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From Fitzsimons: Gearing up for gameday in Dublin, Ireland · The Irish Steelers Podcast

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Speaker 1: Irish airline air Lingus will proudly serve as the presenting
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Speaker 1: partner of Steelers Ireland twenty twenty five. Airlingus's growth in
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Speaker 1: North America continues in twenty twenty five as the airline
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Speaker 1: prepares to fly to two new US destinations, Nashville and Indianapolis,
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Speaker 1: using its new Airbus eight three twenty one xl or aircraft.
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Speaker 2: This brings the number.
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Speaker 1: Of transatlantic routes operated by the airline from Dublin, Shannon
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Speaker 1: and Manchester to twenty four. Steelers fans traveling to Ireland
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Speaker 1: for the Big Game can enjoy a relaxing journey when
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Speaker 1: they fly.
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Speaker 2: With air Lingus. Air Lingus, You're very welcome, everybody.
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Speaker 3: You're very welcome into the Irish Statters podcast on a
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Speaker 3: historic week obviously presented by air Lingus, and this is
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Speaker 3: a historic week for the Pittsburgh Staters. I am sitting
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Speaker 3: here on the rooftop of the Pittsburgh Steaeters Bar, that
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Speaker 3: Simon's and Temple Bar, along with my friend and colleague
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Speaker 3: from Pro Football Ireland, Mark Hogan. Mark. I would say
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Speaker 3: welcome to Dublin, but you this You're what a great
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Speaker 3: week for the NFL in general, This is fantastic to see.
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Speaker 4: I hope you listening in are listening in nice and
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Speaker 4: edge to this podcast, because yeah, it's a bit surreal
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Speaker 4: as we record this on a Tuesday, Michael on a
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Speaker 4: Tuesday curing the heart of Temple Bar and a rooftop
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Speaker 4: looking around at Steelers logos plast at every year in
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Speaker 4: Steelers Country, and this is apparently normal. We have the
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Speaker 4: NFL in Dublin in Ireland this weekend. It is absolutely outrageous.
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Speaker 4: I have hair standing up for just thinking about it.
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Speaker 4: I can't believe this week this game is finally here.
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Speaker 3: I know you had a chance to start out the
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Speaker 3: pro shop this morning for the Steelers on the NFL
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Speaker 3: store as well. It's been a great few days and folks,
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Speaker 3: obviously a pro shop is open all season as well,
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Speaker 3: not just this weekend. Get down too, just past Grappling
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Speaker 3: Street and have a look. Obviously, Mark before we look
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Speaker 3: at this weekend. You know you sort of mentioned it there,
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Speaker 3: but I was driving down to Dublin today and we've
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Speaker 3: obviously had the pleasure of doing stuff with the Steelers
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Speaker 3: over the last couple of years since it came into
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Speaker 3: the market with the Global Markets program, and it really
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Speaker 3: hit me when I seen this for Dublin and seeing
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Speaker 3: I think I drove in through the port tunnel, took
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Speaker 3: one look up at the city and went, oh my god,
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Speaker 3: this has happening and it's the big weekend.
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Speaker 4: It's a thing that actually, again you listening, tell me
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Speaker 4: when was your moment you're after saying yours is coming
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Speaker 4: in you see the sign for Dublin. Mine was I
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Speaker 4: went out on Friday last week to see the flags
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Speaker 4: and I was trying to get actually the Vikings flag
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Speaker 4: and I was like, where is it?
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Speaker 5: Where's it? And I was like, hold on a second,
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Speaker 5: what am.
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Speaker 4: I doing here? I'm looking for NFL flags and they're
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Speaker 4: very obvious. Don't get me wrong, it's me being an idiot.
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Speaker 3: The city looks great.
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Speaker 4: This city looks fantastic, honestly. And again as we look
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Speaker 4: around this bar, you have the better view than me.
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Speaker 4: I'm kind of looking at the wall, but it does
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Speaker 4: say you're in Steeters going through, which is surreal enough,
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Speaker 4: but even coming up the stairs it's well, you know,
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Speaker 4: documentary that this is the Steters Bar, big.
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Speaker 3: Time Stears bar. I'll tell you what. Obviously not from Dublin's.
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Speaker 3: I'm not in here too much. We're talking to people
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Speaker 3: from Pennsylvania, talking to people from Dublin. We're talking to
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Speaker 3: people that went to the Steelers Bar and gol Way.
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Speaker 3: I know Max Starks is currently on his Turrible Terrible
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Speaker 3: Tile tour. Folks, get that Irish terrible tile. It's incredible
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Speaker 3: with a tricolorer for the Sunday and wave it loud
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Speaker 3: and proud on Sunday. Have you seen Max was in
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Speaker 3: Kilarney and met Pody Clifford, Boddy Clifford and Cliff's are
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Speaker 3: more today. That man has seen more of the island
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Speaker 3: of Ireland than I have seen in my lifetime. And
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Speaker 3: he's been here for but like he literally done the
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Speaker 3: game on Sunday in New England, hopped over all the
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Speaker 3: Earlingas flight and he's been on a little lovely wee
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Speaker 3: bus and I believe he's wing north as well as
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Speaker 3: you're like just just later on in the week.
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Speaker 5: But you know what, and it's exactly you know, that's
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Speaker 5: exactly it.
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Speaker 4: We as Irish people are thrilled that the game is here,
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Speaker 4: that we naturally having a great time. The Americans are
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Speaker 4: coming over, the weather is actually looking all right. When
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Speaker 4: you see Max gone round. It all looks stunning. It's
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Speaker 4: like everyone's in such a great form that it's like, again,
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Speaker 4: appreciate every single second this. You never know when it's
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Speaker 4: going to come back. We all hope that will be
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Speaker 4: a yearly thing. Don't even worry about that right now.
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Speaker 4: Live in the moment. It's just while it's here.
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Speaker 3: But this is this is different to emmy over the
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Speaker 3: national game, and we've obviously been very lucky to go
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Speaker 3: with a lot of them across Europe, Mark and across
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Speaker 3: the world at this point now. But when you see
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Speaker 3: a team like the Steelers mister Rooney obviously was in
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Speaker 3: the pro shop earlier on. They're going to head up
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Speaker 3: north to both Belfast and near earlier on in the week,
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Speaker 3: it's more than a team coming in and putting the
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Speaker 3: pub together. This this really means a lot to this family,
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Speaker 3: and you can see that in not just in this bar,
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Speaker 3: but around the city. And I mean, for me, I'm
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Speaker 3: biased obviously because I live up north and I'm not
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Speaker 3: too far from Newey to see them cup to Belfast
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Speaker 3: later on this weekend, the newy really does mean an
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Speaker 3: awful lot on the on a personal level, and we
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Speaker 3: have a lot more to come this week on the But.
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Speaker 4: That's it, Michael like in terms of don't just come
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Speaker 4: to the Steelers, bart go out and have a look
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Speaker 4: around Dublin a pre set. If you're in Belfast, if
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Speaker 4: you're in Galway, they have it on Shop Street at
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Speaker 4: the moment up there too. It's like it's all over
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Speaker 4: Ireland now it's just yeah, I don't know massive to.
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Speaker 5: Have it all here.
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Speaker 3: So in terms of the Steelers last week, if we
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Speaker 3: touch on it very quickly, mark twenty one to fourteen
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Speaker 3: win against the Patriots on the road. And I'll say
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Speaker 3: this on a neutral basis. One on one in the season,
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Speaker 3: you're going in against Mike Freeble, who wants to win
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Speaker 3: that game. Julian Edelman is giving the Red Blazer. The
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Speaker 3: crowds pumped up and they win the game. And it
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Speaker 3: was dicey enough for a little while at fourteen fourteen,
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Speaker 3: but we've seen a team really come up. And the
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Speaker 3: one guy that I was really really happy for was
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Speaker 3: Calvin Austin in a contract year obviously getting that touchdown.
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Speaker 3: We've seen him at the end of the game. See
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Speaker 3: y'all in Ireland. He's been here a few times. But
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Speaker 3: look for me Mark. Going from Week two to week three,
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Speaker 3: that home opener against the Seahawks, there were mistakes. We
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Speaker 3: obviously seen the big mistake in terms of the touchback
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Speaker 3: that wasn't and we've seen a lot more improving on
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Speaker 3: in terms of our in terms of Aaron Rodgers looked
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Speaker 3: more mobile in the pocket for me, and certainly with
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Speaker 3: that offense, it's starting to take a little bit. I
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Speaker 3: want to see a bit more on the running game.
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Speaker 3: And I know we were talking earlier on about Gil
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Speaker 3: and Warren coming. I think he had forty odd yards
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Speaker 3: under their rushing.
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Speaker 4: Or st Yeah, Joe yea again, you teed it up
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Speaker 4: to me as the neutral, and neutral is what I
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Speaker 4: am now. Don't get me wrong. I wish there's bits
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Speaker 4: of rexceed this fan that meet that's in it and everything.
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Speaker 4: You know, fourteen nothing up. Yes you're thinking this week one.
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Speaker 4: You know we're back to the offense.
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Speaker 5: It's working.
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Speaker 4: The England Patriots are no you know, they're nothing to
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Speaker 4: laugh about on defense.
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Speaker 5: It don't get me wrong.
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Speaker 4: Obviously it's a bit worrying when they tie the game up,
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Speaker 4: but it's the clutches again from the offense that has
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Speaker 4: been missing for a number of years obviously with the roundabout.
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Speaker 5: Of quarterbacks there.
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Speaker 4: So I think that that's what I really take from it,
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Speaker 4: that like Aaron Rodgers was obviously a wizard with his
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Speaker 4: helm Mary's back, and then I know that's not what's
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Speaker 4: we're talking about here, but it's just that clutchness that
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Speaker 4: he's brought that they're able to pull it out and
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Speaker 4: even after they're after conceding the fourteen points to tie
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Speaker 4: it up, that they're still there. Now, I know you
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Speaker 4: want to say on this game, but of course we're
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Speaker 4: going ahead.
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Speaker 5: We were looking at Minnesota and yeah, we will.
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Speaker 3: Talk about it in a week second, I'll get your
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Speaker 3: full story in a wee sacon And I do want
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Speaker 3: to say just very quickly before we hear from coach Tomlin. Mark, Yes,
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Speaker 3: the offense is taken get a bit better week go
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Speaker 3: and week obviously I want to see it get to
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Speaker 3: the next level this weekend in double that defense. Really
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Speaker 3: sorry for me, I was buzzing to see her big
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Speaker 3: A really play well. In terms of socks.
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Speaker 5: TJ.
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Speaker 3: Watt done well, Brandon Eckles with the interception as well.
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Speaker 3: For me, Mark, it's that real Steelers football that breeze
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Speaker 3: in football towards the end of the game, when you're
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Speaker 3: under pressure, you need to get the ball back and
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Speaker 3: the defense came up big. And we're gonna talk about
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Speaker 3: that game in Dublin in a wee minute and then
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Speaker 3: we get our thoughts on it, especially going to talk
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Speaker 3: about it at length this week ahead of the game
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Speaker 3: on Sunday. But this is the defense to play as well.
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Speaker 3: This is the defense that can come under pressure, and
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Speaker 3: they're gonna be under pressure on Sunday. But on Sunday
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Speaker 3: last week in New England, they got the job done
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Speaker 3: and it'll win as a win baby. The only thing
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Speaker 3: that matters is they were on that playing twenty one
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Speaker 3: to fourteen up. And the one thing that I love
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Speaker 3: the muster If you've seen this mark but then create
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Speaker 3: video of coach Hamlin, Cam Hayward and Aaron Rodgers just
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Speaker 3: walking through the locker and walk into the locker room
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Speaker 3: after the game like they were lifelong friends. Cam Hayward
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Speaker 3: had a far better game than than Week two. Looks
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Speaker 3: more progressed. I know he was obviously coming back in
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Speaker 3: after that time out, but really really good to see.
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Speaker 3: I think we're in for a really really interesting year
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Speaker 3: with this team. Before we talk about this game in
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Speaker 3: Dublin focus to remind people that the Steeters official bar
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Speaker 3: this weekend is in fitz Simons on Temple Bar. Do
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Speaker 3: check it out. There's a rooftop bar. There's gonna be
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Speaker 3: Steelers radio here from later on in the week. You
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Speaker 3: might see me up here at some point. And the
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Speaker 3: big one is got Mark we've seen at the college
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Speaker 3: game last month for Marion Square is a perfect place
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Speaker 3: to have a teal gip begins on Thursday. The Teal
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Speaker 3: Gate presented by our lingus. That's some spot if you're
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Speaker 3: in Dublin for the first time, isn't it.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, And you know the tickets are obviously still available.
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Speaker 4: Maybe you know about that a bit more.
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Speaker 3: I know it's under free, so we'll put the Lincoln
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Speaker 3: the Bible, get in and if you haven't got a
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Speaker 3: ticket for something, to check it out. I believe there's
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Speaker 3: also a documentary presented by our lingus on the Rooney
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Speaker 3: Family in Ireland, which is gonna be a fantastic watch
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Speaker 3: as well.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, one hundred percent. I've been distracted when I talked
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Speaker 4: to you, name Michael, all.
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Speaker 3: These Steelers fans as I was watching this going who
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Speaker 3: are these guys.
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Speaker 5: Who are these guys.
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Speaker 4: One of the things that are after noticing is I
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Speaker 4: know that Pittsburgh is in the great state of Pennsylvania.
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Speaker 4: There's some incredible murals that have been put up around
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Speaker 4: the Temple Bar area. There has been are worth checking out,
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Speaker 4: but they must be sponsored by visit Philadelphia or Pennsylvania.
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Speaker 4: Because there is the green bird over here the Philadelphia.
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Speaker 3: There's an Eagles one there, Steters ones all round the city.
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Speaker 3: I was Sandy earlier on and a couple of guy
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Speaker 3: who sent me ones from Newry, from Belfast as well.
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Speaker 3: Great to see not just the seaters but the steel
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Speaker 3: as well. Getting involved Mark, this is a historic week.
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Speaker 3: Before we talk about that, let's hear from Coach Salmon
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Speaker 3: with his faults of the Patriots game here on the
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Speaker 3: Irish Hitters podcast presented by Earning us.
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Speaker 4: Man.
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Speaker 6: It's great to win in the National Football League. Appreciative
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Speaker 6: of the efforts today. Certainly required sixty minutes of effort
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Speaker 6: on all three phases to get it done. Certainly there
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Speaker 6: are a lot of things to work on, but it's
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Speaker 6: good to do that with the win. A couple of
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Speaker 6: things of note. I thought we started fast offensively, but
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Speaker 6: then we stalled out obviously, particularly in the second half,
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Speaker 6: but a lot of credit goes to New England and
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Speaker 6: their defense and what they were doing. They were major
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Speaker 6: components of that. Defensively, I thought we were really tight
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Speaker 6: in the red zone and things of that nature. I
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Speaker 6: thought we could have been better on possession downs. Thankfully
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Speaker 6: we took the ball away from him to alleviate some
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Speaker 6: of that lack of zession down success. But all in
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Speaker 6: all it was good team victory. Man, we fought for
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Speaker 6: sixty minutes. We utilize a lot of people, specialization of talent,
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Speaker 6: the vision of labor, things of that nature. Still finding
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Speaker 6: our way, you know, with the number of new people
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Speaker 6: and people out and things of that nature. And so
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Speaker 6: it was a good experience. No significant injuries to mention.
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Speaker 6: Slave miss some time in the game with the lad contusion.
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Speaker 6: I think he was able to get back in and finish.
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Speaker 6: Saying with Broderick, but we'll stack this one.
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Speaker 2: Questions the goal on how business.
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Speaker 6: One to the end of the half huge, you know,
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Speaker 6: That's why we spend as much time practicing down in
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Speaker 6: that space as we do as a collective. We got
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Speaker 6: to be great on defense, uh, in the effort to
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Speaker 6: win the points wing. We got to be great on offense.
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Speaker 6: And when you take the ball away, man, you get
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Speaker 6: all seven points. Usually you're fighting for four. But man,
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Speaker 6: those takeaways, particularly down there, were big.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's technique.
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Speaker 2: Is some of the things you're working on, the punching
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Speaker 2: and stuff like that.
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Speaker 6: No question. You know, we spent a lot of time
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Speaker 6: on our ball search culture. But it's just words. It's
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Speaker 6: an agenda. The efforts of the guys make it real
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Speaker 6: not only on Sunday, but but during the course of
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Speaker 6: the week. And you know, it just felt like we
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Speaker 6: were headed toward a good game in that area, just
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Speaker 6: by the way we worked this week in that area.
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Speaker 4: Playing.
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Speaker 1: But at the end, boom boom boom right down the
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Speaker 1: field are and.
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Speaker 6: Makes some play. So you know, and that's oftentimes the case. Man.
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Speaker 6: You can it cannot be going the way you desire,
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Speaker 6: but you better have enough emotion, you better have enough belief,
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Speaker 6: you better stay the course in an effort to do it.
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Speaker 6: You could say the same thing about the defense in
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Speaker 6: in New York, uh, and we were able to finish
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Speaker 6: it at the end. Same thing with the offense today.
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Speaker 6: But that's what team is about. Good to hear from coach.
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Speaker 6: So I'm here on the Irish Theaters podcasts out by
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Speaker 6: our Langcas. We're all the Kish before the Madness begins
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Speaker 6: and fits Simon's Bar Temple Bar and is dak Dyte
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Speaker 6: in Caedars gear. You can see the Ireland logo twenty
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Speaker 6: twenty five zeneb arlingcos around us.
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Speaker 3: We're in the rooftop part. If you're a fan of
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Speaker 3: the Steedars Nation radio talent and also Steelers' legends, get
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Speaker 3: down here this weekend for a lot of fun that's
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Speaker 3: gonna happen. Hopefully I'll see you around as well. Mark.
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Speaker 3: As I said in the first part of this podcast,
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Speaker 3: we know that mister Rooney and Edgeron Bettis among ours
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Speaker 3: are heading up north to Neuri and the Belfast Leater
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Speaker 3: on this week historic to see where a Rooney family
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Speaker 3: is from. It's something that I've talked about a few times.
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Speaker 3: It's a real American's dream, Mark. It really is two
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Speaker 3: hundred years on almost from when the Really family left
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Speaker 3: Neuri to go to North America to really look at
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Speaker 3: their life and change your life for the better. And
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Speaker 3: look what they're bringing back the Pittsburgh Stedars the time
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Speaker 3: in the Historic first hour NFL doubling game this week.
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Speaker 3: You can watch the game on Virgin Media one if
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Speaker 3: you do not have a ticket. The game begins at
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Speaker 3: one point thirty. It's also on Sky Sports, and I
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Speaker 3: believe it's on NFL Game Pass on the Zone with
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Speaker 3: NFL Network and Mark, I can't believe we're sitting here
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Speaker 3: about to talk about this an NFL gamer coup park
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Speaker 3: and the Stars are a part of the first one.
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Speaker 3: Nobody can take that away from the Rooney family or
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Speaker 3: the theaters. And that's a historic moment. But this is
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Speaker 3: a any any international matchup with a tricky matchup. The
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Speaker 3: one thing that's changed is we last seen the shop
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Speaker 3: for a few weeks ago, is we don't have JJ
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Speaker 3: McCarthy anymore. We've got Carson Wentz. Aren Jones is not
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Speaker 3: going to be there for the Vikings win. The one
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Speaker 3: thing I would say is backup quarterbacks can kind at times,
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Speaker 3: not of dodgy games, but they can struggle in games.
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Speaker 3: And it's gonna be on the Steelers defense to take
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Speaker 3: in the crowd, to take any out of Steeers fans
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Speaker 3: here and embrace it as a home game and get
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Speaker 3: the crowd on their side early. Stop this team early.
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Speaker 3: From a general point of view, I think for a
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Speaker 3: neutral or for a Steelers fanner for a Vikings fan,
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Speaker 3: we have the prospect here of having a really really
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Speaker 3: good end to end game. What's your thoughts on the generally.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, there's an apt im pack with what
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Speaker 4: you're saying there, because I one hundred percent think that
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Speaker 4: it's the point that can be you know, talked about more.
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Speaker 4: We haven't seen a whole lot of JJ McCarthy, so
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Speaker 4: you know, you don't know what you're actually missing with
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Speaker 4: him going out for the Minnesota Vikings. Like we know,
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Speaker 4: see what two games Week one, Week two that was injured.
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Speaker 4: In terms of Carson Wentz, we understand that he is
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Speaker 4: perceived to have a ceiling. Okay, I'll take that, but
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Speaker 4: it's like, it's not like the Minnesota Vikings are taking
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Speaker 4: a drop off with him there, and certainly he's he's
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Speaker 4: in last week and the defense was able to step up.
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Speaker 4: So it's an extremely It's probably the most competitive game
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Speaker 4: we can say that in the international.
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Speaker 3: State this week, which is it's in my opinion, it's
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Speaker 3: the best international game this year. It is, and it's
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Speaker 3: a credit to have both teams here I'm really really
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Speaker 3: excited for you talk about J J mccarfy. Let's flip
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Speaker 3: it around to the Steelers. We've had the pleasure of
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Speaker 3: meeting mister Rogers before. Lovely guy. He's used to coming in,
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Speaker 3: going out and getting the job done in overseas terartory,
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Speaker 3: and I think that's a credit to him, and I
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Speaker 3: think it's going to be a very important thing on Sunday.
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Speaker 3: He can blank out the space, he can get, he
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Speaker 3: can get himself into that mindset of going out. It
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Speaker 3: doesn't matter of the games in Ireland, it doesn't matter
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Speaker 3: if the games in France. For him, he can get
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Speaker 3: the job done. And I think that could be key
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Speaker 3: to Sunday, to be.
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Speaker 5: Honest, And what's key is revenge game.
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Speaker 4: Last time we saw Aaron Rodgers, he was after playing
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Speaker 4: this same Minnesota Vikings defense in London and we talked
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Speaker 4: to him about what Van ginkel there on the defenses
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Speaker 4: after picking him off, and he said, Christmas has come
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Speaker 4: early for you. And that's what I said to in
15:00
Speaker 4: the press conference after his bang gig. Who has given
15:02
Speaker 4: you a props or whatever? So like these things Aaron
15:05
Speaker 4: Rodgers doAnd doesn't like to be picked off twice with
15:06
Speaker 4: the same.
15:07
Speaker 5: Player, etcetera, etcetera.
15:08
Speaker 4: Yes, he he's obviously in a better system now with
15:12
Speaker 4: the Pittsburgh Steelers than he was with the New York Jets.
15:14
Speaker 4: Put it into action what he wasn't able to do
15:16
Speaker 4: and was so frustrated with the New York Jets last year.
15:20
Speaker 4: Those wrongs have been righted by his coming to Pittsburgh.
15:24
Speaker 4: I can't wait to see him actually get to play
15:26
Speaker 4: the game that he wants. The planes that have having
15:27
Speaker 4: to complain about on the plane.
15:28
Speaker 5: On the way home.
15:28
Speaker 3: I was on a call today. I was on a
15:31
Speaker 3: call today getting ahead of Sunday for the production of
15:34
Speaker 3: version of media, and one of the things that guy said,
15:36
Speaker 3: I'll not say who it is, but somebody talked about
15:38
Speaker 3: the kicking and crop park and that people rugby players
15:43
Speaker 3: have found it different to kicking in the normal stadium.
15:46
Speaker 3: And I thought it was a very interesting comment because
15:48
Speaker 3: if Steelers have got a guy in Chris Boswell who
15:50
Speaker 3: was a freak of nature, you give him a fifty
15:52
Speaker 3: sixty yarder, he can give it the best shot he has.
15:54
Speaker 3: And we've seen over the last couple of weekends mark
15:56
Speaker 3: not just defensive players, but kicking players where kickers have struggled.
16:00
Speaker 3: If boss Well can get that under stretch, get in
16:02
Speaker 3: early and Sunday get it ahead of a partly kicking
16:04
Speaker 3: towards the hill is more different apparently at something we
16:07
Speaker 3: were talking about earlier on. It'll be interesting to see
16:09
Speaker 3: if what happens for either kicker, but certainly a stadium
16:12
Speaker 3: which is different because it's it's going to be like
16:15
Speaker 3: the field is going to be enclosed in the middle
16:17
Speaker 3: of the It's going to be a lot different to
16:18
Speaker 3: what they're used to. I guess at Akrasher going to
16:20
Speaker 3: a stadium in the US, it's going.
16:22
Speaker 4: To be a different sadium. It's interesting what you say
16:24
Speaker 4: about rugby players thinking that the field is different. So
16:26
Speaker 4: one piece of information that I did not know about
16:30
Speaker 4: the crow Park field is that it's not completely flat normally,
16:34
Speaker 4: so they've actually had to make it completely level. I
16:37
Speaker 4: don't know what process that took, but it's it's complete.
16:39
Speaker 3: And we know that the NFL field team have been
16:44
Speaker 3: over here but six or seven times this year working
16:46
Speaker 3: on it, and there has not been a competitive game
16:48
Speaker 3: since the Leade's all art and finally, so.
16:50
Speaker 4: Will potentially that quirk that the rugby players not even
16:53
Speaker 4: potentially I would actually quite confidently say that quirk that
16:56
Speaker 4: the rugby players find, I'd imagine that has been taken out,
17:00
Speaker 4: but it is the whole thing. It's like Colin Cooper
17:03
Speaker 4: was asked for the last All Ireland. He was on
17:06
Speaker 4: off the ball and it was like, is there such
17:08
Speaker 4: a thing as the kicking post? And he said, absolutely,
17:11
Speaker 4: You're dead right. It's like players for some reason always
17:14
Speaker 4: do well. He was saying, down into the hill, Down
17:17
Speaker 4: into the hill is the kicking post, right, because now
17:19
Speaker 4: I'm like, no, it's up the canal in But anyway,
17:21
Speaker 4: Guch was saying that he likes kicking into the hill.
17:24
Speaker 4: The hill will be an experience for them. What NFL
17:26
Speaker 4: stadium is only what like two stories. It's going to
17:30
Speaker 4: be completely different for obviously both teams. And then to
17:33
Speaker 4: look up to those that absolute sea of people when
17:36
Speaker 4: you go up to the other end, Like anytime I
17:38
Speaker 4: do media, Michael, everyone is blown away by the size
17:42
Speaker 4: of the stadium. Now they're using obviously eighty two thousand number.
17:45
Speaker 4: It's obviously aboutty probably seventy six thousand, so it is obviously,
17:49
Speaker 4: but that's just because the seats the stadium won't look
17:52
Speaker 4: different to you or I that are used to seeing
17:53
Speaker 4: it on our and are shorter than usual.
17:56
Speaker 5: Ga Summers, Michael, it's.
17:59
Speaker 3: Odd that we're talking about it and I love it,
18:00
Speaker 3: And the only other thing I'll add for people, especially
18:02
Speaker 3: because I know we have an audience in Northern America
18:04
Speaker 3: listening to this and they probably listen to me and
18:06
Speaker 3: zero point five because I probably talked too fast. So
18:08
Speaker 3: you're very, very welcome this week on a very special week.
18:10
Speaker 3: Looking forward to talking to you and all the guys.
18:13
Speaker 3: Max STARKSX actually that they're on in the week, hopefully
18:15
Speaker 3: in this bar as well, and proper grass, proper grass,
18:19
Speaker 3: and that's going to be a big difference as well. Mark,
18:21
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna give away. I'm not gonna give away
18:23
Speaker 3: my game pick. I'll get yours in the week. Second,
18:26
Speaker 3: I'm conscious that I'm giving my opinion here and we
18:28
Speaker 3: don't want to go into too much here, but I
18:30
Speaker 3: can only imagine how special it's going to be when
18:32
Speaker 3: this team come out on Sunday, because we know that
18:34
Speaker 3: the lay Dan Ronney will be watching on from above.
18:37
Speaker 3: I have no doubt about that. It would have meant
18:39
Speaker 3: an awful lot to him to bring this team here
18:40
Speaker 3: this weekend, and because I don't know and we don't know,
18:43
Speaker 3: I can only imagine what's planned for that at SOAR.
18:46
Speaker 3: I think it's gonna be very, very emotional.
18:47
Speaker 4: I hope the country is completely sailors. Like literally, they
18:52
Speaker 4: are the ones that brought this game here. I think
18:55
Speaker 4: for the rest of Attorney Ireland should be a Pittsburgh
18:58
Speaker 4: Seilers team. And it's because it means like it means
19:01
Speaker 4: something to them. And that's what I've said ever since.
19:03
Speaker 4: It means something to them. They're the home team. They
19:05
Speaker 4: really want it. We've said, whether it's this podcast, whether
19:09
Speaker 4: it's activating in Ireland before anyone else, well obviously the
19:11
Speaker 4: Jagson the same day, but really activating, you.
19:14
Speaker 3: Know, hosting your draft parties, your watch parties, you know,
19:17
Speaker 3: coming to the Belfast Trojans, to the court operals, to
19:19
Speaker 3: do slaging.
19:20
Speaker 4: With current players as well whatever they're taking their rob
19:24
Speaker 4: breaking out he was here last year. Like they're not
19:27
Speaker 4: sending token gestures. They have genuinely yessed and it's not
19:31
Speaker 4: no one has ever thought about financials when it's come
19:35
Speaker 4: to this team, or certainly when any of the other teams,
19:37
Speaker 4: like oh well they're not doing that. Because it's probably
19:39
Speaker 4: not worth their while. The Steelers have proven time and
19:41
Speaker 4: time again, and that's why I'm so happy to join
19:44
Speaker 4: this podcast anytime it can, because it is such an
19:46
Speaker 4: honor to have an Irish Steelers podcast. Is anything related
19:49
Speaker 4: to this team is goal to me right now, and
19:52
Speaker 4: it's just like I can't believe that they've chosen our
19:55
Speaker 4: little lolil and over here to be so historic. We
19:58
Speaker 4: have enhanced the audio in this, but they're playing Hills
20:01
Speaker 4: of the League all the background, and I know that
20:02
Speaker 4: there's people coming from Donny Gall from Cork.
20:04
Speaker 3: I would say all thirty two counties are gonna be represented.
20:06
Speaker 3: Mark with high the hesitation on Sunday and very very
20:09
Speaker 3: excited for it. Before we get your game pick you
20:10
Speaker 3: mentioned off the ball second to go. You can listen
20:12
Speaker 3: to that as well if you if you're in the car,
20:14
Speaker 3: and if you're in the car, get to the house
20:15
Speaker 3: watch it in TV, but if you're in the car,
20:17
Speaker 3: listen to it on otb's app just to repeat the game.
20:20
Speaker 3: Virgin Media one, Sky Sports if you're in Northern Ireland
20:23
Speaker 3: as well, Channel five if you can't catch this on Virgin.
20:25
Speaker 3: Really really excited for it. Mark, just before we go
20:28
Speaker 3: give us your unbiased game prediction. Who do you think
20:31
Speaker 3: is gonna win? And I will say one thing while
20:33
Speaker 3: I give them my prediction away. I think we're gonna
20:34
Speaker 3: see a breakout game from DK in this game. I
20:36
Speaker 3: think DK is gonna have a big day on Sunday.
20:39
Speaker 4: I can't give an unbiased but it's completely biased. I
20:41
Speaker 4: hope the country, and I really believe the country gets
20:44
Speaker 4: behind the Pittsburgh Steelers.
20:45
Speaker 5: It's not gonna be easy, Michael.
20:47
Speaker 4: When you say breakout game, it's like that defense is
20:49
Speaker 4: so legit, like it was legit last year for the
20:52
Speaker 4: Vikings with Brian Flores. It has not missed a beat
20:54
Speaker 4: so far. They're gonna be scary for any team. But
20:57
Speaker 4: I just really hope and believe that the occasion it
21:03
Speaker 4: has landed with the Pittsburgh Steedlers by you know, Irish
21:07
Speaker 4: guys working for the team or whoever to do Irish cliffs,
21:10
Speaker 4: like they've known about this game more than any other
21:12
Speaker 4: players know you about, Darian.
21:13
Speaker 3: I've enjoyed that stuff.
21:14
Speaker 4: I've enjoyed I've enjoyed the content As a score pick, though,
21:17
Speaker 4: if you're gonna say students a score pick, oh, I
21:19
Speaker 4: think it's close four twenty one. I don't think it's
21:22
Speaker 4: going to be explosive explosive offense something like that twenty
21:26
Speaker 4: one to fourteen again wouldn't surprise me.
21:28
Speaker 3: Okay, interesting. So just to remind people that the Steelers
21:31
Speaker 3: bar in FitzSimons is here all week in Temple Bar.
21:33
Speaker 5: Well, we be here.
21:34
Speaker 3: We will be here a good bit of it. And
21:37
Speaker 3: I will say this, if you see a skives the
21:38
Speaker 3: shouts say hello. And also, folks, if you can't get
21:40
Speaker 3: if you can't get down here for whatever reason, if
21:42
Speaker 3: it's family or you can't get a tech or whatever,
21:44
Speaker 3: use a hashtag stueters Arland. We'd love to hear your
21:46
Speaker 3: questions here. Fots. I'm gonna try to, honestly, gonna try
21:48
Speaker 3: and do a podcast every day. This week. I'm heading
21:50
Speaker 3: up to Nuri and Belfast this week. I'm on a
21:52
Speaker 3: panel with mister Rooney on Saturday. And I will say
21:55
Speaker 3: it's an honor and I just want to thank them
21:57
Speaker 3: for the opportunities. Fink, the NFL for the opportunities. It's
21:59
Speaker 3: a huge each week. We're so excited. Mark, thank you
22:01
Speaker 3: very much for coming on man. Hopefully on the last
22:04
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