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BONUS EPISODE: Pgh Sports Current Events - December 18, 2025 · Pittsburgh Sports Memories

• 0:00
  SPEAKER_02: Hello and welcome to another exciting episode of Pittsburgh Sports Memories Current Events.
• 0:06
  SPEAKER_02: I'm your host co-host, Steve Wert, and I'm joined by I'm the other co-host, I'm Tim Hannon.
• 0:12
  SPEAKER_02: Hey, we're co-hosting this.
• 0:14
  SPEAKER_02: Yay.
• 0:16
  SPEAKER_02: So uh today we're going to start off with the good old their penguinis.
• 0:21
  SPEAKER_02: Um here, Tim, let me let me let me uh bring up some things that maybe you what do these things have in common, Tim?
• 0:28
  SPEAKER_02: It's kind of like SAT time, right?
• 0:32
  SPEAKER_02: Stars three, penguins two, ducks four, penguins three, sharks six, penguins five, mammoth five.
• 0:41
  SPEAKER_02: The mammoth, what a joke.
• 0:43
  SPEAKER_02: The penguins four, uh, Utah hockey, uh, the Mormons, uh, I I I I all these have in common is that there's uh all blown leads in the third period, Tim.
• 0:56
  SPEAKER_02: Penguins, like these all could have been wins very easily, or at least half of these could have been wins.
• 1:04
  SPEAKER_02: I uh especially the one against the Sharks.
• 1:07
  SPEAKER_02: They had a four-goal lead and blew it.
• 1:10
  SPEAKER_02: And then there was another game where was that the same game that the Sharks where they gave up a goal with 0.1 seconds?
• 1:16
  SPEAKER_03: No, that was that was the ducks.
• 1:18
  SPEAKER_03: That was the game before that.
• 1:19
  SPEAKER_02: Four ducks, yeah.
• 1:20
  SPEAKER_02: So it's it it's been ugly for the penguins lately.
• 1:24
  SPEAKER_02: They're on a five-game non-winning streak.
• 1:27
  SPEAKER_02: I guess they might have gone to over got a point.
• 1:29
  SPEAKER_03: All those games went to all those games that you mentioned went to overtime.
• 1:32
  SPEAKER_03: So they got points in them.
• 1:33
  SPEAKER_03: But I mean, my goodness, it's that's a that's a demoralizing point.
• 1:37
  SPEAKER_03: I was on um X on Saturday, and I saw that the Penguins feed in between the second and third period, they're like, let's finish this, and I'm like, oh my god, no, they're gonna jinx it.
• 1:50
  SPEAKER_03: But then I was like, no, they have a four-goal lead.
• 1:52
  SPEAKER_03: Like they blew in three goal leads, but not a four-goal lead, and then sure enough, they blew in.
• 1:56
  SPEAKER_03: But I will say reading the comments under that post later was entertaining.
• 2:01
  SPEAKER_02: They got finished, all right, I guess.
• 2:03
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, stuff like that.
• 2:06
  SPEAKER_03: They're a young team, they're a young team, they're inconsistent, and you know, again, they're doing better than any of us expected.
• 2:15
  SPEAKER_03: They're not ready for prime time, they're just not.
• 2:18
  SPEAKER_03: This is so this is fixable.
• 2:19
  SPEAKER_02: It's just it's just you know can we get rid of Carlson yet or Letang?
• 2:25
  SPEAKER_02: Or I guess they're never gonna get rid of Letang, but Carlson at least, I guess the uh it's just some of the veterans are just killing this team.
• 2:36
  SPEAKER_02: It's not and then like you know, some of the coaching decisions like I was reading, they're they're putting Carlson and Letang out on the ice at the same time.
• 2:45
  SPEAKER_02: Does that seem like a recipe for disaster, or is that just me?
• 2:49
  SPEAKER_03: I mean Yeah, it's also a young coach, not a young coach, but not a super experienced coach.
• 2:54
  SPEAKER_03: Again, it's it's growing pains.
• 2:56
  SPEAKER_02: I it's nothing that makes me panic because I think this is in the penguin's head, quite honestly.
• 3:03
  SPEAKER_03: Well, yeah, and I like I said, this is all uh I'd rather we be disappointed because they're blowing weeds than them just being, you know, not even in it five and twenty-three, which is what I would have expected, like at this point in the season.
• 3:19
  SPEAKER_02: Well.
• 3:20
  SPEAKER_02: Well, on the uh on our long-awaited, you know, we've been waiting for this for how many years now is the Penguins finally traded Tristan Jari.
• 3:29
  SPEAKER_02: So and they traded him to the Oilers.
• 3:33
  SPEAKER_02: I guess the Oilers have been interested in him in a while.
• 3:36
  SPEAKER_02: And the Penguins got Stuart Skinner, which is a goalie that the Oilers were looking to get rid of.
• 3:42
  SPEAKER_02: Um Brett Kulak, a defenseman, and a second round pick.
• 3:46
  SPEAKER_02: Um Edmonton also that was who the Penguins got.
• 3:52
  SPEAKER_02: And uh Edmonton got Samuel Poolin, I think he's a defenseman from one of the minor leagues.
• 4:00
  SPEAKER_02: From the minor leagues of the Penguins.
• 4:02
  SPEAKER_03: So it's Skinner's the goalie that led them to the last two Stanley Cups, but yeah, he's like kind of like I don't know.
• 4:10
  SPEAKER_02: I think they're saying he just needs to change the scenery.
• 4:13
  SPEAKER_02: So you can never have enough goalies.
• 4:15
  SPEAKER_02: It's kind of like pitching in baseball.
• 4:16
  SPEAKER_02: You you can have enough never have enough goaltending.
• 4:19
  SPEAKER_03: Well well, the biggest thing with Skinner for the Penguins is this is his contract here.
• 4:24
  SPEAKER_03: So he's the the he's honestly just there to keep the seat warm for Bluntqvist and Murashoff, who I know I know Murashoff's been playing, but well he's been, yeah, not too great either.
• 4:37
  SPEAKER_02: But like but he's young.
• 4:38
  SPEAKER_02: I can kind of it's like young goalie, you never know what you're gonna get.
• 4:43
  SPEAKER_03: And and if they have Skinner up all season, if they have Skinner, that gives them the chance to play the Russian kid down and and full experience dead and get more experience.
• 4:54
  SPEAKER_03: The the the the the Jari trade is all about um it's it's Kyle Duba saying, yeah, we've we're overachieving the season, but we're sticking to the plan.
• 5:04
  SPEAKER_03: And Kristen Jari was never part of the long-term plan.
• 5:07
  SPEAKER_03: Now you get rid of his, he had three more years on his contract.
• 5:10
  SPEAKER_03: Now you trade that for a goalie who's up after this year.
• 5:14
  SPEAKER_03: So that it's pretty obvious what why they did that.
• 5:17
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, Edmonton, good for them.
• 5:18
  SPEAKER_03: I I get it.
• 5:19
  SPEAKER_03: They're like so close to winning a Stanley Cup.
• 5:23
  SPEAKER_03: You know, they were one game away two years ago, they were what, two or three games away last year.
• 5:28
  SPEAKER_03: So they just need a slight like push over the hump.
• 5:30
  SPEAKER_03: So I I get I get them taking a chance on Jari, but I think they're gonna be disappointed.
• 5:35
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, I I I really hope not.
• 5:37
  SPEAKER_03: I like I don't dislike Jari.
• 5:39
  SPEAKER_03: I I do really do wish him the best, but my god, that guy I you know the the the that I just never like I you couldn't hurt hold personal grudges against people in sports because it's just sports.
• 5:51
  SPEAKER_03: But that Islanders game, Steve, I just can't.
• 5:54
  SPEAKER_02: I'll just never literally gave the puck.
• 5:56
  SPEAKER_02: He was like, it would have been better if he would have turned around and shot the fuck into his own head.
• 6:03
  SPEAKER_03: It seriously.
• 6:04
  SPEAKER_03: It would have made more it would have made more sense.
• 6:07
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 6:10
  SPEAKER_02: It's like what a heel turn.
• 6:12
  SPEAKER_02: It's like the WWE.
• 6:14
  SPEAKER_02: Oh my gosh, can you believe it?
• 6:17
  SPEAKER_02: Like Jim Ross.
• 6:18
  SPEAKER_03: New York Islander's music.
• 6:20
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 6:21
  SPEAKER_02: Jim Ross on the call.
• 6:25
  SPEAKER_01: What's going on?
• 6:27
  SPEAKER_01: Jari has turned heel.
• 6:30
  SPEAKER_01: No, think of the think of Sid's wife and family.
• 6:37
  SPEAKER_03: But that was, I mean, that was a good deal for a guy who they tried to cut last year, late last year, and couldn't.
• 6:44
  SPEAKER_03: Nobody won it.
• 6:45
  SPEAKER_03: They tried to do like the you know, leave the leave of the dog on the side of the road and go go find you know your home in the woods, boy, and then he comes back home.
• 6:52
  SPEAKER_03: It's like, oh no, crap.
• 6:54
  SPEAKER_03: So the the and they got again, they got a competent Stanley Cup goaltender for this year, they got a veteran defenseman, they got a draft pick for like four years from now.
• 7:07
  SPEAKER_03: But whatever, they got rid of Jarry.
• 7:08
  SPEAKER_03: That was the whole point.
• 7:09
  SPEAKER_03: The point was just to get rid of that salary.
• 7:11
  SPEAKER_02: So again, Dubas is sticking to the Carlson's salary.
• 7:16
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, absolutely.
• 7:17
  SPEAKER_03: And maybe if depending on where we are at the trade deadline, you know, if we're not contending anymore, that would be a perfect time to move him.
• 7:26
  SPEAKER_02: I think even if we are contending.
• 7:29
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, fair.
• 7:30
  SPEAKER_03: Again, I good good on him.
• 7:32
  SPEAKER_03: He's sticking, he's not letting a better than expected start deviate him from you know what the long-term goal is.
• 7:41
  SPEAKER_03: And I think that that's the most important thing.
• 7:45
  SPEAKER_02: Well, here we go, Tim.
• 7:46
  SPEAKER_02: It's time for football Palooza, and the only team left that's football Paloozing locally is the Pittsburgh Steelers.
• 7:56
  SPEAKER_02: So uh Miami thought it would be a great time of year to come to Pittsburgh since it was like how warm yesterday, Sunday night?
• 8:05
  SPEAKER_03: Like negative 12, 12, 10, I don't know, somewhere in the single pretty pretty cold.
• 8:13
  SPEAKER_02: I I I I watched some high I was watching some highlights of the Jacksonville game, and that that looked very like there were people in like you know, short sleeves or just t-shirts.
• 8:23
  SPEAKER_02: There is nobody that was in their sane right of mind was wearing a t-shirt on Sunday.
• 8:28
  SPEAKER_02: So or Monday.
• 8:30
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, it was Monday night.
• 8:31
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, Monday.
• 8:32
  SPEAKER_02: I'm sorry, yeah, it was Monday night.
• 8:33
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I was I was actually in Florida over the weekend, Steve.
• 8:36
  SPEAKER_03: So I was one of those people wearing short sleeve shirts.
• 8:39
  SPEAKER_02: And well, were you wearing a short sleeve shirt last night?
• 8:42
  SPEAKER_03: I was, but I was inside, so I yeah, but well, we got back to the airport late, late on Sunday because our flight got delayed, and we had to dig our car out of the snow.
• 8:53
  SPEAKER_03: And I just I my my body temperature took like two days for my body temperature to get back to normal.
• 8:58
  SPEAKER_03: I was so cold.
• 9:00
  SPEAKER_03: So I can't imagine what the Dolphins felt like on Monday night because actually I can't imagine because quite the culture shock to come into something like that.
• 9:10
  SPEAKER_02: So um, be that as it may, uh the Steelers did win 28 to 15, which I'm not sure that game was as close.
• 9:18
  SPEAKER_02: I I didn't watch the fourth quarter.
• 9:19
  SPEAKER_02: I had to just a bunch of garbage points at the end.
• 9:22
  SPEAKER_03: Okay.
• 9:23
  SPEAKER_02: And Troy Inkman was having a fit because Well, they they didn't like I guess they weren't aggressive enough, or I didn't see it.
• 9:30
  SPEAKER_03: They were uh they were they they just kept huddling up.
• 9:34
  SPEAKER_03: They weren't like there was no sense of urgency.
• 9:37
  SPEAKER_02: You could tell the dolphins just were kind of like, yeah.
• 9:40
  SPEAKER_03: Well, they they they just conceded.
• 9:42
  SPEAKER_03: They just conceded.
• 9:42
  SPEAKER_03: They're like, we know we have to go through the motions, we know we have to try to sort of score points, but we're just going through the motions, and they they realized at that point they were done.
• 9:52
  SPEAKER_03: So that's nice.
• 9:53
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, we don't get Stewer fans don't get a whole lot of games like that where you can like go to bed with like 12 minutes left in the game on a Monday night.
• 10:01
  SPEAKER_03: So it was kind of nice to have that.
• 10:03
  SPEAKER_02: Well, that that was nice of Mike McDaniel to do that, yeah.
• 10:08
  SPEAKER_02: Um let's go through the uh the good here.
• 10:11
  SPEAKER_02: Um Kenneth Gainwell, um 13 rushes for 80 yards and 6.2 average.
• 10:17
  SPEAKER_02: Um, the not very good, uh Jalen Warren stunk.
• 10:21
  SPEAKER_02: I I just can't say stunk loud enough.
• 10:25
  SPEAKER_03: He was sick though.
• 10:26
  SPEAKER_03: Like he is that what is it?
• 10:27
  SPEAKER_02: Like he missed like if you watch the replay of some of those runs, like he there were runs there.
• 10:32
  SPEAKER_02: I get like I think one point I remember Rogers was yelling, and I think Rogers was yelling at him because you could see on the replay, oh, there was an alley there.
• 10:40
  SPEAKER_02: If he just hits that hole hard, he probably has like 30 yards.
• 10:43
  SPEAKER_03: What one one of the sacks was his fault too.
• 10:45
  SPEAKER_03: Like got he got run over, wasn't he trying to block?
• 10:48
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 10:49
  unknown: Yeah.
• 10:50
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, so he he had a bad game.
• 10:52
  SPEAKER_03: He was questionable.
• 10:53
  SPEAKER_03: They he popped up on the injury report Monday afternoon, questionable with an illness.
• 10:57
  SPEAKER_03: So he was sick.
• 10:59
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, I you know, that it sounds like he was playing through a cold or a flu or something, and it just definitely impacted his play.
• 11:06
  SPEAKER_03: But that's all right.
• 11:07
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, Gainwell, Steve, here here's a He looked great.
• 11:10
  SPEAKER_03: He asked I I I it I don't mean to sidetrack you, but I I asked this question yesterday of somebody.
• 11:19
  SPEAKER_03: You know, the Steelers name a team MVP every year, right?
• 11:23
  SPEAKER_03: Who is it this year?
• 11:25
  SPEAKER_03: And I really think Gainwell is not a terrible answer.
• 11:28
  SPEAKER_02: Probably Aaron Rodgers.
• 11:30
  SPEAKER_03: I guess maybe.
• 11:32
  SPEAKER_03: But like I is there anybody that really sticks out that you're like, man, without that guy, the Steelers sure would be struggling.
• 11:41
  SPEAKER_03: And I guess it is probably Rogers, but Chris Boswell, do it.
• 11:46
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, but even Boz hasn't been, I mean, he's been very good, but he's not like the dominant force he was last year, where he was, you know, beating the Ravens with six field goals.
• 11:56
  SPEAKER_02: But Gainwell, I mean, Gainwell's just been he's yeah, he's a nice, he's a professional.
• 12:03
  SPEAKER_02: He he's like a professional football player.
• 12:05
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 12:06
  SPEAKER_02: He he's not he's not a Hall of Famer, but he's kind of like uh Eric Pegram or Chris Fu Modem I'll follow if he stayed healthy.
• 12:15
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, he just yeah, he's a professional player.
• 12:18
  SPEAKER_03: So yeah, Moelde Moore was kind of like that guy too.
• 12:21
  SPEAKER_03: I I just don't remember like Moel A Moore though being like that integral to the offense.
• 12:26
  SPEAKER_03: Maybe he was.
• 12:27
  SPEAKER_03: You know what I mean?
• 12:28
  SPEAKER_03: Like that that's I guess Moel Day Moore.
• 12:31
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, we that year we won the Super Bowl, the second time we won the Super Bowl, he was pretty important to that offense.
• 12:37
  SPEAKER_03: So maybe Gainwell is similar.
• 12:39
  SPEAKER_03: But anyway, I I digress.
• 12:40
  SPEAKER_03: Go ahead, keep going through your recap.
• 12:42
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, yeah, yeah.
• 12:43
  SPEAKER_02: Aaron Rodgers, uh 23 of 27, 224 yards, two touchdowns, and more importantly, no interceptions.
• 12:50
  SPEAKER_02: That's what when he plays well and doesn't throw a lot of this.
• 12:54
  SPEAKER_02: That's kind of like his stat line.
• 12:55
  SPEAKER_02: If Aaron Rodgers has those stats, nine times out of ten, we're probably gonna win.
• 13:01
  SPEAKER_02: Um, for the Dolphins, that HN, who everyone's like, oh, this guy's gonna run all over them.
• 13:07
  SPEAKER_02: I think he was held in check, Tim.
• 13:09
  SPEAKER_02: I these stats are weird for me from him.
• 13:13
  SPEAKER_02: He had 12 rushes for 60 yards, but he did average five yards a carry, which is concerning.
• 13:20
  SPEAKER_02: So I wonder if it was kind of like the case of like it was a lot of like what happened with Pitts, the college football team's defense.
• 13:28
  SPEAKER_02: Like they were good against the run, but that was because when you have a big lead, teams aren't going to run the ball.
• 13:34
  SPEAKER_02: Like they were down by like what 25 points at one point in the second half.
• 13:40
  SPEAKER_02: So you're not gonna run the ball with H Han a lot.
• 13:43
  SPEAKER_02: So maybe they kind of play defense with their offense, which you can do.
• 13:49
  SPEAKER_02: And uh to uh and to his stats, like this isn't like people just like do fantasy football or look at stats.
• 13:56
  SPEAKER_02: This is where they don't understand like the flow of a game or how a game played out.
• 14:01
  SPEAKER_02: Like he he was 22-28, like a great percentage, 253 yards, that's respectable, two touchdowns and interception, and that looks like oh, well, he had a decent game, and he really didn't.
• 14:12
  SPEAKER_02: He he really didn't.
• 14:14
  SPEAKER_02: And the tit the tail of the tape there was he he was like they the dolphins were uh let's see, two of eight on third down.
• 14:24
  SPEAKER_02: That's terrible.
• 14:24
  SPEAKER_02: That's you're not gonna win a lot of football games doing that.
• 14:27
  SPEAKER_02: Now, for their part, the Steelers were four of thirteen on third down, which is not good.
• 14:35
  SPEAKER_02: But if you figured in the fourth down conversions, that would make them seven for what, six team?
• 14:44
  SPEAKER_03: So that's almost they were four for four on fourth downs.
• 14:47
  SPEAKER_02: Oh th I have three for three.
• 14:49
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, I'm sorry, three for three, you're right.
• 14:50
  SPEAKER_02: So that was so if you add three to each, so you know make seven and six, that's almost fifty percent conversion.
• 14:57
  SPEAKER_02: That's great.
• 14:59
  SPEAKER_02: That's and and on fourth down, the converting those three fourth downs was huge.
• 15:04
  SPEAKER_02: Like, I think teams have finally caught on to like it's fourth and one, and it's almost like impossible to stop people now, I guess with the way the rules are to stop people on fourth down.
• 15:15
  SPEAKER_02: So I mean, yeah, and the Steels actually won the time of possession, which time of possession isn't like the be-all end-all stat, but it can't it is a good stat to look at.
• 15:27
  SPEAKER_02: And it but it wasn't by much, I think it was like 33 to 28, so it wasn't like overwhelming, like time of possession, where you get in like 40-45 minutes, and it's like ooh, uh, you know.
• 15:39
  SPEAKER_02: And um the Steelers haven't been winning time of possession.
• 15:42
  SPEAKER_02: Um, also in the red zone, the Steelers scored three touchdowns, I think, every time they're there.
• 15:48
  SPEAKER_02: And the Dolph, although the Dolphins did score twice when they're in the red zone, and you said that was garbage time.
• 15:53
  SPEAKER_03: That was all garbage time stuff.
• 15:55
  SPEAKER_03: That really doesn't like you said about two stats, you have to watch it's the watching the game versus seeing the statue.
• 16:01
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, he he's uh two is now oh for six, 40 degrees or colder.
• 16:06
  SPEAKER_02: So sorry, sorry to this ain't Alabama and ain't played in the dome.
• 16:11
  SPEAKER_02: So sorry, kid.
• 16:12
  SPEAKER_02: Maybe if he was playing in Detroit or like some team with a dome like Minnesota.
• 16:17
  SPEAKER_02: I wonder if he doesn't get traded.
• 16:19
  SPEAKER_02: That would be a good place for him to get traded to, like Minnesota.
• 16:22
  SPEAKER_02: That guy's like a quarterback whisperer up there in Minnesota.
• 16:26
  SPEAKER_02: So I wonder.
• 16:28
  SPEAKER_02: Um, McDaniel actually is 0 for 7 in cold weather games.
• 16:34
  SPEAKER_02: Uh I I think my summary of what happened was the Dolphins are a mediocre team.
• 16:40
  SPEAKER_02: I thought they were a god-awful team, but they're actually a mediocre team, and they just lot lost to a slightly better mediocre team in the Steelers.
• 16:51
  SPEAKER_02: Um, but it did probably save this little that four-game winning streak probably saved McDaniel's job.
• 16:56
  SPEAKER_02: Although I think he's probably done too, is probably done as an NFL starter for a little bit.
• 17:04
  SPEAKER_02: Unless he goes to like some team like that has like a quarterback whisperer coach like uh like the Rams or like the Vikings, like like I could see like a Sean McVay or I do you know the I can't remember the name of the Vikings coach, but like that those guys are like quarterback whisperer guys, like Bruce Arians types.
• 17:24
  SPEAKER_03: So I I I think I think you're right.
• 17:27
  SPEAKER_03: His path is gonna be he's good he's a backup for a while, and then maybe he has a resurgence, uh Baker Mayfield, or um, you know, plenty of other guys that have done that.
• 17:39
  SPEAKER_03: Uh uh Geno Smith, you know, like go somewhere, have a uh Sam Darnold, like be a backup for a little bit, and then maybe he has a chance to to start over somewhere.
• 17:49
  SPEAKER_03: So I don't think he's a terrible quarterback.
• 17:51
  SPEAKER_03: Um I really don't, but he's he's he you're right, he he's done.
• 17:57
  SPEAKER_03: He he can't he can't be able to get a big anymore.
• 17:59
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah.
• 18:00
  unknown: Yeah.
• 18:02
  SPEAKER_02: Um I guess what Mike Tomlin and Mike Tomlin now has uh saved his bat you know there he is with eight wins, so he's gonna have his nine and eight season.
• 18:15
  SPEAKER_02: I all he has to do is beat the Browns.
• 18:18
  SPEAKER_02: Right?
• 18:18
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, there's his nine nine wins.
• 18:21
  SPEAKER_02: So I don't know what they do with Mike Tomlin.
• 18:25
  SPEAKER_02: I mean it's just the same thing over and over again.
• 18:28
  SPEAKER_02: I I don't somebody on the radio was I heard them saying that oh they could win.
• 18:32
  SPEAKER_02: They were thinking like I was that the the Steelers probably win a playoff game this year.
• 18:36
  SPEAKER_02: Maybe they do.
• 18:37
  SPEAKER_02: I just don't see how I I just uh they're they got so many problems.
• 18:43
  SPEAKER_02: But the rest of the AFC isn't that great this year.
• 18:46
  SPEAKER_02: And hey, the Chiefs are out of the playoffs, and even if they yeah, it could make the playoffs, Patrick Mahomes wouldn't be available.
• 18:53
  SPEAKER_02: So there goes your prediction, Tim.
• 18:55
  SPEAKER_03: Uh yeah, no, they're officially eliminated, which is shocking.
• 19:00
  SPEAKER_03: You're right, like you said, a mediocre team being a beating a slightly more mediocre team.
• 19:05
  SPEAKER_03: I feel like most of the AFC is mediocre this year, and the teams that are good, like New England and Denver, you know, they're not unproven.
• 19:14
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 19:15
  SPEAKER_02: So so it's it's well New England lost to Buffalo.
• 19:18
  SPEAKER_02: Buffalo finally, like but Buffalo is so puzzling, like they're so all over the place.
• 19:24
  SPEAKER_03: They're very inconsistent.
• 19:25
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 19:26
  SPEAKER_03: So so you're right.
• 19:27
  SPEAKER_03: The Stewarters, I I I don't I don't want to do a postscript on Tomlin until the season's over because I want to see if and number one, they still have to get into the playoffs.
• 19:36
  SPEAKER_03: That's that's by no means guaranteed.
• 19:38
  SPEAKER_02: Uh they're gonna lose to Detroit and probably beat Cleveland.
• 19:44
  SPEAKER_02: But then they might have to beat Baltimore to get into the play.
• 19:46
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, so that could be a 50-50 game.
• 19:49
  SPEAKER_02: Right.
• 19:50
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 19:50
  SPEAKER_03: That's what I mean.
• 19:51
  SPEAKER_03: So so let's do a postscript on all that one.
• 19:53
  SPEAKER_02: It's because wouldn't it be now it now?
• 19:55
  SPEAKER_02: What happens if they beat Detroit?
• 19:57
  SPEAKER_02: Oh my goodness.
• 19:59
  SPEAKER_02: That that could be crazy.
• 20:01
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I mean, they they have a chance they the the the playoff scenario, they could actually Because if they beat Detroit and then they beat Cleveland, I don't see how they miss the playoffs.
• 20:12
  SPEAKER_03: Well, at that point, Bal so in the next two weeks, yeah, it's Detroit and Cleveland, and then Baltimore has New England and Green Bay.
• 20:20
  SPEAKER_03: So so if if I think if if we did that, which is very unlikely, but if we beat Detroit and Cleveland, and Baltimore loses one of those two games, which is also likely New England and and Green Bay, then I think we can clinch before we even play Baltimore, which would be great because we could rest everybody.
• 20:38
  SPEAKER_03: But again, the the the way that you know we're we're talking about this now.
• 20:44
  SPEAKER_03: Two weeks ago, everybody was canning Fire Tomlin and Booing Renegade, and the season's over, and this is the worst, and what a joke.
• 20:53
  SPEAKER_03: So you and I talked about it then.
• 20:55
  SPEAKER_03: Like things shift every couple of weeks in the NFL, everything shifts.
• 21:00
  SPEAKER_03: And so you can't get ahead of yourself.
• 21:02
  SPEAKER_03: Let's just see what happens next week.
• 21:04
  SPEAKER_02: We're starting to get into that stretch run here where you know uh maybe those Texans.
• 21:09
  SPEAKER_02: We were talking about the Houston Texans, and it looks like you know, the Colts are done.
• 21:14
  SPEAKER_02: I don't know if the Colts are going to make the playoffs, quite honestly, which is a darn shame because they had a really great three-quarters of a season.
• 21:23
  SPEAKER_03: But that's again the NFL, there's a lot of shifting ground.
• 21:27
  SPEAKER_03: And and yeah, we said last week that Texans, that team with like the really solid defense and the the really good, but not necessarily elite quarterback, that's a great recipe.
• 21:39
  SPEAKER_03: That's that's what I mean.
• 21:40
  SPEAKER_03: The AFC is just wide open.
• 21:41
  SPEAKER_03: So if the Stewarters get in, I'll be at least a little bit excited because especially if they get in as division champions, because then we'd actually host a playoff game, which we haven't done for forever.
• 21:50
  SPEAKER_03: I know we hosted that one the COVID year, but nobody was there.
• 21:54
  SPEAKER_03: So the last time we hosted a proper playoff game was that Jacksonville game, you know, almost 10 years ago.
• 22:01
  SPEAKER_03: So uh it would be exciting.
• 22:04
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, let's see what happens.
• 22:06
  SPEAKER_03: I uh they're not I still don't think anybody believes they're like gonna make a Super Bowl run, but let's see what happens.
• 22:15
  SPEAKER_02: So, yeah, Mike Tomlin, nine and eight.
• 22:17
  SPEAKER_02: Woohoo!
• 22:18
  SPEAKER_03: Um the streak continues.
• 22:22
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, speaking of streaks, uh Tim uh Pitt Volleyball, uh they made the final four again for the fourth year, fifth row, fifth year in a row.
• 22:31
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 22:32
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, wow, goodness gracious.
• 22:34
  SPEAKER_02: I didn't realize they were that far along.
• 22:36
  SPEAKER_02: I knew they were in the whatever this is for volleyball.
• 22:39
  SPEAKER_02: So and I know they were they were doing something at the Peterson Event Center because there's a bunch of freaking traffic at work the other night.
• 22:46
  SPEAKER_02: So let me complain about the volleyball team a little bit.
• 22:50
  SPEAKER_02: So no, but they're good for them, and it's kind of under the radar, not under the radar.
• 22:55
  SPEAKER_02: It's very much river hounds.
• 22:58
  SPEAKER_02: Maybe we'll have two odd champions this year, the Riverhounds and the Pit Volleyball.
• 23:03
  SPEAKER_02: And speaking of the River Hounds, real quick, uh Eric Dick, the uh goalkeeper who was so well, he he's gonna he's not signing with the Riverhounds, so they're they're screwed.
• 23:12
  SPEAKER_02: And then like they lost that guy.
• 23:14
  SPEAKER_02: That's like their best player.
• 23:16
  SPEAKER_02: But I don't know about I don't know much about volleyball except for like you know, sets and spikes and digs and whatnot.
• 23:24
  SPEAKER_02: But um and yeah, hey, Tim uh go go pit go.
• 23:29
  SPEAKER_02: And any comments on pit volleyball, Tim.
• 23:31
  SPEAKER_02: Pit women's volleyball, by the way.
• 23:33
  SPEAKER_02: I don't know if there's a men's volleyball team or men's volleyball collegiate sport, but yeah, this is our fifth year in a row and they haven't but they haven't won a title yet.
• 23:42
  SPEAKER_02: So hopefully this will be the the Buffalo Bills of uh Yeah, right, right.
• 23:46
  SPEAKER_03: And they play so they play Texas AM on Thursday, and then uh I can't remember the other two two teams, but they would play the winner of that in the championship if they made it.
• 23:57
  SPEAKER_03: So yeah, it'd be nice to see Pitt Pitt win a title there.
• 24:02
  SPEAKER_02: There you go.
• 24:03
  SPEAKER_02: We could say celebrate our national championship volleyball, do you?
• 24:06
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, yeah.
• 24:07
  SPEAKER_03: I would go to the Christmas parade for that.
• 24:12
  SPEAKER_02: Well, you know, you can celebrate us all year round, even though Christmas is still one a week away.
• 24:19
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 24:20
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• 24:45
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• 24:46
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