1.12.26 Randy Baumann and the DVE Morning Show FULL SHOW

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Speaker 1 (00:12):
W dv E, Pittsburgh, an iHeartRadio station, guaranteed human.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
Here's a snap, here's the hole, here's the foot by Luke,
and that kick.

Speaker 3 (00:32):
Is glue Mistan and you're Pittsburgh Steelers are sid Nor Chippings.

Speaker 4 (00:45):
And with that miss kick last week against the Ravens,
Steelers Nation is reinvigorated in a way that I didn't
think was going to be possible.

Speaker 5 (00:55):
The noise you've heard all year seems.

Speaker 4 (00:58):
To have been eclipsed by a found hope that Mike
Tomlin might have this team with Aaron Rodgers in the lead,
on the path of restoring what was once great about
Steeler Nation, which was the possibility of a Super Bowl
run each and every year. Raizwatneys sitting in studio with
us this morning. He's festudent his Steeler gear. I've got

(01:20):
my Steeler hat and shirt. I regret that I had
a hoodie that did not make it through the weekend,
and I was not ready to go uh in that regard.
But everybody I see has just Steeler gear hanging outside
of their house.

Speaker 5 (01:34):
That's all he wants talking about.

Speaker 4 (01:35):
My eighty four year old mom said she is so
nervous for tonight. Every little kid, you know, is on
pins and needles. I don't remember it being quite like
this in Week one of the playoffs.

Speaker 5 (01:49):
In all of those years that we were.

Speaker 4 (01:50):
Used to making runs in the postseason, there was a yeah,
it's the wild card and it's a drag that we
didn't get a buy this week, but you know, we'll
slum it with the regular folk, I guess in the
wildcad week, and then we'll move on to the divisional playoffs.
And now it's like, oh my god, Aaron Rodgers actually

(02:11):
might get us a win.

Speaker 6 (02:12):
Ray.

Speaker 5 (02:13):
It feels like there's a real chance.

Speaker 7 (02:15):
That's what I'm like, Yes, and it's not one of
those like ten point spreads I feel like we've had
in the last few where we're just supposed to get
destroyed or we like.

Speaker 4 (02:24):
Yeah, you know, well, like two years ago, it was
Mason leading you into Baltimore OLYMPI. I mean, you know,
they had to win those three games to get into
the postseason, and then he squeaks past Baltimore in a
rain storm to get us in and nobody had any
real hope that Buffalo was a juggernaut then, and there
was not a lot of hope that was gonna happen.
But Mason, you know, performed admirably. The following year was

(02:48):
the Russell Wilson beat down. It was really the defense
that got beat down by the Ravens last year. And
since I don't know what is eight years since we've
won a playoff game, apparently.

Speaker 5 (03:00):
The first couple I think we could deal with.

Speaker 4 (03:02):
But after that point it's just been hard to get
any sort of positive feelings about the Steelers. Like everybody
on the same page. Now we can do it. It's
been constant in fighting with the fans. It got to
the point where they chanted fire Matt Canada in every
business in town. Got that guy fire, and then the

(03:24):
fire Tomlin chance this year. That was the point of
departure that had never happened before.

Speaker 5 (03:30):
You heard it in the stadium like a couple people
here and there, but the unison was I heard it
on the TV. Yeah, crazy, no discord, unlike anything we've
seen before.

Speaker 4 (03:39):
Abby. But now, but now it might all be fixed
with a win over the Houston Texans at home at
Akrosher Stadium in the freezing cold temperatures where CJ. Stroud's
one to three under the temperature of forty degrees that
I do love that burg.

Speaker 7 (04:00):
He can't handle the cold. Yeah, and we have no hit,
Like it's weird. We have no history with like the Texans.
I feel like in the playoffs, like it's it's strange,
like every other team Boilers would have been. Yeah, which
are the Titans now they're not the Texans. Every other
team I'm looking at, I'm like, oh, I got beef
with this team because of something that happened.

Speaker 4 (04:17):
But the Texans, I'm just like I kind of like them.

Speaker 5 (04:19):
Yeah, I don't mind them. I don't have hatred yet. Yes,
that and that's the worst.

Speaker 4 (04:24):
You can develop it very quick with you know, having
getting beaten.

Speaker 5 (04:28):
It's like the Jaguars.

Speaker 4 (04:29):
Somebody cared about the Jaguars until they started destroying our
playoff hopes every year.

Speaker 5 (04:33):
True, we'll talk to me at nine pm.

Speaker 4 (04:35):
We'll see how much I hate the Texans.

Speaker 5 (04:39):
Well, either way, I hope not.

Speaker 4 (04:42):
I hope it's one of those we sail past them
and we're like, Okay, good for those guys. You know what,
It's a good organization. That's the talk I hope we're having.
You know, it's a great coach, good organization. You know what,
they'll figure it out one day. They'll be good in
five years. Yeah, they might touch a super Bowl in
five years. Yeah, that's the conversation I want to have
tomorrow watching those games this weekend. Are you kidding me?

(05:05):
They It put me down a rabbit hole. Ray, I
was telling Abby about this. There's this whole rabbit hole
of the NFL being rigged. It's scripted, which I always
thought was like just a comical sort of passing notion
that people have. Yeah, this is this is rigged. The

(05:25):
rest called they know who Vegas has the money on
and everything, And then I got into the rabbit hole.
It is in depth. It's crazy how many people think
that there is this vast conspiracy to rig NFL games. Well,
do you have a gambling problem? Yes? Okay, no, no,
I know, okay my problem, yeah, my problem. What I

(05:47):
mean to say is I've been gambling my entire life. Yes,
football gambling is what brought me and my dad, my
brothers together. Yeah.

Speaker 7 (05:56):
Yeah, well that's the So I think I've had that
conspiracy for a like you have that it hits your
head every time you like lose by a half a point. Akay,
the you know, the over right yeah it's weak, but yeah,
it's I know, God, everything was so close.

Speaker 4 (06:12):
Yeah, I rolled with Chicago and the over on that one,
which was delightful. Uh, but the the Rams and the
Panthers game, I mean, people had to be going crazy
on that one. And last two minutes I knew San
Francisco was gonna win for Bob where I knew that
was going to happen Buffalo, I didn't know if they

(06:32):
were gonna pull it out or not.

Speaker 5 (06:33):
But when they did, that's when I really.

Speaker 4 (06:35):
Thought, oh boy, the Steelers. The Steelers are going to
get a home game against Buffalo, and we can beat
Buffalo because they're kind of slappy and the Jags just
totally gave that one away. I didn't end up seeing
the final score last next I fell asleep, but I
know the Patriots won. They started pouring it on them
at the end. Did they like, well, you know, sometimes

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I just want to be like, take the points. I
know everyone likes to go for it on fourth down,
but maybe in the playoffs you should take the points.
And right away the Chargers put themselves in a hole
by fourth and goal from like the two yard line,
they get stuffed and you kick a field goal.

Speaker 5 (07:12):
There on your first drive of the night.

Speaker 4 (07:14):
I don't know, maybe things look different.

Speaker 5 (07:15):
Little momentum that.

Speaker 4 (07:16):
Was everybody this weekend. Everyone was rolling the dice. Everybody
does all the time. But they were all entertaining games,
that's for sure, although some of them were like you
were waiting around for stuff to happen and then they
were insane fourth quarters.

Speaker 5 (07:28):
Yeah, that Chicago game.

Speaker 4 (07:31):
If you're a Chicago Bears fan, Wow, you have got
to be pretty excited about Caleb Williams right now. He
was doing ben stuff, is what I told someone. Yeah,
that's funny. It was the fourth and seven, was it?
And I mean one of the craziest throws postseason or not,
that I've ever seen. It's season on the line, with

(07:51):
everything that was on the line for that throw, the
pressure on that throw, like had to be one of
the best we've seen in the last couple of years.
Calling him ice Man in Chicago, mice Man. My brother
lived in Chicago for a long time and I was
watching the game with him and we hit both bet
on the Bears and I was like, here's the thing.

Speaker 5 (08:12):
I do think the Bears are gonna win.

Speaker 4 (08:13):
I'm like, but he drives me crazy because as he start,
you know, I know Ben Johnson has got him playing great,
but he's still got some of those tendencies that make
me like crazy when he just does stupid things and
he's like, no, man, he's he's He's Michael Jordan, and
I'm like, he's not.

Speaker 5 (08:32):
He's not Michael Jordan. You can't say that.

Speaker 4 (08:34):
So I'm like argued with my brother and then I'm
on the bet with him, and every time something goes wrong,
I'm like, what I tell you, you know, And I'm like
constantly yelling when Caleb Williams when he fumbled the one time,
I'm like, he shouldn't be holding the ball like that.
You see what I'm saying, you know. And I'm just
looking for a reason to hate the guy. But my god,
it is hard to argue he's come so far under
that coach.

Speaker 5 (08:54):
Who is a lunatic.

Speaker 4 (08:55):
By the way, his postseason speech or post game speech, Oh,
Ben Johnson, I f and hate the Packers. He ran
past Matt Lafleur did the drive by handshake, which people
are like, that's completely disrespectful. I'm like, he just something
I don't know. I guess you're allowed to do whatever.
You want high five the dude.

Speaker 8 (09:14):
That's always how they shake hands, like they did, like
a remix of every time they shake each other they
hate each other.

Speaker 4 (09:19):
Yeah, oh yeah.

Speaker 7 (09:20):
When he got there, that's what he said, something like
I look forward to beating the Packers twice a year.

Speaker 5 (09:25):
And they asked Matt Lafleur about it. He was like,
I don't even know this guy.

Speaker 4 (09:28):
He Matt Leafloor. Did he said, I enjoy beating Matt
Lafleur twice. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, And then Lafleur
tried to do the Don Draper. I don't even think
of you.

Speaker 5 (09:38):
You know, but that's we know that's not true.

Speaker 4 (09:40):
He's so mean to me.

Speaker 5 (09:44):
Well, we definitely know it ain't true now, man.

Speaker 4 (09:47):
So a fun weekend games to build up to tonight's
eight fifteen kickoff for the Steelers.

Speaker 5 (09:51):
Michael.

Speaker 4 (09:51):
Have more on that coming up a little bit later
on this morning. We'll talk with Charlie Batch, Jerry Dulac. Also,
you know, in the world of rock and roll, Bob
Weirs pass that was quite a big deal with a
group of people I was with. I was with a
bunch of Deadheads on Saturday night and we just listened
to Bob Weir and the Wolf Brothers, The Dad all night.
We listened to nothing but Bob Weir all night. That

(10:14):
not that it was shocking, it was still unexpected.

Speaker 8 (10:18):
I wanted to start with that in news and I
was going to give the reins over to you just
because like that actually did shock me, because I knew
he was sick. But there was also something about Bob
Weir that, like, you know, he was kind of.

Speaker 9 (10:36):
Indestructible to me, I don't know.

Speaker 4 (10:38):
Like so it's like Dylan, Yeah, yeah, you just don't
think they're ever going to die. Paul McCartney with Weird
the shows they did in Golden Gate Park this past summer.

Speaker 5 (10:47):
He was clearly not very strong.

Speaker 4 (10:51):
And this is a guy that we'd been watching literally
post his workouts on social media for the last few years,
and he was doing stuff that most seventy seven year
olds couldn't do. So you always assumed, like, oh, no,
Bob's gonna live forever. He's like doing a health He's
not one of those guys. He stopped doing drugs a
long time ago, but he had cancer and nobody knew
about it, and so that's why his performance seemed so stalted.

(11:14):
At Golden Gate Park, and he had a hard time
singing and just bringing the energy.

Speaker 5 (11:20):
And now everybody knows why.

Speaker 4 (11:22):
But he's such a complex guy because he was like
the little brother in the band and then had to
become the dad, and so people weren't sure if he
was going to be able to carry the flame, but
he never doubted it at all, and he just kept
going NonStop. And if you think about it, the Grateful

(11:45):
Dad invented their own canon of music. It is literally
a collection of music that stands separate from everything else
in the tradition of all Americana.

Speaker 5 (11:58):
There's countless tribune bands to the dead.

Speaker 4 (12:01):
Not in the way that there's like, oh, we're a
Kiss tribute band or something. It's like, hey, we're having
mass over here today. If you guys need or like
a meeting, you know, did you need to go to
a meeting today? Here's your group.

Speaker 5 (12:15):
It is.

Speaker 4 (12:15):
The fellowship of that group of people is really the
cornerstone of what makes it so great. And that's something
I think he always realized, and he constantly talked about
the music lasting well beyond his time on this earth,
and three hundred years is the timeline he keeps using
or had kept using in interviews. But he was an
unbelievable songwriter. He became a great player, But he has

(12:40):
Jerry Garcia in the band. So what do you do.
You're not a league guitar player. You have to play
rhythm guitar for Jerry Garcia. Well, I'm gonna set the
best platform I possibly can for him to be this.

Speaker 5 (12:49):
Badass guitar player. How do I do that?

Speaker 4 (12:51):
Oh, I'll study jazz piano players and learn how the
guys you play underneath Miles Davis play And that's what
he did. He listened to McCoy tyner and he figured out, Oh,
if I do these kind of complex courtings, Jerry's gonna
have a whole world to draw from. The palette that
I'll set for him will be vast. So that was
kind of a big point of departure for that band

(13:12):
from all the other San Francisco, you know, flower Power
era bands, and then you know they went in the
direction that they did. After Jerry's death, it very easily
could have just fallen apart, and he he and Phil
both played a big role in making sure that it
moved forward. But Bobby, in the last fifteen years, what
Dean company did. I've got issues with from a money

(13:35):
grab standpoint, it's weird to be paying three hundred and
fifty dollars face value tickets to see anything Grateful Dead related.
But I also felt like he deserved to cash in
for his family at that point because the Dead never
got rich while Jerry was alive until Touch of Gray,
and then they had some success and they were like,
what's going on? And they were always this a successful

(13:57):
touring act, you know, like when the Totals came in
at the end of the concert season. The Dead was
always up top, but they had like two hundred employees.

Speaker 5 (14:06):
They were a moving village.

Speaker 4 (14:09):
And also they did the most ridiculous business organizational plan.
It was a democracy that everybody got an equal vote,
so like if you were a I don't know, a secretary,
your vote in what the band did mattered as much
as the drummers, you know.

Speaker 10 (14:29):
I like that.

Speaker 4 (14:30):
Yeah, They're like, now this is We're all part of
the family, So everybody's vote matters equally, which I.

Speaker 5 (14:37):
Think has benefits and also.

Speaker 4 (14:40):
Some things that some hurdles that might have been tough
to get over from time to time, when you know,
when the Secretary's going, I don't think you should play
Dark Star tonight. You know, it's like I don't know
if you get a vote, miss. But Bob Weir was
He was a great player. He was one of the
best sidemen ever and then became, you know, a lead

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of a band of many different iterations of the band.
But it was all in service of that music, the
music that inspired what they did, and he was a
selfless guy. I talked to Scott Murders from the Postcause
that about it, and he threw some quotes in that
I gave him yesterday. I talked about what a great
song rutter he was, but it was his tenacity that

(15:23):
is the story. He never stopped playing. And I believe
someone said bb King has more gigs than him. It's
hard for me to believe someone who started playing in
a band the size of the Grateful Dead at the
age of seventeen and played all the way till he
was almost eighty and never stopped playing and never took
a year off in all those years.

Speaker 5 (15:43):
That anybody played two more people than that person.

Speaker 8 (15:46):
I'd love to see the numbers on that, because you're right,
it's not just the Grateful.

Speaker 4 (15:49):
Dead It's It's Bobby and the Midnights, the Wolf Brothers,
further rat Dog. There's a million different iterations that he
went out in and he never stopped. When Jerry died,
he talked about the fact that he just took off.
He's like, yeah, no, I just said, well, let's let's
hit the road. That's what Jerry would want. And then
that's what I did because he'd do the same.

Speaker 5 (16:12):
And you can put him at the top of that leaderboard.

Speaker 4 (16:14):
I don't know every Okay, think about it, like, you
know what comedian has done more shows than anybody. Yeah,
and you have to think of somebody who had success
at an early age. And then people were being like
argumentative with me about it, and they're like, oh, well,
there's jazz musicians who play their entire life like three
and four times a week. I'm like, yeah, well, that's
just not the scope of what we're talking about here.

Speaker 5 (16:33):
I'm saying the guy was playing.

Speaker 11 (16:34):
At the Pyramids in Egypt, you know, and then going
over and playing huge theaters in France and it did
not stop for him ever.

Speaker 5 (16:44):
Like it's a crazy run that he had.

Speaker 4 (16:49):
Every outdoor barn like Starlake and Alpine Valley every summer.

Speaker 5 (16:53):
He was in all of them every summer, almost never
took any time off.

Speaker 7 (17:00):
And that's why, regardless of his health, you're still surprised
because it's like, I mean, somebody with that longevity, you
just never expect them.

Speaker 4 (17:05):
Yeah, it seems so vibrant, right. The sadness was palpable.
The group of people I was with was just like,
and it was my birthday, you know, because I was
like I was. It hit me.

Speaker 9 (17:18):
Hard that it was your birthday when it happened.

Speaker 4 (17:20):
Well, and I was with a group of people that
I grew up with in my hometown and we all
grew up dead heads, you know, and so we were
all like looking at each other like, oh my god,
this sucks.

Speaker 5 (17:31):
And they kept saying, I'm sorry it's on your birthday.

Speaker 4 (17:33):
And I was like, I don't think you guys understand,
Like I'm not sad about this. Every year from now on,
on my birthday, I get to listen to the dead.
You're gonna celebrate catching any flag from anybody to listening
to something else with the Dead's Like no, no, no,
it's Bobby's you know, it's the anniversary of Bobby's passing.

(17:55):
So you know he wasn't you know, he wasn't a
flaw a sky or anything.

Speaker 5 (18:01):
But it's hard to believe he's gone.

Speaker 4 (18:03):
When he did the John Mayer thing, I got really
mad at Bob as a fan, I'm like, why are
you doing? This is the antithesis and a lot of
what the sphere shows and the big scope of all
of that. The money grab it seemed to me to
be the antithesis of what they stood for. And then
if you look into it, a lot of times this

(18:24):
is probably true of a lot of different like passions
that people have. You're projecting what you want it to
be onto it, as opposed to what it is and
what it's always been. You know, there are people who
project politics onto the rayful death. They're almost always wrong,

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you know, like Jerry would have never dealt with, never
put up with what's going on in the world. Well,
Jerry was a libertarian of a nihilistic degree, who is
basically like, hey, if you burn it down, you burn
it down.

Speaker 5 (18:57):
That's cool.

Speaker 4 (18:58):
Yeah, But people are like, no, you put a flower
and his guitar. No he didn't, that was not him,
you know. And the spear. Oh, Jerry would have hated
this fear and the money grabs Like Jerry loved sci
fi more than anybody. He was constant. He wrote a
sci fi novel with Tom Davis from Saturday Night Live.
Franken Al Frankin's writing partner. Like, they're almost never what

(19:22):
you think. These things you love entirely what you want
to project on. So I'm like, okay, pretend to know, right.
So I'm like, Okay, he wants to get John Mayer
in the band, I'll give it a chance. But I
hated it. I was so pissed that he was doing
that because I'm like, this guy's the biggest douchebag. And
then I went and saw it at Star, Like the
first time I came through, I'm like, that was really good.

(19:43):
He was really good. It's really good, Okay, And then
I softened and by the time I saw them the
last four or five times I saw them, and I
went to Wrigley for those shows after the debacle here
at Starlake, and I went by myself. I mean, I
met my nieces and because I just had a chance
to go and I'm like, I'm out, I'm going. And
then I just called up some friends and rolled into

(20:03):
a group of people where I only knew one people,
but then had a great time with thirty people I
just met, because that's what those shows are all about.

Speaker 5 (20:11):
And I was all the way in at that point.

Speaker 4 (20:13):
I was talking a big cat about it, and I'm like,
cause he's a big dead head too. I was like,
I never thought I would be this in on John
Mayer playing these Grateful Dead songs. He's like, it's incredible,
and you have to think Bobby knew exactly.

Speaker 5 (20:25):
Bobby knew this is the best way to service the music.

Speaker 4 (20:27):
I don't care if you guys don't dig it at first,
and then it became as big as anything the Grateful
Dead did.

Speaker 5 (20:33):
The Dead and Company.

Speaker 4 (20:35):
Now that caused so much controversy in that world because
there were people who absolutely hated Dead and Company. Would
never budge it's not as good as a real thing.
Yeah it's not. It's completely different. But to me, it
was all in service to the music. And I got
to go and hear those songs and I got to
be like that group of people, and that's what it
is all about for me. And if John Mayer's there

(20:55):
being a douchebag, well, then John Mayer's they're being a douchebag,
but his playing was insanely inspired. Well, that's kind of
the same thing about people projecting their own opinion on it,
like they were like, no, Jerry Garcia would have never
wanted this John Mayer do, And.

Speaker 7 (21:10):
It's like, who knows. I mean, it's still like, like
you said, still providing the same.

Speaker 5 (21:13):
Vibe that you had.

Speaker 4 (21:14):
Yeah, I mean Jerry would wear a black T shirt
that didn't really fit and we all do that, jeans
on the stage.

Speaker 6 (21:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (21:21):
He looked like Mark Madden going on the stage. Yeah,
And Bob by the end was wearing like designer cloaks
and things in his cowboy He a whole aesthetic. It
was a lot different, but the music never suffered. In fact,
it got better. And he was the most selfless guy
on stage, and it was always about servicing the song,

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and he embodied This is the last thing I'll say
about it. I'm sorry I went so long. He embodied
the character of the song. He was singing as good
or better than anybody. And if you're an aspiring singer
rock singer, pardon me. The one lesson to take away
from him is that dude lived in every one of
those songs.

Speaker 5 (22:02):
So he would like in Jack Straw. He is the
guy in Jack Straw. He's living that movie out as.

Speaker 4 (22:10):
He is singing it. And he always talked about how
he needed that in order to perform, and it separated
him and he was one of one like that. I
think in a way that that because he had all
of these other tools, uh, in addition to that. So
it was it was a tough one. I mean, we
talked about Bob all night. I was also bleeding profusely
from having cut my hand.

Speaker 9 (22:30):
Well, you were mayoring it.

Speaker 5 (22:32):
John mayered it. Yeah, so I've got a big you know.

Speaker 4 (22:35):
I mean I dropped a bowl on my hand and
it was glass and it smashed and ripped up my finger.
So it was hard to have people listen to me
about bub Weird.

Speaker 9 (22:44):
Well you're kill Bill gushing blood everywhere.

Speaker 1 (22:48):
Bob.

Speaker 12 (22:49):
Yeah, I'm like put on the Wolf Brothers from Ashville
in twenty twenty.

Speaker 4 (22:53):
One and they're like, go to the Eyaw. That's basically
what happened to me. Uh. So we'll we will talk
to Alan Paul, who wrote for Rolling Stone magazine about
Bob Weir and Bob Weir's passing. That'll be at eight
o'clock today, Michael be in next with your Sports as
we get set for tonight's kickoff eight fifteen Steelers and

(23:13):
the Houston Texans. And it was all because of that
miss field goal that we were talking about at the
top of the hour, Tyler Loup. We had Patrick Queen
on the show on Friday, and I asked him when
did he know it didn't go in? Because when I
watched the replay, well I watched it nine thousand times,
he didn't look at it.

Speaker 5 (23:31):
Do you remember the moment you became aware it was
no good?

Speaker 13 (23:34):
Yeah?

Speaker 14 (23:35):
I remember, like I'll just like sitting there look at
her like I know everybody likes saying like they got
like a jum try at the end of the stadium
and stuff. And I wasn't even looking at that, like
I was looking straight like everything was blurry. And I
remember Peyton just like running and grabbing me like he missed,
he missed.

Speaker 4 (23:49):
Miss crazy in the stadium just erupted, right, it.

Speaker 14 (23:54):
Was crazy, Like I didn't because it was a lot
of fans from both sides. But when they erupted, I
have a clue what thought it was. All I remember
was running them like missed he did.

Speaker 4 (24:06):
And now the Steelers are hosting a Wildcard playoff game
eight fifteen tonight.

Speaker 5 (24:11):
It's the Steelers in the Texans on DV.

Speaker 15 (24:14):
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And also Mike Pursuder now with your sports and sorry,
I needed to get all that Bob Weir stuff out.

Speaker 5 (24:53):
Yeah, appreciate it. Start for your loss man.

Speaker 4 (24:55):
Yeah, it was nice how many people reached out to me.
I felt like about three people. I know that's into
the dead, like I'm into Springsteen. Yeah, I feel your pain.

Speaker 5 (25:04):
Well, like I was explaining, And.

Speaker 4 (25:08):
You know, I don't think it's the same thing with
Springsteen with Bob, like his work is done, you know.
So I felt.

Speaker 5 (25:14):
As Bruce's of any consequence.

Speaker 4 (25:17):
No, because there's no I don't know. I'm not sure
Bruce's music goes on without his voice. You know, I'm
gonna hear Grateful Dead songs the rest of my life
being performed by everybody.

Speaker 5 (25:26):
Will people cover Springsteen? Yeah, well, you be honest, Yeah,
absolutely does not.

Speaker 17 (25:31):
Like Yeah, he needs him, he has He needs the
Street Band as much as they need him.

Speaker 5 (25:36):
Agreed, But without either one.

Speaker 4 (25:39):
Yeah, like your boy Ryan Church, my or Eric Church
might be like, hey, I'm gonna take the East Street
Band out and do a bunch of interesting Well what
I'm saying, But I.

Speaker 17 (25:51):
Mean, you know, they lost Danny Federich and they lost Clarence.
The show goes on. Yeah, but without Bruce, the show's over. Well,
you still have Bruce. So anyways, uh, fairly well, Bob we.

Speaker 4 (26:00):
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Speaker 17 (26:03):
It's the Steelers and the Houston Texans Tonight playoff football
at Actasher Stadium. The winner earns the right to play
the New England Patriots this coming Sunday.

Speaker 5 (26:14):
That game will be in New England.

Speaker 4 (26:16):
And I don't know if.

Speaker 17 (26:17):
People are aware of the Steelers haven't won a playoff game.
Since the second week of the two thousand and sixteen postseason,
they are zero for six since that ties the longest
current such streak in the NFL, and it ties the
fourth longest such running utility in NFL history.

Speaker 5 (26:34):
Not that Aaron Rodgers cares.

Speaker 18 (26:38):
I care about winning. That's why I'm I'm here. That's
why I love the Monday to Saturday grind. And you know,
stats are what they are, The trends are what they are,
and those trends are Any trend is always meant to
be broken at some point, so hopefully we can do that.

Speaker 13 (26:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 17 (26:56):
Defensive coordinator Terrell Austin is one of many Steelers personnel
this past week who has maintained that the goal is
not to snap the streak tonight against the Texans. The
goal is to beat the Texans and win a Riot
game and advance toward a potential championship.

Speaker 5 (27:12):
The goal is also not to win one for TJ.

Speaker 17 (27:15):
Watt and Cam Hayward and the other veterans that have
been around for the bulk of this drought, if not
all of it. But that doesn't mean the Steelers won't
be following their leaders.

Speaker 19 (27:24):
Hayward in particular, you know, we've talked about that before
in terms of, you know, our best players are you
right now? For us, they've been there are best leaders
and our best examples for our guys. So they've they've
always been that way. And so I mean I've seen that. Shoot,
I watched Cam chase guys all the time, and it's

(27:44):
still to me it amazes me. I watch him and
you just watch how he runs and how he plays,
and you know, there's young guys that don't do what
he does, and so he's a unicorn and in a
lot of ways, but he's also unicorn in terms of
his demeanor and leadership and all that other stuff. And
I think that's you know, we talked about it. We've

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got good leadership, We've got good things. And I think
that brings the rest of your guys along all the
way because they know how much they cared. You know,
they don't have that. Your best players don't push stuff aside.
It It means a lot to them, and so I
think that that has a really good trickle down effect
on everyone.

Speaker 17 (28:20):
Now, that's great stuff on Cam Hayward, who was named
second Team Ball Pro on Friday at thirty six years
of age, and deservedly so. But when I was listening
to Terra Austin speak there a couple of days ago,
it's stuck in my head. I never heard anybody pronounce
it unicord, and then he pronounced that unicorn the second
time he's talking about Cam's a unicord.

Speaker 4 (28:43):
What is a unicord? Well, there's there's a unicarrot, and
you don't want to confuse the two.

Speaker 17 (28:50):
As I mentioned All Pro second team for Hayward at
thirty six, and stop me if you've heard this one before,
an old guy walks into the playoffs if not a
bar Cam Hayward's fromamiliar with that one. Camp Thomas been
pretty public about briding you about your age from time
to time. Having some fun with TJ. Clture forty five
after the game the other night. This kind of stuff drive.

Speaker 6 (29:11):
You a little.

Speaker 13 (29:12):
Those two are getting up there in h two. Let's
not act like there's just some spring chickens.

Speaker 5 (29:17):
But is there a prove everybody wrong element to your play?

Speaker 6 (29:23):
Yeah?

Speaker 13 (29:26):
It's everybody versed me. Oh that's just how I am.
You know, I'm always looking for an extra notch, an
extra gear. And it's funny that my teammates and coaches
poking pride and on the other side of it.

Speaker 17 (29:42):
Stiller's in the Texans tonight report out of Houston from
Aaron Wilson. Backup quarterback Davis Mills of the Texans is
expected to join his team at some point today and
be available tonight. He did not travel with the team
yesterday due to a personal mat The Texans are a
nine game winning stick. The first three wins were with

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Mills at quarterback, replacing CJ. Stroud, who had a concussion.
He is a very capable backup quarterback. Everybody else on
both sides, things are looking very good in terms of availability.
Texans are going to get the right tackle Trent Brown back,
presumably he has no injury designation after missing the last

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two games. The Steelers don't have anybody on their list
with designation except defensive tackle Isaiah louder Milk, who still
has not been activated from injured reserve. Texans won't have
Tank Dell and Joe Mixon. Steelers won't have Broderick Jones
to Shaun Elliott, Darnell Washington, and Miles Kilber their IR guys.
But if you're not on IR, you're good to go

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for this one and one matchup that really favors the Steelers,
and aren't there aren't many, if any other ones but
red zone when the Steelers have the ball. They're eleventh
in the league in red zone offense at fifty eight
point eight percent. And Texans, for all their defensive splendor
and their defense is spec splendor as acular, they're only

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sixteenth in red zone at fifty six point eight. So
if the Steelers can get it into twenty, maybe they
got a chance to do some damage. That said, I
am just knocked off my chair at how insane NFL
coaches have become going forward on fourth down.

Speaker 5 (31:22):
It is an epidemic.

Speaker 4 (31:24):
As much as I like it from an entertainment value,
the stupidity factor of it at this point is absolutely baffling.
It's remarkable that and people are missing kicks right and
left all of a sudden. Remember early in the middle
of the season, guys are banging from sixteen and they
look like extra Now, Mike, if you went down the
rabbit hole I did, you would understand that this is
all part of the script that's being written. Well, there

(31:49):
was like fifteen points left on the table in last
night's game.

Speaker 5 (31:51):
I feel like fourth down in the five.

Speaker 17 (31:54):
I mean Carolina started it up first game, first series.
They're inside their own thirty and they go for it.

Speaker 6 (31:59):
It'll get it.

Speaker 4 (32:01):
And then they gave the Rams a short field besketball offense.

Speaker 6 (32:03):
In the lake.

Speaker 13 (32:03):
What do you do it?

Speaker 5 (32:04):
Yeah, I don't want understand it.

Speaker 17 (32:05):
I mean, I get you want to possess the ball
and keep it away. There's got to be a time
and a place. Well, I think there's a happy medium
for it. And I think that this is when you
do the analytics mixed with gut. It's important to.

Speaker 5 (32:16):
Own analytics is either all or nothing, though.

Speaker 6 (32:18):
Right, I mean.

Speaker 4 (32:20):
Definitively yes, because if you're not playing the percentages, then
it's just up the chance.

Speaker 5 (32:25):
I mean, you're an NFL head coach.

Speaker 17 (32:26):
Use your gut, use your knowledge, use your in game experience,
use your understanding of your team. Make the decision that way.
Don't do it because Dan Campbell would.

Speaker 4 (32:33):
Be the analytics you use as the response if this
doesn't happen, this can happen, it's your excuse. Well no, no, no,
I'm saying if you don't use analytics every time, it's
just like you know what the result of your failing
will be.

Speaker 17 (32:47):
Rams beat the pants A thirty four to thirty one.
That was a phenomenal game. Bearspeat the Packers thirty one
twenty seven thousand, that was a phenomenal saying Bill's beat
the Jaguars twenty seven to twenty four, that was a
phenomenal game. Forty nine Ers speak the Eagles twenty three
to nineteen. Didn't see much of that one, and I
didn't see any of Patriot's sixteen Chargers three. But if

(33:08):
you're like me, let's all celebrate Jim Harbaugh and suck
a day.

Speaker 5 (33:11):
Oh they are pissed at him.

Speaker 4 (33:13):
Robert Splaine in this postgame comments last night, saying that
Chargers were coming up to him after the game, saying,
our offense had no idea what covered you guys were in.
We didn't know what you were doing.

Speaker 5 (33:23):
That's because he couldn't study it ahead of time, and.

Speaker 4 (33:26):
No one comedian raised Waddey hanging out with us this morning. Abby,
you'll have your news at the top of the hour.

Speaker 9 (33:32):
We'll start recapping the Golden Globes.

Speaker 4 (33:34):
Well, we talked you heard from Cam Hayward there, and
we talked about the importance of his leadership on the team.
But he and his brother might be an integral part
of tonight's Houston matchup, and we'll explain how the steel
City push has gone to the true brotherly shove here
in Pittsburgh.

Speaker 20 (33:51):
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Speaker 4 (34:07):
Show, add Krisner and Mike pursued a comedian raised winey
hanging out with us here this morning, and Ray, you
came on the Best Day. Steelers Texans tonight a fifteen
at Extra Stadium. Are you going to the game? I
think I think I might. I might try to make
it down there. Man, I think you'll be able to
score a reasonable ticket before kickoff because the I think

(34:27):
just the weather alone, and Houston doesn't travel. It's a
Monday night game. It's not like a bunch of Texans
fans came up for this game. I've the Steelers play
them so infrequently. I have no idea if they travel
or not. They don't. And it was like I was
just telling Jacob, because Jacob was lamenting the fact that
Indiana's victory over Oregon that beat down, knocking them into

(34:49):
the National Championship against Miami, who essentially have a home
game for the Natty.

Speaker 17 (34:53):
Yeah, so they're real hoosier. You would show up no
matter the call. You could be there to support your team,
knowing that they need all the help they can get.
With the decks stacked against them like this, you would say,
F the money, F work.

Speaker 4 (35:07):
I'm going if you were a real hoosher Jake, what
are you doing next weekend? Your MIC's not on, buddy,
your MIC's not on. There you go.

Speaker 22 (35:14):
I told Mike over the weekend, I was considering opening
up another line of credit just to max out a
card and worry about that debt another time.

Speaker 5 (35:23):
What if I give you a loan that you work
off in humiliation rituals?

Speaker 4 (35:28):
Okay, I can consider that. Okay, we'll talk later About
that five thousand dollars you're saying is the going price
for a ticket to that game?

Speaker 22 (35:36):
Like anywhere it's I've seen like one thing, like one
specific ticket go for like thirty five, and everything else
is north of.

Speaker 5 (35:43):
Like forty five thirty five. That's affordable.

Speaker 22 (35:45):
That's right, thirty five hund on top of like a
thousand dollars flight and you know hotels that are going
for five hundred dollars a night.

Speaker 4 (35:53):
You don't need a hotel. Watching your school win the
national time, I will watch, Mike. I will watch being.

Speaker 5 (35:58):
There while your school was the national championship. I've been there.

Speaker 4 (36:01):
I've been there for your school. I've been there for
a lot of moments this year that they need you, Jacob,
they might you need to be Indiana's Michael Irvin will
get you an.

Speaker 5 (36:13):
Eight ball you go, We'll get you a belt. Yeah, Yeah,
that's right, Tony.

Speaker 17 (36:18):
It's gonna take more than Mark Cuban's checkbook for this one.
You got to get there and yell man.

Speaker 4 (36:23):
I I mean, he was there on on on Friday night.

Speaker 22 (36:26):
But if if there's any takeaway to have from his
presence is that you don't need that checkbook. I mean,
look at the look at the talent evaluation, the blue
chip ratio. Oregon had eighty percent of their players before
five star guys. Indiana has zero five star guys on
their team. Yeah, and only like six four star guys. Well,

(36:47):
I don't know if you need that money, Mike.

Speaker 4 (36:50):
All Right, an.

Speaker 5 (36:50):
Argument for a different day.

Speaker 4 (36:51):
How much you're paying the coach let's turn it to
the Steelers tonight, Steelers and the Texans.

Speaker 5 (36:57):
It's the wild card round.

Speaker 4 (36:58):
And one thing that you saw happening across the league yesterday,
the tush push is now universal.

Speaker 5 (37:03):
Everyone uses it. It is a tool in the NFL.
That's been the case.

Speaker 4 (37:08):
Uh yeah, I'm saying, but this one, literally there was
a ten yard tush push. It almost resulted in a
touchdown yesterday. Sure for the Bills, it is taking on
a new level. It used to be you only toush
push when it's an inch or half a yard or whatever,
and now it's like a yard and a half. Yeah, well,
touch push. I don't think the Steelers should be doing that.

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I think they should only do it when it's really close.
They were one for two last week, and it nearly
bit them in the three two three.

Speaker 17 (37:41):
Okay, because the one serious they made fourth down from
the ten, that's right, and then they got your pay.

Speaker 5 (37:46):
So the first one did not go so well.

Speaker 2 (37:48):
No dithers break the huddle with eight in the play clock,
Hayward set up to take the sneak, gets it and
pushing and shoving.

Speaker 4 (38:00):
This is gonna be really really close.

Speaker 2 (38:03):
Oh it looks like he might be a little short,
and he is did not pick it up, went off
the left side and came up a few inches short,
and the Steelers will turn it over on downs at
their own forty five yard line. I mean that was brutal.

Speaker 4 (38:18):
Connor Hayward was super pissed at his brother Cam, who
came in in the stead of Darnell Washington, who's usually
the guy behind Connor there.

Speaker 5 (38:31):
And we asked Missy Matthews.

Speaker 4 (38:33):
About it when we were talking to her on Thursday
here on the show, because she was down on the sidelines.
So not having Darnell Washington to help out in that
big package is a big loss against this defense. How
do you think Arthur Smith counteracts that, I just Cam
Hayward go in.

Speaker 23 (38:49):
I don't know, I'm joking. I did like that, you know,
iteration of the Spartan putting Cam Hayward in there. I
will say it was not funny at the time, but
now that I think back, how mad Connor was at
Cam when the first one didn't work, losing his mind

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not oh no, no, no, not in his face, but
like walked away, like could not believe it is just screaming.
His face is turning red. He's you know, saying things
really and I can't repeat on the radio. Oh he
was so mad, so mad, and he was kind of
motioning like that he hugged him instead of like pushed him.

(39:34):
I agree with coach Tomlin that like Connor was never
going to say that to Cam, and that I think
it was more Connor probably told Danny Smith, and then
Danny Smith told coach, and then coach maybe told Camer
was just like, you guys, figure it out. It was true,
brother like throw down fisticuffs. That's how angry he was.

(39:54):
Put not in Cam's vicinity at all at all.

Speaker 5 (39:59):
Connor after the game said, yeah, no, that didn't I
didn't love that.

Speaker 24 (40:06):
Yeah, the first one he tackled me, but you know
that was the practice for the second and third one.
And I was hot at the first one. But you know,
he came up to me and he was like, we're good.

Speaker 5 (40:20):
You know that was my bad, but okay, so that's good.

Speaker 4 (40:25):
They get it worked out, brothers, shake hands, hug let's
just do it right. The second time they did, and
then they did it right the third time. Steal City
Chef once.

Speaker 2 (40:33):
Again snapped a Hayward Hunter Hayward second rushing touched out
of the season, caps off.

Speaker 5 (40:38):
A beautiful opening drive here for the Steelers.

Speaker 4 (40:41):
When you see them line up for the Tush push ray,
the Steel City Shove, whatever you want to call it
here in Pittsburgh.

Speaker 5 (40:46):
What goes through you?

Speaker 4 (40:47):
What's your nervous level.

Speaker 5 (40:50):
When they're two yards out? It's not great?

Speaker 7 (40:52):
Yeah, but I love the play. I'm a fan of
I'm one of the rare people that loves this ugly play.
I want them to start the game tonight and do
it every play in a row from the ten. I mean,
if you watch Josh Allen, it look like they could
do that all day if they wanted to. The Eagles
when they had it perfected, looked like they could do it.

Speaker 4 (41:12):
Now, I they can't pull out of the garage without
hitting the side of the uh, you know, the door.
They're a mess.

Speaker 5 (41:18):
They won't even try it. They didn't even try yesterday.

Speaker 4 (41:20):
They're a mess. And no surprise, San Francisco bested them yesterday.
And the Steelers have some variations on that. They had
that That's what I wanted to get to.

Speaker 17 (41:28):
The hand off to gain weall in Chicago, which went
for a huge play almost for a touchdown, and then
the Connor Hayward keeper around the right end. So they
got some stuff on tape where people can't necessarily just
load up on it.

Speaker 5 (41:42):
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Speaker 8 (41:43):
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Speaker 2 (42:02):
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Speaker 6 (42:08):
Bit wide open.

Speaker 4 (42:10):
Touchdown Pittburgh Steelers.

Speaker 25 (42:13):
What fifty five second dramatic.

Speaker 4 (42:18):
God, Yeah, here we go?

Speaker 10 (42:21):
You better believe it?

Speaker 5 (42:22):
Did you hear me?

Speaker 14 (42:23):
Where we go?

Speaker 9 (42:24):
We first thing in the morning.

Speaker 4 (42:27):
Here we go, Steelers, Here we go, faceberst Gurball.

Speaker 14 (42:34):
Here we go.

Speaker 4 (42:36):
You know tonight the Steelers hosting the Texans wild Card
weekend culminates in the eight to fifteen kickoff Monday Night
football here in Pittsburgh.

Speaker 5 (42:45):
Comedian raised wading with us this morning.

Speaker 4 (42:47):
Uh getting set for Aaron Rodgers to lead the Pittsburgh
Steelers onto the field tonight and can they get past
that vaunted Houston Texans defense.

Speaker 5 (42:57):
We shall see. I'm not scared of their offense.

Speaker 4 (42:59):
I think the way this plays out in the reason
I feel good about the Steelers chances tonight is not
that I think we're gonna put up a ton of
points on that defense. I think our defense can do
some stuff against their kind of mediocre offense. I think
we can get the ball in some really good field
position because of some big defensive plays that can turn

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the tide of the game.

Speaker 5 (43:22):
Boswell's gonna have to be sharp.

Speaker 4 (43:24):
He's already said like, hey man, I'm fine, which is
good because Ben was like, I know.

Speaker 5 (43:28):
You're all messed up between the years, but don't worry
about it.

Speaker 4 (43:31):
Ben, stop trying to help. I believe Boswell will be
fine tonight, and I think he's gonna be a big
reason why the Steelers end up winning sixteen to ten.
Ooh six.

Speaker 5 (43:43):
I got a twenty to fourteen, Okay, so we're not
far away from each other there.

Speaker 4 (43:46):
Yeah, it's it doesn't seem like it's going to be
a high scoring game, which probably means the script writers
will make sure that it's a forty seven to forty
five juggernaut of a offensive explosion.

Speaker 7 (43:58):
Hey man, as long as it's on the rights, I'm
with you. I we need a win, dude. It's been
too long. I know, I know, I know we're spoiled
brats in the grand scheme of it all. We are,
but we we deserve it, you know. And I've been
working so hard as a fan I have. Yeah I
did you? Did you if you saw the beginning of

(44:19):
the Bears game. One of the things that was bothering
me is the uh they they do the towels.

Speaker 4 (44:24):
I hate everybody Jacksonville, Adam too, but like they our
towels are like my Terrible towel I've had for twenty years.

Speaker 7 (44:33):
It's signed by Ricardo Cokeley. There's blood on it, there's
you know, it's like should be in an evidence locker, right,
Like like these like.

Speaker 5 (44:43):
They're passing like that's our thing.

Speaker 4 (44:45):
Yeah, they're passing them out for free.

Speaker 5 (44:47):
Yeah, total bs.

Speaker 4 (44:49):
I was trying to explain that to somebody who was
new to the Terrible Terrible towel culture, that it's not
just a yellow towel.

Speaker 5 (44:57):
These are like family heirlooms.

Speaker 4 (44:59):
At this point. Did you see Bradley Cooper on that
commercial he calls it the Steelers waving their yellow napkins. Yeah,
and I know what the bit is. I know it's
a food thing, but it still irritates me every time
I hear it. Yeah, I refuse to support any of
his movies going forward. You know, I'm going to spread
every rumor about him I'm substantiated or not. It's going
on our air waves anytime someone brings him up. You're like,

(45:20):
what did you hear what Bradley Cooper did?

Speaker 5 (45:24):
Hey?

Speaker 4 (45:24):
Whatever, Go have another eye surgery, Bradley Cooper, come go
get your go. Try to make yourself look like Leonard Cohen.
You leave the towels to us, buddy, Oh a napkin man,
and and like every like terrible towels have a store.
Why do you, by the way, who does Bradley Cooper
root for?

Speaker 13 (45:44):
Uh?

Speaker 4 (45:44):
Nobody?

Speaker 26 (45:45):
Now?

Speaker 4 (45:47):
Eagles? And what happened to the Eagles after Bradley Cooper
called the terrible towel a napkin? Oh knocked out?

Speaker 5 (45:54):
It's a real curse. It's the curse of coat. You
can't tell me.

Speaker 4 (46:00):
I would love to bait a prominent member of the
Houston Texans into I shouldn't say bait member of the
Houston Texans. That's that's got some bad history. But I
mean b A I t uh into doing something bad
to the towel boy. I shouldn't say Patriots thing too

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as well.

Speaker 5 (46:24):
But you know what I'm saying this, they're too squeaky
clean of a team right now.

Speaker 4 (46:28):
DeMarco Ryan has this team playing, uh, Demico Ryan has
this team playing soundly on defense offense.

Speaker 5 (46:35):
They don't have a whole lot. They don't have a
whole lot. I think t J.

Speaker 4 (46:38):
Watt can have a game tonight. I think Cam Hayward
has been a monster on the defensive line. Ke Benton
and uh also Harmon coming up big. They're not make CJ.

Speaker 6 (46:51):
Now.

Speaker 5 (46:51):
CJ. Stroud can throw the ball.

Speaker 4 (46:53):
But you know when you have t J. Watt and
Alex high Smith and her big closing down on you,
maybe that's just enough for the Steelers to create problems
that he's got to get rid of the ball quickly.

Speaker 5 (47:07):
It's secondary can capitalize.

Speaker 7 (47:08):
If I was a betting man, which you are, Yeah, Steelers,
I'm taking a Steelers touchdown defense defense defender touchdown.

Speaker 4 (47:16):
I like that usually in that like plus seven hundred range,
and it's always a fun one, always a fun fun
one is.

Speaker 5 (47:22):
When it hits really well.

Speaker 4 (47:25):
You know, it's like it was like my Derek Watt
touchdown that I played every single week until the week
he scored. I did not play at the week he scored.
It was like plus twenty three hundred. Every time. I'm like,
they're gonna give it to him one of these days
when he was full back for US, and they did
one time.

Speaker 5 (47:41):
Any Writers, Steelers.

Speaker 4 (47:46):
And the Texans Tonight on dB eight fifteen are pregame
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Tonight on DVE raised Wadney's hanging out in studio with
us tonight or today getting ready for tonight's game.

Speaker 5 (48:07):
Abby's got a news update for you now.

Speaker 8 (48:09):
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Speaker 9 (48:15):
Today it is the high of thirty eight.

Speaker 8 (48:18):
The Golden Globes were last night. The show was packed
full of celebs from TV and film. It was also
filled with some big wins and some big moments, and
we're going to cover it here. So Nikki Glazer kicked
off her second straight Golden Globes hosting gig by calling
it mockingly, without a doubt, the most important thing that
is happening in the world right now, which was a

(48:41):
good self awareness there, but before launching into jabs at
Warner Brothers, the Justice Department. And I give her credit
because the show was airing on CBS, but she went
after CBS News and.

Speaker 27 (48:53):
The award for most editing those two CBS News. Yes,
CBS News America's newest place to see BS News.

Speaker 4 (49:05):
I mean, great joke. They flashed Martin Short and Steve
Martin when she made that, and they loved it.

Speaker 8 (49:12):
Oh yeah, Generally it was a pretty tame show. I
want to say, I got to like the first hour
and a half of it. She's a great host because
she's such a huge entertainment fan, so she genuinely loves
the shows and the movies and the celebrities that she's
joking about, and that radiates for sure.

Speaker 4 (49:36):
So she's qualified for the gig, and she well, she's
such a season stand up too, Like even the stuff
that I saw her doing, interstitial stuff where she was
like standing out in the crowd and just doing quick
like segments, and she's doing self depreciating humor and funny
stuff like just zooming through, So she wasn't above it all.
She's like, no, I'm a scumbag. You guys are royalty. Yes, yea,

(49:58):
it's a pro yes, And she's so damn funny.

Speaker 9 (50:01):
I didn't think she had to qualify.

Speaker 8 (50:05):
Any of her jokes, and she did do that a
few times, like where I think a lot of people
would have said this year, she stayed away from any meanness.
So anytime she was doing anything that even walked that
line of maybe being mean, she'd be like, I love you,
I love you, I love you. And she felt like
she kind of needed to apologize a little too much.
I kind of wish she hadn't done that because I

(50:25):
don't think she needed to, but I understood it just
because of again, maybe the culture of.

Speaker 4 (50:31):
The show or the moment right now. She did that
with a good Leo joke. She said something like it
brought up some of his accomplishments, and she was like,
he did all this before his girlfriend turned thirty.

Speaker 8 (50:45):
As for other celebrities in the crowd, she did Hit
the Rock and Kevin Hart with a good one.

Speaker 28 (50:52):
And Kevin Hart is here, Yes the Rocks plus one
half love you Kevin, Kevin, I love you. Kevin is
obviously nominated for his hilarious stand up special tonight.

Speaker 9 (51:04):
I love you so much, Kevin.

Speaker 29 (51:05):
You're so funny, and you and The Rock together are
like my favorite comedy duo.

Speaker 9 (51:10):
I just such a classic comedy duo.

Speaker 28 (51:12):
You're like a Steve Martin and Martin Short.

Speaker 9 (51:14):
But for like people under fifty IQ.

Speaker 30 (51:16):
You know what I mean, like.

Speaker 5 (51:19):
Too people under fifty IQ hilarious.

Speaker 4 (51:25):
With Steve Martin Martin Short.

Speaker 8 (51:27):
She also joked that they keep proving to us that
in this industry, you're never too old to still need money.

Speaker 9 (51:35):
She also went after Sean Penn. She went bold on
this one.

Speaker 29 (51:41):
Sean, I love you not only such an amazing actor,
but you're such a devoted humanitarian. I mean, I feel
like a lot of actors talk the talk, but Sean
Penn will actually go to the places in the world
that need help the most, and he will do cocaine there.

Speaker 9 (51:58):
And I feel like we don't celebrate.

Speaker 4 (52:02):
He gets pissed when people joke about him doing that stuff.
Remember he sent that letter to the South Park guys.

Speaker 10 (52:07):
He was serious.

Speaker 4 (52:09):
I don't Yeah, he was furious about Team America. Oh,
Team America. They went after everybody.

Speaker 5 (52:20):
Anyways, did she? She went after Shallowy, right, she went after.

Speaker 9 (52:23):
Shallow May as well.

Speaker 8 (52:24):
With him, she said he was the first actor in
history to have to put on muscle for a movie
about ping pong game.

Speaker 9 (52:33):
He gained over sixty ounces.

Speaker 4 (52:35):
That's hilarious.

Speaker 5 (52:36):
Did he win last night?

Speaker 10 (52:38):
He did win?

Speaker 9 (52:39):
She I'm sorry.

Speaker 8 (52:42):
He won for Best Performance by a Male Actor in
Emotion Picture Comedy, and he thanked his co stars, his parents,
and his girlfriend Kylie Jenner, which there was like a
little bit of talk whether like because he didn't refer
to her as his girlfriend. He referred to her as
his partner, and people were like making a big fuss over.

Speaker 5 (53:01):
Like the it's a pr relationship.

Speaker 4 (53:04):
I don't know you think so No, that's look, I'm
in the rabbit hole that everything's faked right now on
the internet. I can't get out of it. So don't
pay any attention to me. For about seventy few hours
until I can cleanse my algorithm. Well, Timothy, by the way,
you should if you're over forty, cleanse your algorithm at
least once a year.

Speaker 8 (53:19):
Everybody says that he did mention one of his co
stars in Marty Supreme Shark, Kevin O'Leary, the.

Speaker 26 (53:29):
Amazing cast of this film, Ardessa Zion, Gwyneth Paltrow, Tyler,
the creator of fran Drescher, Kevin O'Leary. If you would
have told me when I was nineteen years old, I'd
be thinking, mister Wonderful from Shark Tank.

Speaker 5 (53:44):
All right, you're laughing.

Speaker 4 (53:45):
So I got away with that. Thank you, Kevin. I
would have been stunned. But I've been very.

Speaker 8 (53:49):
Grateful, more of a human moment maybe for Timothy Challowy,
which we've kind of been talking about. He's been a
little high on his own supply recently, so it was
kind of nice to have him come down to earth
for a little bit with the rest of us. As
for winners, Hamnet one for Best Drama.

Speaker 5 (54:08):
That name will never not make me.

Speaker 9 (54:11):
It just sounds like it's a joke. It reminds me
of Hamlet two.

Speaker 4 (54:15):
Someone like a hairlip. It sounds like the dumb kid
in Clad when he's when he's like, do we really
got to read Hamnit again?

Speaker 5 (54:25):
And they're like, it's Hamlet go to the office ring.

Speaker 8 (54:31):
One battle after another one Best Musical or Comedy.

Speaker 4 (54:35):
My mom used to cook with a hamnut and she'd
always been like, don't eat the net.

Speaker 9 (54:42):
One battle had a really good night overall.

Speaker 8 (54:44):
By the way, it also took UH Supporting Actress Tean
Taylor and Best Director and Screenplay for Thomas Paul Thomas
Anderson rather UH sinners one Cinematic and Box Office Achievement,
which is also known as the best movie people actually saw.

Speaker 4 (55:02):
K Pop.

Speaker 8 (55:03):
Demon Hunters was named Best Animated Flick, and Golden won
Best Original Song. My child was up for that and
was pumped, and that was the only thing she took
out her earbuds for and looked up from the iPad
and was like actually engaged. In the TV category, The
Pits won Best Drama The Studio one.

Speaker 4 (55:24):
By the way, is anybody watched the first episode of
The Pit season two?

Speaker 14 (55:27):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (55:27):
I was gonna watch it, and I didn't rush to
it because you kind of seemed a little more.

Speaker 4 (55:33):
It's it's just an exposition episode, you know, there's not
a lot going on. It's just like real established playing
out the news story. Of course, I love the opening
with the Better Off Without You Clark song playing as
the er doctor rides helmetless over the indie war all
Bridge and then zooms up Cedar onto North Avenue there

(55:53):
wearing his Hemingway's shirt. I mean, all really well done
Pittsburgh porn there.

Speaker 5 (55:58):
That's gonna pass.

Speaker 4 (56:01):
But the lead nurse, who I think won an award
for her performance last year and I can't remember her name,
she's a really good actress, the blonde blonde. But for
some reason, her tone has changed and it seems like
she's trying to do like a like a sassy Pittsburgh lady,

(56:22):
but it sounds more like a sassy like Brooklyn lady
from a nineteen fifties movie, you know what I mean.
She's like, hey, Pall, watch your beck of it. You
know what I mean. She's like, you see, yeah, that's
that's what's happening.

Speaker 26 (56:39):
Now.

Speaker 4 (56:39):
I'm like, that's not it, Okay. Are there any other
Pittsburgh inaccuracies? You've noticed so many? I mean, yeah, yeah,
there's so many. Look, I know you've been up there
in New York doing comedy Ray. But look, us pleads
down here in the regular world of Pittsburgh, we have
been watching this show and criticizing it NonStop for their
lack of ability to get some small things right like Holies.

Speaker 5 (57:05):
Yeah, I got fish sandwich from Holies.

Speaker 4 (57:08):
No, no, no, that's Woolies. I'm surprised everyone didn't delete
their HBO masscription.

Speaker 5 (57:14):
It made the news.

Speaker 7 (57:16):
It was like I remember, like I couldn't watch any
Pittsburgh movie with my dad ever because like striking distance,
all we did was complain about like the driving. Oh yes,
he was like that. You know that streak doesn't connect it.
It's a movie. Man, Bruce Willis on a boat.

Speaker 4 (57:35):
Oh he can just turn right out of Armstrong Tunnel
and magically be on Grandview Avenue.

Speaker 2 (57:40):
I don't think so.

Speaker 9 (57:41):
Yes, stuff like I heard a suspension of disbelieve.

Speaker 4 (57:45):
Yeah, but I can't suspend this. Look, the four Bridge
can't suspend that much. I believe tonight. It's the beginning,
it's the Biginn, it's Steeler's Tections, it's playoff football back
in the Burg. And Aaron Rodgers is a big part
of why that is happening. And Aaron Rodgers has said

(58:05):
all along this was about one person, him coming to Pittsburgh,
and it's not Aaron Rodgers, who's always about Mike Tomlin,
who's always about him working with Mike T.

Speaker 18 (58:16):
And he is all a lot of you probably in
this group, either publicly or privately, we're talking about Mike
T getting next. So it feels good to shut all
those comments down. We love Mike T, and Mike T
is an incredible career as a head coach. To go
that long and never have a losing season, it's unbelievable.

(58:37):
There's always going to be something.

Speaker 13 (58:39):
You know.

Speaker 18 (58:39):
When I was a young player, they said, you know,
couldn't be considered the lead to I won a playoff game,
and then after that it was till you win a
super Bowl, and oh you haven't won MVP yet and whatever.
They might be for Mike T, he said, but nineteen
straight non losing seasons, so they got to find something
to try and get after him. Mike T's probably like
me though, thedn't give a whole lot about any of
those those comments, but it is nice because we all

(59:04):
love him and want to play for him and want
to win for him.

Speaker 4 (59:07):
To go from fire Tomlin chance to possibly making a
postseason run.

Speaker 5 (59:13):
It all starts tonight.

Speaker 4 (59:15):
Eight point fifteen is the kickoff with Rob King, Max Starks,
and Missy Matthews right here in your radio home of
the Steelers DVE. We've got Charlie Batch coming up in
a little bit seven forty five, Jerry Dulac next hour,
and rock and roll writer, author and Pittsburgh Allan Paul
wrote about Bob Weir and his passing for Rolling Stone Magazine.
He will join us at eight o'clock to talk about

(59:36):
the legacy of Bob Weir. One of the most important
and unheralded in many regards rock and rollers of all time,
passed away this weekend, but mostly today, it's all Steelers
as we get set for playoff football tonight.

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Speaker 17 (01:00:36):
Sports s U brought to you by Bridgeville Appli. It's
one more game to play in the NFL's wild Card Weekend.
That'll be the Steelers hosting the Houston Texans tonight at
Akrosher Stadium. The winner moves on to take on the
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That'll be the second game on Sunday, follow by Rams
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Bills at the Broncos and then the forty nine Ers
at the Seahawks.

Speaker 4 (01:01:04):
That's how wild Card Weekend has shaken out to this point.

Speaker 17 (01:01:08):
And of course, the headlining component of this Houston Texans
team that will invade Actorscher tonight is its ability to
unleash hell off the edge.

Speaker 5 (01:01:17):
Will Anderson Junior and.

Speaker 17 (01:01:19):
Danil Hunter are absolute twin tears in terms of edge
rush pressure, but Steelers defense coordinator Tarrell Austin thinks his
guys can generate some too.

Speaker 19 (01:01:31):
They are those guys are really good, and we think
our guys are really good. So you know, we're just
hoping our guys show up and give us their best
effort and best their best selves this this weekend and
it helps us win, because that's really all I care about.

Speaker 17 (01:01:45):
Actually, as Alex Heismith revealed a couple days ago, Austin
cares about.

Speaker 4 (01:01:49):
A little bit more than that.

Speaker 31 (01:01:53):
No, it's just emphasizing and that we got to be
the best edge group in the stadium this weekend.

Speaker 17 (01:01:58):
It's been emphasized. We got to be the best edge group. Gee,
I wonder who emphasized that. Yeah, and it's interesting, he says, group,
because you gotta include Nick Herbig in that.

Speaker 5 (01:02:09):
Well, let's see him a little more often. Tonight, Hunter and.

Speaker 17 (01:02:15):
Anderson combined for twenty seven sacks between them, and if
you throw in their two backups who are not slappy players,
Derek Barnett and Denico Autrey, Houston's four edge guys produced
thirty five and a half sacks this season. Pittsburgh, if
you combine high, Smith, Watt, Herbig, and Sawyer twenty five.

(01:02:38):
But the Steelers are playing at home, which means the
Texans are the team on the silent count, which means
the edge goes to the Pittsburgh Rush.

Speaker 5 (01:02:46):
That's a big deal. Can the Steelers ruin CJ.

Speaker 17 (01:02:50):
Strouds night more than the Texans are going to try
to ruin Aaron Rodgers night?

Speaker 5 (01:02:56):
Who can protect their quarterback? This has been Mikey to victory.

Speaker 4 (01:02:59):
You heard me saying this the whole time, is that
I think the Steelers can disrupt the Texans offense more
than Houston will disrupt ours. Now, you pointed out something
as we were going into the commercial break there about
the simplicity of Houston's defense. You know, there was a
metric that rated defenses across the league in terms of

(01:03:23):
different looks you'll see, and it used three factors, which
was like personnel, you know, different formations use and I
can't remember what the third one was, but the point.

Speaker 5 (01:03:37):
Being, Houston was last in the league in changing things up.

Speaker 17 (01:03:42):
It's the most obvious simple here we are, you know
where we're gonna be, and you know what we're gonna
do defense in the league. Right, it's also number one
yards against and it would have been number one points
against if they would have gave a crap about the
regular season finale against the Colts which they did not.

Speaker 5 (01:03:58):
They gave up a bunch better.

Speaker 17 (01:03:59):
So that takes away one of Aaron Rodgers superpowerful, his
ability to diagnose and figure it out and dissect and
not be.

Speaker 5 (01:04:06):
Fool because they're not trying to fool you.

Speaker 17 (01:04:08):
They're trying to kick your ass, right, They just they
would just rather do that, and I'm very good at it.

Speaker 5 (01:04:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 17 (01:04:14):
The other thing about the protection, Houston is going to
play a ton of single high which is going to
invite the deep sideline ball. Now you can't throw those
all night, but can they keep Rogers upright enough to
hit two or.

Speaker 6 (01:04:27):
Three of those.

Speaker 4 (01:04:29):
It's huge having DK back for that, no question, no question.
I mean, Adam Feeling, I think can be a nice
slot guy. But if you have DK, all of a sudden,
Calvin Austin becomes a little more of a weapon because
if you're gonna leave him alone, it's not so much
that he's gonna battle catch, although he has from time

(01:04:49):
to time he can get past guys.

Speaker 5 (01:04:51):
Yes, he can get behind you.

Speaker 17 (01:04:53):
And the other critical component of the matchup for the
Steelers on offense is the flats because just Tuesday, Mike
Tomlin was talking about how they've relied all year on
the checkdowns to gain Well and Warren, and they turn
little plays into big place. Well, I don't know if
you do that against these guys because Houston. One another
component in addition to pressure is team speed. They're incredibly fast,

(01:05:15):
and Hunter and Anderson they're not just I'm going to
rush the quarterback and everybody else do everything else.

Speaker 5 (01:05:21):
They tackle.

Speaker 17 (01:05:22):
Uh If Rogers tries those little checkdowns, they're going to
turn and chase from behind. And they got two inside
linebackers Henry to Oh number thirty nine and uh Aziz
al Shair number zero. These guys are lightning. There's some
names right there. They give us a couple of names.
They get to the flat, pay extra to get those
jerseys and they yeah to to Oh, it's to pastrophe

(01:05:45):
O capital to o Pastrophio. He's out Alabama. He was
considered a very middling guy coming out of Alabama.

Speaker 5 (01:05:52):
Or oh yeah.

Speaker 17 (01:05:53):
But I mean, can the Steelers facts make these guys
miss in the flat? I don't know if they can't.
I don't know if they can't.

Speaker 4 (01:06:01):
I mean Game one and warn are pretty good. These
guys are pretty good.

Speaker 17 (01:06:03):
It's like strength on strength at a lot of places
when you're trying to try to move the ball against
these guys. And then the other thing, you know, turnovers.
Steelers are really good at turnovers and really good at
protecting the ball. Houston's even better, just by a little bit.
So if they're counting on yeah, we'll turn them over
and get a short field and get some cheap points.
I don't know if they should be counting on that.
And Stroud is not going to throw it deep a ton,

(01:06:26):
but when he does, he throws a spectacular deep ball. Yeah,
So they got to be able to stop the run
in kind of a regular deployment, not have to load
up against it like they did against Baltimore. And they
if they can handle the run with a light box,
which they should be able to do, because these guys
don't run the ball well, They're going to run at
a bunch Houston because they don't think you can score

(01:06:48):
on them. They'll be happy running and punting all night
and then you know, take their periodic shots. But if
the Steelers can play light box, stop the run and
then keep the back end secure, which they did not
do against the Ravens, calculated risk.

Speaker 5 (01:07:00):
Yeah, I burned him a couple of times, but not
not so much that they lost. Like I've heard someone
down there that you know, all.

Speaker 17 (01:07:06):
People are gonna Houston should look at that Steelers Ravens
tape and realize how vulnerable they are in the secondary.

Speaker 4 (01:07:12):
Yeah, that's Houston's not getting that look tonight, right. The
Steelers aren't Houston. They're not going to roll out the
same deed. Unless Houston can run, then then the Steelers
have a real problem. And we're not prepping for Derrick
Henry this time around.

Speaker 13 (01:07:23):
No, what is it?

Speaker 4 (01:07:24):
Woody Marks and.

Speaker 5 (01:07:26):
Out of USC?

Speaker 6 (01:07:27):
Just a guy?

Speaker 17 (01:07:28):
Yeah, just I mean he plays hard, he's physical, you know,
one cut and go, he puts his shoulder down.

Speaker 5 (01:07:33):
But he's he's a fourth throned guy out of USC.

Speaker 4 (01:07:37):
I don't like just minimizing people on the postseason with
just a guy label because those just the guys roll
off one hundred and thirty yards I guess sometimes, you know,
I mean the guys coming out party. The guy they
wanted to be.

Speaker 5 (01:07:51):
The guy was Joe Mixon. We all know what kind
of back he is.

Speaker 17 (01:07:53):
Imagine this team, if it could run, it would be
the favorite because he's got the best defense.

Speaker 4 (01:07:59):
Abby's got your new well, actually, Abby we're gonna have
a little delayed news, but we'll probably get to a
couple of stories at the top of the hour.

Speaker 8 (01:08:05):
Yeah, I was gonna say we would remember the legacy
of Bob Weir.

Speaker 4 (01:08:09):
Alan Paul Rock, writer for Rolling Stone and Guitar magazine,
celebrated author of course and Pittsburgh native, will join us
to talk about Bob Weir. And also he was at
the Detroit game and he has a funny story he
wrote about being at the Detroit game and how his
health became in peril because of the stress of the

(01:08:32):
end of that Lions Steelers game. You think about it,
from the Lions game on, it has just been for
anybody with a heart condition, I mean, really dangerous treading.
For Steelers fans, the Lions game, the Browns game, all
the way until the missed fourth down in the end
zone there that would have tied the game. We ended

(01:08:52):
up losing to the Browns, and then the missed loop
field goal. There hasn't been a relaxing moment in a
month for Steelers fans.

Speaker 32 (01:08:58):
It's not fun.

Speaker 4 (01:09:01):
Is the guy that hit the deck after the bettest
fumble in Indies he still with us.

Speaker 5 (01:09:04):
I'm not sure that was one of the old time
great ones.

Speaker 4 (01:09:06):
He was at chupkas on the South Side and thankfully
on the on the megatouch machine, they have a defribillator.
You just have to put the fifty save that guy's life.
Charlie Batch talks Steelers next.

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Speaker 4 (01:09:56):
Fund it a plection in this place. It's that's what
I'm talking about. From the Steelers defense tonight. Cam Hayward
with those big paws in the air, CJ. Strad who's
a tall guy. He's a tough guy to bat down,
but still the defense can get some pressure on him.
And we're gonna talk to Charlie Batch about what they

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Speaker 5 (01:10:26):
What's up, Chalk? How are you about it?

Speaker 10 (01:10:28):
I'm doing well. Good morning.

Speaker 33 (01:10:29):
Every One?

Speaker 5 (01:10:29):
Tell me about CJ. Stroud.

Speaker 4 (01:10:31):
What does he do well or what does he do
that makes him vulnerable that we might be able to
capitalize on.

Speaker 30 (01:10:37):
Yeah, I mean he had the strong arm, but he's
also able to kind of maneuver around that pocket and
bay some time. But the one thing that he does
do if he does have pressure, you know, he's up
to make that error air and throw that. You get
to that point you're just like, okay, what is he doing?
There's always that hair scratcher, So you just have to
make her. You have to make him very uncomfortable in
the pocket here today, Chroy.

Speaker 17 (01:10:58):
This looks like a game. Both quarterbacks should be really
uncomfortable in the pocket. If you're playing for either one
of these teams. At what point do you say, you
know what, we can't We can't block these guys, so
we're gonna have to do this and this instead of
that and that, Like you do you make that acknowledgement
going in or do you try it a couple of
times and see how it goes. What's the what's the

(01:11:20):
feeling out process for trying to keep your quarterback alive tonight.

Speaker 30 (01:11:24):
Yeah, it's gonna be one of those things where you're
gonna be frustrating because both quarterbacks probably gonna turn around,
hand the ball off to the running back and then
all of a sudden, it's no game one yard, so
they're gonna get frustrated. But again that that test your
patience at that particular point. And this is where you
lean on the experience of Aaron Rodgers, because he's gonna
take what the defense gives him, and if the play
is not there, he's gonna throw it away. We're on

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the flip side, CJ is he'll get frustrated and then
try to make a play down the field, and that's
where you force those Aaron throws and you have to
make them pay for it. It's not a matter of
if it's gonna happen, it's a matter of when, and
when it does, you have to capitalize off of it
with turnover.

Speaker 4 (01:12:00):
So do you do anything if you're Arthur Smith, to
counteract the fact that you likely have half a second
less for Aaron Rodgers in like pulling some of those
routes in a little bit, or just anything different for
the majority of the game, taking the occasional pop or
is it just business as usual and hope for the best.

Speaker 10 (01:12:19):
Yeah, it's going to be business as usual.

Speaker 30 (01:12:21):
But this is going to be a game where the
fans are going to have to be patient because you've
seen throughout the course of the year, if the offense
is not going those boo bos come out earlier and earlier.
This is going to be a frustrated game because there's
going to be a lot of punts in this football game,
and this is going to be one probably a low
scoring game, you know throughout early on, where people are
going to get frustrated.

Speaker 10 (01:12:41):
They just have to be patient.

Speaker 30 (01:12:43):
Still throw it that encouragement out there to the team
because now this is the best of the best in
the playoff field. There's not going to be many blowouts
in that particular manner. So they just understand this game
right here with both defenses is the way that they are.
This is going to be a stout game and if
you love defense, this is a game of watch.

Speaker 5 (01:12:58):
Feels like it could be a bit game for eighty
eight tonight, Charlie, it has to be.

Speaker 30 (01:13:04):
And you know down the field, Yes, we've been talking
about this a lot throughout the course of the season,
involving in the passing game. But the one thing that
you know he's going to be challenging, and I'm sure
Coach Toman challenging it on this week. When you have
a defense who runs a four to three, the key
matchup in the in this game is tight end versus
defensive end.

Speaker 10 (01:13:22):
So at some point Friar.

Speaker 30 (01:13:23):
Muth is going to have to contain that edge and
hopefully that Spring score a running game to get going
at some point.

Speaker 4 (01:13:30):
Charlie Batcher with the Steelers on your network post game show,
he and Mike another late night Monday night football, and
you talked about the effect of that home crowd tonight
and that really helps neutralize a little bit a Houston's
defensive advantage they've had. If this game was in Texas,
the Steelers might be in a whole lot more trouble.

Speaker 6 (01:13:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (01:13:50):
I agree with that one there.

Speaker 30 (01:13:52):
And this is a game where really, and this is
why you want the home field advantage where Aaron Rodgers
is going to have to use that snapcount as a weapon,
quick count, hard count. But it's also important to not
getting to those third and long where one dimension when
they know you're going to pass the football, so he
has to use his cadence as a weapon here today.

Speaker 5 (01:14:09):
Charlie, Texan's coming in having won nine straight.

Speaker 17 (01:14:12):
They've won a postseason game in each of the last
two seasons, so they obviously have some belief. But the
sense I'm getting around the Steelers is their belief is
off the charts. A lot of that's got to do
with Rogers, a lot of that's got to do with
the way they've won some dramatic games down the stretch.
Can they claim an intangible advantage here or is that
fifty to fifty like everything else in this game, but.

Speaker 30 (01:14:35):
They can claim the advantage, but also taking that underdog approach,
because yeah, all odds are on the Texans. Everybody's like, yeah,
they won nine in a row, But quietly, the Steelers
have won four four out of the last five, and
it would have been five obviously if they didn't have that.

Speaker 10 (01:14:47):
Hickup in Cleveland.

Speaker 30 (01:14:48):
So these guys are confident, they believe in what they're doing,
They believe in this matchup that they favorable to them,
and this is one that they're ultimately trying to get
over the hump. It starts here tonight, and what better
way to do it in front of an audience.

Speaker 4 (01:15:01):
Charlie, You know, you see offenses being aggressive like never
before in the NFL going forward on fourth a whole lot.
Do you think, because of the expectation of this game
being a tight one, that we might see more of
Tomlin's conservative approach, which was that was his mo all
the time. He seems to have adjusted a little bit

(01:15:21):
to hope so, but he has he has been a
little more aggressive in recent weeks in particular. Do you
think it'll revert back to the boring and predictable Steelers'
decision making that we became accustomed to.

Speaker 30 (01:15:37):
I think this one here will be situational, and I
think ultimately that's going to play series best series because
the one thing you don't want to do, because you
know that this Houston offense is not going to light
you up, you don't want to give him a short field.
Do you go forward on your minus forty five and
now all of a sudden it's fourth to one and
you give them the ball to forty five.

Speaker 10 (01:15:54):
If you don't convert, this is not the game to
do that.

Speaker 30 (01:15:57):
I can understand maybe on the goal to go situation,
but not out in the middle of the field. Take
the points because the points are going to be a
premium here today.

Speaker 4 (01:16:05):
Charlie Batch brought to you by Edgars Schnyder and Associates
this morning here on DVE. He'll be a part of
the Steelers Audio Network postgame show, which we'll start right
after kickoff along with Mike.

Speaker 5 (01:16:14):
Pursuda and can be a late one for you guys tonight.

Speaker 6 (01:16:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:16:18):
Sure, no, you know, we'll just join you. Well, we'll
just go We'll go.

Speaker 4 (01:16:21):
Yeah, yeah, sure, we'll just come up. We'll think this
a four person I love that.

Speaker 10 (01:16:26):
Mike, Yeah, absolutely, come on in.

Speaker 30 (01:16:28):
It's just a matter of whether we're going to be
doing this on Monday night or Tuesday morning.

Speaker 10 (01:16:31):
Either way, me and Mike is going to Tuesday morning.

Speaker 4 (01:16:33):
So to start time, it looks like Charlie, thanks, Chuck,
appreciate your time.

Speaker 10 (01:16:39):
I appreciate you. Thanks for having me.

Speaker 4 (01:16:40):
All right on the way, Jerry do Lack will join
us at eight forty five more Steeler talk getting ready
for tonight's Texans game. But when we come back from
this commercial break, remembering Bob, we are with rock writer
Alan Paul. He wrote about Bob for Rolling Stone magazine.
Allan's a Pittsburgher, He's been on the show a longtime
front of the show, UH and celebrated author. If you've
never read One Way Out as Almond Brothers biographee, it's

(01:17:02):
it's it's essential reading for anybody who likes, you know,
rock and roll bios in his TV Ray Vaughan book
also another one that you should probably have in your collection.
But we're going to talk about Bob Weir, uh and
UH forty nine Ers fan, I should point out Bob
Weir when we come back. That's why you had to
bet on the forty nine ers yesterday.

Speaker 6 (01:17:21):
Mite.

Speaker 17 (01:17:22):
You should have gave me that intel now, Ray, I'm sorry,
this needs to be in a text before the game.

Speaker 10 (01:17:26):
Nothing.

Speaker 5 (01:17:29):
Alan Paul talks Bob. We're next on DV.

Speaker 4 (01:17:32):
You get in a car accident and think, well, the
insurance company's going to take care of me, Yeah, not
so much. It's Randy from the DV Morning Show. The
team at Edgar Snyder and associates. They know how this
really works, what the Grateful.

Speaker 6 (01:17:43):
Did meant to them, and this feeling that this is
really sort of over now.

Speaker 21 (01:17:49):
But I think if we think of it in terms
of Bob as a person, he probably went out feeling secure.

Speaker 6 (01:17:56):
And whatever was coming next.

Speaker 21 (01:17:59):
I didn't feel that, because that's certainly the way he
always talked about Jerry.

Speaker 4 (01:18:03):
Yeah, it always seemed to me he had like that
George Harrison approach to the afterlife, where it was like,
this guy is totally ready to die. Anytime he talked
about it, he seemed very at peace with the transition
that occurs there. And The Grateful Dad's music was so
often about death.

Speaker 21 (01:18:21):
Right, that's correct, and I think that I think that
the shock is all the greater because it comes so
close on the heels of Phil dying.

Speaker 6 (01:18:30):
I mean, it's a year, it's a.

Speaker 21 (01:18:32):
Little over a year, but there's a finality to losing
both of them, because you know, it's been thirty years
since Jerry died, over thirty years.

Speaker 5 (01:18:43):
Nobody could have.

Speaker 21 (01:18:43):
Imagined at that time in nineteen ninety five that there
would be this multi decade run of The Grateful Dad
that you know, eventually merged into Dead and Company on
a very grand scale. But even before that, and aside
from that, music that Bobby and Phil played and then
played with so many people, you know, it reached so

(01:19:05):
many people, and I think the fact that they did
reach out and play with so many young musicians is
crucial and means that this.

Speaker 6 (01:19:14):
Is going to carry on for a long time.

Speaker 21 (01:19:16):
So just like you know, Warren Haynes and Derek Trucks
have different legitimacy playing the Allman Brothers music because of
their you know, decades playing in the band and with
the real guys, everybody who played with Bobby and Phil,
which is voluminous at this point, will carry that and
have a stamp.

Speaker 6 (01:19:35):
Of legitimacy that they couldn't have had otherwise.

Speaker 21 (01:19:39):
So I think that number of young musicians they played
with is you know, an amazing contribution they made that
will really help the music carry on. And I think
that they were both very conscious of that and wanted
to do that.

Speaker 4 (01:19:51):
And that's what I was going to ask you if
that was a natural thing for them to do or
if there was a conscious push to make sure that
they were For lack of a better way of saying it,
indoctrinating the kids to making sure that they were able
to you know, it's like what Grateful Dead Guitars does,
where they bestow all of these beautiful guitar instruments on
people who are carrying the torch for Grateful Dead music

(01:20:13):
to make sure that they're using appropriate instruments. It seemed
like Bobby made sure that all the people who were
kind of following in his footsteps got to touch a
little of the greatness and be a part of it
and kind of gave him the blessing of like, Okay,
you are one of the keepers of the flame.

Speaker 13 (01:20:28):
Now, you know.

Speaker 5 (01:20:28):
He touched his torch to theirs. I think call that doctor.

Speaker 21 (01:20:32):
I don't know there was intentional in the sense of
being the primary objective. I think the primary objective was
that they really enjoyed playing with the younger musicians and
different musicians than having that interaction. But I think it
was certainly a very much a conscious decision, and I
think as time went on it may have been more
and more the point. And Bobby said to me directly

(01:20:54):
in an interview at one point that one of the
things he was really happy about with Dead and Company
was that.

Speaker 6 (01:21:02):
Oto to some extent in John.

Speaker 21 (01:21:04):
Mayer to a large extent, would now be primed to
carry the song for decades after he again, to use
his phrase.

Speaker 6 (01:21:12):
Had left this mortal coil.

Speaker 4 (01:21:13):
So you know, you have a great ability to speak
to his technical proficiencies. Bob Weir was an underrated musician,
and if you could give me your take on his
approach to his role in The Grateful Dead and in
just playing Grateful Dead music in the cannon that he

(01:21:34):
helped create.

Speaker 21 (01:21:36):
Well, you know, Bob, And again, something that he talked
about a lot of that was interesting.

Speaker 6 (01:21:41):
He had very severe dyslexia, and the think his name
was Bob. It's true.

Speaker 21 (01:21:50):
He related that the way he approached music was somehow
related to his dyslexia. The main role that most people
think him as a rhythm guitar player is to be
consident to repeat the same pattern over and over. So
you know, you go through a song and you're trying
to set the pad and so you know, if you

(01:22:12):
think of it a simple chord progression, that's really.

Speaker 6 (01:22:15):
Common as GCD. So if you're playing a GCD.

Speaker 21 (01:22:18):
Song, play the GCD over and over and over, and
you're going to vary the tempo and the dynamics and
various things, but the chord progression stays the same. And Bob,
and I think partly because of his dyslexia and the
way his brain work, didn't really repeat.

Speaker 6 (01:22:33):
The same thing.

Speaker 21 (01:22:34):
And so he took what could have been a debilitating weakness,
because that is the heart of the role, and turned
it into something that became a hallmark of his style,
which is, instead of playing the same thing, I'm going
to just keep mixing it up and I'm going to
play variations of these chords. Maybe it's because of memory,

(01:22:54):
you can't do it, and developing that into a style.
And it also grew partly out of Phil Lesh's really
un orthodox bass playing.

Speaker 6 (01:23:04):
Almost not a.

Speaker 21 (01:23:05):
Bass player before he joined the Warlocks, which became a
grateful pan. He was a trumpet player who was a
fan of avant garde classical music, and so he also
didn't play the traditional bass role, which is also playing
repeating notes, and so Bobby, partly because of his personality
or whatever, partly because he was fitting in with what
Phil was doing, just played these sort of very strange

(01:23:27):
chords in between, and then eventually he realized that what
he was doing was similar to what McCoy tyner, the
piano player from the John Coltrane Quartet, who was a
huge influence on them and on lots of rock musicians
who wanted to be improvisational were doing. He tried to
pattern his guitar playing after that piano playing instead of

(01:23:48):
after traditional guitar playing, and I think it took him
a little while to come up with that approach, but
it was extremely unique and unorthodox, and anybody who formed
a grateful ditch be bad. That is going to be
the Bobby guy realizes that pretty quickly.

Speaker 4 (01:24:04):
To really make it.

Speaker 21 (01:24:05):
Sound right, you have to keep changing what you're doing.
And if you're not a musician, you might not realize this.
But for a chord like you take a simple g chord,
which is like the first chord that a lot of
people learn on guitar, but there's a million ways to play.
You can play it up and down the fret anywhere,
you can substitute different notes, and that's what Bobby did.

(01:24:27):
Even when he did play repetitive patterns, he never played
the same version.

Speaker 6 (01:24:31):
Of the chord over and over.

Speaker 21 (01:24:33):
And these are really subtle little things, but they make.

Speaker 6 (01:24:37):
A huge difference.

Speaker 21 (01:24:37):
And if you play the same music without doing that,
even if you're playing technically the right chords, it will
never sound right.

Speaker 4 (01:24:46):
Alan Paul and Rolling Stone writing about the radical guitar
playing of Bob Weir As as we've all eulogized, Bob
all Weekend long dead at the age of seventy eight.
So my question to you is often said that he
thought he had played more shows than just about anybody

(01:25:07):
in the world ever. And if you talk about just
sheer amount of people from the age of seventeen to
seventy eight, he never really took a big long break
for any extended period of time. And the terms of
the scope of those shows allan is he on top
of that mountain.

Speaker 21 (01:25:29):
And it's something I don't believe can be proved, because
how could you count that? But I think it's obviously true.
I don't know who else could possibly be right.

Speaker 4 (01:25:40):
There's jazz musicians who played, you know, small shows a
few times a week for their entire lives. I get it,
But this is something different what he was doing. These
were major productions and huge shows that never stopped each year.

Speaker 21 (01:25:55):
Yeah, and he seemed to be so driven to perform.
And that's why to go back to what we were
at the beginning. Was it surprising? The fact that he
wasn't playing any shows and wasn't popping up was a
pretty good tell that something was right, because he never
ever took breaks.

Speaker 6 (01:26:12):
The guy just played and played and played.

Speaker 21 (01:26:14):
You know, he would do a long Dead and Company show,
he'd immediately go out with Bobby and the Wolf Brothers.
He would up up, he would sit in with people.
He was everywhere because he lived. He loves to play.
And in the last big interview I did with him
a couple of years ago, we discussed at length the
fact that he had severe stage fright, which was amazing

(01:26:38):
to me. It's hard to imagine or comprehend, and you
think that it's something you would get over, but he
said that he never ever got over it until he walked,
and it always went away within halfway through the first song,
or just a little bit into the first song. But
he never ceased to have it before walking on stage,

(01:26:58):
which is fascinating. Greg Oman said the same thing to
me somebody else who never stopped performing and as soon
as he was off the road, you knew something was wrong.

Speaker 6 (01:27:10):
But Greg said that he had it.

Speaker 21 (01:27:11):
Every performance, and then when he would start to saying
he couldn't look at the audience. He always looked to
the sky and saying the first note to God. And
as soon as he's saying the first note, it was over.
And then he would look at the audience and the stage.

Speaker 6 (01:27:24):
Fright was gone.

Speaker 21 (01:27:25):
And they certainly didn't talk about this together, but Bob
says something very very similar to me. I thought that
was fascinating and it's something I'd love to go into
and look at more. And Bob also told me that
Jerry had the same kind of stage fright.

Speaker 6 (01:27:42):
I've spent a bunch of time.

Speaker 21 (01:27:43):
Looking I never found an interview in which Jerry discussed that,
but Bob said it with great certainty and certainly would be.

Speaker 6 (01:27:51):
In a position and to know. So I think that
just a fascinating topic that I don't know how to resolve.

Speaker 21 (01:27:59):
But it's an interesting point that somebody who literally had
probably performed in for the more people than anyone ever
still to the end, had stage fright before he walked out.

Speaker 4 (01:28:10):
Every time Alan Paul wrote about Bob, We're understated master
in Rolling Stone. You can check out that piece on
Rollingstone dot com. And I'd be remiss if I did
not bring up that you, being a Pittsburgher and a
diehard Steelers fan, We're at the Detroit Lions game, and
you texted me and said your.

Speaker 5 (01:28:30):
Apple watch was worried about you during the game. My
apple watch is worried about me game.

Speaker 4 (01:28:36):
That is true.

Speaker 21 (01:28:37):
And you know, listen, I wear my Apple Watch and
I watch all the Steeler games, and you know, we've
had a lot of last second insanity in these games,
as we all know. But that was the first time
that I started getting a lurt basically sing are you okay?
I think this specific thing was you've had an accelerated
heart rate for over four minutes without a to be exercising,

(01:29:01):
are you.

Speaker 4 (01:29:02):
Uh?

Speaker 21 (01:29:03):
But you know, I had these amazing feats of that game.
I was I was right, uh in the first row
behind the end zone, which is the end zone where
everything was happening. So uh it was it was, you know,
in really that incredible Kenny game. Well, touchdown was right
in front of my face, which is one of the
greatest things I've ever seen, certainly.

Speaker 6 (01:29:23):
From that angle.

Speaker 21 (01:29:25):
And then you know, the lunacy at the end of
the game with a touchdown not touchdown was right in
front of my face. So yeah, my heart got a
little bit of a workout. I survived fine. I didn't
get any alerts last week during the Ravens game. Yeah yeah,
I was back to saying some kind of Bob Weird
style meditation.

Speaker 5 (01:29:46):
I suppose we're just sitting in the legs.

Speaker 4 (01:29:49):
And nothing like that.

Speaker 6 (01:29:52):
This is tried.

Speaker 21 (01:29:54):
January a little tough this year with these games the
way I wanted to post the Bob as well. But
I'm hanging in there. I made it through that Ravens game.
I made it through Bob's death, the highs and the lows,
and so I think he'll be okay for the next
few weeks.

Speaker 4 (01:30:11):
Alan Paul, thanks so much, man, appreciate your time as always.

Speaker 6 (01:30:15):
Thank you, and you know Bobby forever.

Speaker 5 (01:30:17):
Yeah, and go.

Speaker 4 (01:30:18):
Steelers all right tonight it's a eight to fifteen kickoff
Steelers Texans right here in your radio home of the
Steelers and Aaron Rodgers leading the team out there tonight.
This has been a long trajectory to this point here
from Mike Tomlin and Aaron Rodgers. If you remember in
the preseason when there was the Woody or won't he

(01:30:39):
come here? And all of that added into the controversy
surrounding Aaron Rodgers and Steeler nation. To say that they
were nonplussed is probably generous. I'd say it was seventy thirty.
They did not want Aaron Rodgers as their quarterback, but
that has slowly changed to everybody is super psyched at

(01:31:02):
Aaron Rodgers is the Steelers quarterback. I didn't say one
bad word about him. No, my tune changes so quickly
on this man. It is.

Speaker 7 (01:31:13):
It is my one of my most like current toxic
relationships is me and Aaron Rodgers.

Speaker 6 (01:31:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (01:31:18):
Is it's it's it's like, uh, you know, after the
Browns game, I'm like, can he actually do it? And
then after the Ravens game, I'm like, dude, he's back
in his prime.

Speaker 4 (01:31:28):
We're good. I'll trust him with my life. Yeah, but
we're going to the ASH Championship. Yeah, at least. Adam
Thielan was on Christian Koon's podcast talking about how Aaron
Rodgers is just special.

Speaker 34 (01:31:42):
He's calling this to probably throw this, and for some reason,
when I line up and got the press coverage single high,
I was like, yeah, he's.

Speaker 4 (01:31:50):
Gonna throw me.

Speaker 5 (01:31:51):
I gotta get open.

Speaker 34 (01:31:52):
And all game, I mean, they were all over us, like,
I mean, they were holding and grabbing and doing whatever
taking and they were making the calls, so like credit
to them, Like if you're not making the call, if
you're not getting called for holding, you got past interference,
Like keep going, keep doing it.

Speaker 5 (01:32:06):
And so I knew it was gonna be a physical play.

Speaker 34 (01:32:09):
I knew there wasn't gonna be a whole lot of separation,
but I was trying to just give airon an indicator
kind of with a little stutter to say, okay, I'm
ready for it, and he kind of read my body
language and again like I didn't. I came up to Maver,
I go hey, after watching that play back, like that
was a dot Like when you're in the game, you
just don't really just like balls and air boom, like
try to catch it, right, But that was an insane

(01:32:30):
throw and I did not see that ball because of
the trajectory. It was so low and Marlin was like
right in my vision and so I did not see
that ball until basically three to five feet until it
got to my hands. So just reacted, which sometimes is
the best right You just react, like voting ball, catch it,
And obviously was was pretty fired up to just make

(01:32:53):
that play and gave me a little bit of adrenaline.
And there's nothing better as a receiver to get a
little bit of adrenaline and the kind of get that field.

Speaker 2 (01:33:00):
Back to pass looking throwing up the right seed beautifully
throne ball and what a catch by feeling tight coverage
by Humphrey.

Speaker 4 (01:33:09):
I mean that was a dark, a perfect crow down
of the eleven yard line. It's the Pittsburgh Steelers in
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I got this one right down the middle, cause I mean,
I know it's really difficult to call.

Speaker 4 (01:35:26):
I understand that they do.

Speaker 17 (01:35:28):
And then you throw the playoff element into it and
that makes it even more unpredictable. But that's why it's
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Speaker 4 (01:35:42):
That's the way Cam Heyward and the Stillers like it.

Speaker 13 (01:35:46):
You know, we're a group that backs against the wall.
You know, we like our chances because we're all together
and you know, we thrive up so people either counting
us out, people not believing in us, and you know,
us trying to play our basketball. We have a really
tight knit group.

Speaker 6 (01:36:04):
There are a lot of.

Speaker 13 (01:36:07):
Things guys do that just incorporate everybody and I'm really
appreciative of that. That speaks to, you know, the leadership
around this group. That speaks to the buy in from everybody,
and I'm just thankful for that. You know, there's one
or two ways this thing to go at different moments
in the year, and you know, each step of the way,

(01:36:30):
guys have always, you know, chose to be a.

Speaker 5 (01:36:33):
Part of it.

Speaker 17 (01:36:34):
Yeah, there's definitely a couple of points in this season
where it could have gone off the rails. I mean,
I thought it was off the rails after the green
Bay game, after the Buffalo game, the Bills game, I
thought it was over. Even after the Cleveland game. The
second one. Yeah, because because they didn't have Metcalf for
the first time, and they looked like they were incapable

(01:36:54):
of scoring a touchdown.

Speaker 4 (01:36:56):
Because they didn't score one that might have been one.

Speaker 5 (01:37:00):
And yet here they are.

Speaker 17 (01:37:01):
The biggest reason they're here, I guess, and the biggest
reason not that they're here, but that they're here with
some belief and some hope and some actual possibility that's
palpable is because of Aaron Rodgers. And that has everything
to do with how quickly Rogers fit.

Speaker 13 (01:37:19):
In the first day he came in, he talked about
he wants to start the group, and I think that
spoke a lot to his mindset approaching us, And you know,
it's one thing to say with words, it's another thing
to you know, take part in everything we do to
get to know players offensively, defensively, special teams, you know,

(01:37:44):
even the little you know. You know, Herbig and him
go back and forth from time to time. But there
is a there's a competition that you know, breeds just
togetherness amongst everybody in our group.

Speaker 17 (01:37:58):
Herbig and Rogers. Rogers is forty two, what's herb in
twenty four to twenty five. One guy's a four time
MVP going to the Hall of Fame quarterback.

Speaker 5 (01:38:06):
The other guy's a.

Speaker 17 (01:38:09):
Complimentary outside linebacker, still finding his place in the league
and doing a good job doing that. But you know,
how do those guys get along? That's just that's the
vibe they got going right now.

Speaker 7 (01:38:19):
Good vibes. We're the good guys clearly tonight, like we're
not the bad guys. Yeah that you guys should win. Yeah,
everyone's rooting for us tonight. Yeah, the whole country's rooting
for us. Because that's the story. That's the fun story.

Speaker 4 (01:38:32):
Aaron Rodgers at forty two, leading the Steelers out of
the abyss of playoff futility. The Texans have nine fans.
What are we doing here?

Speaker 17 (01:38:43):
We have to win, and they've got a pretty simplistic mo.
You know, defense get out there and kill them. Defense,
get out there and kill him. I mean, there's not
a lot of intrigue, there's not a lot of no redemption,
there's not a lot of rise above it all kind
of you know, overcome adversity.

Speaker 5 (01:39:01):
And they're just really good.

Speaker 10 (01:39:04):
I know.

Speaker 4 (01:39:04):
I love that aspect of it though, that it's just
like it's keep it simple, stupid and just do everything
the right way. And then they just have monsters on
the edges and they do everything right in the secondary,
and they got great coverage.

Speaker 17 (01:39:17):
They got really good corners number four, Lasser, number number
twenty four, Stingley whose first team All Pro. Their nickel guy,
Jalen Peatree, number five. He was one of those great
Kazoo concussion protectors.

Speaker 4 (01:39:30):
Things.

Speaker 17 (01:39:31):
He plays like he's like a safety corner hybrid and
he's he's the extra dB, which they use him a lot.

Speaker 5 (01:39:37):
He's really good.

Speaker 17 (01:39:38):
I talked about the two inside linebackers today, thirty nine
to to oh and zero Al Shazier just incredibly fast
and physical. It's a very good team, but Steel's got
some possibilities as well. And you know, back to the
emotional component of it.

Speaker 10 (01:39:56):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (01:39:56):
They ad a little uh addition to the tradition this year.

Speaker 10 (01:40:00):
Year.

Speaker 17 (01:40:01):
Instead of just Mike, Tom and Cam Hayward walking off
the field together after a big dup, now Aaron Rodgers
has made that a threesome.

Speaker 5 (01:40:09):
Bringing Rogers into the fold.

Speaker 13 (01:40:12):
You know, after we got that first one in New York,
you know, me and Mike t had talked about he
was like, let's bring this old man along with us,
and you know, we wanted to give him an experience
of what it's like to be a Pittsburgh Steeler, uh
and welcome into that and show him that you know,

(01:40:33):
we're with you along this ride, this journey. You don't
have to walk alone. And I think that's our leadership. Like,
you know, we have a bunch of leaders, but it's
not one guy doing it by itself. It's it's a
group of guys. It's a it's a team that really
gets the job done. And you know, me and Mike
T eve been doing for a while.

Speaker 17 (01:40:54):
It's what we ask of each other. But it's also
like we get to stay in the face of it
when it gets New England. That'll be uh this coming Sunday.
That'll be the second game I think after Rams Bears.
Next Saturday, it's Bills at the Broncos and forty nine
Ers at.

Speaker 4 (01:41:12):
The Seahawks after a wild wild card weekend. Oh man,
was it fun? I mean every single game was fun.
If you're a Bears fan right now, you have to
think the Pope has intervened here, because that seemed like
there was divine intervention.

Speaker 5 (01:41:25):
They were beat about sixteen times, weren't they.

Speaker 4 (01:41:27):
I mean the look on the faces of those Bears
fan fans during that game, there's no way any of
those people thought they were going to come back and
win that game.

Speaker 17 (01:41:37):
I think that was their first playoff win in sixteen years.

Speaker 5 (01:41:40):
Do you see that the one video of the Bears
fan grating cheese?

Speaker 6 (01:41:44):
Yes?

Speaker 4 (01:41:46):
Like really Caleb Williams, Yeah, oh you did it after
the game?

Speaker 5 (01:41:50):
Yeah he did.

Speaker 6 (01:41:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 17 (01:41:51):
By the way, did you hear his on field interview? No,
it was fantastic. Like I've always perceived them as a
little slow with pretty good readings. He too, like maybe
too slappy to be the leader. But he did one
of those silly on field interviews right after the game.
Which usually or nothing, but we won you. I forget

(01:42:11):
who was doing the interview, but simple questions. He came
up with detailed answers with depth and context and leadership.

Speaker 4 (01:42:20):
That's the new thing in the NFL, though, whether it's
Jalen Hurts fortune cookie stuff or is really.

Speaker 17 (01:42:25):
Impressive listeners to speak, which is the first time I've
ever said that about a guy who once lost a
game at usc and and ran to cry on his
mother's shoulder in the stands.

Speaker 4 (01:42:34):
Yeah, that that was a bad look. And then there
are people who, you know, the homophobic people out there
who keep calling him the LGBTQQB because he paints his
his nails and it's kind of funny. But and I
don't know if it was in this interview or if
it was in the locker room, but I had read
that he had said to his teammates, like, you get
paid for the regular season, and the postseason is about

(01:42:57):
your legacy.

Speaker 17 (01:42:59):
That was not in this interview, but he talked about
I think the interview asked him what it just what's
this win mean? And he went through the fans and
the organization and the team and how their comeback ability
and how it was really good stuff, which is not
usually the case in those things.

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Speaker 5 (01:45:56):
It's the Big Enn.

Speaker 4 (01:45:57):
This is the culmination of what Mike Tomlin had promised
to Aaron Rodgers at the beginning of the year, which
was an opportunity to play playoff football with a contender.

Speaker 32 (01:46:12):
Yeah, and you know Randall last week. Had they not
made it, man, that would have you know, that would
have been almost cataclysmic for the franchise. But the next step,
of course, is to win a playoff game. I mean,
that was the purpose, not to get to the postseason,
but to win a playoff game. Because we know they've

(01:46:33):
been to the postseason, so we're gonna see. We're going
to see. And I will say this though, he I mean,
he was a big reason that they made it to
the postseason. The way he played last week, you know,
answering each of those long touchdowns with those two scoring drives,
he's calling you know, he's calling the plays effectively the

(01:46:56):
line of scrimmage because they had to and uh man,
they responded, He responded, They responded, And now you know,
against this type of defense, we're you know, we're gonna
take the next step and see see if if they
can win a playoff game. It's gonna be tough because
of the style Houston plays. But I'm just, man, I'm

(01:47:17):
curious to see how how he's gonna handle it, because
it's gonna it's gonna be all about him and what
he's able to do with the line of scrimmage against
his defense.

Speaker 4 (01:47:25):
Well, that speaks to what I wanted to ask you
about next, which was the difference between the last year
and this year in terms of confidence, clearly attributable to
Aaron Rodgers. But what is the trickle down effect of that?
What do you see that's different under the leadership of
Aaron Rodgers with his team that has come to fruition.

Speaker 32 (01:47:42):
Yeah, you know, I'm not gonna sit here and throw
water on what Russell Wilson did or what type of
quarterback he is, because he uh, you know, he was
a leader with them, he always has been in his career.
But it's just it's just a different level, uh with
Aaron Rodgers. And and it's the it's the calming effect too.

(01:48:03):
It's not that Russ was a panicky kind of guy,
because he wasn't. But but this this calming effect you know,
that he has on these guys, and which translates then
to to confidence is man, There's there's no denying the
impact what he has had on the rest of these guys. Uh,

(01:48:24):
you know, just you know, forgetting for a moment what
he's able to do.

Speaker 6 (01:48:28):
You know.

Speaker 32 (01:48:29):
You know, Uh, Arthur Smith always says and has said
that he's the smartest quarterback in the league. Baroness of
course he is. Nobody uh would except I don't I
don't know. Maybe one or two other guys can do
what he does Matthew Stafford perhaps, but not to the
level that he does it at the line of scrimmage.
But the but, but beyond all that, just his effect

(01:48:52):
on the players in the huddle, in the locker room,
whether it's it began a training camp. You know, he
was an open book. He wanted the guys to get
to know him, and you could see the way they've responded.
And you know, there's no denying the impact he's had
on this football team. And that's why I'm curious to
see if there is a next step, one winning a
playoff game and then what's after that.

Speaker 5 (01:49:13):
So you've we've all watched his relationship with Arthur Smith.

Speaker 4 (01:49:17):
There's times when they are combative, like on the field,
they are shouting at each other back and forth. How
would you describe their working relationship and how that plays
out during the a game like tonight. You know, if
things aren't going great, you know the people will say errors,
you just go rogue. Let Aaron, you know, call the plays.
How much of that is actually like if Aaron Rodgers

(01:49:40):
disagrees with what Arthur Smith wants to implement, how much
of a veto does he have on that.

Speaker 32 (01:49:47):
Yeah, well, first of all, I don't think there's too
many instances where that occurs. I will tell you Arthur
Smith loves Aaron Rodgers and so I got no indication, man,
he is. Aaron Rodgers has given credit to to you know,
Arthur Smith and his play calls, you know, almost weekly.

Speaker 6 (01:50:05):
And so.

Speaker 32 (01:50:07):
Arthur Smith, he you know, he gives Aaron the free
reign if he wants to change what he's seeing, he can.
A lot of times he's not changing the play call,
he's changing, you know, some of the options within the
play because it's not just one play. That one play
might have four or five options to it, and Aaron

(01:50:28):
then will change within within the original call. And sometimes,
you know, especially in their hurry Up man, he's calling
the plays on the fly because he has to. So no,
I think Arthur Smith gives him that free rein. It's
it's a little different than the relationship that you know
that was occurring with Russell Wilson toward the end of
last year. And you know, I think you think so,

(01:50:52):
I think there's a lot of that is you know,
it's the mutual respect. Now I've gotten no indication. Now
those two guys get along, both come back out of
types of intense competitors. Don't want to say combat, they're
both intense competitors. And we've seen Aaron, you know, show
some of his disgust on the field. It's not what
the play call might be with the way somebody ran around.

(01:51:13):
We see it all the time, but he's not terribly
demonstrative about it where it's disruptive or he's showing anybody up.
But that's just the kind of player is. That's why
he's lasted twenty one years and it's the four time
league hemvyp You.

Speaker 17 (01:51:27):
Know, it's funny, Jerry. I think that relationship is going
to be on display tonight, Rogers. You know, I'm all
for letting the guy with twenty one years of in
helmet experience call it as he sees it. But I
also think there's going to be a certain element tonight
where you're going to have to run the ball and
punt at times and outlast these guys because their pass

(01:51:49):
rush is so good and their speed on defense is
so good. I don't know that checking out of a
run to a sideways flank or screen is going to
get anything accomplished. And you know Roger's history is he's
more than happy to check out something and throw it
because that's what he does and he's really good at it.
But I wonder if he's gonna have the patience start.

(01:52:09):
I'm not saying he's not gonna, but I think he's
gonna need to.

Speaker 32 (01:52:14):
Well, Mike, I think for the most part, what we
have seen from him is a patient quarterback. I wouldn't
sit here and say he's merely a gunslinger. And I
say that because you know, he's not throwing interceptions none
in the last seven games and nine of the last ten,
and he's been sacked percentage wise, is the fewest sack

(01:52:39):
per percentage in his career. And that's even taken some
sacks sometimes. You know, we see him deliberately take a
sack so as not to turn.

Speaker 4 (01:52:48):
The ball over.

Speaker 32 (01:52:49):
So I think he's been patient.

Speaker 4 (01:52:53):
Uh.

Speaker 32 (01:52:54):
And you know, some of the quarterback play I've seen
the last couple of days in the postseason, I've seen
guy who aren't that, including the guy who's never won
a playoff game, Justin Herbert, and so I I I've
not seen him be that way. I've not seen him
go rogue at all. And you know, give it to

(01:53:14):
Ben Roethlisberger Matt Canna to turn the helmet the receiver off,
you know. So I I, you know, I thought Arthur
Smith what he did last week, you know, I thought
it was so essential for him to be key in
that game, and and you know, not having DK metcalf again,
and and I thought he was. I thought the way

(01:53:36):
they responded against the Ravens, unlike the way they did
in Cleveland, coming off that pitiful performance, man, I thought
was big. And so I don't I don't. I don't
see that Aaron Rodgers. I don't see him doing that.

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Speaker 5 (01:54:10):
Jerry d Thanks as always, Buddy, appreciate your time.

Speaker 32 (01:54:14):
Randall, Thanks man. I'm excited to see what they got
and see what happens me too.

Speaker 4 (01:54:18):
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Speaker 4 (01:55:44):
Of course, at Justin Tuckers is so long the most accurate.

Speaker 12 (01:55:49):
Kicker in the history of the league. Rogers can't believe
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Speaker 5 (01:56:07):
He now has a chance to win the division for
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Speaker 10 (01:56:11):
The final play of.

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Four, holding the Steelers the check to the North.

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The Steelers are the champions of the North. Raised I
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night I watched it about twelve times. Yeah, So, I mean,
I I said before I thought he was gonna make it,
like thought he was gonna make it, and it was
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Speaker 10 (01:56:50):
Don't know that, you know.

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(01:57:13):
who I'm not always the biggest fan of, could not
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(01:57:34):
he has the mental fortitude to do this. He also
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He misses it.

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Now after the game, of course, it would result in
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Tyler Luke would have made that field goal?

Speaker 5 (01:57:54):
Then what would have happened? And of course he had
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Yeah, that's right, the old thing.

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Speaker 5 (01:58:31):
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I mean.

Speaker 4 (01:58:35):
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Speaker 7 (01:58:43):
Yeah, yeah, well, I mean I'm doing every year I
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Speaker 21 (01:58:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:58:49):
I like that, except I did that for so many years.

Speaker 4 (01:58:53):
Mostly Dry January was my thing, which was my birthday
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Speaker 10 (01:58:58):
You have to yeah, I love that.

Speaker 5 (01:59:00):
But then after a while it.

Speaker 4 (01:59:02):
Was like, well the Steelers weren't getting into the playoffs
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(01:59:23):
me not to. My dad was saying that way before
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Speaker 8 (01:59:55):
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.

Speaker 9 (02:00:07):
Are a great way to find out whether people have
kids or not.

Speaker 5 (02:00:10):
They thought it should be a full day off. Well, because.

Speaker 4 (02:00:16):
Yeah, if you have kids, you're like, no, send them
to school exactly.

Speaker 8 (02:00:22):
People are going way to show me you do not
prioritize education right in any way in this school district.

Speaker 9 (02:00:30):
And then Steeler fans are going, yeah, that's hot.

Speaker 4 (02:00:32):
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

(02:00:54):
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 and it's
right here. It is unique. There's nothing in the world

(02:01:17):
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. And you know, like they're
either going to have their heart broken tonight right and
be screaming fire Tomlin in there, you know as they
go to bed or they're gonna learn what it's like

(02:01:41):
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.

Speaker 5 (02:01:49):
Every encounter you had, people are smiling.

Speaker 4 (02:01:53):
Good morning, brother, They're in a great mood. Every of
the clerk's a chine.

Speaker 5 (02:01:59):
Eagle or not.

Speaker 4 (02:02:01):
Is it two hour delay pending on the outcome or
is it two hour delay? No matter what you need
it either way you need. It's instilling the ethos of
Steeler fanaticism in young pittsburgher's and I'm okay with that.

Speaker 5 (02:02:15):
Shapiro needs to get on this across the board. I
agree for the Steelers.

Speaker 4 (02:02:19):
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.

Speaker 14 (02:02:28):
Now.

Speaker 4 (02:02:28):
It should be like from State College West is on
a two hour delay. I would love that now if
it was across the board, no issues. I think the
issue is that parents are like, I don't have a
two hour delay, right, and thank you?

Speaker 13 (02:02:45):
What do I do?

Speaker 4 (02:02:46):
Yeah? That really screws everything.

Speaker 5 (02:02:48):
Take your kid hung over to work deck like that.

Speaker 8 (02:02:52):
So we talked a little bit about the Golden Globes today,
we didn't get to everything again. Nikki Glazer returned as
the whole We give her pretty high marks.

Speaker 9 (02:03:02):
It was still a pretty tame affair.

Speaker 8 (02:03:04):
She still did hit everybody, but because she's such an
entertainment fan, she really walks the line of again giving
people their flowers, giving them few jabs, but never going
too far that she can't walk it back in any
way as again an uber fan. One of the interesting

(02:03:25):
things that happened last night for the Golden Globes is
it's the first time that they had a podcast category. Yeah,
you would kind of think that 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

(02:03:46):
like a YouTube kind of segment as well, because like,
now we want to.

Speaker 9 (02:03:49):
Watch the podcast.

Speaker 8 (02:03:51):
They did a little spoof where they were making fun
of the Nicole Kidman AMC.

Speaker 4 (02:03:57):
Reel that she did.

Speaker 8 (02:03:58):
It was like a sizzle reel talking about how much
we love going to the movies, and it ended up
being Nikky Glazer basically sitting in her car listening to podcasts,
but getting inundated with all the ads for Bombas and
square Space and all the stuff that you kind of can't.

Speaker 4 (02:04:11):
Get away with. I freaking love Bombas, dude, Do you
really I'm hooked on him. Socks It socks? Yeah, but
what what what?

Speaker 5 (02:04:20):
They're so soft?

Speaker 4 (02:04:21):
Really?

Speaker 6 (02:04:21):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (02:04:22):
And they're warm. You got them on now?

Speaker 6 (02:04:23):
I do?

Speaker 5 (02:04:24):
But you know the the problem it works.

Speaker 4 (02:04:32):
Oh my gosh.

Speaker 5 (02:04:33):
I don't know why they don't let me endorse them.

Speaker 4 (02:04:36):
I guess he's my issue underwear. My favorite pair of
Bombas 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 of as as they are.
But man, they are comfy. You throw them away or
you're keeping the whole sock. I can't when when you
have the hole in the bottom, it's just kind of like.

Speaker 9 (02:04:54):
The hole in the Bombas, it sucks.

Speaker 4 (02:04:56):
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 on them, you know. Yeah,
it's thirty. I started doing a thirty. I was thrown
away a whole underwear and whole socks. Good for you.
You know they say you're throwing up. I'm proud of you.

Speaker 10 (02:05:10):
Man.

Speaker 4 (02:05:10):
You know they said you're supposed to throw away your
underwear and your socks every year, every year. Every year.

Speaker 33 (02:05:18):
I have.

Speaker 4 (02:05:19):
I have underwear from the first Obama administration. Yeah I
got I got some old drawers, but they're terrible. I
can't get rid of.

Speaker 5 (02:05:30):
Right to me, it's all about elastic.

Speaker 6 (02:05:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (02:05:33):
Yeah, if you know, if there's holes in it, they
got to go.

Speaker 6 (02:05:35):
They gotta.

Speaker 4 (02:05:36):
You can't have holes in your underwear because what happens
if you got to go to you know, an emergency
room or something. You know. Yeah, and we won't say
you're the guy the hole in his underwear say about us?

Speaker 9 (02:05:47):
Why are we all hanging on our underwear?

Speaker 6 (02:05:49):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (02:05:49):
I I have old underwear that's still it holds up.
But I was thinking about the other day, and I
think it's time to let go my woobie. What's you
know like get Yeah. I thought it was like a
name for a grandmother. My would be no, it's uh yeah,
that's the Michael Keaton.

Speaker 5 (02:06:06):
No, I say the woolly too Yet.

Speaker 4 (02:06:08):
Rid of will like because there must be some short
of connection you have with that. But I have T
shirts towards 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 6 (02:06:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (02:06:27):
That's different though, That's like it's like nostalgia associated with it.
Some of these these underwears I don't have any.

Speaker 4 (02:06:33):
ESTI 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 of things.

Speaker 14 (02:06:42):
Not at all.

Speaker 9 (02:06:43):
Actually, every time I like the last like year or so, because.

Speaker 8 (02:06:47):
You're kind of enlightening me to my own behavior here
the last like year or so, Like, I'll go to
T J 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 doing
there recently, I'm like, just like, grab a bunch, grab
a bunch of socks, grab a bunch of stuff for eating,
grab a bunch, like just like you know, refresh, but it.

Speaker 9 (02:07:10):
Is like the underwear dhere.

Speaker 8 (02:07:11):
It's not like I'm putting new stuff in and then
taking all the old stuff out and going new year.

Speaker 4 (02:07:17):
Knew me all that's good? Yeah, am I doing that?

Speaker 13 (02:07:21):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (02:07:22):
They and and and apparently it's more of like a
like uh sanitary issue that over time those things Oh yeah, yeah, you.

Speaker 5 (02:07:35):
Know, butts and other stuff. But that's the podcast that.

Speaker 4 (02:07:43):
Won this year. It is so many.

Speaker 8 (02:07:50):
Her tagline at the end of her like Little Scissle
reel was podcasts.

Speaker 9 (02:07:55):
I guess this is what we have now.

Speaker 5 (02:07:57):
That's so funny, it feels true.

Speaker 9 (02:08:01):
I did love that Amy Poehler defeated her ex husband
when Good Hang One best Podcast.

Speaker 4 (02:08:08):
Over Will Arnetts.

Speaker 5 (02:08:09):
That's awesome.

Speaker 9 (02:08:10):
She didn't say anything, but she had a pretty good
line with winning that award.

Speaker 29 (02:08:15):
This is exactly how I pictured it, Snoop giving me
the award.

Speaker 9 (02:08:19):
Thank you so much.

Speaker 15 (02:08:20):
Wow.

Speaker 5 (02:08:22):
Wow.

Speaker 27 (02:08:24):
I don't know about award shows, but when they get
it right, it makes sense.

Speaker 8 (02:08:31):
She's cute. But yeah, I actually I really do like
her podcast. She brings the best out in people.

Speaker 4 (02:08:37):
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 Polar I definitely
think she's great at it.

Speaker 8 (02:08:47):
Tina Fey, actually, I think would slay for it. Podcasts
people off so bad.

Speaker 9 (02:08:52):
She probably would.

Speaker 8 (02:08:54):
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 4 (02:09:06):
Now I don't know that.

Speaker 5 (02:09:06):
She'll do it, but I don't know if she wants
that job.

Speaker 4 (02:09:09):
Probably not. It's not the best job, like unless you're
already Lorden Michaels, I think Seth Myers will probably end
up doing it. That's a good call. A good call there.

Speaker 8 (02:09:21):
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 hilarious.

Speaker 5 (02:09:35):
Well known atheist and anti trans.

Speaker 9 (02:09:39):
Also man, she does not like Bill Maher.

Speaker 14 (02:09:42):
He was.

Speaker 5 (02:09:43):
They used to be friends.

Speaker 7 (02:09:44):
They're not anymore.

Speaker 9 (02:09:45):
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 4 (02:09:54):
Just truless.

Speaker 5 (02:09:58):
Did you see his face?

Speaker 9 (02:10:00):
Yeah, he did not think that was money.

Speaker 5 (02:10:01):
Not thrilled, not thrilled at all. Yeah, why.

Speaker 4 (02:10:06):
You wonder, I don't.

Speaker 5 (02:10:08):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (02:10:09):
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, oh, this is because he had
such an old school style. 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

(02:10:31):
foisted on us. Sure, and so I just can't watch
the show anymore because it's just like I get enough
of it. He's no longer a comedian, right at this point.
It's like John Stewart, you make a conscious decision at
some point, you're a funny talking head. You know you're
you're a political pundit.

Speaker 7 (02:10:47):
But it's but it's crazy that Leonardo DiCaprio was able
to take a joke better than Bill Maher is, right,
Like he's laughing at the stuff that Nicki Glazer saying,
and then that I mean that was from Pretty Tame.

Speaker 5 (02:10:57):
You know you talk too much? Joke deal, I know,
you know.

Speaker 4 (02:11:01):
It was funny about Nicky's joke on DiCaprio two, 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

(02:11:21):
in nineteen ninety six. She's like, do you still like
pasta a whole lot? You know, 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, which
I think a lot of those other guys who felt
like when Joe Koay just ate it as the host
of Golden Globes, he did not have as much as

(02:11:44):
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 in there and dice
is the whole room up, and that's gratifying, you know,
to a degree, But like I kind of want to
watch somebody who likes movies hosting or like not, like

(02:12:08):
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 it's a different thing
all of a sudden.

Speaker 5 (02:12:18):
It's a certain gear.

Speaker 7 (02:12:19):
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.

Speaker 4 (02:12:32):
Like you yeah of like you know, not being too offensive,
But yeah, you would be good at that. 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 9 (02:12:42):
You hear that, Oscars, Have you ever hosted any kind
of award show or.

Speaker 4 (02:12:48):
No, I've never hosted an award show or anything like that.
I have hosted a version of a tough Mutter.

Speaker 7 (02:12:53):
When I first started doing stand up in Pittsburgh.

Speaker 5 (02:12:57):
They were like, you do stand up, you can host anything.
And it was the Gladiator Games and it was Turbo
or Nitro.

Speaker 4 (02:13:07):
Nitro did not like me. No, oh dude.

Speaker 7 (02:13:11):
He ripped the microphone out of my hand because I
wasn't doing a good enough job hosting the push up contest.

Speaker 4 (02:13:16):
You know, you know me, I'm known for 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 5 (02:13:25):
Right, you guys are doing great. You did one knocking
out of the park.

Speaker 4 (02:13:31):
I didn't any upsets last night or surprises in the
Golden Globes.

Speaker 8 (02:13:35):
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. Hamkne It 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.

Speaker 9 (02:13:57):
So adolescents got some love as well. Which we've talked
about before, is that.

Speaker 4 (02:14:00):
Limited series that's a one and done done.

Speaker 9 (02:14:02):
It is a tough watch. If you haven't had a
chance to get to that yet.

Speaker 8 (02:14:06):
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 Globes some credit for ending with a
nod to Rob Reiner.

Speaker 9 (02:14:17):
As Glazer signed off, she was wearing a spinal tap hat.

Speaker 5 (02:14:20):
Oh that's cool. Yeah, it's very cool.

Speaker 8 (02:14:21):
That's a wrap on the Golden Globes twenty twenty five
slash twenty six.

Speaker 4 (02:14:26):
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. He is one
of the greatest creative minds in football. 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 6 (02:14:44):
I just don't.

Speaker 5 (02:14:45):
I'm gonna pick them, but I don't think they can
beat him.

Speaker 4 (02:14:48):
Once again, folks say twenty guys one word, yeah, forty nine.

Speaker 5 (02:14:53):
There you go ers.

Speaker 4 (02:14:56):
I don't think they can beat him, but I'm gonna
pick them. Okay, though he gets paid the big bucks.
That's some serious analysis. Verry's hilarious. Michael being next getting
you said. For tonight Steelers Texans game, we had Alan
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Speaker 6 (02:15:42):
Here we go.

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Also, I'm gonna play the clip that's making the rounds
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It's like this older black 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
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Speaker 17 (02:16:47):
Chris Bossel hasn't been automatic bos of late, and that's the.

Speaker 5 (02:16:51):
Guy that Steelers are gonna need tonight.

Speaker 17 (02:16:53):
As 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 6 (02:17:04):
Honestly, in the moment, I don't know.

Speaker 33 (02:17:06):
I don't watch film anyway, and everybody you know cracks
shows about that. But how I hit it felt really good.
Obviously it took the path that it did and they're
calling into tip, but I mean, I have no idea.
You can't can't tell. You can't tell on film whether
it's tipped or whether it's you know, just a shank carve.
But at the end of the day, whether it's a

(02:17:26):
block or not, it's on me and I got to
put it in and we'll move past it.

Speaker 17 (02:17:30):
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 on the left side of the
old Hayward's calling himself out there.

Speaker 4 (02:17:45):
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 of trajectory of
his kicks, the rotation on them has been different. And
again I always use that golf analogy, like, you know,
when you're hitting, you're like, what am I doing? It's
doing this every time now, and it's doing this weird
thing where it's starting off straight and it's not getting

(02:18:08):
it's not getting a high trajectory.

Speaker 5 (02:18:10):
He's not getting the loft that he needs to to
get it over the line.

Speaker 4 (02:18:14):
You know, a sure thing every time and then it's
tailing and it does a quick, hard right slice after
it starts. It's very strange, and it could be as
simple as weighting in. 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

(02:18:35):
just be hitting them straight down the center.

Speaker 17 (02:18:37):
Tonight, not tonight, he has missed. Now that they didn't
call that a block 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 5 (02:18:55):
I mean tonight.

Speaker 17 (02:18:57):
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 5 (02:19:14):
That's how you miss him right or left.

Speaker 4 (02:19:17):
Remember, in the.

Speaker 17 (02:19:17):
Middle of season we were 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
of 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 cam long guy hit seventy yard field

(02:19:39):
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 10 (02:19:46):
And he hit it.

Speaker 4 (02:19:47):
They hit him with the Kyle Bosh too, talking about
he hits bombs. They're already in his field goal range
at the twenty. The announcer Jenkses have been incredible, And
you know, you think about turnovers tonight.

Speaker 17 (02:19:57):
Matt Williamson turned me onto this kind of perspect on
turnovers a couple couple of years 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 miss
field goals that's a turnover. You got to count failed
fourth downs that's a turnover. And you got to count

(02:20:19):
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. Pittsburgh is fourth at plus twelve.
Texans have generated twenty nine takeaways, the Steelers have generated

(02:20:41):
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 into this game thinking, no, I'll take
it away two or three times, finish plus two and
win it that way, maybe not.

Speaker 21 (02:21:02):
So.

Speaker 17 (02:21:02):
Two really good kickers are gonna be on display tonight.
One of them is slumping or struggling or whatever you
want to call it. That he doesn't look like himself
to me. The Steelers have to trust him tonight. He's
luck Yeah, I would.

Speaker 5 (02:21:18):
Not trust the pass protection.

Speaker 6 (02:21:22):
You know.

Speaker 17 (02:21:22):
If it's third Nate, I'm dumping it down and seeing
if a 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

(02:21:43):
around it, not to oh yeah, well we'll chip them
and Dylan Coo will hold up. That's dangerous to me.

Speaker 4 (02:21:50):
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

(02:22:11):
easily you know, to to manipulate the Steelers ever evolving defense.

Speaker 17 (02:22:17):
And even if they do figure it out to a degree,
Alex high Smith and the Steelers think they have edge
pressure that is capable of wrecking the game. In fact,
they're counting on it.

Speaker 31 (02:22:29):
You know, it's just emphasizing know that we got to
be the best edge group in the stadium this weekend.

Speaker 5 (02:22:34):
It's been emphasized so they know how to get to CJ.
Stroud right.

Speaker 17 (02:22:39):
They've also got home field advantage and that can also
help tip things into Steelers favor.

Speaker 5 (02:22:47):
It's gonna be awesome, you know.

Speaker 10 (02:22:49):
I think TJ talked about it.

Speaker 31 (02:22:50):
I think that was a lot of us I've heard
in Steering Nation at home since 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 she's going
to show out.

Speaker 5 (02:23:01):
They are going to need it.

Speaker 17 (02:23:02):
And I thought Charlie Basher 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. Sure, yeah,

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they need they need the ladder tonight.

Speaker 4 (02:23:25):
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
need to do it in the first half. Take away
all the controversy.

Speaker 6 (02:23:41):
Of this idea.

Speaker 4 (02:23:41):
We should just play it on loop while we're on
defense the whole time, as soon as like it's down
and he's like mom every single time, I'm I'm in.
That might be a better idea. You might have seen
the post game yesterday in Jacksonville where Liam Cohen coach

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of the Jacksonville Jaguars, was asked by well, it wasn't
even asked. He was basically 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

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Sally Wigan.

Speaker 36 (02:24:27):
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?

Speaker 4 (02:24:41):
You keep it going.

Speaker 9 (02:24:41):
We got another season, okay.

Speaker 36 (02:24:43):
I appreciate take care of much continued success to you
and the entire team.

Speaker 6 (02:24:46):
Thank you.

Speaker 4 (02:24:47):
Okay. Now, there are two schools of thought on there.
There are people who love that that happened after the game. However,
I'm gonna go out on a limb and say you
are not one of those people.

Speaker 5 (02:25:04):
How can I describe what I just heard?

Speaker 17 (02:25:07):
Disgusting, self serving, unprofessional, unacceptable.

Speaker 4 (02:25:12):
You're not gonna do this tonight with coach team.

Speaker 17 (02:25:16):
And here's the funny part. About that, like he doesn't
care what she thinks. You know, that's not doing him.
Oh we just lost the playoff game in gut wrenching fashion,
but the news person thinks I did. Okay, so I
guess it's all right, Like it serves nothing and she
was probably just trying to be nice. Yeah, but it

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comes off it's like, oh yeah, just you know, pander
to the fans and and try to promote yourself and
it's not the time or play.

Speaker 4 (02:25:44):
It's unacceptable.

Speaker 5 (02:25:45):
It's a professional environment.

Speaker 17 (02:25:46):
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. Just when the news person applies
for credential, say.

Speaker 4 (02:26:03):
No, yeah, no, you don't watch it on TV, you
don't cover sports, this is sports.

Speaker 5 (02:26:12):
That seems simple enough.

Speaker 4 (02:26:13):
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 5 (02:26:27):
But she's traditional. She's been around for a long time.
That's just pathetic.

Speaker 7 (02:26:31):
Yeah, 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 17 (02:26:40):
Yeah, your columns for right, Yeah, that's what your commentaries
for sure.

Speaker 4 (02:26:47):
Just that just makes me sick to my stomach. Yeah,
this is where we're going.

Speaker 17 (02:26:52):
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 pandering to the public because
it's had to because the public has way too many options.

Speaker 4 (02:27:05):
But the traditional media doing its job traditionally well, because
once once news became for profit, it stopped being about
the news, and that's why people get cad Okay, 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 5 (02:27:24):
Sports a very small part of that. It's fun in games,
but in the larger the concept is the same.

Speaker 4 (02:27:30):
It's like, yeah, no, it's on a microcosm of the
larger problem.

Speaker 5 (02:27:34):
Nobody's there to tell him it's okay. Yeah, a different
coach might have told her to stop talking. I told Mike,
I'm surprising you to go hey.

Speaker 4 (02:27:43):
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 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. When
we were listening to it, I started feeling good about myself,
Like everything that's went in the last couple of weeks,
I was like, I should keep my head up that

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things are so bad.

Speaker 5 (02:28:06):
Steelers and the Tech, Yeah, it's messed up wrong. I agree.

Speaker 4 (02:28:11):
Steelers of the Texans tonight an eight to fifteen kickoff
right here on DVE.

Speaker 20 (02:28:16):
The fourth ghost of Christmas Past that Linger is way
too long is showing up everywhere Holiday.

Speaker 4 (02:28:24):
Bills V Good Morning Show, Abby Chrisner and Mike Persuda,
Jacob rect Our, producer comedian rais Awadney been hanging out
with us all morning long. Could just see in their
pal 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

(02:28:44):
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. And there's a lot of Pittsburgh
in that.

Speaker 14 (02:28:56):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (02:28:56):
And one of my friends said to me, He's like
robbing is his is John? I'm like, what's going on?
He's like, I had jaw surgery this week. And I
was like, oh, dude, you all right? He goes, yeah,
guess how much it cost? Oh no, And I'm like,
you're asking me how much your jaw surgery costs? Is
that because you got a deal on it? Then he went, uh, huh,

(02:29:21):
hold on a second, why do you want a deal
on your jaw surgery? He's like, guess how much it costs.
I'm like, I don't know. 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 called, you know,

(02:29:42):
Grabb 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 my braces on in exchange for some
berber carpeting in his living room.

Speaker 5 (02:30:00):
How are your teeth?

Speaker 4 (02:30:01):
Jacked him all up? He was a terrible or the kis.
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 but not fruit, not for my family or the
people I grew up with. That he thought you were

(02:30:22):
gonna fire out a guess like prices of the weirdest
prices right.

Speaker 17 (02:30:26):
Episode ever, I up before kiss how much I picked
an expert on your condition and jaw surgery.

Speaker 4 (02:30:33):
I gotta say at least eight thousands, Oh my god,
one dollar driss, We're gonna litle bit this jaw surgery.
Oh my god, Like I'd be like elevens. I don't
know what jaw surgery costs. I don't know what jaw
surgery you had.

Speaker 5 (02:30:46):
I would imagine there's several. He wanted you to overbid
so hard.

Speaker 4 (02:30:50):
Yeah, you're like half that, Yeah, Like I was gonna
go ten thousand, fifteen thousand, and then he was like
five hundred bucks.

Speaker 6 (02:31:00):
Yea.

Speaker 4 (02:31:00):
And then I went behind a strip mall and got
some fix a flat to uh you know, injected right
into my ass and uh yeah, spend on that exactly.
Remember those people who were getting butt implants with the
fix a flat behind a strip mall? Yeah, and uh
they were dying. You can't do that because you want

(02:31:20):
to fast forward to the end when it comes to
any kind of surgery, oral or otherwise. Splurch, go ahead
and splurch. I mean, fix a flat is not cheap either,
makes a good point. Yeah, Steelers and the Houston Texans
tonight that eight to fifteen kickoff, Rob King, Max Starks,
and Missy Matthews.

Speaker 5 (02:31:40):
And here with the preamble to kickoff.

Speaker 4 (02:31:42):
Your host for the Steelers Audio Network pregame show, which
starts at six fifteen tonight, it's our own Mike Persuda.
Oh yeah.

Speaker 17 (02:31:59):
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 Houston. Call it
the Pacoderman actor. Sure that would be the Steelers' lack
of a playoff victory since January the fifteenth, twenty seventeen.
Their zero for six effort in the postseason since is

(02:32:20):
tied for the longest active run of playoff utility in
the league and for the fourth longest such stretch in
NFL history. And rest assured, the elephant isn't the only.

Speaker 5 (02:32:31):
One who hasn't forgotten.

Speaker 17 (02:32:33):
A vocal portion of the fan base remains skeptical at best.
Media reminders have been relentless, and in Vegas, the Steelers
are home underdogs. But as the great Doc Emrick used
to emphasize during hockey broadcast, it's history, not prophecy.

Speaker 5 (02:32:48):
In this case, it's ancient history.

Speaker 4 (02:32:50):
We know this time the Steelers won't lose Le'Veon Bell.

Speaker 17 (02:32:53):
After just six carries against the Patriots with the Super
Bowl at stake. We know Ben Roethlisberger won't combine the
throw five interceptions, lose a fumble that gets returned for
a touchdown, and watch a Marquis Posey 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

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in Kansas City. 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.

Speaker 4 (02:33:26):
Are you ready for some football?

Speaker 14 (02:33:27):
Yeah?

Speaker 17 (02:33:29):
The biggest difference between then and now is Aaron Rodgers.
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 4 (02:33:39):
There are no guarantees in the playoffs.

Speaker 10 (02:33:41):
You never know.

Speaker 17 (02:33:42):
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

(02:34:02):
it is compelling.

Speaker 5 (02:34:04):
So don't stop believing, not yet. At least the.

Speaker 17 (02:34:06):
Alternative repeater incorrectly interpret history as prophecy.

Speaker 4 (02:34:11):
And if you do that, you just might miss one
hell of a postseason for Yeah, Steelers, Taxings tonight a fifteen.
Here we go Steelers.

Speaker 5 (02:34:23):
Oh yeah, Moody.

Speaker 37 (02:34:29):
Were from that time, that grand football team we cheered up.

Speaker 4 (02:34:34):
First Steelers thanks to Raise A. Wanney and knocky friends.

Speaker 5 (02:34:38):
Out all on them go on again.

Speaker 25 (02:34:42):
Stealer Thanks to Alan Paul Saw and Rocky and and
Lea We love your bits. First Stealer thanks to Jerry Dulacers,
my scenery and Tank. You to Charlie Batch Let's girl Steelers,

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Bess May.

Speaker 4 (02:35:08):
And Scramble in the set.

Speaker 6 (02:35:11):
The ball, the fast.

Speaker 16 (02:35:15):
Fast keeps the Steelers.

Speaker 4 (02:35:18):
Always bess the ball. Mean Joe me, Joe your.

Speaker 25 (02:35:24):
Team, I guess the out the team he stopped from
here the year Miss Lady's play here.

Speaker 37 (02:35:31):
Now joined with me and see lesty Let's We're from
the time with football team and Richard of Pittsburgh Steelers.
We need Sabit is not only a jeam. Go out
and get the Steelers.

Speaker 25 (02:35:53):
Jealous gurry last I give for the show and so
he Frank from Sorry.

Speaker 5 (02:36:04):
Steelers, I'm finished. You stay classy, Pittsburgh.

Speaker 4 (02:36:11):
Don't touch your face. Hey, goutam tug Pittsburgh all day Bergy.

Speaker 6 (02:36:14):
So now you gotta call me Ronald?

Speaker 4 (02:36:16):
Would you not eat my pants?

Speaker 6 (02:36:17):
Ronald?

Speaker 5 (02:36:20):
Whoa whay?

Speaker 35 (02:36:24):
Go ahead, It's time for the Steelers Daily Report on DVE,
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Remember FDIC and Steelers Pro Shop. Get it direct from
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Speaker 38 (02:36:40):
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.

Speaker 5 (02:36:53):
Town to wrap up wild Card Weekend.

Speaker 38 (02:36:55):
The Pittsburgh Steelers enter 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 are also
winners of four of their previous five games, so they're
heading into the playoffs with quite a.

Speaker 4 (02:37:07):
Bit of momentum at their backs.

Speaker 38 (02:37:09):
Unfortunately, no one has more momentum than the Houston Texans, who.

Speaker 4 (02:37:12):
Come into the game on a nine game winning streak, making.

Speaker 38 (02:37:14):
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.

Speaker 4 (02:37:21):
This will be Houston's third straight trip to the playoffs.

Speaker 10 (02:37:24):
Houston quarterback CJ.

Speaker 38 (02:37:25):
Stroud and head coach Dmiko 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.

Speaker 10 (02:37:36):
Steelers will be searching for.

Speaker 38 (02:37:37):
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 Opferman with the Steelers Report.

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