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Speaker 1 (00:22):
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This is wdv E Pittsburgh.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
Rogers gets a snap back to pass looking pump fixed.

Speaker 3 (00:36):
Right now, wants to go to Metcap has him in
the Angel touchdown Duck Carolin Metcap.

Speaker 4 (00:43):
First play in the fourth quarter Aaron Rodgers to DK
and that was pretty much it at that point. Ezy
money that turned it into a twenty three to six
Steeler lead. The Browns would add a fuel goal after that,
but that would be a twenty three to nine the
Steelers TCB. They take care of the Browns, but they're
taking care of business in the AFC.

Speaker 5 (01:04):
North needed to win that game.

Speaker 4 (01:06):
And now you get the short week Thursday night Amazon
Prime game, they're gonna be taking on Joe Flacco and
the Cincinnati Bengals. Now, he didn't look terrible with the
Bengals yesterday didn't so they looked to have improved with
Joe Flacco and they'll have to deal with that. But
can't complain about too much yesterday, particularly the defensive effort

(01:28):
from the Steelers yesterday. Monstrous day from both Jalen Ramsey
and also Nick Herbig. He got the DV morning show
bump after being on Friday morning, and then went out
and just had a monster game on Sunday. And he
had a couple of sacks yesterday and just looked like
a complete game record. Course, she's getting better and better,

(01:48):
you know.

Speaker 5 (01:49):
Offensive line.

Speaker 4 (01:51):
Look, how many times did you hear Miles Garrett's name
called yesterday? I didn't one time he had a tackle
Other than that. That was it, man. That was it
for Miles Garrett yesterday.

Speaker 5 (02:03):
I mean the whole offensive line.

Speaker 6 (02:05):
I hope Aaron took them out to dinner last night
because to keep him clean in that game, zero sacks
like against that defense, that was impressive.

Speaker 4 (02:16):
So they got I think they credited him with two
tackles yesterday. But yeah, Roderick Jones to your point, stepping
up big time yesterday and the Steelers get to win.
What Look, it was not like awesome weather, that was
the only thing. But it looked like a Steelers Brown's day, you.

Speaker 5 (02:31):
Know, the Bron's brought in the clocks. Yeah, there was.

Speaker 4 (02:34):
It was clotty, it was a little breezy, and the
field was absolute garbage. I up with the field, dude,
I don't understand, like Pitt hasn't played there in a
couple of weeks.

Speaker 5 (02:44):
Did they play there last week?

Speaker 6 (02:46):
Because if they didn't play there last week, I don't
know why they didn't replace that field for this week.
Not sure, because they said they were ripping it up
after the game yesterday.

Speaker 5 (02:54):
They ripped it up here.

Speaker 4 (02:55):
Yeah, but I'm not exactly sure. They played Florida State
at Florist eight, right, like, well yesterday or Saturday Saturday, right.

Speaker 6 (03:05):
But the week the week before I'm saying because if
they had a home game, then that would make sense
because if you know, the Steeling were on a bye
week and in Dublin, so there was a couple of
weeks where they could have replaced it.

Speaker 5 (03:17):
But I don't know. I forget Pitt's schedule.

Speaker 4 (03:20):
It hosted Boston College Life.

Speaker 5 (03:21):
Yeah, okay, that makes sense.

Speaker 4 (03:24):
Well, they still would have time to fix it, you
would think. I mean, it was really garbage. You know,
it cost Boswell field goal late in the game.

Speaker 5 (03:31):
He could have broke his ankle. Dude, that looked bad.
He almost got sweet on that one.

Speaker 6 (03:36):
And I don't know if that was a factor in
Miles Killerbrew's injury or not, because it didn't look like
that was a contact injury. It looked like his his
leg got kind of caught up in the turf or whatever.

Speaker 4 (03:49):
Miles got a pretty uh serious injury, according to coach
Tom Real Bad Mike Pursutill have more on that. We
got Tim Ben's Jerry do Lack, Rob King talking Steelers
here for you on this post on victory Monday. Here
in the DV Morning Show studios. Dylan Gabriel the rook.
The over under going into the game on pass attempts

(04:10):
for Dylan Gabriel was thirty and a half. Well, he
sailed past that with fifty two pass attempts yesterday.

Speaker 5 (04:17):
I mean, that's negligence, that's bad coaching right there.

Speaker 4 (04:20):
Of the fifty two, only ten of those went ten
or more yards in the air.

Speaker 5 (04:27):
Oh, they were coming after him all day.

Speaker 4 (04:29):
Yeah, I mean he didn't have any interceptions, but he
should have had four.

Speaker 5 (04:32):
Oh yeah, they dropped a ton of balls.

Speaker 4 (04:35):
Defensive line really stepped up again. They stopped to run
only thirty six yards or Quinn, Shawn Jenkins or Judkins
I'm sorry. And Jerome Ford added seventeen more, but other
than that, not so much. Harold Fannon was his favorite target. Yesterday.
But Jerry Judy didn't really do too much. Joku didn't
do too much. The Steelers defense stood up. Was that

(04:55):
was one of those wins that there's just not a
whole lot to complain about.

Speaker 5 (04:59):
You just enjoy the fact that your team is getting better.

Speaker 4 (05:03):
We like to find the thing that was wrong with
our win a lot of times, and I'm not sure
that there's a whole lot you can get bummed out
about it. Of the thing well that in not finishing drives.
You know, three field goals in the first half for
for Boss there would have liked to see a couple
of those drives, particularly the first one go right down

(05:23):
the field and knock it in the end zone, just
jam it down their threat.

Speaker 6 (05:27):
But how about the first play from scrimmage, I mean
the Darnell Washington like bumbling down the field.

Speaker 5 (05:33):
I mean that was awesome.

Speaker 4 (05:34):
Well once again Darnell Washington with the Lions. I mean,
he got a ton of snaps yesterday. Friar Mouth, I
don't even know if he had a Cat one target though.
I mean, it's kind of crazy that friar Mouth has
fallen in favor to the degree that he has kind
of echoing James Franklin, I guess his former coach at

(05:57):
Penn State. One catch were eleven yards for fire mooth
yesterday and he got a nice chair in the stadium. Yeah,
he got moothed. He got a mooth. There was a mooth.
But Darnel Washington three catches for sixty two DK four
for ninety five yesterday and it was another one of
those Aaron Rodgers days twenty one to thirty two, thirty five,

(06:20):
two touchdowns, no interception.

Speaker 6 (06:23):
It's not eye popping, but it's so impressive because situationally,
he's just getting him into the right play. The slugo
that we played at the top of the hour for
Metcalf was easy money. The other catch down the sideline
with the late hands, perfect throw.

Speaker 5 (06:39):
The other throw was perfect, It just hit the defender
in his back. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (06:44):
I wasn't sure if he was trying to go over
a back shoulder on that one, and it seemed like
he was like in no man's laying in between on
the targeting on that one.

Speaker 6 (06:51):
But the scrambled drill with Connor Hayward another phenomenal play.

Speaker 4 (06:57):
I'll tell you what I think that shut up a
lot of people about conn on her Hayward too. I
was so sick and tired Abbey of hearing people rip
on him for just being related to Cam because they
were mad at Cam. It's like, dude, this is a
serviceable play. He's like a Swiss army knife. What are
we mad at him for?

Speaker 7 (07:12):
And then just like I needed touchdown too, because you
just didn't want to see, especially with the Browns.

Speaker 8 (07:16):
We knew it was going to be maybe.

Speaker 7 (07:18):
Low scoring anyway, and you wanted to kind of see
that breakthrough, get a touchdown, start things moving.

Speaker 4 (07:23):
You know what was funny is that Roman Wilson also
got a huge cheer for his one catch for twelve years,
got a first down. He people want to see him involved,
and with no Calvin Austin yesterday, you didn't know whether
you're gonna see a whole lot or still none of
Roman Wilson turned out was a little in between. I'm

(07:45):
not sure how many Snapsy ended up getting, but the
one catch, it was a big one for a first down.
Keishawn Williams returning kicks was the big revelation.

Speaker 5 (07:52):
I think yesterday he had an.

Speaker 4 (07:54):
Enormous for turn brought back as a result of penalty.
That was a BS penalty called on Jabrill Peppers, but
he comported himself nicely getting signed off the practice squad
since Austin was out. As I said, Michael, have more
and all that coming up. And you guys both had
huge weekends and Abby, let's start with yours.

Speaker 5 (08:15):
And you were at the Dormont Street and.

Speaker 4 (08:18):
Music Festival on Saturdays through being Tiny Wars and the
crowd was Bill, you were down there for that as well.

Speaker 5 (08:25):
Yeah, yeah, it was huge.

Speaker 8 (08:27):
I Dormont was showing off.

Speaker 5 (08:30):
Yeah, they were.

Speaker 7 (08:31):
I used to live in Dormont and the way that
that whole strip has come up, like I mean, the
whole celebration was on Potomac and there's so much going
on there now, but they just you know, they lined
up the streets and everybody had a bunch of tents
and everything. And Bill was there early because he was
introducing Broom.

Speaker 5 (08:47):
Yeah. Yeah, no, that was so fun.

Speaker 6 (08:49):
I mean, you know, I joked around with Noah and
his family that all came to the goddamn comedy Jam
that now I have to bring up your son at
the Dormont music well completely and totally forgot about it.
And then he hit me up last week like we're
still good for next weekend. And I was like, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 5 (09:07):
Well explain for people who don't know who know it
is and why he.

Speaker 6 (09:10):
Was one this year's Pisberg Powerbow Challenge with one of
my favorite all time ballads with steel my QB one
And so they're not just a one trick pony. They're
not a one hit wonder phenomenal set by them, And
I went out and introduced them and brought them up

(09:32):
and I mean the whole street was just packed, yea,
like vendors galore, beer flowing, multiple stages.

Speaker 5 (09:41):
It was just really a cool day.

Speaker 9 (09:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (09:43):
And then European Tiny Wars is one of the co
headliners of the event, and you took the stage prime
time and the I mean it just looked absolutely slammed.

Speaker 8 (09:53):
I cannot believe how packed it was.

Speaker 7 (09:56):
Again, you kind of like hear and is it like
a band in your book like festival, you kind of
have some idea of what that might look like and
what kind of the staging is going to be, and
you're like, this is going bounce, like this is not
going to be like an amazing stage like when we
were up there, and again, uh, you know, Broom was
on it Rocket Loves Blue. Jeff Taylor had an amazing
van that he put together. The Hawkeyes played just before us,

(10:20):
so they're back and they have like four guitar players now,
so it's just like this wall of sound that plays
and we're like we're going after them.

Speaker 8 (10:28):
But when we were up on the stage, it was
like walking open air like this.

Speaker 7 (10:34):
The lighting was incredible, the sound was like boom in
this stage that was set up that I could not
believe that it was a Dormont Street festival, Like it
was really really intense, but a lot of like families
out there. From from our standpoint, it was really really cool,
like when we were walking up and down to see

(10:56):
like a ton of tiny war shirts and like a
lot of little kids too that were like you know,
and especially for our band, when we see little girls
that are wearing tiny war shirts, that means a lot
to us, so.

Speaker 5 (11:05):
Like, yeah, that's so cool.

Speaker 7 (11:07):
Yeah, And then it was a really fun set and
it was also like boom cleared out immediately, so whoever
was running that like we were, it went a little
I feel like it went a little later maybe than
they thought, So I want to say we were done
at like eight forty five nine o'clock and so by
the time I had all my stuff off the stage,

(11:28):
I looked out and it was like clear.

Speaker 8 (11:29):
I'm like, so dorm ut was it was done?

Speaker 4 (11:33):
Well, it's just out a habit.

Speaker 8 (11:35):
Yeah, it was great.

Speaker 5 (11:36):
Let's go get any Padamas.

Speaker 8 (11:38):
That's exactly what I wanted.

Speaker 4 (11:39):
I looked at it whenever I was done.

Speaker 7 (11:41):
I had my car packed up, and I'm like, it's
like it was approaching ten pm and I looked and
I was like looking up on my phone.

Speaker 8 (11:46):
I'm like, what's Padamas like doing? And it was closed
and I'm.

Speaker 5 (11:49):
Like, nah, I had to.

Speaker 7 (11:51):
Go to Atrias because it was the only kitchen that
was opened till midnight. We all of Tiny Wars went
to Atrias and we did the Octoberfest menu and we
closed it out.

Speaker 4 (12:01):
Oh yeah, dude, I had Octoberfest menu last night for dinner.

Speaker 10 (12:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (12:05):
I got take out of Over the Game.

Speaker 4 (12:06):
It was really good. It's awesome. I love menu.

Speaker 8 (12:10):
We crushed it.

Speaker 7 (12:11):
We were giving them kudos, were like, this.

Speaker 8 (12:12):
Menu is banging.

Speaker 5 (12:14):
Spetzel.

Speaker 4 (12:16):
Spetzel they got they they got potato pancakes, potato pancakes,
apple sauce, and siron cream. Well, that's a nice celebratory
post show me there.

Speaker 5 (12:30):
Bill.

Speaker 4 (12:30):
Friday night, you got to host the the once again
the Pittsburgh Steelers Fashion Show, which each and every year
only seems to get bigger.

Speaker 5 (12:39):
It was huge this year. They always have like a
really cool theme.

Speaker 6 (12:43):
This year's theme was Wizard of Oz No Place Like Home,
and it was it was just awesome, Like you know,
Greta Greta Rooney and Keia Tomlin do such a good
job putting it together. And since it is the owner's
wife and the coach's wife, the participation is on under.

Speaker 5 (13:02):
All of the players show up for this.

Speaker 6 (13:04):
Joe Manganello showed up with his little dog wrapped in
a terrible towel. And we had awesome co captains this year.
We always have co captains for the fashion show because
they pick like a swag award. We've we've called it
now the Golden Cleats Award like that. And so it
was dk Metcalf and Deshaun Elliott. You know, so coming

(13:26):
off of the Dublin game, the fact that we won
that game, the fact that it was such a cool experience,
and the fact that both of those guys balled out
in that game made the energy for the show, like unreal,
the two superstars on the team. I mean, they're two
of the biggest players named players on the team and
size wise, Like, Deshaun is super into fashion. He went

(13:50):
over to Paris for like Paris's Fashion Week, really got
a tattoo of the Eiffel Tower that we actually showed
up on the big screen. We're just asking d like
would you ever get this tattoo? And Deshaun was like,
why you gonna put my body up on the TV.
And I was like, well, this is a fashion show.
We are objectifying you guys, just a little bit.

Speaker 5 (14:08):
Just hang on one.

Speaker 6 (14:09):
Second, and then you know, we're asking Like DK had
these pants that he wore that were like stuffed animal pants,
like a million tiny little stuffed animals all on the pants.

Speaker 8 (14:20):
Oh my god.

Speaker 6 (14:21):
And so I was like, all right, a couple of
questions like how do you clean those? Where do you
keep those? And is there a shirt to go with those?
Or is that just too much? And he's like, which
one you want me to answer first? And I was like,
how do you clean them? He's like, man, that ain't
my problem, you know, I just take it to the
person and be cleaning them and you know, let them
figure out. I was like, so you just take them

(14:43):
to build a bear and let them figure out, and
he cracked up and.

Speaker 5 (14:47):
Was like, man, that was pretty funny. I don't have
a comeback for that.

Speaker 6 (14:50):
And then they just like came out for me for
the rest of the interview and it was really fun
and funny and like good banter back and forth. And
it's so fun to do that with with Missy Matthews
and Bob Pompiani. Yeah, and the amount of like interaction
that the players have with the fans. Like obviously there's
all these models and dancers, and there's ballet, and you know,

(15:12):
it's like every somebody's popping and locking every time you
come out onto the stage, and they're the players are
just coming out and with their families, and the crowd
is going nuts and they're throwing towels and those big,
crazy shiny hats that we saw everywhere in Dublin, and
you know, it's just it's a raucous night. It raises

(15:32):
so much money for the UPMC Sports Medicine Concussion Program
and for cancer bridges and for the Chuck Nole Foundation.
It's just it's a tremendous night. It's one of my
favorite and most unique nights. Like if you are a
Pittsburgh Steelers fan, if you're a fan of fashion, if
you're a pittsburgher, like it is it's unrepeatable, just like

(15:56):
that Ireland trip, Like you come and you're like.

Speaker 5 (15:58):
Wait, what, what the hell am I watching right now?
It's just it was a blast.

Speaker 4 (16:04):
That's awesome and point while taking on spirits have not
been this high in Pittsburgh Steeler Nation in a long time.
It feels even different than the russ lead starts to
ten to three last year, which always felt like it
was a castle made of sand, you know what I mean.
There's something a little different about all these new people

(16:25):
coming in and all like you know, the d Ks
and the Ramses and the Rogers, the mercenaries hired to
come in here with the star power, I think, augmenting
what was already a pretty you know, formidable Steeler base.

Speaker 6 (16:40):
I think what's different about this team, at least for
me from a fan standpoint, is that they really seem
to be playing for each other, like when they talk
about each other, like when Aaron Rodgers yesterday made it
a point to mention Jalen Ramsey and the character that
he has making it back from injury to play yesterday,

(17:00):
and how he showed up and had two sacks and
pass breakups and crazy hard tackles like a player of
his caliber to come back and and and play in
that game yesterday sends a message and it's it's like
they've taken the mantle and now like this is they're
playing for each other and that that to me is

(17:21):
like sky's the limit when you have this kind of
collection of talent.

Speaker 5 (17:24):
And they're getting better.

Speaker 4 (17:26):
The things that they're bad at, they're improving on each week.
And you know, you can improve run stopping and stopping
the run, you know, to the two most important things defensively,
and they were able to do that and then getting
a running game going at the offensive line, who even
though they used the training wheels a few times again

(17:47):
on Sunday, Uh, that's all right, man, it's getting better
and better.

Speaker 5 (17:51):
And they're able to protect Aaron.

Speaker 4 (17:53):
Rodgers no sacks, as we said, no picks, and Roderick
Jones kept Miles Garrett from wrecking the game. Yep, largely
they moved him around a little bit, but it wasn't
just him but you know, anytime you keep him from
making a game changing play, that is a job well done, accomplished.

Speaker 6 (18:13):
By the way the training wheels that they use on
the offensive line. Calvin Anderson won the Swag Award, He
won the Golden Cleats Award him and his adorable wife.
His adorable wife dressed him. He was in like this
Dashchiki race, like he looked like straight out of Coming
to America. And when he came out, I got down
on one knee and held up the cleats like I

(18:35):
was a king with a gift, you know. And he's
he's great. He's really funny. And yeah, I mean the
guy is is a beast as a blocker, like you know,
just like even in the run game. I mean obviously
in the run game, but just the plays that were

(18:55):
dialed up when he's downfield slugging people like I love
the big people movers on this team.

Speaker 5 (19:04):
Well he's one of them.

Speaker 4 (19:05):
Especier Anderson, Darnell Washington, another absolute.

Speaker 5 (19:10):
Enharmer out there. Why a Black.

Speaker 4 (19:13):
Mike's got a full report on yesterday's win over the Browns,
and now the scuttle butt is continuing about whether or
not the Steelers may have got another Browns coach fired.
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (19:23):
I don't think they're going to pull the chirck on
that or seeing that like that?

Speaker 4 (19:27):
Is that is that Real's it's in the air. It's
in the air. We'll just say that. I don't think
it's gonna happen this week, but it's in the air.
Tim Ben's, Jerry Doulac, Rob King Moore on a victory Monday,
Pittsburgh Steelers take care of business against the Browns.

Speaker 11 (19:43):
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(20:04):
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Speaker 12 (20:23):
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Speaker 4 (20:27):
Bridge Steelers over the Browns twenty three nine yesterday at
Akroscher Stadium on a field that could have used a
little help, but you know what, it seemed very appropriate
for a Steelers Browns matchup.

Speaker 13 (20:39):
All we needed was the snow Randalls Schwartz by Bridgeville Applyings.
The Steelers finally had the defensive band together on Sunday
against Cleveland, and the Browns never did score a touchdown
in that twenty three to nine Steelers victory, but after
allowing just sixty five yards rushing in a massing six
sacks and sixteen quarterback hits, outside linebacker Nick Herberg maintained

(21:02):
there's still more meat on that defensive bone.

Speaker 14 (21:05):
Everybody in the locker room knows we're capable of, and
I still feel like we haven't played up to our
potential yet, Like we're just scratching the surface. So once
you're fine on all stelling days, I'm excited for that's scary.

Speaker 4 (21:18):
We're talking about high Smith getting dealt, you know, because
they're so desperate to get a more accomplished number two.

Speaker 5 (21:24):
I mean, the whole.

Speaker 4 (21:25):
Defense is predicated on being able to get that pressure
on the edge, you know, and they value that so
much in Heisman seems shot out of a cannon yesterday.
Also probably because of what he saw while he was
out for the last couple of weeks.

Speaker 13 (21:38):
Well, and they found a way to get him all
involved even though the defense was not out on the
field that long, because it was more effective and the
offense was more effective but relentless. You saw on third
downs the three outside linebacker package with Watt, high Smith
and Nick Herberg playing inside like you know, where the
defensive tackles usually are right. And you also saw a

(22:00):
division of labor at the position. Herbig fifty snaps sixty
one percent, high Smith forty seven snaps fifty seven percent, TJ.
Watt forty nine snaps sixty percent.

Speaker 5 (22:13):
They gave him a big rest at the end of
that game, Great Toyer.

Speaker 13 (22:17):
That kid Watt usually plays eighty five percent something like that.
If they can limit his snaps a little bit, he's
going to be a force.

Speaker 5 (22:26):
He'll be better for it, I think.

Speaker 4 (22:27):
Yeah, And it wasn't like he wasn't impactful when he
was in there.

Speaker 5 (22:31):
It just it worked.

Speaker 4 (22:32):
It was a result of him being that impactful that
they were able to get him out in the second half.
Knockdown pass, half sack, a couple of tackles, just a
bleep disturber the entire time.

Speaker 13 (22:43):
First time they had the players that they anticipated having available,
nobody was out. Nobody was out. Yeah, now a couple
of dv's got nicked and we're in and out. But
and they kind of they took Ramsey out a little
bit just to sort of not to stress his hamstring
too much. But that's what it can look.

Speaker 6 (23:01):
Like, having Derek Harmon up front, having Deshaun Elliott back
on the back end, all the corners.

Speaker 5 (23:07):
Man.

Speaker 4 (23:08):
But the point about Jayalen Ramsey working himself to get
back is should not be understated.

Speaker 6 (23:13):
That was huge yesterday. Yeah, guess his performance. I mean
I loved his comments too. He's like, I'm gonna tell
my kids about this game played with t J. Watt
and Miles Garrett and.

Speaker 13 (23:23):
I had two sacks. I mean, that guy's probably going
to Canton. But he's not Pat Pete. He's Jalen Ramsey.
You know, he's still at the height of his powers. Yes, Yeah,
Slay is a little more Pat Pete somewhere in between.

Speaker 4 (23:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 13 (23:37):
I think he's still effective, but he's not great. He's
been better. He could have had a pick yesterday.

Speaker 4 (23:43):
You start to said everybody could have had a pick yesterday.

Speaker 13 (23:47):
It seemed like offensively, it took a while to find
the end zone, but they eventually got there and Aaron
Rodgers talked afterward about how over the last couple of games,
the offense is starting to figure out what works and
what doesn't.

Speaker 15 (24:02):
The key to the last two games have been first
and second down. You know, when we're efficient on those
those drives, we just score points.

Speaker 4 (24:09):
We're not.

Speaker 15 (24:09):
You know, there's been some three and outs.

Speaker 13 (24:13):
A big part of what's been working on offense the
last couple of games involves tight end Darnell Washington blocking
and number seventy four being eligible.

Speaker 16 (24:24):
We've been very transparent about Darnell's role. We play four
three teams, man, we need a guy that looks like
those four to three inns. It's a major component of
our run game. Can't say enough about his efforts. And
also Spencer Anderson. You know they weight classes and combat
sports for a reason. They got big people out in
that C and D gap area, and so do we

(24:45):
when we deploy those two guys and it and it
really gives us a fighting chance.

Speaker 4 (24:49):
He's been really making a point of explaining why he's
out there as much as he is.

Speaker 13 (24:53):
Yeah, seventeen snaps yesterday, which was actually a little couple
down from the Minnesota game. Seventeen snaps Anderson the running
game against the number one rushing defense in the NFL.
On the way to the twenty three to six lead.
Twenty one carries ninety nine yards of four point seven
average per carry. Really impressive. Now, the final numbers aren't

(25:15):
that good because at the end of the game they
were just running into the line and killing time.

Speaker 5 (25:19):
When they wanted to run the ball.

Speaker 13 (25:20):
Well, they ran it well against the number one defense
Red you called the training wheels.

Speaker 5 (25:25):
I call it sledgehammer.

Speaker 13 (25:28):
They're putting big guys out there to move the other
team's big guys. That's that's the running game. I don't
tell any guys it takes to do it. The defenses
are gonna have to adjust to this, and that's going
to open something else up. If they don't adjust to it,
they're gonna keep steamrolling.

Speaker 5 (25:41):
Well, it's like the Hannibal and the eels of this baby.

Speaker 4 (25:44):
I know, I love the reference, but it is like
toush push ESQ in that regard.

Speaker 5 (25:48):
You know what I mean, you know what's coming?

Speaker 13 (25:50):
Yeah, well yeah, so load up and then you got
Aaron Rodgers to take advantage of the weak spots. Rogers
continues to be the untold story in the National Football League.

Speaker 4 (25:59):
I don't know why this guy is not making headlines Nashal.

Speaker 6 (26:02):
Because people are just looking at box scores and the
numbers aren't ie poppingly good.

Speaker 13 (26:06):
Twenty one to thirty for two thirty five, two touchdowns,
no interceptions. You guys talked about the improv play to
Connor Hayward, he did miss a couple of men.

Speaker 4 (26:14):
I was just gonna say he actually left little on
the field yesterday.

Speaker 13 (26:18):
But the amazing thing, how many years did you guys
hear me come in here and bitch, they're.

Speaker 5 (26:24):
Getting one on ones and they won't throw the f
and ball. Yeah right.

Speaker 13 (26:28):
Jim Schwartz is a great defensive Coordinator's got the track
record to prove it. He has all the accolades in respect.
How does he cover metcalf one all the time when
you have no other receivers with a cornerback you just
got two days ago with not your best.

Speaker 5 (26:44):
Cornerback, right, I don't get that at all. You want
to do that, Okay, we're throwing it.

Speaker 6 (26:48):
Yeah, and he did it all day, easy throw because they.

Speaker 13 (26:52):
Don't switch sides and they just kept putting Metcalf on him, and.

Speaker 4 (26:56):
That was very perplexing. He missed perplexing with the Browns
fans sitting next to me too.

Speaker 13 (27:02):
How's that guy won on one when it's still a game,
you know you're still in it.

Speaker 6 (27:06):
He could have had two touchdowns if that one ball
didn't die on him and DK maybe didn't adjust as
well as he could have. Coming back to it, there.

Speaker 13 (27:13):
Was one he really underthrew, and the one that hit
the guy in the back, I think he was trying
to go over and it just didn't get there.

Speaker 5 (27:18):
Yeah, that was the one he and going over.

Speaker 4 (27:22):
But the one he underthrew that was six man. Yeah
that was six.

Speaker 13 (27:27):
But I mean just keep If you get one on
one with DK Metcalf, you have to throw it.

Speaker 5 (27:32):
I don't care what you have called. Right.

Speaker 13 (27:34):
The same thing with Calvin Austin because he's burned people.
When he gets back, they'll do that again. I would
like to see them get another receiver for death purposes,
and not the good one. But they got two. I
thought going into the year they had one.

Speaker 4 (27:49):
Yeah, you're sold on Calvin Anderson or Calvin Austin.

Speaker 5 (27:53):
Yes, says he has turned me.

Speaker 4 (27:55):
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Speaker 5 (28:45):
It's Tim Ben's Bends A good morning.

Speaker 4 (28:46):
How are you.

Speaker 17 (28:48):
Morning, guys?

Speaker 4 (28:49):
How we doing?

Speaker 5 (28:50):
I mean pretty good?

Speaker 4 (28:52):
Taking care of business against the Browns at Acatra Stadium
yesterday despite the field conditions being pretty crappy, although, as
we said, that seemed very appropriate given the Steelers Browns nature.
That matchup usually a little bit of a slobber knocker,
but yesterday it was really all Steelers on both sides
of the ball. And it's very rare that Steeler fans

(29:12):
come away with a win and don't have something a
bit about. But Tim, I'm having a hard time finding
anything to complain about. They got better where they needed
to and just smothered Dylan Gabriel and the Browns offense.

Speaker 17 (29:25):
Well, if you want complaints that bad, Randy, then just
start following the Browns and Miles Garrett's social media and
all the other things he had to say following the
game as he threw his entire team under the bus.
If you want complaints, just go to the brown side.

Speaker 5 (29:37):
My lord, he really did throw his team under the bus.

Speaker 17 (29:42):
Yeah, I mean he said that he was asked a question,
and it was sort of a leading question, and he
took the bait because somebody asked him, would you like
to be in a situation where your team is up
so you can just pin your ears back and go
after the quarterback like the Steelers did? In his response
was must be nice. So like, I don't know how

(30:04):
else you can interpret what he was getting at there.
I think he also.

Speaker 4 (30:08):
Taught well, mainly the fact that they traded away the
two quarterbacks that took all the snaps in the preseason
that might have that might have been a shot at
management as much as it was his fellow teammates.

Speaker 17 (30:19):
Yeah, he said he was sick of losing the same
way every week, and I think he's speaking to the
fact that the Browns have not exceeded seventeen points all season.

Speaker 4 (30:28):
So well, he had two assists yesterday, I mean he
did nothing silent.

Speaker 17 (30:33):
He was silent against an offensive line and more oftentimes
than not, an offensive lineman who has been ripped in
these parts. Anyway, I don't know how much attention it's
gotten nationally, but everybody was holding their breath to see
how that was going to go. But much like this
rivalry in general, and maybe it's because of this, but Pittsburgh,

(30:54):
the Steelers win, Cleveland, the Browns win, and as that goes,
as Garrett goes, maybe vice versa, because he tends to
be silent here and then tears him apart in Cleveland.
So we'll see what happens when they go up there
later in the season. But for now, to your original point, Yeah,
the Steelers were the much better team on both sides
of the ball. I anticipate them being the same against Cincinnati, who,

(31:19):
by the way, lost to gain the whole division is
on an eleven game.

Speaker 9 (31:22):
Ya, it's crazy eleven game.

Speaker 17 (31:25):
Losing Street for the AFC North, and the Bengals lost
again yesterday and Hendrickson got hurt and Kasiki got hurt.
Even though it's a short work week on the road
in division for a Thursday night, I still think the
Steelers win. And then let's see how they do against
three teams that are much better in the NFL standings
after that in a row, when they get what Green Bay,

(31:46):
Indianapolis and Los Angeles, let's see, let's look at their
performance against those three teams.

Speaker 6 (31:51):
Tim I got a big complaint about the defense. They
can't hang on to an interception. They got to get
on the jugs machine because they could easily have four
or five yesterday.

Speaker 17 (32:02):
It was like watching six I tailors out there.

Speaker 4 (32:05):
All yeah, man man, man Porter has.

Speaker 17 (32:09):
Number twenty four on and plays the same position straight.
And by the way, speaking of trash talk, how about
him lighting up Jerry Judy after the game. Yeah, for
all the smack that Jerry was talking after having a
was a two drop performance and just in general, not
a good game U.

Speaker 5 (32:26):
Forty three receiving yesterday.

Speaker 17 (32:29):
Yeah, then that quarterback was just overwhelmed the sixteen quarterback hits,
like Mike said yesterday, and it was coming from all directions,
including coming from the secondary with Jalen Ramsey. But yeah,
I would like to see them, although in a weird
way though, I know what you guys are saying, You're
right ninety nine times out of one hundred, I'm gonna
be right there with you screaming catch the ball. But

(32:50):
to a certain degree, wasn't it also fulfilling to see
them put on a defensive performance like that without the
benefit of a takeaway Ye you know it?

Speaker 4 (33:00):
Four down turnovers that are you know, like count those
as turnovers?

Speaker 17 (33:04):
I guess to a degree. Yeah, But you know, we
were all saying after the New England game, of course
they won the game, well, the Patriots gave them the
ball five times, or the Jets gave them the ball
and a kickoff return. I was all right with the
fact that they didn't get a turnover and they still
walked away holding the other team just to nine points.

Speaker 4 (33:22):
Like, I'll take that too. I mean, was really bringing
it yesterday. There were some hard hits, yeah, and I.

Speaker 17 (33:34):
Think you've seen residue of that throughout the season, honestly.
I mean, yeah, the Patriots gave them the ball five times,
they jarred it loose a couple of times. They were
hitting the Vikings players hard and creating fumbles. Same thing
with the kickoff return, you know, like in New York.
They were doing some of that on their own, with
the violence with which they are hitting. And I do

(33:55):
think that is keyed by Ramsey's presence, and that trade
seems to be working out pretty well, even if John
news Smith isn't exactly having the impact that a lot
of us would have liked. And I think the next element,
maybe the next phase of conversation is what you guys
touched on in the six o'clock sportscast six thirty Sports
cast of Mike, which is, you know, if some team

(34:16):
really is dedicated to just taking away DK Metcalf all day,
every play and not daring Aaron Rodgers to recognize it,
which he does whenever it happens, what do they do
with this number two receiver position, especially since Calvin Austin
is out.

Speaker 4 (34:30):
He's not afraid to throw it to anybody. I mean,
look what he did yesterday. You know, Connor Hayward ends
up with a touchdown. He'll throw it to anybody that's
out there.

Speaker 17 (34:39):
Well, I'll throw it to any of the other guys
who aren't wide receivers. I mean, what other wide receiver
put up any numbers?

Speaker 4 (34:44):
Maybe Roman Wilson one catch, twelve yards, first down. Scotty
Miller played a bunch of snaps. It's an Scaronick played
a bunch too.

Speaker 17 (34:53):
Well, that's sort of where I'm going with it. You know,
it's it's wide receiver one the tight ends it as
a collective and then like ten hatches a game between
gain Well and Warren out of the backfield, which by
the way, isn't terrible seeing is how the Browns were
pretty good at taking away passes to running backs coming
into this game, but they do need a better presence
to compliment Metcalf somehow. And I don't know, maybe the

(35:17):
calculus changes. The trade deadline comes closer because one they're
so desperately in need of it. Two, they're very much
in the race in three if they're gonna be drafting
later in the first round. And the quarterback class isn't
what we keep saying it was cracked up to be
back in August. You know, do those picks feel as

(35:37):
important even though the draft is in Pittsburgh, if it's
harder to get a quarterback, if they are on as
many good quarterbacks as we thought, you know, five months ago, And.

Speaker 13 (35:45):
Do they get as many picks and as many good
picks as they thought they were gonna get on the
compensatory side, Oh yeah, Just guys aren't playing the.

Speaker 17 (35:52):
Right that too. Yeah, I mean, like.

Speaker 4 (35:57):
Sides, Jack's gonna get hurt, You'll get Russe will come
for a return of us, yeah.

Speaker 17 (36:05):
Well and Fields, Well, if that happens, then Fields might
find his way to the bench. How about that team, huh.

Speaker 4 (36:10):
We were talking about them during the break man. It's
a real mess in uh je.

Speaker 17 (36:16):
Home from England. I mean as hungover as you guys
might have been from Ireland. I think they might have
had a worse you know. That was especially with the
Garrett Wilson thing walking off the field at the end
of the first half and what a spectacle they've become and.

Speaker 5 (36:30):
Just run out.

Speaker 4 (36:31):
They just didn't even run and play what.

Speaker 5 (36:33):
I have no idea what Aaron lenn was doing.

Speaker 4 (36:35):
There was he prancing down the sideline and he was
not dancing.

Speaker 17 (36:39):
No, it was clear that Garrett Wilson felt the same way.
And you know now you get I know again, it's
a short week divisional opponent. I get it. Those are
games they usually don't play well. They probably won't play
well in this one either, but I think they'll play
well enough to win. Hendrickson hurt his back the Sicky
Tours Peck but had a peck injury.

Speaker 5 (36:58):
He got fired. That's right.

Speaker 17 (37:02):
That went like to become the next head coach at
Penn State. My dream, by the way, for that is
the happy ending that I will have from happy valley
of this story is if somehow Franklin finds his way
to Virginia Tech or North Carolina to replace Belichick, just
to screw with Nardoozi once a year Like that, to
me will make this all worthwhile.

Speaker 4 (37:23):
To Men's brought to you by Don's Appliances. This morning
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a bunch of dudes are in there, and then someone goes,
holy f Penn State just fired Franklin, and the whole
bathroom went ah, Like people just started bashing Franklin and

(37:44):
it was like the funniest town crier I ever heard.

Speaker 5 (37:47):
Like it's in line for journals, Yeah.

Speaker 17 (37:53):
That was It kind of happened in the press box too.

Speaker 18 (37:56):
It's the same.

Speaker 17 (37:56):
Sort of reaction happened when we all found out. But
we got that vibe, didn't you. When like he's walking
over to sing the Alba bater after lose to Northwestern,
and he's looking for somebody to put his arm around
and hug and there's no one there. And and by
the way, one of the teams I'm hearing and reading
anyway about that might be interested in hiring. What if

(38:17):
he go what if he winds up at UCLA after
Ucla started his demise here. What if he goes back?
What if he ends up at your campe?

Speaker 18 (38:25):
How ironic would that be?

Speaker 4 (38:27):
Tim Benz, Thanks buddy, We'll talk to you soon.

Speaker 17 (38:29):
All right, guys, you got it?

Speaker 5 (38:30):
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Speaker 8 (38:32):
Saying goodbye to Diane Keaton.

Speaker 4 (38:34):
Jerry Dulac, rob King Top five plays of the game.
The Steelers hit the top comfortably atop the ac North.

Speaker 19 (38:43):
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Speaker 4 (39:16):
Show, your radio home with the Pittsburgh Steelers, one on
two points five DVE with some fun behind the scenes.
Technical difficulties once again, but no difficulties with Aaron Rodgers
finding Connor Hayward in the end zone yesterday, play action pass.

Speaker 2 (39:30):
Rolling to his right, looking downfield, looking throws back across
his body.

Speaker 9 (39:34):
Heat talk in the end zone. What a grab by
Connor Hayward.

Speaker 20 (39:39):
Magnificent thrown by Rogers and Hayward with his first touchdown.

Speaker 4 (39:44):
Of the season. I mean, beautiful throw, beautiful catch and
everything you hope to see out of having someone like
Aaron Rodgers as your quarterback, engineering that on the field
and the Steelers now it's Nott the AFC North take care.
Is this against the Browns and they are in free
fall in Cleveland, there's rumors about Stefancy getting fired. Oh

(40:06):
my god, if the Steelers got another Browns coach fired,
that would just be the greatest thing ever best. They
have not won a game in the regular season in Pittsburgh,
the Browns since the turn of the millennium. It's been
twenty plus years. I think was that the twenty third
in a row.

Speaker 6 (40:23):
This is a twenty second. Twenty second. That's how you
know you suck. Your losing streak is of legal drinking.

Speaker 4 (40:28):
Ag Miles Garrett after the game, a game in which
he did nothing, tried to throw his coaches and teammates
under the bus. My friend, you took the bag and
you knew what you were staying with.

Speaker 5 (40:42):
Yep. Nobody wants to hear it from you.

Speaker 4 (40:45):
And that's the beauty of the win is getting to
enjoy the frustration. On the other end of things, they
are absolutely squirming in Cleveland. I was sitting next to
Browns fans yesterday who were perfectly nice and they were
completely expecting everything to happen the way it did.

Speaker 5 (41:03):
They were not surprising.

Speaker 6 (41:04):
At least they know that they know the deal, They
know the tradition. You come to Pittsburgh in the regular season,
you lose.

Speaker 4 (41:10):
Yeah, they were They were a little nervous that they
were going to be mistreated by Steelers fans, and I
assured them that, you know, you'll be fine.

Speaker 5 (41:17):
I'm like, it's all about how you act.

Speaker 4 (41:19):
You're gonna get a few jackasses, but mostly everybody will
be cool to you.

Speaker 5 (41:24):
If you're cool. Now, if you stand up and go
on every.

Speaker 4 (41:28):
Play, now you're asking for you, you're asking for But
if you're just sitting in your seat cheer and nobody's
gonna bother you, your lump.

Speaker 5 (41:34):
I think, Yeah, that's that's the thing.

Speaker 6 (41:36):
If you're going on on the road as a fan,
you're gonna get chirped. If you let the chirps happen
and you don't chirp back, it doesn't escalate well.

Speaker 4 (41:45):
One of the the women who was in a Browns jersey,
she went to your tailgate at Stay je before Bill
and she said she was playing cornhole and a guy
in a Steelers jersey said to her you ever been
choked out before? And I was like, oh what, she goes. Yeah,

(42:06):
he was like threatening to tap me out because I
was a Browns fan. And I'm like, look, i'd like
to say that, you know, not all Steeler fans. I'm like,
but I'm gonna go ahead and say that's probably fifty
to fifty before a Steelers Browns game, to be real
honest with you, little talk, But.

Speaker 6 (42:21):
Is that like some kind of thing with cornhole? Like
you know how you if you get three strikes in
a row, it's a turkey?

Speaker 5 (42:27):
Like?

Speaker 6 (42:27):
Was he saying like you ever been choked out? Like
that's three bags at once or something? Yeah, like a
gobbler or something like.

Speaker 5 (42:33):
Yeah, maybe it was just he was talking about cornhole,
that's all it was. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (42:38):
No, but the frustration by the very few Browns fans
in attendance yesterday had to have been expected. I will
say that that crowd really fed off of what happened.
I think what they saw at Croke Park they wanted
to have a little bit of that at Acroture yesterday
because it was a live crowd. Abby.

Speaker 5 (42:58):
It was loud as hell in there.

Speaker 8 (43:00):
I'm so jealous. I wasn't there.

Speaker 6 (43:01):
That flyover was incredible. I don't know what the hell
that aircraft was. I've never even seen something like that
fly over to stadium.

Speaker 4 (43:09):
It's like when you see a bug and you're like,
is that two bugs?

Speaker 5 (43:12):
What the hell?

Speaker 6 (43:14):
Just like a chinook with the propellers on the top. Yeah, yeah, man,
that thing was awesome.

Speaker 4 (43:19):
A couple of jets next to it and everything, and
it was like you couldn't tell if you were going
to see it, if it was hidden in the clads
it was. You could hear the sound and you're like,
is that think above us right now? Are we getting
stealthed Steelers stealth on that first play from scrimmage yesterday
where they come out in the fatman package, in the
big jumbo package and then let Darnell sneak out for

(43:41):
a big game. I love that to start the game yesterday.
I loved the unpredictability on offense and defense, sending Jalen
Ramsey a couple of times, sending guys on the blitz,
very effective against the young quarterback Deal and Gabriel who
rugled yesterday against the Steelers.

Speaker 6 (43:58):
Oh God, he's staying on the first floor of his
house all week.

Speaker 4 (44:01):
Twenty nine of fifty two. He had fifty two attempts.

Speaker 5 (44:07):
Yes, true, I mean that's irresponsible.

Speaker 6 (44:09):
If you're the head coach, like you're not, you're doing that,
You're gonna you're gonna drop him back fifty sometimes in
Pittsburgh against that front line and that defense and those linebackers.

Speaker 4 (44:19):
And they Baill did not do what the Steelers did,
which I loved, and we talked about this last week.
It was gonna be a slog in the first half.

Speaker 17 (44:27):
We knew this.

Speaker 4 (44:28):
We said bet the under in the first half. The
Steelers have to stick with the run no matter what.
And that's what they did. You know, if if Jalen
Warren ended up with a you know, one yard, absolute
like it just looked like a street fight just to get.

Speaker 5 (44:43):
That one yard, he runs so hard.

Speaker 4 (44:45):
They kept going by the second half, after they kept
at it for the whole first half, started to wear
down that Browns defense even more. And then they started
to rip off six and seven yards at a time,
and all of a sudden, here comes Caleb Johnson who
got six carries yesterday. You all right, two and a
half per but a couple of those were, you know,
towards the end when they were just looking to eat

(45:06):
up some clock. He broke it out a couple of times,
a little bit better yesterday. Love seeing that, Love seeing
Kashawn Williams with the big return, even though it got
brought back on the bogus penalty. Seemed like Jabrill Pepper's
got tagged with a couple that were bs yesterday. But
that looks promising there without Calvin Austin and at least

(45:27):
in terms of punt return.

Speaker 5 (45:30):
And uh, you know, they got to fix the field.

Speaker 4 (45:31):
We talked about that Achrocuer Stadium has long been you know,
and when it was Heinz Field, it was a joke
for many, many years. I thought we had sort of
transcended that era of greens keeping malfeasance that seemed to
be occurring.

Speaker 5 (45:46):
Year in and year out.

Speaker 4 (45:47):
Yeah, and it's time once again for those landscapers to
figure it out.

Speaker 5 (45:51):
You got a couple of weeks.

Speaker 6 (45:52):
I think they did. They started ripping it up immediately
after the game.

Speaker 4 (45:56):
You have until Green Bay comes to Heinz Field night
the twenty sixth, twenty six Yep, it's just time. Well
their primetime again this Thursday with a short turnaround two
AFC North battles in a row for the Steelers, they
take the first one. They're taking care of business. They
took care of the of the Browns, and now they
got to take care at a Bengals. It's TCB for

(46:18):
your Pittsburgh. Seems for the next couple of weeks. Jerry
Doulak will be joining us. He tweeted out the brown
the Steelers got another Browns coach fired, and I don't
know if he was reacting to some of the biggest
but cracked because there were a couple of bogus reports
out there.

Speaker 6 (46:34):
I mean, it definitely feels like that's out there in
the ether that he should be fired, could be fired.

Speaker 4 (46:42):
Part of me thinks he wants to get fired.

Speaker 5 (46:44):
I mean, they're paying eight quarterbacks right now.

Speaker 4 (46:47):
Literally, they're really eight.

Speaker 5 (46:51):
They only have three on their roster.

Speaker 4 (46:53):
Would you rather put your lot on the future of
the Browns or the Jets.

Speaker 5 (47:00):
I mean, I've said this multiple times on the program.
The Jets are the Browns with a better color scheme.
I mean New.

Speaker 6 (47:07):
York just because it's I like the colors better and
it's New York, but not because I have any faith
in their football.

Speaker 4 (47:15):
You're not as hamstrung though with contracts in New York.
You're like the owner for the Browns has completely screwed them.
There's a little part of me that think Stefanski's like,
please fire me when he's saying stuff like, yeah, no,
we weren't looking to trade Joe Flacco, but he's gone.

Speaker 6 (47:28):
Now, yeah, that took us by surprise. You weren't expecting
to get that call.

Speaker 4 (47:32):
And he he didn't even answer a quite like he
wasn't asked about that. He steered his answer so that
he could make that statement. I think that indicates a
level of frustration with the head coach going into the
game this weekend.

Speaker 6 (47:46):
Still just in mixed messages like the disconnect between the owner,
the GM and the coach. I mean, when you trade
for Kenny Pickett, go out and sign Joe Flacco and
both those guys are gone before the draft?

Speaker 9 (48:00):
Two quarters?

Speaker 5 (48:01):
Man, what are you doing? So?

Speaker 4 (48:03):
I don't think there's any question Dylan Gabriel should have
been starting for them because it doesn't matter what Joe
Flacco does.

Speaker 5 (48:08):
You have to see what Dylan Gabriel needs to do.

Speaker 4 (48:11):
But he I don't think you can get an accurate
assessment of what he is capable of yet and people
are saying, oh, he ain't the guy.

Speaker 5 (48:19):
I grant you, he didn't the guy, but like I
dropped some balls on him.

Speaker 4 (48:23):
They drupped at least four balls, if not five. I
don't think he looked terrible, believe it or not in
a twenty nine for fifty two out in two hundred
and twenty one yards passing yesterday.

Speaker 6 (48:34):
No, But in an introduction into AFC North Football, a
game on the road. You don't have that guy throw
fifty times. You've you've been successful running the ball. That's
that's how they were successful in his first game in London.

Speaker 5 (48:48):
They could have won that.

Speaker 6 (48:49):
Game because of their effectiveness running the ball where he
can make throws here and there.

Speaker 5 (48:53):
He's he's mobile. Obviously he's got some wheels.

Speaker 4 (48:56):
Back to my earlier point, Steelers stuck with the run
even when it wasn't totally working. They let Corlis Weightman
punt the ball away. Fine, live to fight another day.

Speaker 5 (49:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (49:05):
Brown seemed to be a little more impatient with that,
you know, and it I think it bit him in
the RS. I mean, Juggins only had twelve carries, Jerome
Ford had two. They stuffed him Steelers defense was outstanding
yesterday and I think they're getting it figured out.

Speaker 5 (49:25):
And Patrick Queen is really on fire right now. He's
playing hard.

Speaker 4 (49:30):
So if you got Ramsey playing the way he's playing, which,
by the way, coming back from an injury that nobody
thought he was gonna return from and having that level
of a game thought he was out for a month,
meets it. That's what we were told. Jerry Doulx said.
It's the same way as they're gonna treat it the
same way as Joey Porter junior, and they're gonna take
their time. He was out for it three games, right, yep.
So big defensive effort yesterday, making a little stride on

(49:54):
some strides on offense in terms of the offensive line,
even though you didn't have Calvin Austin yesterday, and Aaron
Rodgers pretty good throwing the ball to DK ninety five
yards for DK him twice.

Speaker 5 (50:06):
Maybe he could have had a couple.

Speaker 4 (50:07):
More tuddies, well at least two, right, I mean the
one he underthrew which was criminal because he he like
moved back. It just died on him. He just moved by.
Well it was windy too, I think it was. I'm
not sure if that showed up on TV.

Speaker 7 (50:23):
It was pretty It didn't Jomp on TV.

Speaker 4 (50:26):
Yeah, it was pretty windy in the stadium, and that
was going right against the wind.

Speaker 5 (50:30):
The wind was coming in off.

Speaker 4 (50:31):
The lake, like Bubby Brister used to say. But the
second one, you know, we were talking about it earlier,
was Aaron Rodgers trying to go back shoulder and threw
it a little too inside or was he trying to
go over the top and didn't throw it far enough.

Speaker 5 (50:45):
Hit the defender right in the number.

Speaker 4 (50:47):
Yeah, Dylan Gabriel did that to Jerry Judy later in
the game where he threw it off his helmet and
that was a touchdown and that would have made it,
you know, they just kicked the extra point there. That
would have made it twenty three thirteen. And then I
think it was the next play where Nick Herbig had
that like eighteen yard sack and backed him up to
you know, fourth and forever. I don't think it was

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eighteen yards, but it was. It was a big sack,
and I think I think it was fourth and fourteen.
I'm not sure, but they ended up turning the ball
over on downs and the Steelers.

Speaker 5 (51:17):
Is that the one?

Speaker 4 (51:18):
Yeah, I think Boz went down on the field goal
on that one, right, No, no, no, no, no.

Speaker 5 (51:23):
No no.

Speaker 4 (51:23):
He missed the field goal on that one. That's what
the That was scary. The field gave way underneath him
and he almost got sweehamed. Yeah, that was scary, which
would have been terrifying, but luckily it didn't happen.

Speaker 5 (51:35):
By the way, great national anthem yesterday. By the uh
the she was.

Speaker 4 (51:39):
Crazy choir singer. I don't know what her name was.

Speaker 5 (51:41):
She killed it.

Speaker 4 (51:42):
She was awesome. And then the fly over happened. It
was like just.

Speaker 6 (51:47):
And the fact that that was the crucial catch game,
like that's the theme and it's cancer survivors. And to
have Merrill come out and do the terrible talts borrow
yea and Merril got a big pop.

Speaker 4 (51:58):
He deserved it. That was pretty fun to see him
come out there yesterday. Uh it's all cream cheese when
you win. And the Steelers taking care of some AFC
North business and once again for the second consecutive weekend,
Ravens Bengals, Browns go down. Steelers get a dub this
weekend on top of it, and look they could lose

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next weekend or Thursday night to the Bengals and they'll
still be on top of the AFC North. You can't
lose to the Bengals. Do you not let Joe Flacco
beat you?

Speaker 6 (52:31):
The place for the Bengals, not the Browns or the Ravens,
the other team that started in Ohio.

Speaker 4 (52:39):
We should really let him retire with us like we did,
like the Penguins did with Flurry, Like just for a
preseason game. Bring Flacco in, let him get sat. I
have Troy intercept him for a pick six.

Speaker 5 (52:52):
Have you seen Troy lately? I don't know.

Speaker 4 (52:54):
It looks like he's been intercepting a lot of donuts.

Speaker 5 (52:56):
Yeah, he looks like he's doing a lot of pick twos.

Speaker 21 (52:59):
He looks like Ork Troy now I think smokes, Yeah.

Speaker 5 (53:05):
Hanging out on Troy Hill.

Speaker 4 (53:06):
Jerry Deal joined us. Top five plays of the game,
Rob King and Moore. Abbey's Got Your NWES now on dv.

Speaker 7 (53:11):
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plays to pursuing drama in college, to Broadway, and then
to Hollywood. She earned a Tony nomination working with Woody
Allen on Broadway in his play play It Again, Sam,
forging a partnership that would last decades and over several films.
After scoring her first film role in nineteen seventies Lovers
and Other Strangers, Keaton scored the role of a lifetime

(53:56):
as Michael cor Leone's wife Kay in The Godfather and
It's two sequels.

Speaker 4 (54:01):
Career good. She is so good in everything but Man
and Godfather too.

Speaker 7 (54:06):
Oh yeah, I think the other, you know, career highlight
would be Annie Hall.

Speaker 4 (54:12):
No, White Hall was so good. Annie Hall. She was perfect. Well,
you know, she was one of those people who set
fashion trends. Yeah, with everything that she did, and it
was kind of cool. She always maintained the own same
sort of sensibility, so that if you saw somebody dressed
like Diane Keaton, you'd be she looks like Diane Keaton

(54:35):
just because of the way she was dressed. You know,
it's like that's a pretty unique thing to be able
to pull off.

Speaker 6 (54:39):
And now everybody looks the same because everybody's wearing everything.

Speaker 5 (54:42):
Oh my god, dude, I.

Speaker 4 (54:44):
Saw these two girls dressed exactly the same yeah, on
Saturday night, and I almost ask them, like, are you
guys on a team? Yeah, boots to the knees, the
white top, the whole thing. And I'm like, it really
looks like you guys are going to go march or something,
but I I refrained.

Speaker 6 (55:01):
But yeah, we're on team. Don't talk to creepy guys.
See you later. Why am I creepy nuts?

Speaker 4 (55:07):
Yeah? No, it's because I was wearing the same thing
that really bothered me. But she's also an amazing singer,
Diane Kee, amazing singer. Oh really didn't listen to her
singing Annie Hall. I mean she always said if she
wasn't an actress, she would have been a singer. She's
an incredible singer.

Speaker 6 (55:25):
That was the first time I had ever seen a
performance where somebody was like so vulnerable that it kind
of made me uncomfortable.

Speaker 4 (55:32):
Yeah, because she's.

Speaker 5 (55:34):
So like insecure in that role. And I was like,
is this her or is this the part? Or what
is this?

Speaker 10 (55:41):
Like?

Speaker 5 (55:41):
This is an incredible job acting.

Speaker 4 (55:43):
I mean he based it on her. You know what,
do you all undated her sisters too? Or two sisters?
Of course, it's just like the weirdest situation. But he
really based Did they dress like Diane Kee? I believe
they all did. Okay, there's a scene where he goes
to visit her family and she's like, hey, my grandmother's
racist stef yi, And that was that was based on
his real real Yeah. Going to her family's house and her,

(56:07):
the matriarch of the family was, you know, kind of
an old school racist or what.

Speaker 5 (56:10):
I like, most people's grandma's are races.

Speaker 6 (56:12):
A little bit, yeah, if not overtly, like in a
sweet way, yeah, not like in an active way.

Speaker 4 (56:18):
Yeah, you know, but from the house I made some pie.
Please date your own kind.

Speaker 8 (56:26):
Yeah yeah.

Speaker 4 (56:29):
No.

Speaker 7 (56:29):
She was romantically linked to Woody Allen, but also Warren
Baty and al Pacino, and she never ended up.

Speaker 4 (56:37):
Marrying, said one of his biggest regrets in life is
not marrying her.

Speaker 6 (56:42):
It's probably one of her best accomplishments, not marrying.

Speaker 4 (56:47):
God, he's still having kids. She I mean, there are
so many movies I love her in and uh, I
don't know why that one surprised the hell out of me,
and it is like it made me so sad because
I just loved her and everything she did Red's.

Speaker 5 (57:03):
She's amazing in Reds.

Speaker 7 (57:04):
If you've never seen that Marvin's Room, Something's got to give.

Speaker 4 (57:09):
I know, you guys hate Something's got to give, But
I like it just for her.

Speaker 5 (57:13):
Remind me of something Jack Nicholson.

Speaker 4 (57:15):
Keanu Reeves. That's the one where Nicholson is dating her
daughter and then he like has a heart attack and
then he falls in love with Dian Keaton.

Speaker 8 (57:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (57:22):
Apparently Diane Keaton was such a good actress on set
that Nicholson pulled the director Nancy Myers aside and said,
I think we got a problem. She's really in love
with me, and she's like, no, she's acting. And he's like,
I don't think this is acting. You can't act like that,

(57:44):
you know, And she's like, no, I assure you, she's acting.
And then he had this huge humility moment where diyank
Kete was.

Speaker 5 (57:50):
Like, yeah, I'm acting. What are you a morn?

Speaker 6 (57:54):
I saw that same exact thing happened to Owen Benjamin
to the Strip Club.

Speaker 5 (58:02):
He's like, guys, that girl she likes me right, like
more than a friend.

Speaker 4 (58:06):
And that humiliation is uh, turn them loose, please, hip
your pants up, put your belt on.

Speaker 5 (58:14):
He's like, I'll never get over this.

Speaker 4 (58:15):
I'm got to move to Utah by five hundred acres
and started an army kid on.

Speaker 7 (58:21):
Unfortunately, we don't have any kind of cause of death here.

Speaker 8 (58:26):
She's just seventy nine too.

Speaker 4 (58:28):
Apparently it's super quick man. She found out like a
couple of weeks ago.

Speaker 7 (58:32):
Well, yeah, there was one of the Saturday Night Live actresses,
Padilla I think it's her last name, posted a picture
and Diane looked extremely thin. So whatever it was, to
your point, it looks like it happened, you know, very fast.

Speaker 8 (58:49):
But I mean she was even just in a Justin Bieber.

Speaker 7 (58:51):
Video like somewhat recently, so she was still like active
in doing things, but it was just Yeah.

Speaker 4 (58:57):
You can also like tell how authentic they were by
the response of their contemporaries when they passed, and when
Jane Fonda and Goldie Hawn are like beside themselves sad,
you just get an inkling that like, oh she was
actually that person. She really was super sad. But what

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a great contribution to American culture.

Speaker 7 (59:22):
It's gonna be pleasant with times of clouds and sun
today and a high.

Speaker 4 (59:25):
Of sixty eight.

Speaker 5 (59:26):
All right.

Speaker 4 (59:26):
Jerry Deal joined us a little bit later on a
power hour of Steeler Talk with the voice of the
Pittsburgh Steelers Rob King. In the nine am hour, we'll
have our top five plays of the game yesterday if
Steelers on both sides of the ball outstanding specialties was
a little a little bit of a C plus B
minus yesterday, But didn't it really matter because the offense

(59:47):
of the defense were just so sound. This is what
we've been waiting for, seeing them take steps forward, getting
that defensive line showed up ever since Harmon came back.
It's like a different defense and offensively. Broderick Jones with
his best game of the year on a day he
needed to have it, and he silences Miles Garrett and
the Cleveland Browns, who skulk back to Cleveland with a loss.

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Speaker 13 (01:01:00):
Do you guys ever go to a Steeler game or
watch a Steeler game and wonder afterwards.

Speaker 5 (01:01:05):
Did they even have a plan? What were they doing?
What were they thinking?

Speaker 4 (01:01:08):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (01:01:09):
Yeah, well number of times.

Speaker 13 (01:01:11):
Yesterday, No such issue. Right, they actually had a plan.
This just did now. Of course they always have one,
but does it always come together the way it did
yesterday in a resounding twenty three nine victory over Cleveland.

Speaker 5 (01:01:26):
Here's Mike Tomlin.

Speaker 16 (01:01:27):
We had certain agendas that we thought were critical to
making this game unfold the way we desire for dunfold.

Speaker 4 (01:01:34):
We thought they.

Speaker 5 (01:01:35):
Played behind the runner.

Speaker 16 (01:01:37):
We wanted to do a good job of minimizing him,
and I think we did that. When you do that,
then you're in favorable one dimensional passing circumstances for your defense.
And I think that was reflected in the pressure that
we were able to put on the quarterback on the
other side of the ball. We were able to stay
on schedule and minimize those one dimensional moments, to minimize
Miles Garretts impact on the game. And so like some

(01:01:59):
of those agenda man that we had, we were able
to get accomplished. And I think that's why we engineered victory. Yeah,
it always comes down and run. Stop the run first
and foremost.

Speaker 13 (01:02:09):
Sometimes you need stuff beside that, but if you can
run and stop the run, you got a really good chance.
And quin Shawn Jenkins, the Browns rookie from Ohio State,
had been.

Speaker 5 (01:02:19):
Tearing up the league for three games.

Speaker 4 (01:02:21):
He's over under was it like ninety yards yes?

Speaker 22 (01:02:23):
Oh?

Speaker 13 (01:02:23):
And bad odds yeah yeah, I mean the odds makers
expected him to run wild yesterday. I was from a
perspective of what can go wrong for the Steelers in
this game.

Speaker 5 (01:02:34):
I was very concerned about him running the ball. Yeah,
and that's the concern. That's why I thought it was
gonna be a close game.

Speaker 13 (01:02:39):
He went twelve carries for thirty six yards, and the
Steelers conversely number one rush defense in the NFL, and
on the way to twenty three to six, which at
that point the game's over and they're just killing time.
But their first twenty one carries netted ninety nine yards
four point.

Speaker 5 (01:02:57):
Seven a pop. And man, every single yard was earned.

Speaker 13 (01:03:02):
Gonna win a lot of football games if you stop
their runner and you run effectively. Hey, I don't care
if for it takes nine offensive linemen. Just get it done.
And they got it done.

Speaker 18 (01:03:12):
Uh.

Speaker 13 (01:03:12):
The defense was able to feast in those obvious passing situations.
Tomlin referenced six sacks, including two from Jalen Ramsey, who
played despite not practicing on Wednesday or Thursday. Sometimes ball
karma shines on those who deserve it.

Speaker 5 (01:03:32):
I felt good.

Speaker 22 (01:03:34):
I'm gonna probably tell my kids about this. I played
in the game with TJ. Wye and now's geared and
I had two sacks.

Speaker 5 (01:03:41):
That's crazy, Huh, that's crazy.

Speaker 22 (01:03:43):
So yeah, my first first time in my whole career
having two sacks in one game.

Speaker 5 (01:03:48):
So that's pretty cool too.

Speaker 4 (01:03:50):
It things are going well when Jalen Ramsey's in a
good mood.

Speaker 5 (01:03:53):
Yeah, and Dan near injured himself on one of those sacks.
They were all he just knocked his like he took
his own wing was where the.

Speaker 4 (01:04:02):
Way he tackled him, like when his chest was open.
So like, I think you're right. I think he did
kind of knock out win win.

Speaker 5 (01:04:08):
Yeah, knock the wind out of himself. But you know,
it's funny.

Speaker 13 (01:04:11):
One of them, he caught Dylan Gabriel from behind when
Gabriel escaped the pocket left and started to run, and
it just hit me in the face. We were talking about
this before the game, Dylan Gabriel when he was at Oregon.
That's a sixteen yard game and a first down.

Speaker 5 (01:04:24):
Yeah in the NFL.

Speaker 13 (01:04:27):
Gold jacket comes up and kicks your ass from behind, Like, yeah,
it's not the same game, you know. Gabriel just or
he won't. He's just getting started in his career. But
Ramsey was just well. Mike Thomas said he's been everything
they thought and hoped he could be, and that included
Aaron Rodgers talking about Ramsey's willingness to put his hand

(01:04:51):
in the pile.

Speaker 15 (01:04:52):
I do want to make a point and talk about
Ramsey because what he did this week getting ready to play.
I've been around the game a long time, and I've
seen a lot of guys in a situation where you
got it Sunday Thursday. Let's gip both games where maybe
they're eighty percent eighty five percent, but they want to

(01:05:13):
be one hundred percent because there's I think there's a
fear of failure almost that they can paralyze them, where
if I don't play my best game, then what does
that say about me? If I'm not one hundred percent.
I think some guys are scared to go out there
and play. But for Jalen to go out there with
everything he's accomplished in this league, I just can't say
enough about the level of respect they have for him.
Then he had what two sacks and pass breakups and tackles,

(01:05:35):
and if there was any question about the type of
person that he is, take away the grip increto A
player with person and teammate. I think he just showed
all of us the kind of guy that he is
by going out there and playing today.

Speaker 4 (01:05:50):
That's the kind of thing that absolutely resonates in a locker.

Speaker 5 (01:05:53):
Room one hundred percent.

Speaker 4 (01:05:55):
When you see Tua at the podium post game talking
about his team and saying, there's no we got a
real leadership problem here. Guys come in to meetings late
if they show up at all saying stuff like that,
and you can just tell that a team has been
in disarray for a long time. The stuff that those
veterans are doing, Aaron Rodgers, Jalen Ramsey and DK Even

(01:06:20):
and the way that they're all helping to set the
tone without making it a me first kind of vibe.

Speaker 5 (01:06:26):
They're planning for each other, which.

Speaker 4 (01:06:27):
By the way, you know, one of the main knocks
on Aaron was that he was going to be that guy.
Aaron Rodgers has been Like every comment he's had since
he's been wearing a Steelers' uniform sounds like he's working
for the NFL on Fox or something. Everyone right, you
know what I mean, Like it's completely diplomatic.

Speaker 13 (01:06:44):
Yeah, I got Did I miss one? Or is he
just been perfect behind the microphone?

Speaker 4 (01:06:48):
No, I'm That's what I'm saying, is he's been a
politician and in the right way. I don't mean that derogatorily,
like he's handled the locker room, not in.

Speaker 6 (01:06:56):
The Russ Wilson way where it's like this phony, you know,
vote for black and Goldie Wilson. Yeah, you know, I'll back.
I'll get pop machines put in on every floor. Like
he's not he's selling a bunch of bs. He's actually
boosting the character profiles of his teammates.

Speaker 4 (01:07:14):
I was worried about him in that regard, and he
has been you know, above reproach.

Speaker 13 (01:07:20):
He was even I didn't get to this last week,
but he was talking about Miles Garrett and giving Garrett
his flowers before. Garrett's a great play. He didn't have
a good game yesterday. It's a hall of fame players
Garrett and TJ.

Speaker 5 (01:07:32):
Watters good. He thinks here and he's good in Cleveland.

Speaker 13 (01:07:35):
But Rogers was talking about good Garrett is and he
added words to the effect, oh, by the way, we
have one of those guys to TJ. Watt is really great,
Like just to make sure he includes your guy so
he doesn't think anything about what you're talking about relative
to an opponent.

Speaker 4 (01:07:52):
To me, the ultimate I win move between TJ. Watt
and Miles Garrett is the fact that he only played
what percentage snaps yesterday.

Speaker 5 (01:08:01):
I was pretty low for TJ Watt. Sixty.

Speaker 23 (01:08:05):
Yeah, if he's taking a breather because he's already had
his half a sack, six tackles, pass batted down his
six you know, quarterback hits or whatever it was.

Speaker 4 (01:08:16):
I mean, he was an absolute and plus they kept
running at him yesterday, which I don't understand. It's like
they're the only team in the league that would that
ran at TJ. Watt.

Speaker 13 (01:08:25):
Well, you know, there there is a theory he's good
at chasing it down from behind and sometimes you can
back a guy off pass rush wise if you keep
running at him and you get him thinking I was
gonna be pulling guard up in my face or whatever.
Like I mean, it's hard. There's not like a plan
that works against TJ. Watt, you know what I mean?

Speaker 5 (01:08:43):
It just nope.

Speaker 13 (01:08:45):
And they they had confidence in their run game, which
they should have coming into the game.

Speaker 4 (01:08:49):
There was a play where Aaron Rodgers breaks out of
the pocket. I think he ended up running for two
yards and Miles Garrett was chasing him and.

Speaker 5 (01:08:57):
Oh I saw that and could not catch just in time.
That could have been bad.

Speaker 13 (01:09:02):
That is my one real big concern with this Steelers
team right now. I do not want Aaron Rodgers running
past the line of script.

Speaker 6 (01:09:10):
Just don't even want him running around laterally for a
long time because that play right there, if Miles Garrett
would have tackled him from behind and landed on him.

Speaker 13 (01:09:18):
I think he's tried it four times, and three times
he didn't get the first out, and one time he
did but fumbled. Broderick Jones picked that up broader Joe
Little caught it out of the air, hit him in
the chest. I don't even know where he came from.

Speaker 4 (01:09:31):
By the way, If they keep and they probably will
keep running that jumbo package out with Spencer Anderson, eventually
they have to throw the ball to Spencer Anderson in
the end zone.

Speaker 13 (01:09:39):
Have toime sure Spence would be down with that. He's
an old hooper and soft. Yeah, he played AAU and
he had scholarship offers from George Mason and vcu.

Speaker 5 (01:09:51):
Oh, dude, we have to throw him the ball. That
has to happen. Go up and get rebounds. You can
go up and get a football, right if you can
dodge your wrench's.

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Speaker 4 (01:11:12):
If you kick Steelers one O two point five dve
Steelers over the Browns yesterday at Extra STATEUM twenty three
to nine. Steelers a top the AFC North Browns sitting
in the basement with the Ravens.

Speaker 13 (01:11:28):
Right Bengals Thursday. Every other team in the AFC North
has five losses.

Speaker 5 (01:11:35):
And it's early. The Steelers have one.

Speaker 4 (01:11:38):
They would really have to work hard to screw it
up if that were the case. Big game Thursday night
against Joe Flacco and the Bengals. But I digress, getting
to yesterday's win over the Browns, which always feels good,
getting a win over Cleveland.

Speaker 6 (01:11:54):
Oh, it's the best, always feels and it's a long
Pittsburgh tradition.

Speaker 5 (01:11:57):
Here at home.

Speaker 4 (01:11:58):
Steelers open up with the ball and right away they
go out with that jumbo package and pull a little
little trickery by sending Darnell out there and he is
wide open. And this set the tone for what was
to come. The action pass rolling out us.

Speaker 9 (01:12:11):
Man right open.

Speaker 24 (01:12:12):
It's Darnel Washington got the forty roubblers up the right
sideline and has it punched out from behind, but it
trickles out of bounds at the thirty two yard line.

Speaker 9 (01:12:23):
So a quick play action to a wide.

Speaker 5 (01:12:26):
Open Darnell Washington wide open.

Speaker 4 (01:12:28):
I thought he was gonna take it all the way, Mike,
But I guess when you're three sixty it's hard to
out run ye t backs.

Speaker 13 (01:12:35):
You know, five targets for him yesterday, three catches. They
only targeted him thirty five times his first two years,
which is just a tiny bit over one. Again, they're
finally figuring out, Hey, this guy's really big.

Speaker 5 (01:12:46):
Yeah, and he's hard to defend. He's also hard to overthrow.
But ayrod did it yesterday.

Speaker 13 (01:12:51):
Yeah, all that crosser, the double play action crossing was
wide open.

Speaker 5 (01:12:56):
Yeah, he had.

Speaker 4 (01:12:58):
I mean as good as Aaron Rodgers yesterday. I mean
I noticed a couple. I know he'd be the first
one to say he missed a couple, Yet.

Speaker 6 (01:13:04):
That one got everybody into it immediately. The crowd was
going nuts.

Speaker 4 (01:13:08):
Well, it was also an indication that it was going
to be another game. You were going to see a
lot of Darnell Washington and the fact that Aaron Rodgers
went to him. Uh and continues to talk about how
about the hands on Darnel Washington, that one first down
catch he had stretching out yepla, all of a sudden,
maybe this really is a guy you can turn into
one of the NFL elites.

Speaker 13 (01:13:29):
Mike been talking about it since they drafted him. They're
finally getting around to taking advantage of it.

Speaker 4 (01:13:35):
Number four. I love what this said about the Steelers
in the first quarter yesterday. Dylan Gabriel a little bit
nervous and it only his second game starting, and you
wondered what we're Terrell Austin and Mike tom Ain going
to dial up for.

Speaker 5 (01:13:49):
The rookie QB.

Speaker 4 (01:13:50):
How about Kalen Ramsey on a blitz play a key
pass Gabriel, But what's coming in?

Speaker 3 (01:13:56):
Jalen Ramsey coming in off the left side of the defense,
hammers Gabriel for his first sack as a member of
the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Speaker 4 (01:14:06):
Two yesterday for Ramsey and he only had three in
his career before that.

Speaker 13 (01:14:10):
Ramsey is impactful the way Mika Fitzpatrick was when he
first got here.

Speaker 5 (01:14:15):
YEP, immediate splash and stopped being.

Speaker 4 (01:14:18):
Eventually he stopped being and we gave him a wide
berth to bring it back, and we attributed it to
all kinds of other things of well, you're doing lots
of things behind the scenes. You're not making not making
a statue.

Speaker 13 (01:14:31):
I mean, they were playing him deep middle because they
didn't want to give up home run balls. Ramsey's playing
on the line of scrimmage a lot, and he can
do some damage there.

Speaker 6 (01:14:38):
It's it's hard to get excited about a player for
the plays that they're negating without making.

Speaker 5 (01:14:44):
Yes, yes it is.

Speaker 4 (01:14:46):
At number three. After appearing on the DV Morning Show
on Friday, he gets the morning show Pump Nick Herbig.
People were wondering, now that Heismith's back, how many snaps
is he gonna see and will he be a difference
make like he's bet I mean, I think we now
know that there's no way Mike Tomlin's keeping this guy
off the field. A two sack day for Nick Herbig yesterday,

(01:15:07):
This one in the fourth quarter, second and two from
Pittsburgh forty eight, five thirty eight left in the game.

Speaker 5 (01:15:12):
Dylly Gabriel drops back.

Speaker 2 (01:15:14):
And Gabriel gets a snap back the pass looking let.

Speaker 20 (01:15:18):
Under pressure herbit gets it back of the fourteenth, then
slings him.

Speaker 4 (01:15:22):
To the turf.

Speaker 5 (01:15:23):
I love that his elusiveness.

Speaker 4 (01:15:25):
He gets a little too inside sometimes still, but Mike,
he is really developing so fast in front of our
eyes into an elite pass rusher.

Speaker 13 (01:15:35):
Four and a half sacks in his last three games.
Might have just start calling him n H because he's
playing like LT.

Speaker 5 (01:15:42):
Wow, that's a hell of a comparison. Is the short
run here?

Speaker 9 (01:15:48):
Is it wrong?

Speaker 18 (01:15:49):
No?

Speaker 5 (01:15:49):
His his speed off the edge is unblockable.

Speaker 4 (01:15:52):
Sixteen six to start the fourth quarter, and Aaron Rodgers
and DK were doing it all game.

Speaker 5 (01:16:00):
Alvarro Martine on the call, but.

Speaker 4 (01:16:03):
He maybe he is go to the game with beat
the boy.

Speaker 9 (01:16:08):
Oh cut this out?

Speaker 4 (01:16:10):
He look see you and I see that fasil go
decay Metcalf ls beat us all twenty five yards to.

Speaker 6 (01:16:19):
Metcalf and I don't know what he said, but I
agree completely and.

Speaker 5 (01:16:24):
That made it twenty three six. Mike. You know they
were only four for nine on.

Speaker 13 (01:16:28):
Targets to Metcalf catch us per target, which is allows
the ratio. But when you end up with ninety five
yards in the touchdown, who cares right right, Jim Schwartz,
your genius brother. Why were you single covering him as
often as you were single covering him?

Speaker 5 (01:16:45):
Why it made no sense because Aaron Rodgers.

Speaker 13 (01:16:48):
Is gonna see that and he's gonna try to make
you pay.

Speaker 5 (01:16:52):
And I love the amount of targets. And he got
open two more times where Rogers missed him.

Speaker 4 (01:16:57):
Yeh h And at number one, you're play of the game,
number one play of the game in the third quarter,
seven forty six left, Aaron Rodgers scrambles around and then
starts making chicken salad. What was he making it out of? Well?

Speaker 5 (01:17:13):
Connor Hayward.

Speaker 2 (01:17:16):
Play action pass, rolling to his right, looking downfield, looking
throws back across his body.

Speaker 3 (01:17:21):
Talk in the end zone.

Speaker 9 (01:17:23):
What a graand by Connor Hayward.

Speaker 20 (01:17:25):
Magnificent thrown by Rogers and Hayward with his first touchoun
of the season.

Speaker 4 (01:17:32):
The amount of crap that Connor Hayward took for no reason.
I will never understand the guy. He's never done anything
but play hard and make big plays.

Speaker 5 (01:17:40):
You know, that was big league football there.

Speaker 13 (01:17:45):
That was not an easy catch, no, And it had
to be two guys who understand the game and know
what to do and think on the run and react
on the run and then make an athletic play.

Speaker 5 (01:17:55):
And it was athletic on both ends.

Speaker 13 (01:17:57):
He does that every once in a while, find a
way to contribute on offense. In the meantime he plays
his ass off on specialties.

Speaker 4 (01:18:05):
That would make it sixteen to three.

Speaker 5 (01:18:07):
And that was all by Rogers there too.

Speaker 4 (01:18:09):
Great ball, dude, and the point like it was so poetic.

Speaker 5 (01:18:13):
The way he unfolded that was big Ben like. That
was the throwback to what we used to see here.

Speaker 4 (01:18:18):
He had a little more room to the left if
he wanted to, he still just pinpointed it right to
Hayward there. That made it sixteen to three, as they said,
and that would be all the Steelers would need.

Speaker 5 (01:18:27):
The Browns wouldn't get more than nine.

Speaker 4 (01:18:29):
Thirty two yard field goal at the end of the YA,
and they even mangled that by not kicking the field
goal earlier in that series of downs and wasting a
few minutes on the clock. If they wanted any other winning,
here's still three scores. Kick on your first fourth down
and live to fight another day. Alas, I don't think
they wanted to fight anymore. The Browns go home Losers.

Speaker 5 (01:18:47):
I think the quarterback did. I don't think that guy's terrible.

Speaker 9 (01:18:51):
I heard.

Speaker 4 (01:18:52):
I saw more Browns fans jumping off the Dylan Gabriel
wagon than I would have thought, given it it's only
his second game.

Speaker 6 (01:18:59):
Yeah, he lose to Pittsburgh, that's what happens. It's so demoralizing.
They just want the coach fire, the quarterback bench.

Speaker 13 (01:19:06):
The circus isn't in town yet, but it's taken the
Cleveland exit on the Ohio Turnpike.

Speaker 5 (01:19:11):
Yeah, the sugar or mess is coming.

Speaker 4 (01:19:13):
Pittsburgh Steelers are four and one, the Cleveland Browns are
one in five, and now it's on to Cincinnati Thursday
night to take care of Bengals with Joe Flacco at
the helmet A. He did not look terrible yesterday against
Green Bay.

Speaker 5 (01:19:28):
Did look great. I know.

Speaker 6 (01:19:29):
I know he likes playing against the Packers too. He
beat them already once this year.

Speaker 4 (01:19:34):
Yeah, but he didn't have t Higgins and Jamar Chase
for that one. We'll have them on Thursday night. Jamar
Chase with a very strange postgame comment about the Steelers.
I don't know if you guys saw it, but this
was Jamar after the loss to green Bay.

Speaker 25 (01:19:52):
What his next game is always the most important game
is because of his divisional game also, But just the
rankins that we got going on the standards where we
are right now. We know still isn't try to come
in and raw dougas and kill us.

Speaker 5 (01:20:05):
But WHOA, Okay, no, we're gonna wear helmets, right.

Speaker 4 (01:20:08):
I think so protected Steelers look to protect their lead
across atop the AFC North against.

Speaker 5 (01:20:19):
He's getting Yes, I.

Speaker 21 (01:20:21):
Did, Hey, y might not have the meats after all.

Speaker 4 (01:20:26):
Jerry do lack a forty five and Rob k with
a power hour Steeler talk coming up.

Speaker 5 (01:20:29):
Bill Crawford for Zeros. All right, picture this this is
w d v E.

Speaker 2 (01:20:34):
Pittsburgh gets the snap play action pass rolling out now
stepping up into pocket down, he.

Speaker 4 (01:20:44):
Goes, Oh, high Smith got there.

Speaker 9 (01:20:46):
Hartman got there.

Speaker 3 (01:20:47):
As well as he is sacked back at the twenty
five yard line.

Speaker 4 (01:20:52):
I Smith looking good in his return there yesterday tackle
a couple assists, half a sack for Alex high Smith
and all the outside linebackers dominating yesterday. Harbig and TJ
just having a game against the Browns. One of you know,
I didn't get out and about much when we got
back from Dublins. I got sick right away and I

(01:21:13):
was kind of, you know, hibernating there for a week
or so. So this weekend I finally got out and
everybody I ran into was asking me about Dublin and
they're like, God, it just sounds like so much fun,
like you guys had a great time and everything. And
when I kept emphasizing everybody is that I didn't feel
so much like I had a trip to Ireland as
I had this trip into a Steeler's International pep rally

(01:21:33):
for four days that took place in pubs.

Speaker 5 (01:21:36):
You know, I didn't see any cliffs, I didn't see
any green.

Speaker 4 (01:21:39):
I didn't see any of that, and I hope to
go back two steps, but it came. But in coming back,
it's like your Steelers fandom is like, you know, in
large three times, like you're just that much more fired
up about the Steelers. And I can't imagine having coming
back from that and then Bill having the weekend that

(01:21:59):
you had, because not only did you host the tailgate
at stage yesterday, but Friday night you got to do
the fashion show with the Steelers. So you've just been
in the Steeler's bubble for two weeks.

Speaker 5 (01:22:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:22:11):
I mean one of the things that you know, the
theme this year for the fashion show, and they always
do such a great job, was the Wizard of ow
is No place like Home, And so I came out.
One of the first comments that I made was that
it was such a thrill and an honor to see
Dublin transformed into our home and just how we turned.

Speaker 5 (01:22:32):
The Emerald Ale into a giant Eagle ale, and all of.

Speaker 6 (01:22:35):
A sudden, it was like just this yinzer palooza, like
in a whole other country where I'm thinking I'm way
out of outside of the hooplah or just the dome
that the game is happening in. And then I look
in a nail salon and there's like a woman getting
French tips with a big ben bumblebee jersey. I'm like,
this is absurd, and I love us. But what I

(01:22:58):
learned on that trip is just that home is wherever
the Steelers are, and the Steelers are actually a home
to fans across the world. And so just basically thanking
the Rooneys for giving everybody something to connect through, like

(01:23:18):
it's it's just a connector. Like when I see people
flagged up in Steeler's gear. What it shows me is
that those people are my home. So I'm like, you know,
let me go talk to them, because wherever we are, yeah,
here we go, like you know, tels are going. It
doesn't matter if you're at a home game, at an

(01:23:39):
away game.

Speaker 5 (01:23:40):
Or at your gate at the airport, like, this is
our home.

Speaker 4 (01:23:43):
And another thing about Art Rooney that I appreciate is
that you'll never see him flipping off fans. You'll never
see him throwing water at fans or acting like these
billionaire jackasses Jerry Jones or David Tepper, one of the
many owners who thinks.

Speaker 5 (01:23:57):
That the team is about them.

Speaker 4 (01:23:59):
And Art Roonney, having grown up ensconced in what the
Steelers legacy and lore is and what it means, knows
that it's much bigger than just his role in that
where some owners think it's that the fans owe them
a debt of gratitude for having the generosity to bring
a team to them, whereas in Pittsburgh it's a whole

(01:24:19):
lot different.

Speaker 5 (01:24:20):
Here.

Speaker 4 (01:24:20):
This is it is religion, Yeah, more than it is
a I opened a store and you're welcome to come
into it. Right.

Speaker 6 (01:24:30):
Yes, this is like the Cowboys are like the kiss
of the NFL. It's a merch shop. It's how much
money can we make on our team.

Speaker 5 (01:24:42):
The product's not that good anymore. The product's not great.
They relying. Do they sell caskets?

Speaker 4 (01:24:48):
They should, They probably do, They probably do. But it's
just an amazing weekend here Pitts. By the way, like
Strip District was jammed this week, Downtown was jammed all
weekend long. Browns fans, Steeler fans. It's really it was
really the Steeler fans from all over the country that

(01:25:08):
come in because there were not a whole lot of
Browns fans there yesterday and during Renegade.

Speaker 5 (01:25:14):
As soon as Renegade started.

Speaker 4 (01:25:16):
Like the scoreboard went black and and the fans just
went and the Browns fans next to me go is this,
Oh no, is this the thing?

Speaker 5 (01:25:24):
And I'm like, it's it's the thing.

Speaker 4 (01:25:27):
This thing.

Speaker 5 (01:25:27):
They know what it is.

Speaker 4 (01:25:30):
It is name, it's the thing, same.

Speaker 26 (01:25:34):
Oh mama, And the fans and the towels just start
going there and they're like, it's funny how fans know
to like they're like slow speed, slow speed time, but
but they're olves yeah, right, they just go crazy.

Speaker 4 (01:25:56):
I mean that always I don't know. I always love
Oh I love that too.

Speaker 6 (01:25:59):
And I got into it with somebody online because they
were like, this is just for the fans. If players
don't care anything about that, it's not pumping them up.

Speaker 5 (01:26:06):
And I said, ask the players, all right, they.

Speaker 6 (01:26:09):
Might not know who sticks are, they might not know
the lyrics to renegade, but when they see seventy thousand
fans and all those towels going, you.

Speaker 5 (01:26:19):
Don't think that gets them ready to run through a wall.

Speaker 4 (01:26:22):
What every player.

Speaker 6 (01:26:24):
That comes here from somewhere else is one of the
first things they mentioned.

Speaker 4 (01:26:27):
Yeah, they're like, I'm so glad to be on the
other side of that this time. Who was the best
dressed dealer Friday at the fashion show?

Speaker 6 (01:26:34):
I mean, honestly, like DK Metcalf and Deshaun Elliott were
our co captains, so they were out of the running
for the swag award that we give away for every
fashion show now named the Golden Cleat Award. Those two
dudes the cleanest dress people I've ever seen.

Speaker 4 (01:26:54):
You should name it after Frenchy Fuqua.

Speaker 5 (01:26:56):
Yeah, give it the Fuqua dude.

Speaker 6 (01:26:58):
I don't know if anybody you know, like player, remembers him,
but I mean, they've definitely.

Speaker 5 (01:27:04):
Seen that picture.

Speaker 27 (01:27:05):
Yeah, and goldfish shoes everybody, you know we're talking about dude.
Frenchy Fuqua used to wear like the most crazy outfits.

Speaker 5 (01:27:16):
The most flamboyant.

Speaker 4 (01:27:17):
He actually had shoes like platforms that had goldfish swimming around.

Speaker 5 (01:27:23):
In the bottom.

Speaker 8 (01:27:25):
Was a joke.

Speaker 5 (01:27:25):
That's that's real, all right.

Speaker 6 (01:27:27):
And a cape and and and one of the models
came out on Friday night and had a terrible towel
cape and Missy was like, I think you look great
in that cape. I was like, you're breeding my mind.
I want that cape. I need that cape. I will
have that cape perfect with my terrible tube top and
also a terrible cape.

Speaker 5 (01:27:50):
Who thinks of this?

Speaker 6 (01:27:50):
It's Keia Tomlin and in her collections are always incredible,
but she was in rare form this year with the
selections that she had for the show. Everybody just gets
so into it has so much fun. It's really funny
because the offensive linemen, as you can imagine, are not
big fashion guys, mainly because you know you're you're you're

(01:28:13):
paying more because of the amount.

Speaker 5 (01:28:15):
Of fabric that it takes to cover their bodies.

Speaker 4 (01:28:19):
Yeah, Darnell Washington just come out wearing this leg cape.

Speaker 5 (01:28:24):
The infield tarp from PNC Park.

Speaker 4 (01:28:30):
But and then you know, I bet Kia and Mike
Tomliner are feeling pretty good about things right now because
you know Steelers.

Speaker 6 (01:28:36):
Tomlin stays for the whole night. Like he comes out,
he's grinning from ear to ear. He's hanging. He just
wears a suit, nice business casual suit. No no, he
he gets formal for it, and he comes out and
says a few words in the beginning, and then you know,
Bob Pompiani is such a great host, and he was
actually the man literally behind the curtain.

Speaker 4 (01:28:58):
He was a wizard of Hello.

Speaker 6 (01:29:04):
I mean, it's so crazy backstage because you're wrangling fifty
three players and their whole families.

Speaker 5 (01:29:09):
So like we're like, he's like, there's two kids here,
there's four names. I'm like, maybe they're hyphen And then
and then the director, the stage director is like, just.

Speaker 6 (01:29:18):
Say ann family, Just say Ann family. And then and
then me and uh Missy Matthews are out there on
stage together, and she's such a great partner out there
because I mean, so much of the show is just
this high octane, no break, so many transitions, and I

(01:29:41):
like forgot a couple things, because at one point I
I asked a Sean Elliott and DK Metcalf to do
me a huge favor and beat the Brownies this weekend,
and then he grabbed the mic, looked both ways and
was like after Browns.

Speaker 5 (01:29:58):
And I was like, all right, I think that ends
the show.

Speaker 6 (01:30:01):
And I just started ending the show, and she was like,
boh wait, we have something else to figure out.

Speaker 5 (01:30:05):
And I'm like, oh yeah, there's a whole other part
of the show.

Speaker 4 (01:30:10):
She's just like, bum, all right, We're gonna get out
on that.

Speaker 16 (01:30:13):
All right.

Speaker 6 (01:30:13):
I'd like to thank Kid Tomlin, credit Rooney, the Steelers,
my parents.

Speaker 4 (01:30:19):
You know. I mean, as frustrated as I've been with
Mike Tomlin and what they have done, most of my
frustration comes from a personnel standpoint, Like I just I
have questioned what the hell they've been doing the last
year and change think some things just haven't made sense
to me. But you can't really question his success rate
in the NFL.

Speaker 5 (01:30:37):
Right now.

Speaker 4 (01:30:38):
Look around the league and look how bad some of
these teams. Look how bad the Browns are, Look how
bad the Bengals are, Look.

Speaker 5 (01:30:44):
How bad the Jets are.

Speaker 6 (01:30:45):
Yeah, and that's a great comparison because Aaron Rodgers was
on the Jets last year they won five games justin
Fields in his first six games, won four of them. Here,
look at justin Fields, New York. Look at Aaron Rodgers
and Pittsburgh.

Speaker 5 (01:31:02):
Yeah, they still haven't won in Aaron Rodgers. Stability matters.

Speaker 8 (01:31:06):
Yes, Russell Wilson right now he is busted.

Speaker 5 (01:31:10):
Splinters in the ass.

Speaker 4 (01:31:12):
Yeah, but it also just kind of shows to go
yah that it's there isn't another amazing coach just waiting
to take a franchise over. I mean Ben Johnson struggling
a little bit. I mean Aaron Glenn might not make
it through the season in his first year as coach.
I had looked, and you know, there's teams that are

(01:31:34):
struggling out there right now, and a lot of times
it's because I see I think that coach Marizona's good.

Speaker 6 (01:31:39):
I think John Gaden's a good coach. I mean other
than assaulting as players, yeah, I agree.

Speaker 5 (01:31:44):
Other than that.

Speaker 4 (01:31:45):
Yeah, But there's there's a lot of mediocre coaching and
bad football teams out there right now. And the Steelers,
as bad as things get, they never look like some
of these one in four teams are looking right now. No.

Speaker 6 (01:31:58):
I mean, as we've said in years past, super high floor.
It just gets frustrating sometimes when the floor is the
ceiling one hundred percent, you know, and so and these
guys know that, and it's they have designs on the postseason.
So if you're going in there feeding them their own
news clippings, they're batting it down because they know that

(01:32:20):
December ball is around the corner, and that's a whole
different animal.

Speaker 4 (01:32:23):
Jerry Doulack will join us at age forty five. Rob
came with a power hour of Steeler Talk coming up
at nine o'clock. Abby's got your news. Now, what's going on?

Speaker 7 (01:32:29):
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Speaker 8 (01:32:35):
I'm gonna jump ahead here. It turns out that Arby's
may not have the meats, or.

Speaker 7 (01:32:41):
At least a class action lawsuit in New York suggests so.
In September twenty twenty three, Joseph Alongis filed a class
action complaint against Arby's in the United States District Court,
claiming that Arby's engages in a widespread, systematic campaign of
deceptive advertising when it comes to the quantity and quality

(01:33:02):
of meat in several of its signature sandwiches. To the plaintif,
the brand is misleading consumers, enticing them to pay for
a product that is significantly less valuable than advertised. So
when it comes to the quantity of the meat, the
suit alleges that the sandwiches features featured in the Army's ads,
so you have to think about, like what you're actually

(01:33:24):
seeing when you see the ad campaigns.

Speaker 8 (01:33:26):
They feature at least one hundred.

Speaker 7 (01:33:29):
Percent more meat than those purchased in the stores, which
the plaintiff argues is false advertising.

Speaker 4 (01:33:35):
You can switch exactly.

Speaker 8 (01:33:37):
According to the plaintiff, Arby's achieves.

Speaker 7 (01:33:40):
This hyperbolic effect through several deceptive techniques, such as placing
all of the meat at the front of the.

Speaker 4 (01:33:48):
Sandwich during front meat.

Speaker 5 (01:33:52):
What does that mean?

Speaker 4 (01:33:53):
The meats in the front?

Speaker 19 (01:33:56):
The meat up in.

Speaker 4 (01:33:56):
The front on a round sandwich.

Speaker 6 (01:34:00):
Whatever front of it's facing the camera, it's the front.
And set the.

Speaker 5 (01:34:07):
Ball up front.

Speaker 4 (01:34:09):
I got the front button like they could be hitting
it from the back.

Speaker 5 (01:34:14):
I'm just saying, you.

Speaker 21 (01:34:15):
Know, they use a lot of props to exaggerate the size.

Speaker 4 (01:34:20):
Yeah, got yeah, the meat. Yeah, I see what I'm saying.

Speaker 5 (01:34:24):
I know some people are prone to do that.

Speaker 7 (01:34:27):
Maybe it's a little bunt maybe, but big meat.

Speaker 4 (01:34:34):
Just got they so they have like beef as envy
or something. That's what I'm saying.

Speaker 5 (01:34:39):
Consider doctor and their beef. Yeah, that's no good. You know,
it comes in.

Speaker 4 (01:34:43):
It's just a big gelatinous slab that they unfreeze.

Speaker 5 (01:34:48):
And that's what I thought the lawsuit was that it's
just not even meat.

Speaker 4 (01:34:52):
Yeah, it's like a meat like substance with like forty
meat in it.

Speaker 8 (01:34:59):
Well it is. I mean, that's the thing.

Speaker 7 (01:35:00):
When you do see the commercials, it looks like kind
of like when you order a burger that you're like, oh,
I have to cut that in half. I won't be
able to eat that burger in one bite because they
do look stacked. I can't remember the last time I
got an Arby's sandwich, but they're pretty compared.

Speaker 4 (01:35:19):
Yeah, they're also delicious, and I like, I grew up
on the five or five's. That was a that was
our dinner quite often back in the day, super cheap,
and our fridge always had a million Arby's packets in it,
And to this day, I gotta have Arby's packets in
my fridge because you never know someone might bring Arby's over,
and if there's not enough Horsey sauce or enough Arby sauce,

(01:35:42):
then I'm just not going to enjoy it always. And
then it also works at Halloween if you run out
of candy, you can just give some Arb sauce out,
put your hands out.

Speaker 5 (01:35:50):
Does that stuff ever go bad? Or is it like
from two thousand and two? I don't know the answer
to that. Then in your junk drawer it's I have.

Speaker 4 (01:35:58):
Like a version of a drunk drawer in junk drawer
in my refrigerator where it's just kind of like all
the ancillary stuff.

Speaker 5 (01:36:04):
Like everything from takeout.

Speaker 4 (01:36:06):
Yes, right, the equivalent of oh you need a Phillips
said it'll be in there, ye.

Speaker 7 (01:36:11):
Know, soy sauce packets, all that kind of stuff, but
lots of Arby's sauce.

Speaker 4 (01:36:17):
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (01:36:17):
I hope Arby's figures this out. I'm a fan.

Speaker 4 (01:36:19):
Beef and Cheddar is for me. If you're going all
time top fast food sandwiches, beef and cheddar might be
above the quarter pounder for me. And the quarter pounder
back in the day was a staple but beef and
cheddar is a little more exotic, a little tastier. What

(01:36:39):
is that little? What's that little? Like sweet and sour
sauce they put on the bottom. Nobody knows, nobody knows,
Nobody talks about it.

Speaker 5 (01:36:46):
I don't tell you and it'll.

Speaker 8 (01:36:49):
Can we finally talk about it?

Speaker 4 (01:36:50):
Is that stomach acid or is that the actual juice
on the beef and sept It's got the onions baked
in on the top.

Speaker 5 (01:36:56):
It's a It's a tremendous fast food sandwich.

Speaker 8 (01:36:59):
I don't disagree with that.

Speaker 6 (01:37:00):
I grow up with it, so I don't have I
don't feel like I have a strong opinion about it.

Speaker 4 (01:37:05):
I understand that as a Wendy's kid, and you know
me too. And the Dave single, just a classic single cheese.
Get two of those, a chili and a frosty lights out.
Arby's made a couple of junior bacons too. Arbie's main
problem the fries. The fries, curlies. You don't like the curlies.

Speaker 8 (01:37:24):
We were never cooked long enough for me.

Speaker 4 (01:37:27):
They would always be like that. What is that old bay?

Speaker 5 (01:37:30):
I hate that too.

Speaker 8 (01:37:31):
I didn't mind the seasoning. I wanted them in the fryar.

Speaker 4 (01:37:34):
A little longer, yeah, a lot of time, crisp beer
a little mushier because they'd be frozen when they put
them in, you know, and they're when they're all curled up,
it's like really icy in the middle.

Speaker 6 (01:37:41):
And didn't they try to straighten their fries at one point?
They did, but they're like, we got to clean this up.
Straight our fries out, and everyone's like, what the hell
are you doing?

Speaker 4 (01:37:50):
Curl those, Let those be naturally curly. Put those back
in the bay. That's old. Anyways. Sure I could use
a little more beef in my beef and cheddar. I
hope this this class action lawsuit doesn't I love this
take the knees out.

Speaker 8 (01:38:04):
RBS has said, I mean they did.

Speaker 7 (01:38:08):
They're filing to dismiss this lawsuit, saying that it's a
non actionable puffery.

Speaker 4 (01:38:13):
I just picture Arby's lawyers eating Arby's while they're arguing,
you know what Trummer's wrong with you?

Speaker 5 (01:38:20):
You don't know about you, Arby's.

Speaker 6 (01:38:22):
We have some of the meats, it's not as much
maybe as we show in the commercial. I mean, none
of the commercials for any of the fast food looks
like what it looks like on.

Speaker 4 (01:38:31):
TV, look the Wendy's you get versus what you see
on tape. I mean it looks like a Tasorrow's burger
on TV and you get there and it's smushed down
and it's.

Speaker 8 (01:38:40):
But there are other countries where this is illegal to do.

Speaker 7 (01:38:44):
Like things have to be counted out like and it
has to the product has to look exactly as it
is advertised.

Speaker 6 (01:38:52):
I gotta I gotta text Connor and ask him what Connor,
our driver from Dublin, Yes, because he was telling me
in Dublin craft singles cannot advertise themselves as cheese because
it's not cheese. And I'm like, that's not cheese. I'm like,
I mean not according to the American grocery stores. And

(01:39:16):
I forget what he said it was, but it made
me laugh because it's not it's not cheese.

Speaker 5 (01:39:22):
Yeah, and you know what cheese, Jason, it's cheese like it's.

Speaker 8 (01:39:25):
I was asking that question to him, like is it casin?

Speaker 4 (01:39:28):
What's in it?

Speaker 8 (01:39:29):
What's in the cheese?

Speaker 5 (01:39:30):
Connor?

Speaker 4 (01:39:31):
I'm looking up tell us Connor. I can't believe Connor's
not listening right now and texting us immediately.

Speaker 8 (01:39:36):
He should be. He might be it's like six hours ahead.

Speaker 4 (01:39:39):
He should be up.

Speaker 17 (01:39:40):
No.

Speaker 7 (01:39:40):
I I kind of remember being a little buzzed and
outside of this conversation and having it miss slices, sentient
and fully having the conversation.

Speaker 4 (01:39:51):
We just don't know.

Speaker 5 (01:39:53):
Past your eyes.

Speaker 2 (01:39:54):
Prepared cheese product, cheese pro cheese product.

Speaker 8 (01:39:58):
That's the loop.

Speaker 4 (01:40:00):
That's how they get you.

Speaker 5 (01:40:03):
I don't know. I had, but it's like separated out
from all the real tea.

Speaker 4 (01:40:06):
Do you have an egg sandwich without putting American cheese
on it? Like breakfast sandwich?

Speaker 8 (01:40:11):
Why would you do that?

Speaker 4 (01:40:12):
I gotta have the melty American on it right, too dry?

Speaker 8 (01:40:15):
Other words, I don't.

Speaker 4 (01:40:19):
Even on a cheeseburg. I'll throw Swiss on a cheeseburger.
I don't mind Swiss on it. If I'm going Mayo
do provolone.

Speaker 8 (01:40:26):
I've been doing a little pepper.

Speaker 4 (01:40:27):
Jack on a burger.

Speaker 5 (01:40:28):
A lot of people like the pepper jack.

Speaker 4 (01:40:29):
A lot of people like monster cheese with mushrooms, and
that to me is really messing with the burger.

Speaker 5 (01:40:35):
I don't like that.

Speaker 7 (01:40:36):
It's getting a little outside of my comfort zone. But
I'll do it.

Speaker 5 (01:40:40):
But like a nice mushroom burger, I'm rooting for Arby's.
Let's just close it up by saying.

Speaker 21 (01:40:44):
That, hey, listen, I always am yeah, well all but
all alls fails, you can count on Arby's.

Speaker 8 (01:40:50):
I'll light a candle for.

Speaker 5 (01:40:51):
Arby's, a meat candles. Light it up, because a meat candle.
They have the meat candles.

Speaker 8 (01:40:58):
Now we're talking Google.

Speaker 7 (01:41:00):
Pleasant with times of clouds and sun today high A
sixty eight.

Speaker 4 (01:41:04):
Meat candle sounds dirty. Did you see last night at
the uh the Mariners game that there was you know,
cal Rawley big dumper hit a sixty second home run
last night there was a guy behind home plate with
a shirt on that had a butt plug with cal
Rawley's name on it. He was a Blue Jays fan,
indicating like, let's stop, let's plug.

Speaker 5 (01:41:24):
The big dumper.

Speaker 9 (01:41:26):
R Wow wow.

Speaker 4 (01:41:30):
Yike, yes, right on national TV all night long.

Speaker 6 (01:41:35):
What then Cow tries to like engage with him. He's like,
you better bring bring a bigger.

Speaker 4 (01:41:39):
Butt plug.

Speaker 17 (01:41:42):
Whatever.

Speaker 5 (01:41:43):
Man, the shirt sucks.

Speaker 4 (01:41:45):
You're gonna need a bigger butt blow.

Speaker 5 (01:41:47):
That makes me like a size queen. Yeah yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:41:52):
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Speaker 4 (01:42:32):
You know, before we get into another ninety minutes worth
of Steelers talk here before we get out of here.
It does bear mentioning that with Penn State firing James
Franklin midseason, it's something that was unforeseen previously, Like you
would never ever expect Penn State to do something like this.

Speaker 6 (01:42:52):
Playoff aspirations, national title aspirations.

Speaker 5 (01:42:56):
The game has fundamentally changed.

Speaker 4 (01:42:59):
College football is a completely different sport than it was
ten years ago. And the idea that you would pay
some money to go around fifty million dollars to just
walk away.

Speaker 13 (01:43:09):
According to mL Football, that breaks down too, for the
next six years for James Franklin.

Speaker 4 (01:43:15):
Yes, I've heard forty six. I've heard fifty six. What
is it?

Speaker 5 (01:43:19):
It's forty nine, I believe.

Speaker 13 (01:43:20):
But according to mL Football, he's going to make for
the next six years, fifteen dollars a minute, nine hundred
and thirteen dollars an hour, twenty one, nine hundred and
seventeen dollars a day, one hundred and fifty three thousand,
eight hundred and forty six per week, and six hundred
and sixty six thousand per month.

Speaker 5 (01:43:41):
Now to not coach.

Speaker 4 (01:43:43):
If he goes back to coach somewhere, does that nullify
the payment?

Speaker 5 (01:43:47):
Does he have to sit out the whole time?

Speaker 4 (01:43:49):
Is it a noncompete or is it a concurrent with
whatever deal he might sign somewhere else.

Speaker 13 (01:43:54):
If it was pro it would even out. I'm not
sure how it works in college. I don't think they
have that same deal. I think he just gets it.
That's just crazy.

Speaker 4 (01:44:03):
Who was the previous record holders of mac down in Texas?

Speaker 17 (01:44:07):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (01:44:07):
The buyout guy? Yeah, I don't know. Did the Raiders
have to pay Gruden?

Speaker 4 (01:44:13):
Well, they're about to pay him big time.

Speaker 5 (01:44:15):
Well, I know he's about to get paid by the NFL.

Speaker 6 (01:44:17):
Yeah, but remember they signed him for like ten years,
a hundred mill or something crazy.

Speaker 5 (01:44:22):
I'm sure there was something there.

Speaker 4 (01:44:26):
In buyout for him when that whole thing went down,
But this being so much different than hearing that Adidas
was behind it. But that deal doesn't go in effect
till next year.

Speaker 5 (01:44:33):
Like next year is this year? It's still.

Speaker 4 (01:44:37):
Lose your quarterback, go on the pro shop or the
college shop, I guess for Penn State.

Speaker 13 (01:44:41):
Here's my question about college football now. It used to
be the coach was king because he was the guy
who would get the players right. Yeah, people would want
to go to Alabama to play for Nick Saban because
he was all that. If you don't have an endless
supply of millions of dollars available, would you rather pay

(01:45:03):
a coach ten twelve million a year for six years
or fifteen million or what some of these guys are making,
or would you rather hire a young coach who knows
his stuff but isn't really established and just.

Speaker 4 (01:45:16):
Buy them players. I mean, where do you put your resources?
I think that you try to find happy medium. Really,
you don't load up one side or the other.

Speaker 13 (01:45:28):
You'll love the expense of the other Bill Belichick the
latest to prove that right there, if you don't have
a really good quarterback, you're not that good A cooking point. Yeah,
you know, Mike Talma could speak to that a little bit.

Speaker 5 (01:45:41):
I do.

Speaker 4 (01:45:42):
I don't love what this does to college football. Though
it does, I can't stand it to loot the product considerably.
And I am also of the mindset that I think
the players should be getting paid, and I think that
they should have some you know, autonomy over their own
college experience. And I know you feel a little differently
and think that the education is the payoff.

Speaker 5 (01:46:02):
They just generate so much money.

Speaker 4 (01:46:03):
I think there had to be some sort of equitable
solution there. It might have overcorrected.

Speaker 5 (01:46:09):
I don't think this is it.

Speaker 4 (01:46:10):
Yeah, And it's gonna be interesting to see what happens
at Penn State now and the idea that Penn Staters
think that anybody like that they have their choice.

Speaker 5 (01:46:20):
You know, like, oh, well, Signette's gonna come here, now.

Speaker 4 (01:46:22):
Why would he want to go to Penn State?

Speaker 5 (01:46:24):
Why? Yeah, Jacob's doing the big He's doing the Dolphin. Yeah,
the studio, but they just beat Oregon this way, He's
get the number three team. In the country.

Speaker 13 (01:46:32):
You might win a national championship in Indiana. Yeah, why
would you go to Penn State? Mark Cuban went to India.
They got money out the wazoo. They just never really
were trying at football till they got signetti.

Speaker 5 (01:46:45):
Watch when Penn State. But oh, I would question that. Indiana. Yep,
I don't know.

Speaker 13 (01:46:50):
Indiana's sleeping giant in terms of the alumni base and
how much money those people have a lot of money
in Corda.

Speaker 4 (01:46:55):
Apparently that's good to know. I mean it's in every
that is true.

Speaker 13 (01:47:02):
But actually I was the cord and they're the granite
and cutting stones and right, Jake, did you major in
stone cutting.

Speaker 5 (01:47:12):
Corn in Indiana?

Speaker 4 (01:47:13):
But they have the Indiana limestone?

Speaker 5 (01:47:15):
That's yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:47:15):
You guys make those really nice looking buildings.

Speaker 5 (01:47:18):
Yeah, it's beautiful.

Speaker 4 (01:47:19):
Every every building on campus has it.

Speaker 5 (01:47:21):
Yeah, Jacob, you're a rockhead. What did they do with
the stones?

Speaker 4 (01:47:27):
So two weeks ago, James Franklin's Penn State team had
Oregon in overtime with a lead, with a national championship
on their minds. Cut to two weeks later, basically losses
to Oregon u c l A winless u c l
A and without a coach with they gas coach coachless

(01:47:50):
and new Al's kid pops up like Doogie Howsard and.

Speaker 5 (01:47:55):
Wins the game. State Decordinator how many millions?

Speaker 4 (01:47:59):
And then they drop that one to Northwestern this weekend.
As bad as that is, I never thought they were
going to get rid of him. I really did not
eat shock that he is, that he is gone.

Speaker 13 (01:48:13):
I thought the Northwestern game decided Okay, he's not coming back,
but right, I didn't think it would be mid season.

Speaker 4 (01:48:19):
And also the fact that like it is so just
this is how things are now that Penn State puts
out a big graphic like thanks, Coach Franklin, It's like thanks,
there's no thanks.

Speaker 13 (01:48:34):
That stuff is so stupid. Every team does that on
social media. It does try to make themselves look magnanimously. Yeah,
cutting the guy's.

Speaker 4 (01:48:44):
Head off, and look, it is a lot of money.
I don't know where he's gonna end up, James Franklin.
He'll get a job somewhere, maybe North Carolina, who knows,
maybe that. And also, by the way, this has got
Bill Belichick's seat heating even more because if Penn State
is willing to do that in the middle of the season.

(01:49:04):
North Carolina and their money people have to be looking
at each other right now, going, hey, guys, what are
we waiting for?

Speaker 13 (01:49:11):
Yeah, I mean I think that process has already begun,
which is why they put out statements to say it
right That means it's begun.

Speaker 4 (01:49:21):
But you'll probably see Bill Belichick doing the NFL on
Fox before the end of this season. I think as
a result of Franklin getting fired, like you said, the
wheels were already they ask him.

Speaker 5 (01:49:33):
His girlfriend steps in, It's like, we're not going to
talk about.

Speaker 4 (01:49:35):
She just whispers to this year, like, well, what the
hell can we ask you about? Yeah, we're on the
next week. We got to talk about this when we're
doing the pre game.

Speaker 5 (01:49:44):
I want to talk about.

Speaker 13 (01:49:45):
That's crazy though, it's just season Franklin's up until these
last couple of weeks. The splits of beating everybody you're
supposed to beat and never beating anybody.

Speaker 5 (01:49:56):
Good are ridiculous. Yet, like, it doesn't add up.

Speaker 13 (01:50:01):
It shouldn't be that profound a gap, and yet, and yet.

Speaker 6 (01:50:06):
And then you have the Drew Aller situation out for
the season didn't come out last year. Then all of
a sudden, I don't know if you guys have seen
the text messages that came out.

Speaker 4 (01:50:16):
I have not.

Speaker 6 (01:50:16):
What, Oh my god, it's real. Oh, I mean, what
do you mean it's not real? Did you see a
report that those text messages are not real? What are
you talking about him talking to women on campus? The
type of things that he's saying. Oh, I mean, it's
just not a good look. It's not like he's going
to jail or anything. It's just that he's, you know,

(01:50:39):
sending some explicit messages to to the females on campus.
I mean, the guy runs the hurry up offenses all
getting random like, uh no, females they just met.

Speaker 5 (01:50:52):
He runs the hurry up offense.

Speaker 4 (01:50:55):
I'm not seeing like I'll show you, No, I want
to see them. I it was a prompt when I
put in Drew Hollers. Is he like showing wang or
is he No?

Speaker 6 (01:51:07):
No, No, it's more what he's requesting to see. And
you know he's drawing up plays in the sands.

Speaker 5 (01:51:16):
Okay, yeah, well interesting?

Speaker 4 (01:51:18):
All right. We got a power hour of Steeler Talk
coming up with Rob King in the nine o'clock hour,
and more Steeler Talk with Jerry Dulac when we come back.
Steeler's sitting pretty after another, well another victory over the
Browns in Pittsburgh, and that's the twenty second in a row.

Speaker 5 (01:51:35):
Yeah, it's kind of a weird split too, it is.
Although that's stuff to me. I mean, it's fun.

Speaker 13 (01:51:41):
To talk about, But I don't know that you think
it's a hobstancial five years ago applied to yesterday, you
know what I mean?

Speaker 4 (01:51:46):
Just a coincidence, big quin quinkydink. Well, I mean it's
kind of just the way it's supposed to be.

Speaker 13 (01:51:52):
I bet the Browns have lost a lot of games
in a lot of places.

Speaker 5 (01:51:55):
That's a good point, you know what I mean.

Speaker 4 (01:51:57):
I don't think it's like this a lot of teams. Yeah,
what's their record in Baltimore for instance? Probably not great.
Steelers taking on the Bengals Thursday night, a short week
from them, and I get that win and go to
five to if they can get a victory there and
go to five and one and host another AFC foe
AFC North foe. Well, I mean it would really be

(01:52:18):
hard for them to screw up losing the division after that.

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Speaker 4 (01:52:30):
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Speaker 5 (01:54:49):
Jerry Dego morning.

Speaker 17 (01:54:50):
How are you morning, Random?

Speaker 18 (01:54:52):
I'm great?

Speaker 4 (01:54:52):
How about you?

Speaker 5 (01:54:53):
Well, I mean doing pretty good.

Speaker 1 (01:54:54):
And you know.

Speaker 4 (01:54:55):
Mike Tomlin famously on this here radio program Morning Show,
exclaimed in the preseason that this defense had a chance
to do some things that were historic. Well, it took
a while to get ramped up, but I think what
we saw yesterday. Now granted this was not exactly the
most high powered offense in the world, but they are

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basically imposing their will on the other team with both
sides of the of the line in the trenches. They
are winning it and defensively, that was what we were
worried about early on which John Jenkins they had him
at ninety yards the oddsmakers yesterday is the over under.

Speaker 5 (01:55:33):
He didn't even sniff that.

Speaker 18 (01:55:34):
Jerry, Yeah, you know, you look at the last two games,
and you know, okay, I know they had those leaky
moments in Ireland the last quarter, their last half of
the quarter, but for three and a half quarters they
dominated the Vikings and defensively they did pretty much the
same again yesterday. You know, the last two games, twelve sacks,

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thirty quarterback hits, you know how many quarter that's a
lot quarterback hits, a couple takeaways, you know, one hundred
and thirty five yards rushing they've allowed combined. That's the
most since Week seven, a few of since Week seven
last year. And you know, not allowing a touchdown. And
again I know, you know, I know it's the Browns.

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My god, they ran seventy five plays. Could you imagine
that offense running seventy five plays. I don't know how
that happened.

Speaker 4 (01:56:24):
Fifty two drop passes for Dylan Gabriel in his second game,
first game in the States.

Speaker 18 (01:56:31):
Yeah, fifty eight drop back attempts and a sack six times.
So he threw fifty two. But the defense. And here's
the other thing though too. They're playing with an aggression
and kind of nastiness and speed which you hadn't seen,
and maybe it takes time that we haven't seen in
the first couple of games. I think it also helps

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that they had their whole deployment of defenders available for
the first time as well. But it's the speed and
aggression that they're playing with. I mean, Patrick Queen, yes,
you know, I remember last year what's wrong with Patrick Queen?
But you know, look at him. There's nothing wrong with
Patrick Queen. It's just a matter of getting comfortable in
your new environs. And he's just been he's been a

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terror out there.

Speaker 6 (01:57:14):
One of the ways in which they made history yesterday
Jar was that they announced twelve players on defense, announcing
Nick Herbig. I've never seen it before. Totally deserved because
I don't care where you have that guy on the
depth chart. He's a starter, he's a contributor, he's an
energy bringer, he's a game wrecker.

Speaker 18 (01:57:34):
Wow, that's a lot of adjectives, but you're right about that, Billy.
But I've seen I've seen him introduce additional players before.
I don't know, you know, whether it was offense.

Speaker 15 (01:57:47):
I've seen that happen, but nonetheless I've never seen it.

Speaker 9 (01:57:55):
That is historic to me. Damn it.

Speaker 18 (01:57:59):
I should nice little, nice little tribute though for her.
But he certainly deserves it. He leads a team in
sacks at four and a half, and yeah, I mean
he is, he's a game wrecker and everything else that
you called him, Billy been very very good.

Speaker 4 (01:58:13):
You know, now Friar Mooth only gets targeted once yesterday,
and right off the bat.

Speaker 5 (01:58:18):
You see Darnaut Washington make a huge contribution.

Speaker 4 (01:58:21):
It really does seem that, as much as Mike Toman
wants to say, hey, that jumbo package is about when
you play four three teams, you gotta have some some
some big hosses out on the end there, this guy
can do it all. I mean, what what do they
need moved forward other than depth? At this point, it's like,
all right, we're paying him, but in the aggregate, it's
worth it to have him in Washington. Anybody who says

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like get rid of Friarmoth and like we're still gonna
need him, but it looks like, you know, Darnot Washington
made a fantastic catch for a first down yesterday on
top of that opening thirty six yard reception. It really
does look like the Arthur Smith offense in Aaron Rodgers
lee more to using Darnell Washington moving forward than Moose

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despite the price tag.

Speaker 18 (01:59:06):
Yeah, I don't know that they're necessarily going to lean
that way. But a couple of things. One, when when
Darnell Washington was in Georgia, you saw him catch the
ball and run with the ball, and I was always
a little surprised they didn't use him more when when
he first got here. Second of all, I loved that
play call to start the game. You come out with

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your heavy package, you know, same thing you did last week.
I mean in Ireland, nineteen appearances for Spencer Anderson and
then and then you run that play action, throw the
Darnell Washington out of that package, and to me, that
set the tone for the play calling. It's it's like
a uh, you know, I don't want to say it
kept the Browns off balanced the rest of the game.

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But I thought Arthur Smith did a great job with
the play calling. It was it was smooth, it was rhythmical,
and I think Aaron Rodgers that you know, he you know,
his numbers aren't going but they're pretty solid. And you know,
two hundred and twenty five yards, twenty one and thirty
no picks, and and you know in the last two games,

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he's only been sacked two times in the last three games.
And that's testament to the offensive line. And all the
people can play proud. They gotta fire Pat Meyer. You know,
you don't hear anybody complaining about the offensive line the
last three games. Nobody mentions Broderick Jones other than the
fact he was pretty good yesterday against Miles Garrett. I
know they gave him some help, but there were instances
where he was still there by himself and you never

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heard Miles Garrett's name.

Speaker 4 (02:00:32):
For the most part, Rogers did make one mistake yesterday
and which you know, that's pretty good ratio, but not
throwing the ball at was it Warren or Gainwell's feet
on that one where he like dished to him and
they took an eight yard loss. Oh yeah, like that.

Speaker 5 (02:00:47):
Other than that, pretty smart.

Speaker 4 (02:00:49):
He missed a couple of receivers yesterday, Well that's gonna happen,
and you know dk he underthrew and the other time
he either threw the back shoulder to inside or underthrew
it and hit it was a campbell that he hit
in the back on that one. Regardless, Aaron Rodgers has
been everything that they want.

Speaker 5 (02:01:07):
Him to be.

Speaker 18 (02:01:08):
Yeah, you know, I asked Rogers when he was leaving
his little uh postgame interview about that deep ball to
Metcap And I got a kick out of it, because,
you know, he threw a little he threw a little
moon ball there and it came up woefully short. And
when he was after it came it was incomplete. He
kind of looked up at the top of the stadium.
I think he's looking for the wind direction. And I

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asked him, I said, did I said, did the wind
fool you there? He said, he actually thought it was
blowing the other way, but you could just see it.
It just it kind of knocked his ball down. I
was going to ask him, why, why did you throw
up a couple of blades of grass to see which
way the wind was blowing and except there weren't any
blades of grass in the middle.

Speaker 17 (02:01:49):
Of the field.

Speaker 4 (02:01:50):
Well, let's talk about that for a second.

Speaker 5 (02:01:52):
Why does that divot? Why throw it?

Speaker 9 (02:01:54):
TJ.

Speaker 4 (02:01:55):
Watt was pointing to the divots at one point Boswell,
I mean he could have got injured on that one.
On those all about that. Why is that field in
such terrible shape? You know what eight days after the
last time there was a football game on it.

Speaker 18 (02:02:10):
Well, the good news for bos is that the ground
gives way, it doesn't grab. I'n't like a sweem, So
that was the only good part about that. But I mean,
you know, the Steelers hadn't what they played there once
since the preseason. That's the kids played there, how many
times in the middle of the field was just terrible.
And obviously they're carrying it up now. That was the

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plan all along, but man, it was it was in
poor shape and to me, it's kind it's kind of
embarrassing to see the field like that in October when
it's still a growing season. Obviously, so you know they
did they probably waited, you know, a week too long
to resurface the field. They're doing it now, but mean,
it just it looked terrible. It played terrible. Uh you know,

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Aaron Rodgers said it was borderline unplayable.

Speaker 4 (02:02:56):
And it was Jerry last week you said the Steelers
were going to approach Jillen Ramsey's injury the same way
as JPJ and expecting him to be out as long.
He ended up playing this week, much to the surprise
of everyone. How did that end up happening? Where he
went from well, he's probably going to be on ice
for a month to he'll be there for the next game.

Speaker 18 (02:03:16):
Yeah, they they they had him on a pitch count
yesterday and and I never did see his total number
of snaps, but he played. You know, Aaron Ray what.

Speaker 4 (02:03:27):
That sixty three. That's a pretty high pitch gun.

Speaker 18 (02:03:32):
And they Aaron Rodgers was singing his praises. What he did,
not only to just make sure he could try to play,
was the fact that he played all that time. And
you know, we saw him come off the field one
time where he kind of aggravated that injury, and then
there he goes back in the game. You have to
give the guy props for what he did, not only

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just playing, but then the way he played on top
of it, and you know, and the other like Aaron
Rodgers was saying, he says, eighty percent of the of
other guys in the league probably would have said, no,
I'm not going to play this week, just to take
care of that injury. And yet there He was sat
out all week but practice the last day and was
out there on the field, so I can tell you

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they did not expect him to be able to play,
and there he was.

Speaker 4 (02:04:20):
Good for him, Yeah, especially with the short week coming
up here Thursday Night Steelers Bengals Thursday Night Football and
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Speaker 5 (02:04:43):
Thanks buddy, Talk to you next week.

Speaker 18 (02:04:44):
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Speaker 29 (02:05:07):
It's football snap back Looking at Gabriel is going to
be taken down. There's a flag on the play, but
it looks like this is going to be against the Browns.
I don't know which of the force Steelers laying on
top of Gabriel.

Speaker 4 (02:05:18):
Is going to get credit for this sack. Oh yeah,
a little party on top of a quarterback. And more characterization,
Rob King, voice of the Steelers with us for a
power hour of Steeler talk here and six sacks for
the Steelers defense they were suffocating all day, Dylan Gabriel.

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Back to pass well fifty eight times with six sacks.

Speaker 5 (02:05:42):
It's crazy. That is just a bunch of hurries.

Speaker 4 (02:05:46):
I wrote it down here somewhere, how many hurries they had,
hurries and sacks. Six tongue hits, yes, yeah, I see
it hits that, Yeah, it hits not hurries hits yeah,
sixteen hits, big sacks.

Speaker 5 (02:05:57):
Hurry.

Speaker 4 (02:05:58):
Well, the kid took took a little bit of a beating.
Welcome to the AFC North, Dylan Gabriel. Yeah, and I
thought he actually held up pretty well. Although the Steelers
had about five interceptions they dropped. Yeah, Well, what I
would say is well they the Browns also had five
first downs that they dropped. I mean true, you know
they dropped a lot of balls for Dylan Gabriel yesterday.
And what I would say is, if you were wondering, like,

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does Dylan Gabriel look like he has it, I don't know.
I don't think you can say he doesn't have it
based on that yesterday. But they did not give him
a chance to look like he could be their next quarterback.

Speaker 5 (02:06:30):
The Steelers defense, that is.

Speaker 4 (02:06:32):
Yeah, and the Steelers defense did a great job on
Quinn Shawn Judkins. You know early in the year, they
weren't stopping to run. Derek Carmon comes back and he's
part of it. The defense is playing better as part
of it. All eleven starters being out there for the
first time is part of it. So we're seeing the Steelers.
You know, last year, people like, how come they're not blitzingymore?
They're just lining up in the same spot.

Speaker 2 (02:06:52):
Well, I think, again, this is just nobody's told me this,
but I think they just didn't trust their defensive back
so they wanted to drop as many guys as.

Speaker 4 (02:07:02):
They could in coverage.

Speaker 2 (02:07:03):
Well, this year, they're blitzing at a really high level,
one of the highest rates in the NFL, and they
are getting home and they're stopping to run. They're forcing
teams to be one dimensional. Judkins is you didn't see
it yesterday, but he is really good the rookie running
back for We talked about it earlier.

Speaker 4 (02:07:19):
King the oddsmakers had him at like an over under
ninety yards. They expected him to make a dent in that.
I mean, most people did. We talked about it. It's like,
just survive it and stop the run, keep it manageable. And
he did nothing against that defensive Well, here's why they
expected that. Sixty one yards against Baltimore in the average
six point one per carry, ninety four against Green Bay,

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eighty two against Detroit, one hundred and ten.

Speaker 5 (02:07:43):
Against Minnesota against Minneseta thirty six yesterday, and the average
three point zero par tot.

Speaker 4 (02:07:49):
And that's my point is that for all the people
who just want to say, like, ah, well, I don't know,
the question marks are still there for the Steelers because
that was the Browns. They had an established running game,
like they it was looking good for them running the ball.
Steelers completely took it away yesterday.

Speaker 2 (02:08:05):
Yeah, I you know, Aaron Rodgers said something that I've
said quite a bit with Max on our radio show,
which is look, December is when you want to be
playing best, and I totally agree with that. Just win now,
it doesn't matter how you win. Just just stack up
the wins and hope that some of the trends are
trending in the right direction so that you are peaking
in December. I think the trends for this year there's

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almost across the board are actually I would say across
the board, right, let's go through them.

Speaker 4 (02:08:33):
Okay, Proderick Jones and that offensive line is where the
biggest question works, were way better. So Max said, you know,
talking to Max, I defer to him because he's an
offensive lineman who switched positions on the NFL level. So
I said, look, Proderick Jones has been a right tackle,
now he's going to left tackle. Troy Foutana was a
left tackle in college. Now he's going to right tackle.

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How long? And do I give fou Tana any grace
for being a rookie? He said nope.

Speaker 2 (02:08:58):
He said, the adjustment from one side to the other
takes five to six weeks. Well, we're five weeks into
the season, and I think we're seeing the offensive line
being better.

Speaker 4 (02:09:08):
And you know, I.

Speaker 2 (02:09:10):
Don't believe I said in reference to a play Miles Garret.
Miles Garrett's name once yesterday. I don't think I said
his name once. I mean, that is remarkable. We really
thought he was gonna have a field day out there. Now,
Rodgers still getting rid of the ball pretty quick. But
there were a couple of times, in particular the Connor
Hayward touchdown where he had a lot of time and
moved around and then made a little chicken salad out

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of You know what.

Speaker 4 (02:09:32):
Then, what a great throw, and I mean I was
just a great throw by Rogers. Let's listen to the
play by play by the voice of the Pittsburgh Steelers
on that one.

Speaker 5 (02:09:42):
That would be uh, rob king play action pass.

Speaker 2 (02:09:45):
Rolling to his right, looking downfield, looking throws back across
his body.

Speaker 24 (02:09:49):
Hit talk in the end zone.

Speaker 9 (02:09:51):
What a grab, Mike, Connor Hayward.

Speaker 20 (02:09:54):
Magnificent thrown by Rogers and Hayward with his first touchdown
of the season.

Speaker 4 (02:10:00):
It's so funny that that was your call, because that
was exactly what we said in the stands in that.

Speaker 5 (02:10:04):
Order we got to catch.

Speaker 8 (02:10:06):
What a throw.

Speaker 5 (02:10:07):
Yeah, both were sensational.

Speaker 4 (02:10:09):
You know, not every diving catch or sliding catch is
a great catch. That was a great catch. I mean,
he has a bullet. It was a bullet, It was low.
I don't remember if it wobbled a little bit. All
those things make it tougher. A defender crashing back over
the top of them, which cuts down your vision a
little bit. I was just a that was a great catch.

Speaker 2 (02:10:30):
And you know, as Rogers said after the game, you know,
Connor Hayward just smart player. I mean there are times
when Rogers is rolling down the field when he wants
his receivers to do something.

Speaker 4 (02:10:40):
They've got to feel it. They've got to know what
to do. And Connor Hayward knew what to do because
he's that kind of a player, all right. And Aaron
Rodgers had time to make that offensive line doing their job.
We talked about the defensive line also stepping up and
trending in the right direction.

Speaker 5 (02:10:54):
What about the inside linebackers?

Speaker 2 (02:10:57):
Listen, I've never been I haven't been as down on
them as other guys have been. I mean, Patrick Queen
made the Pro Bowl last year and I thought he
was extremely visible. Peyton Wilson is He's all over the field.
Now are things going to happen?

Speaker 5 (02:11:12):
You know?

Speaker 4 (02:11:12):
Sure?

Speaker 2 (02:11:13):
He is not a he is not a you know,
meet you in the hole, you know, pick you up
and drive you back into the ground kind of linebacker.
He's not a big thumper. He's a sideline to sideline guy,
and so is Patrick Queen. Which is why your front
four or front five has to be able to do
its job because by doing its job, it allows those

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guys to run and hit guys. And so I think
with the defensive line being better, that's only gonna make
Queen and Wilson better. I mean, these guys in Cole
Holcom too. I thought Cole Holcomb had some plays yesterday.
These guys can move. I mean, you want to go wide.
I mean there was a play I can't remember who had.
It was going up there was the left side line.
It was a little pass I think it was a
pass out in the flat. Might have been a reverse,

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I don't remember now. And it looked like the player
was gonna the carrier for Cleveland was going to turn
the edge and he just he just didn't. He was stopped.
I think they lost a half yard. I thought they
were going to gain six and they lost half a yard. So,
you know, the defensive line, it all comes together, right
The defensive line does its job, then the linebackers were
able to do their job. And now you get into

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third and manageable. You got those defensive backs are finally healthy.
They're going to get a great test this week. Okay,
Now we're gonna go man to man and we're gonna
blitz those linebackers. Remember Patrick Queen was a guy who
got sacks in Baltimore. He wasn't getting sacks here. Why
because you you didn't feel like you could blitz him.
Now you got Slagh Ramsey and Porter, you got Deshaan Ellie,
you got jan Thornhill.

Speaker 4 (02:12:41):
Let's go you know.

Speaker 2 (02:12:43):
Ecles Okay, after that yesterday, I don't know and I
don't know about was there anything on Miles Killer?

Speaker 13 (02:12:48):
But I haven't heard anything on significant According to Tomlins significant,
that was the only one. The rest was bumps and
bruises associated with the playing a football.

Speaker 4 (02:12:56):
That's a bummer.

Speaker 13 (02:12:57):
One other point on those inside backers, I think what
you've seen the last past two weeks is they're up
closer to the line of scrimmaging gaps and even when
they're not blitzing, uh, they're they're yeah and affecting things
that way and then sometimes you can run blitz from there.
Those guys aren't downhill players per se. But if you
get a little closer to the line of scrimmers, they're

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already halfway downhill right now you can Now you can
shoot a gap and be more disruptive.

Speaker 5 (02:13:21):
Yeah, that's a good point starting to fall into place.

Speaker 6 (02:13:23):
And p Q could have folded me because yesterday, in
the last couple of weeks, he's looked like a thumper.
I mean, Aaron Rodgers joked around with him on the
sideline that asking him if he was trying to knock
himself out.

Speaker 5 (02:13:33):
I thought he was playing incredibly hard.

Speaker 2 (02:13:35):
Yeah, he's a he's more of a thumper than Peyton is.
You know, He's just he's a little physically bigger, you know,
and he's a little bit more of a thumper. But
you know, think about you know, just and you know,
I've been a little mystified.

Speaker 5 (02:13:49):
Look, you have to let these guys grow.

Speaker 4 (02:13:51):
And our buddy Matt Williamson has said this repeatedly, and
I really trust his opinion on these kind of things.
Inside linebacker is now and has been for several years,
the hardest position for a young player to excel at
that that you see all kinds of former first round picks.

Speaker 2 (02:14:08):
Devin Bush. He's playing much better in Cleveland than he
played here. It's not because the coaching wasn't good enough here,
the defense wasn't good enough.

Speaker 5 (02:14:17):
It's it just takes a while.

Speaker 17 (02:14:19):
Now.

Speaker 2 (02:14:19):
The Swastinger kids, he's he's one of these kids. It's
excelling the inside linebacker for them. But a lot of
guys wash out and it takes their second team for
them to really get a hold of the NFL. And
that's it's I think it's because the league has changed.
Smart quarterbacks will look at those young players and exploit them.
Right Aaron Rodgers is going to exploit a young linebacker

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on the other side.

Speaker 4 (02:14:43):
Jalen Warren yesterday ended up with fifty two yards rushing,
But I felt like he had an amazing game.

Speaker 2 (02:14:48):
He just he he just runs so hard. On his
longest run of the game, I think was his longest
run of the game he had, I think he had
a ten and maybe a ten and a eleven. He
was running off the right side. He kind of slithered
or slipped. I think, you know, Aaron Rodgers called him slippery.
He kind of slipped through a defensive tackle and and

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within one step barreled over defensive back that came up
and then ran for you know, drag guys from another
four yards. I mean, I've said this before about Jalen. Uh,
you know, he just it really looks like he dislikes
being tackled.

Speaker 4 (02:15:26):
You know, he just doesn't enjoy it. And that's just
the way he runs.

Speaker 5 (02:15:28):
It doesn't look like it's enjoyable to tackle.

Speaker 4 (02:15:30):
No, no, no, And and uh, you know talking, I
was talking to one of the Steelers defensive players.

Speaker 2 (02:15:36):
Remember there's the big thing about Derrick Henry. You know,
how hard does he run and all this other stuff,
And that guy said, uh, Jalen Warren, that dude runs hard.

Speaker 5 (02:15:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (02:15:47):
And so Caleb Johnson looked like maybe he took another
step forward yesterday.

Speaker 5 (02:15:53):
I mean their baby steps. They trusted him.

Speaker 2 (02:15:56):
Yeah, their baby said, you don't have to He's this
is I mean, you remember, like Troy Polamla's rookie year,
he was not very good.

Speaker 5 (02:16:04):
Do you recall that. No, yeah, he's not very good.

Speaker 4 (02:16:08):
But there were not many Steeler fans who watched Troy
Polamalu that year and didn't think he's going to be good.
Oo I don't know, man. There were a lot of
critics to Troy Polam. I don't know, man, I think everybody.
I mean, I specifically remember having this conversation with Mike
weekend and week out, like you can see that you know,
he's figuring this out and he's a freak athlete. Caleb Johnson,

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I mean, they were errors of comission that he was making.
A lot of the time, you.

Speaker 5 (02:16:34):
See a flash of hair on your TV and you'd
be like, what the hell was that? Yeah?

Speaker 4 (02:16:37):
Yeah, yeah, But Caleb Johnson, I mean, just was not
able to do anything in the preseason and took a
little while, and it seemed like their plan was, oh, well,
he's just going to replace Nauji. I don't think many people,
I certainly didn't anticipate the trust and reliance they'd haven't gain. Well,
that has definitely enabled them to get what they needed

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out of the backfield to this point, but going forward,
I think he still need Caleb Johnson to keep making steps. O.

Speaker 2 (02:17:06):
Yes, So here's a look. They signed Jalen Warren to
it was three year contract extension. What does that tell
you he's their guy?

Speaker 4 (02:17:15):
Yeahs money though, ker no, but but but you know,
a low starter money, right, I mean, you know it keeps.

Speaker 13 (02:17:22):
It on the back money. Hey, keep battling kid. They
I mean, they drafted Johnson for the long haul, sure, but.

Speaker 2 (02:17:28):
They don't need him to be the long haul guy
right now, not right this second.

Speaker 13 (02:17:32):
And we look around in December, I think you're gonna
need to see him being the guy they thought they drafted.

Speaker 2 (02:17:39):
You think he's going to be an eighteen carry guy
in December because I don't. I mean, my guess is
he's going to be six to eight carries a game.
That's that's what I think he's gonna watch. I think
he's going to be impactful in games by then.

Speaker 4 (02:17:50):
I don't know.

Speaker 13 (02:17:51):
I don't know what that means in terms of carries.
But they're sort of bringing him along a little bit.
And he's had a couple of nice runs, a couple
three plays where you see a little bar. But he's
gonna have to start impacting games eventually for them to.

Speaker 5 (02:18:03):
Be the team they need to be.

Speaker 2 (02:18:04):
It's becoming the backup running back is becoming like the
backup quarterback in Pittsburgh.

Speaker 4 (02:18:08):
I mean, look, man, I spend the Nagy for years.
I defend I'm like, look, man. I like the way
he runs. He runs harder. People like Jayoen Warren should
be getting all the carries. Now Jayen Warren's getting all
the carries. I'm defending him, and they're saying Calem Johnson
should be in here.

Speaker 5 (02:18:21):
Welcome to Pittsburgh.

Speaker 4 (02:18:22):
You have starter bias. It is all right. Now you
referred to dk metcalf, I did as to Kalin his
real name. Now, explain a little bit of the story
behind this. If he had his brothers, we'd all be
calling him that. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:18:39):
So I went up to him. I created my own conundrum.
Well done, Rob, No, no need to do this. But
I went up to him and I said, hey, is
there any circumstance in which you would like to be
called to Kalen which is his given name, And he said.

Speaker 4 (02:18:52):
I prefer it. I was like what what?

Speaker 2 (02:18:55):
He goes, yeah, everybody they just can't pronounce it properly.
And I started to say no. He goes, no, No,
you got to write it's to Kalen. I'm like, okay,
so you would like to be called to Kailon? He
said yeah, if I had my brothers, you i'd like
to be called So now I walk away. On has
he seen the mirror.

Speaker 4 (02:19:10):
What I wanted to I.

Speaker 5 (02:19:22):
Guess I'll just abide.

Speaker 4 (02:19:23):
I got to say, if you do something, I'll call
you to Kalen. All right, I don't know if I
said if you do something. He was going to do something.

Speaker 2 (02:19:29):
I said, I said I should I I'll call you
to Kalen. He goes, okay, you know. So I was like,
now what have I done? I'm creating my own problem
because everybody knows him as d Kay.

Speaker 5 (02:19:38):
Where did you see that in the first place?

Speaker 4 (02:19:41):
His name to Kalen? Yeah, it's it's it's research, Trent
Jordan to Kalen.

Speaker 13 (02:19:47):
Trent Jordan's anywhere what Wikipedia, It's not on Seattle's media site,
it's not on Pro Football Reference.

Speaker 4 (02:19:53):
I don't know. I don't know.

Speaker 5 (02:19:55):
Just the hard weekly research, just that aggressive. Yes, that
is impressive.

Speaker 4 (02:20:02):
So now now I'm now I'm stuck. No, you're now
I'm stuck. I don't know what to do.

Speaker 5 (02:20:06):
You call him dk Okay, I think.

Speaker 8 (02:20:08):
You call him to Kaylin when he's in trouble.

Speaker 4 (02:20:14):
Kale dragged that back foot to Klen. Yeah all right, okay,
you can blame the bad stuff. I really was like,
what do I do?

Speaker 10 (02:20:21):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (02:20:21):
Okay, you gotta call him d he can't explain every time.

Speaker 2 (02:20:25):
Wo. No, that's true, that's true. You know that's true.
I created my conundrum. But no, you've got me out
of it.

Speaker 4 (02:20:30):
Thanks.

Speaker 6 (02:20:31):
I know he's had a few issues with some drops
here and there, unbelievable catch down the sideline, the late
hands and pitch and catch on the slug o for
a touchdown.

Speaker 4 (02:20:44):
Yep, and he had he had an easy touchdown. And
Aaron Rodgers.

Speaker 2 (02:20:49):
Aaron Rodgers had two throws that I've seen him make
every time that he didn't make this time. He's rolling
out to his right. Had Darnault Washington over shot him. Look, man,
nobody perfect right. But then he had to kaling down
the left sideline.

Speaker 5 (02:21:02):
He was kailing.

Speaker 4 (02:21:03):
Yeh, I just said her.

Speaker 2 (02:21:04):
At their DT he had him wide open and underthrew
him for Rodgers.

Speaker 4 (02:21:08):
Empty set, gets a snap, Brown's bringing four.

Speaker 3 (02:21:10):
Rogers lost up the right sideline, tumbling grab by de Kalin.

Speaker 4 (02:21:15):
Metcalf Oh, I said, I think I said it every
time he caught them all.

Speaker 3 (02:21:21):
I was looking at mad So I'm like, I don't
know what to do, man, I don't know whether to
the right under hecat this time Metcalf.

Speaker 20 (02:21:27):
Racing up the right side line, then knocked down at
the twenty one yard line. Big game for Metcalf, first
down for the Steeler.

Speaker 5 (02:21:35):
Metcalf didn't to do something, didn't know it.

Speaker 4 (02:21:37):
There's probably an indifference land right there.

Speaker 2 (02:21:39):
Rogers gets a snap back to pass looking pump fixed
the right.

Speaker 3 (02:21:42):
Now wants to go to Metcalf, has him in the
angel touch down to Kln.

Speaker 5 (02:21:47):
Metcalf Ye touchdown.

Speaker 4 (02:21:52):
See if Alvaro called him to Kaylen, maybe is definitely
not what the game was. Adam be th boy, Oh
cut the sound?

Speaker 9 (02:22:00):
See and I see that.

Speaker 5 (02:22:03):
Mena nsp thats all?

Speaker 4 (02:22:07):
What'd you call me? I think he said it made
it look easy? Did I did? I hear the word
easy in there? A boy? But that first uh, it
was like over the campbell just fell perfectly.

Speaker 5 (02:22:20):
I thought it was out of bounce.

Speaker 4 (02:22:22):
And I don't know how he ended up catching that
one because it was late and arriving. He's really good.

Speaker 2 (02:22:30):
He's really you know, we're seeing we're seeing why with Pickens,
who's a super talented guy, why they went out and
got this guy. There's a reason he's here, there's a
reason he's I know, he's a pain in the ass,
But I wish we had Pickens. I think he'd be
a manageable pain in the ass on this team.

Speaker 13 (02:22:48):
You know, the only thing I wonder about is Rogers
is so demanding on these guys being precise. And if
Pickens wasn't going to be precise, which he ain't never
been yet, yeah, that wouldn't have worked.

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Speaker 13 (02:24:02):
We heard Kinger's expert call of the improvised Aaron Rodgers
to Connor Heyward touchdown. The player kind of got the
Steelers going. It was nine to three as still anybody's game.
Second half, and then they got that i think four
twoitous call on the running into the punter which extended
the possession and they end up taking advantage of that

(02:24:24):
break and sticking the ball in the end zone.

Speaker 4 (02:24:26):
Here's Rogers talking about how that play developed.

Speaker 15 (02:24:28):
Yeah, I'm just keep it to the right. Jalen had
a great block. I think it was Jalen. He cut
the guy and I just kind of continued out. The
first look is in the flat, second's kind of the
DK on the backside, and Connor's really kind of a

(02:24:49):
clear out route though we got a similar play against
the Jets in Week one to Calvin for a touchdown.
Different formation, kind of different thing we're doing. So I
just got out there. Gunners a really smart player, and
I just kind of like, either you or DK, when
do you guys see this and go that way? And
Connor didn't they you know, put a decent ball on

(02:25:09):
a him a nice kitchen.

Speaker 5 (02:25:11):
I'm listening to the way that he talks about his teammates.

Speaker 13 (02:25:14):
It's incredible third option and best on that play, right,
and then he's I'm waiting for somebody to see what
I'm seeing and got to call. In a postgame show
last night, somebody asked, is it possible that Rogers is
starting to get more comfortable? No, it wasn't a postgame show,
it was Tomin was asked about this in his postgame
press conference. You know, Aaron Rodgers twenty one years in

(02:25:36):
the league, but is it possible he's still adjusting to
Pittsburgh and starting to get more comfortable here? And Tomlins
said absolutely, there's every expectation that you'd continue as he
gets to know his teammates even better and they play
more games together and they have more experience in helmet together.

Speaker 5 (02:25:51):
They're not top end yet, they're four and one.

Speaker 13 (02:25:54):
A lot of arrows are pointing up, but they can
continue to improve. It's going to be fascinating to see
if they can do so and at what rate. And
then I wanted to detail this hour one of my
favorite plays of the game. You guys remember the little
push past Rogers scrambling and he shoved it ahead yep
to Jalen Warren.

Speaker 5 (02:26:13):
It's an incredible player.

Speaker 13 (02:26:14):
That was starting three from the Pittsburgh twenty eight, and
the details of that play are incredible. Miles Garrett's on
right defensive end, where he spent almost the entirety of
the game. The whole offensive line blocks right away from Garrett.
I guess the play was initially supposed to go to
the right side. So Garrett's coming off the edge, Jalen
Warren has to pick him up one on one.

Speaker 5 (02:26:36):
Back's on backers.

Speaker 13 (02:26:37):
Baby Warren sticks his face in the fan and rocks him.
He didn't knock him down, but he stood him up
and knocked him back temporarily. So Garrett's trying to recollect himself.
Rogers is going right and then he loops back to
the left, so Garrett's chasing him. Here comes Broderick Jones
off of his guy. Seeing what's going on behind him,

(02:27:00):
Warren makes him runs ahead and makes himself available just
in case Rogers needs an outlet. And Broderick Jones gets
just between Garrett and Rogers. Doesn't really knock him down either,
but he cuts them off, and then Rogers shoves the
little pass to Warren first down. Another kind of improv play,
hustle play they're making. Rob talked earlier today about how

(02:27:22):
vicious they're playing and how hard they're hitting, their their
engagement since that Minnesota game has been through the roof little.

Speaker 5 (02:27:28):
Stuff, Pigs, Tom Wilson, Chase Down. They're playing for every play. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (02:27:33):
I look forward to seeing what they can do against Cincinnati.

Speaker 13 (02:27:37):
Oh, it was a big question for me going into
this game because he didn't have the manufactured in tangible
of Oh, it's Ireland, it's for the Steelers, It's for DMR. Yeah,
I heard you saying that on the pregame. I mean
I thought that was legitimate concern. I talked to Cam
Heyward about that last week and he said, now we're
just building, building building, We're going to keep ramping it up.

Speaker 5 (02:27:57):
So far, so good yesterday.

Speaker 13 (02:27:58):
Yeah, you know, it'd be hard to play Thursday and
Cincinnati TI.

Speaker 4 (02:28:02):
It did look like a team that kind of gave
up the Browns. Kinger, would you agree.

Speaker 5 (02:28:07):
Gave up?

Speaker 4 (02:28:08):
In turn? Well, gave up is the wrong work, because
I know NFL teams never really give up. I don't
know that they believe they could win.

Speaker 2 (02:28:17):
Well, they were marching down the field, you know, with
three minutes left, and you know, they score a touchdown there,
they're win seven, right, they did march it into Steelers' territory.
I just don't think they're I think they've got some
serious deficiencies. I think they've got a really good defense
and I and I think that's about it.

Speaker 13 (02:28:35):
They had a lot of tackle issues yesterday. Offensive tackle issues.

Speaker 4 (02:28:38):
Yeah, their tackles have been problematic. They got injured.

Speaker 2 (02:28:41):
I mean they got guys got banged up on the
offensive line.

Speaker 4 (02:28:46):
How do you feel about the way the Steelers played
conservatively offensively and defensively with the lead, they're trying to
run out the clock at the end of the game.
That was fine with it. There's a lot of people
kind of bitching about that, like we're you know, we'll
play too soft on defense, and you know you run
a Caleb Johnson three times into the line and punting
and then Corliss punts with nine seconds on the play clock,

(02:29:08):
make sure you bleed it all the way down, you know. Look,
this has been a common topic. And Mike Tomlins record
in one score games is phenomenal. I mean it's most
coaches are right around that five hundred mark. He's well
above that. It's probably close to two thirds winning percentage.
And you look around the.

Speaker 2 (02:29:26):
NFL and you think, and I'm I will preface this
by saying, I'm not a gamber.

Speaker 4 (02:29:31):
I rarely look at the lines.

Speaker 2 (02:29:32):
But when you do, you think yourself, right, Okay, so
you think this team's gonna blow this team out. But Mike,
you back, They're rarely double digit lines in the NFL.

Speaker 13 (02:29:41):
Right, Bengals were minus fourteen and a half at Green
Bay yesterday and Bavers didn't cover, right.

Speaker 2 (02:29:47):
So, but I mean it's not common. Most of them
are single digits because most games are close. And so
you got you get a lead, you've got a really
good defense. Are there times where you think Blad I'd
love to see him get one be aggressive, get one
more score. But but also with that comes maybe some
risk that you want to avoid when you've got a
good defense and.

Speaker 13 (02:30:03):
You don't want to get anybody hurt. When the game's over.
The game's over, just get out of dodge. They rested
a lot of guys on a short week. I mean
at the end of that game, they were playing Peppers
at safety, they were playing James Pierre at cornerback. They
were playing he looked at outside linebacker they were playing.
It says a to maywoll on the defensive line. Kinger

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to your point.

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It's a lot.

Speaker 5 (02:30:48):
It's a lot, and it happens all the time in
the NFL.

Speaker 2 (02:30:50):
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after the Browns victory, and I have to tell you,
I'm leaving that game yesterday and I'm just thinking, I.

Speaker 5 (02:31:57):
Think O they won this.

Speaker 4 (02:31:58):
Oh tomorrow, the rest of the week is just going
to be so much more delightful in Pittsburgh.

Speaker 5 (02:32:02):
Yes, since they won that.

Speaker 2 (02:32:04):
Now, sitting atop the as do you actually control the
the audio here I can, Yeah, because I just think
did it?

Speaker 4 (02:32:12):
So all of us who have who have have a
microphone on.

Speaker 2 (02:32:16):
At some point you realize you have to stop talking
or you have to really really trust the audio guy
in the commercial break before you come on.

Speaker 4 (02:32:23):
He's just like, welcome back to DV. So if he didn't,
if he wasn't controlling, you are controlling the No. Actually,
I was trusting Jacob, and I am putting too much
trust you Jacob the content that I was viewing prior
to that. But Jake is drunk with who's your hysteria? Yeah?

(02:32:46):
How about that? They well, how about James Franklin getting fired?
The most unpen state like thing ever. I was telling
these guys earlier. Some guy made an announcement. I was
in the bathroom at the game yesterday. Some guy goes,
holy after they fired Franklin. Yeah, but then the entire
path and was like, oh my, you know, and then
all the you know, the peanut gallery yelling was going

(02:33:09):
on in there. But college football is just so fundamentally
different now. It's hard for me to get my hands
around what exactly is happening there because I think it's
out of control is the word that kind of comes
to mind. It's just like they're doing much money that
they're throwing it all over the place, and it's making
the game like it seems like it is scattered. So

(02:33:30):
it's it's become pro football at a different level. And
by the way, it's pro football if there was free
agency every year with infrastructure right, And I think it
underscores you know, people it was remember it was a
big discussion point should these guys be paid or not
be paid?

Speaker 2 (02:33:44):
And there are pros and cons and I understood that.
But I think we're seeing just how much money there is,
and but it.

Speaker 4 (02:33:52):
Proves that it should be paid. To me, it's just
that I think they overcorrected. I wanted to see something
a little more equitable. But what they are doing, the
lack of structure that they have right now, is making
the game.

Speaker 5 (02:34:05):
It's diluting college.

Speaker 2 (02:34:06):
They didn't get Yeah, they didn't get out in front
of it, and they had the opportunity, and there were
people discussing this for years and years and years, and
they didn't get out in front of it.

Speaker 4 (02:34:15):
And now it's you can't put the toothpaste back in
the tight it is. I don't know what they're going
to do.

Speaker 2 (02:34:20):
I hope they can do something because you know, I
was talking to a former college coach about, uh, you
know about hey, when when a guy, when a guy
would go to the pros, he'd get to get drafted,
he'd go up there and he'd like, you know, I'd
like to coach thank coach Dixon for forgetting me to
the NBA. Now they're like, I'd like to thank coach Jones,
Coach Smith, coach Dixon.

Speaker 4 (02:34:40):
I mean, you know, five schools in four years.

Speaker 5 (02:34:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 18 (02:34:44):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (02:34:44):
Steelers.

Speaker 4 (02:34:45):
With a short week now and their second consecutive AFC
North game against the Bengals in Cincinnati on Thursday night,
they've got a chance to make some serious uh headway
here in some distance in the division if they get
to ASC North wins keep knocking down these seas. I
don't know who Cleveland and Baltimore have this week. I
don't know if we could be okay, so they can't lose.

(02:35:08):
I'm not sure who Cleveland has, but it'd be great
if they lost another one. But although I'm not too
worried about them, I mean, it really seems like it
would be it's the Steelers division to lose. Should they
win on Thursday night. And I don't discount the Ravens
at any point, but I think you got to win
this game on Thursday night because it's very winnable. I agree,
you know there they have a they have a puncher's chance.

(02:35:31):
You know they have Joe Flacco can pressed the ball
down the field, and he's a veteran guy, but he
has not looked particularly sharp.

Speaker 5 (02:35:39):
Two touchdowns yesterday.

Speaker 4 (02:35:41):
Yeah, he didn't look great in Cleveland. I have yet
to see I have not watched the Bengals game yet.
That is for later today.

Speaker 13 (02:35:47):
The one touchdown to Chase was one of the most
remarkable catches you'll ever say.

Speaker 4 (02:35:50):
Oh, I can't wait to see him in traffic. So
Chase is phenomenal. Higgins is really good. This is why
you got those three corners games like this. This is
why you have Ramsey and sleigh An added him to JPJ.
They have a good group of tight ends. I really
think Chase Brown is a good running back.

Speaker 2 (02:36:07):
He has not gotten started at all because their offensive
line has been an issue. Hendrickson can wreck a game
by himself. He got yet right his back. I don't
know whether he's gonna be able to play or not.
If he can't play. I mean they've they've spent first
round picks on two edge guys who I don't think
have done a whole lot in Stuart and uh and
uh uh Miles Murphy. Yeah, Miles Murphy was the guy

(02:36:28):
they took first last year. So you know they're they're
they have you know, they have a decent secondary.

Speaker 4 (02:36:35):
You know. Look, it's it's we talked about this just
a short time ago.

Speaker 2 (02:36:38):
It's it's every game in the NFL, right, So you
think about yesterday five turnovers, it could have maybe happened
for the Steelers. They don't get any if if those
if the ball bounces Cincinnati's way, could be an issue.

Speaker 5 (02:36:51):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (02:36:51):
The line, the early line is Steelers minus five and
a half.

Speaker 6 (02:36:57):
If I'm Tomlin, I'm scaring these guys about Flacco and saying, hey,
look he beat us last year in Indy.

Speaker 5 (02:37:03):
Right, this guy's not done.

Speaker 6 (02:37:04):
I know there's rumors of his demise, but they might
be a little early.

Speaker 5 (02:37:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:37:09):
I think he's I saw this doat I think he's
six and twenty two as a starter. Since he left
the Ravens, it hasn't been now. Some of that's the
quality of the teams he's been on. I mean, Cleveland's
just not very good. But you know, look he's and
anybody that's capable. It's like an old you know, it's
like George Foreman, you know, back in the day they
brought him out at you know, forty six.

Speaker 4 (02:37:26):
He could still knock you out.

Speaker 2 (02:37:27):
Right now, Joe Flacco is still capable of having a
good game.

Speaker 4 (02:37:31):
Speaking of knocking you out, I mean the way that
those guys were rushing the quarterback yesterday, and given how
Swiss cheese this Bengals offensive line is, it might be
a tough day for the old man.

Speaker 2 (02:37:42):
Yeah, and Mims has been a little bit banged up
at right tackle, so TJ. Watt's got to be rubbing
his hands together, ready to go, man, come out this.

Speaker 4 (02:37:49):
Do you guys get the sense that this team that
the way they came out talking like they were going
to be the best defense in the NFL and then
let the Jets give him game and then got rolled
by Seattle, that that humility, the humbling there was actually
really good for them. And I don't think they're going

(02:38:09):
to look past the Bengals team.

Speaker 5 (02:38:12):
I think that.

Speaker 4 (02:38:13):
They know how big this game is coming up. This weekend.
Past years, I would wonder, like, are they gonna get
up for this crap?

Speaker 5 (02:38:20):
Just this one? You know.

Speaker 13 (02:38:21):
Deshaun Elliott was talking about that yesterday and he was
asked about their relatively comfortable position and he said, Hey,
were we like eight and two last year? We bleeped
the bed? So I love him. I think they're one
at a time kind of.

Speaker 5 (02:38:39):
Now.

Speaker 4 (02:38:39):
Yeah, that's good because that seems to me to be
different from what they've been in the past.

Speaker 6 (02:38:43):
And I think it's easy to not overlook an opponent
on a short week because it's so immediate.

Speaker 5 (02:38:47):
You got to get to work right now, right, you know,
I do.

Speaker 2 (02:38:53):
I would like to think that with Aaron Rodgers at
quarterback and you know, the defensive look and let's not
for too This last game was the first time the
entire starting eleven, starting twelve with Herbig was out there.

Speaker 4 (02:39:06):
My goodness, gracious, has her Big been incredible?

Speaker 2 (02:39:09):
That's starting twelve first time they've been available this week,
So they hopefully they'll be all available Thursday in Cincinnati
and moving forward.

Speaker 4 (02:39:18):
Yeah, Austin, any idea about his return?

Speaker 13 (02:39:20):
Mike, No, Well, there was some skutt of id a
game yesterday didn't play.

Speaker 5 (02:39:27):
I've been here since. I have no idea.

Speaker 4 (02:39:29):
I just didn't know if there was anything.

Speaker 5 (02:39:30):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (02:39:31):
That's what I was asking you.

Speaker 13 (02:39:32):
But I think Tomlin talks today because of the short week,
maybe he'll have an update today is Tuesday.

Speaker 4 (02:39:37):
Wasn't it schefter who floated yesterday? The Steelers are going
to be active before the trade deadline? You anticipate if
that were the case, it's at receiver.

Speaker 2 (02:39:44):
I wouldn't be shocked. I mean, you know, look, they'll
they'll try to get better anywhere. I saw some of
the names out there, and I'm like, I wonder who
would fit here for the Steelers. You know, you're just
looking down the list, you know, depth pieces potentially.

Speaker 4 (02:39:55):
But George Pickens, they looked for a fourth they look
they look pretty deep, and they look pretty good right now.
The Steelers.

Speaker 13 (02:40:04):
I've seen a lot of speculation like, oh, the SATs
are Saints are going to trade a Lavee because they
stak like.

Speaker 4 (02:40:10):
If you're gonna get any better, you want to have.

Speaker 13 (02:40:11):
Good young receivers. Like he's not their problem, right, No,
he's not their problem. But I don't think you're getting
the lava for a fourth round compensatory pick. No, it's
it's always what are you going to get? Right, he's unavailable?
Wait how much? Oh he's available? Right, That's just the
way it goes.

Speaker 6 (02:40:24):
Are they utilizing everybody they have? Kinger, I've been talking
about this the last couple of weeks. Pat Fryarmuth not
figuring into this offense is really bizarre to me.

Speaker 5 (02:40:34):
So I think I was asked about this.

Speaker 2 (02:40:36):
I believe this is going to be all season long,
a matchup offense.

Speaker 4 (02:40:41):
So we think we can run the ball and bully you.

Speaker 2 (02:40:43):
Okay, you're gonna get a lot of Spencer Anderson and
a lot of Darnell Washington.

Speaker 5 (02:40:46):
We got to spread it out and throw it.

Speaker 2 (02:40:47):
You're gonna get more Calvin, Austin Roman, Wilson, Pat Fryarmuth,
John and Smith.

Speaker 5 (02:40:53):
I just think that's the way it's going to be.

Speaker 2 (02:40:54):
I think that they they have enough flexibility to be
able to attack an opposing defense the way they want
to attack them and change within game because they've got
a wide variety of personnel.

Speaker 13 (02:41:07):
Potentially good offense, bad fantasy team.

Speaker 4 (02:41:10):
Exactly. Yeah, that's a good call, that's exactly right.

Speaker 6 (02:41:13):
But I think a lot of Steelers fans thought of
him as somebody like a Travis Kelce type ceiling to
his game, and I don't think when the Chiefs are
playing people, any opponent is going to factor him out
of the game.

Speaker 2 (02:41:26):
He's been extremely consistent throughout his GRAM and you can
pretty much pencilim in for sixty sixty five catches when
he plays a full season. He's not on pace to
do that right now, but I can see a game
in which he's going to catch six seven balls for
ninety five yards. You just haven't had to do that.
I don't think you're gonna have to do it against
Cincinnati either, hopefully.

Speaker 13 (02:41:43):
By the way, really impressed with the Chiefs last night.
I mean that was a big win. They're only three
and three, but they're still the Chiefs.

Speaker 4 (02:41:50):
Yeah. Andy Reid might be the greatest coach alive. He
might in reck like when it's all said and done.

Speaker 5 (02:41:57):
Sit great. Do you mean like a great lake like
great size? Yes?

Speaker 4 (02:42:01):
But Belichick this, you know I know that Bill Simmons
and you know the Patriots riff Raffer all yelling, oh
nothing will ever but march his legacy. I disagree Brady's
success after Belichick and then Belichick completely screwing up his
end of tenure in New England and then embarrassing himself

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in North Carolina.

Speaker 5 (02:42:24):
I don't think Andy Reid would ever do that.

Speaker 6 (02:42:28):
How good Drake May has looked, how good Mac Jones
has looked in San France?

Speaker 5 (02:42:32):
Dude? Yeah, who did he have coaching? Mac Jones? A
bunch of idiots?

Speaker 4 (02:42:36):
You should have never been coordinators, quarterbacks coaches like Belichick was.
You couldn't question anything he did there for so long,
and he was making terrible mistakes. I just I just
wonder if that conversation is now now, Andy Reid is
a better coach than Bill Belichick despite the championships.

Speaker 13 (02:42:54):
Yeah, do you look at Andy Reid's previous to Kansas
City run which, Yeahladelphia, it was really good, but he
could never win the big one. There doesn't matter, Oh no,
it matters who is his quarterback. It matters who was
his quarterback. So it's all tied to the quarterback. Well,
this is what I'm saying, did you.

Speaker 4 (02:43:12):
Have menab for a while? Him? Was Belichick going to
the AFC Championship without Tom Brady.

Speaker 13 (02:43:18):
I think Andy Reid's a really good coach and he's
a likable guy who does funny fast food commercials. And
Belichick's a really good coach who's just so dislikable and
he's embarrassing himself.

Speaker 5 (02:43:30):
Later in life.

Speaker 4 (02:43:32):
We gotta jump out of here, Rob King, thanks so much, buddy,
Thank you, guys, appreciate you. The second half hour of
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Speaker 5 (02:43:43):
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Speaker 19 (02:44:03):
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Speaker 5 (02:44:05):
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Speaker 4 (02:44:06):
Would you not eat my pants?

Speaker 5 (02:44:08):
Ronald?

Speaker 4 (02:44:11):
Whoa whay goggle it.

Speaker 11 (02:44:18):
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Speaker 5 (02:44:29):
Here's Tom Opperman.

Speaker 30 (02:44:31):
The Steelers improved the four and one on the season
thanks to a dominating win against the rival Cleveland Browns
at Akroschur Stadium Sunday and what was the team's most
complete performance today. The twenty three to nine victory saw
the defense keep the Browns out of the end zone
all afternoon long, while the Steelers' offense found paydirt a
couple of times. Defensively, Nick Herbig had his fingerprints all
over this game with an elite performance where he had

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two sacks, two tackles for a loss, and four quarterback hits.
The offense, which gained three hundred and thirty five total yards,
was highlighted by the air Rogers the DK Metcalf connection,
which continues to impress week after week. Against the Browns,
Rogers found Dk four times on nine targets for ninety
five yards and an impressive twenty five yard touchdown. Rogers
and Metcalf have connected for a touchdown in four of

(02:45:13):
their first five games as Steelers this year. The offensive
line also did a fantastic job of keeping Rogers clean
all game, as the quarterback didn't suffer a single sack
and Brown star Miles Garrett was quiet all game long,
registering just two tackles and being shut out from the
sack column.

Speaker 4 (02:45:29):
It's a short week for.

Speaker 30 (02:45:29):
The Steelers as they traveled to Cincinnati to face the
Bengals this week on Thursday Night Football, I'm Tom Opraman
with the Steelers.

Speaker 5 (02:45:35):
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