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From Indy to Dublin: A huge weekend for Irish Steelers fans · The Irish Steelers Podcast

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Speaker 1: Everybody.
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Speaker 2: Welcome into the Irish Theaters podcast, as we are on
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Speaker 2: the cusp of Steelers Topball for the fourth week of
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Speaker 2: the twenty twenty four NFL regular season. Michael mccaid delighted
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Speaker 2: to be joining with Davod McKee and Jimmy is not
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Speaker 2: here when he's a currently in London, so shout out
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Speaker 2: to Jimmy.
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Speaker 1: And Dave Dog. It's good to have you here, my man. Look,
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Speaker 1: this is an exciting week.
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Speaker 2: We all know Irish fans know what is happening this
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Speaker 2: weekend with the Staelers going to Krouk Park for the
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Speaker 2: False Stats second annual watch party, a soul like Krouk Park, Hogan,
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Speaker 2: sweet Dog. You know as a lifelong Staels fan. First off, welcome.
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Speaker 2: I seem how happy you were last year. How excited
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Speaker 2: you this week?
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Speaker 3: Man?
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Speaker 4: Absolutely buzz and Mechael, not only just for Steelers fan,
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Speaker 4: but you know fans across Ireland are absolutely It doesn't
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Speaker 4: matter if your Stagers fan or not, they're going to
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Speaker 4: be there. They're going to be in their droves. Obviously,
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Speaker 4: we didn't just Steelers jerseys last year. We've seen jerseys
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Speaker 4: of all thirty two teams and it was great to see.
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Speaker 4: But it's an absolute if you haven't been, if you
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Speaker 4: weren't there last year, and you're lucky enough to get
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Speaker 4: a ticket for this year, you're in for an absolute
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Speaker 4: traded It's a brilliant event. And then I'll say it's
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Speaker 4: only the second one. I hope I'm here for the
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Speaker 4: twelfth one as well, the thirteenth, fourteenth, no time many
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Speaker 4: and then yeah, I'm absolutely buzzn't so really looking forward
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Speaker 4: and hopefully I can see as many Steelers fans are
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Speaker 4: as possible, and hopefully we ran it off with a
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Speaker 4: win as well.
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Speaker 2: James Farrier and also Willie Parker are going to be there,
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Speaker 2: two time Super Bowl champions among many our accolades, both
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Speaker 2: held in such high regard with Steeler Nation, and it's
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Speaker 2: going to be a great day.
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Speaker 1: I think.
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Speaker 2: One of the things I really enjoy about the that
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Speaker 2: blug is just the the way the Crew Park was
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Speaker 2: done up last year, like the you can obviously meet
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Speaker 2: the players beforehand, and even like something as small as
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Speaker 2: the decor in the in the corridors and never hit
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Speaker 2: her all done up as if you're in Pittsburgh. It
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Speaker 2: is really cool. And I know this year they've added
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Speaker 2: the end zone bar, which I believe there's still some
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Speaker 2: final tickets left for so foks, we will put that
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Speaker 2: in the bio if by the time we're recording it
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Speaker 2: is so that it's on us, I apologize, but certainly
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Speaker 2: there's a few available, and I would recommend, like you
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Speaker 2: sort of said it yourself there, man, like, if people
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Speaker 2: can't get tickets for it, consider going to that because
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Speaker 2: it's gonna be great. Crack the matter, what isn't.
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Speaker 4: It it is? You know, we went last year and
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Speaker 4: it was a bit like walking into a black and
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Speaker 4: Good spaceship. It was. It was, it was a It's
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Speaker 4: something I've never seen before in my life and just
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Speaker 4: to think has happened in Crowe Park. I think what
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Speaker 4: the Rooney family want to do is and obviously the
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Speaker 4: Steelers is an organization. They want to bring it as
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Speaker 4: if it's like an American football party, and it's sort
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Speaker 4: of bodies of what they're bringing over from Pittsburgh. So
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Speaker 4: if you're if you're lucky enough to get a ticket
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Speaker 4: and stuff, and you're you're you're if you're in FoST
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Speaker 4: and get these end zone tickets as well, you're in
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Speaker 4: for an absolute traits of an event. So obviously getting
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Speaker 4: to speak to the players. Hopefully there'll be autographs and
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Speaker 4: stuff as well. That'll be another great thing to look
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Speaker 4: out for. And then I'll just say I'm just kind
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Speaker 4: of as I've matched off camera as well, I'm just
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Speaker 4: counting down the days and ours because you know, this
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Speaker 4: week of Phasic it's been dry again and it's just
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Speaker 4: trying to get there to Sunday and ultimately if we
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Speaker 4: can chap it off with a win washing in front
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Speaker 4: of everybody in Crow Park, it will be absolutely fantastic.
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Speaker 4: So I'm just looking forward this.
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Speaker 2: Looking forward to man, I can't wait to at the
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Speaker 2: very very least grab a picture where you lads down
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Speaker 2: for the podcast on Sunday as well down a group park.
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Speaker 2: We're looking forward to see if travels to everybody head
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Speaker 2: and down, we will talk about it maybe a little
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Speaker 2: bit more whenever we look at this cold scheme, just
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Speaker 2: quickly before we hear from coach Humblin doalog. Obviously, when
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Speaker 2: you go free, you know there's so many positives, but
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Speaker 2: obviously there's a lot to look on the tape as well,
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Speaker 2: and you're trying to sort of see how this team
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Speaker 2: can improve. It's very hard when you're own free. Sorry,
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Speaker 2: when you're free, you know we're not owing free lads.
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Speaker 2: It's hard do log to see if you had to
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Speaker 2: pinpoint certain parts of the game which need which need
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Speaker 2: built up. But have you looked at maybe any of
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Speaker 2: the tape or have you watched any games back over
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Speaker 2: the last few days, I would say, like the offensive
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Speaker 2: line is probably the one thing that stands out because
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Speaker 2: if we can get that to the next level, it's
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Speaker 2: going to give Justin or whoever's understandard just more protection
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Speaker 2: and more opportunities to get deep balls out of the field.
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Speaker 4: I was just about to jump in there and say
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Speaker 4: offensive line has been you know, great minds think alike.
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Speaker 4: You know, this just proves that we're not going and
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Speaker 4: seeing But the week one you know, obviously with week
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Speaker 4: one wasn't you know, it wasn't brilliant. But having said that,
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Speaker 4: how we bounch back after week two with the penalty situation.
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Speaker 4: I just a shout out as well. The Ricky Zach
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Speaker 4: Fraser has been absolutely outstanding. I think he's been number
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Speaker 4: one ranked offensive linemen this year so far. I think
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Speaker 4: he's up there with one of the Seattle offensive lineman.
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Speaker 4: But it's it's the proofs in the puddn Your offensive
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Speaker 4: line has been brilliant, protecting justin letting him go through
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Speaker 4: his progressions that they find his easy targets. And that's
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Speaker 4: really been the you know the secret sauce. So offensive
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Speaker 4: line has been brilliant offensively. Of course, if we're going
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Speaker 4: to PenPoint something a bit more productivity into our key players,
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Speaker 4: you know, our Pop f Armouse or George Pickens. Obviously
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Speaker 4: Calvin Austin had a great week last week, but we
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Speaker 4: want to see more star receivers. Of course, Calvin's a
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Speaker 4: brilliant player. George Pickins is one of those that we
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Speaker 4: need to get on the ball more. And I think
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Speaker 4: if we're all going to PenPoint so up and the
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Speaker 4: more we get integrated into our offensive side of the ball,
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Speaker 4: the higher our scorers are going to go up. And
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Speaker 4: that the easier it's going to become for our defense,
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Speaker 4: because we know what our defense brings already, so if
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Speaker 4: we all got to maybe pen point on something potency,
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Speaker 4: it might just be the offense. Let's just keep this
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Speaker 4: ship rolling. We are improving week by week, and the
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Speaker 4: more we improve, you know, the batter shots we're going
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Speaker 4: to go to make the postseason, So really that set
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Speaker 4: for me and I'm looking at offensively proven and keeping
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Speaker 4: that defensive front as strong as possible.
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Speaker 2: Look, it has not been an easy start for these
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Speaker 2: guys on the offensive line. Troy Fantono obviously injured a
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Speaker 2: significant injury at the moment, ned herbigs out for the
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Speaker 2: year with a retater cuverter, and we've also got Isaac
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Speaker 2: Sameo as well, who's who's been out since entering his
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Speaker 2: pack a few weeks back.
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Speaker 1: This is it's all about.
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Speaker 2: Accountability and it's all about having that Max guy up
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Speaker 2: and to see some of the guys really make that
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Speaker 2: step up is heartwarming to see and you just hope
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Speaker 2: that it sort of just can keep can keep going forward.
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Speaker 2: I guess before we talk about the Colts, as a
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Speaker 2: conversation I had on the different podcast this week, Dove Ogue,
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Speaker 2: you know, it just feels like, and maybe we're getting
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Speaker 2: ahead of ourselves here, but so you know, two prime
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Speaker 2: time games coming out, and obviously the scnor of coming
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Speaker 2: down the stretch this season, it feels like a game
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Speaker 2: not just this week against the Colts, but games just
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Speaker 2: the week after as well are key. Is there any
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Speaker 2: part of you that feels like they could just continue
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Speaker 2: to go on a run here because it feels like
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Speaker 2: the optimism is there, the positivity is there, and obviously
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Speaker 2: as well, each week presents any.
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Speaker 4: Challenge, absolutely, and Michael, you know, just we're on and
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Speaker 4: run at the moment. You know, the main you know,
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Speaker 4: obscule we face in this week particularly is stopping that
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Speaker 4: run game. I mean, it is worth noting that we're
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Speaker 4: number two defense stopping the run in the league. You know,
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Speaker 4: only the Ravens do a better job of that. So
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Speaker 4: I'm very confident we have enough to neutralize you know,
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Speaker 4: Jonathan Taylor, who is in the league running back. And
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Speaker 4: other than that, you know, there are offensive weapons. Certainly
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Speaker 4: nothing the shout about. You know, Michael Pittman is a
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Speaker 4: decent player. And defensively, it's interesting because they've given up
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Speaker 4: over five hundred rush yerds in first three games, which
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Speaker 4: exactly the second most in the league, only ahead of Dollars.
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Speaker 4: So we've got these next two weeks against two teams
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Speaker 4: that are st good to defend the run. We have
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Speaker 4: to capitalize and get that ball rolling because so far
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Speaker 4: it hasn't been great. You know, we can't admit that,
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Speaker 4: and let's lean on this grand game. Let's get anoledgey
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Speaker 4: season running in the right direction, no pundents headed. If
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Speaker 4: we can do that, it'll only only do us well
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Speaker 4: going forward. And just obviously on Anthony Richson Meg you
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Speaker 4: know four for overall, Peck from a year ago miss
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Speaker 4: majority of his rookie season from injury, you know, leads
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Speaker 4: the league interceptions with six so far. No disrespect, but
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Speaker 4: you know, the guy has more interceptions than Will Lavis,
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Speaker 4: and will Lavis is getting absolutely eating in the media
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Speaker 4: and including by his head coach. And of course, you know,
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Speaker 4: with with his height and his speed, along with the
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Speaker 4: scrambling a building, he's going to cause us some problems.
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Speaker 4: It's inevitable, but I realistically don't see much problems he
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Speaker 4: can cause our defense. And you know, it's one of
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Speaker 4: those things where I'm just looking at and I think
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Speaker 4: it's a brilliant opportunity to get this ball rolling forward
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Speaker 4: and get to foward. Though we've got obviously two big
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Speaker 4: games coming up as well, you know, Dallas and the
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Speaker 4: Jets that me and Jimmy is going to be at
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Speaker 4: in prime time, and so let's keep this training rolling.
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Speaker 4: And obviously the second half of the season is a
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Speaker 4: lot more difficult than the first. Let's just had as
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Speaker 4: many wins on the boards as we possibly can't.
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Speaker 2: One thing that has changed this we last book is
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Speaker 2: the Bengals following the three only six teams have actually
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Speaker 2: made the playoffs since nineteen seventy nine. I've used this
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Speaker 2: stat all week and every had them said, yeah, just
8:13
Speaker 2: insert It's like that putting the salid tip over the
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Speaker 2: water escape and yeah, just use that stot Michael. Okay,
8:19
Speaker 2: it's important because we had a podcast outs and I
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Speaker 2: believe Monday Chuesday, and this is before we recorded the
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Speaker 2: prior to Monday Night Football. The thing that I will
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Speaker 2: say is the Bengals, for losing that game, still put
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Speaker 2: up a serious amount of points. And we know we
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Speaker 2: have to focus on ourselves. And you take a week
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Speaker 2: at a time here, but still the three games between
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Speaker 2: the Stailers and the Bengals. At the moment, Ravens, if
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Speaker 2: you look at the AFC Norph Janeraly, the Ravens have
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Speaker 2: actually quite an impressive win in Dallas. Yes, they've sort
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Speaker 2: of bubbled it a little bit towards the end. They
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Speaker 2: almost gave up that loss or sorry, they almost gave
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Speaker 2: up the win. And they almost lost that game the
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Speaker 2: brands of the Browns. But I feel like if this
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Speaker 2: was if the AFC nor from twenty twenty four was
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Speaker 2: a painting or like the most and a Lisa, the
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Speaker 2: artists only started to wet his brush.
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Speaker 1: There's so much more to play for, isn't it.
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Speaker 4: Absolutely? I mean, THEFC North, it's it's the most difficult
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Speaker 4: division in football. Of course, is up there with the
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Speaker 4: NFC nor from potentially you know, the NFC West as well.
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Speaker 4: It's pretty high up. But I you know, it's the
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Speaker 4: most difficult division of football, and we find ourselves at
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Speaker 4: the top of that division. Of course. You know the Bengals,
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Speaker 4: of course they're rowing three and I said, that's an
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Speaker 4: interesting stot. You know, it's not often when you start
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Speaker 4: going three you can make the playoffs. I still think
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Speaker 4: they're up there, you know, I watched that game. Offensively,
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Speaker 4: they look very good. You know, It's it's just really about,
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Speaker 4: you know, protecting Joe Burrow. Can he stay fit? And
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Speaker 4: let's be honest, their defense is just not no disrespect.
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Speaker 4: But if you can pair our defense with theirs, yeah,
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Speaker 4: it's not even close. I mean, so you feel sort
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Speaker 4: of being sorry for Joe Burrow. At the same time,
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Speaker 4: I'm happy to see as many losses on the board
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Speaker 4: for all the other FC NORF teams because the higher
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Speaker 4: we get, obviously that advantage leader in the season is
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Speaker 4: going to do as well, because we do have a
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Speaker 4: good record against the rest of the teams in the
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Speaker 4: FC North, particularly against the Ravens. You know, they're they're
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Speaker 4: a team that we just seem to I think they'
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Speaker 4: one and six against so since he came into the league,
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Speaker 4: which is crazy for two time m VP, and I
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Speaker 4: just feel like the more wins we can stack before
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Speaker 4: we actually have to play the rest of the teams, well,
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Speaker 4: so lots of way I look at it. So you know,
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Speaker 4: just keep keep doing our own thing, keep winning, keep
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Speaker 4: stacking up those wins. Once we come to play them
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Speaker 4: in the later, later time of the year, you know,
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Speaker 4: hopefully we won't win, maybe we won't have to beat
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Speaker 4: them as many times. So yeah, that's what I'm not
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Speaker 4: going to. Just keep focusing on the now and leave
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Speaker 4: it later for later.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, if you're staying beside for parking Sunday like yourself,
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Speaker 2: that I'll go. Or if you're getting up the m
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Speaker 2: one or getting the round the Island after the game.
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Speaker 2: Obviously a few hours after that is that big game
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Speaker 2: for the Ravens Ravens against the Bills on Sunday Night Football.
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Speaker 2: And you're right, we're just gonna keep winning. I'm a
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Speaker 2: worried about that when it comes to it. Love that point.
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Speaker 2: Well done, man, Let's just this game this week. Let's
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Speaker 2: hear from coach Tomin first Off on the Irish Series
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Speaker 2: podcast ahead of this fourth game of the season against
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Speaker 2: the Indianapolis Colts in Indie.
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Speaker 5: Still very much in the same place with Russ this
10:56
Speaker 5: week as we were last week, at least at the
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Speaker 5: beginning of the week. I just met with him and
11:01
Speaker 5: our head athletic trainer and talked about what tomorrow looks like.
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Speaker 5: Tomorrow is a limited participation day from a scheduling perspective.
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Speaker 5: He had a good workout today, We'll see how he
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Speaker 5: feels in the morning, but I'm not expecting him to
11:15
Speaker 5: be a full participant tomorrow. And so as we walk
11:18
Speaker 5: in the building tomorrow, I want justin singularly focused on
11:21
Speaker 5: starting for us and doing what's required to be ready
11:24
Speaker 5: to do that. And so although I'm sure you got questions,
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Speaker 5: I probably got similar answers that I had a week ago,
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Speaker 5: and we'll see where the week leads us. If his
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Speaker 5: availability or the quality of his practice participation picks up,
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Speaker 5: maybe we'll consider that later in the week. If it doesn't,
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Speaker 5: then it won't be a consideration and we'll just continue
11:44
Speaker 5: with where we are right now. And so that's just
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Speaker 5: the status of not only him, but our intentions regarding
11:50
Speaker 5: Justin As I stand here today in preparation for this game. Again,
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Speaker 5: as I mentioned, very similar to last week, very similar
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Speaker 5: to the week before, turned my attention toward the Indianapolis Colts.
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Speaker 5: Their team that's coming off of a big victory last week.
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Speaker 5: If you look at them offensively, first and foremost, we
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Speaker 5: got to deal with with Jonathan Taylor. He is super talented,
12:14
Speaker 5: but we've seen some talented backs. Bijon is super talented.
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Speaker 5: JK is super talented, And that just goes to show
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Speaker 5: you how competitive this league is week in and week out. Man,
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Speaker 5: we got a big challenge in Jonathan Taylor. I think
12:28
Speaker 5: that that that challenge is intensified because of Richardson's mobility
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Speaker 5: and their willingness to use schematics regarding Richardson's mobility, and so, man,
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Speaker 5: it is a big run game emphasis for us as
12:42
Speaker 5: I sit here right now at the early outset of
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Speaker 5: the week, looking at things that they do well and
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Speaker 5: the things that we need to do well. Obviously, Man,
12:51
Speaker 5: they got a talented receiving corps that supplements that run game.
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Speaker 5: Pierce Man is getting behind secondaries. Man, he is all
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Speaker 5: always done it. He did it at the University of Cincinnati.
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Speaker 5: I was at his pro day and studied him. They
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Speaker 5: drafted him to do it, and he's been behind defenses
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Speaker 5: the whole time he's in the league. I think he
13:09
Speaker 5: leads the NFL and plus forty yard plays at this
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Speaker 5: juncture on the defensive side of the ball. You know,
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Speaker 5: it's Gus Bradley. Man, He's been there, done that guy.
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Speaker 5: We've been in some circumstances to get him against him.
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Speaker 5: Got a lot of respect for for his approach to
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Speaker 5: ball and and and and how he works. Obviously they've
13:27
Speaker 5: had some issues in terms of stopping to run, but
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Speaker 5: when you watch their tape, you really see Gus's intentions
13:34
Speaker 5: in terms of rectifying that. Man, they were really sound
13:38
Speaker 5: last week. They were in gaps, they were aggressive. I
13:43
Speaker 5: think that that's indicative of his defenses. I got a
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Speaker 5: lot of respect for a lot of the people up front.
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Speaker 5: Quity Pay and Grover I think provide the standard for
13:53
Speaker 5: them on the edge and on the inside, but they
13:55
Speaker 5: play a lot of people. They run waves of d
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Speaker 5: linemen and rushman at you. That's one of the signatures
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Speaker 5: of their attack at the linebacker level. Man Franklin. I
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Speaker 5: just got a lot of respect for Man. That's a
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Speaker 5: homegrown talent. They took him late in the draft in
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Speaker 5: twenty eighteen just to watch his role evolve over his
14:14
Speaker 5: time there. You know, sixth round pick. That became a
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Speaker 5: core teamer, that became a situation to defender, that became
14:21
Speaker 5: a green dot defender. He's a high volume tackler, one
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Speaker 5: hundred and sixty tackles, one hundred and seventy tackles in
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Speaker 5: the last two years. Specifically, he's a really good blitzer.
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Speaker 5: He's just good in space, vertical space, horizontal space. They
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Speaker 5: employed a Tampa two that requires him to run down
14:40
Speaker 5: the middle of the field. He's good at that. He's
14:42
Speaker 5: good in three deep and underneath coverage. He is just
14:46
Speaker 5: a well rounded player. That's a big time catalyst for
14:50
Speaker 5: a lot of what goes on with them. Kenny Moore
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Speaker 5: at outside corner and Nickel is another guy that's homegrown.
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Speaker 5: It's played a lot of quality football there. There's a
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Speaker 5: splash playmaker. He controls the perimeter, play wide receiver screens,
15:07
Speaker 5: bubble screens, and things of that nature that goes on
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Speaker 5: out in that Nickel space. His talents and his experience
15:13
Speaker 5: make that very difficult. He's very good in terms of
15:16
Speaker 5: fitting in the run game and blitzing. They asked him
15:18
Speaker 5: to blitz quite a bit. He's just got a well
15:20
Speaker 5: rounded game. He's a veteran guy. He's got good vision.
15:23
Speaker 5: He turns up in a lot of circumstances. Really enjoyed
15:27
Speaker 5: watching the safety tandem. Although I've been watching them for
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Speaker 5: a couple of years. Young guys, I see their evolution.
15:34
Speaker 5: Both guys are high volume tacklers and making a bunch
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Speaker 5: of splash plays. Both guys had major interceptions against us
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Speaker 5: when we played in Indy last year. Respect that component
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Speaker 5: of the matchup, but they're not the same players they were.
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Speaker 5: They're evolve and I see it. Nick Cross in particular
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Speaker 5: is making a bunch of plays in the run game.
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Speaker 5: He's a high volume tackler, he's good cover man. He's
15:58
Speaker 5: oftentimes down coverings and things of that nature in one
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Speaker 5: dimensional pass and circumstances, you know. So they got a
16:05
Speaker 5: well balanced group on both sides of the ball. They're
16:08
Speaker 5: coming off of a victory. We're playing them in their venue.
16:12
Speaker 5: They've got quarterback mobility and a top notch runner. There's
16:15
Speaker 5: a lot of things that have our attentions and appropriately
16:18
Speaker 5: so at the beginning of the week, as we begin
16:21
Speaker 5: to lay a foundational plan and ready our guys for
16:25
Speaker 5: the challenges of the week. As I mentioned at the beginning,
16:28
Speaker 5: though it's the National Football League, wouldn't expect anything else.
16:31
Speaker 5: I'm excited about ready in this group and growing in
16:34
Speaker 5: all the appropriate ways as we get ready for this action.
16:39
Speaker 2: Mike Tomlin on the Irish Theaters Podcast, looking ahead to
16:42
Speaker 2: Week four of the NFL season, A really interesting on
16:45
Speaker 2: a standalone week for a lot of staters funds on
16:47
Speaker 2: the Island of Ireland. Hundreds are expected to attend sold
16:51
Speaker 2: Hogan Suite for the Falsest Theaters watch Party, the second omnual.
16:55
Speaker 2: Let's look at the calls for a little minute. We
16:57
Speaker 2: sort of deep dived you sort of deep dived on
17:00
Speaker 2: Amney Richardson there just a little moment ago, and if
17:04
Speaker 2: you actually look at their rushing offense this season. They
17:07
Speaker 2: are six point one yards percari on average, as first
17:10
Speaker 2: in the league, four point two two average yards after
17:13
Speaker 2: contract per rush, and tied seven for EPF per rush.
17:17
Speaker 2: On the flip side, the rushing defense fourre than seventy
17:20
Speaker 2: four yards allowed, that's last in the league opponent the
17:23
Speaker 2: yards percari is tied twenty eighth, and rushing first down
17:26
Speaker 2: is allowed. It's fairly first in the league after Naji.
17:29
Speaker 2: I know he hasn't got a touchdown yet, but after
17:31
Speaker 2: seeing him get seventy yards last week, you got to
17:34
Speaker 2: pound it with Naji and Jail and yeah, and this
17:36
Speaker 2: is the thing. We've got a quarterback that can run
17:38
Speaker 2: as well. This is a big key to the game.
17:40
Speaker 1: Surely.
17:41
Speaker 4: Absolutely, I did sort of touch on it. But if
17:44
Speaker 4: we can run the ball officially, which we know we're
17:46
Speaker 4: capable of, I honestly don't see how the coach stop us.
17:49
Speaker 4: I mean, did you just imagine the defense chance stop
17:52
Speaker 4: the run. It's like a noseblad. It just won't stop,
17:55
Speaker 4: you know. But I absolutely we have one of the
17:58
Speaker 4: best run games in the league. You know, I think
18:00
Speaker 4: nobody runs. I think the green bead Packers maybe run
18:02
Speaker 4: the ball the only team that run the ball and
18:04
Speaker 4: ward than us, and I think realistically, if you look
18:06
Speaker 4: at our yards, it's nowhere near what it should be.
18:08
Speaker 4: So I think US has just mentioned as Dallas as well.
18:11
Speaker 4: Dallas is up there or one of the worst run
18:12
Speaker 4: defenses in the league. If we are able to capitalize
18:15
Speaker 4: in these next two weeks, get this rung game going,
18:18
Speaker 4: kicks pressure off. Justin doesn't have to make as many
18:20
Speaker 4: key throws, which he has been making already, and obviously
18:23
Speaker 4: we can lean on this. And you know we mentioned
18:26
Speaker 4: about you mentioned about Antney Richards and of course they
18:28
Speaker 4: do have a decent run game. There's no dener and
18:30
Speaker 4: that Jonathan Taylor is an elite running back. Our defense
18:33
Speaker 4: can show up a run game like anybody else. So
18:36
Speaker 4: I'm very very confident if we can lean on this
18:39
Speaker 4: wrung game, get Nledgey on the board early. I don't
18:41
Speaker 4: see how they're going to stop our run game. So yeah,
18:43
Speaker 4: let's let's just keep keep it as it is, and
18:45
Speaker 4: then I look forward to Sunday and watching US when
18:47
Speaker 4: hopefully about double disinits.
18:49
Speaker 2: Before we hear from some of the guys in the
18:51
Speaker 2: locker room ahead of this game. You've sort of mentioned
18:52
Speaker 2: Omney Riches is in there. One of the things I
18:55
Speaker 2: enjoy watching it a lot him. I'm enjoyed watching a
18:57
Speaker 2: lot him in his rookie season, albeit it was called
18:59
Speaker 2: short up to four or five games.
19:00
Speaker 1: Three injury.
19:01
Speaker 2: Is his confidence on the run, and you mentioned it
19:03
Speaker 2: there a little while ago. He reminds me of a
19:05
Speaker 2: little bit of like a hybrid rgcly justin field sort
19:09
Speaker 2: of combination there. I feel for him going up against
19:13
Speaker 2: our defense. That's all I'm going to say. This is,
19:16
Speaker 2: and it really goes to because I believe this is
19:18
Speaker 2: the second cold scheme of the season, home game of
19:21
Speaker 2: the season, and that crowd is going to be electric.
19:24
Speaker 2: They're going to be pumped up for whether Jim or
19:26
Speaker 2: says says the ruf is open, are closed. It is
19:28
Speaker 2: going to be massive to get out there and stop
19:31
Speaker 2: them immediately. But stop richardson getting any confidence, because if
19:34
Speaker 2: he goes out and has a twenty thirty yard flow
19:38
Speaker 2: on second and third down and then can make a
19:39
Speaker 2: fifteen or fifteen yard game on third down getting down
19:42
Speaker 2: the field, that's going to give him confidence. And you
19:44
Speaker 2: just need to stop them as quickly as possible man.
19:48
Speaker 4: Yeah, I know, it's one of those things where you
19:50
Speaker 4: have to respect him. He's six foot four and he moves.
19:53
Speaker 4: He moves incredibly well for a gay ot side. He
19:56
Speaker 4: reminds me a bit of Tom Newton. Tom Newton and
19:58
Speaker 4: is head was obviously chim It's on a different level,
20:01
Speaker 4: but he moves exactly that way any Richardson moves. And
20:04
Speaker 4: then I'll say he's coming back from an injury. Again,
20:07
Speaker 4: if there's one defense you don't want to be hit by,
20:09
Speaker 4: it's ours. You get T J. Watts. Of course, Alex
20:11
Speaker 4: Heismith's up with an injury. Unfortunately, of course Herbig's stepping
20:14
Speaker 4: in there and he's gonna cause a bit of trouble
20:16
Speaker 4: for them. So it's really about how can we neutralize
20:19
Speaker 4: that wrong game for them. You know, he's got Jonathan
20:21
Speaker 4: Taylor in the backfield, which is obviously stud but if
20:23
Speaker 4: we can hit onthy Richardson early, he got you know
20:26
Speaker 4: that crowd quiet. We owe him from last week last
20:29
Speaker 4: year exactly. They did us dirty last year and you
20:31
Speaker 4: know we owe them big time. So we've got a
20:34
Speaker 4: better quarterback on this occasion, we've got better offensive weapons.
20:37
Speaker 4: Let's just go in and steamroll them because I think
20:40
Speaker 4: we have that that team capable enough to do us.
20:43
Speaker 1: The great thing.
20:43
Speaker 2: But this is I'm going to be able to either
20:45
Speaker 2: be Besides, you will be very close to you, like
20:46
Speaker 2: at a table or two way when this happens. So
20:49
Speaker 2: I'll definitely be high five of the old time, no
20:51
Speaker 2: doubt you'll be sitting at the right front the game
20:52
Speaker 2: with his boys getting the high fives and look, let's
20:55
Speaker 2: let's go and let a less stab le.
20:56
Speaker 1: I'm very like, you know.
20:58
Speaker 2: Prudent, like everyone come down. I just gonna sit there
21:00
Speaker 2: and relax and gives off and see what happens. Hopefully
21:02
Speaker 2: we get to win. I feel really confident though, I'm
21:05
Speaker 2: really ready down before we maybe make our game picks.
21:07
Speaker 2: Let's hear from a couple of guys in the locker
21:08
Speaker 2: room on the Irish Theaters podcast.
21:11
Speaker 3: Goshally had that look on a film.
21:13
Speaker 5: I'm going to hit the film study on Monday.
21:15
Speaker 6: Looked all right, looked pretty good. Still some room to boot,
21:19
Speaker 6: some stuff to get better at. But you know, just
21:23
Speaker 6: this next game, we want to emphasize starting faster, so
21:27
Speaker 6: not not warming up to things. But uh, overall solids.
21:30
Speaker 7: And your numbers are going to snip, let's here at
21:32
Speaker 7: Pittsburgh are considerably better than that we're in Chicago. Is
21:35
Speaker 7: there any one or two things that you know the
21:38
Speaker 7: reason why you're you're having way more success whenever here?
21:40
Speaker 3: Please a pressure?
21:42
Speaker 6: I'm not sure, you know. I mean, I don't know
21:45
Speaker 6: what else to tell you, to be honest, but yeah,
21:47
Speaker 6: I'm not sure.
21:48
Speaker 7: Yeah did some did that come with maybe comfort or
21:51
Speaker 7: just experience being in the league longer, being more comfortable
21:54
Speaker 7: with the pressure and not having you know, an internal
21:57
Speaker 7: clock rushing yourself kind of thing.
22:00
Speaker 6: Maybe, just like I said, you know, I'm not I'm
22:03
Speaker 6: not sure you know why. You know, biggest thing is
22:05
Speaker 6: for me, I'm just trying to stay down schedule on
22:07
Speaker 6: first and second down, uh, and always you know, try
22:11
Speaker 6: to have a manageable third down. So you know that
22:13
Speaker 6: that might be the reason. But you know, I just
22:15
Speaker 6: haven't been emphasizing I guess the blinch. You know want
22:17
Speaker 6: to be good, but you know you always want to
22:19
Speaker 6: just you know, try to stay on schedule on first
22:21
Speaker 6: and second down and put yourself in a good spot
22:22
Speaker 6: on third down.
22:23
Speaker 7: Justin what have you guys been emphasizing to get on
22:25
Speaker 7: schedule the first and sef.
22:27
Speaker 6: Just no negative plays, and you know it starts with
22:29
Speaker 6: a run game, so of course, you know run games
22:31
Speaker 6: started a little bit slow last game. That's why we're
22:33
Speaker 6: just kind of, you know, emphasizing starting task this week.
22:35
Speaker 6: So looking forward to you know this upcoming Sunday, and
22:38
Speaker 6: they have a good defense over there, so looking forward
22:40
Speaker 6: to it.
22:41
Speaker 7: Just if you many be conscious changes to cut out
22:43
Speaker 7: at the turnovers going into the station seriously specific to
22:46
Speaker 7: two differently you feel like he's just general.
22:49
Speaker 6: No, I mean that's the you know, the number one
22:51
Speaker 6: goal is no turnover. So I'm still sick that, you know,
22:53
Speaker 6: we had one, especially just in that situation right there.
22:57
Speaker 6: I can see if it's you know, in the half
22:58
Speaker 6: trying to make it play happen, But just that situation
23:01
Speaker 6: first down, you already have a field go pretty much
23:03
Speaker 6: and make that dumb mistake. So I'm still kind of
23:07
Speaker 6: all myself hard about that. But that's our you know,
23:09
Speaker 6: big stufsis on offenses to take care of the ball
23:11
Speaker 6: and don't let the defense create any you know, turnovers
23:15
Speaker 6: stuff like that. So but that's our number one job
23:17
Speaker 6: on the offensive quarterback.
23:18
Speaker 3: Do you see turnovers happened because more of like physical
23:21
Speaker 3: stuff and ju rowlers.
23:22
Speaker 1: It more about like mental.
23:25
Speaker 3: It can be both.
23:26
Speaker 6: You know, it can be a panic to when the
23:28
Speaker 6: you know, uh pockets closing.
23:30
Speaker 3: It can be.
23:33
Speaker 6: You getting laid through a progression or something like that
23:35
Speaker 6: and getting to the flat late. Or it can be
23:38
Speaker 6: you know, you just trying to make it play and
23:41
Speaker 6: you know, trying to do too much and then fumble
23:43
Speaker 6: or something crazy happens and then you know, I feel
23:45
Speaker 6: like it's did for each and every situation too.
23:47
Speaker 1: Yeah, just you got.
23:48
Speaker 3: Look at your third out the burgery a lot, but
23:51
Speaker 3: I think what you guys have been able to do
23:53
Speaker 3: on second down, but you've really been situation for me.
23:56
Speaker 1: I've hasing itself for this year.
23:58
Speaker 6: Uh, it's been pretty good. You know, it's especially you know,
24:00
Speaker 6: I think you know, I think everybody is more successful
24:03
Speaker 6: when it's you know, third and six and you know
24:05
Speaker 6: less to go than that. So you know, anytime you
24:07
Speaker 6: can be third and medium and third and long. You
24:11
Speaker 6: never want to be in a force just because of
24:12
Speaker 6: def kind of sit back bring their four man rush
24:15
Speaker 6: and have you know, eyes and vision towards the quarterbacks.
24:17
Speaker 6: So you know, that's why we emphasize, you know, our
24:20
Speaker 6: biggest you know, third down rate is be great on
24:23
Speaker 6: first and second down to not even be in those positions.
24:25
Speaker 6: So you know, we're just gonna to you to focus
24:28
Speaker 6: on first, second down and then we do getting those
24:29
Speaker 6: situational moments, so we're gonna execute the best of you can.
24:32
Speaker 3: So did the Chargers do anything special to try and
24:35
Speaker 3: keep you in the.
24:35
Speaker 7: Pocket or was that by design by you guys?
24:39
Speaker 6: I don't think they did anything specially. I think they
24:40
Speaker 6: work together well within their rush lanes, you know, stuff
24:44
Speaker 6: like that, and then they you know, played a lot
24:46
Speaker 6: of his own covers, so they had a lot of
24:48
Speaker 6: completions underneath and stuff like that. And God's always looking
24:51
Speaker 6: at you.
24:51
Speaker 4: But yeah, just Jovian, Why is CPS ineffective for you guys?
24:55
Speaker 7: And can he be that effective?
24:56
Speaker 6: It be gets more more tense, uh, I mean he
24:58
Speaker 6: can do everything.
24:59
Speaker 2: You know.
24:59
Speaker 6: It's actually when he's that big, shoot him. I know,
25:02
Speaker 6: if I'm on defense and I see the six four
25:04
Speaker 6: two forty, however much he weighs run a full street
25:07
Speaker 6: at me, I wouldn't want attack him. So you know,
25:09
Speaker 6: he's a dynamic player. He can do a lot for
25:11
Speaker 6: us on the offensive other ball, he can run, run,
25:13
Speaker 6: routes he can block, so he's a you know, all
25:16
Speaker 6: dynamic player and if you do a lot with him,
25:18
Speaker 6: just you feel like you guys are coming more into
25:21
Speaker 6: being able to naturally create better Yack opportunities for your
25:24
Speaker 6: targets and Scottie Miller and make gotcha, it's becoming more and.
25:29
Speaker 1: More and a bigger part of you guys.
25:30
Speaker 6: Saw Yeah, I mean, I think that's just a generalized
25:34
Speaker 6: of course, the more Yack can have, the more.
25:35
Speaker 1: Successful him go offense.
25:36
Speaker 6: So you know, we always want to emphasize that on
25:39
Speaker 6: yards afflute catch, and coach t put a great emphasis
25:42
Speaker 6: on it during training camp. So I think that's been
25:45
Speaker 6: helping the guys out. But you know, just constantly hearing
25:47
Speaker 6: that each and every day that we need Yack, yack yack.
25:49
Speaker 6: I think that's kind of getting into the guys fling.
25:52
Speaker 1: Is there been an increased emphasis to try to create
25:54
Speaker 1: more situations like that or maybe more parts of the
25:56
Speaker 1: play with that opened up.
25:58
Speaker 6: Now that you guys are through three games, you guys
26:00
Speaker 6: are getting means every every pass play is an opportunity
26:03
Speaker 6: for that. So it's not necessarily creating a situation every
26:06
Speaker 6: time we get the ball in the aliance. We want
26:08
Speaker 6: you to get some extra yardy.
26:10
Speaker 1: So.
26:13
Speaker 7: Different formations.
26:14
Speaker 1: I have to see personality beings.
26:15
Speaker 7: Although basically we're seeing that he's created different good of
26:18
Speaker 7: mismatches or he was most out free a way.
26:20
Speaker 1: To help, you know, put you guys in in spots.
26:23
Speaker 3: Uh yeah.
26:23
Speaker 6: I mean if if you go back to Week two
26:25
Speaker 6: versus Denver Darnell and on the touchdown Dartnell on it,
26:28
Speaker 6: you know, safety on smaller safety and you know that's
26:30
Speaker 6: a mismatch itself right there. So you know, we always
26:33
Speaker 6: want to do that, uh, to put people where we
26:36
Speaker 6: want them on the defense side of the ball, or
26:37
Speaker 6: you know, getting certain matchups we might like, or a
26:39
Speaker 6: certain run plays that we might like versus certain type
26:41
Speaker 6: of defense. I always want to mix and match those
26:43
Speaker 6: personnels to you know, get the kind of people we
26:45
Speaker 6: want out in the field.
26:46
Speaker 2: He wouldn't make sense, Jonathan, especially.
26:51
Speaker 3: You know, good contact balance, you know, converse to a
26:55
Speaker 3: whole you know, I just think, uh, he's a well
27:00
Speaker 3: seasoned running back, understands gap schemes, and you know he's
27:04
Speaker 3: a three or now back.
27:05
Speaker 1: You think guys have had success against ten over the years.
27:07
Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, But that's not indicative this time. You know,
27:11
Speaker 3: if they're watching table last year, you know they feel
27:14
Speaker 3: confident that they run the ball. Kim, you always talking
27:18
Speaker 3: about stopping to run being the key, clear the defense
27:21
Speaker 3: being you know, talk t Yeah, what if you're satisfied
27:24
Speaker 3: or they do? You like what you got? How you
27:25
Speaker 3: guys were stopping.
27:26
Speaker 2: On so far?
27:27
Speaker 1: It's a good start.
27:29
Speaker 3: You know, still some things we can clean up, blowing
27:32
Speaker 3: headed things by us having ten guys on the field,
27:36
Speaker 3: but uh, you know it's eleven man group that's got
27:39
Speaker 3: to get the job done.
27:41
Speaker 1: What has enabled you guys though? I mean you do
27:43
Speaker 1: talk about it love, but what is the nabe of
27:44
Speaker 1: you guys to actually put that together?
27:46
Speaker 3: You know, guys getting off the blocks, guys. You know,
27:49
Speaker 3: I don't think there's a lot of mental mistakes besides
27:52
Speaker 3: the ten ten guys on the field. And then I
27:55
Speaker 3: think our dbs are doing a good job coming downhill
27:57
Speaker 3: and tackling came.
27:58
Speaker 7: How does it change this week when you had quarterback mobility?
28:01
Speaker 3: Oh, quarterback mobility is everything. You know you could you
28:06
Speaker 3: could bottle up the rush game from the running backs,
28:08
Speaker 3: but if your quarterbacks are you know, falling forward, having
28:12
Speaker 3: a bunch of yards backcount store as well. QB draws.
28:16
Speaker 3: You know it's gonna be about bottling up the quarterback,
28:18
Speaker 3: making sure he stays in the pocket, and you know,
28:21
Speaker 3: let's put on the front. But if that does happen, Uh,
28:25
Speaker 3: everybody's got a rally. So it gets to the buff ass.
28:27
Speaker 1: Great to hear from the guys in the locker room.
28:29
Speaker 2: Real sense of excitement coming in on, real sense of
28:31
Speaker 2: you know, belief, Davo coming into this game against the Cols,
28:35
Speaker 2: just from hearing the guys there and look, lets maker picks.
28:38
Speaker 1: I'm going to go first. Yeah, Dublin.
28:40
Speaker 2: We lost last year against the Browns and what was
28:44
Speaker 2: a really rough game of football. There wasn't much points scored.
28:47
Speaker 2: It was really dominated by the defenses. I think we're
28:50
Speaker 2: going to see opposite this year. I think we're going
28:52
Speaker 2: to see Justin Fields go off three touchdowns, a Russian
28:55
Speaker 2: touchdown for Naji as well, first of the season for him.
28:58
Speaker 2: I'm taking the Seers to win this by points. I'm
29:00
Speaker 2: gonna take him to win thirty four to twenty four,
29:03
Speaker 2: and the whole of Crow Park goes mad.
29:05
Speaker 1: I can see your reaction there.
29:06
Speaker 2: I know.
29:07
Speaker 1: I think this is the week we put the points
29:08
Speaker 1: on the board. The who have you got?
29:10
Speaker 4: I know, I'm in agreement. I think it's the week
29:12
Speaker 4: that we put the points on the board. But I
29:14
Speaker 4: cannot see the coach. I can't recall the last time
29:17
Speaker 4: I was this confident for a win megut, So it's
29:20
Speaker 4: probably not a good sign. It's probably gonna come and
29:22
Speaker 4: bite me back in the in the backside. Hopefully not,
29:25
Speaker 4: but haven't said all of that. I'm gonna stick by
29:27
Speaker 4: my guns and I'm gonna go with twenty four to
29:29
Speaker 4: thirteen and win for the Steelers. Of course, you know,
29:31
Speaker 4: I'm watching Athony Richards and I struggle to see how
29:33
Speaker 4: he's gonna put up more than twenty on us.
29:35
Speaker 1: And lets see, yeah, home game, home game.
29:38
Speaker 4: It's a home game. You have to respect them. But
29:40
Speaker 4: as you know, our defense is number one in the league.
29:42
Speaker 4: And although he's not quite a rookie, we know how
29:45
Speaker 4: well Mike Tomlin preper for young quarterbacks and we saw
29:47
Speaker 4: it with bow next in Week two. We'll see it
29:49
Speaker 4: later in the year as well, Jayden Daniels as well
29:51
Speaker 4: as on the schedule. Lookout for that one. So I
29:54
Speaker 4: just feel that there's enough fire power. There's not enough
29:56
Speaker 4: firepower on that coach offense to come close and not
29:59
Speaker 4: defense just to sa him as previous years or they
30:02
Speaker 4: used to have stars on each lane. So it's very
30:04
Speaker 4: rare that I give a chance to it. But I'm
30:06
Speaker 4: going to go with double digit win in the Hogan stand.
30:09
Speaker 4: Take that to the bank and roll onto the cow
30:11
Speaker 4: Boys next week.
30:14
Speaker 1: I love it. Take it to the black Man.
30:15
Speaker 2: I think you should get a T shirt, like a
30:16
Speaker 2: black T shirt with that and like yellow funk, go
30:18
Speaker 2: into the absolute printing and namon and get that sort
30:20
Speaker 2: of this week, Yeah and.
30:22
Speaker 4: On or already talking about it in negotiations.
30:26
Speaker 2: I'll hit the team up for you. Just all that,
30:28
Speaker 2: Just just a final bit of information. Somebody may have
30:31
Speaker 2: seen this week different reporters. Then Nagi was wearing a
30:35
Speaker 2: sling in his arm. He's expected to be fine for Sunday.
30:38
Speaker 2: A really interesting stot seventy yards rush first game, sixty nine,
30:41
Speaker 2: second games seventy fur gime. Will he go back to
30:43
Speaker 2: sixty nine where he get seventy this figure or or
30:45
Speaker 2: will he get more? I don't know how he's done
30:47
Speaker 2: that in three weeks in a row. And really looking
30:49
Speaker 2: forward to see everybody at the false Steelers watch party
30:52
Speaker 2: this week in Krook Park. Doubill really looking forward to
30:54
Speaker 2: seeing you, Jimmy, and so many different people from the
30:56
Speaker 2: Irish NFL community, and people as well that may men
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Speaker 2: not be part of the NFL community but coming to
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Speaker 2: see what us like as well. Everyone's so much more
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Speaker 2: than welcome and we will see you down there.
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Speaker 1: I beg.
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Speaker 2: Here we go to finish off lass big game this weekend.
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Speaker 2: Let's go four no dot bog. Here we go, Man
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Speaker 2: see Uston, Here we go.