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HR 2: Steelers First Four Games, AFC North Week 4 · The Steelers Report

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  Speaker 1: Rodgers, play action pass, rolling out to his right, looking
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  Speaker 1: for Friermuth, touchdown, Pittsburgh Steelers. Rodgers under center as Warren
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  Speaker 1: is a lone setback, tapping both sides of his helmet. Four, three, Rodgers, quarterback, sneak,
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  Speaker 1: and Rodgers in for the two-point conversion.
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  Speaker 2: Sneaks it in, and we are tied with 142 remaining
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  Speaker 2: in Cleveland.
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  Speaker 3: This is the Steelers Report with Brian Batko and Ed
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  Speaker 3: Troop on Steelers Nation Radio, a part of the Steelers
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  Speaker 3: Audio Network.
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  Speaker 2: Now, I just had to delay a game, right? I
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  Speaker 2: went too soon. Our announcer went and I went. We
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  Speaker 2: both went at the same time.
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  Speaker 4: That's it. Encroachment, take your pick.
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  Speaker 2: Now, I'm off the morning after. Afternoon after. See, I'm
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  Speaker 2: also messing that up. Double B, I was going to
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  Speaker 2: ask you, after that two-point conversion, I did not have
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  Speaker 2: a lot of faith in the Steelers' defense going into
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  Speaker 2: that last drive. I thought they needed that splash play.
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  Speaker 2: If it happens, great. But most likely, there's a good
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  Speaker 2: chance Watson's going to push that offense across midfield and
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  Speaker 2: set up for a game-winning field goal. And I think
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  Speaker 2: McCarthy and his staff thought that, too, because they started
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  Speaker 2: using some timeouts to preserve some time. But they couldn't
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  Speaker 2: do that. There wasn't hardly any time left by the
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  Speaker 2: time Aaron Rodgers got the football back.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I did have faith at that point.
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  Speaker 5: You know, I thought that Deshaun Watson's hot streak had
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  Speaker 5: It kind of fallen off a little bit in the
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  Speaker 5: second half, but he dialed back into it, and there
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  Speaker 5: was no TJ Watt heroics to be found at that
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  Speaker 5: point and put some stress on the secondary. I'm sure
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  Speaker 5: people will be second-guessing Patrick Graham and his coverage on
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  Speaker 5: that drive, but you're damned if you do, damned if
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  Speaker 5: you don't sometimes because if you play play tight press man,
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  Speaker 5: and someone gets behind the defense and they score a
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  Speaker 5: touchdown rather than set up for a 56-yard field goal,
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  Speaker 5: then everybody's saying, why don't you just keep them in
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  Speaker 5: front of.
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  Speaker 4: You and make them make a long kick?
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  Speaker 5: So that's coaching, but ultimately you're judged at the end
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  Speaker 5: of the day by the wins and the losses, and
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  Speaker 5: that's all that matters.
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  Speaker 4: Bottom line business.
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  Speaker 2: TJ Watt's final stat line last night, four tackles, one sack.
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  Speaker 2: two tackle for losses, two quarterback hits, pass deflection, forced fumble,
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  Speaker 2: fumble recovery. Another strong game by T.J.
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  Speaker 3: Watt.
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  Speaker 2: And what did not show up on that stat sheet? Well,
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  Speaker 2: I guess it kind of did the fumble recovery that
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  Speaker 2: we talked about earlier was some of the other dynamic
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  Speaker 2: plays that he did with reading that option on to
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  Speaker 2: Sean Watson, getting to him. Again, showing the quarterback that
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  Speaker 2: you're taking the bait on the running back, but really
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  Speaker 2: you're not. And that behind the back, almost interception, batting
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  Speaker 2: down the ball type play. I mean, T.J. Watt, For
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  Speaker 2: all intents and purposes, four games into the season, Brian
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  Speaker 2: Bacco is having that type of defensive player of the
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  Speaker 2: year performance through one-fourth of the season.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, he is, and I think the sacks will continue
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  Speaker 5: to come for TJ. There's been some metrics out there,
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  Speaker 5: some advanced analytics about just how fast his getoff has
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  Speaker 5: been to this point in the season, so he's timing
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  Speaker 5: things up really well, sometimes too well.
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  Speaker 4: I think, did he have another offsides last night, I believe,
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  Speaker 4: on one play?
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  Speaker 2: He did.
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  Speaker 5: But you'll live with that with the best pass rushers
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  Speaker 5: in the league because more often than not, they are
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  Speaker 5: going to get that cadence and that's going to give
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  Speaker 5: them a huge jump on the opposing tackle. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: there was one of those plays, too, where he fights
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  Speaker 5: through a chip and then beats the right tackle one-on-one,
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  Speaker 5: still gets to Deshaun Watson. That's definitely been one of
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  Speaker 5: the most encouraging storylines of the first, not quarter, but Exactly.
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  Speaker 2: Watch that 17th game messes everything up.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, hopefully we won't need that 17th game. Maybe the
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  Speaker 5: AFC North title will be in the bag.
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  Speaker 4: Have it all wrapped up. Number one or two seed will.
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  Speaker 5: Be in the bag and you can just throw Mason
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  Speaker 5: Rudolph out there. So through the first four games, the
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  Speaker 5: resurgence of Watt to me is probably one of the
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  Speaker 5: brightest spots for the 2026 Steelers.
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  Speaker 2: Some team stats last night on Steelers-Browns. First downs, Steelers 24,
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  Speaker 2: Browns 22. Third down conversions, double B. Not great for
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  Speaker 2: the Steelers offense. Four of 13, 30% on third down. Now, defensively,
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  Speaker 2: they held the Browns in check at 40%, four of 10,
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  Speaker 2: but this offense continues to struggle on third down conversions.
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  Speaker 2: Four of 13, again, just over 30%.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, and I think that's probably some of those you know,
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  Speaker 5: throws that Aaron Rogers missed that he mentioned that he
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  Speaker 5: wants back. And, you know, that right back to sort
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  Speaker 5: of where they were those first two weeks of the season,
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  Speaker 5: when even after they beat the Falcons, we were kind
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  Speaker 5: of sitting here lamenting the struggles on, on the possession
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  Speaker 5: downs and certainly against new England that, that did not help,
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  Speaker 5: but they, they got on track against the Bengals and
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  Speaker 5: now it's a three out of the last four or
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  Speaker 5: three out of the first four, I should say of
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  Speaker 5: this season that, They haven't been at their best on
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  Speaker 5: third down. I think another kind of issue last night, Ed,
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  Speaker 5: not really statistical, more anecdotal. The inside linebackers I thought
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  Speaker 5: were good the first few games, but not so much
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  Speaker 5: last night from Patrick Queen and Peyton Wilson, and that
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  Speaker 5: goes back to what we talked about for much of
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  Speaker 5: this offseason. The flashes are there. There's glimpses of greatness,
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  Speaker 5: but the consistency eluded them in 2025, and it's been
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  Speaker 5: eluding them so far to start this year.
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  Speaker 2: Missed tackles and it wasn't just the two of them
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  Speaker 2: no that was well I mean.
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  Speaker 5: If even Cole Holcomb all three levels starting uh inside
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  Speaker 5: linebacker but he was in there on that play that
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  Speaker 5: Julio McLaughlin took to the house and he kind of
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  Speaker 5: fell off of him now that's one where you know
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  Speaker 5: he's not playing a lot defensively so you're you're not
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  Speaker 5: in a groove quite as much right and there's a
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  Speaker 5: little bit of rust component there I would imagine but
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  Speaker 5: I'm sure Cole Holcomb wouldn't take any solace in that
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  Speaker 5: just you're out on the field you need to make
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  Speaker 5: the play.
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  Speaker 2: You have 10 days to clean some things up, and
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  Speaker 2: we'll do our clean it up Wednesday, fix it Wednesday,
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  Speaker 2: whatever that may be next week. We'll have a lot
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  Speaker 2: to fix, but two glaring things to me, Brian. One
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  Speaker 2: is communication again, and they cleaned a lot of the
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  Speaker 2: communication stuff up from the New England game to the
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  Speaker 2: Cincinnati game last week. But it kind of went back.
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  Speaker 2: It felt like the New England game again. The secondary
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  Speaker 2: at times. Now, again, the secondary, they get a bit
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  Speaker 2: of a bye because there was a lot of moving
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  Speaker 2: parts and not just Joey Porter Jr. being gone to Dallas,
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  Speaker 2: but the injury to Jamel Dean. Again, Ray Sean Jenkins
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  Speaker 2: was yanked relatively early, so you had a couple rookies
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  Speaker 2: in that backfield. But the good news is Deshaun Elliott
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  Speaker 2: could potentially be back after this 10-day period is up.
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  Speaker 2: So think about this for a second. We don't know
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  Speaker 2: about Jamel Dean yet, and that injury didn't come back
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  Speaker 2: into the game. but now you have a Santi Samuel jr.
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  Speaker 2: At one corner. Who's played very well for the first
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  Speaker 2: four games. If you have to, you can now move
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  Speaker 2: Jalen Ramsey into that corner position. Cause if you get
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  Speaker 2: to Sean Elliott back, he's now next to Brisker as
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  Speaker 2: your two safeties. So all of a sudden the depth
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  Speaker 2: might not be as great. You got some rookies out
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  Speaker 2: there and Everett and spirits Jennings, but now you've got
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  Speaker 2: a pretty good starting four back in that secondary.
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  Speaker 5: I think that's a bit of a leap of faith though,
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  Speaker 5: to project Ramsey to go and write back to playing
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  Speaker 5: outside corner a lot. Um, Yeah, this this staff simply
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  Speaker 5: hasn't planned for that. You know, obviously things went sideways
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  Speaker 5: with with Joey Porter Jr. But I think they were
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  Speaker 5: planning to have him out there this season. So with
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  Speaker 5: but they want Ramsey at the nickel.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, basically on the inside shell of that defense,
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  Speaker 5: whether it's safety or slot corner. I mean, I guess
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  Speaker 5: he could always bump back out there if he needed to.
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  Speaker 5: I just think he's, he helps you more as a tackler,
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  Speaker 5: as a, as a blitzer. Although none of those blitzes
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  Speaker 5: got home last night. That was struggled. That was frustrating. So,
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  Speaker 5: I mean, Elliot, that would be a welcome return. The
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  Speaker 5: mentality that he brings out there. You always want, it
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  Speaker 5: doesn't really help you with your corner depth, but yeah,
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  Speaker 5: you're right. There could be a trickle down to some extent.
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  Speaker 5: And I just think like, you know, Robert Spears Jennings,
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  Speaker 5: nice little cameo last night, but Deshaun Elliott has seen
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  Speaker 5: a lot more ball than the rookie out of Oklahoma has.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, for sure.
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  Speaker 5: I think that as long as he is good with
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  Speaker 5: that injury that the coaching and training staff and front
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  Speaker 5: office felt like, yeah, maybe he's not quite 100%, so
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  Speaker 5: let's just be safe with him and put him on
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  Speaker 5: IR to start the year. Hopefully that gave him time
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  Speaker 5: to get completely back up to speed, and we will
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  Speaker 5: see the Deshaun Elliott of 2024 and even 2025 on
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  Speaker 5: the games that he did play.
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  Speaker 2: A couple more team stats for you from last night, too.
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  Speaker 2: Total yards, we talked about 372 for the Browns, 361
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  Speaker 2: for the Steelers, so just about even there. Rushing-wise, 112
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  Speaker 2: on the ground for the Browns last night, 92 total
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  Speaker 2: for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Penalties, 8 of 50 for the Steelers.
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  Speaker 2: Not bad, but how about Cleveland last night? 14 penalties
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  Speaker 2: for 88 yards. Now, the 88 yards isn't too, too bad,
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  Speaker 2: but 14 flags on the Browns last night. That's not great.
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  Speaker 5: No, I mean, they were highly penalized, so it's, again,
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  Speaker 5: one of those weird things where you basically win the
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  Speaker 5: turnover battle. I don't really count the last-second desperation heave. Also,
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  Speaker 5: I saw some confusion on that play with people discussing
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  Speaker 5: it on social media.
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  Speaker 4: Gee, there's a real shock.
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  Speaker 3: Really?
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  Speaker 2: That happens?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, that does happen from time to time. The Steelers,
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  Speaker 5: they did not have any timeouts left.
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  Speaker 4: For that play.
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  Speaker 5: So I don't think there was any dumping it down
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  Speaker 5: and try to get into.
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  Speaker 4: Range there.
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  Speaker 5: So, yeah, I mean, I don't think that there was
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  Speaker 5: much that Rogers could do other than take that deep
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  Speaker 5: shot there to Roman Wilson. I mean, you're backed up anyway.
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  Speaker 5: You've got 10 seconds in your, your own 35, I suppose.
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  Speaker 5: you get 15 yards. You could be in Chris Boswell territory,
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  Speaker 5: but that would be a 67 or 68.
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  Speaker 4: Yard field goal.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that's NFL record cat.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, even in today's NFL, that's kind of right.
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  Speaker 4: That's unreasonable.
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  Speaker 5: So yeah, Yeah, I mean, they did what they could
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  Speaker 5: on that play, and obviously Grant Delpit picked it off
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  Speaker 5: at the 18, and.
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  Speaker 4: That was the end of the night.
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  Speaker 5: But, yeah, I mean, it was a highly penalized game
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  Speaker 5: for the Browns. They turned it over twice, and yet
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  Speaker 5: the Steelers didn't do enough in any phase of the game.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, hey, I hate to say it, Ed, but
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  Speaker 5: that Chris Boswell miss did loom large. I mean, it's
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  Speaker 5: butterfly effect type stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: So sometimes I don't like doing that because the whole
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  Speaker 5: tone and tenor and strategy of the game is different
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  Speaker 5: if you insert those three points in there. But, yes,
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  Speaker 5: if you just look at it from what was on
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  Speaker 5: the scoreboard at the end of the night, you could
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  Speaker 5: have used those three points.
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  Speaker 2: Coming up next, we're actually going to look at some
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  Speaker 2: Steelers statistics as we try to get through the first
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  Speaker 2: one-fourth of the Steelers schedule, getting Double B's thoughts on
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  Speaker 2: where the Steelers are, where they're heading, what's ahead. We'll
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  Speaker 2: also look at some team statistics. But one last... Team
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  Speaker 2: stat from last night's game in Cleveland is time of possession,
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  Speaker 2: and it was just about even. The Steelers at 31 minutes,
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  Speaker 2: 11 seconds. The Browns, 28 minutes and 49 seconds. But again, look,
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  Speaker 2: we can go over all these team stats. We can
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  Speaker 2: go over individual stats. It was that second quarter that
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  Speaker 2: sunk the black and gold last night. 21 unanswered points
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  Speaker 2: by the Browns. It all started after that Aaron Rodgers interception.
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  Speaker 2: It was tipped at the line of scrimmage, but, well,
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  Speaker 2: Denzel Ward made the play of the game. That's what
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  Speaker 2: switched the momentum back into Cleveland's favor. And the Steelers
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  Speaker 2: waited until the fourth quarter until they jumped back into
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  Speaker 2: this football game before tying it up and giving up
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  Speaker 2: the winning field goal to the Cleveland Browns who get
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  Speaker 2: the 3-1 on the year. And the Steelers at 2-2.
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  Speaker 2: But a lot of football to be played, Brian. And
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  Speaker 2: you get a 10-day mini-buy now to get things right.
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  Speaker 2: And you have the Colts coming into town. They are
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  Speaker 2: next up on the Steelers' schedule in Week 5. That
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  Speaker 2: game will be played on Sunday, October 11th, a week
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  Speaker 2: from this Sunday at 1 o'clock, and you have an
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  Speaker 2: opportunity to get right again on your season. They got
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  Speaker 2: right after the loss in New England. Now they have
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  Speaker 2: to try to get right a second time after this
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  Speaker 2: loss in Cleveland.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Now I'm looking at it more from that final play.
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  Speaker 5: Maybe they did have a timeout. I thought there was
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  Speaker 5: an injury timeout at some point, but I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: Either way, that was a desperation play there, and I
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  Speaker 5: know that the Ravens.
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  Speaker 2: Tough sledding.
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  Speaker 5: The Ravens came back against the Cowboys and got that
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  Speaker 5: late field goal with basically one play down in Brazil.
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  Speaker 4: So it's doable.
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  Speaker 5: Maybe we can get some more explanation on that from
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  Speaker 5: Mike McCarthy, Brian Angelico, Aaron Rogers. When we talked to
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  Speaker 5: them next week, it's still a long layoff to sit
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  Speaker 5: and live with this loss.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: Is that a good thing or a bad thing, Ed,
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  Speaker 5: when you've got all this extra time? I mean, it's
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  Speaker 5: a bitter taste, but you get more time. You get
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  Speaker 5: that mini by to, to rest up and flush it.
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  Speaker 2: And you come off of a win. then you can
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  Speaker 2: ride that momentum through this 10-day period. When you come
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  Speaker 2: off of a loss like this, again, I'm always a
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  Speaker 2: silver lining type guy, double B. So I look at
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  Speaker 2: the silver lining in everything. That's why I was giving
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  Speaker 2: you that secondary setup with Jalen Ramsey. You were like,
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  Speaker 2: no troop. Listen, he doesn't play the outside. He's going
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  Speaker 2: to be the nickel.
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  Speaker 4: You never know. They can adjust.
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  Speaker 5: They can tweak things on the fly if that's what
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  Speaker 5: makes sense for the team.
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  Speaker 2: But listen, I look at it from this standpoint. You
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  Speaker 2: got 10 days to get right. You've got 10 days
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  Speaker 2: to clean up the communication. The mistackling is something that
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  Speaker 2: you can work on these next 10 days. Now, that's
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  Speaker 2: going to take more reps and practice to try to
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  Speaker 2: get better on that, and they have to. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: that mistackling last night was very, very obvious. Whenever Double
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  Speaker 2: B and I come back, let's look at some Steelers
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  Speaker 2: statistics through the first four games, plus what's ahead for
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  Speaker 2: the black and gold. And then coming up today at 3.40,
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  Speaker 2: our Renegade Preview, week four, in and around the AFC North,
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  Speaker 2: the AFC, and the NFL. I'm E.T., he's B.B., it's
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  Speaker 2: the Steelers Report here on Steelers Nation Radio, part of
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  Speaker 2: the Steelers Audio Network.
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  Speaker 3: It's the Steelers report with Brian Batko and Ed Truth
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  Speaker 3: on Steelers Nation Radio, a part of the Steelers Audio Network.
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  Speaker 2: Well, with the Steelers game for week four behind us,
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  Speaker 2: you can spend your weekend as a free agent and
• 14:37
  Speaker 2: do whatever you want. If you want to watch football,
• 14:39
  Speaker 2: there's plenty of options. College football, high school football tonight
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  Speaker 2: here on Friday.
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  Speaker 1: And then, of course.
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  Speaker 2: Tomorrow, college, and Sunday, NFL. But tonight, not only high
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  Speaker 2: school football, a couple college games, and Double B, the
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  Speaker 2: Pitt Panthers head to Virginia Tech for a big one
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  Speaker 2: in the ACC.
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  Speaker 4: Big one in Blacksburg, two 4-0 teams.
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  Speaker 5: James Franklin, Pat Narduzzi used to be on opposite sidelines
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  Speaker 5: in the Pitt-Penn State rivalry. Penn State's actually playing tonight, too,
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  Speaker 5: by the way, at Northwestern. I'm sure we've got a
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  Speaker 5: lot of Penn State fan listeners, whether you're here in
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  Speaker 5: Western PA or in far-flung places. So we'll see how
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  Speaker 5: they do against the alma mater of Trey Essex, Ben Skoranek,
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  Speaker 5: and some others in Chicago.
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  Speaker 4: So we'll see, or Evanston, technically, I guess, where Northwestern plays.
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  Speaker 5: So both Pitt and Penn State trying to get one
• 15:31
  Speaker 5: on the road this evening. Some really good games tomorrow, too,
• 15:36
  Speaker 5: across the college football landscape. Notre Dame's at North Carolina.
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  Speaker 5: fighting Belichick's. Will they knock off the number three team
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  Speaker 5: in the country down in Chapel Hill?
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  Speaker 4: Alabama, Mississippi State. Ed, have you watched Mississippi State at
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  Speaker 4: all yet this year?
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  Speaker 2: They've been fun.
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  Speaker 5: Camario Taylor, that quarterback, I've got a man crush on
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  Speaker 5: him as far as draft prospects go. He can't come
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  Speaker 5: out until 2028, but in case you haven't heard, the
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  Speaker 5: Steelers just got another asset in 2028, a second rounder
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  Speaker 5: to work with.
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  Speaker 4: They've got a lot of picks.
• 16:09
  Speaker 5: They are stockpiling picks again in Reality of that, just
• 16:12
  Speaker 5: as we digress for a minute, is like maybe Drew
• 16:14
  Speaker 5: Aller or Will Howard will be the guy. Maybe they
• 16:17
  Speaker 5: are the next franchise quarterback for this team. But if
• 16:19
  Speaker 5: they aren't, you got to get one. Somehow, someway, you
• 16:22
  Speaker 5: got to get one. You probably don't want to pay
• 16:24
  Speaker 5: the piper to do so on the free agent market.
• 16:26
  Speaker 5: That's also kind of a risky proposition all the time, too.
• 16:31
  Speaker 5: You don't normally see teams let long-term franchise QBs out
• 16:35
  Speaker 5: of their building. If it's close, they pay them. Just
• 16:37
  Speaker 5: look at Brock Purdy. Look at Dak Prescott. Look at
• 16:40
  Speaker 5: Jalen Hurts. To me, they're three of those fringe guys
• 16:43
  Speaker 5: who I'm sure there were reasonable disagreements from people in
• 16:47
  Speaker 5: their fan bases of, should we really pay this guy
• 16:51
  Speaker 5: all these millions, or is he just thriving in this system? Well,
• 16:56
  Speaker 5: I think all three have kind of proven that, yeah,
• 16:58
  Speaker 5: they're worth it. I guess Hurts is... He's in an
• 17:02
  Speaker 5: ebb right now in terms of his usual ebb and flow,
• 17:04
  Speaker 5: but Brock Purdy's an MVP candidate, and Dak Prescott... Dallas offense,
• 17:09
  Speaker 5: they're usually pretty formidable. But this Camario Taylor from Mississippi State,
• 17:15
  Speaker 5: I'm very curious to see if he can dice up
• 17:18
  Speaker 5: Alabama's defense because he's big.
• 17:20
  Speaker 4: His arm is insane. He can run.
• 17:23
  Speaker 5: Seems like he's got the intangibles as well down at
• 17:27
  Speaker 5: Mississippi State. Who else is on the slate for college football?
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: What's the Saturday night ABC like 730 game?
• 17:33
  Speaker 5: Before we even get to that, how about Ohio State
• 17:36
  Speaker 5: at Iowa? That's a good one.
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: Big 10 matchup.
• 17:38
  Speaker 5: A lot of guys in the Steelers locker room will
• 17:40
  Speaker 5: have keen eyes on that one.
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: It's at Iowa. For both, yeah.
• 17:43
  Speaker 5: Yeah, number 14 Iowa unbeaten against number five Ohio State
• 17:46
  Speaker 5: whose only loss was to Texas. So that should be
• 17:50
  Speaker 5: a real slobber knocker. What's the Vegas think of that game?
• 17:55
  Speaker 5: They've still got Ohio State favored by 14 and a half.
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: On the road.
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: In Iowa.
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: Kirk Ferentz. Get him going, buddy. Get him going.
• 18:02
  Speaker 5: The big Saturday night game, to answer your question, Ed,
• 18:04
  Speaker 5: is Miami number four at Clemson, which is.
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: Three and one.
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: That's a pretty good game.
• 18:10
  Speaker 5: Yeah, because Clemson got rocked early in the season by LSU.
• 18:14
  Speaker 5: But if Dabo Sweeney still has any juice, come out
• 18:18
  Speaker 5: there and protect your home field against the high-flight hurricanes.
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: The Saturday night games, the reason why I asked you
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: is that's, at least in my household, that's been a
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: popular activity the last handful of Saturday nights, watching that
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: ABC matchup. There's been some really good Saturday night games
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: the last few weeks.
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: We've also got Shaler Area Homecoming tomorrow. Yeah, that's what
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: you were telling me.
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: The Titans.
• 18:39
  Speaker 5: They're one of the few teams around here that still
• 18:41
  Speaker 5: does a Saturday homecoming game with.
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: A parade and floats and candy.
• 18:46
  Speaker 5: So it's a tradition in our community. We'll take the
• 18:49
  Speaker 5: kids up. I don't know that we'll stay for the
• 18:51
  Speaker 5: football game. They're playing the Mars Fighting Planets.
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: Fighting Planets.
• 18:56
  Speaker 5: Not alma mater, but it's where Steelers VP of Communications,
• 19:03
  Speaker 5: Burt Lawton, lives, is in the Mars school.
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: Wes Euler, right.
• 19:08
  Speaker 5: Here from SNR. How could I forget Wes? It's not
• 19:11
  Speaker 5: just Senior Director of Communications, Burt Lawton. It is We'll
• 19:14
  Speaker 5: go ahead and call Wes the Senior Director of Communications
• 19:17
  Speaker 5: at the Steelers Audio Network. So bring it on, Wes.
• 19:21
  Speaker 5: And that's actually Wes's alma mater. So he and I
• 19:23
  Speaker 5: should probably put some chicken on.
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: The line in this one. What do you think?
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you got to do something. Maybe like a shirt.
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: A shirt exchange.
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: The boys back home, I think the Titans are 1-4
• 19:32
  Speaker 4: this season.
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: And.
• 19:37
  Speaker 5: Burt was giving me some grief. He's like, what, your
• 19:39
  Speaker 5: team schedules Mars for homecoming? I'm like, I don't think
• 19:41
  Speaker 5: it's like, it's not like Pitt scheduling Bucknell. You probably
• 19:45
  Speaker 5: get your schedule handed to you from the whip eel
• 19:47
  Speaker 5: and then you, you know, maybe work around that.
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: But Mars is also. one in four. So maybe I,
• 19:52
  Speaker 4: maybe I should approach West for some skin in the game.
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: Kasparovic left and went back to his alma mater in
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: North Hills this year, but he was at Mars the
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: last handful years, coach Kasparovic. And he did a great
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: job with that Mars program, getting them back, On the map.
• 20:07
  Speaker 5: Well, now I'm getting kind of fired up. Now I
• 20:08
  Speaker 5: kind of want to stay for the Euler Batco Bowl.
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: You should see Wes. Wes will probably be on the
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: WVU wherever they were. Where are the Mountaineers idle this weekend?
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: No, I think they have a game. See what happens.
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: Steelers Nation. We lose a Thursday night game. We're in
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: the second hour at Iowa State. And we got to
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: start talking about college football.
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: West Virginia is at Iowa State. So I don't think.
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: I don't think Wes is going to Ames, but I don't.
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: Think, I mean, he's hardcore though. He probably does a
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: couple away games a year. I'm sure in between his
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: Steeler duties.
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: Speaking of the Steelers, let's get back onto the black
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: and gold who are coming off the loss last night, 27,
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: 24 to the Browns on Thursday night football, a double
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: B two and two. after four games. And again, looking
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: at just about a fourth into their season. The next four,
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: at home against Indianapolis after the 10-day mini-bye, and then
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: at Tampa Bay, at New Orleans, and then Cleveland. They
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: get a rematch against the Browns on November 1st, and
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: then their actual bye week, and they will not play
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: from November 1st until November 15th at Cincinnati. So let's
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: just look at the next four games. Indianapolis at home,
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: and depending on what the Colts do this week, still
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: should be favored i think in that game at tampa
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: bay good chance that they're favored in that one.
• 21:25
  Speaker 5: Oh speaking of the colts you know they play in
• 21:27
  Speaker 5: london this week so they're going to be coming off
• 21:30
  Speaker 5: of an international trip against the commanders and obviously the
• 21:34
  Speaker 5: steelers are coming off of a little mini buy so.
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: Maybe an advantage there hey could be an advantage weren't we.
• 21:40
  Speaker 5: Just making a big deal about that because who oh
• 21:43
  Speaker 5: the patriots had extra rest after playing They did.
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: That opening Wednesday night game.
• 21:47
  Speaker 5: And, well, they looked rested when they faced the Steelers
• 21:49
  Speaker 5: at Gillette Stadium. Not that that's the be-all, end-all. There
• 21:53
  Speaker 5: needs to be execution and things. But, yeah, I mean,
• 21:55
  Speaker 5: for whatever it's worth, the Colts, they will be coming
• 21:58
  Speaker 5: off of a game at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London.
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: You got the Paris game against the Saints. That's a toss-up.
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: We talked about that earlier this week on the show.
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: Never know what to make of those. That might as
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: well be Thursday night football.
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: Feels that way, doesn't it? And then you got the
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: rematch against the Browns on the first. So, you know,
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: good opportunity. I still think, even though.
• 22:18
  Speaker 5: You say on the first on November 1st, they play
• 22:21
  Speaker 5: the Browns on October 1st and November 1st. You know,
• 22:23
  Speaker 5: we mentioned bone thugs and harmony on the show.
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: He can bring it up again.
• 22:26
  Speaker 5: I didn't mention first of the month and they are
• 22:28
  Speaker 5: from Cleveland. Well, we mentioned first of the month, but
• 22:31
  Speaker 5: I didn't mention that they are, you know, they're a cleat,
• 22:33
  Speaker 5: probably preeminent Cleveland hip hop group.
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: I would think, I don't know who else is even
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: in the mix there, but.
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: I'm not sure.
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: Kid Cudi, is he a Cleveland guy?
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: I have no clue. I know who you're talking about.
• 22:47
  Speaker 5: That was a bad omen for the Steelers that they
• 22:49
  Speaker 5: were playing the Browns in Cleveland on the first of
• 22:52
  Speaker 5: the month. Why wasn't Bone Thugs doing the halftime show?
• 22:55
  Speaker 5: They had MC Light was in the building as the
• 23:00
  Speaker 5: guest DJ. Did you know she's in the Rock and
• 23:02
  Speaker 5: Roll Hall of Fame?
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: I did. Oh, wow. How did you know that?
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: I did because I was just at the Rock and
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: Roll Hall of Fame last year when I went up
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: to see the Cavs play.
• 23:09
  Speaker 5: Well, 2016 inductee Cheap Trick did the halftime show.
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: Okay. Now, who did the guitar? They showed it. Oh,
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: it was their former offensive lineman.
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: Betonio.
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he did the guitar.
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: What do you think?
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: I kind of like the guitar smashing. It's kind of
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: like a cool thing.
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: I can game recognize game, you know.
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: The Steelers' tradition is the terrible towel wave.
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: Casey Hampton did it before the Bengals.
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: He did.
• 23:32
  Speaker 5: Bring back big snack for the next one against the Colts.
• 23:35
  Speaker 5: Don't mess with the juju.
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: I also saw that they had the in-house band playing
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: during timeouts, too.
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: At Cleveland. Pittsburgh does that, too. Yep. They have their
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: own in-house band. That seems like to be the new
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: thing in the NFL, these in-house bands.
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess so.
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: I mean, people like live music.
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: In between, so I don't know. I thought it was
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: just a Steeler thing.
• 23:53
  Speaker 5: They were showing the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
• 23:54
  Speaker 5: inductees for this year on the scoreboard.
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: Phil Collins, apparently.
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: That's one of my guys.
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: How is he not already in?
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 24:00
  Speaker 5: Probably in for Genesis, I would think, but. And maybe
• 24:02
  Speaker 5: there's like a waiting period like there is for athletes.
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: I don't know. Billy Idol just got in.
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: Phil's one of my favorite, by the way.
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: Iron Maiden got in this year. Okay. There were some others, too.
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: Slipped my mind, but those were three that I saw.
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: So the Steelers' next four, Brian Backo, what do you think?
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: Three and one during this stretch? They have to. Okay,
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: let me ask you two-part. You don't have to do
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: the picks. We're not going to get that deep in
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: the weeds. But what do you think they have to
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: do out of these next four realistically? Went three of four.
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: If you go two and two, you're four and four
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: after eight.
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: I think three of four is a reasonable expectation.
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: That's what I'm feeling. I feel that way, too.
• 24:36
  Speaker 5: At that point, you'd be five and three going into
• 24:42
  Speaker 5: the break.
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: So that's manageable. But, man, it'd be nice to win
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: all four.
• 24:47
  Speaker 5: Because we talked about how tough that schedule gets coming.
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: Out of the bye week.
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: At Cincy, at Philly, Denver at home.
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: They got Baltimore twice in the back half of the schedule. Right.
• 24:59
  Speaker 4: And you can definitely make a case for winning. all
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: four because Colts, you know, you, you've had Daniel Jones's number.
• 25:07
  Speaker 5: And again, you know, that they are, they are a
• 25:09
  Speaker 5: team that's maybe on their last legs under their GM,
• 25:12
  Speaker 5: Chris Ballard, and even head coach Shane Steichen, who's had
• 25:15
  Speaker 5: the Steelers number, but not last year.
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: They beat them last year when the Colts came in
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: red hot and they were undefeated.
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: Yep.
• 25:21
  Speaker 4: And the Steelers pretty much dominated that game, right? As
• 25:24
  Speaker 4: I recall. Um, so that's good. They will be coming
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: off the London trip.
• 25:29
  Speaker 5: Then you've got, uh, The Tampa Bay Bucs, who are
• 25:32
  Speaker 5: reeling right now at 0-3, could be starting undrafted rookie
• 25:36
  Speaker 5: again at QB in that game. Jalen Daniels might be
• 25:40
  Speaker 5: able to do some things, and he'll have a game
• 25:42
  Speaker 5: or two under his belt by that point, but got
• 25:45
  Speaker 5: to like.
• 25:45
  Speaker 4: Your chances there.
• 25:46
  Speaker 5: And then, you know, Tyler Shuck, it'll be his first
• 25:49
  Speaker 5: international game experience with the Saints, and they've been up
• 25:52
  Speaker 5: and down through three weeks there at 1-2. We'll see
• 25:55
  Speaker 5: what they do. They've got a big one Monday night
• 25:57
  Speaker 5: against the Falcons at home. That's one of the better
• 26:00
  Speaker 5: low-key rivalries in the NFL, Falcons-Saints. So maybe they'll be
• 26:04
  Speaker 5: 2-2 after this week and we'll recalibrate expectations. Then you've
• 26:08
  Speaker 5: got to get some get-back on the Browns when they
• 26:11
  Speaker 5: come to Accresure Stadium.
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: Can't get swept by the Browns.
• 26:13
  Speaker 4: And that's how this rivalry has worked. Can't get swept.
• 26:15
  Speaker 5: That's how this series has worked in recent years.
• 26:19
  Speaker 4: Both teams have been holding serve at home for the
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: most part.
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: The Browns haven't won here since when? The 90s? Well.
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: Other than that, that's it.
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: We don't count the wild card. I'm just kidding. I
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: know Brian back. Oh, that's your, that's your deal.
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: You got to count the playoffs though.
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 26:32
  Speaker 5: In the regular season, regular season, they have not gotten it.
• 26:35
  Speaker 5: And you know, there weren't really fans in the stands
• 26:36
  Speaker 5: for that games.
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: I think three out of four, very doable. You should
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: beat the Colts. You should win at Tampa Bay, especially
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: with them being beat up. And the Steelers actually historically
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: have played pretty well in Tampa Bay. I don't have
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: that stat in front of me, but just my gut
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: feel tells me that they've played pretty good in Tampa
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: over the years. The New Orleans games in France, yes,
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: these international games are just like Thursday night games for
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: the Steelers. Last year... The Vikings game, good, right? But
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: other than that, I feel like they've struggled in some
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: of those international games, regardless of who they face, including
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: the Vikings back, not last year, but previously when they
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: played the Vikings. I know they lost.
• 27:11
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, that was the last one until Dublin
• 27:13
  Speaker 5: was that 2013 loss in London.
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: And you get the Browns at home. Can't get swept
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: by Cleveland if you have any chance in this division. So, yeah,
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: maybe you have a hiccup in France, but you beat
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: the Colts, you win in Tampa, and you take care
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: of business against the Browns. Very realistic. You'd be five
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: and three. And there is one person, not two, just
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: one person on this show that had them at five
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: and three after eight.
• 27:34
  Speaker 4: That was me.
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: That was you.
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: What were you? Six and two.
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: Six and two.
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: Well, that's doable as well.
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 27:39
  Speaker 4: Absolutely. Keep the faith. Last night was one deflating game,
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: but one game nonetheless.
• 27:46
  Speaker 5: And yeah, the Steelers will, they'll have a chance to
• 27:49
  Speaker 5: make some hay here, as they say, going into their
• 27:53
  Speaker 5: bye week. And before we get to another break, Ed,
• 27:57
  Speaker 5: Couple birthdays. The late Dick Haley, former Steelers player, Pitt
• 28:01
  Speaker 5: football alum, Midway, Pennsylvania native, and then longtime director of
• 28:07
  Speaker 5: player personnel, father of Todd Haley. It would have been
• 28:11
  Speaker 5: his birthday today. Passed away in 2023. And then Nick Siba.
• 28:16
  Speaker 5: You remember Nick Siba?
• 28:18
  Speaker 4: I do not.
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: Well, you should because a deep cut.
• 28:21
  Speaker 5: 100 percent on field goals and extra points in his
• 28:24
  Speaker 5: Steelers career. And that was one game in 2022. Chris
• 28:28
  Speaker 5: Boswell was injured. They brought up Nick Skiba from Wake Forest,
• 28:32
  Speaker 5: made two field goals. I vaguely remember made an extra
• 28:35
  Speaker 5: point handled for kickoffs. I think he was someone who
• 28:40
  Speaker 5: was like in training camp with them and in the preseason.
• 28:43
  Speaker 5: But unfortunately, they lost.
• 28:44
  Speaker 4: That day at Philly.
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: That's definitely a deep cut. I feel like sometimes you
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: test my knowledge, like to see if I'm lying to you.
• 28:49
  Speaker 4: Oh yeah.
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: I remember that guy. Yeah.
• 28:52
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: Cause honestly, I thought your next comment was going to be,
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: he was the Steelers punter back in 1942. Cause you're
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: always good for those two.
• 29:01
  Speaker 4: This is more recent.
• 29:01
  Speaker 5: You probably watched this game and he went on to
• 29:04
  Speaker 5: play for the New Jersey generals.
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: I guarantee I did. Okay. We're going to wrap up
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: our number two and we come back.
• 29:09
  Speaker 4: How often do you pay attention to a team's kicker?
• 29:10
  Speaker 5: It's kind of like, Shawshank Redemption, how often do you
• 29:12
  Speaker 5: pay attention to a man's shoes?
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: Good call.
• 29:15
  Speaker 4: Nick Skiba just went right through your memory hole.
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: Yep, he did. Renegade Preview.
• 29:20
  Speaker 4: But he's 27 today.
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: 27. Look at that. To be 27 again. Well, that
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: wasn't that long ago for you. Renegade Preview, week four
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: in and around the AFC North, AFC, and NFL is
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: up next. It's Troop and Backo on the Steelers Report
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: here on Steelers Nation Radio, part of the Steelers Audio Network.
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: This is the Steelers report with Brian Backo and Ed
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: Troop on Steelers Nation Radio, a part of the Steelers
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: Audio Network.
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: Wrapping up our number two before we... Hand things off
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: to Wes Shuler and Matt Williamson on SNR's Drive. Also
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: wrapping up our week, two, not one, but two recaps
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: this week of Pittsburgh Steelers football double B. Oh, yeah.
• 30:12
  Speaker 4: Busy week.
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: Quick turnaround for everyone.
• 30:15
  Speaker 4: Tough when you've got two games in five days.
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: And for those listening at home.
• 30:21
  Speaker 5: Everybody's got to do it, at least at some point
• 30:22
  Speaker 5: in the season, right?
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: For our three fans, Uncle Tommy, my mom, and my brother-in-law.
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: And I have a couple.
• 30:30
  Speaker 4: I don't know. Did I throw out any good vocab
• 30:31
  Speaker 4: words this week for Uncle Tommy?
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: You did. You had one yesterday.
• 30:34
  Speaker 4: No, today, though. What was yesterday?
• 30:36
  Speaker 5: Trying to get one every day might get a little
• 30:39
  Speaker 5: bit much. But you don't want to drop any superfluous words.
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: Nicely done right there. You just did. Thank you.
• 30:47
  Speaker 4: Just to fill a quota.
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: Well, shout out to Uncle Tommy. He's one of our
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: three fans.
• 30:51
  Speaker 4: Hopefully he listened to the end today.
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: Hopefully. If he listened to the end, then he's definitely
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: an OG. So there's no doubt about that. But listen...
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: Coming up on Monday, for our fans out there, we're
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: going to have our top ten moments from this game.
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: So just when you think by Monday you put the
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: Thursday night game behind you, we will have some top
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: ten moments to get to you. Plus we'll have the
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: Mike McCarthy press conference on Monday here on SNR2, as
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: Brian said. And we always play back the Coronators on Tuesday,
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: so we'll hear from Coach Graham and Coach Angelico on
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: Tuesday of next week. They'll talk on Monday, but we'll
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: have it here on the show next Tuesday. But, yeah,
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: McCarthy will be Monday, so everybody gets a bit of
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: a break to refocus and get back on track. But,
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: Double B, I wanted to ask you real quick just
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: a few stats on the Steelers so far, and then
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: we'll get to our Renegade preview in and around the league.
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers, through four games now, has completed 57% of
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: his passes at 999 yards, so only one yard away
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: from 1,000 in his first four games. That's an average
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: of 249 yards passing per game, seven touchdowns, four interceptions.
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: Has that met your expectations, or has he fallen short
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: so far? For me, 250 yards passing per game sounds
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: about right.
• 32:02
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm not sure. I mean, I think.
• 32:06
  Speaker 5: Ultimately you're going to be judged by your record at
• 32:08
  Speaker 5: the end of the day when you bring back Aaron
• 32:09
  Speaker 5: Rodgers at 42 for his final go-around.
• 32:12
  Speaker 4: And this team is 2-2.
• 32:14
  Speaker 5: I think they've absolutely had success at times because of Rodgers,
• 32:19
  Speaker 5: and I think he's been a detriment at times, and
• 32:23
  Speaker 5: you want to see it. hit more consistently. You know, the,
• 32:27
  Speaker 5: the arm strength is still there. It's like dumb that
• 32:30
  Speaker 5: people even still talk about that or even have that
• 32:33
  Speaker 5: take of like, wow, he can really still sling it.
• 32:34
  Speaker 4: Like, yeah.
• 32:35
  Speaker 5: I mean, obviously we saw that last year. This isn't,
• 32:38
  Speaker 5: it's never really been in question.
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: No surprises.
• 32:41
  Speaker 4: Correct.
• 32:42
  Speaker 5: But you know, and I also don't even necessarily agree with,
• 32:46
  Speaker 5: I'm sure you've seen this. There's kind of some people
• 32:47
  Speaker 5: who push the agenda that Rogers doesn't want to get
• 32:50
  Speaker 5: hit anymore. Well, he took five hits last night that
• 32:53
  Speaker 5: he probably shouldn't have taken.
• 32:55
  Speaker 4: I think it's just, he's seen it all.
• 32:59
  Speaker 5: So, you know, that there's, there's no lack of football
• 33:03
  Speaker 5: IQ and he's as cerebral as it comes, but maybe
• 33:06
  Speaker 5: it's just getting on the same page with the trust
• 33:10
  Speaker 5: factor with some of the receivers.
• 33:12
  Speaker 4: We know he's turnover averse. I think if you want to.
• 33:15
  Speaker 5: Like pick any knits with Rogers, it's to me, at
• 33:18
  Speaker 5: least it's less doesn't want to get hit and more
• 33:21
  Speaker 5: doesn't ever want to throw an interception. And that's kind
• 33:23
  Speaker 5: of a good quote unquote problem to have with any
• 33:26
  Speaker 5: quarterback because turnovers are costly. They can really hurt you,
• 33:30
  Speaker 5: but having the mentality sometimes to take those shots can
• 33:34
  Speaker 5: open up an offense. You know, I know some people
• 33:37
  Speaker 5: would work under the belief of like, if you have
• 33:40
  Speaker 5: a quarterback who's never throwing interceptions, that's not necessarily a
• 33:43
  Speaker 5: good thing because sometimes you need to put the ball
• 33:46
  Speaker 5: in harm's way to make.
• 33:48
  Speaker 4: Big things happen.
• 33:49
  Speaker 5: But you also, you can't, cough it up either at
• 33:53
  Speaker 5: times when that's going to put your defense up against
• 33:55
  Speaker 5: it so I'd say a mixed bag thus far in
• 33:57
  Speaker 5: my mind for Rodgers.
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: Jalen Warren 55 carries 309 yards now listen that 309
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: has pretty much been the last two weeks the first
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: two games there was hardly anything that's an average of
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: 77 yards per game and rushing touchdowns so far this
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: season zero the Steelers as a team zero rushing touchdowns
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: through four games i.
• 34:17
  Speaker 5: Never really put too much stock into that stat like
• 34:20
  Speaker 5: they they used to always throw that around of all
• 34:22
  Speaker 5: that they don't have any passing touchdowns to this point
• 34:24
  Speaker 5: it's like well or they have so few passing touchdowns
• 34:26
  Speaker 5: to me it doesn't really matter like the the passing
• 34:30
  Speaker 5: touchdown last night to roman wilson i mean that was
• 34:33
  Speaker 5: essentially a.
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: Rush yeah like so i don't jet sweep i.
• 34:37
  Speaker 5: Think over the at the over the course of the season,
• 34:40
  Speaker 5: if you get to the end and you're way out
• 34:41
  Speaker 5: of whack with your passing and rushing touchdowns, that could
• 34:44
  Speaker 5: be an indication of something. But I'm the type of person, like,
• 34:47
  Speaker 5: you get to the one, I don't care if you
• 34:49
  Speaker 5: punch it in on the ground or if you play action, fake, boom,
• 34:52
  Speaker 5: toss over the middle, tight end is wide open in
• 34:55
  Speaker 5: the end zone. Okay, you got a passing touchdown from
• 34:58
  Speaker 5: the one-yard line.
• 34:59
  Speaker 4: Like, whoop-dee-doo. Just score the ball.
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: That's it. Just get six points. Hey, DK Metcalf, after
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: 115 yards receiving last night, He is now your leading
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: receiver on the season. So the Roman Wilson run of
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: being the number one wide receiver through three weeks is
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: over because now through four weeks, DK Metcalf has 16
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: catches on 33 targets, 213 yards and one touchdown. So
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: for the season, Roman Wilson, second on the team though,
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: right behind DK at 188 yards receiving through four games.
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 35:32
  Speaker 5: I mean, I'd say Jalen Warren's probably the offensive MVP
• 35:35
  Speaker 5: to this point of the season, Ed, but you know,
• 35:38
  Speaker 5: DK Metcalf is coming on now in these last couple
• 35:41
  Speaker 5: of weeks.
• 35:42
  Speaker 4: And, you know, the struggles.
• 35:44
  Speaker 5: Against New England hurt, but I don't know that him
• 35:46
  Speaker 5: making some plays is going to win you that game.
• 35:48
  Speaker 5: You know, they lost 20 to three, but let's let's
• 35:52
  Speaker 5: get it rolling now. And if he can be at
• 35:54
  Speaker 5: his best when the schedule picks up, you're going to
• 35:56
  Speaker 5: feel like you certainly have more firepower and ammunition to
• 35:59
  Speaker 5: go against some of those defenses and offenses for that matter.
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: Defensively, well, let's just talk about it because we're on
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: a time constraint here. TJ Watt, four and a half
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: sacks through the first four games of the season. Had
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: another sack last night against the Browns. Derek Harmon, a
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: sack and a half so far this season. Peyton Wilson,
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: a sack. Of course, we know Alex Highsmith also having
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: a good start to his season. A little bit quiet
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: last night, though, on Highsmith on the stat sheet, right?
• 36:27
  Speaker 4: That's a good left tackle.
• 36:29
  Speaker 5: Good young left tackle for the Browns, for Spencer Fano
• 36:32
  Speaker 5: out of Utah.
• 36:33
  Speaker 4: Reason why he was kind of.
• 36:35
  Speaker 5: A consensus top 10 pick in in this past draft
• 36:40
  Speaker 5: he ends up going ninth overall to Cleveland and looks
• 36:43
  Speaker 5: like he's going to be uh he's going to be
• 36:44
  Speaker 5: a dude for a while.
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: In this game Highsmith with three sacks so far for
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: the Pittsburgh Steelers that's just a quick look at stats
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: through the first four weeks so far for the Pittsburgh
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: Steelers let's now talk about what's ahead here also.
• 36:57
  Speaker 5: Give you some quotes from last night's game how about
• 36:59
  Speaker 5: I give you my favorite Please. Or maybe the most
• 37:02
  Speaker 5: significant quote in my mind from each guy who went
• 37:04
  Speaker 5: to the podium. So that was Mike McCarthy, Aaron Rodgers,
• 37:07
  Speaker 5: and TJ Watt.
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: Let's do it.
• 37:08
  Speaker 4: Start with McCarthy.
• 37:09
  Speaker 5: Someone asked about the five sacks on Aaron Rodgers. Here's
• 37:14
  Speaker 5: what he had to say. We had some protection challenges.
• 37:16
  Speaker 5: They did a good job up front. It was a
• 37:18
  Speaker 5: five-man pressure, man-to-man game. They established that right from the beginning.
• 37:22
  Speaker 5: That's the challenge that we went up against all night.
• 37:24
  Speaker 5: It was herky-jerky. When you play those games, it's who's
• 37:26
  Speaker 5: going to make the big play. You have to step
• 37:28
  Speaker 5: out of tackles. You have to separate. You have to
• 37:30
  Speaker 5: give him time to get through the progression. I think
• 37:32
  Speaker 5: it was an aggressive game plan by them. I kind
• 37:34
  Speaker 5: of expected some of it, but I thought it was
• 37:36
  Speaker 5: a very competitive environment tonight, and we were one play short.
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: He likes that herky-jerky comment.
• 37:40
  Speaker 5: He does seem to mention herky-jerky. I think we're two
• 37:43
  Speaker 5: for two on herky-jerky after losses and maybe even after
• 37:45
  Speaker 5: one of the wins.
• 37:47
  Speaker 4: But, no, I mean, I think that's pretty much right.
• 37:49
  Speaker 5: We didn't even get into, yeah, how much man coverage
• 37:51
  Speaker 5: the Browns played on the back end and whether teams
• 37:54
  Speaker 5: are going to try to look at that as the
• 37:55
  Speaker 5: blueprint to match.
• 37:58
  Speaker 4: Up with the Steelers' offense.
• 38:00
  Speaker 5: Receiving core but if they do I don't uh I
• 38:03
  Speaker 5: don't even really have an issue with that I think
• 38:05
  Speaker 5: that they the Steelers can adjust to that and uh
• 38:09
  Speaker 5: and they can work against that because you know Tyson
• 38:13
  Speaker 5: Campbell wasn't covering DK man-to-man uh on that pivotal final
• 38:17
  Speaker 5: drive um and you know we'll see what uh see
• 38:21
  Speaker 5: what the Colts come in here I don't think Lou
• 38:24
  Speaker 5: Anarumo is mainly a man guy. I mean, I'm sure
• 38:28
  Speaker 5: he mixes it up, but I think he was more
• 38:29
  Speaker 5: known for zone, at least in his Bengals days. Now
• 38:33
  Speaker 5: he's the second year DC for the Colts, but yeah,
• 38:37
  Speaker 5: I don't know that the Colts have as many horses
• 38:40
  Speaker 5: in the, I don't think they have a corner as
• 38:41
  Speaker 5: good as, well, they've got sauce gardener. So I, I
• 38:44
  Speaker 5: shouldn't say that, but you know, Denzel Ward's pretty darn good.
• 38:47
  Speaker 5: And he showed it last night.
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: I sure did with that big interception.
• 38:52
  Speaker 4: Let's look.
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: Do you have any more quotes? I don't want to
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: cut you off.
• 38:54
  Speaker 4: You've got a couple more. I didn't get to Aaron
• 38:56
  Speaker 4: Rodgers or TJ Watt yet. Go ahead. Yes, absolutely.
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: We've got plenty of time here.
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 39:01
  Speaker 4: All right, so here's.
• 39:04
  Speaker 5: What Rodgers had to say when he was asked, and
• 39:07
  Speaker 5: he wasn't very vocal after the game. This isn't the
• 39:12
  Speaker 5: one that I'm going with, but someone said, what did
• 39:13
  Speaker 5: you guys unlock during the fourth quarter in the last drive?
• 39:16
  Speaker 4: He said, DK. That was it.
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: I heard that. Yeah, I heard that. And he's right.
• 39:22
  Speaker 4: He's not wrong. Yeah. So I'll just say, you know,
• 39:29
  Speaker 4: someone asked him to. about the quarterback sneak.
• 39:31
  Speaker 5: We talked about it earlier from my quick six on
• 39:33
  Speaker 5: Steelers dot com. But here was his actual explanation. He said,
• 39:36
  Speaker 5: I felt like there was no chance they'd be expecting that.
• 39:38
  Speaker 5: I just told them in the huddle, if I can,
• 39:41
  Speaker 5: if I can, this one, which is like the signal,
• 39:43
  Speaker 5: I'm going to sneak it.
• 39:44
  Speaker 4: They had a shade and a three technique. I was like,
• 39:46
  Speaker 4: all right, I can probably get a yard. And he did.
• 39:49
  Speaker 4: So that was good.
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: T.J.
• 39:50
  Speaker 5: Watt also, you know, he's someone who no time for
• 39:56
  Speaker 5: the moral victories, obviously. And he's always so frustrated after
• 40:00
  Speaker 5: these games. But here's what he said about the mood
• 40:04
  Speaker 5: of the team at halftime being down 21 to 10.
• 40:08
  Speaker 4: We always have faith.
• 40:09
  Speaker 5: Anytime you have eight at quarterback, you see those guys
• 40:12
  Speaker 5: move the ball up and down the field all the time.
• 40:14
  Speaker 5: We're just trying to give those guys a chance. And
• 40:15
  Speaker 5: we didn't do it tonight.
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: And he's not wrong either.
• 40:19
  Speaker 5: People always, I think, don't try to drive a wedge
• 40:23
  Speaker 5: but wonder if it's a game like week one where
• 40:25
  Speaker 5: the defense did all the heavy lifting or you're.
• 40:27
  Speaker 4: Getting ticked off at the offense. Or even week two,
• 40:30
  Speaker 4: it was even worse.
• 40:31
  Speaker 5: The defense actually played pretty well against Drake May and
• 40:33
  Speaker 5: the Patriots, but three points on the board. Last night,
• 40:37
  Speaker 5: it kind of went the other way. The offense did
• 40:39
  Speaker 5: their part early, did their part late. The defense did not,
• 40:42
  Speaker 5: but TJ Watt, believes in aaron rogers i'm sure aaron
• 40:47
  Speaker 5: rogers and company believe in tj watt and cam hayward
• 40:50
  Speaker 5: and that most of the time those guys are gonna
• 40:53
  Speaker 5: they're gonna keep teams off the scoreboard so yeah i
• 40:55
  Speaker 5: mean it's it's not the end of the world this
• 40:58
  Speaker 5: guy's not falling not pushing the panic button but uh
• 41:02
  Speaker 5: yeah that was uh that was a gut punch of
• 41:03
  Speaker 5: a loss no doubt.
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: A roller coaster of a ride through the first four weeks, right? Atlanta, hey,
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: we were on the up. We won the game, but
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: we didn't feel 100% confident. Not as good as we
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: did after that Bengals win, and I'll get to that
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: in a second. But felt good. Hey, you win a game,
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: you win a game. It was an ugly win. I
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: think everybody kind of agreed for that. Patriots felt way down.
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: I mean, it felt almost pretty much how it feels
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: right now. Because you came right back up the following
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: week against the Bengals. You pulled out at the end.
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: The offense looked better. Divisional win, and you beat the
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: Bengals at home. Great. And then you turn around last
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: night and you're hoping, you're hoping you can get by
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: this Thursday night. I don't want to say jinx or curse,
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: but they haven't played well, especially in Cleveland on Thursday nights.
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: But this morning, of course, after that loss, you kind
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: of feel how you did after the Patriots game. It's
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: been a seesaw up and down through four games, Double B,
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: two and two.
• 41:53
  Speaker 4: And you know what?
• 41:54
  Speaker 5: I guess if you ask me right now, I wouldn't
• 41:56
  Speaker 5: mind another trip to Cleveland this year because that would
• 41:58
  Speaker 5: mean you're in the playoffs for sure.
• 42:00
  Speaker 4: That's right. That's right. Go back to Cleveland.
• 42:04
  Speaker 5: And you'd rather finish ahead of Cleveland, obviously, in the
• 42:06
  Speaker 5: division so that you're not playing on the road.
• 42:09
  Speaker 4: But, you know, you get in the dance, and that's
• 42:12
  Speaker 4: kind of where it starts.
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: Renegade preview week four. Real quick, we'll just hit the
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: AFC North games. The Bengals, 2-1, will host the Jaguars, 2-1,
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: 1 o'clock on Sunday. This is a good one to
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: watch if you're a Steeler fan. Should be a pretty
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: good matchup between the Jaguars and the Bengals.
• 42:29
  Speaker 5: Two big cats getting after it. I guess the other
• 42:32
  Speaker 5: big cat team would be the Carolina Panthers, right? Are
• 42:34
  Speaker 5: there any other big cats in the NFL?
• 42:36
  Speaker 4: I think that's it.
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: A lot of birds.
• 42:40
  Speaker 4: A lot of birds.
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: We could spend a whole segment talking about the different
• 42:44
  Speaker 2: birds teams. Bengals, Jaguars, Panthers. I think that's it. I
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: don't think you're crossing any other.
• 42:51
  Speaker 4: No Wildcats. No Bearcats, whatever those are. No Cheetahs.
• 42:55
  Speaker 5: I wonder if the Cheetah Tyreek Hill is going to
• 42:57
  Speaker 5: be back in the NFL at some point soon here.
• 42:58
  Speaker 4: He was tweeting.
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: He might be.
• 43:01
  Speaker 5: His Twitter fingers were working the other day about how
• 43:03
  Speaker 5: he's ready to get off the couch.
• 43:05
  Speaker 4: He wouldn't mind some cold weather.
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: Let's start that whole thing up again. Steelers should go
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: out and get Tyreek. Let's go down that rabbit hole again. Okay,
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: the other one.
• 43:12
  Speaker 5: And then Brandon Ayuk while they're at it.
• 43:14
  Speaker 2: Oh, boy. The other one here, that's where we are
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: after this loss on Thursday night. The other one is
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: the 0-3 Titans at the 2-1 Ravens. Now, listen, Brian,
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: before you jump to conclusions of should be an easy
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: Ravens win, what has the NFL taught us through the
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: first three weeks of the regular season? Don't assume anything.
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: Never assume.
• 43:35
  Speaker 4: And the Titans have been close in some of these games.
• 43:37
  Speaker 5: Now, close doesn't get you anywhere at the end, but
• 43:41
  Speaker 5: their last two games against the Eagles and the Giants,
• 43:43
  Speaker 5: they lost by four and five points.
• 43:45
  Speaker 4: Cam Ward threw a pick in the end zone.
• 43:47
  Speaker 5: As they were coming down there to score against the
• 43:50
  Speaker 5: John Harbaugh G-men. And the Ravens are coming off of
• 43:53
  Speaker 5: that thrilling win in Brazil, but I guess that's not
• 43:56
  Speaker 5: quite as much of an ordeal coming from the same
• 43:59
  Speaker 5: time zone, I think, right?
• 44:00
  Speaker 4: Brazil and the U.S. It's right under us. I think.
• 44:04
  Speaker 5: I'm not a geography guy, but South America, we're North America,
• 44:08
  Speaker 5: and it might be a little easier flight than coming
• 44:11
  Speaker 5: from across the pond.
• 44:13
  Speaker 2: I would think so. It should be a lot easier
• 44:15
  Speaker 2: than that. That's going to do it for our show
• 44:17
  Speaker 2: for today and this week. We'll recap the NFL games
• 44:20
  Speaker 2: from Week 3 on Monday's show, and we'll get ready
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: for the Mike McCarthy press conference on Monday, too. It'll
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: be good to hear from Coach McCarthy after a few
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: days of this loss settles Steelers Nation down by Monday.
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: Enjoy your weekend, everyone. Up next, it's Wes Shuler and
• 44:35
  Speaker 2: Matt Williamson on SNR's Drive. I'm Ed Troop alongside Brian Bacco.
• 44:39
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• 44:41
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