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A statement victory! · The Irish Steelers Podcast

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Speaker 1: Hey folks, Welcome into the IRIS Students podcast, the home
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Speaker 1: of the Pittsburgh Steeters for Steelers fans across the island
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Speaker 1: of Ireland and em thenny around the world as well.
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Speaker 1: Michael McQuaid delighted to be here with co hosts Jimmy
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Speaker 1: English and Dalvog McKee after the Steeters get a novel
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Speaker 1: w to run to seven and two on the season
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Speaker 1: and as far as the first ten games or the
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Speaker 1: first ten weeks of the season, sorry have went. It
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Speaker 1: couldn't really go much better. So hopefully you're feeling as
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Speaker 1: positive or as good as we feel on this podcast
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Speaker 1: to them, whenever you're listening to us, As I said,
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Speaker 1: Jimmy and Davog are here with us this afternoon of
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Speaker 1: this morning, whenever you're listening a bit rusty from Munich. Here, Jimmy,
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Speaker 1: how are you doing? Man? You good? Good win of
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Speaker 1: the weekend.
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Speaker 2: I'm fantastic, Michael, good to see you. Great to see
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Speaker 2: you in Munich as well. A great weekend. A fair
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Speaker 2: play once again to the NFL in Germany just for
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Speaker 2: putting on an absolutely all around fantastic show. The game
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Speaker 2: wasn't too bad, surprisingly enough, not as good though as
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Speaker 2: the one we had in Land over Maryland. Great to
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Speaker 2: get the win, a convincing win despite the scoreline I
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Speaker 2: think with the Steelers definitely the better team on the day.
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Speaker 3: And shout out.
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Speaker 2: To the Irish lads I met in the Irish Pube
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Speaker 2: watching Red Zone. We couldn't get them. We couldn't convince
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Speaker 2: the bar staff to put the actual game on the
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Speaker 2: Sky Sports, so we had to make do with watching
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Speaker 2: highlights on our phone and seeing what bits you could
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Speaker 2: on Red Zone. But no, overall, a great weekend for
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Speaker 2: Irish NFL fans, a great weekend for Steelers fans, and yeah,
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Speaker 2: looking forward out to the Ravens, the real real test coming.
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Speaker 3: This weekend, so the interesting to see what happens there.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a huge weekend coming up. I know we'll
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Speaker 1: talk about it later in the week, but we'll also
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Speaker 1: start to talk about it a little bit today. And
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Speaker 1: just when you've joggled, you've jogged my memory that it
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Speaker 1: was good to see you as well.
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Speaker 4: Man.
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Speaker 1: But walking down from the Alliance were in the transition
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Speaker 1: around there where I got a taxi, I met a
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Speaker 1: father and son from Pennsylvania who were dressed up in
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Speaker 1: Steelers gear and they actually had seen or heard the
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Speaker 1: podcast as well, so they were talking about there, which
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Speaker 1: was which was really really cool as well, So shout
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Speaker 1: out to them. Definitely appreciate it that. Well, your WiFi
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Speaker 1: is as good as I don't know how. I don't
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Speaker 1: know how to compare it to the moment. I just
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Speaker 1: think the matter ten is playing up. Can you hear us?
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Speaker 1: Welcome in? How are you doing?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, hear you, Michael. Apologies again for that. County is
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Speaker 5: her own WiFi. It seems to be it's dip since
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Speaker 5: the start of the year. Don't know what's happened. Maybe
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Speaker 5: brags up kicking in finally, I don't know, but it
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Speaker 5: is working just about. But no, I have to say,
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Speaker 5: I'm very jealous of you, as you know. Although I
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Speaker 5: got to watch you know, the game live and stuff
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Speaker 5: I got it was very jealous to see, you know
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Speaker 5: how the whole event went on on Sunday in Germany,
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Speaker 5: so it said definitely something I've ticked off my boocket list.
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Speaker 5: Well I'm going to try and tick off next year.
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Speaker 5: And yeah, at least I got to watch the Steelers
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Speaker 5: pick up a win on Sky Sports anyway, so I
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Speaker 5: was happy enough on what we've seen and I'm looking
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Speaker 5: forward to breaking it down with you guys.
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Speaker 1: If anybody knew where darry Tresk was and they've seen
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Speaker 1: where this young man lives, they get what he just
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Speaker 1: said in terms of the wife, mine's not too bad here,
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Speaker 1: and then negan to be fair and draw this holding
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Speaker 1: up the thank God at the minute. Yeah, look, obviously
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Speaker 1: a huge win of the weekend, and it's one of
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Speaker 1: those things. It's the first one in a while, Jimmy,
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Speaker 1: that I've had to look back on and watch on
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Speaker 1: the Monday because of just traveling I've seen. It's funny
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Speaker 1: because when I landed on the plane, there was four
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Speaker 1: or five odds that literally were saying about I row
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Speaker 1: up the Staeers beat the Commanders, and I think I
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Speaker 1: was saying to you at the half and Sunday, you know,
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Speaker 1: this was the first one of the season where I thought, oh,
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Speaker 1: you know, this could go either way here. I know
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Speaker 1: we were really confident on the preview podcast last week,
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Speaker 1: and of course we are. We always are, especially when
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Speaker 1: you see a team and the way that they've played,
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Speaker 1: especially since bringing in Russell Wilson. But we had seen, Jimmy,
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Speaker 1: just how much, just how impressive the Jid and Daniels
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Speaker 1: was going down the stretch over the first few weeks
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Speaker 1: of the season and in a run game that just
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Speaker 1: couldn't get start on Sunday. And yes, they had many
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Speaker 1: players in games where they look good, but this team,
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Speaker 1: and I guess I'll start off with my player of
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Speaker 1: the game here, Russell Wilson looked like his old self.
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Speaker 1: Yes he had a pick on the day, but this
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Speaker 1: guy was making huge plays. Big play at the end
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Speaker 1: summed up his performance for me. The confidence that he
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Speaker 1: has genuinely excites me going into the stretch. And we
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Speaker 1: will talk about the Ravens later on this podcast a
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Speaker 1: little bit, but I think for the first time in
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Speaker 1: a while, yes, I've had confidence in guys under center,
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Speaker 1: and you always believe in guys under center to me,
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Speaker 1: but I have real confidence in what Russell can bring
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Speaker 1: this team, and he's really turned it around, and please God,
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Speaker 1: he can get there going forward and just continue this
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Speaker 1: sort of form.
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Speaker 2: I think the biggest thing for me, Michael, is the
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Speaker 2: fact that Russell Wilson seems to have really unlocked our offense.
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Speaker 2: I think the missing piece over the past couple of seasons,
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Speaker 2: and you know, justin feels did a great job in relief.
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Speaker 2: And look, we all had our various opinions and thought
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Speaker 2: on Russell Wilson. I'm more than happy to eat my
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Speaker 2: words based on the previous couple of performances.
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Speaker 3: Look, he looked rusty enough against the Jets.
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Speaker 2: Again, it's the Jets, so I wouldn't really, you know,
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Speaker 2: give much weight to that performance. Looked a lot better
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Speaker 2: against the Giants, but I think the Commanders was the
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Speaker 2: first real test he was going to have, in the
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Speaker 2: first real opportunity. He had a couple of games to
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Speaker 2: warm up, and that touchdown past the George Pickens to
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Speaker 2: start the scoring off was just absolutely sublime.
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Speaker 3: And you know, George Pickens did the hard work on that.
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Speaker 2: The way he can tour to his body to reel
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Speaker 2: in that past, I mean, that was probably the play
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Speaker 2: of the week for me. But you're absolutely right, Russell
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Speaker 2: Wilson has just come on in leaps and bounds since
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Speaker 2: he entered the starting lineup as our starting quarterback. Didn't
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Speaker 2: have the best game statistically on Sunday, I think he was.
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Speaker 2: He was eleven of twenty two Ford for two hundred
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Speaker 2: and something yards, so on paper, not fantastic, but in
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Speaker 2: terms of what he did with the big plays, extending
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Speaker 2: play and throwing receivers open, and it's all well and good.
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Speaker 2: That touchdown to George Pickens was absolutely fantastic, but the
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Speaker 2: late TD passed to give the Steelers the lead to
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Speaker 2: Mike Williams was just absolutely incredible. And I think that's
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Speaker 2: the old Russell Wilson we're now seeing. He's able to
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Speaker 2: just conjure a little bit of magic. I mean, I
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Speaker 2: watching that game back, I was like yourself. I couldn't
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Speaker 2: watch the game live because obviously it was on Sky Sports.
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Speaker 2: But watching the game the game back the next day,
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Speaker 2: watching that actual touchdown pass, I thought Russell Wilson was
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Speaker 2: about to throw the ball at a bounds and then
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Speaker 2: out of nowhere, Mike Williams enters my screen and hauls
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Speaker 2: it in for his first Steelers touchdown in his first
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Speaker 2: Steeters game, on his first Steelers and his first reception
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Speaker 2: just absolutely fantastic. So I mean, overall, I think Russell Wilson, yeah, look,
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Speaker 2: he's done a great job, and I think I think
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Speaker 2: we're slowly beginning to have a little bit of faith
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Speaker 2: that we might in fact make the playoffs and progress
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Speaker 2: past the wildcard round, this year one keep some kind
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Speaker 2: of caution, but we're I think we're beginning to dream
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Speaker 2: a little bit now.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, just on the slider caution. Obviously, we've got a
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Speaker 1: huge game of the weekend against the Ravens, and I
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Speaker 1: can exclusively reveal for anybody who listens to this on
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Speaker 1: a Tuesday before it comes out, the game is on
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Speaker 1: Sky Sports this Sunday. So the Staters getting their primetime
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Speaker 1: come up ins for US prime Time two weeks in
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Speaker 1: a row. Great to see the Staters on on television
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Speaker 1: over here as well. So when yeah, that that will
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Speaker 1: be confirmed on Wednesday, but it's definitely on Sky Sports.
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Speaker 1: That bog A name was mentioned there. Mike Williams, Welcome
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Speaker 1: to Pittsburgh. Talk about reading that new stuff.
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Speaker 5: I mean, first catches Stael, the first touchdown a Steeler,
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Speaker 5: I mean he's had more action in a space of
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Speaker 5: a couple of seconds, and he had in New York
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Speaker 5: all all all seasons. So obviously delighted for him. And
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Speaker 5: we did sort of break it down last week. We did,
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Speaker 5: of course, meself and Jimmy had I mean, he wasn't
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Speaker 5: number one on our wish list, but at the same time,
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Speaker 5: whatever comes along we're gonna take it. And the good
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Speaker 5: thing about the Steelers is we make you know, the
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Speaker 5: receivers come in and we sort of tend to make
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Speaker 5: the receivers better. That's just sort of how we rolled.
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Speaker 5: We're so good at producing, like getting the best out
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Speaker 5: of players, whether the people think he's mediocre or not.
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Speaker 5: He was a first round draft pick and he had
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Speaker 5: an amazing season with Justin Herbert under center. And he
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Speaker 5: comes in first game and he has that massive, big
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Speaker 5: of an impact. It was just fantastic see. So I
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Speaker 5: was delighted to see that. And because he's had a
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Speaker 5: tough time in New York, our Rodgers, I believe, called
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Speaker 5: him out after one game and he said he was
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Speaker 5: running the wrong routes. Well, he run the right route
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Speaker 5: on Sunday and it ended up being the win and score.
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Speaker 5: So I was delighted to see that.
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Speaker 1: Just before we go on forward, let's hear what Mike
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Speaker 1: Tomlin had to say after this huge win in Maryland.
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Speaker 6: Man, I'm really appreciative of the efforts of the guys.
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Speaker 7: You know, from a technical standpoint, I was really aggressive
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Speaker 7: today and didn't always serve us well. We took the
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Speaker 7: ball to start the game, we didn't do anything with it,
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Speaker 7: and that probably positioned them to book in half the
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Speaker 7: way that they did. They got the last possession the
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Speaker 7: first half, the first possession of the second half, and
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Speaker 7: I thought those fourteen points really changed the you know,
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Speaker 7: the texture of the game.
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Speaker 6: But but you live, man.
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Speaker 7: You can't come in hostile environments versus good people and
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Speaker 7: not be aggressive, aggressively pursue victory. We're not gonna live
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Speaker 7: in our fears. That's just how we get down. Same
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Speaker 7: thing on the fake punt, that is me. I own
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Speaker 7: that I'll do it again. But we didn't execute it,
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Speaker 7: and so it was a bad idea. But our guys fought.
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Speaker 7: They didn't blink. We got contributions in all three phases.
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Speaker 7: We got contributions from old Steelers like Cam has been
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Speaker 7: around forever. We got contributions from new Stealers man like
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Speaker 7: Mike Williams and Preston, and we disappreciative of all parties involved.
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Speaker 6: It's a good team win.
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Speaker 7: When you're coming into a environment like this, man, you
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Speaker 7: find a way to get it done. Not only is
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Speaker 7: it a well runed victory, Man, but there's some real
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Speaker 7: growth associated with it. Knowledge is self individually and collectively
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Speaker 7: Man is a component of this thing as we push
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Speaker 7: through this journey, Man and we learned a little bit
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Speaker 7: about ourselves, hopefully in a positive way. Today. We had
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Speaker 7: a lot of bumps and bruises. Some people were able
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Speaker 7: to go back here. Two that I think did not.
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Speaker 7: Dante Jackson with a hamstring did not. Alex high Smith
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Speaker 7: with an ankle did not. I think everybody else kind
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Speaker 7: of in some form of fashion got back in the game.
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Speaker 8: Questions, aggressive mindset and Mike assume you aren't going to
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Speaker 8: go for it, Darren for them to try.
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Speaker 6: We'll never know, will we? You know I'm a degenerate.
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Speaker 8: You seen that Russell Wilson throw like that over the
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Speaker 8: years that just throw it up there?
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Speaker 6: Any connection?
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Speaker 7: I've seen it a few times on highlight shows, just
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Speaker 7: a little better in person.
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Speaker 4: Believe it?
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Speaker 6: How graps did?
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Speaker 7: Mike?
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Speaker 6: Will youam have the entire off that?
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Speaker 1: What was he you think he would be able to
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Speaker 1: give you today?
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Speaker 6: He's a veteran guy, he's a quick study.
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Speaker 7: We didn't throw everything at him, but we threw enough,
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Speaker 7: particularly the one dimensional ball though you know, the passing circumstances.
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Speaker 7: We didn't want them over there standing with us at
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Speaker 7: the wayiest of moments.
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Speaker 6: Was coming binged up or herd or any or or
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Speaker 6: yeah big man one on one ball.
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Speaker 9: Yes, sir, it's the closest NFL team.
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Speaker 8: I know it's seven.
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Speaker 5: You're so focused on the game day and everything like that,
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Speaker 5: but it's nice to come back here.
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Speaker 7: You're right, I'm focused on the game. I appreciate my home,
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Speaker 7: but I'm working today.
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Speaker 4: I think the quality of the receptions you at from
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Speaker 4: the received courts.
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Speaker 7: You know, I've been trying to tell you guys all
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Speaker 7: year or that they make the plays when called upon,
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Speaker 7: and you know that's just the mindset and idea.
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Speaker 6: Their efforts make it real and so keep watching.
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Speaker 8: Like you mentioned that, this is a team that never
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Speaker 8: installed on fourth down.
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Speaker 6: It was a critical stall.
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Speaker 7: For you guys leading the game big time, you know,
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Speaker 7: But we did a lot today that you know, they
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Speaker 7: weren't accustomed to. You know, they only had thirteen three
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Speaker 7: and outs through nine football games. That was an agenda
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Speaker 7: of ours. Forty seven percent of their drives reached the
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Speaker 7: red zone. That was in the gen of ours. They're
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Speaker 7: dangerous group, they're hot group. But we want to be
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Speaker 7: the fireman. We want to put that stuff out So
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Speaker 7: what does to say about this team losing the turnover
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Speaker 7: battle but still fighting a way when the game you know,
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Speaker 7: to the guys go to credit they're tough minded, they are,
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Speaker 7: you know, particularly some of the field position things man
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Speaker 7: in the second half man they had big kick returns
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Speaker 7: and things of that nature. Our defense really got tight
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Speaker 7: when they needed to man And can't say enough about
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Speaker 7: the efforts of guys like James Pierre and guys like
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Speaker 7: that had an opportunity to step up because of an
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Speaker 7: attrition component of play.
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Speaker 8: You come in thinking you try that early.
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Speaker 9: Absolutely, Michael, you get some version of this question a lot.
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Speaker 2: But Washington is trying to get where y'all have been
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Speaker 2: for forty years in terms of consistency year after year.
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Speaker 6: What's the biggest challenge to meeting that standard every year?
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Speaker 6: And how do you how do you go about doing it?
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Speaker 7: I think, I think I And we just have a
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Speaker 7: small picture mentality. We don't talk about the challenges of
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Speaker 7: present day in reference to what's happened. We feel the
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Speaker 7: urgency of nail that stuff that's on our resume is
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Speaker 7: just on our resume. There's enough to have your attention
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Speaker 7: in present day, and that's what we that's where we
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Speaker 7: state mentally.
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Speaker 1: Listening to the Irish Series podcast as we look back
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Speaker 1: on week ten and start to look out week eleven
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Speaker 1: and Michael McCready delighted to be joined by Jimmy English
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Speaker 1: and David McKee, but come to hear a little bit
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Speaker 1: from a couple of guys have played in that big
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Speaker 1: win on Sunday. We've got Russell Wilson and George Peckins
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Speaker 1: here given their thoughts after such a big victory.
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Speaker 10: You gotta love clutch moments, you know, you get guys
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Speaker 10: that can make blaze and do things for you. You know,
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Speaker 10: first of all, big Mic over there, just traded for him.
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Speaker 10: You know, he's tremendous football player. We got GP on
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Speaker 10: the right, Van on the right, you know, and you
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Speaker 10: know those guys, you know, Pat showed up in the
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Speaker 10: big ways. I mean, just guys just stepped up in
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Speaker 10: key moments and just another great moment.
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Speaker 4: You know, when you're playing the.
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Speaker 10: Game is it's a collection I don't know, seventy five
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Speaker 10: plays and you want to see how many great moments
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Speaker 10: you can have.
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Speaker 4: And when we had that one in the key, key
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Speaker 4: part of the game, obviously you've.
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Speaker 8: Had a lot of obviously over your years satisfying throws touchdowns, but.
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Speaker 6: That seemed to be real satisfying to your reaction.
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Speaker 8: After you may have hit that.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, every time we win, it's satisfying, you know. That's
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Speaker 4: you know it was. It was a big time catch
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Speaker 4: by Mike.
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Speaker 10: You know, I just try to give him a chance,
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Speaker 10: you know, and let him do his thing, you know,
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Speaker 10: as the guy's had, you know, three plus thousand yard
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Speaker 10: seasons over his career, a guy who's made plays, a
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Speaker 10: guy who's faced some adversity.
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Speaker 4: You know, you love it when guys face adversity.
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Speaker 10: And they come through on the other end of it,
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Speaker 10: you know, And you know, he had a great week
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Speaker 10: of practice.
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Speaker 4: I thought all of our guys had a great week
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Speaker 4: of practice. We battled.
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Speaker 10: We knew this is a really good football team, really
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Speaker 10: good football team, and they play.
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Speaker 4: They play hard, they play tough throughout the game, and
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Speaker 4: we knew that was gonna come down to the wire,
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Speaker 4: and we made it when we needed it.
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Speaker 5: Hard to do that with a guy that they were
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Speaker 5: just got here, you had that little time with you know,
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Speaker 5: he's had that little time to get into the off
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Speaker 5: a top diffic goes that before.
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Speaker 10: Now you know, I think that when you throw so
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Speaker 10: many footballs and you play with so many different talented
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Speaker 10: guys and everything else. But really it's a credit to Mike,
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Speaker 10: you know, just studying the film, you know, and understanding
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Speaker 10: all the extra time that we put in this week.
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Speaker 4: Just having confidence in the people around you. That's what
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Speaker 4: makes football so great. You know.
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Speaker 10: We had confidence in the defense to get a huge
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Speaker 10: stop they did, you know, just guys answering the call.
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Speaker 10: You know, the ability to respond in the midst of
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Speaker 10: adversity is really what's important. And we could do it
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Speaker 10: as a collective effort and do it collectively as as
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Speaker 10: a team and everybody not blinking.
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Speaker 4: You know. We look forward to those moments and we
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Speaker 4: know that we believe that we can win them. And
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Speaker 4: sure enough we did today leading up to that.
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Speaker 6: Fourth and one.
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Speaker 2: And what talking about leading up to that fourth and
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Speaker 2: one and what's the key to getting that into work?
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Speaker 10: Yeah, I think the biggest thing is we're trying to
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Speaker 10: get another first time. We almost got one. CP almost
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Speaker 10: got it. That was close, and it's just trust is
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Speaker 10: trust and coach Tomlin what decision he wants to make
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Speaker 10: and how we want to go about it. You know,
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Speaker 10: we have the mentality of you know, making a play
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Speaker 10: and depending on what we were gonna do, and uh,
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Speaker 10: you know, I'm not gonna tell you guys what we
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Speaker 10: were gonna do, but uh, you know what we what
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Speaker 10: we were able to conference. There was huge obviously that
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Speaker 10: first down, just to celebrate together. Know we won the game,
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Speaker 10: right there was huge.
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Speaker 8: Did get them home went up?
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Speaker 10: Yeah, It's definitely hard counted and try to get them
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Speaker 10: to go. But I think, you know, got answers on
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Speaker 10: different things that we want to do, and you know,
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Speaker 10: I'm gonna play a little cool way and I tell
16:25
Speaker 10: you guys, what we're doing.
16:26
Speaker 8: Was the win affecting some of the deep ones.
16:30
Speaker 4: The win was definitely real today.
16:31
Speaker 10: But I you know, I you know, I think we
16:33
Speaker 10: could you know, I could have made a couple more throws.
16:35
Speaker 4: I mean, the deep one, the GP.
16:37
Speaker 10: I'm trying to give them a chance, and you know
16:38
Speaker 10: it's just you know, you try to launch it down
16:40
Speaker 10: there to them and you know, most of the time
16:42
Speaker 10: it works, and that time it didn't.
16:43
Speaker 4: But it was really a long punt, you know, and
16:45
Speaker 4: says all right, let's go.
16:46
Speaker 10: You know, but we you know the thing about us
16:47
Speaker 10: is that you know, I think the biggest thing, and
16:50
Speaker 10: coach talked about it at the end of the week,
16:52
Speaker 10: is in these moments, these critical games and these these
16:55
Speaker 10: fun games that we have coming up and all that
16:57
Speaker 10: and the battles that we have coming up, it's it.
17:00
Speaker 10: It's not about worrying about what happens or this, and
17:02
Speaker 10: that's about being the moment, you know, being so locked
17:05
Speaker 10: into the moment and loving the moment so much that
17:07
Speaker 10: you can't miss it, you know.
17:08
Speaker 4: And and sure enough we were able to do that.
17:10
Speaker 4: I think the offense line did a tremendous job. We battled.
17:13
Speaker 10: I thought guys responded in the midst of adversity. Like I said,
17:16
Speaker 10: I think we we just we needed to answer the call.
17:19
Speaker 10: And once we got that touchdown, the defense stood up
17:21
Speaker 10: like the best defense in the world that they are,
17:23
Speaker 10: and that was huge for us.
17:24
Speaker 8: George, which of those catches was more satisfying, I bet
17:27
Speaker 8: you're done. The thirty forty yards slammed or the tap
17:29
Speaker 8: on the side.
17:30
Speaker 11: I probably say all of them. They all help the team,
17:33
Speaker 11: you know, you know, get us a victory.
17:34
Speaker 9: So all of us.
17:36
Speaker 8: With your reaction when it's over the years and I
17:39
Speaker 8: don't know how much you watched Russ over the years,
17:41
Speaker 8: but you know we've seen that pass from him many
17:43
Speaker 8: many times a year.
17:43
Speaker 4: He did it again on the touchdown to Mike.
17:45
Speaker 11: Yeah, I'll probably just say, you know, letting the ball loose.
17:49
Speaker 11: That's one of his biggest components of his game, trusting
17:52
Speaker 11: the receivers. You know, when it's a certain coverage, when
17:54
Speaker 11: you see certain space front poland, back poland, he's going
17:58
Speaker 11: to release it. So his mentality for throwing abolished for sure, Superbe.
18:02
Speaker 7: Georgia is Russ was just saying your relationship out quickly,
18:06
Speaker 7: it's bro your standboards.
18:07
Speaker 4: Why is that grows?
18:09
Speaker 11: I'll probably just say repetition for sure, going after practice
18:13
Speaker 11: thing before practice, watching means watching films and you know,
18:16
Speaker 11: other guys so we can get our connection, you know,
18:19
Speaker 11: to where's a one.
18:20
Speaker 9: I'll probably say that's the most sting the very press
18:22
Speaker 9: I've been your prostra offens today.
18:24
Speaker 7: I get you since coming in so getting had to
18:26
Speaker 7: put up some numbers off pensivelate today both.
18:28
Speaker 11: Oh yeah, for sure with the offense they had, that's
18:30
Speaker 11: you know, it's kind of college base, which is you know,
18:33
Speaker 11: kind of hot home.
18:34
Speaker 9: A lot of r PO, you know r PO slants.
18:37
Speaker 9: We knew that we was not how to put up points.
18:39
Speaker 3: For sure, George Stewart break another wire receiver to help
18:42
Speaker 3: free you up.
18:43
Speaker 6: And to get into another victoria to work into both ways.
18:45
Speaker 6: What was it like for you? How much did it
18:47
Speaker 6: help you to have the presence of Michael Ware?
18:49
Speaker 9: Oh it's great man. He made a big time play too,
18:52
Speaker 9: So that's that's really all I can say.
18:55
Speaker 3: Could you talk with him to you know, keep him
18:57
Speaker 3: in beach, keep him kind of?
18:58
Speaker 1: He said he hadn't. He was playing a lot to
19:00
Speaker 1: that point.
19:01
Speaker 3: He was trying to stay locked in on the satellite.
19:03
Speaker 6: Yeah, we knew.
19:04
Speaker 9: Situationally.
19:05
Speaker 11: I told him, situationally, just stay in it because a
19:07
Speaker 11: guy with his size, you know, fourth down, you know
19:10
Speaker 11: what I mean, two minutes, but when it's weighing it down,
19:12
Speaker 11: we're looking for guys like that.
19:14
Speaker 9: So I just told him, you know, stay in it.
19:16
Speaker 1: And after we hear from the guys on the Iris
19:18
Speaker 1: series podcast, Let's look ahead, and I guess you know what. Firstly, Jimmy,
19:24
Speaker 1: before we look ahead, was there any other aspect of
19:26
Speaker 1: that game on Sunday night which really pleased you? I Mean,
19:29
Speaker 1: we've mentioned a couple of things but George Pickens really
19:32
Speaker 1: starting to come out of a shell as well. And
19:34
Speaker 1: I think to grit, like to have that grit to
19:36
Speaker 1: get that result, because I feel like if you played
19:39
Speaker 1: that game twenty thirty times, you get a different result
19:42
Speaker 1: each time either way. It just it just feels like
19:45
Speaker 1: if anything is going to give this team confidence, it's
19:48
Speaker 1: going into a stadium like that, albeit when you got
19:50
Speaker 1: some of the best fans in the world being there,
19:53
Speaker 1: way more than other teams will have. Just so much,
19:57
Speaker 1: like so many things impressed me, Cam Heyward as well
19:59
Speaker 1: as there's a man impressed the Smiff as well, great
20:01
Speaker 1: players and defense. Have you anything else you want to
20:03
Speaker 1: on it?
20:05
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'd just like to give a shout out to
20:07
Speaker 2: mink If Fitzpatrick make.
20:08
Speaker 3: I think he's been quietly contributing this season.
20:11
Speaker 2: I mean, he hasn't been his usual self in terms
20:14
Speaker 2: of ball hawking and reeling in turnovers or interceptions. He's
20:17
Speaker 2: been more playing and in the box role as a
20:20
Speaker 2: as almost like an additional linebacker. And he's been instrumental
20:23
Speaker 2: in stopping the run this year and the shutting down plays.
20:25
Speaker 2: And I think he's he's definitely been flying under the
20:27
Speaker 2: raidar so just definitely to give him a bit of
20:30
Speaker 2: a shout out.
20:31
Speaker 3: Patrick Queen had a great game, I thought, in terms.
20:33
Speaker 2: Of run stopping. Also been coverage a couple of occasions
20:37
Speaker 2: as well. So great to see that you mentioned the
20:40
Speaker 2: fans there, like Steeters fans, we know it ourselves to
20:42
Speaker 2: the best.
20:43
Speaker 3: In the world. They'll travel all around the country the
20:46
Speaker 3: chance of here we go.
20:47
Speaker 2: Steeters and mouth were ringing out through the speakers when
20:50
Speaker 2: I was watching the game back, despite the commander's best
20:53
Speaker 2: efforts to drown out the terrible tells one look, if
20:57
Speaker 2: I could be nitpicking, I suppose one thing that kind
20:59
Speaker 2: of confused me was the decision to.
21:02
Speaker 3: Go was to throw a fake punt.
21:04
Speaker 2: Run the fake punt in a shot of your own
21:06
Speaker 2: end zone four to fifteen, and if you try to
21:08
Speaker 2: run a fake punt.
21:09
Speaker 3: Didn't love that decision. I questioned the logic there.
21:13
Speaker 2: If it was a short fourth down, fair enough. It
21:17
Speaker 2: was also the games Pierre was the intended target. He's
21:20
Speaker 2: a defensive back. He doesn't often see rotation, so I
21:23
Speaker 2: think he could have had a deaf wide receiver out there. Potentially,
21:27
Speaker 2: Van Jefferson may be disguised as a gunner, so look
21:31
Speaker 2: that's the minor thing. I think if we had lost
21:33
Speaker 2: the game, there'd be a lot more scrutiny on that
21:35
Speaker 2: decision and Arthur Smith's decision to run that play, But
21:38
Speaker 2: overall we got the result. It's a massive scalp. I mean,
21:41
Speaker 2: it really is. We held Jayden Daniels to his worst
21:43
Speaker 2: game all season and really stimmied him and got after him.
21:47
Speaker 2: I think it were perhaps the biggest the stiffest test
21:50
Speaker 2: that that that the young quarterback faced all year was
21:53
Speaker 2: that Steers defense. But overall, absolutely delighted with the win
21:57
Speaker 2: and looking forward and out to Baltimore that the the
22:00
Speaker 2: fun starts with the AOC Nor I can't wait.
22:04
Speaker 1: Davog just before we look ahead to that very quickly.
22:06
Speaker 1: We've seen so many teams, especially in the first four
22:09
Speaker 1: to five weeks this season. I'm not name them because
22:11
Speaker 1: they don't want to have fan fans, but you know,
22:14
Speaker 1: we've seen teams start the season off really well. We've
22:16
Speaker 1: seen players come out of the shells really really well
22:18
Speaker 1: as well, but then we've seen teams drop off a bit.
22:22
Speaker 1: Consistency seems to be just averaging across and if we
22:24
Speaker 1: can keep this going, keep this sent them up you're
22:27
Speaker 1: gonna be happy one come Christmas Day.
22:30
Speaker 3: Absolutely.
22:31
Speaker 5: I mean if you look at our look at our record,
22:33
Speaker 5: I mean, think the feel that we're saving two and
22:37
Speaker 5: with one of the most difficult schedules in the NFL,
22:39
Speaker 5: It's it's just absolutely mind going. And our average, it
22:41
Speaker 5: is like our average is just above everybody else's average.
22:44
Speaker 5: I mean, we're continuously getting win season. As we all know,
22:47
Speaker 5: Mike Tommland has this record where he has never had
22:49
Speaker 5: a lose in the season. It just seems that, you know,
22:52
Speaker 5: as Steelers fans, we are blessed with this sort of
22:54
Speaker 5: composure and and and likeliness within our within our organization.
22:59
Speaker 5: Sorry so so yeah, I'm absolutely buzzing. Just obviously to
23:02
Speaker 5: touch on the game as well. And of course the
23:05
Speaker 5: faate ponte was risky and I thought even it was
23:07
Speaker 5: executed quite brilliantly. But at the same time, James Pierre,
23:10
Speaker 5: I mean, as Jimmy just said there, he doesn't get
23:12
Speaker 5: a lot of snaps, so he's gonna drop it there unfortunately.
23:14
Speaker 5: But I thought the execution was good and I didn't
23:16
Speaker 5: love the play either. I thought, why are we throwing
23:19
Speaker 5: it here now? You know, to take a risk out
23:21
Speaker 5: of all times that they do it now, I didn't
23:23
Speaker 5: love it, and but obviously sad this team. She was
23:26
Speaker 5: just never yield spirit, you know, so customable, like the
23:28
Speaker 5: fans of this team, a lot of spirit you know,
23:31
Speaker 5: had long by Russell Wilson. I mean just obviously looking
23:34
Speaker 5: on the starts, we're now averaging over thirty points, three
23:36
Speaker 5: hundred and eighty two offensive yards per game since he's
23:39
Speaker 5: come in under center, So who would have thought that
23:41
Speaker 5: last year and experience in certain situations is a couple
23:44
Speaker 5: of huge third down completions. I recall one to Calvin
23:47
Speaker 5: Austin as well, where he had a scramble he was
23:49
Speaker 5: faight and thign Calvin Austin for the first time and
23:51
Speaker 5: obvious an incredible play and you know that a build
23:53
Speaker 5: it for the hard kind, just to catch the commanders
23:55
Speaker 5: off the end of the game, you know, on the
23:57
Speaker 5: on the rookie who have to feel sorry for, but
23:59
Speaker 5: just incredible, you know, composure experience that we get. Russell
24:03
Speaker 5: Wilson just as touched on it as well defensively immage justither.
24:08
Speaker 5: It is interesting because Giden and Daniels had a QBR
24:10
Speaker 5: I think it was sixty eight and a half, which
24:12
Speaker 5: is by far his worst career game of his career
24:15
Speaker 5: so far, so that speaks volume to how well the
24:17
Speaker 5: defense did on Sunday and Pop the Queen as well
24:20
Speaker 5: stood out for me, but just the final one as well.
24:22
Speaker 5: I've seen a few people question as well the spot
24:24
Speaker 5: for the zach Arts completion, you know, people complaining saying
24:27
Speaker 5: that the Rafts handed us the game addressed. You know,
24:30
Speaker 5: I didn't see any complaining when TJ was held in
24:32
Speaker 5: the red or in the end zone, which would have
24:33
Speaker 5: resulted to see if they probably would have asked the
24:35
Speaker 5: game as well. So it's just interesting that I've seen
24:37
Speaker 5: that off the game and people's probably stay consistent about
24:41
Speaker 5: calling it the Rafts because we had a really a lot.
24:43
Speaker 3: Of Bods calls as well.
24:44
Speaker 5: So overall, very happy and roll on to Baltimore.
24:48
Speaker 1: I love the way you describe that situation or at
24:50
Speaker 1: the m that raft role on Baltimore. Indeed, the game
24:54
Speaker 1: is six o'clock on Sunday. Combat there on the week
24:56
Speaker 1: to maybe discuss it in more detailed game is on
24:58
Speaker 1: Sky Sports if you're in Ireland or if you're in
25:01
Speaker 1: the UK as well against the Ravens, and it's obviously
25:05
Speaker 1: a huge game like we know generally it's a big game,
25:08
Speaker 1: but certainly now in the context of the AFC North, Jimmy,
25:12
Speaker 1: this is a massive game. Give a shout out to
25:15
Speaker 1: friend of the podcast. I believe he's coming on very soon,
25:17
Speaker 1: Ton Diggs, who tweeted yesterday for the first time. This
25:20
Speaker 1: is the twenty seventeen season. I believe the Steers can
25:23
Speaker 1: make a run and I couldn't believe this. The only
25:26
Speaker 1: team in the AFC worries me is the Ravens. The
25:29
Speaker 1: Ravens are one and seven in their last eight games
25:31
Speaker 1: against Pittsburgh. Lamar is two and four against the Steelers,
25:35
Speaker 1: seven fumbles sacked twenty times, seven interceptions. It's never easy
25:40
Speaker 1: to play the Baltimore Ravens, and we've seen that first
25:43
Speaker 1: time last week Jimmy on Thursday Night. Footballer team that
25:47
Speaker 1: doesn't give up. They've got some great players in the roster.
25:50
Speaker 1: They're great competitors. What's your initial thoughts as we enter
25:54
Speaker 1: this week.
25:56
Speaker 3: I think it's going to be an opposite dog fight.
25:58
Speaker 2: Make where with two top teams the AOFC North, two
26:01
Speaker 2: top teams in the AFC overall right now, both with
26:05
Speaker 2: a similar record. I believe, although it could be it
26:07
Speaker 2: could be incorrect on that. And look it's it's like
26:11
Speaker 2: you say, we swept the Ravens last year. I think
26:13
Speaker 2: it might be a bit trickier this year, just the
26:16
Speaker 2: way they're playing and some of the talented players they
26:19
Speaker 2: have at their disposal, and they have so many weapons.
26:21
Speaker 2: But like ourselves, it's going to be hard to keep
26:24
Speaker 2: them all contained. Considering when you have such a dynamic
26:27
Speaker 2: athlete a quarterback who can literally do anything, if you
26:31
Speaker 2: leave him uncontained, you can just take off and cause
26:34
Speaker 2: absolute havoc.
26:35
Speaker 3: So I think for me, the key is going to
26:36
Speaker 3: be similar to what we did against Jayden Daniels. It
26:39
Speaker 3: is just harass them.
26:40
Speaker 2: Just get after him, keep him in the pocket to
26:42
Speaker 2: prevent him from from escaping, keep them, keep him occupied,
26:47
Speaker 2: try and try and block.
26:48
Speaker 3: Him up basically.
26:49
Speaker 2: But then also you do that, he's gonna start throwing
26:52
Speaker 2: bombs to Mark Andrews and Say Flowers and the whole
26:56
Speaker 2: host of weapons he has. That's the passing games last
26:59
Speaker 2: run and look, looky you have the running back to
27:01
Speaker 2: the Ravens.
27:02
Speaker 4: Now.
27:02
Speaker 3: Derek Henry's having one of the best careers of his season.
27:05
Speaker 2: When a lot of people thought he was done and dusted,
27:08
Speaker 2: So that's another bulldozer we have to contend with up
27:11
Speaker 2: the up the middle.
27:12
Speaker 3: So I think it's gonna be tricky. I think it's
27:13
Speaker 3: gonna be very very close.
27:14
Speaker 2: I think we need to be a lot more consistent
27:16
Speaker 2: than offense, compared to what we were against the against
27:19
Speaker 2: the Commanders. On defense, I would like to see a
27:22
Speaker 2: bit more pressure, a couple of more sacks, and just
27:25
Speaker 2: stop the run. So just like it's like I've been
27:27
Speaker 2: saying all season long, make just keep building week on week,
27:30
Speaker 2: be consistent, be above average to it, do everything right,
27:34
Speaker 2: and I think I think we'll get there. And looking
27:36
Speaker 2: forward to watching it at a reasonable hour as well.
27:40
Speaker 1: Yeah, and having that game at home. Dabug is a
27:43
Speaker 1: big factor and we will talk about that later on
27:45
Speaker 1: in the week. Any initial thoughts like that. For me,
27:47
Speaker 1: that run game obviously stands out. It feels like it's
27:50
Speaker 1: going to have to take a super Bowl type defensive
27:52
Speaker 1: performance to really shut this team up. But you know,
27:55
Speaker 1: the rewards if we can. The fault of it just
27:58
Speaker 1: gets me so excited.
28:00
Speaker 5: Yeah, No, it's it's definitely an interesting game. I mean,
28:04
Speaker 5: the whole league's raven about their offense and they should
28:07
Speaker 5: be got an incredible offense and.
28:09
Speaker 1: As you mean to say that Raven Raven about their offense,
28:12
Speaker 1: Raven about the Ravens.
28:14
Speaker 3: You caught me off there.
28:15
Speaker 5: I'm not quick with it that I just threw in
28:17
Speaker 5: upon there, but well caught on mhem. But no, I've absolutely,
28:21
Speaker 5: I mean, the whole league has just been They've been
28:23
Speaker 5: they have been literally reiven about that offense. But at
28:27
Speaker 5: the same time, I'm looking at their defense, their defenses.
28:31
Speaker 5: Forgive my French horrible la horror Belle Ellis, would you say,
28:37
Speaker 5: but now the defense is the defense is terrible. I mean,
28:40
Speaker 5: I think it was Joe Burrow, but four hundred yards
28:42
Speaker 5: up on the passing last week and they struggled against
28:46
Speaker 5: Javis Winston. They got big by Gardner Minshew in the Raiders.
28:49
Speaker 5: The defense is I think it's all time atrocious. And
28:51
Speaker 5: if if you know, if I'm looking at from a
28:53
Speaker 5: Raven standpoint, if they want to win the Super Bowl,
28:56
Speaker 5: that defense has to be a shirt up they do.
28:57
Speaker 5: You have a couple of good weapons. I think Marlon
28:59
Speaker 5: Humphrey is good, good player, but aside from Nasavaying, there's
29:03
Speaker 5: a lot of Aubager So I think there's definitely holes,
29:05
Speaker 5: we will be able to capitalize.
29:06
Speaker 1: It will just.
29:07
Speaker 5: Come down to how well will we play against Lamar
29:09
Speaker 5: Jackson on this occasion, because we do have a good
29:11
Speaker 5: record against him. You've just said that he's two and
29:13
Speaker 5: four in his career. I mean, he's what record against
29:16
Speaker 5: the NFC. When you are able to prepare for him,
29:18
Speaker 5: he does struggle. So I think as long as we
29:20
Speaker 5: prepare well and we Jimmy just said that there as well.
29:23
Speaker 5: We've had a good week to play Jed and Daniels
29:25
Speaker 5: because Hen and Lamar are quite similar. So I feel
29:28
Speaker 5: that if we have prepared well, I think we're gonna
29:30
Speaker 5: be able to come out with a win. Obviously, we
29:31
Speaker 5: will previewed a bit later in the week, but yeah,
29:34
Speaker 5: I'm pretty confident that I'm happy where we're out at
29:36
Speaker 5: the moment.
29:37
Speaker 1: Absolutely, we will look at literal on the week. Hope
29:40
Speaker 1: everybody listening to this has a great week. We're rolling
29:44
Speaker 1: into beyond double digitifigures in this season now week eleven,
29:47
Speaker 1: the season coming up for myself from Jimmy and from Baba.
29:51
Speaker 1: We will chat to you leater on the week chat soon.
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Speaker 1: Here we go
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