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Time for a bye! · The Irish Steelers Podcast

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Speaker 1: Head folks, Welcome in Irish Theaters Podcast Michael McCay and
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Speaker 1: Jimmy Angler, Steve McKee, as we're not the bye, we're
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Speaker 1: coming in the week six of the NFL season and
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Speaker 1: the Steelers are one of the teams this week on
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Speaker 1: a bye, but we're coming back off some some positive news,
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Speaker 1: some great news and Italian watt boys. Good time to
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Speaker 1: be a Steelers fan. Top of the North. Who would
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Speaker 1: have thought it a few weeks out beating the Ravens
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Speaker 1: seventeen to ten of the weekend and just as I said,
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Speaker 1: great to be joined by by Jimmy, by Dave and
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Speaker 1: Jimmy starting with my friend. Look, we'll take the win
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Speaker 1: top of the North and hopefully we're still top of
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Speaker 1: the North coming this weekend if the Ravens hopefully lose
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Speaker 1: in London.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, absolutely. I mean the improbable AFC North leaders,
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Speaker 2: and I think starting out at the start of the season,
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Speaker 2: none of us would have predicted that would be at
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Speaker 2: this point at the boy and I like that they
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Speaker 2: absolutely pulled that one out of the bag over the weekend.
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Speaker 2: So look, take the victories where we can get them
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Speaker 2: at this stage and get a bit of rest and recuperation.
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Speaker 2: Now it's Matt, I think the Rock to Buy already,
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Speaker 2: like this season is absolutely flying by. You know, we
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Speaker 2: were here in the preseason saying no, we can't wait
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Speaker 2: for the season, and now it's quite it's absolutely flying by.
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Speaker 2: So look, it's it's it's great, it's all. It's all
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Speaker 2: good at the minute, So long may it last?
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Speaker 1: Ah, you're by all. It really feels like the whole
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Speaker 1: thing is just flying in, and it's it's a weird
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Speaker 1: one because you know, a lot of the division is
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Speaker 1: still playing this weekend and like at least it gives
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Speaker 1: the guys a chance to rest up and sort of
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Speaker 1: recoper because different teams have good different weeks for the buy.
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Speaker 1: And as Jimmy says, it's flying in. It feels like
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Speaker 1: as Jimmy said, it feels like the preseason was just
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Speaker 1: it feels like we only started this yesterday. It's it's weird.
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Speaker 1: It's I guess for us, we're a further the way
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Speaker 1: there during the season. Top of the North take it
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Speaker 1: and run situation and once his bike comes back, it's
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Speaker 1: good to go. But Big a few weeks ahead now,
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Speaker 1: Big few weeks ahead?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I know, I completely agree with everything you've said there, Michael.
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Speaker 3: We've obviously hit the Bay now, as I said, it's
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Speaker 3: flown in, But who would have thought we would have
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Speaker 3: been top of the FC North, the so called best
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Speaker 3: division in football probably it's probably not the so called
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Speaker 3: probably is the best, and we're sitting on top of us.
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Speaker 3: And you know, so far this season there's been a
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Speaker 3: lot of rumblings about, you know, unhappiness within the fan
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Speaker 3: group and stuff like that. But at the end of
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Speaker 3: the day, we're top of the FC North. It's it's
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Speaker 3: it's hardly it's hardly believable if you look back on
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Speaker 3: a couple of weeks ago. So hopefully this week with
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Speaker 3: the Bay, we've got an opportunity to sort of review everything,
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Speaker 3: how everything's going down and obviously how we can improve
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Speaker 3: going forward. So yeah, and hopefully this week flies in
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Speaker 3: and before you next week we head the LN next
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Speaker 3: week and another home game abroad if you like, So
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Speaker 3: hopefully we come in there with another one and we
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Speaker 3: can get a good rest up during the BI week.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that l Stadium is really like a home game
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Speaker 1: and we will look at that next week. It's it's
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Speaker 1: crazy to see sometimes when you've got different teams there
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Speaker 1: and we've seen with with Vegas a few weeks ago,
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Speaker 1: the Steelers really really travel well. Jimmy, I've got your
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Speaker 1: notifications on Twitter, moll or X apologies and I seen
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Speaker 1: your lovely, lovely post about TJ. Watson. He's obviously the
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Speaker 1: sock leader for the league across five weeks. He's flying,
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Speaker 1: but he is on fire the season so far. Mon.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, eight sacks on the season and the the early
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Speaker 2: stages of the season and he's really like, he's really
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Speaker 2: on track, I think for a second defensive Player of
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Speaker 2: the Year season this year. And he's just he's playing
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Speaker 2: like a man possessed and you know, himself and the
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Speaker 2: rest of the defense have put the team on their
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Speaker 2: back the past couple of weeks. Like let's not kid ourselves.
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Speaker 2: Special teams and defense are the reason we won that
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Speaker 2: game on Sunday. They kept us in it. They made
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Speaker 2: splash plays. Great to see Joey Porter Junior getting his
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Speaker 2: first interception of his young career against No. One, no
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Speaker 2: less than Adell Dell Beckham Junior. I mean that was
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Speaker 2: just delighted for the young man. And then like you
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Speaker 2: had that massive splash player on special teams, the black
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Speaker 2: point for the almost he almost touched it. I think
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Speaker 2: I jumped three feet in the air out of my
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Speaker 2: seat when when that happens, screaming and raw. And but look,
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Speaker 2: defense wins championships, t J wide if we if we're
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Speaker 2: gonna have any hope when he of getting to the
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Speaker 2: playoffs first of all, and then going to the super Bowl,
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Speaker 2: it's gonna be TJ one and that defense keeping us
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Speaker 2: in it.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, not just leading the lead in sacks, Dave, but
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Speaker 1: leading the league quarterback hits, tackles for lost pressures, fumble recoveries,
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Speaker 1: fumber recovery, touchdowns, forced fumbles. Do we say m VP?
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Speaker 1: Do we keep quiet?
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Speaker 3: I don't see why not. I mean MVP. Traditionally it's
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Speaker 3: a quarterback reward. It's very rarely where a quarterback doesn't
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Speaker 3: want it. But if there is somebody outside the quarterback
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Speaker 3: position is going to win it, it has to be TJ.
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Speaker 3: I mean, you just sort of run out of words
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Speaker 3: to describe how good he is. I mean, for me,
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Speaker 3: he's already he's already overtaken his brother. He's not good
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Speaker 3: every time, you know, every time we chill out and
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Speaker 3: he always comes up over massive play and and I
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Speaker 3: thought at the same time, we managed to turn the
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Speaker 3: ball over with forty seconds left and they thought, oh,
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Speaker 3: that'll be game over. Somehow, the offense still try to
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Speaker 3: find a way to give the ball back to the Ravens.
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Speaker 3: So I'll say, you know, just to say everything Jimmy
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Speaker 3: said there about the defense, the defense just continuously carries
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Speaker 3: us offenses slowly, but Shirley getting there. Hopefully that's something
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Speaker 3: we can work out on the on the vay week.
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Speaker 3: But the defense is just continuously making place. As Jimmy said,
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Speaker 3: Joey Porter Jr. Was delighted to see that as well.
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Speaker 3: And the TJ. Watt is our all Star and you know,
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Speaker 3: at the end of the day, if he continues to
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Speaker 3: make players, we're always going to have a shout and
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Speaker 3: just brilliant to see him continuing on not the season
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Speaker 3: four we knew we would have as well as that.
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Speaker 3: You know, I think he's nil on the break the
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Speaker 3: sack record, surely. I don't know what you think, but
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Speaker 3: he's neil on the break at Shirley.
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Speaker 1: I'd love of your breaks at Jimmy. Just then, the
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Speaker 1: normal pre new rule of games in terms of like
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Speaker 1: the extra game, let's actually hear from TJ before we
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Speaker 1: winning for this what TJ had to say after the.
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Speaker 4: Game, Uh, just tightening up. We I mean we know
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Speaker 4: teams are gonna score in the NFL. I mean, like
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Speaker 4: we always say, they have scholarships too, They work all week,
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Speaker 4: they have they create a great plan. And Uh, really
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Speaker 4: proud of the way that we we settled into the
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Speaker 4: game and were able to blow up in a lot
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Speaker 4: of big time situations. I mean, the inside backers I
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Speaker 4: thought played really well today. We're obviously able to create
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Speaker 4: some pressure up front. And then heck of a play
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Speaker 4: by Joey Porter uh in a big time moment, in
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Speaker 4: a big time game against top quality talent. That's a
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Speaker 4: huge play.
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Speaker 2: You're a mean question, leader of the defense. Is there
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Speaker 2: anything you did in particular this week in preparation with
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Speaker 2: the guys, whether it was motivation or just whether you
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Speaker 2: got studied together with Did you do anything different?
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Speaker 1: Christ No?
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Speaker 4: I mean, I mean a lot of highs, a lot
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Speaker 4: of lows. You need to stay constant to a degree.
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Speaker 4: I mean, we're not gonna change everything that we do.
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Speaker 4: I think coach Toman does a good job of getting
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Speaker 4: us prepared and getting us ready each week. I think
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Speaker 4: he did a great job this week of letting the
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Speaker 4: guys that haven't been here know the importance of this
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Speaker 4: rivalry because at the end of the day, we have
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Speaker 4: to know there's a lot of new faces in the
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Speaker 4: locker room, and we really hit that point home. And
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Speaker 4: you could feel when we were out there playing the
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Speaker 4: day is.
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Speaker 5: It allows you guys to hang in there when it's
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Speaker 5: not really going your way. It appears to be kind
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Speaker 5: of one side in the first half, but you just
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Speaker 5: hang in there.
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Speaker 4: The whole time. He was doing our job, not paid
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Speaker 4: to do anything other than go out there and make
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Speaker 4: as many plays as possible and tried to deliver the
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Speaker 4: ball to the offense if we can otherwise hold them
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Speaker 4: the field goals, but don't have time to worry about
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Speaker 4: all the other.
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Speaker 2: Things significant kill the block and the energy that have.
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Speaker 4: Brought to your Not surprised. The guy works his tail off.
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Speaker 4: He's out there every day in the beginning of practice,
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Speaker 4: pre practice, working on his craft, and coach Toman always
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Speaker 4: says one block of year makes you great, and I
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Speaker 4: mean he has a whole bunch of them at this
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Speaker 4: point in his career, and it's it's awesome to see
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Speaker 4: a guy that you know the other team is scheming
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Speaker 4: for make plays like that. And uh, but like I said,
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Speaker 4: I'm not surprised by by his work ethic and being
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Speaker 4: able to have that opportunity to make that play and
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Speaker 4: then making it when he had it, and then obviously
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Speaker 4: it just created a spark and steel a nation came
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Speaker 4: alive again for us, and it was huge. We absolutely
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Speaker 4: need them in the end, and uh, like always, they delivered.
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Speaker 5: Did you ever change the second half of the lot
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Speaker 5: of you guys defensively to shut them down and eventually
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Speaker 5: get the slash that you got.
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Speaker 4: I think we just settled in really, I mean I
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Speaker 4: think we were we were gang tackling. Uh, we were
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Speaker 4: able to make some big plays defensively, able to get
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Speaker 4: after the quarterback make him uncomfortable, uncomfortable a little bit.
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Speaker 4: I thought the coaches made some nice adjustments and uh,
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Speaker 4: at the end of the day, it's all about execution,
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Speaker 4: is how you got here.
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Speaker 6: Does first place at this point feel pretty good? And uh,
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Speaker 6: you know, good time for the buye weeks to get some.
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Speaker 4: Guys, good time for the bye week. I mean, the
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Speaker 4: first place doesn't mean anything right now. We're we're still
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Speaker 4: super early. Need to get some guys back. Need to
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Speaker 4: just take some time, let the body rest a little bit,
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Speaker 4: and uh, look at the.
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Speaker 2: Film after we could talking about it.
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Speaker 7: How different if it all did that Baltimore offense look
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Speaker 7: and feel to you guys when you were playing against it.
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Speaker 4: I mean it's it's always a tough, physical game. We're
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Speaker 4: gonna have to go back look at the film and
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Speaker 4: really digest it. Like we were talking, it's so hard
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Speaker 4: to I mean, you just play in play out. It's
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Speaker 4: hard to have like a zoomed out like perspective on
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Speaker 4: the game until you watch the film.
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Speaker 6: Just take a little boost from that fourth down stop
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Speaker 6: in the second quarter in the.
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Speaker 4: Locker room, I mean yeah, I mean we're we're trying
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Speaker 4: to We're feeding off each other. I mean we really are.
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Speaker 4: And it doesn't matter who's who's humming. Offense, defense, special teams.
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Speaker 4: We just need to feed off each other. And I
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Speaker 4: feel like we did a good job of that today.
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Speaker 1: Well the guy, well, guy Jimmy, you've already talked venomously
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Speaker 1: about him. So when we talk about the offense or
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Speaker 1: is anything you want to have a TJ.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, do you know what, like as much as defense
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Speaker 2: and special teams have to be louder for the performance.
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Speaker 2: On Sunday, we finally saw what we've been begging for,
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Speaker 2: and that was beating George Pickens the ball. Look how
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Speaker 2: many clutch, clutch plays that man came up with, that
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Speaker 2: young player came up with in tight coverage, you know,
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Speaker 2: a couple of sweet co taps and drags on the
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Speaker 2: on the sideline. And he had, of course the the
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Speaker 2: end around the Jets freep, which I believe was our
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Speaker 2: longest running play of the of the evening. So obviously,
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Speaker 2: like there's much to be desired. Still, Jayden Warren had
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Speaker 2: another fantastic game. Disappointing learned that he didn't score, but
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Speaker 2: like that's coming. And you know, I said on one
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Speaker 2: of the previous podcasts, Michael, you know I don't see
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Speaker 2: the Steelers having a first string and a second string
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Speaker 2: running back. I see them himself in Nalgy as running
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Speaker 2: back one and running back one A. And you know
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Speaker 2: I flagged this. I flagged this weeks ago. Jayden Warren
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Speaker 2: could truly emerge as a starting running back before the
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Speaker 2: season is over. And like that touchdown as well to
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Speaker 2: George Pickens was it was a thing of beauty. The
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Speaker 2: way Kenny just you know, he faked the handoff, he
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Speaker 2: rolled out and just logged it over the over the top.
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Speaker 2: So look like like I said, there's there's much to
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Speaker 2: work on, but it is. It is vastly improved. So look,
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Speaker 2: look they did. They just need to keep doing what
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Speaker 2: they're doing and get more big plays.
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Speaker 1: And David's it's funny because you know we were talking
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Speaker 1: and look, obviously the offense had to take us out
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Speaker 1: of how to take us up of this week on
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Speaker 1: in the Ravens game because they had the least players
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Speaker 1: per drive of an offense in the league, and they
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Speaker 1: only drove, as you said, they only drove into the
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Speaker 1: red zone once in twenty six first half drives so
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Speaker 1: far in the twenty twenty three seasons. So it look,
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Speaker 1: I wouldn't sit here and say it's not good. It
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Speaker 1: wasn't good, but like, clearly there's been an improvement. They
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Speaker 1: took a bit of time in this Ravens game and
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Speaker 1: what Jimmy said, you know, feeding Pickens and they never
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Speaker 1: mind that play that we've seen with Pickens in that game.
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Speaker 1: Did you applaud the decision to go for two even
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Speaker 1: though it didn't work at the time. Obviously mathematically, I
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Speaker 1: guess it made sense. But do you like the fight
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Speaker 1: in the offense? And what was your sort of takeaway
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Speaker 1: from the offense this week?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, no, as just as everything Jimmy said, you know,
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Speaker 3: there's been improvement, gradual improvement each week. It just seems
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Speaker 3: like throughout the first couple of quarters or even through
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Speaker 3: to the fourth quarter, we just take time to just offensively,
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Speaker 3: and like the game didn't actually spread into life until
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Speaker 3: the fourth quarter, and by then we were short of like,
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Speaker 3: we don't really know how we're going to get on here.
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Speaker 3: But and as Jimmy said, you know, but George Peckins,
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Speaker 3: you get him in a one on one bottle I
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Speaker 3: think it was with Marlon Humphreys. If he can beat
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Speaker 3: his man, I think that that's another thing we have
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Speaker 3: to come back with Channy Pickett. He was wise enough
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Speaker 3: to say, look, George is one on one against the
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Speaker 3: kne Agin cornerback. If I can throw it up down here,
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Speaker 3: he's going to get it. He's going to pervade for
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Speaker 3: us so offensively. You know, of course, we're not where
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Speaker 3: we want to be if we want to be matching
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Speaker 3: with the likes of the Chiefs. The Bengals, who are
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Speaker 3: looking like they're getting a lot better. We're going to
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Speaker 3: have to improve offensively, there's no doubt about it. But
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Speaker 3: we are still seeing gradual improvements and hopefully that splash
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Speaker 3: player to George Peckins, that's going to be the key
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Speaker 3: for us. You know, more the more of the league's
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Speaker 3: going to be paying attention to him as well. So
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Speaker 3: I just think if we can just continuously to hit us,
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Speaker 3: hit the routes and stuff like that, and obviously do
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Speaker 3: just offensively, I think we should be okay. But you know,
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Speaker 3: we're gonna have to find that right off of the
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Speaker 3: bay hopefully.
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Speaker 1: Jimmy I Vienna hinous that you'd like to add towards
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Speaker 1: the offense before we hear from some players.
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Speaker 2: I think overall it was it was a much better
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Speaker 2: per warrance generally, like a lot of things to be
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Speaker 2: ironed out. Fair play to Kenny Pickett coming off that
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Speaker 2: nasty looking injury last week. I mean, we were sitting here,
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Speaker 2: we were texting each other, we were like, that's his
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Speaker 2: he's done. He is dirt. He's gonna he's gonna sit
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Speaker 2: the season. So like the fact that he that he
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Speaker 2: came back, he didn't. He didn't look one hundred percent,
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Speaker 2: but he was still comfortable enough to hang in the pocket,
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Speaker 2: to roll out like he does and make big plays.
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Speaker 2: So like, there are signs of life in the offense.
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Speaker 2: And if our defense can just keep doing what they're doing,
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Speaker 2: keep fighting, keep us in games like this, make the
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Speaker 2: make the big splash plays that spark something in this team,
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Speaker 2: then I think we're gonna be Okay. There's a there's
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Speaker 2: a slight bit more optimism in coming back now, had
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Speaker 2: this after the the depths of darkness the past couple
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Speaker 2: of weeks. So no, I look like I'm an optimist
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Speaker 2: by nature, and I'm optimistic that we can, that we can,
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Speaker 2: that we can get it, get it, get enough of
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Speaker 2: a good role going before we face you know, the
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Speaker 2: resurging Bengals who, by God like they were to march.
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Speaker 2: I know this is a Stears podcast. Can we just
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Speaker 2: take a moment to it to say, Jamaar Chase, like,
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Speaker 2: what a what are that connection with Joe Burrow? But anyway, yeah,
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Speaker 2: look just that that's it.
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Speaker 3: Next.
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Speaker 2: Look, let's just let's just keep rolling, Let's just keep building,
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Speaker 2: and let's keep stacking.
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Speaker 3: To w is it shows a wrong week to come
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Speaker 3: up against Jim say believe it or not, that's.
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Speaker 1: You, like you're you're right, your banging on because like literally,
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Speaker 1: I think some and this has been it's really been
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Speaker 1: equal than the first five weeks of the season, the
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Speaker 1: short terminus of the league. And yeah, there's been a
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Speaker 1: few weeks there where it was touch and go, but
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Speaker 1: then you look at this week getting the getting the win,
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Speaker 1: and people were very down in the Bengals a few
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Speaker 1: weeks in, and you know, you look at off our
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Speaker 1: teams like the Taxans that have overperformed across the league.
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Speaker 1: There's been teams have been up and Downland It's it's
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Speaker 1: a Martin, It's not a sprint. And I look, I've
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Speaker 1: enjoyed even the podcast where maybe we haven't been talking
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Speaker 1: about some positive because we're talking about the football. And
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Speaker 1: I'll just take that as just why we still have it.
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Speaker 1: And let's let's let's hear from the offense. Let's hear
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Speaker 1: from George Pickens, Canty Pickett. After that big fourth quarter
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Speaker 1: without win against the Ravens on Sunday.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, they went they went zero. You know, we were
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Speaker 7: preparing all week and there's kind of bigger moments that
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Speaker 7: they were gonna go zero, got the protection right, you know,
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Speaker 7: gave George's route and he went up there and won.
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Speaker 7: You know, big time player, you know, make big time
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Speaker 7: plays in those moments, and you know that's what we
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Speaker 7: got in fourteen. And the emotions of this win high
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Speaker 7: and lois and lows in this game. You know, it's
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Speaker 7: it's unreal to to win like that at home, you know,
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Speaker 7: in front of our fans. Obviously was you know, up
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Speaker 7: and down early, but you know, we hung in there,
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Speaker 7: we stuck with it, found a way to win. That's
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Speaker 7: all that matters. So really proud of every guy in
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Speaker 7: that locker room. That was a conversation at the huddle
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Speaker 7: after that. Go score, you know, go go go finish
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Speaker 7: the game. You know that that was that was my mindset.
15:51
Speaker 7: Obviously there's a lot going on, but guys just you know,
15:53
Speaker 7: focus and execute each play and move down the field
15:55
Speaker 7: and get in the end zone.
15:56
Speaker 6: Those plays takeaways by the defense, block punks.
16:00
Speaker 2: Does that do for an offense?
16:01
Speaker 7: But it's huge, it's huge, you know, I can't say
16:04
Speaker 7: enough about our defense. And then our special teams also
16:06
Speaker 7: stepped up today and and and shot outs to Miles,
16:09
Speaker 7: a guy who dedicates, you know, to the to his craft.
16:11
Speaker 7: I watch him work every day. I watch him, you know,
16:13
Speaker 7: work punk blocks all the time. He's constantly doing it.
16:17
Speaker 7: He's obsessed with it. So there's no surprise that he's
16:19
Speaker 7: the guy that steps up in those moments when we
16:21
Speaker 7: needed it. And you know, huge, huge appreciation from.
16:23
Speaker 2: Misk was jam for you in the second half.
16:26
Speaker 7: Especially massive massive Love Jay plays plays unbelievably hard, incredibly
16:31
Speaker 7: talented player. Want to get him the ball in space
16:32
Speaker 7: as much as we can, whether it's the running game
16:34
Speaker 7: of the past game. I feel like he does, you know,
16:36
Speaker 7: great things in both areas. You know, obviously came in
16:39
Speaker 7: together as rookies and and in our second year here,
16:42
Speaker 7: but love Jay and really proud of the way he
16:44
Speaker 7: played measured.
16:46
Speaker 2: Is that something that can get you individually and the
16:48
Speaker 2: group collectively going. Is that a huge boost?
16:51
Speaker 7: I think yeah, I think you know, it pushes you
16:53
Speaker 7: that way. You know obviously that there's ups and downs
16:55
Speaker 7: in a season. There's ups and downs and games, but
16:57
Speaker 7: we found a way to win down the stretch, and
16:58
Speaker 7: I think that's all that matters. You know, it's nowhere
17:00
Speaker 7: near as good as it needs to be. Speaking from
17:03
Speaker 7: an offensive standpoint, We understand that all the players do,
17:05
Speaker 7: all the coaches do. We're working tirelessly at it to
17:08
Speaker 7: get better and and and put more points on the board.
17:10
Speaker 7: But at the end of the day, we went down
17:11
Speaker 7: there and we won the end of the game and
17:13
Speaker 7: got the W. You know, going to this bye week,
17:15
Speaker 7: get healthy, have some guys banged up, so it'll be
17:18
Speaker 7: good to you know, try and get back to full strength.
17:21
Speaker 7: You know, moving on from the bye.
17:22
Speaker 5: Week, what was the difference for you in the fourth quarter.
17:24
Speaker 8: It looked like you were maybe more accurate on your
17:26
Speaker 8: throws and maybe more confident in those decisions.
17:30
Speaker 7: I don't think anything really changed to be you know, honest,
17:32
Speaker 7: I think you know, we we were mixing it up,
17:34
Speaker 7: had the running pass game working. You know. I feel
17:37
Speaker 7: that we continue to work on that and do more
17:39
Speaker 7: of it. You know, I gotta be more accurate and
17:41
Speaker 7: put balls on guys and then they run after the catch.
17:43
Speaker 7: So there's there's always areas to improve. But it was
17:46
Speaker 7: good that we came together as a as a unit
17:47
Speaker 7: there and executed at a high level to win the game.
17:51
Speaker 6: Even when things were going well and things are frustrated
17:53
Speaker 6: that nobody get out of the side of themselves and
17:54
Speaker 6: you didn't make that kind of big mistake that allowed
17:56
Speaker 6: you to stay closer.
17:57
Speaker 7: In the game, right. You know, I think we stayed
17:59
Speaker 7: together and that I was preaching that all week. You know,
18:02
Speaker 7: you get to this this level, there's so many outside
18:04
Speaker 7: factors that try to get into a team and try
18:06
Speaker 7: to pull a team apart, whether it's media or related,
18:08
Speaker 7: fan related, whatever it may be. You have to stay together.
18:12
Speaker 7: In football, it's it's the ultimate team game, offense, defense,
18:15
Speaker 7: special teams, Eleven guys on the field working together, pushing
18:18
Speaker 7: each other and playing their hearts out to go win
18:21
Speaker 7: the game. And that's what we did. So incredibly proud
18:24
Speaker 7: of our team here.
18:25
Speaker 8: B you haveing Jordan and you make a throw like
18:27
Speaker 8: that and he delivers despite all those struggles with the offense,
18:29
Speaker 8: and he was having this game.
18:31
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think, and I don't think there's any you
18:33
Speaker 7: know question in my faith in fourteen and how much
18:36
Speaker 7: I believe in him and always giving him opportunities to
18:38
Speaker 7: make plays is something I'll continue to do. So I've
18:41
Speaker 7: been saying since I've gotten here and I've been playing
18:43
Speaker 7: with him, So you know, unbelievably talented players shows up
18:46
Speaker 7: in big time moments, and I always want to give
18:48
Speaker 7: them those opportunities.
18:49
Speaker 5: Er Jorges gave you a Mason Cole a lot of
18:52
Speaker 5: credit for checking the line of scirts a lot of
18:55
Speaker 5: times accurately today.
18:57
Speaker 4: Did you do more of that today than a week's past?
19:00
Speaker 8: As much expected with the Ravens being on either side.
19:04
Speaker 7: It's all game plan related, you know. It's whatever we
19:06
Speaker 7: put in the game plan, the coaches put in the
19:08
Speaker 7: game plan that allows me to do it at the
19:09
Speaker 7: line or not built into certain plays if they go zero.
19:13
Speaker 7: We always have those answers we can do certain things.
19:16
Speaker 7: I think we did a really good job of communicating today.
19:18
Speaker 7: I think there's some you know, personnel things we got
19:21
Speaker 7: to get cleaned of. It wasn't as smooth as you know,
19:23
Speaker 7: we hope it would be or needed to be. But
19:25
Speaker 7: there's all areas that we can improve on. So we
19:27
Speaker 7: just got to continue to show up and get better.
19:30
Speaker 1: Part of the game plan built in because we're expecting
19:32
Speaker 1: them to go zero more to.
19:33
Speaker 7: The end, Yeah, we have more zero answers this week
19:35
Speaker 7: based off what they've shown the tape.
19:37
Speaker 5: Because of that, did you go in? I know you
19:38
Speaker 5: always want to try and get the ball to George.
19:40
Speaker 5: But did you go into this game thinking you were
19:42
Speaker 5: going to be able to and you wanted to?
19:44
Speaker 7: That was that was the plan. You never know how
19:46
Speaker 7: it's going to play out, you know, you never know
19:47
Speaker 7: how it's going to play out, But that was the
19:48
Speaker 7: plan going into it. You know, if we have those
19:51
Speaker 7: chances to get George, you know, one on one, we'll
19:53
Speaker 7: take it. Sometimes they press, sometimes they did it in zero.
19:56
Speaker 7: So it all depends on the look, and we got
19:58
Speaker 7: the perfect look for it, know down the stretch.
20:01
Speaker 8: Now there your second time against the Ravens in a
20:03
Speaker 8: row that you've thrown a game winning touchdown late in
20:05
Speaker 8: the fourth quarter to give you guys a lead. What
20:07
Speaker 8: can you say about this rivalry.
20:08
Speaker 3: That brings the intensity in the close game?
20:10
Speaker 7: Yeah, Coach, you know, Coach showed us kind of a
20:12
Speaker 7: tape early in the week of how close the games
20:13
Speaker 7: always are against the Ravens. It's just how it goes
20:15
Speaker 7: in THEFC North. You know, all the teams are so competitive.
20:19
Speaker 7: Great defense is great offense is going out of every week.
20:21
Speaker 7: So it's it's you know, we're saying it's gonna be
20:24
Speaker 7: like a marathon type game. It's gonna come down to
20:25
Speaker 7: that down to the end. If everyone everyone's doing their job,
20:29
Speaker 7: we'll have a chance to win at the end. So
20:30
Speaker 7: that's exactly what happened, Tom Sin.
20:33
Speaker 6: It's been for the offensive first month top You've been
20:34
Speaker 6: able to sort of that that you're whatever, your frustrations
20:37
Speaker 6: might be get the best of you. And is that
20:39
Speaker 6: a sign of maybe growth as an individually and as
20:42
Speaker 6: a group.
20:43
Speaker 9: I probably just say me competing because really, to be honest,
20:47
Speaker 9: my my energy is always really the same because the
20:49
Speaker 9: defense will probably get out there and make a player.
20:51
Speaker 9: Now I'm back happy, you see what I mean. So
20:53
Speaker 9: I'll probably just say my my emotion to fight and
20:55
Speaker 9: my emotion for the game. That's all I really is.
20:57
Speaker 1: George, you enjoy Porter Junior has your battles throughout training camp.
21:00
Speaker 3: But I know you two have, you know, the friendly competition.
21:02
Speaker 1: But what was it like to see him get his
21:03
Speaker 1: first career interception and in that fashion?
21:06
Speaker 9: Oh uh, I ain't even know, I swear to guy.
21:08
Speaker 9: I didn't even know he got an interception today. I
21:10
Speaker 9: I know Tj' is fumble and that was I was.
21:12
Speaker 9: I was all over the place, bro, but I didn't
21:13
Speaker 9: even know. But uh, congratulations to him.
21:15
Speaker 1: For sure.
21:18
Speaker 2: What you think that when you see morel love free
21:20
Speaker 2: across from in the game.
21:21
Speaker 4: All or what? Uh?
21:23
Speaker 9: I kind of Uh, I don't know about you know,
21:25
Speaker 9: other receivers around the league, but m him going to
21:27
Speaker 9: my high school, him being from Alabama. It's uh, it's
21:30
Speaker 9: more like of a I probably say, I don't wanna
21:32
Speaker 9: say a practice field, but it's a guy that I
21:34
Speaker 9: know personally, so it's a little different.
21:36
Speaker 2: Can't you mentioned staying together this weekend today through any
21:39
Speaker 2: like distractions, whether it's.
21:41
Speaker 7: Be related or being related.
21:42
Speaker 5: That's talking all for you guys to do as an
21:44
Speaker 5: offensive times.
21:45
Speaker 9: Uh not really, I am not gonna lie to you.
21:47
Speaker 4: Uh.
21:48
Speaker 9: Within within the building, we kind of be connected as
21:50
Speaker 9: a team.
21:51
Speaker 2: Uh.
21:51
Speaker 9: Each player on the team we really connected with very
21:53
Speaker 9: very close to the media and all the other stuff,
21:55
Speaker 9: it's kind of hard to we we see it, but
21:57
Speaker 9: it's kind of hard to break up the group.
22:00
Speaker 8: There was a there was a lot of calls for
22:01
Speaker 8: you guys to be more physical in this game with
22:03
Speaker 8: the Ravens. How did you guys, how'd you feel your
22:04
Speaker 8: team as a whole offense and defense?
22:06
Speaker 9: Answered that though, oh, I feel like that was great, Uh,
22:09
Speaker 9: especially at the end right there. Uh, I feel like,
22:11
Speaker 9: you know, coming in the game, you know, the game
22:13
Speaker 9: kind of let it. You gotta mold yourself, so everything
22:15
Speaker 9: is not gonna just jump off the board immediately. But uh,
22:17
Speaker 9: at the end right there, the defense standing up and
22:19
Speaker 9: then us, you know, finishing the drive.
22:21
Speaker 2: How do you think a win like this cans for
22:23
Speaker 2: the offense going forward?
22:25
Speaker 9: Uh, it can, It can sprink it a lot.
22:27
Speaker 2: Uh.
22:28
Speaker 9: Like I said, resiliency is probably the biggest component of
22:30
Speaker 9: the team that will probably get us through. Cause it's
22:32
Speaker 9: the NFL. It's not gonna be you know, thirty to
22:35
Speaker 9: zero or it's like college. Uh, it's gonna be a
22:37
Speaker 9: close game almost every week. So I'll probably say resiliency,
22:39
Speaker 9: it's the most important thing.
22:43
Speaker 1: That was Steels Quarter by Kenny Peckett. I'm also George
22:46
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22:50
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22:54
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23:13
Speaker 1: Patterson and Ross Bulger had the tour with Don Rooney
23:17
Speaker 1: of the Facility on Saturday, and then they were on
23:19
Speaker 1: the sideline with Maman Connor Mangle on Sunday. And I'll
23:22
Speaker 1: tell you what, boys, very jealous. Yeah, we have to
23:26
Speaker 1: get over.
23:29
Speaker 2: Extremely just bear play like it looked like what a
23:32
Speaker 2: game to go to, first of all. And secondly, look,
23:35
Speaker 2: I think that's every Steelers, every die hard Steelers fantas
23:39
Speaker 2: to be on the sideline three game in postgame, and
23:41
Speaker 2: I think Dave see Dave not along, he agrees with me.
23:44
Speaker 2: So look, putting the call out here on the podcast
23:46
Speaker 2: to get it, get us over there, guys, we want
23:49
Speaker 2: to be.
23:50
Speaker 1: Action will get over definitely before the boys. We are
23:53
Speaker 1: going over at some point and I know whenever we
23:55
Speaker 1: do it, it'll be worth it. And it's funny because
23:57
Speaker 1: like they're like the good thing with the Els or
24:00
Speaker 1: is there's always a good matchup, never mind the rest
24:03
Speaker 1: of the schedule. So when it happens is going to
24:05
Speaker 1: be special, and we have to have a water or
24:08
Speaker 1: two around Christmas, hopefully washing the Stadlers game, maybe that
24:10
Speaker 1: Bengals game on the twenty third of December. Leave that
24:12
Speaker 1: with me, boys ed, but it was great crack seeing them,
24:15
Speaker 1: and I enjoyed Tyke's takeover on Instagram this weekend. And
24:18
Speaker 1: keep following folks, and remember you can also listen to
24:20
Speaker 1: us and off the Ball as well. It goes on
24:23
Speaker 1: at different times during the week on a live radio.
24:25
Speaker 1: If you hear it, boys do don't flinch. It's your voice,
24:28
Speaker 1: your grand But you can also listen to the games
24:31
Speaker 1: live and off the ball, which is great crack as well.
24:33
Speaker 1: I guess what what I'd like to do is get
24:36
Speaker 1: your thoughts boys, like you know, think about this. What
24:41
Speaker 1: what are your thoughts coming into the buy And now
24:43
Speaker 1: we talked about a brief at the start, but you know,
24:45
Speaker 1: Freeing too top of the north for me, it's rest up,
24:49
Speaker 1: get ready to go, and just try and get more
24:52
Speaker 1: out of that run game. Jimmy, I know you've talked
24:54
Speaker 1: about it. Just try and get more and more and more.
24:56
Speaker 1: Because if you can give Kenny that comments where you
24:58
Speaker 1: can hand it off and you can get more and
24:59
Speaker 1: more in the Ryan, it's going to help that offense
25:01
Speaker 1: go forward. But you know, we know it ourselves. These
25:05
Speaker 1: bye weeks, these weeks in the NFL going quick before
25:08
Speaker 1: you know, but just before you know. There's a game
25:10
Speaker 1: in a few days, So just make the most of
25:13
Speaker 1: the buy And I guess you'd hope that the Steelers,
25:16
Speaker 1: Jimmy are still sitting on the top of the North comes
25:18
Speaker 1: Sunday afternoon.
25:19
Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, I think like you said, I mean they
25:22
Speaker 2: need to take the time now to rest up. We
25:24
Speaker 2: have two of our starting online are currently injured. Hopefully
25:27
Speaker 2: we can get them back, and I think that will
25:29
Speaker 2: make a massive difference in terms of opening up running
25:31
Speaker 2: lanes for our backs. Hopefully we can get Friarmouth back
25:34
Speaker 2: as well, after the boy. He's obviously a key piece
25:37
Speaker 2: of our offense, especially you know, in the middle of
25:39
Speaker 2: the field and as a red zone end zone target,
25:43
Speaker 2: and so I think we were definitely missing that option
25:45
Speaker 2: in the in the passing game and also in the
25:47
Speaker 2: blocking game. So look, overall, heal up, keep practicing and
25:53
Speaker 2: get ready for that for that road game to to
25:56
Speaker 2: La is all they can do, really, I think.
26:00
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's sort of looking ahead to Ally in
26:02
Speaker 1: a few weeks time, and the idea of like looking
26:05
Speaker 1: at the bye week. We've talked about the offense, we've
26:08
Speaker 1: talked about the defense. Fans are very passionate, and they've
26:11
Speaker 1: been very passionate over the course of the last few
26:15
Speaker 1: weeks in many different ways. Is there anything else that
26:18
Speaker 1: you'd like to see d of just coming out of
26:20
Speaker 1: this by week before we look at the game next week?
26:23
Speaker 3: Not necessarily, I mean apart from you know, once we're
26:27
Speaker 3: watching Steelers again, which is obviously going to be next Sunday.
26:30
Speaker 3: I just want to see it on like a vast improvement,
26:32
Speaker 3: as you say, in the offensive side of the ball
26:35
Speaker 3: and the wrong game has said with Jayleen Warren, I
26:37
Speaker 3: initially had a Nauga in front of him, which understandable
26:41
Speaker 3: as a first round pick, but I think I have
26:43
Speaker 3: to can see that Jalen Warren certainly has to get
26:45
Speaker 3: more first team reps. There's no doubt about it. So
26:47
Speaker 3: he's been It's even the sinosity he runs with as well.
26:50
Speaker 3: He's a lot he's a lot more of a harder
26:52
Speaker 3: runner than Nay I think, so maybe that's that's something
26:55
Speaker 3: that we can work on with both running backs. So
26:58
Speaker 3: a part from not if we can just rest as
27:00
Speaker 3: Jimmy said, for Arms, if we can get arrested for
27:02
Speaker 3: another week, hopefully he'll be available on next Sunday gainst La.
27:06
Speaker 3: But apart from that, if we can just rest up
27:09
Speaker 3: and then we can see a Boston proven on the offensive,
27:11
Speaker 3: on the offensive, fat of the ball come next Sunday,
27:13
Speaker 3: that's that's all We really want to stay their film,
27:15
Speaker 3: So fingers shows that will happen, and then have confidence
27:18
Speaker 3: that have a confidence that will happen.
27:20
Speaker 1: Sorry, let's see what happens when we've obviously got the
27:23
Speaker 1: Rams game next week, and we will look forward to
27:25
Speaker 1: it over the next few days and next week on
27:28
Speaker 1: the podcast, and we hope to get a guest on
27:30
Speaker 1: just as we get into the buy this week, and
27:31
Speaker 1: we'll see what we get. Do stay tune on the
27:34
Speaker 1: podcast channel, I would say, folks, and I know Jimmy
27:36
Speaker 1: and David would will just echo with these thoughts and
27:39
Speaker 1: please do reach out to us on social media because
27:41
Speaker 1: we're at the buy. We we'd love to hear your thoughts.
27:42
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27:45
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27:49
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27:54
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Speaker 1: us know we'd love to hear from you, and we
27:59
Speaker 1: weppreciate the comments. We're sitting here now five weeks out
28:02
Speaker 1: from this watch party in Dublin. It's going to be unreal,
28:04
Speaker 1: adds and we're really excited for it. And that's what
28:06
Speaker 1: I guess. Yeah, we will all see each other there
28:08
Speaker 1: as well, so it's going to be cool. Any final
28:10
Speaker 1: by thoughts, I know, I know, Jimmy, you're heading to
28:12
Speaker 1: the Stats this weekend. Any any other plans for the buye.
28:15
Speaker 1: I'm going to London on Sunday for the Titans against
28:18
Speaker 1: the Revens, and I hope, especially because of the Ravens boys,
28:21
Speaker 1: I hope I see a lot of Steelers jerseys. If
28:23
Speaker 1: you're there, do tweet at Steelers Ireland, do post on
28:28
Speaker 1: X at Steelers Ireland. In fact as well, Jimmy, you're
28:31
Speaker 1: heading to Notre Dame this weekend, you think you might
28:33
Speaker 1: see a bit of a few Steelers jerseys there just
28:35
Speaker 1: while you're there.
28:37
Speaker 2: I'm very excited. It's my first time back in South
28:39
Speaker 2: Bend in a couple of years, and I'm going to
28:41
Speaker 2: a what can only be described as one of the
28:44
Speaker 2: oldest traditional rivalries in college football, Notre Dame in USC.
28:48
Speaker 2: So very excited. I'm a bit disappointed as no Steeters game.
28:52
Speaker 2: I always do enjoy watching the Steelers game stateside with
28:55
Speaker 2: my fellow Steeters signs. But look, it'll be nice being
28:58
Speaker 2: able to watch football at I suppose quote unquote normal hour.
29:02
Speaker 2: I might even get this Sunday night gaming because it
29:04
Speaker 2: will only be eight o'clock over there as opposed to
29:06
Speaker 2: stupid o' clock in the morning. So now looking forward
29:09
Speaker 2: to to catching whoever whatever Steeters stands they come across.
29:13
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, the unly plans is gonna rest up, watch
29:17
Speaker 1: a bit of Rams tap and obviously they were sort
29:19
Speaker 1: of bon Jefferson I and you got Cooper Cup sitting
29:22
Speaker 1: there as well. We'll talk about him next week. Just
29:24
Speaker 1: just watch a bit of tap, just get a cup
29:25
Speaker 1: of tea and examine the rest of the league this weekend.
29:29
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll give him a give him a voice arrest
29:31
Speaker 3: for Sunday. Obviously the Steelers not playing and not have
29:32
Speaker 3: to shout at the TV. But I'll probably be shouting
29:35
Speaker 3: on Saturday night, hopefully when when I'm watching Ireland tracks
29:38
Speaker 3: to New Zealand the rugby. Hopefully that's what I'll be doing.
29:40
Speaker 3: But yeah, apart from not rest up, not only does
29:43
Speaker 3: the Bay make a chance for the team to rest up,
29:44
Speaker 3: gives the fans a bit of a rest up as well.
29:46
Speaker 3: So I'm on you boys and Green for Saturday night
29:48
Speaker 3: and then I'll just chill ax watching. Hopefully the Ravens
29:52
Speaker 3: stumble across the lending us the Tightans so we'll see.
29:55
Speaker 1: Yeah, very rare, best look to we're buzzing and buzzing.
29:59
Speaker 1: I can't like I think if we win there'll be
30:02
Speaker 1: a podcast in the middle of next week, but will
30:04
Speaker 1: definitely be there. It's it's great, look, it's great for
30:06
Speaker 1: the island, both north and south. Everyone's buzzing over here
30:09
Speaker 1: and certainly it's just a really really fun month because
30:11
Speaker 1: we've got obviously the rugby all at the minute, the Steelers,
30:14
Speaker 1: the top of the Northfolk got this honestly, you know,
30:17
Speaker 1: lots of people were talking about this in London at
30:19
Speaker 1: the weekend, just this watch party and like people are
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Speaker 1: really paying attention to it. And now there's a lot
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Speaker 1: of cool ideas and plans underway forward, so certainly looking
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Speaker 1: forward to it. And folks, I guess for now, I'll
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Speaker 1: say to yourself, Jimmy and Dave, enjoy the bye week,
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Speaker 1: and for people that are watching and listening, please enjoy
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Speaker 1: the bye week. Rest up. Before you know the Stears
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Speaker 1: football be back. We appreciate your support. Enjoy the bye
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Speaker 1: week and we will chat to you soon. Here we go, boys,
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Speaker 1: here we
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Speaker 9: May