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Steelers improve to 3-0, Ireland awaits · The Irish Steelers Podcast

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Speaker 1: Everybody, Welcome into the Irish Theeters podcast, the podcast for
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Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Steeters fans on the island of Ireland, everything around
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Speaker 1: the world. We are delighted to join you as we
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Speaker 1: regroup from week three and enter a really really important
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Speaker 1: week four for the Pittsburgh Steters. Obviously a big watch
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Speaker 1: party in Ireland, we'll talk about that in a few moments,
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Speaker 1: but a really great time for this team. For the
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Speaker 1: first time in the history of this podcast, the team
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Speaker 1: has a full on perfect record and we're all buzzing.
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Speaker 1: Michael mcquid, Jimmy English, Dave, Bicky, we are here, lads.
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Speaker 1: Week four is on the horizon and we're just gonna
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Speaker 1: come on here on this Monday and look back on
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Speaker 1: a really cool weekend, another positive weekend. Jimmy is good
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Speaker 1: to see you. How you do money good?
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Speaker 2: I am fantastic, Michae, and I'm even better now that
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Speaker 2: the Steeters got a victory last night. I wasn't convinced
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Speaker 2: last Thursday when we spoke, as I said, you know,
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Speaker 2: the Chargers to start in the past few seasons have
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Speaker 2: been our trap team. Justin Herbert has always seemed to
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Speaker 2: have our always seem to have our number and for
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Speaker 2: whatever reason, we just haven't played up to our standards.
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Speaker 2: Like yesterday was great, Yesterday was fantastic. I was really
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Speaker 2: really pleasantly surprised by how seamless yesterday seemed to go.
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Speaker 2: So yeah, like it's great to be three and no,
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Speaker 2: it's great to be one of the best teams in
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Speaker 2: the AOC right now, at top of the AOC North
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Speaker 2: and to have the momentum gone into as you say,
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Speaker 2: a crucial week four against the Colts which we get
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Speaker 2: to watch in person and crow Park and looking forward
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Speaker 2: to seeing you boys in just a few days time
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Speaker 2: as well and having a couple of sociable drinks together.
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Speaker 1: A couple of pints of water for me. But it's
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Speaker 1: really looking forward to this weekend in Crowe Park and dialogue.
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Speaker 1: Just I guess your initial sort of thoughts going for
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Speaker 1: you know, and obviously you lads lifelong Stealers fans. It
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Speaker 1: must mean a lot to see the team out in
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Speaker 1: such a difficult division at the start of the season
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Speaker 1: and really put a marker on the rivals, putting.
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Speaker 3: A batter himself. Michael Marker has been well and truly
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Speaker 3: sat if you look at the you know, the rest
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Speaker 3: of the of the division. Cleveland Brans lost as well.
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Speaker 3: There of course, the Ravens scraper against the Cowboy's just
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Speaker 3: about and the Bengals obviously play the night so we'll
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Speaker 3: find out how they go. But to be three and Ozero,
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Speaker 3: and I'm looking at our schedule as well, where we
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Speaker 3: had to be three and o we matched it in
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Speaker 3: pre season. We had to come out of the blocks
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Speaker 3: far and I think we've done that. So I'm really
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Speaker 3: really happy of how things Manton. I had a different
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Speaker 3: feeling off of that win on Sunday compared to the
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Speaker 3: Aws two weeks. I felt like like it was like
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Speaker 3: we have a raved moment and sort of thing. So
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Speaker 3: I'm really happy with how things going so far.
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Speaker 1: It's been It's been a great a few weeks, and
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Speaker 1: we're really really excited to see what happens over the
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Speaker 1: stratch because we've got off the perfect start before we
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Speaker 1: recap the game and give a standoup before more each
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Speaker 1: that's here from Stators head coach Mike Tommin.
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Speaker 4: You know, we talked about it all week. We knew
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Speaker 4: we were in for a fight. Styles make fights. There's
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Speaker 4: some board like we're as symboled and so we knew
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Speaker 4: it was gonna be an entertaining game. They play great defense,
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Speaker 4: We're playing great defense. We had to challenge our defense
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Speaker 4: to outperform there as I thought they did. We got
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Speaker 4: a commitment to the run game. Obviously, they came in
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Speaker 4: with the leagues leading rusher and the number one offense,
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Speaker 4: and and our offense had to outrush theirs, and we did,
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Speaker 4: and that's why the game unfolded the way that it did.
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Speaker 4: And so I'm just appreciative of the efforts of the guys.
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Speaker 4: It was a fight, though. Man, these guys are obviously
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Speaker 4: well coached in the talented group. It didn't happen instantly.
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Speaker 4: We had to you know, we had to stay in it.
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Speaker 4: But that's that's life and definitely life in the NFL.
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Speaker 4: I just like our general demeanor throughout. It wasn't flew
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Speaker 4: it the whole way. But I didn't feel any blink
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Speaker 4: or or anybody running away from the challenge. I just
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Speaker 4: felt guys leaning in on the challenge. And obviously we're
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Speaker 4: gon have to reproduce that as we move forward. It's
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Speaker 4: good to be three and zero as we sit here. Obviously,
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Speaker 4: we sustained some injuries and so forth prior to the
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Speaker 4: game and in game. But that's ball in life as well.
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Speaker 4: We spend less time worrying about the unfortunates they got hurt,
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Speaker 4: and like to spend our time focusing on those that
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Speaker 4: get an opportunity to elevate and contribute. Sucks for Alex Highsmith.
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Speaker 4: Excited for Herbert, for example, and none of us are
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Speaker 4: surprised with the quality of work that he gave us,
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Speaker 4: and a lot of others. Corey Trice had a hamstring,
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Speaker 4: Alex Heighsmith had a growing Jalen Warren wasn't able to
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Speaker 4: finish there. Late in the second half. I pulled him
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Speaker 4: from the game and just didn't look like he was
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Speaker 4: running smoothly. We'll evaluate him. Van Jefferson was able to
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Speaker 4: go back in the latter courses of the game. He
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Speaker 4: got poked in the eye, his vision cleared up, he
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Speaker 4: went back to participation. We got some other bumps and
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Speaker 4: bruises associated with play. Will analyze that and I'll give
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Speaker 4: you a full report on Tuesday. But just as I
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Speaker 4: sit here today, I'm thankful for the efforts of the men.
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Speaker 4: I'm thankful to be three and Ozero, it's good to
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Speaker 4: be in good contest like this man good on good
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Speaker 4: five star matchups. If you will then come out on
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Speaker 4: the other side, it's growth in it. We better learn
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Speaker 4: the lessons and keep stepping because we got challenges that
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Speaker 4: await us questions.
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Speaker 5: You couldn't run the balls, had a hard time for
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Speaker 5: three or so quarters, but then when you had to
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Speaker 5: at the end you did.
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Speaker 3: How satisfying was it to just keep at it and
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Speaker 3: keep doing it?
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Speaker 4: You know, they could say the same thing. But as
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Speaker 4: I mentioned it, styles make fights, and that's how these
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Speaker 4: two teams and defenses are built. And so we didn't
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Speaker 4: expect it to be easy sledding at any juncture. But
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Speaker 4: but we wanted to continue to pound the rock and
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Speaker 4: hopefully break through and and and it felt like we
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Speaker 4: did there in the latter portions of the game.
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Speaker 2: The cattle for the way the defense played a second half.
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Speaker 4: They just wanted to be the best defense on the field.
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Speaker 4: You know. They they respond to those things and take
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Speaker 4: those challenges very personally, and they played like it.
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Speaker 6: So with the rejuvenated running game, did it encourage you
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Speaker 6: that and the defense that they spend less time on
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Speaker 6: the field, thereby helping him kind of get through some situations.
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Speaker 4: I don't know that our defense worries about that they
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Speaker 4: got no control over win or how they take the field.
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Speaker 4: They got all the control on how they get off
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Speaker 4: the field. That's the life we live. I think it
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Speaker 4: was reflected when we turned that ball over. Right, when
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Speaker 4: that ball got tipped up in the air and the intercepted,
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Speaker 4: you saw the spirit in which our defense took the field.
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Speaker 4: So we're not looking for comfort, We're not looking to
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Speaker 4: hide on the sideline. We'll get ourselves off the field
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Speaker 4: turnover on the.
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Speaker 1: Tip ball, as you mentioned, But overall, how is you
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Speaker 1: adjusted to playing the style that compliments the.
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Speaker 3: Way you play?
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Speaker 4: I'm sorry who you referring to the tipball, but overall,
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Speaker 4: how is he adjusted to? He's doing an awesome job
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Speaker 4: asking doing what we're asking him to do, playing and
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Speaker 4: playing to win, and so that's appreciated.
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Speaker 1: Great to hear from coach Tomlin on the Iris Hitters
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Speaker 1: podcast as the Staders go fleeing on on the season
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Speaker 1: and before we make our step ahead to look till
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Speaker 1: week four, Jimmy Latts at each sort of break down
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Speaker 1: the game and look out the game overall, but also
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Speaker 1: give a standlight performer to see the team, you know,
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Speaker 1: come back from being down in the game as one thing,
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Speaker 1: but this Chargers defense is no joke. And to get
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Speaker 1: twenty points on the board, I think is at this
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Speaker 1: time of the year, after seeing what the Charge have
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Speaker 1: done over the first few weeks of this season, is
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Speaker 1: a real plus. But more so as well, this defense,
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Speaker 1: like we've talked about many's time now is just up there.
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Speaker 1: And this this team look really really good. I mean
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Speaker 1: from a personal viewpoint, I give my reformer of the
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Speaker 1: dad to Nahie Harris to see him sort of edge
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Speaker 1: eyed again on an RB one position yesterday it was
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Speaker 1: really really good. Seventy yards and eighteen carries and yeah,
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Speaker 1: look it just it was refreshing to watch, especially when
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Speaker 1: you were running too the fourth quarter and you sort
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Speaker 1: of had that feeling, we're gonna take this game by
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Speaker 1: the neck, just by the just by the neck. And
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Speaker 1: for to see the team just get over the line,
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Speaker 1: it was awesome to say, like, even I know some
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Speaker 1: of you guys are going to talk about Calvin. To
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Speaker 1: see a guy that we met over here actually do
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Speaker 1: that was really really cool as well. But just my
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Speaker 1: positive vibes, like team looks really really good. It's so
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Speaker 1: hard not to look at the other teams in division
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Speaker 1: and try and benchmark. I think at the minute, you
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Speaker 1: just have to go ahead and pick your own thoughts
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Speaker 1: at a minute for this team, We'll see what happens
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Speaker 1: at the time of recording One to Night Football tonight
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Speaker 1: with the Bengals, but certainly we're definitely in a good
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Speaker 1: position and you gotta just worry about yourself first off.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean first and foremost, Like you said, like
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Speaker 2: we have to look inwards at the Steelers of the minute,
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Speaker 2: and I think some of the things that some of
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Speaker 2: the negatives perhaps that were kind of if you could
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Speaker 2: have any any negatives, was the slow production of the offense.
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Speaker 2: And I think we saw Justin Fields take a massive
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Speaker 2: step last night in terms of, you know, his development
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Speaker 2: and being the quarterback of this team. There were several
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Speaker 2: instances where he could see him looking then he wanted
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Speaker 2: to take off and run, but he hung in the
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Speaker 2: pocket and he found his receivers downfield. He had a
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Speaker 2: couple of nice strikes to Calvin Austin, and he got
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Speaker 2: way more involved in the offense, which I'm delighted to see.
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Speaker 2: And he had really I think emerged as a potential
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Speaker 2: number two receiver to George Pickens, and there was a
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Speaker 2: really nice complet each and down the sideline as well
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Speaker 2: to Pickings, where again fields you can see his development
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Speaker 2: as a pocket pass so where he was itching to
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Speaker 2: take off and run, he had happy feet, but instead
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Speaker 2: he rolled down and he kind of stayed in the
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Speaker 2: pocket and he made that strike down the field to
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Speaker 2: to pick In. So and then of course, I mean
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Speaker 2: he had two touchdowns. He got points on the board,
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Speaker 2: so he has a second his second passing touchdown as
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Speaker 2: a Steeler, but also his first rushing touchdown as a Steeler.
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Speaker 2: So that was great to see. I mean that that
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Speaker 2: touchdown pass. I mean the commentator is Tony Romo and
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Speaker 2: Jim Nance. They kind of called it out on the
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Speaker 2: broadcast that if that passed across the middle or the
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Speaker 2: strike down the middle to the Calvin Austin was a
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Speaker 2: second later or second behind, that was that was six
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Speaker 2: points the other way. So just that kind of that
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Speaker 2: awareness and that timing, it was fantastic. And I think
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Speaker 2: he's really emerged as the He's really developed and emerged
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Speaker 2: into the into the leader that the studiers believe he
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Speaker 2: can be, into that player that the Steelers can believe
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Speaker 2: that that that that he can be so really great
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Speaker 2: to see his Obviously we talked about Calvin Awson. I
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Speaker 2: mean he has to be He's definitely one of the
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Speaker 2: standout players. But I think another standout player for me
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Speaker 2: on the on the opposite side of the ball is
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Speaker 2: Nick Herbig. He came in in relief of Alex Heismith,
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Speaker 2: who I think we're out with a groin injury at
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Speaker 2: one point during the game. So you never wanted to
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Speaker 2: see that happen to one of our top players, But
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Speaker 2: I mean you may as well have had TJ. Water,
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Speaker 2: Nick or Alex Heismith junior in there when when Herbig
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Speaker 2: came in and at one early stage in the game
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Speaker 2: he had a strip sack and justin Herbert and then
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Speaker 2: he got another sack and later on in the game.
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Speaker 2: So to have two of the team's five sacks is
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Speaker 2: just fantastic for a second year player. So look, I
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Speaker 2: think overall, there's just it's like it's like Dave, there
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Speaker 2: was a different feeling after that game yesterday. There was
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Speaker 2: a I don't want to say a sense of relaxation
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Speaker 2: or relief. I don't think we're quite there yet at
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Speaker 2: this stage, but I think we're beginning to have a
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Speaker 2: bit more faith than the guys in, a bit more belief,
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Speaker 2: which which was great.
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Speaker 1: I think that's a big word, isn't the dog belief?
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Speaker 1: And and I doubt, I doubt these guys will ever rest.
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Speaker 1: Hopefully we get a bit of the chance to relax
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Speaker 1: a wee bit. But I feel like the way that
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Speaker 1: the Steelers are winning games, it's just great determination and
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Speaker 1: I feel like we'll hopefully rest after a big day
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Speaker 1: out in February, please God. Really cool to see the
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Speaker 1: team win and great to see so many guys just
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Speaker 1: pick up that pace stalog and really safe the team
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Speaker 1: to the next level. In a game where frankly a
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Speaker 1: lot of analysts thought the Chargers were going to come
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Speaker 1: in and make a statement, and thankfully that wasn't the case.
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Speaker 3: No, it was. It was Steelers football, as obtfully finals
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Speaker 3: Miake just obviously on Justin Fads, I thought easily probably
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Speaker 3: his best game so far. You know, the first two
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Speaker 3: was decent, you know, dark the Calvin Austin with a touchdown.
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Speaker 3: As Jimmy has said, the degree of difficulty fitting not
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Speaker 3: ball into that type window. If Patrick Mahomes or Lamar
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Speaker 3: Jackson mixed all through it's being talked about forever. I mean,
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Speaker 3: made a couple of throws into that tap coverage as well,
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Speaker 3: but were dropped, and so really impressed TJ. Watts. I mean,
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Speaker 3: what can we say. Tony Romo is striding in commentary.
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Speaker 3: I think is the modern day Lawrence Taylor was Yeah, again,
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Speaker 3: absolutely a standing And then obviously you know you have
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Speaker 3: the you know Nick Herbig just matching and everything that does.
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Speaker 3: Jimmy's just said, and there was a lot of players
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Speaker 3: that you couldn't get the standout performance too. You know,
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Speaker 3: if her Bag her Big, when a player of Alex
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Speaker 3: Heismith's and Pac gets injured and need to bring a
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Speaker 3: player in the quality of Nick Herbig, it really shows
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Speaker 3: the riches that you have outside on the outside lane
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Speaker 3: backup positions. So but because Jimmy's going for Nick outside
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Speaker 3: with Calvin, four receptions, ninety five yards, one touchdown, big
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Speaker 3: breakout for a game for him, you know, he's been
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Speaker 3: waiting patiently in the wings for his opportunity and he's
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Speaker 3: just earned it. He does a lot of work as
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Speaker 3: a returner, you know, he's a domn good returner of that.
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Speaker 3: But but most receivers, they want to score touchdowns and
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Speaker 3: put up big numbers on the fat of play, and
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Speaker 3: he did at the Follix stats we've seen. Also, you
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Speaker 3: know the reception he got afterwards, you know, the whole
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Speaker 3: team rallied around them, just great gradually them. So that
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Speaker 3: says a lot of what most guys think him a
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Speaker 3: team yet but so far he's the reason he's missed
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Speaker 3: on out and he's earned himself a fresh pint of
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Speaker 3: guinness when he comes back to Baldfast to have to say, and.
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Speaker 1: He definitely wants to come over again. I think, yeah,
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Speaker 1: you almost forget this is a great favorite in this podcast.
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Speaker 1: I think we almost forget we're shotting the different players
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Speaker 1: weekend week out. And when I had the chance to
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Speaker 1: chopped him a month ago, he was like, yeah, I
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Speaker 1: want to come back as quickly as possible. So look
13:14
Speaker 1: obviously looking forward to seeing him again as well before
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Speaker 1: we look out the next week or so on such
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Speaker 1: an important period for this team. That's here from both
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Speaker 1: Justin Fields and Tej What on the Irish Dadis podcast.
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Speaker 7: It's never I wish that was me, It's I'm happy
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Speaker 7: for him. A kid that asked all the right questions
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Speaker 7: and I'm not surprised by the performance. He went out
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Speaker 7: there today and played with a lot of swag and confidence.
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Speaker 6: TJ no I was in Atlanta, who my colleagues for said,
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Speaker 6: I said, what do you fear about Tej?
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Speaker 3: What the most?
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Speaker 6: He said, he may not be the greatest guy, but
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Speaker 6: he always makes plays when they kneel.
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Speaker 2: And so I was thinking today, how does it feel like?
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Speaker 6: Is that a wait on you sometime that people expect
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Speaker 6: you to kind of rescue the defense when it's needed.
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Speaker 3: Ah?
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Speaker 7: No, No, And I mean it's just going out and
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Speaker 7: playing football and trusting in all of my film study
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Speaker 7: and my instincts and my abilities to prepare throughout the
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Speaker 7: week and get my body right to go out and
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Speaker 7: prepare and make plays in my defense. We have so
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Speaker 7: many guys on this defense that are capable of making
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Speaker 7: plays taking games over, and I'm just trying to be
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Speaker 7: a small part of it.
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Speaker 6: Their style, if their styles play on offense and the
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Speaker 6: challenges that presents.
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Speaker 3: How to feel that you responded to that as a defense?
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Speaker 5: Good?
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Speaker 7: Obviously stopping the run, I don't know what. I don't
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Speaker 7: have the stats up here, but it didn't seem like
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Speaker 7: they ran for a lot. We were able to shut
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Speaker 7: them down in the second half. Obviously the back of
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Speaker 7: quarterback went in and when it gets to one dimensional spots,
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Speaker 7: we have so many, so much depth on this defense
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Speaker 7: in the back end and up front that we feel
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Speaker 7: very confident with our pass rushing the guys in the
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Speaker 7: back end to make some big plays and we need it.
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Speaker 2: You mentioned having fun out there. You guys held up
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Speaker 2: to the zero yards in the second half. Just how
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Speaker 2: much pride is a.
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Speaker 7: Move do you take in that huge?
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Speaker 1: Uh?
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Speaker 7: This week was two trains on the track. I mean
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Speaker 7: two top defenses coming in. We know they love to
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Speaker 7: run the ball, love stopping the run, and uh, haven't
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Speaker 7: looked at the film yet, but it seems like, uh,
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Speaker 7: we outperform today. But that's a hell of a football team.
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Speaker 7: And uh, it means nothing if we don't get back
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Speaker 7: in the lab and learn from all this and keep
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Speaker 7: going too lot.
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Speaker 2: Fourth round pack I think probably overlooked because of his size.
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Speaker 2: Why is he able to have success in spite of
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Speaker 2: you know, his stature.
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Speaker 7: That kid has supreme confidence in himself. You can't tell
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Speaker 7: him anything, and I respect the heck out of it.
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Speaker 7: And uh, he's gonna do everything that he possibly can
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Speaker 7: to perform. He's gonna ask every question, he's gonna turn
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Speaker 7: over every stone and uh just bust his tail, and uh,
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Speaker 7: I respect the heck out of Nick and I'm glad
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Speaker 7: that he had the day that he did today.
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Speaker 2: How much have you seen him grow since last year
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Speaker 2: to this year?
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Speaker 3: A lot?
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Speaker 7: I mean even him Keanu, just those second year players, Joey,
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Speaker 7: you see the jump because you're so much more comfortable
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Speaker 7: out there. You're not trying to You're not just out
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Speaker 7: there saying, uh, I have the curl flat this drop.
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Speaker 7: It's like, Okay, I know what I have. Now, I
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Speaker 7: can hear, I can I can use all of my
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Speaker 7: senses and diagnose what I think is potentially happening on
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Speaker 7: this play. And that's why I think you see that
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Speaker 7: jump from those guys from year one to year two.
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Speaker 7: But with that being said, it's because they want to
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Speaker 7: learn and he's capable of doing it. And he's I
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Speaker 7: mean able to apply what he learns to the game field,
16:19
Speaker 7: which is huge. I'm sick of talking about her.
16:23
Speaker 2: Let's just stop all this right now.
16:26
Speaker 7: Jesus z.
16:28
Speaker 3: B. What about you guys proving that you the best
16:31
Speaker 3: defense on the field today? Was that a big rallying
16:34
Speaker 3: cry for your.
16:35
Speaker 2: Group coming in.
16:36
Speaker 3: I don't know.
16:37
Speaker 7: We have a confident group. Obviously, we knew they were
16:39
Speaker 7: a top defense. We don't do a lot of talking.
16:42
Speaker 7: We just like to go out in the field and
16:43
Speaker 7: play and have fun. And I feel like we did that.
16:46
Speaker 2: Today's impact what you guys do.
16:49
Speaker 3: I don't know if.
16:51
Speaker 7: It's huge to be able to rotate, to be able
16:53
Speaker 7: to be fresh. I mean, there wasn't even that many
16:55
Speaker 7: plays in the first half, even I think it was
16:57
Speaker 7: the third quarter wasn't a lot of plays either. But
17:00
Speaker 7: when you do have that rotation up front, uh and
17:03
Speaker 7: in the back end, it just anybody can make a
17:05
Speaker 7: play on this defense, and everybody is training and preparing
17:09
Speaker 7: like they are the starter, and that's why you see
17:11
Speaker 7: so many guys out there making plays.
17:12
Speaker 3: You drive right after the Chargers you scored your first.
17:16
Speaker 6: One the first half, Yeah, it was huge.
17:18
Speaker 5: I think you know, the offense, we did a great
17:20
Speaker 5: job responding and we knew what kind of game it
17:22
Speaker 5: was gonna be. So, you know, just proud of the
17:24
Speaker 5: guys out there for you know, responding like we did,
17:26
Speaker 5: especially after they scored that first touchdown like you said,
17:28
Speaker 5: and going down and putting the drive together.
17:31
Speaker 3: So it was good one that touchdown to Calvin.
17:33
Speaker 2: Uh what you're looking for there?
17:35
Speaker 3: Can you talk about what happened and and just of
17:37
Speaker 3: course how big that play was.
17:39
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, of course huge play. They were just
17:41
Speaker 5: in zone quarters and you really just you know high
17:44
Speaker 5: lowing that you know, hook defender. The hook defender took
17:46
Speaker 5: GP underneath and you know Calvin was right by right
17:49
Speaker 5: behind him. So you know, great play call in that situation.
17:51
Speaker 5: Of course, you know you always appreciate the yak the
17:54
Speaker 5: yards after the catch that Calvin got us, and of
17:56
Speaker 5: course it was a huge play for us.
17:58
Speaker 2: You stick to what and Scotty Miller brought to the offense.
18:03
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean those guys definitely stepped up today. You know,
18:05
Speaker 5: Calvin doing everything on offense and uh special teams as well.
18:09
Speaker 5: And then you know Scottie too. You know he didn't
18:11
Speaker 5: I don't think he played last week, so just coming
18:14
Speaker 5: in he had a big third down conversion for US,
18:16
Speaker 5: broke and tackle with some yards. So they both played
18:18
Speaker 5: great today.
18:19
Speaker 2: You guys threw some.
18:20
Speaker 4: Ext they were throt loitches that you guys and you
18:23
Speaker 4: guys were prepared for some of those strikes over the middle.
18:25
Speaker 2: You had the third third down conversion and the touchdown.
18:27
Speaker 7: How does it feel to execute something like you guys
18:29
Speaker 7: planned it out, saw it and got that big plays.
18:32
Speaker 5: Yeah, it feels great executing. You know, we were preparing
18:34
Speaker 5: for it all week on you know, certain looks we
18:36
Speaker 5: would get in certain situations, and you know, like you said,
18:38
Speaker 5: we did a great job executing it. Aline did a
18:41
Speaker 5: great job today and you know, holding up and receivers
18:44
Speaker 5: just being at the right time at the right place.
18:46
Speaker 2: We heard all week that the dam was about to
18:48
Speaker 2: break on the offense.
18:49
Speaker 7: You guys stopped short of scoring that, But is this
18:51
Speaker 7: what that looks like when that dam is in the
18:53
Speaker 7: process of breaking.
18:55
Speaker 1: Yeah, it is.
18:55
Speaker 5: And I think we coulda score one more touchdown if
18:58
Speaker 5: I didn't throw that interception. So, like we said, we're
19:01
Speaker 5: just gonna keep working and keep getting better and keep improving.
19:03
Speaker 2: What did you see on that?
19:05
Speaker 5: Yeah, he just smashed the sticker out way too fast,
19:07
Speaker 5: and you know, I just shouldn't have thrown the ball,
19:10
Speaker 5: you know, got tipped. But uh, at the end of
19:12
Speaker 5: the day, either should have worked the other side of
19:14
Speaker 5: the field, thrown it to the flat cause they were
19:15
Speaker 5: so soft, or you know, just throw the ball away,
19:18
Speaker 5: especially when we were already you know, know, in field
19:20
Speaker 5: goal range at the forty yard line. That can't happen.
19:22
Speaker 5: I can't have it against us. Yeah.
19:24
Speaker 3: Do you feel like you're proving guarantee tractors were off
19:27
Speaker 3: tractors from Chicago days.
19:29
Speaker 5: I'm not really worried about that. I'm more so into
19:32
Speaker 5: proving you know myself, you know, right, I know, you
19:34
Speaker 5: know what kind of player I am. You know, I've
19:37
Speaker 5: haven't changed kind of my whole life. So at the
19:40
Speaker 5: end of the day, Uh, my teammates help med be great.
19:42
Speaker 5: So shout out to them, Shout out to our defense,
19:44
Speaker 5: Shout out to everybody else on the offense for pushing
19:47
Speaker 5: me each and every day I practice, and you know,
19:49
Speaker 5: it's just a credit to them. So I'm definitely, you know, glad,
19:51
Speaker 5: and just just feeling good to be in this position,
19:55
Speaker 5: to be honest with you. So.
19:56
Speaker 7: Yeah.
19:56
Speaker 5: So you talk about improving your three lives and tries
20:00
Speaker 5: a feel a little longer for a touchdown than the
20:01
Speaker 5: bronto'clock out.
20:02
Speaker 4: What do you feel like you improved on as this
20:04
Speaker 4: game went on and how did you make some adjustments
20:06
Speaker 4: to finish.
20:07
Speaker 2: Strong like you did?
20:08
Speaker 5: Yeah, Uh, the first half we didn't run the ball
20:10
Speaker 5: like we wanted to. So, you know, second half, especially
20:13
Speaker 5: late in the game, and we had to run the ball. Uh,
20:14
Speaker 5: the running backs and the olne did a great job.
20:17
Speaker 5: Even in situations where we knew we had to run
20:18
Speaker 5: the ball, they did a great job executing. NOTJ and CP.
20:22
Speaker 5: They were hitting the whole great and you know, we
20:23
Speaker 5: were getting first downs at the first down. So anytime
20:26
Speaker 5: you can get that run game going and you know,
20:29
Speaker 5: just just helps us out overall.
20:30
Speaker 3: So good does it feel for.
20:32
Speaker 2: The offense to put together a performance like this against
20:34
Speaker 2: such a.
20:34
Speaker 5: Good defense like the Chargers, Yeah, it feels great. We
20:37
Speaker 5: kind of knew what we were up against. Uh, two
20:39
Speaker 5: great edge rushers and uh, I think they were ranked
20:40
Speaker 5: number one defense in the NFL coming into this thing, so, uh,
20:43
Speaker 5: we knew we had a big test in front of us.
20:45
Speaker 5: But you know, we have a pretty good defense that
20:47
Speaker 5: we go up against every day as well. So just
20:49
Speaker 5: going up against those guys on the other side of
20:51
Speaker 5: the ball on our team, UH just kind of prepares
20:53
Speaker 5: us for this moment. And like I said, everybody came
20:55
Speaker 5: out executed and we put points up on the board.
20:57
Speaker 5: So felt great.
21:00
Speaker 1: To hear from the guys after a big win. The
21:01
Speaker 1: Steelers improving, the Free and the King's currently on top
21:05
Speaker 1: of the AFC North and one thing that will not
21:07
Speaker 1: change over the next few days exists the Steelers will
21:10
Speaker 1: enter thro Park and the Hogan Suite for a solight
21:13
Speaker 1: watch party top of the AFC North. An unbeaten going
21:16
Speaker 1: into Week four against Indianapolis Colts. Yeah, James Fire Willie Parker,
21:21
Speaker 1: both two times the world champions coming to Ireland this week.
21:25
Speaker 1: Really really excited obviously for this watch party and dabog
21:28
Speaker 1: just before we look at the Colts. As Jimmy said,
21:30
Speaker 1: there is the real height of expectation around this team
21:34
Speaker 1: on a general scale, and look, let's see what happens.
21:37
Speaker 1: We hopefully we'll see just a Steelers winn on someday.
21:43
Speaker 1: And I think regardless of what happens, you know, outside
21:46
Speaker 1: of the whole fan point of it, it's fantastic to
21:48
Speaker 1: see this event happen in the in Crowe Park and
21:52
Speaker 1: you must be like a child in Christmas, man, it is.
21:55
Speaker 3: It's an obsolete just even being involved, and it's just
21:58
Speaker 3: an absolute honor because you'll look at the the heights
22:01
Speaker 3: of where the games come from, I mean, and the
22:04
Speaker 3: fact that the Rumney family have come over here and
22:06
Speaker 3: they've shown a great interest not only in you know,
22:08
Speaker 3: spreading the word about American football, but also their interests
22:13
Speaker 3: in our culture, our games, and obviously looking to spread
22:15
Speaker 3: that as well worldwide. So I've just been really happy
22:18
Speaker 3: and really impressed with what the Runey family specifically I've done,
22:21
Speaker 3: and obviously what the Host Stealers organization have come over.
22:23
Speaker 3: They're willing to sort of sat you know everything, having
22:27
Speaker 3: the year, this is what we want to do. Staffs
22:28
Speaker 3: have been taken to build towards that. It is also important,
22:31
Speaker 3: so their their willingness to show interest and obviously spreading
22:36
Speaker 3: the game on all our old's been fantastic and I've
22:38
Speaker 3: I've had not but hygh praise to say about it.
22:40
Speaker 3: And who knows, you know, maybe the next Star wide
22:42
Speaker 3: receiver might come from Candy down. He might come from
22:44
Speaker 3: Candy their own I'd like to think so. But yeah,
22:47
Speaker 3: I know, it's been an absolute amazing thing to be
22:50
Speaker 3: a part of. And I can't wait for Sunday. So
22:52
Speaker 3: it's just going to be It's gonna be a blast,
22:53
Speaker 3: can't with.
22:54
Speaker 1: Just just just looking forward to Sunday. I can't but
22:57
Speaker 1: echo what you said, but just what you both said,
22:59
Speaker 1: there lots just sort of initial thoughts. We will sort
23:02
Speaker 1: of maybe maybe a regroup later in the week. But
23:05
Speaker 1: this Colts team, Jimmy, get their first win of the
23:07
Speaker 1: weekend or sorry, first win of the season at the
23:09
Speaker 1: weekend there against the Bears. And we can talk about
23:12
Speaker 1: the Bears the College come home, but the reality is
23:14
Speaker 1: they went out the Colts, they won the game. And
23:16
Speaker 1: one of the biggest sort of initial signs for me
23:18
Speaker 1: is the fact that Richardson White, he's a very athletic,
23:20
Speaker 1: very mobile quarterback. He can flow picks on the defense.
23:25
Speaker 1: Maybe be ready for that. But that being said, Colts
23:27
Speaker 1: fans at home in Indianapolis are going to be ready
23:30
Speaker 1: for this team. They're going to be expecting the Colts
23:32
Speaker 1: team to go out and win. And you sort of
23:34
Speaker 1: hope it's not a trap game for Pittsburgh, but you
23:36
Speaker 1: would expect over the last few weeks then they've gotten
23:38
Speaker 1: really put up performance.
23:40
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I'm surprised, Michael, honestly that are that
23:42
Speaker 2: our dbs didn't have any interceptions. I know there was
23:45
Speaker 2: a couple of close calls there. I think Patrick Queen
23:49
Speaker 2: might have had a close miss yesterday, and I know
23:51
Speaker 2: there was definitely an interception that win went in and
23:55
Speaker 2: out of hands. So given our DB's performance over the
24:00
Speaker 2: past couple of weeks, you know, two picks in each
24:02
Speaker 2: of the first two games, that would indicate that the
24:05
Speaker 2: trend is going to continue. I suppose giving Richardson's propensity
24:09
Speaker 2: at the minute to kind of put a lot of
24:11
Speaker 2: air under the balls, I think we should have our
24:15
Speaker 2: corners and safety should be absolutely feasting this Sunday. But
24:19
Speaker 2: I think it's it's going to be more of the
24:20
Speaker 2: same for our defense. I mean, just and I know
24:23
Speaker 2: justin Herbert yesterday wasn't one hundred percent and there were
24:28
Speaker 2: different factors that play and we played against the backup
24:30
Speaker 2: quarterback for a large portion of the game. But I
24:33
Speaker 2: think defense is just going to go and do what
24:35
Speaker 2: defense does and have been doing all season long, and
24:37
Speaker 2: let's get off of the quarterback and force and to
24:39
Speaker 2: make mistakes. And then I think on the ground, obviously
24:43
Speaker 2: Jonathan Taylor that that that talented running back need to
24:47
Speaker 2: swallow him up. And again looking back to the past
24:50
Speaker 2: two games, we faced some really good running backs and
24:52
Speaker 2: the likes of d John Robinson. Then we faced JK.
24:55
Speaker 2: Dobbins and gust Edwards yesterday. They didn't do a huge
24:58
Speaker 2: amount of damage on the ground. I mean, our lineback
25:00
Speaker 2: course seem to be pretty much well able to contain them.
25:03
Speaker 2: So I'm very confident in what the offense can do, sorry,
25:07
Speaker 2: what the defense can do, and I think it's just
25:10
Speaker 2: a case of week by week making small improvements and
25:14
Speaker 2: becoming the team that we can on the offense. Offensive
25:18
Speaker 2: side of the ball. I would like to see our
25:19
Speaker 2: running backs get into the end zone. That's something that
25:22
Speaker 2: I know Nagie Harris did almost get in yesterday towards
25:25
Speaker 2: the end of the game, and he very wisely knelt down.
25:28
Speaker 2: Whether it be on purpose or not, will give him
25:31
Speaker 2: the benefit of the doubt. But get the running get
25:34
Speaker 2: the running backs into the end zone. Get George Pick
25:36
Speaker 2: at the touchdown. Please God, the man has earned it
25:38
Speaker 2: after the performances he's put in in the past three weeks.
25:42
Speaker 2: And just keep building towards towards New Orleans in February.
25:46
Speaker 1: Let's see what happens. Really really excited for this weekend, Dobbill,
25:48
Speaker 1: Just finally, you're looking forward to this matchup against the
25:51
Speaker 1: Culls and he's seeing over the first Sea leaks.
25:53
Speaker 3: Yeah. Absolutely, I look forward to all the Steelers team,
25:56
Speaker 3: but this one specifically, obviously because where we're going to be.
25:59
Speaker 3: And yeah, I watched bits of the Bears game and Richardson,
26:04
Speaker 3: I have to say, coming out of college, and there's
26:07
Speaker 3: a lot of hype around him, and I'm watching him.
26:09
Speaker 3: It's very erotic, very mistake prone. Of course, we knowbody
26:12
Speaker 3: brings scrambling wise, but I think there'll be a lot
26:16
Speaker 3: of opportunities to put him under pressure, just the echo
26:19
Speaker 3: everything Jimmy said again. And Jonathan Taylor is obviously a
26:22
Speaker 3: great running back. You know, he's been sort of plagued
26:24
Speaker 3: with injuries. And I just saw obviously watching how we
26:27
Speaker 3: dept with JK. Dobbins and Guss Hadwards, we were outstanding.
26:30
Speaker 3: I mean, nobody's gonna run on our defense all year,
26:33
Speaker 3: so I think that's probably how it will end up.
26:36
Speaker 3: But yeah, offensively realist. I don't want to keep harpering
26:40
Speaker 3: on about it because I do feel like a broken
26:42
Speaker 3: record here, but I still feel that there is room
26:44
Speaker 3: to improve. You know, granted we do appear to be
26:46
Speaker 3: improving week by week gradually, but when you have a
26:48
Speaker 3: defense that basically seems like a zero room for improvement.
26:51
Speaker 3: We have to nitpick for the offense unfortunately. So one
26:54
Speaker 3: thing I will say after last week that I'm clear
26:57
Speaker 3: I was clearly right about last week Mike Tomlin knuckling
26:59
Speaker 3: down and Will Panalley. We had ten Againstanver. We reduced
27:02
Speaker 3: that down to three this week, and look what happened.
27:04
Speaker 3: So we struggle hit the twenty points in the first
27:06
Speaker 3: two weeks. Now we've had twenty points. Let's go and
27:08
Speaker 3: get thirday and next week you get suppotes. You know,
27:10
Speaker 3: we'll obviously get a chance to break that down during
27:12
Speaker 3: the week, maybe at a better debt. But let's keep
27:14
Speaker 3: this train of positivity going. So that's what I'm really
27:16
Speaker 3: thinking about.
27:17
Speaker 1: If you would like to join the positive the positively
27:20
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27:23
Speaker 1: in towards the end of the week. Really excited obviously, folks.
27:26
Speaker 1: You can get all the information in regards to the
27:28
Speaker 1: watch party and you can see a lot of stuff
27:29
Speaker 1: that's happening on the island of the island this week
27:31
Speaker 1: by looking at the Steelers social channels that's Steelers Ireland
27:34
Speaker 1: on x and also on Instagram as well. There's that
27:39
Speaker 1: much going on. I forgot we were on Instagram as well.
27:41
Speaker 1: Lads really appreciate the time after such a great win.
27:45
Speaker 1: I am really really looking forward to this weekend from myself,
27:47
Speaker 1: from Jimmy Fromdavaug Folks, have the great week. We will
27:50
Speaker 1: chat to you Varius soon.
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Speaker 2: Here we go, Here we go.