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Steelers fall to defeat in season opener against the 49ers · The Irish Steelers Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Hip Hooks.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome into the Irish Seders podcast as we look back
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  Speaker 2: on Week one of the NFL season. Football is back.
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  Speaker 2: I'm unfortunately the Sitters are on one after losing to
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  Speaker 2: the San Francisco forty nine Ers by a scoreline of
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  Speaker 2: thirty to seven in Week one. Before we talk about
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  Speaker 2: the game, I'd like to welcome in my esteemed colleagues
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  Speaker 2: co hosts. First off, Jimmy English, Jimmy House for I
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  Speaker 2: get on.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, Michael, I've I've gotten over the disappointment a little bit.
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  Speaker 4: I've had time to digest and kind of, you know,
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  Speaker 4: think about what happened yesterday.
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  Speaker 3: Actual, Look, it could be worse. You know, we'll get
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  Speaker 3: to that. It's it's not the outcome.
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  Speaker 4: We were hoping for, but look, these things happen that
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  Speaker 4: There's plenty more football ahead.
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  Speaker 3: In the season.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, MAT's talking more than we Sack and Dave. Good
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  Speaker 2: to see again. Man, you got the Juju, the old
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  Speaker 2: Juju shirt in the background.
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  Speaker 1: As well, wrapping Juju in the background.
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  Speaker 5: I was always yeah, can we go back to pre
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  Speaker 5: nom I'm joking, I'm joking. Okay, let's just pump the
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  Speaker 5: brakes on us and yeah, look, not the idea to start.
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  Speaker 5: Maybe listening back to last week's podcast, I probably underestimated
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  Speaker 5: the San Francisco forty Niners a little bit, just a
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  Speaker 5: little bit, just to wave it. But look, it's what
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  Speaker 5: can you do. It's just one of those games you
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  Speaker 5: have to burn the tape and we're gonna get onto
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  Speaker 5: the Cleveland now. Obviously they're one of our rivals. So
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  Speaker 5: it's a chance to batch back and hopefully we can
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  Speaker 5: do that next week.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was Jimmy, I guess I'll start. We used
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  Speaker 2: to like, I mean, look, at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 2: we're a podcast with the team for the Irish market.
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  Speaker 1: I think there's Look, there will.
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  Speaker 2: Be times where there's positivity with wins. There's going to
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  Speaker 2: be times where teams lose. You don't go undefeated in
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  Speaker 2: this league, albeit very rarely. So look, this is going
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  Speaker 2: to happen, hopefully not too many times this season, but
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  Speaker 2: you know it'll happen a few times a season. And
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  Speaker 2: look for first off, I had the chance to watch
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  Speaker 2: it like a like a general NFL watch party last night,
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  Speaker 2: and there was a a lot of Steelers fans. There
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  Speaker 2: was chatting to a family from Pittsburgh actually, and this
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  Speaker 2: is Dublin and a lot of Niners fans there, so
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  Speaker 2: it was a good atmosphere for the neutral, I guess,
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  Speaker 2: but look, I felt like, and I'm just pinpointing the momentary,
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  Speaker 2: so you give me your analysis in the second, but
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  Speaker 2: I just felt like, when you go in at the
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  Speaker 2: half and you come back out, I feel if the
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  Speaker 2: defense had found a way to stop McCaffrey from scoring,
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  Speaker 2: albeit the score line or the score on the run
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  Speaker 2: that mccaff for me was top notched by his standards,
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  Speaker 2: if there was a way to stop him and almost
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  Speaker 2: stop the Rod a little bit, I think they could
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  Speaker 2: have turned the game. Like there was moments where you
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  Speaker 2: could see, of course it was frustrated moments, but there
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  Speaker 2: was even that moment was a fourth and four Kenny
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  Speaker 2: was close to the because the end zone, You're like, well, well,
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  Speaker 2: if this could happen, there's a chance. There was so
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  Speaker 2: many question marks, but look, and it just wasn't Pittsburgh's day,
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  Speaker 2: not at all, and they were just beating up by
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  Speaker 2: the night.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, yeah, absolutely, Michael.
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  Speaker 4: I think we carried over a lot of hype from
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  Speaker 4: the preseason, and I think it was made very evident
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  Speaker 4: last night that the preseason is just that it doesn't matter,
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  Speaker 4: can you can you can take that up, rip rip
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  Speaker 4: it up before the actual regular season gets started. And
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  Speaker 4: a couple of things went wrong last night. I think
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  Speaker 4: that's been that's been generous. First of all, we couldn't
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  Speaker 4: shoot down McCaffrey. I think he had one hundred and
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  Speaker 4: fifty four yards in the night, and we couldn't cover
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  Speaker 4: a Brandon Ayuk.
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  Speaker 3: I mean they had so many weapons. Okay, we shut down.
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  Speaker 4: George Kittle to a large extent, but then it's it's
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  Speaker 4: like the it's like a Medusa, you.
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  Speaker 3: Know, you could have one head and three more pop
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  Speaker 3: up in its place.
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  Speaker 4: So yeah, I think it was just a culmination of
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  Speaker 4: a lot of things going wrong with last night. We
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  Speaker 4: lost Cam Hayward early on to a growing injury, and
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  Speaker 4: I think that made a massive difference because we couldn't
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  Speaker 4: stop the run and we could really get a huge
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  Speaker 4: amount of pressure on Purdy either apart from obviously you
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  Speaker 4: know JJ Watt. So yeah, I mean definitely a couple
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  Speaker 4: of flashes. I mean Theandy Johnson had a couple of
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  Speaker 4: great catches, but then of course we lost him to
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  Speaker 4: a hamstring injury as well. So just when things were
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  Speaker 4: looking up a little bit. You know, it didn't really
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  Speaker 4: work out, but look, you take it. You take your
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  Speaker 4: lungs in week one, Week one, you carry your learnings
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  Speaker 4: into the week two and hopefully have a better outcome
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  Speaker 4: against the Browns and Monday night football.
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  Speaker 2: This is it in the deal, Like we're the off camera,
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  Speaker 2: we're going to try and do a little a little
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  Speaker 2: preview of that because it's nice for us in the
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  Speaker 2: sense of we have a few days extra to prepare
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  Speaker 2: for this game now and we'll hopefully have one coming
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  Speaker 2: towards a weekend, so so do watch out for that.
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  Speaker 2: We'll touch on a little bit at the end of
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  Speaker 2: this podcast episode. I think back to trying to get
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  Speaker 2: a few posities in this game. I think back to
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  Speaker 2: the touchdown play but the series where Pat far Arm
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  Speaker 2: we've got that touchdown, Like you've seen signs there towards
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  Speaker 2: the end of the first half, and like, look, the
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  Speaker 2: first half was the Niners by a long shot, but
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  Speaker 2: there were certain signs there. But certainly I guess what what,
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  Speaker 2: just what, just what Jimmy said, they have at least
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  Speaker 2: this week one, at least, you know, we know we
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  Speaker 2: now have time to go in and look at how
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  Speaker 2: this team can improve. And I guess that that's the
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  Speaker 2: posit that we can take out of it. But obviously
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  Speaker 2: there's many things that the dealers need to work on.
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  Speaker 2: What was your analysis of the game.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, just just like Jimmy said, it's it's very much
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  Speaker 5: the same. Obviously, Look it's it's one week. We've still
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  Speaker 5: have sixteen weeks to put it all together, which is great,
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  Speaker 5: but overall, you know, it was it was pretty disappointing.
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  Speaker 5: We have to be honest, you know, I've just sort
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  Speaker 5: of seen on social media everybody seems to be blaming
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  Speaker 5: Matt Canada. I just I don't actually blame the player
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  Speaker 5: call and as much as everybody else, I personally just
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  Speaker 5: thought the execution wasn't there. And Kenny Peckett, you know,
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  Speaker 5: it just with some of his throws just locked off,
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  Speaker 5: you know, but haastlely the touchdown drive which was put
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  Speaker 5: put together great, and he missed a wide open DATAE.
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  Speaker 5: Johnson for a touch down as well as that, you know,
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  Speaker 5: the first interception could have been avoided. But like you said,
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  Speaker 5: there was some flashes there. That touchdown drive I thought
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  Speaker 5: was great, and you know, a few wide out throws
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  Speaker 5: to to the Andy Johnson, which was obviously perfect and
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  Speaker 5: offensively just couldn't run the ball either.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously we had that large sprout with with nausea.
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  Speaker 5: But even coming back to what Jimmy said, I thought
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  Speaker 5: we actually did well on the keep matchups like a
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  Speaker 5: free remember last week where I mentioned George Kiffle, Deebo
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  Speaker 5: Samuel and even McCaffrey despite having a good game on
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  Speaker 5: the on the ground, I thought we dealt with him
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  Speaker 5: pretty well out of the past game. But it was
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  Speaker 5: just one of those where as of like the Medusa
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  Speaker 5: fact that the next guy up was Brandon aug and
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  Speaker 5: he is honestly like he probably under looked on that on.
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  Speaker 1: That offensive side of the ball.
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  Speaker 5: So it just looks like it was one of those
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  Speaker 5: weeks where no matter what we've done, that the foreign
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  Speaker 5: nine ers were always going to get the better of us.
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  Speaker 5: But like Jimmy said, TJ. Watt was a massive positive,
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  Speaker 5: you know, But at the same time it's a common
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  Speaker 5: theme as Steeler fans we've been seeing over the past
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  Speaker 5: couple of years other guys are just maybe not being
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  Speaker 5: able to get to that level. So another's positive as well,
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  Speaker 5: you know, the Bengals and the Chiefs. Everybody saying about
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  Speaker 5: the NBA Super Bowl favorites, there are also one one.
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  Speaker 5: So look, it's the start of a of a of a.
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  Speaker 5: It's a disappointing start the season, but still got sixteen
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  Speaker 5: weeks to work with, so let's just keep the the
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  Speaker 5: positive head going on and we've got the brows and
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  Speaker 5: actually hopefully you can bass back.
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  Speaker 1: With a win.
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  Speaker 4: I agree there, I agree, Dave. I don't blame Matt
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  Speaker 4: Canada at all. Kenny Keny Pickett didn't settle in all night.
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  Speaker 4: He was completely off rhythm.
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  Speaker 3: It didn't help that the so called picket fence it
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  Speaker 3: felt it.
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  Speaker 4: Felt, it felt a part a little bit couldn't establish
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  Speaker 4: the run, which put all the pressure on picket. And
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  Speaker 4: you know, the forty nine ers middle linebackers had an
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  Speaker 4: absolute field day, blowing up the run on several occasions,
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  Speaker 4: and it just it just felt.
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  Speaker 3: Like nothing would go right for the Steeters. Okay, there
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  Speaker 3: was a bright spot.
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  Speaker 4: On that on that touchdown drive to for mil although
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  Speaker 4: we all we almost we went for a fourth and
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  Speaker 4: four and almost true out of Bud and Sandy McFarland.
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  Speaker 3: That made me panic a little bit.
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  Speaker 4: But speaking of McFarland, he almost broke a couple of
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  Speaker 4: a couple of returns. So I mean, if we are
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  Speaker 4: if we are looking for looking for positives, I think
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  Speaker 4: that has to be a positive of this game. Was
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  Speaker 4: Parliament on on kickoff returns, you.
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  Speaker 2: Know, and then going on what sort of going for
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  Speaker 2: what you said there? But can he pick it? I mean,
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  Speaker 2: Jimmy and I guess for you day as a respond
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  Speaker 2: he was under pressure of forty six percent of his
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  Speaker 2: drop boxes today, just did didn't like sort of looked
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  Speaker 2: to be but all didn't look confident. But look, it's
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  Speaker 2: game one. You've got people on social media already knocking
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  Speaker 2: them dying. He'll come back next week.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, no, that's what I'm saying. We know the sort
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  Speaker 5: of character he is. He's not going to just sit
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  Speaker 5: there and you know, weeping his own sorrow. He's gonna
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  Speaker 5: bounce back. And I personally can't think of a batter
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  Speaker 5: game than Cleveland to prove that, you know, you know,
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  Speaker 5: just that. We'll obviously preview the Browns a bit later,
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  Speaker 5: but I sort of watched back on the Browns game.
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  Speaker 5: They didn't although of course they put a big number
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  Speaker 5: up on on Cincinnati, but I didn't, you know, that
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  Speaker 5: Shaun Watson was okay, I honestly think we could vince
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  Speaker 5: back next week. And and I think Kenny's going to
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  Speaker 5: prove all that as wrong if you just say as
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  Speaker 5: well quickly, we didn't even Mentionine broad Party, either Broad
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  Speaker 5: Party I thought was I'm telling you, I just I
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  Speaker 5: was also critical of them last week. I'll tell you what.
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  Speaker 1: It proved me wrong.
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  Speaker 5: I genuinely think they're they're their targets should always be
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  Speaker 5: obsolutely the super Bowl, but I they're nailed on for
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  Speaker 5: the NFC championship team.
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  Speaker 6: I think they're absolutely I think I think, you know,
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  Speaker 6: giving the performances of who we could consider their closest
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  Speaker 6: competitors in the NFC, I think that the forty nine
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  Speaker 6: ers are head and shoulders at the moment.
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  Speaker 4: Again, let's like you said, Dave, let's pump on the
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  Speaker 4: brakes a little bit here. It's only week one, and
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  Speaker 4: not to massively over react, but they like even even
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  Speaker 4: echoing what Mike Tomans and in his press conference after,
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  Speaker 4: you have to give those guys credit for what they did.
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  Speaker 4: And they came out and looked like a team in
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  Speaker 4: mid season late season four, I mean, they were almost
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  Speaker 4: flawless to be honest with.
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  Speaker 2: You, Rock party for a guy that went dying, and
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  Speaker 2: there was question marked upon his return and want sort
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  Speaker 2: of player what he'd be like when he returned. He
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  Speaker 2: wouldn't have thought he was a lost pick in this raft.
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  Speaker 2: His calmness is composure and it makes you feel like,
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  Speaker 2: well kind of could be like even next season going
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  Speaker 2: forward as well when he's more in the league. So
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  Speaker 2: let's let's hear first off from coach Tomlin after gets
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  Speaker 2: his defeats. Here's what he had to say in the
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  Speaker 2: press conference after, you.
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  Speaker 7: Know, disappointing day for us, not how we wanted to perform,
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  Speaker 7: And while at the same time, you know, you got
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  Speaker 7: to compliment those guys because it unfolded in the manner
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  Speaker 7: in which they desired for it too. And oftentimes in
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  Speaker 7: games like this, man, the teams that win are the
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  Speaker 7: guy the game unfolds more to their personality than the opponent.
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  Speaker 7: And no question, the game unfolded in the manner in
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  Speaker 7: which we talked about the style of play that they
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  Speaker 7: like to play. As far back as I talk to
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  Speaker 7: you guys on on Tuesday, I thought they did a
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  Speaker 7: really good job of staying on schedule on offense, and
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  Speaker 7: being in manageable third downs that allowed them to win
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  Speaker 7: enough of those third downs or to reduce you in
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  Speaker 7: those circumstances where you can't create splash on the other
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  Speaker 7: side of the ball. We didn't win enough possession downs
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  Speaker 7: to be competitive. You can't start games they go zero
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  Speaker 7: and five on third down and think that you're going
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  Speaker 7: to have the type of day that you desire. You
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  Speaker 7: got to win the way the downs. And it's just
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  Speaker 7: more than just a kind of identifying that component. Man,
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  Speaker 7: it was a failure on our part in all areas.
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  Speaker 7: You know, we got to coach better, we got to
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  Speaker 7: play better. We talked about a lot of the things
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  Speaker 7: and worked on a lot of the things that unfolded
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  Speaker 7: in the ways that we didn't want them to. And
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  Speaker 7: so we go back to the drawing board. We accept
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  Speaker 7: responsibility obviously for the outcome. We compliment those guys on
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  Speaker 7: the quality work that they did. We absorbed the negativity
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  Speaker 7: that comes with how we perform today, and we go
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  Speaker 7: back to work. We gotta prepare them better, they gotta
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  Speaker 7: play better. And that's just the reality of it. We
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  Speaker 7: got kicked in the teeth today in a lot of ways,
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  Speaker 7: got some injuries to speak of Cam he's got a
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  Speaker 7: growing leal, he's got a trisap or arm injury being evaluated, moves,
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  Speaker 7: he's got a chest injury. Chooks went down, Ladd probably
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  Speaker 7: in the concussion protocol. Don't have a lot of information there.
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  Speaker 7: And Deata went down with a hamstring. So we we'll
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  Speaker 7: assess those things, particularly as we plan and move into
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  Speaker 7: next week and and.
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  Speaker 1: Get ready to answer for this. Paulson open it up
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  Speaker 1: for questions.
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  Speaker 8: What was some of the inconsistencies or what was going
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  Speaker 8: on offensively?
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  Speaker 1: You couldn't get in and going.
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  Speaker 7: We just we just it's just that you know, you
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  Speaker 7: don't have enough snaps. Man, you're going you know you're
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  Speaker 7: going three and out. You can talk about run game,
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  Speaker 7: but the run game issues were not enough snaps because
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  Speaker 7: we were pre and out. We gotta win the weady downs.
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  Speaker 7: Everyone has to win the weighty downs. That's just that's
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  Speaker 7: the lifeblood of ball possession. And we didn't do a
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  Speaker 7: good enough job today on either side, but particularly how
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  Speaker 7: we started offensively.
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  Speaker 1: Not good.
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  Speaker 8: McCaffrey coming in and I guess he lived up to
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  Speaker 8: your worst fears, Raider.
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  Speaker 4: Your defense didn't do very good against him.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, when not when we're not possessing the ball, man,
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  Speaker 7: that that's gonna happen. We got to do a better
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  Speaker 7: job on those weighty downs to minimize our exposure to him.
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  Speaker 7: And we got to do a better job on both
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  Speaker 7: sides of the ball on those weighty downs to limit
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  Speaker 7: our exposure to him. We gotta get off on defense,
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  Speaker 7: We gotta convert on offense.
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  Speaker 2: Man.
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  Speaker 7: Just look at the time of possession. I think last
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  Speaker 7: time I looked up, it was thirty six or something
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  Speaker 7: to twenty two something. The day is going to unfold
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  Speaker 7: the way you desire it when this lops at it
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  Speaker 7: like that and it boils down the possession down play.
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  Speaker 2: And that was Colon after the defeat at Orchestra Stadium
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  Speaker 2: ands Onday, we're gonna hear from Camy Pickett before we
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  Speaker 2: look at a different element of this game.
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  Speaker 1: Kenny, what were they do want to do?
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  Speaker 3: It was community prout, particularly in the first set.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, we just did an execute. Honestly, I think it
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  Speaker 9: was more us than than them. I felt comfortable with what
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  Speaker 9: I was.
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  Speaker 1: Saying, what they were doing. We just in the next
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  Speaker 1: cue like we needed to. Did you feel like your
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  Speaker 1: timing was off a little bit?
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  Speaker 9: No, I wouldn't say, wouldn't say it was a timing thing,
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  Speaker 9: just you know, need to be better.
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  Speaker 3: It's an execution.
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  Speaker 4: You guys were able to score so often and so
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  Speaker 4: freely in the preseason.
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  Speaker 3: Just what do you attribute to that lack of executions?
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  Speaker 9: I think San France starting defense a little bit better
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  Speaker 9: than you know, some teams in the preseason we played.
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  Speaker 9: They're a good team, but you know we at the
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  Speaker 9: end of the day, we had the next que anywhere
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  Speaker 9: near at the level that we need to that we
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  Speaker 9: want to.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, I have to get a lot better
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  Speaker 1: in the first half.
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  Speaker 5: What do you think change for that drive and why
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  Speaker 5: do you think you were able to sustain that later
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  Speaker 5: on in the second happen?
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  Speaker 9: Well, it's a two minute drill, so it's a little
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  Speaker 9: bit different than you know, normal Nord down football. Good
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  Speaker 9: to go down there and get points, but you know,
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  Speaker 9: we needed to have more balance and felt like just
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  Speaker 9: we were kind of one sided today, couldn't get anything
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  Speaker 9: going really on the ground. I wish we had more balance,
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  Speaker 9: but you know, we need to improve. You know, in
• 15:17
  Speaker 9: a lot of areas, the applied kind of change how
• 15:20
  Speaker 9: you were looking at things or stop.
• 15:22
  Speaker 5: You from maybe do it, we'll executing more of your
• 15:23
  Speaker 5: progressions that you were looking at today.
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: I think we held up great.
• 15:27
  Speaker 9: Obviously they're gonna get some pass rush on me here
• 15:29
  Speaker 9: and there, but I thought, you know, the guys pretended
• 15:32
  Speaker 9: really well and they're asked to do it a lot,
• 15:33
  Speaker 9: so you need to help them out.
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: Get the ball out fast.
• 15:36
  Speaker 9: Guys need to get over fast, and you know, got
• 15:38
  Speaker 9: to improve anyway.
• 15:40
  Speaker 8: You didn't get a first down for like ever and
• 15:41
  Speaker 8: you're falling behind slowly. How hard is it to play
• 15:44
  Speaker 8: from behind against that defense?
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so you know we wanted to get out fast.
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: We didn't do that.
• 15:49
  Speaker 9: Obviously, playing behind against a really good team, you're putting
• 15:51
  Speaker 9: yourself in a hole that we can't do.
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: So moving forward, we can't you know, allow that to happen.
• 15:55
  Speaker 8: Any of the pastor fourth douth past to firements in
• 15:58
  Speaker 8: the end zone in the second half? Was that did
• 16:01
  Speaker 8: you have to rush that or was there a breakdown
• 16:03
  Speaker 8: somewhere else that it was you.
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: Know, pat solid differently than I saw it.
• 16:08
  Speaker 9: So it's just you know, us communicating and being able
• 16:10
  Speaker 9: to you know connect on the more.
• 16:12
  Speaker 4: Does that when you're trailing and you know you had
• 16:15
  Speaker 4: talked a lot about coverage kind of dictates where you go,
• 16:17
  Speaker 4: but it sometimes you need to make a play down
• 16:20
  Speaker 4: the field.
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: Do you feel like that was Narry.
• 16:22
  Speaker 9: Where you Yeah, when you get down behind like that
• 16:23
  Speaker 9: puts you in situations where you're, you know, forcing things
• 16:26
  Speaker 9: that you shouldn't be forcing, or you're trying to make
• 16:27
  Speaker 9: a play you know, down to get us back. You know,
• 16:30
  Speaker 9: that's why the key is to stay, you know, in
• 16:32
  Speaker 9: the game and not get down with that where you're
• 16:34
  Speaker 9: trying to run and gun and score.
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: Coming off the preseason and everything was disappointing one hundred percent,
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: you know, no doubt about. It has to be a
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: lot better.
• 16:41
  Speaker 9: It needs to be a lot better moving forward.
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: So you've heard from coach Tomlin, I'm canny.
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: Detective, folks.
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: After this, Theaters lose thirty to seven in the first
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: game of the season. Next up Brian's Monday Night Football,
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: and like, I think people will be glad to hear
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: that the Steelers fans and Dublin last night outnumbered the
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: Browns fans and it was actually a great fun as
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: well as sort of the banter there. So started thinking
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: forward to that is it's it's a great game boys
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: and we will preview it. I feel like we need
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: the first off, Jimmy, I'll start with you, sir. For
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: people in Ireland and like I know, we've got a
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: lot of people as well listening to this in the
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: UK and Europe. And a massive thanks to everybody listening
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: and partaking. Please do use the hashtag Steeters Ireland on x,
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: Instagram and tech talk if you want to get in
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: touch with US Army and broadcast last night in Ireland
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: and the UK. Sky Sports were where they were in
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: Pittsburgh and friend of podcast Bob Schackter was interviewing our
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: Rooney and it was look, if you're if you're a fan,
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: you would have seen this. But Jimmy, it was pretty
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: cool man. Like just I feel like it was a
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: real push and fair play to the Staeters and and
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: fair play to the sky Sports for going into detail
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: a lot of but it shows you the the level
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: of not interest, but the level of commitment that this
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: team has to this market. And for me, it head
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: home to me watching it, Like at the place we
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: were in, everyone sat in silence watching it. It was
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: it was pretty cool.
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely great to see skuy Sports there, you know,
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: in Pittsburgh, in the run up to the game, maybe
• 18:11
  Speaker 4: realize how badly I need to get to it to
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: a Steelers home game.
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: I feel slightly ashamed as a such a die hard
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: fan that I am that I have never set forward
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: in Pittsburgh, let alone Acroturre Stadium.
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: So that's definitely on the short term boocket list for
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: either this season or next season.
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: But it was fantastic to see Phoebe speaking to Aruni.
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: And talking about the international markets program with and the investment,
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: and even they touched on the Irelands Fund and how
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: this whole, this whole, this whole thing came to life,
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: and he wasn't shying away from from committing to a
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: game on home soil here. You know, he wouldn't, he
• 18:49
  Speaker 4: wouldn't be nailed down on details, but it's it's definitely
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: gonna happen. But that was great to see and great
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: to hear from him, but also to hear the atmosphere
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: in the stadium pregame with Neil and th You mean,
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: they could barely hear themselves, So that just showed showed
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: you the atmosphere in the stadium, and the whole thing
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: was it was fantastic, really fantastic presentation by Sky Sports,
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: and uh really really enjoyed the coverage of the game.
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: And in terms of what Rooney said Phoebe on Sky
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: Sports yesterday on the question of there being a game,
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: whether it's a preseason game or a regular season game,
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: he said, we'll get there and it's going to be
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: exciting when we get there. And when I heard that,
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: I was like, oh my lord, I give I'll give
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: a shout out to Tanner Tanner Cordon and is Mickey
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: Breally Mickey's from Newry who went all the way to
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: the game? Is seen that yesterday? That was I saw that.
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: Oh no, it's Antonio Holmes Junior as well. And seeing
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: Max Stark's talk about, you know, saying it's not far
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: it's not far fetched to think you can get to
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: Ireland and let's I mean, do you have not not
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: to jump to a different subject, feel feel free to
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: reply to that as well. But the funny thing is
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: one of the things that we were going to talk
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: about s was the fact that we have a watch
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: party in Croker in a few months time in November nineteenth,
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: that the HQ against the Browns that return game after
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: week two and we don't even need to talk about
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: it too much because it's sold out and look, we'll
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: not say the amount of people that are going to it,
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: but it's in the it's in the hundreds, and it's
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: pretty unprecedented, pretty cool times to be a Sailors fan. Dave,
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: you must be looking back for five years ago and
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: pencing yourself here at the minute.
• 20:23
  Speaker 5: Yeah, Like even just as Jimmy said about, you know,
• 20:26
  Speaker 5: the package Sky Sports put Togeather, it give me proper
• 20:30
  Speaker 5: goosebumps just even thinking about it again. And you know
• 20:33
  Speaker 5: what it's it's the pride as well. I was just
• 20:35
  Speaker 5: sitting back thinking what a great thing to be a
• 20:38
  Speaker 5: part of. You know, we're here at the very start
• 20:39
  Speaker 5: of it, and you know it was only a couple
• 20:41
  Speaker 5: of months agoo that you know it was announced. Obviously
• 20:43
  Speaker 5: they get the global marketing rights for Ireland and here
• 20:46
  Speaker 5: we are already we're talking about a game. Art Rinni
• 20:48
  Speaker 5: himself mentioned it so and the watch party as well,
• 20:52
  Speaker 5: you know, sold out in less than twenty four hours.
• 20:54
  Speaker 5: It just shows, you know, the massive demand for Stalor
• 20:56
  Speaker 5: football in Ireland. But yeah, it's just even speaking about
• 21:01
  Speaker 5: the parade and stuff we actually have on us, like
• 21:03
  Speaker 5: it's to be a part of this journey. It's just
• 21:05
  Speaker 5: it's just incredible. And as just as Jimmy said, you know,
• 21:09
  Speaker 5: I've never been to a crossure either. I've never even
• 21:11
  Speaker 5: been to America. So who knows what will happen in
• 21:13
  Speaker 5: the future. You know, I can get the next flight
• 21:15
  Speaker 5: out west, see what.
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: Happens live podcast. I think we're going to have to
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: have a live podcast off of that Brian's game.
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: One hundred percent.
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: Like I think, it's just a fantastic opportunity to take.
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: I mean, all the heart, all the great work that
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: you know we've been doing here in the podcast the
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: Steeers have been doing to promote and themselves and and
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: grow the band base here and and you know, to
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: get some of the legends that are going to be
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: at the at the watch party as well, and to
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: hear their perspective and the growth of the fandom here
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: is the growth of the Steelers nation and Ireland will
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: be fantastic. And of course to hear from our fans
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: you know where we we we definitely have some big,
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: big Steelers fans in Ireland and that will be in
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: attendance and it'd be great to hear from them as
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: well on the night.
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: Absolutely, I'm looking forward to that and I think, yeah,
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: let's see if we can get away thirty forty minutes shot.
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: Even if it's just us after the game, I'll happily
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: stay behind and get it. I think it'll be a
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: great crack. I guess we'll get a few video as
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: well in November nineteenth. We are not aware of any
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: other tickets being available, but do check out social channels
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: for that happening. And look, let's let's come back later
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: in the week and look at the Browns properly and
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: we'll get a guess. I think it's too early to
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: bring will feedback, but we'll get somebody on, maybe a
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: player who knows any initial thoughts. I guess, Jimmy, I'll
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: start off with you first off, me like that Brown's
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: Bengals game was strange on Week one, Joe Burrow didn't
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: look into it at all. The touchdown run that de
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: Seaun Watson's where he was under a bit of pressure,
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: it was impressive enough. He didn't he didn't have a
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: great game, though. I saided that like you're you're sort
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: of waiting to see that jump from when he came
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: back to now, you know, maybe you'll see that next
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: week and the Seers will have to react to that.
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: But certainly can't think of a better opportunity for Pittsburgh
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: than to go in to Cleveland next week and and
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: honestly just put a beat down and when the game
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: gets one on one and go from there.
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: It's definitely an opportunity for redemption.
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: Mick and I think the Steelers are going to have
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: to take a massive step if they want to have
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: any hope of being competitive in that ASC North. There's
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: a couple of things that stand out to me has
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: been important. Obviously, you're facing another one of the one
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: of the other best pass rushers in the league in
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: Miles Garrett. So I think the online are going to
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: have their work cut out with them again, and maybe
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: not to the same extent as they have with Joey Boza. Well,
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: look what happened there is they double team Bose a
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: lot of the game and not allowed the likes of
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: Fred Warner and the other middle linebackers to come out
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: the middle and stop the run. So that's what you
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: have to look out for. And of course looking at
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: Sean Watson as well, it's a very mobile quarnerback perhaps
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: more than brock Purty. So you have to you have
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: to you have to allow from that as well, and
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: it's gonna be interesting. I mean, I think it's it's
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: a it's a it's a good opportunity for the serious
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: to bounds back, to make some steps. Hopefully Kenny set
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: us in earlier on connects with his receivers. Hopefully he
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: gets George Pickens more involved in the game. I think
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: George Pickens had two catches and two catches last night,
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: and of course he almost he almost had a passive
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: touchdown that was there was out of bounds.
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: Like got very excited when I saw that. I realized
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: his speaker miles at a band. So look, I think overall,
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: we just need a bigger performance.
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: I go need to fix as many of the areas
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: that you know that that need to be fixed from
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: last night.
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: I think as well, Dave, get a running game going.
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: You know you've got to see Nauge get over forty
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: yards Russian. I think to like, come on, gentlemen, like,
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: let's let's get that going. Let's set him loose that.
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: Let's not just set nas us but set RB two,
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: RB three loose looking at this dive not to get
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: to this point already when you know we're thirty or
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: forty minutes into a podcast here in a week one
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: of the season. But the implicye this game, you're going
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: into a divisional rival, Dave, and you could go one
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: on one.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: You could go on too.
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: It's a huge game. So we'rely in the season now
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: to this first game.
• 25:09
  Speaker 5: It's an absolutely massive game. And although we're only in
• 25:12
  Speaker 5: the second week, as you said, it's a divisional game.
• 25:14
  Speaker 5: So the last thing we want to be is own
• 25:16
  Speaker 5: to and have the branch go to know and obviously
• 25:19
  Speaker 5: the Ravens are I'm not sure who they're.
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: Playing, but.
• 25:23
  Speaker 5: It's it's a I wouldn't want to say it's a
• 25:24
  Speaker 5: must win game because at the end of the day,
• 25:26
  Speaker 5: you know, we started pretty sluggously last year and we
• 25:29
  Speaker 5: still came back to be one on game off the playoffs.
• 25:32
  Speaker 5: And as Jimmy mentioned there about Ma's Yard, obviously massive player.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: We're going to have to you know, be you know,
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: set our eyes and on early.
• 25:39
  Speaker 5: But on the on the other side of the ball,
• 25:40
  Speaker 5: we have we have Nick Chubb.
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: Uh.
• 25:43
  Speaker 5: You know, it doesn't get any easier, I think, you know,
• 25:45
  Speaker 5: Obviously McCaffrey is as good as it comes with Nick
• 25:48
  Speaker 5: Chubb's another absolute monster, you know as a running back.
• 25:50
  Speaker 5: So that's another person we're going to have to hang
• 25:52
  Speaker 5: our hat on. And so let's just let's just see
• 25:55
  Speaker 5: how it goes. You know, we're we're gonna have to
• 25:58
  Speaker 5: set our sights on the on the breath is and
• 26:00
  Speaker 5: not said. You know, they're a team that we we
• 26:01
  Speaker 5: know very well. We have a good record against them.
• 26:04
  Speaker 5: But I am so confident that we can bounce back.
• 26:05
  Speaker 5: You know, it's we shut enough in the second or
• 26:08
  Speaker 5: at least in the bits in the second quarter of
• 26:09
  Speaker 5: the show that we have a bit of heart going better.
• 26:11
  Speaker 5: So let's see what happens and hopefully we'll get back
• 26:14
  Speaker 5: to tive foundered.
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: Yes sir, Yes, sir.
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: We'll be back later on in the week ahead of
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: the second week of the season going on that Ravens
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: Bengals game in the AFC NORP week as well. So
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: it's it's the big weekend in the vision. Look, I
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: think any football family look forward to any game in
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: the league, but two big games there obviously for us,
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: big game Monday night football. We will regroup, we will
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: come back for a week two and we'll be back
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: towards the weekend with a nice little bonus episode where
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: we look ahead to the game. So to go forward
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: to it, Lads, you have calmed me down a wee
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: bit broughbably back into this and I definitely appreciate it.
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: But you know what, like, regardless of the result, great
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: to see football back yesterday, and yes, and we'll go
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: from there and we'll we'll just go sixteen and one
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: that said, you know, until then, here we go. Lots
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: almost eager and we can folks banks, everybody that has
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