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HR1: Victory Monday · In the Locker Room presented by Neighborhood Ford Store (Pittsburgh Steelers)

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  Speaker 2: Jalen Warren, who gets the hand off left side, cuts
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  Speaker 2: back to the right, now cuts back to the left again,
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  Speaker 2: gets to the edge of.
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  Speaker 3: and Warren another forty.
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  Speaker 3: Joyful is that way? Well, let's see. Uh uh du
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  Speaker 3: Come all you faithful, that's what it is.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, come all you faithful, come, come to the locker
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  Speaker 2: room and enjoy with us. A fun victory last night
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  Speaker 2: for the Steelers in Detroit yesterday into the evening. It
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  Speaker 2: was just, you know, a big win for the Steelers,
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  Speaker 2: maybe their most complete win I think their most complete, winning,
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  Speaker 2: best win of the season. It was, and I don't
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  Speaker 2: think a lot of people had a lot of faith
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  Speaker 2: that they could go in there and do what they did.
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  Speaker 2: I thought that if they want, it was gonna be
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  Speaker 2: low scoring. It turned out to be kind of in between.
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  Speaker 2: It wasn't a high scoring Lion shootout. It wasn't a
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  Speaker 2: low scoring game, Max. I just thought it was maybe
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  Speaker 2: their most not not maybe let me let me rewind.
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  Speaker 2: I thought it was their most complete game of the year.
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  Speaker 4: And you know what I would I would agree. I
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  Speaker 4: think this was this was very, very close to a
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  Speaker 4: full complete sixty minutes of of just Steeler football, right offensively, defensively,
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  Speaker 4: special team wise, and I felt, like, you know, offensively
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  Speaker 4: it was it was about as good as you could
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  Speaker 4: have expected, right. I mean, to have the explosive plays
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  Speaker 4: that they did, not one, not two, but three different
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  Speaker 4: forty five yard touchdowns plays in this game is pretty phenomenal.
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  Speaker 4: Two hundred and thirty plus rushing yards and versus fifteen
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  Speaker 4: rushing yards, I mean, that's that's just I'm gonna be frank,
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  Speaker 4: that's a hell of a stat as a hell of
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  Speaker 4: a stat I mean, let's just be honest, let's just
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  Speaker 4: call it what it is. That's that is fantastic numbers.
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  Speaker 4: And we were treated to a wild finish and so
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  Speaker 4: you're absolutely right. I mean, it was. It was everything
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  Speaker 4: you could have wanted in more from a full games
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  Speaker 4: worth of football.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, I suppose if I'm gonna you know, if I'm
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  Speaker 2: trying to put myself in the shoes of some quibblers
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  Speaker 2: while also pointing out what I think are some real
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  Speaker 2: positives for the Steelers. So the Steelers beat the Colts
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  Speaker 2: when the Colts were still the Colts, right, they were
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  Speaker 2: seven and one, and they were, you know, the top
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  Speaker 2: team in the AFC. And the Steelers were up twenty
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  Speaker 2: seven to twenty with after they kicked a field goal
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  Speaker 2: with under seven minutes left in that game, so they
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  Speaker 2: were dominating.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 2: The Colts came back, scored a quick touchdown and then
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  Speaker 2: kicked the field goal late to give themselves a chance
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  Speaker 2: to recover the on side kick and make a game
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  Speaker 2: of it. The Steelers had, you know, a nice lead
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  Speaker 2: on the Ravens. The Ravens came back closer in that game.
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  Speaker 2: They had a big lead on the Vikings in Dublin
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  Speaker 2: yesterday against the Lions. You know, it was the Lions
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  Speaker 2: who who clawed back into this game when the Steelers,
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  Speaker 2: you know, up twenty nine to seventeen. I think the
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  Speaker 2: positive for me out of that, so people can say, well,
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  Speaker 2: the next thing they have to do is finish, and
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  Speaker 2: Cam Cam Hayward kind of said that last night. Hey,
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  Speaker 2: we played three good quarters of football. But the fact
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  Speaker 2: to me, and one of the things I said to
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  Speaker 2: you before we went our separate ways last night, Max,
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  Speaker 2: you flying back to Arizona, me flying here by the way,
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  Speaker 2: I hope your flight went well. I'll ask you that
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  Speaker 2: in a moment. But the last one of the last
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  Speaker 2: things I said to you was I can't wait to
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  Speaker 2: see the power ratings this week because the Steelers have
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  Speaker 2: they've not only beaten some quality teams, but they've they've
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  Speaker 2: you know, had the upper hand in a considerable fashion
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  Speaker 2: and some late scores have made it look close. And
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  Speaker 2: I was more than that last night. Obviously, there's a
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  Speaker 2: bunch of controversial calls at the end. I thought there's
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  Speaker 2: a bunch of controversial calls throughout the game. But the
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  Speaker 2: fact that the Steelers at their best can take it
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  Speaker 2: to these teams and we're seeing now, you know, over
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  Speaker 2: the last few weeks what we didn't see in earlier
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  Speaker 2: games against Seattle, against the Bills, against the Packers, against
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  Speaker 2: the Bears, and that is the ability to you know,
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  Speaker 2: come out and play a strong third quarter and really
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  Speaker 2: maintain the upperhand. Because remember in all four of those
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  Speaker 2: games I just listed this, Yeers had the lead at
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  Speaker 2: halftime and got the ball to begin the second half.
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  Speaker 2: Or the last three weeks during this three game winning streak,
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  Speaker 2: those are distant memories, those third quarter woes, and I
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  Speaker 2: think that that's you know, I really cannot wait to
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  Speaker 2: see the power rankings. That was the last thing I said, Max,
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  Speaker 2: I can't wait to see the power rankings this week
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  Speaker 2: because I'm really interested to see how this deelers are
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  Speaker 2: perceived around the NFL.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you completely, You completely did that, and you said that,
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  Speaker 4: and I remember agreeing like wow, you know, and we
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  Speaker 4: were like, okay, well, will we get in the top ten?
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  Speaker 4: Will we crack? Then? Finally, with this performance and the
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  Speaker 4: way that we played with the last two weeks, that's
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  Speaker 4: gonna be the question. But I will say, you're absolutely right,
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  Speaker 4: this is this is now not an accident, this is
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  Speaker 4: a habit, right, this is three games in a row,
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  Speaker 4: two of which you had stellar run defense. You know,
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  Speaker 4: obviously the Baltimore game was one you still kind of
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  Speaker 4: gave up yardage, but they were inconsequential yard inconsequential yards
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  Speaker 4: against the Ravens. But when you need it, especially against
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  Speaker 4: the Dolphins team that was tenacious and averaging almost two
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  Speaker 4: hundred yards, you shut that game down. And then now
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  Speaker 4: the NFL's number one offense.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, like you.
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  Speaker 4: Said, a top rushing attack, you went toe to toe
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  Speaker 4: with the NFL's number one passing offense. And that's that's
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  Speaker 4: pretty phenomenal. But the fifteen opposing rushing yards for an
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  Speaker 4: already thousand back and Jamier.
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  Speaker 5: Gibbs and a heck of a heck of a thunder
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  Speaker 5: lightning combo and David Montgomery fifteen combined net rushing yards
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  Speaker 5: is just that's a hammer.
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  Speaker 4: That is a hammer. And you know, all the credit
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  Speaker 4: goes to everybody on the defense. Everybody on the defense
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  Speaker 4: did something spectacular. For your defense to win that game,
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  Speaker 4: they all had to do something spectacular and they did.
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  Speaker 3: Yep, they did.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, we started this with a clip from
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  Speaker 2: jail And Warren, who now is a career high in
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  Speaker 2: rushing yards. His previous high had been seven hundred and
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  Speaker 2: eighty four back in twenty twenty three.
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  Speaker 3: He's at eight twenty eight.
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  Speaker 2: He is over one thousand yards from scrimmage on the season,
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  Speaker 2: eleven twenty eight scrimmage yards. You know, the I think also,
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  Speaker 2: you know, it's kudos to the line play on both sides.
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  Speaker 2: And I agree Max with you wholeheartedly. I thought that,
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  Speaker 2: you know, what the Steelers did again, you know, controlling
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  Speaker 2: the clock, how important that is and and being able to,
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  Speaker 2: you know, to to take it to this Lion's defense.
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  Speaker 2: But on the other end, you know, part of the
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  Speaker 2: part of the time of possession is them not having it.
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  Speaker 2: And the Steelers dominated time of possession, second consecutive week
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  Speaker 2: that they've that, they've pulled that off. And I didn't
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  Speaker 2: they they ran. I think they run They ran one
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  Speaker 2: more play than the Lions. So that's a second straight
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  Speaker 2: week they've done that. They hadn't done that all season
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  Speaker 2: until last week.
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  Speaker 3: But I agree with you.
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  Speaker 2: I think the defense, the defensive front, and I include that,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the two outside linebackers, you know, Sawyer and
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  Speaker 2: high Smith. You know, although we did see some other
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  Speaker 2: guys coming in there, to spell them on occasion.
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  Speaker 3: But there was no cutback. There was no getting to
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  Speaker 3: the edge.
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  Speaker 4: You know.
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  Speaker 2: The lions get to the edge in a couple of
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  Speaker 2: different ways, right, They run sweeps designed to get to
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  Speaker 2: the edge, and then they bounce it outside. And we
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  Speaker 2: saw the bounce it outside against the Bills, and and
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  Speaker 2: how huge that was with James Cook doing that again
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  Speaker 2: and again and again against the Steelers, and that just
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  Speaker 2: wasn't there, man, that was closed down. There was nowhere
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  Speaker 2: to go forward, and there was nowhere to go sideways.
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  Speaker 4: It was it was. It was smothering, right, smothering. It was.
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  Speaker 4: It was smothering. And and I resisted the urge to
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  Speaker 4: make a make a food reference, uh in that.
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  Speaker 3: But where we where were we gonna go with?
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  Speaker 4: Oh? I was gonna say Denny style smother smother covered
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  Speaker 4: and scattered, you know, I mean that's exactly what it was.
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  Speaker 4: The hash Browns in order it that way, Or you
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  Speaker 4: can go to waffle house and do the same thing.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, you know, pick and choose. I mean, I
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  Speaker 4: prefer less violence. I mean waffle House you have to
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  Speaker 4: have you have to have, yeah, yeah, you have to
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  Speaker 4: have at least a squabble, a squabble certificate. Uh to
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  Speaker 4: go into a waffle house now, so uh, I prefer
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  Speaker 4: Denny's anyways. No, but they were smothering. I mean Alex
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  Speaker 4: high Smith, Alex high Smith, Alex high Smith, I mean
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  Speaker 4: I felt like I had to put the emphasis on
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  Speaker 4: that because he was phenomenal. He was everything you needed
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  Speaker 4: him to be in the absence of TJ pressure at
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  Speaker 4: the quarterback just dominated the backside, run blocks and getting
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  Speaker 4: off his block and making the play, being the force
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  Speaker 4: of the point on plays run his side, directing traffic
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  Speaker 4: and getting people lined up in the right place. He
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  Speaker 4: was all that. So kudos not only to the defense,
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  Speaker 4: but to Aaron Rodgers. Not even gonna say aa Ron,
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  Speaker 4: that's Aaron freaking Rogers at a nice day, processing, fueling
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  Speaker 4: and feeding the players. So yeah, I mean, I know
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  Speaker 4: that was a defensive question, but you know, the best
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  Speaker 4: defense is a good offense, right, you know, one that
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  Speaker 4: gets you off the field, one that gets you in
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  Speaker 4: position to be strong for the next series. And him
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  Speaker 4: in the offensive line and the pieces did just that,
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  Speaker 4: and they allowed for that defense to hunt, and that
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  Speaker 4: defense hunted early and often.
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  Speaker 2: So there's just so much to talk about before we
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  Speaker 2: do that Max. How were the travels of Max Starks?
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  Speaker 2: Was your plane on? Did you get First of all,
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  Speaker 2: did you get your flight? It was a long game.
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  Speaker 2: I had no idea what time it was, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: it was such an exciting game that I wasn't wrapped
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  Speaker 2: up and how long it took.
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  Speaker 3: But evidently it was a really long game.
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  Speaker 2: And I know you had a flight to get to
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  Speaker 2: Did you make your flight? Did you get home safe? Well,
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  Speaker 2: obviously you got home safe and sound, but did you
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  Speaker 2: get home without any any further issues last night?
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  Speaker 4: I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna just say that.
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  Speaker 3: I made it home. I made it home.
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  Speaker 4: It was, it was. It was very interesting a flight.
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  Speaker 4: Uh you know, I flew from Detroit to Saint Louis,
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  Speaker 4: Saint Louis back here to Phoenix.
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  Speaker 3: And.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I was. I was a little late, a little
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  Speaker 4: late getting in last night for delays.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 4: The first flight had its own complications. I'm not gonna
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  Speaker 4: yes get too far into that one, but it.
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  Speaker 3: Was Toye's left alone.
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  Speaker 4: But uh yeah, yeah, yeah, but so so yeah, but no,
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  Speaker 4: but I mean and at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 4: I know what I signed up for, and so that's
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  Speaker 4: why you know, Hey, I am here present, locked and loaded.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 4: But yeah, it was definitely peeling my face off the
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  Speaker 4: bed to get up the phone. Was definitely definitely one
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  Speaker 4: of those in it. Yeah, it was just it was
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  Speaker 4: just a long night.
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  Speaker 3: So we're gonna lay out what we have uh for
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  Speaker 3: you today.
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  Speaker 2: Later on we're gonna be taking your phone calls as
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  Speaker 2: we do on Mondays four one, one, three, one six.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to talk about some of the heroes of
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  Speaker 2: this game, and to me, there were a bunch of them.
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  Speaker 2: And and let me just get this out of the
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  Speaker 2: way and say this, twenty two consecutive non losing seasons.
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  Speaker 2: And I understand, you know, the standard is a standard,
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  Speaker 2: and they're not just after mediocrity and not just after
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  Speaker 2: squeezing out winning seasons. But that is an incredible stretch.
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  Speaker 2: It's the longest in NFL history. It was secured last night,
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  Speaker 2: and it was secured while Mike Tomlin was earning his
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  Speaker 2: two hundredth career victory regular season in playoffs combined.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't want that to get lost in the shuffle.
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  Speaker 2: It's not the most it's not the thing coming out
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  Speaker 2: of this game that people are gonna be like, ah,
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  Speaker 2: look at this, but I just wanted to mention it
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  Speaker 2: because you know, I'm gonna use a double negative here
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  Speaker 2: as a positive. It's not nothing, you know what I mean?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, think about yeah, all the teams. You know,
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  Speaker 2: every year that you get into the playoffs, you have hope, right,
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  Speaker 2: at least you have hope. At least you're on a
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  Speaker 2: journey of hope. And what did the Bills go almost
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  Speaker 2: two decades without a winning season and without get into
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  Speaker 2: the playoffs?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, is that what people want?
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  Speaker 4: You know?
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  Speaker 2: You you have a terrible record, but yeah, it's it's
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  Speaker 2: time we tear this down to the studs and rebuild.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, well how often does that work?
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  Speaker 4: Right?
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  Speaker 2: And then that doesn't work? And now you're onto another
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  Speaker 2: coach and another general manager and another five year plan.
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  Speaker 2: And I understand this isn't the stated goal of the team,
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  Speaker 2: right And I understand that, and I want to see
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  Speaker 2: them get to the playoffs and win games too.
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  Speaker 3: I want to call a super Bowl with you, Max,
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  Speaker 3: That's what I want to do.
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  Speaker 2: So I understand that from the fans, and I've been
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  Speaker 2: here for every one of those seasons, so I just
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  Speaker 2: think that it shouldn't be it's shrugged off by some
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  Speaker 2: it's you know, use it in a pejorative sense by others.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, twenty two.
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  Speaker 2: Winning, Yeah, yeah, it's it's an accomplishment, right, It's not
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  Speaker 2: the accomplishment. The accomplishment's winning the super Bowl, but it's
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  Speaker 2: an accomplishment. And I don't think it should just be
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  Speaker 2: completely shrugged off.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, And I think you're absolutely right to that. And
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  Speaker 4: you know what, I want to call super Bowl with
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  Speaker 4: you too. And I think you know, when you see
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  Speaker 4: these type of performances, you breathe a little bit of
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  Speaker 4: a sigh of relief, right You you start to open
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  Speaker 4: up the belief category, right, you approach it cautiously. We're
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  Speaker 4: not sitting here and saying, oh my gosh. You know,
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  Speaker 4: we're not gonna be facetious and be like the true
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  Speaker 4: Homers and just blind, you know, oh my god, and
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  Speaker 4: everything is awesome. They're gonna they're gonna roll through. They're
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  Speaker 4: not gonna lose another game until I don't know when
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  Speaker 4: they're gonna be the new Kansas City. No, no, we're
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  Speaker 4: not doing We're not doing that. But at the same time,
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  Speaker 4: you have to recognize stellar performances and stellar leadership, stellar
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  Speaker 4: personnel that gets along, that communicates, and that also wants
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  Speaker 4: to go be physically manipulating the outcome of the game
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  Speaker 4: towards your team. You want to have those guys that
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  Speaker 4: will just follow and that will rally each other, that
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  Speaker 4: will inspire each other, that will work together through all
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  Speaker 4: the adversities of injuries, of everything else, injuries, change of positions,
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  Speaker 4: to motions, promotions, you know, yelling at each other, but
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  Speaker 4: at the end of the day, knowing that it's all
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  Speaker 4: love because we're all on the same page. And it's
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  Speaker 4: pretty phenomenal to watch when all of that does come together.
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  Speaker 2: And it looks like it's coming together in a good
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  Speaker 2: way for this to There's still two more games to play.
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  Speaker 2: The man O man not only their win in Detroit,
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  Speaker 2: but the Patreots win against the Ravens last night. So
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  Speaker 2: we're gonna be taking your phone calls a little bit
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  Speaker 2: later on. We're gonna give you your AFC recap with
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  Speaker 2: still one more game of importance to be played tonight
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  Speaker 2: on Monday Night Football. A look at some of the
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  Speaker 2: heroes and there were just a lot of them for
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  Speaker 2: the Steelers yesterday. Where the Steelers are right now at
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  Speaker 2: nine and six, are they poised to make a run
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  Speaker 2: in the playoffs. We're gonna talk about that and much
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  Speaker 2: It's a snap line's bringing four Rogers back and is
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  Speaker 2: gonna throw right deep again. A lot of contact downfield.
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  Speaker 2: Did Gamewell catch fact?
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  Speaker 4: He did, Holy mackerel.
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  Speaker 2: He was laying down on the ground, soup Pine caught it,
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  Speaker 2: picked it up, ran it into the end zone, and
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  Speaker 2: now the officials.
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  Speaker 3: Are gathering at the five yard line. That you talk
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  Speaker 3: about a Christmas miracle. He caught that patch.
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  Speaker 2: Catch, Wow, Holy mackerel.
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: Pittsburgh Steelers touchdown.
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: What off play?
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: I don't think I have anything to add to that, Max,
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: I mean, I just you know, there were so many
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: plays where I'm picking my jab off the floor from
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: yesterday's game, and that was I think that was number
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: one on the list. That was our Steveters Drive you
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: the game presented by your neighborhood Forster. The F one
• 19:52
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• 19:56
  Speaker 2: it was just an incredible catch and just and just
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: reset was going on there. You know, you're hoping that
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: the Steelers are going to find a way, you know,
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: to to maybe score some points, right you know, to
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: Slaw gets the touchdown reception from golf with a minute
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: fifty five left that ties.
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: The game at ten. You know, you don't have that.
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: You don't have that great feeling right at this at
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: this day, I beg your pardon that put the Lions up.
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: They were up ten to three, right, So you don't
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: have a great feeling. But you're thinking, okay, double score,
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: maybe go down, you kick a field goal, you make
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: it ten to six, maybe you come back and score
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: a touchdown.
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: At the beginning of the drive, you're thinking touchdown.
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: But then there were penalties and other things going on,
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: and then both teams are kind of playing the clock
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: game because the Lions at three time outs left. The
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: last thing you wanted to do is throw three in
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: complete passes punted away the Lions or their explosive offense.
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: They march down the field. You know, maybe they score
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: a touchdown before the half. Now it's seventeen to three
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: in a game in which you've outplayed them in the
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: first you don't want that. And so you know, you're,
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: you're all these things are conspiring to sort of think
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: field goal and hey, can we get at least some
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: points on the board. You know, uh, don't let them
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: score for sure, maybe we get some points on the board.
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: And then to have that play, I mean, Max, incredible,
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: absolutely incredible, and welcome back.
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: In the locker room.
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: You know, I think what happened there was justin Miller
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: just didn't like the way the conversation was going, and.
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: He just wanted us to He just wanted to play
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: more of his his his holiday Christmas beds. He was
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: trying to figure out how to get an extra one
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: in there. You know, we have we have eight breaks,
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: he has he has ten of these songs.
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: So I think I think you've hit upon it, Max,
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: But you know, we're just talking about the importance of
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: that drive before for the end of the half, and
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: just again just in case I don't remember what got
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: what was said and what wasn't. But if you remember,
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: the Lions had just scored, right, the Steelers were playing
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: out playing the Lions. They hadn't quite started dominating yet,
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: but they were dominating them defensively. You know, they're holding
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: them down. The Lions come up with a drive, they score.
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: It's ten to three at the half. You know, on
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: the positive side, you're thinking double score. On the negative side,
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: you're thinking, you can't go three and out because they've
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: got all their timeouts left. They could march down and
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: suddenly it's seventeen to three and the game's over. So
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: there's this cat and mouse game going on. Then the
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: Steelers have some penalties and at that point you're thinking, look,
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: let's just get three, let's make it ten to six,
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: maybe come out in the second half, go on a
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: touchdown drive, retake the lead. And so that's why this
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: is our drive of the game that we talked about,
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: because that played by game well, I mean degree of difficulty,
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: you know, all the judgment given that a ten point oh,
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: I mean, I just I still don't know how he
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: caught it. Incredible catch and incredible touchdow.
• 23:06
  Speaker 4: Even as fickle as as ice skating judges might be,
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: I think the Russians probably still would have given it a.
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: Ten point Oh that's exactly, you know, by the way.
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: You know, every once in a while, I'll make it,
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: I'll make a statement that dates me. Like I remember
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: once we had a bunch of interns in the office
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: and I used a phrase drinking the kool Aid? And
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: then I looked at him and thought, do you guys
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: know where that comes from? And none of them did,
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: you know? Because because I'm older and I remember that
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: that was a big story when I was a kid.
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: That was you know, Jim.
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: Jones and yeah, all his father was drinking the kool
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: aid and poisoning themselves. And so this is when the
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: Russian judges, so back in the day, you know, during
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: the Olympics, you have all these judges and you know,
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: some American gymnast would turn in a sterling performance and
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: they'd be.
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: Like nine point nine, nine point nine, and the.
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: Russian judge, because of the cold warn everything was gonna
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: you know, seven point four.
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: Like what do you the Russian judges come on, man,
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: you know.
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: Because I'm sure you know, you're you're you're strong exactly
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: from our you know, you're thinking these people gonna go
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: back and be sent to the you know, salt mines
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: in Siberia if they.
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: Give him a nine. You know, we don't know, right
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: we iron curtain and all that.
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: Anyway, Yeah, Russian judges, Yeah exactly. I just I just
• 24:20
  Speaker 4: dated myself as well. So that's that's what you're telling me.
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: I'm sure most of the people wanted to get that,
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: but still it's yeah, exactly exactly.
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: You know, you're right.
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: Every once in a while there's a couple of them
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: where you're just like, whoa, that's a year old. Now,
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: I'm like, yeah, you know what, whear it with pride,
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: Wear it with pride, right, right, Kinger, we wear it
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: with pride better than the alternative. Right. But but yeah,
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: but you're right. I mean that drive was such a
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: statement and then we kind of look back on it.
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: It's just a microcosm of what if we would have
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: known that was just a little a little teaser or
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: precursor to what we were gonna get at the end
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: of the game. Was that into the half type of
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: sequence and scenario I would have said pitch posh. Nothing
• 25:08
  Speaker 4: beats that, but I stand it correct. I stand correct
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: at Kinger, Yeah, stand corrected.
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: Somebody made the observation and it was passed on to me.
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: Wild This end to a first half and second half
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: for the Steelers. Since that Super Bowl against the Cardinals,
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: you know, when you had James Harrison kicking off the
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: pass and running it down and then of course bend
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: to Santonio Holmes to win it, you know, the stakes
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: weren't quite as high obviously yesterday. But you know, there's
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: and I suppose we should point this out. There's a
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: couple of things. First of all, DK Metcalf was involved
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: in some sort of altercation around the sidelines. We're on
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: the radio, we were watching replays of it. We don't know.
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: I don't know what happened. I don't know what's going
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: to happen. So I'm gonna reserve any kind of statement
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: on that until the NFL issues its statement, because again
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: we're on so yeah, we're not hearing what's going on.
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: You know, we're seeing the replays. So I'm going to
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: reserve any kind of comment on that.
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: Now.
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: I was watching some shows this morning and they were
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: talking about the two plays at the end of the game,
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: and I was watching a show on ESPN, you know,
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: where they have coaches and former players, and the general
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: consensus was that the second play, the final play of
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: the game, was definitely offensive pass interference. The one before
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: was not, and they were hollering about that, and this
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: shouldn't have been called well because of when it happened. Max,
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: it's a huge call, but the Steelers had points taken
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: off on what I thought was an extremely dubious offensive
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: pass interference call on Darnell Washington. Of course they're not
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: attacking that because it didn't happen at the end of
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: the game. I still think and I haven't heard anybody
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: else's comments or opinions on that. I don't know. You know,
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: perhaps I'm wrong. Be the first to admit if I'm
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: wrong on that. But it seemed to me like Darnel
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: Washington was running a shallow cross. This wasn't an instance
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: where he ran out and pushed the guy into another
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: guy or anything. He was running across and the defender
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: ran into him. I I don't understand how that, But again,
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: and I will say this, at the end of the game,
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: the Lions pretty much said, Look, we didn't agree with
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: that first call, but that's not what cost us the game.
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: So so kudos to them for understanding that. Frankly, they
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: were just outplayed. The Steelers were the better team yesterday
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: for the majority of that game. You'd like to see
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: that last fifteen minutes. We saw it get away a
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: little bit in Minnesota in Dublin against the Minnesota Vikings.
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: Maybe gets a little way here. Some teams have crept
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: back into games. Whatever, the fact is the better team.
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: Won the game.
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: That You're absolutely right. I mean, the better team won
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: the game, and they outlasted I mean because that last drive,
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: especially the amount of penalties and the Tiki tech nature.
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: I still think they'll think that Zilster catch was and
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: not was incomplete. But right, I'm gonna that's the hell.
• 28:06
  Speaker 4: I'm prepared to die on that ball moved, that ball
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: was aided by the ground to secure the catch, and yeah,
• 28:13
  Speaker 4: I'm gonna stick with that.
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: So how about the pass interference call on Dugger? Game's over?
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and uh, the receiver I think it might have
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: been Williams comes up and starts making it where's the
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: flag notion? And then the two flags come in late
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: at the same time, here they come flying in and
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: like maybe it's late.
• 28:31
  Speaker 4: I was like, come on, man.
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: So maybe those officials are saying it take some time
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: to get that flag out and heave it that far
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: or whatever.
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: It felt like a bought call. It was really close.
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: And again, watching that show this morning, one of the
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: defenders former defenders, said, look, by the letter of the law,
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: that's probably past interference. But man, you know cause so
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: here's the thing. The same people that are gonna say,
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: let the players dictate the game.
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: Okay, So I have two problems.
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: Then.
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: One, you didn't let Kyle Duggars play stand right, that's
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: the players. I mean, that was really good defense by
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: Kyle Duggar, really good defense. It was so you didn't
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: let that. You didn't let that go. And here's the
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: other thing too. If a player doesn't catch a ball
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: like like Zilstra, perhaps is that letting the players? You know,
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: if I take you as a defensive player, as you know,
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: you're a receiver, let's turn the tables. Now you're a receiver.
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: I'm a defender. I take you. Let's say Jalen Ramsey
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: took amah Ra Saint Brown and threw him to the ground.
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: Am I not supposed to call that?
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: Is that the player letting the players win the g
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: can't you can't let the players dictate the game. I've
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: always loathed that expression. I understand it.
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: I get it. If it's close, maybe you don't call it.
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: Dugger was close? You know?
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: So I just think that, you know, that's a that's
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: a I don't like that. I don't like the logic
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: from which that statement comes, because that just means you're
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: inviting mayhem. You know, why not just let the offensive
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: lineman hold the guy. Well, you're letting the players decide
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: the game, Well, okay, then tackle Aiden Hutchinson. I mean,
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: you know, you have the game has to be officiated.
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: So this notion of I get it, if it's close,
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: maybe you let it go.
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: But I don't know.
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: I just think that. I just think I don't like that.
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: I've never liked that school of thinking. But regardless, Steelers
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: one man.
• 30:34
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, you're absolutely right. At the end of the day,
• 30:36
  Speaker 4: we got the result that was necessary exactly, and people
• 30:41
  Speaker 4: are like, oh, well it stole They did not steal
• 30:43
  Speaker 4: a victory. They went out there and they won it.
• 30:47
  Speaker 4: And as Steeler's victory Okay, there's anything you want to
• 30:50
  Speaker 4: say with the word steal, make sure you had the
• 30:52
  Speaker 4: errors at the end, because they they dominated and they
• 30:58
  Speaker 4: earned their victory. Donut Monday, they earned it and a
• 31:04
  Speaker 4: dominating how about how about if you want to say, oh,
• 31:07
  Speaker 4: the Lions got the game, how about not give up
• 31:08
  Speaker 4: four hundred and eighty one yards of offense?
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: Exactly right, exactly right, I believe you.
• 31:13
  Speaker 4: Give up three forty five yard touchdowns.
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: First four hundred yard offensive game for the Steelers.
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: They ran more plays, They outgained the Lions, They shut
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: down the running game, the better.
• 31:22
  Speaker 6: Team position dominated time of possession. Man, there's so much
• 31:28
  Speaker 6: to like about this game. We haven't even dived into
• 31:31
  Speaker 6: the heroes of this game, because there were a bunch
• 31:34
  Speaker 6: of a max exactly just a just a great game,
• 31:38
  Speaker 6: a great victory for the Steelers.
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: We're gonna get to more of that. We're gonna be
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: getting to your phone calls. We have to go around
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: the AFC with the AFC recap. What does the Steelers
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: win and the Ravens loss mean for the playoff picture
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: in general? We're gonna get to all that when we
• 31:51
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• 32:25
  Speaker 2: Well, the Steelers with a tremendous victory against the Detroit
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: Lions twenty nine to twenty four. I think a lot
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: of people did not think this was possible, you know.
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: Mike Tomwin said at the end of the game in
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: his postgame comments, the game's got to look a certain
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: way this time of year, and that would looked a
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: certain way, you know, the defense playing strong, the offense.
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: This goes back to what the Steelers the blueprint they're
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: trying to put together of being a physical team. Detroit
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: is among the most physical teams in the NFL, and
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: the Steelers out physical them. And Max to me, I
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: want to start where you started at the beginning of
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: the show and reiterate again. Cam Hayward, another Monster game
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: I thought last week was Cam's best game of the season.
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: He followed that up, I thought, with another just monster game.
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: In this one, Keanu Benton comes up with a sack
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: five and a half sacks for him on the season.
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: Derek Harmon comes back, it just feels like when he's
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: in the game, and I know he didn't play last
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: week against the Dolphins when they shut down eight chan
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: in that running game, just feels like when he's back,
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: the run defense is better. And then I really thought
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: Jack Sawyer did a great job of setting the edge.
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: And remember he's going against Penny Sewell, he's going against
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: the best right tackle in the NFL, you know, and
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: it's not like they were running around the right edge.
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: I thought Jack Seward did a great job. And as
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: he mentioned, I thought another guy who with a monster
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: game in addition to Hayward.
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: Was Alex Heismith. So kudos to all those guys.
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: If you're putting a gold star in the helmet, maybe
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: it's Smith and Hayward. But I just thought that front
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: five was just fantastic in this game.
• 34:07
  Speaker 4: Uh. They they played phenomenal. They did they did everything
• 34:12
  Speaker 4: you could have hoped for, and they kept everything close
• 34:19
  Speaker 4: in the in this contest, and like I said, the
• 34:22
  Speaker 4: run defense was just immaculate when you're thinking about how
• 34:27
  Speaker 4: do you stop the number one offense? And I thought
• 34:32
  Speaker 4: this was the key. You had to pick one of
• 34:34
  Speaker 4: two right, And I said, if we could limit the
• 34:39
  Speaker 4: run game, we would we we would have a shot
• 34:43
  Speaker 4: at winning this game. And it's exactly how it played out.
• 34:48
  Speaker 4: I said. I said, you know, I'm a Ross Saint
• 34:50
  Speaker 4: Brown James Wood. They can have games, they can have plays,
• 34:53
  Speaker 4: and I was not expecting them to also shut them
• 34:56
  Speaker 4: down as much as they did for most of that game.
• 35:00
  Speaker 4: And Clif Raymond, of course, you know, had a little bit,
• 35:04
  Speaker 4: you know, he he he kind of went off a
• 35:06
  Speaker 4: little bit random insert uh tight end name, uh here,
• 35:12
  Speaker 4: that's not Sam Laporta.
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: They had two catches combined, the three of them all year, exactly.
• 35:18
  Speaker 4: All year, all year.
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: I was a little slow in the uptake. Max Cheek said,
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: you got to read the scouting report. I said, what
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: scouting report?
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: I was a little as usual. Max is a step
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: ahead of me, and I was like, oh, yeah, he's.
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: Being facetious because they had two three of them catch
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: on this show.
• 35:35
  Speaker 3: We said last week gone the tight ends are.
• 35:38
  Speaker 4: Hey, that's that's the one thing we dont to worry about.
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: The tight ends.
• 35:40
  Speaker 4: I was like, oh, geez, what one guy's making place
• 35:43
  Speaker 4: tight ends?
• 35:44
  Speaker 3: Right, but they had.
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: Seven catches between them, the tight ends. But you know what, man,
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: so what go ahead, go ahead? If you stop stop
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: the room was key. Stop the room was key. And
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: I would have never known they would have done it
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: to the tune that they did. But it was the
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: key to the game was stopping their run.
• 36:06
  Speaker 4: Yep.
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: And then you know, I totally agree, totally totally agree
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: that puts them in bad passing situations. We saw the
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: students blitzing on the final play of the game. This
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: year has brought two and dropped nine. Yeah, the ability
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: to mix up what you're doing up front. And of
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: course they got home for three sacks. And there were
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: nine more quarterback hits, you know, two by high Smith,
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: one by well, I'm gonna get to him in a minute,
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: two by Benton, two by Hayward. So Hayward not only
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: comes up with a sack, two by Sawyer. So they
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: were you know, they were a bunch of near sacks.
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: But they you know, they they were getting to golf
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: and I thought they did a great job. I thought
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: a couple other guys, and again I don't want to
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: leave anybody out. You know, Patrick Queen, I think just
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: continues to play really good football. Peyton Wilson was a
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: dynamo on special teams. He had three special teams tackle.
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: Brunner had three assists on special team tackles. But I
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: thought two guys in the secondary in particular played great games.
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: And to me, Kyle Duggar I thought was fantastic. He
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: had a sack, a tackle, quarterback hit. And Joey Porter
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: great coverage and great tackling. I thought both from Joey
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: Porter Jr.
• 37:22
  Speaker 4: In this game, You're absolutely right, And I completely concur
• 37:27
  Speaker 4: I thought, you know.
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  Speaker 3: Dougger and and and j P j.
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  Speaker 4: Were just phenomenal on that secondary side.
• 37:35
  Speaker 3: Uh.
• 37:35
  Speaker 4: Jalen Ramsey I gonna also, I'm gonna throw I'm gonna
• 37:39
  Speaker 4: throw kudos in for him too, because I thought, you know,
• 37:43
  Speaker 4: his ability to just trigger that that that that tackle
• 37:46
  Speaker 4: for loss early in that in the second half, like
• 37:50
  Speaker 4: well well no, it was yeah, early in the second half,
• 37:54
  Speaker 4: like the I mean kung fu grip, right, you know
• 38:00
  Speaker 4: what I'm saying, Like that was that was so phenomenal.
• 38:04
  Speaker 4: He triggered, he blew through the gap, and he just
• 38:07
  Speaker 4: absolutely held on till the reinforcements came. And once again,
• 38:13
  Speaker 4: you know, that's why you know the rules now. Granted,
• 38:15
  Speaker 4: you know, I was in the No Fun League era
• 38:18
  Speaker 4: where everything had to be uniform and everything I had
• 38:20
  Speaker 4: be tucked in. Your socks had to be all uniform
• 38:22
  Speaker 4: and everything. Oh blah blah blah blah blah. I'm so
• 38:26
  Speaker 4: appreciative that those rules are lacks now because that ate
• 38:30
  Speaker 4: it in that play, you know, the lack of tucking
• 38:33
  Speaker 4: your jersey in and having your undershirt exposed. Thank you,
• 38:38
  Speaker 4: Thank you for your lack of decorum because that at
• 38:41
  Speaker 4: Jalen Ramsey took full advantage and he was just in
• 38:44
  Speaker 4: on everything he was around. He distorted, he confused. I mean,
• 38:50
  Speaker 4: you know, he blitzed, He covered, I mean everything you
• 38:54
  Speaker 4: could have asked him to do. Jalen Ramsey has truly
• 38:56
  Speaker 4: been just phenomenal, especially since he switched to the safety position.
• 39:01
  Speaker 4: It's been just fantastic to see. And like you said,
• 39:05
  Speaker 4: the starting safety duos we had to start the season
• 39:09
  Speaker 4: are not the safety duo we have right now. So
• 39:12
  Speaker 4: once again, a tip of the cap to the front
• 39:14
  Speaker 4: office for identifying those guys and having them available on
• 39:21
  Speaker 4: the roster to be deployed to go get Kyle Duggar
• 39:25
  Speaker 4: from New England and have him insert because I can
• 39:30
  Speaker 4: guarantee you listen, New England's rolling. They're doing a great job.
• 39:34
  Speaker 4: But thank you for Kyle Duggar. Glad you guys didn't
• 39:38
  Speaker 4: need him, because we do and he's been He's been
• 39:41
  Speaker 4: nothing but a bright spot for us. You know, Brandon
• 39:47
  Speaker 4: Eckles up until the injury, was playing lights out as
• 39:50
  Speaker 4: well in that game. His coverage was tight, He made
• 39:55
  Speaker 4: some key plays that could have just broken wide open.
• 39:59
  Speaker 4: And if for him, even the tackle he got injured on,
• 40:04
  Speaker 4: I mean it was a huge play because if he
• 40:05
  Speaker 4: doesn't make that tackle, it's at least a fifteen yard
• 40:09
  Speaker 4: fifteen more yards from where he hit him. So you're right,
• 40:14
  Speaker 4: there was a lot of heroes. And like I said,
• 40:15
  Speaker 4: I mean we could pretty much name everybody on the
• 40:17
  Speaker 4: defense and say what they contributed to, right, I mean,
• 40:20
  Speaker 4: Hyya Black, how big was that? What was him dropping
• 40:25
  Speaker 4: it to coverage and batting down and passed that was
• 40:28
  Speaker 4: gonna be to a wide open, unknown tight end. Right,
• 40:32
  Speaker 4: Zilstraw was wide open on the seam in the end
• 40:35
  Speaker 4: zone and ya black with a big bear pause, no gloves,
• 40:39
  Speaker 4: no tape, just old school throwback, right, He's like, hey, hey,
• 40:44
  Speaker 4: my hands are good. My hands are good at that moment. So, yeah,
• 40:48
  Speaker 4: there was there was a lot of There was a
• 40:49
  Speaker 4: lot of heroes defensively, man, a lot.
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: Of guys had their hand in the pile for sure.
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: And we haven't even talked about the offense, which was incredible.
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: You know, Aaron Rodgers throws for two sixty six the
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: running game runs for two sixty six. Uh, just you know,
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: I'm just looking at the final statistics here. You know,
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: I don't know why. I think one of those might
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: be wrong because it's tother's net took. I would say
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: it was two thirty for eighty three one, so I'll
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: get to the bottom. Yeah, but man, it was may
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: adjusted nets and there maybe. Yeah, I think there were
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: some some different things going on in there, but we'll
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: get to the bottom of it. Yeah, two hundred and
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: thirty net yards rushing in this game. Two hundred and
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: fifty one net yards passing in this game. You know
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: that included a couple of sacks, so to sixty six
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: for Aaron Rodgers in the air. Just a wonderful victory
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: over a team. You know that, Max I still thought
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: going into that game. I thought, and I think others
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: thought the same thing. This Lions team is still a
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: legitimate Super Bowl contender, but I don't know if they
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: are anymore because they're gonna have they need almost a
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: mirror to make the playoffs. This is a top flight
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: team that had to win. We've talked about how many
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: opponents the students have gotten. You know you're not getting, uh,
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: you're not getting somebody when their starting quarterback gets knocked
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: out of the game, and you know you're getting everybody's
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: best shot. That's what they've gotten all year long, everybody
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: at their most desperate, everybody at their healthiest.
• 42:20
  Speaker 3: That's what it seems like.
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: They got the Lions at they're at their most desperate
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: in their place and handed them a second consecutive defeat.
• 42:28
  Speaker 3: By the way, you have to go back to twenty.
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: Twenty two, the last time the Lions lost back to
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: back games, and the Steers hung that on them and
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: won that game. And uh, they got some help last night,
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: and just uh, what a win for the students. We're
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: gonna get to the help lasts that we're gonna get
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: to the AFC recap. We're gonna get to your phone
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: calls coming up in just a little bit at four
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: point two nine nine one three one six. A little
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: bit later on, we'll talk about the Browns, but too
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: much to enjoy about this one to start thinking about
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: the Browns just yet. We'll have all that still coming
• 43:00
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