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HR 2: Top 10 Moments from Steelers 16, Saints 10, Tad Wessel Joins the Show · The Steelers Report

• 0:07
  Speaker 1: Gets the snap, back to pass, looking right, goes in
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  Speaker 1: that direction.
• 0:10
  Speaker 2: And it's kicked off! And it's Jamel Dean, of all people,
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  Speaker 2: streaking down the left sideline! Inside the five! Jamel Dean
• 0:18
  Speaker 2: and his return to Tampa Bay! The big play the
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  Speaker 2: Steelers needed! Get those terrible towels in the air! Jamel Dean,
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  Speaker 2: coming back!
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  Speaker 1: The former Bucko delivers a cannon shot inside of Raymond James.
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  Speaker 3: This is the Steelers Report with Brian Batko and Ed
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  Speaker 3: Troop on Steelers Nation Radio, a part of the Steelers
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  Speaker 3: Audio Network.
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  Speaker 4: Jamel Dean with the big play last weekend against the
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  Speaker 4: Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Which helps swing momentum back into the
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  Speaker 4: black and gold's favor and coming back and beating the
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  Speaker 4: Tampa Bay Bucks on the road. Steeler Nation was there
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  Speaker 4: making a lot of noise, especially at that moment. And
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  Speaker 4: now joining us here on the show is Tad Whistle
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  Speaker 4: from the DVE Morning Show. Tad, awesome to have you
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  Speaker 4: with us. Welcome into the Steelers Report.
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  Speaker 5: Ed, great to be here. Thanks for having me, man.
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  Speaker 4: Tad, I definitely want to talk Steelers with you, but
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  Speaker 4: before we jump into that, you are not new to
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  Speaker 4: S & R.
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  Speaker 6: Right?
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 5: You have a past. I have a little bit of
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  Speaker 5: a past, yeah.
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  Speaker 6: I worked at iHeart in the before times. Originally, when
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  Speaker 6: it was Fox Sports, the first time that it became ESPN,
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  Speaker 6: we were in Green Tree.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 6: And I was like an on-site engineer, producer, banner hanger,
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  Speaker 6: ticket giveaway-er.
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  Speaker 2: A little bit of everything. Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Jack of all trades. Yeah, but I got to work.
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  Speaker 6: You know, like four days a week with Tunch and
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  Speaker 6: Wolf and three days a week with Stan Saverin and
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  Speaker 6: Joe Bendel and David Todd and those guys. It was
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  Speaker 6: a great time to be in my mid-20s.
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  Speaker 4: Man, the three names you just mentioned are on, like,
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  Speaker 4: my Mount Rushmore of Pittsburgh broadcasters growing up in this area.
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  Speaker 4: Tunch Yolkin, Craig Wolfley, Stan Saverin, right off the bat.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, that had to be amazing just to be
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  Speaker 4: around those guys.
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  Speaker 5: Just, I mean, the best dudes. Whatever you're thinking.
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  Speaker 6: You know about those guys in terms of, like, how
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  Speaker 6: good they were and like how good to other people
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  Speaker 6: they were.
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  Speaker 5: It's all true. All the stories you hear about those
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  Speaker 5: guys are true. They were, they were really the best.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I had had a chance to get to know Wolf
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  Speaker 4: a bit before he passed away. He was on my
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  Speaker 4: personal podcast a couple of times.
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  Speaker 5: Never knew Tunch.
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  Speaker 4: And then Stan actually interned with Stan and our very
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  Speaker 4: own Rob.
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  Speaker 5: King 20-some years ago.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, man. Where at?
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  Speaker 5: At Fox Sports Pittsburgh TV.
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  Speaker 2: So cool.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, a long, long, long time ago.
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  Speaker 4: I actually still have my Fox Sports jacket from that experience.
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  Speaker 4: I showed Rob King, and he acted like he was impressed.
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  Speaker 5: I don't think he was impressed, Tad. I think, you know,
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  Speaker 5: he's a nice guy, right? He's like, oh, yeah, I
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  Speaker 5: remember that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, right.
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  Speaker 5: He probably wears it to cut grass now.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, sure.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah. Meanwhile, I have it like in a display or
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  Speaker 5: something in my house.
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  Speaker 4: Let's talk about the Pittsburgh Steelers so far on the
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  Speaker 4: season four and two.
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  Speaker 5: Bit of a mixed bag. There's been some ups. There's
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  Speaker 5: been some downs. But one thing that we've.
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  Speaker 4: Really talked about a lot here recently within the last
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  Speaker 4: week or so has been the play of the offense
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  Speaker 4: and how much better they have gotten as the season
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  Speaker 4: went on. Now, take out the first three quarters against
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  Speaker 4: the Tampa Bay Bucks. That was sloppy. They came on
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  Speaker 4: when they had to in the fourth quarter. They came
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  Speaker 4: on in overtime. 42-year-old Aaron Rodgers getting it done, Tad.
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  Speaker 4: Last two games, 488 yards passing, five touchdowns and interception,
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  Speaker 4: completing 69% of his passes. We'll see if he can
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  Speaker 4: sustain that for the rest of the season.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, I'm really encouraged by the play of the
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  Speaker 6: offensive line. And, you know, that was the big to-do preseason.
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  Speaker 6: Can they give Aaron Rodgers enough time?
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 6: And, you know, they made the big switch, Ahonichor and Hoffman,
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  Speaker 6: for Anderson and Dylan Cook, and it seems to be
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  Speaker 6: paying dividends.
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  Speaker 5: I would, of course, like to see them start quicker.
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  Speaker 6: The Bengals game was the most exciting football as a
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  Speaker 6: Steeler fan I've seen in like.
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  Speaker 5: Eight years where they came out, scored, scored, scored.
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  Speaker 6: I think they really set a high bar for themselves
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  Speaker 6: in terms of fan expectation. But yeah, man, Rodgers says
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  Speaker 6: when they really needed it last week, he.
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  Speaker 5: Got it done. He delivered. You talk about that offensive line,
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  Speaker 5: big Maxi on it.
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  Speaker 1: Sure.
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  Speaker 4: I remember being up at Steelers training camp this past summer.
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  Speaker 4: We knew Max was big. First few practices, they weren't
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  Speaker 4: in pads. They were just in the regular practice jersey
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  Speaker 4: and shorts. The day that he came out on day
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  Speaker 4: number one with the pads, it was like, oh, my goodness.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, you think Darnell Washington is big?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: It's Maxi on it for part two. Just a huge guy.
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  Speaker 4: And I think he is the future of this offensive
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  Speaker 4: line and so far so good. I mean, he's had
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  Speaker 4: a couple hiccups here or there, but every rookie does.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, and, you know, as it is belabored during the
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  Speaker 6: national broadcast, like, he's been playing football for 10 minutes.
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  Speaker 5: That's right.
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  Speaker 6: You know, this is sort of what we were supposed
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  Speaker 6: to see from Broderick Jones, who didn't get a lot
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  Speaker 6: of run in college but had all the athletic tools,
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  Speaker 6: freak athlete. Ihanachor has that basketball and soccer background. I mean,
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  Speaker 6: he's not a big slobby tackle. You know, he's like
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  Speaker 6: the new normal for an athletic tackle.
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  Speaker 5: I'm excited about him.
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  Speaker 6: Fatanu Hoffman's the oldest guy and he's only 27. Um,
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  Speaker 6: there's a, certainly a lot to be excited about.
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  Speaker 4: Hoffman's a joy to watch because he likes to chirp, right?
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  Speaker 4: I don't know if you've seen these games. He likes
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  Speaker 4: to talk a little bit of junk going the other way.
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  Speaker 4: And then Zach Frazier, who's also nasty. I think he's, uh,
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  Speaker 4: on his way. I said this before the season started
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  Speaker 4: to an all pro type year at center. I really
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  Speaker 4: think he can develop into that this year and become
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  Speaker 4: an all pro by the end of the year. So far,
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  Speaker 4: so good there too. But yeah, If you ever watch
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  Speaker 4: Frazier in the huddle, he's turned around. He gets the
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  Speaker 4: play call. He's staring at the defensive line.
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  Speaker 5: I love that. I was wondering why.
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  Speaker 6: You never see other teams do that.
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  Speaker 2: Me too. I'm the same.
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  Speaker 5: I guess he's intimidating, the defense.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, Mason McCormick, he got some run in the media
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  Speaker 6: last week. after, uh, throwing those Colts linebackers to the
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  Speaker 6: ground and yelling and he was mic'd up or whatever,
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  Speaker 6: but he says, Frazier doesn't talk that much, you know,
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  Speaker 6: just a stoic, do your job, focus guy, which, uh,
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  Speaker 6: you know it takes all kinds.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, no doubt.
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  Speaker 4: And then Brock Hoffman, he likes to chirp too. He
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  Speaker 4: likes to get active in that department. You know, one
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  Speaker 4: thing is it all starts and ends with the offensive line.
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  Speaker 5: Now, look, I'm a former offensive lineman.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I didn't play beyond high school, but hung
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  Speaker 4: out with a lot of dudes that played offensive line,
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  Speaker 4: so I have that mentality. So I'm a little bit biased, Tad,
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  Speaker 4: when it comes to offensive linemen, but it does start
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  Speaker 4: with that offensive line, so I think you bring up
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  Speaker 4: a good point. Since that change happened with Hoffman and
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  Speaker 4: Onachor on the right side, Jalen Warren's numbers picked up,
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  Speaker 4: and evident this past week when Rico Dottle returned to
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  Speaker 4: the lineup. I thought he had a pretty solid game
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  Speaker 4: on Sunday, too. Seven carries, 40 yards. A lot better
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  Speaker 4: than he did at the beginning of the season. Rico
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  Speaker 4: didn't look that great at the beginning of the year. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: beginning of the season was tough, although I think we
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  Speaker 4: maybe were expecting Atlanta to be a lot worse on defense.
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  Speaker 4: They're actually in the middle of the league. They're a
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  Speaker 4: fine defense.
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  Speaker 6: But I'm certainly encouraged because Rico coming off that toe injury...
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  Speaker 6: you know um i guess they gave him enough time
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  Speaker 6: to get healthy but he showed a lot of bursts
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  Speaker 6: and the offensive line's been getting some push.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah they sure have defensively steelers have been very good
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  Speaker 4: against the run to the last two weeks jonathan taylor
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  Speaker 4: held him to 45 yards on 15 carries bucky irving
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  Speaker 4: last week um by the way bucky irving what a
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  Speaker 4: name right it's a great name is that his real
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  Speaker 4: legal name bucky i don't know.
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  Speaker 6: It's probably like walter Every time you look up someone
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  Speaker 6: with a cool nickname, it's like, uh, it's, it's Stefan
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  Speaker 6: or Walter or something, you know, some, uh, fancy name.
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  Speaker 4: Bucky Irving held the 46 yards on 19 carries only
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  Speaker 4: two rushing touchdowns so far. And this is without Derek
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  Speaker 4: Harmon in the lineup the last two weeks too. So, uh,
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  Speaker 4: you know, Keanu Benton, Cam Hayward continues to be amazing.
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  Speaker 4: Sebastian Joseph date, Gabriel Rubio from.
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  Speaker 6: Rubio has been getting the hat on game day. What
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  Speaker 6: these last two games and I mean, you're seeing the
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  Speaker 6: investment in the trenches, which is sort of the future
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  Speaker 6: we were promised under Andy Weidel.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah. On both sides of the ball.
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  Speaker 2: Yep.
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  Speaker 4: And we just talked about the offensive line, now the
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  Speaker 4: defensive line, too. A lot of investment there and a
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  Speaker 4: lot of results. But Jalen Ramsey has been the dude, right?
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  Speaker 6: And he's been really good, and I'm excited to see.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, Robert Spears Jennings, I think they're, you know,
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  Speaker 6: they might have found something there with a rookie seventh-round pick.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah. But Jalen Ramsey bookending the game with huge sacks.
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  Speaker 5: Timely as ever.
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  Speaker 6: I'm curious if Patrick Graham is keeping some looks and
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  Speaker 6: some packages and some blitzes in his pocket for when
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  Speaker 6: they absolutely need them like they did at the end
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  Speaker 6: of that Tampa Bay game.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, they certainly turned up the blitz package with him
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  Speaker 4: and Nick Herbig, who had not recorded a sack for
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  Speaker 4: the first five games of this season. It was really
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  Speaker 4: mind-boggling to us. We're sitting here on the air last
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  Speaker 4: week saying, what happened to Nick Herbig? Well, I think
• 9:01
  Speaker 4: they were dropping him back into coverage a lot if
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  Speaker 4: you look at those first five weeks.
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  Speaker 5: Well, last week they actually blitzed him, and he got
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  Speaker 5: home twice. Two big sacks. It was good to see
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  Speaker 5: Herbig back in that world of getting home to the quarterback.
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  Speaker 6: Good to see him up by the ball. He's so twitchy.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, he is just so quick. He's a joy
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  Speaker 6: to watch.
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  Speaker 4: We're talking with Tad Whistle of the DVE Morning Show.
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  Speaker 5: But the DVE Morning.
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  Speaker 4: Show now, I mean, you were involved even before you
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  Speaker 4: became full-time on that show.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, you used to come on weekly.
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  Speaker 6: I was an occasional guest on the DVE Morning Show and, yeah,
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  Speaker 6: filled in for a while. And then I'm lucky to
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  Speaker 6: be there full-time. You know, I always love being part
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  Speaker 6: of a team. I played a lot of team sports,
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  Speaker 6: and we got a great team with Randy, Abby, and
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  Speaker 6: Mike in there.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, you sure do.
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  Speaker 4: And, you know, I tell people all the time, Even
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  Speaker 4: long before I was on the SNR airwaves, you know, 20,
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  Speaker 4: 25 years, the DV morning show was always great to
• 9:54
  Speaker 4: listen to for a number of reasons. But one of
• 9:56
  Speaker 4: the one of the thing is here on Steelers Nation radios,
• 9:59
  Speaker 4: if you're a Steeler fan, man, you guys just, you know,
• 10:01
  Speaker 4: wall-to-wall coverage on that morning show with guests analysis, talking, joking,
• 10:06
  Speaker 4: just having a good time with it. But even on
• 10:09
  Speaker 4: the days that the Steelers would lose those game days,
• 10:12
  Speaker 4: and then you turn on the morning show, it's like,
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  Speaker 4: we all felt the pain together and we all got
• 10:16
  Speaker 4: that off our chest.
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  Speaker 5: So you come on and say, boy, Roger sure sucked yesterday,
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  Speaker 5: didn't he?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: It's, um, it's awesome when they win and to celebrate
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  Speaker 6: on a victory Monday or, you know, take that victory
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  Speaker 6: lap the whole week, but it's also nice to commiserate
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  Speaker 6: when they lose. It's nice to have a group of
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  Speaker 6: people experiencing the same pain that everyone else is.
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  Speaker 4: And you had a good question this morning for Merrill Hodge.
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  Speaker 4: I was, I was listening on the way in earlier.
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  Speaker 4: You guys had Merrill.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Merrill's awesome.
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  Speaker 6: I was, uh, They had talked on the national broadcast
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  Speaker 6: about this being the biggest Steeler comeback since.
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  Speaker 5: 1992 against the Oilers. And Merrill was on that team.
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  Speaker 5: So I was hoping Merrill would be like, I looked
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  Speaker 5: Chuck Knoll in the eyes and he said, we're not losing.
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  Speaker 5: Of course, that didn't happen.
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  Speaker 2: I know.
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  Speaker 4: So it's funny we're bringing this up here because when
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  Speaker 4: I heard that question, I was like, well, Tad, I
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  Speaker 4: am on the show today. We're recording this today after
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  Speaker 4: that show. I was like, this is great. I can
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  Speaker 4: bring this up. That's a great question. And then Merrill
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  Speaker 4: completely pivoted to a whole other answer. And his answer
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  Speaker 4: was great.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, it was.
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  Speaker 6: And informative about how the comeback will embolden the young
• 11:16
  Speaker 6: Steelers to know that it can be done, no matter
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  Speaker 6: what the point difference is at that time. I was
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  Speaker 6: hoping for a little... You know, in my day story,
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  Speaker 6: an anecdote, if you will. But no, he's great.
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  Speaker 5: Merrill's great.
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  Speaker 4: We've had him here on our show, too, several times.
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  Speaker 4: We'll continue to do that. But he's on weekly with
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  Speaker 4: you guys, right?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, we get him every week. Got Gene Sterator on
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  Speaker 5: with you guys, too.
• 11:39
  Speaker 1: Gene.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, he's the man. He's great to talk to as well.
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  Speaker 4: You know, you know, he used to ref way back
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  Speaker 4: in the day when I was at Point Park. I
• 11:46
  Speaker 4: used to broadcast all their basketball games.
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  Speaker 5: Gene was a basketball official. This is 25-some years ago.
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  Speaker 2: Really?
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  Speaker 4: And he used to always come over. I mean, we're
• 11:52
  Speaker 4: college kids broadcasting the game. Who cares about us?
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  Speaker 5: But Gene would always come over and talk to us
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  Speaker 5: during timeouts, before the game, after the game.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, we didn't know who he was at the time.
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  Speaker 4: We just thought he was a college official doing the game.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I turned my TV on 10 years later, and he's, like,
• 12:05
  Speaker 4: officiating football, and now he's on national TV.
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  Speaker 5: He's on with you guys every week.
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  Speaker 6: He's so good in that national analyst role where they
• 12:12
  Speaker 6: call him in, and, you know, you really have to
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  Speaker 6: be on. You're watching six different games, and it always–
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  Speaker 6: Whenever they go to him, it sort of feels like
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  Speaker 6: they caught him in the middle of something.
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  Speaker 5: You know, it's like his hands. He's got stuff all
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  Speaker 5: over his hands.
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  Speaker 2: Like, oh, hold on a second.
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  Speaker 5: Making food or something. He's like, hold on.
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  Speaker 4: I got to put down this sandwich before I tell
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  Speaker 4: you if that ball was out of bounds or not.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Again, you can hear Tad with Abby and Randy and Mike.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, you want to talk about Mount Rushmore, Mount
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  Speaker 4: Washington here locally, right? Of local Pittsburgh media folks that
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  Speaker 4: are just really good at what they do. You guys
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  Speaker 4: are certainly on there, man. You're in a good room there.
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  Speaker 4: I do want to ask you one more question before
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  Speaker 4: we finish up with you. Born and raised here in Pittsburgh.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: So talk to us a bit about that.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, growing up a Steeler fan, what was, what
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  Speaker 4: was one of your favorite memories as a Steeler.
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  Speaker 5: Fan growing up? Cause we're about the same age.
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  Speaker 4: I think you're a little younger than me, but, uh,
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  Speaker 4: we're about probably the same era of Pittsburgh Steeler football,
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  Speaker 4: late eighties, nineties, early two thousands.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm 40.
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  Speaker 6: Um, and, uh, my parents split up when I was young.
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  Speaker 6: So my mom lived in squirrel Hill and my dad
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  Speaker 6: lived in Imperial. So I went to middle school in
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  Speaker 6: town and then I lived with my dad for high
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  Speaker 6: school and went to West Allegheny. Um, Man, I just
• 13:22
  Speaker 6: have a lot of great Steeler memories, like going to
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  Speaker 6: a small Catholic grade school, and at the end of
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  Speaker 6: the day in the playoffs, them playing Here We Go
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  Speaker 6: on the loudspeaker.
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  Speaker 5: Throughout the school.
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  Speaker 7: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: Like, that was, it's like, I left school so pumped up.
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  Speaker 5: At a Catholic school.
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  Speaker 2: At a Catholic school.
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  Speaker 6: So fired up about the Steelers. And, man, like, that Steelers, Steelers, Chargers.
• 13:49
  Speaker 6: Oh 92 yard pass in 94 on fourth down.
• 13:52
  Speaker 5: Dennis gibson ruined our childhoods.
• 13:55
  Speaker 6: Yeah yeah not even say out not even say out
• 13:57
  Speaker 6: right and then um the following year when they lost
• 14:01
  Speaker 6: the i remember crying oh in my in my childhood
• 14:04
  Speaker 6: bed just crying so hard that night but a lot
• 14:07
  Speaker 6: of great memories too and then uh You know, of course,
• 14:10
  Speaker 6: the team of destiny, Super Bowl 40. I mean, that's something,
• 14:14
  Speaker 6: you know, I was the perfect age to experience that
• 14:18
  Speaker 6: in 19.
• 14:19
  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
• 14:19
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 14:20
  Speaker 5: They're the greatest team ever. They may never lose again.
• 14:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly.
• 14:23
  Speaker 5: They're just going to continue to win Super Bowls.
• 14:24
  Speaker 2: We're back. We're back.
• 14:26
  Speaker 4: It's funny you bring up that 94-95 sequence because when
• 14:29
  Speaker 4: we played the Colts a couple weeks ago, we were
• 14:31
  Speaker 4: talking about the history of Colts Steelers. I brought up
• 14:34
  Speaker 4: that 1995 AFC championship game.
• 14:37
  Speaker 5: I thought he caught it.
• 14:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah. And, you know, it's funny. I thought he caught it, man.
• 14:41
  Speaker 5: Well, they didn't have instant replay then either.
• 14:43
  Speaker 4: So, you know, if that official was not right where
• 14:46
  Speaker 4: he was in that corner of Three River Stadium, there's
• 14:48
  Speaker 4: a good chance he would have called that good.
• 14:50
  Speaker 5: You know, if he wasn't right there to see that
• 14:51
  Speaker 5: ball hit the turf. I implore everyone to go watch it.
• 14:54
  Speaker 6: Go back and rewatch how close that Hail Mary from
• 14:56
  Speaker 6: Jim Harbaugh came to being completed.
• 14:59
  Speaker 4: There was a shot of Jim Harbaugh. and he's mumbling,
• 15:01
  Speaker 4: I thought he caught it. He's looking around like, I
• 15:03
  Speaker 4: thought he caught it.
• 15:04
  Speaker 5: I thought the game was over.
• 15:06
  Speaker 4: But there was so much drama in that game because
• 15:08
  Speaker 4: what you mentioned, it was the previous season, Barry Foster
• 15:11
  Speaker 4: in the back of the end zone, O'Donnell trying to
• 15:12
  Speaker 4: get it to him, Dennis Gibson knocks it down, Steelers
• 15:15
  Speaker 4: losing a rainstorm when it was like 60 It's like
• 15:17
  Speaker 4: 60 degrees in January during a rainstorm. Chargers are coming
• 15:21
  Speaker 4: into town. You're thinking to yourself, man, it'll be cold.
• 15:23
  Speaker 4: They're a West Coast team. Because back then, that actually
• 15:25
  Speaker 4: seemed like, at least in our heads, it mattered. Nowadays,
• 15:27
  Speaker 4: it doesn't seem like it anymore. But back then, you
• 15:29
  Speaker 4: at least convinced yourself, hey, they're a warm-weather team coming
• 15:32
  Speaker 4: into a cold-weather atmosphere. But I remember it was really
• 15:34
  Speaker 4: warm for that game. Following year, those Steelers punched their
• 15:36
  Speaker 4: ticket to Super Bowl XXX. before being disappointed. I was
• 15:39
  Speaker 4: with you, man. I had tears as well. I was
• 15:41
  Speaker 4: a little older than you. I was in high school then,
• 15:43
  Speaker 4: but I was still devastated. I'd cry now if it happened.
• 15:46
  Speaker 4: That and Francisco Corbera from Atlanta.
• 15:51
  Speaker 5: Remember the 92 Pirates against the Atlanta Braves? Sid Bream.
• 15:57
  Speaker 5: Sid Bream sliding at home. Corbera was the guy.
• 15:59
  Speaker 8: Who hit that ball.
• 16:00
  Speaker 5: We won't bring up that either, Tad. But listen, man,
• 16:02
  Speaker 5: thank you so much for coming on. Let's do it again.
• 16:05
  Speaker 5: We love listening to you in the mornings.
• 16:07
  Speaker 4: Love when you guys talk about Steel or talk on
• 16:09
  Speaker 4: DVE on the morning show. And again, man, you're kind
• 16:12
  Speaker 4: of legacy here. One other quick, so this is the
• 16:14
  Speaker 4: Long Pittsburgh goodbye.
• 16:15
  Speaker 5: Absolutely, yeah. Long Pittsburgh. I'm all for it. You just
• 16:18
  Speaker 5: can't hang up with somebody. One more thing.
• 16:20
  Speaker 4: Especially we're not up against the break. We make the
• 16:22
  Speaker 4: breaks here on SNR. But when I was up at
• 16:26
  Speaker 4: Steel or training camp this past summer, We hosted the
• 16:29
  Speaker 4: midday show during practice, which was awesome, really cool. But
• 16:32
  Speaker 4: then off the scenes, as you know, there's a lot
• 16:34
  Speaker 4: of behind the scenes work that goes into play, all
• 16:36
  Speaker 4: hands on deck, setting up remotes, tearing down equipment, setting
• 16:39
  Speaker 4: up equipment.
• 16:40
  Speaker 5: I was part of that team that did that.
• 16:42
  Speaker 4: And I was told about you and how the legend
• 16:44
  Speaker 4: of Tad, when he was up here, what he did.
• 16:46
  Speaker 4: I mean, dude, they all spoke so highly of you
• 16:49
  Speaker 4: and Latrobe and within the Steelers organization, Mike Pursuita couldn't
• 16:52
  Speaker 4: say enough good things.
• 16:53
  Speaker 5: And I, I was like, really?
• 16:54
  Speaker 4: I did.
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: Cause I didn't know.
• 16:55
  Speaker 4: I knew your past as a firefighter. I knew you
• 16:57
  Speaker 4: did some local comedy stuff. I knew you were on
• 16:59
  Speaker 4: the show on DV's morning show, but I didn't know
• 17:01
  Speaker 4: that your roots started right here, right here, you know,
• 17:04
  Speaker 4: training camp. Uh, I had three full camps up there
• 17:08
  Speaker 4: living in St.
• 17:08
  Speaker 5: Benedict hall.
• 17:10
  Speaker 6: And, uh, Moonlighting, of course, with Sharky's and Dino's and Gio's,
• 17:15
  Speaker 6: RIP Gio's.
• 17:16
  Speaker 5: Oh, I didn't know about Gio's. Oh, it was sweet.
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: Oh, wow.
• 17:21
  Speaker 5: They had some sort of special one of the weekdays.
• 17:23
  Speaker 6: It was like dollar beers, and they were served out
• 17:27
  Speaker 6: of a cooler on the floor.
• 17:28
  Speaker 5: I'm like, this is my spot. Classy Westmoreland County spot there.
• 17:33
  Speaker 6: That's it.
• 17:33
  Speaker 5: I like it. That's a good spot.
• 17:34
  Speaker 4: Hey, you can hear Tad Whistle every morning again with...
• 17:37
  Speaker 4: Abby and Randy and our good friend Mike Bursudak. DVE
• 17:41
  Speaker 4: Morning Show every morning, 102.5 FM DVE.
• 17:45
  Speaker 5: And we'll be back more right here on the Steelers Report. Tad,
• 17:48
  Speaker 5: thanks for coming in. Appreciate it, Ed. Keep up the
• 17:50
  Speaker 5: good work, man.
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: Ed Wissel from the DVE Morning Show joining us last
• 17:53
  Speaker 4: week to talk about the Pittsburgh Steelers. We'll definitely have
• 17:55
  Speaker 4: Tad back on the show here soon. Again, you can
• 17:59
  Speaker 4: hear Tad on the DVE Morning Show every That's going
• 18:01
  Speaker 4: to do it for the Steelers Standard for today. Up next,
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: it's Wes Shuler and Matt Williamson on SNR's Drive right
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: here on Steelers Nation Radio, part of the Steelers Audio Network.
• 18:12
  Speaker 7: This is the Steelers Report with Brian Batko and Ed
• 18:20
  Speaker 7: Troup on Steelers Nation Radio, a part of the Steelers
• 18:24
  Speaker 7: Audio Network.
• 18:26
  Speaker 5: Double B and I.
• 18:28
  Speaker 4: Talking throughout the first hour so much about the Steelers
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: and his Paris trip. One thing we did not mention
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: was the passing of a local legend with Donny Ars.
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: And that's a hot topic in and around Pittsburgh, rightfully so.
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: And much love and thoughts out there to the fans
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: and the family and those that knew Donny Ars, Pittsburgh legend,
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: double B.
• 18:53
  Speaker 5: And it's sad.
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: For sure.
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: Like I said, anytime you bring up Pittsburgh sports or,
• 18:59
  Speaker 4: and I, I saw, I think a performance by Donnie Iris,
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: one of his last ones here in Pittsburgh, he had
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: a Steeler jersey on.
• 19:05
  Speaker 5: So that tells you everything you need to know.
• 19:06
  Speaker 8: Definitely embedded as a piece of Pittsburgh culture. And one
• 19:11
  Speaker 8: of those musicians, there were musicians, actors, obviously athletes and
• 19:16
  Speaker 8: others who were very, very protective of, and very proud
• 19:20
  Speaker 8: to call our own. And he was one of them
• 19:23
  Speaker 8: for sure. Uh, uh, Just a name to know in
• 19:27
  Speaker 8: the musical circles around here. I'd say, like, the Clarks,
• 19:31
  Speaker 8: I feel like, are kind of in that same kind of, you.
• 19:34
  Speaker 5: Know, realm a little bit. Yes, for sure. Yeah, R.I.P.
• 19:37
  Speaker 5: Donny Iris.
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: You know, anytime you talk to anybody in and around
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: the city of Pittsburgh, you're like, hey, the Steelers and
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: Permanente brothers and Donny Ars.
• 19:46
  Speaker 5: Yeah, he's like the Permanente brothers of musical acts. He is, exactly.
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: Exactly.
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: But definitely wanted to throw that out. We didn't talk
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: about that during our first hour, but definitely on our minds,
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: and you and I are both big music fans. We
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: listen to a lot of different music, and I do
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: have some Donny Ars in my rotation. And even when
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: I say that name, I feel like I say it
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: in a very Pittsburgh-ese type of way.
• 20:05
  Speaker 5: You kind of have to. You have to put that
• 20:07
  Speaker 5: on there, right?
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: So did you listen to any Donny R's while you
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: were in Paris?
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: Probably not.
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: No.
• 20:12
  Speaker 5: That's okay.
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: No.
• 20:13
  Speaker 8: I mean, there was American music going on at the game,
• 20:16
  Speaker 8: but they also did play some French stuff, too.
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: I was going to ask you, at the game, was
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: there any, like, Renegade or anything? It was a Saints game.
• 20:22
  Speaker 8: No, yeah, it was a Saints. And that's what's kind
• 20:24
  Speaker 8: of interesting about these international games. Like, last year I
• 20:26
  Speaker 8: got to see how they treated the Steelers as the
• 20:29
  Speaker 8: home team in Dublin from a, game presentation standpoint with
• 20:33
  Speaker 8: Renegade and the terrible towel twirl and all of that.
• 20:35
  Speaker 8: I mean, it was like an Accra sure game on
• 20:37
  Speaker 8: the road, obviously across the pond. But this one was like,
• 20:42
  Speaker 8: for instance, they announced the saints starters, you know, it
• 20:45
  Speaker 8: one by one introductions.
• 20:47
  Speaker 5: For the Steelers.
• 20:47
  Speaker 8: It was just the typical, and now head coach Mike
• 20:50
  Speaker 8: McCarthy in the Pittsburgh Steelers. But, you know, the end
• 20:53
  Speaker 8: zones are split, obviously. There's a Steelers end zone and
• 20:56
  Speaker 8: a Saints end zone. I'd say there was maybe more
• 20:58
  Speaker 8: Saints signage than Steelers signage, but they both had signage
• 21:04
  Speaker 8: there in addition to the end zones. And they had
• 21:08
  Speaker 8: a brass band, which is obviously a big thing down
• 21:11
  Speaker 8: in New Orleans, those jazz bands with their instruments, and
• 21:14
  Speaker 8: they were kind of playing the breaks throughout the game,
• 21:17
  Speaker 8: and they were a lot of fun. They were playing...
• 21:19
  Speaker 8: brass band covers of popular songs.
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: Oh, that's cool.
• 21:22
  Speaker 8: So that was cool.
• 21:22
  Speaker 5: That was cool to hear.
• 21:23
  Speaker 8: And then, you know, the French National Anthem was fantastic.
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: It was.
• 21:27
  Speaker 8: I'm not sure the woman who sang that, but it
• 21:29
  Speaker 8: was really, really good.
• 21:30
  Speaker 5: And the National Anthem, American National Anthem was good, too.
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 21:34
  Speaker 8: So, yeah, it was really fun. And right when the
• 21:37
  Speaker 8: anthem ended, they did these red, white, and blue fireworks
• 21:41
  Speaker 8: over top of the stadium.
• 21:42
  Speaker 5: I saw your picture. You and Wes Euler took some
• 21:44
  Speaker 5: photos of that. That looked really cool. That was giving
• 21:46
  Speaker 5: you chills type of situation there.
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: Yeah, no doubt about that. One other question for you.
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: Press box food. What was the choices there? Did they
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: feed you good?
• 21:55
  Speaker 5: Oh, you're doing okay.
• 21:56
  Speaker 8: It was okay.
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: Because normally when you go, just so the listening audience knows,
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: when you guys go on the road to an NFL city,
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: they usually try to treat you with something that's like
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: more local for that city, right?
• 22:06
  Speaker 8: Sometimes it's the opposite. Sometimes they will do like a
• 22:10
  Speaker 8: staple of your city. Like I've been to places on
• 22:12
  Speaker 8: the road where they have pierogies or fries on the sandwich.
• 22:16
  Speaker 5: Well, I mean, no one can quite do that.
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: Right, I'm just kidding.
• 22:18
  Speaker 8: They kind of do their best.
• 22:19
  Speaker 5: But pierogies and stuff, that's cool.
• 22:21
  Speaker 8: Yeah, so some places do that. No, I mean, it
• 22:24
  Speaker 8: was interesting. They had fish and chips, but not chips.
• 22:27
  Speaker 8: So it was really just a piece of baked or
• 22:29
  Speaker 8: fried fish. And then they had wings. So I guess
• 22:33
  Speaker 8: they did try to Americanize it a little bit with that.
• 22:36
  Speaker 5: The wings are good.
• 22:37
  Speaker 8: They were okay.
• 22:38
  Speaker 5: I mean, you wouldn't expect it to be good in Paris.
• 22:41
  Speaker 5: With all due respect.
• 22:41
  Speaker 8: Then there were like cheese puff pastries, which were actually really,
• 22:44
  Speaker 8: that was probably my favorite of the pregame spread. So yeah,
• 22:47
  Speaker 8: they had the pregame spread. They had a lot of candy,
• 22:49
  Speaker 8: which is always nice. I should have loaded up on
• 22:52
  Speaker 8: more of that than I did, which reminds me, I
• 22:54
  Speaker 8: brought home one of the candy bars for my kids
• 22:56
  Speaker 8: and forgot to give it to them. So the souvenirs
• 22:59
  Speaker 8: will continue coming out over the course of the week.
• 23:01
  Speaker 5: They got to be pumped about that. A little candy
• 23:03
  Speaker 5: for a kid.
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 23:04
  Speaker 5: I mean, they'll like that more than anything that I
• 23:06
  Speaker 5: got souvenir-wise. Because France is known for chocolate, right?
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: French chocolate.
• 23:09
  Speaker 8: Yeah, but it's just like a brand name that you'd
• 23:11
  Speaker 8: find here in Pittsburgh.
• 23:13
  Speaker 5: So a Clark bar or something.
• 23:14
  Speaker 8: Something like that, yeah. But they didn't really have a
• 23:18
  Speaker 8: lot of halftime refreshments, which us gluttonous American media members,
• 23:23
  Speaker 8: we'll come stuff our face at halftime too if.
• 23:24
  Speaker 5: You let us.
• 23:26
  Speaker 8: But that wasn't really on the docket for the day.
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: Food's always a big deal, that's for sure, but it
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: sounds like you got the most out of your experience.
• 23:32
  Speaker 8: No, the pregame spread was solid. Coffee over there is weird, though. Oh, really? Yeah,
• 23:38
  Speaker 8: it's like, and this is.
• 23:40
  Speaker 5: Because New Orleans has the famous cafe.
• 23:43
  Speaker 8: Yeah, they don't really do a ton of beignets, I
• 23:45
  Speaker 8: don't think, in France. It's more like baguettes and croissants
• 23:48
  Speaker 8: and pastries. But yeah, trying to order a coffee over
• 23:52
  Speaker 8: there is kind of difficult because they're more of an espresso...
• 23:55
  Speaker 8: type of culture and not a lot of iced coffee
• 23:58
  Speaker 8: happening over in France.
• 24:00
  Speaker 5: You and I like our iced coffee in the afternoon.
• 24:02
  Speaker 8: That was a bit of a struggle, a bit of
• 24:03
  Speaker 8: a challenge over the course of the week.
• 24:05
  Speaker 5: Cafe de Moon, by the way, in New Orleans.
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: Great spot.
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: All right, let's get into our top 10 plays of
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: the week from Steelers Saints. We're going to start off
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: with a couple field goals. They were key field goals.
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: The first one capped the opening play. And as Rob
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: King says in his play-by-play here of the Chris Boswell
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: 28-yard field goal, the first point scored in Paris, France
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: from an NFL football team.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: Johnson looking back, gets the high sign from Boswell, the snap,
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: the hold, the kick is up.
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: And that kick is good.
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: And the first ever point scored in the first ever
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: game in France from the golden toe.
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: Of Chris Boswell.
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: Eight yard, 51 yard, eight play, 51 yard opening scoring drive.
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: That ate up four minutes and nine seconds to Chris Boswell.
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: 28 yard field goal. Double B gave the Steelers an
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: early three nothing lead.
• 24:54
  Speaker 5: Big opening drive. We talked about it.
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: In our first hour here on the Steelers report today.
• 24:59
  Speaker 4: Because they came out in that jumbo package with Spencer
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: Anderson and pounded the football with Jalen Warren and did
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: a good job of it.
• 25:05
  Speaker 8: Popped off a big run from Warren right away, which
• 25:08
  Speaker 8: was really nice to see. And yeah, I wish you
• 25:11
  Speaker 8: wouldn't have had to settle for a field goal there.
• 25:14
  Speaker 8: But still good to get points on the board early.
• 25:16
  Speaker 8: Strike first. Steelers have now gotten the first win in
• 25:20
  Speaker 8: both Dublin and Paris. Aaron Rodgers has thrown the first
• 25:23
  Speaker 8: touchdown pass in both Dublin and Paris. One to DK Metcalf.
• 25:27
  Speaker 8: One to Darnell Washington.
• 25:29
  Speaker 5: You found the candy bar for your kid.
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 25:31
  Speaker 8: It's, I guess, like a little bit different.
• 25:33
  Speaker 5: The Bueno Kinder chocolate bar. My son loves those, too. Yeah.
• 25:39
  Speaker 5: White chocolate version.
• 25:40
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 25:40
  Speaker 8: I don't know. Do they have those in the U.S.?
• 25:42
  Speaker 8: They do.
• 25:43
  Speaker 5: They probably do. Like I said, my son Brendan likes
• 25:45
  Speaker 5: those a lot. Anyhow, back to the plays of the week.
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: Enough talking about food and chocolate and all that good stuff.
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: But yeah, Boswell with the 28-yarder, our No.
• 25:53
  Speaker 5: 10 play. Our No.
• 25:54
  Speaker 4: 9 play was this 39-yard field goal, which was important
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: in the third quarter because the Steelers at that point
• 26:01
  Speaker 4: had extended their lead from 13-10 to 16-10. On this,
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: Chris Boswell, 39-yard field goal.
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: 39-yard attempt from the left hash. Here's the snap. Here's
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: the boot by Boswell.
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: That kick is up, and that kick is good with
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: 14 seconds remaining here in the third quarter.
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: Right at the end of the third quarter, capped a 14-play,
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: 51-yard scoring drive that ate up 7 minutes and 18
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: seconds right at the end of the third to give
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: the Steelers the 16-10 lead.
• 26:28
  Speaker 8: Steelers have been really good in the time of possession
• 26:29
  Speaker 8: game this season, and I believe they're like fourth or
• 26:32
  Speaker 8: fifth in the NFL. right now in time of possession
• 26:36
  Speaker 8: so as much as there's been some hand-wringing about not
• 26:39
  Speaker 8: running the ball enough well i think mike mccarthy refers
• 26:43
  Speaker 8: to it as ball distribution which is you're getting the
• 26:45
  Speaker 8: ball out uh via completions or handoffs and you're you're
• 26:50
  Speaker 8: keeping the clock rolling you are controlling the game and
• 26:53
  Speaker 8: dj watts said after that one the best defense is
• 26:56
  Speaker 8: a defense that's on the bench.
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: That field goal was set up after the peyton wilson interception.
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: You'd want seven there, Double B, because I remember thinking
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: to myself, late third quarter, if you get seven, I
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: think the game's over. I think they pretty much put
• 27:08
  Speaker 4: the game away at that standpoint. But getting the field
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: goal kept it a still one possession game, 16-10 at
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: that standpoint. You talked about the running game. We talked
• 27:17
  Speaker 4: about the offensive line. We talked about the jumbo package. Well,
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: this was one of several big runs by Jalen Warren,
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: but this one came in the first quarter. It's a
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: 29-yard run by Jalen Warren. It's our number eight play
• 27:28
  Speaker 4: of the game. Spencer Anderson is out there as the
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: extra offensive lineman.
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: Rodgers... Under center, turns and gives to Jalen Warren off
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: the left side. Finds some room. Crosses the midfield. The
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: 45 to 40. Lowers his head. Still going.
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: Banging down inside the 29-yard line of the New Orleans Saints.
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: Great run by Jalen Warren.
• 27:46
  Speaker 5: That kind of set the tone for that opening drive
• 27:49
  Speaker 5: and for the game.
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it did.
• 27:51
  Speaker 8: And, you know, Jalen Warren now with another 100-yard game
• 27:55
  Speaker 8: on the ground. He's getting it done through the air,
• 27:59
  Speaker 8: through the ground. He's getting it done. Rico Dowdle. is
• 28:01
  Speaker 8: getting it done. I mean, this is, as Mike McCarthy said,
• 28:04
  Speaker 8: that's what they envision in training camp is you don't
• 28:07
  Speaker 8: really have to worry too much about, Oh, we got
• 28:10
  Speaker 8: to make sure one guy's in the game for this player,
• 28:11
  Speaker 8: the other guys in the game for this play. I mean,
• 28:14
  Speaker 8: I get it. Like you want Jalen Warren to be
• 28:15
  Speaker 8: out there a lot because of the way he's running,
• 28:17
  Speaker 8: the way he's played this season, but they want to
• 28:20
  Speaker 8: feel like they're not having much of a drop-off from
• 28:22
  Speaker 8: one back to the other and credit Rico Dowdle too,
• 28:25
  Speaker 8: for getting it on the act.
• 28:26
  Speaker 5: Although that was a heck of a run there by Warren.
• 28:28
  Speaker 5: Chris Boswell had three field goals on Sunday.
• 28:31
  Speaker 4: Number 10 was the 28-yarder. The number 9 play of
• 28:35
  Speaker 4: the week was the 39-yarder. Our number 7 play of
• 28:38
  Speaker 4: the week is his 47-yard field goal that came right
• 28:41
  Speaker 4: before halftime. Rodgers takes a sack here at Double B.
• 28:44
  Speaker 4: Steelers got lucky. They were out of timeouts, but they
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: were still able to get Chris Boswell on the field
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: in enough time to hit this 47-yard field goal.
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: Rodgers gets a snap.
• 28:53
  Speaker 5: Back to pass.
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: Looking.
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: Steps up in the pocket. And he's sacked with 18
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: seconds left.
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: And the Steelers.
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: Special teams unit has to hustle out onto the field.
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: There's 10 seconds.
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: Left as Boswell gets set.
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: Seven, six, five.
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: Johnson looks back at Boswell, gets the snap.
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: Here's the boot. The kick is up. And that kick
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: is good from Chris Boswell. Beautifully executed.
• 29:22
  Speaker 4: Beautifully executed is a good way to describe it from
• 29:25
  Speaker 4: Rob King there. But they got lucky because there was
• 29:28
  Speaker 4: no timeouts left. You never want to take a sack
• 29:30
  Speaker 4: in that situation. But Rodgers was calm and collective. The
• 29:33
  Speaker 4: Steelers offense, give them credit, was calm and collective.
• 29:35
  Speaker 5: They got Boz in just enough time to hit that
• 29:37
  Speaker 5: field goal. Yeah, that's the stuff they rep a lot.
• 29:40
  Speaker 8: In training camp settings and practice settings because you know
• 29:44
  Speaker 8: that it could come up in a game and you
• 29:47
  Speaker 8: know you don't want to have to uh to do
• 29:49
  Speaker 8: that you know you want ample time to kick your
• 29:51
  Speaker 8: field goal but it's always impressive to me when you
• 29:54
  Speaker 8: can I know some coaches call it like mayday and
• 29:56
  Speaker 8: some coaches call it a fire drill, but either way,
• 29:58
  Speaker 8: you got to get everybody on there without time to
• 30:01
  Speaker 8: stop and collect your thoughts. And it's credit for everybody
• 30:05
  Speaker 8: for getting lined up, but especially Christian Koontz, the snapper,
• 30:08
  Speaker 8: and then Cam Johnson putting the ball down and Chris
• 30:11
  Speaker 8: Boswell booting it through.
• 30:12
  Speaker 4: TJ Watt had been quiet in his last four games
• 30:15
  Speaker 4: until Sunday. Only one sack in his last four games
• 30:17
  Speaker 4: before the week seven matchup against the Saints. Seven tackles
• 30:21
  Speaker 4: only during that span. Well, on Sunday, he had a sack,
• 30:24
  Speaker 4: a tackle for loss, and two quarterback hits and should
• 30:28
  Speaker 4: have had a fumble recovery, Double B. Real quick before
• 30:30
  Speaker 4: I play our number six play, which is the TJ sack.
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: Well, hold on.
• 30:33
  Speaker 4: I'll wait until after the play, then I'll get your
• 30:34
  Speaker 4: thoughts on this. But here's TJ Watt's first sack and
• 30:38
  Speaker 4: only sack of the game. It was a big one
• 30:39
  Speaker 4: in the second quarter with the Steelers leading 3-0.
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: Chuck gets a snap, pumps quickly to the right, and
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: is sacked, taken down by TJ Watt at the 25-yard line.
• 30:51
  Speaker 5: TJ Watt, the ball had popped loose. Instant replay.
• 30:55
  Speaker 4: Originally, they gave it a strip sack fumble recovery to
• 30:58
  Speaker 4: TJ Watt, but they overturned it, which was surprising because
• 31:01
  Speaker 4: normally when it's that close, a 50-50 toss-up, they tend
• 31:05
  Speaker 4: to just keep the call in the field as called
• 31:07
  Speaker 4: in stands.
• 31:08
  Speaker 5: Well, they reversed this. I will say this.
• 31:10
  Speaker 4: The first angle, I thought his knee was down, but
• 31:13
  Speaker 4: it was the second back angle, at least on TV
• 31:15
  Speaker 4: on our side watching it from home, that showed that
• 31:18
  Speaker 4: ball starting to get loose before the knee hit the turf.
• 31:20
  Speaker 4: It was a very close call.
• 31:21
  Speaker 8: I think so. Yeah, I was going back and forth
• 31:24
  Speaker 8: in the moment watching the replays and stuff. But yeah,
• 31:27
  Speaker 8: I think that the ball was starting to come out.
• 31:31
  Speaker 8: And also when you see TJ Watt closing in on
• 31:33
  Speaker 8: a QB like that, especially when he doesn't necessarily see
• 31:36
  Speaker 8: him coming and you know that there's not going to
• 31:39
  Speaker 8: be enough time to get the ball off, you almost
• 31:41
  Speaker 8: just assume at this point that TJ is going to
• 31:43
  Speaker 8: find a way to separate the QB from the ball.
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: Knock it loose.
• 31:46
  Speaker 8: Yeah, and it sure looked like he did that, but man,
• 31:49
  Speaker 8: how about all those near misses there in the first half?
• 31:51
  Speaker 8: I mean, that goal line stand was fantastic until it wasn't.
• 31:55
  Speaker 8: It ends with the fourth down completion to Vele for
• 31:58
  Speaker 8: a touchdown where he just sort of beat Jalen Ramsey
• 32:01
  Speaker 8: to the flat, boxed him out, and caught it, but yeah,
• 32:04
  Speaker 8: I mean, you had Jamel Deans punch out.
• 32:07
  Speaker 5: He's got three of those, I think, already this season.
• 32:09
  Speaker 8: I mean, unfortunately for him, they haven't really fallen his
• 32:12
  Speaker 8: way for a takeaway, but He's really good at punching
• 32:15
  Speaker 8: the ball out as a cornerback. Cole Holcomb punched that
• 32:18
  Speaker 8: one out, but Kendre Miller, I think it was Miller,
• 32:20
  Speaker 8: his behind was down right before he forced the ball loose.
• 32:25
  Speaker 8: But it felt like the dam was going to break eventually,
• 32:27
  Speaker 8: and it took until the Peyton Wilson pick. But, yeah,
• 32:30
  Speaker 8: great play there by T.J. Watt to reintroduce himself.
• 32:33
  Speaker 5: There were certainly some close games. calls. By the way,
• 32:37
  Speaker 5: real quick, Jay-Z reference right there. Reintroduce yourself. Super Bowl
• 32:40
  Speaker 5: halftime show. Did you do that on purpose or was
• 32:42
  Speaker 5: that just... I didn't.
• 32:43
  Speaker 8: I didn't, but it is timely now, I guess.
• 32:45
  Speaker 5: It's very timely.
• 32:46
  Speaker 4: I thought maybe you were sneaking in one of those
• 32:48
  Speaker 4: Uncle Tommy type things.
• 32:49
  Speaker 8: Jamel Dean tied for the league lead with three forced
• 32:52
  Speaker 8: fumbles alongside names like Fred Warner, Jalen Carter, Greg Russo,
• 32:57
  Speaker 8: David Bailey, Quincy Williams, N'Kobe Dean, so he's actually leading
• 33:01
  Speaker 8: all defensive backs with three.
• 33:04
  Speaker 4: He's come on strong these last few weeks. By the way,
• 33:05
  Speaker 4: real quick before we go to break, Uncle Tommy, did
• 33:07
  Speaker 4: you bring him back a souvenir?
• 33:09
  Speaker 5: I did not.
• 33:10
  Speaker 8: This radio show will be his souvenir.
• 33:11
  Speaker 5: Give him that candy bar over there.
• 33:13
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 33:13
  Speaker 5: Give him that candy bar.
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: He'll be happy.
• 33:14
  Speaker 5: All right, here we go.
• 33:15
  Speaker 4: Whenever we come back, our top five plays of the week,
• 33:18
  Speaker 4: we'll get back on track for you. We're having some fun.
• 33:19
  Speaker 4: Double B's back from Paris a day early. We're supposed
• 33:21
  Speaker 4: to start back up on Wednesday. He said, I'm coming
• 33:24
  Speaker 4: in today. Steeler Nation needs to hear me.
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: That's why he's here.
• 33:28
  Speaker 5: Top five plays of the week.
• 33:29
  Speaker 4: Up next, it's the Steelers report right here on Steelers
• 33:31
  Speaker 4: Nation Radio, part of the Steelers Audio Network.
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: This is the Steelers Report with Brian Batko and Ed
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: Troop on Steelers Nation Radio, a part of the Steelers
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: Audio Network.
• 33:50
  Speaker 4: Joking with Double B about bringing back souvenirs for his
• 33:53
  Speaker 4: family and one of our loyal listeners, his uncle Tommy,
• 33:57
  Speaker 4: said this radio show is his gift.
• 33:58
  Speaker 5: That's his souvenir.
• 34:00
  Speaker 4: I feel like that's the gift we give Steeler Nation
• 34:02
  Speaker 4: every day.
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: Double B, right?
• 34:03
  Speaker 5: The two of us. That's true. That's what the Steelers
• 34:06
  Speaker 5: report is here for.
• 34:08
  Speaker 8: But, yeah, I mean, honestly, like for all the concerns
• 34:11
  Speaker 8: about travel and stuff, I mean, I thought the trip.
• 34:14
  Speaker 5: went very well a lot of.
• 34:15
  Speaker 8: Steelers alumni were also out there doing cool stuff around
• 34:18
  Speaker 8: town I saw that uh geez I mean well obviously
• 34:21
  Speaker 8: you know our guy Max Starks is is always uh
• 34:23
  Speaker 8: in the mix but mentioned Chris Hoke earlier he went
• 34:27
  Speaker 8: out to Disneyland Paris with uh with his wife Tammy
• 34:29
  Speaker 8: and we kept running into each other and I was
• 34:32
  Speaker 8: it was a lot of fun to chop it up
• 34:33
  Speaker 8: with with Hokey Ryan Shazier was out there Santonio Holmes
• 34:38
  Speaker 8: was toe-tapping around various landmarks in Paris. Dermot Dawson was
• 34:45
  Speaker 8: out there. Geez, I think I saw Brett Kiesel on
• 34:48
  Speaker 8: the call for Westwood One. I think the U.K. version
• 34:52
  Speaker 8: maybe was Christian Scotland-Williamson, former Steelers practice squad tight end
• 34:57
  Speaker 8: who spent a few years here after being a rugby star.
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: That's a deep cut.
• 35:01
  Speaker 8: And then was part of the International Player Pathway Program.
• 35:04
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 35:04
  Speaker 8: As Julius Welshof is now the outside linebacker from Germany.
• 35:09
  Speaker 8: But yeah, Christian Scotland-Williamson was on the call, so I
• 35:12
  Speaker 8: guess he's in the media world now. But yeah, it
• 35:15
  Speaker 8: was great fun. A lot of Steelers fans made the trip.
• 35:18
  Speaker 8: I saw people. I ran into people from home out there.
• 35:21
  Speaker 8: I knew they were out there, but some I connected
• 35:24
  Speaker 8: with and some I just saw just happened to be around.
• 35:26
  Speaker 8: I mean, it's the last place that you'd call a
• 35:29
  Speaker 8: small town, but Pittsburgh made it feel a little bit
• 35:33
  Speaker 8: smaller this weekend.
• 35:36
  Speaker 4: When you run into somebody from southwestern Pennsylvania, do they
• 35:38
  Speaker 4: tell you they're from Pittsburgh? Or do they say, oh,
• 35:40
  Speaker 4: because my go-to is like, hey, where are you from?
• 35:44
  Speaker 4: I'm from Pittsburgh. You know, I grew up in Belle Vernon.
• 35:46
  Speaker 4: I live in Cecil Township near Bridgeville. But it's like, dude,
• 35:49
  Speaker 4: Belle Vernon and Cecil Township aren't Pittsburgh.
• 35:52
  Speaker 8: Well, I mean, a lot of the conversations did eventually
• 35:54
  Speaker 8: lead to like, what part of Pittsburgh are you from?
• 35:57
  Speaker 8: But like I said earlier, you know, there was a
• 35:59
  Speaker 8: There was a diaspora, Uncle Tommy word of the day,
• 36:03
  Speaker 8: of fans from all over who were Steelers fans who
• 36:06
  Speaker 8: grew up that way just because they were good at
• 36:08
  Speaker 8: a certain time or they chose them as their team.
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: Sure.
• 36:12
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it was great fun.
• 36:14
  Speaker 8: I mean, it's a small world, and it's even smaller
• 36:17
  Speaker 8: when Steelers fans take over a city. I'm looking forward
• 36:20
  Speaker 8: to see where the next international game might be for them,
• 36:24
  Speaker 8: whether it's Mexico, Germany, Dublin again.
• 36:27
  Speaker 4: Do you think this will become a, you said at
• 36:29
  Speaker 4: the top of the show, a yearly occurrence for the
• 36:31
  Speaker 4: Pittsburgh Steelers?
• 36:32
  Speaker 5: I don't know.
• 36:32
  Speaker 8: I don't know if it'll be yearly, but I think
• 36:34
  Speaker 8: it's just, I mean, the NFL is expanding the slate
• 36:36
  Speaker 8: every season and the Steelers are a big brand, but
• 36:39
  Speaker 8: you also, the double-edged sword of it, you don't want
• 36:41
  Speaker 8: to give up those precious home games at, at Accresure stadium.
• 36:45
  Speaker 5: Well, that's the biggest part.
• 36:45
  Speaker 8: And they got to be the road team for this one.
• 36:47
  Speaker 8: So it was kind of, which was good, kind of
• 36:49
  Speaker 8: a win-win. Although shout out to any Steelers nation listeners who,
• 36:53
  Speaker 8: live in new Orleans or Louisiana or near there. And
• 36:57
  Speaker 8: you're every eight years, you get your team to come
• 36:59
  Speaker 8: down and missed out.
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 37:00
  Speaker 8: If you didn't get the chance to go out to
• 37:02
  Speaker 8: Paris for it.
• 37:03
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 37:03
  Speaker 8: You, you did miss that chance. So it's no decision
• 37:06
  Speaker 8: is perfect. Nothing's going to make everybody happy, but I
• 37:08
  Speaker 8: think it's a cool thing to expand the fan base
• 37:12
  Speaker 8: of football. You know, there are ardent NFL fans out
• 37:16
  Speaker 8: in some of these other cities around the world, and
• 37:18
  Speaker 8: it's not easy for them to come in and, uh,
• 37:22
  Speaker 8: and go to a game in the states so i
• 37:24
  Speaker 8: i do uh i see the the reasoning for it
• 37:27
  Speaker 8: from roger goodell and in the nfl international folks and
• 37:30
  Speaker 8: i don't know if they'll get to aaron rogers idea
• 37:32
  Speaker 8: of an international week where there's 16 games and about
• 37:36
  Speaker 8: that you know three london spots three germany yeah i
• 37:38
  Speaker 8: mean he's thinking outside the box and then you sometimes
• 37:42
  Speaker 8: hear about the possibility of there being an international based
• 37:45
  Speaker 8: franchise at some point, which.
• 37:47
  Speaker 5: Would be, there was talk of that in London for
• 37:49
  Speaker 5: a long time. That kind of hurts my brain to
• 37:51
  Speaker 5: think about, but I.
• 37:53
  Speaker 4: Think it was Jacksonville for a long time was rumored
• 37:55
  Speaker 4: to possibly be that team, but now they're building a
• 37:57
  Speaker 4: new stadium in Jacksonville.
• 37:58
  Speaker 5: So it won't be the Jaguars.
• 38:00
  Speaker 8: I mean, could you add a 33rd team that would
• 38:01
  Speaker 8: bring up a whole other batch of like, and you've
• 38:04
  Speaker 8: got to do an expansion draft.
• 38:06
  Speaker 5: And again, it.
• 38:08
  Speaker 8: Kind of hurts my brain, but I'd love to go
• 38:11
  Speaker 8: to a game in Mexico or Germany or, One of
• 38:14
  Speaker 8: these other, Spain. Spain would be cool. So I don't
• 38:17
  Speaker 8: know when the Steelers' next one will be. You know,
• 38:19
  Speaker 8: the other thing, too, is, like, we'd all love to
• 38:21
  Speaker 8: go back to Dublin, I think.
• 38:23
  Speaker 5: Yes, that was popular.
• 38:24
  Speaker 8: But would any team want the Steelers to be the
• 38:26
  Speaker 8: road team in Dublin? That would kind of feel unfair if, like.
• 38:30
  Speaker 5: That's a home game from A to Z. Yeah.
• 38:33
  Speaker 8: Could you imagine, like.
• 38:34
  Speaker 5: For the Steelers, I mean. You know, the Patriots or
• 38:36
  Speaker 5: someone being like, yeah, we're playing the Steelers. In Dublin.
• 38:39
  Speaker 8: In Dublin.
• 38:39
  Speaker 5: And we're going to have a home game for it. Yeah, exactly.
• 38:41
  Speaker 5: That's not going to happen.
• 38:43
  Speaker 4: Let's get back to our top ten plays and moments
• 38:45
  Speaker 4: from this past week, week seven between the Steelers and Saints.
• 38:48
  Speaker 5: We already did six through ten.
• 38:49
  Speaker 4: At number five, it's this big DK Metcalf 51-yard connection.
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: Here comes a five-man rush by the Saints.
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: Rodgers moving up to his left, looking to fling deep downfield.
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: That's DK Metcalf breaking open, tumbling grab by DK Metcalf at.
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: The four-yard line. Great throw, great catch.
• 39:10
  Speaker 5: Second quarter. It was 3-3.
• 39:13
  Speaker 4: It set up the go-ahead touchdown, which we'll get to
• 39:15
  Speaker 4: a little bit in our top five, but it was
• 39:17
  Speaker 4: a big catch by DK.
• 39:18
  Speaker 5: Real nice catch.
• 39:19
  Speaker 8: They needed it. It was good to see the dam
• 39:20
  Speaker 8: break there for DK after a lot of short underneath
• 39:23
  Speaker 8: stuff against Tampa and some of those missed connections early
• 39:26
  Speaker 8: in that game. Some of them, I think the Saints
• 39:28
  Speaker 8: may have gotten away with some P.I. But, you know,
• 39:32
  Speaker 8: that's tough because official might say it was uncatchable, whatever.
• 39:35
  Speaker 8: But they were pretty handsy on the outside. And those
• 39:38
  Speaker 8: little fade routes, go balls weren't weren't hitting for them
• 39:41
  Speaker 8: until they did on that 51 yarder. It wasn't great
• 39:44
  Speaker 8: to see a delay a game on the next snap.
• 39:47
  Speaker 8: Was that the one maybe that Aaron Rodgers said he
• 39:48
  Speaker 8: just kind of had like a brain fart and kind
• 39:50
  Speaker 8: of missed where the play clock was? Yeah, that was
• 39:54
  Speaker 8: all on me. I just spaced out for a second there.
• 39:58
  Speaker 8: But hey, a couple plays later, no harm, no foul.
• 40:01
  Speaker 8: Big Darnell in the end zone. But like you said,
• 40:03
  Speaker 8: we'll save that one.
• 40:05
  Speaker 4: Number four is the Patrick Queen sack in the fourth
• 40:07
  Speaker 4: quarter with the Steelers up 16-10.
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: Defense now bringing the blitz. Five-man coming. And Patrick Queen
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: comes up with a sack. His first of the season. Oh,
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: Patrick Queen is having a tremendous game.
• 40:21
  Speaker 5: He sure did, Double B. And that was a huge
• 40:23
  Speaker 5: play in the fourth quarter.
• 40:25
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean, another one of those that we mentioned
• 40:27
  Speaker 8: on the last segment, you know, when the guy was,
• 40:30
  Speaker 8: when the running back was down and the Cole Holcomb
• 40:32
  Speaker 8: forced fumble got overturned. It was Queen who got to
• 40:36
  Speaker 8: the ball in a hurry there and had that hit.
• 40:39
  Speaker 8: to help on that goal line stand he was flying
• 40:42
  Speaker 8: around the field and i guess it was quite uh
• 40:45
  Speaker 8: quite fitting that he would get that final sack and
• 40:47
  Speaker 8: that's a guy who i you know i never asked
• 40:48
  Speaker 8: pq if he like grew up a saints fan or
• 40:51
  Speaker 8: anything um i'm sure he's played against them earlier in
• 40:55
  Speaker 8: his career but this was the first time since he's
• 40:57
  Speaker 8: been a stealer we weren't really even thinking along the
• 40:59
  Speaker 8: lines of louisiana this week because obviously the game was
• 41:02
  Speaker 8: not there it was in a place that is um
• 41:05
  Speaker 8: near and dear to the hearts of a lot of Louisianans,
• 41:08
  Speaker 8: given that it's Paris and all the historic connections. But, yeah,
• 41:12
  Speaker 8: that's essentially his home state team. He was a captain.
• 41:15
  Speaker 8: We didn't do our captain predictions.
• 41:16
  Speaker 6: We forgot.
• 41:17
  Speaker 5: Or did we? I don't think we did last week.
• 41:19
  Speaker 5: I think we forgot. Because that would.
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: Have been one.
• 41:21
  Speaker 4: Because remember, we only did Monday, Tuesday, because you exited
• 41:24
  Speaker 4: for Paris on Wednesday.
• 41:25
  Speaker 5: So we didn't have shows.
• 41:26
  Speaker 8: And I actually was going to suggest Cam Johnston for
• 41:29
  Speaker 8: the international flair.
• 41:30
  Speaker 5: That would have been good.
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: Was he?
• 41:31
  Speaker 8: And he was.
• 41:31
  Speaker 5: Oh, there you go.
• 41:32
  Speaker 8: Patrick Queen. Cam Johnston and Troy Fautanu were the captains.
• 41:36
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 41:37
  Speaker 8: He was fired up by it. It seems like this
• 41:39
  Speaker 8: would be another interesting stat to go back and look through.
• 41:41
  Speaker 8: The players who Mike McCarthy has handpicked as captains each week,
• 41:45
  Speaker 8: have they gone out and balled out that game? It
• 41:47
  Speaker 8: kind of feels like they have.
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: It does.
• 41:49
  Speaker 5: Jamel Dean the previous week. Yes.
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  Speaker 8: Ben Skoranek on special teams against the Bengals game, I.
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  Speaker 3: Think, right? Yep.
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  Speaker 5: They've had a few. They've definitely had more hits than misses.
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  Speaker 8: Well, we'll get to it later in the week, but
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  Speaker 8: let's think about who. Mike McCarthy should dial up for
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  Speaker 8: a big game against the Browns.
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  Speaker 5: This sounds like a future Steelers.com article to me.
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  Speaker 2: That's brewing.
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  Speaker 5: Maybe not quite yet.
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  Speaker 2: Could be brewing.
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  Speaker 5: Could be brewing.
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  Speaker 4: That's maybe a bye week feature for you or even
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  Speaker 4: a content standpoint for our friends over in the video department. Okay,
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  Speaker 4: back to the top 10. We are at number three,
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  Speaker 4: our top three plays of the week. We start with
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  Speaker 4: this Aaron Rodgers.
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  Speaker 8: How about this?
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  Speaker 5: The 42-year-old takes off, eight-yard run, and calls game.
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  Speaker 2: Rodgers surveying. Six in the play clock. Gets a snap.
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  Speaker 2: Back to pass.
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  Speaker 1: Four-man rush. Rodgers moving out to the left. Steps up,
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  Speaker 1: and Rodgers will tuck it and run, and Rodgers dives
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  Speaker 1: forward inside the 25-yard line.
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  Speaker 2: First down, Pittsburgh Steelers.
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  Speaker 5: Rodgers calls game.
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  Speaker 4: It's what makes Aaron Rodgers Aaron Rodgers and so smart
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  Speaker 4: with the football. He saw the opportunity. He took it,
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  Speaker 4: picks up the first down. Steelers take knees and run
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  Speaker 4: out the rest of the clock.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, that did pretty much do it. They had a
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  Speaker 8: few more runs after that with Spencer Anderson coming in again,
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  Speaker 8: but I think we all felt like going into the
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  Speaker 8: two-minute warning.
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  Speaker 5: That was pretty much it.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, that was it because, hey, it was third and six.
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  Speaker 8: If the Saints get a stop there, all of a
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  Speaker 8: sudden you're punting it back to them and they had
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  Speaker 8: two timeouts still to play with.
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  Speaker 4: Brian, do you know who leads the Steelers in touchdowns
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  Speaker 4: so far this season?
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  Speaker 5: I'm going to put you on the spot. Jalen Warren?
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  Speaker 2: You're close.
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  Speaker 5: It's the tight ends. It's Pat Fryer with four.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, they're tied.
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  Speaker 4: But if you combine Darnell Washington and Pat Fryer, they
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  Speaker 4: have seven total, including this one from last week.
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  Speaker 2: Rodgers surveying. Now they're going to bring six.
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  Speaker 1: Rodgers throws to the left side of the end zone
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  Speaker 1: for Darnell Washington.
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  Speaker 2: Touchdown, Pittsburgh Steelers.
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  Speaker 5: That was a big one.
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  Speaker 4: It was the only touchdown of the game, and it
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  Speaker 4: gave the Steelers the lead. Darnell Washington, one-on-one coverage. He'll
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  Speaker 4: win every time.
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  Speaker 8: I still don't understand how he caught that ball. I
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  Speaker 8: thought they were going to nullify that. Yeah, against Kool-Aid McKinstry.
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  Speaker 8: We know it's kind of an ongoing running joke in
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  Speaker 8: the NFL. How do you complete the process of a
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  Speaker 8: catch anymore? It's like you need to go to the ground,
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  Speaker 8: hug the ball tight, and then hand it to the official.
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  Speaker 8: That was one where, I mean, yeah, he reached around McKinstry,
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  Speaker 8: probably through defensive pass interference, snagged the ball with those big,
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  Speaker 8: powerful hands he's got and got both feet down. But
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  Speaker 8: then they were still kind of jockeying for it as
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  Speaker 8: they went to the ground and the sideline. So I
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  Speaker 8: was a little bit nervous in the moment of, are
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  Speaker 8: they going to overturn that? Because all scoring plays, of course, reviewed.
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  Speaker 5: I was too.
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  Speaker 8: But hey, I mean, he had possession of it inbounds
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  Speaker 8: in the end zone and I guess at that point
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  Speaker 8: the catch was over, the play was over. Six-point Steelers.
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  Speaker 4: Our top play of the week was our changing moment,
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  Speaker 4: top changing moment of the game from yesterday that we
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  Speaker 4: talked about quite a bit.
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  Speaker 5: WB, you weren't here for that.
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  Speaker 4: But it was the Peyton Wilson interception in the third quarter.
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  Speaker 4: With the Steelers leading 13-10, and the Saints were driving,
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  Speaker 4: getting ready to take the lead.
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  Speaker 2: Gets a snap, back to pass, looking, right, and it's intercepted!
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  Speaker 2: Peyton Wilson, a tumbling grab!
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  Speaker 1: Heads up the sideline, still on his feet, weaving towards
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  Speaker 1: the middle of the field.
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  Speaker 2: What a play by Peyton Wilson!
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  Speaker 4: As I said last week, Wilson quietly having a very
• 45:14
  Speaker 4: solid defensive performance. season so far for the Pittsburgh Steelers
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  Speaker 4: led the team in tackles going into this week with
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  Speaker 4: 55 he gets six more on Sunday now up to
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  Speaker 4: 61 Peyton Wilson getting it done.
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  Speaker 8: He is man he is and you know what that
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  Speaker 8: week five win against the Colts Peyton Wilson also balled
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  Speaker 8: out did he not he had a big game in
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  Speaker 8: that one I think and.
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  Speaker 4: You referenced it I believe you tweeted it out on
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  Speaker 4: Sunday two international games in a.
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  Speaker 8: Row where oh yeah play that's right yeah and he
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  Speaker 8: was shot out of a cannon on a play earlier
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  Speaker 8: in that game too When he came up for one
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  Speaker 8: of those two TFLs, I think, in this one against
• 45:50
  Speaker 8: the New Orleans Saints. But yeah, I'm thinking back to
• 45:53
  Speaker 8: the Colts game because he's on a nice little stretch
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  Speaker 8: of performances here right now is Peyton Wilson. You know,
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  Speaker 8: the Tampa game was kind of funky. There were some
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  Speaker 8: completions downfield, obviously. But yeah, that Colts game, he had
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  Speaker 8: 10 tackles, eight of them solo, two TFLs again in
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  Speaker 8: that one. a PBU, a quarterback hit. He was a
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  Speaker 8: captain in that game.
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  Speaker 2: Look at that.
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  Speaker 4: There's another captain reference. I'm telling you, it's a future
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  Speaker 4: article for you, my friend. That's the top 10 plays
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  Speaker 4: of the week, by the way. We'll put a little
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  Speaker 4: bow on it from Saints Steelers. Whenever we come back,
• 46:22
  Speaker 4: Tad Whistle from the DVE Morning Show will be joining
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  Speaker 4: us to talk about the Pittsburgh Steelers.
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  Speaker 5: He's Double B.
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  Speaker 2: I'm ET.
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  Speaker 4: It's the Steelers Report right here on Steelers Nation Radio,
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