October 10, 2025 • 42 mins
Nick Herbig calls in to the Morning Show to discuss his emerging role on the defense and how he's preparing for the first AFC North matchup of the 2025 season this Sunday against the Browns.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
From the Don's Appliances Studios where Pittsburgh shops for appliances.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
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a big app guy. I like the apps.
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I do love apps.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
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like the heavy ones. You don't like the heavy ones,
but I like it. I like a fried zuke though,
Like a fried zuke is a.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Fried amazing lightly breaded.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Though. Do you like a lemon? Do you like the
zukes sliced long long ways? Do you like them? Because
sometimes they do? The tiny zukes? You know what I mean?
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want a flap of zucchini? Yeah, I want a big flap.
I'll have the zucchini flaps. Yep.
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Flaps?
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It does sound like I don't like it when you
call them a name.
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Call yeah, he sugar flaps, Hey, zucchini flips?
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I just looked at you, I just said hey, and
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Speaker 4 (01:20):
It's the DV morning show, So Bill is off for
the rest of the morning and we've got a full house. Nonetheless,
we will have Sean call your live in studio. Nick
Herbig from the Steelers is going to give us a call.
Seven th my favorite.
Speaker 6 (01:34):
Oh yeah, dude, he's been lights out. He's been so good,
lights out. He's from Kawai, which is amazing. He's got
the you've been there, yeah, Oh, I've.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Been to Kawahi. It's amazing. It's smaller than Allegany County.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Really, yeah, it's it's kind.
Speaker 5 (01:49):
Of a crazy place too, because like it kind of
shuts down after like eight o'clock at night.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
It's out of all of the Hawaiian islands.
Speaker 5 (01:57):
And if you think of Hawaii and you think Luau
and you say, you know, yeah, white lotus, Kawhi is
a very small, quiet island and so at eight o'clock
everything kind of shuts down. There's not a big bar scene.
It's way more of a place to go if.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
You it's quiet time.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
What was that guy's name, Cuz or something I cannot
remember rip, whatever his name was.
Speaker 5 (02:26):
It's it's definitely more of a place to go if
you're adventurous and you want to kayak and you want
to hike, but it is uh yeah, way more of
a chill place to be.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
His name Israel. We will go. Well, we have a
willy big show for you. It's so well we willy beg.
That sounds like my Spanish. Oh white folks, that's a
white folks. Oh, white folks.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Think that's funny. Okay, comma wello.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
Also, it's talk to Patrick Burns from the Dormont Street
Music Festival this weekend in Abbey.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Your band is going to be headlining that.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
Saturday night are We're gonna be playing around seven fifteen,
but we're also going to be along with the Hawkeyes
as a co headliner technically, and that is the return
of the Hawkeyes because they haven't been active in a minute.
Broom is also on it. That is Oh god, why
am I blanking?
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Because he aware of the DVE.
Speaker 5 (03:30):
Challenge and Bill is going to be introducing him.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Oh cool. So Bill's going.
Speaker 5 (03:35):
To be there and jumping up on stage. Jeff Taylor's
on stage, Rocket Loves Blue. It'll be a really fun festival.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Awesome, what's going on over there?
Speaker 5 (03:45):
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my god. That was gonna kill me. Pleasant today with
plenty of sunshine. It's going to be a high of
sixty seven. Soundday, sunshine with a mix of clouds, another
day in the high sixties, and then Steelers Sunday, clouds
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with a chance of showers. So it sounds like you
want to bring a rain jacket for the game. It's
going to be high of sixty six. With Akrascher Stadium
set to get thousands of new seats over the next
four years in a multimillion dollar upgrade, the Sports and
Exhibition Authority Board on Thursday agreed to pay over six
million dollars for the first phase of seat replacements, which
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is going to swap out more than twenty two thousand seats.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
This year and next year.
Speaker 5 (04:34):
So most of the current seats are original to the
stadium and apparently in poor condition. I actually haven't noticed this.
I have not either the last couple games that I've
been to. Currently, the seats at Akrascher apparently are coming loose,
detaching from the concrete and rusting.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
Yeah, I mean, how piss would you be if you
spend money on a ticket, you go to the game
and your seat's broken.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
I mean, I'd be very pick curious.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
And I've been in the lower sections, and I've been
in the five hundred levels and I have not noticed this.
So maybe people that have, you know, other seats, have
been like, oh yeah, no, every time I go to the.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Game, it's like ricketty and everything.
Speaker 5 (05:13):
But money to replace the seats in the first phase
comes from surcharges that are tacked on tickets sold for
events at the North Shore Venue, but see replacements come
as the North Store has been seeing a slew of
improvements that are all in anticipation of the twenty twenty
six NFL Draft, which is coming in April.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
A new turf.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
Field outside of Akroscher Stadium will provide a space for
additional programming for the draft and on Steelers game days.
The stadium is also seeing new food options and technology improvements.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
So all stuff that's upcoming here, good deal.
Speaker 7 (05:47):
All right.
Speaker 5 (05:47):
We did not get to talk about this yesterday, but
a scary moment for Gene Simmons. He crashed his SUV
into a parked car in Malibu after losing consciousness while
driving down the pass Civic Coast Highway. The Kiss rocker
crashed his Lincoln Navigator on Tuesday afternoon, and he reportedly
told sheriff deputies that he passed out or fainted behind
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the wheel.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
Wow, that's scary. Any reason as to why he would
have passed out, we don't know. This is the I
don't think he was drunk. I'm saying, Oh, I mean,
he definitely wasn't. He's sober, always been. He famously said
that he's never drank or done drugs. There are other
members of Kiss that have said that he's you maybe
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like had like a drink here and there.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
He's lying laying a little bit.
Speaker 5 (06:37):
But Jean's wife, Shannon is the one who actually talked
to TMZ and said that he passed out and said
that he hates drinking water and that he was dehydrated
and that he maybe had some new medication.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
That he was on.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Jeene, however, released a statement saying that I.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Meant to do it. Yeah, I copyrighted it exactly.
Speaker 5 (07:07):
He just said that he's a bad driver and he
had a fender bender.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
I mean, I would downplay it too if I were him.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
How old is he seventy six?
Speaker 4 (07:16):
Yeah, you know, time to start monitoring him. I mean,
maybe give him less of a killing vehicle. It's like,
once you start passing up by on the wheel, you
shouldn't be able to drive a Lincoln Navigator. You should
have to drive like a big blow up car.
Speaker 5 (07:30):
Yeah, I'm surprised Jeene Simmons doesn't have a driver.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Seems like a guy that would be like Ace.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Yeah, well I wouldn't drive me anywhere.
Speaker 5 (07:42):
ISRAELI probably asked to like drink cough syrup just to
start the car.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
He's got to. I just have to blow in this
first gene. That's what Ace.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Railey's horn sounds like. It's just him laughing and.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Get out of the way. He's got bad I do.
Speaker 5 (08:02):
Assume, like I mean, it does sound like because he
crossed multiple lanes of traffic and park car. I remember
having a psych teacher say like one time, kind of
apropos nothing, or actually I shouldn't say apropos nothing. We
were talking about medications, saying that if you're in a
multi lane situation, like where you have two lanes of
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traffic in any given direction, always be on the outside
most lane, because you wouldn't believe the kind of medications
that people are.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
On that's specifically paranoid. And something tells me your teacher
was on a lot of medications.
Speaker 5 (08:36):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, we're prescribing a lot of well right, yeah,
oh yeah, there's that too.
Speaker 4 (08:41):
Uh what do you think the reaction would be? You know,
we're coming off of this love fest for Ozzy Osbourne
when he passed, Oh, I mean Gene Simmons, what I mean,
I wonder what kind of response it would elicit if
you lose Gene's because I feel like he's got a
bit of a mixed bag legacy wise.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
So what's so wild about Ozzy is that like.
Speaker 5 (09:11):
And even Sharon in certain documentaries has like said as much.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
Is that, like Ozzy would have sex.
Speaker 5 (09:21):
With anything, Yes, but Gene Simmons is more known as
a vocal womanizer.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
Right, which makes me I know he was, but I
also think he exaggerated it for sure. The way they
chose to be filmed for the Decline of Western Civilization, yes,
part three where they are laying in a big bed
with a bunch of models, and that like Paul has
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his shirt off, that is what they have to look
back at that and go, maybe that wasn't the best idea.
Speaker 5 (09:58):
Okay, So again, you know how much I love kiss
I know, and Paul Stanley, especially in decline of Western civilization,
being surrounded by women.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
No, it's just.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
It's just Paul.
Speaker 5 (10:16):
And it starts with like you see Paul, and I
believe the camera zooms out, and the further it zooms out,
there's just more and more women. But that scene is
the gayest thing I have ever seen.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Protest too much.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Oh my god.
Speaker 5 (10:34):
I dated a guy that I remember had a Paul
Stanley's solo record on his nightstand, and it was my
first clue that he was maybe gay because I remember
having this conversation with being.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Listen so to speak, possibly who knows, all right.
Speaker 5 (10:56):
But back he might listen to the show, and I
dare not say, but listen. And the point is is
that my favorite guy's ace and that just like I'm
just gonna let that back stand.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
Yeah, So again proving the point that I was trying
to make this Like, I mean, people will give him
his due, but I feel like he's known as a
businessman and an impresario more than a musician.
Speaker 5 (11:19):
I think so too, And so Now that being said,
I think there are like my favorite Kiss record is Alive,
and I think when you like listen to like if
anybody's ever heard like the early like Wicked Lester stuff
which was Kissed before it was Kiss, Like, there's some
cool stuff on there. But I think they were just
still trying to figure out what they were right, and
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they were pulling a lot of stuff from cooler bands
like Free and maybe like a.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Little like politicossof.
Speaker 5 (11:48):
Yeah, like they were pulling like really even like early
Stone stuff, and so like they had really good influences
that they were pulling from. And then I think they
just maybe after a while, once they got famous, like
kind of didn't know what to do anymore.
Speaker 4 (12:05):
It's like that first Arismith record, It's amazing. First four
or five are amazing actually all the way up to
Rock and a Hard Place.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Yeah, But to.
Speaker 5 (12:12):
Your point, then the business side takes over, and also
the lore of what Kiss was took over, So then
you get Gene Simmons like only knows how to be
what the amalgamation of what Gene Simmons is supposed to
be is. So when ultimately he passes, it's going to
be maybe more. I don't want to say full whole
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Cogan situation, but it's going to be more complicated because
you're going to have people that are going to be like,
what a jerk and like what a terrible stain upon
rock and roll?
Speaker 3 (12:46):
And then there's going to people that are gonna be like, no,
he busted open this entire.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
Like the way they showed a lot of musicians how
to make money. Yeah, maybe not firsthand, but just by example.
But I will say, like Ozzie Gene Simmons benefited greatly
from reality television very much, you know, perception wise.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (13:06):
I actually the Family Jewels show like wasn't terrible, although
I would not say I would waste my time going
back and watching it.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
Yeah, I mean I don't watch any of This is
interesting because he's such an iconic, like classic rock character,
and I just wonder what the perception will be. But anyways, yeah,
I'm glad he's still with us.
Speaker 5 (13:30):
Yes, all right, let's talk about bizarre house rules when
you were growing up here, and maybe there are some
that you rules. Okay, yeah, well maybe don't even think
about like rules so to speak.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
And Shawn Colliers in the studio, so maybe you can
chime in on this as well.
Speaker 5 (13:50):
So think about this, if your parents ever had like
weird rules or things that they suggested in the house,
even the many things you still think about. So people
online started sharing these things about their family. I'll give
you some examples, like no turning on the lights during thunderstorms.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
I've heard people who you know had to abide by that,
but that was definitely not us. Okay, we were told
not to shower during thunderstor it was also.
Speaker 5 (14:13):
Told not to shower during a thunderstorm, like you could
get electrocuted.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Is that true.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
I think that if it were true, you would have
heard about it happening. Ever, because there's a lot of
thunderstorms and people take a lot of showers, that seems
very I don't know.
Speaker 5 (14:29):
Yeah, somebody said we had to drink a huge glass
of milk every morning as a kid because my parents
believed it would make us grow tall.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
I mean, I don't know. No, we didn't have to
do that, but maybe there's some logic to that. I
feel like we're very anti milk these days, so who knows.
I feel like I was growing up at the absolute
nature of healthy dining. I remember a lot of eggo
waffles and microwaveable breakfast burritos. And you know, not that
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my parents did not care about nutrition, it's that it
was nineteen ninety two and that was nobody cared about me.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Right fast breakfast?
Speaker 3 (15:08):
I used did you have the like oatmeal packs?
Speaker 5 (15:10):
Oh yeah, like rip them open water, microwave And then
like there was like a weird phase where like for kids,
they were trying to make oatmeal cool, and then they
came with like jelly packs.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Oh yeah, you'd swirl in the green or the purple. Yah. Yeah,
Oh hey, we had green ketchup. That's true. What the
hell make it green? Maybe they'll like it.
Speaker 6 (15:32):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (15:33):
Somebody said the curtains had to be open first thing
in the morning so the neighbors wouldn't think we slept in.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
That's hilarious.
Speaker 4 (15:40):
I mean, I think a lot of parents are worried
about the perception of the you know, Joneses around them,
But yeah, we definitely were not that.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
You're the Joneses.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
Yeah, let's see, these are the Griswolds to everybody else's,
you know, Julie Louis Dreyfus and her husband, you know
what I mean, Like we annoyed the piss had everyone
or our neighbor because there was just it was like
we were just so many people.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
It was we were too many.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
There was just too many.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Yeah, it was a grandmother of parents and six kids.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
You know.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
It was a long right.
Speaker 5 (16:13):
Somebody said I had to bring home the plastic sandwich
bags from my school lunch to be used again the
next day.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
We had to wash them and then dry them over.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
We did not have to do that, but I know
people who did.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
We did this. Yeah, yeah, we always did this.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
No, I don't remember that.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
No, I don't know why we did. I don't think
we were strapped for the cash. I think we were
just en conscious. I don't think we were that either.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
The only the only thing that comes to mind is,
and this is less a house rule and more just
my own lack of coordination. On some occasion, I once
fell directly onto my head playing kickball. As I recall,
I kinda I kind of overswung and planted on the
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ball and just did a hole. All right, you flipped,
But how does that have to do? After that, I
had to wear a helmet to play kickball. Oh No,
The house rule was, if you're going to go play kickball.
You're going to go get your bike helmet and then
you're allowed to play kickball. So the kids would start
playing and I'd be like, I have to run home
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and get my helmet. I would never play kickball again.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
I think. I think I did once and I thought
this is just not worth it. Yea, it makes sense.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
So like that Sean turned out the way that he did.
Speaker 8 (17:37):
It at once. That's definitely true. And I want to
know what you mean, you don't. We all know what
you mean, and we want to know what you mean.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
That's so funny. Yeah, that explains so much, Sean.
Speaker 5 (17:53):
My mom prevented me from play the helmet off in here, Sean,
don't anything could happen step wrong, and then I'm on
my head. My mom would not let me play any
organized sport. Oh well, because she kept saying, you have asthma.
And so then I learned to do other things. And
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look where it landed me. Yeah, and I'm like, great,
I'll learn a lot about kids, you know, And so
that that's what I'm saying, Sean. I'm like, great, I'll
just learn how to do other things.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
Our rules were basically, do you have to do everything?
That was the like you have to do your own laundry,
you have to make your own lunch, you have to
It was like we just did everything. I don't remember
a time. I know there was a time when I
didn't do that stuff, but like it precedes memory for me. Sure,
it was always like self sufficiency was the only rules.
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Like you made a mess, you got to do those
dishes you did. You know, whatever you're responsible for, Like
mess wise, you have to clean up, that's excellent. You
have to get yourself up for school, and you know,
if the parents have to come in and wake you up,
you're in trouble.
Speaker 5 (19:03):
I love that, though I'm trying to undo like my
propensity for fixing everything with my kid. Like you know,
I know when we have a luckily to have like
a nanny now in the morning, but I've told the nanny,
I'm like, she knows how to make her lunch.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
She knows how to make a turkey sandwich.
Speaker 5 (19:19):
There is a drawer where all of the things that
go in her lunch exist.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
She knows how to do it. Don't do it for her.
Speaker 4 (19:26):
Yeah, oh, my dad would be sitting there eating ice cream,
watching TV going don't forget to make your lunches.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Don't you're gonna be hungry at school tomorrow, you know,
one of those things, and then you'd be like, what's
in the first how do I reheat didnty more beef
stew at school?
Speaker 4 (19:40):
When we come back, Mike Pursued will join us as
we talked to Nick Herbig from the Pittsburgh Steelers. Getting
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Speaker 2 (20:43):
What I don't love.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
Is the way that Steelers fans always underestimate the Browns.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
It drives me up the wall. It happens all the time.
Speaker 4 (20:51):
Steelers fans used to goa Baker Mayfield stinks because he
wore orange and white. You know, it's like, not everything
up their stinks flattering. Look, well, maybe it is the
color scheme. Ma me get a logo at least on
one side of the helmet. Okay, that might be part
of it. But one person I know who's not overlooking
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them joining us right now from Pittsburgh Steelers outside linebacker
Nick Herbig.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
What's up, man?
Speaker 7 (21:18):
How are you did?
Speaker 4 (21:21):
I don't know if you heard what I was saying
there before we brought you on the air about Steelers
fans have this propensity to underestimate the Browns, and they go, oh,
they're the Browns. You know, it's the Browns. We're gonna
kill them. You know, Dylan Gabriel's only in his second game.
This is going to be a joke. They're traded away Flaco,
and so this perception is it's this organization and flex
but the reality is you guys and Cleveland both just
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played the Vikings to the whistle basically to decide the winner.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
You know what I mean, it could have gone either
way there when.
Speaker 4 (21:51):
When you had both games, Uh, you know, I see
it as more evenly matching an AFC North slobber knocker
coming up here on how do you guys keep from
having that mindset? I know your professionals and you're like, well,
we're not idiot fans, but like because we're fanatic, you know,
and so logic and rationale aren't our strong suit. But
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that can't possibly be the way that you guys approach this, right.
Speaker 7 (22:19):
Yeah, I mean, you know, at the end of the day,
like you know, it's professional football, and anything could happen,
like on any given day, any given Sunday, there's gonna
be a better team than you out there. So you
just have to show up every day, you know, like
the day's leading up like Monday all the way to Saturday,
like all those days in between. You have to make
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sure you're putting in the work at the time, I'm
getting everything right for Sunday so you can go out
and perform.
Speaker 9 (22:44):
Nick, you're obviously on a heater here lately, and I
talked to TJ. Watt about you a little bit yesterday
and he said, one of the things he's most proud
about is you're staying humble.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
How do you turn into Lawrence Taylor and stay humble?
Speaker 4 (23:01):
Man?
Speaker 7 (23:01):
I think that just you know, I see like TJ
and Alex and the way they went about business, you know,
and the level of success they both had, and being
able to keep their composure of being able to stay humble.
You know, that's been really inspirational to me. And I
think growing up like my grand my grandfather always told
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me to be humble and walk with God. So that's
always stuck with me wherever I went. I've always tried
to stay humble and walk with God.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
The perception of your abilities in Alex Heismith when you
stepped in for him on his injury, was that, well,
Nick's a great pass rusher, Alex is a little more
adept at stopping the run. But now you've kind of
come full circle and you're a guy who can do
it all. Did it was run stopping something you specifically
worked on?
Speaker 2 (23:50):
And how did you do that exactly?
Speaker 4 (23:54):
You know?
Speaker 7 (23:54):
I think that over time, you know, you just know
that you're going to have to develop certain parts of
your game that people are gonna nit pick, especially for
me because I'm a smaller dude. So that was my
stigma coming out. Like everyone wanted me to play inside
linebackers to begin with, so they all thought I was
too small to be on the edge anyway. So you know,
I just always had that stigma around me. So just
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working on that, talking to older guys, seeing how they
play the run, hot, what they do to approach that business.
You know, it's helped me.
Speaker 9 (24:26):
Now it looks like Galax is coming back. So what
are we going to see? How do we work three
guys into two spots or do the Steelers work three
guys into three spots? We're going to see that three
outside linebacker package Sunday.
Speaker 7 (24:39):
Yeah, I'd love to tell you, but I can't give
you all the sauce man y'all gonna have.
Speaker 9 (24:44):
But there are there are snaps for everybody, right, I mean,
you can't have enough.
Speaker 7 (24:47):
As Yeah, no, no doubt, no doubt, no doubt.
Speaker 4 (24:51):
I mentioned it was Dylan Gabriel's second game as starting quarterback.
Just you know there's an advantage to that for the Steelers.
In his inexperience. But is there a disadvantage in the
unknown to not having a lot of tape on a
guy like that.
Speaker 7 (25:07):
Yeah, especially with a young minded quarterback that has something
to prove, you know, especially in our division. It's a
tough division, so there's always going to be stuff that
is going on that you know, we kind of haven't
seen it on tape at all. He really might have
one game to go off of, so that's that's that.
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But you know, we're going to show up and do
our best on Sunday.
Speaker 9 (25:31):
I guess so fre'st anybody that's not gonna underestimate the
small guy, it would be you.
Speaker 7 (25:35):
Right, Yeah, yeah, I'm I never underst me a small.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
Dudes, are you?
Speaker 4 (25:42):
Are you starting to feel the love around Pittsburgh now?
You're noticing that everybody is like, you know, they used
to say the backup quarterback was the most popular guy
in Pittsburgh. Right now about the backup outside linebacker is
a guy that everybody's talking about you hearing it in
Giant Eagle.
Speaker 7 (25:58):
I mean, man, I just think down and keep working.
You know, I still got a lot more to do.
I still feel like I haven't really done much yet,
you know, I'm trying to win a Super Bowl, So
whatever that takes, you know, whatever that entails, I'm here
for it.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
Nick.
Speaker 9 (26:13):
Nick, I don't want to threaten your humility, but the
story when you first got here and we talked about
how you were in contact with TJ Watt before you
even got drafted, and he was giving you pass rush
tips and you guys were exchanging thoughts on past rushing
and things of that nature because.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
He was helping his fellow Badger.
Speaker 7 (26:32):
Yes, uh yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
Was your goal at the time to get in the
NFL or to be great?
Speaker 7 (26:42):
I think just to be great in general. You know,
I always dreamed about being in the NFL.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
One day.
Speaker 7 (26:49):
And while I was in college, and TJ talked to
the our outside linebacker groom, and he was like, you know,
hit me UPI y'all had any questions oring on? So
I was like that, I'm gonna hit him up. So
hit him up, and we bounced ideas off each other,
and you know, just to see the way that relationship
has grown and developed into what it is today is
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truly a blessing. I mean, I'm so thankful that he
was such a stand up dude, Like he's not just
like he's a huge superstar and a list celebrity, whatever
you want to call him. And the fact that he
went out of his way to take some time to
give back and show me and teach me some stuff. Man,
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it's just truly a blessing.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
I guess he knows what he's talking about.
Speaker 7 (27:33):
Huh, Yeah, I guess so. I guess we could say
that one hundred and twelve sacks or anything.
Speaker 9 (27:41):
But you guys kind of play this similar game in
that he's not just overpowering physically. He does it with
technique and with preparation and study. It really takes more
than just ability, doesn't it.
Speaker 7 (27:53):
Oh one thousand percent? And I think that's something I
admire about him. The way that he puts in works
like day in and day out, a lot of stuff
that you don't see on Sunday, you know, Like I said,
the days in between Monday through Saturday, like what are
you doing to prepare yourself for game day? And the
way he approaches that business is second to none.
Speaker 4 (28:13):
You said you were here to win Super Bowl Like
that is music the Steeler fansiers, and I would imagine
that your understanding of the expectations here in Steeler nation
and just the vastness of Steeler nations has only grown
since you've been here in Pittsburgh. How did Ireland in
that experience with the international fans of Steeler InterNations coming together,
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how did that even inform you further as to how
big this expectation of greatness is.
Speaker 7 (28:46):
Yeah, I mean it's crazy, dude, Like we really do
have the best fans in the world. And that's truly
like the whole world. Like, yeah, Stealer fans are coming
from everywhere. Man, it's crazy to see all the love
and support we get. You knowing you walk in the
building and you see those six Super Bowl trophies there
and seeing the standard is the standard? You know that,
(29:07):
That's all you can think about, is like we need
to get.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Back to that.
Speaker 7 (29:10):
We need to go get one for this city.
Speaker 4 (29:12):
Well, Nick Herbig, you've definitely lived up to the next
man up he Nick, no question about that. Steelers Browns
one o'clock Sunday, Atroshuer Stadium. Nick Herbig from the Steelers, Nick,
thanks so much for making time for us this morning.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
Go get him on Sunday.
Speaker 7 (29:25):
Thank y'all, Thank y'all. Have a good day, okay, man.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
We'll see him.
Speaker 4 (29:28):
I mean, you know, we've had Nick on before and
he always is like awesome. It gets me super fired
up for the game.
Speaker 9 (29:36):
Yeah, just just a good Guy's brother was the same
way when he was here. Just a humble, hard working,
you know, shoulder to the wheel, knows to the grindstone,
old school, let's get it done kind of approach.
Speaker 4 (29:48):
You were at the facility yesterday for the coordinators talking.
I was all right, we'll talk a little bit about
that when we come back.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
Abby. You'll have your news at the top of the hour.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
I don't know what we're going to talk about. By
some horror movies because Shawn's here.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
Yeah, yeah, a good deal.
Speaker 4 (30:01):
Also, we'll talk about this weekend's Dormont Street and Music Festival.
Abbey's been Tiny Wars is one of the headliners. Chat
Benson in a virtual cove host today. He's got a
big gig this weekend too with Paul Luke.
Speaker 10 (30:10):
The Black and Gold Faith will always travel well to
see the team on the road, and now Calliente.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
And DV give you a chance to be bridge road appliance.
Speaker 9 (30:24):
Just to put a cap on our Nick Herbert conversation.
Thanks to him for calling in. He's the best, really
good interview there last two games, two and a half sacks,
seven quarterback hits, a forced fumble, and constant pressure and
what he did to Minnesota and specifically Christian Darrisa is
one of the best tackles in the game. That was
a one sided matchup in Herbig's favorite. I mean, this
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kid has arrived. And Terrell Austin, the defense coordinator, talked
yesterday and he emphasized he's going to be on the field.
I don't know if it's maybe, you know, ten less
reps here, ten less reps there, maybe the East high
Smith back because he hasn't played in w but Harvic's
not going to go away just because Highsmith's healthy.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
He is an Aaron Smith, a Brett Keizel, a TJ.
Speaker 4 (31:06):
Watt And in that by that, I mean he's a
guy who's jersey you can buy, yeah, and you never
have to worry about that jersey being a bad purchase.
This is high character guy, high performance guy, the kind
of guy you love wearing black and gold.
Speaker 9 (31:23):
I also think we're going to see three outside linebackers
on the field at the same time, although, as Matt
Williamson pointed out on the preview last night. That's not
a staple type defense. That's seven to ten snaps a
game in a specialty spot type of thing. But they'll
figure it out. By the way, I think seven too
many good players is not.
Speaker 4 (31:41):
Approp I'm just gonna say I think high Smith is
that guy.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
Also, like I think high Smith's a great player.
Speaker 4 (31:45):
A lot of people think, like, you know, oh, he
doesn't have ten sacks, he's terrible.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
I don't think that at all. Good.
Speaker 9 (31:52):
And you need edge rushers. You cannot run out of
edge rushers.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
TJ.
Speaker 9 (31:56):
Wat could be gone in a second quarter Sunday and
injuries happen like all this old Well, they should trade
this guy because they could get that. No, no, no, no, no,
they're good. They don't make a strength of weakness.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
Everybody wants to trade firemouth. Everybody wants to trade fir. Yeah.
I wouldn't do that either, but we shall see.
Speaker 9 (32:14):
Of course, to the leader of the packet outside linebacker
is TJ. Watt And it's the Steelers Browns on Sunday.
So of course it's what against Miles Garrett, Right, they
don't they're not on They both play defense. But even
if you see those graphics the networks are using to
promote the game. It's not the cornerbacks, it's what Garrett,
It's not Rogers and whoever the Browns guy is this week, TJ.
(32:37):
Both these guys came in the NFL in twenty seventeen.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
TJ.
Speaker 9 (32:41):
Watt has one hundred and eleven sacks since then. Miles
Garrett has one hundred and six and a half. Nobody
else has more than eighty five. They're just they are
head and shoulders above. Whether you think Wat's better or
Garrett's better. I personally think Wat's better because I think
he's a little more versatile. But Miles Garrett's a monster.
I mean, this guy's a great, great player. Wats a
great great player. So of course this game is about
(33:02):
what against Garrett? Right, Well, unless you happen to be
t J.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
Watt.
Speaker 9 (33:07):
I know you don't play against Garrett, But do you
look in these games where maybe the guy between you
two that's more impactful, that team's gonna win.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
No trying to win the game anyway possible.
Speaker 9 (33:19):
Yeah, do you like playing these kind of games when
there's a guy like the divisional games?
Speaker 2 (33:23):
Of course I don't want to talk much about him. Dude,
I mean we've done this many many times. I don't
see the point I continue to do it sometimes.
Speaker 4 (33:33):
It actually surprised you went there with that got I mean,
he can deny it only once. The most impactful guy
between TJ. Watt and Miles Garrett is gonna win this game.
Speaker 9 (33:43):
His team's going to win the game because the impactful
will be something that wrecks the game. And if they
both get blocked by three guys, then it's going to
have to be decided some other way. I mean, both
offense is their number one goal is going to be
to stop that guy, right, So if they both pull
that off, then I mean, I'll be decided a different way.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
But if one of those.
Speaker 9 (34:04):
Guys goes out there and gets three sacks on a
forced fumble, his team's gonna win.
Speaker 4 (34:08):
When we talked to Missy Matthews yesterday, that was the
first question to ask for what's your number one priority?
Speaker 2 (34:12):
If you're Mike Tomlin, stop Miles Garrett.
Speaker 9 (34:15):
Yeah, and he is all that, like, let's you know,
hate him because he plays for the Browns.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
Give him his duke.
Speaker 4 (34:20):
These fans love to think if you wear a Browns jersey,
you stink. I do not get that at all. Like
this is a much more evenly matched up AFC North
game than most people are giving it credit for.
Speaker 9 (34:33):
Yeah, I'm not looking at one and four against three
and one. I'm looking at both teams. Just got done
playing the Vikings in Europe, and one of them got
a defensive stop in the last minute and won the game,
and one of them didn't and lost the game, same opponent, basically,
same kind of venue, same set of circumstances, the same
time of the season.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
Yeah, that's how close this is. Yeah, and the Vikings
had a whole week to get acclimated. If anything, they
should have blown out the Browns.
Speaker 9 (34:58):
Yeah. So, so buckle up at C the AFC North.
It's a rivalry game.
Speaker 4 (35:04):
I mean, they had a lot of injuries though, I
mean they're they're a pretty bang up team. Everybody's got
injury right now.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
Well, Baltimore and Minnesota are the exception.
Speaker 4 (35:11):
The Baltimore was giving up forty a game when it
was healthy. I'm not buying that, Lamar, I think is
the big difference there.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
That's why they're not scoring forty. Yes, then why did
they quit? I don't know. Man.
Speaker 4 (35:25):
It does make me wonder though, if they will be
poised for the second half comeback. You know the fact
that they don't have to play the Stealers until December,
and then they played them twice in short order.
Speaker 2 (35:37):
I thought they really has made this schedule interesting.
Speaker 9 (35:39):
I thought they would be poised for a second half comeback.
I got a lot of respect for that organization and
how it does its business and what it's accomplished over
the last couple Say but no, I mean, yeah, I
bet on them if they'd have lost seventeen thirteen. Okay,
you know, still not there yet. Yeah, getting blown out
at home and showing zero given f that's there's some
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red flags waving over mteen Banks Stadium.
Speaker 2 (36:04):
I will say Texans are better than people are giving them.
Speaker 9 (36:05):
But they're not a juggernaut. They're not great. Their offense stinks.
At least it had.
Speaker 2 (36:14):
Sunday.
Speaker 9 (36:15):
The injury stuff for the Steelers yesterday, No Ramsey, no
Calvin Austin is the significant developments. Cleveland looks like it's okay,
So we'll see what we shall see Steelers and Browns
on Sunday. About the new football Giants knocking off Philly
last night, thirty four seventeen.
Speaker 4 (36:37):
There are two people playing for the Giants right now
that I'm wondering if they shouldn't be wearing black and golds.
Speaker 9 (36:42):
Might be talking about quarterback Jackson Dart who went seventeen
for twenty five for a buck ninety five, one touchdown,
no picks, passer rating of one hundred and four point six.
Or you might be talking about or also talking about
running back Cam Scatabow nineteen carries for ninety eight yards,
three rushing touchdowns.
Speaker 4 (37:01):
How did we not take him instead of Caleb?
Speaker 9 (37:05):
And the Philly offense is reduced to running the Tousch
push four times in a row to get an occasional touchdown.
Speaker 4 (37:11):
That honestly should have been last night. The four times
in a row, they should eliminate it today.
Speaker 2 (37:18):
It's garbage. Yeah, not to imagine they jump off side
every second time. Yeah.
Speaker 9 (37:22):
Penguins meet the Islanders four to three in the home
opener last night. They're two and zero. First goals of
the season for Ricard, Raquel, Harrison, Bruneck dude teenage defense
would gets his first, Sidney Crosby his first, and Justin
Brezo gets his third.
Speaker 2 (37:38):
Another one, man, I'll tell you what. The game winner.
Speaker 4 (37:40):
By the way, Gino Machino leading the league in points
right now right two games in pretty good stuff.
Speaker 2 (37:46):
Season ended. Now he's your.
Speaker 9 (37:49):
Damn you started Tristan Jari in net. I get that
because you don't want to have him sit forever at
the start of the season. But I would assume they
go back to our tours. I didn't see lobs for
the Ranger game Saturday night. I didn't can see any
of it. I didn't either, I was kind of locked
into a computer all night with something. But did Tristan
Jarry look serviceable?
Speaker 2 (38:10):
I don't know.
Speaker 9 (38:11):
I didn't watch it either. It's a second hockey game
of the year. Just playoff baseball and football.
Speaker 2 (38:20):
Let's talk.
Speaker 4 (38:21):
Let's just quickly talk baseball, because the way the Phillies lost,
my heart breaks for that.
Speaker 2 (38:27):
Dude. Oh sure, does how about this?
Speaker 9 (38:30):
Philly lost in baseball season over football on national TV
and hockey?
Speaker 3 (38:36):
Bad night to be drywall in Philadelphia.
Speaker 9 (38:39):
By the way, there's a lot of Penn State fans
in Philly too. They're probably a little hurt still.
Speaker 4 (38:47):
I mean, this play by play is one of the
just most heartbreaking things I've ever heard.
Speaker 2 (38:54):
No balls and a strike has breaks his back. Kirk
kring gotta fight it throws.
Speaker 4 (39:00):
To the play.
Speaker 2 (39:01):
Oh my goodness, it turns it away. I'm the Dodgers,
have run the Dodgers. I don't care that it's the Phillies. Like, okay,
I'm moving on. Just I don't know why that. I
feel so bad for charactering on that one.
Speaker 1 (39:20):
Man.
Speaker 4 (39:22):
I get it, I get the instinct. He's looking right
at a play at the plate. But you gotta know,
turn to first, easy out, force out, inning over.
Speaker 2 (39:36):
Yeah, you know.
Speaker 4 (39:38):
The situational baseball pitchers throwing the ball other than pitching, it.
Speaker 2 (39:44):
Is often a problem. It's an adventure.
Speaker 4 (39:47):
I don't know why that is, but it's been that
way forever. Well, it's you know, the chuck n a
block thing. Sometimes it gets into your head and then
you're you're kind of screwed. But yeah, it hasn't been
making defensive plays and.
Speaker 9 (39:59):
Trying to start at the play. It second and they
throw it in the center field or whatever.
Speaker 2 (40:02):
I mean.
Speaker 4 (40:03):
Infielders do it too once you get in out of
a lot, but it's because it gets them out of
the routine. Look what Goldsmith did the other night. I
mean he almost threw the ball over the second basement's head.
He had a double play and barely got one out there,
didn't mount of the Blue Jays ended up winning. But
I think anytime you get a guy out of his routine,
out of the rhythm, that it's an adventure. Pitchers very
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rarely have to make those kinds of defensive plays, and
I think that's why that is.
Speaker 9 (40:27):
You know, Dodgers win that game two to one and eleven,
and they win the series and four Cup stayed off
elimination again against the Brewers six nothing. That goes back
to Milwaukee for a game five. And if you like baseball,
tonight Game five Detroit at Seattle, Tarrek Scoobel against George Kirby.
Speaker 2 (40:44):
Where are you going on that? I'm just gonna watch
the beautiful pitching.
Speaker 9 (40:48):
My inclination is to back schoobl But Kirby's really good
and he's home, and who knows, some bright manager might
take a guy out after eighty one pitches when it
because he's already.
Speaker 2 (40:59):
Stuck out eleven.
Speaker 4 (41:00):
Want to be a little more democratic glass now and
throw some ground balls?
Speaker 2 (41:05):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (41:05):
I put a lot of stock in the team of
destiny thing when it comes to baseball playoffs.
Speaker 2 (41:10):
I don't know why none. I've watched it happen too
many times.
Speaker 9 (41:13):
I put my stock in pitching arms, but now I
can't trust how long they're going to pitch.
Speaker 2 (41:17):
So well, just though, Abby's got your news when we
come back.
Speaker 5 (41:20):
If you've been paying attention to the rubber duck mystery
in Cannonsburg that has been solved, and Paul Sken's bringing
the comforts of the ballfield to his.
Speaker 4 (41:28):
Home, We're doing the Smalls Waltz. This might be the
last time we do it. I don't want to say ever,
but we might take a break for a while. But
if you've not seen it, we sold out every one
of these shows and they are great. If you love
the Last Waltz, do not miss this Pittsburgh all star
studded tribute to one of the greatest concerts ever filmed.
Speaker 10 (41:48):
DV presents The Smalls Waltz Saturday, November twenty second at
Mister Smalls Theater at eight pm. Randy Bauman's Ramble Band
celebrates the music of the band's iconic concert film, The
Last One, featuring Joe Grischecky, Clinton Clay Mally, Alphabet, Paul Luke,
Jen Wurtz, Phil Dasy, Liz Berlin, John Binley, Bill Thoms,
Rob James, Mike Minda, the Full Ramble Horns.
Speaker 1 (42:10):
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Speaker 10 (42:11):
Don't miss this Thanksgiving tradition as Randy Bauman's Ramble Band
performs the full soundtrack of the band's film.
Speaker 2 (42:18):
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Speaker 10 (42:19):
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Food Bank. Tickets for The Smalls Waltz available at the
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Speaker 2 (42:29):
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Speaker 2 (00:04):
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Speaker 3 (00:13):
I do love apps.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
I just don't like the apps that like. I don't
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but I like it. I like a fried zuke though,
Like a fried zuke is a.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
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Speaker 2 (00:24):
Though. Do you like a lemon? Do you like the
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sometimes they do? The tiny zukes? You know what I mean?
Get the baby? You want the big like them? You
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I'll have the zucchini flaps. Yep.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
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Speaker 5 (00:55):
Flaps?
Speaker 2 (00:57):
It does sound like I don't like it when you
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Speaker 4 (01:00):
Call yeah, he sugar flaps, Hey, zucchini flips?
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Speaker 4 (01:10):
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Speaker 2 (01:15):
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Speaker 4 (01:20):
It's the DV morning show, So Bill is off for
the rest of the morning and we've got a full house. Nonetheless,
we will have Sean call your live in studio. Nick
Herbig from the Steelers is going to give us a call.
Seven th my favorite.
Speaker 6 (01:34):
Oh yeah, dude, he's been lights out. He's been so good,
lights out. He's from Kawai, which is amazing. He's got
the you've been there, yeah, Oh, I've.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Been to Kawahi. It's amazing. It's smaller than Allegany County.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Really, yeah, it's it's kind.
Speaker 5 (01:49):
Of a crazy place too, because like it kind of
shuts down after like eight o'clock at night.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
It's out of all of the Hawaiian islands.
Speaker 5 (01:57):
And if you think of Hawaii and you think Luau
and you say, you know, yeah, white lotus, Kawhi is
a very small, quiet island and so at eight o'clock
everything kind of shuts down. There's not a big bar scene.
It's way more of a place to go if.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
You it's quiet time.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
What was that guy's name, Cuz or something I cannot
remember rip, whatever his name was.
Speaker 5 (02:26):
It's it's definitely more of a place to go if
you're adventurous and you want to kayak and you want
to hike, but it is uh yeah, way more of
a chill place to be.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
His name Israel. We will go. Well, we have a
willy big show for you. It's so well we willy beg.
That sounds like my Spanish. Oh white folks, that's a
white folks. Oh, white folks.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Think that's funny. Okay, comma wello.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
Also, it's talk to Patrick Burns from the Dormont Street
Music Festival this weekend in Abbey.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Your band is going to be headlining that.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
Saturday night are We're gonna be playing around seven fifteen,
but we're also going to be along with the Hawkeyes
as a co headliner technically, and that is the return
of the Hawkeyes because they haven't been active in a minute.
Broom is also on it. That is Oh god, why
am I blanking?
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Because he aware of the DVE.
Speaker 5 (03:30):
Challenge and Bill is going to be introducing him.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Oh cool. So Bill's going.
Speaker 5 (03:35):
To be there and jumping up on stage. Jeff Taylor's
on stage, Rocket Loves Blue. It'll be a really fun festival.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Awesome, what's going on over there?
Speaker 5 (03:45):
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plenty of sunshine. It's going to be a high of
sixty seven. Soundday, sunshine with a mix of clouds, another
day in the high sixties, and then Steelers Sunday, clouds
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with a chance of showers. So it sounds like you
want to bring a rain jacket for the game. It's
going to be high of sixty six. With Akrascher Stadium
set to get thousands of new seats over the next
four years in a multimillion dollar upgrade, the Sports and
Exhibition Authority Board on Thursday agreed to pay over six
million dollars for the first phase of seat replacements, which
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is going to swap out more than twenty two thousand seats.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
This year and next year.
Speaker 5 (04:34):
So most of the current seats are original to the
stadium and apparently in poor condition. I actually haven't noticed this.
I have not either the last couple games that I've
been to. Currently, the seats at Akrascher apparently are coming loose,
detaching from the concrete and rusting.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
Yeah, I mean, how piss would you be if you
spend money on a ticket, you go to the game
and your seat's broken.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
I mean, I'd be very pick curious.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
And I've been in the lower sections, and I've been
in the five hundred levels and I have not noticed this.
So maybe people that have, you know, other seats, have
been like, oh yeah, no, every time I go to the.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Game, it's like ricketty and everything.
Speaker 5 (05:13):
But money to replace the seats in the first phase
comes from surcharges that are tacked on tickets sold for
events at the North Shore Venue, but see replacements come
as the North Store has been seeing a slew of
improvements that are all in anticipation of the twenty twenty
six NFL Draft, which is coming in April.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
A new turf.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
Field outside of Akroscher Stadium will provide a space for
additional programming for the draft and on Steelers game days.
The stadium is also seeing new food options and technology improvements.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
So all stuff that's upcoming here, good deal.
Speaker 7 (05:47):
All right.
Speaker 5 (05:47):
We did not get to talk about this yesterday, but
a scary moment for Gene Simmons. He crashed his SUV
into a parked car in Malibu after losing consciousness while
driving down the pass Civic Coast Highway. The Kiss rocker
crashed his Lincoln Navigator on Tuesday afternoon, and he reportedly
told sheriff deputies that he passed out or fainted behind
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the wheel.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
Wow, that's scary. Any reason as to why he would
have passed out, we don't know. This is the I
don't think he was drunk. I'm saying, Oh, I mean,
he definitely wasn't. He's sober, always been. He famously said
that he's never drank or done drugs. There are other
members of Kiss that have said that he's you maybe
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like had like a drink here and there.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
He's lying laying a little bit.
Speaker 5 (06:37):
But Jean's wife, Shannon is the one who actually talked
to TMZ and said that he passed out and said
that he hates drinking water and that he was dehydrated
and that he maybe had some new medication.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
That he was on.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Jeene, however, released a statement saying that I.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Meant to do it. Yeah, I copyrighted it exactly.
Speaker 5 (07:07):
He just said that he's a bad driver and he
had a fender bender.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
I mean, I would downplay it too if I were him.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
How old is he seventy six?
Speaker 4 (07:16):
Yeah, you know, time to start monitoring him. I mean,
maybe give him less of a killing vehicle. It's like,
once you start passing up by on the wheel, you
shouldn't be able to drive a Lincoln Navigator. You should
have to drive like a big blow up car.
Speaker 5 (07:30):
Yeah, I'm surprised Jeene Simmons doesn't have a driver.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Seems like a guy that would be like Ace.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Yeah, well I wouldn't drive me anywhere.
Speaker 5 (07:42):
ISRAELI probably asked to like drink cough syrup just to
start the car.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
He's got to. I just have to blow in this
first gene. That's what Ace.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Railey's horn sounds like. It's just him laughing and.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Get out of the way. He's got bad I do.
Speaker 5 (08:02):
Assume, like I mean, it does sound like because he
crossed multiple lanes of traffic and park car. I remember
having a psych teacher say like one time, kind of
apropos nothing, or actually I shouldn't say apropos nothing. We
were talking about medications, saying that if you're in a
multi lane situation, like where you have two lanes of
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traffic in any given direction, always be on the outside
most lane, because you wouldn't believe the kind of medications
that people are.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
On that's specifically paranoid. And something tells me your teacher
was on a lot of medications.
Speaker 5 (08:36):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, we're prescribing a lot of well right, yeah,
oh yeah, there's that too.
Speaker 4 (08:41):
Uh what do you think the reaction would be? You know,
we're coming off of this love fest for Ozzy Osbourne
when he passed, Oh, I mean Gene Simmons, what I mean,
I wonder what kind of response it would elicit if
you lose Gene's because I feel like he's got a
bit of a mixed bag legacy wise.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
So what's so wild about Ozzy is that like.
Speaker 5 (09:11):
And even Sharon in certain documentaries has like said as much.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
Is that, like Ozzy would have sex.
Speaker 5 (09:21):
With anything, Yes, but Gene Simmons is more known as
a vocal womanizer.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
Right, which makes me I know he was, but I
also think he exaggerated it for sure. The way they
chose to be filmed for the Decline of Western Civilization, yes,
part three where they are laying in a big bed
with a bunch of models, and that like Paul has
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his shirt off, that is what they have to look
back at that and go, maybe that wasn't the best idea.
Speaker 5 (09:58):
Okay, So again, you know how much I love kiss
I know, and Paul Stanley, especially in decline of Western civilization,
being surrounded by women.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
No, it's just.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
It's just Paul.
Speaker 5 (10:16):
And it starts with like you see Paul, and I
believe the camera zooms out, and the further it zooms out,
there's just more and more women. But that scene is
the gayest thing I have ever seen.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Protest too much.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Oh my god.
Speaker 5 (10:34):
I dated a guy that I remember had a Paul
Stanley's solo record on his nightstand, and it was my
first clue that he was maybe gay because I remember
having this conversation with being.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Listen so to speak, possibly who knows, all right.
Speaker 5 (10:56):
But back he might listen to the show, and I
dare not say, but listen. And the point is is
that my favorite guy's ace and that just like I'm
just gonna let that back stand.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
Yeah, So again proving the point that I was trying
to make this Like, I mean, people will give him
his due, but I feel like he's known as a
businessman and an impresario more than a musician.
Speaker 5 (11:19):
I think so too, And so Now that being said,
I think there are like my favorite Kiss record is Alive,
and I think when you like listen to like if
anybody's ever heard like the early like Wicked Lester stuff
which was Kissed before it was Kiss, Like, there's some
cool stuff on there. But I think they were just
still trying to figure out what they were right, and
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they were pulling a lot of stuff from cooler bands
like Free and maybe like a.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Little like politicossof.
Speaker 5 (11:48):
Yeah, like they were pulling like really even like early
Stone stuff, and so like they had really good influences
that they were pulling from. And then I think they
just maybe after a while, once they got famous, like
kind of didn't know what to do anymore.
Speaker 4 (12:05):
It's like that first Arismith record, It's amazing. First four
or five are amazing actually all the way up to
Rock and a Hard Place.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Yeah, But to.
Speaker 5 (12:12):
Your point, then the business side takes over, and also
the lore of what Kiss was took over, So then
you get Gene Simmons like only knows how to be
what the amalgamation of what Gene Simmons is supposed to
be is. So when ultimately he passes, it's going to
be maybe more. I don't want to say full whole
(12:36):
Cogan situation, but it's going to be more complicated because
you're going to have people that are going to be like,
what a jerk and like what a terrible stain upon
rock and roll?
Speaker 3 (12:46):
And then there's going to people that are gonna be like, no,
he busted open this entire.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
Like the way they showed a lot of musicians how
to make money. Yeah, maybe not firsthand, but just by example.
But I will say, like Ozzie Gene Simmons benefited greatly
from reality television very much, you know, perception wise.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (13:06):
I actually the Family Jewels show like wasn't terrible, although
I would not say I would waste my time going
back and watching it.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
Yeah, I mean I don't watch any of This is
interesting because he's such an iconic, like classic rock character,
and I just wonder what the perception will be. But anyways, yeah,
I'm glad he's still with us.
Speaker 5 (13:30):
Yes, all right, let's talk about bizarre house rules when
you were growing up here, and maybe there are some
that you rules. Okay, yeah, well maybe don't even think
about like rules so to speak.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
And Shawn Colliers in the studio, so maybe you can
chime in on this as well.
Speaker 5 (13:50):
So think about this, if your parents ever had like
weird rules or things that they suggested in the house,
even the many things you still think about. So people
online started sharing these things about their family. I'll give
you some examples, like no turning on the lights during thunderstorms.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
I've heard people who you know had to abide by that,
but that was definitely not us. Okay, we were told
not to shower during thunderstor it was also.
Speaker 5 (14:13):
Told not to shower during a thunderstorm, like you could
get electrocuted.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Is that true.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
I think that if it were true, you would have
heard about it happening. Ever, because there's a lot of
thunderstorms and people take a lot of showers, that seems
very I don't know.
Speaker 5 (14:29):
Yeah, somebody said we had to drink a huge glass
of milk every morning as a kid because my parents
believed it would make us grow tall.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
I mean, I don't know. No, we didn't have to
do that, but maybe there's some logic to that. I
feel like we're very anti milk these days, so who knows.
I feel like I was growing up at the absolute
nature of healthy dining. I remember a lot of eggo
waffles and microwaveable breakfast burritos. And you know, not that
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my parents did not care about nutrition, it's that it
was nineteen ninety two and that was nobody cared about me.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Right fast breakfast?
Speaker 3 (15:08):
I used did you have the like oatmeal packs?
Speaker 5 (15:10):
Oh yeah, like rip them open water, microwave And then
like there was like a weird phase where like for kids,
they were trying to make oatmeal cool, and then they
came with like jelly packs.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Oh yeah, you'd swirl in the green or the purple. Yah. Yeah,
Oh hey, we had green ketchup. That's true. What the
hell make it green? Maybe they'll like it.
Speaker 6 (15:32):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (15:33):
Somebody said the curtains had to be open first thing
in the morning so the neighbors wouldn't think we slept in.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
That's hilarious.
Speaker 4 (15:40):
I mean, I think a lot of parents are worried
about the perception of the you know, Joneses around them,
But yeah, we definitely were not that.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
You're the Joneses.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
Yeah, let's see, these are the Griswolds to everybody else's,
you know, Julie Louis Dreyfus and her husband, you know
what I mean, Like we annoyed the piss had everyone
or our neighbor because there was just it was like
we were just so many people.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
It was we were too many.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
There was just too many.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Yeah, it was a grandmother of parents and six kids.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
You know.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
It was a long right.
Speaker 5 (16:13):
Somebody said I had to bring home the plastic sandwich
bags from my school lunch to be used again the
next day.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
We had to wash them and then dry them over.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
We did not have to do that, but I know
people who did.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
We did this. Yeah, yeah, we always did this.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
No, I don't remember that.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
No, I don't know why we did. I don't think
we were strapped for the cash. I think we were
just en conscious. I don't think we were that either.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
The only the only thing that comes to mind is,
and this is less a house rule and more just
my own lack of coordination. On some occasion, I once
fell directly onto my head playing kickball. As I recall,
I kinda I kind of overswung and planted on the
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ball and just did a hole. All right, you flipped,
But how does that have to do? After that, I
had to wear a helmet to play kickball. Oh No,
The house rule was, if you're going to go play kickball.
You're going to go get your bike helmet and then
you're allowed to play kickball. So the kids would start
playing and I'd be like, I have to run home
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and get my helmet. I would never play kickball again.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
I think. I think I did once and I thought
this is just not worth it. Yea, it makes sense.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
So like that Sean turned out the way that he did.
Speaker 8 (17:37):
It at once. That's definitely true. And I want to
know what you mean, you don't. We all know what
you mean, and we want to know what you mean.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
That's so funny. Yeah, that explains so much, Sean.
Speaker 5 (17:53):
My mom prevented me from play the helmet off in here, Sean,
don't anything could happen step wrong, and then I'm on
my head. My mom would not let me play any
organized sport. Oh well, because she kept saying, you have asthma.
And so then I learned to do other things. And
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look where it landed me. Yeah, and I'm like, great,
I'll learn a lot about kids, you know, And so
that that's what I'm saying, Sean. I'm like, great, I'll
just learn how to do other things.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
Our rules were basically, do you have to do everything?
That was the like you have to do your own laundry,
you have to make your own lunch, you have to
It was like we just did everything. I don't remember
a time. I know there was a time when I
didn't do that stuff, but like it precedes memory for me. Sure,
it was always like self sufficiency was the only rules.
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Like you made a mess, you got to do those
dishes you did. You know, whatever you're responsible for, Like
mess wise, you have to clean up, that's excellent. You
have to get yourself up for school, and you know,
if the parents have to come in and wake you up,
you're in trouble.
Speaker 5 (19:03):
I love that, though I'm trying to undo like my
propensity for fixing everything with my kid. Like you know,
I know when we have a luckily to have like
a nanny now in the morning, but I've told the nanny,
I'm like, she knows how to make her lunch.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
She knows how to make a turkey sandwich.
Speaker 5 (19:19):
There is a drawer where all of the things that
go in her lunch exist.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
She knows how to do it. Don't do it for her.
Speaker 4 (19:26):
Yeah, oh, my dad would be sitting there eating ice cream,
watching TV going don't forget to make your lunches.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Don't you're gonna be hungry at school tomorrow, you know,
one of those things, and then you'd be like, what's
in the first how do I reheat didnty more beef
stew at school?
Speaker 4 (19:40):
When we come back, Mike Pursued will join us as
we talked to Nick Herbig from the Pittsburgh Steelers. Getting
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Speaker 2 (20:43):
What I don't love.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
Is the way that Steelers fans always underestimate the Browns.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
It drives me up the wall. It happens all the time.
Speaker 4 (20:51):
Steelers fans used to goa Baker Mayfield stinks because he
wore orange and white. You know, it's like, not everything
up their stinks flattering. Look, well, maybe it is the
color scheme. Ma me get a logo at least on
one side of the helmet. Okay, that might be part
of it. But one person I know who's not overlooking
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them joining us right now from Pittsburgh Steelers outside linebacker
Nick Herbig.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
What's up, man?
Speaker 7 (21:18):
How are you did?
Speaker 4 (21:21):
I don't know if you heard what I was saying
there before we brought you on the air about Steelers
fans have this propensity to underestimate the Browns, and they go, oh,
they're the Browns. You know, it's the Browns. We're gonna
kill them. You know, Dylan Gabriel's only in his second game.
This is going to be a joke. They're traded away Flaco,
and so this perception is it's this organization and flex
but the reality is you guys and Cleveland both just
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played the Vikings to the whistle basically to decide the winner.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
You know what I mean, it could have gone either
way there when.
Speaker 4 (21:51):
When you had both games, Uh, you know, I see
it as more evenly matching an AFC North slobber knocker
coming up here on how do you guys keep from
having that mindset? I know your professionals and you're like, well,
we're not idiot fans, but like because we're fanatic, you know,
and so logic and rationale aren't our strong suit. But
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that can't possibly be the way that you guys approach this, right.
Speaker 7 (22:19):
Yeah, I mean, you know, at the end of the day,
like you know, it's professional football, and anything could happen,
like on any given day, any given Sunday, there's gonna
be a better team than you out there. So you
just have to show up every day, you know, like
the day's leading up like Monday all the way to Saturday,
like all those days in between. You have to make
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sure you're putting in the work at the time, I'm
getting everything right for Sunday so you can go out
and perform.
Speaker 9 (22:44):
Nick, you're obviously on a heater here lately, and I
talked to TJ. Watt about you a little bit yesterday
and he said, one of the things he's most proud
about is you're staying humble.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
How do you turn into Lawrence Taylor and stay humble?
Speaker 4 (23:01):
Man?
Speaker 7 (23:01):
I think that just you know, I see like TJ
and Alex and the way they went about business, you know,
and the level of success they both had, and being
able to keep their composure of being able to stay humble.
You know, that's been really inspirational to me. And I
think growing up like my grand my grandfather always told
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me to be humble and walk with God. So that's
always stuck with me wherever I went. I've always tried
to stay humble and walk with God.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
The perception of your abilities in Alex Heismith when you
stepped in for him on his injury, was that, well,
Nick's a great pass rusher, Alex is a little more
adept at stopping the run. But now you've kind of
come full circle and you're a guy who can do
it all. Did it was run stopping something you specifically
worked on?
Speaker 2 (23:50):
And how did you do that exactly?
Speaker 4 (23:54):
You know?
Speaker 7 (23:54):
I think that over time, you know, you just know
that you're going to have to develop certain parts of
your game that people are gonna nit pick, especially for
me because I'm a smaller dude. So that was my
stigma coming out. Like everyone wanted me to play inside
linebackers to begin with, so they all thought I was
too small to be on the edge anyway. So you know,
I just always had that stigma around me. So just
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working on that, talking to older guys, seeing how they
play the run, hot, what they do to approach that business.
You know, it's helped me.
Speaker 9 (24:26):
Now it looks like Galax is coming back. So what
are we going to see? How do we work three
guys into two spots or do the Steelers work three
guys into three spots? We're going to see that three
outside linebacker package Sunday.
Speaker 7 (24:39):
Yeah, I'd love to tell you, but I can't give
you all the sauce man y'all gonna have.
Speaker 9 (24:44):
But there are there are snaps for everybody, right, I mean,
you can't have enough.
Speaker 7 (24:47):
As Yeah, no, no doubt, no doubt, no doubt.
Speaker 4 (24:51):
I mentioned it was Dylan Gabriel's second game as starting quarterback.
Just you know there's an advantage to that for the Steelers.
In his inexperience. But is there a disadvantage in the
unknown to not having a lot of tape on a
guy like that.
Speaker 7 (25:07):
Yeah, especially with a young minded quarterback that has something
to prove, you know, especially in our division. It's a
tough division, so there's always going to be stuff that
is going on that you know, we kind of haven't
seen it on tape at all. He really might have
one game to go off of, so that's that's that.
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But you know, we're going to show up and do
our best on Sunday.
Speaker 9 (25:31):
I guess so fre'st anybody that's not gonna underestimate the
small guy, it would be you.
Speaker 7 (25:35):
Right, Yeah, yeah, I'm I never underst me a small.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
Dudes, are you?
Speaker 4 (25:42):
Are you starting to feel the love around Pittsburgh now?
You're noticing that everybody is like, you know, they used
to say the backup quarterback was the most popular guy
in Pittsburgh. Right now about the backup outside linebacker is
a guy that everybody's talking about you hearing it in
Giant Eagle.
Speaker 7 (25:58):
I mean, man, I just think down and keep working.
You know, I still got a lot more to do.
I still feel like I haven't really done much yet,
you know, I'm trying to win a Super Bowl, So
whatever that takes, you know, whatever that entails, I'm here
for it.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
Nick.
Speaker 9 (26:13):
Nick, I don't want to threaten your humility, but the
story when you first got here and we talked about
how you were in contact with TJ Watt before you
even got drafted, and he was giving you pass rush
tips and you guys were exchanging thoughts on past rushing
and things of that nature because.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
He was helping his fellow Badger.
Speaker 7 (26:32):
Yes, uh yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
Was your goal at the time to get in the
NFL or to be great?
Speaker 7 (26:42):
I think just to be great in general. You know,
I always dreamed about being in the NFL.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
One day.
Speaker 7 (26:49):
And while I was in college, and TJ talked to
the our outside linebacker groom, and he was like, you know,
hit me UPI y'all had any questions oring on? So
I was like that, I'm gonna hit him up. So
hit him up, and we bounced ideas off each other,
and you know, just to see the way that relationship
has grown and developed into what it is today is
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truly a blessing. I mean, I'm so thankful that he
was such a stand up dude, Like he's not just
like he's a huge superstar and a list celebrity, whatever
you want to call him. And the fact that he
went out of his way to take some time to
give back and show me and teach me some stuff. Man,
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it's just truly a blessing.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
I guess he knows what he's talking about.
Speaker 7 (27:33):
Huh, Yeah, I guess so. I guess we could say
that one hundred and twelve sacks or anything.
Speaker 9 (27:41):
But you guys kind of play this similar game in
that he's not just overpowering physically. He does it with
technique and with preparation and study. It really takes more
than just ability, doesn't it.
Speaker 7 (27:53):
Oh one thousand percent? And I think that's something I
admire about him. The way that he puts in works
like day in and day out, a lot of stuff
that you don't see on Sunday, you know, Like I said,
the days in between Monday through Saturday, like what are
you doing to prepare yourself for game day? And the
way he approaches that business is second to none.
Speaker 4 (28:13):
You said you were here to win Super Bowl Like
that is music the Steeler fansiers, and I would imagine
that your understanding of the expectations here in Steeler nation
and just the vastness of Steeler nations has only grown
since you've been here in Pittsburgh. How did Ireland in
that experience with the international fans of Steeler InterNations coming together,
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how did that even inform you further as to how
big this expectation of greatness is.
Speaker 7 (28:46):
Yeah, I mean it's crazy, dude, Like we really do
have the best fans in the world. And that's truly
like the whole world. Like, yeah, Stealer fans are coming
from everywhere. Man, it's crazy to see all the love
and support we get. You knowing you walk in the
building and you see those six Super Bowl trophies there
and seeing the standard is the standard? You know that,
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That's all you can think about, is like we need
to get.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Back to that.
Speaker 7 (29:10):
We need to go get one for this city.
Speaker 4 (29:12):
Well, Nick Herbig, you've definitely lived up to the next
man up he Nick, no question about that. Steelers Browns
one o'clock Sunday, Atroshuer Stadium. Nick Herbig from the Steelers, Nick,
thanks so much for making time for us this morning.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
Go get him on Sunday.
Speaker 7 (29:25):
Thank y'all, Thank y'all. Have a good day, okay, man.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
We'll see him.
Speaker 4 (29:28):
I mean, you know, we've had Nick on before and
he always is like awesome. It gets me super fired
up for the game.
Speaker 9 (29:36):
Yeah, just just a good Guy's brother was the same
way when he was here. Just a humble, hard working,
you know, shoulder to the wheel, knows to the grindstone,
old school, let's get it done kind of approach.
Speaker 4 (29:48):
You were at the facility yesterday for the coordinators talking.
I was all right, we'll talk a little bit about
that when we come back.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
Abby. You'll have your news at the top of the hour.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
I don't know what we're going to talk about. By
some horror movies because Shawn's here.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
Yeah, yeah, a good deal.
Speaker 4 (30:01):
Also, we'll talk about this weekend's Dormont Street and Music Festival.
Abbey's been Tiny Wars is one of the headliners. Chat
Benson in a virtual cove host today. He's got a
big gig this weekend too with Paul Luke.
Speaker 10 (30:10):
The Black and Gold Faith will always travel well to
see the team on the road, and now Calliente.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
And DV give you a chance to be bridge road appliance.
Speaker 9 (30:24):
Just to put a cap on our Nick Herbert conversation.
Thanks to him for calling in. He's the best, really
good interview there last two games, two and a half sacks,
seven quarterback hits, a forced fumble, and constant pressure and
what he did to Minnesota and specifically Christian Darrisa is
one of the best tackles in the game. That was
a one sided matchup in Herbig's favorite. I mean, this
(30:46):
kid has arrived. And Terrell Austin, the defense coordinator, talked
yesterday and he emphasized he's going to be on the field.
I don't know if it's maybe, you know, ten less
reps here, ten less reps there, maybe the East high
Smith back because he hasn't played in w but Harvic's
not going to go away just because Highsmith's healthy.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
He is an Aaron Smith, a Brett Keizel, a TJ.
Speaker 4 (31:06):
Watt And in that by that, I mean he's a
guy who's jersey you can buy, yeah, and you never
have to worry about that jersey being a bad purchase.
This is high character guy, high performance guy, the kind
of guy you love wearing black and gold.
Speaker 9 (31:23):
I also think we're going to see three outside linebackers
on the field at the same time, although, as Matt
Williamson pointed out on the preview last night. That's not
a staple type defense. That's seven to ten snaps a
game in a specialty spot type of thing. But they'll
figure it out. By the way, I think seven too
many good players is not.
Speaker 4 (31:41):
Approp I'm just gonna say I think high Smith is
that guy.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
Also, like I think high Smith's a great player.
Speaker 4 (31:45):
A lot of people think, like, you know, oh, he
doesn't have ten sacks, he's terrible.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
I don't think that at all. Good.
Speaker 9 (31:52):
And you need edge rushers. You cannot run out of
edge rushers.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
TJ.
Speaker 9 (31:56):
Wat could be gone in a second quarter Sunday and
injuries happen like all this old Well, they should trade
this guy because they could get that. No, no, no, no, no,
they're good. They don't make a strength of weakness.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
Everybody wants to trade firemouth. Everybody wants to trade fir. Yeah.
I wouldn't do that either, but we shall see.
Speaker 9 (32:14):
Of course, to the leader of the packet outside linebacker
is TJ. Watt And it's the Steelers Browns on Sunday.
So of course it's what against Miles Garrett, Right, they
don't they're not on They both play defense. But even
if you see those graphics the networks are using to
promote the game. It's not the cornerbacks, it's what Garrett,
It's not Rogers and whoever the Browns guy is this week, TJ.
(32:37):
Both these guys came in the NFL in twenty seventeen.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
TJ.
Speaker 9 (32:41):
Watt has one hundred and eleven sacks since then. Miles
Garrett has one hundred and six and a half. Nobody
else has more than eighty five. They're just they are
head and shoulders above. Whether you think Wat's better or
Garrett's better. I personally think Wat's better because I think
he's a little more versatile. But Miles Garrett's a monster.
I mean, this guy's a great, great player. Wats a
great great player. So of course this game is about
(33:02):
what against Garrett? Right, Well, unless you happen to be
t J.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
Watt.
Speaker 9 (33:07):
I know you don't play against Garrett, But do you
look in these games where maybe the guy between you
two that's more impactful, that team's gonna win.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
No trying to win the game anyway possible.
Speaker 9 (33:19):
Yeah, do you like playing these kind of games when
there's a guy like the divisional games?
Speaker 2 (33:23):
Of course I don't want to talk much about him. Dude,
I mean we've done this many many times. I don't
see the point I continue to do it sometimes.
Speaker 4 (33:33):
It actually surprised you went there with that got I mean,
he can deny it only once. The most impactful guy
between TJ. Watt and Miles Garrett is gonna win this game.
Speaker 9 (33:43):
His team's going to win the game because the impactful
will be something that wrecks the game. And if they
both get blocked by three guys, then it's going to
have to be decided some other way. I mean, both
offense is their number one goal is going to be
to stop that guy, right, So if they both pull
that off, then I mean, I'll be decided a different way.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
But if one of those.
Speaker 9 (34:04):
Guys goes out there and gets three sacks on a
forced fumble, his team's gonna win.
Speaker 4 (34:08):
When we talked to Missy Matthews yesterday, that was the
first question to ask for what's your number one priority?
Speaker 2 (34:12):
If you're Mike Tomlin, stop Miles Garrett.
Speaker 9 (34:15):
Yeah, and he is all that, like, let's you know,
hate him because he plays for the Browns.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
Give him his duke.
Speaker 4 (34:20):
These fans love to think if you wear a Browns jersey,
you stink. I do not get that at all. Like
this is a much more evenly matched up AFC North
game than most people are giving it credit for.
Speaker 9 (34:33):
Yeah, I'm not looking at one and four against three
and one. I'm looking at both teams. Just got done
playing the Vikings in Europe, and one of them got
a defensive stop in the last minute and won the game,
and one of them didn't and lost the game, same opponent, basically,
same kind of venue, same set of circumstances, the same
time of the season.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
Yeah, that's how close this is. Yeah, and the Vikings
had a whole week to get acclimated. If anything, they
should have blown out the Browns.
Speaker 9 (34:58):
Yeah. So, so buckle up at C the AFC North.
It's a rivalry game.
Speaker 4 (35:04):
I mean, they had a lot of injuries though, I
mean they're they're a pretty bang up team. Everybody's got
injury right now.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
Well, Baltimore and Minnesota are the exception.
Speaker 4 (35:11):
The Baltimore was giving up forty a game when it
was healthy. I'm not buying that, Lamar, I think is
the big difference there.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
That's why they're not scoring forty. Yes, then why did
they quit? I don't know. Man.
Speaker 4 (35:25):
It does make me wonder though, if they will be
poised for the second half comeback. You know the fact
that they don't have to play the Stealers until December,
and then they played them twice in short order.
Speaker 2 (35:37):
I thought they really has made this schedule interesting.
Speaker 9 (35:39):
I thought they would be poised for a second half comeback.
I got a lot of respect for that organization and
how it does its business and what it's accomplished over
the last couple Say but no, I mean, yeah, I
bet on them if they'd have lost seventeen thirteen. Okay,
you know, still not there yet. Yeah, getting blown out
at home and showing zero given f that's there's some
(36:01):
red flags waving over mteen Banks Stadium.
Speaker 2 (36:04):
I will say Texans are better than people are giving them.
Speaker 9 (36:05):
But they're not a juggernaut. They're not great. Their offense stinks.
At least it had.
Speaker 2 (36:14):
Sunday.
Speaker 9 (36:15):
The injury stuff for the Steelers yesterday, No Ramsey, no
Calvin Austin is the significant developments. Cleveland looks like it's okay,
So we'll see what we shall see Steelers and Browns
on Sunday. About the new football Giants knocking off Philly
last night, thirty four seventeen.
Speaker 4 (36:37):
There are two people playing for the Giants right now
that I'm wondering if they shouldn't be wearing black and golds.
Speaker 9 (36:42):
Might be talking about quarterback Jackson Dart who went seventeen
for twenty five for a buck ninety five, one touchdown,
no picks, passer rating of one hundred and four point six.
Or you might be talking about or also talking about
running back Cam Scatabow nineteen carries for ninety eight yards,
three rushing touchdowns.
Speaker 4 (37:01):
How did we not take him instead of Caleb?
Speaker 9 (37:05):
And the Philly offense is reduced to running the Tousch
push four times in a row to get an occasional touchdown.
Speaker 4 (37:11):
That honestly should have been last night. The four times
in a row, they should eliminate it today.
Speaker 2 (37:18):
It's garbage. Yeah, not to imagine they jump off side
every second time. Yeah.
Speaker 9 (37:22):
Penguins meet the Islanders four to three in the home
opener last night. They're two and zero. First goals of
the season for Ricard, Raquel, Harrison, Bruneck dude teenage defense
would gets his first, Sidney Crosby his first, and Justin
Brezo gets his third.
Speaker 2 (37:38):
Another one, man, I'll tell you what. The game winner.
Speaker 4 (37:40):
By the way, Gino Machino leading the league in points
right now right two games in pretty good stuff.
Speaker 2 (37:46):
Season ended. Now he's your.
Speaker 9 (37:49):
Damn you started Tristan Jari in net. I get that
because you don't want to have him sit forever at
the start of the season. But I would assume they
go back to our tours. I didn't see lobs for
the Ranger game Saturday night. I didn't can see any
of it. I didn't either, I was kind of locked
into a computer all night with something. But did Tristan
Jarry look serviceable?
Speaker 2 (38:10):
I don't know.
Speaker 9 (38:11):
I didn't watch it either. It's a second hockey game
of the year. Just playoff baseball and football.
Speaker 2 (38:20):
Let's talk.
Speaker 4 (38:21):
Let's just quickly talk baseball, because the way the Phillies lost,
my heart breaks for that.
Speaker 2 (38:27):
Dude. Oh sure, does how about this?
Speaker 9 (38:30):
Philly lost in baseball season over football on national TV
and hockey?
Speaker 3 (38:36):
Bad night to be drywall in Philadelphia.
Speaker 9 (38:39):
By the way, there's a lot of Penn State fans
in Philly too. They're probably a little hurt still.
Speaker 4 (38:47):
I mean, this play by play is one of the
just most heartbreaking things I've ever heard.
Speaker 2 (38:54):
No balls and a strike has breaks his back. Kirk
kring gotta fight it throws.
Speaker 4 (39:00):
To the play.
Speaker 2 (39:01):
Oh my goodness, it turns it away. I'm the Dodgers,
have run the Dodgers. I don't care that it's the Phillies. Like, okay,
I'm moving on. Just I don't know why that. I
feel so bad for charactering on that one.
Speaker 1 (39:20):
Man.
Speaker 4 (39:22):
I get it, I get the instinct. He's looking right
at a play at the plate. But you gotta know,
turn to first, easy out, force out, inning over.
Speaker 2 (39:36):
Yeah, you know.
Speaker 4 (39:38):
The situational baseball pitchers throwing the ball other than pitching, it.
Speaker 2 (39:44):
Is often a problem. It's an adventure.
Speaker 4 (39:47):
I don't know why that is, but it's been that
way forever. Well, it's you know, the chuck n a
block thing. Sometimes it gets into your head and then
you're you're kind of screwed. But yeah, it hasn't been
making defensive plays and.
Speaker 9 (39:59):
Trying to start at the play. It second and they
throw it in the center field or whatever.
Speaker 2 (40:02):
I mean.
Speaker 4 (40:03):
Infielders do it too once you get in out of
a lot, but it's because it gets them out of
the routine. Look what Goldsmith did the other night. I
mean he almost threw the ball over the second basement's head.
He had a double play and barely got one out there,
didn't mount of the Blue Jays ended up winning. But
I think anytime you get a guy out of his routine,
out of the rhythm, that it's an adventure. Pitchers very
(40:23):
rarely have to make those kinds of defensive plays, and
I think that's why that is.
Speaker 9 (40:27):
You know, Dodgers win that game two to one and eleven,
and they win the series and four Cup stayed off
elimination again against the Brewers six nothing. That goes back
to Milwaukee for a game five. And if you like baseball,
tonight Game five Detroit at Seattle, Tarrek Scoobel against George Kirby.
Speaker 2 (40:44):
Where are you going on that? I'm just gonna watch
the beautiful pitching.
Speaker 9 (40:48):
My inclination is to back schoobl But Kirby's really good
and he's home, and who knows, some bright manager might
take a guy out after eighty one pitches when it
because he's already.
Speaker 2 (40:59):
Stuck out eleven.
Speaker 4 (41:00):
Want to be a little more democratic glass now and
throw some ground balls?
Speaker 2 (41:05):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (41:05):
I put a lot of stock in the team of
destiny thing when it comes to baseball playoffs.
Speaker 2 (41:10):
I don't know why none. I've watched it happen too
many times.
Speaker 9 (41:13):
I put my stock in pitching arms, but now I
can't trust how long they're going to pitch.
Speaker 2 (41:17):
So well, just though, Abby's got your news when we
come back.
Speaker 5 (41:20):
If you've been paying attention to the rubber duck mystery
in Cannonsburg that has been solved, and Paul Sken's bringing
the comforts of the ballfield to his.
Speaker 4 (41:28):
Home, We're doing the Smalls Waltz. This might be the
last time we do it. I don't want to say ever,
but we might take a break for a while. But
if you've not seen it, we sold out every one
of these shows and they are great. If you love
the Last Waltz, do not miss this Pittsburgh all star
studded tribute to one of the greatest concerts ever filmed.
Speaker 10 (41:48):
DV presents The Smalls Waltz Saturday, November twenty second at
Mister Smalls Theater at eight pm. Randy Bauman's Ramble Band
celebrates the music of the band's iconic concert film, The
Last One, featuring Joe Grischecky, Clinton Clay Mally, Alphabet, Paul Luke,
Jen Wurtz, Phil Dasy, Liz Berlin, John Binley, Bill Thoms,
Rob James, Mike Minda, the Full Ramble Horns.
Speaker 1 (42:10):
And more.
Speaker 10 (42:11):
Don't miss this Thanksgiving tradition as Randy Bauman's Ramble Band
performs the full soundtrack of the band's film.
Speaker 2 (42:18):
The Last Waltz.
Speaker 10 (42:19):
A portion of the proceeds benefit the Greater Pittsburgh Community
Food Bank. Tickets for The Smalls Waltz available at the
Mister Small's Box office or at dve dot com.
Speaker 2 (42:29):
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