11.3.25 Randy Baumann and the DVE Morning Show HR 1

Tim Benz calls in to share his initial reactions to the Steelers surprisingly taking down the Colts yesterday.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:14):
Live from the Don's Appliances Studios, where Pittsburgh shops for appliances.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
This is WW Pittsburgh snapped Rogers back looking at the right.

Speaker 3 (00:28):
Four touchdown Pittsburgh Steelers, a strait from Rogers to prior Moon,
and the Steelers have taken.

Speaker 4 (00:36):
The lead twenty seven to twenty.

Speaker 1 (00:40):
The Pittsburgh Steelers prevail over the red hot Indianapolis Colts
at Akerzer Stadium yesterday, just like we all thought, it
went exactly yesterday. I woke up to the many many
pro I woke up late. I drank Saturday enough to
kill a horse, and and in a rare fit of

(01:02):
hangover I don't usually have wake up with the coffee,
open up the laptop. I've been DMed about five times. Abby,
you were one of them. The funeral in the parking lot,
and I see the fans that create. They had a
casket in the parking lot, a black in gold casket

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with a kneeling like a well a kneeler, and then
it had a sign in booklet like you have at
a funeral home. I'm not sure if there were prayer
cards or not, but when I saw that, it actually
it made me.

Speaker 2 (01:41):
Mad, sad, embarrassed.

Speaker 1 (01:44):
Lots of feelings, but mostly how did it get to
this point when we opened the season with the proclamation
from our head coach on this very show that this
defense would be historic or had a chance to be historic,
And now they're burying them.

Speaker 2 (02:04):
They're burying them.

Speaker 4 (02:05):
In week nine. They're they're, they're they're putting them in
the ground.

Speaker 1 (02:11):
And then I find out Jalen Ramsey gives a speech
to the Steelers on Saturday night. I don't know if
you ever heard Jaalen Ramsey talk. I bet it was hilarious, Yes,
I mean I bet it was the zestiest. It was
like getting yelled at by Rue Paul.

Speaker 2 (02:30):
Ask him at him.

Speaker 4 (02:34):
That's when I envisioned that.

Speaker 1 (02:37):
Man, we got some talk something like that and then
laid into them. He played an unbelievable game yesterday. The
defense responded, well, I'm wondering now, right.

Speaker 5 (02:49):
I mean, he brought the boomstick that was a double
shoulder pad type game for him.

Speaker 4 (02:54):
He had a couple of big time hits.

Speaker 1 (02:57):
Kyle Dugger also, Bill uh played the majority of the
game right off the street.

Speaker 5 (03:02):
Got the game ball should have should have I mean,
he played damn near every snap.

Speaker 1 (03:08):
Six turnovers yesterday after going without for what was of
the last four weeks and in three weeks I think
it's They got a workman's effort from Aaron Rodgers twenty
five to thirty five, two hundred and three yards and
a touchdown, but they held Daniel Jones to this is

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held thirty one and fifty for three hundred and forty
two yards.

Speaker 4 (03:36):
A lot of that was at the end.

Speaker 1 (03:37):
They picked up a lot of stuff after got Yeah,
in kind of garbage time.

Speaker 4 (03:41):
There only one touchdown and this was the big one.

Speaker 1 (03:44):
Three picks on a day where you didn't have Deshaun Elliott,
Chuck Clark, Jabill Peppers and you had to move Ramsey
to safety and bring dougger in off the street and
hope that that would work. They got three picks mostly
because the front seven were so effing good. Cam Hayward

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blocking balls up in there, Peyton Wilson blocking him up
in the air.

Speaker 5 (04:10):
With the trifecta strips back recovery and that was that
was the worm turner right there.

Speaker 1 (04:18):
Yeah, high Smith caused the fumble that Harmon jumped on
the Jack Sawyer.

Speaker 2 (04:23):
The Jack Sawyer one.

Speaker 1 (04:24):
Was huge, huge, huge, and that was I think Wilson
got a hand on that, right, yep. So those guys
came up big and took the pressure off the back end.

Speaker 2 (04:36):
But somehow they looked better.

Speaker 5 (04:39):
I mean, honestly, like I not to throw shade on
Chuck Clark. I don't think he should be out there.
He's been he's been pretty bad this season.

Speaker 1 (04:50):
Yeah, you didn't have You didn't have to worry about
him yesterday. What what what you did have to worry
about was whether or not this team was going to
respond the front seven made.

Speaker 4 (05:00):
Has happened, I think.

Speaker 1 (05:00):
But the Mike's gonna come in here and tell me
not to discount what the secondary was doing.

Speaker 4 (05:04):
I do think it was a team effort.

Speaker 5 (05:06):
No Cole Holcomb and I thought that that cohesion showed up,
Like we've been asking for this for a while.

Speaker 2 (05:12):
Just let's take two guys play.

Speaker 1 (05:14):
Yeah, stick with one offensively a little confusing at times.

Speaker 5 (05:21):
He said that the crowd it was a little harry
there at the beginning.

Speaker 4 (05:26):
Bill they boot him off the field in the first quarter.

Speaker 2 (05:28):
Well, I mean they went to and out ear three
and that's the end of the first quarter.

Speaker 6 (05:33):
Boom.

Speaker 1 (05:35):
It was bad and they turned it around big time.
There were some major plays made by the guys that
you need to see making those plays.

Speaker 7 (05:45):
T J.

Speaker 1 (05:46):
Watt, Cam Hayward in particular. DK Metcalf still pisses me off.
He's dropping balls that he should not be dropping. There's
opportunities for plays to be made, he is not making them.
Jalen Warren, We're just not going to enough. I still
don't understand it. But only sixteen carries for thirty one
yards yesterday. I would have thought they would have leaned
on him and ate up some clock. That wasn't how

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it ended up going. Calvin Austin ended up as your
leading receiver yesterday with fifty six yards. Gamer love Calvin Austin,
love them love him mouth was a big touchdown as well,
But you know, maybe not on the same page on
the Darnell Washington drop in the end zone.

Speaker 2 (06:24):
After the fun all of those kinds of plays.

Speaker 1 (06:26):
Offense was a little out of sync yesterday, but the
defense gave him short fields so they were able to
make some hay.

Speaker 2 (06:33):
Yeah, it was.

Speaker 5 (06:33):
It was crazy when they came out with the stat
line that basically the Colts had outgained the Steelers in
the first half.

Speaker 2 (06:40):
You know, but we were up and it.

Speaker 5 (06:41):
Looked lopsided, but that's because of the short fields and
the turnovers. But I think Mike has said this a
number of times on the show. This is not going
to be your fantasy football team. Like if you have
if you play fantasy football and you have a player
that's on the Steelers offense, Yeah, it's going to be
a week to week kind of thing. Somebody might go off.
Like for a second, it looked like Mount Wash was

(07:03):
going off. He got targeted, a targeted a bunch, yeh.

Speaker 1 (07:10):
I thought it was kind of funny though, that Daniel Jones,
it seemed to me turned into the Daniel Jones from
the Giants from only from this perspective here in the footsteps,
because when TJ Watt played against him last time, remember
the famously on that last play that ended the game
against the Giants, I thought there a couple.

Speaker 5 (07:29):
They single covered TJ like that one on one with
that that tackle that was talking trash.

Speaker 1 (07:35):
And and he just swam them and was in Daniel
Johnson or Jones face immediately, Well, Danny dives yesterday, I
thought after the second sack was really here and footsteps
a lot and it was screwing him up. He was
throwing some balls that weren't so great. He kind of
scared to stand. He took some hits.

Speaker 2 (07:51):
Man, he took he really did.

Speaker 5 (07:52):
And I think that they the way that that team
is designed is not designed for him to throw the
ball fifty times. Kudos to the defense for making them
one dimensional and smashing the run.

Speaker 1 (08:04):
Again up front, that's where they want it. Yesterday Jonathan
Taylor leading the league only forty five yards on fourteen carries,
a three point two average for the guy who's been
tearing up the league. I did not see this performance
coming from the Steelers. Did not see this game coming.
I thought it was gonna be the shootout, you know,

(08:25):
like we're turning into the Bengals.

Speaker 4 (08:27):
That was anything but yesterday.

Speaker 5 (08:29):
Even the ban, like even turning into the Bengals doesn't
work for the Bengals.

Speaker 2 (08:34):
Oh a thousand yards in the last two weeks.

Speaker 4 (08:38):
Did you see how that game ended yesterday?

Speaker 5 (08:40):
Ye what, They're sick. Their offense hates their defense, what
a joke? Is a mess.

Speaker 2 (08:48):
Steelers? All right, we're five and three.

Speaker 5 (08:51):
Now we're the only team in the North with a
winning with a winning record, like this division has just
fallen off.

Speaker 1 (08:59):
A clip because I'm a greedy Steeler fan. The first
thing I was I thought of, I'm like, dude, this
is a big win.

Speaker 4 (09:06):
And then I was like, I can't believe we lost
the Bengals.

Speaker 1 (09:08):
We'd be six and two right now and we'd be
sailing into the playoffs with them.

Speaker 2 (09:12):
You know, I couldn't enjoy it. I couldn't enjoy it for.

Speaker 4 (09:15):
More than a half hour.

Speaker 5 (09:17):
I had a little bit of that too, and I
tweeted out we got six turnovers and only won by
seven points, Like it was pretty much a non you know,
in our total yard tensitive game, what twenty five yards?

Speaker 2 (09:31):
Yes, it wasn't. It wasn't impressive on that front. We
had fifty yard fields the whole time. The defense kept
getting us the ball.

Speaker 4 (09:38):
They had three hundred and sixty eight yards.

Speaker 5 (09:41):
My one nitpick, and I said this to you yesterday,
is just I just want to see the offense be
more efficient, you know what I mean? Oh my god,
I just feel like they leave way too many plays
out there. I mean, the rum and Wilson fumble at
the end of the game was so unnecessary and it
and it kind of gave them a li little bit
of life when that really was a non competitive game

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for most of the game.

Speaker 4 (10:04):
Well, you'd like to just.

Speaker 5 (10:06):
See them put their you know, foot on the neck
of somebody and actually have it be a real deal blowout.

Speaker 1 (10:14):
Mike's gonna have more on what ended up being a
very It's hard to explain, but the crowd was confused
by what they were seeing because it was so bad
in the first quarter, and then things started going good,
and then it was like, okay, this this seems like
one of those fools gold things, the you know, fools

(10:34):
black and Gold performances that we're watching. They're gonna come
out in the second half and thump us. And then
it didn't happen. I think we three and out them
three and outed them to start the second half. Yeah,
and then and if I'm let me, you know, I'll
look it up. But I think we scored right after that.
Uh yeah, well six minutes into the uh oh no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

(10:56):
no scoring in the third quarter.

Speaker 4 (10:57):
No, fourth quarter is where it all happened.

Speaker 1 (11:00):
So it was not the game many of us thought
it was gonna happen yesterday at all.

Speaker 2 (11:04):
Were there.

Speaker 8 (11:05):
I was not there.

Speaker 9 (11:06):
I was with my dad, screaming at the television and
believing that my mom wasn't allowed to be in the room.
By the time, I think by the strip sack, I
think that was why by the time we're like, Mom,
you can't be.

Speaker 2 (11:19):
In the room anymore. Why was she coming in?

Speaker 8 (11:21):
Yeah, it was obviously the jinks.

Speaker 1 (11:25):
She wasn't allowed to be in the room.

Speaker 2 (11:30):
I don't want that face looking at this face.

Speaker 4 (11:33):
All right, well, Michael be in in a little bit.

Speaker 1 (11:35):
And now it's Steelers Chargers Sunday night football.

Speaker 5 (11:40):
Do it again, Do it again again, Just just line
up and they can do it again.

Speaker 1 (11:44):
If they did what if they do what they did
there against the Chargers. Yeah, the Chargers don't have as
good of a running attack, but they can still run
the ball.

Speaker 2 (11:55):
And they got Herbert and he's he's a beast.

Speaker 4 (11:58):
He's a beast.

Speaker 1 (11:58):
But do you Dimes has been the best in the league.

Speaker 4 (12:02):
If they can do what they did yesterday against I
always want to say San Diego with.

Speaker 1 (12:06):
The Los Angeles Chargers in a stadium, don't forget that
will be full of Steelers fans.

Speaker 4 (12:12):
That's one thing that that win did yesterday.

Speaker 1 (12:15):
It made sure that that stadium sofi stadium is going
to be terrible, towel laden. They're gonna be pumping in
sound oh yeah, to try and combat all of.

Speaker 4 (12:25):
The Steeler fans. They're going to be in Los Angeles
in the street.

Speaker 5 (12:27):
Hi baby, We're we're an emotional fan base. We're in,
We're out, We're in, We're back in, We're in, We're out.
Oh yeah, they get the game. Leading up to that
Packers game, everybody was was out because it was like
the way that they looked against the Bengals pissed everybody off.
And then the Packers fans were willing to allow Steeler

(12:49):
fans to make a couple hundred bucks on their tickets.

Speaker 1 (12:52):
People were talking about that yesterday to dude, hold my beer.

Speaker 9 (12:56):
When it comes to ugly jerseys, I'll wear are Winnie
the Pooh jerseys any day over.

Speaker 4 (13:01):
That the Packers jersey yesterday time.

Speaker 2 (13:05):
Yeah, brown khakis. I do love their helmets.

Speaker 5 (13:08):
Yeah, the foe like leather helmet look, but yeah, those
those were not pretty.

Speaker 1 (13:11):
I just don't understand when they have uniforms that make
you look like another team, like, we want to watch
our team.

Speaker 5 (13:17):
And here's another hot take that I have. If you're
gonna throw back to a Jersey. Don't throw back to
a time when you sucked. Yeah, If you're gonna throw
it back, let's remember a time when we were good.
Don't go anywhere earlier than the seventies. Yeah, we sucked
for a long time.

Speaker 2 (13:42):
Yeah, yeah, go back to when we were good.

Speaker 1 (13:46):
Other than that, a pretty good Halloween weekend. Hopefully that
wasn't the Steelers costume. Hopefully this is there our dunity.
But I have to say, as much as that Steeler
game pleased me yesterday, I don't think I've ever enjoyed
a baseball game more than Game seven of the World Series,

(14:06):
which was the single most entertaining Game seven in baseball
history as far as I'm concerned. All Right, well, maybe
if you were at Forbes Field in nineteen sixty, but
in our lifetime, every single play in that game was
a highlight, and that's how the whole series went. I
hate that the Dodgers won, but the fact that Yamamota

(14:28):
did that, my god, I was as incredulous as you
hear my voice now. The entire game, I was annoying people.
I'm like, can you guys believe we're watching this? Like
I wanted to make sure that everybody understood this isn't
normal what we're watching right now.

Speaker 2 (14:44):
Oh the cats in the bottom of the ninth inning,
I mean the force out at home.

Speaker 5 (14:48):
I mean IKF could have won the World Series.

Speaker 2 (14:52):
Don't slide, don't slide. If he doesn't slide, he's in
he had on his foot.

Speaker 1 (14:59):
And the fact that they got those performances that the
night after he pitched, they bring Yamamoto back out.

Speaker 2 (15:05):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 4 (15:06):
It goes extra innings. Good lord.

Speaker 1 (15:08):
I mean they almost run into each other in the
outfield to give the Jays the World Series.

Speaker 2 (15:14):
Just that kid Yamamoto is tiny too.

Speaker 5 (15:17):
Have you seen, like seen him next to other people
because he's only standing on this mound.

Speaker 2 (15:22):
So I had no idea.

Speaker 5 (15:23):
He's like the small Asian guy in Ocean's eleven where
they can just like put him places diabolical.

Speaker 4 (15:30):
I like when he's in the in the dugout and
he's just doing form.

Speaker 1 (15:33):
He's doing his pitching form without a ball in between innings,
Like I should start doing that, Like in the studio
on the microphone, be like, what.

Speaker 2 (15:43):
Is grabbing the mic?

Speaker 4 (15:45):
And yeah, I'm Yamamoto.

Speaker 2 (15:50):
Egg Why does he have two microphones?

Speaker 1 (15:53):
Skio Michael beating in a little bit abby, What what's
going on that we need to know before we got
four or five minutes here.

Speaker 8 (16:01):
Well, I will tell you one thing that you should know.

Speaker 9 (16:04):
If you use YouTube to watch Monday night football, you're
gonna have a little bit of an issue. Tonight, YouTube
TV remove Disney stations, including ESPN, from its streaming service
after the two sides failed to reach.

Speaker 8 (16:17):
A new agreement.

Speaker 9 (16:18):
So the Google owned YouTube tv announced late Thursday night
that it's contract with Disney expired without negotiating a new deal.
So they threatened a blackout as a negotiating tactic to
force deal terms that would raise prices on customers. So
YouTube tv said it's going to offer customers a twenty
dollars credit if they don't carry Disney content for an

(16:39):
extended period of time. So read that as you might
not be able to see the Cowboys I think Cardinals
game tonight for Monday Night football, but you'll get a
credit if you get blacked out from that game. If
YouTube tv is like your only way of watching wow game,
why But just be aware that that is still ongoing
and they have not resolved that there's a possibility they

(16:59):
might get that done for the game tonight.

Speaker 1 (17:00):
But I heard it's happening because ESPN wants to launch
their own app now, and they want to make all
existing contracts laps so that they can force people to
go through their app. This is the problem. I love
YouTube TV. I don't know if you guys use it.

Speaker 2 (17:20):
I have used it.

Speaker 1 (17:21):
Yeah, so my brother has it, and every time I'm
at his place, I'm like, I want to change this
so bad. But the only reason I don't is because
Penguin's Pirates. Right now, Sportsnet Pittsburgh has an app, but
it's jan It doesn't like now. I would just do
that and get rid of it. I don't want to
pay for the billion cable channels I'm not using. Like

(17:44):
the music choice channels on my cable. Every time I
see them and infuriates me, like what the hell? And
then I'll go over my mom's house and she'll be
listening to one of them. They'll be like cloudy Jazz.

Speaker 2 (18:01):
Something like that. Let me get a yule log on.

Speaker 1 (18:03):
I'm like, Mom, you are the only person that listens
to the music choice channels on cable.

Speaker 2 (18:07):
She's like, I just like it.

Speaker 4 (18:09):
Just some change, you know. They have good variety.

Speaker 5 (18:12):
No, But to your point, I'm spending like damn near
three hundred dollars a month for a cable that I
don't watch.

Speaker 4 (18:19):
I don't want to.

Speaker 2 (18:20):
Sit in front of my television with my phone.

Speaker 4 (18:22):
Like every good American. Bill, I sit in front of
my TV.

Speaker 1 (18:27):
I watch an app, not the cable unless I'm watching sports.
Otherwise there's a streaming app and I'm on the Internet.

Speaker 2 (18:34):
I just want to like blend on other people's subscriptions.

Speaker 4 (18:38):
Do a lot of people do that?

Speaker 2 (18:40):
Just give me your password, just.

Speaker 1 (18:42):
Like I still got a buddy using mind and once
in a while he's like, hey, man, can you tell
me what the confirmation code is?

Speaker 4 (18:49):
Because I just had to sign back in. They made
me sign back in. I'm like, are you ever getting
just kidd here?

Speaker 2 (18:53):
He said, Why would I would? I seriously?

Speaker 1 (18:57):
Yeah, Gardell used his Apple out at the house, our
family's house up in Erie and forgot to log out.
It did log out, so I had that forever, and
then I just like filled it with a bunch of
weird movies so that it was in his log so
that when Patty opened it.

Speaker 4 (19:11):
Bill, can we have a talk?

Speaker 9 (19:15):
I will say, not a commercial, but Hulu has a
live TV version. So I have Hulu and I get
to watch like, you know, the shows.

Speaker 2 (19:23):
In the movies, Roku says that to you.

Speaker 9 (19:25):
Then it has live TV on it, so I have
like a decent amount of channels. But then I have
the Sportsnet app, and then I have like Criterion and
then a couple other things. But I don't do the
YouTube TV thing kind of for the same reason that
you don't, but I generally get access to the things
I want to have.

Speaker 4 (19:44):
Streaming is just creating another cable, it really is.

Speaker 2 (19:47):
It's an a la carte cable.

Speaker 8 (19:49):
It's very, very frustrating.

Speaker 5 (19:50):
And then with the amount of like, isn't Hulu affiliated
with NBC or it was with Disney something?

Speaker 9 (19:57):
Okay, it was with Disney And that was also a
confusing thing too. And it might be Disney. I just
assume there's one guy that owns everything. So this is
also confusing to me with the Disney thing, because at
one point I was getting kicked out of my Hulu
login because it was like, you now have to have
a Disney password, and I'm like, I give.

Speaker 2 (20:17):
Up, I give up.

Speaker 8 (20:19):
I don't know what any of my passwords are.

Speaker 5 (20:21):
It's like all of these billionaires are all like now
wearing like those terrible half jerseys where they used to
be this, and now we're this, and we're just trying
to reconfigure what we already had.

Speaker 2 (20:33):
Networks are gonna line up over here.

Speaker 5 (20:35):
Disney's buying everything because Disney owns ESPN.

Speaker 1 (20:39):
Yeah, yeah, I hate it it.

Speaker 2 (20:43):
Hey, password, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (20:48):
I don't know any passwords. I'm like, I just stare
at my face and help my face. It lets me
in because of my face. I just log it on
my phone and then try to change it on the TV. Yeah,
shosh your face.

Speaker 4 (21:00):
But I did this in Bill.

Speaker 1 (21:01):
I don't know if you've had this issue when you
put glasses on. If you do a face ID with
your glasses on, and then I don't know, you buy
a different pair of glasses.

Speaker 4 (21:12):
It's like, that's not you.

Speaker 2 (21:13):
That's Superman talking about it's me.

Speaker 4 (21:19):
That's not you.

Speaker 2 (21:20):
It is me.

Speaker 4 (21:21):
Try it again, still not you.

Speaker 2 (21:24):
Yeah, you have to put on the disguise to get
into your place.

Speaker 1 (21:27):
Yeah, just hold on, you pull up Dracula teeth. Mike's
got your sports. When we come back. Full report on
yesterday's huge win for the Steelers over the Indianapolis Cola
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Speaker 1 (22:08):
Mike Persuda with your sports right now here on the
DV Morning Show. And I was listening to you on
the pre on the postgame show pre and postgame, to
be honest, But on the postgame show yesterday, the tenor
of the calls a little different than they've been the
last couple of weeks. Glimmers of hope now that all
may not be lost.

Speaker 3 (22:25):
Well, I gotta I gotta kick out of the postgame show,
as I always do. First thing I did was credit
Charlie because he predicted Steelers twenty eight, Colts twenty seven,
Oh wow, And I said, wow, you called the shot flowers.
Flowers to you, you said we're gonna win. The whole
world thought they were gonna lose. And then the first call,
I knew they were gonna win. Second call, I knew
never win.

Speaker 2 (22:46):
Okay, I guess it.

Speaker 12 (22:47):
Was just me.

Speaker 3 (22:48):
You know, I was on an island thinking the Colts
were gonna score a total points and win the game.

Speaker 2 (22:54):
But they did not.

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Steelers were better than the on Sunday at Actresser Stadium,
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their response to a collapse against the Packers the previous week.

Speaker 4 (23:12):
Here's Mike Tomlin.

Speaker 13 (23:13):
It was a tough week, but we certainly deserved it
based on the last performers. I like the way the
guys absorbed it, smiled in the face of it, and
prepared and waited for the next opportunity.

Speaker 2 (23:24):
That's the National Football League, man.

Speaker 13 (23:26):
You get one shout about every seven days, and sometimes
you gotta wear it.

Speaker 4 (23:29):
We certainly were it this week.

Speaker 1 (23:32):
Did anybody else read into his demeanor after the game
as relief and.

Speaker 2 (23:40):
Like, how could he not be relieved?

Speaker 1 (23:43):
One time my dog got stomped by a deer and
then ran behind me and was like, okay, all right,
let's get out of here. And that's what you remind
me of yesterday, is like, this could have been bad.
Thank God, because if they lose that game the way
that we thought they were gonna lose that game yesterday, Mike,
they got booed up the field in the first quarter,

(24:04):
this would have been a loud week in Pittsburgh for
Mike Tomlin, you know.

Speaker 3 (24:07):
And another reason they didn't lose it was they accepted
where they were, which was in a really bad spot
and they had played really poorly against Green Bay in
the second half and poorly threw out against Cincinnati defensively,
and they had to fix that. That emotional reckoning, recovery
and rescue even included an address to the team from
safety Jalen Ramsey, one that even resonated with twenty one

(24:31):
year VET and four time MVP Aaron Rodgers.

Speaker 11 (24:35):
I noticed that something kind of changed last night when
Jalen spoke. And it's not easy to speak in front
of the team, and even when you're a player. He
just it's unnatural and coaches are used to it because
they do every single day, and Mike is fantastic at it.
But Jalen kind of went on and on and had
the attention of the room, and he said some really
really good stuff. I'm not going to get into it
because the fact that it's kind of a you know,

(24:58):
need to know information, but it was meaningful to me
on the offensive side. And I feel like we had
a different energy in the locker room today. Now all week,
I don't pay super tight attention to that side the
ball at all times in practice, but I do feel
like in a locker room pregame there was a different
energy for us, and they played really well.

Speaker 3 (25:19):
A couple things about that, you can't play the team
meeting slash emotional speech card every week because it gets
old and stale, but this was absolutely a time when
they needed to play it. And it also tells me
that the stuff about Cam Hayward saying we didn't have
enough fight, to me, that's the worst thing you could

(25:39):
hear for your teammate, that's your captain.

Speaker 2 (25:41):
He said we didn't have enough fight. Like do you
want to do this?

Speaker 12 (25:44):
You're inten the dog, You're in the dog petting business,
Like fight has to be the absolute assumed first brick
in the house, Like there's gonna be times when you
fight your ass off and still lose.

Speaker 2 (25:57):
If you don't fight, you have no change none.

Speaker 3 (26:01):
He responded, though, Mike, Oh, they all did. They all did,
and they you know it's funny too. We talked in
a day's leading up to the game. I saw two
potential pass to winning this game. Become the Bengals and
score forty or be the There's Arthur Smith pointed out,
be the Super Bowl winning New York Giants over Buffalo
and just hold the ball all day.

Speaker 4 (26:23):
And which is what I thought they were gonna do.
And neither thing happened.

Speaker 3 (26:25):
They just wanted the old fashioned, conventional regular game, kick
your ass away.

Speaker 5 (26:30):
And what's crazy to me about this game, Mike, is
that I don't ever remember it being this grim with
them at the top of the division, like they still.

Speaker 2 (26:38):
Have everything they want right in front of them.

Speaker 3 (26:40):
I swear to God that I think that half that
crowd showed up wanting to attack them.

Speaker 4 (26:45):
I did.

Speaker 1 (26:46):
I tweeted that out in the first quarter before they
got booed.

Speaker 4 (26:49):
I tweeted out, it's ugly in here.

Speaker 1 (26:51):
It felt that the the like the crowd, aura had
this anger.

Speaker 7 (26:58):
Good screw up.

Speaker 5 (27:00):
Yeah, man, that's a lot a lot of pressure to
play under Colts fans are standing up and sharing as
they went up seven to nothing, and like that stadium.

Speaker 1 (27:09):
I kept saying to my buddy, I'm like, you know,
this might end up being Arthur Smith's team by the
end of the year.

Speaker 4 (27:16):
There was like, this is looking.

Speaker 1 (27:17):
Bad if it goes that way, Like if it continues,
they get thumped by the Colts at home and the
fans are giving funerals for the defense in the parking lot.

Speaker 3 (27:27):
You know, my cousin Dave goes to the games and
he sent me the picture of that casket us.

Speaker 2 (27:32):
Like at first I just laughed and thought this is funny.
And you know they had the kneeler dramatic overreactions, so.

Speaker 3 (27:39):
It was really, well, Jesus, really it's that bad.

Speaker 4 (27:44):
Four and three, Yeah, there are four and three winning record.

Speaker 2 (27:47):
And then there was two or three times like they
win to toss.

Speaker 3 (27:51):
And they take the ball, which they almost never do right,
but they knew they had to score points, right, and.

Speaker 4 (27:56):
Then they had a three.

Speaker 2 (27:56):
Now there's a little more. John New drops that perfect.

Speaker 3 (28:00):
There was two or three murmurs of booze where it
wasn't like fire Canada bad, but.

Speaker 2 (28:05):
It was audible.

Speaker 3 (28:06):
I'm telling you if you could tell them we're going
that way, the temperature of the room, and they're playing wobbly,
and then all of a sudden, TJ.

Speaker 4 (28:14):
Watt turned the tide. I always say they come in bunches.

Speaker 1 (28:18):
So usually I feel like if we have a turnover
in the game, we usually have you know, multiple So
I think he started it off and then we just
kept feeding on from that, kept feeding on energy.

Speaker 4 (28:26):
So we just got to continue to do that. Weekend
week out.

Speaker 3 (28:29):
You want to talk about a game changing play and
maybe a season saving play.

Speaker 2 (28:34):
He needed it.

Speaker 3 (28:35):
They needed it first and ten from the Steelers thirty
eight yard line. They're losing seven to nothing. They've had
the three and out to start the game. They got
suckered on a fake punt that kept the possession going
for Indianapolis.

Speaker 4 (28:49):
That fake punt pissed me off so bad.

Speaker 1 (28:51):
Oh my god, everybody in our section is going watch
out for the fake.

Speaker 2 (28:55):
In our section, they're saying.

Speaker 3 (28:57):
It pants were down, they didn't have. There's two ways
offend to punt. There's your normal punt return team and
then there's what they call punt safe, which was you
basically leave most of the defense out there and then
the return guy's just on his own, like, we're not
returning this, but they're not right pulling a fast one. Well,
they pulled a fast one, yeah, because that was the
that was the regular punt return team.

Speaker 6 (29:18):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (29:18):
But Watt gets a rare one on one and man,
he got doubled and tripled all day yesterday. He got
held I thought a ton and he beat Brayden Smith.

Speaker 2 (29:27):
God, he bent the under time continuum.

Speaker 3 (29:29):
Yeah, and then just got his left hand in and
swatted the ball in left hand and then recovered it,
I mean, strip sack, fumble recovery, and then off they went.

Speaker 1 (29:37):
I wonder if he practices like his dexterity, Like, I
wonder if he dribbles a basketball left handed a lot
and stuff like that.

Speaker 2 (29:44):
His bend on that play was insane.

Speaker 1 (29:46):
Because the way he uses his left hand, it looks
like it's his dominant hand.

Speaker 4 (29:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (29:50):
To Bill's point, that would you say, Matrix, Yeah, yeah,
I don't know you could do that with your body.
Harrison used to do that, Harrison regular, but he was shorter.
He was like little natural lean into that kind of approach. Yeah,
that was a phenomenal play. Let me, uh do a
quick break We're gonna come back. Tim Benz will join

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Speaker 4 (30:44):
Tim Bens is with us, Benzi, Good morning, buddy, How
are you?

Speaker 7 (30:48):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (30:48):
Hold on?

Speaker 1 (30:49):
Sorry sorry sorry Tim, No, Now, I got you. Now,
how are you? Yes, that's right, Yes, that one's on
our bat.

Speaker 7 (30:58):
Yeah, everything's good about you.

Speaker 1 (31:00):
Well, I mean, for the last forty minutes or so,
we've just kind of been not shocked, but surprised by
how things went yesterday. Given the amount of injuries the
defense had and it's particularly in the second area, and
the way things have gone for them defensively the last
couple of weeks, there was absolutely no reason to have

(31:20):
expectation that they would get the performance they did out
of that defense yesterday. I think that was Mike Tomlin
was feeling pretty good after that one, but.

Speaker 4 (31:28):
I think Cam Hayward and TJ.

Speaker 1 (31:30):
Watt might have felt even better, both with monster performances.
After being called out by the fan base all week,
they delivered a big time defensive effort that enabled the
offense to have a short field virtually the entire game
to him.

Speaker 7 (31:47):
And rightfully so, I think the criticism.

Speaker 6 (31:49):
Was valid for how they played this year, especially with
the hype that they created for themselves and money that
they demanded in the offseason.

Speaker 7 (31:57):
So I think every bit of criticism was valid.

Speaker 6 (32:01):
I think the way they responded was significant, and I
think part of the reason people were right and their
criticism was there was some stubbornness about how they've gone
about their business defensively, not wanting to change, thinking they
had all the answers when all they were doing was
creating questions, and they varied some things up. You know,

(32:21):
you actually saw different looks from the linebackers yesterday. There
were times where there were three linebackers out there and
they almost looked like they were playing a four to
three look it was. It was different, different and interesting,
and I think it surprised the Colts. And you know,
you talked about the surprise factor of everybody in Pittsburgh
who assumed this is going to be a loss based
on the way that they've played in recent weeks. You know,

(32:43):
we're all trying to figure out a path to if
they were going to surprise, what was that path going
to be? And I said numerous times that they're going
to have to recreate what happened against New England and
you know, kind of get to a place where they
won this game because they just kept taking the ball
away or was given to them, and Daniel Jones turned

(33:05):
into a pumpkin and the Steelers took all of his.

Speaker 7 (33:08):
Candy on Halloween weekend. That's that's the only way to say.

Speaker 6 (33:10):
They made him revert back to the Danny dimes we
remember from New York Giants days.

Speaker 1 (33:18):
Do you think the offense yesterday was unable to really
get in like rhythms because they were the circumstantial aspect
of what was happening. They were getting the ball on turnovers,
they were I can't remember what the average drive was,
but like scoring drive, I think it was like fifty
yards or something like that. Yesterday they only ended up
with two hundred and twenty five yards offense. I would

(33:39):
have thought we would have leaned on Jalen Warren a
whole lot yesterday. That did not end up happening. He
only had sixteen carries for thirty one yards.

Speaker 6 (33:49):
Yeah, that happened in the second half of last week's
game against Green Bay too.

Speaker 7 (33:53):
I thought he was really good in the red zone.
I think he's really good at delivering.

Speaker 6 (33:58):
Punishment and find guys to run into. You know, I
thought he was good when he needed to be yesterday.
But yes, it was a very weird game to analyze
from an offensive point of view because of the circumstances where,
the where and when the turnovers happened. And I'm okay
with that. You know, like all eyes were on the
defense anyway. Most eyes are on the defense in the

(34:19):
sense that how bad is it gonna be where this
spiraling unit goes up against the best offensive unit in football?
And the offense going in this game was largely an
afterthought because the presumption was, to your guy's previous point
that you were talking about during Mike's sportscast, they were.

Speaker 7 (34:35):
Gonna do one of two things.

Speaker 6 (34:36):
They were either gonna try to hold onto the ball
short in the game and if they were gonna lose,
it was only gonna be twenty one to ten, or
they were gonna try to get in a shootout and
just not do it as well as Indianapolis, Like, I
don't think there's as much on the offense, So as
a result, I just don't think there's been a ton
of analysis because the defensive performance was so stark, where
they got back to batting the ball down at the

(34:57):
line of scrimmage, they got back to clouding the passing lanes,
sacking the quarterback and creating turnovers, and it was so
refreshing to.

Speaker 1 (35:04):
See, well, they needed a defensive front to have a
big game to take pressure off of a really ramshackle
secondary in the wake of all of those injuries. But
it kind of reminded me of like, remember when they
closed the four pit tunnel and everyone's.

Speaker 4 (35:17):
Like, oh my god, this is going to be a disaster.

Speaker 1 (35:18):
We have a whole summer with no four pit tunnel,
and then they routed everyone around and somehow it worked
better than when the tunnel is open.

Speaker 2 (35:26):
It was amazing.

Speaker 3 (35:27):
They were down to no free safeties, so Ramsey had
to play free safety free safety, and it looked better.
Dougart played strong safety and the only shit because he
can't play free Brandon Eckles was the nickel. And the
only change in the secondary was when Slay went out
a couple of times and then they had.

Speaker 2 (35:45):
To put Pierre in. It looked better, but it was.

Speaker 4 (35:47):
It was the same five guys basically.

Speaker 7 (35:50):
Well maybe maybe necessity is the mother of inventions. Got
a lot of front there, so.

Speaker 2 (35:54):
For to miscommunicate, you have the same job every play.

Speaker 1 (35:58):
Not only that, but it brought that up about the
inside linebackers too, same thing.

Speaker 2 (36:02):
Yeah, although they're not having Cole Holcom Was that help?

Speaker 3 (36:06):
I thought that the thing Tim just mentioned when they
went three at one time, that was a real curveball, and.

Speaker 6 (36:13):
It wasn't any inside linebackers or was outside linebackers.

Speaker 2 (36:16):
It's like Peton.

Speaker 7 (36:17):
Wilson the cover guy.

Speaker 3 (36:20):
Yeah, Peton Wilson could be a cover guy, Harrison could
be a run thumper, and Patrick Queen could just run
around and do what Patrick Queen does. And you know
they're throw up at the line of scrimmage, getting in
gaps and giving them a bunch of goofy looks. Pre
snapped that they had no intention, but.

Speaker 1 (36:36):
Harrison had Taylor in the backfield on that one that
ended up going to.

Speaker 3 (36:39):
Then he always hit, He was always a thumper.

Speaker 2 (36:42):
I mean he still played teams well, so Peyton Wilson
you need second.

Speaker 6 (36:47):
The secondary was good too, in so far as I think,
like what you said, Mike, they had guys in spots
where they are probably better suited now.

Speaker 7 (36:57):
Like I just think Ramsey's better at safety. When he's
not covering is a corner.

Speaker 6 (37:02):
It might be time to have much more Beckles and
less of Sleigh, you know.

Speaker 1 (37:06):
Like I think everybody in the stadium agrees with you.
Nobody was upset about Sligh going in the ten well
or if he if he remembers it, go on the field.

Speaker 2 (37:19):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (37:20):
If you saw that he almost didn't make it onto
the field and they got lucky with a batted ball
on that one.

Speaker 2 (37:26):
That's a backup TV thing. Whether they just.

Speaker 1 (37:30):
To be there, Yeah, they like the back of the
horse in one of those costs that you know, running
out to try and find the find the front of
it to finish the dancing horse routine.

Speaker 6 (37:41):
I thought the batted ball thing was was huge. I mean,
like they that's been a way that they have combated
the quick passing game for years now.

Speaker 7 (37:50):
Like they are proficient. They usually are.

Speaker 6 (37:53):
At knocking balls down the line of scrimmage and it
frustrates quarterbacks.

Speaker 7 (37:57):
It makes them think whether.

Speaker 6 (37:59):
It's just a ticker who Sometimes it makes the ball
come out a little bit slower, and they just didn't do.

Speaker 7 (38:05):
That the last two weeks. There was none of that.

Speaker 6 (38:07):
It wasn't present. I think they just got frustrated not
being able to get there.

Speaker 7 (38:11):
They tried so hard to rush they forgot to do it.
But there were.

Speaker 6 (38:14):
Balls getting knocked down and tipped in the air all
over the place. Yesterday, Cam who was it that Lawyer? No,
Peyton Wilson knocked it up for Sawyer. I think one
or two other ones got hit the line of scrimmage.
Queen might have had one on the blitz, But whatever
the case, it was a constant fence of arms right
in front of Danny Dimes's face, and I think that

(38:35):
got in his head a little bit and it was
a big reason why they were able to do what
they did.

Speaker 5 (38:39):
Another test this week, Tim with the Chargers and I
don't know if they can do it or if they
can coordinate everybody's schedule, but I think it would really
help if we could just have that two thousand and
five Super Bowl defense travel with the team from here
on out.

Speaker 1 (38:52):
Yeah, that was like bringing in Frankie five Angels brothers
to this.

Speaker 4 (38:58):
The courtroom.

Speaker 6 (39:02):
Yeah, there were some other guys that weren't a part
of the festivities yesterday that can maybe make an appearance
in this game instead. You know, like maybe Troy or
Parker or Heath. There's some of the guys who couldn't
make it to this one, maybe they could make it to.

Speaker 2 (39:14):
The next one Arizona. He can get to California.

Speaker 7 (39:20):
Heins was coaching, so he couldn't be there. But yeah,
I thought it was interesting yesterday.

Speaker 6 (39:23):
I up, Mike, if you were down there, you might
have still been on the air for the pregame show.
But they were kind of dotted around the Pitt locker
room and everybody was kind of giving their own speech.
It sounded like I was picking up different conversations here
and there, stumping for various guys from that team in
that era to get in the Hall of Fame. It was,

(39:43):
you know, there was Ben saying something here, there's Jerome
saying something there, and there's Aaron spit over there. Everybody
was stumping for all those guys who were on the
bubble for the Hall of Fame, and that seemed to
be the talking point in the locker room yesterday and
a lot of what you guys are saying, like what
does this team need to do to find itself? And
they found it yesterday against the best offensive team in football,
for sure. But yeah, I think Aaron Rodgers is right.

(40:05):
When you get six turnovers, you want to have a
thirty five or forty two on that board instead of
a twenty seven. But I'll take it based on the
way the past couple of weeks have gone.

Speaker 4 (40:13):
I'll tell you it was pretty fun when they did that.

Speaker 1 (40:15):
I was at I was at the bar at the
stadium and we're waiting in line and all of you know,
all the fans around us, we're all watching, and every
time they'd show a player, someone was like, who can.

Speaker 4 (40:26):
Scream their name first?

Speaker 1 (40:27):
And then everyone would go crazy for them, and there'd
be people were like, we didn't know who it was,
you know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (40:32):
Like, wait a minute, who is who is that? Who
is that? And then there was one one or two.

Speaker 1 (40:38):
Yeah, there was a couple of those we could not
come up with with With Creewall.

Speaker 3 (40:42):
That's what I was going too far when you guys
all threw garbage at the TV.

Speaker 1 (40:45):
When when he everyone was like, we forgot he was
on that team Tommy mad Eggs. But when Keyesel, like
when Keyesel and the bus and and Ben came up,
the place went like I was probably with you know,
four or five hundred people in the big scrum waiting
at the party.

Speaker 4 (41:04):
Everyone just went crazy. It was so fun just to
remember that.

Speaker 1 (41:08):
And things were starting to go okay for the Steelers
in the game at that point. You know, if they
would have showed those people after the first quarter, I'm
telling you.

Speaker 2 (41:16):
Right now, not good.

Speaker 4 (41:17):
It was.

Speaker 2 (41:17):
Didn't Fanica start the terrible down twirl?

Speaker 1 (41:19):
Yes, he was a big red did the terrible towel
twirl and he looked great.

Speaker 2 (41:23):
Casey Hampton got a big.

Speaker 7 (41:24):
Pot, big stack always gets a big pop. Yeah, no
doubt about it. It was great. I talked to him
about the Willie Parker.

Speaker 6 (41:33):
Run yesterday and uh he diagrammed it as if it
had happened six seconds before.

Speaker 4 (41:38):
We walked in.

Speaker 7 (41:40):
We talked about it. Ken wizen Hunt and Jeff Hardings
talked about that. It was good seeing Wiz. I was
like Ken wizen Hunt and it's good catching up for
him too.

Speaker 1 (41:50):
Was Mike Malarkey there or was that wizen Hunt that
was weird that?

Speaker 4 (41:54):
Yeah, we were trying to figure relate.

Speaker 6 (41:56):
Was in uh, San Francisco by then San Francis, Buffalo
something like that or remember what?

Speaker 7 (42:02):
But the Wiz went to Wiz went to Arizona, okay,
right right right? Yeah, but no, Malarkey wasn't there. LAbau
was there, sella.

Speaker 1 (42:09):
Boh in his gold jacket. Dude, I loved it. Loved
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Here's Tom Opperman.

Speaker 17 (43:10):
The Steelers defense paved the way to the team's twenty
seven to twenty victory over the Indianapolis Colts in their
number one offense Sunday afternoon at Akroscher Stadium. The defense
was all over Colts quarterback Daniel Jones, sacking him five times,
hitting him six more times, and picking him off three times.
The Steelers got off to a slow start in the game,
and the Colts had a seven to nothing lead and
were driving in the second quarter, threatening to add on.

Speaker 2 (43:31):
But then TJ.

Speaker 17 (43:31):
Watts struck to provide the jolt that the team needed,
strip sacking Daniel Jones and recovering the fumble. The Steelers
offense would capitalize on the ensuing drive to tie the game,
and the team got rolling from there. Inside linebacker Peyton
Wilson had a monster day on that Steelers defense, racking
up fourteen total tackles, which not only led the Steelers
but was the most in the entire game, and he
picked off Daniel Jones for one of the three interceptions

(43:53):
thrown by Jones on the day. Outside linebacker Jack Sawyer
and cornerback Joey Porter Junior were the recipients of the
other two Jones picks, both of those gentlemen's first of
the season and Sawyer's first interception of his career. The
splash plays returning to the Steelers defense and limiting the
NFL's leading rusher, Jonathan Taylor to just forty five yards
on fourteen carries, were the main factors in the Steelers'

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victory and improving to five and three on the season.

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