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Steelers win first preseason game over Green Bay, Herbig & Benton interviews · The Irish Steelers Podcast

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Speaker 1: Folks, Welcome in Irish Teeters podcast. Steelers Baby, They're back,
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Speaker 1: want to zero, undefeated this far, so far this season
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Speaker 1: in the preseason. Obviously a big win twenty eight to
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Speaker 1: nine against the Packers late on Thursday night early Friday morning.
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Speaker 1: And we're gonna have this in each preseason week where
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Speaker 1: we have a quick chat with somebody either from or
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Speaker 1: affilling into the Staters. And absolutely delighted to welcome to
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Speaker 1: a guy who is just so close to the team
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Speaker 1: in the sense of he is literally standing at the
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Speaker 1: trope every day the camp is all and seeing this team,
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Speaker 1: you know, sweat and get ready for these games. Ed
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Speaker 1: Troup from SNR joins us and Ed is your first
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Speaker 1: time on the podcast and obviously a huge welcome.
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Speaker 2: Man.
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Speaker 1: Thank you very very much for joining us, especially less
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Speaker 1: than twenty four hours after the first preseason for the Steelers.
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Speaker 1: How are you doing.
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Speaker 2: I'm doing great, Michael. It's awesome to be with you.
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Speaker 2: And you know, we met a few weeks ago whenever
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Speaker 2: you were over for training camp, and one of the
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Speaker 2: first things I said to you was, look, I'm Irish,
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Speaker 2: I have Irish heritage and I have people where you are.
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Speaker 1: Man like we can definitely jumping out on a different
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Speaker 1: podcast and we'll get a full expedition. I love that,
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Speaker 1: but I will I will say, like, obviously, thank you
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Speaker 1: so much for the hospitality, the kindness, not just from
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Speaker 1: yourself but from everyone there last few weeks. I would
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Speaker 1: love to be a camp over the final few days
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Speaker 1: in the Trobe and experience at one more time. But
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Speaker 1: I guess we're gonna have to We're gonna have to
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Speaker 1: rein check that for next year. At some stage we
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Speaker 1: will talk about the game, but I will ask you
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Speaker 1: one question before we do so, and what's it like
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Speaker 1: working with this team? Do you enjoy it?
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Speaker 2: Oh? My goodness, Michael, listen, it's it's a dream come
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Speaker 2: true for me. You know, growing up in southwestern Pennsylvania,
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Speaker 2: you know, near Pittsburgh. I grew up like thirty minutes
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Speaker 2: outside of the Pittsburgh area, so you know, steal our
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Speaker 2: fam my whole life, specifically where we are right now
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Speaker 2: in the trope too. As a kid, I used to
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Speaker 2: go up to training camp and you know that was
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Speaker 2: probably around the early to mid nineties, right, so a
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Speaker 2: lot of former you know, Steelers during that time that
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Speaker 2: I grew up watching, like Greg Lloyd, and Kevin Green,
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Speaker 2: and you know the likes of Neil O'Donnell at the
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Speaker 2: quarterback position and Cordell Stewart who was there for half
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Speaker 2: a minute. These are all the pre Big Ben years, right,
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Speaker 2: the Bill Cower years when Bill Coward first came on
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Speaker 2: the scene before Mike Tomlin. So yeah, dream come true.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely love it. Been with SNR now for a good year.
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Speaker 2: You know, we've done the Steelers Standard the last year,
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Speaker 2: but we're actually changing it to the Steelers Report, which
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Speaker 2: will be on along with you know, your great podcast
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Speaker 2: that you do across all of our channels.
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Speaker 1: I love it and obviously looking forward to listening in
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Speaker 1: throughout the season. And it's funny, i'd say, like a
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Speaker 1: lot of Steelers fans in Ireland. I'm not just Ireland.
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Speaker 1: It was chotting the LODs from the UK today Europe
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Speaker 1: as well, who are listening in and you all you're
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Speaker 1: all obviously very very welcome, But we were joking around
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Speaker 1: the fact that last night was definitely a kind reminder
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Speaker 1: to me but time difference and how difficult it can be.
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Speaker 1: But I enjoyed it and I think something that we're
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Speaker 1: going to do ed and you're obviously welcome on like
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Speaker 1: especially any week in this preseason to do this. But
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Speaker 1: one thing I want to do for Steelers fans that
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Speaker 1: are a little bit further away from the trope we're
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Speaker 1: from Akraschuer over these next few weeks is sort of
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Speaker 1: have our Fab four and try and sort of talk
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Speaker 1: through four quick points from the preseason game. Because ed,
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Speaker 1: as you're fully aware, and any NFL fan has been
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Speaker 1: in for a while is fully aware, you can look
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Speaker 1: at the result and go great, but there's things you
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Speaker 1: can nitpick and then there's things where you can say,
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Speaker 1: well that might not be like that in the regular season.
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Speaker 1: But one thing I did want to bring up, and
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Speaker 1: you know, feel freedom to maybe out of topic to
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Speaker 1: this after if you like, But when you look at
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Speaker 1: the guy we've brought in in the second round in
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Speaker 1: the draft in Pittsburgh, Garmy Bernard obviously from came from Alabama.
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Speaker 1: He had fifty one yards, four receptions, five targets team
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Speaker 1: high in that first preseason game against the Packers, how
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Speaker 1: much did he impress you, but also as somebody that's
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Speaker 1: saying them in the trough, et cetera, how much does
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Speaker 1: he excite you in terms of maybe trying to help
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Speaker 1: elevate this offense and what potentially most likely is the
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Speaker 1: final year of Rodgers under center.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, no doubt.
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Speaker 2: Jeremy Bernard is the future of this team in that
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Speaker 2: wide receiver room, Michael. That's why they brought him in here.
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Speaker 2: You know, with that second round draft pick. He has
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Speaker 2: the athletic abilities and when I say abilities, I mean
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Speaker 2: circle you know, circus like type catches, playmaker that can
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Speaker 2: get downfield, get open, beat the defensive back. And he
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Speaker 2: did that last night full display against the Green Bay Packers.
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Speaker 2: And after the yards after catch, right, that's what we're
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Speaker 2: all We always talk a lot about yards after catch
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Speaker 2: and his explosiveness after he would catch the football across
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Speaker 2: the middle of the football field. They really used the
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Speaker 2: middle of the football field in this first preseason game
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Speaker 2: last night, and Bernard was a big part of that.
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Speaker 2: You know, we have DK, right, we got Michael Pittman now,
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Speaker 2: which is great, but behind there there's some question marks.
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Speaker 2: There's Roman Wilson, who we're hoping is going to take
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Speaker 2: the next step this year and get back in the
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Speaker 2: good graces of this new coaching staff and be able
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Speaker 2: to contribute. I think he will. And then there's Jeremy Bernard,
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Speaker 2: so Wilson Bernard the future of this team right now,
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Speaker 2: and last night I thought he did a great job
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Speaker 2: in his first ever NFL game. That was his first
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Speaker 2: first time out and as you said, over fifty yards
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Speaker 2: receiving and had a big game.
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Speaker 1: There's always that sort of thing where if someone comes
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Speaker 1: from Alabama, you're thinking, oh, okay, he could definitely be
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Speaker 1: a decent talent, and he certainly looks at so far
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Speaker 1: if we stay in the offense. And obviously fans got
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Speaker 1: to see a selection a quarterback last night apart from
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Speaker 1: Arian Rodgers ED who was not suited up, and we
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Speaker 1: look forward to seeing him in a few weeks time,
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Speaker 1: no doubt we will. Drew Aller very very interesting debut
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Speaker 1: in that preseason obviously the first of sleet third round picks,
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Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty three yards, three touchdowns, A local
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Speaker 1: guy to the States, obviously Penn State. That must have
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Speaker 1: been pretty cool for him running out last night and
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Speaker 1: actually playing there, not just but Aler. What was your
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Speaker 1: thoughts on that quarterback room itself in that game against
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Speaker 1: the Packers, Ed, they had.
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Speaker 2: A great night, and it all goes back to Mike McCarthy.
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Speaker 2: You know, he's the quarterback whisperer. He's the offensive genius.
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Speaker 2: And you know, nothing against Mike Tomlin, but Mike Tomlin
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Speaker 2: was a defensive guy. Was that was his thing right
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Speaker 2: the last nineteen years. But with this team right now,
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Speaker 2: McCarthy is the right guy, especially with these younger quarterbacks,
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Speaker 2: with Will Howard and Drew Aller. I thought they had
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Speaker 2: a great night, Michael. I think it checks every box.
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Speaker 2: They got done exactly what they wanted to. It was
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Speaker 2: a bit of a slow start early on. There were
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Speaker 2: some pelodies. Mason Rudolph took a couple of sacks. They
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Speaker 2: were behind the sticks for the first couple of drives
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Speaker 2: that resultd in punts. But once Mason Rudolph got going
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Speaker 2: and the offensive line gave him a bit more protection,
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Speaker 2: I thought he had a good game, you know, in
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Speaker 2: his first couple series out. But then Will Howard and
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Speaker 2: Drew Aller, I'm not sure, Michael, who got the bigger
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Speaker 2: ovation at Akushore Stadium. It was loud for both of them,
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Speaker 2: and Drew Aller delivered. And I've been telling people, you know,
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Speaker 2: throughout this training camp off at Latrobe, out of all
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Speaker 2: four of those quarterbacks. Now, Aaron Rodgers, I don't put
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Speaker 2: into this category because he's going to be quarterback number one.
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Speaker 2: This is his last season, as you said, So let's
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Speaker 2: just look at the three young guys. Right. Mason Rudolph,
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Speaker 2: I think he's established himself as the backup. There's no
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Speaker 2: questions there. He's quarterback number two. So now what do
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Speaker 2: you do with Will Howard and Drew Aller. Both have
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Speaker 2: been good, both have done nothing, in my opinion, to
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Speaker 2: make them not make this team. I think the Steelers
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Speaker 2: are gonna have a hard decision trying to keep all
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Speaker 2: four quarterbacks. But Drew Aller, I've been telling everyone he's
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Speaker 2: the one that's been really standing out to me at camp.
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Speaker 2: I've been watching his throws just so strong, such a
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Speaker 2: strong arm, you know. And last night he put it
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Speaker 2: all together and he made good decisions which resulted in
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Speaker 2: two touchdown passes and a rushing touchdown. I thought aler
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Speaker 2: looked fantastic.
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Speaker 1: I think you've made a really good point there, and
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Speaker 1: it's something that I would say that people listening in
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Speaker 1: from Europe, especially at the reception on the reaction that
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Speaker 1: I seen Will Hard and Drew Gett walking down those
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Speaker 1: steps it's just phenomenal. Yeah, it's definitely a tricky situation
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Speaker 1: to be in, but that's really the life on the
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Speaker 1: way that the NFL is. The decisions have to be
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Speaker 1: me and it's obviously going to be a big two
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Speaker 1: preseason is coming up on ourmind, Steeters fans when we
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Speaker 1: at the time here, if you're on the island of Ireland,
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Speaker 1: you can watch the next preseason game which was talking
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Speaker 1: about in the mid four free as well more not
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Speaker 1: in the second two more to finish off, just this
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Speaker 1: little fast four or five four. Sorry, Ed, you're very
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Speaker 1: proud of where you come from. What do you think
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Speaker 1: was going through coach mccarfrey's mind when he was getting
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Speaker 1: that bust up last night or guess it even Dockershire
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Speaker 1: and we obviously seen this family on the sideline as
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Speaker 1: well before he's working. He's busy, he puts his life
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Speaker 1: into this, but there has to have been a moment
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Speaker 1: last night where he must have pinched himself and went.
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Speaker 2: No doubt, first time coming onto that field as the
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Speaker 2: Pittsburgh Steelers head coach, this is a guy that grew
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Speaker 2: up in the city of Pittsburgh. So those folks that
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Speaker 2: aren't familiar with Greenfield area of Pittsburgh. It literally, Michael
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Speaker 2: is ten minutes from Aqui Shore Stadium within the city,
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Speaker 2: grew up there, coached at pitt as an assistant coach,
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Speaker 2: which is the University of Pittsburgh that's close by. He
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Speaker 2: was an assistant there for a number of years. Yes,
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Speaker 2: he did beat Steelers in Super Bowl. We don't even
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Speaker 2: want to talk about that right when he was the
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Speaker 2: Green Bay Packers head coach. But now to come back
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Speaker 2: home takeover an organization, very proud ton of family in
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Speaker 2: the area, and it had to be a super really
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Speaker 2: cool and proud moment for him and the McCarthy family.
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Speaker 2: You know, when they first made this move, I was
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Speaker 2: a little bit taken back, like a lot of Steelers Nation,
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Speaker 2: because it wasn't the last two. Bill Kauer and Mike
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Speaker 2: Tomlin were two unknown coaches at the time. They were
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Speaker 2: assistant coaches. They were young and upcoming. Mike McCarthy's an
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Speaker 2: established coach. So at first I was like, Okay, I
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Speaker 2: like McCarthy, but how's this going to be. I've been
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Speaker 2: nothing but impressed throughout this offseason and now into this
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Speaker 2: training camp. Very organized, very disciplined, has a plan and
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Speaker 2: now to finally last night in that first preseason game,
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Speaker 2: to see it unfold, Michael, it was a great performance
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Speaker 2: on offense, defense, and special teams. All three phases look good. Now,
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Speaker 2: it's only the preseasons, so we can't jump the conclusions,
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Speaker 2: but it's off to a good start.
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Speaker 1: If you're not going to jump too much. But I'll
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Speaker 1: tell you what, We'll take the w take the double
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Speaker 1: every week we can get it mom over this preseason
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Speaker 1: or not. I want to give the floor to you
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Speaker 1: for the final part of this, say for some here
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Speaker 1: and anah, I'll stick your eye last night watching this game.
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Speaker 2: Well, I'm gonna give you a positive and a negative.
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Speaker 2: One of the few negatives I think to come out
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Speaker 2: of the first preseason game was the number of penalties
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Speaker 2: and I think the Steelers had eleven for the game.
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Speaker 2: Don't quote me on that, but it was somewhere there.
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Speaker 2: And added that at eleven, I think seven or eight
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Speaker 2: were within the first half, so they cleaned that up
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Speaker 2: a bit in the second half. So that's one area
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Speaker 2: that they're going to have to improve on. Hey, look,
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Speaker 2: first preseason game mistakes are going to happen. But Mike McCarthy,
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Speaker 2: I think identified that early on too, that that was
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Speaker 2: a concern. A couple of personal foul calls too, and
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Speaker 2: few of them were questionable. You know, when you're a
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Speaker 2: Steeler fan, you're it goes against you, and if it
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Speaker 2: goes the other way, you're happy about it, right, But
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Speaker 2: when it goes against you, you're like, ahmah. But I
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Speaker 2: think the Pelonies need to be cleaned up from a
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Speaker 2: negative standpoint. Really, outside of that, not too much else
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Speaker 2: to take away from a negative standpoint. Another positive, man,
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Speaker 2: you hit it, you hit the quarterbacks. The wide receiver
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Speaker 2: play was good last night too. I thought, you know,
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Speaker 2: all the way around in that room, thought offensive line
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Speaker 2: did good. But let me give you some defensive I
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Speaker 2: thought the Steelers got home I think five times last night,
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Speaker 2: five sacks and they were backups. I get that, but
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Speaker 2: still to see constant pressure on the quarterback was encouraging
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Speaker 2: last night. It seemed like the defensive front, the linebackers
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Speaker 2: were getting penetration, they were getting in the backfield, they
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Speaker 2: were giving the Packers issues all night. Again, they only
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Speaker 2: had what the one score that was it last night.
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Speaker 2: So I thought the Steelers defense last night under Patrick Graham,
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Speaker 2: the new defensive coordinator looked good first time out.
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Speaker 1: Steters getting to win over the Pokers and over an
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Speaker 1: Irish mode on that Pokers team as well, and Don
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Speaker 1: Whelan So sorry but that Dom. But this is the
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Speaker 1: Irishteeters podcast.
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Speaker 4: And just before we let you.
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Speaker 1: Go, just so Steeters fons are aware, but this Steelers
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Speaker 1: Jets is early Saturday morning for us leet Fred obviously
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Speaker 1: Friday even for you lons. But it is free next
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Speaker 1: week on the Steeters website. We'll put that across social
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Speaker 1: this week. And we have got some great interviews coming
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Speaker 1: up on this podcast itself. We've got Kiandu Benton and
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Speaker 1: Nick Krbery coming up and a little second. Thank you
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Speaker 1: so much for your time.
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Speaker 4: Man.
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Speaker 1: We certainly appreciate you taking the time to jump on this,
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Speaker 1: especially when you're in the trope as well. So I'm
12:12
Speaker 1: sure we'll talk again very very soon, and I would
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Speaker 1: entice people to listen to SNR as well.
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Speaker 2: Hey Michael, thank you so much for having me on.
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Speaker 2: Like I said, I got Irish roots, so this makes
12:20
Speaker 2: complete sense for us to do this more than just once.
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Speaker 2: Let's do it all the time.
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Speaker 1: Everybody listening, I want you to guess what county has
12:27
Speaker 1: got roots from and we'll find out at a different
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Speaker 1: point in the preseason in the regular season. And thanks
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Speaker 1: so much for the time.
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Speaker 2: On Thanks Michael Gas Steelers.
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Speaker 1: We are sitting here deep in the tropes in Bnson College,
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Speaker 1: sitting beside two fan favorites, lots fan favorites of Irish
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Speaker 1: Amhal fans, Irish Steeters fans, Kanu Benton, Nick Herbig. You're
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Speaker 1: both very very welcome. Kianu. Just first off, this place,
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Speaker 1: I really really want to illustrate for people at home.
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Speaker 1: You know, you guys come here, you stay here, you
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Speaker 1: live together. It's like a real family for a few weeks.
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Speaker 1: What's it like being here for training camp in Saint
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Speaker 1: Pensent College.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I feel like there's nothing like it. You know,
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Speaker 4: you're building a camaraderie with.
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Speaker 3: Guys you might not know as well or get to
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Speaker 3: talk to as much during the season. So comeing to
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Speaker 3: training camp and you grinding together and you're putting in
13:21
Speaker 3: their work together, and then afterwards you can have dinner
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Speaker 3: and talk talk stuff about it or figure out improvements
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Speaker 3: and stuff.
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Speaker 4: So I feel like it's a huge advantage horse Nick.
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Speaker 1: When you walk down the steps and you see the
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Speaker 1: fans and they're screaming your knee in. What's it like
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Speaker 1: both before and after practice? Because the support the fans
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Speaker 1: here a couple from around the world, it's just a
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Speaker 1: phenomenal one.
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Speaker 5: I mean, it doesn't matter what day of the week
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Speaker 5: it is. You know, the fans are always here and
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Speaker 5: they're always loud, they're always ready, that's for sure.
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Speaker 4: You know, it's awesome. We got the best fans in
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Speaker 4: the world.
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Speaker 1: I think you have an idea of what we're gonna
13:50
Speaker 1: mention here. Obviously we got to go back nearly a
13:53
Speaker 1: year now to Dublin and Neck. I'll start with you, like,
13:55
Speaker 1: it's probably not comparable, but you know, you're from an
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Speaker 1: island in Hawaii and multiple islands small islands probabe of
14:02
Speaker 1: where you're from, I'm sure, and I think it's probably
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Speaker 1: some of them for us as well. What was it
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Speaker 1: like visiting Ireland, presuming for the first time.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, so that was Yeah, that was my first time
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Speaker 5: out of country. So that's the first time I used
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Speaker 5: my passport in my life. So Ireland got the first stamp.
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Speaker 5: It was awesome. I had a great time. Had again
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Speaker 5: this er two you know, went to yeah, post game,
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Speaker 5: post game, uh, you know, I got some great food.
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Speaker 4: The food was phenomenal. I really wasn't expecting that.
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Speaker 5: No, no disrespect, but I was not expecting that the
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Speaker 5: food was so good. Everything was honestly better than what
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Speaker 5: I could have imagined.
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Speaker 1: And I'm gonna put you on the spot. I thought
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Speaker 1: it was a year ago and any favorite dish if
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Speaker 1: you're saying the fab was phenomenal.
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Speaker 5: I had this, uh, this burger with these like crispy
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Speaker 5: It was like hash Browns, but I don't even know,
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Speaker 5: No it was hash.
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Speaker 4: It was potatoes, but I don't know how they made it.
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Speaker 5: It was like it looked like a French toast stick,
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Speaker 5: but it was a potato d junk.
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Speaker 1: Was there's probably we could really sat here for like
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Speaker 1: two hours talking that weekend, but you're buying all the
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Speaker 1: atmosphere where you lines after that game not tonal when
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Speaker 1: you're getting on the bus. Was just phenomenal. And Keanu,
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Speaker 1: you had one and a half socks and you were
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Speaker 1: part of a big part of that defensive pressure and
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Speaker 1: that was a big, big defensive performance. What was it
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Speaker 1: like and what stands out in your mind when you
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Speaker 1: think back to that day in Cool Park?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I was talking stuff to the boys before,
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Speaker 3: like just if I get a sack, I'm gonna do
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Speaker 3: the Conor McGregor and tell me right, you know. So
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Speaker 3: I got one, or I thought I had one that
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Speaker 3: they marked for me at first, and then TJ ended
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Speaker 3: up taking that one, and then I ended up getting
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Speaker 3: two more and we shared one as well. But yeah,
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Speaker 3: I feel like it was awesome. The energy was there,
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Speaker 3: and then once you know, they come in bunches. So
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Speaker 3: once once I got one and I was getting in
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Speaker 3: the batfield, I felt unstoppable.
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Speaker 1: I know you watched Kelly a lot of these games
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Speaker 1: in an Ashley. I'm sure at your own time we're
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Speaker 1: surprised that one the amount of stats fans that were there,
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Speaker 1: and two for me, the noise was phenomenal. Yeah, it
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Speaker 1: was incredible.
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Speaker 3: I mean I don't think I was surprised because even
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Speaker 3: only on the road, you know, anywhere we go we
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Speaker 3: got steal the trends everywhere and they they show up
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Speaker 3: full fledged and even away games feel at home.
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Speaker 1: How did you find Nick, I think your your album
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Speaker 1: matters coming to build the next year as well. How
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Speaker 1: did you find the travel and did you enjoy the
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Speaker 1: aspect or was there any difficulty there or did you
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Speaker 1: just enjoy the experience? It was always like a mini
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Speaker 1: trailing company, you guys.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, it was a great experience.
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Speaker 5: Like I say all the time, like football has taken
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Speaker 5: me in my family places that I never thought I
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Speaker 5: would go, especially.
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Speaker 4: Being where I'm from.
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Speaker 1: Uh.
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Speaker 5: You know, made some of the best friends I've ever
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Speaker 5: had in my life forlong this journey, and you know.
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Speaker 4: It allows me to see the world.
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Speaker 5: I got to travel and do things that you know,
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Speaker 5: a five year old, ten year old Nick would have
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Speaker 5: never thought. So I'm nothing but grateful for that.
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Speaker 1: You're a genius. Because the next question literally says, Nick,
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Speaker 1: how proud of you to represent this organization.
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Speaker 5: I'm beyond proud and thankful. I'm glad that I'm a Stiller.
16:57
Speaker 5: I've said this many times. I feel like I was
16:59
Speaker 5: born to be heres. I'm excited to see what the
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Speaker 5: future holds.
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Speaker 1: For fans at home that are listening, obviously, we all
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Speaker 1: know there's a new regime and new management this year,
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Speaker 1: but still the same goal exists to go and win
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Speaker 1: on Obviously, how you Celem Bardi hopefully in La Touchwood
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Speaker 1: in February twenty twenty seven. For fans at home. What
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Speaker 1: is the difference being like so far in the training camp?
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Speaker 1: And so one prime example is we're having earlier camps.
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Speaker 1: Can you maybe talk to Riding some of the differences
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Speaker 1: and just how you find it so far?
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Speaker 3: The biggest difference, I feel like it's just I feel
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Speaker 3: like we're getting more more reps and it's not as
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Speaker 3: intense as of now, but we're gonna be picking that
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Speaker 3: up next week. It will, yeah, but I feel like
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Speaker 3: we're gonna have a productive camp. We've been getting reps
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Speaker 3: for the older guys and the young guys. One twenty
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Speaker 3: or something like that. We got yesterday one hundred and
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Speaker 3: twenty reps. I've never seen that before in my life.
17:48
Speaker 3: But I'm trusting the process and we're.
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Speaker 1: Working neck and new defensive coordinator and Patrick Graham. I know,
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Speaker 1: I know at the time of talking, we're only a
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Speaker 1: few guys in the camp, But what's it been like,
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Speaker 1: you know, and sort of taking the advice from him.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, he has a lot of knowledge of the game,
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Speaker 5: but he's been in it a while.
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Speaker 4: He's seen a lot of things. He's been at the.
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Speaker 5: Highest of highs, the lowest of low's. So I think
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Speaker 5: somebody like that has character. I mean it kind of
18:13
Speaker 5: helps mold them into who they are. And I think,
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Speaker 5: you know, a lot of us are still kind of
18:17
Speaker 5: figuring him out, you know, not just as a coach,
18:19
Speaker 5: but as a person and likewise with us, you know,
18:22
Speaker 5: he's figuring us out as players and people and just
18:25
Speaker 5: seeing what makes us tick, what makes us go a
18:28
Speaker 5: little extra harder or have that extra edge to us.
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Speaker 5: So that's why that's what La trobe is for, to
18:33
Speaker 5: figure that out about each other. But I love the
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Speaker 5: direction we're headed and he definitely brings the energy.
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Speaker 1: So bringing the energy and making history as well. You
18:42
Speaker 1: guys both played in the first ever NFL doubling gum
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Speaker 1: last year, which means a lot to Steters fans in Ireland.
18:48
Speaker 1: I'm sure we have a few Steters fans in front,
18:50
Speaker 1: but you're gonna think to see him this year. I mean,
18:51
Speaker 1: Keanu anav game internationally? How's your friends? Bim know we horrible?
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Speaker 4: Have you say horrible?
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Speaker 1: I think it's horriblay I think are you excited him excited?
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Speaker 1: Had you been to France before? No?
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Speaker 4: Okay I have not.
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Speaker 1: I mean load's of the opportunity and feel free to
19:10
Speaker 1: jump in this as well, Like the opportunity to go
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Speaker 1: and play the sets and the scens obviously have Marketer
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Speaker 1: rights in France in that first game, the opportunity to
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Speaker 1: go and you know, potentially win that game will be
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Speaker 1: something else withn't it. It's gonna be fun to go
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Speaker 1: again in a broad and witness something, isn't it.
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Speaker 4: Yeah?
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Speaker 5: Like I said before, like I never thought I would
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Speaker 5: be doing that, going to a foreign country, let alone
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Speaker 5: playing a football professional football game, So you know, it
19:32
Speaker 5: kind of doesn't feel real sometimes.
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Speaker 1: It's yeah, because now sometimes in college some guys get
19:36
Speaker 1: the chance, but like ninety five percent don't. So it's
19:39
Speaker 1: it's cool for you guys to experience that. I will
19:42
Speaker 1: obviously women be talking about the France game closer to
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Speaker 1: the time this season. Is there a country outside of
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Speaker 1: France or Ireland that you lads would like to play
19:47
Speaker 1: and if you had the PEC one around the world
19:50
Speaker 1: or you very much like get a dark board and
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Speaker 1: just stick it and go.
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Speaker 4: In Mexico City.
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Speaker 3: I like Mexico City when I went there, and we
19:57
Speaker 3: have a lot of fans in Mexico and I think
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Speaker 3: it would be awesome play there.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think just the dart on the board and
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Speaker 4: let's go. Let's go. Yeah, I love that this girl
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Speaker 4: somewhere that to.
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Speaker 1: Try and get back to art and something would be
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Speaker 1: great over the next few years. Would you a lot
20:09
Speaker 1: to be happy to go back to Dublin if you
20:11
Speaker 1: if it was Annoice hypothetically, I.
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Speaker 4: Think you go on a golf trip there too. I'm
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Speaker 4: a huge golfer.
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Speaker 5: So we take the boys over there and go hit
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Speaker 5: a little anybody's watching this, I.
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Speaker 4: Want to split some g's and hit some t's, you.
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Speaker 1: Know, right, just finishing off lads, And you had coach
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Speaker 1: Mike mccarthurth. What's it like working with him so far?
20:32
Speaker 1: Because you know, I said it yesterday to the guys,
20:35
Speaker 1: but to see his passion, his emotion Nick when he
20:37
Speaker 1: was announced on his pass conference, I mean almost a
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Speaker 1: hit home watch now.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean I think you just you go out
20:43
Speaker 5: here and see all these fans and little kids like
20:45
Speaker 5: he was one of those growing up, Like he's born
20:48
Speaker 5: and raised Pittsburgh guy. So this is all he knows
20:51
Speaker 5: is black and gold. Regardless of the teams he's coached,
20:53
Speaker 5: I think, and the journey he's been on, I think
20:56
Speaker 5: this is always his home, you know. So being able
20:59
Speaker 5: to I'm back and have a chance to lead us
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Speaker 5: to another Super Bowl.
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Speaker 4: I mean, that's got to mean.
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Speaker 5: More than any amount of money or anything else.
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Speaker 4: In the world.
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Speaker 1: Dallas Colleyboys, Green Bad Pokers, and not of Pittsburgh Studiors.
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Speaker 1: That's one hell of a CV count. It wants to
21:14
Speaker 1: be like learning from coach McCarthy so far.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I grew up in Wisconsin, so just
21:18
Speaker 3: seeing him be a Green Bay coach and how everybody
21:22
Speaker 3: admired him and respected him. It's my turn to get
21:25
Speaker 3: my opinion on him. And it's been nothing but great
21:28
Speaker 3: right now. You know he's he's a little bit of
21:29
Speaker 3: an offensive coach. Yeah, but still when you when you
21:32
Speaker 3: go up and ask questions talk to him, he's a
21:34
Speaker 3: pretty reasonable guy.
21:36
Speaker 1: Finally, maybe a sentence each outside of Hoyston and Lombardi
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Speaker 1: winning the division this year and get into the playoffs
21:42
Speaker 1: and winning all that. What's one personal goal you a
21:44
Speaker 1: lot to have this year to develop yourselves in the NFL?
21:46
Speaker 1: Or is there a goal that you can share with
21:48
Speaker 1: us that you'd like to develop all this year?
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Speaker 4: Yeah?
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Speaker 3: Me, personally, I won't. I won't at least eight eight
21:53
Speaker 3: to ten sacks. I want to get after that passer
21:56
Speaker 3: a lot more this year for sure.
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Speaker 4: I think I want to be Defensive Player of the Year.
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Speaker 1: I can't wait to watch his back roun you get
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Speaker 1: it in February time. And I did want to add
22:04
Speaker 1: this one quick thing. In in Ireland we said what's
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Speaker 1: the crack, Like how are you doing? And when we
22:08
Speaker 1: say like who's the most crack, who's the most fun? Right?
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Speaker 1: So in your opinion, lads, who's the most crack, who's
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Speaker 1: the most fun? In the locker room?
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Speaker 4: I can't go Coons. Coons is a good time. I
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Speaker 4: hate to admit it.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, Coons, I'm gonna say bench Gurni he he always
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Speaker 3: got something to say in locker room and it's quiet,
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Speaker 3: even if it throws you off a little bit.
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Speaker 4: He He's.
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Speaker 1: On behalf of students fans in Ireland. Keanu, good luck
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Speaker 1: this year. It's gonna fly in and I know there's
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Speaker 1: so many people in Ireland, the UK, Europe that are
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Speaker 1: gonna fly to Paris and get those tiles out and
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Speaker 1: you're gonna have a fantastic time. Good luck learning French
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Speaker 1: over the next few weeks and we'll speak to you soon.
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Speaker 4: Thank you for much. Thank you, s