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Back to winning ways! · The Irish Steelers Podcast

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Speaker 1: Head Blogs.
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Speaker 2: Welcome in to the Irish Theaters podcast as we look
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Speaker 2: back on the memorable week night for the Pittsburgh Steeters
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Speaker 2: and look ahead so coming into the second half of
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Speaker 2: the season. As we rolled on the stretch Michael created
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Speaker 2: Jimmy English Stephen McKee. Feels like we did this lifetime, boys,
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Speaker 2: but always good to talk after a big w Jimmy.
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Speaker 2: First of all, for people listening to the podcast, you
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Speaker 2: got your Steeters gear on. You look very happy this
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Speaker 2: seasoning man.
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Speaker 3: But do you know what, Michael. I woke up on
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Speaker 3: Friday morning and part of me said, no, stay off
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Speaker 3: social media, keep this the score suspense. But I couldn't resist,
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Speaker 3: and I was a very happy man when I saw
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Speaker 3: that the Staters had overcome the Titans at home, raging
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Speaker 3: that I missed out last week. I always loved chatting
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Speaker 3: Steeters football with you guys, but glad to be back
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Speaker 3: back in the fold once again for yet, like you said,
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Speaker 3: it feels like a lifetime now. I don't know one episode, this,
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Speaker 3: this is, this is at this stage, but it's always
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Speaker 3: good fun.
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Speaker 2: They have always good to see you. I know your
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Speaker 2: WiFi is Pachi, so we'll see if we keep you
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Speaker 2: for the whole episode and we'll all be the win
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Speaker 2: the zagon. But you're doing good getting closer to this
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Speaker 2: watch part of getting closer to EG home, sir.
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Speaker 4: Just some kind of down to days at this point,
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Speaker 4: I swore to got up. I haven't been home since
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Speaker 4: he's like last Christmas, to be honest, probably not that
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Speaker 4: long ago.
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Speaker 1: But yeah, it was.
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Speaker 4: It was a good win on on Sunday or sorry
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Speaker 4: Sunday night, so they don't even know what that isn't.
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Speaker 1: On Thursday night.
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Speaker 4: And then yeah, as Jimmy said, you know, we missed
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Speaker 4: them last week. You know, we missed the hearing as
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Speaker 4: you know, is a thoughtful of opinions on on Kenny
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Speaker 4: Peckett and Nextcater. But yeah, you know what, it's just
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Speaker 4: good to have another week down the drain and we
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Speaker 4: got to win. So yeah, bring on this week, and
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Speaker 4: we're glad to be talking Staiers Football League guys.
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Speaker 2: Let's go here we go, Here we go, Here we
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Speaker 2: go boys Steelers. Obviously having that win against the Tennessee
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Speaker 2: Titans on Thursdayight Football, and it was funny because we
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Speaker 2: were sort of going in the last week thinking, well,
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Speaker 2: the Titans, the reagun to come in March them with
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Speaker 2: their new young, new young toy on the offense with
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Speaker 2: will lavis Well Steeers moved the final flee five and
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Speaker 2: three of the season, twenty of the sixteen, winning first
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Speaker 2: of that football And and I guess, look, we will
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Speaker 2: start off with yourself, Jimmy, just a aggression of this
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Speaker 2: offense and what we've seen with Deandy Johnson. We talked
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Speaker 2: in the off season about how we really wanted to
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Speaker 2: see him take a set up the season ninety yards
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Speaker 2: on the night, a touchdown, really looking a lot more confident,
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Speaker 2: and I have to say, I think a lot of
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Speaker 2: us are just really really buzzn't really really supportive of
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Speaker 2: what he's done and just wishing the best over the
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Speaker 2: next week. Yeah, it's so so far, so good.
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Speaker 1: One.
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Speaker 3: Absolutely, it's great to see him, you know, come back
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Speaker 3: in after after you know, I got a hamstring injury
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Speaker 3: and contributing significantly on the offense. He caught his first
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Speaker 3: touchdown pass I believe in two seasons there on person night,
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Speaker 3: on a great route in the end zone from Kenny Picketts.
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Speaker 3: So he's added that extra dimension to the offense that
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Speaker 3: I think we've been we've been missing. You know, you
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Speaker 3: have two receivers at the categer that we have. One
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Speaker 3: of them is going to attract attention, which means the
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Speaker 3: other one is going to be opening up for to
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Speaker 3: have a big game. So great to see him back.
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Speaker 3: Great to see I mean, I've read somewhere that the
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Speaker 3: Steelers are finding ways to get it done. I mean,
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Speaker 3: we were at the start of the season. There's no
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Speaker 3: way we we thought they'd be sitting there second in
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Speaker 3: the AOC North and they they're, they're they're getting it done.
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Speaker 3: They're finding ways to win, they're finding ways to put
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Speaker 3: points on the board. Or two running backs at another
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Speaker 3: great game. Now you've got a touchdown. So look, it's
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Speaker 3: it's not pretty, it's it's but it's it's effective, it's
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Speaker 3: not flashy, but they're getting the job done. So if
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Speaker 3: this is the way they have to grind out the
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Speaker 3: rest of the season, then I'm going to have to
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Speaker 3: learn to love it.
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Speaker 2: Michael the first touched over Deonta idea of in six
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Speaker 2: one hundred and fifty five days. He lost caught the
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Speaker 2: ball from Big Ben in the end zone. Six hundred
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Speaker 2: and fifty five days. A long time one.
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Speaker 4: It's too long and just for someone on his quality
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Speaker 4: as well. You could tell just as soon as he
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Speaker 4: caught the ball and he found the end zone, he
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Speaker 4: was just hand in the area. Couldn't believe it. It's
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Speaker 4: not failing, you know, of how long is it since
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Speaker 4: I've last scored, and it's it's fantastic to see you
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Speaker 4: and finally get on the on the board. So obviously
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Speaker 4: you know it's one of those things where so as
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Speaker 4: first of the season, but hopefully it's not going to
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Speaker 4: be a lost either, So it's already and improvement from
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Speaker 4: last year, hopefully a singers cross. He can move on
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Speaker 4: ahead and then you know, we've got a good game
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Speaker 4: coming up this weekend and he has average chance can
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Speaker 4: improve in not statistics, So here's that and then yeah,
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Speaker 4: with buzzing for it wasn't.
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Speaker 2: For him and like hopefully the first of many going
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Speaker 2: into the season with a big postseason on the company's God,
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Speaker 2: we've seen cool hulcome. Linebacker Jimmy is going to be
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Speaker 2: out for the season knee injury. Expected to take a
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Speaker 2: full recovery, but that was the main I guess what
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Speaker 2: the negative from the game in sense of to lose
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Speaker 2: a guy of his ability, it's it's will definitely miss
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Speaker 2: him over to the few weeks.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, one hundred percent. Inside the linebacking corpse has been
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Speaker 3: much improved this season. He was a key part of that. Obviously,
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Speaker 3: he's ours. He was the defensive player caller as well,
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Speaker 3: which obviously a critical part to the run stop. And
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Speaker 3: you know, it was great to get Cam Heyward back
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Speaker 3: of course the heart and sort of that defense. And
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Speaker 3: you could immediately see the impact that he had when
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Speaker 3: he came into the game and stuffing stuffing up Derrick Henry.
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Speaker 3: But to lose a player of Holco's quality is disappointing
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Speaker 3: and the only other negative that I can think of
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Speaker 3: from the game really, and this is strange for me.
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Speaker 3: I try to be a positive person. I swear was
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Speaker 3: we should have had another touchdown, and obviously there was
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Speaker 3: that there was a catch in the end zone by
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Speaker 3: George Dickens where his trailing but was just just aut
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Speaker 3: a band. So that just shows a little bit of
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Speaker 3: the discipline, I think a little bit of sloppiness. I mean,
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Speaker 3: it's not college, she's not in Georgia anymore. You have to,
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Speaker 3: especially in those those kind of tight rope catches, you
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Speaker 3: have to be sure to half the second toe down.
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Speaker 3: So look, if I can if I can fall down
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Speaker 3: anything from the up front from the game, that would
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Speaker 3: be the thing, the thing that I would highlight.
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Speaker 2: We have to be constructive, we have to say the
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Speaker 2: good points at Bob points. I think one of the
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Speaker 2: right direction is obviously things he can prove on Yeah.
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Speaker 3: I mean it's it's a massive improvement week on week
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Speaker 3: for the offense. It doesn't get me wrong. Like I said,
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Speaker 3: they're finding ways to win, their finding way to put
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Speaker 3: points on the board. They're they're a legitimate playoff contender
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Speaker 3: at this stage in the season. So at the ceiling
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Speaker 3: is sky high. The defense is doing its job. Quit
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Speaker 3: Alexander the game selling pick at the end, which was
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Speaker 3: absolutely fantastic. So look at our defense is carrying us,
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Speaker 3: and it's just up to the offense sid to crank
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Speaker 3: it up more and more every week and hopefully get
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Speaker 3: to the to reach their potential, of the potential that
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Speaker 3: we all know that they that they have within them.
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Speaker 4: There was maybe another small negative I suppose you could
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Speaker 4: say as well with the penalties. There was a lot
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Speaker 4: of penalties. Flags are going everywhere, toy. Sorry, Joey Porter Jr.
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Speaker 4: You know in particular, I think he had three, maybe
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Speaker 4: potentially costing Holden call at the end of the game.
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Speaker 4: You know, Robert Jones had a couple of as well,
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Speaker 4: So there is just a bit of an experience creeping
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Speaker 4: in there as well. But I'll just say, you know,
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Speaker 4: you're living, you learn. Hopefully that's something that can build
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Speaker 4: on as well next week.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think like colored pedalies and like it's completely right,
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Speaker 2: it's but it's happened in across the league with so
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Speaker 2: many das. Even even the best teams, like seeing the
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Speaker 2: Eagles and Sunday and they might have penalties they give
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Speaker 2: away towards the end, they almost give away a game
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Speaker 2: against the Cowboys.
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Speaker 1: It was.
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Speaker 2: It was crazy to see. So I think that's something
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Speaker 2: where you just try and go forward each week during
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Speaker 2: the season and get better at that one. We're getting
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Speaker 2: into the business end of the season now, hopefully we
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Speaker 2: can sort of scratch that up and try and keep
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Speaker 2: going forward.
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Speaker 3: And let's hear before we hear from Mike Tom, we'll hear.
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Speaker 2: From deand Johnson getting his first touchdown is six, one
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Speaker 2: hundred and fifty five days, can you pick it? And
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Speaker 2: TJ what as well, that'll weight off your shoulder getting.
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Speaker 5: Let out of Oh yeah, you know, six said the
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Speaker 5: five days since that story, though, I'm happy out there,
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Speaker 5: you know, getting the end zone today, you know, I
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Speaker 5: see it on Twitter today. I'm like, it's really been
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Speaker 5: that alone. But you know what I'm saying, Like I said,
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Speaker 5: I'm happy that I got an end zone and looking
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Speaker 5: forward to gett an end zone next week.
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Speaker 1: What was that celebration one?
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Speaker 6: Like it almost looked like if it a relief more
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Speaker 6: than anything.
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Speaker 5: I actually I didn't know what I was gonna do
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Speaker 5: til You're honest, once I scored, But I was just
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Speaker 5: tryna get yes with my teammates, Kenny, whoever it was
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Speaker 5: that was coming up to me. I was just tryna,
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Speaker 5: you know, show love, you know, cause everybody put.
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Speaker 1: In a lot of work.
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Speaker 3: Six hundred plus days is a long time.
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Speaker 1: How did you grow.
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Speaker 3: As a person as a player through some of that adversity.
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Speaker 7: Uh?
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Speaker 5: It was tough, you know, just really how I just
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Speaker 5: carried myself each and every day, not tryna think about it.
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Speaker 5: But by the same time, it's like, Okay, I gotta
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Speaker 5: figure out ways. Uh if I gotta do something different
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Speaker 5: or say, you know what I'm saying, on certain routes
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Speaker 5: or whatever it was. But you know what I'm saying,
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Speaker 5: just being myself and not pressing each and there were
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Speaker 5: just letting the ball find me, just keep getting open
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Speaker 5: and that's what happened.
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Speaker 1: Did you notice any difference was Matt being on the
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Speaker 1: sideway calling the play zone? Uh?
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Speaker 5: You know, I was just tryna look for something different
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Speaker 5: and get a spark going on. Uh like say we
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Speaker 5: I'm I support him, So whatever they do, I'm I'm
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Speaker 5: with it regardless.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I tell you, what's just that touched out with
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Speaker 3: three games where you've had a a big impact. What's
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Speaker 3: key that impact that you've returned from injury?
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Speaker 5: Just my ability, you know, I'm just to draw attention
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Speaker 5: or having George and on the other side just allows
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Speaker 5: us to allows Kenny to know who he has out there,
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Speaker 5: makes him comfortable, you know what I'm saying, Cause he
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Speaker 5: knows who's gonna get open. And just by me being
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Speaker 5: able to rock, run and just do what I do
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Speaker 5: best and I showed that tonight.
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Speaker 6: Can tell you, guys have been in so many tight
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Speaker 6: games when it gets tight late, Because you've been in
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Speaker 6: these situations so much, do you feel like you have
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Speaker 6: an advantage. I don't know, uh it, games are hard
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Speaker 6: to win. I feel like a lot of teams are
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Speaker 6: in these situations a lot. It's just kind of getting
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Speaker 6: in the mode of trying to do your job, do
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Speaker 6: your best. We always say defense wants to be out
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Speaker 6: there when the games in the line, and uh, tonight
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Speaker 6: was no different.
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Speaker 1: Glad was able to deliver big play for us. It's
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Speaker 1: just a bit good to the just to get halftime.
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Speaker 4: What did you see out of the crew that I
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Speaker 4: used to get this kind of off there in the
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Speaker 4: second half.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, I mean I felt like he he
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Speaker 6: showed some toughness, that he took some hits. I was
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Speaker 6: able to deliver some good passes under pressure, and we're
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Speaker 6: able to just continue to kind of keep him under
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Speaker 6: duress and be able to have him throw that pick
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Speaker 6: at the end.
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Speaker 5: There was huge there needed to better communication in the
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Speaker 5: second half, and that was the adjustment you.
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Speaker 2: Guys talked about in the locker room.
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Speaker 1: What were those conversations, like you guys trying to.
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Speaker 6: Get back out that you know, I mean, have better communication.
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Speaker 6: It's it's that simple. We just need to talk more,
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Speaker 6: especially when a guy like men goes down. Obviously, a
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Speaker 6: guy that does a lot of talking. Anytime a guy
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Speaker 6: like Cole goes down a guy that does a lot
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Speaker 6: of the talking in the middle, we need to emphasize communication,
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Speaker 6: especially when we're playing at home and the fans are
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Speaker 6: going crazy. It makes it a little bit more difficult.
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Speaker 6: But I feel like we did a better job in
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Speaker 6: the second half for sure.
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Speaker 1: Guys still he did against how to read and how
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Speaker 1: partical was that?
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Speaker 6: I felt like we're we We did pretty well against
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Speaker 6: the run. I haven't looked at anything but just continuing
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Speaker 6: to blow up in situations and make them one dimensional.
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Speaker 6: I feel like we did a good job of that tonight.
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Speaker 1: Diane have a sideline. What did you see and how
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Speaker 1: did that play unfold?
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Speaker 7: Was that a call from the huddle or did that
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Speaker 7: take No, that was a call from the huddle.
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Speaker 1: Head man had tey on a go one on one.
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Speaker 7: I want to give an opportunity, a big third down
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Speaker 7: for us to get down there in the red zone
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Speaker 7: and eventually, you know, score. So it was a good,
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Speaker 7: good play for.
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Speaker 3: Us, Like having Mad on the sidelines.
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Speaker 1: That it was good.
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Speaker 7: I think, you know, we communicate really well with the headset.
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Speaker 7: No one else really gets a chance to do that
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Speaker 7: with him, so I think, you know, him being able
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Speaker 7: to go over to each position group and kind of
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Speaker 7: get in the same page with them and let him
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Speaker 7: know what we're thinking going into each drive.
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Speaker 1: I think it definitely was a positive. I'm about did
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Speaker 1: you request that or No, I didn't.
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Speaker 7: I was just you know, came to work and I
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Speaker 7: was told.
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Speaker 1: That effects on your play from the injury.
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Speaker 7: No, you know, I felt felt good. Shout out to
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Speaker 7: our our trainers Gabe and gave leading the way, helped
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Speaker 7: me get ready to go, and Sonya and you know,
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Speaker 7: you know short week did a great job and helped
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Speaker 7: me get ready and I felt good.
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Speaker 3: In mind this play this week from last week that
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Speaker 3: all have.
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Speaker 1: To I haven't seen it. I can't.
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Speaker 7: I can't answer that question. I know they did a
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Speaker 7: great job protecting run game back, sitting the hole really
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Speaker 7: hard and you know, running downhill and getting north south,
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Speaker 7: which was great to see, getting guys in the end
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Speaker 7: zone having explosive runs. So it was a good day
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Speaker 7: for for the for the guys up front.
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Speaker 6: About you in this offense that you guys seem to
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Speaker 6: be comfortable and uncomfortable situations.
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Speaker 7: I think we all have faith in each other. You know,
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Speaker 7: we got trust and we all care for one another.
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Speaker 7: There's no one in there that has any doubt when
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Speaker 7: it comes down to those fourth quarters that we're gonna
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Speaker 7: be able to, you know, put a drive together and
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Speaker 7: go down there and score. Right now, we're just searching
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Speaker 7: for that consistency all game. You know, we're one or
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Speaker 7: two plays here and there where I felt like, you know,
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Speaker 7: we would have more points on the board, we would
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Speaker 7: have been sweating it out at the end. So yeah,
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Speaker 7: we just gotta continue to work at that.
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Speaker 3: Getting that touchdown to Deontay.
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Speaker 2: He hasn't had one and quite a while. Just what
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Speaker 2: was it when you saw that play development?
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Speaker 5: What was it like to get him in the end zone?
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Speaker 1: It was great?
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Speaker 7: It was awesome obviously, you know it was a big
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Speaker 7: deal to get him in the end zone. It's been
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Speaker 7: it's been too long for sure, So you know, see
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Speaker 7: that smile on his face after that was great and
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Speaker 7: I'm sure it felt like the world was off his
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Speaker 7: back now so he can go relax and play and
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Speaker 7: continue to be the guy that he is.
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Speaker 1: For is you an unbelievable game?
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Speaker 3: You guys have a.
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Speaker 7: Set opening drive said against our significance of that opening
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Speaker 7: drive for you guys.
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Speaker 1: It was big.
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Speaker 7: It was big we did we were searching to do,
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Speaker 7: you know, all year with that opening drive going down
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Speaker 7: there and score.
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Speaker 1: I thought the balance was great.
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Speaker 7: I thought we had great balance all night the run game,
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Speaker 7: working off the past vice versa, getting guys some some
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Speaker 7: really good situations on the outside that helped open up
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Speaker 7: the run. So it was it was good having that
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Speaker 7: balance that we can.
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Speaker 4: You say about how the running backs kind of played
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Speaker 4: off each other tonight of their ability to kind.
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Speaker 7: Of hole Yeah, yeah, I think, you know, having two
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Speaker 7: backs that are that are fresh in there, it's a
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Speaker 7: huge difference. I think you see it both elite type
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Speaker 7: backs that when they get going and they and they
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Speaker 7: started hitting those holes north south, they're really tough to
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Speaker 7: bring down. They both run really hard, you know, great
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Speaker 7: speed of power with both of them. And I can't
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Speaker 7: say enough you know that they do in the past
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Speaker 7: game as well. I think it's you know, underappreciated with
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Speaker 7: twenty two and thirty two. When they get the ball
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Speaker 7: in the flatter they have space. You know, if I
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Speaker 7: if I were if I'm ever in trouble or if
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Speaker 7: I don't see the covers clearly checking it down with
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Speaker 7: those guys and letting them go do their thing was
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Speaker 7: huge for us.
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Speaker 2: We have to hear from the guys on the Irish
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Speaker 2: Steeters podcast. Jimmy, what a big defense to play at
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Speaker 2: the end when this scheme, I mean like you're talking
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Speaker 2: but like ways and means you're talking about how this
14:41
Speaker 2: defense is. He's calling up when it needs to. But
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Speaker 2: I haven't heard that cry with arches shirt in Pittsburgh
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Speaker 2: as Lollys a big bands last game. That was one
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Speaker 2: of the biggest pops I've heard in a long time
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Speaker 2: with US city.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Absolutely, And before we even talk about the critics, the
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Speaker 3: crucial play dot am the kwant Alexander have one about
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Speaker 3: t J Watt and is no helmet sack of Will Levis.
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Speaker 3: I mean to get your to get your helmet ripped
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Speaker 3: off by an offensive lineman and I mean his hands
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Speaker 3: are up on that face mask. That should have been
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Speaker 3: a penalty at its own right, But then to to
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Speaker 3: get off the block, circle back around and omegasack and
15:16
Speaker 3: you could see the ferocity on TJ's face after that.
15:20
Speaker 3: He's just playing at an all pro level at this stage.
15:23
Speaker 3: And I would be shocked if a the production doesn't continue,
15:26
Speaker 3: and b he's not the defensive player of the Year
15:29
Speaker 3: at the at the end of the year. So looker,
15:32
Speaker 3: thank god for it for our defense. I mean, even
15:34
Speaker 3: missing some crucial pieces, they still came up big. Joey
15:38
Speaker 3: Porter Junior did a very good job of locking up
15:40
Speaker 3: the DeAndre Hopkins for the for the majority of the game,
15:43
Speaker 3: one of the best receivers in the league. So yeah,
15:46
Speaker 3: defense put the team on their back as usual and
15:50
Speaker 3: got cut the made made the players when required, so
15:53
Speaker 3: long may that continue as well.
15:56
Speaker 2: He had a p f F really enjoy Porter Junior
15:59
Speaker 2: deal of Lady five five point seven coverage grade, which
16:02
Speaker 2: is just unbelievable to see it at such a young
16:04
Speaker 2: age in the league. Did you see him and his
16:06
Speaker 2: old man the similarities that they posted in terms of
16:09
Speaker 2: that other during the field, I get chills down fives
16:12
Speaker 2: as well as with them.
16:14
Speaker 4: He's becoming a great shutdown corner. Even like when we
16:17
Speaker 4: mentioned a couple of weeks ago, it's the Rams. Anytime
16:20
Speaker 4: picking the cour who was catching balls left right center.
16:23
Speaker 4: Anytime he went on him, he was able to guard
16:25
Speaker 4: him pretty easily. And he's becoming somebody that we knew
16:28
Speaker 4: he could become. He's become a shutdown corner and nobody
16:31
Speaker 4: really gets any success against him. I mean, DeAndre Hopkins
16:34
Speaker 4: is you know, maybe not as good now, but a
16:36
Speaker 4: couple of years ago he was considered top five receiver
16:39
Speaker 4: in the league a bit at most. So he's becoming
16:42
Speaker 4: something that we think we knew he could become. He's
16:45
Speaker 4: even when he failed us in the second round, we
16:47
Speaker 4: were thinking, how on earth as he actually loted us.
16:50
Speaker 4: But he's continued his dog's legacy on as a Pittsburgh
16:53
Speaker 4: Steeler and it's fantastic to see. I mean I just said,
16:56
Speaker 4: brings tear toy er eye and it's great to see it.
16:58
Speaker 1: And long may continue.
17:01
Speaker 2: Back to you from coach Dolbenman off to the game.
17:03
Speaker 2: They go in for the seaters, going Biden flee in.
17:05
Speaker 1: The season, excited about the win.
17:11
Speaker 8: Obviously it could have been cleaner, first and foremost, from
17:15
Speaker 8: a penalty perspective, part of being a tough team to
17:18
Speaker 8: be first is not kicking your own butt, man, and
17:21
Speaker 8: we kind of been.
17:21
Speaker 1: Doing that some and we got to own that, and
17:24
Speaker 1: so we will.
17:26
Speaker 8: We'll review it, we'll learn from it, we'll look at it,
17:29
Speaker 8: we'll bring some officials into our practice setting and an
17:32
Speaker 8: effort to be cleaner because that was catastrophic really, and
17:36
Speaker 8: a lot of instances to our efforts tonight.
17:39
Speaker 1: But I'm appreciative of the fight.
17:42
Speaker 8: We needed this one, and it's good to get it,
17:44
Speaker 8: get it on a short week and be in the
17:47
Speaker 8: clubhouse man on a Thursday night, with the necessary victory
17:49
Speaker 8: for the week, and so excited for them. We'll rest up, man,
17:54
Speaker 8: take advantage of the long weekend, and and and and
17:57
Speaker 8: begin our next process. We had a couple of injuries. Obviously,
18:00
Speaker 8: Cole Holcomb's got a serious injury. I thought some prayers
18:05
Speaker 8: are with him.
18:05
Speaker 1: Man.
18:06
Speaker 8: I'll have an update, I'm sure the next time we
18:08
Speaker 8: come together regarding the nature of that. Man Adams had
18:12
Speaker 8: an ankle to what degree, I don't know. I'm sure
18:16
Speaker 8: we got some other bumps and bruises associated with play,
18:20
Speaker 8: but thankful for the victory. We'll stack it and move forward.
18:25
Speaker 8: Questions for one hundred and sixty six yards today? What
18:29
Speaker 8: was the difference today? You know, I thought we converted
18:33
Speaker 8: some third downs earlier, and you know, we've been talking
18:37
Speaker 8: about it, like you convert possession downs, you get more
18:41
Speaker 8: snaps and and so you know, I think we converted
18:45
Speaker 8: our first third down in the game, and it's I
18:48
Speaker 8: don't know how many of those we've had. And so
18:50
Speaker 8: when you converting third downs, you get more snap opportunities
18:54
Speaker 8: and that usually leads to the attrition component of play.
18:57
Speaker 8: And really that's kind of representative of the ring game.
19:00
Speaker 3: You like what you're getting a one to two punch
19:02
Speaker 3: from those two guys, different styles.
19:05
Speaker 8: You know, really tonight was probably our first time to
19:08
Speaker 8: take a look at it because we had a more
19:10
Speaker 8: fluid start and so yes, I do.
19:14
Speaker 1: I do go way into the switch at right tack.
19:17
Speaker 1: When do you think that helped it?
19:19
Speaker 8: You know, I just thought we needed a spark. I
19:21
Speaker 8: thought Broderick had worked hard, was deserving of an opportunity,
19:24
Speaker 8: and so we gave it to him.
19:28
Speaker 2: Great their coach Somlin after a big win and look
19:30
Speaker 2: win to win after win every day of the week,
19:32
Speaker 2: boys fighting flee in the season. But I keep marching
19:34
Speaker 2: all night as we entered the tenth week of the season.
19:37
Speaker 2: Because first he's given a very very quick shout out
19:39
Speaker 2: and met's a lot of steet edition in Germany the
19:42
Speaker 2: weekend always say a lot twenty people on Saturday evening
19:47
Speaker 2: a couple of Urs actually come up to say and
19:49
Speaker 2: saying they've seeing the content online for the podcast Guys
19:52
Speaker 2: from Mines guidance from Dortmund and Cologne at big Steeters fans,
19:57
Speaker 2: I want to give a shout out to them, and
19:58
Speaker 2: I know the day would love to see a game
20:01
Speaker 2: in Europe, whether else in Ireland or wherever. We'll see
20:03
Speaker 2: what happens, but I know they're all very very happy
20:05
Speaker 2: to see it continued expanding, and I know there's great
20:07
Speaker 2: work going on in Germany with the Staers also, so
20:10
Speaker 2: props to them. And please do if you're out of
20:12
Speaker 2: the game this weekend and you're wearing your black and yellow,
20:15
Speaker 2: please to give us a shout and we'll get a
20:18
Speaker 2: picture or something for the crack and look Packers this weekend.
20:22
Speaker 2: Boys like this is a game where I said of
20:25
Speaker 2: last Sunday before the Packers came into the game against
20:27
Speaker 2: the Rams, I think anybody would would Genu want to
20:30
Speaker 2: be forgiven for thinking looking down the stretch two weeks
20:33
Speaker 2: LA are going this is a good matchup for the
20:35
Speaker 2: Steers team to have and Jimmy, the way the Packers
20:38
Speaker 2: played against the Rams last week, Jordan Love starting to
20:41
Speaker 2: develop a bit more, albeit that we're going up against
20:43
Speaker 2: ripping but the Packers team with their young cores offense,
20:48
Speaker 2: could pose problems to any team. Never mind the fact
20:51
Speaker 2: they're going to go in to Pittsburgh this weekend. This
20:53
Speaker 2: is a really interesting matchup on this weekend.
20:56
Speaker 3: Yeah, and this game concerns me a little bit more
20:59
Speaker 3: than the previous ones, purely for the fact that the
21:01
Speaker 3: Steelers have an unfortunate tendency to play down to teams
21:04
Speaker 3: with a worse record or received lesser teams. You know,
21:09
Speaker 3: the Packers are coming in with a three and five records.
21:12
Speaker 3: They're losing record the mirror image of our record, so
21:16
Speaker 3: I think we have to be on our guard a
21:17
Speaker 3: little bit. Of course, you mentioned there Jordan low he
21:20
Speaker 3: bided his time behind Aaron Rodgers. He is now one
21:23
Speaker 3: of the upcoming quarterbacks in the league. You know some
21:26
Speaker 3: top talented wide receivers. You have Romeo Doves there. You
21:29
Speaker 3: also have Aaron Jones, obviously an unfortunate fumble against the
21:32
Speaker 3: Rams last weekend, but still one of the premier backs
21:36
Speaker 3: in the league. So I think it's going to be challenging.
21:38
Speaker 3: I think they're going to pass the ball a lot.
21:40
Speaker 3: I think they're going to challenge our secondary. But you
21:44
Speaker 3: know it, Look, it's it's a six o'clock game, so
21:47
Speaker 3: we won't be up to the wee hours watching, So
21:49
Speaker 3: I'm grateful for that, at.
21:50
Speaker 2: Least the we ours high. Litt Will you go for
21:55
Speaker 2: a live game with a will to do it?
21:58
Speaker 3: It's a very good question, Michael depens depends, you know,
22:02
Speaker 3: I could probably push it out to one am. Well,
22:05
Speaker 3: you know, like like I've like I'm fine to saying
22:07
Speaker 3: I'm a mounderneath my sleep. So it all depends on
22:11
Speaker 3: the caliber of the game and what I have going
22:13
Speaker 3: on the next day.
22:15
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was tempted to watch all of that football
22:17
Speaker 2: last week at two o'clock. I just couldn't do it.
22:20
Speaker 2: I think it's it is Steeters, yes, but if it's
22:23
Speaker 2: a different if it's a big, big game, it just
22:25
Speaker 2: depends on how you're feeling. But I'm more of like
22:28
Speaker 2: a like a two or three. I look, I'm at
22:31
Speaker 2: deplete mob when it comes to watching something, but I
22:33
Speaker 2: love it as well. Dove, what do you think of
22:36
Speaker 2: the keys of the game this weekend outside of the
22:38
Speaker 2: you know, the normal ones, the high end defense. Trying
22:42
Speaker 2: to get to Jordan Love like this is a Packers
22:43
Speaker 2: scene that a lot of us, even though we're ten
22:45
Speaker 2: weeks and we don't know that much about them, because
22:48
Speaker 2: they're chopping and changing each week. They're developing as a team,
22:51
Speaker 2: and I guess for us will want to see the
22:52
Speaker 2: offense continue to try and Jal and see Kenny get
22:55
Speaker 2: better and better this week.
22:57
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, that's that's obviously the key to the game,
23:01
Speaker 4: just improving on the offense getting better every single week.
23:04
Speaker 4: You know, Green Bed, they're They're not a great team.
23:08
Speaker 4: Let's be honest about it. You know, they're sort of
23:09
Speaker 4: middle of the pack. Jordan Love hasn't got really much.
23:14
Speaker 4: You know, he hasn't got really any really specialty. He
23:15
Speaker 4: hasn't got the greatest arm, not the most mobile quarterback.
23:19
Speaker 4: He's on so far in his young career, if you like,
23:22
Speaker 4: he hasn't proven much. I mean he's had a few
23:25
Speaker 4: glimpses here and there. But honestly, our defense should be
23:28
Speaker 4: able to deal with their offense relatively easily. I mean,
23:30
Speaker 4: they haven't got that many great weapons to suppose, you
23:33
Speaker 4: could say. But as Jimmy just said, you know, we
23:35
Speaker 4: do sometimes tend to play down to the top position.
23:38
Speaker 4: I remember as well, this is funny enough Green Bay
23:41
Speaker 4: Packers a couple of years ago and Saturday Night football.
23:43
Speaker 4: We let Brad Huntley come in and he sort of
23:45
Speaker 4: dictated the game against us. So it's never easy against
23:48
Speaker 4: especially against a franchisese like the Packers. You know, they're
23:51
Speaker 4: always going to be there and they're always going to
23:53
Speaker 4: be competitive. So keep the defense playing the way they are.
23:56
Speaker 4: The offense just stap it up another notch, you know,
23:58
Speaker 4: can get Kenny better rhythm, hopefully better in the first
24:01
Speaker 4: quarter this time around, and before we know what, hopefully
24:04
Speaker 4: we're rolling under another one of the last series of
24:07
Speaker 4: this sort of stretch of home games we have. So
24:09
Speaker 4: if we can come off next week section three, then
24:12
Speaker 4: that's obviously a positive. And you know we'll go into
24:14
Speaker 4: the Browns game the watch party next week. And speaking
24:18
Speaker 4: of first down first downs day.
24:20
Speaker 1: I think.
24:22
Speaker 3: The game against the Titans was we had a first
24:25
Speaker 3: down in the first half of the first quarter, I believe,
24:28
Speaker 3: and it was the first time I remember first down
24:31
Speaker 3: in the first half of the Steaders game in a
24:33
Speaker 3: long time. Look, that's progression. We've been saying it the
24:36
Speaker 3: whole time. The Steaders are obviously building their offense up
24:41
Speaker 3: slowly and slowly and slowly, and I genuinely thought we're
24:44
Speaker 3: all waiting for the offense to wexplode. So hopefully at
24:48
Speaker 3: some stage we do see that this season.
24:52
Speaker 2: Absolutely, I'm like, I feel like I mentioned this every week, Jimmy,
24:56
Speaker 2: to be honestly, but like when you look at the
24:59
Speaker 2: division and you se with the Bengals done in week nine,
25:01
Speaker 2: you see what that Brothers defense can do against different teams,
25:04
Speaker 2: and you see, like everyone's told them the Ravens, we
25:07
Speaker 2: have to keep winning, yes, flee, but use these next
25:11
Speaker 2: two weeks, Use the game against the Packers, use this
25:13
Speaker 2: game against the Brothers next week in the water party
25:16
Speaker 2: in Dublin as a way to get the Sablane imagine
25:18
Speaker 2: leaving from Parks severably are incredible.
25:21
Speaker 3: That yeah, absolutely. I mean from a division that look
25:24
Speaker 3: didn't look to be any great shakes in the early
25:26
Speaker 3: weeks of the season, it really has heated up now
25:28
Speaker 3: to become I think one of the best, the best divisions,
25:32
Speaker 3: especially in the conference meet you look at the AFC West,
25:34
Speaker 3: that's pretty much sun up but achieves at this stage,
25:39
Speaker 3: having really been keeping tabs at AFC East is probably
25:41
Speaker 3: going to come down to the bank to the Bills
25:43
Speaker 3: and the Dolphins as it usually does. But yeah, though,
25:46
Speaker 3: this is definitely a huge competitive division and every every
25:50
Speaker 3: win counts, especially where you can hopefully pick up relatively
25:53
Speaker 3: easy wins against non division opponents like the Packers and
25:58
Speaker 3: the and the Titans as well. So just keep winning,
26:01
Speaker 3: that's all we have to do. I mean, like I
26:02
Speaker 3: said earlier, I think the Steelers are genuinely at this
26:05
Speaker 3: stage playoff contender, and if they can just keep it
26:08
Speaker 3: up and make steady improvements week on week, did give
26:12
Speaker 3: me your.
26:12
Speaker 2: Pick, I'm going to say the Steers win this game
26:14
Speaker 2: twenty four. The fourteen defense are good. I think Kenny
26:20
Speaker 2: takes step up this week. And I'm gonna say that
26:22
Speaker 2: both Deonti Johnson and George Pickens get a passing fustyle
26:27
Speaker 2: in this game.
26:31
Speaker 4: It can happen, It can easily happen. I mean with George,
26:34
Speaker 4: you know what, He's obviously left the field a bit
26:37
Speaker 4: frustrated last week that he didn't manage to keep his
26:39
Speaker 4: feet in. But you know, there's always learned about learning
26:41
Speaker 4: curve you can take. But then I'm going for a
26:44
Speaker 4: bit lower scoring and I'm going for twenty one eleven.
26:46
Speaker 4: I think our defense they should be able to sort
26:49
Speaker 4: of keep them at bay.
26:50
Speaker 1: You know.
26:51
Speaker 4: What's that?
26:53
Speaker 2: Are you on the safe the end of that? Yeah,
26:55
Speaker 2: at eleven, I like.
26:56
Speaker 3: Tackle eleven points here on my head.
26:58
Speaker 4: Well, you know, they take teams noday. They don't like
27:00
Speaker 4: chicken field goals. They just prefer going for two. So
27:02
Speaker 4: I think the Packers are maybe one of those. But
27:05
Speaker 4: that's that's what I'm going for. I think, honestly, I
27:08
Speaker 4: think if our defense can just play the way they
27:10
Speaker 4: usually do, they shouldn't have any real issues dealing with
27:13
Speaker 4: Jordan Love and our offense. You know, at the same time,
27:17
Speaker 4: we keep tawnl ourselves. We hope it gets better. We
27:19
Speaker 4: hope script it gets better. A lot of times we
27:22
Speaker 4: do sort of we do. We do improve obviously week
27:25
Speaker 4: by week. But I'm just trying to be a bit
27:26
Speaker 4: more conservative. I've been going for recently, been going for
27:29
Speaker 4: twenty eight, twenty one stuff, and we never seem to
27:32
Speaker 4: put it up in fact, So I just think it's
27:35
Speaker 4: one of those things where if we can just keep
27:38
Speaker 4: our defense in the same shape and we can easily
27:40
Speaker 4: just sort of keep them a bit with one arms
27:42
Speaker 4: length and hopefully we'll come out with a win. So
27:45
Speaker 4: that's my prediction. Twenty one the eleven, bring them back.
27:47
Speaker 4: As I say, give me.
27:49
Speaker 2: Full huts before it.
27:52
Speaker 3: By pick Michael, I'd like to call attention to Dave
27:55
Speaker 3: who is doing November and he's made He's made quite
27:58
Speaker 3: a decent effort so far. So, Dave, do you have
28:00
Speaker 3: a fundraising link? Do you know what?
28:05
Speaker 4: Jimmy, I'm one of those that just go you know what.
28:07
Speaker 4: I'm not gonna ask anybody for money. I'm just gonna
28:09
Speaker 4: do it in the sorry though, who knows, who knows
28:11
Speaker 4: what will happen. But I'll tell you what, if the
28:12
Speaker 4: Steelers win, I'll pub one up. You can definitely doing it.
28:15
Speaker 3: Well, you know what. I commend you for your efforts.
28:17
Speaker 3: So I wanted to call attention to the fact that
28:19
Speaker 3: our own Dave McKee is partaking in November. So if
28:22
Speaker 3: and when he starts accepting donations, please give generously. In
28:26
Speaker 3: terms of my pick, I'm gonna do what I normally
28:29
Speaker 3: don't do and go less conservative and I'm gonna ut
28:34
Speaker 3: faith in the Steeters and I'm going to go twenty
28:36
Speaker 3: eight to ten Steelers. I think George Pickens tones for
28:40
Speaker 3: his sloppy, lack of a toe drag, and I think, yeah,
28:44
Speaker 3: I think we get four touchdowns. I have a feeling
28:46
Speaker 3: that Matt Cannon had been on the sideline is an
28:50
Speaker 3: improvement and I think it gives him more of a
28:52
Speaker 3: connection with the offense. He's able to communicate better with
28:55
Speaker 3: his quarterback and his offensive players, and I think it's
28:59
Speaker 3: better for the team in general. So I think, yeah,
29:01
Speaker 3: twenty eight ten, take back to the bank.
29:04
Speaker 4: I'll tell you what, if it's twenty eight ten, I'll
29:06
Speaker 4: definitely put us. I definitely put my fund raiser up,
29:09
Speaker 4: no problem.
29:09
Speaker 3: If it's twenty If it's twenty eight ten, I'll be
29:11
Speaker 3: the first person to make with the nation.
29:13
Speaker 2: Dave, I want to start shaving at this point. Boise, Yeah,
29:18
Speaker 2: we had calls to them up as well. But for Blayda,
29:21
Speaker 2: we don't know what the time of recording that the
29:22
Speaker 2: game is on Sky Sports in Ireland in the UK,
29:24
Speaker 2: but we know it's an off the ball and the
29:25
Speaker 2: radio coverage. I have to say, listening to a game
29:29
Speaker 2: in the radio is actually quite a good expect I
29:31
Speaker 2: listened to the Eagles Cowboys gaming radio on Sunday night.
29:34
Speaker 2: I loved it. I was driving back, So I'm definitely
29:37
Speaker 2: gonna tune into that this weekend. But if you're heading
29:39
Speaker 2: to the game, but if you're listening, there's loads of
29:41
Speaker 2: people find out from part of them and if NFL
29:43
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29:47
Speaker 2: And again, we don't know if the game is gonna
29:49
Speaker 2: be on TV for us this week, but if it's not,
29:51
Speaker 2: it'll be an NFL game Pass. Check out the x
29:53
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29:57
Speaker 2: for now that's uspoice. We might back with some interesting
30:01
Speaker 2: stuff this week. I know we've got some cool news
30:03
Speaker 2: to share soon about this watch party in Dublin next weekend,
30:07
Speaker 2: which is completely sold out. Hundreds of Staters fans are
30:11
Speaker 2: going to attend Crow part and we're really really excited
30:15
Speaker 2: for it. I know we're to talk about so much
30:17
Speaker 2: more or not, and I'm getting excited even thinking about it.
30:21
Speaker 2: But hopefully we're going in the Kroker six and three.
30:24
Speaker 2: I think that's what we all want. And I thank
30:26
Speaker 2: you boys so much of your time as always, thanks
30:27
Speaker 2: for listen.
30:28
Speaker 1: Really really appreciate it, folks.
30:29
Speaker 2: And that is the only questions you have, and we'll
30:30
Speaker 2: get them on the next podcast. This has been the
30:33
Speaker 2: Irish Staters podcast.
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Speaker 3: Here we Go, Here we Go.