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HR 2: Top 10 Moments from Browns 27, Steelers 24 · The Steelers Report

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  Speaker 1: This is the Steelers Report with Brian Batko and Ed
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  Speaker 1: Troup on Steelers Nation Radio, a part of the Steelers
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  Speaker 2: Moving right along here today, Tuesday. Glad you could join
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  Speaker 2: us as you do each and every day right here
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  Speaker 2: on Steelers Nation Radio and the Steelers Audio Network. Double B,
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  Speaker 2: we talked a bit during the first hour about the
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  Speaker 2: extra prep time that the Steelers have to get things right.
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  Speaker 2: coming off last Thursday night, 10 days between last Thursday
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  Speaker 2: and this upcoming Sunday against the Indianapolis Colts. With that,
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  Speaker 2: I'm guessing the practice schedule a bit different this week
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  Speaker 2: for the black and gold.
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  Speaker 3: Just really Tuesday. I mean, Wednesday through Friday will be
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  Speaker 3: basically the same. I'm sure they'll be happy to get
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  Speaker 3: back into the routine, the swing of things after the
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  Speaker 3: cramming it all into the short week. Remember they practiced
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  Speaker 3: later on in the day last Tuesday. So a week
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  Speaker 3: from today, And, you know, the Colts, I'm sure, are
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  Speaker 3: going through a bit of a whirlwind, too, coming back
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  Speaker 3: from overseas and in London. Now the Steelers will face
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  Speaker 3: a Bucs team that's coming off of Thursday night football
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  Speaker 3: and extra rest. But for this week, they're the team
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  Speaker 3: with a few extra days to rest up and recharge physically,
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  Speaker 3: but also emotionally, mentally, coaching staff-wise, the scheme, the X's
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  Speaker 3: and O's, and cleaning things up, as Mike McCarthy put it.
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  Speaker 2: No official injury report quite yet. We'll get to that
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  Speaker 2: later in the week whenever it comes out. But during
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  Speaker 2: the press conference yesterday from Mike McCarthy, the biggest news
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  Speaker 2: was Derek Harmon put on the IR. He will miss
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  Speaker 2: at least the next four games. But as Brian said
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  Speaker 2: during our first hour, if you were listening, after the
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  Speaker 2: bye week going into that November 15th game against Cincinnati
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  Speaker 2: on the road, he could potentially be back by then.
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  Speaker 2: Fingers crossed there. Jaquan Brisker, who has started the season
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  Speaker 2: on the IR, is working his way, hopefully, back to
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  Speaker 2: the team. We still don't know his status for this
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  Speaker 2: upcoming Sunday. We'll find that throughout the week, but that
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  Speaker 2: would be a nice bonus to a secondary that appears, again,
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  Speaker 2: that Jamel Dean, the starting corner opposite side of Asante
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  Speaker 2: Samuel Jr., is banged up and might not be able
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  Speaker 2: to go this week.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we'll find out more on Dean, but that's why
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  Speaker 3: Sean Murphy Bunting's in the mix now. Danico Slaughter was
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  Speaker 3: waived as part of the flurry of roster move, so
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if that's going to be the end
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  Speaker 3: of his stay in Pittsburgh. He was mostly up here
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  Speaker 3: for depth and special teams for a few of those games,
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  Speaker 3: but clearly they're going to go in a different direction.
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  Speaker 3: Probably someone with some more outside ability would be my
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  Speaker 3: guess on why that, and Slaughter was out of practice
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  Speaker 3: squad elevations. You only get three of those. He was
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  Speaker 3: up for those first three games, then signed to the
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  Speaker 3: 53 for the week four game in Cleveland, but if
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  Speaker 3: I'm not mistaken, I think they actually have an empty
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  Speaker 3: roster spot at the moment because it's one for one
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  Speaker 3: um you know slaughter went down waved bunting in harman
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  Speaker 3: out so i think that opens up one sounds like
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  Speaker 3: it yeah because slaughter's spot was opened up by joey
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  Speaker 3: porter jr leaving i think although travis homer also came
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  Speaker 3: on to the active roster at some point start to
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  Speaker 3: lose track of it this time of year there's a
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  Speaker 3: lot of stuff going on but i think they've got
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  Speaker 3: one open and Maybe that goes to Deshaun Elliott. We'll see.
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  Speaker 2: We will get more updates on all the Pittsburgh Steelers
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  Speaker 2: injuries as we navigate this week, and we'll keep you
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  Speaker 2: updated right here on the Steelers report. Offensively, Rico Dowdle
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  Speaker 2: is probably the only player really questioned right now as
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  Speaker 2: far as his availability goes, and again, we'll watch that
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  Speaker 2: throughout the week. I mean, listen, Jalen Warren has really
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  Speaker 2: taken over as running back one he was always running
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  Speaker 2: back one but if Rico was going to get any
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  Speaker 2: shares and you brought this point up yesterday Brian and
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  Speaker 2: I thought about it more after the show you're exactly
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  Speaker 2: right going into the season maybe a 50-50 split or
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  Speaker 2: 60-40 well now the way Jalen Warren has looked the
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  Speaker 2: last two weeks not just running the football but also
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  Speaker 2: catching the football That total yards has been huge for
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  Speaker 2: Jalen Warren. I can't see how they can take carries
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  Speaker 2: away from him or looks away from him and give
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  Speaker 2: him to Rico.
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  Speaker 3: After last night, though, and what the Falcons did, I
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  Speaker 3: don't know that he's still the leader in yards per
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  Speaker 3: touch among running backs because Bajon Robinson. Bajon went off.
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  Speaker 3: He's pretty good.
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  Speaker 4: He's okay, right?
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  Speaker 3: 19 carries for 145 and a touchdown. Two touchdowns.
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  Speaker 2: Two of my five or six fantasy football teams appreciated
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  Speaker 2: his efforts last night.
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  Speaker 3: And one catch for two yards. So that'll bring down
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  Speaker 3: his yards per touch average. I'll have to go and
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  Speaker 3: compute where he is alongside Jalen Warren. But yeah, that
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  Speaker 3: guy's good. And Michael Penix was 15 of 20 for
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  Speaker 3: 223 and a touchdown. Brian Robinson rushed.
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  Speaker 2: For three touchdowns. Oh, did he? Wow. Look at that.
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  Speaker 3: How about that?
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  Speaker 2: It was the Robinson show.
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  Speaker 3: It's got to be a record for touchdowns by... robinson's
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  Speaker 3: in a game cool moment robinson's while.
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  Speaker 2: We're on the topic and we will get into our
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  Speaker 2: top 10 plays uh from last friday night here in
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  Speaker 2: a second but before we do that just one other
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  Speaker 2: note on the monday night football game really cool moment
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  Speaker 2: last night for the superdome uh 20 years it marked
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  Speaker 2: since uh they reopened the superdome and it was that
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  Speaker 2: game it was atlanta and new orleans that.
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  Speaker 3: Is low-key one of the best rivalries i mean it's
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  Speaker 3: it's not different black and gold team versus a bird
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  Speaker 3: of prey that we all appreciate here in pittsburgh but
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  Speaker 3: that's a pretty good black and gold verse bird of
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  Speaker 3: prey rivalry the falcons fans and the saints fans don't
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  Speaker 3: like each other very much i think it's by far
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  Speaker 3: the best in the nfc south i don't think that
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  Speaker 3: panthers falcons or panthers bucks rates ahead of that how
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  Speaker 3: far is atlanta from New Orleans.
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  Speaker 2: You've done a lot of driving in your day. Not far,
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  Speaker 2: because last summer we made that trip.
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  Speaker 3: Six hours, 42 minutes?
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  Speaker 2: Sounds about right. We broke it up because we went
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  Speaker 2: over to Alabama Shores.
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  Speaker 3: Down in that part of the country, that's not that much, though.
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  Speaker 3: Up here in the East Coast.
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  Speaker 2: You don't have to deal with all the mountains.
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  Speaker 3: That sounds like a lot. That'd basically be like Pittsburgh
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  Speaker 3: to Virginia.
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  Speaker 2: I was in New Orleans for the first time.
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  Speaker 4: Philly?
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  Speaker 3: Not quite.
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  Speaker 2: I was in New Orleans for the first time last summer.
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  Speaker 2: And we went to the Superdome. We walked around. It
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  Speaker 2: wasn't open to go in, but we walked around the outside.
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  Speaker 2: Can you walk there from Bourbon Street?
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  Speaker 3: Or is it kind of set off?
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  Speaker 2: No, that's a little bit of a block. We did
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  Speaker 2: that in two separate days. We did do Bourbon Street, though,
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  Speaker 2: which was awesome.
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  Speaker 3: Great.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I'm a.
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  Speaker 3: Big music fan. Yeah, they kept showing the B-roll from
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  Speaker 3: the French Quarter and whatnot.
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  Speaker 2: Even 20-some years later, Brian, there's still a lot of
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  Speaker 2: devastation in New Orleans. And it just kind of gives
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  Speaker 2: you a little bit of a snapshot of how bad
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  Speaker 2: things truly were after... uh, her, the hurricane came through there,
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  Speaker 2: which was, by the way, it was 21 years for
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  Speaker 2: the actual hurricane, but the superdome didn't reopen until the
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  Speaker 2: following year. Cause my wife corrected me last night. I said, Hey,
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  Speaker 2: it's 20 years. They're celebrating tonight, 20 years of the
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  Speaker 2: super dome re, um, you know, reopening. And she goes, no,
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  Speaker 2: it's been 21 years since her hurricane Katrina went through there.
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  Speaker 2: And I said, no, not so fast. So, um, but
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  Speaker 2: great moment there on Monday night football.
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  Speaker 3: Falcon saints, probably a top five NFL rivalry. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: we're all biased or Steelers Ravens being number one, but
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  Speaker 3: what I mean, Packers bears, they play this week, but.
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  Speaker 2: I'm with you like saints and Falcons does not come
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  Speaker 2: to the top of my mind. It's under the radar,
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  Speaker 2: but it is very much under the radar. But as
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  Speaker 2: you just said, Brian, yeah, it probably is.
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  Speaker 3: I know Eagles Cowboys is one, but that's when I'm
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  Speaker 3: like Philly and Dallas are so far apart. Like that's
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  Speaker 3: more of a, to me, that's like more of a
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  Speaker 3: manufactured rivalry. I know they're in the same division, but
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  Speaker 3: When I.
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  Speaker 2: Was watching the Chiefs this weekend play the Raiders, I
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  Speaker 2: started thinking to myself, what is the best AFC West rival?
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  Speaker 3: AFC West rivalry because probably Chiefs Broncos or Chiefs Raiders, right?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And it's also sort of cyclical in that right now
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  Speaker 3: the Chiefs are the big bad.
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  Speaker 2: Based on how good they are.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 3: They're the one that everybody wants to knock off.
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  Speaker 2: But the Chargers are never in that conversation, I feel like,
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  Speaker 2: with any three of those teams. You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 3: I guess the Chiefs would probably be their biggest rivalry.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, they're a little bit. Plus, I think when
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  Speaker 3: you move your team around a lot, that probably doesn't help.
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  Speaker 2: And Bill's Patriots just played this past weekend.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a good one. More so out of like, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: recent history too. Both those teams have been really good. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe I've just been listening to Aaron Rodgers a lot
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  Speaker 3: over the last year and a half, but it seems
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  Speaker 3: like all those NFC North teams all hate each other.
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  Speaker 4: Not equally, but a lot.
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  Speaker 2: Similar to ours.
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  Speaker 3: Exactly, and he's made that comparison. He's even tried to
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  Speaker 3: connect the dots, like Packers are the Steelers, Bears are
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  Speaker 3: the Ravens, I think he says, Bengals are the Lions,
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  Speaker 3: and I think he usually compares the Browns and the Vikings.
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  Speaker 2: There's some good ones out there, that's for sure. Speaking
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  Speaker 2: of rivals, we just had one. This past week, last
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  Speaker 2: Thursday night, of course, the Cleveland Browns defeating the Pittsburgh Steelers.
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  Speaker 2: We're ready to put that behind us. We've been ready
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  Speaker 2: to put that behind us for many days now. But
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  Speaker 2: as we do each and every Tuesday here on The Report,
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  Speaker 2: we take a listen back for our top 10 moments.
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  Speaker 2: So not just plays, Brian Bacco. These are moments of
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  Speaker 2: the game that we pick out. And a lot of
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  Speaker 2: them are the scoring plays because they are usually the
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  Speaker 2: top moments and plays. The first is actually a miss.
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  Speaker 2: Our number 10 play was Boz missing a 48-yard field goal.
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  Speaker 2: This was important because it was the difference in the
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  Speaker 2: final score. If Boz makes this for 48 yards, maybe
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  Speaker 2: the Steelers are tied at the end of this game.
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  Speaker 3: Who knows?
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  Speaker 2: There was a lot of football left to be played.
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  Speaker 2: It was with 521 left in the second quarter.
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  Speaker 6: 48-yard attempt here.
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  Speaker 4: Here's a snap to hold. The kick is up, and
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  Speaker 4: the kick by Boswell is no good. It is wide
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  Speaker 4: to the left.
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  Speaker 2: Something in that sequence, the snap, the hold was a
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  Speaker 2: bit off. Not that I'm giving Boz an out. He
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  Speaker 2: missed the 48-yarder. But something was off. When you watched
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  Speaker 2: the replay, it was a bit of a high snap.
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  Speaker 2: It got down just a half a second maybe later
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  Speaker 2: than it should have. And, hey, Brian, we know field goals,
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  Speaker 2: kicking is important to make sure all three phases, the snap,
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  Speaker 2: the hold, and the kick all have to be on par.
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  Speaker 3: For sure. And Danny Crossman. special teams coordinator, wasn't the
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  Speaker 3: least bit worried about that or concerned when we heard
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  Speaker 3: from him yesterday. He's basically like, look, guys, Boswell knows
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  Speaker 3: himself as well as anybody could hope to. He goes
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  Speaker 3: through his routine to get things right. So that's encouraging.
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  Speaker 3: And yeah, I'm not too worried about Chris Boswell yet,
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  Speaker 3: but obviously if this continues, might be singing a different tune.
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  Speaker 2: TJ Watt made two outstanding plays Thursday night, and this
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  Speaker 2: was the first of those two. It was a pass breakup,
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  Speaker 2: so you're probably thinking to yourself, well, what's so important
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  Speaker 2: about a pass breakup? It was the way he did
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  Speaker 2: it from behind. If you saw the replay as Watson
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  Speaker 2: was trying to hit Junkins, this was in the third
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  Speaker 2: quarter with.
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  Speaker 4: 10-24 to play. Gets a snap back. Steelers bringing four,
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  Speaker 4: and it is a screen underneath, but T.J.
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  Speaker 6: Watt read it and batted it away, intended for Judkins,
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  Speaker 6: and a beautiful job by T.J.
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  Speaker 4: Watt. Pumps the fist as the Steelers will force the punt.
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  Speaker 2: It was behind him, Double B, pretty much, and he
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  Speaker 2: put his hand up. It was almost a screen-type play
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  Speaker 2: and knocked down the football. If he would have been
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  Speaker 2: just a little bit turned the other way, he could
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  Speaker 2: have intercepted it. Eyes in the back of his head,
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  Speaker 2: and it's honestly just a wonder. I think I said
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  Speaker 2: this before, that knowing T.J., It wouldn't have shocked me
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  Speaker 2: if he was like your older brother who like pops
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  Speaker 2: the ball out from your hands and then catches it.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So he didn't do that, but maybe that's still to come.
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  Speaker 2: Number eight on our list is Chris Boswell making a
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  Speaker 2: 31-yard field goal with eight seconds before halftime. Steelers trying
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  Speaker 2: to build some momentum, making the score 21-10. Snap, hold, that.
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  Speaker 4: Kick is up, and that kick from Chris Boswell is good.
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  Speaker 6: And so the Steelers will make it a 21-10 game
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  Speaker 6: with eight seconds remaining here in this first half.
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  Speaker 2: Would have been good to get a touchdown on that drive,
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  Speaker 2: but they needed points at that point because Cleveland had
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  Speaker 2: ripped off 21 straight points in that second quarter.
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  Speaker 3: No doubt, and I'm at the point now where it's like, hey,
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  Speaker 3: it's always good when you're reminded that Boz is Boz
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  Speaker 3: and you don't want anything going off the rails because
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  Speaker 3: it can be kind of year to year with kickers.
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  Speaker 3: Sometimes they get in funks, and I've seen it happen
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  Speaker 3: to just about everybody who's ever graced this league with their–
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  Speaker 3: right or left foot and hopefully that's not one of
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  Speaker 3: those years for Boswell and it's good good to see
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  Speaker 3: one go through there.
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  Speaker 2: That's a good point by you too because he missed
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  Speaker 2: the field goal earlier in that quarter just five minutes
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  Speaker 2: prior 521 left we heard it at number 10 on
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  Speaker 2: our list when he missed the 48 yarder so just
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  Speaker 2: to get some confidence back in boss before halftime not
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  Speaker 2: that he needs a ton of confidence but just to
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  Speaker 2: get that miss out of his head hey I make
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  Speaker 2: this 31 yarder but again important for the Steelers at
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  Speaker 2: that point in the game to get points on the
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  Speaker 2: board after Cleveland had ripped off 21 straight. The Steelers
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  Speaker 2: had led 7-0. Okay, next up, number seven on our list, T.J.
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  Speaker 5: Watt.
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  Speaker 2: Big sack with 10.04 left in the fourth quarter. And
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  Speaker 2: this was the play in which they tried to do
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  Speaker 2: the fake handoff to the left. T.J. bit, but he
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  Speaker 2: didn't really bite. He was just showing Deshaun Watson that
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  Speaker 2: he was biting on the run, but he didn't. He
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  Speaker 2: immediately pivoted to the left. and got the big sack
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  Speaker 2: on Deshaun Watson.
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  Speaker 6: Watson gets a snap, back to pass, looking, has some time,
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  Speaker 6: rolling out to his left, and T.J. Watt has him
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  Speaker 6: for a sack back inside the 30-yard line.
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  Speaker 2: That is the T.J. Watt that we love, and we've
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  Speaker 2: seen it a lot. You mentioned it to start out
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  Speaker 2: the last segment, Brian. So far this season, for four games, T.J.
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  Speaker 2: Watt playing at a very high level.
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  Speaker 3: He has already contributed at least one to all of
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  Speaker 3: the primary statistics that you'll find on the official NFL
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  Speaker 3: website stat keeping website the only other guy to say
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  Speaker 3: that is Andrew Van Ginkle from the Vikings who's also
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  Speaker 3: a former Wisconsin linebacker but yeah whether it's solo tackles
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  Speaker 3: sacks tackle for loss quarterback hit pick pass defense fumble
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  Speaker 3: forced fumble recovery TJ Watts got it all in its
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  Speaker 3: four games into the year I would pick six but
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  Speaker 3: that's not even one of the main categories so get
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  Speaker 3: him a scoop and score and he'll be good.
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  Speaker 2: To go The name you just mentioned, I would love
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  Speaker 2: to have heard Myron Cope say that name.
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  Speaker 3: Andrew Van Ginkle.
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  Speaker 2: Van Ginkle.
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  Speaker 3: He's pretty good.
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  Speaker 2: That's a good name, too. I like that name. All right,
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  Speaker 2: number six before we go to break, and then we'll
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  Speaker 2: do the top five on the other side, is Roman
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  Speaker 2: Wilson on a jet sweep, a 12-yard touchdown. He officially
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  Speaker 2: goes down as a reception with 259 left in the
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  Speaker 2: first quarter. Steelers got off to a 7-0 lead.
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  Speaker 4: Rodgers has Wilson in motion. He'll get the pop pass.
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  Speaker 4: Moving to the left.
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  Speaker 6: Gets around the edge and into the end zone for
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  Speaker 6: a Pittsburgh Steelers touchdown. Little pop pass to Roman Wilson
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  Speaker 6: goes for 12 and the Steelers have struck first.
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  Speaker 2: Hey listen, Roman Wilson made a nice play and whether
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  Speaker 2: you want to call it a pop pass, jet sweep,
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  Speaker 2: whatever you want to call it, it was good for six.
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  Speaker 3: Couldn't tell it in the moment while watching from the
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  Speaker 3: Browns press box whether that was a pass or a
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  Speaker 3: run but Aaron Rodgers will certainly take it for his
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  Speaker 3: career ledger, and I believe he is now six away from,
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  Speaker 3: I think, third place all times on passing.
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  Speaker 2: Sounds right. Yeah, he's got a lot of milestones that
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  Speaker 2: he's closing in on here.
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  Speaker 3: One more win, and he's fifth alone regular season all-time list.
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  Speaker 2: Would be nice to get that here at home this
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  Speaker 2: weekend in front of the home crowd here in Pittsburgh.
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  Speaker 3: He's tied with Ben Roethlisberger.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he would do it in. Big Ben's Haas. Yeah.
• 15:14
  Speaker 2: I've been using that word a lot here on the
• 15:16
  Speaker 2: show today, Haas. Whenever we come back, we'll get to
• 15:18
  Speaker 2: our top five moments and plays from Steelers Browns.
• 15:22
  Speaker 3: He's back.
• 15:22
  Speaker 2: Oh, I'm Troop. It's the Steelers Report right here on
• 15:25
  Speaker 2: Steelers Nation Radio, part of the Steelers Audio Network.
• 15:32
  Speaker 5: This is the Steelers Report with Brian Batko and Ed
• 15:36
  Speaker 5: Troop on Steelers Nation Radio, a part of the Steelers
• 15:40
  Speaker 5: Audio Network.
• 15:41
  Speaker 2: Double B and I were talking during the break about tonight,
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: Tuesday night, Chalk Talk up at Robinson Market District with
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: Jerry Dulac and Jack Sawyer, who is the co-host this
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: year with Jerry. Should be a good time. I was
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: thinking about maybe taking up my 12-year-old Brendan, who plays
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: football as well and basketball, to go meet Jack Sawyer tonight.
• 16:02
  Speaker 3: Hey, it's a great choice by the Steelers. He's one
• 16:04
  Speaker 3: of the most personable guys in the locker room, becoming
• 16:07
  Speaker 3: a fast fan favorite. who I think came in with
• 16:10
  Speaker 3: a lot of clout and cachet from Ohio State. He
• 16:13
  Speaker 3: was Captain Jack for the Buckeyes, strip-sacking Quinn Ewers, and
• 16:19
  Speaker 3: did he return that for a touchdown.
• 16:20
  Speaker 5: In that game?
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: I can't remember.
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: I'm not sure.
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: I remember we were in Baltimore, Steelers were playing the
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: Ravens the next day, and of course we all had
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: our eyes focused on Ohio State, Texas. It ended with
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: horns down, and that was one more step along the
• 16:37
  Speaker 3: journey for not just Jack Sawyer, but Will Howard, Quinshawn Judkins,
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: Travion Henderson, Jeremiah Smith. Have you seen what he's been
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: doing this year in college football? He's the current Heisman favorite.
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: I think he struck the pose the other day in
• 16:52
  Speaker 3: Iowa where I'm sure Y.A. Black was there on the sideline.
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: I don't know if Caden Weegean and Sebastian Castro, Logan Lee,
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: Jennings Dunker. I don't know if all those guys made
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: their way since they had the long weekend. But, yeah,
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: that was a big game for the Hawkeyes at home
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: and Upper St. Clair's own Kirk Ferentz from Western PA.
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: But the Buckeyes, they didn't really waste much time with them.
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: Jeremiah Smith, I mean, nobody can cover him in college football.
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: This is going to remind me, I think, of the
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: 2018 draft where Saquon was kind of the consensus, like,
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: he's the best player in the draft. But he's a
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: running back. there's all these quarterbacks in this draft. I
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: remember thinking like the Browns should just take Saquon first.
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: Cause remember they had two picks that year and then just,
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: you know, you take whoever, when you come back around,
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: whatever quarterbacks left. And I get that front offices, scouts,
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: GMs don't really think that way. They're trying, like they
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: spend every waking hour trying to figure out who's the
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: best QB. Who's the guy we want to give the
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: keys to the franchise too. So you want to go
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: into that with some conviction, but me on the outside
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: looking in, I'm like, this isn't an exact science. The
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: draft's a crapshoot. Do all the scouting, hundreds, thousands of
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: hours that you pour into figuring these guys out, and
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: then you end up with Josh Rosen instead of Josh
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: Allen or something like that.
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: That's a big miss.
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: I remember thinking, just take Saquon first, and then let
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: the other teams kind of make the decision for you
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: on which quarterback that you take. Now, they still did
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: all right with Baker Mayfield and Denzel Ward, but That's
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: what I feel like this is going to be like
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: coming up. Whoever has the first pick, I think even
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: if it's a team that needs a quarterback in this
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: upcoming draft, just take Jeremiah Smith because I guarantee you this,
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: whatever quarterback you do end up with, he's going to
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: be happy to have Smith and he's going to do
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: better because Jeremiah Smith's on his team.
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: Speaking of Denzel Ward, he has our number five play
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: from this past week, which is not a top.
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: Unfortunately.
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: Well, there's two in the top five, Double B, and
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: we'll just get them out of the way here at
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: number four and five so we can just get them
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: off our list, but They were big moments for the
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: game that ended up, unfortunately for the Steelers, costing them
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: the game.
• 19:00
  Speaker 6: Rodgers gets a snap back to pass. Browns bringing pressure.
• 19:03
  Speaker 6: Rodgers throws down the seam.
• 19:05
  Speaker 4: Oh, it's picked off. It was intended for Pittman up
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: the right seam.
• 19:09
  Speaker 6: And Denzel Ward, that's the first career interception for Aaron
• 19:13
  Speaker 6: Rodgers against the Cleveland Browns. And Denzel Ward, the five-time
• 19:18
  Speaker 6: Pro Bowler, comes up with his first interception of the season.
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: Speaking of Denzel Ward, he's our No. 5 play of
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: the week, and it was the turning point of the
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: game because the Steelers had a 7-0 lead, and from
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: that point on, Cleveland rips off 21 straight points in
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: that second quarter.
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I still know that there was some contact around
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: Rodgers in the pocket, but I don't really know what
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: Rodgers was seeing on that play. He might answer a
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: question about that tomorrow after his after practice, his usual
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: Wednesday media and interview scrum, because I don't think he
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: broke it down in detail after the game. I think
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: he had some general comments about what went wrong and
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: what went right, but it was a pretty brief post-game interview.
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: for rogers brief interaction yeah as it tends to be
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: you know none of these guys are real talkative after
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: a game like that and you know he said he'd
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: he'd have to look at the film and figure out
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: why it wasn't their cleanest game um said he misses
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: some throws that he usually hits but that that was
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: one that i you know i don't think that was
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: a case of missing a throw i think that was
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: getting a little too greedy maybe trying to push it
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: downfield and hey maybe it's trying to get michael pitman
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: jr involved a little bit too but i thought denzel
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: ward had Really good positioning, really good coverage on that play.
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: He did.
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: He's Denzel Ward. He's going to make that play more
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: often than not when the ball comes his way.
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: He's one of the best.
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: He's Denzel Ward because he catches that pass and picks
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: it off, doesn't just settle for a PBU.
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: And as sometimes I mess up when I'm talking about
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: Denzel Ward, I say Denzel Washington. Or when I say
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: Denzel Boston.
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah, they've got double Denzels over there.
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: They've got double. I say Denzel. I say Denzel Washington.
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: I mess up both Boston and Ward. There was also David.
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: Boston, the receiver back in the day. Yeah. He was
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: the guy who was all, his muscles were all jacked up.
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: And Denzel Washington is one of my favorite actors because
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: he's from, you know, one of my favorite movies of
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: all time that we talk about here quite a bit.
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: Remember the Titans?
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: On the point after show last night with Mike Pursuta
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: and Rob King, which you can hear every Monday evening
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: on DV, 7 to 8 PM, I believe.
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: Sounds right.
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: Um, I referenced the replacements.
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: Oh, another good one. Keanu Reeves, the quarterback from Baltimore.
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: And that's who I referenced, Shane Falco.
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: Shane Falco.
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: Well, no, they were D.C. They were D.C. Sentinels, I think,
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: was the team in that. But, no, I referenced his speech.
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: Do you remember when he talks about quicksand?
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: Refresh my memory.
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: He gives a speech. They're talking about their biggest fears.
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: Gene Hackman was the head coach. The late Gene Hackman, right? RIP.
• 21:58
  Speaker 7: Great.
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: Played a lot of coaches in his days, at least
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: Hoosiers and their replacements.
• 22:02
  Speaker 6: Great.
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: But no, he asks them all for their biggest fear,
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: and Falco says quicksand, and all the players are looking
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: at him like, what? And he starts to talk about
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: it more from a football standpoint. If one thing goes wrong,
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: then something else goes wrong, and suddenly next thing you know,
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: you're sinking down. That's kind of what the second quarter
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: felt like to me. Thursday night in Cleveland.
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, there was a lot of quicksand going on there
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: during that 21-point straight.
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: Effort by the Cleveland Browns. The more you fight to
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: climb out, the deeper you sink.
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: The replacements, by the way, one of the most underrated–
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: football sports movies of all time i mean that was
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: a great movie that's one of my.
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: Favorites pursuit of likes to point out that the just
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: deranged middle linebacker cop guy played by john favreau was
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: a michigan state product in that film that's canon.
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah that's right john favreau who.
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: Also bateman was the dude who also appeared in rudy
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: yeah he was uh he was the the buddy of
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: rudy's buddy in the dorms helped tutor him to get
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: him to where he needs swingers Another great movie. Mainly
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: a behind-the-scenes guy, right? He's like a producer.
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, director, producer. Swinger's another good one. Boy, we could
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: keep going on and on.
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: Couples retreat.
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's another good one. We can really get off
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: the subject.
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: All right, roll the play. Roll play number, what is it?
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: Well, we're at number four now, and we're really getting
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: off the subject here because it's a Steelers loss, so
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: it's tough to do the top. But I will say this.
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: It was easier this week, Brian, than week two against
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: the Patriots. I mean, we really had to stretch our
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: legs to get to 10. This was a bit easier,
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: and unfortunately, Steeler Nation at number four, we do have
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: to get the game-winning field goal by Andre Schmitz.
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: Here's the snap. Here's the boot by Schmitz. That kick
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: is up, and that kick.
• 23:38
  Speaker 6: is good by andre schmidt and with 10 seconds remaining
• 23:43
  Speaker 6: the cleveland browns have taken a 27 to 24.
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: Lead schmidt's schmidt schmidt happens.
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: Not to be confused with the flying dutchman rick schmidt's
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: of the indiana pacers way back when that's a good
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: call that was smits though this one the way this
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: one's a crazy spell yeah i had to keep every
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: time i wrote that name down in my story for Steelers.com,
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: which was too many times, especially one, two, one, too
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: many for sure. I had to double check the Z
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: and the M and the Y.
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: Better you than me, my friend. That's for sure. I mean,
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: definitely when you have it in print, you got to
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: get it right here on the air. I can mispronounce
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: it and we can have some fun with it and
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: we can even get an NBA reference along the way.
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: So those are the first two, four and five. We
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: got them out of the way because the top three
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: for Steeler Nation, we want to give you three good
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: Steeler highlights from this past week. And we'll start here
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: with Darnell Washington. Mount Washington, 21-yard touchdown reception with 10-10
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: left in the fourth. Made the score 21-16. Rodgers looks
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: that way in trouble.
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: Now rolling out to his right, looking, throws back across
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: the field. And it's a touchdown for Darnell Washington.
• 24:51
  Speaker 6: Touchdown, Pittsburgh Steelers with 10-10 remaining.
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: Here in the fourth.
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: Great throw by Aaron Rodgers. We've seen him now do
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: this a couple times in the first four weeks, throwing
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: back across the field.
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: And I feel like I get on here every... every
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: week and say it's tough when you don't have a
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: more mobile quarterback back there and that's just that's just
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: the life that they're in with 42 year old Aaron
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: Rodgers but also every week he kind of makes a
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: play like that that um you know shoves it right
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: up my craw so that was beautiful uh that was
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: that was vintage Rodgers at watching that from the press
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: box unlike the pop pass to Roman Wilson for the
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: first touchdown I had a great view because that was
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: going the other way And I'm thinking Washington's there. He's open.
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: He's large. He's in charge. He'll probably catch the ball.
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: Rodgers just had to slide a little bit more to
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: get that window that he wanted, and he fit it
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: in there.
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: Rodgers, 22 of 40 last Thursday night, 299 yards. Did
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: take five sacks. Did throw two interceptions. We heard one
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: of those earlier. this segment with Denzel Ward, but he
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: did have three touchdown passes, and that was the second
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: of the three. The third of the three was this
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: big touchdown by our buddy Muth. Three-yard touchdown reception on
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: fourth down double B to make the score 24-22, but
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: it was a fourth down play. Basically, that's the ball
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: game if they don't get that.
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: Fourth and Muth.
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: Very nice. Look at you.
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: Boy, you are an award-winning journalist.
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: I've been pounding the table for third and Muth when
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: they get in those third to medium or even long,
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: which Mike McCarthy lamented again yesterday that he thinks the
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: number one problem dogging them offensively is third down.
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: Play number two.
• 26:28
  Speaker 6: Rodgers, play action pass, rolling out to his right, looking
• 26:31
  Speaker 6: for Friermuth, touchdown, Pittsburgh Steelers.
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: Muth from three yards into the end zone, and Muth
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: on last Thursday night, let me get his numbers here
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: for you, he has five targets, three catches, 17 yards,
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: including that touchdown we just heard.
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: A former Chalk Talk co-host with Jerry Dulac was Pat Frymuth.
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: They've had some really good ones over the years. Jack
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: Sawyer continues the lineage, but I think last year was
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: Calvin Austin III.
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: He was.
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: Really stinks for him that he's down with a torn
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: ACL this year instead of showing what he could do
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: with the Giants, but everybody liked him around here.
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: Muth did that show for a lot of years, Chalk Talk. Now,
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: Craig Wolfley did it before Jerry Dulac.
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: I think Antonio Brown did it at one point. Yeah,
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: I think he did. And then I think the guy
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: right next door to us right now, Vince Williams, may
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: have been doing it at one point, or he was
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: filling in for AB. I'm not entirely sure.
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: He had a story behind that, I think.
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: But, hey, now he's chalk-talking every day from 10 to
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: noon on the Steelers Blitz, on Steelers Nation Radio, on
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: the Steelers Audio Network.
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: I feel like Vince Williams.
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: With Tom Offerman.
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: I don't feel like I'm sure he'll tell you he's
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: had a lot of good coaches.
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: And Geno producing.
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: That's it, Geno. You're checking all the boxes. Lots of
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: shout-outs here by Brian Bacco. Geno does a great job
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: producing several shows for us. But Double B, Vince Williams,
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: has probably had a bunch of good coaches over the years,
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: but he's also had you and I. We were kind
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: of his initial audio coaches getting him teed up here
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: on SNR.
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: We were like shepherds. We kind of shepherded him into
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: this new post-playing team. foray for him, and he's been
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: great at it.
• 28:11
  Speaker 4: He is.
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: And speaking of Tom Offerman, he's going to be a
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: guest on our show here later this week. So we're
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: going to have him in to talk some Steeler football. And,
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: of course, Tom kicks off our game day coverage with
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: the Countdown to Kickoff show with Matt Williamson. And you also,
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: Brian Backo, are on that show. You usually call in
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: from the road before you get things started on your
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: game day. Yeah. That'll be this upcoming Sunday, but we'll
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: have Tom on the show, I think, at the end
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: of the week there for us. So stay tuned for that.
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: But let's get to our number one play. After the
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: Muth touchdown, the Steelers elect to go for two to
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: tie the football game up. And it was big for
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: the Pittsburgh Steelers because, well, they were back in the
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: game after all that went wrong.
• 28:54
  Speaker 6: This went right rogers under center as warren is alone
• 28:58
  Speaker 6: setback tapping both sides of his helmet four three rogers quarterback.
• 29:03
  Speaker 7: Sneak and rogers in for the two-point conversion sneaks it
• 29:08
  Speaker 7: in and we are tied with 142 remaining in cleveland
• 29:13
  Speaker 7: and that's.
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: Where i thought ed that that game was about to
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: go the stealer's way i mean it just felt like
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: the momentum had shifted rogers puts his shoulder down and
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: bullies through. Was it verse who was lined up there?
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: I think it was just bullies his way through when
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: you don't think he's ever going to do that again
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: in his career. You know, that's the old Toby Keith.
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: I ain't as good as I once was, but I'm
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: as good once as I ever was.
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: Look at you with the country.
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: Unfortunately though, the defense did not stand.
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: Up, but you have a nice, uh, rolodex my musical
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: knowledge ed is wider than it is deep and for
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: that reason i'm very good for like name that tune.
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: Music trivia djing in my humble opinion not so good
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: for like taking to a concert or uh something like
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: that where you got to have a an artist's entire catalog.
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: I mean, you got the rap, the R & B. Oh, yeah. Yeah,
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: you got that. You got the country. You got, like,
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: the classic rock, like the DVE stuff.
• 30:06
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: The only, like, real blind spot for me would be, like,
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: a hair metal or something, death metal, something like that.
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: I can hang in there. I love Metallica.
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah, see, that's a blind spot for me, for sure.
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: But outside of Metallica, I'm probably with you. I can't
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: do too much there. But the country.
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: And then, like, your new age, like, alt rock, like,
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: Wilco and bands like that. I don't really have too
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: much of that in my.
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: Can you get on my DMV vibe?
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah, the main songs. The main songs. Like I said,
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: my knowledge is wider than it is deep.
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: You can't go 250 song deep.
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: Definitely not, Ed. I'm not your guy for that.
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: All right. Wes Shuler can hang with me on that, too.
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: He's a big DMV fan as well. Grateful Dead, Phish.
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: That's his main.
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: The jam bands are a little bit down my list
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: of what I groove to, but I can appreciate most everything.
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: Good stuff. That's our top ten plays and moments from
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: this week. We can officially say goodbye to Brown Steelers
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: from week four and talk about the Colts the rest
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: of the week here on the show. Whenever we come back, though,
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: we will hear a bit more from the Steelers coordinators
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: from yesterday. We heard from Patrick Graham earlier today. Now
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: we'll hear from Brian Angelico, maybe even Danny Crossman if
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: we have enough time. It is the Steelers report. I'm Troop.
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: He's back right here on Steelers Nation Radio, part of
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: the Steelers Audio Network.
• 31:24
  Speaker 5: This is the Steelers Report with Brian Batko and Ed
• 31:27
  Speaker 5: Troop on Steelers Nation Radio, a part of the Steelers
• 31:31
  Speaker 5: Audio Network.
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: Lots of sports movie references, some music. You know, speaking
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: of music, Brian, I got something to throw out there
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: to Steeler Nation with Renegade. After 20-some years, when the
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: screen fades to black at Accuture Stadium, I still get
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: the goosebumps. I like it. But I'm suggesting a second.
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: Type Renegade song to get the crowd pumped up.
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: We Dem Boys by Wiz Khalifa.
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: That's a good one. Black and Yellow, of course. That's
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: Randall's course for me. ACDC. A little ACDC, Hell's Bells, or.
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: Thunderstruck. Back in Black. I mean, those are like.
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: Weekly staples for the Steelers. They do some of those.
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: But here's one for you. We mentioned Metallica before the break.
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: Wherever I May Roam. And if you're not familiar with that,
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: look it up. It's a nice intro. Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding.
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: I'm not doing it justice. All the music heavy metal
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: fans out there are probably like troops shut up. But
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: really good intro to it. And then they hit it
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: with the guitar and the drums and everything. And I'll
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: play it for you off the air so you can
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: get a little taste of it.
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: I mean, I'll listen to it on the ride home.
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: How about that?
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: At least do the first minute or so.
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: I'll listen to it at the gym today.
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: And then visualize this.
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: Because it gets you pumped up? Is it like a
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: good hype song?
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure. And visualize this. Like you're at the game.
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: The Steelers are in a timeout. They need a big
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: third down stop coming up. And then that. Again, Jumbotron
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: fades to black, just like Renegade, but instead you start
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: hearing the ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. I'll just leave
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: it at that. And it starts out slow, and then boom,
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: it hits. It's got to fire up the crowd. So
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: that's my suggestion, too. And you've got some contacts now
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: down on the south side. Maybe you should plant that
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: seed with the video.
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: No, no, no. I'm not going to overstep my boundaries there.
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: But I am glad you bring up Renegade and how
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: you still get the chills every time. Because tomorrow, Ed,
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: October 7th, is the 25-year anniversary of the first regular
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: season game at Accresure Stadium, obviously at the time, Heinz Field.
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: It's a big deal. We're going to have a few
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: different pieces on it on Steelers.com, bright and early Wednesday
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: morning to commemorate. One will be kind of a historical
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: look back from Teresa Varley. One will be sort of
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: a first-person account of covering the first game from Jim Wexel,
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: friend of the show. Steel City Insider, contributor to Steelers.com,
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: just one of the really good writer and unique writer.
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: And then one will be from yours truly, not necessarily
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: on covering that game or even that day specifically because, well,
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: I was 10 years old, so I can't, well, no, 19, 2001, yeah,
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: I was 10 years old. So vivid memories of that day,
• 34:18
  Speaker 3: maybe not so much, but a lot of vivid memories
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: of the 25 years of Heinz Field slash Accresure Stadium
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: me going to games the flashball moments and in memories
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: and things like that so hopefully people enjoy it because
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: it will be it will mark the quarter century first
• 34:35
  Speaker 3: quarter century of our stadium on the North Shore the
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: place that we go to post three rivers to watch
• 34:42
  Speaker 3: the Steelers and if you're like me if you grew
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: up around here or if you're one of our nationwide
• 34:47
  Speaker 3: listeners or even better international listeners and you've been to
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: won two or a handful of games, Steelers home games,
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: since 2001. You've probably made lifelong memories at that stadium.
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: There have been some damn good moments. There have been
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: some heartbreaking moments, but there's just been a lot of moments,
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: and that's something that you can appreciate.
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: So I was a college student from 1998, the fall
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: of 1998. I graduated high school in the spring of
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: 1998 until the spring of 2002 at? Point Park, which
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: is now a university. Back then it was a college.
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: I only tell you that, Double B, because during those
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: four years, that was a great time to be in
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: the city for Pittsburgh sports because they closed down Three
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: Rivers Stadium. So I was able to go to the
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: final Pirates game at Three Rivers Stadium in October of 2000,
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: as well as the final Steeler game at Three Rivers
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: Stadium in December of 2000. I think I was at both.
• 35:44
  Speaker 3: I remember the Pirates won a little bit more. Yeah,
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: because it was the actual... last last right of all
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: of them or the Steelers would have been I think
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: there was maybe more pomp and circumstance surrounding the last
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: Pirates game there right because they brought back all the
• 35:58
  Speaker 3: old teams.
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: I don't know yeah yeah it was against Washington the
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: football team Washington.
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: Probably freezing my buns off at the Steelers one I
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: remember I was and again I was nine or ten
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: years old so.
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: We were clear up by the by that jumbotron which
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: was right in the middle of the upper deck at
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: Three River Stadium and I was able to go to
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: the first Pirates exhibition game against the Mets at PNC Park.
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: That was the very first game, period. It was an exhibition,
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: a two-day exhibition game against the New York Mets at
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: then PNC Park. And I went to the first game
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: against the Reds. And I went to the first preseason
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: game at AccuShare Stadium in August of 2001. Boy, I
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: don't know who they played that exhibition game. I'd have
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: to look it up. I thought I had the.
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: Oh, for the Steelers? For the Steelers, that exhibition game.
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: Detroit Lions.
• 36:43
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 36:43
  Speaker 4: Yes, thank you.
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: You know who scored the first touchdown?
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: Jerome Bettis?
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 36:46
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: Back when the starters played in the preseason, Ed. Let's go.
• 36:50
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 36:51
  Speaker 3: No, I mean, obviously, the anniversary of those things was
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: earlier this year. This just commemorates tomorrow, the 25-year anniversary
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: of the first regular season game.
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: Which I did not go to.
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: But let's be honest. I mean, that's what it's all
• 37:03
  Speaker 3: about at Accresure Stadium, formerly Heinz Field, is those regular
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: season games, those high-stakes games, certainly the postseason and playoff games. And, yeah,
• 37:13
  Speaker 3: I think it's going to be a great day to
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: be on Steelers.com and hopefully read all of those features
• 37:19
  Speaker 3: that we have up there for you.
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: And just a note on that, too, you're probably thinking
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: to yourself possibly 25 years to an October date. Well,
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: it's because 9-11 occurred.
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's a big part of Teresa Varley's story
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: on it is that the terror attacks of 9-11 pushed
• 37:35
  Speaker 3: back really everything in the NFL that year. And, yeah,
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: the Steelers didn't play a home regular season game that
• 37:42
  Speaker 3: year until October 7th.
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a bit later on the following month.
• 37:47
  Speaker 3: So an emotional day, I'm sure it was.
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: So let me ask you this.
• 37:51
  Speaker 3: Happy birthday to Tony Dungy, by the way, today.
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: Hall of Famer, Tony Dungy?
• 37:56
  Speaker 4: Should be.
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think so. Not for his playing, but coaching
• 38:01
  Speaker 3: and everything rolled into one.
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: Former Pittsburgh Steelers assistant coach under the Chuck Knoll.
• 38:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah, won one Super Bowl, I think, as a player,
• 38:10
  Speaker 3: I believe. Former player, coach.
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: Player or coach, did he win a Super Bowl? He
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: would have been a player.
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: Well, he definitely won as a coach, right? Or did
• 38:21
  Speaker 3: he not get over the hump? I can't.
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: No, he won one as a head coach for the
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: Colts when the Colts won.
• 38:27
  Speaker 3: Yes, yes, yes, yes. And won as a player with
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: the Steelers.
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: And won as a player with the Steelers. But he
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: did coach under Chuck Knoll.
• 38:33
  Speaker 3: Correct.
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: During the 80s, I think, after his post-crisis. Well, happy
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: 71st to Tony Dungy. Either way, hey, happy birthday, Coach Dungy.
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: One of the best, that's for sure. Favorite memory, AccuShore Stadium,
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: 25 years.
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: Well, I have this in the story, and it's not necessarily,
• 38:51
  Speaker 3: it's not necessarily like a, I mean. It's hard to
• 38:53
  Speaker 3: top the AFC championship win. Against the Jets. I was
• 38:57
  Speaker 3: going to say the Ravens.
• 38:58
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 38:59
  Speaker 4: It's more.
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: But I also. Both were big. You know what? Why
• 39:02
  Speaker 3: don't we save some of it for tomorrow?
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 39:03
  Speaker 3: And once the story's up, we can talk about that.
• 39:05
  Speaker 3: That's good.
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: We'll do it tomorrow.
• 39:06
  Speaker 3: Working ahead.
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: On the show.
• 39:07
  Speaker 4: There you go.
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: Smart. See that, Brian Backo?
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: Work smart, not hard.
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: That's why you're on the show. That's why you're on
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: the show. I have a few, and I'll save them
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: for tomorrow.
• 39:15
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: And those would probably. And probably we should break it
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: down twice. Maybe in person.
• 39:19
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: And maybe just as a fan watching it at home.
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: And then, of course, you've had a lot of years
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: where you were able to watch both Pitt football there
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: and Pittsburgh Steelers football.
• 39:28
  Speaker 3: As a member of the media. Yeah, I was going
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: to say that. say, and I've got this two-pronged life
• 39:32
  Speaker 3: of attending games there, both as a fan, who I
• 39:34
  Speaker 3: always went to games with my grandma growing up.
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: Such a cool story.
• 39:37
  Speaker 3: And then now as a media member, and that's been
• 39:40
  Speaker 3: what's going on year eight here, which certainly gives you
• 39:44
  Speaker 3: a different perspective of watching the Steelers, but No less
• 39:48
  Speaker 3: memorable because I'd like to think that I'm getting a
• 39:51
  Speaker 3: little bit sharper with each passing year and stuff sticks
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: in your brain. But I guess for right now, I mean,
• 39:58
  Speaker 3: most memorable moment since I've been covering the team at
• 40:02
  Speaker 3: Accresure Stadium, I'd probably say Ben's final game. And I mean, yeah,
• 40:07
  Speaker 3: everything just fell into place for that game, winning it,
• 40:10
  Speaker 3: his victory lap. So that sticks out to me right
• 40:14
  Speaker 3: off the bat.
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: That was a great moment.
• 40:16
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: And he goes out with a win on Monday Night Football.
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: That famous shot in your former place, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette,
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: had that shot of him in the tunnel with his family.
• 40:26
  Speaker 3: I'm not saying it's my fault, but obviously since I've
• 40:30
  Speaker 3: been covering the team, they haven't hit the highs of
• 40:34
  Speaker 3: the 2000s and some of the 2010s success-wise at the stadium.
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: Not your fault?
• 40:40
  Speaker 3: Not my fault. I'm going to turn the luck around
• 40:43
  Speaker 3: now that I'm working for Steelers.com.
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: I was going to say, now you're on the right path.
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: Now you can lead them down that road. You know,
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: I'll never forget, too, while we're talking about memories through
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: River Stadium, my first Steeler game ever, Double B, 1990
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: at home against the Seattle Seahawks. Cortez Kennedy was the
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: big defensive tackle back then. He was the big name
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: for the Seattle Seahawks. And I'll still to this day
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: never forget it because I talked with my aunt Sheila,
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: who's a big Steeler fan. along with my dad and
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: my mom and everyone else throughout my family. But my
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: aunt had season tickets for the Steelers for a number
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: of years. And she used to go to Cleveland, by
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: the way, to go watch the Steelers play up in
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: Cleveland and always talk about her. Yeah. Back then in
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: like the eighties and nineties, she talked about a lot of,
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: you know, not good stories.
• 41:28
  Speaker 3: My friend, my friend, John, shout out to John Gourley.
• 41:31
  Speaker 3: He and his brother-in-law went to the game Thursday and
• 41:34
  Speaker 3: I mean, I think they had a good time and everything,
• 41:36
  Speaker 3: but he did text me on the way, and he's like,
• 41:37
  Speaker 3: this ain't real fun walking from our car into the
• 41:40
  Speaker 3: stadium pregame.
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: My buddy Brian and his brother Pat, who I've gone
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: on the road to a lot of Steeler games as
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: a fan over the years, my buddy Brian refuses to
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: wear Steelers gear on the road. Me and his brother
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: Pat wear our Steeler jerseys. We don't care, but he
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: will not wear it. Any Steeler gear.
• 41:56
  Speaker 3: I don't blame them. I don't blame them.
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: We've gone to Baltimore. We've gone to Cleveland.
• 42:01
  Speaker 3: You can still root for your team and want them
• 42:03
  Speaker 3: to win without inviting confrontation. But hey, in a perfect world,
• 42:06
  Speaker 3: you could do both.
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: Anyhow, real quick, back to my 1990 Three Rivers Stadium story.
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: It was so cold. I think it was like late season,
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: November or December. And I just remember I was 10
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: years old, freezing, but I didn't care. I was at
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: the game. I was at my first Steeler game ever.
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: had already fallen in love with the franchise and now
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: seeing them in person for the first time just cemented
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: that love. Well, we have a few more minutes before
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: we wrap up the show here for today, Brian. Real quick,
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: before we exit out the way we started the show,
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: some injury news. And the biggest news of that is
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: Derek Harmon being put on the IR, as well as
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: we're not sure about Deshaun Elliott and his return at
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: the safety position. He was on the IR. He may,
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: may not return later this week. Rico Dowdle still questionable
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: going in. Jamel Dean questionable going in. We will get
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: updates on all of that as we go throughout the week.
• 42:57
  Speaker 2: But what's your gut tell you about the Steelers moving forward,
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: maybe with getting Deshaun Elliott back and whether Jamel Dean
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: will be able to go and whether the Steelers will
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: see Rico Dowdle on Sunday?
• 43:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I guess Dowdle was talking to some
• 43:10
  Speaker 3: reporters today in the locker room about how tough that
• 43:14
  Speaker 3: toe injury was dislocated. They had to pop it back in.
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, that sounds awful.
• 43:18
  Speaker 3: I know.
• 43:19
  Speaker 5: I know.
• 43:19
  Speaker 3: That's like, you think you hurt your toe when you
• 43:21
  Speaker 3: step on your kid's Lego, but this is another level.
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: It happens to all of us. If that happened to me,
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: I'd be out for two years.
• 43:29
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 43:29
  Speaker 3: I'd be retiring. We'll see.
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: Dislocated toe.
• 43:33
  Speaker 3: Get me my wheelchair.
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: They got to pop back into place.
• 43:36
  Speaker 3: So, I mean, I tend to think generally the tea
• 43:39
  Speaker 3: leaves that I read on these situations are, if you
• 43:42
  Speaker 3: didn't get placed on IR, that means the prognosis for
• 43:45
  Speaker 3: you was not more than four weeks or not more
• 43:48
  Speaker 3: than three weeks. So I think he misses one more
• 43:51
  Speaker 3: game at most, but, um, you know, Hey, hopefully he
• 43:55
  Speaker 3: can get back for this one and we can see
• 43:56
  Speaker 3: a little bit more of what everybody planned for with
• 43:59
  Speaker 3: Dowdle and Warren. But even if he does come back,
• 44:01
  Speaker 3: he might have a little bit of rust or just might,
• 44:04
  Speaker 3: I'm sure. And that's what practice is for too, is
• 44:06
  Speaker 3: working through that toe injury and feeling like yourself again, Dean,
• 44:09
  Speaker 3: I'm going to guess he might miss a game, but
• 44:12
  Speaker 3: maybe he can push through it as an ankle.
• 44:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what I thought.
• 44:15
  Speaker 3: Harmon left with the foot. Dean left with the ankle.
• 44:17
  Speaker 3: And Dean's been banged up all year, actually, if you remember.
• 44:21
  Speaker 3: He got pulled out of some games earlier and, you know,
• 44:23
  Speaker 3: we're just trying to be cautious with him. So now
• 44:24
  Speaker 3: it might have finally got to the point where it's like,
• 44:27
  Speaker 3: all right, he might have to miss.
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: Well, as Mike Tomlin used to say, gives a good
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: opportunity for the next man up.
• 44:32
  Speaker 3: You know, maybe Daylon Everett gets one man's misfortune is
• 44:35
  Speaker 3: another man's opportunity.
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: For Daylon Everett gives him a chance for some in-game success.
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: playing time and snaps that will be very valuable to
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: his NFL career and a player in which the Steelers
• 44:46
  Speaker 2: now will be looking at in future seasons with Joey
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: Porter Jr. no longer being a member of the black
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: and gold. I think Deshaun Elliott, if they can get
• 44:54
  Speaker 2: him back in the mix with Jalen Ramsey, that'll certainly
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: help that situation with Jamel Dean potentially not being able
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  Speaker 2: to play.
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  Speaker 3: He posted on Instagram yesterday a one of those anime
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  Speaker 3: guys who looked like he was coming back to life.
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  Speaker 3: My knowledge of music is pretty vast, but anime, not
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  Speaker 3: so much. Sorry, Deshaun.
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  Speaker 2: I'll lean on you on that one.
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  Speaker 3: He's a man of many interests and tastes from anime, obviously,
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  Speaker 3: to soccer and wine and cooking. So he's one of
• 45:22
  Speaker 3: them in fashion. He's one of the most interesting men
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  Speaker 3: in the locker room, but hopefully he can go from
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  Speaker 3: interesting off the field to interesting again on the field.
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  Speaker 3: But my point is, He seemed to put up something
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  Speaker 3: that indicated he was going to be back on the
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  Speaker 3: field soon.
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  Speaker 2: Coming up on the show tomorrow, we will do our
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  Speaker 2: Get It Right, Fix It Wednesday. We'll also get to
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  Speaker 2: our hits and misses of the week, our power rankings
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  Speaker 2: for offense and defense, and Double B and I will
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  Speaker 2: also talk about our favorite memories as tomorrow, 25 years
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  Speaker 2: of AccuShore Stadium, Heinz Field, whatever you want to call it,
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  Speaker 2: for the Pittsburgh Steelers, and again, Steelers.com.
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  Speaker 3: I can give you a least favorite memory, too, because
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  Speaker 3: that didn't make it into the story, but Let's do
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  Speaker 3: our least. Yeah, sure.
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  Speaker 2: We'll do that as well.
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  Speaker 3: Because there's one that stands out for me big time, Ed.
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  Speaker 3: Big time.
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  Speaker 2: You probably have more from a media standpoint that you
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  Speaker 2: probably can't.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, there's one from a fan standpoint that I'll never forget.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we'll go over that and more coming up tomorrow.
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: I'm Ed Troop alongside Brian Bacco. Thanks for listening to
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: the Steelers Report. Up next, it's our good friends Wes
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  Speaker 2: Shuler and Matt Williamson on SNR's The Drive here on
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