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Jets Recap, Giants Preview · Steelers Country Weekly

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  Speaker 1: Today on Steelers Country Weekly, we break down the steelers
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  Speaker 1: big win at home against Aaron Rodgers, and the Jets
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  Speaker 1: look ahead to their Monday night football matchup against the
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  Speaker 1: New York Giants. And then we actually don't have a
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  Speaker 1: fun topic right now. We're gonna think of it as
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  Speaker 1: we go, because that's the kind of service we provide here.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Nick Detulia, and as always I'm joined by the
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  Speaker 1: world famous accountant Eric vammin Shuttin.
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  Speaker 2: Eric, how are you tonight?
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  Speaker 3: Oh? You know, I'm doing all right.
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  Speaker 4: Just got off my sister's birthday celebration, so, you know,
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  Speaker 4: hanging out with the family, Mexican food week weekday and.
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  Speaker 3: Watching scary movies. It feels like October so.
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  Speaker 4: Especially in the full swing of football season, and a good.
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  Speaker 3: One at that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I had the Mexican food last night for Taco Tuesday.
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  Speaker 1: We're recording a day later than we normally do. I
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  Speaker 1: was looking forward to it. I made a double batch.
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  Speaker 1: I always like to do that have leftovers the next night.
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  Speaker 1: But my dog Jack's ruined those plans when he jumped
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  Speaker 1: up on the counter and got into.
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  Speaker 2: The taco meat.
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  Speaker 1: So good news anyway. The dog can vouch for my cooking.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, big dog, eighty eighty pounder. He is getting
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  Speaker 1: a little bit older. He's gonna turn nine years old
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  Speaker 1: here in a few weeks, and he's just stopped caring
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  Speaker 1: in his older age.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, he's.
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  Speaker 1: He's like, I'm just gonna I know what I'm doing.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna live with the consequences, and I'm fine with that.
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  Speaker 1: And it's tough to tough to train that out of him.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, camp Gamblay.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Well, I alluded to the Steelers' big win
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  Speaker 1: over the Jets, and it was a big win for
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  Speaker 1: the Steelers. They ended up winning thirty seven to fifteen.
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  Speaker 1: We talked about it a lot in the preview last week.
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  Speaker 1: The big story, well there was two big stories really,
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  Speaker 1: but as far as the Steelers were concerned, the big
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  Speaker 1: story was Mike Tomlin deciding to give Russell Wilson the start,
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  Speaker 1: and we recorded on Tuesday before it was official, but
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  Speaker 1: it was I think pretty well understood that was gonna happen.
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  Speaker 1: And as the week went on, more and more pieces
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  Speaker 1: of the story came out, and the logic was more
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  Speaker 1: or less from Mike Tomlin. Look, we've got these two quarterbacks.
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  Speaker 1: We brought both these quarterbacks in. I've seen a lot
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  Speaker 1: six games worth out of justin Fields. Now before we
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  Speaker 1: get into the meat of our schedule, I need to
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  Speaker 1: know what Russell Wilson can do for this team.
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  Speaker 2: Pretty straightforward, I thought.
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  Speaker 1: Again, I'll be the first to admit that I did
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  Speaker 1: not necessarily agree with the decision.
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  Speaker 2: Nothing against Russell Wilson.
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  Speaker 1: I just figured at this point in the season, Fields
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  Speaker 1: really hasn't done anything wrong. I don't know that switching
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  Speaker 1: horses mid stream is really going to be the best
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  Speaker 1: for the team. You were much more optimistic, and I
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  Speaker 1: think you can correct me if I'm wrong, but you
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  Speaker 1: more or less echoed what ended up being the sentiment
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  Speaker 1: out of Mike Tomlin, just well, you know, we haven't
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  Speaker 1: seen anything exceptional.
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  Speaker 2: We got to see what we've got with Russ as well.
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  Speaker 2: Might as well.
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  Speaker 1: Anyway, And I don't know how you were feeling watching
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  Speaker 1: this game. It looked kind of rough for the first
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  Speaker 1: quarter or so. The first drive was okay. The Steelers
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  Speaker 1: drove and got a field goal, and I was like, okay,
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  Speaker 1: well nothing's changed here, And then the next couple drives,
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  Speaker 1: Russ looked pretty pretty rough, pretty Rusty just some really
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  Speaker 1: bad misses, but then things really opened up for the
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  Speaker 1: team and ultimately they ended up putting up thirty seven
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  Speaker 1: points against the Jets, who are probably one of the
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  Speaker 1: better defenses that they've seen, if not the best defense
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  Speaker 1: they've seen so far. And Mike Tomlin must be over
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  Speaker 1: the moon right now because is it's one of those
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  Speaker 1: situations where he even admitted he went lone ranger on it,
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  Speaker 1: made the decision himself against a lot of other people's wishes.
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  Speaker 1: Knew he wasn't going to be popular making that decision
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  Speaker 1: leading up to the game, but it certainly panned out.
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  Speaker 1: So since you were apparently one of the only people
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  Speaker 1: that agreed with Mike Tomlin before the game on making
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  Speaker 1: this decision, let's just get right into it and talk
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  Speaker 1: about it. How happy were you watching this game and
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  Speaker 1: seeing what the Steelers offense was able to do and
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  Speaker 1: what were some of your other takeaways from this game?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: You know what I saw from it is new stories
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  Speaker 4: were trying to make a story about the team doesn't
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  Speaker 4: want to make a change. There's tons of people in
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  Speaker 4: the Steelers organization that is against this, and I think
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  Speaker 4: what came out on Sunday.
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  Speaker 3: Night was.
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  Speaker 4: This is a team I don't you know, you care
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  Speaker 4: about your teammates, but you don't care who's up there,
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  Speaker 4: next man up, and we're gonna win a football game,
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  Speaker 4: and we're gonna do as a team.
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  Speaker 3: And they did that.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, if you look at this game, they while
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  Speaker 4: Russell Wilson also broke the Steelers record for the most
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  Speaker 4: passing yards in the Steelers quarterback debut. I know if
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  Speaker 4: you knew that, you know he did have some rust spot.
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  Speaker 4: You know, Tomlin said like he's gonna have to kick
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  Speaker 4: some rust. That was expected. I think it was definitely
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  Speaker 4: premature for the crowd to boo him in the first quarter,
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  Speaker 4: you know. At the same time, this game, I mean
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  Speaker 4: just a total domination.
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  Speaker 3: So we what was it? So we had two interceptions
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  Speaker 3: or was it three? Even I know Beanie had two.
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  Speaker 4: One was a fantastic, like one handed grab. I couldn't
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  Speaker 4: believe after watching that replay how he got that two.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I believe.
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  Speaker 4: We blocked a kick and we had a extra point
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  Speaker 4: called you know, off of palty that was later called illegitimate,
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  Speaker 4: which should have put two more points in our.
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  Speaker 3: Favor on the game. So special teams.
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  Speaker 4: Lights out defense lights out, and the offense we saw
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  Speaker 4: enough to give us some definite like, Okay, this team
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  Speaker 4: might have something here because we did third. We did
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  Speaker 4: score thirty points, and I do not want to take
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  Speaker 4: points off the board for the team. But look, if
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  Speaker 4: if you're you get an interception, you take it down
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  Speaker 4: to the one yard line.
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  Speaker 3: I get those seven points to the defense. You know, So.
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  Speaker 4: How much did how much did the offense put up
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  Speaker 4: versus how much did the defense actually put our team
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  Speaker 4: in the position to score. So but when I did
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  Speaker 4: notice that I liked from Russell Wilson, and I think
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  Speaker 4: that in time, though we have to monitor it is
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  Speaker 4: he likes those moon shots. He loves throwing the arc
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  Speaker 4: on the ball, and it did lead to George Pickens
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  Speaker 4: having a great game. But it leaves the defensive backs
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  Speaker 4: able to go up and make plays. I mean, any
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  Speaker 4: defense coordinator is gonna see that kind of stuff, and
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  Speaker 4: you start seeing a go route with George Pickens, and
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  Speaker 4: you're gonna just tell your quarters to train up to
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  Speaker 4: be keep an eye out there. That's going to leave
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  Speaker 4: it interception. So I think it worked today or at
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  Speaker 4: work this weekend.
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  Speaker 3: But is it going to be sustainable. I don't know,
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  Speaker 3: but I'm sure it's hecking to celebrate this win.
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  Speaker 4: And I'm not going to take anything away from this
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  Speaker 4: team because most complete win that we've had all season.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and you mentioned the interceptions from Beanie Bishop, and
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  Speaker 1: I mentioned the timing of one. I'd say, up until
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  Speaker 1: almost the end of the first half, this was not
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  Speaker 1: looking good for the Steelers. It was fifteen to six.
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  Speaker 1: You mentioned the blocked pat that got overturned that shouldn't
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  Speaker 1: have it was thirteen to three, or it.
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  Speaker 2: Was thirteen to six. Rather the I don't even it's
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  Speaker 2: all got me all out of whack.
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  Speaker 1: Here's the Jets said, thirteen we blocked an extra point.
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  Speaker 1: It gets overturned because they say that Mike Minka Fitzpatrick
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  Speaker 1: used the defender to give himself leverage when he jumped
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  Speaker 1: over the line, which even the announcers when they were
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  Speaker 1: looking at the replay, they were like, if anything, he
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  Speaker 1: touched TJ. Watts's helmet, not not the offensive lineman. But
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  Speaker 1: so that allowed them to get half the distance to
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  Speaker 1: the goal and they went for two on the touchdown
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  Speaker 1: that the Jets scored. You know, right before that scenario,
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  Speaker 1: it was kind of funny that they tried to challenge
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  Speaker 1: the previous play. Say they were in the end zone,
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  Speaker 1: but their interim head coach dropped the dropped the red
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  Speaker 1: challenge flag before he could throw it, so he didn't
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  Speaker 1: get it out there. Rogers threw a touchdown. Anyway, It
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  Speaker 1: is kind of funny, but the Jets had the ball back,
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  Speaker 1: they were driving, and then Beanie Bishops stood up, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: stood up and made a big interception which set the
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  Speaker 1: Steelers up to get a touchdown right before half with
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  Speaker 1: which I believe was the George Pickens one again and
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  Speaker 1: you mentioned it was a moon ball, was a high one,
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  Speaker 1: which is what we should be doing with George Pickens
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  Speaker 1: in situations where we need to give him the ball,
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  Speaker 1: try to loft it up there and let him go
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  Speaker 1: for it. That opened up the passing game the rest
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  Speaker 1: of the way. And really from that interception on, it
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  Speaker 1: was the Steelers game. Obviously the Packers or the Packers
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  Speaker 1: see him still getting in the Aaron Rodgers head game here.
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  Speaker 1: The Jets didn't score again the entire game. We saw
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  Speaker 1: Russell Wilson throw more deep balls. We saw one drive
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  Speaker 1: alone where I think back to back Pickens had a
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  Speaker 1: ridiculous circus catch that got bobbled about three times between
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  Speaker 1: him and the defender. The next play, Pat Fryermuth had
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  Speaker 1: a one handed dive and grab, and we just seemed
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  Speaker 1: to see the energy lift from the Steelers. Not to
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  Speaker 1: say that they were in a bad spot before, obviously
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  Speaker 1: again four and two going into this game, but it
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  Speaker 1: was just different for us, especially over the past couple
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  Speaker 1: of years. I'll say from the offense, you got to
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  Speaker 1: see Najie Harris. I think the big thing was the
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  Speaker 1: deep balls. Just give him a little more breathing room
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  Speaker 1: at the line. Our offensive line has been playing decently
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  Speaker 1: well all things, considering the injuries and the shuffling around.
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  Speaker 1: But it's easy for the defenses to stack the box
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  Speaker 1: and hamper the running game on top of the rough
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  Speaker 1: line when they know you don't throw the ball deep.
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  Speaker 1: So I think the offense played very complimentary. That's what
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  Speaker 1: I'm trying to get up there. The passing game opened
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  Speaker 1: up the running game. Nagy played well. That gave them
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  Speaker 1: more opportunities to pass the ball, so on and so forth.
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  Speaker 1: You mentioned you mentioned special teams playing lights out. That's
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  Speaker 1: good to see too. I'm with you. The blocked pat
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  Speaker 1: should have been a blocked pat. Then they had a
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  Speaker 1: blocked field goal as well, which could have I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it wouldn't have drastically changed the game, I think, but
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  Speaker 1: that would have made it I think a five point
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  Speaker 1: game or something at that point. Definitely definitely made the
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  Speaker 1: game a lot more comfortable at that point. And the defense,
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  Speaker 1: what can you say about him lights out in the
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  Speaker 1: second half, did what they needed to do, and this
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  Speaker 1: wasn't a game where.
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  Speaker 2: I think TJ.
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  Speaker 1: Watt had to be a superhuman in the end, we
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  Speaker 1: didn't have to hear him well.
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  Speaker 2: TJ.
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  Speaker 1: Watt had five sacks and four forced fumbles in this
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  Speaker 1: game and the Steelers, and the Steelers won twelve to nine.
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  Speaker 1: It was no The defense as a unit did what
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  Speaker 1: they needed to do, and the offense carried their share
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  Speaker 1: of the burden and what ended up happening was a
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  Speaker 1: twenty two point win. So I'll give credit where credit's
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  Speaker 1: due to you and Mike Tomlin for having the foresight
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  Speaker 1: to make this change and to at least see what
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  Speaker 1: happen weapons and I think it paid off. And I've
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  Speaker 1: said it for a couple of weeks now and I'll
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  Speaker 1: say it again. I am just so happy with the
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  Speaker 1: quarterback situation this year, with both quarterbacks.
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  Speaker 2: I know that.
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  Speaker 1: Justin Fields wishes, probably wishes that he was still the starter,
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  Speaker 1: but I love the answer he gave. I think we
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  Speaker 1: might have mentioned it last week, but he basically said, Look,
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  Speaker 1: if I had played better the debate, we wouldn't be
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  Speaker 1: having this debate. So I think it's unrealistic to expect
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  Speaker 1: that both of these quarterbacks are going to be here
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  Speaker 1: next year. So I'm just I'm happy we've got them
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  Speaker 1: both for this year while we can, and I hope
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  Speaker 1: for nothing but success for whichever one goes elsewhere, because
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  Speaker 1: after the last several years of what we've had at
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  Speaker 1: the quarterback position for the Steelers, it's just nice to
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  Speaker 1: have two guys who want to play football and just
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  Speaker 1: want to be the best they can be and help
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  Speaker 1: the team out.
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  Speaker 2: Definitely refreshing it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, was there anything else you wanted to
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  Speaker 1: say about the Jets game?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, just in general, I am I'm happy that
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  Speaker 4: the Steelers are being bold.
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  Speaker 3: I think that like.
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  Speaker 4: Too much too lately, they've been like just very stale,
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  Speaker 4: and I think that this breath of fresh air of
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  Speaker 4: like taking chances, not going for the layup is.
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  Speaker 3: It might not always. It might not yield the same
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  Speaker 3: like it might yield the same result.
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  Speaker 4: We might still go nine to eight first round playoff exit,
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  Speaker 4: but at least we can say we tried.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm really.
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  Speaker 4: I'm happy to see this, And like you said, I
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  Speaker 4: think we got two viable options. Definitely if rough struggles,
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  Speaker 4: it's not like, oh darn, we got to turn to
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  Speaker 4: justin fields.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 4: I think we got some great, great quarterback strength there.
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  Speaker 4: So I'm happy about it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, me too.
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  Speaker 1: And it seems like the team just mentally is in
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  Speaker 1: a good spot right now. Yeah, they're dealing with injuries
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  Speaker 1: and other things that I think every team has to
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  Speaker 1: deal with. And yeah, it would be nice if we
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  Speaker 1: could pick up a true number two wide receiver as well.
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  Speaker 1: I think that would go a long way for the offense.
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  Speaker 1: But just overall, it seems like the team is playing
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  Speaker 1: pretty well. They're in a pretty good spot mentally, and
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  Speaker 1: like you said, they're taking chances and for the most part.
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  Speaker 2: It's paid off this year.
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  Speaker 1: So it's it's been enjoyable to watch and I hope
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  Speaker 1: that we continue the winning because I don't want to
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  Speaker 1: jinx us or look too far ahead here, but the
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  Speaker 1: schedule's about to become quite a as we get into
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  Speaker 1: all of our division games too here coming up in
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  Speaker 1: just a short time period. Yeah, well, let's talk about
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  Speaker 1: that next game. The Steelers are going to host the
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  Speaker 1: Giants on Monday Night. The Giants have they've struggled this year.
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  Speaker 1: This offseason, they lost Saquon Barkley to the Eagles, they
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  Speaker 1: continue to trot out Daniel Jones at quarterback, and even
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  Speaker 1: though they had some bright spots last year with their
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  Speaker 1: head coach Brian Dable, it's just not really meshing right now.
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  Speaker 1: Doesn't mean that a win on Monday Night against the
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  Speaker 1: Steelers wouldn't do a lot to help them for sure.
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  Speaker 1: Just want to say that the Giants have been a
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  Speaker 1: team that have disappointed a lot of people this year.
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  Speaker 1: Steelers coming in off their big win against the other
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  Speaker 1: New York team, the Jets.
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  Speaker 4: And.
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  Speaker 1: This game is pretty similar to me to the feeling.
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  Speaker 2: I got when we played the Colts.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to say it's a trap game, but
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  Speaker 1: it could be considered that just similar situation. I just
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  Speaker 1: talked all this gushing positivity about the team and being
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  Speaker 1: in a great spot well going into the Indianapolis game.
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  Speaker 1: I kind of was like, Okay, we're getting a little
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  Speaker 1: bit better every week.
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  Speaker 2: We're doing well.
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  Speaker 1: I think we should win this game. It's an inferior
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  Speaker 1: opponent that on paper, we should not lose to. We
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  Speaker 1: got this and we know how that happened or how
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  Speaker 1: that turned out. So I guess the good news for
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  Speaker 1: the Steelers is as long as Joe Flacco doesn't come
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  Speaker 1: off the bench, they should be okay here against the Giants.
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  Speaker 1: But looking ahead to this game Eric coming up here
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  Speaker 1: in several days, what are some of the keys.
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  Speaker 2: For you for the Steelers to get a victory?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, look, this New York Giants defense is
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  Speaker 4: not good.
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  Speaker 3: Let's just say flat out. I mean, so let's lay
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  Speaker 3: it out.
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  Speaker 4: Their last five games, they scored three points, seven points.
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  Speaker 4: They won against the Seahawks with twenty nine points, but
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  Speaker 4: then they scored fifteen and then twenty one. So you know,
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  Speaker 4: the key to me is, like you said, like, the
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  Speaker 4: only way I think that we lose this game is
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  Speaker 4: if we see an absolute egg from the defense.
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  Speaker 3: Like we did against the Colts.
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  Speaker 4: So this this team, they don't really have a running game.
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  Speaker 4: Devin Singletary is bounced around he hasn't been like a
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  Speaker 4: solidified running back. He's leading the team through seven games
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  Speaker 4: with two hundred and third three nine yards rushing.
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  Speaker 3: Yikes.
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  Speaker 4: Daniel Jones doesn't scare anybody neighbors. Is a really talented
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  Speaker 4: wide receiver in an otherwise very horrible passing offense, or
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  Speaker 4: at least below average.
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  Speaker 3: So there's nothing about game that makes me feel.
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  Speaker 4: Like if you tick all the boxes on who has
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  Speaker 4: the advantage, the only way we lose this game is
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  Speaker 4: if we shoot ourselves.
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  Speaker 3: In the foot.
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  Speaker 4: I just don't see it happening, and I can see
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  Speaker 4: it happening. I can see the potential of it opening
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  Speaker 4: up because of the bye week. But I think that
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  Speaker 4: the team knows how much this game means, because look,
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  Speaker 4: six and two at the bye sound great, but we
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  Speaker 4: got murders row on the last nine games in the slag,
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  Speaker 4: including all six of our divisional.
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: Games, So.
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: This team knows we gotta get this one in order
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: to get a good seating for the playoffs, or even
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: just solidify.
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: That spot for the playoffs. So I just I can't
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: see them overlooking it.
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: So maybe it's just coming off of the high flotting
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: of the twenty two point victory.
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: I'm feeling confident, but that's how I feel right now.
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: Well, the other thing too, is they do have the
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: bye after this as well, so I'm hoping that they're
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: It's not like they're looking too far ahead, at least
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: I hope they shouldn't be, because they don't have a game.
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: Immediately after this.
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: They know they've got their off week, so there's not
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: much to look ahead too. But you mentioned the gauntlet,
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: and I'll just run through those games real quick and
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: then we'll talk about go back to talking about this
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: game specifically they have thereby then they're playing at the Commanders,
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: which has been a surprise team this year. They've been
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: very good. Then they host Baltimore at Cleveland at Cincinnati,
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: so they got the Ohio Tour, then home against Cleveland
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: at Philly, at Baltimore Christmas Day against the Chiefs, who
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: just got DeAndre Hopkins added to their roster today, and
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: then the finale will be at home against the Bengals.
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: So yeah, that's the gauntlet. Like you said, all their
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: division opponents in a very short window. So in theory,
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: if you can stack as many wins as you can
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: before you even get the division play, you can try
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: to lock up your playoff spot, if not the division
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: as early as possible. And yeah, so I do hope
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: they're not looking too far ahead going ahead at all.
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: I'd like to agree with you that they've got everything
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: squared away. We already had our bumpy part of the
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: season where we lost a couple games we shouldn't in
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: heartbreaking fashion.
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: I just.
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: Maybe you're upping off on me.
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna be a little more optimistic as well. Maybe
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: these quarterbacks that we've talked about Justin Fields and Russell
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: Wilson are are different.
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: Maybe Russell Wilson's not going.
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: To let the team lose their focus, assuming he's going
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: to be the guy moving forward. And honestly, if we
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: have performances similar to what we had on Sunday night,
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: I don't see any reason why they would go back
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: to Justin Fields. But I mean, we've seen crazier things.
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: We just talked about them doing what they thought was
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: right in the moment, So who knows, But yeah, I
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: think they'll keep their head on straight.
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: And I'm with you this is.
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: It's hard to get too detailed here, but I don't
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: think there's any reason the Steelers should lose this game.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: They're very successful at home, they're very successful in prime
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: time on Monday nights. They've got a lot of momentum
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: going their way. The Giants do not have a lot
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: of momentum going their way. In addition to the Seahawks
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: win they had, the only other team they beat is
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: the Browns, who, as we know, have been a massive
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: disappointment this year.
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: So look, I think I'm with you.
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: Just don't do anything really stupid, protect the ball, and frankly,
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: defense just be average, Like this isn't a game where
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: I don't think the defense needs to really strain themselves
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: this game trying to make big play after big play.
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: Just don't give up like four touchdowns, and I think
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: you should be all right here. So yeah, I would
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: like this game and just continue to be to continue
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: to build off of what we saw this past Sunday.
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: Let's see the passing attack continue to grow. And maybe
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: because you already opened up the passing game in the
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: last game, the Giants will come off the ball a
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: little earlier in the game, so you can start running
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: the ball quicker or establishing the run a little earlier
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: in the game. Because they can't stack the box like
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: we talked about, so.
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: I will.
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: I'll give the Steelers the win here.
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: I mean, I don't want to get too far ahead
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: of myself here and say they're gonna put up another
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: thirty seven points. But I also don't feel confident in
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: myself to predict a blowout either, because I know as
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: soon as you and I do that it's gonna be
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: one of those right back to square one games where
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: it's like a twelve to eleven win or loss.
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: So give me the Steelers. Give me a twenty four
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: to seven one.
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: Ranks.
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I think I love for them to
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: continue that trend of keeping the Giants under ten points.
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: I think it's tough, so I'm gonna go ten Steelers.
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: There you have it.
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: Eric and I both have the Steelers movement at six
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: and two going into the bye week, So we didn't
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: have a fun topic. We talked about a couple things
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: before the show. We thought it was kind of interesting
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: that the Steelers are going to be playing the Jets
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: and the Giants back to back. At home, you get
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: the New York teams. There's been a couple times where
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: I think the Bills had to play both the Jets
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: and the Giants in New York City, so they just
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: stayed there back to back weeks.
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: Couldn't really think of anything beyond that. But I guess.
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: One thing we did mention and I'm just making this
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: up as I go, so if you don't like it,
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: you don't have to answer this question. But we did
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: talk about the World Series and how it was almost
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: a subway series, so that was kind of interesting.
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: But the World Series is starting soon and it will.
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: Be the Dodgers against the Yankees in a cross country rivalry.
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: So in honor of that, the Fall Classic, I was
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: gonna just ask you, Eric. We both grew up in Cincinnati,
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: we're both Reds fans. I thought it might be kind
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: of interesting to talk about some of our favorite Reds
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: players growing up, and if we have any favorite World
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: Series memories. Obviously wouldn't be the Reds because I wasn't
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: born yet and you were too young to remember the
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: last time they won that. But if there's just any
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: baseball postseason memories we have that we wanted to talk about,
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: I think that'd be kind of fun. So I'll ask you,
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: do you have a favorite player that you remember let's
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: say more from your childhood growing up that just kind
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: of has always stuck with you as a favorite.
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, okay, So I'm gonna say one that
• 27:13
  Speaker 4: is well known outside of probably Cincinnati.
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: And one that I just I like this hustle. So,
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: you know, I think Baron Larkin. I've really enjoyed his play.
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: I think that, like.
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: He was just the guy that I went to a
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: kid's glove game, and you know, I'm always like I'm
• 27:42
  Speaker 4: gonna catch Barry's, you know, something like that, even though
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: you're your your dad might take you to like the
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: top seats. It's not even where they would catch a
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: home run. It's like a foul ball all the way
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: off the baby up behind you. But another guy I
• 28:06
  Speaker 4: just I loved was Ryan Friel. Unfortunately he passed. I
• 28:14
  Speaker 4: forget what the actual reason was, but that guy, he
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: just hustled so much. And he there was even like
• 28:24
  Speaker 4: a a promotion that they did like the dirty shirts,
• 28:28
  Speaker 4: so they put like dirt stained white uniform shirt. It's
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: just if he just slid right into second base, all
• 28:40
  Speaker 4: the dirt just going in there, and he just stole
• 28:43
  Speaker 4: the base, gets up, you know, points out to the stadium,
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: I mean that's what I thought about that, or just
• 28:51
  Speaker 4: running into like the padding after like going for a.
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: Foul ball for first or third base or something like that.
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: That Actually it was just he was a football player
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: in a baseball person's body.
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: You know. So I'm with you.
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: I I liked Barry alark And a lot as well.
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: I never played shortstop, but I wanted to. I was
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: at second base in the outfield, more so the outfield
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: as I got.
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: Older, So Barry was one of my favorites. And who
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: was I just thinking of.
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: I literally just had another one that I was gonna mention.
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: Well in either case, Yeah, Barry was a good one.
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: I know.
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: Dion was popular for a long time in Cincinnati as well,
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: so it's kind of interesting. I wanted him to be
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: the Cincinnati Bearcats football coach because he was on the
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: market at the same time that Fickle had left to
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: go to Wisconsin, so.
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: Would have liked him for.
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: The publicity, the notoriety and all that. Obviously it didn't
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: work out, but that was kind of a cool Cincinnati
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: connection as well.
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: And I remember.
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: Watching repeatedly when we were kids, and I'm sure you
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: saw it at my house too. It was kind of
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: like the video about the Reds nineteen ninety team that
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: won the World Series. I think most people our age
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: kind of have the same experience. You had your videos
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: at home before any streaming and all the internet stuff,
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: so you just kind of watched the same videos over
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: and over again, the same movies.
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: The same TV shows. So that was one that was
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: in heavy rotation at our house.
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: So I know a lot about that team just from
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: watching the same video over and over and over again.
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: I actually have mentioned that to my buddy.
• 30:59
  Speaker 4: He he's a big Guardians fan, and I told him
• 31:05
  Speaker 4: about how I remember the Wire to Wire vhs. Yeah,
• 31:11
  Speaker 4: that would be on your guys like console table, you know,
• 31:16
  Speaker 4: and just I yeah, I've always popped up to me,
• 31:21
  Speaker 4: so it's why you mentioned it.
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, And it's just kind of funny that that's the Uh,
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: it's been thirty four years since that happened, as we're
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: sitting here in twenty twenty four now, and you just
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: kind of think, like, oh, that'll be so cool when
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: the Reds win a World Series that I can you know,
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: see it or can remember it.
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: And well, here we are and we're not really very close.
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: Maybe we're closer now that they hired Terry Francona, but
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: just I don't know times funny man. I thought the
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: same thing after the Steelers won their second Super Bowl
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: with Big Ben and the rest of the team in
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: the two thousand and eight two thousand and nine year.
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: I'm like, we're gonna be here every other year. Ben
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: is definitely gonna get four or five rings before he retires, and.
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: It's never happened.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, So I don't know if this has happened to
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: you since you've started having kids like me, But my
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: short term memory is totally toast. I promise you I
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: had a great player that I was gonna mention, like
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: after you took Barry Larkin from me, I was like, Okay,
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: this is a really good one. I'll mention that he's
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: gonna think, wow, that's a great picnic. And I just
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: totally can't even remember who this player was that I
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: was gonna mention.
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: It's driving me nuts right now.
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: That's sorry.
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: I will have to think of that and I will
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: text you at like three am when I wake up
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: from bed thinking of it, and we'll we'll hop back
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: on to record and.
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: Edit it in right there there you go?
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: Do you really wake up with three.
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: Only if I have to peekod Hey, you get honesty
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: out of us. That's what we are. That's the.
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, Well, is there anything else you wanted
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: to mention that we didn't talk about on the show tonight.
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: Uh, yeah, let's do it all right.
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: I think that does it for us as well.
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: Hopefully we'll be back next week talking about another Steeler's
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: win going into the bye week, but.
• 33:25
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• 33:30
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