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Steelers win season opener against the Atlanta Falcons · The Irish Steelers Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Everybody. Welcome into the Irish Steers Podcast, the podcast for
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  Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Steelers fans across the Alam of Ireland and beyond.
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  Speaker 1: Football is back and the Steelers get a w to
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  Speaker 1: start this season. Michael mcquid, Jimmy English, Dave og McKey.
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  Speaker 1: Fantastic to have everybody on the call today and look
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  Speaker 1: for everybody listening presuming is going to go out last
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  Speaker 1: Sunday night Monday morning. Welcome, have a great week, Jimmy.
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  Speaker 1: You're definitely gonna get off to a good start this week.
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  Speaker 1: Man as Steelers win. Great to have football back, Jimmy,
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  Speaker 1: all the same, isn't it.
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  Speaker 2: That's fantastic And considering that Notre Dame let me down
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  Speaker 2: last night making such disappointing fashion to a MAC team
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  Speaker 2: which I'm still not over, I badly needed this Steelers
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  Speaker 2: win and they look they got the job doing on
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  Speaker 2: the road in a hostile environment in Atlanta. They ground
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  Speaker 2: out to win. You know, our defense put the team
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  Speaker 2: outs back as you boswell. Was fantastic and it's good
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  Speaker 2: to get the season off to a start, to a
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  Speaker 2: winning start, and especially given to change your quarterback at
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  Speaker 2: the eleventh hour, that was an interesting development. So overall,
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  Speaker 2: I am relatively happy, but I feel like this team
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  Speaker 2: still has a lot to give.
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  Speaker 1: I think absolutely. Seventeen more weeks left in the regular season,
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  Speaker 1: twenty one weeks left until the super Bowl, and hopefully
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  Speaker 1: we're talking about this team all the way. Yeah, we'll
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  Speaker 1: talk with that quarterback situation in a couple of minutes.
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  Speaker 1: Dogg Good to see him on. Obviously, a busy few
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  Speaker 1: days up here in Trome, with a championship, more wins
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  Speaker 1: and losses up here than ever before. Big win for
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  Speaker 1: the Steelers on Sunday night, going one on the one
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  Speaker 1: the season, putting the marker down for the division. And look,
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  Speaker 1: never an easy place to go to Atlanta, especially with
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  Speaker 1: her and it's happened there over the offseason. I'm just
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  Speaker 1: happy we won. Man, How are you doing?
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  Speaker 3: I'm doing well.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: You imagine about the championship up here. The only championship
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  Speaker 4: Time Means is interested in is the NFL, as you said,
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  Speaker 4: but as you said about the division. The Ravens lost
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  Speaker 4: on Thursday night, the Bengals suffered a shock to fit
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  Speaker 4: to the New England Patriots, and I think the Browns
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  Speaker 4: are on at the minute against the Cowboys, and let's hope.
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  Speaker 4: You know that the Cowboys can do their old friends
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  Speaker 4: a couple of favors. But you know, who knows. The
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  Speaker 4: end of the night, we're probably going to be sitting
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  Speaker 4: at the top, at the top of the toughest division
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  Speaker 4: in the NFL. But I've sort of seen in the
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  Speaker 4: same boat as Jimmy. You know, it was a good obviously,
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  Speaker 4: get a win, but I still think this team has
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  Speaker 4: a long way to go. Defense was absolutely outstanding once again.
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  Speaker 4: I think we did matched that a couple of times
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  Speaker 4: last year. We know what the defense brings are going
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  Speaker 4: to play hard, but yeah, I think the offense still
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  Speaker 4: has miles. I want to say at Myles, you know,
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  Speaker 4: maybe I'll switch over a kilometers still klometers to go
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  Speaker 4: if you like.
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  Speaker 2: No, it's a it's a funny one. Like I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I'm happy we won, obviously considering how close it was,
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  Speaker 2: but it's a kind of a frustrating. And I think
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  Speaker 2: because you can see the spark, you can see the
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  Speaker 2: occasional flash and justin fields me either a couple of
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  Speaker 2: really good hookups to the George Pickens the flashes there.
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  Speaker 2: It's just we need more consistency now on offense. Defense
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  Speaker 2: is our defense is fantastic. I mean, I think we
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  Speaker 2: had three three takeaways in total. So now let's we
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  Speaker 2: need our offense to take that next step and start
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  Speaker 2: putting points on the board. So it's a look, like
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  Speaker 2: I said, I'm happy, but like, let's let's drive on lads.
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  Speaker 1: You know, jobs all finished. And I agree, like, look,
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  Speaker 1: I agree with what both of you boys are saying.
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  Speaker 1: And I guess just to go on to this. First off,
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  Speaker 1: we're actually recording right off of the game, which is great,
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  Speaker 1: so we can actually get a bit of a fresh
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  Speaker 1: take on the game, which is really really cool. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's one of those things I guess. I guess, Jimmie,
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  Speaker 1: I'll start with you. The biggest change that we had,
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  Speaker 1: and this is a pre eminent sort of situation when
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  Speaker 1: you record earlier in the weekend. Thanks to everybody that
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  Speaker 1: tuned in and listened and interacted all week, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the biggest change was that quarterbacks situation we sort of
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  Speaker 1: new towards the end of the week, but we didn't
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  Speaker 1: really officially know until until pregame reps that we were
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  Speaker 1: going to see justin fields and obviously with Russell Alla Best,
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  Speaker 1: I was watching the pre game Someday Someday NFL Countdown
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  Speaker 1: on the ESPN and they had Russell play at showing
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  Speaker 1: on screen for four or five minutes warming up, and
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  Speaker 1: there wasn't too much war going on. It was sort
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  Speaker 1: of quite restrained that and I guess at that point
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  Speaker 1: it became evident that Justin was going to play. And
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  Speaker 1: we know that. Last week the coach Thomlin obviously as
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  Speaker 1: Russell as the starter for the start of the season, like, look,
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  Speaker 1: we're not gonna like I'm certainly not gonna sit here
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  Speaker 1: and talk about a quarterback battle. I'm talking about the
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  Speaker 1: first game of the season. But I guess in one sense, Jimmy,
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  Speaker 1: it's good to see Justin get some reps out there again.
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  Speaker 1: We talked all off season about how I certainly don't
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  Speaker 1: think he was given enough time or space in Chicago,
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  Speaker 1: especially in the market that he was in to have
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  Speaker 1: that and to go into Atlanta, and I know there's
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  Speaker 1: a long way to go. There's a lot more building
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  Speaker 1: to go into Atlanta with Kirk and ever in the
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  Speaker 1: keym and the expectation of that Falcons team and the
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  Speaker 1: grind on a result in the most you're bang on
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  Speaker 1: the most staeos way possible. It's one of those things
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  Speaker 1: I really enjoyed seeing Justin run. Just want to see
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  Speaker 1: in the next level now. And like obviously at the
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  Speaker 1: time of recording, Jimmy, we don't know if if Russell
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  Speaker 1: will be back for a week two, so we'll just
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  Speaker 1: take it and we'll be back during the week to
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  Speaker 1: talk about that. We'll try and go as late as
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  Speaker 1: we can. But then one hundred ft six yards for
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  Speaker 1: Justin through the air. He had fifty seven rushing yards,
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  Speaker 1: zero touchdowns, so there's definitely something to improve on there.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I think we all kind of had
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  Speaker 2: an inkling Michael during the week when there was news
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  Speaker 2: of Wilson's injury and the calf strain that Fields was
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  Speaker 2: going to start. So it wasn't much of a surprise
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  Speaker 2: when we got the news a couple of hours before
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  Speaker 2: the game that I was official. And look, I think
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  Speaker 2: Justin handled himself very well. He ran the offense very efficiently,
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  Speaker 2: gave me he almost give me a heart attack with
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  Speaker 2: that bubble snap at the first play of the game,
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  Speaker 2: and I was like, my god, let's not let's not
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  Speaker 2: do this.
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  Speaker 1: Such a week one play. Wasn't it like such a
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  Speaker 1: weak one player.
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  Speaker 2: It was just it was reminiscent of the preseason. I
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  Speaker 2: was like, if this is going to be the team
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  Speaker 2: of the evening, we're going to be in for a
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  Speaker 2: long night. But he he gave a great account of himself.
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  Speaker 2: It took a while to get going. I think you
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  Speaker 2: were light a bit on his legs, which is great,
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  Speaker 2: and we all know what he can do when he runs.
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  Speaker 2: But he showed that connection with George Pickens. I mean
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  Speaker 2: he had a couple of beautiful deep passes and a
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  Speaker 2: couple of you know, really nice plays where he rolled
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  Speaker 2: one way and then came back and throw it through
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  Speaker 2: to the opposite side of the field, which kind of
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  Speaker 2: confounded the Falcons defense a little bit. So I look,
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  Speaker 2: I think I think regardless of who had started tonight,
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  Speaker 2: I think it was going to be a similar outcoming.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, both these quarterbacks are still adjusting to the offense.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's a new offense underd Smith. They're both trying
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  Speaker 2: to build chemistry with the receivers and established themselves as
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  Speaker 2: the starting quarterback. But I think overall, Justin did that.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he did his best tonight and look, we
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  Speaker 2: can we can build on this now and hopefully he
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  Speaker 2: can start scoring touchdowns either with his legs or two receivers.
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  Speaker 1: I'd obviously a sixty yard run from Justin next week
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  Speaker 1: if he does play for as much signed dollg And
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  Speaker 1: we'll talk more over the quarterbacks during the week, of course,
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  Speaker 1: But just have you any sort of feedback on what
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  Speaker 1: you've seen from Justin, Like I we've seen certain players. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: when you've got guys like Ben Roethlisberger sitting in their
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  Speaker 1: mid to lay at thirties, it's hard to expect the
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  Speaker 1: guy that that running. But I actually find it quite
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  Speaker 1: refreshing to see a Russian quarterback and it was positive
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  Speaker 1: way possible.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, it's it's one of those things where
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  Speaker 4: it's going to take time to adjust to the whole,
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  Speaker 4: you know, the setup Arthur Smith, you know, first game,
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  Speaker 4: I'd say that was a sweet final lessel.
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  Speaker 3: For m certainly justin face. You know, I think he
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  Speaker 3: brought what we've sort of expected.
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  Speaker 4: You know, it's going to take a bit of time,
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  Speaker 4: as you would expect, just as Jimmy said about you
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  Speaker 4: know that this ups At the start of the game, I.
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  Speaker 3: Was thinking, oh, no, here we go. But he adjusted brilliantly.
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  Speaker 4: I thought, you know, with everything that was thrown on him,
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  Speaker 4: just obviously, if there is going to be a massive
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  Speaker 4: positive on the offensive side of the ball, it has
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  Speaker 4: to be George Pekins. I mean, this is a lot
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  Speaker 4: that we know is a special colent and he's been
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  Speaker 4: dealing with so far in his young career not the
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  Speaker 4: best quarterback play. So at the same time, it's one
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  Speaker 4: of those things where it's going to take time for
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  Speaker 4: him to just as well. But I think this really
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  Speaker 4: could be a breakout year if we get that sea words,
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  Speaker 4: just as Jimmy said, consistency with a quarterback play, I
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  Speaker 4: think this lad can can take it to the absolute heights.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we just know how good he is.
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  Speaker 4: But I sort of just echo both both years have said,
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  Speaker 4: you know, we got sort of what we expected from
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  Speaker 4: justin Fields, but he's a long way to go and
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  Speaker 4: who knows what will happen in the next couple of weeks.
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  Speaker 4: Obviously with Russ's injury, it's all playing here. But on
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  Speaker 4: the Danford also, why I'm looking at.
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  Speaker 5: It, Pickens has definitely been lacking or an elite quarterback
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  Speaker 5: about like you say, and you can you can see
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  Speaker 5: already that that that connection I mean, justin Fields and
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  Speaker 5: Pickens are already building that connection.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, there's there was two beautiful deep passes, so
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  Speaker 2: I know one was kind of one was missed, but
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  Speaker 2: there was. I think he had two massive completions to Pickens,
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  Speaker 2: And look, it's just it's just about building that relationship
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  Speaker 2: now and finding a rhythm and finding a rhythm more
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  Speaker 2: finding a rhythm earlier in the game I think is
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  Speaker 2: going to be crucial regardless of who starts, get some
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  Speaker 2: nice early completions to the receivers. Hopefully we'll have we'll
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  Speaker 2: have more options. I mean, let's just quickly mention Pat
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  Speaker 2: Farmaut not to get off, not to get off tangent
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  Speaker 2: here at all, but he had the massive extension during
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  Speaker 2: the weekend. I think he's gonna The Steelers are obviously
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  Speaker 2: keen to keep him around, and I think he's going
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  Speaker 2: to become an important or an even more important aspect
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  Speaker 2: of the offense, perhaps even standing out as the number
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  Speaker 2: two receiver this season.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, just to add on that, guy, agree, well, just
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  Speaker 1: what you were just saying, it's it's getting that consistent again.
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  Speaker 1: Like guess it's great that we have that full week
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  Speaker 1: night of rest before the game. Against Denver, another away
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  Speaker 1: game and then just before home slits in week three,
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  Speaker 1: and then away game and week four. Not really when
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  Speaker 1: it's the fact a home game in Dublin for US lads,
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  Speaker 1: and you know you see teams like Miami and Buffalo
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  Speaker 1: are now playing on Thursday night, so you've got that week.
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  Speaker 1: At the time of recording, obviously we're just going out
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  Speaker 1: of the early window and the Bengals have lost, so
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  Speaker 1: you know, a decent starting now in the afc orp
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  Speaker 1: and o't look, I'll take a win every day. Our
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  Speaker 1: friend ton Diggs but A tweeted, I think he's gonna
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  Speaker 1: come in the podcast soon, folks. We need to see
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  Speaker 1: more from Gille and Moore and I seem being given
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  Speaker 1: the ball more as well. Only two carries tonight, so
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  Speaker 1: hopefully it does change. And Nage had a nice now
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  Speaker 1: start twenty carry seventy yards. We'll try to improve that
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  Speaker 1: next week. Before we look in the game in more detail,
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  Speaker 1: let's hear from caedars Head coach Mike Comin.
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  Speaker 6: Man, I'm just really appreciative of the efforts of our guys.
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  Speaker 6: It was a fight. Obviously we weren't perfect.
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  Speaker 4: Man.
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  Speaker 6: This week one, like things particularly early on in the game.
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  Speaker 6: We want to it defensively, man. We dropped a pick
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  Speaker 6: or something there early. They converted some third downs and
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  Speaker 6: started the game with the field goal, and you know
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  Speaker 6: that's why, that's not why we put our defense on
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  Speaker 6: the field to start the game. We had some fumbled
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  Speaker 6: CQ exchanges on offense. We were shooting ourselves in the foot.
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  Speaker 6: Some drives got stopped. You know, you're kicking field goals, man,
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  Speaker 6: in the hostile environment versus a good group, man, you
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  Speaker 6: know you're in danger. And so I'm just really appreciative
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  Speaker 6: that we're able to get it done. We got things
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  Speaker 6: to work on, but it's really good to work on
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  Speaker 6: your ills with a W, and so we're gonna do that.
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  Speaker 6: You know, you start this season man on the road. Man,
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  Speaker 6: it's thirty two teams start this thing undefeated, and it's
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  Speaker 6: just good to get your first one on the road.
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  Speaker 6: Half this league is obviously not gonna be winners this week,
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  Speaker 6: and to get on the road and get out of
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  Speaker 6: the gate with a W, it's something that I respect,
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  Speaker 6: and it's really exciting for the guys. From a health standpoint,
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  Speaker 6: you know, Cam Johnston appears to have a serious injury.
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  Speaker 6: I have an update for you next time we come together.
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  Speaker 6: It's a shame for him. This guy has been spectacular
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  Speaker 6: man through team development. He's an absolute stud not only
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  Speaker 6: in his talents but his approach to business. And so
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  Speaker 6: you know, my heart goes out to him. Darius Rush
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  Speaker 6: is being evaluated for a concussion. I don't know whether
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  Speaker 6: it is or is it, but as the game ended,
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  Speaker 6: he was being evaluated in that way. We had some
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  Speaker 6: bumps and bruises, some guys go out, but those guys
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  Speaker 6: came back in d Jack, Joey Porter. But I'm just
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  Speaker 6: really appreciative of how the team supported one another and
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  Speaker 6: fought through. And that's what teams do. You know. The
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  Speaker 6: case in point is we gave up a drive there
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  Speaker 6: before the half, and our offense went down the field
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  Speaker 6: and got a field goal to respond, and and that
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  Speaker 6: was important. Obviously, you saw our defense stand up several
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  Speaker 6: times in support of our offense. We had some unique
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  Speaker 6: contributions today, like Scottie Miller as a backup holder. You know,
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  Speaker 6: look at your flip card, man, you don't see a
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  Speaker 6: backup holder on that flip art. So we just really
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  Speaker 6: appreciative of unique skill sets that help us win can't
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  Speaker 6: say enough about Bars, not only in terms of him
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  Speaker 6: kicking the ball, but but that punt was timely. TJ.
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  Speaker 6: White always delivers when it gets thick. We don't take
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  Speaker 6: that for granted. We appreciate it, we don't take it
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  Speaker 6: for granted. And so there's a lot of efforts to
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  Speaker 6: speak to but largely, man, we're just thankful to come
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  Speaker 6: into this place and and get this victory and kind
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  Speaker 6: of move on with our journey. All pausing and opened
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  Speaker 6: up for questions. You wanted to pass on the field
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  Speaker 6: goal there, The previous drive is touch on the flyfars
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  Speaker 6: just you know we're gonna live that life. We don't
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  Speaker 6: live in our fears.
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  Speaker 1: Man.
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  Speaker 6: We play and play to win. If you can't get
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  Speaker 6: fourth and one, man, sometimes you don't deserve to win.
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  Speaker 6: And that's just a philosophical approach that we live by.
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  Speaker 6: I believe in our bigs. I've talked to you guys
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  Speaker 6: repeatedly that we're going to ride the wave that our
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  Speaker 6: bigs on offense and defense provide and we mean it.
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  Speaker 6: Obviously we didn't get it done right there, but we
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  Speaker 6: still live that life.
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  Speaker 2: How do you evaluate the job.
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  Speaker 6: That Justin Fields did today, especially settling in as the
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  Speaker 6: game went on, really appreciative of his efforts in his place.
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  Speaker 6: Certainly what happened in Bregan.
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  Speaker 4: Where can you take it to that decision making progressis Russ?
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  Speaker 6: Even in consideration, it's really, you know, not a long
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  Speaker 6: drawn out process. I'd rather deal with short term busray
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  Speaker 6: to be quite honest with you. We're in week one,
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  Speaker 6: there's a lot of ball out in front of us.
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  Speaker 6: I just thought it was appropriate to put the healthy
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  Speaker 6: guys on the field. I felt really good about both quarterbacks.
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  Speaker 6: I was very clear to you guys when I named
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  Speaker 6: Russ the start of how comfortable I was with both quarterbacks.
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  Speaker 6: And so if that is true, why not be really
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  Speaker 6: comfortable with playing Justin under the circumstances with Russ being
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  Speaker 6: in less than ideal physical shape. And so that was
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  Speaker 6: the thought process. It wasn't a lot of discussion. Russ
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  Speaker 6: was very supportive to day and that was appreciated, but
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  Speaker 6: we went with Justin. Man. I'm glad we got two
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  Speaker 6: real capable quarterbacks. As I mentioned before.
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  Speaker 1: Great de hear for coach Tummel on the Irish students
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  Speaker 1: plod const as we can't a wait through week one
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  Speaker 1: going into early week two thoughts. But let's stick on
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  Speaker 1: this game against the Falcons. You know, you lads, Jimmy
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  Speaker 1: starting yourself, you lads mentioned it there. The defense today
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  Speaker 1: won this game among another player, which we'll talk about
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  Speaker 1: in the second with Jimmy, you know, taking your Steelers
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  Speaker 1: hat off from watching every other game in the early
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  Speaker 1: windo because they had two screens on at the one
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  Speaker 1: time that that defense stood out among so many. I'm
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  Speaker 1: proud to say they're in my fantasy team. But just
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  Speaker 1: a superb performance. And you know, it's one thing, Carrion,
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  Speaker 1: it's another thing. You can see hopefully that progression over
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  Speaker 1: the next few weeks on the offense, and you think
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  Speaker 1: to yourself, Jimmy, if the offense can get it together
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: in a good way over the next few weeks, even more,
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: this defense is right up there at the top bars
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: in that league.
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: Absolutely, Michael. They're just building and building, and what they
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: already established last year is one of the best defenses
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: in the NFL. And it's just waiting now for the
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: offense to catch up. As you're saying, if we can
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: get both sides of the ball, you know, performing at
• 15:58
  Speaker 2: that that file level. I think this team, this team
• 16:01
  Speaker 2: will be special and unstoppable. But you look what the
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: defense did tonight. He had two interceptions both from DB's
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: who he only picked up this offseason, Deshaun Elliott and
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: Dante Jackson. I mean, two fantastic takeaways there. And then
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: of course t J. Watt like just doing what TJ
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: Watt does and being an absolute force off the edge
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: two strip sacks that didn't count obviously for the penalties,
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: but then he had the fantastic fumble recovery on that
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: kind of botch snap, the botched exchange, and just like
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: he just he's just a game changer. He just disrupted
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: the entire the entire Falcons defensive line and finishing the
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: game strong. Then with the sack of Kirk Cousins at
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: the end, we should really mention Cam Hayward Amongstravius Adams
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: as well, who had the other sack and they shared
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: the sack of Kirk Cousins. So look that that defense
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: is just phenomenal and TJ is leading from the front
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: as as usual. It's just it's just a joy to
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: watch and they really are the strength of the team
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: and the reason why the Steelers are competitive at the minute.
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: That lot is going to be very very blunt here
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: and let you talk away that defense. The performance that
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: defense today will be showing across national television to Margot
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: more than football. Jimmy's mentioned someone. The names there just
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: standout performances. If they can do this every week, I'm
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: going to be getting up every Sunday or every Monday
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: or every Thursday excited to watch the lads in the
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: Black and gold.
• 17:30
  Speaker 4: Great performance, absolutely just outstanding, as I said, from early
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: and just staco everything. Jimmy says again, I mean, I
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: think we talked about it last year. I think the
• 17:40
  Speaker 4: Cleveland Browns had arguably the best unit in the league.
• 17:43
  Speaker 4: Their defense was setting up historical figures. I think this
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: defense is even better. And that's how good if we
• 17:49
  Speaker 4: can stay fits, I mean, we're just stacked pop. The
• 17:51
  Speaker 4: Queen as well is debuting the Black and Gold. Fantastic,
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: covered every blade of grass and you know TG Watts.
• 17:58
  Speaker 4: I mean, I can't really back up. I have to
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: just back up everything Jimmy said. He's he's taking all
• 18:02
  Speaker 4: the words from it. Incredible, You're okay, it's I can
• 18:07
  Speaker 4: just back you up.
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: He looked possessed. He looked possessed.
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: He was he was playing angry, and that's that's when
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: that's when he's at his best, when he's playing angry.
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: There was one I think it was the first stripsack
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: from the recovery that was called back because he was offside.
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: People can't see me my my air quotes. He was
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: not offside. He tied his he timed his rush to perfection.
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: But we won't go into the officiating because I want
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: to get myself wound up. But you can see when
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: he can. You can see when he came off the sideline,
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: he was livid and he said to himself, right, well,
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: kind of what do I have to do to to
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: get his to get his stripsack here? And you can
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: just tell from that point on he was playing, he
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: was playing angry, and with the results speak from himself
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: like I mean, he I'm not going to go as
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: far to say that he's single handedly won us that game,
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: because it was a team effort on both sides of
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: the ball and there are other contributors on defense, but TJ.
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: He was just channeling that that that what name, you know,
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: he was just living up to that legendary status that
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: the Wats have around the NFL. And if that's that's
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: when of the start of what we're going to see
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: this season, didn't I'm so excited for what's ahead.
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: It's important to remember as well, it's trying like it's
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: important members well. The Falcons offensive line as well, is
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: one of the best offensive lines in the league. And
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: he absolutely I think it's Caleb mcgyary the right tackle.
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: He's gonna have night murse tonight and fortunately for him
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: because t J. Watt was just all over him. Cal
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: Pets as well. I don't I don't you know, obviously
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: didn't watch a lot of them in college. I don't
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: know what his past blog is like, but this tonight
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: it's either he just didn't show up or TJ. Watt
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: was just behind him in every single shot. So I'm
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: just gonna echo everything you've said there. Incredible, just awfully incredible.
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: It was.
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: It was a great performance and I already can't wait
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: to see it's gonna happen WIG two. And I'm sure,
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: as you said, Jimmy there and the Watt family, I'm
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: sure coach Cahier, JJ and the CBS studio were watching
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: that laughing and going wow, so great to see. Just
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: to wrap up, if we had a standout from each
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: of us lads. I'll go first, Chris Boswell six from
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: six like money, like the fifty seven yard I remember
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: sitting watching like fifty seven yards Week one like that. Yeah,
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: he made it look easy, like but every point of
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: the eighteen points. And Jimmy, when you've got that new
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: offense which then had to look at its QB two
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: and be in that situation away from home week one,
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: your guards are up, your special teams playoff and obviously
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: we with Cameron Johnson the best and his recovery from
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: injury as well. Boswell even came in and punted it
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: and I know looks can kick, but still that's that's
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: not an easy situation, but great, great performance.
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: Who have you got have to feel bad for Cameron
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: Johnson as well. I'm pretty sure that was the first
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: point of the night where you got injured, which also speaks,
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: I suppose, if it speaks to how well I suppose
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: the offense did function in a way and how how
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: much we can rely on Chris Boswell to come in
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: in those situations and be ninety nine point nine nine
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: nine percent guarantee that you're gonna get point to the
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: board with his leg and he was just he was
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: driving them down the middle with the ease. I mean
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: that fifty seven yard could have been good from sixty seven.
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: You know, he was just banging them so that it
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: was like, it's just a joy to watch. And then
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: his punt of course, I mean, look, the man can
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: do it all, so it's great. Did your stand that
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: I have to go TJ, have to go TJ Watt
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: And just based on you know, his overall performance, I
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: think he might have started off a little bit slow
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: and I was kind of thinking out, what where's TJ at?
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: And then he just came to life with those splash plays,
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: and those splash plays hard back to the days of
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: Dick to the Bow, Dickle Bow. You know. He was
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: all about the splash plays, the big plays, and they
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: were they were, they were. He was making them in
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: spades tonight, just living in the backfield terrorizing Kirk Cousins.
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: As David mentioned there, he Cayle Pitts just could not
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: get his hands in them, nor could the offensive line.
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: So he's definitely might stand out player, and I think
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: MVP has to be Boswell, but it's second second choice
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: would have to be t J. Watt definitely after that display.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: Dog who is your stand up minute?
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: Yeah, No, used to put great arguments aheads there. You
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: know Boswell, the Wizard of Boss as we call them.
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: I think it's a square handle as well. And he
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: can do it all. You know, if you know even
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: who knows he can put him in a quarterback, you
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: just never know what that's you never know.
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: You would be as abraid, but what he could do.
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: And I think even the commentator said he's the most
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: accurate kicker from fifty plus. I think I read that.
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: I think something ridiculous. I think he's had like he.
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: Definitely was today. I way, so far, he's been fantastic.
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: As Jimmy said, ninety numbercent of the time, you just
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: know we're gonna come off a points.
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: He doesn't miss. Shout out as well to Shaun Elliott, you.
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: Know, an impressive interception in the first quarter of his
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: dealer's career. But my standup performer, a friend of the
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: Pauloge we had him all earlier in the year, Dante Jackson.
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: He dropped you know what you considered maybe an easy
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: interception in the first quarter. I think he give Way
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: Selly penalty for the script sack one TGS watch strip
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: sacks as well, but what a way at about backing me.
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: It shows about is resilience to come up massively with
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: an important interceaption diversity security. The victory albeit Kerk Cousins
• 23:06
  Speaker 4: did give him a massive handlet, but in Matpennion showed
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: massive character to bounce back from that. So fantastic delighted
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: for Dante and then he's my set on a performer
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: for those reasons.
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: Love it, boys, I love it, and it's look, it's
• 23:18
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• 23:20
  Speaker 1: much to talk about and it's so much easier to
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: actually do podcast in a great way. But obviously it's
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: been great listening to people and hearing people's thoughts over
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: the offseason as well, and a really interesting collexist for
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: the Staders coming up, the Broncos coming up next Sunday.
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: I feel like in terms of what's going on around
• 23:37
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• 23:39
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• 23:42
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• 23:43
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• 23:47
  Speaker 1: game against the Chargers and Week three and then the
• 23:50
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• 23:52
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• 23:54
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• 23:56
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• 24:00
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• 24:02
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• 24:05
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• 24:08
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• 24:12
  Speaker 1: We were all there last year and it was great,
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: great cracks, So definitely looking forward to it. Any final words,
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: boys before we wrap up until at least.
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: In the middle of the just more offense, more consistency
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: and offense just to you know, kind of reinforce that point.
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: And I think it'll be interesting to see how the
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: quarterback situation plays out, whether Russ can go in Week
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: two or whether they decide to give to give justin
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: the reins based on what he's done, not that he's
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: done a huge amount so far, when he is building
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: that chemistry with George Piggins, so you don't want to
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: have that build up and then for Kings to change.
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: So I think it's going to be a very interesting
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: situation to monitor throughout the week.
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: Let's score for your touchdowns, that's what I want.
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, I think the best way of said
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: that log is keep her, let keep let's go.
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: Let's get it up a notch, you know, score for
• 24:59
  Speaker 4: you to stands. You know, the main thing in WAK
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: one is the win. But yeah, let's hope they get
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: a few touchdowns. Next week in Denver, we'll slay home happy.
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: Chris Boswell is definitely gonna have a week in the
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: mile high SELLI with the elevation anyway, hopefully we're just
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: using them for extra points as well.
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: Next week we'll see.
• 25:16
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• 25:20
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• 25:30
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• 25:32
  Speaker 3: Here we go, Here we go.