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Buccaneers Recap, Saints Preview · Steelers Country Weekly

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  Speaker 1: Today on Steelers Country Weekly, we break down the Steelers'
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  Speaker 1: big win in Tampa Bay against the Buccaneers. We look
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  Speaker 1: ahead to the matchup in Paris against the New Orleans Saints.
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  Speaker 1: And we don't really have a fun topic, we're just
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  Speaker 1: making it up as we go. I'm Nick DiTullio, and
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  Speaker 1: as always, I'm joined by the world-famous accountant, Eric Vamenschoten. Eric,
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  Speaker 1: how's it going tonight?
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  Speaker 2: You know, talking about the Steelers is.
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  Speaker 3: It's been the highlight of my last week and the
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  Speaker 3: highlight of this week. Everything else in between we can forget.
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  Speaker 3: Except for a result. But maybe not the process of
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  Speaker 3: what happened on Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so last week I said if the Steelers won,
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  Speaker 1: I would eat crow. And I am happy to do that,
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  Speaker 1: by all means. A win is better than a loss, right?
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  Speaker 1: But I think everyone will agree that through the first...
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  Speaker 1: Almost entire three quarters. The Steelers looked awful and did
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  Speaker 1: not deserve to win that football game.
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  Speaker 3: I don't remember 60% of the games we played.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe, but I remember I was checked out during this game.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, I knew it. We can never get
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  Speaker 1: any sort of consistency. We'll play a game we think
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  Speaker 1: we're great. And then we come out and poop the
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  Speaker 1: bed the next game. And that's almost exactly what happened here.
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  Speaker 1: It was 13 to three at halftime. We had a
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  Speaker 1: really bad, um, interception defensively. We weren't really doing much.
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  Speaker 2: We had a.
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  Speaker 1: Rookie on undrafted rookie quarterback, um, who I was actually
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  Speaker 1: pretty impressed with through the game, um, putting his team
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  Speaker 1: in position to, to win and make plays. Um, And
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  Speaker 1: on our side, it just felt like one of those
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  Speaker 1: games where we could do nothing right. We were missing tackles.
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  Speaker 1: Jeremy Bernard caught a first down pass and then ran
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  Speaker 1: backwards instead of just going down. And I was just done.
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  Speaker 1: I was already figuring out how we were going to
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  Speaker 1: talk through that in this moment. I was like, Eric
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  Speaker 1: might say something like, oh, he's a rookie. He's going
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  Speaker 1: to make mistakes. It happens. And I'm going to have
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  Speaker 1: to say, I don't give a damn. He's a grown adult.
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  Speaker 1: You wouldn't say that about a senior in college, but
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  Speaker 1: a rookie in the NFL. Oh, he's young. I was
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  Speaker 1: literally making up scenarios that were probably not going to happen.
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  Speaker 1: But in the end of the third quarter, the Steelers
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  Speaker 1: got the ball and they started driving. And at that point,
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  Speaker 1: they were down 16 to 3. And they, man, they
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  Speaker 1: scored on the first possession, a touchdown pass, or on
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  Speaker 1: the first ensuing possession of the fourth quarter, touchdown pass
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  Speaker 1: to Darnell Washington. They drove two more times to get
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  Speaker 1: a couple field goals. And we'll talk about the last
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  Speaker 1: field goal of regulation, because I do have some concerns
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  Speaker 1: about that. But the point is, they didn't fold. They
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  Speaker 1: dug deep. and they managed to get a win. And
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  Speaker 1: while you can be mad about how it happened, which
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  Speaker 1: we certainly have some questions, again, it's better to at
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  Speaker 1: least dig deep and get the win as opposed to
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  Speaker 1: falling short, which we've seen them do before, too.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure. We'll definitely take it.
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  Speaker 3: If I had to take a grain of salt, 22.
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  Speaker 2: Of our 32.
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  Speaker 3: Three completions were to our top two wide receivers, you
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  Speaker 3: would call them. So, DK and Jeremy Bernard. The only
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  Speaker 3: thing is, like, they didn't, like, they weren't explosive plays.
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  Speaker 3: These are two guys that should be explosive players, and
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  Speaker 3: they both had under 10 yards per reception.
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  Speaker 2: So, it felt a little stunted. You know, like, We.
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  Speaker 3: Got him involved, but it's still a very conservative game plan.
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  Speaker 3: Even with all the short passes, we still are sacked
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  Speaker 3: five times.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know. It's ugly.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was ugly. Even the head coach got injured
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  Speaker 1: during the game.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, I do have an exception to that. So, I
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  Speaker 2: didn't see....
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  Speaker 3: Exactly how he got injured. I just saw he was
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  Speaker 3: in the blue tent. He was, like, kicking his leg out.
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  Speaker 2: He had, like, a... Did he have a bone bruise?
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  Speaker 2: He took the whole entire halftime to deal with a
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  Speaker 2: bone bruise?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Like, you ask your.
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  Speaker 3: Guys to play through all kinds of things. I'm not
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  Speaker 3: saying that it wouldn't hurt. But you know what? You
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  Speaker 3: tell your guys, literally, like, chomp down painkillers.
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  Speaker 2: And Move on. Next play. You gotta do the same thing.
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  Speaker 2: You get a bone bruise. Come on.
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  Speaker 3: I don't care if you're like 70 years old or
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  Speaker 3: however he is.
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  Speaker 2: Move on, old man.
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  Speaker 1: Man, coming out swinging at Mike McCarthy. All right.
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  Speaker 2: Do you not agree with me? This is football.
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  Speaker 1: I will admit that I did have those thoughts too
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  Speaker 1: when they were like, oh, he spent the half in
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  Speaker 1: the medical tent. And I was thinking, isn't that Like,
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  Speaker 1: are you allowed to do that? Like, you don't get
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  Speaker 1: to just... You're not one of the... You don't get
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  Speaker 1: to use the team's medical facilities like that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, like, I don't know. I just, like, is there
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  Speaker 2: a nacho plate in there or something that we didn't
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  Speaker 2: know about? Like, what's going on? I just.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, that's a step too far. We'll talk about food later.
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  Speaker 1: I had a good idea for a fun topic just
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  Speaker 1: come to me. But anyway, I'll tell you what. Again,
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  Speaker 1: For most of the first three quarters, the Steelers looked awful.
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  Speaker 1: There's nothing good to talk about, right? As I said,
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  Speaker 1: I think they got lucky because they played a rookie
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  Speaker 1: quarterback who played pretty well, all things considering. Maybe he
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  Speaker 1: could have done a few things differently, and maybe if
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  Speaker 1: the Steelers were playing a veteran quarterback, the Bucs do
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  Speaker 1: a few more things to put themselves over the top,
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  Speaker 1: but that's not what happened. The thing that I really
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  Speaker 1: wanted to talk about the most was the Jamal Dean
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  Speaker 1: interception toward the end of regulation to give the Steelers
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  Speaker 1: the ball at the three-yard line. I was really annoyed
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  Speaker 1: with how they handled that by not running the ball
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  Speaker 1: three times and making the Bucs use all their timeouts.
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  Speaker 1: I was mad at that. I was mad that they
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  Speaker 1: got the ball at the two or the three-yard line
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  Speaker 1: and couldn't score a touchdown to really ice the game. So,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. Maybe the bone bruise was getting in
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  Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy's head.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe. Maybe the paint colors. Maybe.
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  Speaker 1: Or maybe it was... Maybe it was Aaron Rodgers calling
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  Speaker 1: the plays and just saying, no, I'm feeling hot right now.
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  Speaker 1: I think I can get the pass. But they left
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  Speaker 1: the Buccaneers with one timeout because of their play calling
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  Speaker 1: and their inability to complete a pass. And they gave
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  Speaker 1: them a full minute and 21 seconds to drive down
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  Speaker 1: the field. Again, only for a field goal. They were
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  Speaker 1: only up by three at that point. And Sure enough,
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  Speaker 1: the Steelers, I think it was on the very first play,
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  Speaker 1: they got into field goal range. The Bucs did. I
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  Speaker 1: was like, well, shoot. So, I don't know. You and
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  Speaker 1: I are not NFL players. We're not coaches. So, I
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  Speaker 1: think if I, at least this week, if I could
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  Speaker 1: ask anyone anything, it would just be like, why aren't
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  Speaker 1: you guys doing the obvious thing there? Why are we
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  Speaker 1: trying to outsmart ourselves? Why are we going about it
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  Speaker 1: this way? Just run the ball and make them use
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  Speaker 1: their timeouts. Because at the end of the day, if
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  Speaker 1: you run the ball three times and you don't get
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  Speaker 1: in the end zone, the result's going to be the
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  Speaker 1: same as what actually happened, right?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess they're playing to win.
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  Speaker 3: But I think that that matters when there's one of
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  Speaker 3: two factors going for you. If you're playing hot, your
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  Speaker 3: team is, you know, your offense or your running back
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  Speaker 3: or your quarterback tight end connection's been.
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  Speaker 2: Burning all game, like, go for it.
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  Speaker 3: Or if the other team's offense has been hot, you
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  Speaker 3: can't keep them off the field, you worry that a.
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  Speaker 2: Field goal isn't enough, and... You got to do something
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  Speaker 2: to ice it.
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  Speaker 3: Neither of those factors were in play in this game. Like,
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  Speaker 3: we're not dealing with the Patrick Mahomes. It's not Chiefs-Bills
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  Speaker 3: 13-second standoff.
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  Speaker 2: Of situation.
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  Speaker 3: And we also weren't cooking we didn't have killer bees
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  Speaker 3: we you know we're taking needless sacks I mean we
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  Speaker 3: watched it to where the We could have had even
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  Speaker 3: a bigger disaster.
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  Speaker 2: We could have had, remember with Rodgers, just.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know, it was a couple weeks ago, where
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  Speaker 3: he had a 43-yard loss.
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  Speaker 2: Because he lost the ball.
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  Speaker 3: It could have been even worse than rather than just
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  Speaker 3: a mismanagement of play.
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  Speaker 2: It could have been a disaster. So, yeah, it just
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  Speaker 2: felt like, I think there's always right times. I don't
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  Speaker 2: mind it when Coaches are aggressive.
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  Speaker 3: Tomlin, honestly, if you remember back in the Killer Beat days,
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  Speaker 3: he was really aggressive with fourth down and two-point conversions
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  Speaker 3: with the offense because we had the capacity to score
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  Speaker 3: 30 points a game. And getting an extra set of
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  Speaker 3: downs meant extra points on the board.
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  Speaker 2: And I understood that. You know, like he.
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  Speaker 3: oh, we didn't get that two-point conversion.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's not the last touchdown we're going to score.
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  Speaker 3: Later on, I felt like he would get gun-shy because
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  Speaker 3: he had, you know, a Duck Hodges or a Mason
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  Speaker 3: Weirdot behind the, or a Najee Harris in the backfield,
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  Speaker 3: and he's like, ah, we're not going.
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  Speaker 2: To get this yard. So, yeah, I think circumstances matter, and.
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  Speaker 3: So, you know, I don't like to say just, like, blanketly, like, oh,
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  Speaker 3: I shouldn't have done that, but, like, definitely did not
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  Speaker 3: make sense in this game.
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  Speaker 1: Nope, I'll say it. You should have run the ball
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  Speaker 1: three times. That's what you should have done. So that
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  Speaker 1: was one part that I, like, the first portion of
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  Speaker 1: the game was very disappointing for different reasons. When I
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  Speaker 1: saw that, I was like, my God, just do it.
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  Speaker 1: do the obvious thing here. It's okay. So, but the
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  Speaker 1: one thing you mentioned that I think is also interesting too,
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  Speaker 1: is Steelers gave up five sacks. There was a couple
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  Speaker 1: of really big hits on Rogers too. One where he
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  Speaker 1: noticeably grimaced. So the line, I think overall has been
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  Speaker 1: getting better, but I still think five sacks is way
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  Speaker 1: too much, especially when your quarterback is Aaron Rogers. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: That's something that's got to change. The other thing you mentioned, too,
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  Speaker 1: is most of the pass is going to DK and Bernard.
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  Speaker 1: And that's true because the rest of the receivers are
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  Speaker 1: dropping like flies, man. You got Pittman and Roman Wilson
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  Speaker 1: on the IR.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Pittman, that acquisition that literally, I don't even know
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  Speaker 3: what number he wears.
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  Speaker 2: Right. I think the guy has been.
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  Speaker 3: So limited to this team in terms of when he's
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  Speaker 3: on the field or availability, it just doesn't even matter.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It's been rough and injuries. It sucks when they're injured
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  Speaker 1: because you don't know what the contribution could be.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: Um, it's not like he's played poorly, so they're making
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  Speaker 1: him a healthy scratch. Um, So, once again, they've gone
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  Speaker 1: out and signed Marquez Valdez-Scantling. So he'll be coming in.
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  Speaker 1: Talk about a first game back. Like, hey, meet us
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  Speaker 1: in Paris.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: But... So I think to the point that you were making, though,
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  Speaker 1: that it went to only two receivers, that's almost more
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  Speaker 1: impressive to me because they did that out of necessity
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  Speaker 1: and they still managed to find a way in the end.
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  Speaker 2: So....
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  Speaker 1: Overall, my takeaway from this game is you have to
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  Speaker 1: hope that they're going to continue to build on the
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  Speaker 1: momentum and go from here. I don't want it to
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  Speaker 1: be an up-and-down, up-and-down thing like I thought was going
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  Speaker 1: to be this game. You've got to get the wins
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  Speaker 1: where you can. I actually saw that Rodgers said that
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  Speaker 1: same thing, like, you've got to beat the teams you're
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  Speaker 1: supposed to beat. And I was like, I don't know
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  Speaker 1: that you're supposed to say that, but I appreciate it, too.
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  Speaker 1: It's kind of the opposite of Tomlin when he would
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  Speaker 1: lose a game like this, saying, you know, this is
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  Speaker 1: the NFL, anything can happen. Now, you should beat the Buccaneers,
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  Speaker 1: with a backup quarterback especially. So, I'm going to leave
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  Speaker 1: it at that. Was there anything else you thought we
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  Speaker 1: should touch on from the game in Tampa Bay this
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  Speaker 1: past weekend? Eric, are you there?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, sorry. You can't hear me?
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  Speaker 1: You came back in. You're good now.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, cool. Now I'm all good. I said, let's put
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  Speaker 2: it behind us.
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  Speaker 1: I just assumed you were pontificating on what great knowledge
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  Speaker 1: bomb you're going to drop on us next. I'm always
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  Speaker 1: pondering that. Get ready, because his insight into the next
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  Speaker 1: game is going to be sensational. The next game, we
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  Speaker 1: alluded to it, is in Paris against the Saints. The Saints,
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  Speaker 1: also from the NFC South, struggling a little bit like
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  Speaker 1: the Buccaneers. They're sitting at 2-4 right now. And of course,
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  Speaker 1: any international game comes with headaches. There is a lot
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  Speaker 1: going on in France right now. You have the Steelers,
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  Speaker 1: of course, going over to Paris after this emotional win
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  Speaker 1: in Tampa Bay. So we'll have to see what happens
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  Speaker 1: once these two teams hit the field. Looking ahead to
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  Speaker 1: this game, though, Eric, since I know you're going to
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  Speaker 1: drop some good stuff on us here now that you've
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  Speaker 1: been pontificating, what are some of your keys for the
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  Speaker 1: Steelers in this game?
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  Speaker 2: Well.
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  Speaker 3: Honestly, I think the Saints are one of those teams
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  Speaker 3: that their record doesn't really reflect how good they are.
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  Speaker 3: The same way as our record kind of reflects a
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  Speaker 3: little bit too fondly of how we are. I think
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  Speaker 3: the Saints have played very competitively, especially offensively. Their quarterback show,
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  Speaker 3: he does.
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  Speaker 2: he's a, he's a gunslinger.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, with that interceptions will happen, but he is
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  Speaker 3: a guy that will throw it, you know, 50 times, 300,
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  Speaker 3: 350 yards, um, a.
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  Speaker 2: Big play willing to happen. So, you know, when, when
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  Speaker 2: your coach, um, you know, it was.
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  Speaker 3: A quarterback for the Boise state Broncos that brought, brought
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  Speaker 3: them onto the map. That is kind of expected. Um,
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  Speaker 3: I really don't know much about the Saints other than that.
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  Speaker 3: When it comes to a matchup internationally, I think all
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  Speaker 3: things are off the table.
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  Speaker 2: It's not just a neutral site game.
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  Speaker 3: We've watched plenty of college games that are neutral site
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  Speaker 3: and it's not a big deal because it's in the States.
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  Speaker 3: Normally neutral site games are in between the two destinations
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  Speaker 3: a few hours away.
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  Speaker 2: Not the case.
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  Speaker 3: This is a seven-hour flight, eight-hour flight. You don't have
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  Speaker 3: a practice field over there. You just kind of show up,
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  Speaker 3: play a game. You weren't going to mention it, but
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  Speaker 3: there is strife in the.
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  Speaker 2: City right now.
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  Speaker 3: It's got to provide some uneasiness. for both the players,
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  Speaker 3: the coaches, and the attendees. You don't even know how
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  Speaker 3: this is going to be attended. Because they're willing to
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  Speaker 3: burn down certain buildings that are over there that are
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  Speaker 3: treasured to their culture. What says that they can't do
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  Speaker 3: anything to the stadium?
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  Speaker 2: So, like, I know you wouldn't touch.
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  Speaker 3: It with a 39.5-foot pole, but at the same time,
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  Speaker 3: I do think that's a consideration. If I were the NFL, honestly,
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  Speaker 3: here's what I'll say about this. I would cancel it.
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  Speaker 3: Not the game itself, but the Paris game. And I
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  Speaker 3: would put it in New Orleans or Pittsburgh.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that would have been the.
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  Speaker 1: The reasonable thing to do, and you didn't even have
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  Speaker 1: to move it out of Europe, I'm sure that you
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  Speaker 1: could have made it happen somewhere else over there. The
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  Speaker 1: protests and the riots, they've been going on for, what,
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  Speaker 1: more than a week now? Yeah. I'm not saying it's
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  Speaker 1: an easy thing to do logistically, to move a game.
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  Speaker 1: But let's see, actually. I think the Steelers, both teams
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  Speaker 1: may have a bye next week, too.
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  Speaker 2: Never mind.
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  Speaker 1: That actually makes me mad now that I'm looking at this.
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  Speaker 1: the Saints have a bye after the game. We have
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  Speaker 1: to come back and play Cleveland. They should have, and
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  Speaker 1: then we have our bye. We should have had our
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  Speaker 1: bye after the international game too. The point I was
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  Speaker 1: going to make when I assumed that we both had
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  Speaker 1: a bye was you could even move the bye up
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  Speaker 1: a week to give yourself extra time to logistically make
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  Speaker 1: it happen. In either case, yeah, the game probably shouldn't
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  Speaker 1: have been played there, but the NFL has made it
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  Speaker 1: a point to be pretty demanding on you know we
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  Speaker 1: we picked this game we picked these teams this is
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  Speaker 1: the stadium you're playing in and doggone it you're gonna
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  Speaker 1: play in it um we talked about uh the game
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  Speaker 1: in rio this year with the field conditions down there
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  Speaker 1: i think that's been a case in like uh when
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  Speaker 1: they've played in mexico city a few times the field
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  Speaker 1: conditions were a big concern as well um and it
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  Speaker 1: doesn't matter The only time I've seen them not play
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  Speaker 1: a game is the year that they canceled the Hall
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  Speaker 1: of Fame game because of the paint or something weird
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  Speaker 1: like that. So, yeah, I'm with you. The political strife aside,
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: I'm looking at this game and, yeah, you mentioned the
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: Saints might be a little bit better than their record
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: would indicate. And I will say, They did beat the Ravens,
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: so I love them for that. But they've lost to
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: the Lions, who are having an interesting year, the Raiders,
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: the Falcons, and the Vikings of all teams. They did
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: just beat the New York Giants, though, so they're also
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: coming off a win on their side. But that was
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: a game where the Giants really were weird, too. The
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: Giants have J.J. McCarthy playing. They benched Cam Scadaboo. They
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: cut our friend Najee Harris today, too. They're not happy
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: with him. No one really knows what's going on with
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: the Giants. I don't know. Maybe their record is who
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: they are.
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: I don't know. On the Giants' note, did you see
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: that the NFC East is the only team to go
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: winless two weeks in a row.
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: In NFL history?
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: And one of those games they play each other, which,
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: did you watch that game?
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: I did not, but I heard it was just a cluster.
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: Dude, okay.
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: So, I forget exactly what Jaden Daniels did in.
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: That game to do a boneheaded move, but he screwed up. Oh,
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: you know what it was?
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: He, like, ran in the middle of the field, and
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: then he didn't clock it, and then they didn't have
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: time to kick a field goal.
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: So then this past week, he played, they.
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: Were playing 49ers last night, and he threw away on a.
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: Fourth and five. It's like, the dude made two. Literally just,
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: I can't think of a high school quarterback making these
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: type of moves. Like, a legitimate... Like, if St.
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: Xavier Elder quarterback did this two weeks in a row,
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: they'd be benched.
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: Because that's so stupid. You can't do that. He's a
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: pro quarterback. Sorry.
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: The ineptitude going on over there is crazy. And honestly,
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: I'm going to say it. I'm rooting against Jay and
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: Daniels because of the whole five trademark thing.
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: This is the silliest thing I've ever heard. Yeah. It's ridiculous.
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: He deserves it.
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: I think the guy needs to find some new representation
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: that's not his mom.
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: It's a humble pie.
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's not getting it where he's at now. Alright,
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: well we'll save that for our next podcast, Commander's Country Weekly.
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: There you go.
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: As it pertains to the Steelers and the Saints... Um,
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: I am, look, I, I think we need to keep
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: feeding Jalen Warren. Um, we need to not totally come
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: out and crap the bed in the first three quarters
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: of the game. And I would love to see some
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: more pressure from our edge rushers, notably our friend TJ Watt, uh,
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: Jalen Ramsey is the one who had the big blitz
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: of the day, ending the game in overtime with his
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: sack on Daniels in Tampa Bay. So that was good
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: to see. But yeah, look, the edge rushers getting the
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: pressure is going to be what causes bad throws and
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: sacks and other turnovers as well. So I think the
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: Steelers should win, and I'm going to go with Aaron
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: Rodgers here because I've said it before on the show too.
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: You've got to beat the teams you're supposed to beat.
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: I think that New Orleans is a team they should beat.
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: I think the only possible disadvantage that the Steelers have
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: is this might actually be a home game for the Saints.
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: I was actually looking online and they said 70% of
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: the tickets sold for the game were bought from France households.
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: So because of that, because the Saints have the fleur-de-lis
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: or whatever the logo.
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: Is, it's just a... It's their culture.
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: Oui, oui. Oui, oui.
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: Because of the fleur-de-lis, I believe that the Saints have
• 26:15
  Speaker 4: the home field advantage while they're eating their baguettes in
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: the stands. Now, bad French jokes aside, Look.
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: They got good pastries over there, Nick.
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: I know they do. We'll talk about that momentarily. Look,
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: let's just stop beating around the bush. I'm going to
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: give the Steelers a win. I think that after I
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: thought they were going to lose last week and how
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: they pulled through, they showed me something. I hope that
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: they figure out what's going on at receiver. And I
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: hope that the defense steps up, but I'm going to
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: go with the Steelers here. I'm going to give them
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: a 21-17 victory.
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: No, I agree with you.
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: I think that they should win this game. But I
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: actually think the pace of it has to.
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: Be more of a foothold.
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: I don't think that we're going to hold them to
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: 17 points.
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: Look, I.
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: We came out with some plays against the Bucs, but
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: we struggled to just put teams away that we should have,
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: like that are Cooper Rush and Jalen Daniels. I'm not
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: saying that this guy's Mahomes over there, but he's a.
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: Guy that can sling it. I think that this is
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: going to be more of a....
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: Let's call it 34-31 Steelers victory.
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: All right, there you go. The experts here at Steelers
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: Country Weekly have the picks in. We say the Steelers are.
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: Going to win.
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: That would be big because it moves them to 5-2
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: on the year and brings them back to Pittsburgh for
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: redemption against the Browns. All right, there you have it.
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: So I, uh, was talking with Eric before we started
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: recording and was really struggling to find some sort of
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: fun topic here. We both are history buffs. The game
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: is in France. There's a lot there and we just
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: really couldn't put our finger on anything. But I had,
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: I think, a genius idea to talk about, uh, as
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: we started recording the, uh, one of the other things
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: we talk quite a bit about here is, uh, food
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: and the culinary arts on Steelers country weekly. Um, I
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: think everyone will remember the, um, the spirited discussion we
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: had surrounding when I bought my new pizza oven and
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: how Eric was convinced that it was a stupid idea.
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: And I, you didn't say stupid, but yeah, that was
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: your stance. Uh, I've never tried any of this pizza.
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: No, and you don't get to try any now because
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: you spoke out against it. Anyway, I think the Steelers
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: kick off at 9.30 this weekend. We've talked before about
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: favorite tailgate food, favorite themed food. We talk about food
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: quite a bit. So I thought it'd be kind of
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: funny since it's a morning game. I guess I'll ask
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: you this. If you were going to do a tailgate
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: spread or a game spread for the 9.30 kickoff, what
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: kind of things would you include in that layout?
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: So this might be a controversial opinion. I think breakfast
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: food is the worst type of food during your day.
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: To me, I can't wait to get to lunch food.
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: I can't wait to get to dinner food. I'm not
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: a brunch guy. I was telling my wife last night,
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: I don't understand why eggs are such a universally liked thing.
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: The texture on them, kind of weird. I don't get it.
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: I don't need to eat a whole bunch of pastries.
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: I just had donuts this past weekend.
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: That was great.
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: When I was over in Europe, got me one of
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: those Thanksgiving I like to call them a chocolate pizza.
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: They're delicious. And I would love for that.
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: But look, you are talking about what tailgate food I
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: would build out. I'm still going, you know, like chicken wings, homemade,
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: you know, Bagel Bites.
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: I would go Skyline Chili Dip.
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: Look, not a popular opinion, but I don't get the whole.
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: Breakfast thing. Toast and eggs and oatmeal and like, what? Fun.
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: Good God, man. What is wrong with you?
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: Oh my goodness. Okay.
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: So, there's a lot to unpack there. I don't think
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: I've ever met someone who has such a strong disdain
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: for one of the three meals of the day as you.
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: It's just strongly number three. It's not disdain.
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: It's just....
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: You did.
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: You did say... To kill F. Mary, you know. I'm
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: killing breakfast.
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: I mean, I would say I'm killing breakfast, too. I
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: just have a different connotation than you have. You did
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: say one thing that I thought was interesting, and it's
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: something that I've thought about before, too. You said, you know, eggs,
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: why are they a thing? And it's not just with
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: something like eggs, but I'll use eggs as the example.
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: It's just something we do now we don't even think about. Like, yeah,
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: I'm going to eat some eggs or I'll make some eggs.
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: Can you put your mind in the first person who
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: had that idea?
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: Like, you know what I mean? Yeah. That bird just
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: laid an egg. I think I want to eat that thing.
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: So when you think of it that way, I can
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: kind of get behind it. Although.
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: I still eat eggs.
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: By the way, do you watch... Have you had to
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: watch Beauty and the Beast with your children?
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: Not yet, but I have seen the movie before.
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: Oh, well, our daughter's all about it right now. And
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: one of the things is Gaston, the.
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: Main antagonist, he has a song where he talks about.
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: How he got big. And he... And by the way,
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: it's in France. based in france right so.
• 33:46
  Speaker 5: Trying it all together but um he uh he talks
• 33:51
  Speaker 5: about how he ate four dozen eggs as a kid
• 33:54
  Speaker 5: and then when he got older he ate five dozen
• 33:57
  Speaker 5: eggs man the cholesterol in that young man just insane.
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: That's why his body is so misshapen yeah um there
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: you go so maybe next week eric will prepare a
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: uh a song in the style of Beauty and the
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: Beast as our fun topic, coming back from Paris.
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. I was in Glee Club, so watch out.
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: Alright, well, if I was gonna do, like, a breakfast
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: or a brunch kind of spread, I would probably do
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: some eggs, maybe some Eggs Benedict, though, instead of just
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: scrambled eggs. I think you gotta have the cheesy potato casserole,
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: Of course there has to be bacon, but one thing
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: that I have grown to really love that is very
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: snobby of me, I will admit right here, is having
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: smoked salmon on a bagel with cream cheese.
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: Did you make it lox style? Exactly, yes.
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: So my wife's all in. If you host us as
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: a couple, you know what you're making us for breakfast.
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: Well, come on down for Sunday. So that's what I.
• 35:23
  Speaker 3: My dad was like, do you want to go to
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: my older mother's high school football game? He's like, do
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: you want to go to the game with me? And
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: my wife was like, Please tell him no. I'm not
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: doing bedtime by myself. We have three children. One is
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: a month years old.
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: That's when you have to be like, Presley, I don't
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: know how, you know, I want to treasure the time
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: I have with my dad. And put the guilt back
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: on her.
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: Love it.
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: So, now, look.
• 35:58
  Speaker 3: Look.
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: I wish that I had thought of this idea sooner,
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: because maybe I would have done something to prepare for
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: it for this weekend. Maybe I still will. But I
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: think you could do that. You could have like a
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: donut tower or something like that. And donuts themselves, if
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: we're going to talk about food, has kind of become
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: its own entire genre too, right? Because... I don't know
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: the last time you went into a donut shop, but
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: you go in now and it's like a wall filled
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: with all different kinds of icings, different flavors. Oh, yeah.
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: They put cereal.
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: So, Presley wanted to take the girls out for like
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: a girl's morning.
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: She's like, I've been all stewed up with our son.
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: I'm like, cool.
• 36:54
  Speaker 5: I'll hold him.
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: You go out. So they went and got donuts.
• 36:58
  Speaker 3: And the place that we like, it is a, I
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: like to call it an artisan donut shop.
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 37:06
  Speaker 3: And they got all the different special type of donuts.
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: It's like the craft beer of donuts. Nice. Well. It's good.
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: They have a good cinnamon, cinnamon French toast donut.
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: There you go.
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: So I'll tell you this, and I'm preparing for you
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: to just dump on me again. But one of the
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: things I like to do with breakfast is cook it
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: on a big griddle so you can do a lot
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: at once. And I actually just bought a new Blackstone griddle.
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: And I have, it's been sitting in my garage. I
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: have to actually unbox it and open it up, but
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: That's what I would do for as much of the
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: food as I could in this tailgate, and any time
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: I'd be entertaining for breakfast.
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: Is it like an attach? Like, is it like a
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: thing that you put on top of your grill?
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: I do have one of those, but no, I bought
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: like an actual Blackstone 28-inch griddle.
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: Oh, okay.
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: Standalone. And I'll have you know, it was on sale for.
• 38:20
  Speaker 3: $ 124, so.
• 38:24
  Speaker 3: Actually, that sounds pretty reasonable. I thought those things were, like,
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: way expensive.
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: They can be. What I like to do, much to
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: my older daughter's dismay, is every time we go to
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: Walmart or the hardware store, I like to go look
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: at all the grills. One, just because it's fun for me.
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: But two... You never know when you're going to find
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: a markdown where they're selling a floor model or they
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: have an in-store only sale where they're just trying to
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: get rid of inventory.
• 38:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: It's like I've seen people post online buying full-on smokers
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: for more than half off. And people are like, oh
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: my god, that's crazy, where are you at? And they'll
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: be like, Lowell, Massachusetts. And I'm like, well, that doesn't
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: do me any good.
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, haha.
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: So anyway, I was walking through Walmart and I found
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: the griddle. And I was like, oh shit, $ 124 for
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: a name brand Blackstone? That's pretty good. And that's exactly
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: what it was, just end of season, trying to get
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: rid of inventory.
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: But, like, are people really, like.
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: It's grilling... Okay, especially in Atlanta. Is it really end
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: of season? Not as.
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: Not as much as like up by you. Um, but yes,
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: it does get colder down here. We will have a,
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: there is a change of season. Um, but I guess,
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: I guess I'll give you a good example. Um, when
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: I bought my smoker, I got, there was three models
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: and I got the middle of the road. The big
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: difference between mine and the next tier up was the, uh,
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: the lid was like double insulated. so that you could,
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: in theory, smoke all year round and not have to
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: worry about doing it in the winter and the temperature
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: bringing it down.
• 40:22
  Speaker 3: Oh, okay.
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: And I did not buy that, even though I think
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: I should have, just because. But I really haven't. So
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: I bought a fiberglass blanket as a stand-in in case
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: I really wanted to stand outside and smoke something at
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: below freezing temperatures.
• 40:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: I haven't had to use it yet.
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: Fair enough.
• 40:48
  Speaker 3: I understand that. I know it gets cool, but it's
• 40:54
  Speaker 3: just like....
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: The South, I mean... If you guys get any snow,
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: it's like the end of the world. Where like... The
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: rest of the country is like, we can deal with this, so....
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, it does get that cold down here,
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: but at that point it's not often enough where it's like,
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: I have to go out and smoke something or grill
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: something that day. I'm like, you know what, we'll just
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: eat inside today, it's fine. Well, there you go. I think,
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: once again, we've given the most insight to the culinary
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: sciences here on Steelers Country Weekly.
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: I mean, that's what it's all about.
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: Yes, if you're not eating, you're not living.
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: That's right.
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: Alright, was there anything else you wanted to talk about
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: on either of the games or any food ideas you've got?
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: Anything at all before we sign off for the week
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: and head to Paris?
• 41:52
  Speaker 3: This is also a hot take.
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: Oh boy. I don't even really understand what French food is.
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: I went over there and they're like, you want burger
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: and fries? I'm like, well, we usually do over in America.
• 42:13
  Speaker 3: I have gone to a place down Austin and they
• 42:19
  Speaker 3: had escargot with like a garlic.
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: Herb butter and it was delicious.
• 42:27
  Speaker 3: There you go. And I know that they do like pate,
• 42:33
  Speaker 3: but in terms of like the food situation in Europe, outside.
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: Of the UK. UK's food is trash. I don't even... Like... Okay,
• 42:49
  Speaker 2: so I've gone.
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: UK... Spain.
• 42:52
  Speaker 3: Like.
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: Netherlands.
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: Hungary, I'm trying to name the countries.
• 43:10
  Speaker 3: I've gone to a bunch of different ones and it's
• 43:12
  Speaker 3: just like, so like everyone's got their own flair, their
• 43:16
  Speaker 3: own flavor.
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  Speaker 2: And so France is too, like second worst.
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  Speaker 3: But the one thing I thought about with like the
• 43:25
  Speaker 3: UK was how did you trade salt for so many years?
• 43:33
  Speaker 3: And sea travel and never use it on your food.
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: Man, you are just trying to piss off an entire
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: continent tonight.
• 43:44
  Speaker 2: World War III. No.
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: Historically, Britain is not known for its food. I do
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: think they are better now than they were. And actually,
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: one of the common tropes you hear is that Britain
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: has the best Indian food because a lot of the
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: Indian immigrants have come over to Britain. So that's kind
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: of interesting in itself, right?
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: I feel like that's like America saying that we got a.
• 44:13
  Speaker 3: Better pizza culture than Italy.
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't say that it's better than India, though. I'm
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: just saying that the best... Some people claim that the
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: best food in Britain is the Indian food. Not that
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: it's better than India. I would also say that America
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: is a little different though because we do have that
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: melting pot. We do have people from all different ethnicities
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: coming here and making their own dishes and actually Americanizing them.
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: Chinese dishes are really big in that. As for French cooking,
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: I think a lot of it is the technique too.
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: Not to say I'm an expert chef by any means,
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: but a lot of the best chefs go and train
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: over in France. So I would like to learn more
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: about it myself. I'm with you, though. I don't know
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: quite as much about it as I probably should. But
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: then again, I've never been to Paris, and I don't
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: know that I actually plan on going over there. So
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: I'll stick with.
• 45:20
  Speaker 3: Super underrated food place is Spain.
• 45:26
  Speaker 2: I love the tapas style.
• 45:29
  Speaker 3: Love the different flavors that they have. It's not just
• 45:38
  Speaker 3: the paella.
• 45:40
  Speaker 2: There's more to it. Good stuff.
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: Well, there you go. Our spinoff to Steelers Country Weekly
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: is going to be Around the Globe with Nick and Eric,
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: where we will travel to all these countries and try
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: all the food and give our critiques of those as well.
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: We just need the game house.
• 45:59
  Speaker 2: Someone's got to fill Anthony Bourdain's shoes.
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: We just need the game house to pay for it.
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: Just like they've been paying for this all these years.
• 46:09
  Speaker 3: That's right. Send this over to Paris to watch this game.
• 46:14
  Speaker 3: We'll tell you all about their food.
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll go through. It's so good right now, like
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: you said, right?
• 46:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: All right, that's going to do it for us. For
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: the world-famous accountant Eric Vamenschoten, I'm Nick DiTullio, and this
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: has been another episode of TheGameHouse.com's Steelers Country Weekly.