberger out. COVID. That was a wicked one.
• 15:04
  Speaker 3: I think I'm thinking of the Bill Cowher one against
• 15:07
  Speaker 3: Michael Vick.
• 15:08
  Speaker 4: The Falcons.
• 15:09
  Speaker 3: That's probably the other one I'm thinking of.
• 15:10
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 15:11
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 15:11
  Speaker 2: Let's get to one more before our break. It's the
• 15:13
  Speaker 2: other Boz Phil goal from 54 yards.
• 15:15
  Speaker 4: Here's the hold.
• 15:16
  Speaker 7: Here's the kick. That kick is up from Chris Boswell.
• 15:20
  Speaker 7: And that kick is good from Chris Boswell. And the
• 15:23
  Speaker 7: Steelers have extended the.
• 15:24
  Speaker 4: Lead to 34-22.
• 15:28
  Speaker 3: That was key.
• 15:29
  Speaker 2: It was right at the end of the game, 343
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: to go, and it made it a 34-22 game.
• 15:33
  Speaker 3: Boz, good from 54 yards.
• 15:36
  Speaker 5: Absolutely. We will take it, Mr. Boswell.
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: Whenever we come back, we've got our top five plays
• 15:41
  Speaker 2: from this past Sunday, our top moments and plays from
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: Colts Steelers.
• 15:45
  Speaker 3: I'm ET.
• 15:46
  Speaker 4: He's BB.
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: It is the Steelers Report right here on Steelers Nation Radio,
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: part of the Steelers Audio Network.
• 15:57
  Speaker 4: This is the.
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: Steelers Report with Brian Bacco and Ed Troup on Steelers
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: Nation Radio, a part of the Steelers Audio Network.
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: Well, we've gone down the rabbit hole of ties Brian
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: Bacco and I have during the break. Now we can't
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: stop talking about ties, whether they're good, whether they're bad.
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: I think we both agree they're not good.
• 16:16
  Speaker 3: We don't like them.
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: Bill Cower, only one career tie, and we talked about it,
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: against the Atlanta Falcons.
• 16:23
  Speaker 3: I thought he had at least two, but I also.
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: know that the whole concept of having a tie in
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: the NFL was not around for the first part of
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: his coaching career, I believe.
• 16:34
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 16:34
  Speaker 6: I mean, it looks like from, yeah, from 89 to 97,
• 16:37
  Speaker 6: which was kind of the heart of Cowher's.
• 16:41
  Speaker 5: Career, zero ties in the NFL.
• 16:43
  Speaker 6: And, you know, obviously it always becomes a debate now
• 16:46
  Speaker 6: of like, okay, if you don't like ties, then remember
• 16:49
  Speaker 6: it used to be sudden death. You know, when I
• 16:50
  Speaker 6: was a kid, it was first team to score wins.
• 16:52
  Speaker 6: People complain that that's too much significance is placed on
• 16:56
  Speaker 6: winning the coin toss, whether it lands on heads or
• 16:58
  Speaker 6: tails really has a, an outsized impact on who gets
• 17:01
  Speaker 6: a win and who gets a loss in the standings.
• 17:04
  Speaker 6: So then they've, you know, tweaked it to, if you
• 17:07
  Speaker 6: scored a touchdown on your first possession, it was over, right.
• 17:10
  Speaker 6: But then now it's both teams, which I like that
• 17:13
  Speaker 6: get a possession. And yet it, it does lend to,
• 17:16
  Speaker 6: you know, more wear and tear on the bodies. We
• 17:18
  Speaker 6: were talking during the break. I mean, would it be
• 17:20
  Speaker 6: crazy for the NFL to adopt the college football system?
• 17:24
  Speaker 6: Or some modified version of it.
• 17:25
  Speaker 4: They do what?
• 17:26
  Speaker 5: From the 20 or the 25? Four sets of downs?
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: I think so. I think high school's from the 10.
• 17:30
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: They do the same idea, just from a different yardage.
• 17:34
  Speaker 6: I mean, I know that eliminates special teams from the game,
• 17:37
  Speaker 6: but we've already squeezed out special teams a little bit.
• 17:40
  Speaker 6: I mean, no one returns punts anymore because the punters
• 17:43
  Speaker 6: and the coverage units have gotten so darn good.
• 17:45
  Speaker 5: I'm exaggerating.
• 17:45
  Speaker 6: There are some punt returns, but they're few and far between, right?
• 17:49
  Speaker 6: The kickoff, the dynamic kickoff has changed a lot. So
• 17:53
  Speaker 6: I don't know. I think that's an interesting idea. I'm
• 17:56
  Speaker 6: sure some people would say it's too gimmicky. It's like
• 17:58
  Speaker 6: going to a shootout in the NHL or in the
• 18:01
  Speaker 6: World Cup.
• 18:01
  Speaker 5: But, hey, at the end of the day, I mean,
• 18:04
  Speaker 5: it's sports. Now, we don't have to take it too seriously.
• 18:08
  Speaker 6: That being said, in the NFL especially, it's a billion-dollar industry.
• 18:12
  Speaker 6: People's livelihoods are riding on whether you win a game
• 18:15
  Speaker 6: or not. But at some point, you just need a
• 18:17
  Speaker 6: mechanism to determine whether Yeah. Win or a loss in
• 18:19
  Speaker 6: a game and the outcome of the game. And it's
• 18:21
  Speaker 6: like it's never going to be perfect. Obviously, the better
• 18:23
  Speaker 6: team isn't always going to win. And it's a funny
• 18:26
  Speaker 6: shaped ball that bounces in weird ways. And it might
• 18:29
  Speaker 6: be the difference between winning or losing. But I've always
• 18:31
  Speaker 6: thought that basketball overtimes are too long.
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 18:34
  Speaker 5: Five minutes.
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 18:35
  Speaker 5: Like two minutes. That's enough for a few possessions.
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: Give each team a couple of chances played.
• 18:39
  Speaker 7: Yep.
• 18:40
  Speaker 6: Depending on the sport you've already played 40 or 48
• 18:43
  Speaker 6: or 60 minutes, a.
• 18:43
  Speaker 5: Lot of minutes to a deadlock.
• 18:46
  Speaker 7: Yep.
• 18:46
  Speaker 6: Neither team was better by the score on the scoreboard
• 18:50
  Speaker 6: in that time. So at some point you just, it's
• 18:53
  Speaker 6: going to be a very small amount of plays that
• 18:56
  Speaker 6: separates the two teams.
• 18:57
  Speaker 5: So you just, you live with it. It's, it's almost
• 19:01
  Speaker 5: to me at least.
• 19:02
  Speaker 6: And I'm probably not as well, probably I'm definitely not
• 19:05
  Speaker 6: as competitive as men who are coaching or playing in
• 19:08
  Speaker 6: the NFL or or in any professional sport. And, you know,
• 19:11
  Speaker 6: some people are in your rec league softball or your
• 19:15
  Speaker 6: intramural basketball. You probably are a psycho competitive. Oh, there's
• 19:19
  Speaker 6: no doubt. Me personally, like, you know, lose a game, whatever.
• 19:23
  Speaker 5: It's all right.
• 19:24
  Speaker 6: Again, that's why I'm on the radio talking about it. Well,
• 19:26
  Speaker 6: that's one of the reasons, but so I understand it's,
• 19:28
  Speaker 6: it's a tough pill to swallow, but at some point
• 19:30
  Speaker 6: you do just have to like, Wouldn't you rather just
• 19:32
  Speaker 6: know if you won the game or lost the game
• 19:34
  Speaker 6: versus tied the game?
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: I'm not a fan of ties.
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: I do like the rule that they put in place
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: just in the last handful of years with the kickoff
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: in overtime, that if a team or if a team
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: gets a field, it's any score, right? I mean, every
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: team has at least one opportunity for a response.
• 19:50
  Speaker 6: Remember they started that just in the playoffs because yes
• 19:52
  Speaker 6: was that was that the Bills Chiefs or was.
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: That the Steelers one of the Steelers Broncos wildcard game
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: that Tim Tebow.
• 19:59
  Speaker 6: Beat him that was a no that well yeah that
• 20:02
  Speaker 6: was a touchdown pass not a kick I forget what
• 20:03
  Speaker 6: game it was that people were like yeah you need
• 20:06
  Speaker 6: the other chance to get the ball back because some
• 20:08
  Speaker 6: of these offenses are so powerful.
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: But that Broncos-Tim Tebow-Steeler defeat in wild card is a
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: good example. The Steelers offensively never got a chance that game.
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: Broncos got the ball two plays later. I think it
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: was one or two. It was either the first or
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: second offensive play.
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: Tebow hits.
• 20:23
  Speaker 5: Demarius Thomas.
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: Rest in peace. RIP.
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: There we go. All right. Well, enough of talking about
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: these overtimes.
• 20:30
  Speaker 7: One more.
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: One more.
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: Wait, one more for you.
• 20:32
  Speaker 5: Baseball.
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: Last year's and this year's all-star game.
• 20:35
  Speaker 5: You got the Ghost Runners, though.
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: They do that, but they had the home run. I
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: think it was last year's all-star game with the extra innings.
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: All-star game. They tried it with the home runoff. But
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: I liked that, though. I thought that was kind of cool.
• 20:46
  Speaker 6: I guess there's already probably way too much pressure and
• 20:51
  Speaker 6: stuff decided by kickers in an NFL game where, by
• 20:54
  Speaker 6: and large, most of what happens is between the offense
• 20:56
  Speaker 6: and the defense. But, yeah, imagine if you had a
• 20:58
  Speaker 6: shootout of field goal kickers to determine a game.
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: That might be interesting. That'd be wild, though.
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: The only thing is that could go on for a
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: long time, because kickers nowadays are pretty good, as we
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: just discussed.
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: They could sit there and make 40 yards.
• 21:11
  Speaker 6: Even though the game is ironically called football, nobody's favorite
• 21:17
  Speaker 6: play is the field goal in this sport.
• 21:20
  Speaker 5: We all know that.
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: Unless it's overtime.
• 21:22
  Speaker 5: We acknowledge that it often comes down to that.
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: That's just a.
• 21:25
  Speaker 6: Factor of the game, but no. I don't want to
• 21:28
  Speaker 6: see a field goal kickoff to determine games.
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: Well, hence why four of our first five highlights today
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: were field goals.
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: We got them out of the way early. But they
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: were important field goals.
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: I mean, for the Colts, it was their only lead
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: of the game to start out with Schrader's early field goal.
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: The second one brought them into 7-6. The two Boz
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: field goals were important.
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: Before halftime, they extended the lead from a one-point game
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: to a four-point game. And at the tail end, it
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: made it a two-score game. So they were important. and
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: they were four of our first five. Tyler Warren's one-yard
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: touchdown run, the tight end, that pulled the Colts within
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: a point in the second quarter, making it 14-13, was
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: our other play from six through ten. So let's get
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: into our top five plays. Brian Bacco from this past Sunday, Colts-Steelers.
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: At number five, it's the only sack of the game
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: for the Pittsburgh Steelers.
• 22:16
  Speaker 7: As time steps up in the pocket and now tackled
• 22:18
  Speaker 7: late by Cam Hayward at the 42-yard line. First sack
• 22:24
  Speaker 7: of the game for the Pittsburgh Steelers and the first
• 22:27
  Speaker 7: sack of the season for Cam Hayward.
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: I think last week if we were talking about, hey,
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: who do you think gets the only sack of the
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: game for the Pittsburgh Steelers?
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: I don't know about you. I love Cam Hayward.
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: I love that he got the sack, but I don't
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: think he would have been even one of my first
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: five choices.
• 22:44
  Speaker 6: Yeah, not when you looked at the opposing offensive line,
• 22:46
  Speaker 6: and Cam has had Quentin Nelson's number a lot over
• 22:49
  Speaker 6: the years, but that wouldn't be your first choice probably
• 22:51
  Speaker 6: for who's going to get a sack in that game
• 22:54
  Speaker 6: for the Steelers. But like you said, Ed, it was
• 22:56
  Speaker 6: only for a loss of one yard because Jones was
• 22:58
  Speaker 6: kind of trying to maneuver the pocket there, and Cam
• 23:02
  Speaker 6: got to him, and Cam's size, if he touches you,
• 23:04
  Speaker 6: you're probably going to go down like a cheap table.
• 23:08
  Speaker 6: But Cam will definitely take it. He now sits at
• 23:10
  Speaker 6: 94 in his career. 93 in the regular season, as
• 23:14
  Speaker 6: you heard on the call there from Rob, first one
• 23:16
  Speaker 6: of the year for Cam Hayward. You know, I'm sure
• 23:19
  Speaker 6: he would love to hit that century mark for his career.
• 23:23
  Speaker 6: Don't know if he'll get to it this year, but
• 23:25
  Speaker 6: at least he's now one sack closer and he's off
• 23:27
  Speaker 6: the schneid in 2026. He's going to need six more
• 23:30
  Speaker 6: this year and seven more in the regular season to
• 23:32
  Speaker 6: get to one hundo.
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: Number four for us was a Pat Friermuth one-yard touchdown
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: pass from Aaron Rodgers. Now, what's interesting about this call, Brian,
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: is they have the ball at the one-yard line, and
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: they kind of spread things out.
• 23:45
  Speaker 5: I know, sitting up there in the press box like,
• 23:47
  Speaker 5: what are we doing?
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: What's going on from the one-yard line? Well, this is
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: what happened from the one-yard line.
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: Gets a snap. Colts bringing pressure. Rodgers throws, and it
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: is Friermuth to the right.
• 23:58
  Speaker 7: It is a touchdown for the Pittsburgh Steelers at the
• 24:02
  Speaker 7: 13-17 mark of.
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: This second quarter.
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: Starts the second quarter with that.
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: It capped a 12-play, 80-yard drive that ate up eight
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: minutes and 38 seconds.
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: Really nice-looking drive for the Steelers' offense.
• 24:14
  Speaker 6: Bernard Darnell Washington came up big on that drive for
• 24:19
  Speaker 6: the Steelers, and we should also.
• 24:22
  Speaker 5: Oh, you know, nice little tote for Lou Nichols in there.
• 24:24
  Speaker 5: Six-yard carry. That's our boy Lou.
• 24:26
  Speaker 6: Nice little six-yard carry to get the Steelers on schedule.
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: L-E-W.
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: L-E-W, Lou.
• 24:30
  Speaker 5: Same birthday as me. Oh, is he?
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: Wow, you guys share a birthday.
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: Yes, we do.
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: You should ask Lou next time you're in the locker
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: room doing your excellent coverage on Steelers.com. There's a shameless
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: plug for it. Well, not really shameless. We always love
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: to plug steelers.com and brian backo but ask lou do
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: they ever call him louis because a lot of lose
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: are called louis and if they do is it l-e-w-i-e it's.
• 24:51
  Speaker 6: A good question ed i guess if i remember i'll
• 24:54
  Speaker 6: ask him but uh yeah last thing that's worth mentioning
• 24:56
  Speaker 6: there uh you know dk metcalf sets up that first
• 24:59
  Speaker 6: and goal from the one by drawing that dpi that's
• 25:02
  Speaker 6: right he did call on uh trevarius ward so um
• 25:05
  Speaker 6: didn't you know doesn't get credit for it in the
• 25:07
  Speaker 6: box score but certainly did his part there.
• 25:11
  Speaker 5: And, yeah, if you're going to spread it out.
• 25:12
  Speaker 6: You might as well have Aaron Rodgers as your guy
• 25:15
  Speaker 6: as the maestro under center.
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: Our top three plays of the game. We're going to
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: start with this one at number three. It's Jalen Warren,
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: a 50-yard touchdown run.
• 25:25
  Speaker 4: Turns, gives, Warren starts left, cuts back to the right,
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: finds a hole, bursts through the middle, breaks through to
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: the clear.
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: Jalen Warren racing into the end zone.
• 25:34
  Speaker 7: For a Pittsburgh Steelers touchdown, a 50-yard gallop for Jalen Warren.
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: We talked about it all week long. We'll continue to
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: talk about it.
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: Jalen Warren, 188 all offensive yards on Sunday against the Colts,
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: and that was 50 of them right there.
• 25:51
  Speaker 5: Man, I mean, he gets through there.
• 25:54
  Speaker 6: And Brandon Smith threw a really good block on that
• 25:57
  Speaker 6: play to help pave the way. You know, Warren, we
• 26:02
  Speaker 6: mentioned it earlier in the season, he just seems to
• 26:03
  Speaker 6: have like a sixth sense for not getting dragged down.
• 26:07
  Speaker 6: I mean, you know, he said it himself, like he
• 26:08
  Speaker 6: doesn't even, he's not always like making crazy jukes or moves.
• 26:11
  Speaker 6: He's just so, I guess it's contact balance and vision
• 26:16
  Speaker 6: too helps there. What a stud, what a beast he's
• 26:20
  Speaker 6: been in the early part of this season, Ed.
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: And he's gotten some really good blocking from his offensive line.
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: He's also gotten good blocking from his receivers, including DK Metcalf.
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: Not so much on that 50-yarder. We'll hear in a
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: couple plays. Spoiler alert.
• 26:33
  Speaker 5: That run, too, set the tone for the second half.
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: Oh, no doubt.
• 26:35
  Speaker 5: Just prior to that, Colts get.
• 26:37
  Speaker 6: Within a point again, and that was the first Steelers'
• 26:40
  Speaker 6: possession of the second half, obviously. And, you know, they
• 26:45
  Speaker 6: had a holding call that backed them up previously, but
• 26:49
  Speaker 6: they They get it on the fourth and one call
• 26:51
  Speaker 6: from midfield to Pat Friermuth, and then one play later,
• 26:54
  Speaker 6: Jalen Warren off to the races.
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: I'm sure you can guess our top play of the week,
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: which we'll play here after this one, but this was
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: an important number two. And look, you could have put
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: the Warren play at number two. Really, these two or three,
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: whether it's what I'm about to give you here with
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: Pat Friermuth or the Jalen Warren you just heard, you
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: can position them two or three. But I like Muth
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: at number two because this 17-yard touchdown pass from Rodgers
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: to Muth was key in the fourth quarter with 6.35
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: to go because it extended the Steeler lead to nine.
• 27:23
  Speaker 4: Rodgers gets a snap. Back to pass. Looking. Fires over
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: the middle of the field. It's Friermuth. And he's into
• 27:28
  Speaker 4: the end zone. Touchdown, Pittsburgh Steelers.
• 27:32
  Speaker 5: Number two on the day for 8-8.
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: Yes, Max Starks, 8-8 with his second, I should say,
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: after the extra point by Boz made it a nine-point game.
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: But that was a key touchdown in the fourth quarter
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: for Muth, his second.
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: Of the day.
• 27:47
  Speaker 5: Absolutely.
• 27:47
  Speaker 6: And that was the breathing room touchdown. The Colts, like
• 27:50
  Speaker 6: I keep saying, they were hanging around, hanging around. It
• 27:54
  Speaker 6: wasn't a one point lead at that point. It was
• 27:57
  Speaker 6: a two point lead there for the Steelers. But the
• 28:00
  Speaker 6: way Spencer Schrader was going, probably could have set him
• 28:03
  Speaker 6: up on the logo and he might have booted one
• 28:05
  Speaker 6: through to go ahead. So that was huge to get
• 28:08
  Speaker 6: that to Friar Muth. And that was another one where
• 28:11
  Speaker 6: you just feel like, all right, Aaron Rodgers knows what
• 28:13
  Speaker 6: he's seeing here. in these situations. And it was third
• 28:16
  Speaker 6: and six. Not only did they get the six that
• 28:18
  Speaker 6: they needed, but they got all of it. Cause who
• 28:22
  Speaker 6: knows what would happen if you get to even first
• 28:24
  Speaker 6: and goal from the 10, that can be a tricky
• 28:26
  Speaker 6: spot too. And then you might have to settle for
• 28:28
  Speaker 6: three and it's the Colts with a chance to score
• 28:30
  Speaker 6: a touchdown and win it.
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: Steelers first offensive play of the game or first offensive
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: series of the game against the Colts on Sunday was
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: not very good. Brian. In fact, it was negative 15
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: yards when it was all said and done with.
• 28:42
  Speaker 6: Hopefully the worst drive we'll see all season. You can't
• 28:45
  Speaker 6: really call it a drive. Worst possession we'll see.
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: Negative 15 to start the game on that first opening possession.
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: But the second, well, that was a bit different, and
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: it's our number one play of the week.
• 28:56
  Speaker 7: Snap back, throws to Warren out on the right. He
• 28:58
  Speaker 7: is clobbered by Stewart as he throws the ball, but
• 29:01
  Speaker 7: here goes Jalen Warren down the right sideline.
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: He's going to go all the way.
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: 80 yards for a touchdown for Jalen Warren.
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: Caught the short pass.
• 29:10
  Speaker 4: Rodgers took a wallop, and Warren did the rest.
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: Rogers paid the paid the price he said afterwards didn't
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: he say something brian like i should get credit for
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: something there i took the big hit but jalen warren
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: 80 yards what.
• 29:23
  Speaker 6: I mean his point was he didn't do much on
• 29:25
  Speaker 6: the throw but he's like yeah i did get creamed
• 29:28
  Speaker 6: for it so i will we'll take that but yeah
• 29:30
  Speaker 6: i mean great job by jalen warren to obviously get
• 29:33
  Speaker 6: to the sideline but then turn the corner as quickly
• 29:36
  Speaker 6: as he did and we don't always think of him
• 29:37
  Speaker 6: as being that breakaway speed type of guy but he's
• 29:40
  Speaker 6: got those short kind of stubby little steps and strides
• 29:44
  Speaker 6: and very, very impressive that nobody from the Colts was
• 29:48
  Speaker 6: able to run him down.
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: And DK Metcalf threw several good blocks, one, two, maybe
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: even three on that sequence.
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: As he helped open things up for Jalen Warren. He
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: showed off his wills, too.
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: DK just shows you how fast he was getting downfield
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: to get those blocks for Jalen Warren, who, by the way,
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: became the first player since Herschel Walker in 1986 to
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: score on both an 80-yard reception and a 50-yard run in.
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: The same game.
• 30:13
  Speaker 6: I'm sure DK wishes he was more productive through the
• 30:16
  Speaker 6: first five games of this season, but it's great to
• 30:19
  Speaker 6: see the downfield block. That's a selfless, thankless job that
• 30:23
  Speaker 6: also does not show up on the stat sheet, but
• 30:25
  Speaker 6: it contributes to winning big time, and you know that
• 30:28
  Speaker 6: that's something that the coaches are going to highlight when
• 30:29
  Speaker 6: they watch film.
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: You just heard both of them. The Warren 50-yard touchdown
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: run at No. 3, No. 2. Well, that was the
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: Muth 17-yard touchdown connection with Aaron Rodgers, and of course
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: the No. 1 play of the week, Jalen Warren from
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: 80 yards from Aaron Rodgers. Steelers with the big 34-22
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: win against the Colts. They are now 3-2 on the season,
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: and they will face the 1-4 Tampa Bay Bucs. And
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: speaking of the 1-4 Bucs, out of all the one-win teams,
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: do any of them have a chance to maybe make
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: the playoffs? We'll get Brian Backer's thoughts on that. Also,
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: there's a few winless teams. There's a few undefeated teams.
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: Which ones will stay undefeated potentially for a bit longer?
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: Maybe for the season. Who knows? And which ones will
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: try to get their first victory of the season?
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: We'll dive into all that and more as we look
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: around the NFL coming up here to close out the
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: show for today.
• 31:18
  Speaker 4: He's back. Oh, I'm troop.
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: It's the Steelers report on Steelers nation radio, part of
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: the Steelers audio.
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: This is the Steelers report with Brian back. Oh, and
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: Ed troop on Steelers nation radio, a part of the
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: Steelers audio network.
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: Wrapping up the show for today, before we turn things
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: over to our good friends Wes Euler and Matt Williamson
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: on SNR's The Drive, coming up here at 4 o'clock today.
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: Brian, special programming note. Speaking of Wes Euler, he's going to.
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: Be on the Steelers Report with us later this week
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: to talk Steelers Bucks.
• 31:56
  Speaker 5: That'll be fun.
• 31:57
  Speaker 6: It's always good to chop it up with Wes, a
• 32:00
  Speaker 6: man whose name and image are synonymous.
• 32:04
  Speaker 5: With Steelers Nation Radio.
• 32:05
  Speaker 4: That's right.
• 32:06
  Speaker 5: And the Steelers Audio Network.
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: And I always love the little tidbit that Wes's initials
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: are WVU.
• 32:14
  Speaker 6: Speaking of which, on this, speaking of Wes, I should
• 32:16
  Speaker 6: say on the latest Forging Steel, which is on the
• 32:19
  Speaker 6: Steelers YouTube page and all the Steelers digital platforms, you
• 32:24
  Speaker 6: can hear the dulcet tones of Wes Euler setting the stage.
• 32:28
  Speaker 6: The latest episode is kind of just a look back,
• 32:30
  Speaker 6: a look inside, really. It's all about the behind-the-scenes access.
• 32:33
  Speaker 6: At the first four weeks, you can hear the dulcet
• 32:35
  Speaker 6: tones of Wes through SNR and Right around the five-minute mark,
• 32:39
  Speaker 6: you hear somebody with a heck of a voice ask
• 32:42
  Speaker 6: a great question to Mike McCarthy, and Mike McCarthy answered
• 32:45
  Speaker 6: it about coaching his first game, first regular season.
• 32:48
  Speaker 5: Game, week one against the Falcons. So that is a
• 32:51
  Speaker 5: shameless plug.
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: Look at that. Wes Shuler.
• 32:53
  Speaker 6: It's a good plug for Forging Steel, which you should
• 32:56
  Speaker 6: always be watching from the Steelers video team. It's always
• 33:01
  Speaker 6: better when I can hear myself featured in there, Ed.
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: They do a nice job, for sure, on that forging still.
• 33:07
  Speaker 5: It's a good series.
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: You can go back and watch the other ones, too.
• 33:09
  Speaker 5: This is episode five.
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: It's the fifth one they've done?
• 33:11
  Speaker 6: Yeah, it focuses on the first four games, but also
• 33:14
  Speaker 6: some really cool stuff from Hall of Honor weekend with
• 33:17
  Speaker 6: Kevin Colbert, JT Thomas, and Craig Wolfley.
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: We'll also have Nick Faribault from PennLive, one of our
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: favorite guests that we've had on the show a couple
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: times now. He'll be joining us later this week as
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: well to talk Steelers Bucks and We'll also have someone
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: from the Tampa Bay Bucs.
• 33:32
  Speaker 6: Bucs team reporter Casey Phillips will join us.
• 33:35
  Speaker 4: Casey on.
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: So we're looking forward to that. That'll probably be late week.
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: Probably most likely Friday.
• 33:39
  Speaker 5: That's good to get the opponent person on Friday.
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: I've enjoyed that this year.
• 33:44
  Speaker 4: Set the scene.
• 33:45
  Speaker 5: Set the stage. Go behind enemy lines.
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: Yep.
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: We haven't come up with a unique nickname yet for
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: that segment. And maybe it'll go nameless for the rest
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: of this year.
• 33:55
  Speaker 4: You know what?
• 33:55
  Speaker 5: We also forgot to predict the Steelers team captains.
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: I thought of that.
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: Because you or Adamski or Kabaly, one of you guys
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: tweeted out the captains on Sunday.
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: And I was like, oh, man, Double B and I
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: forgot to make our picks.
• 34:08
  Speaker 6: Just take my word for it. I was going to
• 34:10
  Speaker 6: predict Mason McCormick, Peyton Wilson, and Y.A.
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: Black.
• 34:12
  Speaker 5: So just give me the credit for that one.
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: Sure.
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: You win.
• 34:15
  Speaker 4: Congratulations.
• 34:15
  Speaker 5: After neither of us got a single one right the
• 34:17
  Speaker 5: previous week, right?
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: We went 0 for 3, both of us.
• 34:20
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 34:20
  Speaker 5: Let's bring back the captain circle for.
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: Okay, we'll do that this upcoming Friday. We'll probably forget.
• 34:25
  Speaker 5: Who are we kidding?
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: And maybe when they go to Paris, there will have
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: to be some type of French connection. Are there any
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: French connections to the team?
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: I don't think.
• 34:33
  Speaker 5: Off by hand.
• 34:35
  Speaker 6: I mean, Kim Johnston's international, at least, and maybe special
• 34:39
  Speaker 6: teams captain from Australia. Maybe he'll get the call. To Parisians,
• 34:44
  Speaker 6: are Australians any different than Americans? They're still different countries.
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: I don't think. Brian, we're not going to do any
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: power rankings.
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: Tomorrow we will do our power rankings of our top
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: five offenses and top five defenses.
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: We enjoy that segment.
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: So these aren't so much power rankings that we're going
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: to go over right now, but I want to get
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: your thoughts. We're now five weeks into the regular season,
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: and things are starting to take an early shape. You
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: can start to make some early calls on what you
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: feel good about and what you don't feel good about.
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: We've talked a lot about the Steelers at a 3-2
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: record and where they're heading here. having, as I said,
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: these next four games starting with Indianapolis last week to
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: go at least 3-1 in this.
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: Stretch, if not 4-0.
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: But the other teams in and across the league, there
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: are just a couple unbeaten teams left. The Kansas City
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: Chiefs are 4-0 on the season. The 49ers are 5-0.
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: And to a surprise, the Minnesota Vikings are 5-0. And
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: Brian Flores' defense has only given up 64 points so
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: far through five football games. No doubt the Vikings' defense...
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: is the reason why they're still unbeaten.
• 35:46
  Speaker 5: Absolutely.
• 35:48
  Speaker 6: Kevin O'Connell, I mean, really good job bouncing back from
• 35:51
  Speaker 6: a rough 2025 when it seemed like maybe the shine
• 35:55
  Speaker 6: was off the Vikings and everybody was kind of crushing
• 35:57
  Speaker 6: them for letting Sam Darnold walk, and they invest in J.J.
• 36:01
  Speaker 5: McCarthy. That's already gone belly up.
• 36:03
  Speaker 6: He's off to the Giants, where Jameis Winston actually played
• 36:06
  Speaker 6: pretty well this past week.
• 36:08
  Speaker 5: So, yeah, I mean, the Vikings have it roll in.
• 36:10
  Speaker 6: On defense, and they're finding ways to manufacture points on offense.
• 36:14
  Speaker 6: It was good for them to get Justin Jefferson back.
• 36:17
  Speaker 6: They've got a plus 45 point differential. I always like
• 36:20
  Speaker 6: to look at that, too, here in the early going.
• 36:23
  Speaker 6: The Niners are at plus 61, so those are the
• 36:26
  Speaker 6: top two in the NFC. Leading the AFC in point differential,
• 36:29
  Speaker 6: the 4-1 Jacksonville Jaguars with a plus 53. I mean,
• 36:34
  Speaker 6: that generally just tells you when they do win, they've
• 36:37
  Speaker 6: been blowing some teams out. and they've lost close. The
• 36:41
  Speaker 6: Chiefs at 5-0, they are plus 41 in point differential,
• 36:45
  Speaker 6: which ranks second in the AFC. The Steelers are almost
• 36:48
  Speaker 6: dead even at 2, plus 2 in their point differential.
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: Speaking of the Jacksonville Jaguars, they are a handful of
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: teams that only have one loss on the season. But
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: before I get to that, let me ask you real.
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: Quick, on the unbeatens, who do you think will remain unbeaten?
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: Maybe, hey, Brian, you can say all three if you want,
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: but is there one of those three that you feel
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: will you know, be the last of the unbeatens here.
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: Cause let's face it. I mean, other than the 72
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: dolphins or the Patriots, I guess you.
• 37:14
  Speaker 6: Can say all three because the Niners and the Vikings
• 37:17
  Speaker 6: play each other.
• 37:17
  Speaker 7: Okay.
• 37:18
  Speaker 6: Well, I guess they could tie to go back to
• 37:20
  Speaker 6: our theme of the beginning of the show, the first
• 37:22
  Speaker 6: half of the show, the ties, and they would technically
• 37:23
  Speaker 6: still be unbeaten, but let's see the Vikings next four.
• 37:29
  Speaker 5: They're on a buy this weekend or an open date.
• 37:31
  Speaker 5: They're idle. Another, another joke.
• 37:34
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 37:35
  Speaker 6: They are not playing. this week coming off that win
• 37:38
  Speaker 6: against the Saints. And then they've got the Colts, Lions, Bills, Packers.
• 37:44
  Speaker 6: Then they play the Niners all the way out in
• 37:47
  Speaker 6: week 11. That's a difficult slate right there. But they
• 37:50
  Speaker 6: might get to week eight. I think they'll beat the
• 37:52
  Speaker 6: Colts at home coming off their bye. So I got
• 37:55
  Speaker 6: week eight. I got my stake in the ground for
• 37:58
  Speaker 6: that on Minnesota. And then they probably maybe lose at Detroit.
• 38:03
  Speaker 6: San Francisco, they've got the Commanders Falcons off week Raiders, Cowboys.
• 38:08
  Speaker 5: Wow, that's not all that imposing of a slate.
• 38:12
  Speaker 6: So they'll probably be favored in every game until at
• 38:16
  Speaker 6: Dallas and maybe even at Dallas in Week 10. So
• 38:19
  Speaker 6: I'm going to say that the Niners make it to
• 38:21
  Speaker 6: Week 10, just looking off the top of my head here.
• 38:24
  Speaker 6: And the Chiefs, they just were on by. They come
• 38:29
  Speaker 6: back to face the winless Chargers, followed by the Seahawks, Broncos, Jets. So, yeah,
• 38:34
  Speaker 6: I think when you look at those three slates coming up,
• 38:37
  Speaker 6: 49ers are far and away the most likely team to
• 38:40
  Speaker 6: stay undefeated, be the final one standing, Ed.
• 38:43
  Speaker 3: Well, even when you look at the NFC West, they're
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: in a great spot because not only have they beaten
• 38:47
  Speaker 3: the Seahawks and Rams already, they get both the Seahawks
• 38:50
  Speaker 3: and Rams at home on their second rematch.
• 38:53
  Speaker 6: Well, it's going to be international week soon for the Steelers,
• 38:56
  Speaker 6: and they don't lose a home game this year. The
• 38:57
  Speaker 6: Saints do, but kind of costly for the Rams to
• 39:00
  Speaker 6: lose a home game to Australia in week one, and
• 39:02
  Speaker 6: they laid an egg in that game against the Niners.
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: Looking at the teams that have yet to win a game,
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: Double B, will any of these teams remain winless?
• 39:12
  Speaker 5: This is fun to do on the fly here.
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: Who gets their first win? The Miami Dolphins are 0-5.
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: The Tennessee Titans are 0-5. And the LA Chargers are 0-5.
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: Now listen, anything's possible, but I'm thinking all three of
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: those teams have punted on their 2026 season. If they haven't,
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: they should because that's a tough mountain to climb when
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: you start the season at 0-5.
• 39:33
  Speaker 6: And the Chargers go to Kansas City this week. Then
• 39:36
  Speaker 6: they have a bye and then they face the Rams, Texans, Ravens.
• 39:40
  Speaker 6: And the only one of those three games they have
• 39:43
  Speaker 6: at home are the Texans. So I know the Texans
• 39:45
  Speaker 6: are struggling this year too, but maybe they'll get Marvin
• 39:48
  Speaker 6: Harrison going, and they'll be a more formidable offense. But
• 39:53
  Speaker 6: either way, I mean, yes, this Chargers slate is– I'm
• 39:57
  Speaker 6: not going to pick them to win it in Kansas
• 39:58
  Speaker 6: City or at– well, I say at SoFi Stadium, but
• 40:02
  Speaker 6: technically a Rams home game.
• 40:03
  Speaker 5: So, all right, forget what I said.
• 40:05
  Speaker 6: You know, moot point, they're playing the Rams in L.A.,
• 40:08
  Speaker 6: but I'm not going to pick them to beat the Rams.
• 40:10
  Speaker 6: I think the Rams have more fans in L.A. than
• 40:12
  Speaker 6: the Chargers do. So if you want to get into
• 40:13
  Speaker 6: home field advantage and I guess who has access to
• 40:16
  Speaker 6: those tickets– It is an advantage for the Rams, so
• 40:19
  Speaker 6: that's going to be a bit. The Dolphins are off
• 40:21
  Speaker 6: this week, and then they've got the Jets, Patriots, Lions.
• 40:26
  Speaker 6: And then at the Colts, they're not going to win
• 40:28
  Speaker 6: for a while, in my opinion. I'm going to say
• 40:30
  Speaker 6: the Titans actually might be the first team to get one,
• 40:33
  Speaker 6: just because they haven't been competitive.
• 40:38
  Speaker 5: Well, I should say.
• 40:39
  Speaker 6: They have been competitive until this past week. They got smoked.
• 40:44
  Speaker 3: They played some close games early on.
• 40:45
  Speaker 6: Yeah, they did, but they got smoked in Houston this
• 40:47
  Speaker 6: past week. Or no, excuse me, that game was actually
• 40:49
  Speaker 6: in Nashville. They lost 26-3 at home to give the
• 40:52
  Speaker 6: Texans their first win. They go to Indy next. I
• 40:55
  Speaker 6: could see them beating that Colts team. I probably wouldn't
• 40:58
  Speaker 6: pick them the way they played in Week 5, but
• 41:01
  Speaker 6: then they got Cleveland at home. Could probably win that game. So, yeah,
• 41:06
  Speaker 6: maybe I'll say the Titans... They get one of these
• 41:09
  Speaker 6: next year.
• 41:09
  Speaker 4: I'm with you.
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: And hey, look, if they want to make a quarterback
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: change from Cam Ward, you know, the backup quarterback.
• 41:15
  Speaker 5: Is Mitch Trubisky.
• 41:17
  Speaker 3: Money Mitch.
• 41:18
  Speaker 5: He could be your savior.
• 41:20
  Speaker 3: I don't think they have a number three. If I
• 41:22
  Speaker 3: looked at that, I looked at their depth chart earlier.
• 41:23
  Speaker 5: They probably got one on the P squad, huh?
• 41:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe.
• 41:26
  Speaker 5: Send Mason Rudolph back to Nashville.
• 41:29
  Speaker 3: Maybe that's a trade that could happen. Put Mason and
• 41:31
  Speaker 3: Mitch back together.
• 41:32
  Speaker 5: The Steelers need Mason Rudolph as their backup.
• 41:34
  Speaker 3: They sure do. All right, how about this, Brian? Looking
• 41:37
  Speaker 3: at the division.
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: Leaders, and I'll start in the AFC. You've got the
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: Bills at 4-1, the Ravens at 4-1, the Jaguars at 4-1,
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: Chiefs undefeated 4-0. Any of those four division leaders, who
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: do you think is the best and who do you
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: think is the worst?
• 41:51
  Speaker 3: I'll hold my opinion. I have one, but I'll wait
• 41:53
  Speaker 3: and hear from you first.
• 41:54
  Speaker 7: Hmm.
• 41:55
  Speaker 5: Well, I think they're all in good shape, obviously.
• 41:59
  Speaker 6: I think the Jaguars might have the biggest gap between
• 42:03
  Speaker 6: the rest of their division.
• 42:04
  Speaker 5: Which is kind of interesting.
• 42:06
  Speaker 6: The Ravens, I remember saying before the season, I think
• 42:09
  Speaker 6: they're either going to be really good or kind of
• 42:11
  Speaker 6: struggle in year one under Jesse Minner and Declan Doyle.
• 42:14
  Speaker 6: And at least by record, they're really good. But, you know,
• 42:17
  Speaker 6: I wouldn't say they've been overly convincing. They just had
• 42:19
  Speaker 6: to go to OT and get a bad two, a
• 42:22
  Speaker 6: pick to beat the Falcons.
• 42:24
  Speaker 4: Cool, man.
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 42:25
  Speaker 5: I'm going to go with. I'll go with the Bills, actually.
• 42:29
  Speaker 6: I think that the Bills are still a team that me, too.
• 42:32
  Speaker 6: If they played the Chiefs right now on a neutral field,
• 42:36
  Speaker 6: I think I would take Josh Allen to take down
• 42:38
  Speaker 6: Patrick Mahomes.
• 42:39
  Speaker 5: But their defense is shoddy.
• 42:41
  Speaker 6: The Chiefs defense is really, really shoddy right now.
• 42:44
  Speaker 3: The Chiefs defense hasn't been too bad.
• 42:46
  Speaker 6: Maybe I'm talking myself out of it. The Chiefs have
• 42:48
  Speaker 6: played one fewer game, but they've been pretty stout. Well,
• 42:53
  Speaker 6: two of the four games they've been stout. They also
• 42:55
  Speaker 6: gave up 30 to the Colts and.
• 42:57
  Speaker 5: 27 to Vegas. Maybe we're all just sleeping on the Jaguars.
• 43:02
  Speaker 2: I mean, Jaguars defense is the second best in the
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: NFL as far as points against, 70 so far, right behind,
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: as we already talked about the Vikings.
• 43:08
  Speaker 5: But they played a week one Browns team that obviously
• 43:11
  Speaker 5: wasn't ready. And they, well.
• 43:13
  Speaker 3: Schedule hasn't been that strong.
• 43:14
  Speaker 6: And they played an Eagles team this past week that's
• 43:17
  Speaker 6: really going through it. So, you know, give them credit
• 43:20
  Speaker 6: for holding down the Bengals and Cincy, of course. Bo
• 43:23
  Speaker 6: Nix is struggling this season, is he not?
• 43:26
  Speaker 3: He is. They're 3-2. Just when I start to buy
• 43:29
  Speaker 3: into Bo Nix. Now you're selling. Sellbo. Sounds like a
• 43:34
  Speaker 3: Pittsburgh easy. Sellbo.
• 43:36
  Speaker 6: Jags-Texans will be a big one in London this weekend
• 43:38
  Speaker 6: for that complexion of the AFC South.
• 43:41
  Speaker 3: Ravens, I think, are the worst of the four and ones.
• 43:43
  Speaker 6: Because if the Texans go and win against the Jaguars
• 43:46
  Speaker 6: in their second home of London, all of a sudden
• 43:49
  Speaker 6: Jags are four and two, Texans are two and four.
• 43:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah, changes that quickly.
• 43:55
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 43:55
  Speaker 6: They start to get some momentum and feel like they
• 43:57
  Speaker 6: can do some damage. But yeah, I don't know about Baltimore.
• 44:00
  Speaker 6: I mean, They've got Cam Juergens coming in to potentially
• 44:03
  Speaker 6: solve the issue at center. But have you seen Venga Ioane,
• 44:05
  Speaker 6: our guy out of Penn State who we were all
• 44:07
  Speaker 6: kind of hoping would be there for the Steelers? I mean,
• 44:10
  Speaker 6: he's just been a monster, as we all expected. He
• 44:13
  Speaker 6: was like the safest prospect. And it was just, I guess,
• 44:16
  Speaker 6: in retrospect, a pipe dream that he would be there
• 44:18
  Speaker 6: for the Steelers at, where was it, 21?
• 44:20
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 44:21
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 44:21
  Speaker 5: But hey, Maxi Honachor has been solid, too.
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: I just think the Ravens, you look at they've played
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: close games against the Titans, the Falcons game. They were
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: on the ropes this past Sunday night, right? I think
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: you could easily make the argument that they could be 2-3.
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: Stole one from the Cowboys in Brazil.
• 44:35
  Speaker 4: Exactly.
• 44:35
  Speaker 3: So out of all the four, the one lost teams
• 44:38
  Speaker 3: at least.
• 44:38
  Speaker 5: But the Saints kind of stole one from them, too.
• 44:40
  Speaker 3: They did.
• 44:41
  Speaker 6: But no, they haven't been, you know, only that first
• 44:43
  Speaker 6: win against the Colts was a decisive game one way
• 44:46
  Speaker 6: or the other.
• 44:47
  Speaker 5: All the other ones have been nip-tuck.
• 44:48
  Speaker 2: One last one very quickly. NFC, Niners 5-0. Panthers 2-2
• 44:53
  Speaker 2: first place. They've only played four. Vikings undefeated 5-0. And
• 44:59
  Speaker 2: the Giants 3-1-1 first place. The fighting John Harbaugh's.
• 45:03
  Speaker 6: Some of those advanced metrics and stats don't really reflect
• 45:07
  Speaker 6: well on the Vikings right now, at least the Vikings offense.
• 45:10
  Speaker 6: So for me, it's kind of an obvious choice that
• 45:13
  Speaker 6: the way the Niners are rolling, it's tough to say
• 45:16
  Speaker 6: that anybody else is the best team in the NFC
• 45:18
  Speaker 6: right now and probably in all of the NFL.
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: I think when you look at the NFC, there's a
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: huge gap between the NFC West and the NFC North,
• 45:28
  Speaker 2: all the way down, NFC South, NFC East.
• 45:31
  Speaker 5: Big gap. Yeah, well, for sure. For quality of teams.
• 45:34
  Speaker 6: Yeah, the divisional stuff seems a little bit lopsided early
• 45:37
  Speaker 6: in the year here. But for all of the praise
• 45:39
  Speaker 6: we just heaped on the Niners, I mean, they were
• 45:41
  Speaker 6: a Cooper Cup inch or two more in his torso
• 45:44
  Speaker 6: away from him stretching that ball, and maybe they don't
• 45:47
  Speaker 6: win that game by a field goal in Seattle.
• 45:49
  Speaker 5: But they did.
• 45:50
  Speaker 6: This is the NFL. As a wise man said after
• 45:53
  Speaker 6: the game Sunday, or was it Monday? No, it was
• 45:56
  Speaker 6: after the game Sunday. You ask somebody what time it is,
• 45:58
  Speaker 6: you don't really care how the watch was built.
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: Coming up tomorrow, we'll do our Get Right, Fix It
• 46:03
  Speaker 2: Wednesday segment, plus our hits and misses of the week,
• 46:06
  Speaker 2: always one of our favorites, power rankings of offense and defense,
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: and we'll hear from Wes Euler tomorrow on Wednesday. So
• 46:14
  Speaker 2: we'll tee that up for our Wednesday.
• 46:16
  Speaker 4: Let's go. He's back. I'm Troop.
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: Speaking of Wes Euler, he's up next with Matt Williamson
• 46:21
  Speaker 2: on SNR's The Drive right here on Steelers Nation Radio,
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: part of the Steelers Audio Network.