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Focus on Cleveland · The Irish Steelers Podcast

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Speaker 1: Everybody, Welcome into the Irish Studios podcast, the podcast for
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Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Steeters fans across the island of Ireland. And as
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Speaker 1: we get ready for another weekend, the storm is brewing
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Speaker 1: across the island. We hope you cozy up and listen
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Speaker 1: to this podcast as we get set for a big
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Speaker 1: Week fourteen matchup. Michael McCray is likely be joined with
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Speaker 1: Jimmy English Dave og ni Key as we get set Jimmy,
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Speaker 1: another week of studiers football and we have to embrace
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Speaker 1: this because eventually this is going to end for hopefully
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Speaker 1: only six or seven months after a Super Bowl win,
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Speaker 1: but before we know it will all be over. So
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Speaker 1: we have to embrace these long, dark Sunday weekends now
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Speaker 1: Sunday night.
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Speaker 2: Sorry, yeah, it's it's getting towards the It's December football
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Speaker 2: make it's the best time of the year for NFL fans.
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Speaker 2: Christmas is coming down the line as well in a
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Speaker 2: few short weeks. And this is what we live for,
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Speaker 2: isn't it is? Football? The dark evenings, sitting in there
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Speaker 2: on a Sunday, your favorite team play like it's great.
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Speaker 2: I love it so long long may continue. I know
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Speaker 2: we have a limited amount of NFL Sundays left, so
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Speaker 2: let's just savor each and every one of them and
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Speaker 2: hopefully our steeers will be still alive come January. I'm
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Speaker 2: playing postseason football.
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Speaker 1: We are going to talk over that Browns game and
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Speaker 1: the bet that game is on NFL Game Pass on
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Speaker 1: the Zone this weekend. Dave, it's great to see Hiding
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Speaker 1: doing well. Mckyeah, I'm still having fully recovered from Sunday.
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Speaker 1: You know, the hard poblititions brought right down to the line.
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Speaker 1: But I'm honestly I've been looking the left ever since.
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Speaker 1: That's a Blizzard game against the Brons to get the rans.
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Speaker 1: So yeah, I'm pretty much the same as Jimmy. I'm
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Speaker 1: counting down.
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Speaker 3: You know, it's not never a nice time of the
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Speaker 3: year to do when you're counting down the weekend us
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Speaker 3: till the end of the season, and because it's a
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Speaker 3: bit of a better sweet thing knowing that there's only
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Speaker 3: a few weeks left. But yeah, I'm really excited of
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Speaker 3: where we're out of the moment, and yeah, long may contending.
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Speaker 3: We just need to watch or we just just sort
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Speaker 3: of take everything in straight in the next couple of
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Speaker 3: weeks and hope well, we'll be watching playoff football sooner
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Speaker 3: rather than ter So yeah, I'm happy where we're at
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Speaker 3: at the moment.
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Speaker 1: We're going to talk about the game in just a
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Speaker 1: few moments, but I want to talk about something very
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Speaker 1: quickly with yourself, do because we both had a look
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Speaker 1: at it. The Hard Knocks in season for the FC
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Speaker 1: North dropped earlier this week and we had a chance
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Speaker 1: to watch it and all of this sudden You're watch
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Speaker 1: list at the weekend. Jimmy as well, It's I thought
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Speaker 1: it really interesting, man, But more so I think we
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Speaker 1: know already. I mean, for me, we know already how
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Speaker 1: much crack coach Tomlin is. But to see him in
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Speaker 1: that viewpoint, if you feel like you'd love to see
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Speaker 1: him or you'd love to actually be in a training
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Speaker 1: sashion and see what he's like like that, I think
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Speaker 1: the one decided for me.
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Speaker 4: And it shows you what sort of a money is
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Speaker 4: in a positive way.
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Speaker 1: The Thanksgiving moment, like so many of these guys don't
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Speaker 1: have family with them. Some of these guys are from
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Speaker 1: not just across the world, but across the country, and
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Speaker 1: for him to bring that in shows the camaraderie, shows
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Speaker 1: of relationship that he has as not just with the
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Speaker 1: players in this team, but everybody in this franchise, and
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Speaker 1: I think that can't be underestimated. But more soon for
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Speaker 1: me as well. It showed just how much of a
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Speaker 1: competitive division is AFC or FIS and also this league
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Speaker 1: never sleeps. What did you think of the first episode?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, not to be playing too much spoiler on Jimmy,
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Speaker 3: to be fair, I don't want to spoil too much
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Speaker 3: on you, but to be honest, yeah, it was amazing
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Speaker 3: to get them to see first hand what sort of
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Speaker 3: preparation goes in the game week.
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Speaker 5: You know.
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Speaker 3: Of course, me and myself and Jimmy got to visit
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Speaker 3: the facilities back in October and they're not in the
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Speaker 3: short of sublime. But if there was one thing I
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Speaker 3: took from the episode, it was clear us to me
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Speaker 3: as to why Mike Tomlin has never had a losing season.
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Speaker 3: You know, the levels of preparation and that constant reminder
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Speaker 3: that the standard is a standard. You know, it's no
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Speaker 3: wonder players like Nick Kurbik, Charm Hayward, players that were
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Speaker 3: prominent figures throughout the episode, want to run through the
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Speaker 3: breack wall for him and the levels of trust he
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Speaker 3: put in the neck, you know, to make that play
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Speaker 3: in Burrows. You know, he challenged him to take on
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Speaker 3: around O Brown what he did, and and you know
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Speaker 3: he wasn't a base because he had that belief in
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Speaker 3: him to go out and make that play. So for me,
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Speaker 3: that really stood out. And I watched the other three
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Speaker 3: coaches as well, and it's safe to say, you know,
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Speaker 3: neither of them can help leglovn ar game when it
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Speaker 3: comes to that pure charisma but ability to motivate players,
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Speaker 3: and it really just awakens the fact that you know,
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Speaker 3: we're extremely lucky to have them. So overall, I did
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Speaker 3: enjoy the episode. You mentioned about the Thanksgiving as well.
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Speaker 3: He was putting his hand up saying, you know, whoever
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Speaker 3: wants to have Thanksgiving of man, you're welcome. But overall
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Speaker 3: enjoyed the absolute expectasty, you know, the same level of
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Speaker 3: preparation next week after we hopefully take revenge on the Brown.
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Speaker 3: So yeah, very happy and yeah, I'll leave that at that.
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Speaker 3: So let Jimmy enjoy the episode over the weekend. When
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Speaker 3: he gets a bit of time, he startled.
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Speaker 2: Well, Now for me, David, I'm looking forward to getting
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Speaker 2: a spare half an hour, forty five minutes hopefully over
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Speaker 2: the weekend at some stage. I'm going to Wild Lights
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Speaker 2: in Dublin Zoo tomorrow tomorrow evening or sorry, Saturday, Saturday evening,
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Speaker 2: So busy weekend ahead with football as well, and I'm
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Speaker 2: sure I'll be able to squeeze in at some stage.
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Speaker 1: Obviously a very busy weekend without there, hopefully get a
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Speaker 1: chance to catch up on it.
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Speaker 4: That's the really bit hard dogs.
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Speaker 1: We can almost go back on it as well at
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Speaker 1: the end of the season if we want to go
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Speaker 1: and watch it there. So it's there, it's it's it's
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Speaker 1: always going to be there, and I love binging it
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Speaker 1: actually when the season ends, because we've we've got such
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Speaker 1: a gap, but we really enjoyed to see coach Thommon
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Speaker 1: and see what he does as well. Steelers obviously playing
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Speaker 1: the Browns this season or this this weekend, sorry lads,
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Speaker 1: a penultimate home game of the season. That game, as
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Speaker 1: he says, is on the NFL game Pass, and a
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Speaker 1: really really key few weeks for this team as we
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Speaker 1: get into the final stretch of the season. This Browns
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Speaker 1: game this week, a massive game against the Eagles next week,
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Speaker 1: which we'd like and hope probably to see on television
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Speaker 1: over here as TBC early next week, and we'll let
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Speaker 1: people know as quickly as we can on the broadcast
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Speaker 1: or on the podcast next week whenever that happens. And
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Speaker 1: then a couple of big games to finish off the
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Speaker 1: Ravens the week before Christmas Saturday Night Half nine fantastic,
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Speaker 1: the Chiefs on Christmas Day, and the Bengals to finish
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Speaker 1: it off. So some massive games coming up on an
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Speaker 1: as see North game coming up this weekend. Before we
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Speaker 1: preview the game, that's here from coach Tomlin, who previews
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Speaker 1: this game against the Brons on the Irish Students podcast.
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Speaker 6: Let's get back to Cleveland. If you saw the game
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Speaker 6: last night, man, you saw what they're capable of. With
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Speaker 6: Dorsey as a play caller and Winston as a quarterback.
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Speaker 6: It was some explosive play making. They went up and
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Speaker 6: down the field. Judy had a big night. And that's
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Speaker 6: what I meant when I described him as a as
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Speaker 6: a gunslinger a couple of weeks ago when we played him. Man,
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Speaker 6: he's got unbelievable arm talent. He was the first pick
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Speaker 6: in the draft and you're not the first pick in
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Speaker 6: the draft for no reason. Man, he's got arm strength,
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Speaker 6: he's got accuracy, he's got trajectory. He can place the
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Speaker 6: ball just about anywhere on the field. He's a big
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Speaker 6: time competitor to boot. He never turns down competition. You know,
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Speaker 6: he's gonna fight to win possession downs and things of
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Speaker 6: that nature.
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Speaker 5: Man.
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Speaker 6: We got to do a really good job of matching
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Speaker 6: that competitive spirit making our plays knowing that there's a
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Speaker 6: potential that you could give some up. Man, when a
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Speaker 6: guy comes at you the way he does and with
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Speaker 6: the with the amount of weaponry that he has at
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Speaker 6: his disposal. I'll talk about some of those weapons. Can't
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Speaker 6: say enough about Nanjoku Man and his growth and development
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Speaker 6: over his time in Cleveland. He's a splash play guy.
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Speaker 6: He's down the field in a lot of ways. He's
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Speaker 6: really good and the underneath rhythm passing to get spot
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Speaker 6: drop zones, and so he's a big play guy and
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Speaker 6: a high volume guy. He does a real nice job
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Speaker 6: in max protection. They balance out the max protection by
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Speaker 6: hitting him on check downs and throwing tight end screens.
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Speaker 6: It's kind of always been a function of their ball
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Speaker 6: since he's been there. We gotta be thoughtful about who
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Speaker 6: we put on them. Uh and and and win. He's
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Speaker 6: a big time red zone threat. He got big in
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Speaker 6: the red zone against US for a two point play.
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Speaker 6: He got big last night in the red zone as well.
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Speaker 6: It shows up consistently, and so it's something to be
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Speaker 6: reckon with his talents and the way that they utilize
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Speaker 6: his talents. Judy is a route runner. They move them
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Speaker 6: around quite a bit to make it difficult for you
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Speaker 6: to match up on them, but they do a really
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Speaker 6: nice job of of, you know, utilizing his skill set.
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Speaker 6: Is not a route that he can't run. He gets
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Speaker 6: in and out of breaks really well. He's capable of
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Speaker 6: going by you in terms of the vertical passing game.
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Speaker 6: He could create space and separation in the non vertical
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Speaker 6: passing game with a short area. Quicks More and the
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Speaker 6: others man round out the group, both of the running backs,
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Speaker 6: and I say both backs, because man, they're utilizing forward
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Speaker 6: equally as much as they are mister Chubb at this juncture,
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Speaker 6: and so we got to respect that component of it
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Speaker 6: as well. Man, We've got a lot of things to
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Speaker 6: get prepared for, but I'm sure they have a similar posture.
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Speaker 6: The familiarity makes it fun and challenging time. I'm excited
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Speaker 6: about getting started with this process man and continuing with
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Speaker 6: our divisional journey. No rest for the weary. I'm excited
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Speaker 6: about getting back to it this week and in the
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Speaker 6: confines and actors.
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Speaker 4: Sure great to hear.
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Speaker 1: From coach Tomlin as we get set for a Week
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Speaker 1: fourteen matchup, a key matchup in the AFC North where
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Speaker 1: the Cleveland Browns visit the Pittsburgh Steeters and Jimmy just
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Speaker 1: to start off, I guess if we look at the Browns,
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Speaker 1: we have to ignore the fact that we have to
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Speaker 1: move on from the fact that what happened a few
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Speaker 1: weeks ago. We know it wasn't good enough by our standards.
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Speaker 1: We know what happened that night with whoever, but we
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Speaker 1: also know that we need to be better against the
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Speaker 1: Browns team that we'll be looking at any AFC North
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Speaker 1: game as a cup final and seeing how they played
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Speaker 1: on Monday night. I know Jameis Winston did struggle to
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Speaker 1: an extent and came against the Denver Broncos, but we
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Speaker 1: know he can get a ball together and throw the
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Speaker 1: ball and when he's on it, he is on it.
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Speaker 1: I can't think of a better situation for both teams
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Speaker 1: to go in like we know that the Steelers team
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Speaker 1: Jimmy had up forty points plus last week, but the
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Speaker 1: Browns will be itching to come out and play here.
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Speaker 1: They'll they'll be looking at this Steelers team saying, well,
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Speaker 1: we beat them too, because we go why can't we
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Speaker 1: beat them on their own house? And that's a real
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Speaker 1: issue to look at this week, and I'm sure that's
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Speaker 1: something that you look at as a Browns team that
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Speaker 1: really wants to show what they work, especially guys like
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Speaker 1: Jerry Judy as well, who'll be itching to get back
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Speaker 1: on the field after going to his former team in
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Speaker 1: Denver on Monday night. Just a key match up, Jimmy,
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Speaker 1: and it feels like that home crowd need to get
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Speaker 1: after that Browns team.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm hoping that we learned from our mistakes in
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Speaker 2: the last game against the Browns big Obviously this is
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Speaker 2: at home, so there'll be a certain advantage there. Hopefully
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Speaker 2: the weather will be slightly more accommodating. Although I keep
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Speaker 2: saying we can't look, there's no argument that the weather
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Speaker 2: does have an effect in the game, and I'm players performance.
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Speaker 2: It didn't seem to affect the Browns as much as
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Speaker 2: it affected us, So I don't think we can really
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Speaker 2: rely on that time this time around. Look, the Browns
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Speaker 2: game was a massive try game. We won't be walking
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Speaker 2: into that same trap again. I think they'll be walking
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Speaker 2: in with their eyes a lot more, a lot more
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Speaker 2: open and this time around, and it's must win. Like
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Speaker 2: you said, the Browns are treating this game like a
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Speaker 2: cup final, like complete the equivalent of their Super Bowl.
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Speaker 2: But every game from for us now, from now until
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Speaker 2: whenever the season does conclude, its must win. You know,
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Speaker 2: we have we had tight victories against the Ravens. It's
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Speaker 2: a tight one against Cincinnati. So we are in a
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Speaker 2: good position in the AFC new work and the AFC overall.
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Speaker 2: But we have to keep the momentum going now and
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Speaker 2: tighten things up, certainly on both offense and defense. Definitely
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Speaker 2: have to tighten up the penalties. That was a major
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Speaker 2: issue last week. And the good news is Alex Heismith
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Speaker 2: is looking like you'll be back on the edge. And
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Speaker 2: let's let's not you know, discount the performance of Nick Krbig.
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Speaker 2: He's been nothing short of sensational. And I know coach
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Speaker 2: Tummlin was coded during the week of saying there's most
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Speaker 2: thing as too many pass rushers and he's absolutely right.
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Speaker 2: I mean, he could have all three of them out
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Speaker 2: there on the field at the same time. It will
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Speaker 2: be absolutely would be absolutely fantastic for us. So I'm
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Speaker 2: a lot more Look, I was confident before the last
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Speaker 2: Brand's game. I was less confident afterwards. I'm a I'm
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Speaker 2: a bit back up now. I'm slightly more confident and
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Speaker 2: still a lot of things there to look at though.
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Speaker 2: I mean, Jerry Judy had a monster game against his
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Speaker 2: former team. Definitely going to have to contain him, which
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Speaker 2: I think our secondary is more than capable of doing.
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Speaker 2: And I would like to see Russell Wilson get a
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Speaker 2: bit more protection from our line against the likes of
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Speaker 2: Miles Garrett and me and Miles Girl had a fantastic
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Speaker 2: outing against us the last time around, So look on
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Speaker 2: the whole, I will be definitely optimistic. But again it's
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Speaker 2: it's it's an asc North match up. You never know
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Speaker 2: what's gonna happen, really, dear.
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Speaker 4: You never know.
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Speaker 1: And you're sort of talking about her big there, and
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Speaker 1: we'll talk to at the top of the Steelers and
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Speaker 1: Louis second day because her biggest force to fumble in
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Speaker 1: Flee Street Division games. That's unreal. See if you make
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Speaker 1: it four in a row this week, just.
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Speaker 4: Looking at the Browns very quickly, Dave as well.
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Speaker 1: We know the situation they've have with Sean Watson, and
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Speaker 1: we know that Jamis Winston. He's not perfect, as he
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Speaker 1: said it himself, and nobody's perfect, and he's praying to
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Speaker 1: get better and better each week.
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Speaker 4: As he says, he can still put one up. And
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Speaker 4: this Brown's offense is.
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Speaker 1: If you take away the fact that they're a major
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Speaker 1: rival and their AFC nor if they're efficient, they're fun
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Speaker 1: to watch the times they can get stuff done. I
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Speaker 1: remember last year whenever Joe Flackol came in towards the end,
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Speaker 1: he was he really added at that team. And you
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Speaker 1: can see as something that Jameis Winston has done. We
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Speaker 1: need to worry about this. You know, they can definitely
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Speaker 1: make the mark on it on their debt.
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Speaker 3: No, you're you're just right, MC. Jameis Winston. You mentioned
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Speaker 3: about him. He's a very hot and cold player. I
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Speaker 3: think the game on Monday Night probably signifies his career.
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Speaker 3: I think he nearly threw from near five hundred yards.
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Speaker 3: He threw for three touchdowns, but he also was a
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Speaker 3: three touch four touchdowns, maybe three interceptions and I think
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Speaker 3: it was two peck sexes. But really, you know, describes
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Speaker 3: his career in a nutshell. He's very hot in cold.
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Speaker 3: And what I've said earlier in the week is, well,
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Speaker 3: if there's one team I he hate to losing too,
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Speaker 3: it is the Browns. The reason I would rather lose
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Speaker 3: to the likes of the Ravens, of even the Bengals,
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Speaker 3: because there's a level of understanding there on a level
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Speaker 3: of us back where you can maybe say, yeah, look,
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Speaker 3: they probably be because we were a batter team on
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Speaker 3: the day.
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Speaker 2: With the Browns, it's never the case.
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Speaker 3: It just it's a well known fact. And they were
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Speaker 3: massively helped by you know, the weather, the blizzards, as
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Speaker 3: we've already manchined. Even russ you know, for example, balled
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Speaker 3: out in a second half, and if it just wasn't
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Speaker 3: for the few miss hoops on clock management, and you
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Speaker 3: know that the penalties as well, we would probably be
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Speaker 3: sitting here ten and two and nine instead of nine
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Speaker 3: and three. So I will say, however, you know, I
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Speaker 3: was impressed with our offense. You know, we've mentioned that
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Speaker 3: Jerry Jude had a great game against his old team,
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Speaker 3: had a good game against US against US in the
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Speaker 3: snow as well, and I think he ended up going
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Speaker 3: for just over two hundred and thirty five yards on
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Speaker 3: a touchdown as well. So it's an offense can definitely
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Speaker 3: put up points on the board, especially when you factor
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Speaker 3: in the level of opponent. You know, the Broncos defense
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Speaker 3: is a serious unit. There are no joke, but that's
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Speaker 3: proven last week in Cincinnati. Our offense is also capable
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Speaker 3: of putting up points. So I feel like it's a
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Speaker 3: perfect opportunity to start summer vans on a team that
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Speaker 3: you know, we've just mentioned it as well. This is
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Speaker 3: another shaper boat for them and let's just go out
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Speaker 3: in the fact of the end their playoffs. I think
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Speaker 3: mathematically we do win. That's what I'm eliminated from playoffs,
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Speaker 3: and I can think of no better team to do
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Speaker 3: it than the Petsburgh Stader. So really looking forward to
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Speaker 3: the game. Great opportunity, you know, with the Ravens on
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Speaker 3: a buy and it's a win, let's the title not
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Speaker 3: break on the division. So I'm really looking for for
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Speaker 3: for a win and a dominant one hopefully.
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Speaker 1: Thank you for the reminder of the Ravens are a
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Speaker 1: bye it's it's it's a big point to make this week,
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Speaker 1: especially when it's such a late by in this season,
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Speaker 1: and Jimmy just just very quickly before we hear from
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Speaker 1: some players in the locker room, I feel like, and
15:41
Speaker 1: it's my fall as well. And I'm not talking as
15:43
Speaker 1: much as we as we probably need to in terms
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Speaker 1: of special teams. When we have a guy there like
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Speaker 1: Chris Boswell. He has three career games now it was six,
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Speaker 1: sorry SHREI career games this season with six or more
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Speaker 1: midfield goals. That's the most in NFL history. We have
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Speaker 1: a serious x FI there, and if he's going to
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Speaker 1: be called on a Sunday, I feel like we can
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Speaker 1: trust him to about the Ravens and an ago.
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Speaker 4: We know how difficult the season Justin Tucker's had.
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Speaker 1: It's not always where we can say that a kicker
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Speaker 1: is reliable, but Chris Boswell has proven that this season
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Speaker 1: for us. He has been our real, real magic moment
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Speaker 1: for this team, and we might need him. It could
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Speaker 1: be a situation where he makes a winning kick for
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Speaker 1: us on Sunday.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, making me. You talk about the struggles there
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Speaker 2: of of Justin Tucker, which which have been mind boggling,
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Speaker 2: really mean, especially in their last out and he had
16:31
Speaker 2: he made several easy kicks against the Egos and the
16:36
Speaker 2: Yeps eating points.
16:38
Speaker 4: Sorry the Yeps, I'm.
16:41
Speaker 2: Absolutely massive, massive case of the Yeps. That's exactly what
16:44
Speaker 2: he has. He's in his own head and you can
16:47
Speaker 2: see the reaction to John Harborne the sideline. It's just
16:49
Speaker 2: it's it's it's mind boggling. So to have the reliability
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Speaker 2: of a kicker like Chris Boswell, who is almost automatic.
16:57
Speaker 2: You never want to jinx a kicker and call him
16:59
Speaker 2: automatic because he know exactly what will happen if you
17:01
Speaker 2: do that. But we know what it would absolute confidence
17:04
Speaker 2: and certainty that any time he comes into the field
17:06
Speaker 2: to kick a field goal, be here from forty yards
17:09
Speaker 2: fifty yards, there's a massive chance back kick is going
17:12
Speaker 2: to be good. And there's a reason that he's been
17:14
Speaker 2: I think he's been voted the AFC Special Special Teams
17:17
Speaker 2: Player of the Month twice this year, which is just
17:20
Speaker 2: which is incredible. So he's a massive asset of the team.
17:23
Speaker 2: He's definitely our biggest offensive weapon and could certainly be
17:27
Speaker 2: the difference maker deep into the when we do eventually
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Speaker 2: get to the postseason.
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Speaker 1: Yes, sir, we're gonna punch that ticket soon. Please go on,
17:35
Speaker 1: keep going, Danny Smith, he's having a hell of a
17:38
Speaker 1: season as well, really really enjoying it so far in
17:40
Speaker 1: terms of the special teams play that we have so.
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Speaker 4: Far this season.
17:43
Speaker 1: We're gonna hear from a couple of players in the
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Speaker 1: locker room on this Thursday before we get ready for
17:48
Speaker 1: this game and make our game picks on the Irish
17:50
Speaker 1: Steelers Podcast.
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Speaker 5: James, you know they put up over five hundred yards
17:57
Speaker 5: last week or just a couple of days ago, so
18:01
Speaker 5: you know they're definitely humming at the right levels. And
18:05
Speaker 5: you know they have UH playmakers at every level. And
18:09
Speaker 5: you know in Djoku, Judy, you know Nick Chubb, you
18:12
Speaker 5: can never forget about UH forward and so we have
18:16
Speaker 5: to be on our p's and q's, and you know
18:18
Speaker 5: they've just grown a lot with having Jamis at the
18:20
Speaker 5: helm and you know he's slicling dice right now. Kim,
18:24
Speaker 5: how do you think you guys can defend? It?
18:25
Speaker 3: Tight ends the shot?
18:30
Speaker 5: You know, is it an improvement? I I don't know you.
18:35
Speaker 5: I just play the game. You know, I'm I think
18:37
Speaker 5: number wise, we according to you, I think we're doing
18:39
Speaker 5: pretty good. But uh, you know, I think you know,
18:44
Speaker 5: we're honestly just trying to win games. I don't think
18:46
Speaker 5: we you know, target and say hey we stopped the
18:48
Speaker 5: tight end, so now we're all good. But uh, you know,
18:51
Speaker 5: whatever whatever task we get, we got to stop the.
18:54
Speaker 7: Turnover culture that you guys have specifically this season. What
18:58
Speaker 7: is it about this defense that it's not enough to
19:00
Speaker 7: knock the ball loose, but to jump on and recover it,
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Speaker 7: score a pick six or a scoop and score.
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Speaker 5: Well, I think one we don't even acknowledge it if
19:08
Speaker 5: we don't you know, recover it. And so the culture
19:12
Speaker 5: is you have guys in this locker room, TJ. Patrick, Quay,
19:15
Speaker 5: Minka Deshaun Elliott, you know, Nick Harbig, Uh, they are
19:21
Speaker 5: ball savvy and uh, you know, have a lot of
19:24
Speaker 5: awareness to it. But uh, you know, it trickles down
19:27
Speaker 5: to everybody and everybody's just trying to you know, knock
19:30
Speaker 5: the ball loose.
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Speaker 7: Obviously scoring getting the ball back to the offense is
19:33
Speaker 7: a big motivation, but how much of a loose is
19:35
Speaker 7: it to get a T shirt?
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Speaker 2: A turnover T shirt.
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Speaker 5: I'm still looking for my first one. So you know,
19:40
Speaker 5: there's a lot of jealousy out there, but uh, I
19:42
Speaker 5: got picked my play up. You get like, no, they
19:46
Speaker 5: they haven't give me anything. You don't get anything for
19:48
Speaker 5: the tip and don't don't don't quote me on that.
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Speaker 8: There was a time where young guys didn't play as
19:56
Speaker 8: much early onf but you guys in the last couple
19:58
Speaker 8: of years, contribusion from some of the players defense. What
20:02
Speaker 8: do you think is has led to that? And kind
20:04
Speaker 8: of what's the impact being the young guys step up.
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Speaker 5: In a keyboard? Oh, you know, I think that they
20:09
Speaker 5: come in a lot more ready, you know, and uh,
20:12
Speaker 5: they spent a lot of time in you know, watching film,
20:15
Speaker 5: learning the playbook. Uh, and if they're up to the task,
20:18
Speaker 5: they're taking advantage of you know, I wasn't fortunate enough
20:21
Speaker 5: to play early, but these guys have been, you know,
20:24
Speaker 5: definitely able to do it, and you know it's helped
20:26
Speaker 5: us out of the tremendously.
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Speaker 7: What's the key to how well you're playing right now?
20:30
Speaker 5: Is it just being healthy or is there something healthy technique,
20:37
Speaker 5: film study? I think that's all included, and you know,
20:41
Speaker 5: desire to just keep trying to get better.
20:44
Speaker 7: See addressed the team ahead of the bay this game,
20:49
Speaker 7: I mean, it seems like he's really found his.
20:51
Speaker 8: Voice this year.
20:52
Speaker 7: How would you seen him develop from that standard?
20:54
Speaker 5: Well, we picked somebody new every week to do the
20:58
Speaker 5: uh our our quote unquote you know, you know, meet
21:04
Speaker 5: during our meeting time. But uh he uh it was
21:07
Speaker 5: his time and you know we nudged him to go
21:11
Speaker 5: do it. But uh, you know we talk about him
21:13
Speaker 5: starting fast, starting early, and what better way to do
21:16
Speaker 5: that than you know, get the get the group right.
21:20
Speaker 9: We just you know, happy that we're getting another opportunity.
21:24
Speaker 9: You know, they came out, you know, hats off to them, man,
21:27
Speaker 9: they played a uh a good game, you know, our
21:30
Speaker 9: first out team out there and stuff like that, and
21:33
Speaker 9: we get another opportunity to uh, you know, to see
21:35
Speaker 9: him at acasure this.
21:37
Speaker 10: Sunday and coming off I mean a big win like
21:40
Speaker 10: you guys are. I mean, how much does that help
21:42
Speaker 10: with the momentum to all.
21:44
Speaker 9: The momentum good and always uh it always feel great,
21:47
Speaker 9: you know, uh getting ready for a new opponent, you
21:51
Speaker 9: know who are not new, but you know what I'm saying,
21:54
Speaker 9: the next opponent off of win. But at the same time,
21:57
Speaker 9: you know, we we're so focused in on this week.
22:00
Speaker 9: You know, we didn't. We didn't turn the page, you know,
22:02
Speaker 9: because if you keep just thinking about living in the
22:05
Speaker 9: week's past, you know, off of when you know, you're
22:08
Speaker 9: not able to handle what's in front of you. And
22:10
Speaker 9: right now we're just trying to take care of what's
22:11
Speaker 9: in front of us.
22:12
Speaker 10: Everyone was talking about this gauntlet, you know, four Street
22:15
Speaker 10: divisional games. Now you guys have one lap before you
22:18
Speaker 10: go to Philly and all of that. Just how would
22:21
Speaker 10: you assess how the defense has done through these.
22:23
Speaker 9: First three on your first question, I just feel like,
22:26
Speaker 9: you know, people outside the building was just you know,
22:30
Speaker 9: on the scheduling type thing. We didn't really put our
22:32
Speaker 9: focus around it. We wanted to handle what was in
22:35
Speaker 9: front of us, and that was whatever game that week was,
22:38
Speaker 9: that's all we could control. That's why this week with
22:40
Speaker 9: the Browns is all we control is the Browns, you know,
22:43
Speaker 9: not what's what's coming next and stuff like that.
22:45
Speaker 1: So yeah, great to hear from some of the guys
22:49
Speaker 1: in the locker room and had a social key game.
22:51
Speaker 1: This Steelers Brians game, as I said, is a ultimate
22:53
Speaker 1: home game all of the regular season for the Pittsburgh Steelers,
22:56
Speaker 1: who are looking to make more traction on this af
22:59
Speaker 1: SCENE North with some key matchups coming up over the
23:02
Speaker 1: next few weeks, including the Eagles the Ravens as well,
23:06
Speaker 1: and so some big, big games coming up. This is
23:08
Speaker 1: a big games first up, Jimmy, I'm gonna give my pick.
23:11
Speaker 1: I mean, I think I think we're all gonna take
23:13
Speaker 1: the Staters, right. I think it's gonna be a hard game.
23:16
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be dominated on the ground from us.
23:18
Speaker 1: If it's a game where we see Russ struggle to
23:21
Speaker 1: get some passes underway or struggle to get some points
23:23
Speaker 1: on the board, I want to see more from Nagie.
23:25
Speaker 1: I want to see more from Jalen. I think our
23:27
Speaker 1: special teams get us out with a twenty one to
23:30
Speaker 1: seventeen win on Sunday, and the Steelers bridge that gap
23:35
Speaker 1: and open up that new gap. Sorry in the AFC
23:37
Speaker 1: North over the Ravens. How do you see this game
23:40
Speaker 1: going with the Brians. It's a real revenge game for me.
23:42
Speaker 1: Get that double league.
23:43
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a massive revenge game for me as well, Mick,
23:46
Speaker 2: and I think it's so important for us, like they said,
23:48
Speaker 2: to win each and every game the remainder of the season,
23:52
Speaker 2: particularly in the AFC in the AFC Nord. Sorry, Look,
23:58
Speaker 2: we saw Jamie Winston was curio last weekend. On Monday
24:02
Speaker 2: Night against the Broncos. He had four touchdowns and three interceptions.
24:06
Speaker 2: So the ball is going to be there for the
24:07
Speaker 2: taking it. It is going to be in the air.
24:09
Speaker 2: I think I'd like to see Joey Porter Junior get
24:12
Speaker 2: an interception or two. I mean, Dante Jackson has been
24:16
Speaker 2: fantastic in terms of ball talking. OU would like to
24:18
Speaker 2: see Joey Porter and even Minka I mean, look, without
24:22
Speaker 2: going off on a tangent here, Minca has been effective
24:25
Speaker 2: in other ways. He's been more of an in the
24:26
Speaker 2: box safety this year, almost like an additional linebacker looks.
24:32
Speaker 2: I don't think I've ever picked against the Steelers in
24:34
Speaker 2: this podcast, bar maybe a season prediction, a season preview
24:38
Speaker 2: earlier on the summer. I'm not going to start picking
24:40
Speaker 2: against the Steelers now. Stedlers are going to win. It's
24:43
Speaker 2: going to be a tight game. I agree, and I
24:45
Speaker 2: do see us eating the out a win. Chris Boswell
24:48
Speaker 2: is going to be absolutely crucial in this. I can
24:50
Speaker 2: see it coming down to a last second field goal.
24:52
Speaker 2: I'm going Steelers twenty four, Browns twenty one.
24:56
Speaker 1: Look when you look at the Steelers team and you
24:59
Speaker 1: know yourself to playing the team as at the time
25:02
Speaker 1: of recording, with eleven wins and the Chiefs in two weeks,
25:04
Speaker 1: three weeks, sorry on Christmas Day. Every win matters. Now,
25:09
Speaker 1: I know what you're gonna say here, But the man,
25:11
Speaker 1: the man in the duney gall top is gonna ball here.
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Speaker 4: What's the score going to be?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, they call me the Michael Murphy of a game
25:20
Speaker 3: predictions mix. So yeah, it's every week, comebacks, every week.
25:24
Speaker 3: That's it, No no surprise. I'm going for the Steelers
25:27
Speaker 3: as well. Like I've said, it's a perfect opportunity for revenge.
25:31
Speaker 3: You know the Browns as well. They're on a short week,
25:33
Speaker 3: having to travel back cross country from Danver. They're on
25:36
Speaker 3: the road again. We've got an extra day's rest as well.
25:39
Speaker 3: That just cannot be over overstated. I mean, the day's
25:42
Speaker 3: rest makes a massive difference. It's it's proven. It just
25:45
Speaker 3: seems that it's written in the stars that will go
25:46
Speaker 3: and spit the season series. I mean, I can't remember.
25:49
Speaker 3: I don't have the start, but I'm sure it's been
25:51
Speaker 3: years since the last time the Browns swapped us, so
25:53
Speaker 3: I can't see that happening. Although I think we will win.
25:56
Speaker 3: I think it's an FC North Divisional game, so I
25:58
Speaker 3: imagine it's going to be close. You just don't get
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Speaker 3: blow it. So I'm gonna go Steelers thirty Branch twenty four,
26:05
Speaker 3: heading down to my local Santan Berrand and Jannon and
26:08
Speaker 3: later on to make a lodgment. Then you can take
26:09
Speaker 3: that to the bank.
26:11
Speaker 1: A lot of banks on that month street. I will
26:13
Speaker 1: pop over and meet you as well after that if
26:15
Speaker 1: you want. Yeah, big one this week. It feels like
26:17
Speaker 1: just such a such a big moment, a key moment
26:20
Speaker 1: in the season.
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Speaker 4: It's one of those games.
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Speaker 1: If we can get over to get over this bridge,
26:23
Speaker 1: we can take the next few weeks and take every
26:24
Speaker 1: final night as we get it over the next week.
26:27
Speaker 1: You would expect and we hope that that game against
26:29
Speaker 1: the Eagles in week fifteen will be on TV. If
26:32
Speaker 1: that is the case, then the game on Saturday night
26:34
Speaker 1: the week after is and the game on Netflix on
26:36
Speaker 1: Christmas Day as well, So a lot of great options
26:39
Speaker 1: to watch on TV hopefully over the next few weeks.
26:41
Speaker 1: Game Pass this week OTV Sports Radio. If you're not there,
26:44
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Speaker 1: x Instagram, Steeers Ireland. We will be back on Monday
26:50
Speaker 1: or Tuesday to recap it and hopefully recap a massive
26:53
Speaker 1: win as we bridge that gap in the AFC North
26:56
Speaker 1: For now, for myself, Jimmy and Dave O, here we go.
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Speaker 4: We will chat to these