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Bye Week Check-In · The Irish Steelers Podcast

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Speaker 1: Everybody. Welcome into the Irish Studios podcast podcast for Pittsburgh
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Speaker 1: Stateer Finals across the island of Ireland and across the
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Speaker 1: world as well. Michael McQuaid here as we are on
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Speaker 1: the cusp of a lovely, relaxing six and two bye week.
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Speaker 1: He delighted to be joined by Davog Mickey, Davog Faulsa
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Speaker 1: my mom, Caja, what's the crack.
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Speaker 2: I'm doing well, mc, It's good.
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Speaker 3: Well, I was gonna say it was good to have
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Speaker 3: a weekend where we're not stressing over the Steelers, but
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Speaker 3: it's it's really not. I'm having what is the word,
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Speaker 3: I'm looking for, depression even thinking about the fact that
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Speaker 3: we won't get to wash them this weekend. So but
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Speaker 3: as you've said, it's it's nice kusty Bay six and two.
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Speaker 3: After the Bay, we have a big schedule come up,
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Speaker 3: you know, the more difficult part of the schedule, without
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Speaker 3: a doubt. But I'm really happy about where we're going
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Speaker 3: into the Bay this weekend. So again, not not happy,
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Speaker 3: of course we get a break, but same time I'm
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Speaker 3: gonna miss not watch it being able to watch the
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Speaker 3: Staters this weekend.
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Speaker 1: I actually think and like I understand your point of
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Speaker 1: view there. I really feel like we'll probably talk about
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Speaker 1: this and this episode is where we sort of try
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Speaker 1: and regroup for ten fifteen twenty twenty five minutes and
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Speaker 1: just sort of break down the last few weeks for
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Speaker 1: some people. I really feel like the bias come at
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Speaker 1: the right time in the sense of, you know, you
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Speaker 1: get those six wins, but you say it yourself there,
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Speaker 1: and we will talk about this time of stretch in
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Speaker 1: the second but that end of the season, that second
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Speaker 1: stretch of the season, when we are facing teams in
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Speaker 1: the North especially, there's a lot of challenges. It certainly
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Speaker 1: have passed the tests so far, but I feel like
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Speaker 1: week nine is the right time. I'm ready for like
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Speaker 1: a little break, And you know, I guess first off,
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Speaker 1: I feel like, just yes, we can talk about the
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Speaker 1: last few weeks, but if we go into week nine,
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Speaker 1: I do feel like it's now appropriate to look at
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Speaker 1: the AFC nor and when you see obviously worse sitting
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Speaker 1: six and two, the Ravens are sitting five and three,
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Speaker 1: Bengals three and five, Browns two and six, so you know,
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Speaker 1: technically all of those teams have not played a game
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Speaker 1: lesser a game more like the NFC or for example, Dave.
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Speaker 1: But if you look at the Ravens, the Ravens have
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Speaker 1: got a really tough one this week. They've got the
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Speaker 1: Broncos coming into the time who were really hot. But
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Speaker 1: then also it's actually came out just as we've started recording.
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Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson is not doing great this week. He's actually
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Speaker 1: missing practice for the Ravens. So while we have that
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Speaker 1: week off, we do have, you know, a lot of
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Speaker 1: football to watch this weekend. We know the situation of
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Speaker 1: Cincinnati's in and the situation that Cleveland's been in for
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Speaker 1: weeks now, if not the whole season. But it's one
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Speaker 1: thing to sit here and say, well, look, you can
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Speaker 1: only focus on yourself, but we have to play these teams.
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Speaker 1: But at the same time, if you are starting to
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Speaker 1: open up a gap, it does give insurance. As much
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Speaker 1: as we're as much as we want to be looking
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Speaker 1: at that number one seed or whatever as possible, you
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Speaker 1: start to look at the North and thing to yourself,
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Speaker 1: we can get down this stretching three or four weeks
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Speaker 1: time and still be in this position. The North is
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Speaker 1: obviously to this cussion point, but you start the wonder
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Speaker 1: was after that? I feel like you know, first day
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Speaker 1: in terms of the division day, We're in a good spot.
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Speaker 3: Here absolutely, I mean to find ourselves top of the North,
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Speaker 3: you know, I know I called it a couple of
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Speaker 3: weeks ago with the most difficult division, the NFC North
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Speaker 3: has probably pepped us because the Cleveland Browns really fell
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Speaker 3: off a cliff. I did not expect them to have
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Speaker 3: as battle of the season of as they've been having.
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Speaker 3: And the Bengals as well. I mean that everybody had
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Speaker 3: the Bengals, you know, competing for the Super Bowl this year,
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Speaker 3: and they've been absolutely terrible.
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Speaker 2: Got blew out of the Eagles last weekend.
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Speaker 3: So there's been a lot of good things happening if
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Speaker 3: you're a Steelers on I mean the Ravens as well.
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Speaker 2: The Ravens are getting a lot of plauts in the media.
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Speaker 3: You know, everybody seems to think that the team they
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Speaker 3: are going to be, the team that's going to stop
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Speaker 3: at Pat Mahomes and the Chiefs. But they haven't lived up.
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Speaker 3: But you know, look at some of their losses as well.
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Speaker 3: They've lost to the Raiders. Of course, they lost to
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Speaker 3: the Browns last weekend, and of course the fact with
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Speaker 3: Lamar Jackson's the way his style of play, it's gonna
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Speaker 3: he's going to he's gonna take a lot of knocks,
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Speaker 3: and you know, the injury starts is up for grabs.
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Speaker 2: As you've just mentioned, there so to be a Steelers fan.
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Speaker 2: Six and two.
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Speaker 3: We're just quietly going about our business heading into this
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Speaker 3: Bay weekend. I liked what Russell Wilson said at at
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Speaker 3: the Pro postgame podium last weekend where he mentioned, we've
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Speaker 3: won absolutely nothing yet, We've done nothing because we've beaten
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Speaker 3: two Let's be honest, make two.
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Speaker 2: Teams that.
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Speaker 3: Both New York teams. They're not great. They're not good teams.
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Speaker 3: I mean, as far as we've said, we've seen the Jets.
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Speaker 3: Of course we're up there at the start of seasons.
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Speaker 3: Of course they have Aaron Rodgers. The Giants are struggling
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Speaker 3: with injuries themselves, but at the same time, they're not
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Speaker 3: good teams. So I'm happy to hear that we're not
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Speaker 3: getting ahead of ourselves. We're sitting at six and two,
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Speaker 3: top of the division. I'm really happy with where we're
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Speaker 3: out at the moment. And you know we've got this
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Speaker 3: AFC gunlet coming up at the second half of the season.
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Speaker 3: It's probably going to be a lot easier than we
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Speaker 3: first contest hitted the main people who were considering ourselves
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Speaker 3: to be finishing bottom of this division, and look at
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Speaker 3: us now here. So we've done with everything we can
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Speaker 3: so far, so let's rest up, get the injuries out
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Speaker 3: of the way. Of course, we have been struggling with
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Speaker 3: injuries this year. This bye week gives us a chance
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Speaker 3: to sit back, relax and let those wounds of injuries
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Speaker 3: and we'll get back to it next weekend.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, once we actually get back in from the bye
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Speaker 1: week after this week, Commanders Week ten, Ravens Week eleven,
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Speaker 1: the Browns, the Bengals, and the Browns take us through
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Speaker 1: the week fourteen and then a really difficult stretch Eagles, Ravens, Chiefs,
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Speaker 1: and the Bengals to close out the season. So a
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Speaker 1: really important segment of that season coming up in a
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Speaker 1: few weeks time, and we'll talk about that Commander's team
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Speaker 1: on next week's podcast when we get pass it by ourselves.
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Speaker 1: But look for a neutral. For anyone listening to this
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Speaker 1: is maybe not a Staters fan, first off, you should
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Speaker 1: be a Staters fan. But secondly, for a neutral, all
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Speaker 1: of those games licked the lips territory on the front.
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Speaker 1: I guess for a lot of us stavog When you
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Speaker 1: see games be put on to certain TV channels like
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Speaker 1: for example, Sky Sports in Ireland in the UK, you
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Speaker 1: would expect to see a lot of those games. I'm
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Speaker 1: already looking at that game against the Commander's a game
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Speaker 1: we'll not know to that week what happens, all waiting
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Speaker 1: to see. The NFL has to announce twelve a maximum
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Speaker 1: of twelve days before kickoff if they want to flex
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Speaker 1: a game. That Ravens game seems like one that could
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Speaker 1: really be flexed. And it's just me talking as a fan.
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Speaker 1: We don't know yet, and of course that'll be communicated
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Speaker 1: through football operations. So some really really key games coming up.
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Speaker 1: We are going to hear from Danny Smith in this
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Speaker 1: podcast in a little minute, but before we do so
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Speaker 1: that if you had to pick one game this season
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Speaker 1: so far that you've enjoyed, what would it be. And
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Speaker 1: just before we do that, like you said, you mentioned
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Speaker 1: a second ago about the New York teams. Look, I
6:34
Speaker 1: agree with you, but what I would say is you
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Speaker 1: can only really beat what's in front of it in
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Speaker 1: this sense of Look, this is the schedule, and if
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Speaker 1: you were giving, like if you offer me six and two,
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Speaker 1: I know you would have been someone's handoff as well.
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Speaker 1: So I agree. It'll be interesting because we're actually recording
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Speaker 1: this on Halloween evening, so happy Halloween to everybody this weekend.
6:54
Speaker 1: Spooky season over here. Actually the podcast record started late
6:59
Speaker 1: because I've trigger traders knocking on my door, so that's
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Speaker 1: not but it'll be interesting to see. Obviously, the Jets
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Speaker 1: played first and night football this week as well, and
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Speaker 1: that's important because they're going to have some games against
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Speaker 1: AFC North of Talent coming over the next few weeks.
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Speaker 1: But yeah, you certainly expect someone of those teams to
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Speaker 1: play better over the next few weeks. I think the
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Speaker 1: biggest thing for me over the first eight weeks this
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Speaker 1: season that August being that consistency, ironically when we will
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Speaker 1: talk about the quarterbacks once we hear from coach Smith,
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Speaker 1: but just when there's been so much change, and the
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Speaker 1: biggest one for me, I guess in a negative way,
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Speaker 1: was probably that one in Dublin when we watched the
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Speaker 1: cold schame, and that's not being negative about like that.
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Speaker 1: That weekend was absolutely sensational, But you know, I think
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Speaker 1: a lot of us looked at that cold schame at
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Speaker 1: that time four weeks in and thought to ourselves, we've
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Speaker 1: got a good chance here of winning this game, especially
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Speaker 1: when we were coming in we were paying Oh. And
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Speaker 1: the thing is like, there was mistakes me in that game,
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Speaker 1: but in the end of it, we weren't that far off.
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Speaker 1: Of the week after that that that Cowboys game was
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Speaker 1: very difficult and the ends of it was very very
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Speaker 1: hard to take. And the thing that really got me
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Speaker 1: going as a fan was to see how this team
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Speaker 1: picked itself up afterwards, getting three key wins, going to
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Speaker 1: Las Vegas, which is now a presumptive Pittsburgh home game
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Speaker 1: against the Raiders with all the fans in the crowd,
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Speaker 1: and then getting that win in front of you and
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Speaker 1: Jimmy in that Jets game in prime time, and then
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Speaker 1: getting that win on Monday Night football, you know, getting
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Speaker 1: that experience of being under the lights, getting that experience
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Speaker 1: of the whole country, the whole world watching you. I've
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Speaker 1: been really impressed. Probably the biggest standout won for me
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Speaker 1: was that Raiders one, just for getting over the hump,
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Speaker 1: getting back into running west. Because you know, this weekend
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Speaker 1: when we're talking about teams like the Minnesota Vikings, who
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Speaker 1: got Sunday Night football coming up this week against the Colts.
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Speaker 1: Everyone said, well, they've lost two in the bounds. How
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Speaker 1: they're gonna regroup from that? And it's just funny because
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Speaker 1: every week something changes, and every week there's always a
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Speaker 1: different storyline, and you always start to wonder, well, it
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Speaker 1: could this be the week that they started the falter.
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Speaker 1: That has not been the case for the staters. Which
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Speaker 1: scheme is to like for you over the last few weeks.
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Speaker 2: Well, it's going to be no surprise which game I'm
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Speaker 2: gonna choose.
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Speaker 4: Me.
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Speaker 2: The Jets game for me.
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Speaker 3: Was not only because it was there, even watching the highlights,
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Speaker 3: I was just really impressed with the fact that was
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Speaker 3: Russell Wilson's first start and we've seen an absolute immediate
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Speaker 3: upgrade in offensive productivity. Of course, we had the one
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Speaker 3: hundred I think the one hundred yard rush game for
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Speaker 3: Nage was back against the Raiders. We've now had three
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Speaker 3: weeks in a row where he's rushed for one hundred
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Speaker 3: yards and now all of a sudden he's a different animal.
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Speaker 3: But for me, it has to be that Jets game,
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Speaker 3: how we run the ball. We came out of the
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Speaker 3: Of course we came out of the block slow, but
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Speaker 3: how we ad just ad Midland games second half adjustments
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Speaker 3: to come back and blow the Jets out of the
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Speaker 3: water was outsanding. That's probably my standout game, the game
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Speaker 3: that I did let me down. It has to be
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Speaker 3: the Coats. I mean, if you look at where they're
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Speaker 3: at now, they've just bunced out to me Richardson, who
9:53
Speaker 3: I did?
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Speaker 2: I you know, not to stick my.
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Speaker 3: Knife in here, but I just didn't really see much
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Speaker 3: from him in his first season. Of course he was
10:02
Speaker 3: injury plagued, and then Joe Flacco comes in and out
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Speaker 3: shines them. So that was for me with maybe the
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Speaker 3: disappointment game, but for me just how we were able
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Speaker 3: to bounce back with now won three on the trot
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Speaker 3: and Russell Wilson has completely reinvigorated this offense. I mean
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Speaker 3: it really really cannot be understrated MC the impact he's.
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Speaker 2: Had on this offense. It's been just a phase of coase.
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Speaker 3: He's still young, he's still learning, He's only going to
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Speaker 3: get better, but I feel this offense needed maybe a
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Speaker 3: vatter in presence, and that's exactly what he's brought in.
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Speaker 3: So we've also you know, we've seen a more aggressive
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Speaker 3: player colling style, whether Arthur Fromthfield's at Russ. You know,
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Speaker 3: he has the ability to loosen the change he trusts
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Speaker 3: him to make, you know, different plays, the line of scrimmage.
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Speaker 3: Whatever has happened is completely reinvigorated and then yeah, we
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Speaker 3: know what the defense brings. So for me, so far,
10:49
Speaker 3: there's no complaints. I mean, we've had them sort of
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Speaker 3: slots with with the Cowboys, the loss and you know,
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Speaker 3: the coach loss, but how we've bounced back is just
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Speaker 3: a man in my opinion. I didn't say at the
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Speaker 3: start of season, but because I didn't want to, but
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Speaker 3: I believe we are genuine ship rugal banners with this offense.
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Speaker 1: You're really perking everybody up. For the next part of
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Speaker 1: this podcast, we're gonna hear from the special teams coordinator
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Speaker 1: this week. Usually hear from coach Tomlin, but we're gonna
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Speaker 1: actually give Coach Smith a bit of the limelight this week.
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Speaker 1: He's really been getting everybody fired up on the sideline,
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Speaker 1: which you just love to see. Last year from him
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Speaker 1: before we didn't talk a little bit more about that
11:21
Speaker 1: quarterback situation and our hopes for the next few weeks
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Speaker 1: on the Irish Theaters podcast.
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Speaker 4: They should have happened sooner, but we've been working all
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Speaker 4: edit and so has he. And like I say, I
11:34
Speaker 4: don't live by that close in this league because everything
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Speaker 4: is closing the NFL, he will people say you're close.
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Speaker 4: Everybody's close. But it was good to see he's a
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Speaker 4: good player and he's really developed as a returner, and
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Speaker 4: I'm happy for him and happy for the players. Man,
11:48
Speaker 4: they did a good job on our play Corlos. We
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Speaker 4: wanted the decision to bring him back when you had
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Speaker 4: the jury that can and up woulds have been for you.
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Speaker 4: Bet there's a familiarity, you know, with people you've had before,
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Speaker 4: not that that's a determinate fire, but there's a familiarity
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Speaker 4: and and obviously in our situation with the kicker that
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Speaker 4: we have.
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Speaker 2: The hole is very important.
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Speaker 4: And uh, I believe we could teach a holder. You know,
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Speaker 4: we've done that over the time, and we've had some
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Speaker 4: guys that have some raps against them that have been
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Speaker 4: they're not good holders. And now we know how to
12:15
Speaker 4: develop a holder, and we had developed him before and
12:19
Speaker 4: everybody was comfortable comfortable with that.
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Speaker 2: So that's how I got invited back.
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Speaker 4: To be honest with you, he's uh, he's a real
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Speaker 4: pro and uh he won that competition when we had
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Speaker 4: all those punters in. The punter we played the other
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Speaker 4: night was one of those guys we had in. And
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Speaker 4: he's putting good, he really is. He's fighting pretty good.
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Speaker 4: He's putting better than he did in his workout. But uh,
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Speaker 4: Calvin won that workout. You know what, those punters and
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Speaker 4: the familiarity put us some little over the edge to
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Speaker 4: go make a decision to go with him.
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Speaker 2: With you, we're some of the younger guys that I
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Speaker 2: stepped up in the detailed to partment as far as
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Speaker 2: the teams and just the day to day simeon.
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Speaker 4: You know. Uh. And I don't like to use names,
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Speaker 4: and not that I'm hiding anything, but I forget somebody
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Speaker 4: and then then that guy's in my office, like why
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Speaker 4: do you mention me? Why do you do this? So
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Speaker 4: I try to stay away from the names of people
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Speaker 4: who are developing, people that are playing good, because God forbid,
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Speaker 4: you always miss one and you don't think that's important.
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Speaker 4: Of those guys and they're in my office and I
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Speaker 4: ain't got time to justify why I miss your name.
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Speaker 4: We have a good young set of guys that have
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Speaker 4: UH that have come off practice squad, that have been
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Speaker 4: here with us and just been inactive. And it's a
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Speaker 4: good solid group. UH. We're demanding UH and UH and
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Speaker 4: and I evaluate practice squad players in practice. I take
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Speaker 4: time to meet with them, UH and I review tape
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Speaker 4: with them.
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Speaker 1: UH.
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Speaker 4: There's an expectation and they have done a good job
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Speaker 4: of showing what we're gonna see on Sunday UH endgame.
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Speaker 4: You know, my job is to break all that down
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Speaker 4: and my job as a teacher to them draw cards,
13:56
Speaker 4: do those things. So it's a process, it really is.
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Speaker 4: And that's been very transitional, and it always is on
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Speaker 4: all the teams. But that group has been a good group.
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Speaker 4: There's nobody that really stands out that's better. There's nobody
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Speaker 4: stand at that's a weak link. I commend our practice
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Speaker 4: squad for setting up what we do in game, and
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Speaker 4: I'm just demanding on them as well. They're just not
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Speaker 4: here because they're not playing on Sunday. I believe that
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Speaker 4: they're the preparers for Sunday's performance, and I give them
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Speaker 4: credit for that. They've done a good job.
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Speaker 1: Great to hear from coach Smith on the Irish Theaters podcast.
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Speaker 1: Michael Look, we had joined by Doabo McKee now Jimmy
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Speaker 1: this week, big shout out to GM's Dog who's listening
14:44
Speaker 1: to this podcast. Don't know why I call them GM's
14:46
Speaker 1: Dog is gonna kill me? Night on What's Top that
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Speaker 1: are on for that? Rolling all on the Irish Theaters
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Speaker 1: podcast going onto the bye week and I guess first off,
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Speaker 1: just a massive thanks to everybody that's listened to this
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Speaker 1: podcast interacted the Sears Ireland on social media in the
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Speaker 1: second year of the Seaters that are global Marcus Strategy
15:01
Speaker 1: in Ireland and across the whole island of Ireland, which
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Speaker 1: is fantastic to see. David, Let's sort of go back
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Speaker 1: on a little thing which we talked about there a
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Speaker 1: few moments ago. You were talking about the implementation of
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Speaker 1: Russell Wilson into this offense and it is something where
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Speaker 1: I think it's very very important to talk about because
15:17
Speaker 1: you're looking at a team that was frankly not doing
15:19
Speaker 1: that bad record wise when Justin Fields was under center.
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Speaker 1: That takes guts to put in Russell Wilson, especially in
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Speaker 1: this situation that Justin Fields was in the leadership that
15:33
Speaker 1: he was starting to develop in jailer, and I know
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Speaker 1: that Russell Wilson was not fully fit and he was
15:38
Speaker 1: injured and he was trying to get back, and I
15:40
Speaker 1: fully understand that he was, you know, such an important
15:43
Speaker 1: piece and continues to be such such an important piece
15:46
Speaker 1: of the Jake saw in that locker room. But I
15:49
Speaker 1: still think it was very, very ballsy at the time.
15:55
Speaker 1: It's funny becau Jimmy mentioned is the hour day. At
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Speaker 1: the time, I think to myself privately, I thought, is
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Speaker 1: this the right decision? And I think coach Tomland and
16:04
Speaker 1: the guys have really showed everyone that it is like
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Speaker 1: to see a guy that we know how he played
16:09
Speaker 1: in Seattle, but we also know how he struggled in
16:12
Speaker 1: Denver across two seasons, and he's been given that opportunity
16:15
Speaker 1: took him back in on the deal that he's currently in.
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Speaker 1: He's embraced this team, he's embraced this city. But also
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Speaker 1: I like to hope and think dvog as we get
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Speaker 1: closer to this trade deadline, that guys like Justin Fields
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Speaker 1: will be allowed to stay to learn to see exactly
16:32
Speaker 1: how he can develop. And I certainly don't believe that
16:36
Speaker 1: for a minute. And like that's going to be traded.
16:38
Speaker 1: And this is just our opinions. They do not wreck,
16:40
Speaker 1: they do not reflect the team. But I just hope
16:43
Speaker 1: that Fields is given the time to develop because I've
16:46
Speaker 1: been really impressive over the last few weeks especially, But
16:49
Speaker 1: what a call from Tomlin and so far eight games
16:52
Speaker 1: in Davog it's working.
16:54
Speaker 3: Wonders absolutely megel just on Justin Fields. I mean, I
16:59
Speaker 3: think he did match it in either last week's podcast
17:02
Speaker 3: of the week before. He's handled this situation as professionally
17:06
Speaker 3: as he possibly can. I mean to what he said,
17:08
Speaker 3: he admitted himself even though for example, he was sitting
17:11
Speaker 3: at four and two, he admitted himself, I'm not playing
17:14
Speaker 3: well enough. And this is why this decision has been
17:16
Speaker 3: taking place.
17:16
Speaker 2: For me.
17:17
Speaker 3: That shows the character of Justin I mean, he is
17:19
Speaker 3: willing to sit back learn from a quarterback that's won
17:23
Speaker 3: the Super Bowl. By the way, I mean, people do
17:24
Speaker 3: seem to forget that. I mean, he's a super Bowl
17:26
Speaker 3: winning quarterback. The way he's handled this move has been
17:30
Speaker 3: completely It's been fantastic for us and it's only gonna
17:32
Speaker 3: help the team. It just goes to show you that
17:34
Speaker 3: the guys in the locker room really like Justin. I mean,
17:37
Speaker 3: there's been no noise, there's been no sort of controversy
17:41
Speaker 3: coming out. They all love him and that's great to see.
17:43
Speaker 3: So just props to Justin for how he's handled it.
17:46
Speaker 3: And of course he's still young, he's gonna learn, he's
17:48
Speaker 3: gonna you know, he's proved that he is an NFL
17:50
Speaker 3: starting quarterback. You know, there's absolutely no doubt about that.
17:53
Speaker 3: But it just I think it just goes to show.
17:55
Speaker 3: As coach Tomlin mangined, it's why we pay him the
17:58
Speaker 3: big box. He's there to make the decisions, and he
18:01
Speaker 3: made that decision. And let's be honest here, there was
18:03
Speaker 3: probably two people in Pittsburgh that's fought that Russell Wilson
18:07
Speaker 3: was going to be able to go in and make
18:09
Speaker 3: this big of an impact. The first person, of course,
18:11
Speaker 3: is Russell Wilson. The second person is coach Tomlin, and
18:14
Speaker 3: that's exactly why they get paied the big box. So
18:16
Speaker 3: I've been really impressed with how the whole situation has
18:19
Speaker 3: been handled. But it's not really surprised because the Pittsburgh
18:21
Speaker 3: Stailers are team and.
18:23
Speaker 2: An organization that don't make noise.
18:25
Speaker 3: And the reason we don't make noises because we know
18:27
Speaker 3: how to win and that's exactly what we've done and
18:29
Speaker 3: going forward, we're a team at the end of the day, Russell,
18:32
Speaker 3: we've seen the images as well on the sideline, Russell
18:34
Speaker 3: Wilson and Justin Vags laughing together.
18:36
Speaker 2: We're a team and that's how we're going to continue
18:38
Speaker 2: going on. So I'm absolutely buzzom with how it's worked
18:41
Speaker 2: out and hopefully continues.
18:43
Speaker 1: Just with that, trade deadline is four p sorry nine
18:47
Speaker 1: pm Ireland UK time deadline next Tuesday. Who knows what
18:51
Speaker 1: we're going to see and like, look, even if there's
18:55
Speaker 1: been no activity over the next few days, it's still
18:57
Speaker 1: a very very promising time for this team. I guess
19:00
Speaker 1: the biggest question, just to wrap this little mini bye
19:02
Speaker 1: week shot up, Dovog, is our expectations for this team.
19:07
Speaker 1: Like the reality is at the time of recording, I
19:09
Speaker 1: know this changes come Sunday, but at the time we're recording,
19:13
Speaker 1: they're a game, they're well, the Chiefs are seven and
19:16
Speaker 1: though there are a couple of games out from leading
19:18
Speaker 1: the AFC, and you know you're looking at a situation
19:21
Speaker 1: where the Chiefs are coming into Acrosur Stadium on Christmas Day,
19:25
Speaker 1: in a bumper game. There's a lot of FC North talking,
19:28
Speaker 1: a lot of FC North games coming up. We know that,
19:31
Speaker 1: like even Joe Burrow himself has said that they have
19:33
Speaker 1: to win out now or win seven and nine to
19:35
Speaker 1: get to the playoffs. And I actually have to I
19:37
Speaker 1: have to be fair to the Bengals, David. Some tough
19:40
Speaker 1: matchups to start this season. It'll be interesting to see
19:42
Speaker 1: how they do bounce back from that. So you know,
19:46
Speaker 1: I guess my question to you is, and I'll give
19:50
Speaker 1: my thoughts as well, what now six and two at
19:53
Speaker 1: the buy constitutes this season that we expect from this team,
19:58
Speaker 1: because for me, I'm starting to think, you know, if
20:02
Speaker 1: you win the North, but maybe you don't get in
20:04
Speaker 1: the top two in the AFC, depending on however teams do.
20:07
Speaker 1: And again not for all we know, if Kansas City
20:11
Speaker 1: hypathodically were to go on beating or to lose one
20:13
Speaker 1: or two games, I can see a situation where Pittsburgh
20:17
Speaker 1: or the number two or number three steed. But even
20:19
Speaker 1: if they were the number three seed, you would expect
20:24
Speaker 1: Divisionals last championship game run. I'm not going to sit
20:27
Speaker 1: here because I think it will be unfair to the
20:29
Speaker 1: players and the team to say I believe this team
20:33
Speaker 1: will win this Bowl. I don't. Nobody knows, nobody can
20:36
Speaker 1: tell the future. There's so many hot shot teams in
20:38
Speaker 1: this league. In the NFC, you're seeing how good the
20:41
Speaker 1: Lions are. There's so much talent across so many different teams.
20:44
Speaker 1: I guess all we want is to be able to
20:46
Speaker 1: have a situation in January where we're challenging and who
20:49
Speaker 1: Knowstvogg maybe we could all be down in Dublin or
20:52
Speaker 1: somewhere together watching the game in January, which really really
20:55
Speaker 1: means something and could get to a certain level. What's
20:59
Speaker 1: your expectation for this team?
21:00
Speaker 4: Though?
21:02
Speaker 3: It is difficult that we always said the words calm
21:05
Speaker 3: the Jets, which basically means that every every time something
21:08
Speaker 3: good happens, you have to sort of set back and
21:10
Speaker 3: you know, take a breather. It's difficult to do that
21:12
Speaker 3: now because we're coming off such a really impressive, you know,
21:16
Speaker 3: stretch of games where we've showed a lot of you know, potential.
21:19
Speaker 3: And I'm agree, I'm an agree with you. I'm not
21:21
Speaker 3: going to sit here and say, oh, we're going to
21:23
Speaker 3: win the Super Bowl. I mean, it's just not that easy.
21:25
Speaker 3: We've got so many good teams in the way, the Chiefs,
21:28
Speaker 3: the Lions, the Taxans. There's so many teams that can
21:31
Speaker 3: win the Super Bowl. So I'm in agreement with you.
21:35
Speaker 3: I believe if we get to January and we're in
21:37
Speaker 3: playoff contention, I think we're going to be a team
21:39
Speaker 3: to fair. I mean, there's absolutely no doubt about that.
21:41
Speaker 3: There's going to be nobody looking down their noses at us.
21:45
Speaker 3: But it is difficult, of course, because we're we're an
21:48
Speaker 3: organization that we've won six Super Bowls. It's difficult for
21:50
Speaker 3: us to turn around and say and I think a
21:52
Speaker 3: borshiper Bowl of success.
21:53
Speaker 2: But for me, yeah, I'm just going to enjoy the ride.
21:56
Speaker 2: While I can't.
21:57
Speaker 3: I mean, because we still have a long way to go,
21:59
Speaker 3: we have them more difficult side of our schedule to come.
22:02
Speaker 3: It's important that we do sit back and just look
22:04
Speaker 3: at our schedule at the moment and say, look, there's
22:06
Speaker 3: gonna be some losses in there. It just happens the NFL.
22:09
Speaker 3: It's difficult to say, you know, we're gonna win every game.
22:11
Speaker 3: But just the way that the past couple of weeks
22:14
Speaker 3: have worked out, you know, the offense of efficiency you know,
22:17
Speaker 3: not only but but i'd just like watch in the
22:19
Speaker 3: past two weeks and I've seen a different dynamic to
22:21
Speaker 3: the offense. You know, those deep ball can action with
22:23
Speaker 3: George Pickins. We've seen some more of explosive floss plays.
22:27
Speaker 3: The fact that that we're now seeing that and obviously
22:29
Speaker 3: with our defense going forward as well, it's going to
22:31
Speaker 3: be hard to stop us. So I'm in a bit,
22:33
Speaker 3: I'm in sort of you know, in agreement with you.
22:35
Speaker 3: You know, it's difficult to sit here and say we're
22:36
Speaker 3: gonna win the Super Bowl, But for me, a postseason
22:39
Speaker 3: berth is all we can expect now.
22:41
Speaker 2: And you know, we're gonna take each game week by week.
22:43
Speaker 3: Who knows that that Christmas Day game that could be
22:46
Speaker 3: the first al for the Chiefs. I would love to
22:48
Speaker 3: see it, but again, yeah, take it week by week,
22:51
Speaker 3: get to the playoffs, and then we'll obviously sit back
22:53
Speaker 3: and we'll we'll we'll sort of renew what our expectations
22:56
Speaker 3: can be, if you like.
22:58
Speaker 1: Super Bowl is in New Orleans this year. And it's
23:01
Speaker 1: funny because as we wrap up this podcast, we have
23:04
Speaker 1: barely mentioned if Anah in this defense. So it just
23:07
Speaker 1: shows you how much time can change, and I feel
23:10
Speaker 1: like I landed in the stag. I feel like, if
23:14
Speaker 1: this is not a year where super Bowls won, you
23:17
Speaker 1: want to see progress and you want to see that
23:19
Speaker 1: thought to yourself, Well it wasn't this year, cann of
23:22
Speaker 1: be next year. And I feel like we're getting in
23:24
Speaker 1: that place now, which is really good. So please go.
23:27
Speaker 1: All that continues thanks to yourself, thanks to Jimmy forevering
23:30
Speaker 1: over the last few weeks. It's look enjoy yourself this weekend.
23:34
Speaker 1: Everyone listening, folks, enjoy the bye week. Rest up, because
23:37
Speaker 1: we've got one hell of a schedule coming up over
23:40
Speaker 1: the next few weeks. We will tat to you soon.
23:42
Speaker 1: Have a great bye week.
23:43
Speaker 2: Here we go, Here we go. One