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Colts-Steelers Preview with Sam Frick (2.74.1) · The Central Indiana Sports Report

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  [SPEAKER_00]: You are listening to the Colter Report with Sam Frick, only on the Central Indiana Sports Report.
• 0:12
  [SPEAKER_00]: Hey, Colter fans, welcome back to the Central Indiana Sports Report for a special edition of the Colter Report with Sam Frick.
• 0:20
  [SPEAKER_00]: Sam and I are here to preview the, I don't know, Sam, maybe the biggest game of the year so far.
• 0:28
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's hard, it's tough to say, because I think we're gonna get some tough games coming up soon, but up to this point, I think Pittsburgh would be seeing as a, I would call it a marquee game.
• 0:36
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think that would be the best way to put it.
• 0:37
  [SPEAKER_00]: Marquee games.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I think at the end Los Angeles against the chargers was also big, but wins and Pittsburgh are so rare.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And when you're seven and one, if you can go into Pittsburgh and win that game, it's something else.
• 0:51
  [SPEAKER_00]: Welcome in Sam Frick of A and E.C.
• 0:53
  [SPEAKER_00]: sports.
• 0:55
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, big one.
• 0:58
  [SPEAKER_01]: When it's the last time we won a Pittsburgh, I just, it's been a while, hasn't it?
• 1:02
  [SPEAKER_00]: Colts of last win in Pittsburgh, Sam was November 9th, 2008, 24 to 20 with Peyton Manning.
• 1:12
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's a big game because you're playing against Aaron Rogers, it got a Corvette that has.
• 1:17
  [SPEAKER_01]: We have some trouble.
• 1:17
  [SPEAKER_01]: We've had issues at times that his career against Aaron Rogers, obviously he's nowhere near the Corvette that he was during his prime in Green Bay, but still
• 1:26
  [SPEAKER_01]: he still has a little, he does show some signs at times and then obviously you got the terrible towels, the atmosphere and Pittsburgh.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It's a, it's a tough place to play going to Pittsburgh and it's the Steelers and historically they're known for having a really good defense and a powerful run game.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Now, if you watch the Steelers Gregg, it's very notable that the Steelers look,
• 1:47
  [SPEAKER_01]: I don't want to say they're old, but they kind of play like a really old football team prefer to be honest.
• 1:52
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
• 1:53
  [SPEAKER_01]: They're nowhere near as explosive as they've been the past.
• 1:56
  [SPEAKER_01]: And I'll be honest, you'd read the defense didn't look all that special against Green Bay last week, and then they lost to the Packers of I recall, and I thought the defense was nothing special whatsoever.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So I think it's a winnable game for us coming in.
• 2:10
  [SPEAKER_01]: Obviously, we're going to have to
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  [SPEAKER_01]: do what we do best in knocked on the ball over, but I think we have a chance to win this game.
• 2:15
  [SPEAKER_01]: And to me, I think at this point when you're a coldspin and we've been suffering through disappointment for as long as we've had the past few years, I think that chance is more than enough for me to take going into Pittsburgh in a hostile environment.
• 2:28
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, my hesitation is that it's at Pittsburgh and not just hard for the colds to win, but for anybody to win.
• 2:35
  [SPEAKER_00]: But I do think the Colts are gonna win this game.
• 2:38
  [SPEAKER_00]: We'll make our predictions at the end Sam.
• 2:40
  [SPEAKER_00]: I do think that they're gonna win this game.
• 2:42
  [SPEAKER_00]: Here's how about it's been for the Colts in Pittsburgh, Sam.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: On September 29th, 1968, perhaps the best Colts team in history with Johnny Udnidus, one in Pittsburgh, and then Peyton Manning did it on November 9th, 2008.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That's it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: two and 17 all time in Pittsburgh one win as the Indianapolis Colts in Pittsburgh.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and that don't count the postseason games too, right?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I don't think they've ever played a postseason game in Pittsburgh.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I think they did, because wasn't that when they had John, was it hardball?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: No, not hardball, but um, let's
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Even in the 90s, they played in Pittsburgh for a while.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Or again, one game, you're right.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Absolutely right.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: One game.
• 3:25
  [SPEAKER_00]: I've completely forgot about that.
• 3:27
  [SPEAKER_00]: I believe the cults led that game early.
• 3:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: And then if I'm not mistaken, the Steelers may be scored 35 consecutive points.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Jerome Bettis.
• 3:36
  [SPEAKER_00]: I completely forgot about that one.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: See, that was just the fifth playoff game for the Indianapolis cult.
• 3:45
  [SPEAKER_01]: Because I think that was right before we start
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It was kind of the beginning of the end for the Jim Harbock Colts and the beginning for the greatest era in Cold History without a doubt.
• 4:00
  [SPEAKER_00]: And then of course, perhaps, I don't even know if there's a perhaps, the most heartbreaking loss in Cold History came to the Pittsburgh Steelers at home in 2005.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You know that show America's game Super Bowl champions,
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I believe so.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I've obsessed with that show.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I've watched every single one of them except for the particular game 2005 Pittsburgh Steelers.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I cannot bring myself.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: to watch that.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That was, that was the one that should have, don't get me started on resting players too early because it was obvious what was happening and it happened in real time and it was agonizing when they were by far the best team in the NFL.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Anyway, let's get back on this game.
• 4:43
  [SPEAKER_00]: You talked about the sealers not being very good.
• 4:46
  [SPEAKER_00]: They have not looked very good lately for sure.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The defense, they've got a couple of Hall of Famers clearly on
• 4:56
  [SPEAKER_00]: Not as great as me, Joe Green, but probably the second greatest stealers, defensive tackle of all time, and then, of course, JJ, what defensive end is a once in a lifetime for a franchise type player, but the rest of that defense is not very good, and the cult's blocking has been so good.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm barely worried about what in Hayward.
• 5:19
  [SPEAKER_01]: Crazy enough, I agree with you, but me, if you take a walk in the hayward, I mean, the Steelers defense is very beatable.
• 5:25
  [SPEAKER_01]: I, I, I, I, I feel like to me as long as we keep walk in hayward and mostly in shed, Daniel Jones should still do decent against the Steelers.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm not too worried about.
• 5:36
  [SPEAKER_01]: the offense, I think against the stairs.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm a little bit concerned about on the defense aside.
• 5:41
  [SPEAKER_01]: And I think our run defense is going to be, is going to be challenged in this game.
• 5:45
  [SPEAKER_01]: And I think that's where the home field advantage could be a problem on paper because the Steelers, they're that old school pound the rock type with football team.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: They're not known for being in its most capacity team.
• 5:56
  [SPEAKER_01]: They win their deems to the trenches traditionally speaking.
• 5:59
  [SPEAKER_01]: And so I worry about the the talent of front is a little is a little concerning for me on paper, but obviously if we can at least contain the run, I feel like we can at least dip Aaron Rogers a little bit of trouble in the passing game.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: But again, the defense to me, I think it's going to be the biggest question mark in the other thing, too, is staying, staying disappointed.
• 6:20
  [SPEAKER_01]: We can not allow these dealers to extend drives because of silly penalties.
• 6:26
  [SPEAKER_00]: Hey Sam, more good news for your cults, Jalen Jones, appears to be back full-partism and practice off of the IR, looks like Kenny Moore and Knit Cross.
• 6:39
  [SPEAKER_00]: They're both on the injured list, but I'm guessing they'll both continue to play.
• 6:44
  [SPEAKER_00]: And that secondary that has the makings of being something special is finally starting to get to play all together, it looks like.
• 6:51
  [SPEAKER_01]: That is huge, Brad, because we're seven or one, but we've been dealing with injuries in our secondary for quite a while now.
• 6:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: So having a healthy secondary, at least, now that we got the most of the guys back if not all the guys back in the secondary, I think that's huge, because that puts a lot of pressure off of the backs of our defensive front.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: That is for sure.
• 7:12
  [SPEAKER_00]: I was starting to really like Jalen Jones last year and it was a real bummer seeing him get injured
• 7:21
  [SPEAKER_00]: Ward and buy them in the offseason, you thought this could be a really good defense backfield after really struggling last year.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Although they did kind of overachieve as a defensive backfield last year because of Jalen Jones, I thought, can he more, of course, is a main stay there.
• 7:37
  [SPEAKER_00]: But it's turned into a real strength of that defense.
• 7:39
  [SPEAKER_00]: And if we talked about, if you can get a pass rush on the other end of that, and you combine that with the offense.
• 7:45
  [SPEAKER_00]: And then you're talking about a team that is good as anybody.
• 7:50
  [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, yeah.
• 7:51
  [SPEAKER_01]: That is for sure.
• 7:51
  [SPEAKER_01]: And again, I know I've been saying this over and over again, but if we can just make a little bit of upgrade of fraud, I think the defense can be just as good as anybody in the NFL.
• 8:00
  [SPEAKER_01]: I know it sounds like a hot take, but our defensive backfield's got a lot of potentials just right now we've been dealing with injuries all this time.
• 8:07
  [SPEAKER_01]: We haven't had a consistent lineup in that back there for a while now that we got pretty much everybody back there, that's huge for us.
• 8:15
  [SPEAKER_01]: as it holds defense to at least have the playmakers to create some frustration against the athletes of Pittsburgh, which let's let's we haven't talked about the wide receivers of Pittsburgh too.
• 8:25
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's a pretty decent wide receiver troop in Pittsburgh.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So as Rogers is not the quarterback he wants was, you still got some talent in some skills position as well.
• 8:34
  [SPEAKER_01]: So having a healthy defense of backfield, I think is pretty big.
• 8:41
  [SPEAKER_00]: Concern for me against the Steelers is being able to stop the run.
• 8:43
  [SPEAKER_00]: I know that they haven't succeeded that well in the run this year, but they're capable and I think the cults have not been tested that much because they've gotten out to big leads with the run.
• 8:58
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think their numbers are a little deceiving because the offense is getting them big leads and making other offenses kind of adjust what they're doing.
• 9:12
  [SPEAKER_00]: We're really critical of them, but when it comes down to it, the cults are a, listen, this is crazy Sam.
• 9:16
  [SPEAKER_00]: I know you know this number, but it's insane.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The cults are have a plus 116 point differential this year.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Second most in the league is 83.
• 9:26
  [SPEAKER_00]: That's the chiefs.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Next is the Patriots is 67.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: More than 50 points, more than the third most in the league.
• 9:36
  [SPEAKER_00]: That's just incredible.
• 9:38
  [SPEAKER_01]: But that's just how explosive our offense has been this year.
• 9:40
  [SPEAKER_01]: We've had a career season from Daniel Jones and honestly Jonathan Taylor's having a career season as well.
• 9:46
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think the other part too, but we mentioned this earlier, but our defense is in the top 10 in the lead in terms of takeaways.
• 9:52
  [SPEAKER_01]: So that also helps with our offense having a high point differential as well.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: That's going to be a challenge against this Pittsburgh team though.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: 34 more points scored than any other team in the league as well.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And the Steelers typically are pretty stingy.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They've scored 175 and given up 175 this year.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And it's weird to say about the Steelers under Mike Tomlin, but this is a pretty average Steelers team.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Very pedestrian.
• 10:21
  [SPEAKER_01]: That is for sure.
• 10:22
  [SPEAKER_01]: They are very average.
• 10:28
  [SPEAKER_00]: Alright Sam, let's take a quick look at the standings and talk about the importance of the game from that aspect.
• 10:34
  [SPEAKER_00]: The Colts are 7 and 1, they have a 1-game lead over the Patriots and the Broncos atop the AFC standing.
• 10:43
  [SPEAKER_00]: So if you're going to have the number 1 seed and I think in order to get to the Super Bowl you probably need to have the number 1 seed for this team.
• 10:50
  [SPEAKER_00]: There's a chance, I think, going to look the other day, they're favored in all but one game, the rush of the year.
• 10:55
  [SPEAKER_00]: And according to ESPN analytics, and that game is in Kansas City, this game's Sam.
• 11:01
  [SPEAKER_00]: ESPN analytics says the Colt's have a 58% chance of what in this game.
• 11:08
  [SPEAKER_01]: That seems about right, 58% seems like a fair number there.
• 11:11
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think there's definitely something to work for for this game.
• 11:14
  [SPEAKER_01]: There's definitely some storylines of this game that holds.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I think at this point in the A.C. South, we got to be feeling we have a command elite in the South.
• 11:21
  [SPEAKER_01]: Now it's going to be all eyes are going to be on positioning in terms of seeing in the playoffs at this point, because they would take a miraculous collapse to not even be in the in the discussion for the top C in the A and C. Yeah.
• 11:32
  [SPEAKER_00]: Three and a half can lead on the playoffs.
• 11:35
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yes, so they should know right now, we should be pretty journal on that as well.
• 11:39
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's going to be mainly just positioning gain a number one C would be massive because we have been cooking at home all year long gain now home fill vans would be massive for the calls.
• 11:49
  [SPEAKER_01]: I can't remember the last time we have had the number one C. I think that was probably 2009 when which the Super Bowl against the Saints.
• 11:55
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think we had number one C that year.
• 11:58
  [SPEAKER_01]: I believe that's correct.
• 11:59
  [SPEAKER_01]: right.
• 12:00
  [SPEAKER_01]: Now as for the Steelers, I think that this game definitely needs a little bit more for them because if you look at the AFC North, that's North Division looks pretty weak overall in this video.
• 12:09
  [SPEAKER_01]: You haven't had a mediocre season, you're definitely going to need some cushioning if you're the Steelers.
• 12:13
  [SPEAKER_01]: So there's definitely a game that's very important really for both teams.
• 12:17
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, there's still leading that division.
• 12:20
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
• 12:21
  [SPEAKER_00]: And the other thing about that is
• 12:24
  [SPEAKER_00]: The Steelers have the seventh best record in the FC, so if they don't win the division, beating you gives you a four game lead on a team that hopes to make the playoffs, three and a half game lead on a team that hopes to make the playoffs with a buy.
• 12:39
  [SPEAKER_00]: So anytime you can beat a fellow playoff team like they beat the Broncos and the Chargers, ever, ever the better.
• 12:48
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, definitely one stack up those wins against those playoff teams.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Tim, last thing before we go, let's take a quick look at the injury report.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Looks pretty darn good for the cults.
• 13:06
  [SPEAKER_00]: We got 7-8 guys, questionable, including some key guys, Josh Downs, and Braden Smith, Taekwann Lewis, Nick Cross, Kenny Moore.
• 13:16
  [SPEAKER_00]: But assuming the majority of them are able to play really good injury report, Anthony Richardson, the only player who's out and he, of course, is a backup on the other side.
• 13:26
  [SPEAKER_00]: In the last three weeks, the Steelers have lost their two best safeties, the Sean Elliott and Miles Killabrew.
• 13:32
  [SPEAKER_00]: They also are likely without Isaac Simolo.
• 13:36
  [SPEAKER_00]: They're outstanding guard.
• 13:37
  [SPEAKER_00]: Other than that, the Steelers seem pretty healthy too, but that secondary looks pretty weak.
• 13:45
  [SPEAKER_00]: And as long as they can control the past rush, I think it's going to be a big day for the colds offense.
• 13:51
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, this is definitely one of the weaker sealers defense, as I've seen a while.
• 13:54
  [SPEAKER_01]: So on lens, on lens, somehow the cold offensive line just collapses on Sunday or being on Jones has one of those gun care to restricts games by this season's standards or he reverse back to day on Jones from New York.
• 14:06
  [SPEAKER_01]: I don't expect the cold step any issues offensively whatsoever.
• 14:10
  [SPEAKER_00]: but Sam, those are the types of things that happen in Pittsburgh, it always seems to happen.
• 14:16
  [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe it's just because I'm a coach fan, but anytime a team goes into Pittsburgh, I kind of expect him to lose.
• 14:22
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's been that way since I can remember.
• 14:26
  [SPEAKER_00]: So here's the big question, Sam, are you taking the coaching?
• 14:30
  [SPEAKER_00]: What's the score going to be?
• 14:32
  [SPEAKER_01]: Well, Brad, I'm definitely going to take the colds.
• 14:34
  [SPEAKER_01]: However, I don't think it's going to be a block either, because that because it's in Pittsburgh, and we know the Steelers typically played well at home, even though they've been kind of an average, they've been a little better.
• 14:46
  [SPEAKER_01]: at home, I guess.
• 14:48
  [SPEAKER_01]: And even then, like we've had our demons playing in Pittsburgh.
• 14:51
  [SPEAKER_01]: So you know that atmosphere is gonna play a role.
• 14:53
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's gonna be kind of a tight, a officiated game.
• 14:56
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm kind of expecting 24, 21.
• 15:01
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's probably gonna be kind of the ugly games that I kind of had spets from a scoring standpoint, but overall, I still like our chances to at least get some points on the board and at least give our defense a chance to close it out.
• 15:15
  [SPEAKER_00]: Look, you go into Los Angeles and you get a win.
• 15:17
  [SPEAKER_00]: You beat the Chargers big win.
• 15:20
  [SPEAKER_00]: Going on the road, going out west and taking on one of the best teams in the AFC.
• 15:27
  [SPEAKER_00]: But Pittsburgh's a whole different deal.
• 15:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: And I just, if they're eight and one, I just don't know.
• 15:32
  [SPEAKER_00]: I just can't imagine it.
• 15:36
  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to take the Steelers 16.
• 15:38
  [SPEAKER_00]: We're going to have a little bit of Daniel Jones regression.
• 15:44
  [SPEAKER_00]: probably believe that the culture going to win this game, but it's just, it's Pittsburgh.
• 15:51
  [SPEAKER_01]: I worry about the Mike Tomlin effect, I know he's a little overrated.
• 15:57
  [SPEAKER_00]: He's also a great coach, and that concerns me as well.
• 15:59
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, but that's the thing.
• 16:01
  [SPEAKER_01]: Mike Tomlin is still a great coach, and I do worry that he's going to expose weaknesses with Daniel Jones, or that usually how it works with the Steelers.
• 16:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: Sam Frick of ANEC Sports, one of our cults guys.
• 16:12
  [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you so much for your time as always and go cults.
• 16:16
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, sir, go cults.
• 16:22
  [SPEAKER_00]: Thanks so much to Sam, go check him out on ANEC Sports.
• 16:26
  [SPEAKER_00]: He does lots of high school sports in the Fort Wayne area and he's fantastic.
• 16:30
  [SPEAKER_00]: We'll be back on Sunday after the game to react to hopefully another cold win against the Steelers and then we'll be back on Wednesday with our weekly Culture Report.
• 16:43
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• 16:46
  [SPEAKER_00]: Thanks.
• 16:51
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