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Tuesday Morning Football: Steelers - Browns Preview · The Irish Steelers Podcast

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Speaker 1: Hey, folks, Welcome into the Irish Steelers Podcast. Michael McQuaid here.
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Speaker 1: Delighted to be joined with the team who I'll introduce
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Speaker 1: them week second, big second week of the season. Already
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Speaker 1: it feels like we were talking about general topics, trying
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Speaker 1: to get through the off season and then obviously going
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Speaker 1: through the preseason. Second week Steelers, Oh one, A huge
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Speaker 1: week this week one, fifteen am kickoff on Tuesday morning
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Speaker 1: for us, the Browns coming to Pittsburgh to Orchestra Stadium.
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Speaker 1: The game is on Sky Sports NFL in Ireland in
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Speaker 1: the UK and on Game Pass. But we'll talk about
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Speaker 1: that in a bit. First off, Jimmy, always good to
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Speaker 1: see you people that can't see you for now. You've
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Speaker 1: got your Steelers gear on. You're you're getting in the
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Speaker 1: week two mode, man.
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Speaker 2: I am.
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Speaker 3: Indeed, Michael. It's a little bit chillier than it was
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Speaker 3: when we last recorded. So the the Bathball Steelers. What
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Speaker 3: he use out for the season ahead? Yeah, great to
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Speaker 3: be back for a second episode in the week. I'm
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Speaker 3: a little bit more nervous than I'd like to admit
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Speaker 3: about Monday night. To be honest with you, unlike you,
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Speaker 3: I won't be staying up because I value my sleep.
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Speaker 3: But I will be the first thing I'll be doing
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Speaker 3: on Tuesday morning is checking the Steelers versus Brown score
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Speaker 3: and I hope that it's I hope that I'll be
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Speaker 3: starting off Tuesday in a good mood. But obviously the
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Speaker 3: news coming during the week with the injuries to two
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Speaker 3: of our key players is less than ideal. So I
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Speaker 3: think the bottle that we're gonna have is gonna be
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Speaker 3: a lot tougher than I would have been regardless. So yeah, loock,
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Speaker 3: just fingers fingers crossed and all positive energy for a
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Speaker 3: good outcome on Monday nce last Tuesday morning.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll probably go through injuries and just to be
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Speaker 1: zac and I'll bring David in two seconds. But just
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Speaker 1: Jimmy for me. For people listening to this, maybe in
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Speaker 1: the US or overseas, maybe outside of Ireland's UK, Europe,
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Speaker 1: a warm walking to everyone who listens. We must appreciate it.
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Speaker 1: Do you do what I do sometimes where you record
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Speaker 1: the game or you wake up as six am and
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Speaker 1: you've got the full night sleeping, then you watch about
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Speaker 1: knowing what goes on with that. I love doing that,
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Speaker 1: like I actually get to epic you.
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Speaker 3: Know, in an ideal where Michael, I would like to
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Speaker 3: do that. I'd like to do my day's work and
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Speaker 3: come home and watch the full game replay. But unfortunately,
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Speaker 3: with the advent of social media, it's not impossible unless
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Speaker 3: you have a complete social media blackout and neither turn
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Speaker 3: your phone off. I know I'm going to have people
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Speaker 3: texting me all day about the score anyway, So I
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Speaker 3: think I think what I'm going to do is just
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Speaker 3: I'll throw one eye and then I'll try and stay
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Speaker 3: off social media as much as possible and get home
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Speaker 3: and enjoy the full game recap then on on Sky
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Speaker 3: Sports or on the game Pass, or wherever wherever it may.
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Speaker 1: Be looking forward to, ready to break and down it
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Speaker 1: with breaking down the game with you boys, it's gonna
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Speaker 1: be good fun. And we have no maning cast on
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Speaker 1: Monday night. But we've got the Steels Dave in Pittsburgh.
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Speaker 1: You know. We'll talk with this in more detail in
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Speaker 1: a minute. But when you're bringing in a divisional rival,
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Speaker 1: it's always a big week, especially after last week. But
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Speaker 1: I'm I'm excited, David. It's gonna be a big, big.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: It's it's it's been nice to have the dust saddle
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Speaker 4: a little bit from from last Sunday. You know, we've
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Speaker 4: been able to sort of take a step back and
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Speaker 4: just reassure ourselves there's only been one week, even though
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Speaker 4: you know we're hot for flying everywhere, and you know
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Speaker 4: it was everyone was going crazy and but yeah, don't
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Speaker 4: worry about it. I'll be staying up and I'll be
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Speaker 4: I'll be waving a terrible twel anyway. I don't know
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Speaker 4: what it is. I tried to stay up last week
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Speaker 4: for for the Bills in Jets game. As soon as
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Speaker 4: Rogers got taken off, I just hit the all here.
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Speaker 4: But that's the thing that I'm sure Jimil chuping here
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Speaker 4: as well. Like I know it's not Steelers really, but
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Speaker 4: that's the thing that we have is still different to
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Speaker 4: the US. Like when something like that happens and like
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Speaker 4: you're either by yourself and it's one o'clock to one,
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Speaker 4: you can't.
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Speaker 5: Talk a little bit.
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Speaker 1: You're like, oh my god, hopefully we don't have that
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Speaker 1: sort of situation with anyone. Please go on Monday night.
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Speaker 4: No, That's that's exactly like the difference is if I'm
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Speaker 4: watching the Steelers, i won't even feel tired because I'll
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Speaker 4: just be like, I'll be so glued to the TV,
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Speaker 4: so it won't even affect me in one slightest way,
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Speaker 4: but it is. It's a bit difficult for ourselves, you know,
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Speaker 4: because behind the games finish over here, it's like half.
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Speaker 5: Four in the morning.
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Speaker 4: And I don't know about you Mecha, but and Jimmy,
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Speaker 4: but when we watch the games, we get this half
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Speaker 4: time period where we want to fall asleep and then
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Speaker 4: bet find the games over. You can't sleep because you
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Speaker 4: just glue to social media and you want to see
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Speaker 4: what the reaction is. But obviously with the Browns week
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Speaker 4: and stuff, it's going to be ten times worse.
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Speaker 6: You know.
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Speaker 4: It's just one of those weeks where you can't possibly
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Speaker 4: stay away. As as Jimmy said, you can't stay off
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Speaker 4: social media. It'll just be ruined on you. So I'm
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Speaker 4: just going to try and do the long game and
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Speaker 4: watch the whole game and if we win. When we
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Speaker 4: win figure Cross, I'll not be able to sleep for days.
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Speaker 2: You're a braver man than I am.
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Speaker 3: Day I tell you that, I'm sure my age are.
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Speaker 3: I'll about you a good night sleep or we're standing
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Speaker 3: to watch the game anytime. To balance with you we're
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Speaker 3: the same as you like, Come on, I'm both. I'm
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Speaker 3: up all night as long as I bed before half
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Speaker 3: like half fours my cutoff. I think ending up seven
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Speaker 3: and am half forward is my cutoff onto the game
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Speaker 3: or onto a couple of things before that which are
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Speaker 3: relevant to the game, obviously a couple of injuries and
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Speaker 3: field three boys to chirping him because I know, I
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Speaker 3: know there's different ones or concerns, but Jimmy starting meres
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Speaker 3: al Cam Howard ground surgery. You're looking up to eight
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Speaker 3: weeks out.
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Speaker 1: Deontay Johnson is calling his hamstring dead to day, but
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Speaker 1: we don't really know and we can't confirm officially what
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Speaker 1: that is at the minute, but we'll certainly have a look.
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Speaker 1: Apparently that the line from Pittsburgh is there was no
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Speaker 1: definitive time heal for his return, so we would expect
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Speaker 1: at the time of recording, we're recording on a Thursday,
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Speaker 1: that we're not going to see him on Monday night.
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Speaker 1: Cam Hayward's a huge loss, but we have to just
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Speaker 1: try and have that next guy up ballotude, especially when
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Speaker 1: it's such a huge week after last week. But of
5:45
Speaker 1: course Cam's a massive loss, and I feel it for
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Speaker 1: Deonte as well, after the season that he had last
5:50
Speaker 1: year and he wanted to come out and get a
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Speaker 1: few touchdowns this year, He's gonna have to win a
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Speaker 1: few weeks best out of it.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think the loss of Cam Hayward for at
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Speaker 3: least ay weeks Michael is huge, and I think it
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Speaker 3: kind of, you know, it almost properly encapsulates what a
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Speaker 3: mess last week was. The one of our star players,
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Speaker 3: I mean, the heart of the defense, defensive captain in
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Speaker 3: all likelihood, the future Hall of Famer on that defensive front.
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Speaker 3: That he goes down with a groin injury in Week one,
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Speaker 3: so I believe he's having the surgery today or tomorrow.
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Speaker 3: He's officially out for eight weeks. And you know, the
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Speaker 3: Steelers struggled to plug that gap in the middle of
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Speaker 3: the defensive line last week. You had Isaiah Asia Luder
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Speaker 3: Milk and kenn of Benton doing their best. But Cam
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Speaker 3: is just such an explosive player and just such your
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Speaker 3: force and shutting down the run game first of all,
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Speaker 3: but also putting pressure on the quarterback through the rush
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Speaker 3: and fill in the middle of that. It's definitely going
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Speaker 3: to be a challenge to you can't replace them. Let's
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Speaker 3: just be honest. You can't replace Cam Hayward. There is
6:51
Speaker 3: no replacing Cam Hayward. The Steelers just have to do
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Speaker 3: their best to hold on as long as they can,
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Speaker 3: and yeah, just to do what they can to plug
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Speaker 3: that app.
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Speaker 1: Dave, going on just what Jimmy said about the injuries
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Speaker 1: and looking there, maybe at Dante Johnson as well, feel
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Speaker 1: free to drip of me your calm thought as well.
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Speaker 1: But you know you're looking at a guy like George
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Speaker 1: Pickins and thinking can he take that next step forward?
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Speaker 1: And he's going to be cay Monday night.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly that Megael with Dean Tates. It's a massive loss. Obviously,
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Speaker 4: He's one of Kenny's favorite targets, if not favorite, And
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Speaker 4: but again it's it's it's one of those where if
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Speaker 4: we're going to put a positive spin on its next
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Speaker 4: man up. You know, Calvin Austin I thought was played
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Speaker 4: but particularly well last week and he says big shoes
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Speaker 4: to fill now as well. And as you say, with
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Speaker 4: George Pickins, you know, there was a lot of talk
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Speaker 4: in the preseason about him being the most talented receiver
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Speaker 4: in football. We have to see it now because there's
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Speaker 4: no nowhere to heide. We have to see it just
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Speaker 4: as well on Cam Heward just to back up everything
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Speaker 4: Jimmy has just said there about him. He's a sure fight, sure,
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Speaker 4: surefire Hall of famer, Pittsburgh born and bred and again
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Speaker 4: massive loss of course. But as well as that, you know,
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Speaker 4: if you ask any Browns fan what they think about
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Speaker 4: Heyward not playing Dylan ralson, they're absolutely delighted because he's
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Speaker 4: caused them absolutely fits over the year. But it's just
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Speaker 4: it's the same situations as the Deante situation.
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Speaker 5: It's nax Man up.
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Speaker 4: You know, we've got Keanu Batton as well, the Morvin
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Speaker 4: Leal and big opportunities to go ahead and make a
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Speaker 4: name for themselves. So although Jimmy says they're they're irreplaceable,
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Speaker 4: he is sort of he replaceable this defense and you
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Speaker 4: know even to the city as well. He's a massive figure.
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Speaker 4: But you know, we have to sort of just trad
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Speaker 4: spin in a positive note and just say, look, nax
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Speaker 4: Man up and you've got to form to the level
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Speaker 4: to be Pittsburgh stealer and that's it. So hopefully the
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Speaker 4: guys can stop up and you know, every every set
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Speaker 4: of being that they will.
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Speaker 3: If George Pickens doesn't have ten to fifteen targets, never
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Speaker 3: wine receptions.
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Speaker 5: On Monday Night. I'm going on strike, lads, honestly, because.
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Speaker 3: Janue Winley, like he is, he is one of the
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Speaker 3: best young receivers in the league right now. He is
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Speaker 3: so talented and we can see what he do, what
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Speaker 3: he can do against.
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Speaker 2: One on one.
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Speaker 3: He's scary, and he's like he's been underutilized in his
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Speaker 3: in his brief career thus far, and like, genuinely he
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Speaker 3: has to be Kenny's number one guy on Monday nights.
9:15
Speaker 3: We both know the connection is We all know the
9:17
Speaker 3: connection is there. We've seen it in the preseason, We've
9:19
Speaker 3: seen it last year. So it's time to put that
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Speaker 3: into practice now in the regular season and give feed
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Speaker 3: George the ball, pick it to Pickens. You know, that's
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Speaker 3: what it has to be.
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Speaker 1: Spot on boys, you know. At then, like I think,
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Speaker 1: I think the great thing that I loved about sort
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Speaker 1: of like like the hangover after Sunday was just getting
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Speaker 1: all shoting with your boys. So like, I think you
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Speaker 1: get me in the right move for this game Monday night,
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Speaker 1: Like let's get in the mood and let's hear firstly
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Speaker 1: from Najie Harris and then Kenny picking ahead at the
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Speaker 1: game Monday Night Football, one fifteen am on Tuesday Morning Football.
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Speaker 1: I think that's gonna be the name of the podcast,
9:52
Speaker 1: Tuesday Morning Football. Let's hear it from Nauji and then Kenny.
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Speaker 5: You guys getting in fashion.
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Speaker 2: I think us coming out there and establishing who couldn't
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Speaker 2: do that last year?
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Speaker 6: But uh, you know, that's that's something I think it
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Speaker 6: will be would be good. But you know, listen, we
10:13
Speaker 6: gotta follow the day play and execute it.
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Speaker 1: As a veteran on.
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Speaker 3: This team, how do the guys have to step how's
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Speaker 3: a veteran that's great, but how does the guys on
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Speaker 3: the offense.
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Speaker 2: Have to step up in the past.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, uh, you know, we're got to find out we
10:31
Speaker 6: got to take a spot and to make place for
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Speaker 6: us on the edge. We have a lot of guys
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Speaker 6: who do that, so we're not worried about it, but
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Speaker 6: you know, just yeah, we're not for the most part.
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Speaker 6: You know, Deontay's birth place, you should be back shot
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Speaker 6: back in a couple of games, so you know, just
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Speaker 6: somebody coming in there and just you know.
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Speaker 2: Supplementing for what he has, what he brings is the
10:51
Speaker 2: whole thing that I'm.
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Speaker 7: Gonna call you a veteran again.
10:54
Speaker 8: But as a veteran, are you giving me Are you
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Speaker 8: giving any of the younger guys some advice with Deontay.
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Speaker 2: Johnson's No, not really, like they already know that they
11:03
Speaker 2: are to know this. This is is a sport of football.
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Speaker 2: You know, one person goes down, next man up. They
11:08
Speaker 2: know what what that comes with.
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Speaker 6: Uh, it's it's a it's a good time for you know,
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Speaker 6: somebody else to have our opportunity and make plays for
11:14
Speaker 6: us and to get their name out there.
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Speaker 2: So you know, they know what it is. We all
11:18
Speaker 2: know what it is too, So you know, there's really
11:21
Speaker 2: nothing much just to speak about. If if you know,
11:23
Speaker 2: you are to know, it's little sit to come in
11:25
Speaker 2: terms of temple, how does your offense? Oh yeah, so
11:29
Speaker 2: we yeah, how do we work on temple?
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Speaker 5: Yeah?
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Speaker 2: Maybe the temple get you guys, you will get us going. Yeah, temple, temple,
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Speaker 2: Temple works out for us for the most part.
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Speaker 6: You know, us us just have a one word plays
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Speaker 6: and line it up fast and can get into it
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Speaker 6: and playing with pace is good shows off our conditioning too.
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Speaker 6: You know, it might put the defense on edge, you know,
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Speaker 6: because it might be abut of players for us, They
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Speaker 6: might be out there for a certain amount of plays
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Speaker 6: and you know, we go temple and start moving the ball.
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Speaker 2: You know what kind of works out in our favorites.
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Speaker 7: Nagi you we just talked about Kenny if he was
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Speaker 7: saying that, you know, you guys can move among you guys.
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Speaker 3: This is really good.
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Speaker 7: You were able to join your page quickly. How would
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Speaker 7: you describe the meat along you guys going into a week.
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Speaker 1: As big as us.
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Speaker 6: It's cool just this seventeen game schedule. So you know
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Speaker 6: the worst thing you could do is beat yourself up
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Speaker 6: about performance like that. Uh, you just gotta take what
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Speaker 6: take Take what it is, take a look at film
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Speaker 6: and then.
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Speaker 2: Come in and my left browns.
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Speaker 3: Kenny, what do you feel like was the biggest adjust thing.
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Speaker 7: He's had to make this one?
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Speaker 5: I wouldn't say it was too much unadjust. We just
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Speaker 5: didn't play well. We didn't execute it. Nowhere there what
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Speaker 5: we need to be.
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Speaker 8: So they'll keep the preparation, as I say, with other
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Speaker 8: preparation for the week. It's good just about going out
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Speaker 8: there and playing well.
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Speaker 5: And it's keep Kerry.
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Speaker 2: When you looked at your performance.
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Speaker 3: Was it throws you didn't make or would you like
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Speaker 3: to have a couple back?
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Speaker 8: Yeah, I definitely want a couple back early on, especially,
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Speaker 8: I think it's a different game if we hit some
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Speaker 8: early on to put points up and just kind of
12:49
Speaker 8: keep the pressure going back and forth. But I need
12:52
Speaker 8: to definitely be a lot better. We as an offense
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Speaker 8: will be better. When we decided to get back out
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Speaker 8: there Monday.
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Speaker 5: What you think it was decision making or just throwing it?
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Speaker 8: No, I was.
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Speaker 5: I was giving my decision as it was just throwing
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Speaker 5: in the execution.
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Speaker 7: What isn't in your experience that you feel confident that
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Speaker 7: you can bounce back from a performance like that?
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Speaker 5: A confidence in myself, the team, the guys around me.
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Speaker 8: You know, I know everyone's gonna answer the bell. We're
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Speaker 8: gonna come out and play on Monday. So I love
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Speaker 8: the energy we have around here, love the practice that
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Speaker 8: we had today. Everyone's playing their best foot forward this week.
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Speaker 8: So it's just about you know, going out their Monday
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Speaker 8: night compete.
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Speaker 5: Then what do you do you believe in football? You
13:22
Speaker 5: look back at the film and that we disappointed by
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Speaker 5: what you're saying, How do you bounce back? Yeah? I mean,
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Speaker 5: obviously that's a really easy answer. Of course we are.
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Speaker 8: We didn't play nearly as well as we've been playing
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Speaker 8: or how we can play. So it is what it
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Speaker 8: is is twenty four hour. We'll save as if you win.
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Speaker 8: You can't celebrate too long. You can't do on the
13:37
Speaker 8: lass too long. And let it be twice.
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Speaker 5: So let's the list of me and take away.
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Speaker 7: Mike said that football justice is the reason why he
13:42
Speaker 7: believes you can bounce back you put in the work. Therefore,
13:45
Speaker 7: you know, Carmel will kind of come back around his
13:47
Speaker 7: football justice something that you've kind of believe in.
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Speaker 8: In that way.
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Speaker 5: I mean, I believe you've got to go get what
13:51
Speaker 5: you know. You got to go get it. No one's
13:53
Speaker 5: gonna ad it to you. It's not going to be easy.
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Speaker 5: I don't think you just kind of roll.
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Speaker 8: Out there and hope it happens. Like you said, you
13:57
Speaker 8: gotta put the work in to make it happen. You know,
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Speaker 8: go exec would play. So that's all I want to do,
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Speaker 8: you know how far and go out there playing kind
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Speaker 8: of lose, you know, soon what happens.
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Speaker 9: Kenny, on a few occasions push Tom Winer's Chris Conference,
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Speaker 9: talked about how Cleveland's corners were against the Good Water
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Speaker 9: Savers Cincinnati.
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Speaker 5: Ye, how do you guys maybe to attack that the.
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Speaker 8: That that it's been around that if you have to, Yeah,
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Speaker 8: a ton of respect for those guys and you know,
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Speaker 8: great great defense, great team. Uh, you know, had a
14:22
Speaker 8: really good offense to three points. So obviously it's a
14:25
Speaker 8: it's a tall or new but you.
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Speaker 5: Know we dropped there.
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Speaker 8: Actual two play well, none confident, go out there and
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Speaker 8: put points in the world. Can't shot.
14:32
Speaker 3: How difficult is it to replace de'onda ay? What about
14:34
Speaker 3: these guys make the conference?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think it's pot committee obviously.
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Speaker 8: You know, Deontay is a you know, really good player,
14:39
Speaker 8: does so many good things for us, and it was
14:41
Speaker 8: really kind of trending in the right way. I thought
14:42
Speaker 8: we had a great off season and was doing great
14:44
Speaker 8: things in the game. You know, just now it's you know,
14:47
Speaker 8: everyone's got to step up and pick it up.
14:48
Speaker 5: You know, it can't just be one guy.
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Speaker 8: But you know, I have a ton of reps with everybody,
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Speaker 8: so I'm I'm confident they're out there.
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Speaker 5: Next team.
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Speaker 3: Kenny, you were six for six and targeting Calvin last week.
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Speaker 5: What's the confidence level with him?
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Speaker 8: And going along with Deontay being in sure how much
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Speaker 8: confidence or do you have an him stepping in for
15:02
Speaker 8: a guy like you.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's been high.
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Speaker 8: It's always been high on Calvin is a great job,
15:06
Speaker 8: works so hard, always where I needed to be. So
15:08
Speaker 8: I think that's why you know we had you know success,
15:10
Speaker 8: you know, working together, and I'm excited to get it
15:11
Speaker 8: back out there, you know one day continue that's success.
15:14
Speaker 5: Can you hide?
15:15
Speaker 7: Ford is momentum to the stat It's important to established somnum,
15:17
Speaker 7: especially in the passing game early so that.
15:19
Speaker 5: You guys can get into your rhythm and get that
15:21
Speaker 5: from Yeah, it's big.
15:22
Speaker 8: I mean you just want to you know, get a
15:23
Speaker 8: first down and get the change moving and get into
15:25
Speaker 8: the flow of the game.
15:26
Speaker 5: So that's that's what we want to get into.
15:28
Speaker 8: You know, Wedday night, you get back to playing our
15:29
Speaker 8: kind of football and then just see where it goes.
15:31
Speaker 7: You test on it a little bit if just how
15:33
Speaker 7: do you describe the mood among you guys kind of
15:35
Speaker 7: turning the page here and going into this week.
15:37
Speaker 5: Yeah, the move's been good.
15:38
Speaker 8: Like I said, it's twenty four hour well whether you
15:40
Speaker 8: win or lose, and you have to keep that perspective.
15:42
Speaker 8: You can't change just because your way in or change
15:43
Speaker 8: because of viewers. You kind of keep everything the same
15:47
Speaker 8: and you just find a rhythm in the weeks as
15:49
Speaker 8: they go. But I think the guys at a good
15:50
Speaker 8: job at certainly the page twenty four hours, you know, fixing.
15:53
Speaker 8: When you get fixed and I'm excited to play a
15:55
Speaker 8: load it.
15:55
Speaker 5: Do you have to establish more of a running game
15:57
Speaker 5: this week? I mean, yeah, we didn't. We didn't have
15:59
Speaker 5: much of it.
16:00
Speaker 8: You know, early on we got behind and we were
16:01
Speaker 8: trying to play catch up. That goes back to us
16:04
Speaker 8: just being successful on you know, early down, staying out
16:06
Speaker 8: up third and walls and and playing you know, on
16:08
Speaker 8: time with football at the football. So it's it's a
16:11
Speaker 8: it's a you know, a test that we got to
16:13
Speaker 8: get on, you know earlier.
16:14
Speaker 3: Okay, can you guys go more up tempo or does
16:16
Speaker 3: the game dictate that.
16:17
Speaker 6: I know a couple of guys are talking about you've
16:18
Speaker 6: got to be successful in first downs to get into that.
16:22
Speaker 8: Yeah, that kind of goes in the flow of the game.
16:24
Speaker 8: You know, you get the change, but then you can
16:25
Speaker 8: go tempo. So that's kind of you know, we'll see
16:28
Speaker 8: how the game's going and we'll feel it out and
16:30
Speaker 8: how we won with Tenneco.
16:31
Speaker 7: I know you emphasized your connection with George during training camp.
16:34
Speaker 7: Does he need to be involved in the offensive game
16:37
Speaker 7: plan a little?
16:38
Speaker 5: You know, I mean, he'll naturally get more as it goes.
16:41
Speaker 8: And it just kind of shook out that way that
16:42
Speaker 8: Cale had a lot, he rob had a good amount.
16:45
Speaker 8: I mean, he still had his touches, but we obviously
16:47
Speaker 8: want to get him more more wolves, so that was
16:49
Speaker 8: continued to be a challenge as we go.
16:50
Speaker 9: Okay, from the standpoint of home field advantage, you're sick
16:53
Speaker 9: of one at home year. I was pretty rare on
16:55
Speaker 9: what we saw last weekend where there's much speed to
16:57
Speaker 9: infiltration of world fans and how do you keep your
17:00
Speaker 9: holl of fans hit it for your defense to help
17:03
Speaker 9: them out in the third and.
17:05
Speaker 5: Fourth quarter play better.
17:07
Speaker 8: That's a I mean, that's that's out of rocket science answer.
17:09
Speaker 8: I can't give you any magical answer there. I'm not
17:12
Speaker 8: not too concerned with that though. We have a lot
17:13
Speaker 8: that we need to focus on getting better on the outside.
17:16
Speaker 8: It is the outside, you know, distractions whatever it would
17:19
Speaker 8: be out of our control.
17:20
Speaker 3: Canny can you is there one pool you kick yourself
17:23
Speaker 3: over where you say, man, I'm gonna get through all
17:25
Speaker 3: the time.
17:26
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean there's a there's there's a couple.
17:28
Speaker 8: You know.
17:28
Speaker 5: It was just awful, little bit.
17:30
Speaker 8: Can't explain why, you know it felt good going into it.
17:32
Speaker 8: It happens maybe playing playing the nth and it happens.
17:35
Speaker 8: You know, how minch to get back out there Monday.
17:37
Speaker 9: But did you see a difference in their defense with
17:40
Speaker 9: Schwartz his defensive coordinator last week?
17:42
Speaker 8: Yeah, you know, there's definitely a difference New d You
17:44
Speaker 8: see they're gonna have you know, he's gonna call his
17:46
Speaker 8: stuff and what he's been doing for his whole cares
17:49
Speaker 8: that's you know, he mixes it up. He does it
17:51
Speaker 8: really good. Job would be on our toes for whatever,
17:53
Speaker 8: you know, prepare for what we've seen, be ready to
17:55
Speaker 8: adjust as we go and the fly, you know, kind
17:57
Speaker 8: of the same model each week.
18:05
Speaker 1: Okay, that was Maggie Horras and also Kenny Peckett. Let's look,
18:10
Speaker 1: let's let's dive into this game. This is a huge
18:12
Speaker 1: game on Monday nights. Last Tuesday morning for us. I'm
18:15
Speaker 1: buzzing to watch it live because I'm buzzing to see
18:18
Speaker 1: orchestrare under the lights, everybody going mad crazy, Like when
18:23
Speaker 1: I was like, it was great being in Dublin last
18:24
Speaker 1: week watching the game with fans and stuff. But where
18:26
Speaker 1: I want to be at home cup of tea. You're
18:28
Speaker 1: ready to go four or five am. Hope that that
18:31
Speaker 1: further fourth porter goes fast and we get to better
18:33
Speaker 1: early with a good result. But I guess, Jimmy, you know,
18:36
Speaker 1: looking at both teams, like the Browns had a huge
18:39
Speaker 1: win for themselves last week. You know a lot of
18:41
Speaker 1: people did not think that they would go in in
18:44
Speaker 1: their home up against Cincinnati and win that game to
18:48
Speaker 1: the level of which he did. You know, they look granted,
18:51
Speaker 1: the Bengals offense, especially Joe Burrow, did not show up,
18:55
Speaker 1: But when you got to Sean Watson, who finally has
18:57
Speaker 1: a full off season behind him with no restrictions and
19:00
Speaker 1: has a new OC and Bill Musgrave, his potential, his
19:03
Speaker 1: potential is off the charts. But for me, the key
19:06
Speaker 1: to this game is establishing a run game, trying to
19:10
Speaker 1: get a run game going. I know it was difficult
19:11
Speaker 1: last week when you've got that sort of Niners defense,
19:14
Speaker 1: it is difficult, But this week is that and it's
19:16
Speaker 1: trying to see Kenny picking a bit more compident night.
19:18
Speaker 1: I was impressed with his press conference after the game
19:22
Speaker 1: on on week one, Impressed with some of the things
19:24
Speaker 1: he was saying there. Now it's just about delivering that
19:26
Speaker 1: and giving them a bit more time. It takes one
19:29
Speaker 1: or three weeks to get back to where he was
19:30
Speaker 1: at the end of last season. I'll take that, But
19:32
Speaker 1: I hope we see that in money that we need
19:34
Speaker 1: to if the Cities are go win this game.
19:37
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, Michael. I mean establishing the run early on
19:40
Speaker 3: it is so important, and that comes down to the
19:42
Speaker 3: O line. That comes down to the boys up front
19:44
Speaker 3: and making those holes for Nagy to run through, and
19:49
Speaker 3: of course and expecting even Jana Maarn to run through
19:52
Speaker 3: whoever ends up getting the majority of carries. And once
19:56
Speaker 3: you get a sort of run game going, that allows
19:58
Speaker 3: you then to open up pass game, which obviously is
20:01
Speaker 3: the ultimate goal. Is to get Kenny to the groove,
20:03
Speaker 3: get him some confidence, you know, kind of short to
20:05
Speaker 3: mid rage completions to whoever the receiver may be. But
20:09
Speaker 3: I think as a whole, the offense needs to be
20:13
Speaker 3: in sync a lot better than they were last week.
20:15
Speaker 3: I mean, they were I didn't sink at all last week,
20:17
Speaker 3: let's be honest. So I mean, if you fix the
20:20
Speaker 3: basic things like that, and he could be looking at
20:24
Speaker 3: a whole new offense. And then in terms of defense,
20:27
Speaker 3: it's the secondary need that the secondary was completely absent
20:31
Speaker 3: as far as I as far as I could see,
20:33
Speaker 3: you know, last week. And Patrick Peterson Joey Porter. Patrick
20:37
Speaker 3: Peterson is one of the best cornerbacks in the league,
20:39
Speaker 3: and he had a very quiet game against against the Niners.
20:41
Speaker 3: Similarly with Mink Fitzpatrick and all pro safety completely non
20:46
Speaker 3: existent in terms of picking up the receivers. So yeah,
20:50
Speaker 3: like the whole both sides of the ball needs to
20:53
Speaker 3: step up and put a bigger performance in. I think
20:56
Speaker 3: if we have, if we go oh and too, it's
20:57
Speaker 3: it's going to be a disaster.
20:58
Speaker 2: I think.
21:00
Speaker 5: I think like.
21:02
Speaker 1: It'll be rough. I'll I'll say this aster, but it's
21:06
Speaker 1: rough because it's like, how do you call it? How
21:07
Speaker 1: do you call yourself back? Never mind the AFC nor
21:10
Speaker 1: for the AFC. It's it's a going down and trying
21:13
Speaker 1: to get it.
21:13
Speaker 2: I'll begin.
21:14
Speaker 1: So hopefully we're looking at one on one, you're with it,
21:16
Speaker 1: and friend of the podcast Jimmy before you forget and
21:18
Speaker 1: go to Dave. On the second Stephen Kerns was using
21:21
Speaker 1: the hashtags Steelers Ireland on X you can do so
21:24
Speaker 1: on Instagram and on TikTok as well. Steven was saying
21:27
Speaker 1: about his key in the Browns a Monday Night football
21:30
Speaker 1: and he was saying, you know, too tight Ancesty the
21:32
Speaker 1: feature heavily as you're gonna need a double guard and smith,
21:35
Speaker 1: and also the defensive tackles need to jam the line
21:38
Speaker 1: to contain Nick Chubb. You almost forget what and I
21:41
Speaker 1: guess I'll go first with you, Jimmy and Dave's Churchard,
21:43
Speaker 1: but as well, you almost forget about the Browns run
21:45
Speaker 1: game because you've got the show on there and you've
21:46
Speaker 1: got different assets there. But Chubb could cause riots to
21:50
Speaker 1: any team, never mind in Pittsburgh Monday night.
21:53
Speaker 5: Yeah.
21:53
Speaker 3: Absolutely, it's so important to show him down and just
21:57
Speaker 3: have a like I said, my make, the defense needs
22:01
Speaker 3: to step up. Inside linebackers need to attackle outside linebackers
22:05
Speaker 3: seem to get pressure. I mean the TJ Watches just
22:09
Speaker 3: has to do what he's been doing or what he
22:10
Speaker 3: what he's done, and like just a more cohesive team performance.
22:14
Speaker 3: I think, but absolutely shut down show. Make it so
22:18
Speaker 3: that Deshaun can't can't rely on the run game if
22:20
Speaker 3: he needs to, and make the offense one dimensional and
22:24
Speaker 3: make him throw and hopefully we can get some some
22:25
Speaker 3: splash plays and some turnovers and hopefully we're all going
22:29
Speaker 3: to be in a better mood after watching watching the
22:32
Speaker 3: game on Tuesday.
22:35
Speaker 1: Dave him on before we get our picks in a
22:37
Speaker 1: few minutes, talk to us about your falseness, Geme. You
22:39
Speaker 1: know we talked about the injuries. Thanks big fans has
22:42
Speaker 1: even given his points, enjoyed Jimmy's knols as well. I
22:46
Speaker 1: just feel like it's gonna come down to Kenny on
22:48
Speaker 1: the on the night, because if he he won't go.
22:51
Speaker 1: I watched the game back and I think on Wadden
22:54
Speaker 1: stay and there was those two situations, especially at four
22:58
Speaker 1: from four, and you feel like Canny can he use
23:01
Speaker 1: that as some sort of learning curve going into this week,
23:04
Speaker 1: especially when you're gonna have Look, let's be honest, it's
23:06
Speaker 1: a home game, but Bronze fans are everywhere. It's going
23:08
Speaker 1: to be loud enough in there. Hopefully he can use
23:11
Speaker 1: that to his advantage. And this is a huge opportunity
23:14
Speaker 1: to not just put a market on the AFC or
23:16
Speaker 1: for on Monday night, but put a market in the league.
23:18
Speaker 1: Is everyone's watching it and everyone at one o'clock in
23:20
Speaker 1: the morning, but everyone who's up like me, full of
23:23
Speaker 1: Cobi's gonna be watching it. And I know a lot
23:24
Speaker 1: of Stealers Nation will be up and Tuesday morning watching
23:27
Speaker 1: it on airplane Mude as well.
23:30
Speaker 4: Yeah, I know you've just said it there, Megael, That
23:33
Speaker 4: for me, the key to success with Vetter doubt. You know,
23:35
Speaker 4: we can talk about stopping Nick Chubb. Obviously it's important,
23:38
Speaker 4: you know, we have obviously the defense, get the defense
23:40
Speaker 4: off the fielding on third down. But honestly, I think
23:43
Speaker 4: the key to success is just getting Kenny into a groove.
23:46
Speaker 4: And you know we heard him speaking there about the execution.
23:49
Speaker 5: The executing.
23:50
Speaker 4: Just the execution just needs to be much better. And
23:53
Speaker 4: I think if it does, I think we're in for
23:55
Speaker 4: a hell of a game and I think we can
23:56
Speaker 4: easily win it, you know, just coming down to it.
23:59
Speaker 4: And you know as well as that, you know, we
24:00
Speaker 4: mentioned about the key matchups as well. You know, we're
24:03
Speaker 4: talking about George Pickens and Al Robinson coming up against
24:06
Speaker 4: their corners and danzel Ward and I think it's Martin
24:08
Speaker 4: Emerson Junior and them two actually held Jamar Chason t
24:12
Speaker 4: Higgins to a very quack game. They actually held Joe
24:15
Speaker 4: Burrow eighty two yards, which is crazy when you think
24:17
Speaker 4: of it. So obviously there are some of the key
24:20
Speaker 4: matchups as well. And obviously, you know, stop the mouse yards.
24:23
Speaker 4: He's one of the best pass rushers in the entire league.
24:27
Speaker 4: If we can stop him, then we're going to be competitive.
24:29
Speaker 4: So you know, there's a lot of keys to the
24:32
Speaker 4: success if you like, and you know you're matching, they're
24:35
Speaker 4: getting that home crowd behind us. If we can just
24:37
Speaker 4: stay in there for a bit a little bit longer.
24:39
Speaker 4: You know, four Nighters were able to silences very quickly.
24:41
Speaker 4: If we can stay in there a bit longer throughout
24:43
Speaker 4: the game, the brands are going to get uncomfortable and
24:45
Speaker 4: we're going to be able to put them under pressure
24:46
Speaker 4: on both sides of the ball.
24:47
Speaker 5: So you know, TJ.
24:48
Speaker 4: Watt's going to do his job as he normally does.
24:50
Speaker 4: There's no point name talking about TJ. Because we know
24:52
Speaker 4: he's going to show up. He does every time, and
24:55
Speaker 4: it's just about putting all these pieces together and hopefully
24:58
Speaker 4: by the end of the half four on Tuesday morning,
25:01
Speaker 4: I won't be able to sleep because I'll be absolutely
25:03
Speaker 4: buzzing where Saelers win. So my prediction, I'll just jump
25:06
Speaker 4: onto my production. I think the Steelers are going to
25:08
Speaker 4: win twenty seven twenty four, call us right now.
25:13
Speaker 3: I'm actually I was just thinking that in my head
25:15
Speaker 3: day it's going to come down to our field goal,
25:16
Speaker 3: and I'm going to say the Eggs not to be
25:18
Speaker 3: not to copy RB RB boring. I'm going to go
25:20
Speaker 3: twenty four to twenty one, and I'm going to go
25:24
Speaker 3: Steelers by a field goal, to win it in the
25:27
Speaker 3: dying moments, a dramatic field goal and to change the
25:31
Speaker 3: victory over the Brands at home on Monday night. That's
25:33
Speaker 3: not go with my official pick.
25:35
Speaker 2: There.
25:35
Speaker 3: The Wizard of Boss says it exactly exactly all hell Boz.
25:40
Speaker 1: Jimmy's gonna wake up with like eighty million Bat's obslost
25:43
Speaker 1: shotting the vision. I'll, I'll, i'll actually separately incasse. Jimmy
25:46
Speaker 1: wants to watch the game on Tuesday morning before I
25:49
Speaker 1: get my pick Steelers Browns one fifteen am Sky Sports
25:52
Speaker 1: NFL in Ireland. In the UK, NFL Game Pass. Also,
25:55
Speaker 1: the game is not blocked out. You can't watch primetime
25:58
Speaker 1: games outside of the early and wins on Sunday on
26:00
Speaker 1: the NFL Game Pass.
26:02
Speaker 5: And I'm excited.
26:04
Speaker 1: I'm excited for this. I'm going to say it's a
26:05
Speaker 1: defensive slug fest and the Steelers win seventeen to fourteen
26:11
Speaker 1: after a tight game. But I'll ti you what, I'll
26:13
Speaker 1: take it. I like I think anyone, especially after some
26:16
Speaker 1: of the games that we've had, Like the Monday Football
26:18
Speaker 1: game last week with the Jets was a great ending,
26:21
Speaker 1: but it wasn't I wouldn't say it was the best game.
26:23
Speaker 1: The Sunday night Football with the Giants and the Cowboys
26:26
Speaker 1: was not worth watching in my opinion. And I think
26:29
Speaker 1: across the league last year, last week, sorry, you could
26:31
Speaker 1: say a certain standard not beat there yet. And I
26:33
Speaker 1: feel like this week we're gonna get a lot more
26:35
Speaker 1: action and I think that the Steelers will get the
26:37
Speaker 1: win on Monday Night Football, go to one and one
26:41
Speaker 1: on the season, and just just really take it from
26:43
Speaker 1: there and try and get into that next game against
26:47
Speaker 1: the Raiders on Sunday and football that week after when
26:50
Speaker 1: they're in primetime again, show people exactly what they are
26:53
Speaker 1: and it's gonna be a good few weeks. Looking forward
26:55
Speaker 1: to getting some guests on as well. We've gotta bring
26:57
Speaker 1: Old Murphy on to the Ravens game on October. We
27:00
Speaker 1: have to do it. We have to do it for
27:01
Speaker 1: the crack. If people aren't aware of who owns the
27:04
Speaker 1: Harland player. He's a big Ravens fan. But he's gonna
27:07
Speaker 1: come on and he's gonna talk about the Steers football
27:08
Speaker 1: as well, but the Ravens football, so it'll be good fun.
27:11
Speaker 1: But boys, I hope he's both enjoyed the game this
27:13
Speaker 1: weekend or this this Monday night. It's not even this weekend.
27:16
Speaker 1: It's some Monday night.
27:17
Speaker 5: Boys.
27:17
Speaker 1: She used more than football.
27:18
Speaker 5: I love it big.
27:20
Speaker 1: Thanks to everyone that's continuing to chat to us on x,
27:24
Speaker 1: on Instagram and on TikTok using the hashtag Steelers Ireland Boys.
27:29
Speaker 1: Can we get it?
27:29
Speaker 5: Here we go.
27:30
Speaker 1: I'll see you soon. Let's go Steelers massive game Monday night.
27:32
Speaker 1: Here we go, boys chatter, Here we go, Steelers, Here
27:35
Speaker 1: we go, Here we go,