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The Standard is the Standard: All eyes on Tennessee · The Irish Steelers Podcast

• 0:06
  Speaker 1: Hey folks, welcome into the Irish Tears podcast. Just on
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  Speaker 1: the other side of Week eight of the season. Unfortunately
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  Speaker 1: not the best week for our Pittsburgh staters, falling twenty
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  Speaker 1: to ten at home to the Jacksonville Jagguars. Jags moved
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  Speaker 1: to six and two in the season, Steelers falling the
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  Speaker 1: fourth three. And I guess first of all, just welcome
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  Speaker 1: in Dave with no Jimmy today, but they have luck
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  Speaker 1: regardless a result. It's always good to see you speak
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  Speaker 1: to you man.
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  Speaker 2: And not the best, no, really really not. You know,
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  Speaker 2: the injuries, the injuries are really backing up now. You know.
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  Speaker 2: Menka went off injured obviously, Kenny's you know, is having
• 0:48
  Speaker 2: issues with his ribs. I can't remember. The other high
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  Speaker 2: profile Deontay Johnson took another knock. So it's really you know,
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  Speaker 2: I suppose you haven't really feel sorry for yourself, like
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  Speaker 2: you have to just get on, you know, it's part
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  Speaker 2: of football and you just have to, you know, react
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  Speaker 2: to the injuries. And unfortunately, just on the offensive side,
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  Speaker 2: we weren't able to react it. And when, for example,
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  Speaker 2: your your quarterback gets injured, you have to be able
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  Speaker 2: to rely on your own game and we just you know,
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  Speaker 2: it was no existing yet again, so that must be
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  Speaker 2: positive about but you know what, we'll always try and
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  Speaker 2: you know, pick ourselves up as a moose.
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  Speaker 1: I think, you know, first off, obviously the game against
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  Speaker 1: the Jaggs was the first game in a free game
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  Speaker 1: home run, so clearly when you're playing at home, you
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  Speaker 1: want to use that to your advantage. And unfortunately it
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  Speaker 1: just it just didn't happen. And I don't think there
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  Speaker 1: was any point really did, especially in the second and
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  Speaker 1: third quarter where I thought to myself, like, we can
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  Speaker 1: come back and do this, And I think that is
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  Speaker 1: probably the the sort of the line for me. I
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  Speaker 1: was actually quite surprising, and obviously thousands of miles away,
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  Speaker 1: but just seeing how bad the weather looked really really
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  Speaker 1: bad on the day, Like once I see now, I
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  Speaker 1: was like, oh no, here we go, yere we go.
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  Speaker 3: I was.
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  Speaker 1: I was listening into the radio on off the ball
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  Speaker 1: and yeah, look, when things happen and you just sort
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  Speaker 1: of have an idea that it's not going to go
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  Speaker 1: your way, I think that's when you sort of know,
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  Speaker 1: like you mentioned there the injury to make it Fitzpatrick,
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  Speaker 1: and I think just whatever that happened, it just sort
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  Speaker 1: of went, didn't, you know, like it was hard to
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  Speaker 1: sort of see where the team could go from there.
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  Speaker 1: And I think it's sort of just collectively started going
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  Speaker 1: down a little bit from there, you know it with
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  Speaker 1: a non contact injury, and you sort of have to
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  Speaker 1: hope that, you know, at the time of recording, we're
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  Speaker 1: recording immediately after the game. I guess first off day,
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  Speaker 1: we hope that he's okay, and I guess we'll see
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  Speaker 1: now over the next few days what happens him. But
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  Speaker 1: you know, a non contact injury deemed out very quickly.
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  Speaker 1: After a non contact injury, it would potentially raise his
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  Speaker 1: participation into doubt for a very short week coming up
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  Speaker 1: against the Titans and first let football.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but as of yet, we're yet to know about
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  Speaker 2: the you know, severity of the injury. Hopefully it's not
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  Speaker 2: too bad. I mean, it's not as first knock this season.
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  Speaker 2: And I'll just say, you know, we've we've got a
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  Speaker 2: big prime time game coming up on Thursday night, so
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  Speaker 2: obviously we've got the Packers in a couple of weeks
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  Speaker 2: as well. We've got two home games now that I
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  Speaker 2: don't know, I don't know about, do you, Mick but
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  Speaker 2: I think it's it must win both games. Obviously. The
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  Speaker 2: main thing is, you know, with with the actual if
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  Speaker 2: we look back on the game, I thought we were
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  Speaker 2: pretty competitive throughout and that the injury the Kenny just
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  Speaker 2: sort of stoked us a bit like we're able to
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  Speaker 2: march up fail and the score with with oh god,
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  Speaker 2: I can't even remember it wasn't it. But yeah, obviously
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  Speaker 2: the defense came in with with some key players as well.
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  Speaker 2: But the objective you know now has to be to
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  Speaker 2: go back and be able to bounce back with a
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  Speaker 2: win on Thursday eight against the Titans, who I think
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  Speaker 2: they actually came off did they get beat in the
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  Speaker 2: end bit of Falcons. So you know, we can maybe
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  Speaker 2: just see if we can just sit back, you know,
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  Speaker 2: sort of reevaluate, you know, the injuries maybe, you know,
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  Speaker 2: with the key positions, hopefully there's not too many, and
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  Speaker 2: then you know, get ready for Thursday night. You know,
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  Speaker 2: it's it's just one of those some days where you
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  Speaker 2: just have to sort of give your hants, you your
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  Speaker 2: keep your hearts to the Jags. I mean, Traves etm
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  Speaker 2: was fantastic. Travor Lawrence pretty you know, he wasn't outstanding,
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  Speaker 2: but he didn't really have to be at the same time.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, aving Ingram was an absolute pain on
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  Speaker 2: our side as well, So you have to tap your
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  Speaker 2: heart off to them and just you know, we have
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  Speaker 2: to just reevaluate and hopefully we're going buys back over when
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  Speaker 2: next week on.
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  Speaker 1: A short week as well, I guess before we go
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  Speaker 1: with it, like a little bit more sort of fall
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  Speaker 1: and detail on it. Let's firstly hear problem TJ. What
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  Speaker 1: and a guy to come in during the game? Miss Rubisky,
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  Speaker 1: What is the.
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  Speaker 4: Effect of losing him so early.
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  Speaker 5: In the game.
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  Speaker 6: Oh?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, anytime you lose an all Pro player,
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  Speaker 5: a guy who uh is a leader in the back end,
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  Speaker 5: the leader of the defense, it's a big blow. But
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  Speaker 5: it's it's one that we have to be able to
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  Speaker 5: to manage, uh, whether it's it's one guy.
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  Speaker 3: Whether it's with two or three guys.
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  Speaker 5: But we always preach the next man out mentality, and
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  Speaker 5: everybody's in the meetings, everybody's at practice, so it's all
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  Speaker 5: about the next man and what he's able to do
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  Speaker 5: and fill in that spot.
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  Speaker 3: Any what happened on a long tunch, Dolar? Did you
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  Speaker 3: are your valedgeboy? Was there a breakdown. I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I have to watch the film before I give any breakdown.
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  Speaker 6: Did you guys think coming into it that Ingram was
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  Speaker 6: gonna be a big part of their game plan and
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  Speaker 6: they it was.
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  Speaker 3: Not just then taking advantage of where you guys weren't
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  Speaker 3: I mean we knew he was a great pass catcher.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, uh, we respected him coming into the game,
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  Speaker 5: but uh weren't able to stop him today. Just the
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  Speaker 5: level of frustration with calls are happening and things that
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  Speaker 5: are maybe outside.
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  Speaker 2: Of your control, especially when the defense kind of does
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  Speaker 2: its job of how do you how do you deal
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  Speaker 2: with that?
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  Speaker 3: How do you move forward?
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  Speaker 5: Continue to try to do my job, and job is
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  Speaker 5: to go out there and play solid defense, Try to
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  Speaker 5: deliver the ball, try to get off the field as
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  Speaker 5: quickly as possible, try to flip field position. And uh,
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  Speaker 5: we don't have time to look around and point blame.
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  Speaker 5: Uh none of us are playing the way that we
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  Speaker 5: should right now.
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  Speaker 2: See I didn't call it as it to m sore
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  Speaker 2: and kind of move on.
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  Speaker 3: For a loss like this on a short week, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: there's no time to sit in sult.
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  Speaker 5: We have a game on Thursday, so that's I mean
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  Speaker 5: that's part of the beauty of the NFL, and uh,
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  Speaker 5: we have to move past it. But at the same time,
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  Speaker 5: we also can't just can it. We have to look
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  Speaker 5: at the film and learn from it.
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  Speaker 3: Did you're gonna start the second half and help, did
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  Speaker 3: it could go the whole way or what was the deal?
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  Speaker 6: We're still going through that. At halftime, I was preparing
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  Speaker 6: like I was. I mean, I was ready to go
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  Speaker 6: in and they're trying to figure out if you could
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  Speaker 6: go and then he couldn't, so I was in. That's
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  Speaker 6: how That's pretty much how it went. So talk talk
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  Speaker 6: about the momentum you guys gained on that touchdown drive
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  Speaker 6: and I touched.
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  Speaker 3: On the Georg.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, we had one good drive. We were executing well.
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  Speaker 6: We were able to stay balanced and we went down
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  Speaker 6: and and finishing the end zone. George made a great play.
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  Speaker 6: We protected well that drive and finished with six. So
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  Speaker 6: it was a good drive and those are the type
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  Speaker 6: of drives we got to have more of just to
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  Speaker 6: be a more consistent offense. You gonna have all the
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  Speaker 6: interception seven, Yeah, forced to throw on my part trying
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  Speaker 6: to make a play downfield. They were playing a lot
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  Speaker 6: of two second half us playing behind. We need to
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  Speaker 6: push the ball downfield a little bit, clouding the George
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  Speaker 6: a lot. That one was specifically was invert I was
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  Speaker 6: trying to get the ball to a rob It was
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  Speaker 6: a force. Good play by them, So that's on me.
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  Speaker 6: I gotta be better just take what they give me,
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  Speaker 6: especially with us only being down seven at that point,
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  Speaker 6: I should have probably checked it down and and hopefully
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  Speaker 6: move on from there.
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  Speaker 2: When the offense has been struggling, that is there a
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  Speaker 2: desire maybe to try to get things back.
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  Speaker 7: At the fleet.
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  Speaker 6: Forcing to throw absolutely. I mean, I gotta be smarter.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, I'm out there trying to win the game, right,
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  Speaker 6: so we're not just trying to run the ball or
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  Speaker 6: check it down every time. That was a force on
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  Speaker 6: my part, but I wanted to come in and try
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  Speaker 6: to make plays. This offense. Maybe on that instance was
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  Speaker 6: doing too much and that's where you get in trouble.
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  Speaker 6: But I wanted to push the ball downfield and that
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  Speaker 6: was the wrong thing to do on that play, So
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  Speaker 6: got to learn from it.
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  Speaker 3: It's just a whole Why has the offense.
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  Speaker 6: Been so inconsistent execution? We just gotta be better executing
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  Speaker 6: our plays. Getting everybody on the same page and staying
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  Speaker 6: balanced as an offense.
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  Speaker 4: To kind of put this game away and get ready
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  Speaker 4: for Thursday, especially knowing that Kenny's status is a little
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  Speaker 4: bit up in the air right now.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I just got to prepare on a short week,
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  Speaker 6: that's the job. So we play on Thursday. Sometimes that's
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  Speaker 6: a positive thing because you get to flush this game quickly,
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  Speaker 6: get that taste out of our mouth, and just get
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  Speaker 6: back to the game on Thursday. So we gotta flush
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  Speaker 6: it and everybody's got prepared and get ready to go
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  Speaker 6: for Thursday night.
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  Speaker 7: That you guys are humming around in some games and
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  Speaker 7: one with with like some late drives is today's game
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  Speaker 7: with an example of like why that's not all?
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  Speaker 3: Is it sustainable? Bulfrint?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I don't know, because we were done by two
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  Speaker 6: scores late late in the fourth quarter. So maybe if
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  Speaker 6: I don't turn the ball over, it's a little closer.
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  Speaker 6: And defense played really well. Again, we just got to
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  Speaker 6: be more consistent on offense and just continue to go
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  Speaker 6: out there, execute and make plays. So we had one
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  Speaker 6: good driver, we went down and scored. It's gotta be
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  Speaker 6: more consistent than that, and we got pulled together and
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  Speaker 6: flushed this one and go get one on a short week.
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  Speaker 4: Did you watch Kittle and we tried to warm up
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  Speaker 4: when you're talking to wasn't clear?
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  Speaker 3: I'm sorry, were you watching kend Ale or talking to
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  Speaker 3: him commune att away?
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  Speaker 7: Was it clear to you that he wasn't to do it?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean he Kenny knows his body better than anybody,
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  Speaker 6: so he tried to go out there and throw and
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  Speaker 6: if he didn't feel like he was a hundred percent,
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  Speaker 6: he shouldn't put himself in that position. And same with
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  Speaker 6: the all the trainers and coaches. So I feel like
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  Speaker 6: they made the right choice by protecting him and him
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  Speaker 6: and protecting himself. So hopefully he's okay and we'll see
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  Speaker 6: where where he's at.
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  Speaker 4: But you know, Kenny was still in the game at
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  Speaker 4: the end of the first half when there were a
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  Speaker 4: lot of different officiating calls, seemed like maybe there was
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  Speaker 4: some inconsistency. How much confusion were some of those calls causing?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, what were some of the discussions you guys
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  Speaker 4: were having.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, for me, I'm just focused on like whether I
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  Speaker 6: was going in or not, and I'm not really too
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  Speaker 6: concerned with the officiating. For me, it's like us just
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  Speaker 6: executing guys being on the same page, and no matter
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  Speaker 6: if the call was for us or against us, we
• 10:08
  Speaker 6: gotta be on the same page of what the down
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  Speaker 6: and distance is, so we don't have confusion and communication
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  Speaker 6: on our parts. So I think that's, uh, that's something
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  Speaker 6: we can get better at, just communicating where we're at
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  Speaker 6: on the field, down in distance and getting the right
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  Speaker 6: guys in the huddles so we could operate faster.
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  Speaker 3: One touchdown has to George. But what were they doing
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  Speaker 3: to take pickus away?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, they're just playing cover two to a side, clouding
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  Speaker 6: them taking away the downfield stuff. So we got to
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  Speaker 6: figure out ways to continue to get him a ball.
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  Speaker 6: And on that instance, they blitzed to that side and
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  Speaker 6: he had a one on one matchup he won on
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  Speaker 6: a slant and made an incredible play jumping over that
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  Speaker 6: safety and getting in the end zone. So it's the
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  Speaker 6: type of player he is, and we know that we
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  Speaker 6: gotta find ways to get him the ball within this offense,
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  Speaker 6: but also staying balanced and and leaning on this run game.
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  Speaker 6: And and those guys up front.
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  Speaker 2: On that one drive, was that a by product George
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  Speaker 2: being covered?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, so they're they're double ta the Georgia side. Deantay
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  Speaker 6: is gonna get some more one on ones and that's
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  Speaker 6: gonna beat share him.
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  Speaker 1: Hearing from mister Bisky their day, it's interesting. Obviously, we
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  Speaker 1: see Kenny go out with a rib injury and I
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  Speaker 1: don't think it look at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 1: and nobody ever wants to see your quarterback go out.
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  Speaker 1: At the time, Kenny was ten and sixteen seventy three yards.
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  Speaker 1: Mitch came in fifteen to twenty seven, one hundred and
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  Speaker 1: thirty odd yards, one touchdown with two interceptions. Just not
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  Speaker 1: the day that we would have wanted on the offense.
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  Speaker 1: Was there any positives that you took from the offense
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  Speaker 1: on the day at all? Obviously, very difficult to see
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  Speaker 1: any positive when there's no run game there, especially when
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  Speaker 1: there was no sort of sort of share between Warren
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  Speaker 1: and Harris because Jacksonville sort of had a din on
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  Speaker 1: the stretch. But to see Deontay Johnson have a few
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  Speaker 1: plays where he played well and got some good catches
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  Speaker 1: was good.
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  Speaker 6: Ed.
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  Speaker 1: George Pickens had a good reception. I think it was
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  Speaker 1: towards the end of the third quarter, but it was
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  Speaker 1: quite limited. But there were some signs of prove, especially
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  Speaker 1: when you through Mitch into the game at a certain point.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, it's it's not all doom and glamph
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  Speaker 2: you know. At the same time, you don't want to
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  Speaker 2: be relianing on your backup quarterback. You know. It's just
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  Speaker 2: one of those things where quarterback injuries are so they
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  Speaker 2: can be just so hartful to your franchise. And it's
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  Speaker 2: just one of those where Mitchell the risky is not
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  Speaker 2: coming and expecting to play, but he has to be ready.
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  Speaker 2: I mean we were able to sort of. We had
• 12:24
  Speaker 2: a big stop in defense. I think TJ. Watts sacks
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  Speaker 2: Lawrence put him out a field goal position. We forced
• 12:29
  Speaker 2: him the punt, and Mitchell the risky just through. You know,
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  Speaker 2: I don't really want to use, you know, any any
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  Speaker 2: negative prunas here, like, but he just threw it. It
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  Speaker 2: was really a reckless interception, and from that moment on,
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  Speaker 2: I just think it was just it was too much
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  Speaker 2: for the defense to hold up.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 2: It's and then that was straight after as well. You know,
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  Speaker 2: we scored a touchdown as well, so you know, there
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  Speaker 2: is some positives, you know, George Pepkins, you mentioned he
• 12:51
  Speaker 2: didn't have a catch for it. The first three quarter. Well,
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  Speaker 2: I think it was like his first first option was
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  Speaker 2: halfway through the third quarter, but then and he was done,
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  Speaker 2: you know, if you remember the one at the sideline
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  Speaker 2: where he just about missed out on the on keeping
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  Speaker 2: his toes and bends as well. So there's always going
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  Speaker 2: to be positives. Of course, you know, we still have
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  Speaker 2: a really good you know, you know Deanthony Johnson as well,
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  Speaker 2: we've had a good game. We still have a very
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  Speaker 2: good you know, receiving corp there. And at the minute,
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  Speaker 2: it's just really how we can improve the running game
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  Speaker 2: because as to say, when there's injuries happening to your
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  Speaker 2: key players, you know, both on offense and defense, you
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  Speaker 2: have to be able to rely on the run game.
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  Speaker 2: And it's just not something we can do at the minute.
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  Speaker 2: So everybody has to sort of look at themselves, take
• 13:29
  Speaker 2: responsibility and and hopefully, you know, give us a good
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  Speaker 2: out next Thursday. And my opinion, then two games and
• 13:36
  Speaker 2: now have to be one as simple as that.
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  Speaker 1: I look, I guess I guess the thing that all
• 13:41
  Speaker 1: Dave is, you know, we're not going to cover the
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  Speaker 1: cracks here. Stailers of high expectations for every player on
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  Speaker 1: that team, you know, high expectations in terms of having
• 13:50
  Speaker 1: a good having good fluidity and offense. And when you
• 13:54
  Speaker 1: look around the league today, there were quarterbacks, there were
• 13:57
  Speaker 1: certain players that just played really well and we just
• 14:01
  Speaker 1: did not have that today. And there will be a
• 14:03
  Speaker 1: high expectation on this team obviously at all times, but
• 14:06
  Speaker 1: clearly going in the Thursday night, there is you know,
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  Speaker 1: I think, you know, Pittsburgh, Ireland, everybody now expects they're
• 14:12
  Speaker 1: coming up against the Titans team. And you know, look,
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  Speaker 1: we will talk about this in the second but we'll
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  Speaker 1: Levis four touchdowns on his first start in the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, I feel for Kenny because he goes
• 14:24
  Speaker 1: off injured and you've now got social media talking, You've
• 14:29
  Speaker 1: now got different people talking around, well, well that's not
• 14:31
  Speaker 1: good enough. His performance isn't good enough. I think when
• 14:35
  Speaker 1: you're talking, and I appreciate what you're saying, I think
• 14:38
  Speaker 1: when you come out of the game, the initial thought
• 14:42
  Speaker 1: is to just talk talk talk, talk talk. I think
• 14:44
  Speaker 1: we need to step back, and this is for everyone
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: take a second and just breathe over the next couple
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: of days and we will see long term what happens here.
• 14:54
  Speaker 1: But certainly I just hope that these guys can get
• 14:56
  Speaker 1: going Thursday night, I tell you what we'll do. Let's
• 14:59
  Speaker 1: hear from theaters. Had coach Mike Cullin after the loss
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: to the Jacksonville Jaguars.
• 15:09
  Speaker 7: A disappointing result for us. Didn't do enough over the
• 15:12
  Speaker 7: course of the sixty minutes to secure victory. Thought we
• 15:16
  Speaker 7: were closing the distance in the second half, had a
• 15:19
  Speaker 7: miscommunication and gave up a long score. We turned the
• 15:23
  Speaker 7: ball over on the other side, and you're not gonna
• 15:26
  Speaker 7: close distance and finish ball games, you know, giving up
• 15:29
  Speaker 7: chunk plays and turning the ball over, and so you know,
• 15:34
  Speaker 7: that was a major component of it. From an injury perspective,
• 15:37
  Speaker 7: Mika has a hamstring, wasn't able to return, Kenny had
• 15:42
  Speaker 7: a rib injury, wasn't able to return, had some other bumps,
• 15:45
  Speaker 7: some abuses, but I think everybody else return. Deontae returned,
• 15:48
  Speaker 7: Dan Moore returned. We don't have a lot of time
• 15:51
  Speaker 7: to absorb the result of this. We got a short week,
• 15:54
  Speaker 7: and so we'll do so quickly and quickly turn our
• 15:58
  Speaker 7: attentions and planning toward Tennessee. As unfortunate as the outcome
• 16:02
  Speaker 7: of this game is, man, it is it is final,
• 16:05
  Speaker 7: and we better turn our attention towards the next opportunity
• 16:08
  Speaker 7: on the short week, and those are our intentions. Questions, Mike,
• 16:12
  Speaker 7: any idea how bad Ken he's hurt or you could
• 16:16
  Speaker 7: go forward? I don't have any understanding of that.
• 16:19
  Speaker 8: No, like what was at halftime, they said he was
• 16:21
  Speaker 8: gonna come back, and then he comes out and warms up,
• 16:23
  Speaker 8: and then he doesn't.
• 16:25
  Speaker 7: I don't know who they was. I didn't say that
• 16:28
  Speaker 7: in the long score where you're out leveraged on that side.
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: What happened?
• 16:32
  Speaker 7: He had miscommunication, come out and.
• 16:34
  Speaker 4: Warm up, he was throwing on the sideline in the
• 16:37
  Speaker 4: second half. Did he report additional pain that made him
• 16:39
  Speaker 4: unable to do?
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: Him?
• 16:40
  Speaker 7: Warming enough is not reflective of intentions?
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: What are those first half struggles?
• 16:46
  Speaker 7: You know we missed a big play down in the
• 16:47
  Speaker 7: middle early, we missed another you know, you know corner
• 16:52
  Speaker 7: rout early. You know we's got to execute better at
• 16:56
  Speaker 7: the early courses of football games. Obviously, how much to those.
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: Early three and outs?
• 17:01
  Speaker 7: The tone, including defense, the early portions of the game
• 17:04
  Speaker 7: doesn't decide the outcome. It doesn't it It usually doesn't.
• 17:08
  Speaker 7: It didn't today. Obviously, you want more fluid starts, but
• 17:13
  Speaker 7: it didn't determine the outcome of the game. As I mentioned,
• 17:17
  Speaker 7: I thought the critical things were the things that transpired
• 17:19
  Speaker 7: in the second half of the long score, the turnover.
• 17:23
  Speaker 7: Things you can't do as you're leaning in on the
• 17:26
  Speaker 7: on the last portion of a football game. How much that.
• 17:30
  Speaker 4: Affect what you guys were able to do.
• 17:32
  Speaker 7: Bens Glen knots It didn't schematically. Obviously he's a quality player.
• 17:37
  Speaker 7: But I don't know that it reduced us schematically anyway,
• 17:39
  Speaker 7: because you.
• 17:40
  Speaker 8: Think that if he if Mitchard, because there was just
• 17:43
  Speaker 8: a little bit more patience maybe on the turnover, because yes,
• 17:45
  Speaker 8: some people that were open short, that may have resulted
• 17:49
  Speaker 8: in different outcome.
• 17:50
  Speaker 7: You know, I might have a different perspective after I
• 17:52
  Speaker 7: review it, but you know it wasn't the case. You know,
• 17:57
  Speaker 7: as it unfolded, what.
• 17:58
  Speaker 5: If they tell you on the off side called what
• 18:00
  Speaker 5: was the impact on bluesimost three points?
• 18:04
  Speaker 7: You know, I didn't get a lot of dialogue. You know,
• 18:07
  Speaker 7: I hadn't seen that called in seventeen years of standing
• 18:10
  Speaker 7: on sidelines, off sides, aligned off sides, on a guard
• 18:15
  Speaker 7: on a field goal protection and so you know it
• 18:19
  Speaker 7: didn't matter what they said. I just I have never
• 18:21
  Speaker 7: seen that.
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: I was Theeters head coach Mike Tomlin after the theaters faller.
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: What's twenty it's hand loss to the Jacksonville Joguars, a
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: team that we've seen the have obviously play in the
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: UK over the last few weeks and Jogs are really
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: really starting to perform this season. But at the same time,
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: we expect and we want the Staelers to win a
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: game regardless of their opponents. In terms all the day itself.
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: You know, we've seen Presley Harvard, the guy we had
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: in the podcast, have a decent day and because because
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: he had the interception as well. So look, it's not
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: all doom and gloom, but I guess you have to
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: take small wins on the day like this, especially when
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: there's a loss.
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, it's like I said, Mike, it's not
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: it's not all doom and glame. We still have players
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: on the defensive side that's going to be able to
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: make players and Kasey was able to prove that today.
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: And I'll just say, but Presley Harvan, you know, he's
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: a guy we've we've spoken to earlier in the year
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: and he was obviously optimistic with the season and stuff,
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: and it's it's good to see him having a good
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: day on the special teams. But you know, just coming
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: back on the injuries as well, it maybe now forces
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: us having to go out and maybe look at the
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: trade deadline next week and maybe trying to pick up
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: a piece in the secondary because of obviously the injury demenca.
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: So we'll see how that goes. Hopefully that you know,
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: we're onto that and we can we can react come
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: back with when you know we're I'm just sort of
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: looking at the Titans here their box score against the Falcons.
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: A lot of people expected the Titans to be to
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: be tacking some sorts, but you know that it just
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: proves the teams in the NFL, they just don't thank
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: you know, they all player for each other and it's
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: just not going to happen. So we're coming in here
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: next week. It's going to be a very very difficult game.
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: We'll have as as you say, for touchdowns on his
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: on his NFL starts, first NFL starts, So it's going
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: to be tough.
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: Defensively, they looked pretty good as well, and let's just
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: hope Kenny's going to be available. You know, everybody thought
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: originally when he got injured against Houston a couple of
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: weeks ago, everybody thought he was going to be out
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: for majority of the season. And now it looks like
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: or obviously he was able to bunce back next week
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: against the Ravens and give us a win. So let's
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: hope this isn't a series as we you know, initially think,
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: and he's able to bounce back and before you know it,
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: next Thursday night we're all sad to to to get
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: back in the wedding road.
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, the Staders will play the Titans Thursday. The football
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: that game is not just all off the ball, but
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: it will be on NFL game possible also in the
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: sky Sports in Ireland, so you'll be able to watch
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: that folks both northern side of the border. I would say,
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: just just first off, then what you said there, like
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: coming past this week, still a positive racer, We're still
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: over five hundred. Yes, you know we've seen the Titans
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: with Will Levis on Sunday. What you know, there was
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: a lot of sort of rumors and talk that they
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: were going to shop Derrek Henry. Now our understanding is,
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: and just sort of the discourse from the league is,
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: you know, they're not actively shopping him, but they will
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: certainly listen to offers. It's going to be a very
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: interesting week for every team involved with the trade, theam light,
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: with the trade deadline, and then when you have those
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: question marks around, you know, this Steelers team is going
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: to have what twenty four hours off, and then it's
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: it's going to just be difficult to see certain guys
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: come back in. I guess right now, you know you
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: want to see Kenny come in Thursday night, but more
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: so theyve you want to see this team sort of
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: get back because the possibility of going five and three
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: in Thursday Night can really change the situation that they're
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: in now. Like if they had won obviously on Sunday,
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: they could went five and two, completely different situation. But
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: to win on Thursday on prime time, I think that
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: changes completely changes the nard of one.
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like, as I say, you know, it's not
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: time to burn down the house yet. You know, we've
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: still got a lot of games to go. We're still
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: over five hundred, like you said, and you know what,
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: we've got two home games now that we have the
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: opportunity to set things right, you know, against teams that
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: arguably you know they're not they're not playoff teams. I
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: mean Tennessee's okay, yeah, they've had a good game today,
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: probably suits us now they've had a good game, because
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: there's always the potential of maybe a bad one and
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: then obviously if Green dead then next week who just
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: lethargically do not look like a good team. I mean,
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: they were able to maybe put a glove on it
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: on the Vikings, but apart from that, you know, they're
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: just not They don't seem up to scratch with Jordan Love.
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: So it's just one of those where look, we're gonna
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: have to, you know, review the game see where we
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: can obviously improve. There's obviously a lot of places where
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: we need to improve. But obviously, say you know, of
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: every you know, I trust that you know, the coaching
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: staff will will build over the guys down and just hopefully,
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: well we'll be able to come back on Thursday night,
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: you know, with with a win, just for everybody. So,
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: like you said, we're still over five hundreds, maybe not
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: major time to panic, of course, you know things could
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: have been better, but at the same time, you know,
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: we've got to just keep our head held high and
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: trust that you know, people are going to sat it right.
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: You had the patient of the same my friend, you
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: do you.
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: Know, Jimmy, I know Jimmy might be Jimmy is probably
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: listening to this turn her out, But yeah, I know,
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: I can just imagine them right now here would just
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: be you know, it'd be livid. But I feel you,
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: jim I really do.
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: Well. Look, I mean, the standard is a standard, and
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: it starts this first and that again, and I know
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: that everyone will expect, we certainly expect and end in
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: the podcast on a positive note. For a few weeks
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: out from this watch party in Dublin, we expect some form.
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: Of news to come this week.
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: So keep keep the eyes open, keep the ears open,
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: keep the ears prickle it up. Some interesting news could
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: come very very soon, some really really cool news, and
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: that might link into our next podcast before Thursday. A
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: football But I'm hoping, you know, I'm hoping that that
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: we're gonna go out at first and night and really
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: put on a performance under the lights and show the
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: league that this Pittsburgh team, if it's a great defense
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: and young, fluid offense, can really rewrite the roles from Sunday,
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: so let's see. I would say, folks, if you have
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: any questions, if you have any opinions, if you do
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: want to get in touch with us, please use the
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: hashtag Steelers Ireland with some questions or comments in the
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: game on Sunday against Jaguars or just in general. Please
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: let us still have you any final awards.
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: Do Yeah, not really, you know, it's it's just important
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: that we do end in a positive note. You know
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: things can always be better, and you know, just it's
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: it's just one of those things where we just have to,
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: you know, dust your south down and get on with it.
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: You know, you're only as good as your last game,
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: as you know, Mick, and you know, hopefully our next
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: game is going to be our best of the season,
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: so we're gonna need a good performance. Also, just I
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: want to shout out my cousin Breton Scanman, who is
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: a big pop song congratulations on their first winning of
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: the season this year.
• 24:59
  Speaker 7: So if he's.
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: Considering trading to the Steelers ever since you know that
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: the marketing rates were, we're annow sports. I think you'll
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: stick with the Potters for an all the way, So yeah,
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: shout out to him definitely.
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: Well, I know it was the NFL Global Markets game
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: as well because the Jags and the Sailors both and
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: I have to say now I've seen the Jags put
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: up a thing of George Pickens with the Jags Cealarbritten
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: and I'll tell you what we're going to get them
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: back for that after that. So all playful fun on
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: social media and Sunday, but look there results just didn't
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: go away. And we hope now two massive, massive games
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: at home against two teams that I really feel and
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: I know you feel as baladd that we should be
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: taken care of. And it's a big it's a big
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: couple of weeks standards and standard and we will see
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: what happens and really regroup and take it from there.
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: For now, this has been the hour series podcast. Thank
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: you for listening to us on this Monday morning. We
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: hope you've brightened up your morning a little bit after
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: the disappointing day yesterday. We'll chaut to you sume. Here
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: we go.
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