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HR 1: Steelers 26, Bucs 19 Week 6 Game Recap · The Steelers Report

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  Speaker 1: This is the Steelers Report with Brian Batko and Ed
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  Speaker 1: Troup on Steelers Nation Radio, a.
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  Speaker 2: Part of the Steelers Audio Network.
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  Speaker 1: We'll be right back.
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  Speaker 3: The Pittsburgh Steelers found a way to get it done
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  Speaker 3: in Tampa on Sunday. Rallying from a 13-3 halftime deficit
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  Speaker 3: to beat the Buccaneers 26-19 in overtime. Aaron Rodgers connected
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  Speaker 3: with rookie Jeremy Bernard, as you just heard right there.
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  Speaker 3: For the game-winning touchdown, Chris Boswell came up clutch with
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  Speaker 3: three fourth-quarter field goals, and the defense delivered when they
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  Speaker 3: had to. with four sacks and two interceptions double b
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  Speaker 3: the steelers are now four and two riding a two
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  Speaker 3: game winning streak and tied atop the afc.
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  Speaker 4: North that was quite a game that was quite a
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  Speaker 4: game feels like a lot of steelers ones from over
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  Speaker 4: the years that are back and forth and come down
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  Speaker 4: to the wire but actually the first ot game for
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  Speaker 4: them since week one of 2022 which is shocking to
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  Speaker 4: me it's Seems like they play a half-dozen overtime games
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  Speaker 4: every year.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: But normally they declare themselves one way or the other
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  Speaker 4: by the end of regulation. Am I the only one
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  Speaker 4: who kept losing track of the score? Not necessarily who
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  Speaker 4: was winning or who was up, but with all those
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  Speaker 4: field goals coming fast and furious, and then the Steelers
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  Speaker 4: tie it, and then the Steelers are ahead, and then
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  Speaker 4: the Bucs tie it again. Any way you slice it,
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  Speaker 4: 16 points in the fourth quarter, 23 in the fourth quarter,
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  Speaker 4: plus overtime. Wasn't too little too late, right? It was
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  Speaker 4: just enough, just in time.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, right time for the Steelers and their big win
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  Speaker 3: on Sunday to improve to 4-2, as we said, 26-19
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  Speaker 3: in overtime. Brian, this felt a lot like the Cleveland
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  Speaker 3: game on Thursday night, where at least for three quarters,
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  Speaker 3: and in Cleveland it was the second and third quarter,
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  Speaker 3: but on Sunday it was the first three quarters where
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  Speaker 3: The team just wasn't clicking on offense. The defense wasn't
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  Speaker 3: getting it done. And boy, you felt like it was
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  Speaker 3: going to go down the loss column for sure. But
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  Speaker 3: then they woke up in the fourth quarter, much like
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  Speaker 3: they did on that Thursday night game in Cleveland. The
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  Speaker 3: only difference is Cleveland was able to hold off the
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  Speaker 3: Steelers where yesterday the Buccaneers were not able to hold
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  Speaker 3: off the Steelers.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it was kind of similar all the way down
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  Speaker 4: to DK Metcalf heating up.
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  Speaker 5: In crunch time. Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Fourth quarter, I don't know what the latest numbers are
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  Speaker 4: on most fourth quarter receiving yards. But I think coming
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  Speaker 4: into that game yesterday, he was in the top 10
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  Speaker 4: in the NFL. I sure have to wonder now if
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  Speaker 4: he's closer to number one and if you throw overtime
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  Speaker 4: in there too, which I don't know if you should
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  Speaker 4: count overtime if it's a fourth quarter stat, but it's
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  Speaker 4: also it's about getting going at the end of a
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  Speaker 4: game and making clutch catches.
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  Speaker 5: Regardless, he was just always.
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  Speaker 4: Open at the end of that game, taking advantage of
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  Speaker 4: what the defense was giving them. from Tampa Bay, seemed
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  Speaker 4: like Todd Bowles was just thinking, hey, they're not going
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  Speaker 4: to have enough time to get back in this if
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  Speaker 4: we keep everybody in front of us. But credit Chris Boswell,
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  Speaker 4: credit Aaron Rodgers, DK, and Jeremy Bernard for catching everything. Oh,
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  Speaker 4: by the way, Jalen Warren spinning and spinning, whirling dervish
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  Speaker 4: in overtime to move the chains to.
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  Speaker 6: Incredible.
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  Speaker 4: It was a quiet day for Warren, relatively speaking, but
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  Speaker 4: he still had enough gas left in the tank when
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  Speaker 4: they needed it.
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  Speaker 3: And his teammates sure picked him up when they had
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  Speaker 3: to at different times, including the Steelers' defense that did
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  Speaker 3: not look good through the first three quarters, but they
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  Speaker 3: made the splash play when they had to, and that
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  Speaker 3: is our turning point of the game.
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  Speaker 2: Gets a snap, back to pass, looking right, throws in
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  Speaker 2: that direction, and it's picked off, and it's Jamel Dean
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  Speaker 2: of all people, streaking down the left sideline, inside the five,
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  Speaker 2: Jamel Dean and his return to Tampa Bay, the big
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  Speaker 2: play the Steelers needed. Get those terrible towels in the air.
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  Speaker 5: Jamel Dean coming back.
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  Speaker 4: The former Bucco delivers a cannon shot inside of Raymond James.
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  Speaker 3: Max needs to watch that Bucco talk, but yeah, referring
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  Speaker 3: to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Big play, Brian. A big
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  Speaker 3: time at that game. Football is such a game of momentum.
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  Speaker 3: We talk about it each and every week. Boy, the
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  Speaker 3: momentum sure switched to the black and gold side on
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  Speaker 3: that play.
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  Speaker 4: And I actually thought Jalen Daniels played a pretty good
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  Speaker 4: game for the Bucs. I continue to be impressed by him,
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  Speaker 4: especially for a rookie undrafted guy who just got kind
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  Speaker 4: of thrown into the fire. But I did also think
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  Speaker 4: eventually the pressure is going to get to him. He's
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  Speaker 4: going to make a mistake or two. He made two.
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  Speaker 4: And then, you know, the dam just kind of broke
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  Speaker 4: at the end there with Jalen Ramsey. slamming the door.
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  Speaker 4: I had no doubt that the Steelers defense was going
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  Speaker 4: to wall up and get.
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  Speaker 5: A stop there.
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  Speaker 4: I didn't know if it was going to end on
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  Speaker 4: a on a pick or a PBU, a desperation incompletion
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  Speaker 4: or a sack. And in the end, it was Ramsey
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  Speaker 4: with the sack. And man, was he fired up playing
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  Speaker 4: the game with a lot of passion right now.
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  Speaker 5: He's a few days away from his 20 or excuse
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  Speaker 5: 20th on the 24th. He will turn 32. Will Jalen
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  Speaker 5: Ramsey And he obviously he's still got the juice.
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  Speaker 4: He's doing it a different way than he used to
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  Speaker 4: coming up in this league as a shutdown cornerback. But
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  Speaker 4: he is tying that entire defense together right now.
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  Speaker 3: You and I last week talked about Jalen Ramsey being
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  Speaker 3: a hit so far this season in the backfield on
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  Speaker 3: a bunch of plays coming up with the splash plays
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  Speaker 3: when they needed it. He did it again yesterday for
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  Speaker 3: the game. Two sacks, four tackle for losses, 10 total
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  Speaker 3: tackles finished the game. with the overtime sack on fourth down,
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  Speaker 3: takes his helmet off, much like how he ended his
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  Speaker 3: first game last year in New York against the Jets.
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  Speaker 6: Remember the big hit at the tail end of that one?
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  Speaker 3: And the NFL posted both of those highlights yesterday and
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  Speaker 3: something along the lines that Ramsey likes to end games
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  Speaker 3: on his own.
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  Speaker 4: I didn't even see that. But, yeah, he called game.
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  Speaker 4: He's good with the walk-off, that's for sure. You know,
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  Speaker 4: Daylon Everett with a big interception as well. First one
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  Speaker 4: for Dean as a stealer. First one forever as an
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  Speaker 4: NFL player come in the same game. Jamel Dean just
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  Speaker 4: said he wishes he could have taken that all the
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  Speaker 4: way back for a pick six because he had one
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  Speaker 4: last year in the same stadium. He's been a really
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  Speaker 4: good acquisition this offseason.
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  Speaker 3: Sure.
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  Speaker 4: That's going to continue to be the case as long
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  Speaker 4: as he can stay healthy. I don't know that he
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  Speaker 4: was 100 percent healthy yesterday, but give the guy credit
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  Speaker 4: for toughing it out and felt like there was just
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  Speaker 4: no way he was going to miss that game back
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  Speaker 4: in Tampa.
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  Speaker 3: And give credit to Jalen Daniels, the quarterback, for getting
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  Speaker 3: back to make that tackle on Jamel Dean.
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  Speaker 6: Or he would have scored on that one.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, good hustle by him and just got just enough
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  Speaker 4: to push Jamel.
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  Speaker 5: Dean out of bounds.
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  Speaker 4: And it nearly was the difference there because, as we know,
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  Speaker 4: the Steelers did not punch it in.
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  Speaker 5: They went for the win. They went for the decisive
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  Speaker 5: touchdown there. Couldn't do it. Had to settle for a
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  Speaker 5: field goal.
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  Speaker 4: And Daniels had the wherewithal to drive him back downfield
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  Speaker 4: and get a tying win. field goal what are your
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  Speaker 4: takes on uh overtime strategy because obviously the bucks decided
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  Speaker 4: they won they won the toss they won the toss
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  Speaker 4: and they decided to defer which is great if you
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  Speaker 4: get a quick stop and then you're like okay all
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  Speaker 4: we need to do is get in field goal range
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  Speaker 4: and chase mclaughlin hasn't missed all year he might hit
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  Speaker 4: it from 60 and yet the steelers get the ball
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  Speaker 4: first methodical drive moving the chains one after another by
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  Speaker 4: the time they give the ball back and with a
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  Speaker 4: touchdown which is huge Because if you give it back
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  Speaker 4: with a field goal, today's kickers, again, we're seeing this
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  Speaker 4: every week all around the league. All it takes is
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  Speaker 4: two or three completions.
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  Speaker 5: Pew, pew, pew.
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  Speaker 4: Now you're in field goal range. And, you know, it's
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  Speaker 4: pretty much a cheap code. The fact that the Steelers
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  Speaker 4: put six on the board, actually seven, and made it
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  Speaker 4: so that Daniels would have to go the length of
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  Speaker 4: the field to score was big. I wonder if there
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  Speaker 4: are going to be some conversations about that in the
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  Speaker 4: NFL analytics game management world.
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  Speaker 3: As I said, football's a game of momentum. So if
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  Speaker 3: I win the toss in overtime, I want the ball.
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  Speaker 3: I want to seize the momentum, and the Steelers did
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  Speaker 3: that on that. It turns into be the game-winning drive, right,
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  Speaker 3: in overtime. Jeremy Bernard, the six-yard touchdown reception from Aaron Rodgers.
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  Speaker 6: Boz adds the extra point.
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  Speaker 3: That was a 12-play, 70-yard, 6-minute and 45-second drive in overtime,
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  Speaker 3: Brian Bacco. That's how you gain momentum. That's how you
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  Speaker 3: seize momentum, and that's how, ultimately, you win the game.
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  Speaker 4: Jeremy bernard continues to step up they're they're putting a
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  Speaker 4: lot on his plate but obviously the moment has not
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  Speaker 4: been too big for him i'm sure he'd like to
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  Speaker 4: have it back on that it was a first down
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  Speaker 4: catch and then it wasn't and then it was a
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  Speaker 4: turnover on down.
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  Speaker 5: Rookie mistake right trying to make a play.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah but in retrospect got to have the awareness there
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  Speaker 4: to just go down move the chains.
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  Speaker 3: I say rookie mistake, though there was a receiver in
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  Speaker 3: and around the Steelers that did that.
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  Speaker 6: Quite a bit, and he wasn't a rookie.
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  Speaker 4: Trying to do too much sometimes can get you in trouble,
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  Speaker 4: especially when you're a good yards-after-catch guy like Jeremy Bernard is.
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  Speaker 5: I knew what you were getting at there, Ed.
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  Speaker 4: But Jeremy Bernard overall, he's eating week after week, and
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  Speaker 4: you love to see it. I want to look up
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  Speaker 4: where he's at in rookie receiving yards so far this year.
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  Speaker 4: Carnell Tate's doing really well down in Tennessee. Titans got
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  Speaker 4: off the schneid yesterday, by the way. I think we
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  Speaker 4: talked last week. Who's going to be the last winless
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  Speaker 4: team standing? It won't be Tennessee. It'll be Miami or
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  Speaker 4: the Chargers.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, Chargers now 0-6. Yikes.
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  Speaker 3: And how about the Cardinals beat the Rams yesterday, too?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, the NFL is so unpredictable. Just when you
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  Speaker 3: think you have it figured out, you don't. And that's
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  Speaker 3: what makes it so great. We talked yesterday.
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  Speaker 6: Wow, boy, there I go.
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  Speaker 3: Well, we probably did talk yesterday, just not to each
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  Speaker 3: other about this, but we talked last week here on
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  Speaker 3: the show, Brian, about Jeremy Bernard becoming the number two
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  Speaker 3: wide receiver potentially for the rest of the season. Look,
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  Speaker 3: back-to-back games, he has shown you that he's that playmaker. Yesterday,
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  Speaker 3: 12 targets, 11 catches, 87 yards, the big touchdown in overtime. Boy,
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  Speaker 3: the rookie really seems to start that he's starting to
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  Speaker 3: come on the scene. And that rhythm with Aaron Rodgers,
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  Speaker 3: the 42-year-old quarterback, really has picked up steam now two
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  Speaker 3: weeks in a row.
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  Speaker 4: And obviously not a lot of huge plays, although he
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  Speaker 4: did have the biggest play of the day for the
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  Speaker 4: Steelers on offense, the 19-yard reception. But by and large,
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  Speaker 4: this is an offense that sometimes you're going to have
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  Speaker 4: to throw short, let them run long. the Buccaneers defense
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  Speaker 4: was kind of forcing them into those situations because the
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  Speaker 4: pressure was really getting home. I thought the Bucs played
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  Speaker 4: inspired up front. David Walker, boy, is he a good
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  Speaker 4: pass rusher. You know what Vita Veya and Kalijah Cansey
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  Speaker 4: can do on the interior, although I think the Steelers
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  Speaker 4: interior was up to the challenge there, but it.
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  Speaker 5: Was getting chippy in there, was it not?
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  Speaker 4: Mason McCormick and especially right guard Brock Hoffman felt like
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  Speaker 4: they were on the brink of fisticuffs for a lot
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  Speaker 4: of the game. Some crashing out was going on there,
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  Speaker 4: but in the end They kept Veya out of the
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  Speaker 4: game for the most part. Now, Maxi Honachor had a
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  Speaker 4: couple reps that he's going to want back. Happy birthday
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  Speaker 4: to him, by the way, today. Much better to get
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  Speaker 4: it the day after a W on a victory Monday.
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  Speaker 4: But the pass rush made it tough on Aaron Rodgers
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  Speaker 4: for a lot of the game. And, you know, you
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  Speaker 4: didn't have Roman Wilson, obviously, in this one. You're not
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  Speaker 4: going to have him going forward for a few more
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  Speaker 4: games because he was placed on IR on Saturday. So
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  Speaker 4: I think there will be some weeks where Defenses play
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  Speaker 4: them completely differently, and it's, hey, we've got to attack
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  Speaker 4: deep downfield to DK Metcalf. I actually went into the
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  Speaker 4: third quarter thinking they were going to need to do
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  Speaker 4: some of that, but eventually the Bucs kind of loosened
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  Speaker 4: things up, and they were able to get it going underneath.
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  Speaker 4: You don't want to have to settle for three field
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  Speaker 4: goals in the fourth quarter, but the recipe worked for
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  Speaker 4: a win.
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  Speaker 3: The Steelers win in overtime. We're celebrating it here on
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  Speaker 3: Victory Monday. It's leading into the Mike McCarthy press conference
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  Speaker 3: coming up here at 3 o'clock today. I will be
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  Speaker 3: joining Wes Shuler today, so if you haven't got enough
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  Speaker 3: of me here on the airwaves, I'll be joining Wes
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  Speaker 3: coming up here at 3 o'clock for the Mike McCarthy
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  Speaker 3: press conference, subbing in for Jerry Dulac today. Brian, again,
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  Speaker 3: the theme here is the Steelers rode a wave of
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  Speaker 3: three quarters.
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  Speaker 6: That did not look great.
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  Speaker 3: And in the past, look, if you go back the
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  Speaker 3: last 20, 25 years, these were the type of games
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  Speaker 3: that they didn't come back very often. I mean, Big
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  Speaker 3: Ben led them back on a handful during his era
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  Speaker 3: as the Steelers quarterback. But at least in the last
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  Speaker 3: five or six years, this was the type of game
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  Speaker 3: that you pretty much put in the loss column. So
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  Speaker 3: credit the Rodgers, credit the McCarthy and the coaching staff,
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  Speaker 3: credit to the defense for making the plays when they
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  Speaker 3: had to. Steelers ultimately get this win coming back in
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  Speaker 3: the fourth quarter, overtime, controlling overtime, getting to four and
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  Speaker 3: two on the season. The Browns beat the Ravens at home.
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  Speaker 3: They upset the Ravens at home. If you want to
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  Speaker 3: call it an upset, I don't know. Now all of
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  Speaker 3: a sudden Cleveland four and two atop the division because
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  Speaker 3: they own the tiebreaker against the Steelers. There's a log
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  Speaker 3: jam in the AFC North right now. You have, you know,
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  Speaker 3: the Bengals were on a buy yesterday, so they didn't
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  Speaker 3: win or lose, but Ravens lose. They're 4-2. Browns 4-2.
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  Speaker 3: Steelers now 4-2. Steelers have yet to play the Ravens.
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  Speaker 3: They beat the Bengals. But the Browns beat the Steelers.
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  Speaker 3: So it is truly a logjam right now in the
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  Speaker 3: AFC North.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it is.
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  Speaker 4: And looking down the road here on the schedule, some
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  Speaker 4: news that came out today is that Jalen Hurts is
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  Speaker 4: out for the year.
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  Speaker 6: I saw that.
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  Speaker 5: For the Eagles.
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  Speaker 4: So it'll be Tanner McKee or somebody else, a quarterback
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  Speaker 4: for the Steelers in early December. when they head to
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  Speaker 4: Philadelphia to face the Eagles or excuse me, mid November, uh,
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  Speaker 4: that's actually just four games away. If, if you, uh,
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  Speaker 4: you know, take out the bi-week, uh, so that changes
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  Speaker 4: the complexion of things that the Eagles have been really
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  Speaker 4: difficult to beat for the Steelers in Philly, but that
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  Speaker 4: was mostly with Jalen hurts. And before that Carson Wentz and,
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  Speaker 4: you know, maybe McKee will get comfortable under center by
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  Speaker 4: the time they go there.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Uh, but that's different than what we thought, uh, coming
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  Speaker 4: into this season, no doubt about it. Um, You know,
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  Speaker 4: the Colts fired their GM today, Chris Ballard. Now the
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  Speaker 4: Steelers already faced the Colts, and beating them probably hastened
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  Speaker 4: his departure. But you said it, Ed. I mean, this
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  Speaker 4: league is unpredictable on a game-to-game, week-to-week basis. So what's
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  Speaker 4: that saying of don't look a gift horse in the mouth?
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  Speaker 4: I don't know if Sunday's win over the Bucs told
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  Speaker 4: us anything more about the Steelers or if we want
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  Speaker 4: to go down that road. Aaron Rodgers did call it
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  Speaker 4: a trajectory game. altering win but i wonder if that's
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  Speaker 4: more so along the lines of if they would have
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  Speaker 4: lost that game and not gotten out of neutral or
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  Speaker 4: really reverse the way the offense was driving i agree
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  Speaker 4: guys would have felt pretty bad about that performance that
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  Speaker 4: they put on tape and it would have taken a
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  Speaker 4: lot of resilience going out across the pond to paris
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  Speaker 4: instead they can feel good about themselves for pulling that
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  Speaker 4: out and hopefully ride that wave.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah what they showed you in the fourth quarter and
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  Speaker 3: overtime tells you a lot about this football team and
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  Speaker 3: where it's heading But if they would have lost, you
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  Speaker 3: would have looked at those first three quarters, potentially what
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  Speaker 3: would happen in the fourth quarter, and there would be
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  Speaker 3: a lot more questions leading up to the upcoming game
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  Speaker 3: that will be played in Paris this Sunday morning, 9.30 a.m.
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  Speaker 6: Pittsburgh time.
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  Speaker 3: It won't be morning over in Paris, but it'll be
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  Speaker 3: morning here when the Steelers battle the Saints, who, by
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  Speaker 3: the way, got a win yesterday, so they'll be coming
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  Speaker 3: off of a win tomorrow. But whenever we come back,
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  Speaker 3: we'll get into Backo's six. And then also coming up
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  Speaker 3: here at 2.40 today, we'll get into some team stats,
• 15:39
  Speaker 3: our three stats to victory from Steelers 26, Bucs 19
• 15:43
  Speaker 3: in overtime.
• 15:45
  Speaker 6: Steelers now 4-2 on the season.
• 15:47
  Speaker 3: And it all leads into the 3 o'clock Mike McCarthy
• 15:49
  Speaker 3: press conference today right here on SNR.
• 15:53
  Speaker 6: I'm Ed Troop alongside Brian Backo.
• 15:54
  Speaker 3: It is the Steelers Report here on Steelers Nation Radio,
• 15:57
  Speaker 3: part of the Steelers Audio Network.
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: Gets the snap back, pressure coming, throws to the left,
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: and it is picked off by Everett. Picked off by
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: Daylon Everett at the 45-yard line. There's your renegade, oh mama,
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: Daylon Everett.
• 16:28
  Speaker 7: This is the Steelers Report with Brian Batko and Ed
• 16:32
  Speaker 7: Trude on Steelers Nation Radio, a part of the Steelers
• 16:36
  Speaker 7: Audio Network.
• 16:37
  Speaker 3: During the opening of the show today, Double B and
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: I were talking about how last week we talked about
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: Jeremy Bernard becoming the number two wide receiver for the
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: rest of the season. The other talking point we had
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: with this rookie class last week was Daylon Everett potentially
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: being the opposite starting corner. going forward once Jamel Dean's
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: back in the mix, and not to take anything away
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: from Asante Samuel Jr., but it's just tough to keep
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: a guy like Daylon Everett off the field, Brian Bacco.
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: He is starting to show those signs of being a
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: starting corner in the NFL.
• 17:08
  Speaker 5: Yeah, and Samuel played the entire game yesterday.
• 17:10
  Speaker 4: He was one of three defenders to play 100% of
• 17:12
  Speaker 4: the snaps, or excuse me, four defenders, Jalen Ramsey, Jaquan Brisker,
• 17:15
  Speaker 4: also in the secondary, and then Patrick Queen. Ironman has
• 17:18
  Speaker 4: not left the field all season as the green dot
• 17:22
  Speaker 4: hub of communication play calling linebacker there but yeah I
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: think when it comes to this cornerback I guess we
• 17:30
  Speaker 4: can call it a trio now it might be week
• 17:33
  Speaker 4: to week it might kind of depend I think the
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: coaches are going to be constantly evaluating how much progress
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: the rookie is making and when it's the right time
• 17:40
  Speaker 4: to insert him as an every down full-time player opposite
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: Jamel Dean obviously Dean's Injury is.
• 17:48
  Speaker 5: Part of the equation there as well.
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: He played 65% of the snaps, or excuse me, he
• 17:52
  Speaker 4: played 88% of the snaps, 65 in total. Daylon Everett
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: played 11. He only played 11 snaps, and that was 15%
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: of the total. It felt like he got thrown at
• 18:01
  Speaker 4: every single play. I mean, that third drive, the Bucs
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: went after him. And then obviously they went after him
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: again when he checked in for Dean in the fourth quarter,
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: and he made them pay. So tip your cap to
• 18:11
  Speaker 4: him for that. Got his feet down in bounds. Very
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: instinctual play. by the third rounder out of Georgia. And
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: maybe that made him feel better, uh, after a weekend
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: in which the Bulldogs went down to Auburn as the
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: number one ranked team in college football.
• 18:27
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 18:27
  Speaker 6: Tough loss for Georgia this past week.
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: What a great weekend of football all around the college
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: NFL and college.
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: I mean, you want to talk about the NFL being
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: unpredictable college Saturday, this past week, ton of upsets, top
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: ranked teams going down left and right.
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: Uh, even the beginning of the day at, uh, Texans-Jags
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: was a great game.
• 18:46
  Speaker 5: Over in London, that nearly went to OT.
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: Which, that streak continued as far as games coming down
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: to the wire. Remember, we talked last week that the
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: primetime games.
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: The overtime streak ended. I was thinking about that. But yeah,
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: it was another last second field goal there. It seemed
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: like Browns-Ravens was a slugfest, but the Browns pulled it
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: out 13-10. Like we said earlier, Titans get their first win.
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: Saints-Giants was just a goofy game all around. I don't
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: know if the saints took their foot off the gas
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: because their, their minds were already in Paris, but they
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: ended up only winning it by a touchdown, even though
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: they were up 34 to 10, uh, at one point
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: in that game. And then, uh, you know, Cowboys Packers
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: last night, you know, it was nip tuck at the beginning,
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: but then the Packers pulled away. Even Bill's Raiders was, uh,
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: was a pretty wild game. So a great weekend of,
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: of football and, We don't have a Pitt win to
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: show for it, but we do have a Steelers win.
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: Good start for Pitt. They got out to a quick lead, 7-0,
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: and then it all crumbled after that. Tough to do
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: it with your starting quarterback out for the season. as
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: the Panthers continue to navigate there and as does Penn
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: State you know locally struggling as well as they try
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: to rebuild that program going forward so local teams West
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: Virginia I think got a win though right you're you
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: were probably with Wes Euler this week and I'm sure
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: he was pretty pumped Big win for his Mountaineers.
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: I was with Wes, and yes, that game was over
• 20:11
  Speaker 4: a little bit earlier in the day before we got
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: to Tampa, but.
• 20:14
  Speaker 5: I think it certainly set his mood. Yes, exactly. It
• 20:18
  Speaker 5: put him in the right headspace for the rest of
• 20:20
  Speaker 5: the time there.
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: I'll be with Wes coming up here at 3 o'clock
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: today for the Mike McCarthy Press Conference.
• 20:25
  Speaker 6: We're excited to bring that to you. here on SNR.
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: But right now we're talking Steelers 26, Bucs 19, the
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: week six victory in overtime to get the Pittsburgh Steelers
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: to four and two on the season. Folks, make sure
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: you log on to Steelers.com every day. But right now
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: you will find Backo's quick six the day after each
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: game and or the day of the game. I'm guessing
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: this is the quick six. Brian Backo, it goes up after.
• 20:51
  Speaker 6: Your game recap, I'm guessing later on in the evening.
• 20:54
  Speaker 7: Right?
• 20:54
  Speaker 6: Oh, here we go.
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: He's pointing at the time, 7.40 p.m. yesterday, so that
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: would be about two hours, two and a half hours
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: after the game.
• 21:01
  Speaker 6: The game recap goes up quick. I mean, you have
• 21:03
  Speaker 6: that up.
• 21:03
  Speaker 5: I was joking with Brian. And that was a difficult one.
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: Oh, my goodness, because you always have to write ahead
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: to make sure you get that done, and I texted
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: Brian once the game was looking like overtime, and I said, well,
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: it looks like you've got to rewrite your lead.
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: I was just trying to collect my thoughts. What the
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: heck did I just watch? Sometimes you're not even looking
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: at what's going on in the field because you've got
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: your head in the laptop and trying to put words
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: on paper and make sure that the stats and the
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: numbers are right by the end of it. Wild game
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: for sure. Steelers fans absolutely brought it. You know, that
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: didn't make the quick six, but it easily could have
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: the game recap.
• 21:39
  Speaker 5: My lead was all about how you would have thought
• 21:41
  Speaker 5: they were about to play.
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: You would have thought they had just played renegade the
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: way the terrible towels were twirling and black and gold
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: stands out in a stadium full of red, black, and white,
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: but Even despite that visual, you could hear it. Steelers
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: fans were they were loud and proud. We know that
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: a lot of people already live down there, but even
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: some Bucs players were asked about it after the game
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: and said, got to give them credit for the way
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: that they travel. I know a lot of people traveled
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: to from Pittsburgh. So some road warriors, some transplants, some
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: people who probably just grew up in an era falling
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: in love with the Steelers when the Bucs were no good.
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: all added up to a Tampa Berg takeover, as we anticipated.
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: My good friend and neighbor Bill Shank, shout out to Bill,
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: sent me a video. He was right behind the end
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: zone where the Jalen Ramsey last sack of the game
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: in overtime took place.
• 22:33
  Speaker 5: So he was in the pirate ship end zone. He was,
• 22:35
  Speaker 5: and he.
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: Had the shot of the crowd with all the terrible towels.
• 22:38
  Speaker 5: I tried to get on the pirate ship before the game.
• 22:40
  Speaker 5: Did you?
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: I was walking around, but apparently it's like a VIP thing.
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: game day experience type of thing.
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: You should have said hey look i'm brian bacco from
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: steelers.com i was from the enemy i was gonna say
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: that's right yeah that doesn't that doesn't get you any
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: clout in tampa bay maybe you should have went undercover
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: and said you're with the bucks um hey first trip
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: to tampa for you this past weekend what'd you think
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: it looked like beautiful weather yesterday.
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: Yeah it was it was beautiful yesterday i think it
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: was rainy saturday but by the time we got.
• 23:06
  Speaker 5: There it was clear it was a little there was
• 23:08
  Speaker 5: a chill.
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: In the air It was windy all weekend, but, yeah,
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: sat by the water for dinner and watched a lot
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: of college football. It was a fun little downtown area,
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: at least where I was. And then, yeah, I enjoyed
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: the stadium.
• 23:21
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it was.
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: The stadium was cool, pretty easy to navigate and get around.
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: And the Pirate Ship, you know, Major League Baseball stadiums
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: have a lot of those, like, gimmicks, I would say. Like,
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: you've got the big glove in San Francisco. You've got
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: the ivy wall. You've got the green monster. Not a
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: lot of that in NFL stadiums, but that pirate ship
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: is one of them.
• 23:44
  Speaker 5: I thought it was pretty cool.
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: And Tampa Bay, not all bad news this morning. Their
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: Rays are now just one win away from the World Series.
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: To be honest, I hadn't even looked at what they
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: did last night. But the fans around the places we
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: were at Saturday night were watching the game, and they
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: were pretty fired up. But a lot of college football
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: fans out, too. And that's kind of an.
• 24:05
  Speaker 5: Amalgamation Uncle Tommy word of the day.
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: Of fan bases down there there was Tennessee there were
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: Georgia fans there were disappointed Alabama fans um you know
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: I'm sure there was a smattering of USF fans but
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: yeah Florida State Miami fans as well that was a
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: crazy finish too Notre Dame fans are everywhere and then
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: you had your people locked in on Rays Guardians and
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: Rays pulled that one out late too.
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah they did Let's get the back goes quick six
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: from yesterday. First up, even better, Bernard.
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: Jeremy Bernard, what can you say? Most catches by a
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: rookie receiver in franchise history. Najee Harris had that weird
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: game in 2021 where he caught 13 passes out of
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: the backfield on a check down heavy day, obviously. But yeah,
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: also the first rookie in team history to put up
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: that exact stat line of at least 11 catches, at
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: least 80 yards and a touchdown.
• 25:04
  Speaker 5: So good, good stat dug up there by Steelers PR.
• 25:08
  Speaker 4: That was, you know, it's easy to go back to
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: draft day and think there was a lot of things
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: that could have transpired on the on night one. But
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: it ends up the Steelers get Bernard in round two. And,
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: you know, he is looking every bit the polished NFL
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: ready receiver that they hope they were taking.
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: And, you know, Lemon was the big name around here.
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: And he has not worked out so far. And it's
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: early in his NFL career. A lot of time left.
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: You just mentioned Jalen Hurts being out for the rest
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: of the season. But as I stall some time to
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: get to his stats.
• 25:37
  Speaker 6: Here they are.
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: 29 targets, 18 catches, 127 yards so far in his
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: young NFL career. So needless to say, Jeremy Bernard ahead
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: in that horse race, at least right now.
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: And those two Browns receivers are good, too, in the
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: AFC North. We saw them, of course, up there in
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: Cleveland in week four. But a lot of young talent, obviously.
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: I think even the Ravens had their rookie, Jacoby Lane,
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: return to the lineup yesterday.
• 26:02
  Speaker 5: I think he missed the previous four games.
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: I don't know how he finished out, but he made
• 26:06
  Speaker 4: a couple big catches for them early in that game.
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: So the next generation of AFC North wideouts, T. Higgins
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: and Jamar Chase, they aren't going to be around forever,
• 26:16
  Speaker 4: but you had Lane with four catches for 40 yards
• 26:19
  Speaker 4: yesterday for Baltimore, and we know what the duo of
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: Boston and Concepcion have done In Cleveland. But Jeremy Bernard
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: is kind of right there with him, keeping pace.
• 26:30
  Speaker 6: Number two, right there with him.
• 26:32
  Speaker 4: Denzel Boston, by the way, leads the NFL rookie class
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: in receiving at the moment one more yard than Carnell Tate.
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you said you were going to look that up.
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: Where did you say Bernard was on there?
• 26:43
  Speaker 5: Let's see. So it goes Tate, Higgins. Not Higgins. Tate, no.
• 26:49
  Speaker 5: What am I saying? Boston, Tate.
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: All right, and then you go down a little bit further.
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: Number three would be.
• 26:58
  Speaker 6: Bernard.
• 26:58
  Speaker 5: No.
• 26:59
  Speaker 7: Yes?
• 27:00
  Speaker 6: Maybe?
• 27:01
  Speaker 5: It actually, it might be.
• 27:03
  Speaker 6: It might be Bernard's third three now?
• 27:04
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it is Bernard. He's number three.
• 27:06
  Speaker 6: Number three.
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: All right, so not a rookie, but right there with
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: him is number two, and you're referring to DK Metcalf.
• 27:13
  Speaker 4: Not a rookie, but that duo, that one-two punch is
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: really taking shape. We spent so much time in the offseason.
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: Is there enough Are there enough balls to go around
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: for the upgraded receiving core? Well, the best laid plans
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: of mice and men, Michael Pittman Jr. and Roman Wilson,
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: now on IR. Oh, by the way, Ben Skoranek out
• 27:34
  Speaker 4: with a calf injury, so you don't even have him
• 27:36
  Speaker 4: to slot in there and play some snaps and do
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: the dirty work. But Metcalf and Bernard, they're doing the
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: dirty work when it comes to blocking downfield, and they're
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: making plays with the ball in their hands. That's a
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: really nice development here in the last rodeo for Aaron Rodgers.
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: DK yesterday, 15 targets. That's a game high for both teams. Well, no, actually, well, no, yeah,
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: 15 high for the Steelers, I should say, because 12
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: for Bernard. Yep, 12 for Bernard. So Metcalf, 11 catches,
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: 93 yards yesterday. Really good game for him, especially late.
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: I mean, he was a big reason why they came
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: back in the fourth quarter, Brian, and in overtime, some
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: big catches. Number three on your list, Dean back on
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: the scene.
• 28:13
  Speaker 5: Jamel Dean, revenge game, if you want to call it that.
• 28:16
  Speaker 5: I don't know.
• 28:17
  Speaker 4: He actually seemed to, have left Tampa Bay on very
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: good terms. He even went so far as to call
• 28:21
  Speaker 4: it bittersweet, but obviously a lot more sweet, not so bitter.
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: But I'm sure there was a part of him that
• 28:27
  Speaker 4: was like, hey, that fan base takes you in. I
• 28:29
  Speaker 4: think he was well-liked down there. That's certainly what Casey
• 28:32
  Speaker 4: Phillips from the Bucs told us last week, ran into
• 28:35
  Speaker 4: her in the press box, thanked her again for coming
• 28:37
  Speaker 4: on the Steelers report.
• 28:38
  Speaker 6: She was great.
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: That was at halftime, so it looked like it was
• 28:41
  Speaker 4: smooth sailing for the Bucs at that point. Not so fast, though,
• 28:44
  Speaker 4: because Dean– did jump that route in the fourth quarter.
• 28:47
  Speaker 4: Jalen Daniels put all the blame on himself for that throw,
• 28:51
  Speaker 4: and that was a savvy veteran kind of having a
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: hunch there of what the QB was going to do,
• 28:56
  Speaker 4: and a huge day for him, not just the pick.
• 28:59
  Speaker 5: He would have loved for it to be a pick six.
• 29:02
  Speaker 4: This is a guy who has a pick six of
• 29:04
  Speaker 4: Aaron Rodgers, too, in his career, by the way, but
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: also the six passes defended the most in franchise history.
• 29:12
  Speaker 4: at least as far back as they tracked such things.
• 29:14
  Speaker 4: I don't know how many PBUs were going on in
• 29:15
  Speaker 4: the 70s and stuff, but Jamel Dean, a throwback kind
• 29:18
  Speaker 4: of player, and he got it done for the Steelers
• 29:22
  Speaker 4: against his old team.
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: Very impressive day for him, and he was the captain
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: in overtime that came out to the field for the
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: Cointas by himself, so I thought that's the note.
• 29:31
  Speaker 6: Who were the captains for the game, by the way?
• 29:32
  Speaker 5: Did we get those?
• 29:33
  Speaker 4: Dean and Travis Homer. There were only two. I don't
• 29:36
  Speaker 4: know what happened there, but obviously we were both wrong.
• 29:38
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: I thought we said Dean, you and I said, if
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: Dean would dress, he potentially could be.
• 29:43
  Speaker 5: But we didn't, but we weren't sure at that point
• 29:45
  Speaker 5: if he was even going to play.
• 29:46
  Speaker 6: Yeah, exactly.
• 29:47
  Speaker 4: But yeah, that was kind of a layup, an obvious one.
• 29:49
  Speaker 4: If he was healthy, Mike McCarthy would send him back
• 29:52
  Speaker 4: out there in Tampa.
• 29:53
  Speaker 6: All right. Next up pick for pick.
• 29:56
  Speaker 4: Daylon Everett, um, you know, coming in for Dean. I
• 29:59
  Speaker 4: don't know why he was in necessarily on that play. If,
• 30:02
  Speaker 4: if Dean maybe got banged up and needed a break
• 30:06
  Speaker 4: for a second, but he did come in and gets
• 30:09
  Speaker 4: his head around and first NFL interception for the young man,
• 30:13
  Speaker 4: Robert Spears Jennings, a couple of weeks removed from his
• 30:15
  Speaker 4: first NFL interception, a lot of firsts in that game.
• 30:18
  Speaker 4: Why a black first NFL sack Jalen Ramsey ends up
• 30:22
  Speaker 4: getting his first sack of the season. He should have
• 30:23
  Speaker 4: had one in new England earlier this year, but there
• 30:26
  Speaker 4: was an offsides call. that negated it her big getting.
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: His first sack of the season we talked about that
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: last week there's been potential for that I feel like
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: there were more too now first road win first McCarthy
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: road win.
• 30:36
  Speaker 5: First winning streak oh boy we can just.
• 30:38
  Speaker 6: Go first first first the man of the hour.
• 30:41
  Speaker 5: First touchdown for Jeremy Bernard in the NFL.
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: Yep so how about Jalen how about Jalen Ramsey talk
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: to me about the man of the.
• 30:47
  Speaker 4: Hour sack on the first series of the game to
• 30:50
  Speaker 4: help set the tone I think there were some other
• 30:52
  Speaker 4: opportunities later in the game where it looked like he
• 30:54
  Speaker 4: was maybe going to come on a blitz, but they
• 30:55
  Speaker 4: were trying to disguise it. No disguising it on that
• 30:58
  Speaker 4: last one. He came, he saw, he conquered on fourth down.
• 31:03
  Speaker 4: Daniels goes down in a heap. Veteran player, a future
• 31:06
  Speaker 4: Hall of Fame guy, adding to his NFL legacy in
• 31:09
  Speaker 4: addition to helping the Steelers win games right now.
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: Playing at an all-pro level, Jalen Ramsey. Ten tackles yesterday,
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: two sacks, four tackle for losses, and two quarterback hits
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: big day for him last up don't forget about.
• 31:21
  Speaker 4: Them yeah i just wanted to give a quick shout
• 31:23
  Speaker 4: out like it was tj watt who really didn't do
• 31:26
  Speaker 4: much of anything in the box score i think we've
• 31:28
  Speaker 4: all seen clips by now probably of maybe he should
• 31:30
  Speaker 4: have drawn some penalties some holding calls but it's held
• 31:33
  Speaker 4: all day impressive by uh other guys like keanu benton
• 31:35
  Speaker 4: nick herbig to step up against the bucks line that
• 31:38
  Speaker 4: his experience has played a lot of games together herbig
• 31:41
  Speaker 4: cleanly beating tristan werf's one of the best left tackles
• 31:44
  Speaker 4: in football for his first sack of the season.
• 31:47
  Speaker 5: Shout out Herbig, Benton, Black, all those guys pitched in.
• 31:50
  Speaker 6: Yeah, for sure. That's back goes quick. Six from yesterday.
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: Make sure you log on to Steelers.com to check that out,
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: among other things that Brian has up. He'll have a
• 31:58
  Speaker 3: lot more as this week continues to ramp up for
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: the Paris trip. He'll be in Paris midweek on as
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: well to bring you all the coverage from overseas leading
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: up to Steelers Saints for week number seven.
• 32:11
  Speaker 6: Boy, oh boy, we are off and running again.
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: This NFL season, we're off and running here on the
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: Steelers Report because coming up today at 3 o'clock, it's
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: the Mike McCarthy Press Conference live from the Southside with
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: Wes Euler and myself. I'm subbing in for Jerry Dulac today.
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: Excited to be with Wes here coming up in just
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: a little bit. When we come back, we will jump
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: into some more team stats, individual stats. We'll also check
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: our three stats to victory.
• 32:34
  Speaker 6: He's back, though. I'm Troop.
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: It is the Steelers Report right here on Steelers Nation Radio,
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: part of the Steelers Audio Network.
• 32:52
  Speaker 5: Fourth and eight. The ball at the Steelers.
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: 48-yard line.
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  Speaker 6: Daniels in the shotgun. Gets the snap. Steelers bringing pressure.
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  Speaker 7: And Daniels is hit!
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  Speaker 2: And down he goes!
• 33:02
  Speaker 5: Who's that man? And it is... Who is that man?
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: Ramsey once again with a huge play for the Steelers
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: to seal the victory in Tampa.
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  Speaker 5: Two sacks. Tackle leader. Battering Rams.
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  Speaker 2: Jalen Ramman Ramsey finishes the game off in the only
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: fashion that he knows how, and that's with pain.
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: Oh, the blitz off the edge by Jalen Ramsey, and
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: that is the end of the game with a final score,
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: the Steelers 26 and Tampa Bay 19.
• 33:39
  Speaker 7: This is the Steelers Report with Brian Bacco and Ed
• 33:43
  Speaker 7: Troup on Steelers Nation Radio, a part of the Steelers
• 33:47
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• 33:49
  Speaker 3: Brian, absolutely love Max Starks and absolutely love that call
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: at the end. He was fired up yesterday and he
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: should have been.
• 33:56
  Speaker 6: We all were. That was a big ending to that game.
• 33:59
  Speaker 4: I think by the end, everybody was, I don't know
• 34:01
  Speaker 4: what the word, delirious, hysterical, perplexed. it was it was
• 34:06
  Speaker 4: nuts uh the locker room postgame vibe was tremendous those
• 34:10
  Speaker 4: guys were I think a little bit in in shock
• 34:14
  Speaker 4: but also a lot of them they've been there before
• 34:16
  Speaker 4: I mean it feels like we've seen the Steelers pull
• 34:18
  Speaker 4: out those games more often than not the record in
• 34:21
  Speaker 4: one possession games under Mike Tomlin was at or near
• 34:25
  Speaker 4: the top of the NFL for so long and so
• 34:28
  Speaker 4: far you know the first uh wild win, I would say,
• 34:32
  Speaker 4: under Mike McCarthy. You know, the Bengals game was kind
• 34:35
  Speaker 4: of crazy, but couldn't hold a candle to the way
• 34:38
  Speaker 4: they beat the Bucs yesterday.
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: One thing that is starting to take shape for the
• 34:42
  Speaker 3: 2026 Pittsburgh Steelers is even when they go down by
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: multiple scores early in the game, they are not down
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: and out at all. Even yesterday, I kept thinking to myself,
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: because again, we talked about it at the top of
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: the show, it reminded me a lot of the Thursday
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: night game in Cleveland, where things just did not look
• 34:58
  Speaker 3: good on either side of the ball, and The other.
• 35:01
  Speaker 6: Team has all the momentum in the world, and you
• 35:03
  Speaker 6: just needed something to happen. You needed a splash play.
• 35:06
  Speaker 6: You needed to switch momentum.
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: And if you were able to do that, for the Steelers,
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: it didn't come until that fourth quarter, but if you
• 35:11
  Speaker 3: were able to do that at some point and if
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: your defense could at least keep it within reach, right?
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: And it was 13-3. It was within reach. If it
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: would have been 24-3 or 31-3, well, then it's over.
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: But they kept it within reach. And then once the
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: offense started to click, defense made a splash play. Things
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: were rolling, Steelers got momentum, and they ultimately get it
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: to overtime.
• 35:33
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and once they got it to overtime, I kind
• 35:35
  Speaker 4: of had a feeling at that point that the momentum
• 35:37
  Speaker 4: had fully shifted.
• 35:38
  Speaker 5: Me too.
• 35:39
  Speaker 4: You know, the fan base was really into it, the
• 35:41
  Speaker 4: road warriors and company. And you just, I know he
• 35:46
  Speaker 4: wasn't great for the first three quarters, putting it mildly,
• 35:49
  Speaker 4: but when it comes down to crunch time, I'll take
• 35:52
  Speaker 4: my chances on Aaron Rodgers over Jalen Daniels. And we
• 35:56
  Speaker 4: loved the call from Kinger. And Max Starks, they did
• 36:00
  Speaker 4: a tremendous job yesterday along with Missy Matthews on the sideline,
• 36:03
  Speaker 4: but I usually have the TV broadcast up in the booth,
• 36:07
  Speaker 4: watch some replays, and got.
• 36:09
  Speaker 5: My AirPod in.
• 36:10
  Speaker 4: There's some good stuff on there that they got on
• 36:12
  Speaker 4: Jalen Daniels growing up idolizing Aaron Rodgers and had his
• 36:16
  Speaker 4: posters on the wall and he happened to play for
• 36:18
  Speaker 4: the Packers as a kid. I don't know if anybody
• 36:21
  Speaker 4: asked him or Rodgers after the game about whether, it
• 36:23
  Speaker 4: looked like they got a photo together. I saw that
• 36:26
  Speaker 4: on the Steelers digital media platforms and I'm sure that's
• 36:29
  Speaker 4: kind of routine for Rodgers at this point. Postgame circle,
• 36:33
  Speaker 4: you hear from a quarterback on the opposite side or
• 36:36
  Speaker 4: even a defensive guy who grew.
• 36:38
  Speaker 5: Up idolizing you.
• 36:41
  Speaker 4: And I don't know that he loves talking about it
• 36:43
  Speaker 4: that much because it probably just makes you feel old.
• 36:45
  Speaker 4: But that had to be a cool moment for Daniels,
• 36:47
  Speaker 4: albeit in a loss. And my point is, Rodgers has
• 36:51
  Speaker 4: been in that scenario many, many times in his career,
• 36:54
  Speaker 4: although it was his Fourth career comeback when trailing by
• 36:57
  Speaker 4: 13 or more entering the fourth quarter and his first
• 37:00
  Speaker 4: since his Packers days.
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: I'll be joining Wes Euler here in about 10 minutes
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: or so for the Mike McCarthy press conference today from
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: the south side. We'll have live coverage here on SNR.
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: But before we do that, Brian, let's check some stats. Yesterday,
• 37:13
  Speaker 3: Rico Dowdle returns to the lineup. Seven carries 40 yards.
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: I thought he looked pretty good in his first game
• 37:19
  Speaker 3: this season as far as looking good. First couple games
• 37:22
  Speaker 3: of the year, he struggled, but that was with the
• 37:24
  Speaker 3: old offensive line, and we mentioned that last week, that
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: I was excited to see Rico with the revamped offensive
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: line with Max Yonachor and Brock Hoffman in the lineup
• 37:32
  Speaker 3: to see what he could do, and I thought he
• 37:33
  Speaker 3: responded pretty well.
• 37:35
  Speaker 6: Seven carries, 40 yards. Warren, 14 carries, 50 yards.
• 37:38
  Speaker 3: So combined yesterday, Warren and Dowdle, 90 yards.
• 37:42
  Speaker 4: I think it looked like something to build on going forward,
• 37:45
  Speaker 4: and it looks like Rico Dowdle can very much still
• 37:47
  Speaker 4: be a piece of the puzzle here for the Steelers.
• 37:50
  Speaker 4: maybe a smaller one than we expected coming in, mostly
• 37:53
  Speaker 4: just due to the ascendance of Jalen Warren when he
• 37:57
  Speaker 4: got the crack at being really the clear-cut number one.
• 38:00
  Speaker 4: But yeah, Dowdle showed yesterday, I thought, that he's not
• 38:02
  Speaker 4: going to go away. He can still help you. He's
• 38:06
  Speaker 4: somebody who can rip off those long runs between the
• 38:08
  Speaker 4: tackles and maybe doesn't give you as much catching the
• 38:11
  Speaker 4: ball out of the backfield or in space, but it
• 38:13
  Speaker 4: was his first game back, so there could be more
• 38:15
  Speaker 4: meat on the bone for him in that regard as well.
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: Rogers finishes the day 33 of 49 49 pass attempts
• 38:22
  Speaker 3: 253 yards five sacks he did take two touchdowns and
• 38:26
  Speaker 3: one interception man you look at that 49 attempts uh
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: throughout the game brian and then you take a look
• 38:31
  Speaker 3: at the five sacks that means he had 54 dropbacks
• 38:34
  Speaker 3: yesterday that's a lot but i think that was the
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: game plan because they knew that the defensive front for
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: tampa bay was very good and they were very good
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: against the run again they hold Warren to 50 and
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: Dowdle to 40. So I think trying to throw the
• 38:47
  Speaker 3: football and we saw a lot of, you know, lateral
• 38:49
  Speaker 3: type stuff right behind the line of scrimmage because they
• 38:52
  Speaker 3: wanted to make sure that that rush of Tampa Bay,
• 38:55
  Speaker 3: that defensive front wouldn't get the best of them.
• 38:57
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 38:57
  Speaker 4: The average depth of target numbers are going to be
• 39:00
  Speaker 4: very low from this game and that'll impact the statistics
• 39:06
  Speaker 4: and the average, the rest of the season, but it's
• 39:09
  Speaker 4: really whatever it takes to win that particular game. I mean,
• 39:13
  Speaker 4: The Rams would have rather gotten a 16 to 15
• 39:17
  Speaker 4: win against the Cardinals rather than get out of there
• 39:21
  Speaker 4: with an 18-16 loss.
• 39:23
  Speaker 5: So it's a funky league.
• 39:25
  Speaker 4: You never really know how things are going to play
• 39:26
  Speaker 4: out on Sunday because you come in with a game
• 39:28
  Speaker 4: plan and then. maybe the defense shows you something different
• 39:31
  Speaker 4: than you would have anticipated. We talked a lot last
• 39:34
  Speaker 4: week about all the man coverage that the Steelers have
• 39:36
  Speaker 4: seen and how the Bucs were sure to play a
• 39:38
  Speaker 4: lot of man coverage.
• 39:39
  Speaker 5: Well, at the end of that game, a lot of zone.
• 39:41
  Speaker 4: And the Steelers find a way to deal with that
• 39:43
  Speaker 4: and get the ball underneath to DK Metcalf and Jeremy
• 39:46
  Speaker 4: Bernard and use those two guys as basically as possession receivers,
• 39:51
  Speaker 4: which I think could ultimately be Jeremy Bernard's calling card,
• 39:54
  Speaker 4: but certainly has not been DK Metcalf's calling card over
• 39:58
  Speaker 4: the course of his career. He's been much more of
• 40:00
  Speaker 4: an explosive play guy, but they'll take it. They'll absolutely
• 40:04
  Speaker 4: take it. Also give Metcalf credit, Pat Friermuth credit, Dean, Benton,
• 40:10
  Speaker 4: all those guys on the injury report coming into the game,
• 40:13
  Speaker 4: and they played through whatever was ailing them, and you
• 40:16
  Speaker 4: wouldn't have known it from watching them ball out.
• 40:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah, since we left Since we last left you, there
• 40:21
  Speaker 3: we go, from last Friday, a couple late additions over
• 40:25
  Speaker 3: the weekend with DK Metcalf and Pat Fryermuth. But as
• 40:27
  Speaker 3: you said, Brian, they were still able to go. And
• 40:30
  Speaker 3: Jamel Dean finally got back there as well. The Steelers
• 40:33
  Speaker 3: hold Bucky Irving yesterday. 19 carries, 46 yards. I thought
• 40:38
  Speaker 3: that was also a really good, you know, check that
• 40:41
  Speaker 3: box for the Pittsburgh Steelers defense that they knew they
• 40:43
  Speaker 3: had to stop Bucky Irving, who had a huge game
• 40:45
  Speaker 3: the week before against the Dallas Cowboys yesterday. but holding
• 40:48
  Speaker 3: him to just 2.4 yards per rush yesterday.
• 40:51
  Speaker 4: The run defense has been really encouraging the last couple
• 40:54
  Speaker 4: weeks after some missed tackles did them in in Cleveland,
• 40:58
  Speaker 4: and I know that was distressing for a lot of
• 41:00
  Speaker 4: fans to see, but these last couple weeks, they've been
• 41:03
  Speaker 4: getting guys on the ground, and you can do that
• 41:05
  Speaker 4: a bunch of different ways, whether that's wrapping them up
• 41:08
  Speaker 4: at the second level or Keanu Benton was blowing plays
• 41:11
  Speaker 4: up in the backfield early in that game. yesterday man
• 41:15
  Speaker 4: was he uh good at the beginning of that one
• 41:16
  Speaker 4: i loved the play where he got well he got
• 41:18
  Speaker 4: a pbu and a tfl i think on the first
• 41:21
  Speaker 4: series then the second one gets a pbu but it
• 41:24
  Speaker 4: won't be recorded as such because daniel's actually caught it
• 41:27
  Speaker 4: uh and then benton brought him down anyway that was
• 41:30
  Speaker 4: a goofy play do you know the only uh i
• 41:33
  Speaker 4: believe the only nfl quarterback to ever throw a touchdown
• 41:35
  Speaker 4: pass to himself at do you know this trivia question.
• 41:38
  Speaker 3: Uh aaron rogers No, that's a good guess, though. I
• 41:41
  Speaker 3: could see him doing something goofy like that. You know,
• 41:43
  Speaker 3: the no-look pass type stuff. Let me give another guess here.
• 41:46
  Speaker 3: Is it more in recent time, like current player?
• 41:49
  Speaker 5: I'll give you an era.
• 41:51
  Speaker 6: Help me out.
• 41:51
  Speaker 5: Like late 90s, early 2000s. Oh, that's my era.
• 41:54
  Speaker 6: That's like me growing up.
• 41:55
  Speaker 5: Oh, there have actually been two now to do it.
• 41:57
  Speaker 6: All right. I'm going to think all.
• 41:59
  Speaker 4: One is more recent, obviously, in the last 10 years.
• 42:01
  Speaker 4: He's still playing today. He's playing tonight.
• 42:05
  Speaker 3: I'm going to go all the way back to around
• 42:06
  Speaker 3: that time period. Maybe like a Drew Bledsoe.
• 42:10
  Speaker 5: You're in the stratosphere there. Tom Brady? Former Buck. He
• 42:14
  Speaker 5: didn't do it when he was with the Bucks.
• 42:15
  Speaker 7: No.
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: Oh, wow.
• 42:16
  Speaker 6: All right, go ahead.
• 42:18
  Speaker 5: Give me the lowdown. Brad Johnson. Okay.
• 42:20
  Speaker 4: Three-yard touchdown pass to himself. Batted back to him.
• 42:25
  Speaker 5: Caught it. Ran into the end zone.
• 42:26
  Speaker 4: And then Marcus Mariota did it in a playoff game
• 42:29
  Speaker 4: back in 2018 against the Chiefs when he was with Tennessee.
• 42:33
  Speaker 5: It was actually a PBU apparently by.
• 42:35
  Speaker 4: Darrell Revis and Mariota caught it and scored a six
• 42:38
  Speaker 4: yard touchdown. Now, Jalen Daniels, his would have been like
• 42:42
  Speaker 4: an 80 yard touchdown, I guess, from where they were on.
• 42:45
  Speaker 5: The field at that point.
• 42:46
  Speaker 6: But they were pretty deep.
• 42:48
  Speaker 4: But he at least gets to join the list of
• 42:51
  Speaker 4: NFL QBs who have completed a pass to themselves.
• 42:54
  Speaker 6: Daniels, 22 of 43.
• 42:55
  Speaker 5: For minus three yards.
• 42:57
  Speaker 3: And one of those completions is to himself, as Brian
• 43:00
  Speaker 3: just said. For 164 yards yesterday, a touchdown, two interceptions.
• 43:06
  Speaker 3: sacked five times team stats brian steelers get more first
• 43:10
  Speaker 3: downs to the bucks 22 to 17 third downs well
• 43:14
  Speaker 3: five of 15 at 33 still not good for the
• 43:17
  Speaker 3: black and gold the bucks were six of 19 at
• 43:21
  Speaker 3: 31 which i was shocked to see because i felt
• 43:23
  Speaker 3: like early on and it must have got to six
• 43:24
  Speaker 3: early on in the game.
• 43:26
  Speaker 4: I'm still down this rabbit hole i just remember that
• 43:28
  Speaker 4: rogers caught a pass from himself last year and it
• 43:30
  Speaker 4: was that controversial one against the ravens i think where
• 43:34
  Speaker 4: they rolled that he completed the catch rather than it
• 43:36
  Speaker 4: would have been an interception or a fumble.
• 43:38
  Speaker 5: I guess it was actually huge that he caught that ball.
• 43:40
  Speaker 3: That was part of the reason why I guessed Rogers
• 43:42
  Speaker 3: with that stat, not from last year, but just some
• 43:44
  Speaker 3: point in his career. Cause he seems to do a
• 43:46
  Speaker 3: lot of crazy.
• 43:46
  Speaker 5: I don't think that was the first time he had
• 43:48
  Speaker 5: ever done that, but.
• 43:50
  Speaker 3: Steelers on third down defensively yesterday. So the Bucs finished
• 43:54
  Speaker 3: the game 6-19 at 31%. I was surprised because I'm
• 43:56
  Speaker 3: guessing that six, the majority of them, came in the
• 43:58
  Speaker 3: first half because I felt like early on the Steelers
• 44:01
  Speaker 3: could not get off the field against this Tampa Bay offense.
• 44:04
  Speaker 3: Fourth down yesterday, Steelers 0-1, Bucs 1-2. Rushing-wise, the Bucs
• 44:10
  Speaker 3: finished with 102 to the Steelers' 89. Penalties were not
• 44:13
  Speaker 3: a factor for either team yesterday. Steelers just 5 for 62,
• 44:17
  Speaker 3: Bucs 4 for 38. Time of possession in favor of
• 44:20
  Speaker 3: the Black and Gold, 38 minutes, 36 seconds to the Bucs,
• 44:24
  Speaker 3: 31 minutes and 24 seconds.
• 44:25
  Speaker 4: In a couple times, they let Daniels get out of
• 44:27
  Speaker 4: the pocket and use his legs to beat him. He
• 44:29
  Speaker 4: had that 19-yard scramble, but I think a 17-yard or
• 44:33
  Speaker 4: two maybe.
• 44:34
  Speaker 5: Overall, though, yeah, it didn't kill them entirely.
• 44:39
  Speaker 4: On that, but yeah, I mean, it was one of
• 44:42
  Speaker 4: those situations where you should expect to win more than
• 44:45
  Speaker 4: you lose on third down against a rookie quarterback.
• 44:48
  Speaker 6: Steelers' first nine possessions.
• 44:50
  Speaker 5: It was a nine-yard scramble, too, that Daniels had. Nine yards.
• 44:53
  Speaker 5: A 17 and a nine.
• 44:54
  Speaker 6: Okay.
• 44:55
  Speaker 5: And a 10, I think.
• 44:55
  Speaker 6: Other than those.
• 44:56
  Speaker 5: Oh, yeah, he had that 10-yard run in overtime.
• 44:58
  Speaker 3: The Steelers, though, I mean, that was part of the
• 45:00
  Speaker 3: game plan there, too, was try to control. And we
• 45:02
  Speaker 3: talked about that on Friday with our keys to the game. Brian,
• 45:05
  Speaker 3: real quick before we wrap it up here.
• 45:07
  Speaker 5: Yeah, they sacked him five times. They did.
• 45:08
  Speaker 6: They got him five times.
• 45:10
  Speaker 3: Before we get to the press conference real quick, the Steelers'
• 45:13
  Speaker 3: first nine possessions, five of them, they went three and out.
• 45:18
  Speaker 6: They had a missed field goal during that sequence, the interception.
• 45:21
  Speaker 5: Turnover on downs.
• 45:22
  Speaker 6: Turnover on downs.
• 45:23
  Speaker 3: But the last four possessions of the game in the
• 45:26
  Speaker 3: fourth quarter, no three and outs and 16 points on
• 45:30
  Speaker 3: the board. The touchdown and three field goals. before we
• 45:32
  Speaker 3: went to overtime. That tells your story right there.
• 45:35
  Speaker 4: Short fields helped on a lot of those, obviously, but yeah,
• 45:38
  Speaker 4: I mean, it was, it was good work by them
• 45:41
  Speaker 4: to make sure they got points on the board, just keep.
• 45:43
  Speaker 5: Chipping away at that lead.
• 45:44
  Speaker 4: And it, it sounded silly to say that when it was, Oh,
• 45:48
  Speaker 4: 16 to three or 13, three or 13, nothing, but
• 45:52
  Speaker 4: they did keep chipping away and eventually little things added
• 45:56
  Speaker 4: up to a big win.
• 45:56
  Speaker 3: They chipped all the way to a big win, 26-19
• 45:59
  Speaker 3: in overtime against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Steelers now 4-2
• 46:04
  Speaker 3: on the season. Up next, it's the Mike McCarthy Press Conference.
• 46:07
  Speaker 3: I will be joining Wes Euler for live coverage from
• 46:11
  Speaker 3: the Southside.
• 46:12
  Speaker 6: He's back.
• 46:12
  Speaker 5: I'm Troop.
• 46:13
  Speaker 3: It's the Steelers Report right here on Steelers Nation Radio,
• 46:15
  Speaker 3: part of the Steelers Audio Network.