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Week 3 Preview: The Steelers Home Opener Awaits! · The Irish Steelers Podcast

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Speaker 1: Everybody. Welcome into the Irish Steeters Podcast on the Pittsburgh
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Speaker 1: Steeters Podcast Network. This is the podcast for Pittsburgh Steelers
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Speaker 1: fans eminating from across the island of Ireland and beyond.
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Speaker 1: Michael mcgid, Jimmy English and David McKee one week out
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Speaker 1: from the Pittsburgh Steeters watch Party and Jimmy obviously great
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Speaker 1: to see you and my man and a bit of
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Speaker 1: different news this week. Welcome to you, Faultsha and also
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Speaker 1: Faultsha to Steelers legend two time Super Bowl champion Willie
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Speaker 1: Parker is coming to Dublin next week. You must be
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Speaker 1: excited a m.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, Michael. I mean I was definitely excited when
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Speaker 2: I saw Willie announced as the second guest for the
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Speaker 2: watch party, and I mean, to have two two time
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Speaker 2: Super Bowl champions coming over, it's fantastic. And obviously Willie
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Speaker 2: would have been a prominent player on the Steeters offense
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Speaker 2: and when I first began watching all those years ago,
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Speaker 2: So like you said, it's getting closer now. Excited for
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Speaker 2: that for that night, to meet all the Steeters farms
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Speaker 2: in Ireland, and yeah, it's gonna be fantastic.
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Speaker 1: Crack Willie Parker they call him fast Willie Parker. I
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Speaker 1: don't think either have been the day trust dialogue. But
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Speaker 1: I'm sure he'd run around.
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Speaker 3: It very quickly.
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Speaker 4: He would do sprints up this hell. I have to say, Mac,
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Speaker 4: he wouldn't. He wouldn't slowly, but surely wouldn't be slowing
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Speaker 4: down for anybody. And now I have to say, yeah,
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Speaker 4: I was the same as Jimmy. I was buzzing to
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Speaker 4: see it. You know, two times Super Bowl champion. I
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Speaker 4: think he has the record for the longest touchdown run
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Speaker 4: in Super Bowl history if master mistaken. So he's a
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Speaker 4: Steelers legend, that's the main thing. And when I seen it,
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Speaker 4: I was just as happy. So we've got, you know,
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Speaker 4: two great legends there. We had Alvion Fanaka last year
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Speaker 4: and we got to see the block then, and I'm
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Speaker 4: pretty sure we get to see it again this year.
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Speaker 4: We got to see that magnificent run against Seahawks super bold.
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Speaker 4: So I'm just like Jimmy, I can't wait bringing on.
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Speaker 1: I can't wait for next weekend. I know a lot
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Speaker 1: of us are really excited. There's still some end zone
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Speaker 1: tickets available. We'll put the link in the bio and
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Speaker 1: we're already looking forward to seeing everybody next week as
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Speaker 1: these Steelers get ready for the Week four matchup on
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Speaker 1: the road against the Colts. Before that, there is a
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Speaker 1: small matter of a home opennder this weekend against the
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Speaker 1: Los Angeles Chargers. Are reborn Los Angeles Chargers team with
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Speaker 1: Justin Herbert at the helm and not just him, but
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Speaker 1: a new guy in Jim Harbor at the Helm as well.
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Speaker 1: And before we talk about the Chargers, Jimmy, look, it's
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Speaker 1: just your thoughts heading into the third week of the season,
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Speaker 1: just on a basic general note that the team is
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Speaker 1: too and no it's all positive vibes, and you know,
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Speaker 1: potentially a situation where they come inted of the next
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Speaker 1: week with Willie Parker and among many others unbeaten, and
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Speaker 1: we can only hope that happens.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, you're not going to complain, Michael about
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Speaker 2: being too and now to start the season, especially given
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Speaker 2: how competitive are our division is and how competitive the
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Speaker 2: conference is. And I think their current record is thanks
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Speaker 2: in large part of the defense, as they really have
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Speaker 2: stood tall and they've played at an lead level so
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Speaker 2: far this season. Would like to see a bit more
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Speaker 2: offense against the Chargers. I think we kind of gilipse
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Speaker 2: of it last week. That connection from Justin Fields to Pickens,
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Speaker 2: It's it's there. It's fantastic, and I'd like to see
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Speaker 2: him get a couple of more receivers involved if possible,
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Speaker 2: Maybe get Frier Mout involved a bit in the over
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Speaker 2: the middle. I think some kind of you know, medium
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Speaker 2: to long h passes over the middle will be nice,
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Speaker 2: and just get that offense to open up a little bit.
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Speaker 2: And I think it's one thing having all those penalties
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Speaker 2: against the likes of the Broncos who are struggling, but
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Speaker 2: you cannot do that against the Chargers. They're a much
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Speaker 2: higher caliber team at the minute. We'll get into it
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Speaker 2: as well. I just think that Jim Jim Harbaugh has
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Speaker 2: completely re energized this franchise, this team, and of course
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Speaker 2: the players have responded to his leadership. I think we've
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Speaker 2: seen their fruits of that very early on the season.
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Speaker 2: So the Chargers are they're not gonna be a pushover,
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Speaker 2: and they're gonna they're gonna give us, They're gonna give
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Speaker 2: us a fight.
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Speaker 1: It's gonna be a good matchup for the neutral hopefully
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Speaker 1: a good matchup for Steelers. Fawn Stavo can't be the
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Speaker 1: home opener. He can't beat that, that that one bottled
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Speaker 1: up jar of emotion that lets loose once a year
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Speaker 1: when people are happy stairs footballs back. It's been back
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Speaker 1: for a couple of weeks, but there's nothing like that
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Speaker 1: home opener, is there?
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Speaker 3: The home opener is special?
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Speaker 4: Michael having said that, you know, everybody knows how well
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Speaker 4: our fans travel. I mean, both of the games so far,
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Speaker 4: fat like hoping up from the noise in the stands
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Speaker 4: you can hear to the TV. But all of a sudden,
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Speaker 4: you know our record too, you know, I mean, after
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Speaker 4: what happened on Monday night with Kirk Cousins walking into
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Speaker 4: Philly and gett a win, that win against the Falcons
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Speaker 4: doesn't seem too bad. So yeah, I'm really optimistic, you know,
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Speaker 4: just obviously on the Chargers, you know, under Jim Harbaugh.
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Speaker 4: First things first, you know, there are clear improvements. You know,
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Speaker 4: for one, they've now get an offensive line. They won't
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Speaker 4: let Justin Herbert get killed in about two seconds and
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Speaker 4: haven't said that. I've just looked at the injury report.
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Speaker 4: Just Herbert is denis questionable. Whether that's something that we
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Speaker 4: can look into, I don't know, of course, you know
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Speaker 4: Joe alt theft overall pick tackle at a Notre Dame.
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Speaker 4: He's an obvious improvement. Alongside is a Rushaw Slater who's
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Speaker 4: already an absolute star at left tackle. So that's going
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Speaker 4: to be an interesting battle on the defensive line, and
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Speaker 4: just on Jim Harball as well. You know, a bit
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Speaker 4: like Mike Tomlin. When he speaks, he'll listen. You know,
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Speaker 4: he's as as simple as that. He's just like Tomlin.
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Speaker 4: He's a massive character. Me personally, I'm delighted to see
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Speaker 4: him back in the league. You know, you know, everywhere
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Speaker 4: he wins if you look, you know, from Stanford, turned
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Speaker 4: the losing program into Bible contenders, took over at San Francisco.
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Speaker 3: One year later he's in the super Bowl.
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Speaker 4: And then obviously with Michigan what happened was clear, you know,
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Speaker 4: winning a Narsenal title. So you know, he's great at
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Speaker 4: hitting the ground, running early, which is proven, which is
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Speaker 4: something we have to be a world And then you know,
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Speaker 4: all of that said, you know, what's the game against
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Speaker 4: the Raiders. Having said that, it wasn't massively impressed, but
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Speaker 4: there's definitely holes we will be able to capitalize in
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Speaker 4: that secondary. You know, Darwin James massive important piece to them.
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Speaker 4: We're going to say I'm not that secondary, something that
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Speaker 4: we can be heading on. So he's two and four
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Speaker 4: against the Steelers, you know in his career. I believe
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Speaker 4: we have the momentum to turn that into two and five.
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Speaker 4: Let's just hope we can. We can keep that promise
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Speaker 4: in all that to performance that we've been talking about
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Speaker 4: so far, keeping that goal.
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Speaker 1: No matter what happens this week, I will see you
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Speaker 1: guys among hundreds of people next week at the Falter
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Speaker 1: Steelers watch party. It's sold out in the Hogan Suite
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Speaker 1: in the iconic Crow Park where the Staters played in
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Speaker 1: nineteen ninety seven and the Staters recently a few weeks
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Speaker 1: ago offered an opportunity for some fans and we're unable
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Speaker 1: to get tickets for the Hogan Suite. By introducing what
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Speaker 1: we said previously, there is the End Zone the Coup Park.
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Speaker 1: It's a newly developed space inside the stadium which will
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Speaker 1: provide Staeters fans the ability to watch the Staeters Coats
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Speaker 1: game together in an American sports bar styled atmosphere. You'll
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Speaker 1: have the opportunity to purchase both food and beverage and
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Speaker 1: authentic Steelers merchandise on the night, and I'm sure they'll
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Speaker 1: be waving your tiles like us lad's next week. We're
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Speaker 1: really looking forward to this game. First off this week,
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Speaker 1: before we talk about a bit more about the Chargers,
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Speaker 1: let's hear what Mike Tomlin has to say ahead of
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Speaker 1: this matchup this week.
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Speaker 5: Now I'll push forward toward the Chargers May I really
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Speaker 5: excited about this match up. Excited for a lot of reasons. First,
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Speaker 5: it's our first home game, and it's nothing like playing
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Speaker 5: an actorture for us. We respect it, but it's still exciting. Nonetheless,
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Speaker 5: we realize that we got a lot to do with
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Speaker 5: what goes on in that environment, and so in that spirit,
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Speaker 5: we're preparing with an edge. I'm also excited because we're
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Speaker 5: playing a dominant two or oh football group. A group
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Speaker 5: that's done is about as much as you could do
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Speaker 5: at this early stages of the season. They've won some
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Speaker 5: games in convincing, convincing fashion. They've controlled a line of scrimmage.
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Speaker 5: In both games, they taken the ball away and they
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Speaker 5: done a nice job of securing the ball. In both games,
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Speaker 5: they played to a definitive personality. One that I am
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Speaker 5: very familiar with, although they are new as a collective.
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Speaker 5: If you talk about the offense, man, it starts first
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Speaker 5: and foremost with the architect, Greg Roman. Have a lot
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Speaker 5: of respect for Greg, competed against him allowed over the years,
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Speaker 5: obviously in the AFC North. A lot of what I
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Speaker 5: see on tape, and what we see on tape is
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Speaker 5: very familiar. He has a mode of operation, but all
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Speaker 5: the good ones do out of magic. He doesn't care
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Speaker 5: that we know his mode of operation, but that's why
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Speaker 5: he is who he is in this game, and the
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Speaker 5: tape looks like that. He's got some familiar people, guys
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Speaker 5: that have experienced within his system, JK and Gus in
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Speaker 5: the backfield, but also Bozeman at center Hurst and Tomlinson
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Speaker 5: at tight end, And so you're talking about some guys.
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Speaker 5: There's a splattering of guys throughout the offense who's got
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Speaker 5: experience there and it's probably aided in a big way
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Speaker 5: in terms of them building the foundation of that culture.
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Speaker 5: When you got some guys that nod in that knowing
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Speaker 5: way and have been around you before, and it's an
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Speaker 5: asset to you, and they look mature beyond two games
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Speaker 5: in terms of their collective unit maturity obviously, JK and
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Speaker 5: Gus got a lot to do with that. Guys that
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Speaker 5: have played within this scheme and understand what he's trying
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Speaker 5: to get done and have talents that fit that game.
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Speaker 5: It's gonna be a big challenge for us.
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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Irish Studters podcast and you just
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Speaker 1: heard from head coach Mike Tomlin. He's had a really
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Speaker 1: really good good week as Dave or as Davog said
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Speaker 1: before we went off there, there's always a bit of crack,
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Speaker 1: a bit of fun with coach Tomlin, and definitely the
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Speaker 1: case this week as well. The hot dog ingredients of
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Speaker 1: anybody's seen that on social media this week and going
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Speaker 1: into week Free Jimmy, the Chargers are in an interesting
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Speaker 1: situation obviously. You know, you see a situation where when
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Speaker 1: Harber comes in, they allow Justin Herbert to maybe relax
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Speaker 1: more and use the run game more, which is great
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Speaker 1: to see. And you see JK. Dobbins who comes in
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Speaker 1: and he's really re evaluated and find a way to
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Speaker 1: completely changed his career up. But Herbert is not fully
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Speaker 1: fit going into this game this week, and at the
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Speaker 1: time of recording, yes, he's taken part in practice, you
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Speaker 1: would expect him to play, but it'll be interesting to
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Speaker 1: see how fit he is, but also what this defense
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Speaker 1: like for him.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, think obviously that the Steers are the Chargers have
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Speaker 2: a lot of weapons, Michael, and it's gonna be up
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Speaker 2: to our defense to do what they've been doing for
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Speaker 2: the past two games. And that's just absolutely ball out.
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Speaker 2: I mean t J One on one side of the
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Speaker 2: of the defensive line, Alex Heisman and the other. They've
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Speaker 2: been absolutely relentless in their pursuit of the quarterback. It's
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Speaker 2: almost as if you know every every snap they're get,
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Speaker 2: they're getting after the quarterback. And I think all no
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Speaker 2: matter how good the Chargers line is, they're going to
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Speaker 2: have their work cut out for them with two of
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Speaker 2: the best edge rushers in the league. But it's like
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Speaker 2: you say, I mean, if the if the Chargers do
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Speaker 2: have to rely on Dubbins, our linebackers have been decent
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Speaker 2: as stopping the runs low and the rundown so far
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Speaker 2: this season. So I don't believe we've had a rushing
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Speaker 2: touchdowns scored and as yet over over two games, so
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Speaker 2: that that's great to see. Look, I think it's just
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Speaker 2: business as usual. For the for the defense, and Quinton
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Speaker 2: Johnson will be a deep threat. I mean, we'll see
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Speaker 2: if if Herbert is able able to target in. But
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Speaker 2: Joey Porter, you're in our staty should be able to
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Speaker 2: take care of that. And I'm not too worried about
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Speaker 2: the about our defense, and I'm worried aboutter offense more so,
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Speaker 2: like like we said earlier, I would like to see
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Speaker 2: more production there, more consistency there. We're going to have
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Speaker 2: a crowd behind this in Acrosher Stadium. It's going to
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Speaker 2: be absolutely buzzing for the home opener, and look it's
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Speaker 2: it's gonna be a great game.
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Speaker 1: I think, dollg I was in Cookstown yesterday in an
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Speaker 1: unnamed supermarket and I've seen somebody in the TJ Watchers.
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Speaker 1: They followed with you for a second. It definitely wasn't
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Speaker 1: shows you how big Steelers Nation truly is. They're going
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Speaker 1: to be pumped a Sunday for this home Is there
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Speaker 1: any other aspect or element of that Chargers team that
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Speaker 1: you're looking at going this is gonna be one to watch?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think the obvious one is their past Rushamin
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Speaker 4: Kile Mack and Joey Bosa is our obvious threats. This is,
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Speaker 4: without a doubt, going to be our offensive lines most tough,
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Speaker 4: difficult assignment so far. But I feel, to be honest,
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Speaker 4: I feel as it's more less the same as last week.
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Speaker 4: You know, of course they are offensive weapons. There may
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Speaker 4: be a bit better than the Bronco You know, Quinton Johnson,
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Speaker 4: you know, he's a first round pick from last year,
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Speaker 4: he didn't live up to a lot of expectations. And
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Speaker 4: then jim Harball comes in. He scores two touchdowns, He's
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Speaker 4: already equaled a tally from last year and two weeks in.
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Speaker 4: Having said that, that was against the Panthers. And of
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Speaker 4: course JK Dobbins, he's another one. He's up for comeback
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Speaker 4: player of the Year after an aster in jay last
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Speaker 4: year with the Ravens. But I feel if our league
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Speaker 4: is the best defense, I'm gonna call us that because
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Speaker 4: I believe we are. We have the best defense in
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Speaker 4: the league. Can silence those two. I don't think there's
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Speaker 4: not much else to shout about, you know. I want
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Speaker 4: to see more of that relationship, you know between Justin
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Speaker 4: Veders and George Peckins blossom, just as Jimmy said, and
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Speaker 4: also want to see more of pot Farmouf. We've got
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Speaker 4: a glimpses of it last week and he was pretty
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Speaker 4: it was pretty on top of his form. So that's
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Speaker 4: really what I want to see. I just want to
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Speaker 4: see that the progression in the offense. And number one
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Speaker 4: thing for me as well, please please please get these
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Speaker 4: panalties finished with. I don't want to see any flags
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Speaker 4: this week. I sticked bat I said last week. We
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Speaker 4: could have won by three scorers last week if we
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Speaker 4: just kept the penalties sub you know, a minimum. But
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Speaker 4: I feel that's really the key to the factory, and
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Speaker 4: I think we will win, whether it's by the defense
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Speaker 4: side or the offensive side.
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Speaker 3: Both.
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Speaker 4: You know, need ship in here. So I am confident,
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Speaker 4: but of course I'm warrious at the same time.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's gonna be one of those games where we're worried,
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Speaker 1: but we're confident. It's a typical leaders games looking forward
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Speaker 1: to and we've heard Mike Tomlin. Let's here from two
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Speaker 1: players before we look at our keys to the game
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Speaker 1: and make our picks for this week the match up.
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Speaker 1: Let's firstly here from Patrick Queen and then the king
13:30
Speaker 1: of the Pittsburgh offense at the minute, George Pickins on
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Speaker 1: the Irish Hitters podcast.
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Speaker 3: Does JK look like your old teammate?
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Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, he definitely does. I love JK still one
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Speaker 6: of my best friends, still talk to him to this day.
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Speaker 6: He's just a great guy, great player, and I'm happy
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Speaker 6: to see him getting back to hisself. But as far
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Speaker 6: as me, how I want shut it down. He's the
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Speaker 6: leading russell right now, So just being able to go
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Speaker 6: out there and shut him down, give me brag and
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Speaker 6: rice and just help the team win.
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Speaker 3: What makes him such a challenge?
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Speaker 6: He got everything he got, He got the speed, got
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Speaker 6: the borse, He's just all around good back. Uh. He
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Speaker 6: can do every single thing on the field. And I
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Speaker 6: think people want to under messed, underest admitting him this year,
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Speaker 6: knowing that he had the injuries and stuff. But he
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Speaker 6: like his little self to me.
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Speaker 3: Wow, I know they like to run a football, But
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Speaker 3: what is it about Justin Herbert that makes him a challenge?
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Speaker 3: What have you seen as he's kind of.
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Speaker 6: Matured in his league. Yeah, Uh, he can make it
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Speaker 6: every single throw in the field. He'll take chances and
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Speaker 6: get the ball into places that most quarterbacks can. His
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Speaker 6: arm strength, Uh, him being able to look guys off
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Speaker 6: and still be able to deliver the ball on time
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Speaker 6: and in crazy places.
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Speaker 4: Uh.
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Speaker 6: He's just he's one of the top five quarterbacks to
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Speaker 6: me in this league when it comes to arm talent
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Speaker 6: and be able to place the ball where he wants
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Speaker 6: to and with the offense. They don't try to over
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Speaker 6: complicate it. It basically sending neuro overseas where they need to
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Speaker 6: be over the ball and try to get get them
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Speaker 6: the ball.
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Speaker 7: And you really had the run games that you guys
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Speaker 7: have faced the last two weeks kind of prepares you
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Speaker 7: for this test.
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Speaker 6: Uh. I think they're all different. I think everybody's has
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Speaker 6: their own mix. Uh, a thing they like to do.
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Speaker 6: In Gero, I think has like one of the most
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Speaker 6: complicated run games when it comes to stuff like that. So,
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Speaker 6: you know, it definitely prepared us. But this week, like
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Speaker 6: I said, it's a day by day thing. We gotta
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Speaker 6: get better this week. We gotta be able to handle
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Speaker 6: stuff that we got this week.
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Speaker 8: But I know you weren't here, but he rushed for
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Speaker 8: ninety yards on the Steelers the last the time they played.
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Speaker 3: How much do you have to count for it?
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Speaker 6: For Herbert's feet? Yeah, uh, I heard about that and stuff.
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Speaker 6: You know, any time we gotta quarterback that can run.
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Speaker 6: We gotta have focus on that. And you know whoever
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Speaker 6: job that is wow at the time. Uh that's why
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Speaker 6: I said, everybody has to do their own job and
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Speaker 6: be gready doing their own job. Uh cause if we
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Speaker 6: let him do stuff like that and they'll be able
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Speaker 6: to uh get to the red zone and you know,
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Speaker 6: the wrong game. It's hard to stopping the rad zone.
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Speaker 6: So we just gotta be all on our be all
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Speaker 6: our best jobs, do what we gotta do. Handle Herbert
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Speaker 6: had no JK Handel Gus and all those guys that
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Speaker 6: they got being able to run the ball. Like I said,
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Speaker 6: you bro had to complicated a run game, So we
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Speaker 6: gotta be on best uh game.
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Speaker 9: What are you looking forward to most about your first
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Speaker 9: game at averture as a stealer Oregar season?
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Speaker 6: Yeah, Uh, I'm ready to hear renting game in the fourth quarter. Uh,
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Speaker 6: That's that's what I've been waiting on. But uh I
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Speaker 6: just can't wait to uh get in front of the
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Speaker 6: fans and just play our herds. So uh play as
16:00
Speaker 6: hard as we can, get the fans the best game
16:02
Speaker 6: they can and get a win in there. When you
16:04
Speaker 6: were on the opposite side, what do you think of
16:05
Speaker 6: when they played Renegade? Did it bother you or did
16:08
Speaker 6: you even notice it was playing?
16:09
Speaker 5: Or?
16:09
Speaker 4: Uh?
16:10
Speaker 6: The first two times I didn't notice, and then uh,
16:12
Speaker 6: Horror said something about the end the meeting, and I
16:15
Speaker 6: just remember he was like, we gonna be in a
16:17
Speaker 6: close game this and that we can get to towns.
16:18
Speaker 6: We gonna way, we gonnaeel it, we gonna make it
16:21
Speaker 6: our own song and stuff. So you definitely didn't notice
16:24
Speaker 6: in the first few years until he said something about it.
16:25
Speaker 6: But just once you realize what they're doing, and it's
16:30
Speaker 6: just the electric feelings, electric electric electric place.
16:33
Speaker 7: Feels like everybody has a Harvard story. Were you recruited
16:35
Speaker 7: by him or did you get to know him at
16:36
Speaker 7: all when you were in high school trying to pick
16:38
Speaker 7: a college?
16:39
Speaker 3: Uh?
16:39
Speaker 6: I did not. Uh never got recruited by Harp's Uh
16:43
Speaker 6: I n honestly don't even at h nothing much about him.
16:46
Speaker 8: Worse car whatever you gonna know this team since joining
16:49
Speaker 8: the team and now after six.
16:50
Speaker 6: Years, Uh everything id I expected that hard knows football team. Uh,
16:55
Speaker 6: great preparation, great in game discipline. Uh. Everybody loves to
16:59
Speaker 6: do their job and do at a high level. I
17:01
Speaker 6: think all the guys around his locker room in jail,
17:03
Speaker 6: well mess, Well, you got different guys in here that
17:05
Speaker 6: like different things and uh could do different things well,
17:08
Speaker 6: and everybody's just taking accountability, you know, owning up to mistakes,
17:12
Speaker 6: owning up to uh things that we got to do better.
17:14
Speaker 6: I think that's the biggest thing for us right now
17:16
Speaker 6: that got into pen Where do you think you guys
17:18
Speaker 6: can improve everywhere? I think run game it's a few
17:22
Speaker 6: little slips. I think past game me personally, just not
17:27
Speaker 6: tryna take up people head off every single play, tryna
17:30
Speaker 6: calm that down, get back to my old ways and stuff. Uh.
17:32
Speaker 6: Just I think everything can improve past game, odds, run game,
17:36
Speaker 6: hands feet, every single player on this team can get better.
17:39
Speaker 9: At you feel like you rush 'em a little bit
17:41
Speaker 9: like personally or what did what did you.
17:42
Speaker 6: Mean by not personally at all? Uh? It's just you know,
17:44
Speaker 6: you getting a t new environment and stuff. You try
17:47
Speaker 6: to just set the tone and stuff. But I think
17:51
Speaker 6: as far as though seat tackle see you know that
17:52
Speaker 6: I'm always talking about just gotta settle down, just get
17:55
Speaker 6: back to my always.
17:56
Speaker 7: We've heard a lot about how Justin is has continent incident.
18:00
Speaker 7: It's pretty even. How have you kind of seen that?
18:02
Speaker 2: What is what are se.
18:03
Speaker 7: Moment where you realize like, wow, this guy really.
18:05
Speaker 6: Is even keel Yeah, I already I already knew it
18:07
Speaker 6: just from watching him from Afar.
18:08
Speaker 4: Uh.
18:09
Speaker 6: I always supported just and always wanted him to be
18:11
Speaker 6: that guy. And eventually, you know, Chicago moved on and
18:14
Speaker 6: we got him. So just being up here close and personal, Uh,
18:17
Speaker 6: like I said, I could be more proud of him
18:18
Speaker 6: my senior man Adele extremely well. I think the things
18:21
Speaker 6: that here he's doing, taking care of the ball, just
18:24
Speaker 6: you know, not tryna force anything, just being himself if
18:27
Speaker 6: he can't see it, taking off. Uh, I think everything
18:29
Speaker 6: he's doing this extremely well right now.
18:31
Speaker 9: Ben said, he's a pretty apologetic for the penalties. It
18:34
Speaker 9: when you get your touchdown, you know what's that say
18:38
Speaker 9: about a guy like that?
18:38
Speaker 8: But like to to be honest, it wasn't you know,
18:42
Speaker 8: really his fault. Guy kind of ran into him.
18:44
Speaker 1: But uh, you.
18:45
Speaker 7: Know why you was playing next play for sure since
18:49
Speaker 7: you getting about them defensively for Chargers work.
18:52
Speaker 8: Uh, it just kind of do the same thing that
18:54
Speaker 8: is still as defensive, to be honest, it's one of
18:56
Speaker 8: the same through for a base so, yeah, how.
18:58
Speaker 7: Have you seen maybe Justin's ball placement change or improved
19:03
Speaker 7: over the last two weeks? Felt like he was really
19:05
Speaker 7: precise in his throws on Sunday.
19:07
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, you know, just getting out of the pocket,
19:10
Speaker 8: that's the biggest thing, you know, really got a lot
19:11
Speaker 8: of pressure.
19:12
Speaker 6: Him throwing on a run was kind of.
19:14
Speaker 8: His repertoire from Justin till for years. So it's not
19:18
Speaker 8: like anything you know that like super wild meat. But
19:21
Speaker 8: it was very much special to.
19:22
Speaker 4: See that one that got negated by the whole downfield.
19:26
Speaker 6: Where you're surprised that ball bell tray.
19:28
Speaker 3: You kind of come to expect that from me.
19:30
Speaker 8: No, no, no, no no, I'm never surprised at the
19:32
Speaker 8: ball's coming coming my way. I'm just here to make
19:35
Speaker 8: him play.
19:35
Speaker 3: What he say about that bro though, once she got like.
19:38
Speaker 8: I said that was special, by she actually the same
19:39
Speaker 8: thing I said, it special to see.
19:42
Speaker 7: How have you seen Justin maybe get more comfortable from
19:45
Speaker 7: leek one to week two? In what ways it did
19:47
Speaker 7: he kind of improve?
19:49
Speaker 8: Uh you know, it's kind of a different scame this
19:52
Speaker 8: second week bout them playing a lot of men. But
19:55
Speaker 8: as far as his his his progression, Uh, it's kind
19:58
Speaker 8: of it's pretty good, you know what I mean. He
20:00
Speaker 8: did the same thing at first of the soon, So
20:02
Speaker 8: I feel like we're just rolling right now.
20:04
Speaker 9: You've seen the type of coverage you thought you would
20:06
Speaker 9: come into the year. You're getting a lot of double
20:08
Speaker 9: things and you're getting used to that.
20:11
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, just making plays. You still gotta beat double seed.
20:15
Speaker 9: It's like, yeah, if you guys said you feel like
20:18
Speaker 9: you're rolling, what is it like about what you guys
20:20
Speaker 9: are doing right now?
20:22
Speaker 8: Just the plays, you know, getting vertical downstare making plays,
20:25
Speaker 8: winning games. That's pretty much it.
20:28
Speaker 7: What has to happen for you guys to finish some
20:30
Speaker 7: of those drives in the end zone more often.
20:33
Speaker 8: Like you said in negated by penalty, that can't happen,
20:38
Speaker 8: you know, just being clean.
20:40
Speaker 7: When you met justin playing seven on seven, did you
20:43
Speaker 7: notice him having an aura or anything of this quiet confidence?
20:46
Speaker 7: When Dan Moore was talking about medium he's even noticed
20:49
Speaker 7: in aura but either back then, could you get that
20:51
Speaker 7: sense from him?
20:52
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, that's kind of how he always kind of
20:53
Speaker 8: been if you get to know him. Actually, that's kind
20:56
Speaker 8: of how he always did.
20:58
Speaker 9: Georgia, I I'm just talking and Troy and Dan they
21:00
Speaker 9: were talking a little bit about they said, Arthur Smith said,
21:04
Speaker 9: the damn's about the break with this offense.
21:06
Speaker 2: Do you feel like that's you agree with that too?
21:08
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, kind of like he said, negated by penalty.
21:11
Speaker 8: So I feel like the dam's already, you know, kind
21:14
Speaker 8: of breaking that. Penalties just can't happen. You know, we
21:17
Speaker 8: got to have.
21:18
Speaker 6: A play a clean game.
21:19
Speaker 8: But then again, also what the guy's play on the field.
21:22
Speaker 9: A lot of people talk about the second receiver with
21:25
Speaker 9: Deontay going, how do you think that's progressed?
21:27
Speaker 5: And do you think as everything.
21:29
Speaker 3: Involves del stort what you said? What you said, But
21:32
Speaker 3: there's been a.
21:32
Speaker 9: Lot of talk about the second receiver now that Deontay's going,
21:35
Speaker 9: how do you think that's progressed? For the guys you've
21:37
Speaker 9: had out there so far and you see improvements there.
21:41
Speaker 8: I don't know who's talking about the second receive.
21:44
Speaker 3: I haven't heard anybody talk about it.
21:46
Speaker 8: The guys that's on the field, they just keep working
21:48
Speaker 8: every time. Like I said, Van scottie s keywords.
21:52
Speaker 7: How much would help the offense if and when rowand
21:55
Speaker 7: Wilson is able to get out on the field and
21:57
Speaker 7: contribute to this receiving court.
21:59
Speaker 8: It'll be good. You know, everybody has a different value
22:02
Speaker 8: seventy team, so it'll be good. Just waiting on and
22:05
Speaker 8: you know, get healthy.
22:06
Speaker 7: How much better can you beg Like.
22:09
Speaker 8: I said, we're doing pretty good right now while winning.
22:14
Speaker 1: We are getting ready for the third Staters regular season
22:17
Speaker 1: game of the twenty twenty four NFL season. You're listening
22:20
Speaker 1: to the Irish Theaters podcast Michael Look with Jimmy Engler,
22:22
Speaker 1: stavalg McKey, and we are set lads for this big,
22:27
Speaker 1: big game this week where you know, Jimmy, you know
22:30
Speaker 1: you see the Staders going in at two to zero
22:32
Speaker 1: and it's going to be a really interesting game. I think.
22:35
Speaker 1: I think one of the keys for me is to
22:36
Speaker 1: stop that consistency and stop that and motivation that the
22:41
Speaker 1: Chargers could get if they go on a quick run
22:42
Speaker 1: at the start of the game. I'd like to see
22:44
Speaker 1: the run game really stop from the defense, and I
22:47
Speaker 1: want to see the defense getat get out just in
22:49
Speaker 1: Herbert in the first quorder and really put a marker down.
22:51
Speaker 1: You sort of said it yourself earlier on if that happens,
22:54
Speaker 1: and if you can get a couple of already sacks
22:55
Speaker 1: on Herbert, who is not one hundred percent fit and
22:57
Speaker 1: is wearing quite a considerable piece of cuping on his
23:01
Speaker 1: leg at the moment. I'd love to see what happen,
23:04
Speaker 1: to see the crowd get on them, and I really
23:06
Speaker 1: feel that happens. You know, it should go from there.
23:08
Speaker 1: But obviously want to see the offense do better. But
23:11
Speaker 1: I feel like it's going to get better each week
23:12
Speaker 1: and week. And I'm not too concerned about it. But certainly,
23:15
Speaker 1: you know you certainly you want to see that that
23:19
Speaker 1: defense continue to take strides and continue to start usself
23:22
Speaker 1: as the best in the league. What's your key to
23:24
Speaker 1: the game.
23:25
Speaker 2: I'm not concerned about the defense whatsoever, Michael are My
23:28
Speaker 2: key to the game is offense. Defense will look after itself.
23:31
Speaker 2: Defense will do its job. Defense will do everything that
23:33
Speaker 2: we said it's going to do. I mean, look, we've
23:36
Speaker 2: had two sacks and two picks in each of the
23:38
Speaker 2: in the past two games. That's going to I think
23:40
Speaker 2: that trend is only going to get better. I would
23:42
Speaker 2: like to see Minka Fitzpatrick get more involved. He's being
23:44
Speaker 2: very quiet in terms of past defense. He has been there,
23:48
Speaker 2: he's been present in run support a lot, but he
23:50
Speaker 2: hasn't made any splash plays yet, whether he's carrying an injury,
23:53
Speaker 2: whether he's just at that stagers career, I'm not sure.
23:56
Speaker 2: Rushing touchdowns, definitely. We need to score on the ground.
24:00
Speaker 2: We need to bust Nagy and Jalen Free for bigger
24:04
Speaker 2: gains than they have been getting, and they have to
24:06
Speaker 2: get into the end zone. And George Pickens has to
24:09
Speaker 2: score a touchdown, at least one touchdown if not to
24:11
Speaker 2: he had. He's one hundred percent the best weapon we
24:14
Speaker 2: have on offense right now, and we just have to
24:17
Speaker 2: unlock them and get him into the end zone. Points
24:20
Speaker 2: on the board, Michael, as simple as that point on
24:22
Speaker 2: the board.
24:24
Speaker 1: Points a boo, my man, points a boo. Dialogue, Is
24:27
Speaker 1: there any other key to the game that you're looking
24:29
Speaker 1: at apart from what we've spoke about putting me on
24:31
Speaker 1: the spot here, lod No, I'm.
24:33
Speaker 4: Gonna I'm gonna do what I always do. I'm gonna
24:35
Speaker 4: echo everything. Just points on the board. I mean, of course,
24:40
Speaker 4: you know, we it was nice to see last week,
24:43
Speaker 4: you know, Donal Washington get on the score sheet. I mean,
24:47
Speaker 4: but I want to see more of our main targets.
24:48
Speaker 4: As just Jimmy said, you know, George Pekins, I feel
24:51
Speaker 4: needs that touchdown to get his confidence role and I fail.
24:53
Speaker 4: Once one comes, It's like London busses, You'll get more
24:56
Speaker 4: and more common each week. So I feel if we
24:59
Speaker 4: can just fluently just mold our way into this offense
25:02
Speaker 4: that we know we can be, I don't see why
25:04
Speaker 4: we can't run away with this game. So it is
25:06
Speaker 4: really just you know, keeping the defense, you know, keeping TJ.
25:10
Speaker 3: Of course we know he's gonna bring it.
25:11
Speaker 4: Alex Heighsmith as well, and as Jimmy said, getting Mecca
25:14
Speaker 4: involved more in the past game. You know, we want
25:16
Speaker 4: to see maybe an interception here and there. I want
25:19
Speaker 4: to see us properly, ferociously, you know, take this offensive
25:22
Speaker 4: side of the ball seriously and obviously please no penalty.
25:24
Speaker 4: That's that's the main keys to the game for me.
25:27
Speaker 1: No penalties. Let's make our picks. Like I said, seis
25:29
Speaker 1: win this Jimmy, twenty one to ten, I was gonna
25:34
Speaker 1: say seventeen. I thought, no, that's not right. Twenty one
25:36
Speaker 1: to ten? Who you got flee?
25:37
Speaker 5: Flee?
25:38
Speaker 1: Know I was.
25:40
Speaker 2: My heart says one thing, my head says another. But
25:42
Speaker 2: I'm gonna listen to my heart and this one and
25:44
Speaker 2: I'm going to go Steelers winning by twenty four to
25:47
Speaker 2: twenty one. I do think our offense unlocks itself a
25:51
Speaker 2: little bit. I do think we get scores, and I
25:56
Speaker 2: think it's going to come down to a late balls
25:58
Speaker 2: field goal to get us over the break and get
26:00
Speaker 2: into the three and O mark going into going into
26:04
Speaker 2: Lucas Oil Field for the watch party. Top of the
26:08
Speaker 2: division and as one of the best teams in the AFC.
26:11
Speaker 6: I love it.
26:12
Speaker 1: Another AFC West matchup Opponland this week, do vogue. I
26:15
Speaker 1: have a lovely trustee Steelers fridge magnet here which I
26:18
Speaker 1: bought last week. And Chargers this week that cold scheme
26:22
Speaker 1: that Jimmy's talking about. And then Dallas is the game
26:24
Speaker 1: you want to try and mark down home opener. Dallas
26:27
Speaker 1: is a home as well in prime time. Get the
26:29
Speaker 1: win over the Chargers, go free.
26:30
Speaker 4: No degree, absolutely, I expected to be a little higher
26:35
Speaker 4: scorer in this week than last week. I think both
26:38
Speaker 4: teams will come out swinging, and both teams are gonna
26:40
Speaker 4: believe they can win this game. But I fail that
26:42
Speaker 4: mc tomlin will have knuckled down this week and you know,
26:44
Speaker 4: and fix this issue with a penalty. So in that case,
26:48
Speaker 4: I think we could win this one as well. A
26:49
Speaker 4: bit of a strange one.
26:50
Speaker 3: I ain't going twenty to twenty.
26:52
Speaker 4: I don't know if that's a score gamy, probably not,
26:54
Speaker 4: but could come down to, as Jimmy said the Wizard
26:58
Speaker 4: of Boss, I reckon, maybe a leet failed could do
27:01
Speaker 4: it and I would be surprised. So yeah, I'm going
27:03
Speaker 4: twenty two twenty Steelers and take that to the bank in.
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Speaker 1: Twenty two. Twenty has happened eighteen times, and the last
27:11
Speaker 1: time it happened was last year between the Dolphins and
27:14
Speaker 1: the Cowboys. Did I google score Agami, Yes I did.
27:17
Speaker 1: Twenty two, twenty five, twenty five twenty two has never happened.
27:21
Speaker 1: So there you go, if you will. I love hearing
27:24
Speaker 1: you say take it to the bank every week, one
27:26
Speaker 1: like a genuinely makes I think every Sailors fans week
27:28
Speaker 1: in Ireland take it to the bank.
27:30
Speaker 4: Well, it's I was say, I'm working on the trademark
27:33
Speaker 4: at the moment, just gonna have to get in there
27:35
Speaker 4: before someone else stales it.
27:36
Speaker 2: So can'll get you a ta sher for We'll get
27:38
Speaker 2: you a T shirt printed for pisy.
27:41
Speaker 4: Don't just don't put my face on us. I'll be
27:43
Speaker 4: happen off. Just don't put my face on the place.
27:45
Speaker 4: I'd appreciate that.
27:46
Speaker 1: Get get a printed for next weekend. Never mind Pittsburgh.
27:49
Speaker 1: I know you guys have a few big weeks ahead
27:51
Speaker 1: of you there and it's gonna be great to watch
27:52
Speaker 1: them as far as well. And big weekend ahead next week.
27:55
Speaker 1: Really excited for folks. If you're heading down to Dublin
27:58
Speaker 1: next week, please use the hashtag Steve Ireland. We will
28:01
Speaker 1: most likely do a podcast early in the week looking
28:04
Speaker 1: ahead to that, and I'm sure it'll be really cool
28:07
Speaker 1: stuff happening next week whenever we see two Steelers legends
28:12
Speaker 1: head over along with different members of the organization. So
28:14
Speaker 1: very much looking forward to, but also a lots appreciate
28:16
Speaker 1: the time and effort that the team are putting into
28:19
Speaker 1: the Irish market. It's you know, we're seeing it's slightly
28:22
Speaker 1: replicated across the water in the UK, but I don't
28:25
Speaker 1: think that the scale next week is going to be incredible,
28:27
Speaker 1: And yeah, I can't wait. It's gonna be awesome. You
28:30
Speaker 1: look at a child of Christmas, tim me right now,
28:31
Speaker 1: you look buzzing.
28:32
Speaker 2: I'm very very excited, Michael. It's going to be a
28:34
Speaker 2: great night. It's one of the highlights of the season
28:37
Speaker 2: for me at this stage, and long made last, and
28:41
Speaker 2: long may we have as many watch parties official watch
28:43
Speaker 2: parties as possible in Ireland. I think it's a great
28:47
Speaker 2: thing for the sport here and as somebody who's been
28:49
Speaker 2: a fan for the good of twenty years now and
28:52
Speaker 2: that makes me sound very, very old, to finally get
28:54
Speaker 2: to the point we're at and just seeing what lies ahead,
28:59
Speaker 2: that's fantastic. And I'm sure you you feel the same.
29:02
Speaker 1: As we say every week. Man Party three is very young,
29:05
Speaker 1: as I keep playing myself, and I'm really excited for
29:07
Speaker 1: next week. It's the one. It's the one weekend. I
29:09
Speaker 1: we're gonna take a wife down like an NFL but
29:11
Speaker 1: she's like, oh, okay, here's the crack. But I know
29:14
Speaker 1: we're all going to see so many people that sorry,
29:17
Speaker 1: we're all going to see so many people down there
29:18
Speaker 1: next week and it'll be great crack. And do keep
29:21
Speaker 1: an eye out on the staters social media channels over
29:24
Speaker 1: the next few days and weeks, folks, as I'm sure
29:26
Speaker 1: there'll be more surprises coming over the next week. But
29:28
Speaker 1: for now we'll chat to you soon. Big game on Sunday.
29:31
Speaker 1: Do check out the stagers social media channels during that
29:33
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