November 5, 2025 • 42 mins
Merril Hoge thinks the Steelers should be able to carry the momentum from the Colts win over to next week when they take on the Chargers.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
At some point, it's like, you're the head of the hospital.
You have to stop telling people you never thought you'd
become a doctor.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
So probably wait, I'm the head of the hospital. No,
I was doing an analogy? Is that like a surgery?
Speaker 3 (00:14):
An analogy on my pancreas.
Speaker 4 (00:17):
Favorite hospital, General everything, National, Cedar sy and I just
sayt elsewhere. That's not even a that was a show
The Pit. No, he wouldn't even say the Pit whatever.
Speaker 5 (00:37):
The Cleveland version of the Pit is Randy Bellman and
the d V morning show.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
A gainey. He was a fun mayor. So Corey O'Connor,
he's supposed to call us today, We're going to talk
to the new mayor. Well, he's gonna have to call us.
Speaker 6 (00:49):
After he's out thanking people, yeah right, or maybe while
he's out thanking people.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Well, I believe he has a party, a breakfast, uh
like election victory party this morning at Galaxy and yeah
yeah yeah in East Liberty. So that'll be fun. You
know he's gonna call us. I am one hundred percent
asking him his top five favorite Pittsburgh restaurants.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Well, I know he's gonna say parts number one. He
has to They got they got cream pies.
Speaker 7 (01:20):
Yeah, yeah, and also the cream pie.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Yeah, that's rights, that's his favorite. He's our new mayor.
And Abby you pointed out something in our group chat yesterday.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Now, who's going to be the GM of the Penguins?
Speaker 6 (01:32):
I mean he looks exactly like Kyle Dubas. Oh really,
I guess I don't know what Kyle Dubis looks like.
Corey O'Connor. Okay, you're all caught up.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
He looks exactly like that, But I think his glasses
are real.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
That's the difference, correct, And the assertion by some people
in the Toronto media is that Kyle Dubis wears.
Speaker 6 (01:54):
Just regular glass glasses, non prescription. Oh this, I have
a problem with bloss in order to appear to be
more intellectual. Listen, I got glasses in eighth grade on
the heels of getting braces, like you learned it. April
fifteenth was braces, April twentieth was glasses. Boy, So I
(02:15):
have trudged through the sledge here, boy, like, you don't
get this as stolen valor as.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Far as I'm concerned, How old were you when you
got those?
Speaker 8 (02:23):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Eighth grade?
Speaker 8 (02:25):
Queen?
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Right, it's a heak of developments.
Speaker 6 (02:30):
How long jem braces on for I think like a
year and a half was almost two years like back then, that.
Speaker 7 (02:34):
This is a stigmatism like appropriation.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Huh yeah, that's right, Yeah, yeah, what he's doing. Yes,
you can't, you can't take that for me. But we
don't know that that's one hundred percent true. We have
just heard that.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
That's the assertion made by some people in the Toronto
media who maybe don't love Kyle Dubis given their relationship.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Yeah, with the with the with the leaves.
Speaker 6 (02:53):
That makes sense, and also looking intellectual serves you in
some purposes. It also doesn't serve you in some other instances.
I think I did a show one time for I
think it was like the elect the International Brotherhood of
Electric Workers or something like that or something.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Yeah, and they had a big hall. I think this
is down in Lawrenceville.
Speaker 6 (03:11):
And I literally walk into the hall and I'm just,
you know, kind of taking the lay of the land.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
And some guy looks at me. He goes, oh, this guy,
it looks like he does math. I'm behind the eight
ball already. They think I do math.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
That's bad and that's derogatory.
Speaker 6 (03:30):
Amplitudes and you know, mille Amps and everything like that
they're doing.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Man, I think it was just that guy.
Speaker 7 (03:38):
That's so funny.
Speaker 6 (03:41):
I will say this actually unlocked another story at Penn State.
One time we went to a party and there was
this huge, drunk, aggressive guy there. So it was a
bunch of people like that were like me, like normal
you know, sized people, and then a hulk and a
whirling dervish like it looked like, you know, like when
(04:02):
a guy's starting to get a little out of control
of a party and people are kind of looking sideways
at him. Well, it turns out he was the wedge
breaker on the Penn State football team. They're the ones
that run full speed into a brick wall. So he's
getting drunk and starting to get a little handsy with
people and like getting that kind of like I'm going
to burn this house down thing. So somehow I was
(04:24):
sidled up next to him. He goes, you want to
see a tattoo? And I was like, uh, yes, yes
I do. He rolled his lip down and like a horse.
It says f it on the end that he had
tattooed on the inside of his lips. So this guy
is like going to kill everybody at this party. Somehow,
(04:44):
I'm able to diffuse the situation because he could. He's like,
you know what, professor, And I was like what, And
I just started rolling. He started calling professor. So I
started rolling with Professor. I was like, what do you
want me to teach you here? And so then we
became friends throughout the rest of the night, and I
gently like escorted him out.
Speaker 7 (05:00):
Of the building.
Speaker 6 (05:00):
I was like, so anyway, like look at that alley,
like that looks like a good place to sleep tonight.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
By like shut the door on him on the way wall.
Speaker 7 (05:06):
I think, pansy.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Yeah, that was some good CT wrangling there.
Speaker 8 (05:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
I just stuck my fingers in the holes in his brain. Professor.
That's right, I'm the professor. I'm a professor. You're going
to get good grades. I'm in my time machine. It's
out this balcony tip like mongo though.
Speaker 6 (05:33):
I'd tip him eight stories off of pin Towers and
he'd like fall into a dumpster and.
Speaker 9 (05:37):
Come back like gravity good lesson more. I lived on
the eighth floor. Pen Towers lived there. Pen Towers is
this one building.
Speaker 6 (05:51):
I don't know if they've done anything that at this point,
but on the eighth floor they used to have balcony
railings that were maybe a centimeter thick, and you could
if anybody remembers how the Ultimate Warrior used to get
in the ring, just shake the you could just do
that with the balcony railings, like just shaking.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
The whole thing.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
We had a funnel later, which is like a huge
slingshot that uses like surgical tuning, yep. And we were
on the eighth floor of pan towers.
Speaker 7 (06:16):
Like one person holds each.
Speaker 10 (06:20):
The door.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
You need three people or yeah, brace it.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
So our balcony face the Beaver Avenue side and you
could launch it from the eighth floor, like put water
balloons in there. They would go a city block.
Speaker 6 (06:35):
So we would just sit in there and we'd be
all like, you know, baked and drinking beers and just
thinking it was the funny thing in the world. And
we would put mustard in water balloons and then shave
it out, and then we'd be like.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
All right, that guy's getting into a camaro there.
Speaker 6 (06:54):
It's like, you know, ten bucks if you can hit it.
And then you would be like, you know, somebody would
be all the way back in our living room. Might
there be two people with their arms sticking out of
the balcony sliding doors because you didn't want to get caught, like,
you know, flinging it. And so there'd be a dude
on the couch like three two one coke, and the
thing would.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Launch and go like a city block.
Speaker 6 (07:16):
And I'm I'm here to tell you there is nothing
funnier than being a block away from a crime you've
committed and watching somebody try to figure out who did it.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Now these people are and they're looking up straight in
the air.
Speaker 6 (07:29):
We're just dying because we're so far away from it
that they're never gonna suspect us.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
You know, I mean it went right on this dude's roof.
Speaker 6 (07:37):
You know that feeling like And I think it's only
when you're younger, because you just have so much energy
when something that happens and you know it is so
funny and you're going to talk about it the rest
of your life that you are uncontrollable, Like.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
You just start falling all over and rolling all over
the ground.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
That's what it was.
Speaker 6 (07:54):
We were just like looking at each other with tears
in our eyes, laughing like.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
It wasn't part shot, just and what it looked like
would be like. And then you couldn't really follow the balloon,
you know, You're like, and then you have to listen,
and then you just like watch for the target and
then all of a sudden and there's mustard all over.
You're like, and you know, in retrospect, huge a whole
thing to do. But we were young, Yeah, we were
years old all the time.
Speaker 6 (08:20):
My friend was walking out of an apartment at Penn
State and he he was he was really into watching
the Johnny Depp movie Blow with you know, Johnny more
like the sheep skin Jacket and that one like it
at the height of his at the height of his
drug Well, he gets a cheap skin jacket somehow, and
he's walking around. He's got long Johnny Namath hair, and
(08:41):
he's walking out of a building and he had just
come from a party.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
I was waiting for him on the sidewalk.
Speaker 6 (08:46):
He stops, pauses underneath the the entrance way and he's
about to light a cigarette. He's got the lighter out
and he's slowly drawing it to his to his uh,
to a cigarette, and a a tight a wave of
water comes from like nine stories up and it was
it was like a Nickelodeon show, Like I mean, there
(09:08):
must have been a fifty five gallon drama that that
he did. Right as he was lighting it, the light
the flame was touching his cigarette and a bathtub's worth
of water fell on him, soaking his sheepskin jacket and everything,
and the same thing. Like you know it was harmless.
You know it still harmless? Yeah, I mean, was anything
funny in the world. Tree of like he's about to
(09:31):
enjoy a Marlborough light and kaspluche and then there's like
people up on like the twelve floor laughing at him
and then running back into the thing.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
So yeah, the two balconies I had at Penn State,
one was at University Towers and one was at Pen Towers,
and I just absolutely abused the location. The University Towers
one is the one I told you where we had
uh a payphone in the alley and we would call
it and like you know, because we sit on our
balcony and you could see it and call it and
people would pick it up. And then and then you
see somebody else walking through the alley and whoever picked
(10:02):
up you'd see somebody coming their way with a red backpack.
Speaker 6 (10:05):
You're like, hey, my buddy's coming by there. He's supposed
to pick up the phone's kind of red backpack. His
name is Anthrony. Well you will you can you see around?
Speaker 3 (10:13):
And then they're like and then Anthony and there's just
somebody yelling, and somebody's just yelling. Any walking in there,
like what the hell?
Speaker 2 (10:21):
You Knowwadays, nobody, nobody would even nobody even in.
Speaker 6 (10:24):
The day would pick up a payphone, being a random
person picking up a payphone all the time.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
We'd put peanut butter on it and then people would
pick it up, you know, and then we you know,
we're just like idiots.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Is Penn Tower the one that had like there was
a huge astro turf like lawn or something at the
bottom over the top of a garage, like the bottom zone.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
It had a garage, but it didn't have that. Yeah,
I don't I don't totally remember that part, but that
might might have been there later on. I know College
Pizza was the place carmines College Pizza the trajectory of
this mustard balloon, I know exactly. You know, Brad it
hit I knowdicasay, yeah, and that's what we were doing.
Speaker 6 (11:06):
We were just torturing those guys because we could hit
their parking lot. So we were just launching balloons.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
And that is the dumbest way to be, like spend
your day when you're twenty, Right, If I could do
it now, I would totally spend hours doing that.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
I still think that that is so hilarious.
Speaker 6 (11:25):
I don't know why, just with being idiots with your friends,
there is nothing greater. And every time I am with
those same people now, because I'm still friends with all
of them, we act exactly the same way.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
So we just don't have as much energy as we
used to it.
Speaker 6 (11:38):
And it's also toned down like a little bit, like
you'll get with your friends, but like you'll do something
that is not nearly the water balloon drenching, but you'll
be like, hey, tell this waiter your name's Tim, and
your name's like John or something like.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
That, and everyone has a good laugh about that. That's
the level. Yeah, but you know.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
What's happening now is that everybody's taping themselves doing that.
Speaker 7 (11:59):
Yeah. Deal.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
The one thing that's getting a lot of kids in
trouble is there's this video this guy who has like
a spidomeener where he's he has the radar guys and
he's throwing stuff at carsberries and it's hilarious different stuff
that he's throwing in cars, but like it's it's also
terrible and dangerous.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Yeah yeah, yeah, And.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Then you're like, Okay, that's one hundred percent the kind
of stuff we used to do and never record ourselves doing.
Speaker 7 (12:27):
Were we total jagos?
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Yeah, there's no evidence blowing cars up with snowballs.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Oh that's I mean, that's so. That would have been
much younger. And I did that all the time. My
buddies used to.
Speaker 6 (12:41):
I don't know if I ever got into this, but
for they got into a kick for like a month,
they would fill up like nine two liter water bottles
and like at midnight they would just set them out
in the road, just set them out in the road
and then just watch cars stop and then I don't
know why they thought that was the funniest thing in
the world, because if you come across that, you like,
(13:01):
did an alien put this there?
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Like is this a pen?
Speaker 7 (13:04):
Thing?
Speaker 6 (13:04):
Like?
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Why why are there all these water bottles here? I
don't know.
Speaker 8 (13:07):
That was.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
That's pretty mischievous.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
The thing we did up in the snow country there
in the winter was you would hide behind a snow
bank at a stop sign, and when it was the
right kind of car they come to stop. You would
pop out from behind a snow bank, jump onto the
bumper and in your chuck of boots, you would you
would ride the back of the car down the road.
Speaker 6 (13:29):
You'd skitch in just boots yep, because it was so
snow because it.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Was just snowking around, like just like right after Back
to the Future came out.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
No, this was before Back to the Future. And it
was the dumbest and most dangerous thing that we did
all the time. We called it Hoppin' because you'd hop
on the back of a bumper. How how far would
you go?
Speaker 6 (13:48):
Come the further you could go, you know, like they're
going to Meadville.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Yeah, you'd be like it was one of our friends
named Dicky, were like, Dicky's gonna go all the way
down to the beach.
Speaker 6 (14:00):
And every group had a Dickey that would like really
try to be a legend, and they might have been
a legend.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
He had a Pinto later on, it was a brown
Pinto and that was like he got his license before everybody,
and everybody just kind of followed Dickie's lead, you know,
like dude.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
Dicky said he's gonna get.
Speaker 7 (14:16):
Some beer this weekend.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Right, there's no boring dickies in the world.
Speaker 7 (14:21):
If your name is Dickie.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Yeah, legend.
Speaker 7 (14:24):
Yeah you're a legend.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
He was Dicky and we never questioned it or anything,
and he was hilarious and he's still hilarious questioning Dickie.
But it was like it seemed innocent.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
And now when I think about doing that, I'm like,
what if there was a pothole and your ankle just goes,
you just break your leg in three places above your ankle.
Speaker 6 (14:42):
I always tell my wife. I always talk about this,
Like there's things that and it's not like I was
like some psycho in college, but there's things I did
in college like Ana dyne stuff like stupid, like little
things that I shudder when I think about it. Like
at one time climbed up on a roof to get
a frisbee. But it was like it was like a
two story roof and I just jumped off and I
(15:04):
looked down and I was like, there's no because there
was no way down. I like parkord my way up
there somehow, so there's no way back down. So I
sat on the edge of this two story building and
I slid off my butt and did a one to
eighty and grabbed onto the the roof and then dropped
down because it's like it's gonna take about six feet
off my drop. But just thinking about that, like if
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I don't make that grab, my feet swing out from
under me and I'm going headfirst down twelve feet onto
onto the pavement. And I just think about that sometimes
I'm like, huh, like there's my there's my moments like
that that my life could have been changed for the
much much worse.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
And it was all to get a free frisbee. Yeah,
the frisbee was free ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Yeah, we would if at the school that like our
grade school, if a ball or a football would go
on the roof, you'd go to the where the gutter
was and somebody would shimmy the gutter all the way
up to the roof and they get and you are
twenty feet up and then throw the ball back down
and then you had to like hope the gutters like
and you slid back down the gun.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
Friends would all leave, every one of them would leave.
Speaker 6 (16:09):
You know, no one would be there to They'd laugh
the fact that as they were walking away that you
were stuck up there and that you had to get
down like you Saydon's.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Got another football in the back of the pint till
we're gonna be okay, Jeff Conkle, mister Wednesday, got any
gigs coming up?
Speaker 6 (16:24):
I got a gig at Lo lev Beer next Saturday.
It's gonna be I'm headlining it. I have to tell you, like,
I've been on a run. For anybody that's listening and
wants to come to a show, I'm gonna ask you
to come to this show because I've been on a
run of like what I can only call like typically.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Mishap comedy shows.
Speaker 6 (16:46):
Like there's been comedy shows where people don't know that
comedy is going on. There's been comedy shows where the
World Series took precedence.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
So I kind of need just a normal show that
goes well.
Speaker 6 (16:58):
And so if you guys, if you guys could come
to that normal show on the low left, I'm gonna
play it again. It's November fifteenth, Saturday, November fifteenth.
Speaker 7 (17:06):
Nothing coming up on the fifteenth. No, No, I don't
know special thing, No is.
Speaker 11 (17:11):
There is there?
Speaker 7 (17:12):
Okay?
Speaker 6 (17:12):
Right, all the sporting events are done. That's it. So Yeah,
come out, come out to that. That's a that's a
cool place. It's like deep deep in the heart of Lawrenceville.
It's it's good beer and everything like Lawrenceville. And I
told my buddy Trevor ass And I give him a
shout out this Saturday. He's doing a show at this
handsome it's a Millvale Food and Energy hub. So that's
(17:34):
at eight pm on this this Saturday. So is that
the place you and I were the comedy place in
Millvale that.
Speaker 7 (17:41):
We were talking comedy bar?
Speaker 3 (17:43):
It's not. Is it called the comedy bar?
Speaker 7 (17:45):
Is it that place that's in the basement that Yeah,
at the.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Purple or the Purple Onion. Do you know that Millvale
never ends? Which is to say that you think it's
just this little Yeah, it's great. It keeps going. It's
like youth. It never stops here.
Speaker 8 (18:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
You think you're out of Millvale and you know everybody? No, no, no,
there's more Millvale. What does Millville butt up against?
Speaker 11 (18:08):
Etna?
Speaker 7 (18:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (18:10):
And then what else? What's away from the river off
the top of not Troy No, no, no, well Troy
Hill on one side, but what's the backside Sharpsburg No,
sharpspead Wood is on the river. Further up top is God,
it's the neighborhood.
Speaker 6 (18:28):
We all know the name of the neighborhood and it's
no no.
Speaker 10 (18:32):
Sorry, Wait, isn't that where you're from?
Speaker 3 (18:42):
Over there? I didn't have a balcony in college.
Speaker 8 (18:45):
I like college.
Speaker 10 (18:49):
Terrors.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
People are going to be calling big time. Yeah, so
it's at one percent. Riverview Park is kind of behind
it too. I'm from the South Hills. The fact that
I know this much is impress What am I doing there?
I know more about Tokyo geography than I do about
that area.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Do you go back far enough to remember the Brown
jug in Millville?
Speaker 7 (19:16):
There was like an open mic.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
No, no, yeah, there wasn't.
Speaker 7 (19:21):
It wasn't even.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Summer Hill, of course, Summer Hills.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Way, there was a there were these dudes that used
to do was the sofa?
Speaker 7 (19:33):
K what wait?
Speaker 3 (19:35):
Her neighbor That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 8 (19:37):
She was not a hill.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
You're talking about it butts.
Speaker 6 (19:41):
Up against Melville against try to pronounce it the way
she does. You have to ask Corey O'Connor about this.
It might it might totally validate. Yeah, if his team's listening,
you better get the maps.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
Out, Shayler.
Speaker 6 (19:59):
Okay, I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
Troy Hill turns into is it Flagstaff? No, that's yeah,
that's in Arizona. Never mind, this is going poorly. Birksfield
and Shaylor. You don't know what you're talking about. I agree,
that's why I'm asking you. You lived out that way, I.
Speaker 6 (20:21):
Know, but you're telling me Shaylor and Millville there's like
basically all you have to do is go to the
basement of.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Hardy's and everything. That's what I'm looking for. It's the
stranger things world exactly. Okay, thank you, Abby.
Speaker 7 (20:35):
I don't know what's north of the Aspen Wall. What
the hell do you want from me?
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Mike's got your sports. When we come back. We got
Merril Hodge coming up. Corey O'Connor's getting give us a
call at some point, supposedly and PFT commenter, did you
see what he did to his hair? Did he cut
it all off?
Speaker 3 (20:50):
No? But he did give himself like a glorious mullet.
Speaker 6 (20:53):
Hm.
Speaker 7 (20:54):
Oh yeah. Well he's probably in a pretty strange place
right now. He just lost his quarterback.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
Yeah, I think he's coping. We'll talk to him.
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a trade made yesterday that will impact Sunday nights Steelers
at the Chargers game in LA, but it was not
made by the Steelers. The Chargers offensive line is a mess.
They are running out of offensive tackles, and they swung
a trade yesterday for former Saints' first round pick Trevor Penning.
(21:47):
Now former first round pick implies that they made a
great save here, but Penning's backstory implies that they did not.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Don't We also have a former first round pick from
the Saints that's sitting on our bench.
Speaker 7 (22:01):
Who's the tackle that we got.
Speaker 6 (22:06):
That's the backup to, Oh, the massive dude, the big
the Broderick Jones and p Yeah.
Speaker 11 (22:12):
Same kind of guy tackle guard. Now, Penny's a lot younger,
but the compensation was a twenty twenty seven sixth round
pick for the former nineteenth overall selection in twenty twenty two. Wow,
Trevor Penning. Guy came to the Saints from Northern Iowa,
so there's a little bit of a project. He has
started at left tackle, right tackle, and this year six
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games at left guard, and they traded him for a
sixth round twenty twenty seven pick before giving a former
first round selection a second contract. So this is Busto territory, definitely.
But the Chargers are desperate, Randon, you'll appreciate this. By
the way, Penning is from Northern Iowa and he's a
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native of Clear Lake, Iowa.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
Buddy Holly, that's where Buddy Alli's last show was.
Speaker 11 (23:02):
Justin Herbert may be singing November made me shiver with
every dropback rush to Liver. I watched the Chargers Titans
game from last Sunday yesterday, and Justin Herbert is at
the height of his powers and he is gonna die.
Speaker 7 (23:21):
Just for how under duress he is getting killed.
Speaker 11 (23:23):
They were winning the whole game. Well, now, I shouldn't
say that they gave up to They gave up a
special team score and a pick six in the first quarter,
but they pulled ahead by halftime, and they were fairly
comfortable in this game. He got sacked six times and
hit eleven times.
Speaker 8 (23:39):
Wow.
Speaker 11 (23:40):
He's also started to run more of the last two
weeks because they're having a hard time running the ball
because that I mentioned their offensive lines and shambles, and
they're also running out of running backs. When he runs,
he puts his shoulder down, he stiff arms guys, yep.
I mean he slides occasionally, but he's running like a runner,
not a quarterback. And again, if it keeps going the
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way it's going for the Chargers, he is going to die.
Speaker 7 (24:05):
The last time we played them, the Steelers knocked him
out of the game.
Speaker 11 (24:08):
Well, he came in banged up and got banged up more.
Speaker 8 (24:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (24:11):
Tomlin said that in his pressure this week, we got
lucky not having to deal with the full Herbert.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
I mean, once you go full Herbert, you never go
full Herbert.
Speaker 11 (24:19):
He's number two in the NFL in passing yards twenty
three and ninety, just a couple behind Daniel Jones. But
he's also got eight interceptions. He's got a cannon for
an arm and he trusts it a little too much.
Sometimes he does the roll right throw back across his body.
Thing their offensive line is a problem.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Is we abandoned what worked against the Colts and send
people this weekend.
Speaker 8 (24:49):
No.
Speaker 11 (24:50):
I think you beat him one on one and just
beat him all right, because you got to contain this guy.
Herbert is dangerous getting started to run the last couple
of weeks and he's are you good at that?
Speaker 8 (25:01):
Uh?
Speaker 11 (25:01):
Maybe you guys remember that game in La a couple
of years ago. Oh god, where he just ran all
over the field.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
I think Cam Hayward chased him down like thirty or
forty yards down the field.
Speaker 11 (25:11):
He was super teating his way down. That's that's the
path to win in this one to me, is just
destroy their own line, which is waiting to be destroyed.
It's not good.
Speaker 7 (25:25):
And the Steelers D line is playing with some confidence
right now.
Speaker 11 (25:28):
And the backers are playing with some confidence and uh good,
good corps of eligibles. But uh, you got to you
gotta be upright before you can take advantage of them.
Speaker 8 (25:39):
Uh.
Speaker 11 (25:39):
Steelers did not add a receiver yesterday. A lot of
people wondering if they might do that in advance of
four pm, but before they decided not to do anything.
Mike Tomlin was singing the praises yesterday afternoon of his
past catchers not named DK Metcalf.
Speaker 12 (25:55):
You know, I think it's been a steady improvement in
terms of their quality of play, particularly Roman of late.
Other than that boneheaded lack of ball security Layton football game, generally,
there's been an uptick in quality of his play. But again,
we don't look at our eligibles as wide receivers, man.
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We feel really good about our tight end group as
eligibles as well, and you can't talk about the passing
game without talking about the contributions that we get from
that group. We've been very open about that as well
when we acquired John who at the very beginning of
the journey, we talked about, you know that we have
eligibles regardless ore EC receivers, and I still think we
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feel the same way. We certainly need growth and development
from individuals within our collective like the two that you mentioned,
but we're comfortable with how we're distributing the ball and
our utilization of people and our division of labor to
this point.
Speaker 7 (26:50):
Yeah, put the running backs in that group too, Mike.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
There were several weeks where Jaylen Warren was the number
one receiver, and you've.
Speaker 11 (26:57):
Heard Ann Rogers say he'll throw him the ball even
when he's covered because he thinks something great can happen.
The two guys that Tomlin was asked about that were
Roman Bonehead Wilson and Calvin.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
Austin should be his nickname, like the guy an oasis
from now.
Speaker 11 (27:11):
On, Bonehead Wilson. I heard a lot of chatter about
that comment, like is that something that would shatter Roman Wilson.
I think it's a sign that he's willing to rip
up like that, that he trusted his character as such
that he's not going to fall apart.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
If he thought he was fragile, he would have never
said that. Yep, agree, I agree.
Speaker 11 (27:33):
A great, great line, and it was a boneheaded thing
to do when you're way up in the game.
Speaker 8 (27:38):
Why the.
Speaker 11 (27:41):
Jalen Ramsey will continue to work at safety this week,
According to Mike Thomlins, Scotty Miller Finger and Cole Holcombe illness.
Keep an eye on those guys, Yeah, just the ones
time Isaac say malin nursing his peck as he did
last week. According to tom I don't know, it sounds
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like he's actually nursing. Yeah, I don't know if that
implies that he won't work, but he'll be that's why
his peck hurts all the time, be able to play.
As long as he can play. It might be one
of those deals the rest of the year with him.
Speaker 8 (28:11):
I don't know.
Speaker 11 (28:11):
I don't know that they can take him out and
let him try to get better.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
I was shocked he played last weekend, but I think
that that was a they were in desperation.
Speaker 6 (28:20):
I was surprised. That is a pretty tough guy. He's
been quiet this year. I mean he's always quiet vocally
in the past. Yeah, No, he was very I got
my one interview before the season. She hands out about
six You know.
Speaker 7 (28:37):
It's not into it.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
Okay, do you mean.
Speaker 7 (28:39):
More with his play because I don't know.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
No.
Speaker 6 (28:42):
I actually recall him like stepping up and talking. But
I might just be thinking. Because Mike got like a
bunch of sound from him one time and once everybody
on the beat usually gets one here.
Speaker 11 (28:54):
Okay, A lot of times you get, uh, hey, Isaac,
you got him nah, which is yeah, I do. But
I'm not talking to you.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
That doesn't bother me.
Speaker 7 (29:05):
No, I don't know.
Speaker 8 (29:06):
They're good.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
That doesn't bother me.
Speaker 11 (29:08):
It's a little demoralizing sometimes. I gotta be honest.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
I understand from your percent you go run it.
Speaker 11 (29:12):
Up with a little enthusiasm and your tape recorder. Hey
can we talk about it?
Speaker 3 (29:16):
Well, you make it sound like you're a little kid
asking for an I'm asking for a sound bite.
Speaker 11 (29:22):
It's more valuable valuable to me now than my Bob
Vial autograph was in nineteen seven.
Speaker 8 (29:27):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
Maybe take him a coke and see if he throws
them in your jersey, you know, throws you his jersey.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
Do you think these young players are just people in
the league now, because say, I'm always not necessarily a
young player, But do you think they understand what you do?
Speaker 7 (29:39):
Like your job?
Speaker 8 (29:40):
Oh? Yeah?
Speaker 7 (29:40):
Function.
Speaker 11 (29:41):
But the Steelers offensive line also finds each other for
giving interviews.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
In their case, do they really seriously so?
Speaker 11 (29:49):
Like the other was last week or the week before
a bunch of us were talking to Spencer Anderson because
number seventy four is eligible and the other guys are
all walking by hooting on them and making fun I mean,
Troy Fontana was a very good interview.
Speaker 6 (30:03):
Roderick used to be. I just think he's trying to
find roder Broderick talks a lot. Zack Fraser don't have
a whole lot to say.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
You remember when I asked Troy how he pronounces his
name and he said, well, it's Troy.
Speaker 8 (30:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (30:15):
He's like, no, I got that, I got that part.
Mason McCormick has less to say that, Zach Fraser.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
I know, what do you think the two of those
guys do, Like they hang out together and stuff. They
just like sit across from each other and grunt at
the table and burgers and yeah wings.
Speaker 7 (30:32):
And facetimed to Castro and not talk.
Speaker 11 (30:40):
He learned from the best uh. A bunch of moves
from the Penguins yesterday, including the recall from hl Wolfsburg
Scranton of goaltender Sergey Mirrorshov.
Speaker 7 (30:50):
It begins, let's do.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
It, so it begins.
Speaker 11 (30:54):
Tristan Jari is on the reserve injured list, So kid's
gonna play at some point, maybe Thursday night.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
Abby's got your news. Top of the hour, we will.
Speaker 6 (31:01):
Get to the rehooterization of America and more details for
the upcoming Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremony, which
is happening this weekend.
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Speaker 3 (32:25):
Mel Heart, what's going on?
Speaker 8 (32:32):
Good man? I'm going to start every morning like that.
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
I'd be happy to record something for you if you
want to work it into your morning routine.
Speaker 8 (32:39):
Wake up call.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
Well, it's a wake up call for the Steelers defense
against the Colts this past Sunday, and uh, count me
as one of those people who didn't think they would
step up to the challenge given the amount of attrition
and turnover in the secondary a week after not looking like,
you know, a defense capable of stopping the formidable Colts offense.
(33:02):
But what was it about what the Steelers did that
turned around their fortunes against the hottest offense in the
NFL team or in the NFL league.
Speaker 8 (33:12):
Yeah, you know, well, you know what they did. They played.
They played fundamental football, of which they have not consistently done.
There's been moments where they've done that. When I say fundamental,
fundamental football, like how they get off blocks, like how
you engage. You know, in football is obviously a combat
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zone no matter where you are, okay, you know, and
it's about feet, hips and hands and how you play
your position. It doesn't matter if you're talking about wide receiver, linebacker,
detenptive lineman, offensive lineman. It starts and ends there. We
can talk about every player. They play well, how why
did they play well? Feet, hipps hands? If they didn't
play well, why didn't they play well? Beat hipps hands?
(33:53):
And yeah, there's occasionally, you know, some make mental errors.
Those are few and far between though you try not
to see that. But they literally up front, I mean fundamentally,
their defensive line, their linebackers. I mean everybody beat hips
to hands like they got off blocks. They're in the backfield.
I mean, I don't I can't think of a play
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and yes, I finished, I can't think of a play
where they lost the line of scrimmage. And then that's
like that's tough to do consistently in the NFL, you know,
in a game, and they did that. They just literally
dominated up front, and you know, guys like Cam Hayward,
you know, I would say this, we're not sitting in
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there watching tape with them on Monday. But you know,
Cam Hayward, man, that dude was showing up not just
in the trenches, he was showing up on the sideline.
I mean running people down, playing with with you know,
and that that actually goes a long way with players
because then they're in there together, nobody else is with them,
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and they're watching that.
Speaker 7 (34:58):
Man.
Speaker 8 (34:59):
You can't he was fifteenth year. You know, there's no
excuse for not playing one hundred miles an hour all
the time. You just and they did that. They were
they playing sound. They were fundamentally better than the Colts.
And I don't think anybody saw that coming.
Speaker 12 (35:16):
I did.
Speaker 8 (35:17):
You know, There's so many things that had to be
corrected from that perspective, and they did. You know. Then,
now the problem with that is now you have done that,
and now that's what you should expect of yourself going forward.
You know, you can't now have a letdown, you know,
because you know you could play like that. You played
like that. When you play like that, you win football games.
Speaker 11 (35:37):
Merrill. After the game, Aaron Rodgers mentioned that Jalen Ramsey
had addressed the team Saturday night, and I mean Rogers,
talking as a forty one year old guy who's been
in the league twenty one years, said words to the
effect of what Ramsey had to say made an impression
on him, and Rogers said he thought it created an
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energy when he showed up for work on Sunday, he
felt there was an age in the locker room. Does
this stuff really work or is that just something you
say after you win a big game.
Speaker 3 (36:07):
Well, I will tell you this, like words have.
Speaker 8 (36:09):
Never won a game, you know, like I I'd never
been a fan of you know, like the player doesn't matter.
But I remember we we we were not playing well
the first half. To come back to second half and
are some of our defensive guys was just were going crazy.
They were I mean, they weren't really giving us. They
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were just fung lashing everybody and how bad we were,
and you know, and we played better than the second
half and we won. You know, so after the game,
it was like everybody mentioned that was the turning point.
Speaker 11 (36:41):
You're talking about Lloyd against Cleveland.
Speaker 8 (36:45):
I'm not giving away.
Speaker 7 (36:50):
I believe.
Speaker 8 (36:54):
Yeah, yeah, I mean Greg Lloyd and I I had
a great relationships Greg boy. But my point was is
like we are like and not'm gonna do with it,
you know, like in fact, it was like, what are
you doing while you're going off like that? You know
what I mean. Now, I don't know what went on
in the speech, so I'm not I'm not dismissing it
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by any stretch of imagination, because listen, some guys who
have played in this league for a while and they
say something unless Mike Webster said some things my rookie
year I've never forgot to still this day, they were
poignant and they're powerful, So I'm not dismissing it. What
I'm what I'm saying is if that if those things
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really penetrated and they resonated, you know internally, then the
player responded by what I just described. You know, they
went out and now they played they played the game
the way you're supposed to play it, And if that
sparked that, that's great. You know, I've just never been
too much in the words don't get things done. You know,
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you use all those highlights you see before every game,
and you know players are screaming, yelling, you know, and
I'm like, I never won a game, she never won
a game, and they'll never win a game. But what
what I saw on tape with these guys, that's what
wins games. So listen. If she said something that sparked
them to be a little sharper and more tended to
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the profession and the details of that profession and their craft,
well shoot, then there's value in it. You know for
a long time, a lot of things. And he's I'm
sure he could give you a story. Right, Okay, that
was dumb. You know, let's go, let's go play down.
But every now and then somebody says something that you know,
(38:47):
does penetrate. And I'm not saying it didn't. It's just
I've still words don't win it. But that didn't win it.
But man, if it sparks something where players are like, okay,
you know, I gotta I gotta pay a take, should
do what I'm doing a little more. I gotta do
better and and focus on that. Because there wasn't intense
focus on that defense. I'm telling you that up front
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they were ferocious. Man getting off blocked. I hadn't seen
them getting off blocks like they did. They could. They
were not being going to be blocked.
Speaker 3 (39:16):
Man.
Speaker 8 (39:16):
They hips, they separated the engage, they were they played fast,
and they're on the other side of the ball the.
Speaker 11 (39:22):
Whole game, Meryl. Just to follow up to that game
that you don't want to remember from the guy you
don't want to credit.
Speaker 8 (39:29):
Uh.
Speaker 11 (39:30):
Sam Nover was interviewing Greg Lloyd after that game and
he asked them, weren't you worried about what your teammates
might think when you were berating them? And Lloyd's response was, Sam,
there ain't too many bleeps in this room that can
bleep with me.
Speaker 8 (39:49):
That's why I love him, and that's what I love
like this, I lock them next to me. We were
drafted together. I mean, I mean, I still we stay
in touch, and I the guy, you know. But listen,
if there's some times where he would go off and
everybody it would be just like, okay, great, just let
him go, let go, you know, like no Massa team,
(40:10):
just let him go, let him do it. Okay, just
let it go, you know. But kind of one of
those moments because we were like, okay, okay, you got
a Greg, you know, I mean, and then then it
turned into like this that's what changed everything. And we
were like no, it wasn't. But we were like we
were like, well, let it go, let it go.
Speaker 3 (40:31):
Let it go maryl let's end on this. What can
Justin Herbert do to these guys?
Speaker 8 (40:37):
Well, I think it's just Justin Herbert. I think that
the Steelers win this game because you know, they were
our team that was, you know, committed to run the football.
You know the boss. There are two backs that they
originally started out the year with, you know, Nager and
Kid Hampton, the kids from Carolina, who's a dynamic corner man.
I mean, I don't know. I think he's going to
come back. I don't know what exactly. Yeah, the kids
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from look Caroline, their first round drafted. I know they
put him on my arm. I thought it was a hamstering.
But I don't know if he's back. But you can
get they just lost that that age, that that potent
phase to their team. You know, it's not as good.
They got some backs and they'll stay with it, but
they get away from it a lot more than I
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actually thought they would. You know, that's what they need.
You know, they justin Herbert to be really his best.
They have to have that compliment to him, and if
they don't, he gets in trouble. He can do some
dynamic things, but he he's better when he doesn't have
to carry the entire load. Let's just put it that way.
So if you make him cary the entire load, then
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you got him where you want him.
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Speaker 3 (42:21):
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Here's one thing I'm not done doing.
Speaker 11 (42:25):
Living
At some point, it's like, you're the head of the hospital.
You have to stop telling people you never thought you'd
become a doctor.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
So probably wait, I'm the head of the hospital. No,
I was doing an analogy? Is that like a surgery?
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An analogy on my pancreas.
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Speaker 5 (00:37):
The Cleveland version of the Pit is Randy Bellman and
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Speaker 3 (00:43):
A gainey. He was a fun mayor. So Corey O'Connor,
he's supposed to call us today, We're going to talk
to the new mayor. Well, he's gonna have to call us.
Speaker 6 (00:49):
After he's out thanking people, yeah right, or maybe while
he's out thanking people.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Well, I believe he has a party, a breakfast, uh
like election victory party this morning at Galaxy and yeah
yeah yeah in East Liberty. So that'll be fun. You
know he's gonna call us. I am one hundred percent
asking him his top five favorite Pittsburgh restaurants.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Well, I know he's gonna say parts number one. He
has to They got they got cream pies.
Speaker 7 (01:20):
Yeah, yeah, and also the cream pie.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Yeah, that's rights, that's his favorite. He's our new mayor.
And Abby you pointed out something in our group chat yesterday.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Now, who's going to be the GM of the Penguins?
Speaker 6 (01:32):
I mean he looks exactly like Kyle Dubas. Oh really,
I guess I don't know what Kyle Dubis looks like.
Corey O'Connor. Okay, you're all caught up.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
He looks exactly like that, But I think his glasses
are real.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
That's the difference, correct, And the assertion by some people
in the Toronto media is that Kyle Dubis wears.
Speaker 6 (01:54):
Just regular glass glasses, non prescription. Oh this, I have
a problem with bloss in order to appear to be
more intellectual. Listen, I got glasses in eighth grade on
the heels of getting braces, like you learned it. April
fifteenth was braces, April twentieth was glasses. Boy, So I
(02:15):
have trudged through the sledge here, boy, like, you don't
get this as stolen valor as.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Far as I'm concerned, How old were you when you
got those?
Speaker 8 (02:23):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Eighth grade?
Speaker 8 (02:25):
Queen?
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Right, it's a heak of developments.
Speaker 6 (02:30):
How long jem braces on for I think like a
year and a half was almost two years like back then, that.
Speaker 7 (02:34):
This is a stigmatism like appropriation.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Huh yeah, that's right, Yeah, yeah, what he's doing. Yes,
you can't, you can't take that for me. But we
don't know that that's one hundred percent true. We have
just heard that.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
That's the assertion made by some people in the Toronto
media who maybe don't love Kyle Dubis given their relationship.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Yeah, with the with the with the leaves.
Speaker 6 (02:53):
That makes sense, and also looking intellectual serves you in
some purposes. It also doesn't serve you in some other instances.
I think I did a show one time for I
think it was like the elect the International Brotherhood of
Electric Workers or something like that or something.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Yeah, and they had a big hall. I think this
is down in Lawrenceville.
Speaker 6 (03:11):
And I literally walk into the hall and I'm just,
you know, kind of taking the lay of the land.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
And some guy looks at me. He goes, oh, this guy,
it looks like he does math. I'm behind the eight
ball already. They think I do math.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
That's bad and that's derogatory.
Speaker 6 (03:30):
Amplitudes and you know, mille Amps and everything like that
they're doing.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Man, I think it was just that guy.
Speaker 7 (03:38):
That's so funny.
Speaker 6 (03:41):
I will say this actually unlocked another story at Penn State.
One time we went to a party and there was
this huge, drunk, aggressive guy there. So it was a
bunch of people like that were like me, like normal
you know, sized people, and then a hulk and a
whirling dervish like it looked like, you know, like when
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a guy's starting to get a little out of control
of a party and people are kind of looking sideways
at him. Well, it turns out he was the wedge
breaker on the Penn State football team. They're the ones
that run full speed into a brick wall. So he's
getting drunk and starting to get a little handsy with
people and like getting that kind of like I'm going
to burn this house down thing. So somehow I was
(04:24):
sidled up next to him. He goes, you want to
see a tattoo? And I was like, uh, yes, yes
I do. He rolled his lip down and like a horse.
It says f it on the end that he had
tattooed on the inside of his lips. So this guy
is like going to kill everybody at this party. Somehow,
(04:44):
I'm able to diffuse the situation because he could. He's like,
you know what, professor, And I was like what, And
I just started rolling. He started calling professor. So I
started rolling with Professor. I was like, what do you
want me to teach you here? And so then we
became friends throughout the rest of the night, and I
gently like escorted him out.
Speaker 7 (05:00):
Of the building.
Speaker 6 (05:00):
I was like, so anyway, like look at that alley,
like that looks like a good place to sleep tonight.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
By like shut the door on him on the way wall.
Speaker 7 (05:06):
I think, pansy.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Yeah, that was some good CT wrangling there.
Speaker 8 (05:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
I just stuck my fingers in the holes in his brain. Professor.
That's right, I'm the professor. I'm a professor. You're going
to get good grades. I'm in my time machine. It's
out this balcony tip like mongo though.
Speaker 6 (05:33):
I'd tip him eight stories off of pin Towers and
he'd like fall into a dumpster and.
Speaker 9 (05:37):
Come back like gravity good lesson more. I lived on
the eighth floor. Pen Towers lived there. Pen Towers is
this one building.
Speaker 6 (05:51):
I don't know if they've done anything that at this point,
but on the eighth floor they used to have balcony
railings that were maybe a centimeter thick, and you could
if anybody remembers how the Ultimate Warrior used to get
in the ring, just shake the you could just do
that with the balcony railings, like just shaking.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
The whole thing.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
We had a funnel later, which is like a huge
slingshot that uses like surgical tuning, yep. And we were
on the eighth floor of pan towers.
Speaker 7 (06:16):
Like one person holds each.
Speaker 10 (06:20):
The door.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
You need three people or yeah, brace it.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
So our balcony face the Beaver Avenue side and you
could launch it from the eighth floor, like put water
balloons in there. They would go a city block.
Speaker 6 (06:35):
So we would just sit in there and we'd be
all like, you know, baked and drinking beers and just
thinking it was the funny thing in the world. And
we would put mustard in water balloons and then shave
it out, and then we'd be like.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
All right, that guy's getting into a camaro there.
Speaker 6 (06:54):
It's like, you know, ten bucks if you can hit it.
And then you would be like, you know, somebody would
be all the way back in our living room. Might
there be two people with their arms sticking out of
the balcony sliding doors because you didn't want to get caught, like,
you know, flinging it. And so there'd be a dude
on the couch like three two one coke, and the
thing would.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Launch and go like a city block.
Speaker 6 (07:16):
And I'm I'm here to tell you there is nothing
funnier than being a block away from a crime you've
committed and watching somebody try to figure out who did it.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Now these people are and they're looking up straight in
the air.
Speaker 6 (07:29):
We're just dying because we're so far away from it
that they're never gonna suspect us.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
You know, I mean it went right on this dude's roof.
Speaker 6 (07:37):
You know that feeling like And I think it's only
when you're younger, because you just have so much energy
when something that happens and you know it is so
funny and you're going to talk about it the rest
of your life that you are uncontrollable, Like.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
You just start falling all over and rolling all over
the ground.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
That's what it was.
Speaker 6 (07:54):
We were just like looking at each other with tears
in our eyes, laughing like.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
It wasn't part shot, just and what it looked like
would be like. And then you couldn't really follow the balloon,
you know, You're like, and then you have to listen,
and then you just like watch for the target and
then all of a sudden and there's mustard all over.
You're like, and you know, in retrospect, huge a whole
thing to do. But we were young, Yeah, we were
years old all the time.
Speaker 6 (08:20):
My friend was walking out of an apartment at Penn
State and he he was he was really into watching
the Johnny Depp movie Blow with you know, Johnny more
like the sheep skin Jacket and that one like it
at the height of his at the height of his
drug Well, he gets a cheap skin jacket somehow, and
he's walking around. He's got long Johnny Namath hair, and
(08:41):
he's walking out of a building and he had just
come from a party.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
I was waiting for him on the sidewalk.
Speaker 6 (08:46):
He stops, pauses underneath the the entrance way and he's
about to light a cigarette. He's got the lighter out
and he's slowly drawing it to his to his uh,
to a cigarette, and a a tight a wave of
water comes from like nine stories up and it was
it was like a Nickelodeon show, Like I mean, there
(09:08):
must have been a fifty five gallon drama that that
he did. Right as he was lighting it, the light
the flame was touching his cigarette and a bathtub's worth
of water fell on him, soaking his sheepskin jacket and everything,
and the same thing. Like you know it was harmless.
You know it still harmless? Yeah, I mean, was anything
funny in the world. Tree of like he's about to
(09:31):
enjoy a Marlborough light and kaspluche and then there's like
people up on like the twelve floor laughing at him
and then running back into the thing.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
So yeah, the two balconies I had at Penn State,
one was at University Towers and one was at Pen Towers,
and I just absolutely abused the location. The University Towers
one is the one I told you where we had
uh a payphone in the alley and we would call
it and like you know, because we sit on our
balcony and you could see it and call it and
people would pick it up. And then and then you
see somebody else walking through the alley and whoever picked
(10:02):
up you'd see somebody coming their way with a red backpack.
Speaker 6 (10:05):
You're like, hey, my buddy's coming by there. He's supposed
to pick up the phone's kind of red backpack. His
name is Anthrony. Well you will you can you see around?
Speaker 3 (10:13):
And then they're like and then Anthony and there's just
somebody yelling, and somebody's just yelling. Any walking in there,
like what the hell?
Speaker 2 (10:21):
You Knowwadays, nobody, nobody would even nobody even in.
Speaker 6 (10:24):
The day would pick up a payphone, being a random
person picking up a payphone all the time.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
We'd put peanut butter on it and then people would
pick it up, you know, and then we you know,
we're just like idiots.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Is Penn Tower the one that had like there was
a huge astro turf like lawn or something at the
bottom over the top of a garage, like the bottom zone.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
It had a garage, but it didn't have that. Yeah,
I don't I don't totally remember that part, but that
might might have been there later on. I know College
Pizza was the place carmines College Pizza the trajectory of
this mustard balloon, I know exactly. You know, Brad it
hit I knowdicasay, yeah, and that's what we were doing.
Speaker 6 (11:06):
We were just torturing those guys because we could hit
their parking lot. So we were just launching balloons.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
And that is the dumbest way to be, like spend
your day when you're twenty, Right, If I could do
it now, I would totally spend hours doing that.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
I still think that that is so hilarious.
Speaker 6 (11:25):
I don't know why, just with being idiots with your friends,
there is nothing greater. And every time I am with
those same people now, because I'm still friends with all
of them, we act exactly the same way.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
So we just don't have as much energy as we
used to it.
Speaker 6 (11:38):
And it's also toned down like a little bit, like
you'll get with your friends, but like you'll do something
that is not nearly the water balloon drenching, but you'll
be like, hey, tell this waiter your name's Tim, and
your name's like John or something like.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
That, and everyone has a good laugh about that. That's
the level. Yeah, but you know.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
What's happening now is that everybody's taping themselves doing that.
Speaker 7 (11:59):
Yeah. Deal.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
The one thing that's getting a lot of kids in
trouble is there's this video this guy who has like
a spidomeener where he's he has the radar guys and
he's throwing stuff at carsberries and it's hilarious different stuff
that he's throwing in cars, but like it's it's also
terrible and dangerous.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Yeah yeah, yeah, And.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Then you're like, Okay, that's one hundred percent the kind
of stuff we used to do and never record ourselves doing.
Speaker 7 (12:27):
Were we total jagos?
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Yeah, there's no evidence blowing cars up with snowballs.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Oh that's I mean, that's so. That would have been
much younger. And I did that all the time. My
buddies used to.
Speaker 6 (12:41):
I don't know if I ever got into this, but
for they got into a kick for like a month,
they would fill up like nine two liter water bottles
and like at midnight they would just set them out
in the road, just set them out in the road
and then just watch cars stop and then I don't
know why they thought that was the funniest thing in
the world, because if you come across that, you like,
(13:01):
did an alien put this there?
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Like is this a pen?
Speaker 7 (13:04):
Thing?
Speaker 6 (13:04):
Like?
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Why why are there all these water bottles here? I
don't know.
Speaker 8 (13:07):
That was.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
That's pretty mischievous.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
The thing we did up in the snow country there
in the winter was you would hide behind a snow
bank at a stop sign, and when it was the
right kind of car they come to stop. You would
pop out from behind a snow bank, jump onto the
bumper and in your chuck of boots, you would you
would ride the back of the car down the road.
Speaker 6 (13:29):
You'd skitch in just boots yep, because it was so
snow because it.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Was just snowking around, like just like right after Back
to the Future came out.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
No, this was before Back to the Future. And it
was the dumbest and most dangerous thing that we did
all the time. We called it Hoppin' because you'd hop
on the back of a bumper. How how far would
you go?
Speaker 6 (13:48):
Come the further you could go, you know, like they're
going to Meadville.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Yeah, you'd be like it was one of our friends
named Dicky, were like, Dicky's gonna go all the way
down to the beach.
Speaker 6 (14:00):
And every group had a Dickey that would like really
try to be a legend, and they might have been
a legend.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
He had a Pinto later on, it was a brown
Pinto and that was like he got his license before everybody,
and everybody just kind of followed Dickie's lead, you know,
like dude.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
Dicky said he's gonna get.
Speaker 7 (14:16):
Some beer this weekend.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Right, there's no boring dickies in the world.
Speaker 7 (14:21):
If your name is Dickie.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Yeah, legend.
Speaker 7 (14:24):
Yeah you're a legend.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
He was Dicky and we never questioned it or anything,
and he was hilarious and he's still hilarious questioning Dickie.
But it was like it seemed innocent.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
And now when I think about doing that, I'm like,
what if there was a pothole and your ankle just goes,
you just break your leg in three places above your ankle.
Speaker 6 (14:42):
I always tell my wife. I always talk about this,
Like there's things that and it's not like I was
like some psycho in college, but there's things I did
in college like Ana dyne stuff like stupid, like little
things that I shudder when I think about it. Like
at one time climbed up on a roof to get
a frisbee. But it was like it was like a
two story roof and I just jumped off and I
(15:04):
looked down and I was like, there's no because there
was no way down. I like parkord my way up
there somehow, so there's no way back down. So I
sat on the edge of this two story building and
I slid off my butt and did a one to
eighty and grabbed onto the the roof and then dropped
down because it's like it's gonna take about six feet
off my drop. But just thinking about that, like if
(15:25):
I don't make that grab, my feet swing out from
under me and I'm going headfirst down twelve feet onto
onto the pavement. And I just think about that sometimes
I'm like, huh, like there's my there's my moments like
that that my life could have been changed for the
much much worse.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
And it was all to get a free frisbee. Yeah,
the frisbee was free ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Yeah, we would if at the school that like our
grade school, if a ball or a football would go
on the roof, you'd go to the where the gutter
was and somebody would shimmy the gutter all the way
up to the roof and they get and you are
twenty feet up and then throw the ball back down
and then you had to like hope the gutters like
and you slid back down the gun.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
Friends would all leave, every one of them would leave.
Speaker 6 (16:09):
You know, no one would be there to They'd laugh
the fact that as they were walking away that you
were stuck up there and that you had to get
down like you Saydon's.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Got another football in the back of the pint till
we're gonna be okay, Jeff Conkle, mister Wednesday, got any
gigs coming up?
Speaker 6 (16:24):
I got a gig at Lo lev Beer next Saturday.
It's gonna be I'm headlining it. I have to tell you, like,
I've been on a run. For anybody that's listening and
wants to come to a show, I'm gonna ask you
to come to this show because I've been on a
run of like what I can only call like typically.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Mishap comedy shows.
Speaker 6 (16:46):
Like there's been comedy shows where people don't know that
comedy is going on. There's been comedy shows where the
World Series took precedence.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
So I kind of need just a normal show that
goes well.
Speaker 6 (16:58):
And so if you guys, if you guys could come
to that normal show on the low left, I'm gonna
play it again. It's November fifteenth, Saturday, November fifteenth.
Speaker 7 (17:06):
Nothing coming up on the fifteenth. No, No, I don't
know special thing, No is.
Speaker 11 (17:11):
There is there?
Speaker 7 (17:12):
Okay?
Speaker 6 (17:12):
Right, all the sporting events are done. That's it. So Yeah,
come out, come out to that. That's a that's a
cool place. It's like deep deep in the heart of Lawrenceville.
It's it's good beer and everything like Lawrenceville. And I
told my buddy Trevor ass And I give him a
shout out this Saturday. He's doing a show at this
handsome it's a Millvale Food and Energy hub. So that's
(17:34):
at eight pm on this this Saturday. So is that
the place you and I were the comedy place in
Millvale that.
Speaker 7 (17:41):
We were talking comedy bar?
Speaker 3 (17:43):
It's not. Is it called the comedy bar?
Speaker 7 (17:45):
Is it that place that's in the basement that Yeah,
at the.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Purple or the Purple Onion. Do you know that Millvale
never ends? Which is to say that you think it's
just this little Yeah, it's great. It keeps going. It's
like youth. It never stops here.
Speaker 8 (18:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
You think you're out of Millvale and you know everybody? No, no, no,
there's more Millvale. What does Millville butt up against?
Speaker 11 (18:08):
Etna?
Speaker 7 (18:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (18:10):
And then what else? What's away from the river off
the top of not Troy No, no, no, well Troy
Hill on one side, but what's the backside Sharpsburg No,
sharpspead Wood is on the river. Further up top is God,
it's the neighborhood.
Speaker 6 (18:28):
We all know the name of the neighborhood and it's
no no.
Speaker 10 (18:32):
Sorry, Wait, isn't that where you're from?
Speaker 3 (18:42):
Over there? I didn't have a balcony in college.
Speaker 8 (18:45):
I like college.
Speaker 10 (18:49):
Terrors.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
People are going to be calling big time. Yeah, so
it's at one percent. Riverview Park is kind of behind
it too. I'm from the South Hills. The fact that
I know this much is impress What am I doing there?
I know more about Tokyo geography than I do about
that area.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Do you go back far enough to remember the Brown
jug in Millville?
Speaker 7 (19:16):
There was like an open mic.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
No, no, yeah, there wasn't.
Speaker 7 (19:21):
It wasn't even.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Summer Hill, of course, Summer Hills.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Way, there was a there were these dudes that used
to do was the sofa?
Speaker 7 (19:33):
K what wait?
Speaker 3 (19:35):
Her neighbor That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 8 (19:37):
She was not a hill.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
You're talking about it butts.
Speaker 6 (19:41):
Up against Melville against try to pronounce it the way
she does. You have to ask Corey O'Connor about this.
It might it might totally validate. Yeah, if his team's listening,
you better get the maps.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
Out, Shayler.
Speaker 6 (19:59):
Okay, I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
Troy Hill turns into is it Flagstaff? No, that's yeah,
that's in Arizona. Never mind, this is going poorly. Birksfield
and Shaylor. You don't know what you're talking about. I agree,
that's why I'm asking you. You lived out that way, I.
Speaker 6 (20:21):
Know, but you're telling me Shaylor and Millville there's like
basically all you have to do is go to the
basement of.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Hardy's and everything. That's what I'm looking for. It's the
stranger things world exactly. Okay, thank you, Abby.
Speaker 7 (20:35):
I don't know what's north of the Aspen Wall. What
the hell do you want from me?
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Mike's got your sports. When we come back. We got
Merril Hodge coming up. Corey O'Connor's getting give us a
call at some point, supposedly and PFT commenter, did you
see what he did to his hair? Did he cut
it all off?
Speaker 3 (20:50):
No? But he did give himself like a glorious mullet.
Speaker 6 (20:53):
Hm.
Speaker 7 (20:54):
Oh yeah. Well he's probably in a pretty strange place
right now. He just lost his quarterback.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
Yeah, I think he's coping. We'll talk to him.
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Sports So brought to you by Bridgeville Appliance. There was
a trade made yesterday that will impact Sunday nights Steelers
at the Chargers game in LA, but it was not
made by the Steelers. The Chargers offensive line is a mess.
They are running out of offensive tackles, and they swung
a trade yesterday for former Saints' first round pick Trevor Penning.
(21:47):
Now former first round pick implies that they made a
great save here, but Penning's backstory implies that they did not.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Don't We also have a former first round pick from
the Saints that's sitting on our bench.
Speaker 7 (22:01):
Who's the tackle that we got.
Speaker 6 (22:06):
That's the backup to, Oh, the massive dude, the big
the Broderick Jones and p Yeah.
Speaker 11 (22:12):
Same kind of guy tackle guard. Now, Penny's a lot younger,
but the compensation was a twenty twenty seven sixth round
pick for the former nineteenth overall selection in twenty twenty two. Wow,
Trevor Penning. Guy came to the Saints from Northern Iowa,
so there's a little bit of a project. He has
started at left tackle, right tackle, and this year six
(22:35):
games at left guard, and they traded him for a
sixth round twenty twenty seven pick before giving a former
first round selection a second contract. So this is Busto territory, definitely.
But the Chargers are desperate, Randon, you'll appreciate this. By
the way, Penning is from Northern Iowa and he's a
(22:55):
native of Clear Lake, Iowa.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
Buddy Holly, that's where Buddy Alli's last show was.
Speaker 11 (23:02):
Justin Herbert may be singing November made me shiver with
every dropback rush to Liver. I watched the Chargers Titans
game from last Sunday yesterday, and Justin Herbert is at
the height of his powers and he is gonna die.
Speaker 7 (23:21):
Just for how under duress he is getting killed.
Speaker 11 (23:23):
They were winning the whole game. Well, now, I shouldn't
say that they gave up to They gave up a
special team score and a pick six in the first quarter,
but they pulled ahead by halftime, and they were fairly
comfortable in this game. He got sacked six times and
hit eleven times.
Speaker 8 (23:39):
Wow.
Speaker 11 (23:40):
He's also started to run more of the last two
weeks because they're having a hard time running the ball
because that I mentioned their offensive lines and shambles, and
they're also running out of running backs. When he runs,
he puts his shoulder down, he stiff arms guys, yep.
I mean he slides occasionally, but he's running like a runner,
not a quarterback. And again, if it keeps going the
(24:01):
way it's going for the Chargers, he is going to die.
Speaker 7 (24:05):
The last time we played them, the Steelers knocked him
out of the game.
Speaker 11 (24:08):
Well, he came in banged up and got banged up more.
Speaker 8 (24:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (24:11):
Tomlin said that in his pressure this week, we got
lucky not having to deal with the full Herbert.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
I mean, once you go full Herbert, you never go
full Herbert.
Speaker 11 (24:19):
He's number two in the NFL in passing yards twenty
three and ninety, just a couple behind Daniel Jones. But
he's also got eight interceptions. He's got a cannon for
an arm and he trusts it a little too much.
Sometimes he does the roll right throw back across his body.
Thing their offensive line is a problem.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Is we abandoned what worked against the Colts and send
people this weekend.
Speaker 8 (24:49):
No.
Speaker 11 (24:50):
I think you beat him one on one and just
beat him all right, because you got to contain this guy.
Herbert is dangerous getting started to run the last couple
of weeks and he's are you good at that?
Speaker 8 (25:01):
Uh?
Speaker 11 (25:01):
Maybe you guys remember that game in La a couple
of years ago. Oh god, where he just ran all
over the field.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
I think Cam Hayward chased him down like thirty or
forty yards down the field.
Speaker 11 (25:11):
He was super teating his way down. That's that's the
path to win in this one to me, is just
destroy their own line, which is waiting to be destroyed.
It's not good.
Speaker 7 (25:25):
And the Steelers D line is playing with some confidence
right now.
Speaker 11 (25:28):
And the backers are playing with some confidence and uh good,
good corps of eligibles. But uh, you got to you
gotta be upright before you can take advantage of them.
Speaker 8 (25:39):
Uh.
Speaker 11 (25:39):
Steelers did not add a receiver yesterday. A lot of
people wondering if they might do that in advance of
four pm, but before they decided not to do anything.
Mike Tomlin was singing the praises yesterday afternoon of his
past catchers not named DK Metcalf.
Speaker 12 (25:55):
You know, I think it's been a steady improvement in
terms of their quality of play, particularly Roman of late.
Other than that boneheaded lack of ball security Layton football game, generally,
there's been an uptick in quality of his play. But again,
we don't look at our eligibles as wide receivers, man.
(26:16):
We feel really good about our tight end group as
eligibles as well, and you can't talk about the passing
game without talking about the contributions that we get from
that group. We've been very open about that as well
when we acquired John who at the very beginning of
the journey, we talked about, you know that we have
eligibles regardless ore EC receivers, and I still think we
(26:37):
feel the same way. We certainly need growth and development
from individuals within our collective like the two that you mentioned,
but we're comfortable with how we're distributing the ball and
our utilization of people and our division of labor to
this point.
Speaker 7 (26:50):
Yeah, put the running backs in that group too, Mike.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
There were several weeks where Jaylen Warren was the number
one receiver, and you've.
Speaker 11 (26:57):
Heard Ann Rogers say he'll throw him the ball even
when he's covered because he thinks something great can happen.
The two guys that Tomlin was asked about that were
Roman Bonehead Wilson and Calvin.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
Austin should be his nickname, like the guy an oasis
from now.
Speaker 11 (27:11):
On, Bonehead Wilson. I heard a lot of chatter about
that comment, like is that something that would shatter Roman Wilson.
I think it's a sign that he's willing to rip
up like that, that he trusted his character as such
that he's not going to fall apart.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
If he thought he was fragile, he would have never
said that. Yep, agree, I agree.
Speaker 11 (27:33):
A great, great line, and it was a boneheaded thing
to do when you're way up in the game.
Speaker 8 (27:38):
Why the.
Speaker 11 (27:41):
Jalen Ramsey will continue to work at safety this week,
According to Mike Thomlins, Scotty Miller Finger and Cole Holcombe illness.
Keep an eye on those guys, Yeah, just the ones
time Isaac say malin nursing his peck as he did
last week. According to tom I don't know, it sounds
(28:01):
like he's actually nursing. Yeah, I don't know if that
implies that he won't work, but he'll be that's why
his peck hurts all the time, be able to play.
As long as he can play. It might be one
of those deals the rest of the year with him.
Speaker 8 (28:11):
I don't know.
Speaker 11 (28:11):
I don't know that they can take him out and
let him try to get better.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
I was shocked he played last weekend, but I think
that that was a they were in desperation.
Speaker 6 (28:20):
I was surprised. That is a pretty tough guy. He's
been quiet this year. I mean he's always quiet vocally
in the past. Yeah, No, he was very I got
my one interview before the season. She hands out about
six You know.
Speaker 7 (28:37):
It's not into it.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
Okay, do you mean.
Speaker 7 (28:39):
More with his play because I don't know.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
No.
Speaker 6 (28:42):
I actually recall him like stepping up and talking. But
I might just be thinking. Because Mike got like a
bunch of sound from him one time and once everybody
on the beat usually gets one here.
Speaker 11 (28:54):
Okay, A lot of times you get, uh, hey, Isaac,
you got him nah, which is yeah, I do. But
I'm not talking to you.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
That doesn't bother me.
Speaker 7 (29:05):
No, I don't know.
Speaker 8 (29:06):
They're good.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
That doesn't bother me.
Speaker 11 (29:08):
It's a little demoralizing sometimes. I gotta be honest.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
I understand from your percent you go run it.
Speaker 11 (29:12):
Up with a little enthusiasm and your tape recorder. Hey
can we talk about it?
Speaker 3 (29:16):
Well, you make it sound like you're a little kid
asking for an I'm asking for a sound bite.
Speaker 11 (29:22):
It's more valuable valuable to me now than my Bob
Vial autograph was in nineteen seven.
Speaker 8 (29:27):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
Maybe take him a coke and see if he throws
them in your jersey, you know, throws you his jersey.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
Do you think these young players are just people in
the league now, because say, I'm always not necessarily a
young player, But do you think they understand what you do?
Speaker 7 (29:39):
Like your job?
Speaker 8 (29:40):
Oh? Yeah?
Speaker 7 (29:40):
Function.
Speaker 11 (29:41):
But the Steelers offensive line also finds each other for
giving interviews.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
In their case, do they really seriously so?
Speaker 11 (29:49):
Like the other was last week or the week before
a bunch of us were talking to Spencer Anderson because
number seventy four is eligible and the other guys are
all walking by hooting on them and making fun I mean,
Troy Fontana was a very good interview.
Speaker 6 (30:03):
Roderick used to be. I just think he's trying to
find roder Broderick talks a lot. Zack Fraser don't have
a whole lot to say.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
You remember when I asked Troy how he pronounces his
name and he said, well, it's Troy.
Speaker 8 (30:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (30:15):
He's like, no, I got that, I got that part.
Mason McCormick has less to say that, Zach Fraser.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
I know, what do you think the two of those
guys do, Like they hang out together and stuff. They
just like sit across from each other and grunt at
the table and burgers and yeah wings.
Speaker 7 (30:32):
And facetimed to Castro and not talk.
Speaker 11 (30:40):
He learned from the best uh. A bunch of moves
from the Penguins yesterday, including the recall from hl Wolfsburg
Scranton of goaltender Sergey Mirrorshov.
Speaker 7 (30:50):
It begins, let's do.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
It, so it begins.
Speaker 11 (30:54):
Tristan Jari is on the reserve injured list, So kid's
gonna play at some point, maybe Thursday night.
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Speaker 8 (32:32):
Good man? I'm going to start every morning like that.
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
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Speaker 8 (32:39):
Wake up call.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
Well, it's a wake up call for the Steelers defense
against the Colts this past Sunday, and uh, count me
as one of those people who didn't think they would
step up to the challenge given the amount of attrition
and turnover in the secondary a week after not looking like,
you know, a defense capable of stopping the formidable Colts offense.
(33:02):
But what was it about what the Steelers did that
turned around their fortunes against the hottest offense in the
NFL team or in the NFL league.
Speaker 8 (33:12):
Yeah, you know, well, you know what they did. They played.
They played fundamental football, of which they have not consistently done.
There's been moments where they've done that. When I say fundamental,
fundamental football, like how they get off blocks, like how
you engage. You know, in football is obviously a combat
(33:32):
zone no matter where you are, okay, you know, and
it's about feet, hips and hands and how you play
your position. It doesn't matter if you're talking about wide receiver, linebacker,
detenptive lineman, offensive lineman. It starts and ends there. We
can talk about every player. They play well, how why
did they play well? Feet, hipps hands? If they didn't
play well, why didn't they play well? Beat hipps hands?
(33:53):
And yeah, there's occasionally, you know, some make mental errors.
Those are few and far between though you try not
to see that. But they literally up front, I mean fundamentally,
their defensive line, their linebackers. I mean everybody beat hips
to hands like they got off blocks. They're in the backfield.
I mean, I don't I can't think of a play
(34:16):
and yes, I finished, I can't think of a play
where they lost the line of scrimmage. And then that's
like that's tough to do consistently in the NFL, you know,
in a game, and they did that. They just literally
dominated up front, and you know, guys like Cam Hayward,
you know, I would say this, we're not sitting in
(34:36):
there watching tape with them on Monday. But you know,
Cam Hayward, man, that dude was showing up not just
in the trenches, he was showing up on the sideline.
I mean running people down, playing with with you know,
and that that actually goes a long way with players
because then they're in there together, nobody else is with them,
(34:57):
and they're watching that.
Speaker 7 (34:58):
Man.
Speaker 8 (34:59):
You can't he was fifteenth year. You know, there's no
excuse for not playing one hundred miles an hour all
the time. You just and they did that. They were
they playing sound. They were fundamentally better than the Colts.
And I don't think anybody saw that coming.
Speaker 12 (35:16):
I did.
Speaker 8 (35:17):
You know, There's so many things that had to be
corrected from that perspective, and they did. You know. Then,
now the problem with that is now you have done that,
and now that's what you should expect of yourself going forward.
You know, you can't now have a letdown, you know,
because you know you could play like that. You played
like that. When you play like that, you win football games.
Speaker 11 (35:37):
Merrill. After the game, Aaron Rodgers mentioned that Jalen Ramsey
had addressed the team Saturday night, and I mean Rogers,
talking as a forty one year old guy who's been
in the league twenty one years, said words to the
effect of what Ramsey had to say made an impression
on him, and Rogers said he thought it created an
(35:57):
energy when he showed up for work on Sunday, he
felt there was an age in the locker room. Does
this stuff really work or is that just something you
say after you win a big game.
Speaker 3 (36:07):
Well, I will tell you this, like words have.
Speaker 8 (36:09):
Never won a game, you know, like I I'd never
been a fan of you know, like the player doesn't matter.
But I remember we we we were not playing well
the first half. To come back to second half and
are some of our defensive guys was just were going crazy.
They were I mean, they weren't really giving us. They
(36:30):
were just fung lashing everybody and how bad we were,
and you know, and we played better than the second
half and we won. You know, so after the game,
it was like everybody mentioned that was the turning point.
Speaker 11 (36:41):
You're talking about Lloyd against Cleveland.
Speaker 8 (36:45):
I'm not giving away.
Speaker 7 (36:50):
I believe.
Speaker 8 (36:54):
Yeah, yeah, I mean Greg Lloyd and I I had
a great relationships Greg boy. But my point was is
like we are like and not'm gonna do with it,
you know, like in fact, it was like, what are
you doing while you're going off like that? You know
what I mean. Now, I don't know what went on
in the speech, so I'm not I'm not dismissing it
(37:18):
by any stretch of imagination, because listen, some guys who
have played in this league for a while and they
say something unless Mike Webster said some things my rookie
year I've never forgot to still this day, they were
poignant and they're powerful, So I'm not dismissing it. What
I'm what I'm saying is if that if those things
(37:38):
really penetrated and they resonated, you know internally, then the
player responded by what I just described. You know, they
went out and now they played they played the game
the way you're supposed to play it, And if that
sparked that, that's great. You know, I've just never been
too much in the words don't get things done. You know,
(38:02):
you use all those highlights you see before every game,
and you know players are screaming, yelling, you know, and
I'm like, I never won a game, she never won
a game, and they'll never win a game. But what
what I saw on tape with these guys, that's what
wins games. So listen. If she said something that sparked
them to be a little sharper and more tended to
(38:25):
the profession and the details of that profession and their craft,
well shoot, then there's value in it. You know for
a long time, a lot of things. And he's I'm
sure he could give you a story. Right, Okay, that
was dumb. You know, let's go, let's go play down.
But every now and then somebody says something that you know,
(38:47):
does penetrate. And I'm not saying it didn't. It's just
I've still words don't win it. But that didn't win it.
But man, if it sparks something where players are like, okay,
you know, I gotta I gotta pay a take, should
do what I'm doing a little more. I gotta do
better and and focus on that. Because there wasn't intense
focus on that defense. I'm telling you that up front
(39:07):
they were ferocious. Man getting off blocked. I hadn't seen
them getting off blocks like they did. They could. They
were not being going to be blocked.
Speaker 3 (39:16):
Man.
Speaker 8 (39:16):
They hips, they separated the engage, they were they played fast,
and they're on the other side of the ball the.
Speaker 11 (39:22):
Whole game, Meryl. Just to follow up to that game
that you don't want to remember from the guy you
don't want to credit.
Speaker 8 (39:29):
Uh.
Speaker 11 (39:30):
Sam Nover was interviewing Greg Lloyd after that game and
he asked them, weren't you worried about what your teammates
might think when you were berating them? And Lloyd's response was, Sam,
there ain't too many bleeps in this room that can
bleep with me.
Speaker 8 (39:49):
That's why I love him, and that's what I love
like this, I lock them next to me. We were
drafted together. I mean, I mean, I still we stay
in touch, and I the guy, you know. But listen,
if there's some times where he would go off and
everybody it would be just like, okay, great, just let
him go, let go, you know, like no Massa team,
(40:10):
just let him go, let him do it. Okay, just
let it go, you know. But kind of one of
those moments because we were like, okay, okay, you got
a Greg, you know, I mean, and then then it
turned into like this that's what changed everything. And we
were like no, it wasn't. But we were like we
were like, well, let it go, let it go.
Speaker 3 (40:31):
Let it go maryl let's end on this. What can
Justin Herbert do to these guys?
Speaker 8 (40:37):
Well, I think it's just Justin Herbert. I think that
the Steelers win this game because you know, they were
our team that was, you know, committed to run the football.
You know the boss. There are two backs that they
originally started out the year with, you know, Nager and
Kid Hampton, the kids from Carolina, who's a dynamic corner man.
I mean, I don't know. I think he's going to
come back. I don't know what exactly. Yeah, the kids
(40:59):
from look Caroline, their first round drafted. I know they
put him on my arm. I thought it was a hamstering.
But I don't know if he's back. But you can
get they just lost that that age, that that potent
phase to their team. You know, it's not as good.
They got some backs and they'll stay with it, but
they get away from it a lot more than I
(41:20):
actually thought they would. You know, that's what they need.
You know, they justin Herbert to be really his best.
They have to have that compliment to him, and if
they don't, he gets in trouble. He can do some
dynamic things, but he he's better when he doesn't have
to carry the entire load. Let's just put it that way.
So if you make him cary the entire load, then
(41:40):
you got him where you want him.
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