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Season and Falcons Preview · Steelers Country Weekly

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  Speaker 1: Today on Steelers Country Weekly, we are back for the
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  Speaker 1: 2026 season. We are going to review the Steelers and
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  Speaker 1: Falcons opening day matchup. We're going to go week by
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  Speaker 1: week and give our wins and loss predictions, and then
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  Speaker 1: we'll talk about anything and everything we want to about
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  Speaker 1: college football for the opening weekend we just saw. I'm
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  Speaker 1: Nick DiTullio, and as always, I'm joined by the world-famous
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  Speaker 1: accountant Eric Vamenschoten. Eric, how's it going tonight?
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  Speaker 2: Football's back. I mean, better than ever, baby.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know that I would say better than ever,
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  Speaker 1: but we do have football back. Steelers are undefeated.
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  Speaker 3: They are.
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  Speaker 1: They're also tied for first and last place. But no,
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  Speaker 1: we're recording this on the Tuesday after Labor Day. which
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  Speaker 1: means that last week was my anniversary, my wife's birthday,
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  Speaker 1: Eric's birthday, and depending on how you prioritize things, the
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  Speaker 1: start of college football could have been the most important
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  Speaker 1: part of that weekend for everyone. Including you. Including you, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: there you go. So I'm down in Atlanta, as you know.
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  Speaker 1: I had a bunch of family and a friend come
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  Speaker 1: down this past weekend. Some guy, my brother, the unpaid
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  Speaker 1: student intern and one of his friends went to the
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  Speaker 1: Georgia Tech Colorado game, which was I actually didn't watch it,
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  Speaker 1: but it was a great game from what I understand,
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  Speaker 1: a blocked field goal at the end to win it
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  Speaker 1: for Colorado. Then I went to the Georgia State game
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  Speaker 1: on Friday just because I haven't actually been to a
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  Speaker 1: Georgia State game and I wanted to check out the stadium.
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  Speaker 1: It's the old Braves field that's been repurposed into a
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  Speaker 1: football field. And then Saturday was, of course, the college
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  Speaker 1: football kickoff proper. Obviously, week zero was last week, but
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  Speaker 1: the bulk of the games get played starting on this
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  Speaker 1: past Saturday. We had a full slate. We had some
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  Speaker 1: good games. We had some stinkers. We had some controversy
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  Speaker 1: in the Michigan game in particular, which just leaves you
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  Speaker 1: scratching your head. There was drama with LSU, who then
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  Speaker 1: went on to wipe the floor with Clemson. And then
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  Speaker 1: even last night there was drama in the Florida state
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  Speaker 1: game when they didn't have power and really couldn't use
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  Speaker 1: many of the electronic devices they had. So, um, just
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  Speaker 1: a crazy wacky weekend. And to top it all off,
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  Speaker 1: the NFL actually starts tomorrow on Wednesday, not Thursday. So
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  Speaker 1: we have Wednesday, Thursday, and I think we have a
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  Speaker 1: Friday game as well to start this year. Um, Just
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  Speaker 1: a lot of football in your face this week. It
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  Speaker 1: is good to be back, and it's great to be
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  Speaker 1: talking to you again and having the podcast every week
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  Speaker 1: for year 11, I believe we are in now.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe 12. I start to lose count. There you go.
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  Speaker 1: So how did you spend your birthday-slash-football weekend?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we went to the UC tailgate on Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: Uh-huh.
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  Speaker 2: And we went down.
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  Speaker 2: To the tailgate around noon and left about 2.30 when
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  Speaker 2: the game started at 3.30.
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  Speaker 3: We have an 18-month-old, and she didn't particularly.
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  Speaker 2: I wouldn't even say like. She was just getting delirious.
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  Speaker 1: It was hot.
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  Speaker 2: And no sleep.
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  Speaker 3: So, you know, that's what happens when you turn 36
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  Speaker 3: years old.
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  Speaker 2: You're not... doing party boys on the grass anymore.
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  Speaker 3: You're just enjoying a beer that slipped into your diaper
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  Speaker 3: bag and enjoying the band play and watching the Bearcat
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  Speaker 3: go down the drive.
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  Speaker 2: It was a good time. We did that. We went
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  Speaker 2: over to my parents' house to hang out.
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  Speaker 3: They put out a little baby pool for my kids
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  Speaker 3: and grilled out steaks. Went to a brewery with a
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  Speaker 3: few in-town friends on Friday and hung out on Monday.
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  Speaker 2: So, I mean, when you talk about balance, football, friends, family, food,
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  Speaker 2: I mean.
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  Speaker 1: Sounds like we both have it, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I would say... People are always jealous because Labor Day weekend,
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  Speaker 2: great weekend to have your birthday.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you get that three-day weekend automatically built in. Because
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  Speaker 1: it's your birthday, I would assume that you normally get
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  Speaker 1: to choose what you get to do. Kids cooperating, assuming
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  Speaker 1: that happens.
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  Speaker 2: Kids cooperating. Maybe a little bit more in the past,
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  Speaker 2: but yeah, definitely.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're kind of in that weird window now, but
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  Speaker 1: once they get a little bit older, you'll come back
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  Speaker 1: into it. So yeah, if you say you want to
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  Speaker 1: watch football, you get to do it. Now, I, on
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  Speaker 1: the other hand, do not have that luxury because for
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  Speaker 1: my anniversary, I can't just say we're watching football and
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  Speaker 1: it's my wife's birthday, so I can't just say we're
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  Speaker 1: watching football. It's what do you want to do.
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  Speaker 2: So.
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  Speaker 1: I would say in most cases, having your entire... Not
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  Speaker 1: your entire, but a good chunk of your family down
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  Speaker 1: on the weekend of your wife's birthday is frowned upon.
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  Speaker 1: But it actually does work out for us because that's
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  Speaker 1: one of the few opportunities we have to actually go
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  Speaker 1: out without the kids.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I was going to say, you guys can have
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  Speaker 2: a date and....
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  Speaker 3: Not have to tend to children being loud or driving
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  Speaker 3: the conversation or throwing things or figuring out, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: eat chicken fingers or cheeseburgers.
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  Speaker 2: And it was eating that because now they changed their mind. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: You get to, you guys get to go out. Where'd
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  Speaker 2: you go?
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  Speaker 1: So you actually brought up a really good point that
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  Speaker 1: was reminded me of the dinner. the dinner we had,
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  Speaker 1: we went to a restaurant called prime one 20 and
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  Speaker 1: it's in our little small town, downtown area, really great steakhouse. Um,
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  Speaker 1: we were in kind of one of the rooms that's
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  Speaker 1: off the main area, but there was another family there,
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  Speaker 1: a mom and a dad with a son and a
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  Speaker 1: daughter about, they were somewhere around the same age as
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  Speaker 1: my kids, maybe a year or two older. And, uh,
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  Speaker 1: We get in and the waitress or the hostess says,
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  Speaker 1: Congratulations on your anniversary. Thank you so much for choosing
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  Speaker 1: to spend it with us. They gave us this little card, whatever.
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  Speaker 1: The family behind us obviously heard that. And it was
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  Speaker 1: just funny because I don't know if you've ever done
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  Speaker 1: something like this before. I've done this before, too. There
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  Speaker 1: was some sort of commotion with this family at the table.
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  Speaker 1: They were complaining about something. I think the daughter... was
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  Speaker 1: not happy with the food that she chose. So they
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  Speaker 1: had to order her chicken fingers. There you go. Like
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  Speaker 1: you said, and the dad was like, they are on
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  Speaker 1: a date for their anniversary and they have to listen
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  Speaker 1: to you complain and argue. And I couldn't actually hear
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  Speaker 1: them cause I was just out of earshot, but Hannah
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  Speaker 1: was sitting a little bit closer and could, and she
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  Speaker 1: was laughing and I'm, I know exactly what he's doing.
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  Speaker 1: He was not, We were not bothered at all, but
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  Speaker 1: he was using us to guilt his kids. So there
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  Speaker 1: you go.
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  Speaker 3: That's what you gotta do. I mean, sometimes it's necessary.
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  Speaker 3: You know, at home we say, Daddy Alligator's.
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  Speaker 2: Gonna go get you.
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  Speaker 3: Out in public, you use public shame, you know?
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  Speaker 1: There you go. So yeah, we had a good time.
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  Speaker 1: I like the steaks at this place. It's not as
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  Speaker 1: good as Jeff Ruby's in Cincinnati, I will say that.
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  Speaker 1: But the mac and cheese at Prime 120 is possibly
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  Speaker 1: the best I've ever had at a restaurant because it's
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  Speaker 1: jalapeno mac and cheese.
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  Speaker 3: What kind of noodles?
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  Speaker 2: It's more of the thick kind with a thick cheese...
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  Speaker 2: Or is it like creamy? Please describe to me this.
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  Speaker 2: Labor Day is all about food, too.
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  Speaker 1: And I haven't even told you what I smoked this weekend, either.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, my goodness. We've got some topics for you.
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  Speaker 1: I was going to say, we'll get to football at
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  Speaker 1: some point, I guess. No, it is a creamy mac
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  Speaker 1: and cheese. It's not elbow macaroni. I think it's similar.
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  Speaker 1: It's like a longer elbow macaroni noodle. I think it's
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  Speaker 1: called cavatappi, if I'm not mistaken. Um, and the best
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  Speaker 1: part is, I mean, I, I don't think jalapenos are
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  Speaker 1: super spicy anyway. I know there's some people who are
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  Speaker 1: super sensitive to that, but, um, most people agree that
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  Speaker 1: it is not very spicy. You just get like that,
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  Speaker 1: that taste of jalapeno, if that makes sense. So I agree.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, there you go. Um, as for smoking this
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  Speaker 1: week for beginners. Yes, exactly. Um, As for smoking this weekend,
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  Speaker 1: we did ribs and mac and cheese on Thursday. Friday,
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  Speaker 1: we were at the game, so we didn't smoke. Saturday,
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  Speaker 1: we did chicken wings and a new marinade that I
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  Speaker 1: was happy to discover. And then on Sunday, we did
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  Speaker 1: a Mexican pulled pork. So, there you go.
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  Speaker 2: Did you use your pizza.
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  Speaker 1: Oven this weekend? No, I need to practice more on
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  Speaker 1: the pizza oven. I know where you're going with this. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: So I still stand by my statement on one of
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  Speaker 1: our previous episodes that I think it was a good
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  Speaker 1: purchase because the pizza is good, and I think in
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  Speaker 1: the long run it will save money. And I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if I actually shared this on the show or not,
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  Speaker 1: but my kids actually all liked the pizza and ate
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  Speaker 1: it all too, which is a huge win.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, well then that's worth it.
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  Speaker 1: The problem that I have with the pizza oven, though,
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  Speaker 1: and it's not really a problem with the oven, it's
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  Speaker 1: more so me, it's when you're cooking... the pizza at
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  Speaker 1: like 900 degrees, you can't get distracted. So the, the
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  Speaker 1: recipe that I have been using makes enough dough for
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  Speaker 1: four pizzas. So what you have to do is you
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  Speaker 1: get one of the balls of dough, you roll it out,
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  Speaker 1: make it flat. You put it on the, the pizza.
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  Speaker 1: It's called the peel, that big aluminum, like paddle thing
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  Speaker 1: that you put in the oven and.
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  Speaker 3: Do you have to buy it separate or did that
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  Speaker 3: come with the oven?
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  Speaker 1: It came separate. Since I know you're going to go
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  Speaker 1: straight to how much money I put into this, it
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  Speaker 1: was actually a gift from my sister. So there you go.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, Sammy. It was a great gift. Yes.
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  Speaker 1: And I think she actually got it for me like
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  Speaker 1: two years ago. So in anticipation of me getting a
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  Speaker 1: pizza oven. Anyway, as I know you know, when you're
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  Speaker 1: trying to do a lot of things and you don't
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  Speaker 1: have a lot of time, i.e. putting a pizza in
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  Speaker 1: the oven, getting the second one prepped, you can't have
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  Speaker 1: any distractions. So, uh, there have been some burned pizzas,
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  Speaker 1: I will say, and I will admit. Um, so the
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  Speaker 1: point of all this is, no, I did not use
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  Speaker 1: the pizza oven because I can tell you right now,
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  Speaker 1: there would have been way too many distractions with all
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  Speaker 1: the pizza here or with all the people here. Um, So, no,
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  Speaker 1: I did not use the pizza oven, but weather permitting,
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  Speaker 1: I am hoping to get to use that again as
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  Speaker 1: we get into football season. And using it for other things, too,
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  Speaker 1: like calzone, stromboli, and other kind of breads and stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. Okay. Okay. All right. But actually, I have a
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  Speaker 2: question for you.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: So, I did buy steaks. not this past weekend, the
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  Speaker 3: weekend before, and I grilled them. And honestly, it came
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  Speaker 3: out perfect. I did a really good job tooting my
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  Speaker 3: own horn there. But what is the most that you
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  Speaker 3: would pay for a steak in the store that's not,
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  Speaker 3: it's just your normal cut of New York strip, rib eye,
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  Speaker 3: et cetera, per pound?
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  Speaker 1: Per pound um i feel like i i know price
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  Speaker 1: has gone up i don't know everything's gone up i
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  Speaker 1: want to say they're right now they're like 16 or
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  Speaker 1: 17 a pound or somewhere around there right for a
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  Speaker 1: new york strip um so i i don't know that's
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  Speaker 1: too high i will tell you that much i've actually
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  Speaker 1: started buying the um choice sirloins instead of the New
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  Speaker 1: York strips to save a little bit of money. And
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  Speaker 1: then you end up getting, like, six steaks, admittedly at
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  Speaker 1: a lower quality, but you get, like, six steaks for half,
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  Speaker 1: if not more than half, of the cost of the
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  Speaker 1: pack of New York strips.
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  Speaker 2: So.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and I'm witty, because depending on how you cook it,
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  Speaker 3: sometimes it's not as much about the quality of the
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  Speaker 3: steak as the person actually cooking.
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  Speaker 2: So.
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  Speaker 3: I'm totally in favor with you. So I wanted to
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  Speaker 3: go to a local butcher and just get steaks. And
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  Speaker 3: they don't have prices on their walls and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 3: But I was like, you know what? It's probably just
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  Speaker 3: like a little bit more than going to your grocery store.
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  Speaker 2: Nope.
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  Speaker 3: You want to support local place, well-reviewed, and it's my birthday.
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  Speaker 3: So I got three steaks and two sides. and a
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  Speaker 3: sandwich like for me to go and leave and is
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  Speaker 3: it $ 122 I'm like excuse me I'm sorry for how
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  Speaker 3: many it was $ 122 because it was $ 34 a pound
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  Speaker 3: I was like you.
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  Speaker 1: Know and he already packaged it up and like you know.
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  Speaker 3: I'm going through the whole transaction, but I'm like, um,
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  Speaker 3: you know, you're not gonna, like, return it.
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, that's how they get you.
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  Speaker 3: I will, like, it was not, like, you know, sometimes there's, like,
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  Speaker 3: Kobe steak, or Wagyu, or, like, all the, like, you know,
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  Speaker 3: people do all these specialty type of cuts or something
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  Speaker 3: like that, and no, it was nothing like that.
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  Speaker 2: It was just It was just steak. Just a regular...
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  Speaker 2: I was blown away.
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  Speaker 1: Yep. Yep. I will tell you, and then I guess
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  Speaker 1: we should talk about the Steelers at some point. The
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  Speaker 1: steak that I did once, just to say that I've done,
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  Speaker 1: and I will never buy again unless it's on some
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  Speaker 1: massive sale, is the tomahawk ribeye. Are you familiar with that?
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  Speaker 2: Uh, yeah, but it, it seems very like difficult to
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  Speaker 2: cook yourself.
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  Speaker 1: It's not really, you just have to do it at
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  Speaker 1: a very low temperature and then just sear it at
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  Speaker 1: the end. But because it's so thick, you're right. That's
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  Speaker 1: what people don't understand. You can't just throw it on
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  Speaker 1: the grill like you would any other steak. Um, the
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  Speaker 1: reason I won't do it again is just because it
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  Speaker 1: is pretty expensive, probably about the same as the, uh, the, uh,
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  Speaker 1: New York strips that we were talking about once you
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  Speaker 1: get enough to feed your family or whatnot. But you're
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  Speaker 1: paying all that money for the bone, which doesn't do
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  Speaker 1: you any good anyway. So, I mean, it was cool.
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  Speaker 1: It looked cool. It was kind of funny. I have
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  Speaker 1: a picture of my son with it because he really
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  Speaker 1: likes steak too. But yeah, that's my... Your budget tip
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  Speaker 1: is don't go to the local or ask for the
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  Speaker 1: price before you buy. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Not go. I love.
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  Speaker 3: supporting the local butcher. I don't want to just go
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  Speaker 3: to Kroger every single time.
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  Speaker 1: Check the price first.
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  Speaker 3: But I was just like, yeah, maybe I should have.
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  Speaker 2: I was thinking, like, it's so highly rated.
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  Speaker 3: There's no way it could be, like, double the grocery store, right?
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  Speaker 1: Wrong again.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So there you go. Ask for the price and don't
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  Speaker 1: bother with the ribeye. Or the tomahawk ribeye, I should say.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Now that we've wasted 17 minutes of our listeners times,
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  Speaker 1: let's talk about the Steelers.
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  Speaker 2: They love me.
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  Speaker 1: They, they'd better love me. Gosh, darn it. Um, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but you all, you did mention something early on that
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  Speaker 1: I think could be a good fun topic at some
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  Speaker 1: point down the road. And I, I'm only going to
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  Speaker 1: mention it here now. So you helped me remember it
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  Speaker 1: coming up on a future episode here. You talked about, um,
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  Speaker 1: when you get to a certain age or when your
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  Speaker 1: kids are as young as they are, you don't quite
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  Speaker 1: enjoy the, the tailgating and all the activities as much
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  Speaker 1: as you may be used to. Um, and I've, I've
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  Speaker 1: always thought that was interesting. We just talked about how
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  Speaker 1: much more expensive food is. Ticket prices are super expensive. Uh, concessions, parking,
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  Speaker 1: it's very expensive to go to a game now. And
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  Speaker 1: when you think about it, the stadium experience is, hasn't
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  Speaker 1: really changed at all since, what, maybe the 60s? It's
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  Speaker 1: the same thing, right? You go, you sit in a seat,
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  Speaker 1: you watch a live game, there's a PA, you get
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  Speaker 1: the video.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I would say, like, the TV screen, like, the.
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  Speaker 1: The replay?
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  Speaker 2: The Jumbotron.
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  Speaker 1: That's the only... Okay, well, since the Jumbotron, nothing's changed,
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  Speaker 1: in theory, right?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. So.
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  Speaker 1: That would be good. And since we talked about food,
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  Speaker 1: we can talk about comparing the at-game experience versus the
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  Speaker 1: in-home versus tail, all that stuff. So anyway, just stick
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  Speaker 1: a pin in that. Talking about the Steelers, we are
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  Speaker 1: finally here. It is week one. The Steelers are hosting
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  Speaker 1: the Atlanta Falcons. We know the Steelers are an interesting team.
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  Speaker 1: We know this is a year of transition with Mike
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  Speaker 1: McCarthy coming in and almost entirely new coaching staff coming in.
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  Speaker 1: We have a lot of the same core players, which
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  Speaker 1: is big. We know from hearing Art Rooney speak at
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  Speaker 1: the end of last season that he doesn't believe in
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  Speaker 1: tanking or, you know, doing a rebuilding phase, so to speak.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: So lots of the same core pieces. A few changes, though.
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: We've talked about those before. You get Monarchs. Pittman coming in.
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: You've got, uh, Rico Dowdle coming in to replace Mr. Gainwell. Uh,
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: and I'd say that, I'm sorry, Mr.
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: Give him the respect.
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: I did.
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: I call him Mr.
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: Um, and I would say the biggest thing right now,
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: or the biggest question the Steelers have right now is
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: Joey Porter Jr., what his status is. Is he actually injured,
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: or is this just some... Joey was injured. I know,
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: I know. Or is it just some tactic to try
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: to negotiate for a new contract? Which, it's just crazy
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: to me that he's the one of all people doing this. But,
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: regardless in that one too. Huh?
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: We'll pin that one too.
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know if that's a full topic.
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: It might be once he actually signs, but it's just
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: weird because his dad has gone on record saying it
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: was a mistake to leave the team the way he did. And,
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: and I don't know. It's just, it's very odd to me. Um,
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: but anyway, um, that's where things are right now. And
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: then on the Falcon side, I think the Falcons are
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: one of the more interesting teams in the league because
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: they They also have a new coach. They brought in
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: Kevin Stefanski from the Cleveland Browns. They, at quarterback, lost
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins, who had been benched for Michael Penix, and now,
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: because Penix is, it seems like he's perpetually injured, but
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: they brought in Tua Tagliavoa, who is also perpetually injured,
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: and Now two is going to be the starter for
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: the Falcons in week one. And despite all the playmakers
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: on offense that the Falcons seem to have in B.
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: John Robinson, Drake London, Kyle Pitts, the quarterback is, is
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: you and I are painfully aware of from our experience
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: over the last several years. If you don't have a
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: good quarterback, doesn't really matter. Right? So all this to
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: say it is week one. The Steelers do actually get
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: to open at home, which is a nice change of pace. Typically,
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: they can't share the stadium at the same time as
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: the Pirates because they have the same parking structure, which
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: is another odd quirk, but it is what it is. So,
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: let's just dive in. Well, and we've talked many times
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: before about the Steelers sharing the stadium and my thoughts
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: on that, and I assume you have the same thoughts.
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: But anyway, let's get into it. Looking ahead to Sunday's
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: 1 o'clock matchup at home, Eric, what are some of
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: the big things you are looking for for the Pittsburgh Steelers?
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: I mean, this is a very big unknown, right? You know,
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: when it comes down to it, I feel like defensively
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: we have an idea of.
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: What Pittsburgh Steelers is all about.
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: I don't think that McCarthy's going to drastically changed that. Obviously,
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: it comes in with his own defensive coordinator, but we
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: have T.J. Watt, we have Cameron Hayward, Jalen Ramsey. We
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: have a bunch of veterans in which they're literally not
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: going to look to them to change. I think when
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: it comes to Aaron Rodgers, he's also a veteran. McCarthy's
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: coached him before. He knows what he's capable of, but
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: then everything else on the offense is like, I.
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: Mean, what are you going to do about it? Right.
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: So we have, I don't know, like who is our
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: right tackle Dylan cook. I, that's not very, that's not
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: instilling a lot of confidence. Um, you know, our wide
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: receiver three is up for discussion. We brought in Pittman.
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: How much of a factor is he going to be? Um,
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: Darnell Washington had a breakout year where Muth was demoted
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: pretty much.
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: I looked at the depth chart. They said.
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: Starting tight end is Darnell Washington or Pat Firemuth. So
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: is it going to be a game-by-game thing?
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: I don't know. And, you know, we have four quarterbacks
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: on the roster.
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: So with that, I mean, that takes– That takes one
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: spot away. I mean, they talked about it. I saw
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: about why Eldon Roberts was let go, basically, and how
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: weird that was.
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: He thought he had a sure spot, but a.
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: Lot of it came down to he doesn't really have
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: special teams experience. And when you look at, okay, well,
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: we're going to keep four quarterbacks on the roster, I mean...
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: that's a tough spot to be in because that's one
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: special teams guy that you have to take off of
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: the roster, off of the field. When I looked at
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: the depth chart, I just don't think they were very deep,
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: very susceptible to injury. And so I think week one,
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: early on, it could look okay. I'm a little nervous
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: how this is going to shake out, but we'll see
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: what's going on.
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: Well, you mentioned the tackle position. Important to note that
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: since we've last spoken, the Steelers did trade Broderick Jones
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: as well to the Cowboys. We trade everybody to the Cowboys,
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: I guess. So there's a couple different ways to look
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: at it, and I don't know that any of them
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: are necessarily wrong. You could look at it as yet
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: another wasted first-round pick, which is fair. Or you could
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: just look at it as... We knew we weren't going
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: to resign him, so we might as well get something
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: for him anyway, since we've done a lot of drafting
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: at the tackle position anyway. Both, I think, are true, actually.
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: I think both are very fair.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: So, you talk about not being deep. Well, there you go.
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: We literally traded away a former first-round pick at a
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: position that we always need depth at. And I'm also
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: looking at the depth chart now, and You're correct. Dylan
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: Cook is starting at right tackle, so this year's first
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: round pick is not even going to be starting. At
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: least he won't be out there on the first snap.
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: We've talked a lot about how much you actually get used.
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: It doesn't really matter if you're out there first. Well,
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: he's not the starter. Take that for what it is.
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: Well, that kind of speaks volumes again.
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: When we go back to the draft, why I was
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: so skeptical about the pick... was because the guy that
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: we wanted got drafted right before us. We reached immediately
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: for a position of need, but not for a position
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: of need that can contribute right now.
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: This guy is a raw player.
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: That won't even start week one for a 42-year-old quarterback.
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: I mean, what the heck? I mean, that's just all
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: I got to say about that situation.
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: So here's what I'll say, though, about the team as
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: a whole. offensively, I do think we are going to
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: see a more dynamic offense out there. And to be
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: completely fair, that is not a very high bar to cross. So,
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: so I would sincerely hope that we're going to, we're
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: going to see, uh, Just some better strategy, if you will.
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: Some better play calls. Again, we know that Aaron Rodgers
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: and Mike McCarthy know each other. I know Mike McCarthy
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: kind of gets a little bit of a bad rep
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: for his career, and I can understand that, but I
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: don't think it's totally warranted. I mean, he did get
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers his only Super Bowl win, and I will
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: say that Dak Prescott's best years were under Mike McCarthy, too.
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: Honestly, what is Mike McCarthy different than, uh, Tomlin. I mean, they,
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: they are well, similar resume coach.
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: So resumes, they are totally similar. Um, I will grant
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: you that the one Superbowl win, um, the not so
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: much success after that in the post season, if you will. Uh,
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: although Tomlin did get to another Superbowl and another AFC
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: championship game. Um, I think the big thing is based
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: on my understanding and my, if you want to call
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: it reading between the lines and what people have said,
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: McCarthy actually does have schemes. He does call plays. He
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: does a lot of things and does have strategy and Tomlin,
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: while obviously a very smart guy and a great coach
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: is more of a motivator and more so believes that
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: better players are always going to come out on top.
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: So yeah, I think a good example of that is
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: back in... Let's see, was it.
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: I wonder if you're even thinking about the exact same
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: thing I'm thinking about.
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: Probably not. I just can't remember the year, but it
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: was the year that the Steelers did go to the
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: AFC Championship game against the Patriots. and and got got
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: the snot kicked out of them it felt to me
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: like the patriots just knew what we were doing they
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: knew how to beat us And we couldn't even call
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: a timeout and adjust our strategy at all because we
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: didn't even have the wherewithal to do that. We just,
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: this is our plan. We're sticking to it. And Chris
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: Hogan just carved us up all night. And how often
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: did we see that?
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: Huh? Chris Hogan. No, I know.
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: But how, and that's just one game, but how often
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: did we see that where, um, Teams we should have beaten,
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: we didn't because they just exploited us. You have issues
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: like previously, and I haven't even talked about our defense yet,
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: but you have TJ Watt not switching sides, only lining
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: up on one side.
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: I heard that was his own stubbornness, by the way.
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: Which I think that diminishes his legacy.
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: If that is his own stubbornness, then... That is totally
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: on him, but at the same time, this is the NFL,
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: and a coach should be able to say, I think
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: you could line up every once in a while on
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: the other side, just so you know. So there you go.
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: Resumes similar, just at a high level, that's what I
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: think the main differences are between those guys.
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: Man, if you could just smash both of these coaches
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: in together, what we could have done.
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: Or you could have gotten the worst of both of them.
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: It's not to take us too far down the rabbit hole,
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: but I was talking to my dog's vet once, and
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: he said, you know.
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: You were talking to your dog's?
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: My dog's vet once. Yeah, I was having a conversation
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: with Jax the other day, and we were talking about
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: the finer points of Einstein's theory of relativity. Now, I
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: was talking to the vet once, And he said, sometimes
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: when you have breeders who try to make these like
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: Labradoodles and Goldendoodles and whatnot to try to get the
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: best of both, the best genes from both breeds of dogs,
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: you actually get a dog who gets the worst of both.
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: So anyway, keeping it on football, because we've already talked
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: a lot about other stuff, getting to the defense. That's
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: what I wanted to talk about. And speaking of strategy,
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: we mentioned this when the Steelers announced that they hired
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: Patrick Graham as the defensive coordinator. We have been saying
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: for a long time, and I know lots of Steelers
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: fans have as well, that we don't think the defense
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: really schemes. And that's what I just talked about. It's
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: we're going to line up our best players. We've got
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: the highest paid defense. They've got to be the best.
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: We're just going to line up in this defense and
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: the best, you know, the cream always rises to the top, right?
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: Our players are going to beat your players and it
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: is what it is. And that's just not how it
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: is anymore. I'm sorry. To simplify Patrick Graham's, he did
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: more at Oakland with a lot less because their defense
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: was better than ours at times for sure. And if
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: I'm not mistaken, he survived. He was retained by three
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: consecutive head coaches in Las Vegas, which is just.
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: That's pretty darn impressive. It is.
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: So my hope is... that if he comes to Pittsburgh
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: and has better pieces, which I would think most people
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: would agree he does, and he's known for doing schemes
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: and creative things, and he's allowed to do that, I
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: would hope that the defense would take a great leap forward,
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: because I think we talked about it quite a bit,
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: last year especially, but for the last couple years, that
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: they're just not living up to their potential. They're not
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: as good as they appear to be on paper.
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: Well, when you consider that there's potentially three Hall of Famers,
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: maybe not all on their prime, maybe none of them
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: in their prime, on that defense. But still, they could
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: be smart enough to.
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: And they're three different levels. I mean, you can say T.J.
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: Watt is more of a lineman than a linebacker. I
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: can take that. But you still have the veteran leadership
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: at every single... room in the.
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: Defense and yet we have incredible lapses of the team
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: so it's discouraging and I mean I think TJ in
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: particular has a very hard bar to measure like they'll
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: say he has a bad year and he.
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: Has 11 sacks but yeah.
• 34:35
  Speaker 3: You know I do think he has some games he
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: disappears and you know the 11 sack shows up because
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: he had two, three sack games in a season.
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: So, you know, both things can be fair. Yeah.
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: So, if I'm going to be cautiously optimistic about this game,
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: I do think the Steelers are going to win. I
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: think that because they're playing at home, because I believe
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: that they are a better team this year than they
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: were last year, and with this new coaching staff, I'm hoping,
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: breathing new life into the team. I'm just going to
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: go with them. And it's a lot of not trusting
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: the Falcons quarterback situation. But I am concerned because if Tua,
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: or Penix for that matter, is able to get it together,
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: like I said, they've got weapons to be successful. It
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: can happen. I just... I don't know.
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: Nothing.
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: I just don't have the confidence that that's going to happen.
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: I'm choosing for it to be week one, for me
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: to be optimistic. I'm going to try to look at
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: it glass half full. McCarthy's going to come in. They're
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: going to run a crazy, creative offense. Rodgers is going
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: to be the sheriff. We're going to have defenders flying
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: all around the ball. I realize as I say this
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: out loud that I'm just setting myself up for disappointment, but... Anyway,
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: I'm going to give the Steelers the win. And I'm
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: going to say it's going to be... Let's give them
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: a 20-14 win.
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: Defense primarily taking over.
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: These are two head coaches trying to prove that they...
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: overcame their last circumstances um so fanski right i was
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: honestly surprised he got hired um i wasn't i i
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: know he.
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: Was uh.
• 36:56
  Speaker 3: I know he was like a coach of the year
• 36:58
  Speaker 3: and all that but you know coming from the browns
• 37:03
  Speaker 3: and stuff like that normally you're viewed as damaged parts
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: um He again goes to a franchise where they don't
• 37:11
  Speaker 3: have an answer for a quarterback or.
• 37:14
  Speaker 5: Even really the means to get a quarterback. So it'll
• 37:20
  Speaker 5: be interesting. But I do think that their skill position
• 37:23
  Speaker 5: players are scarier.
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: Yes. I do trust their offense a little bit more
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: than ours.
• 37:33
  Speaker 3: But at the same time, I also trust our defense
• 37:36
  Speaker 3: more than ours because– The Falcons seem to not be
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: able to.
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: Keep their defense out of jail.
• 37:53
  Speaker 3: I think I'm going to have to go with the
• 37:55
  Speaker 3: Steelers just because we're at home. I don't have great
• 37:59
  Speaker 3: feelings about this prediction. It's completely unknown. I mean, not
• 38:04
  Speaker 3: just because we have a new coach after two decades.
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: I just I, you know, we saw this quarterback last year.
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: We saw a lot of this defensive players last year,
• 38:16
  Speaker 3: but I think scheme matters a lot. And I think
• 38:23
  Speaker 3: that when you change that, uh, good things can definitely happen.
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: And also disruption can happen because veterans can be a
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: little bit more resistant to change. And so we'll have
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: to see how it works out, but, um, I think
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: we'll see mixed results on Sunday.
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: So I'm going to go with 16-13.
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: And you're giving the Steelers the win?
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah. It's going to be ugly, though. Like, thank God
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: for Boz. Boz is the best player on our team.
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: I saw some.
• 39:05
  Speaker 3: Fantasy stat that had Boswell as 14th best kicker in
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: the league.
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: I'm like, get out of here.
• 39:12
  Speaker 3: Dude's going to be freaking killing it on field goals
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: this year.
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I saw the same thing on ESPN, and I
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: did not buy that. I still took Boz on my
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: fantasy team.
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: Alright.
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: There you go. We each give the Steelers a week
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: one win. Why don't we go ahead and do the
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: schedule prediction now. Unless you just want to mark it
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: off as 17-0 for both of us.
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: Let's mark it off i'm just kidding no let's go through.
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: It all right give me one second here the steelers
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: play week one in atlanta which we know about week
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: two is going to be a visit to the new
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: england patriots so what we'll do for each of these
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: is i'll let you go first you give me your
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: take and then i'll come in with the second take
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: so on the road in new.
• 40:15
  Speaker 3: England I don't think the Super Bowl runner-up are going
• 40:19
  Speaker 3: to be going back to the Super Bowl, but they're
• 40:21
  Speaker 3: surely a better team than us.
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: We're going to lose.
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, last year we did beat them, but it was
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: early in the season like this in just a crazy game.
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: I think they had five or six turnovers.
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: I think Ramadre Stevenson had like three fumbles.
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: Well, my point is with all those turnovers, it was
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: still a really close game.
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: So I know that the Patriots have certainly had their
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: own drama this offseason. I don't think it's actually going
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: to impact their play on the field is where I
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: was going with that, despite the drama they've had. So, yeah,
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: I just I don't see us winning that game. So
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: there you go. We both Steelers lose in week two.
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: Week three, however, is going to be a home game
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: against the Bengals.
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: Lose.
• 41:25
  Speaker 3: I actually think that the Bengals will be very good
• 41:30
  Speaker 3: this year. I know, you know, the adage, it always
• 41:34
  Speaker 3: depends on Joe Burrow. I do think he will be
• 41:37
  Speaker 3: healthy this year. And watch out. So, yeah, I'm going
• 41:44
  Speaker 3: to go with the L right there.
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm going to lean towards an L too, just
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: because I don't anticipate Joe Burrow being injured at that
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: point in the season. Um, and to be fair, even
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: if he was injured, we remember what happened when we
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: played his backup last year. Uh, again, another situation where
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: we couldn't make any adjustments and we got carved up
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: by Joe Flacco. Um, the Bengals, the biggest question outside
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: of Joe Burrow's health is always going to be their
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: defense too. They were historically bad last year. Um, Are
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: they going to be any better? Is our offense going
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: to be able to capitalize on that? Can they keep
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: pace with Joe Burrow, assuming he is also playing at
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: top form? I think they'll split with the Bengals, but
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: I think this is too early in the season, and
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: I think the Steelers are going to take another loss
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: here and drop to 1-2. After that, the Steelers travel
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: to Cleveland for a Thursday night game against the Browns.
• 42:49
  Speaker 3: Man, are the Browns more of a mess than usual?
• 42:55
  Speaker 3: I mean, it's always hard to tell.
• 42:57
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 42:57
  Speaker 3: But their starting quarterback got booed.
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: Then they officially named him the starting quarterback.
• 43:09
  Speaker 3: Even though his coach went on record for saying he
• 43:13
  Speaker 3: played like poop the whole entire preseason.
• 43:19
  Speaker 2: I got to give us a W just because if
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: we don't, I'm demoralized.
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm going W as well. The Browns defense is
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: still good, even though they lost their best player. They
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: didn't get nothing for him. They got something in return,
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: I should say, in Jared Verse. But yeah, I just,
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: like you said, their offense is a mess. They've got
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: a new head coach that I think Baltimore Ravens fans
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: would have gladly seen fired as their offensive coordinator, so
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: how he got a head coaching job is a little
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: bit beyond me.
• 43:53
  Speaker 2: Everyone passed it up.
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: That's true.
• 43:59
  Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure people canceled their... Mike McDaniel?
• 44:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm pretty sure Mike McDaniel, he canceled his head
• 44:10
  Speaker 3: coaching job interview to take the OC job For the Chargers.
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think if Munkett had passed, you and me
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: were next in line.
• 44:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: We'll see what happens. I think we would have had
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: to quit the show if one of us got the job.
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: I think I would have taken it, you know?
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: You would have?
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, you just gotta believe in yourself.
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: Why not? Okay, so there we have it. We both
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: give the Steelers a win. The next game is going
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: to be a home game against the Colts.
• 44:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think this could be a dangerous one, especially
• 44:50
  Speaker 3: for us, because I don't know Daniel Jones' status, but
• 44:57
  Speaker 3: he might come back healthy enough. Jonathan Taylor looked amazing,
• 45:03
  Speaker 3: and the only reason why we beat them last year
• 45:05
  Speaker 3: was because they also had like five or six turnovers.
• 45:09
  Speaker 2: So I just don't see this one going in our favor, Moss.
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: So this is the first time we're going to disagree.
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: I'm going to give them the win here just because, uh,
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: starting with the Steelers win against the Colts last year,
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: they like really fell off the wagon hard. I think
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: they lost like their last seven of eight games or
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: something weird like that. Um, so I don't know if
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: they just got hot last year to start and people
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: weren't really expecting that. And the performances that they were
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: getting out of Daniel Jones or what, and I also
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: don't know his status either. Um, I just don't know
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: that I trust the Colts to come right back to
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: that team that started off 7-1 or whatever it was
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: last year until they ran into us of all teams.
• 45:58
  Speaker 3: If there's a team that we've outperformed what we should have,
• 46:04
  Speaker 3: like expected wins, I feel like it's the Colts.
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: Yep, very true.
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: Jim Sorge should have beat us that time on Thanksgiving.
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: Wasn't that Scott Tolzien?
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: Oh, maybe it was Scott Tolzien.
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: You don't even remember who it was.
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: I think Wisconsin backup quarterback. Right. All right.
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: The next game will be on October 18th, and that
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: is a road game in Tampa Bay against the Buccaneers.
• 46:40
  Speaker 2: I'm going to go with a loss as well.
• 46:44
  Speaker 3: I don't, I don't really have much analysis because I just,
• 46:49
  Speaker 3: I don't think the season's going to be very pretty. I.
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: Um, I'm going to give them a loss as well too. Um,
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: the big thing I'll say is they've got Baker who
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: is in a contract year. Uh, he'd wanted to get
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: renewed or re-signed, extended, whatever. They didn't, they didn't do it.
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: So he, he knows this is a prove me year.
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: I think he's going to come out playing a lot better. Um,
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: I'm not a big fan of their coach. I just
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: don't think he's been very successful where he's gone, but
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: I just, I think that this is probably going to
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: be a loss for the Steelers, so I will give
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: it to them.
• 47:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: Next will be a home game. I'm sorry, not a
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: home game. We're the home team, but we will be
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: in Paris hosting the Saints.
• 47:43
  Speaker 2: Why are we at the Saints?
• 47:45
  Speaker 3: I don't mind being in Paris and us playing the Saints.
• 47:51
  Speaker 2: That makes sense. Why are we hosting? We're there because
• 47:55
  Speaker 2: the Saints are... There's a French background to Louisiana and
• 48:04
  Speaker 2: New Orleans specifically.
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm not the commissioner.
• 48:09
  Speaker 2: That is stupid. Okay, we're going to win. We're going
• 48:14
  Speaker 2: to win this one.
• 48:15
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: Any reason behind that?
• 48:18
  Speaker 2: I don't like Tyler's show.
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: Okay. I, um.
• 48:28
  Speaker 2: Um.
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: I'll give us the win, too. I know that the
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: Saints are the quote-unquote French team, as you alluded to,
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: but I know that Steelers fans travel well. I don't
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: think it's going to be a quote-unquote home game.
• 48:40
  Speaker 2: A home field advantage. Okay.
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: I was going to say, I don't believe it's going
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: to be a home field advantage quite like it was
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: at our quote-unquote home game in Dublin, which has much
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: stronger Steelers ties. But I just, I don't know. I'm
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: going to give us the win. I'm not a big
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: show fan as well. I think the Saints are improving,
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: but they still have work to do. I just, even
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: though we don't play well when we travel west, We
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: play well when we travel east, and that's pretty far east. So,
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: there you go.
• 49:16
  Speaker 2: There we go. I guess it depends on which way
• 49:21
  Speaker 2: you look at the globe, right? True.
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: Alright, for the next game, we return to Pittsburgh, where
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: the Steelers once again play the Browns.
• 49:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 49:34
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and if we lose any games to the Browns,
• 49:38
  Speaker 3: I'm I'm going to be stuck in a wave of emotions.
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: I'm with you. No need to really beat a dead
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: horse here. I think they're going to beat the Browns.
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: The next game, however, is going to be in Philadelphia.
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: We are always in Philadelphia when we play them against
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: the Eagles.
• 50:03
  Speaker 2: Oh, man. Dude, Philly is going to be so pissed
• 50:07
  Speaker 2: off this year. They're going to be so good.
• 50:09
  Speaker 3: Because everyone's saying that they saw Jalen Hurts is horrible, blah, blah.
• 50:15
  Speaker 2: They're going to be good this year. We're going to
• 50:17
  Speaker 2: lose the Keystone Battle.
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: I agree. Plain and simple, I think the Eagles are
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: the much better team. And I think that everyone else
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: in the world would agree with that. All right. Next
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: is the Black Friday game at home against the Denver Broncos.
• 50:40
  Speaker 2: Port local. Don't go to prime.
• 50:42
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think Denver will be good. And I think
• 50:54
  Speaker 3: late in the season, they're going to be trying to
• 50:57
  Speaker 3: buy within their division, so they're going to come out
• 50:59
  Speaker 3: motivated and beat us.
• 51:01
  Speaker 2: And as I've given with my predictions, we won't. So
• 51:06
  Speaker 2: we'll lose.
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, this is a team that probably should have gone
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: to the Super Bowl last year, barring that injury to
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: Bo Nix on the, was it the last play or
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: the second last play of the year?
• 51:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah, what a heartbreaker.
• 51:23
  Speaker 3: Could you imagine if, like, when Ben Roethlisberger, in his
• 51:30
  Speaker 3: second year, when we went to the Super Bowl or something,
• 51:33
  Speaker 3: second or third year, And you get to the AFC Championship,
• 51:38
  Speaker 3: and instead of breaking, you know, instead of tackling the
• 51:43
  Speaker 3: Colts player, breaks his, like, arm or something like that.
• 51:47
  Speaker 3: I think he broke his leg in this example. But
• 51:52
  Speaker 3: could you imagine? Could you imagine the heartbreak?
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: Well, and the added heartbreak, too, was that they didn't
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: know until the post... It wasn't announced until the post-game
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: press conference, too.
• 52:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: So everyone thought they won, it was all great, and
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: then Sean Payton walked out and had to tell everyone, yeah,
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: he actually got hurt on the last play and he's done.
• 52:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: Just high and low and up and down. Yeah, I'm
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: with you. That's awful. So for him and the Broncos fans,
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: I hope he's better. I don't want them to win
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: this game, granted, but I still think they're going to.
• 52:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: Alright, after that, it will be a rematch of last
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: year's playoff game against the Houston Texans at home. And
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: that will be on Sunday night, which means... Oh, I
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: already lost my spot here. Anyway, I was saying that
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: this could be Mike Tomlin's return to Pittsburgh. But I
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: think I might have skipped a game here, so we'll
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: have to go back here. But regardless, let's talk about
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: the game against the Texans first.
• 53:16
  Speaker 2: What a weird game. The defense is scary.
• 53:25
  Speaker 3: Shroud, we saw it in the playoff game. You saw
• 53:30
  Speaker 3: an article that was insinuating that if he plays well,
• 53:35
  Speaker 3: He might reset the quarterback market.
• 53:38
  Speaker 2: And I almost spit out my coffee. That is just
• 53:45
  Speaker 2: asinine to me. Guy hasn't been good since his rookie year.
• 53:49
  Speaker 3: This was a hard one to do because literally our team,
• 53:58
  Speaker 3: this is the Colts game for me. This is the
• 54:00
  Speaker 3: game that we could just like, hey, we're not playing well.
• 54:05
  Speaker 2: We just blow the doors off of this team.
• 54:07
  Speaker 3: They're doing really great. I'm going to go with win
• 54:13
  Speaker 3: right here. Just because I do think Shroud's going to
• 54:17
  Speaker 3: just implode.
• 54:18
  Speaker 2: In this game.
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: So, I'm going to go loss for the Same reason
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: that you said the Steelers are going to win. You
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: said Stroud imploded or will implode. He already did implode
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: against us in the playoffs and we still lost 31
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: to six. So he had, he had, I want to
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: say like they, they, they lost in the game after
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: they played us. I can't remember who they played. It
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: might've been the Patriots, but in those two games, he
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: had like 10 turnovers.
• 54:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: So And he's gotten worse every year. So I grant you,
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: I'm not impressed with him. But despite that, we still
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: couldn't really crack that defense. So I'm going to give
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: him the loss. All right. We are going to go
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: back in time now. Because we skipped. Ironically, we skipped
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: the Bengals game, the second game against the Bengals.
• 55:25
  Speaker 2: So.
• 55:26
  Speaker 1: This game is after our home matchup against the Browns
• 55:31
  Speaker 1: and before our matchup in Philadelphia against the Eagles.
• 55:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 55:41
  Speaker 3: Again, I said we're going to lose this game. You
• 55:44
  Speaker 3: said we're going to split the series. I already assumed
• 55:47
  Speaker 3: your vote. No, I think the Bengals are for real
• 55:52
  Speaker 3: this year.
• 55:52
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, there you go. I think we're going to split
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: not because any X's and O's or anything like that,
• 56:02
  Speaker 1: but just because that's the way things usually go. We'll
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: see what happens with the health of the Bengals and
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: how well that defense is playing and what kind of
• 56:12
  Speaker 1: offensive line they're working with. But that's one of those
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: things that I will have to see to believe for
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: them to sweep us.
• 56:19
  Speaker 3: You know what I want to say right at this moment?
• 56:21
  Speaker 3: Because obviously it will come. we haven't played the Ravens yet. That,
• 56:28
  Speaker 3: that's crazy. We're this far into the season.
• 56:31
  Speaker 2: We haven't played the Ravens.
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: I was looking at the schedule earlier and I noticed
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: that we will finish all of our games against the, uh,
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: Browns and the Bengals before we play the Ravens. Once
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: we play the Ravens twice in the last four weeks
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: of the year.
• 56:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 56:50
  Speaker 1: All right. So now we're going back to present day. Uh,
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: After the game against Houston, we travel to Jacksonville to
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: face the Jaguars.
• 57:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think the Jaguars will be good. I like
• 57:06
  Speaker 2: Liam Cohen as a coach.
• 57:10
  Speaker 3: I think they continue their development of Trevor Lawrence. I
• 57:14
  Speaker 3: don't think he quite gets them to where they thought
• 57:17
  Speaker 3: he would be, but.
• 57:21
  Speaker 2: He's definitely the better quarterback.
• 57:23
  Speaker 3: In week 11 or 12 we're in right now.
• 57:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: I'm going to give the Steelers a win here. I'm
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: looking at the game. I've got the Steelers on a
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: three-game losing streak heading into this game. I don't think
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: it's going to get to four. I'm not really sold
• 57:49
  Speaker 1: on the Jaguars being... that team yet. I think they're
• 57:53
  Speaker 1: definitely there. They've got some strong pieces. And I agree
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: with you that the quarterback down there is better than
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: the one that we've got. So, I will grant you that.
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: I just think looking at the schedule and how the
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: wins and losses are coming, I'm going to give the
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: Steelers a win here.
• 58:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 58:07
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: Okay, after the Jaguars game, we have our first game
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: against Baltimore, and this will be a home game for
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: the Steelers.
• 58:20
  Speaker 2: Oh! Honestly, the Baltimore series is very hard for me because,
• 58:30
  Speaker 2: you know, I just think that this is the hardest rivalry,
• 58:38
  Speaker 2: I think, to pick. You know, Browns are easy.
• 58:44
  Speaker 3: Bengals can be unpredictable. But the Ravens, it's like not
• 58:50
  Speaker 3: even home games matter. I think this year home does
• 59:00
  Speaker 3: matter just because of the first year coach thing but
• 59:03
  Speaker 3: yeah again this is when I think of a rivalry
• 59:12
  Speaker 3: this is Ohio State Michigan to me so we'll see
• 59:18
  Speaker 3: if New Bloods can adapt to that.
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: So was it a win or a loss you think
• 59:28
  Speaker 1: we're going to win okay Yeah, I am. Uh, I'm
• 59:33
  Speaker 1: going to give the Steelers the loss here. I just, uh,
• 59:38
  Speaker 1: think that barring any injuries, the Ravens were still too
• 59:43
  Speaker 1: early in the season for them to take their foot
• 59:45
  Speaker 1: off the pedal. Uh, so I'm going to give the
• 59:48
  Speaker 1: Ravens the win here. I think they're the better team.
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: I think they got a head coach that we would
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: have been happy with hiring as well. Um, Although it
• 59:59
  Speaker 1: makes sense that he ended up in Baltimore because that's
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: the tree he's from.
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 2: He also was a Cincinnati guy. But, you know.
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: That is true.
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 3: Well, I know that doesn't have anything to do with Pittsburgh,
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 3: but I was at home just hoping that we.
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 2: Would get that kind of little nod.
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 1: You know, it is funny you mention that because we're
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 1: talking about Jesse Minter whose dad Rick Minter was the
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 1: head coach at the University of Cincinnati for what 10
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: or so odd years something like that and at one
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: point on his staff or at different points on his
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 1: staff he had Mike Tomlin John Harbaugh and Rex Ryan
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: at the University of Cincinnati. So there you go. Bearcat
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 1: blood runs deep.
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 2: It's funny.
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 3: I know University of Miami is viewed as the cradle
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 3: of coaches, but Cincinnati, especially from the modern-day perspective, has
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 3: been that. And it really stunk. I thought that this guy.
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 3: Midwestern Valley is extremely smart.
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 2: I thought.
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 3: Rick Minter was the reason why Cincinnati is what they
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 3: are now.
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 2: Wow. Jesse could be.
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I do.
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 2: I think people will.
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 3: Downplay the Motor City Bulls, Papa John's.com.
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 2: Or whatever we got to.
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 3: But We're not going to the Cotton Bowl unless it's
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 3: for Rick Minter. And I think that it really stinks
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 3: to see that he doesn't get that recognition. I just
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 3: went to, you know, with that tailgate. You had Jason
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 3: Kelsey there. I'm pretty sure Jason Kelsey was recruited.
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 2: By Rick Minter. He might not have been coached.
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 3: Directly by Rick Minter because it transferred over to Brian Kelly.
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 2: But I just think that, like, it would have been great.
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 3: To kind of see this because I think Jesse is
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 3: kind of like, I can see Jesse becoming a lot
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 3: like the Shanahan tree where, you know, Mike Shanahan was
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 3: viewed as such a savant when it comes to coaches,
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 3: and now his son is killing it with the 49ers.
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 3: If that happens, I'm going to be extremely disappointed because
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 3: we came out on the wrong.
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 2: End of that. Yeah.
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 1: I don't know that I would put Rick Minter in
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: quite as high regard as you. I think the The
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 1: Bearcat Renaissance started with Mark D'Antoni, who came immediately after
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 1: Rick Minter. But I do see where you could make
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 1: the case that Minter laid the foundation and each coach after,
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 1: with the exception of Tommy Tuberville, built on that.
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 3: I saw something that someone viewed Tuberville as the worst
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 3: hire of.
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 2: The 21st century because... every coach other.
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 3: Than him, I think they were excluding Satterfield, has been
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 3: successful at UC.
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 2: I don't agree with this.
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 1: That's true.
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 2: I get it.
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 1: I would agree with that. Not counting the current coach.
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 1: They have been. D'Antoni went to Michigan State. Kelly went
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 1: to Notre Dame and then LSU for a bit. Butch
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 1: Jones went to Tennessee for a while and now he's
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 1: down at Arkansas State. Then, of course, we got Tuberville.
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 1: And again, we're in the middle of talking about the
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 1: Steelers schedule. We probably shouldn't go down the Bearcat tangent,
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 1: but Tuberville was hired away from another power conference school.
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 1: This was the first coach that wasn't like wasn't like
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 1: an up and comer. Like we thought we were getting
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 1: an already established coach, one who had a, a national championship,
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 1: albeit with an asterisk next to it on his resume. Anyway.
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 1: It was a massive letdown too, for what we expected
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 1: as well. So anyway, that was the Ravens game. You
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 1: can probably, you can be forgiven for being confused since
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 1: we were talking about the Bearcats, but there we go.
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 1: Next is going to be a home game for the
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 1: Steelers against the Panthers.
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 2: Dude, I think Bryce Young's not very good.
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 3: For that reason, I just have to give us a win.
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 2: I don't think he's a franchise quarterback. So, we'll get
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 2: to him.
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 1: I'm with you. I'm not sold on them. I know
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 1: they had some bright spots last year, but I just,
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 1: I don't know that Bryce Young's the guy. I know
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 1: they gave up quite a bit to get him. And
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 1: it's just a, they got a crazy owner too. Former
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 1: Steelers minority owner as well. So, there you go. I'm
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 1: going to give the Steelers a win as well.
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 3: Did you see his little, he went to a restaurant
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 3: a few years back.
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 2: Yes. He yelled at this hostess for.
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 3: Putting because the owner put on like a fire tepper
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 3: type of thing on his like marquee and he went
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 3: in there stopped in and told him why they were
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 3: wrong and i was like dude like it's one of
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 3: those things like uh i don't like.
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 2: Kevin durant because kevin durant.
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 3: He's admitted to having a burner account on his Twitter account,
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 3: paying attention to trolls and responding back to them. I'm like, dude,
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 3: that feels so small-minded. I don't know if you're watching this, actually.
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 3: I just watched Chad Powers.
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 1: I need to. I have heard about it.
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 3: Ah, dude, it's amazing. Okay, Hulu, you need to give
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 3: us some credit. Advertise on our space. So, Chad Powers,
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 3: great show. The last episode I just watched, someone made
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 3: a mistake, and the main character, Glenn Powell, tells the person,
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 3: you need to delete your ex, you need to not
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 3: google yourself and you need to move on and it's
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 3: just like one of those things like when i think
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 3: about the people like i i get it can be
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 3: suffocating to.
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 2: Like try to like.
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 3: You make a mistake and you want to like listen
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 3: to those people but it's like these people don't matter
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 3: like why why are you listening to their voice so
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 3: like i think like when it comes to like guys
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 3: like kd Like, he was also viewed as, like, a
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 3: Hall of Famer. He's not, like, a normal dude. I'm like, dude,
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 3: that's just so.
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 2: It.
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 3: Feels so tacky, you know? Like, everyone's gonna, like, hate
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 3: on you. I'm sure Shaq has people of, like... You
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 3: should have made more than 60% of your free throws
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 3: in your career. But, like, Shaq is, like, the best...
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 3: One of the best big men ever in the NBA.
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 2: So, like, why would you... Why would you care about
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 2: someone who's never been in that position before? So.
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 2: This is a PSA for throwing trolls down.
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 1: Just yet another tangent we're going down today.
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 2: Well, you know what? I mean, it's... the first week
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 2: of the season. You can't hold anything back.
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 1: There you go. Right you are, Dan. Alright. Well, let's
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 1: see if you want to do another Bearcat tie-in here,
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 1: if you can find one. The next game is going
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 1: to be in Tennessee against the Titans.
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 2: We should win this one.
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 3: This is like one of those games like if.
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 2: We're in the playoff hunt, I can just see this
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 2: being the backbreaker.
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 3: The one that's like, are you kidding me? How did
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 3: we lose this game? Because I don't think Tessie's going
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 3: to be good.
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 1: No.
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 3: And if we're teeter-tottering at like the 500 mark, This
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 3: is that game that we should win.
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 2: I see this as a loss. I mean, I'm sorry
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 2: to the fans.
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 3: I really just think that this isn't a season that's
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 3: going to go well. And this is one that, unfortunately,
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 3: I'm not very optimistic for.
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 1: So you give them the L. I'm going to give
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 1: them the W. And my logic... My logic is actually
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 1: kind of the same as yours. You talk about this
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 1: being a backbreaker while they're in the playoff hunt. I
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 1: think they're going to be in the playoff hunt. They're
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 1: going to do everything they can to get in to
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 1: get blown out again in the first round. So I'm
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 1: giving them the win because I don't think Tennessee is good.
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 1: I think Robert Sala is a good coach. But this
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 1: is year one, right, for him?
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, give him time.
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 1: It's year one. I'm not sure that Cam Ward is
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 1: going to be the guy. Uh, maybe he'll take a
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 1: leap up, but the preseason didn't look so hot. Um,
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 1: so yeah, I will say in years past, this would
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 1: be the game they'd lose, but I just, at this
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 1: point in the season, I think there'll be playing to
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 1: get into the playoffs. And like I said, they'll do
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 1: enough to get in and then get blown out. Uh,
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 1: Next is the finale, and this one is in Baltimore
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 1: against the Ravens.
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I.
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 2: I don't see this one going our way.
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 3: Because I went with Steelers earlier.
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 2: This isn't correct.
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 1: You did.
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so I think it's a split. I think.
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 3: I just don't have full faith in saying which way This.
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 2: Is going to go.
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 1: I am going to give the Steelers the win again.
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 1: I gave them the loss earlier in the year. I'm
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 1: going to give them the win. Now you have to
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 1: remember too. I think it's happened at least once, but
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 1: maybe twice where they put the Steelers Ravens, the last
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 1: game of the year and the Ravens already have a
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 1: playoff spot locked up. So they, they rest starters, which
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 1: is what allows the Steelers to, to get that wind
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 1: in the end. Um, Not sure if that'll happen here,
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 1: but again, my logic here is I do think the
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 1: Steelers are going to have a season where they have
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 1: to fight to get in, and they will get in.
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 1: I think that they're capable of being that seventh team.
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 1: Maybe they'll be better than last year. I know I
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 1: said that I do think they're a better team. I just,
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 1: at a certain point, I think that people are going
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 1: to run out of gas on this team, and this
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 1: is not the year. And maybe I'm just... Maybe this
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 1: is Stockholm Syndrome, and I'm used to it at this point.
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 1: I think you are.
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 2: I've told you that for the last eight years. Uh-huh.
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 1: All right, so let's count it up here. 17 games
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 1: in a season. Eric, you have given the Steelers a
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 1: record of 7-10? That sounds about right. And then... Let
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 1: me see what I did. I know I was more
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 1: generous than you. I... True to form. Ten and seven.
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 2: So... Get out. Get out of town. No way we're going... I.
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 2: What if... I don't want to bet against my Steelers. I... But.
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 1: Man.
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 2: I feel way.
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 3: More confident we're going to be 7-10 than I was 10-7.
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 1: We will have to see what happens. I mean, we've
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 1: said it before. We just talked about Stockholm Syndrome and
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 1: being in the same place every year. I know Mike
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 1: Tomlin is not there anymore, but to have a team
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 1: not go 9-8 or 10-7, I don't know. Yeah, that's fair.
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 6: I think looking at that high level, to me, I
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 6: don't know how you feel, to me that's the worst syndrome.
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 3: I want to be 5 and 12 or 12 and 5.
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 3: I don't want to be really in between. I want
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 3: to be having something to root for, not clinging on
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 3: for the life of me. thinking that we're going to
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 3: lose the first round of the playoffs like I have
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 3: the last eight years.
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 2: So, Steelers, please, please, please, please.
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 3: I'm not saying tank, but if you feel the season
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 3: is going off the rails, accept your fatality.
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 2: Accept it.
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 1: You know, we've talked about that a lot before, where
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 1: they're kind of in that purgatory, so they'll never get
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 1: that number one pick that can help you know, kickstart
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 1: the franchise. Um, and I think there's some truth to that,
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 1: but at the same time too, one other point that
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 1: you've also brought up is that they have whiffed on
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 1: a lot of first round picks that they do get in,
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 1: you know, the 15 through the 25 range as well.
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 3: So, yeah, I think I sent you a, it was
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 3: like a image about like the last nine picks.
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 2: And it showed Minka was included as one of them. Well,
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 2: not withing.
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 3: We used Minka as that pick, which was actually our
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 3: best pick in the last decade.
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 2: And in that, how many people were on the team still?
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 3: How many people were actually on a team after 10 years,
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 3: but not a single member in the first round, outside
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 3: of TJ Watt, which.
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 2: Was 2017, is still on the team. I mean, we're
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 2: talking about... I think that goes from, like, 2018 through 23,
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 2: maybe 24. That's bad. That really, like... is not the
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 2: reflection of this franchise.
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 3: This franchise is a team that builds talent here.
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 2: We aren't splashy.
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 3: Patrick Queen had the biggest free agent contract ever at
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 3: three years, $ 41 million or something like that. We are
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 3: a team that actually builds and develops our players. The
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 3: fact that we felt lukewarm about this draft, We've been
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 3: objectively horrible about our draft over the last decade, and
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 3: we've traded away the players.
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 2: That actually do produce.
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 3: I'm not saying that this is not a PSA for
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 3: saying that we should have kept George Pickens.
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 2: I'm just saying that you knew he had character issues.
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 3: You either accept it, or he maximizes the value, I
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 3: don't think that a wide receiver wants where it's third
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 3: round pick. But, um, no, I, I just think that
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 3: the reason why we, I'm projecting us to be a
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 3: seven and 10 team is because we have not done
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 3: well lately in that category.
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 2: So.
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 1: Well, and the point that I was making by bringing
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 1: that up is, um, you don't necessarily have to get
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 1: that top five pick. You just, regardless of where you're picking,
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 1: you can't whiff as often as they have. So in
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 1: a sense, it's almost more impressive that they've been able
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 1: to maintain that winning season streak, despite not having any
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 1: number one picks still on the roster in a sense.
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 3: Well, isn't that kind of like the, that's kind of
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 3: the calling card for Tomlin, right?
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 2: Like, He's made the most out of the talent that
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 2: he's been given.
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 3: When it comes to quarterback, obviously he had Roethlisberger, but
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 3: a lot of people going back to like the Duck
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 3: Hodges years the Mason Rudolph the Kenny Pickett they talk
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 3: about that kind of stuff where he's the ability his
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 3: ability to adapt you know and that's true like and
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 3: this season will actually kind of provide that insight like
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 3: is it because we have veterans on the team that
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 3: are extremely talented accoladed but like potentially being hall of
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 3: famers or is it because Tomlin showed his chops like
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 3: he you know he did have deficiencies but he also
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 3: was able to pull out some ugly wins so we'll
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 3: see it on full display.
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 1: Speaking of Mike Tomlin have you seen any of the
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 1: interviews that the man has been doing lately.
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 2: Not really.
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 1: He's been on The Tonight Show. He's been on podcasts.
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 1: We know he's working for NBC now. He's lighting up
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 1: the internet. That's the happiest I've ever seen the guy.
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 2: I mean, good for him. I remember when it first
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 2: came out, he was doing it.
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 3: It was like, okay, when he was retiring, it was
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 3: about like, him wanting to spend time with his daughter.
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 2: She was going to go to Georgia.
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 2: Do gymnastics.
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 3: I think like they had an event pretty much immediately
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 3: after the playoffs and he went.
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 2: And he was full of life.
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 3: And it's like, you know, would I have liked to
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 3: see more wins under Tomlin?
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 2: Sure.
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 3: But like, I always thought he was a good dude.
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 3: Always wants the best for him. And yeah, You better know,
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 3: I told all of my friends, I said, when that
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 3: dude writes a book one day, I'm going to read that.
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 2: Because he's one of the most interesting guys. I think
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 2: he's a good dude.
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 3: And you're not a leader of men for two decades
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 3: without people not smelling out your bullshit.
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 1: It's interesting, though, because... I think a lot of people
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 1: said he's going to coach again, he's going to coach again,
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 1: and that is still very possible, but when you have
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 1: a chance this week, you can go on YouTube and
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 1: just watch any podcast he was on. He was on
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 1: a podcast for the Today Show, and I was watching,
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 1: I guess, Chris Collinsworth and his son Jack have a
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 1: podcast as well for Pro Football Focus. It would not
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 1: surprise me if the man never coached again. He just
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 1: looks so relaxed, so happy, and he even said, like,
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 1: I didn't even know what life could be like because
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 1: pretty much since high school on until now, he's been football.
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 1: And he said he did the math and he spent
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 1: a full calendar year of his life in that dorm
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 1: room in Latrobe at St. Vincent's for training camp. And
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 1: he's like, it's, you know, it's just nice to actually
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 1: have an August. It's nice to, All I'm saying is
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 1: he's happy, he's content, and kind of like you, I
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 1: want nothing but the best for him. I think everyone's
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 1: going to love him on NBC, and it's going to
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 1: be entertaining for sure.
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I'm glad that we get to.
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 4: I'm sure other people have been able to see Tomlin
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 4: over the years coaching against their team, but I'm excited
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 4: for the people to actually get to see.
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 2: A little bit more of what we've seen.
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 3: They've seen clips, they've seen glimpses, but maybe they'll get
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 3: to see a little bit more of like the man.
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 2: And, uh, you know, he was a man.
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 3: I mean, he can't take anything away from not taking
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 3: anything away.
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 2: From McCarthy, but you know, I, I think it would be.
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 3: A disservice to not like recap the season without saying
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 3: what a, uh, great contribution to the Steelers franchise that
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  Speaker 3: Mike Tomlin has produced.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely. Well, we've been going for an hour and
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  Speaker 1: 23 minutes now. About 10 minutes of that has been
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  Speaker 1: about the Steelers.
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  Speaker 2: And everyone's thankful for that.
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  Speaker 1: Right. We had college football this weekend. We know the
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  Speaker 1: Bearcats won big thanks to you showing your support at
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  Speaker 1: the tailgate.
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  Speaker 2: That's right.
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  Speaker 1: I think we can talk for a few minutes here
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  Speaker 1: just about anything you want about college football, but the
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  Speaker 1: biggest story, barring, not even barring none, there were two
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  Speaker 1: really big stories, and I think as controversial as one was,
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  Speaker 1: the other one blows that one right out of the water.
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  Speaker 1: I don't even know what you're talking about. There's two things.
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 1: There's So, LSU adding former NFL players or trying to.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, okay, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And that's the secondary story from this past weekend. And
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  Speaker 1: I actually just got the notification that they are not
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 1: going to be adding those two players to their roster.
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  Speaker 1: The ending of the Michigan-Western Michigan game. Holy cow. I
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  Speaker 1: have to ask, were you watching that game live?
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  Speaker 2: No, because I'm 36 years old and I'm a dad. No,
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  Speaker 2: I was asleep.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm assuming you've seen the clip and know what
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  Speaker 1: happened at the end of the game.
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  Speaker 3: I wouldn't say I'm fully read in, but I'm pretty
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  Speaker 3: read into the subject.
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  Speaker 1: So to recap for our listeners and for you, I guess,
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  Speaker 1: Western Michigan was beating Michigan all game. Michigan looked very bad.
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 1: The score was 12-7. Michigan threw a Hail Mary, and
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  Speaker 1: time expired. The refs then go to an official review
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  Speaker 1: and determine that they're going to put one second back
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  Speaker 1: on the clock. The justification that we found out after
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  Speaker 1: the game was that the refs keep their own clock
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  Speaker 1: that is independent from the clock that we see in
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  Speaker 1: the stadium and the one that's on the scoreboard ticker
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  Speaker 1: for the TV networks. However, all three clocks are supposedly
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  Speaker 1: synced before the game. So there should not be any discrepancies. Well,
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  Speaker 1: allegedly on the referee's Big Ten clock, One of the
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  Speaker 1: Western Michigan players jumped up and touched the ball when
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  Speaker 1: they were beyond the plane when there was. 08 seconds left.
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  Speaker 1: So they put an extra second on the clock. Michigan
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  Speaker 1: did another Hail Mary and then won by one point
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  Speaker 1: because they caught it at the buzzer. So, my goodness.
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  Speaker 1: It was just, one, Michigan looked awful. Two, that is
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  Speaker 1: without a doubt the clearest... instance we've seen at a
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  Speaker 1: game in quite a long time, I'd have to say.
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  Speaker 1: I was going to ask you if you had any thoughts.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think it was the right call or not?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if you feel confident enough to make
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  Speaker 1: that assertion or not.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, I don't necessarily feel confident making the assertion.
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  Speaker 2: However, I do think it's very.
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  Speaker 3: Suspicious that like okay it's not even just like do
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  Speaker 3: you remember the Colt McCoy throwing the ball out of
• 1:27:01
  Speaker 3: bounds Nebraska game yes and the whole thing was it's
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  Speaker 3: not when it exits the field it's when it hits.
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  Speaker 2: And right.
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  Speaker 3: So with that purpose in mind, I thought, okay, well,
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  Speaker 3: the opposite can be true, right? So the whole thing,
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  Speaker 3: I know the rule, right? Like you're supposed to, if
• 1:27:33
  Speaker 3: you go out of bounds, you need to reestablish your
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  Speaker 3: feet in bounds in order to touch a live ball. Otherwise,
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  Speaker 3: it's a dead ball. So when that guy touched it,
• 1:27:47
  Speaker 3: it would have been a dead ball. However, without the
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  Speaker 3: explanation of the, like, Big Ten, that ball was still.
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  Speaker 2: In the air with zero seconds left.
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  Speaker 3: So the funniest thing I saw was, like, the Big
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  Speaker 3: Ten just gaslighting anyone that has sight.
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  Speaker 2: I just don't buy it.
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  Speaker 3: It is honestly a little embarrassing. I was talking to
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  Speaker 3: my friend about it this way. I was like, okay,
• 1:28:24
  Speaker 3: so we were in high school when the App State
• 1:28:32
  Speaker 3: upset happened. And it's like, what do you think is
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 3: more embarrassing? Do you think it's more embarrassing that you would...
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 3: lose to App State or is it more embarrassing that
• 1:28:42
  Speaker 3: you'd have to cheat to beat App State and that's
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  Speaker 3: what I kind of think about is like okay like
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  Speaker 3: it's one thing if like you feel that you had
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  Speaker 3: to like deal with that defeat But it wasn't like
• 1:29:02
  Speaker 3: Michigan was going to win the championship this year. And
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 3: the fact that the Big Ten was just like, we're
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 3: going to double down. No way they can lose in
• 1:29:09
  Speaker 3: Western Michigan on a Saturday night football week one again.
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  Speaker 2: So I just think it's funny.
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  Speaker 3: I definitely think that they lied.
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  Speaker 2: I think that.
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  Speaker 3: It should have gone to Western Michigan. I think it's
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  Speaker 3: sad to take that away from those players because the
• 1:29:37
  Speaker 3: win against for Michigan players, and again, they would feel
• 1:29:43
  Speaker 3: like the defeat of it, so there's also a wave
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  Speaker 3: of emotion that would go to them, is not the
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  Speaker 3: same as what it would be and what it would
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  Speaker 3: mean to Western Michigan. So I think robbing them of
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  Speaker 3: that because I think of the untruths would be.
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 1: Wrong Yeah, I agree with you. I didn't buy the excuse,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm glad that Western Michigan and the MAC have
• 1:30:11
  Speaker 1: decided to appeal, not that it'll really do any good.
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  Speaker 1: Is that going to do anything? No, it's not, especially
• 1:30:18
  Speaker 1: because right after the fact, they came out and were
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 1: almost in complete agreeance with the Big Ten, and to
• 1:30:25
  Speaker 1: me it seems suspicious because... it was almost like, Hey,
• 1:30:29
  Speaker 1: if we want to keep being scheduled by these big
• 1:30:31
  Speaker 1: 10 teams, because that game Western Michigan got paid $ 1. 5 million. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: we'd better not cause a stink about this. So just
• 1:30:42
  Speaker 1: another unfortunate state of where college football is. But again, they, uh,
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  Speaker 1: they appealed it. So we'll see. But yeah, I was,
• 1:30:53
  Speaker 1: Michigan doesn't have the cleanest reputation anyway. So it's like, you,
• 1:30:58
  Speaker 1: you did one good thing by hiring, I thought the
• 1:31:00
  Speaker 1: right coach, um, for the current situation you were in.
• 1:31:04
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 1: Um, but then immediately this happens and, and just, just stupid. So, um,
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  Speaker 1: good to see that most level headed people other than,
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 1: you know, the folks in the city of Ann Arbor, uh,
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 1: seem to all be in agreement that Western Michigan was, uh,
• 1:31:23
  Speaker 1: was robbed.
• 1:31:25
  Speaker 2: So I saw that Caesar sports book, like, Tweeted out that...
• 1:31:29
  Speaker 2: It's like.
• 1:31:33
  Speaker 2: Out of the games that have ended in regulation.
• 1:31:35
  Speaker 3: The team with the highest score has won 110,000 times.
• 1:31:40
  Speaker 2: Yep. Prior to this though.
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  Speaker 1: Until now.
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 2: So even gambling books are a little upset about it. Alright, well.
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  Speaker 1: This... Could possibly be our longest episode yet. But I'll
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 1: still ask you anyway, as I always do. Is there
• 1:32:04
  Speaker 1: anything we didn't cover that you wanted to talk about tonight?
• 1:32:11
  Speaker 2: I'll save it for the season.
• 1:32:12
  Speaker 1: There you go. All right. That's going to do it
• 1:32:16
  Speaker 1: for us. Steelers play the Falcons in week one. We
• 1:32:19
  Speaker 1: both think they're going to win. And one of us
• 1:32:22
  Speaker 1: is slightly more optimistic than the other on how the
• 1:32:24
  Speaker 1: entire season is going to go. Regardless of all that,
• 1:32:28
  Speaker 1: football is back, and we could not be happier. For
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  Speaker 1: the world-famous accountant Eric Vamenschoten, I'm Nick DiTullio, and this
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  Speaker 1: has been another episode of TheGameHouse.com's Steelers Country Weekly.