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Another Week, Another W! · The Irish Steelers Podcast

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Speaker 1: Head Bugs. Welcome into the Irish Leitis podcast, the podcast
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Speaker 1: for Pittsburgh Steelers fans across the island of Ireland and beyond.
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Speaker 1: We're coming to you just after Week fourteen, Sunday, after
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Speaker 1: a really busy weekend of football, and coming to you
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Speaker 1: after another Steelers wins, Steelers getting the double. You go
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Speaker 1: into ten and fleet on the season of twenty seven
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Speaker 1: to fourteen win against the Cleveland Browns and we will
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Speaker 1: go into that in the week second. But delighted to
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Speaker 1: be joined with Jimmy with Dave log again going into
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Speaker 1: week fifteen. Top of that in a bit, Jimmy, good
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Speaker 1: to see you. I always good to get a win.
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Speaker 1: How are you doing you good? I'm great, Mack.
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Speaker 2: Yet always good.
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Speaker 3: To get a win, especially good to get a win
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Speaker 3: against an Arc North rival and get that Browns monkey
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Speaker 3: off our back.
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Speaker 2: And honestly, I had no idea how yesterday was gonna go.
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Speaker 2: We got the result. I was out in Dublin City
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Speaker 2: yesterday evening.
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Speaker 3: So great to see and connect with some of the
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Speaker 3: Irish American football community in Ireland as well. It's definitely
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Speaker 3: it's an area of interest and passion that's growing rapidly
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Speaker 3: on the island. So it was great to see a
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Speaker 3: community of fans gathered in Boskers on the ball. Big
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Speaker 3: shout shout out to Kieran as well for sticking to Steeters.
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Speaker 3: Game on for me so I could, I could watch
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Speaker 3: the guys in black and gold. But look, a great
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Speaker 3: weekend of football around and the weeks are really really
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Speaker 3: rolling in now. It could be it'd be a Christmas
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Speaker 3: Day before we know it, and we all know what's
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Speaker 3: coming down the line at six o'clock Irish time.
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Speaker 2: So we'll we'll talk about that a little bit more
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Speaker 2: at a later stage.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, next Hume Giame, as you said, Christmas Day, lots
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Speaker 1: of Steelers fans, seen videos of Steelers fans and Dublin
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Speaker 1: last night. As you said, Jimmy Steeve, the videos Steeters
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Speaker 1: fans in Goalway, video Steeters fans in Belfoss as well
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Speaker 1: as getting the run definitely video Steelers fans and Derry Tresk,
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Speaker 1: Dove Ug Big David Tron yesterday. But an even bigger
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Speaker 1: day for the Pittsburgh Steelters. How do you feeling after
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Speaker 1: this wins generally?
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Speaker 4: And yeah, the big day for for everyone, especially the
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Speaker 4: Cleveland Browns.
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Speaker 2: They got hit with storm Dora.
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Speaker 4: I don't know how they sort of ended up with that,
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Speaker 4: but no, I'm really really happy with what I've seen
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Speaker 4: last night. But as Jimmy sort of said, it's an
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Speaker 4: important victory going into the remaining four games, which arguably
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Speaker 4: is the most difficult in the remaining schedule in the
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Speaker 4: whole NFL. I mean, if you look at the space
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Speaker 4: of ten days, we're in Philly, we're up Baltimore, and
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Speaker 4: then he hoped the chief some Christmas desk. Jimmy's already
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Speaker 4: talked about before wrapping up the season at home to
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Speaker 4: the Bengals, so you don't get much tougher than that.
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Speaker 4: So in reality, this felt like a must win game,
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Speaker 4: and to come out with the win in the end
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Speaker 4: was was was a massive positive. So yeah, it's it's
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Speaker 4: it's a great place to be. We're now ten and
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Speaker 4: three SoCon Believe, Sac and Seed in the FC joint
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Speaker 4: with the Bills off of there lost to the Rams
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Speaker 4: in that very high scoring game. It was an enjoyable
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Speaker 4: watch as well, So I'm very much the same. Christmas
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Speaker 4: isn't that long away, but I'll tell you what I'm
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Speaker 4: counting down to days because that Christmas present we get
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Speaker 4: on Christmas Day at home with the Chiefs. I mean,
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Speaker 4: still doesn't feel right, to be honest, but I'm really
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Speaker 4: looking forward to that. I'm looking forward to breaking that
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Speaker 4: one down in a couple of weeks time as well.
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Speaker 1: On Christmas Day, I'll have you boys on at eleven.
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Speaker 1: I'm joking match on Christmas Night. Just on that. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: we will talk through the schedule a bit, but you're
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Speaker 1: buying on ten ten days in the row there and
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Speaker 1: then after this week a Saturday game before Christmas Day
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Speaker 1: as well, So a lot of stuff televised. We'll talk
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Speaker 1: about that in the week. Seconds. It's going to be
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Speaker 1: interesting just over the next few weeks, I guess. I guess.
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Speaker 1: First off, Jimmy, just to talk about this game, we
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Speaker 1: see another improved performance from Russell Wilson. Is it fair
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Speaker 1: of me to say that this was a comfortable win?
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Speaker 1: I know the score line doesn't give that suggestion to
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Speaker 1: an extent, but for the vast majority of this game
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Speaker 1: it was relatively comfortable. Are we correct?
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Speaker 2: To be honest? Make they had me worried for the
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Speaker 2: first a quarter and a half.
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Speaker 3: It was a very slow start on offense. Russell Wilson
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Speaker 3: didn't seem to be on the same page as his receivers.
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Speaker 3: A couple of misthrows, you know, it didn't look great,
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Speaker 3: and then we started to get warmed up a little bit.
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Speaker 2: Maggie Harrison had a.
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Speaker 3: Great first couple of quarters with carrying the ball, obviously
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Speaker 3: got our first rushing rushing touchdown of the game and
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Speaker 3: our first touchdown overall. And then I don't think the
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Speaker 3: absence of George Pickens really helped, but it was great
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Speaker 3: to see some other receivers stepping up. Mike Williams had
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Speaker 3: a fantastic game that he had a great catch at
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Speaker 3: one stage where he twisted his body around, reminiscent of
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Speaker 3: one of Pickens's earlier catches in the season. Scotty Meller
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Speaker 3: stepped up as well, so big shout out to him.
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Speaker 3: But it's the same story as it has been all season.
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Speaker 3: Our defense kept us in this game, and a letter
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Speaker 3: offense to get going and get warmed up and to
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Speaker 3: have that slow start.
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Speaker 4: Look.
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Speaker 3: Our defense played absolutely lights out in this game. Two interceptions,
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Speaker 3: three sacks bent and I think that was, honestly, that
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Speaker 3: was the turning point for us this game. That kind
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Speaker 3: of gave a little bit of a spark when Bent
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Speaker 3: picked off Jameis Winson.
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Speaker 2: I think that might have woken us up a little bit.
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Speaker 2: But look, I mean just I think that was the
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Speaker 2: tone of the day as well. In general.
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Speaker 3: It was those big plays and Landon Roberts absolutely blew
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Speaker 3: up the Browns center one stage that was hilarious to
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Speaker 3: watch on repeat. I have to say I did enjoy
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Speaker 3: watching them multiple times. And then look again, towards the
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Speaker 3: end of the game, there was two absolutely crucial plays.
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Speaker 3: The Browns were driving back down the field and James
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Speaker 3: Pierre had an interception that kind of sealed things for us.
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Speaker 3: And on the very next possession Sediars possession, we punted
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Speaker 3: it away and none of the than Ben Scronik made
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Speaker 3: a massive, massive special teams play recovering the recovering the
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Speaker 3: fumble on the attempt to punt return. So I think
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Speaker 3: it was it was definitely a team victory overall. All
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Speaker 3: three phases played an important part in its victory. But
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Speaker 3: like I said, it was great to have. Great to
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Speaker 3: be able to rely on our defense and special teams
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Speaker 3: to make big plays and give our offense that chance
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Speaker 3: to develop. I mean, don't get me wrong, I mean
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Speaker 3: Russell Wilson Stead had a great game, and we did
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Speaker 3: have some very impressive plays there, and look we got
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Speaker 3: the w and it was very much a concerted effort
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Speaker 3: from all from all three groups.
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Speaker 1: I think, Yeah, davg going on what Jimmy said there,
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Speaker 1: you mentioned a couple of guys that you mentioned, Canda, Benson,
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Speaker 1: Chill and Ward had a great game as well, Davog,
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Speaker 1: Alex Highsmith, Patrick Queen, Elandon Roberts as well. It feels like,
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Speaker 1: and I know we've got a number of games coming up,
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Speaker 1: but it feels like watching those guys last night starting
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Speaker 1: to click a little bit whenever it needs to at
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Speaker 1: this time of the year, which is which is always
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Speaker 1: a great time to see.
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Speaker 4: I couldn't have said a batter MC. I mean three
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Speaker 4: phases of the ball. I think Tony Romo mentioned it
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Speaker 4: in the broadcast yesterday, in order to win a Super Bowl.
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Speaker 4: I know, what's a man who hasn't won Super Bowl,
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Speaker 4: but I think he knows a thing or two about
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Speaker 4: winning teams in the NFL. If you are good on
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Speaker 4: three phases of the ball, offense, defensive, special teams, you're
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Speaker 4: put yourself in a really good chance. So I think
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Speaker 4: we're clicking on all of those and just to sort
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Speaker 4: of back up on what Jimmy said, you know, we
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Speaker 4: started off extremely slow, you know, with summarize, I think
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Speaker 4: we had more punts in the first quarter yesterday than
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Speaker 4: we did against the Bengals and the first Browns game
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Speaker 4: and combined. So I think that really tells the story.
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Speaker 4: And it's almost as if, you know, the George Pickens,
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Speaker 4: you know, caught Russ off guard. Him not being available,
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Speaker 4: caught Rouss off guard as well as ourselves because there
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Speaker 4: was almost no offensive fluidity in the first quarter. You know,
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Speaker 4: I was a little worried when when Jamis threw that
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Speaker 4: down to Jerry Judy on the opening touchdown of the game,
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Speaker 4: and I felt like that feeling of here we go again,
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Speaker 4: you know, we're playing down the competition again. But thankfully,
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Speaker 4: there is something in this team that, just as Jimmy
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Speaker 4: said there about there's a massive splash. When this massive
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Speaker 4: splash play it happens, there's something that just reignites a
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Speaker 4: fire in this team on this occasion was the Canu
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Speaker 4: Batton intersaption. And I do we think we do have
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Speaker 4: to thank Dustin Hopkins as well, you know, because we
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Speaker 4: are benefiting a lot from kickers having off days. I
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Speaker 4: think we've seen Justin Tucker a couple of weeks ago
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Speaker 4: had a struggle again, struggling game against US. I think
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Speaker 4: actually only the Chargers on top of Bed the only
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Speaker 4: two teams that sort of benefit more from miss miss
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Speaker 4: field goals. So I don't really care at the end
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Speaker 4: of the day, but overall very happy. These next four
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Speaker 4: games though, is the main you know, of course, the
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Speaker 4: mee and goals for each team is to win the
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Speaker 4: brow and these next four games is really going to
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Speaker 4: you know, test our steal if you Like I mentioned
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Speaker 4: in the group chat last night, I feel like winning
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Speaker 4: two out of those four games should be enough to
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Speaker 4: win the division. But I feel that what we see
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Speaker 4: over the course of the next most determines how legitimate
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Speaker 4: we are superbrulguan tenders. And starting off with a red
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Speaker 4: hottie you've seen this weekend, I can't wait to sort
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Speaker 4: of pre preview it because it's again that we all
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Speaker 4: look forward to, you know, Pennsylvania Derby. If you like,
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Speaker 4: who wins Pennsylvania will be will be find out this Sunday.
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Speaker 1: But I'm really looking forward to that one testamental.
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Speaker 3: I think as well just to add on to what
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Speaker 3: Dave bog said there, Like you look at the rest
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Speaker 3: of our schedule, it's Philadelphia and Baltimore on the road.
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Speaker 3: I know they are road games, but even you know
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Speaker 3: that that Eagles game is looming, that Chiefs game is looming.
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Speaker 3: These are very very beatable teams. And we saw the
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Speaker 3: Chargers have been winning by this, sorry that the Chiefs
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Speaker 3: have been winning by the skin of their teeth the
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Speaker 3: past couple of weeks. You know, they almost lost against
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Speaker 3: the Chargers last night only for that field go climbing
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Speaker 3: off the left upright. Andy Reid couldn't even watch his
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Speaker 3: kicker making that making that attempt, and then in Philadelphia
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Speaker 3: didn't have a massive game against Carolina. So look, let's
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Speaker 3: be realistic here. We have a very very good chance
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Speaker 3: of moving up into second position in the in the
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Speaker 3: AFC overall, and maybe even here, like we can dare
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Speaker 3: the dream, we might even end up being the number
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Speaker 3: one seed in the AFC overall. It is looking very
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Speaker 3: very likely. So I think we can now start to
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Speaker 3: have a bit more belief. And I know being saying
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Speaker 3: a week on week or we're starting to believe, We're
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Speaker 3: starting to believe, But that belief is coming to fruition now.
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Speaker 3: And look, we are in a very very good position
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Speaker 3: in the AFC and going into going into the postseed
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Speaker 3: postseason as well, considering it's December football, you know, it's
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Speaker 3: it's the kind of it's that the business end of
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Speaker 3: the season.
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Speaker 1: Just before we hear from coach Summlin, Jimmy, I'll just
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Speaker 1: start with you. I'll go back to that log in
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Speaker 1: the second again, two elements of this. We see a
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Speaker 1: number of graphics over a lot and this is just
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Speaker 1: your opinion. I'm putting you on the spot here. See
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Speaker 1: all these graphics about like you know, coach of the year,
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Speaker 1: comeback player of the year, Coach Tomlin has to be
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Speaker 1: up there for coach of the year, but also like
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Speaker 1: what Russell Wilson has done over the last five to
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Speaker 1: six weeks, especially in the Steelers team on average, he
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Speaker 1: has to be up there as well. Because I know
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Speaker 1: we talked about it a bit last week. Collectively, this
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Speaker 1: team has had that sort of reboot, that reset, which
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Speaker 1: is which is awesome to see, and certainly Tomlin needs
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Speaker 1: to be up in that discussion. And I know we're
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Speaker 1: a few weeks off that, but if they keep up
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Speaker 1: with this ps. I don't see anyone going at him,
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Speaker 1: especially when Bundle Ruskie Bundle Ruski and the Red is
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Speaker 1: not getting anywhere near the pecking order at the moment.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't see why not.
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Speaker 3: I mean, they've both had fantastic seasons Mike tom and
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Speaker 3: now has the longest active streak in the NFL for
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Speaker 3: not for for winning seasons for not losing. I saw
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Speaker 3: a very entertaining graphic on Instagram there a while ago,
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Speaker 3: and it was in relation to the Chiefs and Steelers
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Speaker 3: on Christmas Day, and that the caption.
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Speaker 2: Was the Voodoo Magic Bowl.
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Speaker 3: And it's think it's very fitting considering what Mike Tomlin
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Speaker 3: has pulled off this year with the pieces at his disposal.
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Speaker 3: Not untonmed the players by any by any stretch of
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Speaker 3: the imagination. But when we were looking at at our
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Speaker 3: quarterback room at the start of the season with Justin
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Speaker 3: Fields and Russell Wilson, I don't think anyone thought that
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Speaker 3: we would be in this position that we are in now,
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Speaker 3: with the record we are at and Russell Wilson playing
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Speaker 3: at the level he's playing at and having such a
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Speaker 3: positive impact on the Steelers offense and looking like he's
11:25
Speaker 3: been in that offense for years really, but the connection
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Speaker 3: he has the pickings and his receivers, I'm making those
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Speaker 3: throws and yeah, I mean, look, if if I had
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Speaker 3: a vote, make obviously not be not being biased, I
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Speaker 3: would definitely be casting it for for Mike Tomlin and
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Speaker 3: Russell Wilson. But just two legends of the game, and
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Speaker 3: I think we we are with their with their with
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Speaker 3: their experience.
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Speaker 2: They've been in this position god knows how many times.
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Speaker 3: We are very very fortunate to have them in the
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Speaker 3: in the Black and Gold at this stage of the season.
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Speaker 1: Hopefully ap Tone makes that decision when it comes to
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Speaker 1: the own the season. I think Jimmy summed it up
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Speaker 1: perfectly there, but I think Tomman's is a shooting right now.
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Speaker 1: Coach Tom, I feel like I'm not saying the right name.
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Speaker 1: It's mister Thomand's coach tomland Us. Yeah, until he's on
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Speaker 1: the podcast anyway.
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Speaker 4: He can be missed perfect as far as I'm concerned.
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Speaker 4: Mc Yeah, I can't really say anything that Jimmy hasn't
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Speaker 4: added there. I think it was it's outstand astounding. Sorry,
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Speaker 4: but mc commlin has never won Coach of the Year.
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Speaker 4: I couldn't believe that when I read that earlier on.
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Speaker 4: And to have as many successful winning seasons as he's
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Speaker 4: had with the teams that he's had over the years.
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Speaker 4: Of course, we've been blessed with fabulous talents, both on
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Speaker 4: offense and defense, but they're still that part where you
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Speaker 4: have to put it all together, and he manages to
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Speaker 4: keep it going. As Jimmy's just said, at the start
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Speaker 4: of the season, none of us and including a lot
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Speaker 4: of the in the American media, thought we were going
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Speaker 4: to maybe finish bottom of this division. And and the
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Speaker 4: fact that he has been able to keep this all
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Speaker 4: together as long as or as well as making that
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Speaker 4: decision halfway through the season where we have a winning record,
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Speaker 4: we have a quarterback that, let's be honest, everybody was
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Speaker 4: rooting for the whole way, right up until the halftime
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Speaker 4: in the Jets game, and it just fades like for
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Speaker 4: us to be able to watch this and the turnaround
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Speaker 4: he has made, I don't understand, like how you know,
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Speaker 4: of course, he's been mentioned in that conversation along if
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Speaker 4: you know the likes of Don Campbell. Of course, Martina
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Speaker 4: Fairs had a good year with the Packers. Javin O'Connell,
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Speaker 4: the NFC North. I mean, you could put any of
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Speaker 4: them forward, but the fact that he hasn't, you know,
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Speaker 4: sort of got the respect he deserves. It's just a
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Speaker 4: stand stinding, keep getting that wrong, that we're wrong. But no,
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Speaker 4: I think he has to be issuing and he has
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Speaker 4: to he has to win up. There's no other you know,
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Speaker 4: better candidate in my opinion.
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Speaker 1: Drop the mic, my friends, we're gonna have a very
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Speaker 1: very quick look ahead to this Eagles game in a
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Speaker 1: little second. But first we're going to hear from coach
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Speaker 1: Thummlin and also here from TJ. What after the victory
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Speaker 1: over the Cleveland Brians and the AFC North battle in
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Speaker 1: week fourteen. You're listening to the Irish Series podcast.
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Speaker 3: No.
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Speaker 5: First, I just want to say congratulations to the Hall
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Speaker 5: of Honor honorees Dick Lebow, Willie Parker, Jason Gilden, Casey Hampton,
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Speaker 5: and I had an opportunity and the blessing to work
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Speaker 5: with three of those four men. Obviously, I've known Jason
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Speaker 5: since I've been here, and they're so deserving of the
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Speaker 5: honor and I'm glad that we were able to do
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Speaker 5: our part in terms of making this a really good
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Speaker 5: weekend for them. They're deserving of that, and so just
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Speaker 5: want to tip the cap to those guys. Appreciative of
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Speaker 5: the efforts.
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Speaker 1: End game.
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Speaker 5: It didn't start off the way we would like in
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Speaker 5: terms of fluidity. We weren't converting third downs there early on,
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Speaker 5: but the guys found their attraction. I appreciate the defense
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Speaker 5: providing some short fields and some splash and the effort
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Speaker 5: to kind of get us going. It's a team game
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Speaker 5: in that way. And then obviously the special teams would
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Speaker 5: splash play down the stretch to get us out of
14:45
Speaker 5: the stadium. And that's what teams do. They make plays
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Speaker 5: in all three phases. They uplift one another. When a
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Speaker 5: certain component of it didn't roll in the smoothly as
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Speaker 5: you'd like. Thankful for the win. It's AFC North football
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Speaker 5: and we'll take it and keep moving. On the injury front, man,
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Speaker 5: we had a bunch of bumps and bruises associated with play.
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Speaker 5: I think the only thing that's really worth mentioning at
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Speaker 5: this point as Larry Ogan Jobi went out with a
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Speaker 5: growing in the first half or so, maybe second quarter,
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Speaker 5: and he wasn't able to return. I have an update
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Speaker 5: on Tuesday for you guys, regarding some of those other ones,
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Speaker 5: GP was listed as questionable. We didn't feel like he
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Speaker 5: was going to be able to play the type of
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Speaker 5: number of snaps that we thought would be worth putting
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Speaker 5: him in a uniform. To be quite honest with you,
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Speaker 5: we didn't want a small problem to become a big problem,
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Speaker 5: and so we put a helmet on Scotty Miller. And
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Speaker 5: as you can see, most of the time, when you
15:38
Speaker 5: put the helmets on the healthy guys, man, they take
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Speaker 5: care of the rest. Scotty made some plays for us,
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Speaker 5: and thankful for that. That's another example of the team
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Speaker 5: component of this game. Man. You can waste a lot
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Speaker 5: of time worried about the guys that are unavailable to you.
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Speaker 5: We choose to focus our energies on the guys that
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Speaker 5: are available to us, their preparedness and then ultimately their play.
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Speaker 5: Tip of the Captain Scottie Miller man stepping up and
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Speaker 5: making some big plays for us. You know, it's what
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Speaker 5: we've been kind of discovering or rediscovering throughout every component
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Speaker 5: of this process. You know, you guys were asking us
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Speaker 5: about our lack of quote unquote a number two and
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Speaker 5: team development, and the guys made plays where we throw
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Speaker 5: the ball to makes plays. The strength of the pack
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Speaker 5: is the pack. We got a bunch of guys that
16:21
Speaker 5: want to be the reasons why we're successful, and when
16:24
Speaker 5: given an opportunity, I think they continually prove that, whether
16:26
Speaker 5: Scottie or or Mike or Calvin or whoever van we
16:32
Speaker 5: believe in our group. I know I've said that to
16:33
Speaker 5: you guys repeatedly. Maybe you'll start believing me.
16:36
Speaker 6: Well, they could just can constant takeaways from you guys
16:38
Speaker 6: as a defense see more today, and just know you
16:40
Speaker 6: guys have been playing all year long.
16:41
Speaker 7: I mean, Keanu Benmon, what a hell of a play
16:43
Speaker 7: by him, and then obviously the others as well, but
16:45
Speaker 7: just an opportunistic group guys that want to want to
16:48
Speaker 7: make impact plays and do hot to big moments.
16:50
Speaker 6: So how great was then have Alex back out there
16:52
Speaker 6: and makes it you impact as well right away?
16:53
Speaker 5: Huge?
16:54
Speaker 7: I mean I think it was a third play of
16:55
Speaker 7: the game. He had a huge sack and he was
16:57
Speaker 7: a client pressure all day. We know he's great passers
17:00
Speaker 7: and a run defender when he's out there, and I'm
17:02
Speaker 7: just glad that he was out there to there this.
17:03
Speaker 6: For you guys to own this series at home twenty
17:05
Speaker 6: one Street regular season home wins over these guys.
17:07
Speaker 2: Is it a mental thing?
17:08
Speaker 3: You know, both sides for you.
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Speaker 7: Guys to win and feel confident, maybe them just feel like, man, can.
17:11
Speaker 1: We do this? I don't know.
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Speaker 7: I mean, no, no game in the NFL is is easy.
17:16
Speaker 7: It was a tough challenge today and happy to get
17:18
Speaker 7: to win.
17:21
Speaker 6: DJ I'm sorry. Peter asked us, did you feel like
17:25
Speaker 6: for the defense, your your tackle on the first out
17:27
Speaker 6: on the first play of their game and kind of
17:29
Speaker 6: set the tone for how you guys were gonna play
17:30
Speaker 6: it today?
17:31
Speaker 3: I don't know.
17:31
Speaker 7: I mean, I just want to come out and get
17:34
Speaker 7: involved as early as possible, as I try to do
17:36
Speaker 7: each and every week, and we just came out energized
17:38
Speaker 7: as a group from the start.
17:40
Speaker 6: Was that kind of a layover? I mean, I think
17:42
Speaker 6: up there, you guys have one tackle for a loss
17:45
Speaker 6: you got rid of Okay, we got to we already
17:46
Speaker 6: have a tackle for a loss right out of the gate.
17:48
Speaker 6: We think, I mean, played on that side of wine
17:50
Speaker 6: of the scrimmage.
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Speaker 7: We just want to be aggressive each and every week.
17:53
Speaker 7: You know, we know it wasn't acceptable when we were
17:55
Speaker 7: up there and we wanted to write it and we
17:57
Speaker 7: want to show that we were a better defense. We
18:00
Speaker 7: showed that day. Overall, obviously we came out with the
18:03
Speaker 7: winning It was much better.
18:05
Speaker 1: Great to hear from both coach Son and TJ on
18:08
Speaker 1: the Irish Eeris Podcast. The next game that we have
18:11
Speaker 1: coming up this weekend in Week fifteen is an absolute doozy.
18:15
Speaker 1: It's against the Eagles. It's at nine to twenty five
18:18
Speaker 1: our time in Philadelphia on Sunday. It's on NFL Game
18:23
Speaker 1: Pass on the Zone. I'm looking forward to it. It's
18:27
Speaker 1: a massive game. We know how important is at this point, Jimmy,
18:30
Speaker 1: I guess just first like and we'll go into the
18:32
Speaker 1: more discussion on this maybe during the week or liter
18:33
Speaker 1: later on this week.
18:35
Speaker 2: Eagle has been.
18:36
Speaker 1: Playing some great football on both sides of the ball.
18:37
Speaker 1: We know that they've struggled a little bit in terms
18:40
Speaker 1: of keeping or getting the way from the Carlina Panthers
18:42
Speaker 1: in Week fourteen, but the reality is good teams, grinders outside.
18:46
Speaker 1: They've been really effective both sides of the ball, as
18:48
Speaker 1: I said, and Siriali has really went the opposite of
18:50
Speaker 1: the last year. They'll be looking at this game and
18:53
Speaker 1: against Pittsburgh at home, going we can take this team.
18:55
Speaker 1: It seems like a really good opportunity, not just to
18:59
Speaker 1: show people, but the put the legal notice, especially when
19:01
Speaker 1: you put the bills on Lions playing in the same
19:04
Speaker 1: window at the same time. Let's put the legal notice
19:07
Speaker 1: and get a big win away from home. What's your
19:09
Speaker 1: initial thoughts just early in the week.
19:12
Speaker 2: Yeah, the bottom of Pennsylvania make It's always.
19:14
Speaker 3: A great game when these two sides meet, fierce rivalry
19:18
Speaker 3: that the just know for a fact, having lived in
19:20
Speaker 3: in Philadelphia many years ago that Eagles fans hate the
19:24
Speaker 3: Steelers and vice versa. It's gonna be. It's gonna be
19:28
Speaker 3: fantastic matchup. I mean, both sides of so many talented players.
19:32
Speaker 3: Of course, Segone Barkley playing having maybe the potentially the
19:35
Speaker 3: best year of his best season of his career, setting records,
19:40
Speaker 3: left Rondon centered. Playing the way he's playing. We've all
19:42
Speaker 3: seen the highlights, and that's gonna be. That's the number
19:45
Speaker 3: one key is shut down the run and you shut
19:47
Speaker 3: down everything else. And I think we have the capability
19:49
Speaker 3: with our defense and the way our linebackers have been playing.
19:53
Speaker 3: I mean, look, we we stifled Derrick Henry a couple
19:55
Speaker 3: of weeks ago against the Ravens. Shouldn't have anybody doing
19:58
Speaker 3: the same thing against against Lakwan Barkley. So I think
20:02
Speaker 3: that's gonna be the key element for the key element
20:04
Speaker 3: for that, and then offensively.
20:06
Speaker 2: Just have a faster start.
20:08
Speaker 3: I don't think we can afford to have as slow
20:09
Speaker 3: as start as we did a quarter and a half
20:12
Speaker 3: with out of touchdown. I think it was eleven minutes
20:15
Speaker 3: at the eleven minute market against the Browns.
20:17
Speaker 2: When Nagi scored his rushing touchdown, So faster out of
20:20
Speaker 2: the blocks.
20:22
Speaker 3: Look, the thing is, we have Boswell there if we
20:24
Speaker 3: need him, mister Boso Maddick, best kicker in the league.
20:27
Speaker 3: So I think it's gonna be very tight, but I
20:30
Speaker 3: think we can. We can definitely, we can definitely do it.
20:32
Speaker 3: And I think both sides are going to be very
20:34
Speaker 3: very very very much up for this one as well.
20:38
Speaker 1: It's early in the week, dovel, but have you watched
20:40
Speaker 1: much of the Eagles this season? Have you been able
20:42
Speaker 1: to watch their catch as much of the games?
20:44
Speaker 5: Yeah?
20:45
Speaker 4: I watched the game against the Ravens a couple of
20:47
Speaker 4: weeks ago, which was a good insight to really what
20:49
Speaker 4: they're going to set up like because as I've mentioned before,
20:52
Speaker 4: they really I feel like they're sort of stole our
20:54
Speaker 4: blueprint and how to handle Lamar Jackson, and so yeah,
20:58
Speaker 4: I was I was sort of paid it answer to
21:00
Speaker 4: that one. Obviously, I couldn't really pay attention yesterday for
21:03
Speaker 4: obvious reasons. We were at the same time. And but
21:06
Speaker 4: it's just obviously interesting as well. Un Like you know,
21:07
Speaker 4: they're three and zero against the rest of the FC North,
21:10
Speaker 4: so we've we've got a massive job on our house,
21:12
Speaker 4: not only to see of our own face, but obviously
21:14
Speaker 4: to see the dignity of the division. Thanks for the
21:16
Speaker 4: rest of them, But they weren't massively impressive, just as
21:19
Speaker 4: Jimmy said, they were not massively impressive against Carlin at
21:21
Speaker 4: the weekend, and Gileen Hurts, I think just on the
21:24
Speaker 4: start line one hundred and eight yards through through the
21:26
Speaker 4: air and EDJ. Brown I think even came out off
21:29
Speaker 4: of the game and and sort of seemingly took a
21:31
Speaker 4: shot at him, which is you know, that's not great
21:34
Speaker 4: when you see from your receiver. But it will be
21:36
Speaker 4: interesting to see how we match up against him, you know,
21:38
Speaker 4: the clean, mean threat, as Jimmy said, Sae Quon Barclay.
21:41
Speaker 4: He's having an MVP caliber season. Of course, they've still
21:43
Speaker 4: got some good other weapons likes of Brown, Devonte Smith,
21:47
Speaker 4: Dallas Goddard, and they also have a very good young
21:50
Speaker 4: and upcoming defense. I think Jileen Carter is probably one
21:53
Speaker 4: of the best inside tackle or inside defensive tackles in
21:57
Speaker 4: the league. So we'll have to break it down better
21:59
Speaker 4: and as the week or later on the week perhaps,
22:02
Speaker 4: but hopefully the caroline of Father's game just wasn't a
22:04
Speaker 4: blip and it's something that we can certainly take advantage
22:06
Speaker 4: of because I think they are on is it a
22:08
Speaker 4: ten game, a leven game win strike eventually that has
22:11
Speaker 4: to run out of stament. Hopefully we're just guessing them
22:13
Speaker 4: at the right right time.
22:15
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're they're laughing at the minute. It's it's up
22:17
Speaker 1: to us now. I think go off over the next
22:19
Speaker 1: few days and watch a little bit of Eagles team
22:22
Speaker 1: offense and defense and special team. So I'll go offense,
22:24
Speaker 1: Jimmy Eagle, defense, the special teams. I'm joking. We've actually
22:28
Speaker 1: on the week to preview this game, massive one coming up.
22:30
Speaker 1: But in the meantime, folks, enjoy it, win, enjoy where
22:32
Speaker 1: this team is enjoy that this team is sitting at
22:34
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