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HR 2: Top 10 Moments from Steelers 30, Bengals 27, Missi Matthews Joins the Show · The Steelers Report

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  Speaker 1: This is the Steelers Report with Brian Bacco and Ed
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  Speaker 1: Troup on Steelers Nation Radio, a part of the Steelers
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  Speaker 1: Audio Network.
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  Speaker 2: As we've been discussing yesterday and today, a quick turnaround
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  Speaker 2: for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Probably about 48 hours now away
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  Speaker 2: from Thursday night football. Maybe a little bit more than
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  Speaker 2: 48 hours, but you get the theme.
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  Speaker 3: Just a couple days.
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  Speaker 2: So as we all celebrated that big AFC North win
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  Speaker 2: on Sunday... We have to move on and we have
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  Speaker 2: to move on to the Cleveland Browns for Thursday night football.
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  Speaker 2: A showdown in first place in the AFC North. Both
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  Speaker 2: teams 2-1, and we welcome into the program our good
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  Speaker 2: friend Missy Matthews, who is the sideline reporter for the
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  Speaker 2: Pittsburgh Steelers. You can also catch Missy's content on Steelers.com. Missy,
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  Speaker 2: welcome back into the show.
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  Speaker 4: How are you?
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  Speaker 5: Thanks for having me, guys.
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  Speaker 6: I'm good.
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  Speaker 5: Short week, but you know how that goes. Just got
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  Speaker 5: to flip the page, move on.
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  Speaker 7: I think it's really easy when it's an AFC North matchup,
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  Speaker 7: and unlike the players, Brian and I both get to
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  Speaker 7: sleep in our own beds on Wednesday night, go to
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  Speaker 7: Cleveland on Thursday, and come back.
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  Speaker 8: So, hi.
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  Speaker 5: I'm good with that.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 9: Missy, I'm very much looking forward to that set up
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  Speaker 9: as well. And, you know, we'll just spend pretty much
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  Speaker 9: a whole day in Northeast Ohio and it is what
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  Speaker 9: it is. And it'll feel a lot better if we
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  Speaker 9: take the bus back with a victory on our sides.
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  Speaker 9: Speaking of which, you know, Sunday was a big victory
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  Speaker 9: for Mike McCarthy and the Steelers, his first AFC North game.
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  Speaker 9: We saw the video of him celebrating with the team
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  Speaker 9: in the locker room. What, vibe or sense do you
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  Speaker 9: have of how this team is responding to him? Because
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  Speaker 9: obviously there was a lot of unknown for everybody with
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  Speaker 9: that coaching change, but three games in and two and one,
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  Speaker 9: I at least get the feeling that players are responding
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  Speaker 9: to that.
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  Speaker 6: And of course, a big part of that.
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  Speaker 5: Is winning games for the new England game.
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  Speaker 7: It was kind of a gut punch for everybody, maybe
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  Speaker 7: a reality check in a weird way. And I know,
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  Speaker 7: you know, Pat Fryer had said this week that last week,
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  Speaker 7: coach McCarthy challenged them to be more physical and Because
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  Speaker 7: it felt like they got their butts kicked a little
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  Speaker 7: bit up in New England. And I think we saw
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  Speaker 7: them do that in all three phases. Just some of
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  Speaker 7: the splash plays that they had. I think just the
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  Speaker 7: commitment to the offense being what it was expected to be,
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  Speaker 7: at least from my perspective. To me, that looked more
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  Speaker 7: of what I was expecting out of the gate week
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  Speaker 7: one based off of training camp and the different weapons
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  Speaker 7: that they have.
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  Speaker 5: And I think that we finally saw that.
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  Speaker 7: And I think, you know, Mike McCarthy was pretty excited
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  Speaker 7: after that win. It meant a lot to him, clearly,
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  Speaker 7: and I think it maybe proved to everybody, hey, I
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  Speaker 7: can make some wholesale changes in terms of flipping my
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  Speaker 7: entire right side of my offensive line. Stick with me,
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  Speaker 7: because I promise things will work out, and hopefully that's
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  Speaker 7: something they can build on and get a win finally
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  Speaker 7: in Cleveland on a Thursday night.
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  Speaker 2: Missy, Brian and I have been talking yesterday and today
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  Speaker 2: here on the show, and actually throughout the first couple
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  Speaker 2: weeks of this regular season with Coach McCarthy, that the.
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  Speaker 3: Players' response.
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  Speaker 2: to Coach McCarthy so far, at least from our vantage point. Again,
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  Speaker 2: we're not in the locker room, but from the outside
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  Speaker 2: looking in, has been very strong. And these post-game celebrations,
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  Speaker 2: we've now seen two of them, the first game against
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  Speaker 2: Atlanta and now this past week against the Bengals, at
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  Speaker 2: least a small glimpse. of the players' response. He has
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  Speaker 2: the team captains break things down. We saw the big
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  Speaker 2: reaction with Zach Frazier this past week. So far, the
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  Speaker 2: reaction with this new head coach and Mike McCarthy, a
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  Speaker 2: Pittsburgh guy, has been very positive from the Steelers players.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, I have to say I love the inside the
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  Speaker 7: locker room postgame look, something that we didn't unfortunately get
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  Speaker 7: to see under Mike Tomlin. And I just think it
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  Speaker 7: shows maybe a little different side of McCarthy.
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  Speaker 5: In a way.
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  Speaker 7: And also, I think, you know, I was unsure how
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  Speaker 7: I personally felt about having weekly captains. But I think
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  Speaker 7: just everybody, you know, Channing Frazier, Frazier after that win
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  Speaker 7: being he was one of the three captains.
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  Speaker 5: I thought that was really cool and is.
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  Speaker 7: Giving guys that maybe would not be in that scenario
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  Speaker 7: otherwise a chance to lead. And it sounded like Zach
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  Speaker 7: Frazier bored his heart and soul into being a captain
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  Speaker 7: last week.
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  Speaker 6: Not surprising from him.
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  Speaker 9: I think he pours his heart and his soul into
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  Speaker 9: everything he does, whether it's football, being a dad, woodworking,
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  Speaker 9: if that's what he's doing in his spare time on
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  Speaker 9: that given day.
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  Speaker 5: What else?
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, for sure. So, yeah, I mean, that was great
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  Speaker 9: to see. He's just not usually very vocal.
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  Speaker 6: Or loud about it.
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  Speaker 9: That's not his personality or his style, but super cool
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  Speaker 9: that he was kind of thrust into that role. Ed
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  Speaker 9: and I actually talked about that to start the show today.
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  Speaker 6: Switching gears. I mean, you alluded to it earlier, Missy, and.
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  Speaker 9: Maybe it's just the positivity from that win or me
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  Speaker 9: just kind of burying my head in the sand. I
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  Speaker 9: haven't even trafficked yet myself mentally in the unfortunate record
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  Speaker 9: that the Steelers have lately in Cleveland.
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  Speaker 6: To this point in the week.
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  Speaker 9: I'm sure I'll naturally have to go down that road
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  Speaker 9: before Thursday, but you've been up there a ton. What,
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  Speaker 9: From your lens, like, why is it so difficult to
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  Speaker 9: win there? Because the coaches have changed. The quarterbacks have changed.
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  Speaker 9: The defensive stalwarts have changed for Cleveland. Not quite as much,
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  Speaker 9: but they are more now this year. Like, why is
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  Speaker 9: that such a difficult place to play? And it always
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  Speaker 9: seems to be on a Thursday.
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  Speaker 5: I do not know.
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  Speaker 7: I mean, I'm sure everybody wishes that they could put
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  Speaker 7: their finger on it. The Steelers are 0-4 in Cleveland
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  Speaker 7: on Thursday night football, which to me is just insane.
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  Speaker 7: I think especially when you go back and think, you know,
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  Speaker 7: Ben Roethlisberger basically owned the record for that stadium until
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  Speaker 7: Baker came along. I just it's just one of those
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  Speaker 7: weird things. I don't know if it's because it is
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  Speaker 7: a short week and it is very incredibly hard thing
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  Speaker 7: to do. I, you know, even Mike McCarthy, who has
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  Speaker 7: a winning record on Thursday Night Football overall. He's four
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  Speaker 7: and four on the road. I just think it's not
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  Speaker 7: an impossible thing to do. Clearly, we have seen it.
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  Speaker 7: I just think across the board, across the league, it's
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  Speaker 7: hard to get your body ready for that game, especially
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  Speaker 7: when you're not the home team and don't get that
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  Speaker 7: extra time of not having to worry about travel.
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  Speaker 2: We're talking with Missy Matthews, the Pittsburgh Steelers sideline reporter.
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  Speaker 2: You can hear her along with Rob King and Max
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  Speaker 2: Starks this Thursday night in each and every Pittsburgh Steelers
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  Speaker 2: football game, as well as check out Missy's excellent interviews
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  Speaker 2: and content that's always up on Steelers.com. Missy, the offensive line,
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  Speaker 2: that was the big talk subject the last week or two, right?
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  Speaker 2: The lack of the running game the first two weeks,
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  Speaker 2: the protection of Aaron Rodgers. It seemed to get right
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  Speaker 2: against a pretty good Bengals defense this past week, and
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  Speaker 2: You know, Brian and I mentioned it, you know, the
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  Speaker 2: switch to Brock Hoffman at guard in the first round
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  Speaker 2: draft pick Maxi on a chore at right tackle. Certainly,
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  Speaker 2: at least on Sunday, look to make a big, big difference.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: And I think, you know, maybe that was something that
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  Speaker 7: was in the cards earlier in the offseason during training camp.
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  Speaker 7: And Max getting might have, you know, prohibited that exactly
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  Speaker 7: from happening. I did think, you know, especially since Mike
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  Speaker 7: McCarthy had a history with Brock Hoffman, I was a
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  Speaker 7: little surprised that he wasn't maybe there first. But I also,
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  Speaker 7: you know, understand it's a coaching staff trying to learn
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  Speaker 7: an entire new team, players trying to learn an entire
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  Speaker 7: new coaching staff and vice versa.
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  Speaker 5: But I do think that it paid dividends.
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  Speaker 7: And I also think, you know, Pat Fryer move and
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  Speaker 7: Darnell Washington really helped spark the run game as well.
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  Speaker 7: And you could just see everybody getting off of each other.
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  Speaker 5: Especially the offensive line.
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  Speaker 7: I mean, just going back and watching clips of Zach Frazier,
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  Speaker 7: Mason McCormick, going against Dexter Lawrence, you know, there are
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  Speaker 7: some good things out there for sure.
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  Speaker 9: On the defensive side, Missy, I mean, confidence is such
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  Speaker 9: a big part of this game, really any sport, maybe
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  Speaker 9: anything you do in life. And Derek Harmon's game-clinching strip sack,
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  Speaker 9: not just anybody, but Joe Burrow in a divisional game,
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  Speaker 9: What do you think that can do for him? Because
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  Speaker 9: he was my breakout pick this season coming into this
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  Speaker 9: season for the Steelers. And through the first game, I
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  Speaker 9: was sort of like, oh, well, maybe that was wrong
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  Speaker 9: because Cam's going to play a lot.
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  Speaker 6: Keanu Benton just got a new deal. He's going to
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  Speaker 6: play a lot.
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  Speaker 5: But.
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  Speaker 9: I think that was a great reminder of what Derek
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  Speaker 9: Harmon can do, why they drafted him. How much do
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  Speaker 9: you think this portends a real breakthrough for, for D
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  Speaker 9: harm as they're calling him now? Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: I mean, just watching him after it happened, he, he
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  Speaker 7: told me on the field afterwards, we got him on
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  Speaker 7: WDVE post game that he blacked out. He was like,
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  Speaker 7: I really don't know what happened. I just, you know,
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  Speaker 7: read boo that I had a chance and went for it.
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  Speaker 7: And just, Him walking around, teammates going up to him,
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  Speaker 7: it just felt like he was still in the zone.
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  Speaker 7: A minute celebration after it.
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  Speaker 5: Rightfully so. No one got to him. No one sat.
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  Speaker 7: Jaburo until that last play. And as you said, it
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  Speaker 7: was Derek Harmon. I think, you know, hopefully that is
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  Speaker 7: something that continues to build. He has an amazing mentor
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  Speaker 7: in Cam Hayward. Somebody who has really taken him and
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  Speaker 7: some of the other guys, why a black underdog. you know,
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  Speaker 7: his wing to help teach him and give back. So
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  Speaker 7: hopefully it's something that we continue to see more of.
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  Speaker 7: And hopefully just with some of the injuries he dealt
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  Speaker 7: with his rookie season, missing some games, this is, you know,
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  Speaker 7: going to be a smoother process for him in year two.
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  Speaker 3: We're talking with Missy Matthews.
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  Speaker 2: Missy, we have a few more minutes left with you
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  Speaker 2: as we all get ready for the big Thursday night
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  Speaker 2: matchup between the Steelers and Browns. We probably should have
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  Speaker 2: started this question with you to start things off, but
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  Speaker 2: Brian and I went right into the nuts and bolts
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  Speaker 2: of things. But what is your assessment three games in
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  Speaker 2: so far of this football team? I mean, it was
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  Speaker 2: a week one game in which the defense had to
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  Speaker 2: make the splash play with TJ Watt coming up with
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  Speaker 2: that big touchdown to beat the Falcons. That was the
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  Speaker 2: difference there. They go to New England. Well, we know
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  Speaker 2: about their struggles on offense week two. And then this
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  Speaker 2: past week, they faced an opponent that played very well
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  Speaker 2: through the first two weeks of the season in the Bengals.
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  Speaker 2: And the Steelers take care of business. And now in
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  Speaker 2: a short week, they go to Cleveland. But the 2026 Steelers,
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  Speaker 2: it's a small sample size. But after this week, we'll
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  Speaker 2: be about a fourth into the season so far. What
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  Speaker 2: is your take so far on the Pittsburgh Steelers through
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  Speaker 2: the first, well, we'll say quarter of the season?
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  Speaker 5: I think it was so much unknown.
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  Speaker 7: I think we all maybe anticipated what we thought the
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  Speaker 7: offense would look like. And I think we finally saw
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  Speaker 7: that against the Bengals. And then I think with the defense,
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  Speaker 7: I'm very intrigued with Patrick Graham and how he really
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  Speaker 7: has different game plans each week. It's not just the
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  Speaker 7: same thing. And it's, it's interesting to see how he's
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  Speaker 7: attacking teams. I think especially in the AFC North, when
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  Speaker 7: you've covered the Steelers for so long, you're used to
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  Speaker 7: those matchups.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: Coach is, Can change quarterback players, but they all still
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  Speaker 5: have this identity.
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  Speaker 7: And he has embraced the Steelers defense identity, but added
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  Speaker 7: some tweaks to it in various ways throughout the first
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  Speaker 7: three games. Can't wait to see what he dials up
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  Speaker 7: in terms of week four on Thursday night. I don't
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  Speaker 7: think anybody is lacking motivation to get this win, knowing
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  Speaker 7: what it could mean to go 2-0 so early in
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  Speaker 7: the season. And it even feels weird that we're playing
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  Speaker 7: two division games within the first four weeks because I
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  Speaker 7: feel like normally we're waiting forever, midway through the season,
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  Speaker 7: to really start that portion of the schedule.
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  Speaker 5: So, yeah, it's.
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  Speaker 7: Waiting for some maybe big splash plays on special teams,
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  Speaker 7: just to touch on that part.
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  Speaker 5: But we'll see.
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  Speaker 9: Two Ohio games out of the way even before– Week
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  Speaker 9: five of the season, yeah, that does feel unusual.
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  Speaker 6: All right, last one that I have for you.
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  Speaker 9: Missy, is not nearly as high stakes or significant as
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  Speaker 9: that question. I think I saw somewhere that the Browns
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  Speaker 9: are doing the color rush jerseys, the dark brown top,
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  Speaker 9: dark brown pants with a lighter brown stripe. What do
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  Speaker 9: you make of those? They remind me of Anchorman. My
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  Speaker 9: apartment smells of rich mahogany. What do you think of
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  Speaker 9: those get-ups that the Browns are going to bust out Thursday?
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  Speaker 7: I mean, I get why they can't go with orange,
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  Speaker 7: but like, you know, I just, no one can compete
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  Speaker 7: with the Steelers color rush.
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  Speaker 5: It's just so crisp, so fierce.
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  Speaker 7: I just feel like, you know, the Browns doing something
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  Speaker 7: like that is kind of, you know, prototypical, but I
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  Speaker 7: also don't know what their other option would be. I
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  Speaker 7: do realize that, you know, for them, this is one
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  Speaker 7: of their biggest games of the season. because it is
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  Speaker 7: the Steelers because they have our number on Thursday night.
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  Speaker 5: So I'm sure they're pulling out all stops. You know
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  Speaker 5: how it is.
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  Speaker 7: They always bring in the big wigs to kind of
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  Speaker 7: get the crowd going in the beginning to smash the guitar.
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  Speaker 7: So I wouldn't be surprised what we're going to end
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  Speaker 7: up seeing on Thursday in terms of how they're pumping
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  Speaker 7: up their crowd and they can get a little crazy
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  Speaker 7: up there.
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  Speaker 5: In the dog pound.
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  Speaker 2: Missy Matthews, before we let you go, I have you
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  Speaker 2: and Brian Bacco on at the same time. So if
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  Speaker 2: I don't bring up the Pitt Panthers, I don't think
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  Speaker 2: I'm doing my job. Going into last weekend, there were
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  Speaker 2: several undefeated college football teams in the area, West Virginia,
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  Speaker 2: Penn State, and Pitt. But only you and Brian's Pitt
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  Speaker 2: Panthers survived. They're still undefeated. They march on in their
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  Speaker 2: 2026 season.
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  Speaker 5: I'm super pumped.
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  Speaker 7: I do realize I was super pumped at the beginning
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  Speaker 7: of last season, too. But when you're a Pitt fan,
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  Speaker 7: you know, you're in it through the thick and thin.
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  Speaker 7: And I just think, you know, what a test, especially
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  Speaker 7: to go play Virginia Tech down there in Blacksburg. I
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  Speaker 7: don't like James Franklin. My husband went to Penn State.
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  Speaker 7: He doesn't like James Franklin. I just really want this
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  Speaker 7: one for Coach Narduzzi and that team.
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  Speaker 5: It would be huge for them.
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  Speaker 7: And then knowing when they come back, it's going to
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  Speaker 7: be the 50th anniversary of the 1976 team.
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  Speaker 5: Bill Belichick and his crew will be here. So, yeah.
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  Speaker 7: It's some exciting football coming up just in Pittsburgh alone,
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  Speaker 7: you know, pro and college.
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  Speaker 9: My quick two cents on it is, you know, you
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  Speaker 9: want to win them all, but this is the first
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  Speaker 9: game this season for Pitt that's really felt like a
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  Speaker 9: big game to me.
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  Speaker 6: Syracuse is what it is.
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  Speaker 9: Nice homecoming blowout of Bucknell and beating UCF was cool,
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  Speaker 9: but Going down to Blackburn won't be easy, and I'm
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  Speaker 9: pretty fired.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure that Bucknell win will come back and help
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  Speaker 2: them at the end when they're.
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  Speaker 3: Figuring all this out. I'm kidding, guys.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a Pitt Panther fan too, so we're all on
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  Speaker 2: the same page there. Look, Missy, thank you so much
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  Speaker 2: for coming on the show. We appreciate you as always.
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  Speaker 2: Let's do it again soon. Have a good, safe trip
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  Speaker 2: up to Cleveland and back. And if you can, bring
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  Speaker 2: us back a win.
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  Speaker 6: Thanks, Missy. All right, thanks, guys.
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  Speaker 3: Missy Matthews, part of our broadcast team with Rob King.
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  Speaker 3: and Max Starks.
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  Speaker 2: You can catch them this upcoming Thursday night in each
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  Speaker 2: and every Pittsburgh Steelers game.
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  Speaker 3: When Brian and I come back, we're going to get into.
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  Speaker 2: Our top 10 plays and moments from Steelers Bengals.
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  Speaker 3: I'm ET.
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  Speaker 4: He's BB.
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  Speaker 1: This is the Steelers Report with Brian Batko and Ed
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  Speaker 1: Troup on Steelers Nation Radio, a part of the Steelers
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  Speaker 2: Great stuff from Missy Matthews. That's the second time we've
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  Speaker 2: had her on the show. We had her on the
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  Speaker 2: show a few months back. We'll continue to have her
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  Speaker 2: on the show to talk about the Pittsburgh Steelers. We
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  Speaker 2: talked about the Pitt Panthers there at the end, Brian,
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  Speaker 2: and you're a Pitt graduate.
• 15:27
  Speaker 4: Is Missy a Pitt graduate?
• 15:28
  Speaker 3: I know she's a Pitt graduate. So both of you
• 15:30
  Speaker 3: are Pitt graduates.
• 15:31
  Speaker 2: Yep.
• 15:32
  Speaker 4: Go to Pitt.
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: You should be pumped. Though I did joke, my neighbor's
• 15:36
  Speaker 2: also a Pitt grad. Big Pitt football fan, goes to
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: all the games. I saw him last night, and I said, hey, Scott,
• 15:41
  Speaker 2: shout out to Scott Stoner, my neighbor. And Scott's a
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: huge Pitt football fan. Actually, his son Brody goes to
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: Pitt now, too, on campus in Oakland. And I said, hey,
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: that Bucknell victory is going to do a lot for
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: the Panthers when they have to face Miami.
• 15:56
  Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean, that's just one of those ones that–
• 16:00
  Speaker 9: you schedule it for homecoming for a reason and it
• 16:03
  Speaker 9: gets you another win it still counts for bowl eligibility
• 16:06
  Speaker 9: i believe i think anything in division one gets you
• 16:10
  Speaker 9: to bowl eligibility um i think they added a ninth
• 16:13
  Speaker 9: acc game wisconsin didn't end up playing pit this year
• 16:17
  Speaker 9: like they're so i i don't follow it as closely
• 16:20
  Speaker 9: as i did when i covered the team obviously but
• 16:23
  Speaker 9: more from a general vibes perspective i meant what i
• 16:26
  Speaker 9: said there with missy at the end like I'm excited
• 16:28
  Speaker 9: for this game at Virginia Tech. Like, I know the
• 16:31
  Speaker 9: Hokies are having a pretty nice start to the season, too.
• 16:34
  Speaker 6: You know, we all.
• 16:36
  Speaker 9: Want to see how long Pitt can keep this unbeaten
• 16:37
  Speaker 9: streak going, even though I know it's take it with
• 16:42
  Speaker 9: a grain of salt. But two 4-0 teams, Virginia Tech's
• 16:44
  Speaker 9: beaten Maryland, Old Dominion and VMI. So comparable levels of wins,
• 16:50
  Speaker 9: I would say.
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: They haven't blown out.
• 16:52
  Speaker 6: In Boston College. I forgot about that one. So, yeah,
• 16:54
  Speaker 6: I mean, two 4-0 teams. Pat Narduzzi, James Franklin.
• 16:58
  Speaker 9: Pitt, Virginia Tech, I covered one game there, and it
• 17:02
  Speaker 9: was quite the atmosphere down there. It's legit Lane Stadium.
• 17:07
  Speaker 9: My friend, my buddy Greg, you gave a shout-out to Scott.
• 17:09
  Speaker 9: I'll give a shout-out to Greg Tritely. He's going down
• 17:12
  Speaker 9: to the game. He's a fellow Pitt alum. He's a
• 17:14
  Speaker 9: Bills fan, but he's a Pitt alum and.
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: A Pitt fan like myself.
• 17:16
  Speaker 6: That's okay. That still works.
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: He got one of the two.
• 17:18
  Speaker 9: Yeah, so he's headed down to Blacksburg Friday night for
• 17:21
  Speaker 9: the game. And it's a 7 o'clock kick, which is
• 17:26
  Speaker 9: reasonable for– and watch maybe even more than a half
• 17:30
  Speaker 9: with my little guy.
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: Wait, did you say Friday? Is that a Friday night game? Oh, wow,
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: I didn't know that. I thought it was Saturday.
• 17:35
  Speaker 6: Friday night, 7 o'clock.
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: That stinks because I've got to work Friday night. I'll
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: be at West Allegheny doing a high school game.
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: Oh, well.
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: Who have they got?
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: West has Bethel Park, 5A conference, a new conference there
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: in 5A that West.
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: Allegheny has entered. Both teams.
• 17:48
  Speaker 9: Bethel Park, Blackhawks of This Is Us fame. Did you
• 17:52
  Speaker 9: watch that show?
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: Of course I watched This Is Us, Brian Bacco.
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: Something just popped up on my feed the other day
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: that This Is Us started seven years ago.
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: I couldn't not. Seven or ten years ago.
• 18:01
  Speaker 6: I was going to say more than that.
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: I think it was ten years.
• 18:03
  Speaker 6: Probably ten.
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: Has it been ten years?
• 18:05
  Speaker 6: It's over now, though, right?
• 18:05
  Speaker 8: Oh, yeah.
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: It's been over for a while, for a handful of years.
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: Jack on that show. Now we're really getting into the weeds.
• 18:12
  Speaker 6: Bethel Park, Brad, right?
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: Exactly.
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: There's a connection there locally.
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: All right, so let's get into our top 10 plays
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: and moments that we do every week here on the show.
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: And we have to.
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: Credit our main guy, Rob King and Max Starks. And
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: we just heard from Missy Matthews. She's part of that
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: broadcast team as well. Again, you can hear this Thursday,
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: Thursday Night Football in Cleveland. And these are all the
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: highlights from this past week. A lot easier this week,
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: Brian Bacco, than last week. Last week we had the
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: pool highlights from that Patriots game because we don't like
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: to showcase the competition.
• 18:42
  Speaker 6: We want to give you.
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: Guys stealer moments. Steelers plays because we're on Steelers Nation Radio.
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: We don't want to sit here and play Joe Burrow's
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: touchdowns all over the place unless we necessarily have to.
• 18:53
  Speaker 9: Speaking of the Steelers, we'll get another injury report update
• 18:56
  Speaker 9: after we sign off today, but hopefully while the drive
• 18:59
  Speaker 9: guys are on, Joey Porter Jr. was a full participant
• 19:02
  Speaker 9: in practice. Now, this was an estimated practice report, which
• 19:06
  Speaker 9: is what every team pretty much does for these short
• 19:08
  Speaker 9: weeks because you're not running your players into the ground.
• 19:10
  Speaker 6: You're doing a walkthrough type of deal, but Take that
• 19:14
  Speaker 6: for what it's worth.
• 19:15
  Speaker 9: This is his first time being full since he started
• 19:19
  Speaker 9: training camp on the PUP list. Rico Dowdle was estimated
• 19:23
  Speaker 9: to be a DNP guy again. And I think there
• 19:27
  Speaker 9: was somebody else on there, too.
• 19:29
  Speaker 6: Let me get it. Pull it up.
• 19:30
  Speaker 9: Jalen Ramsey was limited and Brandon Echols limited Ramsey with
• 19:36
  Speaker 9: a wrist, which Mike McCarthy mentioned Echols with a concussion.
• 19:41
  Speaker 6: So don't think we'll see him.
• 19:42
  Speaker 9: Thursday night in cleveland and i don't think that bodes
• 19:45
  Speaker 9: well for dowdle either but we'll see on.
• 19:48
  Speaker 6: Joey Porter Jr.
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: As the world turns with Joey Porter Jr.
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: On and off the field. It's been a bit quiet, though.
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: I haven't really heard much here in the last week.
• 19:57
  Speaker 6: Good or bad. We'll have another update on tomorrow's show,
• 20:00
  Speaker 6: so be sure to tune in.
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: We'll keep an eye on it.
• 20:04
  Speaker 9: Speaking of injuries, did you see about Tampa Bay? Baker
• 20:06
  Speaker 9: Mayfield probably out for a few weeks, which means he's
• 20:09
  Speaker 9: not going to be under center likely when the Steelers
• 20:12
  Speaker 9: head to Tampa Bay later next month.
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: And their backup is an undrafted free agent from Kansas. Yeah.
• 20:18
  Speaker 7: Wow.
• 20:18
  Speaker 9: Jalen Daniels, geez, mobile, productive in college, but, and he'll
• 20:24
  Speaker 9: have a couple of games under his belt. If Baker's
• 20:26
  Speaker 9: still out by the time the Steelers and bucks meet
• 20:29
  Speaker 9: up at Raymond James stadium, but it was that one
• 20:31
  Speaker 9: and their wide receiver, Jalen McMillan, I think is out
• 20:34
  Speaker 9: for six to eight weeks.
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: So, All of a sudden, we're getting some breaks.
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: Maybe.
• 20:39
  Speaker 6: God's a Steelers fan.
• 20:40
  Speaker 9: I mean, they had Cooper Rush in week one after
• 20:42
  Speaker 9: mysterious back spasms to a Tonga-Vailoa. They didn't play Joe Burrow. Yes,
• 20:48
  Speaker 9: Sunday's game was their first against Joe Burrow since 2024,
• 20:51
  Speaker 9: and only their third since 2022. So, Lamar Jackson has
• 20:59
  Speaker 9: not always been out there when they faced the Ravens. Now,
• 21:01
  Speaker 9: to be fair, they've had his number when he has
• 21:03
  Speaker 9: been out there, so it's kind of whatever.
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 21:06
  Speaker 9: It does seem uncanny how much they've run into backup
• 21:09
  Speaker 9: QBs over the years, doesn't it, Ed?
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: Well, like you said, God's a Steeler fan, right?
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: Though Penn State people will tell you that God's a
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: Penn State fan because the sky is white and blue
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: or blue and white. All right.
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: Well, we're quiet on that front. Okay. Well, I'm not
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: a Penn State fan, but we already know that.
• 21:23
  Speaker 6: I've got nothing to add on that.
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: We already pledged our allegiance to Pitt earlier here on
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: the show between yourself, Missy, and me. I didn't go
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: to Pitt, went to Point Park, but grew up a
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: big Pitt football and basketball fan and still to this day.
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: I've suffered just like the two of you have.
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: Okay, rushing-wise, the Steelers on Sunday, 23 carries, 138 yards,
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: averaged six yards a pop, and Jalen Warren had everything
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: and pretty much all to do with that. 17 carries,
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: 127 yards, 7.5 yards per rush, and here's one of
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: those big runs.
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: It was a 36-yarder.
• 21:52
  Speaker 8: Nowakowski motions now in the pitch to the left, and
• 21:55
  Speaker 8: this is Warren, and Warren finds some room.
• 21:57
  Speaker 10: Crosses midfield, still on his feet to the 45-yard line,
• 22:01
  Speaker 10: the 40, the 35, tracked down from behind by Boye Mafe,
• 22:05
  Speaker 10: all the way down to the 29-yard line, a weaving
• 22:08
  Speaker 10: run left to right, nets 36 yards for the Steelers.
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: Jalen Warren had some pop on Sunday, and that was
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: one of them.
• 22:15
  Speaker 6: For sure.
• 22:16
  Speaker 9: Sitting next to me at the game was Nate Hogan,
• 22:21
  Speaker 9: from the Steelers executive producer does a ton of great stuff, uh,
• 22:25
  Speaker 9: on the video production side of things. And we both
• 22:28
  Speaker 9: were like, wow, boy, a Moffay was the big man
• 22:31
  Speaker 9: ran him down.
• 22:32
  Speaker 6: So I had to look it up.
• 22:32
  Speaker 9: He was a four, five, three 40 coming out of
• 22:35
  Speaker 9: a college, I think Minnesota. So, yeah, I mean, he's a,
• 22:37
  Speaker 9: it's a big dude at edge rusher, but can move, uh,
• 22:40
  Speaker 9: also of, of Nigerian, uh, parents. So that was kind
• 22:44
  Speaker 9: of an interesting little matchup with him and Maxie on
• 22:47
  Speaker 9: a chore and, uh, glad to see Maxie on a chore,
• 22:49
  Speaker 9: get the better of them. And, Jalen Warren got the
• 22:51
  Speaker 9: better of the Bengals' defense on that play until Moffay
• 22:54
  Speaker 9: pursued it and stuck with it until the end.
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: Play number nine is a Chris Boswell 44-yard field goal.
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: Now listen, this happened in the second quarter after the
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: Steelers had held the Bengals' offense to a 50-yard field
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: goal by Evan McPherson to make the score 14-10. The
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: Steelers get back up by a touchdown, 17-10 on this
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: Bos 44-yarder.
• 23:15
  Speaker 8: Snap, hold, the kick is up, and that kick by
• 23:18
  Speaker 8: Chris Boswell is good. With 7.05 remaining here in the
• 23:23
  Speaker 8: second quarter, the Chris Boswell field goal has made it
• 23:27
  Speaker 8: Steelers 17, Bengals 10.
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: That capped a six-play, 40-yard drive that ate up three
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: minutes and 11 seconds. Brian, it was important because, again,
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: the Bengals had pulled within four, 14-10, and that now
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: extended the lead back to a full touchdown.
• 23:41
  Speaker 9: Yeah, and every offense wants to finish drives in the
• 23:45
  Speaker 9: end zone rather than settling for three, but two thoughts
• 23:48
  Speaker 9: on that. you know, one, it's great when you have
• 23:52
  Speaker 9: Chris Boswell, and two, some of those Steelers drives that
• 23:56
  Speaker 9: they had to settle for three on Sunday were, you know,
• 23:59
  Speaker 9: for strange reasons, you know, I know some people were
• 24:02
  Speaker 9: down on the officiating, and you had the weirdness with
• 24:05
  Speaker 9: Jalen Warren going down in the open field, but it
• 24:10
  Speaker 9: was frustrating for them, and they felt like they could
• 24:12
  Speaker 9: have probably felt like they could have scored 40 or
• 24:14
  Speaker 9: more Sunday against the Bengals, but You'll take three from
• 24:18
  Speaker 9: Boswell and another point that Mike Pursuita made on the
• 24:21
  Speaker 9: point after last night, which is why you should always
• 24:23
  Speaker 9: be tuning into that show, is nice to see the
• 24:26
  Speaker 9: automatic Boswell again and not the guy who's had a
• 24:28
  Speaker 9: few uncharacteristic misses in the last few regular season games.
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: You got you, Pursuta, and King on that show, right?
• 24:35
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: That's the three.
• 24:36
  Speaker 6: Wow.
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: You definitely got to tune into that show. Come on now.
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: You got three excellent Steeler media folks.
• 24:42
  Speaker 6: The voice of the Steelers, Rob King.
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: Mike Pursuta, who's on every show here on radio and
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: TV on Steelers.com.
• 24:50
  Speaker 6: He's everywhere. For sure.
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: And then he'll have it up against them on Thursday night, too.
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: I always feel bad for him because he does the–
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: post-game show late into the wee hours of the morning,
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: and then a quick turnaround to come in and do
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: the DV morning show.
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: So, Mike, this is his time of the year, that's
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: for sure.
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: Spoiler alert, we got three Chris Boswell field goals in
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: a row, nine, eight, and seven, the next three. That
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: was the first you just heard. Here's the second. It
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: was important because it came in the– well, the next
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: two came both in the fourth quarter. This one was
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: to tie the game 27-27. On this, Chris Boswell, 36-yard
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: field goal. And it was big, Brian, because it tied
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: the game up for the Steelers and put them in
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: a position.
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: Well, we'll get to that here in a second to
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: take the lead.
• 25:32
  Speaker 4: Here's the snap. Here's the kick. The kick is up
• 25:34
  Speaker 4: by Boswell, and that kick is good.
• 25:36
  Speaker 8: And 8.45 remains here as the Steelers have just scored
• 25:40
  Speaker 8: from the Heinz red zone.
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: That was a quick four-play, four-yard drive. They ate up
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: two minutes and seven seconds. They didn't get into the
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: end zone, but this was after the punt.
• 25:49
  Speaker 6: Was that a four-yard drive or a negative four-yard drive?
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: It was a negative four-yard drive.
• 25:54
  Speaker 4: You're right.
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: Four plays, negative four yards. That's not what you want. No,
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: that is not what you want.
• 25:59
  Speaker 9: Needless to say, that is not one of the finest
• 26:02
  Speaker 9: drives of Mike McCarthy or Aaron Rodgers' career.
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: Good job, Double B, because look here.
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: You're looking at my score sheet in front of me
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: here from the book, and it's two dashes.
• 26:10
  Speaker 6: I also just lived it.
• 26:11
  Speaker 9: I was there for Aaron Rodgers getting sacked for negative
• 26:15
  Speaker 9: nine yards.
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's two dashes. So normally when you're looking at
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: the scoring summary, the next one's 8-77, so it's eight plays,
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: 77 yards.
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: But you're right.
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: There's two dashes in this four plays dash dash, which
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: is negative four.
• 26:27
  Speaker 6: Hey, you know what, though?
• 26:28
  Speaker 9: Fourth and 14 doesn't seem so bad after fourth and 43.
• 26:32
  Speaker 9: You know, it's never going to seem like fourth and
• 26:33
  Speaker 9: two long again after that Patriots game.
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: Nothing will ever come back to get that one. That's
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: for sure. So that was to put the Steelers in
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: a position to tie the game 27-27 with 8.45 left.
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: The Steelers take the lead on this Chris Boswell 33-yard
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: field goal.
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: Boswell does boot it, and it is good.
• 26:53
  Speaker 8: A 33-yarder with 2.15 remaining has given the Steelers a
• 26:57
  Speaker 8: 30-27 lead.
• 26:57
  Speaker 6: 2.15 to go.
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: Chris Boswell from 33 yards is our number seven play.
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: Of the game.
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: It capped an eight play 77 yard, really good looking drive,
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: five minutes, 24 seconds taken off of the fourth quarter clock. Brian, again,
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: it doesn't result in seven, but you take the lead
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: and now you put all the pressure on your defense.
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: And of course, coming up in our next segment at
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: the hotel end of this, we will.
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: Find out why.
• 27:25
  Speaker 9: And that's the one I was referring to earlier that,
• 27:27
  Speaker 9: I mean, talk about a wild drive, wild possession, the
• 27:31
  Speaker 9: holding call that wipes out the Jalen Warren, 87 yard run.
• 27:36
  Speaker 9: And then the, Jalen Warren, 26-yard scamper that should have
• 27:41
  Speaker 9: been an extra. It should have been a 32-yard scamper
• 27:45
  Speaker 9: and six points, but alas. And then you have Rodgers
• 27:49
  Speaker 9: sacked there at the end of it. And, oh, by
• 27:52
  Speaker 9: the way, the Darnell Washington completion was sandwiched in there, too. So, yeah,
• 27:57
  Speaker 9: I mean, stood up as the game-winning field goal. It
• 28:00
  Speaker 9: was technically the game-winner, even though there was two and
• 28:02
  Speaker 9: change left.
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: You mean our number six play of the day, Darnell
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: Washington from 47 yards.
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: Rodgers play action pass. Rolling out.
• 28:09
  Speaker 8: Throws to the right flat. Complete to Darnell Washington. Steps
• 28:12
  Speaker 8: out of a would-be tackle. Races down the right sideline.
• 28:15
  Speaker 6: Lumbering down.
• 28:16
  Speaker 4: Still on his feet. Inside Bengals territory.
• 28:19
  Speaker 10: All the way down to the 33-yard line.
• 28:23
  Speaker 4: Tiptoeing the big man down the sideline.
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: We talked about it yesterday, the tiptoeing down the sideline.
• 28:30
  Speaker 6: Angry runs again for Darnell Washington.
• 28:32
  Speaker 9: I don't usually follow through on who wins that each week,
• 28:35
  Speaker 9: to be completely honest. But the fact that that's the
• 28:38
  Speaker 9: number six play this week tells you. just how exciting
• 28:42
  Speaker 9: of a victory that was for the Steelers and how
• 28:45
  Speaker 9: many offensive fireworks and defensive fireworks they produced.
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: And Double B just cheated.
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: He looked over on my sheet to make sure we
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: had the top five, and I think your eyebrow went up,
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: and you're like, okay, yeah, I got you.
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: I got you, troop.
• 28:55
  Speaker 4: I got your top five.
• 28:56
  Speaker 6: That might be what I was thinking.
• 28:57
  Speaker 9: I'm like, that might be the best number six play
• 28:59
  Speaker 9: all season that we do this, but I hope it's
• 29:01
  Speaker 9: not because that'll mean that we've got a lot more
• 29:04
  Speaker 9: offensive outbursts ahead of us.
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: A really good tease going into the next segment.
• 29:07
  Speaker 6: Or a lot more blowout wins anyway. We'll get some
• 29:09
  Speaker 6: defensive plays in there.
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: That's right. Well, we got a really good tease coming
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: in because do not go anywhere. We're going to go
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: to break.
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: When we come back, we'll have our top five plays
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: of the week from Steelers-Bengals, and we promise you there
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: are five really good plays, big plays that impacted the game.
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: Of course, you probably know what the number one play is,
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: but we will find out whenever we come back.
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: I'm Troop.
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: He's Backo.
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: It's the Steelers Report here on Steelers Nation Radio, part
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: of the Steelers Audio Network.
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  Speaker 1: This is the Steelers Report with Brian Batko and Ed
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  Speaker 1: Troup on Steelers Nation Radio, a part of the Steelers
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  Speaker 1: Audio Network.
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  Speaker 3: Wrapping up the show for today.
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  Speaker 2: Up next, you have Wes Shuler and Matt Williamson on
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  Speaker 2: SNR's Drive. Double B, I had to laugh last week
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  Speaker 2: when we were doing our top 10 moments. We had
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  Speaker 2: Jim Wexel from Steelers.com on with us, Steelers author. And
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  Speaker 2: his first comment when we teased the upcoming segment of
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  Speaker 2: this was, Brian and Ed, I hope you can find
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  Speaker 2: 10 plays and 10 moments from Steelers Patriots. It was
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  Speaker 2: a lot more challenging last week than it was this week.
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  Speaker 2: A lot more fun when you do this whenever they
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  Speaker 2: come off of a win.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, it's the opposite problem this week. Like, I mean,
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  Speaker 9: what got left on the cutting room floor?
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  Speaker 8: The.
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  Speaker 6: Well, I guess you can't really include the Jalen Warren
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  Speaker 6: 87 yarder because that technically never happened.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 6: Which I don't know. What did you think of that call, Ed?
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  Speaker 3: I wasn't I wasn't big on it.
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  Speaker 9: I mean, you you've watched more football in your day
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  Speaker 9: than me even. But like holding is one of those calls.
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  Speaker 9: It seems like if you look for it, you could
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  Speaker 9: probably find it on every play.
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  Speaker 4: Bingo.
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  Speaker 3: I've I've I've become friends over the years with a
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  Speaker 3: lot of officials.
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  Speaker 6: And that's something that's kind of.
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  Speaker 9: Obviously, you have to officiate the NFL game a little
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  Speaker 9: differently from the college game and the high school game.
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  Speaker 9: But in general, that call and the technique of it
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  Speaker 9: should pretty much be the same across all levels.
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  Speaker 2: But most officials will tell you they can call holding
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  Speaker 2: on every play. And that's from youth, middle school, high school, college,
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  Speaker 2: and even in the NFL. If you watch an NFL
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  Speaker 2: game on Sunday, there's holding pretty much every play. I
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  Speaker 2: think the main thing is, does it affect the play
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  Speaker 2: that just happened? So in other words, if there's a hold,
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  Speaker 2: a slight hold on the right side, but the play
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  Speaker 2: was to the left, Did it impact the play?
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  Speaker 3: Probably not, or vice versa.
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  Speaker 2: When there's a hold by the tight end on a
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  Speaker 2: linebacker and the play goes right next to the tight end, well, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you probably should throw the flag in that situation because
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  Speaker 2: it probably did impact the play. On the Warren run
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  Speaker 2: that you're referring to, from the hold that I saw,
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  Speaker 2: I don't necessarily thought it impacted Warren getting outside and downfield.
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  Speaker 9: But you did think it was a hold. I mean,
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  Speaker 9: the hands kind of immediately went to the outside of
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  Speaker 9: the shoulder pads. And it happened so, like, out in
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  Speaker 9: the open, I guess. It's a lot harder sometimes to
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  Speaker 9: see if Mason McCormick's in there.
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  Speaker 4: And of course, I'm biased.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, but I know also people were like, wait, why
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  Speaker 9: did he wait so long to throw that flag? I
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  Speaker 9: don't know if it was stuck in the ref's pocket
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  Speaker 9: or what was going on there, but it did look
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  Speaker 9: funky when you just took it all into account.
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  Speaker 3: The main thing that drives me crazy.
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  Speaker 2: and I'm not so sure this happens at the NFL level,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not on the sideline for NFL games. Maybe Missy,
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  Speaker 2: this would be a good question to ask her next
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  Speaker 2: time because she is. But I have seen it at
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  Speaker 2: the college level. I've seen it at the high school
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  Speaker 2: level too and below is when the opposing sideline is
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  Speaker 2: calling for a flag and then all of a sudden
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  Speaker 2: the flag comes out.
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  Speaker 6: That shouldn't happen.
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  Speaker 2: And I don't know if it's deliberate or not. I'm
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  Speaker 2: not saying it is or isn't, Brian, but that's what
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  Speaker 2: infuriates me sometimes if I'm on the opposing sideline or
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  Speaker 2: the opposing team that I'm covering.
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  Speaker 3: It's like, hey, what are we doing?
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  Speaker 2: Are we listening to the other coaching staff to throw
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  Speaker 2: that flag? Was that really interference?
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  Speaker 6: That cannot happen.
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  Speaker 9: I don't think any official would be worth much of
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  Speaker 9: anything if they let that into their psyche.
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  Speaker 3: I agree, but I wonder, are they questioning it? Is
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  Speaker 3: it a 50-50 call? It's human nature.
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  Speaker 6: They are humans at the end of the day. It's
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  Speaker 6: human error.
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  Speaker 9: I always am empathetic and sympathetic to officials. My mother-in-law
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  Speaker 9: is an official at the high school. Not football, but regardless,
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  Speaker 9: I used to officiate middle school basketball and even intramural
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  Speaker 9: basketball in college, and it is a difficult, difficult role
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  Speaker 9: to have no matter where or who you're doing it with.
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  Speaker 3: It is the hardest, Brian, and I tell officials that
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  Speaker 3: all the time. I say, bless you.
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  Speaker 6: It's a thankless job.
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  Speaker 3: Thankless job. And I think basketball is the worst. I
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  Speaker 3: tell basketball officials.
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  Speaker 6: That all the time.
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  Speaker 9: Oh, there's so many bang, bang, 50-50 plays, like the
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  Speaker 9: game's moving fast.
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  Speaker 2: And you have the crowd, the parents right on top
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  Speaker 2: of you. You have coaches and players right on top
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  Speaker 2: of you. At least for football, you have a buffer
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  Speaker 2: zone between the stands and the field.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 9: And it's a little less personal because, well, most of
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  Speaker 9: the people down there have helmets on, but I don't know. Like,
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  Speaker 9: I mean, DK also got, he got called for holding
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  Speaker 9: on a twice.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 9: On another Jalen Warren first down run early in the
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  Speaker 9: second quarter. So for all I know, officials might've said,
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  Speaker 9: Hey buddy, we're like, we're emphasizing this.
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  Speaker 6: You can't, you can't do that. So they see it.
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  Speaker 6: I think with any official, you want it to be
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  Speaker 6: consistent for sure.
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  Speaker 9: You don't want to, Hey, you let this guy kind
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  Speaker 9: of do this tech, use this technique all game.
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  Speaker 6: And then you called it in the fourth quarter.
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  Speaker 9: Like, You want to know what parameters you're playing under
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  Speaker 9: if you're a coach or a competitor. And I thought
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  Speaker 9: by and large, like I think I mentioned this on
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  Speaker 9: yesterday's show, there weren't a ton of flags thrown in
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  Speaker 9: what was a very physical, fiery game. So I like
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  Speaker 9: that they mostly let them play. There was that one
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  Speaker 9: call where there was, what, three penalties, two on the Bengals,
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  Speaker 9: one on the Steelers, and they ended up offsetting somehow,
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  Speaker 9: which is always strange. And they even commented on that
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  Speaker 9: on the broadcast. But, yeah, it was a holding call
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  Speaker 9: on Frazier. And then there was a legal contact and
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  Speaker 9: defensive pass interference on two different Bengals DBs.
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  Speaker 6: And it just offset and it was no play. No worries.
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  Speaker 6: Pat Friermuth picked it up on the Pittsburgh plunge on
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  Speaker 6: the next snap. But yeah, I don't know. We just
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  Speaker 6: got off on a little tangent there.
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  Speaker 9: But I know people were talking about some of those calls.
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  Speaker 3: The penalties were only a total of 11 on Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: Sunday between the Bengals and Steelers total so six for
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  Speaker 2: 40 for the Bengals five of 37.
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  Speaker 9: Weren't there a bajillion flags in week one against the
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  Speaker 9: Falcons if you recall it felt like that game there
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  Speaker 9: was a there was laundry on the field every play.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah and even the Patriots game too I think that
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  Speaker 2: was a highly penalized game and you get that early
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  Speaker 2: on in the season but but just before we get
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  Speaker 2: back into our top five plays and we'll do that
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  Speaker 2: here in a second just just a real quick shout
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  Speaker 2: out and thank you to all the officials out there
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  Speaker 2: for whatever sport you do. Brian, I echo that, and
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  Speaker 2: I always tell officials that all the time. That is
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  Speaker 2: a thankless job, as you said. And they're not getting
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  Speaker 2: paid a ton of money. Maybe at the NFL level
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  Speaker 2: they are.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure they are. But even that, I mean, it's tough.
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  Speaker 3: It's a boom-boom call.
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  Speaker 2: And now they have replay and other things in play, too,
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  Speaker 2: that can help with that, especially in baseball now, too, right,
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  Speaker 2: with strikes and balls. That's a whole other subject for
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  Speaker 2: another time.
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  Speaker 6: Who are you pulling for in the MLB playoffs?
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  Speaker 2: You know, Dan Quinlan, our good buddy Dan, I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to give Dan a shout out here.
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  Speaker 3: Our promotions guy.
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  Speaker 2: Also the executive producer of the Steelers broadcast in the
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  Speaker 2: booth is a big Philadelphia Phillies fan. So I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to go with the Phillies with, with Dan.
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  Speaker 3: Cause I know he's pulling for him.
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  Speaker 6: Okay.
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  Speaker 9: They haven't won a world series since long time.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: All right.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 9: I guess I can, I can get down with that.
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  Speaker 9: It felt like they had some big, big wins when
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  Speaker 9: I was.
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  Speaker 6: In college 10 years ago, 13 years ago, but, Guess
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  Speaker 6: they never went all the way. No, they did win.
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  Speaker 6: They won in 08.
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  Speaker 3: They won one with Harper.
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  Speaker 6: They won in 2008. No, he wasn't there yet. Charlie
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  Speaker 6: Manuel was their manager. I don't know.
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  Speaker 9: I mean, the White Sox are kind of the ultimate
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  Speaker 9: underdog story. I was shocked when I heard they were
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  Speaker 9: even in.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they had a great year. And then, was it
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  Speaker 2: Yankees-Red Sox? I think they're playing right now, too.
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  Speaker 3: That'll be fun.
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  Speaker 6: For sure, yeah. They played a night.
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  Speaker 4: Some good matchups.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, in Pirate Nation, they won 82 games, 82
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  Speaker 2: and 80. We talked about them a couple times over
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  Speaker 2: the summer here on Steelers Nation Radio. Just a quick
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  Speaker 2: shout-out to the team that shares the North Shore.
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  Speaker 6: The Rays have never won it. They've been in it.
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  Speaker 6: They've never won it.
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  Speaker 3: They've gotten close.
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  Speaker 6: They're kind of an underdog story. They have gotten close.
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  Speaker 3: They've gotten close a few times. Some good stories out
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  Speaker 3: there around MLB, October baseball.
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  Speaker 2: Not here in Pittsburgh again, but a nice step forward
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  Speaker 2: for Mount Lebanon.
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  Speaker 6: Native Donnie Kelly. Brewers have never won it. And they're
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  Speaker 6: up there this year.
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  Speaker 3: They haven't either.
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  Speaker 2: And they've won over 100 games this year.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: They've done that a few times now as well.
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  Speaker 2: All right, back to our top five. That's what you
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  Speaker 2: want to hear. Baku and Troop, who did you pick
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  Speaker 2: for your top five, right? Well, the Steelers had three
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  Speaker 2: touchdowns on Sunday. They're all in our top five. This
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  Speaker 2: one made it 14-7 for the Steelers. Your good buddy,
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  Speaker 2: Ben Skorodnik, who I found out yesterday here on the show,
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  Speaker 2: that his family's from Connellsville, local Connellsville.
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  Speaker 3: Brian Baku gave me a little tidbit.
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  Speaker 6: One of my favorite stories I wrote.
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  Speaker 9: When I covered the Steelers for the Post, in my
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  Speaker 9: time covering the Steelers for the Post, because that, I
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  Speaker 9: should say, was about the Ben Skoranek family origins, because
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  Speaker 9: he's a character, as Mike McCarthy put it on Monday.
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  Speaker 3: Game was tied 7-7 until this.
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  Speaker 4: Play action pass. Rodgers floating as a man wide open.
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  Speaker 4: It's Skoranek.
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  Speaker 10: It's a Pittsburgh Steelers touchdown.
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  Speaker 2: Ben Skoranek from 23 yards.
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  Speaker 3: Big touchdown.
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  Speaker 2: Gave the Steelers a 14-7 lead. They scored 17 points
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  Speaker 2: on their first three possessions. And this captain 11 play
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  Speaker 2: 86 yard drive that ate up four minutes and 58
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  Speaker 2: seconds in the first quarter.
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  Speaker 3: Steelers led 14 to seven.
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  Speaker 9: Very similar to the touchdown pass he caught last year
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  Speaker 9: against the Jets. But on that play, Calvin Austin was
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  Speaker 9: that in motion receiver who inserted in the sea gap
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  Speaker 9: between the tight end and.
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  Speaker 6: The right tackle. However.
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  Speaker 9: On that play, Skorodnik was on a crossing route and
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  Speaker 9: he was wide open and Rodgers threw it to him
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  Speaker 9: for his first touchdown pass.
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  Speaker 6: As a Steeler.
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  Speaker 9: But later in that same game, Ed, if you remember,
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  Speaker 9: Calvin Austin caught a touchdown pass on, I think it
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  Speaker 9: was basically the same call. And on that one, it
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  Speaker 9: was similar to the Skorodnik touchdown where the DB didn't
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  Speaker 9: realize he was running around until it was too late.
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  Speaker 6: Boom, wide open.
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  Speaker 9: I think that ended up being the winning score in
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  Speaker 9: that week one victory against the Jets back in 2025.
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  Speaker 9: I'd have to go back and check, but yeah, Yeah,
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  Speaker 9: I mean, that's a creative play that Arthur Smith used
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  Speaker 9: last year, and Mike McCarthy and Brian Angelico just put
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  Speaker 9: it to great use.
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  Speaker 2: Our number four play is this DK Metcalf six-yard touchdown
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  Speaker 2: reception from Aaron Rodgers. It occurred in the third quarter,
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  Speaker 2: 243 left in the third.
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  Speaker 3: It was a 2017 game.
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  Speaker 2: The Steelers were trailing the Bengals after the McPherson 38-yard
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  Speaker 2: field goal earlier in the third quarter.
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  Speaker 3: Steelers take the lead on this.
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  Speaker 8: Rodgers play action pass, looking, surveying, looking, back at the
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  Speaker 8: end zone, touchdown, DK Metcalf and the Pittsburgh Steelers have
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  Speaker 8: retaken the lead.
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  Speaker 3: We talked about the scronic touchdown in the.
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  Speaker 2: First quarter, capped in an 11-play, 86-yard scoring drive. This
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  Speaker 2: caps the in the third quarter and 11 play 74
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  Speaker 2: yard scoring drive that ate up five minutes and 39
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  Speaker 2: seconds two really good possession uh touchdowns for the.
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  Speaker 9: Steelers and I always use this basketball analogy but feels
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  Speaker 9: good to see one go through the hoop for DK
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  Speaker 9: Metcalf does it not um.
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  Speaker 3: Even though two defenders ran into each other you gotta.
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  Speaker 9: Take advantage yeah hey they don't ask how they just
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  Speaker 9: ask how many and DK's got his first of the
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  Speaker 9: season and I don't even think there was really anything
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  Speaker 9: uh you know, cheap about the way the Steelers ran
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  Speaker 9: that route. Like, yeah, it wasn't Michael Pittman Jr. picking
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  Speaker 9: the guy off. They just got tangled up and beautifully done.
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  Speaker 9: Well-run routes, well-schemed design play, and it worked out perfectly.
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  Speaker 2: Brian, it's always a late-arriving tailgate crowd at AccuShare Stadium
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  Speaker 2: for Steeler games, right? It takes a little bit to
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  Speaker 2: get into your seats. Yeah, that line gets jammed up.
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  Speaker 3: That's right.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you got the tailgating going on. Well, before
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  Speaker 2: fans could even get in their seats, this happened.
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  Speaker 4: Empty set for Rodgers. Gets a snap. Back to pass. Looking.
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  Speaker 4: Floating left and deep. Has a man down there. It's
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  Speaker 4: Roman Wilson.
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  Speaker 10: Makes the drive along the left sideline.
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  Speaker 4: And he's in for a Pittsburgh Steelers touchdown.
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  Speaker 10: 38 yards from Rodgers to Wilson. And the Steelers snap
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  Speaker 10: that touchdownless drought right away.
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  Speaker 2: Our number three play of the game happened just a
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  Speaker 2: minute 50 into the game. Roman Wilson, 38 yards from
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  Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers, and the Steelers had an early 7-0 lead
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  Speaker 2: at the 13-10 mark of the first quarter. Brian, it's
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  Speaker 2: been quite a while since the Steelers have scored a
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  Speaker 2: touchdown that quick into a game.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, and, I mean, talk about DK Metcalf seeing one
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  Speaker 9: go through the hoop. His was kind of a layup.
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  Speaker 9: It was good to see Roman Wilson put one through
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  Speaker 9: the net, too. This one was more of a three-pointer
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  Speaker 9: from long range. That was almost one of those, again,
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  Speaker 9: in basketball. Sometimes you get wide open for a layup,
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  Speaker 9: and you're almost like, whoa, I didn't expect to be
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  Speaker 9: this open. Am I going to miss this? I don't
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  Speaker 9: know that he expected to be that wide open, and
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  Speaker 9: he pulled it in. It was a little iffy, but
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  Speaker 9: he grabbed it.
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  Speaker 2: Who was your Steelers.com player of the week?
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  Speaker 6: Bob Labriola took Jalen Warren.
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  Speaker 3: For that one. That's a good one. This could have
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  Speaker 3: been a close second. Kicks to Keyshawn Williams.
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  Speaker 4: Lost the football. It's on the ground. Still on the ground.
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  Speaker 10: Skorodnik looks like he's got it inside the 15-yard line
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  Speaker 10: of the Bengals. Keyshawn Williams muffed the punt, and Ben
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  Speaker 10: Skoranek has it, and the Steelers have a crucial turnover.
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  Speaker 2: Huge play for number two this week for us. Ben Skoranek,
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  Speaker 2: I only mentioned the Steelers Digest Player of the Week because,
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  Speaker 2: deservingly so, 100% Jalen Warren, but Ben Skoranek, a close second. Two,
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  Speaker 2: not one, Brian, two Skoranek plays make our top ten.
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  Speaker 9: If I'm not mistaken, Eddie, he only touched the ball
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  Speaker 9: twice in that game.
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  Speaker 3: Both times.
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  Speaker 9: One was a touchdown, and one gave the Steelers a
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  Speaker 9: short field and changed the entire complexion of that game.
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  Speaker 9: Did you know that's his fourth fumble recovery on special
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  Speaker 9: teams in three years with the Steelers?
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  Speaker 6: No, two years and three games. So he's got a
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  Speaker 6: knack for that, to say the least.
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  Speaker 4: Incredible.
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  Speaker 3: Skoronek sets the Steelers up.
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  Speaker 2: And, of course, they take the lead 30-27, as we
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  Speaker 2: heard earlier, on the Chris Boswell 33-yard field goal. It
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  Speaker 2: all led to this. The Bengals got the ball back
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  Speaker 2: under two minutes remaining. They were driving towards midfield. All
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  Speaker 2: they needed was a field goal to tie the game
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  Speaker 2: to force overtime or worse for Steelers Nation. If Burrow connects,
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  Speaker 2: and he's connected on a lot of them over the
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  Speaker 2: years with a Jamar Chase or a Tee Higgins for six,
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  Speaker 2: the Steelers could have been trailing towards the end of
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  Speaker 2: this game. But that did not occur because of Derek
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  Speaker 2: Harmon and Sebastian Joseph Day.
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  Speaker 4: Burrow gets a snap. Play action pass.
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  Speaker 3: Rolling back.
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  Speaker 4: Some pressure coming. Derek Harmon gets it.
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  Speaker 10: Tracks it down.
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  Speaker 6: Ball is loose.
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  Speaker 4: A battle for it along the ground.
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  Speaker 6: Who's got it?
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  Speaker 10: Does Sebastian Joseph Day have it? The Steelers think they
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  Speaker 10: have it. The crowd certainly thinks they have it. Waiting
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  Speaker 10: for the official signal. And it is Pittsburgh Steelers football.
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  Speaker 4: What a play by Derek Harmon.
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  Speaker 2: You know, Double B, I'm not sure the two defensive
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  Speaker 2: plays in the first three weeks, which one was more exciting,
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  Speaker 2: the T.J. Watt return for a touchdown against the Falcons
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  Speaker 2: or that play there at the tail end. I almost
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  Speaker 2: leaned towards that one because it was against the Bengals
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  Speaker 2: and AFC Northpho.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, and it's just, I mean, I don't want to
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  Speaker 9: say we're conditioned to see it with TJ, but it's
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  Speaker 9: great to see it from a different player.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, Derek Harmon.
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  Speaker 3: I agree.
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  Speaker 9: I hope we get to the point where it's old
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  Speaker 9: hat for Derek Harmon to make game-changing plays and game-sealing
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  Speaker 9: plays like this. But at least for right now, this
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  Speaker 9: was kind of that first one, and now he can stack.
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  Speaker 9: I'm so glad I asked Missy Matthews about him because
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  Speaker 9: I loved her description of just the frenzy and the
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  Speaker 9: chaos and the jubilation on the sideline as he came
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  Speaker 9: to it.
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  Speaker 2: The Derek Harmon sack in the Sebastian Joseph Day recovery
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  Speaker 2: wins the game for the Steelers on Sunday, and it's
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  Speaker 2: number one on our list for top plays and moments.
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  Speaker 3: From Steelers-Bengals.
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  Speaker 2: Coming up on the show tomorrow, we will get right
• 44:47
  Speaker 2: Wednesday to kick things off. What did the Steelers have
• 44:50
  Speaker 2: to work on for Thursday night? And we'll get to
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  Speaker 2: our hits and misses as well as our power rankings
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  Speaker 2: for offense and defense tomorrow right here on the Steelers Report.
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  Speaker 2: Up next, it's Wes Shuler, Matt Williamson, SNR's Drive.
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  Speaker 3: I'm Troop. He's Backo.
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