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All eyes on the regular season! · The Irish Steelers Podcast

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Speaker 1: Edple's walking into the Irish Theaters podcast as we are
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Speaker 1: sitting here just under two weeks away from the NFL season,
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Speaker 1: delighted to be joined Michael Quid level, he'll be joined
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Speaker 1: with the crew that I think it's called Michael lo Quid,
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Speaker 1: Jimmy English, Dave McKee. We'll talk about the week. Get Luisacas, Jimmy,
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Speaker 1: he's doing good. I'm presuming you're very happy with the sitters.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely, yeah, I mean pre and O in the preseason,
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Speaker 2: you can't reask for much better than that. And I
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Speaker 2: mean I was talking to my good my good friend
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Speaker 2: Stephen Stephen Kurrns there over the weekend and I was
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Speaker 2: getting excited of getting.
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Speaker 3: A little bit hyped up about how theaters are looking.
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Speaker 2: He told me to to reel it in because it
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Speaker 2: is only the preseason and there is a lot of
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Speaker 2: actual real football ahead of us. But I can't help
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Speaker 2: to be I mean, I'm always I'm always an optimist,
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Speaker 2: but I can't have to be a little bit more
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Speaker 2: than optimistic. We've always seen so far, so I really
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Speaker 2: opened that and carrying the regular season and actually making
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Speaker 2: the playoffs this year.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely, And the big big shure that Steven had the
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Speaker 1: pleasure of meeting Stephen at the weekend. Great guy and
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Speaker 1: we're probably gonna get him in some more fans on
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Speaker 1: the podcast over the next few weeks, especially before the
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Speaker 1: season starts with certainly we really appreciate listening to the podcast.
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Speaker 1: Please do interrect at Staeters Ireland hashtag Steters Ireland. Dave
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Speaker 1: good to see him. My friend called started.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, Tommy, get the Queen funer. I'll have to say, Michael,
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Speaker 4: I'd just like to start off the podcast just by saying,
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Speaker 4: you're twenty twenty three pre season MVP, mister Kenneth Shean Pickett.
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Speaker 4: My board production of Kenny winning the MVP. It's looking
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Speaker 4: very very good right now. Undefeated preseason finished with a
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Speaker 4: hass QB rating over all the QBS in pre season.
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Speaker 4: I'm just glaud we can put up behind us and
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Speaker 4: hope they have a bit they have a bit of swagger.
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Speaker 2: I mean, you know, there's there's something different day about this,
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Speaker 2: this Theaters offense and the Staters team. I can thee
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Speaker 2: this it's gonna be. It's gonna be a big year.
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Speaker 2: It's like none other. Jimmy, I couldn't agree more.
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Speaker 1: I think I think not to talk about different podcasts,
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Speaker 1: but certainly anybody I've spoke to outside of this sphere
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Speaker 1: with different teams in the AFC norph are definitely worried.
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Speaker 1: And we'll come back to that in the week minute.
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Speaker 1: And it would be a mister of this not to
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Speaker 1: talk about Ireland over the last weekend. And I guess
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Speaker 1: just first off, for people who be listening to this,
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Speaker 1: I know we've got people that listen to the podcast,
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Speaker 1: not just nar them and folks, we thank you for
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Speaker 1: doing so. We had a college game in Ireland on
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Speaker 1: Starded when the jymneyy but more so Jimmy and we
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Speaker 1: were both at this. On the Friday, there was a
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Speaker 1: high school game between numerous different teams sorry Free scot
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Speaker 1: three high school games. The Irish Wolfans youth part of
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Speaker 1: the team that the Staters very highly donated some merchandise
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Speaker 1: and some geared to last week. But more so, first off,
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Speaker 1: you were commented on us, so a big congratulations to you.
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Speaker 1: And secondly, it was great to see Don Reni junior
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Speaker 1: come over to Ireland and just to hear such positivity
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Speaker 1: from him on the just on the market and Jimmy,
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Speaker 1: I mean, I think it if I think it shows
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Speaker 1: the sheer effort that this team is going to to
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Speaker 1: really make fans feel connected on this island. I mean
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Speaker 1: the fact that he's flying over and just sort of
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Speaker 1: coming to the high school game and just experience, and
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Speaker 1: I think I think it says an awful lot of
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Speaker 1: Don as a person, but more so just in the
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Speaker 1: just in the direction to this team's going. It was
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Speaker 1: a great It was a great weekendst crack Jimmy and
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Speaker 1: and look the NFL heads and it could just imagine
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Speaker 1: what that would be like someday for a game. But
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Speaker 1: we'll just well could our jets here. But they look
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Speaker 1: great weekend.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, Michael.
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Speaker 2: And I'm glad that my voice has recovered sufficiently in
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Speaker 2: this podcast because.
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Speaker 3: It wasn't looking great there yesterday. I've just about to
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Speaker 3: become you again. A fantastic weekend.
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Speaker 2: They look to be part of that event in donny
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Speaker 2: Brook Stadium or Energy of Park as it is now,
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Speaker 2: and like you said, he'd be commentating and to be
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Speaker 2: involved with was fantastic. So but solutely to see, you know,
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Speaker 2: the engagement from the Steelers and seeing how you know,
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Speaker 2: genuinely interested Dan really was in what was going on.
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Speaker 2: And being part of it, and coming down and in
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Speaker 2: the coin toss with the third game, and then being
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Speaker 2: involved with the kiding competition in the halftime that I
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Speaker 2: think that kind of personal touch from the Rooney family
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Speaker 2: and from the Steelers organization show that this isn't just the.
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Speaker 3: Kind of apply by night thing.
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Speaker 2: There's genuine interesting investment going on here, and you know,
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Speaker 2: they really are building something special for the fans the
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Speaker 2: Steelers stands and are not only Steeters Stands, but NFL
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Speaker 2: fans in general. So I might abolt, you could probably
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Speaker 2: hear the cinema voice.
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Speaker 3: A little bit. I think it would be a few
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Speaker 3: more days.
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Speaker 2: Before I recovered fully, But like the whole weekend was
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Speaker 2: was absolutely fantastic and or it really the show how
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Speaker 2: much of a genuine fan based for America and football
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Speaker 2: there is in Ireland, and it's certainly something that I'm
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Speaker 2: excited to be part of growing over the next couple
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Speaker 2: of years.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely, I'll just quickly adds that and say, and obviously
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Speaker 1: great to see you guys on on on the Saturday
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Speaker 1: prior to the game, but more so seeing so many
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Speaker 1: Staters fans, which is already awesome, especially when there's there
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Speaker 1: were so many college fans there, which was great, but
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Speaker 1: seeing a lot of black and yallow, a lot of
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Speaker 1: a lot of Staters jerseys, a lot of Staters hats
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Speaker 1: which was great and obviously people wondering we're talking about
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Speaker 1: a game of Staters. I have said themselves on a
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Speaker 1: website staters dot com slash Ireland that they are only
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Speaker 1: at the beginning of their journey and much more research
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Speaker 1: and planning needs to be done in this area. But
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Speaker 1: as part of their long term planning, we aspire to
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Speaker 1: return to the island. Do you for people on this
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Speaker 1: podcast listening to this podcast, obviously you're true month by
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Speaker 1: the grace of God, but you live in the UK,
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Speaker 1: you actually live in Liverpool. So what did you think
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Speaker 1: of the weekend? Just looking at it from afar? I
5:46
Speaker 1: bet you wish you were over here, and I'm sure
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Speaker 1: if there's a band party at some point you'll definitely
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Speaker 1: fly over at some point.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's it's been just a complete fit of raising
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Speaker 4: jaalousy for the whole weekend. If you like, you know,
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Speaker 4: just just on a word on the previews, you know,
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Speaker 4: just sort of outstale me on this. You know this
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Speaker 4: obviously with Notre Dame Jimmy's a massive fun and stuff.
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Speaker 4: And obviously you're South Michael, you know, you follow the
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Speaker 4: sport up and down the country. It's something I'm just
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Speaker 4: sort of trying to get into the rhythm of them.
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Speaker 4: But obviously living over here, it's a bit of a
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Speaker 4: of a of a of a conundrum if you like.
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Speaker 4: What's definitely the watch parties one hundred percent on, but
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Speaker 4: even imagined that when when I seen the photos and
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Speaker 4: the videos and stuff I mentioned about how you know
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Speaker 4: that game Monaster it sows some rugby games in the Aviva.
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Speaker 4: It's just as a massive showing of the actual growth
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Speaker 4: of the sport on the island. And it's as you
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Speaker 4: imagine about the Steelers fund. I've seen plenty of yellow
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Speaker 4: and like during the coverage of the game Black and Yellow.
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Speaker 4: So it's it's a complete another you know, it's it's
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Speaker 4: a raise like we've seen no like none over if
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Speaker 4: you like, and as long as they continue, because it's
6:51
Speaker 4: it's one of those things where I imagine it in
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Speaker 4: the group shot the other day, I was like, I
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Speaker 4: am one hundred percent and next time because I was
6:56
Speaker 4: looking at videos and stuff, you know that the Bard
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Speaker 4: playing wild Rover and it just believe it. I was like,
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Speaker 4: it just seems like a festival that wasn't actually a
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Speaker 4: word with it a game or as a music festival.
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Speaker 5: What was going on.
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Speaker 1: Well, it was great to see obviously Dallas. You said
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Speaker 1: that at the high school games. Just just a great
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Speaker 1: effort and it shows you, as Jimmy said, and as
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Speaker 1: you said there, they've just just to grow up it
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Speaker 1: here and look the Steelers are at the forefront of
7:17
Speaker 1: it in Ireland and that's the main thing. So definitely
7:21
Speaker 1: delighted with that, and it was funnily I was just
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Speaker 1: talking on that. But we we get through a preseason
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Speaker 1: and one of the things, guys that a lot of
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Speaker 1: people talk to me just when I was I was
7:31
Speaker 1: in Dublin Thursdays, Friday, Saturday on and often a lot
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Speaker 1: of people that a couple of like we we listened
7:38
Speaker 1: to the podcast, but more so Jimmy. They were mentioned
7:40
Speaker 1: in Diego and how handy it was to watch the games.
7:43
Speaker 1: And I was shotting with a couple of guys that
7:44
Speaker 1: were first time fans of the NFL and they really
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Speaker 1: enjoyed the coverage and I have certainly enjoyed it. It's
7:49
Speaker 1: been great to have it on so easily. I'll tell
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Speaker 1: you what, Jimmy, that was one hell of a way
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Speaker 1: to end preseason. I mean, you can't you cannot ask
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Speaker 1: for much more than that. You could win to Atlanta
8:01
Speaker 1: and you go and you shut out the Falgans all
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Speaker 1: be in the preseason game, but they impressed. The team
8:05
Speaker 1: impresses again. Kenny im praises for what he does on
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Speaker 1: the Finn short and not McFarlane impressed again. Good to
8:11
Speaker 1: see Nazi Harris could have won your hard touchdown. But
8:14
Speaker 1: I think going back on the second game to this game,
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Speaker 1: the first series was excellent on again, it was like
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Speaker 1: this is just let's just keep this comment. Can the
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Speaker 1: Niners game just start right now?
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Speaker 3: Yeah?
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Speaker 2: Absolutely, And like you know, of course, let's uh, I'm
8:29
Speaker 2: notorious for getting out of myself, Michael, but let's just
8:31
Speaker 2: bring it back in a little bit and saying that
8:34
Speaker 2: it was again for two is in decrees, which having
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Speaker 2: said that, I mean, it was fantastic to see Nage
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Speaker 2: get it smurst touch under the preseason. I was getting
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Speaker 2: a little bit worried that he wasn't getting you know, twushes,
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Speaker 2: that he wasn't making it up for an impact and
8:48
Speaker 2: I may or may not have been caught on for
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Speaker 2: Gena Warren to be to start running back, so I immediately
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Speaker 2: retract that statement. And so great to see Nage get
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Speaker 2: a score also, you know three second speaking of Jail
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Speaker 2: and Warren, great to see that he had a fantastic
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Speaker 2: run a second, a big second effort stretch for the touchdown,
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Speaker 2: and everything just clicked. An offense, it was coming, you know.
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Speaker 2: On defense as well, Nick Krbig stood out again to me,
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Speaker 2: there's a couple of performances that were great and there
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Speaker 2: was a clumble recovery on defense, so everything everything went well.
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Speaker 2: I mean, you know, I haven't said all that. I
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Speaker 2: am glad the preseason is over and we can start
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Speaker 2: getting excited and excited about the regular season opener in
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Speaker 2: a couple of weeks.
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Speaker 3: Time.
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Speaker 1: Really looking forward to that. And I'm just just looking
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Speaker 1: forward to seeing the Niners game because you know, we'll
9:36
Speaker 1: talk about it towards the end of the podcast, but
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Speaker 1: there is so much expectation just after this perfect preseason.
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Speaker 1: It's just it's great to see. It's a great time
9:44
Speaker 1: to start to start this podcast. Well it's night Undefeated done,
9:48
Speaker 1: so we'll take it. There is there any him that
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Speaker 1: you might have picked up on just from watching the preseason.
9:53
Speaker 1: I know you've been an admirer, to say the least,
9:56
Speaker 1: of the Kerbig and I think that you enjoyed in
9:59
Speaker 1: the final preseason game.
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Speaker 4: In the actual preseason game, of course. Like if, like Michael,
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Speaker 4: if you think I'm gonna start overreacting after an undefeated
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Speaker 4: three and no preseason finished on top of the pile
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Speaker 4: and start saying we can win the Super Bowl, You're
10:12
Speaker 4: absolutely right. Ten out of ten. Shoutout performance on Thursday Nights. Albeit,
10:18
Speaker 4: as Jimmy said, it was against the second string Falcons,
10:21
Speaker 4: but we looked every bit of team that can be
10:24
Speaker 4: dangerous with a great display, you know, like how to
10:26
Speaker 4: finish off. It's just been an amazing camp, an amazing preseason.
10:29
Speaker 4: I would genuinely give it ten out of ten. And
10:32
Speaker 4: you know, if you look at the preseason as a whole,
10:34
Speaker 4: you know, well, we'll look back at some of the
10:36
Speaker 4: best performances. You know, with one player we actually haven't mentioned,
10:39
Speaker 4: and I'm sure Jimmy would agree with this about Isaac cmali.
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Speaker 4: You know, this is a guy who's a major part
10:44
Speaker 4: of potency, the best over line and in the in
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Speaker 4: the League last year with the Philadelphia Eagles, and he's
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Speaker 4: a really good preseason. He's called prove absolutely massive throughout
10:52
Speaker 4: the year at the g yard position. You know, we've
10:54
Speaker 4: got a Landon Roberts had a standup performance a thirty
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Speaker 4: Night as well. It chipped in with a sack. You know,
11:00
Speaker 4: our middle linebacker crew, it used to be the weak
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Speaker 4: point in our defense, is probably one of the strongest
11:04
Speaker 4: now and we've got great adapt all of a sudden
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Speaker 4: with cold homecome and stuff. So as well as that,
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Speaker 4: you know, performances Jaylee and Warren, Jimmy Manchin. Another touchdown
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Speaker 4: to add is Rasume Darnall Washington with Jalvinawson, the third
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Speaker 4: of four has just had an amazing preseason as well.
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Speaker 4: So it's it's been honestly at ten out of ten preseason.
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Speaker 4: No major energies apart from you know, Corey Trace, but
11:26
Speaker 4: as I said, I couldn't all you can really use
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Speaker 4: echo everything Jimmy said. You know, it's been a proper
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Speaker 4: good preseason and you know, can't wait for the Niners
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Speaker 4: and in a couple of weeks time.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely absolutely we are going to talk to again as
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Speaker 1: this week before we talk about the preseason overall, like
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Speaker 1: maybe a highlight each and we'll also maybe have a brief,
11:48
Speaker 1: very brief look forward to that Niers game for a
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Speaker 1: couple of seconds. We are going to do that in
11:52
Speaker 1: a lot more detail next week. It's too early to
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Speaker 1: bring Wolfy Black home boys that idoltys are all dying
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Speaker 1: for it. That might be my preseason highlight. However, look
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Speaker 1: I tell you what boys like we We we had
12:04
Speaker 1: partly Cliphnolophy because and obviously Party is a massive, massive
12:07
Speaker 1: Staters fan. There was one guy with potty and also
12:10
Speaker 1: had a turtle as well on the field that They
12:12
Speaker 1: include Park, who has been used to cook Park a
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Speaker 1: few times. As a true man. It pains me to
12:19
Speaker 1: set in a joking way, but Mossy Quinn in all
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Speaker 1: seriousness one of the best forwards to play getting football
12:26
Speaker 1: in the generation. He has an Allarland title, seven of
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Speaker 1: Lemster titles and well looked upon around the league. Currently
12:33
Speaker 1: working with Dublin GEA delighted to welcome Mossy Quinn to
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Speaker 1: the Irish Staters podcast. We're Loaded this week on the
12:45
Speaker 1: Irish series podcast The Welcome come in a guy that
12:49
Speaker 1: a lot of people know in Ireland, he's won multiple
12:52
Speaker 1: Elefser titles, won a lot of them with Dublin, currently
12:55
Speaker 1: working with Dublin GEA and you may have seen him
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Speaker 1: in Croke Park a few months ago for that incredible
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Speaker 1: day that we all witness as NFL fans on the side.
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Speaker 1: Delighted fo good Mossy Quinn, most warm, Welcome to the podcast.
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Speaker 1: How are you doing.
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Speaker 5: I'm doing good, guys, Thanks very much for having me
13:11
Speaker 5: excited to be here.
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Speaker 1: Most obviously appreciate you how like we we massive appreciate
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Speaker 1: you calling on the podcast. And you know it's it's
13:17
Speaker 1: funny MOSTI because working on podcasts in in Ireland over
13:21
Speaker 1: the last few years, the all GA player pops up
13:24
Speaker 1: that enjoys like a wee bit of NFL. For example,
13:28
Speaker 1: Dean Rocks and mass Patriots fan a partly was shotting
13:30
Speaker 1: a few years ago, and and different guys enjoyed different teams.
13:34
Speaker 1: And I guess for you, you were playing football for
13:38
Speaker 1: Dublin at a time where the league was really growing
13:42
Speaker 1: here and in Europe. How do you you know, how
13:46
Speaker 1: do you become an NFL fan? Talk to us about
13:48
Speaker 1: your journey. But then also you've become really really involved
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Speaker 1: with with the sport and Ireland throughout the last few years.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I primary age myself a little bit here and
13:59
Speaker 5: in terms of my journey, but I would have been
14:01
Speaker 5: I was in the kind of late nineties, just at
14:05
Speaker 5: the turn of the two thousands, I was on a
14:07
Speaker 5: family holiday in America, and at that time I would
14:11
Speaker 5: have been any but any sport. I would have had
14:13
Speaker 5: an interest in a bit of a sports note and
14:16
Speaker 5: sports books in particular, so getting to the States, getting
14:19
Speaker 5: to a Barnes and Noble, going to a section and
14:21
Speaker 5: obviously you think back to then, the internet was only
14:24
Speaker 5: starting out. We didn't have podcasts, we didn't have the
14:27
Speaker 5: coverage we have today. So NFL books probably got me
14:30
Speaker 5: into and I read a brilliant book on Bill Walsh,
14:33
Speaker 5: the forty nine ers coach. I read a book on
14:35
Speaker 5: Chuck Noll from Steemers, So that was the start. But
14:38
Speaker 5: Sports Illustrated Magazine again on people used to get magazines
14:42
Speaker 5: on on a regular basis. I actually started subscribing. I
14:45
Speaker 5: was probably one of the few international subscribers to Sports
14:47
Speaker 5: Illustrated and the additions had come in through and four
14:50
Speaker 5: weeks late by the time they got to hear. But
14:52
Speaker 5: that was how I consume sports at that stage, and
14:55
Speaker 5: that was around the time Sky Sports are starting to
14:57
Speaker 5: show NFL. So my first season watching it properly was
15:01
Speaker 5: probably when the Patriots upset the Rams with Rinny Terry
15:05
Speaker 5: kicking the field goal the last play of the game,
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Speaker 5: So that was probably my first. That's the That was
15:09
Speaker 5: January two, Elmen two. So I then spent the summer
15:14
Speaker 5: with in New York. It was my first summer with
15:17
Speaker 5: Dublin actually into Thousland three, and unfortunately we were beating early,
15:20
Speaker 5: but it did. The flip side was I got to
15:22
Speaker 5: go and spend the rest of the summer in New York,
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Speaker 5: and again I started watching and listening again with ESPN
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Speaker 5: over there, and just I just started getting into it,
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Speaker 5: and just I love the aspect of it. I love
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Speaker 5: the tactical aspect I loved, I loved all the elements
15:36
Speaker 5: of it them It's kind of grown from then. So
15:38
Speaker 5: even then, the Internet, obviously Monday and Monday Morning Quarterback
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Speaker 5: Peter King's article every Monday on Sports illustrated things like
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Speaker 5: that was what really got me into it and kind
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Speaker 5: of I then just as it grew in terms of
15:48
Speaker 5: the coverage and everything else that came with US, and
15:51
Speaker 5: that's that's where my love would have started for and
15:54
Speaker 5: watching different players. I always enjoyed watching like again, the
15:57
Speaker 5: standout ones were probably at the time Peyton Manning, Tom Bray,
16:00
Speaker 5: Brett Farver was coming in. I used to love watching
16:02
Speaker 5: Steve McNair, even Cordell Stewart, guys like that, those kind
16:06
Speaker 5: of if you had that X factor about them. So
16:08
Speaker 5: that was my start on the NFL. And it's only brown.
16:11
Speaker 5: I'm try and get to as many games as I could.
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Speaker 5: Maybe it was in a habit there before real life,
16:16
Speaker 5: gotten away with wife and kids and life outside, and
16:20
Speaker 5: I used to try and get to the States every
16:22
Speaker 5: year to a game and anything that came to London
16:24
Speaker 5: or anything like that. So I suppose that would have
16:26
Speaker 5: been it from the start.
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Speaker 2: I'm pretty aged myself a little bit here mostly, and
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Speaker 2: said I used to have a stacker of sports illustrated
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Speaker 2: magazines about back plick, so I can definitely relate to,
16:38
Speaker 2: you know, the whole aspect of getting in at the
16:39
Speaker 2: sports from the American side of things, with the box
16:43
Speaker 2: and the magazines. So but tell me, have you been
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Speaker 2: to any you know, NFL games on decided the Atlantic,
16:50
Speaker 2: you know, London, even Germany now with the expansion of
16:54
Speaker 2: NFL Europe or have it just kind of been a
16:56
Speaker 2: state side.
16:57
Speaker 5: Yeah, No, I was fortunate enough back I think it
17:00
Speaker 5: was around twenty eleven. I would have gone. Twenty ten,
17:04
Speaker 5: twenty eleven. I would have got to see the Broncos
17:07
Speaker 5: play because it was around the time t Bow was
17:09
Speaker 5: kind of a thing where they playing in London and
17:14
Speaker 5: so McDonalds would have been their head coach at the time,
17:16
Speaker 5: So I was at that game in Wembley. Would I
17:19
Speaker 5: actually tried to get tickets to Munich last year and
17:23
Speaker 5: wasn't fortunate enough to get any, but I have. I'm
17:25
Speaker 5: actually going this October. I'm going over to tonam Otsker Stadium,
17:29
Speaker 5: going to see the Ravens and the Titans. So there's
17:31
Speaker 5: a gang. There's seven of us going at the moment.
17:34
Speaker 5: My own friends, love my local friends. So yeah, really
17:36
Speaker 5: looking forward to that and I've been to I suppose
17:38
Speaker 5: the weekend with Thin. It'll been to a number of
17:40
Speaker 5: the college football games that have been in Dublin over
17:43
Speaker 5: the years. To win and Throw Park a couple of
17:44
Speaker 5: years ago in Penn State and then obviously were easing BNBV.
17:47
Speaker 5: So yeah, when I get a chance. Obviously it's not
17:50
Speaker 5: as easy. It's easier when it's it's a bit more local.
17:52
Speaker 5: I'd love to get to Germany, and I think we'd
17:54
Speaker 5: all I think it's easy enough to say that we'd
17:56
Speaker 5: love to see an NFL game in Dublin as well.
17:58
Speaker 5: That'll be the dream as well. But yeah, anything anytime
18:01
Speaker 5: there's anywhere low So I'd do my best to get
18:03
Speaker 5: to a chat.
18:05
Speaker 2: I know that this is a S Theeters podcast, but
18:06
Speaker 2: I'm curious to know your college team is, And.
18:10
Speaker 5: Be honest, I don't have one, Like I'd be lazy
18:12
Speaker 5: and say the Fight and Irish just for a week
18:15
Speaker 5: fan up.
18:15
Speaker 2: No.
18:16
Speaker 5: I actually again, around that time, we're talking about how
18:19
Speaker 5: for a while I was big into it in terms
18:21
Speaker 5: of Colin McCoy, Sam Bradford, Tea. There's a couple of
18:24
Speaker 5: teams around that time when again you're watching the US Seed,
18:29
Speaker 5: USC Notre Dame Rivalry, Matt Lionheart and Brady Quinn and
18:32
Speaker 5: guys like that, so I probably want to there was
18:34
Speaker 5: I kind of go through peaks and with that one
18:37
Speaker 5: when it when it's kind of are you awaring? This
18:39
Speaker 5: would have been increase on it. So I don't have
18:41
Speaker 5: a set team that I'd follow it in college football.
18:45
Speaker 1: Just before Steve jumps in here break quickly. You're talking
18:48
Speaker 1: about one about Ravens game in London. We're actually hoping
18:51
Speaker 1: to get a Ravens stole all this podcast whenever the
18:53
Speaker 1: city is player. Evens Owen Murphy the coal Canny keeper
18:57
Speaker 1: is a massive Regivings slant and I'm going to get
18:59
Speaker 1: a cush up there. It seems to be a massive
19:01
Speaker 1: g GA contingent enjoying the NFL day. But it's great
19:04
Speaker 1: to your Mossy stories to the bar.
19:06
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's it's obviously great stuff and you know him
19:10
Speaker 4: a bit of a blowing when it comes to the
19:12
Speaker 4: college game myself, you know MASSI So honestly, it's it's
19:15
Speaker 4: just one of those things where we have all this
19:17
Speaker 4: stuff for juggle on our plates. But you know you
19:19
Speaker 4: imagined there, you attended, you know, you at headed the
19:22
Speaker 4: day and a few months back in crow Park and
19:25
Speaker 4: you've achieved so much a nastadium as you know you
19:27
Speaker 4: want on Ireland and if you've won a plenty of
19:29
Speaker 4: Leinstar titles. Ask Potty Clifford this question a few weeks back.
19:33
Speaker 4: But for yourself, was it a bit of a pinch
19:34
Speaker 4: me moment because it's just not something maybe you'll be
19:37
Speaker 4: sitting in crow Park in September and thinking, I'll probably
19:40
Speaker 4: never sit there under the Steelers umbrella if you like
19:44
Speaker 4: it was.
19:44
Speaker 5: And you know what, and as oppose, the easiest way
19:47
Speaker 5: to prove it was like my shwe in my hand
19:49
Speaker 5: all the time. And I wouldn't be one for taking
19:52
Speaker 5: cell Caesar taking too many pictures, tragical and stuff like that.
19:55
Speaker 5: I got being fortunate to be in crow Park and
19:57
Speaker 5: number times playing and working. Then it's a place I'm
20:00
Speaker 5: very familiar with. Well, that day it was fantastic. You
20:02
Speaker 5: walk out, you see the big screen and the Steelers
20:05
Speaker 5: all goo on it and the jerseys, and again I
20:08
Speaker 5: shouldn't be surprised. It was just so it was just
20:10
Speaker 5: so excellently run. It was so class every element of
20:13
Speaker 5: the day, from the press conference to the photos to
20:16
Speaker 5: the pitch being laid down as a macular as it was.
20:19
Speaker 5: And yeah, it was brilliant.
20:21
Speaker 3: It was.
20:21
Speaker 5: It was really exciting to see, like I was kind
20:23
Speaker 5: of left there. He left the stadium that day, and
20:25
Speaker 5: that's why I'm really excited to see how it progresses
20:27
Speaker 5: over the coming years. I think one of the things
20:29
Speaker 5: the NFL have shown they can do is when they
20:31
Speaker 5: bring it international, how well they can do. What you
20:33
Speaker 5: could see that in Germany last year. You've seen what
20:35
Speaker 5: they've done in London. You've seen how it's expanded within London.
20:38
Speaker 5: You see what teams are doing internationally now. So for
20:41
Speaker 5: the Steelers, for Ireland to have an association with with
20:43
Speaker 5: an organization like the Steelers is absolutely fantastic and I'm
20:47
Speaker 5: genuinely really excited to see where it goes.
20:49
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think just the morning we walked in ourselves,
20:52
Speaker 1: like you see that, it had hope. It was pretty cool.
20:54
Speaker 1: I think we snuck it early and we did see
20:57
Speaker 1: as that on the field as well, so it was
20:59
Speaker 1: good to see us and just looked like it was
21:00
Speaker 1: set up and it was. It's it's almost it feels
21:03
Speaker 1: like destiny. But obviously time will hotel and I'm sure
21:05
Speaker 1: there's a lot more work to be done there and
21:07
Speaker 1: we'll talk about that and we might talk about that, weey,
21:09
Speaker 1: But just look just a way bit and I guess
21:12
Speaker 1: mostly you're part of the Dublin puddle, the one the other,
21:15
Speaker 1: you know, right towards the end of your career and
21:18
Speaker 1: I'm going to start, you know, begging you up here. Now,
21:21
Speaker 1: I'm going to compare you to the John Always who
21:23
Speaker 1: played for so long and couldn't get over the line,
21:25
Speaker 1: and you questions were asked of him. And you always
21:30
Speaker 1: see these players that play so well in the NFL,
21:32
Speaker 1: but they never get to the peak of up performance
21:35
Speaker 1: or the peak of their career. Really, I remember sitting
21:37
Speaker 1: in Belfa, was watching that final whenever clubs to walk
21:40
Speaker 1: up walked up, and I think a lot of true
21:41
Speaker 1: room lads as well, a lot of people we were
21:43
Speaker 1: looking for Dublin to win that game because it had
21:45
Speaker 1: been so long, and I can only imagine the relief
21:47
Speaker 1: that that you and and those lots had that just
21:50
Speaker 1: that day, just to get over the line. I know,
21:53
Speaker 1: just just just comparing not to that of an NFL
21:56
Speaker 1: player dealing with pressure. You know, did you at the
21:59
Speaker 1: time find that over barrel and how do you deal
22:02
Speaker 1: with that? And do you see similarities in both sports
22:05
Speaker 1: in that sense.
22:07
Speaker 5: It's it's a tough thing obviously for us at the time.
22:10
Speaker 5: Dublin hadn't even gotten to a final in sixteen years
22:13
Speaker 5: at that stage, and I suppose famously some of the
22:16
Speaker 5: teams I've been part of. We'd come through Leinster, we'd
22:19
Speaker 5: have we'd have big wins early in the year, but
22:20
Speaker 5: when it really came to the crunch in All Ireland quarterfinals,
22:24
Speaker 5: semi finals, we came up short and we came up
22:26
Speaker 5: against some brilliant teams. That tur Round team are as
22:28
Speaker 5: good a team that's ever played the game, the Kerry
22:31
Speaker 5: team at the time we probably left from behind us
22:33
Speaker 5: against Mayo on Tody Wasland six. But it does build,
22:36
Speaker 5: and it definitely kind of it's a narrative. And you're
22:39
Speaker 5: seeing in all sports and high performance and high pressure
22:42
Speaker 5: situations and you think of the Bills teams that last
22:44
Speaker 5: four for in a row. There, you know, and it
22:48
Speaker 5: is something as a group you have to try and
22:50
Speaker 5: deal with and as much as you can, you try,
22:52
Speaker 5: and you try and ark and and you hear every
22:55
Speaker 5: sport talked about we'll worry about what we can control.
22:57
Speaker 5: You can't control stuff outside the group, but picarly in
23:00
Speaker 5: a city like Dublin where it's so big and at
23:02
Speaker 5: the time, like you have to remember, I know Leinster
23:05
Speaker 5: at the moment and you look at the GA and
23:06
Speaker 5: it's gone through different structures. We played in two thousand
23:09
Speaker 5: and five we played a Lensor Challenger quarterfinal against Wexford
23:12
Speaker 5: and there was eighty two thousand people at that It
23:15
Speaker 5: was a full house every single game we played. Now
23:17
Speaker 5: at the moment it's generally an Alluran finals the only time,
23:20
Speaker 5: so you think of the hype and every single game
23:24
Speaker 5: we played there was we were We had to deal
23:25
Speaker 5: with that and it was something that took us time
23:27
Speaker 5: and I think other teams nearly took as much energy,
23:29
Speaker 5: if not more energy from that when they came into
23:31
Speaker 5: play this in quarterfinals and semi finals. But thankfully we
23:35
Speaker 5: learned and again you'll learn from experience and sometimes you
23:37
Speaker 5: have to go through that heartbreak and sometimes you have
23:39
Speaker 5: to evolve with it and I think we did that.
23:41
Speaker 5: And the reality is good players coming through. If you
23:45
Speaker 5: think of it, what the impact pawfully in and dear
23:47
Speaker 5: McConnelly and guys like that that we didn't have at
23:50
Speaker 5: certain times, and when guys with that skill set come in,
23:53
Speaker 5: it adds to the squad and that's effectively what got
23:56
Speaker 5: us over the line in the end. That kind of
23:58
Speaker 5: the improvement in terms of playing personnel and ultimately your
24:01
Speaker 5: needs a full squad, and I suppose when you look
24:04
Speaker 5: at the NFL, the different comparisons, like we've probably had
24:06
Speaker 5: a squad at thirty four thirty five NFL, you're up
24:09
Speaker 5: into fifty odd players and trying to get that many
24:11
Speaker 5: guys to pull together and have that sense of it
24:15
Speaker 5: can't be about one or two guys, and it can't
24:17
Speaker 5: be While there'll always be a start, there will always
24:19
Speaker 5: be someone who has that kind of MDP type performance. Ultimately,
24:22
Speaker 5: unless the whole group are pulling in the same direction before,
24:25
Speaker 5: and you're not going to get there. And it probably
24:26
Speaker 5: took us a couple of tough years to learn that.
24:28
Speaker 5: Like I was, that was my ninth year, tent tieer,
24:30
Speaker 5: gone into the tent year and the squad, and I'm
24:33
Speaker 5: just grateful that we got there because there's lots of
24:35
Speaker 5: guys have had careers longer than I have and they
24:37
Speaker 5: didn't get there in the end. So yeah, but it
24:39
Speaker 5: was it was. It was relief probably was one of
24:42
Speaker 5: the initial feelings, but then the obviously ultimate satisfaction and
24:45
Speaker 5: enjoyed and win a cham.
24:49
Speaker 3: Malassie.
24:50
Speaker 2: You played in two of the flight football games that
24:53
Speaker 2: the late Embassador Ronie used to hold and be in
24:57
Speaker 2: his residence in the Phoenix Park in the four of July.
24:59
Speaker 3: You know, can you that's what that was like?
25:03
Speaker 5: You just asked me about pressure. I felt. I've taken
25:05
Speaker 5: freeze in front of eighty two thousand people, and I
25:08
Speaker 5: felt more pressure at my first point after in front
25:10
Speaker 5: of a couple of hundred people in Seoenix Park. As
25:14
Speaker 5: it's meant up be considered a straightforward operation, but when
25:16
Speaker 5: you have as much practice, do you know what? They were? Brilliant,
25:20
Speaker 5: really really cool experiences. That was two thirteen, twenty fourteen.
25:24
Speaker 5: For the two years that I played, and we're fortunate
25:26
Speaker 5: a couple of my X Dublin teammates, Aim and Fennol,
25:29
Speaker 5: Barry Calle, Jason Sherlock, Garol evolved as well and they
25:32
Speaker 5: were paired up with some of the local Irish American
25:35
Speaker 5: football teams, the Dublin Rebels and or one of them,
25:37
Speaker 5: and just really good guys, really welcoming. I think they
25:41
Speaker 5: knew we did genuine and interesting at the guys that
25:43
Speaker 5: we came in and they could see from the start
25:45
Speaker 5: and it was just fantastic experience and the whole thing,
25:49
Speaker 5: genuinely the town was set by Ambassador Rooney. When you
25:52
Speaker 5: got to the Embattle. When you got to the residence,
25:54
Speaker 5: it was such a family, fun occasion. There was loads
25:57
Speaker 5: of different things going on and everyone was welcome and
25:59
Speaker 5: there was a real sense that everyone wanted to be
26:01
Speaker 5: there and it was it was just it was totally
26:04
Speaker 5: enjoyable and the game gone a little bit competitive, which
26:06
Speaker 5: is it's meant flag football. There was a couple of
26:09
Speaker 5: it wasn't just flag football at times, which was which
26:11
Speaker 5: was pretty interesting as well. And the first year Ben
26:16
Speaker 5: Roethlisberger came over as well. He was there as a guest,
26:18
Speaker 5: so we got to meet him. I think he did
26:20
Speaker 5: the coin toss and a couple of different things like that.
26:22
Speaker 5: So it was with brilliant as a as an NFL
26:24
Speaker 5: not it was. It was one of the coolest things
26:26
Speaker 5: from a sport and thing that we've got to do. Yeah,
26:30
Speaker 5: it's funny that you say there mostly Big Ben was there.
26:33
Speaker 5: I remember saying that. And what was he like as
26:35
Speaker 5: a person?
26:35
Speaker 4: Was he because obviously nowadays you don't really hear much
26:38
Speaker 4: of him because he's not really an immediate type of person.
26:40
Speaker 4: He's just sort of getting on with with his retirement
26:43
Speaker 4: and stuff. What was he like as a person?
26:45
Speaker 1: Was he?
26:45
Speaker 4: Was he maybe as a stern as he comes across
26:48
Speaker 4: on screen, maybe no, do you know what he was?
26:50
Speaker 5: And then again going back to he was there with
26:52
Speaker 5: Ambasador running. He was a guest, and there was obviously
26:54
Speaker 5: one or two the Steelers organization there on the day,
26:57
Speaker 5: And because it was such a relaxed enviornment, there was
26:59
Speaker 5: no it wasn't media face, and it wasn't kind of
27:03
Speaker 5: there wasn't cameras that were going to put it out
27:04
Speaker 5: the following week. So felt a bit more genuine, if
27:07
Speaker 5: a bit more attentive. I'd been fortunate enough to do
27:09
Speaker 5: a number of NFL related events with different players in
27:11
Speaker 5: Dublin over the years, and you could see sometimes they're
27:13
Speaker 5: switched on, if they're if their media team are with
27:16
Speaker 5: them and things like that. But he was there with
27:18
Speaker 5: his wife and it was very much There was the
27:20
Speaker 5: barbecues behind the goal, there was you know, drinks and
27:23
Speaker 5: different things, and he was standing there and he was
27:24
Speaker 5: mixing with everybody and he was more than happy to
27:26
Speaker 5: take pictures. And that's why it kind of felt like
27:28
Speaker 5: it was. It wasn't a didn't feel like an occasion
27:31
Speaker 5: where he had an hour of his time and he
27:33
Speaker 5: had to be here and he'd gone somewhere else. It
27:35
Speaker 5: was very much that he was there for the day
27:37
Speaker 5: and and that was what he was doing. And it
27:38
Speaker 5: was so from that sense, he was chatting away. He
27:40
Speaker 5: was asked, someone explained him about get football and he
27:44
Speaker 5: was asking us about that. So yeah, I know again
27:46
Speaker 5: it was it was. It was a brilliant setting to
27:47
Speaker 5: meet him in because like I said, it didn't really rushed,
27:49
Speaker 5: and yeah, it was.
27:50
Speaker 4: It was cool like Ben wien Low and Love as
27:53
Speaker 4: the movie.
27:53
Speaker 5: He could say yeah, and he's think he's he's a
27:56
Speaker 5: shit again. Unsurprisingly, a huge man like gen Amon's final
28:00
Speaker 5: would have play miss up for Dublin in the name
28:01
Speaker 5: I would be six at least six from four, I
28:03
Speaker 5: would say, and jeez, looks small compared to standing beside
28:07
Speaker 5: even just a wait of them, you know. So it
28:08
Speaker 5: was yeah, from that side, it was it was good.
28:12
Speaker 1: Well here I think, you know, seriously, like how high
28:16
Speaker 1: lucky we are as a country or just as an
28:18
Speaker 1: island to have that relationship. It's just unbelievable. And you're
28:21
Speaker 1: looking at Mack ten years there and that's happening. Who
28:24
Speaker 1: knows what's going to happen ahead, It's just great to see.
28:26
Speaker 1: And one thing that's happened so far from that day
28:30
Speaker 1: in Croker, which is only a few months ago, is
28:32
Speaker 1: I guess big digitally wise obviously has been you know,
28:34
Speaker 1: an honor and fantastic to have to start the podcast
28:37
Speaker 1: with these boys here. But having the leaders and GA
28:40
Speaker 1: goes pretty cool, isn't it. Like I mean, the opportunity
28:42
Speaker 1: just to put the service on and just watch preseason
28:46
Speaker 1: games either live or the next morning. It's amazing Mansie
28:48
Speaker 1: to think of the possibilities just in regards to that,
28:52
Speaker 1: but what could just happen and honestly just bring in
28:55
Speaker 1: not just a whole new generation of NFL fans in Ireland,
28:58
Speaker 1: but a whole new generations leader comes as well.
29:01
Speaker 5: It's fantastic And again, like I said, anythink back to
29:04
Speaker 5: my waiting four weeks for Sports Illustrated to come to
29:06
Speaker 5: read what was happening, and we're sitting here able to
29:08
Speaker 5: watch the Steelers live in pre season on GA go.
29:11
Speaker 5: It's it's it's brilliant and it's again as part of
29:15
Speaker 5: my role I work with up in GA and and
29:17
Speaker 5: live stream and and all of our digital content falls
29:19
Speaker 5: under my remit. So it's an area of a huge
29:22
Speaker 5: personal interesting but even from a work perspective, and I
29:25
Speaker 5: think it's a fantastic in issue from GA go and
29:27
Speaker 5: from the Steelers to come together and to offer that.
29:30
Speaker 5: And again, if you look at the content that the
29:32
Speaker 5: NFL teams are putting out from behind the scenes, from
29:34
Speaker 5: training camp, from particularly around draft days and different things
29:37
Speaker 5: like that, that might have been considered in the past,
29:39
Speaker 5: content that they would have wanted to keep in house
29:41
Speaker 5: or secretive. And it's as fans, it's were kind of
29:44
Speaker 5: spoilt at the moment with the amount of the amount
29:47
Speaker 5: of content that's out there. And from an Irish perspective,
29:49
Speaker 5: when you can get those little added benefits of their
29:51
Speaker 5: relationship with the Steelers, all the better and hopefully more
29:53
Speaker 5: of it to come.
29:56
Speaker 2: Must we're seeing the transition now of a lot of
29:58
Speaker 2: GA players to the m bell and to American football,
30:02
Speaker 2: you know, primarily in Ireland through either kicking and the
30:05
Speaker 2: work that Tiger is doing there. And of course Dan
30:08
Speaker 2: Ronnie with Junia was over at the weekend overseeing the
30:11
Speaker 2: final of Ireland's Kicking King, which is fantastic to see.
30:15
Speaker 2: And most recently we have former leash inter county player
30:19
Speaker 2: Ross Balder have made the move to play at the
30:21
Speaker 2: Division one level. So first of all, do you think
30:24
Speaker 2: that we're going to see this becoming a more common
30:27
Speaker 2: trend in the years to come? And second of all,
30:29
Speaker 2: do you wish you'd give them a go yourself.
30:33
Speaker 5: I would have loved to show he's trying to work out.
30:35
Speaker 5: I was looking at Tiger's Tiger in rights out last
30:37
Speaker 5: week and working out gowns a forty two year old
30:39
Speaker 5: rock Cup for all these sixty he's asking for seventeen
30:42
Speaker 5: and eighteen nineteen. He was trying to work out ou
30:44
Speaker 5: out of the place. I'd love but I would have
30:47
Speaker 5: loved the shot out. It would have been like and
30:49
Speaker 5: it is up. The reality is it is going to
30:50
Speaker 5: become more commonplace and the skill set of Irish Irish
30:53
Speaker 5: GA players rugby players obviously, but GA players in particular,
30:56
Speaker 5: and you look at it. And I followed Ross from
30:58
Speaker 5: the start since he's gone over. I was actually fortunate
31:01
Speaker 5: enough to meet his dad that day in in Pro
31:03
Speaker 5: Park and the Steelers launch. His dad will be involved
31:05
Speaker 5: with one of the other counties here in the GA,
31:07
Speaker 5: and he comes from a good family. He's got a
31:10
Speaker 5: brilliant opportunity. What a lfe opportunity to get to the
31:13
Speaker 5: jo over there, and obviously we're looking at it from
31:15
Speaker 5: a football perspective, but just from an overalls as him
31:18
Speaker 5: as a person, what an opportunity has and Tiger's done
31:21
Speaker 5: brilliant work in terms of kind of opening those doors
31:24
Speaker 5: and setting the path and place for guys like that.
31:26
Speaker 5: So I think the natural progression is you'll see a
31:28
Speaker 5: lot more than the bombs seen going a little bit
31:30
Speaker 5: before some of the Aussie reels guys already over there
31:33
Speaker 5: making a big impact in the league and the pluntin
31:35
Speaker 5: point of view, But like I think some of the
31:37
Speaker 5: videos you see guys sickly Irish guys been both footed
31:40
Speaker 5: being tip kicking, right foot, left foot. The opportunities that
31:43
Speaker 5: brings in terms of if you're under pressure, if there's
31:45
Speaker 5: someone rushing from one side or the other, and I
31:47
Speaker 5: do think it's something you're going to see more of.
31:49
Speaker 5: I think there'll be more obviously at the NFL is
31:52
Speaker 5: expanding in terms of what they're doing in the UK
31:54
Speaker 5: and and and within Europe, and yeah, I think it's
31:57
Speaker 5: only a matter of time before there's guys guys making
31:59
Speaker 5: an impacts from a natural Irish guys making a name
32:02
Speaker 5: actorate in the within the NFL.
32:05
Speaker 3: You might save a couple of years. Let's need to
32:07
Speaker 3: make a stave at US based to.
32:09
Speaker 5: Be a stated Yeah, I'm I'm hoping if the Steelers there,
32:12
Speaker 5: if the Steelers are any last minute, any last minute
32:15
Speaker 5: issues on the kicking side, I'm happy to eaven for it,
32:17
Speaker 5: even for a trial visit. I'm happy to make make
32:20
Speaker 5: myself there.
32:20
Speaker 1: But well here, imagine the crack. I I know you
32:26
Speaker 1: got our glad from he was just just to jump
32:28
Speaker 1: in because you boys were mentioning. Ross does great crack
32:31
Speaker 1: and also master Congrats to Andy Quinn who won the
32:34
Speaker 1: Ireland's Kicking King for the second year of the row.
32:36
Speaker 1: Andy a gets a company, he's won a competition. He
32:39
Speaker 1: gets to go over to the Steels Ravens game I
32:42
Speaker 1: believe in October. So big props to the Steters for that.
32:44
Speaker 1: And Andy is a kicker with the NFL Academy in
32:46
Speaker 1: London and diev He's a Rossie. His dad have to
32:50
Speaker 1: give me out. He's a great crack, lovely man. But
32:53
Speaker 1: it's great deal, isn't it. Just see what's going on?
32:56
Speaker 5: If no, that's I'm saying, it's it's good seeing.
32:58
Speaker 4: You know, these these players are transition from our game
33:00
Speaker 4: and you know into the NFL games. As Mossi said,
33:03
Speaker 4: you know he's taken a lot of big freeze and
33:06
Speaker 4: heading into the hill, you know with the Windy Hill
33:08
Speaker 4: on a September evening. So yeah, it's it's great to see.
33:11
Speaker 4: I just obviously want to fight out from yourself, Massa.
33:14
Speaker 4: You know we messed upout the NFL Global Markets program
33:17
Speaker 4: and how significant significant do you feel a lot of
33:20
Speaker 4: it is? You know, we have the Steelers out there
33:21
Speaker 4: in the ash market because it just seems like a
33:23
Speaker 4: massive opportunity in itself.
33:26
Speaker 5: There's no doubts it's a huge opportunity and it's and
33:29
Speaker 5: again the NFL, and they've already I think the fact
33:33
Speaker 5: that we're so close to London, we've seen obviously the
33:35
Speaker 5: Jaguars kind of been the lynch pin of what they've
33:38
Speaker 5: done in London today with that expanding out now to
33:40
Speaker 5: more and more games. So what went on last year
33:43
Speaker 5: in Germany again, that's expanding in Germany this year. So
33:46
Speaker 5: they've seen the success. They can look across the water
33:49
Speaker 5: and see what certain what certain organizations have done. But
33:52
Speaker 5: I think the big thing is the natural connection between
33:55
Speaker 5: the Steelers and Ireland. There's a genuine connection there. It's
33:58
Speaker 5: not something that you kind of have to from a
34:00
Speaker 5: marketing point of view, you have to try and come
34:02
Speaker 5: up with and you're trying to You're you're trying to
34:05
Speaker 5: brainstorm and say, well, how can we find it's authentic.
34:07
Speaker 5: It's there, like the Ruining family, the history of the Steelers,
34:10
Speaker 5: the fact that they even play the preseason game and
34:12
Speaker 5: crow Park and many years ago, all those connections are
34:15
Speaker 5: real and I think that's something that will translate very
34:18
Speaker 5: very well. And I think it's something The level of
34:20
Speaker 5: interest in the NFL in Ireland is massive, and I
34:23
Speaker 5: just think it's it's it's wide open and I think
34:25
Speaker 5: it's so I'm genuinely excited to see what happens with
34:28
Speaker 5: the opportunity. How I guess the fact that we're talking
34:30
Speaker 5: on a podcast like what you guys are doing on
34:32
Speaker 5: a on a regular basis, just just highlights the opportunities
34:35
Speaker 5: that are there. And yeah, the NFL have done a
34:38
Speaker 5: brilliant job. Again, the fact that it's the Steelers, I
34:41
Speaker 5: think AD's for one of the most historical, one of
34:42
Speaker 5: the most powerful franchises within the within the league is
34:45
Speaker 5: just an added benefit for for all of Ireland.
34:49
Speaker 1: And as I look like a agreeable and just a
34:52
Speaker 1: last just a last round of question and going into
34:55
Speaker 1: what you said that the Steelers have an ice on
34:57
Speaker 1: their website staters dot com slash Iland as part of
34:59
Speaker 1: them long term planting, they were aspired to return to
35:03
Speaker 1: the Island play in the NFL game. I mean, like, luckily,
35:06
Speaker 1: let's just imagine for a minute it was in Crude
35:08
Speaker 1: Park and as someone has played there many times and
35:12
Speaker 1: you've sort of talked a wee bit about it there,
35:14
Speaker 1: but genuinely, after the weekend that we've had in Dublin
35:16
Speaker 1: and we've seen the crack for a start, how awesome
35:19
Speaker 1: would that be? And like, you know, do you feel
35:21
Speaker 1: that Fruit Park is the perfect place of it because
35:24
Speaker 1: I can just imagine the hill. You wouldn't get that
35:26
Speaker 1: in any other NFL stadium. So it's just the possibilities
35:30
Speaker 1: are just endless. And you can imagine that this keep
35:33
Speaker 1: this keeps me up at night in a good way
35:35
Speaker 1: of just thinking about it.
35:36
Speaker 5: Yeah, you could imagine the footage of the terrible towels
35:39
Speaker 5: going on with Hill sixteen going and bouncing in the background.
35:41
Speaker 5: You know, and I think one of the the Aviva
35:44
Speaker 5: did a brilliant job of the weekend. But I just
35:46
Speaker 5: think when you think you're adding an extra thirty thousand
35:48
Speaker 5: people coming to Pro Park in terms of from a
35:51
Speaker 5: spectator point of view, and one of the beauties that
35:53
Speaker 5: haven't Pro Park is it's in within walking distance to
35:56
Speaker 5: the city. So you saw the brilliant followers, the brilliant
35:59
Speaker 5: images of the the Notre Dame and the Navy fans
36:01
Speaker 5: marching out from from the city center. Just the scale
36:05
Speaker 5: of that coming into Dublin City into crowd Park, and
36:07
Speaker 5: I think how how well the stadium is set up
36:12
Speaker 5: to deal with such an occasion, And and I think.
36:15
Speaker 4: That's that for me.
36:16
Speaker 5: It is it's one of the without question, one of
36:17
Speaker 5: the best stadiums in Europe, and we should be very
36:20
Speaker 5: proud of at the GA do a brilliant job in
36:22
Speaker 5: there in terms of how they mind it. And again,
36:23
Speaker 5: like you said, the day we were in there, you
36:25
Speaker 5: walked it, you looked at it's it's a carpet like
36:27
Speaker 5: it's it's nearly like it's immaculate. When you walk out,
36:30
Speaker 5: you just think the opportunities are having an American football
36:33
Speaker 5: game there and having the Steelers back there, And yeah,
36:36
Speaker 5: I think from a from a city and from a
36:38
Speaker 5: I think we've shown we can handle the like we
36:41
Speaker 5: see that the weekend in terms of people coming in
36:43
Speaker 5: and out of the city, in terms of from a
36:45
Speaker 5: spectator point of view, from a tourism point of view
36:47
Speaker 5: from it, and again the locals just get behind it
36:49
Speaker 5: even more. And you can think of that every single
36:52
Speaker 5: NFL team Jersey would be on show that day. It'd
36:54
Speaker 5: be people coming from all all over the world to
36:56
Speaker 5: see it. Put the whole of Ireland have come and
36:58
Speaker 5: try and get tickets to see that. So let's hope
37:01
Speaker 5: it comes to fruition in the coming years.
37:04
Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, And you know, if it is to happen
37:08
Speaker 2: in the in the near future, I'm sure that Kenny
37:11
Speaker 2: Picker will be that the established quarterback at the Staters backstage.
37:14
Speaker 2: So it's a big year now for Kenny Picker going
37:17
Speaker 2: into year or two as the Theaters starting quarterback. And
37:21
Speaker 2: how do you find him so far? You can't be
37:25
Speaker 2: but impressed with his starting with the preseason.
37:27
Speaker 5: He'd obviously a very solid first year last year and
37:30
Speaker 5: I think obviously with waterback, you're always looking to see
37:33
Speaker 5: that evolution and the development, and it seems and what
37:36
Speaker 5: we've seen already this year. And I like Mike Tomlin's
37:39
Speaker 5: quote that you have to spar a little bit before
37:41
Speaker 5: you get in and go and fight, you know. So
37:43
Speaker 5: he's getting ready. He got reps in preseason and it
37:46
Speaker 5: was great to see that, like selling Ga going and
37:48
Speaker 5: he's got some good weapons there as well. And you
37:50
Speaker 5: can see I enjoyed watching Caldon Austin in the preseason.
37:54
Speaker 5: He made some really really very exciting plays And yeah,
37:58
Speaker 5: I'm the reality is, you look the AFC, it's pretty
38:01
Speaker 5: stacked at quarterbacks. So the reality is you want to compete,
38:03
Speaker 5: and you want to come out of even the division
38:05
Speaker 5: they're in at the moment, they're going to need a
38:06
Speaker 5: quarterback playing at a high level, and it looks like
38:08
Speaker 5: he's on that trajectory. So I think it's a really
38:10
Speaker 5: exciting time to be a Steelers fan.
38:14
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I've even sort of went out pussed the
38:17
Speaker 4: boat out and predicted he's going to be m v
38:19
Speaker 4: P this year. Probably a bit ambitious, but we'll see.
38:22
Speaker 4: You never know, but I just obviously know with the
38:26
Speaker 4: f C Northromost it's potentially the best division in football.
38:28
Speaker 4: I think it is. You know, if you look at
38:30
Speaker 4: the teams in there, I don't think anybody can actually
38:32
Speaker 4: win it. So what are your thoughts on it? Do
38:34
Speaker 4: you see is there any specific team? Obviously you have
38:36
Speaker 4: the Bengals and stuff amount of people's Super Bowl pick.
38:39
Speaker 4: Do you see maybe how the Steelers can transition into
38:41
Speaker 4: like a winning team and not division?
38:44
Speaker 5: I'd agree that it is the best division. You just
38:46
Speaker 5: look at the quarterbacks in it. I think they sets
38:48
Speaker 5: the town for the teams and I think for me,
38:53
Speaker 5: when you look at all this historically strong Steelers teams,
38:56
Speaker 5: it's what they do on the defensive side of the ball,
38:58
Speaker 5: and I think in that division. To successful in that division,
39:01
Speaker 5: you obviously need your quarterback, which we talked about, but
39:03
Speaker 5: you also need a defense that can make a stop
39:05
Speaker 5: or two. You mightn't shut down those teams when it
39:07
Speaker 5: gets tight in the fourth quarter and the balls coming down.
39:10
Speaker 5: You want the ball with your team where you're in
39:12
Speaker 5: a position to win the game, and I think your
39:13
Speaker 5: defense has to give you that. So obviously TJ. Wat's
39:16
Speaker 5: huge on that side of it. The back end in
39:18
Speaker 5: terms of trying to cover the lights that Jamar Chase
39:20
Speaker 5: isn't going to be easy. The Ravens have obviously upgraded
39:23
Speaker 5: as well in terms of their wide receiver sets, So
39:25
Speaker 5: I think there's going to be some really really tight
39:28
Speaker 5: games in that division, and I think generally who comes
39:31
Speaker 5: out of that division is going to be really well
39:32
Speaker 5: placed going into the playoffs. But yeah, I'm really excited
39:35
Speaker 5: to watch.
39:35
Speaker 1: It, really excited to just see how the season goes.
39:39
Speaker 1: Mostly and look, we mostly appreciate your time coming on here.
39:42
Speaker 1: It was good to see you. They cut park a
39:44
Speaker 1: few months ago. And hopefully whenever this the leaders announced
39:47
Speaker 1: this event that's going to take place to fall meet
39:49
Speaker 1: up just whenever and wherever it may be, maybe we'll
39:53
Speaker 1: see you there. But for now, you thank you so
39:55
Speaker 1: much for your time, and we hope you enjoyed the
39:57
Speaker 1: seasonste Hopefully we're talking to you in I guess a
40:00
Speaker 1: couple of days before the Steers are playing in the
40:02
Speaker 1: Super Bowl. But Gerby loggoins, I will chat deson.
40:05
Speaker 5: I'm only talking to Vegas. Have been there in person,
40:07
Speaker 5: which allows yes.
40:08
Speaker 1: Today and that was Mossy Quinn. Look lads great here
40:17
Speaker 1: Mossy Quinn. Obviously you know Mossie's and Massive Master NFL
40:21
Speaker 1: fun and I think you could hear in that interview
40:23
Speaker 1: how much of meetings to him to hear just see
40:26
Speaker 1: as well how much the Steelers are doing for the
40:30
Speaker 1: game here in Ireland. So that definitely is allowed to
40:33
Speaker 1: have mussy on him. We definitely appreciate hearing from us.
40:35
Speaker 1: Hopefully we can see him maybe at a fun event
40:38
Speaker 1: during the season TBC before we go into a couple
40:42
Speaker 1: of quick things before we run up this week's podcast
40:44
Speaker 1: where we're going to give a highlight the preseason each
40:47
Speaker 1: and I want to talk very very quickly boys about
40:50
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty three Steelers World Photo Day. Fans around
40:55
Speaker 1: the world have a passion for Staders football. This is
40:57
Speaker 1: an opportunity if you're a fan in our this Sunday
41:01
Speaker 1: to take part and show your support on social media.
41:05
Speaker 1: So this Sunday provides Steelers Nation around the below the
41:08
Speaker 1: perfect opportunity to put their black and gold on and
41:10
Speaker 1: show their support for the Staters ahead of our opener
41:13
Speaker 1: next week against the San Francisco forty nine Ers. How
41:16
Speaker 1: do you get involved? It's really easy, folks. You can
41:19
Speaker 1: gather in a large group locally with friends or family
41:22
Speaker 1: at a local landmark. So for example, Jimmy and Drahada
41:24
Speaker 1: there or in your fan cave like Stephen Currents as
41:27
Speaker 1: or even with a flag from your country if you
41:29
Speaker 1: would like. Wherever and however you want to show your
41:32
Speaker 1: love for the team at home, school, work, take a
41:35
Speaker 1: picture this Sunday, share it on social media using the
41:38
Speaker 1: hashtag Staeters Worldwide. I would recommend also, folks if you
41:42
Speaker 1: also tag us on X, Instagram and Facebook Steeters Ireland.
41:48
Speaker 1: There are Staelers Ireland accounts on X and Instagram, so
41:52
Speaker 1: make sure you do that there and also use the
41:53
Speaker 1: hashtag Steers Ireland and we will give people a shout
41:56
Speaker 1: out next week. And even thinking of the top of
41:57
Speaker 1: my head right now, Neil Ogul, who's up in n
42:00
Speaker 1: he'll definitely be taking the photos. So looking forward to
42:02
Speaker 1: seeing all these photos next week. And boys, I'm looking
42:04
Speaker 1: forward to seeing your photos. I'll certainly get one going
42:07
Speaker 1: as well and on this so the pressure's on and
42:10
Speaker 1: there's a lot of fans in Ireland are going to
42:11
Speaker 1: do that, so certainly I think it's a great idea,
42:14
Speaker 1: looking forward to seeing it. Let's jump in, boys, I
42:18
Speaker 1: mean to, let's do a double sort of conversation here.
42:22
Speaker 1: First off, where are we going to get our photos from.
42:24
Speaker 1: And secondly, what was the one highlight of the preseason?
42:28
Speaker 1: I guess for me, boys Boto is going to be
42:31
Speaker 1: done from potentially across that apparently Sympatrick himself built in
42:36
Speaker 1: dolic moored idea of knows what it is, that's the
42:39
Speaker 1: rumor he did build it. So it's a very very
42:41
Speaker 1: old cross. I'll give back to you on that high
42:43
Speaker 1: had of the preseason for me is obvious it's Kenny Pickett.
42:46
Speaker 1: I think a lot of fans last year looking around
42:49
Speaker 1: the league, if your staeters full are not locked at
42:51
Speaker 1: the progression that he made in the last few games
42:54
Speaker 1: of the season, But more so now, the guy is
42:57
Speaker 1: like a kid that had to repeat his exams and
42:59
Speaker 1: the summer, took the whole summer off, locked his door
43:02
Speaker 1: and practiced and revised. The guy looks so so revved
43:07
Speaker 1: up and refreshed, and you can see the clear leap
43:09
Speaker 1: to Kenny pick Gets made one in the year two. Unbelievable.
43:13
Speaker 1: And what do you said at the start, MVP A, Well,
43:15
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna go as far as that, but certainly
43:17
Speaker 1: this team is in a very very good position as
43:19
Speaker 1: we go into the regular season. And Jimmy, I can't
43:22
Speaker 1: believe him saying this. The regular season, which starts next Sunday, Sunday,
43:27
Speaker 1: the tenth of September against the San Francisco forty nine
43:31
Speaker 1: Ers in Orchestrare Stadium, tell me what's your highlight, Jimmy,
43:35
Speaker 1: out of presuming you're I'm presuming you're going to be
43:37
Speaker 1: standing in Drahada at that roundabout. That's the only place
43:40
Speaker 1: I know.
43:41
Speaker 2: So yeah, absolutely, Mike, I'll definitely be get a good
43:44
Speaker 2: picture for the Steeters fan event the worldwide thought today
43:48
Speaker 2: and Sunday of a couple of spot in mind right
43:51
Speaker 2: too where I be hosting my Steeiers Jersey with my
43:55
Speaker 2: green Terrible tel and I'm also excited to see where
43:58
Speaker 2: Whereabouts span and come up with fans and Ireland come
44:01
Speaker 2: up with there for their photos. That's gonna be exciting.
44:04
Speaker 2: And then the highlight for me of the pre season
44:06
Speaker 2: would have to be Calvin Austin. Of course, he was
44:09
Speaker 2: lost the entirety of last season, and I think we
44:11
Speaker 2: missed out on the explosion of that is that the operas,
44:14
Speaker 2: so he you know, not just in special themes, but
44:17
Speaker 2: also on on offense. He had that long, speedy touchdown
44:21
Speaker 2: in week one. But he's being fantastic returning once he
44:24
Speaker 2: almost broke away a couple of big part returns, so
44:27
Speaker 2: I'm definitely excited to see what he can bring it
44:29
Speaker 2: to us this season.
44:31
Speaker 1: Absolutely, and I'm looking forward to save were photos coming
44:34
Speaker 1: from for the fantastic day that we're going to Holpen somedays.
44:38
Speaker 1: See all these photos coming from around the world, hopefully
44:40
Speaker 1: as many given Mardin as possible. Did I know you're
44:42
Speaker 1: not a moment, but like actually to fly back to
44:44
Speaker 1: Caliland or Clono and stand outside Spring Island and get
44:49
Speaker 1: that terrible tielight and get a photo or feeling that
44:52
Speaker 1: if you're in Liverpool and the Cavern club will do rightly. Yeah,
44:56
Speaker 1: do you know what?
44:56
Speaker 4: I might just get the flight back and sitting mcgerr's
44:59
Speaker 4: pub on Someday morning with my with my Steelers Jersey
45:01
Speaker 4: on see who who sort of shows their face in there?
45:05
Speaker 4: But in the whole series, now obviously I'm in Liverpool.
45:10
Speaker 4: Maybe a lot of people would say, oh, sure you
45:11
Speaker 4: go to on Fields. Well unfortunately not on me and
45:13
Speaker 4: Edi fan, so I'll be getting the trained straight to
45:15
Speaker 4: Old Trafford. I'm posing the black and yellow outside Old Trafford.
45:18
Speaker 4: So that's my plans right there. Mag just obviously interesting
45:21
Speaker 4: to see where the or what the fans come up
45:23
Speaker 4: with this week as well. We want to see some
45:24
Speaker 4: good ones throughout Arnold as well, So with their plenty obviously,
45:28
Speaker 4: I want to see one down and the bill Arney
45:29
Speaker 4: Stone hopefully fingers cross we have cork or some claws
45:32
Speaker 4: down and cork and but yeah, in terms of May one,
45:37
Speaker 4: May one obviously key thing from pre season, it's not
45:40
Speaker 4: really going to surprise anybody, but it's it's it's Nick Herbig.
45:43
Speaker 4: If you look back at his pre season seven tackles,
45:46
Speaker 4: three and a half sacks, one force fumble, Like that's
45:49
Speaker 4: as good starts as you can probably wish for from
45:51
Speaker 4: a from a rookie going in this first pre season.
45:53
Speaker 4: So it's not really going to surprise anybody that I've
45:56
Speaker 4: chosen him for me, and you know, everybody knows me.
45:59
Speaker 4: I've had a sort of like I could have said,
46:02
Speaker 4: I liking towards neck, you know, yeah, from the start.
46:06
Speaker 4: I think it just shows we knew how good of
46:07
Speaker 4: a player he was going out of college. So yeah,
46:09
Speaker 4: that's that's my one one key from pre season.
46:12
Speaker 1: I think it just shows is the level of that
46:13
Speaker 1: expectation and at the level of excitement that we have
46:16
Speaker 1: because Jimmy at field like an Arland Ispacially, the football
46:18
Speaker 1: season is already back, and obviously it has been back
46:21
Speaker 1: for weeks in pre seasons, but especially with ever and
46:23
Speaker 1: that we've seen last week at the high school games
46:24
Speaker 1: of don coming over with the college games, it just
46:27
Speaker 1: seems like a great time to be a fan here
46:29
Speaker 1: and we can't wait for this Niners game next week.
46:30
Speaker 1: It's going to be awesome and we can't wait to
46:32
Speaker 1: see where this watch part is going to be the season,
46:34
Speaker 1: which we hope will be announced very very soon. Obviously. Folks,
46:38
Speaker 1: if you're planning on watching the first game of the
46:41
Speaker 1: season the Niners anywhere, please do let us know in
46:43
Speaker 1: social media use the hashtags Sailers Ireland and will also
46:46
Speaker 1: tweet or and also post to add Steelers Ireland on
46:52
Speaker 1: x or Instagram as well, And Jimmy, I know we'd
46:55
Speaker 1: love to get los of questions from fans or opinions
46:57
Speaker 1: next week as we go into week one month Week
47:00
Speaker 1: one previous show scary but scary scary biscuits.
47:03
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, just to to echo what you said there,
47:07
Speaker 3: might do.
47:07
Speaker 2: It's been a great build up to the season so far,
47:09
Speaker 2: between what we've been doing here on the podcast, you know,
47:12
Speaker 2: getting excited and seeing what the Fitters can do.
47:14
Speaker 3: But also on the isle of the Barland there's been
47:16
Speaker 3: some really really great engagement pro fans.
47:21
Speaker 2: You can even feel it a part the night there
47:23
Speaker 2: and Danny Brook, you know, under lights watching some American football,
47:27
Speaker 2: it was it was almost like we were we were
47:30
Speaker 2: over in the States, the light style and get ready
47:34
Speaker 2: for the season ahead. And just I think seeing the
47:37
Speaker 2: popularity of American football that are and grow year on year,
47:42
Speaker 2: it's it's great for me as a fan and as
47:43
Speaker 2: someone who has been involved in it for years, so
47:46
Speaker 2: and like it's just it's gonna be a great, a
47:48
Speaker 2: great couple of months once once September rolls around.
47:52
Speaker 1: Absolutely, and Dave looking forward to me and I know
47:55
Speaker 1: we'll talk a lot more, both of you. Last Tommy
47:57
Speaker 1: Dave next week as we look ahead to the first
48:00
Speaker 1: game of the season. Folks, please do as send your
48:03
Speaker 1: pictures on Sunday of your terrible toils your jerseys. Find
48:08
Speaker 1: the most obscure place on this island. I'm going to
48:10
Speaker 1: find it and in a good and then the safe way.
48:14
Speaker 1: But seriously, folks, do enjoy it. It's going to be
48:16
Speaker 1: a great day and I think it's a great opportunity
48:18
Speaker 1: to show the Staeters but also show the NFL fans
48:21
Speaker 1: as well, just your interest in this team, just your
48:24
Speaker 1: excitement for the season, and it's unique. You don't really
48:26
Speaker 1: see any other team do this, so please feel free
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Speaker 5: Here we go.