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53 Man Roster Recap · Tarps Off Radio

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Hey, Pittsburgh, it's Pat from Tarpsoft Radio. Viewer discretion is advised,
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  Speaker 1: and thanks for tuning in.
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  Speaker 2: Here we go.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes we're drunk.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes we're stoned.
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  Speaker 3: We're your Pittsburgh Steelers.
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  Speaker 4: Home.
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  Speaker 3: It is time to take your tarps off, Pittsburgh. It's
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  Speaker 3: your formerly Tuesday, now Wednesday morning, 8 a.m. spot on
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  Speaker 3: Tarps Off Radio. I am your host, McGingey. Beside me
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  Speaker 3: is your co-host, Pat, intern producer, Dubree. Still behind the
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  Speaker 3: boards for us. Haven't been cut yet. But cuts have
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  Speaker 3: been made. Dreams have come true. Questions still need answered.
• 1:02
  Speaker 3: Majority of today's show will be centered around the 53-man roster.
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  Speaker 3: But first, Pat, tell me how you're doing. What you're drinking?
• 1:09
  Speaker 1: I Costanza'd the hot dog man, McGingy. That's not a metaphor.
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  Speaker 2: What, did you tell him no hot dogs for you?
• 1:17
  Speaker 2: What are you talking about here?
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  Speaker 4: I went to get a hot dog as part of
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  Speaker 4: a nice dinner after work today.
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  Speaker 1: You know, the hot dog guy.
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  Speaker 4: Natural casings, shout out natural casings up in Mount Washington.
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  Speaker 4: And I had some cash on me from the weekend,
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  Speaker 4: you know, going to some cash only bars. And I
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  Speaker 4: figured I'll throw some cash away, make it a free dinner,
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  Speaker 4: you know. And I reached into my wallet. The hot
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  Speaker 4: dog was $ 4. It was like $ 4. 89 or something with tax.
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  Speaker 4: And I gave him a 10. Thought I gave him
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  Speaker 4: a 5. So I gave him a 10. I said, oh,
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  Speaker 4: you keep it. Cause I didn't want to deal with
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  Speaker 4: the change, you know? And then I walk out to
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  Speaker 4: my car. I'm like, fuck dude, I gave him a 10.
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  Speaker 2: So I turned around, I walked back in.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, wait, did I give you a 10?
• 2:02
  Speaker 1: He said, yeah. I said, give me $ 4 back.
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  Speaker 2: No, you did it. That's crazy, dude. That's not even
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  Speaker 2: a Constanza.
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  Speaker 5: That's a Constanza.
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  Speaker 2: You ever seen that?
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  Speaker 4: He pays the bill and then he, Reaches back and
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  Speaker 4: grabs money from the tip.
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  Speaker 2: I don't remember that episode.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not paying $ 10 for a hot dog, McG.
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  Speaker 2: Sounds like you already did. Sounds like you did pay.
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  Speaker 5: $ 10 for a hot dog.
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  Speaker 1: That's a loser's mentality.
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  Speaker 2: And then you, I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: You got to think you grew rich.
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  Speaker 3: It's kind of a loser to walk back in and
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  Speaker 3: take $ 5 off the small business owner.
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  Speaker 1: You got to think you grew rich, McG.
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  Speaker 2: No, you got to think about Brandon. This year is
• 2:43
  Speaker 2: about Brandon.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, man.
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  Speaker 2: I love Brandon.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go, Brandon.
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  Speaker 2: Listen to this, Pat. You ready?
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  Speaker 5: All right. What do you got?
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  Speaker 1: A cold iron?
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  Speaker 2: Cold iron, baby. Cold iron.
• 2:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's bourbon night at Pat's house. You know, Tuesdays.
• 3:00
  Speaker 2: It seems like you've had a lot of bourbon nights.
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  Speaker 5: Lately, Pat.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, just getting the ass kicked at the
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  Speaker 4: old ass kicking factory nine to five.
• 3:09
  Speaker 1: You know how it goes. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Steelers put in a nice shift at the ass-kicking factory
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  Speaker 3: this week. Took a tough loss to the Bills, 28-27.
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  Speaker 3: Touchdown scored by Eli Heidenreich on a nine-yard run.
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  Speaker 6: Who?
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  Speaker 3: Eli Heidenreich on a nine-yard touchdown run. 13-yard touchdown from
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  Speaker 3: Jeremy Bernard. What else was there? 45-yard punt return touchdown
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  Speaker 3: by Swiffer Wetchap. Then a five-yard touchdown reception by Lake McCree.
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  Speaker 3: Bill's scores were Frank Gore Jr., Skyler Bell, and the
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  Speaker 3: game winner from Elan Wheeler with a two-point conversion there.
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  Speaker 2: They looked okay, Pat.
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  Speaker 3: I think my one takeaway from this game is that
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  Speaker 3: we have found our return man of the future.
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  Speaker 2: You were down him.
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  Speaker 3: You were down him all preseason, Pat.
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  Speaker 2: And he put on display exactly why we drafted him.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he did exactly what he needed to do and.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, shit, if he can do that once every
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  Speaker 4: three games, then he'll have no problem being worth that
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  Speaker 4: fourth-round pick we spent on him.
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  Speaker 2: Once every three games, Pat?
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  Speaker 3: Do you want him to have five return touchdowns this year?
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  Speaker 4: No, I'm saying three preseason games, and he'd return one
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  Speaker 4: for a touchdown.
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  Speaker 1: I'm making a joke. I'm saying if he could stretch
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  Speaker 1: this average out, I'd be pretty happy.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think he's going to end up with two
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  Speaker 3: or three return touchdowns in the regular season this year.
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  Speaker 5: Sure.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that would be great. And he's been kind of
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  Speaker 1: boom or bust, and we could.
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  Speaker 4: See this change, especially with better play from the special
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  Speaker 4: teams around him, right?
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  Speaker 2: They've been terrible.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, not the best blocking.
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  Speaker 4: So, you know, hopefully round out his average a little bit,
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  Speaker 4: because you take out that one, and that's a big play, obviously,
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  Speaker 4: you know, but you take out that touchdown return, and
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  Speaker 4: he's been pretty poor, you know, average return-wise, but If
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  Speaker 4: he can bring three, four punts to the house, that's okay.
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  Speaker 1: It's just something to make note of.
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  Speaker 2: That's okay, Pat. That's great. It's more than okay.
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  Speaker 1: No, I'm saying it's okay.
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  Speaker 4: Him being one of the lower average yards per return
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  Speaker 4: would be okay if he could bring three or four
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  Speaker 4: punts to the house.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm still not liking what I'm seeing out of
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  Speaker 3: our special teams unit as a whole. Obviously, McCarthy put
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  Speaker 3: an emphasis on that when dealing with a 53-man roster,
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  Speaker 3: and we'll talk about that. for the majority of the
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  Speaker 3: episode today once we get through this Bills game. But
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  Speaker 3: it seems like the Bills had a pretty bad punt
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  Speaker 3: unit all day. First two touchdowns, the one scored by Jeremy,
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  Speaker 3: the next one scored by Lake McCree, both thrown from
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  Speaker 3: Will Howard.
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  Speaker 2: He had, what, maybe 30, 40-yard drives?
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  Speaker 1: I was just going to say.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, he finished total 9 for 15 with an interception,
• 6:03
  Speaker 4: two touchdowns, and– 69 yards.
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  Speaker 1: But he got bailed out.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, the box score, you know, two touchdowns, 9
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  Speaker 4: for 15. Box score looks a lot better given the
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  Speaker 4: starting field position. That first drive he went on was
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  Speaker 4: pretty brutal. And then, you know, the two muffed or
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  Speaker 4: two botched punts there, good field position.
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  Speaker 1: So really kind of bailed him out.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, even the punt return touchdown by Swiffer was only
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  Speaker 3: 45 yards.
• 6:31
  Speaker 4: Yep.
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  Speaker 1: Mm-hmm. Yes, it was.
• 6:33
  Speaker 3: Yep. Yeah, it was tough showing from the Bills team.
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  Speaker 3: Other than that, I thought the Bills actually looked pretty good.
• 6:39
  Speaker 1: Frank Gore Jr.
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  Speaker 5: Looked solid.
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  Speaker 4: Skyler Bell, it was a big, that return was big
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  Speaker 4: for Weejan too, just on like the kind of, you know,
• 6:50
  Speaker 4: mirror to mirror, the comparison that I think a lot
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  Speaker 4: of Steelers fans were kind of giving him to Skyler Bell.
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  Speaker 4: Because Skyler Bell picked, what, four picks after Weejan, kind
• 7:00
  Speaker 4: of staring the Steelers right in the eyes as, Someone
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  Speaker 4: who can return kicks, not the hopefully elite level like
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  Speaker 4: we expect to see out of Weegean, but someone who
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  Speaker 4: is just a better receiver. So I think, I mean,
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  Speaker 4: I know there are a lot of folks, myself included
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  Speaker 4: at the time, who would have rather had Skyler Bell.
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  Speaker 4: So to see Weegean return that to the house after
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  Speaker 4: Bell had a touchdown and nearly 50 yards receiving was great.
• 7:27
  Speaker 4: It felt good to see Weegean do that.
• 7:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah, a couple of negative things about the game, Pat. Obviously,
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  Speaker 3: Drew Allard not being able to lead the team to
• 7:38
  Speaker 3: a win at the end. I thought that was a negative.
• 7:41
  Speaker 4: Well, let's hang on that for a second. I didn't
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  Speaker 4: put that really on Drew Allard at all. There were
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  Speaker 4: a couple of drops there.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, he had two bad passes, and I think
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  Speaker 3: there were two drops on the five plays he ran
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  Speaker 3: on that fourth quarter drive.
• 8:00
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, they weren't great passes.
• 8:02
  Speaker 2: To no one. And absolutely.
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  Speaker 3: And let's be honest, the, you know, the narrative around
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  Speaker 3: drew Aller is that he's not going to win those games.
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  Speaker 2: I've never seen him win a game.
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  Speaker 4: Never.
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  Speaker 1: I don't disagree.
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  Speaker 2: He didn't win one game at Penn state.
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  Speaker 4: I don't disagree at all. And, you know, we can
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  Speaker 4: make excuses. They were not perfect balls. Excuse me. I
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  Speaker 4: think the first two, that fourth down throw was horrible.
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  Speaker 4: I think the first two could have been caught. At
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  Speaker 4: the end of the day, though, you're right. Even our
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  Speaker 4: boy Kenny Pickett, he would have won that game, no
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  Speaker 4: doubt about it.
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  Speaker 3: Kenny Pickett's first game at Heinz Field as a Pittsburgh Steeler,
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  Speaker 3: he led a fourth-quarter, two-minute drive comeback against the Seattle Seahawks.
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  Speaker 4: And he probably wasn't doing much better at that point
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  Speaker 4: in the game yardage-wise.
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  Speaker 1: Than Drew Aller was. I remember he was.
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  Speaker 2: Drew Aller finishing nine for 18 as well.
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  Speaker 3: I think this was the first week where I saw
• 9:07
  Speaker 3: Drew Aller for how Penn State fans saw Drew Aller.
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  Speaker 3: And I don't want to make a mountain out of
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  Speaker 3: a molehill in preseason, but he was also staring down
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  Speaker 3: his first read quite a lot, not going through his progressions,
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  Speaker 3: which is something that I thought Will Howard's done a
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  Speaker 3: good job of for three games now.
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  Speaker 2: Even if Will Howard's still making mistakes, Pat. But I
• 9:31
  Speaker 2: still think that Drew Aller has a long way to go,
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  Speaker 2: and it's all mental.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and consistency is the big word for Drew Aller.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, he's got the talent. It's just, you know,
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  Speaker 4: and I was trying to allude to this after watching
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  Speaker 4: him in camp, and I think his first preseason game
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  Speaker 4: in particular gave folks a lot of the wrong ideas
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  Speaker 4: But you're going to see drives that, until he really
• 10:00
  Speaker 4: gets confident and gets consistency down, you're going to see
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  Speaker 4: drive-killing layup throws that are misses from Drew Aller. You're
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  Speaker 4: going to see that 5-10 yard ball from Drew Aller,
• 10:13
  Speaker 4: third down, you need to pick a few up, just
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  Speaker 4: sails it. You know, we're second and 10. You're throwing
• 10:18
  Speaker 4: the ball. He sails it. Now you're in third and long.
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  Speaker 4: So it's those little plays and those inconsistencies that are
• 10:24
  Speaker 4: going to add up for him.
• 10:26
  Speaker 2: And good news, Pat. We don't have to watch him
• 10:28
  Speaker 2: play football for another calendar year.
• 10:30
  Speaker 1: Well, hopefully. Knock on wood.
• 10:31
  Speaker 2: Knock on wood. Yeah.
• 10:32
  Speaker 3: I mean, if we're seeing our fourth string quarterback take
• 10:35
  Speaker 3: any snaps this year, if we're seeing, man, let's just,
• 10:38
  Speaker 3: I mean, if we're seeing Will Howard, Mason Rudolph, or
• 10:40
  Speaker 3: Drew Aller take snaps this year, we're done.
• 10:44
  Speaker 1: This is more of a tangent, a hypothetical. But let's
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  Speaker 1: say two, three weeks into the season.
• 10:50
  Speaker 4: God forbid, our first two quarterbacks go down and Will
• 10:55
  Speaker 4: Howard is healthy. He might go to IR with the concussion.
• 10:58
  Speaker 4: We still don't know. But do you think it would
• 11:00
  Speaker 4: automatically be Will Howard or Drew Aller? Is Drew Aller
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  Speaker 4: really the fourth quarterback of the depth chart, like truly
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  Speaker 4: right now?
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  Speaker 2: That's a great question. And I don't have the answer.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, realistically, who knows?
• 11:11
  Speaker 3: I think if you were to ask me, I probably
• 11:15
  Speaker 3: give Will Howard a shot first just because of what
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  Speaker 3: he showed from a mental side of the game. I
• 11:21
  Speaker 3: still think Drew Aller has a lot to learn on
• 11:23
  Speaker 3: the mental aspect of the position.
• 11:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure.
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  Speaker 3: Because I liked how Howard moved through his reads. I
• 11:30
  Speaker 3: liked how he looked in a pocket. This is an
• 11:33
  Speaker 3: interception this week as well. Three interceptions in the preseason.
• 11:37
  Speaker 3: That might have been the third one that was on
• 11:39
  Speaker 3: the wide receivers. We won't know for sure. We won't
• 11:42
  Speaker 3: know for sure. And he threw it into triple coverage.
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  Speaker 3: So even if the receiver ran the right route, you know,
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  Speaker 3: it's probably still not a good decision. But you could
• 11:52
  Speaker 3: be looking at three interceptions and all three of.
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  Speaker 2: Them be blamed on the wide receiver.
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  Speaker 1: Who do you think had a better preseason, Drew Aller
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  Speaker 1: or Will Howard?
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  Speaker 2: Probably Drew Aller.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think it's as close.
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  Speaker 3: If you had to ask me, like, did they have
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  Speaker 3: good preseasons? I would probably say no. I don't think
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  Speaker 3: either of them really, after watching all three games and
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  Speaker 3: putting all three games on tape, they looked really good
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  Speaker 3: in game one against Green Bay. All three of our
• 12:27
  Speaker 3: quarterbacks that played that game looked really good. Now, after
• 12:31
  Speaker 3: looking at their full body of work, I don't know.
• 12:33
  Speaker 3: I don't think Will Howard and Drew Aller had great preseasons.
• 12:39
  Speaker 2: Sure.
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  Speaker 1: I think Drew Aller was just about what I expected, right?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, he moved to– I'll tell you what I
• 12:47
  Speaker 4: was most impressed with Will Howard about is how he
• 12:49
  Speaker 4: moved around the pocket, right?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he was stepping up. He was moving out.
• 12:53
  Speaker 1: He knew when to get out of the pocket.
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  Speaker 4: There were times Will Howard looked a little lost in
• 12:58
  Speaker 4: the pocket.
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  Speaker 2: Who are you talking about here? You said Will Howard
• 13:02
  Speaker 2: a few times.
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying, sorry, this might happen a lot.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. Drew Allard looked great in the pocket. He was
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  Speaker 4: moving around well. He was stepping up when he had to.
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  Speaker 4: He would get out of the pocket, scramble, make throws.
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  Speaker 4: I didn't think Will Howard had command of the pocket
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  Speaker 4: as well as Drew Allard.
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  Speaker 3: I thought the opposite. I thought Will Howard stayed in there,
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  Speaker 3: took some shots. I thought he looked more confident. I
• 13:27
  Speaker 3: thought he went through his progressions a little bit better
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  Speaker 3: and actually was hitting the third and fourth read on
• 13:32
  Speaker 3: his progressions. Drew Allard was– The more I watched Drew Aller,
• 13:36
  Speaker 3: it seemed like he was staring down the first target.
• 13:39
  Speaker 2: And if it worked, it worked. If not, he was screwed.
• 13:42
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, there were certainly some plays I thought
• 13:44
  Speaker 4: Will Howard, too, could have used his eyes a little better, right?
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  Speaker 4: And that's probably really one of the biggest things that
• 13:52
  Speaker 4: comes with NFL experience, right, is moving players off. I mean,
• 13:56
  Speaker 4: there was that interception he threw to Roman Wilson, the
• 14:00
  Speaker 4: first one of week two.
• 14:02
  Speaker 1: When Roman Wilson was breaking towards the end zone.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, my first comment on that was, well, apart
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  Speaker 4: from Roman Wilson, you know, clearly not finishing the route correctly.
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  Speaker 1: Will Howard lobs it over top. That's a touchdown.
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  Speaker 4: He throws it to the back of the end zone.
• 14:17
  Speaker 4: That's likely a touchdown. But also he didn't really use
• 14:20
  Speaker 4: his eyes. I mean, I thought he was staring Roman
• 14:22
  Speaker 4: Wilson down. I thought it was pretty obvious where he's going.
• 14:25
  Speaker 4: You know, you move your eyes around and all of
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  Speaker 4: a sudden Roman Wilson is is a little more open.
• 14:30
  Speaker 2: There, right?
• 14:30
  Speaker 1: Move some, move some safeties around. So those are my
• 14:34
  Speaker 1: initial thoughts. Doobie, what do you think?
• 14:36
  Speaker 4: Who had a better, who had a better preseason and
• 14:39
  Speaker 4: how did you feel about both quarterbacks moving around in
• 14:41
  Speaker 4: the pocket in particular?
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  Speaker 7: I think it's really close, honestly. I think they both
• 14:47
  Speaker 7: didn't have a great preseason. I kind of agree with Austin.
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  Speaker 7: I think Howard was better in the pocket, but Aller
• 14:57
  Speaker 7: was a little bit more dynamic, made some crazy plays,
• 15:02
  Speaker 7: that one real long off-balance throw down the field that
• 15:05
  Speaker 7: he made.
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  Speaker 2: So that's where I stand on him.
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm just not seeing the upside with Will Howard.
• 15:13
  Speaker 4: And honestly, listen, if it was up to me, we
• 15:15
  Speaker 4: can get into this in a minute here, but I
• 15:18
  Speaker 4: wouldn't have kept all four quarterbacks.
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't have kept Will Howard on the team.
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  Speaker 4: I don't see a whole lot of upside with him,
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  Speaker 4: unlike Drew Aller, which– His arm talent and even a
• 15:28
  Speaker 4: little bit of his legs were kind of on display
• 15:31
  Speaker 4: in the preseason.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know. I'm out on both of them.
• 15:36
  Speaker 3: I'm out on both of them, and unfortunately, I think
• 15:38
  Speaker 3: we're going to see Drew Allard be our quarterback in 2027.
• 15:40
  Speaker 3: But realistically, we need a guy who goes in there
• 15:46
  Speaker 3: and wins football games. We saw that with Kenny Pickett
• 15:51
  Speaker 3: where– We saw the good, bad, the ugly with him,
• 15:54
  Speaker 3: but at the end of the day, he went out
• 15:55
  Speaker 3: there and he won games in the second half in
• 15:57
  Speaker 3: the fourth quarter. If you can combine that type of
• 16:01
  Speaker 3: winning mentality with Drew Aller's talent, that's a dangerous quarterback.
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: But like I said with Roman Wilson, I'm out until
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: they show me something. So I'm out. I'm out on
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: our quarterbacks, not named Aaron Rodgers.
• 16:18
  Speaker 4: I know that we typically– Don't like to be too–
• 16:23
  Speaker 4: what's the word I'm looking for? We don't like to
• 16:25
  Speaker 4: dish out too much praise in Steelers' losses, but were
• 16:29
  Speaker 4: there any studs you identified this week, McGingey?
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: I had two. I had Swiffer Wetjet and Eli Heiderich.
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: Eli definitely put on for the team, put on for
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: the roster spot, ran hard, fought for extra yards, made
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: the opening tackle. of the game on the special teams,
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: he was actually working in as the personal protector man
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: towards the end of the game as well, which.
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: Had been Travis Homer's job. So Eli played a great game.
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: He definitely showed coaches what, you know, it took, you know,
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: what they wanted to see for him to make the roster.
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: Absolutely.
• 17:06
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 17:07
  Speaker 4: I mean, he made, he made the, not that his
• 17:09
  Speaker 4: whole body of work has been uninspiring, but He made
• 17:12
  Speaker 4: the 53 man in the game against Buffalo. Once you
• 17:16
  Speaker 4: ease concerns about the personal protector, right, which had gone
• 17:20
  Speaker 4: to Travis Homer exclusively, and then you score a touchdown,
• 17:24
  Speaker 4: you look good out there too. I mean, this was
• 17:26
  Speaker 4: the first time I had watched Heidenreich where he looked
• 17:29
  Speaker 4: like a running back. You know, he didn't look like
• 17:31
  Speaker 4: a wide receiver that we were trying to flip to
• 17:33
  Speaker 4: running back. Like he was moving well.
• 17:36
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: He was also playing against a whole bunch of players
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: who didn't make the roster.
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: No, I mean, absolutely. But he didn't look awkward. He
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: looked like he blogged out there.
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: I got a big stiff for this week.
• 17:50
  Speaker 5: Well, hold on.
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: I got another stud. This is a surprise. A man
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: who's not even on the team anymore. He looked like
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: a varsity player play against a bunch of eighth graders.
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: A Landon Roberts.
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: It was just all over the field. He had five tackles,
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: four solo tackles, a tackle for loss. And just watching
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: him play against a bunch of scrubs was like, I remember,
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: why is he still in the game?
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: I'm thinking, you know.
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: Remember when I told you when you asked me that?
• 18:22
  Speaker 8: Is that?
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: Well, he also said Roman Wilson likely wasn't making the
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: team because he didn't dress.
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: So let's relax.
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: I said it was potential cut candidate as what is
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: my word specifically.
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: Yep.
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: He said, if you're not playing or if you're playing
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: the entire game, you are a potential cut candidate.
• 18:40
  Speaker 4: And I said, no way the Steelers could be so
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: fucking stupid as to not put Lennon Roberts on a
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: 53-man roster.
• 18:49
  Speaker 5: Yeah, he looks good.
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: And I think that's a good way of putting a
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: varsity player in a JV game because that's exactly what
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: he looked like.
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: I don't know. We'll have more to say about that later.
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: Can I move on to the stiffs? Yeah, who's stiff?
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: WTAE, one of the worst broadcasts I've ever watched in
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: my entire life. We missed three touchdowns, two by the Steelers,
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: one by the Bills. At one point, they're showing the
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: announcers eating chicken wings in the studio. And there's a
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: game going on. And we're watching film of the announcers
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: eating the chicken wings. It was embarrassing, Pat. For a
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: local broadcast who you think they'd like to show what
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: they're capable of and kind of get excited for this,
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: they were on their B, C, D, none of those,
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: the F game. It was one of the worst broadcasts
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: I've ever seen in my entire life, if not the worst.
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: You know who I blame?
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: Who?
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: Jimmy Kimmel. Don't answer, Doobie.
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: I blame the Buffalo Bills. I mean, they got this
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: new stadium. It was the second broadcast. I'm sure they're
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: still figuring shit out. I've heard people who were from
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: out of town who were watching the game said that
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: they were watching the Buffalo broadcast, and apparently it was
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: even worse.
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: Like, they saw less of the game than we did.
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: So... How is that on the Bills, Pat?
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: Because they got a new stadium, McGinji. They didn't have
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: it figured out. They weren't ready. They're ironing the kinks out.
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: They don't know how to fucking broadcast in that stadium yet.
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: They should have been ready. That's no excuse.
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: That's no excuse for Pittsburgh's local broadcast to be missing touchdowns.
• 20:29
  Speaker 5: I know.
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: It's bullshit that that even has to get brought up.
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: That the Bills don't have their shit figured out.
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: You're blaming the Bills Stadium.
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: Of course I'm blaming the... What are you, defending the Bills? No, no.
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: I'm just not being a homer for a shitty fucking broadcast.
• 20:47
  Speaker 5: I'm not being a homer for a shitty broadcast. I'm
• 20:49
  Speaker 5: piling on to a bunch of fucks in Buffalo.
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm excited to not hear Pomp announce any football
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: games either, dude.
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: That guy, he's... I like Bob Pompiani, but my God.
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: Is he boring. Him and Charlie Batch, it's like listening
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: to paint dry.
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: Listening to paint dry.
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: You ever done that?
• 21:11
  Speaker 5: No.
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: Pretty fucking boring.
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: I've smelled paint drying. I've eaten dried paint chips.
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: Both great activities. You listen to it dry, bad. Anything
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: else you have to say about the game? I'm excited
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: preseason's over. Yeah.
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm excited preseason.
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: This preseason was tough to judge.
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: It kind of sucked. That last game, dude, nobody played.
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: Like half the team didn't even travel, right? It was
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: just this last preseason game was just fucking weird. Like
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: I would have thought it would have been at least
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: a drive or two of like ramping guys up and
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: putting all the starters out. And, you know, even if
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: Rodgers wasn't out there, just getting some of these guys
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: some time on the field. But, no, they literally said,
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: you know, unless you're Landon Roberts, if you're over the
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: age of, you know, 30, grab some fucking pines.
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: I am officially worried about Steelers week one versus Atlanta.
• 22:11
  Speaker 5: I am too.
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: Big time.
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: They did not show.
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: Me anything of worth in this preseason to make me
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: think like they're ready to play.
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: And they have barely practiced running the ball, which means
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: the defense has barely practiced defending the run. And now
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: we're going to be without Deshaun Elliott for our first
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: four weeks. And who the fuck knows what's going on
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: with Landon Roberts, our best run-stopping linebacker. Bijon might run
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: for 200 yards and three touchdowns.
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: We'll see. We'll see, Pat. That would be kind of
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: tough on our home turf. Anything else about the game?
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: No, we can breeze past it.
• 22:51
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: Let's move on to the 53-man roster. A lot of moves.
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: Pat, why don't we start out because there's trades being made.
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: There were cuts. There's a couple surprise makes it. Let's
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: start with the two trades. First, Broderick Jones being dealt
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: along with a fourth to the Cowboys for a third
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: and a sixth.
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: Pat, grade this trade.
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: It's tricky because in a vacuum, I think it was
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: good value like for right now for this snapshot of
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: time that we're in. Broderick recovering from an injury, kind
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: of looking like shit, not being in football shape, showing up,
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: taking some time to come back. I'd give it like
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: a B minus, maybe a C plus just because it's
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: good value. I wouldn't have made the trade. I would
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: have just kept Broderick, you know, as a swing tackle
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: this year. I don't think I was as high on
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: getting a third or fourth round comp pick as you were.
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: I think you kind of, and correct me if I'm wrong,
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: but it kind of seemed like you thought that would
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: be kind of set in stone and I was a
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: little bit more skeptical.
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: Well, Dan Moore Jr. got us a third round comp pick. Yeah, absolutely.
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: I would have rolled the dice, stuck with them this year,
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: because now we have, what, three tackles, three true tackles
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: on the roster at this point?
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah, similar to what we had last year, and now
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: our offensive line depth is no longer a strength. Having
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: said that, on the flip side, the tape that he
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: put out this preseason... It was bad.
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: Unplayable.
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: I mean, you might as well just pick up a
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: tackle off a free agency if you need a fourth tackle.
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: I don't think there was really any point in holding
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: on to Broderick Jones, showing what he showed us over
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: the three games of preseason.
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: Yeah, especially after drafting Ahonichor, where you have a project
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: tackle now, very similar to Broderick in the sense that
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: great build, hyper-athletic. I'd say even though they both played
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: not a whole lot of football at that level, Ahonichor
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: seems a little further along just because his footwork is
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: a lot better than, than Broderick's was, uh, his rookie year.
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: So, um, I mean, bringing a Haunted Shore in, you just,
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: you don't have time for two first round tackle projects.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: So send him to Dallas, let them try to work
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: with it. He's still a young man.
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: He's still got a great build, but I think the
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: Steelers are just kind of ready for this project to
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: be over.
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, you're talking like he's still a first-round project.
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: This is his fourth year in the league. You know
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: what he is at this point. That was a bad
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: pick at the time, and it's a bad pick now.
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: Not only that, but you traded up to get him.
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: Gave a third.
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you look at the guys who were drafted in
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: the six or seven picks after that.
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: Makes you want to puke.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: I'm with you.
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: Went up and got him. And I'm very hit or
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: miss on a lot of, a lot of draft picks.
• 25:45
  Speaker 4: Like I was huge on the next trade, Caleb Johnson.
• 25:49
  Speaker 4: He was my guy. I wasn't huge on Broderick coming
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: out and just moving him around so much was just
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: so detrimental to his growth. And I know that's a
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: horse we've, we've beat to death.
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: Right. But you know, if.
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: They would have moved them to, you know, right tackle
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: and kept him there or kept him at left tackle
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: and all of this, because Dan, I'm getting mad just
• 26:09
  Speaker 4: thinking about it because Dan Moore, who was not the
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: future of your team, refuses to move tackles, refuses to
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: switch tackle side. It's just so ridiculous, this whole thing.
• 26:20
  Speaker 4: I don't know if it would have made a difference
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: with Broderick, but it certainly, certainly, certainly didn't help.
• 26:27
  Speaker 5: No.
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: And I think Dan Moore was terrible. I think Broderick
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: was terrible.
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: I think Max was such a great pick now, looking
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: back and knowing that Broderick, you had nothing in him.
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: He was unplayable, Pat.
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: In the preseason, they had him playing all four quarters,
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: just trying to show them a reason to keep you
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: on the roster. Like he was on playable and Dylan cook,
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: not much better. So quickly what we thought could be
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: offensive line depth on this team after you draft a
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: tackle that, you know, you really didn't need now is
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: showing that thank God you drafted around one tackle.
• 27:05
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 27:05
  Speaker 4: This, this point in time right now, a roster cut
• 27:08
  Speaker 4: down day, You know, not to be Captain Obvious, but
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: it would have looked a lot different if we would
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: have gone, you know, if Makai Lemon would have felt us.
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: Who knows if we.
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: Would have gone tackle in round two. You know, it's
• 27:23
  Speaker 4: just no telling how different this team would look right now.
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: So it's just interesting to see how the cards fall.
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: Like you said, Max is a better pick, prospect, all
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: the above than Broderick was at the time.
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: And I think he's got better folks around him. to
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: help him out and to help him reach his potential.
• 27:42
  Speaker 4: Hopefully some stability is in line. And what a fucking
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: failure for Mike Tomlin and his staff. I know it
• 27:50
  Speaker 4: was an Omar Khan pick, right? It was his first pick, actually.
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: Anything to excuse Omar, huh? I'm not excusing Omar at all.
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: It was a missed pick.
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: They whiffed.
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: But just the process that they put Broderick through when
• 28:03
  Speaker 4: he joined the team, moving him around as much as
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: they did, not coaching them up as well as they could.
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: I mean, just a fucking embarrassment.
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: Couldn't agree more. We've seen a lot of that over
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: the last five years.
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: And I'm hoping that somehow Mike McCarthy and this staff
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: doesn't let us fall into the same trap.
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: And I will say one last thing about Broderick.
• 28:24
  Speaker 4: I mean, the success rate on tackles in the league
• 28:28
  Speaker 4: is very low, right? I mean, getting a pro bowl
• 28:32
  Speaker 4: tackle from the draft and coaching them up and building
• 28:35
  Speaker 4: them up is very rare, right?
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: You fail a lot more than you succeed.
• 28:40
  Speaker 4: So, you know, this is now, what, three first round
• 28:44
  Speaker 4: picks in five years that we've spent on tackle positions. So,
• 28:49
  Speaker 4: you know, I like what I've seen out of Fatanu
• 28:52
  Speaker 4: on a large scale. Obviously, we have a couple of
• 28:55
  Speaker 4: other young players on the offensive line at guard and center.
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: So hopefully, you know, we'll be set up here and
• 29:01
  Speaker 4: we don't have to burn another first-round pick in the
• 29:03
  Speaker 4: next two, three years on the tackle.
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: No, I mean, they've spent a lot of money on
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: the O-line or a lot of capital, a lot of
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: assets on the O-line. The only one you can confidently
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: say they hit on at this point is Zach Frazier.
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: The one that, yeah, I mean, sure. I like what
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: McCormick's been doing.
• 29:20
  Speaker 4: I like what Fontana's been doing, but they are not
• 29:23
  Speaker 4: in the same kind of safety blanket.
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: You can't say they're a hit at this point.
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. They're not. I mean, I'm looking at Frazier
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: as a potential Pro Bowl center this year.
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so am I.
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: And you look at Fontana, he missed his, you know,
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: the whole first season of his career, you know, dealt
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: with a little bit of you know, lingering things last year.
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: Who knows?
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: I mean, we've seen 50% of solid and 50% of
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: injury so far through his career.
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: Why don't we get on to the next trade that
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: I hinted at?
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: Caleb Johnson being dealt to the Green Bay Fudge Packers
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: for a sixth round pick. Packers obviously needing a running
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: back with Josh Jacobs being going on the commissioner's exempt list.
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: We'll see what that situation looks like.
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, all that stuff. Whatever happened.
• 30:08
  Speaker 4: In the words of Carmine Lupertazzi, you know, whatever happened there, right?
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: No, Deshaun Watson officially makes me believe victims no matter
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: what the victim looks like. So I'm fully on board.
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: As long as it's a woman victim. Men are never victims.
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: Absolutely not, dude. Absolutely not. And if the man is
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: a victim, I'm not believing him.
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: Exactly.
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: Just look at that whole Lindsey Clancy case going on
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: right now, Pat.
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege?
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: Absolutely. That woman needs acquitted. She did not kill her kids.
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: Even if she said it, the doctor said it, her
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: lawyers said it, the state says it, she did not
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: do it.
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: She killed Lindsey Graham?
• 30:47
  Speaker 4: I wish, dude.
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: I don't know what's going on with that. I don't
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: even know if he's still alive.
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: Lindsey Graham, nah. She killed her.
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: She killed him.
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: She killed him.
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: Who's the other one that's been in hiding?
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: Oh, Mitch McConnell.
• 31:03
  Speaker 5: Yeah, is he alive now?
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: He's a robot.
• 31:06
  Speaker 4: They're trying to rebuild his circuits right now.
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: He hasn't been seen in some 80 days.
• 31:11
  Speaker 4: There's an adrenochrome shortage, dude, until we bomb Iran again.
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: True, dude. All this Epstein shit, you know, once they...
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: Locked them up and got rid of the files.
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: No more Adrenochrome for these people.
• 31:23
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and the next thing you know, the billionaires have
• 31:25
  Speaker 4: to go to East Palestine and fucking meet up in
• 31:30
  Speaker 4: the trailer park for $ 160 in a Kia Sereno.
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: How sad, dude.
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: I really feel for our billionaires right now, dude. It
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: must be a tough, tough couple of months for them.
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: They can't get away with anything anymore.
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: You can't even get a $ 100 handjob in a trailer park.
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: No, dude. I'd have better luck doing it.
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, probably.
• 31:51
  Speaker 4: Probably.
• 31:53
  Speaker 5: Bad idea.
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: Can we make that our fantasy punishment next year?
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: $ 100 handjob? Yeah.
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 32:04
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: I'm picking Weege in round one if that's the punishment.
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: I'm getting my guy.
• 32:09
  Speaker 4: Weege in and Heidenreich rounds one and two.
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: Caleb Johnson obviously being known by Steeler fans for the
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: dropped kick return, looked at it, bounced into the end zone,
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: Seattle falls.
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: On it, and that was Caleb Johnson's career summed up
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: as a Pittsburgh Steeler.
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: I'm still rooting for him. I still wish him well.
• 32:32
  Speaker 4: I mean, his college tape wasn't good enough to keep
• 32:35
  Speaker 4: him on the Steelers roster. I understand why they did
• 32:38
  Speaker 4: what they did, but still a lot to be excited
• 32:41
  Speaker 4: about there.
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: Honestly, Pat, I'm not going to root him well. And
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: I'm not going to wish him well.
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: And I don't hope he goes and becomes a career
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: stud running back.
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I do.
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: That was the most frustrating.
• 32:55
  Speaker 4: Why was he even on the special teams in the
• 32:56
  Speaker 4: first fucking place?
• 32:58
  Speaker 5: He's a rookie.
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: Power back, and they just threw him in special teams.
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: It made no sense.
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: Because he was our best option because we had no one.
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: That's why we needed Swiffer. That's why we needed the
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: wet jet.
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: He was not our best option.
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: So guys like Caleb Johnson and Cordero Patterson are returning
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: fucking dicks.
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: I would have wasted a first-round pick on Swiffer Wetjet.
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: Did you get that? Do we have that on the record?
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: We have it on the record.
• 33:26
  Speaker 4: I would have let a thousand kids die if I
• 33:29
  Speaker 4: keep my company afloat.
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: What was that Monsters, Inc.
• 33:32
  Speaker 8: Quote?
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: Mr. Waterford. That's what you sounded like, dude.
• 33:40
  Speaker 5: Oh, yeah.
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: I mean, that was just the most frustrated I've ever
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: been in a stadium. And I think my issue was
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: it was one. Obviously, he didn't know the rule that
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: you learn at a young, young age. And two, he
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: didn't go after the ball. You know, not only you
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: drop the ball, but you don't go after it. And
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: you just watch Seattle score a touchdown in the fourth
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: quarter on your face.
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: That was spit on it.
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that was a classic Gunnar Olchewski move.
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: Know what was worse, Pat.
• 34:11
  Speaker 3: Tiptoeing a kickoff or muffing one and then watching the
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: other team score a touchdown in your face.
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: Definitely tiptoeing a kickoff.
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: I don't think so. I really don't think so.
• 34:23
  Speaker 4: Well, at least, listen, I'm not defending Caleb Johnson, but
• 34:27
  Speaker 4: the rules, that rule didn't change.
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: That is always.
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: None of those rules have changed. They've been the same rules.
• 34:34
  Speaker 4: The kick rules overall did change and he had no
• 34:38
  Speaker 4: business being... All this to say, Garo Ochevsky is still
• 34:41
  Speaker 4: the dumbest play I've ever seen.
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: I don't know, Pat. One resulted in a touchdown. One
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: did it.
• 34:48
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: We're talking about the consequences of it. Sure, I can't
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: argue that.
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: Talking results.
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: Just pure bonehead moves.
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he dropped the ball and then watched the other
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: team pick it up and score.
• 35:01
  Speaker 4: Instead of getting the ball at the 40, he went
• 35:03
  Speaker 4: out of his way to catch it in toe tap.
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: They're both dumb. They're both ridiculous.
• 35:09
  Speaker 4: Yeah, we could just agree to.
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: Be happy that we don't have to watch either of
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: that on.
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: Special teams anymore.
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: Finally, they got a shifty, hardworking, first guy in, first
• 35:22
  Speaker 3: guy out, student of the game, kick returner.
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: The next Ryan Switzer, some are saying.
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: No, stop.
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: And let's not forget the type of athlete Switzer was
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: in college.
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: Cut from the roster. The Landon Roberts.
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's bullshit, dude. I'm still pissed off. Like, it
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: makes no sense.
• 35:47
  Speaker 4: And I wouldn't have been as pissed off. Did you
• 35:49
  Speaker 4: hear what Mike McCarthy said today?
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: I did.
• 35:52
  Speaker 5: I did.
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: Can we put that clip in maybe in editing?
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, go ahead.
• 35:56
  Speaker 9: Number one, outstanding player. Came here late, so I have
• 35:59
  Speaker 9: to admit it. He's definitely moved on to his reputation.
• 36:04
  Speaker 9: I enjoyed him while he was here. I wish him
• 36:07
  Speaker 9: the best of luck. You know, there's a lot of
• 36:11
  Speaker 9: things that go into those final decisions. Special teams are
• 36:14
  Speaker 9: usually a big part of once you get past who
• 36:17
  Speaker 9: you see in the first 11 or 12 going out
• 36:19
  Speaker 9: on the field, offense and defense.
• 36:20
  Speaker 6: And I'll talk.
• 36:21
  Speaker 9: Extensively during this whole process. That's what if I work
• 36:24
  Speaker 9: with different combinations of players, those are the things that
• 36:28
  Speaker 9: we're doing schematically that we'll get into once we get through.
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 36:42
  Speaker 4: So basically, I mean, not looking good that a Landon
• 36:44
  Speaker 4: Roberts is even going to find his way back on
• 36:47
  Speaker 4: the roster at this point, which when it first happened,
• 36:50
  Speaker 4: I probably like most people assumed it was, you know,
• 36:53
  Speaker 4: a way to get around paying him guaranteed money, which
• 36:55
  Speaker 4: isn't a good look or it's, you know, they're going
• 36:58
  Speaker 4: to be stashing.
• 36:59
  Speaker 5: Yeah. Procedural.
• 37:00
  Speaker 4: Maybe they'd be stashing, you know, Will Howard on, on
• 37:03
  Speaker 4: IR in, in like a day or two. And, you know,
• 37:06
  Speaker 4: with that concussion he may or may not have. But
• 37:09
  Speaker 4: at this point, it's Tuesday night. We're recording this and
• 37:12
  Speaker 4: McCarthy seemingly doubling down on, you know, wishing him luck
• 37:16
  Speaker 4: outside the black and gold.
• 37:19
  Speaker 3: It seems like the Steelers had no intention of putting
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: him on this roster.
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah. No matter how he played, how well he played.
• 37:27
  Speaker 3: And it seems like they needed a middle linebacker to
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: eat up some snaps during the late preseason.
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: Absolutely dude that's.
• 37:36
  Speaker 3: Pretty much what it feels like to me at this
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: point there's some fucking hypocrisy too with his with with
• 37:42
  Speaker 3: uh basically him saying you know paraphrasing but you know
• 37:45
  Speaker 3: oh we need someone who has special teams versatility it's
• 37:49
  Speaker 3: like okay i mean legion's gonna be uh essentially just
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: a special teamer carson is essentially gonna be just a special.
• 37:56
  Speaker 4: Teamer i mean what about what about uh uh jabuti
• 38:00
  Speaker 4: what about uh kevin yeah kevin uh Jabuti.
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Jabuti.
• 38:08
  Speaker 5: Jabuti.
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: Jabuti Jones.
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: Jabuti.
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: Where's his special teams? He ever made a play on
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: special teams?
• 38:16
  Speaker 4: Like, God, that fucking pisses me off, dude.
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: I'm pissed.
• 38:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm less upset about it. I like Landon Roberts.
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: He's not what everyone says he is. He's not a
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: stud linebacker. He's not really a starter. He's a thumper.
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: He's great at what he does, and that's stomping the run,
• 38:43
  Speaker 3: and he's bad at everything else.
• 38:45
  Speaker 4: Well, when you got the Lost and Soft brothers out there,
• 38:48
  Speaker 4: your words, not mine, wanting to make you rip your
• 38:50
  Speaker 4: fucking hair out because one of them can't tackle, and
• 38:54
  Speaker 4: the other one has no idea where the fuck he's going,
• 38:56
  Speaker 4: and you see Kevin Jobiney. Riding pine for the third
• 39:00
  Speaker 4: or fourth straight game while Landon Roberts is in fucking
• 39:04
  Speaker 4: Tahiti getting his meat sucked.
• 39:06
  Speaker 5: You're going to.
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: Be pissed off.
• 39:09
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: I mean, they must have a lot of confidence in
• 39:11
  Speaker 3: Peyton Wilson and his newfound ability to stop the run,
• 39:16
  Speaker 3: which has been the talk of camp. Just like Roman
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: Wilson is suddenly God, you know, talk of camp.
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: Let's talk of camp shit. I'm so fucking sick of that.
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: I'm sick of preseason. I'm sick of camp. I'm sick
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: of practice. I'm sick of everything at this point.
• 39:31
  Speaker 3: And this just goes on to show that the Steelers
• 39:36
  Speaker 3: might not know what they're doing.
• 39:40
  Speaker 4: I'll tell you what, if I was a Landon Roberts,
• 39:42
  Speaker 4: I wouldn't want to come back to the Steelers.
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: Oh, well, let's not get carried away. I'm just saying
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: I wouldn't.
• 39:47
  Speaker 3: At the same time, 31 other teams aren't giving him
• 39:50
  Speaker 3: a chance, and he got to eat up a lot
• 39:52
  Speaker 3: of snaps and put on display what he can do
• 39:55
  Speaker 3: for the 31 other teams.
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: He did get a black form.
• 39:58
  Speaker 4: I don't know the conversation that went on behind the
• 40:00
  Speaker 4: scenes or anything like that, but his first stint in
• 40:04
  Speaker 4: Pittsburgh ended because.
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: I mean, we offered him good money, but he wanted
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: to be a starter.
• 40:09
  Speaker 4: We had two good, you know, at the time, our
• 40:12
  Speaker 4: thought process was we have two good starting inside linebackers.
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: We don't need you.
• 40:17
  Speaker 5: Good luck.
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: Go to the Raiders.
• 40:18
  Speaker 4: And then we bring him back, play him almost every
• 40:20
  Speaker 4: snap of the preseason, and then say, all right, you know,
• 40:24
  Speaker 4: thank you.
• 40:25
  Speaker 9: See you later.
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: He got some good tape from us.
• 40:28
  Speaker 4: He got some great tape, but just, I don't know.
• 40:31
  Speaker 4: And like I said, I don't know the conversations behind
• 40:33
  Speaker 4: the scenes. I know You know, it's not his first stint, obviously,
• 40:38
  Speaker 4: with the Steelers. It's not his first stint with Patrick Graham.
• 40:42
  Speaker 4: I'm sure they have a good relationship. But I just–
• 40:46
  Speaker 4: if I'm a Landon Roberts man, I don't know if
• 40:48
  Speaker 4: I want.
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: Anything to do with the Steelers anymore.
• 40:51
  Speaker 3: I'm a little upset, but I think I'm probably about
• 40:55
  Speaker 3: as 50% upset as everyone else is.
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: I think Dub is excited. He's thrilled.
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, what are your thoughts, Dub?
• 41:02
  Speaker 7: I mean, he looked– I would have rather– Got rid
• 41:05
  Speaker 7: of Carson Bruner, but.
• 41:07
  Speaker 9: Wow.
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: You can't get rid of Carson Bruner because he is
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: a special team stud.
• 41:12
  Speaker 4: Carson Bruner might be the special teams captain. And I
• 41:15
  Speaker 4: think value for both of them. I'd rather have a
• 41:19
  Speaker 4: Landon Roberts, honestly, but you know, you do need some,
• 41:23
  Speaker 4: some special teamers. I wasn't targeting Bruner as much as
• 41:26
  Speaker 4: I was targeting job, but he junior job, but he, job,
• 41:31
  Speaker 4: but he, job of the hut.
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: We'll call him job of the hut. We call him.
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: Jabba the Hutt. We call him because he is.
• 41:39
  Speaker 5: A large man. He's very large.
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: And his name is Jabba and he plays football. Hutt!
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: Jabba the Hutt. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, pretty much.
• 41:50
  Speaker 3: Now, there was another cut that the Steelers made that
• 41:53
  Speaker 3: I thought was a little.
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: Shocking. Not shocking, but I mean, surprising was Travis Homer.
• 42:00
  Speaker 3: Now, Pat, if you remember last week, I thought I
• 42:03
  Speaker 3: told you Eli Heidenreich was going to make the roster.
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: You said no. You said no. Travis Homer. Travis Homer.
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: Personal protection on the punt team.
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, okay.
• 42:16
  Speaker 4: And you had also said Broderick would have been traded
• 42:19
  Speaker 4: and Alain and Roberts would have been cut and not
• 42:21
  Speaker 4: made the roster.
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: I said all that.
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're right.
• 42:26
  Speaker 5: You're right.
• 42:27
  Speaker 4: But I got to poke holes in it because that's
• 42:28
  Speaker 4: what I do. If you told me a Landon Roberts
• 42:31
  Speaker 4: and Broderick Jones, we're not going to be on the
• 42:33
  Speaker 4: 53 man. I would have slid a hide and rake
• 42:36
  Speaker 4: in there for sure.
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: But, uh, I will give you your flowers on this one.
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: McJingy.
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: I also like, I don't know.
• 42:43
  Speaker 4: I personal protector outside of maybe gunner is probably the
• 42:49
  Speaker 4: most important position on the special teams, but For a
• 42:53
  Speaker 4: minute there, I kind of got roped into the whole, oh,
• 42:56
  Speaker 4: he's been the only guy, a personal protector.
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: Let's not forget this isn't rocket science, right? I mean,
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: it's special teams. You're a personal.
• 43:03
  Speaker 4: You're basically just hiking the ball, you know, at that point.
• 43:05
  Speaker 4: So it's not rocket science. I certainly put.
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: Too much weight into.
• 43:13
  Speaker 4: Eli Heinreich's ability or inability in my head to learn
• 43:16
  Speaker 4: how to be a personal protector.
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: I'm glad he found his way on the roster, though.
• 43:21
  Speaker 3: You need guys like that in your roster, Pat. You
• 43:24
  Speaker 3: need guys like that. And you need guys like Broderick
• 43:27
  Speaker 3: Jones and Caleb Johnson off your roster.
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: Bottom line.
• 43:30
  Speaker 3: I think when we look at it from the grand
• 43:32
  Speaker 3: scheme of things and the type of people that you
• 43:34
  Speaker 3: want in the building, that's kind of what I go with.
• 43:38
  Speaker 2: You know what?
• 43:38
  Speaker 3: Also, this opens it up for Pat. Maybe a little
• 43:44
  Speaker 3: bit of trick play action on the punt team this year.
• 43:47
  Speaker 8: Huh?
• 43:47
  Speaker 5: Huh?
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: I mean, I can't tell you you're wrong.
• 43:54
  Speaker 3: Maybe a little snap to, you know, Bill Burr back there.
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: Heidenreich goes out to the flat.
• 44:00
  Speaker 5: Boom.
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: First down.
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: Little who was it? Corey Trice. You're talking about running
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: the ball, though, not throwing the ball.
• 44:08
  Speaker 2: No, I'm talking about throwing the ball. Corey Trice dropped
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: that ball, too.
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're right.
• 44:12
  Speaker 9: You're right.
• 44:12
  Speaker 3: Eli doesn't drop the ball. I've never seen Eli drop
• 44:17
  Speaker 3: the ball. Obviously, Eli being one of the surprise makes
• 44:21
  Speaker 3: on this team, a couple of the surprise makes.
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: We said a lot about him earlier. Kevin Jebedee Jr.,
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: where did he come from, Pat?
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: He's an undrafted free agent, Mick Gingy.
• 44:32
  Speaker 4: He played at Syracuse. We've seen him play before, actually,
• 44:37
  Speaker 4: against Pitt. Defensive tackle out of Syracuse. Like I said, undrafted.
• 44:44
  Speaker 4: Not only did all 10 rookies in this draft make
• 44:48
  Speaker 4: the team, which is I think really surprising for a
• 44:51
  Speaker 4: lot of people, uh, but an undrafted free agent. So
• 44:54
  Speaker 4: 11 new young members for the Steelers this off season.
• 45:00
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 45:00
  Speaker 3: Brian Bollinger, Baldy, uh, loves Kevin Jebedee, Jebedee, Jebedee, Jebedee, Jebedee, Jebedee, Jebedee, Jebedee.
• 45:08
  Speaker 2: Um, I'm going to tweet out Jebedee. I'm going to
• 45:11
  Speaker 2: tweet out a.
• 45:12
  Speaker 3: Video where Baldy kind of breaks down, um, Kevin's hustle,
• 45:17
  Speaker 3: his angles, his heart, a little bit of everything there.
• 45:23
  Speaker 3: So Baldy does a great job breaking it down. I'm
• 45:26
  Speaker 3: going to tweet it out right now, Pat.
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, go ahead.
• 45:28
  Speaker 4: And I'm not going to be– look, he's got big
• 45:32
  Speaker 4: comparisons to make in my eyes because in my eyes,
• 45:37
  Speaker 4: whether it's fair or not, he is the Landon Roberts,
• 45:42
  Speaker 4: not replacement directly because different positions, but he's the guy
• 45:45
  Speaker 4: I'll be thinking– would rather have him or Landon Roberts,
• 45:48
  Speaker 4: whether that's fair or unfair, but you know, I'll be all,
• 45:51
  Speaker 4: I don't know much about him as I think most
• 45:53
  Speaker 4: dealer fans can attest, uh, kind of the dark horse
• 45:56
  Speaker 4: in here. I think he's listed at six, four, 300 pounds. Um,
• 46:01
  Speaker 4: so I'll keep an open mind. I'll be curious and
• 46:04
  Speaker 4: inquisitive when studying his film and trying to learn more
• 46:07
  Speaker 4: about him over the next few weeks. But, uh, yeah,
• 46:11
  Speaker 4: I mean, kind of a head scratcher, but we'll see. I'll,
• 46:13
  Speaker 4: I'll trust, uh, I'll trust the coaching staff until I
• 46:16
  Speaker 4: can get my eyes on what type of player he is.
• 46:19
  Speaker 2: I'm excited. Another big, beefy boy that we can lock
• 46:22
  Speaker 2: eyes with, Pat.
• 46:24
  Speaker 4: Hmm?
• 46:25
  Speaker 2: Yep, you heard me.
• 46:26
  Speaker 3: Another shocker that obviously this has kind of surprised everyone,
• 46:30
  Speaker 3: except for Mike McCarthy, four quarterbacks on the roster.
• 46:34
  Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers, Mason Rudolph, Will Howard, Drew Aller. You know
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: what the old saying is, Pat?
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: If you've got four quarterbacks.
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: You've got four quarterbacks. You've got none.
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: You don't have three.
• 46:47
  Speaker 4: You've got one more than three.
• 46:49
  Speaker 2: You've got none.
• 46:53
  Speaker 4: Not that this is, you know, tarps off Eagles, but
• 46:57
  Speaker 4: what the fuck are they doing keeping four quarterbacks?
• 47:00
  Speaker 5: Did you see that?
• 47:02
  Speaker 4: No.
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: There are four teams that kept four quarterbacks. Do you
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: know the other two?
• 47:07
  Speaker 2: Arizona. Arizona. Was that one?
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: I believe so. Let me double check.
• 47:16
  Speaker 2: Yes. Wow, really? That was a guess. Arizona.
• 47:20
  Speaker 5: No, no, no. Sorry.
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: I thought you said Atlanta. My apologies.
• 47:24
  Speaker 9: Damn.
• 47:25
  Speaker 2: Atlanta. And let me go with Green Bay.
• 47:34
  Speaker 4: No.
• 47:34
  Speaker 6: No.
• 47:35
  Speaker 2: Jets.
• 47:37
  Speaker 5: No.
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: It was the Falcons.
• 47:40
  Speaker 2: Two up.
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: Phoenix. Cooper Rush.
• 47:42
  Speaker 4: And Jack Strand. the Eagles with Hurts, Dalton, Tanner McKee,
• 47:47
  Speaker 4: Cole Payton, the Steelers, and the Minnesota Vikings with Kyler Murray,
• 47:52
  Speaker 4: Carson Wentz, JJ McCarthy, and Max Brosmer. Didn't we see
• 47:56
  Speaker 4: Max Brosmer a little bit last year, or am I
• 47:59
  Speaker 4: making that up?
• 48:00
  Speaker 2: Not in the regular season.
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: I think we did. It doesn't matter.
• 48:06
  Speaker 4: This isn't fucking Vikings fucking tarps off either, but just interesting.
• 48:11
  Speaker 4: I mean, I could see why a couple of those
• 48:13
  Speaker 4: teams would The Eagles, I mean, listen, they have the
• 48:16
  Speaker 4: best GM in the league, unfortunately, as much as I
• 48:19
  Speaker 4: hate to say it.
• 48:20
  Speaker 2: Whoa, Pop, breaking news.
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: Joe Porter Jr.
• 48:24
  Speaker 2: Side. Max Brosmer is on the practice squad.
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: Oh, just now?
• 48:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 48:32
  Speaker 5: What are the odds?
• 48:34
  Speaker 2: As of five hours ago.
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: Oh, you looked it up.
• 48:37
  Speaker 2: I Googled his.
• 48:38
  Speaker 3: Name to try and see if he played last year,
• 48:40
  Speaker 3: but yeah, it said he cleared waivers and they're putting
• 48:42
  Speaker 3: him on the practice squad.
• 48:43
  Speaker 2: So three teams kept four quarterbacks.
• 48:45
  Speaker 4: Well, four teams kept them. Three teams right now have
• 48:47
  Speaker 4: four quarterbacks, and I doubt the Eagles. Roseman basically said
• 48:52
  Speaker 4: that they were keeping all four of them so they
• 48:55
  Speaker 4: could try to trade one of them. So if you
• 48:57
  Speaker 4: know anyone, if anybody out there knows anyone who wants
• 49:00
  Speaker 4: Andy Dalton, Tanner McKee, or Cole Payton, call the Eagles.
• 49:05
  Speaker 2: You know what I saw about the Eagles, Pat?
• 49:08
  Speaker 4: You saw an Italian coach who doesn't trust his African-American
• 49:11
  Speaker 4: quarterback enough?
• 49:13
  Speaker 3: Well, I think that one really speaks for itself, and
• 49:16
  Speaker 3: I don't really need to go into that one further.
• 49:18
  Speaker 2: No, the Eagles. have male gay cheerleaders.
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: At least one.
• 49:26
  Speaker 2: Who is that appealing to? Gay males. The same people
• 49:32
  Speaker 2: who are watching the Bad Bunny halftime show?
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: The same people who threw batteries at Santa Claus.
• 49:40
  Speaker 2: It's just.
• 49:41
  Speaker 5: They better.
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: Put him in an Ironman suit and get rid of
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: all metal in that stadium.
• 49:45
  Speaker 5: Because those fans.
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: Not only that, Pat.
• 49:50
  Speaker 2: I looked it up. There are 11 teams with male cheerleaders.
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: I bet Doob can guess every one of them.
• 49:58
  Speaker 2: Go for it, Doob. 11 teams. I only know that
• 50:02
  Speaker 2: we have no cheerleaders.
• 50:04
  Speaker 10: No.
• 50:05
  Speaker 2: We're all business.
• 50:07
  Speaker 5: All business.
• 50:07
  Speaker 2: No cheerleaders. I got the list right here.
• 50:10
  Speaker 4: And we don't have 11 team captains like the Rams do.
• 50:17
  Speaker 2: Go ahead, dude. I got nothing.
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I bet you don't.
• 50:23
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I bet you don't. Real quiet over there. The
• 50:26
  Speaker 3: Ravens have male cheerleaders. I think we actually brought this
• 50:29
  Speaker 3: up at some point in the last few years on
• 50:31
  Speaker 3: this show when talking about doing some Ravens pregame. The
• 50:35
  Speaker 3: Ravens are the only team in the AFC North with cheerleaders.
• 50:39
  Speaker 3: There are a bunch of West Coast teams with male cheerleaders.
• 50:42
  Speaker 3: The Rams, the Niners, the Seahawks. Obviously, the Washington Commanders
• 50:49
  Speaker 3: think that that's fit for them.
• 50:51
  Speaker 2: The Eagles. A couple that shocked me, though, Pat.
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: I bet the Vikings have male cheerleaders.
• 50:56
  Speaker 2: They do. Yeah, of course they do. Minnesota, of course
• 50:59
  Speaker 2: they do. And New England as well.
• 51:01
  Speaker 5: Governor Warren.
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: Cover the Walls, cheer squad.
• 51:05
  Speaker 2: Yep.
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: The Walls Warriors.
• 51:12
  Speaker 2: Walls is balls. Walls is balls.
• 51:18
  Speaker 3: No, and the New England Patriots, you know, being Massachusetts,
• 51:21
  Speaker 3: of course they do. But a couple of shockers on
• 51:23
  Speaker 3: here are the Tennessee Titans, the New New Orleans Saints,
• 51:30
  Speaker 3: and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
• 51:38
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't know.
• 51:43
  Speaker 2: Looks like a bad Saturday Night Live skit is what
• 51:46
  Speaker 2: it does.
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, that is a Saturday Night Live skit.
• 51:50
  Speaker 2: Looks like if Shane Gillis was making fun of cheerleaders.
• 51:54
  Speaker 4: I mean, looks like a bunch of dudes cheerleading is
• 51:58
  Speaker 4: what it looks like.
• 52:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know. Not for me, Pat. Yeah, I mean,
• 52:05
  Speaker 2: it was weird going to.
• 52:08
  Speaker 4: Go into some away games where they had cheerleaders and
• 52:10
  Speaker 4: like you walk in and there's just like cheerleaders there
• 52:13
  Speaker 4: and you're like, oh yeah, I guess.
• 52:14
  Speaker 5: It feels JV. It does.
• 52:16
  Speaker 4: Like it doesn't, because Steelers, that's just not something we're
• 52:18
  Speaker 4: used to, you know?
• 52:19
  Speaker 2: No, I mean, we're above that. I don't like to
• 52:23
  Speaker 2: object women.
• 52:24
  Speaker 4: Dude, we should get like some yinzer cheerleaders, like go
• 52:28
  Speaker 4: down to like- Giant Eagle.
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: Brookline and find some 50-somethings.
• 52:34
  Speaker 2: Go down to the Southside Giant Eagle.
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, go down to the south side.
• 52:39
  Speaker 4: Tell them we'll give them a hot turkey sandwich and
• 52:41
  Speaker 4: a bag of Isley's to take home.
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: Some Hanover Berlin pretzels and a juice box.
• 52:47
  Speaker 2: That actually is not a bad idea.
• 52:49
  Speaker 3: Adopt some type of Yinzer squad to just, they hang
• 52:53
  Speaker 3: out with the drumline people.
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, just smoke cigs.
• 52:57
  Speaker 2: Smoke cigs, wave a towel around.
• 53:00
  Speaker 5: Wave a tie.
• 53:01
  Speaker 2: Maybe we put like a.
• 53:03
  Speaker 3: Couple of basement couches over there that they sit on.
• 53:08
  Speaker 3: The biggest one gets the recliner.
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: Give them a couple 40s.
• 53:11
  Speaker 5: Oh, man.
• 53:14
  Speaker 2: I think we're on to something there, Pat.
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: The crock pot crew, man.
• 53:19
  Speaker 2: The crock pot crew. Anything else on the roster cut?
• 53:25
  Speaker 2: Catch your eye.
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: Would you have kept all four quarterbacks?
• 53:33
  Speaker 2: Probably.
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: I mean, even when you look long-term, though.
• 53:38
  Speaker 3: I think next year you're going to need those three
• 53:43
  Speaker 3: quarterbacks on your team. I think the odd man out
• 53:50
  Speaker 3: of those three would be Mason next year.
• 53:52
  Speaker 2: I think this year you need Mason on your team.
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: I think next year you need Mason. You need a veteran.
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: No matter who he is, where he comes from. And
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: I'd like it to be Mason.
• 54:02
  Speaker 4: You have a guy in-house who knows the offense, obviously
• 54:06
  Speaker 4: very comfortable with the organization. And I don't know if
• 54:09
  Speaker 4: next year I'd feel comfortable going into the season with
• 54:14
  Speaker 4: two young quarterbacks that are still learning the game, like
• 54:18
  Speaker 4: Aller and Howard, and then Mason Rudolph.
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: And if they bring a guy in from the outside.
• 54:22
  Speaker 10: Unless he's a veteran– like Mason Rudolph, which I doubt
• 54:28
  Speaker 10: it will be, right? It'll probably be some young draft
• 54:31
  Speaker 10: pick if we do get another quarterback. Then do you
• 54:34
  Speaker 10: really want to have like four quarterbacks this time next
• 54:38
  Speaker 10: year or Jew Aller, Will Howard, and a rookie quarterback
• 54:41
  Speaker 10: next year?
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: I just, I'm kind of out on Will Howard.
• 54:45
  Speaker 4: I think he could be a decent backup, but I
• 54:48
  Speaker 4: think his ceiling is just too low for me to,
• 54:51
  Speaker 4: would have kept him around. And I'm not even confident
• 54:54
  Speaker 4: that he would have had any issue making the practice squad.
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: Like, I don't know how many teams around the league.
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: This is something I noticed this year more than any
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: other year. As Steelers fans, I.
• 55:05
  Speaker 4: Think we pay so much attention to our 53, right?
• 55:09
  Speaker 4: In our 90-man roster and cutting it down. And, oh,
• 55:11
  Speaker 4: can so-and-so make it? I hope so-and-so doesn't get snatched up.
• 55:14
  Speaker 4: Every fucking fan base, except the Miami Dolphins, right? Who signed,
• 55:18
  Speaker 4: what was it, seven free agents or whatever. But every
• 55:23
  Speaker 4: fan base and every team was struggling to make roster cuts.
• 55:27
  Speaker 4: It was hoping that one or two guys on their
• 55:29
  Speaker 4: team doesn't get scooped up elsewhere. And, you know, Will Howard,
• 55:33
  Speaker 4: I just, I don't know, man. I don't know if
• 55:35
  Speaker 4: he'd be the third best quarterback on any other team.
• 55:38
  Speaker 4: And I think Pittsburgh fans just were a little too
• 55:41
  Speaker 4: confident he wouldn't have made the practice squad.
• 55:45
  Speaker 3: I think they'd just rather keep him if they value
• 55:47
  Speaker 3: him more than they value a guy like.
• 55:49
  Speaker 2: Landon Roberts or Travis Homer.
• 55:53
  Speaker 5: I don't know.
• 55:55
  Speaker 3: It's a head scratcher for sure, Pat. I don't have
• 55:57
  Speaker 3: anything else to say about this roster cut situation. I
• 56:00
  Speaker 3: think I got it all off my chest.
• 56:03
  Speaker 4: How do you feel about this roster as a whole?
• 56:07
  Speaker 4: I mean, obviously the safety position is probably our weakest point.
• 56:12
  Speaker 4: Offensive line depth is not where we were probably hoping
• 56:15
  Speaker 4: it'd be.
• 56:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not going to lie, Pat. I'm a little worried.
• 56:22
  Speaker 3: This is the first time this year It's the first
• 56:25
  Speaker 3: time since they have hired Mike McCarthy that I'm starting
• 56:29
  Speaker 3: to have a little bit of doubt creep in.
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: Where does that doubt come from?
• 56:33
  Speaker 3: I think that's a great question. Thanks for asking, Pat.
• 56:37
  Speaker 3: I think that doubt comes from our lack of success
• 56:40
  Speaker 3: in the preseason. And I know it's just the preseason.
• 56:44
  Speaker 3: I'd like to remind myself and all the listeners it's
• 56:47
  Speaker 3: just the preseason.
• 56:48
  Speaker 2: But I don't know.
• 56:50
  Speaker 3: I saw too many mistakes out there to be comfortable
• 56:52
  Speaker 3: all across the board.
• 56:54
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and– Put it into context, maybe this could be
• 56:57
  Speaker 4: a homework assignment if you can't, you know, think off
• 57:01
  Speaker 4: the top of your head like this.
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: I'm kind of putting you on the spot.
• 57:03
  Speaker 4: But the specific areas where, you know, you thought we'd
• 57:09
  Speaker 4: see more from, I mean, obviously I think O-line and
• 57:12
  Speaker 4: the run game as a whole sticks out the most.
• 57:14
  Speaker 4: It's hard to evaluate the defense really at all, though,
• 57:17
  Speaker 4: you know, because we are without five or six of
• 57:20
  Speaker 4: our starters who, All could be, you know, Pro Bowl
• 57:24
  Speaker 4: players this year, right? I mean, we can get on
• 57:26
  Speaker 4: the list with TJ, Cam Hayward, Highsmith, Joey Porter Jr.,
• 57:33
  Speaker 4: Jalen Ramsey, right? So the defense as a whole is
• 57:36
  Speaker 4: just very difficult to evaluate. Offensive line looked pretty shitty,
• 57:41
  Speaker 4: especially without our two top running backs from most of
• 57:44
  Speaker 4: the preseason. And obviously we didn't have DK Metcalf or
• 57:48
  Speaker 4: Michael Pittman.
• 57:49
  Speaker 1: So I don't know. Have you noticed anything contextually outside
• 57:53
  Speaker 1: of that, that, that makes you worry maybe the offensive
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: line in particular.
• 57:56
  Speaker 2: You know, you spiked.
• 57:58
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 57:58
  Speaker 3: The offensive line, not what they have, not what they
• 58:02
  Speaker 3: were advertised as not what a lot of people thought
• 58:04
  Speaker 3: they were going to be. They're, they're kind of in
• 58:06
  Speaker 3: line with what I thought they were going to be,
• 58:08
  Speaker 3: how they were last year, what I thought they were
• 58:10
  Speaker 3: last year, really doesn't feel like much has changed. We
• 58:13
  Speaker 3: haven't seen max get in there. I think max is
• 58:15
  Speaker 3: going to make a huge difference. I really liked that
• 58:17
  Speaker 3: pick the one. thing i would say you just sparked
• 58:21
  Speaker 3: my mind a little bit pat every draft selection we
• 58:25
  Speaker 3: made made the roster and i think that every draft
• 58:31
  Speaker 3: pick had a really good.
• 58:33
  Speaker 2: Preseason or a good preseason at the least.
• 58:36
  Speaker 3: Sure yeah um jeremy loved what i saw of him
• 58:40
  Speaker 3: obviously we didn't see much of max's Jeremy, I thought,
• 58:42
  Speaker 3: played great. Drew Aller, I wasn't, you know, at this
• 58:46
  Speaker 3: point I'm not thrilled about, but I thought he played
• 58:48
  Speaker 3: better than.
• 58:49
  Speaker 2: Advertised in my mind.
• 58:51
  Speaker 3: I thought he played solid and it was a little
• 58:53
  Speaker 3: tough to evaluate because of the talent playing with him.
• 58:56
  Speaker 3: Daylon Everett, I thought, had a great preseason. Jennings Dunker,
• 59:00
  Speaker 3: he was probably one that left you wanting a little
• 59:04
  Speaker 3: bit more.
• 59:05
  Speaker 2: You can be.
• 59:05
  Speaker 4: You could be comfortable with jennings dunker as a pick
• 59:08
  Speaker 4: and still say he was disappointing this preseason i think yeah.
• 59:11
  Speaker 3: And i don't think he had a bad preseason you
• 59:14
  Speaker 3: know i don't think he played his way out of
• 59:17
  Speaker 3: anything i just think he was he's a little bit
• 59:19
  Speaker 3: more of a project than we anticipated um but he
• 59:22
  Speaker 3: showed promise uh swiffer wet jet loved what he did
• 59:25
  Speaker 3: in the preseason offensively and in special teams um Going
• 59:29
  Speaker 3: down the list, I mean, Gabe Rubio, Riley Nowakowski, Spears Jennings,
• 59:34
  Speaker 3: Eli Heidenreich. I thought every single player that we drafted
• 59:38
  Speaker 3: showed something that we can hang our hat on. I
• 59:41
  Speaker 3: thought this was a phenomenal draft. I've been saying it
• 59:43
  Speaker 3: for a while, and I'm looking forward to watching this
• 59:45
  Speaker 3: draft class turn us back into a championship team.
• 59:48
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and, you know, going through the draft, I mean,
• 59:51
  Speaker 4: you kind of went pick by pick here, so I
• 59:54
  Speaker 4: think I'll take a shot at it. Max Ahanachor still–
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 4: I mean, promising, great athlete.
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 2: The worst pick in Stewart's history, as you said.
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 4: I haven't seen enough to form an opinion about him
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 4: one way or the other. Obviously, letting go of cutting
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 4: ties with Broderick is huge for him. Jeremy, I like
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 4: the pick. I thought he played really well this preseason.
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 4: Drew Aller, kind of what I expected. Daylon Everett, I
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 4: like that pick too. He played really well. He's earned
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 4: a roster spot. Jennings Dunker, I told you how I
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 4: feel about him. I'm not worried about him in the future.
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 4: I still like to pick for a guard, but would
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 4: have liked to have seen more in the preseason. Weijin,
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 4: that last game was really huge for him, hoping he
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 4: can get his average yards per return up, but also
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 4: take some touchdowns. Nowakowski kind of came in the right
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 4: place at the right time, getting him a fullback spot
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 4: with the departure of Connor Hayward not filling his shoes
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 4: with anyone else. And I like Nowakowski. He had a
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 4: fine preseason. Gabe Rubio, I think, is really the biggest
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 4: pleasant surprise of this draft class. Not that he's going
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 4: to be some stud defensive tackle, but this is a
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 4: guy nobody had ever known. He doesn't even have a
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 4: picture on the Steelers' website because he wasn't in any
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 4: draft profiles. And he really showed up and proved that
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 4: he deserved a roster spot there. Spears Jennings in the
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 4: seventh was a great pick and high in rank roster
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 4: bubble candidate.
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 1: Happy to see he made the 53. Yeah.
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 2: Anything else on the roster? I'm all spoken out.
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 4: I mean, we'll have more time next week as well
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 4: to address anything else. So I feel like there's something
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 4: I'm forgetting to ask you, but that's okay. We can
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 4: always revisit next week. Okay.
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 2: You got to answer the week.
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 1: I do.
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 2: I do.
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: This is the answer of the week.
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 4: It comes from a land that we all know, we
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 4: all love some more than others.
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 2: Oakland.
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 1: A land that is sheltered.
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 4: A land that has more flock cameras than anywhere else
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 4: in Pittsburgh.
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 2: Mount Lebanon, 22 flock cameras.
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 4: A land that is more comfortable protecting their property than
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 4: giving up their freedom.
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 2: They don't allow above-ground pulls in Mount Lebanon.
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 4: They don't allow above-ground pulls, and they have flock cameras everywhere.
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 4: But despite all that, a gem, a gem in the
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 4: seventh round of stud who made the team, Eli Heidenreich,
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 4: is my intro of the week.
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 2: All right. All right.
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 3: I've been bullish on him since the get. I'm excited
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 3: to have him on this team. You need more guys
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 3: like that on your team.
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 1: He is a football guy.
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he is. He's a football player. And he loves
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 2: the troops so much that he would be one himself.
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 3: Before we get into Doobie's little segment here, his trivia,
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 3: and Doobie did have some things he wanted to ask us.
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 3: I don't have a McGingy's hot lead for us this week, but...
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 3: For those of you who tailed me on the Cleveland
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 3: Browns bet last week, thank you. I love you, and
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 3: you're welcome. Because that was one of the sharpest picks
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 3: in McGingey's hot lead history.
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 2: We're now 2-2.
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 3: We're going to be even going into the season, primed
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 3: for a good year. So if we're seeing the board
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 3: that clear now, buckle up. It's going to be a
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 3: great year, boys.
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 1: No college football bet hot leads?
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 4: No.
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 2: I have nothing. Although, Pitt.
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 3: They're minus 16 and a half right now. You know,
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 3: it kind of looks pretty good. I'm definitely going to
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 3: be hitting that, but no official leads at this point.
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 2: All right, Doobie, what you got for us?
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 7: Alright, well, speaking of Pitt, they just dropped the gold
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 7: standard three-year strategic plan trying to get back to the
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 7: ACC championships.
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 5: Did they?
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 1: That's embarrassing.
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 2: That's basically all it said. Did it tell you any
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 2: steps on the three-year strategic plan?
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 5: We have semblance of a plan. We have parts of
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 5: a plan.
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 2: We call it the gold standard.
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 4: What is your plan?
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 5: We have Bits and pieces of a plan.
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 7: I've seen them. They have some revenue generation and resource
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 7: acquisition plans and some engagement and brand advancement plans.
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 2: We've heard it before at Pitt. That doesn't sound anything
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 2: like winning football.
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 1: I'm excited about all of those things.
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 7: That's what I kind of want to get your thoughts on,
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 7: is what are you guys thinking about this season?
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 2: Well, I'll tell you what.
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 3: If Marvel and Disney doesn't give us a good character,
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 3: then our season is doomed.
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 2: Because apparently your whole season relies on the type of
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 2: Disney character you get from them. Is that in the
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 2: gold standard plan? I don't think they mentioned that.
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 3: You get a good character from Disney. I think that's
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 3: probably in the gold standard plan. Um, no, I mean,
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 3: pits over under is set at what? Seven and a
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 3: half this year. It's a little high. I think six
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 3: and a half is probably a good line for them.
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 3: Let's see where the odds are over seven and a
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 3: half minus one 46 right now under seven and a
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 3: half plus one 25. So Vegas is saying that we're
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 3: going to at least win eight games. They say this
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 3: is at least an eight and four football teams. You
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 3: say you don't do, I'd be very happy with that.
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 2: Be thrilled with eight wins. Do I think we're going
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 2: to win eight games? Who the fuck knows, dude?
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 3: I mean, I'll tell you what, we got a good quarterback.
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 2: We got a quarterback who loves.
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 3: This city, wants to be here, never once considered leaving
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 3: or considered transferring. And I'm excited to, you know, ride
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 3: with Mason. Yeah.
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 5: I agree.
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 7: I think Mason's going to have a really good year.
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 7: I think it's going to come down to the defense.
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 7: If Pat Narduzzi can keep us together.
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 1: Offensive line's got to stay healthy, too.
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 7: Yep.
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 1: I don't know much about this.
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 4: Pit football team outside of the receivers and obviously the quarterback.
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 4: Let me look at the roster right now. I mean,
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 4: last year, I know more players than I thought.
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 3: Mason ended up going 6-1 after the bench of, what's
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 3: his name, Nate Peterman Jr. I think when you watch
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 3: us play against teams like Miami and Notre Dame, the
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 3: biggest difference and the most visible advantage they had is
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 3: the trenches, offensive line and defensive line. So much bigger,
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 3: so much stronger, so much faster, so much better in
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 3: those aspects. It really becomes impossible to beat teams like that.
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 1: Sure.
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely.
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 4: And we saw we had a fantastic O-line at this
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 4: point last year and just injuries, man. It was like
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 4: every game I was watching someone on the O-line go
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 4: down and felt like.
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 3: And the ACC is low key kind of stock this year.
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 3: I mean, that Virginia team looks real good the other day.
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 3: They made the ACC championship last year and they added
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 3: Bo Pribola, who is kind of a stud, to be honest,
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 3: you know, transferred from Missouri previously backing up Drew Aller
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 3: at Penn State, ran for a hundred yards through for
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 3: a couple hundred more.
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 2: I think Virginia is going to be a sneaky team
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 2: in the ACC.
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 3: And I think they're kind of riddled with, with teams
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 3: right along that level, you know, Virginia is, I think
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 3: Pitt is like right behind them. NC State's supposedly pretty
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 3: good this year. Clemson's out right outside the top 25.
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 4: Virginia Tech kind of having a classic Penn State season
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 4: where they get a lot of wins.
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 1: And just don't do anything with James Franklin.
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 3: And then you add James Franklin who, you know, more
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 3: than likely is just going to lose some big games,
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 3: but beat all the teams he should beat and be competitive. It's,
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 3: The ACC is wide open, and it's not because they're
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 3: a bunch of bad teams.
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 1: I'd say still a bit top-heavy, though.
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 2: I don't know. I think they're pretty deep.
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 7: Looking at the Pitt schedule here, I'm saying ending at
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 7: Louisville and at Cal is a bad sign for our season.
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 4: Yeah, well, Florida State at home and then at Louisville
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 4: at Cal. I mean, those three games could be rough.
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Louisville's another one of those teams that, like, is
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 3: pretty good, not great. You know, SMU, another one of
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 3: those teams that's pretty good, not great. You could even throw,
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 3: you know, Duke and North Carolina in there. North Carolina,
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 3: you know, who knows how they'll do. But I think
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 3: they're just– I think they're deep. I don't think they're
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 3: as top-heavy as you think, Pat.
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 4: I'm looking forward to seeing another year of Bill Belichick
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 4: at Pitt this year.
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 3: I just can't wait to watch Pat Narduzzi coach this
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 3: team again. I mean, what a great coach that guy is.
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 3: He always does everything right, makes every single call correctly,
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 3: never makes any mistakes, says everything the right way in
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 3: post games and pre games.
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 2: I mean, that's just really what you want out of
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 2: a head coach.
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 1: He just owns it. You know, he never blames it
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 1: on the refs.
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 2: Never.
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 1: It's all him. He never blames it on NIL. He
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 1: just owns it, man.
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 2: He never even blames it on his own players. He
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 2: would never do that.
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 4: No.
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 2: He's just a great stand-up guy.
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 3: All jokes aside, when we were living on campus after graduation,
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 3: I would see Pat Narduzzi. Me and King Brony, King
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 3: of Beaver County, are sitting at a bar, and we
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 3: look out, and Pat Narduzzi is pushing a Make-A-Wish girl
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 3: in a wheelchair every single night. I will give him
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 3: some respect for being good to the community.
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I met him at the draft. He had a little.
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 4: Some of the Pitt players had a booth, and they
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 4: were giving autographs, and it felt weird.
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 1: What did you tell him?
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 5: I said, Hi, Mr.
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 1: Coach Narduzzi, sir. Let's have a great year, sir.
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 2: I'm your biggest fan, sir. Please bend over, pull your
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 2: pants down, I'm going to suck your cock.
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 1: Can you... Can you please sign my pit towel, sir?
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 1: I'll hang it right up in my apartment right.
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 5: Away, sir. I have a glove in my pocket.
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 2: Can you please inspect me for cancer?
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 3: Oh, god damn it. It's another year as a pit fan,
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 3: isn't it? We're in store for it again. It starts again.
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 2: You said it.
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 1: Well, we're signing up for it.
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to it. You know, 7, 8 a.m.
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 4: To noon is what I'm looking forward to outside the stadium.
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 5: Absolutely.
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 7: Sandwiches from Uncle Doobie.
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 2: We might need Uncle Doobie week one skewers, too.
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 3: I mean, word on the street is Pat is going
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 3: to be really late to the tailgate.
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm going to be real late.
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 2: Like, really late.
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 1: 9-11 weekend, I'm flying in from Chicago.
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 4: Oh.
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he might not make it at all.
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Let's relax.
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 2: I'm not saying anything wrong. You brought up 9-11.
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 1: It's a date on my calendar.
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 2: It's not just a date for me, Pat.
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 1: I remember.
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 2: Just because you forgot doesn't mean I forget.
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 1: That's my friend's birthday.
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 2: Just because this country forgot doesn't mean I forget, Pat.
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 1: It's Bill from Plum's birthday. And Big Bill from Plum's birthday.
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 2: Double Bill action.
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 3: We got to see them in the parking lot. Maybe
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 3: we call Bill Sr. and see if he wants to
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 3: do some cooking, too.
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I don't know if we're getting Uncle Doobie to
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 7: a Steeler game.
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 2: No, it would have to be a Christmas miracle. What's
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 2: the trivia question? Yeah, on to trivia.
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 7: So last week, McGingy, you were on the nose with it.
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 7: It was Isaac Redman.
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 5: Dang.
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 2: Preseason Bettis, huh?
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 7: Yep, you knew it right away.
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 9: Dang.
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 4: He needs to change his fucking last name already.
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 5: Isaac Redman.
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 2: Okay, Pat.
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 1: That's bullshit.
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 2: Well, I couldn't agree more, Pat. It's disgusting.
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 1: It should be Isaac Guardian Man.
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Washington did change there. Isaac Commander Man. Anyways, Jimmy.
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 7: You guys ready for this week?
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 2: I'm ready.
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 2: We're going to stick with the preseason.
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 9: Trend.
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 7: So which Steelers wide receiver led the NFL, the entire NFL,
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 7: in preseason receiving yards in 2013, earning the nickname August Antonio,
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 7: but was still cut during final roster cuts and never
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 7: made a regular season roster spot again? I'll give you
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 7: guys a little hint, too. He's from Beaver County.
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 2: I know this one, so I'm not going to say it.
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 2: Former Pitt Panther.
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 5: I don't know.
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 2: He was not.
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 4: No?
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 1: Nope.
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 2: Not Antonio Bryant.
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 5: It was not.
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 2: Wow. Okay.
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 7: Antonio Bryant was like 2000.
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, a little bit earlier probably. Yeah, so I don't
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 2: know this one. Okay. Yeah, hit us up on Twitter.
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 3: Correct answers. We'll get a koozie courtesy of Tarps Off Radio.
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 3: That's pretty much it. We'll be back for you next Wednesday,
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 3: 8 a.m.
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 2: Usual spot. We've got a big week one show planned
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 2: for you guys.
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 3: Aircraft has been nonstop texting me about his eye in
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 3: the sky. Possible guests coming on, you know, obviously Atlanta
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 3: week one, big show.
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 2: I'm excited. I hope you're excited. Pat, why don't you
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 2: take us away?
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 1: Aircrafts chops. All of our chops, dude. My chops are waterlogged.
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 5: They're wrinkled.
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 4: Looks like my fucking finger in a fucking swimming pool
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 4: for eight hours.
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 1: That's how wet they.
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 2: Are, McGinji.
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 1: I have been licking my chops for months now.
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 2: Sloppy chops.
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 1: My chops haven't been dry in months, McGinji.
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 2: See you guys next week.
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 5: And can I get Pat from Torps Off to the stage?
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 1: Pat from Torps Off to the stage, please.
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 5: All right, Tequila Cowboy! How you doing? I'm going to
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 5: sing a song about the Stellars!
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 1: Turn it up, DJ!
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 6: Yeah!
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 8: Conditions here, we're facing a problem.
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 6: We lost our head coach, Michael Tomlin. I know it
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 6: was time for him to go, but it still hurts.
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 6: When he tells me we'll find another, I'll tell you
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 6: what's the real onion cutter. I'll miss Danny Smith and
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 6: his bubble gum, but who's the one?
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 5: So I drink, and I stink, and I pray. Mike McCarty!
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 5: It's Mike McCarty! Greenfield! Greenfield! He's from down Greenfield! Mike McCarty!
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 5: His name's Mike McCarty!
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 2: And he's sandwiched!
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 5: Double meat and egg, please!
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 6: So I drink, and I smeg, Donna Dale's Mike McCarthy.
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 5: It's Mike McCarthy.
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 3: Greenfield, Greenfield.
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 5: From over there in Greenfield.
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 6: I didn't care about anything but jeans.
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 8: Lately I can't help but to ponder How long must
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 8: we wait here for Rogers? I thought him and Big
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 8: Mike were tight as hell.
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 5: Like Mikey's belt Rogers, Mason, Howard, I don't care. I
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 5: want a long party while Cam's here.
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 8: If Mike gets TJ a ring, I'll get on my.
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 1: Knees if that's his thing.
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 5: So I drank and I snick and I brained. Mike McCartney.
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 5: It's Mike McCartney. Greenfield, Greenfield. He's from down in Greenfield.
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 4: Mike McCartney.
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 6: His name's Mike McCartney.
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 2: A man, he's sandwiched.
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 5: Double meat and eggs, please. So I drink and I smoke.
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 5: Down at Jagoff's.
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 3: Mike McCartney.
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 5: It's Mike McCartney. Greenville, Greenville. That day from that Greenville.
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 8: I didn't care about anything but a Super Bowl.
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 5: You can't tell me how to play without the smellers.
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 5: They leave their address on the counter. Get your fucking
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 5: hands off me.