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Vegas Bound · The Irish Steelers Podcast

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Speaker 1: Everybody.
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Speaker 2: Welcome into the Irishteelers Podcast, the Pittsburgh Steeters Podcast for
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Speaker 2: Steelers fans across the Island of Ireland eminating around the world.
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Speaker 2: Michael mcquid as we enter week six, de lighted to
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Speaker 2: be joined by Jimmy English and David McKee. We are
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Speaker 2: getting ready for another week of Steers football. Jimmy, good
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Speaker 2: to see you in London last week. Good to see
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Speaker 2: a lot of black and gold as well in London.
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Speaker 1: How are you doing? First off one, You're doing good.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm good, making good.
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Speaker 1: Thanks.
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Speaker 3: Looking forward now to our trip to Pittsburgh next week.
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Speaker 3: It's slowly getting there. It's finally becoming real. So excited
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Speaker 3: to see my Steelers in action live in person in
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Speaker 3: Pittsburgh in Acroscher Stadium. And yeah, I mean fantastic weekend
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Speaker 3: of live American football and Tottenham Hotsper Stadium. Another great
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Speaker 3: weekend ahead and just fantastic. Like you said, you see
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Speaker 3: so many Steelers fans around as well. So now I'm
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Speaker 3: doing doing pretty good.
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Speaker 2: Awesome man, and I agree Dalog our local airport man
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Speaker 2: Belfast International.
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Speaker 1: Shout out to that place.
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Speaker 2: I seen three Staeters fans on Sunday morning going to Tottenham.
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Speaker 2: I almost felt like I should have had a terrible
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Speaker 2: title or something with me to give to them. I'm
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Speaker 2: gonna bring a couple this week if I do see one,
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Speaker 2: and I've literally I've literally got three terrible titles, but
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Speaker 2: I'm gonna bring them just in case and we will
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Speaker 2: try and do something there.
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Speaker 1: But shut shout out.
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Speaker 2: Just great to see some of the NFL fans and
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Speaker 2: do dog. I was in Seeinsbury's and then Gallon and
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Speaker 2: I've seen the Staeters fan yesterday. It's a small world,
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Speaker 2: isn't it.
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Speaker 1: How are you doing?
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Speaker 4: I'm doing well. I'm unfortunately it wasn't me. I'm surprised
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Speaker 4: it wasn't me, you know, but I haven't said that
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Speaker 4: Steeters nation has grown up and down Ireland so and
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Speaker 4: that doesn't surprise me. I wasn't either of them in
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Speaker 4: Battleton was international on Sunday. More than either would have
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Speaker 4: been nice too. But as Jimmy has just said there,
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Speaker 4: I am absolutely pumping it over to Pittsburgh next week
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Speaker 4: and watched our staters play the Yet so if another
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Speaker 4: big week coming up this week, an important week last
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Speaker 4: week didn't go to plan, and with we've got an
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Speaker 4: opportunity to set things who it need to be so
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Speaker 4: really happy to be here and obviously I'm buzzing to
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Speaker 4: get over next week.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I can't wait see you guys going over next week.
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Speaker 2: And there's a lot of stuff planned for you guys
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Speaker 2: next week when you're going over there. Obviously it's such
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Speaker 2: a big game as well, and I'm looking forward to
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Speaker 2: seeing the look on your loud's faces when you walk
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Speaker 2: into acretchure as well. We'll probably talk more about that
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Speaker 2: coming into the podcast early next week, once we Jimmy
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Speaker 2: try and recover from another week of football in London.
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Speaker 2: First for all problems and it's been a bit of
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Speaker 2: a mod week, so it's my fault. We didn't know
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Speaker 2: a podcast early in the week and it's my bod.
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Speaker 2: I've was literally in the middle of nowhere and I
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Speaker 2: apologize to theaters fans, but we will make up for
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Speaker 2: it today. We'll try and have a couple of bonus
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Speaker 2: ones out next week. I know these laws will probably
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Speaker 2: do something from Pittsburgh and I'll try and do something
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Speaker 2: from here as well. We really appreciate everybody's supports and
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Speaker 2: thanks to everybody that came up at the weekend in
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Speaker 2: London and talk to us about the podcast and how
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Speaker 2: much they enjoy it. So it's certainly very very well appreciated.
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Speaker 2: Jimmy losing twenty seventeen, it's one thing. It's disappoint and
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Speaker 2: I think, you know, we're obviously a few days out
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Speaker 2: from it, so I'm probably a bit more calm than
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Speaker 2: what I was on Tuesday morning. That being said, it
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Speaker 2: was a late one for all of us on Monday
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Speaker 2: night or sorry, on Sunday night. It was definitely a
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Speaker 2: late game. I keep thinking it's a different day and
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Speaker 2: in my head and I will say one thing. I
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Speaker 2: know we lost the game, but when it when it
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Speaker 2: came to the final drive from the Cowboys, I genuinely
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Speaker 2: at one point expected our defense to keep them out.
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Speaker 2: I know it didn't happen, but even on like I
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Speaker 2: think it was first and second and goal, I was like, man,
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Speaker 2: really impressively stops here. But look, the Cowboys got the
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Speaker 2: win in the end. Flee into in the season. We've
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Speaker 2: got to move on.
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Speaker 1: We've got a big week coming up this week and
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Speaker 1: obviously the week.
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Speaker 2: Where you're there next week, and have you had much
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Speaker 2: time to sort of think and analyze this game over
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Speaker 2: the last few days from watching tap.
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Speaker 3: Well, first things first, Mike, I'm just glad that I
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Speaker 3: did not stay up to watch it because between the
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Speaker 3: one well, the the slated one am kickoff, and then
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Speaker 3: the weather delay, I believe the game didn't finish until
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Speaker 3: roughly six am Irish time. And as you as you
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Speaker 3: can imagine, as as I'm sure you are as well,
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Speaker 3: I was wrecked after a busy day but enjoyable day
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Speaker 3: in London. But even watching the game back, I mean,
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Speaker 3: I think there was a couple of crucial moments that
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Speaker 3: kind of costs us the victory. Really, we had three turnovers,
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Speaker 3: three takeaways in total, two interceptions including Joey Porter's first
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Speaker 3: one of the season Dante Jackson's second one of the season,
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Speaker 3: and then we had the the lost fumble of the
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Speaker 3: lost snap from Dak as well, and we failed to
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Speaker 3: capitalize in any of those. I mean, that's that's absolutely
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Speaker 3: crucial if you're not capitalizing on takeaways. I mean, that's
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Speaker 3: that's points here leaving on the field. So I think
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Speaker 3: you know, that wasn't that wasn't great to see. And
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Speaker 3: then as well, our our offensive production continues to struggle
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Speaker 3: between but behind a patchwork offensive line. I mean we're
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Speaker 3: really we're not getting much done in the run game
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Speaker 3: at all. We have had a single rushing touchdown yet
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Speaker 3: from our running backs. All our Russian touchdowns have come
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Speaker 3: from Justin Fields. Great though, I mean in terms of positives.
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Speaker 3: I mean, don't get me wrong, there are a lot
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Speaker 3: of positives. Great to see Connor Hayward getting his first
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Speaker 3: first touchdown of the season. Absolutely love that young man,
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Speaker 3: and of course we had the opportunity to meet him
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Speaker 3: in Belfast during the year, so really really excited for
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Speaker 3: him and how he's getting more involved in the offense.
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Speaker 3: But I think we're getting a bit exposed in terms
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Speaker 3: of a lack of a true number two receiver when
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Speaker 3: all the attention is on of course George Pickens and
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Speaker 3: what's kind of the debt isn't really there to kind
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Speaker 3: of make up for it. There was a couple of
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Speaker 3: failed connections I think between Fields and some of those
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Speaker 3: other receivers, so look pros and cons. I mean, and
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Speaker 3: I think you mentioned that the last drive as well,
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Speaker 3: when the land and Roberts knocked that ball out, I thought,
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Speaker 3: that's a game, game, set and match, we have it.
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Speaker 3: But Dak to his credit, recovered to record the fumtball
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Speaker 3: and then they scored on the next play. So look
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Speaker 3: like you said, we pick ourselves off. Up, we just
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Speaker 3: ourselves off for three and two. Let's just hope we
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Speaker 3: can get back on track now in Las Vegas this weekend.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that was a.
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Speaker 2: Big sort of the end of that game from Doc Prescott.
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Speaker 2: Dave a guy that on paper is like eighteen for
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Speaker 2: sixteenth in production in terms of passing yards across the league.
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Speaker 2: But he's still in the top eight at an EPA,
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Speaker 2: and he shows it and in those big players in
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Speaker 2: the games where he does get those big passes and
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Speaker 2: big damage, big dinas, big yardish downs when he needs
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Speaker 2: to look perhaps the Cowboys they got the win. But
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Speaker 2: at the same time, I agree with Jimmy, I feel
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Speaker 2: like there was times a game sort of fell away
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Speaker 2: from us a little bit, like you feel that blog
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Speaker 2: like that run game could have been a bit more effective.
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Speaker 2: Especially I feel like as well, the delay didn't help anybody.
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Speaker 2: Like at the end of the day of the game
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Speaker 2: finished at one eight or half one on the East Coast. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: I finished Jimmy at at seventeen minutes past six Irish time,
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Speaker 2: I believe, So it's one It's like I would use
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Speaker 2: yourself for some of Stadlers some of their football. I
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Speaker 2: ended up watching the third and fourth quarter live, and
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Speaker 2: I then went back and watch tape on the first
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Speaker 2: and second quarter. Definitely sort of towards the end that bough.
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Speaker 2: It was one of those things. Through four weeks or
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Speaker 2: through five weeks, we have a average of two hundred
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Speaker 2: and sixty one yards allowed per game across cumulity. Across
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Speaker 2: that total, this is a defense that's capable of limiting
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Speaker 2: the yards for the opponents. We need to see a
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Speaker 2: wee bit more on the offense, don't we going into
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Speaker 2: this game this week?
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Speaker 4: Absolutely megal. I mean, first of all, you know, obviously
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Speaker 4: very disappointing to lose, you know to a team like
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Speaker 4: the Cowboys with the historic rivalry on the line, without
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Speaker 4: their two best pass rushers and Mica Parsons and the
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Speaker 4: Marcus Laurson not playing. It's borderline unacceptable. I mean, if
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Speaker 4: you look at it, it sound like we were sort
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Speaker 4: of handed the game on a plotter. You know, when
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Speaker 4: you win the turn just as Jimmy's matched there when
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Speaker 4: you went over the turnover battle over three at home,
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Speaker 4: you have to capitalize, and we just felt like we
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Speaker 4: left points on the board. So sorry, if you know,
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Speaker 4: the sort of hardba again. The offense again probably has
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Speaker 4: to come under a bit of scrutiny. The defense able
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Speaker 4: to bounce back after that falloff week against the Coats.
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Speaker 4: You know, I thought Nick Herbig and of course TJ
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Speaker 4: watas usual outstanding the game. But you know, if you
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Speaker 4: look at the injuries on the offensive line, the ability
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Speaker 4: to run the ball efficiently, it's just having a massive
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Speaker 4: impact on the offense. I just feel like until we're
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Speaker 4: able to, you know, get any momentum in this run game,
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Speaker 4: I love nausea, of course, but I feel it's obvious
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Speaker 4: that we're missing jail and warning Cordell Potterson, you know,
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Speaker 4: that three headed dragon that we need. I feel like
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Speaker 4: when we get them back, it's going to cause a
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Speaker 4: bit of you know, caused a bit of you know,
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Speaker 4: a spark in the offense hopefully. So overall, you know,
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Speaker 4: very disappointing not debate the Cowboys our first hand alone
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Speaker 4: prime time game. You know, myself and Jimmy will be
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Speaker 4: at the next one against Robert Salaalis Jats team and
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Speaker 4: next week, but we've got another massive rivalry game coming
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Speaker 4: up this weekend against the Raiders. Of course we've got
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Speaker 4: history with them. You immaculate reception from Franco Horace and
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Speaker 4: it's one of the one of the good memories to
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Speaker 4: hard back on. So looking forward to hopefully satting in it. Right,
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Speaker 4: we'll go into that game a bit later. But of course,
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Speaker 4: you know, it's it's it's hard to lose, you know,
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Speaker 4: the game in the NFL is hardly to the Cowboys.
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Speaker 4: But we have to dosh ourselves off and put our back,
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Speaker 4: put our best foot forward in this next game. So
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Speaker 4: I'm looking forward to that.
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Speaker 2: As we look ahead to this game against the Raiders.
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Speaker 2: It's at five past nine Irish time this Sunday evening.
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Speaker 2: So if you are watching London game and take away
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Speaker 2: break in the early window with six and come back
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Speaker 2: for this game at nine. The game is not on
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Speaker 2: Sky Sports, it is on NFL Game Pass on the Zone.
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Speaker 1: You can listen to it on OTB Sports Radio.
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Speaker 2: If you're heading to London, try and find some of
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Speaker 2: us loads in the airport after and we'll certainly try
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Speaker 2: and get it all. I'm gonna bring a Dodgy HGMI
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Speaker 2: cable to fired on the airport television probably.
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Speaker 1: Won't be able to do that.
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Speaker 2: But if you're in Stanstead, come and find this and
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Speaker 2: we'll certainly watch the first quarter to gather folks before
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Speaker 2: we talk with that game, before we give our keys
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Speaker 2: to the game and then our picks. Let's firstly hear
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Speaker 2: from coach Tumlin ahead of this game this weekend at
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Speaker 2: a Legion Stadium in Las Vegas, Nevattle.
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Speaker 5: Were somewhat familiar with them because we played them a
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Speaker 5: year ago, but there's been a lot of turnover, not
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Speaker 5: only in terms of coaching, but some significant players in
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Speaker 5: that short perioderiod of time that you know that makes
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Speaker 5: this expiration a different one for us. I'll start first
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Speaker 5: on their defense. Patrick Graham is back as their coordinator.
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Speaker 5: Got a lot of respect for him, man. He challenges
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Speaker 5: you in a lot of ways. Schematically, he's thoughtfully aggressive
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Speaker 5: in a lot of circumstances. He likes to apply pressure
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Speaker 5: even when he doesn't apply press, even when he doesn't
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Speaker 5: apply pressure. In terms of a number of people, he's
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Speaker 5: got top quality rushmen that really controlled the climate. From
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Speaker 5: a passing standpoint, Max Crosby is a game wrecker, to
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Speaker 5: be quite honest with you, It starts there. You got
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Speaker 5: to minimize his impact on the game, particularly in one
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Speaker 5: dimensional passing moments. And it's more than just wishing someone
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Speaker 5: good luck in terms of blocking them. You better do
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Speaker 5: some schematic things to minimize him with body position and
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Speaker 5: two people, et cetera. Things that he sees each and
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Speaker 5: every week. Though it's not like I'm rediscovering the wheel here.
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Speaker 5: You know, he sees those type of things every week,
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Speaker 5: and so we better do those things, but also work
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Speaker 5: with extreme urgency in terms of minimizing his impact on
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Speaker 5: the game. And then Christian Wilkins they picked up in
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Speaker 5: free agency from the Dolphins. Man is somebody that's new
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Speaker 5: to them, that's, you know, really talented. He's got a
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Speaker 5: well rounded game. He's disruptive in the run, he's disruptive
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Speaker 5: in the interior in terms of passing. It looks like
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Speaker 5: he's really catching his stride over the last two and
11:30
Speaker 5: a half weeks or so in terms of his disruption,
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Speaker 5: negativity that he's creating, and his playmaking. And so it
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Speaker 5: starts there for us. Not only did the individuals, but
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Speaker 5: the aggressive schematics deployed by Patrick Graham. And then at
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Speaker 5: the second level, you know, just got a lot of
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Speaker 5: respect for Robert Splane had a lot of respect for
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Speaker 5: whim when he was here in terms of his approach
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Speaker 5: to business. It's really good to see how his career
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Speaker 5: is taking off in Low Vegas. I think he is
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Speaker 5: their defensive captain. He's a splash playmaker. He made a
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Speaker 5: ridiculous amount of tackles a year ago, but also had
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Speaker 5: plays on the ball in terms of turnovers, three or
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Speaker 5: four interceptions. He's doing similar things for him this year.
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Speaker 5: He's in all circumstances. He's a really good communicator, doing
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Speaker 5: a really good job for those guys. They got some
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Speaker 5: top quality people on the back end man, some ball
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Speaker 5: skilled corners, a good safety rotation to guys. They play
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Speaker 5: a lot of people. As I mentioned when I was
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Speaker 5: talking about Patrick Graham schematically, particularly in situational moments, man
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Speaker 5: his utilization of personnel. He'll go nickel four two, nickel
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Speaker 5: five to one. He'll go dime uh. He'll put six
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Speaker 5: dbs on the field in one dimensional pass of moments.
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Speaker 5: Out of all of those personnel groups, he has a
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Speaker 5: solid complementary package of blitzes uh strong side stuff, weak
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Speaker 5: side stuff, zone blitzes, man concepts. He just does a
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Speaker 5: really good job of working to keep coordinators and offensive
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Speaker 5: units off balance with a well thought of mix of
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Speaker 5: aggressive football.
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Speaker 2: Great to hear coach Tumblin ahead of this game. We've
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Speaker 2: seen Jimmy that Russell Wilson's getting a bit more healthier.
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Speaker 2: It does at the time of recording, sort of point
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Speaker 2: to the fact that we expect to see Justin Fields
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Speaker 2: make a start a game this week unless we're told otherwise.
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Speaker 2: We know how the team operates. We know it's very
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Speaker 2: unlikely that we'll hear anathin towards Sunday. They'll just you know,
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Speaker 2: announce something an hour before, which is sort of standard.
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Speaker 1: Now.
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Speaker 2: We have seen the Steers offensively have a really robust offense,
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Speaker 2: particularly not like that particularly noted in the dynamics that
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Speaker 2: they've shown. I know that we want to see more
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Speaker 2: from them. For the Raiders, they've had some notable players.
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Speaker 2: He had a ninety three yard play over the last
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Speaker 2: couple of weeks. They've had some big plays as well.
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Speaker 2: The Raiders defense did not do very well last week,
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Speaker 2: and we know that Antonio or Pierce has had a
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Speaker 2: difficult week. The one thing that I all see with
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Speaker 2: Pierce and I know he's transferred the skills from going
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Speaker 2: to temporary head coach to now the full time parliament
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Speaker 2: head coach. I think he's struggling to do that, but
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Speaker 2: certainly I have no doubts that this Raiders defense are
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Speaker 2: going to be looking to try and find a way
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Speaker 2: to beat the Steelers team and try and take the
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Speaker 2: hum field advantage. Jimmy, I can't think of a better
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Speaker 2: place for Steelers fans to go into in Vegas. We're
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Speaker 2: gonna see a lot of black, black and gold here
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Speaker 2: on Sunday. What are your keys to the game?
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Speaker 3: So, I think make the Raiders are in a bit
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Speaker 3: of a similar situation to the Steelers right now. I
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Speaker 3: think they're they're lacking identity on both sides of the ball.
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Speaker 3: I mean, we look at the Gardner Minshew had had
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Speaker 3: a good start relatively speaking, and was subsequently benched in
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Speaker 3: favor of Aidan O'Connell. So I think quarterback wise, our
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Speaker 3: defense should have an impact in this game in terms
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Speaker 3: of disrupting the passing game. I'd expect our edges to
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Speaker 3: get after O'Connell and throw them off his rhythm, and
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Speaker 3: also would like to you know, defensively, Honestly, no really
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Speaker 3: stands out to me on this on the Raiders defense,
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Speaker 3: apart from obviously Max Crosby one of the best defensive
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Speaker 3: linemen the edge rushers in the league. So it's gonna
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Speaker 3: be interesting. I think it's gonna be very evenly matched.
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Speaker 3: I think the Steelers right now, like like I said,
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Speaker 3: we don't really have an offensive identity yet, and there's
15:19
Speaker 3: there's there's a number of factors involved in that that
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Speaker 3: we have mentioned previously. So I think it's gonna be
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Speaker 3: I think it's gonna be a very close one. And
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Speaker 3: I mean, you look back at last year we went
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Speaker 3: into Allegiant and dominated and that they almost did come
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Speaker 3: back towards the end, but we held We held off,
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Speaker 3: and I think Steeers fans traveled very well. We've seen
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Speaker 3: that in the past. There is a lot of Steeters
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Speaker 3: fans on the West Coast. We have historically seen a
15:44
Speaker 3: lot of Steelers fans show up in Los Angeles for
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Speaker 3: Chargers games and Rams games. So I think it's gonna
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Speaker 3: be a lot of black and gold in the black
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Speaker 3: hole in the desert on Sunday afternoon. And yeah, it's
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Speaker 3: gonna be it's gonna be a tight one.
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Speaker 2: I can't wait to see all the black and gold
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Speaker 2: in the stands this week. Actually really enjoy getting the
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Speaker 2: chance to down in the airport and watch the game
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Speaker 2: on my laptop, and that will be the game that
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Speaker 2: I'm watching this Sunday night at a friendly time for us.
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Speaker 2: All that log, We're going up against a Raiders team
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Speaker 2: that are ranked thirty if in the league by decent
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Speaker 2: amount of metrics in terms of rush defense or might
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Speaker 2: a zero point five to one unexpected points at it,
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Speaker 2: which is EPA on rush defense, and frankly, this rush
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Speaker 2: defense for the Raiders is quite weak. You would look
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Speaker 2: at a combination there of justin fields, but then also
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Speaker 2: the running back courter that we have along with utilizing
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Speaker 2: some talent on our wide receiver core to try and
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Speaker 2: run at this team, especially if you're finding the team
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Speaker 2: under pressure, if you find that guys like Max Crosby
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Speaker 2: or that's Raiders defense are gonna be running of our guys. Yes,
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Speaker 2: get the ball down the field, but you'd like to
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Speaker 2: pump them and get that run game down the field
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Speaker 2: if needs be. Because this is a team that's statistically
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Speaker 2: through five weeks, and we know we're only five weeks in,
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Speaker 2: but statistically they've struggled and they've struggled big time in
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Speaker 2: certain games.
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Speaker 1: It feels like an opportunity.
16:57
Speaker 2: But also before you guys go over here next week,
17:00
Speaker 2: it feels like a chance for this team to turn
17:03
Speaker 2: the page.
17:04
Speaker 1: What are your keys for the game?
17:08
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know what, MC, I know we we sort
17:11
Speaker 4: of sang off the start sheet a lot, and we
17:13
Speaker 4: did last week. I mean, the Cowboys were one of
17:15
Speaker 4: the worst ranked defensively run teams and arguably in the league.
17:20
Speaker 4: So I'm not really looking at that much stops this week. However,
17:22
Speaker 4: you know, we've got a great opportunity because I believe
17:24
Speaker 4: he O'Connell is going to be the starting quarterback for
17:26
Speaker 4: the Raiders. Gardner mean choos out. He's been dropped, which
17:29
Speaker 4: is good because he's too zer against us in his
17:31
Speaker 4: career and so Frankully, we won't have to go up
17:33
Speaker 4: against him today or this weekend.
17:35
Speaker 2: Sorry.
17:36
Speaker 4: And you could make the argument, you know that the
17:38
Speaker 4: Raiders are probably the worst team in the league. I mean,
17:40
Speaker 4: they've been beaten by the Ponters we man consider have
17:43
Speaker 4: held that title prayer and they got battered by the
17:46
Speaker 4: Bronco who was last week as well. So they're of
17:48
Speaker 4: course going to be without DeVante Adams. You know, there's
17:50
Speaker 4: a lot of you know, Hessan about the leaguacying what
17:52
Speaker 4: he's gonna do, and you mentioned they are about Max Crosby. Jimmy,
17:55
Speaker 4: I'm not even sure Max Crowdby is going to be playing.
17:56
Speaker 4: I think he's he's down as questionable. So and there's
18:00
Speaker 4: opportunity here to take it, you know, advantage of these
18:02
Speaker 4: you know, hecups from the Raiders as well as that
18:04
Speaker 4: Jacobe Mahers another good player for them, apparently he's questionable.
18:08
Speaker 4: They haven't really got a lot of weapons. Aside from that,
18:10
Speaker 4: there's a mere Whites and other you know running back
18:12
Speaker 4: who's questionable as well. They haven't got their plague of injuries,
18:15
Speaker 4: and it probably just comes down to the tight end
18:17
Speaker 4: brock Bars. We're gonna be able to neutralize him. Then
18:20
Speaker 4: I don't really see how they're gonna be able to
18:21
Speaker 4: put points up on us.
18:22
Speaker 6: And as you.
18:23
Speaker 4: Mentioned there, if we're able to improve offensively, you know,
18:26
Speaker 4: we'll see how the offensive line looks. You know, I've
18:28
Speaker 4: read a bit of the injury report. You know, seem
18:30
Speaker 4: Ali again, he was he was coming back from NJA
18:32
Speaker 4: last weekend, and you know he's a bit questionable for
18:35
Speaker 4: this weekend. We'll see how the injuries are on the
18:36
Speaker 4: offensive line. I reckon if we can get this run
18:38
Speaker 4: game going, help justin fields, you know, in the progressions,
18:42
Speaker 4: you know, let him saddle. Defensively, there's not a lot
18:44
Speaker 4: there's Jimmy's just said they're defensively without Max Crosby. There's
18:48
Speaker 4: not a lot to share about there. So that's the
18:50
Speaker 4: keys to the game for me. I feel like, if
18:52
Speaker 4: we're able to sort of neutralize brock Bars, get the
18:54
Speaker 4: offense going, get the run game going, I don't really
18:57
Speaker 4: see how they're going to be able to stop us.
18:58
Speaker 4: So yeah, that's us really what I'm looking for.
19:01
Speaker 3: I have to agree Todd, this is that this is,
19:03
Speaker 3: like you say, it's an opportunity for us to bench
19:05
Speaker 3: back after two kind of poor performances, or maybe not
19:09
Speaker 3: necessarily poor performances, but performances where we could have done better.
19:12
Speaker 3: I mean, we almost came back against the Coats and
19:15
Speaker 3: mistakes crossed. Is that we almost we almost held off
19:18
Speaker 3: the Cowboys, we almost won the Cowboys game. So it
19:22
Speaker 3: is getting closer and closer, and the fact that we
19:25
Speaker 3: are on the road this week, I think it would
19:27
Speaker 3: be nice to go back home to after sure and
19:30
Speaker 3: the weekend after and have that win in our back
19:34
Speaker 3: pocket ahead of Sunday night football.
19:36
Speaker 2: It's quite funny as on Yes, Max Crosby did not
19:40
Speaker 2: practice on weddingstead of time recording.
19:42
Speaker 1: So we're recording Thursday.
19:43
Speaker 2: Even there were a few comments made by Michael Lombardi
19:46
Speaker 2: and Pout mcafeel on his show or there on about this.
19:49
Speaker 2: I would not be surprised lads if we see Crosby
19:51
Speaker 2: on the field on Sunday, and because the man's a beast,
19:54
Speaker 2: he probably play with one leg. But like TJ as well,
19:56
Speaker 2: we will see less year from a couple of guys
19:58
Speaker 2: in the locker room before we make are GM predictions
20:01
Speaker 2: on the Irish Steters podcast.
20:05
Speaker 1: So I don't feel like he gets beating up to.
20:07
Speaker 7: A faster start, like I said, just have that same
20:11
Speaker 7: mentality that we have in the third and fourth quarter
20:13
Speaker 7: and just start off with it, you know, not warming
20:14
Speaker 7: up to you know, the game and just coming out hot.
20:17
Speaker 7: So like I've said, what a couple of weeks ago,
20:19
Speaker 7: it's not miss school. It's just you know us, you know,
20:21
Speaker 7: coming out and executing our job.
20:24
Speaker 6: So yeah, you've had a good record with your tight ends.
20:26
Speaker 6: What about that group epectively makes them?
20:30
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean they're you know, we have a great
20:32
Speaker 7: tight end group. I think they're all kind of specializing
20:34
Speaker 7: different things. They're all versatile, and they're all kind of different.
20:37
Speaker 1: You know.
20:38
Speaker 7: Of course, Darnell his body size, and you know just
20:43
Speaker 7: how athletic he is, what he can do blocking wise
20:45
Speaker 7: and stuff like that too. Uh, Pat all around, you know,
20:49
Speaker 7: shout out to Daan more too, so y'all know. But yeah,
20:53
Speaker 7: Connor he's a great, great route runner, smart player, and
20:56
Speaker 7: you know all of them are smart. So they definitely
20:58
Speaker 7: allow us to do a lot of things on offense
21:00
Speaker 7: for sure. Just what you guys do to get as Yeah,
21:04
Speaker 7: I definitely need to uh you know, create explosive, but
21:07
Speaker 7: I think you know, we we we had a chance
21:09
Speaker 7: and the first one to Connor was you know six
21:12
Speaker 7: or six inches maybe it foot out too far in
21:14
Speaker 7: front of to where you had to die, but really
21:16
Speaker 7: just connected. You know, you know, Art is gonna make
21:18
Speaker 7: sure we get our shot shot plays in and you know,
21:21
Speaker 7: try to create some of those explosives, but it's really
21:22
Speaker 7: just connecting downfield. And of course that starts up front
21:26
Speaker 7: with protection and stuff like that. But usually once we
21:29
Speaker 7: do that, you know, it just it just comes to
21:31
Speaker 7: pitch and catch from there. So does that open up
21:33
Speaker 7: some of the run game that if you do start
21:35
Speaker 7: to connect on some of these I think so, you know,
21:38
Speaker 7: you know, defense might start getting the shell and stuff
21:40
Speaker 7: like that. Really just depending on who you play. But
21:43
Speaker 7: you know, every game you want, you know, a big
21:45
Speaker 7: number of exposive plays. You know, it's just gonna get
21:47
Speaker 7: the offense and the rhythm and of course you know,
21:49
Speaker 7: just kind of get the vote from the ball.
21:51
Speaker 6: So yeah, yeah, I was able to do a lot
21:53
Speaker 6: more this week.
21:53
Speaker 8: You know, it was exciting to get back out there
21:55
Speaker 8: this week so far and and be a full participant and.
21:58
Speaker 6: Do everything, all the ups and everything else. So that
22:01
Speaker 6: was great.
22:01
Speaker 8: And uh we just got better from first day to
22:04
Speaker 8: day it felt even better, So that was a good thing.
22:06
Speaker 1: What are your expectations for Sunday?
22:08
Speaker 2: Your role? What do you expect?
22:10
Speaker 6: That's a big question.
22:11
Speaker 8: Uh yeah, no, I think you know, for me, I'm
22:14
Speaker 8: I'm preparing my mind to get ready to go and
22:16
Speaker 8: and uh and everything else. So that's kind of uh
22:19
Speaker 8: my my mentality and help us win whatever that is.
22:21
Speaker 8: And so uh yeah, I'm just I'm just getting prepared
22:24
Speaker 8: for Friday.
22:25
Speaker 3: See, just a lot of time during training, team dating
22:27
Speaker 3: development the last couple of weeks.
22:29
Speaker 6: How much time do you needed to get the way
22:31
Speaker 6: up I've been getting on the reps.
22:33
Speaker 8: It's not like I haven't been out there, you know,
22:35
Speaker 8: it's I've done a lot of reps, you know, over
22:38
Speaker 8: all this time and and everything else. And I feel
22:40
Speaker 8: really confident with our guys who we are. You guys
22:43
Speaker 8: saw some of the plays, guys are making a d
22:44
Speaker 8: you know, just a lot of good things, and so
22:47
Speaker 8: you know, I.
22:47
Speaker 6: Feel calm about that, and I'm not worried about that
22:49
Speaker 6: part of it. When you go to Mike and say, hey,
22:52
Speaker 6: I'm back, or exact question, will you go to Mike
22:54
Speaker 6: when you're fully back and say I'm back, Do you
22:57
Speaker 6: expect him to come to you and tell you you back? Yeah,
22:59
Speaker 6: I think it's a p effort.
23:00
Speaker 8: I think obviously coach Tomlin and I Gabe, you know,
23:03
Speaker 8: the trainer here, and he's done a great job. And
23:06
Speaker 8: I think the doctors as well, you know, just communicating
23:08
Speaker 8: with them and just but uh, you know, I'm always
23:10
Speaker 8: wanting to be on the field.
23:10
Speaker 6: That's for sure. The ones to do that though. Uh yeah,
23:16
Speaker 6: I mean I've got work with everybody. You know, that's
23:18
Speaker 6: a good thing.
23:19
Speaker 8: Throwing all the different guys and everything else and all
23:21
Speaker 8: the all the all the run game stuff and all
23:23
Speaker 8: the checks and all that.
23:24
Speaker 6: So feel feel good about it. Okay, I know, I
23:31
Speaker 6: know we kind of like all that, would you be limited?
23:33
Speaker 8: All yeah, I feel confident that i'd be ready to
23:38
Speaker 8: play and play play at a high level. And uh,
23:41
Speaker 8: you know, I think that's you know, I think we're
23:44
Speaker 8: being really smart too and trying to understand exactly how
23:47
Speaker 8: I feel. It's my first week, you know, really back
23:49
Speaker 8: out there with you guys, you know, and when playing
23:50
Speaker 8: and all that stuff. So I feel really confident about that.
23:52
Speaker 8: And you know, the ball spinning, you know, it's a
23:55
Speaker 8: good thing. And uh so, I you know, I have
23:57
Speaker 8: no uh no doubt, you know, you know in my mind,
24:00
Speaker 8: w's I step between white lines.
24:01
Speaker 6: I'll probably really.
24:02
Speaker 2: Get great to hear from some of the lads in
24:04
Speaker 2: the locker room as we get ready to travel from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
24:07
Speaker 2: to Las Vegas, Nevada in Allegiance Stadium this week, the
24:10
Speaker 2: Steelers taking on the Raiders in the sixth week of
24:12
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24:15
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24:18
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24:22
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24:28
Speaker 2: this podcast, Lads, I'm gonna keep mind short and sweet.
24:30
Speaker 2: This is a game that the Staders need to win.
24:32
Speaker 2: Two disappointing defeats, a close defeat against the Colts when
24:36
Speaker 2: they've came back, and even closer defeat against the Cowboys
24:39
Speaker 2: at home in a primetime game. It feels like this
24:42
Speaker 2: is the opportunity to not only rewrite the page, but Lads,
24:45
Speaker 2: it feels like it's the opportunity to get back on
24:47
Speaker 2: the bounds again, get the forward two and go into
24:49
Speaker 2: that primetime game against it.
24:51
Speaker 1: Nope, that had to happen.
24:54
Speaker 2: Go into a primetime game next week against a Jets
24:57
Speaker 2: team which is frankly hurting, and you want to get
25:00
Speaker 2: them next week when they're still hurting. Yeah, they're going
25:03
Speaker 2: to be up on their tails. But this is the
25:04
Speaker 2: game where you look at a week by week I
25:05
Speaker 2: expect to see justin Fields not only to get the
25:07
Speaker 2: ball on the field this week and be efficient on
25:09
Speaker 2: the offense. I actually can to see him run for
25:11
Speaker 2: upwards of twenty thirty forty yards in this game. And
25:13
Speaker 2: the Steelers win this game for me twenty four to ten.
25:19
Speaker 2: A nice win. Now, well that happened.
25:21
Speaker 1: Who knows? That's my pick? Jimmy, have you got me?
25:26
Speaker 3: As it is always the case, I let my heart
25:30
Speaker 3: lead the way in these picks, Nick, and I'm going
25:32
Speaker 3: with the Steelers, and I'm going with a Cross win
25:35
Speaker 3: as well. I think Boswell is going to be massive
25:37
Speaker 3: for us in this game, purely because our offense hasn't
25:42
Speaker 3: reached anywhere near it its full potential due to a
25:45
Speaker 3: variety of factors. Of course, it's no one's fought really,
25:49
Speaker 3: but I'm going Steelers twenty three, Raiders seventeen. And I
25:54
Speaker 3: won't steal Dave's tideline. I'll let him say that.
25:58
Speaker 1: Dave, Boss, take it to the bank, go for Yeah.
26:02
Speaker 4: I'm jumping in here as well with surprise the praise.
26:05
Speaker 4: It's it's a three way wins. I don't want to
26:08
Speaker 4: say it's must have.
26:10
Speaker 2: We ever said in this podcast that we're gonna lose.
26:12
Speaker 2: I know it's a team's podcast, right, but I feel
26:14
Speaker 2: like we're all optimism, which is good, you know.
26:17
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, it's good to be optimistic, of course, you know.
26:20
Speaker 4: I mean I don't think we will ever get a
26:22
Speaker 4: weekend where and even well, I don't know about any
26:24
Speaker 4: of it, Like who knows, Like maybe we will get
26:27
Speaker 4: a loss eventually, but I'm against the Raiders on a
26:30
Speaker 4: Sunday and no way, absolutely no chance. I'm going at
26:33
Speaker 4: twenty seven seventeen. I feel like, as I said, it's
26:37
Speaker 4: just one of those things where you just look at
26:39
Speaker 4: their offensive personnel with the injuries, you know, the whole
26:42
Speaker 4: shadow around DeVante Adams, Antonio Pearce is under pressure. I
26:46
Speaker 4: feel like we've all those sort of boss backs, you know.
26:49
Speaker 4: Of course at the end of the day, we're under
26:50
Speaker 4: pressure because we're coming off with loss. But at the
26:52
Speaker 4: same time, I just feel like we're saddling off to
26:55
Speaker 4: sort of come out and get the win. So I'm
26:56
Speaker 4: going twenty seventh seventeen, and I'll say it again, take
26:59
Speaker 4: a full back.
27:02
Speaker 2: Jimmy, help me up in the airport this week. We'll
27:04
Speaker 2: watch this first quarter live. If anybody's on the Belfast
27:06
Speaker 2: flight back from London this Sunday. We're gonna watch the
27:09
Speaker 2: game together as well. Folks, really really appreciate everybody listening.
27:13
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27:15
Speaker 2: We're gonna have probably an added package of content coming
27:18
Speaker 2: next week.
27:19
Speaker 1: These lads are heading the Pittsburgh.
27:21
Speaker 2: I'll get on the wagon here and do a home
27:23
Speaker 2: from home podcast in that sense, and we'll try and
27:25
Speaker 2: react to the game quickly as well. I won't be
27:27
Speaker 2: off the face of the earth come Monday regardless. As
27:30
Speaker 2: a result, we will be back early in the week.
27:31
Speaker 1: Here we go chat these soon. Folks. Have a good weekend.