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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's your radio home of the Pittsburgh Steelers one O
two point five DVE and joining us right now from
Football America Podcast. It is our good friend, Pittsburgh's own
Dave damashek Ladies and Gentlemen, Top Shack, Top.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Of the Morning, cull you.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Oh there there was. I was wondering if you had
picked up anything enduring from the from your trip over
there to Dublin. Good for you guys, duping management into
uh into it being an essential trip for you guys. Yeah,
I saw a lot of Pittsburgh media pulling off the
same canarde. I gotta be their boss. I mean, it's
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my job. It's our job to be there to cover
the Steelers. We need to be there drunk on guinness
for a week.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Come on, well, hey, for you, we were the eyes
and ears of the Steelers nation here on the Steelers
Network flat the flagship DVE to relay the experience back
in a way you might not get from Oh, I
don't know, Andrew Sto doing a report you know in
Temple Bar.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Yeah, was there? Did you? Were you aware though? Because
there were reports obviously we heard about Skyler Thompson. But
then Aaron Rodgers was talking about that. He went out
and had a couple of guinnesses one night. Were you
aware of any stealers out in a bat?
Speaker 2 (01:21):
No? No, not current players, a lot of alumni out.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
In the bot.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
I seen that. I saw. I thought, KEITHO and Ike
and all the fellas out there running around on the
streets must have been a gay time. I heard from
my guy who runs all those international games, and you know,
he's done it for the last many years now, the
ones in London and Berlin and all over the place,
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South America, all over the globe. He said, the best
international game ever was that game in Dublin. And it's
so good they really and it feels like the Rooney
spiritually love it and Steelers fans love it. Let's just
make it an.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Annual, right, I'm with you there, at least every other year.
Let somebody else figure out the logistics and the finances
behind that, but I say, let's do it. But you know,
we've talked a lot this week about how much fun
that was in our experience in Dublin, and maybe not
enough about the actual ex's and o's that we've got
to it considerable amount of times.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
What were your thoughts on.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
The way that the Steelers coached that game down the stretch.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
It was atrocious obviously, I mean Tomlin acknowledged it, which
was which was rare to say, which was rare for
him to concede at the microphone that he kind of
bungled things and they survived it. I do think largely
what we've talked about for the last six months, or
really even for eighteen months, or maybe even all the
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way back to the Roethlisberger wind down, the path to
success for this team broadly is the twenty fifteen Denver
Broncos model, and I think you saw it in its
best form at least to date, out there against the Vikings,
which is that defense play as close to I mean,
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obviously in the twenty first century, you're not going to
completely shut anybody down in the QB League, but I
thought that was a pretty good representation. Now, of course,
if you want to play CINEK, you put the asterisk
next to it. It was Carson Wentz who looked good,
but he's still Carson Wentz did in a couple of
big spots, so you do have to consider that. But
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physical beating the Vikes up, who are no slatches at
the line of scrimmage. The Steelers offensive line really pushed
some people around, and a key detail was Aaron Rodgers.
I know we talk a lot. I talked a great
deal about the former number twelve now number eight and
his role. If you expect him to carry the day
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week in and week out in series after series, you're
going to be disappointed. But the paradox is the ball
that he throws, the eighty yard touchdown. The DK metcalf
is something that I really don't think more than five
or six guys on the planet Earth are capable of doing,
which isn't take that shotgun, snap, find the laces, spin it,
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make the fake to the running back quickly, and then
deliver a strike in stride. The DK metcalf a bullet
for real that in which he didn't have to break
stride and he housed it. Now he's not gonna do
Aaron Rodgers isn't capable of steering the team, like I say,
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you know, quarter to quarter, But if he can make
two or three special plays over the course of sixty minutes,
I think there's a winning formula here to replicate. My
concern is are they closer to the twenty fifteen Denver
Broncos or is it more like the Tommy Maddox which
is and you look back on, but it has no
value after this season. It just kind of feels like
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a one off kind of thing.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Well, it may not be, according to Aaron Rodgers, who
now may want to come back and play another year.
I thought there was a lot to be optimistic about
from this game. The first two drives had me feeling
kind of like, well, here we go again, both on
offense and defense. And then they quickly turned it around.
And it starts by doing some things you hadn't been
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doing before, and showing some different looks and doing some
having DK in the slot that whole time, you're not
gonna be the.
Speaker 5 (05:35):
Big fella number seventy four, making him an eligible receiver,
and basically with Darnell Washington having seven offensive linemen.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
And they should have thrown it to Kaluman Anderson in
the end zone on fourth and three if you ask me,
I mean, you made them eligible the whole game, why
not finally use him. But other than the way that
they kind of just burped up the game there at
the end and made it a contest. I felt like
the coaches came into this one thinking a little differently
and utilizing these guys a little bit better. It gave
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me hope that they might be able to do that
against similarly stacked foes going forward.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Yeah, I don't know. First of all, we talk about
the asterisk. All of a sudden, the AFC North is
in play because Joe Burrow obviously this a couple of
years after his last season ending injury. He is absorbed
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in some of his two big receivers, more of the
salary cap, and so that team is completely lost. Once
you lose him, there is no depth to that team.
So they're done for The Brads were done in April,
and now the Ravens. I think legitimately I bring up
the Jenga theory all the time that if you remove
the wrong piece, the whole thing's gonna implode. I think
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there's a case that Nambi Matabika is that for the
Ravens defense. He's now out for the year. They're in tears.
Defensive lineman, he's a moose, he's half man.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
Half moose.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
He's out. Real Bun Smith is down for a while now.
Marlon Humphrey has hurt. As you may have heard, Kyle
van Noy, their aged pass rusher. They already didn't have
any edge rushers to speak of beyond that old man,
and he's banged up, and now Lamar Jackson's banged up.
I think it's fair to say that there's a real
chance that the Ravens are done. I mean not to
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say that they can't beat Pittsburgh. And you know, if
you see the percentages of chances to win the division
and all that there is still a slight lean towards
the Ravens, but that's based on the assumption that the
Ravens are going to beat the Steelers twice and then
that would give them the division once again. But I
really think that the football gods are smiling on the
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Rooneys and there's a real chance that they can win
the division this year because of what's happened there. Here's
the thing, though, Randy, you mentioned, I know, I'm glad
you had a good time in Ireland and everything else,
but you mentioned your concern a drive in after after
you know, the the lousy performance once that the offensive
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line looked terrible, and you took the Twitter and said
that you thought that the offensive line wasn't looking good
and it's Pat Meyer's fault. And I agree with that.
And I think a lot of people on the inside,
not not during the game, no, I know, but a
lot of people liability and all. Okay, so you were
worried about that, I thought, Josh Yewei, you know, our
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mutual pow. He took the social media to complain and
you're like, I agree, man, I totally agree, ins and
all of that. Damn ashek the week before, during the
game said something about like, wow, that was a lucky
play that the Patriots just fumbled there or something like that.
All of a sudden, I get lit up on social
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media by Randy Barry.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
I was like, you're allowed to root for.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
The Steelers day, What the what?
Speaker 4 (09:06):
What the hell?
Speaker 3 (09:08):
The Steelers lucky got lucky? Well I didn't understand, was like, wait,
what what what the hell is he talking about? Because
dare I, how dare I say that that the football
got smiled on the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Well, that wasn't how you phrased it, And you said
you're lucky. That wasn't that one was going to be
a pick six or something to that effect. And the
Steelers got away with one and it was good for
the Steelers. And I was saying, you're allowed to root
for the Steelers, Dave, because it seemed to me that
you were always looking at the negative of everything they
were doing. Now you internalized this as something different and
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pulled out a bunch of my old tweets, to which
I would say, I'm not I was not rooting against
them or tweeting against them during the game.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
During the game, I'm actually hoping things go right.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
What is that weird stamp that I can't say bad
about them during the game. I need like a rule book.
If I'm not allowed to after the game, is okay?
That can play?
Speaker 4 (10:08):
I was just joking around again.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
I was joking around with you, and you took it
very serious because you, uh, you know weekly you come
in here with a very sort of a similar tone
of you know that I don't disagree with a lot
of what you're doing, but when things start to go
in the right direction, I am glad, Whereas I wonder
if you're not bummed that your argument isn't holding up
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as to why it won't work.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
I listen, You're right that I am vain enough to
want to be right like a people wish to. I mean, listen,
this is why belly ache about pre season college football polls. Obviously,
once you start getting evidence, you're inclined to defend your
position that you held back in July. And that's why
college football polls in season don't make any sense because
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people continue to sell validate. Well, I thought Notre Dame
was going to be good. Yeah, but did you see
that they lost their first two games. Yeah, but I
still think they're good. So they're they're in the top
twenty five. Anyway, that's the sort of ill logic that
we see. But that's not Dave. Dave is rooting for
the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Randy, Well, when something good happens for the Steelers, I
try not to look at the bag.
Speaker 6 (11:18):
Oh please don't.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
How dare you try not to look at the bag?
What are you up on Mount pieus man of No, no, no, no,
no no no.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
I'm saying I'm happy and I'm happy when things go
our way, that's all Dave. And I was joking around
with you, and it's clearly struck a nerve.
Speaker 7 (11:37):
It did strike a nerve.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Well, not because it was a crazy thought from you.
They're like, but see, you can't, you can't say bad
about them. I'm like, well, I mean.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
Thetels, that's all I said.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
And you said no, no, you said you're allowed to
root for the Steelers, and I said so. Then I
pulled up one of your tweets from the day or
three prior to that, and I'm like, well.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
What's this, Randy.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
You're not rooting for the Steelers. You're being negative about
the Steelers here and you say, ah, but that's not
in game. That's the significant difference when and I.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
Wasn't talking about something that went right for the Steelers.
I was talking about something that's going wrong.
Speaker 5 (12:15):
Let me marry you two together here in holy matrimony.
Being negative and rooting for the Steelers are not two
things you can walk into gum at the same time.
And a lot of the times for Steelers fans, that's
what we come away from the games with. Wow, some
things went great, but whoa lot to clean up. I mean,
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there's a lot of slop out there. I mean, I
thought the Steelers did a great job getting to the quarterback.
They provided some splash, they had four turnovers, two got
called back. They just got to clean up all the
stuff in between. You can be negative and still be happy.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Well, listen, Yeah, I was expressing my pleasure that that
about a play that could have gone awry that ended
up going the Steeler's way. And the next thing I knew,
I get slugged in the side of the head by
Randy Bouts. I didn't even know what my head was.
My head was spinning. I tell you, my head was spinning.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Ex give me a little joke, and apparently it hit
a nerve. I'll be more careful with your very delicate
sensibilities going forward.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
I'm a delicate Flowers for the Steelers.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
I will allow you to look on the dark side
of that. Now.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
The Steelers signing the Flower to be their goaltender is
much like the Steeler signing Aaron Rodgers to be their
quarterback in twenty twenty five. If it's not a great plan. Yeah,
the Penguins, I'm sorry. I gotta tell you. I you know,
you talk about my negative tone over the past. I
don't know six to twelve months or so. You know what,
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You're right because self validation I told everybody was gonna
happen with Russell Wilson and Justin Field and so it did.
And I'm raw about that, not getting my flowers for
nailing exactly.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
How that do you think you're supposed to give you
the flowers?
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Though?
Speaker 4 (14:11):
Who's supposed to give you the flowers?
Speaker 3 (14:14):
You? We did? I want flowers from you now. Listen.
I think I've said I don't know. I think this
is a dark time in Pittsburgh sports history. I think
we're turning the corner ins I you know, I think
the Steelers are fine. I think this season, no matter
how well it goes or how badly it goes, I
think it now is sort of compartmentalized and it's going
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to be a one off. I don't think it necessarily
impacts the trajectory of twenty twenty six and beyond meantime.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Well, you always said they were gonna win ten this year.
You never said they were gonna be okay, So there
you go. Yet, in your defense, just so people know,
your complaint was more that they were delaying the step
to the.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Future, that it gets in the way of the twenty
twenty sixth plan. And then I still think, and this
may make me an enemy, but I still think they
should have taken Jackson Dart instead of Derek Carmon there,
but we'll see how that goes. But either way, I'm
excited about what the Penguins are doing. I like the
youngsters that they're surround in eighty seven with who is
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in for the long hol He's not gonna get traded.
We can stop for that nonsense. And also, here's the
biggest ray of Sunschina ball. I'm gonna say it again,
the Pittsburgh Pirates are going to the playoffs in twenty
twenty six. That pitching staff is irrepressible. I really do
think that you or I could play third base. That
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team's gonna play is gonna make it into the playoffs
because of the strength of that of that pitching sta
said that this past year too, I know, so listen,
so what say?
Speaker 8 (15:48):
There you go?
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Look at Dave. He's a rainbow of colors and emotions.
Maybe a little dyn sometimes on the Steeler, but look
at him. He makes up for it with the with.
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Speaker 9 (17:32):
Tis your Radio Home and Steelers, Why don't two point
five dve Rady Bauman, Bill Crawford giving you our pick
six for this weekend's late of NFL games.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
We picked six games and guarantee that they might possibly
maybe win all right. First one, Giants at the Saints
Saints minus one and a half.
Speaker 5 (17:51):
This one is a stinker. Somehow the Saints are favored,
maybe because their last regular season win was against the
g Men in early December of last season. I'm actually
surprised that Vegas even sets lines for some of these games.
Do these matchups get passed down to the losers in
the sportsbook? Like Glengarry Glenn Ross. These are the good games,
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These are the Glengarry games. To you their gold and
you don't get them. Why because to give them to
you is just throwing them away. I'm half surprised this
matchup hasn't already been flexed to the Game of the
week on to B because these teams might both be
mathematically eliminated before Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Jackson Dart is in and Russ is out. Big Blue Country,
Let's ride the Pine.
Speaker 5 (18:42):
Russell Wilson posted on Instagram after Dart's first start with
the final score and just a w so you know
he's absolutely livid because this dude is a hype video machine.
Using just text is a giant cry for help. He
needs un limited support from friends and family right now.
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He probably isn't even doing his affirmations in full pads
and helmet and his mirror before he gets picked up
for practice anymore. And I'm worried that he's looking up
the history of Skyline Chili and reading up on all
the Bengals Super Bowls to manifest that trade. He's probably
doing voice warm ups. Anthony Munnos was denied a bank lown.
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Ken Anderson has oddly shaped feet.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Icky Woods picked a peck of pickled peppers.
Speaker 5 (19:31):
Picking Dart would be easy if he didn't lose moleik
neighbors for the whole season with a torn acl But
the Saints as a team are uglier than a gas
station hot dog at midnight.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
Take the g Men and win a set of steak knives.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Next, Cowboys at the Jets plus three. The one two
to one Cowboys head to New Jersey to take on
the zero to four Jets in the we thought our
new coaches would fix us Bowl for the Jets, coach
Aaron Glenn said last week, this isn't the same old Jets, which, sorry, coach,
but you're not a Jeedi, you're the Jets guy, and
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that kind of mind trick only works for Obi Wan Kenoby.
You're not even Obi one and three Kenoby, you're zero
and four b one Kenoby. Actually you're just Kenoby because
you haven't won anything yet. Aaron Glenn really thought he
could take over the South Side Burger King of NFL
franchises and turn it into a Morton's.
Speaker 4 (20:28):
Sometimes it's the kitchen, not the chefs.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
The New York sports writers said the Jets were outclassed
by the Dolphins last week. That's like getting out acted
by Sidney Sweeney. Justin Fields has flashed less the average
weirdo on the seven train, and there's already talk of
him being benched for Tarad Taylor because he's been so
to rebel.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
And it's not just the offense. Aaron Glenn's defense thinks too.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
In fact, the Jets have been beating themselves more often
than Jeffrey Tuban on a work zoom. The Cowboys played
Green Bay to a tie last week, which they say
is like kissing your sister, and I think that's just
weird as hell. It was a phrase coined in nineteen
fifty three by Navy head coach Eddie Erlatz after a
scoreless tie with Duke Weirdo. Coach ed clearly hoping to
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get some flow from kissing his sister.
Speaker 4 (21:14):
And then, oh man, well that was a real letdown.
That's just weird, and being.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
Let down is a feeling Cowboys fans know all too well,
given that as of late, Jerry Jones has been steering
this franchise with the precision of Billy Joel trying to
drive home.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
From a bar in Manta.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
I love you over in this one, but I think
the Cowboys are going to keep Justin Fields winless and
wishing he was still wearing Mike Tomlin's black and gold handcuffs.
Take the Cowboys next Ravens at the Texans minus one
and a half.
Speaker 5 (21:44):
Before the season, this looked like one of the best
matchups of the week between two Super Bowl contenders, and
now it looks like one of the most disappointing matchups
of the week between two teams that resemble the inside
of a toilet bowl with the Guinness Fancy after a
bad basket of chicken tenders. Lamar Jackson started really strong,
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but he looked like he was playing Madden with a
dead controller against KC.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
And now he's hurt. And I don't know what to
make a CJ.
Speaker 5 (22:13):
Stroud because he's playing behind an offensive line that makes
the Steelers offensive line look like the Great Wall of
Dallas in the nineties.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
It's a miracle he's not hurt. It's like Houston built.
Speaker 5 (22:24):
A mansion in a bad neighborhood and forgot to put
up a fence or a front door. No security or
protection for your franchise. Q cool strategy, guys should be fine. Meanwhile,
the Ravens defense is playing like a bunch of traffic
cops with no arms. They can't stop anybody. Two wrongs
got to make somebody right, right? Or is this like
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Jim Abbott trying to hitch hike in a junkyard. He
can't really do it, but it doesn't matter because they
can't really do it either. This is a weird game
to bet on because the man on the hike that
they call Lamar being out should be significant, but Cooper
Rush just be what the redheaded doctor ordered. The Ravens
offense is absolutely stacked with talent, and not being the
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most athletic QB in the league might actually work for them.
I'm taking the Ratbirds to get closer to right in
this one.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Nice Browns at the Vikings minus three and a half.
Take all the euro goodwill that last week's Steeler game
generated in Dublin and flush it down the Loo because
London hasn't seen a crap fest this big since the
Bubonic plague gave everyone dysentery. The Cleveland Browns will host
Minnesota Sunday in London's Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. The Browns have
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to travel abroad, but the Vikings merely had to hop
across the Irish Sea to become the first NFL team
to play games in two foreign countries in the same season,
which is one of those things that sounds cool but
actually sucks. Imagine having to stay in Europe another week
after getting your Viking horns shoved up your nose by
the Steelers in a different country where the food is
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even worse.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Hell.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
At least Skyler Thompson got to go home after he
got his ass kicked in Dublin. The Vikings now have
eleven of their twenty two starters hurt. They have to
fly free agents over to Europe just so they can
get some practices in hope you got some sleep on
the flight over. Not really, no, no, will okay go
cover Justin Jefferson, Good.
Speaker 4 (24:21):
Luck with that.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
The big news out of Cleveland the Browns are handing
the keys to the terrible offense to rookie QB Dylan Gabriel.
Changing quarterbacks for the Browns at this point is like
clipping a hang nail after you've been impaled on a fence.
It's not really your biggest problem, but at least you're
being proactive. Flacco's still going to be the number two
quarterback because, as we know, Shdur Sanders refuses to back
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up anyone. Vikings decordinator Brian Flores licking his chops to
go after the rookie Dylan Gabriel, who will be the
say it with me forty first starting quarterback for the
Browns since nineteen ninety nine, forty one qbs in twenty six.
They should build a Hall of Quarterbacks at the Factory
of Sadness, like Disney's Hall of Presidents. So that nobody
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forgets this incredible, incredible streak of futility.
Speaker 4 (25:08):
Browns fans can take their kids into the exhibit.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
They have periodic NFL films beds playing while the animatronic
QB steps forward.
Speaker 6 (25:15):
My name is Brandon Whedon and I went five and
fifteen as a starter in twenty twelve and thirteen before
being replaced by Jason Campbell.
Speaker 4 (25:28):
See that sudden, learn from history, or it'll happen again.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
The Vikings might get JJ McCarthy back, but why on
earth would they want to subject him to Miles Garrett
and the Browns pass rush. He looked terrible against bad defenses.
Schwartz's defense woul knock the ff out of JJ Vike's coach.
Speaker 4 (25:45):
Kevin O'Connell.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
Couldn't cash in on the luck of the Irish in Dublin,
but clown face. Well, we'll been left at the end
of this one, because as good as the Browns, d
is a full week to get acclimated to the time change,
and a rookie QB's first start is just too much
for the hapless Brownies to over take the lights.
Speaker 4 (26:01):
Next lines at Bengals plus ten and a half.
Speaker 5 (26:05):
This is a huge spread. But since Burrow got hurt,
the Bengals have been outscored seventy six to thirteen. And
they couldn't stop an old lady with a water log
wooden leg from crossing the street before he was hurt.
To be fair to their defense, two of the scores
in the Vikings games. In the Vikings game were defensive scores,
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so the Bengals offense also stinks at playing defense. But
this is what it looks like when you spend forty
four percent of your salary cap on three players. To
fill out the rest of the roster, you have to
go to gabes and hope to find a quarterback that
isn't too messed up. There's a vintage one in Atlanta,
but he's dusty as hell and has an achilles being
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held together by bubblegum and paper clips. And there's an
unlimited one in New York, but he's got a fake
personality and fresh splinters in his ass from getting benched.
These are your options because you're paying an average of
one hundred and twenty four million.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Dollars a year on three dudes.
Speaker 5 (27:05):
This strategy is like buying three Aston Martins and not
having any insurance. One of them gets into a wreck
almost every year, and now you're in an aston hole.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
And the last thing you want.
Speaker 5 (27:17):
To have when you have an exposed aston hole is
to turn around and see fifty three guys.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
From Detroit running Georgia and to lose.
Speaker 5 (27:26):
Lose, because best case scenario.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
You still gotta beat off.
Speaker 5 (27:31):
There's a reason there's a double digit spread for this game,
and I'm sorry, but there will be no back door cover.
Take deep breaths and find a happy place and take
the big d in Cincinnati.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Next last one, Dolphins at Panthers Panthers plus point and
a half. You'll notice all of these games are terrible
this week, but this is really the cream of the
crop of terrible. If the NFL wants to sell the
sport to other countries, they have to make sure none
of them knows this game is going to take place.
Speaker 4 (28:02):
It's gonna make curling look like playoff hockey.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
It's the battle of which coach gets fired first, Stoner
boy Mike McDaniel's one and three Dolphins or Carolina head
coach Dave Canal's is one in three Panthers.
Speaker 4 (28:14):
Let's start with Miami, who are.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
So awful that when Tyreek Hill mangled his leg beyond
recognition last week against the Jets. He was actually celebrating
on the injury card in the way into the locker room,
elated that he wouldn't have to play another down for
the Dolphins.
Speaker 4 (28:28):
That's what people in prison do. Oh man, I got
shanked in the laundery room. Well, at least I get
hospital food now.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
But if there's a dead man walking in the football
prison that is the Miami Dolphins, it's coach Mike McDaniel.
His stick has worn thinner than a poolside twink at
the Fountain Blue. The Dolphins got it going against the
low Lea Jets last weekend by wearing their hideous black
Nike rivalry uniforms, which bear no resemblance at all to
any Miami dolphine lets them have completely different color schemes,
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but it probably helped the Fins role play as another
team that didn't stink.
Speaker 4 (29:02):
Next week, maybe they can wear wigs or pretend to
be handymen and really spice things up.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
That win may have made McDaniel's hot seat a little
cooler for the time being, but soon enough it'll be
toastier than Mike is during his postgame press conferences and
speaking to toast, Panthers coach Dave Canalis might not even
make it through halftime without getting canned if the Panthers
don't turn it around. Since he bought the team billionaire
know it all, Sorry, that's redundant. Owner David Tepper has
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already fired three head coaches mid season.
Speaker 4 (29:32):
His fuse is shorter than his quarterback.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
And speaking of Bryce Young, he slammed his helmet off
the ground for the second time this season after the
Patriots what they ask in Foxborough last week, and the
Panthers fans have started to turn on Bryce. He's young
and they're restless. Coach d Canallis wants to take all
the blame. He said, when failure happens in all phases,
I'm the common denominator. Well, I'm glad you're well versed
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in fractions because you'll be lucky to make it through
one third of the season before you get fired. Dave,
this game is awful, but one team is less awful.
Finns to the left, Fans to the right. Take the
water bound mammals. That's it, Dolphins win that one. There's
your pick six guaranty to possibly, maybe, probably maybe the
rules of the.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
Road are a little bit different.
Speaker 8 (30:17):
Tyson, Hey chat, He's got a reloaded cut from the
DV morning show Sports and a Workforce commercial Free hour
at three afternoons with Chad Tyson on DV.
Speaker 4 (30:29):
And Kenny Vosford. We've always.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
It's a DV morning show Randy Bauman with Bill Crawford,
Abbey Chrisner.
Speaker 4 (30:41):
Lots of stuff coming up today.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
Sean Collier will be joining us reviewing The Smashing Machine,
the new rock flick. I'm actually looking forward to hearing
what he has to say about that too. I really
want to go see that Paul Thomas Anderson movie this
weekend too, because it was a one battle after another.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
That looks oh the Leo one, Yeah, I mean.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
The reviews for that are insane. Lost Bus is also
another one he's gonna be talking about. I don't know
what that is, Shaw Casey in the Sinkhole.
Speaker 4 (31:07):
Very well, could be. She's gonna be a quick movie.
How do we get out of here?
Speaker 2 (31:12):
There? I found it's still going to take a minute.
Speaker 6 (31:15):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
Sean Casey the Mayor will give us a call with
a wild card recap and uh some pretty exciting games again.
Yesterday the padres are pretty pissed though. I don't know
if you saw that whole Yeah, I mean they were.
It looked like they were gonna just like with the
Umps after the game. I mean, MLB is probably gonna
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step in on that. Also, Cody Piper in the coffee house.
You know, every once in a while we like to
raid our algorithms because we're all looking at something different.
There's no monoculture anymore, so we try to bring each
other a little closer together with a segment we like
to call rating the algorithm.
Speaker 4 (32:09):
All right, Abby, let's start with yours. What did you
have in your algorithm?
Speaker 2 (32:15):
We had this.
Speaker 7 (32:15):
Account that has a great comparison.
Speaker 10 (32:19):
Are a way of describing bands, I guess I should say,
and it describes bands as foods, And I don't know
why it makes sense as much as it does.
Speaker 11 (32:33):
They are so back with bands as foods Part three. First,
The talking heads are eggs, versatile, changeable in style, weird
like a fundamentally weird but great Van Halen is fajitas
similar to other beat based dishes that came before it,
but flashy. Right when they show up to the table,
it's sizzlin and it's just a big spectacle. Marvin Gay
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is French silk pie, not a dish, but Steely Dan
is a Michelin star restaurant. They got different specialties, always fusion,
and god damn it, the cooks will stay here all
night if that's what it takes to get the dish right.
Aerosmith is ribs. Green Day is a salty bag of chips.
I'm talking like a personal sized bag, just super greasy
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salty chips. And Pantera is a plate of hot wings
where the sauce just gets all over your face. And
I don't know why, but that is a key element
of it. It has to be just messy. You're using
twenty five napkins for this.
Speaker 4 (33:27):
I am surprised at the accuracy of all that.
Speaker 7 (33:30):
They're all good.
Speaker 12 (33:31):
There was quite a few that I cut out because
there was like a mixture of maybe a lot of
bands that wouldn't be as popular to the audience.
Speaker 7 (33:39):
But the few that we missed. Our Beastie Boys are
a Baja blast.
Speaker 12 (33:44):
Smash Mouth is a corn dog, kiss kisses candy cigarettes
and also good.
Speaker 7 (33:50):
The Grateful Dead is a fruit salad.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
I mean those are dead nuts. I mean really, I
love the talking has his heads as eggs. Yeah, that
is the perfect description of them, just a little different Bill,
what was in your algorithm?
Speaker 5 (34:05):
Okay, So there's a lot of food influencers that are
popping up right now, and I think that they are
ripe for parody, which is what this video is highlighting
because some of the places that people are saying they go,
some of the foods that they say they're eating, and
the cadence in which they say it is just ripe
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for the funny.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
And here it is.
Speaker 13 (34:28):
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stopping chunks of bag tog meat at Robert's Tip. This
farm to table Burbiestro for birds is the natural conclusion
to San Frantonio, Calabama. Tonight. We're here to try their
trademarked pumpernickels Caesar salad for Katcha biscuit rolls made by
Global bread Icon von Slieveowitz. And we can't leave without
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getting the micro spaghetti with macro balls.
Speaker 7 (34:54):
But you gotta get it sleeve Awitz style.
Speaker 13 (34:56):
This hillside clown Colied Graduation venue gets going every time.
Speaker 4 (35:01):
That is so good, It's so well written. I mean,
those names.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
Just perfect meat.
Speaker 4 (35:12):
Chicken Tartar in my algorithm.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
You know, we were in Ireland and missed the Ryder
Cup except for we would like sit down to eat
dinner somewhere and it would be on in the background
and everybody would be cheering, but didn't really pay attention
to any of it, didn't see any of the coverage.
And Colin Jost from Saturday Night Live did Breakfast from
Bethpage Black on the Peacock Network on the you know
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the app or whatever, and he did this hilarious bit
in the morning a moment from our smaller sponsors, and
it's all stuff he made up and it's really funny.
Speaker 2 (35:52):
I'd like to take a quick.
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Speaker 4 (36:32):
Also a golf ball you found in the woods.
Speaker 3 (36:35):
Just play it. Just play that ball.
Speaker 14 (36:38):
And when your friend says, weren't you playing a titleist earlier,
you say, nope, I was always playing a bridge stone eight.
And also the Dui checkpoint outside Bethpage Black, speed around it.
You cowered it can't catch you, buddy. And finally, the
US Open Tennis had their signature cocktail this summer, the
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honeyduce I try the signature drink of the juice, the
Sloppy Deuce. Oh my god, three shots of espresso mixed
with spiced rum and garnished with a fiber one bar.
Speaker 4 (37:12):
Wow, that is it's the drink that we'll have. You
saying somebody's in here?
Speaker 1 (37:19):
I mean, how about the noise in the background there?
I mean, can you imagine something like that at the
Masters might go?
Speaker 5 (37:26):
Apparently it was a big mess and actually a lot
of people over in Dublin, like the Irish, were telling
me that the Americans it was not a good showing.
Speaker 4 (37:35):
Well, our driver had is your euro ryder cup hat on?
Speaker 2 (37:38):
Yeah? Did you talk to him about it?
Speaker 4 (37:41):
We didn't talk golf, okay, because.
Speaker 5 (37:44):
You know a lot of people were really saying some
crazy stuff to Brory and he was saying some crazy stuff.
Speaker 4 (37:51):
Back and his wife. Yeah, yeah, not a great showing.
Speaker 1 (37:55):
You know, here's the problem that place in the Internet age,
especially this happens.
Speaker 4 (38:01):
That place is known for that, right anytime they have
a US open there.
Speaker 1 (38:05):
You know, Sergio used to get heckled constantly out there,
Hey the ball, you know, stuff like that. And then
they started to take pride in their obnoxiousness. And it's
like Page bat Black might be a big metaphor, but
like once they put the Ryder cup there, you knew it,
Like that was a story before it even happened, Like,
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oh well, people at crazy here, and I think that
just compelled people to go even further off the rails.
Speaker 2 (38:32):
Yeah, I didn't love it.
Speaker 4 (38:34):
Not a big fan.
Speaker 2 (38:34):
I liked it when it was our course here making.
Speaker 5 (38:39):
The golfers swear yes, and not people swearing at the golfers, right, Like,
I don't love that.
Speaker 4 (38:46):
Yeah, I have to agree.
Speaker 1 (38:47):
But Colin Joes once again, very funny SNL returnless this
weekend this weekend, and bad Bunny is the host. They'll
make about him actually being American because there's a lot
of people who are flipping out because they have a
somebody who's not American doing the Super Bowl halftime show
this year, and then everyone has to explain to them,
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like Puerto Rico is part of America.
Speaker 2 (39:13):
Yeah, but so.
Speaker 7 (39:15):
Start watching that Calculus meme go and go way.
Speaker 8 (39:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (39:19):
I mean I don't.
Speaker 5 (39:20):
I don't think I knew where he was from, and
he definitely isn't like you know, I mean, he has
a broken accent.
Speaker 4 (39:28):
You know, he's a very international audience.
Speaker 2 (39:31):
He's a huge internationals.
Speaker 4 (39:33):
Yes, yeah, and I think that that's more what it
speaks to. But it's like he this is his third
time I think hosting.
Speaker 1 (39:41):
He set the record for the quickest time between previously
hosting SNL and then hosting it again because he hosted
at the end of last year, and so it's like.
Speaker 2 (39:55):
Like because of Happy Gilmore and what he was doing
with that.
Speaker 1 (39:58):
I guess, I mean, but it's only in terms of
episodes he set the record because the time that elapses
further than like in season one, Candice Bergen hosted like
episode four and episode eight, and then one year Billy
Crystal hosted like episode thirteen and then episode nineteen, which
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is weird. I don't remember people doing that. And then
in the first year they had God I can't remember
saying he was a newsman on NBC. I want to
say ed Asner, but it's not him. He kind of
looked like him, and he was kind of a punchline guy,
and they had him host twice in a month for
some reason. So bad Bunny now sets the record because
I think it's only like three episodes between.
Speaker 2 (40:42):
Told me that he had never hosted before.
Speaker 1 (40:45):
I would believe you lucks because we don't watch SNL anymore. Right,
I was give him a chance at the beginning of
the year. I still think they have some funny people there,
but it'll be interesting to see what they do this weekend.
Abby's got your news when we come back.
Speaker 7 (40:56):
Taylor Swift's new albums out you guys.
Speaker 4 (40:58):
Mcgwad, Sharksey Talking wild Card coming up.
Speaker 15 (41:02):
Eight forty five, It's time for the Steelers Daily Report
on DVE, brought to you by Independence Health System, Expert
Care Here and steel Shaw Get it direct for the
team at Shots Lost.
Speaker 16 (41:14):
As the Steeers entered the Bible with the three to
one record in the sole possession of first place in
the AFC North. Their defense finds themselves towards the top
of the league in two rather important categories. First off,
the Steelers have compiled the second most sacks in the
NFL to this point with fourteen, and trail the leading
Deveron Broncos by just one. Leading the way in the
sack department is who else but start outside linebacker t J. Watt,
who has compiled three sacks through the first four games
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of the season. But it hasn't been a one man show,
as at least ten different Steelers have registered a sack
this year, keeping opposing quarterbacks guessing as to where their
next dose of punishment is coming next. The other area
the Steelers defense has been elite is in the takeaway department.
The team has forced ten turnovers thus far, second to
only Jacksonville's thirteen, and the team's five fumbles recovered is
tied for the league league with Minnesota. Five different Steelers
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had the team's five interceptions, five different Steelers had the
team's five fumble recovery, but only one player has one
of each, and you guessed it, that's t J. Watt.
Speaker 4 (42:04):
Once again.
Speaker 16 (42:05):
The Steelers have off this weekend, but will certainly be
watching as the Ravens host the Texans and the Bengals
host Allions, hoping that their AFC North League will grow
even more while sitting on the couch on Tom Opperman
with the Steelers Report
Speaker 4 (42:18):
With nearly nine hundred positions and