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October 22, 2025 • 39 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Is This is w DV Pittsburgh.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
And then I was out with my other nephew, James,
over the weekend. We're having dinner at to Topo. My
dad was watching the Boys and we're sitting there and
this was his small talk. He goes, hey, uncle Bolle,
what's your favorite medicine. I'm like, my wife, He's like,
I love motrin, and I'm like, I just started cracking out.

(00:27):
I'm like, I don't know, I never thought about it.
I mean, diamond taps not bad.

Speaker 3 (00:37):
Where did you learn how to small talk?

Speaker 4 (00:38):
Dude?

Speaker 1 (00:39):
She'd ask you your doctor if motrin's right for you?

Speaker 3 (00:42):
You tried to sky Rizzy, Uncle.

Speaker 1 (00:44):
Bill, Brandy Bellman and the DV Morning talking to my
kids who are old souls, and just the conversations that
come out sometimes and you're like, why is a little
kid like kidbits and about medicine right now? But that
is the funniest thing though, that kids the perspective on
things like, Uh, We're driving down the road one time

(01:05):
and my nephew goes, yeah, Granny, you like that dog,
and I was like that dog over there he goes yeah,
Like oh yeah, he goes yeah, I'd like that dog
as far as I got with it, that's still.

Speaker 5 (01:19):
Happening in my house, like where my my kids would
just be like, hey, Dad, what's your least favorite kind
of chicken? And I'm like, I've never thought about what
my least favorite kind of chicken is, I guess or
something like that, Like I don't know, I've never had
you know, But it's they're trying.

Speaker 1 (01:34):
To figure out their likes and dislikes on every level. Yeah,
these are the dogs.

Speaker 4 (01:39):
I like.

Speaker 1 (01:39):
These are the medicines. I like, these are the chickens.
I like the medicine know the things I like.

Speaker 5 (01:43):
I honestly think like if you like, my kids watch
Sports Center every every day in the morning, and Kate
Morning TV is riddled with prescription drug ads to the
point where like we heard that like that song like
It's magic or whoever you know, but that my kids
were going like oh, oh, oh, oh zembic, and I

(02:07):
was like, this is a problem that they know, Like
what your GLP one, you know, semi glue tide injection.

Speaker 1 (02:13):
They're brand loyal to a semi glue tide injection already.
Aren't you worried your kids are going to grow up
talking like Steven A Smith. Now, yeah, that's on top
on the too. Okay, right, things of that nature. Abby's
got your news right now.

Speaker 6 (02:28):
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Speaker 7 (02:34):
Cloudy and breezy.

Speaker 6 (02:36):
Today with a high of fifty one, people online are
talking about things that were normal twenty to thirty years
ago but are now considered a luxury. So I'm going
to give you some highlights and see if this jogs
your memory. So owning the software that you purchased.

Speaker 3 (02:55):
That's so funny. Yeah, a hard copy of it.

Speaker 5 (02:58):
I the like the Microsoft Suite used to be able
to buy.

Speaker 1 (03:04):
It for forty two dollars.

Speaker 5 (03:06):
Get your word, you get Excel, power Point and you
know some other thing.

Speaker 1 (03:11):
Usually never used anything but word in Excel And that
was it.

Speaker 2 (03:14):
So one of those Halloween candy packs where it's like,
all right, I'm getting whoppers in here.

Speaker 1 (03:18):
I don't I'm never going to use someone. Does anybody
want to use power Point numbers or something? Yeah, it
wasn't numbers.

Speaker 5 (03:25):
It was like it was it was like a flow
chart software like that you could like map out flow
charts for project management or something like that. Uh, but
not like probably eight years ago. They're like, well just
rent it. You're just rent just you have to pay
a subscription service. I'm like, for what what am I
subscribing to? I either have this thing or I don't

(03:45):
have it all the way and I think we didn't
lexus or something like that.

Speaker 1 (03:50):
Try to release.

Speaker 5 (03:52):
They're like, you can use our seat heater, but it's
a subscription service for ten dollars. And they were like yeah,
oh yeah, car company did. There was a huge backlash
for it because people are just like, are you out
of your mind? Like I'm not paying, Like, so what
on February? If I'm late on my payments, I can't
use my car, the one that I paid like, you know,
eighty thousand dollars for that. You want to milk the

(04:12):
ten dollars because.

Speaker 1 (04:14):
How the hell are they able to control?

Speaker 5 (04:18):
I don't get that model is entirely, entirely desirable for
you know, accountants and the financial people because you can
show steady profit instead of like hey, everyone go to
Toyota than and there's a big sales spike and then
the next quarter you're way low. You can just show
this you know, constant growth the entire time.

Speaker 1 (04:35):
It's like what they did with ski passes in the
ski industry, where they stopped made stop making it affordable
to go one day, right because if you go one day,
like I got to buy a pass for one hundred
and fifty dollars, Yeah, for one day, and like or
you can buy a season's pass and it's first seven
hundred dollars, so you only have to go ski in
five times, right, and then everybody buys that, and most

(04:58):
of the people don't end up even going that many times.
And then like they keep increasing the price of that
every year because they had to show growth and continually
show growth the way they figured to do. But it's
completely ruined.

Speaker 5 (05:10):
I think the same thing is like happening with music.
And I had this epiphany the other day. I was like,
I listened to everything on Spotify. I was like, I
don't own any any music, Like anybody could take this
away from me at any time, because I don't physically
have a copy digital or media, you know, physical record,
whatever you want to call it or otherwise.

Speaker 1 (05:30):
I don't like that thought. Well, you can download a
lot of stuff, like if you buy stuff on Apple,
like if you buy it.

Speaker 5 (05:36):
If you buy it, you can definitely download it. But
even that you can't share like that. It's like past.
You can't just like share it with other people.

Speaker 1 (05:43):
I don't know that. Can you even burn that stuff
to a CD or anything like that anymore?

Speaker 3 (05:47):
Probably? But then where do they sell CDs?

Speaker 2 (05:49):
Yeah, it's the best buy if the best buys are
still open.

Speaker 1 (05:53):
There are some M fours like M four a voice
that you can send and they will people can listen
to them without having to have the same subscription that
you do. But then there are others that are encoded
and don't play and I don't know clip that's right,
that's what ends up happening. I mean, I remember having
a subscription to E Music where every month I would

(06:16):
go on and download. They give you like one hundred downloads,
and then they'd also have like cool articles and turn
you onto bands that you know. They'd be like you
know in the early two thousand and be like clap
your hands and say yeah, it's this new band, and
you listen to be like, oh, that's cool, I hadn't
heard that yet, and you download the record and it
was a good way to do it. Now, nobody cares
that they don't own it because it's just a sample,

(06:39):
because they don't also want to have the storage, use
up the storage to carry it with them. They want
to have the access on their phone to be able
to go to a billion songs, not the thousands that
they own.

Speaker 5 (06:51):
I was driving. I had to drive to and from
Penn State in the same days. That's a long dry
It's this is like six hour round trip or whatever.
And at one point I was like looking, you know,
I was like trying to figure out what music I
want to listen to, and I was like, maybe I
just sit here, and I was like, uh, oh, your
board of music. I was like, that's a bad feeling
to have where you're like, you have the entire world

(07:12):
of music at your fingertips and you're like, I don't want.

Speaker 1 (07:16):
Well, a lot of times I'll go to my library
in those instances and I just hit shuffle because of
all those times that I downloaded things that I owned.
I uploaded all of my CDs into my library, like
I own all those all right, yeah, and it reminds
me of what I downloaded and what I like, yeah,
what I own. You know this song.

Speaker 3 (07:35):
Maybe you were questioning your sexuality.

Speaker 5 (07:38):
Yeah, I'll tell you what if anybody was into outcasts
for a minute, if anybody wants a great date night
idea if you're my age, because you probably have this.
Like my wife and I both have binders of mix
CDs that we made, like in college. They have a
party mix or car mix or something like that, or
even just things that don't have labels to them. It

(07:59):
is in your house one night on a Friday night,
and just pop some of those in and you're like,
oh my god, I liked Huba.

Speaker 1 (08:06):
Stank for a little bit, like it's a great date night.

Speaker 5 (08:10):
Hell yeah, everyready went through that phase.

Speaker 2 (08:17):
What was like, what were some other bands that were
in that genre?

Speaker 5 (08:20):
Well, I thought Cuba Stank was funny because it was
Brandon Boyd from Incubus's.

Speaker 1 (08:27):
Houba Sank was that guy's cousin.

Speaker 5 (08:29):
So then there was this whole little genre of people
who were related to others. There was a band called Adema,
which was Jonathan Davis from Korn's cousin, who started a
you know, a whatever you want to call it, a
new metal, you know, emo type type band. But that
that those are all going on, then they weren't even
one hit Wonders. They were like sort of half e

(08:52):
eighth of a hit Wonders.

Speaker 1 (08:53):
Like all the new metal names. It's so funny how
the genres have names that all like like rotate around
each other, and like the new metal names all sound
like it's definitely a new metal band. Like jam bands
all sound like muppets. Yeah, like all their bands.

Speaker 5 (09:08):
Metal bands all sound like like Passages in the Test
or something like that.

Speaker 3 (09:13):
Really aggressive, like Puddle of Mud.

Speaker 1 (09:16):
God's smash, Yeah exactly, it's just hilarious. You're not gonna
go see God smack and it's two guys with guitars harmonizing.

Speaker 3 (09:25):
Yeah, all right.

Speaker 6 (09:28):
Something else on the lift here, good quality fabric and clothing.

Speaker 1 (09:34):
What's what's it called? What? What's that? There's a phrase
for the cheap clothing that's out there now.

Speaker 7 (09:39):
Well, fast fashion one.

Speaker 1 (09:41):
Yeah, fast fashion like old navy and stuff like that.
That's like four or five wears and washes and it's
already on the way out. Yeah, you can get.

Speaker 6 (09:49):
Everything that you need at like H and M and
Forever twenty one, but it will disintegrate in the wash.

Speaker 5 (09:55):
Like well, yeah, you're about to find out how as
somebody with a large head, like I got the bacon.
Any sweatshirt I buy has to be like triple reinforced
with like NASA elastic, because we're going bacon bacon collar
on that one.

Speaker 1 (10:11):
You stretch them out and Jacob, Jacob stretches out his car.
He's got a Casaba me and him.

Speaker 6 (10:17):
It's similar to like household products also that don't break
within the first few years of use. Used to be
able to buy something and kind of think that, you know, solid,
I get to keep this for ten to fifteen.

Speaker 5 (10:28):
Dude, my neighbor my furnace when I bought the My
house is built in like nineteen forty eight. When I
bought the house in twenty thirteen, it was the same furnace.
The furnace had, but if it was working, there was
like a tiny little carbon monoxide leak. So we got
it like a little bit of a little bit of one.
It's okay, it was working, but only poisoning up. People

(10:49):
need to replace their furnaces like every like six years.

Speaker 1 (10:51):
Now that one last is by the shine.

Speaker 2 (10:54):
This is by design, though, it's because we've we've become
a consumer economy. Yeah, like we are consumers. We're not
manufacturing anymore. When we were building this stuff. It was
built to last a lifetime. My my grandmother had the
same iron and washer and dryer for sixty years.

Speaker 4 (11:12):
Growth.

Speaker 1 (11:12):
Yeah, growth, Well, I think it's to me.

Speaker 5 (11:15):
This is a this is a problem with how corporations
are run because basically they're all run by hedge funds.
So every corporation doesn't have an owner. They have a
million owners.

Speaker 4 (11:25):
So if your.

Speaker 5 (11:25):
Product sucks, it doesn't really matter because it gets spread
out over ten thousand nobody. There's no one there, you know,
from Black and like when Black and Decker made their
first tool company, they were like, we're gonna make good
tools because I want my name to go down in
history as a good tool maker. And then they sold
it to a hedge fund and then no one cares anymore.
So you can just right Decker was always a jack.

Speaker 1 (11:49):
Yeah, I don't know. There are some brands that last,
you know, Like I have a washer and dryer I
got from the Onto Appliances that has like been on
I'm going on like fifteen years with it. Yeah, that's
pretty good.

Speaker 3 (12:06):
Yeah, you know my appliances are from Dawn's two.

Speaker 4 (12:10):
Really good.

Speaker 1 (12:11):
If you try to go the cheaper route, sometimes on
appliances especially. I feel like you try, You're like, oh,
I don't need an expensive dishwasher, and then it's just
like you know, you open the door one day and
it falls off.

Speaker 5 (12:23):
A ring shoots out like a like a broken garage
door opener, and ricochets across the room.

Speaker 2 (12:27):
I mean, I think Apple was the most egregious in
this way, like they phase out their own products on purpose.

Speaker 3 (12:33):
You ever taken like an older computer to Apple.

Speaker 2 (12:35):
They don't know their geniuses, but they don't know what
the hell kind of computer you have?

Speaker 4 (12:39):
Well?

Speaker 1 (12:39):
The new operating system for Apple, the new Tahoe, right,
I only have one of the three. I have a laptop, phone,
and then my desktop that I use at home. And
I can't update the desktop because it doesn't work with
pro tools yet, but I could update my laptop, so
I did. Dude, it runs like a far and everything
else I have runs like crap. And the fact that

(13:00):
they do that, or that your iPhone battery starts to
go out, like these are all things that they have designed.
Or when they changed the wiring and the charging headphone jacks,
getting rid of the three point five millimeters headphone jack
was the most egregious slap in the face to all
consumers and be like, you got to use the USBC

(13:21):
that only we sell. Well, you get the adapt you
can get the adapt Yeah.

Speaker 5 (13:25):
So yeah, then I get a little dreadlock hanging out
of my phone too.

Speaker 2 (13:28):
Now you've got a dongle to dongle on your phone
dn O, thank you dongle, and you got a bigger dangle.

Speaker 6 (13:35):
Well that kind of this kind of goes with Apple
privacy is now a luxury being able to just let
loose and have a good sign without the risk of
it being recorded and popping up on social media.

Speaker 1 (13:46):
Did you see that the ring cameras are now using
facial recognition technology? Gee? Who could have seen that coming.

Speaker 5 (13:52):
We're putting in a surveillance system for the entire world voluntarily,
I mean that we're paying for it from the go.
I was like, this is suspect beyond all suspect.

Speaker 1 (14:03):
Hey want to be a snitch for us?

Speaker 3 (14:05):
Yes, that's what it is. So you can see the
door dash guy.

Speaker 1 (14:08):
But is there I see the value in having uh
something like a ring cam? Is there something where they're
not using it for nefarious purposes? Because ring is already
they're getting sued for you know, they've they've offered over
video to the yeah without a warrant and things like that.

(14:29):
So they're under fire for a lot of their business practices.
There's wrong with the peephole? Well, like I don't know,
you can't see the Amazon Amazon guy far and fall
down the stairs. Just how will we all enjoy viral videos?

Speaker 2 (14:43):
I do love those videos, just like a guy is
on a date and he steps out on the porch
to get away from her for a second.

Speaker 5 (14:49):
He's a But my thing is like who's uploading like
videos of themselves falling on icy patches and falling down
the patio stairs? Like who then has that happened to them?
And thinks immediately I should I should upload that.

Speaker 1 (15:03):
On YouTube because we all have this mild history onic
personality disorder from social media where it doesn't matter how
we're getting attention, we just want attention see to me.

Speaker 5 (15:12):
And being embarrassed in private is was a was a
luxury like you could you could you could be in
your socks and person slip on the landing and then
eat it with a laundry basket and you'd say, oh
thank god, nobody saw that.

Speaker 1 (15:25):
And now you feel compelled to share it with the world.

Speaker 3 (15:27):
On somebody caught it on vida.

Speaker 7 (15:30):
I understand the utility of the ring camera. I don't
understand the utility of people having cameras in their homes.
That doesn't make sense, Like.

Speaker 6 (15:38):
Yeah, when you have when you see videos that are
posted of people that have cameras inside, like the kitchen,
inside the living room, I guess.

Speaker 1 (15:48):
I mean the argument would be if you were in
an apartment and there were break ins, that would be
a way to help identify.

Speaker 5 (15:57):
But something case like, I don't know with all that stuff.
It's just like, well, what if I need to know?
What are you gonna do? Let's just say there's a
home invasion. What you're gonna get on the intercomp.

Speaker 1 (16:07):
Please please stop, please please stop robbing my house?

Speaker 5 (16:11):
Like, what are you going to before I'm all oblige?
What is gonna happen? I don't understand it.

Speaker 1 (16:18):
Privacy, those are the good old days and now they're gone.

Speaker 7 (16:23):
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Big show down there. If you haven't been down there,
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Speaker 3 (16:45):
All the way down by the cemetery.

Speaker 5 (16:47):
Yeah, but a cool place. It's like on fifty second
Street on Butler. But the show on November fifteenth, that's a.

Speaker 1 (16:52):
Saturday, good deal. It's like by Spirit.

Speaker 4 (16:54):
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Speaker 1 (16:55):
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Speaker 10 (17:41):
The Penguins five one win over Vancouver last night included
Tommy Novak's first of the year, Connor dwar second, Anthony
manthis third, and Justin Brozo's fifth.

Speaker 1 (17:52):
Who are these guys? How are they scoring gold? It's
actually good so far?

Speaker 10 (17:58):
Could it be the Kyle Dubis found some of these
retread vets that actually fit stay tuned?

Speaker 1 (18:04):
What stay tuned?

Speaker 10 (18:05):
Let's not get ahead of ourselves, but it's working pretty
well so far, and last night it worked out not
just well for the Penguins, but historically so. Sidney Crosby's
fourth of the new campaign was his one eight hundred
and ninety sixth career point regular season and playoffs combined,
and that nudged him ahead of Mario Lemieux for the most.

Speaker 1 (18:28):
In Penguins history.

Speaker 10 (18:31):
Passing Lemieux absolutely meant something to Crosby, particularly considering how
much what Lemieux did for Crosby to start of Crosby's
career meant to Crosby, the eighteen year old a lot.

Speaker 11 (18:42):
I mean, coming in, you know, there's so many new
things and the expectations and everything that comes with it
as a young player.

Speaker 3 (18:51):
So you know, having someone like.

Speaker 11 (18:52):
Mary Owen's family there to you know, just keep things
as normal as possible to be there, you know, for
anything that I needed, any questions I had, just to
you know, to keep things as normal as they.

Speaker 3 (19:04):
Could possibly be given a situation.

Speaker 11 (19:07):
And then be able to learn from someone like Hims
who've been through so much and play at the level
that he did and you know, went through the university
that he did, and just you know, his family as
a whole house was so important. So yeah, I can't
I don't know if I can put into words how
much it means, but it's meant a lot, and I

(19:28):
really I cherish that, you know, that relationship and.

Speaker 3 (19:32):
His family and everything that they've you know, they've done
for me.

Speaker 1 (19:35):
The rarity of that situation to have a superstar come
in and stay with the team owner, former superstar, legend
of the sport, and have him take him under his
wing and make him part of his family. It just
feels like such a Pittsburgh dynamic, Like it's something that

(19:55):
in this mythology, we just you can't get enough of
situation like that, and it sets our expectations extremely high
when it comes to ownership and player relationships in this town.
And it's part of why the FSG people have had
such a hard time getting anybody in this town to

(20:18):
appreciate anything they're doing or not doing, because we're so
used to the extraordinary.

Speaker 10 (20:26):
Yeah, I mean, it's like the Canadian billet system in
junior hockey. You know, kid gets traded to some western
prairie town named after an animal part and he has
to live with somebody exactly, except that with the NHL
it was like a big city come.

Speaker 1 (20:42):
On, you know, like Yack Larynx, coyote, scro.

Speaker 2 (20:51):
I love stories like that because it's it's people living
up to their expectations and and blowing right by them.
I mean every but he thought Sid was a superstar, obviously,
from the time he was fourteen years old on. But
I don't know that anybody thought that he would pass
Lemieux on the goals list.

Speaker 1 (21:11):
I don't recall hearing that when Crosby got here. I
don't think anybody thought he'd be playing for the Penguins
this long pretty pretty amazing stuff.

Speaker 10 (21:19):
You heard that SoundBite from Crosby, that's about his expanses as.

Speaker 1 (21:22):
He gets He says his excitement for the ice. He
really does.

Speaker 2 (21:25):
But I think he did a good job there, he said.
I don't know if I could put it into words.
You did a pretty good job, said.

Speaker 10 (21:31):
You know, I didn't even know combined points regular season
and playoffs was a thing. I know they you know,
they rate the all time points leaders on regular season,
but most regular season and playoff points in NHL history.
Crosby's now seventh's crazy Wow, eighteen ninety six. Next on

(21:51):
the list at number six is Steve Eiserman one nine
and forty Ron Francis fifty one.

Speaker 4 (22:01):
I mean.

Speaker 10 (22:03):
Some heavy stuff, and oh, by the way, Penser five
and two.

Speaker 2 (22:07):
That's why I always thought that there was no chance
that he was going to leave Pittsburgh, because you know,
obviously the goal is to win Cups. But he is
still passing all time list marks. That are he's still
accomplishing things. And he also, by the way, has three
rings and a bunch of gold medals.

Speaker 1 (22:27):
I think he wants more, of course, more than anything.
He's a man of habit and routine and legacy and loyalty.
Being traded to Colorado would break the routine. Yeah, a
lot of people think he's going to Montreal, man, I
just don't see it.

Speaker 3 (22:43):
To play with those guys in the Olympics.

Speaker 10 (22:47):
Hopefully hopefully gets in world again and they get maybe
a bronze.

Speaker 1 (22:51):
So you think that his agent floating that was more
to just push Dubis to not dial like, you know,
dial it all the way back to the snow.

Speaker 10 (22:58):
No, I think it's say, I think it was an
alert from his agent. Hey, if you guys are horrible,
we're not around here. For it ain't better or that
much worse, right, you know what I mean. It's yeah,
take your time, but hurry up. It's better or worse,
but you got to try a little bit like for
better or that much worse. When I said worse, which

(23:18):
is like a I think a lot of marriage just
get to that point.

Speaker 1 (23:22):
And they said, you know, I didn't sign up for
this indeed.

Speaker 10 (23:25):
So we'll see Steals getting ready for the Packers on
Sunday night at Akroscher Stadium and uh, they get some
work to do. Man, the secondary is the primary concern
in the wake of that disaster in Cincinnati. Coach, it
has looked nothing like they thought it was gonna look
this season so far, but Mike Tomlin is going to

(23:46):
keep squinting.

Speaker 8 (23:47):
It certainly hasn't met my vision to this point, but
I'm not discouraged. We got good people there, good players,
good people guys. They got good relationships with the game.
We're just going to keep working.

Speaker 10 (24:02):
Speaking of working, Calvin Austin is scheduled to work this week.
According to Mike Tomlin has always they will let his
participation and the quality of that participation be their guide.
Said Tomlin yesterday, quote, as we stand here today, we're optimistic.
I know certainly he's optimistic about his ability to be included.

Speaker 1 (24:20):
Then he scored some points.

Speaker 3 (24:21):
Yeah, he can help.

Speaker 1 (24:25):
Green Bay is a problem defensively. They don't scare me.
Outside of the pass rush. I think if you can
it's pretty comparison, pretty good pass rush. The backers are
really good too. I think I was telling building one
of the breaks. I don't think the sideways, dump it down,
really quick passing game is going to work against these guys.

Speaker 10 (24:46):
Because they play, at least in the Arizona game, they
just played super aggressive.

Speaker 1 (24:49):
They play a lot of single high.

Speaker 10 (24:50):
They got a lot of people around the line of
scrimmage and they're fast and they rally to the ball.
I think you have to challenge these guys down the field,
which Jacoby Brissett was able to do, but you got
to have time to do it. And when they couldn't
do it, Parsons blew it up.

Speaker 1 (25:06):
They are second in the league against the rush.

Speaker 4 (25:10):
Green Bay.

Speaker 1 (25:10):
Yeah, they.

Speaker 10 (25:13):
Are forced just the best team Steelers will have played.
And I have a lot of respect for Seattle and Minnesota.
Aaron Rodgers can This is a big tight end game,
big tight end game. Funny funny you mentioned that the
Arizona tight end Trey McBride, had ten catches and two touchdowns.
There you go, and on both of the touchdowns they

(25:33):
just lost them in zone coverage. It looked it looked
like Steelers spangles.

Speaker 3 (25:37):
It's hard to lose Darnell Washington and any kind of coverage.

Speaker 10 (25:39):
You know, they're throwing the ball to a guy and
should should somebody be covering that guy?

Speaker 1 (25:44):
He's like right at the flour yard line.

Speaker 3 (25:47):
It happens.

Speaker 1 (25:47):
Steelers like Gronk run around free.

Speaker 3 (25:49):
It happens. Oh yeah, they did that.

Speaker 10 (25:53):
When they tried to cover him with nobody like, yeah,
put somebody over there.

Speaker 1 (25:58):
It's just like, there's Gronk. I mean that before.

Speaker 10 (26:04):
Troy couldn't cover Grunk like he was that good in
his window when he was at the height of his powers.

Speaker 1 (26:11):
He almost came back. He almost came back with Brady
there right, wasn't he gonna he was like he did?
Wait did he play for timber Day?

Speaker 3 (26:20):
We want to ring with him down there?

Speaker 1 (26:22):
My god? How did I forget that? After some reason?

Speaker 3 (26:24):
I'll never forget it because I won all those props.

Speaker 1 (26:27):
I'm thinking, uh, props in the Super.

Speaker 2 (26:29):
Bowl fifty yards plus three cat like three catches?

Speaker 3 (26:35):
Oh my god, anytime TD.

Speaker 1 (26:38):
So look at some of those guys that Brady had,
and now he sold shirts for the military. He can't
say eggbuka, but otherwise he's doing great. Abby's got your
news coming up at the top of the air. What
are you talking about?

Speaker 7 (26:51):
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Her, and he says it's really interesting and you can't
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Speaker 1 (26:58):
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Speaker 4 (27:52):
More, I love your energy. I always have great energy.

Speaker 1 (27:54):
Well, you know, trying to man just manufacture some positivity
after watching the Steelers drop one the Flaco and the
Bengals on Thursday night. A very winnable game and unbelievable
performance from Joe Flacco.

Speaker 3 (28:07):
But once again Rogers, the old guys showed up.

Speaker 1 (28:10):
He did. But like, I'm not so worried about our
offense so much as I'm worried about the defense, which
always comes into the season highly touted and then lets
big things happen against them. That happened again this weekend.
So what is your main area of concern? Defensively? For
the Steelers defensive line let them run all over them,

(28:30):
even though the Bengals were the last ranked team in
rushing in the NFL. But the secondary having the breakdowns
that they did, and the linebackers just being confused as
to who to cover that is that is worrisome.

Speaker 4 (28:43):
Merril, we pretty much summed it up. Well, I'll tell
you listen, everything starts and ends with how you win
the line of screage. I mean, I'm a big cliche
and it sounds boring, but like the two things that
help you win consistently or you control the temple of
the game, a part of that is control the line

(29:04):
of scrimmage on both sides of the ball and then
just when the turtle battle, Like if you do that
in the ninety per chance that you're gonna win in
this league because that's just closely paradise. I mean, this
happened what Cincinnati did with Joe Flackell having like four
real practices, you know, to get ready for a game.
But the thing that was probably the most concerning was

(29:25):
their defensive line kind of fell back into the first
two weeks. How they kind of got manhandled. Cincinnati manhandled
them up front. There were I think sometimes we forget
like those guys are NFL players too, Like they're really
good too, you know, but their guy, their best beat
our best. You know, a lot of the one on
one stuff on the perimeter. Their wide receivers beat us schematically,

(29:48):
they did a good job. See we were trying to
double both of their guys, their main guys, you know,
Chase and five. So what they did is they took
advantage of that they have other good guys. Number eighties
are really good wide receiver, are really good wide receiver.
Then got a bunch of plays to him that one

(30:09):
big explosive to play because they knew what we were doing.
They knew we were doubling and taking all of our
access and all our assets to cover and take care
of those two guys Higgins and a Chase, and we'll
create matchups elsewhere. So they did schematically, they did a
good job, and then when it was one on one,
they they won. You know we didn't. It is a

(30:30):
little bit because I would be a little concerned because
you see this all consistently. We struggle with our zone coverage.
Now when I say we like linebackers are part of coverage,
and I think we forget like everything that's the secondary
linebackers are really important. I remember talked to Tom coffin
gosh Is like twenty years ago and Tom Thoutland goes man,

(30:52):
I got linebackers when we play his own coverage. When
I count to be at the twenty, man, they're gonna
be at the twenty, But they have no instinct after
that because sometimes you don't have to be at the twenty.
You need to be like three yards to the left
or the right based on formation and our underneath coverage,
like we we give so many voids up based on
the formation, like we don't know where people are. You know,

(31:15):
there was one time that had a route all two
routes on the numbers. Okay, we had one of our
linebackers between the numbers and the out of bounds. Well,
there's nobody over there, Like, you're not covering anybody. You've
got to move inside the numbers, you know, to make effected,
you know, So so zone causes.

Speaker 1 (31:35):
That's we do that a lot.

Speaker 4 (31:37):
We create a lot of voids. And then when people
bring bunch packages like three wide receivers and they and
then quickly disperse, we make a lot of mistakes on
who we got who we don't have. And that keeps happening.
You know, That's happened consistently, So that's why people keep
doing it. So you've got to button those and those
things are all correctable, but honestly, but until you do

(32:00):
them all, people are going to keep doing it. And
if you keep if you don't ever corrected, then it's
going to be the thing that haunts you for the
rest of the year.

Speaker 1 (32:08):
Meryl.

Speaker 10 (32:08):
If I've learned anything from you over the years, it's
that I'm never supposed to overlook or underappreciate a professional
that's been embarrassed. Did the Steelers collectively qualify as embarrassed
right now?

Speaker 4 (32:23):
The defense is I would think so, you know, because
it's not better that they know it better than that
they've played better. Now they've already shown that, you know,
they've played coverages better than that they've played at the line.
Screaming is better than that. A limit to say this
that I can didn't tackle very well. You know, you
can't hit in this league, you know, I just I
just don't get it. Man. It's probably the most disturbing

(32:44):
because I just want to when I played, I'm telling you,
we would watch a team. Okakay, these guys are hitters
or these guys are tacklers. And if they're hitters, were like,
we get runs, we'll get runs, three yard runs. Are
can train in to five and six short runs. But
if they're cacklers, man, I mean, you're probably gonna get
three yard run. We just don't tackle. We don't tackle
in the box and try to hit everybody. And it's
just it's disturbing because I'm gonna say this. I know

(33:06):
they're in meetings and they're they're talking about this wrap up,
bring you wrong, wrap updi But then That's why I
said the coach has all the power, no control, and
they step inside the White Lions game on. I mean,
that's up to the player to start doing it. You know,
we just didn't tackle very well either, Like all those
things are correctable, but you know it's your poor. When

(33:26):
a professional has been embarrassed, I like, now we all
care how bad they are, you know, I'm like, oh
my gosh, next week they're so embarrassed to look out
because if there are two professionals, they will not play
like that again. And then against the Packers, they can't
play like that. They will get the doors blown off
with the Packers.

Speaker 1 (33:46):
Well, that's what I want to ask you about, is
the Packers and what they're in for on Sunday night.

Speaker 4 (33:51):
Well they okay, So this is what the Packers do. Offensively,
They have a lot of phases they can run. If
there's there one area that the Packers I think are
most in interesting and they do better than anybody in
the NFL offensively. Man, they run screens. I think I
think a screen is a wicked weapon, but it's timing
and it's hard to run. But they run tight end screens.

(34:12):
They run running back screens, they run one man screens,
they run offensive line screens. I mean the games. They
run eight screens in a game, Like that's a lot
like sometimes a game if you kin't in No. One,
we ran a screen last I mean, I know we have,
but I'm like, I just can't remember. But that's what
I'm saying, Like usually it's a screen here or there.
And the screen game, I think is such a wicked

(34:35):
aspect of an offense. But they got really really well.
I mean, and that's that's a real you're talking about
paying attention to detail, especially in your man coverage. You're
not getting blocked. And because the man's coverage, that's when
you really want it because if you get the one
guy this response before the other guy blocked, you're probably
going to make a big play. That's what they do
a really good job of that. But they have a

(34:57):
good running game. They have they have a a complete
passing game, short, intermediate, and explosive. So it's just that
screen element that was different than most teams in the
almost the entire NFL. That's what they're different. And like
the Parsons are there now they been moving him everywhere now,
I mean, he doesn't just flip side the side of
the guy and played inside. They got him all over

(35:17):
the place. So their defense is there's a force from
a pressure pressure aspect. But if you can handle the pressure,
you know, you can move the ball on this team,
you know, and it's they're buttoned up as they can be.
They can beat the Packers, you know. That's how close
it is that they just can't play like they did
against Cincinnatian.

Speaker 1 (35:35):
Being screen doesn't give you a whole lot of time
to get after Jordan Love, But what's the offensive line,
like if they're in a situation where they're able to
shut Josh Shakobs down and have to start passing, Like
we got to get t j and herbig and high
Smith on Love because he seems to get a little
rattled if people do get in his face.

Speaker 4 (35:55):
Well, right, brought that up because you're right. Let's say
the screen games used to do that, and oftentimes it's
because your guys are very good upfront, or you're trying
to slow people down to have a good pass rushers.
So that's why I brought that up, because they're going
to do that because we got good pass rushers and
they're obviously linings to average that they are just average.
You can you can get after the right tackle, you

(36:15):
can get after the right guard or left tackle, sorry,
left tackle, right guard. I mean, I'm just cooking guys
out that you can actually, because that's what you try
to do is create matchups. Pussalize you can get after
their backs, some the linebackers are affected or you know
side because of the blitzer. You can win on those matchups.
So they that's where we're at the advantage. That's why

(36:37):
you might see twenty screens because it's like they know that.
You know, they're not dumb. They're like, Okay, well let's
cool them off because let's get them thinking about other
things versus rushing our quarterback.

Speaker 1 (36:46):
Mayor Hodge brought to you by Castle Rock, Hormone Health
and South Hills, Kia. This morning on DV Steelers Green
Bay Packers, Aaron Rodgers facing his former team on Sunday night,
and I'm not gonna underestimate the revenge factor on Aaron
Rodgers for this one. Meryl, Yeah, don't do that.

Speaker 4 (37:03):
Don't do that. Yeah, don't do that. I think they're
like he had an edge about him, he was jesting.
He gonna play it off. You know, like, you know, shoot,
has he never played him again? I can't remember Jet,
he's never played Oh really, well, it's been a while
since he's been there per se, you know what, three
or four years. But you don't underestimate that.

Speaker 1 (37:24):
That's a big questioned Merrill Hodge. Thanks, brother, We're talking
next week.

Speaker 4 (37:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (37:30):
So to summarize the best things to Stealers have going
for him Sunday night is their defense got completely embarrassed
the last time it took a field, and their quarterback
hates the TV's playing.

Speaker 1 (37:41):
Well, I wouldn't take that away from what he did
one hundred. I mean, you know, the screen situation does
interest me here because you know we didn't Josh Jacobs
is fear one.

Speaker 3 (37:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (37:56):
I mean, he's really good and that defense was all.

Speaker 2 (38:00):
We're gonna find out if they can stop the run
or if they'll be able to stop the run in
the next two weeks.

Speaker 10 (38:05):
By the way, do you see what the brown got
Taylor's coming after Joe, Yeah, Jonathan Taylor, you know, the
guy with twelve touchdowns.

Speaker 1 (38:11):
Yeah, yeah, they got twenty rushing touchdowns on the year already.
That's amazing the Browns. The week after the Steelers game.
Did you see what they did where they finally they
stuck with Judkinskins. So it's like, did we stop the run.

Speaker 2 (38:30):
Or did those idiots the argument that I made yesterday,
did these idiots just stop running the ball again?

Speaker 10 (38:36):
Just kept hitting the wall if they kept running? I
mean that that happened all the time.

Speaker 1 (38:40):
It happened to the Steelers though in that Hiry game,
I mean Jalen Warren didn't start taking off to the
second half of that game. You had to wear down
the other team.

Speaker 10 (38:47):
I'm just saying, in the old days when they were
really good defensively under le bow in Casey Hampton and
Kesel and all those guys, teams would try to run
and just realize it wasn't happening and stop. That is
stopping the run if you if you compel them not
to run it anymore. One of the reasons they kept
going Cleveland, I assume, is because they thought it would
break eventually. Maybe they didn't have that same feeling against Pittsford.

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Says, cause you can't even tell the difference, We'll rate
our algorithm. This is weird. That guy's always been had
weird sexual energy. I can't wait to hear the story.
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