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Steelers defeat Ravens, Thursday Night focus · The Irish Steelers Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Everybody, welcome into the Irish Theaters podcast, looking back on
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  Speaker 1: Week eleven of the season and getting set for week
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  Speaker 1: twelve in a short week for the Steelers. Michael mcquid,
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  Speaker 1: Jimmy English, Davog McKee here on Ireland's podcast for the
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  Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Steelers, eminating not just across the island of Ireland,
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  Speaker 1: but across the world as well. And you're all very
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  Speaker 1: very welcome as we sit here and talk about the
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  Speaker 1: Steelers team on fire after defeating the Baltimore Ravens to
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  Speaker 1: move to eaton two in the season. Jimmy, it's time
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  Speaker 1: for Thursday night football. Man.
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  Speaker 2: How are you doing.
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  Speaker 3: I'm good, Nick, I'm good.
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  Speaker 4: This distress level so just about were turned to normal
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  Speaker 4: after that Steelers and Ravens game.
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  Speaker 2: I always said I was.
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  Speaker 4: One nervous boy the entire way throughout waiting for Lamar
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  Speaker 4: Jackson could put off America. But no good win for
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  Speaker 4: the Steelers. We're sitting attop now the ASC North eight
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  Speaker 4: and two. I'm honestly I think we can. I think
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  Speaker 4: we can run the the scout at this stage. The
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  Speaker 4: way they're playing absolutely balling out. And look, it wasn't
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  Speaker 4: the perfect game by any means it was a classic
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  Speaker 4: AFC North, you know, defensive battle, not a lot on
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  Speaker 4: offense from our steeters, but look will take the win.
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  Speaker 4: We're sitting pretty now eating two and we could be
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  Speaker 4: a dark horse for the for the super Bowl.
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  Speaker 2: Get those flights.
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  Speaker 1: I literally tax these boys and Sunday and said, get
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  Speaker 1: the flights book today.
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  Speaker 2: Looking forward to Thursday night.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously we'll talk about Browns gaming a few months and Jimmy,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's good to hear from me as well man
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  Speaker 1: doing November. Shout out to everybody doing November here dog,
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  Speaker 1: I feel like we almost need to jump over and
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  Speaker 1: meet each other because with a little bit ten and
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  Speaker 1: i's got to watch this Thursday night game. This season,
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  Speaker 1: as Jimmy says, is getting better and better each week
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  Speaker 1: and he hitting two teams. And we sort of said
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  Speaker 1: last week in the podcast, behind important the walls, just
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  Speaker 1: to get over the edge against the Threevens teams who
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  Speaker 1: looked really, really good, didn't happen to them last week.
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  Speaker 1: Great to see though, just for our sort of viewpoint,
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  Speaker 1: how are you doing? Have you been living a highlight
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  Speaker 1: for the last seventy two hours after that after that game,
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  Speaker 1: I have.
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  Speaker 5: Been Mecca just sort of like Jimmy said there, I
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  Speaker 5: barely have any fingers, neil fingernails left after that one.
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  Speaker 2: It was incredible, but no extremes.
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  Speaker 5: Such an extremely valuable win, you know, gives us a
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  Speaker 5: two game cushing in the FC North. You know, Steelers
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  Speaker 5: Ravens football. It's a absolute finals, low scoring, biting the
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  Speaker 5: finger nails, toughest team wins the game. At the end
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  Speaker 5: of the day, I think there was nineteen penalties. I
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  Speaker 5: felt like a lot of times the raft were losing
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  Speaker 5: the troubler of the game. There was that many scuffles.
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  Speaker 5: But a great weekend to be a Steeler fan. Not
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  Speaker 5: only were the Ravens losing to us, but also the
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  Speaker 5: Browns lost, the Bengals lost. It leaves us, you know,
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  Speaker 5: seton Cushie at the top of the f C North.
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  Speaker 5: So I'm couldn't be a happier And as Jimmy said there,
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  Speaker 5: I think we are a good dark horse win the
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  Speaker 5: super Bowl now. But yeah, really happy living the high life.
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  Speaker 5: And yeah, I'm not going to book the flightstar of
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  Speaker 5: the New Orleans just yet, but we'll see how it
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  Speaker 5: goes in the next couple of weeks.
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  Speaker 4: The weeks against an Airbnb by the way, I'm looking
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  Speaker 4: at options now at the minute. Do you get in
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  Speaker 4: get into those DM that it's pricey for new So
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  Speaker 4: I'd love the black and goal to get there.
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  Speaker 2: Bush.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. It could be an interesting one if
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  Speaker 3: we have to make that trip across.
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  Speaker 1: Early days and yet the first and night against Cleveland
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  Speaker 1: and then Cincinnati who aren't doing too great themselves for
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  Speaker 1: different reasons, but still playing well on offense to an extent,
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  Speaker 1: and Cleveland with home again and then Philly, Baltimore, Kansas
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  Speaker 1: City and Cincinnati. I just had that very can't. Oh yeah,
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  Speaker 1: all those games, A lot of the FC North games
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  Speaker 1: coming up, and Jimmy, I guess before we talk about
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  Speaker 1: this game coming up this week, just for you, are
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  Speaker 1: you more of a sort of guy that loves old
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  Speaker 1: school football like that was? That was old school football
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  Speaker 1: and something and I'm not gonna lie. I loved it.
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  Speaker 1: And I look, I love high scoring games like I
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  Speaker 1: love watching college football. There's fifty sixty points in the game.
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  Speaker 1: But he was just so nervy and it was that
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  Speaker 1: like yinser sort of you know strategy where it was
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  Speaker 1: it was pongee football, nosebleeds sort of football. I loved it.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't really like I wouldn't say I'm overly concerned
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  Speaker 1: the fact that the Seders in passing touchdown in the game.
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  Speaker 1: Sort of I knew it was going to be tight.
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  Speaker 1: And that's where you know, you expect your special teams
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  Speaker 1: to really pick up and to really perform on the
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  Speaker 1: day because you need that. You know, you need guys
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  Speaker 1: like Chris Boswell, and we know how good he is
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  Speaker 1: a long from fifty seven on the day and when
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  Speaker 1: it's hard, especially on the field and in an AFC
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  Speaker 1: North matchup like that, when it's starting to get cold,
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  Speaker 1: it's so so important to have those guys there. So
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  Speaker 1: I'm not too concerned about that. But are you a
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  Speaker 1: point sky, are you a nerve guy or a bit
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  Speaker 1: of both.
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  Speaker 2: I think I'm definitely a points guy.
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  Speaker 4: I make I'm definitely an offensively minded former player, an
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  Speaker 4: offensive love.
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  Speaker 2: I love the high scoring games. I love the big.
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  Speaker 4: Explosive plays, and they were a few and far between
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  Speaker 4: in the game against the Ravens and someday. Look, all
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  Speaker 4: I'll say is in Buzz we trust Bozo Manick whenever
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  Speaker 4: SUPERTEDI if you want to get out there, he was
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  Speaker 4: absolutely on fire and in games like this and the girl.
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  Speaker 4: I've been watching the steal it in Ravens now for years,
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  Speaker 4: years and they're always tight, can't get tightly contested battles.
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  Speaker 3: And it was a game of five margins as well.
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  Speaker 4: Right, I mean, Justin Tucker had two crucial missed field
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  Speaker 4: goals which could have been the difference at the end
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  Speaker 4: of the day with the with how title was in
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  Speaker 4: the end, you know, coming down to only a couple
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  Speaker 4: of points different. Also, like it got real real nervy
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  Speaker 4: towards the end when the Ravens were driving down and
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  Speaker 4: they got that touchdown and then elected to go for
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  Speaker 4: two as we all knew they would, and then Lamar
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  Speaker 4: Jackson got swarmed by a load of black and gold jerseys.
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  Speaker 2: So you love to see that.
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  Speaker 3: I do love the chippiness as well.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, like I said, it was a classic Steeters
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  Speaker 4: Ravens at North smash Mount football. Just at several points
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  Speaker 4: there was there was a combination of handbags and at
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  Speaker 4: the odds shmuzzle as well, So I think it was
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  Speaker 4: that boiling point for for most of the fixture and
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  Speaker 4: you just you just love it. But I had a
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  Speaker 4: hard time sleeping afterwards, especially with the games that they
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  Speaker 4: came on afterwards. But it was like a great game
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  Speaker 4: and hopefully we can we can carry the momentum in
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  Speaker 4: there to the rest of the schedule, because are some
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  Speaker 4: of our toughest tests are now behind this. We have
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  Speaker 4: passed them, but then.
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  Speaker 3: We're not in the clear by any means, I don't
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  Speaker 3: think quite yet.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that that fifteenth, twenty first, twenty fifth on TBD
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  Speaker 1: probably just early in the year that that just looks
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  Speaker 1: so vital now, but it's been getting from then to
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  Speaker 1: now and then maybe being able to afford a loss
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  Speaker 1: for two and see in the crack dovug and you know,
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  Speaker 1: going up against the Ravens offense that many people and
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  Speaker 1: look I still do it's for me. It's top two,
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  Speaker 1: top three offense in football. This defense had them. They
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  Speaker 1: held them to minus zero point thirteen EPA per play,
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  Speaker 1: forty percent success rate, and force free turnovers on the day. Now, look,
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  Speaker 1: Pittsburgh themselves had a thirty two percent success rate and
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  Speaker 1: both offenses didn't do well. But at the end of
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  Speaker 1: the day, the defense to this job and limited the
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  Speaker 1: team that we're doing very very well at sixteen points.
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  Speaker 1: There's that, but Also we got to talk about Arthur
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  Speaker 1: Smith's main moment where he lost the head, and I
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  Speaker 1: think at the point, like if we haven't lost the game,
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  Speaker 1: it probably wouldn't have been the thing we could have
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  Speaker 1: talked about bags. What's funny shows how investity is in
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  Speaker 1: his team, Like Dovid.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I think you know when when rushed through that
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  Speaker 5: interception in the end zone, I think that was the
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  Speaker 5: reaction of Avery Steelers on Planet Earth.
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  Speaker 2: It was just what are you doing?
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  Speaker 5: But you know it's something you know you mentioned there
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  Speaker 5: about you know, the Ravens offense. I'm actually gonna defend
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  Speaker 5: Lamar Jackson because I myself have been very critical of
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  Speaker 5: him and I see a lot of people that have
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  Speaker 5: been missing him, you know, saying about his record against
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  Speaker 5: Steelers and the Chiefs, and people need to remember that,
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  Speaker 5: you know, his just as Jimmy said there as checker
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  Speaker 5: missed two field goals madwhile ours was a perfect six
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  Speaker 5: of six. You know, we have the best checker in
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  Speaker 5: the league there, do not? I know, Justin Tucker, He's
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  Speaker 5: been regarded for many years as the best chicker. He
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  Speaker 5: seems like he's lost it this year. He's been very
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  Speaker 5: poor and we won the turnover bottle three to one,
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  Speaker 5: those of you know, two of those not being his fault,
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  Speaker 5: two of those great players by our defense. You know,
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  Speaker 5: potterck Queens specifically had an amazing game against his old team,
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  Speaker 5: and you know, the offense, of course there were nowhere
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  Speaker 5: near as good as they had been previously. Russell Wilson
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  Speaker 5: as it was just a minute, probably his worst game
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  Speaker 5: under center as a Steeler, you know, got pick in
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  Speaker 5: the end zone was just I think even Russ would
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  Speaker 5: have met himself. It's just something you can't do with
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  Speaker 5: that Stagson the game where it could put us up
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  Speaker 5: by you know, by yet points at the time, although
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  Speaker 5: we did end up going up because of bos Well,
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  Speaker 5: but you know, it was just a costing mistake at
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  Speaker 5: that time. But thankfully it didn't come back to beout us.
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  Speaker 5: And I just feel like, you know, our ability to
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  Speaker 5: lean on that league's best defense, it's just a luxury
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  Speaker 5: most teams don't have. You know, the Rams are number
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  Speaker 5: one on offense in the league. We reduced you know
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  Speaker 5: them the sixteen points, reduced the MVPID and nothing basically
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  Speaker 5: and of course probably the best running back in the
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  Speaker 5: league as well. You know, under seventy yards. I think
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  Speaker 5: he was didn't get a touch in the fourth quarter.
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  Speaker 5: You know, every single amount of that defense, you know,
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  Speaker 5: can hold their heads up high and you know played
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  Speaker 5: with great passion. You know, didn't give up a single yard.
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  Speaker 5: And so overall it was a coaching Martis class across
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  Speaker 5: the board, really really proud, and yeah, couldn't be happier
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  Speaker 5: with the performance overall, just to jump.
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  Speaker 2: In there and make quickly.
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  Speaker 4: In Russell Wilson's defense, it wasn't entirely his fault. I
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  Speaker 4: don't think the performance he had in most cases, he
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  Speaker 4: had no time to actually settle and find receivers he
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  Speaker 4: was being the offensive line gave up so much pressure.
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  Speaker 4: So I think that's something that needs to be addressed
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  Speaker 4: big time ahead of the Browns and their pass rus
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  Speaker 4: this Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: Also, I would like.
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  Speaker 4: To see the receivers from the art downfield break off
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  Speaker 4: their roots to get into the good old scramble drill.
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  Speaker 4: If you do see your quarterback running for his life,
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  Speaker 4: break off your route and get open. That's that's something
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  Speaker 4: you're thought at, you know, when you're a young wide receiver,
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  Speaker 4: is to help your quarterback out. So I think that
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  Speaker 4: there was a couple of factors there that might have
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  Speaker 4: mitigated his his overall poor performance on the day.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, you know, I don't fault them with
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  Speaker 3: that interception.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, he might have been better off throwing it out
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  Speaker 4: of bounds, throwing it away, but I think Darnell Washington
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  Speaker 4: should have had the awareness to get his head around
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  Speaker 4: and make a play even if he was triple coverage.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, the man at six five, six six, he's
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  Speaker 4: he could have boxed at any any defender on that
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  Speaker 4: on that field, I'm made to play on that ball.
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  Speaker 3: So for a change, I'm.
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  Speaker 4: Sticking up for Russell Wilson looks the Again, it comes
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  Speaker 4: down to the scenario and the environment, and it was
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  Speaker 4: just one of those days we got to win, but
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  Speaker 4: definitely a lot of things to be cleaned up before
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  Speaker 4: the Browns this Thursday night.
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  Speaker 1: I'm really enjoying, like just to odd the way you're saying,
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  Speaker 1: I'm really enjoying the personal relation that Wilson seems to
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  Speaker 1: have his offense, in the way that he spoke so
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  Speaker 1: highly of of Justin Fields as well. There just seems
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  Speaker 1: to be a good vibe. Yes, they're grinding on that
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  Speaker 1: results and look sometimes she did a bit of look
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  Speaker 1: as well. But there's seems to be a really really
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  Speaker 1: good vibe in that locker room right now, it which
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  Speaker 1: is great. And we're gonna look ahead of this first
• 10:42
  Speaker 1: night football game very quickly before we do that. It's
• 10:44
  Speaker 1: a short week this week usually coach Tomlin's press conference
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  Speaker 1: of the Tuesday it took place on the Monday. Let's
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  Speaker 1: hear what he had to say ahead of this game
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  Speaker 1: against the Browns on Thursday night football.
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  Speaker 6: What can we perform on a limited amount of physical repetitions?
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  Speaker 6: What do we need to, you know, take a calculated
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  Speaker 6: risk in terms of running on a limited amount of
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  Speaker 6: physical repetitions. I just think that that's always the case
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  Speaker 6: on Thursday. We don't default to, you know, based menus
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  Speaker 6: and things of that nature. Particularly when you plan someone
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  Speaker 6: that is familiar with you, as Cleveland is with us.
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  Speaker 6: It is worth the trouble to ponder what's appropriate to
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  Speaker 6: run and what's not. How innovative can we be, how
• 11:30
  Speaker 6: expansive can our menus be impress the envelope in that direction?
• 11:34
  Speaker 6: And so we got some hardcore decisions there. You also
• 11:37
  Speaker 6: got some hardcore decisions about how you work. What's the
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  Speaker 6: nature of your work. Are they walk throughs? Are they
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  Speaker 6: run throughs on a limited amount of preparation time on
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  Speaker 6: a short week? What does that look like? And you know,
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  Speaker 6: you manage the balancing the act of getting them in
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  Speaker 6: the stadium physically prepared while at the same time preserving
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  Speaker 6: them acknowledging that they We're in a significant physical football
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  Speaker 6: game yesterday, and so we got that decision to make,
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  Speaker 6: and then how to best utilize the last twenty four hours.
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  Speaker 6: You know, we go to Cleveland on Wednesday. Oftentimes when
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  Speaker 6: you travel on the road, that last twenty four hours
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  Speaker 6: is loosely organized, not necessarily so on a short week,
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  Speaker 6: how we organize that time, How we utilize that time
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  Speaker 6: players and coaches, I think will be significant in terms
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  Speaker 6: of determining our readiness. And so those are some of
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  Speaker 6: the things that had my attention as I quickly transition
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  Speaker 6: to this prep on an injury note. Hadn't checked in
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  Speaker 6: on Alex Highsmith in terms of seeing what his availability
• 12:43
  Speaker 6: might look like. If you press me, I'd probably say
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  Speaker 6: he's more out than in. But we'll see where this
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  Speaker 6: short week leads us. Like the trajectory of some others,
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  Speaker 6: prou it Ben went down in game but appears to
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  Speaker 6: be a non issue from yesterday. All the guys that
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  Speaker 6: sustained something in game doesn't appear to be an issue
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  Speaker 6: moving forward, and so that's exciting. We open the window
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  Speaker 6: for Corey Trice, as you guys know, last week, and
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  Speaker 6: he had a good week's work and maybe available to us,
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  Speaker 6: and so we'll see where that leads us as well.
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  Speaker 6: And so we'll manage some of these player availability things
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  Speaker 6: and divisional labor things, particularly on a short week. How
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  Speaker 6: you distribute carries, how you distribute reps in terms of defenders,
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  Speaker 6: and an effort to keep everyone fresh, I think is
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  Speaker 6: critical strategic decisions that have to happen on a short week.
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  Speaker 6: I'm not complaining about it by any stretch. Cleveland has
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  Speaker 6: to make the same decisions, and so from that standpoint
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  Speaker 6: is very fair. I'll turn my attention now to Cleveland
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  Speaker 6: and talk about some of the challenges of preparing for them,
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  Speaker 6: starting first and foremost with their offense. Man, I'm really
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  Speaker 6: just trying to get a sense of what does Ken
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  Speaker 6: Dorsey as the primary play caller mean, How is it different,
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  Speaker 6: What are the challenges for us relative to what we're
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  Speaker 6: used to regarding Cleveland, And so that's gonna be a challenge.
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  Speaker 6: Obviously we've seen Ken in the past from his time
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  Speaker 6: in Buffalo, but these last three games way a heck
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  Speaker 6: of a lot more than the ones that proceed because
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  Speaker 6: of the significance of him as a central play caller.
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  Speaker 6: It coupled with that, obviously is winstand in that quarterback,
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  Speaker 6: and so we gotta familiarize ourselves with with that tandem
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  Speaker 6: and how they work and what does that mean to
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  Speaker 6: their schematics and personality on offense. Obviously, they got some
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  Speaker 6: known people that we have to deal with. Mister Chubb
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  Speaker 6: first and foremost, just got so much respect for his
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  Speaker 6: game and his body of work and his capabilities. From
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  Speaker 6: an appreciator of football standpoint, man, it's really good to
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  Speaker 6: see him back. But from a guy that competes against
• 15:02
  Speaker 6: him this week, obviously he has our attention. Jerome Ford
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  Speaker 6: I thought stood in for him in a real solid
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  Speaker 6: way a year ago and continues to do those things. Man,
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  Speaker 6: he's a home run hitter. He's a guy that's capable
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  Speaker 6: of breaking big runs. He broke a big run on
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  Speaker 6: us last year, his last year at Cincinnati. We did
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  Speaker 6: a lot of work on him in draft prep. I
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  Speaker 6: think He had more explosion runs than anybody in that
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  Speaker 6: draft pool, and so his big play capabilities have our attention.
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  Speaker 6: They got some turnover at the receiver position, but it's
• 15:35
  Speaker 6: not lack of talent there. Judy is new to them,
• 15:38
  Speaker 6: but he's not new to the NFL. Man. He's coming
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  Speaker 6: off of a really big game. Uh. They're acquired more
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  Speaker 6: from the Jets last year, and he's a top notch
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  Speaker 6: slot receiver. There's been some strong development in Tillman on
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  Speaker 6: the outside, and I think his growth and development is
• 15:55
  Speaker 6: probably the central reason why they were comfortable moving on
• 15:58
  Speaker 6: from Cooper at the trade deadline. Watching his play and
• 16:02
  Speaker 6: looking at his statistics and particularly of late, you see
• 16:06
  Speaker 6: that growth in production, in the cohesion that he's gaining
• 16:09
  Speaker 6: in terms of his professional career. We got some work
• 16:12
  Speaker 6: to do there. And then last week it was the
• 16:15
  Speaker 6: first time they activated Tony and they had some packages
• 16:19
  Speaker 6: for him. You couple all of those eligibles that I
• 16:23
  Speaker 6: mentioned with Nijoku at tight end, and obviously we're highly
• 16:26
  Speaker 6: familiar with him. He is a challenge.
• 16:29
  Speaker 5: It's been ratings weekends, and as with a victory, do
• 16:32
  Speaker 5: you feel more sense of relief or a more sense.
• 16:34
  Speaker 6: Of relation really, I'm just on to Cleveland. Maybe it's
• 16:38
  Speaker 6: just a nature that this is a Thursday night, but
• 16:41
  Speaker 6: by the time my car leaves that parking lot, I'm
• 16:44
  Speaker 6: on the move. I've been in it too long to
• 16:46
  Speaker 6: bathe in it, to be quite honest.
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: With you, Thursday Night Football, big week for the theaters.
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: Week twelve of the NFL season on. It's hard to
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: believe that we're only a matter of weeks away from
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: the regular season ending, and as it stands, we are
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: looking at a Steelers team touch wood, please God, gonna
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: make it into the playoffs. And it's great to hear
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: there from coach Tumblin on the Irish Steelers podcast. And
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: I guess just looking forward to this game on Thursday
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: Night Football. Look, I'm not lie. It's coffee for me,
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: but I'm gonna say up and I keep going. I
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: told myself actually in August that this is the one
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: THURSDA night football game itself for actuallyself, for a couple
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: of self, for player four. But I'm up, I'm pumped,
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: I'm ready to go. So looking forward to hearing everybody
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: on Thursday Night Live. The chance, I think for me,
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: the chance to go nine and two is just huge
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: and to go nine and two. Please God, if it
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: happens so worthy in the week, Jimmy is great before
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: the rest of the NFL players, So touchwood it happens.
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: On the other hand as well, if that wasn't the
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: case and we were the fall, especially a team that's
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: this two and eight, it would be disappointing. So that's
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: why it's such a make a break game for me.
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: It doesn't matter how many wins you've got. Every game.
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: Every week you start owing oh again. And that's the
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: way that I see it. And the Browns, obviously, as
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: I said that, are two and eight following their week
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: eleven loss against the New Orleans scenes with a bit
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: of rizzy ball going to and out on the season.
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: It's been a rough season for Cleveland, and look, there
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: are many questions about the future of the Cleveland Browns.
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: We're not going to do an autopsy on the Browns,
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: but the Browns clearly need to figure out what they're
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: going to do in that quarterback room. I guess one
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: of the biggest things to me as well is as
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: we look at the Browns, this is the team where
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: a lot of people expected them to do a lot
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: better and we said ourselves coming into this season, I
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: fully expected the Browns to be challenged for the AFC
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: North and it hasn't happened. You know, they're preparing for
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: this week obviously against the Stelers. They've put offensive tackle
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: for people listening, Darwin Jones on IR He's suffer season
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: ending leg injury last week as well and made a
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: couple of changes there and then just quickly as well,
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: obviously coach Tomlin saying there and saying this week in
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: this press conference, Keanuck Benton. His injury is a non issue,
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: but they are expecting as of right now we're recording
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: on Tuesday afternoon suresy Tuesday evening time, they're expecting Alex
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: high Smith, who is likely to miss this Browns game. Jimmy,
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: I usually say that you know the keys of the
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: game from me here in the run game here, I think
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: after the week that we had last week with the
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: Ravens and the lack of offensive scoring, especially with touchdowns,
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: past touchdowns and passing yards, for me, it's get that
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: ball on the field and hopefully we see Russell mcturishly
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: touchdown passes on primetime television, and that's my key to
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: the game. What's your faults on the Browns overall, and
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: do you have a key to the game also wing
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: up against them?
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I'm approaching this one with quind of
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: kind of quiet, cautious optimism. And you know, Stee Simon
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: have been watching the team long enough, we'll know meck
• 19:32
  Speaker 4: that they we have a tendency to play down to
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: teams that are not doing quite well. We've seen that
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: throughout the years, and historically I think the Browns have
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: been especially when they're not playing well, they have been
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: a track team. So I am cautious that we might
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: you know, be riding a bit high and be full
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: of maybe overblown confidence after that close winning against the
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: Ravens and not come in fully prepared.
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: So I think that's one just to be cautious of.
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: Although we have seen the Browns are.
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: In full on meltdown mode right now, so that's definitely
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: gonna be in our to our advantage. I think for me,
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: the key to the game is just get more sacks.
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: We've had a couple of sackless games down in a row,
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: I think. And while you know TJ One and the
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: guys along the line, they're playing fantastic.
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: They completely discombobulated Lamara Jackson. Last weekend. We shut down
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: Derrick Henry.
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: We we had we sorry, we did have one sack
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: that was that was disallowed due to I think it
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: was a defensive holding at one stage. So definitely need
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: to get after, need to get after the Browns starting
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: quarterback Jameis Winston a little bit more.
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: Put some pressure on him. That's the biggest thing for me,
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: is just more pressure off the edge, more sacks, more
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: QB hurries. And then again and just to echo what
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: you said, offensively, we need touchdowns. We can't be relying
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: on the golden boot of Chris Boswell for the rest
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: of the season. We need to get those sixes on
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: the board.
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: And just overall, and I've been saying it for the
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: past couple of weeks, it's just cleaning up small things.
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: We are getting the wins and there's no denying that
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: it that this particular brand of football is working. But
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: the offense just needs to step up and get points
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: on the board big time. And I think we look
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: the Saints are by no means a good team right now.
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: They have bounced back a little bit and they completely
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: blew the brands out of the park last weekend thirty
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: five to fourteen. So there's no reason that the steeters
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: when our offense can't go in and do the same,
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: if not more damage.
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: So we will wait and see.
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: Fully agree with divog and not no picks yet. It
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: don't be making a lodgement just yet. But key to
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: the game. It's hard against this bronze team because Jimmy's
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: want to said it there, it's a bit like soccer
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: when it's a cup or a cup final, team's rolls
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: up for playing certain teams.
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: I feel were.
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: Football, maybe nobody cares that's a two win bronze team.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: This is their cup final this weekend.
• 21:51
  Speaker 5: No, you're you're just right. And Jimmy's even mentioned that,
• 21:55
  Speaker 5: you know, when you come off such a high emotional
• 21:57
  Speaker 5: victory in the NFL, it's difficult to back it up
• 21:59
  Speaker 5: with any great you know.
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: This is why maybe we wouldn't.
• 22:03
  Speaker 5: Have wanted the whole FC nor schedule to be at
• 22:06
  Speaker 5: this side, because there's so many emotional games and you're
• 22:08
  Speaker 5: coming up against players that you've been playing only a
• 22:10
  Speaker 5: couple of weeks ago as well. So it's certainly a
• 22:12
  Speaker 5: game we need to be worry of mac. Divisional games
• 22:14
  Speaker 5: are always close. You know, this team beat the Ravens
• 22:17
  Speaker 5: only a few weeks ago as well. Albeit you know
• 22:19
  Speaker 5: they're not the best team in the NFL. We know that,
• 22:21
  Speaker 5: and we still need to be cautious. You know, the
• 22:23
  Speaker 5: thirty FoST and points scored, twenty seventh from total offense.
• 22:26
  Speaker 5: You know, they don't really do a lot of offensively.
• 22:29
  Speaker 5: Defensively thirtieth and takeaways just proven that they don't force turnovers,
• 22:33
  Speaker 5: so they're also lost in the league as well. And
• 22:35
  Speaker 5: the third time percentage made, meaning the defense shouldn't have
• 22:39
  Speaker 5: a hard time of getting off the failing this one.
• 22:40
  Speaker 5: So I think keys to the game. Really, it's very
• 22:43
  Speaker 5: similar to the game against the Chants a few weeks ago.
• 22:45
  Speaker 5: We're clearly a better team. Let's just go out and
• 22:47
  Speaker 5: play like it's don't turn the ball over, no hard,
• 22:50
  Speaker 5: heartbreaking interceptions, plays in the end zone, and let's just
• 22:54
  Speaker 5: go out and execute. You know, if we do that,
• 22:56
  Speaker 5: we really shouldn't have any issues. You know, I'll be
• 22:58
  Speaker 5: standing upward. I've got a Wadden and Friday on Friday
• 23:01
  Speaker 5: morning and Jarn Friday morning, but the Steelers are taken priority.
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: So yeah, I'll be standing up. Don't you worry about that, Dave.
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: If you're down in my neck of the woods, make
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: sure you drop in for a for a cup of
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: tea curly for twenty about twenty minutes and drata.
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: You're more than Malcolm to come down if you're if
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: you're still alive.
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: It sounds like it's the first nine football part of
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: Jimmy and leave it at that game picks. It is
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: a Pittsburgh Statters podcast, but you know we have to
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: be subjected. This is a two of the football team
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: of Steelers are on on an edge right now in
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: a good way. Like lads, I look when you look
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: at this schedule and you've got Cleveland, Like the lack
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: of home games between now and December is huge. I
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: think you go to Cleveland, you beat Cleveland this week,
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: and you go to Cincinnati and new end of season,
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: especially what happened after Monday night. That is the way
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: the next two weeks ago. For me, I have the
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: Steelers team spoiler for next week. I've just seen Staiers
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: going ten and two already strait up. They're beating the
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: Browns thirty. The ten as a big statement from a
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: team that didn't get all that it's a touchdown last week.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: I know, but I believe Jimmy see in Carlingford on
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: Thursday night. What's your game, Packer.
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, look, I do think that we can
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: fix the issues along the line and give Russell Wilson
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: a bit more time. Hopefully Mike Tomlin will give his
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: receivers a bit of a kick and tell them to
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: break break their roots when necessary and get open for
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: Russell Wilson.
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna be slightly more conservative.
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: I'm gonna say that we're gonna get four touchdowns and
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: possibly a few field goals. So I'm gonna go Steelers
• 24:35
  Speaker 4: thirty four, Browns fifteen, and we're gonna We're gonna ride
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: the AFC North victory until Christmas Day and then we'll
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: see what happens. We'll see what happens against the Chiefs.
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: The Chiefs, the chief are. They're not immortal anymore. You know,
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: Josh Allen can do it. Russell Wilson can do it
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: as well, So let's let's keep riding that.
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: Russell says, as somebody who's going to New York for Christmas,
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: don't tell my wife that she's not listening it's a
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: big surprise and maybe going to that game, it could
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: be my effect if we don't win it, So don't
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: be We'll just wait to them. Dobogg Are you gonna
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: take it to the banker? What was the plan this week?
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm making another lodgement this week.
• 25:13
  Speaker 5: Make a missed out there when you said it last week,
• 25:15
  Speaker 5: I was like, that took me a bit of time
• 25:17
  Speaker 5: to actually realize.
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: What you were saying. But no, yeah, I'm the exact same.
• 25:23
  Speaker 5: I don't see how the Browns are gonna put it
• 25:25
  Speaker 5: as much pressure. I mean, even the past rush you
• 25:27
  Speaker 5: know mas Yard, you know the second best pass rusher
• 25:30
  Speaker 5: in the league Mayd and could be a difficult one.
• 25:33
  Speaker 5: I don't know if he's even going to be playing,
• 25:34
  Speaker 5: to be fair, But uh yeah, I don't see how
• 25:37
  Speaker 5: this branch team is gonna put much of a fight
• 25:38
  Speaker 5: up against us. So I'm going thirty Steelers thirty Browns eighteen.
• 25:43
  Speaker 5: That's a bit generous maybe if you look at it,
• 25:45
  Speaker 5: but again, I'm not taking anything you likely and nine
• 25:48
  Speaker 5: and two. Nice mini Bay week as well. When you
• 25:50
  Speaker 5: play on the Thursday, it'll give you the expectations of
• 25:53
  Speaker 5: the next Sunday it's a bit of a mini bay.
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: So especially when the Bengals of a week off.
• 25:57
  Speaker 5: Oh yeah, perfect, I just completely forgot Brenniant but a head,
• 26:01
  Speaker 5: no exactly.
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: That's that's that comes at a good time.
• 26:04
  Speaker 5: So roll on Escenci in the first week of December
• 26:07
  Speaker 5: and I'll say, like I always said, you can kick
• 26:09
  Speaker 5: that to the bank.
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: Lads.
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: You can have a week bag week here as well.
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: We'll be back on Monday and we'll break this down
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: ahead of the game the following week against the Bengals.
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: For everyone watching Thursday Night football, the game is on
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: sky Sports NFL, but it's also on game Pass because
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: it's not blacked out in that window. It's also on
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: OTB Sports Radio. We will see you soon. Here we go,
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: let's move to nine and two, lads,