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Jets Recap, Seahawks Preview · Steelers Country Weekly

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  Speaker 1: Today on Steelers Country Weekly, we break down the Steelers
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  Speaker 1: Week one win from the Middle Lands against the Jets.
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  Speaker 1: We'll look ahead to the week two home opener against
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  Speaker 1: the Seattle Seahawks, and then we'll talk about times where
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  Speaker 1: players made big impacts in their first game in the
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  Speaker 1: Black and Gold. I'm Nick Detulio and is always en
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  Speaker 1: joined by the world famous accountant Errek Damon showing Eric.
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  Speaker 2: How are you doing tonight?
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  Speaker 3: Oh I'm not too shabby. Uh, Weather's still fantastic. Mentioned
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  Speaker 3: that last time the Steelers are coming off a win
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  Speaker 3: and I'm talking football. You know, my childhood best friend,
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  Speaker 3: So life is good.
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  Speaker 1: Childhood best friend, he did not say. He did not
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  Speaker 1: say best friend. Folks you heard it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, no, no, my best friend.
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  Speaker 3: And uh, ever since I could walk across the street,
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  Speaker 3: we've been celebrating.
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  Speaker 4: About twenty five years of friendship. So here's that.
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  Speaker 2: I appreciate it. There you go.
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  Speaker 1: Just just watch your words next time. You were very
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  Speaker 1: clear the childhood best friend.
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  Speaker 2: Nothing.
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  Speaker 3: We don't care got more than twenty five. I forget
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  Speaker 3: how old I am. I just celebrated a birthday.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my goodness.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm not I'm gonna be right there with you
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  Speaker 1: soon too. I've got another birthday coming up myself. But
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  Speaker 1: speaking of old people, let's talk about Aaron Rodgers in
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  Speaker 1: his debut with the Steelers. This game was quite the shootout. Actually,
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  Speaker 1: final score ended up being thirty four thirty two, and
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  Speaker 1: at times it was very maddening. At times you and
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  Speaker 1: I were texting each other like, what the hell is
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  Speaker 1: going on here? Maybe a few other choice words. Kind
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  Speaker 1: of interesting that on Rogers' first play behind the line
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  Speaker 1: of scrimmage he was sacked. Also kind of telling that
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  Speaker 1: the first pass thrown to DK.
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  Speaker 2: Metcalf was just a straight drop.
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  Speaker 1: I was not looking forward to what was gonna happen,
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  Speaker 1: But in the end, the Steelers did manage to hang
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  Speaker 1: on and keep the Jets at bay.
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  Speaker 2: Wanted to call out a few things here.
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  Speaker 1: Former Steeler Justin Fields had a great game, I thought anyway,
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  Speaker 1: sixteen twenty two with one TD. He was very good
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  Speaker 1: at running the ball, he was very good at passing.
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  Speaker 1: Some of his throws were dimes, and he threw them
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  Speaker 1: like he was threading a needle.
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  Speaker 4: It was.
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  Speaker 1: If it had been anybody else, it would have been
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  Speaker 1: much more frustrating. But we talked a lot about it
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  Speaker 1: last week. Both of us were actually pretty happy with
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  Speaker 1: Justin Fields and how he handled himself during his brief
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  Speaker 1: tenure with the Steelers, So it was good to see that,
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  Speaker 1: and we do want him to have success just not
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  Speaker 1: against not against the Steelers. But Aaron Rodgers also turned
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  Speaker 1: in a very good day. He went twenty two of
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  Speaker 1: thirty with four touchdowns and two hundred and forty four
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  Speaker 1: passing yards. Rushing game for Pittsburgh left a lot to
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  Speaker 1: be desired. Jalen RNs. They really didn't rely on him
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  Speaker 1: too much there and then were receiving as well. Again,
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  Speaker 1: four touchdowns from Aaron Rodgers didn't really light up things
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  Speaker 1: from a yardage perspective, but they did move the ball when.
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  Speaker 2: They needed to.
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  Speaker 1: Additionally, forcing a turnover on kickoff was a big turning
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  Speaker 1: point in the game. We talked about it during the
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  Speaker 1: game itself. In the third quarter. Justin Fields at one
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  Speaker 1: point walked off the field with a nine point lead
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  Speaker 1: and the next time he walked into the game they
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  Speaker 1: were down by four to.
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  Speaker 2: Three or something.
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  Speaker 1: It was crazy, so lots to talk about though. Defense
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  Speaker 1: did leave a lot to be desired. We mentioned Justin
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  Speaker 1: Fields and the Jets just gassed them in the run game. Defensively,
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  Speaker 1: they were pretty ruthless as well. They did step up
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  Speaker 1: when they needed to though, on two point conversions and
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  Speaker 1: on the last possession.
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  Speaker 2: Of the game.
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  Speaker 1: So now that I've run through all that, Eric, let
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  Speaker 1: me get your take on things. What did you see
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  Speaker 1: when you watch this game on Sunday.
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  Speaker 4: Was we won and two out of the three facets
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  Speaker 4: of the game.
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  Speaker 3: As you mentioned, big time fumble recovery on the kickoff,
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  Speaker 3: that was turning point of the game.
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  Speaker 4: And we would be.
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  Speaker 3: Remiss without telling the tale of the Wizard of Us.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, come on, that dude, Okay, Naiotas sixty yarder
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  Speaker 3: with like ten yards to spare.
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  Speaker 4: Only two field goals.
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  Speaker 3: On the day, but I think both of them were
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  Speaker 3: over fifty yards.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, so that's a weapon right there.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, and you know, I think that that's gonna
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  Speaker 3: be huge this year because I don't know how well
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  Speaker 3: we're going to be efficient in the red zone. So
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  Speaker 3: getting those six points obviously was the difference maker in
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  Speaker 3: this game. Offense obviously was a a surprise. I won't
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  Speaker 3: say offense was completely without fault. Twenty twenty yards or
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  Speaker 3: twenty carries, fifty three yards not great.
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  Speaker 4: You know, our.
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  Speaker 3: Newly acquired running rookie running back had one carry for
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  Speaker 3: negative two yards. And you know, even from Jalen Warren,
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  Speaker 3: newly signed running new extended running back only with fifty
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  Speaker 3: nine all purpose yards on thirteen touches. So you know,
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  Speaker 3: that needs to get better. And in general, what needs
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  Speaker 3: to get better is being in the trenches. I it's
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  Speaker 3: hard to say that we're going to be a good
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  Speaker 3: football team if we get blown off the blocks on
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  Speaker 3: offense and defensive line. I thought that the Jets totally
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  Speaker 3: man handled us in every facet of that.
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  Speaker 4: And then it's obviously you know, when you go against.
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  Speaker 3: A running quarterback, of course you're gonna have you're gonna
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  Speaker 3: give up a lot more rushing yards than you would in.
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  Speaker 4: A normal game.
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  Speaker 3: Right, we played Lamar Jackson at least twice a year.
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  Speaker 4: We see that all the time.
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  Speaker 3: But you know, one hundred and eighty two yards averaging
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  Speaker 3: well over four and a half a carry and three
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  Speaker 3: touchdowns on the ground. I mean, that's just not sustainable
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  Speaker 3: for a winning formula.
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  Speaker 4: So you know, I have to tip my cap to
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  Speaker 4: Aaron Rodgers.
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  Speaker 3: I have been very much a naysayer off season one
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  Speaker 3: game is not going to completely.
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  Speaker 4: Change my outlook. Russell Wilson start off.
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  Speaker 3: Hot and looking how that faired, but you know he
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  Speaker 3: did play extremely well.
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  Speaker 4: What a tight spiral that guy's got.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I've seen it over the years, but forty
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  Speaker 3: one years old, still just the tightest football I've ever
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  Speaker 3: seen a quarterback throw just explodes out of this man.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, our newcomers, it wasn't without fault, but
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  Speaker 3: DK Metcalf, as you mentioned, had a drop, but he
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  Speaker 3: also came up with a circus catch and eighty three
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  Speaker 3: yards provided some explosive plays, you know, especially yards after catch.
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  Speaker 3: Jalen Ramsey with one of the hardest catch or tackles
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  Speaker 3: I've ever seen from a defensive back that was legal.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, perfectly clean tackle too.
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  Speaker 4: That's the big kick test textbook.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, the one newcomer I was very disappointed
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  Speaker 3: with was Sleigh. One of the plays I can think
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  Speaker 3: about was justin Fields did a boot naked.
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  Speaker 4: Bootleg on the goal line.
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  Speaker 3: Barrus Sleigh was the one that should have outside contained.
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  Speaker 3: You're not gonna play the ball on a quarterback sneak
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  Speaker 3: on that. You need to play outside contained on a
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  Speaker 3: running quarterback because he dipped inside. We last contained justin
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  Speaker 3: fields easily locked.
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  Speaker 4: Into the end zone. So and and you know, he
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  Speaker 4: just didn't look all that great.
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  Speaker 3: I think he had a breakup in the red zone
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  Speaker 3: but for a two point conversion.
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  Speaker 4: But that was the only good thing I could say
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  Speaker 4: about Sleigh on the game.
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  Speaker 3: Ugly, but I'll take it that's how I would I
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  Speaker 3: would describe this game.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I wanted to talk a little bit about some
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  Speaker 1: of the things you mentioned too. Both lines need to
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  Speaker 1: get better pretty quickly. Again, I mentioned Rogers got sacked
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  Speaker 1: the very first play, so that was not a good
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  Speaker 1: sign as far as that went. I think he got
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  Speaker 1: sacked four times, and some of those were hard hits too,
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  Speaker 1: and that's not even counting the times that he got hit,
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  Speaker 1: So that needs to be addressed. I know it was
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  Speaker 1: week one, but after all the draft picks and the
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  Speaker 1: work that the Steelers have invested in the offensive line
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  Speaker 1: the last couple off seasons, particularly with Broderick Jones Zach Frasier,
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  Speaker 1: the protection has to get better. I know that the
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  Speaker 1: offensive line coach is not a popular man in Pittsburgh.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like we always zoom in on one particular coach,
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  Speaker 1: whether it's a coordinator or a position coach. We being
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  Speaker 1: Steelers fans, not just the two of us, and that's
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  Speaker 1: our public enemy number one. Whether it's Canada, it was
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  Speaker 1: Keith Butler for a while while. That's just kind of
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  Speaker 1: how it is. Yeah, but I will say that the
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  Speaker 1: offensive line, with all the capital they've invested into it,
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  Speaker 1: we need to see some better results right away.
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  Speaker 3: Defense, and I will say about the offensive line, look,
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  Speaker 3: you're we have a coordinator that loves to play play action,
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  Speaker 3: and we have a forty one year old quarterback with
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  Speaker 3: who over the course of his career has not been immobile,
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  Speaker 3: but coming off an Achilles industry injury later in his career,
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  Speaker 3: he's gonna have some mobility issues.
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  Speaker 4: So when you extend, when you don't run.
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  Speaker 3: The ball and you're having your quarterback not throw timing
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  Speaker 3: passes but instead trying to do extended plays, sacks are
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  Speaker 3: gonna happen. But a lot of the sacks were not
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  Speaker 3: a nature of the play to design. Is it much
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  Speaker 3: was just getting beat in the.
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  Speaker 1: Trenches, right, And that's fair, But I still want to
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  Speaker 1: see the results.
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  Speaker 2: Quickly as quickly as possible.
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  Speaker 1: Defensively taking out Jalen Ramsey I was just pretty pissed off. Actually,
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  Speaker 1: I just think there's no excuse for the highest paid
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  Speaker 1: defense to get torched quite like that. And then particularly
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  Speaker 1: with the Cam Hayward contract drama that we talked about
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  Speaker 1: last week too. You might have made this joke or
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  Speaker 1: I saw it online somewhere or both, but the joke
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  Speaker 1: was okay. Well, Cam didn't live up to us or
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  Speaker 1: didn't play after his potential today. Is he gonna give
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  Speaker 1: some money back to the team now, since his justification
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  Speaker 1: was the outplayed as were through.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know how he said it.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what kind of impact Derek Harmon is
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  Speaker 1: going to.
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  Speaker 2: Have immediately when he comes back.
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  Speaker 1: I believe he's scheduled to be out this next game
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  Speaker 1: as well while he recovers from his injury.
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  Speaker 2: So it's the second year in.
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  Speaker 1: A row that the Steelers lose their first round draft
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  Speaker 1: pick pretty early on to injury.
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  Speaker 2: But we got to get better.
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  Speaker 1: I did want to mention Jalen Ramsey though, because as
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  Speaker 1: the defense was getting torched in the biggest plays, particularly
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  Speaker 1: the two point conversions, and then the last two plays
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  Speaker 1: of the game on defense, there was that third down
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  Speaker 1: pass he broke up as well. As that fourth down
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  Speaker 1: hit that you mentioned. Just to make sure everyone's clear,
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  Speaker 1: and I assume everyone listening watched the game, but just
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  Speaker 1: in case you're not, fields was scrambling and it would
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  Speaker 1: have been tough, but I think he probably could have
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  Speaker 1: made the first down if he wanted to, just by rushing.
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  Speaker 1: But he saw that Garrett Wilson was open. I mean
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  Speaker 1: there was a bubble, so he definitely could fit, and
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  Speaker 1: he threw a perfect pass and Jalen Ramsey just he
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  Speaker 1: timed it perfectly, and it was a perfect form tackle too,
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  Speaker 1: where he hit him with his shoulder and nod his head,
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  Speaker 1: timed it just so that it wouldn't be considered hitting
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  Speaker 1: a defenseless receiver. It was quite literally the perfect tackle
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  Speaker 1: or hit for that situation because it jarred the.
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  Speaker 2: Ball loose too.
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  Speaker 1: So I cannot sing his praises enough for that to
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  Speaker 1: come in and make that.
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  Speaker 2: Kind of play when he needed to.
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  Speaker 1: And of course I let you talk about Boz as well,
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  Speaker 1: but yeah, Boswell Ice in his veins. Tomlin called him
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  Speaker 1: a serial killer, So gonna be awkward in like fifteen
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  Speaker 1: years when they find fifteen bodies buried underneath his house.
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  Speaker 1: But for now, it's hilarious, just drilling a sixty yard
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  Speaker 1: field Goho, so nonchalantly fantastic.
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  Speaker 2: So we do hope the Steelers and right the ship here.
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  Speaker 1: They do have a couple of games where I think
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  Speaker 1: they do have the opportunity to get to get.
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  Speaker 2: Things squared away. But the proof is in the pudding.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, and even on the Boswell thing, I want
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  Speaker 3: to highlight too, his offense did him no favors. I
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  Speaker 3: think on that sixty yard er. Now, I think we
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  Speaker 3: were at the like it would have been around a
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  Speaker 3: fifty yarder and then we had a negative play to.
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  Speaker 4: Push it back.
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  Speaker 3: So rather than give credit to the coaching staff to
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  Speaker 3: have confidence in him to just send him out for
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  Speaker 3: a sixty yarder, because that's that's a tough kick, and
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  Speaker 3: if he misses that, that's that's a big flip in
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  Speaker 3: the field position game.
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  Speaker 4: And so I will give him them credit for that.
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  Speaker 1: So one thing I thought was funny too speaking of
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  Speaker 1: him of Boswell again with and his postgame conference, I
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  Speaker 1: think Tomlin made some kind of comment regarding the first
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  Speaker 1: field goal. He said, man, he didn't even look at
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  Speaker 1: me to see if we would go for it or puny.
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  Speaker 1: He just ran onto the field and assumed we were
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  Speaker 1: going to kick in. So that's the kind of stuff
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  Speaker 1: you like to see. Kind of wish that everyone else
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  Speaker 1: on the team had that same killer mentality so that
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  Speaker 1: we can get touchdowns instead of field goals. But we'll
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  Speaker 1: take the field goals where we can get them to.
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  Speaker 2: So, there you have it.
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  Speaker 1: The Steelers win in Aaron Rodgers return to MetLife Stadium
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  Speaker 1: thirty four thirty two, they come home.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 4: I want to highlight what Aaron Rodgers said after the
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  Speaker 4: game go ahead.
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  Speaker 3: I was happy to beat everybody associate.
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  Speaker 4: It with the Jets.
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  Speaker 1: I do I feel like that soundclut or SoundBite is
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  Speaker 1: going to take get taken out of context a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: But I think the question was posed and I'm paraphrasing
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  Speaker 1: after Aaron Rodgers flew you, after you flew into New
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  Speaker 1: York and he told you that it wasn't working out
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  Speaker 1: in New York going to be on the team. Did
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  Speaker 1: beating them have any special significance or something like that,
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  Speaker 1: And that's when he said, I'm happy to beat everybody
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  Speaker 1: affiliated with the New York Chats A good SoundBite for sure.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Well, there you have it.
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  Speaker 1: Steelers walk away with the win, they return home to
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  Speaker 1: face the Seattle Seahawks in a one o'clock game. Seahawks
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  Speaker 1: coming off a close loss at the end of their
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  Speaker 1: regulation to the forty nine Ers. This of course, will
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  Speaker 1: be a revenge game for DK metcalf your call. He
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  Speaker 1: requested a trade last year. He wanted to go somewhere warm,
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  Speaker 1: so he ended up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, which is probably
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  Speaker 1: gonna be warm this Sunday, so we'll give him that.
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  Speaker 1: But the Seahawks have a second year coach and Mike
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  Speaker 1: McDonald from the Baltimore Ravens, who is probably very familiar
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  Speaker 1: with the Pittsburgh Steelers. They've got a new quarterback in
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  Speaker 1: Sam Donald, and they are a team that is looking
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  Speaker 1: to establish themselves as they're continuing to rebuild in the
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  Speaker 1: post Pete Carroll post Russell Wilson post legion.
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  Speaker 2: Of boom Era in Seattle.
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  Speaker 1: They haven't quite found their footing yet, but it looks
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  Speaker 1: like they're trying to get there.
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  Speaker 2: So we have a couple injuries as well.
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  Speaker 1: Deshaun Elliott's going to be out for several weeks with
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  Speaker 1: an MCL sprain.
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  Speaker 2: Derek Harmon is still out.
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  Speaker 1: Joey Porter left the game with a hamstring injury, but
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  Speaker 1: he is optimistic to play. So it looks like the
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  Speaker 1: Steelers should have a fair chunk of people back in.
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  Speaker 1: And we didn't even mention it after the last game,
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  Speaker 1: but the Steelers are signing as of today, Jabriel Peppers,
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  Speaker 1: who is cut from the Patriots. I doubt that he's
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  Speaker 1: going to they have a really big impact or really
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  Speaker 1: even start. That's just my assumption, just given that I
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  Speaker 1: don't think the signing is even official yet as we're
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  Speaker 1: sitting here on Tuesday night, but he will be coming
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  Speaker 1: in and offering depth and he can definitely step up
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  Speaker 1: more as the weeks go on here. So the Steelers
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  Speaker 1: are still making moves, they're still being aggressive. All that
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  Speaker 1: being said, there is a game to play on Sunday
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  Speaker 1: afternoon in Pittsburgh.
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  Speaker 2: So Eric, I.
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  Speaker 1: Will lead off with you, what are some of your
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  Speaker 1: keys for a Steelers victory.
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  Speaker 2: In this game?
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  Speaker 4: Well, from what we.
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  Speaker 3: Saw Sunday, if I had to line up the two offenses,
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  Speaker 3: I feel a little bit more optimistic about ours than
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  Speaker 3: the Seahawks.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I want to show you this or talk about
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  Speaker 4: this in balance.
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  Speaker 3: Sam Darnold and one hundred and fifty yards passing. Not
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  Speaker 3: a great day for a quarterback. One hundred and four
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  Speaker 3: went to one receiver.
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  Speaker 4: So what is our.
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  Speaker 3: Game plan defensively, Dear Almighty, like, just double cover that
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  Speaker 3: guy because then there's likely that Sam Dunno will make
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  Speaker 3: a mistake.
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  Speaker 4: They also had a hard time running the ball three point.
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  Speaker 3: Two yards per carry, So you know, either these are two.
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  Speaker 4: Offenses that are struggling to.
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  Speaker 3: Run the ball or they're going to really hard try
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  Speaker 3: to correct that quickly. You know, from the Seahawks standpoint,
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  Speaker 3: they held a pretty good you know, offense and the
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  Speaker 3: forty nine ers to seventeen points. And outside of I
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  Speaker 3: think that they had a fumble in the goal line
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  Speaker 3: at the end of the game last week, which is
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  Speaker 3: what sealed their loss. You know, beating a forty nine
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: Ers team would have been a big catalyst for their season.
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: So I think that, you know, we're going to see
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: some anger.
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: We're gonna see some anger coming from the defense because
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: they Steelers defense, because they played so poorly.
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: They know that they got absolutely blasted.
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: There was commentary during the Jets game about how the
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: sideline was very furious with each other.
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: But because they're veterans.
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: They know that they can yell at each other and
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: essentially not cry about it, and then you know the
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: Seahawks are gonna be anger because how they lost. When
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: it comes down to that, I think that veterans and
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: coaching come are the key to that, and for that reason,
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: I think the Steelers will rebound slightly, at least in
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: that degree. I think we'll have a little bit of
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: regression from our offense.
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  Speaker 4: I think we'll have a little.
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: Bit of improvement from our defense.
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: But I think when you kind of.
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: Throw it intotality, I think it will give the edge
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: to the Steelers.
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: I just think it's one The Seahawks are traveling east
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: and playing a one o'clock game, never a fun thing
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: to do. I mean, we talked about the Steelers traveling
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: west and having kind of the same experience, so the
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: time difference is no fun. But yeah, I mean, I
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: feel like I have to be optimistic here.
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: If the offense can.
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: Just keep Aaron Rodgers upright, I don't think there's much
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: that they have to tweak. I mean, we talked about
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: the very poor offensive line performance and some poor decision
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: making on offense, and they still put up thirty four
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: points defensively. I feel like if they just get after
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: Sam Darnold, like you said, if he makes mistakes, that
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: would be huge. This defense, we know they can perform,
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: we know they have the potential. We know that's certainly
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: what they're being paid to do at that expensive price tag.
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: But which is why I said that the performance this
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: past week was inexcusable. You just cannot get gassed like that.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: That being said, though, the other thing we have to
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: remember is they didn't cause any turnovers, which is something
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: that historically or in the last several years, they have
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: created turnovers. So maybe one or two of those changes
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: our perception of how that game played out would have
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: played out last week. I should say, really, it'd be
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: nice to see TJ. Watt getting in the backfield as well.
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: He had a couple plays. I don't think he had
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: any sacks, or if he did, it was only one.
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: I don't mean a downplay by saying only one.
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: But yeah, I think his presence especially needs to be known.
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: We can use t J.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: Watt as a microcosm of the Steelers defense as a whole.
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: The guy for a couple of weeks there was the
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: highest played non QB in the NFL, so he needs
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: to definitely be the one stepping up now. Maybe the
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: team is game planning specifically.
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: Around him, Maybe they're not. I don't know.
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: Maybe one thing we haven't really talked about is that
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: Justin Fields has familiarity with the Steelers defense, having spent
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: a year with them.
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: It's certainly possible.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: All that being said, I will say that I don't
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: want to get into a false sense of security here,
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: but based on everything that we saw on Sunday, I
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: just feel more comfortable with the Steelers than I do
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: the Seahawks right now. So that being said, I am
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: gonna give the Steelers the win here. Looking at the scores,
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: I will say that this one's gonna be a twenty
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: four to.
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: Seventeen win for the Steelers.
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: I was gonna twenty four to twenty Steelers, So Harry.
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: That we're pretty on par.
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: There you go.
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: Well, Eric and I both have a Steelers win against
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: the Seahawks this week fingers crossed.
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: Hopefully we're right.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: That would be a great two and I'll start heading
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: into the game against New England. So there are quite
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: a bit of new faces on the Steelers' roster this year,
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: and one thing that we thought might be kind of
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: interesting to discuss is some of our favorite memories surrounding
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: a player's first game with the with the team. So
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: of course, in yesterday's game alone, we had a couple
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: of notable players, but you had just to name some
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: of them.
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: On offense, you.
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: Had Rogers, you had DK Metcalf, on defense, you had Slay,
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: you had Jalen Ramsey. So definitely a big day, and
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: I thought that it might be kind of fun to
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: talk about some other times where a player had their
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: first game with the Steelers and really shined almost immediately.
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: So I do have a couple that I was going
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: to mention, and I'll let you go first, Eric, if
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: you've if you've got any that come to mind, who
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: are some of your your players that really stepped up
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: their first time wearing the black and gold.
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess it's somewhat recency bias, but you know,
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: I think Minka had immediate impact. I know later in
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: that scene and he had he was a playmaking machine.
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: But even in his first game, which did end in
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: a loss, but I don't blame him, he had an interception,
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: So I thought that that was a things to come,
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: what to expect from him because twenty nineteen he was incredible,
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: and I just remember.
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: Not being entirely sure why we gave up.
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: A first rounder for him, but I think he made
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: it known pretty quickly that that was well worth it.
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: So Minko was one of the two that I was
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: going to mention.
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: So I think his first game it was I was
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: thinking it.
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: Was the Seahawks, but I think the Seahawks was the
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: game before they got him. But I'm pretty sure he
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: had an inner reception or a pick six in that
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: first game, So it was that's why he came to
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: mind for me as well. And just like you, I'm like, Okay,
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: we're spending a first round pick that's.
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: Pretty steep for Pittsburgh.
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: And then immediately he steps in and makes that move,
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: and I'm like, Okay, this, I can live with this,
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: because we wouldn't have gotten Minka Fitzpatrick in the draft
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: anyway without trading up probably even more capital than we
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: had to get rid of to get him.
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: So yeah, and that yielded the the.
• 27:31
  Speaker 5: Dolphin's a what they got a guard that didn't end
• 27:36
  Speaker 5: up living up to expectation, So doesn't mean that that's
• 27:40
  Speaker 5: how we would have drafted.
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: But looking at that seems like we won that trade.
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and Minca's time in Miami or time in Pittsburgh
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: did end this offseason with the acquisition of Ramsey, and
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: I have nothing but good things to say about Minka.
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: I think he was a pretty good leader. I think
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: that he did play well. Didn't quite make the splash
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: plays the last year or so that they had come
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: to expect from him, But I will say it probably
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: had to be pretty painful for him on Sunday getting
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: torched by Daniel Jones and the Indianapolis cult. Good lord,
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: what a rough one. The other one that comes to mind,
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: and I don't have the exact statline, so you'll have
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: to forgive me on that. But and this is maybe
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: this is kind of a cop out answer or a technicality,
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: but if everyone can recall James Harrison's tenure with the Steelers.
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: He played for the Steelers, became an All Pro after
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: being cut several times, and then he went to the
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: Bengals for a year. I think it was only a year,
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: and just didn't really fit in. You know, he was
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: he was okay, but it seemed like they want to
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: use him and coverage more than blitzing.
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: Whatever.
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: And then he actually returned to Pittsburgh to retire as
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: a Steeler, and then I can't I think he might
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: have spent the entire year out or maybe it was
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: portion of the year, and then the following year he
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: came back. But the Steelers actually re signed him and
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: he came out of retirement. And I can't remember the
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: exact date, I said, I can't remember the stat lines,
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: but whatever that year was that he came back, I
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: remember that earlier in the year before he came out
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: of retirement, they went and played the Ravens in Baltimore
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: and they got smoked, and the commentators were stating, like, wow,
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: this is crazy. These games are always like decided within
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: three points. How is it that this game is a blowout. Now, Well,
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: they re signed Harrison and when the Ravens come to
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: Pittsburgh in his first game back, Steelers are the team
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: that blows out the Ravens and they still keep the
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: things even, like you know, it's not like one thing
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: balanced one way over the other. But it was just
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: kind of neat to see the Steelers legend come out
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: of retirement against a rival and make that big of
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: an impact right away.
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, and we got. I think we had them
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: for another two years before.
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: He ended up going to the Patriots for their one
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: of their last Super Bowl appearances.
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: So unfortunate how it ended.
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: But his first game back with the Steelers was was
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: definitely something out of the storybook, I thought. And you know,
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: maybe this year with with Aaron Rodgers and the whole
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: crew of guys will get we'll get some some good
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: stories like that too.
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: Even even last year.
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: On a personal note, I'll say I thought I was
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: going to get to see Russell Wilson in Week one
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: against the Falcons. I saw justin fields again or instead
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: so and they gotta win.
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: I was happy with that. He didn't turn the ball over.
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: He did what he was supposed to do.
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: So I think we'll definitely see in this new era
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: of the Pittsburgh Steelers more new faces each year than
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: what we're used to seeing, which is build through the draft, stay.
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: Quiet, and free agency.
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah all right, well, I think we covered everything we
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: needed to. Was there anything else you wanted to go through?
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 31:36
  Speaker 4: Big? They should do it all right.
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: Well.
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: Week one of our tenth anniversary season is in the books.
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: Once again.
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: The Steelers defeated the Jets, thirty four to thirty two.
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: They will look to move to two to zero after
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: they host the Seattle Seahawks in Pittsburgh on Sunday. We
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: will be back here next week talking all about that
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: for the world famous accountant Eric Vaminshaden. I am Nick
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: Detulio and this has been another episode of the GameHouse
• 32:08
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