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HR 1: Mike McCarthy Presser, Steelers-Saints Recap, Browns Early Look · The Steelers Report

• 0:06
  Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers takes the knee. Max, we've seen history here.
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  Speaker 2: That's right.
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  Speaker 1: The Steelers have now conquered two.
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  Speaker 3: Countries in the game of risk.
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  Speaker 4: We now own Paris as well as we just had
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  Speaker 4: Ireland last year.
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  Speaker 1: The Steelers have just done an excellent job here. First
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  Speaker 1: game in Paris. And boy, oh boy, what a moment.
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  Speaker 3: And, of course, Darnell Washington makes National Titans Day.
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  Speaker 1: International Titans Day today with his touchdown catch. Gotta love it.
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  Speaker 1: The first ever touchdown scored today. in the country of France.
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  Speaker 1: Turned in by Darnell Washington. That's the end of the
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  Speaker 1: game for the final score. The Steelers 16, the Saints 10.
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  Speaker 2: Our own Rob King and Max Stark swept the call
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  Speaker 2: on the Steelers audio network this past weekend. A historic
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  Speaker 2: win internationally for the black and gold. And with that,
• 0:55
  Speaker 2: we welcome in a familiar voice a bit early.
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  Speaker 4: I'm back. Back from Paris. Great to see you, Ed.
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  Speaker 4: It was a phenomenal trip for all involved. mainly because
• 1:06
  Speaker 4: the Steelers got a win out of their business trip.
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  Speaker 4: But I like the way Max Starks put it. We're
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  Speaker 4: conquering lands and territories. First win in Ireland in the
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  Speaker 4: NFL and we'll stand up as the only until they
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  Speaker 4: play another game there. And who knows, maybe the Steelers
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  Speaker 4: will be in that game. Let's see what the NFL
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  Speaker 4: decides on the international expansion front. But yeah, now first
• 1:28
  Speaker 4: win in Paris as well. And I mean, my takeaways
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  Speaker 4: from The overall experience, Ed, and I don't know what
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  Speaker 4: you thought of it watching from home, but I think
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  Speaker 4: they're going to go back because I did think it
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  Speaker 4: was a great time. It was a destination sort of
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  Speaker 4: pilgrimage for a lot of Steelers and Saints fans. Saints
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  Speaker 4: fans showed up. I've got to give credit to them.
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  Speaker 4: That's a fan base that I don't have much exposure to.
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  Speaker 4: I've never been to New Orleans, let alone the Superdome,
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  Speaker 4: for a game. We know they don't come here very often,
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  Speaker 4: so I don't have a great feel for them. I
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  Speaker 4: can kind of tell you we're the best fan bases
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  Speaker 4: that you see you year in and year out and
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  Speaker 4: who's just kind of there. They showed up and showed out.
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  Speaker 4: They were loud and proud throughout the hotel and the
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  Speaker 4: area around it and at the stadium. But Steeler Nation
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  Speaker 4: also took over, too, at times in that game and
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  Speaker 4: especially down the stretch. So my point is, I think
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  Speaker 4: the NFL will see how much both those fan bases
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  Speaker 4: loved playing there and traveling there. So I think they'll
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  Speaker 4: try to cycle a lot of different teams through Paris
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  Speaker 4: if they can.
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  Speaker 2: Lots of terrible towels on Sunday. You asked me about
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  Speaker 2: my thoughts on it from being back here in Pittsburgh.
• 2:34
  Speaker 2: I talked about this yesterday, Double B. I actually enjoyed
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  Speaker 2: watching a game at 930 in the morning.
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  Speaker 1: That part's nice.
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  Speaker 4: And if you've never been to one of these big
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  Speaker 4: European stadiums, mainly used for soccer and stuff like the
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  Speaker 4: sight lines are awesome. I mean, it's just it's a
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  Speaker 4: little bit different way to watch a game. And it's
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  Speaker 4: different for us because open air press box. We don't
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  Speaker 4: have glass in front of us. We can hear and
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  Speaker 4: feel and experience everything. That'd be a good question for.
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  Speaker 4: for Kinger and Max and those guys who were on.
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  Speaker 1: The call there. It was cold.
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  Speaker 4: I had my beanie on and my coat the whole game. But, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: it was an excellent time. And, you know, I couldn't
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  Speaker 4: say enough about, you know, I thought the NFL ran things.
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  Speaker 1: Really well from what I could tell. Yeah, it looked
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  Speaker 1: like it.
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  Speaker 4: You know, the Steelers and Saints fan bases showed up.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I think I probably saw a jersey from
• 3:23
  Speaker 4: every single team. So you had a smattering of fans.
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  Speaker 4: And I met Steelers fans from not just, Well, actually,
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  Speaker 4: I don't even know if I met any from Paris,
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  Speaker 4: but there were Steelers fans there from Germany, Sweden. It's
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  Speaker 4: a closer trip for these people than coming out to
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  Speaker 4: Pittsburgh for a game.
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  Speaker 1: So it's a cool melting pot. And, you know, I
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  Speaker 1: think I'd think I'd.
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  Speaker 4: Tell anybody if you don't like NFL international games, if
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  Speaker 4: you and it's it's hard because it's you got to
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  Speaker 4: have the means and the time and stuff to do it.
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  Speaker 1: But if you can.
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  Speaker 4: If you can make that happen, just go experience one,
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  Speaker 4: and I think you'll see why they're a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 2: My thought was I enjoyed watching the game at 9.30
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  Speaker 2: in the morning because you had the rest of your day.
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  Speaker 2: You had the 1 o'clock window. You had the 4.30 window.
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  Speaker 2: If you wanted to double B, and I did. I
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  Speaker 2: started watching football 9, 9.30 in the morning, and I
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  Speaker 2: shut my TV off on Sunday night football around 9.30,
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  Speaker 2: 10 at night. I did 12 hours of football on Sunday,
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  Speaker 2: a few things in between.
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  Speaker 1: I ran out and ran a few errands. Were the
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  Speaker 1: Cowboys blowing out the Eagles by that point? No, they
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  Speaker 1: were not. They were not.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, that was not going on quite bit of quite,
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  Speaker 2: quite yet in that game. But you know, when you
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  Speaker 2: look at the window of watching football from beginning to end,
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  Speaker 2: that was exciting, but I will.
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  Speaker 1: Say this, I would not want to do it every week.
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  Speaker 2: So once a season is good at nine 30 in
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  Speaker 2: the morning, but I'm not sure I'd be into it
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  Speaker 2: every single week. Uh, but big crowd over there, um, safe.
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  Speaker 2: That was probably the most important takeaway, right?
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  Speaker 1: Uh, build up to that.
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  Speaker 2: There was, uh, some nerves in and around what was
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  Speaker 2: happening over in paris france but as you said the
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  Speaker 2: nfl did a great job with that and the steelers
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  Speaker 2: win that's the that's the other big takeaway if the
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  Speaker 2: steelers lose that game maybe it's not as great of
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  Speaker 2: an experience uh from beginning to end but the steelers
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  Speaker 2: get it done double b they're now five and two
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  Speaker 2: on the season and it sets up a huge matchup
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  Speaker 2: against the cleveland browns this weekend.
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  Speaker 4: And it seemed like there was a little tailgate area
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  Speaker 4: outside the stade de france from what i could tell
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  Speaker 4: i mean we were there much earlier than any of
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  Speaker 4: that stuff was really going on. But certainly afterward, a
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  Speaker 4: lot of fans mingling about from both sides. And then again,
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  Speaker 4: like I said, the kind of the third party people,
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  Speaker 4: no dog in the fight who are walking around with
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  Speaker 4: a Patrick Mahomes Chiefs jersey or a Saquon Barkley Eagles jersey.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, they were all just kind of mingling as
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  Speaker 4: NFL and football fans. I don't think it was quite
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  Speaker 4: as quite as much of a tailgate scene as you'd
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  Speaker 4: see over here in the States for a game. But
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  Speaker 4: there were some places, I think, that fans could go
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  Speaker 4: and enjoy a little after-party postgame. Yeah, and like you said,
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I thought everybody involved with the Steelers, coaches, players,
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  Speaker 4: kind of said all the right things in terms of balancing, hey, yes,
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  Speaker 4: it is special to bring the game to Paris and
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  Speaker 4: represent this team out here and maybe win over some
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  Speaker 4: new fans. But at the same time, and we're going
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  Speaker 4: to enjoy ourselves as much as we can. This is
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  Speaker 4: an awesome life experience. I mean, you can talk to
• 6:09
  Speaker 4: so many guys on this roster who'd probably just tell you,
• 6:11
  Speaker 4: look where football has taken me. I started playing as
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  Speaker 4: a kid. I got a scholarship to college to keep playing.
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  Speaker 4: I get drafted, and now someone who's never been out
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  Speaker 4: of the country is in Paris. So, I mean, I
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  Speaker 4: do think you don't want to lose sight of that. However,
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  Speaker 4: the flip side is you're there to win a game,
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  Speaker 4: and it counts in the regular season.
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  Speaker 1: It's a business trip. It's not an exhibition. It's a
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  Speaker 1: business trip.
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  Speaker 4: And at the end of the day, a win or
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  Speaker 4: loss could be the difference between making or missing the
• 6:36
  Speaker 4: playoffs or winning or not winning the AFC North. So
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  Speaker 4: it was a very meaningful game for both teams. Obviously
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  Speaker 4: the Saints sit at 2-5 now, but the Steelers at 5-2.
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  Speaker 1: Three in a row stacked.
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  Speaker 4: Triple quarter pounder now at this point of a winning
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  Speaker 4: streak and really brings some momentum into this revenge game
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  Speaker 4: Sunday against the Brownies.
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  Speaker 2: Speaking of triple quarter pounder, tell me about the food
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  Speaker 2: over in Paris because that was the big buildup for
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  Speaker 2: you and I last week.
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  Speaker 1: What did you end up eating and how was it?
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  Speaker 1: Didn't do anything too exotic.
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  Speaker 4: Most of the people I was with I don't think
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  Speaker 4: were really thinking along the lines of, yeah, we'll try
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  Speaker 4: some foie gras or some escargot. Not so much, but,
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  Speaker 4: I mean, you don't have to be over there because
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  Speaker 4: even the quote-unquote, like, traditional food is so good. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: you get a croque monsieur, which is just a ham
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  Speaker 4: and cheese on a cheesy bread with an egg on top. Fantastic.
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  Speaker 4: And then I think the last meal of the trip
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  Speaker 4: was awesome. We went to this place. A lot of
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  Speaker 4: people recommended it, but I think Chris Hoke was actually
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  Speaker 4: the origin of it because of his– he was like
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  Speaker 4: the mayor of Paris out there.
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  Speaker 1: I saw him on all the social media. You should
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  Speaker 1: have seen him.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: If he, he must've stopped and talked and had little
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  Speaker 4: passerby conversations with hundreds of people throughout the week. So
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  Speaker 4: shout out to Hokie for shaking hands, pressing flesh and
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  Speaker 4: greeting everybody with a smile and giving them recommendations, such
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  Speaker 4: as the place that we went on our last night
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  Speaker 4: there after the game, a little bit of a line
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  Speaker 4: to get in, probably waited for about a half hour.
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  Speaker 4: But this place, which I now see now I'm getting
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  Speaker 4: like the translated pages since I'm back in the States,
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  Speaker 4: I guess it stands for it.
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  Speaker 1: Equates to the ribeye relay.
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  Speaker 4: So it's a single course menu, which means you walk
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  Speaker 4: in after you wait in line for a bit. Now
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  Speaker 4: it's tight in there. A lot of tables are packing
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  Speaker 4: people in. They're turning them over.
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  Speaker 1: Right. Because it's a place to be.
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  Speaker 4: And then you see why when you get the food,
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  Speaker 4: you walk in, they ask you what you want to
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  Speaker 4: drink and how you like your steak.
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  Speaker 1: That's it. There's no menu. I like that. Just that's it.
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  Speaker 1: They bring you a salad. The salad was phenomenal. A
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  Speaker 1: walnut salad.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And then they bring you out a plate of steak
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  Speaker 4: and fries. And inevitably when you just destroy it because
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  Speaker 4: it's so good, they bring you more. And then they say,
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  Speaker 4: all right, would you like dessert?
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  Speaker 1: Is it all you can eat? You can just keep
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  Speaker 1: stacking up the steak? I don't think we could have
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  Speaker 1: done that. You're paying per steak. Okay.
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  Speaker 4: I think it's kind of like the, hey, they bring
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  Speaker 4: you some and then, oh, you loved it.
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  Speaker 1: Of course you did.
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  Speaker 4: We'll bring you some more. And they were generous with it,
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  Speaker 4: but I don't think we could have sat there for hours.
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  Speaker 1: Stack up the steaks.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: But the dessert there was really good too. It's like
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  Speaker 1: ice cream.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Meringue cookie type of deal in there. Phenomenal. Phenomenal food
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  Speaker 1: city and country.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, it was, it was awesome.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, and I've been there before, like we said, so
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  Speaker 4: I didn't feel the need to do everything, but went,
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  Speaker 4: went to Notre Dame, saw the Eiffel tower from the
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  Speaker 4: outside and, Arc de Triomphe, the Champs-Élysées, walked down there
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  Speaker 4: a little bit with all the famous shopping. I didn't
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  Speaker 4: go into all those luxury designer stores because those aren't
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  Speaker 4: the fields that I'm playing on, so to speak, Ed.
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  Speaker 1: But it was a cool trip.
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  Speaker 2: Let's talk about the Steelers' plan going into this Paris game.
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  Speaker 2: There was a lot of talk, Brian. The Saints left
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  Speaker 2: right after their Week 6 game, got there early in
• 9:52
  Speaker 2: the week. The Steelers waited until the latter part of
• 9:54
  Speaker 2: the week, right? Late, got there on Thursday. You left
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  Speaker 2: on Wednesday. Seemed to work out just fine. The Steelers
• 10:01
  Speaker 2: didn't seem to show up from a– what's the word.
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  Speaker 1: I'm looking for? Not being tired, but flat.
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  Speaker 3: Sluggish, yeah.
• 10:08
  Speaker 1: There you go, sluggish or flat.
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  Speaker 2: I thought they came out around that first drive, pounded
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  Speaker 2: the football on the ground and established that running game
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  Speaker 2: early and looked like they were ready to play.
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  Speaker 4: Saints deferred, and yeah, the Steelers just– rammed it right
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  Speaker 4: down the field only negative was they couldn't finish it
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  Speaker 4: off in the end zone had to settle for a
• 10:25
  Speaker 4: Chris Boswell field goal but I think they absolutely set
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  Speaker 4: the tone for how that game was going to go
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  Speaker 4: and you look at the statistics by the end of
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  Speaker 4: it I would say that was the case and you
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  Speaker 4: know I thought it was cool too I mean on
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  Speaker 4: Friday when they got there had some curveballs had to
• 10:40
  Speaker 4: adjust didn't go out and practice at the Stade de
• 10:42
  Speaker 4: France like they wanted to it was so windy over
• 10:45
  Speaker 4: there that the weather wasn't great I mean it's a
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  Speaker 4: great that yeah it was pretty rainy on yeah saturday
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  Speaker 4: so that ate into my plans of kind of walking
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  Speaker 4: around and seeing more of the city not really fun
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  Speaker 4: to do that in torrential downpour but um yeah i
• 10:59
  Speaker 4: mean they had to roll with some punches there and
• 11:02
  Speaker 4: i think the big part too was mike mccarthy said
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  Speaker 4: they got off the plane they checked in at the
• 11:05
  Speaker 4: hotel and they got them all activated which i think
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  Speaker 4: it was just kind of like some resistance workouts and
• 11:10
  Speaker 4: some calisthenics in a ballroom but hey whatever you got
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  Speaker 4: to do to get your your body moving and I
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  Speaker 4: think the big part, too, that that helped for a
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  Speaker 4: lot of guys was stay up when you arrive and then,
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  Speaker 4: you know, push through, get a good night's sleep, go
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  Speaker 4: to bed early. But don't just, you know, go to
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  Speaker 4: bed as soon as you get there, because then.
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  Speaker 1: You're going to be all out of whack for the
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  Speaker 1: rest of the trip.
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  Speaker 4: And from what I could tell, I mean, a lot
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  Speaker 4: of the players did get to do some sightseeing. Jalen
• 11:35
  Speaker 4: Warren said he didn't get to see the Eiffel Tower yet.
• 11:37
  Speaker 4: I hope he meant like inside of it, because I'm like.
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  Speaker 1: Surely at some.
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  Speaker 4: Point you walked out into the streets and you could
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  Speaker 4: see it from afar. Now I'm imagining Jalen Warren everywhere
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  Speaker 4: he turned. It just happened to be behind him. But no,
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  Speaker 4: I think the players had a fantastic trip, too. And
• 11:54
  Speaker 4: the voyage is a lot better when you leave there
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  Speaker 4: with a win. Otherwise, it would have felt like, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: we came all this way for nothing.
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  Speaker 2: And the Steelers got it done. We're going to talk
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  Speaker 2: about it throughout the show here today. I get Double
• 12:05
  Speaker 2: B's thoughts on the 16-10 victory as well as starting
• 12:08
  Speaker 2: to look ahead to the Browns. We'll have our top
• 12:10
  Speaker 2: moments from Steelers Saints in the second hour today. And
• 12:14
  Speaker 2: Tad Whistle from the DV Morning Show will be joining us.
• 12:17
  Speaker 2: to end the show later today in and around 3.40.
• 12:20
  Speaker 2: We usually talk to or listen to Patrick Graham and
• 12:25
  Speaker 2: Coach Angelico and even Coach Crossman, but we do not
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  Speaker 2: have that audio quite yet. So today, Brian and I
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  Speaker 2: are going to spend the first hour just recapping, continuing
• 12:32
  Speaker 2: to recap his Paris, France trip. We talked about the travel, Brian,
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  Speaker 2: yesterday in Mike McCarthy's press conference, which we'll also get
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  Speaker 2: to here in a second. He talked about staying hydrated,
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  Speaker 2: and it was interesting. He said for every hour you're
• 12:45
  Speaker 2: on the plane or in the hotel, you should have
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  Speaker 2: two bottles of water for that hour. So did you
• 12:50
  Speaker 2: go down that road? Did you stay hydrated?
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  Speaker 4: I don't think I hydrated quite enough, at least not
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  Speaker 4: with water. Maybe something else.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: But, no, I mean, I think.
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  Speaker 4: The Steelers did have all of that nutrition and dietary
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  Speaker 4: stuff lined up for them, and I think that paid off, too.
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  Speaker 4: And it probably helped that these guys had done it
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  Speaker 4: last year with, with Dublin. So if, if that trip
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  Speaker 4: to Ireland was any bit of a shock to the body,
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  Speaker 4: maybe players had a little bit more of a know-how
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  Speaker 4: of how to navigate that and, uh, you know, time
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  Speaker 4: it up. A lot of guys had family and friends
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  Speaker 4: out there as well. Uh, so yeah, I mean, it,
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  Speaker 4: it probably helped that they went international a year before
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  Speaker 4: and there's always going to be, yeah, there's always going
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  Speaker 4: to be people who wish he could stay longer or
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  Speaker 4: do whatever. But at the end of the day, it
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  Speaker 4: was about going out there and winning a game and,
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  Speaker 4: Now you come back, and I think the plan coming back,
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  Speaker 4: at least I would think, now they were different because
• 13:44
  Speaker 4: they went overnight.
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  Speaker 1: I got back yesterday.
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  Speaker 4: I wanted to try to stay up and not sleep
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  Speaker 4: on the long flight because then I got to bed
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  Speaker 4: early last night and woke up this morning.
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  Speaker 1: I was chipper and ready to go. Hopefully that continues
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  Speaker 1: on throughout the week. More normal schedule for you there.
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  Speaker 2: Mike McCarthy talked about in his press conference yesterday, and
• 14:03
  Speaker 2: whenever we come back, we're going to dive more into that, Brian.
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  Speaker 2: But quickly, he said that this week, He wants it
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  Speaker 2: to be more like how last week was from a
• 14:10
  Speaker 2: practice standpoint than the later evening practice. Slowly start to
• 14:14
  Speaker 2: get reacclimated into a normal schedule, but not right away.
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  Speaker 2: Almost kind of taking bits and pieces from last week,
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  Speaker 2: putting them into play this week as they prepare for
• 14:22
  Speaker 2: a huge game. this upcoming Sunday at AccuShore Stadium, a
• 14:26
  Speaker 2: showdown for first place in the AFC North. Brian, when
• 14:29
  Speaker 2: was the last time Brown Steelers was this big?
• 14:31
  Speaker 1: It's been forever. Maybe back to the mid-90s.
• 14:34
  Speaker 2: There were some mid-90s when Belichick was the head coach
• 14:36
  Speaker 2: for the Cleveland Browns and Bill Cowher was the head
• 14:38
  Speaker 2: coach for the Steelers at Three Rivers Stadium that were
• 14:41
  Speaker 2: this big.
• 14:41
  Speaker 4: I don't think it's even very common that they play
• 14:43
  Speaker 4: each other when they both have winning records. So now
• 14:46
  Speaker 4: obviously the Browns are mainly at fault for that.
• 14:49
  Speaker 1: But Yeah.
• 14:50
  Speaker 4: And it's been even longer since the Browns have swept
• 14:53
  Speaker 4: the Steelers in a season. I think you probably have
• 14:56
  Speaker 4: to go back several decades for that at this point.
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: But we'll see. That's why they play the games.
• 15:02
  Speaker 2: And if the playoffs were to start today, the Browns
• 15:05
  Speaker 2: would be the third seed in the AFC at five
• 15:07
  Speaker 2: and two and the Steelers would be the sixth seed.
• 15:10
  Speaker 2: at 5-2 in the AFC. And who plays in that
• 15:13
  Speaker 2: 3-6 game? Yes, those two teams do. Steelers would be
• 15:15
  Speaker 2: at Browns for a third meeting in a wildcard game.
• 15:18
  Speaker 2: But that's a big if because there's lots of football
• 15:20
  Speaker 2: left to be played, including this upcoming Sunday. Double B
• 15:23
  Speaker 2: and I will get into that and more whenever we
• 15:25
  Speaker 2: come back. It is the Steelers Report right here on
• 15:27
  Speaker 2: Steelers Nation Radio, part of the Steelers Audio Network.
• 15:35
  Speaker 3: This is the Steelers Report with Brian Batko and Ed
• 15:39
  Speaker 3: Troup on Steelers Nation Radio, a part of the Steelers
• 15:42
  Speaker 3: Audio Network.
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: Before the break, we were talking about some playoff scenarios
• 15:47
  Speaker 2: through the first seven weeks of the NFL season. In
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: the AFC, the Kansas City Chiefs losing their first game
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: on Sunday night in Seattle. They are now 5-1 on
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: the season, but they would be the top seed in
• 15:59
  Speaker 2: the AFC, followed by the Buffalo Bills, who are the
• 16:01
  Speaker 2: AFC East leader at 5-1. We talked about the Browns
• 16:05
  Speaker 2: currently leading the AFC North, having beat the Steelers on
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: that Thursday night game. They're 5-2, their third seed. Followed
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: by the Jaguars, who lead the AFC South. They would
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: be the fourth seed at 4-2. The Broncos, 5-2, would
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: be the fifth seed. Steelers at 5-2, the sixth seed.
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: And the Bengals.
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: would be the seventh seed at 4-2. Brian Bacco, the
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: defending AFC champion, New England Patriots, would be on the
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: outside looking in at 4-3 as the eighth seed, and
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: the Ravens at 4-3 would be the ninth seed.
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: So both the Pats and the Ravens would miss the playoffs.
• 16:38
  Speaker 4: I think we knew coming into this season, Ed, that
• 16:41
  Speaker 4: there was going to be at least two or three
• 16:42
  Speaker 4: good teams, or at least good teams we expected on paper,
• 16:45
  Speaker 4: who weren't going to make it.
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: Only seven can make it, and I thought it was kind.
• 16:49
  Speaker 4: Of difficult to Suss out this division and the AFC
• 16:52
  Speaker 4: West as well. Now the Chargers are a complete non-factor.
• 16:55
  Speaker 4: Going back to our discussion from a week or two ago,
• 16:58
  Speaker 4: last unbeaten and last undefeated team, we have our answer now.
• 17:02
  Speaker 4: It's the Vikings to the good and the Chargers to
• 17:05
  Speaker 4: the bad. So barring an historic run, almost need to
• 17:11
  Speaker 4: run the table almost at this point, but the Chargers
• 17:14
  Speaker 4: aren't going to be a factor. The Texans aren't going
• 17:17
  Speaker 4: to be a factor. And I think you're already kind
• 17:19
  Speaker 4: of looking at nine teams for seven spots and the
• 17:21
  Speaker 4: Steelers are one of them.
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: And before this season started, neither you or I or
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: many people across who covered the NFL or even fans
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: for that matter would have had either of those two
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: teams being the Chargers or on the flip side, the
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: Vikings as the undefeated or defeated teams seven weeks into
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: the season.
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: Both of these two teams kind of came out of nowhere. Yeah, absolutely.
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: In both ways, good and bad. Right, right.
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: And I think the Vikings, you know, we'll see if
• 17:48
  Speaker 4: they can sustain because I think there's still some big,
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: big questions about their offense. But we know their defense
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: is fantastic when it comes to the Chargers. I mean,
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: I don't know what they're going to do. Maybe they'll
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: just be a tough out the rest of the way.
• 18:02
  Speaker 4: But I thought it was an exciting combination of coaches
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: for Jim Harbaugh and Mike McDaniel. But the best laid
• 18:11
  Speaker 4: plans sometimes go awry. And that's what's going on in L.A.,
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: no doubt about that. but I think the AFC is
• 18:17
  Speaker 4: going to be really, really interesting at, you know, I
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: don't think the bills are going away. I think the
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: chiefs are going to be there till the end. Although
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: the Seahawks, I don't know if they, that's always interesting.
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: It's like, did they just produce the blueprint for beating
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: them this year? Or are they just the Seahawks? You know,
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: it's kind of like, Hey, we're still here. I know
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: we're only three, but like we're not going anywhere. So,
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: you know, and they wouldn't be in the playoffs either
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: if the season ended today. So I think the chiefs
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: and the bills are going to be in that mix and, Jaguars,
• 18:47
  Speaker 4: they don't have much competition in their division unless the
• 18:49
  Speaker 4: Texans can really turn things around again, obviously. And then,
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: you know, we'll see what goes on with, you know,
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: our teams here in the AFC North.
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: How about this? Here's a fun one for you, Ed.
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: If the season ended today, the Steelers would be facing
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: the Cleveland Browns.
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: That's it.
• 19:05
  Speaker 4: And yet the season does not end today, but the
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: Steelers are facing the Cleveland Browns Sunday at Akershire Stadium.
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: One o'clock. Ready to run through a wall. It just
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: shows you even more.
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: I mean, this game's very important from a number of
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: different standpoints, but even more for that, Brian, because they
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: flip spots. If the Steelers beat the Browns, they're a
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: top of the AFC North.
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: Think about this.
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: Four straight wins, all the momentum in the world going
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: into your bye week. Then you come out of the
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: bye week and you have your rematch in Cincinnati against
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: the Bengals on the other side of this. So you
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: really want to be in that spot at 6-2. I
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: talked going into the break, and Mike McCarthy talked about
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: that yesterday too.
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: He was asked about this stretch of games.
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: He said it's an important stretch going back to that
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: Colts game up until this upcoming game against the Browns.
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: He looks at the season as quarters as we do.
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: We talked about it going into the Colts. game. Best
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: case scenario for us was, hey, be 3-1 coming out
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: of this four-game stretch. You're 5-3 at the break. You're
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: still in the thick of things in the AFC North
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: and the AFC. But now we can be greedy.
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: They can be.
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: 4-0 in this stretch, 6-2, all the momentum in the world,
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: and alone atop the AFC North.
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's amazing how this thing has shaped up. Now
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: it's a long season. There will still be a long
• 20:11
  Speaker 4: way to go even after Sunday. Hopefully the Steelers get
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: one back against the Browns, obviously. But even if they do,
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: you're going to have to deal with the Baltimore Ravens
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: twice this season. The Bengals look like they were rested
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: and ready, to say the least, coming off of their
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: bye week with what they did to Baltimore. I didn't
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: see any of that game. But, yeah, I mean, it's
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: going to be fierce, I think, in the AFC North.
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: You've got four dogs for one bone there, whereas we
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: just went through it. The AFC South feels almost decided
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: by this point.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: I agree.
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: And the AFC East is essentially a two-horse race.
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: And I think the AFC West is probably a two-horse race.
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: We thought that the Chargers could be a factor there.
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: And the Raiders— they're starting yeah exactly they're coming back
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: to reality yeah starting to look more like hey when
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: is mendoza going to get in there yeah uh for
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: them but yeah the afc north is i mean i
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: can still see a scenario where they get all four
• 21:04
  Speaker 4: teams into the postseason at.
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: Oh no doubt about that i mean they're all all
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: four there's only two divisions in football right now where
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: all four teams are at 500 or above and that's
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: the nfc north and the afc.
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: North so the broncos are five and two but.
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: I wouldn't say they've been overly impressive, even on this
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: three-game win streak where you beat the Chargers. Everybody's beaten
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: the Chargers this year. Give them credit for an overtime
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: close win against the Seahawks, but that was like a
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: bit of a muck and grind kind of game. And
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: then they won at Arizona this past week. But they've
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: got a first-place schedule. They play the Chiefs coming up
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: this week in Denver. And later on in the season,
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: because of that, they're going to have to play the
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: Bills and the Patriots still.
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: Well, that's because they play the whole AFC East.
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: Division but they have to play the Steelers in Pittsburgh
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: on Black Friday because of that first place schedule.
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: Mike McCarthy yesterday Double B also spoke about the jumbo
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: package that the Steelers came out with on Sunday and
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: it resulted in 148 total rushing yards one of their
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: best rushing performances of the season so far Jalen Warren
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: 18 carries 101 yards Rico Dowdle 9 for 41 the
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: Steelers averaged 4.9 yards per carry and a lot of
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: it had to do with having that jumbo package on
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: the field with Spencer Anderson and coach McCarthy spoke about
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: Spencer Anderson saying that he carries lots of value he
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: wants to create roles for him he was the starting
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: goal guard to start the season of course Brock Hoffman
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: replaced him in the last five games but Spencer Anderson
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: back into the mix as that extra tackle this past week,
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: and it was good for the Steelers up front. The
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: offensive line opened up a lot of holes with Anderson
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: out there with the other five.
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: Spence is a versatile guy, whether it's center, guard, tackle.
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: I mean, he did it all in college at Maryland.
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: Obviously, he settled into being a guard at the NFL level,
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: but he can wear a lot of hats and add
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: that extra tight end there as a fourth position even
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: for him. So I give him a lot of credit
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: for being ready to get called upon there. I'm sure
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: it wasn't easy to to lose hold of the starting
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: job when he did, but he's somebody who wants to
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: contribute to winning for this team. I think everybody loves
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: him in that locker room, and it makes the running
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: lanes a little bit easier to come by for Jalen
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: Warren and Rico Dowdle when you've got another 300-plus pounder
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: out there who's pretty light on his feet. Spencer Anderson's
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: an athletic, large man, relatively speaking. So I really give
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: Mike McCarthy, Brian Angelico, James Campin credit for deciding to
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: lean into that formation and that personnel. Usage, even if
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: it's just for this week and it was a means
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: to an end to win one game. But I think
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: it's going to continue it.
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: I think you'll see it definitely additionally this season. Maxi
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: on a chore on that right side with Brock Hoffman
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: performing well. in the five games now that they've all
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: been together.
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: They're getting better. They're starting to gel together each week.
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: Mike McCarthy also spoke about these being tight wins so
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: far this season, Brian, and out of the five wins,
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: four of them have been one possession victory so far
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: this year, but he said they need these types of
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: games to be battle-tested, stacking wins and building confidence at
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: this point in the season, important for his football team.
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: You know, in training camp, they Mike McCarthy and this
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: coaching staff practiced and preached a lot about one possession
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: scenario situations right and we saw it up at training
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: camp they came out and and repped those situations while
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: so far this season seven games in four of those
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: seven have been decided I guess the Cleveland game even
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: in the loss that was a one possession loss so
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: you can you can make the case that most of
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: these games have all been decided by one possession or
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: less Steelers.
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: Were always really good in those moments uh better than
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: than the average near the top of the league, actually,
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: I think, when Mike Tomlin was the head coach. But
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: now Mike McCarthy's another very experienced head coach. You've got
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: the most experienced quarterback in the league. You've got T.J.
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: Watt on defense, who always seems to come up with
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: a big play in crunch time when it's needed. But
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: now other faces on that defense stepping up to do
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: the same. This week it was Peyton Wilson. Last week
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: it was Jamel Dean. Geez, in the Bengals game it
• 25:03
  Speaker 4: was Derek Harmon. in you know week one against the
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: Falcons it was TJ so yeah those are your four
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: one score wins even in the Browns game yeah that
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: that game I mean the offense started to get in
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: a rhythm late kind of ran out of time but
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: I think I saw a stat that through seven weeks
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: this is the most one possession game so far in
• 25:24
  Speaker 4: NFL history overall the whole league yes the whole league
• 25:28
  Speaker 4: was being a big part of that but yeah the
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: whole league yeah and you know I think that that's
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: that's logical because we we see the um parity and
• 25:37
  Speaker 4: the week-to-week nature of this league increase every single year
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: um and here it is right now at seeing this
• 25:44
  Speaker 4: on uh on yahoo sports through week seven 64 games
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: decided by one score or fewer wow they define that
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: as eight or fewer points which That's kind of a
• 25:55
  Speaker 4: weird one because to score eight points, technically you need
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: to score twice.
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: Or you got to go for two.
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: Yeah, but I guess even to score seven points, you
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: technically need to score twice. And now I'm getting into
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: pedantic semantics. But that's the most through week seven in
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: NFL history. The key breakdown here, if my cursory Google
• 26:15
  Speaker 4: can be trusted, is 64 decided.
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: By eight or fewer, 59 decided by seven or fewer.
• 26:19
  Speaker 4: 34 where the game winning score happened in the final
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: five minutes of the fourth quarter or overtime and three
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: teams the Browns the Lions and the G-Men won games
• 26:32
  Speaker 4: on the final play in week seven alone.
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: Seems like a lot 34 then you add in those
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: three so 37 games coming down to the final possession
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: final play game winners.
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: Yeah all that research courtesy of Yahoo Sports there that's a.
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: Lot Yes, it is. That's good. I mean, it's good
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: for the product in the NFL. It's some exciting football
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: to watch.
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: It's not good for the beat writers who have to
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: turn in a story as soon as the game is over,
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: but I digress.
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: Or anyone with a heart condition that's out there watching
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: their favorite team play each and every week, including the
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: Steelers in some of these one-possession games.
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: But they've won five of them. They're 5-2, and they're
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: in a great spot.
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: And Mike McCarthy, to that, said all of this is
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: part of an important run for us.
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: We are right where we should be. at this point
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: in the season.
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: Coach McCarthy talking about the tight wins and that they
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: need these games, that they're battle-tested. And he also spoke
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: about starting with the offensive and defensive line, that they
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: got the right guys in the right place. A good
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: mix between veterans and young players. He spoke specifically yesterday, Brian,
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: about these young rookies and these first-year players contributing early
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: on in the season. Your guy yesterday, and I gave
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: you credit, you weren't here, but I talked about Kevin
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: Jobity Jr.
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: Making an impact.
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: I said, that's Double B's guy, and he made an
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: impact in his first NFL game on Sunday.
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I like to see him running down there on
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: special teams. That's a guy who's going to scratch and
• 27:50
  Speaker 4: claw for opportunities, however he has to get them. He
• 27:53
  Speaker 4: played 10 special team snaps in that game, kick coverage,
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: kick blocking. to go back and rewatch and get like
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: the all 22 and somebody's probably already done it but
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: he uh he flattened one guy on a block it
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: uh it earlier in that game and then uh running
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: down hit the returner that allowed to i think it
• 28:13
  Speaker 4: was travis homer who ended up cleaning it up and
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: credit to homer two three special teams tackles for him
• 28:18
  Speaker 4: in that one he's a factor yes he was and
• 28:21
  Speaker 4: that's why they brought him here didn't make the team
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: initially out of camp but obviously he uh he knows
• 28:25
  Speaker 4: what he's doing in that phase of the.
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: Game By the way, credit to our good friend Jim
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: Wexel who wrote Mean Joe Biddy.
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: That was his nickname, Mean Joe Biddy. Mean Joe Biddy. Yep,
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: I like it. I like it. It could definitely stick
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: in and around here. What else do we got?
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: Coach McCarthy, I have to say, yesterday he said, not
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: much has changed since the last time that they played
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: the Browns from a personnel standpoint. Some has changed with
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: the Steelers. You just mentioned Homer. We talked about Joe Biddy.
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: There's been a few others.
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: That have gone on IR.
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: But the Browns, their roster, their personnel, pretty much the
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: same as what they saw yesterday. just about a month
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: ago to start the month of October, October 1st, that
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: Thursday night game in which they lost that Thursday night game.
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: He talked about being a local guy, and he looks
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: forward to this matchup against the Cleveland Browns. He will
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: build off of what they've done so far since the
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: last time they played them, and he also realizes what
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: the Steelers have done since the last time they've played them.
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: So a good reflection right now. He said that the
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: coaching staff already in Paris was starting to look at
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: the Browns before they got into that Paris game on Sunday.
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: And they'll be all set for this upcoming week. Big
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: showdown at Acresure Stadium.
• 29:27
  Speaker 4: And I think that's one that has to stick in
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: the Steelers' craw from earlier this season.
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: Everybody was frustrated the way that game ended.
• 29:36
  Speaker 4: I mean, the offense was frustrated that they were bogged
• 29:39
  Speaker 4: down so early. The defense was frustrated that they couldn't
• 29:42
  Speaker 4: get off the field after the offense tied it up.
• 29:44
  Speaker 4: So that was a razor close one. And we'll see
• 29:48
  Speaker 4: if it's close on Sunday. But going back to what
• 29:51
  Speaker 4: we just said, for all those reasons, if it comes
• 29:53
  Speaker 4: down to one score, I like the Steelers' chances.
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: I bet it will. I bet it will.
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: We'll talk more about Steelers-Browns as we navigate throughout this week. Again,
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: coming up today at our last part of our show
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: at 340, Tad Whistle from the DVE Morning Show will
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: be joining us to talk about the Pittsburgh Steelers. Tad
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: actually started here on SNR some 15, 20 years ago
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: as a producer, behind-the-scenes type guy. He's on the morning show.
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: You can hear him every morning on 102.5. He's Double B.
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: I'm E.T.
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: It is the Steelers Report right here on Steelers Nation Radio,
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: part of the Steelers Audio Network.
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: This is.
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: The Steelers Report with Brian Batko and Ed Troop on
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: Steelers Nation Radio, a part of the Steelers Audio Network.
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: We talked about the AFC playoff scenarios.
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: If the playoffs were to start today after seven weeks,
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: how about the NFC? The Vikings currently the only undefeated
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: team left in the National Football League. They are 6-0
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: on the season. They already had their bye week, so
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: that's why they've only played six. The 49ers got their
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: first defeat of the year. They are now 6-1, but
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: they hold the number two spot in the NFC, the
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: NFC West leader. And then the New York Giants, 4-2-1.
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  Speaker 2: John Harbaugh in his first season as Giants head coach
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: has the G-men at number three.
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  Speaker 1: Carolina, the South leader, 3-3.
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  Speaker 2: Both the Giants and the Panthers have been so far
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: this season, but they are the respectable division leaders in
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: the NFC and the South and East.
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: And then you got hammered by the bucks. They did.
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: How about that? The bucks.
• 31:34
  Speaker 4: I think the NFC South is going to be one
• 31:36
  Speaker 4: of those divisions like the saints. I'm sure they're down
• 31:38
  Speaker 4: after that loss, but season ain't over yet for you guys.
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: I don't know what's going to go on there.
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: The three wildcard teams, double B the bears five and
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: two at five, number six, the lines at four and
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: two and the Packers at four and three at number seven,
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: meaning that all four NFC North teams would make the playoffs.
• 31:57
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, the AFC North and the NFC North,
• 31:59
  Speaker 4: I think, are looking like the two best divisions in football.
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: Maybe that'll be the case.
• 32:04
  Speaker 4: I wonder how strange would that be if eight playoff
• 32:08
  Speaker 4: teams came from two divisions.
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: If eight of 14. And it's very possible. It's possible, absolutely.
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: Especially in the NFC. Yeah, yeah, because I think that that.
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: The East and South is lousy.
• 32:21
  Speaker 4: Right, yes, exactly. The Eagles are a non-factor team. It
• 32:25
  Speaker 4: doesn't look like things are going to get better anytime
• 32:26
  Speaker 4: soon for them. I mean, the Cowboys, Rams, Seahawks, they're
• 32:31
  Speaker 4: on the outside looking in right now. I could see
• 32:33
  Speaker 4: any of them going on a run, especially the two
• 32:36
  Speaker 4: from the NFC West. But yeah, it's strange to see
• 32:41
  Speaker 4: the Giants atop a division. But year one for John Harbaugh,
• 32:45
  Speaker 4: it's been anything but smooth. They're 4-2-1. And yet they're
• 32:48
  Speaker 4: finding a way to win games. I think at least
• 32:50
  Speaker 4: so far, they probably feel very validated and Hiring a
• 32:54
  Speaker 4: guy who's been there, done that for so long in
• 32:56
  Speaker 4: the NFL.
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: They have them two games.
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: Does John Harbaugh above 500 so far at four, two
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: and one or two and a half games? However, you
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: want to look at that tie Seattle, the defending Super
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: Bowl champs. You mentioned it during our last segment. Brian
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: would miss the playoffs at four and three. They're the
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: eighth seed. And the Falcons, three and four at the
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: ninth seed. But look, we're only seven weeks into the
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: regular season. There's a lot of football left to be played.
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: But something to keep an eye on. We're starting, you know,
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: you're seven games in. A few more weeks, we'll be
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: halfway through the NFL season already. So we're starting to
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: reach that midway point. And that's when you're going to
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: start to see contenders versus pretenders start to take more shape.
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, no doubt about that, Ed. And I mean, I
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: look at the Rams.
• 33:35
  Speaker 4: Other than that weird Cardinals loss a couple weeks ago,
• 33:38
  Speaker 4: I mean, they've lost to some good teams.
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: The 49ers, the Broncos, and.
• 33:41
  Speaker 4: The Bills are three of their four defeats. They've got
• 33:45
  Speaker 4: the Chargers, Commanders, Cardinals coming up. So once they get
• 33:48
  Speaker 4: to their bye week, we might be talking about them
• 33:50
  Speaker 4: as a 6-4 team that's getting hot at the right time.
• 33:53
  Speaker 4: But it gets dicey for them down the stretch. Packers, Chiefs, Niners, Cowboys, Seahawks, Bucks, Seahawks.
• 33:59
  Speaker 4: So it's going to be fun playoff races on both sides.
• 34:03
  Speaker 4: And from a Steelers perspective, go back to it. Mentioned
• 34:05
  Speaker 4: it last segment. There's really, like I said, nine teams
• 34:09
  Speaker 4: kind of duking it out for seven spots right now
• 34:11
  Speaker 4: in the AFC. If you can outlast a couple teams
• 34:16
  Speaker 4: from your division or the Broncos, then you're going to
• 34:20
  Speaker 4: be feeling good about playing January football again.
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: They still have to play the Jaguars, the Broncos that
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: are in front of them currently at four and five.
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: They'll get another date with the Bengals coming out of
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: the bye week. They already played the Pats in the
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: left two more against the Ravens.
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: So you want to talk about controlling your own fate.
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: They truly do control their own fate.
• 34:37
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yes, they do, and it's all in front of them.
• 34:41
  Speaker 4: They've managed these segments of the season. I liked hearing
• 34:45
  Speaker 4: Mike McCarthy say that yesterday in his presser because I
• 34:47
  Speaker 4: feel like I'd been saying that, that you look at
• 34:50
  Speaker 4: the Steelers' schedule breaks down pretty logically. You get four
• 34:54
  Speaker 4: games off the top that come fast and furious because
• 34:58
  Speaker 4: it ends with a Thursday night road game, and they
• 35:01
  Speaker 4: didn't navigate those waters as well as they would have liked,
• 35:04
  Speaker 4: going 2-2 in the first four and losing that game
• 35:07
  Speaker 4: at Cleveland the first time around, but then you had
• 35:09
  Speaker 4: your kind of, your get right stretch a little bit
• 35:13
  Speaker 4: of Colts, Bucks, Saints, and then, you know, I'm not
• 35:16
  Speaker 4: saying the Browns are a get right team anymore, but
• 35:18
  Speaker 4: at least you, it's a, it's a next logical four
• 35:21
  Speaker 4: game stretch because then you go into your bye week
• 35:24
  Speaker 4: and then coming out, you know, it's, it's a bit
• 35:26
  Speaker 4: of a grind from there. That's why it was so
• 35:28
  Speaker 4: crucial to, to go on a run here. And, you know, at,
• 35:31
  Speaker 4: at worst there'll be three in one, but I've got
• 35:34
  Speaker 4: good vibes. I'll be at early in the week that
• 35:36
  Speaker 4: this can be a, 4-0 response to starting the season 2-2.
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: There's still a path to the AFC North title if
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: you do get swept by the Browns.
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: There's a lot of football left to be played.
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: However, it does put you behind the eight ball potentially
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: because the Browns, having already beat the Ravens once this
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: season earlier, now if they would sweep the Steelers, would
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: really be in a nice spot atop the AFC North
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: if they could come in and win in.
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: Pittsburgh for the first time since, well, regular season. We
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: know they won the playoff game. You count playoff games.
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: I don't. A lot of us don't. We don't want
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: to talk about that 2020 wildcard game.
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: But if you take that regular season, I believe they've
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: not won here in Pittsburgh since 2003.
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: I think that's the year. Somewhere in and around there, Brian. Yeah.
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: So it's been a while.
• 36:16
  Speaker 4: That's why you can take that playoff game out of
• 36:19
  Speaker 4: it entirely if you just say the Browns haven't swept
• 36:21
  Speaker 4: the Steelers.
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: There you go. That sounds better. I like that. I
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: think last time they swept the Steelers, Ed, I'm cursor 1988.
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: 88. Yep.
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: Bernie Kozar.
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: Kozar.
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: There you go. Yep, that was the last time. And
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: then they also played some competitive games in those mid-90s.
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: I think the Steelers had to face the Browns in
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: a divisional game in 1994 before the Chargers-AFC.
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: Championship game, which they lost.
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: That was when Bill Belichick was the head football coach
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: for the Cleveland Browns back in those mid-90s years.
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: They had some good teams then, too.
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: We're talking about the Steelers-Browns this upcoming weekend, but we're
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: also talking about what happened this past weekend in Paris.
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: The Steelers defeat the Saints. One thing, Brian, is.
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: Rico Dowdle being back in the lineup the last two weeks.
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: Two weeks ago against Tampa Bay, seven carries for 40 yards,
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: an average of 5.7 yards per carry that day.
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: This past week, just as solid, nine carries, 41 yards.
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: My quick math tells me that's 16 carries for 81
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: yards in the last two games.
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: Jalen Warren, just as good.
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: 14 carries for 50 yards against the Bucs this past week,
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: 18 for 101. The two of them have combined for
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: a total of 391 total offensive yards the last two games.
• 37:35
  Speaker 4: It's a lot. This offensive line, it's easy to forget.
• 37:40
  Speaker 4: Last time the Steelers faced the Browns, that was only
• 37:43
  Speaker 4: their second game together. We liked what we had seen
• 37:45
  Speaker 4: out of them in Week 3 against the Bengals, don't
• 37:47
  Speaker 4: get me wrong, but it was a little more up
• 37:50
  Speaker 4: and down in that game against Cleveland, obviously at Huntington
• 37:56
  Speaker 4: bank field. Now they've got a lot more reps together
• 37:59
  Speaker 4: under their belt. I think they're, they're gelling well you know,
• 38:03
  Speaker 4: the past protection and you'd like to see a game
• 38:05
  Speaker 4: really where the past protection and in the running game can,
• 38:09
  Speaker 4: you know, both get on the same page and really
• 38:12
  Speaker 4: do some damage. You know, you could maybe argue that
• 38:15
  Speaker 4: they did that against the saints, but Roger still sacked
• 38:18
  Speaker 4: three times.
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: That's not ideal.
• 38:20
  Speaker 4: So now they've got a big opportunity to go and
• 38:21
  Speaker 4: prove that they can do that this week against a
• 38:24
  Speaker 4: Browns team that they kind of teed off.
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: On them with those five sacks in the first matchup.
• 38:29
  Speaker 4: But you keep yourself out of sack situations if you're
• 38:33
  Speaker 4: moving guys against their will and you're keeping yourself in
• 38:37
  Speaker 4: third and short, third and manageable, or just don't even
• 38:43
  Speaker 4: get to third down. Just keep the chains, keep ahead
• 38:45
  Speaker 4: of the change, stay on schedule. That'd be great for everybody.
• 38:49
  Speaker 4: in this game, and I think the weather's going to
• 38:51
  Speaker 4: be fine on Sunday, so it should be a good battle,
• 38:55
  Speaker 4: good matchup against a couple teams that are rolling right now.
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you had those cool temperatures and rain with you
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: in Paris. Well, let me tell you something, buddy.
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: Here in southwestern PA, it's been 70 and sunny for
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: about two weeks now.
• 39:07
  Speaker 4: LA, San Diego weather back here in Pittsburgh while we
• 39:09
  Speaker 4: were gone.
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: And another week in front of us, it looks like, too,
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: that's going to continue to go down that path. I'm
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: sure we'll pay the price as we get into winter,
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: but right now we're enjoying it. You talked about the Steelers'
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: offensive line change. The first two weeks of the season,
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: they had 149 total rushing yards. That was an average
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: of 74.5 yards per game rushing, 3.4 yards per carry
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: if it was Dowdle or Jalen Warren carrying the football.
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: Since then, Brian, weeks three through seven, the last five games,
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: 498 yards rushing, 99.6 yards per game, just about 100,
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: 5.7 yards per carry. That's what's happened with this running
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: game since the change with Brock Hoffman and Max Yonatur.
• 39:48
  Speaker 4: Great to see them commit to it. in this Saints game.
• 39:51
  Speaker 4: I mean, the opening script obviously called for a lot
• 39:53
  Speaker 4: of Spencer Anderson and a lot of running the ball.
• 39:57
  Speaker 4: That was, I give credit to Mike McCarthy and company
• 40:00
  Speaker 4: for wanting to establish that. They obviously saw something on
• 40:04
  Speaker 4: tape that they felt like that'd be an advantage against
• 40:06
  Speaker 4: a weakness for the Saints, and it worked. You know,
• 40:11
  Speaker 4: we'll see if they can do that against Cleveland, too,
• 40:12
  Speaker 4: because I think the Browns are, they're probably better up
• 40:14
  Speaker 4: front than the Saints, but also better in the secondary
• 40:17
  Speaker 4: than the Saints. You know, that's a defense that has
• 40:19
  Speaker 4: struggled to find its footing a little bit. Cam Jordan's
• 40:22
  Speaker 4: still in there as the Cam Hayward of that Saints
• 40:24
  Speaker 4: defensive line, but otherwise dinged up. I will say Chase
• 40:29
  Speaker 4: Young and Carl Granderson, they did some damage in that game.
• 40:31
  Speaker 4: Don't get me wrong, can't sell them short, but that
• 40:34
  Speaker 4: was more so against the pass than against the run.
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: The Steelers also during this stretch of this offensive line change,
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: they gave you the rushing numbers. Here's the overall offensive numbers.
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: Weeks one and two, the offense really struggled.
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: We know that.
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: Against the Falcons, they need the T.J.
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: Watt defensive touchdown.
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: The game in New England just was ugly from beginning
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: to end, really, on both sides. 249 total offensive yards
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: averaged through those first two games. 11.5 yards per game,
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: a 1-1 record. These last five games, 339.8 total yards
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: of offense, 26 points per game, and they're 4-1 during
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: that stretch. Jalen Warren, a big part of that, too,
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: as we already talked about his numbers. He's really coming
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: on strong. Rico being involved in that. And Aaron Rodgers
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: has thrown in his last three games for 700 yards,
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: six touchdowns, and just one interception.
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: Yep.
• 41:23
  Speaker 4: He's been a lot more efficient, I guess I would say. And,
• 41:27
  Speaker 4: you know, there goes that, what was it, the streak
• 41:30
  Speaker 4: of three consecutive touchdown passes. Feels like a long time
• 41:34
  Speaker 4: ago now after moving in fits and starts against Tampa
• 41:38
  Speaker 4: and then New Orleans. But I still think that With
• 41:42
  Speaker 4: DK Metcalf as a big play guy, Jeremy Bernard, I think,
• 41:45
  Speaker 4: has still continued to get more comfortable at this level.
• 41:50
  Speaker 4: The passing game, I don't think it's going to go
• 41:52
  Speaker 4: away entirely or anything like that, not to mention the
• 41:55
  Speaker 4: tight ends still being a factor. So I think if
• 41:58
  Speaker 4: you do see some defense to say, oh, you know what?
• 42:00
  Speaker 4: We don't want to let Jalen Warren just run wild
• 42:02
  Speaker 4: against us all game. We'll stack the box. I think
• 42:05
  Speaker 4: that the Steelers are capable and in a position of
• 42:08
  Speaker 4: being able to counter that as well.
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: Jeremy Bernard, a bit quiet on Sunday, but going into Sunday,
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: we talked about his last two games, how he came
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: on strong. Well, the Cleveland Browns have two very good
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: wide receivers, and KC Concepcion coming off a 100-plus two-touchdown
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: performance in Tennessee.
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: He's hot right now. We saw Boston.
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: He was very hot against the Steelers that first matchup
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: on that Thursday night. So these rookie wide receivers, there
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: are three of them, two for Cleveland, Bernard for Steelers,
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: that have had pretty good rookie season so far.
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: It's something else to watch this upcoming weekend.
• 42:40
  Speaker 4: Boston, more of that big target running down the perimeter.
• 42:45
  Speaker 4: The Audubon, as Mike McCarthy calls it there on the outside,
• 42:48
  Speaker 4: or the red line, as you hear. I mean, he
• 42:50
  Speaker 4: can be dangerous on those, and he was dangerous to
• 42:52
  Speaker 4: the Steelers in Week 4. But, yeah, I guess Concepcion's
• 42:55
  Speaker 4: just been all over the place, working underneath, yards after
• 42:59
  Speaker 4: the catch guy. That's what we saw out of him
• 43:01
  Speaker 4: coming into the draft out of Texas A & M. And,
• 43:05
  Speaker 4: you know, he hasn't lit it up. until this most
• 43:09
  Speaker 4: recent game, but you know that the Browns like what
• 43:12
  Speaker 4: they have in those two players. You've got to watch
• 43:14
  Speaker 4: Concepcion on the little quick outs, the bubble screens, because
• 43:18
  Speaker 4: he can really do a lot of damage when they
• 43:19
  Speaker 4: get the ball to him.
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: Our turning point of the game was the Peyton Wilson
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: interception in the third quarter, Brian, and I was excited
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: when that happened because you and I have talked a
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: lot about Peyton Wilson before the season started as this
• 43:31
  Speaker 2: being an important season for him in the Steeler defense,
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: and at the same time, The last few weeks, he's
• 43:38
  Speaker 2: quietly led the team in tackles.
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: He's made plays when he had to. He's been very
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: good in coverage. And Sunday, he shined.
• 43:44
  Speaker 4: That was a huge play because the Saints were starting
• 43:46
  Speaker 4: to get into a rhythm. They were starting to get
• 43:48
  Speaker 4: into a groove offensively. And Tyler Shuck was getting the
• 43:52
  Speaker 4: ball to his playmakers on the outside. And any defense,
• 43:56
  Speaker 4: you're going to have to give up something if you
• 43:58
  Speaker 4: go hard somewhere else.
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: And the Steelers were giving up some of those underneath completions.
• 44:02
  Speaker 4: I think that was probably the most concerning or frustrated
• 44:05
  Speaker 4: thing to see throughout that game and the saints were
• 44:08
  Speaker 4: moving the ball, but all it takes is one mistake.
• 44:12
  Speaker 4: And that's kind of the whole philosophy or mindset, right?
• 44:14
  Speaker 4: Of keep the ball in front of you and might
• 44:16
  Speaker 4: give up some yardage, might give up some quote unquote,
• 44:18
  Speaker 4: easy timing, rhythm completions, but all it takes is one error,
• 44:23
  Speaker 4: one gaffe. And now our defense is in business. And
• 44:26
  Speaker 4: that's exactly what happened there. Peyton Wilson said that his
• 44:29
  Speaker 4: coaches had him very well prepared for that general philosophy
• 44:34
  Speaker 4: offensively and where Chuck might go with the ball.
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: He, he read it, got to it.
• 44:38
  Speaker 4: And, you know, sometimes we forget, we don't even give
• 44:41
  Speaker 4: enough credit for actually making the play, but Patrick Queen
• 44:44
  Speaker 4: dropped in an easy interception earlier in that game. And
• 44:46
  Speaker 4: Wilson made sure he did not drop that one.
• 44:48
  Speaker 2: Yep. Did the Peyton Wilson interception make our top 10?
• 44:52
  Speaker 2: Spoiler alert, it did. But where did it fit in
• 44:55
  Speaker 2: in our top 10? We will find out whenever we
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: come back. We got Double B back from Paris. Double B,
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: I will say one thing before we go to break.
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: I'm disappointed you don't have one of.
• 45:02
  Speaker 2: Those hats on that you brought back. You came in
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: with your 2026 draft cap, which is awesome. It's a
• 45:09
  Speaker 2: great look for you, but I was expecting one of
• 45:11
  Speaker 2: those fancy French hats.
• 45:12
  Speaker 4: Hats but no uh no cool souvenir no souvenir i
• 45:16
  Speaker 4: got souvenirs for the wife kids parents all that good
• 45:19
  Speaker 4: stuff but nothing for me only souvenir for me is
• 45:23
  Speaker 4: a dub.
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: Okay well hey that's a good one to bring back
• 45:25
  Speaker 2: we told you before you left we weren't letting you
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: back in this room unless you brought back let.
• 45:28
  Speaker 4: Me back in the country exactly i was gonna be
• 45:30
  Speaker 4: you had to bring back that win i was gonna
• 45:32
  Speaker 4: be caught over in in the uh U.S.
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: Embassy, I guess.
• 45:36
  Speaker 2: Well, you brought back a win, and we welcome you
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: in with open arms, my friend. Whenever we come back,
• 45:40
  Speaker 2: we will get into our top ten plays and moments
• 45:42
  Speaker 2: from Steelers Saints, as well as Tad Whistle from the
• 45:46
  Speaker 2: DV Morning Show joining us to close out the show today.
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: He's Brian Bacco. I'm Ed Troop.
• 45:50
  Speaker 2: It is the Steelers Report right here on Steelers Nation Radio,
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: part of the Steelers Audio Network.