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A big AFC North matchup awaits! · The Irish Steelers Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Hi, everybody.
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  Speaker 2: You're very welcome into the Irish Theaters podcast presented by
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  Speaker 2: Erlingcaus as we rock up for week eleven. I'm recording
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  Speaker 2: this podcast from a hotel room in Madrid. It seems
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  Speaker 2: like only yesterday the Steelers came to Dublin and now
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  Speaker 2: we've got through every international game for the last one.
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  Speaker 2: I know the Steelers aren't playing, but I do want
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  Speaker 2: to give a quick shout out to former Steeler Making Fitzpatrick,
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  Speaker 2: who sends his regards to all Staeters fans in Ireland.
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  Speaker 2: And even though he's not with the Dolphins, had a
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  Speaker 2: chance to chat to him earlier on and I've got
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  Speaker 2: to leave a bigger guests than that on this week's podcast.
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  Speaker 2: You know him from seeing him all over the internet
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  Speaker 2: doing podcasts. He's still involved coaching college football, but we've
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  Speaker 2: seen him on our screens, hear him in our ears
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  Speaker 2: when it comes to Sky Sports NFL. Jeff Ryan Wold,
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  Speaker 2: very very good to have the honor.
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  Speaker 3: Jet.
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  Speaker 2: I believe you're the first person internationally to come on
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  Speaker 2: here twice this season. You're big time now man, how
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  Speaker 2: are you doing well?
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  Speaker 4: I think it's a big honor. I mean when anytime
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  Speaker 4: you're talking about in organization.
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  Speaker 3: As iconic as the Pittsburgh Steelers. It's a It's an honor.
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  Speaker 4: It really is an honor, Mike, because again, as you know,
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  Speaker 4: I'm in that generation of fans that because I'm a
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  Speaker 4: football fan first that you know, grew up with the
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  Speaker 4: Steel Curtain and Joe Green and Jack Ham and Jack
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  Speaker 4: Lambert and you know, Mel Blunt and all those tremendous,
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  Speaker 4: tremendous Steelers. Terry Bradshaw. You know, I coached at Louisiana
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  Speaker 4: Tech and had an opportunity to meet Terry a couple
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  Speaker 4: of times, and you know, obviously he is a Steeler forever.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, he is black and Gold forever.
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  Speaker 4: And you know it was really I was, you know
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  Speaker 4: what shocked me about Terry when I met him, how
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  Speaker 4: big he is. I mean, he is a big man.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, so there's no question he could throw that.
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  Speaker 4: He could throw that pill a long way. And when
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  Speaker 4: Lyn Swan was out there and John Stalwarts was out
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  Speaker 4: there running for it, you know, that was some fun
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  Speaker 4: football to watch.
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  Speaker 2: Sounds agast Man's got a soft spot for this.
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  Speaker 4: The theaters.
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  Speaker 2: I tell you, I seen I seen Terry Brodt shot
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  Speaker 2: at the media there for the Super Bowl last year,
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  Speaker 2: and even at his age, and I couldn't get over
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  Speaker 2: how tall he was. You just could imagine go back
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  Speaker 2: into this, as you said, slinging that ball, Jeff, We're
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  Speaker 2: gonna talk about the struggles last week in the second
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  Speaker 2: and we're gonna look ahead of this week eleven game
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  Speaker 2: very shortly as well. But this is the first time
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  Speaker 2: you've been you've been on the podcast since the game
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  Speaker 2: in Dublin. I know you were not in Dublin, but
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  Speaker 2: you guys, I believe played so Jeff Folks coaches for
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  Speaker 2: Hawaii and you guys played the Saturday. I think you
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  Speaker 2: had a bye week, so you were traveling home and
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  Speaker 2: I think he had a chance to watch the game
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  Speaker 2: from Afar. What did you think of it? Because I like,
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  Speaker 2: for me, like obviously on a personal level, it was
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  Speaker 2: a triumph. And when you see it's funny today because
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  Speaker 2: I was in the burn about today and I've seen
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  Speaker 2: just how happy a lot of the Spanish journalists were.
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  Speaker 2: They were so like excited. I know that was me
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  Speaker 2: like a few weeks ago, like like like a little
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  Speaker 2: child of Christmas. But it was, it was, it was great,
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  Speaker 2: It was it was good.
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  Speaker 3: Crack.
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  Speaker 2: Just how how good do you think that was for
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  Speaker 2: the Steeler chef and that like that, I think of
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  Speaker 2: the iconic moment where you had tomlan Rogers and Tom
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  Speaker 2: Heyward walking out of the stadium. I mean, who could
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  Speaker 2: It was like a perfect fairytale one. What was it
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  Speaker 2: like watching from Afardo? Because I know you wanted to
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  Speaker 2: be there.
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  Speaker 3: You know for me. You know again when when you
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  Speaker 3: when you recognize you.
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  Speaker 4: Know the combination of the Steelers in Ireland and how
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  Speaker 4: entwined the organization and the Rooney family is with you know,
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  Speaker 4: their you know, historic roots in Ireland, you know that
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  Speaker 4: that's such a great success story and to take their
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  Speaker 4: team back to their roots and take their team back
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  Speaker 4: to you know, where their heritage comes from. And the fans,
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  Speaker 4: the way the fans in Ireland embraced the Steelers and
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  Speaker 4: the way that the Steeler fans travel. Because Mike when
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  Speaker 4: out of the tunnel and this was the moment that
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  Speaker 4: that got.
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  Speaker 3: Me out of the tunnel.
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  Speaker 4: You saw those iconic uniforms, a uniform that has really
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  Speaker 4: not changed in fifty years, right, And I think there
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  Speaker 4: is something to be said for history and tradition and
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  Speaker 4: you know that they're the only team in the league
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  Speaker 4: with their decal only on one side of their helmet, right,
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  Speaker 4: Their uniforms have been you know, when they come on
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  Speaker 4: the field, it's like the New York Yankees in baseball
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  Speaker 4: with their pinstripes.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it's just it's just who they are.
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  Speaker 4: And it's got to be an incredibly thrilling experience to
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  Speaker 4: put that jersey on, right, and put that helmet on
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  Speaker 4: and know that you're representing something and playing for something
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  Speaker 4: that is way.
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  Speaker 3: Bigger than you are. And that seems so cliche.
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  Speaker 4: And maybe you know that, well, this is pro football.
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  Speaker 3: It's a business.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it is a business, but you know, you still
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  Speaker 4: stand for something, and you know, I think that's that's
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  Speaker 4: what one of the reasons why the Steelers.
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  Speaker 3: Have become what they are. They do business different, right.
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  Speaker 4: They don't fire coaches willy nilly, they don't move general
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  Speaker 4: managers every two years. Mike Tomlin has been there nineteen
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  Speaker 4: seasons and that's five more. You know, then then you
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  Speaker 4: know some of the longest tenures in history. I mean
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  Speaker 4: you think about you know that that how that nineteen
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  Speaker 4: years at the same place, nineteen years.
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  Speaker 3: The message has been the same.
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  Speaker 2: It's incredible, but it is and people will look back
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  Speaker 2: in that for years to come and think because there's
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  Speaker 2: not a lot of we're talking abou Dublin there, but
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  Speaker 2: just just I like the way you've got I like
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  Speaker 2: the way you come into this. You're almost proude in
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  Speaker 2: the sense of because you know, in life and also
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  Speaker 2: in sports now, it's rare to see that kind of loyalty,
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  Speaker 2: but that kind of progression and that kind of and consistency,
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  Speaker 2: which is very.
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  Speaker 4: Important, Michael, that's that should be the blueprint if you
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  Speaker 4: you know, you look at organizations that every three years
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  Speaker 4: are firing coaches, every four years of firing gms, every you.
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  Speaker 3: Know, changing court.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, it's like, don't you guys pay attention. Look
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  Speaker 4: at look at the Steelers. Look to the Steelers. You
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  Speaker 4: know Bill Coward was there and he was the one
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  Speaker 4: I was talking about. You know, he was there for
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  Speaker 4: I think fourteen or fifteen. How many coaches have they
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  Speaker 4: had in the last forty years, right, I mean, it's unbelievable.
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  Speaker 4: They are a model of insistency and they do business
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  Speaker 4: their way, and they don't script, they don't you know,
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  Speaker 4: that's not like you know that, but they do things
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  Speaker 4: the Steeler way. And I've talked to guys who have
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  Speaker 4: played there and coached there and they say they all
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  Speaker 4: say the same thing, that there is a certain way
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  Speaker 4: that things are done with the Pittsburgh Steelers, and you
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  Speaker 4: better put your agenda aside when you wear that black helmet.
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  Speaker 4: And you know they've had they've had guys that couldn't
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  Speaker 4: put their agenda aside long enough and where did they
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  Speaker 4: end up?
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  Speaker 3: Somewhere else?
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  Speaker 4: Right, But the Steelers kept winning because there's something to
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  Speaker 4: be said for, you know, having a culture.
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  Speaker 3: That transcends per you know, individuals.
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  Speaker 2: There have been love. That's a phenomenal answer. Thank you
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  Speaker 2: very very much, chef. We're gonna talk with this game
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  Speaker 2: this weekend in the second, but just before that there
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  Speaker 2: have been up week elevenue of the season, Steelers had
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  Speaker 2: an early buye week out of Dublin, and you think
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  Speaker 2: of that high in Dublin, the way that like it
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  Speaker 2: all worked out for the Steers or really family, they
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  Speaker 2: get the buye a week. There's been ups and downs.
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  Speaker 2: I think of that game against the Colts where they
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  Speaker 2: win it, especially the Colts coming in like they and
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  Speaker 2: they still are obviously very very well thoughtowed, but to
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  Speaker 2: win that game at home is a big thing. But
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  Speaker 2: yet when you look at and there's no point in
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  Speaker 2: ignoring us, and you hear Aaron Rodgers, we're gonna hear
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  Speaker 2: from We're gonna hear from him in the second Those
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  Speaker 2: guys struggled last week against the Chargers to the point where,
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  Speaker 2: you know, they never looked like they were probably that competitive,
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  Speaker 2: especially in the second half at certain points, especially when
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  Speaker 2: they're giving up points twenty five to ten loss against
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  Speaker 2: the Chargers. How do you how do you sum up
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  Speaker 2: the first ten weeks of this season, the first nine
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  Speaker 2: games for the Steers team who are five and four,
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  Speaker 2: they see the VENs coming back in for Stears fans listening,
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  Speaker 2: how do you suone up on what do you think
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  Speaker 2: needs to improve generally?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I would never you know, I would never pretend
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  Speaker 4: to know what Mike Tomlin says to his football team,
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  Speaker 4: because Mike Tomlins one of the great coaches in the
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  Speaker 4: history of the NFL in terms of how he manages
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  Speaker 4: his football team and his messaging to his football team
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  Speaker 4: is always I think, amongst the best in the league.
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  Speaker 4: But certainly if you look at the Steelers, and this
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  Speaker 4: is the thing that the fans sometimes lose sight of
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  Speaker 4: If you look at the Steelers, they are five and
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  Speaker 4: four right now. You want to get to Thanksgiving at
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  Speaker 4: least five hundred, right, So they're in that, they're in
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  Speaker 4: that ballpark. The good thing is they're playing in the
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  Speaker 4: division that has been weakened by injury in Baltimore and Cincinnati.
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  Speaker 4: Cleveland's out of it.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 4: What's important to the Steelers in my opinion, and I'm
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  Speaker 4: sure that Mike's talking to his team this way. We
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  Speaker 4: have got to trend now in a positive direction. Here
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  Speaker 4: are the things that I see about the Steelers. There
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  Speaker 4: was a time when Terrell Austin and the defense really struggled.
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  Speaker 4: The last time they played Cincinnati, they got exposed in
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  Speaker 4: man coverage. But I've watched and this is what great
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  Speaker 4: football teams and great coaches do. I've watched them start
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  Speaker 4: to adjust what they want to do schematically to fit
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  Speaker 4: the guys that they have. Right So that I think
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  Speaker 4: is a real positive. And you've seen the defense in
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  Speaker 4: the last two weeks really start to come back. The
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  Speaker 4: pass rush has started to come back again. They're playing
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  Speaker 4: more zone in the back end, and I think that
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  Speaker 4: those are all good things.
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  Speaker 3: You know, for Steeler Nation. If you're looking for positives,
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  Speaker 3: that's a positive.
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  Speaker 4: I think the challenge for the offense now is who
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  Speaker 4: is going to emerge as the second and third receivers
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  Speaker 4: in that in that offense because DK obviously you see
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  Speaker 4: him and you recognize what a talent he is, and
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  Speaker 4: Rogers can certainly still get him the ball. Washington is
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  Speaker 4: developing as a receiver at at tight end. Friarmouth is
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  Speaker 4: a consistent tight end, but it's you know, Roman Wilson
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  Speaker 4: and that that bunch in the receiver room that I
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  Speaker 4: think need to step their game up and you know,
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  Speaker 4: develop a more I don't know, if Aaron has a
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  Speaker 4: lot of confidence in his second and thirds and you've
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  Speaker 4: got to have that.
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  Speaker 2: Do you think that just is going to take more
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  Speaker 2: time to develop?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, because again people, we're in this instant gratification world
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  Speaker 4: right now, right but you've got to understand it takes time.
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  Speaker 4: Everybody runs a route a different way. Every quarterback has
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  Speaker 4: a different way he wants to throw, you know again,
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  Speaker 4: and that is developed that can only be developed through repetition,
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  Speaker 4: through time, and through consistent messaging from the head coach
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  Speaker 4: all the way through the organization. And that has always
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  Speaker 4: been what has been Mike Thomlins's greatest strength. And so
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  Speaker 4: now you say again, because as fans we look at
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  Speaker 4: we always see the negative, right and we don't Well,
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  Speaker 4: you say, well, we didn't, you know, we we didn't
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  Speaker 4: produce enough offensively, And and Aaron was bluntly honest, and
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  Speaker 4: I credit him for that, right he was, he was,
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  Speaker 4: you know, they do. They got to better, get better
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  Speaker 4: on offense, but they got to get better in every phase.
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  Speaker 3: But they're still first in the division and as far
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  Speaker 3: as I as far as.
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  Speaker 4: I know, nobody's won the division and nobody's out of
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  Speaker 4: the playoffs yet. So you just focus on the process
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  Speaker 4: and don't listen to all the noise that's out there,
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  Speaker 4: because the process is ongoing. Right, They've still got to
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  Speaker 4: They've still got room to improve in all three phases.
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  Speaker 4: And when you look at why Mike Tomlin has survived
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  Speaker 4: in a business that is, what have you done for
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  Speaker 4: me this week? For nineteen years in the same place,
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  Speaker 4: it's because the messaging has been consistent. They don't panic,
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  Speaker 4: they don't look you know that, they don't grasp at straws.
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  Speaker 4: They go back to what they know is the recipe
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  Speaker 4: and The recipe in Pittsburgh has always been the same thing.
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  Speaker 4: Don't turn it over, play great defense, get after the
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  Speaker 4: other team's quarterback right, and you're gonna and you're gonna
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  Speaker 4: be in the play like they have been. You're gonna
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  Speaker 4: be in the playoffs every year.
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  Speaker 2: Just on that. We're we're gonna get our CAZy the
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  Speaker 2: game in a second for this Bangles Staters game. Before
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  Speaker 2: we do that, we're gonna hear from a guy who
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  Speaker 2: just talked about that now, coach Tuman was talking to
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  Speaker 2: the media this week. We're also gonna hear from arm
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  Speaker 2: Rodgers out to not disappointing defeat to the Aded Chargers
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  Speaker 2: and looking ahead to this week on the Irish Theaters
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  Speaker 2: podcast presented by Eric Lingis.
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  Speaker 1: You know, from a planning perspective and a playing perspective,
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  Speaker 1: all of us involved, coaches and players, we didn't do
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  Speaker 1: a good enough job positioning the others to be impactful
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  Speaker 1: and the others didn't make enough plays. And that's just
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  Speaker 1: the reality of it. So with that understanding, man, we
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  Speaker 1: go back to work. I think on the other side,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I'm feeling some stability there that we've gotten
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  Speaker 1: really solid with Jalen Ramsey and Kyle Duggart at safety.
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  Speaker 1: I think there's been a reduction in some of the
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  Speaker 1: big plays. I think we're making people earn it more
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  Speaker 1: Big time AFC North Ball. I'd be remiss if I
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  Speaker 1: didn't talk about the special team's component. Darren has been
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  Speaker 1: there coordinator for a long time. Charlie Charlie Jones ran
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  Speaker 1: to kick back the other week. I think he's got
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  Speaker 1: three returns for touchdowns in his in his three year career,
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  Speaker 1: one one punt return and two kickoff. And so the
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  Speaker 1: field position component of this game is and always will
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  Speaker 1: be significant. Uh. Darren and Danny Smith mean going at
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  Speaker 1: it a long time man. Those two Grizzly Terans will
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  Speaker 1: be another chapter in their story this weekend. All of
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  Speaker 1: the above will be reasons why to tune in and
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  Speaker 1: be big factors for for why this game is a
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  Speaker 1: big one for us. I'm excited about the prep process.
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  Speaker 1: They show your excitement for a game like this through
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  Speaker 1: the prep process and so been a good couple of
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  Speaker 1: days from a staff perspective, formulating strategy, divide and the
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  Speaker 1: work up, et cetera. Can't wait to get on the
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  Speaker 1: field with the team tomorrow and continue.
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  Speaker 5: Knew the third down wasn't very good. Uh, you know,
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  Speaker 5: we're all for our first I don't know eight or
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  Speaker 5: nine a team like so that that put us in
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  Speaker 5: uh you know my neighbor. Obviously field vision didn't help.
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  Speaker 5: But when you're backed up, you got to get a
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  Speaker 5: first down and a couple of first downs start to
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  Speaker 5: shift that we didn't do that turn the ball over
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  Speaker 5: too many times. You look at the third down struggles.
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  Speaker 3: Is there a common thread or something.
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  Speaker 2: You guys have during the.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, there's some things we can work on, for sure.
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  Speaker 2: I canna tell.
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  Speaker 4: You you guys, we like to.
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  Speaker 2: Keep this team to counter the different things that teams
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  Speaker 2: thrown you guys.
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  Speaker 5: I have a lot of confidence in our ability to
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  Speaker 5: counter whatever anybody throws our way.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like.
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  Speaker 5: Getting I'd love to see Jalen on the first, second,
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  Speaker 5: or third down, but I love seeing Kenny on first, second,
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  Speaker 5: third down too, So you got a luxury of those
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  Speaker 5: two guys. I think we need to keep getting Jalen
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  Speaker 5: more more runs on first, second down and mix them
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  Speaker 5: in on third down. But Kenny's in a great job
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  Speaker 5: on third down for us. Aaron, you've had a rough games,
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  Speaker 5: have learned over the last twenty years in terms of
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  Speaker 5: making sure one doesn't believe. It's just consistency, if the
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  Speaker 5: if the process is right, you know, you don't have
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  Speaker 5: to make any major changes and freak out. It's you know,
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  Speaker 5: it's the nature of the league. There's gonna be a
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  Speaker 5: you know, a stinker every now and then. You just
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  Speaker 5: gotta know, bounce back, get back to the things you
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  Speaker 5: do and get back in your routine and trying to
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  Speaker 5: be better the next week.
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  Speaker 3: What do you think it was? What are you talking
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  Speaker 3: up to?
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  Speaker 5: Well, they've got a good defense, you know, they clamped
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  Speaker 5: us down, and a couple of throws I usually hit,
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  Speaker 5: I missed the main reasons.
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  Speaker 2: Good to hear from the guys. It's always good to
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  Speaker 2: hear from this guy. Jeff Ryanbold, Jeff, you've said a
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: few things are already. This Bengals. You know, this Bengals
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  Speaker 2: team is three and six. They're looking to having Joe
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  Speaker 2: Burrow back. After Thanksgiving. They put up thirty one points
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  Speaker 2: on the Steelers weeks ago. They can still put up points.
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  Speaker 2: They expect, they expect Joe Burrow back, and frankly, you know,
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  Speaker 2: this is the point of the season. Sir Alex Ferguson
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  Speaker 2: Soccer used to call it squeaky bum time. It is
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: the Ravens are clawing, crawling back, and this lead in
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: the North now is very much something to look at,
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: and it's imperative for the Steelers team to go wide
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: at home this weekend and and win this game. For me,
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: For me, Jeff, I want to see them run the
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: ball more, but I want to see more consistent, more
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: confident plant with Martin Rodgers, especially off of that game,
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: I can see how that charges. That's binds block. Let's
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: got a couple of such times on the border earning
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: and make this a win for the Steelers. Any keys
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: to the game that you feel you have, especially if
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: we look back at how they performed in La, it's
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: it's going to be very very important for quick binds
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  Speaker 2: block here, isn't it.
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  Speaker 3: I think? Yeah? I do.
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  Speaker 4: I really think that the key for the Steelers is
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: to play great, complimentary football. They didn't do that last
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: time they played Cincinnati, right, there was kind of a
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: I don't know, you know again because I wasn't on
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: the sideline, I wasn't on the phones. But when you
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: watch them not be able to adjust on defense and
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: Jamar Chase goes off like he goes off. I don't
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: know how many he cut twelve or thirteen balls that night.
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  Speaker 4: Obviously they'll have a they'll have a plan for that,
• 18:49
  Speaker 4: right Joe Flacco when he's hot, and you make it
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: you know, you make it easy for him because you
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: got you're locked up in Manda Man all over the field.
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: He can get the ball out of his hands quick.
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: He knows where to go to, you know, with the ball.
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: They've got to play I think sounder defense. And again
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: the pass rushers have got to do their job against
• 19:10
  Speaker 4: Blacke because remember Flacco is a forty seven year old
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: quarterback that struggles when he gets you know, pressure and
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: out of the pocket. Danny Smith and his special teams
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: have got to create field position because if the Steelers
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: win the field position battle, they have a great chance
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: of winning the football game because it can be balanced
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: or be more balanced when they're getting the ball at
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: center field or on the other side of the fifty
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: yard line because of a special team's player or a
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: special teams plays. And then I think offensively, like I said,
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: I think I agree with you, Mike. You talk about balance,
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: there's two ways to look at balance. Balance is either
• 19:52
  Speaker 4: throw the ball or get the ball in everybody's.
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: Hands, or it's run pass balance.
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: I think they need to be a to run the
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: ball enough that you know, rogers end the receivers. And
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: it's not just Rogers, it's the receivers. Like we talked about,
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: the twos and threes have gotta have got to step up.
• 20:11
  Speaker 4: I think through I think Friar Moove needs to have
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: a good game too, right, and and because he you know,
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: if if they double DK and they take DK away
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: in my estimation, well I think I think it's more
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: on pack right, And like I said, Washington has started
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: to develop as a pass receiver. He came into the league.
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: I think he caught six balls his senior year at
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: Y're at Georgia. Right, he came into the league as
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: a blocking tight end. But he is a unique athlete
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: and they've worked and developed him into now a viable
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: pass catching tight end. And two guys like that is
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: huge because it puts pressure on the defense. It limits
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: the amount of dbs that you can play, and that again,
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: those are all critical factors in this game. So I
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: think the Steelers playing great complimentary football, not taking penalties,
• 21:04
  Speaker 4: win the field, pat, We'll win the field ball position
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: battle and come out of this thing with a W
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: and keep the pressure on the Ravens and keep the
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: pressure on Cincinnati.
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: Big games coming up in this AFC Nor. If this
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: is gonna go all the way down to the last
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: few weeks, Jeff, I could listen to you talk Staters football,
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: Talk AFC NOR football all damn my mom. Just for
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: people that are listening to this podcast. Not on Sky
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: Sports NFL this week, but it's on NFL game Pass
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: on the Zone if you're going out in the boat
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: in Ireland, the OTB Sports opp Jeff German Muggan, thank you,
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: thank you very very much for coming on here. We
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: appreciate it and I'm sure we'll find a way to
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: shot to you at some point again this season. Thank
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: you very much mam for.
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: Coming on Next time. I'll bring my terrible top.
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: I expect to see that very very soon. For everyone
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: everybody listening, thank you so much for joining us this week,
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: and we hope you enjoyed a game on Sunday Week
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: eleven ahead. These weeks are flying it. What shout you
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  Speaker 2: said