October 24, 2025 • 50 mins
Dave Dameshek laments the Steelers defensive woes against the Bengals last week and is frightened of Jordan Love and company coming up this week.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Dave Damnage that, ladies and gentlemen, I.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Hardly have a voice left you in I'm still belly
ache and shouting out loud to anyone who will listen
to me, not about the upcoming game on Sunday night.
I don't know if you heard. Aaron Rodgers is playing.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
His old team.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
But as it turns out, like he doesn't care. He's
not upset, he has no feeling. It's not it's like
what wait was the absence makes the heart grow fonder? No,
this isn't a big game for me. Like, wait, did
I did I talk endless amounts of crap about the
front office and how no one would ever want to
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live in Green Bay, Wisconsin if it weren't for me
and everything else?
Speaker 4 (00:54):
Like did he say that.
Speaker 5 (01:00):
He could pin it on far?
Speaker 4 (01:02):
He say no one would want to live in Green Bay?
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Yes, he said that. I mean he didn't say it.
He didn't say it this week because now he I know.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
But he said that in the past.
Speaker 6 (01:12):
It does make it does make more sense now in
his press conference this week, how much he mentioned the
neighborhoods and areas that he loved living in.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
He's like, yeah, I want to jump in the Piggly
Wiggley and I'd see Sharon and produced.
Speaker 6 (01:30):
He talked about his neighborhood three separate times in that interview.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Now, wait, did I say something that that set some
people off?
Speaker 7 (01:40):
Oops?
Speaker 2 (01:40):
My bad, everybody, Let's just move.
Speaker 5 (01:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Well, you know, he's our quarterback now and it's all
games and ship and I don't care. I'm glad he
was mean to them because f Green Bay. We got
to win this game on Sunday night.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Well, I mean absolutely right, and you definitely yeah for
for all the talk about you know, the nick picking
what the offense didn't do, and certainly up ten nothing.
I mean, it's pretty grim not to get in the
in the rear view mirror of last week. But but
let's get in the rear view rearview mirror of last week.
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The up ten nothing. If anybody would have told you
with the Steelers having the ball just before Aaron rodgers
On corks that deep shot, that unnecessary deep shot that
felt like, uh, listen devil may care where we're gonna
smoke these things.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
Arm puns on first down.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
That that began the spiral. But okay, if anybody would
have told you they're going to lose that game, you
you would have thought they're crazy. But okay, I don't
understand how. Maybe nationally it's a cute story the two
old guys played each other, but consider the run up
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in a short week, Jamar Chase announced they did exactly
what they thought we were were what we thought they
were going to do in anticipation of trying to stop
me and my other high end pass catcher in t Higgins,
both of us receiving throws off the right arm of
a decrepit old man named Joe Flacco and Mike Tomlin. So,
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while Jamar Chase is watching game tape anticipating what the
Steelers defense is going to do, Mike Tomlin is busy
belly achin about Andrew Berry trading that old man from
one orange hatted, Ohio based football team to another, as
if this is the end of the world. So he's
mad about that, And at the same time, Cam Hayward
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is having hilarious conversations about how icy Hot is sponsoring
this old man bull and it was just delightful. It
was all delightful stuff. And then somehow on the other
side of that game, it takes on this this cute
kind of hue of like he's their kryptonite. They just
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can't handle that Joe black On No matter.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
What they try.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
This sucks. Joe Flacco is now the personification he used
to be a legit. We talked about this, you know whatever,
it was six, eight, ten years ago, fellas when we
would talk about, Hey, Joe Flacco is nails when he
comes into Hines. That's what they used to call actors. Sure,
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when he comes into Hines, he always, no matter how
many how much things go against him in the first
three quarters, he keeps on shooting. And man, he is
tough to deal with no matter what, no matter how
good the defense is and all of that. That's not
who we're talking about anymore. This is a decrepit old man.
If I didn't mention it yet, he is a punchline
of a guy who cannot handle any NFL defense outside
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of the Pittsburgh Steelers. By the way, who put that
defense together, Who hand picked the members of the secondary? Oh,
I know who it was. It was the guy who
is an alleged defensive whiz, and and he hands.
Speaker 7 (05:06):
He wasn't gone, and then and then.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
He said, this defense has a chance to be historic,
and getting torched by a decrepit old man on some
level is history because no other team would would, would
would suffer the shame, the indignity of getting smoked over
and over and over again by a guy, a decrepit
old man who's been in been a part of the
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organization in Cincinnati for about for about third or or
for about three hours. What a humiliation to put to
put that effort out onto the field. And by the way,
it will carry over, I really do. I'm not trying
to get pessimistic about this, but all of a sudden,
for all the songs about it. We talked one week
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ago that if they just they had to have this game,
they just had to take care of this one because
the gauntlet is now here. So they were five and
one and Lamar Jackson is on his way back. A
four game cushion would be a really fascinating proposition to
see if the Ravens could close that gap over the
final two thirds of the season. Now the Steelers are
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right on the edge here. I mean they're a home
dog against these Packers and Aaron Rodgers. Like I loved,
I loved all these ruminations about his time in Green Bay.
It really is Don Draper and the elevator with with
with with the other guys. Jordan Love and the Packers
are looking are looking at looking back at the junior
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copywriter named Aaron Rodgers, saying I don't think about you
at all. I mean, the Packers couldn't give a crap
about the Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
I think your larger.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Yes, this is like all you need to do is
look at Sean Payton and Russell Wilson's behavior this past
week and realized it is not above any NFL coach
and or frances to hold grudges for long periods of time.
Speaker 6 (07:03):
They want the validation too, to prove that they knew
what they were doing and they made the right decision
to move on.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Exactly why people haven't the last three years already done
that when they say success is the best revenge, haven't
they succeeded?
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Then?
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Jordan Love has proven to be the right decision, so
that Aaron that Aaron Rodgers now apply some twenty twenty
high tight, Like, yeah, I always knew when they drafted
Jordan the writing was on the wall. For me, I
just had to move on, Like then, why did you
shout constantly and try to get the front office fired
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and all of that, and they don't know what they're
doing and they were disloyal and all of that.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
Well, but.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
He's got nothing but love for Aaron Rodgers. I mean,
Aaron Rodgers, you know, and Jordan love have a great relationship.
And while I, you know, agreed with all of the
reasons why I didn't think they should bring Aaron Rodgers
in at the beginning of the season, he has not
done any of those things here, and we you know,
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his past behavior was the reason why seventy five percent
of Steeler fans did not want him to come here.
I mean, I'd always talk about it. At the Comedy
Festival this year, I said, so is everyone excited about
Aaron Rodgers as your new quarterback? And that was in
the middle of the summer, and the entire audience booed,
you know, and like, I think it's so. But my
point is he's learned from all that stuff. He's not
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doing it here.
Speaker 5 (08:30):
And he's won over all all the women in and he.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
Is the least of our problems. Like do I think
that he is?
Speaker 1 (08:37):
His attitude is representative of how he really feels right now.
And is there some revisionist history going on so that
he can, from a pr standpoint, come out of this
looking a.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
Little bit better.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Yes, absolutely, that's just smart by him, all right, Like
I know the real acrimony that existed there and the
way they are glad he's gone right now. The Pittsburgh
Steelers have big problems, and he's way down on the
list of those problems.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
I Bowman, you and me park our cars in the
same garage. Absolutely, you cannot look at Aaron Rodgers. And
in fact, as I got myself all wild up there
talking about being up to nothing in him taking that
deep shot and and all of that in Cincinnati, something Jahn.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Roethlisberger would have done, you know, in every year of
his career.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Yeah, we the nitpicking about how well the offense missed
the play here, and maybe there are three plays you
can point to over the sixty minutes that they could
have done better, and maybe there's a penalty and whatever.
I mean, it's all on the defense. It is entirely
on the defense cannot You cannot hang thirty something on
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the bum Bengals and lose that game when they are
down and out and again are show and are are
so desperate that they're starting a decrepit old man at quarterback.
But now here come the repercussions because the Packers are
straight up better than the Steelers are. I mean, the
Steelers defense is. It's not just like something that you
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point at and say, boy.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
That's a shame.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
I thought that was going to be better. This was
the construct of Mike Tomlin. It was all leading up
to this. And keep in mind, I understand that the
aforementioned Sean Payton pulled off the big rally against the Giants,
but Jackson Dart once again looked real good, and the
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Steelers need an answer quarterback that goes beyond twenty twenty
five and even twenty twenty six. The news this week, well,
now the Steelers want Airon back for twenty twenty six. Man,
you're really pushing things here, do I mean? Guys, this
age do not succeed long term. But okay, so you
didn't need to take Jackson Dart because you prioritized Derek Harmon.
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I'll say again Derek Harmon better be real, real, real, real,
real good to offset the potential of taking Jackson art
and solving the only position that really matters.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Especially because next year's uh, you know, quarterback class is
looking less and less elite as each college football week
goes by.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
And did we talk about that? Did we? Did?
Speaker 2 (11:24):
We talk about that all spring and summer that this
is exactly where it was going. Where's Arch?
Speaker 3 (11:28):
Now?
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Is Arch the savior for the Pittsburgh Steelers? No, he's
going to be back in Austin unless he gets transferred
out out of there. How about Drew Aller? Remember all
the buzz about him? Hey, Kiboley, where are you at there?
He's going to end up being the number one overall
pick there? I don't think so he's not. He's going
to be back in the mix.
Speaker 6 (11:46):
We weren't going to have to trade out to get
him now, yeah, I mean right?
Speaker 1 (11:52):
But Florio is already reporting that the Steelers want to
bring Aaron Rodgers back for next year. And of course
they would even if they did have their number one
on you know, quarterback ideal candidates available to them, which now,
as we just said, all of them are starting to
lose have pretty much lost their luster. You had to
bring him back a little hard, dude.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
I mean, yeah, now that's exactly where I was at.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
By the way, you are stuck with Will Howard being
the great White Hope stuck.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Hey, I like you want to you want need to
sprinkle in just a little bit more pessimism for you
about twenty twenty six. I don't think Arthur Smith's going
to be there. So if you're getting excited about the offense,
he's probably going to be coaching in UNC or otherwise.
Because another thing, like we've talked about, when you draft
into and sign guys around what a severe offensive offensive
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coordinator requires for his offense to work, you're going to
be left hold in the bag because he's going to
get a head coaching job when he succeeds, which he
will do. Now, assuming this offense keeps going like that,
Arthur Smith will be gone. He will succeed and get
a head coaching job again. And then who's running this
offense that required certain pieces to work? We have seventeen
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tight ends on the roster. Now, I mean that's what
a more conventional O seed in twenty twenty six and
be like, what the hell do you want me to
do with all these guys. But before we get to that, though,
just consider and I know everybody's aware of it, but
just really what was what was feeling very exciting? People
are getting the getting the gay number one seed. Maybe
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they could get that, And like we've talked about, they
have to get the number one seed in order to
have a plausible path to the Super Bowl. I mean,
they're not going to win three games against high end
competition that maybe if they have a home game in
the wild card round and then have to go to
say Buffalo or Kansas City, are they plausibly going to
win all three of those games? Seems unlike the number
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one seed. But of course the way Tomlin approaches every
game trying to win them twelve to eleven, leads to
some weird losses along the way. So it takes the
one set out of play here and now all of
a sudden, we're at the Gauntlet and now we go
Green Bay, which, I you know, for all the all
the emotion and all the stories like we talk about Bowman,
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you're right, they got to win this game because then
they go Colts come into town, then they come out
here to La to play the Charge.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
The Colts are.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
You know, our best help with the Colts is that
they'll be due for a loss.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
I mean that's hoping for a lot there. That's like, hey,
the dealer keeps hitting twenty one, he's bound the hit
twenty three at some point, right, let's let's go heavy.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
Think they've scored less than thirty this year.
Speaker 6 (14:31):
Maybe Jonathan Taylor will pull his hamstring running for early
ninety yard touchdowns.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Yeah, by the way, I hate to pat myself on
the back of Wait a second, no, I don't. I
predicted that the Colts were going to win that division,
and everybody laughed at the time, and nobody's laughing anymore,
and they won't be laughing. Last Colt the Chargers.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
And then I mean they have the Titans this week.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Colts have the Titans this weekend before the Steelers. So
here's why they're going to lose to the Steelers. Going
to be due for a loss, and it's in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Dude, what would you put on You put twenty dollars
on that last han Yeah, he hit blackjack again. Let's
this time, let's go two thousand. It's our chance to
make it back. He's bound He's not gonna do it again,
is he? They thought to go to Detroit, they still
have to go to Chicago, who, all of a sudden
is pretty good.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
They think.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
This weekend by I got Buffalo too.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Well, I you know what Bowman, Yeah, they and Buffalo.
I mean, sweet Jesus Fellas, this is all of a sudden,
feels real grave. I mean, I think they're going to
and I said eleven wins before the season started. As
I look things over here, I think they're going to
really struggle to get to double digit wins. I mean
they I think the offset the shame. Did I mention
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that they lost to decrepit old man? So wait, they
now need to be defeat the youngster named Jordan Love
to offset that terrible and get back to square here.
They just have to.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Do there's one way they could do it, maybe playing
Nick Herbig a little more than you know, thirty two
percent of the snaps.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Well, listen, you understand that that Kyle Shanahan's he's an
offensive wiz, and he proved that a few years back
because he went to a Super Bowl and almost won
that Super Bowl with Jimmy Garoppolo at quarterback. Jimmy Garoppolo
and Kevin Coleman is his feature back meantime in Pittsburgh,
there's a defensive whiz named Mike Tomlin, and he has
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Jalen Ramsey, and he has Joey Porter and U and
he has Darius Slay. There these are the guys he won.
He went out of his way to get you understand,
and then he talked about how good this defense was
going to be this year and it just got destroyed
by decrepit.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
A all right, all right, okay, you're you're failing the factor
in that. Maybe when coach Tomlin said historic, he meant
like the Princeton eighteen sixty team.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Hm. Did I wait? Did I think bad about Green Bay?
I know, I wrap up in my fields all.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
You're spiraling.
Speaker 5 (17:13):
You're going to see him in the bus stop.
Speaker 6 (17:14):
You're spiraling all the rest of this over and over
and over again on a loop.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Now, look when when he goes uh, you know, when
when it's all said and done, Aaron Rodgers goes away
from the public eye, and by that I mean signs
a multi year deal to be on every Sunday on
the NFL on Fox. He is going to remind you
of all of these. This is he's setting himself up.
From a pr standpoint for his after playing days, I
have no problem with what he's doing, even from.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
A tactical standpoint with them.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Again, he I'll go so far to say, is he's
not just low on our list of problems. He's not
on the list. Their problems are all Mike Tomlin's defense.
A defensive line that has no ability to stop the
run against Chase Brown. Good lord, what are they going
to do against Josh Jacobs and TJ Watts invisibility in
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games like this That cannot be the case. We have
not even mentioned number ninety's name. He's the highest play
paid player in the world.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
Go out and do something.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Yeah, man, you said it all. I am not hanging
any of this on the performance of of all number
eight there. This is right, This is this is a
an approach issue. This is this is Mike Tomlin's approach,
and it goes back to springtime, and it's all informed
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by the decisions he made with the con artist.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
By the way, Okay, but I agree with all what
you're saying, But we got to focus on this game
on Sunday.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
No, we have to go back to you know, what
would Rogers to focus on is a receiver other than
than DK Mettaff. Unfortunately, the con artist and coach he
forgot to get a second wide receiver for two years.
For two years that the con artist he's working over
broke football, except for the fact that he forgot together
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a viable second pass catcher in the offense for two
years running.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
Now, look out, NFL.
Speaker 6 (19:11):
I got two words for you that sound like three.
Ben Scarronic. You might have heard of him touchdown.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
I can't believe that there's so many Pittsburgh's out there
that will still hit me up on social media when
I got When I talk about that the empirically obvious
bad decision to trade away George Pickens in a contract year,
people will be like, Dave, you can't have that guy
in the in the locker room. So the Cowboys are
talking about resigning him. He's been so good this year.
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I mean, that's the idea that in his contract year
that he wouldn't understand that he has to behave himself
so that he can set up his family for the
next hundred years with generational wealth. It was was foolish stuff,
especially when and you had as as the the UH uh,
the make good by trading away. George Pickens like, well,
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we have one hundred and twenty pound Calvin Austin.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
He's good.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Everybody right, he'll there's no chance he'll ever get banged
up or anything. And plus Roman Wilson, Yeah, we're not
gonna put him on the field, but but but never.
And then we got we got Robert Woods, who was
good twenty seven years ago as pro football. I forgot whatever.
Speaker 6 (20:26):
Happened, Yeah he was, Yeah, he's Robert Woods gets cut
and there.
Speaker 5 (20:32):
Does it make a sound.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
He's in the witness protection program.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
You know, you did make me realize that with Arthur
Smith leaving, we basically like have funded a seafood restaurant
and our chef is leaving, and we're like, what are
we gonna do with all these lobsters?
Speaker 4 (20:45):
I guess I guess shrimp company. All we got is
shrimp here, guys, I guess we got to hire someone.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
Who can make you gonna be twenty twenty thick, gonna
be John new Smith. Year They're like, well, Arthur, Arthur
Smith is now in chat up well Hill, like John
new Smith. We should trade him. We can get a
good a good second wide receiver for maybe George picking
down Dallas Way, we could get that guy. Oh, it's disgusting.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Listen.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
The only thing that makes this right, The only thing
that makes this right is showing because it does say legitimately.
I know that the Packers element of it has nothing
to do with Mike Tomlin and Omar Khan, but they
do have to right the ship a little bit here
because it does feel like because George Picken's doing what
he's doing down there in Dallas and Jordan Love. Obviously,
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that was good sober decision making by the Packers bring
trust a few years ago to say you're going to
hold us hostage, old man, We're gonna move on to
the next generation as we intended, no matter how much
crap you try and talk, and no matter how much
you try to get us fired. That's what that. The
Packers now have the confidence, have the trust of Packers fans.
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The Steelers need that right now with Pittsburgh fans because
their approach seems pretty flawed. They wanted to This was
all remembered. It was all a big setup to get
to as high a pick as you could get in
We talked about it. They're very far away from that
right now to write the ship and show that Aaron
Rodgers can win a big game against his foes and
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restore themselves as a contender at five and two. Otherwise,
dark days may lay ahead with this schedule.
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Speaker 3 (22:34):
I guess that way.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Let's let's win. I didn't say what's going to happen
in the game. I said that they've got to win it.
If they win it, I'll be.
Speaker 4 (22:39):
Right his rank, his rain, he said empty. Yes, So
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Jones is gonna need to double his oxygen tank capacity
this week as he gets set to flip off fans
in the mile high Mountain Air when his Cowboys had
to Denver to take on the Broncos at Sean Payton's Place.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
This game's interesting because if.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
You could combine Dallas's best in league offense with Denver's
near best in league defense, it would be unbeatable. The
problem for these two teams is the other team you'd
be left with is the Jets. The Cowboys are rolling
on offense, getting stampeded on defense, Broncos d bucking every
challenger while the offense takes longer to get going than
a push mower in January.
Speaker 4 (24:59):
Let's start with Denver.
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Now, Bonnicks might sound like a piece of exercise equipment
you'd buy on late night infomercials.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
Lose weight fast with.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
The Bonicks, but it's late in games where he's been
slap chopping opponents. Thirty three points in the fourth quarter
against the Giants and eighteen points in the.
Speaker 4 (25:15):
Fourth quarter against the Eagles the week before.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
That problem is, in their last three games, they only
have one touchdown in the other ten quarters combined.
Speaker 4 (25:23):
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Speaker 1 (25:27):
K geez bo stuck whipping out the win when nobody's
expecting it.
Speaker 4 (25:33):
No, it's not okay that you ask.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
Bo's not exactly enduring a sophomore slump, thoughs Your two
has been kind of like Pooting the Blowfish's second album.
It went triple platinum, but people were still hoping for
a little bit more after the first one. This week,
Sean Payton warned his team against the letdown after the
big win against the Giants and got them focused on
the Cowboys by continuing to fight publicly with Russell Wilson.
Man obsessed much, Sean, show me on the Tackling Dummy
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where Russ hurt. You already humiliated beyond belief. You've been vindicated.
Nobody likes a sore winner, Sean, unless it's a herpes contest,
then you'd want to be the sore winner.
Speaker 4 (26:08):
I guess you'd get a trophy filled with Voucher. I
don't know why you talking about this. You weird For Dallas.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Dak is all the way back, and in each of
his last four games he's thrown at least three touchdowns
without a pick. Only Brady Rogers, Manning, Russ and Breeze
have done that, which puts him in more rarefied nfl air.
Then they'll deal with it in power field on Sunday.
Dak's got Pittsburgh's problem child, George Pickens mossing players like
they were Stephen King and creep Show.
Speaker 4 (26:31):
In Denver shutdown Corner.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Patrick Tretan can't cover both GP and CD, so expect
a lot more tds than Denver's.
Speaker 4 (26:38):
D usually sees.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
The Broncos are wearing throwback Orange Crush jerseys for this one,
but Dallas is gonna be the one that has too
much jolt.
Speaker 4 (26:46):
Hey who doesn't love soda humor it ohs puffs, Cowboys
are gonna bust. The Broncos take Jerry's kids.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Next.
Speaker 4 (26:53):
Giants at the Eagles minus seven and a half.
Speaker 6 (26:55):
Rematch, second time in three weeks. The g Men face
off against the Eagles. This time it's in Philly and
the weather is cloudy. With a chance of batteries. This
one has got to be a little weird for Philly fans.
They hate everyone from Santa to their own black quarterback,
But Scataboo looks like he should be in the parking
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lot of the Link, crawling up to the tailgate and
headbutting the keg dry humping a pothole. He spends more
time in the blue tent than the Smurfs on a
camping trip. The guy runs like a stolen delivery truck
with no brakes or power steering, and if you put
him in Jackson Dart in a tucked McNab jersey and
turtleneck combo, you should just go ahead and start filming
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Silver Linings Playbook two right now.
Speaker 7 (27:40):
They also curb stomped.
Speaker 6 (27:41):
The eagles in the Meadowlands a couple of weeks ago,
so you best believe they're trying to win this John
in front of their hometown douchebags. That giant ass whooping
might have awoken a sleeping eagle because they soared against
the Vikings last week. Aj Brown didn't have any time
to read on the sidelines in that one. It's too
busy running down the sidelines and scoring touchdowns. Justin Hurtz,
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who dresses like he's in a remake of the Eddie
Murphy classic Boomerang threw for over three hundred yards and
three tuddies for the first time in over a year.
Speaker 5 (28:12):
He was slinging that John all over to John.
Speaker 6 (28:15):
The Giants are a fun team to watch in a
frat bros skateboarding off a roof into the pool kind
of way. I mean, it's crazy, it's exciting to watch.
But he usually ends with the Broncos scoring thirty three
points in the fourth quarter. The Giants have ninety nine problems,
but Mick A. Tomney ain't one. I know how you're gay.
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You miss two extra points in the same game. The
Giants cut their Irish kicker quicker than Jacob could swap
T shirts with a stranger that.
Speaker 5 (28:51):
He met at the Guinness Factory.
Speaker 7 (28:53):
Eagles win Miss John by double digits.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Neck Bears at the Ravens Ravens minus set. Good news
for Baltimore the defense finally didn't give up four touchdowns
on Sundays. Oh well, bad news is because it was
their bye week. The mortgaand news from Baltimore. No, they're
not getting the Colts back, but Lamar Jackson is expected
to return, and not a moment too soon. In the
two games he was injured, the Ravens only managed one touchdown,
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which is why Harbaugh is all too glad to have
Cooper Rush back to the bench instead of onto the field.
Speaker 4 (29:23):
To be fair, the Ravens weren't expecting much from Cooper Rush,
and he delivered. Cooper Rush is.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
The punchline to a mom Can we stop for Andy Dalton? No, honey,
we have Andy Dalton at home?
Speaker 5 (29:33):
Joke.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
Kind of a failure of the GM not to have
something better in the break in case of emergency QB box.
The Bears, conversely, are watching Caleb Williams slowly mature into
a less annoying quarterback and Ben Johnson and his team,
he's got him playing like sesame seeds.
Speaker 4 (29:48):
They're on a roll, but nobody's really noticing. You never
noticed in the month.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
It's good and with fort sight wins after dropping the
first two, Ben Johnson could be the f Chicago coach
since George Hallis to win five of his first seven games.
Speaker 4 (30:04):
So suck on that at Deede keik Obwala think we're playing.
Speaker 7 (30:07):
Good enough now? U Karen Andrews.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
I imagine he says in his head, I think the
Bears are pretty legit, unless you think I'm wearing bear goggles.
Just know this, the Bears eleven interception and plus eleven
turnover ratio leads the league, and they lead the league
in points after takeaway.
Speaker 4 (30:25):
Now, this, of course, was potentially.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
More of an issue when Cooper Rush was lobbying interceptions
like Trump throwing toilet paper to hurricane victims. But it
might be something that becomes relevant since it's Jackson's first
game back from injury and you might have a rusty lamar.
By the way, don't look up rusty Lamar in the
Urban Dictionary while you're at work.
Speaker 4 (30:45):
HR will pay a visit to your desk. Why would
you kick you in the hamstring afterwards?
Speaker 1 (30:50):
Yesterday, John Harbaugh refuted the press reports he's instituted a
no fun rule in the locker room and assured everyone
he's got no problem with players cornholing. And why not,
I mean, so long as they shower after no one
tries to pull a rusty Lamar.
Speaker 4 (31:01):
I don't see what the problem is.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
Rokwan's back from injury and will bolster the d against
his former team for the first time as a Raven,
but ever since Baltimore lets standout defensive coordinator Mike McDonald
lee for Seattle, the Ravens.
Speaker 4 (31:15):
Keep forgetting two Blake defense no more, and things keep
getting worse for them.
Speaker 5 (31:21):
Minute ba minute.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
Though you can't get much worse than thirty second in
total defense. As desperate is as Harbaugh is for the
Wind to stay in playoff contention, I don't think he's
got the trap for these Bears. Chicago's on the come
up and there haven't been this many happy Bears since
Pride Week in Provincetown. Take the money line and you
can hibernate on those odds.
Speaker 8 (31:40):
The Bears next.
Speaker 4 (31:44):
Jets at Sincy minus six and a half.
Speaker 6 (31:46):
Aaron Glenn said earlier this week that he didn't want
to give the Bengals a competitive advantage, so he's not
revealing whether Justin Fields or Tyrod Taylor will start on Sunday.
Smart now the Bengals won't know and to kickoff. If
the Jets are gonna suck or blow competitive advantage, you're
oh for the season and just bench the guy you
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paid forty million dollars to.
Speaker 7 (32:10):
Every team left on the schedule.
Speaker 6 (32:12):
Has a competitive advantage, and the icing on this piece
of sheet cake was the best throw of anyone on
the Jets this week. Was the owner throwing Justin Fields
under the bus, saying, if we could just complete a pass,
it would look good. It's a shame they don't have
Joe Flacco because he can complete sixteen passes to the
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same receiver even when the defense knows it's coming, and
he doesn't even know all the plays.
Speaker 7 (32:40):
What's that?
Speaker 6 (32:41):
They had Joe Flacco two different times and then okay,
then he was backing up Namath and Testa Verdi. No
Sam Darnold and Zach Wilson. The Jets is the Jets.
Speaker 7 (32:53):
No wonder.
Speaker 6 (32:54):
The young fans hate that team and only root for
them because they were born into this and have no
other choice.
Speaker 7 (33:00):
What's that? Tyrod Taylor is now day to day with
a knee injury.
Speaker 6 (33:04):
He hit himself in the hammer just so he doesn't
have to play, and Justin Fields has been dealing with
a toe injury since training camp. All right, well, maybe
send both of them out there and let's see if
Tony Tony Tony can.
Speaker 7 (33:16):
Complete a pass.
Speaker 6 (33:18):
The only player in this matchup who can get a
Tony Tony Tony reference is Joe Flacco and he plays
for the Brangles this season. Brangus, he's still playing because
he wants to look in the mirror when he's fifty
and say he gave it everything he had that seemed
like a week ago. Try not to get two injured
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this year, because the Steelers are gonna need you healthy
when you join the team in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
Take the Brangles next, Dolphins at Atlanta. Minus seven and
a half is the owner of the Miami Dolphins. Just
three kids in a trench coat standing on each other's
shoulders who are playing a prank on the rest of
the league.
Speaker 4 (33:56):
How does Mike McDaniel still have a job?
Speaker 1 (33:59):
The actual must have been one of those psycho kids
that picked the wings off of flies and then slowly
melted them with a magnifying gleut.
Speaker 4 (34:06):
Just squatch them already.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
Too bad Mike McDaniel still having a coach this team.
He must feel like football Sisyphus. That is, if Sisiphus
wore clam diggers in vape while he pushed the boulder
up the help and I love the phrase people keep
using about Mike McDaniel now because they always allude to
his appearance and they'll say.
Speaker 4 (34:23):
He's no leader of men. It always feels kind of
gay to me. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
Teddy Bruski was like, I've watched all his sorry excuses
for press conferences, and I'm sorry, but I just look
at that guy and.
Speaker 4 (34:34):
He's no leader of men, and he does nothing from
my downstairs. Doesn't turn me on at all.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
Meanwhile, the coach Teddy Bruski played for and thinks his
super butch is now sporting a solid Sea cup and
being told what to do by a twenty four year
old hooker with the business acumen of a golden retriever.
Speaker 4 (34:51):
You know, a real much of a leader of men,
that Belichick.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
It's only a matter of time at this point until
the Dolphins bring in a buff, authoritarian coach. It's a
copy league, and beefcake coaches are all the right. Dan Campbell,
Sean McAboy, Andy Reid, Well heat he eats a lot
of beef and cake that counts as beefcake right yesterday,
too has said he has trouble finding receiver Jaalen Waddle
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because he's not tall enough to see over the offensive line.
You know, I don't care if the next coach he
hires the rock you can't make two a taller or
stop saying dumb things when he's at the podium. At
least in Atlanta, Kirk Cousins can give two us some
pointers on how to make fifty million dollars while holding
a clipboard.
Speaker 4 (35:32):
They paid him too.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
Much and now they got to put him into it
a game, even though they read to send them to
it a bench and that's to a bed. Miami is
already without Tyreek Hill, who, while being carted off the
field with a season ending injury, he celebrated like Mary
just told him.
Speaker 4 (35:48):
You are not the father, and now.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
Their next best offensive weapon. Darren Waller was putting ir
He's out for the season and out of his misery.
The Falcons aren't great, but at home with b John
running wild, they're gonna jam it down to Dolphins.
Speaker 4 (36:02):
Blowhole. But seven points is a lotch. Did you take
the points though, and been on Miami?
Speaker 1 (36:08):
Well, you know, as the Dolphin would tell you here, eh.
Speaker 4 (36:13):
No, play it pretty far. Atlanta take the Falcons.
Speaker 1 (36:15):
Next last one, Packers at Steelers plus three.
Speaker 6 (36:20):
This is not a revenge game. Okay, guys, it's not
it's not for Rogers. He has no animosity towards the
Packers organization. And maybe it's because absence makes the fart
grow honder.
Speaker 3 (36:33):
I don't know.
Speaker 7 (36:34):
He spent eighteen years there, guys, he grew up there.
That's where he got immunized.
Speaker 6 (36:39):
That's where he saw the Epstein list for the first time.
A ton of great memories, and he loves the guys
he played with, and the relationship with the coach was great.
He never screamed and swore at him just for calling
a timeout or having a conservative play call.
Speaker 7 (36:54):
And guess what, Lafleur loves him too.
Speaker 6 (36:56):
You never traded up in the twenty twenty draft to
get George Love to replace them.
Speaker 7 (37:01):
That wasn't his choice. That was a call passed down
directly from.
Speaker 6 (37:05):
The board to cheese heads, voted on by the bradtholders.
Could he have traded up to draft Aiyuk or Justin
Jefferson or Ceedee Lamb for Rogers instead.
Speaker 7 (37:16):
Maybe, But it's not like Aaron.
Speaker 6 (37:18):
Rodgers complained about them never drafting a receiver in the first.
Speaker 7 (37:22):
Round for the entire time he was there.
Speaker 6 (37:25):
And it's not like they drafted a wide receiver this
year when the draft was in Green Bay. It's not
a revenge game, guys, so go to hell unless you
listen to rogers longtime teammate and offensive lineman David Bachazi's
I'm sorry. He actually thinks all the back and forth
pleasant trees are a bunch of gorgan zola. He thinks
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this is a really big game for both sides. Rogers
doesn't hold grudges. It's not like he downplayed the Jets
game and then dropped four tds in that game and
said afterwards that he was happy to be everybody associated
with the Jets. Aaron Glenn, the front office, the players
fireman ed that stupid kid that doesn't realize he doesn't
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have to be a fan just because he was born
into it. He's still young enough to get out of
the death sentence that is being.
Speaker 7 (38:14):
A Jets fan.
Speaker 6 (38:15):
This is definitely a revenge game for far Love and
Rogers are both getting deep picks late Sunday afternoon and
they're gonna have to deal with that. But revenge isn't
the biggest R word coming for this Sunday night. This
game is about resilience. Can the defense bounce back from.
Speaker 7 (38:36):
The stumble in the jungle stumble. This game is about
playing responsible.
Speaker 6 (38:43):
Can they stay in their gaps and play sixty minutes
of sound football?
Speaker 7 (38:49):
Can they stop the run?
Speaker 6 (38:50):
Can they remember to cover the Packers' best receiver? Can
they figure out a better linebacker rotation? Can they not
repeat they hate their mistakes? Can they not rupture and
look repugnant and not play with their head up there rectum?
Because I swear to God, if they come out in
a soft zone and get run on and routed, I'm
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gonna need a rope, a razor and a reforce.
Speaker 4 (39:15):
I'm taking the Steelers because.
Speaker 7 (39:17):
We need to write up our reputation.
Speaker 1 (39:19):
There you go, Six pigs for you over this weekend,
guaranteed to probably maybe possibly win.
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Speaker 1 (40:09):
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Speaker 3 (40:24):
Good morning folks.
Speaker 4 (40:26):
Doing pretty good and excited for the game on Sunday night.
Speaker 1 (40:28):
What did you make of the tenor the tone coming
out of both locker rooms yesterday?
Speaker 8 (40:34):
Well, you know, if you listened to Aaron Rodgers before
the Jets game and after the Jets game, he was
a little different.
Speaker 3 (40:41):
Although I think his time in New.
Speaker 8 (40:43):
York was certainly a lot more frustrating, and he was
more bitter about that situation than his years in Green Bay.
Speaker 3 (40:49):
And I think he's being very smart about it.
Speaker 8 (40:53):
I don't think he has the same bitter feelings about
the Packers certainly as he did about the Jets. So
I think if they win this game, he might be
a little more a little more braggetocius afterwards than he
was before.
Speaker 3 (41:07):
But he's a season that he's smart.
Speaker 1 (41:10):
I'm not worried about the offense. That seems like behind
Aaron Rodgers, they're able to figure things out. Frustrating though
it may be at times, every week seems to get
a little better in that regard, though I hated the
way they approached that Bengals game and didn't put the
pedal down early defensively. You know, we were talking about
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this earlier. I don't know if we've revealed our I
revealed our identity against the Bengals, or if that's the aberration.
Speaker 8 (41:41):
No, let's talk about the elephant in the room, Randy.
The defense stinks. It stunk last year and it stinks
this year. They gave up almost five hundred yards to
a team that had a quarterback in their.
Speaker 3 (41:54):
Uniform for barely a week.
Speaker 8 (41:57):
They'd allowed thirty or more points three of their last
six games, they've allowed one hundred or more rushing yards,
and eight of their last twelve games.
Speaker 3 (42:04):
If you go back to last year, I do not.
I've said this on the show before.
Speaker 8 (42:09):
Torell Austin continues to get a halt pass all the
time as the defensive coordinator of this team. I never
hear anybody criticize the guy when they ran Matt Canada
out of town, chanting his name even at Penguin games
to fire the guy because the offense stunk. So it's
probably it's one of two reasons. He's a terrifically nice man,
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so maybe nobody wants to criticize them.
Speaker 3 (42:32):
Everybody knows that Tomlin's running.
Speaker 8 (42:34):
The defense anyway, but one of their buds should be
held to the fire. Mike Tomlin's first six years, man,
you're gonna get me going here. His first six years
as head coach, their defense was no worse than fifth
in any of those six years. In the last five years,
it's been no better than twelve. Despite they keep throwing
money at it and throwing money at it and throwing
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money at it.
Speaker 3 (42:57):
They're terrible.
Speaker 8 (42:58):
And if it wasn't for a great turnover margin, I mean,
their most impressive winners is it's turning out is that
win In New England, Patriots are now five and two,
and it took five Patriot turnovers to win that game.
Then they won't get five turners. Well, I'll bet they
won't get five turnovers in a game the rest of
the year. If they don't win the turnover battle. They do,
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they are more likely to stop the other team with
an interception or a fumble recovery than they are to.
Speaker 3 (43:23):
Force him to punt. The Bengals scored on seven of
their last eight.
Speaker 8 (43:27):
Possessions last week. It's a screen door on a submarine.
Speaker 6 (43:32):
Guy, Your your ins are just bumped into my ins er.
It's like one of those little ghosts where the you know,
the voice triggers another one and I start going.
Speaker 7 (43:41):
Because I believe that the loophole that.
Speaker 6 (43:44):
Tomlin has found defensively is to be opportunistic to get
those turnovers because you can win games early in regular
seasons to doing that. Like we've seen it so many
different times. When the when the narrows and you get
into the postseason, you're paying you're playing against better quarterbacks,
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better coordinators, and teams that are watching out and being
conservative and protecting the ball. Those turnovers go away and
you get dog walked up and down the field. You
bend and then you break in the postseason, Well, Bill,
I think one of.
Speaker 8 (44:23):
The biggest things is how how bad they have been
against the run. There's so much less likely a chance
of getting a turnover when teams just run it down
your throat. Uh not that every you know, you can
still fumble the ball, as the Patriots did four.
Speaker 3 (44:36):
Times that game.
Speaker 8 (44:37):
But but you know, I think and Cam Hayward's right,
that's the number one thing they gotta fix. They gotta
be able to stop that. There's no way Joe Flacco
has that game if.
Speaker 3 (44:46):
They're not running the ball the way that they were.
Speaker 8 (44:48):
I mean, it just played right into their hands. But
and and and you know, Mike Tomlin talked about at
the halftime interview that game. He's like, oh, we got
to do better on first and second down and stop,
you know, so that we can off the.
Speaker 3 (45:00):
Field on third down.
Speaker 8 (45:01):
They allowed a third and fourteen, a third and ten
conversion in the first half of that game.
Speaker 3 (45:06):
That wasn't that. They were all third and twos and
third and ones.
Speaker 8 (45:10):
Their third down conversion against is forty two percent.
Speaker 3 (45:13):
It's one of the worst in the league.
Speaker 4 (45:14):
I think the first one they converted was third and thirteen.
Speaker 8 (45:18):
Yeah, I mean, you know, if it was a bunch
of and that happens a lot.
Speaker 3 (45:22):
I never doing a story one time. In fact, this
is one of the first time that Stan.
Speaker 8 (45:26):
You know, when when I first started working with Stan,
the Steelers played a game in Dallas and I covered
it in Dallas and Stan would always he couldn't travel
that week for some reason. I had to do a
sidebar story, and I was thinking, I got to come
up with something here that's that's of interest, that makes sense,
or his stand's not going to be impressed. And the
Steelers that they had allowed like fifteen third down conversions,
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but the average distance on the third down conversions was
like third and two, so's that makes sense.
Speaker 3 (45:57):
They were giving up way too much on the first two.
Speaker 8 (45:58):
Now I got back Stendos, you really know your football,
and I'm like, okay, good, We're in.
Speaker 3 (46:03):
But that has not been the case.
Speaker 8 (46:06):
They can't get off the field regardless of what the
distance is on third down.
Speaker 3 (46:09):
Matt Williams so frustrating.
Speaker 1 (46:12):
Matt Williamson had this stat he tweeted out last night.
Pittsburgh's defense surrenders thirty eight point three yards per drive
worse in the league. They're also on the field for
seven point two plays per drive.
Speaker 4 (46:25):
Only Miami is worse.
Speaker 6 (46:27):
And their opponents are averaging twenty more plays.
Speaker 8 (46:31):
Well, yeah, yeah, And when you're on the field that
long and you're already an old team by the fourth quarter,
what do you got left in the tank? You know
a couple of years ago, you know, fans would complain
because they were They would try to win games twenty
to seventeen, fourteen to nine like that because their defense
was good, and after Roethlisberger left they couldn't seem to
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find an offense. Well, I don't know what's more frustrating.
You put up over thirty points and you still can't
win the game. It's more entertaining, But I think it's
even more frustrating.
Speaker 1 (47:03):
Do you think Mike Tomlin would ever allow someone else
to run the defense? Do you think Art Rooney might
ever come to him and go, hey, next time we
get a Brian Flores come through here, we want to
keep him and we want to just make you the
head coach the end.
Speaker 8 (47:21):
I don't know if Art Rooney would do that, Dan
Rooney would have done it, or Art such a laid
back guy, you don't know what goes on behind closed doors.
Tomlin seems to rule the roost, and I think it's
hard to you know, back in the day, you know,
they made Chuck Nol fire Tony Dungey and he didn't
want to.
Speaker 3 (47:40):
So they've done stuff like that in the past.
Speaker 8 (47:44):
But it doesn't seem like art rules with the arn
fist that Dan did, or takes that active of a role.
Speaker 3 (47:51):
In making those kind of decisions.
Speaker 8 (47:53):
But we don't really know, you He just is so
mellow and down to earth all the time behind closed door.
I remember he told me one time, you know, when
he's watching a road game, if he doesn't if he
is watching the game on TV, he's screaming at it,
throwing stuff like like everybody else.
Speaker 5 (48:10):
I would to watch that stream.
Speaker 4 (48:15):
So how do you see this going on Sunday night?
Speaker 3 (48:18):
I think you're gonna lose? Hm, I just I think.
Speaker 8 (48:22):
I mean green Bay on he has one loss, although
it was the Cleveland but it was Joe Flacco and uh.
Speaker 1 (48:28):
Didn't do anything in that game. Green Bay absolutely gave
them that win.
Speaker 3 (48:33):
Yeah, and then you know what.
Speaker 8 (48:34):
The Steelers are good news, you know, and then in
home primetime games they're good. They're they're more rested because
they did play on Thursday, and I'd love to see
them win. I just don't green Bay's. Green Bay beat Detroit,
they beat Washington, and I come from behind win against Arizona.
It was was pretty impressive. The Cardinals aren't great, but
they still had to come from behind and that Dallas
game and then ended in the time. I just think
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Green Bay is a better team right now. I don't
trust his defense at all.
Speaker 1 (49:00):
Guy Junker, brought to you by Edgar Snyder Associates this
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Speaker 4 (49:03):
Guy, thanks so much, buddy, appreciate. We'll talk to you
next week.
Speaker 3 (49:06):
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Speaker 9 (49:08):
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Here's Tom Opperman.
Speaker 10 (49:20):
When the Steelers and Packers face off on Sunday Night
Football this weekend, it will mark the first time that
Aaron Rodgers will face the franchise he once played eighteen
seasons for, and over those eighteen seasons with the Packers,
Rodgers racked up one hundred and forty seven regular season wins,
eleven playoff victories, four MVP Awards, and a Lombardi Trophy
with a win in Super Bowl forty five. With a
victory Sunday night, Rogers will become just the fifth quarterback
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in NFL history to have defeated all thirty two NFL franchises,
joining Tom Brady, Peyton Manning, Drew Brees, and Brett Favre.
An impressive group with each member either in or going
to be in the Hall of Fame one day.
Speaker 7 (49:52):
But speaking to the media.
Speaker 10 (49:53):
Earlier this week, Aaron Rodgers swore that this wasn't a
revenge game for him against his former team. However, the
importance of a Steelers win Sunday against the PA can't
be understated. Standing in the way of Rogers and the
Steelers from accomplishing that is a strong Packers defense led
by a dominant pass rush that's headlined by superstar Micah Parsons.
Parsons had three sacks last week against the Arizona Cardinals
and the Packers win his best game so far as
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a Packer. Neutralize the all pro pass rusher is going
to be a major key to the Steelers having.
Speaker 3 (50:18):
Success Sunday night.
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Kickoff between The Steelers and Packers is at eight twenty
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Dave Damnage that, ladies and gentlemen, I.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Hardly have a voice left you in I'm still belly
ache and shouting out loud to anyone who will listen
to me, not about the upcoming game on Sunday night.
I don't know if you heard. Aaron Rodgers is playing.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
His old team.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
But as it turns out, like he doesn't care. He's
not upset, he has no feeling. It's not it's like
what wait was the absence makes the heart grow fonder? No,
this isn't a big game for me. Like, wait, did
I did I talk endless amounts of crap about the
front office and how no one would ever want to
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live in Green Bay, Wisconsin if it weren't for me
and everything else?
Speaker 4 (00:54):
Like did he say that.
Speaker 5 (01:00):
He could pin it on far?
Speaker 4 (01:02):
He say no one would want to live in Green Bay?
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Yes, he said that. I mean he didn't say it.
He didn't say it this week because now he I know.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
But he said that in the past.
Speaker 6 (01:12):
It does make it does make more sense now in
his press conference this week, how much he mentioned the
neighborhoods and areas that he loved living in.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
He's like, yeah, I want to jump in the Piggly
Wiggley and I'd see Sharon and produced.
Speaker 6 (01:30):
He talked about his neighborhood three separate times in that interview.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Now, wait, did I say something that that set some
people off?
Speaker 7 (01:40):
Oops?
Speaker 2 (01:40):
My bad, everybody, Let's just move.
Speaker 5 (01:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Well, you know, he's our quarterback now and it's all
games and ship and I don't care. I'm glad he
was mean to them because f Green Bay. We got
to win this game on Sunday night.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Well, I mean absolutely right, and you definitely yeah for
for all the talk about you know, the nick picking
what the offense didn't do, and certainly up ten nothing.
I mean, it's pretty grim not to get in the
in the rear view mirror of last week. But but
let's get in the rear view rearview mirror of last week.
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The up ten nothing. If anybody would have told you
with the Steelers having the ball just before Aaron rodgers
On corks that deep shot, that unnecessary deep shot that
felt like, uh, listen devil may care where we're gonna
smoke these things.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
Arm puns on first down.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
That that began the spiral. But okay, if anybody would
have told you they're going to lose that game, you
you would have thought they're crazy. But okay, I don't
understand how. Maybe nationally it's a cute story the two
old guys played each other, but consider the run up
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in a short week, Jamar Chase announced they did exactly
what they thought we were were what we thought they
were going to do in anticipation of trying to stop
me and my other high end pass catcher in t Higgins,
both of us receiving throws off the right arm of
a decrepit old man named Joe Flacco and Mike Tomlin. So,
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while Jamar Chase is watching game tape anticipating what the
Steelers defense is going to do, Mike Tomlin is busy
belly achin about Andrew Berry trading that old man from
one orange hatted, Ohio based football team to another, as
if this is the end of the world. So he's
mad about that, And at the same time, Cam Hayward
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is having hilarious conversations about how icy Hot is sponsoring
this old man bull and it was just delightful. It
was all delightful stuff. And then somehow on the other
side of that game, it takes on this this cute
kind of hue of like he's their kryptonite. They just
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can't handle that Joe black On No matter.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
What they try.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
This sucks. Joe Flacco is now the personification he used
to be a legit. We talked about this, you know whatever,
it was six, eight, ten years ago, fellas when we
would talk about, Hey, Joe Flacco is nails when he
comes into Hines. That's what they used to call actors. Sure,
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when he comes into Hines, he always, no matter how
many how much things go against him in the first
three quarters, he keeps on shooting. And man, he is
tough to deal with no matter what, no matter how
good the defense is and all of that. That's not
who we're talking about anymore. This is a decrepit old man.
If I didn't mention it yet, he is a punchline
of a guy who cannot handle any NFL defense outside
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of the Pittsburgh Steelers. By the way, who put that
defense together, Who hand picked the members of the secondary? Oh,
I know who it was. It was the guy who
is an alleged defensive whiz, and and he hands.
Speaker 7 (05:06):
He wasn't gone, and then and then.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
He said, this defense has a chance to be historic,
and getting torched by a decrepit old man on some
level is history because no other team would would, would
would suffer the shame, the indignity of getting smoked over
and over and over again by a guy, a decrepit
old man who's been in been a part of the
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organization in Cincinnati for about for about third or or
for about three hours. What a humiliation to put to
put that effort out onto the field. And by the way,
it will carry over, I really do. I'm not trying
to get pessimistic about this, but all of a sudden,
for all the songs about it. We talked one week
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ago that if they just they had to have this game,
they just had to take care of this one because
the gauntlet is now here. So they were five and
one and Lamar Jackson is on his way back. A
four game cushion would be a really fascinating proposition to
see if the Ravens could close that gap over the
final two thirds of the season. Now the Steelers are
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right on the edge here. I mean they're a home
dog against these Packers and Aaron Rodgers. Like I loved,
I loved all these ruminations about his time in Green Bay.
It really is Don Draper and the elevator with with
with with the other guys. Jordan Love and the Packers
are looking are looking at looking back at the junior
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copywriter named Aaron Rodgers, saying I don't think about you
at all. I mean, the Packers couldn't give a crap
about the Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
I think your larger.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Yes, this is like all you need to do is
look at Sean Payton and Russell Wilson's behavior this past
week and realized it is not above any NFL coach
and or frances to hold grudges for long periods of time.
Speaker 6 (07:03):
They want the validation too, to prove that they knew
what they were doing and they made the right decision
to move on.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Exactly why people haven't the last three years already done
that when they say success is the best revenge, haven't
they succeeded?
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Then?
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Jordan Love has proven to be the right decision, so
that Aaron that Aaron Rodgers now apply some twenty twenty
high tight, Like, yeah, I always knew when they drafted
Jordan the writing was on the wall. For me, I
just had to move on, Like then, why did you
shout constantly and try to get the front office fired
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and all of that, and they don't know what they're
doing and they were disloyal and all of that.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
Well, but.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
He's got nothing but love for Aaron Rodgers. I mean,
Aaron Rodgers, you know, and Jordan love have a great relationship.
And while I, you know, agreed with all of the
reasons why I didn't think they should bring Aaron Rodgers
in at the beginning of the season, he has not
done any of those things here, and we you know,
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his past behavior was the reason why seventy five percent
of Steeler fans did not want him to come here.
I mean, I'd always talk about it. At the Comedy
Festival this year, I said, so is everyone excited about
Aaron Rodgers as your new quarterback? And that was in
the middle of the summer, and the entire audience booed,
you know, and like, I think it's so. But my
point is he's learned from all that stuff. He's not
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doing it here.
Speaker 5 (08:30):
And he's won over all all the women in and he.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
Is the least of our problems. Like do I think
that he is?
Speaker 1 (08:37):
His attitude is representative of how he really feels right now.
And is there some revisionist history going on so that
he can, from a pr standpoint, come out of this
looking a.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
Little bit better.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Yes, absolutely, that's just smart by him, all right, Like
I know the real acrimony that existed there and the
way they are glad he's gone right now. The Pittsburgh
Steelers have big problems, and he's way down on the
list of those problems.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
I Bowman, you and me park our cars in the
same garage. Absolutely, you cannot look at Aaron Rodgers. And
in fact, as I got myself all wild up there
talking about being up to nothing in him taking that
deep shot and and all of that in Cincinnati, something Jahn.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Roethlisberger would have done, you know, in every year of
his career.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Yeah, we the nitpicking about how well the offense missed
the play here, and maybe there are three plays you
can point to over the sixty minutes that they could
have done better, and maybe there's a penalty and whatever.
I mean, it's all on the defense. It is entirely
on the defense cannot You cannot hang thirty something on
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the bum Bengals and lose that game when they are
down and out and again are show and are are
so desperate that they're starting a decrepit old man at quarterback.
But now here come the repercussions because the Packers are
straight up better than the Steelers are. I mean, the
Steelers defense is. It's not just like something that you
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point at and say, boy.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
That's a shame.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
I thought that was going to be better. This was
the construct of Mike Tomlin. It was all leading up
to this. And keep in mind, I understand that the
aforementioned Sean Payton pulled off the big rally against the Giants,
but Jackson Dart once again looked real good, and the
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Steelers need an answer quarterback that goes beyond twenty twenty
five and even twenty twenty six. The news this week, well,
now the Steelers want Airon back for twenty twenty six. Man,
you're really pushing things here, do I mean? Guys, this
age do not succeed long term. But okay, so you
didn't need to take Jackson Dart because you prioritized Derek Harmon.
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I'll say again Derek Harmon better be real, real, real, real,
real good to offset the potential of taking Jackson art
and solving the only position that really matters.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Especially because next year's uh, you know, quarterback class is
looking less and less elite as each college football week
goes by.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
And did we talk about that? Did we? Did?
Speaker 2 (11:24):
We talk about that all spring and summer that this
is exactly where it was going. Where's Arch?
Speaker 3 (11:28):
Now?
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Is Arch the savior for the Pittsburgh Steelers? No, he's
going to be back in Austin unless he gets transferred
out out of there. How about Drew Aller? Remember all
the buzz about him? Hey, Kiboley, where are you at there?
He's going to end up being the number one overall
pick there? I don't think so he's not. He's going
to be back in the mix.
Speaker 6 (11:46):
We weren't going to have to trade out to get
him now, yeah, I mean right?
Speaker 1 (11:52):
But Florio is already reporting that the Steelers want to
bring Aaron Rodgers back for next year. And of course
they would even if they did have their number one
on you know, quarterback ideal candidates available to them, which now,
as we just said, all of them are starting to
lose have pretty much lost their luster. You had to
bring him back a little hard, dude.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
I mean, yeah, now that's exactly where I was at.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
By the way, you are stuck with Will Howard being
the great White Hope stuck.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Hey, I like you want to you want need to
sprinkle in just a little bit more pessimism for you
about twenty twenty six. I don't think Arthur Smith's going
to be there. So if you're getting excited about the offense,
he's probably going to be coaching in UNC or otherwise.
Because another thing, like we've talked about, when you draft
into and sign guys around what a severe offensive offensive
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coordinator requires for his offense to work, you're going to
be left hold in the bag because he's going to
get a head coaching job when he succeeds, which he
will do. Now, assuming this offense keeps going like that,
Arthur Smith will be gone. He will succeed and get
a head coaching job again. And then who's running this
offense that required certain pieces to work? We have seventeen
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tight ends on the roster. Now, I mean that's what
a more conventional O seed in twenty twenty six and
be like, what the hell do you want me to
do with all these guys. But before we get to that, though,
just consider and I know everybody's aware of it, but
just really what was what was feeling very exciting? People
are getting the getting the gay number one seed. Maybe
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they could get that, And like we've talked about, they
have to get the number one seed in order to
have a plausible path to the Super Bowl. I mean,
they're not going to win three games against high end
competition that maybe if they have a home game in
the wild card round and then have to go to
say Buffalo or Kansas City, are they plausibly going to
win all three of those games? Seems unlike the number
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one seed. But of course the way Tomlin approaches every
game trying to win them twelve to eleven, leads to
some weird losses along the way. So it takes the
one set out of play here and now all of
a sudden, we're at the Gauntlet and now we go
Green Bay, which, I you know, for all the all
the emotion and all the stories like we talk about Bowman,
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you're right, they got to win this game because then
they go Colts come into town, then they come out
here to La to play the Charge.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
The Colts are.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
You know, our best help with the Colts is that
they'll be due for a loss.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
I mean that's hoping for a lot there. That's like, hey,
the dealer keeps hitting twenty one, he's bound the hit
twenty three at some point, right, let's let's go heavy.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
Think they've scored less than thirty this year.
Speaker 6 (14:31):
Maybe Jonathan Taylor will pull his hamstring running for early
ninety yard touchdowns.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Yeah, by the way, I hate to pat myself on
the back of Wait a second, no, I don't. I
predicted that the Colts were going to win that division,
and everybody laughed at the time, and nobody's laughing anymore,
and they won't be laughing. Last Colt the Chargers.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
And then I mean they have the Titans this week.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Colts have the Titans this weekend before the Steelers. So
here's why they're going to lose to the Steelers. Going
to be due for a loss, and it's in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Dude, what would you put on You put twenty dollars
on that last han Yeah, he hit blackjack again. Let's
this time, let's go two thousand. It's our chance to
make it back. He's bound He's not gonna do it again,
is he? They thought to go to Detroit, they still
have to go to Chicago, who, all of a sudden
is pretty good.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
They think.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
This weekend by I got Buffalo too.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Well, I you know what Bowman, Yeah, they and Buffalo.
I mean, sweet Jesus Fellas, this is all of a sudden,
feels real grave. I mean, I think they're going to
and I said eleven wins before the season started. As
I look things over here, I think they're going to
really struggle to get to double digit wins. I mean
they I think the offset the shame. Did I mention
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that they lost to decrepit old man? So wait, they
now need to be defeat the youngster named Jordan Love
to offset that terrible and get back to square here.
They just have to.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Do there's one way they could do it, maybe playing
Nick Herbig a little more than you know, thirty two
percent of the snaps.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Well, listen, you understand that that Kyle Shanahan's he's an
offensive wiz, and he proved that a few years back
because he went to a Super Bowl and almost won
that Super Bowl with Jimmy Garoppolo at quarterback. Jimmy Garoppolo
and Kevin Coleman is his feature back meantime in Pittsburgh,
there's a defensive whiz named Mike Tomlin, and he has
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Jalen Ramsey, and he has Joey Porter and U and
he has Darius Slay. There these are the guys he won.
He went out of his way to get you understand,
and then he talked about how good this defense was
going to be this year and it just got destroyed
by decrepit.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
A all right, all right, okay, you're you're failing the factor
in that. Maybe when coach Tomlin said historic, he meant
like the Princeton eighteen sixty team.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Hm. Did I wait? Did I think bad about Green Bay?
I know, I wrap up in my fields all.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
You're spiraling.
Speaker 5 (17:13):
You're going to see him in the bus stop.
Speaker 6 (17:14):
You're spiraling all the rest of this over and over
and over again on a loop.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Now, look when when he goes uh, you know, when
when it's all said and done, Aaron Rodgers goes away
from the public eye, and by that I mean signs
a multi year deal to be on every Sunday on
the NFL on Fox. He is going to remind you
of all of these. This is he's setting himself up.
From a pr standpoint for his after playing days, I
have no problem with what he's doing, even from.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
A tactical standpoint with them.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Again, he I'll go so far to say, is he's
not just low on our list of problems. He's not
on the list. Their problems are all Mike Tomlin's defense.
A defensive line that has no ability to stop the
run against Chase Brown. Good lord, what are they going
to do against Josh Jacobs and TJ Watts invisibility in
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games like this That cannot be the case. We have
not even mentioned number ninety's name. He's the highest play
paid player in the world.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
Go out and do something.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Yeah, man, you said it all. I am not hanging
any of this on the performance of of all number
eight there. This is right, This is this is a
an approach issue. This is this is Mike Tomlin's approach,
and it goes back to springtime, and it's all informed
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by the decisions he made with the con artist.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
By the way, Okay, but I agree with all what
you're saying, But we got to focus on this game
on Sunday.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
No, we have to go back to you know, what
would Rogers to focus on is a receiver other than
than DK Mettaff. Unfortunately, the con artist and coach he
forgot to get a second wide receiver for two years.
For two years that the con artist he's working over
broke football, except for the fact that he forgot together
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a viable second pass catcher in the offense for two
years running.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
Now, look out, NFL.
Speaker 6 (19:11):
I got two words for you that sound like three.
Ben Scarronic. You might have heard of him touchdown.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
I can't believe that there's so many Pittsburgh's out there
that will still hit me up on social media when
I got When I talk about that the empirically obvious
bad decision to trade away George Pickens in a contract year,
people will be like, Dave, you can't have that guy
in the in the locker room. So the Cowboys are
talking about resigning him. He's been so good this year.
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I mean, that's the idea that in his contract year
that he wouldn't understand that he has to behave himself
so that he can set up his family for the
next hundred years with generational wealth. It was was foolish stuff,
especially when and you had as as the the UH uh,
the make good by trading away. George Pickens like, well,
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we have one hundred and twenty pound Calvin Austin.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
He's good.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Everybody right, he'll there's no chance he'll ever get banged
up or anything. And plus Roman Wilson, Yeah, we're not
gonna put him on the field, but but but never.
And then we got we got Robert Woods, who was
good twenty seven years ago as pro football. I forgot whatever.
Speaker 6 (20:26):
Happened, Yeah he was, Yeah, he's Robert Woods gets cut
and there.
Speaker 5 (20:32):
Does it make a sound.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
He's in the witness protection program.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
You know, you did make me realize that with Arthur
Smith leaving, we basically like have funded a seafood restaurant
and our chef is leaving, and we're like, what are
we gonna do with all these lobsters?
Speaker 4 (20:45):
I guess I guess shrimp company. All we got is
shrimp here, guys, I guess we got to hire someone.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
Who can make you gonna be twenty twenty thick, gonna
be John new Smith. Year They're like, well, Arthur, Arthur
Smith is now in chat up well Hill, like John
new Smith. We should trade him. We can get a
good a good second wide receiver for maybe George picking
down Dallas Way, we could get that guy. Oh, it's disgusting.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Listen.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
The only thing that makes this right, The only thing
that makes this right is showing because it does say legitimately.
I know that the Packers element of it has nothing
to do with Mike Tomlin and Omar Khan, but they
do have to right the ship a little bit here
because it does feel like because George Picken's doing what
he's doing down there in Dallas and Jordan Love. Obviously,
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that was good sober decision making by the Packers bring
trust a few years ago to say you're going to
hold us hostage, old man, We're gonna move on to
the next generation as we intended, no matter how much
crap you try and talk, and no matter how much
you try to get us fired. That's what that. The
Packers now have the confidence, have the trust of Packers fans.
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The Steelers need that right now with Pittsburgh fans because
their approach seems pretty flawed. They wanted to This was
all remembered. It was all a big setup to get
to as high a pick as you could get in
We talked about it. They're very far away from that
right now to write the ship and show that Aaron
Rodgers can win a big game against his foes and
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restore themselves as a contender at five and two. Otherwise,
dark days may lay ahead with this schedule.
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Speaker 3 (22:34):
I guess that way.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Let's let's win. I didn't say what's going to happen
in the game. I said that they've got to win it.
If they win it, I'll be.
Speaker 4 (22:39):
Right his rank, his rain, he said empty. Yes, So
if you take anything from the last twenty minutes, just
take that we got to win. If you play something
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Jones is gonna need to double his oxygen tank capacity
this week as he gets set to flip off fans
in the mile high Mountain Air when his Cowboys had
to Denver to take on the Broncos at Sean Payton's Place.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
This game's interesting because if.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
You could combine Dallas's best in league offense with Denver's
near best in league defense, it would be unbeatable. The
problem for these two teams is the other team you'd
be left with is the Jets. The Cowboys are rolling
on offense, getting stampeded on defense, Broncos d bucking every
challenger while the offense takes longer to get going than
a push mower in January.
Speaker 4 (24:59):
Let's start with Denver.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Now, Bonnicks might sound like a piece of exercise equipment
you'd buy on late night infomercials.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
Lose weight fast with.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
The Bonicks, but it's late in games where he's been
slap chopping opponents. Thirty three points in the fourth quarter
against the Giants and eighteen points in the.
Speaker 4 (25:15):
Fourth quarter against the Eagles the week before.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
That problem is, in their last three games, they only
have one touchdown in the other ten quarters combined.
Speaker 4 (25:23):
If procrastination was masturbation, Bonnicks would be Louis c.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
K geez bo stuck whipping out the win when nobody's
expecting it.
Speaker 4 (25:33):
No, it's not okay that you ask.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
Bo's not exactly enduring a sophomore slump, thoughs Your two
has been kind of like Pooting the Blowfish's second album.
It went triple platinum, but people were still hoping for
a little bit more after the first one. This week,
Sean Payton warned his team against the letdown after the
big win against the Giants and got them focused on
the Cowboys by continuing to fight publicly with Russell Wilson.
Man obsessed much, Sean, show me on the Tackling Dummy
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where Russ hurt. You already humiliated beyond belief. You've been vindicated.
Nobody likes a sore winner, Sean, unless it's a herpes contest,
then you'd want to be the sore winner.
Speaker 4 (26:08):
I guess you'd get a trophy filled with Voucher. I
don't know why you talking about this. You weird For Dallas.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Dak is all the way back, and in each of
his last four games he's thrown at least three touchdowns
without a pick. Only Brady Rogers, Manning, Russ and Breeze
have done that, which puts him in more rarefied nfl air.
Then they'll deal with it in power field on Sunday.
Dak's got Pittsburgh's problem child, George Pickens mossing players like
they were Stephen King and creep Show.
Speaker 4 (26:31):
In Denver shutdown Corner.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Patrick Tretan can't cover both GP and CD, so expect
a lot more tds than Denver's.
Speaker 4 (26:38):
D usually sees.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
The Broncos are wearing throwback Orange Crush jerseys for this one,
but Dallas is gonna be the one that has too
much jolt.
Speaker 4 (26:46):
Hey who doesn't love soda humor it ohs puffs, Cowboys
are gonna bust. The Broncos take Jerry's kids.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Next.
Speaker 4 (26:53):
Giants at the Eagles minus seven and a half.
Speaker 6 (26:55):
Rematch, second time in three weeks. The g Men face
off against the Eagles. This time it's in Philly and
the weather is cloudy. With a chance of batteries. This
one has got to be a little weird for Philly fans.
They hate everyone from Santa to their own black quarterback,
But Scataboo looks like he should be in the parking
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lot of the Link, crawling up to the tailgate and
headbutting the keg dry humping a pothole. He spends more
time in the blue tent than the Smurfs on a
camping trip. The guy runs like a stolen delivery truck
with no brakes or power steering, and if you put
him in Jackson Dart in a tucked McNab jersey and
turtleneck combo, you should just go ahead and start filming
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Silver Linings Playbook two right now.
Speaker 7 (27:40):
They also curb stomped.
Speaker 6 (27:41):
The eagles in the Meadowlands a couple of weeks ago,
so you best believe they're trying to win this John
in front of their hometown douchebags. That giant ass whooping
might have awoken a sleeping eagle because they soared against
the Vikings last week. Aj Brown didn't have any time
to read on the sidelines in that one. It's too
busy running down the sidelines and scoring touchdowns. Justin Hurtz,
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who dresses like he's in a remake of the Eddie
Murphy classic Boomerang threw for over three hundred yards and
three tuddies for the first time in over a year.
Speaker 5 (28:12):
He was slinging that John all over to John.
Speaker 6 (28:15):
The Giants are a fun team to watch in a
frat bros skateboarding off a roof into the pool kind
of way. I mean, it's crazy, it's exciting to watch.
But he usually ends with the Broncos scoring thirty three
points in the fourth quarter. The Giants have ninety nine problems,
but Mick A. Tomney ain't one. I know how you're gay.
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You miss two extra points in the same game. The
Giants cut their Irish kicker quicker than Jacob could swap
T shirts with a stranger that.
Speaker 5 (28:51):
He met at the Guinness Factory.
Speaker 7 (28:53):
Eagles win Miss John by double digits.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Neck Bears at the Ravens Ravens minus set. Good news
for Baltimore the defense finally didn't give up four touchdowns
on Sundays. Oh well, bad news is because it was
their bye week. The mortgaand news from Baltimore. No, they're
not getting the Colts back, but Lamar Jackson is expected
to return, and not a moment too soon. In the
two games he was injured, the Ravens only managed one touchdown,
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which is why Harbaugh is all too glad to have
Cooper Rush back to the bench instead of onto the field.
Speaker 4 (29:23):
To be fair, the Ravens weren't expecting much from Cooper Rush,
and he delivered. Cooper Rush is.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
The punchline to a mom Can we stop for Andy Dalton? No, honey,
we have Andy Dalton at home?
Speaker 5 (29:33):
Joke.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
Kind of a failure of the GM not to have
something better in the break in case of emergency QB box.
The Bears, conversely, are watching Caleb Williams slowly mature into
a less annoying quarterback and Ben Johnson and his team,
he's got him playing like sesame seeds.
Speaker 4 (29:48):
They're on a roll, but nobody's really noticing. You never
noticed in the month.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
It's good and with fort sight wins after dropping the
first two, Ben Johnson could be the f Chicago coach
since George Hallis to win five of his first seven games.
Speaker 4 (30:04):
So suck on that at Deede keik Obwala think we're playing.
Speaker 7 (30:07):
Good enough now? U Karen Andrews.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
I imagine he says in his head, I think the
Bears are pretty legit, unless you think I'm wearing bear goggles.
Just know this, the Bears eleven interception and plus eleven
turnover ratio leads the league, and they lead the league
in points after takeaway.
Speaker 4 (30:25):
Now, this, of course, was potentially.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
More of an issue when Cooper Rush was lobbying interceptions
like Trump throwing toilet paper to hurricane victims. But it
might be something that becomes relevant since it's Jackson's first
game back from injury and you might have a rusty lamar.
By the way, don't look up rusty Lamar in the
Urban Dictionary while you're at work.
Speaker 4 (30:45):
HR will pay a visit to your desk. Why would
you kick you in the hamstring afterwards?
Speaker 1 (30:50):
Yesterday, John Harbaugh refuted the press reports he's instituted a
no fun rule in the locker room and assured everyone
he's got no problem with players cornholing. And why not,
I mean, so long as they shower after no one
tries to pull a rusty Lamar.
Speaker 4 (31:01):
I don't see what the problem is.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
Rokwan's back from injury and will bolster the d against
his former team for the first time as a Raven,
but ever since Baltimore lets standout defensive coordinator Mike McDonald
lee for Seattle, the Ravens.
Speaker 4 (31:15):
Keep forgetting two Blake defense no more, and things keep
getting worse for them.
Speaker 5 (31:21):
Minute ba minute.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
Though you can't get much worse than thirty second in
total defense. As desperate is as Harbaugh is for the
Wind to stay in playoff contention, I don't think he's
got the trap for these Bears. Chicago's on the come
up and there haven't been this many happy Bears since
Pride Week in Provincetown. Take the money line and you
can hibernate on those odds.
Speaker 8 (31:40):
The Bears next.
Speaker 4 (31:44):
Jets at Sincy minus six and a half.
Speaker 6 (31:46):
Aaron Glenn said earlier this week that he didn't want
to give the Bengals a competitive advantage, so he's not
revealing whether Justin Fields or Tyrod Taylor will start on Sunday.
Smart now the Bengals won't know and to kickoff. If
the Jets are gonna suck or blow competitive advantage, you're
oh for the season and just bench the guy you
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paid forty million dollars to.
Speaker 7 (32:10):
Every team left on the schedule.
Speaker 6 (32:12):
Has a competitive advantage, and the icing on this piece
of sheet cake was the best throw of anyone on
the Jets this week. Was the owner throwing Justin Fields
under the bus, saying, if we could just complete a pass,
it would look good. It's a shame they don't have
Joe Flacco because he can complete sixteen passes to the
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same receiver even when the defense knows it's coming, and
he doesn't even know all the plays.
Speaker 7 (32:40):
What's that?
Speaker 6 (32:41):
They had Joe Flacco two different times and then okay,
then he was backing up Namath and Testa Verdi. No
Sam Darnold and Zach Wilson. The Jets is the Jets.
Speaker 7 (32:53):
No wonder.
Speaker 6 (32:54):
The young fans hate that team and only root for
them because they were born into this and have no
other choice.
Speaker 7 (33:00):
What's that? Tyrod Taylor is now day to day with
a knee injury.
Speaker 6 (33:04):
He hit himself in the hammer just so he doesn't
have to play, and Justin Fields has been dealing with
a toe injury since training camp. All right, well, maybe
send both of them out there and let's see if
Tony Tony Tony can.
Speaker 7 (33:16):
Complete a pass.
Speaker 6 (33:18):
The only player in this matchup who can get a
Tony Tony Tony reference is Joe Flacco and he plays
for the Brangles this season. Brangus, he's still playing because
he wants to look in the mirror when he's fifty
and say he gave it everything he had that seemed
like a week ago. Try not to get two injured
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this year, because the Steelers are gonna need you healthy
when you join the team in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
Take the Brangles next, Dolphins at Atlanta. Minus seven and
a half is the owner of the Miami Dolphins. Just
three kids in a trench coat standing on each other's
shoulders who are playing a prank on the rest of
the league.
Speaker 4 (33:56):
How does Mike McDaniel still have a job?
Speaker 1 (33:59):
The actual must have been one of those psycho kids
that picked the wings off of flies and then slowly
melted them with a magnifying gleut.
Speaker 4 (34:06):
Just squatch them already.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
Too bad Mike McDaniel still having a coach this team.
He must feel like football Sisyphus. That is, if Sisiphus
wore clam diggers in vape while he pushed the boulder
up the help and I love the phrase people keep
using about Mike McDaniel now because they always allude to
his appearance and they'll say.
Speaker 4 (34:23):
He's no leader of men. It always feels kind of
gay to me. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
Teddy Bruski was like, I've watched all his sorry excuses
for press conferences, and I'm sorry, but I just look
at that guy and.
Speaker 4 (34:34):
He's no leader of men, and he does nothing from
my downstairs. Doesn't turn me on at all.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
Meanwhile, the coach Teddy Bruski played for and thinks his
super butch is now sporting a solid Sea cup and
being told what to do by a twenty four year
old hooker with the business acumen of a golden retriever.
Speaker 4 (34:51):
You know, a real much of a leader of men,
that Belichick.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
It's only a matter of time at this point until
the Dolphins bring in a buff, authoritarian coach. It's a
copy league, and beefcake coaches are all the right. Dan Campbell,
Sean McAboy, Andy Reid, Well heat he eats a lot
of beef and cake that counts as beefcake right yesterday,
too has said he has trouble finding receiver Jaalen Waddle
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because he's not tall enough to see over the offensive line.
You know, I don't care if the next coach he
hires the rock you can't make two a taller or
stop saying dumb things when he's at the podium. At
least in Atlanta, Kirk Cousins can give two us some
pointers on how to make fifty million dollars while holding
a clipboard.
Speaker 4 (35:32):
They paid him too.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
Much and now they got to put him into it
a game, even though they read to send them to
it a bench and that's to a bed. Miami is
already without Tyreek Hill, who, while being carted off the
field with a season ending injury, he celebrated like Mary
just told him.
Speaker 4 (35:48):
You are not the father, and now.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
Their next best offensive weapon. Darren Waller was putting ir
He's out for the season and out of his misery.
The Falcons aren't great, but at home with b John
running wild, they're gonna jam it down to Dolphins.
Speaker 4 (36:02):
Blowhole. But seven points is a lotch. Did you take
the points though, and been on Miami?
Speaker 1 (36:08):
Well, you know, as the Dolphin would tell you here, eh.
Speaker 4 (36:13):
No, play it pretty far. Atlanta take the Falcons.
Speaker 1 (36:15):
Next last one, Packers at Steelers plus three.
Speaker 6 (36:20):
This is not a revenge game. Okay, guys, it's not
it's not for Rogers. He has no animosity towards the
Packers organization. And maybe it's because absence makes the fart
grow honder.
Speaker 3 (36:33):
I don't know.
Speaker 7 (36:34):
He spent eighteen years there, guys, he grew up there.
That's where he got immunized.
Speaker 6 (36:39):
That's where he saw the Epstein list for the first time.
A ton of great memories, and he loves the guys
he played with, and the relationship with the coach was great.
He never screamed and swore at him just for calling
a timeout or having a conservative play call.
Speaker 7 (36:54):
And guess what, Lafleur loves him too.
Speaker 6 (36:56):
You never traded up in the twenty twenty draft to
get George Love to replace them.
Speaker 7 (37:01):
That wasn't his choice. That was a call passed down
directly from.
Speaker 6 (37:05):
The board to cheese heads, voted on by the bradtholders.
Could he have traded up to draft Aiyuk or Justin
Jefferson or Ceedee Lamb for Rogers instead.
Speaker 7 (37:16):
Maybe, But it's not like Aaron.
Speaker 6 (37:18):
Rodgers complained about them never drafting a receiver in the first.
Speaker 7 (37:22):
Round for the entire time he was there.
Speaker 6 (37:25):
And it's not like they drafted a wide receiver this
year when the draft was in Green Bay. It's not
a revenge game, guys, so go to hell unless you
listen to rogers longtime teammate and offensive lineman David Bachazi's
I'm sorry. He actually thinks all the back and forth
pleasant trees are a bunch of gorgan zola. He thinks
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this is a really big game for both sides. Rogers
doesn't hold grudges. It's not like he downplayed the Jets
game and then dropped four tds in that game and
said afterwards that he was happy to be everybody associated
with the Jets. Aaron Glenn, the front office, the players
fireman ed that stupid kid that doesn't realize he doesn't
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have to be a fan just because he was born
into it. He's still young enough to get out of
the death sentence that is being.
Speaker 7 (38:14):
A Jets fan.
Speaker 6 (38:15):
This is definitely a revenge game for far Love and
Rogers are both getting deep picks late Sunday afternoon and
they're gonna have to deal with that. But revenge isn't
the biggest R word coming for this Sunday night. This
game is about resilience. Can the defense bounce back from.
Speaker 7 (38:36):
The stumble in the jungle stumble. This game is about
playing responsible.
Speaker 6 (38:43):
Can they stay in their gaps and play sixty minutes
of sound football?
Speaker 7 (38:49):
Can they stop the run?
Speaker 6 (38:50):
Can they remember to cover the Packers' best receiver? Can
they figure out a better linebacker rotation? Can they not
repeat they hate their mistakes? Can they not rupture and
look repugnant and not play with their head up there rectum?
Because I swear to God, if they come out in
a soft zone and get run on and routed, I'm
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gonna need a rope, a razor and a reforce.
Speaker 4 (39:15):
I'm taking the Steelers because.
Speaker 7 (39:17):
We need to write up our reputation.
Speaker 1 (39:19):
There you go, Six pigs for you over this weekend,
guaranteed to probably maybe possibly win.
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Speaker 3 (40:24):
Good morning folks.
Speaker 4 (40:26):
Doing pretty good and excited for the game on Sunday night.
Speaker 1 (40:28):
What did you make of the tenor the tone coming
out of both locker rooms yesterday?
Speaker 8 (40:34):
Well, you know, if you listened to Aaron Rodgers before
the Jets game and after the Jets game, he was
a little different.
Speaker 3 (40:41):
Although I think his time in New.
Speaker 8 (40:43):
York was certainly a lot more frustrating, and he was
more bitter about that situation than his years in Green Bay.
Speaker 3 (40:49):
And I think he's being very smart about it.
Speaker 8 (40:53):
I don't think he has the same bitter feelings about
the Packers certainly as he did about the Jets. So
I think if they win this game, he might be
a little more a little more braggetocius afterwards than he
was before.
Speaker 3 (41:07):
But he's a season that he's smart.
Speaker 1 (41:10):
I'm not worried about the offense. That seems like behind
Aaron Rodgers, they're able to figure things out. Frustrating though
it may be at times, every week seems to get
a little better in that regard, though I hated the
way they approached that Bengals game and didn't put the
pedal down early defensively. You know, we were talking about
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this earlier. I don't know if we've revealed our I
revealed our identity against the Bengals, or if that's the aberration.
Speaker 8 (41:41):
No, let's talk about the elephant in the room, Randy.
The defense stinks. It stunk last year and it stinks
this year. They gave up almost five hundred yards to
a team that had a quarterback in their.
Speaker 3 (41:54):
Uniform for barely a week.
Speaker 8 (41:57):
They'd allowed thirty or more points three of their last
six games, they've allowed one hundred or more rushing yards,
and eight of their last twelve games.
Speaker 3 (42:04):
If you go back to last year, I do not.
I've said this on the show before.
Speaker 8 (42:09):
Torell Austin continues to get a halt pass all the
time as the defensive coordinator of this team. I never
hear anybody criticize the guy when they ran Matt Canada
out of town, chanting his name even at Penguin games
to fire the guy because the offense stunk. So it's
probably it's one of two reasons. He's a terrifically nice man,
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so maybe nobody wants to criticize them.
Speaker 3 (42:32):
Everybody knows that Tomlin's running.
Speaker 8 (42:34):
The defense anyway, but one of their buds should be
held to the fire. Mike Tomlin's first six years, man,
you're gonna get me going here. His first six years
as head coach, their defense was no worse than fifth
in any of those six years. In the last five years,
it's been no better than twelve. Despite they keep throwing
money at it and throwing money at it and throwing
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money at it.
Speaker 3 (42:57):
They're terrible.
Speaker 8 (42:58):
And if it wasn't for a great turnover margin, I mean,
their most impressive winners is it's turning out is that
win In New England, Patriots are now five and two,
and it took five Patriot turnovers to win that game.
Then they won't get five turners. Well, I'll bet they
won't get five turnovers in a game the rest of
the year. If they don't win the turnover battle. They do,
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they are more likely to stop the other team with
an interception or a fumble recovery than they are to.
Speaker 3 (43:23):
Force him to punt. The Bengals scored on seven of
their last eight.
Speaker 8 (43:27):
Possessions last week. It's a screen door on a submarine.
Speaker 6 (43:32):
Guy, Your your ins are just bumped into my ins er.
It's like one of those little ghosts where the you know,
the voice triggers another one and I start going.
Speaker 7 (43:41):
Because I believe that the loophole that.
Speaker 6 (43:44):
Tomlin has found defensively is to be opportunistic to get
those turnovers because you can win games early in regular
seasons to doing that. Like we've seen it so many
different times. When the when the narrows and you get
into the postseason, you're paying you're playing against better quarterbacks,
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better coordinators, and teams that are watching out and being
conservative and protecting the ball. Those turnovers go away and
you get dog walked up and down the field. You
bend and then you break in the postseason, Well, Bill,
I think one of.
Speaker 8 (44:23):
The biggest things is how how bad they have been
against the run. There's so much less likely a chance
of getting a turnover when teams just run it down
your throat. Uh not that every you know, you can
still fumble the ball, as the Patriots did four.
Speaker 3 (44:36):
Times that game.
Speaker 8 (44:37):
But but you know, I think and Cam Hayward's right,
that's the number one thing they gotta fix. They gotta
be able to stop that. There's no way Joe Flacco
has that game if.
Speaker 3 (44:46):
They're not running the ball the way that they were.
Speaker 8 (44:48):
I mean, it just played right into their hands. But
and and and you know, Mike Tomlin talked about at
the halftime interview that game. He's like, oh, we got
to do better on first and second down and stop,
you know, so that we can off the.
Speaker 3 (45:00):
Field on third down.
Speaker 8 (45:01):
They allowed a third and fourteen, a third and ten
conversion in the first half of that game.
Speaker 3 (45:06):
That wasn't that. They were all third and twos and
third and ones.
Speaker 8 (45:10):
Their third down conversion against is forty two percent.
Speaker 3 (45:13):
It's one of the worst in the league.
Speaker 4 (45:14):
I think the first one they converted was third and thirteen.
Speaker 8 (45:18):
Yeah, I mean, you know, if it was a bunch
of and that happens a lot.
Speaker 3 (45:22):
I never doing a story one time. In fact, this
is one of the first time that Stan.
Speaker 8 (45:26):
You know, when when I first started working with Stan,
the Steelers played a game in Dallas and I covered
it in Dallas and Stan would always he couldn't travel
that week for some reason. I had to do a
sidebar story, and I was thinking, I got to come
up with something here that's that's of interest, that makes sense,
or his stand's not going to be impressed. And the
Steelers that they had allowed like fifteen third down conversions,
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but the average distance on the third down conversions was
like third and two, so's that makes sense.
Speaker 3 (45:57):
They were giving up way too much on the first two.
Speaker 8 (45:58):
Now I got back Stendos, you really know your football,
and I'm like, okay, good, We're in.
Speaker 3 (46:03):
But that has not been the case.
Speaker 8 (46:06):
They can't get off the field regardless of what the
distance is on third down.
Speaker 3 (46:09):
Matt Williams so frustrating.
Speaker 1 (46:12):
Matt Williamson had this stat he tweeted out last night.
Pittsburgh's defense surrenders thirty eight point three yards per drive
worse in the league. They're also on the field for
seven point two plays per drive.
Speaker 4 (46:25):
Only Miami is worse.
Speaker 6 (46:27):
And their opponents are averaging twenty more plays.
Speaker 8 (46:31):
Well, yeah, yeah, And when you're on the field that
long and you're already an old team by the fourth quarter,
what do you got left in the tank? You know
a couple of years ago, you know, fans would complain
because they were They would try to win games twenty
to seventeen, fourteen to nine like that because their defense
was good, and after Roethlisberger left they couldn't seem to
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find an offense. Well, I don't know what's more frustrating.
You put up over thirty points and you still can't
win the game. It's more entertaining, But I think it's
even more frustrating.
Speaker 1 (47:03):
Do you think Mike Tomlin would ever allow someone else
to run the defense? Do you think Art Rooney might
ever come to him and go, hey, next time we
get a Brian Flores come through here, we want to
keep him and we want to just make you the
head coach the end.
Speaker 8 (47:21):
I don't know if Art Rooney would do that, Dan
Rooney would have done it, or Art such a laid
back guy, you don't know what goes on behind closed doors.
Tomlin seems to rule the roost, and I think it's
hard to you know, back in the day, you know,
they made Chuck Nol fire Tony Dungey and he didn't
want to.
Speaker 3 (47:40):
So they've done stuff like that in the past.
Speaker 8 (47:44):
But it doesn't seem like art rules with the arn
fist that Dan did, or takes that active of a role.
Speaker 3 (47:51):
In making those kind of decisions.
Speaker 8 (47:53):
But we don't really know, you He just is so
mellow and down to earth all the time behind closed door.
I remember he told me one time, you know, when
he's watching a road game, if he doesn't if he
is watching the game on TV, he's screaming at it,
throwing stuff like like everybody else.
Speaker 5 (48:10):
I would to watch that stream.
Speaker 4 (48:15):
So how do you see this going on Sunday night?
Speaker 3 (48:18):
I think you're gonna lose? Hm, I just I think.
Speaker 8 (48:22):
I mean green Bay on he has one loss, although
it was the Cleveland but it was Joe Flacco and uh.
Speaker 1 (48:28):
Didn't do anything in that game. Green Bay absolutely gave
them that win.
Speaker 3 (48:33):
Yeah, and then you know what.
Speaker 8 (48:34):
The Steelers are good news, you know, and then in
home primetime games they're good. They're they're more rested because
they did play on Thursday, and I'd love to see
them win. I just don't green Bay's. Green Bay beat Detroit,
they beat Washington, and I come from behind win against Arizona.
It was was pretty impressive. The Cardinals aren't great, but
they still had to come from behind and that Dallas
game and then ended in the time. I just think
(48:56):
Green Bay is a better team right now. I don't
trust his defense at all.
Speaker 1 (49:00):
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morning on DV.
Speaker 4 (49:03):
Guy, thanks so much, buddy, appreciate. We'll talk to you
next week.
Speaker 3 (49:06):
Okay, guys, see it.
Speaker 9 (49:08):
It's time for the Steelers Daily Report on DVE, brought
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Speaker 7 (49:19):
Here's Tom Opperman.
Speaker 10 (49:20):
When the Steelers and Packers face off on Sunday Night
Football this weekend, it will mark the first time that
Aaron Rodgers will face the franchise he once played eighteen
seasons for, and over those eighteen seasons with the Packers,
Rodgers racked up one hundred and forty seven regular season wins,
eleven playoff victories, four MVP Awards, and a Lombardi Trophy
with a win in Super Bowl forty five. With a
victory Sunday night, Rogers will become just the fifth quarterback
(49:41):
in NFL history to have defeated all thirty two NFL franchises,
joining Tom Brady, Peyton Manning, Drew Brees, and Brett Favre.
An impressive group with each member either in or going
to be in the Hall of Fame one day.
Speaker 7 (49:52):
But speaking to the media.
Speaker 10 (49:53):
Earlier this week, Aaron Rodgers swore that this wasn't a
revenge game for him against his former team. However, the
importance of a Steelers win Sunday against the PA can't
be understated. Standing in the way of Rogers and the
Steelers from accomplishing that is a strong Packers defense led
by a dominant pass rush that's headlined by superstar Micah Parsons.
Parsons had three sacks last week against the Arizona Cardinals
and the Packers win his best game so far as
(50:14):
a Packer. Neutralize the all pro pass rusher is going
to be a major key to the Steelers having.
Speaker 3 (50:18):
Success Sunday night.
Speaker 10 (50:20):
Kickoff between The Steelers and Packers is at eight twenty
pm on Tom Opperman with the Steelers Report.
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