October 30, 2025 • 43 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is w Dve Pittsburgh as much as like women
in so many phases of their life, even when you're
a teenager, like you never appreciate what your body looks like.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Even when you're hot, you never appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Right you're you're uncomfortable in your own skin.
Speaker 4 (00:21):
But when I was pregnant and like that belly was
all the way out like Turkey's done, belly buttons popping out,
I never wanted to go to the beach more.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Oh yeah, I was so like.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
This is awesome.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
This is awesome. I am ready to put on a
bikini and be like taking it. I felt so good.
Speaker 5 (00:43):
That's that way, and it's a fair trade off given
that you physically feel like.
Speaker 6 (00:49):
Ass for so much of the time and you're actually
wrecking your body.
Speaker 7 (00:54):
Roy.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
Now that being said, six months after the baby, my
hair fell out.
Speaker 8 (01:00):
I looked like Brandy Bellman and the DV morning show Everyboddy.
Speaker 5 (01:08):
Joe Bartnick is live in studio with us this morning
and anticipation of Tonight's Joe Bartnick and Friends at the Emperor.
Speaker 9 (01:16):
That was me this weekend at the beach in Fort Lauderdale,
sticking my belly out like I just feel great.
Speaker 5 (01:22):
Yeah, you hit the beach in Lauderdale, did you every day?
Speaker 8 (01:26):
Yeah? Absolutely? Oh and it was windy.
Speaker 9 (01:28):
You know when your phone icons will say wind Yeah,
the sea was angry my friends.
Speaker 8 (01:33):
Yeah, it was throwing me around.
Speaker 5 (01:35):
Did you hit that perman he's on on Ocean Boulevard?
There was it Ocean Boulevard, that's right there. I always
forget or Collins. No, No, that's Miami. I've never done
a non four one two. I think that that well.
I will say I've gone to the one in Erie
and I've gone to the one in Gross City, and
they're both legit because I think they can get Mancini bread.
Speaker 6 (01:55):
Say day, Well, this is the problem is that I've
been to a couple in Florida and the bread is
weird different, that's the same.
Speaker 9 (02:03):
I heard there's actually though, like, that's fine as long
as there's still Permanny's. As long as mister Rogers and
Lemieu were on the wall. I've heard that there's Permanny's.
I don't want to talk about it, but I just
heard there's Permantes in other parts of the place of
the country where maybe there's other team stuff.
Speaker 8 (02:18):
Now, is that true?
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Well, I know Baltimore has one, and so I doubt
that they.
Speaker 8 (02:23):
Oh yeah, we're talking about it.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
We did this story about it a couple of years ago.
Speaker 10 (02:28):
But yeah, me like that, you have your Google alert,
said Permanni Brothers goes up.
Speaker 8 (02:39):
You know I should know. Yeah, yeah, I don't know.
I just I wonder.
Speaker 6 (02:43):
I mean, I'll never go to Baltimore in my life,
so I'll never see the inside of that place unless
somebody else.
Speaker 5 (02:49):
If if I if I would have my like caricature
painted on the Eerie store, And I was like, he's
very kind, No, why but he knows me up there.
I haven't been there for I have. I haven't been
there for two and a half decades, you.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Like they asked if you could be on the Pittsburgh One.
Speaker 5 (03:09):
No, I wouldn't do that either. I wouldn't. I'm not
worthy of that. How are you not on the Pittsburgh One? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (03:14):
How are you not?
Speaker 8 (03:15):
Dude?
Speaker 9 (03:15):
Not worthy at all? That's like George Washington turning down
a third term.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (03:23):
Well, I mean that's like my lifetime dream. It's it's
you're not worthy.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Like you determine whether you're worthy.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
You don't.
Speaker 6 (03:31):
Yeah, you don't determine that no you do you say
yes or you know, when you're asked.
Speaker 8 (03:36):
No, you'd say no, I'm not worthy.
Speaker 5 (03:38):
It's like when you get asked to be the pope,
you're supposed to say no, no, no, no, I couldn't be.
Speaker 8 (03:45):
I couldn't be. The Cardinals are like.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
Come on, come on, they have a tickle fight and okay,
I'll do it.
Speaker 9 (03:54):
I think it's word for ste just to be on
the perman wall, to be the pope in organizations, as
as far as that goes. Both fine, yes, storied Italian
franchises anyway, one has a great background and one nuts
so much so when you went to the ones in Florida, though,
bilt you want to Steve Burn? Is that like Steve
(04:15):
Burn like he needs to fix so bad he'll go
get the cut heroin.
Speaker 8 (04:18):
Yeah, he doesn't care traces of it.
Speaker 6 (04:21):
It's like his embassy wherever he is, he wants to
check in there, say hello. He actually tried to fight
the uber driver on our way there, which made it awkward.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
Uh, try Steve tried to fight somebody on the way
there as like an understood part of just about every
story with Steve.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
The guy was saying like the directions go this way.
Speaker 6 (04:41):
Steve had his maps app out, it was saying go
that way.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
They started fighting.
Speaker 6 (04:47):
Next thing, you know, we're on the shoulder of the
freeway walking the opposite way, Uh, to where Steve wanted
to take us. And then we get there and uh,
there's no permanning.
Speaker 9 (04:59):
Steve vote just knows where Primanny's. You know how when
somebody you get in your card, it knows. On Wednesdays
you go to like the studio, it'll just be like
you you're fifteen minutes away from Permandy, Steve. You know what,
I'm glad Primandy's go everywhere because I don't like the
places that pretend are Primanny's. We have a Pittsburgh Sandwich
and we're the Pittsburgh Yeah, so Primane's please take over
the world. Just don't have fly your gear at your
(05:22):
Penn State store. Oh that's what I've heard, Is that not?
Speaker 8 (05:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (05:27):
I don't like it.
Speaker 9 (05:28):
I don't I shouldn't speak because I don't know exactly,
and I'm going to getst my grandmother.
Speaker 8 (05:33):
Don't say all right, you don't know.
Speaker 9 (05:34):
I know my friend Mike's listening right now, and you
got to do a little digging for Meddy. Maybe someone
from Philly just stuck it in there just to stick
it to us.
Speaker 6 (05:42):
Yep, you got you got a ton of Philly fans
in Penn State.
Speaker 5 (05:48):
Make some calls, might figure out what's going on up
there and change it.
Speaker 9 (05:52):
We're gonna put Randy's face over the gritty.
Speaker 8 (05:56):
Here's what I hate.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Rand's head on gritty.
Speaker 5 (05:59):
What I hate is that I hate gritty, or that
I love gritty, rather like I think gritty hilarious.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
It's very funny that she wasn't.
Speaker 9 (06:07):
I think that's how horrible are franchise is they have
to promote their mess. It's like it's like the pirate
pair being the best. Well, I guess he is the best.
Pirate does do the gritty cell blow on the side too.
Speaker 8 (06:19):
I don't know, it looks like it.
Speaker 6 (06:21):
It looks like, yeah, like he's done a bunch.
Speaker 5 (06:24):
Yeah. Joe Bartnick tonight at the Improval Times. That show
start probably seven, right, Jeff Conkole, Mike's Idell on the bill, Yeah,
Marcus Cock. Marcus love that kid like he's my first call.
All right, Abby's got a news update. Now, what's up?
Speaker 3 (06:39):
News?
Speaker 4 (06:39):
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Speaker 2 (06:46):
Is a high of fifty two.
Speaker 8 (06:47):
This story is so wild.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
It was like I was playing mad libs, so I
just wanted to throw it out at you.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
A woman issuing SeaWorld after a duck hit her in
the face while she rode a high speed roller coaster. WFTV,
which is an Orlando news station, reported that the woman
is seeking fifty thousand dollars for the incident that happened
in March. She was riding a roller coaster and a
duck flew into the path of the car, hitting her
(07:14):
in the face, knocking her unconscious.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
The woman, who was not identified, claims.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
That SeaWorld should have warned about dangerous conditions before she
got on the coaster.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
They did.
Speaker 11 (07:26):
Everyone was like, duck, yeah, Your attorneys wrote in the
legal filing that the theme park created a zone of danger.
Speaker 5 (07:40):
Is that where the turned duck came from? Do you
think people were bending down to get out of the
way of ducks?
Speaker 2 (07:46):
It makes sense, right, duck?
Speaker 5 (07:48):
And then eventually, like, what is that action called when
you bend down like that to avoid the ducks, swan,
get out here, Larry Duck.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
This is an interesting position for the attorneys today. They
said that the theme park created a zone of danger
for bird strikes due to placing the roll the coaster
over or near a body of water, which creates a
higher risk of bird strikes involving ducks, gulls, geese and
other watch or foul duck.
Speaker 5 (08:22):
Yeah, it comes from the old English duke and that
meant to, you know, duck dive or put up your dukes.
Speaker 12 (08:32):
Ye.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Fabio is the only other one that I've ever heard.
Speaker 5 (08:41):
This happened to one of the funniest ever because the
look on Fabio's face is I never thought I'd see
a sad Fabio.
Speaker 8 (08:46):
Sad Fabio was hilarious.
Speaker 5 (08:49):
He did not want to kill that bird, and his
nose really hurt.
Speaker 12 (08:53):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Yeah, well didn't his nose get jacked totally?
Speaker 8 (08:57):
Yeah, he broke the top the ridge of the no
fabit was it a roller coaster?
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (09:04):
He likes fun, it's not all romance.
Speaker 9 (09:09):
He brings his sword on his hair. His hair is
already blowing.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
Back, but he's covered in hair behind him. He's sixty
six years old. He lives in Milan, now bird to
the face.
Speaker 6 (09:20):
I guarantee you every single one of his friends texted
him this story.
Speaker 8 (09:25):
Oh yeah, he never hears the end of that anytime
there's bird news.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
I wonder if he had a lawsuit for that.
Speaker 9 (09:32):
It's good luck. If he could hit by a bird
in the face, right, that's another attack can say.
Speaker 5 (09:38):
He did an interview last year on the twenty fifth
anniversary of that happening.
Speaker 8 (09:44):
I tell you it was a miracle.
Speaker 5 (09:47):
I know that for a goose, for anything to hit
you at the like eighty miles an hour and leave
you with just a stitch, I'm telling you it's a
freaking miracle.
Speaker 8 (09:56):
And because of that day, I began living life to
the full.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
List, knowing at any moment.
Speaker 5 (10:04):
His dun friends are coming to get me. I could
turn a corner like he's running from the mob. He's
just trying to get away from the rest of the flock.
Speaker 6 (10:14):
Yeah, there's no way that you ever get on a
roller coaster in your life and imagine that that's on
the table.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
No, just a goose to the face.
Speaker 8 (10:26):
He said.
Speaker 5 (10:27):
It wasn't a bird. He said, everyone said it's a bird,
but it was a piece of metal. No, I don't know,
the videotape disappeared, he claims, and it really shows that
he got hit by a piece of metal. That because
I think it's the first run of that roller coaster.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Really.
Speaker 5 (10:47):
Yeah, it was like the inaugural run and they're like,
oh look we got Fabio in the front road. He
comes out, he's all bloody, and everyone's like he got
hit by a goost.
Speaker 8 (10:54):
He was metal.
Speaker 9 (10:56):
That's like SeaWorld just trying to do too much, you know,
like the Kissing Shamoo wasn't enough. You have to build
some roller coaster to bring in the kids.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Yeah, what are we doing?
Speaker 2 (11:05):
I didn't even know SeaWorld was still functioning.
Speaker 6 (11:09):
No, I thought they were getting shut down, or at
least maybe they have to get rid of all of
the whales.
Speaker 5 (11:14):
After the Blackwater documentary. I thought they got pretty much housed.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
I did too well.
Speaker 5 (11:20):
I'll tell you what. When I was a kid, I went.
I loved it so much. They had one in an Aroura, Ohio.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Yeah that's the one I went to as a kid.
Speaker 5 (11:27):
Yeah, and you were just like, oh my god, whale
Like seeing Shamoo was like the coolest thing when you
were a kid.
Speaker 9 (11:35):
And then some would kiss shamoo. Yeah, and then Pete
Lee got to be Batman and water ski yeah, yeah, yeah,
he was a water skier at Sea World.
Speaker 8 (11:47):
He was dude, Pete Lee has lived nine lives.
Speaker 5 (11:51):
Yeah, that dude has so many stories that not one
person should not have those kinds of stories next to
each other.
Speaker 8 (12:01):
Now, they're they're.
Speaker 5 (12:02):
Unbelievable in and of themselves, and the next one is
so unrelated to the first one and also unbelievable. It's
impossible to think that this is really the same person
telling these stories. And you know he was like a
martial arts expert on top of that, right right, yeah,
And he's like the softest spoken, nicest, sweetest Midwestern guy
(12:22):
in the world.
Speaker 9 (12:23):
But he's also a killer stone cold killer, stone cold killer,
stone cold, great comic, the nicest guy in the world.
Speaker 8 (12:30):
But yeah, but who would think he water skied.
Speaker 9 (12:34):
At a professional like I could do a pyramid as Batman?
Speaker 8 (12:38):
It's Sea World. He's so funny.
Speaker 5 (12:41):
He was so funny at the DV Comedy Fest this year.
He hates Aaron Rodgers as a Packers fan, and so,
I mean he said the funniest thing ever. Remember we
were crying. Oh yeah, oh he roasted me. I love
being roasted too, so fun.
Speaker 9 (12:57):
No what he said, that is Pittsburgh, you guys, until
you got to drive?
Speaker 3 (13:06):
Oh yeah, he off at the end of that show.
Speaker 8 (13:08):
He did, he did? Ye, yeah right, we love that.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
When it comes to Halloween, there are two kinds of.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
People, those who think it is getting too intense and
those who think it's, you know.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
A little too safe.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
But there's a new article in the New York Times
that asks have Halloween decorations become too scary. It mentions
things like skelly, the huge Halloween skeletons that have been
popping up, along with very lifelike witches and demons, realistic
blood and gore. They talk to some parents who have
young kids who like the classic Halloween imagery like pumpkins, witches, ghosts, spiders,
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and skeletons, and they feel like today's dismembered bodies, moving, speaking,
and gesturing props are a little too disturbing. So there
are also neighbors who complain about the decorations in their
neighborhood being maybe too violent and unsettlings. But some adults
even admit that they have been rattled by some of
the more modern decorations.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
So what do you say you about things in your neighborhood.
Speaker 5 (14:12):
They look like they're on par with stuff from like
in early eighties John Carpenter movie. Yeah, yeah, like in
the thing where the head gets cut off and then
its tongue comes out and goes out and like drags
itself by the tongue across the floor. Yeah yeah, yeah,
like you see stuff like that in people's yards now.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (14:33):
Yeah, that's why people spend so much money on Halloween.
Like when she does news stories about the amount of
money people are spending like thousands of dollars on their
yard decorations, that never was a thing.
Speaker 9 (14:44):
In the candy oh by a thirty pack, it's like
forty five dollars.
Speaker 8 (14:48):
Yeah, for like the smallest ones. It was the kids
ach your house over.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Also where are you storing all of it?
Speaker 4 (14:56):
Because so the last weekend we were kind of talking
about also whether this was like an etiquette faux pas
or not. Last weekend, friends had their neighborhoods Halloween. For
whatever reason, their neighborhood was not doing Halloween this weekend.
I think it was like for sports or something like that,
and they have like a nice neighborhood with like many
(15:16):
many little catacombs, and so I'm like, hey, bonus, Halloween,
We're going to their neighborhood. But their neighborhood was like intense,
and they had some yards where these people had it
almost looked like their yards were haunted houses where they
had like you know, some gigantic like barlow looking, you know,
creature next to something that was completely dismembered. I was
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surprised that Edie was almost unfazed by all of these things,
like moving around and screaming and all that kind of stuff.
But at one point I asked, like my friend, I'm like,
why is people put this stuff year round? Like do
they have an extra storage space, because like I'm looking
at the.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Yard, I don't know what they do for Christmas or whatever,
but like this is like tens of thousands of dollars.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
You have animatronics, electricity.
Speaker 9 (16:05):
Rich people live differently than us, because we used to
live adjacent to a rich neighborhood and they would have
like crews of Mexicans come in and do Halloween.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
Christmas too.
Speaker 6 (16:19):
Yeah, it's like they come with a dump truck and
put your whole house up right.
Speaker 9 (16:23):
And like there was like fifteen houses where and you
get like the real snickers, Like it's incredible snickers.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (16:32):
I love the big skeletons though. Why the guy next
door to us, Uh, he used to keep his up
all year round and then decorate it to the different holidays.
Speaker 8 (16:38):
What a my neighborhood does. Yeah, that's what.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
You have to do because you you have no storage.
Speaker 6 (16:43):
There's nowhere in anybody's house to store a twenty foot skeleton.
Speaker 5 (16:47):
I like the ones where that are coming out of
the ground. Oh yeah, those are kind of cool.
Speaker 6 (16:51):
I'm digging all the new lights and stuff, like the
flare that people are putting out in their yard.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
And I know Gardell like this is not his month.
He doesn't like Calloween. I am. I'm loving it.
Speaker 6 (17:02):
Yeah, Like people are going all out now and I
just don't remember that. I remember a couple of people
putting like, you know, a weird cat in the window
or something like.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
There was a couple things. It's not like a full
blown display.
Speaker 5 (17:16):
This is gonna sound dumb, but it's like technological advancements
made it easy to come up with toys that people like,
and they quickly found a willingness for people to put
things in their yard on Halloween that didn't exist because
they didn't want it. Like the blow ups, people are
lukewarm on that. You got little kids really to do that,
But the animatronic stuff, now you've really tapped into horror
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fans who want to have cool stuff around for Halloween,
and they'll.
Speaker 8 (17:44):
Spend money on it, man, like a lot of money.
Speaker 5 (17:48):
I would venture to guess it won't be long before
Halloween decorations get very close to the amount of money
we spent on Christmas bake decorations.
Speaker 9 (17:58):
That is a great place, because I think it's becoming
the anti Christmas. I think people are so against whatever
Christmas stands for in this country that they're going bigger
on Halloween, like especially in California, where there's be.
Speaker 5 (18:12):
Like commercialism of it all, or like I they don't
like that gee thing.
Speaker 9 (18:17):
Yes, I think everything like California is always first in
this country, and I think it started there where it's
just kind of like, we don't do Christmas, we don't
have families, we don't care about people, we're selfish. Let's
go all out on Halloween.
Speaker 6 (18:31):
See that makes me think that it's all part of
like some billionaire's plan to just get us to buy
more stuff for Halloween. Yeah, like, let's create this fake
war so that we can really drum up the people
getting one more.
Speaker 5 (18:44):
That's the kind of billionaire I would be. Everyone else
would be like talking about starlink and things like that,
and I'd be like, what if we made them by ghosts?
Speaker 8 (18:51):
Like they move around?
Speaker 9 (18:52):
Like I think Halloween's for kids, Like I love handing
out candy to kids, But you.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
Have to be careful when you say, well, love Halloween.
Speaker 8 (19:05):
My dogs love it, like my wife fan.
Speaker 9 (19:08):
But you know, like kind of Halloween has been overtaken
by this single people without kids crowd right, definitely, kind
of like the gaze have kind of taken.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
I knew we would get there.
Speaker 8 (19:23):
The games have co opted Halloween, Yes, I do have.
Speaker 5 (19:27):
The gays co opted Halloween because they like dressing up,
but they have the big parties.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
I'm not saying anything.
Speaker 9 (19:34):
Wrong with the jerry their holiday.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Okay, why.
Speaker 8 (19:45):
They're spoky.
Speaker 5 (19:49):
They like dressing up, having parties. You don't go to
too many adult Telloween parties anymore. You know, it was
the last time you dressed up? And what was it?
Speaker 9 (19:58):
Honestly, I got team owned at the corner of Murray
and Squirrel Hill and had to spend the night in
the hospital.
Speaker 8 (20:05):
I was dressed up as a nurse.
Speaker 5 (20:07):
Yes, you weredressed up as a nurse and dressed up
as a nurse. Yes, it was not a you know,
it was the nineties. I could have been anything.
Speaker 8 (20:18):
Sounds like.
Speaker 9 (20:24):
The games have co opted. Yeah, I'm not a good
looking woman. I'm a decent man, but no, I was
a nurse.
Speaker 8 (20:34):
Yeah. They thought that they got the biggest kid.
Speaker 9 (20:35):
Yeah, I was like life not life flight, but they
it was a big helicopter, couldn't carry you. Yeah, it
was a little bigger than Actually it was your life dragged.
It was I don't remember, but basically, Fred's grateful dead.
Just Cassette saved my life. I did the car from
the inside out that we got hit so hard.
Speaker 8 (20:57):
Oh my god. Yeah, we got crushed. Murray informs.
Speaker 9 (21:00):
Yeah, a drunk driving chick crushed us, ran through ran
a red light and crushed us.
Speaker 8 (21:08):
Well, everybody's okay, was okay?
Speaker 9 (21:10):
Yeah, I mean I still I still have back issues, obviously,
but you know, I never maybe who knows wearing a
nurse's outfit for cross dressing kids.
Speaker 8 (21:22):
We were talking about.
Speaker 5 (21:25):
We're talking about this yesterday getting in an accident in costume.
Kirsty Alley's parents were killed in a car accident. And
what were they dressed as for Halloween?
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Her dad was.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
Dressed she was her mom was in black face, and
her dad was dressed as a ku Klux Klan and
they've gotten a fatal car crash.
Speaker 8 (21:47):
They died, yes, wearing it. It's like.
Speaker 5 (21:53):
You can't get canceled after your dad, right, Like my
wife kind of canceled them.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
I think somebody canceled them, but.
Speaker 8 (22:00):
He was ashy.
Speaker 5 (22:02):
Joe Bartnick's going to be at the improv tonight. Go
check him out. It's Joe Barneck and friends. Mister Wednesday.
Jeff Conko will be there, Mike Saidell, Marcus Spears and more.
Marcus Spears Cox. Marcus Spears is on ESPN. If he
was there, that would be a coup. Merril Hodge is
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Speaker 7 (22:55):
Yesterday, guys, Aaron Rodgers did his weekly Wednesday media set
and it was another one of those days where he
felt like sharing some of the perspective he's gleaned over
twenty one NFL seasons and at forty one years of age.
And some of the best stuff, at least from where
I was standing, had to do with how Rogers was
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talking about Roman Wilson, the second year receiver lost his
rookie year to injury. He's trying to break in, trying
to become relevant, and he actually had himself a game
Sunday night against Green Bay. A lot a lot went
wrong for the Steelers, but Roman Wilson four catches on
five targets seventy four yards. He averaged eighteen point five
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A catch, and he caught his first receiving TD. Rogers
let us know yesterday he thought Wilson might show up
based against Green Bay, and when he talked about that,
he was talking about practice, like at to a rooman.
Speaker 13 (23:52):
You know, I thought he was going to have a
good week to start the week, and I told him
last Wednesday, said it's going to.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
Be your week.
Speaker 13 (23:59):
This week just kind of feeling and then Thursday is
best practice of the season. So and even in that
there was still three or four real coachable moments. So,
you know, I told ro you know, I've liked him
since the first time we got to know each other
out in Malibu, and I told him back then, I'm
going to coach you to your potential, not to what
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I'm seeing.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
So I'm gonna hold him to a high standard.
Speaker 13 (24:23):
And I was really proud of him in the game
for the couple of reaction plays that he made. And
we just need to see consistency from him. But it
starts in practice, and I thought Thursday was a really
good practice for him, and today he had another nice practice.
Speaker 7 (24:37):
And it's interesting when Rogers evaluates practice, he's not talking
about a bunch of practice catches to Rogers. That would
be the wrong way to go about it.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
But no, don't.
Speaker 13 (24:49):
I think that's a misnomer because every play is watched
from practice, So it's the attention to detail on the routes.
I think that's that's sometimes lost. You might even in
a game situation, you might get so enamored with what
a guy's doing, who's around the ball getting to target.
But a lot of times things that happen in the
succeeding weeks are because of things you've seen on film
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on the backside of plays where guy's not getting the
ball and you see the detail and the craft and
the routes the other day. You know, he got the
ball on Thursday and a number of plays and that
was positive, but you know, there were some other routes
on the backside we didn't get the ball where you
started to see some of the craft that show up,
some of the detail and the routes. That gives you
confidence that you can trust them, and so that's what
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it is. Also there were some correctable things. So what
I really like is attitude. You know, I think of
all the guys you know, who we expected to make
an impact starting the season, you know, especially him, and
pat to not get off to the most explosive starts,
but the never once have a negative day energy wise,
attitude wise, is a credit to both of those guys.
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I'm really proud of both of them.
Speaker 7 (26:00):
It's amazing and wow, you think some of the things
that Roman Wilson did yesterday might show up two games
from now. But it's all about, as Rogers said, you've
got to prove you're trustable. You got to run your
out and do your job and execute it with precision
and detail.
Speaker 8 (26:16):
And maybe you don't get the ball.
Speaker 7 (26:18):
But when he sees out on film, when they go
over the practice tape, he knows if he calls a
certain play, all right, well, if this isn't there, that
will be and he can trust it that what these
young receivers must be gleaming gleaning from Aaron Rodgers is remarkable.
And how that's going to impact the Steelers after Rogers leaves,
whether that's after this year, or he's teaching him how
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to be a pro, teaching him how to be a pro.
Speaker 6 (26:42):
I mean, if he looked at any of the tape
and saw what Pickens was doing when he wasn't getting
the ball, He's like get rid of this guy, but.
Speaker 7 (26:49):
I'm not dealing with this. It's pretty remarkable stuff. And
Rogers willing to do this kind of thing at forty
one years old and twenty one years in career. There's
two reasons for that. One, he thinks that's what he's
supposed to be doing at this stage of the game.
And number two, it benefits Rogers as well as Roman Wilson.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
This is part of leadership.
Speaker 13 (27:14):
Also, I don't want to throw to a guy that
I haven't seen him consistently make the plays that I'm
expecting him to make. And there's a lot of conversations
going on as position coach is offense coordinator, But in
the end, it's the conversation that him and I have
that are most important, because he needs to see the
game through my eyes and if I can make an
impact on him and Calvin and some of the young guys,
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that's pretty special.
Speaker 5 (27:38):
As I move on, did you guys happen to see
the clip of the podcast John who was on this week?
Speaker 3 (27:45):
I saw some clip of him talking.
Speaker 5 (27:47):
He's talking about Rogers and he said, there's a play
Rogers gets flushed out and so he goes into the
scramble drill and he starts running back towards Rogers, trying to,
you know, make a.
Speaker 8 (27:59):
Play on the other side. So he's he gets fleshed
out to the left. John who's on the right side
of the.
Speaker 5 (28:03):
Field, backtracks scrambled drill, trying to get closer to the
quarterback and make a play for him. After that play,
he said, Aaron Rodgers said to him, what are you doing?
Speaker 8 (28:13):
Keep going?
Speaker 5 (28:14):
He's like, what do you mean, Keep going? He goes,
I can make that throw. Keep going, Like, don't come
back to me. If you would have kept flying, I
can hit you. And he's like, you can hit me
from there, Like the guy.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
Still has see the arm and.
Speaker 8 (28:32):
But he's throwing.
Speaker 14 (28:33):
He's talking to the tight end about throwing from the
left side of the field across the field to the
right sideline to hit his You know, he can.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
See him, he can see where he's going.
Speaker 6 (28:47):
He can hear Micah Parsons behind him, the way he well, he.
Speaker 8 (28:50):
Didn't hear Michael Parker crowd.
Speaker 7 (28:52):
Yeah, the way he processes of the crowd and applies.
It's just it's so professional and it's so special and
they're in real danger of wasting it.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (29:04):
Yeah, let's hope not. Let's hope not. I think it's
a big win this Sunday.
Speaker 5 (29:06):
I'm feeling very good about it, feeling very confident about
the Steelers beating the Colts on Sunday, because, yeah, you
want to know why the.
Speaker 8 (29:16):
Cults are doing to lose? I mean, that's all there is.
Just like the Washington Generals.
Speaker 7 (29:19):
I mean, they're just they're just out, They're spitting the
ball on their fingers.
Speaker 8 (29:23):
Just take it.
Speaker 5 (29:24):
You bet on the Washington Generals, I thought they were dude.
Speaker 8 (29:30):
You watch the Colts on tape.
Speaker 7 (29:31):
Daniel Jones has to wake up every morning and just
pause and say, I can't believe where I ended up
like that.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
I'm in this situation layover in Minnesota.
Speaker 8 (29:41):
I had to go through all that crash. Guys laughed
at me when I mentioned I liked him.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
I liked him and Darnold.
Speaker 7 (29:49):
But you know this is this is kind of a
way down the road discussion. But one of the revelations
of this season is these kind of discarded quarterback our
commodities say, in this mind, if you can find the
right one, it doesn't have to be traded up into
the top ten and draft the rookies that's my fight.
Speaker 8 (30:08):
Let somebody else break them in. Yeah, get the second marriage.
They figured everything out. They're a little more grateful, bitchy.
Oh wow, oh god, Okay, grateful. No, I'm just saying,
I really thanks for bringing home the bacon. It means
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a lot.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
I'm so lucky.
Speaker 9 (30:32):
Flatio what I mean, I thought you, well, let's enjoy it.
Speaker 7 (30:37):
I know you didn't take out the garbage, but that's
a little thing, and the big picture were good.
Speaker 5 (30:41):
Okay, I forgive anything. It's not making everything into a
it's not all. Everything's not a test and a referendum.
That's what I was trying to sounds sounds like a
personal thing.
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Speaker 3 (32:41):
Ladies and gentlemen, what's up, Meryl?
Speaker 8 (32:45):
Always great energy, always great energy. I love it.
Speaker 5 (32:48):
Well, you know, we're getting set for the big game,
one o'clock kickoff between the Steelers and the Colts.
Speaker 8 (32:52):
Yeah, it really looks good. A lot of favorable matchups
on this one. I think. All right, well, hey hold
on here, we just had two bad games in a.
Speaker 5 (32:58):
Row, and I don't think it's that big of a deal.
Speaker 8 (33:07):
All right. So well, my first question to you, Merrill,
is where's TJ. Watt gone?
Speaker 12 (33:14):
Well, listen, in all fairness, everybody tries to take care
of him each and every week. I'm just down here.
They occupy and listen, you occupy people. Look TJ Wat's
going to take two or three people. Okay, that right
there is neutralizing an offense. So somebody has to elevate
their game or do something to offset that. You know,
(33:38):
I will say this, he didn't play the best game.
You're actually as a whole, they lost contained.
Speaker 8 (33:43):
You know.
Speaker 12 (33:44):
I don't know people know what that means, but when
you're the outside defender, you can't let a run get
outside you. And they did a bad job. I mean
all of them, not just TJ Watt, but TJ Watt
had his mistakes. They let a lot of runs get
outside contained.
Speaker 8 (33:59):
They lost contained, and.
Speaker 12 (34:01):
Almost like the packers attacked that a little bit like
they noticed it, you know, actually because they just did
it too many times, you know.
Speaker 8 (34:08):
I mean, I can I see how maybe in a
game where.
Speaker 12 (34:10):
Something starts unfolding, which has happened before, you're like, oh, cow,
pull a cow. They're not doing it, they're not playing contained,
so let's start doing that. But it almost seemed like
they went right after it, and then the Steers never
got adjusted to it. You know.
Speaker 8 (34:24):
Well, you know, listen, TJ.
Speaker 12 (34:26):
Watt does his job as good as anybody, but I
think this year I've seen more more emphasis to neutralize
him than ever before. I mean with two or three people.
I mean they widen the formation to him, they chip
a running back, they then run a tight end through him,
and then they have a tackle waiting for him. Well,
I mean, I'm just gonna tell you this. When they
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do that, he still has times where he gets close
to the quarterback. When they don't do that, he's always
at the quarterback. And that's why they do it. They
just they're not gonna allow him to do it.
Speaker 5 (34:57):
Why do you think Arthur Smith got away from the
run in the set in half against the Packers?
Speaker 12 (35:03):
I don't know it was effective, you know, yeah, yeah,
they're you know, the the way they're running the football,
the way they're running on the perimeter, their pitch plays,
their man blocking schemes, the combination of it all is
has been effective. I completely agree with you. You know, I
don't know why they got away with it are away
(35:25):
from it. And sometimes that can happen because of who's
your quarterback, you know, because he is so good, you know,
and you and you and you trust.
Speaker 8 (35:32):
His abilities, uh to make plays for you.
Speaker 12 (35:37):
But you know, there's two things that actually happened in
that game.
Speaker 8 (35:40):
That are that could have went the other way when
they had.
Speaker 12 (35:43):
That that hit on Love and the ball the tied
end ended up catching it. Hurt on, yes, and Elliott
gets hurt on.
Speaker 3 (35:53):
I'm like that.
Speaker 8 (35:53):
That that to me. To me, okay, that was the
biggest play of the game. I like see that.
Speaker 12 (35:57):
There's plays like that where anytime you actually hit a
quarterbacks in Super Bowls is That's exactly how the Titans
lost the game against the Rams.
Speaker 8 (36:07):
They hit Kurt Warner. If they wouldn't have hit.
Speaker 12 (36:09):
Kurt Warner, they would have probably won that Super Bowl.
I just think I can give you a litany of
times a quarterback has been hit but been able to
get rid of the football and the offense always catches
the ball because they have eyes on the ball. Defenders
usually they do not, and they can react much quicker.
So that happened against the Bears and Colts gave me
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the Bears lost. I mean, it almost happens every week
where a quarterback gets hit. The balls under thrown, offense
always wins. And if I saw that play, I was like,
ah man. And then when they threw that one in
the middle of the field, that's huge play where you
have three defenders and neither one of them can get
to it. Because that's a Jordan love. It's still kind
of one of his flaws, like he'll make he'll gamble
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on a throw that you just don't need to based
on where he is in the game. You know, in
the playoff game, when they're still two minutes left and
he's in San Francisco and he's running to the right
and he throws it right in the middle of the field.
It's like third down. You're like, why not third down?
You get two minutes, don't do it now now with
three seconds? Yeah, but not not two minutes. And they
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caught it, you know, And I was like yeah, and
then they, I don't know.
Speaker 8 (37:23):
Too technical man, dumb it up a little for it.
Speaker 10 (37:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 12 (37:26):
Yeah, but you're going into this, going into this game.
Speaker 8 (37:31):
I uh yeah.
Speaker 12 (37:32):
Here's what I do love about the Packers, which it
was going to be a problem, and I actually love.
Speaker 8 (37:36):
I mean, I'd like to study it because they do
such a good job.
Speaker 12 (37:40):
People probably wouldn't notice it as much, but they run
a bunch of screens, you know, they're they're one man
screens like we think of a traditional screen. I think
everybody know what the screenplay is you know, your offs
line leaks out, your back sneaks out, and then you
dump them the ball.
Speaker 8 (37:54):
That's a traditional screen.
Speaker 12 (37:56):
These guys run these tight end screens where they'll run
them out to the flat, but I already got two
defenders ready to block.
Speaker 8 (38:01):
They're not running route. They're blocking.
Speaker 12 (38:04):
Or they'll have one back release and the other black
backflare and they'll throw the back of all another screen
to let They did so many screens that were effective,
and and they they knew that we struggled with identifying
our personnel and when you bunch people up, you put
three people together and then you release them different ways
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to our linebackers struggle with that at times, and they
got us a few times on that. One of them
I think was even for a touchdown. But they you know,
those guys are gonna have to get better at that,
because the Colts do a little bit of that, not
quite as much, but they do a little bit of it.
Speaker 7 (38:41):
Now, are the Colts a really good defense or are
they to a degree the beneficiaries of always playing with
a double digit lead wet.
Speaker 8 (38:50):
Thing these combinations. Listen, I do believe this is true.
In the end of the year.
Speaker 12 (38:56):
Statistically, the best defense in football plays the last us
the amount of snaps. It's I think it's almost true
the best defense does. But I don't think the best
defense has ever played the most snaps during the season.
I think I don't think that's ever happened. But tonight
you can correct me if I'm wrong. But I think
it's almost true. So their offense, obviously, you know, controls
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the game, so that that truly helps them. But I'll
tell you this one thing that you'll notice about them,
Like they don't make mistakes, man, and everybody gets to
the ball like it is, and they got a really
good defensive line. They I mean, they are buttoned up,
like it gets hard to make mistakes.
Speaker 8 (39:38):
They make very few mistakes.
Speaker 12 (39:40):
If you go throughout a course of the game and
watch them weekend, we d like, nah, maybe you saw
a couple of mistakes they may have made, but they
don't hurt themselves. Like they do not do anything to
give you anything. They get to the ball, they play
sounds smart. Then they do some things thematically that are
a problem too you, so they don't mind.
Speaker 8 (40:01):
They just play on the nail end just like Okay,
we're good.
Speaker 12 (40:04):
I mean they are buttoned up and they are sound
and they're complete, but they do some things they can
create a lot of problems to.
Speaker 6 (40:11):
How scared should we be of this offense? Merrow, because
from the running back to Danny Dimes finding new life,
to the receivers to the tight end, it seems like
they do everything really well.
Speaker 3 (40:23):
Forgot the Steelers? Yeah, oh yeah, and the line.
Speaker 8 (40:28):
Well that's that's where I start there.
Speaker 12 (40:30):
They're pretty dang good. I mean, that's a concerns. That's
not a mystery. I'm not telling you anything. You're like, oh,
you're never gonna hear that?
Speaker 8 (40:39):
Allis?
Speaker 12 (40:39):
I mean they are wicked and they here's what makes
them great. I mean and this look this honestly, what
helps this will if you're gonna be a champion, These
are the things you have to do. Like you hear like,
what do you hear? All they run the ball well? Well,
what does that mean? I mean that does that? Doesn't
tell me anything? Okay, when you run the ball well
and you have a lot of phases, So you're a
strong side running team, yes?
Speaker 8 (41:01):
Are they weak side running team? Yes? Are they outside
running team? Yes?
Speaker 12 (41:06):
Are they? Are they a north of South? Are they
a screen team. Are they a draw team? Yes, they
can do all these things, and you got to defend
all of that. And then the guy who's had in
the football to them, are they having the football too?
Like to get that guy down is a problem. I
mean he's got are you talking about strength? Balanced speed?
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I mean elusiveness? I mean he has and he's a
wise runner too. Now, I mean he's a wise runner.
You know, it's that's kind of a hard one to explain.
But people that I mean, like good NFL runners, man,
they're patient, they press the whole. When I say that,
they create big running lanes and they create more opportunities
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for him because they know how to do it.
Speaker 8 (41:52):
You know, they just don't go a run up there
and hit the whole. The are wise or he is
a wise runner, man.
Speaker 12 (41:57):
And and when he and just make one mistake, have
somebody just not being their gap? Because I would say
this all week, you got I'm sure they're talking about this. Listen,
Get in your gap, Okay. If he's going to the
left away from you, and your gap is like eight
gaps away from where he's going, getting your gap and
stay in your gap because he's coming to your gap.
There's a chance to come to your gap, and you
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got you got to tell people that.
Speaker 8 (42:21):
You get, you take over your gap and don't leave
your gap.
Speaker 12 (42:27):
I just it's I'm telling you this that type of
runner that you just cannot make a mistake on.
Speaker 8 (42:31):
And you know he finds it.
Speaker 12 (42:33):
I mean, but he's what he's done all year is
just it's almost like every big run he's had. I mean,
then they made big holes for him too. There's times
where they just they just mall people and move people,
and they have all different ways to run the ball too.
It's just terrifying.
Speaker 5 (42:46):
May we're running really late. But I just want to
ask you one thing, and really quickly. How bad does
Darius Slay's Ola Savi on Williams go over in the
locker room when he just avoids tackling him and lets
them waltz into the end zone.
Speaker 12 (43:04):
Listen, I those type of things. I just don't even
know how you go And here's what I do. I
what disturbs means. How do you go in your meeting
room with your peers and watch it? You know, it's
it's not what's going all large. When I got to
sit down with my peers, I just never understood that.
Speaker 8 (43:22):
I just honestly, I didn't even know.
Speaker 3 (43:25):
I have.
Speaker 8 (43:26):
I've never been there.
Speaker 12 (43:28):
Then I'm glad for that, because that's that's not how
you play football.
Speaker 8 (43:31):
Oh it is not.
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That was me this weekend at the beach in Fort Lauderdale,
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Speaker 8 (01:26):
Yeah? Absolutely? Oh and it was windy.
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You know when your phone icons will say wind Yeah,
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Speaker 8 (01:33):
Yeah, it was throwing me around.
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There was it Ocean Boulevard, that's right there. I always
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Say day, Well, this is the problem is that I've
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Speaker 9 (02:03):
I heard there's actually though, like, that's fine as long
as there's still Permanny's. As long as mister Rogers and
Lemieu were on the wall. I've heard that there's Permanny's.
I don't want to talk about it, but I just
heard there's Permantes in other parts of the place of
the country where maybe there's other team stuff.
Speaker 8 (02:18):
Now, is that true?
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Well, I know Baltimore has one, and so I doubt
that they.
Speaker 8 (02:23):
Oh yeah, we're talking about it.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
We did this story about it a couple of years ago.
Speaker 10 (02:28):
But yeah, me like that, you have your Google alert,
said Permanni Brothers goes up.
Speaker 8 (02:39):
You know I should know. Yeah, yeah, I don't know.
I just I wonder.
Speaker 6 (02:43):
I mean, I'll never go to Baltimore in my life,
so I'll never see the inside of that place unless
somebody else.
Speaker 5 (02:49):
If if I if I would have my like caricature
painted on the Eerie store, And I was like, he's
very kind, No, why but he knows me up there.
I haven't been there for I have. I haven't been
there for two and a half decades, you.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Like they asked if you could be on the Pittsburgh One.
Speaker 5 (03:09):
No, I wouldn't do that either. I wouldn't. I'm not
worthy of that. How are you not on the Pittsburgh One? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (03:14):
How are you not?
Speaker 8 (03:15):
Dude?
Speaker 9 (03:15):
Not worthy at all? That's like George Washington turning down
a third term.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (03:23):
Well, I mean that's like my lifetime dream. It's it's
you're not worthy.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Like you determine whether you're worthy.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
You don't.
Speaker 6 (03:31):
Yeah, you don't determine that no you do you say
yes or you know, when you're asked.
Speaker 8 (03:36):
No, you'd say no, I'm not worthy.
Speaker 5 (03:38):
It's like when you get asked to be the pope,
you're supposed to say no, no, no, no, I couldn't be.
Speaker 8 (03:45):
I couldn't be. The Cardinals are like.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
Come on, come on, they have a tickle fight and okay,
I'll do it.
Speaker 9 (03:54):
I think it's word for ste just to be on
the perman wall, to be the pope in organizations, as
as far as that goes. Both fine, yes, storied Italian
franchises anyway, one has a great background and one nuts
so much so when you went to the ones in Florida, though,
bilt you want to Steve Burn? Is that like Steve
(04:15):
Burn like he needs to fix so bad he'll go
get the cut heroin.
Speaker 8 (04:18):
Yeah, he doesn't care traces of it.
Speaker 6 (04:21):
It's like his embassy wherever he is, he wants to
check in there, say hello. He actually tried to fight
the uber driver on our way there, which made it awkward.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
Uh, try Steve tried to fight somebody on the way
there as like an understood part of just about every
story with Steve.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
The guy was saying like the directions go this way.
Speaker 6 (04:41):
Steve had his maps app out, it was saying go
that way.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
They started fighting.
Speaker 6 (04:47):
Next thing, you know, we're on the shoulder of the
freeway walking the opposite way, Uh, to where Steve wanted
to take us. And then we get there and uh,
there's no permanning.
Speaker 9 (04:59):
Steve vote just knows where Primanny's. You know how when
somebody you get in your card, it knows. On Wednesdays
you go to like the studio, it'll just be like
you you're fifteen minutes away from Permandy, Steve. You know what,
I'm glad Primandy's go everywhere because I don't like the
places that pretend are Primanny's. We have a Pittsburgh Sandwich
and we're the Pittsburgh Yeah, so Primane's please take over
the world. Just don't have fly your gear at your
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Penn State store. Oh that's what I've heard, Is that not?
Speaker 8 (05:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (05:27):
I don't like it.
Speaker 9 (05:28):
I don't I shouldn't speak because I don't know exactly,
and I'm going to getst my grandmother.
Speaker 8 (05:33):
Don't say all right, you don't know.
Speaker 9 (05:34):
I know my friend Mike's listening right now, and you
got to do a little digging for Meddy. Maybe someone
from Philly just stuck it in there just to stick
it to us.
Speaker 6 (05:42):
Yep, you got you got a ton of Philly fans
in Penn State.
Speaker 5 (05:48):
Make some calls, might figure out what's going on up
there and change it.
Speaker 9 (05:52):
We're gonna put Randy's face over the gritty.
Speaker 8 (05:56):
Here's what I hate.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Rand's head on gritty.
Speaker 5 (05:59):
What I hate is that I hate gritty, or that
I love gritty, rather like I think gritty hilarious.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
It's very funny that she wasn't.
Speaker 9 (06:07):
I think that's how horrible are franchise is they have
to promote their mess. It's like it's like the pirate
pair being the best. Well, I guess he is the best.
Pirate does do the gritty cell blow on the side too.
Speaker 8 (06:19):
I don't know, it looks like it.
Speaker 6 (06:21):
It looks like, yeah, like he's done a bunch.
Speaker 5 (06:24):
Yeah. Joe Bartnick tonight at the Improval Times. That show
start probably seven, right, Jeff Conkole, Mike's Idell on the bill, Yeah,
Marcus Cock. Marcus love that kid like he's my first call.
All right, Abby's got a news update. Now, what's up?
Speaker 3 (06:39):
News?
Speaker 4 (06:39):
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Speaker 2 (06:46):
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Speaker 8 (06:47):
This story is so wild.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
It was like I was playing mad libs, so I
just wanted to throw it out at you.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
A woman issuing SeaWorld after a duck hit her in
the face while she rode a high speed roller coaster. WFTV,
which is an Orlando news station, reported that the woman
is seeking fifty thousand dollars for the incident that happened
in March. She was riding a roller coaster and a
duck flew into the path of the car, hitting her
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in the face, knocking her unconscious.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
The woman, who was not identified, claims.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
That SeaWorld should have warned about dangerous conditions before she
got on the coaster.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
They did.
Speaker 11 (07:26):
Everyone was like, duck, yeah, Your attorneys wrote in the
legal filing that the theme park created a zone of danger.
Speaker 5 (07:40):
Is that where the turned duck came from? Do you
think people were bending down to get out of the
way of ducks?
Speaker 2 (07:46):
It makes sense, right, duck?
Speaker 5 (07:48):
And then eventually, like, what is that action called when
you bend down like that to avoid the ducks, swan,
get out here, Larry Duck.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
This is an interesting position for the attorneys today. They
said that the theme park created a zone of danger
for bird strikes due to placing the roll the coaster
over or near a body of water, which creates a
higher risk of bird strikes involving ducks, gulls, geese and
other watch or foul duck.
Speaker 5 (08:22):
Yeah, it comes from the old English duke and that
meant to, you know, duck dive or put up your dukes.
Speaker 12 (08:32):
Ye.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Fabio is the only other one that I've ever heard.
Speaker 5 (08:41):
This happened to one of the funniest ever because the
look on Fabio's face is I never thought I'd see
a sad Fabio.
Speaker 8 (08:46):
Sad Fabio was hilarious.
Speaker 5 (08:49):
He did not want to kill that bird, and his
nose really hurt.
Speaker 12 (08:53):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Yeah, well didn't his nose get jacked totally?
Speaker 8 (08:57):
Yeah, he broke the top the ridge of the no
fabit was it a roller coaster?
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (09:04):
He likes fun, it's not all romance.
Speaker 9 (09:09):
He brings his sword on his hair. His hair is
already blowing.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
Back, but he's covered in hair behind him. He's sixty
six years old. He lives in Milan, now bird to
the face.
Speaker 6 (09:20):
I guarantee you every single one of his friends texted
him this story.
Speaker 8 (09:25):
Oh yeah, he never hears the end of that anytime
there's bird news.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
I wonder if he had a lawsuit for that.
Speaker 9 (09:32):
It's good luck. If he could hit by a bird
in the face, right, that's another attack can say.
Speaker 5 (09:38):
He did an interview last year on the twenty fifth
anniversary of that happening.
Speaker 8 (09:44):
I tell you it was a miracle.
Speaker 5 (09:47):
I know that for a goose, for anything to hit
you at the like eighty miles an hour and leave
you with just a stitch, I'm telling you it's a
freaking miracle.
Speaker 8 (09:56):
And because of that day, I began living life to
the full.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
List, knowing at any moment.
Speaker 5 (10:04):
His dun friends are coming to get me. I could
turn a corner like he's running from the mob. He's
just trying to get away from the rest of the flock.
Speaker 6 (10:14):
Yeah, there's no way that you ever get on a
roller coaster in your life and imagine that that's on
the table.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
No, just a goose to the face.
Speaker 8 (10:26):
He said.
Speaker 5 (10:27):
It wasn't a bird. He said, everyone said it's a bird,
but it was a piece of metal. No, I don't know,
the videotape disappeared, he claims, and it really shows that
he got hit by a piece of metal. That because
I think it's the first run of that roller coaster.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Really.
Speaker 5 (10:47):
Yeah, it was like the inaugural run and they're like,
oh look we got Fabio in the front road. He
comes out, he's all bloody, and everyone's like he got
hit by a goost.
Speaker 8 (10:54):
He was metal.
Speaker 9 (10:56):
That's like SeaWorld just trying to do too much, you know,
like the Kissing Shamoo wasn't enough. You have to build
some roller coaster to bring in the kids.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Yeah, what are we doing?
Speaker 2 (11:05):
I didn't even know SeaWorld was still functioning.
Speaker 6 (11:09):
No, I thought they were getting shut down, or at
least maybe they have to get rid of all of
the whales.
Speaker 5 (11:14):
After the Blackwater documentary. I thought they got pretty much housed.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
I did too well.
Speaker 5 (11:20):
I'll tell you what. When I was a kid, I went.
I loved it so much. They had one in an Aroura, Ohio.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Yeah that's the one I went to as a kid.
Speaker 5 (11:27):
Yeah, and you were just like, oh my god, whale
Like seeing Shamoo was like the coolest thing when you
were a kid.
Speaker 9 (11:35):
And then some would kiss shamoo. Yeah, and then Pete
Lee got to be Batman and water ski yeah, yeah, yeah,
he was a water skier at Sea World.
Speaker 8 (11:47):
He was dude, Pete Lee has lived nine lives.
Speaker 5 (11:51):
Yeah, that dude has so many stories that not one
person should not have those kinds of stories next to
each other.
Speaker 8 (12:01):
Now, they're they're.
Speaker 5 (12:02):
Unbelievable in and of themselves, and the next one is
so unrelated to the first one and also unbelievable. It's
impossible to think that this is really the same person
telling these stories. And you know he was like a
martial arts expert on top of that, right right, yeah,
And he's like the softest spoken, nicest, sweetest Midwestern guy
(12:22):
in the world.
Speaker 9 (12:23):
But he's also a killer stone cold killer, stone cold killer,
stone cold, great comic, the nicest guy in the world.
Speaker 8 (12:30):
But yeah, but who would think he water skied.
Speaker 9 (12:34):
At a professional like I could do a pyramid as Batman?
Speaker 8 (12:38):
It's Sea World. He's so funny.
Speaker 5 (12:41):
He was so funny at the DV Comedy Fest this year.
He hates Aaron Rodgers as a Packers fan, and so,
I mean he said the funniest thing ever. Remember we
were crying. Oh yeah, oh he roasted me. I love
being roasted too, so fun.
Speaker 9 (12:57):
No what he said, that is Pittsburgh, you guys, until
you got to drive?
Speaker 3 (13:06):
Oh yeah, he off at the end of that show.
Speaker 8 (13:08):
He did, he did? Ye, yeah right, we love that.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
When it comes to Halloween, there are two kinds of.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
People, those who think it is getting too intense and
those who think it's, you know.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
A little too safe.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
But there's a new article in the New York Times
that asks have Halloween decorations become too scary. It mentions
things like skelly, the huge Halloween skeletons that have been
popping up, along with very lifelike witches and demons, realistic
blood and gore. They talk to some parents who have
young kids who like the classic Halloween imagery like pumpkins, witches, ghosts, spiders,
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and skeletons, and they feel like today's dismembered bodies, moving, speaking,
and gesturing props are a little too disturbing. So there
are also neighbors who complain about the decorations in their
neighborhood being maybe too violent and unsettlings. But some adults
even admit that they have been rattled by some of
the more modern decorations.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
So what do you say you about things in your neighborhood.
Speaker 5 (14:12):
They look like they're on par with stuff from like
in early eighties John Carpenter movie. Yeah, yeah, like in
the thing where the head gets cut off and then
its tongue comes out and goes out and like drags
itself by the tongue across the floor. Yeah yeah, yeah,
like you see stuff like that in people's yards now.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (14:33):
Yeah, that's why people spend so much money on Halloween.
Like when she does news stories about the amount of
money people are spending like thousands of dollars on their
yard decorations, that never was a thing.
Speaker 9 (14:44):
In the candy oh by a thirty pack, it's like
forty five dollars.
Speaker 8 (14:48):
Yeah, for like the smallest ones. It was the kids
ach your house over.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Also where are you storing all of it?
Speaker 4 (14:56):
Because so the last weekend we were kind of talking
about also whether this was like an etiquette faux pas
or not. Last weekend, friends had their neighborhoods Halloween. For
whatever reason, their neighborhood was not doing Halloween this weekend.
I think it was like for sports or something like that,
and they have like a nice neighborhood with like many
(15:16):
many little catacombs, and so I'm like, hey, bonus, Halloween,
We're going to their neighborhood. But their neighborhood was like intense,
and they had some yards where these people had it
almost looked like their yards were haunted houses where they
had like you know, some gigantic like barlow looking, you know,
creature next to something that was completely dismembered. I was
(15:39):
surprised that Edie was almost unfazed by all of these things,
like moving around and screaming and all that kind of stuff.
But at one point I asked, like my friend, I'm like,
why is people put this stuff year round? Like do
they have an extra storage space, because like I'm looking
at the.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Yard, I don't know what they do for Christmas or whatever,
but like this is like tens of thousands of dollars.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
You have animatronics, electricity.
Speaker 9 (16:05):
Rich people live differently than us, because we used to
live adjacent to a rich neighborhood and they would have
like crews of Mexicans come in and do Halloween.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
Christmas too.
Speaker 6 (16:19):
Yeah, it's like they come with a dump truck and
put your whole house up right.
Speaker 9 (16:23):
And like there was like fifteen houses where and you
get like the real snickers, Like it's incredible snickers.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (16:32):
I love the big skeletons though. Why the guy next
door to us, Uh, he used to keep his up
all year round and then decorate it to the different holidays.
Speaker 8 (16:38):
What a my neighborhood does. Yeah, that's what.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
You have to do because you you have no storage.
Speaker 6 (16:43):
There's nowhere in anybody's house to store a twenty foot skeleton.
Speaker 5 (16:47):
I like the ones where that are coming out of
the ground. Oh yeah, those are kind of cool.
Speaker 6 (16:51):
I'm digging all the new lights and stuff, like the
flare that people are putting out in their yard.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
And I know Gardell like this is not his month.
He doesn't like Calloween. I am. I'm loving it.
Speaker 6 (17:02):
Yeah, Like people are going all out now and I
just don't remember that. I remember a couple of people
putting like, you know, a weird cat in the window
or something like.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
There was a couple things. It's not like a full
blown display.
Speaker 5 (17:16):
This is gonna sound dumb, but it's like technological advancements
made it easy to come up with toys that people like,
and they quickly found a willingness for people to put
things in their yard on Halloween that didn't exist because
they didn't want it. Like the blow ups, people are
lukewarm on that. You got little kids really to do that,
But the animatronic stuff, now you've really tapped into horror
(17:38):
fans who want to have cool stuff around for Halloween,
and they'll.
Speaker 8 (17:44):
Spend money on it, man, like a lot of money.
Speaker 5 (17:48):
I would venture to guess it won't be long before
Halloween decorations get very close to the amount of money
we spent on Christmas bake decorations.
Speaker 9 (17:58):
That is a great place, because I think it's becoming
the anti Christmas. I think people are so against whatever
Christmas stands for in this country that they're going bigger
on Halloween, like especially in California, where there's be.
Speaker 5 (18:12):
Like commercialism of it all, or like I they don't
like that gee thing.
Speaker 9 (18:17):
Yes, I think everything like California is always first in
this country, and I think it started there where it's
just kind of like, we don't do Christmas, we don't
have families, we don't care about people, we're selfish. Let's
go all out on Halloween.
Speaker 6 (18:31):
See that makes me think that it's all part of
like some billionaire's plan to just get us to buy
more stuff for Halloween. Yeah, like, let's create this fake
war so that we can really drum up the people
getting one more.
Speaker 5 (18:44):
That's the kind of billionaire I would be. Everyone else
would be like talking about starlink and things like that,
and I'd be like, what if we made them by ghosts?
Speaker 8 (18:51):
Like they move around?
Speaker 9 (18:52):
Like I think Halloween's for kids, Like I love handing
out candy to kids, But you.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
Have to be careful when you say, well, love Halloween.
Speaker 8 (19:05):
My dogs love it, like my wife fan.
Speaker 9 (19:08):
But you know, like kind of Halloween has been overtaken
by this single people without kids crowd right, definitely, kind
of like the gaze have kind of taken.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
I knew we would get there.
Speaker 8 (19:23):
The games have co opted Halloween, Yes, I do have.
Speaker 5 (19:27):
The gays co opted Halloween because they like dressing up,
but they have the big parties.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
I'm not saying anything.
Speaker 9 (19:34):
Wrong with the jerry their holiday.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Okay, why.
Speaker 8 (19:45):
They're spoky.
Speaker 5 (19:49):
They like dressing up, having parties. You don't go to
too many adult Telloween parties anymore. You know, it was
the last time you dressed up? And what was it?
Speaker 9 (19:58):
Honestly, I got team owned at the corner of Murray
and Squirrel Hill and had to spend the night in
the hospital.
Speaker 8 (20:05):
I was dressed up as a nurse.
Speaker 5 (20:07):
Yes, you weredressed up as a nurse and dressed up
as a nurse. Yes, it was not a you know,
it was the nineties. I could have been anything.
Speaker 8 (20:18):
Sounds like.
Speaker 9 (20:24):
The games have co opted. Yeah, I'm not a good
looking woman. I'm a decent man, but no, I was
a nurse.
Speaker 8 (20:34):
Yeah. They thought that they got the biggest kid.
Speaker 9 (20:35):
Yeah, I was like life not life flight, but they
it was a big helicopter, couldn't carry you. Yeah, it
was a little bigger than Actually it was your life dragged.
It was I don't remember, but basically, Fred's grateful dead.
Just Cassette saved my life. I did the car from
the inside out that we got hit so hard.
Speaker 8 (20:57):
Oh my god. Yeah, we got crushed. Murray informs.
Speaker 9 (21:00):
Yeah, a drunk driving chick crushed us, ran through ran
a red light and crushed us.
Speaker 8 (21:08):
Well, everybody's okay, was okay?
Speaker 9 (21:10):
Yeah, I mean I still I still have back issues, obviously,
but you know, I never maybe who knows wearing a
nurse's outfit for cross dressing kids.
Speaker 8 (21:22):
We were talking about.
Speaker 5 (21:25):
We're talking about this yesterday getting in an accident in costume.
Kirsty Alley's parents were killed in a car accident. And
what were they dressed as for Halloween?
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Her dad was.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
Dressed she was her mom was in black face, and
her dad was dressed as a ku Klux Klan and
they've gotten a fatal car crash.
Speaker 8 (21:47):
They died, yes, wearing it. It's like.
Speaker 5 (21:53):
You can't get canceled after your dad, right, Like my
wife kind of canceled them.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
I think somebody canceled them, but.
Speaker 8 (22:00):
He was ashy.
Speaker 5 (22:02):
Joe Bartnick's going to be at the improv tonight. Go
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Jeff Conko will be there, Mike Saidell, Marcus Spears and more.
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Speaker 7 (22:55):
Yesterday, guys, Aaron Rodgers did his weekly Wednesday media set
and it was another one of those days where he
felt like sharing some of the perspective he's gleaned over
twenty one NFL seasons and at forty one years of age.
And some of the best stuff, at least from where
I was standing, had to do with how Rogers was
(23:16):
talking about Roman Wilson, the second year receiver lost his
rookie year to injury. He's trying to break in, trying
to become relevant, and he actually had himself a game
Sunday night against Green Bay. A lot a lot went
wrong for the Steelers, but Roman Wilson four catches on
five targets seventy four yards. He averaged eighteen point five
(23:37):
A catch, and he caught his first receiving TD. Rogers
let us know yesterday he thought Wilson might show up
based against Green Bay, and when he talked about that,
he was talking about practice, like at to a rooman.
Speaker 13 (23:52):
You know, I thought he was going to have a
good week to start the week, and I told him
last Wednesday, said it's going to.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
Be your week.
Speaker 13 (23:59):
This week just kind of feeling and then Thursday is
best practice of the season. So and even in that
there was still three or four real coachable moments. So,
you know, I told ro you know, I've liked him
since the first time we got to know each other
out in Malibu, and I told him back then, I'm
going to coach you to your potential, not to what
(24:20):
I'm seeing.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
So I'm gonna hold him to a high standard.
Speaker 13 (24:23):
And I was really proud of him in the game
for the couple of reaction plays that he made. And
we just need to see consistency from him. But it
starts in practice, and I thought Thursday was a really
good practice for him, and today he had another nice practice.
Speaker 7 (24:37):
And it's interesting when Rogers evaluates practice, he's not talking
about a bunch of practice catches to Rogers. That would
be the wrong way to go about it.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
But no, don't.
Speaker 13 (24:49):
I think that's a misnomer because every play is watched
from practice, So it's the attention to detail on the routes.
I think that's that's sometimes lost. You might even in
a game situation, you might get so enamored with what
a guy's doing, who's around the ball getting to target.
But a lot of times things that happen in the
succeeding weeks are because of things you've seen on film
(25:10):
on the backside of plays where guy's not getting the
ball and you see the detail and the craft and
the routes the other day. You know, he got the
ball on Thursday and a number of plays and that
was positive, but you know, there were some other routes
on the backside we didn't get the ball where you
started to see some of the craft that show up,
some of the detail and the routes. That gives you
confidence that you can trust them, and so that's what
(25:34):
it is. Also there were some correctable things. So what
I really like is attitude. You know, I think of
all the guys you know, who we expected to make
an impact starting the season, you know, especially him, and
pat to not get off to the most explosive starts,
but the never once have a negative day energy wise,
attitude wise, is a credit to both of those guys.
(25:57):
I'm really proud of both of them.
Speaker 7 (26:00):
It's amazing and wow, you think some of the things
that Roman Wilson did yesterday might show up two games
from now. But it's all about, as Rogers said, you've
got to prove you're trustable. You got to run your
out and do your job and execute it with precision
and detail.
Speaker 8 (26:16):
And maybe you don't get the ball.
Speaker 7 (26:18):
But when he sees out on film, when they go
over the practice tape, he knows if he calls a
certain play, all right, well, if this isn't there, that
will be and he can trust it that what these
young receivers must be gleaming gleaning from Aaron Rodgers is remarkable.
And how that's going to impact the Steelers after Rogers leaves,
whether that's after this year, or he's teaching him how
(26:40):
to be a pro, teaching him how to be a pro.
Speaker 6 (26:42):
I mean, if he looked at any of the tape
and saw what Pickens was doing when he wasn't getting
the ball, He's like get rid of this guy, but.
Speaker 7 (26:49):
I'm not dealing with this. It's pretty remarkable stuff. And
Rogers willing to do this kind of thing at forty
one years old and twenty one years in career. There's
two reasons for that. One, he thinks that's what he's
supposed to be doing at this stage of the game.
And number two, it benefits Rogers as well as Roman Wilson.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
This is part of leadership.
Speaker 13 (27:14):
Also, I don't want to throw to a guy that
I haven't seen him consistently make the plays that I'm
expecting him to make. And there's a lot of conversations
going on as position coach is offense coordinator, But in
the end, it's the conversation that him and I have
that are most important, because he needs to see the
game through my eyes and if I can make an
impact on him and Calvin and some of the young guys,
(27:36):
that's pretty special.
Speaker 5 (27:38):
As I move on, did you guys happen to see
the clip of the podcast John who was on this week?
Speaker 3 (27:45):
I saw some clip of him talking.
Speaker 5 (27:47):
He's talking about Rogers and he said, there's a play
Rogers gets flushed out and so he goes into the
scramble drill and he starts running back towards Rogers, trying to,
you know, make a.
Speaker 8 (27:59):
Play on the other side. So he's he gets fleshed
out to the left. John who's on the right side
of the.
Speaker 5 (28:03):
Field, backtracks scrambled drill, trying to get closer to the
quarterback and make a play for him. After that play,
he said, Aaron Rodgers said to him, what are you doing?
Speaker 8 (28:13):
Keep going?
Speaker 5 (28:14):
He's like, what do you mean, Keep going? He goes,
I can make that throw. Keep going, Like, don't come
back to me. If you would have kept flying, I
can hit you. And he's like, you can hit me
from there, Like the guy.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
Still has see the arm and.
Speaker 8 (28:32):
But he's throwing.
Speaker 14 (28:33):
He's talking to the tight end about throwing from the
left side of the field across the field to the
right sideline to hit his You know, he can.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
See him, he can see where he's going.
Speaker 6 (28:47):
He can hear Micah Parsons behind him, the way he well, he.
Speaker 8 (28:50):
Didn't hear Michael Parker crowd.
Speaker 7 (28:52):
Yeah, the way he processes of the crowd and applies.
It's just it's so professional and it's so special and
they're in real danger of wasting it.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (29:04):
Yeah, let's hope not. Let's hope not. I think it's
a big win this Sunday.
Speaker 5 (29:06):
I'm feeling very good about it, feeling very confident about
the Steelers beating the Colts on Sunday, because, yeah, you
want to know why the.
Speaker 8 (29:16):
Cults are doing to lose? I mean, that's all there is.
Just like the Washington Generals.
Speaker 7 (29:19):
I mean, they're just they're just out, They're spitting the
ball on their fingers.
Speaker 8 (29:23):
Just take it.
Speaker 5 (29:24):
You bet on the Washington Generals, I thought they were dude.
Speaker 8 (29:30):
You watch the Colts on tape.
Speaker 7 (29:31):
Daniel Jones has to wake up every morning and just
pause and say, I can't believe where I ended up
like that.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
I'm in this situation layover in Minnesota.
Speaker 8 (29:41):
I had to go through all that crash. Guys laughed
at me when I mentioned I liked him.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
I liked him and Darnold.
Speaker 7 (29:49):
But you know this is this is kind of a
way down the road discussion. But one of the revelations
of this season is these kind of discarded quarterback our
commodities say, in this mind, if you can find the
right one, it doesn't have to be traded up into
the top ten and draft the rookies that's my fight.
Speaker 8 (30:08):
Let somebody else break them in. Yeah, get the second marriage.
They figured everything out. They're a little more grateful, bitchy.
Oh wow, oh god, Okay, grateful. No, I'm just saying,
I really thanks for bringing home the bacon. It means
(30:29):
a lot.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
I'm so lucky.
Speaker 9 (30:32):
Flatio what I mean, I thought you, well, let's enjoy it.
Speaker 7 (30:37):
I know you didn't take out the garbage, but that's
a little thing, and the big picture were good.
Speaker 5 (30:41):
Okay, I forgive anything. It's not making everything into a
it's not all. Everything's not a test and a referendum.
That's what I was trying to sounds sounds like a
personal thing.
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Speaker 3 (32:41):
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Speaker 8 (32:45):
Always great energy, always great energy. I love it.
Speaker 5 (32:48):
Well, you know, we're getting set for the big game,
one o'clock kickoff between the Steelers and the Colts.
Speaker 8 (32:52):
Yeah, it really looks good. A lot of favorable matchups
on this one. I think. All right, well, hey hold
on here, we just had two bad games in a.
Speaker 5 (32:58):
Row, and I don't think it's that big of a deal.
Speaker 8 (33:07):
All right. So well, my first question to you, Merrill,
is where's TJ. Watt gone?
Speaker 12 (33:14):
Well, listen, in all fairness, everybody tries to take care
of him each and every week. I'm just down here.
They occupy and listen, you occupy people. Look TJ Wat's
going to take two or three people. Okay, that right
there is neutralizing an offense. So somebody has to elevate
their game or do something to offset that. You know,
(33:38):
I will say this, he didn't play the best game.
You're actually as a whole, they lost contained.
Speaker 8 (33:43):
You know.
Speaker 12 (33:44):
I don't know people know what that means, but when
you're the outside defender, you can't let a run get
outside you. And they did a bad job. I mean
all of them, not just TJ Watt, but TJ Watt
had his mistakes. They let a lot of runs get
outside contained.
Speaker 8 (33:59):
They lost contained, and.
Speaker 12 (34:01):
Almost like the packers attacked that a little bit like
they noticed it, you know, actually because they just did
it too many times, you know.
Speaker 8 (34:08):
I mean, I can I see how maybe in a
game where.
Speaker 12 (34:10):
Something starts unfolding, which has happened before, you're like, oh, cow,
pull a cow. They're not doing it, they're not playing contained,
so let's start doing that. But it almost seemed like
they went right after it, and then the Steers never
got adjusted to it. You know.
Speaker 8 (34:24):
Well, you know, listen, TJ.
Speaker 12 (34:26):
Watt does his job as good as anybody, but I
think this year I've seen more more emphasis to neutralize
him than ever before. I mean with two or three people.
I mean they widen the formation to him, they chip
a running back, they then run a tight end through him,
and then they have a tackle waiting for him. Well,
I mean, I'm just gonna tell you this. When they
(34:47):
do that, he still has times where he gets close
to the quarterback. When they don't do that, he's always
at the quarterback. And that's why they do it. They
just they're not gonna allow him to do it.
Speaker 5 (34:57):
Why do you think Arthur Smith got away from the
run in the set in half against the Packers?
Speaker 12 (35:03):
I don't know it was effective, you know, yeah, yeah,
they're you know, the the way they're running the football,
the way they're running on the perimeter, their pitch plays,
their man blocking schemes, the combination of it all is
has been effective. I completely agree with you. You know, I
don't know why they got away with it are away
(35:25):
from it. And sometimes that can happen because of who's
your quarterback, you know, because he is so good, you know,
and you and you and you trust.
Speaker 8 (35:32):
His abilities, uh to make plays for you.
Speaker 12 (35:37):
But you know, there's two things that actually happened in
that game.
Speaker 8 (35:40):
That are that could have went the other way when
they had.
Speaker 12 (35:43):
That that hit on Love and the ball the tied
end ended up catching it. Hurt on, yes, and Elliott
gets hurt on.
Speaker 3 (35:53):
I'm like that.
Speaker 8 (35:53):
That that to me. To me, okay, that was the
biggest play of the game. I like see that.
Speaker 12 (35:57):
There's plays like that where anytime you actually hit a
quarterbacks in Super Bowls is That's exactly how the Titans
lost the game against the Rams.
Speaker 8 (36:07):
They hit Kurt Warner. If they wouldn't have hit.
Speaker 12 (36:09):
Kurt Warner, they would have probably won that Super Bowl.
I just think I can give you a litany of
times a quarterback has been hit but been able to
get rid of the football and the offense always catches
the ball because they have eyes on the ball. Defenders
usually they do not, and they can react much quicker.
So that happened against the Bears and Colts gave me
(36:29):
the Bears lost. I mean, it almost happens every week
where a quarterback gets hit. The balls under thrown, offense
always wins. And if I saw that play, I was like,
ah man. And then when they threw that one in
the middle of the field, that's huge play where you
have three defenders and neither one of them can get
to it. Because that's a Jordan love. It's still kind
of one of his flaws, like he'll make he'll gamble
(36:51):
on a throw that you just don't need to based
on where he is in the game. You know, in
the playoff game, when they're still two minutes left and
he's in San Francisco and he's running to the right
and he throws it right in the middle of the field.
It's like third down. You're like, why not third down?
You get two minutes, don't do it now now with
three seconds? Yeah, but not not two minutes. And they
(37:15):
caught it, you know, And I was like yeah, and
then they, I don't know.
Speaker 8 (37:23):
Too technical man, dumb it up a little for it.
Speaker 10 (37:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 12 (37:26):
Yeah, but you're going into this, going into this game.
Speaker 8 (37:31):
I uh yeah.
Speaker 12 (37:32):
Here's what I do love about the Packers, which it
was going to be a problem, and I actually love.
Speaker 8 (37:36):
I mean, I'd like to study it because they do
such a good job.
Speaker 12 (37:40):
People probably wouldn't notice it as much, but they run
a bunch of screens, you know, they're they're one man
screens like we think of a traditional screen. I think
everybody know what the screenplay is you know, your offs
line leaks out, your back sneaks out, and then you
dump them the ball.
Speaker 8 (37:54):
That's a traditional screen.
Speaker 12 (37:56):
These guys run these tight end screens where they'll run
them out to the flat, but I already got two
defenders ready to block.
Speaker 8 (38:01):
They're not running route. They're blocking.
Speaker 12 (38:04):
Or they'll have one back release and the other black
backflare and they'll throw the back of all another screen
to let They did so many screens that were effective,
and and they they knew that we struggled with identifying
our personnel and when you bunch people up, you put
three people together and then you release them different ways
(38:26):
to our linebackers struggle with that at times, and they
got us a few times on that. One of them
I think was even for a touchdown. But they you know,
those guys are gonna have to get better at that,
because the Colts do a little bit of that, not
quite as much, but they do a little bit of it.
Speaker 7 (38:41):
Now, are the Colts a really good defense or are
they to a degree the beneficiaries of always playing with
a double digit lead wet.
Speaker 8 (38:50):
Thing these combinations. Listen, I do believe this is true.
In the end of the year.
Speaker 12 (38:56):
Statistically, the best defense in football plays the last us
the amount of snaps. It's I think it's almost true
the best defense does. But I don't think the best
defense has ever played the most snaps during the season.
I think I don't think that's ever happened. But tonight
you can correct me if I'm wrong. But I think
it's almost true. So their offense, obviously, you know, controls
(39:24):
the game, so that that truly helps them. But I'll
tell you this one thing that you'll notice about them,
Like they don't make mistakes, man, and everybody gets to
the ball like it is, and they got a really
good defensive line. They I mean, they are buttoned up,
like it gets hard to make mistakes.
Speaker 8 (39:38):
They make very few mistakes.
Speaker 12 (39:40):
If you go throughout a course of the game and
watch them weekend, we d like, nah, maybe you saw
a couple of mistakes they may have made, but they
don't hurt themselves. Like they do not do anything to
give you anything. They get to the ball, they play
sounds smart. Then they do some things thematically that are
a problem too you, so they don't mind.
Speaker 8 (40:01):
They just play on the nail end just like Okay,
we're good.
Speaker 12 (40:04):
I mean they are buttoned up and they are sound
and they're complete, but they do some things they can
create a lot of problems to.
Speaker 6 (40:11):
How scared should we be of this offense? Merrow, because
from the running back to Danny Dimes finding new life,
to the receivers to the tight end, it seems like
they do everything really well.
Speaker 3 (40:23):
Forgot the Steelers? Yeah, oh yeah, and the line.
Speaker 8 (40:28):
Well that's that's where I start there.
Speaker 12 (40:30):
They're pretty dang good. I mean, that's a concerns. That's
not a mystery. I'm not telling you anything. You're like, oh,
you're never gonna hear that?
Speaker 8 (40:39):
Allis?
Speaker 12 (40:39):
I mean they are wicked and they here's what makes
them great. I mean and this look this honestly, what
helps this will if you're gonna be a champion, These
are the things you have to do. Like you hear like,
what do you hear? All they run the ball well? Well,
what does that mean? I mean that does that? Doesn't
tell me anything? Okay, when you run the ball well
and you have a lot of phases, So you're a
strong side running team, yes?
Speaker 8 (41:01):
Are they weak side running team? Yes? Are they outside
running team? Yes?
Speaker 12 (41:06):
Are they? Are they a north of South? Are they
a screen team. Are they a draw team? Yes, they
can do all these things, and you got to defend
all of that. And then the guy who's had in
the football to them, are they having the football too?
Like to get that guy down is a problem. I
mean he's got are you talking about strength? Balanced speed?
(41:28):
I mean elusiveness? I mean he has and he's a
wise runner too. Now, I mean he's a wise runner.
You know, it's that's kind of a hard one to explain.
But people that I mean, like good NFL runners, man,
they're patient, they press the whole. When I say that,
they create big running lanes and they create more opportunities
(41:50):
for him because they know how to do it.
Speaker 8 (41:52):
You know, they just don't go a run up there
and hit the whole. The are wise or he is
a wise runner, man.
Speaker 12 (41:57):
And and when he and just make one mistake, have
somebody just not being their gap? Because I would say
this all week, you got I'm sure they're talking about this. Listen,
Get in your gap, Okay. If he's going to the
left away from you, and your gap is like eight
gaps away from where he's going, getting your gap and
stay in your gap because he's coming to your gap.
There's a chance to come to your gap, and you
(42:19):
got you got to tell people that.
Speaker 8 (42:21):
You get, you take over your gap and don't leave
your gap.
Speaker 12 (42:27):
I just it's I'm telling you this that type of
runner that you just cannot make a mistake on.
Speaker 8 (42:31):
And you know he finds it.
Speaker 12 (42:33):
I mean, but he's what he's done all year is
just it's almost like every big run he's had. I mean,
then they made big holes for him too. There's times
where they just they just mall people and move people,
and they have all different ways to run the ball too.
It's just terrifying.
Speaker 5 (42:46):
May we're running really late. But I just want to
ask you one thing, and really quickly. How bad does
Darius Slay's Ola Savi on Williams go over in the
locker room when he just avoids tackling him and lets
them waltz into the end zone.
Speaker 12 (43:04):
Listen, I those type of things. I just don't even
know how you go And here's what I do. I
what disturbs means. How do you go in your meeting
room with your peers and watch it? You know, it's
it's not what's going all large. When I got to
sit down with my peers, I just never understood that.
Speaker 8 (43:22):
I just honestly, I didn't even know.
Speaker 3 (43:25):
I have.
Speaker 8 (43:26):
I've never been there.
Speaker 12 (43:28):
Then I'm glad for that, because that's that's not how
you play football.
Speaker 8 (43:31):
Oh it is not.
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