November 7, 2025 • 49 mins
Dave Dameshek is begging the Steelers defensive front to annihilate Justin Herbert on Sunday night.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Now live from the Don's Appliances Studios, where Pittsburgh shops
for appliances.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
This is w d V Pittsburgh. It's the DV Morning Show.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
And joining us right now Dave Damashek, brought to you
by the Gateway Clipper on DVE from the Football America
podcast leads.
Speaker 4 (00:32):
Uh Day.
Speaker 5 (00:35):
My two tute is only the second most annoying thing
of this conversation because Bowman, you get that breakfast sandwich
finished up there before we came in from break Sure,
there's still remnants in your in your mouth.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
There, Sure did, Buddy. I crushed it. It would not
be the first time that I've eaten on air. You know,
occasionally nature calls and when your stomach needs something in it,
you do.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
What you can.
Speaker 5 (00:57):
No worry hid. But here's the question for you, name drop.
I just had John Hamm on my show last week,
and it's one of those questions that it's crazy to
me that when you ask it, people are like, oh,
I've never really nobody's asked me that before. I want
to ask Jerry Rice what his favorite kind of rice
is and he's like, Wow, never thought about that before.
You never considered what kind of rice you like with
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your surname. I asked Andrew luck if he considered himself
a fortunate soul. He said, Hannah, never thought about that before.
Your last name is luck Man, and so it went
with that. John Ham I asked him if he enjoyed ham,
and he does. He's a he's a swine enthusiast, and
in fact, he chose the great question out there that
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I love to talk to people about because it's a
real tough one. It's the sophie's choice for meat eaters
for the rest of your life. You can only have
one to the exclusion of the other, cow or swine.
And he went swine, which I appreciated.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Wow, really, you gotta have beef. Have cow, you get
no bacon, you get no ham.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
That's right. I'm aware of that.
Speaker 5 (02:07):
You understand that you never have a hamburger again. If
you say goodbye to the cow. That's a big loss
as well.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
At this point in my life, it's not quite as
big no steak, I know.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
That's the ever.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
I'm glad to hear. Pursuit is there. I was just
talking with Jacob before we brought in. He's heading over
to uh to a happy valley. Tomorrow to or to
go check out the uh, the the the, the Indiana Hoosiers.
I don't think pursued that there's any way they can
blow this now, right I you, I mean, listen, I
don't want to talk that into into existence. But if
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they lose two games, if they were to lose, it's
almost impossible that they could lose to Penn State and
Wisconsin and Purdue. But if they lost two of those,
then I think it would knock them out of the
title game, which would then kiss them into the larger tournament.
Speaker 6 (03:01):
Right, here's why they're not going to blow this, Dave.
Remember all those quarterbacks that everybody was telling you were
really good before the season started, all the guys here.
Speaker 5 (03:10):
You remember me saying, I don't believe it. This is
a stupid thing to keep talking about. How good, how
good The twenty twenty six draft classes so rich, it's
going to be the greatest of all time. And I said,
slow your role, everybody. And now Arch Manning and Drew
Aller and Leonora Seller's falling out of the first round
and all the rest of it makes me right once again,
I'm sorry, pursuit it.
Speaker 7 (03:28):
Go ahead.
Speaker 6 (03:29):
Your guy is topping the list. Yeah, he's topping the
pursuita list anyway.
Speaker 5 (03:35):
If they could swing that one man, if they being
the Pittsburgh Steelers, if they could take all those assets,
all my belly aching of the last eighteen months, would
I would? I would wash it away like tears in
the rain. If Fernando Mendoza wound up on the Pittsburgh
Steelers in twenty twenty six, he looks for real, right
pursuit of him?
Speaker 6 (03:54):
Yeah, so you guys have the quarterback and you have
the coach who's as maniacal as Woody Hayes on his
best day.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
So I think you're good.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
He's the best. He's the best, isn't he? Speaking of
Pittsburgh related athletes and such the World Series? I mean,
am I the only one who still gets pangs watching
this thing? It was the greatest climactic game I think
maybe in World Series history, or at least in my lifetime.
It wasn't around for nineteen sixty.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
You're right, and that was the.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Like the benchmark we were using in a distinction show
like Game seven walk off from of course Bill Mazerowski.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Joe Carter did it in the sixth.
Speaker 6 (04:34):
Game and not to be underrated in the Mazarowski thing
was that game had wild swings back and forth.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Yeah right, yeah, yeah?
Speaker 5 (04:42):
What did the Yankees score in the top of the
innings The Pirates were.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
Up seven to four?
Speaker 6 (04:49):
I forget how what Hal Smith in a home run
at the bottom of the seventh to give the Pirates
the lead, and then nobody remembered because the Yankees came
back and tied it, and then mazarask he hit his
home run.
Speaker 5 (05:02):
Yeah old my mother, ol Mo Damashik, a nursing student nearby,
hearing the roars of the crowd and all that, and
going out onto the streets to celebrate with all the locals,
and then seventy nine, which I vaguely recall, but it's
been a long stretch since, and so I don't take
any reflected pleasure in watching. I don't know about anybody else.
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Tyler Glass now out there and Isaiah Kiner filefa out there.
I mean, once again, this is every year. This is
a tradition that you could really track, and if I
weren't lazy, I would go back and pull out all
the World Series participants who were with the Pittsburgh Pirates.
And I don't mean like, yeah, they were in single
a seventeen years ago kind of thing. I mean, like, yeah,
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three years ago they were at a full piece for
the Pirates, and now they're playing in the World Series.
The question I have about by the way, I have
to say quickly Joe Carter's home run, Bill Mazerowski's and
we can compare those car and fisks and everything else.
I mean, I don't think we as a society, as
a as a sports loving world, have talked nearly enough
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about what Andy pae has did with the season on
the line. I mean, that is one of the most distinctive.
It is not another on a pile of climactic home runs.
This is undo itself, sort of like the immaculate reception
on some level, like the game is on the line
and keyk a hernandez keyk a again with the most
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important accent mark over.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
The e.
Speaker 5 (06:36):
Es goes back to Bath, goes back to what I
don't know what the hell he was doing, what he
was he's gonna do, and Andy Pae has goes over
and trucks him and catches the ball like the series
is over if he doesn't do that, obviously, and I
feel like this should be one that lives for all
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of time, and we've already lost it in the here
and now we're talking about did Will Smith definitely get
his foot down on the plate? Yes he did, And
it was Isaiah Kiner Faleppa who was there, who slid
feet first, which was a mistake. He should have gone
head first. But it begs the question because he had
that stupid oven mid, why who signed off on allowing this?
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This oven mid thing? Is though there was no other
way to protect your hand other than putting literal hamburger
helper guy on your hand to uh, to protect your
to put protect your precious fingers. There's no other there's
no other device that would do that, that wouldn't make
you look like such a jackass. But either way, I
kf if he dives head first and he the margin
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of him being safe versus out is the oven mid.
Where do we go from there? As a society? That's
the question, like, is the oven mit now the MVP?
Is there a scandal that like, well, he didn't really
get there his oven mit?
Speaker 4 (07:53):
Did?
Speaker 5 (07:53):
That would be I mean imagine the one that would
be way worse than Brett Hall's foot being in the
crease for in ninety nine, This would be the all
time Like boy that that was a great series, completely
undermined by its stupid ending.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Okay, but that begs the question to me that were
that who have been the case? And he slides in
safe with the oven mit, where does that rank in
the pantheon of all time articles of clothing in sports
championship history?
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Because the first one.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Is also a in baseball and it's the bloody sock chilling?
Speaker 6 (08:31):
How about the jersey covering the uh yeah, you have
device that was worse coding whether it was a curve
ball or a fastball.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
That's a pretty good one.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
I got, well, Surmon Thomas not having his helmet at
the start of a Super Bowl is pretty good.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Ye.
Speaker 5 (08:50):
My favorite one, My favorite one was one of the
funniest things that I've ever seen in sports is Joe
nicro when he was on the when he was on
the Twins, and he has the nail file in his
back pocket and the umps gather around him. All four
of them are standing in a in a semicircle around
Joe nekro and they're like, we know you, we know
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your scuff and the ball. Joe, I don't even know
what you're talking about you can just tell it by
their body, like that's what the conversation is down on
the field, and Joe Nekro has his hands in his
back pockets and uh and the referee and the umpires
are standing and he and he like goes like, I
don't know what you're talking about, and throws his arms
out to either side, and out of his right hand
flies the nail file, and the umpire closest to him
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has his hand on his chin, and out of the
corner of his eye, he just kind of turns and
picks it up. And he would have gotten away with
the crime if that one ump hadn't seen it, except
we all would have seen the nail file, and then
after the game he would have been like, he got y'all,
he pooled y'all, But they caught the one them caught
it in real time.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Put that umpire's demeanor will never not make me laugh
because he has his elbow on his like his right
elbows on his left arm crossing, and he's just got
his face and his chin sitting in there like almost
like he's exhausted, and he's like just sitting there.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Looking at Necro.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
And then Neicro does the thing and he sees it,
turns back to Negro.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
And doubles back for it.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Yeah, and then like out of a cartoon, and that's
how he got busted. It's so damn funny, just that
umps demeanor, like he didn't even give a give a
rat's ass about it, but he just inadvertently solved the crime.
It'd be like Ojy's glove falling in Mark Furman's lap
one day.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
It is.
Speaker 5 (10:35):
Really it's high comedy, like you know in real time
big That clip up on the YouTube's kids if you
if you aren't familiar with it. One thing it does
make me think about when you talk about uniforms, pursuit
or like wardrobe related stuff, how about this one. I've
suggested this to any number of pro football players, and
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as far as I know, none of them have taken
me up on this. Why not in front of a
big game like here comes the divisional round game the
whole week, just don't shower, or you could even make yourself.
You could like you could put a stink on your uniform,
like you could get skunk stink or something, and then
no one would want to tackle you, right, that would
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be a great strategy.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
I like it. I like him?
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Why not? So let's talk football very quickly.
Speaker 5 (11:22):
I've avoided it as long as we can. I know
all this, Believe me. I see social media. I listen
to you guys. I hear what's going on on the
banks of the three Rivers, ear to the ground from
the twenty five hundred miles away. The word is after
the trade deadline has come and gone. When when Mike
Tomlin before it was like, I like shopping and we
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gotta get we gotta solve that wide receiver problem. We're
tied to Jakobe Meyers. Everybody told him, not not tom
That didn't say that name specifically. But there were a
number of high end receiver or number two receivers, legitimate
starter level wide receivers, but a lot of after it
passed was a lot of the reaction from the talking
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heads has been Steelers are too smart to overpay. Other
teams were willing to overpay, not the Steelers, though, How
smart has it been? All the sober voices out there
giving cover to this and trying to rationalize this away.
What's the answer to this. The Pittsburgh Steelers have now
gone almost two seasons without a legitimate starter level second
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wide receiver. It's the quarterback league. Offense is all that matters.
Van Jefferson, Robert Woods, one hundred and twenty pound, Calvin Austin.
What are we doing? I mean, when this is a
team that we're supposed to take them seriously, they know
this is this is absurdity.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
Yeah, well, I mean, and we've talked about that a lot.
I think that you, you know, as a Steeler fan,
that there is a level of ingenuineness from them when
discussing this stuff, because there's a fine line between wanting
to win now and mortgaging your future for a risky investment. Okay,
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all right, And I'm not saying that I'm not saying
but Dave, I'm not saying you're not right. I'm saying
that people aren't pointing it out at nauseum because it's
almost like understood everything that you're saying, like, yeah, they
screwed themselves again going into this year with everything. I
unlike you do not think that keeping George Pickens would
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have worked. I think that George Pickens and Aaron Rodgers
are about as oil and water as you can get
in terms of professional approach and what this team is about.
One of them professional, yes, and the other one you
can't approach. But the difference is, like, what has made
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this offense even go a little bit right now given
an offensive line that has been a work in progress,
is that they have gravitated to Aaron Rodgers like he's
a Queen Bee. I didn't know how many daddy issues
this team had until he got here, and the leadership
void that was here was such a massive chasm that
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needed to be filled. A guy like that would have
not ever been able to exist in what they are
doing right now that is working.
Speaker 5 (14:32):
I only semi agree, and I you know, I can't
go back and say if George Pickens has learned to
maybe comport himself differently in Dallas, because they really did
trade him away and maybe that was his come to Jesus.
But as I said for the last six eight months,
is you know the bet you make if you're the Steelers,
if you want to win and you're bringing in a
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forty plus QB, obviously he needs as much help as
you're going to be able to surround him with. You
keep George Pickens because he's in his contract year and
someone gets in his ear, if not the man in
the mirror those close to him, who who's whose money
is tied to him? And beyond. We'll say to him, George,
one good season of performance on the field and good
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behavior off the field yields one hundred years years of wealth.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Yeah, exhibited a very reason that would take that.
Speaker 5 (15:27):
I mean, what is it going bad down there now
for him? I mean, he's lighting it up down there.
He's the he's the third leading receiver in terms of
yard it's the offensive be like, well, what evidence is
there that he's helped the Cowboys. The offense is vastly
better than it was last year in Dallas. I mean,
that's that's the evidence in football terms. They should have
kept him, but they didn't. All Right. The concern for
me is going forward, as the other thing I have
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said repeatedly is this is great with Arthur Smith. And
they say, well, they offset the need for a second
wide receiver with all those tight ends and all they're doing.
But Arthur Smith, in success is going to and so
poof that's going to be a mirage too. Do you
think Arthur Smith is going to be the offensive coordinator
of the Steelers.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
I thought, I think if if Tomlin would have lost
this game in the fashion that a lot of people
thought the Steelers were going to lose to the Colts.
There was a small chance that Arthur Smith would have
been the head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers by years then,
I think.
Speaker 5 (16:20):
You know, it's I don't know if you're being I
think you're being semi serious, and I think I agree
with you. I don't think that if.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
I'm being I'm being I'm not saying it was likely.
I'm saying that, you know, the only way Arthur Arthur
Smith stays here is if he is the head coach
and Tomlin had this team headed an in direction there,
especially from the defensive standpoint, where that might have been
a reality.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
I don't think it is now.
Speaker 5 (16:46):
I agree. But also and I I really am not
trying to be uh you know, uh super glass half
empty about everything that was. That was a splendid performance
in h actor sure against them Cults, best team in football,
you could make a case through the first half of
the season so far. I talk about mirages, though I'm
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not sure. I think I agree with Roethlisberger though have
you heard he's in the news this week? He said,
And like I say, I think he's right. Not the
cynic in me is like, okay, you want you want
the turnover battle six zero fellas, you better win that game.
Of course you're gonna win that. And by only a
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touchdown is a little weird that that that's all they
they won by, But okay, they survived the game. Doesn't
make a difference in the NFL if you went three
to two or seventy eight to seventy seven, just get
the win. I just don't know how transferable it is.
The Patriots performance and the Colts performance are are two
out of you know, so there is some pattern of
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the Steelers force in turnovers. It has certainly not been
weak to week. I don't think you can depend on
that to carry the day. So it gives me concern
about how if the defense is now fixed by that
performance and running more zone than man and all of
that kind of stuff. I don't know if that transfers do.
I do caution everybody about getting over their skis because
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at the same time that the Steelers were whipping up
on the Colts for most of the game, the Carolina
Panthers were winning in Lambeau against the team who housed
the Steelers. The week before, so you know it's obviously
you know it's coin flips in the NFL largely. Well,
I think this is a huge one.
Speaker 8 (18:36):
This one.
Speaker 5 (18:37):
I mean I say every week it's a huge game.
But you know, in the AFC standings and all the
rest of it, if they go out there and are
competitive and really should be able to take advantage of
what Harbaugh has tried to build up there, which is
the offensive line, and injuries of undermine that they should
have an advantage in that regard. And so let's see
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if it carries the day in say.
Speaker 9 (19:00):
Five, are you I was just gonna ask him, sorry, Randy,
are you and Van damashek going to be in attendance?
Speaker 5 (19:09):
You know, we always go. We always go see the pens,
we go see the buckets, We see the Steelers against
the Rams and or Chargers. Unless there's an eleventh hour change,
I think I'm gonna sit this one out. It is
a real pain in the asketting out of so far,
especially at night. I mean, it's a real process you
have to take like you, I mean, it's weird you
have to take a bus and and to get to
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your car. It ain't worth it. I don't think I
was there to see Roethlisberger almost vanquish the Chargers in
uh in that night game.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
Oh that was the Steeler takeover game where they rent again.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Right, No, that was the one.
Speaker 5 (19:47):
No, that was the one at the soccer stage did win.
And that was Duck Hodges and all those cats. And
it was, without exaggerations, Steelers fan. And in fact, the
Chargers gave me my tickets. They got me they Uh
I was going to say professional courtesy, but that makes
me sound like a pretentious ass. But anyway, they gave
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me ticket and and and uh so you know, I'm
surrounded by Steelers fans and I they the Steelers quickly,
if you remember, it was like fourteen nothing in the
blink of an eye, and uh they And so I
took a panning shot of thirty thousand people in that joint,
and I mean it was all terrible talks. It was
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like nothing you've ever seen before on the road. And
I posted the video and I said like, hey, I'm
eighteen hundred miles away from Pittsburgh, PA, look at this.
And uh, suffice to say, the Chargers were not pleased.
They were not pleased that I posted that video from
their seats.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Yeah, yeah, I can't understand.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
I get their point.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Yeah, going to be like make mistakes.
Speaker 5 (20:49):
I don't know. I'm a I'm a person, I'm a
human being. What do I know. I don't know about
the high minded crap. I'm at a to watch the
Black and Gold.
Speaker 8 (20:59):
That's it.
Speaker 5 (20:59):
I don't know about nothing else.
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Show, why don't two point five Dve you're radio home
at the Pittsburgh Steelers. Time once again for our Pick
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Bill and I each week picked six games that are
guaranteed to possibly maybe win, but it's up to you.
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First one, Cardinals at Seahawks Seahawks minus six and a half.
This game is like the nerdy girl in every eighties
high school movie that nobody paid attention to, and then
one day she gets her braces removed as contact lenses,
lets her hair down, and then everyone's like, oh my gosh.
Cardinals versus Seahawks, is that you? I mean you look
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I I have to admit I never thought of you
like this, but I would watch your brains out. Having
played on Monday night, the Cardinals have a short week,
although it's always a short week when Kyler Murray is
your quarterback. But Cardinals coach John Gannon announced this week
veteran quarterback Jacoby Brissett will be starting in place of
the diminutive dime dealer who they placed on ir where
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I'm sure he won't take up much space. For the
fourth straight week, Murray is sidelined due to a lingering
foot injury. Apparently they can't fight a surgeon with tiny
enough hands to operate on Kyler's baby feet. Think about it,
pinky toe probably looks like a whart. But the Cardinals
aren't worried about Jacoby finding his footing. He's won all
three games he started for the Birds, and the Cards
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are dealing. Yes, the Cardinals have been flying high since
they stopped running the Murray up offense, but the Seahawks
are still the alpha bird in the West with a
six and two record, and Jackson Smith in Jigba has
been soaring higher than any other receiver in the league,
scoring his fourth straight one hundred yard receiving game last week.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
He's the talk of the league, even.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
Though he's going to get some old white guy fired
for trying to say his name Smith.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Nijba. How you say I mean Jackson Smith? Good Juba,
I'll say jsn.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
Don't be a hero, Matt Dog right, Frances almost got
canceled halfway through that.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
It's not worth it.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
Just say number eleven if you'll want save yourself. Sam Donald,
like Kevin Arnold, already had his wonder years in New
York and Carolina wondering why it took years to get
his act together, but he's getting a lot of help
from his friends, not just JSN but Kenneth Walker getting
it done on the ground and with the eleventh rank
D Seattle set to excommunicate the Cardinals tight the Seahawks next.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
Ravens at Vikings plus four and a half.
Speaker 9 (24:21):
This matchup has more purple than a Grimace and skeletor
wedding at Paisley Park steer into the purple skid. Why
don't you just get a Filipino prince to sing the
national anthem and have the joker do the coin flip first,
ten thousand fans through the gates get purple nurples. Rough
couple of games for the Vikings, going from playing Detroit
on the road to playing Baltimore at home is like
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if in Shawshank Redemption, Andy Dufrain crawled through five hundred
yards of bleep, smelling foulness and came out in another
prison on the other side. What the hell did the
Vikings do to deserve going from eight mile to the wire.
Both these teams are coming off big wins after getting
their quarter back last week. McCarthy furiously beat Goff and
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Lamar lick Tongua via loa. Both teams can be categorized
as as bad good teams. They're good rosters, but they
haven't been playing so good. So this game is basically
the slappy Mendoza line.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
Winner makes their way back.
Speaker 9 (25:21):
To respectability and the loser ends up in slappy purple
shash Hank. The Ravens defense started the year with so
many injuries they had to call up their practice squad
team doctor to help with the Kenny Wood line at
the training table. But the last couple of weeks the
defense is getting stops and they're not giving up points.
The Vikings, meanwhile, had an emotional win last week against
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the Lions, but they've been off balance all year. And
JJ McCarthy is Kenny Pickett with slightly bigger hands. Lamar
is the Prince of the NFL. Take the Ravens Bouces next.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
Eagles at the Packers minus two and a half.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
I'll be waiting all day and then and another entire
day with all my rowdy friends.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
You guys have been in my house a long time.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
Monday Night Football Green Bay hosts the Philadelphia Eagles and
like waiting in holiday lines at Penmac in the Strip,
this battle for cheese is worth the wait. Philadelphia hopes
to make cream cheese out of the cheese heads in
Lambeau and what's being hailed as the revenge of the
tush push, which quite often requires a trip to the laundromat.
But that's a different story. It needs for revenge, let
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me retoush your memory. The Packers tried to get the
league to ban the tush push after Philly used the
brotherly shove to throttle Green Bay in their wild card
demolition of the Packers last season. And that was after
an embarrassing Brazilian blowout by the Eagles to start the
Packer season last year when they got waxed in South Polo.
The Eagles would go on to win the Super Bowl,
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and the pack sought vengeance. They tried to get the
NFL to outlaw the eagles best weapon, the unstoppable and
always illegal push tush.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
But like poor people.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
Voting for tax cuts for billionaires because they think they
might get rich one day, enough, NFL owners were stupid
enough to think one day their team might have an
O line full of expertly coached mooses so they voted
it down, and that begat a Philly beef with the
cheese that dwarfed anything Pats or Gino's ever slopped together.
The Eagles are pissed, and if I'm Philly, I come
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out and go tush push as many times as possible
down the field like Dawc Alice beating the first four
since he Reds have them. Sure, somehow the Eagles are underdogs,
even though the Packers loss of the friggin Panthers at
home last weekend. But you get the feeling they could
kind of play with their food on this one, mostly
because even though Green Bay's d is solid, they don't
have the interior line to stop Saquon from Lambeau leaping
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his way through the defense. And the pack lost more
dignity in last week's lost more than dignity in last
week's loss to the Panthers in front of their owners.
They lost tight end Tuck Craft to a season ending injury.
But somebody needs to tell his teammate Romeo Dobbs that
he's not dead.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
I don't wish that on any man.
Speaker 8 (28:07):
And you know Tucker is in in.
Speaker 4 (28:13):
A better place.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
What he's in a better place where Appleton fundw Locker
walk a Shaw look. Tucker Craft might not be dead,
but I think the Packers' Super Bowl hopes are. After
Mount Lafleur drops his second in a row at home
for the first time in his career as head coach,
Take the Birds, Philly looks to make whiz out of
the cheeseheads.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
Next Brown's at the Jets. Plus three and a half
for the Jets.
Speaker 9 (28:40):
It's the Cleveland Browns versus the New York Browns.
Speaker 4 (28:44):
The Spider Man.
Speaker 9 (28:45):
Me matchup that absolutely no one asked for or wants.
These teams are horrible and their seasons are already done.
But look at the bright side. The weather will be
awful and the stadium was built with recycled garbage. This
game should be played on the Titanic. Whoever wins, they
should both still lose.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
Aaron Glenn is.
Speaker 9 (29:07):
Doing that thing again and waiting until kickoff to announce
which deck chair will start.
Speaker 4 (29:13):
He's playing a little.
Speaker 9 (29:15):
Game he likes to call hide and goes Stink. Before
the season, Aaron Glenn said that he wanted this team
to be one that fans can be proud of, but
then he added, this week, I never said We're gonna
be proud of them right now. That seems like a
pretty important fine print to the statement aaron I said
we're gonna win the Super Bowl. I never said we're
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gonna win a Super Bowl during my lifetime.
Speaker 4 (29:41):
You guys are making that up.
Speaker 9 (29:43):
And then you have Stefanski who was asked about Joe
Flacco throwing for eleven touchdowns in three weeks with the Bengals,
and he said he wasn't gonna comment on Joe or
any other players on other teams. Really, cav like who
Baker Mayfield don't want to gab about the franchise, Q
and MBP candidate you traded away so you can bring
in doctor missus h. You don't want to talk. These
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franchises don't just wear bad idea jeans, they soil them.
The Browns threw away their season with twelve games left,
and the Jets had a dumpster fire sale at the
trade deadline. The Browns and Jets might both be at
the bottom of their divisions, but the Jets have a shovel.
Speaker 4 (30:23):
Take the brown Snack.
Speaker 3 (30:26):
Patriots at the Buccaneers minus two and a half Sunday
in Tampa.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
It's the Brady Bowl.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
The two teams tom Brady QB to the Super Bowl
Victory's face off in a matchup that some people are
saying could be a preview of this year's Super Bowl.
And just like Tom Brady insisting on long kisses on
the lips with his prepubescent son.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
That's just wrong. Neither of these teams are going to.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
The super Bowl, but it's still good enough of a
matchup to warn. A Nanson Romo game with our buddy
Jeans Sterotor on CBS always feels better with Nanson Romo.
You know, no offense to Diyan, Eagle and JJ, but
when they call you game, it's kind of like eating
Joe's oreos.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
They're fine. I like the name brand, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
Patriots aren't a six game winning streak, and Drake May
is the toast of bean Town, which we can all
agree is much better than being the bean of toast Town.
Not quite as celebrated of a distinction, but they all
love the Drake.
Speaker 4 (31:18):
Who doesn't love the Drake?
Speaker 3 (31:20):
Last week, New England got a bit of a scare
in Atlanta as May uncharacteristically through two picks and the
Pats escaped with a one point win against the hapless
Atlanta Falcons, who could probably more easily find the Maltese
Falcon than will win. At this point, Bucks are coming
off a bye and are well rested at six and two.
The seven and two Pats, feeling bad that most of
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Baker's receivers are hurt, offered up one of their own
to the football Gods and receiver Kaishaon Booty. In order
to make up for Booty's loss, the Pats have signed
free agent wide out Cravon Badonka Donk, a first year
player out of Butt State, so that ought to fill
that hole in the dairy air attack. The Pats are
limping a bit, but the Bucks have lost more men
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than Lieutenant Dan and Vietnam. Baker's got a Buka and
that's about it right now. Somehow, though Mayfield has had
the mightest touch, he's been turning half ass receivers into
full ass touchdown scorers. In Boston yesterday, Mike Brabel was
asked if the Pats were close to a deal at
the trade deadline to help show up the offensive line
that was making Drake ansier than an ice cream cone
on the sidewalk in July. Rabel told the reporter that
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almost making a deal with the deadline is like almost
being pregnant. He either happened or it didn't. He's clearly
avoiding the question. They obviously just wanted to know if
he pulled out of a deal at the last possible
second and prayed nothing leaked before it consummated resulted in
them having to abort their plan. All I know is
the Pats are happy with the family they got and
unless the stork drops another healthy receiver for Baker Mayfield
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to throw too this weekend, New England's gonna win their
seventh in a row. Take jar Head, Rabel and the points.
The finale the Grand Events, Steelers at Chargers minus three.
Speaker 4 (32:59):
Here we go, Steelers, Here we go.
Speaker 9 (33:03):
Pittsburgh's going to the super Bowl.
Speaker 4 (33:06):
You've been away a long while. Maybe nobody came out
there and told you the Steelers don't suck no more.
In by a wow, I mean like a week.
Speaker 9 (33:14):
They sucked last week, and to be fair, they sucked
the week before that too. But now now we're back,
and all it took for the defense to wake up
was the captain accusing the team and not having any fight.
The national media all saying they were the worst d
in the league, a player giving a rousing team speech
on Saturday night, moving players to different positions, switching up
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their entire scheme, and having the whole Super Bowl forty
team on the sidelines.
Speaker 4 (33:40):
But that's it, that's all it took.
Speaker 9 (33:42):
The city's mood has completely flipped from fire Tomlin to
shut your due bass up and booktell Super Bowl tickets.
And just when everyone is feeling good after a one
o'clock win, and after we've all finally recovered from two
primetime night games that kept us up and pissed us off,
we're headed back to the West Coast for another primetime
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Sunday night game. That's what we get for being a
team that everybody wants to see. Sleep deprivation and high
blood pressure tanks NFL. I hate my brain and I
love jagging my heart off. Now all we have to
do is wait out Dare for soda. It's a bad
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day to be leaves in my yard and one of
my mowlers. I'm gonna be raking and grinding my teeth
to eight twenty, raking and grinding, raking and grinding. If
you're wondering why I haven't talked about this matchup, it's
because I don't know what the hell to make of
the Steelers. All Right, the Chargers have more injuries than
a Civil War reenactment, but they're a tough team with
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a dangerous quarterback.
Speaker 4 (34:49):
But what about the Steelers.
Speaker 9 (34:51):
Are the Steelers the team that's gonna cause six turnovers
and get five sacks? Or are they the team that's
gonna give up sixteen of twenty three passes to receiver
and not even Bud they're comfering him on the twenty
third and ten. I don't care if we have to
fly Psy out to La to continue to tell his
son not to embarrass the family. Have Troy give the
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team speech Saturday night and send out the entire Super
Bowl forty three team for the coin flip. We have
to win this game, and we will win this game
because the Steelers aren't the Sheer Curtain. They're the Steel Curtain,
and they're gonna get it done because last week was
a turning point and there's plenty of time to sleep
when we're dead.
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Sports is how brought to you by Bridgeville appli It's
one of the storylines that resonated in the way of
Steelers twenty seven Colt twenty last Sunday was the pregame
speech given to the team by Jalen Ramsey the night
before the game that was a topic of a conversation
shortly after the game had added thanks to Aaron Rodgers
letting everyone know what Ramsey had done in his postgame
(37:25):
media session, and players kept talking about it throughout this
weekad They kept getting asked about it, but they talked
about it with enthusiasm and appreciation, including cornerback Joey Porter Jr.
Speaker 8 (37:39):
I mean, like everybody said, Jaylen talked to us the
nine be quarter game and was really just talking about
just bringing that swagger back that still o currents even
the tensity that that arrogifts that we need to walk
around with everybody on the team. He was like, I'm
gonna bring that to mod and you've got to bring
that too. So once you said the tone like that,
there was no other excuse about to play like that.
Speaker 4 (37:56):
I feel like everybody felt on the defense.
Speaker 6 (37:58):
Now, you figure the defensive guys would of course be
receptive to that, because Ramsey's a defensive player. But Rogers
being a quarterback and you know, being a guy who's
been in the league that twenty one years now and
he's forty one years old, seen it all, done it
all for him to mention that right afterward, how impactful
he thought it was. That it reached the offense tells
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you it was powerful. Yeah, And uh, Pat fryer Muth
was another guy on offense who uh definitely picked up
what Ramsey was laying down.
Speaker 7 (38:27):
Anytime a teammate who's new to the team or you know,
came in with a high pedigree, he has anytime like
the teammates can open up to you, you know what
I mean, You know, it means a lot, and just
getting getting to know him and getting to hear his
him talk, it would big.
Speaker 4 (38:43):
Time can you give me like the gist of it
or whatever.
Speaker 7 (38:48):
Just basically just you know, from his perspective coming in
how the steel has always played and talking about how
we uh how the team, he's just start you know, yeh,
you know being more aggressive and uh yeah.
Speaker 4 (39:05):
Have you heard many of those in your in your country?
Speaker 2 (39:09):
And that's setting I'll just that one time?
Speaker 4 (39:11):
Was that one time?
Speaker 7 (39:12):
So that was out of character, out of the uh,
I mean, I guess, I mean, obviously, you know we
have we have guys that speak up a lot on
the team.
Speaker 2 (39:22):
But in that setting up the first time, what was
the difference about the setting I just did.
Speaker 7 (39:27):
The night before a game, everyone's obviously starting to get
the prename jitters and getting ready for the game, and
just probably the setting was uh, it was, it was,
It was right, It.
Speaker 4 (39:36):
Was right now.
Speaker 6 (39:36):
It was orchestrated by Mike. It was orchestrated by Mike Tomlin.
But for a guy Ramsey on the defense to get
up after they just showed their ass two weeks in
a row and say we got to start playing with
swagger and arrogance and start kicking butt, playing like the
Steelers teams that I used to come in here and
play against Look that's the stones man completely.
Speaker 3 (39:58):
I think it's awesome and it showed some leadershi from
him and it needed to be said. And it just
speaks further to the void in leadership that this.
Speaker 2 (40:05):
Team had before this year.
Speaker 3 (40:06):
I was just gonna say, unbelievable that on both sides
of the ball. I mean, they just stopped listening to
Cam and TJ or they unable to corral these guys
the same way.
Speaker 4 (40:15):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (40:15):
Maybe the is just falling on deaf ears after so long,
but the challenge that they have now is upholding it
to not have just got inspired for that one game.
This has to be something that continues on week two
week and yeah, Jalen can't give another speech this week.
Speaker 2 (40:34):
Yeah right.
Speaker 4 (40:36):
I will say this about Hayward.
Speaker 6 (40:37):
I thought his uh comment after the Green Bay game,
but we didn't have enough fight.
Speaker 3 (40:42):
That was also leadership. I'm not suggesting Cam's not a leader.
I think he is is what is what I'm saying.
Speaker 6 (40:48):
I think that got their attention to because he's basically
saying we're soft. Yeah, and that's the worst thing you
could say to a to an athlete in a in
a contact sport. You know that you can't catch your
slow like they're okay with all that tell them they're soft.
Those are fight boards and they fought.
Speaker 9 (41:06):
But to your point, you can't rely on a player
getting up and giving a speech, you know, the coach
getting up and talking about what the doubling game means
to DMR Like these are one off kind of moments.
You can't have a player's only meeting every week.
Speaker 6 (41:21):
Well, yeah, they just got to fight another country to
go play in because I mean, those are two best
games of the year of Minnesota and India, right, yeah,
and those are both pretty good teams.
Speaker 3 (41:30):
Well, maybe they just need to hire speech makers before
every game. They don't necessarily have to be on the team.
Just people who are really good public speakers come in.
Speaker 9 (41:38):
I mean, I love what Jalen said, And I got
a big problem with what Jalen said because now all
of a sudden, we got outsiders telling us what the
Steelers are supposed to be playing, Like, like, I know
he's on the team, but.
Speaker 3 (41:51):
Like, what the hell that we talked about when they
opened the Hall of Honor that they should make every
new stealer spend an hour in there and watch that
movie and walk around. I have gone so far to say,
as there should be a select group of town hauled
Steeler fans that they have to listen to, who want
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at a time go up and talk about what the
Steelers means to them. Steelers, here's the expectation, like you're
it's an orientation at a huge company that you're going
to work for.
Speaker 2 (42:26):
Ye because I.
Speaker 4 (42:27):
Don't love it.
Speaker 2 (42:28):
I don't think this is not an awful idea. I
think it would be great.
Speaker 3 (42:31):
Like it happens in the Great Hall and they're like
cut Maluski from Dravo'sburg, you're next.
Speaker 6 (42:37):
He gets up, or have a practice in Hinsfield at
camp like they do sometimes and just walk the whole.
Speaker 4 (42:44):
Team through the whole honor. There you go. Yeah, this
is where you are. This is the expectation.
Speaker 6 (42:50):
Roster move yesterday defensive tackle Broderick Martin Rhodes added and
uh defensive lineman to Marvin Leal released.
Speaker 2 (43:00):
No surprise there but a bummer.
Speaker 4 (43:03):
You know.
Speaker 6 (43:03):
Lee Alis not one of those guys. Boy, he just
he looked the part, but he didn't play the part
often enough. Didn't work. Broderick Martin Rhodes is six', five
three hundred and twenty six pounds out Of Northern alabama
And Western. Kentucky he played five games over the past
two seasons for The. Lions steelers got him off The
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chiefs practice squad they needed some defensive line depth due
to the loss Of Daniel.
Speaker 9 (43:30):
Aqualay was that his, Problem Leal he was just caught
in between. Positions they didn't know what to do with.
Him he wasn't dominant at either and that's what he
was At TEXAS a AND.
Speaker 6 (43:39):
M he played, outside, edge sometimes he played inside. Sometimes
college he was pretty good at, it but college.
Speaker 2 (43:47):
And pros it's a lot.
Speaker 3 (43:49):
DIFFERENT i love when people like do that Kin Ohio
state beat The?
Speaker 4 (43:53):
Browns right?
Speaker 2 (43:54):
Now how bad Would Ohio state beat The?
Speaker 3 (43:55):
Browns and then anybody knows what they're talking, about is
like The browns would Beat Ohio state by one hundred?
Speaker 2 (44:00):
Points, yeah well maybe not The. Browns well still.
Speaker 6 (44:06):
Yeah Broncos broncos meet The raiders ten to seven And
Thursday night football last. Night ugly, game very little offense
on either, side But denver will take it Because denver
is eight and. Two penguins blew another three goal lead
last night against The, capitals but this time they rallied
in the third. Period after The caps tied it with
three second period goals in ten minutes and fourteen, Seconds
(44:28):
brian rushed on the power play at eleven sixteen of
the third period and Then connor De war into an empty.
Speaker 2 (44:35):
Net five to Three.
Speaker 6 (44:36):
Pens still, Early still a ton of hockey to be,
played but they had lost to in a. Row they
looked horrible doing, it and if they had lost another
one last night going Into Jersey, saturday that's how losing streak.
Speaker 4 (44:48):
Start so good.
Speaker 6 (44:50):
To see The penguins kind of put their foot down
and stop this this.
Speaker 3 (44:54):
Stuff, now Does obi still have the fire in his?
Belly look like? It because last, night all, right it
looks like he is chili in his. Belly maybe some
like he's seventy's he's, like you, know they give them
the ovation on the nine hundred for the nine. Hundred
after the, game he's swapping jerseys With gino and. Stuff
(45:17):
And i'm not suggesting that that's all not great in,
sportsmanship but it just strikes me as stuff THAT ovi
would not have allowed to have.
Speaker 2 (45:23):
Happened not the. Ovation you can't do anything about.
Speaker 3 (45:25):
That but just like there's a granddad kind of vibe to.
Him now that he's got the, cup then he's got the.
Record that's WHAT i. Mean he was a killer and
he was, like is there both about to be?
Speaker 4 (45:38):
Forty?
Speaker 3 (45:38):
Yeah and to your, POINT i mean he looks like
just like a like a suburban blue Collar.
Speaker 4 (45:47):
Yeah like It's sunday.
Speaker 2 (45:48):
Night, yeah he's got like.
Speaker 3 (45:49):
Wearing a white, beater sitting on a, couch just you,
know drinking a, beard eating chili out of a.
Speaker 6 (45:54):
Cauchy it's nine O'clock sunday. Night let's go to center
ice In dlmutt and play.
Speaker 9 (45:57):
Pickup but you, Know sid talked To Van pelt after that,
game and he And Van pelt summed it up.
Speaker 4 (46:04):
Great he, said you guys both.
Speaker 9 (46:06):
Came into the league with impossible expectations and somehow exceeded
them to have a rivalry going for this. Long and
both of these guys that still be on the same.
Team some point that worm turned and they you, know
dropped the, knives you, know the Knives like they weren't
(46:27):
at each other's.
Speaker 4 (46:28):
Throat there's a respect.
Speaker 6 (46:29):
There came across the, table they, hugged they kissed each.
Other yeah Only, yeah WELL i shouldn't say the only,
disappointment but a major disappointment was The penguin's decision to
Start Art, Tours Sea loves And games instead Of Surgey.
Mirrorshof what were they? THINKING i don't.
Speaker 3 (46:44):
KNOW i, mean it might have got them to, win
or might it might not have mattered either, way but
they really deprived their fan base of an exciting.
Speaker 6 (46:50):
THING i really Didn't and if this KID'S nhl career
was going to be scuttled because he Played thursday night
instead Of saturday night At, nork then.
Speaker 3 (46:58):
He's not the guy, agreed and the game, was by
all accounts no less.
Speaker 2 (47:04):
Exciting.
Speaker 6 (47:05):
No And i'm not Saying stelaw's played terrible or, anything
but it was put on a tee to play the,
kid no. Brainer russian phenom Against russian. Legend you've been
waiting on this. Guy they've been waiting all day For thursday.
Speaker 2 (47:17):
Night do you think that's. DUBAS i have no.
Speaker 3 (47:20):
Idea got to be got maybe Musing dubis kind of
putting their heads.
Speaker 2 (47:25):
Together BUT i.
Speaker 3 (47:27):
Agree now you open up the door to maybe he's
not ready for prime.
Speaker 2 (47:32):
Time you.
Speaker 4 (47:32):
Know, Yeah, WELL i mean they did call him up because.
Speaker 6 (47:34):
Injury it's not like they he was tearing it up
in THE, ahl but they didn't just summon him and
say you're, ready but they's here play.
Speaker 2 (47:42):
Him abby's got your.
Speaker 3 (47:43):
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Speaker 13 (48:03):
Opperman The steelers will try to go for back to
back wins This sunday night when they travel To Los
angeles to face The chargers On Sunday. Night football standing
in the way of them and that accomplishment Is Star
charger Quarterback Justin. Herbert herbert has the second most touchdown
passes of the season so far with, eighteen and his
twenty three hundred and ninety passing yards is also good.
Speaker 4 (48:19):
For second most in the.
Speaker 13 (48:19):
League The steelers defense is allowing opposing quarterbacks to throw
for two hundred ninety nine yards per game and is
allowed an opposing quarterback to eclipse three hundred yards passing
in three straight. Games it's not just the threat Of
herbert through the air that The steelers have to worry.
Speaker 2 (48:31):
About, However he's.
Speaker 13 (48:33):
Also managed to rack up three hundred and five rushing
yards this, season the most of any quarterback in THE,
nfl And herbert is just nine yards back from being
The chargers leading rusher as a. Team for The steelers
to be effective Against, herbert they'll have to get some
more of that dominating pass rush that generated five sacks.
Speaker 2 (48:47):
Last week against The.
Speaker 13 (48:48):
Colts The chargers are missing both their stud tackles for
the season And Shawn slater And Joe, alt And herbert
has been sacked twenty eight times this, year the third
most in the. League Making herbert's life uncomfortable is a
massive key if The steelers want to pull the upset
off off IN la kickoff between The steelers And chargers
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There, Sure did, Buddy. I crushed it. It would not
be the first time that I've eaten on air. You know,
occasionally nature calls and when your stomach needs something in it,
you do.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
What you can.
Speaker 5 (00:57):
No worry hid. But here's the question for you, name drop.
I just had John Hamm on my show last week,
and it's one of those questions that it's crazy to
me that when you ask it, people are like, oh,
I've never really nobody's asked me that before. I want
to ask Jerry Rice what his favorite kind of rice
is and he's like, Wow, never thought about that before.
You never considered what kind of rice you like with
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your surname. I asked Andrew luck if he considered himself
a fortunate soul. He said, Hannah, never thought about that before.
Your last name is luck Man, and so it went
with that. John Ham I asked him if he enjoyed ham,
and he does. He's a he's a swine enthusiast, and
in fact, he chose the great question out there that
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I love to talk to people about because it's a
real tough one. It's the sophie's choice for meat eaters
for the rest of your life. You can only have
one to the exclusion of the other, cow or swine.
And he went swine, which I appreciated.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Wow, really, you gotta have beef. Have cow, you get
no bacon, you get no ham.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
That's right. I'm aware of that.
Speaker 5 (02:07):
You understand that you never have a hamburger again. If
you say goodbye to the cow. That's a big loss
as well.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
At this point in my life, it's not quite as
big no steak, I know.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
That's the ever.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
I'm glad to hear. Pursuit is there. I was just
talking with Jacob before we brought in. He's heading over
to uh to a happy valley. Tomorrow to or to
go check out the uh, the the the, the Indiana Hoosiers.
I don't think pursued that there's any way they can
blow this now, right I you, I mean, listen, I
don't want to talk that into into existence. But if
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they lose two games, if they were to lose, it's
almost impossible that they could lose to Penn State and
Wisconsin and Purdue. But if they lost two of those,
then I think it would knock them out of the
title game, which would then kiss them into the larger tournament.
Speaker 6 (03:01):
Right, here's why they're not going to blow this, Dave.
Remember all those quarterbacks that everybody was telling you were
really good before the season started, all the guys here.
Speaker 5 (03:10):
You remember me saying, I don't believe it. This is
a stupid thing to keep talking about. How good, how
good The twenty twenty six draft classes so rich, it's
going to be the greatest of all time. And I said,
slow your role, everybody. And now Arch Manning and Drew
Aller and Leonora Seller's falling out of the first round
and all the rest of it makes me right once again,
I'm sorry, pursuit it.
Speaker 7 (03:28):
Go ahead.
Speaker 6 (03:29):
Your guy is topping the list. Yeah, he's topping the
pursuita list anyway.
Speaker 5 (03:35):
If they could swing that one man, if they being
the Pittsburgh Steelers, if they could take all those assets,
all my belly aching of the last eighteen months, would
I would? I would wash it away like tears in
the rain. If Fernando Mendoza wound up on the Pittsburgh
Steelers in twenty twenty six, he looks for real, right
pursuit of him?
Speaker 6 (03:54):
Yeah, so you guys have the quarterback and you have
the coach who's as maniacal as Woody Hayes on his
best day.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
So I think you're good.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
He's the best. He's the best, isn't he? Speaking of
Pittsburgh related athletes and such the World Series? I mean,
am I the only one who still gets pangs watching
this thing? It was the greatest climactic game I think
maybe in World Series history, or at least in my lifetime.
It wasn't around for nineteen sixty.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
You're right, and that was the.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Like the benchmark we were using in a distinction show
like Game seven walk off from of course Bill Mazerowski.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Joe Carter did it in the sixth.
Speaker 6 (04:34):
Game and not to be underrated in the Mazarowski thing
was that game had wild swings back and forth.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Yeah right, yeah, yeah?
Speaker 5 (04:42):
What did the Yankees score in the top of the
innings The Pirates were.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
Up seven to four?
Speaker 6 (04:49):
I forget how what Hal Smith in a home run
at the bottom of the seventh to give the Pirates
the lead, and then nobody remembered because the Yankees came
back and tied it, and then mazarask he hit his
home run.
Speaker 5 (05:02):
Yeah old my mother, ol Mo Damashik, a nursing student nearby,
hearing the roars of the crowd and all that, and
going out onto the streets to celebrate with all the locals,
and then seventy nine, which I vaguely recall, but it's
been a long stretch since, and so I don't take
any reflected pleasure in watching. I don't know about anybody else.
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Tyler Glass now out there and Isaiah Kiner filefa out there.
I mean, once again, this is every year. This is
a tradition that you could really track, and if I
weren't lazy, I would go back and pull out all
the World Series participants who were with the Pittsburgh Pirates.
And I don't mean like, yeah, they were in single
a seventeen years ago kind of thing. I mean, like, yeah,
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three years ago they were at a full piece for
the Pirates, and now they're playing in the World Series.
The question I have about by the way, I have
to say quickly Joe Carter's home run, Bill Mazerowski's and
we can compare those car and fisks and everything else.
I mean, I don't think we as a society, as
a as a sports loving world, have talked nearly enough
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about what Andy pae has did with the season on
the line. I mean, that is one of the most distinctive.
It is not another on a pile of climactic home runs.
This is undo itself, sort of like the immaculate reception
on some level, like the game is on the line
and keyk a hernandez keyk a again with the most
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important accent mark over.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
The e.
Speaker 5 (06:36):
Es goes back to Bath, goes back to what I
don't know what the hell he was doing, what he
was he's gonna do, and Andy Pae has goes over
and trucks him and catches the ball like the series
is over if he doesn't do that, obviously, and I
feel like this should be one that lives for all
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of time, and we've already lost it in the here
and now we're talking about did Will Smith definitely get
his foot down on the plate? Yes he did, And
it was Isaiah Kiner Faleppa who was there, who slid
feet first, which was a mistake. He should have gone
head first. But it begs the question because he had
that stupid oven mid, why who signed off on allowing this?
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This oven mid thing? Is though there was no other
way to protect your hand other than putting literal hamburger
helper guy on your hand to uh, to protect your
to put protect your precious fingers. There's no other there's
no other device that would do that, that wouldn't make
you look like such a jackass. But either way, I
kf if he dives head first and he the margin
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of him being safe versus out is the oven mid.
Where do we go from there? As a society? That's
the question, like, is the oven mit now the MVP?
Is there a scandal that like, well, he didn't really
get there his oven mit?
Speaker 4 (07:53):
Did?
Speaker 5 (07:53):
That would be I mean imagine the one that would
be way worse than Brett Hall's foot being in the
crease for in ninety nine, This would be the all
time Like boy that that was a great series, completely
undermined by its stupid ending.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Okay, but that begs the question to me that were
that who have been the case? And he slides in
safe with the oven mit, where does that rank in
the pantheon of all time articles of clothing in sports
championship history?
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Because the first one.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Is also a in baseball and it's the bloody sock chilling?
Speaker 6 (08:31):
How about the jersey covering the uh yeah, you have
device that was worse coding whether it was a curve
ball or a fastball.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
That's a pretty good one.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
I got, well, Surmon Thomas not having his helmet at
the start of a Super Bowl is pretty good.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Ye.
Speaker 5 (08:50):
My favorite one, My favorite one was one of the
funniest things that I've ever seen in sports is Joe
nicro when he was on the when he was on
the Twins, and he has the nail file in his
back pocket and the umps gather around him. All four
of them are standing in a in a semicircle around
Joe nekro and they're like, we know you, we know
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your scuff and the ball. Joe, I don't even know
what you're talking about you can just tell it by
their body, like that's what the conversation is down on
the field, and Joe Nekro has his hands in his
back pockets and uh and the referee and the umpires
are standing and he and he like goes like, I
don't know what you're talking about, and throws his arms
out to either side, and out of his right hand
flies the nail file, and the umpire closest to him
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has his hand on his chin, and out of the
corner of his eye, he just kind of turns and
picks it up. And he would have gotten away with
the crime if that one ump hadn't seen it, except
we all would have seen the nail file, and then
after the game he would have been like, he got y'all,
he pooled y'all, But they caught the one them caught
it in real time.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Put that umpire's demeanor will never not make me laugh
because he has his elbow on his like his right
elbows on his left arm crossing, and he's just got
his face and his chin sitting in there like almost
like he's exhausted, and he's like just sitting there.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Looking at Necro.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
And then Neicro does the thing and he sees it,
turns back to Negro.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
And doubles back for it.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Yeah, and then like out of a cartoon, and that's
how he got busted. It's so damn funny, just that
umps demeanor, like he didn't even give a give a
rat's ass about it, but he just inadvertently solved the crime.
It'd be like Ojy's glove falling in Mark Furman's lap
one day.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
It is.
Speaker 5 (10:35):
Really it's high comedy, like you know in real time
big That clip up on the YouTube's kids if you
if you aren't familiar with it. One thing it does
make me think about when you talk about uniforms, pursuit
or like wardrobe related stuff, how about this one. I've
suggested this to any number of pro football players, and
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as far as I know, none of them have taken
me up on this. Why not in front of a
big game like here comes the divisional round game the
whole week, just don't shower, or you could even make yourself.
You could like you could put a stink on your uniform,
like you could get skunk stink or something, and then
no one would want to tackle you, right, that would
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be a great strategy.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
I like it. I like him?
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Why not? So let's talk football very quickly.
Speaker 5 (11:22):
I've avoided it as long as we can. I know
all this, Believe me. I see social media. I listen
to you guys. I hear what's going on on the
banks of the three Rivers, ear to the ground from
the twenty five hundred miles away. The word is after
the trade deadline has come and gone. When when Mike
Tomlin before it was like, I like shopping and we
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gotta get we gotta solve that wide receiver problem. We're
tied to Jakobe Meyers. Everybody told him, not not tom
That didn't say that name specifically. But there were a
number of high end receiver or number two receivers, legitimate
starter level wide receivers, but a lot of after it
passed was a lot of the reaction from the talking
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heads has been Steelers are too smart to overpay. Other
teams were willing to overpay, not the Steelers, though, How
smart has it been? All the sober voices out there
giving cover to this and trying to rationalize this away.
What's the answer to this. The Pittsburgh Steelers have now
gone almost two seasons without a legitimate starter level second
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wide receiver. It's the quarterback league. Offense is all that matters.
Van Jefferson, Robert Woods, one hundred and twenty pound, Calvin Austin.
What are we doing? I mean, when this is a
team that we're supposed to take them seriously, they know
this is this is absurdity.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
Yeah, well, I mean, and we've talked about that a lot.
I think that you, you know, as a Steeler fan,
that there is a level of ingenuineness from them when
discussing this stuff, because there's a fine line between wanting
to win now and mortgaging your future for a risky investment. Okay,
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all right, And I'm not saying that I'm not saying
but Dave, I'm not saying you're not right. I'm saying
that people aren't pointing it out at nauseum because it's
almost like understood everything that you're saying, like, yeah, they
screwed themselves again going into this year with everything. I
unlike you do not think that keeping George Pickens would
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have worked. I think that George Pickens and Aaron Rodgers
are about as oil and water as you can get
in terms of professional approach and what this team is about.
One of them professional, yes, and the other one you
can't approach. But the difference is, like, what has made
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this offense even go a little bit right now given
an offensive line that has been a work in progress,
is that they have gravitated to Aaron Rodgers like he's
a Queen Bee. I didn't know how many daddy issues
this team had until he got here, and the leadership
void that was here was such a massive chasm that
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needed to be filled. A guy like that would have
not ever been able to exist in what they are
doing right now that is working.
Speaker 5 (14:32):
I only semi agree, and I you know, I can't
go back and say if George Pickens has learned to
maybe comport himself differently in Dallas, because they really did
trade him away and maybe that was his come to Jesus.
But as I said for the last six eight months,
is you know the bet you make if you're the Steelers,
if you want to win and you're bringing in a
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forty plus QB, obviously he needs as much help as
you're going to be able to surround him with. You
keep George Pickens because he's in his contract year and
someone gets in his ear, if not the man in
the mirror those close to him, who who's whose money
is tied to him? And beyond. We'll say to him, George,
one good season of performance on the field and good
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behavior off the field yields one hundred years years of wealth.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Yeah, exhibited a very reason that would take that.
Speaker 5 (15:27):
I mean, what is it going bad down there now
for him? I mean, he's lighting it up down there.
He's the he's the third leading receiver in terms of
yard it's the offensive be like, well, what evidence is
there that he's helped the Cowboys. The offense is vastly
better than it was last year in Dallas. I mean,
that's that's the evidence in football terms. They should have
kept him, but they didn't. All Right. The concern for
me is going forward, as the other thing I have
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said repeatedly is this is great with Arthur Smith. And
they say, well, they offset the need for a second
wide receiver with all those tight ends and all they're doing.
But Arthur Smith, in success is going to and so
poof that's going to be a mirage too. Do you
think Arthur Smith is going to be the offensive coordinator
of the Steelers.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
I thought, I think if if Tomlin would have lost
this game in the fashion that a lot of people
thought the Steelers were going to lose to the Colts.
There was a small chance that Arthur Smith would have
been the head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers by years then,
I think.
Speaker 5 (16:20):
You know, it's I don't know if you're being I
think you're being semi serious, and I think I agree
with you. I don't think that if.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
I'm being I'm being I'm not saying it was likely.
I'm saying that, you know, the only way Arthur Arthur
Smith stays here is if he is the head coach
and Tomlin had this team headed an in direction there,
especially from the defensive standpoint, where that might have been
a reality.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
I don't think it is now.
Speaker 5 (16:46):
I agree. But also and I I really am not
trying to be uh you know, uh super glass half
empty about everything that was. That was a splendid performance
in h actor sure against them Cults, best team in football,
you could make a case through the first half of
the season so far. I talk about mirages, though I'm
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not sure. I think I agree with Roethlisberger though have
you heard he's in the news this week? He said,
And like I say, I think he's right. Not the
cynic in me is like, okay, you want you want
the turnover battle six zero fellas, you better win that game.
Of course you're gonna win that. And by only a
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touchdown is a little weird that that that's all they
they won by, But okay, they survived the game. Doesn't
make a difference in the NFL if you went three
to two or seventy eight to seventy seven, just get
the win. I just don't know how transferable it is.
The Patriots performance and the Colts performance are are two
out of you know, so there is some pattern of
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the Steelers force in turnovers. It has certainly not been
weak to week. I don't think you can depend on
that to carry the day. So it gives me concern
about how if the defense is now fixed by that
performance and running more zone than man and all of
that kind of stuff. I don't know if that transfers do.
I do caution everybody about getting over their skis because
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at the same time that the Steelers were whipping up
on the Colts for most of the game, the Carolina
Panthers were winning in Lambeau against the team who housed
the Steelers. The week before, so you know it's obviously
you know it's coin flips in the NFL largely. Well,
I think this is a huge one.
Speaker 8 (18:36):
This one.
Speaker 5 (18:37):
I mean I say every week it's a huge game.
But you know, in the AFC standings and all the
rest of it, if they go out there and are
competitive and really should be able to take advantage of
what Harbaugh has tried to build up there, which is
the offensive line, and injuries of undermine that they should
have an advantage in that regard. And so let's see
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if it carries the day in say.
Speaker 9 (19:00):
Five, are you I was just gonna ask him, sorry, Randy,
are you and Van damashek going to be in attendance?
Speaker 5 (19:09):
You know, we always go. We always go see the pens,
we go see the buckets, We see the Steelers against
the Rams and or Chargers. Unless there's an eleventh hour change,
I think I'm gonna sit this one out. It is
a real pain in the asketting out of so far,
especially at night. I mean, it's a real process you
have to take like you, I mean, it's weird you
have to take a bus and and to get to
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your car. It ain't worth it. I don't think I
was there to see Roethlisberger almost vanquish the Chargers in
uh in that night game.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
Oh that was the Steeler takeover game where they rent again.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Right, No, that was the one.
Speaker 5 (19:47):
No, that was the one at the soccer stage did win.
And that was Duck Hodges and all those cats. And
it was, without exaggerations, Steelers fan. And in fact, the
Chargers gave me my tickets. They got me they Uh
I was going to say professional courtesy, but that makes
me sound like a pretentious ass. But anyway, they gave
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me ticket and and and uh so you know, I'm
surrounded by Steelers fans and I they the Steelers quickly,
if you remember, it was like fourteen nothing in the
blink of an eye, and uh they And so I
took a panning shot of thirty thousand people in that joint,
and I mean it was all terrible talks. It was
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like nothing you've ever seen before on the road. And
I posted the video and I said like, hey, I'm
eighteen hundred miles away from Pittsburgh, PA, look at this.
And uh, suffice to say, the Chargers were not pleased.
They were not pleased that I posted that video from
their seats.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Yeah, yeah, I can't understand.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
I get their point.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Yeah, going to be like make mistakes.
Speaker 5 (20:49):
I don't know. I'm a I'm a person, I'm a
human being. What do I know. I don't know about
the high minded crap. I'm at a to watch the
Black and Gold.
Speaker 8 (20:59):
That's it.
Speaker 5 (20:59):
I don't know about nothing else.
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Show, why don't two point five Dve you're radio home
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Bill and I each week picked six games that are
guaranteed to possibly maybe win, but it's up to you.
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First one, Cardinals at Seahawks Seahawks minus six and a half.
This game is like the nerdy girl in every eighties
high school movie that nobody paid attention to, and then
one day she gets her braces removed as contact lenses,
lets her hair down, and then everyone's like, oh my gosh.
Cardinals versus Seahawks, is that you? I mean you look
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I I have to admit I never thought of you
like this, but I would watch your brains out. Having
played on Monday night, the Cardinals have a short week,
although it's always a short week when Kyler Murray is
your quarterback. But Cardinals coach John Gannon announced this week
veteran quarterback Jacoby Brissett will be starting in place of
the diminutive dime dealer who they placed on ir where
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I'm sure he won't take up much space. For the
fourth straight week, Murray is sidelined due to a lingering
foot injury. Apparently they can't fight a surgeon with tiny
enough hands to operate on Kyler's baby feet. Think about it,
pinky toe probably looks like a whart. But the Cardinals
aren't worried about Jacoby finding his footing. He's won all
three games he started for the Birds, and the Cards
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are dealing. Yes, the Cardinals have been flying high since
they stopped running the Murray up offense, but the Seahawks
are still the alpha bird in the West with a
six and two record, and Jackson Smith in Jigba has
been soaring higher than any other receiver in the league,
scoring his fourth straight one hundred yard receiving game last week.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
He's the talk of the league, even.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
Though he's going to get some old white guy fired
for trying to say his name Smith.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Nijba. How you say I mean Jackson Smith? Good Juba,
I'll say jsn.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
Don't be a hero, Matt Dog right, Frances almost got
canceled halfway through that.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
It's not worth it.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
Just say number eleven if you'll want save yourself. Sam Donald,
like Kevin Arnold, already had his wonder years in New
York and Carolina wondering why it took years to get
his act together, but he's getting a lot of help
from his friends, not just JSN but Kenneth Walker getting
it done on the ground and with the eleventh rank
D Seattle set to excommunicate the Cardinals tight the Seahawks next.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
Ravens at Vikings plus four and a half.
Speaker 9 (24:21):
This matchup has more purple than a Grimace and skeletor
wedding at Paisley Park steer into the purple skid. Why
don't you just get a Filipino prince to sing the
national anthem and have the joker do the coin flip first,
ten thousand fans through the gates get purple nurples. Rough
couple of games for the Vikings, going from playing Detroit
on the road to playing Baltimore at home is like
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if in Shawshank Redemption, Andy Dufrain crawled through five hundred
yards of bleep, smelling foulness and came out in another
prison on the other side. What the hell did the
Vikings do to deserve going from eight mile to the wire.
Both these teams are coming off big wins after getting
their quarter back last week. McCarthy furiously beat Goff and
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Lamar lick Tongua via loa. Both teams can be categorized
as as bad good teams. They're good rosters, but they
haven't been playing so good. So this game is basically
the slappy Mendoza line.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
Winner makes their way back.
Speaker 9 (25:21):
To respectability and the loser ends up in slappy purple
shash Hank. The Ravens defense started the year with so
many injuries they had to call up their practice squad
team doctor to help with the Kenny Wood line at
the training table. But the last couple of weeks the
defense is getting stops and they're not giving up points.
The Vikings, meanwhile, had an emotional win last week against
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the Lions, but they've been off balance all year. And
JJ McCarthy is Kenny Pickett with slightly bigger hands. Lamar
is the Prince of the NFL. Take the Ravens Bouces next.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
Eagles at the Packers minus two and a half.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
I'll be waiting all day and then and another entire
day with all my rowdy friends.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
You guys have been in my house a long time.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
Monday Night Football Green Bay hosts the Philadelphia Eagles and
like waiting in holiday lines at Penmac in the Strip,
this battle for cheese is worth the wait. Philadelphia hopes
to make cream cheese out of the cheese heads in
Lambeau and what's being hailed as the revenge of the
tush push, which quite often requires a trip to the laundromat.
But that's a different story. It needs for revenge, let
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me retoush your memory. The Packers tried to get the
league to ban the tush push after Philly used the
brotherly shove to throttle Green Bay in their wild card
demolition of the Packers last season. And that was after
an embarrassing Brazilian blowout by the Eagles to start the
Packer season last year when they got waxed in South Polo.
The Eagles would go on to win the Super Bowl,
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and the pack sought vengeance. They tried to get the
NFL to outlaw the eagles best weapon, the unstoppable and
always illegal push tush.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
But like poor people.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
Voting for tax cuts for billionaires because they think they
might get rich one day, enough, NFL owners were stupid
enough to think one day their team might have an
O line full of expertly coached mooses so they voted
it down, and that begat a Philly beef with the
cheese that dwarfed anything Pats or Gino's ever slopped together.
The Eagles are pissed, and if I'm Philly, I come
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out and go tush push as many times as possible
down the field like Dawc Alice beating the first four
since he Reds have them. Sure, somehow the Eagles are underdogs,
even though the Packers loss of the friggin Panthers at
home last weekend. But you get the feeling they could
kind of play with their food on this one, mostly
because even though Green Bay's d is solid, they don't
have the interior line to stop Saquon from Lambeau leaping
(27:50):
his way through the defense. And the pack lost more
dignity in last week's lost more than dignity in last
week's loss to the Panthers in front of their owners.
They lost tight end Tuck Craft to a season ending injury.
But somebody needs to tell his teammate Romeo Dobbs that
he's not dead.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
I don't wish that on any man.
Speaker 8 (28:07):
And you know Tucker is in in.
Speaker 4 (28:13):
A better place.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
What he's in a better place where Appleton fundw Locker
walk a Shaw look. Tucker Craft might not be dead,
but I think the Packers' Super Bowl hopes are. After
Mount Lafleur drops his second in a row at home
for the first time in his career as head coach,
Take the Birds, Philly looks to make whiz out of
the cheeseheads.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
Next Brown's at the Jets. Plus three and a half
for the Jets.
Speaker 9 (28:40):
It's the Cleveland Browns versus the New York Browns.
Speaker 4 (28:44):
The Spider Man.
Speaker 9 (28:45):
Me matchup that absolutely no one asked for or wants.
These teams are horrible and their seasons are already done.
But look at the bright side. The weather will be
awful and the stadium was built with recycled garbage. This
game should be played on the Titanic. Whoever wins, they
should both still lose.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
Aaron Glenn is.
Speaker 9 (29:07):
Doing that thing again and waiting until kickoff to announce
which deck chair will start.
Speaker 4 (29:13):
He's playing a little.
Speaker 9 (29:15):
Game he likes to call hide and goes Stink. Before
the season, Aaron Glenn said that he wanted this team
to be one that fans can be proud of, but
then he added, this week, I never said We're gonna
be proud of them right now. That seems like a
pretty important fine print to the statement aaron I said
we're gonna win the Super Bowl. I never said we're
(29:38):
gonna win a Super Bowl during my lifetime.
Speaker 4 (29:41):
You guys are making that up.
Speaker 9 (29:43):
And then you have Stefanski who was asked about Joe
Flacco throwing for eleven touchdowns in three weeks with the Bengals,
and he said he wasn't gonna comment on Joe or
any other players on other teams. Really, cav like who
Baker Mayfield don't want to gab about the franchise, Q
and MBP candidate you traded away so you can bring
in doctor missus h. You don't want to talk. These
(30:05):
franchises don't just wear bad idea jeans, they soil them.
The Browns threw away their season with twelve games left,
and the Jets had a dumpster fire sale at the
trade deadline. The Browns and Jets might both be at
the bottom of their divisions, but the Jets have a shovel.
Speaker 4 (30:23):
Take the brown Snack.
Speaker 3 (30:26):
Patriots at the Buccaneers minus two and a half Sunday
in Tampa.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
It's the Brady Bowl.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
The two teams tom Brady QB to the Super Bowl
Victory's face off in a matchup that some people are
saying could be a preview of this year's Super Bowl.
And just like Tom Brady insisting on long kisses on
the lips with his prepubescent son.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
That's just wrong. Neither of these teams are going to.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
The super Bowl, but it's still good enough of a
matchup to warn. A Nanson Romo game with our buddy
Jeans Sterotor on CBS always feels better with Nanson Romo.
You know, no offense to Diyan, Eagle and JJ, but
when they call you game, it's kind of like eating
Joe's oreos.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
They're fine. I like the name brand, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
Patriots aren't a six game winning streak, and Drake May
is the toast of bean Town, which we can all
agree is much better than being the bean of toast Town.
Not quite as celebrated of a distinction, but they all
love the Drake.
Speaker 4 (31:18):
Who doesn't love the Drake?
Speaker 3 (31:20):
Last week, New England got a bit of a scare
in Atlanta as May uncharacteristically through two picks and the
Pats escaped with a one point win against the hapless
Atlanta Falcons, who could probably more easily find the Maltese
Falcon than will win. At this point, Bucks are coming
off a bye and are well rested at six and two.
The seven and two Pats, feeling bad that most of
(31:40):
Baker's receivers are hurt, offered up one of their own
to the football Gods and receiver Kaishaon Booty. In order
to make up for Booty's loss, the Pats have signed
free agent wide out Cravon Badonka Donk, a first year
player out of Butt State, so that ought to fill
that hole in the dairy air attack. The Pats are
limping a bit, but the Bucks have lost more men
(32:01):
than Lieutenant Dan and Vietnam. Baker's got a Buka and
that's about it right now. Somehow, though Mayfield has had
the mightest touch, he's been turning half ass receivers into
full ass touchdown scorers. In Boston yesterday, Mike Brabel was
asked if the Pats were close to a deal at
the trade deadline to help show up the offensive line
that was making Drake ansier than an ice cream cone
on the sidewalk in July. Rabel told the reporter that
(32:24):
almost making a deal with the deadline is like almost
being pregnant. He either happened or it didn't. He's clearly
avoiding the question. They obviously just wanted to know if
he pulled out of a deal at the last possible
second and prayed nothing leaked before it consummated resulted in
them having to abort their plan. All I know is
the Pats are happy with the family they got and
unless the stork drops another healthy receiver for Baker Mayfield
(32:46):
to throw too this weekend, New England's gonna win their
seventh in a row. Take jar Head, Rabel and the points.
The finale the Grand Events, Steelers at Chargers minus three.
Speaker 4 (32:59):
Here we go, Steelers, Here we go.
Speaker 9 (33:03):
Pittsburgh's going to the super Bowl.
Speaker 4 (33:06):
You've been away a long while. Maybe nobody came out
there and told you the Steelers don't suck no more.
In by a wow, I mean like a week.
Speaker 9 (33:14):
They sucked last week, and to be fair, they sucked
the week before that too. But now now we're back,
and all it took for the defense to wake up
was the captain accusing the team and not having any fight.
The national media all saying they were the worst d
in the league, a player giving a rousing team speech
on Saturday night, moving players to different positions, switching up
(33:36):
their entire scheme, and having the whole Super Bowl forty
team on the sidelines.
Speaker 4 (33:40):
But that's it, that's all it took.
Speaker 9 (33:42):
The city's mood has completely flipped from fire Tomlin to
shut your due bass up and booktell Super Bowl tickets.
And just when everyone is feeling good after a one
o'clock win, and after we've all finally recovered from two
primetime night games that kept us up and pissed us off,
we're headed back to the West Coast for another primetime
(34:05):
Sunday night game. That's what we get for being a
team that everybody wants to see. Sleep deprivation and high
blood pressure tanks NFL. I hate my brain and I
love jagging my heart off. Now all we have to
do is wait out Dare for soda. It's a bad
(34:25):
day to be leaves in my yard and one of
my mowlers. I'm gonna be raking and grinding my teeth
to eight twenty, raking and grinding, raking and grinding. If
you're wondering why I haven't talked about this matchup, it's
because I don't know what the hell to make of
the Steelers. All Right, the Chargers have more injuries than
a Civil War reenactment, but they're a tough team with
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a dangerous quarterback.
Speaker 4 (34:49):
But what about the Steelers.
Speaker 9 (34:51):
Are the Steelers the team that's gonna cause six turnovers
and get five sacks? Or are they the team that's
gonna give up sixteen of twenty three passes to receiver
and not even Bud they're comfering him on the twenty
third and ten. I don't care if we have to
fly Psy out to La to continue to tell his
son not to embarrass the family. Have Troy give the
(35:13):
team speech Saturday night and send out the entire Super
Bowl forty three team for the coin flip. We have
to win this game, and we will win this game
because the Steelers aren't the Sheer Curtain. They're the Steel Curtain,
and they're gonna get it done because last week was
a turning point and there's plenty of time to sleep
when we're dead.
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Sports is how brought to you by Bridgeville appli It's
one of the storylines that resonated in the way of
Steelers twenty seven Colt twenty last Sunday was the pregame
speech given to the team by Jalen Ramsey the night
before the game that was a topic of a conversation
shortly after the game had added thanks to Aaron Rodgers
letting everyone know what Ramsey had done in his postgame
(37:25):
media session, and players kept talking about it throughout this
weekad They kept getting asked about it, but they talked
about it with enthusiasm and appreciation, including cornerback Joey Porter Jr.
Speaker 8 (37:39):
I mean, like everybody said, Jaylen talked to us the
nine be quarter game and was really just talking about
just bringing that swagger back that still o currents even
the tensity that that arrogifts that we need to walk
around with everybody on the team. He was like, I'm
gonna bring that to mod and you've got to bring
that too. So once you said the tone like that,
there was no other excuse about to play like that.
Speaker 4 (37:56):
I feel like everybody felt on the defense.
Speaker 6 (37:58):
Now, you figure the defensive guys would of course be
receptive to that, because Ramsey's a defensive player. But Rogers
being a quarterback and you know, being a guy who's
been in the league that twenty one years now and
he's forty one years old, seen it all, done it
all for him to mention that right afterward, how impactful
he thought it was. That it reached the offense tells
(38:18):
you it was powerful. Yeah, And uh, Pat fryer Muth
was another guy on offense who uh definitely picked up
what Ramsey was laying down.
Speaker 7 (38:27):
Anytime a teammate who's new to the team or you know,
came in with a high pedigree, he has anytime like
the teammates can open up to you, you know what
I mean, You know, it means a lot, and just
getting getting to know him and getting to hear his
him talk, it would big.
Speaker 4 (38:43):
Time can you give me like the gist of it
or whatever.
Speaker 7 (38:48):
Just basically just you know, from his perspective coming in
how the steel has always played and talking about how
we uh how the team, he's just start you know, yeh,
you know being more aggressive and uh yeah.
Speaker 4 (39:05):
Have you heard many of those in your in your country?
Speaker 2 (39:09):
And that's setting I'll just that one time?
Speaker 4 (39:11):
Was that one time?
Speaker 7 (39:12):
So that was out of character, out of the uh,
I mean, I guess, I mean, obviously, you know we
have we have guys that speak up a lot on
the team.
Speaker 2 (39:22):
But in that setting up the first time, what was
the difference about the setting I just did.
Speaker 7 (39:27):
The night before a game, everyone's obviously starting to get
the prename jitters and getting ready for the game, and
just probably the setting was uh, it was, it was,
It was right, It.
Speaker 4 (39:36):
Was right now.
Speaker 6 (39:36):
It was orchestrated by Mike. It was orchestrated by Mike Tomlin.
But for a guy Ramsey on the defense to get
up after they just showed their ass two weeks in
a row and say we got to start playing with
swagger and arrogance and start kicking butt, playing like the
Steelers teams that I used to come in here and
play against Look that's the stones man completely.
Speaker 3 (39:58):
I think it's awesome and it showed some leadershi from
him and it needed to be said. And it just
speaks further to the void in leadership that this.
Speaker 2 (40:05):
Team had before this year.
Speaker 3 (40:06):
I was just gonna say, unbelievable that on both sides
of the ball. I mean, they just stopped listening to
Cam and TJ or they unable to corral these guys
the same way.
Speaker 4 (40:15):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (40:15):
Maybe the is just falling on deaf ears after so long,
but the challenge that they have now is upholding it
to not have just got inspired for that one game.
This has to be something that continues on week two
week and yeah, Jalen can't give another speech this week.
Speaker 2 (40:34):
Yeah right.
Speaker 4 (40:36):
I will say this about Hayward.
Speaker 6 (40:37):
I thought his uh comment after the Green Bay game,
but we didn't have enough fight.
Speaker 3 (40:42):
That was also leadership. I'm not suggesting Cam's not a leader.
I think he is is what is what I'm saying.
Speaker 6 (40:48):
I think that got their attention to because he's basically
saying we're soft. Yeah, and that's the worst thing you
could say to a to an athlete in a in
a contact sport. You know that you can't catch your
slow like they're okay with all that tell them they're soft.
Those are fight boards and they fought.
Speaker 9 (41:06):
But to your point, you can't rely on a player
getting up and giving a speech, you know, the coach
getting up and talking about what the doubling game means
to DMR Like these are one off kind of moments.
You can't have a player's only meeting every week.
Speaker 6 (41:21):
Well, yeah, they just got to fight another country to
go play in because I mean, those are two best
games of the year of Minnesota and India, right, yeah,
and those are both pretty good teams.
Speaker 3 (41:30):
Well, maybe they just need to hire speech makers before
every game. They don't necessarily have to be on the team.
Just people who are really good public speakers come in.
Speaker 9 (41:38):
I mean, I love what Jalen said, And I got
a big problem with what Jalen said because now all
of a sudden, we got outsiders telling us what the
Steelers are supposed to be playing, Like, like, I know
he's on the team, but.
Speaker 3 (41:51):
Like, what the hell that we talked about when they
opened the Hall of Honor that they should make every
new stealer spend an hour in there and watch that
movie and walk around. I have gone so far to say,
as there should be a select group of town hauled
Steeler fans that they have to listen to, who want
(42:14):
at a time go up and talk about what the
Steelers means to them. Steelers, here's the expectation, like you're
it's an orientation at a huge company that you're going
to work for.
Speaker 2 (42:26):
Ye because I.
Speaker 4 (42:27):
Don't love it.
Speaker 2 (42:28):
I don't think this is not an awful idea. I
think it would be great.
Speaker 3 (42:31):
Like it happens in the Great Hall and they're like
cut Maluski from Dravo'sburg, you're next.
Speaker 6 (42:37):
He gets up, or have a practice in Hinsfield at
camp like they do sometimes and just walk the whole.
Speaker 4 (42:44):
Team through the whole honor. There you go. Yeah, this
is where you are. This is the expectation.
Speaker 6 (42:50):
Roster move yesterday defensive tackle Broderick Martin Rhodes added and
uh defensive lineman to Marvin Leal released.
Speaker 2 (43:00):
No surprise there but a bummer.
Speaker 4 (43:03):
You know.
Speaker 6 (43:03):
Lee Alis not one of those guys. Boy, he just
he looked the part, but he didn't play the part
often enough. Didn't work. Broderick Martin Rhodes is six', five
three hundred and twenty six pounds out Of Northern alabama
And Western. Kentucky he played five games over the past
two seasons for The. Lions steelers got him off The
(43:25):
chiefs practice squad they needed some defensive line depth due
to the loss Of Daniel.
Speaker 9 (43:30):
Aqualay was that his, Problem Leal he was just caught
in between. Positions they didn't know what to do with.
Him he wasn't dominant at either and that's what he
was At TEXAS a AND.
Speaker 6 (43:39):
M he played, outside, edge sometimes he played inside. Sometimes
college he was pretty good at, it but college.
Speaker 2 (43:47):
And pros it's a lot.
Speaker 3 (43:49):
DIFFERENT i love when people like do that Kin Ohio
state beat The?
Speaker 4 (43:53):
Browns right?
Speaker 2 (43:54):
Now how bad Would Ohio state beat The?
Speaker 3 (43:55):
Browns and then anybody knows what they're talking, about is
like The browns would Beat Ohio state by one hundred?
Speaker 2 (44:00):
Points, yeah well maybe not The. Browns well still.
Speaker 6 (44:06):
Yeah Broncos broncos meet The raiders ten to seven And
Thursday night football last. Night ugly, game very little offense
on either, side But denver will take it Because denver
is eight and. Two penguins blew another three goal lead
last night against The, capitals but this time they rallied
in the third. Period after The caps tied it with
three second period goals in ten minutes and fourteen, Seconds
(44:28):
brian rushed on the power play at eleven sixteen of
the third period and Then connor De war into an empty.
Speaker 2 (44:35):
Net five to Three.
Speaker 6 (44:36):
Pens still, Early still a ton of hockey to be,
played but they had lost to in a. Row they
looked horrible doing, it and if they had lost another
one last night going Into Jersey, saturday that's how losing streak.
Speaker 4 (44:48):
Start so good.
Speaker 6 (44:50):
To see The penguins kind of put their foot down
and stop this this.
Speaker 3 (44:54):
Stuff, now Does obi still have the fire in his?
Belly look like? It because last, night all, right it
looks like he is chili in his. Belly maybe some
like he's seventy's he's, like you, know they give them
the ovation on the nine hundred for the nine. Hundred
after the, game he's swapping jerseys With gino and. Stuff
(45:17):
And i'm not suggesting that that's all not great in,
sportsmanship but it just strikes me as stuff THAT ovi
would not have allowed to have.
Speaker 2 (45:23):
Happened not the. Ovation you can't do anything about.
Speaker 3 (45:25):
That but just like there's a granddad kind of vibe to.
Him now that he's got the, cup then he's got the.
Record that's WHAT i. Mean he was a killer and
he was, like is there both about to be?
Speaker 4 (45:38):
Forty?
Speaker 3 (45:38):
Yeah and to your, POINT i mean he looks like
just like a like a suburban blue Collar.
Speaker 4 (45:47):
Yeah like It's sunday.
Speaker 2 (45:48):
Night, yeah he's got like.
Speaker 3 (45:49):
Wearing a white, beater sitting on a, couch just you,
know drinking a, beard eating chili out of a.
Speaker 6 (45:54):
Cauchy it's nine O'clock sunday. Night let's go to center
ice In dlmutt and play.
Speaker 9 (45:57):
Pickup but you, Know sid talked To Van pelt after that,
game and he And Van pelt summed it up.
Speaker 4 (46:04):
Great he, said you guys both.
Speaker 9 (46:06):
Came into the league with impossible expectations and somehow exceeded
them to have a rivalry going for this. Long and
both of these guys that still be on the same.
Team some point that worm turned and they you, know
dropped the, knives you, know the Knives like they weren't
(46:27):
at each other's.
Speaker 4 (46:28):
Throat there's a respect.
Speaker 6 (46:29):
There came across the, table they, hugged they kissed each.
Other yeah Only, yeah WELL i shouldn't say the only,
disappointment but a major disappointment was The penguin's decision to
Start Art, Tours Sea loves And games instead Of Surgey.
Mirrorshof what were they? THINKING i don't.
Speaker 3 (46:44):
KNOW i, mean it might have got them to, win
or might it might not have mattered either, way but
they really deprived their fan base of an exciting.
Speaker 6 (46:50):
THING i really Didn't and if this KID'S nhl career
was going to be scuttled because he Played thursday night
instead Of saturday night At, nork then.
Speaker 3 (46:58):
He's not the guy, agreed and the game, was by
all accounts no less.
Speaker 2 (47:04):
Exciting.
Speaker 6 (47:05):
No And i'm not Saying stelaw's played terrible or, anything
but it was put on a tee to play the,
kid no. Brainer russian phenom Against russian. Legend you've been
waiting on this. Guy they've been waiting all day For thursday.
Speaker 2 (47:17):
Night do you think that's. DUBAS i have no.
Speaker 3 (47:20):
Idea got to be got maybe Musing dubis kind of
putting their heads.
Speaker 2 (47:25):
Together BUT i.
Speaker 3 (47:27):
Agree now you open up the door to maybe he's
not ready for prime.
Speaker 2 (47:32):
Time you.
Speaker 4 (47:32):
Know, Yeah, WELL i mean they did call him up because.
Speaker 6 (47:34):
Injury it's not like they he was tearing it up
in THE, ahl but they didn't just summon him and
say you're, ready but they's here play.
Speaker 2 (47:42):
Him abby's got your.
Speaker 3 (47:43):
News, Next Antonio brown arrested for attempted murder and we
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Speaker 13 (48:03):
Opperman The steelers will try to go for back to
back wins This sunday night when they travel To Los
angeles to face The chargers On Sunday. Night football standing
in the way of them and that accomplishment Is Star
charger Quarterback Justin. Herbert herbert has the second most touchdown
passes of the season so far with, eighteen and his
twenty three hundred and ninety passing yards is also good.
Speaker 4 (48:19):
For second most in the.
Speaker 13 (48:19):
League The steelers defense is allowing opposing quarterbacks to throw
for two hundred ninety nine yards per game and is
allowed an opposing quarterback to eclipse three hundred yards passing
in three straight. Games it's not just the threat Of
herbert through the air that The steelers have to worry.
Speaker 2 (48:31):
About, However he's.
Speaker 13 (48:33):
Also managed to rack up three hundred and five rushing
yards this, season the most of any quarterback in THE,
nfl And herbert is just nine yards back from being
The chargers leading rusher as a. Team for The steelers
to be effective Against, herbert they'll have to get some
more of that dominating pass rush that generated five sacks.
Speaker 2 (48:47):
Last week against The.
Speaker 13 (48:48):
Colts The chargers are missing both their stud tackles for
the season And Shawn slater And Joe, alt And herbert
has been sacked twenty eight times this, year the third
most in the. League Making herbert's life uncomfortable is a
massive key if The steelers want to pull the upset
off off IN la kickoff between The steelers And chargers
is This sunday at eight twenty. Pm I'm Tom opferman
with The Steelers.
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