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Steelers Football Returns - Preseason Game 1 Recap · The Irish Steelers Podcast

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Speaker 1: Head Bulks. Welcome into the Irish Steers Podcast, the podcast
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Speaker 1: for Pittsburgh Steelers fans on the Emerald, Down and Beyond
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Speaker 1: Saturday morning after the first preseason game with back Stailers
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Speaker 1: football is back back and look with Jimmy English, Dave McKee,
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Speaker 1: Jimmy I'm gonna bring him in the first one man.
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Speaker 1: As I said, there, Steelers football back. We are a
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Speaker 1: mere four weeks out from the first opening weekend with
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Speaker 1: the season. A couple of really tasty matchups for the
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Speaker 1: team in the first few weeks and look, regardless of
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Speaker 1: a result which was talk about in a few minutes,
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Speaker 1: good to have football back last night. Good as the
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Speaker 1: Staders play again hiding.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, Mack. I mean the score line aside and
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Speaker 2: performance as society. It was great to see the black
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Speaker 2: and goal back in the fields. Great together. I saw
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Speaker 2: a real and Instagram yesterday. It was a kind of
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Speaker 2: a drone pan shot of Backershuer Stadium panning on to
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Speaker 2: the onto the city at backdrop of the city and
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Speaker 2: it just reminded me anger to be there in a
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Speaker 2: few months time. So the excitement is certainly building. And look,
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Speaker 2: it's always good when the Steelers are back in television.
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Speaker 2: I'm playing and luck there's there's lots to break down
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Speaker 2: from that game and look forward to as well.
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Speaker 1: I think I can forget an you lots are going over.
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Speaker 1: But also it's great to see and hear both of
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Speaker 1: you boys on the podcast. It's been a few weeks
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Speaker 1: and itsuws you were getting closer to the football days.
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Speaker 1: Tell you what, I'm tired after last night. It's it's
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Speaker 1: going to take a while the use of these late
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Speaker 1: nights again, isn't it?
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Speaker 3: It is, Michael Jimmy said, you know, it was a
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Speaker 3: great great to see the lots back in the Black
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Speaker 3: and gold. Although it's pre season and obviously we didn't
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Speaker 3: get off with a win. If there's one game you
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Speaker 3: do you want to lose, maybe it is in pre season.
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Speaker 3: You know, you don't want to lose any game, of course,
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Speaker 3: but losing in the pre season means virtually nothing. So
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Speaker 3: it was nice just to get to see you know,
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Speaker 3: justin fades out for the first time, you know, a
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Speaker 3: couple of the new pieces on in there together, and yeah,
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Speaker 3: Jimmy said, with a bit to break down here about
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Speaker 3: the game originally, but it was just next to actually
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Speaker 3: see Steelers back on the TV and it is great
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Speaker 3: to stay up late for once and get to awesome.
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Speaker 3: Try to stay up late anyway. It's something we're gonna
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Speaker 3: have to get used to.
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Speaker 1: I set up for it. It was actually funning a
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Speaker 1: top top Again, it's just a second, but there was
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Speaker 1: seem to be a really decent jungle people watching it
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Speaker 1: live in Ireland, and look, I have astrology as well,
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Speaker 1: boys like I think my strategy during the season is
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Speaker 1: sometimes sometimes if a bove recorded game in forty and yeah, absolutely,
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Speaker 1: and that's that's an option that a lot of people
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Speaker 1: do in terms of the game, in terms of where
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Speaker 1: the game is on that it is our first chance
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Speaker 1: just to briefly talk or just just remark on this.
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Speaker 1: And all of these preseason games are on Virgin Media
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Speaker 1: on the TV in Ireland. Three preseason games will two
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Speaker 1: more left after this, but also during the season, the
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Speaker 1: Mike Tomlin Show is going to be on Virgin Media. Jimmy,
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Speaker 1: as a guy who's been a Steelers fan for your
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Speaker 1: entire life, how firstly handy is it to be able
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Speaker 1: to turn on the TV and watch the Steelers game
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Speaker 1: over the next few weeks, But how cool is it
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Speaker 1: to see like for example, for me watching it last night,
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Speaker 1: it was just it was easier and in terms of
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Speaker 1: having the in terms of having the ability to watch
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Speaker 1: it interrestrial TV. But you know, this is something that
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Speaker 1: is not happening with any of the team in the
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Speaker 1: UK or Ireland at the moment, and it shows you
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Speaker 1: the commitment just to the marketplace and a big fanks
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Speaker 1: just to the Staters on for Version media making it happen.
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Speaker 1: Hopefully it's the start of something very special.
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Speaker 2: I think it is a sign of things to come, Michael.
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Speaker 2: I mean that we can see the Steelers are making
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Speaker 2: massive inroads into Ireland in the Irish market and growing
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Speaker 2: Steelers Nation here in Ireland, and they're they're so committed
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Speaker 2: to the to the country. It's fantastic to see. And
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Speaker 2: as a Steelers fan then as a guy who's been
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Speaker 2: a Steeers fan for it goes to twenty years now
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Speaker 2: and it was a kind of a watershed moment when
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Speaker 2: that news came out, because this is the next step.
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Speaker 2: This is this is a this is a further commitment,
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Speaker 2: this is I think this is the natural. I think
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Speaker 2: it's a natural progression to have Steeers games on television here.
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Speaker 2: You know, we've had to watch parties we've had the
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Speaker 2: that we've had, the camps, we've had the I mean
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Speaker 2: the preseason games last year we're on streaming, so why
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Speaker 2: I'll have them a regular television. I think it's the
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Speaker 2: next natural step to having a regular season football broadcast
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Speaker 2: on Irish television, domestic Irish television. And yeah, it's it's
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Speaker 2: fantastic and it's been a long time coming as a
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Speaker 2: Steeters fan to have Steelers games on Irish television. So
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Speaker 2: I know, just just to light about how things are
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Speaker 2: going overall.
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Speaker 1: It's it's really cool to see. I was on Holida
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Speaker 1: last week get a popped up my Phoneland. I thought, God,
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Speaker 1: football is really backed, so perhaps that everybody involved and
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Speaker 1: I fully share your your fault star Jimmy Deave. The
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Speaker 1: two other games that are going to be on Virgin
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Speaker 1: Media the Lions which is coming up next week. I'm
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Speaker 1: sure we get a chance to chat before that Saturday night,
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Speaker 1: and then Saturday is twenty four of August and the
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Speaker 1: Lions side. The first game is a Bills next weekend
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Speaker 1: in the Lions twenty fourth of August. Both of those
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Speaker 1: games are in Virsion Media to Vision Media player. You
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Speaker 1: live in England, so this is more difficult for you,
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Speaker 1: isn't at the moment? Or are you home yet?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I'm home for good now Michael. I've I've
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Speaker 3: officially finished my immigration so I'm officially back. But yeah,
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Speaker 3: it's obviously great for for for not only stater songs
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Speaker 3: but but nfls and and NL fans in Ireland. So
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Speaker 3: it shows us it's always grown. You know last week
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Speaker 3: last year we were getting the games and off the
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Speaker 3: ball radio and you know this year we're getting it
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Speaker 3: in visual form on Version media, so which shows that
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Speaker 3: that it's grown in space loads. And Bob Pompiani did
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Speaker 3: manson on the broadcast last night but at a Tachle
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Speaker 3: game in Ireland this year and I hear jumped out
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Speaker 3: of bed. It sort of woke me up before mister
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Speaker 3: Rinnie sort of cracked at him and said, no, we're
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Speaker 3: maybe looking at somewhere down the nine twenty twenty five,
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Speaker 3: so who knows what happens in the coming years. It's
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Speaker 3: definitely something we're all going to get get hopefully used to.
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Speaker 3: But just everything is me said there. It's about you
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Speaker 3: know the progression of the sport and iron originally and
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Speaker 3: I can't wait to see where it takes. You know,
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Speaker 3: the watch parties and stuff is also great, but originally,
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Speaker 3: hopefully it comes to we're actually watching a game, hopefully
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Speaker 3: Crowe Park or the Viva wherever it is. It's something
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Speaker 3: that that gives us something to look forward, so all
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Speaker 3: part to it, hopefully.
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Speaker 2: I think one of the great things. One of the
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Speaker 2: great things about just finally on this about the games
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Speaker 2: being on Virgin media is it opens up the Steelers too,
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Speaker 2: those very few remaining NFL potential fans who have who
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Speaker 2: might have a broader awareness of the sport but might
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Speaker 2: necessarily have picked the team yet. So it's definitely it's
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Speaker 2: a good way of getting getting ahold of those new
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Speaker 2: fans and especially the younger generation, although they wouldn't necessarily
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Speaker 2: be up that late on a Friday night watching watching
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Speaker 2: the games. But I mean, just to reiterate, you have
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Speaker 2: to really be appreciative as a Steelers fan of what
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Speaker 2: the organize nation is doing here. I mean, they have
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Speaker 2: really you know, they could have just dipped a toe in,
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Speaker 2: they could could have kind of half half done it,
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Speaker 2: but they have really, they have really committed themselves. And look,
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Speaker 2: it's just so heartening to see and I'm excited to
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Speaker 2: see what happens next and what's what's then, what's then
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Speaker 2: the line.
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Speaker 1: And absolutely, and thank you as well did for jogging
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Speaker 1: jogging my memory. The audio broadcast as well is on
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Speaker 1: the OTB Sports Radio. And yeah, the fact that you've
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Speaker 1: got both options out is really cool. Great to see
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Speaker 1: Max Starks and the whole team last night and looking
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Speaker 1: forward to in over the next couple of weeks. Really cool.
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Speaker 1: And Jimmy, I completely agreement it. It shows you because
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Speaker 1: like that's it's one thing like saying that, to actually
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Speaker 1: do it, it's it's it's not easy, like you know,
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Speaker 1: so it takes a considerable amount of work and effort
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Speaker 1: and fair playing and for doing it, and long may continue.
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Speaker 1: We will see. As we've talked about there, there was
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Speaker 1: a preseason game last night that the Steelers went to
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Speaker 1: Orchestra Stadium for the first time this year on the
8:01
Speaker 1: quest for a Super Bowl in thew Ordans started off
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Speaker 1: at twenty to twelve defeat to the Houston Takins. Before
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Speaker 1: we talk about it, let's hear from coach Tomy.
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Speaker 4: You know, really a sloppy performance, to be honest with you,
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Speaker 4: it's capable happening obviously in the first preseason game, but
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Speaker 4: not that we find comfort in that. We worked too
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Speaker 4: hard to have the results we had tonight. So it's disappointing.
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Speaker 4: How we work off of it, obviously will define us,
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Speaker 4: and we'll have a good rep at responding to negativity
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Speaker 4: as we push into our next opportunity. We need to
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Speaker 4: be significantly better. Taking nothing away from the Houston Texans,
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Speaker 4: it's not about what they did. It was about the
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Speaker 4: things that we didn't do or the wounds we inflicted
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Speaker 4: to ourselves. Just looking at it from a special team's perspective,
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Speaker 4: the field position and points standpoint was JV. You know,
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Speaker 4: we had a block of the back on a kickoff return.
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Speaker 4: From a field position perspective, we ran out of bounds
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Speaker 4: without being forced on a punt that provided an awesome
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Speaker 4: field position for them. We had a bad snap on
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Speaker 4: an extra point, we muffed a punt that produced seven points,
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Speaker 4: and so you can't play football like that and think
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Speaker 4: you're gonna be in games. Really, it's amazing we had
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Speaker 4: the ball in a one score game at the end.
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Speaker 4: When you consider those things on offense and defense, I
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Speaker 4: thought we were JV on possession down football maybe one
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Speaker 4: of seven at one point. On offense not good enough.
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Speaker 4: A couple of those were sacks. We had them in
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Speaker 4: third and long several times. On defense man we lost.
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Speaker 4: We lost those downs. We gave up a touchdown on
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Speaker 4: a third and long into safety rotation, and so, you know,
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Speaker 4: it's some things that we got to do better, some
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Speaker 4: things that we got to tighten up. We went for
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Speaker 4: it fourth and two and the tight red. We spent
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Speaker 4: a lot of time in that area of the field.
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Speaker 4: From a team development standpoint, we feel really comfortable being
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Speaker 4: aggressive under those circumstances. We had a guy open, we
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Speaker 4: didn't finish it. And so those are just some of
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Speaker 4: the examples of the self inflicted wounds that can to
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Speaker 4: characterize our night. We'll assess it, learn from it, and
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Speaker 4: roll our sleeves up and get back to work next week.
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Speaker 4: Bumps and bruises associated with play. Was still assessing some
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Speaker 4: of that. Kenu Benton got poked in the eye and
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Speaker 4: wasn't able to return. We'll have more information about him
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Speaker 4: and maybe some of the others next time we come together.
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Speaker 5: Anticipate Russ being available next time you're under the bullance I.
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Speaker 1: Do that was coach Tumlin Myersoni's poulcast just before we
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Speaker 1: discuss the game on how we felt we can hear from.
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Speaker 5: Justin field, what you've learned about this offense heaven last
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Speaker 5: few weeks practice, Ota is now in the game. How
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Speaker 5: do you feel like it helps you and can support
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Speaker 5: you as you know the quarterback.
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Speaker 6: I mean, I feel like, you know, Arthur is good
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Speaker 6: at game planning to every players on offense our strengths.
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Speaker 6: So you know, as long as we're you know, playing
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Speaker 6: to our straints, doing what everybody does well and getting
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Speaker 6: in the ball on certain concepts, certain routes, and of
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Speaker 6: course you know, run the ball is always gonna be
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Speaker 6: a big part of who we are. As long as
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Speaker 6: we do that and you know, execute like we know
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Speaker 6: how to execute, I think would be great.
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Speaker 5: What do you think worked out better on that third drive?
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Speaker 5: Especially when Zach Fraser went rtuated.
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Speaker 3: In the center.
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Speaker 6: I just don't think, Uh, there wasn't there wasn't any
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Speaker 6: fumble snaps. Like I said, it's it's it's hard to
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Speaker 6: uh put a drive together when you're you know, have
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Speaker 6: a fumble snap and you're second to thirteen and you're
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Speaker 6: behind the sticks. So like I said, just the self
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Speaker 6: inflicted wounds are the only things that you know, hurt us,
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Speaker 6: especially when I was in the game.
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Speaker 5: So yeah, what was the feedback that he that you
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Speaker 5: got from him?
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Speaker 1: And maybe he's the coach, Arthur anyone else?
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Speaker 5: Uh about your rhythm especially early on when you were
11:35
Speaker 5: able to connect.
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Speaker 4: On several other early throws.
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Speaker 6: I mean, nothing crazy. I think that's what exp is
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Speaker 6: expected at the end of the day. So you know,
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Speaker 6: just moving the ball, getting completions and you know, not
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Speaker 6: uh making any dumb decisions or uh Aaron throws and
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Speaker 6: just being smart with it.
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Speaker 2: So he does a feedback. How about what you and
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Speaker 2: Russ talked about on the sideline.
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Speaker 6: I mean yeah, he was just there, uh, encouraging me
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Speaker 6: and we were just kind of looking at the eye
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Speaker 6: pads after every drive, and you know, he was being
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Speaker 6: a great teammate today.
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Speaker 1: Good to hear from Justin Field on the Irish Series
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Speaker 1: podcast after the Steelers. It fell to a twenty twenty
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Speaker 1: to twelve defeat in the first preseason game, like I'm saying,
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Speaker 1: fell to a twenty to twelve defeat. Jimmy Like, I look,
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Speaker 1: it's it's a preseason I understand, Like, and it was
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Speaker 1: it was a great story until last year, like that
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Speaker 1: Ravens team where they went on beating for so long
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Speaker 1: and it was good fun. I'm just happy that have
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Speaker 1: football back. I guess when it comes to the preseason
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Speaker 1: and you see certain situations, especially in that first or
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Speaker 1: second game, you want to give guys that time the reps.
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Speaker 1: Especially now when the rules have changed where you don't
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Speaker 1: cut players until the very very end and it's not
12:42
Speaker 1: coming in drips and drops. It gives these players more
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Speaker 1: of an opportunity. I guess the standout for me is
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Speaker 1: probably the running back position going into the practice squad.
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Speaker 1: Jonathan Ward. He's really made a strong he started to
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Speaker 1: potentially start on on the practice squad. He was the
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Speaker 1: first back to enter the game on Friday night and
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Speaker 1: he had a twenty yard run down the left side
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Speaker 1: that at one point four carries twenty five yards in
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Speaker 1: the first half. Look, there's always going to be things
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Speaker 1: to improve on. We did not see Russell Wilson, for example,
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Speaker 1: last night seeing the bill of justin fields, which is
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Speaker 1: really cool to see him run out onto the field
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Speaker 1: of acrosher. Kyle Allen into the game as well, But
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Speaker 1: it's just one of those things you mind the guys
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Speaker 1: that are rushing yards last night, I chose you an example.
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Speaker 1: But again, going up against a good outfit in terms
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Speaker 1: of the Texans team falling just short, I don't read
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Speaker 1: too much into it. These guys take reps. Are you
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Speaker 1: in panic, Muddy Jimmy.
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Speaker 2: Not at all. I mean, it's the preseason. The preseason
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Speaker 2: doesn't count really apart from getting the backup sorted. We
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Speaker 2: know who are who are starters are going to be.
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Speaker 2: We know roughly how who's going to be in the
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Speaker 2: in the lead position at each position group. So for me,
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Speaker 2: it's it's the first preseason game. There's going to be rusted,
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Speaker 2: It's going to be sloppy. It was very, very sloppy,
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Speaker 2: and a couple of examples here of sloppiness, for example,
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Speaker 2: the Kyle Allen overthrowing Calvin Austin, and in fairness, Calvin
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Speaker 2: Austen is shorter than I am, so that's not hard
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Speaker 2: to do. But I mean, there was a couple of
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Speaker 2: things that stood out to me last night that were positives.
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Speaker 2: I mean, Peyton Wilson, he showed off some flashes, he
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Speaker 2: had a couple of good tackles. Nick Herbig came flying
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Speaker 2: off the defensive line at one point for a sack
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Speaker 2: that was fantastic. And yeah, I mean, like the backup
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Speaker 2: running backs look good. It was a Jonathan Ward who
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Speaker 2: had a touchdown. I'm not sure, but I think overall,
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Speaker 2: I mean it was as good as it could have been.
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Speaker 1: I think Edwards that the award actually quite similar stats,
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Speaker 1: but Edwards with Ostaana.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, what's his sports? His first name?
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Speaker 1: Again, I'm glad you asked me that the June d
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Speaker 1: A I j M. I already found out last night
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Speaker 1: that I'd been pronouncing Troy Phantom isn't completely wrong for
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Speaker 1: the last six months as well the start of the season.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, like just things like that are interesting
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Speaker 2: to watch. Who's going to develop as into a small
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Speaker 2: Sonic Sonic backup roles? I think we saw the wide
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Speaker 2: receiver number one, Number one and two are quite set
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Speaker 2: between Pickens and Pickens and Van Jefferson, so on the whole.
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Speaker 2: I'm not in panic mode yet. It's only a week
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Speaker 2: one of the preseason. There's a lot of time left
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Speaker 2: to get settled in, and there's a lot of guys
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Speaker 2: on the field yesterday who won't be on the field
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Speaker 2: come week one. So I'm not too worried.
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Speaker 1: I obviously enjoyed seeing the team back there. Feel free
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Speaker 1: to let me know what you think about the game itself,
15:39
Speaker 1: but we have to talk about this new kickoff real.
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Speaker 1: I mean, maybe I'll be used to it at some point,
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Speaker 1: but it's just it's not weird to watch. But it's like,
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Speaker 1: oh my god, you're like, hold on here, this is
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Speaker 1: completely different. It is strange.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's a charnage. Just watched that for the
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Speaker 3: first time because I hadn't really been paying that much
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Speaker 3: attention to the route change, but it is, it's it's
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Speaker 3: something like I've never seen before. It's it's it's a
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Speaker 3: bit of a mixture. I was just thinking this as well,
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Speaker 3: with with Louis's Salmut coming over from from Rugby. This
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Speaker 3: is the sort of thing that he was driven. But yeah,
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Speaker 3: we've got a couple of good ones ourselves. You know.
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Speaker 3: There was a few bursts off the line there with
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Speaker 3: with the new kickoff rule, but it's like something like
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Speaker 3: I've never seen before. Just obviously shifting the game make
16:20
Speaker 3: up with it being pre season. It's it's not, as
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Speaker 3: I said, you know, it's not a game you don't
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Speaker 3: want to lose. Any game. But if there is going
16:27
Speaker 3: to game big games you lose, there is hopefully in
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Speaker 3: the preseason. I mean, it's the same in any sport.
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Speaker 3: Is all about just getting those minutes in the tank.
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Speaker 3: I mean, majesty, and I had lost three in that Liverpool.
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Speaker 3: If I was a regular season game, I wouldn't be
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Speaker 3: back sleep for a week personally, But you know, just
16:42
Speaker 3: having to get any early look at you know, justin fields,
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Speaker 3: we've got to see a lot from what we've seen
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Speaker 3: from Chicago, scrambling, making a few nice throws. You know,
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Speaker 3: at why Von Jefferson was a particular one that jump
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Speaker 3: off the screen in the first quarter and had a
16:55
Speaker 3: nice catch by the sideline which the officials ruled incorrectly
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Speaker 3: off out of bounds. Just what Jimmy reflected on there,
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Speaker 3: Peyton Wilson looks a really good early steel like. He
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Speaker 3: looked like he's going to be important part of that defense.
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Speaker 3: You know, middle linebacker used to be one of our weaknesses,
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Speaker 3: and that's probably looking at one of our strengthst with
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Speaker 3: with the editions with me in the draft, and obviously.
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Speaker 2: Patrick Patrick Quene wasn't even on the field last night either.
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Speaker 2: Quitting Wilson Peyton Wilson filled that gap pretty well and
17:20
Speaker 2: when you when you're pair them with them, Landon Roberts
17:23
Speaker 2: and Cole Hulcom hopefully coming back from injury. As you say,
17:27
Speaker 2: Dave inside linebacker is going from one of our massive
17:31
Speaker 2: gaps a couple of seasons ago to potentially being like
17:34
Speaker 2: this the strength and core of our defense, which I
17:36
Speaker 2: had been for years and years.
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Speaker 3: No, it's it's it's definitely nice to see. I mean,
17:43
Speaker 3: it's one of the more important parts of the defense
17:45
Speaker 3: as well, because it's where it's where the quarterback is
17:47
Speaker 3: going to be looking. So to have that knotted down
17:50
Speaker 3: going forward, that's that's a great, you know, a great
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Speaker 3: addition and all. No, Michael, there wasn't much else to
17:55
Speaker 3: take from the game. You know, we saw our good
17:57
Speaker 3: friend Connor Hayward got himself on the score as well,
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Speaker 3: which is always nice. Looking forward to seeing Russ hopefully
18:03
Speaker 3: we get to see him in the next couple of
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Speaker 3: weeks before Week one against the Lands and the Bills.
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Speaker 3: But yeah, there's not much to take from it, you know,
18:10
Speaker 3: pre season, it's nice to just see the guys out
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Speaker 3: there and seeing what sort of you know, schemes and
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Speaker 3: developments we're going to get to see during the regular season.
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Speaker 3: So I'm not fussed about a loss. You know, I'll
18:19
Speaker 3: take the losses now as long as we get a
18:21
Speaker 3: lot of wins in the regular season. That's all the manors.
18:23
Speaker 2: Wilson was in pad though he was dressed in the
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Speaker 2: sideline and they might be spotted that, so that's he
18:27
Speaker 2: was emergency quarterback last night.
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Speaker 1: I think he wanted to lead the team out as well,
18:33
Speaker 1: even though it was justin starting. I could see him
18:35
Speaker 1: standing at the entrance on the field as well. Just
18:38
Speaker 1: on Wilson and Jimmy, you're a genius. Because I haven't
18:41
Speaker 1: give you I haven't give you a list of topics
18:43
Speaker 1: for this podcast, but I did want to sort of
18:44
Speaker 1: close by asking both of you, guys, what do you
18:47
Speaker 1: want to see against the Bills next week. It's not
18:49
Speaker 1: a game in Buffalo, it's in it's in Acrosher. And
18:52
Speaker 1: one of the things pushed on and talked about after
18:54
Speaker 1: the game was he expects or hopes to see Russell
18:56
Speaker 1: Wilson play some sort of snaps against the Bills next week. Look,
19:01
Speaker 1: we're not head coaches in the league, we're not ocs,
19:03
Speaker 1: but you would expect Jimmy to see a bit maybe
19:05
Speaker 1: a couple of series with Russell Wilson if he does ten,
19:08
Speaker 1: and I'll probably do him until Week one, and I'm
19:13
Speaker 1: I've went from when when I first started watching the league.
19:16
Speaker 1: I wanted to see the guys playing every preseason game.
19:18
Speaker 1: Now just like yep, get him out there for a
19:19
Speaker 1: couple of snaps, let him and beat himself into this offense,
19:22
Speaker 1: and then start working on that Week one. I guess
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Speaker 1: for me, Jimmy, I just want to see continued improving
19:26
Speaker 1: against the Bills. I'm not too fussed about the result,
19:28
Speaker 1: and it'll be interesting as well to see where that
19:31
Speaker 1: Bills team is, especially after you know, that's the team
19:34
Speaker 1: that knocked our team out of the postseason in January,
19:39
Speaker 1: so there's there's time for a bit of preseason revenge
19:42
Speaker 1: and eleven thirty next Saturday, which should be an interesting game.
19:47
Speaker 1: I'm standing up boys, I can't wait.
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Speaker 3: I was just watching obviously, you know with with PJ. Watt,
19:52
Speaker 3: make if it's Patrick all getting a nice time off
19:55
Speaker 3: on the Saturday, Patrick Queen as well. They're just like
19:57
Speaker 3: base Thady Pramed ready to go you, I mean, they're
20:00
Speaker 3: they're just radity for some action. But I'm glad we're
20:03
Speaker 3: sort of resting our key players because we know what
20:06
Speaker 3: TJ Wat's about, we know what Megafa's project's about. It
20:09
Speaker 3: was nice to see them also on the sideline, you know,
20:11
Speaker 3: helping the boys long TJ on the on the head
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Speaker 3: sat as well, talking three players. So just development, better
20:17
Speaker 3: development throughout the next two games, and hopefully you know
20:20
Speaker 3: who knows, although Jimmy you say you know, we know
20:24
Speaker 3: who's going to be starting week one, there might be
20:26
Speaker 3: somebody that that sort of works their pants off and
20:28
Speaker 3: managed to slot in in that first first position, you know,
20:31
Speaker 3: on the deapth.
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Speaker 1: Chart eleven thirty next Saturday against the Bills and then
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Speaker 1: against the Lions on twenty fourth, earlier five thirty, both
20:38
Speaker 1: games in Virgin Media too. We'll be back before the
20:42
Speaker 1: second game, I believe, or just after it. Folks, if
20:45
Speaker 1: you are watching the games next week, use the hashtags
20:47
Speaker 1: Steelers are get involved. You have any opinions on preseason,
20:50
Speaker 1: We'd love to call him out in this podcast, so
20:52
Speaker 1: please do that us though, Jimmy Dave I will shot decent.
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Speaker 2: Here we go, here we go, there we go
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Speaker 1: To mos