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Moving on to Cincinnati · The Irish Steelers Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Hey, welcome in through the Irish Titters podcast. We're coming
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  Speaker 1: into week thirteen of the NFL season. This is the
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  Speaker 1: podcast for Pittsburgh Suiters fans across the end of Ireland.
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  Speaker 1: Michael Quid delighted to be joined by Jimmy English. Shout
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  Speaker 1: out to Dabug who's not here this week. We're gonna
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  Speaker 1: get his thoughts ahead of the Bengals game in audio
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  Speaker 1: formats towards the end, but for now, Michael Johnn here
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  Speaker 1: with Jimmy. Jimmy, good to see him and he look nice,
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  Speaker 1: warm and cozy down there. And Draha busy week Thanksgiving
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  Speaker 1: howing up to everyone listening. Happy Thanksgiving as well. How
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  Speaker 1: are you the money good?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm good, Nick him good. Thanks.
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  Speaker 3: We we are getting towards the business end of the season.
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  Speaker 3: The tough fixtures are coming hard and fast now in
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  Speaker 3: the NFL. The weather is certainly reflecting that. So I'm
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  Speaker 3: looking forward to getting nice and cozy now in a
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  Speaker 3: couple of evenings in a row with the firearm watching
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  Speaker 3: the NFL.
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  Speaker 2: A couple of midweek games this week as well, which
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  Speaker 2: is great.
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  Speaker 3: We have the thanks Giving game on Thursday, Black Friday
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  Speaker 3: game as well, so some interesting matchups there. Look, not
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  Speaker 3: the best week for the Steelers by any means, with
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  Speaker 3: plenty of opportunity is coming down the line now to
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  Speaker 3: make up for that. And we're still number one in
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  Speaker 3: the AFC North, which which is the main thing.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm sure we'll get stuck into that. But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: love and loving football at the minute. Plenty plenty going on,
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  Speaker 2: which is always great.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, look, it's it's it's one of those weeks. I
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  Speaker 1: sort of thought it was them before we hit the
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  Speaker 1: record button. It's one of those weeks where there's that
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  Speaker 1: much football and I thought we packaged up a podcast
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  Speaker 1: and do it all in one pop this week, especially
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  Speaker 1: when we had that break from Thursday and at football.
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  Speaker 1: And it's funny because so many people across the island
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  Speaker 1: of Ireland last week, Jimmy and and beyond experienced maybe
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  Speaker 1: a cold chill, But then you know, we've seen the
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  Speaker 1: picture of kirkhurb Street last week in the first quarter,
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  Speaker 1: second second quarter, first quarter, fourth quarter, where the snow
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  Speaker 1: just kept coming and coming and coming, and when it
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  Speaker 1: came it was just it was just nuts. And I
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  Speaker 1: think for a neutral fan it was iconic, but for
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  Speaker 1: staters has obviously when you come into the game with
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  Speaker 1: such high expectation, especially coming on the season eating too.
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  Speaker 1: We spoke about it last week on you know, going
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  Speaker 1: in the first Net football, a significant opportunity to get
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  Speaker 1: that win potentially and then have that time off over
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  Speaker 1: the weekend and get back into it ahead of the
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  Speaker 1: Bengals this week, which we will talk about in Louis. Second,
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  Speaker 1: I guess for me, look, you can't sugar coat a loss.
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  Speaker 1: Don't get me wrong. I thought it was very much
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  Speaker 1: the Browns. They knew it was ANFC Norph team, and
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  Speaker 1: I feel like they were really up for it in
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  Speaker 1: one sense of the word. But also when the snow came, Jimmy,
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  Speaker 1: I was seeing the blominus. I'm not gonna lie like
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  Speaker 1: it looks so difficult to play in for a start,
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  Speaker 1: Like I don't know how Russell Wilson went twenty one
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  Speaker 1: or twenty eight, And I feel like on a personal aspect,
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  Speaker 1: we could have relied on the run game a little
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  Speaker 1: bit more in the snow, especially towards that third and
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  Speaker 1: fourth quarter stratch. But look, it's just one of those
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  Speaker 1: games and you have to chalk it down as a loss.
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  Speaker 1: And I think the biggest thing now that we will
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  Speaker 1: talk about going forward in a few moments. Is is
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  Speaker 1: just making sure that you know, we stop the bleed
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  Speaker 1: here now, whether that's the speaker next week, because some big,
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  Speaker 1: big games coming up over the next few weeks, especially
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  Speaker 1: against ANFC North teams and the Brown's coming up quite
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  Speaker 1: shortly a game as well, chance to get a bit
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  Speaker 1: of revenge. But obviously any loss is disappointing, but we
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  Speaker 1: had a few days to sort of recoup on it.
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  Speaker 1: What was your faults as you were sitting on the
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  Speaker 1: Thursday night cold watching the game on the snow.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, obviously it's disappointing, and I think we
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  Speaker 3: kind of knew Mick going into this game how much
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  Speaker 3: of a trap game it was going to be.
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  Speaker 2: And the Browns.
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  Speaker 3: Actually had the complete opposite of our records, sitting at
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  Speaker 3: two and eight, whereas we were eight and two, opposite
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  Speaker 3: ends of the division. So that was frustrating that we
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  Speaker 3: didn't fulfill our potential by any means on Thursday nights
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  Speaker 3: last Friday morning.
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  Speaker 2: So if there were a couple of bright spots, don't
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  Speaker 2: get me wrong, it wasn't all doom and gloom.
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  Speaker 3: Jayl and Warren got his first rushing touchdown of the season,
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  Speaker 3: which is always great to see, you know, a well
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  Speaker 3: deserve considering the work that he's been putting in a
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  Speaker 3: bit of being overall, there was so much to clean up,
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  Speaker 3: you know, the defense. I don't think that after Jamis Winton,
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  Speaker 3: as much as I would have liked them to have
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  Speaker 3: TG Watts seems have completely vanished the past couple of weeks.
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  Speaker 2: If don't know what's going on with the pass rush.
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  Speaker 2: Thank god for.
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  Speaker 3: Nick Herby because all I'll say, because he actually managed
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  Speaker 3: to get some pressure on Jameis Winston and had one
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  Speaker 3: of three turnovers or sorry, one of three takeaways. With
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  Speaker 3: regards to the weather, it's always fun seeing the first
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  Speaker 3: snow game of the year. I think I think it
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  Speaker 3: adds to the kind of atmosphere of the game. I
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  Speaker 3: don't think you can really blame conditions that much. They
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  Speaker 3: didn't really seem to affect the Browns. Who are you know,
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  Speaker 3: passing all over the field. Jerry Judy had had a
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  Speaker 3: field day against US, so you know, these are professional
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  Speaker 3: football players. They're used to playing in all sorts of conditions.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think the snow can be an excuse at
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  Speaker 3: all by any means. I just think it was a
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  Speaker 3: sloppy performance and like you say, things need to be
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  Speaker 3: tightened up coming into this game against the Bengals, because
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  Speaker 3: the Bengals will sense a little bit of weakness I
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  Speaker 3: think on the back of this loss, and we'll be
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  Speaker 3: out to capitalize on that. But no, I mean overall
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  Speaker 3: need to need to pull our socks up now and
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  Speaker 3: continue to get back to the way we have him playing.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, we've seen some fantastic performances from Russell, Wills
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  Speaker 3: and cow over the past couple of weeks, so I
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  Speaker 3: think we just need to find our way again and
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  Speaker 3: pick things back up and.
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  Speaker 2: Keep forging on for the playoffs.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was some of those things. I mean, I
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't of course, I wouldn't say for me that the
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  Speaker 1: snow was primarily the blim at all. It's just it's
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  Speaker 1: just I find that I definitely thought our energy went
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  Speaker 1: down a bit, and yeah, the Browns looked one hundred percent,
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  Speaker 1: So it was interesting to see towards the end, especially
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  Speaker 1: in those last couple of drives. But in the third
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  Speaker 1: and fourth quarter, you know, certainly Russell has taking a
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  Speaker 1: lot more sacks. I find that that that the protection
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  Speaker 1: probably needs to tighten them a little bit going forward
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  Speaker 1: over the next few weeks, so it will be interesting
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  Speaker 1: to see how that happens. He he dropped back a
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  Speaker 1: considerable amount of times, but you're seeing that there was
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  Speaker 1: a lot of there was a lot of pressure on
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  Speaker 1: them there on Thursday night. And even at that, as
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  Speaker 1: much as the brand's pressure, I thought that I remained
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  Speaker 1: quite optimistic even until the last few players of the game,
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  Speaker 1: that this team would turn it around. So just look,
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  Speaker 1: it just wasn't the beame and we do have to
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  Speaker 1: chalk it off. I just to stay on the game.
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  Speaker 1: A week second, I watched the pregame on Amazon Prime
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  Speaker 1: with Taylor Rooks interviewing coach Toman, and I'm not sure
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  Speaker 1: we've seen it, Jimmy, but and if anyone hasn't seen it,
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  Speaker 1: watch it back. Just that's the guy you want to
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  Speaker 1: charge your football team. And I'm just gonna leave it
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  Speaker 1: with that, right That man could walk me into a
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  Speaker 1: fire and I'd be happy enough. I'll just later that like, no,
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  Speaker 1: just just a really big good interview. Her interviews on
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  Speaker 1: Prime every Thursday night are actually something to say for
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  Speaker 1: a bit, it's something to sayp for about twenty Towell
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  Speaker 1: Irish time, very very enjoyable. And also Jimmy and I
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  Speaker 1: don't know, because we haven't talked abou him too much,
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  Speaker 1: I feel like we need to get him on the
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  Speaker 1: podcast in the off season. Danny Smith, the special teams coordinator,
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  Speaker 1: like his his energy even and s though, is absolutely hilarious.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not saying he gives me like Jeff Ryan Buld vibes,
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  Speaker 1: but I wish I had, like if I have his
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  Speaker 1: energy at his sage or when I'm his aage, if
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  Speaker 1: I have his energy, I'd be a very very happy man.
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  Speaker 1: It seems a great crackler.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I was reading an article there on
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  Speaker 3: NFL dot com before we came on, make a bit
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  Speaker 3: about in the spirit of Thanksgiving, some one thing each
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  Speaker 3: that each team can be thankful.
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  Speaker 2: For, and for the Steelers it was Mike Tommon.
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  Speaker 3: And with that man at the helm, I feel like,
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  Speaker 3: you know, even even on the back of what might
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  Speaker 3: might seem like a bit of a disastrous loss, he
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  Speaker 3: might be two phased by it. I mean, we've seen
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  Speaker 3: this before, We've lost to the Browns and we have
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  Speaker 3: bounced back. I just think now he needs to rally
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  Speaker 3: the troops. Get that message of consistency across. Maybe have
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  Speaker 3: a word with a couple of players who were whose
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  Speaker 3: attitude wasn't the best after I'm not going to name names.
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  Speaker 2: I think anyone listening will know who I'm referring to.
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  Speaker 3: But you have things like that are not frustrating that
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  Speaker 3: all around one hundred percent. I mean, particularly on our
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  Speaker 3: reference that that deep shot to George Pickens and in
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  Speaker 3: the fourth quarter from Justin Fields it was a fifty
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  Speaker 3: to fifty ball. Whether he was interfere with the wather,
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  Speaker 3: he slipped in the snow, it's difficult to say, but
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  Speaker 3: it's it's small marriagins like that that cost us the
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  Speaker 3: game the fork down. Sorry, the two point conversion attempt
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  Speaker 3: earlier on didn't quite work out either. So look, it
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  Speaker 3: is a lot to be fixed. And I feel like
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  Speaker 3: we've been saying this in the podcast week in week out.
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  Speaker 3: There are Look, there are positives there, but these there's
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  Speaker 3: things there that are that are costing us wins. And
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  Speaker 3: when it comes down to the crunch time and the playoffs,
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  Speaker 3: they're gonna be they're gonna be things that might end
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  Speaker 3: up scuvering us all together. So now is the time,
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  Speaker 3: especially in this rough stretch of the season, the hardest,
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  Speaker 3: the back end of the season. We've been saying it
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  Speaker 3: all year, this is where it's going to count. We're
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  Speaker 3: getting into December football now, we're playing for keeps. So
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  Speaker 3: it's time for the coaching staff, Mike Tomlin, terror Laws
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  Speaker 3: and to step up and get that message across and
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  Speaker 3: get things fixed before they get worse.
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  Speaker 1: I think, yeah, it's one of those things at the minute.
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  Speaker 1: The it's about learnings, mistakes and it's going to be
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  Speaker 1: interesting to see exactly how that team comes back, especially
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  Speaker 1: over these next last five to six weeks, and it
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  Speaker 1: starts with a really really important matchup this week against
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  Speaker 1: the Cincinnati Bengals. It's TBC in terms of the television
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  Speaker 1: situation this week at the moment at the time of recording,
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  Speaker 1: but we will be sure to update you on social media.
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  Speaker 1: And there certainly a lot of big games over the
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  Speaker 1: next few weeks which will be on TV for Steers
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  Speaker 1: fans in Ireland and the UK as well, which gives
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  Speaker 1: people a lot of opportunities to watch the Staders in
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  Speaker 1: action as well, which would be great to see. And
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  Speaker 1: just before we talk about this Bengals game, very quickly,
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  Speaker 1: let's hear from coach Tomlin, who was speaking to the
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  Speaker 1: press earlier on Tuesday ahead of this game on Sunday
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  Speaker 1: as the Staders who were eating free looking to face
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  Speaker 1: the four and seven since Natti.
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  Speaker 4: Bangers, obviously, you can't talk to these guys without talking
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  Speaker 4: Joe Burrow. If you look at the take Man's he's
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  Speaker 4: MVP caliber in terms of what he's doing for them.
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  Speaker 4: I started first with the two Baltimore games because of
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  Speaker 4: the intimacy of divisional play. Man. I don't know how
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  Speaker 4: many touchdowns he threw in those two football games. I
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  Speaker 4: know Chase himself had five. It's just kind of reflective
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  Speaker 4: of what he and they are capable of. We got
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  Speaker 4: to do a really good job. We better carry enough
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  Speaker 4: defense schematically, but within that, we better perform at a
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  Speaker 4: high enough level, because it's not just schematics that beats them.
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  Speaker 4: You better have enough schematics. You better perform it or
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  Speaker 4: executed at a relatively high level. You better do a
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  Speaker 4: good job of providing pre snap looks. You better blit some,
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  Speaker 4: you better play covert some. You better do a lot
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  Speaker 4: of things. And I think that is reflective of a
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  Speaker 4: quarterback in his position. I say the same thing when
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  Speaker 4: we play guys like Matt Stafford and so forth, Guys
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  Speaker 4: that are anticipatory passers, guys that at complete command of
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  Speaker 4: their system of offense, Guys that know where all their
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  Speaker 4: eligibles are. And oftentimes that's illustrated by his ability need
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  Speaker 4: to throw no look checkdowns and things of that nature.
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  Speaker 4: He just knows where all his people are. When you're
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  Speaker 4: playing quarterbacks like that, man, you better carry enough defense.
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  Speaker 4: You might be able to, you know, trick them or
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  Speaker 4: stay ahead of them for twenty or thirty minutes, but
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  Speaker 4: you better have enough defense. It's a sixty minute game.
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  Speaker 4: I think that's reflected in watching them play. I think
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  Speaker 4: oftentimes you see teams are capable of slowing him or
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  Speaker 4: slowing them down at the early portions of the game.
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  Speaker 4: But in the fourth quarter, he and they are coming
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  Speaker 4: on like gangbusters. And so you know, I've been around
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  Speaker 4: long enough to have an appreciation for that. I know
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  Speaker 4: how and why that happens. You better carry enough defense.
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  Speaker 4: They get comfortable as the game goes on with what
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  Speaker 4: it is that you're doing, what it is they need
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  Speaker 4: to do to be successful, and they adjust, They adapt,
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  Speaker 4: both the individuals and the collective, and so for those reasons. Man,
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  Speaker 4: we're obviously preparing with an edge man. He's got some
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  Speaker 4: top notch eligible to throw the ball to, starting with
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  Speaker 4: number one Chase. He's probably tops in the league in
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  Speaker 4: every wide receiver statistical category. He's got top notch talent.
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  Speaker 4: They do an awesome job of moving him around within
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  Speaker 4: their system of offense. They got some continuity there, obviously
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  Speaker 4: between he and Joe who've been in that system for
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  Speaker 4: a number of years now, and I think it's reflected
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  Speaker 4: in the many things that they asked him to do.
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  Speaker 4: You turn on twenty four twenty twenty four tape, There's
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  Speaker 4: more pre snap movement from him, There's more positional variation
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  Speaker 4: from him, making him a more difficult guy to minimize. Obviously,
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  Speaker 4: t Higgins is a matchup issue. He's big, he's strong,
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  Speaker 4: he's got really good run. After he got the speed
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  Speaker 4: on us last year and had a big play and
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  Speaker 4: kind of you know, got them back in that football game.
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  Speaker 4: But again, when you talk about t you're talking about
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  Speaker 4: a guy who is combative, man who is who doesn't
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  Speaker 4: die easy. Particularly after the catch. We got to tack.
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  Speaker 4: We got to tackle, We got a rap. They got
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  Speaker 4: some new new additions to their group gase. Heck he
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  Speaker 4: at tight end, Man's a vertical threat. Uh. He's often
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  Speaker 4: a mashup issue, too big for defensive backs, too athletic
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  Speaker 4: for linebackers, and so we're being thoughtful about how we're
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  Speaker 4: formulating a plan uh to minimize him. He's got some
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  Speaker 4: talented new young receivers that are emerging because Tyler Boyd
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  Speaker 4: obviously is no longer there. Burton is one to mention
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  Speaker 4: who's had a hat in recent weeks and appears to
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  Speaker 4: be a downfield guy for him. I was at his
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  Speaker 4: pro day in Tuscaloosa last year. Man, he's really talented.
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  Speaker 4: He's got a well rounded game. He's got some awesome
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  Speaker 4: receiver skills. And then they got to turn over in
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  Speaker 4: the backfield with Brown. Obviously we used to facing facing
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  Speaker 4: mixing over the years from them, but Brown is not
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  Speaker 4: new to them. He's a second year player. He's got
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  Speaker 4: a well rounded skill set for the running back position.
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  Speaker 4: He's good in interior runs, he's good on perimeter runs.
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  Speaker 4: He's got good burst, pick and vision. He's an asset
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  Speaker 4: to him in the passing game, particularly in the screen game.
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  Speaker 4: Screens have been a challenge for us against them in
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  Speaker 4: recent years. I think I looked at the screen real
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  Speaker 4: this morning. I think they've run twenty three screens of
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  Speaker 4: some description against us in the last six games. To
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  Speaker 4: put some perspective on how big that component of play is.
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  Speaker 4: Great to hear from.
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  Speaker 1: Coach Tomon, the head of this game on some day,
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  Speaker 1: I think a lot of us as Jimmy, as I said,
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  Speaker 1: we're looking forward here, trying to see this team go
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  Speaker 1: nine and four through thirteen weeks as we get into
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  Speaker 1: the autumn weeks. All this twenty twenty four NFL season,
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  Speaker 1: every week is so crucial in the AFC North and
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  Speaker 1: of course the Staders hoping to hie on to that
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  Speaker 1: lead in the division as we move forward this week,
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  Speaker 1: Jimmy looking very quickly at the Bengals. Joe Burrow has
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  Speaker 1: not played a bad season, and actually I feel for
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  Speaker 1: him because there's been a lot of things that this
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  Speaker 1: Bengals team could improve on, especially the they haven't had
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  Speaker 1: a lot of luck with injuries. There's been players that
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  Speaker 1: haven't went their way, but there's been games and I
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  Speaker 1: guess the last one the game that they've had there
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  Speaker 1: they're coming off a bye week, that game against the
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  Speaker 1: Chargers could have really went either way. T Higgins on
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty yards receiving on that night, a
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  Speaker 1: bit more needed in that run game. But certainly we
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  Speaker 1: are looking at the Bengals team here, and I don't
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  Speaker 1: think this is me being dramatic by saying this. They
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  Speaker 1: are playing for their lives. I look at that AFC
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  Speaker 1: playoff bracket right now, and yes, I see Denver at
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  Speaker 1: the bottom of that wild card hunt. But I still
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  Speaker 1: think to myself, a team like Cincinnati, a team like
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  Speaker 1: Miami as well, can go on a run over the
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  Speaker 1: next few weeks, and Cincinnati and Joe Burrow will be
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  Speaker 1: looking at the Steelers team regardless of that, just regardless
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  Speaker 1: of the results, they'll be looking at that Steelers team
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  Speaker 1: thinking we have a chance against this team. And certainly,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you look at Cincinnati and you can see
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  Speaker 1: a situation where they can put up thirty on us team.
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  Speaker 1: Doesn't matter if it's the Chiefs or the Steelers, whoever
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  Speaker 1: it's it's definitely one to look out this week. It's
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  Speaker 1: going to be a difficult game, regardless of the record.
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  Speaker 1: Over all foreign seven.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, I mean four and seven make but still
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  Speaker 3: very much in the playoff picture contention. As you say,
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  Speaker 3: you can never really count out Joe Burrow regardless of
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  Speaker 3: the team's record. He's just such a phenomenal talent, and
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  Speaker 3: I think they have the potential to surprise a lot
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: of people coming into into into this December football and
• 16:28
  Speaker 3: coming down to the postseason.
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  Speaker 2: When you look at there the weapons he has at
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  Speaker 2: his disposal.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, we've been facing top tier threats all season
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  Speaker 3: long and we have largely managed to contain them. You
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  Speaker 3: have the likes for Jamaar, Chase t Higgins, Chase Brown,
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  Speaker 3: who's having a fantastic season, and they're running back one spot.
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  Speaker 2: It's going to be a difficult matchup because you know, you.
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: Mentioned that they're the Bengals playing for the lives that
• 16:52
  Speaker 3: the Steelers aren't as comfortable as they have been up
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  Speaker 3: to date.
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  Speaker 2: I think we're only ahead of the Ravens now by
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  Speaker 2: half a.
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  Speaker 3: Game with the AFC North race, so this is a
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  Speaker 3: must win game for both teams. And look, you're just
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: harken back to the Dealers have to play perfect from
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: here on now to maintain their position and to have
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  Speaker 3: any chance of making a deep postseason run, and that
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: starts this weekend against the Bengals. They're gonna have to
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: get after Joe Burrow, shut down his weapons and just
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: clean up a lot of mistakes that we had against
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: the Browns. But it's you know, it's no gimme either.
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: It just depends on which Bengals team shows up, which
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: version of Joe Burrow shows up, and it's going to
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: be a fascinating matchup to watch.
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we're talking about a bit of pressure earlier on
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: and how Russell Wilson is that with pressure in that
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: snow game against Cleveland. Joe Burrow has had a lot
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: of issues with quarterback protection in Week eleven before the
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: bye week, the charges of three sacks and fourteen hits
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: on Burrow but one of the bigger ones. And for
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: people that you know obviously know how good the Bengals
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: were a couple of years ago in a Super Bowl
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: run in LA. At that time, Evan McPherson was money,
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: really really reliable player in the league, and over the
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: last few weeks he's really really struggled. And in the
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: fourth quarter of that game against the Chargers, he missed
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: not one but two go ahead field world attamps, which
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: probably could have put the Bengals on five wins instead
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: of sitting them four. Certainly it's it's must win. Territory
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: away from home, regardless of the record is a significant flat.
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: This is a very very difficult game, and I go
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: into this with cautious optimism that these lads of ours
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: can go in and learn from the mistakes. The weather's
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: gonna play a big factor, but also I really feel
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: like the general attitude, not just of the players in Cincinnati,
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: but the whole of that crowd in Cincinnati. It's going
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: to be so so important. The first quarter in this.
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: Game is huge.
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: If we can get out and get a quick score
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: in this game and go seven or ten up in
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: this game, I think it's crucial.
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: I think it's going to.
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: Be a very very difficult game. You sort of mentioned
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: there with TJ Wat. I want to see a little
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: bit more from him this week. I think the Seriers
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: win the seventeen ten. I think it's one of those
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: got c AFC North games. If you can give me
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: a win and we can go to nine and fleet
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: sitting coming in the week fourteen, I'll be a very
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: very happy man and high optimistic. Do you feel about this,
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: especially when we know how lethal Joe Burrow can be
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: if tried to improve that run game in recent weeks,
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: and they've got a wide receiver quarter at all, the
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: stay is one of the best in the league. It
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: does feel like eventually the Bengals are going to get
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: it right. I just hope it's next week, and I
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: hope for the general school with the rest of the
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: season that maybe they've left the week two lit nutsense.
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: Just HARKing back to your point about protection, Michael, it
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: seems like Russell Wilson from a large majority of that
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: game against Cleveland did not have enough time to make
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: his reads downfield and get a pass off. So that
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: is definitely that needs to be cleaned up, needs to
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: be worked on. You can have to give your quarterback time.
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: Like Russell Wilson is known for his deep balls. He
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: has beautiful touch on as the quote unquote moon balls
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: that he loves throwing deep to his receivers. So to
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: give him enough time to on cork more of those,
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: you have to improve the protection. That's a mass I
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: think I'm gonna play a massive part, especially when you
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: have the likes of Trey Hendrickson, who was one of
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: the most underrated pass rushers in the league as far
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: as I'm concerned like he's going to pose a massive
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: threat I think on Sunday afternoon, Sunday evening. In terms
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: of predictions, look, I mean I really thought we would
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: beat the Browns. I mean, after beating the Ravens, I
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: really really thought we wouldn't struggle against the Browns as
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: much as we did. I am cautiously optimistic, purely for
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: the fact that I don't think I've ever picked against
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: the Steeers in this podcast, and I'm not about to
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: start now. Given the way this season is going, I
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: still have a bit of faith left. It is going
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: to be very tight. I think I think Joe Burr
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: is going to have a big, big game. I think
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: he's gonna throw all over us. But I do think
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: we'll be able to hold out. We'll be able to
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: land some punches ourselves. I'm gonna go Steelers winning this
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: one in.
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: A very very tight one, seventeen to fourteen.
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: It's going to come down to, I think, to a
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: fourth quarter field goal from Boswell.
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: Hopefully there'll be no snow.
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: You never know what what it'll be like there, whether
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: there's no actually whether the whether actually affects the player's
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: performance or whatever. You know that they can say what
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: they want, but I think it will be interesting to
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: see how much that that does impact on it. It's
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: going to be close. I mean, I think every game
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: from here on now is going to be very close.
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: Unless this Theaters can kind of they have shown flashes
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: of the form that they that the potential that is there,
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: they need to tap into that more permanently now and
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: actually start coming on week on week if we're going
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: to have any chance of, like I said, of getting
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: past the first round of the playoffs, I agree, it's.
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: Going to be an interesting few weeks now. And obviously
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: we got to go one Cup Final at a time,
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: one super Bowl at the time. This week per se
• 21:40
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