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HR 2: Ashley Bastock Joins the Show, Around the NFL Week 8 · The Steelers Report

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  Speaker 1: The Cleveland Browns have not swept the Pittsburgh Steelers in
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  Speaker 1: a regular.
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  Speaker 2: Season since 1988.
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  Speaker 1: Top movies back in 1988, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Die Hard,
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  Speaker 1: George H.W. Bush was elected the 41st president of the
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  Speaker 1: United States 12 days prior. The Steelers after that game
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  Speaker 1: fell to 2-10 on the season, which was tied for
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  Speaker 1: the worst record in the NFL. And Aaron Rodgers was
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  Speaker 1: four years old. back in 1988, the only active Steeler
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  Speaker 1: or Brown player alive at the time. And I venture
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  Speaker 1: to guess that Brian Bacco and our guest, Ashley Bastok,
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  Speaker 1: might not have been alive either in 1988. I'll let
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  Speaker 1: them confirm that. I was eight years old at the time,
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  Speaker 1: so I was definitely alive. But Ashley, joining us from
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  Speaker 1: Cleveland.com once again. Ashley, were you alive? And B, how
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  Speaker 1: are you?
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  Speaker 2: I'm good.
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  Speaker 3: I'll answer the second one first. I was not alive.
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  Speaker 3: I was born in November of 92. So, yeah, this
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  Speaker 3: has not happened in my lifetime. And that's not an exaggeration.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I wasn't alive either. Ed and hi, Ashley. Thanks
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  Speaker 4: again for coming on. And what was running through my
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  Speaker 4: mind for some reason was Jay-Z was still probably four
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  Speaker 4: or five years away from releasing his first album. But
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  Speaker 4: that almost doesn't seem like that much of a stat
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  Speaker 4: because he's still going to be hosting the Super Bowl
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  Speaker 4: halftime show. So he's kind of the Aaron Rodgers of rap,
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  Speaker 4: I guess. He's still going, and well, I guess we'll
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  Speaker 4: see if he's still going strong.
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  Speaker 1: Ashley, the last time we talked to you, it was
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  Speaker 1: before the Thursday night game, before the Steelers and Browns
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  Speaker 1: met for the first time this season. Of course, the
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  Speaker 1: Browns win that game in dramatic fashion right at the end.
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  Speaker 1: It was a great game back and forth. The Steelers
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  Speaker 1: came back in the fourth quarter, fell short. Cleveland gets
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  Speaker 1: the win, and the Browns have been on fire since.
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  Speaker 1: They're now 5-2 on the year, just like the Steelers are.
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  Speaker 1: Are you surprised by this 5-2 start after seven games?
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  Speaker 1: What's the vibe in Cleveland right now that people have
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  Speaker 1: to be going crazy, I would think?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I'm definitely pleasantly surprised as I get
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  Speaker 3: some wind here in Cleveland.
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  Speaker 2: Very typical for this time of year. I was pleasantly surprised.
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  Speaker 3: You know, when the season started, I said I felt
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  Speaker 3: like this team ceiling was sort of in the eight
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  Speaker 3: to nine win range. And I think a lot of
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  Speaker 3: people felt like that was even too optimistic. We know
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  Speaker 3: Vegas had their win total set at five and a half.
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  Speaker 3: So it's been certainly a pleasant surprise and it's the
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  Speaker 3: way they keep winning. I mean, obviously this game between
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  Speaker 3: these two teams last time really came down to the wire,
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  Speaker 3: but every Browns win has been because Deshaun Watson in
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  Speaker 3: this offense has have had a game-winning drive in the
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  Speaker 3: fourth quarter, so they've all been kind of dramatic, too.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, Ashley, and I was going to say, I mean,
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  Speaker 4: part of that was the Steelers game. It's kind of
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  Speaker 4: wild how that one played out, and now they'll get
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  Speaker 4: a chance to quickly, relatively speaking, turn around and wipe
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  Speaker 4: away those frustrations. You know, I was going to ask you,
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  Speaker 4: Jared Verse has really been making a lot of headlines
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  Speaker 4: this week, and I guess Cam Hayward kind of returning
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  Speaker 4: fire a little bit. I mean, What's your read on him?
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  Speaker 4: Because obviously our exposure to him is only in the
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  Speaker 4: Steelers-Browns context. Do you think he came into this knowing
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  Speaker 4: this rivalry is a big brother, little brother thing, and
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  Speaker 4: he was determined to be an antagonist in a leadership way?
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  Speaker 4: Or was he actually genuinely miffed by some of the
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  Speaker 4: chippiness from that first game about a month ago?
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  Speaker 2: I think he was genuinely miffed.
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  Speaker 3: We asked him again today, and of course we asked
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  Speaker 3: him after the game when he described what he viewed
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  Speaker 3: as dirty things happening from the Steelers. And after the game,
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  Speaker 3: he wouldn't say. Today, he still wouldn't say. So he
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  Speaker 3: didn't want to get into details, but he was standing
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  Speaker 3: by that. Whatever he felt like happened was dirty in
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  Speaker 3: his mind. And, you know, I think, though, the thing
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  Speaker 3: with Jared, that being said, like, Jared Verse loves to talk. Like,
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  Speaker 3: he does not shut up. And there were so many
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  Speaker 3: days in training camp where that was, like, all you
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  Speaker 3: heard the entire practice.
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  Speaker 1: And.
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  Speaker 2: One of the more.
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  Speaker 3: Famous moments from this year's training camp was when Jared
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  Speaker 3: Burse and rookie left tackle Spencer Fano came to blows.
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  Speaker 3: And I think it was the second week, maybe like
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  Speaker 3: day nine or 10 of camp. So kind of those
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  Speaker 3: dog days. And Spencer like kind of just got sick
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  Speaker 3: of hearing Jared talk and having a power rusher come
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  Speaker 3: at you the same way basically every day. So they
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  Speaker 3: came to blows. It won Spencer the left tackle job.
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  Speaker 3: Todd Munkin really liked that. But yeah, Jared Burse and
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  Speaker 3: Quincy Williams, the linebacker, are the two guys on this
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  Speaker 3: defense that just don't ever stop talking when they're out there.
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  Speaker 3: But I do think, that being said, Jared was genuinely
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  Speaker 3: bothered by something that happened in the game.
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  Speaker 2: What it is, I've tried to find out, and I
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  Speaker 2: still don't know.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I hate to say it, but when it comes
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  Speaker 4: to Browns pass rushers and Steelers, there's a little bit
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  Speaker 4: of history of, I don't know if boy who cried
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  Speaker 4: wolf is the right way to phrase it, but Let's
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  Speaker 4: hope that nothing spills over quite that much and it's
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  Speaker 4: just a normal physical game between these two teams and
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  Speaker 4: nothing beyond the pale.
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  Speaker 1: We're talking with Ashley Bastock from Cleveland.com. We talked to
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  Speaker 1: Ashley before the first meeting between the Steelers and the
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  Speaker 1: Browns on that Thursday night game. The rematch this Sunday
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  Speaker 1: at Accuture Stadium. A lot on the line. First place
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  Speaker 1: by themselves, the winner between the Browns and the Steelers
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  Speaker 1: this Sunday. That's where they will be in the AFC North.
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  Speaker 1: Ashley Bastock. Two players on offense have really shined so far,
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  Speaker 1: the two rookies, Denzel Boston and Casey Concepcion. They're one
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  Speaker 1: and two among rookie wide receivers. The Steelers rookie wide receiver,
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  Speaker 1: Jeremy Bernard, is fourth in the NFL. Both these two
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  Speaker 1: have really turned it on, especially late. We know Concepcion
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  Speaker 1: coming off a huge game against the Titans. Your thoughts
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  Speaker 1: so far on these two rookie wide receivers? They have
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  Speaker 1: a good tight end too, you guys, with the Browns,
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  Speaker 1: with Harold Fannin Jr., also with three touchdown catches so
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  Speaker 1: far this year.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they have this core of young pass catchers, and
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  Speaker 3: I think it's been helpful because they've kind of come
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  Speaker 3: along at different times. So Denzel Boston was the guy
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  Speaker 3: who started hot immediately, and that was kind of how
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  Speaker 3: training camp went for him too. But as he got
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  Speaker 3: more attention, I think he's kind of slowed down a
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  Speaker 3: little bit, but I don't know how much of it
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  Speaker 3: is attention versus some of these other guys have just
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  Speaker 3: gotten going. And I think obviously in the Steelers game,
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  Speaker 3: he had that one long pass. I think it was
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  Speaker 3: the 60-yard reception for him there. So he is that
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  Speaker 3: typical X profile, explosive catch kind of receiver. Casey Concepcion
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  Speaker 3: is smaller. Like Denzel Boston's the biggest guy in the room.
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  Speaker 3: He's like six, four. He's the biggest receiver I think
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  Speaker 3: they've had in my time covering the team. But Casey
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  Speaker 3: is that smaller profile and he just can do a
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  Speaker 3: bit more. You know, I think the Browns really consider
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  Speaker 3: him a huge part of that auxiliary run game. Todd
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  Speaker 3: Munkin talked A lot about that this week. So that's
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  Speaker 3: not just touches on the ground, which he can do.
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  Speaker 3: It's his ability in the short pass game as well.
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  Speaker 3: And I really felt like this past week against the
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  Speaker 3: Titans was Harold Fannin's first game where he got going.
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  Speaker 3: So he had to have a procedure on a groin
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  Speaker 3: injury he suffered actually in week 17 last year against
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  Speaker 3: the Steelers that kept him out of the finale in Cincinnati.
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  Speaker 3: And he missed most of the offseason program. He was
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  Speaker 3: back for training camp, but he didn't do a ton.
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  Speaker 3: And I do find like when you have these younger
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  Speaker 3: players and they miss a significant chunk of the offseason,
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  Speaker 3: I think it maybe takes them a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: To get back up to speed.
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  Speaker 3: I think we saw that with Harold, but I do
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  Speaker 3: think he did a lot more this past week against
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  Speaker 3: the Titans.
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  Speaker 4: It seems like guys tend to miss at least one
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  Speaker 4: game when they have a head injury in the previous game.
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  Speaker 4: So are we kind of widely expecting DeJuan Jones to
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  Speaker 4: be back out there at right tackle? And if so,
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  Speaker 4: how did Jones look in training camp and preseason? Because
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  Speaker 4: obviously the big fella from Ohio State has started in
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  Speaker 4: these Steelers matchups before. but lost his job coming into
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  Speaker 4: this year to a combination of new acquisitions and, you know,
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  Speaker 4: maybe new coaching staff wanting to go a different way
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  Speaker 4: at that spot.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. So Titus Howard did not practice again on Thursday. So,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, we know that the turnaround is getting tight
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  Speaker 3: to clear that protocol. Part of the concussion protocol is
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  Speaker 3: obviously going through actually practicing and making sure you don't
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  Speaker 3: have symptoms for like a I feel like right now
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  Speaker 3: it's trending towards we are going to see DeJuan Jones.
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  Speaker 3: That's who has replaced Titus in both of the games
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  Speaker 3: where he got injured this past week with the concussion.
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  Speaker 3: And then DeJuan also played against the Jets in week
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  Speaker 3: five when Titus left with a knee injury. But that
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  Speaker 3: didn't cost him any time other than that game.
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  Speaker 2: So DeJuan, yeah, he was in the mix.
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  Speaker 3: Like I honestly felt like DeJuan Jones was going to
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  Speaker 3: come into training camp and they were going to just
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  Speaker 3: be working him as a swing tackle from the jump.
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  Speaker 2: And that wasn't the case.
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  Speaker 3: Like he was fully in competition for the starting left
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  Speaker 3: tackle job, which. I think it's a testament to him
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  Speaker 3: because Spencer Fano is the guy that they.
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  Speaker 2: Drafted number nine overall.
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  Speaker 3: And they were very adamant when they drafted Spencer that, no,
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  Speaker 3: he wasn't moving inside. No, he wasn't moving to the
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  Speaker 3: right side. He's going to be our left tackle of
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  Speaker 3: the future. So DeJuan came back. I think this is
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  Speaker 3: the leanest he's been by far. And he said he
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  Speaker 3: definitely felt better in this last game against the Titans overall.
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  Speaker 3: than in the Week 5 game against the Jets. I
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  Speaker 3: believe he got credited for a sack and three pressures
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  Speaker 3: in that Jets game. He allowed three pressures this past game,
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  Speaker 3: but they were all hurries, I believe. So he looked better. And, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I think I would expect him right now
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  Speaker 3: to be the guy. And, of course, as you alluded to,
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  Speaker 3: his first ever NFL start came in that Monday night
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  Speaker 3: football game in 2023. And he had to hold off
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  Speaker 3: TJ Watt and did like a pretty good job of it.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think he gave up a sack in that game.
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  Speaker 3: I know he got a Baldi's breakdown after that game
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  Speaker 3: that he was really excited about. So he certainly has
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  Speaker 3: experience playing in Pittsburgh. and being kind of thrown into
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  Speaker 3: things out there.
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  Speaker 1: We're talking with Ashley Bastock of Cleveland.com, Brown's beat reporter
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  Speaker 1: there in Cleveland. Both Ashley and Brian joining us from
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  Speaker 1: both the Steelers and Brown's facilities here. Practice late in
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  Speaker 1: the week. You can hear our train in the background
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  Speaker 1: for one of the two of you. I'm guessing that's
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  Speaker 1: Brian because I know where the Steeler facility is. And, Ashley,
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  Speaker 1: I'm guessing, is that you with the train? Yeah, we
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  Speaker 1: have a train right across the street. You can hear
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  Speaker 1: it in, like, all our podcasts. There went the whistle.
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  Speaker 1: You can hear it in all our podcasts and videos.
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  Speaker 1: We always make jokes about it. Did you just do, like,
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  Speaker 1: the toot-toot thing? I should have. That was right on cue. Brian,
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  Speaker 1: the Steelers facility is right next to our railroad track, too,
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  Speaker 1: so there's something in common with the Browns and Steelers.
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  Speaker 1: Go ahead, Brian.
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  Speaker 4: There's a train going behind me, too, right now. Pittsburgh
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  Speaker 4: and Cleveland. What's like the football cliche? They're on parallel
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  Speaker 4: tracks right now?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Or they're on the same track, and they're about to
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  Speaker 4: meet in the middle Sunday at 1 p.m.
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  Speaker 2: You've got to love it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, somebody has a construction vehicle, too, going on between
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  Speaker 1: one of the two of you. It might be Ashley, too.
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  Speaker 1: A lot more activity in Cleveland. There's wind there right
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  Speaker 1: off the lake. Ashley, what's the latest on Mason Graham?
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  Speaker 1: He got hurt during that Steelers game, has four sacks
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  Speaker 1: on the season. They were early on in the season.
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  Speaker 1: Is he healthy? Is he playing at 100%? What's the
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  Speaker 1: latest on Graham?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, he returned this, you know, these past
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  Speaker 3: couple of weeks or whatever. And his knee, it was
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  Speaker 3: a knee and an ankle that he was dealing with
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  Speaker 3: after that Steelers game. And he did like briefly leave
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  Speaker 3: at one point against the Titans, which kind of made
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  Speaker 3: me wonder, like, OK, is he is he fully feeling
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  Speaker 3: better in that leg? Like, or is it something he's
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  Speaker 3: fighting through? I would guess at this stage of the year,
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  Speaker 3: it's something he's fighting through a little bit. And this
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  Speaker 3: is a guy who last year played with a broken rib.
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  Speaker 3: And we had our suspicions about that because he kept
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  Speaker 3: showing up on injury reports with a rib. He wouldn't
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  Speaker 3: practice on Wednesday or Thursday, and then he would practice Friday.
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  Speaker 3: So that to me typically signals something, but he wouldn't
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  Speaker 3: even tell us that that's what it was until this
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  Speaker 3: past off season. So yeah, I mean, he had gotten
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  Speaker 3: off to such a hot start before that game, the
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  Speaker 3: four sacks in their first three. So it definitely, I think,
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  Speaker 3: It makes a huge difference having him out there, but
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  Speaker 3: the Browns have been helped by the fact that Malik
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  Speaker 3: Collins has really gotten going basically ever since Mason went out.
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  Speaker 3: And he's having a career year. He just earned an extension.
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  Speaker 3: It's the biggest contract he's ever gotten, which at 31
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  Speaker 3: years old for a defensive tackle, that's a pretty big deal.
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  Speaker 2: It's not something you see a lot. So it's definitely
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  Speaker 2: a tandem in the middle right now.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, you do see that sometimes, like players–
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  Speaker 4: they find it eventually in their career. And I think
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  Speaker 4: on the defensive line, you know, you don't necessarily need
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  Speaker 4: to worry too much about losing your burst, but you
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  Speaker 4: get stronger, you get better with your technique. And over
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  Speaker 4: here in Pittsburgh, Cam Hayward's still playing at a high level,
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  Speaker 4: but yeah, they're in Cleveland, someone like Collins breaking through
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  Speaker 4: and he's part of a, you know, a lot of
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  Speaker 4: kind of lesser known players who were having good seasons.
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  Speaker 4: Like I was looking at the sack totals today, Ash.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, The last question I have for you is
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  Speaker 4: pretty simple. Who is Sam Kamara? I don't think I've
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  Speaker 4: ever seen that name in my life until I looked
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  Speaker 4: at the Browns defense. I'm not trying to give any
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  Speaker 4: bulletin board material, but I give the guy credit. It
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  Speaker 4: looks like he's been in the league for a while
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  Speaker 4: and just finally notched his first NFL sack this season.
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  Speaker 1: Good for him.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he's been a guy who has been around Cleveland
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  Speaker 3: for really the last like four or five years. I
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  Speaker 3: think 2022 was his first season because it was actually
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  Speaker 3: the first year before former D coordinator Jim Schwartz was
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  Speaker 3: hired and Jim Schwartz got here and loved Sam Kamara.
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  Speaker 3: They loved his versatility because he can play inside or outside.
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  Speaker 3: And he has done that. I mean, he's mostly done
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  Speaker 3: that as like a practice squad guy and they've elevated
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  Speaker 3: or signed him to the active roster. So, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: I'm actually curious like what they're going to do because
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  Speaker 3: we're coming up on his limit for elevations here for
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  Speaker 3: the season. So yeah, I'm curious if he'll get a
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  Speaker 3: roster spot, but him and Aiden Huntington is the other name.
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  Speaker 3: He's a former undrafted product as well. The Browns got
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  Speaker 3: him last year. He played at a handful of schools,
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  Speaker 3: including Kent State, Tulane, and he's played really well.
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  Speaker 2: He's got a couple of sacks, I think. He's got
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  Speaker 2: a recovered fumble. So both of those guys have really,
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  Speaker 2: really stepped up. But yeah, both of them are actually
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  Speaker 2: holdovers from the Jim Schwartz era and that scheme, which
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  Speaker 2: so many similarities between that and what Mike Rutenberg runs
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  Speaker 2: here now.
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  Speaker 1: Last question for you, Ashley, then we'll let you go.
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  Speaker 1: The vibe in Cleveland, I started the conversation with you
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  Speaker 1: off with this, and I'll end it with this as well.
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  Speaker 1: How big is this for them to sweep the Steelers?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I know Brian and I talked earlier this week.
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  Speaker 1: We kind of compare the Browns to our baseball team
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  Speaker 1: here in Pittsburgh with the Pittsburgh Pirates, and I say
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  Speaker 1: that with all due respect for both organizations because it's
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  Speaker 1: been a long time since the Pirates have been relevant
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  Speaker 1: when it comes to winning. So they'll start the season
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  Speaker 1: off in April, May. They'll be in first place, but
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  Speaker 1: we all know what's coming later on. That's happened in
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  Speaker 1: Cleveland a bunch of times, too. Is everybody bought into
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  Speaker 1: this five and two or is everybody kind of waiting
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  Speaker 1: for the for potentially the basement floor to be pulled out?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I definitely think in the building they are like
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  Speaker 3: totally bought in. I think the only other Browns team
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  Speaker 3: that I have experienced that just feels very cohesive in
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  Speaker 3: their messaging week to week and the tone they're putting out.
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  Speaker 3: It's the 2023 team, which, you know, did not win
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  Speaker 3: the division, obviously, but did make make it to the playoffs.
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  Speaker 3: And Joe Flacco had that incredible run at the end
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  Speaker 3: of that season, the regular season. So those these two
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  Speaker 3: teams have a lot of similarities to me. I don't know,
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  Speaker 3: like from the fan base, I still think there's some
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  Speaker 3: like healthy skepticism because Browns fans tend to get a
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  Speaker 3: little cynical over the last like 30 years.
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  Speaker 2: Who can blame them?
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  Speaker 1: Right.
• 15:41
  Speaker 2: So I feel like that's kind of what I see.
• 15:44
  Speaker 3: But I do believe like Todd Munkin has these guys
• 15:47
  Speaker 3: fully bought in. And the way we talk about this
• 15:49
  Speaker 3: team a lot is they've gotten so young. over the
• 15:52
  Speaker 3: last two years with their draft picks that, like, I
• 15:55
  Speaker 3: think they're so young that they, like, don't know that
• 15:58
  Speaker 3: they're supposed to be intimidated when they go and play
• 16:01
  Speaker 3: at Akershire Stadium.
• 16:02
  Speaker 2: They just don't know any better. And, you know, we've
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: tried to.
• 16:05
  Speaker 3: Ask guys this week about, like, The Browns haven't won
• 16:08
  Speaker 3: in Pittsburgh in the regular season since 03.
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: Like, what do you think about that streak?
• 16:12
  Speaker 3: And they just are kind of across the board, very
• 16:14
  Speaker 3: adamant that they don't care. Like that has nothing to
• 16:17
  Speaker 3: do with them. They don't kind of want to be
• 16:19
  Speaker 3: sucked into the negative history that Cleveland has playing in Pittsburgh.
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: So I find that very interesting. Like, I think it's
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: the right approach, but I mean, we'll see on Sunday
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: what happens. And if it does have any impact, because
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: it is, it's a fine line, I think between not
• 16:33
  Speaker 3: letting it get intimidating, but also like knowing that, what
• 16:37
  Speaker 3: you're in for and what are you going to do
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: when Renegades blaring, you know, in the fourth quarter and
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: you're a Browns rookie.
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: Ashley Bastock from Cleveland.com, Browns reporter. Thank you so much
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: for joining us. Always great to talk to you.
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: All right. Thanks, guys. Thanks, Ashley. See you Sunday.
• 16:51
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• 16:54
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• 17:02
  Speaker 5: This is the Steelers Report with Brian Batko and Ed
• 17:06
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• 17:10
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• 17:11
  Speaker 1: Great stuff from Ashley Bastog from Cleveland.com, helping us continue
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: our preview of Steelers grounds for this upcoming Week 8
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: matchup for first place in the AFC North. One of
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: the things that you heard us talk about was Jared Burse.
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: Had quite a bit to say after the first meeting.
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: He's had quite a bit to say this upcoming week.
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: Brian Baku, and you heard Ashley talk about it. He
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: likes to talk, and he's gotten into some heated situations,
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: it sounds like, during training camp, which a lot of
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: players do, so he's not alone in that. But, yeah,
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: there's one thing that we've learned here early on in
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: the Jared-verse conversation saga, time period, whatever you want to
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: call it, career so far in Cleveland, is he is
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: fully in on this rivalry with the Pittsburgh Steelers.
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: He is, but you know what? I mean, like, no
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: offense to Jared Verz, he's a good player, and if
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: you would go back and listen to the shows of
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: when the Browns made that huge trade with the Rams,
• 18:11
  Speaker 4: speaking of huge trade, we mentioned it in passing yesterday,
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: but it turned out that Jeffrey Simmons from the Titans
• 18:17
  Speaker 4: did go for two first-round picks, plus to the bears.
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: Maybe we can hit on that by the end of
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: the show. But, uh, Miles Garrett was also a blockbuster
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: trade earlier this off season. I said, yeah, the Rams
• 18:28
  Speaker 4: probably win that trade, but don't discount what the Browns
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: are doing by bringing in a guy like Jared verse.
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: So my point is I'm high on him in general.
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: I always thought he was excellent when I would see
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: him with the Rams. He did nothing in the first
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: matchup with the Steelers and Browns. Like, yeah, they got
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: five sacks. He didn't even register a pressure. So, uh,
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: I get it. I mean, you're coming into this with
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: a certain... You want to have a chip on your
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: shoulder for yourself and for this new franchise that you're in,
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: and I'm sure it gets drilled into these guys from
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: fans and former players or longer-tenured players or the new
• 19:05
  Speaker 4: coaching staff. We hate the Steelers, but I don't know.
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: I just think it might be a case of you're
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: doing a little too much. Troy Fontana was asked about
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: it after practice Thursday. Took a very Mum approach, you know,
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: didn't really have much to say. Like, basically, yeah, we'll
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: see what happens on Sunday. And Faltano, I thought, played
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: very well against Verse in that first meeting. The Browns
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: schemed up some sacks, don't get me wrong. And Verse
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: is someone who you can't let your guard down against him.
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: He's a very powerful rusher off the edge. But, man,
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: he just, he's talking a lot for someone who really, again,
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: didn't impact that game very much for the Browns the
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: first time around.
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: I agree with you. And you know, sometimes, Brian, there
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: are just certain players that have to talk to fire
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: themselves up. try to fire their defense up, their team up.
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: Maybe Jared Verse is one of those dudes. I'm not sure.
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: This is our first go-around with Jared Verse. But either way,
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: I'm with you because, you know, if you look at
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: the history of the AFC North and Steelers, Ravens, even Steelers,
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: Bengals for that matter, Steelers, Browns, the players that always
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: chirped back at each other, you're right. They always backed
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: it up on the field or had a significant presence
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: on the football field and made a play at some
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: point in the series. Verse didn't do that the first
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: time around.
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: All-time villains in Steelers-Browns. I mean, I guess you've got
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: William Green from getting into it with Joey Porter back
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: in the day. Miles Garrett, clearly for a long time,
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: was an arch-nemesis of the Steelers. I guess you could
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: throw Baker Mayfield in there. But Jared Verse, bottom line,
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: he's got a long way to go to be a
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: true antagonist in the Steelers-Browns rivalry. But hey, if they
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: do find a way to win in Pittsburgh for the
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: first time in 23 years, whether he has a good
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: game or not he will to the victor go the
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: spoils and he'll get to do all sorts of talking
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: and chirping and i'm sure he will but yeah i
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: think when you accuse another team of being dirty i
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: mean it's just like all right you know have some
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: receipts i don't think there was anything visible in that
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: game you know the ball knowers the all 22 watchers
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: people would have found things uh if there was anything
• 21:16
  Speaker 4: truly beyond the pale there we know that you know
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: mason mccormick Likes to talk some smack. I don't think
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: Troy Fatanu is too much, but McCormick gets pretty ornery.
• 21:25
  Speaker 5: Maybe he said some things.
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: That Verst didn't like. I don't know. I mean, let's
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: line it up on Sunday and see who plays better.
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: I don't mind it to inject some vitriol into this rivalry,
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: but Verst is making himself very unlikable very quickly here
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: in Pittsburgh, I think. And there's been trash talk around
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: the league this weekend. Did you see what Ashton Gentry
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: said about the Jets?
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: I did not.
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: Ashton Gentry, second year running back for the Raiders said
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: something about how, uh, I think he was getting asked
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: about trying to get the run game going for Vegas.
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: And he's, if this could be a week to do so.
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: And he said, yeah, because he sees some guys on
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: the jets who don't want to tackle it, but he's
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: not going to name any names. So of course they're
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: asking Minka Fitzpatrick about that in the jets locker room
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: and press conferences. And Minka has been in these Steelers
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: Browns rivalry game. So he knows what physicality is all about. And,
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: He took the high road on Genting, much like the
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: Steelers have done for the most part with first. But
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: it'll be it'll be mighty interesting on Sunday. It's there's
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: always some bad blood between these two teams versus new
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: to the rivalry. But clearly he made it a point
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: to be on the on the attack here coming into
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: the on the offensive line.
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: So you just mentioned villains, and it is Halloween weekend.
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: So within the AFC North, let's pick out our top
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: villains over the course of the AFC North. At least
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: we'll go at least the last, I don't know, this century, right?
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: We'll go the last 25 years leading into this one.
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: Terrell Suggs, for me, is number one on my list
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: from the Ravens. I'm not sure I can put anyone.
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: There's a few Bengals that I'll hold off and I'll
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: mention here in a second, and we'll see if you
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: put any Bengal players out there. I'm sure you will.
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: But Terrell Suggs for me would be the number one
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: villain within the AFC North that I've seen here in
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: the last 25, 26 years. I'm going to.
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: Actually put Miles Garrett in there. I mean, he had
• 23:23
  Speaker 4: a very villainous moment on a Thursday night in 2019
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: that kind of goes anything beyond football related. So I'd
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: put him with my first choice there. He's still in
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: the league, but off to LA now with the Rams.
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: I think the Steelers play the Rams next year, but
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: It'll probably be a little bit different, especially with all
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: those games where TJ Watt was the protagonist and Miles
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: Garrett was the antagonist, at least in Pittsburgh.
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: How about the Cincinnati Bengals? They've had a few over
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: the years. Burfitt comes to mind. Chad Johnson comes to mind.
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: Pac-Man Jones comes to mind. There may be more villains
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: in Cincinnati with the Bengals than the Ravens or Browns.
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: Yeah, they had a quantity over quality, maybe. Ray Lewis,
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: certainly for the Ravens, too. I mean, you can't really
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: think about Suggs without thinking about Ray Lewis. Yeah, they're
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: mostly on the defensive side of the ball, and we
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: know how football works.
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: T.J.
• 24:20
  Speaker 4: Watt and Cam Hayward, James Harrison, they're the same type
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: of guy. They're the Freddy Kruegers and Michael Myers of
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: the world for those fan bases. But, yeah, absolutely, those
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: are some ones that are at the top of anybody's list,
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: I think, when you look back at Steelers, AFC North,
• 24:41
  Speaker 4: not too many horror movies because they've been good against
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: this division by and large. But when things do go
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: south or even when it's just the chippiness and the talking,
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: the smack talk away from the field, those guys are...
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: I always thought too with the Ravens it was maybe
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: more respect at the end of the day in addition
• 24:59
  Speaker 4: to a whole lot of hatred. I don't think there's
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: quite as much of that with the Browns and Bengals
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: for whatever reason.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: You know, when you look in and around the AFC North,
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: you can pick out a lot of villains, that's for sure.
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: And you just mentioned a few of them, too, Double B.
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: But you're right, Ray Lewis, Terrell Suggs. But I will
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: say this. I've always said this. If Ray Lewis would
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: have played his career here in Pittsburgh as a Pittsburgh
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: Steeler and a member of this Steeler defense... there would
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: be a statue of Ray Lewis outside Accusure Stadium. I mean,
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: he defined what Pittsburgh Steelers defenders and linebackers looked like
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: over the course of this franchise, and he would have
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: been a fan favorite. But, you know, that's a lot
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: of buts. Of course, he was a Baltimore Raven, and
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: he's one of the hatred Baltimore Ravens.
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: I think that's usually the case. Yeah, you love them
• 25:45
  Speaker 4: when they're on your team. You hate them if they aren't.
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: But yeah, no doubt one of the best linebackers in
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: NFL history. Speaking of linebackers, it slipped through the cracks
• 25:54
  Speaker 4: on me yesterday. Yesterday would have been Andy Russell's birthday,
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: one of the best linebackers in Steelers history. So shout
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: out to Andy Russell, who passed away a couple years ago.
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: And speaking of birthdays, Ed, you know whose birthday it
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: is Sunday?
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: Help me out, my friend. We had T.J. Watt's birthday
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: on a Steelers Sunday earlier this year. Is it a
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: current Steelers?
• 26:16
  Speaker 4: And Pat Friermuth in Paris. This week, Jalen Warren turns
• 26:20
  Speaker 4: 28 on November 1st. Let's hope he has a birthday
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: to remember against the Brownies.
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: That's interesting to me because, I mean, what's the odds
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: that the Steelers, not one, not two, but three starters,
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: I mean, playmakers, have had their birthdays on Steelers game days?
• 26:38
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it is pretty wild. I'd have to go and
• 26:40
  Speaker 4: look and see if there have been any more, but
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: just in this last less than a month fans, what,
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: three of the last four games? Was TJ's the Colts game?
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: Was that his birthday yet?
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it was the Colts game, the matchup
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: here at Accushore. Okay.
• 26:56
  Speaker 4: Yeah, so he got a win on his birthday. Pat
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: Fryermuth got a win on his birthday. I think when
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: you look at Jalen Warren, we know he's going to
• 27:05
  Speaker 4: be a key part of this game plan for sure.
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: Be a great way for the Steelers and Warren to
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: celebrate His 28th birthday, if he goes out there against
• 27:17
  Speaker 4: the Browns and continues to run roughshod over the opponent,
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: but particularly an AFC North team that you know is
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: gearing up to stop him. But yeah, going back to
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: verse for a second, is it remember the Titans where
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: Sunshine says let the guy through who's been talking all
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: the trash and then they Troy Faltano would just open
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: the gate and then Aaron Rodgers just boinks one off
• 27:42
  Speaker 4: of his head. Or no, he doesn't throw it at him.
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: He shakes him off. He dumps him when he tries
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: to sack him.
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: Sunshine puts his shoulder down. He does a legal block,
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: but he does a somersault over top of him. Great
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: movie reference. I forgot about the Remember the Titans reference
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: with both you and I. We're both big fans.
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: I don't think I would recommend that, though, in this
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: one for Aaron Rodgers to try to do that to
• 28:03
  Speaker 4: Jared Verse. I think there's a There's a lot of
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: season left and you don't want the personal stuff to
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: spill over. And we're making light of it with the
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: movie reference, but in all seriousness, you do need to
• 28:16
  Speaker 4: play on the edge in this game for both teams.
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: Penalties could be a key in this one as well.
• 28:21
  Speaker 4: You don't want to start getting mixed up into some
• 28:25
  Speaker 4: extracurricular activity and then you're leaving it in the officials'
• 28:28
  Speaker 4: hands to try to legislate who did what to who
• 28:31
  Speaker 4: and Who did it first? Because we know that oftentimes
• 28:35
  Speaker 4: it's the second guy who gets spotted, and they're the
• 28:37
  Speaker 4: one who gets flagged. So you want to play this
• 28:40
  Speaker 4: game with an edge, obviously, but you've got to straddle
• 28:43
  Speaker 4: that line of not picking up unsportsmanlike conduct, any sort
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: of unnecessary roughness, because that can absolutely set you back
• 28:52
  Speaker 4: in a game like this, or defensively it can gift
• 28:55
  Speaker 4: the Browns yards that you don't want to give them
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: for their Halloween candy basket.
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: You know, one other, absolutely, and good reference there with
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: the Halloween connection there at the end, my friend. But
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: when you think about this game, Brian, we've talked a
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: lot about offense, we've talked a lot about defense, but
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: you know one thing we haven't talked much at all
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: this week, or even today, is special teams. and how
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: special teams could be a big difference in a battle
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: like this within the AFC North. Look, it was the
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: last time Andre Schmidt hit the game-winning field goal at
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: the end, and it wasn't just a chip shot by Schmidt.
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: What did he hit it from? I'm going to look
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: right now. 56 yards to win that game, so it
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: wasn't just a regular 30 yarder um the Steelers have
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: had their struggles with you know the return game the
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: coverage uh kickoff team Boz has missed a handful of
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: field goals but also on the other hand he's made
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: a bunch and he's bailed the Steelers out multiple times
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: but yeah this this could come down to special teams
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: uh for sure.
• 29:48
  Speaker 4: Yeah we know Schmidt happens when you play the Browns
• 29:51
  Speaker 4: and they get in close and they need three three Bojo,
• 29:54
  Speaker 4: Corey Bajorquez, I'm probably butchering the guy's name, but their punter,
• 29:58
  Speaker 4: he also had a field-flipping punt in that game. Didn't
• 30:01
  Speaker 4: he crush that thing like 80 yards through the Cleveland
• 30:04
  Speaker 4: night to back up the Steelers? So, yeah, I mean,
• 30:08
  Speaker 4: special teams, they are always key. Cam Johnston's been doing
• 30:12
  Speaker 4: a good job so far this season. And speaking of
• 30:14
  Speaker 4: Cam Johnston, Ed, before we forget, because you know we will,
• 30:17
  Speaker 4: we're both like absent-minded radio hosts here Captain predictions for
• 30:23
  Speaker 4: week eight. It jogged my memory because Johnston was a
• 30:26
  Speaker 4: captain out there in Paris. Who do we got for
• 30:31
  Speaker 4: this one? Do you want to go first or do
• 30:32
  Speaker 4: you want me to go first or do you want
• 30:33
  Speaker 4: me to read off the list so far? Let me
• 30:36
  Speaker 4: know what you think.
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: Well, you know, Brian, you usually go first, so I'll
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: kick us off about that. I'm going to say for offense,
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: Mason McCormick.
• 30:46
  Speaker 4: Okay, well, I was going to say we actually haven't
• 30:47
  Speaker 4: had a repeat captain yet. He would be the first.
• 30:51
  Speaker 4: So do you want to adjust your pick? Because he
• 30:54
  Speaker 4: was back in Week 5 against the Colts.
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm going to adjust it because I think Coach,
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: if I was head coach, I'd want to go through
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: everyone for the majority at least one time through. Okay,
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: let me think about this. Let me ask you this.
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: Has Darnell Washington been a captain yet?
• 31:09
  Speaker 4: He has not. I thought you were going to ask
• 31:11
  Speaker 4: about DK Metcalf. It's kind of weird that he hasn't
• 31:14
  Speaker 4: been one yet, but I also recall Tampa Week 6–
• 31:18
  Speaker 4: I'm up there in the press box, and I was
• 31:20
  Speaker 4: kind of surprised that only two came out, Travis Homer
• 31:23
  Speaker 4: and Jamel Dean. DK sort of, I think sometimes he
• 31:26
  Speaker 4: comes out a little bit later, whatever pregame stuff he's
• 31:28
  Speaker 4: got going on, if it's treatment, something or other. But
• 31:32
  Speaker 4: I wonder if he was supposed to be a captain
• 31:33
  Speaker 4: week six and just didn't come out there. So, no,
• 31:37
  Speaker 4: but to your point, Darnell Washington has not. I think
• 31:40
  Speaker 4: that's a very good prediction, the way he's been playing,
• 31:44
  Speaker 4: and he's earned it, no doubt. But I'm going to,
• 31:47
  Speaker 4: just to be different from you, I'm going to say
• 31:48
  Speaker 4: Brock Hoffman, originally undrafted free agent of the Browns. This
• 31:52
  Speaker 4: front office regime brought him in. If there's any sort
• 31:55
  Speaker 4: of motivational buttons to press there from Mike McCarthy, maybe
• 31:59
  Speaker 4: it would be it for Brock Hoffman. It's not exactly
• 32:02
  Speaker 4: a revenge game. It's not like he played for them.
• 32:05
  Speaker 4: He's only ever played in the NFL for the Cowboys
• 32:08
  Speaker 4: prior to Pittsburgh. But he did spend a little bit
• 32:10
  Speaker 4: of time in the organization and can do the old
• 32:13
  Speaker 4: Uncle Phil, Will Smith, why didn't they want me card?
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: Great scene. I always cry when I watch that. It
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: always pops up on my Instagram reels. Boy, good reference.
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: Making me laugh, Double B. Making me laugh. When we
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: come back, we'll do our defensive captain pick and our
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: special teams pick. We are up against the break, and
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: we'll wrap up the show for today. We'll also take
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: a look in and around the NFL for week number eight.
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: But first, this is the Steelers report on SNR, part
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: of the Steelers Audio Network.
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: We'll be right back.
• 32:49
  Speaker 5: This is the Steelers Report with Brian Batko and Ed
• 32:53
  Speaker 5: Troup on Steelers Nation Radio, a part of the Steelers
• 32:57
  Speaker 5: Audio Network.
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: Wrapping up our number two in the show for this
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: week as we get set for Browns Steelers Part 2
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: from Accuture Stadium, 1 o'clock on Sunday. And we'll be
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: back at it Monday to wrap up. The rematch as
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: we go into the bye week. We'll have some exciting
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: interviews for you for our fan base out there to
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: get through the next two weeks. We'll turn our attentions
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: to the second half of the schedule, which will start
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: with the Cincinnati Bengals two weeks from this upcoming Sunday.
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: And we'll also recap the first half of the season.
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: We'll get Brian Backo's thoughts there. And we'll break everything
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: down for you and help you get prepared for the
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: stretch run of the Pittsburgh Steelers' 2026 season after the
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: bye week. Brian, before the break, we were going over
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: potential team captains for this week. Usually an offensive player,
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: a defensive player. Mike McCarthy has rotated through his captains
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: so far this season. And then usually a special teams player.
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: I picked Darnell Washington on offense. You picked Brock Hoffman.
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: So let's pick some defenders to add into this group
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: for this week. And I'm leaning towards Y.A.
• 34:01
  Speaker 5: Black.
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: Has he been a captain yet this year?
• 34:04
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: Yes, he has.
• 34:06
  Speaker 4: Also week five with Mason McCormick. I don't know if
• 34:08
  Speaker 4: he was technically special teams or defensive captain, but it
• 34:13
  Speaker 4: was him and Peyton Wilson from that side.
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: Of the ball. Okay, well then I will not take Y.A.
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: Black on that one. All right, you're going to have
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: to come back to me because I'm going to have
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: to think about it. Do you have a defensive pick?
• 34:23
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'll go with Keanu Benton. He hasn't been one yet.
• 34:26
  Speaker 4: Just to rattle them off for you real quick, Ed,
• 34:29
  Speaker 4: you've got Cam Hayward, Alex Highsmith, TJ Watt, Jaquan Brisker, Y.A. Black,
• 34:34
  Speaker 4: Jamel Dean, Patrick Queen, Peyton Wilson, Cole Holcomb. So some
• 34:40
  Speaker 4: options still out there would be Benton. Jalen Ramsey kind
• 34:43
  Speaker 4: of surprisingly hasn't been one yet. Deshaun Elliott, obviously he
• 34:47
  Speaker 4: just got back, but those are a few that haven't
• 34:51
  Speaker 4: had their day in the sun to this point.
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: Okay, I got one for you. How about Nick Herbig?
• 34:57
  Speaker 4: Oh, there you go. Yeah, he hasn't been one yet either.
• 35:00
  Speaker 4: All right, so we'll each take a different badger on
• 35:02
  Speaker 4: this one.
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, lock us in. You for Benton, me for Nick Herbig,
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: and now we've got to do a special teams pick.
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: And this is always the most challenging one because right
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: off the bat, tell me, Johnston, Boswell, I think, have
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: they been captains yet?
• 35:16
  Speaker 4: Johnston most recently, yes. Boswell, no. Travis Homer has been.
• 35:21
  Speaker 4: Ben Skoronek, Carson Bruner, Echols, Holcomb. Yeah, I think that's it.
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: Well, maybe it's time for Bos then. He's coming off
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: that big game in Paris against the Saints, so I'm
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: going to go Bos.
• 35:34
  Speaker 4: I'll differ from you again for the sake of argument here,
• 35:37
  Speaker 4: and I'll say Christian Kuntz. He has not been one yet,
• 35:40
  Speaker 4: so that would give my trio. My captain circle is
• 35:43
  Speaker 4: Brock Hoffman, Keanu Benton, Christian Kuntz, and yours is Darnell Washington,
• 35:49
  Speaker 4: Nick Herbig, Chris Boswell.
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, this is a fun one that we do each week,
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: but then we forget about it. Like you said, I
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: think last week leading into Paris, but again, we had
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: a lot of moving parts. You were on your way
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: internationally at the beginning of last week, but I think
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: we forgot to do the Paris captains, right?
• 36:05
  Speaker 4: Yeah, this is kind of like how we do our
• 36:07
  Speaker 4: offensive and defensive power rankings, just to be different from
• 36:10
  Speaker 4: other shows. Everybody does overall NFL power rankings, and everybody
• 36:15
  Speaker 4: gives out game balls after games. Now, just to make
• 36:17
  Speaker 4: it very clear to the listening audience, Mike McCarthy does
• 36:21
  Speaker 4: not consult me, nor does he consult Ed on the
• 36:24
  Speaker 4: captains for each week, just like he doesn't consult any
• 36:28
  Speaker 4: of the 8 billion Steelers and football pundits out there
• 36:31
  Speaker 4: for his weekly game balls, but I think it's kind
• 36:34
  Speaker 4: of fun to pick, especially right now, looking at who
• 36:36
  Speaker 4: hasn't been one yet. I doubt they can get through
• 36:38
  Speaker 4: the entire season without repeating, nor would you maybe even
• 36:42
  Speaker 4: want to. But so far, I think it's been kind
• 36:45
  Speaker 4: of fun. And plus, like we've said anecdotally, I still
• 36:48
  Speaker 4: haven't sat down and really combed through it and charted it.
• 36:52
  Speaker 4: But off the top of my head, I feel like
• 36:54
  Speaker 4: a lot of the times, players who are captains that week,
• 36:58
  Speaker 4: the stars have aligned for them to go out and
• 37:00
  Speaker 4: have a great game.
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they have. They've showed up and it's been a
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: nice mix so far, Double B. And listen, if you're
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: like me, you will sit down on Sunday before the
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: game and you will jump on to X, formerly known
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: as Twitter, and check out Brian Bacco because you usually
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: tweet out who the captains are for each game before
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: the game starts. So that's how I always check our balances,
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: check and balances, if you will, to see who got
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: it right and who got it wrong.
• 37:26
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't tweet a ton during the games. It's like,
• 37:28
  Speaker 4: you know, I used to when I was younger, everybody's
• 37:31
  Speaker 4: watching the game. I mean, for the most part, you know,
• 37:33
  Speaker 4: I'll tweet the score updates, touchdowns, big plays, occasional observations,
• 37:40
  Speaker 4: but yeah, I've had a good time tweeting out the captains.
• 37:43
  Speaker 4: And then I always tweet out the snap counts the
• 37:45
  Speaker 4: day after the game. So trying to spend a lot
• 37:48
  Speaker 4: less time on X formerly known as Twitter for my
• 37:52
  Speaker 4: own mental health and wellbeing and sanity. But of course
• 37:56
  Speaker 4: we've got it up during the game and, It's still
• 37:58
  Speaker 4: a good way for people to follow. And I just
• 38:01
  Speaker 4: sometimes I get a little bit annoyed by the echo
• 38:03
  Speaker 4: chamber of stuff that's happening during the game. But you
• 38:06
  Speaker 4: can at least find me telling you who the captains
• 38:09
  Speaker 4: are for that week.
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: Now, listen, when things go wrong, social media loves to
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: blow up and talk about what is going wrong. When
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: things go right, a bit quiet sometimes. It's funny how
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: that works, Brian Bacco. More critics than supporters sometimes in
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: and around. But we know the listeners here on SNR
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: are big supporters, hence why you're listening to us each
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: and every day, and we appreciate you. All right, let's
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: check a couple games real quick in our Renegade preview
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: in and around the AFC North, AFC, and NFL. Week
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: 8 kicked off last night. Brian Bacco already mentioned this
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: earlier in the show. The Green Bay Packers over the
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: Carolina Panthers, 27-19. Green Bay now 5-3. Panthers drop to 3-4.
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: Steelers will see the Panthers later on this season, and
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: as Brian alluded to, potentially could be flexed to the
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: day after Christmas. We'll wait and see if that comes together.
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: One o'clock on Sunday, two AFC North teams in action,
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: one on the road, one at home. A big one
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: for the Baltimore Ravens, and Lamar Jackson, as of yesterday
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: on Thursday, practiced fully for the second straight day this week.
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: So it looks to be, at least for now, unless
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: there's any setbacks, that Lamar Jackson will return to the
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: Ravens offense and return to the lineup. this Sunday in
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: Buffalo to face a Bills team that's 5-1. And as
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: we've talked about all week, Brian, pretty much the best
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: team in the NFL if we were to do those
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: power rankings. No disrespect to the undefeated Minnesota Vikings, but
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: the Bills at 5-1 have been very strong.
• 39:28
  Speaker 4: And real quick, Ed, going back to that Panthers-Packers game,
• 39:31
  Speaker 4: Panthers fired their defensive coordinator, Ejiro Evero, and another assistant
• 39:36
  Speaker 4: coach on defense after that game, so it doesn't really
• 39:40
  Speaker 4: affect too much other than they're making some changes already
• 39:44
  Speaker 4: to this point in the season, and like you said,
• 39:45
  Speaker 4: the Steelers will get them later in the year, but
• 39:48
  Speaker 4: I guess we're at that point in the NFL calendar.
• 39:51
  Speaker 4: Big trades are happening. Coaches, unfortunately, are losing their jobs.
• 39:55
  Speaker 4: We haven't seen any head coaches get the ax just yet,
• 39:59
  Speaker 4: but that was a pretty seismic move down there in
• 40:03
  Speaker 4: Carolina coming off of a lackluster defensive performance. But yeah, Bills-Ravens,
• 40:09
  Speaker 4: I'd say I'm pumped for it, but I'm not going
• 40:11
  Speaker 4: to see any of it. I'll be locked in on Steelers-Browns,
• 40:13
  Speaker 4: as many of you will be. But if you're watching
• 40:15
  Speaker 4: from the comfort of home, I'm sure you might have
• 40:18
  Speaker 4: the ability to flick back and forth or red zone
• 40:21
  Speaker 4: it or whatever you've got to do.
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: The other AFC North team in action is the Cincinnati Bengals.
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: They will host the Tennessee Titans, who are 1-6 on
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: the season, another opponent that the Steelers will see towards
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: the end of the season in Tennessee. That game will
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: be on the road in Nashville. But the Bengals host
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: this one, 4-2 Cincinnati versus 1-6 Tennessee. The Titans finally
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: got their first win of the season two weeks ago
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: when they beat the Colts last week, lost to the Browns,
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: as we've said, 27-24. But that was a close one.
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: They played the Browns very competitively last week. But the
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: Bengals come back in the second half to beat the
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: Ravens on the road in Baltimore. Impressive for Joe Burrow
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: and company. They'll look to try to get to 5-2
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: and stay paced with the winner of Brown Steelers this Sunday.
• 41:06
  Speaker 4: If the Titans win this game on the heels of
• 41:09
  Speaker 4: trading away Jeffrey Simmons into fifth for two firsts and
• 41:14
  Speaker 4: a fourth, just give Robert Sala coach of the year
• 41:18
  Speaker 4: because I think they are probably going to get their
• 41:20
  Speaker 4: doors blown off in Cincinnati. I don't know who's down
• 41:23
  Speaker 4: the work. We should do like a down bad power
• 41:27
  Speaker 4: rankings because the Titans are reeling. And don't get me wrong,
• 41:31
  Speaker 4: I think it could be a good deal for Tennessee
• 41:33
  Speaker 4: in the long run. I mean, two firsts is two firsts.
• 41:35
  Speaker 4: You can get some really good players with that draft capital,
• 41:38
  Speaker 4: which is a pet peeve of Rob King, that term.
• 41:41
  Speaker 4: You can get some really good players with those picks eventually.
• 41:45
  Speaker 4: But man, that is a blow. That is a gut
• 41:48
  Speaker 4: punch right now to the guys on this team. They're
• 41:51
  Speaker 4: down bad. The Eagles are down bad with everything that's
• 41:53
  Speaker 4: going on with them. The Colts are down bad, trading
• 41:56
  Speaker 4: away two franchise pillars this week. Seems like a very,
• 42:00
  Speaker 4: very soft spot for the Bengals in Cincinnati, and they
• 42:03
  Speaker 4: might win this one rather easily.
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: Now, wait a minute. Down bad. You just made a
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: Taylor Swift reference.
• 42:10
  Speaker 4: I don't know that that term belongs to Taylor Swift.
• 42:12
  Speaker 4: She may have popularized it and used it in a
• 42:14
  Speaker 4: famous song, but I don't think she came up with it.
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: I'm coming up with a Brian Bacco bingo card. Bacco's
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: bingo card. And now you've hit Will Smith, Fresh Prince
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: of Bel-Air during the show today. You just hit Taylor Swift.
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: You had the Uncle Tommy, uh, Name of the day,
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: phrase of the day, comment of the day, word of
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: the day. There we go. Now I'm struggling. Word of
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: the day. I mean, I'm going to start checking all
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: these boxes before the show, Brian Becker. You are making
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: your rounds so far. And remember, yesterday you made a
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: Jay-Z reference. Well, we recorded it yesterday. Okay, there you go.
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: I let down. I'm letting the behind the scenes go
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: here on the show at the tail end. Ashley Bastok,
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: we recorded that yesterday, aired it here today. But during
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: that Ashley interview, you referenced Jay-Z, and I completely blew
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: right by it. Not on purpose, my friend. When I
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: went back and listened just a little bit ago, I
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: should have gave you some credit for the Jay-Z comment.
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: Great job there.
• 43:05
  Speaker 4: Thank you, Ed. And I'm a longtime Jay-Z fan, so
• 43:08
  Speaker 4: I'm totally cool with him doing the Super Bowl halftime show.
• 43:13
  Speaker 4: I felt the same way about Kendrick Lamar. I'd never
• 43:16
  Speaker 4: heard a Bad Bunny song in my life. But yeah,
• 43:20
  Speaker 4: I know that he's getting a little bit up there
• 43:22
  Speaker 4: in age. I don't know how he's going to be
• 43:23
  Speaker 4: as a performer. I wouldn't have been crestfallen if it
• 43:27
  Speaker 4: weren't Jay-Z for the halftime show. But hopefully he'll put
• 43:32
  Speaker 4: on a good one. I don't think he's ever been
• 43:33
  Speaker 4: involved in any way. And obviously he's got a lot
• 43:36
  Speaker 4: of potential people to bring out from his own spouse, Beyonce,
• 43:40
  Speaker 4: to all the people he has connected with over the
• 43:43
  Speaker 4: years across many genres of music.
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: I like Jay-Z, too, and I liked how the announcement
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: from the NFL was one of my favorite Jay-Z songs.
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: Let me reintroduce myself right there at the beginning, so
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: good stuff. All right, hey, a couple other games just
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: to touch on here as we wrap up the show
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: for today. Chiefs-Broncos at 425. Chiefs 5-1, Broncos 5-2. Big
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: game in the AFC West. Patriots 4-3 at the Dolphins 1-5.
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: That's not really a big game for 25. Eagles 2-5
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: at Commanders 1-4 for Sunday night football. That's not really
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: a big game, but a good one on Monday night.
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: Bears 5-2 at Seahawks 4-3. So, you know, some good
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: AFC North matchups that we already talked about, Brian. You
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: have the Chiefs Broncos in the AFC West, and then
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: you got the Monday night game between the Bears and Seahawks. So,
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: Hit and miss for top games this week, but still
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: some good ones to watch here in Week 8.
• 44:34
  Speaker 4: Interesting note on that Monday night game. Also, did you
• 44:38
  Speaker 4: breeze right past Vikings-Lions? That's a huge one in the
• 44:40
  Speaker 4: NFC North at 1 o'clock. The 1 o'clock slate is
• 44:44
  Speaker 4: too loaded, Ed. You've got Steelers-Browns, Ravens-Bills, Vikings-Lions. I mean, geez,
• 44:49
  Speaker 4: spread the love around a little bit, NFL. Why don't you?
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: I did. I apologize to our listening audience. The 6-0
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: Vikings at the 4-2 Lions at 1 o'clock on Sunday. Yeah,
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: a bunch of good 1 o'clock games. So, yeah, how
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: did I miss that one?
• 45:03
  Speaker 2: You know what?
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: I saw the Cardinals, Cowboys, and Raiders, Jets, and Falcons, Buccaneers,
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: and I just breezed right through.
• 45:08
  Speaker 4: Free idea if you have the ability. DVR Ravens Bills
• 45:15
  Speaker 4: and or Lions Vikings and just watch them Sunday night
• 45:19
  Speaker 4: instead of Eagles commanders. Stay off social media. Well, try
• 45:22
  Speaker 4: not to look at the bottom ticker scroll, I guess.
• 45:25
  Speaker 4: And then it'll be like having an actual good Sunday
• 45:28
  Speaker 4: night football game instead of the NFC least. But OK,
• 45:31
  Speaker 4: moving on. Last point that I was about to make.
• 45:33
  Speaker 4: Bears Seahawks Monday night. Yes, it was a good matchup
• 45:35
  Speaker 4: at the start of this week. It's even better now.
• 45:38
  Speaker 4: I don't know if Quentin Nelson is going to line
• 45:39
  Speaker 4: up at left guard for Seattle, I don't know if
• 45:42
  Speaker 4: Jeffrey Simmons is going to be able to turn around
• 45:44
  Speaker 4: and play on short notice a defensive tackle for the Bears,
• 45:48
  Speaker 4: but I hope so because that'd be really cool. Two
• 45:50
  Speaker 4: guys traded this week going from kind of cellar dwellers
• 45:54
  Speaker 4: to teams with legitimate Super Bowl aspirations. I'm sure there
• 45:57
  Speaker 4: will be all sorts of chatter about those two guys
• 46:00
  Speaker 4: on Monday Night Football.
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: Brian, quickly, and I mean quickly, we have seconds, and
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: Wes Shuler and Matt Williamson are ready to throw something
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: at me. They're up next. Steelers, Browns, we both picked
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: the Steelers before the season. I'm guessing we're both staying
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: home with that pick.
• 46:13
  Speaker 4: I'm going to stay home. Too much history on their side,
• 46:16
  Speaker 4: but I think it's going to be another close one.
• 46:17
  Speaker 4: I think it's going to be another slugfest, barn burner,
• 46:21
  Speaker 4: slobber knocker, RIP Craig Wolfley. I'll say the Steelers pull
• 46:25
  Speaker 4: it out by a field goal.
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: I agree. I think it's under seven, that's for sure,
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: come this week. But I think the Steelers do hold
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: on and get the victory. That's going to do it
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: for the show for today and this week. We'll be
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: back at it on Monday post-Steelers Browns. Ahmed Troop alongside
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: Brian Bacco. Thanks for listening to the Steelers Report. Up next,
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: it's Wes Shuler and Matt Williamson on SNR's The Drive
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: right here on Steelers Nation Radio, part of the Steelers
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: Audio Network.