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BONUS EPISODE: Pgh Sports Current Events - November 5, 2026 · Pittsburgh Sports Memories

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SPEAKER_00: Hello and welcome to a footballpalooza episode of Pittsburgh Sports Memories Current Events Podcast.
0:07
SPEAKER_00: I'm your co-host, Steve Wirt, and I'm joined by I'm Tim Hannon.
0:12
SPEAKER_00: And uh on a different note, did you know that an Americano coffee is just like a sh couple shots of espresso with a bunch of water?
0:20
SPEAKER_01: I did not know that.
0:21
SPEAKER_01: That's an interesting fact.
0:23
SPEAKER_00: I didn't know that until like like a week or two ago when I went to like a place called Dutch Brothers, and that's the only kind of coffee they have.
0:31
SPEAKER_00: But you know what is like kind of cool is like that you can buy us a coffee online right now, Tim, right?
0:38
SPEAKER_01: Sure can.
0:39
SPEAKER_00: And it's basically a glorified tip jar.
0:41
SPEAKER_00: I mean, I guess we could buy an Americano coffee somewhere with it if we really wanted to.
0:46
SPEAKER_00: But it really, you know, it brings you more of this award, well, not award, but this content anyway.
0:54
SPEAKER_00: We haven't won any awards, so I can't say award winning, but that's only because people haven't given bought us enough coffees yet.
1:01
SPEAKER_00: There it goes.
1:01
SPEAKER_00: Maybe we'll make up an award and give it to ourselves, which like like the big east or something.
1:08
SPEAKER_01: No, I mean uh that we we Steve and I aren't obviously uh doing this as a career.
1:13
SPEAKER_01: We're just doing this because we love doing it, but we do incur expenses doing this, so um, it would be great if you could uh support us if you like the show.
1:22
SPEAKER_01: This will help us, like Steve said, continue to keep doing this.
1:26
SPEAKER_00: So getting back to pit football, um, hey, Kit Pitt got the big win uh against Georgia Tech, and Georgia Tech unfortunately had the wrong Mendoza brother.
1:37
SPEAKER_00: So things are not going well for Georgia Tech.
1:41
SPEAKER_00: They wish they had Fernando, and what is this guy?
1:44
SPEAKER_00: Is he Allah?
1:46
SPEAKER_00: Or I don't know.
1:46
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, what happened to them?
1:47
SPEAKER_01: They were so good last year, remember?
1:50
SPEAKER_00: Well, they had that other quarterback that was kind of okay, and they had a pretty good running game.
1:54
SPEAKER_00: Their defense was always kind of suspect, and I think Pitt kind of exposed them.
1:58
SPEAKER_00: And um, so Georgia Tech is two and six, and they really haven't been the same since Pitt beat them, weirdly enough.
2:05
SPEAKER_00: Yeah um Holden Gurner was 13-30 for 180 yards and a touchdown.
2:11
SPEAKER_00: Ferguson had 185 yards rushing.
2:14
SPEAKER_00: I think um the other fields had a lot of yards rushing too.
2:18
SPEAKER_00: Um, I don't know.
2:19
SPEAKER_00: Hopefully, I mean Pitt had trouble scoring inside the five, but did score enough to win pretty comfortably.
2:25
SPEAKER_00: And um, you know, hopefully, is this a springboard for the last few games of the season?
2:29
SPEAKER_00: I mean, Florida State is next up and they're currently three and five, and fired their coach, haha, Mike Norville.
2:37
SPEAKER_00: So uh, you know, maybe they'll hire Dion as their next coach for he he's about to get fired by Colorado.
2:44
SPEAKER_01: That's his alma mater, isn't it?
2:46
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
2:47
SPEAKER_00: So prime time.
2:49
SPEAKER_00: Um, is nine win season a possibility, Tim?
2:53
SPEAKER_00: Are we all just fooling ourselves at this point?
2:56
SPEAKER_01: Uh yeah, I I mean I don't I we talked about that last week.
3:00
SPEAKER_01: I still think that that's probably not in the cards, but I will say that you know that was a nice that was a nice win.
3:08
SPEAKER_01: Um they did leave points on the board, like you said, they couldn't score by the goal line.
3:12
SPEAKER_01: That seemed to be a theme at that stadium last weekend.
3:15
SPEAKER_01: Uh and and Holden Gurner, man, it's nice to see him if he had played in the North Carolina game like he played the last two weeks.
3:25
SPEAKER_00: He'd still be having a starting joke.
3:28
SPEAKER_00: He they probably would have at least beat North Carolina.
3:30
SPEAKER_00: Maybe they are at least in the game against Boston College.
3:33
SPEAKER_01: I think they would have beaten Boston College had he played like that too, because then he would have started the Boston College game instead of being benched.
3:40
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
3:40
SPEAKER_01: And then I and then I think they still lose to Miami, but it's a very, very different season if they if they win those two games and he's playing like he did the last two weeks.
3:49
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, because now people are kind of like Pat Narduzzi's a little bit his seat's a little warm because it seems like every season they kind of fall apart in the second half of the season when the competition gets tougher.
3:59
SPEAKER_01: So yeah, and it was like I said, we talked last week about them like slowly just giving up on the season.
4:05
unknown: Yeah.
4:05
SPEAKER_01: And so it was nice to see them coming back.
4:07
SPEAKER_01: And like they were actually having fun.
4:08
SPEAKER_01: Like, did you see like Blue Hicks when he caught that that bomb touchdown at the end of the game?
4:13
SPEAKER_01: He like totally hurt himself on that catch.
4:16
SPEAKER_01: But he got up and he was like, Must complete touchdown dance.
4:21
SPEAKER_01: And I just was like, Man, they're actually having fun.
4:23
SPEAKER_01: Like it was it was just nice to see that after like three really tough losses in a row, and it seemed like everything was dead.
4:29
SPEAKER_01: So it was just you know, even if they don't win another game, Steve, it was still nice to see them bounce back.
4:34
SPEAKER_00: Well, they're both eligible.
4:36
SPEAKER_00: I think they win like two more games.
4:38
SPEAKER_00: I really do.
4:40
SPEAKER_00: I I somewhere along the way, they I Florida State's imminently beatable.
4:44
SPEAKER_00: Florida State's probably checked out on the season, I think.
4:46
SPEAKER_00: And the game's here, so maybe it'll well, it's not gonna get cold anytime soon, so we don't have that going for us.
4:53
SPEAKER_00: But yeah, you know.
4:55
SPEAKER_01: I'm very excited for the Bank of America low yield investments bowl or whatever.
5:01
SPEAKER_00: Low yield investments.
5:03
SPEAKER_00: I like the fact that they like trash their own investments.
5:07
SPEAKER_00: They're low yield, not gonna get much here.
5:10
SPEAKER_00: Be lucky you get like a five, two percent return on this bad boy.
5:16
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, you don't want to take any chances, you know.
5:18
SPEAKER_01: Just very, very conservative investing over there.
5:21
SPEAKER_00: You know, you know, it'd be just wouldn't it just be easier to like put it in your mattress at that point?
5:29
SPEAKER_00: Anyway, are you ready for some NEC update football, Tim?
5:34
SPEAKER_00: Woohoo! I can't believe this has become part of Football Palooza, but here we are.
5:40
SPEAKER_00: Uh RMU went all the way to Central Connecticut, which is in New Britain, Connecticut.
5:45
SPEAKER_00: I looked it up.
5:47
SPEAKER_00: Look at me.
5:48
SPEAKER_00: And they went up there and they lost 49-14.
5:51
SPEAKER_00: Central Connecticut is in the lead in the NEC, and they are 4-0.
5:56
SPEAKER_00: Um, Duquesne, for their part, is 3-1 in the conference.
6:00
SPEAKER_00: So I guess Robert Morris is out because they have two losses in conference, so they're 2-2.
6:06
SPEAKER_00: So the only team that could hopefully catch um the Central Connecticut is Duquesne.
6:12
SPEAKER_00: And I think that game is in Connecticut, the Duquesne.
6:16
SPEAKER_00: But on to the city game, the Robert Morris-Duquesne game is this Saturday, so woo-hoo.
6:22
SPEAKER_00: That's probably setting up Duquesne needs to win that to set up a big showdown against Central Connecticut at the end of the season.
6:29
SPEAKER_00: And there's your NEC small time football update.
6:32
SPEAKER_00: And your Duquesne alumnus, Tim, I bet you didn't even know or care about any of that.
6:38
SPEAKER_01: Um, I did not know or care much about it.
6:44
SPEAKER_00: But Robert Morris and Duquesne are playing at Aruni Field this Saturday, Tim.
6:50
SPEAKER_00: Come on.
6:50
SPEAKER_00: I think tickets, good tickets are still available, I'm sure.
6:54
SPEAKER_01: Probably.
6:55
SPEAKER_00: Um, would you like to talk about European football?
6:58
SPEAKER_00: Woo-hoo! No.
7:00
SPEAKER_00: Well, we are.
7:02
SPEAKER_00: You'll suffer through the next five minutes of your life that you can't get back.
7:07
SPEAKER_00: Uh the Riverhounds uh went to Louisville in a playoff match and lost one to nothing.
7:13
SPEAKER_00: Um, the Riverhounds had a successful season, finished fifth.
7:17
SPEAKER_00: Um, this ends their title defense.
7:19
SPEAKER_00: Hey, at least one team won a you know championship around here.
7:23
SPEAKER_00: That hasn't happened since 2018.
7:25
SPEAKER_00: So um another solid year from the Hounds.
7:28
SPEAKER_00: Uh lots of sellouts.
7:30
SPEAKER_00: They only get like five or six thousand fans for a sellout.
7:33
SPEAKER_00: Um, the new stadium is on the way.
7:36
SPEAKER_00: They said they're gonna increase their seating all the way up to 15,000 fans, Tim.
7:41
SPEAKER_00: So um, who knows?
7:42
SPEAKER_00: Uh maybe onward and upward for the River Hounds.
7:45
SPEAKER_00: I hope uh I wish them well.
7:46
SPEAKER_00: So yeah, oh yeah.
7:48
SPEAKER_01: I mean I I agree.
7:49
SPEAKER_01: I I nice to see them successful.
7:52
SPEAKER_01: It would be nice to it would honestly be nice to generate enough interest in this town to get to MLS.
7:59
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
7:59
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
8:01
SPEAKER_00: I don't know if that'll ever happen, but if they can get the 30,000, like what happened to the Cincinnati team, like that FC Cincinnati was in the same league as the Riverhounds like five to ten years ago, and then they went up to MLS, but they average like that that Cincinnati team averaged like 25 to 30,000 fans a game.
8:20
SPEAKER_00: So they're a legit MLS team.
8:23
SPEAKER_00: That's that's good numbers for MLS.
8:25
SPEAKER_01: So I bet you can get more people than showed up at the Pitt Georgia Tech game on Henry.
8:30
SPEAKER_00: I bet you do.
8:31
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah, there was hardly anybody there.
8:33
SPEAKER_01: So yeah, I you had texting me earlier that day asking why in the world that was a prime time game, and I was I think that was a that was not a smart plan because everybody's out trick-or-treating that night.
8:46
SPEAKER_00: Well, I think too, like Miami, North Carolina was kind of the big game in the ACC that week.
8:52
SPEAKER_00: And North Carolina did give Miami a game.
8:55
SPEAKER_00: They did, which is weird because Pitt like should have beat them.
8:59
SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
9:00
SPEAKER_00: I I think Miami was the classic donut game because they played Pitt and then they played North Carolina and then they have to play Notre Dame, so that's kind of the old donut game.
9:10
unknown: Yeah.
9:11
SPEAKER_00: But Miami survived, and you know, they all they gotta play Notre Dame.
9:15
SPEAKER_01: So yeah, Belichick's signature win is still the beating Holden Gurner and his girlfriend.
9:21
SPEAKER_01: I I loved how they kept saying that during that broadcast.
9:24
SPEAKER_01: This is Bill Belichick's signature win.
9:26
SPEAKER_01: It's like, really?
9:27
SPEAKER_01: That's that's very sad.
9:30
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
9:30
SPEAKER_00: Well, him and his girlfriend broke up, so I didn't know that.
9:34
SPEAKER_00: The losses keep coming for the old people.
9:37
SPEAKER_01: I did not hear that.
9:38
SPEAKER_01: How disappointing.
9:39
SPEAKER_01: If those two kids can't make it, then I know.
9:41
SPEAKER_00: I mean, who knew a 50-year age difference would be a problem?
9:45
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
9:46
SPEAKER_00: I mean, that's well what what what what at our age are we gonna talk about with a Gen Z person?
9:52
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
9:53
SPEAKER_00: Six, seven?
9:53
SPEAKER_00: What am I gonna say to that?
9:56
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that that would be odd.
10:00
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
10:02
SPEAKER_00: So uh on to the Steelers, and uh, I have a question, Tim.
10:05
SPEAKER_00: Um, did you have money on the game?
10:07
SPEAKER_00: Did you bet anything?
10:08
SPEAKER_01: I did not, but I wish I would have.
10:11
SPEAKER_00: You called it perfectly.
10:12
SPEAKER_00: You would have won.
10:14
SPEAKER_01: Well, I I said they would win by two scores and they won by three scores, so I didn't call it perfectly, but I I did have a feeling.
10:21
SPEAKER_01: I mean, the here's the thing, Steve.
10:24
SPEAKER_01: The Browns, the the Cleveland Browns are frauds.
10:27
SPEAKER_00: Well, I think that's pretty I I I don't know like how much many games they're gonna win on the second half of their seasons, but I bet they go under 500.
10:36
SPEAKER_00: I bet they're like two and how many games are there?
10:39
SPEAKER_00: Seven games left.
10:40
SPEAKER_01: I think there's eight.
10:41
unknown: Eight.
10:43
SPEAKER_00: Is it nine?
10:44
SPEAKER_00: Geez, we're not even wait a minute.
10:45
SPEAKER_00: How many are they six?
10:46
SPEAKER_00: Six and two.
10:47
SPEAKER_00: They're five and three, so they're eight.
10:49
SPEAKER_00: So there's nine.
10:49
SPEAKER_00: So there's nine games.
10:51
SPEAKER_00: So they probably go like what, three and six somewhere in there.
10:54
SPEAKER_01: I I wouldn't be surprised.
10:55
SPEAKER_01: I mean, they're just such a joke of a sports franchise talking trash all week like they hadn't won something, coming in here getting destroyed.
11:04
SPEAKER_00: Well, it wasn't even a game.
11:05
SPEAKER_00: Like it should it should have been over in the third quarter if DK Metcalf can catch a pass.
11:10
SPEAKER_00: I mean, that's a touchdown.
11:12
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
11:13
SPEAKER_00: I mean, uh the Jalen Warlin, man, he is the offense.
11:17
SPEAKER_00: And Rogers, and Rogers, like, we need to get him 20 times a game, the ball 20 times a game.
11:22
SPEAKER_00: And he didn't even get the ball 20 times a game.
11:24
SPEAKER_00: He's still Jalen Ward had 143 yards rushing on 17 carries.
11:30
SPEAKER_00: He was averaging like 10 yards a rush.
11:33
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and Dowdall looked really good when he was in there too.
11:36
SPEAKER_01: The offensive line looks good.
11:38
SPEAKER_00: I thought Cleveland's defense would be better than that, but I guess I was wrong.
11:42
SPEAKER_00: I I don't know.
11:44
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, or or we're just or our offensive line is just coming together.
11:48
SPEAKER_01: I th I really think that that's the difference this year.
11:50
SPEAKER_01: Like, I coaching's a huge difference for sure.
11:53
SPEAKER_01: Like we we have much more innovative coaching.
11:56
SPEAKER_00: But the offensive line seems to have gelled.
11:59
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
12:00
SPEAKER_00: And isn't there people hurt?
12:01
SPEAKER_00: Like they're gonna get people back, too, aren't they?
12:04
SPEAKER_01: On the defensive line, yeah, but on the offensive line, okay.
12:08
SPEAKER_01: It's it's really and it's four of the guys are are draft, you know.
12:12
SPEAKER_01: I can I've been saying that for years.
12:13
SPEAKER_01: I think Omar Khan's been building a good team.
12:16
SPEAKER_01: And Andy Whitele and Omar Khan, like I in four of those guys, you know, Fraser McCormick, uh Futurage.
12:25
SPEAKER_00: McCormick of uh body slam fame, yeah.
12:28
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, but um four of those guys are are recent draft picks.
12:32
SPEAKER_01: Hoffman's the only guy that came from another team.
12:34
SPEAKER_01: So so they're really building something, and it's coming together.
12:39
SPEAKER_01: Like, man, Steve, I this this like I was totally fine with this season being a throwaway season.
12:46
SPEAKER_01: Like, I because you know, oh Rogers came back another year, they're not ready to play a quarterback yet, they're just wasting more time.
12:53
SPEAKER_01: I was kind of okay with that.
12:55
SPEAKER_01: Now it's like, man, this formula, like that's a good if you can play defense and you can run the ball, that reminds me of like those early cower teams.
13:04
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
13:05
SPEAKER_00: You're gonna be competitive every week, yeah.
13:08
SPEAKER_01: And the early cower teams didn't have like an Aaron Rodgers, and Aaron Rodgers is not, you know, he's a middle of the road quarterback at this point.
13:17
SPEAKER_01: But when you need him, like that Tampa Bay game in overtime.
13:20
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
13:20
SPEAKER_01: Like when you need him to drive you down the field.
13:23
SPEAKER_01: Remember remember Peyton Manning's last year in Denver?
13:26
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
13:26
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it was like that, like he if you needed him to complete that key third down pass or pick up a couple first downs and kick a field goal or score a touchdown, he could do it.
13:35
SPEAKER_00: Could he carry your offense?
13:36
SPEAKER_00: No, but right.
13:38
SPEAKER_01: That game that game, they beat us in the playoffs that year.
13:41
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
13:42
SPEAKER_01: When we had the lead in the fourth quarter, and he he led drives to to to win the game.
13:49
SPEAKER_01: It wasn't like a heroic Joe Montana like or Ben Rothesburg or even Peyton Manning early in his career, you know, just take the ball and win the game.
13:58
SPEAKER_01: But if you can stay close, even if you're losing, and you have that veteran quarterback, that's really it's it's just I I I don't want to say we're the 2015 Broncos, like we're we're way far away from that, but it's just giving me a little bit more glimmer of hope, I think, than I had previously.
14:16
SPEAKER_00: Sweet.
14:18
SPEAKER_00: I mean, it does, it's really positive right now, but the schedule does get tougher.
14:24
SPEAKER_00: I mean Aaron Rodgers.
14:26
SPEAKER_00: Uh, do you want to hear some stats?
14:27
SPEAKER_00: Sure, who doesn't?
14:28
SPEAKER_00: He was 13 to 25, had an interception, but 172 yards, but that was because he has like over 200 yards if Metcalf makes that catch.
14:37
SPEAKER_00: Um, Darnell Washington, what what the heck?
14:40
SPEAKER_00: Why did he have such and they used him creatively?
14:43
SPEAKER_00: They ran like two plays that were very similar to two different sides of the field, and Cleveland was totally befuddled by it.
14:50
SPEAKER_00: So yeah.
14:51
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, they ran that they ran that same play twice and Cleveland bit on it both times.
14:57
SPEAKER_00: Well, what do you think of going for with five seconds left in the half?
15:01
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that was that was one of those things where uh if it didn't work, everybody's like, what are you doing?
15:09
SPEAKER_01: Just take the points.
15:09
SPEAKER_01: And if it does work, what a genius.
15:12
SPEAKER_01: You know, the Palmelon would have never taken that chance, and McCarthy's McCarthy's so bold, and you know, so I mean, hey.
15:20
SPEAKER_00: It really put the game like it didn't put it pretty close to putting the game away.
15:24
SPEAKER_01: Well, especially because we were getting the ball first in the second half.
15:26
SPEAKER_01: That really stuck a dagger for sure.
15:29
SPEAKER_00: But like, yeah, but then they still went three and out in that first drive, but then that second drive they scored it was a field goal or touchdown, and that was pretty much it for Cleveland.
15:39
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
15:39
SPEAKER_01: And like you said, the the really what should have put the game away was Metcalf catching a bomb, and then he bobbles it right into the hands of Denzel Ward.
15:48
SPEAKER_01: I I that guy is beyond maddening.
15:51
SPEAKER_01: I can't think of a I can't think of a more disappointing Pittsburgh athlete in the last 10 years.
15:58
SPEAKER_01: I really can't.
16:00
SPEAKER_00: Hey, and what about the defense?
16:02
SPEAKER_00: Uh eight sacks, they really blitzed.
16:04
SPEAKER_00: Like, remember I was saying, oh, they're picking their spots and blitz.
16:07
SPEAKER_00: Patrick Graham went to fool Mike Tomlin.
16:09
SPEAKER_00: He was just like, we're blitzing all the time.
16:12
SPEAKER_00: And it worked.
16:13
SPEAKER_00: It worked.
16:13
SPEAKER_00: I guess they saw the weakness on the Cleveland's offensive line or something, but I kind of I mean, so you know, maybe he isn't afraid to blitz when he needs to.
16:23
SPEAKER_00: So I don't know.
16:24
SPEAKER_01: The coaching was really good.
16:26
SPEAKER_01: And he, but I also want to like I I don't want to fall into this trap where we just say it's all in the coaching because it what he's it's not like they had they ran pretty much the same game plan they ran the first game.
16:38
SPEAKER_01: It's just they played they executed so much better.
16:41
SPEAKER_01: That first game they missed.
16:43
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, a lot of tackles.
16:44
SPEAKER_01: Many tackles.
16:46
SPEAKER_01: And this game they were just right on top of things.
16:49
SPEAKER_01: Um, all those like those problems from the past few years, those communication problems that everybody kept talking about, those seem to be resolved.
16:57
SPEAKER_01: The problems from the first four weeks where they're where they're yelling at Patrick Graham through the telephone and everything, that seems to be resolved.
17:04
SPEAKER_00: I think it took about four weeks because they didn't do a preseason, because nobody does preseason.
17:09
SPEAKER_00: It took them really four weeks to really gel.
17:11
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
17:12
SPEAKER_01: I t I totally agree with you.
17:13
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I I think that that's spot on.
17:16
SPEAKER_01: And that's that's the new norm in the NFL.
17:18
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
17:19
SPEAKER_01: I mean, I I don't remember what the Seahawks were last year, but I I'm almost 100% positive that two years ago that's what the Eagles were after four weeks they were two and two.
17:28
SPEAKER_01: You know, again, try not to keep comparing ourselves to all these Super Bowl winners, but I'm just saying that those you really do need those first couple weeks to sort it, especially with the new new coaching staff.
17:38
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
17:40
SPEAKER_00: Well, do you know that Quinshawn Juncan Junction only had 25 yards rushing?
17:46
SPEAKER_00: That's like another time.
17:46
SPEAKER_00: They've shut down the running game again.
17:49
SPEAKER_00: And Watson had 324 passing yards of the most meaningless passing yards.
17:56
SPEAKER_00: Totally meaningless.
17:58
SPEAKER_00: He threw no interceptions and no touchdowns.
18:01
SPEAKER_00: Totally like like the it's like Dak Pascott kind of stats.
18:05
SPEAKER_00: You did nothing.
18:07
SPEAKER_00: Nothing.
18:07
SPEAKER_00: It's meaningless.
18:09
SPEAKER_00: Same thing with Harold Fannon.
18:10
SPEAKER_00: Oh, you had 154 yards receiving.
18:13
SPEAKER_00: You did nothing.
18:14
SPEAKER_00: You didn't catch any touchdowns, you didn't pick up any big third downs.
18:19
SPEAKER_00: It's just totally meaningless stats by the Browns offense.
18:24
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
18:24
SPEAKER_00: So, and a perfect example of that.
18:26
SPEAKER_00: There was a fourth and 16 late in the game, and Watson checks it down to a tight end that's eight yards down the field and gets tackled eight yards short.
18:33
SPEAKER_00: Like, oh, okay, you got another completion and eight yards passing.
18:37
SPEAKER_00: Like, throw it in the end zone and get picked off.
18:40
SPEAKER_00: At least, yeah.
18:42
SPEAKER_01: I think I think Deshaun Watson was starting Deshaun Watson in fantasy this week.
18:46
SPEAKER_01: I think that's always happening.
18:50
SPEAKER_00: Uh well, yeah.
18:51
SPEAKER_00: So the Steelers play the Bengals for control of the division on November 15th after their bye week.
18:57
SPEAKER_00: Um, they just beat one Ohio team.
18:59
SPEAKER_00: It's time to beat the other one, right, Tim?
19:02
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that'll be fun.
19:04
SPEAKER_01: Um, that's really gonna be a big game.
19:06
SPEAKER_01: The Bengals play in Spain this week, I think.
19:08
SPEAKER_01: Oh, really?
19:09
SPEAKER_01: So they so uh it would be.
19:11
SPEAKER_00: We've got the long trip back, huh?
19:13
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I mean that didn't hurt us.
19:15
SPEAKER_01: So um, but it would be nice if uh Atlanta could do us a solid.
19:19
SPEAKER_01: But Atlanta's very Jacko on high this year, so who knows what's gonna happen there.
19:24
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, the Steelers are six and two, the Browns are five and three, the Bengals are five and two, and probably the legit like I still think the Bengals are gonna win the division, but that's just me.
19:35
SPEAKER_00: Baltimore, they might be done.
19:38
SPEAKER_00: I I and Lamar Jackson is hurt, the the backups hurt, they're playing a third string quarterback.
19:45
SPEAKER_01: The third stringer now is questionable for Thursday.
19:48
SPEAKER_01: Did you see who they signed?
19:49
SPEAKER_00: Oh, I didn't.
19:50
SPEAKER_00: Did they did they sign back that Piega guy from Vanderbilt?
19:54
SPEAKER_01: No, no, they signed somebody else who might have to start the game on Thursday.
19:58
SPEAKER_01: Okay, O'Donnell.
20:00
SPEAKER_01: No, no, no.
20:00
SPEAKER_01: Even better, Steve.
20:02
SPEAKER_01: Keaton Slovis.
20:06
SPEAKER_00: Good luck with that.
20:08
SPEAKER_00: I guess what's his name's in jail, huh?
20:11
SPEAKER_00: Right.
20:12
SPEAKER_00: Wow.
20:13
SPEAKER_00: Wow.
20:14
SPEAKER_00: That's rough.
20:16
SPEAKER_00: How bad is Diego Pavita that they're playing Keaton Slovis over him?
20:21
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
20:22
SPEAKER_01: So so that's that he actually might start.
20:25
SPEAKER_01: I I don't I think that guy that came in last week is probably gonna be okay, but like literally they signed Slovis.
20:32
SPEAKER_01: He might have to, and they have to play on Thursday against Jacksonville.
20:36
SPEAKER_00: Oh, geez.
20:37
SPEAKER_00: So bet the house on the Ravens.
20:40
SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
20:40
SPEAKER_01: That's well, yeah, you never know.
20:42
SPEAKER_01: But I mean, like, seriously, they are they are for real in trouble.
20:46
SPEAKER_01: And you know what?
20:47
SPEAKER_01: Uh I don't feel too bad for them.
20:49
SPEAKER_01: Like, like they I I I it did not sit well with me the way that they got rid of Harbaugh.
20:54
SPEAKER_01: I just thought that they blamed like Harbaugh got all the blame for Lamar Jackson never winning anything.
21:00
SPEAKER_01: And so they saddled themselves to like, well, to Lamar would win something if we got a different coach in here.
21:06
SPEAKER_01: Well, how's that working out?
21:08
SPEAKER_01: But but I will say, I will say, at least the Ravens are like a legitimate NFL franchise.
21:14
SPEAKER_01: I mean, that you would never see the Baltimore Ravens get multiple taunting penalties when down by 21 points.
21:21
SPEAKER_00: That was a very cleveland browns thing.
21:23
SPEAKER_01: Well, and they and they they were trash talking all week.
21:26
SPEAKER_01: You know what I mean?
21:27
SPEAKER_00: Well, he's got he came in here really owed to Pittsburgh, didn't he?
21:30
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
21:31
SPEAKER_00: They haven't won here since like what?
21:33
SPEAKER_00: Like 2003 in a regular season game.
21:37
SPEAKER_00: Wow.
21:38
SPEAKER_00: They've won four times at Heinz Field or whatever across your, I think.
21:44
SPEAKER_00: Twice.
21:44
SPEAKER_00: Or twice, only twice, Jesus.
21:46
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, they've won twice at Accrochure.
21:48
SPEAKER_01: They they they there were some stamps off.
21:50
SPEAKER_00: Did you see the list of teams that have won yeah, yeah, it's like North Allegheny or Central Catholic?
21:56
SPEAKER_01: It's like Yeah, have won more games at at that stadium than.
22:00
SPEAKER_01: the than the Browns.
22:02
SPEAKER_01: You know what, Cleveland?
22:03
SPEAKER_01: Just just go away.
22:05
SPEAKER_01: Just go away.
22:07
SPEAKER_00: They might.
22:08
SPEAKER_00: They might.
22:08
SPEAKER_00: It's between us and the Bengals.
22:10
SPEAKER_00: I don't think I mean if the Ravens pull it out and stay competitive this back half of the season, that will be the greatest coaching job by a rookie coach ever.
22:20
SPEAKER_00: But he he he's really up against it.
22:23
SPEAKER_00: That's tough for any coach.
22:25
SPEAKER_01: For sure.
22:25
SPEAKER_01: But but this division like not just this year.
22:28
SPEAKER_01: This division is the Steelers and the Ravens and sometimes the Bengals and it's been that way for the past 30 years.
22:34
SPEAKER_01: It'll continue to be that way.
22:35
SPEAKER_01: The Browns are not a serious franchise.
22:38
SPEAKER_01: They're just window dressing for the three real teams.
22:41
SPEAKER_01: Just accept who you are.
22:43
SPEAKER_01: Stop embarrassing yourselves by pretending that you're something you're not and like they're they're poor fans like that I was at that game on Sunday.
22:50
SPEAKER_01: There was a lot of Cleveland fans that made that drive because they actually believed that like well this is maybe this is different.
22:59
SPEAKER_01: This is different.
23:00
SPEAKER_01: We're actually contending in 27 to six.
23:04
SPEAKER_01: So like stop it.
23:06
SPEAKER_01: Just just stop it.
23:07
SPEAKER_01: You haven't won the division they haven't won the division Steve since 1989.
23:11
SPEAKER_01: It's a four-team division.
23:13
SPEAKER_01: You know how astronomically unlikely it is to have a one in four chance to win something and fail at it that many times but guys the Browns beat the Steelers in that playoff game during COVID where everything was mass chaos and Pouncy snapped the ball over Ben said great congratulations hang a banner.
23:32
SPEAKER_01: The rest of us will move on and live in reality with the real teams in the division.
23:37
SPEAKER_01: Go away.
23:37
SPEAKER_00: Just go away Cleveland well I I wanted to like just add this that have you noticed that football in the north is for real this year?
23:46
SPEAKER_00: Like all the teams in the NFC North are over 500 all the teams in the AFC North and are in 500 and you know what that why that is Tim?
23:55
SPEAKER_00: Why is that?
23:56
SPEAKER_00: Because the football just means more to the fans in the north in these towns in the Midwest and the north.
24:03
SPEAKER_00: You know those towns in Alabama and Georgia just wouldn't in Mississippi in Louisiana they just don't understand it.
24:11
SPEAKER_00: They don't understand football.
24:12
SPEAKER_00: They don't understand real football sorry Alabama.
24:16
SPEAKER_00: Sorry LSU sorry old miss it just means more here it just means more okay there's my unnecessary SEC shot nice nice on brands very much on brands I know my my I can't hide my contempt for the SEC anymore.
24:35
SPEAKER_00: And it's just like such a bunch of whining now that Notre Dame spends money like by like Clemson and like schools like that.
24:42
SPEAKER_00: Oh I don't know where Notre Dame Notre Dame always had that money.
24:44
SPEAKER_00: They just never used it on their players.
24:46
SPEAKER_00: Now they have more money than all you stupid little schools that thought you had money.
24:51
SPEAKER_00: Now you come up against a real school that has a real money anyway did you realize that you or me completed the same amount of passes as an NFL quarterback on Sunday Tim the starting NFL quarterback.
25:05
SPEAKER_01: Except we didn't win the game like they like he did.
25:08
SPEAKER_00: Well he won the game it went 0 for three hey do you realize that um the uh what's his name uh Penix from Atlanta who played that same game had more interceptions than Mayfield had completions he completed more passes to Tampa Bay than Baker Mayfield did yeah yeah that's the that's the first time since 1974.
25:35
SPEAKER_00: Involving the Bills and the Jets which another team I know you like the Jets Falcons Browns not real franchises.
25:41
SPEAKER_01: Yeah yeah well that was and that was when they that was like an OJ Simpson just run the ball game that you know that you would have had in 1974.
25:50
SPEAKER_01: So yeah that was that was interesting to see Tampa Bay win a game without completing a pass.
25:55
SPEAKER_01: Well it was a complete it was a complete down yeah it was a downpour you couldn't kick a like they're lucky they could kick field goals in that so well I I will say that me starting the Tampa Bay defense in my fantasy league that worked out yeah it helped balance out the fact that I started Lamar Jackson at quarterback.
26:12
SPEAKER_01: Well well I don't know if it made up for it but it well it it it yeah it it it it helped it didn't make up for it but it helped um hey guess what Pat Narduzy ruffled some feathers what a shocker no not Pat not Pat Narduzie.
26:31
SPEAKER_00: So I guess this is like from a couple weeks ago I meant to add this and I forgot to um the Miami coach Mario Cristobal got kind of miffed with Narduzzy because I guess there's a rumor and Narduzzy said this that Miami tried to recruit um Heinschol this offseason offer him a bunch of money to come to Miami.
26:54
SPEAKER_00: You know the actual quote I mean it's just much like remember Notre Dame tried that with Kenny Pickett a couple like years ago and Kenny stayed um if the NCC NCAA can't get hold a hold on it and Congress can't get a hold on it there's nothing you can do he's playing by his rules and we'll try to play by our rules that's what Pat Narduzy said.
27:15
SPEAKER_00: And he kind of said it matter of factly he didn't it wasn't like bitter or whiny just because I said hey that's that's how it is and that's kind of what it is I I don't know what Mario Crystalball is mad about.
27:26
SPEAKER_00: I I what you didn't are you mad that you got caught with your hand in I mean what hand in the cooking jar?
27:32
SPEAKER_00: What does it matter?
27:33
SPEAKER_00: It's not illegal yeah to tamper your time now yeah you're allowed to do whatever you want I mean they had like a cold handshake I don't understand why Crystal Ball was pissed about that it's the biggest who cares.
27:46
SPEAKER_00: Yeah I mean Miami has for whatever reason I don't know who started donating to Miami.
27:50
SPEAKER_00: Maybe Mike Orvin decided to but they have a ton more money right now than Pitt for whatever reason.
27:57
SPEAKER_01: I don't know why I thought of this but it reminded me of when Tony LaRusso was the Cardinals manager.
28:03
SPEAKER_01: And he used to have this like kind of like uh frosty thing going on with the pirates and used to be like why?
28:11
SPEAKER_01: Why does he even care about the pirates?
28:14
SPEAKER_01: Like we're just we're just like little gnats in the way of his you know dominance that's all that's all Pitt is to Miami right now.
28:22
SPEAKER_01: So you're right what does he even care?
28:24
SPEAKER_01: It's not like they don't have a good quarterback my goodness.
28:27
SPEAKER_00: Yeah yeah and the best the best part is uh in the words of a Jerry Springer guest I want to say don't hate the player hate the game so yeah yeah um you know also uh speaking of Narduzy pissing people off I think we kind of alluded to this uh pit destroyed he said that pit destroyed Georgia Tech season last year and um you know all I can say is you know Lee live by the idiotic statement you died by the idiotic statement I guess that pissed the Georgia Tech coach off I think he's got bigger problems because he's probably not going to be employed next year at Georgia Tech but um blow hard gonna blow hard yeah I mean he's he's turning into like a Heinz ward now it's like who can I who who disrespected me next who can I who can I you know it's like come on man just just stop in this upcoming weekend besides the Robert moo Morrison Duquesne game Tim um the Steelers and Pitt are on a bye.
29:28
SPEAKER_00: What are we gonna do with all our free time this weekend?
29:31
SPEAKER_00: What is your favorite thing to do on a bye week we don't normally don't have both on a bye like this but what is your favorite thing?
29:37
SPEAKER_00: Watch the Robert Morris Duquesne game?
29:39
SPEAKER_00: I don't I don't know what else yeah knit read a book watch the Gilded Age on HBO I I I don't know yeah I um my my favorite um show right now is the diplomat on Netflix but I did finish that season so I'll have to find something else to do well while we're trying to figure out what to do with ourselves this weekend with really no nothing of any interest I guess we could watch like ohio state's probably playing somebody or Michigan or I don't know get up early and watch the Bengals play the Falcons in Spain.
30:14
SPEAKER_00: Woohoo Donde está um donde está su American football team I don't know um so uh thank you for listening everybody uh thanks for tuning in every week um I don't know um we'll be back next time with more fun Pittsburgh sports memories current events