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Spurs Take Game 1 Behind Wemby’s Historic Night and Aaron Rodgers Era Continues in Steelers · The Daily Play With Joy Taylor

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  Speaker 1: Hey guys, welcome to The Daily Play with Joy Taylor.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks so much for joining me.
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  Speaker 2: at the Daily Play Joy Taylor. Wow Wow, wow, Wow,
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  Speaker 2: what a treat to start the Western Conference Finals.
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  Speaker 1: What an unbelievable game.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I wasn't sure how this series was going
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  Speaker 2: to go, and I really do feel like it will
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  Speaker 2: be a long one. But man, just an unbelievable heavyweight
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  Speaker 2: matchup between the Spurs and Thunder. The Spurs held the
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  Speaker 2: Thunder to their lowest scoring first half of the playoffs. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: see storms back pushed game one into overtime.
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  Speaker 1: Wemby hits a logo.
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  Speaker 2: Three to push it to double overtime, so you get
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  Speaker 2: a double scoop of extra playoff basketball. Eventually, the Spurs
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  Speaker 2: got the best of the Thunder and they take a
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  Speaker 2: lead one to zero in the series. Wemby was just
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  Speaker 2: incredible forty one points, twenty four rebounds, logging a career
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  Speaker 2: high in minutes. The only other Spur to score forty
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  Speaker 2: plus and grab the twenty plus four in a playoff
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  Speaker 2: game is David Robinson, so he's in spectacular company. And
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  Speaker 2: after the game, Wenby said it might be a long series.
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  Speaker 2: Winning one game means something, but it isn't everything, you know,
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  Speaker 2: so we have to stay down to Earth.
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  Speaker 1: Look, he's an alien, so I stay down on Earth
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  Speaker 1: talk us for someone else.
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  Speaker 2: I was in complete awe of Wemby. This felt like
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  Speaker 2: his his breakout game for real. Like, obviously, we know
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  Speaker 2: Wemby is great, and he's Defensive Player of the Year,
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  Speaker 2: and we know he had the potential to be an
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  Speaker 2: absolute superstar. But to me, this game really solidified that.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you're talking about the defending champs to back
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  Speaker 2: to back League MVP and shake Gildess Alexander. You just
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  Speaker 2: come off of a long series, they've been resting, they've
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  Speaker 2: been watching Wemby's minutes all season.
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  Speaker 1: For him to come out and be this.
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  Speaker 2: Spectacular, that physical, with that much energy, to be so
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  Speaker 2: clutched down the line in a double overtime game, it
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  Speaker 2: was just it truly was a really special game to watch.
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  Speaker 1: And if they end up going on to win this series.
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  Speaker 2: We're gonna look back at that game in an even
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  Speaker 2: brighter way than we're looking at it now. I Mean,
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  Speaker 2: it feels like a low hanging fruit to say that
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  Speaker 2: he is obviously a superstar.
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  Speaker 1: But that was a real superstar moment.
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  Speaker 2: And this series just has so much talent, which gets
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  Speaker 2: me excited about this series because you know, sometimes we
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  Speaker 2: look for animosity, and we look for storylines, and we
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  Speaker 2: look for rivalries, and sometimes just great basketball and physical
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  Speaker 2: basketball and passionate enough. And I think that's what you
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  Speaker 2: have in this series, paired with incredible talent. Obviously you
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  Speaker 2: have Wenby, Obviously you have Shay, you have chet Holmgram
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  Speaker 2: who finished second for Defensive Player of the Year, Steph Castle,
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  Speaker 2: Jay dub Is back, Darren Fox wasn't even available in
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  Speaker 2: Game one. Alex Drusso was unbelievable. If they had ended
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  Speaker 2: up winning that game, it would have been because of him.
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  Speaker 2: Dylan Harper, A. J. Mitchell at Harrison Barnes and he's
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  Speaker 2: barely seeing the floor. Isiah Hartenstein, Keldon Johnson, like the
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  Speaker 2: list go on, goes on and on. And for all
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  Speaker 2: the team camaraderie that the Thunder showed attending Shay's MVP
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  Speaker 2: and announcement, the Spurs also have this dismatching type of
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  Speaker 2: team camaraderie element and you can really tell that they
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  Speaker 2: play for each other. They overcame a lot of sloppiness
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  Speaker 2: down the stretch, which I think is really important for
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  Speaker 2: a team with young players to not lose composure, not
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  Speaker 2: lose control, stay focused, and close that game out on
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  Speaker 2: the road in Game one and OKCE against an incredibly
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  Speaker 2: talented team in the defending champs and back to back
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  Speaker 2: League MVP, so so so impressive.
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  Speaker 1: I can't wait for the rest of this series.
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  Speaker 2: So looking ahead to tonight's Eastern Conference Finals, I think
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  Speaker 2: this is going to be a very closely matched series.
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  Speaker 1: I think there's going to be a lot of energy
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  Speaker 1: in the Garden. New York is going to be outside.
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  Speaker 2: And the NBA is just better with the Knicks in
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  Speaker 2: the championship hunts.
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  Speaker 1: I have been saying this about the Knicks forever.
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  Speaker 2: The NBA is just better when there are certain organizations
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  Speaker 2: that are competitive. The Lakers, the Knicks, the Celtics, like
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  Speaker 2: those cornerstone organizations just bring a certain type of energy
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  Speaker 2: and attention and conversation, and I just I love that
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  Speaker 2: the Knicks are in this situation. Again, there was a
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  Speaker 2: lot of controversy about the firing and the offseason and
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  Speaker 2: what they were going to be able to do. Obviously,
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  Speaker 2: this postseason has been really interesting for them. So the
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  Speaker 2: Calves and Knicks will be back in MSG for Game one.
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  Speaker 1: It's conference finals. There's a lot of pressure on the
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  Speaker 1: Calves after they've been building year after year.
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  Speaker 2: The Knicks have a lot of pressure because they've made
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  Speaker 2: all these moves, and I just think that the game
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  Speaker 2: is going to be really, really intense. I wouldn't be
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  Speaker 2: surprised if New York starts slow, but they have won
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  Speaker 2: seven straight games, and they outscored Atlanta in Philadelphia by
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  Speaker 2: combined one hundred and ninety four points as that's the
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  Speaker 2: largest margin ever through a team's first ten postseason game.
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  Speaker 2: So moving past the bit of a clunky star with Atlanta,
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  Speaker 2: they have really been rolling. And they're listing og Anobi
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  Speaker 2: as probable to play after he missed two games with
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  Speaker 2: a strained right hamstring. I can't wait to see what
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  Speaker 2: this series looks like again. I think this will be
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  Speaker 2: a long, evenly matched series. I don't think this will
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  Speaker 2: go short. I'm seeing some predictions out there that it
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  Speaker 2: will be a short series. I disagree. I think there's
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  Speaker 2: a lot of talent and a lot of experience on
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  Speaker 2: both sides, and I think we're looking at a long
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  Speaker 2: and exciting series.
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  Speaker 1: There. All right, Let's talk about the Pittsburgh Steelers.
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  Speaker 2: They have now officially paired the Super Bowl champion head
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  Speaker 2: coach and quarterback from the twenty ten eleven Green Bay Packers.
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  Speaker 2: Rogers played Coy initially this offseason and forced the Steelers
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  Speaker 2: to deploy a rarely used contract clause as leveraged, and
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  Speaker 2: he has already made an appearance on the field in
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  Speaker 2: Pittsburgh on Monday. So he the four time MVP re
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  Speaker 2: signed for a ten million dollar increase in south. The
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  Speaker 2: Steelers were ten and seven last season, good enough to
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  Speaker 2: win the AFC North and get dominated by the Texans
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  Speaker 2: at home in the playoffs, and Steelers inside linebacker Peyton
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  Speaker 2: Wilson said he saw Rogers just after seven am. Forty
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  Speaker 2: two year old quarterback left the building to take his physical.
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  Speaker 2: He said, I was walking in and he was coming out.
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  Speaker 2: It was good to see him. I was a little shocked, definitely.
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  Speaker 2: New Steelers wide receiver Michael Pittman said even in the
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  Speaker 2: first day, he made a couple of great throws and
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  Speaker 2: I was like, Wow, I'm really playing with Aaron.
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  Speaker 1: It's great.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I get to play with another Hall of
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  Speaker 2: Fame quarterback because I got to play with Philip Rivers.
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna say he's gonna make it. So this is
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  Speaker 2: my second yes, I would say I have to agree
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  Speaker 2: with that notion. As far as how Aaron is going
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  Speaker 2: to be this year, I don't know, man. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I can't believe that the Steelers are in this situation.
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  Speaker 2: I can't believe that you move on from Mike Tomlin
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  Speaker 2: to Mike McCarthy. You have an opportunity to get multiple
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  Speaker 2: different quarterbacks. I mean, you passed on guys that were
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  Speaker 2: in free agency. It's not like the Steelers have an
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  Speaker 2: had an option to draft guys over the past couple
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  Speaker 2: of years. And you've got a forty two year old
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  Speaker 2: quarterback who was just good enough to get you exactly
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  Speaker 2: where every other quarterback has gotten you for the past
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  Speaker 2: I don't even know how many years now, which is
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  Speaker 2: just you know, win the division or make the playoffs
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  Speaker 2: and get dropped.
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  Speaker 1: In the first round. It's really kind of embarrassing. Where
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  Speaker 1: the Stealers have.
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to say aspired to, but like, what
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  Speaker 2: are you doing at this point? At some point you
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  Speaker 2: have to push resets on the organization. If you haven't
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  Speaker 2: had an heir apparent to the quarterback. They've tried, they've whiffed.
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  Speaker 2: It's hard. It's really hard to evaluate quarterbacks. It's hard
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  Speaker 2: to draft quarterbacks, but you have to keep trying. I
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  Speaker 2: understand he'll have weapons, He's got Michael Pittman and DK
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  Speaker 2: metcalf Rigal Dowdell and Jalen Warren, still have Pat Fryarmouth
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  Speaker 2: and Darnel Washington, but like to do what to do
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  Speaker 2: what in that division to accomplish what in the I
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  Speaker 2: just don't see it. I don't know why this is
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  Speaker 2: the standard now in Pittsburgh. I would have rather had
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  Speaker 2: them take a reset year, really build up the organization,
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  Speaker 2: try and get a young and exciting new quarterback, somebody
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  Speaker 2: that's going to be there for a few years that
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  Speaker 2: you can build with.
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  Speaker 1: I don't see the vision here.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't see the vision last year and like not
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  Speaker 2: for nothing, But I was right because it ended up
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  Speaker 2: exactly where they have for time and time again, which
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  Speaker 2: is not a losing season and not the standard of
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  Speaker 2: competing for a championship.
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  Speaker 1: So I don't get it, but that's where the Steelers
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  Speaker 1: are right now.
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