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HR1: Bengals Preview · In the Locker Room presented by Neighborhood Ford Store (Pittsburgh Steelers)

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  Speaker 1: This is in the Locker Room with King and Starks
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  Speaker 1: on Steelers Nation Radio, presented by your neighborhood Forward Store.
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  Speaker 3: And thank you for being with us on this Friday
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  Speaker 3: alongside Max Starks as justinamiliar with to controls in our
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  Speaker 3: iHeart studio.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Rob King.
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  Speaker 3: It is a Friday before a big divisional matchup Sunday
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  Speaker 3: against the Cincinnati Bengals.
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  Speaker 2: Max. How you doing today, my friend?
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  Speaker 4: I'm doing all right, Bud. I cannot complain, uh at all.
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  Speaker 4: Feeling better today?
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  Speaker 2: Good?
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  Speaker 4: And I was yesterday yesterday I was.
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  Speaker 5: I was down bad and I'm glad you you manned
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  Speaker 5: the ship and uh.
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  Speaker 4: And was a to get through it without me. I
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  Speaker 4: was trying my best, but my voice was gone and
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  Speaker 4: my head was throving.
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  Speaker 2: Well.
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  Speaker 3: We were glad to you know, we open up the
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  Speaker 3: phone lines and we're gonna have a confact on how
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  Speaker 3: often we want to do that. And because we had
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  Speaker 3: some good callers and it's fun to have them be
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  Speaker 3: part of the show. Part of the show today is
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  Speaker 3: Dan Horde, the outstanding play by play man for the
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  Speaker 3: Cincinnati Bengals, is going to be joining us in just
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  Speaker 3: about fourteen minutes or so. We also have it Couldonish,
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  Speaker 3: who is the you know, perhaps the most respected NFL
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  Speaker 3: voice in all of Germany. He is here, the students
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  Speaker 3: have done some things in Germany, and he's gonna join
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  Speaker 3: us and just about ten minutes or so give us
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  Speaker 3: his insight on what the NFL looks like in Germany
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  Speaker 3: these days. And Missy Matthews, the third but certainly not
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  Speaker 3: the third, the first member of our broadcast team.
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  Speaker 2: How about that?
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  Speaker 4: Max?
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  Speaker 3: How bet if I put it that way, the first
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  Speaker 3: member of our on air broadcast team for Stuthers broadcast.
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  Speaker 3: Miss You'll be joining us at eleven o'clock. First questions, Max.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we talked about this a little bit a
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  Speaker 3: couple of days ago, whether we were going to be
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  Speaker 3: glued to the game last night, just kind of checking
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  Speaker 3: out the game last night. Where did you Where did
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  Speaker 3: you sit with the game last night? Did you did
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  Speaker 3: you watch it? Or I felt like after halftime and
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  Speaker 3: then early on in the third quarter that the Jets
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  Speaker 3: had let whatever opportunity they had to be in the
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  Speaker 3: game slip away and their two game losing streak is
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  Speaker 3: over and the Patriots are nine and two.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. No, I mean I was watching a little bit
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  Speaker 4: of it. I had, I had, I had. I had
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  Speaker 4: daughter duty last night. Nice.
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  Speaker 5: So I was at the ASU University of Arizona volleyball
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  Speaker 5: game with my daughter's teams.
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  Speaker 4: Their their volleyball team.
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  Speaker 5: So I was watching on a second screen on my phone,
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  Speaker 5: and then after half, I was like, I'm just gonna
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  Speaker 5: watch this game in front of me.
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  Speaker 4: So it ended up being a good match.
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  Speaker 5: The number eight Sun Devils took down their vaunted rival,
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  Speaker 5: the University of Arizona Wildcats and four sets.
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  Speaker 4: So that was where I spent most of it.
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  Speaker 5: I was checking the game, and once I saw that
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  Speaker 5: twenty four to fourteen, it just felt like it was
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  Speaker 5: insurmountable for the Jets.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, to come back from it.
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  Speaker 5: And it was just like, all right, nothing to see here,
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  Speaker 5: there's no surprises here. Like we've seen the other crazy
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  Speaker 5: things in Bizarre World, this one was a constant. The
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  Speaker 5: Jets are still a bad football team, and the New
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  Speaker 5: Leans Patriots are who we thought they were.
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  Speaker 4: They're they're a good football team.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they are a good football team. And I think
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  Speaker 3: there's that's about. That's about all I need to say
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  Speaker 3: on that one.
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  Speaker 2: Right, we do. There wasn't anything that we didn't expect.
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  Speaker 4: One last day, Yeah, one last thing.
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  Speaker 5: Did you like the NFL Rivalries jersey that New England wore?
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  Speaker 2: Actually you jo what Max? I did? I did.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not really much of a jerseys Yeah, not much
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  Speaker 3: of this jersey. That jersey kind of guy. Hey, what'd
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  Speaker 3: you think of the jersey's way? I just like the games,
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  Speaker 3: you know what I mean, I don't really care what
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  Speaker 3: they're wearing. But I looked at those and I'm like, huh,
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  Speaker 3: those are so they were kind of like, I don't know,
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  Speaker 3: grayish blue.
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  Speaker 2: Is that how you would describe it?
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  Speaker 3: Like?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, they were a favorite.
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  Speaker 5: The stadium had one last night, so I was able
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  Speaker 5: to see it up close.
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  Speaker 4: He had a Drake made jersey on, so I just
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  Speaker 4: I stopped. I was like, hey, man, I was.
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  Speaker 5: I was like, let me just look at this, you know,
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  Speaker 5: because I'm like, this is a pretty cool jersey.
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  Speaker 4: He's like, no, thanks, man. I ordered it because they
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  Speaker 4: were gonna be wearing it tonight, and so I looked
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  Speaker 4: at it.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it has this kind of grayish bluish and it
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  Speaker 5: has like the the two toned or like three dimensional
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  Speaker 5: ne on the sleeve with the stars around and there.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, it was, it was. It was a cool
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  Speaker 4: looking concept. They almost looked throwback yet new.
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  Speaker 5: So I had a bit of like the old mix
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  Speaker 5: with the new like that three like that three D
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  Speaker 5: design on the on the on the shoulder was you know,
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  Speaker 5: it was the new part of it. The rest of
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  Speaker 5: the kind of looked like a throwback style jersey that
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  Speaker 5: we're used to seeing.
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  Speaker 4: So it was. It was a pretty cool jersey.
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  Speaker 6: It was.
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  Speaker 2: It was for sure.
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  Speaker 3: So Max, I think New England, I think we agree
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  Speaker 3: that they're a good football team, you know, so you know,
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  Speaker 3: they they look like a good football team. Even so
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  Speaker 3: a reminder once again of how close games are even
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  Speaker 3: we even win. One team wins, and you know, makes
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  Speaker 3: it look relatively easy. The Jets threw a long ball
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  Speaker 3: up the left sideline down at the time fourteen to seven,
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  Speaker 3: and if they complete that pass, who knows, maybe they
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  Speaker 3: go in. It was deep would have been deep in
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  Speaker 3: Patriots territory. Was a perfectly thrown ball by Justin Fields.
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  Speaker 3: Dropped on the other end. Who knows, Maybe they go in.
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  Speaker 3: I can't remember it was seven to seven or fourteen
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  Speaker 3: seven at the time, but who knows what happens at
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  Speaker 3: that If you go in and you make just that
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  Speaker 3: one play, does it completely change the complexion of the game,
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  Speaker 3: or do you take the leader?
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  Speaker 2: It might have been a to tie it.
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  Speaker 3: I can't remember the specifics of it, but you know,
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  Speaker 3: it's a different feeling for a team, especially a team
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  Speaker 3: that's been struggling. But even so, we see three, four
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  Speaker 3: or five plays in every game that seemed to turn it.
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  Speaker 3: It's incredible that so many games come down to that.
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  Speaker 3: We saw that against the Chargers, We certainly saw it
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  Speaker 3: against the Bengals, and it's a Bengals team. We're gonna
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  Speaker 3: be diving into this more with Dan Horde coming up
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  Speaker 3: in a little bit, but it's a Bengals team that probably,
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  Speaker 3: from what I understand, Trey Hendrickson and possibly Shamar Stewart
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  Speaker 3: are both going to be out for this game.
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  Speaker 6: Max.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, I mean, we talked about this and
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  Speaker 5: we looked at it Thursday night. They had a lot
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  Speaker 5: of guys out and it did you know, it didn't
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  Speaker 5: really matter that much. I believe Trey Henderson was out
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  Speaker 5: against us in that one. Yeah, but Cam Taylor Britt
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  Speaker 5: also was out. They're also without Logan Wilson this time
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  Speaker 5: around because he was traded to the Cowboys. So I mean,
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  Speaker 5: you're talking about a Bengals defense that's you know, that's
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  Speaker 5: definitely in flux once again.
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  Speaker 4: Can the Steelers take advantage of a known, you.
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  Speaker 5: Know, lesser than an opponent defensively and can you not
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  Speaker 5: play down to your competition, but can you play up
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  Speaker 5: to the standard that you created for yourself. That's going
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  Speaker 5: to be the question, because you know, you want to
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  Speaker 5: get this bad taste out of your mouth of Sunday
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  Speaker 5: night football and going to LA and not coming away
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  Speaker 5: with a victory out of your mouth. And no better
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  Speaker 5: way than do that than in front of the creature
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  Speaker 5: comforts of home and aft for sure, and of course
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  Speaker 5: against a rival that you are ego eager to get
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  Speaker 5: a w in front of and not get the brooms.
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  Speaker 5: You know, that's what we're playing for. We're playing not
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  Speaker 5: to get the broom right now by the Cincinnati Bengals.
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  Speaker 2: Yep.
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  Speaker 3: And you know when you take Hendrickson out, who he saw,
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  Speaker 3: you know, completely manhandle the Steelers last year in their
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  Speaker 3: nineteen seventeen victory at Akroscher Stadium the final regular season game,
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  Speaker 3: and Steelers just trying to find a way to have
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  Speaker 3: a good taste in your mouth going into the playoffs.
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  Speaker 3: They couldn't do it. They couldn't pull it out late
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  Speaker 3: when they had an opportunity. Henderson had a huge part
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  Speaker 3: of that. Shamar Stewarts, a guy they like, hasn't been
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  Speaker 3: real productive because he's just had a lot of injuries.
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  Speaker 3: They seem to think that he's going to be a
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  Speaker 3: very good football player, but he's going to be out
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  Speaker 3: of this game. But I think at this stage of
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  Speaker 3: the game, it's hard not to think of the Bengals
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  Speaker 3: as kind of a one trick pony, Like, hey, if
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  Speaker 3: they get the ball last.
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  Speaker 2: They can beat you. You know what I mean.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, they're they're just putting up a ton of
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  Speaker 3: points right now, and I think that's going to be
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  Speaker 3: you know, the Steelers have got I think the big
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  Speaker 3: stories here. They've got to find a way to bounce
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  Speaker 3: back offensively Max from a really subpar performance in LA
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  Speaker 3: and they've got to find a way to slow the
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  Speaker 3: Bengals down and not let him score you know, thirty
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  Speaker 3: eight points, which they've done in their last two games
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  Speaker 3: and lost. I don't want to try that record again.
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  Speaker 3: I don't want to give them thirty eight points and
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  Speaker 3: see if the Steelers can win. So, you know, they
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  Speaker 3: they've there's a couple things, a couple of items on
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  Speaker 3: the to do list here for the Steelers for sure.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, no, it definitely is. And when you think about it,
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  Speaker 4: I mean, you look at their last three games.
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  Speaker 5: They scored thirty three against US thirty nine, they're thirty
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  Speaker 5: eight against the Jets and forty two.
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  Speaker 4: Against the Bears.
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  Speaker 5: Crazy, So it's high power in the last three weeks,
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  Speaker 5: or should I say since Joe Flacco has really earnestly
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  Speaker 5: took the wings of the team, you know, and obviously.
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  Speaker 4: You know he got knocked out and Jake Brown had
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  Speaker 4: to come in. But I mean, this team, like you said,
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  Speaker 4: they can score points, their defense.
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  Speaker 5: Just can't stop guys from scoring points.
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  Speaker 4: And you know, there was a huge feeling.
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  Speaker 5: After that Chicago game, you know, and I think it
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  Speaker 5: was Chase Brown that you know, let out like can
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  Speaker 5: we just we just get a stop?
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  Speaker 4: And he was kind of probably roasting his uh, his defense.
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  Speaker 4: So you know, I would love for.
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  Speaker 5: Him to have another comment about that at the end
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  Speaker 5: of this game. That would be that would be great
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  Speaker 5: to put that, you know, under our belt as well.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that that wasn't too well received.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I would say to the least, that was not
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  Speaker 4: received very well.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, you understand the frustration, but that's not the way
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  Speaker 3: to handle it.
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  Speaker 4: That is definitely not the way to handle it.
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  Speaker 5: But you know, at the end of the day, you know,
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  Speaker 5: humans are humans, and you got to figure out your
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  Speaker 5: locker room and that's one of the things we talk about,
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  Speaker 5: keeping things within the locker room and not let them
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  Speaker 5: spill out. That was that was a full of paw
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  Speaker 5: on on the young man. That was you know, that
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  Speaker 5: was frustrated, and he's also had his own frustrations as
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  Speaker 5: being the lead back and not having the production that
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  Speaker 5: he would like to have.
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  Speaker 4: So I'm like, you know what, if you're going to
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  Speaker 4: continue to have issues, I welcome it. I receive it fully.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, you know care, Yeah, I think that's just that's
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  Speaker 3: certainly a question we'reen asked Dan Horde. We're gonna ask
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  Speaker 3: him about the injuries against on the defensive line, and
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  Speaker 3: we're also gonna ask him about you know, Joe Burrow
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  Speaker 3: being back, does that give this team kind of a
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  Speaker 3: shot in the arm?
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  Speaker 6: Uh?
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  Speaker 3: Listen, We've said this this week. This team is not
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  Speaker 3: out of it. This team is not out of the
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  Speaker 3: AFC North race. As far as it comes against the Ravens,
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  Speaker 3: they're in they're in command. I mean, if they win
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  Speaker 3: this game, they'll be a game behind the Steelers. We
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  Speaker 3: don't know where they'll be with the Ravens. Their series
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  Speaker 3: season series will be finished with the Steelers, but they'll
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  Speaker 3: also have a commanding division record and they'll only be
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  Speaker 3: a game behind the Steelers, maybe a game behind the
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  Speaker 3: the Ravens as well, who they still have to play.
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  Speaker 3: So this is a very very important game for the Bengals.
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  Speaker 3: Their season is pretty much on the line. And we
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  Speaker 3: said that back on October sixteenth, and the Bengals beat him,
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  Speaker 3: and there's a desperation factor again for the Bengals, who've
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  Speaker 3: got to be kicking themselves. They've got to be kicking
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  Speaker 3: themselves over they what's happened the last couple of weeks
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  Speaker 3: in which they've scored prior to their by eighty points
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  Speaker 3: and did not win either game. So a lot to
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  Speaker 3: talk about with Dan Hord, the outstanding play by play
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  Speaker 3: voice of the Cincinnati Bengals. Who's going to join us
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  Speaker 1: This is in the Locker Room with King and Starks
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  Speaker 1: on Steelers Nation Radio, presented by your neighborhood Ford Store.
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  Speaker 2: And we thank you very much for being with us.
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  Speaker 3: Inside the locker Room with Mac starks on, Rob King,
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  Speaker 3: the three and six Bengals taking on the five and
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  Speaker 3: four Steers and for more on the Cincinnati Bengals. We
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  Speaker 3: are joined by the outstanding play by play voice of
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  Speaker 3: the Cincinnati Bengals, the Dulcet Tones, the melodic, malifluous, wonderful
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  Speaker 3: voice of Dan Horror joining us.
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  Speaker 2: Now, how are you doing, Dan.
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  Speaker 6: Well? After an intro like that, I'm doing great?
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  Speaker 2: How are you guys doing well? Doing fine? Dan?
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  Speaker 3: You know I have to before we start on. You know,
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  Speaker 3: the injuries, and you know what we the desperation level,
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  Speaker 3: and Chase Brown's comments and all this other stuff. I
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  Speaker 3: have to say that I was discussing with you and
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  Speaker 3: your partner before the Thursday night game the decision. Remember,
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  Speaker 3: the team had just chaded for Joe Flacco, and I
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  Speaker 3: remember thinking, boy, if how is the Bengals, I might
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  Speaker 3: have traded for Russell Wilson And you say, hey, Joe
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  Speaker 3: Flacco was their guy all along, And boy, oh boy,
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  Speaker 3: did they make the right decision because that offense is
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  Speaker 3: cooking under Joe Flacco right now.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, it was a great trade, and all they had
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  Speaker 6: to do is swap picks in the fifth and sixth round,
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  Speaker 6: so the cost was low. But he's been amazing. The
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  Speaker 6: point total has gone up every game from eighteen to
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  Speaker 6: thirty three to thirty eight to forty two. I don't
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  Speaker 6: think that streak will continue on Sunday in Pittsburgh. If
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  Speaker 6: it does, heads will probably roll in the Steel City.
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  Speaker 6: But Flacco has been awesome, and considering the last game,
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  Speaker 6: we didn't even know if he was going to play.
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  Speaker 6: He had a sprained ac join, a right shoulder injury
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  Speaker 6: that he suffered the game before against the Jets, only
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  Speaker 6: practiced one day leading up to the game against the Bears,
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  Speaker 6: went out and threw for four seventy So he has
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  Speaker 6: been amazing. I am pounding the drum to sign him
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  Speaker 6: for next year if he's willing. You know, Joe Burrow
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  Speaker 6: will be back. So he would be in a backup role,
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  Speaker 6: but he's proven to be a tremendous backup. I think
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  Speaker 6: he'll be a good influence on Joe Burrow. I think
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  Speaker 6: he's already been a good influence on Joe just being
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  Speaker 6: a normal person. Joe Burrow's life is so crazy as
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  Speaker 6: one of the biggest sports celebrities in this country that
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  Speaker 6: to have a forty year old father of five around
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  Speaker 6: who's seen it all, been there, done it, won a
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  Speaker 6: Super Bowl. I think that's been very good for Joe
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  Speaker 6: because he's not had a quarterback in the room since
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  Speaker 6: he's been with the Bengals that fits a description like that.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, and that's one of the amazing things when
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  Speaker 5: you just think about like the journey of Joe Flacco,
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  Speaker 5: right yeah, I mean, he's played for He's played for
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  Speaker 5: three out of the four AFC North Division teams, and
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  Speaker 5: like you said, that there's a steadying voice, and you know,
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  Speaker 5: just kind of want to just ask you. You know,
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  Speaker 5: this week Joe Burrow stepped back on the practice field
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  Speaker 5: and started doing some light stuff. I mean, is this
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  Speaker 5: the anticipation that you know, Joe could come step into play?
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  Speaker 5: And I say that, I realize you have to also
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  Speaker 5: say Joe Burrow, not Joe Flacco. Is the tale of
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  Speaker 5: two Joe's in Cincinnati. But you know, for Burrow to
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  Speaker 5: be up to speed, to start, you know, sooner rather
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  Speaker 5: than later, getting back into the starting role and assuming
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  Speaker 5: where he's supposed to be, and for Joe to kind
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  Speaker 5: of take that backseat role once Joe is fully healthy.
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  Speaker 6: Joe Burrow is hell bent on coming back and playing
• 16:30
  Speaker 6: this year.
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: Now.
• 16:32
  Speaker 6: He came back to practice much faster than any of
• 16:36
  Speaker 6: us anticipated, except for him. I'm sure he thought he
• 16:39
  Speaker 6: would be back on the timeline on timeline that he
• 16:42
  Speaker 6: was able to come back in practice. But when he
• 16:44
  Speaker 6: had surgery to repair the ligaments to connect you know,
• 16:47
  Speaker 6: his big toe to his foot, the medical timeline was
• 16:51
  Speaker 6: three months that would get him back with three games
• 16:54
  Speaker 6: left in the season. He wants to come back for
• 16:58
  Speaker 6: the Baltimore game on Thanksgiving. I don't know if that's
• 17:01
  Speaker 6: realistic or not, but that would be three weeks earlier
• 17:05
  Speaker 6: than the medical timeline. So Joe Burrow's powers of recuperation
• 17:09
  Speaker 6: are incredible. Orlando Brown Junior compared him to Wolverine this
• 17:13
  Speaker 6: week for his ability to come back from injuries. So
• 17:17
  Speaker 6: Joe Burrow's not going to play this week obviously. I
• 17:19
  Speaker 6: don't think he'll play next week against New England. Could
• 17:21
  Speaker 6: he be back for the Baltimore game on Thanksgiving Night? Maybe?
• 17:25
  Speaker 6: But I do expect him to play at some point
• 17:28
  Speaker 6: this year, regardless of whether the Bengals are in the
• 17:31
  Speaker 6: hunt or not. He wants to play this year. He
• 17:34
  Speaker 6: thinks it's important. He says, every game is important, regardless
• 17:38
  Speaker 6: of whether your team is in the hunt or not.
• 17:40
  Speaker 6: And my gut tells me that he's probably going to
• 17:43
  Speaker 6: play at some point this year.
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: Our guest is Dan Horde, the outstanding play by play
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: man for the Cincinnati Bengals. Dan Chase Brown, I'm sure
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: frustrated comments about, you know, the defense not doing its job.
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: I'm sure that Bengals are kicking themselves right now to
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: be the only team since the nineteen sixty six New
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: York Giants to score thirty eight or more points in
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: back to back games and lose them both. Even one win,
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: even one win in that group get you to first
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: place for the victory Sunday at Attersure. I mean, you know,
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: we saw that last year with the team scoring a
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: lot of points in not winning. But Brown's comments can
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: canary to call my tempest? Did a teapot? Let me
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: get my, let me get my my old metaphors?
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: Correct? Is it a tempest? Did a teapot?
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: It did?
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: Does it?
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: Did it make some people angry? Is it just something
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: that was said and it smoothed over and it's it's
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: not a.
• 18:37
  Speaker 6: Factor, not a factor. And here's why. So what you
• 18:42
  Speaker 6: saw on social media was a small clip of an
• 18:46
  Speaker 6: overall interview, obviously, and basically at various points in the
• 18:52
  Speaker 6: overall interview, he defended the defense. He said early this
• 18:56
  Speaker 6: year they were doing the job and we weren't. But
• 19:00
  Speaker 6: in the course of his you know, of the overall comments,
• 19:03
  Speaker 6: at one point he says, just get a freaking stop.
• 19:05
  Speaker 6: Just get a freaking stop. That's what the defensive guys
• 19:08
  Speaker 6: were saying as well. It's not like what Chase Brown
• 19:11
  Speaker 6: said wasn't what everybody was thinking. So no, it didn't
• 19:15
  Speaker 6: create any problems inside of the locker room. We're always
• 19:19
  Speaker 6: looking for something nationally that drives conversation in sports debate
• 19:23
  Speaker 6: these days, so I understand why that became such a
• 19:27
  Speaker 6: lightning rod type of thing nationwide, But internally, honestly, there
• 19:32
  Speaker 6: was nothing.
• 19:35
  Speaker 5: And also, you know, Dan as we kind of look
• 19:38
  Speaker 5: at just where the defense is. I mean, no Trey
• 19:41
  Speaker 5: Hendrickson again, possibly no Schamar Stewart, Logan.
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: Wilson traded to Dallas.
• 19:48
  Speaker 5: I mean, what do you think is the shape of
• 19:50
  Speaker 5: this defense going into the game on Sunday.
• 19:54
  Speaker 6: Well, the numbers tell you all you need to know.
• 19:56
  Speaker 6: Historically bad to this point of the year. They're playing
• 19:59
  Speaker 6: a bunch of young guys and hoping those young guys
• 20:01
  Speaker 6: develop and get better over the final eight games of
• 20:04
  Speaker 6: the season. That's the hope to build something that will
• 20:09
  Speaker 6: be better next year when Joe Burrow is back, and
• 20:13
  Speaker 6: hopefully that's the case. But to this point it's been
• 20:17
  Speaker 6: frighteningly bad. We gave the numbers for the last two weeks,
• 20:21
  Speaker 6: they've scored eighty points and haven't won a game. If
• 20:24
  Speaker 6: you look back over the last two years, they've had
• 20:27
  Speaker 6: six games six games where they scored thirty three or
• 20:31
  Speaker 6: more points and did not win. That's hard to do.
• 20:36
  Speaker 6: So they've got one player on defense that's playing really well,
• 20:40
  Speaker 6: DJ Turner. Before Trey Hendrickson got hurt, he was playing
• 20:44
  Speaker 6: really well. Nobody else on defense has really played well
• 20:47
  Speaker 6: this year, and two out of eleven is not going
• 20:50
  Speaker 6: to cut it.
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: No. And by the way, for those looking at history,
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: they are better right now than the nineteen sixty six Giants,
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: the last team to allow this many points game.
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: So historically bad, worse than the Super Bowl era.
• 21:04
  Speaker 5: Uh.
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it hasn't been good for them, clearly. I did
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: want to ask you another question, though, Dan about the offense.
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: You know, I think Chase Brown's a really good, explosive
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: running back who can do some things for him. We
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: saw what the passing game can do, you know, the
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: outside receivers. No Fans scored a touchdown against the Steelers.
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: I'm wondering is are the Steelers are the Bengals, like
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: you know, scheming around their offensive line or has their
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: offensive line improved because the Steelers hardly had Joe Flacco
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: under duress. I know he's got to you know, gets
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: rid of the ball quickly, but has has the offensive
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: line quietly improved with a couple of young guys at
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: guard or is it are they sort of scheming around
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: the offensive line.
• 21:53
  Speaker 6: The offensive line has significantly improved. So You've got a
• 21:58
  Speaker 6: second year right tack who was a first round draft
• 22:01
  Speaker 6: pick last year of Marius Mims, and you have two
• 22:04
  Speaker 6: rookies starting at guard. So three of the five starters
• 22:08
  Speaker 6: are really young. They are getting better, and they are
• 22:10
  Speaker 6: getting better fast. So I think the Bengals are cautiously
• 22:15
  Speaker 6: optimistic that they've got sixty percent of a good offensive
• 22:20
  Speaker 6: line going forward with Dylan Fairchild at left guard, Jalen
• 22:23
  Speaker 6: Rivers at right guard, and a Marius Mims at right tackle.
• 22:27
  Speaker 6: Ted Karris, their thirty two year old center, has always
• 22:30
  Speaker 6: kind of been a league average guy, good team leader.
• 22:33
  Speaker 6: He's never really been a problem. Orlando Brown junior in
• 22:36
  Speaker 6: the past, has had some great seasons. He's a four
• 22:38
  Speaker 6: time Pro Bowler. He's been a little bit up and
• 22:41
  Speaker 6: down in his time with Cincinnati, but I think he's
• 22:45
  Speaker 6: solid enough. You know, certainly league averager better. So yes,
• 22:48
  Speaker 6: the offensive line is trending up. As for what the
• 22:52
  Speaker 6: Bengals did in the first game against Pittsburgh, I think
• 22:56
  Speaker 6: over the course of Zach Taylor seven years as head coach,
• 22:59
  Speaker 6: he's just come to the determination. The Steelers are always
• 23:02
  Speaker 6: great upfront. You've got to get the ball out quickly
• 23:05
  Speaker 6: to help your offensive line. They certainly did that in
• 23:09
  Speaker 6: Game one in Cincinnati. They had a good running game
• 23:12
  Speaker 6: in that game as well. But I would expect them
• 23:14
  Speaker 6: to try to do that on Sunday.
• 23:17
  Speaker 5: Yeah, And I got to ask you, obviously, the biggest
• 23:22
  Speaker 5: offensive weapons, Jamar Chase. Just the season that he's having
• 23:28
  Speaker 5: once again, it feels like, I mean, just how valuable
• 23:32
  Speaker 5: is it to have, you know, both him and t Higgins.
• 23:35
  Speaker 5: I mean, because you look at just the idea in
• 23:39
  Speaker 5: the offseason, how do you pay both on top of.
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: Paying a quarterback?
• 23:44
  Speaker 5: And they've they've made it work, and like you said,
• 23:48
  Speaker 5: the production is there, it's just the wins aren't there.
• 23:52
  Speaker 5: You know, how good is that decision now that you
• 23:56
  Speaker 5: look at it as far as the production that you
• 23:59
  Speaker 5: get on the field. When we talk about the thirty
• 24:00
  Speaker 5: plus points the last three weeks in a row only
• 24:04
  Speaker 5: gone up for Joe Flacco.
• 24:07
  Speaker 6: Well, that decision to keep both wide receivers has certainly
• 24:10
  Speaker 6: been good for the offense. The question is how much
• 24:13
  Speaker 6: money do you have left to pay the defense? And remarkably,
• 24:17
  Speaker 6: they're still in decent salary cap shape going forward to
• 24:21
  Speaker 6: be able to add some free agents to this defense
• 24:23
  Speaker 6: in the upcoming offseason. So they've got to get that right.
• 24:27
  Speaker 6: When they went to the Super Bowl in twenty twenty one.
• 24:30
  Speaker 6: The reason why is that they built a really good
• 24:33
  Speaker 6: offense with the draft, and they built a really good
• 24:36
  Speaker 6: defense through free agency. But those guys eventually aged out
• 24:41
  Speaker 6: or left, and now they've got to do it again.
• 24:44
  Speaker 6: So can they go out and get a Mike Hilton,
• 24:47
  Speaker 6: who proved to be a great signing in Cincinnati after
• 24:50
  Speaker 6: he left the Steelers, should obey a wooge who played
• 24:53
  Speaker 6: great for three years in Cincinnati? And then can they
• 24:56
  Speaker 6: go out in the draft and get guys like Jesse
• 24:58
  Speaker 6: Bates who were part of that Super Bowl defense in
• 25:01
  Speaker 6: twenty twenty one. The draft picks in the last few
• 25:04
  Speaker 6: years on defense haven't hit, at least not so far.
• 25:07
  Speaker 6: They're going to have to try to rebuild it with
• 25:09
  Speaker 6: free agency and the draft this coming off season. And
• 25:12
  Speaker 6: I would expect virtually every dollar and virtually every pick
• 25:17
  Speaker 6: to be spent on the defensive side of the ball
• 25:19
  Speaker 6: because the key guys on offense are all signed. They
• 25:22
  Speaker 6: know that that side of the ball is good. They've
• 25:25
  Speaker 6: got to fix this defense and fix it fast.
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and Dan to your point, I mean Shamar Stewart
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: first round pick, Miles Murphy first round pick, those guys
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: up front. You know, they put a lot of money
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: into Trey Hendrickson obviously well deserved, Cam Taylor, britt second
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: round pick, DJ Turner second round pick, Dax Hill first
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: round pick. I mean they've they've poured. You know, we
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: know how this works, right one one side, one unit
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: is usually.
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: Getting a lot of money.
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: You know, when that money runs out, hopefully that the
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: young guys on the other side, you know, have progressed,
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: and it hasn't happened. They've put the resources draft pick wise,
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: it just hasn't happened for the defense. Now having said
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: all this, you know, the Bengals and kicking themselves. I'm
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: sure for being three and six, even four and five,
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: if you'd won either one of those games instead of
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: allowing late scores to the Jets and the Bears. You know,
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: if this team is four and five, you're a win
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: away from being in first place. Exiting Akroscher Stadium. I
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: would say this though, and I felt the same way
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: going into that game in Cincinnati on a Thursday night,
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: a Bengals team. By the way, just a quick aside,
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: the Steelers had won ten games in a row, the
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: last ten. The Steelers are three and seven against the Bengals,
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: so keep that in mind, and also the desperation factor
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: I don't like. I think the Steelers. This game is
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: very important for the Steelers. I think it's almost this.
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: Is this season. If you're the Bengals.
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: If you win this game, you are right back in it.
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: If you lose this game, you're in very tough straights.
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: I think that makes him death And I think a
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: desperate team is always a dangerous team.
• 27:05
  Speaker 6: Well, I agree with that. I rarely use the term
• 27:08
  Speaker 6: must win until it truly is so a game it
• 27:11
  Speaker 6: can end the season, or a playoff game or something
• 27:13
  Speaker 6: like that. But I do think that those words apply
• 27:16
  Speaker 6: for the Bengals playoff chances this year, for this week's game,
• 27:20
  Speaker 6: because they're not going to be a wild card team
• 27:22
  Speaker 6: at three and six, I think we can toss that
• 27:24
  Speaker 6: out the window and in a normal year they would
• 27:27
  Speaker 6: not be in the hunt in the AFC North, but
• 27:29
  Speaker 6: it's not a normal year. The Steelers are a game
• 27:31
  Speaker 6: over five hundred and in first, the Ravens started one
• 27:35
  Speaker 6: in five. They're coming on, but there's still a game
• 27:37
  Speaker 6: under five hundred and you know who knows. Lamar could
• 27:40
  Speaker 6: tweak his hamstring again this week. It's possible, so through
• 27:44
  Speaker 6: no credit or fault of their own. Well, I guess
• 27:48
  Speaker 6: it is fault of their own. But they're still in
• 27:50
  Speaker 6: the hunt. The Bengals are because they're three and oh
• 27:52
  Speaker 6: in the division. I'm sorry, two and oh in the division,
• 27:54
  Speaker 6: with a chance to get the three and oh and
• 27:56
  Speaker 6: a chance to be two and oh head to head
• 27:58
  Speaker 6: against the team that's currently in first place. So yes,
• 28:01
  Speaker 6: in terms of their playoff chances, I would agree that
• 28:05
  Speaker 6: this is a must wing, must win game for a
• 28:07
  Speaker 6: desperate Cincinnati team.
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: Dan Horde is the outstanding play by play man of
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: the Cincinnati Bengals. For the Cincinnati Bengals, Dan, look forward
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: to seeing you on Sunday at Actor Sure Stadium.
• 28:20
  Speaker 6: Me too, always look forward to the trip to Pittsburgh
• 28:23
  Speaker 6: and uh we'll see if the Bengals can make it
• 28:26
  Speaker 6: interesting by playing better defense on Sunday.
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: Thank you, Dan, You bet my pleasure, Dan Hord.
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: By the way, By the way, Max uh The when
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: I was working at WTVH and Syracuse, I got letters
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: addressed to you know, the mailing lists weren't always changed.
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: So Steve Ciphers, who is a reporter for ESPN, one
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: of their early guys, did a great job, terrific anchor
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: and reporter. He was followed by Mike Turrico Dan Horde.
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: So I used to get mail addressed to all those guys.
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: Dan Horde a.
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: TVH five alumni, CBS at station that basically doesn't exist
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: anymore anyway.
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: I just throwing that out as a tippitt.
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: So we're going to take a break because we have
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: we have some gentleman coming up next. We're going to
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: be joined by Ika Domish, who's going to tell us
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: just give us a little brief update on what's going
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: on with the NFL in Germany.
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: He is here. He's one of.
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: The most respected NFL journalists in Germany with a Steelers
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: bent toward that coverage, and we're going to talk to
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: him before we turn our attention back to the Steelers
• 29:39
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  Speaker 3: Hello, Guten tag ish fin Rob King Mitt Max Starks.
• 30:20
  Speaker 6: I don't know how that.
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: I don't know how that works. We're joined by ikadamis now? Ika?
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: How is my German?
• 30:29
  Speaker 6: That was?
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: That was pretty good?
• 30:31
  Speaker 7: I thought I called it in German show? What is happening?
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: Oh? Please?
• 30:36
  Speaker 4: So?
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: Ika Domish is the host of the Steelers German Podcast,
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: one of the main on air personalities for pro Seben,
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: one of the main networks in Germany. He's been the
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: NFL guy for many years, one of the most respected
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: voices for the game in Germany.
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: And before we ask you a little bit about football.
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: In Germany, can you get us caught up on what
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: it is you're doing here in Pittsburgh.
• 31:01
  Speaker 6: This is uh, this is.
• 31:03
  Speaker 7: A trip of a lifetime. I think I just doing
• 31:05
  Speaker 7: the podcast from Germany normally, but this week I'm here
• 31:09
  Speaker 7: in Pittsburgh for a couple of recordings for the podcast.
• 31:14
  Speaker 7: Had a chat with Nick Herbig Christian Kunns, He's immediate
• 31:18
  Speaker 7: person as well.
• 31:19
  Speaker 6: That was fun.
• 31:20
  Speaker 7: And today I will meet of course German's finest with
• 31:24
  Speaker 7: the Pittsburgh Sealers, Jurius Valschow. And you know it's gonna
• 31:28
  Speaker 7: be fun Sunday the game against the Bengals.
• 31:30
  Speaker 6: This is a fun week for me.
• 31:34
  Speaker 4: Yeah, this is a fun week indeed.
• 31:37
  Speaker 5: And uh, you know, as you just kind of think
• 31:40
  Speaker 5: about it, like being able to come over here, you know,
• 31:42
  Speaker 5: go to the team.
• 31:43
  Speaker 4: And like you said, having having a native countryman and.
• 31:47
  Speaker 5: Julius west Yaw, uh there, I know he's come over
• 31:50
  Speaker 5: to Germany and and done some stuff with the NFL.
• 31:55
  Speaker 5: You know, I believe in the off season, the fast
• 31:58
  Speaker 5: off season. Can you just talk about what that means
• 32:01
  Speaker 5: having a player from Germany on one of the teams
• 32:04
  Speaker 5: that you're coming to visit and uh, you know, just
• 32:07
  Speaker 5: that experience with them and the exposure of Germany to
• 32:11
  Speaker 5: American football. Obviously we had we had the NFL Europe
• 32:16
  Speaker 5: in World football leagues over there, but now really seeing
• 32:20
  Speaker 5: an earnest effort and investment into Germany with the NFL.
• 32:25
  Speaker 7: Yeah, the game is growing internationally. I think everybody knows
• 32:28
  Speaker 7: that even here in the US, there are games overseas,
• 32:32
  Speaker 7: and we had a couple of those in Germany in
• 32:35
  Speaker 7: recent years, starting in Munich. This year, we have been
• 32:39
  Speaker 7: in Berlin, the capital city of Germany, and there were
• 32:44
  Speaker 7: attack stadium, more than seventy thousand fans in the stands,
• 32:48
  Speaker 7: and a lot of people they follow their German homegrown players.
• 32:54
  Speaker 7: And that's why it's so sweet that the Steelers have
• 32:58
  Speaker 7: Yuius Vergeoffs because he's from the state of Bavaria where
• 33:02
  Speaker 7: I live, and I met him, like you said, in
• 33:04
  Speaker 7: the off season when he's been to Germany, and a
• 33:07
  Speaker 7: lot of people are asking hosts and commentators like me,
• 33:11
  Speaker 7: how is Julius doing. And that's why it's so cool
• 33:14
  Speaker 7: to have access to Jurius, and he tells in the
• 33:18
  Speaker 7: podcasts we did already together, how it is being a
• 33:21
  Speaker 7: Pittsburgh Steeler, how it is sharing the field with greats
• 33:25
  Speaker 7: like PJ Wat Aaron Rogers this year and this is
• 33:29
  Speaker 7: this is such a cool insight and that's why people
• 33:32
  Speaker 7: start following even more with the Pittsburgh Steelers. They know
• 33:36
  Speaker 7: about the success in the years before, but they start
• 33:39
  Speaker 7: to focus following the Steelers in recent years in Germany
• 33:43
  Speaker 7: with the player like Julius even more.
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: Well, you know, and Ika domishes our guest, and Ika
• 33:50
  Speaker 3: just just I know you talked to herbig. That's a
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: German name. Koontz, that's a German name. Welshoff obviously is German.
• 33:58
  Speaker 3: Max's middle name is Weisner, mine is Schaefer. So we've
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: got the Germany covered from this end, I think here
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: in Pittsburgh. So which leads me to the question of
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: how popular are the Steelers in Germany. We know they
• 34:11
  Speaker 3: are hugely popular in Ireland. And I know you've you've
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: got a deep connection with everything you've done for this
• 34:18
  Speaker 3: Steelers podcasting and so on.
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: Are this Youders a popular team in Germany?
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  Speaker 6: They are.
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  Speaker 7: I can tell you I'm a Steelers fan because when
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  Speaker 7: I started watching, they won the Super Bowl with Mike
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  Speaker 7: Tomlin two thousand and eight. That was that is my
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  Speaker 7: personal connection with the Pittsburgh Steelers because when you start
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  Speaker 7: watching from overseas, you of course experienced the successful teams first.
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  Speaker 7: And we started free to air American football in German
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  Speaker 7: television around ten years ago, twenty fourteen. That was the
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  Speaker 7: time when the Steelers had Big Ben Antonio Brown Bell
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  Speaker 7: as the running back, the great defenders like James Harrison.
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  Speaker 7: Those were impact players, those were characters, and that's why
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  Speaker 7: when we started broadcasting, a lot of people fell in
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  Speaker 7: love with the Steelers and with the history of the city.
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  Speaker 7: There's the steel city that really connected with Germany because
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  Speaker 7: we have a lot of industry as well in our country,
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  Speaker 7: and a lot of people really feel that the Steelers
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  Speaker 7: are one of the authentic franchises in the NFL. And
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  Speaker 7: of course I'm right now in the stadium in the
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  Speaker 7: Achrosher Stadium. Germans have a big heart for stadiums and
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  Speaker 7: we love that stadium and I have the view right now.
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  Speaker 7: It's so beautiful.
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  Speaker 6: I like it well.
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  Speaker 5: And also I know that the that the Steelers had
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  Speaker 5: the watch party and the BVB Stadium in Dortmund and
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  Speaker 5: you know, a couple of weeks ago against the Colts.
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  Speaker 5: Can you just talk about that experience that and the
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  Speaker 5: Steelers have having a partnership with a team with another
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  Speaker 5: club in Germany and how unique that is to be
• 36:05
  Speaker 5: able to have that and also the colors happen to
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  Speaker 5: match as well, so we are definitely on the same page,
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  Speaker 5: you know, with with color choice. But just talk about
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  Speaker 5: that partnership, having a team there as a supporter of
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  Speaker 5: your squad and kind of vice versa.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, that fits right with the black and yellow and
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  Speaker 7: black and gold.
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  Speaker 6: This is so sweet.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, we had that watch party in Dortmund and the
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  Speaker 7: connection is pretty strong, and I think that is one
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  Speaker 7: of the key reasons while the game is growing internationally
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  Speaker 7: because soccer is the most popular sport in Germany and
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  Speaker 7: Borosia Dortmund is one of the most popular teams and
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  Speaker 7: there are a lot of players. Even Nick Herbik told
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  Speaker 7: me yesterday when he's playing FIFA, the video games are
• 36:52
  Speaker 7: basically when he's playing FIFA, he always plays with players
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  Speaker 7: from Borussia Dortmund, and I think this is the connection
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  Speaker 7: where both teams getting to know each other, players from
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  Speaker 7: each team following each other because they're interested in different
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  Speaker 7: sports overseas, and the connection with Boris Adortmund is pretty successful.
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  Speaker 7: We had a couple of players from Borissa Adortmund over
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  Speaker 7: here in Pittsburgh visiting the stadium and vice versa. With
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  Speaker 7: Miles Killerbrew, he has been at the yellow wall. It's
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  Speaker 7: called we have that is a special thing. We have
• 37:30
  Speaker 7: people standing in our stadiums. There are not seats for everyone.
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  Speaker 7: There is the yellow wall where about eighteen thousand people
• 37:39
  Speaker 7: are standing and watching the whole game and they are
• 37:42
  Speaker 7: jumping and singing. And Miles Kilbrough had that experience and
• 37:46
  Speaker 7: he said that was one of the most impression, most
• 37:50
  Speaker 7: impressive experience he had ever in a sports venue. And
• 37:55
  Speaker 7: I think that's where both franchises really connect. It's the
• 37:58
  Speaker 7: passion about the team. It's in dartment, it's the same.
• 38:03
  Speaker 7: This is this is the team of the city Dartmund
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  Speaker 7: and this is where the connection really really is really
• 38:09
  Speaker 7: is good. It makes sense.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I know you have a very tight schedule. We
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  Speaker 3: thank you for your time today. We give you a
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  Speaker 3: donka Shane uh for your time today with us. Thank
• 38:21
  Speaker 3: you very much. Enjoy the rest of the of your trip.
• 38:24
  Speaker 3: Are you going to be up in the Are you
• 38:25
  Speaker 3: going to be up in the press box on Sunday?
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  Speaker 6: Sure?
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  Speaker 7: I will look out for you guys, and uh make
• 38:32
  Speaker 7: a quick make a quick hello. I will I will
• 38:35
  Speaker 7: look forward for that game. This is nice. The Uncle
• 38:37
  Speaker 7: bowling number two, the first one was was impressive. I'm
• 38:41
  Speaker 7: looking forward for that.
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  Speaker 2: Persay, my friend. Thank you very much. Check out.
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  Speaker 3: It was a blessing, Joe, thank you very much. Acadamish
• 38:55
  Speaker 3: just giving us a little insight. You know when you
• 38:58
  Speaker 3: see the NFL and ously we have you know, Alvalo
• 39:02
  Speaker 3: Martin joined us every Tuesday, uh you know, uh the
• 39:06
  Speaker 3: part of the Spanish speaking broadcast, and that's a big
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: deal in Mexico.
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  Speaker 2: This Steelers is huge in Mexico.
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  Speaker 3: Huge in Ireland as we found out Max and and
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  Speaker 3: certainly growing and big in Germany as well. And you know,
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: maybe one of these days we'll see the Steelers play
• 39:21
  Speaker 3: games in Mexico City and in Berlin.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, and you know this is one of
• 39:29
  Speaker 5: the three countries that the Steelers have there there there,
• 39:34
  Speaker 5: I guess the GMP Global Marketing Program through the NFL.
• 39:40
  Speaker 5: This is one of the three countries assigned to the
• 39:42
  Speaker 5: Steelers Ireland, Mexico and Germany is the third country. So
• 39:47
  Speaker 5: you wonder why it's like, well, why are the Steelers
• 39:49
  Speaker 5: talking about Germany. Of a sudden thought, we had Ireland
• 39:51
  Speaker 5: and I thought we were doing Mexico. You get three
• 39:53
  Speaker 5: countries per team split out throughout all thirty two teams
• 39:58
  Speaker 5: and you know, we have a game this weekend that's
• 40:00
  Speaker 5: going to be in Madrid, right, so you have the
• 40:02
  Speaker 5: Spain market opening up and coming online. Germany obviously has
• 40:05
  Speaker 5: been online for for a couple of years now. But
• 40:10
  Speaker 5: that's that's the growth process of this becoming an international sport,
• 40:13
  Speaker 5: is allowing each organization to.
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  Speaker 4: Come in and you know, freely market.
• 40:18
  Speaker 5: In these in these countries to see if there is viability.
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  Speaker 5: And I think you know the first step once again,
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  Speaker 5: Steelers sold over two hundred and fifty tickets to that
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  Speaker 5: watch party, so they know that there is a draw
• 40:32
  Speaker 5: for not only American football.
• 40:33
  Speaker 4: But specifically Steelers football.
• 40:35
  Speaker 5: And like you said, the partnership with BVB, you know,
• 40:39
  Speaker 5: soccer club and and and just going through the different processes,
• 40:43
  Speaker 5: it won't be a surprise if you see the Steelers,
• 40:45
  Speaker 5: you know, in this market and a game in the future,
• 40:48
  Speaker 5: whether we're a visiting team, because there's multiple teams in
• 40:50
  Speaker 5: each market of the three that are assigned.
• 40:53
  Speaker 4: So it's a pretty cool thing to see the international
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  Speaker 4: scaling growth.
• 40:59
  Speaker 5: That Roger good Dell in the NFL has really made
• 41:02
  Speaker 5: the effort on it and they and they put it
• 41:03
  Speaker 5: in the team's pockets. So this doesn't go a part
• 41:05
  Speaker 5: of what we call the group licensing Agreement.
• 41:08
  Speaker 4: So this isn't just so the money that you gain
• 41:10
  Speaker 4: in these countries and what you do in these countries is.
• 41:13
  Speaker 5: Not pooled resources from all thirty two teams like a
• 41:17
  Speaker 5: g l A, which that applies to everything else state side.
• 41:21
  Speaker 5: This is individual marketed things that the Steelers have to
• 41:24
  Speaker 5: go out of pocket too to endorse, to you know,
• 41:29
  Speaker 5: provide services for and to go you know, do things
• 41:33
  Speaker 5: on their own dime and create these partnerships themselves. So
• 41:36
  Speaker 5: it's been it's been a fun process watching the different
• 41:38
  Speaker 5: business summits in these countries and you know, talking to
• 41:42
  Speaker 5: potential sponsors that that are that are in those countries
• 41:45
  Speaker 5: and like connecting with the fans on more of a
• 41:47
  Speaker 5: grassroots level. And so this is just another example of
• 41:50
  Speaker 5: that and the Steelers you know, doing a tremendous job.
• 41:53
  Speaker 5: We saw what the success in Ireland looks like. We
• 41:56
  Speaker 5: see what you know, Mexico has been and will always be.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, the Steelers are the number one team in
• 42:01
  Speaker 5: the Mexico marketing. You have all those other teams that
• 42:03
  Speaker 5: are on the borders of Mexico and the Steelers are
• 42:06
  Speaker 5: the one that have the greatest popularity draw, so it's
• 42:11
  Speaker 5: just continuing to spread our love and fanaticisms for the
• 42:15
  Speaker 5: team and.
• 42:15
  Speaker 4: The Black and Gold up there in the steel City.
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  Speaker 3: Sounds wonderful and we're gonna have much more of course
• 42:20
  Speaker 3: on today's game as well. But I thought that was
• 42:23
  Speaker 3: the coolest side with Ikea Damish being in town as
• 42:27
  Speaker 3: part of the Steelers Podcast in Germany. Want to remind
• 42:30
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