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Chargers Recap, Colts Preview · Steelers Country Weekly

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  Speaker 1: Today on Steelers Country Weekly, we break down the steelers
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  Speaker 1: thrilling win over the Los Angeles Chargers, look ahead to
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  Speaker 1: the matchup in Indianapolis against the Colts, and then we're
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  Speaker 1: going to talk about qv controversies in history. I'm Nick
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  Speaker 1: Detulo and as always, am joined by the world famous
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  Speaker 1: accountant Eric Vaman showing Eric, how are you tonight?
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  Speaker 2: I guess not always with me.
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  Speaker 3: I had a plumbing emergency last week.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm sorry that to my loyal.
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  Speaker 3: Listeners that they they missed me last week. But hey,
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure, just like.
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  Speaker 2: The Steelers, this podcast got to win.
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  Speaker 1: That is well, the podcast took a week off. I
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  Speaker 1: was like, you know what, I'm not going to do
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  Speaker 1: it without him. It wouldn't be right, and frankly, I
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  Speaker 1: just I didn't want to.
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  Speaker 2: So now it's fine. I mean I took the week off.
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  Speaker 4: So yeah, for all of us.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, plumbing emergencies can happen to anyone, so it's best
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  Speaker 1: to be prepared, and you definitely were. It also helps
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  Speaker 1: that your dad knows what he's doing there too.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Well that one, uh, I mean it was the basement.
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  Speaker 2: I told you.
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  Speaker 3: The boss went crazy and then linked in to the
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  Speaker 3: floor and stuff. So in my dad's bummer of forty
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  Speaker 3: plus years is like, I've never seen this before.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, well, that's unfortunate. Well, hey, it happens to all
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  Speaker 1: of us. Not that exact situation, but I had a
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  Speaker 1: plumbing issue at my brand new house too when we
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  Speaker 1: bought it. My dad and I drove down from Cincinnati
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  Speaker 1: and we were waiting for some furniture to be delivered
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  Speaker 1: here at my house in Georgia, and of course we
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  Speaker 1: ended up being the last delivery window for the furniture,
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  Speaker 1: and it ended up being a blessing because as we
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  Speaker 1: were getting ready to leave, I was at like seven
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  Speaker 1: o'clock at night. I was just checking making sure all
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  Speaker 1: the doors were locked, all the lights were out, and
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  Speaker 1: I noticed that there was some water on the ground
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  Speaker 1: in the basement.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it turns out that the.
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  Speaker 1: I think it was the condensation pump was backed up
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  Speaker 1: on the HVAC and that just kind of flooded in
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  Speaker 1: the basement.
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  Speaker 4: So anyway, it's home ownership.
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  Speaker 1: And it stinks. But we're not here to talk about
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  Speaker 1: those problems. We're here to talk about the Pittsburgh Steelers,
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  Speaker 1: So let's get.
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  Speaker 4: Right into it.
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  Speaker 1: The Steelers hosted the Chargers for their home opener, and
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  Speaker 1: the big story coming into the game was would Justin
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  Speaker 1: Herbert play. He had a high ankle sprain and was
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  Speaker 1: really all the reporters were saying that he was a
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  Speaker 1: game time decision. He was out there warming up, he
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  Speaker 1: looked good, and ultimately it was decided that he would play.
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  Speaker 1: You know, the game was kind of similar to what
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  Speaker 1: we've seen the first couple weeks.
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  Speaker 4: It was lots of defense.
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  Speaker 1: The plan was to win the turnover battle that ended
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  Speaker 1: up not happening, but we did see the offense open
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  Speaker 1: up a little bit and that was really refreshing to see.
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  Speaker 1: And then ultimately, I think what ended up coming back
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  Speaker 1: to bite the Chargers was that Herbert did take a
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  Speaker 1: shot where Cam Hayward ended up rolling over on his
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  Speaker 1: leg and he did have to come out, which left
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  Speaker 1: them with Taylor Heineke for the last portion of the game.
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  Speaker 4: So, looking back at the tape, Eric, what are some big.
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  Speaker 1: Takeaways for you for the Steelers win.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we were texting a little bit during the game.
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  Speaker 3: Something that we haven't seen at least since Matt Canada
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  Speaker 3: with the offense coordinator was shots over the middle of
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  Speaker 3: the field.
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  Speaker 2: Did we light it up on offense, that's debatable. Did
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  Speaker 2: we make a noticeable progress, I think so. I think
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  Speaker 2: a lot of it had to do with, you know,
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  Speaker 2: using the middle of the field. And you think about
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  Speaker 2: the person that had.
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  Speaker 3: Front of their best game as a pro, Calvin Austin,
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  Speaker 3: you know, he I think he ended up four catches and.
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  Speaker 2: You know, seven or eighty year yards.
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  Speaker 3: Including a big one over the middle of the field,
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  Speaker 3: got fifty five yards on it, And so I think
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  Speaker 3: that was the biggest key we.
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  Speaker 2: You know, when you can trust a quarterback to.
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  Speaker 3: Throw it over the middle of the field, which you know,
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  Speaker 3: things happen fields at his first interception got batted up
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  Speaker 3: in the air.
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  Speaker 2: Actually I think it landed in bud Dupreeze hands.
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  Speaker 5: But I mean, I really.
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  Speaker 3: Think that that was kind of the spark we needed
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  Speaker 3: some we need some spat, some splash plays, and I
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  Speaker 3: think that our.
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  Speaker 2: Defense as usual came to play.
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  Speaker 3: I think we gave up less than two hundred yards are.
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  Speaker 2: Running, you know, was efficient.
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  Speaker 1: It was.
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  Speaker 2: It was okay, not major. I think Gaji had another
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  Speaker 2: twenty carry game, but I.
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  Speaker 3: Think the true difference maker was Yats did show improvement.
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  Speaker 2: But I think a lot of that improvement was just
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  Speaker 2: potentially play calling and hoping about the play book a
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  Speaker 2: little bit.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we did see the concerted effort over the middle
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  Speaker 1: more and they have come out and said, you know, hey,
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  Speaker 1: week one, that was that was definitely part of the plan.
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  Speaker 1: We didn't want to throw the ball at Jesse Bates,
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  Speaker 1: so I understand that. I'm not sure what the deal
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  Speaker 1: was in week two. But yes, in week three, we
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  Speaker 1: did see things open up a bit, we saw improvement.
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  Speaker 2: This was.
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  Speaker 1: Heading into next week's game. People keep saying, is the
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  Speaker 1: damn about the break? Is the damn about the break?
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  Speaker 1: And I don't know if we're ever going to see
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  Speaker 1: the damn break and see the offense explode for six
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  Speaker 1: hundred yards in a game with seven touchdowns or what
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  Speaker 1: have you. But I do think if we keep seeing
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of improvement week after week, like we
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  Speaker 1: have frankly every week so far, I think that this
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  Speaker 1: could be a really well oiled machine come middle to
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  Speaker 1: end of the season. Here you mentioned Fields had a turnover,
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  Speaker 1: could have been a better throw. I wouldn't put it
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  Speaker 1: entirely on him. It's not like he threw it right
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  Speaker 1: to a defender like you said. It got batted in
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  Speaker 1: the air. It felt like for a whole minute. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and I have to give my kudos to the defense
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  Speaker 1: because they held the Chargers to negative five yards in
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  Speaker 1: the entire second half the Chargers. The Chargers would have
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  Speaker 1: gained more yards if they just punted on first down
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  Speaker 1: every time that half instead of actually trying to run plays.
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  Speaker 1: So Alex Heismith goes down, her big comes in and
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  Speaker 1: has a couple of sacks, a couple of big hits.
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  Speaker 1: I love what Mike Tomlin said. He performed well, but hey,
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  Speaker 1: we expected him to, so no surprises there. And look,
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  Speaker 1: I mean we had people like Scottie Miller step up too.
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  Speaker 1: Two catches for thirty one yards. He had the first
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  Speaker 1: first down of the game, So even guys whose names
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  Speaker 1: you don't hear very often were able to step up.
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  Speaker 1: Quarterell Patterson the same thing. Joe and Warren went out
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  Speaker 1: with an injury.
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  Speaker 4: He's weak to week.
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  Speaker 1: Tomlin said that he just pulled him because it looked
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  Speaker 1: like to Tomlin he didn't look right. So Quardill Patterson
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  Speaker 1: had to go in and take some snaps. He did
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  Speaker 1: three carries for fifteen yards to close out the game,
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  Speaker 1: which is I'm sorry, four carries for thirty three yards
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  Speaker 1: Star I was looking at his receiving stats, but again
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  Speaker 1: three catches for fifteen yards too. So this was a
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  Speaker 1: really good team effort of a game here. And I'll
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  Speaker 1: even give Naudy credit to it felt like watching him
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  Speaker 1: some of those runs were just brutal to go through,
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  Speaker 1: like he was getting hit almost right away. And the
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  Speaker 1: offensive line to start this game, the first two drives
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  Speaker 1: maybe were pretty bad. I was I was feeling pretty down, like,
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  Speaker 1: oh no, we're in for We're in for a long game.
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  Speaker 1: With obviously the news about Troy Faltana being out, possibly
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  Speaker 1: for the entire regular season. Broderick Jones was coming in
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  Speaker 1: to start. People were a little freaking out a little bit,
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  Speaker 1: thinking the sky's falling, and those first couple drives were
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  Speaker 1: definitely playing into their their fears.
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  Speaker 4: But they right they righted the ship.
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  Speaker 1: And I mean, I think the theme is continued improvement.
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  Speaker 1: We've seen that week over a week, there's been little
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  Speaker 1: bits of improvement. We had two touchdowns on offense this game,
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  Speaker 1: that's a season high for us. And and like we said,
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  Speaker 1: the defense, there was one drive at the beginning of
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  Speaker 1: the game where the Chargers just in the first quarter,
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  Speaker 1: just march down the field and there as a busted
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  Speaker 1: coverage and they had a wide open touchdown that gave
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  Speaker 1: them the seven zero lead, kind of like the offensive line.
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  Speaker 1: The defense said okay and they fixed the problem. And
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  Speaker 1: like I said, negative five yards in the second half
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  Speaker 1: is just phenomenal.
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  Speaker 4: So it was really nice to have a solid team win.
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  Speaker 1: And it also it's been a while that I can
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  Speaker 1: remember anyway where the Steelers had a chance to put
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  Speaker 1: the game away and they did. Like Sunday, it feels
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  Speaker 1: like the last year Too've been waiting for the last
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  Speaker 1: second every single game unless we're getting blown out.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, I mean especially like a band of the game.
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  Speaker 3: They knew that they were going to run the ball
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  Speaker 3: and you know not like you said, na his runs
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  Speaker 3: looked great, his best run maybe if I do.
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  Speaker 2: I remember this correctly, Naga had the last run. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: where it went down to the one yard.
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  Speaker 3: Line, probably could have toward but he may have given
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  Speaker 3: himself up just to kind of seal the game. But
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  Speaker 3: now I think as complete of a game that you
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  Speaker 3: can possibly imagine from the Steelers, and I think the
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  Speaker 3: biggest thing would be.
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  Speaker 2: Is this are we able to replicate this.
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  Speaker 5: Are we.
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  Speaker 2: Is this what we can kind of come to expect
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  Speaker 2: from this.
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  Speaker 3: Team, or you know, will there be some people start
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  Speaker 3: getting tape on us and start figuring it out.
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  Speaker 2: But as of right now, let's ride that wave.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that is interesting to think about. Is this something
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  Speaker 1: that we can sustain or is it something that people
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  Speaker 1: are gonna catch up to us on. Defensively, I don't
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  Speaker 1: know what you can do as long as you've got
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  Speaker 1: t J. Watt out there, because frankly, there's that saying
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  Speaker 1: that no plan survives contact with the enemy. And if
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  Speaker 1: you've got TJ. Watt out there, you've either got to
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  Speaker 1: chip him, so have two people going after him, and
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  Speaker 1: that opens you up to people like Alex high Smith
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  Speaker 1: or Nate Herbig, or you can not chip him and
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  Speaker 1: have the protection a little more balanced. But then you've
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  Speaker 1: got him going one on one and just his disruption
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  Speaker 1: in the backfield just destroys, for the most part, a
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  Speaker 1: lot of plans that offenses may have, and offensively, if
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  Speaker 1: this team gets going, I'd also like to point out
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  Speaker 1: that the receiver that they've drafted to be the number
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  Speaker 1: two wide receiver, Roman Wilson from Michigan hasn't stepped foot
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  Speaker 1: on the field yet. Either if you get a piece
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  Speaker 1: like him to the puzzle added in there, or if
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  Speaker 1: these other guys who have been playing in his absence
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  Speaker 1: continue to play above what their projections are, things could
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  Speaker 1: get pretty scary if you're having to play this Pittsburgh
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  Speaker 1: Steelers team. Now, I don't want to put the cart
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  Speaker 1: before the horse and say we're going to the super Bowl,
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  Speaker 1: as much as I would love to, because there are
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  Speaker 1: things they can get better at. But ah, for once,
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  Speaker 1: it seems like the Steelers are doing what they need to.
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  Speaker 1: They're taking care of business, and they're winning the games
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  Speaker 1: that we think they should be winning.
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  Speaker 4: And that's a good.
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  Speaker 2: That's a good. The super Bowl comment.
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  Speaker 1: Well, what was that? Now, I was letting you finish
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  Speaker 1: your thought.
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  Speaker 3: Uh so my brother in law he actually said, are
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  Speaker 3: the Steelers good?
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  Speaker 2: And I said, I'm getting.
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  Speaker 3: My Super super Bowl ring fitted already, obviously joking, but that.
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  Speaker 2: Very optimistic.
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  Speaker 3: So, you know, I'm not sure what we gave in
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  Speaker 3: the you know, the analysis for the sea and I
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  Speaker 3: think that we were looking at these first few games
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  Speaker 3: as being kind of lighter. But even if we did
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  Speaker 3: have them pegged for a.
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  Speaker 2: Three and no start. It's exceeded expectations so.
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  Speaker 1: Far, right, And it's it's not just that they're winning,
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  Speaker 1: it's how they've won and how they've gotten a little
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  Speaker 1: bit better.
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  Speaker 4: Every week two.
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  Speaker 1: So hey, zero touchdowns week one, one touchdown week two,
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  Speaker 1: two touchdowns in week three. So in week seventeen we'll
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  Speaker 1: have sixteen touchdowns and we'll just keep going up and
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  Speaker 1: up and up, and you know, hey, there you go.
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  Speaker 2: I like it all right.
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  Speaker 1: Well, let's end things with the Chargers there again. The
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  Speaker 1: Steelers win twenty to ten in the home opener. Now
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  Speaker 1: they will go back on the road. Three road games
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  Speaker 1: in the first four weeks. Kind of nuts, but it'll
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  Speaker 1: be should be nice to have some home games Towards
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  Speaker 1: the tail end here, they'll travel to Indianapolis to play
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  Speaker 1: the Colts. Colts are an interesting team. First of all,
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  Speaker 1: we've made that road trip before, and if we were
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  Speaker 1: both in Cincinnati, there's a good chance we might both
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  Speaker 1: be making that trip again. But the Colts currently sit
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  Speaker 1: at one and two. They're a really interesting team. They
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  Speaker 1: Week one, they lose to the Texans by two points.
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  Speaker 1: They then followed it up with the loss to the
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  Speaker 1: Packers sixteen to ten, and then they just now beat
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  Speaker 1: the Bears twenty one to sixteen. So the big thing
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  Speaker 1: with the Colts is their quarterback is Anthony Richardson. They've
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  Speaker 1: got Jonathan Taylor in the backfield. Richardson's rookie year last
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  Speaker 1: year was cut short due to injury, so everyone's expecting
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  Speaker 1: him to take that next step this year. And it's
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  Speaker 1: just kind of interesting to see a team that young,
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  Speaker 1: that raw with really I would I mean, they don't
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  Speaker 1: have a loss as a loss, but it's not like
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  Speaker 1: they've been blown out yet. You would have coming into
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  Speaker 1: this season, I think people probably would have thought the
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  Speaker 1: Texans would have stomped all over them in Week one.
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  Speaker 1: And we know the Packers have exceeded expectations, especially since
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  Speaker 1: Jordan Love came into the league, or since Jordan Love
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  Speaker 1: left due to injury in Week one. But this is
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  Speaker 1: a game that does have the markings of something that
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  Speaker 1: I think we as Steelers fans, are familiar with, which
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  Speaker 1: is a game that we should win. We have no
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  Speaker 1: business losing, and yet here we are. So I know,
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  Speaker 1: we just talked about being optimistic and being happy. I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna try to bring us back down to earth a
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  Speaker 1: little bit here, and keep in mind that last year
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  Speaker 1: the game against the Colts was the catalyst that got
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  Speaker 1: Peyton Mason Rudolph into the game and replaced Mitch Trubisky
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  Speaker 1: when Kenny Pickett was hurt. So, now that I've brought
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  Speaker 1: all the doom and gloom, Eric, I'll ask you what
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  Speaker 1: are some keys to the game for the Steelers this weekend?
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  Speaker 2: You kind of broke up there. But if I'm saying,
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  Speaker 2: if I hear you.
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  Speaker 3: Correctly, doom and gloom, let's get to this game analysis. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I mean this, So the trend in the NFL is
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  Speaker 3: gonna running quarterback. You know, the Steelers went out and
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  Speaker 3: got one in fields. Also, we've seen Lamar Jackson what
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  Speaker 3: he can do the Colt Scott Anthony Richardson because what
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  Speaker 3: they think he can do with that Canevan arm developed
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  Speaker 3: that and then you know his mobility. He's one of
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  Speaker 3: the fastest quarterbacks in the league. I would say, though
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  Speaker 3: he's struggling this year, He's had three or three touchdowns,
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  Speaker 3: six picks, really hasn't busted open running wise, hasn't.
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  Speaker 2: Really needed to. Jonathan Taylor has been.
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  Speaker 3: Playing, you know, and as well as he has in
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  Speaker 3: probably three years. So but Indy is kind of one
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  Speaker 3: of those teams that and you can see it from
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  Speaker 3: their first three weeks.
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  Speaker 2: They play everyone close.
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  Speaker 3: So two point loss of the Texans, six point loss
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  Speaker 3: of the Packers, and then one by five against the Bears.
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  Speaker 5: So you know, I think this kind of game is
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  Speaker 5: going to be a grinding.
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  Speaker 2: Type of game. I think that.
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  Speaker 3: Just I've said it before, I said again until seeing otherwise,
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  Speaker 3: it will probably still be my analysis. But I think
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  Speaker 3: the turnover is gonna kind of tip the scales in
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  Speaker 3: this game. Last week, we actually lost the turnover margin
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  Speaker 3: negative one, but the defense still played phenomenal. Like we said,
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  Speaker 3: under two hundred yards, you said, negative five yards for
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  Speaker 3: a whole entire half.
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  Speaker 2: I think that the Colts have the ability to have
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  Speaker 2: that big play.
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  Speaker 3: I think that that's kind of the risk Anthony Richardson
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  Speaker 3: can take the top off our defense and we have
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  Speaker 3: to kind of stay honest in the box because Jonathan
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  Speaker 3: Taylor is averaging basically ninety yards in touchdown rushing each week.
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  Speaker 3: So you know, I think that luckily our defense is
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  Speaker 3: arguably the best in the league right now, at least
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  Speaker 3: playing like it. We're fairly healthy. We've mentioned the injuries before.
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  Speaker 3: But when you can say that those injuries are not TJ. Watt,
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  Speaker 3: not Cam Hayward, not make a Fitzpatrick, I think you're
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  Speaker 3: kind of trending in the right direction. So you know,
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  Speaker 3: I think that we don't need to do anything drastic.
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  Speaker 3: We do not need to change the game plan all
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  Speaker 3: that much. The Colts, they did yield twenty nine to
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  Speaker 3: the Texans, but Texans are pretty good offense. But otherwise,
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  Speaker 3: you know, they they got a pretty good defense. Their
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  Speaker 3: best defensive player is on ir though DeForrest Buckner. So
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  Speaker 3: you know, I think with that being said, I've seen
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  Speaker 3: you know, we've seen fields get better week in week out.
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  Speaker 3: But I'd love to just kind of keep this game
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  Speaker 3: tipping in the time of possession scales on our end,
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: kind of go for a thirty five to twenty five
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: split on time of possession and kind of grind an
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: ugly game out if you will. We can get a
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: lot better in the red zone. I think that's where
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: efficiency has been bad. I think we saw a stat
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: in this last week's game we scored a touchdown and
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: twenty of our trips to the red zone. If we
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: want to keep that undefeated record, I think that that's
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: where it's going to need to come out.
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: So I think it's a favorable matchup.
• 20:08
  Speaker 5: But you know, and for some reason, we've always said
• 20:13
  Speaker 5: the Colts number.
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: I don't know why. There always been a decent team.
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: Even the post Manning years have been decent. So but
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: you know, I'm cautiously optimistic going to this matchup.
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: Cautiously optimistic is where I'm at as well. And what
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: I was saying before when I was breaking up and
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: hopefully this is coming through to you now, was the
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: Colts were actually the team last year that were the
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: catalyst for Mason Rudolph coming in over Mitch Trubisky because
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: that was a game that we clearly thought we should
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: have won. There was no reason we should lose that game,
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: and yet there we were getting our pants pulled down
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: by the Colts. So what I that's just my fear
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: is we've seen this story before where Okay, we're rolling,
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: we're doing things that we're supposed to, we're winning games.
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: Oh here's a game against the Colts, no big deal.
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: We got the Cowboys after them, and then we all
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: know what happens. I agree with everything you said, though
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: cautiously optimistic, you look at Anthony Richardson. You mentioned the
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: three touchdowns to six interceptions and the Colts banged up defense.
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: I really do think that as long as the defense
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: can continue to apply the pressure that they have have been,
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: they stay largely healthy. Like you mentioned, the offense should
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: be able to continue to improve like we've seen. Maybe
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: we'll get three touchdowns this week instead of two. I
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: don't know, but I do think the point you made
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: that was the most interesting was the red zone efficiency.
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: I think that if people are claiming that the dam
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: is going to break soon, that would be the easiest
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: way for the damn to break is just start converting
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: more of those red zone trips to touchdowns. Not sure
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: offhand how many of those six field goals Boswell kicked
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: Week one were in the red zone, but that's a
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: good example right there, clearly of at least six times
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: where the Steelers got within somewhat of a striking distance
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: but couldn't put the ball in the end zone. Same thing,
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: at least for a portion of the game against the Chargers.
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: There was I think it was right before the half
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: where because they couldn't get over that final hump that
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: Boswell had to attempt the I think it was a
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: sixty three year sixty five yarder in Heinz field. No
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: less like that.
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: You've got a good just as good.
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: Of a chance as kicking a ball to the moon
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: as you do of kicking a sixty five yard or
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: at Heinz field. Her he did, he did everything he could.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: Not his fault, I'll say that. So yeah, look, I mean,
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: I'm cautiously optimistic with you, but I do have that
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: bug in the back of my head that's like, you know,
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: this is where they always blow it, right, So so look,
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: I'm just gonna say that I think that this Stealers
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: team is in a much better spot from a consistency
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: standpoint than we've seen over the past couple of years.
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: I'll give Justin Fields a lot of credit for that
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: as well, and I'll give Russell Wilson credit too, because,
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: unlike some people that we've seen over the last couple
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: of years, he's not thrown a tantrum or anything, at
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: least that we can see. He's still get he's still
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: getting game balls and leading the team out of the
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: tunnel and when they run onto the field. So I
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: said it a few weeks Gosshead again, I really do
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: appreciate his leadership, even though this is certainly not turned
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: out the way he wanted to or thought it would.
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: But and even something like Deontay Johnson not being there
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: causing locker room drop, it just seems like everyone's on
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: the same page and on board. So all of that
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: being said, let's get our predictions in here.
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: I think.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: I came into this recording telling myself I was gonna
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: pick the Steelers to lose, just to remain humble, But
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna go ahead and go out on a limb
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: and say they'll win. You kind of convinced me, So
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: I'll give you that they just won twenty four to ten.
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: I'll say they will win this one. Twenty four to seven.
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: Wow, you went from right consciously optimistic to seventeen point.
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: I won they won this last one. Ten correction there.
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: But yeah, I see, I think it's gonna be a
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: slug fest. And you know, I think that as much
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: as I'd love to see those offense can continue to
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: push that barometer up a little bit, I need to
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: see it more consistently. So you know, again, I'm gonna
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: go with that slugfest mentality. We're gonna win seventeen to thirteen,
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: giving up the most points that we've.
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: Given up all year.
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I was gonna say, that's why I didn't go
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: to the thirteen because I was like, Okay, well, I
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: don't know that they're gonna give up more points, but
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: I could see it.
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: So there you go.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: Eric and I both think the Steelers are gonna move
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: to four and l and if we're lucky, we'll see
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: the rest of the AFC North lose again. We almost
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: had another clean sweep this week, with the Ravens being
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: the only division opponent that won.
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: So did you watch that game?
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: I did not, so it was quite interesting, how I mean,
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: Ravens were up twenty eight to six something like that. Yeah,
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: and I mean, yeah, it was I'll tell you what.
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: If you were the Ravens fan, you were not feeling good.
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: Your your stomach was turning. And actually they even showed
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: because Brady called that game, they showed someone wearing a
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: twenty eight to three shirt out in the stands and
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: the Cowboys the tide started turning very late into the third,
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: very much like that Super Bowl. So it was kind
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: of ironic how that worked out. But yeah, I mean, dude,
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: Ravens have had a murders row first four games. You
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: want to say, they played Chiefs, who they played Week two.
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: Raiders the Raiders.
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: Kind of forgetting off the top of my head, and
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: they played the Cowboys.
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: Okay. Then now this week they.
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: Got Bills two three and now so uh, you know
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: they're getting no favors, but uh. And then also staying
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: in the in the North, I think is an interesting matchup.
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: Andy Dalton's going to be playing his old team, Bengals Panthers.
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: Now.
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: I did watch the Bengals game last night and that
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: was another good game. But yeah, if you're a Bengals fan,
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: you're just like, what, oh no, it's that Rob Schneider.
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: Oh no, we suck again. Because you've got Joe Burrow,
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: which is good. You've tried to invest to protect him,
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: which is good. You haven't always made the right selections there.
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: But you've got Jamar Chase, who you're still trying to
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: figure out how to pay. You got t Higgins who
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: you're still trying to figure out how to pay. No
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: more Tyler Boyd. And then the defense is a mess
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: right now. And then Jaden Daniels comes in and lights
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: you up and his last touchdown pass to McLaurin. I
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: don't know if you saw the highlights or anything. Yes,
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: that last touchdown pass was the most perfect throw I
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: think I have ever seen, with the exception of course,
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: because it'd be sacrileged to say that any throw is
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: better than Big Ben's Super Bowl forty three throw. Yeah,
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: I was gonna say, but I just mean the way
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: he placed that ball perfectly, and I'm like, this is
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: a rookie we're talking about was nuts. But anyway, Yeah,
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: that Bengals game crazy. And then even looking at the Browns,
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: they lost to the New York Giants at home and
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: their only win was again a very close one over
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: the winless Jaguars. So if you're a Steelers fan, you
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: could sit here and be like, oh, yeah, well, who
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: have we played so far? But by the same token, ah,
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: there is definitely something to be said for taking care
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: of business, because the Ravens had a gauntlet, like you said,
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: but they probably should have beaten the Raiders and didn't.
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: The Bengals should have won at least two of these
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: games and they didn't. And the Browns, I don't know
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: what the heck they're doing. They lost to the Giants,
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: who are possibly the worst team in the league.
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: Browns are said in the.
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: You know, pre preseason Browns are a mess. Don't trust them, Madam.
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: Feel bad for Joe Burrah though people like saying comments
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: about how he's overrated. Yes he yet he threw seventy
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: completion rate over three hundred yards, three touchdowns right points.
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: And people are calling him.
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: Overread it like I'm sorry. He doesn't line up and
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: play in the secondary.
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: So there was.
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: Literally a play where he started throwing blocks too, because
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: there was a broken run play and Moss had to
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: do kind of a makeshift reverse and he's out there
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: throwing the blocks like he literally can't do anything else.
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: So all right, well, we'll talk about the Bengals later.
• 30:36
  Speaker 4: But there you go again.
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: Eric and I have the Steelers going to four and
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: l we thought it might be interesting to talk about
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: the QB situation a little bit and then some QB
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: controversies throughout history. It was kind of interesting. It just
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: came out today. I don't know if you saw this
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: or not, but it seems like every week the first
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: question that Mike Tommin will be asked in his press
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: conference is who's going to be the starting quarterback, and
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: why don't you just name Justin Fields the starter? And
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: last week you got the answer of I can't tell
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: you how we make the hot dogs, you might not
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: like it or something like that. So another new tomlinism,
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: which is good, but this week, and I'm paraphrasing here,
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: he basically said, there's no need to call Justin Fields
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: the starting quarterback yet because at least what he is
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: telling us is that Wilson is not at a point
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: where he is considered one hundred percent healthy yet, So
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: they're not gonna they're not even gonna call it a
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: quarterback competition until Russell Wilson is one hundred percent healthy,
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: which I understand. I'm not entirely sure I believe him completely,
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: but that's okay. I'll take him as his word. But again,
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: I mean, you could look at what we just saw
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: with the Chargers in Justin Herbert, so I guess there's
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: some credence to it. But the case assuming it's just
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: kind of interesting because we talked about the offense as
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: a whole and how they've been getting a little bit
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: better each and every week. At the same time, Justin
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: Fields hasn't had a game where you knew right away, Like, Okay,
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: that's that's the nail in the coffin for Russell Wilson's
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: Pittsburgh career. He hasn't been lighting up defense as yet.
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: He's been winning games, which is good and that's really
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: all you can ask of him. But like we just
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: talked about Jaden Daniels, he hasn't had a performance like
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: that yet. By the same token, he hasn't played awful,
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: He has not had a bad game. So if you're
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: he really hasn't done anything to put an end to
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: the quarterback controversy, if you want to call it that
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: one way or the other. So it sounds to me
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: like Tomlin is just buying himself some time, which is fine.
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: I understand that it's a little bit of politics too.
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: But I guess before we get into our favorite controversies
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: of all time, Eric, was there anything you wanted to
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: mention with the quote unquote quarterback controversy brewing that's in
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: Pittsburgh right now?
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: I mean, am I happy for Justin Fields? And if
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: we said that he was our quarterback?
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: Would I be happy? Sure?
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: Do I think that three games in he's solidified as place?
• 33:26
  Speaker 3: Let's pump the brakes on that.
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: I mean, anyone can win three games.
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: When your defense is giving up like twenty seven points
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: on the season.
• 33:35
  Speaker 4: Yeah, So.
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: You know, even looking back at Trent Dilfert won a
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: Super Bowl because he had the most one of the
• 33:44
  Speaker 3: most elite defenses of all times.
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: So Duck Hodges could probably be three and zero right now.
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: I think Codes did win three games for us to Yeah, so.
• 33:58
  Speaker 3: You know what, you know, it's one of the things
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: I'm glad to see the progress. But the fact that,
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: like he had two hundred and fifty yards, one touchdown,
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: one interception, and people are saying he is our quarterback.
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: I'm not buying it yet.
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: So you know, well, I'd like to see him have
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: a I would not like to see him have a
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: bad game, but once he has a bad game, it's
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: inevitable overseason. I'd like to see how he responds, you know,
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: I'd like to see him have to play from behind
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: and does he does he come out of it, because
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: there were so many times where we can think about
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: Ben coming out, you.
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: Know, maybe the Ben into Ben's career.
• 34:46
  Speaker 3: There was no secondary so like he had to like
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: light up the scoreboard and always be a weapon he
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: didn't have someone he can hand it off to twenty
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: twenty five times a game. So before we start crowning anybody,
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: maybe we should kind of see situations where we want
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: to like solidify someone's place.
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: So that's all I want to stay.
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, And the unfortunate thing, too, is the longer that
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: Russell Wilson is injured, the less likely it is that
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: he's going to be the guy. Because you know, if
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: you get to week eight or nine, like you're halfway
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: through the season. At that point, let's assume that the
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: Steelers have a winning record. I don't want to say
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: they'll be undefeated or only one loss, but let's just
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: say odds are they'll have a winning record. Why would
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: you change horses mid stream, you know? So, I mean,
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: it's a good problem to have. It's better than having
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: two terrible quarterbacks, which we're also from, which we're also
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: familiar with. But but it's just I kind of wish,
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: for the sake of having no drama that Fields had either.
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: I mean, obviously my preference would be that he'd came
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: out and you know, lit everything on fire so that
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: there wasn't any question. But it sounds like he's played
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: He's playing well enough, but not enough to you know,
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: shut out the controversy entirely.
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: So yeah, in long term though, I do hope he wins,
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: because duo win a quarterback who's twenty five or thirty
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: five win this year, right. I want the young guy
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: because we might get a whole decade out of him,
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: you know, if he continues on. So I think it
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: would be the best thing for the Steelers' long term.
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: But this defense.
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: Is good, and cam Haberd's only got a certain amount
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: of years.
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: TJ's in his prime. Tomlin's gonna do whatever he cans
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: to win this year. He will do.
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: If that means rocking the boat and bench in fields because.
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: He doesn't think that he's as good as Wilson in
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: that game. It will happen, right though.
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: There you go. Well, let's talk about some quarterback controversies
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: around the NFL that we've seen over the years. You
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: mentioned Andy Dalton coming off the bench replacing Bryce Young
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: for Carolina. Carolina looked like the worst team hands down
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: the first two weeks, even more so than the Giants.
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: So bad they benched Bryce Young, the number one overall
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: pick from a year ago, and Andy Dalton comes in
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: and has the best performance by a quarterback this season,
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: you know, just insane, but historically it could be more
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: recently for that. But what are some controversies or quarterback
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: battles that come to your mind?
• 37:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, one that kind of comes to my
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: mind because everyone thinks of like controversies is one sour
• 37:57
  Speaker 3: and the other one, you know, it leads to their
• 38:01
  Speaker 3: started their career. But one that I actually like really
• 38:06
  Speaker 3: liked was Tony Romo and Dak Prescott.
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: You know, Tony had an injury.
• 38:14
  Speaker 3: Not exactly sure what it was, but Dak came in
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: as a rookie, lit on fire. I think they he
• 38:22
  Speaker 3: stayed the quarterback and they went kind of like Ben
• 38:27
  Speaker 3: like of fifteen and one, fourteen and two type of season,
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: and then obviously he became the quarterback of the future.
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: But I really just wanted to command how Tony handled
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: it that year. Yeah, Like I think he even publicly said, heck, yeah,
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: why wouldn't you play Dak Prescott. He'sn't playing his butt off.
• 38:50
  Speaker 3: So you know, I think of other quarterback controversies and
• 38:54
  Speaker 3: I'll let you kind of like say some other ones
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: before I kind of like steal any thunder from it,
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: But I just always appreciated that viewpoint because no one
• 39:04
  Speaker 3: likes to lose their job, right, no one likes to
• 39:06
  Speaker 3: say so much better than them, especially when they've been
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: the guy for ten, fifteen, twenty years.
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: But it's kind of a breath of fresh air.
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and that I mentioned Russell Wilson before. It's kind
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: of the same thing because we've had own some drama
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: on our side as well, and that's just usually the
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: dramatic responses where things are bitter are the ones that
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: get publicized more so that's what we're used to seeing.
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: But yeah, the Tony Romo one's a good one. I
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: didn't even think of. I think the most famous one though, is,
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: of course Brett Farv and Aaron Rodgers. You have to
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: remember the Packers drafted Aaron Rodgers in two thousand and five,
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: and I think Farv was there for three or four
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: more years, so it was very clear that Aaron Rodgers
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: is waiting in the wings. And you have to remember
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: that for maybe what the last six years of Brett
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: Farvre's career, every offseason it was always a story about
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: whether he was going to retire or not. So if
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  Speaker 1: you're Aaron Rodgers. That's got to be frustrating, right, because
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: you know the team drafted you to succeed someday, but
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: you haven't actually gotten your chance yet. And if you're
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: if you're Brett Farv, you're probably not even thinking about
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers at all. But I think the funny thing
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  Speaker 1: about that, though, is how history repeated itself, because one
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: of the criticisms Brett Farv had was that he was
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: being a diva about the whole thing. Just make up
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: your mind, do whatever you want to do, or just leave,
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: which he ended up doing. He left to go to
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: the Jets and then the Vikings, and then Aaron Rodgers
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: gets pissed because, on one hand, I agree with him,
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: they did not address the offense's needs in the draft
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  Speaker 1: well enough while he was there, so he did shoulder
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: a lot of that burden. But number two, they traded
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  Speaker 1: up to get Jordan Love when he was still very
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: much on the team and a high performer. So they
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: did the exact same thing. And not only that, they
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: traded up to get Jordan Love.
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  Speaker 4: And instead of.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, being I'm not saying he had to
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  Speaker 1: be a mentor or be a teacher to the guy,
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: but instead of not being a jerk about it, we
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: all know about his off the field drama and everything,
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: and he eventually went to New York but after a
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: few years, and oddly enough, Jordan Love who I don't
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  Speaker 1: think people expected to perform as well as he has
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  Speaker 1: had a great season last year. Just unfortunate that he
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: got injured this first weekend or this first yeah, this
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: first week down in Brazil. So I would say, really,
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: the Packers, they get continuous, continuous, great quarterback play, but
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: there's always drama around it.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, And I mean Aaron Rodgers he always
• 42:11
  Speaker 3: said he kind of went to step away because football was.
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  Speaker 2: Not his end all be all.
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  Speaker 3: He he had other ventures he wanted to do in
• 42:20
  Speaker 3: life and stuff.
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  Speaker 2: So it's always fine because he's still in Yeah, but.
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  Speaker 3: Interesting you called it the greatest controversy or the most
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  Speaker 3: well known.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like the.
• 42:34
  Speaker 3: Brady Blitzo things most well known. Did you watch that
• 42:39
  Speaker 3: documentary on Apple TV.
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: On I watched the first episode. I need to watch
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  Speaker 1: the rest. Thank you for reminding me.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's pretty good, honestly, But Blitzo is on there
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  Speaker 3: a lot, and they talk a lot about that season,
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  Speaker 3: and you know, Blitzer obvious.
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  Speaker 2: He's a good sport about it.
• 43:01
  Speaker 3: Now, I'm sure at that time he wasn't so because
• 43:06
  Speaker 3: in his mind he he was a previous first overall
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  Speaker 3: pick and now he's gonna lose his job to some
• 43:13
  Speaker 3: easily sixth round pick.
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  Speaker 2: Now, I think he has a little bit.
• 43:18
  Speaker 3: Greater perspective of like this guy grew up to be the.
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: The best quarterback of all time.
• 43:24
  Speaker 3: But yeah, you know, it's interesting how these things work
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  Speaker 3: out because.
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: You know, sometimes it's like a hot hand kind of thing.
• 43:35
  Speaker 3: You know, you got like guys like Matt Flynn. He
• 43:39
  Speaker 3: came in then over like last four games of the season,
• 43:43
  Speaker 3: goes the Seahawks and then flames out. So you know,
• 43:48
  Speaker 3: these things can either be flashes in the pan or
• 43:51
  Speaker 3: set you up for the next you know, fifteen.
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  Speaker 4: Year or so.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a fair point, I'll say, kind of in
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: line with the Packers, But from a much different perspective
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: was when Andrew Luck came in to replace Peyton Manning.
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  Speaker 1: The way that it was reported at least was Peyton
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: was obviously recovering from a neck injury, and it was
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: obvious that the Colts were going to get the number
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  Speaker 1: one overall pick, and Peyton was the one who spoke
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: with Jim Irsa and was like, look, you gotta take him,
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: Like I get it. I'll be fine because his contract
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: must have been up anyway. I don't know if they
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: released him or if he was a free agent anyway,
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: or how that worked out, but at least my perception
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: of it was it was well understood that, Okay, we're
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: all on the same page, Peyton, we love you, but
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: we have an opportunity to get Andrew Luck. We're going
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: to do it, and you can go do your own
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: things somewhere else. And it worked out pretty well for everyone.
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: I mean most colts fail would have loved to have
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: Andrew Luck's career last longer than it did. But while
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: he was there, he was I would say he lived
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: up to the hype he I think he got him
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  Speaker 1: to the AFC Championship Game at least once.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and that I remember that playoff game. I think
• 45:18
  Speaker 3: it's against the Chiefs. I mean, he's a man on
• 45:21
  Speaker 3: a mission.
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: And then we know what happened with Peyton too. He
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: goes to Denver. I think he wins another MVP while
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: he's there, but he goes to one Super Bowl and
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: then he wins another I mean.
• 45:36
  Speaker 2: Controversy. You remember brac Ottsweiler.
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: And there you go, that's a controversy within a controversy
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: because he got benched toward the end of that season
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: and then I think, didn't Astweiler end up getting hurt
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: or you know, Peyton came Peyton came back to start
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: the playoffs and led them through the playoffs.
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so.
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: It's so, yeah, that was I'm glad you brought up
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: brock Oswiler because I would have totally forgotten about him
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: and I just saw him. He's a college football announcer. Now,
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: not very excited about that. Yeah, what game was he
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: calling that we were watching. I don't think it was
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: the Cincinnati game, but I was watching a college football
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: game and he was the he was the color commentator.
• 46:22
  Speaker 2: I didn't think that he.
• 46:23
  Speaker 3: Was like good enough to be a college commentator.
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: I mean, I don't want to take shots at brock
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: Oswiler or anything, but when you have like one hundred
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: and fifty teams that play games all on TV every week,
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: you gotta feel you gotta fill those booths with someone.
• 46:40
  Speaker 2: But I get it.
• 46:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so well, you give us a call, I might
• 46:48
  Speaker 3: not be fixate or signed a seventy two million dollar contract.
• 46:51
  Speaker 2: But no, I could type football.
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: We could do a Manning cast style one for sure.
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: You have guests come in and talk about stuff too.
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: They don't even have to know anything about football. We
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: can just like call my buddy Max or something, just
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: to get some people on the air with.
• 47:10
  Speaker 2: I like it.
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: And then I guess it wouldn't be a Steelers podcast
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: if we didn't mention some Steelers quarterback drama. Look, you've
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: got Cordell Stewart who eventually got replaced with Tommy Maddox,
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: who himself got replaced by Big Ben. We all know
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: that story.
• 47:33
  Speaker 4: We don't need to rehash that. And then, of course.
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: Big Ben you have what was interesting when the Steelers
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: took Mason Rudolph in the third round. He obviously didn't
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: like that. Even though Mason Rudolph kind of fell to them,
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: they did have to trade up.
• 47:51
  Speaker 4: But it was a they didn't lose anything in the trade.
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: They just swapped picks with the Seahawks and gave him
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: like a seventh rounder or something. And then I know
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: we've talked about that a lot before too, but it's
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: almost like, as a result of what happened with Mason Rudolph.
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: The Steelers never attempted to do what what like what
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: we just talked about with the Packers and the Colts
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: tried to do. They never used a first round pick
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: on a quarterback until they were stuck with Kenny Pickett.
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  Speaker 4: So that's uh. I don't know.
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: Maybe there is something to be said about shooting your
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: shot and taking that first round pick on a guy
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: while you still have the guy there. I know we
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: talked about it a lot at the time, but that's
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: your cautionary tale as well of Okay, well, if you
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: don't want to deal with that drama, then be prepared
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: because you might get stuck with a really bad quarterback
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: class when you desperately need one.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, So.
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: All right, was there anything else you wanted to touch
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: on before we signed off for the night.
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  Speaker 2: I think I'm good.
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: All right, Well, that should do it for us, borrowing
• 49:07
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• 49:10
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