January 12, 2026 • 42 mins
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Human to Harbaugh is tell you likely how special that
play was to set up this moment for the rookie
out of Arizona the Ravens. Of course, at Justin Tucker
for so long, the most accurate kicker in the history
of the league. Rogers can't believe what he has just witnessed,
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what might be the end for him. But they went
around the country and spoke to a lot of the
kickers who were coming out, and they decided Tyler Loop
was made of the right stuff for moments like this.
Speaker 5 (00:58):
He now has a chance to win the division.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
For the Ravens the final play off the regular season
for the final.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Spot in the playoffs. Tyler Loop from forty.
Speaker 6 (01:08):
Fours to the North.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
The Steelers are the champions of the North.
Speaker 5 (01:23):
Raised I knew this.
Speaker 7 (01:24):
How many times did you watch the replay of that
missfield goal throughout the week?
Speaker 5 (01:29):
I mean that night I watched it about twelve times.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Yeah, so, I.
Speaker 8 (01:32):
Mean I I said before I thought he was gonna
make it, like, oh well, one hundred percent thought he
was gonna make it. And it was my wife that
was like he could. And I was like, nah, you
don't know that, you know, I was like doing that.
You're sweet, You're sweet. Yeah, you're sweet to think that.
But Dix's game is over and then he shakes it
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or the slices.
Speaker 5 (01:53):
It, and then I got the best I told you
so I've ever gotten.
Speaker 7 (01:55):
Yeah, what a good feeling that I told you so was.
But watching that replay over and over again, by the way,
you know, I love all the rob King calls. Mike Tarico,
who I'm not always the biggest fan of, could not
have set the stage any better. I mean, you couldn't
have paid him for a kicker jinx as perfect as that.
Speaker 5 (02:15):
They went door to door in Baltimore.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Asking everyone to show videos of them kicking. So they
found Tyler Loop.
Speaker 5 (02:25):
He has the mental fortitude to do this.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
He also assured us he hates massages.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
He's our guy. Uh, he misses it now.
Speaker 7 (02:36):
After the game, of course, it would result in Harbaugh
getting fired, and someone asked Tomlin, hey, what if Tyler
Luke would have made that field goal, then what would
have happened?
Speaker 5 (02:46):
And of course he had this classic response, you know
what it is, if my had male parts, she'd be
my uncle.
Speaker 7 (02:53):
Yeah, that's right, the old saying.
Speaker 5 (02:58):
We all know that.
Speaker 7 (02:59):
Yeah, And obviously she said that all the time. She
really wanted male parts. My aunt was a she was
a kookie woman. Steelers Texans tonight, Abby, we'll be there.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Yeah, my face painting. Come on, you have a big,
big chain.
Speaker 9 (03:21):
Face.
Speaker 10 (03:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
How many beers can I drink on antibiotics?
Speaker 11 (03:25):
I mean before you Yeah, I'd say two, three, come on.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Just look.
Speaker 5 (03:32):
You can go back to what I always thought.
Speaker 8 (03:34):
Yeah, yeah, well, I mean I'm doing every year I
do dry January except Steelers playoff games.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (03:40):
I like that, except I did that for so many years.
Speaker 7 (03:44):
Mostly Dry January was my thing, which was my birthday
and every Steelers playoff game.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
You have to yeah, doctors love that.
Speaker 7 (03:51):
But then after a while it was like, well the
Steelers weren't getting into the playoffs were winning, so then
it was like okay, NFL playoff games and my birthday
also Martin Luther King's birthday, and when I'm bummed out right.
But now doctor Oz says, you know, drinking is good
for you and you need the social lubricant. So I
think for my health, I don't want to do dry
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January because doctor Oz told me not to.
Speaker 5 (04:14):
My dad was saying that way before Doctor Oz.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Your dad give me the surgeon.
Speaker 5 (04:18):
Generally.
Speaker 7 (04:18):
Yeah, Raizawadi hanging out. Good to see you, buddy. Thanks
for coming in this morning. Abby, you got a news update.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
What's up?
Speaker 11 (04:26):
News this hour brought to you by Better Call Side
Times of Clouds and Son And it's a high of
thirty eight. So I don't know if you saw this,
but Mark Cobboli shared this on his Twitter account that
Mckee'sport School District is going to be on a two
hour delay.
Speaker 5 (04:42):
Because this kid jammed up a toilet again.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
How did you know?
Speaker 11 (04:46):
No for Tuesday, January thirteenth, because of the game tonight.
So there's a letter that went out to parents in
the community from the superintendent and boy, the comments are
a great way to find out whether people have kids
or not.
Speaker 5 (05:01):
They thought it should be a full day off well, because.
Speaker 7 (05:07):
Yeah, if you have kids, you're like, no, send them
to school exactly.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
People are going way to show me you do not
prioritize education right in any.
Speaker 11 (05:19):
Way in this school district. And then Steeler fans are going, yeah,
that's not.
Speaker 7 (05:23):
It's not to me, I mean honestly, Okay, the logistic
problem of your child having a two hour delay aside,
which I would think would be the biggest problem people have.
They're like, dude, I leave for work, who's going to
take the kid? You know, the but what if there's
no bus, et cetera. Okay, that being its own problem.
I have no issue with letting kids stay up to
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watch the game tonight and then letting them sleep in
a little bit, because to me, that's part of the
culture here. In a way I always say, I don't
understand people who don't go to Steeler games here or
try to go to Steeler games. It is one of
the glorious celebrations of being a Western Pennsylvanian. Uh, and
it's right here. It is unique. There's nothing in the
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world like it. And why you would deprive yourself of
enjoying that, I don't understand. But it's important that they
realize one of two things at a young age. This
is how you instill the Steeler fandom it, you know,
like they're either going to have their heart broken tonight,
right and be screaming fire Tomlin in there, you know
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as they go to bed, or they're gonna learn what
it's like when the Steelers win a playoff game and
how everybody is in a better like think back on
the week that we just experienced here in Pittsburgh. Every
encounter you had, people are smiling, good.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Morning, brother, They're in a great mood. Every of the
clerks a chine Eagle are nice.
Speaker 8 (06:52):
Is it two hour delay pending on the outcome or
is it two hour delay?
Speaker 7 (06:56):
No matter what?
Speaker 5 (06:57):
You need it either way you need.
Speaker 7 (06:59):
It's in dilling the ethos of Steeler fanaticism in young
pittsburgher's and I'm okay with that.
Speaker 8 (07:06):
Shapiro needs to get on this across the board. I
agree for the Steelers.
Speaker 7 (07:10):
Yeah, now that the Eagles are at yeah, oh sorry Philly,
but we're gonna need your help tonight. That's what I'm
saying that now it should be like from State College
West is on a two hour delay.
Speaker 11 (07:24):
I would love that if it was across the board,
no issues. I think the issue is that parents are like,
I don't have a two hour.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Delay, right, and thank you.
Speaker 5 (07:36):
Now what do I do? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (07:37):
That really screws everything.
Speaker 5 (07:39):
Take your kid hung over to workday.
Speaker 11 (07:43):
So we talked a little bit about the Golden Globes today.
We didn't get to everything again. Nikki Glazer returned as
the host. We give her pretty high marks. It was
still a pretty tame affair. She still did hit everybody,
but because she's such entertainment fan, she really walks the
line of again giving people their flowers, giving them few jabs,
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but never going too far that she can't walk it
back in any way as again an uber fan. One
of the interesting things that happened last night for the
Golden Globes is it's the first time that they had
a podcast category.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Yeah, you would kind of think that.
Speaker 11 (08:25):
Maybe that would be relegated to maybe just the Grammys
to have an audio award category, but they you know,
so much of podcasting. It also has a video element
now right everybody has like a YouTube kind of segment
as well, because like, now we want to.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Watch the podcast. They did a little.
Speaker 11 (08:43):
Spoof where they were making fun of the Nicole Kidman AMC.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Reel that she did.
Speaker 11 (08:49):
It was like a sizzle reel talking about how much
we love going to the movies, and it ended up
being Nicky Glazer basically sitting in her car listening to
podcasts but getting inundated with all the ads for bas
Buzz and square Space and all the stuff that you
kind of can't get away with.
Speaker 7 (09:03):
I freaking love Bambas, Dude, do you really I'm hooked
on him?
Speaker 5 (09:07):
Socks It socks?
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Yeah, but what what what?
Speaker 5 (09:11):
They're so soft?
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Really?
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (09:13):
And they're warm. You got them on now?
Speaker 3 (09:14):
I do?
Speaker 5 (09:15):
But you know the the.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Problem it works.
Speaker 7 (09:26):
I don't know why they don't let me endorse them.
I guess he's my issue underwear. My favorite pair of
Bomba's got a hole in the heel, and I was
a little bummed about that because they're not cheap, and
to me it's like they're not as durable as they
should be for as expensive as as they are.
Speaker 5 (09:38):
But man, they are comfy. You throw them away or
you're keeping the whole socks.
Speaker 7 (09:41):
I can't when when you have the hole in the bottom,
it's just kind of.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Like a hole in the Bambas.
Speaker 5 (09:46):
It sucks.
Speaker 7 (09:47):
Yeah, right, you can't be that guy. You know, at
some point in your life you have to throw out
the socks. I have a hole in them, you know. Yeah,
it's thirty. I started doing a thirty. I was thrown
away a whole underwear and whole socks.
Speaker 5 (09:58):
Good for you, you know, they say you're grown up now.
I'm proud of you. Man.
Speaker 7 (10:01):
You know, they said that you're supposed to throw away
your underwear and your socks every year, every year, every year.
Speaker 12 (10:09):
I have.
Speaker 7 (10:10):
I have underwear from the first Obama administration.
Speaker 5 (10:16):
Yeah I got I got some old draws, but they're durrible.
You can't get rid of.
Speaker 7 (10:21):
Right to me, it's all about elastic. Yeah, yeah, you know,
if there's holes in it, they gotta go. They gotta
You can't have holes in your underwear.
Speaker 5 (10:28):
Because what happens if you got to go to you know,
an emergency room or something. You know.
Speaker 7 (10:32):
Yeah, every won't say you're the hole in his underwear,
say about us.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Why are we all hanging on our underwear?
Speaker 3 (10:40):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (10:40):
I have old underwear that still it holds up.
Speaker 7 (10:44):
But I was thinking about the other day, and I
think it's time to let go my woobie, you know, like, yeah, I.
Speaker 5 (10:51):
Thought it was like a name for a grandmother, my
wold be No, it's uh yeah, that's the Michael Keaton too.
Speaker 7 (10:58):
Yeah, get ready you will be to get rid of
your wo like because there must be some sort of
connection you have with that. But I have T shirts wheres.
It's the same way, but I look at those as
more of like I don't know, those are like keepsakes,
you know, like concert tees I won't even wear, but
I don't want to throw them away because I'm like, ah,
I loved that concert, and I like looking at that
T shirt in my drawer.
Speaker 5 (11:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (11:18):
That's different though, that's like it's like nostalgia associated with it.
Some of the these underwears, I don't have any estliga yeah,
or socks for that matter, or socks, yeah, But yet
we feel the need and it's not an expensive repurchase
in the grand scheme.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Of things, not at all.
Speaker 11 (11:34):
Actually, every time I like the last like year or so,
because you're kind of enlightening me to my own behavior here,
the last like year or so, Like, I'll go to
TJ Max or Marshalls and they have like you know,
those racks and racks of just like multiple pairs of
just cute underwear, And every time that I've been going
there recently, I'm like just like grab a bunch, grab
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a bunch of socks, grab a bunch of stuff for eating,
grab a bunch, like just like you know, refresh.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
But it is like the underwear dhere.
Speaker 11 (12:02):
It's not like I'm putting new stuff in and then
taking all the old stuff out and going new year,
new me.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Oh that's good.
Speaker 5 (12:11):
Yeah that I don't know. They and and and apparently
it's more of like a like.
Speaker 7 (12:18):
Uh, sanitary issue that over time those things well yeah, yeah,
you know.
Speaker 5 (12:28):
Butts and other stuff.
Speaker 8 (12:30):
But that's the podcast that won this year.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
It is so many bucks.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (12:41):
Her tagline at the end of her like little scissle
reel was podcasts.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
I guess this is what we have now.
Speaker 5 (12:48):
That's so funny.
Speaker 11 (12:52):
I did love that Amy Poehler defeated her ex husband
when Good Hang One best podcast over will Are. She
didn't say anything, but she had a pretty good line
with winning that award.
Speaker 13 (13:06):
This is exactly how I pictured it, Snoop giving me
the award.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Wow.
Speaker 11 (13:15):
I don't know about award shows, but when they get
it right, it makes sense.
Speaker 5 (13:22):
She's cute.
Speaker 11 (13:23):
But yeah, I actually I really do like her podcast.
She brings the best out in people.
Speaker 7 (13:28):
I agree, and she always has seemed delightful, but even
more so on that podcast. Like I could not imagine
Tina Fey doing a podcast, but Amy Poehler, I definitely think.
Speaker 5 (13:37):
She's great at it.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Tina Fey actually I think would slay for it.
Speaker 5 (13:41):
Past she would piss people off so bad.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
She probably would.
Speaker 11 (13:45):
I loved her narrating her own book when she did
Bossy Pants, Like I loved one just listening to her.
Still holding out for her to be the one who
eventually takes over us.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Now I don't know that she'll do.
Speaker 5 (13:58):
It, but I don't know if she wants that job.
Probably not.
Speaker 7 (14:01):
It's not the best job, like unless you're already Loren Michaels.
I think Seth Myers will probably end up doing it.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
That's a good call.
Speaker 11 (14:12):
Ricky Gervais won Best Stand Up Comedy on Television, but
he was not there to accept so. Presenter Wanda Sykes
thanked God and the trans community.
Speaker 7 (14:23):
Hilarious, well known atheist and anti trans.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Also man, she does not like Bill Maher. He was.
Speaker 5 (14:34):
They used to be friends.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
They're not anymore. He was in the audience. She called
him out to Bill Maher, you give us so much,
but I will love a little less.
Speaker 7 (14:45):
Just.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
T less.
Speaker 5 (14:49):
Did you see his face?
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Yeah, he did not think that was money.
Speaker 5 (14:52):
Not thrilled, not thrilled at all.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Yeah, why you wonder, I'm good.
Speaker 7 (14:59):
I don't know. You know, I used to be funny.
I used to I used to really like Bill Maher's comedy.
And when I was young, especially, I remember watching him
on The Tonight Show as a kid and thinking like.
Speaker 5 (15:08):
Oh, this is because he had such an old school style.
Speaker 7 (15:11):
But you know, now, it's just everything's political and there's
so much politics thrown at me that I don't even
want to do, Like I'm not choosing to you know
ingest politics, and it's constantly foisted on us. Sure, and
so I just can't watch the show anymore because it's
just like I get enough of it.
Speaker 5 (15:27):
He's no longer a comedian right at this.
Speaker 7 (15:29):
Yes, it's like John Stewart, you make a conscious decision
at some point, you're a funny talking head.
Speaker 5 (15:35):
You know, you're you're a political pundit.
Speaker 8 (15:38):
But it's but it's crazy that Leonardo DiCaprio is able
to take a joke better than Bill Maher is, right,
Like he's laughing at the stuff that Nicky Glazer saying
and then that, I mean that was from Pretty Tame.
Speaker 5 (15:49):
You know you talk too much jokes that big of
a deal, I know, you know.
Speaker 7 (15:52):
It was funny about Nicky's joke on DiCaprio too, where
she's like, made the joke about his girlfriend, like how
he did all this in his career before his girlfriend
turned thirty, which is a hilarious joke, and then she
follows it up with the qualifier like, sorry that we
keep making this joke, but we don't know anything about you.
The last extensive interview you did was in Team Beat
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in nineteen ninety six. She's like, do you still like
pasta a whole lot?
Speaker 8 (16:17):
Yow, which is also a really funny save to kind
of make it like it's not so like you know,
it's exactly yes, exactly.
Speaker 7 (16:26):
Which I think a lot of those other guys who
felt like when Joe Koy just ate it as the
host of Golden Gloves, he did not have as much
as he's great on stage doing what he does for
his audience, he did not have the skills to win
the audience over, which, by the way, is the job.
Like I know that people like when Ricky Gervais goes
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in there and Dice is the whole room up, and
that's gratifying, you know, to a degree.
Speaker 5 (16:53):
But like I kind of want to watch somebody.
Speaker 7 (16:55):
Who likes movies posting or like not, like you don't
have to go there and treat the celebrities like they're
better than everyone else. It's just that, like I don't know,
maybe that's not the place to do it because it's
just not it's a different thing all of a sudden.
Speaker 5 (17:09):
It's a certain gear.
Speaker 8 (17:10):
Too that just some people don't have, Like like Joe
Koy is a great stand up comedian, but it's just
like that gear of being the like, you know, talking
to these Hollywood elites. And like I think Nicky Glazer
did a good job of towing that line. Like you
yeah of like you know, not being too offensive. But
you would be good at that.
Speaker 7 (17:27):
You would be a good host of an award show
because I feel like you always have a good sense
of the audience that you're talking to.
Speaker 5 (17:33):
You hear that, Oscars, Have you.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Ever hosted any kind of award show.
Speaker 8 (17:38):
Or No, I've never hosted an award show or anything
like that. I have hosted a version of a tough mutter.
When I first started doing stand up in Pittsburgh, they
were like, you do stand up, you can host anything.
And it was the Gladiator Games and it was Turbo
or Nitro Nitro not like me.
Speaker 5 (18:00):
No, oh dude.
Speaker 8 (18:02):
He ripped the microphone out of my hand because I
wasn't doing a good enough job hosting the push up contest.
Speaker 5 (18:07):
You know, you know me.
Speaker 8 (18:08):
I'm going for my my fitness. He was just like,
you gotta be screaming at these people. I was like,
I can't do as many push ups as this.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Right, you guys are doing great.
Speaker 5 (18:19):
You did one knocking out of the park.
Speaker 7 (18:22):
I didn't any upsets last night or surprises in the
Golden Globes.
Speaker 11 (18:26):
You know, I don't think that there were Sinners did well, right,
Sinners did well. One battle after another did well. Paul
Thomas Anderson won for Best Director. Hamnett did well as well,
with Jesse Buckley getting Best Female Actor. Timothy shallow May
knocked one out for Marty Supreme and the Pit and
the Studio Adolescens also took top honors. So adolescents got
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some love as well. Which we've talked about before, is
that limited series that's a one and done.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
It is a tough watch.
Speaker 11 (18:54):
If you haven't had a chance to get to that yet,
we still recommend watching it. But yeah, you'll watch that
once and you will never return to it. I'll also
give the Golden Globe some credit for ending with a
nod to Rob Reiner. As Glazer signed off, she was
wearing a spinal tap hat.
Speaker 5 (19:11):
Oh that's cool. Yeah, it's very cool.
Speaker 11 (19:12):
That's a wrap on the Golden Globes. Twenty twenty five,
last twenty six.
Speaker 7 (19:17):
You know, I love Terry Bradshaw. He is like a
hilarious cartoon character at this point. And listen to how
he picked the forty nine Ers yesterday.
Speaker 5 (19:25):
He is one of the greatest creative minds in football.
Speaker 9 (19:28):
Shanahan the head coach of the forty nine Ers today,
He'll have to be extremely created simply because I don't
think they can beat Philadelphia.
Speaker 5 (19:35):
I just don't. I'm gonna pick them, but I don't
think they can beat him.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Once again, folks, twenty goods.
Speaker 5 (19:43):
One word, yeah, forty nine.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
There you go ers.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
I don't think they can beat him, but I'm gonna
pick them.
Speaker 8 (19:51):
Okay, so he gets paid the big bucks. That's some
serious analysis.
Speaker 7 (19:56):
Harry's hilarious Michael being next getting E said, for tonight's
Steelers Tech game, we had Alan paul On, who wrote
for Rolling Stone Magazine on the passing of Bob Weir.
You can read his piece on Bob Weir at Rollingstone
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and Mike joining us next, of course breaking down tonight's
big game. We are eleven hours away from kickoff right now,
and the steel City is going to be on fire,
all black and gold all day.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
Here we go.
Speaker 7 (20:34):
Also, I'm gonna play the clip that's making the rounds
of the reporter telling Liam Cohen to keep his head up.
Speaker 5 (20:40):
It's like this older black.
Speaker 7 (20:41):
Woman's like, you keep your head up, baby, and like
it's drawing quite the response from members of the sports
media world, and I want our own.
Speaker 5 (20:50):
Mike Pursuit has take on that when we come back
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Honestly, in the moment, I don't know. I don't watch
film anyway, and everybody you know cracks show about that.
But how I hit it felt really good. Obviously it
took the path that it did and they're going into tip.
But I mean I have no idea. You can't you
can't tell on film whether it's tipped or whether it's
you know, just a shank cake. But at the end
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of the day, whether it's a block or not, it's
on me and I got to put it in and
we'll move past it.
Speaker 9 (22:21):
That was Cam Hayward in the background walking by saying
we just need to block better. And if you go
back and look at that pat the pressure came between
Derek Harmon and Hayward.
Speaker 5 (22:33):
On the left side of the Hayward's calling himself out there.
Speaker 7 (22:36):
Yeah, I think he is. Yeah, there's something weird that's happening.
And it happened a couple times yesterday too. And Boz
has been hitting the ball. The trajectory, trajectory of his
of his kicks, the rotation on them has been different.
And again I always use that golf analogy, like, you know,
when you're.
Speaker 5 (22:51):
Hitting, you're like, what am I doing? It's doing this
every time.
Speaker 7 (22:54):
Now, and it's doing this weird thing where it's starting
off straight and it's not getting it's not getting a
high trajectory. He's not getting the loft that he needs
to to get it over the line. You know, A
sure thing every time, and then it's tailing and it
does a quick.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
Hard right slice after it starts.
Speaker 7 (23:14):
It's very strange, and it could be as simple as
weight mian Is has been pulling it back too much
or something, you know. But hopefully they get that fixed
because you cannot afford for Boss to not just be
hitting them straight down the center tonight.
Speaker 9 (23:29):
Not tonight, he has missed. Now that they did call
that a blocked field goal. Extra point, Yeah, extra point.
I'm sorry, but that's three games in a row that
a kick has been missed. So whatever is going screwy
with the snapholed kick protect process, they got to get
that ironed out.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
I mean tonight.
Speaker 9 (23:48):
Ky Fairburn of the Texans forty four of forty eight
on field goals this year, forty four of forty eight
with a long of fifty seven. It's crazy to me
that in the last couple of weeks, all of a sudden,
guys have started missing kicks right and left, no pun intended.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
That's how you miss him right or left.
Speaker 9 (24:08):
Remember, in the middle of season, we're talking about how
automatic kicking had become and the impact that was having
on the game, and by Jacksonville yesterday loses to Buffalo
by three and to the first half. The Jags are
backed up to like their half yard line with very
little time left, and they hit a couple of long
passes and they got their guy camp long guy hit
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seventy yard field goals fifty four yard at the gun
to the first half and he missed it, I know,
And that's in Jacksonville, perfect weather and everything.
Speaker 5 (24:37):
And he hit it. They hit him with the cod
Bosh too, talking about he hits bombs.
Speaker 8 (24:41):
They're already in his field goal range at the twenty.
Speaker 7 (24:44):
The announcer jinkses have been incredible And you know, you
think about turnovers tonight. Matt Williamson turned me onto this
kind of perspective on turnovers a couple of weeks, a
couple of years.
Speaker 9 (24:53):
Ago, and I'm really sold on it. Turnovers are fumbles
and interceptions. That's what they calculate takeaway giveaway on You
got to count.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
Miss field goals that's a turnover.
Speaker 9 (25:05):
You got to count failed fourth downs that's a turnover.
And you got to count block punts. So you know,
just because you're plus one and fumbles and picks. If
you miss two field goals and you get stuffed three
times on fourth downs, you probably lost turnover. Houston is
plus seventeen. That's behind only Chicago at plus twenty two.
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Pittsburgh is fourth at plus twelve. Texans have generated twenty
nine takeaways, the Steelers have generated twenty seven. Texans have
turned it over twelve times. Steelers have turned it over
fifteen times. Now, that's in the traditional math. I didn't
factor in fourth downs and all that other stuff, but
that stuff matters. But the point is, if you're going
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into this game thinking, now, I'll take it away two
or three times, finish plus two and win it that way,
maybe not so. Two really good kickers are going to
be on display tonight. One of them is slump or
struggling or whatever you want to call it. He doesn't
look like himself to me. The Steelers have to trust
him tonight. Yeah, I would not trust the pass protection.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
You know.
Speaker 9 (26:13):
If it's third, Nate, I'm dumping it down and seeing
if I'm back and make something happen in a flat
and punting if I have to. They're gonna have to
take some deep shots. They're gonna have to hit one,
maybe more than one. But they can't live and die
on that stuff. Like they have to acknowledge the Texans
pass rush is part of their game plan and work
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around it, not just oh yeah, well we'll chip them
and Dylan Cook will hold up. That's dangerous to me.
Speaker 7 (26:41):
I like the idea of Arthur Smith and Aaron Rodgers
putting their heads together to get past the defensive threat
of Houston more than I like Tamiko and his offensive
coordinator and CJ. Stroud being able to figure out how
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easily you know, to to manipulate the Steelers ever evolving defense.
Speaker 9 (27:09):
And even if they do figure it out to a degree,
Alex Highsmith and the Steelers think they have edge pressure
that is capable of wrecking the game.
Speaker 5 (27:17):
In fact, they're counting on it.
Speaker 15 (27:20):
You know, it's just been emphasizing, you know that we
got to be the best edge group in the stadium
this weekend.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
It's been emphasized so they know how to get to
c J. Strouts.
Speaker 9 (27:30):
They've also got home field advantage and that can also
help tip things into Steelers favor.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
It's gonna be awesome, you know. I think TJ talked
about it.
Speaker 15 (27:41):
I think that was a lot of us. I've heard
steering Nation at home and since i've been here and
the atmosphere is crazy, so I know it's gonna be
crazy again come Monday night, and we're gonna need it.
It's a big game, so I know still a nation
is going to show out.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
They are going to need it.
Speaker 9 (27:53):
I thought Charlie Bascher made great points on our show today.
The crowd is going to have to be patient and
the crowd is going to have to stay in it.
I mean they went, they went from fire Tomlin to
one of the loudest crowds that a lot of those
guys say they've ever heard at Hinesfield Slash Actor.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
Sure, yeah, they need the ladder tonight.
Speaker 7 (28:17):
Stealer fans, get down there early, get your terrible towels
ready to roll. I still think Renegade, they should probably
do it in the first half. I feel like you
needed to do it in the first half. Take away
all the controversy.
Speaker 8 (28:32):
We should just play it on loop while we're on
defense the whole time.
Speaker 5 (28:37):
As soon as like that it's down and he's like.
Speaker 7 (28:41):
Every single time I'm in that might be a better idea.
You might have seen the post game yesterday in Jacksonville
where Liam Cohen, coach of the Jacksonville Jaguars.
Speaker 5 (28:56):
Was asked by Well, it wasn't even asked.
Speaker 7 (28:59):
He was base just given a pep talk by a
member of the Jacksonville media corps and Mike, I want
you to give a listen to this. Apparently this woman
is like Venerables newscaster in Jacksonville, the Jacksonville Sally Wigan.
Speaker 13 (29:18):
Yes, you congratulations on your success, young man. You hold
your head up, all right. You guys have had a
most magnificent season. He did a great job out there today.
So you just hold your head up, okay. And ladies
and gentlemen, duvall you don't want all right? You keep
it going.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
We got another season, okay.
Speaker 13 (29:34):
I appreciate, take care of much continued success to you
and the entire team.
Speaker 5 (29:37):
Thank you. Okay.
Speaker 7 (29:39):
Now, there are two schools of thought on There's there
are people who love that that happened after the game.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
However, I'm gonna.
Speaker 5 (29:49):
Go out on a limb and say you are not
one of those people.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
How can I describe what I just heard?
Speaker 9 (29:58):
Disgusting, self so serving, unprofessional, unacceptable.
Speaker 5 (30:04):
You're not gonna do this tonight with coach t.
Speaker 9 (30:07):
And here's the funny part about that, Like he doesn't
care what she thinks.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
You know, that's not doing him.
Speaker 9 (30:14):
Oh we just lost the playoff game in gut wrenching fashion.
But the newsperson thinks I did okay, so I guess
it's all right, Like it serves nothing and she was
probably just trying to be nice, but it comes off as.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
Like, oh, yeah, just you know, pander to the fans.
Speaker 9 (30:31):
And and try to promote yourself and it's not the
time or play.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
It's unacceptable. It's a professional environment.
Speaker 9 (30:37):
Yeah, the postgame news conferences to ask serious questions from
serious people, and I get that there are a lot
of people asking questions that don't qualify nowadays, but I
really think the teams need to do something about this
more than anybody else. And just when the newsperson applies
for a credential, say no, yeah.
Speaker 7 (30:56):
No, you don't watch it on TV, you don't cover sports. Yeah,
this is sports. That seems simple enough. But I thought
initially when I heard that that it was some sort
of like fan blogger that they let in. Because that's
what I'm saying is that that they have, you know,
opened up the gates a little bit for alternate media.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
But she's traditional. She's been around for a long time.
Speaker 3 (31:21):
That's just pathetic.
Speaker 8 (31:22):
Y would it help if like a mean dad energy
came after that, where he's like, no, you should be
humiliated with yourself. You're never going to be as good
as your older brother.
Speaker 9 (31:31):
Yeah, your columns for right, Yeah, that's what your commentaries
for sure. Just that just makes me sick to my stomach. Yeah,
this is where we're going. This is why people don't
trust the media or get informed by the media, because
the media has fallen apart, because the media has started
(31:52):
pandering to the public because it's had to because the
public has way too many options.
Speaker 3 (31:56):
But the traditional media doing its job traditionally.
Speaker 7 (32:00):
As once once news became for profit, it stopped being
about the news, and that's why people get.
Speaker 3 (32:05):
Mad with me.
Speaker 7 (32:07):
It's okay, coach, And I'm not even trying to I'm
not getting political. I'm talking just solely about sports. When
people hear news about their sports team.
Speaker 3 (32:15):
Sports a very small part of that. It's fun in games,
but in the larger the concept is the same.
Speaker 7 (32:21):
It's like, yeah, no, it's in a microcosm of the
larger problem.
Speaker 3 (32:25):
Nobody's there to tell him it's okay.
Speaker 5 (32:29):
Yeah, a different coach might have told her to stop talking.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
I told Mike, I'm surprising you and go hey.
Speaker 7 (32:34):
Like if that was Tomlin, he'd be like, I appreciate
your sentiments, but that's not I don't see comfort, and
he would have like turned it around and started yelling
at it. That being said, I wish that woman would
follow me around and say nice things like that to me.
Speaker 8 (32:47):
When we were listening to it, I started feeling good
about myself, Like everything that went wrong in the last
couple of weeks, I was like, I shouldn't keep my
head upright.
Speaker 5 (32:56):
Things are so bad Steelers and the text it's messed
up so wrong. I agree.
Speaker 7 (33:02):
Steelers of the Texans tonight an eight to fifteen kickoff
right here on DVE.
Speaker 14 (33:07):
The fourth ghost of Christmas Past that Lingers way too long,
is showing up everywhere.
Speaker 12 (33:14):
Holiday Bills, Good Morning Show, Abby Chrisner and Mike Pursuda,
Jacob brect Our, producer comedian Raisawadney been hanging out with
us all morning long, could to see their pal gooding.
Speaker 7 (33:27):
I was up in Erie with some old friends for
my birthday this past weekend, and it always makes me
laugh how I grew up and the people I grew
up with and how much they were like, like, my
dad was very much like everybody in this world I
grew up in has the same mentality and it is
so damn funny.
Speaker 5 (33:45):
And there's a lot of Pittsburgh in that.
Speaker 7 (33:47):
Uh. And one of my friends said to me, he's
like robbing his john. I'm like, what's going on. He's like,
I had jaw surgery this week. And I was like, oh, dude,
all right. He goes, yeah, guess how much it comes.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
And I'm like, you're asking me how much your jaw
surgery costs? Is that because you got a deal on it?
Speaker 7 (34:08):
And he went, uh huh, hold on a second, why
do you want a deal.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
On your jaw surgery?
Speaker 5 (34:17):
He's like, guess how much it comes. I'm like, I
don't know.
Speaker 7 (34:21):
And he has a business up there and he goes,
I traded out five gift cards for it, and I'm like,
you traded out jaw surgery. When I and I just
started laughing. I call I, you know, grabbed my brother
immediately and I'm like, get over here. I'm like, who
does this sound like? He's like, that's that's our dad.
My dad traded carpet for my braces, My orthodonist put
(34:45):
my braces on in exchange for some berber carpeting.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
In his living room. Are your teeth?
Speaker 7 (34:52):
Jacked him all up? He was a terrible orthonios. He
moved him too quick, and I have blunted roots now
and all my teeth. Not always the best way to
do it, you know, when it comes to healthcare, like
the system, but.
Speaker 5 (35:10):
Not fruit, not for my family or the people I
grew up with.
Speaker 8 (35:13):
That he thought you were gonna fire out a guess
like prices of the weirdest prices right episode ever, I.
Speaker 9 (35:19):
Up before kiss how much I picked an expert on
your condition and jaw surgery.
Speaker 7 (35:24):
I gotta say at least eight thousands, Oh my god,
one dollar drip. We're gonna little.
Speaker 5 (35:29):
Bit this jaw surgery.
Speaker 7 (35:31):
Oh my god, Like i'd be like eleven bucks. I
don't know what jaw surgery costs. I don't know what
jaw surgery you had. I would imagine there's several.
Speaker 8 (35:39):
He wanted you to overbid so hard. Yeah, you're like
half that. Yeah, Like I was gonna go.
Speaker 7 (35:44):
Ten thousand, fifteen thousand, and then he was like five
hundred bucks.
Speaker 3 (35:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (35:51):
And then I went behind a strip mall and got
some fix a flat to uh you know, injected right into.
Speaker 5 (35:55):
My ass and uh.
Speaker 2 (35:59):
Yes, bend on that exactly.
Speaker 7 (36:02):
Remember those people who were getting butt im plants with
the fix a flat behind a strip mall, Yeah, and
they were dying.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
You can't do that, okay, because you want to fast
forward to the end.
Speaker 7 (36:13):
When it comes to any kind of surgery, oral or otherwise. Splurch,
go ahead and splurch. I mean, fix a Flat's not cheap.
Speaker 5 (36:22):
Either, makes a good point.
Speaker 7 (36:23):
Yeah, Economy Steelers and the Houston Texans tonight that eight
to fifteen kickoff, Rob King, Max Starks, and Missy Matthews.
And here with the preamble to kickoff. Your host for
the Steelers' Audio Network pregame show, which starts at six
fifteen tonight, it's our own Mike Persudah.
Speaker 9 (36:46):
Yeah, the Steelers are back on the North Shore in
the postseason for the first time since twenty twenty. But
they won't be returning home alone. There will also be
an elephant in the room when they host. You then
call it the Pacodermann Act for sure. That would be
the Steelers lack of a playoff victory since January the fifteenth,
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twenty seventeen. Their zero for six effort in the postseason
since is tied for the longest active run of playoff
futility in the league and for the fourth longest such
stretch in NFL history. And rest assured the elephant isn't
the only.
Speaker 3 (37:22):
One who hasn't forgotten.
Speaker 9 (37:24):
A vocal portion of the fan base remains skeptical at best.
Media reminders have been relentless, and in Vegas, the Steelers
are home underdogs.
Speaker 3 (37:33):
But it's a great doc Emrick used emphasize.
Speaker 9 (37:35):
During hockey broadcast. It's history, not prophecy. In this case,
it's ancient history. We know this time the Steelers won't
lose Le'Veon Bell after just six carries against the Patriots
with the Super Bowl at stake. We know Ben Roethlisberger
won't combine to throw five interceptions, lose a fumble that
gets returned for a touchdown, and watch a Marquis Pouncey
(37:55):
snap get airmailed into the end zone for you get
another defensive TV as was the case in games against
Jacksonville and Cleveland. We know they aren't facing Patrick Mahomes
at his apex.
Speaker 3 (38:06):
In Kansas City.
Speaker 9 (38:07):
We know they won't start Mason Rudolph and lack TJ.
Watt in Buffalo, and we know they're on a late
season roll, not limping into Baltimore. Are you ready for
some football?
Speaker 2 (38:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (38:20):
The biggest difference between.
Speaker 5 (38:21):
Then and now is Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 9 (38:23):
And if you can't get excited about what that guy
could potentially accomplish from Mike Tomlin, you might be in
the wrong ballpark.
Speaker 3 (38:30):
There are no guarantees in the playoffs. You never know.
Speaker 9 (38:33):
And that also applies to Houston having never won a
postseason game on the road. Given that particular derivative of
anything but hidden zero for six vigorish, something has to give.
Understand this much prior to kickoff, whatever does eventually isn't
analytically predetermined, and that makes tonight's matchup as unpredictable as
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it is compelling. So don't stop believing, not yet. At
least the alternative would be incorrectly inter history as prophecy.
And if you do that, you just might miss one
hell of a postseason. Yeah, Steelers, Taxons tonight a fifteen.
Speaker 2 (39:11):
Here we go, Steelers. Oh Moody, we're from.
Speaker 16 (39:20):
That time with that grand football team be cheered up first,
Steelers thanks to raise and Watney out and non Keys friends.
Speaker 5 (39:29):
Out all on the dee, go out again the stealer.
Speaker 2 (39:34):
Thanks to Alan Paul. That's all and Rockie and Ran
and Lee.
Speaker 3 (39:40):
We love your fans.
Speaker 2 (39:41):
First Stealer, Thankston, Jerry.
Speaker 16 (39:43):
Dulac, many years the Steelers my scenery, and thank you
to Charlie Badge.
Speaker 2 (39:52):
Next guy, Steelers.
Speaker 17 (39:56):
Fans, Steeds Man and scramble in the set the ball,
the face ste faces the Steelers.
Speaker 2 (40:09):
Always that's the ball.
Speaker 5 (40:11):
Me Joe, me Joe, Youred, I.
Speaker 16 (40:16):
Guess the other team he stopped from here the year
miss lady's playing here.
Speaker 2 (40:22):
Now join with me and see lastey let's.
Speaker 16 (40:28):
We're from that time with the football team. Richard of
Pittsburgh Steelers. We need to habits not only a dream.
Speaker 17 (40:40):
Go out and get the Steelers jealous your realers and
can butt the show.
Speaker 16 (40:48):
And so I Frank Brow Sorry, Eigna is in coming.
Speaker 2 (40:55):
Just in the Steelers machinery coming finish you stay classy, Pittsburgh.
Speaker 5 (41:02):
Don't touch your face.
Speaker 2 (41:03):
I got him touched Pittsburgh all day.
Speaker 6 (41:05):
Baby.
Speaker 5 (41:05):
For now, you gotta call me Ronald. Would you not
eat my pants?
Speaker 3 (41:08):
Ronald?
Speaker 2 (41:11):
Whoa man? Whay goggle ahead.
Speaker 1 (41:19):
It's time for the Steelers Daily report on DVE brought
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team at shop dot Steelers dot com. Here's Tom Opferman.
Speaker 18 (41:31):
Tonight, Pittsburgh, for the first time since twenty twenty, you're
hosting a playoff football game, and for the first time
since twenty seventeen, you can actually go to the game.
So get the mind right and get loud tonight when
the Houston Texans come to town to wrap up wild
card weekend. The Pittsburgh Steelers entered tonight's game with a
ten and seven record and as the champions of the
AFC North, their first division crown in five years. Steelers
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are also winners of four of their previous five games,
so they're heading into the playoffs with quite a bit
of momentum at their backs.
Speaker 5 (42:00):
Unfortunately, no one has.
Speaker 18 (42:01):
More momentum than the Houston Texans, who come into the
game on a nine game winning streak, making them the
hottest team in the NFL. Houston's overall record of twelve
and five was good enough to earn the AFC's top
wild card. This will be Houston's third straight trip to
the playoffs.
Speaker 5 (42:15):
Houston.
Speaker 18 (42:16):
Quarterback CJ. Stroud and head coach Damiko Ryans are just
the fourth head coach quarterback tandem to reach the playoffs
in each of their first three seasons together and have
won one playoff game in each of the previous two years.
Steelers will be searching for their first playoff wins since
they defeated the Kansas City Chiefs in the Divisional round
way back in twenty sixteen. Kickoff tonight between the Steelers
and the Texans is at eight point fifteen. I'm Tom
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Speaker 4 (00:22):
Human to Harbaugh is tell you likely how special that
play was to set up this moment for the rookie
out of Arizona the Ravens. Of course, at Justin Tucker
for so long, the most accurate kicker in the history
of the league. Rogers can't believe what he has just witnessed,
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what might be the end for him. But they went
around the country and spoke to a lot of the
kickers who were coming out, and they decided Tyler Loop
was made of the right stuff for moments like this.
Speaker 5 (00:58):
He now has a chance to win the division.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
For the Ravens the final play off the regular season
for the final.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Spot in the playoffs. Tyler Loop from forty.
Speaker 6 (01:08):
Fours to the North.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
The Steelers are the champions of the North.
Speaker 5 (01:23):
Raised I knew this.
Speaker 7 (01:24):
How many times did you watch the replay of that
missfield goal throughout the week?
Speaker 5 (01:29):
I mean that night I watched it about twelve times.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Yeah, so, I.
Speaker 8 (01:32):
Mean I I said before I thought he was gonna
make it, like, oh well, one hundred percent thought he
was gonna make it. And it was my wife that
was like he could. And I was like, nah, you
don't know that, you know, I was like doing that.
You're sweet, You're sweet. Yeah, you're sweet to think that.
But Dix's game is over and then he shakes it
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or the slices.
Speaker 5 (01:53):
It, and then I got the best I told you
so I've ever gotten.
Speaker 7 (01:55):
Yeah, what a good feeling that I told you so was.
But watching that replay over and over again, by the way,
you know, I love all the rob King calls. Mike Tarico,
who I'm not always the biggest fan of, could not
have set the stage any better. I mean, you couldn't
have paid him for a kicker jinx as perfect as that.
Speaker 5 (02:15):
They went door to door in Baltimore.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Asking everyone to show videos of them kicking. So they
found Tyler Loop.
Speaker 5 (02:25):
He has the mental fortitude to do this.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
He also assured us he hates massages.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
He's our guy. Uh, he misses it now.
Speaker 7 (02:36):
After the game, of course, it would result in Harbaugh
getting fired, and someone asked Tomlin, hey, what if Tyler
Luke would have made that field goal, then what would
have happened?
Speaker 5 (02:46):
And of course he had this classic response, you know
what it is, if my had male parts, she'd be
my uncle.
Speaker 7 (02:53):
Yeah, that's right, the old saying.
Speaker 5 (02:58):
We all know that.
Speaker 7 (02:59):
Yeah, And obviously she said that all the time. She
really wanted male parts. My aunt was a she was
a kookie woman. Steelers Texans tonight, Abby, we'll be there.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Yeah, my face painting. Come on, you have a big,
big chain.
Speaker 9 (03:21):
Face.
Speaker 10 (03:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
How many beers can I drink on antibiotics?
Speaker 11 (03:25):
I mean before you Yeah, I'd say two, three, come on.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Just look.
Speaker 5 (03:32):
You can go back to what I always thought.
Speaker 8 (03:34):
Yeah, yeah, well, I mean I'm doing every year I
do dry January except Steelers playoff games.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (03:40):
I like that, except I did that for so many years.
Speaker 7 (03:44):
Mostly Dry January was my thing, which was my birthday
and every Steelers playoff game.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
You have to yeah, doctors love that.
Speaker 7 (03:51):
But then after a while it was like, well the
Steelers weren't getting into the playoffs were winning, so then
it was like okay, NFL playoff games and my birthday
also Martin Luther King's birthday, and when I'm bummed out right.
But now doctor Oz says, you know, drinking is good
for you and you need the social lubricant. So I
think for my health, I don't want to do dry
(04:12):
January because doctor Oz told me not to.
Speaker 5 (04:14):
My dad was saying that way before Doctor Oz.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Your dad give me the surgeon.
Speaker 5 (04:18):
Generally.
Speaker 7 (04:18):
Yeah, Raizawadi hanging out. Good to see you, buddy. Thanks
for coming in this morning. Abby, you got a news update.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
What's up?
Speaker 11 (04:26):
News this hour brought to you by Better Call Side
Times of Clouds and Son And it's a high of
thirty eight. So I don't know if you saw this,
but Mark Cobboli shared this on his Twitter account that
Mckee'sport School District is going to be on a two
hour delay.
Speaker 5 (04:42):
Because this kid jammed up a toilet again.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
How did you know?
Speaker 11 (04:46):
No for Tuesday, January thirteenth, because of the game tonight.
So there's a letter that went out to parents in
the community from the superintendent and boy, the comments are
a great way to find out whether people have kids
or not.
Speaker 5 (05:01):
They thought it should be a full day off well, because.
Speaker 7 (05:07):
Yeah, if you have kids, you're like, no, send them
to school exactly.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
People are going way to show me you do not
prioritize education right in any.
Speaker 11 (05:19):
Way in this school district. And then Steeler fans are going, yeah,
that's not.
Speaker 7 (05:23):
It's not to me, I mean honestly, Okay, the logistic
problem of your child having a two hour delay aside,
which I would think would be the biggest problem people have.
They're like, dude, I leave for work, who's going to
take the kid? You know, the but what if there's
no bus, et cetera. Okay, that being its own problem.
I have no issue with letting kids stay up to
(05:45):
watch the game tonight and then letting them sleep in
a little bit, because to me, that's part of the
culture here. In a way I always say, I don't
understand people who don't go to Steeler games here or
try to go to Steeler games. It is one of
the glorious celebrations of being a Western Pennsylvanian. Uh, and
it's right here. It is unique. There's nothing in the
(06:07):
world like it. And why you would deprive yourself of
enjoying that, I don't understand. But it's important that they
realize one of two things at a young age. This
is how you instill the Steeler fandom it, you know,
like they're either going to have their heart broken tonight,
right and be screaming fire Tomlin in there, you know
(06:27):
as they go to bed, or they're gonna learn what
it's like when the Steelers win a playoff game and
how everybody is in a better like think back on
the week that we just experienced here in Pittsburgh. Every
encounter you had, people are smiling, good.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Morning, brother, They're in a great mood. Every of the
clerks a chine Eagle are nice.
Speaker 8 (06:52):
Is it two hour delay pending on the outcome or
is it two hour delay?
Speaker 7 (06:56):
No matter what?
Speaker 5 (06:57):
You need it either way you need.
Speaker 7 (06:59):
It's in dilling the ethos of Steeler fanaticism in young
pittsburgher's and I'm okay with that.
Speaker 8 (07:06):
Shapiro needs to get on this across the board. I
agree for the Steelers.
Speaker 7 (07:10):
Yeah, now that the Eagles are at yeah, oh sorry Philly,
but we're gonna need your help tonight. That's what I'm
saying that now it should be like from State College
West is on a two hour delay.
Speaker 11 (07:24):
I would love that if it was across the board,
no issues. I think the issue is that parents are like,
I don't have a two hour.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Delay, right, and thank you.
Speaker 5 (07:36):
Now what do I do? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (07:37):
That really screws everything.
Speaker 5 (07:39):
Take your kid hung over to workday.
Speaker 11 (07:43):
So we talked a little bit about the Golden Globes today.
We didn't get to everything again. Nikki Glazer returned as
the host. We give her pretty high marks. It was
still a pretty tame affair. She still did hit everybody,
but because she's such entertainment fan, she really walks the
line of again giving people their flowers, giving them few jabs,
(08:08):
but never going too far that she can't walk it
back in any way as again an uber fan. One
of the interesting things that happened last night for the
Golden Globes is it's the first time that they had
a podcast category.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Yeah, you would kind of think that.
Speaker 11 (08:25):
Maybe that would be relegated to maybe just the Grammys
to have an audio award category, but they you know,
so much of podcasting. It also has a video element
now right everybody has like a YouTube kind of segment
as well, because like, now we want to.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Watch the podcast. They did a little.
Speaker 11 (08:43):
Spoof where they were making fun of the Nicole Kidman AMC.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Reel that she did.
Speaker 11 (08:49):
It was like a sizzle reel talking about how much
we love going to the movies, and it ended up
being Nicky Glazer basically sitting in her car listening to
podcasts but getting inundated with all the ads for bas
Buzz and square Space and all the stuff that you
kind of can't get away with.
Speaker 7 (09:03):
I freaking love Bambas, Dude, do you really I'm hooked
on him?
Speaker 5 (09:07):
Socks It socks?
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Yeah, but what what what?
Speaker 5 (09:11):
They're so soft?
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Really?
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (09:13):
And they're warm. You got them on now?
Speaker 3 (09:14):
I do?
Speaker 5 (09:15):
But you know the the.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Problem it works.
Speaker 7 (09:26):
I don't know why they don't let me endorse them.
I guess he's my issue underwear. My favorite pair of
Bomba's got a hole in the heel, and I was
a little bummed about that because they're not cheap, and
to me it's like they're not as durable as they
should be for as expensive as as they are.
Speaker 5 (09:38):
But man, they are comfy. You throw them away or
you're keeping the whole socks.
Speaker 7 (09:41):
I can't when when you have the hole in the bottom,
it's just kind of.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Like a hole in the Bambas.
Speaker 5 (09:46):
It sucks.
Speaker 7 (09:47):
Yeah, right, you can't be that guy. You know, at
some point in your life you have to throw out
the socks. I have a hole in them, you know. Yeah,
it's thirty. I started doing a thirty. I was thrown
away a whole underwear and whole socks.
Speaker 5 (09:58):
Good for you, you know, they say you're grown up now.
I'm proud of you. Man.
Speaker 7 (10:01):
You know, they said that you're supposed to throw away
your underwear and your socks every year, every year, every year.
Speaker 12 (10:09):
I have.
Speaker 7 (10:10):
I have underwear from the first Obama administration.
Speaker 5 (10:16):
Yeah I got I got some old draws, but they're durrible.
You can't get rid of.
Speaker 7 (10:21):
Right to me, it's all about elastic. Yeah, yeah, you know,
if there's holes in it, they gotta go. They gotta
You can't have holes in your underwear.
Speaker 5 (10:28):
Because what happens if you got to go to you know,
an emergency room or something. You know.
Speaker 7 (10:32):
Yeah, every won't say you're the hole in his underwear,
say about us.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Why are we all hanging on our underwear?
Speaker 3 (10:40):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (10:40):
I have old underwear that still it holds up.
Speaker 7 (10:44):
But I was thinking about the other day, and I
think it's time to let go my woobie, you know, like, yeah, I.
Speaker 5 (10:51):
Thought it was like a name for a grandmother, my
wold be No, it's uh yeah, that's the Michael Keaton too.
Speaker 7 (10:58):
Yeah, get ready you will be to get rid of
your wo like because there must be some sort of
connection you have with that. But I have T shirts wheres.
It's the same way, but I look at those as
more of like I don't know, those are like keepsakes,
you know, like concert tees I won't even wear, but
I don't want to throw them away because I'm like, ah,
I loved that concert, and I like looking at that
T shirt in my drawer.
Speaker 5 (11:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (11:18):
That's different though, that's like it's like nostalgia associated with it.
Some of the these underwears, I don't have any estliga yeah,
or socks for that matter, or socks, yeah, But yet
we feel the need and it's not an expensive repurchase
in the grand scheme.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Of things, not at all.
Speaker 11 (11:34):
Actually, every time I like the last like year or so,
because you're kind of enlightening me to my own behavior here,
the last like year or so, Like, I'll go to
TJ Max or Marshalls and they have like you know,
those racks and racks of just like multiple pairs of
just cute underwear, And every time that I've been going
there recently, I'm like just like grab a bunch, grab
(11:55):
a bunch of socks, grab a bunch of stuff for eating,
grab a bunch, like just like you know, refresh.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
But it is like the underwear dhere.
Speaker 11 (12:02):
It's not like I'm putting new stuff in and then
taking all the old stuff out and going new year,
new me.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Oh that's good.
Speaker 5 (12:11):
Yeah that I don't know. They and and and apparently
it's more of like a like.
Speaker 7 (12:18):
Uh, sanitary issue that over time those things well yeah, yeah,
you know.
Speaker 5 (12:28):
Butts and other stuff.
Speaker 8 (12:30):
But that's the podcast that won this year.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
It is so many bucks.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (12:41):
Her tagline at the end of her like little scissle
reel was podcasts.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
I guess this is what we have now.
Speaker 5 (12:48):
That's so funny.
Speaker 11 (12:52):
I did love that Amy Poehler defeated her ex husband
when Good Hang One best podcast over will Are. She
didn't say anything, but she had a pretty good line
with winning that award.
Speaker 13 (13:06):
This is exactly how I pictured it, Snoop giving me
the award.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Wow.
Speaker 11 (13:15):
I don't know about award shows, but when they get
it right, it makes sense.
Speaker 5 (13:22):
She's cute.
Speaker 11 (13:23):
But yeah, I actually I really do like her podcast.
She brings the best out in people.
Speaker 7 (13:28):
I agree, and she always has seemed delightful, but even
more so on that podcast. Like I could not imagine
Tina Fey doing a podcast, but Amy Poehler, I definitely think.
Speaker 5 (13:37):
She's great at it.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Tina Fey actually I think would slay for it.
Speaker 5 (13:41):
Past she would piss people off so bad.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
She probably would.
Speaker 11 (13:45):
I loved her narrating her own book when she did
Bossy Pants, Like I loved one just listening to her.
Still holding out for her to be the one who
eventually takes over us.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Now I don't know that she'll do.
Speaker 5 (13:58):
It, but I don't know if she wants that job.
Probably not.
Speaker 7 (14:01):
It's not the best job, like unless you're already Loren Michaels.
I think Seth Myers will probably end up doing it.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
That's a good call.
Speaker 11 (14:12):
Ricky Gervais won Best Stand Up Comedy on Television, but
he was not there to accept so. Presenter Wanda Sykes
thanked God and the trans community.
Speaker 7 (14:23):
Hilarious, well known atheist and anti trans.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Also man, she does not like Bill Maher. He was.
Speaker 5 (14:34):
They used to be friends.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
They're not anymore. He was in the audience. She called
him out to Bill Maher, you give us so much,
but I will love a little less.
Speaker 7 (14:45):
Just.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
T less.
Speaker 5 (14:49):
Did you see his face?
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Yeah, he did not think that was money.
Speaker 5 (14:52):
Not thrilled, not thrilled at all.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Yeah, why you wonder, I'm good.
Speaker 7 (14:59):
I don't know. You know, I used to be funny.
I used to I used to really like Bill Maher's comedy.
And when I was young, especially, I remember watching him
on The Tonight Show as a kid and thinking like.
Speaker 5 (15:08):
Oh, this is because he had such an old school style.
Speaker 7 (15:11):
But you know, now, it's just everything's political and there's
so much politics thrown at me that I don't even
want to do, Like I'm not choosing to you know
ingest politics, and it's constantly foisted on us. Sure, and
so I just can't watch the show anymore because it's
just like I get enough of it.
Speaker 5 (15:27):
He's no longer a comedian right at this.
Speaker 7 (15:29):
Yes, it's like John Stewart, you make a conscious decision
at some point, you're a funny talking head.
Speaker 5 (15:35):
You know, you're you're a political pundit.
Speaker 8 (15:38):
But it's but it's crazy that Leonardo DiCaprio is able
to take a joke better than Bill Maher is, right,
Like he's laughing at the stuff that Nicky Glazer saying
and then that, I mean that was from Pretty Tame.
Speaker 5 (15:49):
You know you talk too much jokes that big of
a deal, I know, you know.
Speaker 7 (15:52):
It was funny about Nicky's joke on DiCaprio too, where
she's like, made the joke about his girlfriend, like how
he did all this in his career before his girlfriend
turned thirty, which is a hilarious joke, and then she
follows it up with the qualifier like, sorry that we
keep making this joke, but we don't know anything about you.
The last extensive interview you did was in Team Beat
(16:12):
in nineteen ninety six. She's like, do you still like
pasta a whole lot?
Speaker 8 (16:17):
Yow, which is also a really funny save to kind
of make it like it's not so like you know,
it's exactly yes, exactly.
Speaker 7 (16:26):
Which I think a lot of those other guys who
felt like when Joe Koy just ate it as the
host of Golden Gloves, he did not have as much
as he's great on stage doing what he does for
his audience, he did not have the skills to win
the audience over, which, by the way, is the job.
Like I know that people like when Ricky Gervais goes
(16:47):
in there and Dice is the whole room up, and
that's gratifying, you know, to a degree.
Speaker 5 (16:53):
But like I kind of want to watch somebody.
Speaker 7 (16:55):
Who likes movies posting or like not, like you don't
have to go there and treat the celebrities like they're
better than everyone else. It's just that, like I don't know,
maybe that's not the place to do it because it's
just not it's a different thing all of a sudden.
Speaker 5 (17:09):
It's a certain gear.
Speaker 8 (17:10):
Too that just some people don't have, Like like Joe
Koy is a great stand up comedian, but it's just
like that gear of being the like, you know, talking
to these Hollywood elites. And like I think Nicky Glazer
did a good job of towing that line. Like you
yeah of like you know, not being too offensive. But
you would be good at that.
Speaker 7 (17:27):
You would be a good host of an award show
because I feel like you always have a good sense
of the audience that you're talking to.
Speaker 5 (17:33):
You hear that, Oscars, Have you.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Ever hosted any kind of award show.
Speaker 8 (17:38):
Or No, I've never hosted an award show or anything
like that. I have hosted a version of a tough mutter.
When I first started doing stand up in Pittsburgh, they
were like, you do stand up, you can host anything.
And it was the Gladiator Games and it was Turbo
or Nitro Nitro not like me.
Speaker 5 (18:00):
No, oh dude.
Speaker 8 (18:02):
He ripped the microphone out of my hand because I
wasn't doing a good enough job hosting the push up contest.
Speaker 5 (18:07):
You know, you know me.
Speaker 8 (18:08):
I'm going for my my fitness. He was just like,
you gotta be screaming at these people. I was like,
I can't do as many push ups as this.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Right, you guys are doing great.
Speaker 5 (18:19):
You did one knocking out of the park.
Speaker 7 (18:22):
I didn't any upsets last night or surprises in the
Golden Globes.
Speaker 11 (18:26):
You know, I don't think that there were Sinners did well, right,
Sinners did well. One battle after another did well. Paul
Thomas Anderson won for Best Director. Hamnett did well as well,
with Jesse Buckley getting Best Female Actor. Timothy shallow May
knocked one out for Marty Supreme and the Pit and
the Studio Adolescens also took top honors. So adolescents got
(18:49):
some love as well. Which we've talked about before, is
that limited series that's a one and done.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
It is a tough watch.
Speaker 11 (18:54):
If you haven't had a chance to get to that yet,
we still recommend watching it. But yeah, you'll watch that
once and you will never return to it. I'll also
give the Golden Globe some credit for ending with a
nod to Rob Reiner. As Glazer signed off, she was
wearing a spinal tap hat.
Speaker 5 (19:11):
Oh that's cool. Yeah, it's very cool.
Speaker 11 (19:12):
That's a wrap on the Golden Globes. Twenty twenty five,
last twenty six.
Speaker 7 (19:17):
You know, I love Terry Bradshaw. He is like a
hilarious cartoon character at this point. And listen to how
he picked the forty nine Ers yesterday.
Speaker 5 (19:25):
He is one of the greatest creative minds in football.
Speaker 9 (19:28):
Shanahan the head coach of the forty nine Ers today,
He'll have to be extremely created simply because I don't
think they can beat Philadelphia.
Speaker 5 (19:35):
I just don't. I'm gonna pick them, but I don't
think they can beat him.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Once again, folks, twenty goods.
Speaker 5 (19:43):
One word, yeah, forty nine.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
There you go ers.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
I don't think they can beat him, but I'm gonna
pick them.
Speaker 8 (19:51):
Okay, so he gets paid the big bucks. That's some
serious analysis.
Speaker 7 (19:56):
Harry's hilarious Michael being next getting E said, for tonight's
Steelers Tech game, we had Alan paul On, who wrote
for Rolling Stone Magazine on the passing of Bob Weir.
You can read his piece on Bob Weir at Rollingstone
dot com. And if you want to check out that
interview with Alan at the eight o'clock hour, you can
always go to the DV Morning Show podcast start to
finish each in every day wherever you get your podcasts,
(20:18):
and Mike joining us next, of course breaking down tonight's
big game. We are eleven hours away from kickoff right now,
and the steel City is going to be on fire,
all black and gold all day.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
Here we go.
Speaker 7 (20:34):
Also, I'm gonna play the clip that's making the rounds
of the reporter telling Liam Cohen to keep his head up.
Speaker 5 (20:40):
It's like this older black.
Speaker 7 (20:41):
Woman's like, you keep your head up, baby, and like
it's drawing quite the response from members of the sports
media world, and I want our own.
Speaker 5 (20:50):
Mike Pursuit has take on that when we come back
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Speaker 9 (21:38):
Chris Bossel hasn't been automatic bos of late, and that's the.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
Guy that Steelers are gonna need.
Speaker 9 (21:43):
Tonight is the NFL's wild Card weekend concludes against the
Houston Texans. Here's Boswell on the missed pat against the
Ravens that could have cost the Steelers their season.
Speaker 10 (21:55):
Honestly, in the moment, I don't know. I don't watch
film anyway, and everybody you know cracks show about that.
But how I hit it felt really good. Obviously it
took the path that it did and they're going into tip.
But I mean I have no idea. You can't you
can't tell on film whether it's tipped or whether it's
you know, just a shank cake. But at the end
(22:17):
of the day, whether it's a block or not, it's
on me and I got to put it in and
we'll move past it.
Speaker 9 (22:21):
That was Cam Hayward in the background walking by saying
we just need to block better. And if you go
back and look at that pat the pressure came between
Derek Harmon and Hayward.
Speaker 5 (22:33):
On the left side of the Hayward's calling himself out there.
Speaker 7 (22:36):
Yeah, I think he is. Yeah, there's something weird that's happening.
And it happened a couple times yesterday too. And Boz
has been hitting the ball. The trajectory, trajectory of his
of his kicks, the rotation on them has been different.
And again I always use that golf analogy, like, you know,
when you're.
Speaker 5 (22:51):
Hitting, you're like, what am I doing? It's doing this
every time.
Speaker 7 (22:54):
Now, and it's doing this weird thing where it's starting
off straight and it's not getting it's not getting a
high trajectory. He's not getting the loft that he needs
to to get it over the line. You know, A
sure thing every time, and then it's tailing and it
does a quick.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
Hard right slice after it starts.
Speaker 7 (23:14):
It's very strange, and it could be as simple as
weight mian Is has been pulling it back too much
or something, you know. But hopefully they get that fixed
because you cannot afford for Boss to not just be
hitting them straight down the center tonight.
Speaker 9 (23:29):
Not tonight, he has missed. Now that they did call
that a blocked field goal. Extra point, Yeah, extra point.
I'm sorry, but that's three games in a row that
a kick has been missed. So whatever is going screwy
with the snapholed kick protect process, they got to get
that ironed out.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
I mean tonight.
Speaker 9 (23:48):
Ky Fairburn of the Texans forty four of forty eight
on field goals this year, forty four of forty eight
with a long of fifty seven. It's crazy to me
that in the last couple of weeks, all of a sudden,
guys have started missing kicks right and left, no pun intended.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
That's how you miss him right or left.
Speaker 9 (24:08):
Remember, in the middle of season, we're talking about how
automatic kicking had become and the impact that was having
on the game, and by Jacksonville yesterday loses to Buffalo
by three and to the first half. The Jags are
backed up to like their half yard line with very
little time left, and they hit a couple of long
passes and they got their guy camp long guy hit
(24:29):
seventy yard field goals fifty four yard at the gun
to the first half and he missed it, I know,
And that's in Jacksonville, perfect weather and everything.
Speaker 5 (24:37):
And he hit it. They hit him with the cod
Bosh too, talking about he hits bombs.
Speaker 8 (24:41):
They're already in his field goal range at the twenty.
Speaker 7 (24:44):
The announcer jinkses have been incredible And you know, you
think about turnovers tonight. Matt Williamson turned me onto this
kind of perspective on turnovers a couple of weeks, a
couple of years.
Speaker 9 (24:53):
Ago, and I'm really sold on it. Turnovers are fumbles
and interceptions. That's what they calculate takeaway giveaway on You
got to count.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
Miss field goals that's a turnover.
Speaker 9 (25:05):
You got to count failed fourth downs that's a turnover.
And you got to count block punts. So you know,
just because you're plus one and fumbles and picks. If
you miss two field goals and you get stuffed three
times on fourth downs, you probably lost turnover. Houston is
plus seventeen. That's behind only Chicago at plus twenty two.
(25:26):
Pittsburgh is fourth at plus twelve. Texans have generated twenty
nine takeaways, the Steelers have generated twenty seven. Texans have
turned it over twelve times. Steelers have turned it over
fifteen times. Now, that's in the traditional math. I didn't
factor in fourth downs and all that other stuff, but
that stuff matters. But the point is, if you're going
(25:47):
into this game thinking, now, I'll take it away two
or three times, finish plus two and win it that way,
maybe not so. Two really good kickers are going to
be on display tonight. One of them is slump or
struggling or whatever you want to call it. He doesn't
look like himself to me. The Steelers have to trust
him tonight. Yeah, I would not trust the pass protection.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
You know.
Speaker 9 (26:13):
If it's third, Nate, I'm dumping it down and seeing
if I'm back and make something happen in a flat
and punting if I have to. They're gonna have to
take some deep shots. They're gonna have to hit one,
maybe more than one. But they can't live and die
on that stuff. Like they have to acknowledge the Texans
pass rush is part of their game plan and work
(26:34):
around it, not just oh yeah, well we'll chip them
and Dylan Cook will hold up. That's dangerous to me.
Speaker 7 (26:41):
I like the idea of Arthur Smith and Aaron Rodgers
putting their heads together to get past the defensive threat
of Houston more than I like Tamiko and his offensive
coordinator and CJ. Stroud being able to figure out how
(27:02):
easily you know, to to manipulate the Steelers ever evolving defense.
Speaker 9 (27:09):
And even if they do figure it out to a degree,
Alex Highsmith and the Steelers think they have edge pressure
that is capable of wrecking the game.
Speaker 5 (27:17):
In fact, they're counting on it.
Speaker 15 (27:20):
You know, it's just been emphasizing, you know that we
got to be the best edge group in the stadium
this weekend.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
It's been emphasized so they know how to get to
c J. Strouts.
Speaker 9 (27:30):
They've also got home field advantage and that can also
help tip things into Steelers favor.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
It's gonna be awesome, you know. I think TJ talked
about it.
Speaker 15 (27:41):
I think that was a lot of us. I've heard
steering Nation at home and since i've been here and
the atmosphere is crazy, so I know it's gonna be
crazy again come Monday night, and we're gonna need it.
It's a big game, so I know still a nation
is going to show out.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
They are going to need it.
Speaker 9 (27:53):
I thought Charlie Bascher made great points on our show today.
The crowd is going to have to be patient and
the crowd is going to have to stay in it.
I mean they went, they went from fire Tomlin to
one of the loudest crowds that a lot of those
guys say they've ever heard at Hinesfield Slash Actor.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
Sure, yeah, they need the ladder tonight.
Speaker 7 (28:17):
Stealer fans, get down there early, get your terrible towels
ready to roll. I still think Renegade, they should probably
do it in the first half. I feel like you
needed to do it in the first half. Take away
all the controversy.
Speaker 8 (28:32):
We should just play it on loop while we're on
defense the whole time.
Speaker 5 (28:37):
As soon as like that it's down and he's like.
Speaker 7 (28:41):
Every single time I'm in that might be a better idea.
You might have seen the post game yesterday in Jacksonville
where Liam Cohen, coach of the Jacksonville Jaguars.
Speaker 5 (28:56):
Was asked by Well, it wasn't even asked.
Speaker 7 (28:59):
He was base just given a pep talk by a
member of the Jacksonville media corps and Mike, I want
you to give a listen to this. Apparently this woman
is like Venerables newscaster in Jacksonville, the Jacksonville Sally Wigan.
Speaker 13 (29:18):
Yes, you congratulations on your success, young man. You hold
your head up, all right. You guys have had a
most magnificent season. He did a great job out there today.
So you just hold your head up, okay. And ladies
and gentlemen, duvall you don't want all right? You keep
it going.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
We got another season, okay.
Speaker 13 (29:34):
I appreciate, take care of much continued success to you
and the entire team.
Speaker 5 (29:37):
Thank you. Okay.
Speaker 7 (29:39):
Now, there are two schools of thought on There's there
are people who love that that happened after the game.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
However, I'm gonna.
Speaker 5 (29:49):
Go out on a limb and say you are not
one of those people.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
How can I describe what I just heard?
Speaker 9 (29:58):
Disgusting, self so serving, unprofessional, unacceptable.
Speaker 5 (30:04):
You're not gonna do this tonight with coach t.
Speaker 9 (30:07):
And here's the funny part about that, Like he doesn't
care what she thinks.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
You know, that's not doing him.
Speaker 9 (30:14):
Oh we just lost the playoff game in gut wrenching fashion.
But the newsperson thinks I did okay, so I guess
it's all right, Like it serves nothing and she was
probably just trying to be nice, but it comes off as.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
Like, oh, yeah, just you know, pander to the fans.
Speaker 9 (30:31):
And and try to promote yourself and it's not the
time or play.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
It's unacceptable. It's a professional environment.
Speaker 9 (30:37):
Yeah, the postgame news conferences to ask serious questions from
serious people, and I get that there are a lot
of people asking questions that don't qualify nowadays, but I
really think the teams need to do something about this
more than anybody else. And just when the newsperson applies
for a credential, say no, yeah.
Speaker 7 (30:56):
No, you don't watch it on TV, you don't cover sports. Yeah,
this is sports. That seems simple enough. But I thought
initially when I heard that that it was some sort
of like fan blogger that they let in. Because that's
what I'm saying is that that they have, you know,
opened up the gates a little bit for alternate media.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
But she's traditional. She's been around for a long time.
Speaker 3 (31:21):
That's just pathetic.
Speaker 8 (31:22):
Y would it help if like a mean dad energy
came after that, where he's like, no, you should be
humiliated with yourself. You're never going to be as good
as your older brother.
Speaker 9 (31:31):
Yeah, your columns for right, Yeah, that's what your commentaries
for sure. Just that just makes me sick to my stomach. Yeah,
this is where we're going. This is why people don't
trust the media or get informed by the media, because
the media has fallen apart, because the media has started
(31:52):
pandering to the public because it's had to because the
public has way too many options.
Speaker 3 (31:56):
But the traditional media doing its job traditionally.
Speaker 7 (32:00):
As once once news became for profit, it stopped being
about the news, and that's why people get.
Speaker 3 (32:05):
Mad with me.
Speaker 7 (32:07):
It's okay, coach, And I'm not even trying to I'm
not getting political. I'm talking just solely about sports. When
people hear news about their sports team.
Speaker 3 (32:15):
Sports a very small part of that. It's fun in games,
but in the larger the concept is the same.
Speaker 7 (32:21):
It's like, yeah, no, it's in a microcosm of the
larger problem.
Speaker 3 (32:25):
Nobody's there to tell him it's okay.
Speaker 5 (32:29):
Yeah, a different coach might have told her to stop talking.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
I told Mike, I'm surprising you and go hey.
Speaker 7 (32:34):
Like if that was Tomlin, he'd be like, I appreciate
your sentiments, but that's not I don't see comfort, and
he would have like turned it around and started yelling
at it. That being said, I wish that woman would
follow me around and say nice things like that to me.
Speaker 8 (32:47):
When we were listening to it, I started feeling good
about myself, Like everything that went wrong in the last
couple of weeks, I was like, I shouldn't keep my
head upright.
Speaker 5 (32:56):
Things are so bad Steelers and the text it's messed
up so wrong. I agree.
Speaker 7 (33:02):
Steelers of the Texans tonight an eight to fifteen kickoff
right here on DVE.
Speaker 14 (33:07):
The fourth ghost of Christmas Past that Lingers way too long,
is showing up everywhere.
Speaker 12 (33:14):
Holiday Bills, Good Morning Show, Abby Chrisner and Mike Pursuda,
Jacob brect Our, producer comedian Raisawadney been hanging out with
us all morning long, could to see their pal gooding.
Speaker 7 (33:27):
I was up in Erie with some old friends for
my birthday this past weekend, and it always makes me
laugh how I grew up and the people I grew
up with and how much they were like, like, my
dad was very much like everybody in this world I
grew up in has the same mentality and it is
so damn funny.
Speaker 5 (33:45):
And there's a lot of Pittsburgh in that.
Speaker 7 (33:47):
Uh. And one of my friends said to me, he's
like robbing his john. I'm like, what's going on. He's like,
I had jaw surgery this week. And I was like, oh, dude,
all right. He goes, yeah, guess how much it comes.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
And I'm like, you're asking me how much your jaw
surgery costs? Is that because you got a deal on it?
Speaker 7 (34:08):
And he went, uh huh, hold on a second, why
do you want a deal.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
On your jaw surgery?
Speaker 5 (34:17):
He's like, guess how much it comes. I'm like, I
don't know.
Speaker 7 (34:21):
And he has a business up there and he goes,
I traded out five gift cards for it, and I'm like,
you traded out jaw surgery. When I and I just
started laughing. I call I, you know, grabbed my brother
immediately and I'm like, get over here. I'm like, who
does this sound like? He's like, that's that's our dad.
My dad traded carpet for my braces, My orthodonist put
(34:45):
my braces on in exchange for some berber carpeting.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
In his living room. Are your teeth?
Speaker 7 (34:52):
Jacked him all up? He was a terrible orthonios. He
moved him too quick, and I have blunted roots now
and all my teeth. Not always the best way to
do it, you know, when it comes to healthcare, like
the system, but.
Speaker 5 (35:10):
Not fruit, not for my family or the people I
grew up with.
Speaker 8 (35:13):
That he thought you were gonna fire out a guess
like prices of the weirdest prices right episode ever, I.
Speaker 9 (35:19):
Up before kiss how much I picked an expert on
your condition and jaw surgery.
Speaker 7 (35:24):
I gotta say at least eight thousands, Oh my god,
one dollar drip. We're gonna little.
Speaker 5 (35:29):
Bit this jaw surgery.
Speaker 7 (35:31):
Oh my god, Like i'd be like eleven bucks. I
don't know what jaw surgery costs. I don't know what
jaw surgery you had. I would imagine there's several.
Speaker 8 (35:39):
He wanted you to overbid so hard. Yeah, you're like
half that. Yeah, Like I was gonna go.
Speaker 7 (35:44):
Ten thousand, fifteen thousand, and then he was like five
hundred bucks.
Speaker 3 (35:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (35:51):
And then I went behind a strip mall and got
some fix a flat to uh you know, injected right into.
Speaker 5 (35:55):
My ass and uh.
Speaker 2 (35:59):
Yes, bend on that exactly.
Speaker 7 (36:02):
Remember those people who were getting butt im plants with
the fix a flat behind a strip mall, Yeah, and
they were dying.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
You can't do that, okay, because you want to fast
forward to the end.
Speaker 7 (36:13):
When it comes to any kind of surgery, oral or otherwise. Splurch,
go ahead and splurch. I mean, fix a Flat's not cheap.
Speaker 5 (36:22):
Either, makes a good point.
Speaker 7 (36:23):
Yeah, Economy Steelers and the Houston Texans tonight that eight
to fifteen kickoff, Rob King, Max Starks, and Missy Matthews.
And here with the preamble to kickoff. Your host for
the Steelers' Audio Network pregame show, which starts at six
fifteen tonight, it's our own Mike Persudah.
Speaker 9 (36:46):
Yeah, the Steelers are back on the North Shore in
the postseason for the first time since twenty twenty. But
they won't be returning home alone. There will also be
an elephant in the room when they host. You then
call it the Pacodermann Act for sure. That would be
the Steelers lack of a playoff victory since January the fifteenth,
(37:07):
twenty seventeen. Their zero for six effort in the postseason
since is tied for the longest active run of playoff
futility in the league and for the fourth longest such
stretch in NFL history. And rest assured the elephant isn't
the only.
Speaker 3 (37:22):
One who hasn't forgotten.
Speaker 9 (37:24):
A vocal portion of the fan base remains skeptical at best.
Media reminders have been relentless, and in Vegas, the Steelers
are home underdogs.
Speaker 3 (37:33):
But it's a great doc Emrick used emphasize.
Speaker 9 (37:35):
During hockey broadcast. It's history, not prophecy. In this case,
it's ancient history. We know this time the Steelers won't
lose Le'Veon Bell after just six carries against the Patriots
with the Super Bowl at stake. We know Ben Roethlisberger
won't combine to throw five interceptions, lose a fumble that
gets returned for a touchdown, and watch a Marquis Pouncey
(37:55):
snap get airmailed into the end zone for you get
another defensive TV as was the case in games against
Jacksonville and Cleveland. We know they aren't facing Patrick Mahomes
at his apex.
Speaker 3 (38:06):
In Kansas City.
Speaker 9 (38:07):
We know they won't start Mason Rudolph and lack TJ.
Watt in Buffalo, and we know they're on a late
season roll, not limping into Baltimore. Are you ready for
some football?
Speaker 2 (38:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (38:20):
The biggest difference between.
Speaker 5 (38:21):
Then and now is Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 9 (38:23):
And if you can't get excited about what that guy
could potentially accomplish from Mike Tomlin, you might be in
the wrong ballpark.
Speaker 3 (38:30):
There are no guarantees in the playoffs. You never know.
Speaker 9 (38:33):
And that also applies to Houston having never won a
postseason game on the road. Given that particular derivative of
anything but hidden zero for six vigorish, something has to give.
Understand this much prior to kickoff, whatever does eventually isn't
analytically predetermined, and that makes tonight's matchup as unpredictable as
(38:54):
it is compelling. So don't stop believing, not yet. At
least the alternative would be incorrectly inter history as prophecy.
And if you do that, you just might miss one
hell of a postseason. Yeah, Steelers, Taxons tonight a fifteen.
Speaker 2 (39:11):
Here we go, Steelers. Oh Moody, we're from.
Speaker 16 (39:20):
That time with that grand football team be cheered up first,
Steelers thanks to raise and Watney out and non Keys friends.
Speaker 5 (39:29):
Out all on the dee, go out again the stealer.
Speaker 2 (39:34):
Thanks to Alan Paul. That's all and Rockie and Ran
and Lee.
Speaker 3 (39:40):
We love your fans.
Speaker 2 (39:41):
First Stealer, Thankston, Jerry.
Speaker 16 (39:43):
Dulac, many years the Steelers my scenery, and thank you
to Charlie Badge.
Speaker 2 (39:52):
Next guy, Steelers.
Speaker 17 (39:56):
Fans, Steeds Man and scramble in the set the ball,
the face ste faces the Steelers.
Speaker 2 (40:09):
Always that's the ball.
Speaker 5 (40:11):
Me Joe, me Joe, Youred, I.
Speaker 16 (40:16):
Guess the other team he stopped from here the year
miss lady's playing here.
Speaker 2 (40:22):
Now join with me and see lastey let's.
Speaker 16 (40:28):
We're from that time with the football team. Richard of
Pittsburgh Steelers. We need to habits not only a dream.
Speaker 17 (40:40):
Go out and get the Steelers jealous your realers and
can butt the show.
Speaker 16 (40:48):
And so I Frank Brow Sorry, Eigna is in coming.
Speaker 2 (40:55):
Just in the Steelers machinery coming finish you stay classy, Pittsburgh.
Speaker 5 (41:02):
Don't touch your face.
Speaker 2 (41:03):
I got him touched Pittsburgh all day.
Speaker 6 (41:05):
Baby.
Speaker 5 (41:05):
For now, you gotta call me Ronald. Would you not
eat my pants?
Speaker 3 (41:08):
Ronald?
Speaker 2 (41:11):
Whoa man? Whay goggle ahead.
Speaker 1 (41:19):
It's time for the Steelers Daily report on DVE brought
to you by First National Bank. Let's get started. Remember
FDIC and Steelers Pro Shop. Get it direct from the
team at shop dot Steelers dot com. Here's Tom Opferman.
Speaker 18 (41:31):
Tonight, Pittsburgh, for the first time since twenty twenty, you're
hosting a playoff football game, and for the first time
since twenty seventeen, you can actually go to the game.
So get the mind right and get loud tonight when
the Houston Texans come to town to wrap up wild
card weekend. The Pittsburgh Steelers entered tonight's game with a
ten and seven record and as the champions of the
AFC North, their first division crown in five years. Steelers
(41:54):
are also winners of four of their previous five games,
so they're heading into the playoffs with quite a bit
of momentum at their backs.
Speaker 5 (42:00):
Unfortunately, no one has.
Speaker 18 (42:01):
More momentum than the Houston Texans, who come into the
game on a nine game winning streak, making them the
hottest team in the NFL. Houston's overall record of twelve
and five was good enough to earn the AFC's top
wild card. This will be Houston's third straight trip to
the playoffs.
Speaker 5 (42:15):
Houston.
Speaker 18 (42:16):
Quarterback CJ. Stroud and head coach Damiko Ryans are just
the fourth head coach quarterback tandem to reach the playoffs
in each of their first three seasons together and have
won one playoff game in each of the previous two years.
Steelers will be searching for their first playoff wins since
they defeated the Kansas City Chiefs in the Divisional round
way back in twenty sixteen. Kickoff tonight between the Steelers
and the Texans is at eight point fifteen. I'm Tom
(42:38):
Opperman with the Steelers Report.
Speaker 3 (42:41):
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Speaker 2 (42:42):
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