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Battle for the North in Baltimore · The Irish Steelers Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Everybody.
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  Speaker 2: You're very welcome into the IRA Series podcast presented by
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  Speaker 2: Erlingus Week fourteen.
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  Speaker 1: Hi, is it week fourteen of the NFL season.
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  Speaker 2: I'm my co host this week or my guest is
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  Speaker 2: already gosping at that day.
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  Speaker 1: You're all very welcome to Wes. You are here from
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  Speaker 1: sears Isation Radio.
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  Speaker 2: From Steters Radio, generally all different types of media joining
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  Speaker 2: us again, Wes, you're very very welcome back on here.
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  Speaker 1: How are you doing? First and foremost, I'm.
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  Speaker 3: Good, Mick.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, it's been you know, it's been a tough
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  Speaker 4: week on the back of Sunday's performance, But you know,
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  Speaker 4: I'm fortunate, Like I've got two young daughters. It's Christmas
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  Speaker 4: holiday season. It's hard for me to be depressed about
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  Speaker 4: football around them. They help me do a good job
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  Speaker 4: of keeping things in perspective and turning the page.
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  Speaker 3: But I'm doing well.
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  Speaker 4: Partner, good to be back here with you, and I
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  Speaker 4: hope I hope you're doing well as well.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely getting into the holiday mode on day that
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  Speaker 2: is maybe taking my mind off of the just a
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  Speaker 2: little bit as well. Not being said, we are going
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  Speaker 2: to talk about what's coming up down the stretch. We'll
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  Speaker 2: talk about what happened last week in a week second,
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  Speaker 2: they would be a miss of me. Not to joke
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  Speaker 2: in the fact that we met each other at the
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  Speaker 2: game at the Pokers game the week seven week get
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  Speaker 2: and we completely miss each other in in Ireland because
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  Speaker 2: it was just busy week.
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  Speaker 1: As you enjoy yourself, Oh I had.
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  Speaker 3: It was a trip of a lifetime. Man.
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  Speaker 4: I cannot wait to take my wife and my kids back.
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  Speaker 4: I think that's the best way to describe it. But
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  Speaker 4: the weather was amazing. We lucked out there. The people
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  Speaker 4: were amazing. The Irish culture is so rich and so incredible.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 4: I've been fortunate enough to go a few other places
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  Speaker 4: around the globe. You know, I've been to Canada and
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  Speaker 4: Mexico obviously, I've been to Spain. I've been to Italy.
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  Speaker 4: I've been to Australia and New Zealand. And I wouldn't
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  Speaker 4: say those places hate Americans, but they're also not overly
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  Speaker 4: excited to see us coming. There's kind of a middle ground.
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  Speaker 4: I wouldn't say they hate us, but they certainly don't
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  Speaker 4: love us.
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  Speaker 1: Man.
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  Speaker 4: Everyone in Ireland was like, we're so happy we're you're here.
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  Speaker 4: We're so happy you're bringing the NFL to Dublin. We've
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  Speaker 4: been waiting forever for this. Everyone was so kind, everyone
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  Speaker 4: was so friendly. I loved the culture, I loved the
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  Speaker 4: guinness it was. It was an incredible experience, man, And
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  Speaker 4: like I said, I will certainly be bringing the family
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  Speaker 4: back at some point before too long.
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  Speaker 2: I love it and hopefully we get you and all
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  Speaker 2: the guys back at some stage as well.
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  Speaker 1: And thank you for.
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  Speaker 2: Doing what you continue to do and beating the drum,
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  Speaker 2: not just over those weeks in regards to Ireland, but
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  Speaker 2: even whenever we had the chance to meet around the
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  Speaker 2: combine and stuff. It was definitely something to look out
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  Speaker 2: for the year. We would appreciate it. Let's start the
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  Speaker 2: podcast off with some good news for Irish fans. This
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  Speaker 2: game on Sunday against the Ravens is on television. It's
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  Speaker 2: on Sky Sports Plus, but it's also on NFL game
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  Speaker 2: passed on the Zone. It was on free television last
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  Speaker 2: week against the Bills on those Sky Sports so we're
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  Speaker 2: still on TV this week Before we talk about this games. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: there's no point in cotton around this. It was a
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  Speaker 2: disappointing loss last week, probably disappointing in the fact of
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  Speaker 2: when you watched how that first half performance went the
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  Speaker 2: round I talked last week in the podcast, I expected
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  Speaker 2: maybe a lot more activity on both sides of the
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  Speaker 2: ball from both teams in the first half. But when
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  Speaker 2: we get into the locker room in halftime, I said, okay,
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  Speaker 2: well savagely grind, did I do whatever you have to
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  Speaker 2: do on it? Just it just went in the second half?
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  Speaker 2: Like where do you you know, as somebody is sitting
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  Speaker 2: there and watching that in person, where do you look
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  Speaker 2: at that and think you know this needs to improve
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  Speaker 2: over the next few weeks.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, two things, And I mean we could you know,
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  Speaker 4: we could talk about that for half an hour easily,
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  Speaker 4: But two things that really stood out to me, Mick.
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  Speaker 4: The first is, we know the Steelers are a team
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  Speaker 4: they need their defense to create turnovers and they need
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  Speaker 4: to capitalize on them. And despite having two turnovers in
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  Speaker 4: the first half, you were able to capitalize on one.
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  Speaker 3: But those were the only points you scored.
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  Speaker 4: It felt like the first thirty minut and it's went
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  Speaker 4: the way you needed them to, yet you only had
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  Speaker 4: a seven to three lead.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe needed a little bit more.
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  Speaker 4: Of a PUSHI in there, so not being able to
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  Speaker 4: fully capitalize off of those turnovers and then just run
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  Speaker 4: game both sides of the ball. They were not able
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  Speaker 4: to establish the run on offense. But really what James
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  Speaker 4: Cook was able to do, I mean getting over thirty carries.
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  Speaker 3: He had over eighty yards in the first half.
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  Speaker 4: And I think that that caught up with the defense
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  Speaker 4: in the second half. And that's maybe the most head
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  Speaker 4: scratching part about it, Mick, was they had done such
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  Speaker 4: a good job Packers. You know, Jacob's a really talented
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  Speaker 4: running back. They limited him. Colts at Taylor maybe having
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  Speaker 4: the best year of any running back in the NFL
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  Speaker 4: this year, Jonathan Taylor. If anybody was over at the
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  Speaker 4: game in Germany, they certainly saw that like you did.
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  Speaker 3: They were able to limit him.
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  Speaker 4: The Chicago Bears, who had a top five rushing attack
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  Speaker 4: in the National Football League, they held them to under
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  Speaker 4: one hundred yards rushing. It really felt like, Okay, you're
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  Speaker 4: gonna be able to stop James Cook, limit James Cook,
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  Speaker 4: make Josh Allen have to beat you with his ow
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  Speaker 4: arm and the build wide receivers don't really scare you.
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  Speaker 3: But they were just not able to do that. Buffalo
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  Speaker 3: was able to.
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  Speaker 4: Run whenever wherever however they wanted to and so not
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  Speaker 4: fully capitalizing off of those turnovers in the first half
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  Speaker 4: to build a bigger lead and then just in ability
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  Speaker 4: to win at.
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  Speaker 3: The line of scrimmage.
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  Speaker 4: But I think, particularly on the defensive side of the ball,
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  Speaker 4: those feel like the things that have to get turned
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  Speaker 4: around for the Steelers when you're playing a Baltimore team
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  Speaker 4: that you know turnovers are going to be key. And
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  Speaker 4: then obviously Lamar Jackson, Derek Henry, we know how Baltimore
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  Speaker 4: runs the football. That's got to get back to being
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  Speaker 4: a strength of this defense.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think for me, you know, sort of seeing
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  Speaker 2: the energy the buffalo hot coming out in the second
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  Speaker 2: half and almost you know, I think it's easy to
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  Speaker 2: say it now. I think our defense, as you said,
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  Speaker 2: just looked a bit a bit tired from the more day. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: like they have to find the way like teams are
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  Speaker 2: gonna look nwe and go okay, well we can run
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  Speaker 2: all over this. Like they have to find the way
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  Speaker 2: to stop that run very very quickly and really stop
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  Speaker 2: the ruts. And there is no better way of me
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  Speaker 2: be doing not starting off with this week, which we'll
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  Speaker 2: talk about in a few minutes after we hear from
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  Speaker 2: a couple of guys on the roster in the locker
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  Speaker 2: room just before we do that Wes adum feeling coming
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  Speaker 2: in this week, Siying that seen the news scene that
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  Speaker 2: he had obviously mutually part of Wes with Minnesota. What's
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  Speaker 2: your thoughts in this because I just don't know what
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  Speaker 2: to expect. I was seeing him in Trennon this week.
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  Speaker 2: If he is, you know, playing at a good level,
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  Speaker 2: he could be a really good addition to this offense.
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  Speaker 2: It's harder to want to expect him to we see him.
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  Speaker 4: It certainly is, and that's kind of the you know,
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  Speaker 4: the Steelers tried this a couple of weeks ago with
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  Speaker 4: another veteran wide receiver in Marquez Valdez Scantling, and he's
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  Speaker 4: still been on the practice squad and we haven't seen
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  Speaker 4: him able to prove that he deserves a helmet or
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  Speaker 4: a spot on that fifty three man roster.
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  Speaker 3: You know, he he doesn't need to light the world
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  Speaker 3: on fire.
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  Speaker 4: If he can give them a legitimate option, you know,
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  Speaker 4: I think that that would go a long way. Different
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  Speaker 4: body type, different skill set. They have to find a
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  Speaker 4: way to take some attention off a DT metcalf I'm
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  Speaker 4: sure that's something I know you know that. I'm sure
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  Speaker 4: you've talked about that in another pass catcher, to really
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  Speaker 4: make the defense respect it, to take some attention away
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  Speaker 4: from DK Metcalf.
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  Speaker 3: That's another thing that they.
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  Speaker 4: Need to figure out down the stretch here is defenses
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  Speaker 4: are able to queue on DK Metcalf in the passing
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  Speaker 4: game way too much. But I'm talking down in, down out,
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  Speaker 4: a friar Mouth, a John new Smith, a Calvin Austin,
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  Speaker 4: a Roman Wilson. You've just been waiting for one of
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  Speaker 4: those guys to really carve out a role and it
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  Speaker 4: hasn't happened. If Adam feln can kind of put his
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  Speaker 4: hand in that pile, that would be great, But I
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  Speaker 4: think it's it's more likely for the Steelers that it's
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  Speaker 4: got to be one of those tight ends that really
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  Speaker 4: takes a step forward and starts to carve out a
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  Speaker 4: role in this offense.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I really will see pot try and gets that next
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  Speaker 2: level over these last few big, big weeks, which you're
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  Speaker 2: gonna talk about Innui. Second, just finally here on on
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  Speaker 2: this sort of general talk. Look, obviously wish Darius Lay
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  Speaker 2: the bassio Sante Samuel Junior coming in the quarterback and
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  Speaker 2: do you like the move? Do you think Samuel's ready?
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  Speaker 3: I do, and I you know, I haven't seen much
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  Speaker 3: of him.
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  Speaker 4: I once or twice down at the facility last week
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  Speaker 4: or two, but that's been about it. But I think,
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  Speaker 4: you know, we know the Steelers, they've got some depth
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  Speaker 4: issues at corner right They had to move Jalen Ramsey
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  Speaker 4: to safety. Corey Trice is out for the year, James
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  Speaker 4: Pierre is dealing with concussion stuff right now. So I
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  Speaker 4: don't think that they would have given up Darius Slay.
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  Speaker 4: I don't think if they would have released Darius Slay
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  Speaker 4: if they didn't really like what they've seen from as
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  Speaker 4: Sante Samuel Junior, because they need bodies in general, and
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  Speaker 4: especially with James Pierre being in concussion protocol and his
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  Speaker 4: status for Sunday being uncertain. You know what you got
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  Speaker 4: in JPJ and Joey Porter Jr. You know what you
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  Speaker 4: having Brandon Eccles.
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  Speaker 3: But you've kind of.
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  Speaker 4: Been, you know, switching between Slay, switching between Pierre, trying
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  Speaker 4: to figure out that other spot. If they weren't pretty
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  Speaker 4: confident in a Sante Samuel Junior, I think they would
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  Speaker 4: have kept slay around. So that to me is like, Okay,
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  Speaker 4: if they're willing to let go of the veteran at
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  Speaker 4: a position where they're a little thin, they must be
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  Speaker 4: confident in this practice squad guy. And you know a
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  Speaker 4: Sante Samuel Junior. Obviously it was fourteen months in between
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  Speaker 4: times that he was on a football field with that injury,
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  Speaker 4: But before that injury, he was one of the more promising, encouraging,
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  Speaker 4: you know, young cornerbacks in the National Football League. If
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  Speaker 4: they can get him back even close to that, that'll
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  Speaker 4: be great for down the stretch and Mick, it'll be
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  Speaker 4: great for you know, when they all report to training
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  Speaker 4: camp in July of twenty twenty six. Again, if you
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  Speaker 4: can have Joey Porter Junior, Brandon Echols, Sante Samuel feel
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  Speaker 4: confident in those three, that would go a long way
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  Speaker 4: in your.
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  Speaker 3: Roster building process.
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  Speaker 4: And you know, throughout free agency, in the draft and
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  Speaker 4: training camp and that whole timeline as well.
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  Speaker 2: I wish he was shotting the Monday morning when it
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  Speaker 2: was in the Blues after a lost month, because you've
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  Speaker 2: perkingly right up. I think you're gonna perk all the
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  Speaker 2: funds up as well. Here it's grit and we're gonna
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  Speaker 2: very quickly preview this Reevens game in the wee second
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  Speaker 2: and before we dealt we're gonna hear from coach Salmon
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  Speaker 2: on Arn Rodgers here on the Iris Sies podcast presented
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  Speaker 2: by Erlingus.
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  Speaker 5: Kyle Hamilton moves to diame linebacker. He plays inside. He's
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  Speaker 5: a very versatile guy man. He's the poster boy for
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  Speaker 5: their turnover culture. I think he's got seventeen career force
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  Speaker 5: fumbles and counting now and so ball security is gonna
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  Speaker 5: be a major component of it. We got to be
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  Speaker 5: really fundamentally sound there. Again, he leaves that charge, but
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  Speaker 5: again wouldn't be remiss if I didn't mention Malachi starks Man,
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  Speaker 5: their first rounder. He's a center fielder man and is
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  Speaker 5: doing a really good job patrolling that area to feel
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  Speaker 5: and and and particularly of late as as I mentioned,
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  Speaker 5: with that acquisition, and they're able to solidify some divisional labor.
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  Speaker 5: He's been a mainstay in the middle of the field
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  Speaker 5: for him and doing a nice job of solidifying that space.
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  Speaker 5: You see growth and development in Nate Wiggins in year two.
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  Speaker 5: I think he's playing really good football. He's a tough
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  Speaker 5: cover man, I know he went out of the last
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  Speaker 5: football game, but as we sit here and prepare today,
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  Speaker 5: we certainly anticipate seeing him in the matchup like this
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  Speaker 5: and and and ready to deal with his talents. They
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  Speaker 5: do a lot of things up front, man, They use
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  Speaker 5: a variety of packages and personnel groups. They've had some
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  Speaker 5: attrition up front in their defensive line and edge people,
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  Speaker 5: and so they get into some Dime forty one. They
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  Speaker 5: also get into some dime thirty two. Young draftee out
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  Speaker 5: of Clemson Simpson is versatile. You'll see him in some
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  Speaker 5: dime thirty two. He'll rush off the edge, He'll act
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  Speaker 5: as a hover rusher at times in a hybrid four
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  Speaker 5: man rush. He drops some. It gives him really good
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  Speaker 5: schematic variation. You got he and Rokwan and Kyle Hamilton
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  Speaker 5: down around the box. Some guys blitz, some guys cover.
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  Speaker 5: They do a nice job week in and week out
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  Speaker 5: of kind of changing those things up. And then certainly
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  Speaker 5: when we play these guys man, special teams is always
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  Speaker 5: a major component of how games unfold. They are a
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  Speaker 5: really good special teams unit. It's a value system of there.
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  Speaker 5: Certainly it's a value system of ours. We'll be fighting
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  Speaker 5: for every blade of grass in all three phases, and
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  Speaker 5: oftentimes they come in more chunks in this phase because
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  Speaker 5: of the vertical and heartle donald grass associated with these plays.
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  Speaker 5: And so, man, we got to be really good in
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  Speaker 5: that space. Our return games got to provide a leg
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  Speaker 5: up for us. Our covers game has got to be excellent,
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  Speaker 5: and certainly our specialists have to be on it. Excited
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  Speaker 5: about the prep in terms of what lines ahead with
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  Speaker 5: us this week, I'm excited about getting in front of
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  Speaker 5: our guys starting tomorrow morning, man, and laying out of
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  Speaker 5: playing and working that plan and taking it to Baltimore
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  Speaker 5: AFC North Football with a division lead online.
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  Speaker 6: It's really just about the personnel when you look at
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  Speaker 6: the tape on who's playing and who's playing well. And
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  Speaker 6: I mentioned in the charters week how good Derwin was playing,
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  Speaker 6: and I'd say the same thing about Kyle. Kyle is
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  Speaker 6: the guy that, like I said about Derwin, he plays
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  Speaker 6: safety and base, he plays nickel and big nickel, he
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  Speaker 6: plays linebacker and dime. You know, that's a multifaceted, multi
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  Speaker 6: talented Swiss army knife who can do it all. So
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  Speaker 6: he's the guy you gotta make sure you know where
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  Speaker 6: he's at all times. Roco On I played against in
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  Speaker 6: the other NFC. You know, the other Northern Division had
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  Speaker 6: a ton of respect for him since our days going
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  Speaker 6: at it Packers bears. Uh, he's an elite player for
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  Speaker 6: a long time. Kind of gets him going.
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  Speaker 4: Uh.
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  Speaker 6: But they got a lot of you know, good you know,
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  Speaker 6: younger guys and over guys. You know, they traded for
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  Speaker 6: Gilman wasn't playing good. They drafted the young kid from
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  Speaker 6: Starks from Georgia, who I love watching play in college.
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  Speaker 6: And he's done a really nice job. And I think
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  Speaker 6: that acquisition of Gilman allows Kyle to play, you know,
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  Speaker 6: down out of center field a lot more, which it
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  Speaker 6: seems to have been a strength for them.
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  Speaker 4: Is there anything what you guys can do as an
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  Speaker 4: offense to help the receivers get open or is it
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  Speaker 4: just more than winning one on one?
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  Speaker 6: I mean, it's all that, you know, It just comes
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  Speaker 6: down to release, having a plan to release, and proper depths,
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  Speaker 6: proper timing. You know, we've tried different things with rub routes,
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  Speaker 6: and uh, it's just about having a plan for land
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  Speaker 6: of scrimmage and then understanding when to be open on
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  Speaker 6: the time and to each out, but I see improvement
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  Speaker 6: from those guys. It just hasn't, you know, showing up
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  Speaker 6: consistently the last few weeks.
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  Speaker 3: With the Do you feel like that's healing?
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  Speaker 7: And do you just be making any tweaks to the
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  Speaker 7: cast and the stabilizer on?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I hope. So, I mean tomorrow we're gonna put
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  Speaker 6: our heads together, me and Gabriel in the training room
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  Speaker 6: and see, uh, see what we can do. But it's
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  Speaker 6: definitely uh healing. I appreciate the extra day off, you know.
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  Speaker 6: I love the practice, so I hate missing practice, but
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  Speaker 6: dealing with what I'm dealing with, it helps to get
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  Speaker 6: another day without any pounding on the you know, on
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  Speaker 6: the bones in there. So, uh, we'll see what happens.
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  Speaker 6: I'd love to be able to be under center. That'll
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  Speaker 6: probably be later in the week decision, But uh yeah
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  Speaker 6: I didn't. I didn't come out of the game any
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  Speaker 6: worse for wear. So the healing process, healing process has continued,
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  Speaker 6: and we'll see what happens. As far as the type
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  Speaker 6: of cast I use come come Sunday. Yeah, I mean
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  Speaker 6: I've been the pistol over the years, with various injuries.
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  Speaker 6: I sustained every Bay so I've spent a lot of
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  Speaker 6: time there.
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  Speaker 7: With Arthur Smith. When you got to talking about you know,
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  Speaker 7: with the structured ways to help get guys more open
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  Speaker 7: and the timing of things and trying to find either
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  Speaker 7: new ways or ways to sharpen you have opportunities to
• 15:08
  Speaker 7: get more Downfiel shots.
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  Speaker 6: I'm very involved. Yeah, do you have a more specific question.
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  Speaker 8: Well, it's like, you know, the weekly meetings that you
• 15:17
  Speaker 8: guys have to do to find new challenges, and I
• 15:20
  Speaker 8: was asking for you to kind of talk more about
• 15:21
  Speaker 8: the challenges it does to find those answers when there's
• 15:24
  Speaker 8: been so many weeks without the Downfiel passing game work.
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  Speaker 6: Well, I mean a lot of things go into that.
• 15:29
  Speaker 6: You know, coverages they've been, they've been most teams are
• 15:33
  Speaker 6: planning uh double dky, So it's on the rest of
• 15:37
  Speaker 6: the guys that get open. We've been going a lot
• 15:40
  Speaker 6: of big personnel stuff. You know, I'm not sure what
• 15:43
  Speaker 6: the plan will be this week as far as different
• 15:45
  Speaker 6: personnel groupings, but it comes down to having a plan
• 15:48
  Speaker 6: with your release at lance scrimmage, run the right route
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  Speaker 6: and then me make the throw and sometimes spend a
• 15:53
  Speaker 6: combination of any of those three that's it's caused it
• 15:56
  Speaker 6: to go wrong. But yeah, I think if you look
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  Speaker 6: at to take overall, there hasn't been a ton of
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  Speaker 6: opportunities in general, take those shots, and until we run
• 16:05
  Speaker 6: the ball consistently every single week and get some more
• 16:07
  Speaker 6: single high you know we're gonna win in unconditional lice.
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: Did you hear from the guys?
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: Obviously a big, big game coming up before we whereas
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: before we talk about that like seriously month Ravens away
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  Speaker 2: Steeve like Dolphins have this, you know, Steeters Dolphins at
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: home Monday night football early Tuesday morning for all the
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: Irish ones here, Lions on the road, Bron's on the road,
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: I'm home. Did Thereravens to finish all off? We was
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: talk about this Reevens game in the second. But this
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: is a tough, tough schedule, you know, read a city.
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: How many games did the Steeters need to win her
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  Speaker 2: out of these last few?
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  Speaker 4: Well, you know, again some of that would depend on
• 16:43
  Speaker 4: tiebreaker situations, but they would have to. You think they
• 16:47
  Speaker 4: got to at least win three, right, it's six and six.
• 16:49
  Speaker 4: Now you have to at least get to nine and
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  Speaker 4: eight to give yourself a chance. If you win the
• 16:53
  Speaker 4: right ones. If you sweep Baltimore, it feels like you
• 16:57
  Speaker 4: would absolutely find a way in. You know, yeah, like
• 17:01
  Speaker 4: Miami and Cleveland will factor into those AFC tiebreaker equations
• 17:06
  Speaker 4: where the Lions game won't necessarily because.
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: They're in the NFC.
• 17:10
  Speaker 4: So these odds that you see that all the time
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  Speaker 4: Steelers win, they're got a seventy percent chance to make
• 17:15
  Speaker 4: the playoffs. If they lose, they've got a nineteen percent chance.
• 17:18
  Speaker 4: And how that fluctuates that will continue to change. But
• 17:21
  Speaker 4: if they can win in Baltimore, get a leg up
• 17:24
  Speaker 4: on that tie breaker against the Ravens, they've.
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: Got a big shot.
• 17:28
  Speaker 4: And then you know, obviously the return leg when Baltimore
• 17:31
  Speaker 4: has to come to Pittsburgh for Week eighteen there in
• 17:33
  Speaker 4: January for.
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: The final week of the season.
• 17:36
  Speaker 4: Yeah, but like I think you needed least three of
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: these five and you need the right ones. Like, you know,
• 17:41
  Speaker 4: if you beat Baltimore twice, obviously that's the ideal scenario.
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: But if it's.
• 17:45
  Speaker 4: Baltimore and Miami and Cleveland and you get those three
• 17:48
  Speaker 4: AFC wins, I think you would really like your chances
• 17:51
  Speaker 4: for a tiebreaker against Baltimore at nine and eight but
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: it's not. It's it's tough sletting because Detroit away is
• 17:58
  Speaker 4: I love how you guys say that, by the way,
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: like we always say on the road or going to Baltimore,
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: Baltimore away, Detroit Away.
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: That's such a better way to say it.
• 18:07
  Speaker 4: Detroit Away is gonna be tough because they're gonna be
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: desperate for a win in a playoff spot in the
• 18:11
  Speaker 4: thick NFC Cleveland a way a few days after Christmas,
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: could be a snow globe, could be crazy weather, could
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: be a weird one, like it seems it always is
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: when the Steelers go to Cleveland at the end of
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: the year. So taking care of business here and then
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: coming back home and taking care of business on Monday night,
• 18:28
  Speaker 4: and what will be a big one against a Dolphins
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: team that suddenly found their form to steal one of
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: your one of your phrases that I like as well too.
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: The Dolphins very on form right now.
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: But this is a massive one, man, Like this is
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: you know, this is uh, this is Manchester United going
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: to Anfield. You know, this is bar this is this
• 18:47
  Speaker 4: is Barcelona going to the Burnabout. I mean, this is
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: one of the biggest fixtures, one of the biggest rivalries
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: that we have in this country that hardly ever disappoints.
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: And if you win it.
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: We're gonna all get on that plane and why home
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: Sunday and feel great and feel great Monday morning. Our coffee,
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: our tea is gonna be delicious Monday morning. If you
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: lose it, it's gonna be like someone took a Wii
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: in your cereal and you know your your entire week
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: is gonna be ruined.
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  Speaker 3: There's been a lot on the line.
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: I mean, they've played a ton of these big games
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: Green Bay and Indie, in Chicago and Buffalo, but this
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: one is this is the derby, this is the rivalry.
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: This is anfield away, this is bernabow away. This is massive.
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: And you win it, you're gonna feel great. You lose it,
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: you're gonna feel in the dumps.
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: I think you're spot on in regards to that. Just
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: the last few games here, like this Reevens game is
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: very It's obviously crucial, but in terms of that double
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: sort of stretch where you've got you know, away from
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: home at home as well, it's so so big, I
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: guess in terms of a key to the game each
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: For me, it's it's it's stopping the world. I mean,
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: I watched that Reevens Bengals games week and we know that.
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: You know, obviously the Bengals with Jewel Burrow Bock and
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: not AFC North is getting tighter and tighter every week.
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: This this Staters team can beat this Revens team if
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: they get the right sort of I guess mindset on
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: the gotta stop Derek Henry, got to stop the Sackler
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: third runner, or not to stop Lamar Jackson getting the legs.
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: Have you had any faults in this game as well?
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: I I genuinely think the Seaters can win this game,
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: but it's gonna have You're gonna have to go win,
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: get out early and really try and you know how
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: it effectively?
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you got Everything that you just said is spot on.
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: It doesn't seem like Lamar is one hundred percent healthy,
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: Like he hasn't been running quite like Lamar typically does
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: these last few weeks. So if you can limit Derrick Henry,
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: if you can, maybe you know, limit Mark Andrews and
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: Isaiah Likely and those talented tight ends they like to use, like,
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: really put it on Lamar, who I think similar to
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: Aaron Rodgers, is just not himself dealing with some injury stuff.
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: I think that's key. And then, you know, you kind
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: of mentioned this a little bit before. We before we
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: heard from Aaron Rodgers and Mike Tomlin. But just the
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: amount of time the defense has been spending on the field.
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: I mean, forty two minutes to eighteen on Sunday in
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: terms of time of possession against Buffalo, that can't happen.
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: The Bills had thirty more offense, thirty one or thirty
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: two more offensive players in the Steelers. If that happens
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: again in Baltimore, your defense is gonna wear down.
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: They're gonna run the ball on you. It's gonna be
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: a long day.
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: The Steelers defense has played one hundred and fifty three
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: I think it is more snaps than the offense this year. Mick,
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: that's like two and a half extra games. And we
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: know those guys are you know, TJ's not young anymore,
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: Cam's not young anymore. Jalen Ramsey's not young anymore. You
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: need to keep your offense on the field. You need
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: to run the ball. You need to not let Baltimore
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: run the ball and keep their offense on the field.
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: That time of possession those amount of snaps. Hey, they're
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: important every week, but after it really worked against you
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: on Sunday, you need to get that moveing in your
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: favor this time around at Baltimore Away.
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: Spot on Away as well.
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: You're getting on these soccer terms, I know you have
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: to jump ball in a sn R very quickly or so.
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: I just want to thank you for coming on as
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: you're obviously welcome on any time. Just to remind people
• 21:53
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• 22:02
  Speaker 2: games coming up off to this year West. Thanks so
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: much for your time on. I hope everybody listening, including yourself.
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: How's a great weekend.
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: Thank you, Thank you, Mick. Always enjoy catching up with you.
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: Always love the U, the.
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: Steelers, Ireland, Ireland, NFL, everything you guys have going on.
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: It's been fantastic to UH to watch you all grow
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: here over the last couple of years. And hey, I
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: hope to see you again in February the Combine before
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: too much longer.
• 22:25
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• 22:27
  Speaker 1: In regards to that.
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: Thank you so much. Fun shot to you all student books.
• 22:32
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• 22:41
  Speaker 2: Hey, I was gonna get ask you like one key
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: to the game, but like it's thirty second Instagram rocket.
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: So here we go. New staters are.
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  Speaker 3: Sorry, Sorry I thought you to go into it.
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: Sorry. We have a new episode of the Iris Sitis
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  Speaker 2: Big Games You from nas Nar joins us, well as
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• 23:07
  Speaker 2: give Steelers Fawns in Ireland one key to the game
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  Speaker 2: against the Refents.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you obviously have to get your offense going and
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: score more than seven points. But I think it all
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: begins and ends with the run game for Baltimore. We
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: saw what Buffalo was able to do on the ground
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: on Sunday and how that wore the Steelers down, kept
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: the defense on the field too long. You cannot let
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: Baltimore do that again with Derek Henry. Keep your defense
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: out there way too long, your offense unable to get
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: any momentum going.
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: So the key, as.
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: It has been for most of the year for the Steelers,
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: it starts in the trenches. But I think particularly on
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: the defensive side of the ball, we know Baltimore is
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: going to want to run. The Steelers have to frustrate
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: them and limit them from doing so.
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: We also hear from coach Salmon on quarterback Arn Rodgers
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: on the podcast. You can click the link in the
• 23:51
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