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HR 1: Mike McCarthy Presser, Steelers Coordinators Speak · The Steelers Report

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  Speaker 1: This is the Steelers Report with Brian Batko and Ed
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  Speaker 1: Truth on Steelers Nation Radio, a part of the Steelers
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  Speaker 1: Audio Network.
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  Speaker 2: We need to clean our house. Our house is not
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  Speaker 2: clean right now. That was Mike McCarthy yesterday speaking at
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  Speaker 2: his weekly press conference in regards to the Pittsburgh Steelers
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  Speaker 2: having 10 days now to clean things up on offense,
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  Speaker 2: clean things up on defense as they prepare for the
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  Speaker 2: Indianapolis Colts this upcoming Sunday.
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  Speaker 3: Both teams 2-2 on the season.
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  Speaker 2: As the Pittsburgh Steelers look to get back on track
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  Speaker 2: in week number five.
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  Speaker 3: Double B, what's going on?
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  Speaker 4: Shouldn't he say red up our house? Wouldn't that be
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  Speaker 4: the proper Pittsburghese term?
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  Speaker 2: I like that too. I like that too. Either way,
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  Speaker 2: did Mike McCarthy, did he say haas? I didn't listen
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  Speaker 2: that closely.
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  Speaker 5: No, I mean, it wasn't noticeable if he did.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know what his most Pittsburghese-ish words are at
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  Speaker 4: Or maybe I'm just used to the accent already through,
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  Speaker 4: I don't know, what's it been, the first.
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  Speaker 5: Nine months on the job or so, right? It's been
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  Speaker 5: a while. Almost nine months.
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  Speaker 3: It's been a while.
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  Speaker 2: Yep.
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  Speaker 3: I've heard the Don a couple times from him.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: That's definitely stood out.
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  Speaker 5: For sure.
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  Speaker 4: And he and the players have both said when he's
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  Speaker 4: talking fast in the headset, sometimes it gets a little
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  Speaker 4: bit garbled. But, no, I didn't think it was overly
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  Speaker 4: Yinzer-ish listening to him.
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  Speaker 5: Yesterday. What's going on with you, Ed? What's new?
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  Speaker 3: Not too much.
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  Speaker 2: We're just getting ready, Double B, for week number five,
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  Speaker 2: and it's good to put week number four behind us
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  Speaker 2: as the Pittsburgh Steelers last Thursday night. It almost seems
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  Speaker 2: like a century ago at this point. I'm sure for
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  Speaker 2: the players and coaches, they want it to seem like
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  Speaker 2: that as well.
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  Speaker 4: Are you a self-checkout guy when you're stopping at the
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  Speaker 4: gas station to get coffee?
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely. I've got to speed up my process. I have
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  Speaker 3: no patience.
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  Speaker 4: I'm amazed at the amount of people who don't do
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  Speaker 4: self-checkout I know some people are resistant to technology especially
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  Speaker 4: those of the older generation no doubt but this morning
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  Speaker 4: after dropping the kids off at school I went and
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  Speaker 4: I'm like there's like six people waiting in line to
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  Speaker 4: check out and I you almost feel bad when you
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  Speaker 4: go to the self-checkout register just right through but and
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  Speaker 4: then like I feel like they're looking at me I'm
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  Speaker 4: like guys this isn't that hard you know you scan
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  Speaker 4: your little fob yeah you scan your two items and
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  Speaker 4: you hit a couple of buttons on a screen and
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  Speaker 4: then you're done.
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  Speaker 3: And if you have.
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  Speaker 2: An issue, something's not registering up, you just wave your
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  Speaker 2: hand and call somebody.
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  Speaker 4: I guess if you're buying tobacco products, you can't do that.
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  Speaker 4: I think in alcohol products, but I don't know. It
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  Speaker 4: was like eight in the morning. So yeah, that just
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  Speaker 4: blows my mind that more people don't, don't do that.
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  Speaker 4: But maybe in five, 10, 15 years when the generational
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  Speaker 4: divide lessens, there'll be more, more of a line for
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  Speaker 4: the self and, less of a line for the traditional checkout.
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  Speaker 2: The older I'm getting, Double B, the patience just is
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  Speaker 2: getting thinner and thinner and thinner. For instance, if I'm
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  Speaker 2: sitting in traffic, if I'm trying to get into town
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  Speaker 2: and GPS is telling me 30 minutes, I will go
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  Speaker 2: all the way around the city, even if it takes
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  Speaker 2: me 35, even if it takes me five more minutes,
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  Speaker 2: but I'm moving.
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  Speaker 5: I'm moving. My father and my father-in-law are both like that.
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  Speaker 5: Believe me, believe me. But that's a, yeah, that's a
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  Speaker 5: patience issue.
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  Speaker 4: The self-checkout is just like an efficiency thing.
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  Speaker 5: Like we've got better ways of doing it now in society.
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  Speaker 4: You know what also gets me on that is if
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  Speaker 4: you do like a mobile order for, you know, a
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  Speaker 4: coffee shop or fast food and more places need to
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  Speaker 4: have the separate lines. Because what good does ordering ahead
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  Speaker 4: do me if there's six cars ahead of me when
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  Speaker 4: I get to the actual line in the window?
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  Speaker 1: Right, right.
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  Speaker 2: Starbucks comes to mind in that world, right? Right. I
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  Speaker 2: haven't had too many issues with Starbucks. Usually, by the
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  Speaker 2: time I'm there, if the app says it's ready, it's ready.
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  Speaker 2: But then I'll look, and as you said, I'll look,
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  Speaker 2: and there'll be a line.
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  Speaker 3: Of 10 cars. And I'm thinking, what are we doing?
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  Speaker 4: But then you have no choice but to either get
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  Speaker 4: in that line and wait anyway for people who are
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  Speaker 4: ordering in real time, or I guess you can choose
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  Speaker 4: the walk-in option.
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  Speaker 3: I'm parking and walking in, grabbing my stuff, getting back
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  Speaker 3: in my car.
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  Speaker 5: I typically do that, too.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not waiting.
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  Speaker 5: First world problems.
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  Speaker 4: It'd be really nice to order ahead mobile online. and
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  Speaker 4: stay in your car and go through the drive-thru. But
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  Speaker 4: if not enough of society's doing that, then that's not
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  Speaker 4: really going to help.
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  Speaker 3: It's not going to help the cause. Well, this is
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  Speaker 3: a good segue.
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  Speaker 5: That was just for me to get off my chest
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  Speaker 5: this morning.
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  Speaker 3: Dude, I love it.
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  Speaker 2: And by the way, just so the listening audience knows,
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  Speaker 2: this is on the fly, so we didn't pre-plan that conversation,
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  Speaker 2: but I like it because it's a good segue to this.
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  Speaker 2: Is Steelers Nation going to be patient this season, especially
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  Speaker 2: now that we're seeing these younger players, these rookies, starting
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  Speaker 2: to work their way in on offense and defense because,
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  Speaker 2: Double B, as we talked about yesterday here on the show,
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  Speaker 2: there's going to be some growing pains.
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  Speaker 4: And we've gotten literal pains in that because Mike McCarthy
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  Speaker 4: confirmed yesterday that Derek Harmon is going to be out, well,
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  Speaker 4: putting him on IR, which the team did Monday, means
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  Speaker 4: you have to miss at least four weeks. But McCarthy
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  Speaker 4: had confirmed prior to that, I think, that, yeah, he's
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  Speaker 4: going to miss several weeks. Hopefully it's only four, knock
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  Speaker 4: on wood, with that foot injury for Harmon. at which
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  Speaker 4: point they could get him back after the bye, I believe,
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  Speaker 4: when you face Cincy. Again, coming out of that, in Cincy.
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  Speaker 4: And Jamel Dean, it doesn't sound like he's going to
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  Speaker 4: be able to go Sunday. Seems like he's more week
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  Speaker 4: to week than day to day, based on McCarthy's answer
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  Speaker 4: on the Steelers. Basically, their number one corner at this point. So,
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  Speaker 4: I mean, we'll see if they can get him get
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  Speaker 4: him back sooner than later. And then, you know, they'll
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  Speaker 4: evaluate Wednesday before practice, but it, you know, making progress
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  Speaker 4: didn't really sound too, too encouraging. And I think there's
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  Speaker 4: been some other reporting to the effect that Dean is
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  Speaker 4: likely going to miss at least one game. Hopefully for
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  Speaker 4: his sake, he can go back and play in Tampa
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  Speaker 4: Bay for his little, his.
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  Speaker 5: Little revenge game in a couple of weeks.
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  Speaker 4: And then they signed Sean Murphy Bunting veteran free agent corner, who,
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  Speaker 4: Missed all of last season with an injury, but has
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  Speaker 4: played a lot of games. He's 29 years old. You
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  Speaker 4: won't be dealing with a young player from that standpoint.
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  Speaker 4: He's new to this program and system, but he's been
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  Speaker 4: around the block to say the least. And I think that, oh,
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  Speaker 4: and a new practice squad linebacker, right? Marte Mapu, if
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  Speaker 4: I'm saying that correctly.
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  Speaker 3: He's been around too, right?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, he has.
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  Speaker 4: He's played NFL football and he was a, I think
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  Speaker 4: he was a fairly decent prospect coming out of, It's
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  Speaker 4: a small school, Sacramento state, but yeah, he was a
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  Speaker 4: third rounder in 2023 of the Patriots. And, you know,
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  Speaker 4: it was with the Texans practice squad earlier this year.
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  Speaker 4: And Hey, I think based on what we saw the
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  Speaker 4: other night, I do not hate the idea of get
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  Speaker 4: another linebacker in here and at least give somebody a look.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not saying you got to toss everybody out to
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  Speaker 4: the curb after one rough outing, but it doesn't help to,
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  Speaker 4: or it doesn't hurt to have a little bit more
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  Speaker 4: depth there in Mapu.
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  Speaker 5: He's only a, he's only 26. So still a, a
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  Speaker 5: relatively young player in the league.
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  Speaker 3: Did Coach McCarthy have an update on Deshaun Elliott yesterday?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, he said he's making progress.
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  Speaker 4: I actually, you know, he didn't say that he's going
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  Speaker 4: to definitely be back for week five, which he's now eligible,
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  Speaker 4: but he said he had a chance to look at
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  Speaker 4: him last week and he's getting close.
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  Speaker 5: That's a pretty good sign.
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  Speaker 4: Now, there was no update on the timeline, but just
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  Speaker 4: going back to the whole process with Elliott starting the
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  Speaker 4: season on IR designated to return, I was kind of
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  Speaker 4: thinking along the lines of it should only be a
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  Speaker 4: four-week absence and a relatively brief absence. But until we
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  Speaker 4: see otherwise, we can't run with that just yet.
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  Speaker 5: We can just hope.
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  Speaker 2: Double B's article is up on Steelers.com if you want
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  Speaker 2: to check it out. It's a recap of yesterday's Mike
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  Speaker 2: McCarthy press conference. That's where we start today's show, recapping that.
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  Speaker 2: And then coming up here at 2.20, we will hear
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  Speaker 2: from the coordinators today and 2.40, starting with our good
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  Speaker 2: friend Patrick Graham. We don't know Patrick Graham on a
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  Speaker 2: personal basis, but we love hearing.
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  Speaker 5: From Patrick Graham. You feel like you do, though, after
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  Speaker 5: his press conferences.
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  Speaker 3: Yep, absolutely. He had some interesting things to say from yesterday.
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  Speaker 5: Very entertaining, very personable.
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  Speaker 4: There's a reason why he's been one of those names
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  Speaker 4: floating around as a future NFL head coach.
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  Speaker 3: You can definitely feel it when you're in the room.
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  Speaker 5: Before you even get to the X's and O's and
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  Speaker 5: the scheme part of it, too.
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  Speaker 2: And he's been around, and he has some X's and
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  Speaker 2: O's to do this upcoming week leading into this game
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  Speaker 2: against the Indianapolis Colts because they will face Jonathan Taylor,
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  Speaker 2: one of the best running backs in the NFL, and
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  Speaker 2: he's been ramping up the last couple of weeks. And
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  Speaker 2: now when you have Derek Harmon out to double B,
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  Speaker 2: that defensive line is going to have to play well
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  Speaker 2: this week up front, getting through that offensive line, trying
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  Speaker 2: to stop that run with Jonathan Taylor. And as we
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  Speaker 2: talked about yesterday, too, here, they have some good options,
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  Speaker 2: you know, compared to last year when Derek Harmon started
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  Speaker 2: the season on the IR and they struggled to stop
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  Speaker 2: the run Now you have Keanu Benton in the mix,
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  Speaker 2: Sebastian Joseph Day in the mix. Of course, you had
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  Speaker 2: Benton in the mix last year, too. But you added
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  Speaker 2: Sebastian Joseph Day. You got Gabriel Rubio, Kevin Jobity. So
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  Speaker 2: you have some options there. They're younger players. Of course,
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  Speaker 2: Cam Hayward still operating at a high level.
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  Speaker 3: So I don't think it's.
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  Speaker 2: As dim as it was a year ago, but we
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  Speaker 2: will certainly find out on Sunday. It's a good test
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  Speaker 2: right off the bat with now Derek Harmon on the IR.
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  Speaker 2: You face a very good running back in Jonathan Taylor.
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  Speaker 4: Need more from everybody. Need more from Cam Hayward at
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  Speaker 4: the top. Need more from Keanu Benton. Need more from Y.A.
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  Speaker 5: Black, S.J.D., Sebastian Joseph Day.
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  Speaker 4: And then, yeah, if it's Rubio who comes up or
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  Speaker 4: even both Rubio and Kevin Jobity, everybody needs to put
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  Speaker 4: their hand in the pile. And I'd be saying that
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  Speaker 4: even if Derek Harmon were still healthy after the run
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  Speaker 4: defense that we saw at times the other night, Ed,
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  Speaker 4: but certainly with Harmon out, somebody who we all thought
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  Speaker 4: was going to be a big piece of this puzzle
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  Speaker 4: and it kind of goes in line with we all
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  Speaker 4: thought Deshaun.
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  Speaker 5: Elliott and Joey Porter Jr.
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  Speaker 4: Were going to be a big piece of this puzzle
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  Speaker 4: too coming out of uh pre you know training camp
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  Speaker 4: and preseason we know that Porter Jr. certainly won't be
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  Speaker 4: and Elliott is still working his way back but you
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  Speaker 4: know just give up uh 112 yards on the ground
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  Speaker 4: to the Browns, an average of 4.1 yards per carry,
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  Speaker 4: and clearly that 28-yard touchdown run stands out. You want
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  Speaker 4: to see those big guys up front whooping blocks, keeping
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  Speaker 4: the linebackers clean. I think it goes for every level
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  Speaker 4: of the defense right now needs to be better after
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  Speaker 4: what we saw in Cleveland and even some of what
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  Speaker 4: kind of lingered and carried over from Cincinnati, which is
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  Speaker 4: clearly the Steelers' best win of the season, and that
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  Speaker 4: reminds me, While we're on the topic of recent current events,
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  Speaker 4: it was a good thing that the Steelers caught the
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  Speaker 4: Falcons in week one. I don't know if you saw
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  Speaker 4: much of Monday Night Football, but they jumped on the
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  Speaker 4: Saints early and kind of kept their foot on their neck,
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  Speaker 4: so to speak.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they are heating up. They've looked good the last
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  Speaker 3: couple of weeks.
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  Speaker 2: And my Saints, who are my preseason darling pick in
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  Speaker 2: the NFL, not looking so good the last couple of weeks.
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  Speaker 4: Well, the Steelers might catch them at a good time
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  Speaker 4: in Paris in a few weeks. But, yeah, I mean,
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  Speaker 4: the Falcons, we know that they were rather– impotent other
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  Speaker 4: than Bajon Robinson in week one with Cooper Rush at
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  Speaker 4: the controls. Sure seems like Michael Penix Jr. has unlocked
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  Speaker 4: a lot for that team. And you know what I say, Ed?
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  Speaker 5: I say good.
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  Speaker 4: I say that's great because now they face the Ravens
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  Speaker 4: and they can help the Steelers out there.
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  Speaker 5: They will face the Bengals later this season. That's an
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  Speaker 5: international game. I forget where that one is. Germany, maybe? Falcons, Bengals?
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  Speaker 3: That sounds right.
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  Speaker 4: They'll get the Chiefs later on this year in another
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  Speaker 4: AFC crossover. and in Cleveland December 13th. So I say,
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  Speaker 4: go ahead, hit your stride, Falcons. You're in the rear
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  Speaker 4: view for us in Pittsburgh. Go ahead and become a
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  Speaker 4: buzzsaw right before you run through four more AFC clubs.
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  Speaker 2: One last note on the Mike McCarthy press conference from yesterday. Brian,
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  Speaker 2: you wrote on Steelers.com about the calendar officially changing over
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  Speaker 2: now from September to October. And as you wrote, it
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  Speaker 2: isn't just about fall foliage. Well, sometimes it is, or
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  Speaker 2: the crisp air, which we're getting now. But it's about
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  Speaker 2: playing better football in that grind. And Mike McCarthy is
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  Speaker 2: embracing that. He quoted yesterday by saying, most importantly, it's
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  Speaker 2: the Steeler way, and this is it. He said, we've
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  Speaker 2: had the new practice schedule. We've gone through all the gymnastics.
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  Speaker 3: I love that.
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  Speaker 2: Of why we do things and so forth. The coaches
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  Speaker 2: and players need to trust that. that it will work
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  Speaker 2: for you. So, you know, your point there is the
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  Speaker 2: calendar's turning, there's adjustments to be made in season, and
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  Speaker 2: Coach McCarthy and that staff obviously working on that at
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  Speaker 2: this point after starting 2-2 on the season.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's been up and down, you know, one win,
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  Speaker 4: one loss, one win, one loss. At some point, you
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  Speaker 4: want to get rid of that pattern, obviously, and stack
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  Speaker 4: some wins together. You know, the McCarthy-era Steelers still searching
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  Speaker 4: for their first road win, can't get that Sunday, but
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  Speaker 4: they're still searching for their first winning streak thus far,
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  Speaker 4: and they can at least get that started this and
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  Speaker 4: then try to carry that into what would be their
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  Speaker 4: first road win and their first win streak in Tampa.
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  Speaker 4: But let's not get too far ahead of ourselves because, yes,
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  Speaker 4: McCarthy said they've got some things to clean up. I
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  Speaker 4: don't know why a lot of people, both locally and nationally, Ed,
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  Speaker 4: seem to think that that was some big season-defining or
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  Speaker 4: revealing comment from him. I think he's said some variation of,
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  Speaker 4: we need to clean things up after every game to
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  Speaker 4: this point.
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  Speaker 3: And you should, as an NFL team, you have to.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 4: And I think that people were reading very far into that.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I might have to rant on that to
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  Speaker 4: start off our next segment. I don't even think I
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  Speaker 4: would have enough time, but yeah, let's tee that up.
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  Speaker 5: Let's hold off on that.
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  Speaker 2: I know what you're referring to because I've seen the
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  Speaker 2: same social media garbage.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, it's just generally like the two sentences, you know,
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  Speaker 4: we need to clean up our own house. Our house
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  Speaker 4: isn't clean right now. You had to listen to the
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  Speaker 4: whole thing in context. And I think we should all
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  Speaker 4: listen to more things in context in today's day and age.
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  Speaker 4: And yeah, I'm going to get up on my soapbox
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  Speaker 4: on that when we return.
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  Speaker 2: And that's why I started the show with that comment,
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  Speaker 2: because it's X's and O's and it should be cleaned
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  Speaker 2: up right now because you're two and two and you've
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  Speaker 2: had a mixed back through the first four weeks. But
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  Speaker 2: one last thing, one other thing coach McCarthy said with
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  Speaker 2: that yesterday, and it's in your article, double B is quote,
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  Speaker 2: you're hard pressed to find a team or two that
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  Speaker 2: feels really good about where they are right now.
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  Speaker 3: That's the norm.
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  Speaker 5: And he's right.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, every team through four weeks, it's an early
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  Speaker 2: sample size. There's some good, there's some bad. Now, listen,
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  Speaker 2: if you're one of those 0-4 NFL teams, you may
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  Speaker 2: feel a little worse. And if you're 4-0, you're feeling
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  Speaker 2: really good. But for the rest, in the middle of
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  Speaker 2: the pack, you have a win or two so far
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  Speaker 2: this season. You're still trying to figure out your identity
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  Speaker 2: here in 2026, and the Steelers are certainly doing that.
• 14:50
  Speaker 2: Whenever we come back, we'll hear more from Double B
• 14:52
  Speaker 2: about the press conference yesterday and what he just alluded to,
• 14:54
  Speaker 2: as well as we'll hear from Patrick Graham is.
• 14:57
  Speaker 3: Ready to say Patrick Queen. Well, we might hear from
• 14:59
  Speaker 3: Patrick Queen too.
• 14:59
  Speaker 2: Who knows? As well as coach Angelico and even coach Crossman,
• 15:04
  Speaker 2: the special teams coach spoke yesterday as well. Coming up
• 15:07
  Speaker 2: here at three and three 20, our top 10 plays. Yes,
• 15:10
  Speaker 2: we did find top 10 of plays from Cleveland and
• 15:13
  Speaker 2: Pittsburgh from last Thursday night. We'll officially put a bow
• 15:16
  Speaker 2: on that as well as get to some NFL news
• 15:18
  Speaker 2: at the tail end of the show.
• 15:20
  Speaker 3: He's back.
• 15:20
  Speaker 5: Oh, I'm troop.
• 15:21
  Speaker 2: It is the Steelers report here on Steelers nation radio,
• 15:23
  Speaker 2: part of the Steelers audio network.
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: This is the Steelers Report with Brian Batko and Ed
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: Truth on Steelers Nation Radio, a part of the Steelers
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: Audio Network.
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: We were talking before the break about bouncing back, something
• 15:47
  Speaker 2: that the Steelers did after losing in New England against
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: the Cincinnati Bengals. And now for a second time in
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: the last few weeks, they will have an opportunity to
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: bounce back as well this.
• 15:58
  Speaker 3: Upcoming Sunday against the Indianapolis Colts. And Brian, I think
• 16:02
  Speaker 3: that's the theme of the week. Bounce back.
• 16:05
  Speaker 5: Resilience.
• 16:05
  Speaker 4: They've already showed that once this season. And, you know,
• 16:10
  Speaker 4: that was the, I'd say the worst loss of the
• 16:12
  Speaker 4: season was in New England. Now, nobody liked the way
• 16:15
  Speaker 4: that it went in Cleveland, but they were in that
• 16:17
  Speaker 4: game till the very end. They bounced back in that game.
• 16:21
  Speaker 4: And for all we know, Browns might end up being
• 16:23
  Speaker 4: a pretty good team this year, at least through four games.
• 16:26
  Speaker 4: It looks like they are actually. The Patriots game was just,
• 16:30
  Speaker 4: you know, flushed that one. Nothing really went right. Defense
• 16:34
  Speaker 4: played okay, but the fact that they got up off
• 16:37
  Speaker 4: the mat from that one and beat a good Cincinnati
• 16:40
  Speaker 4: Bengals team at home and played pretty well on both
• 16:44
  Speaker 4: sides of the ball, at least in spurts to do so,
• 16:48
  Speaker 4: that gives you some confidence in this team's resolve, and
• 16:51
  Speaker 4: that's an intangible, but also Mike McCarthy and his staff's
• 16:55
  Speaker 4: ability to clean up things and fix things, which he
• 16:58
  Speaker 4: addressed again yesterday.
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we started the show out today with a little
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: Pittsburghese for you because Mike McCarthy's a Pittsburgher. And we
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: said how he quoted yesterday by saying we need to
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: clean our house. Our house is not clean right now.
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: Now I can't get off the Pittsburghese, Brian. I'm probably
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: going to do it for the rest of the show now.
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: I should have set myself up to start things out
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: today that way. But, you know, you had a take
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: on that, Brian, because on social media, a lot of
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: folks took that one quote and went in a few
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: different directions with it.
• 17:27
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it was part of a.
• 17:28
  Speaker 4: I mean, I've got a transcript up here right now, Ed.
• 17:31
  Speaker 4: So this is even without hearing the audio from McCarthy,
• 17:33
  Speaker 4: but it was like a 10 paragraph answer to a
• 17:37
  Speaker 4: question about this being a week to week league and
• 17:40
  Speaker 4: weathering the storm and the ups and downs of it.
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: And the part about cleaning their own house was kind
• 17:47
  Speaker 4: of sandwiched in the middle about, and it was included
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: in part of the answer that said, you know, we're
• 17:52
  Speaker 4: going to go about Tuesday in a certain way.
• 17:54
  Speaker 5: And, I get it. It's week five.
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: Then the part that you referenced last segment, you know,
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: it's tough to even find more than a few teams
• 18:02
  Speaker 4: that feel really good about.
• 18:03
  Speaker 5: Where they are right now.
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: And then the end of that answer was we're going
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: to stay after the focus of what we need to
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: work on. That's what this weekend was about for me,
• 18:10
  Speaker 4: and we've been working on it as a coaching staff,
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: and we'll have clear factors of what we need to
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: do as far as cleaning our house, and then we'll
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: get ready to go beat Indianapolis.
• 18:17
  Speaker 5: That's the plan.
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: So to me, I mean, it was a lot of
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: X's and O's probably cleaning up, but also– fundamentals. He
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: talked about that a lot Monday, too. He talked about
• 18:28
  Speaker 4: the fundamentals of tackling and the drill work, getting back
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: to the basics and focusing on that. But when someone
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: just takes the two sentence part of we have a
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: lot to clean up, you know, our house isn't clean
• 18:40
  Speaker 4: right now.
• 18:41
  Speaker 5: People who look at the Steelers.
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: From far outside of it, they're going to extrapolate that
• 18:47
  Speaker 4: into things that, you know, they interpret that and we
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: know that the joey porter jr saga just came to
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: an end last week and in a disappointing disheartening way
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: kind of for everybody and then they go out and
• 18:59
  Speaker 4: they fall to the browns and there's some frustration clearly
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: emanating from the sideline with tj watt and even and
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: we're going to hear from patrick graham on that shortly
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: and even from aaron rogers on the field but I
• 19:10
  Speaker 4: tend to think that's a lot of just kind of
• 19:12
  Speaker 4: what you see week in and week out with football teams.
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: I agree.
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: I mean, go back to the Travis Kelsey, Andy Reid
• 19:18
  Speaker 4: blow up in the Super Bowl. Patrick Mahomes is usually
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: very animated on the sideline. Peyton Manning was chewing out
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: teammates all the time. Tom Brady was chewing out teammates
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: all the time. So I don't like clutch my pearls
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: over a lot of that. And this is where my
• 19:32
  Speaker 4: rant comes in, and it's kind of a rant against myself,
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: I guess, in a way, for being on social media
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: and even seeing a lot of this stuff.
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: We're all part of that, buddy.
• 19:40
  Speaker 5: It seems like it.
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: Gets, at least with X, it just seems like it
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: gets worse and worse by the the year the season
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: the week the day there were a few instances of
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: this that i saw over the weekend that didn't have
• 19:52
  Speaker 4: anything to do with mike mccarthy's house cleaning comment and
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: the steelers there was one where tucker craft for the
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: packers their tight end veteran guy just got a new
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: contract everybody loves him in green bay somebody quote tweeted
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: his post-game interview in a win over the bucks and
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: said something about if I don't get the rock, it's
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: tough to do anything with it.
• 20:15
  Speaker 5: And that was the only part that was included.
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: So it makes you think, oh, wow, Tucker Kraft is
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: complaining about his targets or his touches or his receptions
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: or whatever.
• 20:24
  Speaker 5: Then you actually listen to the interview.
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: And he's saying that he had he said, here's the
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: quote that was brought up by someone. And it's some troll.
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: So don't get me wrong. But these things get picked
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: up by others and aggregated. It said, I can't do
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: anything with the rock if I don't get it. Well,
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: if you actually listen to the 25 second clip, he's
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: saying he needs to do a better job catching the ball.
• 20:42
  Speaker 5: He's talking about his own drops.
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: So he's criticizing himself.
• 20:45
  Speaker 5: He's criticizing himself. But when you pull out one sentence of.
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: It, it sounds like he's not happy. He's not getting correct.
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: Then there was another one. Cardinals rookie running back Jeremiah Love.
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: I think he was like a third or fourth pick
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: in the draft this year.
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: Top pick.
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: Someone pulled out his postgame interview from they went and
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: they lost to the Giants on the road. And it
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: said this is the quote that was highlighted on Twitter
• 21:04
  Speaker 4: was this is going to be the longest year of
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: my life.
• 21:08
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: That makes you think, man, he knows the Cardinals are
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: are in for a three, four, maybe five win season.
• 21:15
  Speaker 5: And he just came out and said it.
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 21:16
  Speaker 5: Why would he say something like that?
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: If you watch that whole clip, he's talking about how
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: going from college to the combine, to the draft, to
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: rookie minicamp, OTAs and training camp, that's a fairly common
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: thing among rookies. That rookie season is the longest season
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: you'll ever have. There's not really a lot of downtime.
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: You hit the accelerator from the bowl season into pre-draft process,
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: and then there's no rest for the weary as you
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: get into the flow of things with your NFL team.
• 21:44
  Speaker 5: But you pull out that one piece.
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: Obviously, people are going to put say one and one
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: equals two, the Cardinals stink, he knows it. Man, this
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: guy's miserable after his first month with his NFL team.
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: Then there was one with the Eagles and their former player,
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: Brandon Graham, who's retired, and I guess he's on one
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: of eight billion Eagles podcasts, said that, well, he was
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: talking about Lane Johnson, who was inactive for their game
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: the other day.
• 22:08
  Speaker 5: He was kind of a late scratch, personal reasons.
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: Some Eagles account said Brandon Graham just said on his
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: podcast that Lane Johnson's contemplating retirement immediately. So everybody saw
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: that without listening to it themselves, took it, ran with it,
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: widespread panic in Bird's Nation out there. If you actually
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: listen to it, and I'm thankful for the people who
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: tweet out the entire thing, clips in context and then
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: you can figure in context you can make up your
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: own mind you can do the crazy thing of listen
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: to something yourself.
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: Actually let it swirl around in that big old brain
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: of yours remember some of us don't have patience to
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: do that.
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: Yeah and that's all that's all part of the societal
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: however i never report anything without listening this is all
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: part of the societal clip culture that we're in and
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: it like i said it seems to get worse every
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: day every year agreed And like he talked about how
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: he hates he would hate to see Lane Johnson go
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: out like this with personal issues and that he wants
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: to see him get back soon because this is going
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: to be his last year. So, yeah, I mean, maybe
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: he meant that he's considering his former teammates considering retirement.
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: But that was hardly the spirit of his answer and
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: what got aggregated. And, you know, once it's out into
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: the interwebs, you know, it just takes on a life
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: of its own. And that's kind of, I guess, a
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: little of what's happening here. with the McCarthy quote, but
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: it just, it really bugs me because here's, I think
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: two things are bad about these out of context sort
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: of tweets or snippets of interviews, excerpts, whatever.
• 23:35
  Speaker 5: I get it. It's, it's social media.
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: You can't always type up all 400 words of Mike
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: McCarthy's answer or whatever it was, but I think we
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: can all be a little bit more responsible if you're
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: not trying to click bait and get people riled up
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: and get that engagement farming is really what it is.
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: But two bad things happen here. Obviously on its face,
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: You're kind of being disingenuous to the speaker here who
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: had a longer answer and you take out one small
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: part of it. And, you know, now it's it's the
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: thing that everybody's homing in on. And then the second
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: part is when people do say things that are outlandish
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: or they're trying to to make an incendiary statement. And
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: then they try to walk it back. Now they have
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: a leg to stand on with. Oh, they took me
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: out of context, just like this guy or that guy
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: or this guy. Like it makes the whole media apparatus
• 24:21
  Speaker 4: seem dishonest.
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: Then you wonder why you're getting two or three word answers.
• 24:26
  Speaker 5: Correct.
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: For instance, C.J.
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: Gardner Johnson for the Bills defense after their loss to
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: the Patriots. He came out and said after the game.
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: I think Efton Chisholm III made the big catch. Did
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: you see that catch by him, by the way?
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: It was insane.
• 24:38
  Speaker 5: It was insane.
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 24:40
  Speaker 5: But C.J.
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: Gardner-Johnson comes out after the game when the Bills reporters
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: are asking him about defensive struggles, giving up 29 points
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: or whatever it was, the New England at home in
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: your first loss. And he's kind of talking crazy, like
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: a practice squad guy made a good play. What do
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: you want me to say? He made the play of
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: his life. It's not a big deal. There's nothing out
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: of context about that. He just decided to... pretty much
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: be a sore loser after going down in flames defensively
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: to Drake May and Efton Chisholm III. And, you know,
• 25:08
  Speaker 4: somebody like that, I mean, you know what you're doing.
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: And there's no dishonest take there from the media. They're
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: just taking what you said, which was kind of a
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: dumb thing to say probably by him, or at least
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: a brash thing to say for that matter. And Vrabel
• 25:21
  Speaker 4: responded to it yesterday and everything. So there's just very,
• 25:24
  Speaker 4: there's different situations there. I just hate to see all this. Yeah,
• 25:28
  Speaker 4: really engagement farming is what it is. And it seems
• 25:30
  Speaker 4: like that, is winning more than responsible reporting and information
• 25:36
  Speaker 4: dispersing is winning.
• 25:37
  Speaker 5: But OK, I think that's the end of my diatribe. No,
• 25:39
  Speaker 5: you're good.
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: I actually enjoyed it. It's, you know, you hit the
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: nail on the head, Double B.
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: And that's why I've said for years, even before I
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: was on SNR or on this show with you and
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: doing this here in the last year, even back and
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: I'm doing my own personal podcast and I would have
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: somebody like Bill Hillgrove on or I'd have a Jerry
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: Dulac or, you know, Mike Pursuit. I mean, guys that
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: Do this 100% for a living. Trust those sources. Trust
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: those media outlets. Those are the ones that are going
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: to have the answers for you, not these fly-by-the-day, Steelers
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: dot this, that, that, that, and this that are just
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: taking what you just said, Brian. They're going to take
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: a quote, a one-liner, and it's going to spread like wildfire.
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: And just to piggyback on your point for a second, too,
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: is Jalen Ramsey comes out and supports Joey Porter Jr., Well,
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: they just spent two seasons together, right? The grind of
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: an NFL season on or off the practice field. I'm
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: sure Jalen Ramsey became a mentor, and rightfully so for
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: Joey Porter Jr. So it's a business at the end
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: of the day.
• 26:40
  Speaker 5: Joey Porter Jr.
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: Had cleats from Jalen Ramsey from when his dad coached
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: in the Pro Bowl one year and told him, you're
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: my kid's favorite player. So, yeah, this is a longstanding
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: brotherhood relationship.
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: Why is he not going to be happy for him?
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: And he understands the business part of this.
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: And at the end of the day, it's a business.
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: It's an entertainment for us.
• 26:59
  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's actually what I was going to say. I
• 27:00
  Speaker 5: get it. It is entertainment.
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: So everybody's got their place in this media ecosystem, even
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: the blogs that annoy me with the clickbait headlines and
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: pulling out little things. It's fun when guys say stuff
• 27:13
  Speaker 4: that gets you going. I guarantee we're going to go
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: beat this team. That stuff does make it fun sometimes,
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: but don't put words in people's mouth or make it
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: out to be something that it isn't. Then you're just
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: being irresponsible, I think, and you're abusing trust with these
• 27:28
  Speaker 4: guys too.
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: Listen, I bleed black and gold just like many of
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: you out there listening. I'm a Steeler Yinzer from inside
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: and out, and I love doing this every day and
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: talking to our fans out there. And it was hard
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: to see Joey Porter Sr. in a Dallas Cowboys jersey
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: celebrating on Sunday.
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: It's his son. If you have kids out there, you
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: know it.
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: Listen, if my son would go on and play in
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: the NFL one day, my goodness, which would never happen,
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: but if it happens, it might. He plays for the
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: Cleveland Browns. Even though I bleed black and gold, and
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: I still will, I will probably have a Browns jersey
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: on for the first time in my life because it's
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: your son.
• 28:05
  Speaker 5: It's your kid.
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: Sometimes you got to take a step back. Sometimes it's
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: hard to stomach.
• 28:10
  Speaker 5: I get it.
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: We're all passionate.
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: Brian, as I said earlier, it's an emotional game, but
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: Trust your sources, guys out there.
• 28:17
  Speaker 6: Absolutely.
• 28:18
  Speaker 5: That's the whole theme. Trust your sources.
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: My only thought really on that topic specifically is like,
• 28:21
  Speaker 4: you know, is the relationship probably a little bit strained
• 28:25
  Speaker 4: right now? Yeah, I would think so. I mean, a
• 28:27
  Speaker 4: business deal just fell through. That goes for any walk
• 28:31
  Speaker 4: of life. It might take some time to heal some
• 28:33
  Speaker 4: wounds for people.
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: Happens in real estate.
• 28:35
  Speaker 4: It happens with family and business all the time, whether
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: you're in the football industry or any other space, really,
• 28:43
  Speaker 4: that you work in. You know, you do deals with
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: and everybody's like family when you come into an NFL team.
• 28:49
  Speaker 4: But the porters were really family with the Steelers, literally.
• 28:53
  Speaker 4: So and maybe it'll heal over time.
• 28:55
  Speaker 5: Maybe it won't. But I just I kind of hate
• 28:57
  Speaker 5: to see.
• 28:57
  Speaker 4: And I don't like when people feel the need to
• 29:00
  Speaker 4: fan the flames or stoke the fire either. And I
• 29:03
  Speaker 4: guess that is kind of part of this entire bigger,
• 29:06
  Speaker 4: all encompassing conversation that I'm having here.
• 29:09
  Speaker 5: But it is kind of separate, too.
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: So.
• 29:11
  Speaker 4: Anyway, we kind of ran out of time for Patrick Graham,
• 29:13
  Speaker 4: but I guess we could hit him with the next segment.
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: We did, and yes, we can do that. Coming up next,
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: we will hear from Patrick Graham.
• 29:19
  Speaker 4: I bet you Patrick Graham is going to have some
• 29:20
  Speaker 4: sound bites that if you clip a two-second snippet of it,
• 29:25
  Speaker 4: will sound a lot more exaggerated or profound and significant
• 29:32
  Speaker 4: and meaningful than if you take his entire answer.
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: It's however you want to spin it, I guess, One
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: thing we don't do, we're not spinning things here.
• 29:39
  Speaker 5: People always associate.
• 29:40
  Speaker 4: The spin machine with positive stuff from a team or
• 29:44
  Speaker 4: an elected official even, but the spin machine often works
• 29:47
  Speaker 4: from the negative side of things in life too, whether
• 29:51
  Speaker 4: it's sports or... politics or anything.
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: Absolutely. Yeah, for sure.
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: But we're not spinning things here. We're here for Steelers Nation.
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: That's why we're on Steelers Nation Radio.
• 30:00
  Speaker 4: You know I'm not in a bad mood because I
• 30:01
  Speaker 4: got the self-checkout this morning. I wasn't waiting. It's not
• 30:04
  Speaker 4: like the self-checkout machine was down. So I'm in a
• 30:07
  Speaker 4: fine mood. This has just been... been bugging me since
• 30:11
  Speaker 4: uh my last scroll i guess i'm glad and again
• 30:14
  Speaker 4: i need to stop scrolling maybe that's part.
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: Of it well that is a big part of it
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: you got to get.
• 30:17
  Speaker 4: Your information somehow i just wish a lot of people
• 30:19
  Speaker 4: would go the extra mile to get a little bit
• 30:21
  Speaker 4: more information right so that you can before you make yourself.
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: Call yes i'm with you i agree well having said
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: all that whenever we come back we will hear from
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: defensive coordinator patrick graham from yesterday as well as if
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: we have time we'll try to sneak in coach angelico
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: as well maybe Coach Danny Crossman from Special Teams, he
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: talked about how the Steelers need to get a little
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: bit better on.
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: Their return game, which I agree with, among other things.
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: And then again, coming up here at 3 o'clock today,
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: it's our top 10 moments from Steelers, Browns, and yes,
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: Steelers Nation. We have some Steeler moments for you. They
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: came back in the game. They did make our list,
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: as well as that ending, too. We have to report
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: that because that's what happened. And at the tail end
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: of the show, we'll get into some NFL news from
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: around the league going into week five.
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: I'm E.T. He's B.B.
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: It's the Steelers report right here on Steelers Nation Radio,
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: part of the Steelers Audio Network.
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: This is the Steelers report with Brian Bacco and Ed
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: Troup on Steelers Nation Radio, a part of the Steelers
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: Audio Network.
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: Man, time flies when you're having fun. Wrapping up hour
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: number one here on The Report for today. And again,
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: coming up here at the top of the hour, 3 o'clock,
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: we will have our top ten moments for you from Steelers-Browns.
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: And then, Brian, we can officially put a bow or
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: whatever you want to put on it from week four.
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: And we can completely... turn our attentions to the Indianapolis Colts.
• 31:49
  Speaker 4: That was another part of Mike McCarthy's presser Monday was
• 31:51
  Speaker 4: he said that he would typically use that Tuesday coming
• 31:55
  Speaker 4: off the mini-bye as an extra day for the opponent,
• 31:58
  Speaker 4: a bonus day to prep for your next foe, but
• 32:01
  Speaker 4: he was like, no, we've got to use this on
• 32:02
  Speaker 4: ourselves right now. That's how he felt coming out of
• 32:05
  Speaker 4: that loss to the Browns, and I can't say I
• 32:07
  Speaker 4: blame him, especially with some new faces about the cycle
• 32:11
  Speaker 4: through here on, I mean, mainly, I guess, on the
• 32:14
  Speaker 4: defensive side of the ball, but he was asked about
• 32:17
  Speaker 4: Rico Dowdle and, uh, and, and, you know, what his
• 32:20
  Speaker 4: next situation is, his status is going to be. And
• 32:24
  Speaker 4: he said that they do want to see some of
• 32:25
  Speaker 4: those running backs, uh, behind Jalen Warren get involved more.
• 32:28
  Speaker 4: Maybe Brian Angelico said that, but yeah, obviously we know the, uh,
• 32:32
  Speaker 4: the backfield is kind of up in the air right now,
• 32:35
  Speaker 4: depending on the status of Dowdle's toe injury, man.
• 32:38
  Speaker 5: Have you ever hurt your toe?
• 32:40
  Speaker 4: I know I mentioned this on the show before, like
• 32:41
  Speaker 4: we talked about this last week, just always sounds like
• 32:43
  Speaker 4: such a wimpy injury, but man, if you, bang your
• 32:46
  Speaker 4: toe on something. That's like one injury that I can
• 32:49
  Speaker 4: relate with. I saw that Paris Johnson from the Cardinals
• 32:52
  Speaker 4: is going to miss the rest of the season with
• 32:54
  Speaker 4: a torn triceps, I think. And I'm like, I don't
• 32:57
  Speaker 4: think I could lift enough weight or do anything with
• 32:59
  Speaker 4: enough strength to tear a bicep or tricep, knock on wood,
• 33:04
  Speaker 4: or pec. You know, you see guys go down with
• 33:06
  Speaker 4: a torn pec all the time.
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: That's a bad one.
• 33:07
  Speaker 4: Let alone the soft tissue stuff. My muscles do not
• 33:10
  Speaker 4: fire off. They don't twitch enough in a way that
• 33:12
  Speaker 4: I could even pull a hamstring, I don't think. So
• 33:15
  Speaker 4: I don't have to worry about that, but at least
• 33:17
  Speaker 4: I can relate to a toe.
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: Well, you're not 40 yet, my friend, so let me
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: tell you.
• 33:20
  Speaker 5: I think I was born that way.
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: When you pass that 40 mark. Well, maybe, but I'm
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: telling you, out there listening, people know what I'm talking about.
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: When you get on the other side of that 40 mark,
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: all of a sudden. Things will start to tear. Things
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: will start to happen. And you have no clue how
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: it happened. I was just talking to my buddy Mike
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: about this this past weekend. I probably just jinxed myself
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: so bad with that tape.
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: You definitely did. I mean, some days I'm like, wait
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: a minute, why is my shoulder hurt?
• 33:43
  Speaker 5: What did I do? I didn't do anything. That's like
• 33:46
  Speaker 5: a soreness.
• 33:47
  Speaker 4: I more so mean like I can barely jump off
• 33:50
  Speaker 4: the ground with my athleticism or lack thereof. So I
• 33:54
  Speaker 4: don't need to worry about pulling a calf muscle, hopefully.
• 33:58
  Speaker 5: Again, knock on wood, hamstring, groin. Achilles just sounds.
• 34:02
  Speaker 4: Like the absolute worst thing, and I know people who
• 34:05
  Speaker 4: have hurt their Achilles. That just sounds so miserable.
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: But you're still hooping each week, right?
• 34:10
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I play, but I'm not exactly getting rim.
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, you don't have to.
• 34:15
  Speaker 5: Board slapping.
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: Just make those threes, man. Just hit those threes. You'll survive.
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: All right, let's finally get to defensive.
• 34:21
  Speaker 5: I move better laterally than vertically.
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: Well, you know what? A lot of us do. That's
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: for sure.
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: Let's get to defensive coordinator Patrick Graham. who spoke to
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: the media yesterday. We always love hearing from Coach Graham.
• 34:36
  Speaker 6: I think just naturally, I'm just trying to think about
• 34:38
  Speaker 6: how to get the quarterback on the ground first. And
• 34:40
  Speaker 6: then from there, the coverage, because the coverage plays so
• 34:43
  Speaker 6: much into both the run in the past, how we're defending.
• 34:46
  Speaker 6: It's not just the past coverage in terms of the
• 34:48
  Speaker 6: structure of the defense. So I probably would say it's
• 34:52
  Speaker 6: probably a mix of both in terms of what we're
• 34:53
  Speaker 6: going to end up doing for this week. But again,
• 34:56
  Speaker 6: for this group that we're going to see on Sunday,
• 34:59
  Speaker 6: you know, it starts with the running back, really, and
• 35:01
  Speaker 6: then from there to the pieces in terms of the
• 35:03
  Speaker 6: passing game, so a lot of our focus is going
• 35:06
  Speaker 6: to be on how to limit Taylor in terms of
• 35:08
  Speaker 6: what he's going to try to do. How do you
• 35:10
  Speaker 6: think Everett's handling an increased workload?
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: He's been good.
• 35:13
  Speaker 6: He's been good. I mean, he doesn't blink, you know,
• 35:15
  Speaker 6: just in terms of, you know, out there, a lot
• 35:17
  Speaker 6: of confidence. You know, he's gaining a lot of experience
• 35:23
  Speaker 6: from those plays, and that's going to be the best
• 35:25
  Speaker 6: teacher for him, aside from what we do in the
• 35:27
  Speaker 6: classroom and in practice, so I think he's handling it well.
• 35:31
  Speaker 3: You've got to like what head coach.
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: Well, you always like to hear what head coach of
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: the defense, pretty much. He is the head coach of
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: the defense. You like to hear what head coach Mike
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: McCarthy says, too. But what defensive coordinator Patrick Graham says
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: about rookie Daylon Everett, something we spoke about here on
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: the show, Brian, because they're going to have to rely
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: on him now.
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: You know, Joey Porter Jr. moving on.
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: Not even so much maybe in 2026, which they will,
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: but beyond 2026.
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: So what he just spoke to, he's.
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: Getting on-field training now. He's going to get those bugs
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: worked out now on the field. And as he said,
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: he can learn a lot more doing that than anywhere else.
• 36:03
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and that's always like a debate, I think, with
• 36:06
  Speaker 4: any rookie. You usually hear it about quarterbacks, but it
• 36:09
  Speaker 4: could apply to cornerbacks as well in really any spot.
• 36:12
  Speaker 5: Is it better?
• 36:13
  Speaker 4: And I think we had a lot of this discussion
• 36:14
  Speaker 4: about Maxi Honachor coming into the season. Is it better
• 36:18
  Speaker 4: for a guy to learn and watch from the sideline,
• 36:20
  Speaker 4: or is there no substitute for experience? Those are the
• 36:23
  Speaker 4: two obvious kind of competing factors when you talk about
• 36:29
  Speaker 4: developing any rookie, and it's not one-size-fits-all. I don't think
• 36:32
  Speaker 4: there's any cookie-cutter approach. Some quarterbacks might benefit from slotting
• 36:37
  Speaker 4: in there week one, but the NFL— Annals are littered
• 36:44
  Speaker 4: with guys who probably got thrown in too early before
• 36:47
  Speaker 4: they were ready. Let's hope that Daylon Everett is ready
• 36:49
  Speaker 4: sooner than later as far as talking about the 2026
• 36:51
  Speaker 4: Steelers secondary.
• 36:54
  Speaker 6: Well, first thing is, you know, address it with the
• 36:56
  Speaker 6: group and just tell them, you know, just point it
• 36:59
  Speaker 6: out how we're missing the tackles, you know, in terms of,
• 37:03
  Speaker 6: you know, if it's one-two, if it's just in terms
• 37:06
  Speaker 6: of the angles, techniques on the wrap. things of that nature.
• 37:10
  Speaker 6: And then from there, it's our job as coaches, how
• 37:12
  Speaker 6: do we drill it? How do we drill it? And
• 37:15
  Speaker 6: obviously we're not going to do live tackling. That's not
• 37:17
  Speaker 6: going to be something we're going to do during the season,
• 37:20
  Speaker 6: but we got to find a way to drill it
• 37:21
  Speaker 6: so they can improve and give them some true evidence
• 37:24
  Speaker 6: in terms of seeing improvement. So that's been something we've
• 37:27
  Speaker 6: gone through in terms of just self-scouting this little mini buy,
• 37:30
  Speaker 6: just where can we get better and where can we
• 37:33
  Speaker 6: get guys in better places, even schematically, just to help
• 37:36
  Speaker 6: aid with that because, again, whether it's the space tackles
• 37:39
  Speaker 6: and the screens, making sure we're tackling the quarterback, we
• 37:43
  Speaker 6: just got to tack it full on and just find
• 37:46
  Speaker 6: ways to drill it. That's the thing we have to
• 37:49
  Speaker 6: do as coaches.
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: Double B, it's something we spoke about right after the
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: game last week and even yesterday here on the show
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: about how many missed tackles the Steelers had last week,
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: and I said it. The good news was exactly what
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: Coach Graham just said. It's something that you can work
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: on and correct. during practice in a week, even with
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: no contact. There's drills, there's other ways, but they have
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: to clean.
• 38:07
  Speaker 3: So you're going to clean up your house. We just
• 38:09
  Speaker 3: did a whole segment on cleaning up your house.
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: They have to do that. They have to tackle better
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: starting this week against the Colts.
• 38:15
  Speaker 4: I hate to say this, and it's not something any
• 38:17
  Speaker 4: football coach would ever want to hear, but my personal
• 38:20
  Speaker 4: kind of view on it is like, these guys are
• 38:23
  Speaker 4: in the NFL. I mean, you can do drill work
• 38:25
  Speaker 4: and you can remind them of where the feet need
• 38:28
  Speaker 4: to be and All that.
• 38:30
  Speaker 5: But it's going to just come down to execution.
• 38:32
  Speaker 4: Like Patrick Graham said, you're not going to turn them
• 38:34
  Speaker 4: loose on each other out there on the practice field
• 38:37
  Speaker 4: and say, hey, for every for every missed tackle, you know,
• 38:40
  Speaker 4: we're docking your paycheck like that. It doesn't work that way.
• 38:43
  Speaker 4: You just need to go out there and do it.
• 38:45
  Speaker 4: All of these dudes, all of these rookies or Cam Hayward.
• 38:48
  Speaker 4: who's in year 73, they've made hundreds of tackles in
• 38:52
  Speaker 4: their life.
• 38:53
  Speaker 5: Got to execute. Maybe not at the NFL level.
• 38:55
  Speaker 4: Go back to guys like Daylon Everett or Robert Spears Jennings,
• 38:58
  Speaker 4: who has actually been a really sure tackler thus far
• 39:00
  Speaker 4: in his first season.
• 39:01
  Speaker 5: That's why he's on the field. Yeah, and could be
• 39:04
  Speaker 5: itching for more.
• 39:05
  Speaker 4: But they've all done it, and again, you can't really
• 39:08
  Speaker 4: work on it.
• 39:08
  Speaker 5: It's such a physical skill. It's such a physical.
• 39:12
  Speaker 4: Trait that you need to do on Sundays or Thursdays that, like,
• 39:18
  Speaker 4: I get it. Coaches need to have some sort of
• 39:20
  Speaker 4: answer for it, but even the motivation part of it,
• 39:22
  Speaker 4: it's like a guy knows that he needs to make
• 39:25
  Speaker 4: a tackle. like it's a little different than hey you
• 39:26
  Speaker 4: need to pick up this blitzer on this game stunt
• 39:29
  Speaker 4: so yeah you you got to answer the question somehow
• 39:33
  Speaker 4: but i feel like it boils.
• 39:34
  Speaker 5: Down to just the guy's got to go out there
• 39:36
  Speaker 5: and do it.
• 39:39
  Speaker 6: For me just you know this is it was week
• 39:41
  Speaker 6: four right week four of the season And, you know,
• 39:44
  Speaker 6: we're getting to know these guys in the heat of
• 39:46
  Speaker 6: the battle. I think I said it at one of
• 39:47
  Speaker 6: my early press conferences. I wanted to see what would
• 39:49
  Speaker 6: happen when adversity hit and just see how we're going
• 39:53
  Speaker 6: to react and see how we're going to react to
• 39:55
  Speaker 6: it as a group. Respond to it is a better word,
• 39:58
  Speaker 6: as a group. And, you know, it's bound to happen.
• 40:02
  Speaker 6: People always talk about it's an emotional game. We're emotional people. So,
• 40:05
  Speaker 6: to me, I encourage the emotions in terms of I
• 40:09
  Speaker 6: want their full selves out there when they're playing, you know.
• 40:13
  Speaker 6: And then how we direct that and funnel that, I mean, again,
• 40:16
  Speaker 6: if there was a microphone on me every time or
• 40:18
  Speaker 6: a camera on me every time I'm reacting up there
• 40:21
  Speaker 6: in the box, I'm sure you guys would be wondering,
• 40:23
  Speaker 6: what the hell am I talking about? What am I
• 40:25
  Speaker 6: upset about? But for me, you know, I think as
• 40:28
  Speaker 6: we learn one another, and, you know, it's going to
• 40:30
  Speaker 6: be going into week five, I think this has been
• 40:32
  Speaker 6: a great learning experience. I really do. And I'm not
• 40:35
  Speaker 6: trying to sugarcoat it. I'm not trying to, you know,
• 40:38
  Speaker 6: make a bigger deal or a lesser deal of what
• 40:40
  Speaker 6: it is. But I know this, we talked about communication
• 40:44
  Speaker 6: a lot and how we communicate to one another. And
• 40:46
  Speaker 6: it's important that we, you know, we build these relationships
• 40:49
  Speaker 6: with one another so that when stuff gets said, whether
• 40:52
  Speaker 6: it's in the heat of the battle, that nobody's sensitive.
• 40:55
  Speaker 6: And that's the one thing I can appreciate and I
• 40:58
  Speaker 6: hope they can appreciate from me. Nobody's sensitive here. You know,
• 41:03
  Speaker 6: we deal with conflict head on and we'll give resolution
• 41:07
  Speaker 6: in terms of how we're going to go about fixing
• 41:09
  Speaker 6: things on that field because that's the most important thing.
• 41:11
  Speaker 6: That's the most important thing in it requires emotion. You know,
• 41:14
  Speaker 6: I was trying to get them riled up before the game, too.
• 41:16
  Speaker 6: I wanted, I mean, the first two series, I was
• 41:18
  Speaker 6: real pleased. I was like, here we go. This is
• 41:20
  Speaker 6: what I've been looking for, the way it started. And
• 41:22
  Speaker 6: then we hit some adversity and didn't finish the way
• 41:25
  Speaker 6: we wanted. And we got to get to the bottom
• 41:27
  Speaker 6: line of that and figure out how to avoid that
• 41:31
  Speaker 6: turn down the road. And with the men in that
• 41:34
  Speaker 6: room and the confidence I have in them, the confidence
• 41:36
  Speaker 6: I have with our coaches, the confidence I have And
• 41:39
  Speaker 6: Coach McCarthy, I mean, I think this is going to
• 41:41
  Speaker 6: be a small thing that's just, you know, we're going
• 41:44
  Speaker 6: to learn from it, move forward, and it's going to
• 41:46
  Speaker 6: be constructive. That's just my opinion.
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: Look, Brian, I've said it many a times. Football is
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: an emotional game. There's a lot of time. There's a
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: lot of effort that goes into it. And I've seen
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: it at the high school level that I cover every
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: Friday night for over 25 years. I've seen it at
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: the youth level with my sons who I've coached for many,
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: many years. You see it in the NFL on a
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: given Sunday. It's just how do you react to that
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: emotion and how do you bottle it up and then
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: be able to, you know, go on the football field
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: and be able to put that in a positive way
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: and not a negative way.
• 42:17
  Speaker 3: But it's bound to happen.
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: And the important part here is exactly what Coach Graham
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: just said. Take it for what it is and move on.
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: And you've got to appreciate the emotion at times because
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: the worst thing to do in the game of football
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: at any level is to have no emotion.
• 42:32
  Speaker 4: I think the key word there from Graham was the
• 42:34
  Speaker 4: last word constructive. That's really the goal. And I think
• 42:40
  Speaker 4: that goes for any coach player relationship and dynamic, but
• 42:44
  Speaker 4: especially I would imagine when you're having these tough conversations
• 42:48
  Speaker 4: with TJ Watt, Jalen Ramsey, Cam Hayward. I mean, all
• 42:54
  Speaker 4: three of those guys have seen so much football and,
• 42:57
  Speaker 4: They're all probably going to have a bronze bust someday,
• 43:00
  Speaker 4: about an hour and a half from where we're sitting
• 43:02
  Speaker 4: right now. Cam's up front. He's the leader of the D-line.
• 43:05
  Speaker 4: Patrick Graham's a D-line coach by trade. TJ, I mean,
• 43:12
  Speaker 4: he needs no sort of, like, endorsement. I mean, what
• 43:16
  Speaker 4: he's done in his career, but I'm just talking about
• 43:18
  Speaker 4: these first four games this season, he's been his sharpest mentally, physically.
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: Huge.
• 43:23
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and he's the engine of this team from a
• 43:26
  Speaker 4: pass rush. perspective always and then Ramsey on the back
• 43:29
  Speaker 4: end is like always see in the game through a
• 43:31
  Speaker 4: coach's eyes the way Minka Fitzpatrick used to I mean
• 43:34
  Speaker 4: those if that's like kind of your tribunal of Hawks
• 43:38
  Speaker 4: your your scouts your leaders for this defense I'm sure
• 43:42
  Speaker 4: that Graham embraces those conversations.
• 43:44
  Speaker 6: That twofold you know change some of the calls I
• 43:47
  Speaker 6: mean we can increase the man coverage you know that's
• 43:49
  Speaker 6: one thing and then to just understand the difference between
• 43:52
  Speaker 6: there's two to me there's two different types of zone
• 43:55
  Speaker 6: coverages there's Spot drop, where we're getting to our landmarks,
• 43:58
  Speaker 6: we're getting our eyes on the quarterback. We're all on
• 44:01
  Speaker 6: a string, we're tied together with that, and really you're
• 44:03
  Speaker 6: looking to punish any completions or underneath throws and discourage
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  Speaker 6: that with violence at the point of a completion or
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  Speaker 6: the guys coming out of the stack. So that's one.
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  Speaker 6: Then there's match zone, where we get our eyes to
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  Speaker 6: our matches, get a little bit tighter, and it causes
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  Speaker 6: a little bit more confusion with the quarterback, but we're
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  Speaker 6: able to pass things off. So for us, finding that
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  Speaker 6: perfect balance... And then within the game, being able to adjust.
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  Speaker 6: And that starts with me. I got to do a
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  Speaker 6: better job with that. And, you know, that's going to happen.
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  Speaker 2: Coach Patrick Graham, defensive coordinator for the Pittsburgh Steelers, speaking
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  Speaker 2: yesterday about, well, what happened in Cleveland last week, Double B.
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  Speaker 2: And as you've said many a times, we always like
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  Speaker 2: to hear from Coach Graham because, I don't know, he
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  Speaker 2: kind of tells it like it is. He doesn't sugarcoat anything.
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  Speaker 2: And while he shouldn't, here's what was on the field. And,
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  Speaker 2: you know, again, you take away that second quarter. And
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  Speaker 2: that's a big if. I understand that. That's what decided
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  Speaker 2: the game. But if you take away that second quarter
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  Speaker 2: Thursday night in Cleveland, Steelers defense, they made some plays
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  Speaker 2: at times. I mean, it wasn't 21 points in one quarter.
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  Speaker 2: Any NFL team is going to look at that, and
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  Speaker 2: rightfully so, and say, look, that's not par for what
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  Speaker 2: we need to do to win football games. But the
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  Speaker 2: rest of the three quarters, look, there were some highlights there.
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  Speaker 2: They got stops in the second half when they needed to.
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  Speaker 4: And the offense wasn't making it easy on them. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: three consecutive three and outs, I believe it was. So
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  Speaker 4: they were getting– They were getting bombarded with scoring opportunities
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  Speaker 4: for the Browns there in that second half. And for
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  Speaker 4: the most part, they bent but didn't break until the end.
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  Speaker 4: And all it took was the Schmidt field goal.
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  Speaker 5: Schmidt happened.
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  Speaker 3: We'll hear that Schmidt field goal whenever we come back.
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  Speaker 2: We'll have our top 10 moments from Pittsburgh Steelers and
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  Speaker 2: the Cleveland Browns. And at the tail end of the show,
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  Speaker 2: we should have time. We'll also hear from Brian Angelico
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  Speaker 2: and Danny Crossman. as well it is the Steelers report
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  Speaker 2: that's going to do it for our number one I'm
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  Speaker 2: Troop he's back oh it is the Steelers report right
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