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Steelers win in AFC North opener against the Browns · The Irish Steelers Podcast

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Speaker 1: Hey folks, welcome into the Irish Steelers Podcast. Well as
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Speaker 1: here in Ireland, you're ready for the National Planning Championships.
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Speaker 1: This week, the Pittsburgh Steelers wild their way through the
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Speaker 1: Cleveland Browns one on one in the season. We'll talk
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Speaker 1: about the game in the second. Wasn't to have Jimmy,
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Speaker 1: Dave Michael Mukad here on the podcast this week as
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Speaker 1: we look back on the game and have a look
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Speaker 1: forward to Week three. Jimmy, good to see him, and
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Speaker 1: always good to see after a win as well.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely feeling a lot more positive Michael after watching
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Speaker 2: that game this morning. I woke up at seven am,
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Speaker 2: especially a little bit early to get to get the
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Speaker 2: game in. I kept my phone off so I wouldn't
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Speaker 2: be getting notifications or score updates. But yeah, overall a
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Speaker 2: much much better performance. So feeling a lot more positive
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Speaker 2: about the Steeters prospects for the season ahead.
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Speaker 3: Now.
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Speaker 1: Dave, I'm sure you echo the thoughts. It's good to
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Speaker 1: see you also after with it feels it feels much
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Speaker 1: more lighter in here after last week. I was buzzing
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Speaker 1: with last night, but I'm sure you're a lot more
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Speaker 1: buzzing the memete.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, it was another one of those where you steyed
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Speaker 4: up to watch it and you couldn't sleep afterwards. You
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Speaker 4: were just so in like intensifying the like the reaction
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Speaker 4: and stuff. But as Jimmy said, you know, it's just
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Speaker 4: finally good to wake up on victory Tuesdays, as you say,
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Speaker 4: and onwards to the next one. I think we've got
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Speaker 4: the Raiders. We've got another late one this Sunday. So yeah,
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Speaker 4: we've got the Raiders this weekend, fingers crossed for another win.
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Speaker 1: It's gonna be a good weekend. Let's let's look back,
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Speaker 1: let's have some crack. Jimmy, is it fair to say
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Speaker 1: that this like in terms of the game, While there
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Speaker 1: was some positive players on the offense, I think it's
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Speaker 1: still a working progress and we'll talk about it in
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Speaker 1: the week. Second, but certainly defensively, six sacks, four takeaways,
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Speaker 1: two touchdowns, the Steelers defense really made themselves known. And
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Speaker 1: when you've got defense that good in the league, you
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Speaker 1: can certainly have optimism for the season. If we can
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Speaker 1: try and improve on the offense. Now going forward, this
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Speaker 1: defense is certainly going to happen any team stick around
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Speaker 1: this sea.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think the defense can be credited with winning
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Speaker 2: us that game last night, Michael. I mean from the
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Speaker 2: very very first play, you know, and high Smith interception touchdown.
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Speaker 2: I was jumping out of my seat watching that this morning.
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Speaker 2: So what a way to start the game. And you know,
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Speaker 2: TJ Wat came up big is as where we've become
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Speaker 2: accustomed to seeing him do early on.
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Speaker 3: In the season.
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Speaker 2: He set the new record for for the new franchise
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Speaker 2: record for sacks. He had that touchdown that to basically
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Speaker 2: win us the game. And I think overall, you know,
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Speaker 2: the defense just stepped up from from last week and
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Speaker 2: really put the offense and then the whole team on
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Speaker 2: its back to pull off the victory. And that there
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Speaker 2: was a couple of notable performances. Think Fitzpatrick was much more,
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Speaker 2: was much louder than he was last week in terms
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Speaker 2: of tackles and pass breaks up. Joey Porter Junior had
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Speaker 2: a great PBu at one stage. And then Elijah Riley,
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Speaker 2: who I had to look up who he was. He
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Speaker 2: had a fourth down sack in the fourth quarter to
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Speaker 2: effectively end any Browns come back attempt. So overall, a
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Speaker 2: fantastic performance by the defense.
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Speaker 1: There's obviously for every team in the League. There's there's
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Speaker 1: ways and means to improve. I mean, for the for
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Speaker 1: the Sedlers defense at the minute, you're looking at a
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Speaker 1: situation where they need to try and stop the run.
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Speaker 1: We can talk about that in the second but the
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Speaker 1: main positive, as Jimmy's alluded to there is that defensive
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Speaker 1: performance and you know, really stopping the Browns only letting
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Speaker 1: them score twenty two points. And we have to take
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Speaker 1: that into the Las Vegas Raiders game this Sunday and
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Speaker 1: just use that as a as a method of positivity
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Speaker 1: going forward. I'm sure you're the liable the defensive performance.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, like we said Manson last week, Michael, the defense,
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Speaker 4: we knew they were just going to stop up Pie
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Speaker 4: Smith was outstart and you know, if you even look
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Speaker 4: at the first the first half was absolutely insane. You know,
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Speaker 4: everything was going on. You know, Nick Chubb's injury was
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Speaker 4: obviously a massive talking point. But obviously to start the
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Speaker 4: game awfully got it just it just started in the
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Speaker 4: perfect way and it just put the whole team in
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Speaker 4: our back. Offensively, again, it's it's one of those where yeah,
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Speaker 4: fair enough and not the greatest offensive performance. You know,
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Speaker 4: Canny Peckett had a few good throws, you know, the
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Speaker 4: one the saidel and the Calvin Austin was a particular highlight.
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Speaker 4: And obviously the George Peckins won finally, good to see
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Speaker 4: that they're starting to build some good chemistry. But the
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Speaker 4: defense was just outstanding again and it's it's a bit,
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Speaker 4: you know, it is slightly worrying that the outscored the
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Speaker 4: offensive fourteen to twelve points, but it's also a good
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Speaker 4: sign that we can sort of rely on them as well.
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Speaker 4: So if we can just get the offensive, the offensive
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Speaker 4: side of the ball cracks, there's just no doubt we
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Speaker 4: can just continue to breathe and just you know, prove
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Speaker 4: where we we thought we're going to be a force
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Speaker 4: in the seat or in the league this season. So yeah, defensively,
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Speaker 4: not much to say other than the perfect performance. Everybody
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Speaker 4: showed up. You know, Joey Porter Junior as well, he
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Speaker 4: came up with a big stop, and I think of
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Speaker 4: the Browns first play as well. So nothing really else
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Speaker 4: it's add apart from you know, the offensive could maybe
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Speaker 4: approven a bit more, but the defense was outstanding.
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Speaker 3: That's per usual.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely, boys, Absolutely let's hear from Alex Heigh Smith first off,
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Speaker 1: before we bind some on looking at the offensive side
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Speaker 1: of the ball. Here is what Alex Highsmith had to
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Speaker 1: say after the game on Monday night.
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Speaker 5: You know, coming out and you know just how the
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Speaker 5: forms we did, but you know, we're we were far
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Speaker 5: from perfect and we could be much better.
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Speaker 3: But I think, you know, coming out and you know,
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Speaker 3: making splash plays was huge for us.
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Speaker 5: And you know, you know from the first play coming
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Speaker 5: out and the crowd, you know.
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Speaker 3: We feed up the crowd.
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Speaker 5: You know, Student Nation was they were they were, they
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Speaker 5: were they were allowed today and we fed off of that.
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Speaker 5: And you know, we were in a game, was playing
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Speaker 5: and stuff like that too. So I'm just thankful to
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Speaker 5: go to war with these guys every single week and
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Speaker 5: you know our boardy God for the victory.
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Speaker 6: Why was this right show effective things specifically the outside?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think, you know, we just did a good
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Speaker 5: job of working together. I mean, when we worked together,
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Speaker 5: you know, we're we're great, We're great up front, and
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Speaker 5: we did that. You know, we were working different games
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Speaker 5: and stuff like that. We were communicating well, and so
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Speaker 5: I think it starts first with you know, communicating well
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Speaker 5: and doing that. So that's how we're able to get.
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Speaker 3: After you've spent a lot of time with p J.
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Speaker 2: Watt, you know, with him setting the record tonight.
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Speaker 3: What is it that makes him so special?
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Speaker 5: He's best when he get what he does, and you
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Speaker 5: know he shows that every week and you know, him
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Speaker 5: coming out, you know, just we got the week and
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Speaker 5: doing what he does.
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Speaker 3: You know, it's it's it's no secret, you know.
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Speaker 5: Because he he he works, he works his butt off
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Speaker 5: and just being able to go to war with a
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Speaker 5: guy like that is you know, it's a blessing and
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Speaker 5: you just see, makes me better at all that I do.
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Speaker 5: And so you know, just thankful to roar with him
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Speaker 5: and just all the guys on.
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Speaker 1: Alex high Smith. Great to hear from Alex on the
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Speaker 1: Irish Theaters podcast. Jimmy, let's look at the offensive side
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Speaker 1: of the ball. Now, look that that pick that was
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Speaker 1: thrown by Kenny in the first so the first quarter,
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Speaker 1: it wasn't it wasn't great. I there's there's ways and
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Speaker 1: means to try and improve. I like the performance to
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Speaker 1: an exceping comparison to that across the rest of the game.
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Speaker 1: I feel like we're a few weeks off from seeing
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Speaker 1: the best of this offense can give. And I hope
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Speaker 1: that's the cass we've seen last night. The run game
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Speaker 1: wasn't great in terms of the yardage and nae he
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Speaker 1: got we I like to see him get more touches.
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Speaker 1: But George Peckins had a great game and not that
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Speaker 1: touchdown pass and run. The Pickens hot after catching the
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Speaker 1: ball from Kenny.
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Speaker 3: Was great to see.
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Speaker 1: It's just onwards and upwards and we're I guess lucky
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Speaker 1: in the sense that we have that defense there. It's
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Speaker 1: nighttime to focus on this offense that needs to get
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Speaker 1: points on the board going into a Week three match
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Speaker 1: up against the Raiders.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: I think Bob Labriola called it a work in progress
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Speaker 2: on the offensive side of the ball, and I would
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Speaker 2: have to agree with him there. I mean, you could
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Speaker 2: definitely see the improvements being made, Kenny taking more time
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Speaker 2: to settle into his drop and hit receivers. Obviously, you
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Speaker 2: know he had the massive connection to George Pickens for
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Speaker 2: the seventy one yard touchdown Pickens had. I believe Pickens
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Speaker 2: had four catches on the night for one hundred and
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Speaker 2: twenty seven yards and the touchdown, which is a career
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Speaker 2: high for him. It's curious that he wasn't involved earlier
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Speaker 2: on in the game. Kenny only really started to seem
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Speaker 2: to go to him, you know, towards the middle and
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Speaker 2: the end of the game. He would have expected Pickens
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Speaker 2: to be wide receiver number one with the absence of
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Speaker 2: Deante Johnson, and that didn't seem to be the case.
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Speaker 2: So I think there's definitely more scope there for Pickings
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Speaker 2: to get involved in the offensive side of the ball.
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Speaker 2: In terms of the run game, I mean, okay, there
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Speaker 2: was two big runs by Naji, but Steelers are known
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Speaker 2: or for running the ball and the running the running
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Speaker 2: game was just completely absent from for most of the
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Speaker 2: for most of the outings, so you definitely need to
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Speaker 2: see the offensive line jetting a bit better and opening
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Speaker 2: up those holes. It was great to have Jalen Warren
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Speaker 2: involved in the passing game and indeed in the in
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Speaker 2: the running game as well. So yeah, I think overall, Michael,
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Speaker 2: I mean, improvements have been made good. He's good to
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Speaker 2: see some positivity and good to get the first the
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Speaker 2: first touchdown of the season as well on the big
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Speaker 2: connection from from Pickett to Pickens. But I think there's
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Speaker 2: still massive, massive room for improvement, and hopefully against the
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Speaker 2: Raiders we can continue to see. Hopefully it doesn't take
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Speaker 2: too long. Hopefully we're not the halfway the halfway point
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Speaker 2: of the season before either to scoring multiple touchdowns on offense.
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Speaker 2: And you know the fact that our defense out scored
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Speaker 2: our offense is a little bit concerning. But yeah, I
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Speaker 2: think in general I'm much more satisfyed with that performance
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Speaker 2: than i was against the Niners a week ago.
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Speaker 1: D have Jimmy mentions there in terms of the run
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Speaker 1: and try and trying to improve the run game all
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Speaker 1: the Raiders, and we'll talk about Raiders more in the
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Speaker 1: second but the Raiders a given him a four point
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Speaker 1: nine yards per karias twenty six in the league. You
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Speaker 1: would hope that that might be a sort of a
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Speaker 1: runway to success coming in the week three, we'll see,
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Speaker 1: was there Anahan the solid see you on the offense
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Speaker 1: before we do, look at the just the at the Raiders, Dave.
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Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's one of those things where it's
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Speaker 1: it's a working progress, but you know, I think we'd
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Speaker 1: all like to see progress quickly, especially when you got
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Speaker 1: such a good defense. If we can get the chains
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Speaker 1: going there like and get a bit of confidence. If
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Speaker 1: you can't, they can read the field a bit better
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Speaker 1: and have more time the sky. The sky is a limit.
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Speaker 1: I was gonna say, the sky's you, Royster. That's not
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Speaker 1: a stand at all. Boys. I've been watching too much
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Speaker 1: of late night Monday. That football adds two games last night,
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Speaker 1: but they have what do you recommend?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I completely agree.
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Speaker 4: You know, the run game at the minute, it's very
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Speaker 4: I'll just say, you know, it's hard to get anything
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Speaker 4: going with nausea. I don't really know if that's a
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Speaker 4: contribution towards the defenses with faced with face, I'm already
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Speaker 4: some great defensive lines, you know, And I'll say you
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Speaker 4: mentioned there, but the Raiders their run defense isn't great,
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Speaker 4: So maybe that's, you know, the segway to getting this
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Speaker 4: run game going. Just as Jimmy said, they're a bit
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Speaker 4: jell and Warren. I thought Jalen Warren was outstanding and
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Speaker 4: he's got that dog and I feel like, you know,
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Speaker 4: every time you know, dump off him, he just seems
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Speaker 4: to run through people and it's great to see. So
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Speaker 4: there's definitely a case to be made for him to
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Speaker 4: be RB one at the minute. You know, I'm a
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Speaker 4: big nauja FM, but they can't really you know, say
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Speaker 4: he's been any better than Jail Warren at the minute.
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Speaker 4: And so yeah, the run game is something obviously we
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Speaker 4: can be looking to, you know, previewing the Raiders later
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Speaker 4: in the week and with Kenny Peckett, Like, as I say,
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Speaker 4: you know, there was a few slashes. I thought that
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Speaker 4: through the Calvin Austin on the sideline was great, you know,
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Speaker 4: the one that George Pekkins as well, just sort of
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Speaker 4: get the game going on in a in a hole.
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Speaker 4: But if you like, it's probably the it's we probably
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Speaker 4: have been overlooking the fact that we've played two of
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Speaker 4: probably the best top five defense in the league. I
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Speaker 4: fought the Browns defenses and see even you know, we
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Speaker 4: talk about George Pekins as well, he's caught up against
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Speaker 4: as well as a ward, the quarterback for the Browns.
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Speaker 4: He's sensational and so it's just one of those things
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Speaker 4: where we're faced two very good defenses were coming up
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Speaker 4: against the Raiders there. I think they're one on one
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Speaker 4: now they won or sorry to get beat who was
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Speaker 4: by somebody at the weekend, and so we can we're
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Speaker 4: able to sort of come back on that, and you know,
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Speaker 4: we can go in on Sunday night before heads held
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Speaker 4: high and trying to improve this offense.
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Speaker 3: Like as we know we can.
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Speaker 1: Just looking at the Ancy North in terms of David
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Speaker 1: said there Jimmy, like, I mean, you're you're looking at
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Speaker 1: a situation now where the Bengals are struggling, the Brands
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Speaker 1: have obviously lost against some Monday night and we'll see
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Speaker 1: what the Ravens, you know, like it's there is an opportunity. Look,
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Speaker 1: there's an opportunity here for all teams. But you feel like,
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Speaker 1: and we'll talk about the Week three matchup in a second,
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Speaker 1: but you feel like there's a real opportunity here to
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Speaker 1: take advantage of the fact that we don't know if
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Speaker 1: Joe Borrow is going to play over the next few weeks.
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Speaker 1: I was looking at the Bengal schedule. They've got the
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Speaker 1: Niners at the end of October, and there could be
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Speaker 1: an argument to keep out until the middle of October,
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Speaker 1: so there could be a real opportunity there for Pittsburgh,
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Speaker 1: who obviously have to, like the leaders, have to focus
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Speaker 1: on themselves. But certainly this is a window opportunity now.
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Speaker 1: And it's funny, you know, obviously we'll hear from coach
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Speaker 1: Tomlin in the minute he was saying he's not going
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Speaker 1: to apologize for winning. So it's it's excellen, it's consistency,
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Speaker 1: and it's just trying to.
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Speaker 3: Go AFC North.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, it's it's always good when you're you know,
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Speaker 2: you're not last in the in the AOC North ranking
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Speaker 2: is obviously the very competitive division, and if we had
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Speaker 2: a gone, if we had a lost that matchup to
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Speaker 2: the Browns, it would have put us in a disadvantage
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Speaker 2: disadvantage of situation coming into that matchup.
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Speaker 3: So I think we take them.
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Speaker 2: If we can take the momentum from the Raiders, take
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Speaker 2: the momentum from the from from from Houston as well
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Speaker 2: of course as if they are wins, and carry that
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Speaker 2: into the Week five matchup with Baltimore, I think we'll
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Speaker 2: be will be in a very good position. Of course,
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Speaker 2: the situation with the Bengals for us. Is good for them,
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Speaker 2: not so good Joe Burrow. I mean, he he's just
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Speaker 2: become the highest paid player in the league, and look
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Speaker 2: at him now, he's he's carrying that cat injury. So
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Speaker 2: that puts them in a very precarious position because I
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Speaker 2: don't believe they have much behind him in the way
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Speaker 2: of backup quarterbacks. So I think overall, you know, we're
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Speaker 2: in the best possible situation given the start of the
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Speaker 2: season we've we've had, and like I said, those those
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Speaker 2: AFC matchups, it's going to be a very competitive division
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Speaker 2: again this year.
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Speaker 1: I think obviously it was worrying d of to see
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Speaker 1: Mike getting injured, but it looks nice at the hospital
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Speaker 1: and it looks like it'll be okay, and we sent
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Speaker 1: him our best, which is obviously, Look, it's never good
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Speaker 1: to see next job Beaver we're dying, or any high
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Speaker 1: profile player we're dying. So while it's a competitive, friendly rivalry,
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Speaker 1: you know, certainly with him or the best in his recovery,
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Speaker 1: but in terms of Mike, the guy that we need
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Speaker 1: to see back in the field soon as possible.
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Speaker 3: Really yeah, he's one of the stars on the defense.
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Speaker 4: It's another you know, hopefully it's not as bad as
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Speaker 4: we first anticipate.
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Speaker 3: A partly it's a lot better.
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Speaker 4: But yeah, it would be a massive mess to us
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Speaker 4: secondary he's you know, outside of TJ. Watty's probably our
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Speaker 4: star player, you know, just just crazy even to think
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Speaker 4: of that, Like how starstuted our defense is if you
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Speaker 4: think of it. But yeah, hopefully, hopefully he gets back
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Speaker 4: to his best soon. And it was a hard It's
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Speaker 4: just as we anticipate. It's a hard AFC North. It's
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Speaker 4: it's one of the gay are the matchups that it's
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Speaker 4: the hardest AFC North game. So it's one of those
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Speaker 4: where injuries are going to happen. We've just got to
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Speaker 4: adopt him no matter what. So Finger Scrossey gets back
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Speaker 4: in the vage as soon as possible.
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Speaker 1: Before we talk about Week three, a matchup against the Raiders.
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Speaker 1: Let's hear from quarterback Cany Pickett and also Steers head
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Speaker 1: coach Mike Tolan.
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Speaker 6: Over that, uh, the last third down sort of read
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Speaker 6: option or broke play.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, the end and spiked they brought the backer around,
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Speaker 7: felt like they were crashed on the run. We tried
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Speaker 7: to get outside them, you know, didn't didn't pint out
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Speaker 7: that way.
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Speaker 3: One yard touchdown.
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Speaker 8: You guys, you door said it was the cover to invert.
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Speaker 7: And you guys are not looking for Yeah, it was
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Speaker 7: a great you know, good look. You know, Pat did
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Speaker 7: a good job running his over g one on the route.
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Speaker 7: Just had to put a ball there for him and
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Speaker 7: he did the rest. So it was a good, good
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Speaker 7: play for us.
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Speaker 3: What did you got?
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Speaker 8: What were you guys thinking or could you hear the
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Speaker 8: the the chanting for firing Matt Kennett in the second half?
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Speaker 7: There no, no, you know, we were locked in on
15:38
Speaker 7: one in the game. I was going over two minutes,
15:40
Speaker 7: four minutes scenarios with the guys, you know, find a
15:42
Speaker 7: way to win whatever we needed to do there at
15:44
Speaker 7: the end. But you know, hots Off, our defense played unbelievable.
15:47
Speaker 7: You know, we got the best player in the world
15:49
Speaker 7: in my opinion in ninety and fifty six is close behind.
15:52
Speaker 7: You know, he's he's unbelievable. So those guys a hell
15:55
Speaker 7: of a job and you know, happy that they're on
15:56
Speaker 7: our side.
15:57
Speaker 9: And he brought it up there when ninety and fifty
15:59
Speaker 9: six are making those kinds of plays and scored two
16:01
Speaker 9: defensive touchdowns. How much of a low does that take
16:04
Speaker 9: off of you guys as an offense, and how does
16:06
Speaker 9: that allow you to kind of refocus going forward.
16:08
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's awesome. I mean, you got you got a
16:09
Speaker 7: defense like that. They make plays and put points up
16:12
Speaker 7: on the board and get those turnovers. It's it's unreal
16:15
Speaker 7: as an offense to have that. You know, we want
16:16
Speaker 7: to return that favor though. You know, I feel like
16:18
Speaker 7: we had we let those guys out there way too long.
16:20
Speaker 7: There's things that we got to do a lot better
16:22
Speaker 7: offensively to also help those guys out, staying on the field,
16:27
Speaker 7: third downs, putting points up, I mean, very very ABC
16:30
Speaker 7: vanilla stuff, you know, playing better offensively period.
16:34
Speaker 10: You guys talked to one.
16:36
Speaker 3: Do you feel like you guys did take a step
16:38
Speaker 3: forward as an offense.
16:40
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, listen, winnings hard in this league.
16:42
Speaker 3: It's it's really hard.
16:44
Speaker 7: I feel like as you watch around the league, it
16:46
Speaker 7: always comes down in one possession, it feels like at
16:48
Speaker 7: the end of the game. So however, we had to
16:50
Speaker 7: get it done. I'm I'm happy that we got it
16:52
Speaker 7: done as a team. Look forward to getting back out
16:54
Speaker 7: there in another prime time game next week and continue
16:57
Speaker 7: to build and move forward.
16:58
Speaker 10: The gut Us talked a lot during the off isn't
17:00
Speaker 10: about getting more yards after the catch and used in
17:02
Speaker 10: the middle of the field more in concert with that,
17:04
Speaker 10: you did it a couple of times tonight was a
17:06
Speaker 10: little bit of an easier thing to do this time around.
17:09
Speaker 10: After playing San Francisco, who was so good in the
17:12
Speaker 10: middle of the field last week, I.
17:14
Speaker 7: Think, I mean they're there. They were great defensively as well. Cleveland.
17:17
Speaker 3: I wouldn't say.
17:17
Speaker 7: I don't think they're too far behind, you know, San Francisco,
17:20
Speaker 7: they're both great defenses. You know, we were put to
17:23
Speaker 7: the test and you know, we had some shots early
17:25
Speaker 7: over the middle. Georgia did a great job on a
17:27
Speaker 7: couple of things, and obviously the run after catch touchdown
17:29
Speaker 7: was huge. So we just want to continue to be
17:32
Speaker 7: versatile in his routree and and certain things we do
17:34
Speaker 7: with different guys.
17:35
Speaker 9: Able to be the challenge the way you responded to
17:38
Speaker 9: their challenge of how they blitz and just continuously try
17:40
Speaker 9: to bring pressure.
17:41
Speaker 7: Yeah, you know, you got to stay at it. They're
17:43
Speaker 7: they're a really tough team. They got a lot of pressure.
17:46
Speaker 7: They brought some different things that you know we saw
17:48
Speaker 7: on tape, some we didn't, So you know, hot's off
17:51
Speaker 7: to them. Great defense. But you know, I like the
17:53
Speaker 7: way we adjusted on the sideline. Guys are communicating. Well,
17:56
Speaker 7: there's definitely positives to take from it. You know, as
17:58
Speaker 7: much as there is negatives, there is pos and we
18:00
Speaker 7: got to continue to put, you know, our best foot
18:02
Speaker 7: forward and get ready to go Sunday night.
18:04
Speaker 6: It was the biggest challenge. Looked like for a lot
18:06
Speaker 6: of the game, they were close to the line of scrimmage.
18:08
Speaker 6: Even the last guy was ten twelve yards off the ball.
18:11
Speaker 3: How does that?
18:12
Speaker 7: Yeah, they got you know that they got great guys
18:15
Speaker 7: up front. You know, their linebackers run really well. They
18:18
Speaker 7: got great guys in the secondary. They gave guys fits
18:21
Speaker 7: last week. You know, we had our hands full with
18:22
Speaker 7: him this week. So it was a different challenge opposing
18:25
Speaker 7: to the week before we had against San fran you know,
18:28
Speaker 7: but a happy the way you know, guys played on
18:30
Speaker 7: the outside. George made some great plays. You know, we'll
18:32
Speaker 7: get the run game going here and get balanced and
18:35
Speaker 7: continue to do some things play action wise to.
18:38
Speaker 3: Get George involved some of the kind of game target.
18:41
Speaker 7: Wise, profession wise.
18:42
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was tough. You know, they did a good job.
18:45
Speaker 7: You know, that pick early in the game it was
18:46
Speaker 7: finnel and twenty two passed off pat and jumped inside
18:49
Speaker 7: on him. So then there was time a lot of
18:52
Speaker 7: times he was getting double and it was tough to
18:54
Speaker 7: get him the football. But whenever we had that opportunity
18:56
Speaker 7: of one on one, I really wanted to get him
18:57
Speaker 7: the ball and let him do his things. So that's
19:00
Speaker 7: something we got to continue to take advantage of, getting
19:02
Speaker 7: him singled up, moving him around, being creative and find
19:05
Speaker 7: ways to get him the football.
19:06
Speaker 1: And you mentioned needing to stay on the field.
19:08
Speaker 9: You had some drives that you were able to sustain,
19:10
Speaker 9: others that were cut short. Just what's kind of the
19:12
Speaker 9: discrepancy or is there anything you put your finger on
19:14
Speaker 9: there the difference in those.
19:16
Speaker 7: Yeah, the one play that gets us behind the chains.
19:18
Speaker 7: It seems like that, you know, we're moving the football,
19:21
Speaker 7: we're having plays, we're getting explosive plays, and then we
19:24
Speaker 7: have that one negative that that sets us behind the
19:26
Speaker 7: chains and we don't execute after that. So we got
19:29
Speaker 7: to eliminate those players. Continue to move the ball forward,
19:32
Speaker 7: stay ahead of the chains, and put us in third
19:34
Speaker 7: and manageable instead of third and eleven plus or third
19:36
Speaker 7: and ten plus. So that's that's good, going to be
19:38
Speaker 7: a key moving.
19:39
Speaker 3: Forward, common outlier with what that one negative is. Sometimes
19:42
Speaker 3: is there something you can that you identify.
19:44
Speaker 7: I had to watch the tape to see it. It's just,
19:46
Speaker 7: you know, it comes down to executing, you know, you know,
19:49
Speaker 7: like I've been saying, hats off of them, good defense,
19:51
Speaker 7: but we gotta we gotta execute at a much higher.
19:52
Speaker 10: Level that you were okay with your decision making week,
19:56
Speaker 10: want it was more of the physical stuff.
19:57
Speaker 3: You feel like that was the case again tonight? Or
19:59
Speaker 3: do you need it look at it?
20:01
Speaker 7: Yeah, I want to look at it and see more.
20:02
Speaker 7: There's a couple of throws I wish.
20:04
Speaker 3: I had back.
20:05
Speaker 7: You know that that pick early should have worked away,
20:09
Speaker 7: twenty two came off pat he made a good play.
20:11
Speaker 7: I should have worked singled up with with Allen. But
20:14
Speaker 7: you know, besides that, I need to watch the tape
20:16
Speaker 7: and see see what it looks like.
20:18
Speaker 6: You wanted to cut it loose?
20:20
Speaker 1: Uh?
20:20
Speaker 8: Did you?
20:20
Speaker 6: Or did they not allow.
20:21
Speaker 5: That kind of game?
20:22
Speaker 7: No? I mean listen that we couldn't get behind them.
20:24
Speaker 7: Really they were doing a good job of dublin. George
20:29
Speaker 7: Hits hit some good inbreakers. You know, there's there's definitely
20:31
Speaker 7: positive build off of it. Like I've been saying, it's
20:33
Speaker 7: hard to winning this league. So take the positives, learn
20:35
Speaker 7: from the negatives, and move forward.
20:39
Speaker 8: Man want to know, in the a f C north Man,
20:41
Speaker 8: we don't take that for granted. We're appreciative. I'm appreciative
20:45
Speaker 8: of the effort of the men. I'm appreciative of their fight.
20:48
Speaker 8: Uh didn't no blink approach. Obviously it wouldn't easy tonight,
20:52
Speaker 8: but we didn't expect it to be. It's kind of
20:54
Speaker 8: a signature of AFC North ball, and particularly these two teams.
20:59
Speaker 8: They had more them They were coming off of a
21:01
Speaker 8: big win, and so we didn't get the type of
21:03
Speaker 8: fluidity we wanted early. But I like to fight. Obviously,
21:08
Speaker 8: the big play to the pick six was a nice catalyst,
21:11
Speaker 8: but after that it took us a while to to
21:15
Speaker 8: gain rhythm. We gave up another big run and so
21:18
Speaker 8: we got some things obviously to work on. It's cool
21:21
Speaker 8: to work on it with the win. I can't say
21:25
Speaker 8: enough about Nick chubb Man sending our best to him.
21:29
Speaker 8: Got a lot of respect for that guy. We had
21:32
Speaker 8: some injuries of our own in game. Gunner is being
21:35
Speaker 8: evaluated for concussion Mika is being evaluated at the hospital
21:41
Speaker 8: with a chest injury. Elandon Roberts, I think he was
21:45
Speaker 8: able to get back into the game a stinger of
21:47
Speaker 8: some description bumps, some bruises associated with play. We got
21:51
Speaker 8: to assess all of those things, man and put together
21:53
Speaker 8: a plan here in a short week to go to Vegas.
21:57
Speaker 8: And so we're thankful for the win, but we'll keep
22:02
Speaker 8: pushing that.
22:03
Speaker 3: You're able to get all lots in this game.
22:06
Speaker 8: You know it. It's a big component. It is it
22:10
Speaker 8: probably always is a major component when these two groups
22:13
Speaker 8: come together. It's familiarity and you know kind of our
22:17
Speaker 8: edge guys have have you know, done what they did tonight,
22:22
Speaker 8: to be quite honest with you, in the history of
22:25
Speaker 8: this series or in the recent history of this series.
22:27
Speaker 8: And it doesn't mean that we we take their efforts
22:29
Speaker 8: for granted, but we need it, we expect it, and
22:33
Speaker 8: they delivered.
22:35
Speaker 7: How did some of your guys do filling in for
22:37
Speaker 7: Meca and to play a couple of big plays by
22:39
Speaker 7: Joey here.
22:40
Speaker 8: You know, we were we were short kind of coming
22:42
Speaker 8: into the game. I can't say enough about some of
22:44
Speaker 8: those guys, Calvin Austin and others. That's what teams do,
22:50
Speaker 8: or they support one another, they step up, and I'm
22:52
Speaker 8: appreciative of the efforts of the men that you mentioned
22:56
Speaker 8: in relief of some others. But there'll be plenty of
22:59
Speaker 8: opportunities to display that over the course of the journey, unfortunately,
23:03
Speaker 8: because it's just a component of our game speak you
23:07
Speaker 8: guys stepping up.
23:07
Speaker 3: I mean TJ is always great, but did you.
23:09
Speaker 4: Notice or see anything additional to him with guys like
23:13
Speaker 4: Cayn making not in there?
23:15
Speaker 8: You know, you know, guys made the plays Man they did.
23:18
Speaker 8: Can't say enough about high Smith. You know he had
23:21
Speaker 8: a pick six and a and a big sack fumble.
23:25
Speaker 8: We had comptribuses from a lot of areas. Man, Just
23:27
Speaker 8: appreciate the efforts, you know, Larry Ogunjob, he played a
23:30
Speaker 8: lot of snaps. Man hadn't practiced a lot, but had
23:34
Speaker 8: to absorb a big time responsibility because we were playing
23:38
Speaker 8: without Cam and so there's a lot of guys to
23:40
Speaker 8: be congratulated for their efforts and playmaking.
23:44
Speaker 3: One year we got TJ.
23:45
Speaker 7: Wade.
23:45
Speaker 9: Why don't you guys continue to incorporate Jailing and Augy
23:49
Speaker 9: into the running and how would you assess both of
23:51
Speaker 9: their performances tonight and how they continue to grow at
23:53
Speaker 9: this all.
23:54
Speaker 8: You know, boy, it was tough sledding early. I thought
23:56
Speaker 8: that coach schwartz Man did some really good things. They're
24:00
Speaker 8: an initial stage of the game. They played five D
24:02
Speaker 8: five down Lineman. It took us a while to get
24:06
Speaker 8: our footing there to eliminate some of the negativity from
24:09
Speaker 8: my play. I thought we were able to get some
24:11
Speaker 8: of it going in the second half in Kindada. That's
24:15
Speaker 8: a knee jerk assessment of what transpired from a run
24:18
Speaker 8: game perspective.
24:20
Speaker 1: That was Mike Tomlin and also, can you pick it
24:23
Speaker 1: after a week two when it wins a win. We'll
24:24
Speaker 1: take it, boys, We'll take it more run. I feel
24:26
Speaker 1: we need to get like a customary celebration, that we're
24:29
Speaker 1: going to have some sort of Irish Steelers celebration. Let
24:32
Speaker 1: me think on that prior to Vegas this week, Jimmy,
24:36
Speaker 1: Week three, going into Vegas, hopefully so for the last
24:39
Speaker 1: time the Staels are playing in Vegas this year. If
24:41
Speaker 1: you'd asked me a week you go, Jimmy about this game,
24:44
Speaker 1: I would be a lot more concerned as to the
24:46
Speaker 1: start that the Raiders had going into Denver and beating
24:50
Speaker 1: the Broncos. They go in to Buffalo and frankly, they
24:53
Speaker 1: get smoked. They didn't have a great game at all,
24:56
Speaker 1: and it's definitely changed my opinion. It's funny how it's
24:58
Speaker 1: such a short term league in terms of opinions and analysis.
25:03
Speaker 1: I certainly feel a lot better about this game that
25:04
Speaker 1: I would have thought around a we could go. This
25:06
Speaker 1: is a huge opportunity for the Steelers to go into Vegas,
25:09
Speaker 1: put a statement down, hopefully go two and one and
25:12
Speaker 1: really get the season going. Get a good performance offensively.
25:17
Speaker 1: See how Matt Canada tries to improve the offense. Every
25:20
Speaker 1: coach is Mike Tomlinson has to get better. Let's see
25:23
Speaker 1: this offense work and see this defense continue to work
25:26
Speaker 1: the chains going up against Jimmy Goppolo and the Raiders.
25:29
Speaker 2: Yeah, you talk about making a statement there, Michael, and
25:32
Speaker 2: I think that's exactly what the Steelers need to do,
25:35
Speaker 2: especially an offense. The defense made the statement last night,
25:38
Speaker 2: slash this morning, and now the offense has to go
25:41
Speaker 2: out and do something more more than you know, hit
25:44
Speaker 2: a one big play the entire game, and I think
25:49
Speaker 2: as well as the play calling could do. And perhaps
25:51
Speaker 2: with being a bit less conservative, you know, trying to
25:54
Speaker 2: open up the trying to establish the run early, get
25:57
Speaker 2: that offensive line jetting open up those big hole for
26:00
Speaker 2: Naji and jail Jaen Warrant to run through, so that
26:03
Speaker 2: you know, in all facets of the game, the offense
26:07
Speaker 2: needs to step things up and get the ball moving
26:10
Speaker 2: earlier on perhaps try running running the ball earlier in
26:12
Speaker 2: the game to set up the pass rather than relying
26:15
Speaker 2: on Kenny Pickett so much for those short and medium
26:18
Speaker 2: passes which didn't really come off last night. And and
26:21
Speaker 2: then in terms of the of the defense, I mean
26:24
Speaker 2: Jimmy Garoppolo from from what I saw of the game
26:26
Speaker 2: against the Bills last weekend, he looked a bit discombobulated
26:30
Speaker 2: against the Bill's defense. So I think, you know, if
26:33
Speaker 2: the Bills can get to him and rattle them as
26:36
Speaker 2: they did, then our defense should have no problem in
26:40
Speaker 2: in shutting shooting Garoppolo down. I mean, obviously he has
26:43
Speaker 2: one of the best receivers in DeVante Adams, but I
26:47
Speaker 2: would be relatively confident in the ability of our of
26:49
Speaker 2: our secondary to to cover up cover up Adams, which
26:54
Speaker 2: doesn't really leave a huge amount of weapons for Garoppolo.
26:56
Speaker 2: So I think more of the same from the defense.
26:59
Speaker 2: He can't really fall the fault the defense from and
27:02
Speaker 2: what they did last night. But I would really love
27:05
Speaker 2: to see something happen happen in offense more than one
27:09
Speaker 2: big splash play the entire game.
27:11
Speaker 1: If it's one thing bringing Vegas into Pittsburgh, it's another
27:14
Speaker 1: thing going to Vegas, going up against that crowd in
27:17
Speaker 1: Vegas when they will want to put a marker done
27:20
Speaker 1: go to them one on the season as well, it's
27:21
Speaker 1: two teams with the same record, with the same aspirations
27:25
Speaker 1: this season. I feel like we're in a better position.
27:28
Speaker 1: I feel like that is a serious confidence booster. On
27:31
Speaker 1: Monday night at day less to prepare or day lester
27:35
Speaker 1: to relax almost and get ready for Sunday night. But
27:37
Speaker 1: you feel like Sunday Night football primetime TV, the Steelers
27:40
Speaker 1: is going to be on TV and Ireland for the
27:42
Speaker 1: third time in three weeks. I'm not complaining, but that's
27:44
Speaker 1: certainly looking forward to. That's on Sky Sports Sunday Night.
27:48
Speaker 1: What do you think is gonna happen?
27:49
Speaker 4: Well, I hope and I think Steelers are gonna win.
27:51
Speaker 4: I hope it's as well as us not our last
27:53
Speaker 4: time in Vegas this year, fingers crossed. But as well
27:58
Speaker 4: as that, you know, the Raiders and Steelers actually historical
28:01
Speaker 4: historical rivalry, and we have a lot of history with them.
28:04
Speaker 4: Of course, you know, it's their different team now. Their
28:07
Speaker 4: defense over the past couple of years haven't been great.
28:10
Speaker 4: Offensive line and stuff they haven't been great either, so
28:12
Speaker 4: it's not historically like a traditional Raiders team as you'd expect.
28:16
Speaker 4: Just to echo everything Jimmy said defensively, and there's no
28:20
Speaker 4: point even talking about the defense anymore. We know how
28:22
Speaker 4: good and they all would stop up. It's just about
28:24
Speaker 4: getting this offense going. And I think the best opportunity
28:28
Speaker 4: right now is getting coming up against the Raiders. I
28:30
Speaker 4: just say, you know, they didn't have a good time
28:32
Speaker 4: in Week two against Buffalo, and arguably our defense is
28:35
Speaker 4: better or as better than Buffalo. So if we can
28:38
Speaker 4: just start throwing the ball a bit down the field more,
28:40
Speaker 4: as Jimmy said, you know, we're a bit maybe two conservative,
28:44
Speaker 4: and threw the ball down the field as much as possible,
28:47
Speaker 4: like and big players are going to happen. We've got
28:49
Speaker 4: George Peckins and now hopefully he's going to start coming
28:51
Speaker 4: into his own as well, and as Jimmy said as well,
28:54
Speaker 4: just start running the ball more efficiently and getting the
28:57
Speaker 4: offensive line going.
28:58
Speaker 3: So it's going to be the key to success. You know, defense.
29:02
Speaker 4: Plays as they normally are, and just the offensive. We
29:04
Speaker 4: need just one spark and if we get that spark,
29:06
Speaker 4: I'm confident we can we can take it on.
29:08
Speaker 3: But as I say, we'll maybe looking a little bit
29:10
Speaker 3: further on the week.
29:12
Speaker 1: Yeah, we might be back during the week. We'll see
29:14
Speaker 1: the crack, We'll see tb s.
29:16
Speaker 2: It'll be interesting to see as well how the Steelers
29:19
Speaker 2: get on. I mean, this will be the third week
29:20
Speaker 2: in the road that they come up against a marquee
29:23
Speaker 2: defensive end in the form of Max Crosby. And from
29:26
Speaker 2: what I could see in the in the condensed game
29:28
Speaker 2: that I watched this morning at seven o'clock would sleep
29:31
Speaker 2: in my eyes was Miles Garrett didn't really pop up
29:35
Speaker 2: much in the screen. There was a couple of other
29:37
Speaker 2: defensive interior defensive linemen who seemed to have more of
29:41
Speaker 2: an impact and shutting down the run game and then
29:43
Speaker 2: throwing Kenny off off his throwing lines. So you know,
29:47
Speaker 2: week one we had Nick Bosa and he I think personally,
29:51
Speaker 2: I think he was relatively quiet. I think the online
29:54
Speaker 2: give them credible credits due they did shut him down
29:56
Speaker 2: to a certain extent. But you know, if you if
29:59
Speaker 2: you put all your your attention on one player, I mean,
30:02
Speaker 2: that opens up the rest of the of the the
30:04
Speaker 2: offensive line for for the rest of the front seven
30:08
Speaker 2: to come through. So it's just that just popped into
30:11
Speaker 2: my head there that three weeks in a row, we're
30:13
Speaker 2: gonna have three of the best defensive players in the
30:16
Speaker 2: league facing up against our O line. So hopefully the
30:19
Speaker 2: line will continue to learn and improve as we go on,
30:23
Speaker 2: and that this slow start speeds up a little bit,
30:27
Speaker 2: and I mean we get more points on the board
30:28
Speaker 2: as well.
30:29
Speaker 1: I'll take that, boys, I'll take that. I'm gonna say
30:31
Speaker 1: we'll try and be back this week at some point.
30:33
Speaker 1: If we're not, We're on Steelers Ireland on all forms
30:35
Speaker 1: of social media, please do reach out to us, looking
30:38
Speaker 1: forward by some of that football. It's gonna be a
30:40
Speaker 1: great night. We will attempt to be back. If not,
30:42
Speaker 1: folks enjoy the game this weekend weekfuly, hopefully going to
30:45
Speaker 1: get the two and one. But for now, let's get
30:48
Speaker 1: here we go, boys, Here we go, week
30:51
Speaker 2: Go Steelers