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Hour 1: Recap of Paris · In the Locker Room presented by Neighborhood Ford Store (Pittsburgh Steelers)

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  Speaker 1: This is In the Locker Room with Rob King, Max Starks,
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  Speaker 1: and Willie Colon on Steelers Nation Radio, brought to you
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  Speaker 2: And thank you very much for being with us in
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  Speaker 2: the locker room here on the Steelers Audio Network as
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  Speaker 2: we celebrate, I don't know if it's a victory donut Tuesday.
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  Speaker 2: I guess we just have to forego. You know that
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  Speaker 2: Max Stark's had some beignets or probably. Oh, Max has got, no,
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  Speaker 2: Max has got a, it's like a cruller of some sort.
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  Speaker 3: There, Max.
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  Speaker 4: That's a victory croissant Tuesday, my friend.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, okay, all right.
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  Speaker 3: That is a croissant.
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  Speaker 4: We are still in the Parisian lifestyle. and regaling the
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  Speaker 4: joyous victory over at Stade de France. So I am
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  Speaker 4: having a victory croissant this Tuesday. So that is my
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  Speaker 4: pastry of choice.
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  Speaker 2: I love it. I love it. Willie, I hope you're
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  Speaker 2: doing well on this Tuesday and that you enjoyed this
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  Speaker 2: year's victory in Paris on Sunday. We're leaning in.
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  Speaker 3: I think.
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  Speaker 2: I think he did. He did.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to say he did.
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  Speaker 3: We're going to say he did.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, by the way, uh, one of the biggest reveals
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  Speaker 2: of the trip should mention this right out of the shoot.
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  Speaker 2: Chris Hoke's fluency in French. So Hokey spent a couple
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  Speaker 2: of years in France on a mission trip. That was
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  Speaker 2: his BYU or, uh, BYU for Hokey.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. BYU. Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And, uh, Didn't spend a whole lot of time in Paris,
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  Speaker 2: but spent some time in some outer regions and was
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  Speaker 2: fluent in French. And so it was– you know, when
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  Speaker 2: we really needed him was yesterday at the airport when
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  Speaker 2: we were trying to use the kiosks. Will be no
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  Speaker 2: surprise to anybody who knows me well, and I think
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  Speaker 2: I can include Max in this now that we've worked
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  Speaker 2: together for a while, that technology– Not really good at it.
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  Speaker 2: I'm the last guy to get that passport figured out
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  Speaker 2: and get through those automated passports they have at the
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  Speaker 2: airport now. But they were having problems with it. It
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  Speaker 2: wasn't just me, which I was happy about. By the way,
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  Speaker 2: I can never get the water, the automated water, like
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  Speaker 2: a little soap in the water. Then I'll move to
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  Speaker 2: another faucet, and then some guy will step up, and
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  Speaker 2: the faucet that I was at will work. Now I've
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  Speaker 2: got soap on my hands. I'm going back and forth.
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  Speaker 2: I'm hopeless. I'm hopeless when it comes to technology. But
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  Speaker 2: we were all hopeless. We were all looking around, and
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  Speaker 2: here comes Chris Hoke stepping up, leading us through like
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  Speaker 2: Moses to the promised land, man. Got us through the airport.
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  Speaker 2: If it wasn't for Hokey, we might still be in
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  Speaker 2: Paris right now.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, my goodness.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, so I was with Hokey for a flag football
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  Speaker 4: event at the Eiffel Tower, and I actually reposted it
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  Speaker 4: on my ex-account, MaxDark78.
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  Speaker 3: If anybody wants to know.
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  Speaker 2: I do.
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  Speaker 4: And– And it was showing that, and Hokie was talking
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  Speaker 4: in French on it as we were talking to all
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  Speaker 4: these young flag football youth. And Hokie was in his element.
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  Speaker 4: He was yelling at the kids. He was egging them on,
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  Speaker 4: and then he was cheering them on and getting into
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  Speaker 4: it and just speaking to the moderator. They were talking
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  Speaker 4: in French, and I was just like, whatever Hokie says,
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  Speaker 4: I'm following it. So I just said that, and of course,
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  Speaker 4: He also led me to an amazing boulanger that was
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  Speaker 4: there across from our hotel.
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  Speaker 3: And we had the most amazing pastries.
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  Speaker 4: I had this ham and Swiss quiche and this stuffed
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  Speaker 4: croissant that were just absolutely phenomenal.
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  Speaker 3: He's like, no, you got to go there.
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  Speaker 4: I talked to her on Thursday and she said she
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  Speaker 4: was going to close on Friday because they were baking
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  Speaker 4: all the stuff fresh for Saturday.
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  Speaker 3: I was like, what?
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  Speaker 4: And he goes in there and he's like, Bonjour, bonsoir, bonjour, bonjour.
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  Speaker 4: I was like, I'm with him.
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  Speaker 2: So through the grapevine, that got passed to me. So
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  Speaker 2: it's hard to get a bad meal in France. You
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  Speaker 2: could say that in Paris, I mean. You could say
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  Speaker 2: that about New York City, too. You could say that
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  Speaker 2: about a lot.
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  Speaker 3: Of big cities.
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  Speaker 2: It's hard to get a bad meal. There's competitions too fierce.
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  Speaker 2: They just can't stay in business. But the boulangerie deal...
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  Speaker 2: So we went out. We went to a place across
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  Speaker 2: the street. It was fine. It wasn't unbelievable. It was fine.
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  Speaker 2: But I got two hokey recommended places. So the boulangerie
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  Speaker 2: came down to me via the long group chat that
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  Speaker 2: we all have, the radio group together. And so Saturday night,
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  Speaker 2: I'm working, and it's raining out, and I'm watching my tape,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm getting my notes together, and it's getting to
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  Speaker 2: be like 8 o'clock, and I'm like, I haven't eaten.
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  Speaker 2: I've got to get something to eat. And that boulangerie
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  Speaker 2: was open until 9. That's what I had for dinner.
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  Speaker 2: That long croissant. It wasn't a croissant. Flat French bread. Baguette.
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  Speaker 2: With a little bit of ham and cheese. Not too much.
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  Speaker 3: Not overwhelming.
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  Speaker 2: I housed it. It was phenomenal. And by the way,
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  Speaker 2: our esteemed producer Dan Quinlan and his wife Lauren, we
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  Speaker 2: were walking around on Friday night. That was a work
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  Speaker 2: during the day. Go out Friday, went to Notre Dame
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  Speaker 2: and walked around a little bit to take in some
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  Speaker 2: of the sights. he got a, like a foot long,
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  Speaker 2: but the foot long is on French bread, which is
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  Speaker 2: incredible and stuffed with chicken and tomatoes and mozzarella. Five 50,
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  Speaker 2: five 50. Okay. Let's translate euros into dollars. Six, six bucks.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Six bucks. Um, and you can get yourself filled. You
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  Speaker 2: don't have to, go to the elite French restaurants to
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  Speaker 2: get a great meal there. You know what they do
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  Speaker 2: over there, Willie and Max? Food is important to them.
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  Speaker 2: It's important. So they make it well, and we get
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  Speaker 2: to go over there and eat it. And that was
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  Speaker 2: kind of a– we haven't talked football yet, Willie. We've
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  Speaker 2: just been talking food right now. And Chris Hoke's amazing ability,
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  Speaker 2: his fluency in French, getting us through the airport.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, really? Yeah. Lee Chris Hoke?
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  Speaker 2: The Chris Hoke. The food being good was not a surprise.
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  Speaker 2: Go ahead. The food being good was not a surprise.
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  Speaker 2: The Chris Hoke thing, Max, that got me. I didn't
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  Speaker 2: know that was coming.
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  Speaker 4: I was doing a flag football camp with Hokey and Jermani.
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  Speaker 4: When I tell you, Hokey was talking to every single
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  Speaker 4: human being over there in French.
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  Speaker 3: Laughing and joking and yelling at people.
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  Speaker 4: It was amazing to see. I mean, it was, you know, granted,
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  Speaker 4: I did not know a single word he was saying.
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  Speaker 5: Sure.
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  Speaker 3: But everybody was laughing and was positive. So I was like,
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  Speaker 3: he must be good at this.
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  Speaker 5: So is Hokey, did we not know Hokey's French?
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  Speaker 3: Is Hokey a French name?
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  Speaker 2: No, he did two years of mission work over there.
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  Speaker 3: He was in Belgium and the French region. No way. Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: You think he know a guy?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, you think you know a guy.
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  Speaker 4: He's not only a shoky All-American, he's also a Frenchie.
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  Speaker 6: Man, all this time, I thought Hoke was just some
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  Speaker 6: mountain man from out in Mormon country, just living the
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  Speaker 6: good life, and here he is just dropping French on
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  Speaker 6: folks on a Saturday and a Friday.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 3: The parley boo was Franson.
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  Speaker 5: There you go.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, uh, Willie, what was your overall perceptions? Because obviously
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  Speaker 2: we were there. And I don't know how– I don't
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  Speaker 2: know if you had a chance to see much of it.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously you've got your own stuff going on. But I
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  Speaker 2: would be interested to know what the atmosphere and everything
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  Speaker 2: looked like through the TV. And then just sort of
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  Speaker 2: your general thoughts on the Steelers winning the game.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it was interesting.
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  Speaker 6: So I was actually up– working out when I was
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  Speaker 6: able to turn up the game. So I was able
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  Speaker 6: to get a good poor chunk of the game on,
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  Speaker 6: on the screen before I, you know, attended my other,
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  Speaker 6: my other job.
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  Speaker 5: Nevertheless, man, it looked, it looked like.
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  Speaker 3: A festival, right? Like sometimes I think when.
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  Speaker 6: We watch these teams go overseas to play in whatever country,
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  Speaker 6: it looks like, what can you say?
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  Speaker 5: It looks like, all right, this is an event that's
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  Speaker 5: happening here and whatever.
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  Speaker 6: But this, it felt like I was looking at a
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  Speaker 6: live concert, in France, right? It just looked like a
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  Speaker 6: melody of just two fan bases that both one have
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  Speaker 6: the same colors to some degree. The only thing that
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  Speaker 6: separated the Saints fans from the Steelers fans was obviously
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  Speaker 6: the terrible towels. And seeing a sea of terrible towels
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  Speaker 6: was something I was used to, but it looked.
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  Speaker 5: Massive on TV. It was interesting. People who attended the game,
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  Speaker 5: because I was able to talk since the game. I
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  Speaker 5: was able to talk to two of my buddies. As
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  Speaker 5: you know.
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  Speaker 6: Down here, Mississippi where I'm currently at there's two fan
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  Speaker 6: bases there's three really there's Steelers Saints and Cowboys uh
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  Speaker 6: so I was fortunate enough to talk to two people
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  Speaker 6: who actually went to the game and they said the
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  Speaker 6: Saints fans showed up in droves as well and how
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  Speaker 6: they really immersed you know, obviously the whole French culture
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  Speaker 6: is immersed into the Saints culture, but it was, it
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  Speaker 6: was interesting to see or hear from their eyes, how like,
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  Speaker 6: it felt like one big, like a four day party.
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  Speaker 6: Like the game was just kind of like the cherry
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  Speaker 6: on top, but for like four, three or four days,
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  Speaker 6: four to three days, it just seemed like it was
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  Speaker 6: just one big party and, And the fan base got along.
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  Speaker 6: On TV, it looked like I was watching those. I
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  Speaker 6: don't know if there's an all-access channel where you see
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  Speaker 6: those concerts out in Europe where they'd be waving the
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  Speaker 6: flags in a crowd and everybody's shirtless and they're singing.
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  Speaker 6: It looked like one of those things. And so it
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  Speaker 6: was fun.
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  Speaker 5: It was fun.
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  Speaker 3: It looked like a fun event.
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  Speaker 6: And it's always good when the Steelers– by the way,
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  Speaker 6: I love the Steelers uniforms. I know some people have
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  Speaker 6: some pushback on them.
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  Speaker 5: I loved them. I thought they were great.
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  Speaker 6: I loved the color combination and the fact that the
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  Speaker 6: boys won with them on Just adds extra good juju. Nevertheless, man,
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  Speaker 6: it looked great on TV. It was good to see
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  Speaker 6: old man Rodgers use his wheels. I thought one thing
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  Speaker 6: that happened that was good for the Steelers, still a
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  Speaker 6: nation to see, was that the depth showed up in
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  Speaker 6: this game. That the quality of our depth arose on
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  Speaker 6: both sides of the ball. to see why they have
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  Speaker 6: a great game, to see, you know, because we were
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  Speaker 6: out there at Harmon, you know what I mean? And
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  Speaker 6: we were out some guys to see our depth step up.
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  Speaker 6: And me and Max talked about this all the time.
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  Speaker 6: You know, it's good to see your stars and your
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  Speaker 6: ones play well because they get paid to do so
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  Speaker 6: and they're starters for a reason. But when you see
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  Speaker 6: the quality of depth step up and have an impact
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  Speaker 6: in the game, um I was I was happy to
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  Speaker 6: see that and it was good to see our defensive
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  Speaker 6: line step.
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  Speaker 5: Up too um in a major way and really own
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  Speaker 5: a line.
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  Speaker 6: Of scrimmage I thought both sides of the line our
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  Speaker 6: interior line showed up I thought I often for Tano
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  Speaker 6: and and Max kind of had a little bit of
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  Speaker 6: a spotty day you know sometimes that happens but I
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  Speaker 6: thought our interior of our offensive line played really well
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  Speaker 6: and I thought our defensive line led by Cam Haywood
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  Speaker 6: played really well as well so I was I was
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  Speaker 6: happy with that man and you can't talk enough about
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  Speaker 6: Peyton Wilson. You can't talk about Patrick Wayne had a
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  Speaker 6: big day defensively. And it was good to see, um,
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  Speaker 6: I defense from this standpoint, just like, so I felt
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  Speaker 6: like this, I thought the saints only were able to
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  Speaker 6: capitalize on us when they attacked our structure. It wasn't
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  Speaker 6: guys getting beat one-on-one.
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  Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying?
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  Speaker 5: Does that make sense?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Um, and so that was, that was, that was good
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  Speaker 6: to see, but overall, man, offensively, I feel like we
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  Speaker 6: did what we need to do. It was good to
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  Speaker 6: see DK have some big catches, um, And.
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  Speaker 5: For a game, it was weird.
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  Speaker 6: The Steelers only won by six, but it felt like
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  Speaker 6: they won by more watching it. But overall, man, it
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  Speaker 6: was great momentum because I can't tell you, I say
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  Speaker 6: this with every breath in my body, I want the Browns.
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  Speaker 6: I want the Browns. I want the Browns. I want
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  Speaker 6: the Browns. And I hope every man in the Steelers
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  Speaker 6: helmet feels the same way. Serve me the Browns on
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  Speaker 6: a silver plate with all the gravy because.
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  Speaker 3: I'm ready to eat.
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  Speaker 5: And that's how they should feel going into this week.
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  Speaker 3: I love it.
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  Speaker 2: So here's what we're going to do. We're going to
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  Speaker 2: take a break now. Sorry we got started just a
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  Speaker 2: little bit late. We still want to talk, I think
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  Speaker 2: Max and I particularly, but I was so glad to
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  Speaker 2: hear what Willie had to say about it. We'll just
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  Speaker 2: kind of wrap up the atmosphere there because it was
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  Speaker 2: an historic game. It was the first game ever played
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  Speaker 2: in the country of France in an NFL game. And
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  Speaker 2: the Steelers have now been part of history twice. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: they were the first ever regular season game in Dublin
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  Speaker 2: last year. They were the first ever NFL game in
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  Speaker 2: the country of France this year. And there's some things
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  Speaker 2: to get to. But we also want to talk about
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  Speaker 2: some of the things Willie just laid out as far
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  Speaker 2: as the fine performances. And obviously, we're going to be
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  Speaker 2: spending a lot of time this week getting you ready
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  Speaker 2: for the Cleveland Browns. So more still to come. We
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  Speaker 2: continue in the locker room here on the Steelers Audio Network.
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  Speaker 1: This is In the Locker Room with Rob King, Max Starks,
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  Speaker 1: and Willie Colon on Steelers Nation Radio, brought to you
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  Speaker 1: in part by the Steelers Pro Shop. Get it direct
• 14:00
  Speaker 1: from the team at the Steelers Pro Shop at shop.steelers.com.
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  Speaker 1: And by your neighborhood Ford store. The F-150 is the
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  Speaker 1: official truck of the Pittsburgh Steelers.
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  Speaker 2: And welcome back inside the locker room. And we thank
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  Speaker 2: you very much for being with us. Hope all is well.
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  Speaker 2: And hope you guys are having a great day. We
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  Speaker 2: wanted to talk a little bit about our experience in Paris.
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  Speaker 2: And kind of the analogy that we talked about on
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  Speaker 2: Friday during the show, Max, was that it was, you know,
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  Speaker 2: Dublin's kind of like Pittsburgh. It's smaller. And so, you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's a student's game is an event. Not saying a
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  Speaker 2: Giants game isn't an event in New York City, but
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  Speaker 2: there's so much else going on. It's so much bigger.
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  Speaker 2: And that feeling of excitement you get from the entire
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  Speaker 2: city in a Steelers game felt that way in Dublin.
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  Speaker 2: It didn't really feel that way in Parrish because it's
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  Speaker 2: just such a massive city. But I thought the atmosphere
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  Speaker 2: was fabulous. The speakers in that joint were incredible. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: the sound system, the music they had, the entertainment beforehand.
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  Speaker 2: the anthems for the two countries, everything they did in
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  Speaker 2: that regard, right down to some kind of rodent in
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  Speaker 2: a beret during a commercial breakup on the big screen.
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  Speaker 2: I had no idea what that was all about. But
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  Speaker 2: there was just a lot to– I just thought that
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  Speaker 2: the presentation of the game in stadium was absolutely fantastic.
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  Speaker 3: No, it was an amazing– oh, sorry. No, no, no.
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  Speaker 5: I apologize.
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  Speaker 6: I just want to ask a question for both of
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  Speaker 6: you because I know we kind of walk around in this,
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  Speaker 6: rightfully so, but I just want to be a little
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  Speaker 6: bit of a naughty boy, if you will. Was there
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  Speaker 6: any sights of the riots? Did you guys ever feel
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  Speaker 6: in danger of your lives during that process?
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  Speaker 2: Nope. Let me just say this one more time. It
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  Speaker 2: is a massive city.
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  Speaker 3: Very, very big. Even when.
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  Speaker 2: You know, like if there are riots in smaller cities,
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  Speaker 2: you probably feel it more. If they're downtown and they're
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  Speaker 2: looting and wrecking things, you know, don't go there, right?
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  Speaker 2: That's harder when it's a smaller city. But a big
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  Speaker 2: city like that, first of all, they tell you where
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  Speaker 2: they're going to have their demonstrations. So on Thursday, they
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  Speaker 2: were in the Bastille area. That's where they do it.
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  Speaker 2: And if the police don't want you to do it,
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  Speaker 2: they say, you can't do it. And then they say, okay, well,
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  Speaker 2: we'll go do it somewhere else. Where can we have
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  Speaker 2: our demonstration? There's give and take on it. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it's not as spontaneous as it is in America. And
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  Speaker 2: I think if you're in that area and they're looting
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  Speaker 2: and they're doing things like that, sure, you're worried. Your
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  Speaker 2: storefront's getting smashed.
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  Speaker 3: You're worried.
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  Speaker 2: You're concerned it's going to spill over to you. But
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: by and large, I think it was... And then, you know,
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: on top of that, you know, there's not going to
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: be as much gun violence and that sort of thing.
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: So you're not as worried from that perspective, perhaps, in
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: a country like that because there aren't as many firearms
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: and that sort of stuff if you're somebody that worries
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: about that kind of thing. But largely, Willie, they tell
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: you where they're going to do it and everybody acts accordingly. So,
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: for example, some of the sites, some of the big
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: sites were closed because Like I think Notre Dame was
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: closed on Saturday because that's where the demonstration was. So
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: if you wanted to go to Notre Dame, you do
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: it on Friday. They just close it, you know. So
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: you just simply avoid it, you know. Like, I mean,
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: you're from New York. If there's a demonstration going on
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: in Brooklyn, it doesn't affect you. In Queens, it doesn't
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: affect you. In lower Manhattan, it doesn't affect you. In
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: the Bronx, you know, that's just the way it is.
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: It's a big city like that. And then let's face it.
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: You know, we've seen some unrest in our country, and
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: I think it's a little bit fresh for us. And also,
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: you know, look, I'm a defender of the media because
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: I'm in the media or have been for my whole
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: career and believe it's very important. But what they're going
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: to show you is going to make it look like
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: the whole city is being put to the torch, you know?
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: And that's not accurate either. So there's a lot of
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: things involved. I didn't feel unsafe going over there. And
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: I never felt unsafe for one second.
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: I was there.
• 18:22
  Speaker 6: Well, you know, yeah, I think it was good for
• 18:24
  Speaker 6: our viewers to hear that side from you and Max,
• 18:27
  Speaker 6: because I think going into this game, there was so
• 18:29
  Speaker 6: much talk about, you know, the safety, the unrest, what
• 18:33
  Speaker 6: does the city look like, the conditions, the political atmosphere,
• 18:37
  Speaker 6: how bad was it? There were so many questions diving
• 18:39
  Speaker 6: into this game and the NFL itself was put into
• 18:41
  Speaker 6: question on like, how are you sending our boys to,
• 18:44
  Speaker 6: you know, historic teams to some degree, um, on center
• 18:48
  Speaker 6: stage when the city, you know, through the TV, through
• 18:51
  Speaker 6: the television screen looks like the, you know, France is
• 18:54
  Speaker 6: on fire.
• 18:55
  Speaker 5: So it was good. It's good to hear that side
• 18:56
  Speaker 5: of it. And it's good to hear. Like I said,
• 18:58
  Speaker 5: I've talked to people.
• 19:00
  Speaker 6: Who attended game who attended the game and they said,
• 19:03
  Speaker 6: you know, it was, it was fine.
• 19:04
  Speaker 5: They didn't really see or hear anything or, or felt
• 19:07
  Speaker 5: like they, you know, there was trouble that was lurking close.
• 19:11
  Speaker 6: So it was good to hear that all as well,
• 19:13
  Speaker 6: considering that Roger Goodell since the game has said he
• 19:15
  Speaker 6: wants to expand, into other countries.
• 19:18
  Speaker 5: So it's good that things are going well overseas.
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: Max, do you feel the same way? Just not, it never,
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: and you know, look, I've traveled a lot too. I've
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: been fortunate enough to travel a lot. It's something that's
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: important to me to travel. And for anybody that's traveling
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: anywhere internationally, if you haven't traveled a lot, use your head.
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: You know what I mean? Like, you have more, this
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: isn't a guarantee of success, but you have more concerns
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: at two o'clock in the morning than you do at
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: two o'clock in the afternoon.
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: You do.
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: You have more concerns around tourist areas. Watch yourself. A
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: lot of pickpocketing and things like that going on in
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: a lot of these sites in European countries. You have
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: to be very careful. Have your head in a swivel,
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: that sort of thing. I'm not saying that any city,
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: New York City, you go in the wrong place. Even
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: if you don't go in the wrong place. You know,
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: any city, there could be issues. Just be cognizant of
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: those issues if you're traveling. But I've traveled enough that
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: I just wasn't, it didn't, I wasn't concerned about it
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: going over. And I never saw anything that would have
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: concerned me while I was there.
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: I sat at the Trocadero, top of the stairs, robbed.
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: At about 12.30 a.m. the night before our game, staring
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: at the Eiffel Tower. No issues. Like, that's the epitome
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: of it. I mean, there was not a single thing.
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: I know that at one point when I was.
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: On the train, because I took the train right from
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: where we were in.
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: Etoile all the way out to Val d'Europe to.
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: Varney Chessie to park Disneyland, right? Which is Disneyland Paris.
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: No issues. One stop got skipped. The Charles de Gaulle
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: stop got, got skipped. That was it. Like I didn't,
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: I didn't see anything. I didn't feel anything.
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: I know that the demonstrations on Saturday were about six
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: miles South of where we were. And yes, it was
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: a hundred thousand people, but once again, You know, if
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: you if you know, because it's preplanned, you have to
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: get accepted by the city council where you could demonstrate
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: like you explained. The police and the city council say
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: yes or no, where you are allowed to go and
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: where you're not allowed to go. It's not V for
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: Vendetta popping up like people just show up in masks
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: and all of a sudden start looting and rioting.
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: So, yeah, it was just it was it was a non-issue.
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: the entire time I was there, you know, and I
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: felt him.
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: We walked around, you know, together, and, yeah, I didn't
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: feel it, didn't even sense it.
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: So I got to tell you guys something. So last
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: year after the game in Dublin at Croke Park, my
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: family was over there. And so it was my, sorry, Schaefer,
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: junior club reporter for the locker room was not there.
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: But my daughter was there. She flew over from Scotland.
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: My wife was there. My wife's sister was there. So
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: we left Croke Park. And we're following their on-foot directions
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: to walk back into the city. And we're going to
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: go out and we're going to go out to dinner.
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: And they took us through this little neighborhood. And my
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: antenna went up immediately. I'm like, this is not the
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: part of Dublin we want to be in at all.
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: And my daughter's looking around. Oh, look at this. I'm like, Cooper,
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: keep your head down and keep walking. So we walked through.
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: It was only like three blocks. But I'm like, let's go, people.
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: This is a bad. We got bad directions here. So
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: that night we're in a cab and we're talking to
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: the cabbie about, hey, where do you, you know, where
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: are the places that you would avoid, you know? And,
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: you know, Temple Bar late at night, you know, that
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: kind of thing. And he goes, yeah, there's this one
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: little place, you know, there's this bar called Nocturse. And
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: I'm like, man, we walked right by, right by that place, man.
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: And we just kept on going. We hit the one
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: area that you couldn't go to. We walked right down
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: the middle of it.
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: So.
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: You know, again, if you're going, man, just be careful
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: and be cognizant of where you're going and what you're doing.
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: I will say this, just to get back, and thank
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: you for asking, Willie. And I know a lot of
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: people are concerned about that, and there was a lot
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: of attention on the NFL for that. But, Max, the entertainment,
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: the sound systems, like I said, the anthems, everything they
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: did in stadium. That sound system was rocking, man. Whoa.
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: Everything they did within the stadium was absolutely amazing. first class,
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: as far as the presentation of the game itself. That's
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: the way it felt to me, Max.
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, it was a world-class stadium.
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: I mean, you see why that stadium was.
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: Built for World Cup, and it's a national stadium, and
• 24:06
  Speaker 4: it was just phenomenal. I mean, the entrance, the egress,
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: everything was smooth, beautiful venue, and like you said, I mean,
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: that sound system, it was like piping to the top,
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: so it actually reminded me When we were at Highmark,
• 24:21
  Speaker 4: remember Buffalo, when Buffalo opened?
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: We were up there for the preseason game.
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: Similar sound system where the speakers are all right up there,
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: capping those canopies, cover just the seating area, and then
• 24:35
  Speaker 4: it opens up for the field. And they had the
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: speakers lined around the top, so everything was just right there.
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: The sound penetrated. You felt like you were immersed in
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: the stadium. And then, of course, like you said, having, like,
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: A second line band and a jazz band from New
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: Orleans playing in there gave you the party festival atmosphere.
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: Their DJ that they brought in from New Orleans had
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: the tunes rocking. I was singing every single song because
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: it was all of my era.
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: Willie, you would have been proud.
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: I mean, they was playing every type of 90s to
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: early 2000s cash money, no.
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: Limit records hits.
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: In there, I was like, man, I was bobbing my head,
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: dancing up and down the steps. I had the ESPN
• 25:21
  Speaker 4: guys yelling at me, like, hey, Max, man, watch your step, man.
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: We don't want you to fall. I'm like, nah, I
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: got this. I got this.
• 25:27
  Speaker 5: You ain't going to stop.
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: Me from rocking Juvenile right now and Mystical.
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 25:34
  Speaker 6: So it sounds like we're in alignment. I'm telling you,
• 25:36
  Speaker 6: on TV, it looked like a big, big party. It
• 25:39
  Speaker 6: looked like a festival. Like I said, so it's good
• 25:42
  Speaker 6: that you're saying it, and I saw it in the
• 25:44
  Speaker 6: same frame, because I think if you're starting to expand
• 25:49
  Speaker 6: the game internationally, you have to give the fans something
• 25:53
  Speaker 6: to say, you know what, I want to be a
• 25:54
  Speaker 6: part of that. Because, yeah, the game, and that's good.
• 25:58
  Speaker 6: You want to go support your respective team. But you
• 26:02
  Speaker 6: also want to be a part of something that you say, man,
• 26:05
  Speaker 6: I was in Tokyo when the Bills played the Niners
• 26:08
  Speaker 6: and the game was da-da-da-da-da. But, you know, the city
• 26:11
  Speaker 6: itself was rocking. You want the experience to be bigger
• 26:15
  Speaker 6: than the game. And that's the way it looked like
• 26:17
  Speaker 6: on TV, and it's good that you guys We're able
• 26:20
  Speaker 6: to share those same memories and thoughts.
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: So I got to go back about 40 years before
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: Max on the music front. But if I could sum
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: up quickly my– and this is not universal, of course.
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: You like what you like, right? But the difference between, like,
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: R & B and funk is, to me, the difference
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: between Hey Pocky Way by the Neville Brothers– and Hey
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: Pocky Way by the Wild Chapatulas. A couple of the
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: Neville brothers were in the Wild Chapatulas, and they played
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: the Wild Chapatulas. I was a happy guy. They played
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: the Wild Chapatulas version of Hey Pocky Way. So that's it.
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: So Max was happy. I was happy. Everybody was happy.
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: That's awesome.
• 27:09
  Speaker 5: I'm glad.
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: Good stuff.
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they had.
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: Something for everybody in between. So, yeah, and I'll say this, Willie. Yeah,
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: it created– I'm.
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: Glad because it felt like a FOMO type of deal, right,
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: when I was talking to people.
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: Like, man, you're over there, you know, and then even
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: just coming back, like, um, my daughter's had a volleyball
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: clinic and I had some of my Paris gear on
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: because I was a walking zombie yesterday.
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: Cause it was, it was, you know, it was an
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: eight hour time zone difference.
• 27:36
  Speaker 4: And I was, I was, I was, I was traveling
• 27:39
  Speaker 4: for 14 hours.
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: So I was, I was a whole, I was like,
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: this is the only thing I have. I know that's clean.
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: Cause I'm still wearing it.
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: Um, Oh, my God, man, we saw it because they
• 27:50
  Speaker 4: had it on because, you know, it was on at
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: 630 a.m. You know, local time in Arizona and they
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: had it on in the gym.
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: There was it, man.
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: It looked like a party over there. So what you're
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: saying was truly true about that. Man, I wish I
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: would have been there. Like it created that FOMO. So
• 28:06
  Speaker 4: like you said, opening new venues, you want to create
• 28:11
  Speaker 4: that environment.
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: You want to.
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: Encapsulate that like what we had in Ireland. how that
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: was just a big affair. And you felt like if
• 28:17
  Speaker 4: you were a Steeler fan, you missed out because you weren't.
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: In Ireland because everybody else was there in Ireland, it
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: felt like. And the same thing here in Paris. So
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: two years in a row you have that FOMO type
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: of atmosphere.
• 28:28
  Speaker 4: So I think it makes it even more of a
• 28:32
  Speaker 4: fun time to make sure that you're just like, okay,
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: we've got to get there next year.
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: From what I could tell, Saints fans and Steelers fans
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: got along great. I thought the Saints fans were fabulous.
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: There was a bunch of them in our hotel. And
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: by the way, our buddy Matt Williamson has a lot
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: of good things to say about Tyler Shuck. And watching
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: him on video, you can see why. If he can
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: limit the mistakes a little bit, he's got all the
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: talent he needs. I'll tell you what. I think I'm
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: going to go on early record. The Browns are my
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: comeback team this year. I'm going on early record and
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: saying if they make a couple of moves, the Saints
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: are going to be a handful next year. They're going
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: to get their left tackle back. They're going to get
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: two other starting offensive linemen back. They're going to get
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: A-Chan back at running back. They're going to get Jordan
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: Tyson at wide receiver. They shore up, maybe give me
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: one offensive lineman in the middle, and then you've got
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: to do something about that defense. But if you could
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: get one guy in the middle of that offensive line
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: and then go out on free agency and sign three
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: or four guys, I think the Saints could be– I
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: think they could be a handful next year.
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely.
• 29:40
  Speaker 6: I don't think anybody is going to second guess or
• 29:43
  Speaker 6: challenge that thought process at all because I said that
• 29:47
  Speaker 6: watching them last year when they were down in the
• 29:49
  Speaker 6: dumps and how they responded the last five years of
• 29:51
  Speaker 6: the season going into this season, going into Baltimore and
• 29:54
  Speaker 6: winning in Baltimore in the fashion they wanted in a
• 29:57
  Speaker 6: scrappy fashion.
• 29:58
  Speaker 5: Showing up in the fourth quarter of that game.
• 30:00
  Speaker 6: And then, yes, as of late, they've just been in
• 30:03
  Speaker 6: some dogfights, and to your point, they've lost because of
• 30:07
  Speaker 6: some self-inflicted wounds. But when you look at the skeleton
• 30:10
  Speaker 6: of how that team's built and the fact that nobody
• 30:12
  Speaker 6: knew who the hell Tyler Shuck was, and not only
• 30:15
  Speaker 6: do people feel they have, like he's the guy for
• 30:18
  Speaker 6: the job, you can see the ceiling, right?
• 30:20
  Speaker 5: You know there's a high ceiling with this dude.
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: I agree.
• 30:22
  Speaker 6: Now you start building around him.
• 30:25
  Speaker 5: Now you're saying hold up.
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: Oh, there you go.
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: You're back, Willie. We lost you for a second.
• 30:30
  Speaker 5: I'm sorry. Overall, you start to look at this team differently.
• 30:36
  Speaker 6: I think it starts with the quarterback. I know there's
• 30:38
  Speaker 6: been some rumblings about Kellen Moore, if he's the guy,
• 30:41
  Speaker 6: if he's not the guy.
• 30:42
  Speaker 5: Everybody breathe.
• 30:44
  Speaker 6: Can we stop with being in this It's different here.
• 30:47
  Speaker 6: It's different in New York because there's legitimate questions about
• 30:50
  Speaker 6: Aaron Glenn. But around the league, anytime a coach or
• 30:52
  Speaker 6: a team goes through a dry spell, meaning they're not
• 30:55
  Speaker 6: winning games consistently, but they're still competitive, it's not a
• 30:59
  Speaker 6: calling to fire a head coach.
• 31:00
  Speaker 5: You get what I'm saying? Football is a hard game
• 31:03
  Speaker 5: to be successful at. It's a tough team sport. You
• 31:06
  Speaker 5: watched the Eagles and Cowboys last year. Excuse me. I apologize.
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: Last night.
• 31:11
  Speaker 6: And you look at the Eagles injury report. It was
• 31:15
  Speaker 6: as long as the, as a damn Denny's menu.
• 31:17
  Speaker 5: So you have to, you have to, we have to like,
• 31:21
  Speaker 5: I don't know where this came from or when it
• 31:24
  Speaker 5: started that every time a.
• 31:25
  Speaker 6: Team goes through a patch where it's just bad football.
• 31:28
  Speaker 6: And then sometimes you're just going to go against an
• 31:30
  Speaker 6: opposition that's better than you. But when you look at
• 31:32
  Speaker 6: a team fighting and scrapping and getting mature and growing
• 31:35
  Speaker 6: maturity gas games go on and, You start to see
• 31:38
  Speaker 6: positive things.
• 31:39
  Speaker 5: Support the team and support the coach. Stop dumping coaches
• 31:42
  Speaker 5: thinking a new one is going to save the day.
• 31:43
  Speaker 5: It's not always the case. Does it happen?
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: Sure.
• 31:46
  Speaker 5: Not everybody's Ben Johnson, by the way. Just not.
• 31:50
  Speaker 6: I hate that we, in the sports media world, we
• 31:54
  Speaker 6: see a coach that don't have early success.
• 31:58
  Speaker 3: Fire him.
• 31:58
  Speaker 6: Let's get a new guy in there. It's hard to
• 32:00
  Speaker 6: get a new coach and a new coach who's right
• 32:02
  Speaker 6: for the job and for the city. So we've got
• 32:04
  Speaker 6: to breathe a little bit. So I think Kellen Moore
• 32:06
  Speaker 6: is going to be fine. I hope he's fine down there.
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: For every Vince Lombardi that comes in and makes– or
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: Ben Johnson that makes an immediate impact, there's also a
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: Bill Parcells and a Jimmy Johnson, a couple guys who
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: are in Canton who had early struggles in their careers.
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: So well put, Max.
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: Correct, correct.
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: All right, stick around. We have Willie.
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: I beg your pardon. Well put, Willie.
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: I think Max and I are still a little dazed.
• 32:27
  Speaker 5: From our trip overseas.
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: We'll be back at full speed tomorrow, but we have
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  Speaker 2: much to talk about. I think Willie laid out a
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  Speaker 2: really good idea of who we want to talk about
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  Speaker 2: in this game. We're going to get to that when
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  Speaker 2: we continue in the locker room here on the Steelers
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  Speaker 1: This is in the locker room with Rob King, Max Starks,
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  Speaker 2: And welcome back inside the locker room. You know, um,
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  Speaker 2: You've got to admire. Sometimes you just have to give
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  Speaker 2: a shout-out. This one goes to the aforementioned junior cub reporter,
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  Speaker 2: Schaefer King, not part of the Ireland trip last year,
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  Speaker 2: but unselfishly bringing to my attention the fact that Quentin
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  Speaker 2: Nelson has been traded from the Colts to the Seahawks.
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  Speaker 2: That is a big move. Yeah. How about that?
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  Speaker 4: Wild.
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  Speaker 2: That's a big trade.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, when you think about this, think about where
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  Speaker 4: they were a year ago and all the picks they
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  Speaker 4: traded to the Jets for Sauce.
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  Speaker 3: Gardner, right? They were all in.
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  Speaker 4: And now you get to the midpoint of a year later,
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  Speaker 4: similar timeframe, and you're unloading, I mean, essentially your best
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  Speaker 4: offensive lineman and sending them to the defending Super Bowl
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  Speaker 4: champions who just had a resounding victory in beat the
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  Speaker 4: crap out of the kansas city chiefs.
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  Speaker 3: The rich got richer and indianapolis has thrown up the
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  Speaker 3: white flag once.
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  Speaker 6: Again well the where the reality of it is they
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  Speaker 6: realize the only form of offense they have is sam
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  Speaker 6: donald to jsn and what helped them win that super
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  Speaker 6: bowl last year wasn't Valley, he was an impact player,
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  Speaker 6: and he was absolutely outstanding. But what stabilized that offense
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  Speaker 6: was the run game with Kenneth Walker. They've struggled to
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  Speaker 6: run the ball, and part of that offensive line is they've.
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  Speaker 5: Had their issues.
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  Speaker 6: So getting a consistent run game as you start to
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  Speaker 6: build momentum into these later months, man, they don't want
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  Speaker 6: Sam Donald throwing.
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  Speaker 5: The ball 40.
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  Speaker 6: He's capable of it, right, but they understand– Some of
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  Speaker 6: his recent turnovers or the fact that he's been able
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  Speaker 6: to turn over the ball consecutively in back to back
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  Speaker 6: games is the fact they don't have a run game
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  Speaker 6: that can propel the offense. And so so much of
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  Speaker 6: him sitting in the well, having to dictate and decide
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  Speaker 6: where to put the football. And they realize, like, man,
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  Speaker 6: we got to take some of those bricks off his shoulders.
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  Speaker 6: If we plan on getting back, we have a championship.
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  Speaker 6: We have a championship defense and we have championship DNA
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  Speaker 6: on this team. JSN is an outstanding player, but he
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  Speaker 6: can't be the end-all, be-all.
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  Speaker 5: For that Seahawks offense. So they realize, hey, man, we
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  Speaker 5: got to attack the line.
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  Speaker 6: We got to add some more beef, some high-quality beef, and.
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  Speaker 5: We got to figure out how we can.
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  Speaker 3: Run the ball.
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  Speaker 6: Because they're also preying on Zach Charbonnet to get back
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  Speaker 6: to what he was.
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  Speaker 3: That's right.
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  Speaker 6: Obviously, he's coming off of ACL. And then the kid,
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  Speaker 6: Darion Price, I think he's dinged up as well. So
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  Speaker 6: they realize, like, man, we got to show up this
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  Speaker 6: office line. We got to get our run game back.
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  Speaker 6: We got to take some of these bricks off Sam
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  Speaker 6: Donald's shoulders, still feed GSN, but we need more balance
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  Speaker 6: on this offense. So Quentin Nelson obviously adds that, uh,
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  Speaker 6: I can't, I can't, I can't, I'm a little disturbed because,
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  Speaker 6: you know, part of my Jets heart was hoping that
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  Speaker 6: he could have landed on the Jets, uh, and help
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  Speaker 6: that office in line. But nevertheless, man, good for Quentin Nelson.
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  Speaker 6: He's going to a winner. Um, and he deserves it.
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  Speaker 6: He's been playing on a high level for a long time.
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  Speaker 2: So I, let me, um, uh, As Max is well aware, Willie,
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  Speaker 2: the term draft capital is banned in the locker room.
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  Speaker 2: They're draft picks, man. They're draft picks. God, that just
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  Speaker 2: drives me bananas, man.
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  Speaker 3: Draft capital. Come on, man.
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  Speaker 2: Draft picks. They get a third and a fifth. A
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  Speaker 2: third next year and a fifth the following year for
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  Speaker 2: a guy who is, I think he's headed to the
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  Speaker 2: Hall of Fame.
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  Speaker 3: Max, agreed? Yeah, agreed. Agreed.
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  Speaker 4: I think he's put together a hell of a career. And,
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  Speaker 4: you know, he could have a nice capstone in Seattle. And,
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  Speaker 4: you know, for third, for next year, and then, like
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  Speaker 4: you said, the following year, that's nothing at this point
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  Speaker 4: in the year to get a guy.
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  Speaker 3: Of his ilk. Yep.
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  Speaker 2: That's a big pickup. Which kind of leads me to
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  Speaker 2: one of the subjects that I wanted to ask you
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  Speaker 2: guys about. You know, you see this coming sometimes. And
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  Speaker 2: it's fun when it's one of your guys. Wait a minute.
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  Speaker 2: Can I make a quick aside here before this preamble?
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  Speaker 2: What's wrong with inside linebacker? Why do we have to
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  Speaker 2: call them off-ball linebackers?
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  Speaker 3: Why is that?
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  Speaker 5: I'm so happy you said that. I don't know, Rob.
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  Speaker 5: And I'm glad.
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  Speaker 6: You called it out because we have grown to really
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  Speaker 6: rephrase and kind of I don't know if– and, Max,
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  Speaker 6: maybe you're more in-depth in it.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know if that affects the contract for a guy,
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  Speaker 5: you know.
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  Speaker 6: Because, you know, some guys– I remember the biggest thing
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  Speaker 6: was going from defensive end to edge rusher was a
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  Speaker 6: big thing compared to how you– you know what I mean?
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  Speaker 6: So I don't know if that's a thing. Because at
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  Speaker 6: the end of the day, it's an inside linebacker.
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  Speaker 5: It's not an off-ball linebacker. It's an inside linebacker.
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  Speaker 3: That's right.
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  Speaker 5: I'm glad you called that out, bro.
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  Speaker 2: That one bugs me. I got a few of them
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  Speaker 2: that drive me nuts. Draft capital, the draft picks are fine.
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  Speaker 2: Should we banish off-ball linebacker from the locker room? We
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  Speaker 2: have a triumvirate right now. Should we agree right now?
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  Speaker 3: I'm fine with banishing it.
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  Speaker 4: It's more of a combine thing, separator, because, like you said,
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  Speaker 4: you made the designation of the outside linebackers down edge rusher, right?
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  Speaker 3: But that's in 3-4.
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  Speaker 4: Because an outside linebacker is still your Sam and your
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  Speaker 4: Wills in a 4-3 structure. But obviously we don't see
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  Speaker 4: as much 4-3. So now to distinguish the on-the-ball outside
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  Speaker 4: linebacker versus the off-the-ball outside linebacker, 3-4 versus 4-3, that's
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  Speaker 4: why they're just trying to make it dumber or easier
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  Speaker 4: when it comes to combine metrics, which then said, oh,
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  Speaker 4: if we're going to change it at the combine– Let's
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  Speaker 4: change it in the negotiating language of a contract.
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  Speaker 3: The guy who plays closer to the line of scrimmage.
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  Speaker 4: Makes more versus the guy that plays further from the
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  Speaker 4: line of scrimmage.
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  Speaker 3: Okay. Yeah, that's a good point. So that's where you
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  Speaker 3: got it.
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  Speaker 2: Are we tabling the vote or are we ready to vote?
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  Speaker 2: Want to table it?
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  Speaker 3: No, we're ready to vote. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: All in favor of banishing off-the-ball linebacker inside the locker room,
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  Speaker 2: say aye.
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  Speaker 3: Aye. Aye.
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: Banished. Finished.
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  Speaker 2: Draft capital, off-the-ball linebacker, out.
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  Speaker 3: In?
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  Speaker 2: A guy who's getting attention as maybe one of the
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  Speaker 2: best at his position in the NFL. We're going to
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  Speaker 2: talk about that when we continue in the locker room
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  Speaker 2: here on the Steelers Audio Network.