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HR 1: Steelers 27, Browns 6: Week 8 Recap · The Steelers Report

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  Speaker 1: A fitting way to end this game.
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  Speaker 2: That is the end of the game.
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  Speaker 3: With a final score.
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  Speaker 1: The Steelers 27, the Browns 26, and the Steelers are
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  Speaker 1: atop the AFC North by themselves heading into the bye week.
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  Speaker 4: This is the Steelers Report with Brian Batko and Ed
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  Speaker 4: Troup on Steelers Nation Radio, a part of the Steelers
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  Speaker 4: Audio Network.
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  Speaker 5: The Pittsburgh Steelers sent a message to the rest of
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  Speaker 5: the AFC North on Sunday. A dominant 27-6 win over
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  Speaker 5: the Cleveland Browns. Four straight wins and sole possession of
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  Speaker 5: first place in the AFC North heading into the bye week.
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  Speaker 3: Double B, Jalen Warren ran wild.
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  Speaker 5: The defense terrorized Cleveland's offense with eight sacks, and Mike
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  Speaker 5: McCarthy's team showed exactly what kind of identity it's been
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  Speaker 5: building in 2026. The Pittsburgh Steelers are 6-2 and complete
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  Speaker 5: a perfect 4-0 stretch of games.
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  Speaker 6: Heading into the break. Yeah, that was a beatdown Sunday
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  Speaker 6: against the Browns, Ed. They were determined to let their
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  Speaker 6: pads and their play do the talking. really impressive on
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  Speaker 6: both sides of the line of scrimmage. And what's kind
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  Speaker 6: of wowed to me about that game as well, is
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  Speaker 6: it's like, it was kind of like one of those
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  Speaker 6: TV shows where the guy that the show is sort
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  Speaker 6: of built around is barely in the episode.
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  Speaker 7: And yet it's one of the best episodes of the season.
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  Speaker 6: Aaron Rogers was a kind of a minor character in
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  Speaker 6: that game to continue with my TV analogy. That's not
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  Speaker 6: a bad thing necessarily though. Not when you're running it
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  Speaker 6: that way, not when your defense, is, like you said,
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  Speaker 6: just tone-setting. I mean, that first three and out, I
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  Speaker 6: consider it a three and out because then the flag
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  Speaker 6: gets called on Jaquan Brisker. It wasn't a piece of
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  Speaker 6: the play that impacted that incompletion, but roughing the passer penalty,
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  Speaker 6: I got the vibe that the officiating crew was kind
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  Speaker 6: of on edge to going into that game expecting some
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  Speaker 6: animosity and tried to call it tight as a result.
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  Speaker 7: I could have gone either way on the Brisker thing.
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  Speaker 7: hit there.
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  Speaker 6: I know Gene Steratore was on the broadcast, right, saying
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  Speaker 6: the same thing. But knocking Deshaun Watson out of the
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  Speaker 6: game right away, the blitzing, the run defense, again, that
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  Speaker 6: was the first thing Mike McCarthy mentioned after the game
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  Speaker 6: was how the run defense is just setting the table
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  Speaker 6: for everybody else to eat. Four games in a row now,
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  Speaker 6: and there's some aspects of the run defense that are
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  Speaker 6: even more impressive in hindsight when you look at what
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  Speaker 6: the Tampa Bay Buccaneers did Sunday against the Falcons.
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  Speaker 3: Didn't throw a pass, by the way, in that whole game.
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  Speaker 7: How crazy was that? Didn't complete a pass.
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  Speaker 1: 0-3.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, they did throw at least three attempts?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, they were 0-3 and ran for whatever it was,
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  Speaker 6: 300-some yards. Didn't look like they were capable of doing
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  Speaker 6: that when the Steelers went down to Tampa. So it
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  Speaker 6: just goes to show the level that these guys are
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  Speaker 6: playing at. And doing it with some pieces of the
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  Speaker 6: puzzle missing, Derek Harmon, Sebastian Joseph Day.
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  Speaker 3: How about that?
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  Speaker 7: And yet, Cam Hayward, I thought that might have been
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  Speaker 7: his best game of the season, Ed.
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  Speaker 1: I agree.
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  Speaker 7: Keanu Benton is just.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, he is consistently wrecking plays for this front.
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  Speaker 7: Kevin Jobity Jr. getting in on the act.
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  Speaker 6: He had the sack, but I think guys were impressed
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  Speaker 6: by his play even in addition to that.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Why a black is stuffing things in the inside linebacker tandem.
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  Speaker 6: They're both playing at a high, high level right now.
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  Speaker 6: Patrick Queen, maybe the best back-to-back games we've seen from
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  Speaker 6: him in a Steelers jersey and Peyton Wilson right there
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  Speaker 6: with him too. It's all coming together for the Steelers' defense.
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  Speaker 6: And now it comes to a screeching halt with the
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  Speaker 6: bye week, but nobody thinks the bye week comes at
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  Speaker 6: a bad time in this league. It's always good to
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  Speaker 6: recharge the batteries and get ready for the second half.
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  Speaker 5: Brian, one big takeaway for me from yesterday was this
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  Speaker 5: felt like old-school Pittsburgh Steelers football. Tough, lights-out defense, Blitzburg,
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  Speaker 5: eight sacks. Defense held the Browns to minus one yard
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  Speaker 5: of offense in the first quarter, 34 total rushing yards
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  Speaker 5: for the game. They averaged 2.3 yards per carry.
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  Speaker 3: They get the win.
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  Speaker 5: They limit them to two field goals total. And, oh,
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  Speaker 5: by the way, the Steelers' offense pound the ground for
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  Speaker 5: 200 yards total rushing on the day.
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  Speaker 3: Again, this felt like what I used to watch when
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  Speaker 3: I was.
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  Speaker 5: Growing up in the late 80s and the 90s, the
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  Speaker 5: old Blitzburg defense, those Bill Cowher teams, the Mike Tomlin
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  Speaker 5: teams of the 2000s that won a Super Bowl, made
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  Speaker 5: another appearance, right, the Bill Cowher team that won back
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  Speaker 5: in 05. They played run-stuffing defense. They didn't allow a
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  Speaker 5: 100-yard rusher during the seasons. By the way, Steelers still
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  Speaker 5: haven't done that yet in 2026. And then offensively, they
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  Speaker 5: control the clock and they pound the football on the ground.
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  Speaker 3: Football, Pittsburgh Steelers, 101.
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  Speaker 6: I didn't want to feed into it too much last
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  Speaker 6: week because I thought some of the outside noise was
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  Speaker 6: a little bit foolish. I mean, that's one thing that's
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  Speaker 6: gotten lost in the sauce, too, is A lot of
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  Speaker 6: people have said, oh, the Browns were making a lot
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  Speaker 6: of noise this week.
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  Speaker 7: It really wasn't the Browns. It was Jared Verse specifically.
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  Speaker 3: One player.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, it was really one guy.
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  Speaker 6: Like, to be fair to the other 52 guys on
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  Speaker 6: the roster and Todd Munkin and that coaching, like, it
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  Speaker 6: was one guy kind of installing himself as the instigator
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  Speaker 6: of this matchup.
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  Speaker 7: And I don't know.
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  Speaker 6: It seemed like Jared Verse had a lot to say
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  Speaker 6: and do on field goal block. And sometimes Christian Kuntz
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  Speaker 6: found himself as collateral damage, it seemed like, with all
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  Speaker 6: the jawing and pushing and shoving going on in there.
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  Speaker 6: But you didn't notice him whatsoever in the game.
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  Speaker 7: Not at all. Much like the first time around.
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  Speaker 3: Only when he got body slammed.
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  Speaker 7: And the Steelers.
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  Speaker 6: Offensive linemen were saying, I think it was Troy Faltano
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  Speaker 6: who said, we weren't really talking that much trash. We
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  Speaker 6: kind of embraced like, you know, when you're like trying
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  Speaker 6: to get in someone's head and smack talk them and
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  Speaker 6: they're just ignoring you and defeating you soundly in the
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  Speaker 6: actual play on the field. I feel like that might
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  Speaker 6: be even more frustrating sometimes. Now, I think Mason McCormick
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  Speaker 6: and Brock Hoffman, they were talking some greasy stuff probably,
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  Speaker 6: but by and large, you know, Zach Frazier and Troy Faltano,
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  Speaker 6: they're kind of like those British Parliament soldiers.
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  Speaker 7: You know, they just stand there unmoved. Then they put
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  Speaker 7: you in the dirt.
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  Speaker 6: Troy Faltano spins, knocks your hands down, neutralizes your pass rush,
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  Speaker 6: goes back out there, does it again the next snap
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  Speaker 6: without really saying anything. Sometimes I think that frustrates an
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  Speaker 6: opposing defense even more, especially when you do have clear
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  Speaker 6: antagonist on the other side so I think that's a
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  Speaker 6: nice little militant approach from some of the guys up
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  Speaker 6: front for the Steelers O-line and you know it's it
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  Speaker 6: can probably be maddening when you're trying to scream at
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  Speaker 6: someone and get them riled up and they're not getting
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  Speaker 6: riled up and all they're doing is just going on
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  Speaker 6: about their day doing their job that's kind of my
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  Speaker 6: approach to social media sometimes too you know it's it's
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  Speaker 6: better to just let somebody yell into the void and
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  Speaker 6: I would say Jared Verst was kind of yelling into
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  Speaker 6: the void before and after that game, and he and
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  Speaker 6: the Browns head home with a 27-6 L for their troubles,
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  Speaker 6: their long travel to Pittsburgh. They head back the other
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  Speaker 6: side of the turnpike with, you know, they'd been in
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  Speaker 6: a lot of close games, and they'd won a lot
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  Speaker 6: of them, but they got routed much like they did
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  Speaker 6: week one against the Jaguars, so... The Steelers were the
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  Speaker 6: better team from start to finish. And that score could
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  Speaker 6: have been a lot worse.
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  Speaker 5: The Steelers could have been even more productive on offense
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  Speaker 5: and put up even more points yesterday. Even the 27-6 score,
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  Speaker 5: as lopsided as that seems, could even have been more lopsided.
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  Speaker 5: If you want to be greedy, if you're the Pittsburgh Steelers,
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  Speaker 5: from what happened yesterday. Aaron Rodgers kind of said that
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  Speaker 5: in his post-game comment, too. He thought they left some
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  Speaker 5: points on the field. as they continue to work. And
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  Speaker 5: we continue to work here this week and today with you, too,
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  Speaker 5: in recapping Steelers 27, Brown 6. The Pittsburgh Steelers are
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  Speaker 5: in first place in the AFC North. If the playoffs
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  Speaker 5: were to start today, Brian, they would be the third.
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  Speaker 3: Seed in the AFC.
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  Speaker 5: Behind the number one seed would be the Buffalo Bills,
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  Speaker 5: and the number two seed would be the Denver Broncos,
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  Speaker 5: who beat the Chiefs yesterday.
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  Speaker 3: Steelers would be third, leading the AFC North. They'd actually
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  Speaker 3: host the Cincinnati Bengals.
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  Speaker 7: I was going to say, yeah, it'd be another AFC
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  Speaker 7: North matchup.
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  Speaker 6: Well, It's kind of like I made this subtle joke
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  Speaker 6: last week, but if the playoffs started today, the Steelers
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  Speaker 6: would be facing the Cincinnati Bengals, and the Steelers will
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  Speaker 6: be facing the Cincinnati Bengals next time they're out there
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  Speaker 6: on the field, granted, in Cincinnati. It kind of speaks to...
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  Speaker 6: We got into this a little bit last week when
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  Speaker 6: we zoomed out and looked around the league, around the AFC.
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  Speaker 6: This conference is.
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  Speaker 7: It's almost.
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  Speaker 6: Not quite decided, but it's like eight teams for seven spots.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, I think that the Ravens are teetering right now.
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  Speaker 6: Lamar Jackson might be out for the rest of the season.
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  Speaker 3: That's huge.
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  Speaker 7: And I'm not really one to count.
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  Speaker 6: Out Tyler Huntley either because he's won some big games
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  Speaker 6: for them over the years, but he's hurt too.
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  Speaker 3: I was going to say, he got banged up yesterday.
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  Speaker 6: So I don't know what's going on with them and
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  Speaker 6: what they're going to do at QB. Is Phillip Rivers
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  Speaker 6: available again? You know, he came out of retirement for
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  Speaker 6: the Colts. Could he come out for... The city where
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  Speaker 6: the Colts used to play this time around, I don't know.
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  Speaker 6: Who else is available?
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  Speaker 3: Maybe they could trade for Joe Flacco.
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  Speaker 7: Trade deadline is coming up.
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  Speaker 3: Get Flacco back.
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  Speaker 7: Get the band back together.
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  Speaker 3: The Browns sent him to Cincinnati. It happened in the
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  Speaker 3: AFC North last year.
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  Speaker 6: He is like the human baton in the AFC North.
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  Speaker 6: The Steelers are the only team that have declined to
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  Speaker 6: ever take the passing of the torch there, but.
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  Speaker 5: And Brian, I know you were probably busy finishing up
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  Speaker 5: your game article and getting to back 06, which by
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  Speaker 5: the way, when we come back a bit later here
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  Speaker 5: in this hour, we will get to the back 06.
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  Speaker 3: We love that each and every week here on the show.
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  Speaker 5: But I don't know if you caught it in the
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  Speaker 5: background or not, but the ending of that Tennessee Cincinnati game,
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  Speaker 5: the Titans.
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  Speaker 3: Had the Bengals on the ropes.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, if it wasn't for Tennessee's defense, that was
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  Speaker 5: just awful yesterday, letting Joe Burrow just throw all over him.
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  Speaker 5: And on the flip side, Cam Ward did that to
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  Speaker 5: the Cincinnati defense. My point is the Bengals don't look
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  Speaker 5: great either. The Ravens don't look great.
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  Speaker 3: And now you're done with the Browns. You took care
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  Speaker 3: of business yesterday.
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  Speaker 5: The Steelers not only lead the AFC North, but they
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  Speaker 5: are in an extremely great spot, in my opinion.
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  Speaker 3: In the AFC North. All the momentum in the world,
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  Speaker 3: a four-game win.
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  Speaker 5: Streak, defense coming together, offense coming together, Mike McCarthy, and
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  Speaker 5: now they have a week of rest to heal up
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  Speaker 5: if they need to, and they got some guys that
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  Speaker 5: if they get back, I think it will make them
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  Speaker 5: even that much better. Maybe there's still some juice left
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  Speaker 5: for Michael Pittman Jr. to help them at wide receiver
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  Speaker 5: right now. You mentioned Sebastian Joseph Day and Derek Harmon
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  Speaker 5: on the defensive line. The arrow's pointing up, and Steeler
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  Speaker 5: Nation should be pumped today.
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  Speaker 3: And I believe they are.
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  Speaker 6: And I don't want to jinx anything because obviously, you know,
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  Speaker 6: injuries can happen at any time and derail any team
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  Speaker 6: or any season. But at the moment, I mean, there
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  Speaker 6: are only 10 teams in the AFC that are 500
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  Speaker 6: or better. There are only eight teams that are above 500.
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  Speaker 6: Everybody else in the conference has two wins or fewer, two,
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  Speaker 6: one or zero wins. Chargers still can't get off the schneid.
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  Speaker 6: So a lot of teams in this conference, just not
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  Speaker 6: a factor anymore. And it looks like it's going to
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  Speaker 6: come down to, yeah, the Bills, Broncos, Steelers, Jaguars, the
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  Speaker 6: current divisional leaders. And then you've got the Chiefs, Bengals,
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  Speaker 6: Patriots in wildcard spots at the moment. Browns are now
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  Speaker 6: on the outside looking in by virtue of tiebreakers, apparently. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 6: the Raiders and Ravens are hanging around at 4-4. I
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  Speaker 6: think there's probably more that's sustainable for Baltimore, but Hey,
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  Speaker 6: the Raiders have been frisky. I probably shouldn't discount them,
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  Speaker 6: but they are going into a stretch in which they'll
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  Speaker 6: face the Niners, Seahawks, and then on the road at
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  Speaker 6: Broncos and Browns. So it's gut check time for the
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  Speaker 6: Raiders and then the Ravens, the other 4-4 team. Jaguars
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  Speaker 6: coming up next on Thursday Night Football just in a
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  Speaker 6: few days from now.
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  Speaker 7: Quick turnaround.
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  Speaker 6: Then it lightens up Chargers, Panthers, Texans by week. So
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  Speaker 6: it's going to be mighty interesting. You're right. The bottom
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  Speaker 6: line here is the Steelers have put themselves in a
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  Speaker 6: great spot. A lot of players were talking yesterday, and
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  Speaker 6: I think this is a really good indicator of them
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  Speaker 6: absorbing the message from, let's not forget, it's still a
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  Speaker 6: first-year head coach in Mike McCarthy. A lot of players
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  Speaker 6: he's never worked with before outside of Aaron Rodgers, Brock Hoffman,
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  Speaker 6: Rico Dowdle, I guess Marquez Valdez, Scantling, and that mix now, too,
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  Speaker 6: from the practice squad. But I thought it was encouraging
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  Speaker 6: to hear so many players saying, Coach wanted us to
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  Speaker 6: get the 6-2 lead. before the bye, which, you know,
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  Speaker 6: the quiet part there that's not said out loud is
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  Speaker 6: that meant a four-game win streak after you start two
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  Speaker 6: and two. That's a lot to ask in the NFL
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  Speaker 6: to go reel off four in a row, especially with
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  Speaker 6: two of those on the road.
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  Speaker 3: One in Paris.
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  Speaker 7: They did it anyway.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree.
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  Speaker 7: So they are picking up what Mike McCarthy's putting down.
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  Speaker 6: They're going out there and executing it and making an
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  Speaker 6: idea a reality for this team.
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  Speaker 5: Two divisional games in that four-week stretch, too. And you've
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  Speaker 5: got to stack wins within your division in the NFL.
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  Speaker 5: If you want to be successful, the Steelers have now
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  Speaker 5: done that. in this four-game stretch. Brian, I said about
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  Speaker 5: them going 3-1 in this four-game stretch would be wonderful.
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  Speaker 5: It would put them at 5-3 going into the break.
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  Speaker 5: But then we got greedy. We saw a potential to
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  Speaker 5: go 4-0, and they do it to get to 6-2
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  Speaker 5: to lead.
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  Speaker 3: The AFC North.
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  Speaker 5: Quick, before we go to break, let's do get to
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  Speaker 5: our turning point of the game in Steelers 27, Brown 6.
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  Speaker 5: We got two turning points, and they're... You can join
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  Speaker 5: them together. You can tie them together in a knot
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  Speaker 5: because they both had a pretty big impact during the game. Look, Brian,
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  Speaker 5: you can go with the early turnovers in the game.
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  Speaker 5: There's a lot here, but here's what I thought. Cam
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  Speaker 5: Hayward's third and one stop in the third quarter. Cleveland
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  Speaker 5: needed a strong opening drive coming out at halftime. Hayward
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  Speaker 5: blew up Quinshawn Junkins on a third-and-one play for a
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  Speaker 5: loss of a yard, forcing the Browns to punt, taking
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  Speaker 5: the air out of their cells, if you will, to
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  Speaker 5: start the second half on this big Cam Hayward stop.
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  Speaker 1: Watson turns, gives left side penetration, and the stop on
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  Speaker 1: the play as Cam Hayward came up and stopped Junkins
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  Speaker 1: for a loss, and the Browns will have to punt.
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  Speaker 5: That was big by Cam Hayward in that situation in
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  Speaker 5: the third, and it led to a touchdown on the Steelers'
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  Speaker 5: next drive, but it was this big play that set
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  Speaker 5: up the touchdown.
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  Speaker 1: Washington motions right to left, and Rodgers will throw to Darnell,
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  Speaker 1: up the left sideline.
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  Speaker 2: And here he goes, rumbling down the sideline and trying
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  Speaker 2: to stay down, tiptoeing down inside the five all the
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  Speaker 2: way down to the one-yard line.
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  Speaker 5: Darnell Washington almost put it in the end zone. He
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  Speaker 5: was just inches short of the goal line. 58-yard connection.
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  Speaker 5: It set up the Steelers' touchdown in the third quarter.
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  Speaker 5: On the following play, I believe, is when the Steelers
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  Speaker 5: got the score after the big play by Darnell Washington
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  Speaker 5: in the third quarter.
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  Speaker 3: Jalen Warren from a yard out.
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  Speaker 6: That was a Franco moment, I think, Rogers to Washington.
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  Speaker 6: And like we said at the top, there wasn't a
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  Speaker 6: lot going for the passing game in this one, but
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  Speaker 6: the tight ends were working. And that was a strike
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  Speaker 6: from Rodgers down the sideline to Washington, who only disappointment
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  Speaker 6: there was that he didn't find a way to stay
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  Speaker 6: in bounds. But that's a large man running and tiptoeing.
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  Speaker 6: I give him credit for even being as nimble as
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  Speaker 6: he was to pick up some extra yardage along the sideline.
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  Speaker 6: Jalen Warren kind of jokingly after was like, yeah, he
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  Speaker 6: said he wanted to give the touchdown to me.
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  Speaker 5: It gave the Steelers a 27 to six lead with
• 15:35
  Speaker 5: just over five minutes into the third quarter, five minutes
• 15:38
  Speaker 5: into the third quarter, I should say. Washington finished the
• 15:40
  Speaker 5: game with three catches for a career-high 94 yards. And again,
• 15:43
  Speaker 5: he was just inches away from scoring that touchdown. That
• 15:46
  Speaker 5: is our turning point of the game in Steelers 27,
• 15:49
  Speaker 5: Browns 6. Whenever Double B and I come back, we'll
• 15:51
  Speaker 5: get into Backo's 6 for the week. We'll touch some
• 15:54
  Speaker 5: player stats. We'll also get to some team stats a
• 15:57
  Speaker 5: bit later on. No Mike McCarthy press conference today, so
• 16:00
  Speaker 5: Brian and I are with you for the full two
• 16:01
  Speaker 5: hours and the full show as we lead into SNR's
• 16:04
  Speaker 5: drive coming up at 4 o'clock today with Wes Shuler.
• 16:06
  Speaker 3: And Matt Williamson.
• 16:07
  Speaker 5: But first, this is the Steelers report on SNR, part
• 16:11
  Speaker 5: of the Steelers Audio Network.
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: Watson rolling out, Watson being corralled, and Watson being sacked.
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: And it's Cam Hayward, who has just had a magnificent
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: game this afternoon. Watson gets a snap, pressure coming, and
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: down he goes! It's Nick Irving, who picks up the
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: sack for the Steelers.
• 16:35
  Speaker 4: This is the Steelers Report with Brian Batko and Ed
• 16:39
  Speaker 4: Troop on Steelers Nation Radio, a part of the Steelers
• 16:43
  Speaker 4: Audio Network.
• 16:44
  Speaker 5: Nick Harbig and Cam Hayward, two of eight sacks on
• 16:48
  Speaker 5: the day for the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday.
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: You can just go down through the list. Pat Queen,
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: one and a half. Cam Hayward, one and a half.
• 16:57
  Speaker 5: Alex Highsmith, a half a sack with Keanu Benton. TJ Watt,
• 17:01
  Speaker 5: two sacks. Nick Harbig, a sack. Double B's buddy, Joe Biddy,
• 17:07
  Speaker 5: a sack as well on the day. The Pittsburgh Steelers
• 17:10
  Speaker 5: got it done on Sunday, Brian. From a defensive standpoint,
• 17:13
  Speaker 5: from an offensive standpoint, as we talked to start the
• 17:15
  Speaker 5: show today, 6-2 first place AFC North.
• 17:19
  Speaker 6: They absolutely did. That is defense by committee right there.
• 17:23
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 17:24
  Speaker 6: TJ Watt becomes the all-time leader in sacks against the
• 17:28
  Speaker 6: Cleveland Browns.
• 17:29
  Speaker 7: Did you see that?
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: I did see that.
• 17:31
  Speaker 7: Did you see who he passed?
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: And actually, if you want, here, we'll play it for you.
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: Back to pass, looking, pressure coming, and Watson sacks.
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: There it is, TJ Watt.
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: More sacks against AFC quarterbacks. More sacks against Cleveland Brown quarterbacks.
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: Than anybody in history.
• 17:53
  Speaker 5: Now, I was hoping Rob King would give us that
• 17:56
  Speaker 5: answer during his play-by-play yesterday, but he did not.
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: So who did he pass up? That's a good question.
• 18:01
  Speaker 7: Do you want to guess? I feel like this is
• 18:02
  Speaker 7: a good trivia question.
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: It's not a Pittsburgh Steeler?
• 18:03
  Speaker 7: Or is it? No, it is not a Pittsburgh Steeler.
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: It's not a Pittsburgh Steeler.
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: Who had the most sacks? Ray Lewis.
• 18:10
  Speaker 4: Nope.
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 18:11
  Speaker 4: Hmm.
• 18:12
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: Let me give another guess. Terrell Suggs?
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 18:14
  Speaker 7: Oh, look at that! You got it. You got it.
• 18:17
  Speaker 6: You still had one more strike, too, when you hit
• 18:19
  Speaker 6: that double.
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: I'm at second base.
• 18:21
  Speaker 6: And how about this? Deshaun Watson... Four career games at
• 18:25
  Speaker 6: Accresure Stadium. He now has been sacked, Ed, 26 times.
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: Incredible.
• 18:33
  Speaker 7: I mean, talk about a house of horrors for that
• 18:36
  Speaker 7: guy here.
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: I heard you.
• 18:37
  Speaker 5: Talk about this yesterday on the pregame show, and then
• 18:40
  Speaker 5: I felt like I knew something yesterday watching the game.
• 18:43
  Speaker 5: I said to the roomful of folks that I was with, hey,
• 18:45
  Speaker 5: do you know that Deshaun Watson has been awful at
• 18:48
  Speaker 5: Hines Field, Accustra Stadium, whatever you want to call it
• 18:50
  Speaker 5: these days?
• 18:51
  Speaker 7: Because I heard it on the pregame show with Double B.
• 18:53
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, that one game with the Texans, I recall,
• 18:57
  Speaker 6: I don't think he was awful. I mean, they scored 21,
• 19:00
  Speaker 6: and he threw for 264 and two touchdowns. But when
• 19:04
  Speaker 6: the Tows get to wave in, and the black and
• 19:06
  Speaker 6: gold gets to crashing down on him, he's useless. I mean,
• 19:11
  Speaker 6: that is a– I had to keep checking that stat
• 19:14
  Speaker 6: over and over. I was like, is this– could this
• 19:16
  Speaker 6: really be correct? But sure enough, his first game here
• 19:20
  Speaker 6: with the Texans back in 2020, COVID season, so there
• 19:24
  Speaker 6: probably weren't many towels waving that day, to be fair.
• 19:26
  Speaker 7: But he was sacked five times.
• 19:28
  Speaker 6: That was the game with TJ Watt, Derek Watt, and
• 19:31
  Speaker 6: JJ Watt all in the same game.
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 19:34
  Speaker 7: That was a nice little footnote that year. I remember.
• 19:38
  Speaker 6: Them being thrilled that they had the chance to do that,
• 19:40
  Speaker 6: but it was bittersweet because they couldn't have, I don't
• 19:43
  Speaker 6: think their family could be there or anything because it
• 19:45
  Speaker 6: was 2020.
• 19:47
  Speaker 7: All right, I digress. So he was sacked five times
• 19:49
  Speaker 7: in that one.
• 19:50
  Speaker 6: Then the tail end of 2022 regular season finale 28
• 19:54
  Speaker 6: 14 win for the steelers over the brownies seven sacks
• 19:59
  Speaker 6: on deshaun watson that day um week two the following
• 20:03
  Speaker 6: season a 26 22 win Obviously, if they played the
• 20:08
  Speaker 6: Browns at home in the regular season, they won. They
• 20:11
  Speaker 6: sacked them six times. And then the magnum opus for
• 20:16
  Speaker 6: the Steelers against Watson, eight sacks yesterday in a 27-6
• 20:22
  Speaker 6: beatdown at Accresure Stadium.
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: Incredible.
• 20:25
  Speaker 5: And it was early on. Those first couple drives, they
• 20:28
  Speaker 5: got after them. I mean, they were in the backfield
• 20:30
  Speaker 5: all day long. Patrick Graham has this defense, Brian, clicking.
• 20:34
  Speaker 5: at a level that we haven't seen in a while.
• 20:37
  Speaker 5: This defense has had some holes the last few seasons,
• 20:39
  Speaker 5: and he is.
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: Figuring it out.
• 20:40
  Speaker 5: I feel like each game, the defense is getting better,
• 20:43
  Speaker 5: and Patrick Graham and what he's scheming up is getting
• 20:46
  Speaker 5: stronger as the season goes on. And that's why it's
• 20:48
  Speaker 5: so exciting to see the Steelers get back to their
• 20:50
  Speaker 5: roots of being this dominant defense. I'll be curious this week,
• 20:54
  Speaker 5: and we'll talk about it as we go throughout the
• 20:56
  Speaker 5: week here on the Steelers Report, what the rankings for
• 20:58
  Speaker 5: this defense will be. They were close to the top
• 21:00
  Speaker 5: five last week. I believe they were number six. In
• 21:02
  Speaker 5: total defense, maybe 7. They were pretty much top 10
• 21:05
  Speaker 5: in everything. My guess is they're going to move up
• 21:07
  Speaker 5: after this dominant performance.
• 21:08
  Speaker 6: Yeah, we should revisit the statistics now that we'll have
• 21:11
  Speaker 6: 8 games under our belt. Basically the halfway point of
• 21:16
  Speaker 6: the season, although it's tough to be halfway in a
• 21:19
  Speaker 6: 17-game season. But if you go by weeks, they'll be
• 21:21
  Speaker 6: through 9 weeks after the bye. But yeah, Deshaun Watson
• 21:25
  Speaker 6: falls to 1-4 all-time against the Steelers. That only win
• 21:28
  Speaker 6: was the one last month. October 1st, Thursday night up
• 21:33
  Speaker 6: there at Huntington Bank Field.
• 21:35
  Speaker 5: Let's get to Backo's Quick Six, Steelers versus Browns, courtesy
• 21:39
  Speaker 5: of Steelers.com. Make sure you log on to Steelers.com each
• 21:42
  Speaker 5: and every day for Double B, Brian Backo's excellent coverage
• 21:46
  Speaker 5: of the Pittsburgh Steelers.
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: It's a must after the game, folks.
• 21:49
  Speaker 5: Go on, read the game article. It's usually up within
• 21:51
  Speaker 5: minutes of the game going final.
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: You can also get.
• 21:54
  Speaker 7: Quick Six? No, no, no, no, no.
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: No, no, the game article.
• 21:56
  Speaker 7: The game story. The game article. Quick Six takes a
• 21:57
  Speaker 7: little bit of time to put together.
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: No, no, game article. I said game article. Game article
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: and within that game article.
• 22:02
  Speaker 7: It's quick, but it's not that quick.
• 22:04
  Speaker 5: You can get you can click on the game book, too,
• 22:06
  Speaker 5: and get the official stats from the NFL.
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: That's fun. read Brian's analysis of the game. And then,
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: as he said, later on in the evening, yes.
• 22:15
  Speaker 6: Once we do all the locker room interviews and get
• 22:17
  Speaker 6: all my notes together.
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: Have a snack, you know, just kind of relax, take
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: a deep breath.
• 22:23
  Speaker 6: They always give us a humongous piece of pizza in
• 22:26
  Speaker 6: the press box for after the game.
• 22:27
  Speaker 7: It's available to us.
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: Caliente, I think, usually, right?
• 22:30
  Speaker 6: It's whatever they make there in-house.
• 22:32
  Speaker 7: I'm not entirely sure.
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: Caliente's a sponsor of SNR. Yes, I think it is.
• 22:36
  Speaker 6: You can have more than one piece. The ones that
• 22:40
  Speaker 6: they serve up there, like, I mean, these pieces of
• 22:43
  Speaker 6: pizza that are up there, squares. So, yeah, probably is. Yeah, Caliente,
• 22:46
  Speaker 6: the square pizza. I mean, they're like the size of Luxembourg,
• 22:50
  Speaker 6: these pieces of pizza. I mean, they are humongous. So
• 22:52
  Speaker 6: I just take down one of those after the game
• 22:54
  Speaker 6: while I'm writing. And, yeah, I'm pretty much good for
• 22:56
  Speaker 6: the rest of the night. And then you just have
• 22:58
  Speaker 6: to resist that urge and temptation to to have the
• 23:01
  Speaker 6: late-night food, late-night snack, especially now that we've got all
• 23:03
  Speaker 6: this Halloween candy sitting around the house.
• 23:05
  Speaker 5: I'm going to do a content video one of these days.
• 23:07
  Speaker 5: I'll have to get some permissions, of course, in and
• 23:09
  Speaker 5: around the Steelers to go to the press box and
• 23:11
  Speaker 5: interview the media who loves to eat because they love
• 23:14
  Speaker 5: to eat, folks.
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: Let me tell you, this media core. that follows the Steelers.
• 23:18
  Speaker 7: I think that's every team.
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: It's it's yeah. Okay.
• 23:20
  Speaker 7: Maybe everyone throw us under. All right.
• 23:22
  Speaker 5: But it's, it's impressive. And being a former 300 pound guy,
• 23:25
  Speaker 5: I can, I can, I can.
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: Go like this to you guys.
• 23:28
  Speaker 6: Yesterday was one of the, yesterday was one of my
• 23:30
  Speaker 6: favorite press box spreads of the season and a Monte
• 23:32
  Speaker 6: Cristo sandwich.
• 23:34
  Speaker 7: Okay. Which is like the cheese and ham on a
• 23:36
  Speaker 7: French toast.
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: Right. I think.
• 23:37
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 23:38
  Speaker 6: The, the prime rib or whatever it was, was really good.
• 23:41
  Speaker 6: There was another sandwich with, I, I, I ate it
• 23:44
  Speaker 6: so fast, I forget what was even on it.
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: Man, that's a good spread.
• 23:47
  Speaker 6: And then there was, now this one's probably more divisive,
• 23:50
  Speaker 6: but I'm a fan of it. It was like a
• 23:51
  Speaker 6: sweet potato, like mashed sweet potatoes. So I don't know
• 23:54
  Speaker 6: if you'd consider that a sweet potato, like puree type
• 23:57
  Speaker 6: of thing or whatever.
• 23:58
  Speaker 7: I like that. I don't know if that's everybody's jam,
• 24:01
  Speaker 7: but I thought it was very good.
• 24:02
  Speaker 5: Was the food choice in the back of his quick
• 24:04
  Speaker 5: six at all? Maybe you should start adding it at
• 24:06
  Speaker 5: the end. That didn't make it in as an extra point.
• 24:08
  Speaker 5: A bonus seven. Like, here's number seven. Here's what I
• 24:10
  Speaker 5: ate during the game. But I'm telling you, I got to.
• 24:13
  Speaker 6: Speaking of which, listen to the point after tonight at
• 24:15
  Speaker 6: 8 o'clock on WDV with me, Rob King, Mike Pursuta.
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: That's right.
• 24:21
  Speaker 5: Make sure if you, you know, like I said, I
• 24:22
  Speaker 5: had a back-o weekend. I caught you on KDK Plus
• 24:26
  Speaker 5: both nights.
• 24:27
  Speaker 7: I'm sorry, did I say 8, 7, 7 o'clock? 7 o'clock, okay.
• 24:30
  Speaker 7: 7 to 8.
• 24:31
  Speaker 5: But Brian, you were on the, what's that program called
• 24:34
  Speaker 5: on KDK Plus?
• 24:35
  Speaker 7: The Nightly Sports Call.
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: Nightly Sports Call, thank you.
• 24:38
  Speaker 7: And the pregame show.
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: And I heard you there too. It's like, I can't
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: get away from you.
• 24:42
  Speaker 7: I spent all week.
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: Me and uncle Tommy can't get away.
• 24:44
  Speaker 6: They're just, they're just force feeding me carries right now.
• 24:48
  Speaker 6: You know, I don't, I don't know if I'm scoring
• 24:49
  Speaker 6: on them. I don't, I don't think I'm doing more
• 24:51
  Speaker 6: in level, but they're, they're certainly giving me a lot of,
• 24:54
  Speaker 6: give me a lot of touches.
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: Brian, let's finally get to the back. Those quick six
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: minutes later.
• 24:59
  Speaker 7: Hold the line.
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: Number one, tell us, tell me about hold the line.
• 25:03
  Speaker 6: I just thought you have to start any sort of
• 25:05
  Speaker 6: recap of that game with The offensive line and the
• 25:08
  Speaker 6: way they asserted their dominance against the Browns, a Browns
• 25:11
  Speaker 6: defense that was chippy and in their defense, no pun intended,
• 25:17
  Speaker 6: very productive against the Steelers the first time out. Five
• 25:20
  Speaker 6: sacks of Aaron Rodgers in round one. Not only do
• 25:24
  Speaker 6: the Steelers run for 200 on them, but they keep
• 25:27
  Speaker 6: Rodgers clean. I mean, Aiden Huntington got to him for
• 25:30
  Speaker 6: one sack, but we'll get to that part next.
• 25:33
  Speaker 7: It's more so about just.
• 25:36
  Speaker 6: establishing the run, and Andy Weidel and Omar Khan, the
• 25:40
  Speaker 6: way they've built this team, they want to bend their
• 25:42
  Speaker 6: opponent's sword. I think the Steelers straight up broke it
• 25:45
  Speaker 6: in that game, Ed.
• 25:46
  Speaker 5: Brian, you wrote that the Steelers hadn't put up 160
• 25:50
  Speaker 5: rushing yards in the first half of a game since 2002.
• 25:53
  Speaker 5: That's the year I graduated from college. Against the Jaguars,
• 25:56
  Speaker 5: their first scoring drive, Rico Dowdle popped runs of 9-15-9,
• 26:00
  Speaker 5: and the last of which he hit the end zone.
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: Great stat.
• 26:03
  Speaker 7: Absolutely. They were getting after it, Warren and Dowdle.
• 26:06
  Speaker 5: Next up, left side, question mark, strong side. Oh, is
• 26:09
  Speaker 5: this a reference to Remember the Titans? It is.
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: I love it.
• 26:12
  Speaker 6: Left side, strong side, Gary Bertier and what's Julius Campbell?
• 26:15
  Speaker 4: Julius.
• 26:16
  Speaker 7: Is that the other one?
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: I know his name is Julius. I don't know the
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: last name. Yeah, I think it is Campbell. I think
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: you're right.
• 26:21
  Speaker 7: Yeah. But I was referring to Troy Fautano. Yeah, I
• 26:26
  Speaker 7: had it. Julius Campbell. Yep. Troy Fautano, left tackle, Mason McCormick,
• 26:29
  Speaker 7: left guard. I think an un, you know.
• 26:32
  Speaker 6: Kind of unspoken thing going into that game was the
• 26:34
  Speaker 6: Browns were coming in trying to punk them up front.
• 26:37
  Speaker 6: Started by the war of words with Jared Verse and
• 26:40
  Speaker 6: just his overall play demeanor, too, which they got a
• 26:44
  Speaker 6: load of on that Thursday night game. He didn't do
• 26:46
  Speaker 6: much statistically, but he was certainly chatty and chippy. They're
• 26:50
  Speaker 6: coming in trying to punk the Steelers, and not only
• 26:52
  Speaker 6: did Troy Faltano play fantastic, Mason McCormick always has his back. Now,
• 26:56
  Speaker 6: they did give up the one sack to Aiden Huntington,
• 26:59
  Speaker 6: who I don't know if you saw it. He did
• 27:00
  Speaker 6: the Aaron Rodgers thing. He did jump, you know, but.
• 27:03
  Speaker 7: Is that a mark? I guess Super Mario sort of thing.
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: Looks like it.
• 27:06
  Speaker 6: Bowser never wins in the end. No, Bowser never wins.
• 27:09
  Speaker 6: So he went down. He can get one over on
• 27:13
  Speaker 6: on Rogers, but the Steelers got the last laugh there.
• 27:16
  Speaker 6: Faltano and McCormick, a big part of that. And I
• 27:18
  Speaker 6: honestly think I mean, I asked Faltano about McCormick always
• 27:21
  Speaker 6: having his back. And I think he was starting to
• 27:24
  Speaker 6: get a little bit emotional, honestly, talking about it. And
• 27:26
  Speaker 6: he said, that's my dog. That's my dog. He's always
• 27:29
  Speaker 6: got my back, no matter what. especially in those moments
• 27:31
  Speaker 6: when I need them. They're a little yin and yang,
• 27:33
  Speaker 6: those two. Troy Faltano is very mild-mannered, I think, sort
• 27:37
  Speaker 6: of gentle giant type of guy. Mason McCormick is ornery,
• 27:41
  Speaker 6: as all get out when you get on. And they
• 27:43
  Speaker 6: both flip that switch when they get on the field,
• 27:45
  Speaker 6: don't get me wrong, but McCormick is kind of the
• 27:48
  Speaker 6: one who's like the schoolyard bully, and Faltano is like
• 27:51
  Speaker 6: the one who would be the protector. So I love
• 27:54
  Speaker 6: that dynamic between those two, and they were doing their part,
• 27:59
  Speaker 6: to say the least.
• 28:00
  Speaker 5: Last time against the Browns on that Thursday night, protecting
• 28:03
  Speaker 5: Rodgers was a problem.
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: It was not yesterday.
• 28:05
  Speaker 5: Only one sack, you mentioned it, and only two quarterback
• 28:08
  Speaker 5: hits for the day on Rodgers.
• 28:09
  Speaker 7: That was it.
• 28:11
  Speaker 6: He always says he wouldn't want to play next to
• 28:12
  Speaker 6: anybody else. Credit to Mike McCarthy and company for keeping
• 28:15
  Speaker 6: those two together, moving from the right side to the
• 28:17
  Speaker 6: left side.
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: And all five of them yesterday really played well up front.
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: Next up, big man in motion.
• 28:22
  Speaker 6: Yeah, Brock Hoffman was dialed in for that game as well.
• 28:26
  Speaker 6: He was a captain. Hey, we've got to update the
• 28:28
  Speaker 6: captain predictions. Did you see it? Did you see the
• 28:31
  Speaker 6: captains yesterday?
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: It was Hoffman and who were the others? No, 31.
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: Who was 31?
• 28:35
  Speaker 7: Lou Nichols.
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: Lou Nichols was one, right?
• 28:37
  Speaker 7: And Keanu Benton. And Benton. So I had two out
• 28:38
  Speaker 7: of three. Yeah, look at you. Not to brag.
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: Did I have Brock Hoffman? I thought I picked a lineman.
• 28:43
  Speaker 7: No, you had Darnell Washington and Nick Herbig, right?
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: That's right.
• 28:46
  Speaker 6: Which both had big games. I forget who your special
• 28:48
  Speaker 6: teamer was. I knew neither one of us had Lou Nichols.
• 28:52
  Speaker 7: I said Kuntz.
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I had Boswell.
• 28:54
  Speaker 7: All right.
• 28:54
  Speaker 6: But anyway, yeah, Brock Hoffman was was fired up for
• 28:56
  Speaker 6: that one. He was cut by the Browns when he
• 28:58
  Speaker 6: first came out of Virginia Tech. But Spencer Anderson is
• 29:01
  Speaker 6: the big man in motion that I wanted to highlight
• 29:03
  Speaker 6: in the quick six.
• 29:05
  Speaker 7: So I'm get.
• 29:05
  Speaker 6: Reintegrated into things against the Saints in Paris.
• 29:09
  Speaker 7: That one kind of came out of left field.
• 29:10
  Speaker 6: I didn't know that that club was going to be
• 29:12
  Speaker 6: in the Steelers bag this year, going from Arthur Smith
• 29:15
  Speaker 6: to the new regime.
• 29:16
  Speaker 7: But Spencer Anderson in this one.
• 29:19
  Speaker 6: Not only did he play a little bit more at
• 29:21
  Speaker 6: 15 snaps, it looks like he reported in as eligible,
• 29:24
  Speaker 6: or 16, but sending him in motion, he's pre-snap shifting.
• 29:28
  Speaker 6: Credit to him for being a big man who's light
• 29:30
  Speaker 6: on his feet. And Troy Faltano said, go back and watch.
• 29:33
  Speaker 6: He's like, you guys will enjoy watching this film. Spencer
• 29:35
  Speaker 6: was murdering people on some of those blocks.
• 29:37
  Speaker 5: The last two games, they've really put him on that off.
• 29:40
  Speaker 5: line as an extra blocker, and it's made a big,
• 29:42
  Speaker 5: big difference. Next up, defending the streak.
• 29:45
  Speaker 7: And that streak, I mean, there's a couple, I guess.
• 29:47
  Speaker 6: You know, the regular season home winning streak against the
• 29:50
  Speaker 6: Browns grows to 23 years old now, but also since 1988.
• 29:56
  Speaker 5: Woo!
• 29:58
  Speaker 6: Have the Steelers at least split, if not swept, the
• 30:01
  Speaker 6: Browns every single year that Cleveland has had an operating
• 30:05
  Speaker 6: NFL franchise. And I thought I was like, who better
• 30:08
  Speaker 6: to ask about this than Jaquan Brisker, who grew up here.
• 30:11
  Speaker 6: And I said, I was like, you know, are you
• 30:12
  Speaker 6: one of those guys who you're kind of like, I
• 30:15
  Speaker 6: don't really care about that stat. It's not like I
• 30:16
  Speaker 6: was on this team prior to this year. He's like, no,
• 30:18
  Speaker 6: I'm a part of it. I'm a Pittsburgh Steeler now.
• 30:21
  Speaker 6: We played Pittsburgh football. We represented. And I thought it
• 30:24
  Speaker 6: was funny. He's like, if we had lost, all the
• 30:25
  Speaker 6: legends would be mad at us. We'd be that team.
• 30:28
  Speaker 6: that let the Browns sweep us, so that couldn't happen, Ed.
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: Brisker had a great game yesterday, too.
• 30:32
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 30:33
  Speaker 5: And that penalty, 50-50, I could see why they called it,
• 30:36
  Speaker 5: but on the other hand, when you slowed it down,
• 30:37
  Speaker 5: and I also think Deshaun Watson did an excellent job
• 30:40
  Speaker 5: acting afterwards, acting like he was.
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: Hurt, and then all of a sudden he was fine,
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: got right back up and played the rest of the game.
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: Eight is great.
• 30:47
  Speaker 6: Yeah, not Aaron Rodgers in this one, necessarily, because like
• 30:50
  Speaker 6: we said, the passing game outside of a couple big
• 30:53
  Speaker 6: connections didn't do much, but I'm talking about the eight
• 30:55
  Speaker 6: sacks against the Browns, and I don't know how much
• 30:58
  Speaker 6: more we need to even make that point, but Patrick
• 31:01
  Speaker 6: Queen was the one who really stuffed the stat sheet,
• 31:03
  Speaker 6: and he just talked about how everybody really was balling
• 31:06
  Speaker 6: in that game. And you have to have everybody balling
• 31:09
  Speaker 6: from the front to the back end to rack up
• 31:12
  Speaker 6: eight sacks in a game because if guys are open,
• 31:14
  Speaker 6: if they're not being plastered enough by the DBs, then
• 31:16
  Speaker 6: you're not going to have time to get home.
• 31:18
  Speaker 7: It was all working in concert there.
• 31:20
  Speaker 5: I keep saying you're a guy when I reference Kevin
• 31:22
  Speaker 5: Jobity Jr. because you talked about him during training camp
• 31:26
  Speaker 5: when we did our training camp shows earlier this summer.
• 31:28
  Speaker 5: And then once he made the team, you had a
• 31:30
  Speaker 5: great interview. And I tell folks, make sure you log
• 31:32
  Speaker 5: on to Steelers.com. Check out that interview, that story that
• 31:35
  Speaker 5: Brian did early on in the season when Jobity made
• 31:37
  Speaker 5: the team as an undrafted free agent.
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: But he's your last six here with Shore. He'll take one, too.
• 31:43
  Speaker 6: Yeah, he got in on the sack party as well.
• 31:45
  Speaker 6: First of his NFL career. You know, he got one
• 31:47
  Speaker 6: at the end of the preseason against the Bills. Maybe
• 31:49
  Speaker 6: that helped push him over the top, showing the pass
• 31:52
  Speaker 6: rushing chops that he's got. Actually played more than fellow
• 31:55
  Speaker 6: rookie Gabriel Rubio in this game. And that could have
• 31:59
  Speaker 6: been a result of, not by much, 20 to 19 snaps.
• 32:02
  Speaker 6: But obviously the Browns are dropping back a lot. They
• 32:04
  Speaker 6: like Joe, but he's pass rush moves on the interior.
• 32:07
  Speaker 6: Rubio is more of a run stuffer. But I just
• 32:10
  Speaker 6: like the role allocation there. Overall, between those two, you know,
• 32:13
  Speaker 6: neither one needs to step up and play as much
• 32:15
  Speaker 6: as Cam Hayward or Keanu Benton or even Y.A. Black,
• 32:18
  Speaker 6: but they can both have a hand in this thing
• 32:20
  Speaker 6: while Derek Harmon and Sebastian Joseph Day are out.
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: And Rubio had a nice game yesterday, too.
• 32:24
  Speaker 5: He got in the backfield a couple times during those
• 32:26
  Speaker 5: snaps you just mentioned.
• 32:28
  Speaker 6: Yeah, he takes up a lot of space, and he's
• 32:29
  Speaker 6: got powerful hands, Rubio does.
• 32:31
  Speaker 5: Whenever we come back, Double B and I will jump
• 32:33
  Speaker 5: into some individual stats, some team stats as well in
• 32:36
  Speaker 5: the Pittsburgh Steelers' big win, 27-6 in Week 8 yesterday.
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: He's Brian Bacco. I'm Ed Troop.
• 32:42
  Speaker 5: It's the Steelers Report right here on Steelers Nation Radio,
• 32:45
  Speaker 5: part of the Steelers Audio Network.
• 32:56
  Speaker 4: This is the Steelers Report with Brian Batko and Ed
• 33:00
  Speaker 4: Troup on Steelers Nation Radio, a part of the Steelers
• 33:03
  Speaker 4: Audio Network.
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: Wrapping up our first hour here on the Steelers Report.
• 33:09
  Speaker 5: Victory Monday in and across southwestern Pennsylvania in Steelers 27,
• 33:13
  Speaker 5: Brown 6.
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: We just went through Backo's quick six.
• 33:18
  Speaker 5: Again, make sure you log on to Steelers.com to check
• 33:20
  Speaker 5: out Double B's excellent coverage.
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: Of the black and gold there. Lots of good stuff, right?
• 33:25
  Speaker 5: I'm guessing you'll have some time the next two weeks
• 33:29
  Speaker 5: here during the bye week to do some maybe, you know,
• 33:32
  Speaker 5: in-season stuff. But at the same time, it's also an
• 33:35
  Speaker 5: opportunity to be creative and think outside the box at times, I'm.
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: Sure, right?
• 33:41
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I actually encourage people to check the site later
• 33:44
  Speaker 6: this week, Steelers.com.
• 33:46
  Speaker 7: I'll have a feature coming.
• 33:47
  Speaker 6: On a Steelers rookie who's really got a pretty cool backstory,
• 33:51
  Speaker 6: I think, and he's been playing well, playing good ball
• 33:55
  Speaker 6: for them. So be on the lookout for that. Thanks
• 33:58
  Speaker 6: for the reminder to plug that. And then we'll still
• 34:01
  Speaker 6: have our usual, you know, my four down territory Saturday
• 34:05
  Speaker 6: column will come out Saturday morning, as always.
• 34:08
  Speaker 7: And then as far as It's not really two weeks.
• 34:11
  Speaker 6: It's really one week because then we'll be in prep
• 34:14
  Speaker 6: for the Bengals mode come next Monday.
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you have this week. There's a little bit of
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: a down week, right?
• 34:20
  Speaker 5: That's kind of some of the content that we were
• 34:23
  Speaker 5: referring to for Steelers.com. But, yeah, next week we'll quickly
• 34:26
  Speaker 5: turn our attentions to the Cincinnati Bengals and that big
• 34:29
  Speaker 5: rematch for Sunday night. Brian, you know, looking at the Steelers' schedule,
• 34:33
  Speaker 5: one thing to note, two things to note, really.
• 34:35
  Speaker 3: November 1st, yesterday... The Steelers played at home.
• 34:39
  Speaker 5: They will not play at home again until 26 days later,
• 34:42
  Speaker 5: 25 days, I guess, from today until that post Thanksgiving
• 34:46
  Speaker 5: Black Friday game against the Denver Broncos on November 27th.
• 34:50
  Speaker 5: But they will not play another one o'clock game until Sunday,
• 34:54
  Speaker 5: December 20th against the Baltimore Ravens. And who knows that
• 34:57
  Speaker 5: could potentially be flexed by then, depending on what the
• 34:59
  Speaker 5: Ravens or Steelers are doing.
• 35:01
  Speaker 3: I know we have talked about that a few times.
• 35:04
  Speaker 7: Yeah, and 3 o'clock's not real different from 1 o'clock.
• 35:07
  Speaker 7: But you're right.
• 35:08
  Speaker 6: For the purposes of that factoid or that stat, it
• 35:11
  Speaker 6: is true.
• 35:12
  Speaker 7: That was the last 1 p.m. kickoff for quite a while.
• 35:15
  Speaker 6: And Cincinnati Sunday night football should be a blast. I
• 35:19
  Speaker 6: don't know if they're going to be coming off a
• 35:20
  Speaker 6: win or a loss to the Falcons out in Madrid.
• 35:24
  Speaker 6: But they've got an international trip that they need to
• 35:26
  Speaker 6: rebound from the same way. They'll be trying to rebound
• 35:29
  Speaker 6: the same way that the Steelers rebounded from Paris. I mean, man,
• 35:32
  Speaker 6: you wouldn't have known it at all. in their play.
• 35:35
  Speaker 6: Mike McCarthy gave them a ton of credit for that
• 35:37
  Speaker 6: after the game. I know we're going to hear some
• 35:38
  Speaker 6: of his audio later in the show, but in his
• 35:41
  Speaker 6: postgame presser, the three big things that I think he
• 35:44
  Speaker 6: mentioned right off the bat, Ed, the guys getting their
• 35:47
  Speaker 6: bodies right off that long plane flight and back-to-back travel games,
• 35:53
  Speaker 6: keeping the game about football, so not feeding into some
• 35:55
  Speaker 6: of the trash talk, and then the run defense.
• 35:58
  Speaker 5: Yeah, no, we're going to hear from Coach McCarthy in
• 36:00
  Speaker 5: the second hour, as you said, Brian.
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: We're also going to hear from T.J.
• 36:03
  Speaker 5: Watt, Aaron Rodgers, and Cam Hayward, all coming up in
• 36:06
  Speaker 5: hour number two today, so stay tuned for that. Lots
• 36:09
  Speaker 5: to listen to and celebrate here as the Pittsburgh Steelers
• 36:12
  Speaker 5: are at 6-2 at the bye week. Brian Becker currently
• 36:16
  Speaker 5: started his day with us here in the studio, but
• 36:19
  Speaker 5: now is quickly heading down to the south side to
• 36:21
  Speaker 5: the Steelers facility where he's We will hear from head coordinators,
• 36:25
  Speaker 5: not head coach Mike McCarthy, no McCarthy press conference today,
• 36:28
  Speaker 5: but we will hear from coach McCarthy post game coming
• 36:31
  Speaker 5: up here in our number two, but we will hear
• 36:33
  Speaker 5: from the coordinators today. So Brian will have that for
• 36:35
  Speaker 5: us and we'll hear from both Patrick Graham and coach
• 36:39
  Speaker 5: Angelico tomorrow here on the Steelers report. But Brian, I
• 36:42
  Speaker 5: want to spend some time here talking as we wrap
• 36:45
  Speaker 5: up our number one about some stats in Steelers, 27 Browns,
• 36:49
  Speaker 5: six Jalen.
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: Warren, 143 yards rushing.
• 36:52
  Speaker 5: Datto added 56. The Steelers 200 yards rushing yesterday. Aaron
• 36:57
  Speaker 5: Rodgers 13-25, 172 yards. Just that one interception, which was
• 37:02
  Speaker 5: not his fault, went in and out of DK Metcalf's hands.
• 37:05
  Speaker 5: Metcalf should have had that catch. Denzel Ward took advantage
• 37:08
  Speaker 5: of the interception. Ward has three interceptions this year, and
• 37:10
  Speaker 5: two of them have been against Aaron Rodgers. But Rodgers,
• 37:13
  Speaker 5: very clean, only one sack and two quarterback hits, so
• 37:16
  Speaker 5: that offensive line kept him clean throughout the day. Receiving-wise,
• 37:20
  Speaker 5: Darnell Washington, three catches, 94 yards. Pat Fryer-Muth, two catches,
• 37:24
  Speaker 5: 35 yards. You talked about the tight ends earlier today
• 37:28
  Speaker 5: contributing in a big, big way.
• 37:30
  Speaker 7: Again, Muth.
• 37:31
  Speaker 5: And Washington over 100 yards combined. Jeremy Bernard, five targets,
• 37:34
  Speaker 5: five catches, 30 yards. The DK Metcalf had six targets,
• 37:38
  Speaker 5: only one catch for four yards. We've been talking about
• 37:41
  Speaker 5: all these positives, and rightfully so. There were a lot
• 37:43
  Speaker 5: of them yesterday, but I guess if there are a
• 37:45
  Speaker 5: few negatives, this would be one of them. DK Metcalf,
• 37:48
  Speaker 5: another underperforming game. He should have had that catch that
• 37:51
  Speaker 5: led to the interception.
• 37:54
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm going to keep it with the positive first.
• 37:55
  Speaker 6: I mean, Jeremy Bernard with a sneaky, productive game. Again,
• 37:58
  Speaker 6: I think the role... He played yesterday, was very similar
• 38:02
  Speaker 6: to the role that a lot of us thought he
• 38:03
  Speaker 6: would have this season, with or without Michael Pippen Jr.
• 38:07
  Speaker 6: and Roman Wilson. I mean, he's really good. He gets
• 38:10
  Speaker 6: open underneath, run after catch. He's super productive when he
• 38:14
  Speaker 6: gets those opportunities. But I thought it would be complimenting
• 38:19
  Speaker 6: DK Metcalf as the number one receiver, who's the guy
• 38:21
  Speaker 6: going out there and catching five for a hundo or
• 38:24
  Speaker 6: something like that.
• 38:25
  Speaker 7: Obviously did not materialize yet again.
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: You know, the.
• 38:29
  Speaker 6: whatever he found late in that first matchup with the Browns.
• 38:32
  Speaker 6: It was too late in that game, but I thought
• 38:35
  Speaker 6: he could use that as maybe a springboard in the
• 38:39
  Speaker 6: rematch with them. Just nothing doing downfield, the drop. And then,
• 38:42
  Speaker 6: you know, I thought we established that if you're going
• 38:45
  Speaker 6: to throw a goal line fade to anybody on this team,
• 38:48
  Speaker 6: throw it to number 80. Darnell Washington is, you know,
• 38:53
  Speaker 6: Godzilla down there.
• 38:54
  Speaker 7: I don't know if they're just trying to.
• 38:55
  Speaker 6: Get DK going if maybe they feel like hey if
• 38:58
  Speaker 6: he sees one go through the hoop he'll be like
• 39:00
  Speaker 6: a three-point shooter in basketball and then he's really going
• 39:03
  Speaker 6: to get hot but it didn't work yesterday and I
• 39:07
  Speaker 6: thought initial goal line series that Mike McCarthy wanted back
• 39:12
  Speaker 6: you'll hear his exact answer in an exchange on that
• 39:15
  Speaker 6: with our buddy Chris Carter but that was an infuriating
• 39:19
  Speaker 6: set of downs there because They had so much momentum
• 39:23
  Speaker 6: getting down.
• 39:23
  Speaker 7: To the goal line.
• 39:24
  Speaker 6: At the other end of the field, in between quarters,
• 39:26
  Speaker 6: they got to walk all the way across. Mason McCormick is...
• 39:30
  Speaker 6: you know playing like a WWE hype man getting the
• 39:33
  Speaker 6: crowd into it and then instead of just smashing the
• 39:35
  Speaker 6: run four more times for that matter uh they they
• 39:39
  Speaker 6: throw it a couple times and then have to settle
• 39:41
  Speaker 6: so that was disappointing but at least they they changed
• 39:45
  Speaker 6: that at the end of the first half with the Pittsburgh,
• 39:47
  Speaker 6: Pat Plunge, Friar Muth punching it in from a yard.
• 39:51
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's frustrating at times when they're checking out of
• 39:53
  Speaker 5: those maybe run situations. We're not sure, but we can
• 39:56
  Speaker 5: only assume when you try to throw the ball three
• 39:59
  Speaker 5: times inside the five-yard line. They've done it a number
• 40:01
  Speaker 5: of times so far this season.
• 40:02
  Speaker 3: Like I said, Brian, I'm with you.
• 40:03
  Speaker 5: There's not a lot of negatives to take away, and
• 40:05
  Speaker 5: I don't want to dwell on the negatives either, but
• 40:07
  Speaker 5: facts are facts. They've got to get Metcalf going more here.
• 40:10
  Speaker 5: in the second half of the season. We'll talk about
• 40:12
  Speaker 5: that more as we go throughout the week. On the
• 40:14
  Speaker 5: Cleveland Browns side, Steelers excellent against the run. We already
• 40:16
  Speaker 5: talked about it, just 34 total yards rushing. Junkins, 11 carries,
• 40:21
  Speaker 5: 25 yards, just 2.3 yards per carry. Deshaun Watson, for
• 40:26
  Speaker 5: the second straight game, Brian, he did not have one
• 40:28
  Speaker 5: 300-yard passing game in his Cleveland Brown career until last week.
• 40:32
  Speaker 3: He did it last week. He also did it yesterday, 324.
• 40:35
  Speaker 5: Now you can make the case a lot of that
• 40:37
  Speaker 5: was in junk time in the second half when they
• 40:39
  Speaker 5: were playing catch-up. He finishes the game 27-39. He was
• 40:42
  Speaker 5: sacked eight times. No touchdowns, no interceptions. 13 quarterback hits
• 40:47
  Speaker 5: on Watson yesterday. Harold Fannin Jr., big game, 12 targets,
• 40:51
  Speaker 5: 10 catches, 154 yards. Sampson out of the backfield had
• 40:55
  Speaker 5: six catches for 62 yards. The two big receivers in
• 40:59
  Speaker 5: Denzel Boston had 11 targets, but only six catches for
• 41:02
  Speaker 5: 37 yards. And Casey Concepcion coming off that big game
• 41:05
  Speaker 5: against the Titans, three catches for 37 yards. Steelers secondary
• 41:09
  Speaker 5: did good against Boston and Concepcion yesterday.
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they did.
• 41:15
  Speaker 6: There was the one long one to Boston right down
• 41:17
  Speaker 6: the left sideline. It looked like a miscommunication maybe between
• 41:20
  Speaker 6: the two rookies, Dalen Everett and Robert Spears Jennings. But, hey,
• 41:24
  Speaker 6: sometimes the other guys get paid, too.
• 41:26
  Speaker 7: They're going to make some plays.
• 41:27
  Speaker 6: And that was a good read, good route, good throw
• 41:30
  Speaker 6: and catch by Watson and Boston. Otherwise, though, yeah, I mean,
• 41:33
  Speaker 6: it kind of reminded me out of the Colts game.
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 41:36
  Speaker 7: A few weeks back.
• 41:37
  Speaker 6: Where Tyler Warren got his over the middle and the
• 41:40
  Speaker 6: Steelers were kind of OK with giving up some of
• 41:42
  Speaker 6: those catches to the big tight end.
• 41:44
  Speaker 7: Same thing really for Fannin. But, you know, it didn't
• 41:49
  Speaker 7: it didn't break them. They bent.
• 41:51
  Speaker 6: But I love that they even bowed up at the
• 41:53
  Speaker 6: very end there for one last goal line stand when
• 41:55
  Speaker 6: the Browns were going tempo and trying to score, I guess,
• 41:59
  Speaker 6: just to make the the outcome look a little bit
• 42:01
  Speaker 6: better on paper.
• 42:02
  Speaker 7: But the Steelers would have none of it.
• 42:04
  Speaker 6: I think that 27-13 still would have been an excellent
• 42:09
  Speaker 6: win and their most lopsided win of the season, but
• 42:11
  Speaker 6: instead they went out there and got their most lopsided
• 42:13
  Speaker 6: win since.
• 42:14
  Speaker 7: Do you know, Ed? Quick trivia question. When's the last
• 42:17
  Speaker 7: time the Steelers won by more than 21?
• 42:18
  Speaker 5: Well, Double B, I have that answer queued up for you.
• 42:22
  Speaker 5: It was last season, November 16, 2025. They defeated the
• 42:26
  Speaker 5: Cincinnati Bengals 34-12, a 22-point win.
• 42:30
  Speaker 3: Is that the game that you were thinking of?
• 42:34
  Speaker 6: Yeah, and it was actually tied with 2024 when Aaron
• 42:38
  Speaker 6: Rodgers and the Jets came in here and lost. I
• 42:43
  Speaker 6: think it was.
• 42:46
  Speaker 7: 37-15, I believe. So those are all dominant wins.
• 42:49
  Speaker 6: But yesterday felt even more so because of what we mentioned,
• 42:52
  Speaker 6: leaving some points out there and obviously keeping the Browns
• 42:55
  Speaker 6: out of the end zone for the entire game.
• 42:58
  Speaker 7: That was something.
• 43:00
  Speaker 6: To remember, and they didn't even need to use Renegade.
• 43:03
  Speaker 6: I don't think you were at the game, Ed, but
• 43:05
  Speaker 6: those who were, some people pointed this out. And I
• 43:08
  Speaker 6: think that if you don't use Renegade in a game,
• 43:12
  Speaker 6: it actually is supercharged, and it's doubly as.
• 43:14
  Speaker 7: Powerful the next time you bust it out.
• 43:16
  Speaker 6: If they don't need it after their next home game against,
• 43:20
  Speaker 6: what is it, the Broncos, we said, then maybe it'll
• 43:22
  Speaker 6: be triple-time charged for the next time they do use it.
• 43:26
  Speaker 3: No, it's definitely noteworthy. That's for sure. No renegade yesterday.
• 43:29
  Speaker 3: They didn't need it.
• 43:31
  Speaker 5: Now, on the flip side of what you just said
• 43:32
  Speaker 5: there to tell N2, Brian, not giving up that touchdown
• 43:35
  Speaker 5: in garbage time right there at the end. That's big
• 43:38
  Speaker 5: because the Steelers still have that stat going. They've only
• 43:40
  Speaker 5: given up one second-half touchdown so far this season. Kudos
• 43:46
  Speaker 5: to Patrick Graham and that defense. Second half has been
• 43:48
  Speaker 5: lights out so far this year.
• 43:51
  Speaker 7: I know.
• 43:52
  Speaker 6: I'm starting to lose track of all the stats between
• 43:54
  Speaker 6: second half defense, touchdowns allowed, fourth quarter defense. What a
• 44:00
  Speaker 6: turning point for the defense in this season. That Browns game,
• 44:05
  Speaker 6: bringing Patrick Graham from the booth to the field. I
• 44:10
  Speaker 6: don't necessarily know what it took to get that change
• 44:12
  Speaker 6: across the finish line, but you can't argue with the results, Ed.
• 44:17
  Speaker 7: It's week-to-week league. The Bengals' offense is humming.
• 44:20
  Speaker 6: Absolutely put it on the Titans yesterday, but that is
• 44:22
  Speaker 6: a Titans defense that I think we could all safely
• 44:25
  Speaker 6: say pales in comparison to the Steelers and their personnel.
• 44:30
  Speaker 6: Tennessee just traded away their best defensive player and the
• 44:32
  Speaker 6: Bengals put up 40-some. We'll see if they can do
• 44:36
  Speaker 6: that next time around, but that's still a ways away.
• 44:38
  Speaker 6: We can continue to revel in the Steelers' defensive performance
• 44:43
  Speaker 6: against a Browns team that also was getting some things
• 44:46
  Speaker 6: going offensively, but Not in this one. Steelers slamming the
• 44:49
  Speaker 6: door and Herman Boone-ing it, leaving no doubt. Coach Yost
• 44:54
  Speaker 6: was the defensive coordinator, was he not?
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  Speaker 5: He was, and he said to Coach Herman Boone, leave
• 45:00
  Speaker 5: no doubt, Herman, leave no doubt. And that's exactly what
• 45:02
  Speaker 5: the Steelers did yesterday. Brian, just a few more minutes
• 45:05
  Speaker 5: left here before we wrap up our number one. I
• 45:08
  Speaker 5: want to talk about the first few possessions. First, for
• 45:10
  Speaker 5: the Steelers, they miss the Chris Boswell field goal on
• 45:13
  Speaker 5: their first attempt. And this is, you know, Bos is
• 45:16
  Speaker 5: great as he's been at points this season, and he
• 45:18
  Speaker 5: has been. He's also missed a handful, and he missed
• 45:20
  Speaker 5: one yesterday there at the.
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  Speaker 3: Start of the game.
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  Speaker 5: But after that, the Steelers touched down on their second
• 45:26
  Speaker 5: offensive drive and then two field goals by Bos in
• 45:29
  Speaker 5: the second quarter, and then that touchdown right before halftime.
• 45:33
  Speaker 5: The Steelers, in that span of four possessions at the
• 45:36
  Speaker 5: end of the first quarter and through the second quarter,
• 45:38
  Speaker 5: scored a total of 20 points on four possessions.
• 45:41
  Speaker 7: Excellent.
• 45:42
  Speaker 5: On the flip side for the Browns, their first three
• 45:44
  Speaker 5: possessions of the game, fumble, fumble, and punt. Boy, oh boy,
• 45:49
  Speaker 5: you could not write a better script on Sunday for
• 45:51
  Speaker 5: the Steelers.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, listening to Aaron Rodgers after the game, Ed, I
• 45:56
  Speaker 7: don't think he was real.
• 45:57
  Speaker 6: Happy with the way he played or maybe more fairly
• 46:00
  Speaker 6: overall how the offense played. obviously he was happy to
• 46:04
  Speaker 6: get a win, but we know he's a perfectionist and
• 46:06
  Speaker 6: he's a competitor and holds himself to a high standard.
• 46:09
  Speaker 6: I think he was a little miffed by some of
• 46:11
  Speaker 6: the points that were left out there on those possessions
• 46:14
  Speaker 6: early that you mentioned. So I think that in a
• 46:17
  Speaker 6: way that's almost more encouraging for the offense because there's
• 46:22
  Speaker 6: a lot more meat on that bone. And if you
• 46:24
  Speaker 6: can marry the run with the pass, if you can
• 46:26
  Speaker 6: get both playing together, and he bristled at the notion
• 46:30
  Speaker 6: a little bit of, that the team played a complete
• 46:33
  Speaker 6: game and he pointed to the offensive struggles and he
• 46:36
  Speaker 6: pointed to the missed field goal. So that was a
• 46:38
  Speaker 6: 27 to six win, even without arguably a complete game.
• 46:43
  Speaker 6: It was complimentary with the run game and the run defense,
• 46:47
  Speaker 6: but you know, there were still a lot of areas
• 46:49
  Speaker 6: for improvement in that game. And if the Steelers can
• 46:51
  Speaker 6: make those improvements, the second half of the season looks mighty,
• 46:55
  Speaker 6: mighty bright on both sides of the ball and the
• 46:58
  Speaker 6: third phase of the game.
• 46:59
  Speaker 3: That's going to do it for our number one for us.
• 47:01
  Speaker 5: Coming up next, we're going to hear some post-game sound
• 47:04
  Speaker 5: from TJ Watt, Aaron Rodgers, Cam Hayward, and coach Mike McCarthy.
• 47:09
  Speaker 5: But first, this is the Steelers report on SNR, part
• 47:12
  Speaker 5: of the Steelers audio network.