November 19, 2025 • 38 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Don's Appliances Studios where Pittsburgh shops for appliance is.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
This is w D Pittsburgh.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
It's the DV morning show at It's Wednesday, so that
means it's time for Mister Wednesday.
Speaker 4 (00:27):
So not only do you get it at the top
of the hour, you get the happy Mister Wednesday theme song.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Today, Jeff is still right, Yeah, this better well with
the news that the pirates are all in, why not
just get all jovial and celebrate.
Speaker 5 (00:42):
Yeah, because they're totally different. Now you can change him,
just words, his behaviors, pecking it up. Finally, Oh it's different.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
I don't believe it, no, I I you know, we
were talking off air about it. This guy has taken
so much flak from fans for so long. Why would
this be any different? How would this straw break this
unbreakable camel's back like years ago? Didn't you know? Because
I heard you guys talking on the way in that
they're going to bring in these these unknown, you know,
(01:11):
relatively unknown Japanese pictures into me. That's like your friends
saying like, I have a girlfriend, but she lives in
Peters and you're like, oh, yeah, show me a picture
of her, you know, like it's it. You don't believe
it until she shows up at prom basically yeah, and
then it's and then it's his cousin.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Well, they always get excited about people that you don't know.
Do you remember Rinku and Dinesh. Yeah, so that's what
I'm talking about. They're like, you gotta see there's a
cricket player.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
They keep trying to find things that sort of it's
an it's an ellipse trying to get fit into a
circular hole and they just hope they can jam it in.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Uh on the way for you.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
A little bit later on Merril Hodge talking Steelers, Dang
Brett Keez All the Beard joins us today to PFT
commenter Steelers getting set for the Bears this weekend. We
were talking about this at the top of the hour
to start the show this morning.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Jeff, are you an only child? No younger sister young
Did you ever do the dangling spit?
Speaker 2 (02:08):
No, not to her.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
I probably pulled some stuff, but nothing like that because
the repercussions. Because the dangling spit, you can lose if
you unless you have total control, if that thing falls down,
you're committing assault. You know, uh, and then I was
a little afraid of what my dad would do if
I spit on my sister, like it would be it'd
be through the dry wall time.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
I think.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
I think there were many times where I had to
avoid a spit that the you know where the contiguous
line of saliva breaks when it gets too heavy on
the end where I dodged the bullet matrix.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Style and then it just hits the carpet.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
And you're like stop, that one was really closed, and
then another one home comes down and then like the
person with the spit is also laughing.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
With There's always times too where that somebody would really
get like whatever their protein structure makeup in their saliva
was that day made their spit like a chameleon tongue
and they could like pick up pieces of paper off
of the desk.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
And then just like flick a paper clip up or
something that would be it. It was cool right back.
I wanted to see that in the hallway.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
Yeah, you just reminded me of somebody in middle school
that used to be able to do the thing where
they could shoot.
Speaker 6 (03:21):
Spit like just goods underneath their like you know, like
a pencil and you just see like a buckshot spray
of fine mist of saliva.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Like I think that's called a gleek.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
I've done that to people just talking where you're like
and it just flies out.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Of here and you're like, oh my god, that's one
of those ones you immediately want to be like goodbye,
never talk to me again. I can't, right, Which is
why I always thought that it must have been interesting
being coached by Bill Cower because the amount of voluntary well,
just like the spit that was coming out of his mouth,
he couldn't control that.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
It was just it's his jaw makeup. I mean, that
is a reservoir of the that is.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
There's two cisterns worth of uh salivan.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
So like the amount of gleeking that's going on as
he's yelling, and those guys have to sit there and
you have to determine which one's intentional and what's not.
Because we've now all agreed, even coach Tomlin has backed
it up. When a man spits on another man, all
bets are off. Do what you think is necessary. Well,
when your coach is yelling at you and he's spitting
on you, there has to be like a line of
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like Okay, that was too much spit.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
You know it's not funny though, because like, if a
man spits on you, you have to fist fight him.
But if a man drools on you, what happens then,
well that's not a fist fight.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
It's intention.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
It's all about so you gotta make icon if someone's yeah,
saliva and eye contact equals fist fights, saliva and and
closed eyes or you know, ambivalent attitude, that's just a
that's just a ah, come on, man, give him in
a spit and never mind.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
Uh, well, teach a man to spit. Abby's got your
news right now. On the DV Morning Show. Do you
know how to gleek? I don't think you can make it.
I don't think you can do it intentionally. Can people
do it intentionally?
Speaker 5 (05:03):
At some point you have to find out that you
can do it though, That's true, Like and I don't
know how you find.
Speaker 7 (05:09):
Out you can do it, and then I don't know
how you practice.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
It's like flicking your eyelids inside out, Like at some
point you got to try that and see if it works.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Do you ever see the people who can make their
eyeballs shake?
Speaker 8 (05:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (05:19):
I used to be able to do that.
Speaker 8 (05:20):
Shut.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
I don't know if I can do that right now,
you're gonna have to give to talk amongst yourselves in press.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Please don't do it.
Speaker 7 (05:25):
It will make me.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Yeah, I can do it. I just check it.
Speaker 7 (05:28):
It'll make me sick.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Let me see it. Let's say I have to look.
You have to come here and I have to look
at something.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Did he do it? I mean it's it's it's it's slight.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
I've lost some of my my my my muscle memory
in my old age, I haven't had to do that
in a while.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
No, I'm not offended by that, but but a spit
I would be offended by.
Speaker 9 (05:44):
No.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
You can make crazy eyeballs at whoever you want, but
you can't spit on anybody. And jam Ar Chase is
going to be sitting out this week. I don't remember
who the Bengals are playing, but two weeks from now,
on Thanksgiving he will be back for the Thanksgiving Night
game Ravens Bengals. Great games all day long, Well Thanksgiving.
I'm excited for that big game for the Steelers. And
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will Aaron Rodgers be playing this Sunday?
Speaker 2 (06:08):
We don't know. Broken rest, what's your.
Speaker 5 (06:11):
Confidence level in Mason. If he's in, I'm all in
on Mason.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
I think I have established myself as team Mason for
two years agoing now that I.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Didn't think we needed to bring in Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
I'm still of the opinion that he may be writing
the greatest story in all of NFL history. Like if
you look at his like you know, the bullet points
of his story.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
If he can turn this around and do something.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
In the postseason spectacular, this might be the greatest character
arc in all of all of NFL history.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
But he is in the sweet spot right now. He's
in the Charlie.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Batch spot, which expecting that much of you expectations are low,
you deliver, you get the w you know, if he
gets to the postseason again, which he did last year.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
And uh, or was it last year two years ago?
Did we lose to Buffalo? I don't even It's all
the whole Kenny Pickett era. Yeah, anything post COVID is
all one.
Speaker 7 (07:07):
Big, very traumatic.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
I think it was last year we lost a Buffalo
in the first week, all right, that team we didn't
have a lot of confidence in.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Well, now we got.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
DK Metcalf, you know, and uh, Jalen Warren seems to be.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
I think he's a premier back.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
The defense is supposed to be historic, and they keep
adding these, you know, legendary caliber players that they're somehow
pulling off a scrap people like a Sante Samuel and
uh Dugger in the secondary.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
So yeah, but we're we have a lead quarterback who's
on a subscription plan for Advil like that.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
That's the problem.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
I think that if he can take a snap, he's
going to start this weekend. But yeah, but but if
it if it hurts, and there's a potential of him
fumbling in exchange, I think you.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Got to set them. But that's what I'm saying, like,
do you want him out there at eighty percent? No?
I don't. I don't.
Speaker 5 (07:59):
I say, heel get better, you know what, men hail already.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
I'm tired of that.
Speaker 7 (08:10):
Stop showing up half healed.
Speaker 5 (08:12):
I also just personally didn't think like I thought everybody
was a little nonplussed about Mason coming in and doing
as well as he did. I thought everybody kind of
was like, oh, yeah, that's yeah, that's what will garbage
And I'm kind of like, but but also he was
second half, I know, but he went three for three
on third down conversions on his first drive, and he
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connected with Metcalf more than Rogers did.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
It was an OPI, but.
Speaker 7 (08:36):
He connected with them. Like why did Why did he
not get as much of a hero's welcome as eyes.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
I'm saying though, is that he has always been like
there's been this like underlying, like sort of like little
disdain for for Mason.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
I don't know why.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
I don't think you know why, because he came in
to replace Ben and we've never really quite got over
the fact that he was the understudy to one of
our favorite quarterbacks.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Wasn't he didn't he come in the place?
Speaker 8 (09:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (09:03):
Well, Ben was not thrilled about that because he thought
they wasted a draft choice because he had plenty of
years left and so he kind of redheaded step child,
yeah right, And that didn't help his I mean, I
don't know that it hurt his development at all, but
it didn't help the perception with fans and.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
He look, he it took a while for him to
actli me.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
But when he came in last year and won those
three games in a row, it changed everything.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
And there were a lot of people saying at the
beginning of last year that he was the best quarterback
on our roster with you know, Mitch Trubisky, Jeddy Pickett.
So there was a faction of people who thought, like,
this is the most talented guy we got. Is he
good enough caliber NFL quarterback to lead you to the
playoffs and then a championship? I don't know, but sometimes
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that takes experience, and we see that all the time.
He appears to be getting better. And if you look
at the film, and when I say look at the film,
I mean the stuff that people posted on Twitter that
I happen to scroll by.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
He's standing much taller in the pocket than Aaron Rodgers
has been. Aaron Rodgers is skittish right now. He is
looking to get killed because he's been getting killed. It
also hurts a lot more when you're forty one and
you have already existing injuries.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
So he's here in footsteps. He's seeing ghosts back there
a little bit right now. Mason Rudolph is not doing that.
Is he as good as Aaron Rodgers are? Processing? No,
can we win it win this game with Mason Rudolph. Absolutely,
I'm gonna gleak all over the place. I'm getting very excited.
What do you think about this. Let's throw Will Howard
in there for a quarter and just now, now, let's
(10:37):
just get it over with, kidd Well like Shudor Sanders, like, yes,
this is what you want for.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
That's exactly right.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Let's just get it over with and maybe he'll surprise us,
but maybe not, and then we'll then we'll then that'll
close that chapter for a little bit.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Now.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
I mean, you know, that just shuts up a few
voices right now, there is.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Those voices need to be shut off, I think, no question.
I mean, he's had zero reps, he's had zero experience.
That's what makes that fun.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
Sure, you'll you know what, I'm all for letting him
play the entire preseason next year with whomever they have
to negotiated.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
And I'm not saying that.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
That dude might not one day be a capable NFL quarterback.
He's just not close to being the best on the
roster right now.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Listen, He's tall, and he's handsome, and he seems nice.
So that's why people people seem to like him. Nice
guy Triscard National championship winner.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
So I think that that ads adds to it.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Plus there's a ton of Buckeye fans in Pittsburgh and
that has.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
A lot to do with it too.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Really, you think there's a lot of Ohio State I mean,
I know that we butt right up against them, but
I'm surprised, I don't I never get that sense.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
Yeah, I think, well, I think there's a don't forget
there's a lot of Steeler fans in that. Yes, going
to Columbus, you know what I mean. Like, I think
there's like between Cincinnati and Cleveland, there is a part
of Ohio they has to get big Steeler fan contingency. So,
uh that now almost I'm all for number two being
in under center this weekend.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
I just I'm fine with it. Let's just keep the
train rolling.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
I feel like this team has been so schizophrenic you
don't know who you're dealing with on a day to
day basis. And I feel like, actually, now our inconsistency
is consistent, and that's but if you remember, that's sort
of what made the last couple of seasons. I know,
they've been disappointing, you know, but they have been fun
and there's been lots to talk about, and they have
been engaging, and there's been lots of stuff like that
from a drama stand from a drama perspective, never disappoints
(12:29):
on the sofa turned from like the Sopranos to the
Real Housewives, and the ratings are fine like so it
doesn't really matter either way. I'm entertained. Abby's got a
news update for you. Now, what's going on?
Speaker 5 (12:39):
There is this hour brought to you by Keystone Basement Systems,
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brightening sky with peaks of sunshine today a high fifty.
These last few months of the year are filled with
leftover Halloween candy and then gravy and then sweet.
Speaker 7 (12:56):
But maybe that weight that we're gaining isn't our fault.
Speaker 5 (13:00):
Study finds has an article on how cold weather makes
us crave food. Some of it comes down to our biology,
not our lack of will power. The average person gains
one to two pounds during the coldest months of the year,
and it's partly because your body just wants to Cold
weather triggers hormonal changes that make you hungrier and prevent
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you from feeling full. Now, the lack of sunlight doesn't
help either. It lowers your dopamine and your serotonin levels,
and it makes you crave more carbohydrates.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
It's not the pillowcase full of twigs that are still
staying in my house that I'm walking by every day, dude,
slamming like four or five of at a time. That's
what you're telling me. You're telling me that's natural.
Speaker 10 (13:42):
See.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
What I take away from that story is that it's
proof positive of the thing that I always wondered if
there was any truth to, which is why why am
I craving soup?
Speaker 4 (13:52):
Why am I craving a stew? Why do I want
a big hearty meal on a Sunday night?
Speaker 5 (13:57):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (13:57):
I want pot roast and potato? And it is?
Speaker 4 (14:00):
Is it just the excuse I give myself to eat
like a pig, Like, well it's cold, i'd better have,
you know, pork and sour kraut and mashed potatoes and
like stuff that just sticks to you.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Everything that you said right there is served piping hot, though,
I think that's a temperature thing. Mashed potatoes, piping hot, stew,
piping hot, Those things warm your insides. I think that's
the craving that you're having right there. It's not get
internal warmth. My dad would make summer turkeys. Oh, he
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loved turkey dinner. He thought it was the greatest thing
in the world. And once he taught himself how to
do it, he would make in July. He'd be like
having turkey on Sunday, turkey stuffing maxed potatoes. See, I
feel like that works with a big family. Like in
my family, we would be eating turkey for four and
a half weeks cent.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
At that point like that, After that, that's no good.
But gravy once the weather. There must be something to
the dopamine part of it too. I believe that gravy
serves the same purpose as meth I think that it
really gets your brain moving in the right direction somehow.
Is there anything that can Is there a methadone?
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Is there anything that wean you off of gravy like
clarified butter?
Speaker 2 (15:01):
I don't know, Like what's gee?
Speaker 8 (15:03):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
But couldn't that.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Be nostalgia too, Like you associate fall and winter with
the ghost of Christmas past or something. I think that
taste and smell have as much of a nostalgia poll
as anything. And Sundays during football season, and I've said
this many times before. I would hear the voice of
the four o'clock game guy doing the Raiders in the
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Broncos charge. I don't remember it was Charlie Joyner who
it was, but that voice I would hear and I
would associate it with something was in the crock pot,
and that means when we're getting rolls and apple sauce
and like all that stuff. So I think there is
an element to I'm watching a four o'clock game it's
dark outside already, because it is always Once it shifts
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to now it's dark outside, and then I start to
crave all of those same things that I grew up with.
On Sunday, which is the big hearty meal, which is
probably the only time my family ate together.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
I was on a Sunday night. See Abby, We're just
eating our childhood.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
That's really the that's really just trying to be happy,
just trying to get it down the hatch.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
That's all I do.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
Like that, she pointed out, She's like, men, you just
heal that we actually are taking our emotional cues from
how we've been told to perform in sports our entire life.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Just rub dirt on it, keep moving forward.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
I always laugh when when women are like, like, you
know how they act when men are sick, you know,
they're just like, oh, you're being a big baby, you know,
being a big baby. But it's the dichotomy between women
also being like I.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Just want you to be vulnerable.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
I just want you to like, why don't you show
me some vulnerability and then the second you're like, my throat.
Speaker 5 (16:35):
Hurts, like, oh, I want you to be vulnerable, just
not more vulnerable than me.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
Yes, that's a good point. Okay, there we go.
Speaker 8 (16:43):
You got them.
Speaker 5 (16:44):
Which, by the way, the gravy thing, because I don't
know what it is about gravy that's so wonderful.
Speaker 7 (16:51):
Like if I ever have an occasion to get a.
Speaker 5 (16:53):
Death row meal, which we'll see how it goes in
terms of having like, you know, partners that are sick or.
Speaker 7 (16:58):
Whatever, and like let's see what a see is.
Speaker 5 (17:00):
But if I ever have a death row meal, it's
probably gonna be mashed potatoes and gravy. Hines now has
a squeezeable gravy bottle.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
You before your pass judgment on this all right judgment,
I would just say that there are some really good
pre made gravy's out there. The gobble Rito at Mad
Max amazing that gravy. I mean, I can't imagine they're
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making that great like everyone is being made, Like they're
not making turkey stock every day.
Speaker 8 (17:38):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Maybe that I'm saying, I.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
Don't know, but that whatever that gravy is, it might
be the best gravy I've ever had. It's incredible, But
there's also the existing hinds that's like in a it's
like turkey gravy in a little jar.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Yeah, in a pinch, dude, it works. You can just
dress it up a little bit. It's still gravy. It
was better than anything they had at Boston Market.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
I think, just what do you do though? Do you
microwave the bottle? Gravy has to come out hot. It
has to come out.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Hot, slow pot, slow pot. Oh okay, Like see.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Yeah, I'm not envisioning that you squirt it over poutine,
like you know, it's not a table side condiment like
that's got to get brought out on a in a
gravy boat. That they have a whole thing, a gravy boat.
It's a vessel for the gravy.
Speaker 5 (18:24):
This okay, So let me read no whether food has
a Hines's l first ever squeezable gravy bottle featuring its
home style turkey gravy and it looks like it's a
bottle of stadium mustard. They say it's specifically for sandwiches,
inspired by the Friends episode where someone steals Ross's moist
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Maker sandwich which has which is made from Thanksgiving leftovers,
with the secret being a gravy soaked slice of bread
in the middle. It's available exclusively on Walmart dot com
and to get one, you need to buy a jar
version for a dollar eighty eight, and then they include
the limited edition Hines left Over Gravy Kit with the
squeezable version and a recipe card gravy Kit.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Never go anywhere without your gravy Kit.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
I just like the theory that there's a at some
point between Walmart and Hines, there was an exclusivity contract
that had to get decided between who's getting the rights
to this gravy thing. Where can we find the biggest
then diagram of turkey gravy.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Consumers who might drink it right out of the bottle.
Speaker 5 (19:31):
Right wall marked put it in a syringe clouds followed
by brightening sky and.
Speaker 7 (19:39):
Peaks of sunshine. Today it is going to be high
a fifty.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
Turkey gravy is the best gravy. Oh, definitely the best.
There's pork. You can make pork gravy.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
You make a pork loin, put a little soy sauce
and orange juice and the crockpot.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Reduce that if you can do.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
That's another thing though, Like that's a glaze almost, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
I consider it gravy. It's just made from drippings.
Speaker 5 (19:58):
Turkey gravy deliver on the salt. The pork gravy is
the fat.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Yeah, well no, I like that.
Speaker 7 (20:05):
And then chicken gravy, like is there.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
I've never had chicken gravey. Just pass gravy really thin thin.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
It's like a broth almost, I don't know, but you
guys put a ton of flour into it. This whole
conversation is making me want an open faced turkey sandwich
at a diner somewhere very like stat like that's what
I'm having for lunch. I've now decided with French fries
with gravy on the French fries.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Yes, dip it, m hm. Gravy fries are the best.
All right. Mike's got your sports coach Tomlin talking yesterday.
He was ornery.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
He was ornery yesterday someone someone did something to his weedies.
I'm not sure who.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
But he talked about his advice to Jamar Chase, which
or rather Jalen Ramsey after being spat upon by Jamar Chase,
which essentially boiled down to do what you gotta do
when somebody spits on you. Brett the Diesel keysl will
join us at eight forty five. We'll ask him his
thoughts on that, and he's got a really cool charity
promotion to talk about. Meryl Hodge Dang seven forty five
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and if comment are coming up, mister Wednesday, Jeff Conkle
hanging with us as well.
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It's wait and see for the Steelers regarding Aaron Rodgers'
potential availability on Sunday in Chicago, but Mike Tomlin knows
Mason Rudolph will be ready if called upon, as he
was again last Sunday.
Speaker 13 (21:42):
I can't say enough about Mason Rudolph. Although we're used
to it, it's still appreciated. He's proven over his time
here that he's capable of coming in and playing winning
football for us.
Speaker 8 (21:55):
And that's no small task. When you're prepared.
Speaker 13 (21:59):
During the course of the week as a backup, you
have a limited number of reps. Usually the guts of
the plan are geared toward the specific talents of the starters,
and so you may get some reps, but it might
not be quote unquote plays that are you know, perfectly
in your wheelhouse. He's always found a way to manage
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those challenges, to remain confident, for that confidence to ooze
out of him and be a catalyst for a collective performance.
Speaker 10 (22:28):
And we got that the confidence oozes out of him.
Speaker 8 (22:33):
That's remarkable and it's probably true.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
I don't think literally, but yeah, I don't think you
have a mustache like that unless you are confident.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
You need to be pretty sure of yourself.
Speaker 8 (22:43):
To be rocking that.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
I think that is the ooze that is that's coming out.
It's Harry OOHZ.
Speaker 10 (22:49):
Quarterback Will Howard was only recently added to the Steelers
active roster from injured reserve, but he'll be warming up
in the bullpen this week as well.
Speaker 13 (23:00):
Who's been with us the whole time, and so he's
a sharp guy. Like the general trajectory of his work,
he's certainly in the position that he's in doesn't get
a lot of quote unquote stealer reps. But the reps
that he does get he has taken advantage of. And
I'm sure they'll be upticking those opportunities this week.
Speaker 10 (23:19):
Well, Howard one snap away from the President's Oh goodness,
Rodgers is unavailable.
Speaker 4 (23:24):
I wonder what kind of package they have ready for
that circumstance.
Speaker 8 (23:28):
Hand off, hand off, hand off.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Bootle, jumbo hand off boot leg. Let's try a handoff. Hey,
what do you think about a handoff?
Speaker 8 (23:35):
Whatever? We run yet?
Speaker 4 (23:36):
I think they should be doing that with Aaron Rodgers,
but they should be running the ball more.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Yes, this is the started to I think he had
ten carries before he got hurt.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Jalen Warren this this weekend.
Speaker 10 (23:46):
It seemed like they were starting to lean into that
and traditionally this is the time when you do it,
when when the weather gets worse.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
And gravy sounds attractive. It gets to the uh it's
gravy ball later.
Speaker 10 (23:56):
Latter stages of the season, and uh, you just got
to start grinding it out.
Speaker 8 (24:01):
Uh, we'll see what.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
We'll see you up.
Speaker 10 (24:03):
Friday is probably when the Rogers situation will resolve itself
one way or the other. If he can practice and
and and they like what they see in terms of
his ability to protect himself and function with whatever brace
they come up with for his wrist.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
And like we were saying earlier, his past history against
the Bears and his success in Chicago doesn't mean a thing.
Although it is fun to torture Bears fans, Yeah, very true,
but also let's win the game.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
You know, he could do the independence they thing. Hello, boys, I.
Speaker 4 (24:40):
Don't know if there's anybody on this team that would
have the fear of God struck into them seeing Aaron
Rodgers bounce onto that, Yeah, you know what I mean.
It's like, I think there's been enough turnover that nobody
is gonna shiver.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
I'll tell you who's shivering.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
Is anyone who has to cover Darnell Washington this week
is I would be pooping in my pants every single
night leading up.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
To that one. I wanted I be mainlining creatine.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
I'd be taking my meta musil, any powder I could take,
so yeah, well that would that would help the first
bar any any supplement I'm taking if I have to
get choke slammed by Darnell Washington.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
I guess yes I did that.
Speaker 4 (25:19):
But if you go down to the Strip District right now,
I want to see the Darnell Washington shirts that are
being cranked out right now.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
I'm sure that there's some hilarious ones.
Speaker 4 (25:27):
I know he was Kyle Brandt's Angry Run of the
Week and they have a te he's selling a T shirt.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
They sell a T shirt every week with the Angry
Run of the Week. I didn't realize that one. I've
showed you mine, Randy.
Speaker 14 (25:39):
I have the one where a couple of years ago,
Jayleen Warren and Naja Harris were co winners, oh sharing
the title. I warrant I warned to work that playoff
game against Buffalo you were talking about.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
I wore it for that game. I'm sorry I don't
remember that.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
If you're asking who's the market for this? You have
to I'm also I'm also somebody who bought a chain
Chase Claypool shirt the day after his four touchdown performance.
So I still have my Maple Tron logoed shirt from
Chase Claypool LLC. Oh yeah, Chase Klaypool dot com. Chase Claypool.
I went straight to Chase Claypool dot com. Oh my god,
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that's what I thought. I was all in. There's a
market out there for for for one off T shirts,
believe me.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Yeah, it's in Africa. Yeah, it's true.
Speaker 10 (26:25):
And that's where all the teams that didn't win the
championship or all their teachers Buffalo Bill's Super Bowl tips.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
Lots of Buffalo Bill Super Bowl championshirts there.
Speaker 10 (26:33):
Uh. The Jamar Chase suspension one game has been held
up by the NFL. Jordy Nelson was the hearing officer
in that case. Also, it's so funny because it's like
NFL court. It sounds so official. Three time Pro Bowl
watching Beckham Junior officially reinstated by the NFL yesterday.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
Okay, what can you do? Did we tell a free agent?
Didn't we not want him last year already?
Speaker 10 (27:00):
Maybe I'm just saying, right now, yeah, turn over every
friggin rock that you can say they got MVS.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
They're collecting rocks, like you know who collects rocks, that
person a geologist.
Speaker 10 (27:13):
You ask yourself one question, can this make them better
at wide receiver? The answer is maybe you can't make
them worse, that's for certain.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
I feel like that works only if Rogers is fully
at the helm at the height of his powers. He's
the only lion tamer that contame that that lion. And
I mean, the dude is extremely talented, but literally, his
reputation has preceded him every single stop on his career.
Like you need somebody that can break that stallion down.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
He might have some gas left in them. I'm not
promoting it.
Speaker 10 (27:45):
I'm just saying, if they don't kick the tires, they're
not doing their job well.
Speaker 4 (27:48):
At you pointed out earlier, Mason went out and found
DK right away, And it seems to me that we
all thought Aaron Rodgers and DK would be on the
same page on everything, and that is just not the
case at all.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
Lately they have not been.
Speaker 4 (28:00):
I don't think if you look at the entire season,
they've only had a couple of connections that looked like
what we thought it was gonna be every Sunday, and
it's been the opposite. Those are the outliers, the times
they've connected, and even a couple of those were DK
yacking it up like it was like a you know,
eight yard pass and he got twenty yards.
Speaker 10 (28:21):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, But that that's a quarterback stat because
when you hit the guy and he's open, Yeah, that's true,
and he's running, then he can do that.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
That's true.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
All right, Well, let's bring Meryl Hodge into the conversation.
We'll to do a quick break. We'll come back with Meryl,
but Abby will have your news at the top of
the hour.
Speaker 5 (28:37):
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Speaker 2 (30:03):
Ladies and gentlemen, Meryl hod Jonings right now, it's up, merw.
Speaker 8 (30:08):
Good morning. Has everybody doing.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
I mean we're doing all right. A nice win over
the Bengals. Things went our way.
Speaker 4 (30:13):
It's kind of strange the way that second half unfolded up.
I would have liked to have seen the offense be
a little more productive. But you know, look, both times
that Mason Rudolph had the ball in the second half,
the engineered scoring drives, it just ate up a lot
of the clock. We won the time of possession by
five seconds or whatever, what ten seconds?
Speaker 2 (30:30):
That was nice for once. But my question to you
is this.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
How did you think the Steelers looked with Mason Rudolph
at quarterback?
Speaker 8 (30:39):
But it didn't bat Actually.
Speaker 15 (30:40):
I thought Mason's played really well once you settled down,
got you know I got. I think it's hard for
people to understand, you know, backup. They don't get a
lot of reps like you have to be You have
to pay attention, you have to like to really be
a good backup. You got to be a real pro.
I mean, you have you have to do work on
the side. You have to walk through everything in your
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head because you don't physically get to do it. So anyway,
that time somebody enters, you know, in a backup role,
especially quarterback, you can always tell what kind of pro
they are. And and I think Nason's always been a
great pro. I think he's always been prepared. You could
tell he was prepared. I thought he was sharp. Once
he settled in many moves offense efficiently, he functioned how
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he wanted him to function, and he finished the game
off like you needed to finish. He did everything you
would want your backup to do. In a scenario like that.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
It seems like Aaron Rodgers is still not comfortable or
as comfortable as I was hoping he was going to
be at quarterback, particularly as it pertains to his relationship
with DK.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
We were just talking about that before the break.
Speaker 4 (31:45):
What do you think it is that it's keeping them
from having the connection we had hoped we'd see.
Speaker 8 (31:51):
Yeah, well, I know what you're talking about.
Speaker 15 (31:53):
There's not this this systematic rhythm that you're right.
Speaker 8 (31:58):
She used a lot of passing.
Speaker 15 (31:59):
Games, you know right now, And still I think that's
just a large product of just everybody's still new, you know. Now, Listen,
everybody tries to, you know, take DK away. Then they
try to double him. They do that their very best.
They're going to neutralize that guy. That's gonna be that's
a guarantee going into everything. That's why, you know, moving
him around a lot is what you gotta do, and
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that's always a challenge.
Speaker 8 (32:20):
It's not necessarily easy to do that. And then they've
been inconsistent in other spots.
Speaker 15 (32:26):
You know, tight ends have you know, have played a
big role, and when they're part of it, they're better.
You know, I think that in the passing game, you know,
we've been inconsistent upfront though, and.
Speaker 8 (32:37):
I and then that that that's I.
Speaker 15 (32:39):
Think where some of it lies, not all of it,
because actually thought Aaron you know, he missed and throws
or missing reads that he normally doesn't miss in the
first half of the Cincinnati game. And I since that
there's times he's playing faster than he he's normal. He
already plays fast, but he's playing faster. I think he
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wants to play. And a lot of that is, you know,
some pressures that he's constantly getting, especially from the left side,
you know, and that plays a role in it. It's
it's not slolely that because you know Aaron has you know,
there's moment for he can play better too, And I'm
there's probably probably no but knows that more than him
being around for as long as he's played.
Speaker 8 (33:22):
But I still think that though.
Speaker 15 (33:24):
You know, the running game is getting so much better,
and I think the better that gets, the better they're
getting a passing game, you know, And the more they
incorporate the tight ends, the more you can control the
mills of the field, the more that does create opportunities
on the perimeter.
Speaker 8 (33:38):
That is just a known fact in the NFL.
Speaker 15 (33:40):
Like if you can control the hash man the hash area,
you can control the perimeter and you have a great
chance of having a complete passing game.
Speaker 8 (33:49):
So I think they're building on that.
Speaker 15 (33:50):
I see that, and so I see good things evolving
versus bad. I know it's it's probably stagnant based on
you know, how you see it.
Speaker 8 (33:59):
I think a lot of people to see it that way.
But I do see growth on the way.
Speaker 10 (34:03):
Meryl, they stop the run against Indianapolis, Can they stop
the run against Chicago?
Speaker 8 (34:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 15 (34:11):
I mean if Chicott was committed to it, they're not
as good as Indianapolis, So yes, and that's going to
be an oppositive priority because they stay committed to it.
Speaker 8 (34:22):
They do a good job and so I'll see what
they do. Good job of off.
Speaker 15 (34:25):
You know, everybody calls it like there's there's three types
of action. Everybody says it's play action. Everybody goes a
play action, play acts. Okay, that is that is only
true like a third of the time. There's three Okay.
Play action is when the quarterback and running back do
some type of action in the backfield and the ALFs
Lions pass blocking.
Speaker 8 (34:44):
Run action is where offensive linemen come off like they're blocking.
Speaker 15 (34:49):
Your back looks like he's going to get the ball,
your quarterback makes it look like he's going to hand
it handed ball off. That's run action. And then there's
our po action where it's a run pass options. So
there's three actions that go in football, and nobody ever
mentioned run action, which is to me, the most lethal
part and way to throw the football. When you can
do that, man, you get big turn passing plays. And
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that's what the Chicago's gotten better at that they sell
run action.
Speaker 8 (35:17):
They paralyzed the box.
Speaker 15 (35:19):
All you got to do is freeze anybody in the
box for half a second or even a safety half
a second, and you got them and they do a
really really good job of that. So, you know, defending
the run is critical, but you got to know when
to run the ball and not run the football too,
because Dustinia with some passing plays off of that run
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action with their tight ends and their wide receivers.
Speaker 4 (35:43):
Defensively, they looked really good against Joe Flacco compared to
the first time they played them when they let up,
you know, four hundred yards passing. Yeah, how much of
it has to do with the reconfiguration of the defense
with Ramsey at safety now at the addition of Dougger uh,
and how much of it is just well, the guys
are actually doing what they were supposed to do in
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the first place.
Speaker 15 (36:06):
Well, they did a better job up from it. First
of all, they controlled the line scream so much better.
And Joe was off. I've seen I watched Joe forever.
I mean I could tell when Joe's like, I can
tell you what I.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
Think that did that you think the TJ did that?
It could have because he was I.
Speaker 15 (36:22):
Could just tell he was not the same Joe I've
seen in Cincinnati since he got there. Now that being said,
that's just part of it. You know, there made a
couple of wrinkles. You know, in the last game, they
were gonna double Higgins, both of them.
Speaker 8 (36:40):
Gosh, Dad Higgins and the other guy.
Speaker 15 (36:45):
Jim Chris as.
Speaker 8 (36:55):
The safety over there.
Speaker 15 (36:56):
Yeah, I guess, but you know what, they doubled both
of them in the last matchup, and they did the
same in this matchup. It's their third wide receiver killed us.
And so what they did in this matchup is they
put Joey Porter on me. They didn't use Jorge Porter
in doubles, which is actually that's like like some of
what you do strategfied. Let's say you got the best
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wide receiver, sometimes you don't put your best cover guy
on him.
Speaker 8 (37:20):
You double that guy and you put your.
Speaker 15 (37:22):
Best cover guy in the second best guy, and then
that the way you can neutralize two guys.
Speaker 8 (37:27):
And so I thought that that.
Speaker 15 (37:29):
Change of scheme helped, you know, they I thought they
did a much better job on the back end that
and like I said, they did a good job in
the front and that always helps the back end when
they do a better job up there. But that changed
too stematically made a big difference in how they handled
their passing attack.
Speaker 1 (37:47):
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Speaker 2 (37:58):
We'll see it. Matt's Merril Keesel coming up a little
bit late.
Speaker 4 (38:01):
We didn't even ask Meryl about spitting, but I think
I know where he stands on being spat upon. I'm
sure he had some story about Levon Kirkland Beings that.
Speaker 2 (38:09):
We didn't get to.
Speaker 4 (38:11):
Brett Eesel and PFT comment are on the way. Abbey
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So not only do you get it at the top
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Speaker 1 (00:34):
Today, Jeff is still right, Yeah, this better well with
the news that the pirates are all in, why not
just get all jovial and celebrate.
Speaker 5 (00:42):
Yeah, because they're totally different. Now you can change him,
just words, his behaviors, pecking it up. Finally, Oh it's different.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
I don't believe it, no, I I you know, we
were talking off air about it. This guy has taken
so much flak from fans for so long. Why would
this be any different? How would this straw break this
unbreakable camel's back like years ago? Didn't you know? Because
I heard you guys talking on the way in that
they're going to bring in these these unknown, you know,
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relatively unknown Japanese pictures into me. That's like your friends
saying like, I have a girlfriend, but she lives in
Peters and you're like, oh, yeah, show me a picture
of her, you know, like it's it. You don't believe
it until she shows up at prom basically yeah, and
then it's and then it's his cousin.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Well, they always get excited about people that you don't know.
Do you remember Rinku and Dinesh. Yeah, so that's what
I'm talking about. They're like, you gotta see there's a
cricket player.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
They keep trying to find things that sort of it's
an it's an ellipse trying to get fit into a
circular hole and they just hope they can jam it in.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Uh on the way for you.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
A little bit later on Merril Hodge talking Steelers, Dang
Brett Keez All the Beard joins us today to PFT
commenter Steelers getting set for the Bears this weekend. We
were talking about this at the top of the hour
to start the show this morning.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Jeff, are you an only child? No younger sister young
Did you ever do the dangling spit?
Speaker 2 (02:08):
No, not to her.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
I probably pulled some stuff, but nothing like that because
the repercussions. Because the dangling spit, you can lose if
you unless you have total control, if that thing falls down,
you're committing assault. You know, uh, and then I was
a little afraid of what my dad would do if
I spit on my sister, like it would be it'd
be through the dry wall time.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
I think.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
I think there were many times where I had to
avoid a spit that the you know where the contiguous
line of saliva breaks when it gets too heavy on
the end where I dodged the bullet matrix.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Style and then it just hits the carpet.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
And you're like stop, that one was really closed, and
then another one home comes down and then like the
person with the spit is also laughing.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
With There's always times too where that somebody would really
get like whatever their protein structure makeup in their saliva
was that day made their spit like a chameleon tongue
and they could like pick up pieces of paper off
of the desk.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
And then just like flick a paper clip up or
something that would be it. It was cool right back.
I wanted to see that in the hallway.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
Yeah, you just reminded me of somebody in middle school
that used to be able to do the thing where
they could shoot.
Speaker 6 (03:21):
Spit like just goods underneath their like you know, like
a pencil and you just see like a buckshot spray
of fine mist of saliva.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Like I think that's called a gleek.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
I've done that to people just talking where you're like
and it just flies out.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Of here and you're like, oh my god, that's one
of those ones you immediately want to be like goodbye,
never talk to me again. I can't, right, Which is
why I always thought that it must have been interesting
being coached by Bill Cower because the amount of voluntary well,
just like the spit that was coming out of his mouth,
he couldn't control that.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
It was just it's his jaw makeup. I mean, that
is a reservoir of the that is.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
There's two cisterns worth of uh salivan.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
So like the amount of gleeking that's going on as
he's yelling, and those guys have to sit there and
you have to determine which one's intentional and what's not.
Because we've now all agreed, even coach Tomlin has backed
it up. When a man spits on another man, all
bets are off. Do what you think is necessary. Well,
when your coach is yelling at you and he's spitting
on you, there has to be like a line of
(04:24):
like Okay, that was too much spit.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
You know it's not funny though, because like, if a
man spits on you, you have to fist fight him.
But if a man drools on you, what happens then,
well that's not a fist fight.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
It's intention.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
It's all about so you gotta make icon if someone's yeah,
saliva and eye contact equals fist fights, saliva and and
closed eyes or you know, ambivalent attitude, that's just a
that's just a ah, come on, man, give him in
a spit and never mind.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
Uh, well, teach a man to spit. Abby's got your
news right now. On the DV Morning Show. Do you
know how to gleek? I don't think you can make it.
I don't think you can do it intentionally. Can people
do it intentionally?
Speaker 5 (05:03):
At some point you have to find out that you
can do it though, That's true, Like and I don't
know how you find.
Speaker 7 (05:09):
Out you can do it, and then I don't know
how you practice.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
It's like flicking your eyelids inside out, Like at some
point you got to try that and see if it works.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Do you ever see the people who can make their
eyeballs shake?
Speaker 8 (05:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (05:19):
I used to be able to do that.
Speaker 8 (05:20):
Shut.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
I don't know if I can do that right now,
you're gonna have to give to talk amongst yourselves in press.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Please don't do it.
Speaker 7 (05:25):
It will make me.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Yeah, I can do it. I just check it.
Speaker 7 (05:28):
It'll make me sick.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Let me see it. Let's say I have to look.
You have to come here and I have to look
at something.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Did he do it? I mean it's it's it's it's slight.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
I've lost some of my my my my muscle memory
in my old age, I haven't had to do that
in a while.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
No, I'm not offended by that, but but a spit
I would be offended by.
Speaker 9 (05:44):
No.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
You can make crazy eyeballs at whoever you want, but
you can't spit on anybody. And jam Ar Chase is
going to be sitting out this week. I don't remember
who the Bengals are playing, but two weeks from now,
on Thanksgiving he will be back for the Thanksgiving Night
game Ravens Bengals. Great games all day long, Well Thanksgiving.
I'm excited for that big game for the Steelers. And
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will Aaron Rodgers be playing this Sunday?
Speaker 2 (06:08):
We don't know. Broken rest, what's your.
Speaker 5 (06:11):
Confidence level in Mason. If he's in, I'm all in
on Mason.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
I think I have established myself as team Mason for
two years agoing now that I.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Didn't think we needed to bring in Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
I'm still of the opinion that he may be writing
the greatest story in all of NFL history. Like if
you look at his like you know, the bullet points
of his story.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
If he can turn this around and do something.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
In the postseason spectacular, this might be the greatest character
arc in all of all of NFL history.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
But he is in the sweet spot right now. He's
in the Charlie.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Batch spot, which expecting that much of you expectations are low,
you deliver, you get the w you know, if he
gets to the postseason again, which he did last year.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
And uh, or was it last year two years ago?
Did we lose to Buffalo? I don't even It's all
the whole Kenny Pickett era. Yeah, anything post COVID is
all one.
Speaker 7 (07:07):
Big, very traumatic.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
I think it was last year we lost a Buffalo
in the first week, all right, that team we didn't
have a lot of confidence in.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Well, now we got.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
DK Metcalf, you know, and uh, Jalen Warren seems to be.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
I think he's a premier back.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
The defense is supposed to be historic, and they keep
adding these, you know, legendary caliber players that they're somehow
pulling off a scrap people like a Sante Samuel and
uh Dugger in the secondary.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
So yeah, but we're we have a lead quarterback who's
on a subscription plan for Advil like that.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
That's the problem.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
I think that if he can take a snap, he's
going to start this weekend. But yeah, but but if
it if it hurts, and there's a potential of him
fumbling in exchange, I think you.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Got to set them. But that's what I'm saying, like,
do you want him out there at eighty percent? No?
I don't. I don't.
Speaker 5 (07:59):
I say, heel get better, you know what, men hail already.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
I'm tired of that.
Speaker 7 (08:10):
Stop showing up half healed.
Speaker 5 (08:12):
I also just personally didn't think like I thought everybody
was a little nonplussed about Mason coming in and doing
as well as he did. I thought everybody kind of
was like, oh, yeah, that's yeah, that's what will garbage
And I'm kind of like, but but also he was
second half, I know, but he went three for three
on third down conversions on his first drive, and he
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connected with Metcalf more than Rogers did.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
It was an OPI, but.
Speaker 7 (08:36):
He connected with them. Like why did Why did he
not get as much of a hero's welcome as eyes.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
I'm saying though, is that he has always been like
there's been this like underlying, like sort of like little
disdain for for Mason.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
I don't know why.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
I don't think you know why, because he came in
to replace Ben and we've never really quite got over
the fact that he was the understudy to one of
our favorite quarterbacks.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Wasn't he didn't he come in the place?
Speaker 8 (09:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (09:03):
Well, Ben was not thrilled about that because he thought
they wasted a draft choice because he had plenty of
years left and so he kind of redheaded step child,
yeah right, And that didn't help his I mean, I
don't know that it hurt his development at all, but
it didn't help the perception with fans and.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
He look, he it took a while for him to
actli me.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
But when he came in last year and won those
three games in a row, it changed everything.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
And there were a lot of people saying at the
beginning of last year that he was the best quarterback
on our roster with you know, Mitch Trubisky, Jeddy Pickett.
So there was a faction of people who thought, like,
this is the most talented guy we got. Is he
good enough caliber NFL quarterback to lead you to the
playoffs and then a championship? I don't know, but sometimes
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that takes experience, and we see that all the time.
He appears to be getting better. And if you look
at the film, and when I say look at the film,
I mean the stuff that people posted on Twitter that
I happen to scroll by.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
He's standing much taller in the pocket than Aaron Rodgers
has been. Aaron Rodgers is skittish right now. He is
looking to get killed because he's been getting killed. It
also hurts a lot more when you're forty one and
you have already existing injuries.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
So he's here in footsteps. He's seeing ghosts back there
a little bit right now. Mason Rudolph is not doing that.
Is he as good as Aaron Rodgers are? Processing? No,
can we win it win this game with Mason Rudolph. Absolutely,
I'm gonna gleak all over the place. I'm getting very excited.
What do you think about this. Let's throw Will Howard
in there for a quarter and just now, now, let's
(10:37):
just get it over with, kidd Well like Shudor Sanders, like, yes,
this is what you want for.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
That's exactly right.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Let's just get it over with and maybe he'll surprise us,
but maybe not, and then we'll then we'll then that'll
close that chapter for a little bit.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Now.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
I mean, you know, that just shuts up a few
voices right now, there is.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Those voices need to be shut off, I think, no question.
I mean, he's had zero reps, he's had zero experience.
That's what makes that fun.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
Sure, you'll you know what, I'm all for letting him
play the entire preseason next year with whomever they have
to negotiated.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
And I'm not saying that.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
That dude might not one day be a capable NFL quarterback.
He's just not close to being the best on the
roster right now.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Listen, He's tall, and he's handsome, and he seems nice.
So that's why people people seem to like him. Nice
guy Triscard National championship winner.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
So I think that that ads adds to it.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Plus there's a ton of Buckeye fans in Pittsburgh and
that has.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
A lot to do with it too.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Really, you think there's a lot of Ohio State I mean,
I know that we butt right up against them, but
I'm surprised, I don't I never get that sense.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
Yeah, I think, well, I think there's a don't forget
there's a lot of Steeler fans in that. Yes, going
to Columbus, you know what I mean. Like, I think
there's like between Cincinnati and Cleveland, there is a part
of Ohio they has to get big Steeler fan contingency. So,
uh that now almost I'm all for number two being
in under center this weekend.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
I just I'm fine with it. Let's just keep the
train rolling.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
I feel like this team has been so schizophrenic you
don't know who you're dealing with on a day to
day basis. And I feel like, actually, now our inconsistency
is consistent, and that's but if you remember, that's sort
of what made the last couple of seasons. I know,
they've been disappointing, you know, but they have been fun
and there's been lots to talk about, and they have
been engaging, and there's been lots of stuff like that
from a drama stand from a drama perspective, never disappoints
(12:29):
on the sofa turned from like the Sopranos to the
Real Housewives, and the ratings are fine like so it
doesn't really matter either way. I'm entertained. Abby's got a
news update for you. Now, what's going on?
Speaker 5 (12:39):
There is this hour brought to you by Keystone Basement Systems,
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brightening sky with peaks of sunshine today a high fifty.
These last few months of the year are filled with
leftover Halloween candy and then gravy and then sweet.
Speaker 7 (12:56):
But maybe that weight that we're gaining isn't our fault.
Speaker 5 (13:00):
Study finds has an article on how cold weather makes
us crave food. Some of it comes down to our biology,
not our lack of will power. The average person gains
one to two pounds during the coldest months of the year,
and it's partly because your body just wants to Cold
weather triggers hormonal changes that make you hungrier and prevent
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you from feeling full. Now, the lack of sunlight doesn't
help either. It lowers your dopamine and your serotonin levels,
and it makes you crave more carbohydrates.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
It's not the pillowcase full of twigs that are still
staying in my house that I'm walking by every day, dude,
slamming like four or five of at a time. That's
what you're telling me. You're telling me that's natural.
Speaker 10 (13:42):
See.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
What I take away from that story is that it's
proof positive of the thing that I always wondered if
there was any truth to, which is why why am
I craving soup?
Speaker 4 (13:52):
Why am I craving a stew? Why do I want
a big hearty meal on a Sunday night?
Speaker 5 (13:57):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (13:57):
I want pot roast and potato? And it is?
Speaker 4 (14:00):
Is it just the excuse I give myself to eat
like a pig, Like, well it's cold, i'd better have,
you know, pork and sour kraut and mashed potatoes and
like stuff that just sticks to you.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Everything that you said right there is served piping hot, though,
I think that's a temperature thing. Mashed potatoes, piping hot, stew,
piping hot, Those things warm your insides. I think that's
the craving that you're having right there. It's not get
internal warmth. My dad would make summer turkeys. Oh, he
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loved turkey dinner. He thought it was the greatest thing
in the world. And once he taught himself how to
do it, he would make in July. He'd be like
having turkey on Sunday, turkey stuffing maxed potatoes. See, I
feel like that works with a big family. Like in
my family, we would be eating turkey for four and
a half weeks cent.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
At that point like that, After that, that's no good.
But gravy once the weather. There must be something to
the dopamine part of it too. I believe that gravy
serves the same purpose as meth I think that it
really gets your brain moving in the right direction somehow.
Is there anything that can Is there a methadone?
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Is there anything that wean you off of gravy like
clarified butter?
Speaker 2 (15:01):
I don't know, Like what's gee?
Speaker 8 (15:03):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
But couldn't that.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Be nostalgia too, Like you associate fall and winter with
the ghost of Christmas past or something. I think that
taste and smell have as much of a nostalgia poll
as anything. And Sundays during football season, and I've said
this many times before. I would hear the voice of
the four o'clock game guy doing the Raiders in the
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Broncos charge. I don't remember it was Charlie Joyner who
it was, but that voice I would hear and I
would associate it with something was in the crock pot,
and that means when we're getting rolls and apple sauce
and like all that stuff. So I think there is
an element to I'm watching a four o'clock game it's
dark outside already, because it is always Once it shifts
(15:47):
to now it's dark outside, and then I start to
crave all of those same things that I grew up with.
On Sunday, which is the big hearty meal, which is
probably the only time my family ate together.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
I was on a Sunday night. See Abby, We're just
eating our childhood.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
That's really the that's really just trying to be happy,
just trying to get it down the hatch.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
That's all I do.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
Like that, she pointed out, She's like, men, you just
heal that we actually are taking our emotional cues from
how we've been told to perform in sports our entire life.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Just rub dirt on it, keep moving forward.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
I always laugh when when women are like, like, you
know how they act when men are sick, you know,
they're just like, oh, you're being a big baby, you know,
being a big baby. But it's the dichotomy between women
also being like I.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Just want you to be vulnerable.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
I just want you to like, why don't you show
me some vulnerability and then the second you're like, my throat.
Speaker 5 (16:35):
Hurts, like, oh, I want you to be vulnerable, just
not more vulnerable than me.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
Yes, that's a good point. Okay, there we go.
Speaker 8 (16:43):
You got them.
Speaker 5 (16:44):
Which, by the way, the gravy thing, because I don't
know what it is about gravy that's so wonderful.
Speaker 7 (16:51):
Like if I ever have an occasion to get a.
Speaker 5 (16:53):
Death row meal, which we'll see how it goes in
terms of having like, you know, partners that are sick or.
Speaker 7 (16:58):
Whatever, and like let's see what a see is.
Speaker 5 (17:00):
But if I ever have a death row meal, it's
probably gonna be mashed potatoes and gravy. Hines now has
a squeezeable gravy bottle.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
You before your pass judgment on this all right judgment,
I would just say that there are some really good
pre made gravy's out there. The gobble Rito at Mad
Max amazing that gravy. I mean, I can't imagine they're
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making that great like everyone is being made, Like they're
not making turkey stock every day.
Speaker 8 (17:38):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Maybe that I'm saying, I.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
Don't know, but that whatever that gravy is, it might
be the best gravy I've ever had. It's incredible, But
there's also the existing hinds that's like in a it's
like turkey gravy in a little jar.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Yeah, in a pinch, dude, it works. You can just
dress it up a little bit. It's still gravy. It
was better than anything they had at Boston Market.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
I think, just what do you do though? Do you
microwave the bottle? Gravy has to come out hot. It
has to come out.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Hot, slow pot, slow pot. Oh okay, Like see.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Yeah, I'm not envisioning that you squirt it over poutine,
like you know, it's not a table side condiment like
that's got to get brought out on a in a
gravy boat. That they have a whole thing, a gravy boat.
It's a vessel for the gravy.
Speaker 5 (18:24):
This okay, So let me read no whether food has
a Hines's l first ever squeezable gravy bottle featuring its
home style turkey gravy and it looks like it's a
bottle of stadium mustard. They say it's specifically for sandwiches,
inspired by the Friends episode where someone steals Ross's moist
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Maker sandwich which has which is made from Thanksgiving leftovers,
with the secret being a gravy soaked slice of bread
in the middle. It's available exclusively on Walmart dot com
and to get one, you need to buy a jar
version for a dollar eighty eight, and then they include
the limited edition Hines left Over Gravy Kit with the
squeezable version and a recipe card gravy Kit.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Never go anywhere without your gravy Kit.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
I just like the theory that there's a at some
point between Walmart and Hines, there was an exclusivity contract
that had to get decided between who's getting the rights
to this gravy thing. Where can we find the biggest
then diagram of turkey gravy.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Consumers who might drink it right out of the bottle.
Speaker 5 (19:31):
Right wall marked put it in a syringe clouds followed
by brightening sky and.
Speaker 7 (19:39):
Peaks of sunshine. Today it is going to be high
a fifty.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
Turkey gravy is the best gravy. Oh, definitely the best.
There's pork. You can make pork gravy.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
You make a pork loin, put a little soy sauce
and orange juice and the crockpot.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Reduce that if you can do.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
That's another thing though, Like that's a glaze almost, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
I consider it gravy. It's just made from drippings.
Speaker 5 (19:58):
Turkey gravy deliver on the salt. The pork gravy is
the fat.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Yeah, well no, I like that.
Speaker 7 (20:05):
And then chicken gravy, like is there.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
I've never had chicken gravey. Just pass gravy really thin thin.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
It's like a broth almost, I don't know, but you
guys put a ton of flour into it. This whole
conversation is making me want an open faced turkey sandwich
at a diner somewhere very like stat like that's what
I'm having for lunch. I've now decided with French fries
with gravy on the French fries.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Yes, dip it, m hm. Gravy fries are the best.
All right. Mike's got your sports coach Tomlin talking yesterday.
He was ornery.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
He was ornery yesterday someone someone did something to his weedies.
I'm not sure who.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
But he talked about his advice to Jamar Chase, which
or rather Jalen Ramsey after being spat upon by Jamar Chase,
which essentially boiled down to do what you gotta do
when somebody spits on you. Brett the Diesel keysl will
join us at eight forty five. We'll ask him his
thoughts on that, and he's got a really cool charity
promotion to talk about. Meryl Hodge Dang seven forty five
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and if comment are coming up, mister Wednesday, Jeff Conkle
hanging with us as well.
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Speaker 10 (21:29):
It's wait and see for the Steelers regarding Aaron Rodgers'
potential availability on Sunday in Chicago, but Mike Tomlin knows
Mason Rudolph will be ready if called upon, as he
was again last Sunday.
Speaker 13 (21:42):
I can't say enough about Mason Rudolph. Although we're used
to it, it's still appreciated. He's proven over his time
here that he's capable of coming in and playing winning
football for us.
Speaker 8 (21:55):
And that's no small task. When you're prepared.
Speaker 13 (21:59):
During the course of the week as a backup, you
have a limited number of reps. Usually the guts of
the plan are geared toward the specific talents of the starters,
and so you may get some reps, but it might
not be quote unquote plays that are you know, perfectly
in your wheelhouse. He's always found a way to manage
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those challenges, to remain confident, for that confidence to ooze
out of him and be a catalyst for a collective performance.
Speaker 10 (22:28):
And we got that the confidence oozes out of him.
Speaker 8 (22:33):
That's remarkable and it's probably true.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
I don't think literally, but yeah, I don't think you
have a mustache like that unless you are confident.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
You need to be pretty sure of yourself.
Speaker 8 (22:43):
To be rocking that.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
I think that is the ooze that is that's coming out.
It's Harry OOHZ.
Speaker 10 (22:49):
Quarterback Will Howard was only recently added to the Steelers
active roster from injured reserve, but he'll be warming up
in the bullpen this week as well.
Speaker 13 (23:00):
Who's been with us the whole time, and so he's
a sharp guy. Like the general trajectory of his work,
he's certainly in the position that he's in doesn't get
a lot of quote unquote stealer reps. But the reps
that he does get he has taken advantage of. And
I'm sure they'll be upticking those opportunities this week.
Speaker 10 (23:19):
Well, Howard one snap away from the President's Oh goodness,
Rodgers is unavailable.
Speaker 4 (23:24):
I wonder what kind of package they have ready for
that circumstance.
Speaker 8 (23:28):
Hand off, hand off, hand off.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Bootle, jumbo hand off boot leg. Let's try a handoff. Hey,
what do you think about a handoff?
Speaker 8 (23:35):
Whatever? We run yet?
Speaker 4 (23:36):
I think they should be doing that with Aaron Rodgers,
but they should be running the ball more.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Yes, this is the started to I think he had
ten carries before he got hurt.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Jalen Warren this this weekend.
Speaker 10 (23:46):
It seemed like they were starting to lean into that
and traditionally this is the time when you do it,
when when the weather gets worse.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
And gravy sounds attractive. It gets to the uh it's
gravy ball later.
Speaker 10 (23:56):
Latter stages of the season, and uh, you just got
to start grinding it out.
Speaker 8 (24:01):
Uh, we'll see what.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
We'll see you up.
Speaker 10 (24:03):
Friday is probably when the Rogers situation will resolve itself
one way or the other. If he can practice and
and and they like what they see in terms of
his ability to protect himself and function with whatever brace
they come up with for his wrist.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
And like we were saying earlier, his past history against
the Bears and his success in Chicago doesn't mean a thing.
Although it is fun to torture Bears fans, Yeah, very true,
but also let's win the game.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
You know, he could do the independence they thing. Hello, boys, I.
Speaker 4 (24:40):
Don't know if there's anybody on this team that would
have the fear of God struck into them seeing Aaron
Rodgers bounce onto that, Yeah, you know what I mean.
It's like, I think there's been enough turnover that nobody
is gonna shiver.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
I'll tell you who's shivering.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
Is anyone who has to cover Darnell Washington this week
is I would be pooping in my pants every single
night leading up.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
To that one. I wanted I be mainlining creatine.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
I'd be taking my meta musil, any powder I could take,
so yeah, well that would that would help the first
bar any any supplement I'm taking if I have to
get choke slammed by Darnell Washington.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
I guess yes I did that.
Speaker 4 (25:19):
But if you go down to the Strip District right now,
I want to see the Darnell Washington shirts that are
being cranked out right now.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
I'm sure that there's some hilarious ones.
Speaker 4 (25:27):
I know he was Kyle Brandt's Angry Run of the
Week and they have a te he's selling a T shirt.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
They sell a T shirt every week with the Angry
Run of the Week. I didn't realize that one. I've
showed you mine, Randy.
Speaker 14 (25:39):
I have the one where a couple of years ago,
Jayleen Warren and Naja Harris were co winners, oh sharing
the title. I warrant I warned to work that playoff
game against Buffalo you were talking about.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
I wore it for that game. I'm sorry I don't
remember that.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
If you're asking who's the market for this? You have
to I'm also I'm also somebody who bought a chain
Chase Claypool shirt the day after his four touchdown performance.
So I still have my Maple Tron logoed shirt from
Chase Claypool LLC. Oh yeah, Chase Klaypool dot com. Chase Claypool.
I went straight to Chase Claypool dot com. Oh my god,
(26:15):
that's what I thought. I was all in. There's a
market out there for for for one off T shirts,
believe me.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Yeah, it's in Africa. Yeah, it's true.
Speaker 10 (26:25):
And that's where all the teams that didn't win the
championship or all their teachers Buffalo Bill's Super Bowl tips.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
Lots of Buffalo Bill Super Bowl championshirts there.
Speaker 10 (26:33):
Uh. The Jamar Chase suspension one game has been held
up by the NFL. Jordy Nelson was the hearing officer
in that case. Also, it's so funny because it's like
NFL court. It sounds so official. Three time Pro Bowl
watching Beckham Junior officially reinstated by the NFL yesterday.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
Okay, what can you do? Did we tell a free agent?
Didn't we not want him last year already?
Speaker 10 (27:00):
Maybe I'm just saying, right now, yeah, turn over every
friggin rock that you can say they got MVS.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
They're collecting rocks, like you know who collects rocks, that
person a geologist.
Speaker 10 (27:13):
You ask yourself one question, can this make them better
at wide receiver? The answer is maybe you can't make
them worse, that's for certain.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
I feel like that works only if Rogers is fully
at the helm at the height of his powers. He's
the only lion tamer that contame that that lion. And
I mean, the dude is extremely talented, but literally, his
reputation has preceded him every single stop on his career.
Like you need somebody that can break that stallion down.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
He might have some gas left in them. I'm not
promoting it.
Speaker 10 (27:45):
I'm just saying, if they don't kick the tires, they're
not doing their job well.
Speaker 4 (27:48):
At you pointed out earlier, Mason went out and found
DK right away, And it seems to me that we
all thought Aaron Rodgers and DK would be on the
same page on everything, and that is just not the
case at all.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
Lately they have not been.
Speaker 4 (28:00):
I don't think if you look at the entire season,
they've only had a couple of connections that looked like
what we thought it was gonna be every Sunday, and
it's been the opposite. Those are the outliers, the times
they've connected, and even a couple of those were DK
yacking it up like it was like a you know,
eight yard pass and he got twenty yards.
Speaker 10 (28:21):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, But that that's a quarterback stat because
when you hit the guy and he's open, Yeah, that's true,
and he's running, then he can do that.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
That's true.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
All right, Well, let's bring Meryl Hodge into the conversation.
We'll to do a quick break. We'll come back with Meryl,
but Abby will have your news at the top of
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Speaker 2 (30:03):
Ladies and gentlemen, Meryl hod Jonings right now, it's up, merw.
Speaker 8 (30:08):
Good morning. Has everybody doing.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
I mean we're doing all right. A nice win over
the Bengals. Things went our way.
Speaker 4 (30:13):
It's kind of strange the way that second half unfolded up.
I would have liked to have seen the offense be
a little more productive. But you know, look, both times
that Mason Rudolph had the ball in the second half,
the engineered scoring drives, it just ate up a lot
of the clock. We won the time of possession by
five seconds or whatever, what ten seconds?
Speaker 2 (30:30):
That was nice for once. But my question to you
is this.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
How did you think the Steelers looked with Mason Rudolph
at quarterback?
Speaker 8 (30:39):
But it didn't bat Actually.
Speaker 15 (30:40):
I thought Mason's played really well once you settled down,
got you know I got. I think it's hard for
people to understand, you know, backup. They don't get a
lot of reps like you have to be You have
to pay attention, you have to like to really be
a good backup. You got to be a real pro.
I mean, you have you have to do work on
the side. You have to walk through everything in your
(31:01):
head because you don't physically get to do it. So anyway,
that time somebody enters, you know, in a backup role,
especially quarterback, you can always tell what kind of pro
they are. And and I think Nason's always been a
great pro. I think he's always been prepared. You could
tell he was prepared. I thought he was sharp. Once
he settled in many moves offense efficiently, he functioned how
(31:23):
he wanted him to function, and he finished the game
off like you needed to finish. He did everything you
would want your backup to do. In a scenario like that.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
It seems like Aaron Rodgers is still not comfortable or
as comfortable as I was hoping he was going to
be at quarterback, particularly as it pertains to his relationship
with DK.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
We were just talking about that before the break.
Speaker 4 (31:45):
What do you think it is that it's keeping them
from having the connection we had hoped we'd see.
Speaker 8 (31:51):
Yeah, well, I know what you're talking about.
Speaker 15 (31:53):
There's not this this systematic rhythm that you're right.
Speaker 8 (31:58):
She used a lot of passing.
Speaker 15 (31:59):
Games, you know right now, And still I think that's
just a large product of just everybody's still new, you know. Now, Listen,
everybody tries to, you know, take DK away. Then they
try to double him. They do that their very best.
They're going to neutralize that guy. That's gonna be that's
a guarantee going into everything. That's why, you know, moving
him around a lot is what you gotta do, and
(32:19):
that's always a challenge.
Speaker 8 (32:20):
It's not necessarily easy to do that. And then they've
been inconsistent in other spots.
Speaker 15 (32:26):
You know, tight ends have you know, have played a
big role, and when they're part of it, they're better.
You know, I think that in the passing game, you know,
we've been inconsistent upfront though, and.
Speaker 8 (32:37):
I and then that that that's I.
Speaker 15 (32:39):
Think where some of it lies, not all of it,
because actually thought Aaron you know, he missed and throws
or missing reads that he normally doesn't miss in the
first half of the Cincinnati game. And I since that
there's times he's playing faster than he he's normal. He
already plays fast, but he's playing faster. I think he
(33:00):
wants to play. And a lot of that is, you know,
some pressures that he's constantly getting, especially from the left side,
you know, and that plays a role in it. It's
it's not slolely that because you know Aaron has you know,
there's moment for he can play better too, And I'm
there's probably probably no but knows that more than him
being around for as long as he's played.
Speaker 8 (33:22):
But I still think that though.
Speaker 15 (33:24):
You know, the running game is getting so much better,
and I think the better that gets, the better they're
getting a passing game, you know, And the more they
incorporate the tight ends, the more you can control the
mills of the field, the more that does create opportunities
on the perimeter.
Speaker 8 (33:38):
That is just a known fact in the NFL.
Speaker 15 (33:40):
Like if you can control the hash man the hash area,
you can control the perimeter and you have a great
chance of having a complete passing game.
Speaker 8 (33:49):
So I think they're building on that.
Speaker 15 (33:50):
I see that, and so I see good things evolving
versus bad. I know it's it's probably stagnant based on
you know, how you see it.
Speaker 8 (33:59):
I think a lot of people to see it that way.
But I do see growth on the way.
Speaker 10 (34:03):
Meryl, they stop the run against Indianapolis, Can they stop
the run against Chicago?
Speaker 8 (34:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 15 (34:11):
I mean if Chicott was committed to it, they're not
as good as Indianapolis, So yes, and that's going to
be an oppositive priority because they stay committed to it.
Speaker 8 (34:22):
They do a good job and so I'll see what
they do. Good job of off.
Speaker 15 (34:25):
You know, everybody calls it like there's there's three types
of action. Everybody says it's play action. Everybody goes a
play action, play acts. Okay, that is that is only
true like a third of the time. There's three Okay.
Play action is when the quarterback and running back do
some type of action in the backfield and the ALFs
Lions pass blocking.
Speaker 8 (34:44):
Run action is where offensive linemen come off like they're blocking.
Speaker 15 (34:49):
Your back looks like he's going to get the ball,
your quarterback makes it look like he's going to hand
it handed ball off. That's run action. And then there's
our po action where it's a run pass options. So
there's three actions that go in football, and nobody ever
mentioned run action, which is to me, the most lethal
part and way to throw the football. When you can
do that, man, you get big turn passing plays. And
(35:14):
that's what the Chicago's gotten better at that they sell
run action.
Speaker 8 (35:17):
They paralyzed the box.
Speaker 15 (35:19):
All you got to do is freeze anybody in the
box for half a second or even a safety half
a second, and you got them and they do a
really really good job of that. So, you know, defending
the run is critical, but you got to know when
to run the ball and not run the football too,
because Dustinia with some passing plays off of that run
(35:40):
action with their tight ends and their wide receivers.
Speaker 4 (35:43):
Defensively, they looked really good against Joe Flacco compared to
the first time they played them when they let up,
you know, four hundred yards passing. Yeah, how much of
it has to do with the reconfiguration of the defense
with Ramsey at safety now at the addition of Dougger uh,
and how much of it is just well, the guys
are actually doing what they were supposed to do in
(36:04):
the first place.
Speaker 15 (36:06):
Well, they did a better job up from it. First
of all, they controlled the line scream so much better.
And Joe was off. I've seen I watched Joe forever.
I mean I could tell when Joe's like, I can
tell you what I.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
Think that did that you think the TJ did that?
It could have because he was I.
Speaker 15 (36:22):
Could just tell he was not the same Joe I've
seen in Cincinnati since he got there. Now that being said,
that's just part of it. You know, there made a
couple of wrinkles. You know, in the last game, they
were gonna double Higgins, both of them.
Speaker 8 (36:40):
Gosh, Dad Higgins and the other guy.
Speaker 15 (36:45):
Jim Chris as.
Speaker 8 (36:55):
The safety over there.
Speaker 15 (36:56):
Yeah, I guess, but you know what, they doubled both
of them in the last matchup, and they did the
same in this matchup. It's their third wide receiver killed us.
And so what they did in this matchup is they
put Joey Porter on me. They didn't use Jorge Porter
in doubles, which is actually that's like like some of
what you do strategfied. Let's say you got the best
(37:17):
wide receiver, sometimes you don't put your best cover guy
on him.
Speaker 8 (37:20):
You double that guy and you put your.
Speaker 15 (37:22):
Best cover guy in the second best guy, and then
that the way you can neutralize two guys.
Speaker 8 (37:27):
And so I thought that that.
Speaker 15 (37:29):
Change of scheme helped, you know, they I thought they
did a much better job on the back end that
and like I said, they did a good job in
the front and that always helps the back end when
they do a better job up there. But that changed
too stematically made a big difference in how they handled
their passing attack.
Speaker 1 (37:47):
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Speaker 2 (37:58):
We'll see it. Matt's Merril Keesel coming up a little
bit late.
Speaker 4 (38:01):
We didn't even ask Meryl about spitting, but I think
I know where he stands on being spat upon. I'm
sure he had some story about Levon Kirkland Beings that.
Speaker 2 (38:09):
We didn't get to.
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